Katyn Page #5

Excuse me.

Tadzio?

Aunt.

- Tadzio.

- Aunt Anna.

- Tadzio.

- Hello, Aunt.

God! What're you

doing here?

You've grown so tall

that I hardly recognize you.

And Ela?

Any news about mom?

None since they took her away.

I thought you...

No. No answer to so many

letters I sent.

You know about Father.

He's on the list.

Everything tallies:

the number, rank...

- Good bye...

- Good bye.

Where have you been?

With the aunt and uncle?

After they took Mom with Halinka,

I stayed with the uncle.

- There was nothing to return to.

- I worked in

a factory. When I turned 1 8

in the Kielce Province then.

- In Kielce or in the country?

- Neither.

Tadzio...

Thank you.

Come...

Come, Tadzio.

Mr. Wladyslaw, my nephew

has come to have his pictrue

- taken.

- Yes, sir.

What size photo?

A passport photo.

I read in the paper that

the Fine Arts Academy

is going to be opened.

If I start a new life...

Wonderful.

I like to draw.

Take a look, Aunt.

Mrs. Anna we again have

college students in Poland.

Exactly! And how clever.

Please follow me.

To the left.

My left, your right.

In high school,

students don't smoke, sir.

Sorry.

- You fought in the forest?

- Yes, but there's an amnesty.

I see that you

attended secret classes.

You should get credits

for the senior year

and try to get a high school

diploma after intensive courses.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Wonderful!

Anything else?

Why are you staring at me?

- Because I've seen you.

- Where?

In a photo in

a photographic studio.

Along with

a couple under a plane.

- He was in a pilot's uniform.

- Which studio?

- Near the marketplace?

- Yes.

- Madam...

- Yes?

Come here for a moment.

Good bye.

Wait a minute.

We have a problem here.

- What?

- Your father.

What about him?

What did you write here?

Something not clear? The Soviets

murdered him in Katyn in 1 940.

- I must lie about my father?

- Be reasonable.

- In the forest...

- You're not in the forest.

- Your opponents are not Germans.

- This is treason, Madam.

I only care for you to get the diploma.

This country must be raised from ruins.

Who'll do it if you all

let yourselves get killed.

You'll make corrections

in your CV, yes?

One have only one CV, Madam.

What do we do about him?

Your attitude to Katyn bespeaks

your loyalty to People's Poland.

I admit him and

you see to it

that he be reasonable.

You're his home

room teacher, right?

- What if Poland becomes free?

- There will never be a free Poland.

Mark my words.

Never.

I don't know Cracow.

Where do I run away?

- Have you seen a boy in a brown coat?

- No, no, no.

- You've saved me.

- Why did you do it?

Do I sit meek when they spit in my face?

I f*** such an order.

Sorry.

- "Aurochs".

- Ewa.

The coast is clear.

- Will we meet again?

- I don't know.

But we will for sure.

It's destiny.

Maybe... if you think so.

Yes, we'll meet.

That's not what I think.

I want it.

So do I.

The world's laughing.

THE WORLD'S LAUGHING

- I've never been to the movies.

- No kidding.

Haven't you seen that Disney's

The Sleeping Beauty, remember?

But that doesn't count.

I've never sat with a girl

on the rooftop.

Tomorrow in the movie house?

At 6 pm?

Good.

Freeze or I'll shoot!

Are you sure?

We'll plait a braid first.

You are saving my role.

No character without hair, right?

Those Germans who worked

at the theater during the occupation

took all the wigs away,

didn't leave anything.

- We'll plait a thick braid.

- What if I let the hair down?

It won't grow after the camp.

It was Auschwitz, you see?

It's a pity to cut it off.

Does your husband know?

Do your duty.

Don't you worry.

He'll return.

Yesterday a technical help

from our theater returned.

All of us had bewailed him.

Why live with

so much evil around?

It'd be a true misfortune

if my brother were left

without a grave after his death.

And the rest.

It's indifferent to me.

Do you think I'm mad?

How to judge a mad woman...

...before the tribunal

of a madman?

Who puts on a wig of someone's

hair, assumes his lot.

I wouldn't wish that

on my worst enemy.

- Count it.

- Would you like to see it?

LIEUTENANT PILO:

You're looking for someone?

I have an appointment

with the Canon.

- The Canon is not here.

- So I'll wait.

But he was taken away

last night.

- Last night?

- Last night.

When the Germans dug out

the graves in Katyn in 1 943,

the Canon said Mass there?

Those from the International

Red Cross who were there,

the NKVD arrested long ago.

But I've brought a plaque

of my brother.

- Did the Canon agree?

- Yes.

Lieutenant Pilot

killed in Katyn in April 1 940.

But I cannot

put it up in the church.

I thought temples differed from

government offices or papers.

Those who took the Canon

away said they knew

all enemies of the people's

power, including the Lord God.

The Soviets did it in '40.

Everyone knows about it.

- You must agree.

- Did you think about the living?

How this plaque may

change the lot of the Canon?

Take it away.

What do you want to do?

To put it on our tomb

before it can hang in the church.

- Where have you been so long?

- What would you like to know?

- You could sometimes drop a line.

- Have you forgotten that...

- we had a brother?

- No, I haven't.

So help me.

- You're afraid.

- You know I can't.

Join the Party.

That gives power.

It's not that way. It's a different

time and no one will free

us from it neither during

our life or that of our children.

You've joined already.

Even the Rising

taught you nothing.

You won't change this world.

We can let them deport or kill us.

Or build as much freedom

as we can here,

as much Polish identity

as we can.

You're too wise

not to understand that.

You've found a place in

this new world of yours,

whereas I am whole

in that where Piotr is.

If I must choose,

I stay with him.

You choose the dead,

which is morbid.

No. I choose the murdered,

not the murderers.

How long will it take?

The work - 20 minutes,

but later even less.

I don't understand.

You asked how long

it would take.

Do your work.

I hear that you spread

false information about Katyn.

What do you think is false?

My brother's letter from

April 6, 1 940 is true.

You know it was the Germans.

You put a plaque in the cemetery

with a false date of your

brother's death in 1 940.

- To slander the Soviet comrades?

- I'm interested in the truth.

The truth is a given.

The Russians persuade

all it was the Germans.

The Germans accuse the Russians.

Even the Polish

- government did not explain the affair.

- Hands on the table!

How can you say I spread

false information about Katyn?

You'll sign a statement that

Katyn is a German crime.

No.

Who did you fight in the Rising?

Saved by a miracle,

you don't want to live

in your own country?

- You're in your own country.

- You find life unbearable?

Major, the Germans tried that

with me for 5 years,

and you in 5 minutes?

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