Katyn

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00:02:57 September 1 7, 1 939
00:03:17 Where to, foIks?!
00:03:20 There are Germans behind us!
00:03:23 The Soviets have entered!
00:03:33 Where are you going?
00:03:37 The Russkies have entered!
00:03:44 Faster!
00:03:45 Germans are behind us...
00:04:21 Mrs. Anna!... Mrs. Anna!...
00:04:26 I'm Iooking for my husband.
00:04:29 You don't know?
00:04:33 My husband toId me to return
00:04:39 My husband knows
00:04:42 - Madam...
00:04:45 Why jeopardize yourseIf and the kid?
00:04:50 - Madame, pIease.
00:05:03 Nika!
00:05:07 Where are you?!
00:05:11 Nika...
00:05:14 Come, doggie.
00:05:17 I toId you to stick with me!
00:05:20 He's aIone and scared.
00:05:23 We can't. We're in a hurry.
00:05:32 Excuse me, do you
00:05:34 - Cracow UhIan Regiment is?
00:05:39 And the officers?
00:05:45 There's a hospitaI
00:05:48 They may know something.
00:06:42 - Is dad there?
00:07:19 ln nomine Patris, et Filii,
00:07:32 - Mom, the coat.
00:07:35 Dad's coat.
00:07:43 HoId this.
00:08:06 - What's happening?
00:08:10 The president's address!
00:08:13 ... until today has
00:08:17 of the overwhelming
00:08:21 our eastern neighbor
00:08:27 of covenants, and the immutable
00:08:32 Warsaw as the capital
00:08:37 - Who's that?
00:08:41 - The Soviets are everywhere.
00:08:44 The POW's are at the station
00:08:49 - They were to be transported to Russia.
00:08:53 - You can Ieave her with me.
00:08:56 Wait here.
00:08:59 I have another bicycIe.
00:09:03 - I'II be right back.
00:09:06 Take the bicycIe
00:09:12 September 1 7, 1 939
00:09:16 The Bolsheviks have entered.
00:09:20 Surrounded by Soviet tanks,
00:09:28 They take us for POW's
00:09:34 They have separated the officers
00:09:38 but have retained us, the officers.
00:09:41 l'll try to write from time to time
00:09:45 what happen to me
00:09:50 Maybe this notebook
00:09:54 - They're dividing us.
00:09:57 What're you doing?
00:09:59 I've decided to describe
00:10:02 day by day.
00:10:04 The Germans take our soIdiers,
00:10:08 Makes no difference.
00:10:12 No honor to an officer.
00:10:14 - I see onIy the dark side.
00:10:17 Moscow hasn't signed
00:10:31 How Iong do you think
00:10:34 HitIer decIared
00:10:38 and communism is forever.
00:10:40 Greetings to the representatives
00:10:44 First Lieutenant of the NKVD KozIov.
00:10:47 thousand years at Ieast.
00:10:49 - You never Iose your sense of humor.
00:10:57 - How goes it, comrades?
00:11:01 Their aIIiance won't Iast a year,
00:11:04 which means they'II
00:11:07 Who?
00:11:10 One transport to SmoIensk,
00:11:14 and the third to Kharkov.
00:11:17 - nna? Your wife?
00:11:25 What're you doing here, nna?
00:11:29 - Where's Nika?
00:11:32 - ndrzej, I thought...
00:11:36 You'II see her
00:11:39 What presbytery?
00:11:43 What presbytery?
00:11:45 Nearby. I have another
00:11:48 They're not watching cIoseIy.
00:11:52 What do you mean?
00:11:54 I want you to be with us,
00:11:56 to take care of me
00:11:59 nna, Iisten to me...
00:12:02 You're a wife of a PoIish officer.
00:12:06 This conversation is pointIess.
00:12:10 PointIess? I've traveIed across
00:12:15 I'm bound by my miIitary pIedge.
00:12:21 You swore to me...
00:12:26 TiII death do us part,
00:12:30 I swore to them too.
00:12:37 You just don't Iove us.
00:12:39 - By God, nna, caIm down.
00:12:47 I beg you, ndrzej...
00:12:52 No taIking to the prisoner!
00:12:54 - ndrzej.
00:13:00 - Daddy!
00:13:03 Don't go away!
00:13:11 Take her.
00:13:13 - Take her away.
00:13:18 Take care.
00:14:59 Nika!
00:15:10 Daddy!
00:15:12 Daddy!
00:15:19 Daddy!
00:15:28 THE YOUNGEST CAVLRY CPTIN...
00:15:44 Maybe the navy bIue
00:15:49 No, thank you, my dear.
00:15:51 I thought you were working.
00:15:54 I found an oId paper
00:15:58 when he was the youngest
00:16:05 Our son Iives. He's in captivity,
00:16:13 Thank you.
00:16:16 - WiII you have a speech today?
00:16:20 We have to Iisten to the Iecture
00:16:24 - I toId you.
00:16:29 MuIIer. Doctor MuIIer.
00:16:46 Does he have
00:16:48 - that MuIIer?
00:16:53 poIice government adviser.
00:16:59 Dr. MuIIer.
00:17:02 Jan...
00:17:04 ... you don't want to go there?
00:17:09 Out of the question.
00:17:14 We can't Ieave
00:17:17 The Germans must beIieve
00:17:21 when it comes to the independence
00:17:33 Cracow, Nov. 6, 1 939
00:17:41 HeIIo... heIIo.
00:17:47 Yes, ChanceIIor.
00:18:06 GentIemen,
00:18:11 We have been informed
00:18:15 you start cIasses, seminars
00:18:22 You don't seem to reaIize
00:18:26 This kind of conduct
00:18:32 is a hostiIe act
00:18:39 In fact the university was aIways
00:18:44 against Germany, the center
00:18:48 The university is cIosed.
00:18:51 You aII are under arrest.
00:18:55 where you'II have enough time
00:18:59 - Excuse me...
00:19:03 I categoricaIIy protest
00:19:10 Comments are forbidden.
00:19:13 Whoever wiII try to disobey
00:19:15 orders wiII be shot.
00:20:20 November 1 939
00:20:26 Everybody fIed: poIice stations,
00:20:31 - treason.
00:20:34 - when you didn't fight.
00:20:37 The camp does not justify
00:20:41 - It's a fitting term: treason!
00:20:45 - The truth is quite different.
00:20:49 - where our C.-in-C. has fIed.
00:20:52 that we were unprepared?
00:20:54 History wiII judge
00:20:58 Rehearsed pIatitudes, those, I think
00:21:02 - I'm an engineer, I design pIanes.
00:21:07 - The PoIish uniform.
00:21:11 Don't jump at each other's throat.
00:21:18 We stiII take part
00:21:24 It's aII over with us.
00:21:26 Try to find peace with this,
00:21:59 November 1 939
00:22:03 The Soviet Red rmy
00:22:07 ny further resistance is
00:22:12 The Soviet Red rmy
00:22:17 OnIy she wiII Iiberate
00:22:22 So that you couId
00:22:42 I can't find it.
00:22:44 SiIence the baby.
00:22:47 - Name?
00:22:51 Wife of a cavaIry captain,
00:22:54 born in Cracow in 1 91 0,
00:22:58 This checks out. Everything's correct.
00:23:03 I aIready appIied twice for traveI
00:23:07 the GeneraI-Gouverenment, that is.
00:23:11 To my famiIy.
00:23:13 MussoIini envies us aIready.
00:23:16 That's what is in our fiIes.
00:23:19 nd you were refused twice.
00:23:23 I've appIied again.
00:23:29 Refused!
00:23:32 I used to Iive in Cracow before
00:23:37 She's a citizen of the GeneraI-
00:23:42 No!
00:23:44 Let me return to Krakow, pIease.
00:23:47 You can return of course,
00:23:51 It's cIear in bIack and white that
00:23:55 in captivity. Don't you want to
00:24:00 He'II be reIeased and
00:24:07 Name?
00:24:17 Cracow,
00:24:29 Where's Ewa?
00:24:33 Outside, Iooking
00:24:36 She wanted to Iook from here,
00:24:40 Where's the pIate for
00:24:45 I put it over here
00:24:49 This one is for the GeneraI.
00:25:03 Good.
00:26:19 Sir, I report that the first
00:26:22 Thank you.
00:26:42 GentIemen...
00:26:45 I have no doubts
00:26:49 we'II reminisce about our
00:26:52 None of us thought that
00:26:56 onIy for immediate victories. Defeat
00:27:01 ... and captivity,
00:27:03 but aIso a return home
00:27:08 You don't Iay down your arms before
00:27:12 So it's onIy up to you if you
00:27:20 few words to those,
00:27:22 who, not career officers,
00:27:26 and are the majority here,
00:27:30 Iawyers...
00:27:35 You must endure,
00:27:37 because there won't be a free
00:27:44 The aim for us, ordinary
00:27:48 again on the map of Europe.
00:27:51 Yet you'II have to make
00:27:57 I wish you as weII as myseIf
00:28:01 to return home safe and sound.
00:28:07 To meet our nearest and dearest
00:28:13 God is born on earth,
00:28:18 Lord bereft of
00:28:23 Lustrous flames fade,
00:28:29 lnfinite unending Wonder!
00:28:34 Scorned yet clothed
00:28:40 Mortal though
00:28:46 Thus the Word
00:28:51 Dwelling without end
00:29:11 I wonder if they'II Iet us go.
00:29:15 You can stay here as Iong
00:29:18 Tadek wiII sure stay with
00:29:22 whiIe Kazimierz is in StarobieIsk...
00:29:26 I've brought a samovar.
00:29:36 This is good medicine.
00:29:40 It wiII heIp.
00:29:42 Thank you.
00:29:58 Mrs. nna,
00:30:00 come to me for
00:30:04 Go. I'II watch over Nika.
00:30:24 PIease.
00:30:31 The tea must've gotten coId.
00:30:40 UnfortunateIy, it has.
00:30:46 Listen to me, nna.
00:30:49 PIease don't get me wrong.
00:30:51 I have your Iot and that
00:30:55 We taIked about it, Captain.
00:31:00 Yes, but the situation
00:31:03 You were afraid I'd seize the
00:31:08 Soon I'm off to
00:31:11 It's not the way there Iike they say.
00:31:16 You cannot know about that.
00:31:20 Maybe so.
00:31:25 s it happens,
00:31:27 we know what
00:31:30 If you marry me, then without
00:31:34 any consequences between us,
00:31:38 If I'm kiIIed, you as the wife
00:31:42 wiII find it easier to save
00:31:47 I have a husband.
00:31:51 You a wife of a PoIish officer.
00:31:56 I toId you
00:32:02 - They are no more.
00:32:06 I have Ietters from ndrzej,
00:32:13 nna...
00:32:23 I know I don't
00:32:27 We just Iive
00:32:30 I don't want anything for myseIf.
00:32:33 I'II teII you what
00:32:39 Wives of PoIish
00:32:46 Once, I wasn't abIe
00:32:52 but I'd Iike to rescue
00:32:57 PIease trust me.
00:33:02 PIease.
00:33:14 - Take two.
00:33:16 Let's go quick!
00:33:45 Nika!
00:33:57 - Where's my mommy?
00:34:02 Open up!
00:34:10 EIzbieta Ieksandrowna?
00:34:12 Born in Krakow in 1 909?
00:34:16 The wife of the PoIish rmy
00:34:20 Pack your things.
00:34:40 Jesus...
00:34:55 What happened?
00:34:57 Fire?
00:34:59 What're you doing here?
00:35:03 nd you?
00:35:05 - I report, Comrade Captain.
00:35:09 - We've come to arrest...
00:35:13 Who have you
00:35:16 No.
00:35:19 Here's a warrant.
00:35:22 nna Ieksandrowna,
00:35:27 wife of the PoIish
00:35:31 has a daughter Weronika.
00:35:34 No such person Iives here.
00:35:36 - How come?
00:35:41 For over a year.
00:35:51 - So we've come too Iate?
00:35:55 Search somewhere eIse.
00:35:58 We certainIy wiII.
00:36:09 Why is the girI crying?
00:36:11 Don't cry! Don't you want
00:36:15 You're going
00:36:57 Niki.
00:37:00 Mommy,
00:37:03 I know, dear.
00:37:07 I know.
00:37:17 - Thank you.
00:37:20 They'II be right back.
00:37:31 Thank you.
00:37:45 The German High Command
00:37:48 The situation near
00:37:53 German planes attacked
00:37:58 with MG fire and dispersed them.
00:38:03 Cracow,
00:38:06 A British cruiser was
00:38:10 My dear God...
00:38:14 You're here.
00:38:17 re you happy, Granny,
00:38:21 I am.
00:38:24 I'm happy...
00:38:27 my darIing.
00:38:32 - Don't you have doIIs, Grandma?
00:38:38 This is your dad's teddy bear.
00:38:50 It was worst on the border.
00:38:53 I spent aII my money and threw
00:38:57 When was the Iast time
00:39:00 In March. Everything
00:39:06 I'II show you.
00:39:14 ny news from Father?
00:39:16 - them write from Sachsenhausen?
00:39:20 not to provoke the censor.
00:39:22 That he's fine,
00:39:25 and he'II be back soon.
00:39:28 - nd you don't beIieve it?
00:39:35 Yes.
00:39:40 - I beIieve my misgivings.
00:39:43 They've been
00:39:46 Let us ceIebrate Xmas.
00:39:49 Don't teII anybody.
00:39:52 That 2nd Iieutenant
00:39:55 The men are in bad shape.
00:39:59 How Iong?
00:40:00 EngIand and France
00:40:03 They can't Ieave 20,000
00:40:07 Cannons or tanks
00:40:11 but a trained soIdier
00:40:15 I just hope it won't
00:40:18 Chin up, Iieutenant.
00:40:21 You don't Iook weII recentIy.
00:40:24 It's my kidneys
00:40:29 Here's a present for you.
00:40:32 - How come? nd you?
00:40:36 Mother prepared me for the war
00:40:39 This is her handwriting.
00:40:42 Thank you.
00:40:46 No need.
00:41:00 Mom,
00:41:03 Mr. WiesIaw's
00:41:06 - HeIIo, Madam.
00:41:09 It's from Germany.
00:41:11 You have to sign the receipt.
00:41:17 One moment. Here.
00:41:26 Thank you.
00:41:28 - PIease wait.
00:41:32 PIease forgive me.
00:41:40 Read, pIease.
00:41:51 The Sachsenhausen camp
00:41:55 regrets to inform you that
00:42:04 Prof. Jan died in jaiI of
00:43:04 - Jesus' hoIy name be praised.
00:43:32 - Here.
00:43:40 What's that Iist?
00:43:42 The names of aII
00:43:45 I have everybody from
00:43:49 Men are easy to Iose, but their famiIies
00:43:54 - s they say, diaries don't burn.
00:44:01 That's what wiII be Ieft of us.
00:44:16 I wonder where they send us?
00:44:18 - To neutraI countries maybe.
00:44:23 We were vaccinated against typhus.
00:44:27 - we're off on a Iong journej.
00:44:30 I'm reading
00:44:40 They've read your name.
00:45:01 Your things and off.
00:45:09 I'm staying.
00:45:13 Don't worry, Jerzy.
00:45:16 This is not the Iast transport.
00:45:19 and I'II get good
00:46:54 Zygmunt Szymkiewicz, major doctor,
00:47:00 Cracow,
00:47:03 Roman Zajaczkowski land engineer
00:47:08 Antoni Danda,
00:47:13 a Town Hall sec.,
00:47:20 Dr. Henryk Peche,
00:47:24 Ferdynand Marecki,
00:47:26 his student card
00:47:31 Edmund Baszkowski
00:47:38 lawyer.
00:47:40 Marian Dobrowolski,
00:47:42 lieutenant pilot,
00:47:47 - Goniec Krakowski, pIease.
00:47:53 Stanislaw Jakubowicz
00:48:00 Wladyslaw Deszczka,
00:48:03 b. March 2, 1 892.
00:48:08 Stanislaw Kaczmarek,
00:48:14 His weapons license
00:48:18 Piotr Martin
00:48:23 An inocculation certificate
00:48:28 Daszkiewicz, 2nd lieut.
00:48:45 - He isn't there?
00:48:53 One cannot Iose
00:48:58 Right.
00:49:00 My sonny.
00:49:08 But I don't understand why
00:49:14 You toId me
00:49:17 - Why didn't you persuade him?
00:49:23 - Why wasn't I there?
00:49:27 ndrzej paid the same
00:49:30 - to the university.
00:49:37 My son is necessary.
00:49:42 You think that
00:49:44 That I don't feeI it?
00:49:47 If he'd feIt he was needed...
00:49:53 He wouIdn't have Ieft you,
00:49:57 Why do you speak
00:50:00 He's not on that Iist!
00:50:03 But that accursed Iist has
00:50:07 - and the generaI, their commander.
00:50:11 He's not there and that's that.
00:50:14 If he couId save himseIf,
00:50:17 even aII aIone, he did because that's
00:50:22 It can't be that something
00:50:26 which I don't know.
00:50:29 nd no part of me has died.
00:50:34 Yes, yes...
00:51:03 Ietter has come, Mom.
00:51:07 OfficiaI. From the Germans.
00:51:11 - Propaganda bteiIung...
00:51:26 In connection with
00:51:29 They teII reIatives
00:51:35 Let's go.
00:51:49 On behaIf of our Ieader
00:51:52 I'd Iike to express my
00:51:56 on account of the tragedy that
00:52:07 It's an unprecedented crime
00:52:13 on PoIish POW's in Katyn.
00:52:17 The Fuhrer ordered to return
00:52:23 Thank you.
00:52:25 PIease see the statement
00:52:31 News spread very fast
00:52:33 bodies of PoIish officers,
00:52:38 The wife of the GeneraI,
00:52:40 I'II pray for the Soviet
00:52:46 The conversation
00:52:52 I take it that everything
00:52:57 Your questions
00:53:02 ExactIy. Read it out
00:53:07 You can start now, pIease.
00:53:14 You can start now, pIease.
00:53:21 Read it!
00:53:27 Madam, you need this
00:53:36 You wouIdn't Iike to send your
00:53:56 PIease come with me!
00:54:03 The daughter stays here.
00:54:06 - Don't you Ieave me here, Mom!
00:54:10 PIease.
00:54:16 Behind the front line
00:54:19 the Katyn Forest, the site
00:54:24 where the butchers of Kremlin
00:54:27 to commit a bestial murder
00:54:31 officers and noncoms.
00:54:39 A German Medical Committee along with
00:54:44 ascertained the typically Bolshevik
00:54:49 The exit wound is in the forehead or in
00:55:06 Father Jasinski is performing
00:55:14 A symbolic handful of dust from
00:55:18 is thrown over the graves.
00:55:27 All those Polish offcers were
00:55:32 There are many Polish
00:55:36 This bears out what fate
00:55:40 from the Bolshevik
00:55:43 Yet with his heroic attitude, the
00:55:52 To complete the list
00:55:56 of the murdered
00:56:00 Mom!
00:56:04 Mom!
00:56:05 ... we give you further
00:56:09 WIadysIaw Godziszewski,
00:56:13 b. June 22, 1 895,
00:56:18 high school teacher.
00:56:22 Lucjan Gawronski,
00:56:25 Olgierd Druchowicz, major,
00:56:34 Cracow, Jan. 1 8, 1 945
00:56:38 cobblestones of the Krakow marketplace.
00:56:43 the symbol of German rule over
00:57:31 Mom, see who's arrived?
00:57:33 Our maid Stasia.
00:57:41 How eIegant you Iook!
00:57:44 Stasia...
00:57:48 - So we've survived.
00:57:54 Sit down.
00:57:57 We worried about you.
00:58:00 WeII, it was hard.
00:58:04 We had to hide.
00:58:06 My husband took to the forest.
00:58:16 - CouId we heIp you?
00:58:20 It's quite different now.
00:58:23 My husband Edek
00:58:26 Your things remained
00:58:29 a whoIe trunk.
00:58:32 Madam, I'd Iike...
00:58:36 You remember?
00:58:39 I'd Iike to return it.
00:58:42 I promised to keep it
00:58:50 What have you
00:59:01 Dad's saber...
00:59:09 Thank you very much.
00:59:19 - So I'II be going...
00:59:21 No, no, give it to the Red
00:59:26 My husband was nominated
00:59:31 So I have to go.
00:59:41 I thought you decided
00:59:44 I didn't see the GeneraI's
00:59:48 Now you are the Iady.
00:59:52 Yes, Madam, pIease.
01:00:36 Dad!
01:00:40 - ndrzej.
01:00:43 ndrzej.
01:00:56 Nika...
01:01:05 Forgive her.
01:01:07 She's Iooking forward to
01:01:10 I'm sorry
01:01:15 - But your face...
01:01:20 You're Jerzy, a Iieutenant
01:01:24 Yes, a major now, but it's me.
01:01:27 But they said you were dead.
01:01:34 I saw the name and rank
01:01:37 - on the Iist everything...
01:01:41 I Iive as you see.
01:01:43 Where's ndrzej?
01:01:47 Do you know my son's
01:01:53 UnfortunateIy,
01:01:57 I saw him
01:01:59 when they took him
01:02:06 That means...
01:02:08 Nobody knows,
01:02:11 So many mistakes.
01:02:21 nna wiII be happy.
01:02:26 She'II be back soon.
01:02:28 I have some canned meat for you.
01:02:33 Thank you.
01:03:00 Jerzy.
01:03:04 - Why, you are on the Katyn Iist.
01:03:11 This is for you.
01:03:13 Thank you.
01:03:18 You Iive.
01:03:22 Where's ndrzej?
01:03:25 His name is not on the Iist.
01:03:27 - I'm in pIace for him.
01:03:32 The captain had a sweater
01:03:40 Oh, God...
01:03:42 Mrs. nna. It doesn't mean
01:03:47 Hope?
01:03:49 I've been Iiving hope for five years,
01:03:56 You've come to teII me
01:04:00 - You want to teII me that he's dead...
01:04:33 He said that ndrzej is dead.
01:05:43 Mrs. Greta...
01:05:50 Soviets of the NKVD
01:05:54 Have you seen them?
01:05:57 They'II take us away
01:06:00 They'II take us away anyway.
01:06:07 Hide aII of this immediateIy.
01:06:19 What are you doing here?
01:06:23 I have an appointment
01:06:28 Sir, the man says he
01:06:32 I don't remember.
01:06:35 You have a warrant, major?
01:06:40 You don't remember me?
01:06:45 Jerzy... How come you here?
01:06:52 I came too Iate to nders.
01:06:54 But for that, I wouId
01:07:00 I'm here in private, sir.
01:07:03 You know that I'm
01:07:07 Forgive me, but I don't
01:07:17 Things with my name
01:07:20 That's why I've come here.
01:07:23 I think that his famiIy
01:07:25 wouId Iike to get them
01:07:33 Have you found
01:07:36 I don't remember.
01:07:39 How many names of your former
01:07:47 Dozens, sir.
01:07:58 This is...
01:08:01 the address of the captain's wife.
01:08:07 If you couId find anything...
01:08:10 I know you don't trust me.
01:08:13 But it's not the point
01:08:16 am in the new service,
01:08:21 That's not the point.
01:08:26 To you, this is just evidence,
01:08:33 ha.
01:09:21 On the strength of the decision
01:09:25 concerning the investigation
01:09:29 by the German invaders,
01:09:34 to ascertain the circumstances
01:09:38 officer POW's in the Katyn Forest.
01:09:41 Each body underwent
01:09:59 A shot in the back of the head,
01:10:01 the favorite way of killing
01:10:07 Judging by autopsies, brains,
01:10:12 that the Polish POW's
01:10:15 earlier than in the fall of 1 94 1.
01:10:20 The Germans committed
01:10:25 which the bullet
01:10:29 That's how they shot the Poles.
01:10:32 Delegations of the 1 st
01:10:38 have come for the exequies.
01:10:41 HONOR TO THE FLLEN
01:10:45 During the ceremony,
01:10:49 ''May the shed Polish
01:10:53 of our revived free homeland. ''
01:11:20 - What's the matter?
01:11:24 It's a Iie. Do you hear?
01:11:29 PIease come with me.
01:11:32 It's a Iie.
01:11:35 Madam...
01:11:40 Where do you know me?
01:11:42 I received a commission
01:12:01 I was there a year ago.
01:12:04 Where?
01:12:06 In Katyn when the Soviets
01:12:11 What were you doing
01:12:16 StaIin needed us, officers
01:12:20 about the impartiaIity
01:12:23 - nd?
01:12:32 It's a Iie.
01:12:37 - They had eye-witnesses.
01:12:39 The Soviets must Iie to cover up
01:12:44 You mustn't.
01:12:47 I saw them...
01:12:49 puII out of the pits
01:12:53 I watched in disbeIief
01:12:56 whereas I shouId've
01:13:00 You shouId... major...
01:13:06 I couId just as weII
01:13:24 You saIute murderers
01:13:27 Makes no difference
01:13:31 Nobody wiII resurrect
01:13:35 We have to survive, forgive.
01:13:39 We must Iive.
01:13:43 You're the same as they.
01:13:48 You may think differentIy,
01:13:52 What does it matter
01:14:07 The Katyn graves opened up
01:14:11 for the third time
01:14:16 the terrifying truth
01:14:18 about still another
01:14:24 committed on the Polish nation.
01:14:32 - WiII you drink?
01:14:37 - I'm coId after the service.
01:14:42 - What?
01:14:45 dozen thousand of our officers
01:14:50 - What're you taIking about?
01:14:55 Jerzy!
01:14:57 - What're you taIking about, dammit?
01:15:02 Miss Krysia,
01:15:05 vodka for everyone.
01:15:07 The whoIe worId didn't know...
01:15:10 what to think about
01:15:16 There were horribIe
01:15:20 no one knew who and how...
01:15:24 - But it's pIain that...
01:15:27 ... it was the Germans in '41
01:15:29 murdered everyone shooting
01:15:33 Piss off. You're drunk.
01:15:37 - Miss Krysia.
01:15:42 I want to pay
01:15:50 Get out of here.
01:15:53 Look, the peopIe can be siIenced.
01:15:57 You don't know
01:16:00 That's why I'm taIking!
01:16:04 You fooI.
01:16:32 I don't know what I'm saying?
01:16:37 II.
01:16:40 nd you, and you,
01:16:44 Get out of here!
01:16:51 The Katyn Forest blood
01:16:54 is calling to us out loud...
01:16:59 calling us to take a merciless...
01:17:04 revenge...
01:17:07 Not for a moment are we
01:17:09 allowed to forget
01:17:13 about the terrible
01:17:19 who were later dumped
01:17:21 into a common pit...
01:17:24 and next dragged out of the pit...
01:17:32 those jackals and hyenas.
01:17:38 POW's were murdered
01:17:42 in cold blood
01:17:45 calmly, systematically.
01:17:51 Dumped into a common pit,
01:17:55 professional officers,
01:18:03 - What's your name?
01:18:07 You'II be a witness.
01:18:20 Over 1 0,000 of Polish
01:18:24 whom the war dressed
01:18:44 gnieszka, I was afraid
01:18:52 News from the rising raised
01:18:57 I Iucked up.
01:18:59 Thank God.
01:19:02 My sister said
01:19:06 I asked her to get in touch,
01:19:09 Nothing wiII change her
01:19:14 You'II be disappointed in me.
01:19:19 I was there.
01:19:22 There?
01:19:26 Over the Katyn graves
01:19:30 in 1 943.
01:19:37 In my presence, this rosary was
01:19:52 You recognized him?
01:20:01 By his service papers.
01:20:41 I didn't want him
01:20:48 It was snapped when
01:20:54 He wasn't a professionaI officer,
01:20:57 but an engineer designer,
01:21:01 He Iooks so gIum,
01:21:04 rather than happy
01:21:08 - May I?
01:21:11 I'II try to make
01:21:15 But it's a very beautifuI photo.
01:21:18 you if I couId make a copy.
01:21:22 Yes?
01:21:25 - Go ahead.
01:21:28 It didn't bring us Iuck.
01:21:33 It'II be ready tomorrow.
01:21:52 PIease come tomorrow.
01:22:06 Tadzio?
01:22:10 unt.
01:22:12 - Tadzio.
01:22:15 - Tadzio.
01:22:17 God! What're you
01:22:20 You've grown so taII
01:22:24 nd EIa?
01:22:27 None since they took her away.
01:22:30 No. No answer to so many
01:22:35 You know about Father.
01:22:37 He's on the Iist.
01:22:39 Everything taIIies:
01:22:44 - Good bye...
01:22:46 Where have you been?
01:22:49 fter they took Mom with HaIinka,
01:22:53 - There was nothing to return to.
01:22:56 a factory. When I turned 1 8
01:23:00 - In KieIce or in the country?
01:23:05 Tadzio...
01:23:23 Thank you.
01:23:43 Come...
01:23:46 Come, Tadzio.
01:23:50 Mr. WIadysIaw, my nephew
01:23:54 - taken.
01:23:57 What size photo?
01:23:59 passport photo.
01:24:02 I read in the paper that
01:24:05 is going to be opened.
01:24:09 WonderfuI.
01:24:12 I Iike to draw.
01:24:25 Mrs. nna we again have
01:24:30 ExactIy! nd how cIever.
01:24:33 PIease foIIow me.
01:24:54 To the Ieft.
01:24:57 My Ieft, your right.
01:25:19 In high schooI,
01:25:24 Sorry.
01:25:26 - You fought in the forest?
01:25:32 I see that you
01:25:36 You shouId get credits
01:25:40 and try to get a high schooI
01:25:44 - Yes, ma'am.
01:25:49 nything eIse?
01:25:52 - Because I've seen you.
01:25:56 In a photo in
01:25:59 Iong with
01:26:01 - He was in a piIot's uniform.
01:26:06 - Near the marketpIace?
01:26:09 - Madam...
01:26:12 Come here for a moment.
01:26:14 Good bye.
01:26:17 Wait a minute.
01:26:19 We have a probIem here.
01:26:22 - What?
01:26:25 What about him?
01:26:28 What did you write here?
01:26:34 Something not cIear? The Soviets
01:26:50 - I must Iie about my father?
01:26:54 - In the forest...
01:26:58 - Your opponents are not Germans.
01:27:03 I onIy care for you to get the dipIoma.
01:27:08 Who'II do it if you aII
01:27:13 You'II make corrections
01:27:25 One have onIy one CV, Madam.
01:27:32 What do we do about him?
01:27:34 Your attitude to Katyn bespeaks
01:27:41 I admit him and
01:27:43 that he be reasonabIe.
01:27:47 You're his home
01:27:52 - What if PoIand becomes free?
01:27:58 Mark my words.
01:28:02 Never.
01:28:30 I don't know Cracow.
01:28:53 - Have you seen a boy in a brown coat?
01:29:30 - You've saved me.
01:29:35 Do I sit meek when they spit in my face?
01:29:38 Sorry.
01:29:40 - ''urochs''.
01:30:26 The coast is cIear.
01:30:31 - WiII we meet again?
01:30:35 But we wiII for sure.
01:30:38 Maybe... if you think so.
01:30:44 That's not what I think.
01:30:48 So do I.
01:30:52 The worId's Iaughing.
01:30:54 THE WORLD'S LUGHING
01:30:57 - I've never been to the movies.
01:31:01 Haven't you seen that Disney's
01:31:06 But that doesn't count.
01:31:08 I've never sat with a girI
01:31:11 Tomorrow in the movie house?
01:31:15 t 6 pm?
01:31:17 Good.
01:31:51 Freeze or I'II shoot!
01:33:04 re you sure?
01:33:07 We'II pIait a braid first.
01:33:13 You are saving my roIe.
01:33:16 No character without hair, right?
01:33:19 Those Germans who worked
01:33:23 took aII the wigs away,
01:33:26 - We'II pIait a thick braid.
01:33:33 It won't grow after the camp.
01:33:41 It's a pity to cut it off.
01:33:45 Do your duty.
01:33:50 Don't you worry.
01:33:52 Yesterday a technicaI heIp
01:33:57 II of us had bewaiIed him.
01:34:07 Why Iive with
01:34:12 It'd be a true misfortune
01:34:14 if my brother were Ieft
01:34:19 nd the rest.
01:34:21 It's indifferent to me.
01:34:27 Do you think I'm mad?
01:34:29 How to judge a mad woman...
01:34:33 ... before the tribunaI
01:34:39 Who puts on a wig of someone's
01:34:46 I wouIdn't wish that
01:35:18 - Count it.
01:35:25 LIEUTENNT PILOT
01:35:42 You're Iooking for someone?
01:35:45 I have an appointment
01:35:48 - The Canon is not here.
01:35:53 But he was taken away
01:35:59 - Last night?
01:36:02 When the Germans dug out
01:36:07 the Canon said Mass there?
01:36:12 Red Cross who were there,
01:36:15 But I've brought a pIaque
01:36:18 - Did the Canon agree?
01:36:29 Lieutenant PiIot
01:36:32 kiIIed in Katyn in priI 1 940.
01:36:38 But I cannot
01:36:41 I thought tempIes differed from
01:36:49 Those who took the Canon
01:36:53 aII enemies of the peopIe's
01:36:57 The Soviets did it in '40.
01:37:02 - You must agree.
01:37:05 How this pIaque may
01:37:16 Take it away.
01:37:50 What do you want to do?
01:37:53 To put it on our tomb
01:38:01 - Where have you been so Iong?
01:38:05 - You couId sometimes drop a Iine.
01:38:08 - we had a brother?
01:38:14 So heIp me.
01:38:18 - You're afraid.
01:38:22 Join the Party.
01:38:25 It's not that way. It's a different
01:38:30 us from it neither during
01:38:34 You've joined aIready.
01:38:39 Even the Rising
01:38:42 You won't change this worId.
01:38:48 Or buiId as much freedom
01:38:52 as much PoIish identity
01:38:55 You're too wise
01:38:58 You've found a pIace in
01:39:02 whereas I am whoIe
01:39:05 If I must choose,
01:39:10 You choose the dead,
01:39:13 No. I choose the murdered,
01:39:35 How Iong wiII it take?
01:39:37 The work - 20 minutes,
01:39:42 I don't understand.
01:39:44 You asked how Iong
01:40:07 Do your work.
01:40:29 I hear that you spread
01:40:34 What do you think is faIse?
01:40:37 My brother's Ietter from
01:40:40 priI 6, 1 940 is true.
01:40:43 You know it was the Germans.
01:40:48 You put a pIaque in the cemetery
01:40:51 with a faIse date of your
01:40:55 - To sIander the Soviet comrades?
01:40:59 The truth is a given.
01:41:02 The Russians persuade
01:41:05 The Germans accuse the Russians.
01:41:08 - government did not expIain the affair.
01:41:13 How can you say I spread
01:41:17 You'II sign a statement that
01:41:24 No.
01:41:28 Who did you fight in the Rising?
01:41:34 you don't want to Iive
01:41:38 - You're in your own country.
01:41:42 Major, the Germans tried that
01:41:49 and you in 5 minutes?
01:41:52 We have much more time
01:41:55 Maybe so.
01:42:01 In PoIand?
01:42:03 Take her away.
01:43:13 Nika!
01:43:16 - Father's coming.
01:43:26 Yes?
01:43:28 - This is for you.
01:43:31 We don't return mementos
01:43:35 - When I Iearned that the major...
01:43:38 The one who asked
01:43:42 He shot himseIf.
01:44:04 Kozielsk, April 7, '40.
01:44:08 For two days they've
01:44:11 Where and why?
01:44:16 After a search at 4.f55 p.m.
01:44:19 our Polish time 2.f55 p.m.
01:44:22 we left the walls and barbed wires
01:44:26 We were put in prison carriages.
01:44:30 They say that 50`/. of passenger
01:44:56 8.f30 a.m. Departure from
01:45:01 9.f45 a.m. Jelnia Station.
01:45:04 l'm along with a major,
01:45:08 Twelve altogether
01:45:12 Judging by the pieces
01:45:16 we get off outside Smolensk
01:45:25 We must be going to SmoIensk.
01:45:28 Gniezdovo Station.
01:45:55 Lieutenant PiIot,
01:45:59 1 st ir Squadron, DebIin.
01:46:04 priI 1 0, 1 940.
01:46:51 4.f45 a.m. they wake us up
01:46:55 Now by trucks...
01:47:15 Arrival at Gniezdovo,f
01:47:20 Two Black Marias and
01:48:57 Take off your beIt.
01:49:19 Next.
01:49:29 FamiIy name, patronymic, rank.
01:49:33 The generaI's documents.
01:49:37 Born priI 2, 1 892.
01:49:42 It checks out.
01:49:46 Take him away.
01:49:53 Next.
01:52:07 5.f00 a.m. We leave
01:52:14 They brought us to a forest,
01:52:19 They didn't find
01:52:22 They took away my belt,
01:52:27 lt showed 8.f30 a.m.,
01:52:33 What wiII happen to us?
01:53:36 Our Father
01:54:20 Thy wiII be done on Earth
01:54:46 Give us this day our daiIy bread...
01:55:20 ... Forgive us our trespasses...
01:55:34 ... as we forgive those
01:58:05 SubtitIes: DubbFiIm
01:58:09 Text: Jerzy Siemasz