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00:00:00♪
00:00:30But, but colonel is still sleeping.
00:00:34I'll go wake him up.
00:00:36How does he sleep? In the afternoon?
00:00:38Colonel sits for a long time at night.
00:00:41Every day.
00:00:43He writes, reads.
00:00:45And does he get letters?
00:00:47Of course, Mr. Count, that he gets.
00:00:49Rarely.
00:00:51Because...
00:00:53Well, let Tabaczyński speak, let him speak.
00:00:55But Mr. Count himself does not know.
00:00:58Mr. Colonel does not want to see anyone.
00:01:01He does not go to the courtyards.
00:01:03As much as he will play cards with the priest.
00:01:07How many deputies he has already sent.
00:01:10He does not want to accept.
00:01:12Always alone.
00:01:13Well, how is it alone?
00:01:15After all, we take care of everything.
00:01:18I know your care.
00:01:21It's cold here.
00:01:22The stove is not lit.
00:01:25It's April, gentle lady.
00:01:27And there is no smoke.
00:01:30Full of dust.
00:01:35Mess.
00:01:36Everywhere.
00:01:37Mr. Colonel does not allow to move the paper.
00:01:40Let Tabaczyński not explain.
00:01:42Before God, you will explain for his harm.
00:01:46Mr. Colonel has no harm.
00:01:48He lives as he wants.
00:01:50And that he does not want much, it's his business.
00:01:55Mr. Colonel has already got up and will come out soon.
00:01:58Let Tabaczyński take care of breakfast.
00:02:01When Mr. Colonel gets up, he does not eat.
00:02:04Only dinner.
00:02:09Thank you.
00:02:24Thank you.
00:02:40Józefa.
00:02:45And I thought ...
00:02:47I mean ...
00:02:48Did you expect someone?
00:02:51To tell you the truth, I did not expect to see you anymore.
00:02:58But you see me, Peter.
00:03:01I'm glad.
00:03:03Really.
00:03:06You see ...
00:03:08I do not know what to say.
00:03:11Please sit down.
00:03:20Very often ...
00:03:24I thought about you.
00:03:27About us.
00:03:31Andrzej.
00:03:33Go to the store and bring two bottles of Madeira.
00:03:35Just quickly.
00:03:37Oh yes.
00:03:38Always the same.
00:03:40I would love to, Peter.
00:03:41No.
00:03:44Thank you.
00:03:51Somehow ...
00:03:52I can handle it.
00:04:00Isn't it time to change something in your life, Peter?
00:04:05And what am I supposed to change here?
00:04:09For example, leave here.
00:04:11And where to?
00:04:14Abroad.
00:04:15To Paris.
00:04:18I'm not interested in any Paris.
00:04:22To Warsaw.
00:04:24Maybe I would go, but ...
00:04:27You know.
00:04:29The emperor refused to allow ...
00:04:34They are still afraid of Wysocki.
00:04:38Police officers and officials.
00:04:41They remember.
00:04:42Who?
00:04:45Who remembers?
00:04:48Police officer, official.
00:04:51And military governor.
00:04:54It's not a nation.
00:04:57And the nation forgot.
00:05:00So I had to forget about my November.
00:05:06Polish Uprising.
00:05:09Skruszka and Dana.
00:05:14Today your triumph or death.
00:05:18We did not win in November, but we live.
00:05:21It would be better if I died in Wola with Sowiński.
00:05:31Or in Siberia, near Kiev.
00:05:36But you did not die.
00:05:39And you have to remember yourself.
00:05:41I remember Lieutenant Wysocki perfectly.
00:05:44The time has not stopped in place, Peter.
00:05:46There is no longer Lieutenant Wysocki.
00:05:49There is an old Lieutenant Wysocki, who has the right to personal happiness.
00:05:54I left my happiness in Wola.
00:05:57And I waited for you for 30 years.
00:06:04My dear.
00:06:07Tell me what you really want.
00:06:12Okay, Peter.
00:06:16Okay.
00:06:20Let's talk openly.
00:06:24You see, I also ...
00:06:27Then, over a year ago, when we saw each other for the last time,
00:06:30I did not expect to see you again.
00:06:33After all, it was you who made the choice.
00:06:35It was you who shouted that you do not want to live.
00:06:37It is possible from my feelings that you will not let me stay.
00:06:39I hurt you.
00:06:41Peter, how young I was then.
00:06:44Then, in November, when time stopped for us,
00:06:48because for me too, Peter, not only for you.
00:06:50Yes, I know.
00:06:52I was waiting for you like for fun,
00:06:54for resurrection, for independence.
00:06:57And finally you came back to what is no longer there.
00:07:00I would rather not come back.
00:07:02But fate wanted otherwise.
00:07:04I respected your choice, Peter, but now I can not.
00:07:07My dear, how can I help you now?
00:07:15You see, Peter, we are old.
00:07:19Both of us.
00:07:21You are no longer the fiery lieutenant
00:07:24that only one gave freedom to the homeland.
00:07:27And I am not the countess
00:07:29who recited Mickiewicz in the salons.
00:07:33And old people, Peter, do not require too much from themselves.
00:07:40Therefore, marry me, Peter, and let's get out of here.
00:07:50In prison, in Siberia, in the mine,
00:07:56I often thought about you.
00:08:01I mean, I often thought about you.
00:08:06About you.
00:08:08I mean, about us.
00:08:13But now it is too late.
00:08:17You waited unnecessarily.
00:08:19But you wanted me to remember you.
00:08:21Do not torment me.
00:08:25Do not torment me.
00:08:27I am dead.
00:08:29Maybe I was already dead
00:08:31when I walked through the Łazienki Garden with a saber.
00:08:35And dead, you wrote me fragrant letters.
00:08:41Forgive me.
00:08:44Forgive me.
00:08:47I come to you
00:08:50because I have nothing and no one.
00:08:53I have only you.
00:08:57I am deadly tired
00:09:00of this state of war,
00:09:02repressions,
00:09:04the red heat of the street.
00:09:06Someone is disappearing, someone is hiding
00:09:08or running to the troops to the forest.
00:09:10And these boys are going there like crazy.
00:09:13Without commanders, without weapons, without hope.
00:09:16It is terrible to torment yourself and the nation like this.
00:09:21Do you know what everyone is waiting for?
00:09:23The whole of Warsaw, the secret government, even the Constants.
00:09:28They are waiting for the war.
00:09:30Yes, they are waiting for Napoleon to come and give them freedom.
00:09:35But it is no longer Napoleon,
00:09:37not this war and freedom would not be the same.
00:09:43Everything has changed, Piotr.
00:09:46Only I cannot change.
00:09:49This is no longer my uprising and not my hope.
00:09:57Now you understand that I have only you left.
00:10:00And a common defeat.
00:10:03The same one for thirty years,
00:10:05a defeat that I have failed.
00:10:07It is not true.
00:10:08Some moral force flowed from that defeat
00:10:11and it did not kill our hopes.
00:10:13And now there will be nothing left.
00:10:15Burned earth.
00:10:16So you think it is that bad?
00:10:19It is even worse.
00:10:22I have decided, Piotr.
00:10:24I am leaving as far as possible in a week.
00:10:26By train to Vienna, then to Paris, to Italy.
00:10:28In a week.
00:10:29And forever.
00:10:31Forever.
00:10:34Go, Piotr.
00:10:36I know you will get your passport.
00:10:39You will not be humiliated.
00:10:41And this nobility you will sell in a week for three quarters of the price.
00:10:44You will not be in my care.
00:10:47Go, Piotr.
00:10:49And then we will escape even further.
00:10:53We will escape even further.
00:10:57I have never run away from anything.
00:11:00It is one thing I have for my merit before God and people.
00:11:04But in the end you have the right to run away from yourself.
00:11:07From this half-dead hero,
00:11:09whom nothing is waiting for him here.
00:11:11Too late.
00:11:12Why?
00:11:13It is too late for me.
00:11:15Here I was born.
00:11:18Here I made my revolution.
00:11:23And here I still have duties towards my homeland.
00:11:31You want to get to this lost cause.
00:11:36You are waiting for someone.
00:11:39You were surprised when you saw me.
00:11:44I have a bad feeling.
00:11:49What is your answer, Piotr?
00:11:52I don't know.
00:11:57Listen.
00:12:00In four days I will be with a passport and tickets for you.
00:12:06Make up your mind, Piotr.
00:12:10Mr. Colonel.
00:12:17Giler.
00:12:19Giler, Agaton, Giler.
00:12:21Nice guy.
00:12:23A Siberian friend.
00:12:25I am really honored, Mr. Colonel,
00:12:27that you have agreed to receive us.
00:12:30You know how close is the memory of your great deed to us.
00:12:34We came here from Siberia.
00:12:38Please allow me to introduce you to my distinguished colleague.
00:12:44And noble man...
00:12:46Please, Agaton.
00:12:48Mr. Colonel,
00:12:50I want to accept your kindness.
00:12:54I am Stefan Bobrowski, a member of the central committee,
00:12:57which now operates as a interim national government.
00:13:01Right.
00:13:03There is no reason to have any opinions.
00:13:05Yes, there is no reason to hide anything.
00:13:08I am a member of the secret government,
00:13:10and Bobrowski, after the unfortunate Krakow affair,
00:13:13is also known by the name of the authorities.
00:13:18Sit down, gentlemen.
00:13:20Sit down, please.
00:13:24Maybe a glass of wine?
00:13:27Here you are.
00:13:31Mr. and Mrs. Agaton?
00:13:33In the government?
00:13:35I am not hiding that I am surprised.
00:13:37I thought my secret letter would allow you to guess the truth.
00:13:40Letter?
00:13:41Gentlemen, here every one of my letters is read by a policeman,
00:13:44and the official is registering for a secret office.
00:13:48It's better not to write to me, gentlemen.
00:13:52Well, what else do you have?
00:13:54Secret?
00:13:56Because I heard about the Styletniks.
00:13:59You probably mean the National Gendarmerie.
00:14:02No, I am thinking about the Styletniks.
00:14:05I know one of the gendarmes in a tsarist uniform,
00:14:10and I don't need the other one.
00:14:12But you need him.
00:14:13He is a traitor, a salesman and a tsarist spy.
00:14:19Mr. Colonel,
00:14:22we have to tell you what is the saddest thing for us.
00:14:28The uprising had to explode.
00:14:30At the moment when Margravia announced the siege,
00:14:33thousands of young people were hiding in the woods.
00:14:37It would be a crime to try to stop them.
00:14:40For us, who understood it,
00:14:42it was our duty to take the reins in our hands.
00:14:46Yes.
00:14:48And do you hold the reins tight?
00:14:53I don't believe in the power that students,
00:14:56peasants and a burnt forehead have.
00:15:02Let's be honest, gentlemen.
00:15:05Youth makes this uprising.
00:15:09Youth will burn in it.
00:15:13The best blood will go to waste.
00:15:16And do you know why?
00:15:19Because there are no leaders,
00:15:22no plan, no authority.
00:15:24Unfortunately.
00:15:26At least that's what I think.
00:15:29Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth here.
00:15:31But everything can still be changed.
00:15:34And the authority will be with the government
00:15:36when the time comes.
00:15:38Mr. Bobrowski, present here,
00:15:40did not hesitate to put his name on the scale
00:15:43when the Krakow treaty had to be unmasked.
00:15:46He himself revealed the machinations of the Whites
00:15:49and brought the government back to power.
00:15:51And this is not due to a sense of duty
00:15:55or even a simple necessity.
00:15:58You are right, colonel.
00:16:00The government has no authority.
00:16:02And there is no talk of full power.
00:16:04But I believe, I believe
00:16:06that we can gain this authority
00:16:08by sacrifice in the field and by standing in the government.
00:16:11But this, this is still missing.
00:16:13The troops are dispersing right after crossing the cordon,
00:16:16although there is no desire to sacrifice.
00:16:18There is no desire.
00:16:20But the battles,
00:16:22the battles are being moved to offices and salons.
00:16:25I didn't want to talk about it,
00:16:27but I felt compelled.
00:16:30There is no lack of intrigue and quarrels.
00:16:32It's true.
00:16:36The divisions of our society are terrible.
00:16:39A terrible gap between classes.
00:16:42Our main goal,
00:16:44the goal of the government and the army
00:16:46is to bring to an agreement,
00:16:48to unify,
00:16:50to fill this gap.
00:16:52Or to deepen it even more.
00:16:54We think, many of us think
00:16:56to move forward without looking at others,
00:16:58until the land will be left alone
00:17:00with its unnecessary addresses
00:17:02to Margrave and the Tsar.
00:17:04Maybe then there will finally be an agreement.
00:17:06Because they will have nothing else left.
00:17:08Yes.
00:17:15Well...
00:17:19Let's have a drink, gentlemen.
00:17:27Colonel,
00:17:30I can see
00:17:32you don't support the uprising.
00:17:39We came here with a mission.
00:17:42Please listen to us.
00:17:45It will be difficult to reach an agreement between us.
00:17:48If we didn't know you as a Sybirian,
00:17:51the creator of November,
00:17:53a martyr of the national cause,
00:17:55we wouldn't be here.
00:17:57I don't think you lack significant personalities.
00:18:00You're making fun of me.
00:18:02I want to convince you
00:18:04that for this crazy youth
00:18:07who is now shedding blood in the forests,
00:18:10a more important authority than the political one,
00:18:13the blood shed for the good of the Fatherland,
00:18:16if you accuse them,
00:18:19it's our memory about you.
00:18:22If January is to be bad,
00:18:24it's November, which was the first.
00:18:27I think so, too.
00:18:29Sometimes, but...
00:18:31It's not up to you to judge me.
00:18:34But you have judged November.
00:18:38Gentlemen,
00:18:40the memory of the common victim is more important than the courts and the quarrels.
00:18:43It unites us.
00:18:46So,
00:18:48you're saying
00:18:51that those boys from the forest
00:18:54still remember November,
00:18:57my revolution
00:19:00and me?
00:19:03Yes.
00:19:05And me.
00:19:07But they don't just remember.
00:19:10They learned the Fatherland
00:19:13by your example.
00:19:15Like me, by Łukasiński's.
00:19:17The memory of the victims awakens the nation and revives it.
00:19:20Even a defeat bears fruit in the next generations.
00:19:23Łukasiński...
00:19:28Do you know, gentlemen,
00:19:30that when the whole of Warsaw celebrated the victory,
00:19:34when the crowd carried me on their shoulders
00:19:37on the streets of Warsaw,
00:19:39at that time,
00:19:41Konstanty was holding Łukasiński
00:19:44handcuffed in Belvedere,
00:19:46and then
00:19:48he was carrying him to Siberia,
00:19:50to Kibitka,
00:19:52to a long service in the fortress.
00:19:57I should have saved him.
00:20:01I didn't do it.
00:20:07I've sinned a lot.
00:20:10But now we are with you.
00:20:14We haven't forgotten.
00:20:16For thirty years in Siberia.
00:20:18Is it because I once stood at the head of the uprising,
00:20:20that I have to go to the end of my days
00:20:22with a raised saber and shout
00:20:24Poland, Poland, Poland?
00:20:27I'm too old for that.
00:20:29You know, we don't need a young Wysocki,
00:20:32but an old one.
00:20:34We have plenty of subordinates.
00:20:36Now we need people like you.
00:20:39Authorities, if you prefer.
00:20:41I don't have the strength.
00:20:44I don't even have a name.
00:20:46They took my name
00:20:48to wipe it off newspapers and couriers.
00:20:52Piotr Wysocki.
00:20:54Yes, Piotr Wysocki.
00:20:58Exactly, Piotr Wysocki.
00:21:01We need authorities,
00:21:03just like you needed them.
00:21:06Even you, kneeling before Chłopicki.
00:21:10I also knelt before Mochnacki
00:21:14to save Chłopicki.
00:21:16But we know your mistakes.
00:21:18And we won't repeat them anymore.
00:21:21Why do you need me?
00:21:28Mr. Colonel,
00:21:30on behalf of the National Government of Poland,
00:21:33which I represent here,
00:21:35I have the honor to propose to you
00:21:38to join the civil government
00:21:41and take its leadership
00:21:43as President of the Republic of Poland.
00:21:46I must say
00:21:48that I've learned a lot
00:21:50about your participation in the government,
00:21:52which you lead.
00:21:54You can soon focus
00:21:56on a significant part of society.
00:22:08I must admit I'm surprised.
00:22:14I thought that...
00:22:18that you wanted
00:22:21to make me a Commissar.
00:22:26Or maybe...
00:22:28give me a department.
00:22:34But President...
00:22:38No, gentlemen, I can't accept that.
00:22:40It's impossible.
00:22:42If it was a matter of honor,
00:22:44of duty, as it used to be,
00:22:46but in a movement I don't know,
00:22:48in a government with confused activists
00:22:50among intrigue and honesty...
00:22:52I believe that your authority
00:22:54will put an end to the dispute.
00:22:56Yes, but the government is a secret.
00:22:58If I believe you,
00:23:00it's not Bobrowski, not Giller,
00:23:02but the seal.
00:23:03And what difference does it make
00:23:04who's behind it, Giller or Wysocki?
00:23:06And that's what we want to end with.
00:23:08The government intends to reveal itself.
00:23:11That's why we need
00:23:13well-known people to be at its head.
00:23:15Reveal ourselves now
00:23:16when we don't know if we're being followed?
00:23:18No, of course not.
00:23:19It's impossible now.
00:23:20But when the partisans move in the spring
00:23:22and free a few towns,
00:23:24the time will come for the government to reveal itself
00:23:27and announce new universals.
00:23:29But that's just a dream, sir.
00:23:31What kind of government will it be?
00:23:33In a few towns or in Olwark?
00:23:35Who wants to listen to it?
00:23:37For you, every hundred rifles
00:23:39should be more valuable
00:23:41than a painted President.
00:23:43Even if he was painted, so what?
00:23:46And your November was painted.
00:23:49The Sejm, the National Army,
00:23:51generals and staff.
00:23:53And what's left?
00:23:55Blood and tears.
00:23:57The same as today.
00:23:59It's true, a fact
00:24:00that needs to be kept.
00:24:02And go to the loss
00:24:04with crazy youth.
00:24:07We can't go back now.
00:24:09Please believe me in deep respect
00:24:11and let's stay with it.
00:24:13Each with his own.
00:24:17But...
00:24:18Stefan, what are you doing?
00:24:20The conversation is not over yet.
00:24:22I understand that we have no right
00:24:24to demand sacrifices.
00:24:26It's not worth going back to Siberia
00:24:28at any cost.
00:24:29Maybe it's not worth
00:24:31going back to Siberia.
00:24:33Maybe it's not worth
00:24:35going back to Siberia.
00:24:39You are already so different,
00:24:41so...
00:24:44distant.
00:24:46But you suddenly seemed
00:24:48similar to us.
00:24:50I went to Arsenal the same way.
00:24:52It seemed to me
00:24:54that I have nothing to lose.
00:24:56If the uprising is a suicide,
00:25:00it's a flat existence
00:25:02in the semblance of freedom.
00:25:04Only its replacement.
00:25:06And yet you admit
00:25:08the uprising is a suicide.
00:25:10What again?
00:25:14Our situation is difficult.
00:25:16It's true.
00:25:18But there is hope for the help of France.
00:25:20The youth is armed.
00:25:22New commanders are arriving.
00:25:23Spring can change everything.
00:25:25And at the same time in our Calvary
00:25:27our own Parobek will cut our heads off.
00:25:29What are you talking about?
00:25:31That Napoleon,
00:25:33Garibaldi, or Chartoryski won't help us
00:25:35if our own people
00:25:37want to count us out of poverty.
00:25:39You asked me
00:25:41if the uprising is a suicide.
00:25:43And now I confess.
00:25:45I can hardly see a chance anymore.
00:25:47I have no hope.
00:25:49Because for whom is this forest soldier
00:25:51supposed to fight?
00:25:53He doesn't like the yard.
00:25:55He feels it himself
00:25:57and locks himself in a cell.
00:25:59And when he looks at the squad
00:26:01he leaves with a flower.
00:26:03Because the colonels of the order
00:26:05of the government
00:26:07defend the recruitment
00:26:09of this government
00:26:11which I am a member of.
00:26:13And which you called the painted one.
00:26:15Let there be an uprising
00:26:17which the nation divides.
00:26:19But it is divided.
00:26:21We will lose today.
00:26:23But maybe our defeat
00:26:25will open the eyes
00:26:27of the most oppressed
00:26:29to the values
00:26:31for which we shed blood.
00:26:33This uprising is cursed,
00:26:35isn't it?
00:26:37But if it wasn't for it...
00:26:41I can already see Poland
00:26:43in 200 years
00:26:45with a boy praying in Russian
00:26:47and waiting for the moment
00:26:49to shout
00:26:51to the Polish people
00:26:55and their dark residents.
00:26:59It is easier to dispel the darkness.
00:27:03If we can't
00:27:05stand up
00:27:07for independence for a hundred years
00:27:09because the majority of the society
00:27:11hates us
00:27:13maybe we don't have the right
00:27:15to lead.
00:27:17Maybe it is time
00:27:19to give a place to those
00:27:21who are also real Poles.
00:27:23I repeat.
00:27:25Let the peasantry
00:27:27roar
00:27:29if it has enough strength
00:27:31to roar the saboteurs.
00:27:33And you say that?
00:27:35You?
00:27:37A Pole.
00:27:39A nobleman and a Catholic.
00:27:41Yes, I am a Pole.
00:27:43I am a Catholic.
00:27:45And let there be peace.
00:27:47And that's why I have a special duty
00:27:49to defend the truth
00:27:51no matter how unpleasant it is
00:27:53for our Khrechkosians
00:27:55who still don't look
00:27:57a mile away from their own foliage.
00:27:59Even those with the pose
00:28:01of a heretic
00:28:03will look at your face.
00:28:05But what you mistakenly take for the truth
00:28:07may be yours
00:28:09in turn.
00:28:13The Khrechkosian
00:28:15still doesn't look a mile away.
00:28:17A nobleman
00:28:19is afraid of an uprising.
00:28:21And who the devil are
00:28:23the commanders of the larger units?
00:28:25Who finances the purchase of weapons?
00:28:27Who went to emigrate
00:28:29in November?
00:28:31Who went to Siberia?
00:28:33Here is the army
00:28:35of the Khrechkosians.
00:28:37Who was this Kościuszko?
00:28:39Lukasiński?
00:28:41Who is this Wysocki?
00:28:43Do you deny them the right of residence?
00:28:45Of course I do.
00:28:47I haven't finished yet.
00:28:49And what do you have on the other side?
00:28:51Who will you push out
00:28:53against them?
00:28:55This pious people?
00:28:57Unconscious nationalities?
00:28:59Free to anyone who can buy them?
00:29:01I haven't finished yet.
00:29:05Do you really want to help them?
00:29:09You had a positive program.
00:29:11So you had to set up schools,
00:29:13teach crafts,
00:29:15agricultural culture,
00:29:17and at least read and write.
00:29:19But there will be no uprising.
00:29:23And if there is an uprising,
00:29:25it will be without them.
00:29:27At least for them.
00:29:29You have finished.
00:29:31Then I will tell you one thing.
00:29:33A divided nation cannot win.
00:29:35But it also cannot last longer.
00:29:41It has to break.
00:29:43It has to change.
00:29:45Mochnacki.
00:29:51He speaks like Mochnacki.
00:29:55This villain
00:29:59has been following me for 30 years.
00:30:01He's coming back.
00:30:03He's still coming back.
00:30:05He's coming back.
00:30:09I have sinned.
00:30:11But I wanted to be pure.
00:30:15I lost.
00:30:19Although I could have won,
00:30:23I believed that I had to.
00:30:27I gave
00:30:31power to the generals,
00:30:33I watched
00:30:35with horror
00:30:39how they were changing
00:30:41the uprising into a small one.
00:30:43They quarreled
00:30:45and were afraid.
00:30:47Mochnacki
00:30:51was crazy.
00:30:53He was shouting
00:30:57that we had to arm the people of Warsaw,
00:30:59to announce
00:31:01a united movement,
00:31:03to chase Konstanty.
00:31:09I stopped
00:31:11Mochnacki.
00:31:17And now
00:31:21everything is the same.
00:31:25The same tsar.
00:31:29And even
00:31:31Konstanty, his brother.
00:31:35And these leaders
00:31:37are confused.
00:31:39And I'm still
00:31:41the same.
00:31:43I still have to choose.
00:31:45Like then.
00:31:49And you come to me
00:31:51like that whore.
00:31:53Like Mochnacki.
00:31:55You don't tell me
00:31:57what to do.
00:32:01And what do you want?
00:32:03Mr. Colonel, Mr. Piotr,
00:32:05please calm down.
00:32:07You are too concerned
00:32:09with our dispute.
00:32:11After all, we all,
00:32:13and Bobrowski, and you, and I,
00:32:15want the same.
00:32:17Forgive me, gentlemen.
00:32:19No, no, it's me.
00:32:21I ask for forgiveness.
00:32:23Disputing here and now
00:32:25was inappropriate, offensive for you.
00:32:27No, no, no, no.
00:32:29It's good.
00:32:31It's good that you were honest.
00:32:33Now...
00:32:35Now I know more about you.
00:32:39And who knows
00:32:41maybe about himself.
00:32:43I think it will be better
00:32:45if we leave you alone now.
00:32:47No, sir.
00:32:49Let him forgive and rest.
00:32:51No, gentlemen, no.
00:32:53Now I will stop you,
00:32:55even by force.
00:32:57Anyway, I did not respond
00:32:59to the government's proposal.
00:33:01And we still have to drink
00:33:03and eat something.
00:33:05Andrzej!
00:33:07Don't bother yourself.
00:33:09It's too late now.
00:33:11Sit down, gentlemen.
00:33:13Andrzej!
00:33:15Andrzej went to the market.
00:33:17What should I give him?
00:33:19Prepare something to eat.
00:33:21Gentlemen are on their way.
00:33:23They must be hungry.
00:33:25Gentlemen,
00:33:27you asked me for forgiveness.
00:33:29Now it's my turn.
00:33:31Please.
00:33:35I live here modestly.
00:33:39You can see that.
00:33:41I'm tired of today's conversation.
00:33:43It will be best if we leave you alone.
00:33:45No, gentlemen.
00:33:47You came here alone.
00:33:49A man becomes moldy.
00:33:51I will give you something to eat.
00:33:53And if there is not much,
00:33:55the colonel will forgive you.
00:33:57All right, my comrades.
00:33:59Let's drink.
00:34:03Well.
00:34:17Folwark.
00:34:19You know,
00:34:21it's from the earth.
00:34:23I didn't have the strength
00:34:25to process it.
00:34:27I took it as a marriage
00:34:29in the common kitchen.
00:34:31Folwark is not ugly.
00:34:33But this is not how
00:34:35the society should pay
00:34:37its heroes.
00:34:39Don't tell him about it.
00:34:41Tell him about Mochnacki.
00:34:43He suddenly saw me
00:34:45and...
00:34:47Indeed...
00:34:49I won't hide
00:34:51that Mochnacki is very close to me.
00:34:53But...
00:34:55what was radical for him
00:34:57seems to me an inevitable necessity.
00:34:59And you are probably right.
00:35:01But...
00:35:03I can't
00:35:05change it.
00:35:07I was born
00:35:09in another century.
00:35:11The world seemed
00:35:13cruel to me.
00:35:15But simple.
00:35:17Here was Poland.
00:35:19The nation.
00:35:21There was the tsar.
00:35:23A Russian.
00:35:25A mortal enemy.
00:35:27There was an army in the middle.
00:35:29Us.
00:35:31What I did
00:35:33was dictated by my heart and mind.
00:35:35And there was no contradiction in it.
00:35:37Although...
00:35:39I was leading a conspiracy
00:35:41and I swore an oath to the tsar.
00:35:45There was a higher
00:35:47divine right of attachment
00:35:49to the homeland.
00:35:51And yet...
00:35:53I didn't dare
00:35:55to raise my hand to Konstanty.
00:36:01And then...
00:36:03this freedom
00:36:05when it already existed
00:36:07turned out to be more difficult
00:36:09than slavery.
00:36:11Too difficult
00:36:13for my simple mind.
00:36:15And Mokhnadsky
00:36:17understood everything.
00:36:19Maybe more than you now.
00:36:21Today, many of us
00:36:23call upon him.
00:36:25Today?
00:36:27What about today?
00:36:31Today everything is different.
00:36:35I have been living in Poland
00:36:37but in this...
00:36:39your Poland
00:36:43I still don't understand it.
00:36:47It's a strange country.
00:36:51A country of some
00:36:53poor, frightened people
00:36:55who
00:36:57are more afraid of each other
00:36:59than of Knut and Siberia.
00:37:03They are afraid of the nobility.
00:37:07They are afraid of peasants,
00:37:09Jews, Mieszczans,
00:37:13all German officials
00:37:17and Polish officials.
00:37:21And Mar Grabia
00:37:23is also a Pole.
00:37:25After all...
00:37:29In our times, there were no
00:37:31Jews, sellers,
00:37:33commonly despised
00:37:35Everyone can be a secret tenant,
00:37:39a spy,
00:37:41a gendarme
00:37:43royal or national.
00:37:45And how to manage
00:37:47even a hidden government?
00:37:51How to fight?
00:37:53Against whom?
00:37:57What should this Poland be like?
00:38:01Because for me it has always been
00:38:03Poland.
00:38:05I don't understand the other one.
00:38:07They were shouting
00:38:09Poland, Poland.
00:38:13Like you, Mr. Wysocki,
00:38:15like us now.
00:38:17At some point,
00:38:19wanting to shout,
00:38:21they forgot the expression on their lips.
00:38:25Surely, however, God will admit to the sons.
00:38:27They kept shouting
00:38:29God,
00:38:31Fatherland.
00:38:33Then God
00:38:35from Mojżeszów
00:38:37showed himself to the bush,
00:38:39looked at those shouting
00:38:43and asked
00:38:45which one?
00:38:49Well, Mr. Agaton,
00:38:51I accept your proposal
00:38:53and I am ready to return
00:38:55to the service.
00:38:57I am very happy.
00:38:59Please send me a unit
00:39:01or a commissar.
00:39:03I will be honest, Mr. Colonel.
00:39:05I am not at all a supporter
00:39:07of the creation of a public government.
00:39:09It is a difficult matter
00:39:11and the effect is uncertain.
00:39:13But I say with confidence
00:39:15that you should join the government.
00:39:17Just you, blaming yourself
00:39:19for misunderstanding our case.
00:39:21You with your memory of another Poland,
00:39:23another soldier.
00:39:25Who knows, maybe soon it will be missing,
00:39:27but in your presence
00:39:29it may be difficult to lie to some.
00:39:31And why would you miss it?
00:39:33And why was Chłopicki chasing Mochnacki?
00:39:37And if the tsar's gendarme
00:39:39captures me, who knows,
00:39:41maybe the compatriots will send their own.
00:39:45Well, you decide, Mr. Colonel.
00:39:47No, gentlemen, where am I in Warsaw
00:39:49to which entry is strictly forbidden
00:39:51with some fake passport?
00:39:53I can't, I can't do that.
00:39:55The result will soon be revealed.
00:39:57And if it doesn't work,
00:39:59it can work on emigration,
00:40:01preferably in Switzerland.
00:40:03That's not what I meant.
00:40:05And you know, gentlemen,
00:40:07that this is the second proposal
00:40:09of going abroad today.
00:40:11Apparently I am not needed by anyone.
00:40:13You are very needed.
00:40:15Revolution.
00:40:17But the possibilities of operating
00:40:19in the country are modest.
00:40:21You would really give us great services
00:40:23You know, gentlemen,
00:40:25I have never been to the West.
00:40:29I know the East well, of course.
00:40:31Well, I think
00:40:33I understood
00:40:35your proposal.
00:40:37I can't answer now.
00:40:39Please come to me in a few days.
00:40:41I have to think it over thoroughly.
00:40:43Of course, I will.
00:40:53Thank you.
00:41:19Giller,
00:41:21I'm glad to see you.
00:41:23I've been waiting, I'm not hiding it.
00:41:25And I've been thinking about it
00:41:27for days as never before.
00:41:29So you agree with our proposal?
00:41:31Yes.
00:41:33But what am I
00:41:35supposed to do
00:41:37in Switzerland?
00:41:39To represent the interests of the country
00:41:41towards abroad.
00:41:43And what is it supposed to look like?
00:41:45Should I stand on the biggest square in Geneva
00:41:47and shout to the Commonwealth
00:41:49that it doesn't exist?
00:41:51Help the fighting nation, right?
00:41:53No, no.
00:41:55Please believe me.
00:41:57We want a strong
00:41:59and stable government
00:42:01that will eliminate
00:42:03counter-national activities
00:42:05in pursuit of unification.
00:42:07And where are we supposed
00:42:09to unify?
00:42:11In Switzerland?
00:42:13It's just a stage,
00:42:15necessary in pursuit of the ultimate goal.
00:42:17And what about you and Bobrowski?
00:42:19He would certainly understand my doubts.
00:42:21And who knows, maybe he would even convince me.
00:42:25Why are you silent?
00:42:27Let him speak.
00:42:33I am
00:42:35shaken by the message
00:42:37I left this morning.
00:42:43Bobrowski is dead.
00:42:47What?
00:42:51How did it happen?
00:42:53Actually, none of us knew where he was going.
00:42:55He asked the government
00:42:57for a short leave for private matters.
00:42:59Do you remember?
00:43:01He sensed something.
00:43:05So he didn't die in the fight.
00:43:09He was shot
00:43:11in a duel by Ravitch.
00:43:13In a duel?
00:43:15So he found time for private matters?
00:43:17Who dared to challenge him?
00:43:19I don't think he did it himself.
00:43:21Of course not.
00:43:25Mr. Piotr,
00:43:27this is a heavy burden on my heart,
00:43:29because I am also a little guilty.
00:43:31You?
00:43:33On the first message
00:43:35about declaring a dictatorship,
00:43:37Bobrowski went to Krakow
00:43:39to save the situation.
00:43:41When he found out about
00:43:43the re-administration
00:43:45of the government,
00:43:47he unmasked
00:43:49Count Grabowski,
00:43:51who played a double role in the intrigue.
00:43:53And then Grabowski challenged him?
00:43:55I understand,
00:43:57but he didn't have to
00:43:59accept challenges from
00:44:01Schalbier and the intruder.
00:44:03No, no, it wasn't like that.
00:44:05You see, Mr. Grabowski
00:44:07had some powers
00:44:09from some members of the government.
00:44:11Some people gave him
00:44:13a free hand for his actions.
00:44:15You see, it's a revolution,
00:44:17a fight for power.
00:44:19Whites are running away to all methods.
00:44:21If Grabowski had any powers,
00:44:23it's illegal,
00:44:25without cover.
00:44:27Grabowski's compromise
00:44:29would compromise the whole government.
00:44:31You see,
00:44:33the government is secret.
00:44:35So he devoted himself to the cause.
00:44:37He didn't want to compromise
00:44:39other members of the government,
00:44:41even if they were unloyal,
00:44:43didn't he?
00:44:45Yes, that's what it looked like.
00:44:47But...
00:44:49But Grabowski didn't see anything
00:44:51for three meters,
00:44:53not even in his glasses.
00:44:55It wasn't a fight,
00:44:57it was a murder in broad daylight.
00:44:59And you let it happen?
00:45:01You and other members of the government,
00:45:03how could you play in salons during the revolution?
00:45:05I swear to you,
00:45:07I didn't know anything about Krakowski's plan.
00:45:11God, aren't there enough people shooting?
00:45:13But you knew about the fight.
00:45:15But I didn't know
00:45:17there was a plot behind it,
00:45:19that the Whites wanted to kill him.
00:45:29Listen, Giler,
00:45:35I understand you better than you think.
00:45:37Listen,
00:45:39now, after the death
00:45:41of Bobrowski,
00:45:43someone has to lead it all.
00:45:45Who will it be?
00:45:49The government is now rebuilding itself.
00:45:51And I was mainly assigned this mission.
00:45:53Of course,
00:45:55otherwise you wouldn't be with me.
00:45:57Believe me,
00:45:59the death of Bobrowski is a blow for all of us,
00:46:01as well as for me,
00:46:03but the government is rising,
00:46:05I mean, you are raising it.
00:46:07I serve as best I can.
00:46:09But you are creating a new government,
00:46:11different than before.
00:46:13And I'm supposed to be its president
00:46:15after the death of Bobrowski.
00:46:17But he himself persuaded you to do it.
00:46:19And he persuaded, it's true.
00:46:21He persuaded, not Mr. Frazes.
00:46:23I thought I would work with someone like him,
00:46:25and meanwhile I would be in the government
00:46:27with only the Krasomowcy.
00:46:29You will be in Switzerland anyway,
00:46:31and you will get the best from our group.
00:46:33Even you?
00:46:35Well, I'm afraid it's impossible.
00:46:37I have to stay in Warsaw as a member
00:46:39of the longest-serving government.
00:46:41So we will rule in two, you in Poland,
00:46:43and I in Switzerland.
00:46:45Not alone, and not always.
00:46:47But you will rule the revolution,
00:46:49and I will be your secretary, right?
00:46:51It's a temporary situation.
00:46:53As soon as we liberate a piece of the country,
00:46:55you will actually start ruling.
00:46:57Listen, Hitler,
00:46:59better than you think, tell me,
00:47:03was Grabowski's authority
00:47:05also from you, right?
00:47:09After all, it was you who wanted the unification.
00:47:13It was you who convinced the Whites
00:47:15that the revolution needed
00:47:17a strong dictator's hand
00:47:19at all costs.
00:47:21After all, it was you
00:47:23who Bobrowski defended
00:47:25with his silence, right?
00:47:29Well?
00:47:31And what of it?
00:47:35Bobrowski
00:47:37knew very well
00:47:39that he had lost.
00:47:43He wanted a social revolution,
00:47:45one that would come from the bottom,
00:47:47from the squatters, from the factories.
00:47:49He was afraid he would not be released,
00:47:51no matter how smart he was.
00:47:53He wanted to divide the nation even more,
00:47:55while I
00:47:57wanted to save him.
00:47:59A nation
00:48:01that does not exist now,
00:48:03because it is so torn apart
00:48:05by class contradictory aspirations.
00:48:07One day,
00:48:09this war will come,
00:48:11which Mickiewicz has already prayed for.
00:48:13A universal war for the freedom of the people.
00:48:15And then the Poles must
00:48:17stand in one row,
00:48:19and not alone,
00:48:21because with them Lithuanians, Russians, Jews,
00:48:23all the inhabitants of the Commonwealth,
00:48:25it is a bigger idea
00:48:27than a man's free play.
00:48:29Bobrowski was crazy.
00:48:31This whole revolution is crazy,
00:48:33because there is almost no chance,
00:48:35but on the occasion of this revolution
00:48:37you can make a policy,
00:48:39and it is more effective
00:48:41than romantic incitements.
00:48:43And I am making this policy,
00:48:45Mr. Piotr.
00:48:47We will do it together.
00:48:49Bobrowski
00:48:51wanted to win
00:48:53the whole war
00:48:55with scythes.
00:48:57And yes,
00:48:59he was right a lot,
00:49:01but it was a dangerous,
00:49:03terrible and stupid reason.
00:49:05Because, you know,
00:49:07what is the only war
00:49:09that can always be started
00:49:11in Poland right away?
00:49:13A civil war.
00:49:15One that will be played
00:49:17with scythes.
00:49:19But I don't want such a war.
00:49:21And I am afraid of its terrible victory.
00:49:23So don't be afraid of the opinion.
00:49:25You are all shaking
00:49:27in fear
00:49:29in front of the eye of the scythe
00:49:31that is still
00:49:33rusting under the flood.
00:49:35Mr. Piotr,
00:49:37at our first visit
00:49:39you compared Bobrowski
00:49:41with Mochnacki,
00:49:43and rightly so,
00:49:45but we need a completely new
00:49:47activist, a politician.
00:49:49You probably don't need
00:49:51a high-ranking one either.
00:49:53That's good,
00:49:55somehow I feel less and less like it.
00:49:57I am talking to you very honestly,
00:49:59because I understand that your access to the uprising
00:50:01is already decided.
00:50:03This is putting me in a forced situation.
00:50:05This is proof of how much we need you.
00:50:07I was honest, more than I should.
00:50:09I am glad, because I understand
00:50:11that this rarely happens to you,
00:50:13maybe more than it happens to the host.
00:50:19When you both came here with Bobrowski,
00:50:23I reluctantly accepted you.
00:50:25Well, it's easy to take care of old wounds and injuries
00:50:27in such a crowd.
00:50:31Few people remembered me during these years.
00:50:35You told me to forget about myself
00:50:37and think about Poland again,
00:50:39as before.
00:50:43Of course.
00:50:45I was never afraid of death,
00:50:47but I am already so old
00:50:49and so much behind me,
00:50:51that I don't care
00:50:53how and where
00:50:55I will lay my bones.
00:50:59If God Almighty gave me
00:51:01such a death
00:51:03as Sowiński's,
00:51:05I would never hesitate.
00:51:09But to die with a stiletto
00:51:11in my back,
00:51:13stabbed by my compatriots,
00:51:17my honor doesn't allow me to do that.
00:51:23And when I was convinced,
00:51:27when I believed,
00:51:31you want to send me to Switzerland.
00:51:35You want to deceive me
00:51:37with the government.
00:51:39You want to make me a puppet,
00:51:41a paravan for your intrigues.
00:51:45Do you think I didn't understand it right away?
00:51:49All you need is my name, my fame,
00:51:51nothing more.
00:51:53A signature on a script, arguments, discussions.
00:51:55And even if so,
00:51:57you can't accuse me of disloyalty,
00:51:59because from the beginning I make things clear.
00:52:01I am impartial, it's true.
00:52:05I try not to be moved,
00:52:07but my intentions are pure.
00:52:09Moved?
00:52:13And you know
00:52:15how romantic I was
00:52:17in November.
00:52:21Moved...
00:52:25We had our heads full of poetry
00:52:27and it seemed to us
00:52:29that in one night
00:52:31we would overthrow the whole of Europe.
00:52:33I knew I had to defend myself
00:52:35against melancholy,
00:52:37that I had to
00:52:39tame my sensitivity
00:52:41to the military coat,
00:52:43to the gunpowder.
00:52:45And you know why?
00:52:53To grow in strength.
00:52:57To be only what
00:52:59I called myself.
00:53:01A tool of the nation
00:53:03and of the people.
00:53:05And I was...
00:53:07God was my witness.
00:53:09I was...
00:53:11without a reward,
00:53:13without an order,
00:53:15without the memory of my countrymen.
00:53:19I was...
00:53:23through November,
00:53:25through war,
00:53:27through Siberia,
00:53:29until I became a half-man
00:53:31and I didn't know if I was alive,
00:53:33if I was just a phenomenon of lithography.
00:53:35And I returned to Poland
00:53:37strong
00:53:39and I waited
00:53:41five more years.
00:53:47And those five years
00:53:51were too long,
00:53:53too long of a struggle,
00:53:57of calmness,
00:53:59of small matters
00:54:01and long days.
00:54:05I waited
00:54:09and I'm not strong anymore.
00:54:13God, forgive me
00:54:15this laziness.
00:54:17I'm not strong.
00:54:23And that's why
00:54:25for my fear,
00:54:29for my defeat,
00:54:33I wanted to go
00:54:35with you.
00:54:37I wanted to hear
00:54:39in your calling
00:54:41the voice of the living Fatherland.
00:54:45But you're lying.
00:54:49You wanted to enslave me by the government,
00:54:51by the president,
00:54:53by emigration
00:54:55and Swiss bread.
00:54:59But you didn't think
00:55:01that I, in Warsaw,
00:55:03will always be a Pole.
00:55:07And just as I'm weak
00:55:09because I'm alone,
00:55:11I'm strong because I'm free.
00:55:15And just as I remained a Pole,
00:55:17I won't remain a president.
00:55:19My loyalty to Poland
00:55:21is my loyalty to myself.
00:55:23I've had enough of your weakness.
00:55:25Without a way out
00:55:27and hope,
00:55:29this uncertainty,
00:55:31hesitation and caution.
00:55:33And what are you doing better?
00:55:35You're playing with fire
00:55:37by yourself, not climbing into it.
00:55:39But I can't do anything.
00:55:41Don't you understand that, Colonel?
00:55:45I can't extend the uprising
00:55:47or finish it.
00:55:49And I won't be crazy
00:55:51like the Reds.
00:55:53I'm a politician.
00:55:55And that means I have to defend
00:55:57those who can be saved from the fire.
00:55:59And what else can you defend
00:56:01with your dirty hands?
00:56:03What will be common in the future.
00:56:05What is good for the Whites
00:56:07and what is not good for the Reds.
00:56:09You know what?
00:56:11For me, the Whites are gauze
00:56:13and the Reds are feathers.
00:56:15And Poland is white-red
00:56:17and it's not worth fighting for art.
00:56:19And as long as you're going to
00:56:21divide and tear it apart,
00:56:23it's not even worth dying for it.
00:56:27And why are you still standing here?
00:56:29Go away!
00:56:33Go away!
00:56:35And don't come back again.
00:56:37You're forgetting
00:56:39that I'm not his opponent.
00:56:41Get out!
00:56:47Get out!
00:56:59Did you hear that?
00:57:01You spoke very loudly.
00:57:05Show me your passport.
00:57:09I...
00:57:11I don't have
00:57:13Piotr yet, but I will.
00:57:15If you have it,
00:57:17we can leave
00:57:19tomorrow if you want.
00:57:25Why are you silent, Piotr?
00:57:27You know
00:57:29I'm not leaving.
00:57:33Yes, I know.
00:57:39But we don't have to
00:57:41leave for Switzerland.
00:57:43You don't even have to leave Warka.
00:57:47Just let me stay here.
00:57:51Let me live with you.
00:57:55It's too late.
00:57:57It's been 30 years.
00:58:01It's been a month, a day.
00:58:05I have nothing left,
00:58:07so I have nothing to share
00:58:09with you.
00:58:13I wanted
00:58:15a little bit of dignity,
00:58:17a little bit of honor
00:58:19in my abandonment.
00:58:21But it wasn't given to me.
00:58:25Because who am I today?
00:58:27Who am I with?
00:58:31Not with strangers,
00:58:33but also not with my own.
00:58:37Not with the court,
00:58:39but also not with those
00:58:41who I can't be with,
00:58:43even with my friends.
00:58:47I don't want to.
00:58:51And if
00:58:53I can't be
00:58:55with the government,
00:58:59probably also with the nation,
00:59:03how could I be with you?
00:59:11I have a national need
00:59:13and I feel ashamed
00:59:15of this war
00:59:17and of myself
00:59:19that I don't want to put my head in it,
00:59:21and I don't want to,
00:59:23because it's alien to me,
00:59:25and at the same time I regret it.
00:59:27Well, what can I do?
00:59:31I was left alone
00:59:33and I was left alone
00:59:35in myself.
00:59:37There won't be a wedding,
00:59:39in Switzerland,
00:59:43I won't die like Sowiński.
00:59:47Here is my heritage,
00:59:51my god,
00:59:53so that I could pray to him,
00:59:55my books,
00:59:57because I haven't forgotten
00:59:59to read yet,
01:00:01my saber.
01:00:03I haven't forgotten
01:00:05my saber.
01:00:09Not much,
01:00:13very little,
01:00:17but it's mine.
01:00:19I have to stay here
01:00:23alone,
01:00:25even if I lose
01:00:27once again,
01:00:29and it will be
01:00:33for sure.
01:00:39I'll go now.
01:00:45Yes,
01:00:49it will be
01:00:51the best.
01:00:59Thank you.
01:01:59I'll go now.
01:02:29I'll go now.
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