Pozegnanie jesieni (1990) - full transcript

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The author of "Farewell to Autumn"

was the most extraordinary

and the most versatile
artistic character

in the first half of
20th century Poland

Philosopher and erotomaniac

Extravagant dandy,
painter and writer

He felt equally well
at philosophical debates

As in the salons where
he was famous as dancer

and Adolf Hitler's voice imitator

His works were compared
to lunatic dreams



One could not find the sense in his

his prophetic and vibrating visions

A novel "Farewell to Autumn"
was written in 1926

It is a tongue in cheek analysis

of the society on the
verge of destruction

It is a story about the chaos

which brought to us

100 millions inhabitants
of Central Europe

the fate of being slaves of
only one and "rightful" idea:

The communism

halo

Is this Hela Bertz?

What's there?

Bazakbal's speaking



Are you alone?

Yes

No, actually not

I'd like to talk with you

about Malary and Popust, etc

I am sorry but I am busy today

I'll be in 1/2 hour

No way, good bye

Good bye

Mr Bazakbal will be here shortly

Starring:

Script:

Scenography:

Music:

Director of photography:

Directed by:

Excuse me Sir
Miss will not receive you

She expects you tomorrow

- Really?
- Yes!

She's just admiring butterfly collection
- Want a slap in a face?

This way please

Mr Prepudrech! Wouldn't you mind
to shorten your visit?

Do you kick me out?

Yes, I do

I'll have a serious
talk with Miss Hela

What's your right?
She my fiancee

But not your house

Excuse us, but we just go
to The Atrocity Exhibition

So, you go another time

No

We go now!

Kuba!

This is a great exhibition

I saw it a few times

Parole d'honneur

Dear pal! If you don't leave now

Then I can't vouch for myself

I am astonished by
your impertinence

You'll pay for this.
I won't let it go

How dare you?

Please, wait

This boar is eavesdropping

Don't touch!

Don't touch!

Why are you so startled?

I can't read Proust

I feel you plan a new meanness

Well, tell me

Well?

We're friends, aren't we?

I am engaged

Are you crazy?

What were your reasons?

I am in love

I hate this word too

With whom?

Zosia Oslabedzka

That virtuous maiden?

At least you'll get rich

Please, calm down

I love her so much

If we go on I don't
know how I manage

Why do you come here?

-Only you can save me!
-Stupid!

It is about a certain experiment

In fact I like you so much more

than her

Don't you dare to pimp
the lovers anymore

A rich, coarse, Jewish she-boor

I am a virgin

I know what I want

Hela!

I am leaving!

And I won't be back!

What does he posses?

What?

Perhaps elephant's trunk?

I will kill with no regrets

Like a dog

I will kill you

You scoundrel

Scoundrel!

An oaf! To discredit himself
like that at his first time!

Get away!

Get away from my house!

My God!

My God! What a hellish,
moronic unbearable boredom!

One more moment like that and
I will convert to communism

Please, fetch me a
priest for 9 o'clock

In the afternoon the
whole family is baptized

Or I will shoot myself

I'll have my supper in bed

Stop!

Tazio!

Tazio, forgive me

The Prince was faster than you
I couldn't refuse him

Only if for the very perversion
of serving to your enemy

Bullets can be exchanged twice

The Prince shoots first

To the first blood

At dawn

I have seen everything

You know, Tazio
I didn't know you were so vile

Please, tell me at once
that you love me

Yes..

- Mother didn't see you?
- No

I like you so much today
so I'd tear you to shreds

Why are so strange?

Strange?

Strange

I had some business to do
and I didn't manage all

Zosia

Yes?

Somehow I don't believe you today

Do you think, all is so simple
that you, me and Mother

will be sitting down and
writing a little book?

That I can live like that
hand in hand?

Tazinku

Hell, how do you know
that I love you?

Maybe I throw up all over it?

- Do you throw up?
- Yes, I do

Just with human touch

And I hate you
with pure, beautiful hate

And because of only that
I want to marry you. What?

- I will forgive you a lot
- That's good

Because I love you like a hell

Poor, overcomplicated boy

I can not loose you

I can not

I challenged him

A duel due tomorrow at dawn

I know my dignity, you...

Have you wanted to
say something, Kuba?

Did you? When I...

- When I...
- Well

I may forgive a lot

But tell me: yes or no

No

I only wish to know

- No
- No

So, everything call be called off

Don't you even dare
Come here to me

Hela

Don't you see it?

I can be killed tomorrow

But this is the last, and the
only meaningful moment of my life

Hela!

Hela!

Morning

Gentlemen, it's not serious
The sick are waiting for me

- Shoot down all! -Let someone bring him.
- Not needed

Comrade Count hasn't read the
newspapers for a long time?

All is hanging in balance
and if only it starts

The moderates and socialism
are the almost the logical opposites

I don't understand anything
I don't

All around there are strong, healthy boors
waiting to get at our lives

Easy, easy It must burst out

Burst out? Is it necessary?
- Never

More a golf club

I'll shoot him and we'll have peace

What if prince doesn't come?

Then, you'll fetch
him here by force

Get out! Quickly!
Quickly!

With one move, stand here, fast

Miss, quickly, your Papa arrived

Hela! Hela!
Hela!

Hela, what is this loafer doing in your bed?

- How does he dare?
- This is my fiance

- We've just done American trial
- What trial?

What fiance? I have for you two great marquises.

Italian fascists

Mr Bertz, in Italy there are
as many marquises as dogs

Shut up! I thought you'd carry on
the greatness of Bertz's family

- And you bring me this zero -Mr
Bertz, today I have duel with Bazakbal

Bazakbal - another zero
Could it be bigger zero than zero?

Why did I invite this scum to my home?
Why? Why?

Papa doesn't understand anything

Papa!

Prince is fighting for me
For my honor

If he survives, the day
after tomorrow, we'll marry

- What marriage?
- I convert to Catholicism today

- What! - Papa should do the
same if only for business

Right. But what if he dies?

No harm! Just in case I have used right pills

Hela!

What are doing to me? I
have full hands with a coup

Do you what's going in city? I
barely managed to withdraw money

- You devil
- Later on, later

Go away Go away

You knave, you should have
asked me first for her hand

Rather than rape my daughter
like a whore in my own house

Not nice! Do you
understand, you boor?

Careful Mr Bertz! Or if I warm
up I'll challenge you as well

Praised be God

My God! What time is it? Let
Papa make the carriage ready.

I don't understand anything. Or
maybe nothing to understand here?

Maybe it is just a big hole in a sky?

So, you called for me
again, you unruly daughter

Let's go!

I don't even know how
the barrel looks like

They will show you
everything there

But I have very poor eyesight

No one wants you to shoot to the match.
Bazakbal is a big fellow

But I can't stand the view of blood

No one orders you to look at blood

You just should shoot him down!

And that's what I was afraid of

Tazio, wake up. Prince has arrived
Hela

This is barrel, trigger, viewfinder.
Upon command you press

- Where to? Handkerchief
- Here is mine

- Be the man. -Easy to say for you
- You don't know how difficult

Prince is shooting the first
Mr Bazakbal the second

Look what a hero!
We'll get drunk like swines afterwards

Quiet! No panic!

Nothing! He just fainted

So, we need to talk

We don't have any rancor
to Mr Bazakbal anymore

Shoot! To the first blood!

Father, you know

Sometimes I think about

melting away about disappearing

I love life but sometimes
I get such a sorrow

Everything is passing too fast

Wouldn't be better to steer it myself?

Only at the decision moment,
the world seems to be

the illusion of the completeness

Tazio! Tazio!

Tazio!

- What's your name my daughter?
- Helena

- Helena what do you demand
from God's church? - The faith

- They are not her yet?
- They'll be on time - Listen

- For sure they can not get through
- Do you hear?

What a silence. What kind of moment.

They are coming!

If only it could last like that. Forever

A moment after the moment

Helena! Do you
renounce evil spirit?

- I renounce
- Helena!

Do you know what faith provides you with?

Eternal life

- Bruizor already mobilized the army
- What?

- Bruizor already mobilized the army
- A rumor -The action will start at night

He wants to surprise the revolutionaries

-Nothing will happen.
-Russians are retreating.

- No one takes communism seriously
- Look out

- Get down
- Come on

An hour of judgment has come

In front of us the idea is dying

The great idea

The idea of free individual

Pretensions and crimes are the
new foundations of the world

The world born out of sin

The world of dwarfed mankind

Let the righteous ones
close their eyes

And I will not not leave you
till the death

And I will not not leave you
till the death

Don't you think we could
better cross those pairs?

Bertz, you lost your mind

Not that much. A terrible
fate awaits those four

To the entrance!

Stop! Where are they?

Come here, come

Faster

On your knees!
On your knees!

You are standing
here, facing the God

Yes, yes, that's good.

No. Quiet please,
Silence please

You're safe! Old Bertz took the
situation completely under control

Revolution will be
suppressed in blood

And now: let's play.
The band start play!

Very good

We're going to pack up. Quickly

We've reached the endpoint of
bourgeois culture

which didn't produce
anything but doubt

in everything

I am so glad to meet you finally

- Do you hear that Tazio?
- These men are stupid bunch

Who am I seeing?

How could you have a duel for such
a trifle as poking on a street?

I was angry with Kuba,
because he landed up so well

I wanted so badly to nurse him

- I envied you so much that Atanazy
- It's me who envies you everything

You know I am Jewish

They hate me for that
and are frightened

Will we have a drink?
Let's go

I'm here incognito. If needed
I will even become communist

for the disguise.
I'm going to the underground

Intelligentsia will not be
executed, only supplanted

And you watch out.
You'll burn out completely.

- And then you'll commit suicide.
That'll be the end. -Pity

There is no other way

Idealism within Marxism was
so far masked too much

The happiness is equal
to being well fed

- Existence of cattle
- And cattle has just awaken

I wonder how the cocaine trade will
be organized after the upheaval

- What? -Coke, coke, coke
coke, coke, coke

I know you're communist

But all of that... No

What if I fell in love with Atanazy?
What if? My little bird.

I am frightened.

You're beautiful.

Do you know what you have?
You don't know what you have

Do you know what I have done to her?
Do you?

I can tell you. With all the details.

She sat upon me, that her leg was...
But maybe you feel offended?

- What should I do?
- Excuse me!

Do what you like to!

I have to take her from you.
It will be splendid.

A catastrophe scaled up to our epoch
It'll be really something.

A total annihilation

I always feared such nice things

What if I took him from you?

I'd kill you

- What?
- I know you are extremely unhappy

More than me.
More than Hela.

More than the whole world

Tazio!

You should watch after your loved one
She's vomiting. In the corner over there.

-A pussy
-I am so gifted!

24, 25, 26...
Hela! We have to talk

-Not now Papa
-Hela!

Papa, leave me

A great party! You're so pretty Mrs, and
you Mrs and you Gentlemen too. Let's play

Wonderful! Pretty!

My lovely!

Tazio! Tazio!
Tazio! Hold me!

I can't live without you.
I can't

My pearl, my beloved froggie
Let's dance!

I want you to understand once for good that
I don't crave for anything extraordinay

I'm Zosia's husband and I demand
that you understand it at last

Hela!

Hela!

Hela! You should be packing now

There is already cannon fire in the city
I got a phone call. The heaps of dead.

New government. Good God!
All factories nationalized

- Hela! What's going on with you?
- Nothing, nothing at all

Money. You have them in the bank.
In the passport there is Swiss visa.

Here is that stamp.
What's that?

Jozia maiden is cleaning the bathtub. You
can talk What can I say? You have to go.

- The last train is leaving in the morning.
- The Atanazys will travel with me.

What are you saying? What for?

They want to wait it out too.
Send the telegram.

You know it better. You're very wise.
I love you so such.

I have only you! I'll send the
luggage to the station. Bye

My blood.
Bye

- Bye
- Papa!

I need a torturer as hot and hard
as the sword taken out of the fire

And you don't look like a sword

You have to conquer me. Do you get it?
Otherwise, don't show up in my house again

If you think this mockery
impresses me than you're wrong

You're 3rd class slut at best

A little metaphysics whore
aspiring to the higher class

It doesn't impress me at all.
And I guarantee you

Oh no, this is simply nonsense

This is trivial, trivial!

Please, put the fire out.
No, this is like cinema.

Make the way!

Silence!

Silence!

Bruizor already broke down.
Revolution!

Move in, move in

Which ones are ours?
Those ones.

- No, these are not ours.
- A pity, he's so handsome.

Move on!

Clear the way!

I am on fire

- Aim! Fire!
- We're polish army

Fire!

- I think he's dead
- Amen

Do you understand now?

There is no world

There are neither
bodies nor souls

We'll die together

Come

You are

You are

This is a miracle. Don't say anything.
Don't say anything

Beyond good and evil

In the very center

-Even beyond the death's realm.
-Don't say anything.

I love you, I love you

An absolute unity.

And this voice that connects
and divides at the same time

A paradise.

He's not in. Only us. Do you understand?
Only us. Only us together.

- Only us. Let it last forever.
You understand! -Yes

Get on the train. Get on! Close the door!
Please. Get on! Please.

What's now? -He's
nowhere seen.

Help me. I am not going
anywhere without him

I am getting off. Bogus do something!

- After all you are the man.
-Hela! I asked you

many times not to talk like that.
-Run after him!

-But where to? -I don't where.
-I will kill myself!

-Call Lohoyski!
-Yes, yes!

- They'll kill me
- Let them rather kill me

Or I kill you if you
won't fetch him now!

Hela! You don't love me anymore!

- I'll go for him
- No, I'll do that myself

- Fast, fast!
- Dear, one moment!

I am Persian Prince
I have to make a call

- You have to help me!
- Ok, ok, I understand.

Quickly. Get on!

Yes?

But, why everywhere? The phone
has been just switched off

He's here. Where are you?

What time is it? Just, just wait for us.
We'll join you in a moment.

I stay here.

Don't fool around.
They are waiting for us

-at the station
-I have terrible hallucinations

Get a grip on yourself!

-Jedrek, this cow of yours.
-You came on the other

side, you will not return
to Zosia, I know it

- Listen to me! If you once again
- Quiet!

Don't say anything! I beg you.
Take this, I have finished with this stuff

I won't take it anymore!

You will. I know it.

Because I love you

- Listen, Jedrek
- Tazio I have only you.

And even this you want to take away from me

Jedrek, don't make a demoniac woman out of
me. You go to the mountains to get rest

You don't know anything. You
have no idea what opens for me

What kind of unknown horizons

- Jedrek...
- What kind of unknown perspectives

- This is the last train. -You never accept
the futility of the world without it

Don't fool around. We have to run!

No we don't. We don't have to do anything

I am sorry for those
who still believe in

something while being at
the bottom themselves

Tazio, forgive me

I'm tired. I have to rest.

A man in love is dying

Listen, maybe I...

- Stop! -Excuse me my
express is leaving at 7

- Which express train? Your papers?
- Yes, I am Bazakbal

- But, do you have papers? -I'm sorry,
my train is leaving. -Show us please

How dare you to touch me? Who are you?
How dare you?

- Please come here.
- This is your bloody obligation!

- This gentleman stays here.
- Who stays? Why?

Tazio!!!

Tazio!!! I am going with you!

Tazio!

Stop! Halt at once!

Run, run!

Tazio!!! Tazio, slower!

Tazio!

Today I saw a headless knight

- Where?
- Over there, against the curtain.

He was leaning down and
turning his back upon me

So, both of us saw him.
Myself yesterday.

Just at the different angle. From the
front. He was leaning towards me.

- A mass hallucination.
- No, it was Jedrek.

There is something going on that I can
not grasp, I can not aggregate

what I see into a thought, an idea

Maybe Jedrek's one minute
of life after 5 grams

of coke had more meaning
than the whole my life

There isn't anything beautiful,
anything great

Except the death

Tazio.

What are you thinking about?

Mr Erik Tvardstrup, the skiing instructor
Mr Bazakbal, the writer.

I'm so anxious as if
something bad should happen

There is a different life somewhere. Fuller,
more interesting than what we do here.

Please, reveal me where is it?
Die schoenste welt.

Here, across the mountains.
India for example.

It's there where I'd like to commit
some terrible deed. Some evil.

To commit a crime. Or to go to brothel.

Or I don't know what I want.

I'll take there meine kleine
maedchen after the dinner.

I am getting furious by the lies
of the contemporary democracy

Equal start for everyone.
What moronic idea is this?

Justice based on inequality, hierarchy
is the foundation of sound social life.

And I don't give a dime
for workers' masses.

- No one cares of anything anymore here.
- And you're a Prince, it's easy for you

Let the whole world crumble,
I am a Prince am I not?

Yes, Tazio.
Tazio do you intend to insult any of us?

You seem to be a person changing
the beliefs out of fear

that you'll be slaughtered.

And you'd like to watch the
revolution from the balcony, would you?

What's coming - it is a grey end

with unpredictable consequences.

A wave is engulfing us which
will destroy all our values

What values?
Don't make me laugh!

Do you pretend to believe that
we still have anything left?

Without that we can't
discuss the humanity at all

And what about Buddhism?

A religion without ethics.
Isn't it the right direction?

Hela!

- You're a catholic!
- For now

There is everything in it.

And what happens it will depend on who is
going to free me up from the prison I live in

Why haven't you waken me up?

Sit down.

Tazio shoot down a beautiful buck.
Have a portion of it.

I wish you could see it
when it was in once piece

It's delicious

It had such a big, brown eyes.

In the beginning they were wet
as if it cried.

And then they were becoming more dry

It also had warm and delicate nose

which got cold at the end.

Sit down!

What are we talking about? You should
take life as is. Don't over complicate it.

Simply observe it from
the sidelines and live

I am only the unsuccessful
artist but I fear

the minimalism of everything
you could die for

Interesting. But facing Kuba's
gun you were frightened.

Don't listen to that Tazio.
I love you just as you're.

This means you're spoiled brat.
You like rotten food.

In healthy body there
is also healthy spirit

- The body equals the worms.
- I'm a sportsman, dear pal.

You'd rather say a degenerate.

When one looks at your repulsive faces
then one can feel utterly hopelessness.

- In the past people were healthy and
strong by their nature. -Das is comisch.

- How about Greece?
- What Greece? I hate Greece.

- It is a misfortune for the whole mankind.
- You had different opinion before.

Before was before and now it is this!
Sport is killing everything.

Your records are blocking the place in the
newspapers for the serious art critics

In the literary journals and others

What are you talking about?
You're not even the artist.

- Sport will reborn it all
- No, nothing!

It will bemuse only. Bemuse.

- Tazio!
- How should I understand it my dear pal?

I like skiing but
I can't stand the sportsman.

I'll wait at the dawn.

Sit down! Sit!

- Don't draw near or I can't withhold myself.
- Sit down!

Sport is the first sign of degeneration.
Degeneration!

- I don't want it! I don't.
- Calm down.

I'll get mad. Please
or I'll get mad.

You'll choke me. Stop it.

I forbid you. I feel
something evil will happen.

My love! You make a fool of yourself.
Calm down!

- You egoist! You...
- Quiet!

You want to sacrifice your wife
and child for some trifles?

"A wife and child" You'll see
a wife and child...

You'll see. When you die, I'll
kill myself and him as well

You'll kill yourself? I won't
be concerned too much then.

How could you? You're so disgusting.

Then throw up and get out of here.
Get out!

- But it is for your own good.
- I stick my good in my ass.

And you're not after me but only about...
I'd prefer it'd not be here, do you get me?

I'll commit suicide. I'll get mad.

I spoke with God

But he hid himself far in the Universe.

That even the longest
observation won't reveal him

My lovely

I go to my room.
Bring me a tea.

Tazio!
Hela was here

You...
Not for her? True?

Not for her?
Yes?

What a boredom.

My aunt used to say: do something useful
and she was right.

You'd be the artist

a homosexual, a machinist or
a sportsman

If Beethoven had listened to
your music he'd have puked

If everything is allowed
if there are no limits

Then nothing exists. Do you understand?
Nothing! Nothing!

A boredom is the fundamental ingredient
of everything including the suicide

Then go and puke and wash it.

You know

I never do believe in anything

- Are you going to the dance?
- Yes, I'm

I'm looking for someone
who could carry me away.

One knight is biting the dust
under the tree over there

if he knew that by his death he gave
me a notion of reality for only 5 minutes

Thanks to him, I performed for the
first time a purely personal deed

A second one would be
carrying you away.

It is too much as for one evening.

- I'll be alone tonight.
- Yes?

- Me? -Don't get sentimental
over yourself.

- Listen. We have to leave this place.
- I'd like to.

If you say once more anything
so stupid I'll leave.

I'm waiting.
Hurry up, he won't be here till midnight.

Hela!

- Tazio!
- Yes?

- I can't get asleep -I've heard some
voices like Ziezio still playing.

- Come closer to me

Yes?

You have to try to go to sleep.

Promise me that you sit
with me till I sleep

Yes, I promise

- Kiss me
- What?

Kiss me

Why?

Kiss me

Go to sleep

What are you doing?
I...

Where from... you?

Wait!

Zosia!

I don't understand Zosia!

Watch out!

So, what happened?
Give me the gun.

Zosia you don't think that me

Give it to me
Give me the revolver!

So, shoot me. Go, shoot.

Can I with you.... ?

Life

I understand this unbearable
situation due to your sensibility

But the course of law proceeding and
some circumstances incriminating you

Mr Bazakbal has slept with me
that night, meaning in my bed

In spite of that, we'll
risk the experiment Please

Please, leave us alone

Could you take off your glasses?

Do you recognize me?

Baron also to meet with commissar?

- Don't use those titles!
- This corridor is awful

- The conditions are appalling
- It's temporary

I don't have water at the hotel
I got the mange on my legs

Yes, yes it'll pass

You need to work.
Work.

Work

I heard about the pensions, dole for
unemployed, medicines for free, school

Yes, yes
That's exactly how it is

Do you hear?

Everyone is occupied
with their work

with goals of higher end.
the goals, the goals.

This one!

No!
The other one

Everything will be alright.
He hasn't done anything.

You dirty

- Comrade Bazakbal? -Yes
- Great!

Your passport, two photos,
certificate of birth,

previous employment
record and medical check

Loyalty declaration, atheists'
committee stamp, a signature

- Miss -Thank you!
- Miss... -Quickly please!

- But? Miss, this is very important for me
- Don't be intrusive

But maybe I could invite you for a coffee?
Coffee?

Excuse me, but you mix
me up with someone?

- No, it is you!
- Please, let me go

- I won't
- But... -Please

I have very little time
but I will meet with you. Please

A priest, here?

I agree...
I don't where to start?

I'd like to accept the reality as it is.
I have nothing

Nothing that I could believe in.
My world was finished

The future is yours and I accept it

I understand that only
value remaining is society

Perfectly organized being, material.
I agree

- I'm all ears for you.
- I accept it, I accept it.

A dentist's cabinet is upstairs

- Such a scream?
- Yes, perhaps working without anesthesia

I'd like to work. I wrote something
you may be interested in.

"Responsibility versus
historical inevitability"

So, you accept that we use
you and then throw away?

So, you agree to be the fertilizer?

I am speaking with you that
way as you're intelligent

Think about it

I have no choice and I
think I could be useful

If I was closer to let's
say, the leadership

- Oh, you can use the typewriter
- Yes

Do you want to work with us?
You, the intellectual? -Yes!

So, you'll be reporting
on who's doing what

- You'll be in the town,
listening and observing

- But
- But?

- Am I supposed to be a snitch?
- You're to be useful

If you want to work with us, you
have to forget the previous morality

- I am a free man
- Puppy!

Go, bark at this man
He's using very bad words

- Such a proposal you can...
- Shut up!

I thought we had an understanding?
We give you the freedom

Our Party is not like a christian
sect commiserating any nit like you

Kingdom in Heaven, salvation
Rubbish

We are building the new
life, here and now!

- You have changed
- Times have changed

I always thought

there was a shining point at
the crossing of all lines

and when I loose it
then I loose everything

When I do that, all things will
disappear and crumble into dust

And I just lost that point

I'll never find it back

Too late

Let's leave this place

I'm 26 and I feel like old woman

I beg you, take me away from here

But I have nothing anymore

I have no place to go

Stop! Do you password?

- Yes. I know
- Say it

- No, I don't know
- A joker. Come here!

- He's a spy
- Shut up

- You Russian? -Yes
- Russian? -No

I am Polish

- A rascal!
- No, I am a good man

Like yourselves. I don't
believe in God either

I don't understand anything.

Simply, I am a writer

Hands up!
Hands!

So, you didn't like the revolution

No, no, I liked it a lot but here is
cold, so I am moving to warmer lands

- Let me go
- And do you know Pushkin?

- Pushkin? Certainly, a lot
- What a comrade!

I remember you appeared in
front of me like a magic

like, like a vision

like genes of pure beauty

Is this all?

Excuse me, I don't know anymore

- Little
- Let me go

I have nothing

Only shit, I am not a man anymore.
Do you understand?

You don't need to shoot
don't need

Squad!

September 18th, 1939 when Poland was
invaded by German and Soviet armies

Witkiewicz committed suicide

For sure, he had been aware that
his prophecy was fulfilling

The witnesses testified that
his face was calm and relieved