1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:20,000 2 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:01,001 3 00:00:33,751 --> 00:00:37,376 gift 4 00:00:44,834 --> 00:00:49,334 AFTERIMAGE 5 00:00:51,792 --> 00:00:55,792 Starring 6 00:01:24,292 --> 00:01:26,417 This is the end of our Varsovian! 7 00:01:26,584 --> 00:01:29,001 Excuse me, where can I find it? Professor Strzeminski? 8 00:01:29,584 --> 00:01:31,876 Professor Strzeminski... 9 00:01:33,376 --> 00:01:34,334 Ah... there! 10 00:01:37,876 --> 00:01:40,042 He sees you, he will be here. 11 00:01:40,251 --> 00:01:42,084 But how can he get here? 12 00:01:42,251 --> 00:01:42,751 Like this! 13 00:01:51,876 --> 00:01:53,084 Crazy people! 14 00:02:01,417 --> 00:02:02,792 My Lord, are you okay 15 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:06,542 Will you not help disabled people? 16 00:02:09,792 --> 00:02:11,209 I'm sorry. I... 17 00:02:12,542 --> 00:02:15,334 I am Wladyslaw Strzeminski and I'm fine 18 00:02:22,667 --> 00:02:26,167 Welcome to Lodz School Fine Art Field Trip 19 00:02:26,459 --> 00:02:28,626 I have left the rail because you, sir 20 00:02:29,167 --> 00:02:31,876 I know, Jadwiga, this is my fault. 21 00:02:34,251 --> 00:02:36,209 - What's your name? - Hanna. 22 00:02:37,042 --> 00:02:38,209 Miss Hanna 23 00:02:39,126 --> 00:02:44,709 Pictures must be what you absorb 24 00:02:45,542 --> 00:02:46,876 from this... 25 00:02:47,292 --> 00:02:48,709 from this. 26 00:02:50,542 --> 00:02:53,834 When we see an object, we get the shadow in our eyes. 27 00:02:54,251 --> 00:02:56,709 When we stop seeing it 28 00:02:57,876 --> 00:02:59,959 and move our view to another place 29 00:03:00,126 --> 00:03:02,542 an afterimage of the object remains in the eye 30 00:03:02,792 --> 00:03:07,459 Trace objects with The shape is the same but the color is opposite. 31 00:03:08,084 --> 00:03:09,542 An afterimage 32 00:03:09,751 --> 00:03:10,917 Afterimages... 33 00:03:11,084 --> 00:03:15,292 is the color of the inside of the eye who sees the object. 34 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:19,209 Because someone really only sees what he realizes 35 00:03:29,376 --> 00:03:31,417 How did he lose his arms and legs? 36 00:03:34,209 --> 00:03:36,001 He never told us, 37 00:03:37,292 --> 00:03:39,834 But it's better not to ask. 38 00:03:51,209 --> 00:03:55,167 December 1948 39 00:03:55,876 --> 00:04:01,959 First Congress of the Polish Union The Workers' Party has just closed. 40 00:04:02,209 --> 00:04:05,792 We will apply the most important Congress resolution. 41 00:04:06,084 --> 00:04:08,667 We will struggle to make it happen 42 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:12,626 and mobilize the masses around them. 43 00:04:13,251 --> 00:04:16,292 Bringing Poland closer to socialism 44 00:04:16,459 --> 00:04:20,167 is the sacred duty of Party members. 45 00:04:29,292 --> 00:04:32,126 Comrade, there's no doubt that is to achieve a large task set by Congress 46 00:04:32,626 --> 00:04:37,167 we can unite the broadest mass of people. 47 00:04:37,667 --> 00:04:41,751 Live the Poles. 48 00:04:46,584 --> 00:04:48,376 Live a heroic work class. 49 00:04:48,626 --> 00:04:52,167 Live Poland's United Labor Party. 50 00:04:52,334 --> 00:04:56,167 See! 51 00:05:07,709 --> 00:05:08,542 Jesus Christ! 52 00:05:11,542 --> 00:05:13,001 What have you done? 53 00:05:35,376 --> 00:05:36,126 I live here, I'm a painter. 54 00:05:36,376 --> 00:05:38,001 You come with us 55 00:05:39,084 --> 00:05:40,084 Stand up! 56 00:05:44,167 --> 00:05:45,792 Name. 57 00:05:52,876 --> 00:05:54,667 Strzeminski. 58 00:05:56,751 --> 00:05:58,834 - First name? - Wladyslaw 59 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:00,959 - Date and Place of Birth? - November 21, 1893, in Minsk. 60 00:06:02,626 --> 00:06:08,459 Soviet citizens 61 00:06:10,084 --> 00:06:12,167 Polish citizens 62 00:06:12,584 --> 00:06:14,209 Profession? 63 00:06:18,292 --> 00:06:19,251 Painter. 64 00:06:19,667 --> 00:06:21,001 Artist. 65 00:06:21,584 --> 00:06:22,542 Workplace? 66 00:06:25,751 --> 00:06:27,334 67 00:06:27,626 --> 00:06:31,459 State Art College in Lodz, 68 00:06:31,626 --> 00:06:33,126 lecturer in art history. 69 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:39,709 So, citizens of Strzeminski... 70 00:06:39,876 --> 00:06:44,876 You will travel to the Security Office. And that's where God knows where. 71 00:06:45,376 --> 00:06:48,042 So now God rules in the Security Office? 72 00:06:51,376 --> 00:06:53,043 Good morning, Professor. 73 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:55,376 My office, please 74 00:07:12,251 --> 00:07:13,959 Good... 75 00:07:14,292 --> 00:07:15,626 We have a problem with you 76 00:07:16,126 --> 00:07:17,209 with me? 77 00:07:19,709 --> 00:07:20,876 with you. 78 00:07:22,251 --> 00:07:24,876 Professor, artist. 79 00:07:26,417 --> 00:07:29,417 You know very well that this country is heading in a new direction and you oppose it. 80 00:07:29,751 --> 00:07:30,959 In the Russian tsar, you will be fired to Siberia to do that 81 00:07:31,417 --> 00:07:34,417 But we can't do that. 82 00:07:35,167 --> 00:07:37,376 Unfortunately, we must educate. 83 00:07:38,126 --> 00:07:39,792 I am not against you, I only have a different view of art. 84 00:07:41,542 --> 00:07:46,792 Let me read to you something I have here 85 00:07:49,917 --> 00:07:54,542 86 00:08:00,042 --> 00:08:02,209 Right, what do we have here? 87 00:08:03,667 --> 00:08:05,376 What do we have here? 88 00:08:07,834 --> 00:08:08,584 Here it is. 89 00:08:16,292 --> 00:08:19,334 The line between politics and art has been lost It turns out that the evil in both is the monopoly of the same evil group. 90 00:08:19,667 --> 00:08:25,001 Let's liquidate them without mercy, 91 00:08:25,501 --> 00:08:27,626 Not only because they took over palace of art and the press, 92 00:08:27,792 --> 00:08:30,542 but mainly because they are blocked justice with all their actions, 93 00:08:30,709 --> 00:08:37,459 because they are destroying It's not just art, but above all men. 94 00:08:37,959 --> 00:08:42,584 That's why painters, poets and writers are no longer artists. 95 00:08:42,751 --> 00:08:48,709 You have become, whether you want or not, 96 00:08:48,876 --> 00:08:50,792 the army in the political field... yes, in the political part of the common front. 97 00:08:50,959 --> 00:08:56,542 Do you recognize this? 98 00:08:56,751 --> 00:08:58,584 I wrote it 99 00:08:58,834 --> 00:08:59,917 In the fall of 1934, I thought. 100 00:09:00,834 --> 00:09:05,209 101 00:09:06,876 --> 00:09:09,542 This is not about you, this is about Sanasi Well, if it's in 1934 Surely this isn't about us. 102 00:09:10,251 --> 00:09:12,459 Even though we were in the Soviet Union at that time, could have been about us. 103 00:09:12,626 --> 00:09:18,001 Mister Strzeminski... 104 00:09:19,876 --> 00:09:20,876 You have talent, you have a way with words, I can't write better myself. 105 00:09:22,709 --> 00:09:26,542 So why don't you want to join the changes 106 00:09:27,459 --> 00:09:30,084 instead of sabotaging our ideological lines? 107 00:09:30,251 --> 00:09:33,126 After all, you were in the heart of the revolution and what now? 108 00:09:33,542 --> 00:09:36,792 Mister Strzeminski... 109 00:09:44,834 --> 00:09:47,126 You are not stupid 110 00:09:47,417 --> 00:09:48,334 But believe me, I'm not stupid either. 111 00:09:50,167 --> 00:09:52,751 You stand at the crossroads 112 00:09:53,542 --> 00:09:55,917 and you can't stand here anymore. 113 00:09:56,751 --> 00:09:59,501 Whatever path you choose... 114 00:10:00,417 --> 00:10:01,792 You bring that fate to yourself. 115 00:10:03,001 --> 00:10:04,834 116 00:10:14,417 --> 00:10:19,251 Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Katarzyna Kobro are avant-garde artists. 117 00:10:19,751 --> 00:10:25,584 on St. Petersburg, he worked with Malevich, a famous, well-known artist in Moscow, after the revolution, He took part in the exhibition. 118 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:28,917 After returning to Poland, he settled in Lodz, where he, Henryk Stazewski, 119 00:10:29,584 --> 00:10:33,626 The famous poet Julian Przybos and others form a. r. group, 120 00:10:33,792 --> 00:10:38,292 which stands for Revolutionary Artists. 121 00:10:38,917 --> 00:10:41,417 In this room you can see the artist pieces of this period of his work... 122 00:10:42,001 --> 00:10:46,334 Strzeminski also designed this room, called Neoplastic Room. 123 00:10:47,042 --> 00:10:53,417 Here you can see unusual sculptures by Katarzyna Kobro, 124 00:10:54,751 --> 00:10:58,542 creator of the concept unlimited space, 125 00:10:59,084 --> 00:11:01,959 Please note the relationship between these statues and modern architecture... 126 00:11:02,417 --> 00:11:06,501 127 00:11:06,626 --> 00:11:09,751 You can get closer, Don't touch the exhibition. 128 00:11:17,251 --> 00:11:19,334 Let's continue. 129 00:11:26,167 --> 00:11:27,292 Nika! 130 00:11:28,501 --> 00:11:34,667 - Are Strzeminski and Kobro your parents? - Yes they are. 131 00:11:36,542 --> 00:11:38,251 But they are not together. 132 00:12:11,001 --> 00:12:13,751 Good morning. 133 00:12:13,917 --> 00:12:16,042 And why is it so empty here? 134 00:12:16,709 --> 00:12:19,959 - This is Wednesday. - I know this is Wednesday, so what? 135 00:12:20,542 --> 00:12:22,167 They are all in the hall 136 00:12:22,542 --> 00:12:25,251 for college Professor Strzeminski. 137 00:12:25,626 --> 00:12:26,417 And you? 138 00:12:26,792 --> 00:12:28,292 I am looking for the dean's office. 139 00:12:29,667 --> 00:12:31,709 - There, to your right - Thank you. 140 00:12:34,709 --> 00:12:38,917 Seeing not one, is not specified, abstract action, 141 00:12:40,084 --> 00:12:44,876 but an action, the process of seeing at certain times. 142 00:12:45,501 --> 00:12:50,251 Nature has its own "center of interest". which attracts greater attention. 143 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:56,459 We see it while moving from one point of interest to another. 144 00:12:57,917 --> 00:13:04,834 When we see Van Gogh's view, we see identical and repetitive divisions. 145 00:13:05,459 --> 00:13:11,626 How should we see nature to be seen like Van Gogh's painting? 146 00:13:12,209 --> 00:13:17,376 And he sees it a normal, natural, physiological view? 147 00:13:18,584 --> 00:13:20,501 Which display do we use? 148 00:13:21,792 --> 00:13:25,917 The answer comes when we draw Our view is projected onto the scene. 149 00:13:26,084 --> 00:13:32,334 Four glance along the horizon, each focuses on the center of its own interests. 150 00:13:33,126 --> 00:13:36,626 So an identical repetitive split appears in the image 151 00:13:36,834 --> 00:13:42,876 Not because of the "formalist" Van Gogh hopes for an unknown subjective reason 152 00:13:43,084 --> 00:13:50,126 but because he reproduced accurately the process of looking at the landscape 153 00:13:50,292 --> 00:13:56,084 with four parallels, at a glance which is directed in sequence. 154 00:13:56,376 --> 00:13:57,834 Comrades, colleagues! 155 00:13:59,376 --> 00:14:03,709 Let me remind you today we are hosting the Minister of Culture. 156 00:14:04,834 --> 00:14:06,667 This is a lecture. 157 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:08,292 Please leave, close the door! 158 00:14:08,709 --> 00:14:11,126 After the speech of the Minister Comrade _ there will be a meeting 159 00:14:11,292 --> 00:14:15,959 and debate about our school and our artistic circle. 160 00:14:16,209 --> 00:14:17,917 Immediately stop this class 161 00:14:18,084 --> 00:14:22,251 and prepare the room because in one hour we will host our honored guests! 162 00:14:22,917 --> 00:14:24,459 Attendance is mandatory. 163 00:14:24,751 --> 00:14:26,876 Prefect will check attendance. 164 00:14:31,917 --> 00:14:35,667 And this is Van Gogh's realism. 165 00:14:37,876 --> 00:14:44,917 Realism of living humans, A man who sees not abstractly, 166 00:14:45,084 --> 00:14:48,584 but through living material organisms from the physiological body. 167 00:14:49,792 --> 00:14:55,251 Not acceptance of spiritual experience, but physiological ones. 168 00:14:58,126 --> 00:14:59,501 Thank you. 169 00:15:22,959 --> 00:15:24,376 Why? You do not know 170 00:15:24,542 --> 00:15:28,167 On Wednesday I listen to the great ones lectures Professor Strzeminski. 171 00:15:35,584 --> 00:15:40,126 - Varsovian said he could type. - I am moonlighted as a typist, 200 words. 172 00:15:40,292 --> 00:15:41,626 Very? And what else can you do? 173 00:15:49,001 --> 00:15:52,084 The office has an old German typewriter, 174 00:15:52,417 --> 00:15:56,709 they have new Czech people, but I'm not with his secretary... 175 00:16:01,959 --> 00:16:05,042 Professor, can we come tonight? 176 00:16:05,251 --> 00:16:06,501 Of course, you are all accepted. 177 00:16:14,584 --> 00:16:16,876 Chancellor, please don't exaggerate. 178 00:16:19,292 --> 00:16:23,084 Professor Strzeminski has provided it great service for this city 179 00:16:23,251 --> 00:16:27,584 He created the first modern museum art in Poland and the second in Europe. 180 00:16:28,501 --> 00:16:31,417 - The position is unshakable. - Do you think so? 181 00:16:32,584 --> 00:16:36,209 Will you stay meeting with minister? 182 00:16:37,292 --> 00:16:39,417 - I will. - Thank you very much. 183 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:43,459 It's good that you are here 184 00:16:43,626 --> 00:16:46,751 It is our duty to be present everywhere Important issues for culture are decided. 185 00:16:47,251 --> 00:16:51,667 - I'm afraid we will be handcuffed - Don't come out with something like that. 186 00:17:04,126 --> 00:17:06,834 Ladies and gentlemen, today is a fun day. 187 00:17:07,251 --> 00:17:11,209 I really welcome our esteemed Minister of Culture. 188 00:17:24,459 --> 00:17:27,459 Nations have the right to place their demands on artists and one of the most basic demands is that the deeper layers of art, 189 00:17:27,626 --> 00:17:32,001 purpose, intention 190 00:17:32,167 --> 00:17:34,626 must meet the needs of the community, 191 00:17:35,626 --> 00:17:37,501 no doubt, If what they need is enthusiasm, 192 00:17:37,667 --> 00:17:41,376 belief in victory, 193 00:17:41,709 --> 00:17:42,917 not for apotheosise depression, 194 00:17:43,167 --> 00:17:45,751 When people want to live and work. 195 00:17:47,459 --> 00:17:49,959 The next step in Party offensive in creative circles 196 00:17:50,876 --> 00:17:54,001 determined by the following demands: 197 00:17:54,626 --> 00:17:57,376 198 00:17:58,167 --> 00:18:00,667 socialist realism in art, 199 00:18:00,834 --> 00:18:05,542 war against " cosmopolitanism and Western cultural slavery" 200 00:18:05,876 --> 00:18:12,626 with the use of Soviet achievements artists and their ties to the masses. 201 00:18:14,959 --> 00:18:18,001 The party will defend socialist realism 202 00:18:21,626 --> 00:18:24,001 but that shouldn't bother us. 203 00:18:25,542 --> 00:18:32,792 We need to rebel against formalistic and cynical art that has no ideology against decadent capitalist art, and against American cosmopolitanism. 204 00:18:32,959 --> 00:18:40,459 Therefore I repeat with all my strength: 205 00:18:43,167 --> 00:18:45,459 The art that proclaims the lack of ideology is the enemy of people who work! 206 00:18:45,626 --> 00:18:50,667 Minister, may we ask questions first: is it an art work? 207 00:18:57,834 --> 00:19:03,209 For me, a work of art is about specific form rather than flat realism. 208 00:19:04,834 --> 00:19:08,209 I always say 209 00:19:09,292 --> 00:19:10,376 210 00:19:10,542 --> 00:19:15,501 I fight for existing art models most suitable for a certain period, 211 00:19:15,667 --> 00:19:18,542 because art is a laboratory form. 212 00:19:19,334 --> 00:19:22,292 In art, the only thing that matters is those who open the way for new forms. 213 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:30,126 New art must demand respect not for its usefulness but for its superiority. 214 00:19:31,834 --> 00:19:36,751 But I saw that now you are looking for lost the boundary between art 215 00:19:37,876 --> 00:19:39,876 and politics, 216 00:19:40,042 --> 00:19:42,834 and what is worse is the interest of one group. 217 00:19:46,167 --> 00:19:47,084 Thank you. 218 00:20:05,292 --> 00:20:08,459 Oh, today you have been a long time, Professor. 219 00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:11,709 Move it 220 00:20:13,959 --> 00:20:16,542 - this is you - There was money for the past month. 221 00:20:23,001 --> 00:20:24,417 - Congratulations on eating. - Thank you. 222 00:21:00,792 --> 00:21:06,626 If anyone disagrees with this statement "Strzeminski spreads fermentation to school, 223 00:21:06,834 --> 00:21:11,126 he undermines other authorities lecturers, and promotes pure formalism 224 00:21:11,834 --> 00:21:15,751 when art should be to stimulate society to act ", 225 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,334 please raise your hand 226 00:21:22,917 --> 00:21:31,501 None In this case, I propose a motion Professor Strzeminski 227 00:21:31,792 --> 00:21:34,709 and I give it to vote. Who supports 228 00:21:41,417 --> 00:21:46,376 I rely on you responsibility, friend. 229 00:21:47,251 --> 00:21:50,876 I think we need more time to think. 230 00:21:51,042 --> 00:21:53,292 I am very sorry for the Chancellor, but... 231 00:21:53,459 --> 00:21:57,459 As a student, I know how much he devotes to his students. 232 00:21:57,626 --> 00:21:59,459 It's about his ideological attitude. 233 00:21:59,667 --> 00:22:03,042 Our common line of combat for socialist realism 234 00:22:03,251 --> 00:22:10,251 is outlined by the great Marxist classics: by Lenin, and with Stalin's words. Yes, of course I understand that, but I still doubt it. 235 00:22:10,417 --> 00:22:14,834 In this room gathered teachers and also members of the Party. 236 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:18,626 237 00:22:18,792 --> 00:22:24,917 Comrade, why don't you show more confidence in our collective experience? 238 00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:28,667 I advise you to change your position. 239 00:22:30,667 --> 00:22:34,001 I repeat the sound. Who supports? 240 00:22:40,917 --> 00:22:43,334 - Roman! - Where are you going? 241 00:22:52,376 --> 00:22:56,959 When the storm blows 242 00:22:57,417 --> 00:23:01,084 There is no fear in their hearts 243 00:23:02,042 --> 00:23:05,376 Because we know it's Stalin... No... 244 00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:10,501 Because we know it's Stalin... 245 00:23:11,751 --> 00:23:13,834 is watching us with hope 246 00:23:14,334 --> 00:23:16,292 From the Kremlin. 247 00:23:23,709 --> 00:23:25,542 You smoke too much. 248 00:23:32,334 --> 00:23:36,126 Dawn with a smile 249 00:23:36,292 --> 00:23:38,667 All worries disappear 250 00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:42,126 We gladly move to great deeds 251 00:23:43,126 --> 00:23:44,167 People, 252 00:23:44,584 --> 00:23:47,501 workers and farmers. 253 00:23:52,251 --> 00:23:55,001 Father, I don't have it place in school to study this. 254 00:23:58,917 --> 00:24:00,292 Oh, and here it is. 255 00:24:06,876 --> 00:24:08,917 - What is that? - Recipe. 256 00:24:09,167 --> 00:24:11,334 - For you? - No, for moms The money is in my pocket. Take. 257 00:24:13,251 --> 00:24:15,792 All of that? 258 00:24:16,542 --> 00:24:18,167 See you later. 259 00:24:30,709 --> 00:24:31,376 Why don't you enter 260 00:24:43,292 --> 00:24:46,001 [Class canceled] 261 00:24:47,667 --> 00:24:50,751 - Why was my class canceled? - We receive a letter about you 262 00:25:00,834 --> 00:25:05,959 Why is my class canceled? 263 00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:15,959 In accordance with paragraph 6 of a work contract with staff, 264 00:25:19,001 --> 00:25:24,834 I order immediate termination contract with Professor Strzeminski 265 00:25:25,542 --> 00:25:31,626 starting on March 31 1950. 266 00:25:31,792 --> 00:25:35,209 At the same time, Professor Strzeminski will be given paid leave 267 00:25:35,626 --> 00:25:39,709 for periods up to termination date 268 00:25:39,876 --> 00:25:42,626 Artists are gone? 269 00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:45,792 Paid? 270 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:47,292 That is the decision of the Minister of Comrade. 271 00:25:50,959 --> 00:25:55,084 We want to continue your studies with you, not at school 272 00:26:12,126 --> 00:26:15,417 Who will give you your letters if you leave school 273 00:26:16,667 --> 00:26:20,084 274 00:26:20,376 --> 00:26:22,667 School is a good place. I co-founded it. 275 00:26:23,667 --> 00:26:26,709 What happens now is just a historical wind 276 00:26:26,876 --> 00:26:29,334 It will calm down and pass. 277 00:26:29,501 --> 00:26:31,001 Don't do something stupid. 278 00:26:31,376 --> 00:26:34,376 Ok, but what happened now, Professor? 279 00:26:34,917 --> 00:26:36,251 What? I do not know. 280 00:26:36,459 --> 00:26:39,626 New time will come There will be nothing like before. 281 00:26:56,917 --> 00:26:59,876 - goodbye, Professor - Goodbye. 282 00:27:06,501 --> 00:27:08,167 He speaks like a prophet. 283 00:27:08,334 --> 00:27:13,667 - You are deeply in love, you are blind to the world. - He just opened my eyes to it. 284 00:27:17,084 --> 00:27:18,501 Hania, Hania... 285 00:27:52,667 --> 00:27:54,959 Calm down, I won't bother you. 286 00:27:57,917 --> 00:27:59,084 You smoke too much. 287 00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:46,417 I'm not hungry. 288 00:28:47,417 --> 00:28:48,751 Oh, dad! 289 00:28:51,751 --> 00:28:54,292 I made this pancake. 290 00:28:57,376 --> 00:29:00,042 Not a mother. 291 00:29:04,417 --> 00:29:07,626 One winter he pulled you from the sled. 292 00:29:08,459 --> 00:29:09,626 You remember that 293 00:29:10,542 --> 00:29:14,126 You are four... five years later. 294 00:29:15,542 --> 00:29:17,751 It's good winter. 295 00:29:17,917 --> 00:29:19,376 He pulls the sled on ice. 296 00:29:19,542 --> 00:29:21,876 You are sitting, and you crutches lie on the sled. 297 00:29:22,042 --> 00:29:26,626 Then he is very tired there is no power to pedal shoes down the hill with me. 298 00:29:31,334 --> 00:29:32,959 Take it away 299 00:29:50,334 --> 00:29:52,584 I usually sew this for you. 300 00:29:53,417 --> 00:29:54,667 And now? 301 00:29:58,501 --> 00:30:00,626 What letter is 302 00:30:01,417 --> 00:30:02,459 Which one is that? 303 00:30:02,834 --> 00:30:04,209 My sentence 304 00:30:14,251 --> 00:30:15,959 They fire you from work. 305 00:30:28,251 --> 00:30:33,042 Wladyslaw Strzeminski is the most important 20th century Polish artist. 306 00:30:34,251 --> 00:30:38,167 Your poet has extraordinary things tendencies for ecstasy and overdoing. 307 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:44,751 Alright okay. 308 00:30:48,751 --> 00:30:49,751 After the revolution 309 00:30:52,126 --> 00:30:58,084 Strzeminski works with Kandinsky, Chagall and Malevich. 310 00:30:58,251 --> 00:31:00,709 Artists who have been made For us, only rebels and traitors. 311 00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:05,084 He is a lecturer, students love him. 312 00:31:05,334 --> 00:31:09,209 I appreciate your gestures friendship with Strzeminski 313 00:31:09,542 --> 00:31:12,167 but please answer one question. 314 00:31:12,334 --> 00:31:14,042 As an artist, 315 00:31:14,459 --> 00:31:16,001 Comrade Przybos, 316 00:31:16,167 --> 00:31:19,376 Which side are you really? 317 00:31:21,376 --> 00:31:24,751 - OK... in yours - In & apos; yours & apos; 318 00:31:26,167 --> 00:31:27,251 Or... & apos; ours & apos ?; 319 00:31:27,792 --> 00:31:31,042 Remember that in these days there is only one choice! 320 00:31:31,376 --> 00:31:33,292 But in art, it is death. 321 00:31:33,584 --> 00:31:37,251 - In art, different worlds must collide. - But the world has been determined. 322 00:31:37,417 --> 00:31:40,584 Everyone fights on the ideological side. Why do we need Strzeminski? 323 00:31:40,792 --> 00:31:43,417 All "formalism" and "avant-gardes" are his, 324 00:31:43,584 --> 00:31:45,751 these "unisms" and "afterimages". 325 00:31:46,459 --> 00:31:48,209 This does not build socialism. 326 00:31:49,251 --> 00:31:50,251 Right... 327 00:31:51,876 --> 00:31:55,334 You are trapped in Switzerland as our ambassador is too long 328 00:31:55,834 --> 00:31:58,292 I think you will better understand the modern world, 329 00:31:58,459 --> 00:32:02,417 when you visit the Great Exhibition from Soviet Painting 330 00:32:03,126 --> 00:32:04,167 Very enlightening. 331 00:32:23,501 --> 00:32:26,459 And you, Mr. Strzeminski, 332 00:32:26,667 --> 00:32:28,167 you know, 333 00:32:29,251 --> 00:32:31,167 You have to be hit by a tram! 334 00:32:45,709 --> 00:32:47,876 - Good morning, Professor. - Hello Professor. 335 00:32:48,959 --> 00:32:50,167 - Hello - Hello 336 00:32:50,334 --> 00:32:53,167 Professor, please see. 337 00:32:59,126 --> 00:32:59,959 Professor, 338 00:33:02,334 --> 00:33:03,709 this is our photo 339 00:33:04,126 --> 00:33:05,584 for Saturday exhibition at the YMCA. 340 00:33:05,792 --> 00:33:07,417 That is the only place we can show. 341 00:33:07,584 --> 00:33:08,501 I think so... 342 00:33:08,792 --> 00:33:10,334 But what do you think of them? 343 00:33:10,667 --> 00:33:12,292 Every choice is good 344 00:33:12,459 --> 00:33:14,209 because it's yours 345 00:33:14,751 --> 00:33:18,792 To find your way, don't paint like Mondrian, because he already did it 346 00:33:19,126 --> 00:33:23,042 Even Mondrian should be not paint like Mondrian. 347 00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:28,251 - Don't paint like Strzeminski. - Even you can't paint like Strzeminski. 348 00:33:28,751 --> 00:33:29,876 You are there 349 00:33:31,042 --> 00:33:33,209 Professor, you are Malevich's assistant, 350 00:33:33,376 --> 00:33:37,376 I mean he must know that his property abstraction is incomprehensible, 351 00:33:37,542 --> 00:33:39,126 can not be understood by people. 352 00:33:40,542 --> 00:33:43,501 Malevich closes himself in a combination of geometric shapes. 353 00:33:43,792 --> 00:33:46,792 You can admire all this work, 354 00:33:46,959 --> 00:33:51,167 but only to reject them and search for your own expression form. 355 00:33:51,584 --> 00:33:52,417 But how to find it? 356 00:33:55,792 --> 00:33:57,167 The choice is always up to you. 357 00:33:58,001 --> 00:34:02,584 In art and love you can only give what you have. 358 00:34:07,709 --> 00:34:09,251 And here you have a different answer: 359 00:34:10,417 --> 00:34:16,042 We hope the paintings of artists to be very realistic, 360 00:34:16,292 --> 00:34:21,001 shows the world in a revolutionary way, in the spirit of socialist demands. 361 00:34:21,376 --> 00:34:26,042 Art that proclaims a lack of ideology or indifference to social problems 362 00:34:26,251 --> 00:34:30,709 basically is the art of an ideology is hostile to progress, 363 00:34:30,876 --> 00:34:34,751 for everyone who works. Never have and will never have neutral art. 364 00:34:34,917 --> 00:34:38,001 That's what they wrote afterwards National Fine Arts Festival. 365 00:34:40,334 --> 00:34:45,792 I also used to believe the only purpose art was to serve social change. 366 00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:49,667 But it happened in 1919. 367 00:34:50,292 --> 00:34:51,751 I still believe in revolution. 368 00:34:51,917 --> 00:34:55,626 - So now you don't support realism? - OK 369 00:34:58,542 --> 00:35:02,167 I think you need to paint in harmony with yourself, 370 00:35:03,084 --> 00:35:05,417 if I haven't convinced you, then do something else. 371 00:35:05,584 --> 00:35:07,001 No no! 372 00:35:29,501 --> 00:35:30,501 Goodbye, Professor! 373 00:35:30,667 --> 00:35:33,209 - Thank you goodbye. - Goodbye, Professor! 374 00:35:37,751 --> 00:35:38,667 Goodbye! 375 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:10,084 Hanka? 376 00:36:12,042 --> 00:36:13,876 You expect someone 377 00:36:21,542 --> 00:36:23,584 Other people... 378 00:36:27,792 --> 00:36:30,167 Your students keep coming to you? 379 00:36:30,334 --> 00:36:31,459 They are. 380 00:36:32,459 --> 00:36:34,876 Nika, save it. 381 00:36:39,209 --> 00:36:42,001 Mothers say they don't know what they do. 382 00:36:42,542 --> 00:36:43,792 Who? 383 00:36:44,459 --> 00:36:46,084 Those who fired you 384 00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:52,209 You remember that 385 00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:53,584 Mother usually sews this. 386 00:36:54,042 --> 00:36:55,917 He sells it on the market. 387 00:36:58,709 --> 00:37:02,001 I took it for him. I will take him to the hospital. 388 00:37:02,834 --> 00:37:04,292 So he remembers 389 00:37:05,334 --> 00:37:07,209 it used to be worse. 390 00:37:23,709 --> 00:37:27,834 The October Revolution leads to the victory of socialism. 391 00:37:28,542 --> 00:37:33,542 This shows masses around the world can free themselves from the exploiters 392 00:37:33,917 --> 00:37:38,292 and build a new life to ensure universal human development. 393 00:37:41,417 --> 00:37:42,459 Sit down! 394 00:37:44,584 --> 00:37:46,626 Nika Strzeminska. 395 00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:50,876 Come with me. 396 00:39:24,584 --> 00:39:27,667 At his mother's funeral with a red coat! 397 00:39:30,334 --> 00:39:32,459 I don't have another coat. 398 00:41:22,251 --> 00:41:24,084 That's all, enough! 399 00:41:25,459 --> 00:41:26,834 Return to the car. 400 00:42:43,084 --> 00:42:45,251 That's what I can expect. 401 00:42:59,709 --> 00:43:00,792 What are you doing here? 402 00:43:05,084 --> 00:43:08,084 I have been billed to this apartment 403 00:43:11,459 --> 00:43:14,251 And me? What should I do? 404 00:43:15,209 --> 00:43:17,876 You are not an orphan, right? You have a father 405 00:43:18,417 --> 00:43:20,876 In addition, you already live in... Karolewska St. 406 00:43:21,084 --> 00:43:22,126 At home children. 407 00:43:54,959 --> 00:43:57,084 This is a statue of by a famous sculptor, 408 00:43:57,251 --> 00:43:58,251 Katarzyna Kobro, 409 00:43:58,417 --> 00:43:59,917 my mother. 410 00:44:00,584 --> 00:44:02,626 I will pick them up tomorrow. 411 00:44:02,917 --> 00:44:05,084 Please don't move them. 412 00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:13,292 That's how children see. 413 00:44:13,751 --> 00:44:17,042 My daughter draws it when she is six years old. 414 00:44:17,251 --> 00:44:19,167 This is a contour vision. 415 00:44:19,334 --> 00:44:20,959 Everyone sees differently. 416 00:44:21,126 --> 00:44:24,834 Art goals are to dictate their rights to reality. 417 00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:27,084 However, they dictate us. 418 00:44:27,292 --> 00:44:28,626 I will type it. 419 00:44:28,959 --> 00:44:30,751 If it doesn't cause problems for you. 420 00:44:31,167 --> 00:44:32,959 So you know, Professor? 421 00:44:33,626 --> 00:44:34,251 About what? 422 00:44:37,459 --> 00:44:40,501 Your "Vision Theory" is prohibited at school 423 00:44:40,667 --> 00:44:43,751 Yes, the chancellor is doing everything to delete every last trace of yours! 424 00:44:45,459 --> 00:44:47,709 I don't want you to take any risks. They can drive you out 425 00:44:47,876 --> 00:44:49,959 Professor! 426 00:44:54,917 --> 00:44:56,501 What happened? 427 00:45:12,667 --> 00:45:14,001 When? 428 00:45:14,584 --> 00:45:15,501 Yesterday the day after tomorrow. 429 00:45:16,876 --> 00:45:20,417 - Why don't I know? - He doesn't want you to be at the funeral. 430 00:45:23,334 --> 00:45:24,709 Poor. 431 00:45:26,584 --> 00:45:29,834 I will put blue flowers in his grave. 432 00:45:30,334 --> 00:45:31,542 The blue one Why is the color? 433 00:45:31,876 --> 00:45:33,417 He has blue eyes like that. 434 00:45:33,751 --> 00:45:36,959 Beautiful people 435 00:45:38,126 --> 00:45:38,792 You also have the same thing. 436 00:45:39,584 --> 00:45:40,584 Can I live here? 437 00:45:46,667 --> 00:45:48,126 After the release, he bought it in the Green Market for 60 zlotys. 438 00:46:10,334 --> 00:46:13,917 439 00:46:14,376 --> 00:46:15,834 Remember? 440 00:46:17,584 --> 00:46:20,126 He baptizes you in the Orthodox church. 441 00:46:20,834 --> 00:46:22,042 Not my fault. 442 00:46:22,459 --> 00:46:24,626 Then you baptize me with a Catholic. 443 00:46:26,001 --> 00:46:28,584 So finally me? 444 00:46:44,209 --> 00:46:46,417 Sir, can we start? 445 00:46:50,001 --> 00:46:51,334 Yes we can. 446 00:46:54,709 --> 00:46:57,126 Women and men, please leave the room 447 00:46:57,501 --> 00:46:59,459 But why? I just entered 448 00:46:59,667 --> 00:47:02,876 - This is our order Please go - But what is this habit? 449 00:47:03,167 --> 00:47:04,834 Please do as I say. Please come in. 450 00:47:05,417 --> 00:47:07,459 Hurry, come on! 451 00:47:08,667 --> 00:47:09,834 You know what to do. 452 00:47:45,459 --> 00:47:47,042 This way, faster. 453 00:47:55,501 --> 00:47:57,292 Sir, what happened? 454 00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:00,542 I'm sorry, Roza, This is the command I got. 455 00:48:02,334 --> 00:48:05,709 Liquidating Neoplastic Rooms immediately! 456 00:48:05,876 --> 00:48:07,417 New time will come 457 00:48:24,459 --> 00:48:26,501 Professor, don't you remember me? 458 00:48:26,876 --> 00:48:29,001 Roza Saltzman, right? 459 00:48:30,376 --> 00:48:31,417 So you remember! 460 00:48:36,334 --> 00:48:38,459 Well, you are my student. 461 00:48:41,834 --> 00:48:43,626 Professor, I... 462 00:48:44,001 --> 00:48:45,209 I will go forever. 463 00:48:45,626 --> 00:48:46,959 To Israel 464 00:48:48,501 --> 00:48:51,667 If you can entrust me with but some... 465 00:48:53,042 --> 00:48:56,792 Have you collected it? "For My Friends, Jews"? 466 00:48:58,209 --> 00:49:01,209 Professor, I've just been at the Museum of Art, 467 00:49:01,584 --> 00:49:03,709 to say goodbye to your work, but I can't. 468 00:49:03,917 --> 00:49:05,584 Do you know what happened there? 469 00:49:06,417 --> 00:49:08,001 Neoplastic Space has been liquidated. 470 00:49:08,167 --> 00:49:09,626 I see it with my own eyes. 471 00:49:14,876 --> 00:49:16,667 Professor... 472 00:49:16,834 --> 00:49:18,959 What you make must be safe... 473 00:49:21,001 --> 00:49:24,751 Then the world will have access to it... 474 00:50:34,667 --> 00:50:38,292 [Polish Association Artists and Designers - Lodz] 475 00:50:44,834 --> 00:50:46,584 Hello Professor. 476 00:50:49,959 --> 00:50:51,334 Good morning. 477 00:50:51,876 --> 00:50:56,167 I want to ask for my down payment payments and food stamps. 478 00:50:56,334 --> 00:50:57,751 Morning, Professor 479 00:50:58,459 --> 00:50:59,834 What face 480 00:51:00,084 --> 00:51:06,542 This is the documentation for the design approved by the contractor. 481 00:51:06,709 --> 00:51:09,209 This is a relief for the "Exotic" cafe. 482 00:51:09,959 --> 00:51:11,917 Professor, you are not entitled to any progress, 483 00:51:12,084 --> 00:51:14,751 because the commission has not yet approved the design. 484 00:51:17,167 --> 00:51:18,542 Can I have your membership ID? 485 00:51:30,709 --> 00:51:33,709 Professor, it's not valid, it's not stamped. 486 00:51:35,126 --> 00:51:38,417 You have used illegally an outdated Association ID. 487 00:51:39,709 --> 00:51:42,584 I have been a member since it was founded. 488 00:51:44,876 --> 00:51:46,292 I pay my membership fee. 489 00:51:55,876 --> 00:51:56,751 President? 490 00:52:00,209 --> 00:52:01,792 The president is not here today. 491 00:52:03,376 --> 00:52:07,042 Professor, in January you were excluded from the Association. 492 00:52:07,834 --> 00:52:10,751 We send you a decree. Didn't you accept it? 493 00:52:11,751 --> 00:52:13,542 Now, there will be problems with these costs 494 00:52:13,709 --> 00:52:17,126 You must write a letter to the President to request a refund 495 00:52:18,834 --> 00:52:20,501 Do you want to see sample request letters? 496 00:52:20,834 --> 00:52:22,126 Professor? 497 00:52:54,584 --> 00:52:55,667 Here it is 498 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:16,876 Professor, please eat or it will cool again... 499 00:53:25,459 --> 00:53:28,126 Someone has sent Association commission after you. 500 00:53:28,292 --> 00:53:32,834 They question your work. But we will show inspiration to them. 501 00:53:33,501 --> 00:53:36,292 That shows years colonial exploitation 502 00:53:36,542 --> 00:53:39,459 - That's the title I gave. - Konrad hopes it will convince them. 503 00:53:45,876 --> 00:53:48,167 - Why are you here? - Let me pass 504 00:53:48,584 --> 00:53:50,376 What happened here? What are you doing?! 505 00:53:50,792 --> 00:53:54,751 As a commission from the Artist Association we make the decision to liquidate your work. 506 00:53:54,917 --> 00:53:56,584 Listen, residents of Strzeminski. 507 00:53:56,876 --> 00:53:57,917 Stopping! 508 00:53:59,376 --> 00:54:02,751 Minutes of review of acceptance of from "Exotic" cafe decorations in Lodz. 509 00:54:02,959 --> 00:54:06,626 Gentlemen, don't destroy this. I will cover it with this curtain. 510 00:54:07,876 --> 00:54:08,542 Get out of here. 511 00:54:08,709 --> 00:54:11,709 ... from decorating "exotic" cafes in Lodz in Piotrkowska St. 512 00:54:11,876 --> 00:54:15,042 - Gentlemen, this is a work of art. - I said, get out of here 513 00:54:16,459 --> 00:54:19,042 The Commission consists of Jerzy Grygiel, Romuald Jackowski, 514 00:54:19,626 --> 00:54:22,459 Jerzy Mazurczyk, Ignacy Guttman has decided as follows: 515 00:54:22,709 --> 00:54:25,334 After checking the site from the "Exotic" cafe place 516 00:54:25,501 --> 00:54:30,584 Commissions do not accept decorations are made with polychrome reliefs. 517 00:54:31,376 --> 00:54:35,626 Basic relief liquidations are recommended under the supervision of representatives 518 00:54:36,001 --> 00:54:39,709 Regional Representative Council Artists and Polish Designers in Lodz. 519 00:54:39,876 --> 00:54:43,459 In the opinion of the review commission, cafe decoration characters 520 00:54:43,626 --> 00:54:46,209 contrary to current standards in art 521 00:54:46,376 --> 00:54:49,209 due to socialist realism. Signed... 522 00:54:51,626 --> 00:54:55,209 Bullshit! I have given the title of this project "Colonial Exploitation". 523 00:54:56,709 --> 00:54:59,834 This is the original work of African art... 524 00:55:04,126 --> 00:55:07,584 - That's why internet cafes are called "exotic". - An English book, huh? 525 00:55:07,751 --> 00:55:09,709 Imperialists might like it... 526 00:55:10,501 --> 00:55:16,959 Professor, you do not agree with the review the committee consists of your colleagues. 527 00:55:17,751 --> 00:55:18,959 So who are you? 528 00:55:23,417 --> 00:55:24,501 At mine 529 00:55:30,001 --> 00:55:31,917 Continue. 530 00:55:32,084 --> 00:55:33,751 Return to work! 531 00:55:54,751 --> 00:55:56,292 I got an A score In Poland 532 00:55:56,501 --> 00:55:58,209 The only one in class. 533 00:56:00,792 --> 00:56:02,251 I will make you fresh. 534 00:56:28,042 --> 00:56:29,376 I have a rim of paper. 535 00:57:15,084 --> 00:57:16,709 Coffee. 536 00:57:43,251 --> 00:57:44,126 I also bought this on the road. 537 00:57:44,667 --> 00:57:46,126 Daddy, you smoke too much. 538 00:57:46,709 --> 00:57:48,084 This comes again. 539 00:58:04,876 --> 00:58:06,542 Do you know where the scissors are? 540 00:58:07,042 --> 00:58:08,501 Where is the icon? 541 00:58:38,292 --> 00:58:39,626 In a drawer. 542 00:58:42,209 --> 00:58:43,209 543 00:59:12,417 --> 00:59:15,667 I will return to the daughter's home, It's closer to school. 544 00:59:17,917 --> 00:59:19,792 There is no place for me here. 545 00:59:37,542 --> 00:59:39,667 He will have a difficult life. 546 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:06,626 Contrast color, texture, 547 01:00:06,792 --> 01:00:08,876 collision form, 548 01:00:09,376 --> 01:00:13,376 They take time to the drawing area. 549 01:00:14,584 --> 01:00:16,167 Slower, Professor. 550 01:00:17,417 --> 01:00:19,417 In each composition 551 01:00:19,584 --> 01:00:25,417 Each part has overall awareness. 552 01:00:26,084 --> 01:00:30,167 ... having awareness of... 553 01:00:33,209 --> 01:00:34,292 Please enter. 554 01:00:39,167 --> 01:00:40,292 Julian! 555 01:00:42,751 --> 01:00:43,709 WELCOME! 556 01:00:48,626 --> 01:00:50,459 Sorry, we are finished today. 557 01:00:50,626 --> 01:00:53,084 - Is this famous poet? - Yes. 558 01:00:54,501 --> 01:00:56,709 How are you? Hanna Borowska. 559 01:00:56,876 --> 01:00:57,501 Julian. 560 01:00:58,167 --> 01:01:01,084 - Let me take that for you - Thank you very much. 561 01:01:08,917 --> 01:01:10,584 I'm sorry, I ran out of coffee. 562 01:01:12,667 --> 01:01:13,834 Wladyslaw... 563 01:01:14,542 --> 01:01:15,417 Here it is 564 01:01:16,459 --> 01:01:18,834 I know how much coffee you use. 565 01:01:20,167 --> 01:01:22,126 Why don't I make coffee for you? 566 01:01:22,501 --> 01:01:23,459 Thank you. 567 01:01:25,126 --> 01:01:28,167 You have your loyal students, 568 01:01:29,292 --> 01:01:30,584 who remembers about you 569 01:01:31,417 --> 01:01:33,501 Young people always against the world. 570 01:01:37,126 --> 01:01:38,667 Wladyslaw... 571 01:01:40,917 --> 01:01:42,917 I say this with envy. 572 01:01:44,126 --> 01:01:49,376 Even though for years your art has changed, 573 01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:53,667 you are still alone 574 01:01:55,376 --> 01:02:00,417 I write most of my poetry for drawers, they won't print it because & apos; it's too blurry & apos; 575 01:02:10,709 --> 01:02:12,459 They praise people who suck. 576 01:02:13,001 --> 01:02:14,792 They are silent about true artists. 577 01:02:20,084 --> 01:02:22,251 I talk about this with Milosz. 578 01:02:23,001 --> 01:02:28,626 He also believes that an artist cannot do it Speaking in full voice must be silent. 579 01:02:28,792 --> 01:02:33,084 - These are calls & apos; Wave 49 & apos; - Artists can be killed in two ways: 580 01:02:33,751 --> 01:02:36,126 good by talking too much or not at all. 581 01:02:36,292 --> 01:02:37,917 Party is power 582 01:02:38,084 --> 01:02:42,084 which has caused our country to get out of ruins and economic backwardness. 583 01:02:42,251 --> 01:02:44,876 This is the backbone of and the brain of the nation. 584 01:02:45,042 --> 01:02:50,001 The party has the power to make Such revolutionary changes in Poland 585 01:02:50,459 --> 01:02:54,209 just because of that expression and organizer... 586 01:02:54,542 --> 01:02:57,209 - Coffee. -... the purest will of millions. 587 01:02:57,376 --> 01:02:58,876 - Goodbye. - Goodbye. 588 01:02:59,042 --> 01:03:00,834 This is shown 589 01:03:01,001 --> 01:03:03,834 with greater respect for the Party 590 01:03:04,001 --> 01:03:07,209 - among independent people and even among people... - Let's drink. 591 01:03:07,376 --> 01:03:08,417 ... different form. 592 01:03:08,584 --> 01:03:11,792 As before, When we don't need to whisper. 593 01:03:11,959 --> 01:03:16,959 Many Poles may never study there are Marxist works 594 01:03:21,417 --> 01:03:25,876 what the Party promised is always a reality 595 01:03:26,167 --> 01:03:29,917 and what is the goal of the Party right. 596 01:03:46,167 --> 01:03:48,209 - Professor... - Good afternoon. 597 01:03:48,417 --> 01:03:50,542 Professor, can Roman come here? 598 01:03:51,042 --> 01:03:51,834 Rome? 599 01:03:52,001 --> 01:03:54,334 He waits below for your decision. 600 01:03:54,501 --> 01:03:55,501 He feels like a traitor. 601 01:03:55,667 --> 01:03:58,834 - They kick him out of school - For what? 602 01:03:59,084 --> 01:04:03,167 He wrote his father was a janitor, But he was really a governor. 603 01:04:03,334 --> 01:04:05,709 They even throw typewriter theft. 604 01:04:05,876 --> 01:04:09,209 - did you not return it? - I did it, but you know how it is. 605 01:04:38,709 --> 01:04:40,501 Hello Professor. 606 01:04:46,334 --> 01:04:48,334 We have good news. 607 01:04:51,709 --> 01:04:53,001 There is a job for you 608 01:04:53,542 --> 01:04:54,584 At school 609 01:04:56,292 --> 01:05:00,667 In PSS Co-op. 610 01:05:01,001 --> 01:05:05,126 - But why is there? - Because they are looking for decorators. 611 01:05:06,542 --> 01:05:09,042 And everywhere I ask they know... Cursing! 612 01:05:09,376 --> 01:05:15,334 They know they might have problems with you. But your name doesn't mean anything. 613 01:05:18,876 --> 01:05:20,167 I don't mean... that... 614 01:05:20,459 --> 01:05:21,626 Well, I'll try. 615 01:05:44,709 --> 01:05:46,042 As we agreed. 616 01:05:55,292 --> 01:06:04,167 City Committees encourage us to hire veterans, even better, with disabilities. 617 01:06:07,376 --> 01:06:11,959 - The authorities promote humanism. - So he's right. 618 01:06:12,126 --> 01:06:14,751 He has missing arms and legs and he can handle paint brushes. 619 01:06:15,501 --> 01:06:16,876 And he's the best in this business. 620 01:06:18,917 --> 01:06:19,751 Right. 621 01:06:20,459 --> 01:06:23,917 Where did you lose your arms and legs? During the War? 622 01:06:24,126 --> 01:06:24,917 Yes. 623 01:06:25,501 --> 01:06:26,834 But first. 624 01:06:30,917 --> 01:06:32,292 Please sit down. 625 01:06:35,584 --> 01:06:38,751 How will you do it? With only one hand? 626 01:06:38,917 --> 01:06:40,959 I can present my work. 627 01:06:46,542 --> 01:06:48,501 Roman has promised you 628 01:06:48,667 --> 01:06:52,126 He said so some ideas about this work... 629 01:06:52,959 --> 01:06:53,667 Right. 630 01:06:55,334 --> 01:06:56,876 Well, I don't know... 631 01:06:57,042 --> 01:06:58,167 What you don't know 632 01:07:01,167 --> 01:07:05,209 - You seem to fit perfectly... - Exactly. 633 01:07:05,376 --> 01:07:06,876 But... but if... 634 01:07:07,501 --> 01:07:10,251 But what if... It's harder to fire an invalid one... 635 01:07:23,084 --> 01:07:24,667 Fill this 636 01:07:26,126 --> 01:07:30,126 At the payroll office you can get your food stamps and advances. 637 01:07:35,959 --> 01:07:37,792 Just don't hang around in the office here... 638 01:07:39,292 --> 01:07:41,251 Art is not meant to be decoration. 639 01:07:41,417 --> 01:07:43,584 Art is meant to be an invention. 640 01:07:43,959 --> 01:07:47,917 The process of accepting art is the process gather visual awareness. 641 01:07:49,167 --> 01:07:52,751 Someone really only sees what he realizes, 642 01:07:53,126 --> 01:07:58,417 but visual awareness does not develop automatically. 643 01:07:59,626 --> 01:08:00,876 Have we got it? 644 01:08:01,959 --> 01:08:03,626 - From vision... - Yes. 645 01:08:05,126 --> 01:08:08,834 We don't accept our vision perfectly formed and unchanged. 646 01:08:09,001 --> 01:08:09,959 Wait, wait! 647 01:08:13,501 --> 01:08:14,959 It's here. 648 01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:20,959 Our eyes are formed as a result from long biological evolution, 649 01:08:21,167 --> 01:08:25,001 from a lower quality form for what it is now. 650 01:08:39,876 --> 01:08:41,126 Excuse me. 651 01:08:41,584 --> 01:08:43,667 Where can I find Mr. Strzeminski? 652 01:08:45,542 --> 01:08:50,459 - And who is he? What is she doing here? - He's an artist. 653 01:08:51,542 --> 01:08:55,292 - This is not a circus, there are no artists here. - He's a painter. 654 01:08:56,792 --> 01:08:59,001 There, in the studio. 655 01:09:17,251 --> 01:09:18,667 How did you find me? 656 01:09:19,417 --> 01:09:20,876 Miss Hanka told me. 657 01:09:23,209 --> 01:09:24,542 Does he have a key? 658 01:09:25,001 --> 01:09:26,251 Why? 659 01:09:29,417 --> 01:09:31,751 Students are working on my book there. 660 01:09:46,084 --> 01:09:47,209 Will you wait for me? 661 01:10:06,709 --> 01:10:09,626 - Where did you get it? - The school gave it to us... 662 01:10:10,376 --> 01:10:12,876 I have to wear it for the parade. 663 01:10:13,042 --> 01:10:15,584 But then I have to return it. 664 01:10:16,792 --> 01:10:18,251 I go for get-togethers... 665 01:10:18,459 --> 01:10:21,001 You know, Dad, I will carry the banner. 666 01:10:21,876 --> 01:10:23,334 Do you come 667 01:10:49,959 --> 01:10:54,084 That's how Red Lodz celebrates May Day. 668 01:10:54,417 --> 01:10:55,292 Hand in hand, 669 01:10:55,542 --> 01:11:01,792 line by line, more than 300 thousand factory and institutional employees, 670 01:11:02,209 --> 01:11:05,334 proud to carry out their May Day assignments 671 01:11:06,126 --> 01:11:07,667 Men and women from textile factories, 672 01:11:07,834 --> 01:11:08,792 train, 673 01:11:08,959 --> 01:11:09,876 sportsman, 674 01:11:10,042 --> 01:11:12,084 farmers from all regions 675 01:11:12,251 --> 01:11:14,459 and scientists and artists, 676 01:11:14,792 --> 01:11:17,709 city hall committee, doctor, teacher 677 01:11:18,751 --> 01:11:25,709 all together show their willingness to fight for peace and prosperity. 678 01:11:25,876 --> 01:11:29,709 Above their heads, red flags and red-and-white flags. 679 01:11:30,084 --> 01:11:35,459 Watched by a portrait of Dzerzhinsky, Marchlewski, Kasprzak, Warynski, 680 01:11:36,251 --> 01:11:40,209 their great predecessors in the battle for social liberation. 681 01:12:09,209 --> 01:12:10,167 Mr. Strzemienski... 682 01:12:13,542 --> 01:12:15,709 - Strzeminski - You want to be paid. 683 01:12:38,959 --> 01:12:42,459 I'm sorry, but I'm forced to let you go immediately. 684 01:12:45,959 --> 01:12:46,792 Yes... 685 01:12:49,084 --> 01:12:50,667 Please, sit down. 686 01:12:57,251 --> 01:13:00,626 That's not your fault. However... 687 01:13:00,792 --> 01:13:02,792 May I ask why 688 01:13:03,042 --> 01:13:04,417 I have done something wrong? 689 01:13:05,001 --> 01:13:06,417 No, you're not wrong 690 01:13:06,584 --> 01:13:10,042 On the contrary, that's the best worker in the studio. 691 01:13:10,292 --> 01:13:12,459 Others even fight for your work 692 01:13:13,501 --> 01:13:15,584 Polish Railways want to permanently take you from us 693 01:13:16,709 --> 01:13:20,376 But unfortunately we have an anonymous letter, 694 01:13:20,584 --> 01:13:22,626 that you don't have newspapers become artists. 695 01:13:22,792 --> 01:13:26,209 We check at the Polish Association of Artists and Designers. 696 01:13:26,834 --> 01:13:28,542 And indeed your privilege has been revoked 697 01:13:28,709 --> 01:13:31,084 This is our obligation now. This is it. 698 01:13:35,251 --> 01:13:39,834 Don't care about the money, But I won't have food stamps. 699 01:13:40,084 --> 01:13:41,459 Don't you hear? 700 01:13:41,626 --> 01:13:44,542 In Communism, those who don't work won't eat... 701 01:13:45,417 --> 01:13:48,167 I hope what will happen to them... 702 01:13:48,834 --> 01:13:49,959 I will find out. 703 01:13:52,167 --> 01:13:54,334 Personally, I admire your work. 704 01:13:56,376 --> 01:13:58,167 The Neoplastic Room... 705 01:14:04,876 --> 01:14:06,834 Do you really meet Marc Chagall? 706 01:14:14,199 --> 01:14:19,751 I will go to the studio to get my things. 707 01:14:47,251 --> 01:14:48,501 I will wait here 708 01:14:58,001 --> 01:14:59,501 - Hello - Hello 709 01:14:59,709 --> 01:15:02,542 Can I have some oil and tempera? 710 01:15:03,376 --> 01:15:04,376 Immediately. 711 02:40:16,004 --> 01:15:19,917 From people at 8, can I burn sienna, 712 01:15:22,042 --> 01:15:24,834 bright ocher, gold ocher, 713 01:15:26,834 --> 01:15:28,542 Parisian blue, 714 01:15:29,751 --> 01:15:30,667 and titanium white? 715 01:15:31,001 --> 01:15:31,959 Right. 716 01:15:35,667 --> 01:15:37,459 Parisian blue... 717 01:15:37,834 --> 01:15:40,417 Can I see your membership ID? 718 01:15:48,126 --> 01:15:50,459 Are they crazy? I've been buying here for years! 719 01:15:50,834 --> 01:15:54,501 Sir, this is a shop for artists and you don't have ID 720 01:16:04,417 --> 01:16:06,126 Now we have a few for the cinema. 721 01:16:15,084 --> 01:16:21,542 "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Speaks At the Putiiov Metalworks in 1917", 722 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:26,126 a painting by artist Serov, Podkovyrin and Belayev. 723 01:16:27,876 --> 01:16:34,459 "Headquarters of the Smolny Revolution" by Leningrad Babasuk artists. 724 01:16:35,334 --> 01:16:42,417 "For the Soviet Ransus" summoned his work sculptor Faidish-Krandievski from Moscow. 725 01:16:52,251 --> 01:16:56,417 "The New Apartment" by artist Laktionov. 726 01:16:59,084 --> 01:17:02,584 A series of lithographs by young artist Pinkisevitch- 727 01:17:02,959 --> 01:17:08,376 - We made a bad choice - "Where are the Capitalist Predator Rules." 728 01:17:09,709 --> 01:17:11,292 "In New York." 729 01:17:12,626 --> 01:17:14,584 "In West Germany." 730 01:17:16,209 --> 01:17:18,251 "On the Road of India." 731 01:17:27,459 --> 01:17:29,126 Why do we go? before the film? 732 01:17:29,751 --> 01:17:31,626 You always like cinema. 733 01:17:43,126 --> 01:17:44,459 You need new shoes 734 01:17:45,334 --> 01:17:47,542 - I will give you the money - No need. 735 01:17:47,834 --> 01:17:51,542 We will get new shoes at girls' homes. They promised us. 736 01:18:28,459 --> 01:18:29,792 Sir... 737 01:18:30,917 --> 01:18:32,709 You don't need to queue. 738 01:18:44,917 --> 01:18:46,209 And for you? 739 01:18:46,584 --> 01:18:48,376 100g 740 01:18:48,542 --> 01:18:49,751 And the ranking? 741 01:18:51,917 --> 01:18:53,751 - I don't have anything yet... - next! 742 01:18:54,126 --> 01:18:56,792 - I haven't worked for 6 months... - next! 743 01:18:57,126 --> 01:18:58,667 Yes? 744 01:19:00,376 --> 01:19:01,792 - Who are the chaff left behind? - Yes. 745 01:19:01,959 --> 01:19:03,126 200 g. 746 01:19:14,292 --> 01:19:15,417 May I 747 01:19:15,876 --> 01:19:18,001 - Nearly midnight... - Time for conspirators 748 01:19:23,084 --> 01:19:23,959 Will you go 749 01:19:25,417 --> 01:19:28,667 Don't you think I moved, Professor? 750 01:19:29,834 --> 01:19:30,876 For a moment... 751 01:19:31,959 --> 01:19:34,876 - And will it be so weird? - doesn't make sense 752 01:19:39,042 --> 01:19:40,709 - So you haven't returned it? - No. 753 01:19:40,876 --> 01:19:43,667 Why not, for God's sake? Roman was expelled from school for that. 754 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:46,584 Also expelled from the Party as the son of a pre-war governor. 755 01:19:46,876 --> 01:19:49,292 In fact, as my accomplice he knows about everything 756 01:19:49,584 --> 01:19:53,084 That's good for him, he might change good person, and not a bag of red dirt. 757 01:19:53,251 --> 01:19:54,209 But why? 758 01:19:54,626 --> 01:19:57,376 Because he respects and admires you above everything 759 01:19:57,792 --> 01:19:59,959 and I have to finish your life's work. 760 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:03,542 I love you ever since I see you on that field trip. 761 01:20:08,292 --> 01:20:10,334 Good... 762 01:20:10,667 --> 01:20:13,376 And I think that can't be worse 763 01:21:31,626 --> 01:21:33,709 So, Mr. Strzeminski? 764 01:21:34,084 --> 01:21:35,917 We meet again. 765 01:21:37,459 --> 01:21:38,626 You call me here 766 01:21:42,959 --> 01:21:44,042 Mr. Strzeminski... 767 01:21:45,167 --> 01:21:48,001 we agree so You stand at the crossroads 768 01:21:48,709 --> 01:21:50,626 and that you can't stay there again. 769 01:21:54,959 --> 01:21:56,542 We have captured your student. 770 01:21:57,667 --> 01:22:02,126 The typewriter is also used by for anti-government leaflets 771 01:22:02,876 --> 01:22:06,417 I guarantee that we have how to make it tell us everything. 772 01:22:08,417 --> 01:22:09,709 You can help, 773 01:22:11,709 --> 01:22:13,292 and I can help you 774 01:22:14,001 --> 01:22:16,334 I will give you with a studio in School, 775 01:22:17,251 --> 01:22:20,292 conditions for creative work, exhibitions and publications. 776 01:22:21,834 --> 01:22:22,959 Exist. 777 01:22:26,084 --> 01:22:27,667 You will take care of your daughter. 778 01:22:32,501 --> 01:22:36,126 And what you offer... 779 01:22:37,667 --> 01:22:38,667 what is that? 780 01:22:43,917 --> 01:22:45,042 I don't know... 781 01:23:02,501 --> 01:23:07,126 With the last two months you owed, 782 01:23:08,251 --> 01:23:10,459 Everything is 1,400. 783 01:23:10,959 --> 01:23:13,001 Sorry, but I don't have it... 784 01:23:22,542 --> 01:23:25,751 If you pay, we will talk. 785 01:23:29,292 --> 01:23:31,792 I don't waste money, sir. 786 01:24:50,042 --> 01:24:51,459 He has some too much. 787 01:25:00,834 --> 01:25:01,917 Sir? 788 01:25:02,792 --> 01:25:04,209 Are you okay? 789 01:25:04,459 --> 01:25:05,501 Do you need help? 790 01:25:06,417 --> 01:25:07,376 Sir? 791 01:25:08,751 --> 01:25:10,751 I will call an ambulance! 792 01:25:16,459 --> 01:25:18,584 - Where is the phone? - there 793 01:25:20,876 --> 01:25:22,876 Sorry, I need to call an ambulance 794 01:25:23,042 --> 01:25:23,751 Continue. 795 01:25:32,792 --> 01:25:33,959 To the drunk tank 796 01:25:34,292 --> 01:25:36,251 To the hospital, This is serious. 797 01:25:44,959 --> 01:25:46,917 Don't forget crutches! 798 01:26:21,209 --> 01:26:22,084 Julian... 799 01:26:22,667 --> 01:26:26,126 The day I was numbered I was dying 800 01:26:29,709 --> 01:26:33,834 I want a few more months to complete the "Theory of Sight"... 801 01:26:35,542 --> 01:26:36,542 A few weeks... 802 01:26:38,001 --> 01:26:39,792 So I can leave something behind... 803 01:26:42,792 --> 01:26:43,917 It's good for you here 804 01:26:44,751 --> 01:26:46,209 Show me your shoes. Come on. 805 01:26:51,167 --> 01:26:52,084 First. 806 01:26:55,084 --> 01:26:56,042 Second. 807 01:26:56,501 --> 01:26:57,792 They don't leak? 808 01:27:30,792 --> 01:27:33,042 When looking at the shoes, 809 01:27:33,209 --> 01:27:36,334 - he is very happy - A friend lent me for the visit. 810 01:27:36,501 --> 01:27:37,626 And the dress. 811 01:27:38,667 --> 01:27:40,709 So he won't worry about me... 812 01:27:42,459 --> 01:27:44,459 But don't say that, sir. 813 01:27:44,626 --> 01:27:45,667 Doctor! 814 01:27:47,542 --> 01:27:48,709 I have some Rimifon. 815 01:27:49,751 --> 01:27:51,417 How do you get it? 816 01:27:51,584 --> 01:27:54,542 - Not available here... - I visited Switzerland 817 01:27:57,417 --> 01:27:58,292 We will use it... 818 01:27:58,834 --> 01:27:59,917 but... 819 01:28:00,834 --> 01:28:03,292 I'm worried it's too late for that... 820 01:28:05,167 --> 01:28:06,584 Excuse me. 821 01:28:27,709 --> 01:28:29,001 What are you doing? 822 01:28:30,709 --> 01:28:32,917 - You have to stay... - No. 823 01:28:33,084 --> 01:28:34,626 Not now... Not yet. 824 01:28:35,209 --> 01:28:38,292 Professor, you have advanced tuberculosis This is not a joke. 825 01:28:38,792 --> 01:28:41,126 I have something important to do... 826 01:30:01,459 --> 01:30:03,084 Move with me. 827 01:30:04,417 --> 01:30:05,917 From where you are too far away. 828 01:30:06,501 --> 01:30:08,667 From Karolewska it is closer to school. 829 01:30:12,792 --> 01:30:15,834 Nobody visits me again. 830 01:30:24,709 --> 01:30:29,001 67 paintings that you gave me in 1945 for the first exhibition 831 01:30:29,126 --> 01:30:31,209 is here in storage 832 01:30:31,709 --> 01:30:32,917 I will put this here too. 833 01:30:34,001 --> 01:30:35,292 They will be safe. 834 01:30:36,959 --> 01:30:40,167 Safe, but no one will see it here... 835 01:30:42,334 --> 01:30:46,501 Sir, I will take a job... 836 01:30:47,667 --> 01:30:49,084 We have to live somehow... 837 01:30:52,126 --> 01:30:54,584 Mr. Wladyslaw, I know the situation, but... 838 01:30:55,042 --> 01:30:56,459 I can't 839 01:30:58,417 --> 01:30:59,709 I really want to, but I can't... 840 01:30:59,917 --> 01:31:01,876 Please believe I can't 841 01:31:28,584 --> 01:31:29,417 Good morning. 842 01:31:33,501 --> 01:31:36,209 - who have you sent to me here - this is you 843 01:31:36,834 --> 01:31:38,542 But he is not ready for that! 844 01:31:39,126 --> 01:31:42,001 - Madam, he is a specialist. - Specialist! 845 01:31:42,376 --> 01:31:45,042 - No legs, no arms, specialists! - Please! 846 01:31:45,167 --> 01:31:47,376 Specialist! Maybe limp! 847 01:33:52,126 --> 01:33:56,917 December 26, 1952 848 01:34:07,251 --> 01:34:08,251 Yes? 849 01:34:09,709 --> 01:34:13,084 Can I stay here for a while? 850 01:34:13,292 --> 01:34:14,959 What's up, child 851 01:34:18,292 --> 01:34:20,709 My father died on this bed. 852 01:34:21,834 --> 01:34:24,292 His name is Wladyslaw Strzeminski. 853 01:34:26,542 --> 01:34:27,667 Of course.