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and interpret him.

You are cautious.

I'm cautious.

And you... are curious.

I'm curious and my name is Stella.

Cecile.

I'm curious.

You are hiding something.

I'm hiding something and you...

You are looking for something in my eyes.

- I'm looking for something in your eyes.

You...

You...

You are scared.

- I...

...am scared.

Hello.

Hello.

You were excellent in that scene today.

- Thank you.

How did you...

- I'm not a permanent student, just a guest.

A workshop brought me here.

This school is... different.

But I got used to it.

Just now I apply for the

role of the class clown.

You are way too beautiful for a clown.

See. This is how a clown looks like.

- Nonsense.

Of course.

The nose and stuff.

My older sister broke mine

two times when we were kids.

After that she used to tell me

that I look even more like a clown.

Nice sister.

- Yes, a very nice sister.

She was the first born

and didn't like it when I was born.

I thought that you shined

like an angel today.

But I'm still working on the flying.

I hope they will teach me that too.

- Flying?

No. Shining.

What's up?

I'm not allowed to talk about it.

About what?

The method.

I have to go.

See you tomorrow, okay?

If you wait five minutes

we can take the bus together.

Cecile!

Cecile!

Cecile!

Looking for something?

I just wanted...

Students are not allowed to stay

in this part of the school building.

I... I thought I saw Cecile

disappear behind that door.

That's impossible.

There is nothing behind that door.

Look what I've got here.

- Thank you. You are so nice.

Great that you've found it.

I thought I'd lost it.

I'm pretty sure

that you stayed in school yesterday.

What were you doing?

- I had lessons.

Private lessons.

Please don't ask.

Don't you have class now?!

I hope you have dreamed about me.

Fair friend, stay for the night.

Apply with your wings

silk dust on my soul...

...which is longing for...

Silk... Apply with your wings silk dust...

...on my soul

which is longing for honey...

Good lord, Stella!

The stiffness of your hips is starting

to infect my other students.

I don't see any real passion

between you two.

Mannequins are more lively than you.

Come on, relax.

Touch each other.

I thought I've made myself clear.

Break.

Did someone...

...adopt the bad habits

of your older sister?

It can get pretty rough during...

- ... the private lessons?!

When training the method...

Gdula's method.

Can you lock the room, you two lovebirds?

Who can participate training the method?

Only the chosen ones.

You don't ask them.

They ask you.

There is no class schedule forit.

No leaming material.

No books.

The method doesn't exist.

You have to be prepared to endure a lot.

Even after a short time

something happens with you.

You radiate something.

Gdula called it "orgiastic potency".

It's a kind of energy.

Something special.

I envy you.

I would love to give it back.

You have to pay a high price for it.

And it is not true.

But it feels true.

Help me.

Forget it.

Please, forget it.

I'm sorry.

I...

Cecile?

Cecile!

Cecile?

Cecile!

Cecile!

Cecile!

THE GDULA METHOD

A DOCUMENTARY BYASTRID WARD

The exiled Pole Mateusz Gdula

combined the theories of...

...Wilhelm Reich, Arthur Janov

and Lee Strasberg...

...to an amalgam, from which he

intended to form the perfect actor.

It is our own orgiastic potency...

...that we acquire here.

No more normality.

Everything is extreme.

We live on emotions...

...like others from water.

The lessons of the Theatre Radical

Group are no ordinary school teaching...

...it's more like real life.

Do you understand?

Nobody is acting.

We actually feel it.

Damn it!

I nearly got a heart attack!

I planned that it should

look like an accident.

How was class today?

- Fine.

This looks pretty interesting.

What's that?

- This school has an eventful past.

Really?

- They had their own teaching methods...

...until the late 70s.

Really weird stuff.

...along the lines of

Jerzy Grotowski's "theatre laboratory".

In 1973 he allowed me to

interview members of his group.

Did you see them?

- Sure.

You know from the start they must be cops.

- What do they want?

I don't know.

She had been a difficult girl.

You have to know...

...we really go to the limits of one's

capacity in our acting classes.

Difficult characters can be

the biggest talents.

But they can also reveal

the abyss of their own madness.

So she wasn't a member

of this school anymore?

No, I had to let her go.

Our witness mentioned

a person with a mask.

Some kind of theatre mask.

He said there was something

strange about this mask.

May I ask you a question?

Do you know her?.

No, I mean yes...

I have seen her just briefly the day I

arrived here for the entrance examination.

Are you an actress as well?

- Do you want my autograph?

Could I show off with it?

- Maybe in ten years or so.

If I write about you, things might speed up.

I could invest in you like in stocks.

So you are not a police man?!

- Never said I was. I work for the "Kurier".

Thank you.

- I'm sorry.

I got hold up.

What's going on?

- Cecile isn't attending class anymore.

Possibly because of an engagement.

- What kind of engagement?

From a mental institution?

- Who is playing the role of Helena now?

We have to recast.

- Why the long faces?

You should be glad that she is gone.

She was a psycho b*tch anyway.

I just can't believe it.

- Ouch!

Cecile has broken her heart.

- Shut up, okay?!

Cheer up, Barbie!

Just look at your advantage.

Well, as you do not have to

lick Cecile's clit anymore...

...your mouth is now free

for more important things.

You stupid slut!

Stop it, you two!

Have you lost your mind completely?!

Stop it! Break it up!

You haven't seized your chance.

I don't want to have

any more trouble in class.

I have to expel you from the class.

Stop!

Wait.

That doesn't mean that you are

expelled from school.

Deep inside of you exists

so much potential.

I know that Cecile told you

about the method.

She shouldn't have,

but nevertheless she did.

Stella...

Now that Cecile's place is vacant,

do you want to study Gdula's method?

Strange, that someone is still

interested in Gdula's methods nowadays.

Mateusz' goal wasn't alone acting.

That was just the basis for him.

- For what?

Gdula's method intends to integrate the

lives of the students in the mise-en-scne.

My own life, my fate became the script.

My soul his stage.

But I got lucky.

Some kind of survival instinct...

...pulled me out of my love

For this genius of a teacher.

Without this instinct...

...the method would have devoured me.

Siegfried?

Can we continue?

Mr. Heldt, one last question please.

Hurry up!

And if someone would still teach

the Gdula Method today...

Then he would be a madman.

Or a criminal. Goodbye.

It means no contact to the

outside world for you in the next weeks.

You can only bring with you

what fits in a small handbag.

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