Warsaw '44

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The Second World War is underway

Warsaw has been occupied for five years

by Nazi Germany

The Warsaw people are experience inhuman acts

of terror and violence

Young people are thirsty for freedom

The new rebellion is rising.

In summer 1944, the Soviet army is approaching Warsaw.

This raises hopes for the defeat of Germany.

Warsaw is preparing for the uprising.

Open up.

Hold on.

Stop it,

we'll get this over with faster.

- Give him a break, please.

- I have to do this.

Leave him alone.

Stefan!

At three.

- One, two... three.

- You're stupid!

Madam, it's over.

My dearest Lady Macbeth,

this show is really poor...

In fact it's mediocre.

Mum!

What are you doing up so early?

Take this to 'The Actresses'

in Mazowiecka Street.

Tell them it's for Ariadna...

Please...

Don't stop, get moving!

Morning, boss!

Boss!

- Women! Devils incarnate!

- Right!

- Will you spare a fiver, boss...?

- I have nothing, chief.

Leave him alone.

We'll lose her.

Citizens of Warsaw!

All acts of disobedience against

the German authorities

will be punished.

That's why today we will execute

another 40 people

who were recently pardoned.

Get moving!

Which crates stay,

which ones go?

Get to work, Stefan!

- Watch what you're doing!

- These go, those stay.

So you want to be the chairman?

That's right, your deputy!

- He wants to be the chairman!

- Girls!

Young man! Come here!

Put these in the car.

- In the car.

- I don't understand.

I'm sorry, sir!

The boy probably

didn't understand you.

Get this out of here.

Your men aren't

overexerting themselves.

He's new.

What a great day today!

Great days are long gone.

Don't you dare scratch anything!

Hermann!

Is he legally employed?

They're all legal at my factory.

You hire some pretty defiant characters.

Your papers.

Just look at that expression on his face!

Where do you pigs get

all that hostility?

You understand

every single word I say, don't you?

Is this how much you want us

to leave your city?

No problem.

It's just that when we go,

we'll be replaced by

communists from Russia.

And then you'll beg us to come back.

You can always count on me, miss.

Goodbye!

- Dad!

- When are you finishing?

- I'm coming!

- We're waiting and waiting.

I don't know where you got it

and what it's for.

I'm not going to inform on you

but I don't want to see you again.

Take your rubbish and get out.

We'll take care of it.

Don't try to play hero.

We'll get you new papers and a job.

We'll help you out.

I'll manage, thanks.

- How exactly will you do that?

- Don't worry.

Without papers they'll send you

to a labour camp in Germany.

- Maybe.

- I know it's my fault.

Ha, I've seen everything!

There's nothing to see...

We were just...

'We were just'!

And then suddenly there's kids.

- Have you seen them?

- Keep on playing!

- Jasio!

- Don't tell your mum anything.

Leave for work as usual.

Jasio!

Thank you.

So I'm walking and a

few thugs come up

to steal my wallet.

And one of them had a knife.

Hence the cut.

Can I have a cut like that?

Please!

- Really? Like this?

- Yes!

Here you go.

The other cheek.

- How do I look?

- Like me.

-Cool...

- Get up.

Fast.

Mum, thugs've cut Stefan's cheek!

Luckily just the cheek.

Mum, you've ruined my tower!

Put that on.

Don't come round here again,

stop bothering people!

Why don't you cut that out

or you'll lose face!

Spare a fiver, boss?

Hi!

- So, how's things?

- Here I am! Where are we going?

Wow, how direct!

On a trip!

- Look where you're going, you idiot!

- At one desk!

- The wimp kept taking my stuff!

- I remember that!

He crapped in his pants

and put the stuff in my satchel!

- Don't tell her!

- His mum had to apologise to my parents.

She invited them

to the theatre she was in

and the play was awful,

my parents left in the middle.

- The director was an idiot.

- Turn here!

I'm sure your mum is a great person...

I'm so happy!

And I've been wondering

what was going on with you.

Someone said you're working,

or you'd left.

And here you are!

The underground is so much fun!

- We've got the best girls.

- Wladek!

What? You know what

my nickname is?

Crybaby! Cool, huh?

You idiot, he's not conspiring...

- Oh! You're not?

- No, I'm not.

- So what will you be doing?

- Well?

- Depends.

- On what?

- On chance!

- I won't take chances.

I need papers, a job -

some peace and quiet.

- Hi, this is your Coco Chanel outfit.

- Hi Crybaby!

You've met Rogal.

I'll show you everything.

- Instruct him.

- Yes, sir!

Well, well...

The bucket is under the sink,

and there's water in the tap.

The brush!

- Hello, gentlemen!

- Good morning!

Guys, let's unload the crates.

To the office.

- That's the last shipment.

- What?

Let me go first.

Careful.

Easy with that, please!

Ala! Come back!

Ala!

- Here!

- Ala, come back!

- Come back!

- Ala!

- Are we coming back?

- I'm staying. Forever.

Ala's staying forever.

My sister -

we're teaching her to swim.

- For now, we teach, you watch.

- Morning.

Morning.

Someone has to get her back.

- She won't do it on her own.

- Aleksander, go get your sister!

- I can't, my arm hurts.

- Your arm?

- Crybaby!

- I'm busy on holiday.

- So we aren't coming back?

- Change of plans.

- Rogal will get her.

- No, Stefan!

- He's a better candidate.

- Stefan will!

That's right!

Raise your hand

if you vote for Stefan.

Me too!

Hang on there!

- The rescue's coming.

- The rescue's swimming.

Come.

Just trying.

Mum, please!

You look like dad!

Me too!

Madam, may I have this dance?

Swear you won't get mixed up

in anything. Swear!

I swear that I will bear

true faith to my Fatherland,

that I will defend its honour

and fight for its liberation,

even if it means

sacrificing my life.

I pledge obedience

to the President of Poland

and the Home Army Commander

whom he has appointed.

I pledge to resolutely keep secret

whatever may happen to me.

I accept you into the ranks

of the Polish Army,

waging a war with the enemy

for the liberation of our Fatherland.

It will be your duty to engage

in armed combat.

Victory will be your reward.

Treason will be punished by death.

So help us God!

Everything clear?

Clear.

Not 'clear' but:

'Yes, sir!'

Yes, sir!

And put those shoes back in the wardrobe,

you're not in the circus. Congrats!

- These are lovely. His dad's.

- First class!

Enough!

- Two rounds per person, I said!

- No, you did not.

- Easy, Goral!

- That's no playground!

You've got to listen to the commander.

The guy's new,

but see how accurate he is.

So what?

Your life may depend on obedience.

This is Stefan Zawadzki -

son of Hanna Zawadzka - the actress.

- Nice to meet you.

- Yes, we know her!

I admired your mother's acting

in that comedy starring Bodo.

With Dymsza,

her best role.

- Great actress. A brunette, right?

- No, a blonde.

- A Greta Garbo lookalike.

- That's half the battle.

You know Ala? Ala...

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