Sen o Warszawie
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:01:30If you would like to see
00:01:35The Silesian Swans above me
00:01:39Come with me today
00:01:44I welcome you with open arms
00:01:47In the beautiful forest
00:01:49Warsaw day
00:01:54Warsaw day
00:01:56Warsaw day
00:02:20My brother was born on February 16, 1939
00:02:25I even remember that.
00:02:28Yes, because I was kicked out of the house.
00:02:36I know that I fought with my friend.
00:02:38He said that my mother was giving birth,
00:02:40and I said that Bocian was bringing her.
00:02:42And that's how we fought.
00:02:44We were running in the snow.
00:02:46We were fighting in the street.
00:02:49And my father said to my grandmother,
00:02:51I have a son.
00:02:53And I said to him, I don't like him.
00:02:57He said, when will you like him?
00:03:03The war broke out.
00:03:04I know that it was very hard.
00:03:06Because there were some problems right away.
00:03:12In 1939-1940,
00:03:15I know that we almost never slept at home.
00:03:18Because they were taking us to Siberia.
00:03:20And we were locked up.
00:03:23Because when I went to school,
00:03:25we organized a package there.
00:03:27And in the textbooks,
00:03:29we were staring at Stalin
00:03:32and all the Soviet commanders.
00:03:34And there was such a communist.
00:03:37She picked us up.
00:03:38And we would all come.
00:03:40So that in 1941,
00:03:42we would all be in Siberia.
00:04:22Nikogda, Nikogda, Nikogda.
00:04:27Nikogda, Nikogda, Nikogda.
00:04:32There was Patefon.
00:04:33And there were a lot of records.
00:04:35Among others, there was a record
00:04:39by Shalapin.
00:04:41An old gramophone from Dart.
00:04:44He didn't sing like Shalapin.
00:04:46His own aria.
00:04:48And only the word Nikogda.
00:04:51He sang in infinity.
00:04:53Nikogda, Nikogda.
00:04:56Nikogda, Nikogda.
00:05:02Nikogda, Nikogda.
00:05:10My dad was at work.
00:05:12I ran to him and said,
00:05:14Dad, come and listen.
00:05:16Maybe you'll never hear
00:05:18something like this again.
00:05:20And something happened.
00:05:21He didn't even react.
00:05:23He just stood there and sang.
00:05:26Dad came running.
00:05:28I think my father had some
00:05:30interesting people there.
00:05:32He really was a wonderful child.
00:05:39One man said,
00:05:41I'm sure the stage is waiting for him.
00:05:44And he wasn't wrong.
00:05:50He was a wonderful man.
00:06:10All the children,
00:06:12my father, mother,
00:06:14his sister, uncle,
00:06:16they sang in the church choir.
00:06:18I sang.
00:06:20Many other girls sang along.
00:06:22So we always rehearsed here.
00:06:24The organist would come.
00:06:26For example, when we had to rehearse
00:06:28we would rehearse to sing better.
00:06:30You know.
00:06:32As usual.
00:06:34And we would sing in glottis.
00:06:36Soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
00:06:41Four glottis.
00:06:43My father sang in tenor.
00:06:45My mother sang so beautifully in soprano.
00:06:48My uncle sang in baritone.
00:06:53It was a miracle.
00:07:17I started singing music
00:07:19in my early childhood.
00:07:21I played the piano a bit.
00:07:23I played various instruments.
00:07:26As a nine-year-old boy
00:07:28I tried my hand at the church choir.
00:07:48There was a front the whole day.
00:07:50We were in the trenches in the forest.
00:07:52We were burned by the Basiliks.
00:07:54And the columns next to the house
00:07:56were after the mines, after the bombs.
00:07:59But somehow nothing happened.
00:08:01And the Soviets came in again.
00:08:18We arrived in 1945.
00:08:21My father was the youngest member of the Wydrzycki family.
00:08:24He was expedited by his family.
00:08:26He was told to go to the land
00:08:28that had been reclaimed.
00:08:30To see what it was like
00:08:32to live in a new reality.
00:08:48Warsaw, Gdynia
00:09:04The rest of the family stayed in Stary Basiliska.
00:09:07We thought it was all smooth sailing.
00:09:10Maybe the old people would come back.
00:09:13In 1950 the kolkhozes were built.
00:09:16And in one night
00:09:18they took everyone in.
00:09:21My father didn't want to go to the kolkhozes.
00:09:23He said, I'm not a farmer.
00:09:26And my father said,
00:09:28so what if you're not a farmer?
00:09:30But you have a garden.
00:09:32You can't go to the garden.
00:09:34So he signed up and became a accountant.
00:09:36And then he supposedly became a carpenter.
00:09:38But he didn't have a horse anymore.
00:09:40They took everything from people.
00:09:42Horses, everything.
00:09:45I'm going to sing a song
00:09:47that I performed for the first time
00:09:49on the Estrada.
00:09:51I was 13 years old.
00:09:53I sang it
00:09:55on a very small stage
00:09:58at a school
00:10:00at a parent's meeting.
00:10:14And the road is slightly shaking
00:10:19And the song is spreading
00:10:24In the desolate field
00:10:31And the song is spreading
00:10:37In the desolate field
00:10:45So many feelings
00:10:47In that song
00:10:49He was always photographing,
00:10:51so he was always running after it.
00:10:54Because all the photos are of him.
00:10:57That the cold winter
00:11:00Has warmed up
00:11:05He wanted to be an adult.
00:11:07Well, you could see
00:11:09the white stripes there,
00:11:11but it didn't matter,
00:11:13because it was his choir.
00:11:15He was playing the accordion,
00:11:18and it was his choir.
00:11:20So he organized it.
00:11:25In 1954, he entered
00:11:28the Grodzinsk Lyceum.
00:11:30But there, after the 7th grade,
00:11:32you had to learn
00:11:34apart from music and grammar,
00:11:36you had to learn
00:11:38the middle school,
00:11:40the 8th, 9th, 10th grades.
00:11:43But he was given not only music,
00:11:46but also mathematics,
00:11:48history,
00:11:50Belarusian and Russian.
00:11:52He didn't like it very much.
00:11:55He went to that lyceum
00:11:57with great resistance.
00:11:59Apparently, like somewhere there,
00:12:01I saw such a note
00:12:03that he preferred to stand on the bridge
00:12:05and look into the mouth of the river Nemlna.
00:12:10He missed a lot of lessons there.
00:12:13Maybe he was chasing his first wife,
00:12:16Maria Klauzunik.
00:12:18He didn't want to study.
00:12:20That's not true either.
00:12:22There was another reason.
00:12:24His brother came from Grodno and said,
00:12:26Dad, the principal is calling you.
00:12:28I went to the principal.
00:12:32The principal, even surprisingly,
00:12:34spoke Polish with me.
00:12:36And he said, yes,
00:12:38but he missed a lot of lessons.
00:12:43But he said,
00:12:45I can't study there.
00:12:47Why?
00:12:49So now I'll tell you why.
00:12:56I don't want to sign up
00:12:58for a consulting agency.
00:13:00I said, I know what you mean now.
00:13:03Yes, he said, yes, I have to be
00:13:05because I have to be a consultant.
00:13:07I can't be a music teacher
00:13:09if I'm not a consultant.
00:13:11So I said, that's it.
00:13:13That's the end of it.
00:13:15So, yes, he signed up.
00:13:17And he came back to Vasilishev,
00:13:19to this middle school.
00:13:37And he signed up for a consulting agency.
00:13:39He didn't sign up for the consulting agency.
00:13:41Dad said, you did a very good job.
00:13:43But he would have gone to the army.
00:13:45And that was exactly the repetition.
00:13:47So, Czesiek, Dad, we're leaving.
00:13:49Because Dad didn't want to,
00:13:51because Dad was actually already sick.
00:13:53So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:13:55So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:13:57So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:13:59So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:01So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:03So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:05So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:07So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:09So, Czesiek, we're leaving.
00:14:11Everyone who still
00:14:13had the will, they came back.
00:14:15And father, Czesiewolaw,
00:14:17decided that it is no use
00:14:19to wait any longer.
00:14:29It was a horrible day.
00:14:31For me…
00:14:33We packed our things, put the suitcases in the trunk, and we had a cat.
00:14:40The cat ran into the house in the morning.
00:14:43When he saw it, he growled in terror.
00:14:47With a terrifying voice, he ran away.
00:14:50He never came back.
00:14:52He died somewhere on the meadow.
00:14:55It was May 25, 1958.
00:15:01Czesiek got married that day.
00:15:03We didn't know about it.
00:15:05We hear a lot about romantic love.
00:15:09He married Marysia Kleozunik.
00:15:12He took the secretary of the village council,
00:15:15which is, in your opinion, the secretary of the commune,
00:15:18and took her to her house, where she got married.
00:15:23That's what I thought on the day of my departure.
00:15:26I asked the head of the commune if he had given us the car for free.
00:15:33We packed everything we could.
00:15:35Piano, suitcases, nothing more.
00:15:42I put all the trees in the garden and kissed them goodbye.
00:15:46I did the same with the door to the house.
00:15:50I left everything with such regret.
00:15:55I still regret it to this day.
00:16:00CZESŁAW, POLAND
00:16:22I was lucky to have contact with Czesław
00:16:27when he was a student of the Central Music School in Gdańsk,
00:16:31on Partyzantów Street.
00:16:33He was still a little Italian, short-haired.
00:16:36I have a very interesting photo.
00:16:39He went to this music school to learn how to play the bassoon.
00:16:46The bassoon is a piece of cake.
00:16:48We took such classes with Czesław Wydrzycki,
00:16:52later Czesław Niemen,
00:16:54and I learned how to play this wonderful instrument, the bassoon.
00:16:59I wasn't good at playing the piano,
00:17:03but as a self-taught student I did quite well.
00:17:07So I decided to learn how to play the bassoon.
00:17:09It's a beautiful instrument.
00:17:11And that's how it all started.
00:17:17He had some problems.
00:17:20All of them, especially the women,
00:17:24asked me to teach them,
00:17:27because I was the only one who could organize it for him,
00:17:33so that he could sleep there and learn.
00:17:36He had access to all the rooms, to all the rooms.
00:17:41He learned there, he always sang there,
00:17:44and he always made all the women happy.
00:17:48All the girls.
00:17:50They all fed him.
00:17:52They just wouldn't let him play the bassoon.
00:18:00I wasn't there when Czesław Wydrzycki was just starting out.
00:18:05My wife was still in the cabaret.
00:18:09And I remember perfectly well,
00:18:11the piano tuner came,
00:18:15and Wofo Bielicki persuaded him to try to sing something with a guitar.
00:18:21And my wife said to him,
00:18:24he came in terribly thin,
00:18:28shy,
00:18:30scared,
00:18:32and, in addition, he had visible problems with proper Polish speaking,
00:18:37like a freshly baked repatriate from Kresy.
00:18:42And in this cabaret, this is where Czesław Wydrzycki began to sing.
00:18:48Then he sang Spanish songs,
00:18:51accompanying himself on the guitar,
00:18:53he also sang old Russian romances.
00:18:56I wanted to make friends
00:19:00with the cultural attaché of the Brazilian embassy,
00:19:04who lived in Gdynia.
00:19:06But he was coming to Żak,
00:19:09to the cafe, I remember,
00:19:11and he gave me the original lyrics.
00:19:22I met him in Żak, in particular.
00:19:25Żak was a kind of student mecca.
00:19:28We got to know each other there.
00:19:30And he was talking about various family problems,
00:19:34that his wife threw him out,
00:19:36because he was supposed to go to work,
00:19:38and he wanted to work with music.
00:19:40And what about music?
00:19:42So, at night, he went to the port
00:19:45to reload coal.
00:19:47There was a possibility,
00:19:49supposedly for black, supposedly not,
00:19:51but you could earn money there.
00:19:53I say, what are you going there, these sacks?
00:19:55Well, yes, because I have to do something.
00:19:57And I say, listen, we will live in Żak, quietly.
00:19:59There were such rooms there,
00:20:01and there we made a place for ourselves,
00:20:03it was nice.
00:20:05And one thing was amazing,
00:20:07when all those ballets and cabarets,
00:20:10those jams, jam sessions were over,
00:20:12we went to the basement,
00:20:14and then he disappeared.
00:20:16I woke up once, and he was nowhere to be found.
00:20:18And I hear an echo somewhere there.
00:20:20And he was in the theater room
00:20:22with a guitar, practicing there by himself until morning.
00:20:25And I was standing there,
00:20:27and I go there, I look,
00:20:29and he stands there and practices,
00:20:31and plays, and sings.
00:20:33And I say, well, something amazing,
00:20:35and he was there until almost morning.
00:20:39It was one possibility,
00:20:41the only one,
00:20:43so that he could somehow live
00:20:45differently with this guitar, so to speak.
00:20:47There was a scene, right?
00:20:49Niemen performed in clubs on the coast.
00:20:51In 1962, after the eliminations,
00:20:53he qualified for the final
00:20:55of the first Festival of Young Talents in Szczecin.
00:20:57The organizer of the party was
00:20:59the former Estrada,
00:21:01and the media patron,
00:21:03so to speak.
00:21:05There was a magazine all over the world.
00:21:07In any case, a lot of young people
00:21:09came together.
00:21:11These talents also multiplied.
00:21:13And what's more,
00:21:15our music critics
00:21:17were also interested in it,
00:21:19and some even got involved
00:21:21in supporting it.
00:21:27I met Czesław for the first time
00:21:29at the Festival of Young Talents in Szczecin.
00:21:31Wowo Bielicki,
00:21:33who was then the director
00:21:35of the theatre in Trójmieście,
00:21:37sent me there.
00:21:39He said, remember,
00:21:41there will be a young boy
00:21:43called Bydżycki,
00:21:45and remember,
00:21:47pay attention to him,
00:21:49give the holiest word of honor,
00:21:51and believe me, I never lie,
00:21:53that he is a guy
00:21:55who really knows how to sing.
00:21:57Czesław, I remember,
00:21:59Szczecin, Salerosa, etc., etc.
00:22:05Most of the musicians
00:22:07and people who listened
00:22:09to his performance
00:22:11concluded that he was a great talent.
00:22:13Unfortunately, cameras
00:22:15did not record his final performance.
00:22:17What's worse, similar situations
00:22:19will be repeated many times
00:22:21in the artistic life of Czesław Niemel.
00:22:29CZESŁAW NIEMEL
00:22:35CZESŁAW NIEMEL
00:22:37CZESŁAW NIEMEL
00:22:55In 1963,
00:22:57Czesław found his style,
00:22:59that is, music
00:23:01far from rock'n'roll,
00:23:03but based on guitar sound,
00:23:05but definitely based
00:23:07on such a song,
00:23:09a bit Eastern,
00:23:11which he released
00:23:13as a resident of Belarus,
00:23:15then Belarus,
00:23:17because it was Polish land.
00:23:19Że nie wrócisz już wiem,
00:23:23Czas upływał jak sen,
00:23:31Zgubiłem twój szlak
00:23:35Teraz świat
00:23:39Pójdę już sam
00:23:45Żebym dał
00:23:51For the first time,
00:23:53Czesio started writing,
00:23:55composing his own songs.
00:23:57Czy mnie jeszcze pamiętasz?
00:23:59Wiem, że nie wrócisz
00:24:01A big sentiment,
00:24:03the biggest one,
00:24:05Czesław had in his song
00:24:07Czy mnie jeszcze pamiętasz?
00:24:09Bruno Kokatryk,
00:24:11director of the Paris Olympics,
00:24:13was in Sopot in the summer,
00:24:15at the festival.
00:24:17He didn't like what the ladies
00:24:19and gentlemen were singing
00:24:21in the opera Leszno,
00:24:23and accidentally went to Non Stop Sopot
00:24:25and listened to Polish young rock'n'roll,
00:24:27which he was delighted with
00:24:29and invited by Franciszk Walicki
00:24:31to come to France.
00:24:33On this couch,
00:24:35in our apartment,
00:24:37here I sit,
00:24:39Czesiek and my wife,
00:24:41and we talk about
00:24:43going to Paris.
00:24:45And Czesiek says,
00:24:47listen, your name,
00:24:49Wydrzycki, the French
00:24:51couldn't even pronounce it,
00:24:53they broke their tongues
00:24:55to make you take a pseudonym.
00:24:57Yes, but what?
00:24:59Well, maybe Niemen.
00:25:01It's the river
00:25:03of your childhood.
00:25:05And I remember how
00:25:07he repeated twice today,
00:25:09Czesław Niemen,
00:25:11Czesław Niemen.
00:25:29Czyjakim dziewczęta
00:25:37Majuka, Majuka
00:25:42Czyjakim dziewczęta
00:25:45The first card
00:25:47that came from Paris
00:25:49after their performance,
00:25:51I remembered this card.
00:25:53With wishes, greetings
00:25:55from a beautiful place,
00:25:57I was so proud.
00:25:59A man began to realize
00:26:01that he has someone special
00:26:03in his family.
00:26:05Olimpia, Olimpia,
00:26:07but these songs, Czesław,
00:26:09do you still remember me?
00:26:11And the second one,
00:26:13I know you won't come back,
00:26:15but these are songs addressed
00:26:17to my wife,
00:26:19because then there was no one,
00:26:21there was no Ady Rusowicz yet.
00:26:23What does unrequited love mean?
00:26:25When my parents divorced,
00:26:27I, neither my mother nor my father,
00:26:29as a single family,
00:26:31with a child in one house,
00:26:33I don't remember at all, never.
00:26:35My father had a career,
00:26:37my mother studied,
00:26:39my grandmother raised me for a while,
00:26:41i.e. my father's mother,
00:26:43and then I was with my mother all the time.
00:26:45I think they were just too young.
00:26:47Their love burned out
00:26:49in the face of circumstances,
00:26:51of life.
00:26:55Over the parrots
00:26:59There is a widely nested couple
00:27:03Over the glasses
00:27:07A pair of yellow chrysanthemums shines
00:27:11Here, in front of the girls
00:27:15A colorful sweet is standing in the glass
00:27:19Together with the parrots
00:27:21Together with the parrots
00:27:23They want to chirp and cuddle
00:27:27Mateusz Święcicki,
00:27:29a very well-deserved artist,
00:27:31music critic,
00:27:33author of many books,
00:27:35editor of the Polish Radio 3
00:27:37invited me and said,
00:27:39you have such a song here,
00:27:41under the parrots,
00:27:43look, it goes like this,
00:27:45I have such a singer here,
00:27:47an unknown one,
00:27:49and he has his melismas,
00:27:51which he liked.
00:27:53And I know it was an adventure,
00:27:55because Mateusz Święcki told me,
00:27:57this is such a melody,
00:27:59and there must be such a melody here,
00:28:01and Czesław got up to the microphone
00:28:03and his own.
00:28:05Well, it was an adventure again,
00:28:07and in the end he recorded it in such a way
00:28:09that Czesław didn't know
00:28:11that it was being recorded.
00:28:13And he sang it as it should be.
00:28:15And it was the first recording,
00:28:17of Marlena Dietrich,
00:28:19where for me it was a great event,
00:28:21my first concert
00:28:23as a member of Niebiesko Czarny,
00:28:25where Czesław Niemen
00:28:27was already a leading star.
00:28:29And after this concert,
00:28:31I remember,
00:28:33Marlena Dietrich
00:28:35noticed Czesław Niemen's song
00:28:37Czym jeszcze pamiętasz,
00:28:39which she added to her repertoire
00:28:41and even recorded on the album
00:28:43Mutter hast du vergeben.
00:28:45I think it was a great moment
00:28:47for all of us.
00:29:05The first successes
00:29:07happened in the August
00:29:09Polish reality.
00:29:11In order to perform on stage
00:29:13Czesław Niemen had to pass an exam
00:29:15before the Verification Commission
00:29:17operating at the Ministry of Culture and Art.
00:29:19Here he came across
00:29:21Professor Kazimierz Rudzki.
00:29:23It turned out that the head of the commission
00:29:25didn't like him.
00:29:27We were witnesses
00:29:29of how these young people,
00:29:31not only Niemen,
00:29:33but Karin Stanek,
00:29:35who cried with tears,
00:29:37Katarzyna Sobczyk,
00:29:39were cut from the literature.
00:29:41I had no idea about this theatre.
00:29:43Indeed,
00:29:45Professor Rudzki
00:29:47cut Niemen
00:29:49from a complicated question
00:29:51about the history of the theatre.
00:29:53But when he was asked
00:29:55to sing something,
00:29:57they said that I had no idea
00:29:59about singing either.
00:30:01Kazimierz Rudzki
00:30:03hated Czesław
00:30:05and for all his adult life
00:30:07he could hurt him
00:30:09as much as he did.
00:30:11Therefore,
00:30:13I was an amateur for many years
00:30:15because I didn't get
00:30:17a paper that would
00:30:19allow me to collect
00:30:21decent money
00:30:23for my production.
00:30:25Therefore,
00:30:27for many years
00:30:29I earned
00:30:31five dollars per concert.
00:30:39And you
00:30:41stood right next to me
00:30:47And your lips
00:30:49told me
00:30:51that you loved me
00:30:53Our friendship with Czesław
00:30:55as a band
00:30:57was very fruitful.
00:30:59Czesław wasn't a shy person.
00:31:01He met Kimchik right away.
00:31:03We had to make friends
00:31:05and it started with work.
00:31:07I recorded the second voice
00:31:09with Adam Rusowicz for Czesław.
00:31:37To Paris,
00:31:39Czesław left
00:31:41already as a famous singer.
00:31:43To record an album
00:31:45after signing a contract
00:31:47with AZ,
00:31:49it was shortly after
00:31:51a competition in Rennes
00:31:53where I found myself
00:31:55among the laureates,
00:31:57quite high even for those times,
00:31:59an author, a composer, a performer.
00:32:01There, the Misiela Columbia orchestra
00:32:03recorded four songs.
00:32:05The four songs were sung
00:32:07in French.
00:32:09And in Poland,
00:32:11with the French backing,
00:32:13he recorded Polish lyrics
00:32:15for Polish recordings.
00:32:17These four songs were
00:32:19two of my songs,
00:32:21Czy wiesz o tym, że?
00:32:23and Ze na Warszawie.
00:32:35Kiedyś zatrzymał czas
00:32:41I na skrzydłach jak ptak
00:32:46Będę leciał, co sił
00:32:51Tam, gdzie moje sny
00:32:56I Warszawskie koloni
00:32:59Gdybyś ujrzeć chciał
00:33:05Nad Miślańskim świt
00:33:09Już dziś wyruszaj ze mną tam
00:33:14Zobacz, jak ci wita
00:33:17Piękny las
00:33:19Warszawski dzień
00:33:23Warszawski dzień
00:33:26Warszawski dzień
00:33:29Warszawski dzień
00:33:35He said,
00:33:37listen, I'm going my own way,
00:33:39I have other plans here.
00:33:41And he just set up a band, Aquarelle.
00:33:43Our paths have already parted.
00:33:45Rozeszły.
00:33:53Kwiecień 1967 nagrywaliśmy
00:33:55Dziwny jest ten świat.
00:33:57Nagraliśmy ten utwór na długiej,
00:33:59podkład instrumentalny.
00:34:01Potem przyszły Alibabki, nagrały chór,
00:34:03a potem wszyscy wyszliśmy ze studia,
00:34:05wyszliśmy do reżyserki
00:34:07i Czesław, jak zaśpiewał,
00:34:09jak zaśpiewał, to po prostu
00:34:11nas zamurowało.
00:34:13Pewnie żaden z nas,
00:34:15i mówię to z pełną odpowiedzialnością,
00:34:17nie wiedział, czym się stanie ten utwór.
00:34:27Po prostu weszliśmy na scenę,
00:34:29każdy miał go trochę tremy,
00:34:31ale tak samo byśmy zagrali
00:34:33każdy inny utwór.
00:34:43Nagle podszedł do mikrofonu
00:34:45i powiedział tak
00:34:47Panie inżynierze,
00:34:49bardzo proszę,
00:34:51niech pan nie kręci potencjometrami,
00:34:53ja się sam będę miksował.
00:34:55I tu była taka nastąpiła konsternacja,
00:34:57bo to była jakaś samowola.
00:34:59Do tej pory wykonawca nie miał prawa
00:35:01w ogóle na, w dodatku
00:35:03transmisja szła na żywo
00:35:05na całą Polskę,
00:35:07nie miał prawa komentować,
00:35:09a nie tym bardziej czynić takiej jakiej uwagi.
00:35:11Ówczesne władze nie zapomniały Niemenowi
00:35:13wybryku na opolskiej scenie.
00:35:15Co prawda dostał nagrodę,
00:35:17ale cały finałowy koncert
00:35:19po kilku dniach został skasowany.
00:35:21Klip, Dziwny Jest Ten Świat,
00:35:23który znają dosłownie wszyscy,
00:35:25pochodzi z festiwalu Sopockiego
00:35:27i został zarejestrowany
00:35:29nie przez telewizję,
00:35:31ale przez wytwórnię filmów dokumentalnych.
00:35:33Każdy młody człowiek,
00:35:35jednak byłem wciąż zdziwiony,
00:35:37że może być jakaś niesprawiedliwość.
00:35:39To jest takie naiwne myślenie
00:35:41wszystkich młodych ludzi.
00:35:43Zresztą piękne myślenie moim zdaniem.
00:35:45I tak powstała ta piosenka,
00:35:47ale przecież w tamtym okresie,
00:35:49w socjalizmie,
00:35:51świat nie mógł być dziwny.
00:35:53Mógł być tylko piękny
00:35:55w przekonaniu tak zwanych czynników
00:35:57do spraw kultury.
00:36:09Nie wiele zła.
00:36:15I dziwne jest to,
00:36:19że od chwil na człowiek
00:36:23gardzi człowiek.
00:36:27Dziwny ten świat.
00:36:31Od tego momentu Czesław
00:36:33to już był niekwestionowany
00:36:35królem polskiego rocka.
00:36:39Aż zbyt
00:36:41przyznać się.
00:36:45A jednak
00:36:47często jest,
00:36:49że
00:36:51ktoś słowem złym
00:36:53zabija.
00:36:55Tak,
00:36:57tak może.
00:37:05Lecz ludzi dobrej woli
00:37:07jest więcej.
00:37:09I mocno wierzę w to,
00:37:11że ten świat...
00:37:15Pierwszy nasz wyjazd,
00:37:17no to oczywiście pamiętam,
00:37:19bo to był również mój pierwszy wyjazd
00:37:21za Żelazną Kurtynę.
00:37:23Do kolonii pojechaliśmy.
00:37:25I przekroczenie tych szlabanów
00:37:27między NRD i LFN.
00:37:29Zobaczyć jak wygląda autostrada.
00:37:31To było nieprawdopodobne przeżycie dla nas.
00:37:33Ja po raz pierwszy w życiu
00:37:35napiłem kokakolę.
00:37:37No więc wypiłem i czekam,
00:37:39kiedy to zacznie jakoś działać.
00:37:41Nic. No to poprosiłem drugą.
00:37:43Nic. Po prostu nawet
00:37:45nie wiedzieliśmy, że kokakola
00:37:47to jest napój bezalkoholowy.
00:37:49Myśmy byli przekonani,
00:37:51że kokakola to też jest
00:37:53coś co to takiego magicznego.
00:38:01Nie będą zarazem
00:38:03wyjeżdżać do Paryża.
00:38:33Inne ubrania, inne spodnie,
00:38:35inna koszula, skarpetki,
00:38:37jakieś krawaty, jakieś szale.
00:38:39To było naprawdę inne.
00:38:41A ta inność drażniła ludzi.
00:38:47Jest rok 1968.
00:38:49Czesław Niemen w filmie Sukces
00:38:51jest pokazany jako ćwierć inteligent,
00:38:53jako bufon.
00:38:55O Czesławie Niemenie
00:38:57miłośnicy jego piosenek
00:38:59wiedzą wszystko.
00:39:01Myśmy trzy dni tam byli w tej hali.
00:39:03Myśmy wtedy mieli próby
00:39:05przed jakimś tournée po prostu.
00:39:07Cały czas były kamery,
00:39:09o których myśmy po prostu zapominali.
00:39:11Dosyć dużo
00:39:13musiało w tym czasie pieniędzy
00:39:15to kosztować, no bo jednak to było
00:39:17kręcone na taśmie.
00:39:19Ten instrument to tylko od Ciebie,
00:39:21od duszy zależy, a nie od...
00:39:23Na planie tego
00:39:25filmu
00:39:27pojawił się, krótko mówiąc,
00:39:29jego muzycy
00:39:31piją piwo.
00:39:47Ja pamiętam nawet fragmenty
00:39:49tych zdjęć, jak to było robione.
00:39:51To było dość przemyślane.
00:39:53Na przykład wiadomo, że było gorąco,
00:39:55kiedyśmy to kręcili,
00:39:57bo dużo było świateł.
00:39:59Ubrani byliśmy tak
00:40:01prawie estradowo.
00:40:03A więc trzeba było
00:40:05coś popijać czasem,
00:40:07no jakąś wodę.
00:40:09Nagle się znalazło piwo.
00:40:11Ktoś z moich muzyków
00:40:13chwycił butelkę piwa.
00:40:15Ja piwo nie używałem nigdy,
00:40:17więc szukałem wody,
00:40:19ale wody nie było.
00:40:21Pojawił się normalny taki syfon
00:40:23i przeczuwałem, że będzie coś tutaj
00:40:25i wydawało mi się, że nikt
00:40:27nie filmował. Później zdziwiłem się,
00:40:29kiedy zobaczyłem to na ekranie.
00:40:31Film później został tak zmontowany,
00:40:33gdzie były naprawdę
00:40:35powyrywane teksty
00:40:37z całych jakby sekwencji
00:40:39mówionych. Bo pamiętam dokładnie
00:40:41z Cześka, wtedy nabijano się
00:40:43żonów, takie było zdanie,
00:40:45a ja się ładnie ubieram. Wszyscy powinni
00:40:47się tak ubierać. Ciach, cięcie
00:40:49i coś tam dalej. A to było tak
00:40:51pomontowane, rzeczywiście
00:40:53w stosunku do niego.
00:40:55Do wytwórni filmów dokumentalnych
00:40:57Agencja Koncertowa Polskiego Stowarzyszenia
00:40:59Jazzowego wystosowała protest,
00:41:01żeby dokonać korekty tego filmu.
00:41:03Marek Piwowski obiecał
00:41:05Czesławowi Niemenowi kolaudację
00:41:07tego filmu. Oczywiście do takiego
00:41:09spotkania nie doszło.
00:41:17Przyzwyczailiśmy byli do Czesława
00:41:19jako człowieka, który wie
00:41:21czego chce, idzie konsekwentnie
00:41:23ze swoją drogą. A tutaj
00:41:25Piwowski go pokazał takiego
00:41:27jakby zawieszonego, takiego
00:41:29jakby rozmemłanego
00:41:31trochę, zachwianego,
00:41:33niepewnego, niepotrafiącego
00:41:35wypowiedzieć swoich zdań.
00:41:37Wielu młodych ludzi na przykład
00:41:39w listach do mnie
00:41:41pisze, że
00:41:43chcieliby być
00:41:45sławni, podziwiani.
00:41:47Po co?
00:41:49Jakby Markowi Piwowskiemu ktoś powiedział
00:41:51słuchaj, tu się rozwija jakiś talent
00:41:53wielki, on jest przeciwko
00:41:55socjalizmowi, może pokaż go
00:41:57z innej strony, pokaż
00:41:59jego słabości, uwypukl to, żeby ludzie
00:42:01wiedzieli, że to nie jest taki wielki
00:42:03Niemen.
00:42:08To był czysty przypadek.
00:42:10Razem z Czesiem i jego zespołem
00:42:12mieli taki cykl koncertów
00:42:14po całej Polsce. Było sporo czasu,
00:42:16żeby sobie pogadać. Pamiętam, że
00:42:18któregoś razu ja miałem przy sobie ten tomik
00:42:20z poezją Norwida i czytałem
00:42:22i Czesie mnie zapytał, a dasz poczytać?
00:42:24Ja mówię, tak, oczywiście, że dam,
00:42:26z tym, że właściwie najlepiej to
00:42:28od razu wejść i tutaj mu pokazałem
00:42:30Bema Pamięci, Rapford, Żołny
00:42:32i spróbuj to skomponować, bo myślę, że to jest dla ciebie.
00:42:34No i jakież była moje zdziwienie,
00:42:36kiedy on się po stosunkowo
00:42:38niedługim czasie do tego zebrał
00:42:40i zrobił coś niesłychanie ciekawego.
00:42:42Czy Niemen oddał panu potem ten tomik?
00:42:45Nie, nie oddał mnie, ale ja nie żałowałem.
00:42:51Pierwszą złotą płytę Czesława Niemena
00:42:53pamiętają do dziś chyba wszyscy,
00:42:55zwłaszcza polskie nagrania.
00:42:57Jest to bowiem w historii naszej fonografii
00:42:59pierwsza złota płyta, wręczona publicznie
00:43:0120 grudnia 1968 roku.
00:43:03Ja przypominam, że w tamtych czasach
00:43:06do tego potrzeba było 150 tysięcy,
00:43:08dzisiaj to jest 15,
00:43:10więc dziesięciokrotny spadek.
00:43:12Także to obrazuje, jakie to były nakłady.
00:43:19Jedynaczka naszej kroniki,
00:43:21operator Ela Zawistowska,
00:43:23została uhonorowana piosenką na klęczkach
00:43:25przez wzruszonego zdobywcę
00:43:27złotego obiektywu Czesława Niemena.
00:43:29Robiliśmy sobie oczywiście różne żarty,
00:43:31trochę niefajne.
00:43:33Na przykład piosenkę
00:43:35Klęcząc Przed Tobą
00:43:37zawsze klękał z brzegu sceny
00:43:39i klęcząc przed tobą,
00:43:41tam uderzał pięścią ten.
00:43:43No to żeśmy na przykład potrafili tam
00:43:45pineski mu i był twardy,
00:43:47walnął kiedyś, wbił sobie pineskę,
00:43:49ale dośpiewał do końca.
00:43:51No ale to rzadko takie dowcipy sobie robiliśmy.
00:43:53Nie mam w pamięci takich wesołych zdarzeń,
00:43:55bo Czesław nie był wesołkiem takim,
00:43:57który on jakiś czasami powtarzał
00:43:59w tym autobusie jak się jechało
00:44:01te trasy koncertowe po Polsce.
00:44:03Ale to było zawsze, to było jak mantra.
00:44:05Jak zbliżaliśmy się do Częstochowy,
00:44:07zawsze Czesław z przodu
00:44:09Stary, powiedz...
00:44:11Dlaczego Częstochowa?
00:44:13Nie wiem Czesiu.
00:44:15No bo często wyjmuje.
00:44:17Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:44:19Nagle niesamowite było tak Czesław.
00:44:21Bik, bik.
00:44:23On strasznie się śmiał z tego słowa.
00:44:25Bik, bik. I on mówił,
00:44:27Bik, bik. Bik, bik.
00:44:29Budzili. Ha!
00:44:31Cały autobus był wesoły.
00:44:33I wszyscy byliśmy już na tej samej fali.
00:44:35Hej dziewczyno,
00:44:37Hej, jaki masz w tym cel?
00:44:39Że zapracasz mi
00:44:41Głowę wciąż
00:44:43Przecież wiesz, że nie
00:44:45Nie namówisz mnie
00:44:47Zresztą zły byłby ze mnie
00:44:49Mąż, cenę swej wolności
00:44:51Znam
00:44:53Wolę zaznacam
00:44:55Nie namówisz mnie
00:44:57Nie namówisz mnie
00:44:59Szkoda twoich snów
00:45:01Po sukcesach we Francji
00:45:03Rozpoczął się kolejny rozdział w karierze Niemena.
00:45:05Wraz z zespołem został zaproszony do Włoch.
00:45:07Nagrywał w studiu CZGD w Mediolanie.
00:45:09Występował w Bolonii w klubie Stork.
00:45:11W rzymskich klubach Titan i Piper.
00:45:13Grał też w Rimini.
00:45:15I wreszcie zaangażowano go do udziału w Canta Giro,
00:45:17czyli w objazdowym festiwalu piosenkarskim.
00:45:19Nikt nie zrozumiał tego,
00:45:21co naturalnie śpiewał.
00:45:23Nie zrozumiałem, co to było.
00:45:29Kiedy byliśmy w Milanu,
00:45:31znamy Giuseppe Giannini.
00:45:35Giuseppe Giannini był
00:45:37direktorem muzycznym
00:45:39w CZGD.
00:45:41Został zaskoczony.
00:45:43Chciał,
00:45:45żebyśmy nagrali
00:45:47Giuseppe Giannini.
00:45:51Potrzebno było
00:45:53pubblicare
00:45:55il pezzo
00:45:57non solo su disco,
00:45:59ma anche
00:46:01passare alla televisione.
00:46:03E allora si fece
00:46:05questo accettato,
00:46:07che venne benissimo.
00:46:09Si sottopose
00:46:11alla televisione
00:46:13per la trasmissione,
00:46:15ma la televisione non accettò,
00:46:17perché dice che era troppo drammatico.
00:46:19E allora così
00:46:21questo titolo,
00:46:23che era diventato
00:46:25Io sien senza lei,
00:46:27cioè una canzone d'amore.
00:46:2924 czerwca 1970
00:46:31była inauguracja
00:46:33włoskiego festiwalu piosenki
00:46:35Canta Giro 70.
00:46:37Uczesniczył w niej
00:46:39Czesław Niemen
00:46:41i młoda, piękna sycylijka Farida,
00:46:43cantando
00:46:47Tu partirai
00:46:49domani
00:46:55Vedevo sempre
00:46:57questo bellissimo ragazzo
00:46:59e mi piaceva come cantava.
00:47:01Secondo me è veramente un grande.
00:47:03Infatti mi aveva colpito come cantante,
00:47:05però non più di tanto.
00:47:07Una persona io
00:47:09molto tranquilla,
00:47:11quando sentivo
00:47:13questo sguardo sempre
00:47:15su di me, no?
00:47:17Dicevo, ma che vuole?
00:47:19Perché i migliorni così?
00:47:21Piano piano lui si avvicinò
00:47:23e voleva fare amicizie.
00:47:25Io gravo, ovviamente,
00:47:27na saxofonie
00:47:29ora se zbyszkiem stycem
00:47:31takie aranżyki soulowe.
00:47:33Głównym celem
00:47:35był występ Czesława
00:47:37na festiwalu San Remo.
00:47:39Była wybrana nawet piosenka.
00:47:41Nadzieje były wielkie.
00:47:43Niestety nic z tego nie wyszło.
00:47:45Bo związki zawodowe
00:47:47Włochów uznały,
00:47:49że za dużo
00:47:51obcych piosenkarzy śpiewa,
00:47:53a wobec Turcji
00:47:55i ówczesnych robotników
00:47:57mieli zobowiązania,
00:47:59wobec czego Czesław Niemen
00:48:01uznany jest za obcokrajowca.
00:48:03Straniero, skreślamy go,
00:48:05w San Remo nie wystąpił.
00:48:31Byłbym cichy
00:48:33pomiędzy
00:48:35pomiędzy
00:48:37ciekawi
00:48:45Zniecierpliwiony Niemen
00:48:47zerwał koncerty, wrócił do kraju
00:48:49i rozwiązał zespół Aquarelle.
00:48:51Skompletowało nową grupę akomponującą.
00:48:53Z tym składem powrócił do Włoch,
00:48:55gdzie w Mediolanie nagrał drugiego singla
00:48:57oraz później, już w Polsce,
00:48:59karygmatik.
00:49:01Za uciłane pieniądze kupił pierwsze w życiu mieszkanie.
00:49:03Stugębna plotka głosiła,
00:49:05że dostał je za darmo od władz komunistycznych.
00:49:07Gdyby to był prezent,
00:49:09wyglądałby pewnie o wiele bardziej okazale.
00:49:11Kawalerka Niemena liczyła
00:49:13około 20 metrów kwadratowych,
00:49:15czyli mniej więcej tyle, ile jego pokój
00:49:17w warszawskim hotelu EMDM,
00:49:19który przez wiele lat
00:49:21był jego pierwszym mieszkaniem w Warszawie.
00:49:23Byłem bezdomny.
00:49:25Przez wiele lat
00:49:27Zgadnijcie jak długo.
00:49:29Do 75 roku.
00:49:31Artysta, który sprzedawał złote płyty,
00:49:33nie miał własnego mieszkania.
00:49:35A później jak miał,
00:49:37to to mieszkanie miało 22,5 metra.
00:49:39Małe mieszkanko,
00:49:41ale kawalerka właściwie taka.
00:49:43Ale coś tam miał.
00:49:45Windą się jechało
00:49:47na ostatnie piętro
00:49:49i jeszcze jedno piętro trzeba było pójść do góry.
00:49:51Pokoik
00:49:53z materasem na podłodze
00:49:55i właściwie
00:49:57z takim aneksikiem
00:49:59i jednym krzesłem,
00:50:01na którym on siadał i coś tam pisał.
00:50:03I on przez 8 lat
00:50:05starał się o
00:50:07zameldowanie Warszawy,
00:50:09a ówczesna władza odmawiała mu,
00:50:11nie widząc potrzeby,
00:50:13żeby ten artysta zamieszkiwał
00:50:15i miał zameldowanie warszawskie.
00:50:17Nie mam warunków do pracy,
00:50:19bo ten mój mały pokoik
00:50:21służy mi również za mieszkanie,
00:50:23co prawda bardzo miłych sąsiadów,
00:50:25ale jednak czasami się naprzyprzam.
00:50:27Nie da się tego uniknąć.
00:50:45Mamy rok 1970.
00:50:47Po powrocie z Włoch, Niemen rozpoczął
00:50:49trasę koncertową po kraju w nowym składzie
00:50:51Jazzman Enigmatic.
00:50:53Wziął udział w Jazz Jamboree,
00:50:55a wcześniej był gościem festiwalu sobockiego.
00:50:57Do udziału w którym została zaproszona
00:50:59włoska piosenkarka Farida Ganghi.
00:51:01Start!
00:51:03...
00:51:05...
00:51:07...
00:51:09...
00:51:11...
00:51:13...
00:51:15...
00:51:17...
00:51:19...
00:51:21...
00:51:23...
00:51:25...
00:51:27...
00:51:29...
00:51:31...
00:51:33...
00:51:35...
00:51:37...
00:51:39...
00:51:41...
00:51:43...
00:51:45...
00:51:47...
00:51:49...
00:51:51...
00:51:53...
00:51:55...
00:51:57...
00:51:59...
00:52:01...
00:52:03...
00:52:05...
00:52:07...
00:52:09...
00:52:11...
00:52:13...
00:52:15...
00:52:17...
00:52:19...
00:52:21...
00:52:23...
00:52:25...
00:52:27...
00:52:33...
00:52:45...
00:52:47...
00:52:49...
00:52:51...
00:52:53...
00:52:55I could hear such strength in him.
00:52:58And then came this fantastic Italian girl with him,
00:53:02who made a colossal impression on me.
00:53:16This love was crazy, incredible.
00:53:20They were two such happy people.
00:53:23He came all the way from Poznań.
00:53:26He came to introduce Farida to his family.
00:53:30It was an incredible experience.
00:53:33There was a great atmosphere.
00:53:35We all sat together, the whole family.
00:53:37We were talking about the plans for Czesław.
00:53:40And at some point Farida started crying,
00:53:42she hugged our mother.
00:53:44My mother asked,
00:53:46Czesiu, tell me, what happened?
00:53:48Why is she crying so much?
00:53:50He didn't dare to say it.
00:53:53He didn't want to say it,
00:53:57he didn't want to say it.
00:54:00He said, she knows
00:54:04that there will be nothing between us.
00:54:07I remember the time of Farida and my father's separation.
00:54:11I was visiting my father for about a month.
00:54:14I had a broken leg.
00:54:16My father took care of me.
00:54:18He knew how much I loved him,
00:54:20that they had to separate,
00:54:22that he had to go back to his husband.
00:54:24He was crying, just crying.
00:54:26I am a witness of their great love.
00:54:29A great love between them.
00:54:31Before I left,
00:54:34he had a beautiful white dress made by a tailor.
00:54:39We went to Zakopane and got married.
00:54:44He was a great man.
00:54:48He put a ring on me,
00:54:51and I put a white dress on him.
00:54:55He had it made by this tailor.
00:54:58I have always been his wife.
00:55:03Now I feel...
00:55:07I don't want to talk about it.
00:55:13After the storm
00:55:27A great success and relief.
00:55:29As a summary, this is where the 1971 began.
00:55:33Central Press wasRhinophobic.
00:55:36It claimed, that after Radomsk,
00:55:39he'd taken his pants off
00:55:41but apparently, already with the curtain down.
00:55:43The whole Niemen raid was coordinated by the KC PZPR propaganda department in Warsaw.
00:55:51It was shortly after the events of December 1970.
00:55:56I was on the top, I didn't want to, but I was.
00:55:59So we had to draw the attention of the youth,
00:56:02so that they would deal with my affairs.
00:56:07Of course, at the same time, we had to make another attempt
00:56:13to ridicule me or discredit me, in this case, morally.
00:56:18This message was first posted by Ziemia Łęczycka,
00:56:23a regional weekly, then Gazeta Radomszczańska,
00:56:27and finally, with great pomp, it was printed by Ekspres Wieczorny.
00:56:32It was an article by Zbigniew Zaperta.
00:56:35Since I was a neighbour of Czesław Niemen,
00:56:37I quickly ran to Czesław with Ekspres.
00:56:40Czesław was already aware that something was wrong with him.
00:56:43He took the newspaper from me, read it,
00:56:47grabbed his head and said,
00:56:49God, what kind of people are they?
00:56:50Of course, this was not the case.
00:56:52I was not in Radomsk at the time.
00:56:54And I filed a lawsuit.
00:56:58Previously, the journalist who printed Zbigniew Zaperta in Ekspres
00:57:05was sentenced by the Journalists' Court,
00:57:08but I filed a lawsuit against the journalist...
00:57:12Cielecki. Cielecki from Radomsk.
00:57:14Yes.
00:57:15It was an incredible provocation against Niemen,
00:57:21who was a very delicate, sensitive person,
00:57:25and on top of that, he was a person
00:57:28who treated his viewers and audience very seriously.
00:57:34And something similar to what he was accused of
00:57:36simply could not have happened.
00:57:42Czesław Niemen filed a lawsuit.
00:57:44He employed lawyers from the office of Tadeusz Dewidzian.
00:57:48I was then the head of the Department of Culture
00:57:50of the Presidium of the City Council.
00:57:52And I didn't really care
00:57:55that the city was perceived as a grotto,
00:57:59a dark garden, or...
00:58:00It's hard for me to find any other term at the moment.
00:58:03And I was a little sorry that such a process took place.
00:58:07Because Gazeta Częstochowa was the weekly I worked for
00:58:11and which, for a while, had a Radomsk mutation,
00:58:17my colleague and I went to this trial.
00:58:21The main witness accused me,
00:58:23I mean, he said that I was wearing green clothes,
00:58:28which I looked deep into his eyes.
00:58:30The trial was ridiculous in every way,
00:58:33if I may say so today, it was pathetic,
00:58:36because you could see how this person,
00:58:38who was supposedly the source of information,
00:58:41withdrew from all this.
00:58:43Of course, you couldn't take pictures in the hall,
00:58:46it was not allowed.
00:58:47So I took a picture at the exit.
00:58:49Then I took a picture on the stairs.
00:58:51Interestingly, there were a lot of little children,
00:58:5410, 12, 15-year-olds,
00:58:59who were waiting for Niemen.
00:59:01On February 29, 1972,
00:59:04the Radomsk court acquitted Przesław Niemen.
00:59:08The journalist who started the whole affair
00:59:11received 400 zlotys in bribes.
00:59:14And interestingly, he never revealed
00:59:18who was the inspirer of this media outburst.
00:59:21Przesław Niemen made a great mistake
00:59:23and withdrew from the accusation
00:59:25of Roman Cielecki, a civilian commander.
00:59:28He had a great chance of getting
00:59:30some round sum from the title of
00:59:33promulgation or disinheritance.
00:59:35I must add that all this
00:59:38fun of Przesław Niemen
00:59:40concerned not only Przesław Niemen.
00:59:42It also concerned Tadeusz Nalepa
00:59:44from the Breakout team or Mira Kubasińska.
00:59:46I regret that I cannot personally
00:59:49apologize to him now,
00:59:51but if I had such an opportunity,
00:59:54on behalf of this whole event,
00:59:57on behalf of this Radomsk,
00:59:59I would still say to him today,
01:00:01I'm sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Czesław.
01:00:03Czesław Niemen,
01:00:05laureate of Zlota Płyta and many festivals.
01:00:07The most praised singer,
01:00:09the most criticized and probably
01:00:11the most popular among young people.
01:00:14Zlota Płyta for Niemen
01:00:16for Niemen Enigmatik
01:00:18with the wonderful ode
01:00:20Bema Pamięci, Rapsody Żałobne.
01:00:22The career of Niemen began
01:00:24in the next chapter.
01:00:26In Frankfurt, he signed a five-year contract
01:00:28with a large CBS label.
01:00:30He disbanded the previous band
01:00:32and began to look for a new group of musicians.
01:00:34With the help of his friend from the coast,
01:00:36the double bassist Helmut Nadalski.
01:00:38I had a concert in Silesia
01:00:40and there I saw a group of those little ones,
01:00:42they were playing rock'n'roll.
01:00:44And so I listen very precisely,
01:00:46so I say,
01:00:48they are not marinated yet, they are so ...
01:01:05I'm coming back from Warsaw,
01:01:07I say to Czesław,
01:01:09listen, I met three great little ones there,
01:01:11engage them, release the watercolors
01:01:13and we'll do something.
01:01:21From the moment I met Czesław live at the concert,
01:01:26I knew that this was it.
01:01:29Until suddenly a call from Warsaw,
01:01:32that I would come for a rehearsal
01:01:34for Czesław Niemen.
01:01:37My dreams came true.
01:01:39Czesław called and said,
01:01:42he said to me right away,
01:01:44little one, do you have time?
01:01:47I say yes.
01:01:49He says, well, come.
01:01:52Wrocław, Główny station and so on,
01:01:55they picked me up from there.
01:01:58And that's how it started.
01:02:00And we were in a set.
01:02:02We went to Łagów, Lubuskie,
01:02:04between two lakes.
01:02:06Czesław was fishing.
01:02:08Then he released them into the bathtub,
01:02:10looked at them nicely,
01:02:12a little bit,
01:02:14and released the fish back into the lake.
01:02:17Wow, a good heart.
01:02:19Niemen's performance with his group
01:02:21on October 8, 1972
01:02:23was the highlight of Świebodzinska Day.
01:02:26It was a great joy,
01:02:28especially for the youth,
01:02:30who, without any special encouragement
01:02:32and persuasion,
01:02:34stormed the doors and windows
01:02:36Let the activists of the culture
01:02:38see what and who is happy
01:02:40with the popularity among the youth.
01:02:59Then there were rehearsals in Warsaw.
01:03:02Then there was a trip to Munich
01:03:04and then there was Stranger from Evil.
01:03:07That's when we started making this album.
01:03:10I was after signing a new contract
01:03:13in Frankfurt with CBS.
01:03:18And I was getting ready
01:03:20to record the first album
01:03:22for that company.
01:03:24This is the cover,
01:03:26Stranger from Evil.
01:03:28Of course, this world is strange.
01:03:34Stranger from Evil
01:03:49It was a world standard.
01:03:51It was a shock,
01:03:53because no one had ever played
01:03:55such music before.
01:03:57It was a chance to break through
01:03:59to those markets.
01:04:01The album was recorded in Munich
01:04:03during the Olympic Games.
01:04:33He performed there with
01:04:35the famous guitarist John McLaughlin.
01:04:37Most importantly, he received
01:04:39the initial offer to become
01:04:41the soloist of the very popular
01:04:43American band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
01:04:45Niemen did not make it to the audition.
01:04:47Meanwhile, for the first time in his life
01:04:49he was mentioned in a movie.
01:05:04Stanisław Radwan,
01:05:06who composed the music
01:05:08for the film Wedding,
01:05:10came up with the idea
01:05:12to sing once again
01:05:14Hamie Złoty Ruch,
01:05:16which connects so far
01:05:18with the content
01:05:20and is an indispensable part
01:05:22of the wedding.
01:05:24With so many performers
01:05:26at his disposal,
01:05:28he chose Czesław Niemen,
01:05:30who sang in the film.
01:05:34He was our man.
01:05:36He sang things
01:05:38that other people
01:05:40did not sing about.
01:05:42Others had their own themes.
01:05:44And these were our themes.
01:05:46That is why
01:05:48Hamie Złoty Ruch
01:05:50on Ekstracie and Złoty Ruch
01:05:52could only be transferred
01:05:54with such a voice.
01:06:01In the meantime,
01:06:03I came back from London
01:06:05and was preparing
01:06:07for the next album
01:06:09Ode to Venus.
01:06:11There were clearly
01:06:13some big ambitions of Józef Skrzek.
01:06:15He had a lot to say
01:06:17about how it should sound,
01:06:19what arrangements,
01:06:21who should play.
01:06:23And I sensed a growing hope
01:06:25during this recording,
01:06:27that Czesław wanted
01:06:29to go one way
01:06:31and Józef the other.
01:06:33We had one or two days off.
01:06:35We went to visit
01:06:37the Olympic town.
01:06:39And Czesław was recording
01:06:41Russian melodies
01:06:43for the album
01:06:45Russische Lieder.
01:06:47A beautiful album,
01:06:49but completely different.
01:06:51But I remember
01:06:53that Józef Skrzek
01:06:55was terribly nervous.
01:07:00We were young,
01:07:02we didn't like Russians.
01:07:04How could Czesław,
01:07:06who was so ambitious,
01:07:08progressive and avant-garde,
01:07:10suddenly pull out
01:07:12and sing Russian ballads?
01:07:14But he had it in the program.
01:07:16He had three or four songs,
01:07:18I remember.
01:07:20So it was wide.
01:07:22It was from Russian songs
01:07:24to the avant-garde from Helmut.
01:07:30I'll give it back to you
01:07:32without delay
01:07:46Or give it to me
01:07:48with a whip around your neck
01:07:50No,
01:07:52I don't want you
01:07:54On the 11th of September
01:07:56Józef Skrzek
01:07:58was in New York
01:08:00with his album
01:08:02Pod Pachą
01:08:04in Columbia.
01:08:06It turned out
01:08:08that Columbia was
01:08:10collaborating with Czesław Niemen.
01:08:12Walter Jetnikoff
01:08:14was the boss of Columbia Records
01:08:16and everyone couldn't be surprised.
01:08:18They were very happy
01:08:20that they had an artist, Czesław,
01:08:22who sold six million albums
01:08:24in the Eastern Bloc.
01:08:26They hoped that Czesław
01:08:28would repeat the same
01:08:30business and financial success
01:08:32in America.
01:08:34We'll give you a studio
01:08:36at your disposal,
01:08:38we'll give you an apartment
01:08:40in New York,
01:08:42we'll give you the opportunity
01:08:44to choose the musicians you want.
01:08:46I swear,
01:08:48both Sol Rabinovich
01:08:50and I,
01:08:52we loved everything.
01:08:54Czesław would record an entire album,
01:08:56but now we'd record songs,
01:08:58songs, songs.
01:09:00Czesław would say,
01:09:02OK, and the next day
01:09:04he'd come back
01:09:06and he'd remember
01:09:08Rabinovich again.
01:09:10It was a very good album,
01:09:12great.
01:09:14He had a lot of fun.
01:09:16Jan Hammer on the drums,
01:09:18John Abercrombie on the bass.
01:09:20You didn't have to play at all,
01:09:22because the album was put up
01:09:24for sale in London.
01:09:26It was supposed to be in the shop
01:09:28for a week,
01:09:30and things got weird.
01:09:32After a week, it was suddenly withdrawn,
01:09:34not only from the shop window,
01:09:36but it was withdrawn altogether.
01:09:38And I'm very glad
01:09:40that I didn't make
01:09:42any international career.
01:09:44He had a brilliant chance,
01:09:46which I think he used
01:09:48completely,
01:09:50not against the Commune,
01:09:52but against everything.
01:09:54If someone said something,
01:09:56he'd say,
01:09:58you should do something like that.
01:10:00He'd say, do you think so?
01:10:02He didn't say no,
01:10:04but he definitely didn't do it.
01:10:06He was considered
01:10:08a too modern voice.
01:10:10There was no Stevie Wonder yet.
01:10:12He was one of those...
01:10:14Why didn't he have
01:10:16success in the West?
01:10:18Because in the West,
01:10:20there was the Beatles,
01:10:22the Rolling Stones,
01:10:24there was Big Beat.
01:10:26There was no music for him.
01:10:28I'm a free man.
01:10:30I've always been free,
01:10:32even in the most difficult times.
01:10:34And it just stayed that way,
01:10:36and I'm glad it stayed that way.
01:10:44To this day, I wonder
01:10:46what tempted him
01:10:48to be invited
01:10:50to the 100 Questions.
01:10:52In which he had
01:10:54friends,
01:10:56guardians,
01:10:58interlocutors,
01:11:00a comedian,
01:11:02a sociologist,
01:11:04a journalist,
01:11:06and he didn't see any danger
01:11:08in the person leading
01:11:10the jury, Kazimierz Rudzki.
01:11:12There were many
01:11:14such
01:11:16provocative questions
01:11:18to which Czesław
01:11:20calmly and elegantly
01:11:22answered,
01:11:24while still
01:11:26showing what was
01:11:28a great surprise
01:11:32for Kazimierz Rudzki,
01:11:34the great familiarity
01:11:36of Norwid's poetry.
01:11:38After this programme,
01:11:40the whole of normal Poland wrote,
01:11:42listen, it was
01:11:44Din Tojra,
01:11:46Czesław Niemen.
01:11:48Czesław was treated
01:11:50in a despicable way,
01:11:52he was made fun of,
01:11:54but only his enemies
01:11:56and the people
01:11:58who created
01:12:00this programme
01:12:02thought so.
01:12:04There were many
01:12:06such opportunities
01:12:08for Czesław.
01:12:10He had great self-confidence
01:12:12and determination
01:12:14to somehow
01:12:18evaporate it all.
01:12:20You are considered
01:12:22a youth idol.
01:12:24What do you think,
01:12:26are you a positive role model
01:12:28for the youth?
01:12:30How do you now,
01:12:32from the perspective
01:12:34of a dozen or so years,
01:12:36assess the scattering of
01:12:38stories with others?
01:12:44One thing is for sure,
01:12:46I don't want to tell nonsense.
01:12:58The Warsaw Palace of Weddings.
01:13:00Here, on 11 September 1975,
01:13:02Czesław Niemen
01:13:04re-entered the marriage alliance.
01:13:08We welcome him with open arms.
01:13:38It just so happened
01:13:40that our trio
01:13:42of laboratories,
01:13:44Janusz Grzywacz,
01:13:46Mietek Górka and me,
01:13:48had a concert,
01:13:50and in the second part,
01:13:52we were the support,
01:13:54and in the second part
01:13:56Czesiek performed with his band.
01:14:04Here we had the opportunity
01:14:06to meet directly.
01:14:08What did it lead to?
01:14:10It led to the fact that
01:14:12Czesław then set off
01:14:14on a concert tour around Poland
01:14:16and proposed our trio
01:14:18as his musicians,
01:14:20plus Maciej Radziejewski
01:14:22on the guitar.
01:14:24Of course, the feelings were fantastic.
01:14:26The proposal itself
01:14:28caused us to be in the seventh heaven.
01:14:30In 1975,
01:14:32Niemen began
01:14:34his musical odyssey.
01:14:36For many years,
01:14:38he wanted to release an album
01:14:40dedicated solely to Norwid.
01:14:42And that's how the idea of Fix came about.
01:14:44In my opinion,
01:14:46it was Niemen's greatest achievement.
01:14:48Unfortunately, he was still
01:14:50unlucky with the media.
01:14:52The Polish concert,
01:14:54under the slogan
01:14:5630 years of Polish recordings,
01:14:58was broadcast on TV this time.
01:15:00It's not a big deal,
01:15:02but Niemen was forced to play
01:15:04a two-hour concert.
01:15:06During the recital,
01:15:08he had the smallest audience in the world.
01:15:10It consisted of a few sad gentlemen
01:15:12from the censorship and security service.
01:15:14The 1970s were very strange
01:15:16because Czesław performed
01:15:18at such mass concerts
01:15:20with the help of various activists
01:15:22from the Polish non-profit association,
01:15:24who brought him
01:15:26to some ten-year stadium.
01:15:28Then he went to Cuba.
01:15:30He was invited to our country,
01:15:32as well as to Bestro's Zabawa.
01:15:42It started to worry me
01:15:44that something was not right.
01:15:46Then he went to the Soviet Union
01:15:48for a tour.
01:15:50I thought it was the wrong direction.
01:16:00Czesław Niemen performed in Moscow.
01:16:02After the performance,
01:16:04he had 24 hours of free time.
01:16:06He took a taxi
01:16:08and came here.
01:16:10He came to his house.
01:16:12He walked around the house.
01:16:14He wanted to go inside.
01:16:16Unfortunately,
01:16:18he looked out the window.
01:16:20He was very sad.
01:16:22He was very sad.
01:16:24He was very sad.
01:16:26He was very sad.
01:16:28He looked out the window.
01:16:30He wanted to see everything.
01:16:32He wanted to see everything.
01:16:42A taxi driver has 20 hours
01:16:44to spend
01:16:46two hours
01:16:48at home.
01:16:50It was 1979.
01:16:52Niemen made a decision
01:16:54to disband the band.
01:16:56He decided to collaborate
01:16:58with accompanying musicians.
01:17:00It was a great success.
01:17:02Niemen won the Grand Prix.
01:17:04But not only that.
01:17:10This is the captain's hat.
01:17:12In a moment,
01:17:14we will find out
01:17:16who will be the owner of the hat
01:17:18and the yacht
01:17:20that you can see
01:17:22over there.
01:17:24We are waiting
01:17:26for the votes
01:17:28of the interviewees.
01:17:30Mrs. Irena Dziedzic
01:17:32will be in the phone booth
01:17:34in a moment.
01:17:36Mrs. Irena.
01:17:42There is Mrs. Irena.
01:17:44She is wearing a fur coat
01:17:46because it is cold.
01:17:50Where are we calling?
01:17:52To Sofia.
01:17:54Hello, Sofia.
01:17:56Good evening.
01:17:58To Prague.
01:18:00Hello.
01:18:02Editor Henryk Kolat in Berlin.
01:18:04Bucharest.
01:18:06Hello. Budapest.
01:18:08Moscow. Editor Piotrowski.
01:18:10We will see what they will say in Warsaw.
01:18:12Janek Suzin. Hello.
01:18:14Hello.
01:18:16Mrs. Irena, we are not calling to Warsaw.
01:18:18No?
01:18:20The audience is in the forest opera.
01:18:22Ah, all right.
01:18:26Actually, our predestination
01:18:28is already decided.
01:18:30Czesław Niemen.
01:18:32The award of the audience
01:18:34at the Intervision Festival
01:18:36in Sopot
01:18:38is 79.
01:18:46Suddenly, rumors appeared
01:18:48that I won because I signed up for the party.
01:18:50Of course,
01:18:52nothing like that has ever happened.
01:18:54Czesław won
01:18:56the yacht as the main prize.
01:18:58Czesław said
01:19:00throughout the concert
01:19:02that he loved the sea
01:19:04and every puddle of water
01:19:06and that he should take care of the yacht
01:19:08and that he would give it to him.
01:19:10I said, Czesław, do you realize
01:19:12what the costs are?
01:19:14You know that you are not a millionaire.
01:19:16There was a scandal
01:19:18because Czesław
01:19:20did not get the yacht.
01:19:22The award of the audience, right?
01:19:24So, please, tell me briefly,
01:19:26what will you do with it?
01:19:28If you sell it, to whom?
01:19:30If to whom, for how much?
01:19:32If for how much,
01:19:34then give me the estimate
01:19:36so that people have something to talk about, right?
01:19:38Go ahead.
01:19:40So, I haven't seen it yet.
01:19:42After a year or two,
01:19:44Czesław said, listen,
01:19:46some guy from Gdynia
01:19:48was supposed to take care of the yacht.
01:19:50As far as I know,
01:19:52he got into trouble
01:19:54and was practically fired.
01:20:14In the year 1981,
01:20:16the Solidarity carnival begins.
01:20:18Niemen composed the music
01:20:20for the performance of Dziady
01:20:22directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz.
01:20:24On December 8, 1981,
01:20:26Niemen recorded a concert called
01:20:28Colland for TV
01:20:30and Love is the Greatest Gift,
01:20:32which became the theme
01:20:34of the song about songs.
01:20:36The program was to be released
01:20:38on December 8, 1981,
01:20:40but it was canceled
01:20:42because of the song about songs.
01:20:44The program was to be released
01:20:46on December 25.
01:20:48Unfortunately, on December 13,
01:20:50the martial law was introduced in Poland.
01:20:52Niemen immediately withdrew his consent
01:20:54to the broadcast,
01:20:56but who would listen to him there?
01:21:08Before the martial law,
01:21:10Niemen composed an occasional song
01:21:12for Christmas for TV
01:21:14directed by Bernard Ford.
01:21:16It was a Christmas natural program,
01:21:18two collands written by me,
01:21:20a few illustrations for the poetry
01:21:22by Zbigniew Norwid
01:21:24and fragments of the hymn
01:21:26of St. Paul's Love.
01:21:34The 24th is Christmas Eve.
01:21:36In the morning at 7.30 a.m.
01:21:38they knocked on the door
01:21:40of the Lyceum.
01:21:42Two men with machines
01:21:44and one officer,
01:21:46who demanded Czeslaw's presence
01:21:48in the TV studio.
01:21:50The studio was found,
01:21:52according to Norwid,
01:21:54now only work.
01:21:58And what was done?
01:22:00One of the colonels
01:22:02took out a fragment
01:22:04of my speech.
01:22:06In my speech,
01:22:08probably about work,
01:22:10according to Norwid,
01:22:12from Prometheion.
01:22:14The speech, which was supposed
01:22:16to be a preface to the play
01:22:18And Love is the Greatest Gift,
01:22:20was cut out,
01:22:22prepared in such a way
01:22:24that it went in the news
01:22:26of TV journalists
01:22:28and everyone understood
01:22:30that Czeslaw
01:22:32was in a state of war.
01:22:34Which, of course,
01:22:36had repercussions
01:22:38which brought
01:22:40an unfair punishment
01:22:42in the form of
01:22:44less or more successful boycotts.
01:22:46And after this program,
01:22:48Czeslaw Niemen
01:22:50was shouted out
01:22:52by our underground
01:22:54Solidarity
01:22:56as a collaborator.
01:22:58What I met
01:23:00from the side of
01:23:02people from the opposition
01:23:04I just thought
01:23:06that in this case
01:23:08I was discouraged,
01:23:10because if they let
01:23:12themselves be fooled by such manipulation,
01:23:14it means that something is wrong.
01:23:16We were sitting in the kitchen
01:23:18on this bench
01:23:20and he literally
01:23:22was sitting,
01:23:24as if he were
01:23:26extinguished,
01:23:28slightly bent,
01:23:30and they made him
01:23:32in such an unimaginable way
01:23:34that he does not know
01:23:36what to do with himself.
01:23:38Really terrible stress
01:23:40constantly accompanying him,
01:23:42especially when he was in a state of war.
01:23:44As a result,
01:23:46it was presumably
01:23:48this later severe disease.
01:23:50Then it was transferred
01:23:52to his performances in Stockholm,
01:23:54where these concerts
01:23:56were boycotted,
01:23:58but the final concert
01:24:00was organized by Stanisław Dudzik,
01:24:02who was already settled there in Sweden.
01:24:04The perfidy of the authorities of the state of war
01:24:06was that, knowing about the difficult situation
01:24:08of Czeslaw Niemen,
01:24:10they targeted him.
01:24:12It was particularly visible
01:24:14before his performances in Sweden.
01:24:16From that period,
01:24:18archival material has been preserved,
01:24:20which perfectly illustrates
01:24:22how social opinion was manipulated at that time,
01:24:24taking the artist into alleged defense
01:24:26and wondering
01:24:28what Niemen wants to achieve
01:24:30through his concert in Stockholm.
01:24:32It is completely unpopular
01:24:34on the Scandinavian market.
01:24:36A very active organization
01:24:38of the Young Polish Movement
01:24:40operating in Sweden
01:24:42boycotts the whole event.
01:24:44The flyers are distributed
01:24:46in front of the cash registers
01:24:48and warn potential viewers
01:24:50who will possibly be arrested.
01:24:52I was there myself,
01:24:54under the concert hall,
01:24:56where people were protesting.
01:24:58They had some flyers,
01:25:00shouting something,
01:25:02but it was not
01:25:04an organized demonstration
01:25:06or a concert at all.
01:25:10Good evening.
01:25:12I'm sorry
01:25:14that I'm all in a huge mess
01:25:16and I'm sorry
01:25:18that I'm not here at all,
01:25:20but thank you
01:25:22for being here.
01:25:24It's nice.
01:25:26Well,
01:25:28this strange world
01:25:30doesn't surprise me anymore.
01:25:32Of course, fewer people came than usual.
01:25:34A few flyers
01:25:36were shouting under the windows
01:25:38of the concert hall,
01:25:40a few, not brick stones,
01:25:42but gravel on the windows were falling,
01:25:44and that was it.
01:25:46I don't know,
01:25:48of course,
01:25:50it happened.
01:25:52Of course,
01:25:54it could reflect
01:25:56on his psyche.
01:25:58At that moment,
01:26:00he backed away
01:26:02like a wounded animal
01:26:04in his house.
01:26:06Actually,
01:26:08he didn't even want
01:26:10to contact the world.
01:26:12In April 1985,
01:26:14he moved to Canada
01:26:16from the United States.
01:26:18Returning to the club
01:26:20of Władimierz Wander,
01:26:22which was called Cardinal Club,
01:26:24all the significant Polish artists
01:26:26performed in this club.
01:26:28Czesław Niemen also performed
01:26:30and he was in trouble
01:26:32because the audience
01:26:34who came to this concert
01:26:36began to raise
01:26:38unpleasant shouts.
01:26:40Ladies and gentlemen,
01:26:42now,
01:26:44if you have a conference here,
01:26:48I'm very sorry,
01:26:50maybe I'm not needed at all.
01:26:52It was more of a provocation
01:26:54because someone had to organize it.
01:26:56There was no reason
01:26:58to accept him in this way.
01:27:00I'm very sorry
01:27:02that I interrupted at some point,
01:27:04but understand me
01:27:06for now
01:27:08outside,
01:27:10and
01:27:12in the press
01:27:14there is a monologue
01:27:16of hatred.
01:27:20And you still want
01:27:22my words
01:27:24not to reach
01:27:26even here.
01:27:28I'm sorry.
01:27:32We tried to help him
01:27:34with the Novoterskie Roses,
01:27:36because there were only
01:27:38two of them in Chicago,
01:27:40when I conducted with him.
01:27:42Did it help him?
01:27:44Maybe yes,
01:27:46for example,
01:27:48because when he was
01:27:50severely beaten here,
01:27:52we reminded him
01:27:54that he exists, that he is.
01:28:08Czesław Niemen
01:28:10in a state of war
01:28:12experienced many humiliations
01:28:14from the underground
01:28:16Solidarity.
01:28:18Despite this, he did not
01:28:20object to this
01:28:22great social movement
01:28:24and,
01:28:26as a result,
01:28:28he did not
01:28:30want to be a member
01:28:32of the Solidarity.
01:28:34He did not want
01:28:36to be a member
01:28:38of the Solidarity.
01:28:40And in 1989,
01:28:42before the memorable
01:28:444th of June,
01:28:46he publicly supported
01:28:48Solidarity.
01:29:06I have not voted for a long time.
01:29:08There is a special occasion.
01:29:10I will vote
01:29:12for the Solidarity candidates
01:29:14in the name of
01:29:16faith
01:29:18in Solidarity Poland.
01:29:20At an unusual time,
01:29:22because in October 1989,
01:29:24but already in free Poland,
01:29:26another festival was held.
01:29:28After 26 years
01:29:30since his debut,
01:29:32Czesław Niemen
01:29:34experienced a moment
01:29:36of triumph.
01:29:38In December 1989,
01:29:40his new album
01:29:42was released.
01:29:44He waited for it
01:29:46to be released
01:29:48for a few good years.
01:29:54Terra De Florata.
01:29:56Niemen turned out to be
01:29:58a very sensitive poet
01:30:00on this album.
01:30:02You gave us
01:30:04the pain of the universe.
01:30:12Since the east of Europe
01:30:14opened so quickly to the west,
01:30:16let's help the socialist countries
01:30:18with all our might.
01:30:20San Remo celebrates its anniversary,
01:30:22so let's make some room
01:30:24for our poor relatives.
01:30:26This is what President Francesco Cossigo,
01:30:28the Italian president, said
01:30:30San Remo, the largest in Europe,
01:30:32the most popular song festival,
01:30:34was celebrating its 40th anniversary.
01:30:36It was a great time
01:30:38to repay the good
01:30:40that San Remo did
01:30:4220 years earlier to Czesław Niemen.
01:30:44When I received a mission
01:30:46from the Polish Artistic Agency
01:30:48and the Ministry of Culture and Art
01:30:50to organize a Polish team
01:30:52for the famous San Remo,
01:30:54I thought to myself,
01:30:56Maria Radowicz-Świetna,
01:30:59but above all, Czesław.
01:31:11I asked him at the beginning of the trip,
01:31:13you know, a phenomenal time,
01:31:15a phenomenal opportunity
01:31:17to remind yourself of your friend
01:31:19from 20 years ago, Farideh,
01:31:21thanks to whom
01:31:23you tried to make a career in Italy,
01:31:25and thanks to you,
01:31:27she made a career in Poland.
01:31:29Czesław said, no, Farideh,
01:31:31it was such a long time ago.
01:31:33Suddenly, after two days,
01:31:35Czesław disappeared.
01:31:37Why did he disappear?
01:31:39It became clear later.
01:31:57Then it turned out
01:31:59that Farideh,
01:32:01the most wonderful woman
01:32:03in Czesław Niemen's life,
01:32:05was in his memory.
01:32:17He appeared only in the final
01:32:19of our stay,
01:32:21that is, when San Remo performed.
01:32:23He sang Terra De Florata.
01:32:25Then he lived this recording,
01:32:27this breakthrough.
01:32:29Even the Italian television
01:32:31Rai showed his performance.
01:32:43The first such meeting
01:32:45with Czesław Niemen,
01:32:47I remember in 1991,
01:32:49when we went with the director
01:32:51Orłowski to ask Czesław Niemen
01:32:53if he wanted to perform
01:32:55in the Toleranzja concert
01:32:57that we organized
01:32:59in the Congress Hall.
01:33:01And he was the first to say,
01:33:03oh, Staszek,
01:33:05when I sing, I yawn.
01:33:13Czesław wanted to accept
01:33:15this invitation
01:33:17and sang then
01:33:19My Homeland,
01:33:21My Homeland,
01:33:23Not from here
01:33:25I rose up
01:33:27I took
01:33:29Euphrates
01:33:31for me
01:33:33And I took
01:33:35the spirit
01:33:37of the chaos
01:33:39I took
01:33:41something
01:33:43from the world
01:33:47Last Saturday, August 8,
01:33:49the Polish pre-premiere
01:33:51of Krzysztof Kolumba's book
01:33:53was announced by Pegaz.
01:34:01Daniel Olbrychski
01:34:03played the role of Kolumba.
01:34:05I think that from this performance
01:34:07Daniel Olbrychski
01:34:09and Czesław Niemen's music
01:34:11will be remembered.
01:34:13And the gift will help.
01:34:15We worked so hard.
01:34:17And in the morning,
01:34:19he only had some
01:34:21unripe porridge
01:34:23and a few leaves of lettuce.
01:34:25And I said, Czesław,
01:34:27we work so hard,
01:34:29eat something more solid.
01:34:31He said,
01:34:33and such an elephant,
01:34:35Daniel,
01:34:37only eats grass all his life,
01:34:39and some strength.
01:34:41I just don't eat meat,
01:34:43any
01:34:45corpse.
01:34:47I haven't eaten
01:34:49animal protein
01:34:51for 10 years.
01:34:53It's a little too little,
01:34:55but better late than never.
01:34:57Of course, besides that,
01:34:59it's a broader philosophy.
01:35:01Life in itself is beautiful
01:35:03so as not to overuse it
01:35:05through some habits,
01:35:07addictions.
01:35:09I'm not talking about alcohol and cigarettes,
01:35:11but maybe this diet
01:35:13didn't work out for his health.
01:35:15Because it seems to him
01:35:17that a new hole
01:35:19is forming in his stomach.
01:35:41At the end of the century and millennium,
01:35:43we asked our Polish readers,
01:35:45but in total,
01:35:47tens of thousands of people,
01:35:49what was the most important
01:35:51in the 20th century.
01:35:53We asked about the most important
01:35:55historical figures,
01:35:57the most important events,
01:35:59inventions,
01:36:01but we also asked
01:36:03about the most prominent
01:36:05Polish and foreign singers,
01:36:07rightly assuming
01:36:09they were a surprise for us.
01:36:11They were,
01:36:13because Czesław Niemen
01:36:15won this part of Poland,
01:36:17and he won it without appeal,
01:36:19collecting 60% of all votes.
01:36:21And despite the fact
01:36:23that it was the end of the 90s,
01:36:25Niemen was practically
01:36:27absent on our stage.
01:36:29For me, he is a Polish vocalist
01:36:31of all times.
01:36:33Such artists,
01:36:35I compare him to someone
01:36:37who was born
01:36:39in different geographical areas,
01:36:41and these are such births,
01:36:43once in many years,
01:36:45someone happens to be like that,
01:36:47and if someone says something
01:36:49bad about Niemen,
01:36:51it just floods me with blood
01:36:53and hits the mark.
01:37:08There is a lot of evil in it,
01:37:15and it is strange
01:37:22If someone closely follows
01:37:24the development of me as a vocalist,
01:37:26as a composer,
01:37:28and does not want to use
01:37:30vulgar words as an artist,
01:37:32he will see that this development
01:37:34is significant,
01:37:36because everything was still there,
01:37:38some theatrical and film achievements.
01:37:40Yes, that's why Niemen from the beginning,
01:37:42but not to the end,
01:37:44because without an end.
01:37:46This is the first decade,
01:37:48i.e. the 60s,
01:37:50and this is the second 70.
01:37:52Well, there will still be,
01:37:54I have a lot of compositions
01:37:56that I have not recorded yet.
01:37:58Well, of course, yes.
01:38:00Always unchanging,
01:38:02revolutionary, fantastic,
01:38:04It's time for Niemen.
01:38:06Thank you very much.
01:38:08When I was in the hospital,
01:38:10waiting for the delivery,
01:38:12I was talking to my father,
01:38:14who complained of a spine pain.
01:38:16I know how stupid it was to comfort him,
01:38:18my dad, it's just some painkillers,
01:38:20or it will all pass,
01:38:22it's probably after this chemistry.
01:38:24And then he told me something like this,
01:38:26the new one comes, the old one leaves.
01:38:28Then I learned from Aunt Jadzia
01:38:30that with the same words
01:38:32my grandfather, Antoni Wydrzycki,
01:38:34said goodbye to death.
01:38:36I would try to rap it,
01:38:38because now it is supposedly rapped,
01:38:40that is, it is told,
01:38:42but only a fragment.
01:38:44I have the same as you.
01:38:46The last time I talked,
01:38:48because it was always the case
01:38:50that we called each other
01:38:52making Christmas wishes.
01:38:54I called,
01:38:56the last time I talked
01:38:58with Czesław, Christmas Eve.
01:39:00On January 1, I called Czesław
01:39:02wishing him all the best.
01:39:04Czesław replied,
01:39:06listen, I'm taking a shower right now,
01:39:08I'm going to the hospital tomorrow.
01:39:10The moment he went to the hospital,
01:39:12Czesław told Jadzia,
01:39:14listen, when I get back from the hospital,
01:39:16I want you to come to me,
01:39:18we have to,
01:39:20I have to tell you something important.
01:39:24He didn't come back from the hospital.
01:39:26It was my idol
01:39:28from middle school.
01:39:30And it is very difficult
01:39:32to treat a person
01:39:34with whom you are
01:39:36very emotionally involved.
01:39:38I think retrospectively
01:39:40that we tried
01:39:42to do everything
01:39:44and as they say
01:39:46in football,
01:39:48that the player bites
01:39:50the ball
01:39:52and the ball
01:39:54bites the player
01:39:56or the team bites the grass,
01:39:58we bit the grass
01:40:00to save
01:40:02Mr. Niemen.
01:40:04Unfortunately,
01:40:06we didn't succeed.
01:40:18Good evening, Danuta Cholecka,
01:40:20I invite you to the news.
01:40:22Czesław Niemen died.
01:40:24One of the most prominent
01:40:26Polish musicians of the 20th century.
01:40:28He was born in Wasiliszki Stary,
01:40:30near Nowogródka.
01:40:32His name was Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki.
01:40:34A few thousand people
01:40:36said goodbye to the outstanding musician
01:40:38and vocalist in Warsaw.
01:40:40At 1 p.m., when the funeral ceremonies
01:40:42began, all radio stations
01:40:44in Poland played Niemen's most famous song
01:40:46Dziwny jest ten świat.
01:40:48Czesław Niemen.
01:40:50It's a bit late,
01:40:52but let's get together
01:40:54and say goodbye to Czeslaw Niemen.
01:41:20Once it was said,
01:41:22the king died,
01:41:24let the king live.
01:41:26I would like to say,
01:41:28Czeslaw Niemen died,
01:41:30let Niemen live.
01:41:32In the sense that
01:41:34there is someone new
01:41:36who can take his place.
01:41:38But there is no one like that.
01:41:40And Czeslaw Niemen's place
01:41:42is not only
01:41:44in the music,
01:41:46but also
01:41:48in life.
01:41:50Czeslaw Niemen is not busy.
01:42:18Zostawiłem tam kolor sny
01:42:26Kiedyś zatrzymał czas
01:42:32I na skrzydłach jak plak
01:42:38Będę leciał z usił
01:42:44Tam, gdzie moje sny
01:42:48I Warszawskie kolony
01:42:56Gdybyś ujrzeć chciał
01:43:02Na dni śląskich świt
01:43:06Już dziś wyruszaj ze mną tam
01:43:12Zobacz, jak żyje ta piękna las
01:43:18Warszawski dzień
01:43:24Warszawski dzień
01:43:26Warszawski dzień
01:43:28Warszawski dzień
01:43:58I unylo parownomu polu
01:44:04Rozliwajeca pesem szczyka
01:44:10I unylo parownomu polu
01:44:16Rozliwajeca pesem szczyka
01:44:24Stolka czustwa w toj pesnie
01:44:26Столько чувства наперед родном
01:44:34Чтоб грудь моя хладная остыла
01:44:40Разгорелась за сердце огнем
01:44:46Чтоб грудь моя хладная остыла
01:44:52Разгорелась за сердце огнем
01:45:26She ran like a star, like a starry star
01:45:37A bell is ringing in our house
01:45:44And the road is shaking a little
01:45:49And the driver is silent, and the road
01:45:54Is far, far away from me
01:46:00And the driver is silent, and the road
01:46:06Is far, far away from me
01:46:11Is far, far away from me
01:46:16Is far, far away from me
01:46:20And the road is shaking
01:46:25Is far, far away from me
01:46:28And the road is shaking
01:46:32Is far, far away from me