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01:10For years, since I've been filming, I've been thinking about what it's like to be a wild animal.
01:17What it's like to be a wolf, a raven, a beaver, a beaver or an ant.
01:23To cross the boundaries of human and animal senses.
01:26To find in oneself the purest ability of seeing, hearing and feeling.
01:31Not to be afraid of the wildness of the forest, to feel its part, to feel the wildness that nothing can tame.
01:38I want to make this wish come true here, in Puszczy, where I've found ten heroes,
01:43who played their roles in the story I've created, in the way they could have done it in their real life.
01:49Each of them could have been born somewhere in Europe.
01:53However, their destiny was to come to the world in the middle of the Old Continent,
01:58somewhere at the end of the 20th century, on the eastern borders of Poland and the western borders of Belarus.
02:04In Puszcza Białowieska.
02:06The only remnant of the original forests that grew up centuries ago in the lowlands of Europe.
02:13In a place where nature has been going on non-stop for several thousand years.
02:17It would seem that for these ten, it's a real paradise on earth.
02:36Puszcza Białowieska
03:07He was taken away by freedom.
03:10He ended up here, in a closed reserve of beetles, in the very middle of the vast Puszcza.
03:16His Puszcza.
03:18Just when winter was already taking its toll.
03:21But snow, like in March, will return for a few more days.
03:36Puszcza Białowieska
04:06Puszcza Białowieska
04:09Saddle him!
04:12Saddle him!
04:15Saddle him!
04:21Saddle him!
04:23Saddle him!
04:25Saddle him!
04:33Here he is, the ruler.
04:36Żubr nad żubry. Independent, indifferent.
04:39One who knows no obstacles.
04:41Almost a ton of wilderness.
04:45It took a few days for him to calm down and get used to people.
04:49After all, for years he met them during his stroll,
04:52and they usually walked him off the road.
04:57I can't resist the impression
04:59that buying tasty grain
05:02enriches a żubr's dignity.
05:05Is it really so?
05:07To be a żubr?
05:11He drew my attention a few years ago.
05:14Exactly eight.
05:16Over the years, he proved not only to me
05:19that he is unique,
05:21and this very uniqueness lost him.
05:23It made that now on his way
05:25there are people and fences.
05:28He doesn't know what I do.
05:30If he couldn't be caught in a trap
05:32and brought here,
05:34he wouldn't be alive.
05:40His story began eight years ago,
05:43after a winter like this one.
05:55As it is with żubr,
05:57after almost nine months of pregnancy,
05:59his mother left the herd.
06:01She found a quiet, safe abode.
06:04The smell of the herd
06:06could attract the predator.
06:12He was born at the very beginning of May,
06:14probably at night, as is often the case with żubrs.
06:17For the first hour after coming into the world,
06:20he was carefully stroked by his mother.
06:22The blood began to circulate faster,
06:24he gained strength,
06:26he stood on his weak legs.
06:28Soon he reached for the best,
06:30his mother's milk.
06:33That day was the second.
06:35The milk hadn't run out yet.
06:37Żubrzyca watched him very closely
06:39and didn't leave him for a moment.
06:41Unstable, in żubr's way,
06:43she called him with a grunt.
06:47Always.
06:48When he moved away from her,
06:50even for a few steps.
07:02That day, he began to be interested in everything around him.
07:05For the first time, he saw someone other than his mother.
07:08A vulture.
07:09Not a threat at all,
07:11at least for him.
07:13A wet snail,
07:14a neighbor with a dry place where he was born,
07:17was a vulture's rival.
07:19She ignored żubr's presence,
07:21and didn't bother her at all in hunting for frogs.
07:24But he couldn't take his eyes off her.
07:28Such a vulture.
07:30A vulture,
07:31because he weighed only twenty-something kilograms.
07:34Imagine that after four years he grew up to 800 kilos.
07:38And who could stand in his way?
07:42But that's not all.
07:44Żubr's mother,
07:45who was also a vulture's rival,
07:47was also a vulture's rival.
07:49A vulture's rival.
07:51Żubr's mother,
07:53who was also a vulture's rival.
07:56But now,
07:57even a tiny rod
07:59made him heartbroken.
08:10I don't think there's a more caring animal than Żubr's mother.
08:14If only a lynx,
08:16a fox,
08:17a raccoon,
08:18or even a wolf
08:19would show up,
08:20she'd know what to do.
08:21I know that well.
08:22Once,
08:23I almost lost my shoes
08:24when I ran into Żubr with a vulture.
08:27That's when I understood
08:28the power of the biggest wild animal
08:30from the European forest.
08:44Soon,
08:45he'll get to know his forest.
08:48He'll travel it
08:50along and across.
08:52He'll mark his own paths.
08:56Only now do I realize
08:58what it's like
08:59to be a wild Żubr.
09:01Free.
09:02To live without borders.
09:05This will be his world.
09:19After a few days,
09:20he joined the rest with his mother.
09:22He was the only Żubr in the herd.
09:25The most important one.
09:26I saw it clearly.
09:28Because the herd
09:29is the strength,
09:30safety,
09:31and confidence of everyone.
09:33I realized that being a Żubr
09:35means living among your own.
09:38His herd
09:39had at least a dozen eyes,
09:41a dozen ears,
09:42a dozen ears,
09:43a dozen ears,
09:44a dozen ears,
09:45a dozen ears,
09:46a dozen ears,
09:47a dozen ears,
09:48a dozen ears,
09:49a dozen ears,
09:50a dozen ears,
09:51a dozen ears,
09:52a dozen ears.
09:53But it's not just the family.
10:00It's not just the family.
10:02This one,
10:03only one
10:04who smells like what they are.
10:06With the senses of these two.
10:09Kakubmak is ready to defend it
10:11from the other,
10:13more harshish Żubr.
10:15It's no wonder that almost eight years ago, his mother was the leader of the herd for several months.
10:23Borsuk didn't risk his approach to the herd, because what for?
10:48His favourite food are beetles, insects, rats, and if he succeeds, a frog or a scorpion.
10:56I couldn't believe it, but it was true.
10:59When he was two months old, there were four of them.
11:02Yes, because four young ones in one herd is rare.
11:10In any case, he took care of his mother.
11:13And beetles constantly guarded the babies, often for a change.
11:17When one was eating, the other was watching.
11:19In any case, Borsuk was watched by several pairs of eyes.
11:48Closed in a reserve for a month.
11:53It is so warm that he would find enough food at his leisure.
11:59Here, however, I notice this every day, he was clearly addicted to daily feeding.
12:05Beetle, or ground grain, is his favourite food, I have no doubt.
12:12A snack is a snack, but if there was an opportunity, he would run after the fence.
12:19He does not know that he has found himself in a special place.
12:22In a closed beetle reserve, the guards take special care of the caretakers.
12:28There are several reserve flocks here, which the breeders keep in case of an epidemic or other threats.
12:34They have a special reason for this.
12:38Is it a lion?
12:50It is hard to believe, but once the beetles did not bend their little hair completely,
12:55even though they were in the Bialowieza Forest since forever.
12:58Almost a hundred years ago, just before the First World War, there were over 700 of them here.
13:04Just after the war, not a single one remained.
13:07With little effort, step by step, the beetle flock of the pure Bialowieza blood was recreated.
13:13Although only a few dozen beetles lived in Europe at that time, in private collections and zoos,
13:18only seven of them gave rise to the new Bialowieza flock.
13:22And it was in this reserve, where he is now, the first animals were released in 1929.
13:31After 10 years of absence of beetles.
13:34To this day, for almost 80 years, more than 2,000 animals have been bred in the Bialowieza Forest.
13:42Now, according to the Biodiversity Book, there are over 3,500 beetles in the world.
13:49Few people have repaired what others have destroyed.
13:54However, there is no certainty that the beetles are completely saved.
13:58The largest flock of land beetles in Europe needs a lot of space to live.
14:02This space is also needed by man.
14:07And today, four new beetles have enlarged the reserve flock.
14:12His reserve.
14:29Bialowieza
14:35Then, eight years ago, he was less than four months old when he left the desert for the first time.
14:41With his mother and part of the flock.
14:43The juicy grass caught them close to the village.
14:46He was eating greenery, even though he was still sucking milk.
14:59For the first time, he saw people and farm animals.
15:04Beetles were not afraid of them, so he had no reason either.
15:08I could clearly see that he already felt strong and confident.
15:12After all, his mother was next to him.
15:14A brave one.
15:16The future emperor of the endless desert.
15:29Winter
15:46With the beginning of winter, he returned to the desert.
15:49There were no favorite herbs and grass.
15:59For many years, I have been observing desert beetles in winter.
16:04In places where they are fed by breeders.
16:07They have been doing this for decades after the Bialowieza flock was rescued.
16:11Anyway, they were also fed in the 19th century.
16:14Someone could say that this is how beetles live in winter.
16:17This is not true.
16:19Nature is self-sufficient, so the desert would probably feed its own beetles.
16:24But probably not such a huge flock.
16:27The truth is simple.
16:29In the human, civilized world, nature is still losing.
16:34A man aware of his position, however, wants to protect the precious ancient desert
16:38and the beetles saved from extinction.
16:41He feeds them so that they do not devour the bark of old trees and young shoots.
16:46The only food available in winter.
16:58Autumn
17:00In late autumn, the beetles gathered in large flocks
17:03and wandered near the grazers.
17:06The group of his mother joined after the first snow.
17:09Only now he enjoyed life in such a large group.
17:13Like other beetles, he learned to look for a tractor with a trailer full of hay,
17:19beetles, and sometimes even apples and carrots.
17:22He also learned that he had to wait for his turn to get food.
17:26Because priority is given to the strongest.
17:29He became more and more accustomed to people.
17:32So, to be dependent on people, to be grateful for their grace,
17:36is this how it is to be a wild, free beetle?
17:41In winter, almost the whole beetle's life revolves around the belly.
17:45It takes a lot of time for an adult beetle to fill a 100-liter stomach.
17:49Then comes a long rest.
17:52You have to chew the hay in peace.
17:56Yes.
17:58To be a beetle means to chew what you swallow first.
18:03And so on and so forth.
18:05So he chewed and still drank milk.
18:09This was how it was supposed to be until the second year of his life.
18:12I noticed for years that young beetles suck milk for several months to weigh longer.
18:23Typical for a beetle.
18:26After a rest before the next meal,
18:29it's time for a snack and play.
18:36And he started playing with a one-year-old beetle,
18:40stronger than him.
18:42Finally, he took an example from his elders.
18:47I was completely surprised.
18:49He didn't give up.
18:51He was so brave.
18:59Then, almost eight years ago,
19:01other hungry beetles also came up to the beetle.
19:09The young beetle has chewed on the hay for many days.
19:12He ate by their side.
19:14Confident, he was not afraid of the herd.
19:21But he didn't wish the beetle first.
19:52The young beetle was not afraid of the beetle.
19:55He was afraid of the beetle.
19:57He was afraid of the beetle.
19:59He was afraid of the beetle.
20:01He was afraid of the beetle.
20:03He was afraid of the beetle.
20:05He was afraid of the beetle.
20:07He was afraid of the beetle.
20:09He was afraid of the beetle.
20:11He was afraid of the beetle.
20:13He was afraid of the beetle.
20:15He was afraid of the beetle.
20:17He was afraid of the beetle.
20:20He was afraid of the beetle.
20:25He was afraid of the beetle.
20:38A panic escape of a huge herd had one tragedy.
20:42The beetle was the first to die.
20:45It was a big beetle.
20:47But it's not a robotic howler, nor a wolf.
20:53The kuna has also ventured out.
21:07A lonely wolf will never threaten the beetles in the herd,
21:10but it can frighten them quite well.
21:14He snorted, but a boar!
21:17Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:48Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:50Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:52Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:54Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:56Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
21:58Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:00Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:02Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:04Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:06Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:08Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:10Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:12Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:18I was terrified that his mother had met the worst.
22:24She had pierced her left lung.
22:27She was getting weaker by the hour.
22:33And he had not yet felt anything.
22:37Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:39Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:41Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.
22:43That day of escape and pursuit
22:46ended tragically for the boar.
22:49A wolf attacked him.
22:53For her, there was also no chance.
22:57When she was running away from the howler in the crowd,
23:00she miscalculated the jump
23:02and fell on a sharp pinprick sticking out of her lying throat.
23:07The herd already knew.
23:10And he was still unconscious.
23:32The End
23:56It happened.
23:58He became an orphan.
24:01The end
24:07The beavers watched her until the end.
24:10Finally, the herd, her herd, left.
24:31The end
24:42He was the last to leave.
24:51He had not eaten for two days out of longing for his mother.
24:55And he was also ill.
24:57He bit into his left eye, which was now itching and burning.
25:00I have seen a few times how orphaned beavers
25:03did not survive the harsh winter.
25:09He was left alone.
25:11Among his own, but alone.
25:23Fortunately, he began to eat.
25:30The End
26:00The end
26:07It seems that he did not care and got used to it completely.
26:19Only the lack of freedom.
26:22The end
26:27The thick winter fur is unbearably hot.
26:30The skin is itching from the bulging hemispheres.
26:33In addition, there are also grunting insects.
26:36Fortunately, the beavers like them.
26:40The end
26:51He probably does not know this, but I do.
26:54Just now, in May, he turned eight years old.
27:09The end
27:39The end
27:49I myself do not know
27:52whether he would have run away if the opportunity had come.
27:56Is this the truth about the beaver?
27:59The end
28:09The end
28:14The fatal winter ended there, during which he lost his mother.
28:19He wandered to the fields on the outskirts of the bush,
28:22where there was still some hay in the paddy fields.
28:25He survived, because he could count on the herd,
28:28on the care and experience of adult beavers.
28:31The fresh grass kept them there for the whole spring.
28:39The end
28:43As a two-year-old, he survived another winter close to the familiar beavers.
28:47He was with the herd, but already then he became more and more independent.
28:56From year to year, he grew and matured.
29:00According to the custom of gathering in feeding places,
29:03he also spent the third winter among his own, on a familiar field.
29:07It was the year of the mouse,
29:10and there were a lot of nests around the beavers.
29:17As it usually was with the beavers,
29:20after four years, he finally left the family herd
29:23and joined a group of similar bulls,
29:26the cavalry herd, as they say in the mysteries of the beaver affairs.
29:30Once there were six of them, another time three,
29:33and every now and then someone joined, and someone left.
29:44Usually it was them, the cavalrymen, who were first on the field.
29:48Usually a long time before they heard a friend pulling.
29:51As if it were the most natural, he tolerated people close to him,
29:55because it was clear to him,
29:58where there are people, there is food.
30:04On the outskirts of the forest, a spring cold caught him.
30:08And with him, two companions,
30:10the oldest of whom was pulled by a steel snout,
30:13clamped on his neck, a trace of a sledgehammer.
30:16The lonely wolf had to feel that a bull with a snout
30:19could be weaker or even sicker.
30:22But three strong males, for the good cause,
30:25could ignore him.
30:28And he checked, tried on
30:31as if to drown the teeth in the warm meat of the victim.
30:35From above it was known that the wolf had no chance.
30:40It was rather a ritual.
30:42They preferred to run away just in case,
30:44and he could not refuse the pleasure of chasing someone who was running away.
30:49But if any leg accidentally stepped on the steel line,
30:53the loop could quickly tighten and cause a fall.
30:57And then the wolf would have made it.
31:01The Wolf
31:09He was exactly five years old when he left the cavalry herd.
31:15And then they met.
31:17What kind of company?
31:19Their mutual intention was to get to the forest bimbrowni.
31:25Borsuk had already used the absence of the bimbrowni.
31:32Borsuk
31:35The tempting smell of bimbrowni had been bothering them for a few days.
31:40They couldn't wait any longer.
32:01Borsuk
32:17Here he is.
32:19The most important one in the reserve.
32:21In the garden next to him, he discovers a one-and-a-half-month-old beetle,
32:25just like he used to be.
32:27The little one lost his mother yesterday.
32:29He misses her very much.
32:40He can only count on the care of people.
32:47It's not good.
32:49He doesn't eat anything.
32:50He loses his strength.
32:59Borsuk
33:04I've never heard anyone tame a beetle.
33:21The next day.
33:30Borsuk
33:40At last.
33:43I don't know if it was the hunger or the patience of the guardian that won.
33:50And he, as usual, is at the gate.
34:00Borsuk
34:03There is hope for the little one.
34:05One day, he will return to the herd.
34:22Right after he left the cavalry herd,
34:25right after he got the beetle,
34:27he began to do what the strongest beetles have in their blood.
34:30He began to wander.
34:32He became a wanderer, a loner,
34:35who learned only by his own ways.
34:38He often went out of the bushes.
34:40He was a change-maker, because instead of avoiding people,
34:43he chose their company with great pleasure.
34:46He was attracted by the proximity of farm animals,
34:50and especially by the fields and meadows
34:52full of cabbage, carrots and beetles.
34:55Unconsciously, he became more and more dangerous to people.
35:03When he was six years old,
35:05he took over a small orchard in Białowieża.
35:09Did he find peace here,
35:11or did he borrow frozen apples and bushes?
35:20I saw him travel hundreds of kilometers in a few weeks.
35:26Then I understood that it was independence, power
35:30and the aggression of adult bulls that pointed to the lonely beetle.
35:34That only the rush of time drove him back to the herd.
35:38Then again, the beetle and loneliness.
35:50At the end of the sixth winter,
35:52he returned to his mother's home,
35:55to the wet meadow next to which he was born.
36:00She was still here,
36:02older than all these years, but still full of life.
36:08And still, as before, he could not take his eyes off her.
36:19The End
36:34He felt at home everywhere.
36:37He was not frightened by the fire,
36:40the sounds of their saws,
36:42or the rustle of falling trees.
36:44He was intrigued by their bikes.
36:48I think he was just at home.
36:52He was almost seven years old.
36:54He felt a great fire in him,
36:56a power that no one knew.
37:00He did not bow to anyone.
37:07And he used this power.
37:10When the rush came, he won the battle of life,
37:15with an equal opponent.
37:45The End
38:16The End
38:24He was one of more than 700 beetles in the Białowieża Forest.
38:28More precisely, one of 400 living in its western, Polish part.
38:33Three months after the victory,
38:36he went to his favourite forester's village on the outskirts of the forest.
38:40In December, on Christmas Eve.
38:42On a day like this,
38:44the hosts do not refuse to visit any wanderer.
38:47He was here many times, so now he was especially at home.
38:57When he returned again, he was covered in hay for a few days.
39:01But only in one place.
39:04He did not feel the rush.
39:06He did not feel that they wanted to catch him.
39:10Because his presence in the village began to be burdensome.
39:14He visited, and more than once, he demolished more than one yard.
39:18At first, he aroused enthusiasm, and then panic.
39:22If he only wanted, he entered every corner,
39:24especially when he sniffed something tasty.
39:26It was already dangerous.
39:28He became a threat to people.
39:33Even before the New Year,
39:35he was kept at his favourite forester's house in a portable cage.
40:05He fell for his luck.
40:35In December, on Christmas Eve,
40:37he was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:39He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:41He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:43He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:45He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:47He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:49He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:51He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:53He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:55He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:57He was caught in the middle of the forest.
40:59He was caught in the middle of the forest.
41:01He was caught in the middle of the forest.
41:03You're very good.
41:05You're very good.
41:09You're very good.
41:15The board has bent out...
41:19He hit the herd deep in the forest,
41:21over 30 km away from his favourite forester's house,
41:25as far away from people as possible,
41:27under the pine trees that he knew perfectly well.
41:33On the second day, however, for the first time, he did not associate the tractor with a full belly, as always.
41:52The same sound now meant a restriction of freedom. His holy freedom.
41:59The Żołędzie region.
42:13Żołędzie. A delicacy of the Suje, a delicacy of the Żubrów. The oak trees were in full bloom this autumn.
42:22Among the Żubrów on freedom, the Żołędzy year indicates more than usual the number of Cieląd's birthdays in the spring.
42:29It is the time of the plow.
42:32Here, in the reserve, nothing will avoid him, because here he has the Żubrzyce only for himself.
42:37He has no rivals.
42:39And this makes him lazy. He loses his natural vigilance.
42:43And he charges his inner energy. In the Kuprzysk, as they say in the mystery.
43:06Here, in the reserve, there are a lot of oaks.
43:10For the Żołędzy, it would be enough for all the Żubrów, but he prefers the Śrut.
43:15The Śrut above all else.
43:27There is order at the barracks. He is always the first.
43:33Then, the strongest cow, the leader of the herd.
43:36After her, the rest of the Żubrzyce, and at the end, the youth.
43:47In the reserve, there is someone who knows his weakness and understands him well.
43:53He patiently waits for you to have the Śrut to the end and will add an additional portion to it.
44:03Ouch!
44:07Namaste.
44:09The Żubrzyce
44:32And yet, he returned.
44:35After two months of catching and taking him away, he traveled more than 30 kilometers.
44:41Instinct pushed him, he had to return to his own, and probably only the dog welcomed him as its own.
45:05The Żubrzyce
45:35The Żubrzyce
45:42He issued a sentence on his own. Again, he was put in a cage.
45:48It happened more than once, that a self-confident and indecisive loner, who came to the farms, terrorized people,
45:56troubled this and that, and did not let himself be caught in a trap, was shot.
46:03In the face of the consequences, the animal always loses.
46:08I have never agreed with that.
46:33The Żubrzyce
46:47He had to go in. That was the only way he could save his life. That was his only option.
46:54The Żubrzyce
47:01He had to go in.
47:04The Żubrzyce
47:24The Żubrzyce
47:27The Żubrzyce
47:30The Żubrzyce
47:33The Żubrzyce
47:50The only and best option was to isolate him in a closed reserve of Żubrzyce.
47:56From that moment on, his life in freedom came to an end.
48:00He got his last chance.
48:04But he did not know about it.
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49:02And it happened. After almost a year of confinement, now he finally has a chance to escape.
49:09He does not know what I know.
49:12Escaping from the reserve will be the harshest, because the final judgment.
49:17But it cannot be otherwise.
49:27The Żubrzyce
49:33And I cannot get rid of the bitter reflection that he, the embodiment of the original wildness and freedom,
49:41in the heart of things, more than once was like a shabby cow, dependent on the human hand's bundle of hay.
49:49Because the life of a Żubrzyce was judged by a man when he took away his life space and forced him to live according to his rules.
50:00He civilized the wildness.
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