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Look Kuba.

They're flying away.

THE PEASANTS

AUTUMN

Hanka! Come here to us!

God probably graced you with an

abundance of potatoes this summer, huh?

Oh yes!

And his eyes were the same, gray and bleary.

Just like those of Boryna.

No!

Any girl would go after him!

And there was no place for her

neither in the hallway nor in the pigsty!

Just like mine! Yeah!

Pestilated scumbags! Their own kids!

The cold weather is coming. Come Magda,

get that woolen coat from your mother.

Yikes. So father keeps everything and

he doesn't even want to give a rag away.

Come Jaguś!

What an outfit! What kind of necklace is that?

It is only the branches of alder trees,

What I found, I cut up....

Not only beautiful but also so talented.

Such a girl could marry a rich widower.

I will not raise other people's children!

No need to worry, his are already reared.

I'm good where I am.

Good or not, one must

leave the house eventually.

They say the kind of husband you marry

is the kind of life you inherit.

And such a lady you will be.

I don't care about that.

Don't talk, Jaguś!

She's still so young so she speaks foolishly.

And don't think that you can go to the inn!

Unless you want to feel the whip!

Oh, come on, mom!

And you... don't I have enough

to worry about because of you?

And what have I done?

You're backtalking to the mayor's wife.

Do you want them to talk bad about you?

I didn't mean to offend her.

It's just that I feel the best with you.

Dear child...

And what's going on there at Boryna's?

For this burial, I will not be calling.

Ring the pot yourselves.

Daddy! Red-and-White is dying!

Jambroży has bled it in vain...

Melted wax down her throat— in vain, too...

Red-and-White, our best cow! You foul beasts!

The devil take you for the care you took of her.

The filthy sluts!

Always ready to eat, but to watch — never!

But I have been out

potato-digging all afternoon...

You! Do you ever see anything that goes wrong?

Scumbags, they killed my cattle...

And so what?

All you can do is cry and be of no use at all!

Leave her alone! You're scaring my wife.

You're no better! Do you care

at all about this household?

What about me? Am I your servant?

I work like an ox for nothing.

I won't even hear a good word!

Shut your mouth while I'm still calm.

You live on mine and eat mine.

My bread, I see, spoils you!

Don't reproach me for the bread that

rightfully belongs to me since generations.

Handed over to you, as you

should have handed it over to me.

I doubled these lands with my own hands.

As long as I am able to work with them,

the land is mine.

If it does not suit you, look for

something better!

On Hanka's three acres,

you'll be eating rolls.

I'll devour potatoes,

but nobody will reproach me for them.

Your father says you

should take care of the cow.

I ain't no butcher.

Why do you bark at him all the time?

He's your father.

For us, for our children,

you should keep peace with him.

Come on, Antoś.

Stick with him if you want.

But don't tell me what to do.

Indeed, without a housewife at home...

it flows... Like through a sieve.

You have to get married and that's it.

You guys came up with... the deceased

has not yet cooled well....

They would only make a fuss in the village.

Well! Eat, eat!

Listen Boryna...

There are so many girls in Lipce

that as you walk between the cottages

it's bursting like in a furnace.

Zośka, for example..

What? Slender, resourceful

and the dowry is not bad...

Mumbler and shrew and one hip is fatter!

And what's he getting the dowry for?

Is he not the prime landlord in the village?

So maybe Stach's Weronika?

She's already taken.

Yesterday Adam of Rochs sent in with vodka.

Jagna Dominikowa?

Idyllic girl...

- Jagna? - Yeah.

They say that she enjoys a lot of company.

But! Has anyone actually seen it?

You know... People will be

talking just for sake of talking.

Come on.

I'll be back. Don't worry.

Miss Organist...

Mr. Jasio is already taking off to school?

He'll be back soon, no worries.

To the seminary he goes. To be a priest.

I see you brought herbs?

Thank you! Please pass on

God's blessings to mom from us.

So many blessings still spoken of her

What a smart woman she is.

I'll give you something for her right away.

Mommy says you don't have to.

Not at all! Wait, child.

Poor thing! Its wing is broken!

Will you take it Jaguś?

I can't. Daddy will get rid of it immediately.

Take the little stork!

I will heal him by the spring.

I will feed him and I will take

care of him! Please take him!

Jaguś, take him.

Well, maybe we could lay him

somewhere in our barn...

I see you're plotting something here!

Jantoś! Just don't tell daddy, please...

Oh Józka, why would I tell dad?

Come back home. Your

father is looking for you.

Do you really want to

take this little bird?

I really do want to.

And you know, Jaguś?

The Heir is driving out everyone

who was grazing in Wolf Valley

He's got so much land!

He still begrudges us our right to pasture!

They say your son-in-law wants

to file a complaint against you.

That Kowal is such a scumbag.

Everyone is furious and they're all

just trying to snatch away what's mine.

And maybe they'd stop

if you took a wife for yourself...

I won't just take the first

one that comes along.

Just make a settlement of it,

and even the best ones won't object.

For the record! Like those pigs to the trough!

And the men, they don't sniff

around for dowry like those dogs, do they?

Only...

They say the heir to Wolf Valley

wants to sell it.

And maybe he does!

Only Lipce have rights

to pasture and cutting there!

Take him to court, there's no other solution.

I couldn't possibly go to court with

all this work to do before winter!

Indeed landlord, indeed.

Potatoes! Cheap potatoes!

Three kopecks.

Laced boots, red, black,

for greasing with melted lard.

Now you look like you're from the city!

How much is it?

Three papers.

I'll take it.

You would be a lovely farmhand.

I don't think so!

I'm sure! They would take a liking to you in no time.

But, I'm too expensive to work as service.

It depends on who's paying.

I wouldn't consider you too expensive.

And I wouldn't be working in the field either.

I'd be doing it in your stead, Jaguś...

Jaguś!

Take it! I bought it for you.

Pure silk...

- I can't! - Take it Jaguś.

And if someone offers

you a drink, don't refuse it.

There's no rush...

I said seven!

I'll give you six and a half.

Wheat with tarnish.

If I hit you in the face, it'll tarnish.

Wheat like gold.

People advise me to take you to court...

Then do it!

Transfer the land that rightfully belongs

to Magda after her marriage.

I won't take it with me to the grave, but for now,

as long as I still hobble around,

I won't give up an inch.

Then at least pay the debt for those two acres.

Enough!

They're eyeing up the next woman,

and they'll need money for that too!

Yeah, sure!

If I feel like it, I'll get married.

- Will you forbid? - I won't forbid...

If I want to, I'll send vodka even tomorrow.

And send it, am I against you?

At least give me that calf that was left

to you after the finched one,

and I'll help you.

Indeed! You'll help... Jambroży!

Come over here, drink with us!

What's on your mind, Jaguś?

Nothing.

The little stork is healing?

He is. My thanks to you.

If only we could hang ourselves on those clouds

And fly away into the world beyond them.

I would fly with you.

You would want to?

The owl perches in the grove and listens,

to who's talking with whom,

Here's day, day, there's night, night,

here's poverty, here's plenty.

And listens, to who's talking with whom.

There were two people there...

...they were both young.

Here's day, day, there's night, night,

here's poverty, here's plenty.

They were both young.

And so they managed that the child...

Be quiet!

The foolish one screams

as if someone were skinning her alive!

...that they will have a child.

Here's day, day, there's night, night,

here's poverty, here's plenty.

That they will have a child.

Do you know that Walek is

sending vodka to Ali Pociotkowa tomorrow?

And how old is she?

Ali has so many acres that the boys are in a hurry.

They will hurry to you too,

Józia, they will...

If daddy doesn't marry someone new

and the dowry will remain!

What's wrong with you?

We just buried mother in the spring.

There's no harm in it.

Every single one, like that hog,

no matter how drunk he gets,

he'll stick his snout into a new trough.

Come on, Jagna, because I'm already

sweating through my shirt!

If you meet Antek, tell him to hurry up!

Hail Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with thee...

Just a little bit more.

Just a tiny bit! Come on! Keep going!

Come on!

Damn it!

Jaguś!

There was no need to put so much on one horse

But am I going to ride twice in such weather?

Then we push! On the count of three!

One, two, three!

Keep going! Just a little more!

You can do it, Szymek! Keep going!

Thanks Antek! God bless you! Jaguś?

Go on then!

Hanka is waiting for you.

I'll take you to the mill, Jaguś, because

the water had made a hole in the road there.

Now that's just darkness, huh?

Are you afraid?

I wouldn't be afraid there.

Will you come to us tomorrow for peeling?

Go now... they're waiting for you...

And will you come?

I will.

Come on, what's up? Move it! Now!

Ala and Waluś got engaged yesterday!

She'll make a beautiful bride.

I saw the ribbons she chose at the fair.

Beautiful for a moment! Until they cut

her braids at the wedding party.

He'll be surprised!

Jagustynka never has a good word for anyone.

But I'm telling the truth!

Each of us will face it!

Come on, come on, come on!

The room looks colorful, as if

it's filled with flowers!

They dressed up like bridesmaids at a wedding.

"I think they want to marry with cabbage?"

Have you heard that Mateusz is back?

They say he built the village headman's

house himself in just six months.

He built us a new henhouse in just

one day. He's a skilled craftsman.

Indeed he's skilled.

Surely in 9 months something new

will be built in Lipce because of him!

Łukasz! Play something!

Well, my ladies!

With a job like this, you must be thirsty!

Jagusia, bread with meat filling.

For you and for you.

I don't like the taste of vodka.

And for you, Jagustynko.

Cheers!

Cheers!

Bravo!

Bravo musicians!

Thank you for your hospitality,

but I have to go now.

But you haven't even eaten anything.

Mommy is waiting for me. Godspeed.

Godspeed!

That's me!

The first of all to fly.

No... He's quite like you.

If only he hadn't fallen from the sky first.

And didn't crush some beautiful... girl.

And there you are.

Am I to you like that dirt?

No...

You are to me like this holy ground,

which awakens everything to life.

So you woke me up to life.

Yes? Please!

Praised be the Lord.

Praised be the Lord.

Be careful what kind of person

came to you and with what...

I'm listening.

Now you being a wise woman, must

therefore know that, sooner or later

Jagna will surely leave your house for her own.

From the first landlord,

I come to you with this.

Now shall we have a little drink, mother?

Drink ye, by all means; but we do

not know yet who it is that proposes.

Who?

Who but Boryna himself!

Old widower!

Old, and but now he was accused!

I know...

only the child was not his!

How could it be!

A man of such repute, was he to

put up with any but the very best?

Come, here's to you, mother!

Obliged, I would drink. He's old but

may soon be in Abraham's bosom.

And then what? Her stepchildren would

thrust her out... Oh no, that's not for us!

Maciej promised a settlement for Jagna.

I... the mayor, I'm telling you this!

Yeah...

We'll think about it.

Have a drink, Jaguś.

Have a drink.

The man we propose to

you is strong as an oak tree.

You will be his lady...

the first of all in the village.

Have a drink!

Drink up.

Drink Jaguś!

- Jagna! - Leave her alone, mother.

I already told you, Mateusz!

Well, you said, you said...

What did you say?

For you to give up on me.

I wanted to talk to you.

Speak quickly, because I

have to get back to work.

Mommy wants to sell you.

Like a heifer at the fair!

Will you go with the old man?

If he tells me to, I'll go. Do I

have anything else to say?

Yes, you have. Just tell her what you want!

Come on, it's easy for you to talk.

Jaguś...

Have you returned from the world yet?

I'm back, mother...

The bitch was your mother, not me!

What did you come for?

I came to Jagusia, not to you.

Stay away from Jagusia, you hear!

To have her gossiped about

throughout the village afterwards!

I'll leave these three acres

to her next to Michał's.

Jagusia will get five acres after her

father! And one acre from the forest...

And you, give her six as well.

How...

Preferably the ones by the

road, where you had potatoes.

This is my best field!

And isn't Jaguś the best in the village?

Well, of course she is!

Fear God, six acres is a lot of field!

No one will take this land

from you as long as you live.

And remember what belongs to

Jaguś after her father is yours as well.

You can sow your seeds now!

Thank you, dear people!

Cheers!

Hey, musicians! Play!

Jagusia!

Don't be afraid, Jaguś!

You'll be happy with me!

As if it was any better with mother!

You're with my father.

I only support order.

Did he pay you well for it?

If he paid, it wasn't out of your pocket.

But from mine, damn it, from mine!

You've already taken enough, so it's not urgent for you, right?

And that calf that gave it

to you recently, is it nothing?

You could take it too.

I am not a thief!

And I'm a thief?

I'm an official, Antek, be

careful, so you won't regret it!

You are a drunk, a Judas and an abuser!

And you did well to stand behind him!

I see Antek,

that you don't care about this land...

Then about what do I care?

You were chasing after Jagna,

so you're feeling moody now...

Let go! Antek!

Let go!

And on the second day, when

all the people were departing,

that there were neither the

Blessed Virgin nor the holy apostles,

all that was left was Burek.

And he sat down and howled...

Do you ever shut your mouth?

Why are you going after her?

Cheers!

Cheers!

You've bequeathed Jagna a whole six acres!

Because I wanted to, and if I want to, I

will bequeath everything down in a moment!

When everything is yours you will bequeath it!

And whose is this?

Whose is it, I'm asking?

- Ours. - You're stupid! The ground is mine.

And I will do with it as I please!

We won't let ourselves be harmed!

And you what?

She brought three acres of sand and she's going to throw her weight around here?

If it hurts you, then look for something better!

I won't go looking for it,

because it's ours here!

If you want to, then give it to her,

but leave what is left to the children.

For Antek, Magda and Józka.

You see her, she will share mine here!

We only want justice.

If I take the stick, I will give you justice.

And try to touch her otherwise, and you

will definitely not live to see the wedding!

He gave her six whole acres...

and these rags from my mother...

these beads... that's everything...

and for whom is it for?

For whom? For this pig?

What did you say?

The whole village knows she's

a gold-digger and a scrounger!

The whole world even!

Stay away from her, or I'll

smash your face against the wall!

And I will repeat it to you,

your Jagusia is just a bitch!

Do you hear me? And whoever

wanted could sleep with her!

Landlord, stop it!

Fear God, you bastards! Stop! Stop!

Antek, enough!

Just a bitch!

But you, old fool, you paid

for her more than others!

Get out! By dawn, you better not be here!

Why you so gloomy?

Just make sure that with

Boryna you don't behave

like that but instead you're kind and soft.

Maybe he'll give you more land or

he'll give you a penny for your pocket!

I don't care about that.

There must be something more

important than these pennies.

You're not afraid of God... Oh, you silly...

Look.

Look! Your settlement from

Boryna for six acres of good land.

Would you be all right

without this sacred land?

God did not create you for poverty, no!

Love comes and goes, but land remains.

She combed it, loosened it...

golden hair.

She combed it, loosened it

golden hair.

Don't give me away,

my mom...

...from thyself.

Don't give me away,

my mom...

...from thyself.

Leave me alone!

How am I not supposed to, my daughter,

to give you away.

How am I not supposed to, my daughter,

to give you away.

They've arrived,

good people,

they want to take you!

They've arrived,

good people,

they want to take you!

They want to take you.

In the name of the Father, and of

the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Look at her, the heiress!

She became the first housewife in

Lipce, and she sits there like a grump.

She's concerned!

But you have to admit that she's beautiful...

Is it not enough to be attractive

when all you do is eat and sleep?

Not only that. She also sleeps

around with this and that in the bushes...

In the name of the most holy mother, Zosia,

what are you doing? Spreading gossip!

I bet that until spring Jagna

will get sick of her old man.

and she will start chasing

farmhands. Her mother was the same.

- Jagustynko! - What, am I not right?

Now she's praying to the picture,

because she's wrinkled

like a potato after winter,

but in the past, she was

kneeling for a different reason.

He'll be right there.

He will rummage through her mother's chests.

Cheers!

We will claim ours.

Look mommy, our Jagusia is so beautiful!

Livelier!

Today is your wedding,

like none before in Lipce!

And there probably won't

be one for a long time, Maciej!

Oh, Jagusia, my beauty!

I need to get back to my guests...

Oh, you, my hostess!

Drink, young one!

Cheers to the lady!

Come on! Come on after me!

WINTER

Do you know that they're looking

for somebody to work at the mill?

I told you so. I won't

go to work for peasants!

So maybe... I could get a job there?

Don't talk, daddy!

Jantoś, we live only on potatoes and salt.

I won't work in Lipce!

It's been over three weeks since

anyone here has spoken to me.

You had a fight with your father...

Don't peasants and their

fathers fight a lot in the village?

Maybe not a little. But you are the

only one who has Boryna as a father.

Let them spit on me. Is that what you want?

It's not about what I want,

it's about what we need...

The old man himself prepares

it for her: brings her milk,

then tea, and tucks her into the blanket

He can even jump around her,

but Jagusia will go back

to her old habits anyway...

I heard she's eager for her stepson.

No, no way...

What they said, that he and Jagusia

knew each other well, is not true.

I heard him whining at her door,

that she had to shoo him away with a broom.

She complained about him more than once.

Because I've been to her place many times?

You're not the first and

you won't be the last!

You're lying!

What did you say?

You're lying, you scumbag!

Hey, guys! Stop it!

Antek!

Jesus! He went straight to the mill!

Anyone else who attacks

Jagna, I will do the same to him.

Mateusz! Is he alive?

O! He's alive! He's alive!

- Beautiful! - Oh, not really!

Witek, is the stove already hot?

I'll bring more wood!

Shut the door! The cold is coming!

Mr. Jasio! Praised be Jesus Christ.

For ever and ever. I brought the Christmas wafer.

Welcome Jasiu!

Mr. Jaś has already arrived from school?

On Sunday, three days ago. And how are you?

Things are slow, just

as usual, like a peasant.

Just as usual? You just had a wedding!

And it was so much fun that

they danced for three whole days!

Take a look at Jagus's cutouts!

Very beautiful!

Really!

Antek looked thin when I

passed by him... Clearly struggling.

Indeed struggling, indeed!

He struggled a lot...

when he was breaking Mateusz's ribs.

Thank you for your hospitality

and Merry Christmas!

Goodbye Jasiu!

And may God bless you, Jasiu!

Why is that? What were they fighting about?

Well, about you.

Like dogs fighting over a bitch.

You're lying like a dog!

Come on, I'm telling the truth!

Mateusz was saying to the peasants

that he was sitting in your chamber, yes.

And Antek almost killed him.

Well, don't worry, darling, don't worry.

Antek will go to war with

the whole world over you.

Have you seen Maciej, what we

sent you for through the farmhand?

Oh yes, beautiful job Michał, thank you.

Jagusiu, I see that your

mother's hat serves you well.

It suits you.

Let's go.

Jaguś, come to the floodplains one day.

- I have a husband. - Yes, you have. My father.

Will you undo it?

Lo! With this word of agreement I come!

You have shamed me before the world,

You hit me so hard that they

were already calling for a priest

But I hold no anger towards you.

And that thing you were saying

to the peasants, that's not true?

I was just talking out of anger, just so...

Why, I wouldn't dare speak thus to Jagusia!

Oh, greetings, good host!

Greetings!

Greetings. Praised be Jesus Christ.

Do they sit in the alcove?

Come Jaguś. This way.

Let it go while there is still time.

I can this?

When such a fire doth traverse the bones.

Or is it that I do not know?

Did I not myself pursue Jagna?

But thou were dearer to her.

The heir had no right!

And our clearing in Wolf's Dale he sold,

and Lipce always had rights there!

The forest is his.

But we shall seek an accord.

An accord? When? The forest's already sold.

They'll mark it and soon it will be chopped.

Let them mark it, we

won't allow them to chop it.

We shall not allow it!

Every day I await...

May I depart? They watch over me.

Volta, lads!

And sharply!

I only...

I only danced...

He shall be crying...

I only danced!

Move faster!

Stupid,

You're decorating the hut

but you can't see the dirt!

I can't see because it's clear. It seems this sickness has gone to your eyes.

Once I rise, I swear, you'll regret it!

Silence, Jagna!

Go and see if Józka needs some help.

It's not her fault.

Then whose?

For you left her alone

and went to drink in the alcove.

The music played, and all were merry,

they danced, so what?

Was she to stand in the corner like Samson?

Just tend to me so I recover swiftly,

and spare me the lessons in wisdom.

I know exactly how it was.

Hanka? Hanka!

For God's sake, Hanka!

Prr...

Look upon me on any day,

even if it be tomorrow.

You drove us out, so where

else was I to come. To yours?

I won't let you and the

children perish from hunger.

Away!

A maiden wandered through the cherry orchard,

A maiden wandered through the cherry orchard,

Walked she, seeking her own downfall.

The Shrovetide revelers! The Shrovetide revelers have come!

Fire. Fire!

Gore.

Gore! Gore!

People! Gore!

Jagna's headscarf!

Hurry! Hurry! Rake, rake further!

They say Boryna himself caught them

in the hay barrack and

he scared them, and then the fire

blazed up at once.

It's obvious that Antek set it on fire out of anger.

But did you see it? Did

you see that he set it on fire?

Why flap your jaws so idly,

just to make a sound?

And the old man, they say, beat Jagna so,

she lies ill.

It had to end like this!

Enough already, women, enough, silence!

You were out begging, I see...

When I fell to poverty,

I too must live by human pity.

You have no shame.

Father's?

I commanded you not to go to my father!

He himself called me,

I shall not die of hunger,

nor will I let the children,

if you do not care about it!

I need nothing from him.

But I do. And so do the children!

Take that back to him! Or I'll take it

myself and thrust it down his throat!

Let him choke on his own kindness!

Just you try, even touch it, and you'll see!

He bought you cheap, with a crust of bread,

like a dog.

Yet cheaper still you sold us and yourself,

for Jagienka's skirt!

Now go, run to your bitch!

Lipce must fight.

They took our forest today!

If we do not defend ourselves

they will extend their claws for our land,

homes, and all our belongings.

In the heir's bondage, or under

Boryna, what difference does it make?

Fear God, Jagusia, what are you babbling?

Well, that he now seeks vengeance

on you, is no wonder.

For he is a man of flesh and bone, alive,

not of paper like your cutouts.

And he is your husband.

I did not choose him.

Do you love me?

Because I said it before?

Because I don't come to you,

whenever you wish?

You love me, indeed!

Like that ill-natured dog, which might bite

and from which it's hard to fend off!

I have to go now!

If I've come down to such dogs,

it's because of you,

because of my love for you,

do you understand?

You love me? You do nothing but curse me!

What? What? You need someone else now?

You think I ever wanted you?

Boryna's farmhand?

People! An injustice

has been done to us all!

An injustice too great to bear

or to forgive!

We have rights in Wilcza Dolina!

The forest is ours, yet

the manor cuts it down!

We went with complaints - all in vain.

We took the heir to court...

who can touch him!

But the limit has been exceeded!

They're cutting our woods!

Shall we allow this?

- No! - We must defend our own good!

Some folks are coming in a crowd!

Bring the riders.

Fear nothing, people!

Our right is also our will and our justice!

Together we must go!

Follow me, people! To the woods!

Why stand ye idle? Attack!

Jagustynka, take the women,

smash their huts!

Riders!

Be wary, lads!

Follow me, lads! Together! Stand firm!

I hope he dies, damn it!

Seize the horses! Take them!

Boryna!

Oh Jesus!

Dead?

Father!

Show me where Anton Boryna is!

Soldiers.

Father!

Are you here, son?

You are...

The law is on our side!

All arrested!

Father, I'm sorry!

Get up, I say. You're coming with me.

SPRING

I thought at this hour

only peasants are on their feet.

Folks like you don't need to rise at dawn.

With father ill, and Antek and the rest

of the men in jail,

I thought I'd check

if you needed anything...

Thank you. I'm taking care of

everything, as father commanded.

Four eyes can see more than two.

I'll wait until Jagna wakes up.

Wait if you like.

Get out Hanka!

Quiet, there's a sick man here!

Only you don't pay him any mind!

He could be dying of hunger,

and you wouldn't lift a finger,

you little lady!

My husband, my business.

The whole farm would fall apart,

if you were in charge here.

That's why father left it in my hands.

And finally feed that moaning cow of yours.

Didn't father speak of anything?

Oh Jesus. Michał!

Sorry Jaguś, I didn't mean to scare you!

I came to see how father is.

Did he say anything?

No.

The organist let slip in front of me that

father has a fair amount of cash ready.

Probably hidden in the pantry.

We'll split the money fairly,

before Hanka steals it all.

Just bring the key, Jaguś...

Hanka now holds the keys.

Don't turn your back on me

when I'm speaking to you!

Doing chores, Jaguś?

Surely it would be better for you,

if they released Antek, right?

I could arrange something.

I have connections.

Come...

Sit with me, we'll work something out.

If you have such influence, why

are all the men of Lipce sitting in jail?

Just for standing up for their own?

Don't be mad, Jaguś,

I'm on your side after all.

And I'll help with Antek!

Go on, spin it, spin it.

A! Hanka!

Why are you yelling?

You hung this over my bed!

It was the only place.

What's the problem? If you get hungry

you can just cut off a piece.

After all, you take what others have done for you.

And let her go if she wants to fight!

Just you try, bitch,

I'll fix your pretty little face

so not even your own

mother will recognize you!

Hanka!

Hanka...

Throw them out...

Father! My God! Does it hurt, father?

Throw everyone out!

In the pantry, in the grain,

in the straw barrel...

you'll find some money...

Hide it, lest they take it from thee...

Defend Antek...

Don't let him... yours...

Yours...

You said you could help Antek.

We'll calmly figure everything out.

Come Jaguś, come.

- Look! - Nothing to look at.

Come here Jaguś, come on...

I'm sorry, Jaguś, I got carried away.

Touch me again, swine,

and I'll tell the whole world...

Tell them! They'll believe you now!

Per eúndem Dóminum nostrum...

Amen!

A joyous day has dawned upon us,

One that each of us desired.

On this day Christ has risen.

Hallelujah, hallelujah!

The heavenly King has visited us,

Like a beautiful flower he bloomed,

After death, he appeared to us.

Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Landlord!

It's time to sow.

Time to sow...

It's time to sow...

God, giver of forgiveness

and lover of human salvation,

we beg of thy mercy,

that thou wouldst receive Boryna, thy servant,

through the intercession of the Virgin Mary

and all the Saints

unto thyself

and unto eternal bliss thou wouldst lead,

through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.

Come to me.

Tell me what's new, Hanka.

Everything's as before, urgent work awaits.

As before?

You took father's money!

You're quick to evil, so you think others are the same?

What you stole, is yours.

But we will make divisions.

I won't let it pass!

I'm just guarding my husband's property

and have no right to decide anything.

Since father died, Antek is now the head of

the household and everything depends on him.

In jail, he might be

the head of the household,

but here, honest people

will make the decisions.

Look at him! Found himself an honest man.

You're just scheming,

how to nibble at these lands!

Poor orphan...

Holding six acres of our best land!

You're right, Hanka,

let's wait for Antek to return.

He'll settle this mess!

I'd rather break my legs, than have entered this house!

They didn't tie you up by

the legs. You could've left!

And now don't complain, or I'll throw

your own misdeeds in your face!

What have I done so wrong?

Stole? Killed someone?

You chased after him like a desperate bitch,

knowing he had a wife and children!

Was I the one chasing after him?

And you don't blame him at all, do you?

How he begged just to see a bit of my skirt!

He seduced me and played the fool with me!

And now I'll tell you the truth,

just don't regret it later.

If I want, even if you kiss his feet,

he'll kick you away, and run after me

to the ends of the earth!

Think about that and don't compare yourself with me!

Get out of my house right now! Get out!

Don't let Antek turn away from us again...

Is it about that entry? About those acres?

Then take them and choke on them,

even to death if you must!

Jagna!

Don't touch me!

You had something to tell me, so speak up.

Don't be afraid of me, Jaguś...

I hardly recognize you anymore!

You left me just as I am, and here I remain.

I never left you!

I thought of you day and night.

Had something else on your mind?

I did.

I remembered how you humiliated me.

I humiliated you?

Was it I who made you become my stepmother?

Surely, I also forced you

to sleep with the Mayor, right?

Jaguś...

would you go with me to see the world?

Antek, no!

An owl perches in the grove

and listens to who speaks with whom,

Here a day, a day, there a night, a night,

here poverty, there a trudge, trudge

And listens to who speaks with whom.

SUMMER

But such dryness!

We've been worrying about you here, lad.

Lucky that Hanka ransomed you.

You were worried, huh?

And why not?

Now you're the master of the house.

The mistress, for two sacks.

Hanka?

The inheritance comes easy to you, so easy!

Now just drive Józka out,

and everything will be yours.

Thinking of Jagusia already?

She's barely a widow!

I'm just saying that Hanka

had no right to drive her out.

Jagna was on her own land!

It wasn't hers to take and rightfully

returned to the family.

Are you so sure?

Did you know the old woman

filed a complaint in court?

Just wait until the Mayor brings

Jagna back to that land.

We'll see.

Jaguś...

people in the village are now talking

smack about you...

Let them bark!

The heat's on, so they're drunk

with anger and mouthing off.

You know...

the guys are just waiting,

to send vodka your way.

Let them drink it themselves!

Not all men are the same.

Maybe it would help...

in the village,

if you married someone.

It would shut the villagers up.

I don't need men to help me.

I've had enough of what they bring.

Jaguś? Dear child!

You weren't sleeping?

And why did you send Mateusz away?

Whatever else, he is a good carpenter.

Wasn't that Jesus' profession?

Sure, he has his past,

but you have yours too!

I don't want Mateusz. I don't want anyone!

Don't talk like that!

Jaguś, you need to go to confession.

You'll be given penance, but in time

people will forgive you.

- I won't confess. - Fear God, child!

Praised be Jesus Christ.

Praised be, Hanka.

I'm going to Częstochowa, forgive me

for any wrongs I've done against you.

God bless you for your kind words,

but a wrong is a wrong!

From the bottom of my heart, I ask,

please forgive me.

I harbor no anger towards you in my heart.

I'll pray for you.

Jagna?

As if you don't recognize me, Jagusia?

How could I not recognize you!

It's just that Mr. Jan is now so dapper,

so different...

You must have been somewhere fancy!

Not at all, I just left home

to take a moment's rest.

- And Jagusia? - Just wandering about...

Pious?

No, about distant lands and seas.

Jesus! About the seas!

Look here.

Look here.

See this pyramid?

So tall that if you stacked 5 of our

churches on top of each other,

you wouldn't reach the tip!

It must be a mountain!

And this? A trifle like my paper cut-outs.

I've seen the beautiful cut-outs you can make,

when I was at your place for Christmas.

At no holiday market

in Warsaw are there such beautiful...

They're looking for Mr. Jan all over the village!

I should go.

Surely, I interrupted your prayers, didn't I?

Goodbye.

Indeed, a suitable place,

far from the eyes of men...

May your vile grin be twisted!

Something stirred in me, and I went to look

for it, rushing there, looking around...

Mrs. Organist, Jan has lost his book.

Look at her!

Get out of here and don't

show your face again!

I won't cry because of you,

like Hanka or the Mayor's wife!

I'll teach you to forget your love affairs!

You'll remember me, fool!

Back to your kennel, bitch!

They say Jagna is now

hovering around the organist's son.

Has prison made you so hungry

that you've taken to women's gossip?

I'm just repeating what people say.

Just tell me who said it,

and I'll set things straight.

I won't give a penny!

Hey!

The community chest is missing 5,000,

they're taking everything now,

the whole farm, and if that's not enough,

the Lipce have to pay extra.

And I won't! I won't give a dime!

Folks!

How is it that you don't know

what the mayor spent the money on?

On Jagna!

He speaks the truth! That's how it was!

Balderdash! Pray for us!

Did the organist's wife see?

How would I know?

Isn't it a shame that I

have a harlot in the family?

Do something!

She's bewitched my boy.

For her, he'd buy anything she desired.

Everyone saw it.

And where does she get her clothes?

She was Boryna's wife!

Got all her rags from him.

And what's it to you?

Why are you taking her side?

Mother of God!

Even tried to seduce my Jan.

An innocent boy, he ran away

from her and told me everything!

Isn't it appalling that she doesn't even

leave the priest in peace?

And look at this crop failure...

Clearly, such a harlot has brought

divine punishment upon the village.

It's time to end this!

There's only one solution! Exile!

Certainly, that's the way!

It must be done.

All agreed as one, that Jagusia

must be banished from the village.

Speak your part, Antoni.

Come on Antoni, everyone's listening!

Since your father passed away,

you're the first landlord in Lipce.

We can't make decisions without you.

I live in the community,

so I stand with the community!

If you want to expel her, expel her,

but if you want to place her

on the altar, do so!

It's all the same to me!

Antek!

Now we need to find a solution here!

Do you know what they'll do to Jagusia?

The law is on their side!

Curse them with such law!

What they accuse her of, it's not true!

Will you oppose the whole community?

You speak as if you're with them.

I'm with no one,

but I care as much for her

as for this stone.

Jesus...

that you dare...

to expel a person, like some...

rabid dog...

Antek!

Your word... it means something.

Too late...

Mother! The whole village

is coming for her!

Come on, lock up!

Hide!

I won't hide from anyone.

Take this, take it!

And one, two, three!

Jagna! Jagna!

People! People! Step back...

What are you do...

Leave Jagna alone!

Back off, mother!

Mommy!

Take her! Take her!

Come here!

You'll pay for everything!

Oh, you'll pay, you scoundrel!

And now, you wretch!

Not so pretty now, are you!

In that painted face!

Gave kisses? Now gorge yourself on shame!

To the soldiers! Stuff yourself with shame,

like we've stuffed ourselves!

May the holy earth spit you out!

You've earned it, bitch!

Get out of the village, you vermin!

Into the muck!

Onto the cart with her!

Tie her up!

Bind her!

Enough!

And if you come back to the village, we'll set the dogs on you.

THE PEASANTS