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12:30It's not the time for silly talks.
12:35I wish you, Krysia, happiness in life, success in your professional work and happiness with your daughter.
12:40Thank you. I wish you exactly the same.
12:49We all announced the same formulas today in my workplace.
12:54It's a form. You know how well I wish you.
12:59I know I don't care much about you.
13:03What happened?
13:06What? I should always greet you with a smile and pretend that everything is going great.
13:12I'm fed up with this fake convention.
13:14Today I'm desperate and I don't even think about hiding it.
13:18But why on Christmas Eve? Couldn't you wait a few days?
13:23Because it just happened. It gathered, gathered, gathered and shook.
13:28I understand. Please, get out of here.
13:31Can I have a piece of herring?
13:33You can.
13:42My sense of humor saved you again.
13:45Well, you won't hear anything about a lonely woman with a child without real support.
13:54You're right. I'm old, disgusting, selfish. I only care about my own peace.
14:01I gradually reached this opening state after years of experience, great failures, small victories.
14:10You neo-positivist, you pragmatist.
14:15You wouldn't want to marry me, would you? Would you support me every day?
14:21I'd rather take a box from the neighbor.
14:23Only we don't have a dog on our floor.
14:26I'll gladly give it to you.
14:28In the old days, the older gentlemen sacrificed jewellery to the ladies of their hearts,
14:33and even earlier they built palaces for them.
14:36I offered you a sweater.
14:38If it goes on like this, our descendants will bring a piece of sausage to the ladies of their hearts.
14:54English?
14:58No.
15:01No, it's a very rich gift.
15:07Didn't you have to starve to buy it for me?
15:10Almost everyone spends more than they earn.
15:14And my gift?
15:23A coffee pot.
15:25The first need item for a pensioner.
16:00Here you are.
16:07Wonderful.
16:15Lately, a lot has been written about the pre-war period.
16:21On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of independence,
16:24various characters and events have been recalled,
16:29which I had no idea about at all.
16:32Because you were taught a polite history at school.
16:35You, as a venerable veteran, remember those times well.
16:39So tell me,
16:41do you think the present world is better than the one in which you were born and grew up?
16:48Everyone recalls the tears of childhood.
16:52If you asked my neighbor, Mrs. Rosalia,
16:57if you asked my neighbor, Mrs. Rosalia,
17:00she would say that she changed from a little shepherd to a royal mother.
17:05But!
17:06She still has in front of her eyes a view of a noble pig,
17:11from which her father ate a whole saddlery,
17:14and she got a piece of sausage.
17:17And after tasting this sausage, no taste ever satisfied her.
17:23It seems that the world is getting better, my dear,
17:27but the real taste is getting more and more difficult.
17:31You speak just like my mother.
17:33Because I'm at your mother's age.
17:35Indeed.
17:36My mother is just as much of a philosopher as you are.
17:39Your mother lives a healthy life in the woods,
17:42takes care of her garden and looks at the world with a kind irony.
17:47A woman like you,
17:49suddenly moved from the meadow in the woods to a rowing tower.
17:53Stop it! I know all this by heart.
17:55Your helpless daughter will no longer have these problems.
17:58A born Warsawite will learn to live her life without any scruples.
18:03Yes, my daughter is happy, my mother is happy,
18:06but I broke my life.
18:09You are a transitional generation.
18:11There are millions of you.
18:13There won't be such a huge exodus.
18:16The country was invented too quickly,
18:19thanks to people like you.
18:21It's a great historical process, you should be proud of it.
18:25Sometimes I can't look at your happy face.
18:28It's enough.
18:29It's enough.
18:30And ruthless.
18:33And what are you better than me?
18:37That you are an office worker,
18:39from a great-great-grandfather.
18:41That you come from a noble family,
18:45that you have read more books than me,
18:47that your mother taught you foreign languages.
18:50And why do you come to me? Out of love?
18:53To maintain my morals.
18:57You should ask someone younger,
18:59for example your boss,
19:01a master engineer,
19:03he is a young man and certainly not more than you.
19:07Where does he come from?
19:09You bore me.
19:11You see.
19:12You bore me too.
19:13But I'm bored in a different way.
19:15When I'm silent, I think.
19:17And when I'm silent,
19:19I think nervously.
19:22Who gave you the right to this high position?
19:25And what have you done in your life?
19:27Do you think,
19:28that if you burned Warsaw 35 years ago,
19:31then you can stay there for the rest of your life?
19:34I'm just more experienced.
19:36A communist, a coward, a Pavlov's dog.
19:39You are beautiful,
19:40when you burn like this,
19:42with holy enragement.
20:07He flew inside.
20:09It doesn't matter.
20:14Today I decided to make a speech.
20:19Do you want to stay without work,
20:21with a child on a pot?
20:24What happened?
20:26And you don't care about anything.
20:29You don't care about anything.
20:32What happened?
20:34And you don't care about anything.
20:37I believe, that you had to do that.
20:39I did what you wouldn't do,
20:41because you would definitely get along with them.
20:43You are very similar to each other.
20:45Liars.
20:46Opportunists.
20:48Maybe it's better to have some character,
20:50so you don't have so many problems?
20:52I won't let you have some character.
20:55That's what I appreciate you for.
21:03Old cynic.
21:05No feelings in you.
21:07You are comfortable.
21:09Coward.
21:15Won't I get some coffee?
21:17There is no time.
21:18What can I talk to you about?
21:20You are just walking around.
21:21You are not doing anything.
21:23Shame on you.
21:24A man,
21:25full of strength.
21:26I worked for 40 years.
21:28Now I'm free.
21:30Free?
21:31From what?
21:32From work?
21:33From the trains?
21:34From the buses?
21:35You call yourself free,
21:37when you get rid of the burden of life.
21:39When you reach my age.
21:42In 25 years.
21:44In 24.
21:46Five.
21:48I will never live to that age.
21:50I will never be free.
21:52The word freedom has so many meanings,
21:54everyone will fall for it.
21:57I don't mean some abstract
21:59freedom,
22:01but a feeling of freedom.
22:03I never,
22:05never in my life felt free.
22:08Someone always forced me to do something.
22:10And when you finally meet an older man,
22:13who doesn't want to force you to do anything.
22:16He has me somewhere.
22:22You have your freedom.
22:25We have to be afraid of a child.
22:27Nothing like that.
22:28We just want to save him nerves,
22:31and inhibitions,
22:33in case he starts digging in the dust,
22:35and finds traces of our pride.
22:40Old tramp.
22:48Go now, go, go.
22:53Go.
22:54I don't want to see you anymore.
22:58I don't want to see you anymore.
23:14What are you doing here, old man?
23:16I'm just taking a short walk.
23:18Daddy, I'm sure he was with mummy,
23:20and he came out of the dumpster.
23:23So what, are you digging in the dumpsters now?
23:26I'm staying away from this house,
23:28for Christmas.
23:30Just a moment, one word.
23:32What do you want, old man?
23:34I made a deal with Krystyna,
23:36that I'll be on duty on the phone.
23:38If you start an adventure,
23:40I'll be with the militia in 15 minutes.
23:43I can start an adventure only with you,
23:45even in the middle of the night.
24:26Come on, let's go.
24:53Good morning.
24:55I didn't expect anyone to come at this time.
24:58Would you allow me to offer you
25:00a glass of wine instead of fish?
25:02You don't look like a traditionalist to me.
25:05Life without ceremonies is too boring.
25:09Are you alone?
25:11My daughter was kept in a sanatorium.
25:13Neighbors invited me for Christmas Eve.
25:16They were very kind,
25:18but you know, I don't want to use mercy.
25:21A lonely pension at every Christmas Eve table.
25:32I wish you
25:34to be good to me,
25:37to always love me,
25:40to never lose respect for each other.
25:43To never part.
25:45To keep our daughter healthy.
25:48To graduate in 1952
25:51and to be proud of me.
25:54To never have to lie
25:57and be afraid.
26:02Don't be afraid, it's Christmas Eve.
26:04I'll open the door.
26:08Today, Bethlehem,
26:10Today, Bethlehem,
26:12the wine was brought.
26:15That the Lord is pure,
26:17That the Lord is pure,
26:19the Son was born.
26:22Christ is born,
26:24He will set us free.
26:26Angels play,
26:27Kings greet.
26:34I wish you good luck.
26:39You can still do a lot.
26:41What year are you?
26:42Nineteen.
26:43You still have a long way to go.
26:45Yes.
26:46I'm a child of happiness,
26:48after my first heart attack.
26:49In this way of life,
26:51you still have a long way to go
26:53to the second heart attack.
26:55To please you with my life story,
26:58I'd love to hear it.
27:01I had neither childhood
27:04nor youth.
27:06From a rotten hut,
27:08I went to the university in the thirties.
27:12I married a friend,
27:14a teacher of nature.
27:16And together we ran a school
27:19in a small town.
27:21During the war,
27:23we arranged
27:25for forest explosives
27:28to take us to the camp.
27:30There, my wife lost her health
27:34and died slowly
27:36a few years after the war.
27:39I was arrested in 1947
27:42for cooperating with gangs.
27:45I gave a few days of shelter
27:48to a few boys from the forest.
27:50I knew them well as brave soldiers
27:52from the time of the war
27:53and I didn't want to refuse.
27:55Much later, my son
27:57was beaten to death in the camp
28:00because he stood in defense of an attacked woman.
28:03Now, my daughter,
28:06the SGGW adjunct,
28:08is seriously ill.
28:11It's quite a
28:13pile of misfortune.
28:16And yet I don't feel bad.
28:19We all lost loved ones
28:23and deceit.
28:27What time is it?
28:28Don't worry, Mom.
28:29It happens often.
28:31You could at least not be late for Christmas Eve.
28:34Alice!
28:35I'm sorry, dear.
28:36I had to go to Śledzik
28:38with the new principal.
28:40He promised me.
28:42He promised me to change the flat
28:44to a 100-square-meter one.
28:46You know why?
28:47Don't you feel bad?
28:49A commander promises a lot.
28:51And you believe him, poor girl?
28:54Since she started studying physics,
28:56she's becoming more and more reckless.
28:58Of course I believe him.
28:59Something is starting to happen to us.
29:01There will be money for dollars,
29:02there will be loans.
29:03I know what I want.
29:05You're not a great optimist.
29:07In 1956, you also jumped with joy.
29:10And now it's 1971.
29:12We're building new wind turbines.
29:14And Dad is happy.
29:15The vodka was clean,
29:16and Dad put on his pink glasses.
29:18Will he stop lying?
29:21I wish you a happy new year
29:24and good health and an old husband.
29:26And the happiness of a daughter?
29:28And the happiness of a daughter.
29:30I have to go to bed.
29:32Maybe I'll take the furniture.
29:34No, no, no.
29:35The furniture won't help.
29:36Sit down, sit down.
29:38We'll bring the table to you.
29:44It's so wet.
29:47But you know she's dying.
29:52I grew up on Żeromski Street, sir.
29:56I wanted to be a great socialist,
29:58a hero of the time.
30:00I can give children ready-made formulas.
30:04But I'm not a pessimist.
30:06The longer I think,
30:08the brighter the colors I see in the future.
30:12Interesting.
30:14You don't meet many optimists in cafes now.
30:17The whole history of mankind teaches
30:19that arsenals are built to be used.
30:23You've experienced atomic fear.
30:26In reality, it's not an atomic fear,
30:28but a great shock.
30:30Mankind needs a new formula.
30:33And Polish asphalts are also being painted in a new light.
30:37Don't you feel the tension around you?
30:41After all, everyone knows
30:43that it can't go on like this.
30:45Schemes and corsets have to be put in place.
30:48Both here and in the world.
30:51The Middle Ages are always a time of crisis and revision.
30:56God will pay for the dose of hope in Christmas.
30:59I take it without further discussion,
31:01because I need it as a vitamin.
31:07I'm going to keep writing.
31:08What are you writing?
31:10A play on words by the retired Belfrat.
31:13It's about the meaning of history.
31:15Does it make sense?
31:16It's warning.
31:18And mythological.
31:20You've also created history.
31:22And how?
31:23Now I see that I inspire all my thoughts.
31:26I'm a storeroom of history.
31:29And what's in this storeroom?
31:31Should I start from the beginning?
31:33From the olive grove of Bethlehem?
31:35Maybe from the Babylon of Egypt?
31:37Can I add the battle of Thermopylae?
31:40The song of Rolande and the Godfather?
31:43You're mixing history with myths.
31:45Good.
31:46Grunwald and Vienna.
31:49The upheaval of Bastille and Wrocław.
31:52Samosierra and Olszynka Grobowska.
31:55Enough.
31:56A typical collection of Polish intelligentsia
31:59coming from the mansions of nobles.
32:01My historical baggage is a little richer.
32:05Unpolished potatoes and thin cows.
32:07Rabatia and Scheele.
32:10The Mother of God is painful.
32:12And the strike of Chłopski.
32:14A fight with your colleagues at the university.
32:19And the account for 5 zlotys a month in a damp room.
32:23An outing in the suburb.
32:25But also all that you mentioned.
32:28Because without all that,
32:30my historical life, Chłopski at once,
32:32and the intelligentsia later,
32:34would have no color, no smell, no melody.
32:37I advanced to this history with great difficulty.
32:42And to these Czwartaks.
32:44And to this Kordian.
32:46And even to this prince Józef Kulak,
32:49who wished for his daughter to die for the fatherland.
32:53And this is my history.
32:55Although your ancestors dealt with them like with a working cattle,
32:59and did not think to allow them to the company
33:02in the uprising enterprises.
33:04So go away with the noble tradition.
33:08On the contrary.
33:09Long live.
33:10Long live.
33:11She ruled the Republic,
33:13and freely contributed to its collapse.
33:15But it is her all national impulses.
33:18Because if not for her pride,
33:20love of freedom,
33:22and desperation,
33:24maybe we would have been enslaved
33:26like a flock of gray sheep,
33:28incapable of proof.
33:29For almost 40 years,
33:31I tried to suffocate
33:33this anachronistic nobility.
33:36What remains valuable
33:39is what excites us.
33:42So,
33:43happy,
33:45good,
33:47Czwartak work.
33:49Enjoy your rest on the family lawn.
34:40Welcome, welcome, welcome.
34:43Here you are.
34:50Help the old man, help the old man.
34:53Come on, come on.
34:54Gifts are always the most important.
34:57Do you think that by setting up this Christmas tree,
34:59you are doing favor to the old Polish custom?
35:02Well, you are very wrong.
35:04150 years ago,
35:06everyone in Poland heard about Christmas.
35:09This custom was brought from Germany
35:12in the middle of the 19th century,
35:14and during the protection of the environment,
35:16it becomes a plague of our forests.
35:19Dad is getting smart again.
35:20We buy Christmas trees only because
35:22it adorns the room and creates a festive mood.
35:24Even the carolers don't want to sing.
35:26But we have a Christmas fairy tale on TV.
35:32Here you are.
35:33Let's ask father.
35:35Here you are.
35:36Ask, ask.
35:37What do you want?
35:42Well, they offer me a great interest.
35:44Sheep breeding.
35:45Not far from Warsaw, you can earn 50,000.
35:48A week ago, he was talking about lightning castles.
35:51Well, I would have to bring half a million
35:53to the lightning castles,
35:55but I don't have it.
35:56You don't have it?
35:57If I had it, I would be sitting in this interest.
35:59I would like to take care of sheep breeding.
36:04It's already being done.
36:05We take care of father's interest.
36:07We need cash.
36:08But he doesn't know about it.
36:10I don't have to know.
36:11I just have to deliver the stables.
36:13And where do you get it from?
36:14From a friend.
36:16And do you have friends?
36:17Father probably knows how to make friends.
36:19And what about those sheep?
36:21Will there be sheep?
36:22Why would we sell sheep to Agnieta?
36:25Grażyna was once an intelligent and sensible child.
36:30When in March 1968,
36:32her most expensive student in the car department
36:34went out with his friends on the street,
36:36she ran after him without hesitation.
36:38With all her youthful enthusiasm,
36:40she threw herself into the fight for the truth.
36:42The press was lying to others
36:44and was burning newspapers in the workers' union square.
36:47Soon, their militia dispersed.
36:49Grażyna returned home,
36:51and her beloved was detained in the police station.
36:54I couldn't help her much.
36:57Every generation has to experience its own defeat.
37:00But those few days in March
37:03had an impact on her whole life.
37:06Father, tell me what you really think about it.
37:09I like his intention very much.
37:12Agnieta is gorgeous.
37:14Don't joke.
37:15I'm not joking at all.
37:16Wacek is wasting himself in his position,
37:19and as a partner of Agnieta's interest,
37:22he is full of energy and ingenuity.
37:24Of course, if he has money in his pocket.
37:27Do you want to live as an eternally unhappy husband, Grażyna?
37:31You know very well that it's a matter of lifestyle.
37:34For so many years, you have taught me
37:36that a career is not based on money,
37:38but on work and results.
37:40You also said that you failed to achieve your life goals
37:43due to war delays and Stalinism.
37:45But you count on my abilities
37:47and you hope that I will be someone at work and in the profession.
37:50It's not too late.
37:51I'm sure that you will surprise us with something else.
37:54I will be a wife of a sheep farmer.
37:57He will press me with his cash,
37:59make me lay out lice for the rats.
38:02That's why I worked five years at the university.
38:04Why?
38:06You can work wherever you want.
38:08I will be able to afford it.
38:10Aren't you going to move to Owczarnia?
38:12What for?
38:13I will drive there.
38:14By what?
38:15By car.
38:16It seemed to me that we don't have a car.
38:18You told me about Talon.
38:21I thought that you wanted to go back there.
38:25Are you kidding me?
38:27Me? To Owczarnia?
38:29You say that now, but you will miss it one day.
38:31Soon I will have cabbage on my knees.
38:36Let's go.
38:37Let's go.
38:38Let's go.
38:42Here you are.
38:43My child.
38:49Here you are.
38:50Cheers.
39:06Please, father.
39:10Sit down.
39:11Sit down.
39:18Is it frozen well?
39:21I hope so.
39:23It freezes well in this house.
39:31Let's drink.
39:33Let's drink.
39:41Give me a slice of bread.
39:43You know what?
39:44I like this idea with lambs more and more.
39:48Wacław's education is not at all in conflict with the farmer's profession.
39:53After all, a rational economy is the calling of a master of economics.
39:58I would advise you, my dear, to move to Owczarnia.
40:04For this apartment, you could build a small house with a garden.
40:08Your future child could live in the fresh air.
40:12You could invite your grandmother, of course.
40:15You could raise a cow.
40:17Are you kidding, father?
40:19And you? Would you be against it?
40:22Me?
40:26I don't know.
40:28A garden, a cow.
40:31That would be nice.
40:33Don't worry, mother.
40:35In these times, leaning on a car is highly risky.
40:39Petrol can become more expensive than vodka.
40:47I'll drive a vodka then.
40:50Wacek, stop it.
41:01Why are you holding it like that?
41:02We'll have a fight with father.
41:06On the side?
41:08A little bit.
41:20Excuse me for a second. I have to make a call.
41:38Please.
41:39It's me, my child.
41:40Don't call me a child.
41:42He's behaving decently. He's worried about you.
41:45I don't believe it.
41:47I'll come and sort it out.
41:50There's a pattern here.
41:52Merry Christmas. Goodbye.
42:07What's that?
42:14Salad, father.
42:15Why did you choose sheep?
42:18My friend runs a computer.
42:20He said it's the most profitable job of the season.
42:23Maybe I know more.
42:24Parts for the car.
42:26I don't know if a computer is necessary.
42:29It's a modern business.
42:30I've seen farms like that in Canada.
42:33Father, do you think if someone doesn't work from 8 to 4,
42:36and he's looking for independence, he has to be an outcast?
42:39Independence at someone's expense.
42:42With his own cleverness and entrepreneurship.
42:46The times of pointless working have passed, father.
42:49Now there's a different kind of electricity.
42:51You can have a much better life.
42:57Even with sheep.
42:58And with sheep, there's still a lot of work.
43:02One of my friends, when he doesn't have the strength,
43:04takes a Fiat and drives a taxi at rush hour.
43:07Everyone is grateful to him.
43:09On the second day, he does what he wants, even paints.
43:11He doesn't think about retirement or medals.
43:13Just like me.
43:15Besides, I have plenty of medals, father.
43:17But he got that Fiat from the Turks.
43:19No, he made it up by painting apartments.
43:23And the other friend,
43:25he guides foreigners around the mountains,
43:27because he learned the language,
43:28which gives him 6 months of work a year,
43:29and the other 6 months he lies, walks, thinks.
43:32There really is something to think about.
43:38So what, father, do you mean those bananas?
43:41I support them with all my heart.
43:43It's a socially useful job.
43:56I'm sorry.
43:58He'll get over it.
43:59In a week, he'll set up a button factory.
44:02So that you don't lose the time allocated to you along the way.
44:26All the best, Mr. Józef.
44:28Good morning, sir.
44:29I wish you a better position.
44:31God forbid.
44:32You're not hanging.
44:33And how many such housekeepers are there in Warsaw?
44:36You can count on your fingers.
44:43I don't even have peace in the villa.
44:46The sewage system was clogged with carps' bones,
44:49and now I have to dig into it at the same time,
44:52God forbid.
44:54I'm not going to be celebrating Christmas in the sewage system.
44:57I'd love to help you.
44:59You're an intelligent man, but I've already appointed a team.
45:02A driver from the 6th,
45:04one from the 10th TV,
45:06and an engineer from the 2nd.
45:08They're already getting dressed.
45:10How do you do it, Mr. Józef, that everyone listens to you like that?
45:14You see, they really want someone to tell them something.
45:20You took over the authority that was lying in the corridor.
45:29You always hit the nail on the head.
45:32You know, if I was pushed into power,
45:34I'd be in charge of the district by now.
45:36But what for?
45:37You see, I have all my people here.
45:40Everyone is interested in me.
45:42I know everything about them, without asking
45:44which one is a drunkard and which one is not.
45:47And most importantly, no one interferes with me.
45:49I'm the boss here.
45:51And the host, sir.
45:53But in general, my life didn't work out.
45:56I'm just pretending that I don't care,
45:58because I'm a responsible man.
46:00I have mercy on these tenants.
46:03Are you satisfied, Mr. Józef?
46:07You know, all the time I have the impression
46:10that I'm asked to do something important.
46:13All the time I have the impression
46:15that I'm asked to do something important.
46:20Something very important.
46:22But what?
46:23I don't know.
46:26I wish you healthy and merry Christmas.
46:28All the best.
46:30Thank you very much, Mr. Józef.
46:31All the best.
46:33Apparently, they're going to move to a villa or somewhere.
46:36And her son went up very high.
46:38Is he going to be a leader or a voivode?
46:43The 13-year-old father sits proudly,
46:45the youngest of the whole group.
46:47The grandfather terrifies his father's participation
46:49in the Polish school strike, because it was about the future.
46:52If they throw out his father with a wolf's ticket,
46:54he may never pass his matriculation exam.
47:04Where are you going, Stasia?
47:06I don't want anyone to break out of the strike.
47:08You're not going anywhere.
47:09You're going to sit at home and study.
47:11I'm going to apply for a volunteer.
47:13They're waiting for me.
47:15They're waiting for you.
47:17How old are you?
47:19Twelve, right?
47:20Thirteen.
47:21Then you're not going to leave the house.
47:24The strike?
47:26There's no way.
47:27If everyone, then everyone.
47:28Those who don't apply are pigs,
47:30and the nation condemns them.
47:31But taking my child out on the street?
47:34To the brothel?
47:35No way.
47:36How old was your father when he went to the uprising?
47:40You're stupid.
47:42I ran away with my brother in front of the gate.
47:44But your father was not threatened by the gate at the age of 16.
47:48Why didn't your parents keep your father at home?
47:51What do you mean with the uprising?
47:55Besides, these are different times, do you understand?
47:58Exactly because these are different times,
48:00and I've been going out on the street three years earlier than my father.
48:03Listen, you high school student, what can I tell you?
48:06Sit down.
48:10Since the time of the victory near Vienna in 1683,
48:16the Poles have not won any great battle.
48:20For 220 years, our actions have always ended as badly as possible.
48:25Because of stupidity, non-government and betrayal.
48:28We could have won already in the November Uprising.
48:36Listen,
48:38in order to win Poland,
48:41we would need a miracle now.
48:44I've been thinking about it for 40 years.
48:49Do you know what came to my mind in 1880,
48:55when they told me to hang the inscriptions on the wagons only in Russian?
49:00When I could, I hung them upside down.
49:05Someone brought it right away,
49:08and for 15 years I didn't advance,
49:11although they didn't catch me by the hand.
49:14You want to spoil your whole life, right?
49:17But now there's a revolution, the whole nation will go.
49:21Listen, don't use words you don't understand.
49:25Do you understand?
49:31Anyway, please, please, I beg you,
49:34get out of school,
49:36go to the factory for a 10-hour break,
49:39and join the revolution.
49:41I'll do it for sure. In the meantime, I'm going out.
49:43You're not going anywhere.
49:48The father took his picket before high school
49:51and returned home without a scratch.
49:53Along with a group of colleagues, he was soon thrown out of school,
49:56and the grandfather had to pay for secret courses where he was taught Polish.
50:18Can I spend the night in the kitchen on a folding bed?
50:21Don't you think that such escapes from your husband
50:24are rather childish and a bit old-fashioned?
50:27If my mother were alive, she would understand me.
50:29It's better on Christmas Eve.
50:32The better.
50:34You look happy.
50:36Maybe I'll make you some tea.
50:38Maybe you'll have some cognac?
50:40You'll say it all doesn't make sense, that Vacka won't change anyway.
50:44I do it for myself.
50:46An action without a future.
50:49Don't be afraid.
50:51I'll only spend the night with my friend.
50:53I know you hate tenants in your apartment.
50:55Why?
50:57It would remind us of the good old days
50:59when the two of us lived together after my mother's death.
51:01I lived there. You came to spend the night.
51:04I hated that big, empty apartment.
51:07I was busy planning the success.
51:10Now I have time, and the apartment is small.
51:13If I were six years old,
51:15I'd be happy to live here with my father.
51:19I know it's all too late,
51:21but I don't want you to lose your life.
51:25I'm not going to lose it.
51:28We could have a long night chat.
51:33Why?
51:34You know everything anyway.
51:39I'm sorry I interrupted you.
51:41You didn't.
51:43Come on.
51:45Have some tea.
51:52Grandma, why did you go to Kiev with Grandpa?
51:55Wasn't it better to wait for the war in Warsaw?
51:59Grandpa worked in the Russian sailing company
52:02and they told him to run away to Kiev with the money.
52:05The head of the self-defence force himself
52:07was helping in the evacuation.
52:09So Grandpa took the money?
52:11What did you think?
52:13That he stole the money on the way?
52:15But he died.
52:17He died of typhus.
52:19Because of Petlura.
52:21Didn't you go?
52:23I went to Paris before the war.
52:25What for?
52:26To study.
52:27Were you rich?
52:29I only had a ticket.
52:31And did you eat Tromba's soup?
52:33Sorry, I was in a restaurant
52:35for carpenters and drivers every other day.
52:37You wanted to study so much.
52:40I thought I would make it.
52:43And you did.
52:45Weren't you afraid of the Germans?
52:47Did you stay in Warsaw?
52:49Grandpa stayed too.
52:51He was retired and didn't want to go to Russia.
52:53I was in a secret self-defence organisation.
52:55No one knew about it.
52:57There were only a handful of us in Warsaw.
53:00And now there are thousands
53:02to get jobs and orders.
53:04Few people believed in independence.
53:07And our beloved Indians
53:09wanted to unite Poland under Tsar Nicholas.
53:12Who could have thought that
53:14a revolution would break out in Russia?
53:16In those days it was the only reasonable thought.
53:19It's a miracle that you managed to get to power.
53:23We believed in miracles.
53:25What were you doing in that organisation?
53:27We were waiting for the Germans
53:29and for Piotr Sucki.
53:31We were waiting for a chance to fight
53:33with a weapon in our hands.
53:37We were waiting for a chance to fight
53:39with a weapon in our hands.
53:59Yes?
54:00Krystyna?
54:02My husband and daughter went for a short walk.
54:05You're troubling me, Krysia.
54:07You're troubling me, Adasiu.
54:09How was Christmas Eve in the family?
54:11I'm still saving myself with memories.
54:13Christmas Eve with your father and mother.
54:15And a lot of presents.
54:17Your father was rich, wasn't he?
54:19He was a third-rate dignitary.
54:21He didn't need anything.
54:23You still smell of that happy childhood, Adasiu.
54:26I'm sorry, but they're coming back.
54:28Once again, Merry Christmas in the family.
54:30You'd better call her.
54:32And our deal?
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