Korczak Page #2

Jews living outside the Jewish District

have to move in to the Jewish District

until 31st of October 1940.

Where is your armband?

I don't have an armband.

- Name?

- Piotr Zalewski.

- Jewish?

- No, but...

Take your things from the wagon.

But sir, I've worked here for 22 years.

- 22 years!

- Shut up! Is she a Pole too?

Yes.

Polish pigs! Jewish servants!

Don't let him beat my husband, please!

Officer, I beg you!

We're all together, we

won't leave the Orphanage.

Take your things from the wagon.

I beg you.

They are allowed to take

only their refugee package and bedclothes.

The head of the Judenrat [the Jewish council]

will do the allocation.

President of Polish City Council

and the head of Judenrat are responsible

for proper placement of Jews in the Jewish District

and for punctual migration of Poles from the Jewish District.

Where is the wagon with potatoes?

Heniek, Heniek!

The wagon with potatoes!

It's gone. They stole it.

- What? I'm going to tell the Gestapo.

- Doctor, don't do it! To hell with the potatoes.

Do you know how hard it was to get them?

It's shameful!

I didn't know you steal from the orphans!

What's going on?

Your soldiers have confiscated

our wagon with potatoes.

They took food for 200 children for 2 weeks!

I demand it back immediately!

- But it's a Jewish orphanage.

- Yes, it's Jewish.

- So what do you have to do with it, sir?

- I'm the director.

Is that so? But you aren't Jewish, are you?

I am Jewish.

So why don't you wear the armband?

There are human and divine laws.

You will stop being impudent in jail!

What are you doing here?

I came with Mrs. Maryna

to say goodbye to you.

That's great. You see...

I will come to meet you.

Please...

I will think of something.

I'm very glad...

Where is he?

He went to the Germans to protest.

They stole our wagon with potatoes.

He's out of his mind.

- That's just his way.

- God, she is so similar to my deceased daughter.

Come here, Pola.

- Maybe I could take her to our house...

- No, we decided children should stay together.

I'm an old freiend of Mrs. Stefa

and doctor Korczak...

And I'd like you to come visit me.

I have many children too.

You know, Polunia, you'd

be fine with Mrs. Maryna.

You could show her your

collection of stones...

You wouldn't have to clean our new house...

- I want to see your stones.

- Yes, darling.

Please ask Korczak to

agree to our proposition.

We have great papers for him and a hideout.

He could write in there.

- Yes.

- Excuse me.

I don't live in our house anymore.

You can't take the armband off.

The doctor said that until you're with me,

you don't have to wear it.

Doctor doesn't wear it either, you know?

I work at the dressmaker in Powisle!

What a shame,

what an awful shame I can't go with them.

My God, I'm going to die in here.

Calm down, director.

- Pull yourself together.

- The whole government cheated us.

They just fleed and we will get smashed.

You will get out of here

and live throught the war, director.

- How do you know?

- I just know it.

Do you bear a grudge against me?

No. War brings much suffering

and tragedy, you know.

But it also erases some

things and I think that

it won't happen again in the future.

A Pole will never persecute his brother,

only because he's Jewish.

I truly believe that.

I'm happy I could live to this moment.

Doctor Goldschmidt! Take your things!

Take care of yourself, director.

May God lead you, doctor.

Hello, doctor.

Your health doesn't let you stay in prison.

I will not talk in German.

Doctor, please.

Dr. Korczak, I know that

you speak German very well.

I remember your lecture at

the congress in Berlin, 1929.

It was excellent.

It has changed my life somehow.

You're ill, aren't you?

I'm perfectly healthy.

Take your clothes off, please.

Please.

Do you suffer from a heart disease?

I'm perfectly healthy.

I confirm your immediate release.

Heart is weakened, health

condition is generally bad.

You should take care of yourself, doctor.

Were you beaten up, sir?

Fine.

I hope you will wear the armband.

Next time you may not be so lucky.

I will never wear the armband.

Stop it!

Aren't you ashamed of

yourself?! It's a child!

The doctor is coming!

The doctor is coming!

Hooray!

They already got used to the new place.

- Where's Pola?

- You noticed? Maryna took her.

She said she could try to

hide a few more children.

Of course we would have to choose.

Girls with proper look would be good.

You think we would make a selection?

They are capable of anything,

but they have to spare children.

Even if...

The most important is that we are together with them.

Doctor, Maryna and

your friends think that

you should be on the Aryan side.

It doesn't mean saving your own skin.

You have to, it's your

duty. You have to live.

You must be joking.

How could you think I

would leave you all alone?

It's out of the question.

What will happen to them?

It's very hard to get

anything from the Judenrat.

There are so many people in need

that I'm ashamed to ask for help.

You're ashamed to ask? What do you mean?

It's all about our children, isn't it?

I would like you to keep

the gate closed all the time.

We'll have to brick up all

the windows facing the street.

They walled us off from the world,

we'll wall off from them.

And the children cannot go out alone.

We have to protect them

from what's going on there.

But it's impossible.

I know that an absolute

isolation is impossible,

so we have to find some

things to do in the house.

I count on you, Mrs. Esterka.

The same schedule as the one from Krochmalna,

I mean breakfast, weighing, classes in groups.

I will take care of provision

and get the money somehow.

You don't know me yet.

Well, maybe Mrs. Stefa knows

me a bit, from the past.

We have been in despair so many times.

A miracle can happen again.

I have this strange dream

about food, you know.

A year ago I didn't even

know what food I like.

I know those dreams.

Raspberries and buckwheat.

Hare with red cabbage and white wine.

Red wine, not white.

Champagne and ice cream with wafer.

I drunk champagne not even three times in my life

and haven't eaten ice cream in 20 years.

I was so silly... huh?

I'm scared.

Did anyone shoot?

No, go to sleep. No-one shot.

Where am I?

In my room, in my bed.

You want to go to your bed?

- Do I disturb you, sir?

- No, you don't.

Now you will sleep, won't you?

Left finger says goodnight

to the right finger.

Left hand says goodnight to the right hand,

puts the right hand to sleep,

now the right hand puts

the left hand to sleep.

Fine, now the left hand puts

the head to sleep and says

sleep well, head,

goodnight... Go to sleep...

When grandma was dying, she asked

Will there be lancers in heaven?

Hey, hey, pretty lancers,

every maiden likes you!

Do you know this one?

There is not even one house,

where Jewish girls don't fall for lancers.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes