Sami swoi (1967) - full transcript
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighbouring farms.
— That's a carburrator.
— Let's push it.
It'll go. It's got an engine.
We'll miss him.
Take your seats.
60 to your grandma.
Open up.
Get off the car.
— Damn this car.
— Get offquick.
— Let's take a short cut, Dad.
— That's the best way.
Pull up your trousers, Casimir.
It's damp there.
— Don't ruin your suit.
— I'll catch up with you.
— Don't worry.
— Let's run.
What a mix up with that taxi.
flight. It is late.
— Gee, that must be him.
— Casimir, your pants.
We must welcome him.
Yasko!
— Heavens!
— Casimir!
— Where's Mania?
— Recognize her?
She's worn a bit.
This is Vitia.
He was born a year after you left.
And that's my grandson.
One more Pawlak.
My kiddo. And that's Pavel.
He was born and baptized here.
A student now.
— I'm his god—father.
— Right.
Thanks for agreeing
to be god—father to Ania.
Say hello to your uncle,
children.
Is that Ania's mother?
Where's she from?
Whose daughter?
0ur neighbor's.
Let's take our guest home, Mania.
Pick up all the luggage, boys.
— See that it doesn't get lost.
— 0ur taxi broke down.
We hired a taxi. An American car
and it broke down just the same.
Here's the taxi.
See how late?
Patched her up?
Shall we get in?
— Is it far?
— Not really.
— Let's walk if it's not far.
— Your feet'll get sore.
I want to see your new land.
Go with the children.
I'll walk with Yasko.
Whom do you resemble, eh?
The Pawlaks.
I must tell you something.
— Wait. He may be hungry.
— On this occasion...
— Are you hungry?
— I've a taste for pumpkin
with milk noodles.
We've got no pumpkin.
Ask the Kokeszkis ifthey have
a pumpkin left.
Go right away.
A long way from here
To our Kruiewniki.
That's your god—father, baby.
Why is she so big?
She waited 8 months
for you, uncle.
It's Ania?
You're Ania and I'm John.
John, John...
It's Yasko in Polish.
Forgive us but to us.
You're not John,
just plain Yasko.
I've so much to say, so I'll begin with
the most important words.
Man alive, here you are
at last.
Casimir.
You swore to Dad
to come back to your land.
Take your seat.
Come, Grazinka.
So you came here from
your world travels.
A brick home too not
a thatched one
like at Kruiewniki.
With tiled sensible roof.
As fire—control demands.
My snapshots.
I worked here in the war.
That's where I live and
where I'll die.
The only thing from back home.
It belonged to Dad.
— Got a hand—mill?
— You can't get them now.
Listen to what I've got to say.
I'm an old man.
I've come to say goodbye.
Don't talk like that.
You'll live to be a hundred.
You must give me some earth.
From Kruiewniki.
Mother brought it in a bag.
For my grave in Detroit.
We must live and die here.
That's where we belong.
You're master here
as much as I am.
I miss our land there.
Remember Grandpa's pear tree?
What do you know of the land here?
Nothing.
You had to emigrate
because of the land there.
I had to because of Kargul.
It was ages ago.
— I'll never forgive him.
— He wasn't so bad.
Remember how Dad found his cow
in our field?
May you smart for abusing me like that.
Come to the fence, Pawlak.
— Why should I?
— Come, I say.
Just as I do.
See this?
You've got it all wrong.
It was Dad who gave cowbane
to his stallion.
Even God turned away
from Kargul.
Not God surely.
Yasko.
Three fingers.
Thank you, God,
for using my hand to punish Kargul.
I swear by all that's sacred
to come back
for a handful of earth so that
our bones may rest in peace.
Strike the Kargul tribe
and their fields with the plagues
of Egypt, oh God.
0nly make no mistake
and don't afilict us,
the Pawlaks.
Kargul's neighbors.
We hold on to our border.
We have a right
to protect our land.
Because you created it
and ordained it for us.
We've started a new Poland
Here with our neighbor.
— He's from our parts?
— Yes. Everybody here is.
— She's a native here.
— Just like me.
I must tell you about Noah's ark
which rolled on rails
through the flood.
It jerked, whistled
and rolled on.
We'd travel one day and stop for two.
A week has 7 days,
a month 4 weeks
and the train had
48 cattle—cars.
Look, a man!
Where? Where?
No. Only a native
from these parts.
Shall we leave the train
before there's more of us?
You're a dummy!
The thing's to leave
it before we run out of fodder.
Where shall we get holy
water for the baby?
— You eat it.
— Must keep her fit for work.
How'll lfind my Kaspar in Heaven?
The sky's different here.
It's heaven here as it is.
No bum ofa Kargul next door.
For this alone we won the war.
Dad, our neighbors.
— It's them.
— Neighbors?
— Cattle that's what it is.
— It's the neighbours!
What's got into you, Vitia?
— See that coW?
— What about it?
I know it.
There was only one cow like this one.
At Kruiewniki.
Kargul's Mookie.
The Karguls are here.
The bandits. It seems
we've arrived.
Why is it moving?
— Stop!
— We'll uncouple it here!
Why these long faces?
We're among friends.
Friends? Kargul's our
worst enemy.
So what? But he belongs with us.
We've nourished him with our blood.
—Couldn't we stop somwhere else?
—Don't be upset, Mania.
Why look for a new enemy
when he's here?
— Wouldn't be fair.
— Yeah...
Here we are.
— Get off, Granny.
— My God...
You have a choice.
You could find
a better house in the village.
I don't want a better one.
But my own.
Give me the bag with the earth.
We're home.
What kind of a home's this?
Without a proper stove.
You can bake in it,
but can you sleep on it?
Did you see the Karguls?
Where are we, Dad?
A globe, see?
Have a good look,
see ifyou can find some vodka.
I'm an honest man.
My word's dearer to me than money.
— Here goes our money.
— We'll make more.
Put up the flag
on the roof, Vitia.
Here?
Higher. At the very top.
— What do you see.
— It's like on a ship here.
But there's no sea here!
Nothing in sight.
And quiet like in the desert.
Where have we come to?
Not to Poland maybe?
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What a place to have my baby!
Come to the fence, Kargul.
I'I'I IT?! um
Come over.
Do as I say.
0K. What noW?
Now take off your hat.
As I did.
Why?
Because our migration
of nations is at an end.
And the war we fought
to win the peace.
Now weep.
Don't be ashamed.
No one's seeing you.
Everyone's crying anyway.
— Vladek!
— Casimir!
Why aren't you crying?
We'll be making it up many times yet.
I'd rather watch.
That's for luck.
— You embraced Kargul?
— I did
— The same who...
— Yeah, he welcomes you now.
Is that how you remember
Dad's oath?
Give her to me.
And what nuts? Want to bruise your
elder brother?
The god—father?
Let go! Somebody'll pay
with his head.
Stay out when brothers
greet each other.
Yasko gave it to you.
I've been waiting
for you 40 years.
Go away.
I won't lose my brother
again because of you.
Don't start again.
You did it once.
— I started.
— And I'll finish.
Who asked you to live
next door to us?
And why did you steal 3 fingers
of our land back home?
Pick on your woman
not on me.
Hold me or I'll
kill the cur.
Yasko! Where are you going?
Wait!
Dumb—head,
you were to sit in the crib
until I finished my welcome.
We've balled up things
and the devil deals the cards.
Yasko, wait!
I want nothing from you,
only some earth from the bag.
It's a real mix up with you.
Did you forget Polish?
Listen to me first.
Then say what you
have you say.
Real Kruiewniki milk.
Mookie's.
God bless. Come in
for a chat.
— What're you staring at?
— Your awkward steps.
Look at the teacher.
I could teach you.
Just don't feel like it.
I can do without your help.
Will you marry her?
— Looking for company at the well?
— For a dance partner.
Careful.They may hear
and come for you.
Who?
The drowned men.
Girls shouldn't look
into wells.
The drowned may take a fancy to them.
You look 3 years elder
at close range.
So do you.
Casimir!
Have you seen Father?
Must be in the fields.
You know, Vladek...
We traveled so far
and still came across each other.
Must be fate.
I had no real grudge
against you.
Yasko was young when
he slashed me with that scythe.
Our people were dumb
from want and ignorance.
No more fights.
— No border between our fields.
— Right.
You can have all the land here.
No one's going to measure
it by the spoon.
Your woman's expecting soon.
Mookie'll provide milk
for all of us.
You're farming
without a horse.
I brought my mare
from Kruiewniki.
Use it until you get a horse.
We're good neighbors.
A plague on you!
May you smart
for abusing me.
Back to your field.
Your brother tried
to kill me once.
Now you're having a go at it.
Why not?
There's nothing sacred to you.
What's so sacred
in a cow, friend?
Take care, Dad!
A border's sacred!
— Mines!
— Mines, Dad!
— You lead the way.
— You go first.
— Your field, you go.
— I let my guests go first.
Think I'll be scared?
Remember, a border's sacred.
Or I'll teach you
a lesson with a scythe.
You see any borders here?
You can have all
the land up to the sky.
Take, what you want.
No one'll measure it by fingers
as you did back home.
I took as much land
as it suited me. That's sacred.
What times! The fool
leads the way.
What? Wait till
I get my scythe!
To knock off your
stupid head.
The stupider one'll come off.
Meaning whose?
Yours.
You meat—head.
Stop it!
Keep away from our property.
And you from ours.
I swore to Dad.
And so it's to be for ever.
Amen.
Vitia, come here.
We must tend our land.
Plow it.
HoW? It's spiced with mines like
a pudding with cracklings.
The land grows wild
if you neglect it.
Hand me the gas can.
Run for it!
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The Germans!
Come quick!
Hurry!
— Where are you going?
— To the Pawlak's cellar.
Better got killed together.
We've only been here 5 days
and it's starting again.
Hurry up.
lil'l'ITH
Kargul's Mookie saved us.
15, 16, 17. You count now.
We had poor schooling, Dad.
To the barn, Vitia!
Dad! Come here!
To the cellar, Mother!
— We're surrounded.
— By whom?
Another German 0ccupation.
Boys are shooting
with potassium chlorate at Easter.
I cleared our field
of the mines.
What the hell?
— He's asking ifwe can shoot.
— What for?
Hands up first
then ask questions.
We must defend ourselves,
Poles, aren't you?
Who are you?
Wieczorek, a native here.
What's the danger?
The Germans.
I was Schulmeister here.
A school doorkeeper.
Soldiers are coming.
What soldiers?
Polish.
— Who are they attacking?
— Us.
What the hell for?
The mines.
They think it's the Wehrvelves.
You started the 3rd war
when the 2nd just ended.
The Russians'll
finish it quick.
How many times
can you get liberated?
Hush!Upset? Haven't you
got used to it yet?
”ITEM
Your eyes cling
to her like women to a bishop.
— We made trouble with the mines.
— Don't lead me a dance.
I have to look hard at her
before I forget her.
— Why?
— What ifwe get killed?
My command should be
a law to you all your life.
You're to hate
all the Kargul tribe.
When I look hard
at her my hatred grows.
Manya... What noW?
We must surrender.
— Yeah, but hoW?
— How should I knoW?
I've never done it before.
I've got no experience.
— Where to?
— The soldiers are coming.
— Got to hide the chicks away.
— Take it and wave.
Got a doctor somewhere?
We need a doctor!
— For a wounded?
— A woman.
ummnm
Hallo! Anyone there?
Open up.
Let go, I told you!
0h, damn you.
And go to hell.
BEEN???“
It must be a pharmacy.
— What's this?
— Hands up!
— I thought it was a German.
— Hands up or I'll fire.
— What the hell?
— Harness it to my cart.
I'll take your horse
But spare your life.
We must help each other.
Where are you from?
— From beyond the River Bug.
— Thank God.
— Why?
— Well, Pups,
I'd hate to keep
a Warsaw man at pistol point.
— Are we any worse?
— We suffered more in the war.
I was in a concentration camp.
— For contraband.
— 0f granades.
— I delivered no guests to the Germans.
— And I punched one German.
We've been through 2 pacifications.
I ran away from forced labor.
To rob me of everything.
Fire! Do it!
Oh, no. You're not my enemy
just your horse is my friend.
I need him.
— Is that so? Hands up!
— Not loaded.
We've a loaded one too.
You people from behind
the Bug've suffered too.
The army took my horse
and I must fetch an expert.
What expert?
A miller,
to get the mill working.
They sent a vet instead.
Drunk like hell.
— But he'll come in handy.
— A vet?
You're a godsend.
I need a clever hand
to help in childbirth.
Take the can
with the moonshine.
You'll trade it for
a horse with the army.
Hitch my cart on too.
We must help each other.
— Dad, we've got him.
— Sure!
It's here. A boy.
A boy? Couldn't he wait a bit?
I troubled the expert.
Mother was bad but
Mrs Kargul helped.
She delivered the baby.
Now we're as many
as the Karguls.
Unharness the mare.
— A doctor?
— For Manya.
— He'll look after us.
— I brought him.
— On my cart.
— He'sjust a vet.
My name's Kokeszko.
If you wish to be a miller's wife
I'll propose
and stick to the bargain.
— You're not a vet?
— I'm a miller.
And I paid 10 liters
of moonshine for you.
— Never buy things when you're drunk.
— Was I drunk?
What's the difference?
Where?
We're all friends here.
— Where's the can, Mania?
— It's where you put it.
— The priest's coming.
— 0n the cupboard outside.
— There it is.
— Wieczorek's wife's not here.
She'll come. She knows
she's to be god—mother.
Cry, it's good for you.
Vitia? Come here.
— Closer.
— I did.
Blow!
Like that.
Why are you skulking?
We could borrow it from Kargul.
Christening needs music.
I'll celebrate my son's
christening with this.
And I have to make all
holiday with that. Cover it up.
Who the devil can it be?
Blessed be the Lord.
He smelt a German and is yelling.
Takes after his grandpa.
Follow me, Father.
— Where's your woman?
— Her teeth are bad, she won't come.
So what we'll do noW?
No christening without a god—mother.
I'll get you one.
Wait and see.
— He went to fetch Yadzka.
— What?
Kargul's girl god—mother
to my son?
We're all equal before God.
— Better her than none.
— What noW?
— Stop it.
— Shall we send
the Rovered Father back?
Father
Here's your god—mother.
Not bad, eh?
In my parts
they prefer young ones.
Don't be upset, dear.
What do you ask
of God's Church?
Faith.
Go home at once!
Me and my daughter are parents
before marriage.
We're as good as engaged.
— What?
— Engagement.
— Yadzka!
— Where to?
You're our war booty.
So keep away
from the Karguls.
— Yadzka!
— Stop!
We've got a democracy.
And you'd make a slave of a man?
Yes.
Kmart-:14
When the war broke out
I swore not to marry.
Didn't want to get killed
and leave a widow.
Never.
I don't like to have debts.
— What of it?
— The war's over.
You know, what's better?
To stay an honest man.
But with a woman.
A couple's a godly number.
That's what they think
in Western Poland.
Where's the sheepskin, Vitia?
Granny'll sleep
like a queen now.
Now I believe we're home.
If only we didn't have
that "lectricity".
— Please, mum.
— What?
The filthy thiefl
Dad bought him
and Kargul's hooking
him for a son—in—law.
They'd give her to a stranger?
Not from our parts?
He wears trousers
and Kargul wants
an extra pair in the family.
Your property this?
You threw it away
and we can use it.
Who we?
0ne stove's not
enough for two families.
Go back to your work.
— Starting a new life by looting?
— It's democracy.
You're a scoundrel!
Look at this.
What's that?
An egg.
I found it.
Never seen a chicken egg?
We've eaten our chicken
long ago.
Take it.
— Thanks.
— You're welcome.
Giving away my egg, eh?
Could be from my chicken.
It couldn't.
I wouldn't have touched it.
I'd never touch your egg
either.
I'll give you 5 eggs for this one.
Yasko took the scourge of God
in his hands against you.
But I've got a rifle.
— So have I.
— You, squirt!
Did you say "Squirt"?
Wait, you!
A sickle'll do for you now.
There!
Lost your wits, have you?
Where'll I get such pots noW?
The new shirts!
— Wake up!
— Who the devil can it be?
They're looting the mill.
We need more men.
Get Kargul.
— Take your gun.
— ls Pawlak coming?
— 2 Pawlaks!
— Then I want another man too.
— Where's Kokeszko?
— Hurry up, man!
Hurry, I said.
You go first.
Order your woman about not me.
You go.
— Times have changed.
— Shsh, they might hear.
Leave it alone.
— You agreed
— Let it go.
You must help.
The widow's waiting.
Goods for goods.
Show her first.
Depend on my taste.
I'm not buying a pig in a poke.
Mary, this is
Hands up.
Higher!
— Where are you from?
— The neighboring village.
And you?
Want to steal our property,
thieves?
Quiet!
He brought us here.
— I bought him from you already.
— As a vet.
Now I'm selling a miller.
I'm a weak man.
They led me unto temptation
with a widow.
They need a miller.
But I'll stay with your girl
till my dying day.
I'd never touch the widow.
Too late. All to the wall.
Me too? Your son—in—laW?
Leave my son—in—law alone!
Yours is he?
Who captured him?
— Halt!
— You, thieves!
What are you doing?
They've gone.
Where to?
Stop!
— We held the mill.
— You brought the here, bum.
Hey, you!
What widows do you like?
I must have the miller.
Well?
Jesus Christ!
— So?
— 0K.
— Get him?
— He ran away.
God listened to us.
Kargul's got more mice than we.
Fair enough.
He deserves it.
But why should we have any?
Kargul doesn't worry about mice.
UNRRA gave him a horse.
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He's getting him tomorrow.
He chased away
our Yasko to America
and he has the cheek to take
a horse from them?
Hope he gets a bad one.
We must have a cat.
Go to the market tomorrow
and don't come back
without a horse,
a cat, I mean.
It's the end
at the very beginning.
How could you
ball it up so, God?
St. Joseph, St.Anthony
in real colours.
Hand made.
— Wait here!
— It's a deal?
10 women's dresses
and patent leather shoes.
— I want a cat.
— Why not a tiger?
Cats from Central Poland.
Hey, you!
Show these cats.
A German cat?
Don't be rude!
He's from Central Poland.
A good hunter?
He'll kill 50 mice in half a day.
You live far?
— I have a bike.
— Then you have no cat.
It costs.
I'll pay 2 sacks of wheat.
One is worth 500 zloties.
0K.
2 sacks and the bike.
The bike too?
The bike's German
and the cat's genuine Polish.
0K, take it.
UNRRA knows we're
in the wild west
so we get wild horses
not fit for work.
Once you bridle them you can plow
the ice with them.
— That's the trick.
— Dad!
Let the rope go, Kargul!
Not this crazy horse.
The quiet one's better than
Pawlak's mare.
Don't handle my problems.
See ifyou can handle him.
You'll see, I will.
In my own way.
What's going on?
Citizen, you need brains to handle
a horse not a rope.
What a lunatic.
He must've had
a merry—go—round before the war.
Fool! Bungler! Cur!
— Shoot him.
— He may be still alive.
I mean the stallion.
Stop! Vitia, don't!
— Stop!
— I can stop him.
— Hold it.
— He'll get his ass kicked.
That's a scoundrel.
— Jesus! He'll get himself killed.
— He'll pay for the horse.
He'll break his neck.
Casimir, Vitia's riding home.
What do you know! On a cat?
Hallo, there!
Mr. Pavlak!
Vitia saved us from getting
the worst gelding from UNRRA.
Dismount.
You went on your bike
and returned on somebody's horse?
A good stallion for our mare.
Mares, stallions!
Wait till I get at you!
Worshipping again?
Do the painting.
Should Pavlaks be worse
than Karguls?
Everything on the other side of
the fence is your enemy.
— The cat too?
— Yes. What the cat? Pussy, pussy.
Give back my cat
or I'll do you in.
I'm not keeping him.
He came on his own.
You put out 20 plates of milk.
Why not? My milk, my plates.
Vitia, hold me or
I'll tear him to bits.
Give me the brush!
— Why are you staring?
— It doesn't rhyme.
What've you scribbled there?
Is that what you are?
Against the regained territories,
are you? And for a Senate?
Have you gone mad?
No. I'm. against Kargul.
Is that your mark, Pawlak?
We work here like bees
and ants to achieve unity.
And you're disrupting it?
The cat was mine.
So the nation's to be split
because of your cat?
OK, I'll requisition that cat.
Sir administrator!
Don't turn me against democracy.
I've work to do.
You talk
as ifyou had a receipt
for that cat.
What if! got him
from Kargul?
I'll not give himaway!
No. Let the authorities decide.
The cat's from Central Poland.
I bought him for 2 sacks
of wheat and a bike.
Let the cat choose his master.
You've 2 cows and
I have a rifle.
Quiet, citizens. Pioneers.
I have a fair solution.
Listen!
Kargul will give you a sack of wheat
and a wheel from a bike.
Wait!
The cat'll stay in turns
3 days with each of you.
And do my mice on Sundays.
Catch your mice yourself.
— The cat's mine.
— That's my verdict.
— Give me the key.
— The mice've been at it again.
What day is it?
Friday.
Call the cat.
He works here today.
He's a prisoner.
They feed him on a string.
Kargul can't force the cat
to collaborate on my days.
— War again?
— About the cat.
Not a hair left of the cat's fur.
The 4th war in my lifetime.
Weapons've improved.
Kargul started it with a scythe
and I'll finish it with powder.
Why are you staring at
her like that?
I told you to hate
the Kargul tribe.
She'll be of age soon.
— She's not for you.
— But, Dad...
When I look hard at her
I dream of her
and hate her real bad.
Get on the other side.
Pawlak! Help!
They said just to push your head in
and you'd get through.
I did press hard.
You could do with a gate.
Here, sign this.
Kokeszko wants 2 witnesses
that he's a bachelor,
an elegible one.
And can be married.
The girl'll settle down at last.
Dad, Kargul...
He signed it too.
Have you eaten cowbane?
Sign, be a sport.
'Cause of you the girl
will not be a mother.
And we'll lose the miller.
Have you no civic spirit?
Don't civic spirit me.
Your fault I lost my cat.
What is a cat?
— Plus 2 sacks of wheat.
— And the bike.
— But you've found a treasure.
— What treasure?
And you keep mum about it.
I have no use
for the bloody thing.
It could thresh our wheat
and theirs in a day.
Use the fiail
or I'll thresh you.
If you could get a driving belt
you could pop down for a beer
and the work'd be done.
I've seen such a belt.
Kargul's got it.
Can you start the engine?
They invented stupid machines 'cause
they had weak hands.
As you will.
Sign it, Pawlak.
— I said lwon't.
— A summons to appear in court.
— Have you gone soft in the head?
— Monday
10 am, room number 5D.
The cat case.
— He was mine so I killed him.
— But Kargul gave you a sack of wheat
— and a wheel.
— Forget it.
That's why he's suing you.
First case about property
in my community.
Make dinner and take out the cows.
Hurry up.
Straight from court I'll buy
a ring
with a red stone.
Watered him? Give me the whip.
Don't fool around.
The threshing's waiting.
— Take it.
— Mum!
Court or no court butjustice
must be on our side.
Take more.
— Look after the baby.
— May God be with you.
See how it goes?
Quick, not like with the fiail.
Dad'll be mad when he finds
out about the belt.
— I'm not afraid of my old man.
— Nor I of mine.
Your wheat needs threshing too.
But when?
When they go the Court of Appeal.
Yadzka! Want me to help you?
No, I'll manage.
— I'll help if you like.
— Don't bother.
In that case lwill.
Good boy, did more than I told him.
Winnowed toe?
Did the devil give him a hand?
— Yadzka!
— Vitia!
Damn me...
Kargul, come here.
— Nice manners you taught your son.
— And you your daughter.
— Be caruful!
— Come here you!
I'll give you spanking
to remember!
Stop it.
She'll have to marry Kokeszko
even if he's a stranger.
Stupid.
Want to do such a favor to Pawlak?
After he won in the court?
— I have to this once.
— When's the wedding?
Quiet!
Why travel so far when there's
a stallion next door?
— You're talking.
— Your enemy's next door not a stallion.
Do as your father says.
The mare has to be mated.
In that case I want a rifle.
Right, Manya, give it to me.
Get on. I'll disarm myself
but let you have it.
Careful with the lock, it comes off.
What if Kargul starts
a war noW?
Don't worry.
I've 2 grenades
in my Sunday suit.
— What do you want here?
— Give back my stallion, thief.
Where is my stallion?
Stolen, was he?
I'll blow you up
and you'll see him from heaven.
I'll drag you to the police.
Shame on you!
In your underwear?
Where's my horse?
I'm no fortune—teller.
Great news. Our neighbor's
stallion was stolen.
What a pity. Such a fine beast.
American too.
Yadzka's vanished.
Vitia's been
away 5 days now.
Give me my coat.
mm
— Vitia?
— Yeah?
What noW?
— What is it?
— It's day, isn't it?
— So what?
— Dad'll punish me again.
— Did he beat you up?
— No, but he will now.
Stop blubbering.
No one's going to beat you any more.
You'll stay with me.
How'll I show myself home noW?
— Where did you hear my son?
— Here.
Leave the horse.
We'll set up our own home.
Maybe they'll forgive me.
You'll be fine with me.
Plenty of empty houses here.
We'll take one and that'll be that.
— A pity to shoot the horse.
— Not your son though.
— Your daughter's there.
— I have 3 bullets.
You wanna play father to my son?
That'll be the end of you, you crumb.
Come, Yadzka!
— 0ur fathers are here!
— Will you marry me?
Get behind the rock.
Asking now of all times.
— Vitia!
— Yadzka!
Where is he?
Vitia, wait!
No worry...
I'll show you when you get home.
— You wanted a foal, did you?
— And you a stallion.
Want me to fetch the doc?
I want you to be an obedient son.
Listen: See that the mare foals.
Marry Vitia off rich.
Get Pavel used to the gun as a child.
As long as Kargul's alive.
Remember.
Come on, Mother.
Mum!
Don't be scared.
My mother's end is near.
We're all in for it.
Can't be helped.
I want you to help us
with the priest.
With the Extreme Unction.
He talks only German.
She'd rather see the devil than me.
She's no choice now.
And we'll square our deals later.
I'd rather listen
to the priest than to you.
— Leave that!
— The devil knows what you may do.
0ne funeral's enough in one week.
Come on.
Casimir.
When was she to confession last?
She says about 2 months ago.
2 months.
Isn't she cheating?
He talks so much.
How can I knoW?
Maybe the German speech is so long.
May she only get to purgatory
with this German confession.
God will be merciful.
Eternal rest give unto her, Lord.
May she rest in peace.
I've got a widow for you.
The first funeral here
and you talk of earthlyjoys.
Let us pray for the soul
of the deceased Eleonora.
— Where's Yadzka?
— Don't ask.
We won't come back
while you thrive on malice.
Come to the fence.
I'I'I IT?! um
I'm coming too, see?
Now do what I do.
I've taken my hat off but
I don't know what to.
To the end of our silliness.
A good thing too.
Weep, don't be ashamed.
It's a holiday when
a real man's crying.
That's true.
See?
Jesus!
Something's happening there.
Police!
Police! And then
— What do you want?
— I thought you needed me.
Kargul sent you that
I may lose my brother again?
Yasko, listen!
And then...
You forgot Father's oath,
so forget my too.
Me a god—father to Kargul's brood?
Anybody?
Damn it!
Quiet, quiet.
There'll be more of us than
the Karguls. You're a Pawlak.
Here's your earth, brother.
Earth?
Good earth.
So it is, brother.
We want no better one.
Man alive,Yasko!
Here you are at last!
— Let's push it.
It'll go. It's got an engine.
We'll miss him.
Take your seats.
60 to your grandma.
Open up.
Get off the car.
— Damn this car.
— Get offquick.
— Let's take a short cut, Dad.
— That's the best way.
Pull up your trousers, Casimir.
It's damp there.
— Don't ruin your suit.
— I'll catch up with you.
— Don't worry.
— Let's run.
What a mix up with that taxi.
flight. It is late.
— Gee, that must be him.
— Casimir, your pants.
We must welcome him.
Yasko!
— Heavens!
— Casimir!
— Where's Mania?
— Recognize her?
She's worn a bit.
This is Vitia.
He was born a year after you left.
And that's my grandson.
One more Pawlak.
My kiddo. And that's Pavel.
He was born and baptized here.
A student now.
— I'm his god—father.
— Right.
Thanks for agreeing
to be god—father to Ania.
Say hello to your uncle,
children.
Is that Ania's mother?
Where's she from?
Whose daughter?
0ur neighbor's.
Let's take our guest home, Mania.
Pick up all the luggage, boys.
— See that it doesn't get lost.
— 0ur taxi broke down.
We hired a taxi. An American car
and it broke down just the same.
Here's the taxi.
See how late?
Patched her up?
Shall we get in?
— Is it far?
— Not really.
— Let's walk if it's not far.
— Your feet'll get sore.
I want to see your new land.
Go with the children.
I'll walk with Yasko.
Whom do you resemble, eh?
The Pawlaks.
I must tell you something.
— Wait. He may be hungry.
— On this occasion...
— Are you hungry?
— I've a taste for pumpkin
with milk noodles.
We've got no pumpkin.
Ask the Kokeszkis ifthey have
a pumpkin left.
Go right away.
A long way from here
To our Kruiewniki.
That's your god—father, baby.
Why is she so big?
She waited 8 months
for you, uncle.
It's Ania?
You're Ania and I'm John.
John, John...
It's Yasko in Polish.
Forgive us but to us.
You're not John,
just plain Yasko.
I've so much to say, so I'll begin with
the most important words.
Man alive, here you are
at last.
Casimir.
You swore to Dad
to come back to your land.
Take your seat.
Come, Grazinka.
So you came here from
your world travels.
A brick home too not
a thatched one
like at Kruiewniki.
With tiled sensible roof.
As fire—control demands.
My snapshots.
I worked here in the war.
That's where I live and
where I'll die.
The only thing from back home.
It belonged to Dad.
— Got a hand—mill?
— You can't get them now.
Listen to what I've got to say.
I'm an old man.
I've come to say goodbye.
Don't talk like that.
You'll live to be a hundred.
You must give me some earth.
From Kruiewniki.
Mother brought it in a bag.
For my grave in Detroit.
We must live and die here.
That's where we belong.
You're master here
as much as I am.
I miss our land there.
Remember Grandpa's pear tree?
What do you know of the land here?
Nothing.
You had to emigrate
because of the land there.
I had to because of Kargul.
It was ages ago.
— I'll never forgive him.
— He wasn't so bad.
Remember how Dad found his cow
in our field?
May you smart for abusing me like that.
Come to the fence, Pawlak.
— Why should I?
— Come, I say.
Just as I do.
See this?
You've got it all wrong.
It was Dad who gave cowbane
to his stallion.
Even God turned away
from Kargul.
Not God surely.
Yasko.
Three fingers.
Thank you, God,
for using my hand to punish Kargul.
I swear by all that's sacred
to come back
for a handful of earth so that
our bones may rest in peace.
Strike the Kargul tribe
and their fields with the plagues
of Egypt, oh God.
0nly make no mistake
and don't afilict us,
the Pawlaks.
Kargul's neighbors.
We hold on to our border.
We have a right
to protect our land.
Because you created it
and ordained it for us.
We've started a new Poland
Here with our neighbor.
— He's from our parts?
— Yes. Everybody here is.
— She's a native here.
— Just like me.
I must tell you about Noah's ark
which rolled on rails
through the flood.
It jerked, whistled
and rolled on.
We'd travel one day and stop for two.
A week has 7 days,
a month 4 weeks
and the train had
48 cattle—cars.
Look, a man!
Where? Where?
No. Only a native
from these parts.
Shall we leave the train
before there's more of us?
You're a dummy!
The thing's to leave
it before we run out of fodder.
Where shall we get holy
water for the baby?
— You eat it.
— Must keep her fit for work.
How'll lfind my Kaspar in Heaven?
The sky's different here.
It's heaven here as it is.
No bum ofa Kargul next door.
For this alone we won the war.
Dad, our neighbors.
— It's them.
— Neighbors?
— Cattle that's what it is.
— It's the neighbours!
What's got into you, Vitia?
— See that coW?
— What about it?
I know it.
There was only one cow like this one.
At Kruiewniki.
Kargul's Mookie.
The Karguls are here.
The bandits. It seems
we've arrived.
Why is it moving?
— Stop!
— We'll uncouple it here!
Why these long faces?
We're among friends.
Friends? Kargul's our
worst enemy.
So what? But he belongs with us.
We've nourished him with our blood.
—Couldn't we stop somwhere else?
—Don't be upset, Mania.
Why look for a new enemy
when he's here?
— Wouldn't be fair.
— Yeah...
Here we are.
— Get off, Granny.
— My God...
You have a choice.
You could find
a better house in the village.
I don't want a better one.
But my own.
Give me the bag with the earth.
We're home.
What kind of a home's this?
Without a proper stove.
You can bake in it,
but can you sleep on it?
Did you see the Karguls?
Where are we, Dad?
A globe, see?
Have a good look,
see ifyou can find some vodka.
I'm an honest man.
My word's dearer to me than money.
— Here goes our money.
— We'll make more.
Put up the flag
on the roof, Vitia.
Here?
Higher. At the very top.
— What do you see.
— It's like on a ship here.
But there's no sea here!
Nothing in sight.
And quiet like in the desert.
Where have we come to?
Not to Poland maybe?
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What a place to have my baby!
Come to the fence, Kargul.
I'I'I IT?! um
Come over.
Do as I say.
0K. What noW?
Now take off your hat.
As I did.
Why?
Because our migration
of nations is at an end.
And the war we fought
to win the peace.
Now weep.
Don't be ashamed.
No one's seeing you.
Everyone's crying anyway.
— Vladek!
— Casimir!
Why aren't you crying?
We'll be making it up many times yet.
I'd rather watch.
That's for luck.
— You embraced Kargul?
— I did
— The same who...
— Yeah, he welcomes you now.
Is that how you remember
Dad's oath?
Give her to me.
And what nuts? Want to bruise your
elder brother?
The god—father?
Let go! Somebody'll pay
with his head.
Stay out when brothers
greet each other.
Yasko gave it to you.
I've been waiting
for you 40 years.
Go away.
I won't lose my brother
again because of you.
Don't start again.
You did it once.
— I started.
— And I'll finish.
Who asked you to live
next door to us?
And why did you steal 3 fingers
of our land back home?
Pick on your woman
not on me.
Hold me or I'll
kill the cur.
Yasko! Where are you going?
Wait!
Dumb—head,
you were to sit in the crib
until I finished my welcome.
We've balled up things
and the devil deals the cards.
Yasko, wait!
I want nothing from you,
only some earth from the bag.
It's a real mix up with you.
Did you forget Polish?
Listen to me first.
Then say what you
have you say.
Real Kruiewniki milk.
Mookie's.
God bless. Come in
for a chat.
— What're you staring at?
— Your awkward steps.
Look at the teacher.
I could teach you.
Just don't feel like it.
I can do without your help.
Will you marry her?
— Looking for company at the well?
— For a dance partner.
Careful.They may hear
and come for you.
Who?
The drowned men.
Girls shouldn't look
into wells.
The drowned may take a fancy to them.
You look 3 years elder
at close range.
So do you.
Casimir!
Have you seen Father?
Must be in the fields.
You know, Vladek...
We traveled so far
and still came across each other.
Must be fate.
I had no real grudge
against you.
Yasko was young when
he slashed me with that scythe.
Our people were dumb
from want and ignorance.
No more fights.
— No border between our fields.
— Right.
You can have all the land here.
No one's going to measure
it by the spoon.
Your woman's expecting soon.
Mookie'll provide milk
for all of us.
You're farming
without a horse.
I brought my mare
from Kruiewniki.
Use it until you get a horse.
We're good neighbors.
A plague on you!
May you smart
for abusing me.
Back to your field.
Your brother tried
to kill me once.
Now you're having a go at it.
Why not?
There's nothing sacred to you.
What's so sacred
in a cow, friend?
Take care, Dad!
A border's sacred!
— Mines!
— Mines, Dad!
— You lead the way.
— You go first.
— Your field, you go.
— I let my guests go first.
Think I'll be scared?
Remember, a border's sacred.
Or I'll teach you
a lesson with a scythe.
You see any borders here?
You can have all
the land up to the sky.
Take, what you want.
No one'll measure it by fingers
as you did back home.
I took as much land
as it suited me. That's sacred.
What times! The fool
leads the way.
What? Wait till
I get my scythe!
To knock off your
stupid head.
The stupider one'll come off.
Meaning whose?
Yours.
You meat—head.
Stop it!
Keep away from our property.
And you from ours.
I swore to Dad.
And so it's to be for ever.
Amen.
Vitia, come here.
We must tend our land.
Plow it.
HoW? It's spiced with mines like
a pudding with cracklings.
The land grows wild
if you neglect it.
Hand me the gas can.
Run for it!
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The Germans!
Come quick!
Hurry!
— Where are you going?
— To the Pawlak's cellar.
Better got killed together.
We've only been here 5 days
and it's starting again.
Hurry up.
lil'l'ITH
Kargul's Mookie saved us.
15, 16, 17. You count now.
We had poor schooling, Dad.
To the barn, Vitia!
Dad! Come here!
To the cellar, Mother!
— We're surrounded.
— By whom?
Another German 0ccupation.
Boys are shooting
with potassium chlorate at Easter.
I cleared our field
of the mines.
What the hell?
— He's asking ifwe can shoot.
— What for?
Hands up first
then ask questions.
We must defend ourselves,
Poles, aren't you?
Who are you?
Wieczorek, a native here.
What's the danger?
The Germans.
I was Schulmeister here.
A school doorkeeper.
Soldiers are coming.
What soldiers?
Polish.
— Who are they attacking?
— Us.
What the hell for?
The mines.
They think it's the Wehrvelves.
You started the 3rd war
when the 2nd just ended.
The Russians'll
finish it quick.
How many times
can you get liberated?
Hush!Upset? Haven't you
got used to it yet?
”ITEM
Your eyes cling
to her like women to a bishop.
— We made trouble with the mines.
— Don't lead me a dance.
I have to look hard at her
before I forget her.
— Why?
— What ifwe get killed?
My command should be
a law to you all your life.
You're to hate
all the Kargul tribe.
When I look hard
at her my hatred grows.
Manya... What noW?
We must surrender.
— Yeah, but hoW?
— How should I knoW?
I've never done it before.
I've got no experience.
— Where to?
— The soldiers are coming.
— Got to hide the chicks away.
— Take it and wave.
Got a doctor somewhere?
We need a doctor!
— For a wounded?
— A woman.
ummnm
Hallo! Anyone there?
Open up.
Let go, I told you!
0h, damn you.
And go to hell.
BEEN???“
It must be a pharmacy.
— What's this?
— Hands up!
— I thought it was a German.
— Hands up or I'll fire.
— What the hell?
— Harness it to my cart.
I'll take your horse
But spare your life.
We must help each other.
Where are you from?
— From beyond the River Bug.
— Thank God.
— Why?
— Well, Pups,
I'd hate to keep
a Warsaw man at pistol point.
— Are we any worse?
— We suffered more in the war.
I was in a concentration camp.
— For contraband.
— 0f granades.
— I delivered no guests to the Germans.
— And I punched one German.
We've been through 2 pacifications.
I ran away from forced labor.
To rob me of everything.
Fire! Do it!
Oh, no. You're not my enemy
just your horse is my friend.
I need him.
— Is that so? Hands up!
— Not loaded.
We've a loaded one too.
You people from behind
the Bug've suffered too.
The army took my horse
and I must fetch an expert.
What expert?
A miller,
to get the mill working.
They sent a vet instead.
Drunk like hell.
— But he'll come in handy.
— A vet?
You're a godsend.
I need a clever hand
to help in childbirth.
Take the can
with the moonshine.
You'll trade it for
a horse with the army.
Hitch my cart on too.
We must help each other.
— Dad, we've got him.
— Sure!
It's here. A boy.
A boy? Couldn't he wait a bit?
I troubled the expert.
Mother was bad but
Mrs Kargul helped.
She delivered the baby.
Now we're as many
as the Karguls.
Unharness the mare.
— A doctor?
— For Manya.
— He'll look after us.
— I brought him.
— On my cart.
— He'sjust a vet.
My name's Kokeszko.
If you wish to be a miller's wife
I'll propose
and stick to the bargain.
— You're not a vet?
— I'm a miller.
And I paid 10 liters
of moonshine for you.
— Never buy things when you're drunk.
— Was I drunk?
What's the difference?
Where?
We're all friends here.
— Where's the can, Mania?
— It's where you put it.
— The priest's coming.
— 0n the cupboard outside.
— There it is.
— Wieczorek's wife's not here.
She'll come. She knows
she's to be god—mother.
Cry, it's good for you.
Vitia? Come here.
— Closer.
— I did.
Blow!
Like that.
Why are you skulking?
We could borrow it from Kargul.
Christening needs music.
I'll celebrate my son's
christening with this.
And I have to make all
holiday with that. Cover it up.
Who the devil can it be?
Blessed be the Lord.
He smelt a German and is yelling.
Takes after his grandpa.
Follow me, Father.
— Where's your woman?
— Her teeth are bad, she won't come.
So what we'll do noW?
No christening without a god—mother.
I'll get you one.
Wait and see.
— He went to fetch Yadzka.
— What?
Kargul's girl god—mother
to my son?
We're all equal before God.
— Better her than none.
— What noW?
— Stop it.
— Shall we send
the Rovered Father back?
Father
Here's your god—mother.
Not bad, eh?
In my parts
they prefer young ones.
Don't be upset, dear.
What do you ask
of God's Church?
Faith.
Go home at once!
Me and my daughter are parents
before marriage.
We're as good as engaged.
— What?
— Engagement.
— Yadzka!
— Where to?
You're our war booty.
So keep away
from the Karguls.
— Yadzka!
— Stop!
We've got a democracy.
And you'd make a slave of a man?
Yes.
Kmart-:14
When the war broke out
I swore not to marry.
Didn't want to get killed
and leave a widow.
Never.
I don't like to have debts.
— What of it?
— The war's over.
You know, what's better?
To stay an honest man.
But with a woman.
A couple's a godly number.
That's what they think
in Western Poland.
Where's the sheepskin, Vitia?
Granny'll sleep
like a queen now.
Now I believe we're home.
If only we didn't have
that "lectricity".
— Please, mum.
— What?
The filthy thiefl
Dad bought him
and Kargul's hooking
him for a son—in—law.
They'd give her to a stranger?
Not from our parts?
He wears trousers
and Kargul wants
an extra pair in the family.
Your property this?
You threw it away
and we can use it.
Who we?
0ne stove's not
enough for two families.
Go back to your work.
— Starting a new life by looting?
— It's democracy.
You're a scoundrel!
Look at this.
What's that?
An egg.
I found it.
Never seen a chicken egg?
We've eaten our chicken
long ago.
Take it.
— Thanks.
— You're welcome.
Giving away my egg, eh?
Could be from my chicken.
It couldn't.
I wouldn't have touched it.
I'd never touch your egg
either.
I'll give you 5 eggs for this one.
Yasko took the scourge of God
in his hands against you.
But I've got a rifle.
— So have I.
— You, squirt!
Did you say "Squirt"?
Wait, you!
A sickle'll do for you now.
There!
Lost your wits, have you?
Where'll I get such pots noW?
The new shirts!
— Wake up!
— Who the devil can it be?
They're looting the mill.
We need more men.
Get Kargul.
— Take your gun.
— ls Pawlak coming?
— 2 Pawlaks!
— Then I want another man too.
— Where's Kokeszko?
— Hurry up, man!
Hurry, I said.
You go first.
Order your woman about not me.
You go.
— Times have changed.
— Shsh, they might hear.
Leave it alone.
— You agreed
— Let it go.
You must help.
The widow's waiting.
Goods for goods.
Show her first.
Depend on my taste.
I'm not buying a pig in a poke.
Mary, this is
Hands up.
Higher!
— Where are you from?
— The neighboring village.
And you?
Want to steal our property,
thieves?
Quiet!
He brought us here.
— I bought him from you already.
— As a vet.
Now I'm selling a miller.
I'm a weak man.
They led me unto temptation
with a widow.
They need a miller.
But I'll stay with your girl
till my dying day.
I'd never touch the widow.
Too late. All to the wall.
Me too? Your son—in—laW?
Leave my son—in—law alone!
Yours is he?
Who captured him?
— Halt!
— You, thieves!
What are you doing?
They've gone.
Where to?
Stop!
— We held the mill.
— You brought the here, bum.
Hey, you!
What widows do you like?
I must have the miller.
Well?
Jesus Christ!
— So?
— 0K.
— Get him?
— He ran away.
God listened to us.
Kargul's got more mice than we.
Fair enough.
He deserves it.
But why should we have any?
Kargul doesn't worry about mice.
UNRRA gave him a horse.
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He's getting him tomorrow.
He chased away
our Yasko to America
and he has the cheek to take
a horse from them?
Hope he gets a bad one.
We must have a cat.
Go to the market tomorrow
and don't come back
without a horse,
a cat, I mean.
It's the end
at the very beginning.
How could you
ball it up so, God?
St. Joseph, St.Anthony
in real colours.
Hand made.
— Wait here!
— It's a deal?
10 women's dresses
and patent leather shoes.
— I want a cat.
— Why not a tiger?
Cats from Central Poland.
Hey, you!
Show these cats.
A German cat?
Don't be rude!
He's from Central Poland.
A good hunter?
He'll kill 50 mice in half a day.
You live far?
— I have a bike.
— Then you have no cat.
It costs.
I'll pay 2 sacks of wheat.
One is worth 500 zloties.
0K.
2 sacks and the bike.
The bike too?
The bike's German
and the cat's genuine Polish.
0K, take it.
UNRRA knows we're
in the wild west
so we get wild horses
not fit for work.
Once you bridle them you can plow
the ice with them.
— That's the trick.
— Dad!
Let the rope go, Kargul!
Not this crazy horse.
The quiet one's better than
Pawlak's mare.
Don't handle my problems.
See ifyou can handle him.
You'll see, I will.
In my own way.
What's going on?
Citizen, you need brains to handle
a horse not a rope.
What a lunatic.
He must've had
a merry—go—round before the war.
Fool! Bungler! Cur!
— Shoot him.
— He may be still alive.
I mean the stallion.
Stop! Vitia, don't!
— Stop!
— I can stop him.
— Hold it.
— He'll get his ass kicked.
That's a scoundrel.
— Jesus! He'll get himself killed.
— He'll pay for the horse.
He'll break his neck.
Casimir, Vitia's riding home.
What do you know! On a cat?
Hallo, there!
Mr. Pavlak!
Vitia saved us from getting
the worst gelding from UNRRA.
Dismount.
You went on your bike
and returned on somebody's horse?
A good stallion for our mare.
Mares, stallions!
Wait till I get at you!
Worshipping again?
Do the painting.
Should Pavlaks be worse
than Karguls?
Everything on the other side of
the fence is your enemy.
— The cat too?
— Yes. What the cat? Pussy, pussy.
Give back my cat
or I'll do you in.
I'm not keeping him.
He came on his own.
You put out 20 plates of milk.
Why not? My milk, my plates.
Vitia, hold me or
I'll tear him to bits.
Give me the brush!
— Why are you staring?
— It doesn't rhyme.
What've you scribbled there?
Is that what you are?
Against the regained territories,
are you? And for a Senate?
Have you gone mad?
No. I'm. against Kargul.
Is that your mark, Pawlak?
We work here like bees
and ants to achieve unity.
And you're disrupting it?
The cat was mine.
So the nation's to be split
because of your cat?
OK, I'll requisition that cat.
Sir administrator!
Don't turn me against democracy.
I've work to do.
You talk
as ifyou had a receipt
for that cat.
What if! got him
from Kargul?
I'll not give himaway!
No. Let the authorities decide.
The cat's from Central Poland.
I bought him for 2 sacks
of wheat and a bike.
Let the cat choose his master.
You've 2 cows and
I have a rifle.
Quiet, citizens. Pioneers.
I have a fair solution.
Listen!
Kargul will give you a sack of wheat
and a wheel from a bike.
Wait!
The cat'll stay in turns
3 days with each of you.
And do my mice on Sundays.
Catch your mice yourself.
— The cat's mine.
— That's my verdict.
— Give me the key.
— The mice've been at it again.
What day is it?
Friday.
Call the cat.
He works here today.
He's a prisoner.
They feed him on a string.
Kargul can't force the cat
to collaborate on my days.
— War again?
— About the cat.
Not a hair left of the cat's fur.
The 4th war in my lifetime.
Weapons've improved.
Kargul started it with a scythe
and I'll finish it with powder.
Why are you staring at
her like that?
I told you to hate
the Kargul tribe.
She'll be of age soon.
— She's not for you.
— But, Dad...
When I look hard at her
I dream of her
and hate her real bad.
Get on the other side.
Pawlak! Help!
They said just to push your head in
and you'd get through.
I did press hard.
You could do with a gate.
Here, sign this.
Kokeszko wants 2 witnesses
that he's a bachelor,
an elegible one.
And can be married.
The girl'll settle down at last.
Dad, Kargul...
He signed it too.
Have you eaten cowbane?
Sign, be a sport.
'Cause of you the girl
will not be a mother.
And we'll lose the miller.
Have you no civic spirit?
Don't civic spirit me.
Your fault I lost my cat.
What is a cat?
— Plus 2 sacks of wheat.
— And the bike.
— But you've found a treasure.
— What treasure?
And you keep mum about it.
I have no use
for the bloody thing.
It could thresh our wheat
and theirs in a day.
Use the fiail
or I'll thresh you.
If you could get a driving belt
you could pop down for a beer
and the work'd be done.
I've seen such a belt.
Kargul's got it.
Can you start the engine?
They invented stupid machines 'cause
they had weak hands.
As you will.
Sign it, Pawlak.
— I said lwon't.
— A summons to appear in court.
— Have you gone soft in the head?
— Monday
10 am, room number 5D.
The cat case.
— He was mine so I killed him.
— But Kargul gave you a sack of wheat
— and a wheel.
— Forget it.
That's why he's suing you.
First case about property
in my community.
Make dinner and take out the cows.
Hurry up.
Straight from court I'll buy
a ring
with a red stone.
Watered him? Give me the whip.
Don't fool around.
The threshing's waiting.
— Take it.
— Mum!
Court or no court butjustice
must be on our side.
Take more.
— Look after the baby.
— May God be with you.
See how it goes?
Quick, not like with the fiail.
Dad'll be mad when he finds
out about the belt.
— I'm not afraid of my old man.
— Nor I of mine.
Your wheat needs threshing too.
But when?
When they go the Court of Appeal.
Yadzka! Want me to help you?
No, I'll manage.
— I'll help if you like.
— Don't bother.
In that case lwill.
Good boy, did more than I told him.
Winnowed toe?
Did the devil give him a hand?
— Yadzka!
— Vitia!
Damn me...
Kargul, come here.
— Nice manners you taught your son.
— And you your daughter.
— Be caruful!
— Come here you!
I'll give you spanking
to remember!
Stop it.
She'll have to marry Kokeszko
even if he's a stranger.
Stupid.
Want to do such a favor to Pawlak?
After he won in the court?
— I have to this once.
— When's the wedding?
Quiet!
Why travel so far when there's
a stallion next door?
— You're talking.
— Your enemy's next door not a stallion.
Do as your father says.
The mare has to be mated.
In that case I want a rifle.
Right, Manya, give it to me.
Get on. I'll disarm myself
but let you have it.
Careful with the lock, it comes off.
What if Kargul starts
a war noW?
Don't worry.
I've 2 grenades
in my Sunday suit.
— What do you want here?
— Give back my stallion, thief.
Where is my stallion?
Stolen, was he?
I'll blow you up
and you'll see him from heaven.
I'll drag you to the police.
Shame on you!
In your underwear?
Where's my horse?
I'm no fortune—teller.
Great news. Our neighbor's
stallion was stolen.
What a pity. Such a fine beast.
American too.
Yadzka's vanished.
Vitia's been
away 5 days now.
Give me my coat.
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— Vitia?
— Yeah?
What noW?
— What is it?
— It's day, isn't it?
— So what?
— Dad'll punish me again.
— Did he beat you up?
— No, but he will now.
Stop blubbering.
No one's going to beat you any more.
You'll stay with me.
How'll I show myself home noW?
— Where did you hear my son?
— Here.
Leave the horse.
We'll set up our own home.
Maybe they'll forgive me.
You'll be fine with me.
Plenty of empty houses here.
We'll take one and that'll be that.
— A pity to shoot the horse.
— Not your son though.
— Your daughter's there.
— I have 3 bullets.
You wanna play father to my son?
That'll be the end of you, you crumb.
Come, Yadzka!
— 0ur fathers are here!
— Will you marry me?
Get behind the rock.
Asking now of all times.
— Vitia!
— Yadzka!
Where is he?
Vitia, wait!
No worry...
I'll show you when you get home.
— You wanted a foal, did you?
— And you a stallion.
Want me to fetch the doc?
I want you to be an obedient son.
Listen: See that the mare foals.
Marry Vitia off rich.
Get Pavel used to the gun as a child.
As long as Kargul's alive.
Remember.
Come on, Mother.
Mum!
Don't be scared.
My mother's end is near.
We're all in for it.
Can't be helped.
I want you to help us
with the priest.
With the Extreme Unction.
He talks only German.
She'd rather see the devil than me.
She's no choice now.
And we'll square our deals later.
I'd rather listen
to the priest than to you.
— Leave that!
— The devil knows what you may do.
0ne funeral's enough in one week.
Come on.
Casimir.
When was she to confession last?
She says about 2 months ago.
2 months.
Isn't she cheating?
He talks so much.
How can I knoW?
Maybe the German speech is so long.
May she only get to purgatory
with this German confession.
God will be merciful.
Eternal rest give unto her, Lord.
May she rest in peace.
I've got a widow for you.
The first funeral here
and you talk of earthlyjoys.
Let us pray for the soul
of the deceased Eleonora.
— Where's Yadzka?
— Don't ask.
We won't come back
while you thrive on malice.
Come to the fence.
I'I'I IT?! um
I'm coming too, see?
Now do what I do.
I've taken my hat off but
I don't know what to.
To the end of our silliness.
A good thing too.
Weep, don't be ashamed.
It's a holiday when
a real man's crying.
That's true.
See?
Jesus!
Something's happening there.
Police!
Police! And then
— What do you want?
— I thought you needed me.
Kargul sent you that
I may lose my brother again?
Yasko, listen!
And then...
You forgot Father's oath,
so forget my too.
Me a god—father to Kargul's brood?
Anybody?
Damn it!
Quiet, quiet.
There'll be more of us than
the Karguls. You're a Pawlak.
Here's your earth, brother.
Earth?
Good earth.
So it is, brother.
We want no better one.
Man alive,Yasko!
Here you are at last!