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00:00:00Music
00:00:20The year is 1884.
00:00:2313 years have passed since the French-Prussian war.
00:00:27France has been defeated.
00:00:29In January 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed
00:00:34and the Prussian king was declared emperor.
00:00:37Otto von Bismarck became the head of the government of the United Germans.
00:00:42In internal politics, the chancellor develops actions to consolidate his society
00:00:47and limit the influence of the Catholic Church,
00:00:50commonly known as the Kulturkampf.
00:00:53Therefore, there is a decisive fight against Polishness,
00:00:56led by all means, mainly economic ones.
00:00:59Polish families are more and more difficult to resist the Prussian hostility.
00:01:04Franciszek Pasternik wants to build a forge.
00:01:10Agnieszka is losing her health.
00:01:15Her grandfather is still healthy, although his strength is diminishing.
00:01:19The Pasterniks' family is getting smaller and smaller.
00:01:22Their daughters, Marysia and Adwisa, got married and moved to the city.
00:01:26During the war, Jan Pasternik was imprisoned in France.
00:01:29After the war, he stayed in France and got married there.
00:01:34Theodor went to the forestry service in Germany.
00:01:38Only Anna and Kazimierz Borucki built a forge in Wielowice.
00:01:43They have two children.
00:01:47Only Stalik stayed at home.
00:01:50His father got the Kowalskie qualifications.
00:01:54Jerzy, or rather Georg Porwol,
00:01:57had already completely connected with the local Germans.
00:02:00He was deported.
00:02:47The Polish-German War
00:02:52The Polish-German War
00:02:57The Polish-German War
00:03:02Everything our parish priest just told us...
00:03:07Oh no, Mr. Pasternik, please speak in German.
00:03:10This is not a Polish meeting.
00:03:12Either you speak in German or not at all.
00:03:15They all speak Polish better.
00:03:20Not all of them.
00:03:23All right.
00:03:26Everything our parish priest just told us is a big lie.
00:03:34Silence, gentlemen! Silence!
00:03:39We remember well how it was during the times of the Kampf culture.
00:03:49The old parish priest shouted from Ambon
00:03:53that our children were to study in school for three years in Polish.
00:03:59Do you know why?
00:04:02Because the Bismarck followed them.
00:04:05And that was harsh.
00:04:08Now he's reconciled with them.
00:04:11Now the priest doesn't need us anymore.
00:04:14Now he's reconciled with them.
00:04:17Now he's reconciled with them.
00:04:20Now he's reconciled with them.
00:04:23Now he's reconciled with them.
00:04:26Now the priest doesn't need us anymore.
00:04:29Now they're calling from Ambon to vote for the centre.
00:04:34That will be good for us.
00:04:37Now our parish priest is telling us from Ambon
00:04:42that Bismarck is the brother-in-law of God.
00:04:46And the brother-in-law of Bismarck has the Poles somewhere.
00:04:56Don't listen to him. He's an antichrist.
00:05:01A priest is supposed to be a priest at the altar, at the confessional.
00:05:06If the priests interfere with politics,
00:05:10there will be no politics,
00:05:13and there will be no God.
00:05:19Where was the centre
00:05:22when the children were taken back their mother tongue?
00:05:25Where was the centre when the Reichstag passed laws against Poles?
00:05:32And now they want our votes.
00:05:35Us, who mostly speak and pray in Polish?
00:05:41Let us not be led like these scum.
00:05:46Let us not vote for the centre.
00:05:50Let us vote for our Polish list.
00:06:09Theodor has come. She too.
00:06:12What for?
00:06:15Is he a son-in-law now?
00:06:19He's not our son. It's our shame.
00:06:22Jesus, what are you saying?
00:06:25What are you saying?
00:06:28When you will have your own children...
00:06:31I won't.
00:06:33He's not my son.
00:06:35He's a scoundrel.
00:06:38You're the same.
00:06:41The world has fallen before him, but he doesn't see the world of God.
00:06:45Beware of the Father and the Mother, because this bitch will do him in.
00:06:49Franzech, what are you saying?
00:06:51You sent him there yourself.
00:06:53I did.
00:06:55But I didn't send him there to learn from a forester.
00:06:58I sent him to learn from Nagaj,
00:07:00so that the Germans wouldn't be in our forests.
00:07:02And what about him?
00:07:12Good day.
00:07:14Guten Tag, Father.
00:07:17There's no Guten Tag here.
00:07:19It's a good day.
00:07:21She won't understand anyway.
00:07:23Then let her learn how to live with us.
00:07:26She will live with me.
00:07:28She told you so.
00:07:30Either her, or me.
00:07:32You've chosen.
00:07:34Go with her. You have nothing to look for in the hut.
00:07:37Go with her.
00:07:39Fathers have always blessed their children.
00:07:44Children.
00:07:46Blessed.
00:07:48You understand?
00:07:50Children.
00:07:53I don't wish you ill,
00:07:56but you'll pay dearly for this hardness of yours.
00:08:02Come, Gerdchen.
00:08:10Why are you like this?
00:08:12What do you mean?
00:08:14Because of that German woman, my son has gone mad.
00:08:17And what about you?
00:08:20Mr. Kleinpeter, how can we vote?
00:08:23I don't know, sir, what to say,
00:08:26that it was good.
00:08:28Maybe one more Korn.
00:08:30Korn will accept.
00:08:32One Korn won't explain the election in his head.
00:09:01What is my certificate?
00:09:06I don't want it.
00:09:10I don't want it.
00:09:15Your certificate.
00:09:20Michal Kavleta.
00:09:24Eugenio Szymanowski.
00:09:28Aleks Valocha.
00:09:37Gentlemen, we lost.
00:09:39We got fewer mandates than we had before.
00:09:43It's a defeat.
00:09:45Not only in our Vielovice, Mr. Baron.
00:09:48It doesn't justify us.
00:09:53Why did it happen?
00:09:55It's that Polish king.
00:09:58And he's the one who caused our defeat?
00:10:02Agitator.
00:10:05He agitated, he persuaded.
00:10:08And we fell asleep.
00:10:11We believed that the victory would come on its own.
00:10:16We forgot that there was a fierce fight here.
00:10:20Pasternik must be appeased.
00:10:23Now?
00:10:25The world doesn't end with these elections, Mr. Baron.
00:10:29There will be more.
00:10:31And now we must think about them.
00:10:37Kowal must finally be cut off.
00:10:42I see it this way.
00:10:46Pasternik should still act in his own style.
00:10:53He shouldn't agitate for the Polish language,
00:10:56for the Polish people.
00:10:58He shouldn't be disturbed.
00:11:02Let Chancellor Bismarck see that on this land
00:11:05a greater danger is the awareness of Polishness
00:11:09than the Church.
00:11:15This Kowal must feel on his own skin
00:11:18that being a Pole is very burdensome.
00:11:22They call him the Polish king.
00:11:25This must end.
00:11:29He should be a Polish grandfather.
00:11:42You haven't been here for a long time.
00:11:45There was no need.
00:11:49And now there is?
00:11:51Yes.
00:11:52Did you apply for permission to expand the smithy?
00:11:58Yes.
00:12:01I must inspect your smithy.
00:12:06What is there to see?
00:12:08You see it's cramped.
00:12:14There is room for expansion.
00:12:17There is enough room to expand the smithy.
00:12:22Mr. Pasternik, you are 65 years old.
00:12:26What do you want?
00:12:28I have sons.
00:12:30Theodor is gay.
00:12:32I don't think he would want to come to the smithy.
00:12:35Only the youngest is left.
00:12:37The government must know
00:12:39if there is a chance to maintain the smithy
00:12:41or if it will remain idle.
00:12:43The matter is simple.
00:12:46I applied for permission to expand the smithy on my own land.
00:12:50I demand an answer from you.
00:12:53You will get it.
00:12:56Our authorities work conscientiously.
00:13:00Why do you want to expand it?
00:13:03There is enough room for the smithy.
00:13:08Do you know this, Mr. Bachmister?
00:13:11I must know everything.
00:13:14I must be in the film.
00:13:16Goodbye, Mr. Pasternik.
00:13:19I will have a cow tomorrow.
00:13:21You can come, Mr. Bachmister.
00:13:28What if they don't give me permission?
00:13:31They must.
00:13:50Honek!
00:13:52Mother!
00:13:56Son!
00:13:58It's been so long.
00:14:01Don't cry.
00:14:03They'll leave in a moment.
00:14:07Why didn't you write?
00:14:09I would have burned you alive.
00:14:12And your Kay?
00:14:14She is proud of her children.
00:14:18I have beautiful children.
00:14:21I will show them to you later.
00:14:24I have a nine-year-old son.
00:14:27I have only two sons.
00:14:31You should have brought them all.
00:14:34It costs money.
00:14:37My Annette is a good wife.
00:14:40She is a good housewife.
00:14:43She told me to go there.
00:14:46A wife?
00:14:48What does that mean?
00:14:50In French, Honek.
00:14:54A wife.
00:14:56Yes.
00:14:58You will go back.
00:15:03I have to.
00:15:05A wife and children.
00:15:07You know how it is.
00:15:10Father.
00:15:16Good morning.
00:15:28Good morning.
00:15:30Good morning.
00:15:49Get up.
00:15:51Come with me.
00:15:55Say hello.
00:15:58He is your brother.
00:16:01Don't you recognize him?
00:16:04You were seven when he went to war.
00:16:07He stayed there, Kay.
00:16:09He eats frogs for lunch,
00:16:11and slugs for compote.
00:16:14You know a lot about France.
00:16:17I haven't seen a frog on the terrace for years.
00:16:22Are you in the army?
00:16:25Yes.
00:16:27I serve in the trade.
00:16:32I want to go further.
00:16:34I won't cry for you.
00:16:39Father is a liar.
00:16:41What is a liar?
00:16:44He can curse everyone
00:16:48that he came after 15 years
00:16:52that he went to war
00:16:55and stayed there.
00:16:58That he wrote the first letter to the French
00:17:03two years after the war.
00:17:07And what about him?
00:17:09Everything has to fall apart.
00:17:11Everything has to go to hell.
00:17:14The Germans have to come here.
00:17:16We don't have Bayerock anymore.
00:17:19He founded a registry office.
00:17:22There are Germans in the police station,
00:17:24in the commune, in the office.
00:17:26There are a lot of them everywhere.
00:17:28And what about us?
00:17:30All over the world.
00:17:32They have to come here.
00:17:37Everyone belongs here.
00:17:41This is a place for decent life.
00:17:45Father,
00:17:47you can live anywhere.
00:17:49And who benefits from this?
00:17:52The judges.
00:17:54Not our people.
00:17:59Thank you for the beautiful welcome.
00:18:04We don't have a trial before you.
00:18:08We didn't order an orchestra.
00:18:17He won't be different.
00:18:22I wanted to come here sooner,
00:18:24but I was afraid.
00:18:26You can believe me,
00:18:28but I was afraid of his old horse.
00:18:31I knew that when he came,
00:18:33he would take me away.
00:18:35You didn't make a mistake.
00:18:38Here.
00:18:40The latest fashion pins.
00:18:46Thank you, Hanna.
00:18:50Seven eggs on a smoker.
00:18:53Motel eggs are a waste.
00:18:57And this is for you.
00:19:05Beautiful.
00:19:08Beautiful.
00:19:11But eat, eat, son.
00:19:14And this is for father.
00:19:24Tell me what you have here.
00:19:28Nothing special, son.
00:19:32Hanna has built herself up.
00:19:36She is as good as her father.
00:19:41They built a beautiful house.
00:19:44Kazik is fine.
00:19:48Jadwiga married Erika.
00:19:54She lives in Szopienice.
00:19:58She married a man.
00:20:00He got a job in a farm.
00:20:06Kazik went to fight Brandysa.
00:20:11They went to Wałbrzych.
00:20:15Teodor is in the forest.
00:20:19Stanik Boroczek is in the prison.
00:20:23But I won't stay alone.
00:20:26Yes, Godosz.
00:20:28Who can stay?
00:20:32Paweł Nieboszczyk.
00:20:35Let him rest in peace.
00:20:39He had a wife in prison.
00:20:44But well...
00:20:46Eat.
00:20:48Very good.
00:21:00You won't stay here for sure?
00:21:02No.
00:21:04You've been to our village in Szopienice.
00:21:07Life is different there.
00:21:09It stinks of horse hooves here.
00:21:12And there, after work, you can walk in a white suit.
00:21:17My mother looks bad.
00:21:19Are you surprised?
00:21:21Everything is falling apart.
00:21:23Everyone is running away.
00:21:25And father wants to rebuild it.
00:21:27He won't let it go.
00:21:29That's how I remember him.
00:21:31Who needs it?
00:21:33You?
00:21:34Or them?
00:21:36And father...
00:21:38He hasn't even been to Anna's wedding.
00:21:41He didn't buy a bouquet for his grandson.
00:21:44And Anna was...
00:21:46the best.
00:21:49Before they built it,
00:21:51they had to look for rooms like the last old men.
00:21:54And there are enough places here.
00:21:58Today they are on their own.
00:22:01Kazik.
00:22:02Kazik, he can stay here.
00:22:04In this shepherd's house.
00:22:06Not in the manor house.
00:22:09Father doesn't even want to hear about it.
00:22:13But mother has more to say here, doesn't she?
00:22:16You don't know your mother.
00:22:18She wants her consent.
00:22:27Welcome, grandfather.
00:22:31What?
00:22:33You're sleeping.
00:22:35I am.
00:22:36You don't know who I am?
00:22:38You can report first.
00:22:42Who is the eldest here?
00:22:45But he didn't want to wake you up.
00:22:48That's why I brought you very good medicine.
00:22:55Mocie.
00:22:59You...
00:23:01You millionaire.
00:23:05Stop it.
00:23:07Stop it.
00:23:08This is a horse.
00:23:10Me?
00:23:11The best they have in France?
00:23:14We'll see.
00:23:17Stanik.
00:23:25Well...
00:23:28And you, Hanek.
00:23:32By train.
00:23:34By train.
00:23:38It's worth it, isn't it?
00:23:40Very worth it.
00:23:56You can be my doctor.
00:24:10Gentlemen, I have a very important matter to discuss.
00:24:16There is a chance to get rid of Koval.
00:24:21As a baron, I can imagine getting rid of him.
00:24:25Why are you so nervous?
00:24:27It's not about physical liquidation.
00:24:31I talked to Baron von Felsen, who had a similar case with the miller,
00:24:36and he cured him.
00:24:38You have to go to the headquarters, discuss the case.
00:24:45I suggest that Mr. Neureiter take care of it.
00:24:51Why me?
00:24:54Because someone has to do it.
00:24:56Secondly, you are the head of the school and the miller.
00:24:59Your trips to the headquarters will not arouse suspicion.
00:25:03Gentlemen, the miller is clever and stubborn.
00:25:07He cannot be frightened so easily.
00:25:12Do you want to say that we should leave him alone?
00:25:17I only warn you.
00:25:19You cannot frighten him at all.
00:25:22Why?
00:25:23He makes so much noise that we can't gather.
00:25:26I will write to the Catholic.
00:25:28All Polish deputies to the Reichstag will be notified.
00:25:31It should be a blow from the place of impact.
00:25:36Our paths do not cross.
00:25:39We meet once a year at my father's grave.
00:25:44But my mother comes here.
00:25:46She always brings something to the children.
00:25:49I haven't been home for 14 years.
00:25:53He is against everything that is against his will.
00:25:56Whether it is Bismarck or his own child.
00:26:00But he is needed here.
00:26:02He sows unrest.
00:26:06He tells people, for example,
00:26:08that the priest, spoken in German, serves the devil.
00:26:12They are afraid of something like that.
00:26:14It purifies their conscience.
00:26:16Kazik would follow his father to the end of the world.
00:26:19And you?
00:26:23Being kicked out of the house is not forgotten.
00:26:28He didn't kick me out,
00:26:30but I think he would rather I didn't come here.
00:26:33You must understand him.
00:26:35To be here, to live here,
00:26:38is his basic wisdom.
00:26:40And he's right.
00:26:42You have no idea how many Saxons,
00:26:44Schwabs, Prussians and others settle here.
00:26:48They get cheap loans, aid, all kinds of relief.
00:26:53Only people like my father are able to save this land.
00:26:57I am a stranger here.
00:27:00But I know that Poland is here.
00:27:03Kazik, what about Poland?
00:27:06It's not on the map,
00:27:08but it's everywhere.
00:27:10Here in the North,
00:27:12you hear more Polish than French.
00:27:15People go to America.
00:27:18Poland is everywhere.
00:27:20Yes, but here it is less and less.
00:27:24You see, my children have to learn German.
00:27:27And I don't even have the right
00:27:29to be a father to them.
00:27:32I am still a stranger here.
00:27:35That's why I respect my father.
00:27:37And I often forget him.
00:27:39Yes, he is sometimes rough.
00:27:42But you can't be soft in a fight.
00:27:45Birds die.
00:27:50Two beers.
00:28:00Hans and Gates.
00:28:15A Frenchman, a Pole.
00:28:18It's beautiful.
00:28:20And a brother is nothing, right?
00:28:23I heard you're ashamed to speak our language.
00:28:26We wouldn't talk to you.
00:28:28Hanek, Hanek.
00:28:30Don't you see what's going on in the world?
00:28:33We have colonies in Africa and even further.
00:28:37Germans are known all over the world.
00:28:41It's always the same with Flint.
00:28:44I have to chase those scoundrels.
00:28:47You have no idea how many there are here.
00:28:50The border is close.
00:28:52And they have the poor, the cattle and the typhus.
00:28:56They come here to steal.
00:28:59You could go to them.
00:29:01You don't have to go to them.
00:29:03It's my business, Kaj Mieszko.
00:29:06You've changed it for your hoof.
00:29:10I like this hoof.
00:29:13If I have nothing more to say,
00:29:16then goodbye.
00:29:19I want to tell you something.
00:29:24Józef and his father are at odds.
00:29:27It will stay that way.
00:29:29He knows what's his and what's his.
00:29:31But it's always his father.
00:29:33Tell him to calm down.
00:29:36Don't let him write.
00:29:38Pierańsko will get in the way.
00:29:40Why don't you tell him?
00:29:42He won't talk to me.
00:29:44People, something happened to you.
00:29:47What happened?
00:29:49Some went this way, some went that way.
00:29:52Pioran will run away from here.
00:29:54You will follow him.
00:30:04What happened to him?
00:30:07He married the daughter of a forester.
00:30:10A German.
00:30:13And he's lost.
00:30:15You don't need much for that.
00:30:18People, people, how do you live here?
00:30:22As usual.
00:30:24Like on the border.
00:30:31What's wrong with me?
00:30:34Nothing.
00:30:37It will pass.
00:30:40I drank cold water
00:30:43and it got on my chest.
00:30:46You have to respect each other.
00:30:49I'm going to Sosnowiec to see Antek.
00:30:52Where's your husband's address?
00:30:54Antek found me at the Red Cross.
00:30:57We write to each other.
00:31:00I'll tell you something,
00:31:03but don't tell anyone.
00:31:06I was with Antek too.
00:31:10Anna gave me his address.
00:31:13We write to each other.
00:31:16He was very skinny.
00:31:19He's living badly,
00:31:22and he can't come back.
00:31:25How will you get there?
00:31:28I have a French passport.
00:31:31It won't be a problem.
00:31:34But respect each other.
00:31:39Goodbye.
00:32:03I don't know
00:32:07if it was near Muszkow.
00:32:13He would be 40 by now.
00:32:24Yes, he would be.
00:32:27Good morning.
00:32:30I thought you left.
00:32:33I couldn't see you.
00:32:36I was with Antek.
00:32:39They live 1,500 km from him.
00:32:42I had to visit him.
00:32:45He's over 30.
00:32:48He can't come here,
00:32:51but you could.
00:32:54He can't come here,
00:32:57but you could.
00:33:00If you're from France,
00:33:03then leave me alone.
00:33:06I didn't kick him out.
00:33:09He had to run away.
00:33:12He didn't have to.
00:33:15What's this?
00:33:18Read it.
00:33:24What is it?
00:33:27What's written there.
00:33:30Antek and I will give up our shares
00:33:33for the sake of our sister Anna.
00:33:36Antek's will is confirmed by the office.
00:33:39Mine too.
00:33:42Who said you'd get anything?
00:33:45It's up to us.
00:33:48And if we do,
00:33:51we'll have to think about it.
00:33:54It would be a shame.
00:33:57For you, not for us.
00:34:00It would be best
00:34:03if you did as it's written.
00:34:06That's my business.
00:34:09Ours too.
00:34:12Now let me tell you something.
00:34:15Maybe we'll see each other for the last time,
00:34:18but he can't come here anymore.
00:34:21There's no point.
00:34:24He ran away from here.
00:34:27Everyone's gone.
00:34:30Stanik will go too.
00:34:33Even if you tie him to a whip.
00:34:36He'll go.
00:34:39And one will stay here.
00:34:42Kazimierz.
00:34:45Kazimierz.
00:34:51He's a scoundrel and a pain in the ass.
00:34:54You don't understand such simple things.
00:35:01Gentlemen, the matter is to be settled.
00:35:04We just have to find someone willing.
00:35:07It won't be difficult.
00:35:10There's the Colonization Fund.
00:35:13We have to find someone willing to move here.
00:35:16Only the one who's paid for it.
00:35:19And the strangers can be rejected.
00:35:22It has to be a local, from Bielowice.
00:35:25It will be difficult.
00:35:28Money does its job.
00:35:31You have a man who would be worth buying on this farm.
00:35:37I know who you're talking about.
00:35:44Jagnyś, I have to go to the old age home.
00:35:50Tadek, I had a dream today.
00:35:55Stanik will look after you.
00:35:58If you need anything.
00:36:01Okay, Francek.
00:36:06Go and do what's best for you.
00:36:10So you get your permission.
00:36:23I know your case very well.
00:36:26Unfortunately, your appeal has not been accepted.
00:36:30For what reason?
00:36:33For important state matters.
00:36:37I have the right to know.
00:36:42No one's stopping you.
00:36:45Please read the proposal.
00:36:48There's no proposal that forbids the expansion of one's own farm.
00:36:53But you want to expand the smithy, not the farm.
00:36:58That's the difference.
00:37:01You should finally decide what you want to expand.
00:37:04There's another paragraph for everything.
00:37:09No, Mr. Baron, I can't.
00:37:12Why not?
00:37:15Everything will be done according to the law.
00:37:19If it was about that Pole, it would be different.
00:37:22But the smithy?
00:37:25People wouldn't forgive me.
00:37:28What kind of life would that be, gentlemen?
00:37:31No, I can't.
00:37:34Maybe it surprised you.
00:37:37Please think it over.
00:37:40And if you decide, please let us know.
00:37:43But don't tell anyone about it.
00:37:46It has to be understood.
00:37:52I told you it wouldn't be easy.
00:37:55What if we didn't tell the old man?
00:37:58People respect him here.
00:38:01Let's try to find someone else.
00:38:04You have one more asset in your hand.
00:38:07That Pole.
00:38:10What kind of Pole is he? He got married here.
00:38:13Where does he have Poland in his head?
00:38:16I teach his children, so I know something about it.
00:38:19Please promise Porwal to release that Pole.
00:38:22They have old scores.
00:38:25No way. Borucki will not be released.
00:38:28I won't get another one like him.
00:38:31It's a pity.
00:38:34Such hatred should be used as soon as possible.
00:38:37Thank you for your advice, but I won't use it.
00:38:40I'm going to Opole.
00:38:43You have to.
00:38:46Now.
00:38:49When I start working in the field,
00:38:52I won't have time for such things.
00:38:55I have to do it.
00:38:58I don't know how.
00:39:01I don't know how.
00:39:04I don't know how.
00:39:07I don't know how.
00:39:10You'll get well.
00:39:13The snow has stopped.
00:39:16Go to the shepherds.
00:39:19It's so weak.
00:39:22I'd rather you didn't go.
00:39:25It won't last long.
00:39:28They have to give me permission.
00:39:31They have to.
00:39:38I've used all my means.
00:39:41The authorities
00:39:44won't give you permission.
00:39:47The expansion of the farm
00:39:50threatens the construction of
00:39:53economic buildings.
00:39:56What are you talking about?
00:39:59I don't know.
00:40:02I don't know.
00:40:05Economic buildings.
00:40:08What would you advise me to do?
00:40:11Mr. Pasternik,
00:40:14this bill won't help the Poles.
00:40:21You have a farm and a kitchen.
00:40:24If you
00:40:27liquidate the economic buildings,
00:40:30they will never give you
00:40:33permission to build new ones.
00:40:36It will be an economy
00:40:39without buildings.
00:40:42You'd have to sell the land
00:40:45and buy a colonization fund.
00:40:48What should I do?
00:40:51Nothing.
00:40:54Wait and wait.
00:40:57That's what the Poles have left us.
00:41:00I don't have time for this.
00:41:03I'm going to Berlin.
00:41:06You don't trust me.
00:41:09I don't trust you.
00:41:12I don't have the means to advise you.
00:41:15You've done a lot for the Poles,
00:41:18but for you it's a matter
00:41:21like any other.
00:41:24For me it's something more.
00:41:27I'm sorry.
00:41:30I can't leave you like this.
00:41:37Mother's getting worse.
00:41:40I don't know what to do.
00:41:43What about father?
00:41:46He went to Opole. He hasn't been there for two days.
00:41:49We need a doctor.
00:41:52Someone has to stay with mother.
00:41:55Grandpa can't do it anymore.
00:41:58I'll go get a doctor.
00:42:01I'll just change.
00:42:04Go to the yard and tell them I'll come later.
00:42:10I said my leg won't stand there anymore,
00:42:13but I have to go to mother.
00:42:16As soon as I get Urszula to school,
00:42:19I'll come.
00:42:22Can I still be of use?
00:42:25Everything is in God's hands, doctor.
00:42:28But my leg...
00:42:31I've got to go.
00:42:34I'm afraid I don't have the strength to walk.
00:42:37I'll try to walk.
00:42:40I know.
00:42:43I'll try to walk.
00:42:46But I can't walk.
00:42:49It's all in God's hands, Doctor.
00:43:20Herr Doctor,
00:43:23it won't take long.
00:43:25She's suffering.
00:43:28You can go to her.
00:43:31You won't disturb her.
00:43:33She's not here.
00:43:35Maybe she'll come back to you for a while.
00:43:37Then you'll say goodbye to her.
00:43:49Oho!
00:43:55So what?
00:43:57If I'm not home for two days,
00:43:59everyone will do what they want.
00:44:01Not what they want, but what they have to do.
00:44:03Because no one else wants to do it.
00:44:05Don't raise your voice at me.
00:44:09Please, go ahead.
00:44:11I'll go on foot.
00:44:13You don't have to be so angry.
00:44:15I have the right to know.
00:44:19Has she gotten worse?
00:44:23You're a doctor now.
00:44:25Let's go, Gibko.
00:44:45PRAYERS IN POLISH
00:45:13How are you?
00:45:43Ania, will it be all right?
00:45:55It's all right.
00:46:17Ania, my child.
00:46:33I'm sorry.
00:46:37You don't have to, Father.
00:46:57MUSIC
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00:50:59No day, no hour.
00:51:09The Heavenly Mother has passed away.
00:51:13Without a testament.
00:51:17I don't want you to have to go through the courts after my death.
00:51:25I did what I had to do.
00:51:29Whatever happens to anyone,
00:51:33it's all written down.
00:51:37I wanted to expand this farm.
00:51:41But they didn't let me.
00:51:45And they won't let me anymore.
00:51:47Stanik is going to the city after the New Year.
00:51:53I was very sad that none of you wanted to stay here.
00:52:01That you all ran away from this place.
00:52:07But Kazimierz and Anna left their roots here.
00:52:15That's what I'll do when I'm out of the testament.
00:52:23From now on,
00:52:25I'll take care of Anna.
00:52:27I mean, her man.
00:52:31He's a koval.
00:52:33He'll run this farm.
00:52:39I think I'll expand it.
00:52:43Well, I hope you all know
00:52:49that the field will be divided between the families.
00:52:54Hanek and Antek have given up their share for Anna.
00:53:00Stanik has to be paid.
00:53:04And that would be all.
00:53:07And me?
00:53:09Who's going to pay me?
00:53:12You serve them faithfully, they won't forget you.
00:53:17I have the right. I'll go to court.
00:53:20Then let the court take you to Bojana.
00:53:24We'll see.
00:53:34The testament will be opened after my death.
00:53:41Until then, Job was in charge of the farm.
00:53:46And Kazimierz was in the prison.
00:53:50What should Teodor know?
00:53:52He won't go to court.
00:53:56My dear Teo, what is it?
00:53:58Drink.
00:54:01They'll get to know me.
00:54:04The whistlers?
00:54:05They know you.
00:54:07Too well.
00:54:10Put some more vodka, I'll tell you something.
00:54:16Kleinpeter, two vodkas.
00:54:22You're sure to advance.
00:54:26Do you always drink like that after the first glass?
00:54:29Maybe you'll do better after the second.
00:54:32That Pole is leaving the court.
00:54:37It's high time.
00:54:39I'm sure they'll make you a master.
00:54:42You say he's leaving?
00:54:44My father wrote him a letter.
00:54:51Don't talk.
00:54:53They made up.
00:54:55He threw his daughter out of the house.
00:54:58And now she's become a great fatherly love.
00:55:03Something like that.
00:55:05Are you sure?
00:55:06You can check.
00:55:09I've already done it.
00:55:11And I'll see how this mistake is transferred to the prison.
00:55:16It's good that you told me.
00:55:21Where were you going?
00:55:23I thought you'd put some more vodka.
00:55:28You have to chew the iron while it's hot.
00:55:31It's an old Kowalska rule.
00:55:34I have to ask the baron to give me your brother-in-law's place.
00:55:40We'll have a drink later.
00:55:43Good day.
00:56:07I agree to buy this forge.
00:56:12Are you sure?
00:56:13Yes.
00:56:17You see, here it is often so that today they quarrel,
00:56:22and tomorrow they meet at Klein-Petra,
00:56:25drink vodka and make up.
00:56:29Possible, but not in this case.
00:56:33In that case, I can only praise it.
00:56:36I also have to say that you are doing a good service to our German homeland.
00:57:06Well?
00:57:30Did I help you?
00:57:33You'll never finish the wine, Kazimierz.
00:57:36You'll regret it soon.
00:57:40We'll build a forge like Berlin.
00:57:46I met the postman.
00:57:51He gave me this letter.
00:57:54From the president of the alliance to Kazimierz.
00:57:59Here is the permission.
00:58:02They didn't want to give it to me, but I gave it to him.
00:58:04Let him read it.
00:58:19Mr. Kazimierz Borucki.
00:58:32Herewith they are invited...
00:58:50Dad!
00:58:51Jesus!
00:58:52Easy, easy, Stanisław.
00:58:54Bring some water.
00:59:04He started to read this letter,
00:59:06interrupted as if he were going to faint,
00:59:08and then he turned back.
00:59:10May I know what was in this letter?
00:59:12The order to leave Prussia.
00:59:14Impossible.
00:59:15He is a citizen of this country.
00:59:19This order was for me.
00:59:22Aren't you a citizen of Prussia?
00:59:24No.
00:59:26A Pole?
00:59:27Yes.
00:59:30Indeed, there is such an order.
00:59:33Many workers, miners have to leave.
00:59:37The directors raise the alarm.
00:59:39They say they will run out of professionals.
00:59:44I'm sorry, but it's not my fault that I'm German.
01:00:13Paralysis of the left side.
01:00:17He must be provided with irreversible peace.
01:00:20He is strong.
01:00:23The heart and lungs are healthy.
01:00:29He can stand it.
01:00:31But I'm not able to say whether the paralysis will cease.
01:00:35I will write a prescription.
01:00:39Doctor, please do everything.
01:00:45I will try.
01:00:51Nothing can be done.
01:00:53Kazimierz Borucki must leave Prussia.
01:00:57He has no citizenship.
01:01:01His property is being bought by the state.
01:01:05He has no property.
01:01:07Everything we have built is mine.
01:01:10The plot too.
01:01:13Nobody questions it.
01:01:15But the smithy belongs to Kazimierz Borucki and is being bought by the state.
01:01:24The state will buy such an old smithy?
01:01:27It will be expanded.
01:01:30Germany is developing rapidly.
01:01:33Chancellor Bismarck is leading our country with a firm hand.
01:01:37We have colonies, we have raw materials, industry is growing, agriculture is developing.
01:01:43The peasants have more and more machines.
01:01:46The smithies need big, modern, not so small buildings.
01:01:57If the economic developments at the smithy interfere with the expansion,
01:02:02they will be bought by the state.
01:02:06There is such a decision.
01:02:10We will withdraw. We will invalidate this prescription.
01:02:17It's a waste of time.
01:02:19This smithy will not return to Franz Pasternik.
01:02:23He is ill.
01:02:25He is not able to run the smithy.
01:02:30Borucki? No.
01:02:32He has to leave.
01:02:34You have citizenship.
01:02:36You can stay.
01:02:43Who will run this smithy?
01:02:45Not the state.
01:02:49Of course not.
01:02:52Jerzy Porwol bought it from Bielowice.
01:02:56Jesus Maria.
01:03:00What happened?
01:03:02Nothing.
01:03:03Nothing?
01:03:04Nothing.
01:03:14What shall we say, father?
01:03:16Everything.
01:03:19But not a word about Porwol, because he could be attacked again.
01:03:22It will happen anyway.
01:03:24But why should our words finish him off?
01:03:28And you?
01:03:33I will follow Kazik.
01:03:35We will take the children and go.
01:03:37He is good for me and the children.
01:03:39I will follow him to the end of the world.
01:03:43He wanted to go to the city since the New Year.
01:03:47They are building a smithy.
01:03:49They need someone.
01:03:50You can't go yet.
01:03:52Someone has to stay with father.
01:03:55You can live with us.
01:03:57In our house.
01:03:58It is registered to me.
01:03:59And I am a citizen of the Prussian state.
01:04:02And I won't kick you out of here.
01:04:06Please, stay.
01:04:08I won't.
01:04:09I won't leave father alone.
01:04:19Mr. Widór, this is not in order.
01:04:24According to you, this Pole should be a blacksmith?
01:04:28The smithy was supposed to be in the hands of the shepherds.
01:04:31And specifically, in whose hands?
01:04:37Everything is in order.
01:04:39Gentlemen, I put the vodka down.
01:04:41Everything is done.
01:04:43Now I will just go out and say, get out!
01:04:46You can say that to him, but not to her.
01:04:49To her, above all.
01:04:50You won't do that.
01:04:52And what do you have to talk about?
01:04:54She is my sister.
01:04:57She gave birth to Polish bachors.
01:05:00Do you want them to carry you to our smithy?
01:05:03Leave us alone, gentlemen.
01:05:05We should work together.
01:05:07You'll get used to your gun.
01:05:13Guys, we have a new smith.
01:05:15Maybe he'll make a move.
01:05:17He's a good smith, isn't he?
01:05:18He's a good smith.
01:05:19He's a good smith.
01:05:20He's a good smith.
01:05:21He's a good smith.
01:05:22Gentlemen.
01:05:23Gentlemen.
01:05:25That's not even how you drink kovale.
01:05:41Anna.
01:05:44Anna, you don't have to.
01:05:48You can stay here.
01:05:52Anna, leave him alone.
01:05:54He made a mistake.
01:05:55Let him go where he came from.
01:05:57Everything will be fine.
01:05:59Let's go.
01:06:30Let's go.
01:06:51Let's go.
01:07:20Let's go.
01:07:49Goodbye, grandpa.
01:07:50Goodbye, children.
01:08:20Let's go.
01:08:41Let's go.
01:09:09Let's go.
01:09:37Let's go.