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Polish Television presents

FOUR TANK-MEN AND A DOG

THE CREW

Based on a nowel by

directed by

Szarik, be quiet...

Szarik!

My muzzle...

Typical Polish hunter,

a good shot but little meat.

You'll never catch anything here. Just black squirrels.

There's nothing here.

Someone else must be hunting here

a man or an animal.

Eat Ball...

Go on Mura...

It's too bad, she was a good dog.

You're all alone now Szarik, without your mom.

Happens to everybody.

Nobody stays alone.

Szarik's with people and so are you.

And you'll find your father. When the war will end you'll find him.

Look at this dog.

He's pretending to be all grown up.

The bullet's in the right barrel.

He got me with his claw.

What are you doing Jefim Siemionycz?

Because of the war the tiger isn't afraid of people.

He goes out looking for food. He almost found it.

I'm thanking you for saving my life.

I should be the one thanking you.

Give me this puppy.

Get him Szarik.

Good dog.

Can you walk?

Not really, and we'd have to leave the meat.

I'll stay here with Szarik and you go to the clearing

and stop a tractor when it comes with the logs.

It shouldn't take long.

Wait!

Take this

it's for you.

Wait here I won't be long.

It keeps on banging...

The tractor.

In the morning I have to transport the logs

It will be noon before I finish.

The night is long, you'll make it.

Working at night is no good.

Do you have extra inserts?

Yes.

Then I'll do it.

You know how?

I'll call you when it's ready.

What's your name?

Kos. Jan Kos.

It's difficult.

And yours?

Grigorij Sakaszwili.

Sakaszwili.

It's also difficult.

I'm from Georgia.

You should see our mountains.

You see this screw?

Here the mountains are like this screw.

And ours are like this tractor.

I know I was to Caucasus before I came here.

What are you looking for?

My Father.

Turn the other one.

Alright.

The old man said you killed a tiger; you're a hunter.

I have eyes and I see.

You know about tractors. Take the tractor and my job.

I don't want to. What are you going to do?

I'm joining the army.

Are they recruiting? How old are you?

19 And you?

17

The hunter said you were 16.

That's not why they don't want me.

I'm Polish, from Gdansk.

You don't want the tractor you're not going to the army,

you know what I'll tell you? You don't care about our war.

You're loitering.

You collect squirrel furs and wild dogs fed on frogs, right?

For flying suits for the pilots.

Cleaver, you're here while our brothers fight in the trenches.

Cleaver? Who first fought Hitler?

Who fought at Westerplatte?

Wester... it's hard to pronounce.

Your war is long over, they defeated you in two weeks.

- Can you fight? - Why?

Come here.

What a devil.

You want more?

Are those our planes?

It's the Japanese on the other side of Ussuri.

You want more or have you had enough?

Your war, my war, it's the same war.

Take the tractor when I go to the army.

Children!

Go to sleep.

It's good to sleep after working.

I'll do the rest myself, you have to leave in the morning.

In Georgia you can really sleep.

There you lie down, you're warm

you stand a bottle of wine next to you.

The door is wide open, the night and the stars comes into the house.

Through the door or in your dreams?

Haven't you seen stars come in?

They come through the door and in your dreams.

Whichever way.

Give me some paper.

Does your leg hurt?

Go on. I'll manage. Thank you.

Can I take this?

You want to burn it?

No.

Finished?

Yes. We have to wake up Gruzin.

What did you see in that newspaper?

An announcement.

The Russians are forming a Polish division.

Read it out loud.

So we can fight together... the rest is missing.

My leg will heal, I won't keep you.

I can't make you stay.

I'll wake up Gruzin.

I'll go with him and come back with the doctor.

The doctor can find his way alone.

Take the horse and go to the Polish Range, can you find it?

Yes. It's by the waterfall.

You'll bring me some ginseng. The root is the best for healing.

You'll find it by the left cottage.

Take my gun. Shoot only large animals.

Don't worry, I'm with you.

I'll tell him Major you have to take him,

your war, my war, it's our war.

Get out of here.

I don't want to see you again.

Thinks he's a lawyer.

Then we'll have to higher nannies to watch over the kids at war.

I won't sign anything, this hand knows no mercy.

God damn.

Be quiet, there's no one here.

Major...

a Japanese parachuter.

Then the major said

I know you can fight without a nanny but the rules don't.

Was the doctor here?

I'm thinking about something else.

Were you at the Polish Range?

80 years ago Polish exiles who fought the czar

settled there in the mountains.

They lived there long.

Their grandchildren left for home after the October Revolution.

You'll follow in their footsteps.

There's Polish writing on the blade.

He lived, fought, now we don't even know his name.

Jefim Siemionycz,

if I won't find my father I'll come back here.

I have nobody.

Stop saying that.

I'll give you Szarik when he gets bigger.

You'll need a friend at war.

And warm fur gloves.

And even if you won't find your father you won't be back.

You'll stay with your own kind.

That newspaper seemed to be just paper

but like the call of wild geese - it can't be helped.

You have to go your own way.

Is that you Sasza?

What kind of a man are you?

You're always late. One day you'll be too late.

If you're to stay then not under my command.

Gruel again?

Who are you?

Talk or we'll throw you out the door.

Who are you?

You want to fight me?

Leave him.

You come unasked,

you don't answer questions, it's not nice.

- I want to fight on the front. - I see.

Throw him out together with the dog.

Private, don't interrupt when an officer is speaking.

Who was keeping watch last night?

I was, sir.

Do you think this boy and his dog got in then

or did he fall from the sky through the chimney?

Damn it.

You can'tjust decide to go to war.

At the draft office they'll examine you

see what you are and they'll give you a paper.

Your mother's probably crying cause you're gone.

And if I don't have a mother?

And your father's on the front?

I don't know, he disappeared 4 years ago.

That was before the war.

Not in Poland.

I'm going to join the Polish army.

I've been traveling with you since last night.

Give our ally some food, the gruel's getting cold.

I could clean this.

"This" is a machine gun. A hand machine gun.

Would you know how?

I'm sorry, it was a stupid thing to do.

Take me with you, I can clean the guns,

I'll keep a watch with my dog.

We won't let anyone get in.

You...

What does he want?

He wants to go hunting.

These are guns for big animals, and the hunt is not for kids.

It's not for adults either.

But you have to do what you have to do.

Here's a certificate.

I'm a hunter.

What's this? A tiger!

Alright.

I can't do it son, the army's all about orders,

I'll have to let you off at the first station.

Yes.

Just for a while.

A hunter.

Get out.

Come Szarik, they're throwing us out.

Look...

You're from Poland. Me too, from Gdansk.

You're lucky, you can go with them now.

My name's Gustaw Jelen. Call me Gustlik.

- I'm Jan Kos. - And the dog?

Szarik.

It means ball in Russian. So long guys.

Keep your eyes open on the front, we might meet again.

Make room guys, we have another one.

Oh my God, a girl.

Let me go, where did you come from?

- Ussuri. - Not from the moon?

- No. - Where are you from in Poland?

- Gdansk. - I'm from Warsaw.

Sit down.

My name's Litka.

You're pretty, like a picture.

I'm cold.

Here. Take it.

Take it, I'm warm.

They're nice, I'll wear them.

We'll be friends.

Now it's like home.

Who's going to the tanks?

I am.

Anti-tank artillery.

Gustaw Jelen.

Father's name?

Wilhelm.

Why do you want to join the artillery?

I was in the German artillery.

They forced me to join.

But I took my crew and we went to the Russians.

You took all four of them?

Don't you believe me?

Let go, what are you doing?

Lidia Wisniewska.

I signed up.

I'd like to be with you. But I'll go where they tell me.

Decide yourself, they're forming a "Heroes of Westerplatte" brigade.

Don't you see?

Westerplatte, that's where your father fought.

They took me to operate the radio, they need girls there.

Wait, I'll be right back.

How old are you?

18

It doesn't say here when you were born.

But I am 18.

And I can see.

You're lying.

It's hard in the tanks, go somewhere else kid.

I know.

- You're healthy. - Yes.

What is this dog doing here?

This is the army.

Yes sir.

The artillery, not the zoo. You can go now.

One at a time.

You idiot.

They didn't take me.

They don't want me in the tanks.

Too bad. Or maybe it's for the best.

What would a dog do in a tank?

What a question. I'll tell him, that...

It won't help. I asked and the ensign didn't agree.

Driver.

- We're leaving, we have everybody. - Yes sir.

Don't worry.

But I wanted to go with you.

I really did.

Wait.

- Good morning. - Hello.

Wichura.

What? What do you mean?

Wichura, that's my name.

- And yours? - Kos.

Nice dog.

- Yours? - You can pet him.

- He won't bite? - No.

Throw it, you'll see how he can retrieve.

Here doggie.

Count...

One, two, three, four...

Turn right, to the car.

You come up front.

No thanks. I'll go with the others.

Help us.

We're off.

What's the matter? It's a new car.

Crank it up.

Wait a moment.

You can crank it till...

You have to use your brain.

Leave me alone.

- I could fix it, lieutenant. - Try.

If it starts will you take me with you?

No way.

What the hell, give it a try.

- But there's two of us. - You and who else?

Alright, try to fix it.

- We're witnesses. - Alright.

Look up there. Szarik, fetch.

What?

A bird.

How did you do it?

Go, you sorry excuse for a driver.

How did you make it start?

Now we're tank-men.

The tanks are coming.

Don't be scared, silly...

- Look at those tanks... - Tanks like tanks.

Be careful, you'll break it.

Are you coming with us,

or did you just bring the tanks over?

I'm with you all the way to Berlin, those are my orders.

I'm out of the hospital and I want to get back to my unit

and they tell me that I, lieutenant Olgierd Jarosz,

am going to be training our allies.

Unless you think you're better than I am.

Damn. Is this how the Polish army welcomes us?

At home in Georgia...

Grigorij...

Yes, Grigorij I'm Grigorij Sakaszwili.

And who are you?

The dog remembers how you used to give him sugar,

and you don't remember me?

Janek...

Lieutenant, we got into a fight

and then decided that it's our war, his and mine.

You want me to be part of your crew?

- Sure. - Me too.

- That makes four. - Five, Szarik too.

He's grown.

Won't you ask your superior for permission?

A crew has to be like fingers of a hand.

What can you do?

Sakaszwili is a first class driver.

Grigorij, show them what you can do.

- With the pin? - Yes.

Be careful.

Come on.

He'll break it.

Kill the tiger, but don't spoil the skin

That's how you should drive.

Grigorij wasn't on the front yet, he's a rookie

I'm also not a military man.

You see that cloud...

the white one?

It's called cirro-stratus

I can also tell you that in a day or two

it will bring on a change in the weather.

See what a cloud specialist I am.

We showed you what we can do.

I read the clouds, Grigorij hammers in nails. And you?

You have any relatives in Georgia?

There was a guy back home that carried horses.

Can you use that for one of the fingers of a hand?

Who knows?

And you?

You're young, life in a tank is hard.

It's easier to hit bull's eye than to hit my crew.

Alright, if I hit, will you take me?

Me and Szarik, if we're supposed to be like one hand

than four fingers is not enough.

You, Grigorij, Gustlik, me and Szarik.

We'll see.

Well hot shot you hit twice.

- And? - I think three times.

Third one straight to the sky.

You're a good shot. But...

He's looking for what he hasn't lost.

They're still warm.

Look at that.

You're right. I'm sorry.

Two went through one after the other.

Will you take me?

- Yes. - But with the dog.

Alright.

But you'll have to learn to...

sing.

Sing?

We need a gunner and a radio man.

You have to learn to sing like we do in the tank.

- You know what that means? - No.

That's your name.

I have something for you lieutenant.

Here, it's to pay my footing.

Nice.

We'll be opening cans with it.

No, read what's on the blade.