The Peasants (2023) Movie Script
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[INSTRUMENTAL
FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMEN VOCALIZING]
[BIRDS AND INSECTS CHIRPING]
[BLOWS AIR]
Look, Kuba.
They're flying away.
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
-[BELL TOLLING]
[PRIEST CHANTING IN LATIN]
[CHUCKLES]
[CHURCH BELL RINGS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
-[VOCALIZING WIND BLOWING]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
ANTEK: Hanka! Come over here.
Has God blessed you
with a good potato harvest?
PLOSZKA: Yes, indeed.
BLACKSMITH: She said the baby
has the same eyes,
dark and rheumy.
The spitting image of Boryna.
-No!
-[LAUGHTER]
Many a young girl
will chase after him.
[LAUGHTER]
They had no room for her
in the hallway, or the barn.
-Just like mine.
-WOMAN: Right.
The plague-ridden scum.
Her own children.
It's getting cold. Come get
your mother's wool, Magda.
There's no point.
Father won't hand over anything,
not even her clothes.
DOMINIKOWA: Jagna, come.
[CHUCKLES]
You're so dressed up.
What a fancy necklace.
Made from an alder branch
I found. I cut it and--
Beautiful and talented.
She could marry a rich widower.
I won't look after
someone else's children.
There's nothing to worry about.
His are already weaned.
I'm fine where I am.
Sooner or later
you'll have to flee the nest.
Get yourself a husband
and you'll also get his farm.
And you'll become a woman.
I don't care about that.
Don't talk rubbish, Jagna.
She's still young and speaks
without thinking. [CHUCKLES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Don't you dare
slink off to the inn.
-You'll feel my whip if you do.
-SZYMEK: Come on, Mother.
DOMINIKOWA: No.
And you?
As if I needed more trouble.
What did I do?
You talked back
to the mayor's wife.
Do you want them
to speak ill of you?
I didn't mean to offend her.
I'm just happy here with you.
[CHUCKLES]
[DOGS BARKING]
My dear child.
[COW BELLOWS]
What's going on at Boryna's?
[COW BELLOWS]
[HANKA AND JOZKA SOBBING]
-[COW BELLOWS]
-JOZKA: Poor thing.
I won't be ringing the bell
at her funeral.
Clink your pots instead.
-Daddy!
-BORYNA: Whoa!
JOZKA: Rosey is dying.
Jambrozy has bled her,
but nothing happened.
Then we put melted wax
down her throat. Still nothing.
Our best cow.
May the Devil twist your guts
if that's how you tend her.
Always eager to eat my food,
but you won't lend a hand.
I've been out digging potatoes
all afternoon.
As if you ever notice anything.
[WHIMPERING]
Scum! To waste such a beast.
[HANKA CRYING]
What? Sniveling again?
It's all you're good for.
Leave her alone.
Don't insult my wife.
You're no better.
-Do you care for this farm?
-What am I? Your farmhand?
I work like a horse for nothing.
Not a nice word from you.
Shut up before I lose my temper.
You live on my land,
eat my food.
-My bread's making you bold.
-This bread is my birthright!
You've inherited it as I should
now inherit it from you.
I doubled this land
with my own hands.
And while these hands can work,
it stays mine.
If you don't like it,
try your luck elsewhere.
You can get fresh bread daily
from Hanka's three acres.
I'd eat moldy potatoes if they
weren't thrown in my face.
-[GRUNTS]
-[HANKA SOBS]
Father wants you
to butcher the cow.
I'm no butcher.
Must you always fight with him?
He's your father.
Make peace with him.
Do it for us, for our children.
Come on, Antek.
You make peace if you want.
But don't tell me what to do.
Without a housewife at home,
things drain away,
like through a sieve.
It's time for you to marry.
Period.
[LAUGHS] You're joking.
My wife's body is still warm
in her grave.
The whole village
would start talking.
Eat up. Eat up.
Listen, Boryna.
There are so many
unwed girls here,
that when a man
goes about the houses,
he smolders hot as a stove.
Take Zoska.
Slender, hardworking,
and her dowry is not bad.
She's a grumpy shrew,
and has one thick hip.
What does he need her dowry for?
Isn't he the richest farmer
in the village?
How about Staszek's Weronka?
Taken.
Roch's son
sent her vodka yesterday.
Jagna Dominikowa?
[MURMURS AGREEMENT]
MAYOR: A fine girl!
BORYNA: Jagna?
MAYOR'S WIFE: Yes.
They say
she's always chasing after boys.
Oh, well. It's just a rumor.
People gossip
just for the sake of it.
ORGANIST'S WIFE: Take care.
JASIO: I'll be back.
Don't worry.
COACHMAN: Let's go.
[JAGNA CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLING]
God bless.
Jasio left for his studies?
He'll be back soon enough.
I shouldn't worry.
He's off to the seminary
to become a priest.
You've brought me some herbs.
Thank you.
Give your mother our blessings.
The priest talks so well of her.
Such a wise woman.
Wait, I'll give you something
for these.
Mother said there's no need.
Don't be silly. I insist.
[COW MOOING]
JOZKA: Poor thing.
His wing is broken.
Will you take him, Jagna?
I can't. Father would
get rid of him for sure.
WITEK: Take Storky.
I'll cure him before spring.
I'll feed him and everything.
Take him.
JOZKA: Do take him, Jagna.
Maybe I could find room
somewhere in the barn.
Hatching some plan, are you?
[CHUCKLES]
Antek, don't tell Father.
Why would I, Jozka?
Go home.
Father's looking for you.
You really want to keep
this scrawny thing?
I really do.
[CHUCKLES]
-SZYMEK: Have you heard?
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
The squire's driving everyone's
livestock out of Wolf's Hollow.
All that land! He begrudges us
our grazing rights.
[ROOSTER CROWS]
They say your son-in-law
means to take you to court.
That damned blacksmith.
Running amok, the lot of them.
Coveting what's mine.
[CHUCKLES]
They might back off
if you were to marry again.
-I won't take just any girl.
-Hmm.
Throw in some land and even
the very best won't hold back.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
BORYNA: For land, they run
like sows to a trough.
Are men any different?
Always sniffing around
for a dowry, like dogs.
Only...
MAN: Look, it's Boryna.
They say the squire
wants to sell Wolf's Hollow.
He can want all he likes,
but we have wood gathering
and grazing rights there.
Sue him then.
Who has time for the courts
when there's so much work
to do before winter?
True. The burdens we bear.
[INSTRUMENTAL
FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
-[COWS MOOING]
-[HORSES WHINNYING]
[SHEEP BLEATING]
[QUACKING]
VENDOR: Potatoes!
Cheap potatoes!
[PLAYING TUNE]
-[HORSE HUFFS]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Three notes.
[LIVELY CHATTER CONTINUING]
VENDOR 1: If anyone has a pot
with a hole, come to me.
Boots with laces. Red and black.
And greased with fat.
VENDOR 2: It looks good on you.
[CHUCKLING]
How much?
Three notes.
I'll take it.
You'd make a fine farm boy.
Or not.
Oh, well.
I'd hire you in an instant.
I'd be too expensive.
For some,
but not for me.
And I wouldn't work
in the fields.
I'd do all the work for you.
Jagna.
Take this.
I bought it for you.
JAGNA: [GASPING] Pure silk.
[GASPING]
I can't.
Take it, Jagna.
And if some boy
brings you vodka,
don't drink it...
Why the rush?
I said seven.
Six and a half.
It's all blighted.
Your face will be blighted after
I punch it. The wheat's pure.
People say
I should take you to court.
[LAUGHS]
Go ahead!
Give Magda the land
that is rightfully hers.
I won't take it to the grave
with me.
But as long as I breathe,
I won't give up a single acre.
Then pay us the value
of those two acres.
[COUNTER RATTLES]
Enough.
A man has a need for money
when he's on the lookout
for a new wife.
[LAUGHING] Yeah, sure.
If I choose to, I'll marry.
Any objections?
Objections? No, but--
I might even
send vodka tomorrow.
Do it. Why would I mind?
But give us the calf at least,
Rosey's calf,
and I'll help you.
You'll help. Sure you will.
Jambrozy!
Come, drink with us.
[GRUNTS IN AFFIRMATION]
[PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[JAGNA GASPS SOFTLY]
What are you
thinking about, Jagna?
Nothing much.
[SIGHS]
ANTEK: How's the stork? Better?
He's better, thank you.
[SIGHS]
[CHUCKLES]
I'd like to hang
onto those clouds
and float far away with them.
I'd go with you.
Would you like that?
MARYSIA:
An owl sits in the grove
And listens to people talk
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And listens to people talk
JAGNA AND MARYSIA:
There were two people
And both were young
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And both were young
And from their whispers
Came a...
Shut it!
Sounds like you're being
skinned alive.
[SHEEP BLEATING]
...came a child!
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And there came a child!
ANTEK:
There were two people
-And both were young
-[CHUCKLES]
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And both were young
And from their whispers...
-[COWS MOOING]
-[DUCKS QUACKING]
JOZKA: Did you hear that Walek
is sending vodka
to Ala Paciotkowa tomorrow?
Is she already old enough?
She's got so much land
that boys are in a hurry.
They'll line up for you, too,
for sure.
Only if your daddy doesn't spend
your dowry on a new wife first.
Stop spouting nonsense.
He buried Mother in the spring.
What does that matter to a man?
Every man is a pig,
always ready to thrust his snout
into a fresh trough.
SZYMEK: Come on, Jagna!
I'm soaked to the bone.
If you run into Antek,
tell him to hurry.
-Hail Mary, full of grace...
-Hurry! Let's hurry!
SZYMEK: Move, come on.
[GRUNTING]
-Come on, girl! Come on!
-[HORSE NEIGHING]
Go! Move your ass!
[PANTS, GASPS]
SZYMEK: Jagna? Jagna!
You shouldn't have loaded
so much for one horse.
I'm not doing two trips
in this weather.
We'll push on three.
One, two, three!
SZYMEK: Come on! Move!
[JAGNA GASPS]
SZYMEK: Go on! A little more!
You're clear now, Szymek!
SZYMEK: Thank you, Antek.
God be with you! Jagna!
You go on!
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Hanka is waiting for you.
I'll walk you
to the mill, Jagna.
The water
has caused a breach there.
It got so dark, hasn't it?
Are you afraid?
Why would I be?
-[THUNDER CRACKING]
-[GASPING]
Will you come
to the cabbage party tomorrow?
Go now.
They are waiting for you.
[EXCLAIMS, CHUCKLES]
Will you come?
I will.
[SIGHING]
[WOMAN CLEARS THROAT]
Hey! Off with you!
-Ala and Walek got engaged.
-JAGUSTYNKA: Really?
JOZKA: She'll be
a beautiful bride.
She bought such pretty ribbons
at the market.
Beautiful for a day.
Until they chop off her braids
at the unveiling.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
Then the guy
will get a surprise!
Jagustynka, never a nice word
for anyone.
I'm just telling it how it is.
We all have to go through that.
-[CABBAGES THUD]
-Let's have them.
Colorful as a flowery meadow.
The girls are all dressed up,
like for a wedding. [LAUGHS]
Planning on marrying cabbages,
are you, girls?
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
ZOSKA: Did you know
Mateusz is back?
He alone built the councilor's
house in six months.
He built us a new henhouse
in one day.
He's a skilled craftsman.
JAGUSTYNKA: Skilled indeed.
I bet he'll be able to make
something new pop out
in the village in nine months.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
Lukasz! Play some music!
-[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
-[SHOUTS JOYFULLY]
[WOMEN CHEERING]
Well, ladies, all this work
must be making you thirsty.
[LAUGHS]
KUBA: Jagusia,
some bread and lard.
-Give me some.
-BORYNA: For you, and for you.
I don't like the taste of vodka.
One for you, Jagustynka.
Cheers!
Cheers!
[MUSIC STOPS]
WOMAN: Bravo!
-Bravo, musicians!
-KOZLOWA: Bravo!
Thank you for the hospitality,
but I have to run now.
You didn't even eat anything.
Mother's expecting me.
HANKA: God be with you.
JAGUSTYNKA: God be with you.
[HUMMING]
[VIOLIN HARMONIZING]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[GASPS]
[GASPING]
[BIRDS SCREECHING]
That one's like me.
Flying away before the others.
No.
This one's like you.
So bulky
he might fall out of the sky.
[ANTEK LAUGHS]
And then he'd crash...
-[JAGNA GASPS]
-...on some pretty girl below.
[KISSES]
This is you.
I'm like dirt to you?
No...
You are like the holy soil
that brings life.
[BIRDS SCREECHING]
You bring life to me.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
DOMINIKOWA: Yes! Come in!
Praised be.
Praised be.
Mind you, an important man
has come to see you.
I'm listening.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
You're a wise woman, so you know
that sooner or later, Jagna...
has to leave her home.
I am bringing this
from the village's first farmer.
Shall we drink to that, Mother?
Drink away, but you haven't
told us who the man is.
Who?
Why, Boryna himself.
[SCOFFS] An old widower!
Old? He recently went to court
for a paternity case!
[CHUCKLES] True...
-Except it wasn't his.
-Of course it wasn't.
A farmer like him
with a wench like that?
Let's drink, Mother.
Let's drink.
I could, but likely he'll soon
be drinking with the angels.
Then what? His children
will kick the stepmother out.
No, that's not for us.
Maciej promised
a land settlement for Jagna.
I... the mayor, swear it.
Well... [CLEARS THROAT]
[GLASS THUDS]
We'll think about it.
Drink, Jagna.
Drink.
We've got you a man...
as solid as an oak.
You'll be the first lady
of the village.
Mmm.
Drink up.
Hmm?
I said, drink.
Drink, Jagna.
Jagna!
-MAYOR: Leave her, Mother.
-[DOOR SLAMS]
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
-[COW MOOING]
I've told you, Mateusz.
You did, you did...
Uh, what did you tell me?
To leave me alone.
I just want to talk to you.
Be quick. I have work to do.
Your mother wants to sell you.
Like selling a heifer
on market day.
You'll go with the old man?
If she tells me to, I will.
Do I have a choice?
You do!
Just tell her... what you want.
Sure. That's easy
for you to say.
Jagna.
-Back from your travels already?
-I'm back, Mother.
Your mother was a bitch.
There's nothing for you here.
I've come to see Jagna, not you.
Stay away from Jagna,
do you hear?
She's been maligned
in the village because of you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I'll leave her those three acres
next to Michal's land.
[CHUCKLES]
Her late father left her five,
and one in the forest.
Match that and give her six.
What?
The land by the road is better,
where you grow potatoes.
Those are my best fields!
And isn't Jagna
the best girl in the village?
I suppose.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
But six acres? To most people
that's a lot of land.
No one will take it
as long as you live,
and remember, the fields
from her father will be yours.
You can sow them immediately.
[LAUGHS]
BLACKSMITH: To you, farmer!
BORYNA: Thank you, my friends!
-Cheers!
-[WOMAN LAUGHS]
Play some music!
-Jagusia is moving in!
-[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
My dear. Sit down.
[LAUGHS]
Don't worry, Jagna!
[LAUGHING LOUDLY]
You'll like it here with me.
Better than staying
with your mother.
[BORYNA SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[BORYNA LAUGHING]
[CLANKING]
You're on Father's side.
I'm on the side of order.
Paid you off well, has he?
Not from your pocket.
It is from mine, damn it, mine!
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHS]
You've taken enough,
so you're not bothered.
And the calf he just gave you?
Is that nothing?
-You could have taken it, too.
-I'm not a thief.
Calling me a thief?
Hey, hey!
I'm a public official.
Easy, Antek, or you'll be sorry.
You're nothing but a drunk.
A Judas and an embezzler.
I bet he paid you both well
to be on his side!
It seems to me, Antek...
that it's not the land
that's bugging you.
What then?
You've been chasing
after Jagna...
so now you're moody.
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHS]
Let go of him.
Antek.
Let go of him.
[MAYOR PANTING]
JOZKA: And on the second day,
when all the people had left,
and the Blessed Virgin,
and the Holy Apostles were gone,
only the little dog remained.
And he sat, and howled...
Do you ever shut up?
Why are you
jumping down her throat?
Cheers!
Cheers.
You've signed over
a whole six acres to Jagna.
Because I chose to.
And if I choose, I can sign over
everything to her.
[GLASS THUDS]
You could,
if it belonged only to you.
Who else does it belong to?
[SLAMS]
[JAGUSTYNKA CLEARS THROAT]
Who else? Tell me.
It's ours.
You fool. The land is mine.
And I'll do
whatever I want with it.
You can't take what's ours.
Listen to her!
[SCOFFS]
Brought us three acres of sand,
and now she talks back to me.
[SPOON CLATTERS]
If your lot is so bad here,
go find something better.
We're not going anywhere.
Our land is here.
Give it to her if you want to,
but divide the rest
among your children.
Antek, Magda and Jozka.
Look at her.
Now she's dividing up my land.
We only want what's just!
You'll find justice
at the end of my stick.
Lift a finger against her
and you won't live
to see your wedding day.
Six of our best acres
signed over to her.
Mother's clothing,
her beads, everything!
And for whom?
For whom? For that dirty sow!
[UTENSIL CLATTERS]
-What did you say?
-She's a dirty whore...
and the entire village knows it.
The whole world even!
Don't you dare,
or I'll beat your foul mouth
to a pulp!
[BOTH GRUNT]
I'll say it, too.
Your Jagna is a common whore.
You hear me?
Whoever wanted her, had her.
[BORYNA GRUNTS]
KUBA: Stop this!
[GRUNTS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
HANKA: Antek!
For God's sake, men! Stop!
HANKA: Enough!
[PANTING]
A worthless bitch.
You're just too old to realize
that you've paid more
than others would.
Leave.
Come sunrise,
I don't want to see you here.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[BABY CRYING]
[BIRD CAWS]
DOMINIKOWA: Why so gloomy?
Don't be like this with Boryna.
Be soft, be gentle...
He might gift you more land
or toss a pretty coin your way.
I don't care about money.
There must be something
more important.
Eh...
Have you no fear of God?
Foolish girl.
Look. Look!
Your settlement from Boryna,
six acres of pure soil.
Do you think that you'd be happy
without that holy soil?
God did not create you
to be poor. No!
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
Love comes and goes...
but land remains.
WOMEN: She let
Her golden hair down
Welcome! Drink people, drink!
Drink, my dears!
Her golden hair
She let
Her golden hair down
Her golden hair
Don't let me go
Please, Mum
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Please, Mum
Don't let me go
Let me stay
How can I, my dear child
Not let you go?
How can I, my dear child
Not let you go?
A good man
Came to claim you
To be his wife
A good man
Came to claim you
To be his wife
To be his wife
ALL: In the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
DOMINIKOWA: Eat something.
KOZLOWA: Look at her.
A grand lady.
She's the first lady
of Lipce now,
and she sits there
as if she's at a funeral.
She's overwhelmed.
She's a beauty though.
I'll give her that.
Why wouldn't she be?
All she does is sleep and eat.
And lie behind every bush
with anyone in trousers.
Zoska, in the name
of the Holy Virgin.
This is no place
for such gossip.
They'll last till spring.
Then she'll get bored
and start chasing farmhands.
Her mother was the same.
-[WOMEN EXCLAIM]
-Jagustynka.
Aren't I right?
She prays away now
because she's wrinkled
as a potato after winter.
But in her youth, she'd fall
on her knees for other reasons.
Now she'll feel at home.
And help herself
to Mother's things.
ZOSKA: Cheers!
MAYOR: Cheers!
-We'll fight for what's ours.
-MUSICIAN: One, two...
WOMAN 1: Go on, dance.
WOMAN 2: Beautiful!
Look, Mother.
Our Jagna looks beautiful.
MAN: Pour! Pour!
WOMAN 3: So beautiful!
[ALL CLAPPING AND STOMPING
RHYTHMICALLY]
[ALL CHEER IN UNISON]
[LAUGHTER, LIVELY CHATTER]
[MAYOR GRUNTING]
[ALL CHEERING]
[MAN CHEERS]
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
There's never been a wedding
like this in Lipce,
-nor will there ever be again.
-[MAN LAUGHS]
Ah! Jagna, my beauty!
-I have to rejoin the guests!
-What a hostess.
MAYOR: Drink, young lady!
BORYNA: Bottoms up!
MAYOR: Cheers!
BORYNA: Bottoms up!
MAN: Cheers! Bottoms up!
-[GASPS]
-[BORYNA GROWLS]
-[LAUGHS LOUDLY]
-[WOMEN CHEERING]
[BORYNA SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN: Come on!
Come on, follow me!
[CHEERING]
Come on, follow me!
Come with me!
-[MUSIC CONTINUING]
-[ALL CHEERING]
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CONTINUING]
[WOMEN VOCALIZING]
[CROW CAWS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SHEEP BLEATS]
[GOOSE HONKS]
[ANTEK SIGHS]
I hear they are hiring
at the mill.
I told you already.
I won't work
for the peasants here.
Maybe... I could work there.
Don't be silly, Dad.
Antek, we're living
on potatoes and salt.
I won't work in Lipce.
It's been more than three weeks
since anyone's spoken to me.
You fought with your father.
Don't other men
fight with their fathers?
Maybe, but you're the only one
whose father is Boryna.
Let them spit on me.
You want that?
It's not about what I want,
it's about what we need!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCOFFS]
[BIRDS CAWING]
[LAUGHS] And the old man.
He boils milk for her,
makes her tea,
and brings it to her bed.
[LAUGHS] He waits on her
hand and foot,
but Jagna will go back
to her old ways soon enough.
[BOTH LAUGH]
I heard that she's frisky
toward her stepson.
Nah! All the gossip about them
knowing each other is not true.
I heard that he'd whine
at her door
and she had to chase him off
with a broom.
[WOJTEK AND PLOSZKA LAUGH]
Many a time
she complained to me.
Wasn't I in her bedroom
more than once?
You're not the first
nor the last to do so.
You're lying.
What did you say?
You're lying, you scum.
-[SHOUTING]
-PLOSZKA: Hey! Boys!
Stop!
Antek!
[ANTEK SHOUTING]
Mateusz!
Jesus, he's gone
straight under the wheels.
I'll do the same thing to anyone
else who bothers Jagna.
[WHEEL CRANKING]
Mateusz! He's alive?
He's alive. He's alive!
[WOMEN HUMMING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Beautiful!
It's not.
Witek, is the stove hot yet?
I'll bring more wood.
Close the door!
The cold is getting in!
Master Jasio!
Praised be Jesus Christ!
Forever and ever.
I bring the altar breads.
Welcome, Jasio!
Good day.
Back from school already?
Since Sunday, three days ago.
What's new?
Everything is quiet
with us peasants, as usual.
Quiet? What about your wedding?
It was so much fun
that people kept dancing
for three days.
Look at Jagna's cutouts.
Very beautiful.
Truly.
-I ran into Antek.
-JAGUSTYNKA: Oh, yes?
He's grown so thin.
He looked weary.
JAGUSTYNKA: Weary indeed.
He wore himself out...
while breaking Mateusz's ribs.
Thank you for your hospitality.
And... Merry Christmas.
JOZKA: Goodbye, Jasio.
JAGUSTYNKA:
God be with you, Jasio.
[COW MOOS]
-[DOG BARKS]
-[DOOR CLOSES]
What happened?
Why were they fighting?
Why, over you, of course.
Like dogs fighting
over a bitch in heat.
You're lying.
JAGUSTYNKA:
I'm telling the truth!
Mateusz was boasting
to the peasants
that he spent time
in your bedroom.
So Antek
almost beat him to death.
Don't you worry, dear.
Antek will fight
against the whole world for you.
-[ORGAN PLAYING]
-[HORSES WHINNYING]
[LIVELY CHATTER]
Maciej, did you see what
we sent you with the farmhand?
Ah, yes. Fine work, Michal.
Thank you.
I see you're wearing
Mother's hat.
It suits you.
Let's go.
[PEOPLE SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROL]
Jagna, come to the meadow
one day.
[BOTH PANTING]
-I have a husband.
-Yes, you do. My father.
Can you change that?
[SIGHS]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
-[GLASS THUDS]
Easy... I come in peace.
You shamed me
in front of the whole world.
You beat me so badly
they even summoned the priest.
[CHUCKLES]
But I am not holding a grudge.
Why were you lying to the men?
I only said those things
because I was angry...
Who am I to Jagna?
INNKEEPER: Welcome!
MAN: Welcome!
BORYNA: Welcome!
-Welcome!
-Praise be.
Praise be.
Are they in the alcove?
Come, Jagna.
[SIGHS]
Forget about it
while you still can.
ANTEK: How can I,
when it runs through my bones
like fire?
MATEUSZ: I know how it feels.
Didn't I go after her myself?
But she preferred you.
The squire had no right.
Yet, he's sold logging rights
in Wolf's Hollow!
-[BAND PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC]
-[CHEERING]
Lipce has always
had rights there.
He owns the wood.
But we will seek a compromise.
What compromise?
The forest is already sold.
[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUING]
They marked the trees
and will start cutting them.
Let them mark them.
We won't let him cut them down.
We won't let him.
[BORYNA COUGHS]
[SHOUTING GLEEFULLY]
I wait every day.
You think I can leave?
They watch me.
Play the volta, boys!
And make it lively!
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[ANTEK LAUGHS]
[JAGNA LAUGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
JAGNA: I was only...
I was only dancing.
He'll weep someday...
-Move.
-I was only dancing!
-Move!
-Leave me!
[BORYNA COUGHING]
BORYNA: Stupid.
Decorates the house,
but she can't see the dirt.
That's because it's clean.
Has the illness
got to your eyes?
I swear, when I get up,
you'll regret it.
Shush, Jagna!
Go and see if Jozka needs help.
Come on, it's not her fault.
Whose fault is it then?
You left her to go drinking
in the back room.
The music was playing,
everyone was having fun dancing.
What was she meant to do?
Stand in a corner
like some old maid?
Just cure me
and don't give me life lessons.
[COUGHING]
I know well enough.
-[BIRDS CLUCKING]
-[WIND WHOOSHING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Hanka?
Hanka!
[HORSE NEIGHING]
For the love of God, Hanka!
[HANKA PANTING]
[BORYNA ROLLS TONGUE]
Stop by some time.
-[NEIGHS]
-Even tomorrow.
You drove us out.
So how could I come to see you?
[HORSE GRUNTS]
I can't let you
and my grandchildren starve.
-Go!
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
[SIGHS]
[REVELERS PLAYING JAUNTY TUNE]
[MEN VOCALIZING]
[GROWLS]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
[LAUGHS WICKEDLY]
[SHOUTS]
[MAN HOWLS]
ALL:
In the cherry orchard
Walked a pretty girl
In the cherry orchard
Walked a pretty girl
Searching for
Her lost innocence
[MEN GROWLING]
JOZKA: It's the revelers!
The revelers are here!
-[WOMEN SQUEALING]
-[MEN GROWLING]
[GROWLS]
[GROWLING CONTINUES]
[JAUNTY TUNE CONTINUES]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[BUTTONS TEAR]
-[JAGNA GASPS]
[WOMEN SQUEALING]
[WOMAN CHUCKLES, EXHALES]
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[JAGNA MOANING]
[GASPING]
[JAGNA MOANS]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[JAGNA MOANING]
[BOTH PANTING]
Fire. Fire!
[COUGHING]
[REVELERS ULULATING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Fire.
[SHOUTING] Fire! Fire!
People, fire!
[MUSIC ENDS]
[DOG BARKING]
[JAGUSTYNKA SIGHS]
Jagna's apron.
Give it to me. Keep working.
They say that Boryna
caught them in the hay
and that's
when the fire started.
Antek did it, for sure,
out of spite.
Did you see it?
Did you see him light it?
Then what are you
blabbering for? [SIGHS]
I heard the old man
beat her so badly
that she's still lying ill.
I said it would end like this.
KOZLOWA: That's enough. Quiet.
[GOAT BLEATS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
I see you've been begging.
Since we live like beggars,
I seek compassion elsewhere.
You have no shame.
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
Is it from Father?
[GOAT BLEATS]
I told you not to go to him,
damn it.
He invited me, so I went.
The children and I won't starve
because you don't care.
ANTEK: Take it back.
I don't need anything from him.
But the children do,
and so do I!
Take it back or I'll take it
and shove it down his throat!
He can choke on his charity.
[HANKA GRUNTS, SHOUTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I dare you!
Touch it and you'll see!
He bought you cheap.
With a crust of bread...
like a stray dog.
You've sold us even cheaper,
for a scrap of Jagna's skirt.
-[CRYING]
-[GOAT BLEATS]
Go on! Run to your bitch!
-[PANTS]
-[THUD]
[CALM MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT ARGUING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Lipce must fight.
[PANTING]
They took our wood today.
If we don't defend ourselves,
they'll come for our land next.
Our homes,
everything that we own.
Slaves of the squire or Boryna,
what's the difference?
Goodness, stop this nonsense.
It's no wonder
he's punishing you now.
He's made of flesh and blood,
not paper like your cutouts.
He's your husband.
I did not choose him.
[ANTEK BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[JAGNA GASPS]
-[KISSING]
ANTEK: Do you love me?
Haven't I said so?
[EXHALES]
Don't I come see you
every time you call?
You love me indeed.
Like some mad dog that can bite
and you can't shake off!
[BREATH TREMBLING]
I have to go now.
[BOTH GRUNT]
If I've gone to the dogs,
it is because of you.
Because I loved you.
You understand?
You love me?
You only take it out on me.
What? What?
You need another man already?
You think I ever wanted you?
Boryna's farmhand?
[CHUCKLES]
-[GASPS]
-[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
-[BREATHES SHARPLY]
-[JAGNA CHOKES]
[CHOKING]
[GASPS, BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SIGHS]
BORYNA: People,
we have suffered an injustice.
An injustice we cannot tolerate.
We have rights in Wolf's Hollow.
[PEOPLE AGREEING]
The forest is ours
and the squire is cutting it.
We complained in vain.
We took the squire
to the court.
[SCOFFS]
Justice was denied to us.
But enough is enough.
They are cutting down our wood!
-Are we going to let them?
-ALL: No!
We must defend what's ours.
Look, it's a mob.
Fetch the horsemen.
BORYNA:
Don't be afraid, people.
[HORSE NEIGHING]
It's our right,
our will, our justice.
All together, people.
Follow me, people!
To the forest!
ALL: To the forest!
Don't just stand there! Attack!
[ALL YELLING]
[CHOKING]
Jagustynka, take the women
and smash their shacks.
How many times do we have to...
JAGUSTYNKA: Traitors!
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
[NEIGHING]
MAN: Horsemen!
Watch out, men!
Come on, men!
Rally round, don't give up!
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
-[GRUNTS]
-[YELLING]
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
Son of a bitch.
[GRUNTS]
MATEUSZ: Get the horses!
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
-[YELLS]
-[MEN GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
[BORYNA GRUNTS]
[CLICKS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
BOROWY: Boryna!
[BORYNA GRUNTING]
-[BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[MEN SHOUTING]
[YELLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[SCREAMING]
[THUDS]
-[SQUISHES]
-[PANTING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Jesus! [GASPS]
MAN 1: Is he dead?
MAN 2: Is he breathing?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Father.
[IN RUSSIAN]
Show me Anton Boryna!
MAN: [IN POLISH] Soldiers.
ANTEK: Father.
Is that you, my son?
-[GASPS]
-It's you...
[ANTEK CRYING]
MATEUSZ: He was
defending his father.
PLOSZKA: Justice is on our side.
-[GUNSHOT]
-[CROWD SHRIEKING]
[IN RUSSIAN]
You're all... under arrest!
MATEUSZ: [IN POLISH]
Us? Arrest them!
[OFFICER IN RUSSIAN]
Take everyone except women!
[IN POLISH] Father. I'm sorry...
[IN RUSSIAN] Stand up.
You're coming with me.
[IN POLISH] Maciej, no...
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
WOMEN: Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
[GEESE HONKING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[ROOSTER CROWING]
I thought only peasants
are up at this hour.
[COW MOOS]
Blacksmiths don't need
to get up at dawn.
With Father ill, and Antek
and the rest in jail...
I thought I'd check in on you.
No need, thanks.
I'm keeping my eye on things,
as Father asked.
Four eyes can see more than two.
-I'll wait until Jagna's up.
-HANKA: Wait all you want.
-[DOOR OPENS]
-[ROOSTER CROWING]
JAGNA: Get out, Hanka.
[SOFTLY] Quiet.
There's a sick man here.
Not that you care.
He could be starving to death
and you wouldn't lift a finger,
heiress.
My husband is my business,
not yours.
The whole farm would go to ruin
if you were to run things.
That's why Father
put me in charge.
[COW MOOING]
And go feed
that whining cow of yours.
[COW MOOING]
[BORYNA GROANS SOFTLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANING SOFTLY]
Has he said anything?
[GASPS] Jesus, Michal.
BLACKSMITH: Sorry, Jagna.
I didn't mean to scare you.
I came to see
how Father is doing.
Did he say anything?
No.
BLACKSMITH: The organist told me
that Father has a lot of money.
He probably hid it
in the storeroom.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Let's split the money evenly
before Hanka steals everything.
Just give me the key, Jagna.
Hanka has the keys now.
[GASPING]
Don't turn your back on me
when I'm talking to you.
[HAND RUSTLES]
[CROWS CAWING]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
MAYOR: You're running
errands now? [CHEWING]
It'd probably
be easier for you...
if they let Antek out?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I can make inquiries.
I have influence.
Come.
Sit down with me.
We'll figure it out.
If you have such influence,
why are the men still in jail?
-For defending what's theirs?
-Don't get upset, Jagna.
I am on your side.
I can help Antek.
[MUSIC TURNS SINISTER]
Keep cranking.
[DOOR CREAKS]
[RUSTLING]
[JAGNA YELPS]
Hanka!
[MUSIC FADES]
Why are you yelling?
You hung that thing over my bed.
That was the only place.
HANKA: Isn't it
convenient for you?
If you get hungry,
you can rip a piece off,
since you take
what others worked for.
[JAGNA HISSES]
Let her go
if she wants to fight.
I dare you.
I'll scratch that pretty face
so even your own mother
won't recognize you.
-Hanka!
-[HANKA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hanka...
throw them out.
Are you in pain?
Throw them all out.
[JAGNA EXHALES SHAKILY]
[MUSIC TURNS TENSE]
[CRIES]
[WHISPERS] Come, come, now.
In the storeroom. In the wheat.
Inside the wheat barrel...
you'll find some money. Hide it!
So they don't take it from you.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
BORYNA: Save Antek.
[CRYING]
Don't let them take it.
It's yours.
All yours.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
JAGNA: You said
you could help Antek.
MAYOR: All in good time.
[GLASSES CLATTER]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY, CLEARS THROAT]
[GLASS CLINKS]
[FROG CROAKING]
Come, Jagna, come.
Let's rest here.
-[GRUNTS, LAUGHS]
-JAGNA: Oh!
[LAUGHS]
-Look!
-There's nothing to see here.
Come here, Jagna. Come now...
-[GRUNTING]
-[JAGNA YELPING]
-[MAYOR YELLS]
-[SHRIEKS]
-[MAYOR GROWLING]
-[STRUGGLING]
[YELLS]
[JAGNA EXHALES]
[YELPS, GROANS]
[JAGNA CRIES]
I'm sorry. I got carried away.
[BOTH GRUNT]
Touch me again, you pig,
and I'll tell everyone.
Tell them...
As if anyone would believe you.
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC FADES]
Per eundem Christum,
Dominum nostrum.
CROWD: Amen.
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
CHOIR:
O, happy day is upon us
Our prayers
Were not in vain
For Christ has risen today
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Heavenly King we praise
Yearn for His beauty
And grace
For He has conquered death
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
-[SNIFFLING]
-[SINGING STOPS]
[MUSIC TURNS EERIE]
[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
[EERIE MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[WHISPERING CONTINUES]
VOICES: [ECHOING] Come, farmer.
[SOMBER HUMMING]
VOICES: Farmer.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
VOICES: [LOUDER] Farmer.
BORYNA: Time to sow.
VOICES: Time to sow.
[BORYNA GRUNTING]
Time to sow...
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Time to...
sow...
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[SOMBER HUMMING]
WOMEN: Dear God,
giver of salvation
and forgiveness.
We ask for your mercy
to take Boryna, your servant.
By the grace of the Virgin Mary
and all the Saints.
To you, with eternal blessing.
For Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Amen.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[CROWS CAWING]
[WOLF HOWLING]
[EXHALES]
Come to me.
-[WIND WHOOSHING]
-[JAGNA GASPING]
[BELL TOLLING]
[MURMURING]
[WOMAN MOANING IN FEAR]
[GROANS]
-[EXHALES]
-[WOMEN SINGING]
[MUMBLING CONTINUES]
[BORYNA GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CRESCENDOES]
-[GASPS]
-BLACKSMITH: What's new?
HANKA: Everything is as usual.
Plenty of work to be done.
As usual? [BREATHING HEAVILY]
You took Father's money?
You would steal it, so you think
everyone is like you?
What you've stolen is yours.
But the land must be divided.
I won't give it up.
I'm just minding
my husband's property.
-I have no rights.
-BLACKSMITH: Ah!
Now that Father's dead,
Antek is in charge.
It's all up to him.
In charge
of his prison cell maybe.
But honest people
will make the decisions here.
"Honest." Look at him.
You only want to grab
as much as you can.
Oh, poor little thing. Oh.
Sitting on six acres of
our finest land, looking pretty.
[SCOFFS]
You're right, Hanka.
Let's wait...
for Antek to return.
He can take it up
with this harlot.
[SCOFFS]
I wish I'd broken my legs
before I entered this house.
No one's tied you down.
You were free to leave anytime.
[DOG BARKING]
And don't spit at me.
After all you've done to me.
What have I done?
Have I stolen anything?
Killed somebody?
You went after him
like a bitch in heat
when you knew he had a family.
I went after him, did I?
You don't see his faults?
How he'd stand by my door
even to get
a glimpse of my shoe.
It was he who befuddled me
and did as he pleased.
You want to know the truth?
However, you may regret it.
If I wanted, he'd kick you out
and follow me anywhere,
no matter what you do.
Don't you dare
compare yourself to me.
Get out of this house now!
Get out!
[CRIES] Don't let Antek
turn away from us again.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Here. Is this what you want?
Take it then and I hope
you choke on it to death!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS HOOTING]
[PIGEON COOING]
[BIRD SCREECHING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Jagna. [BREATHING HEAVILY]
Don't touch me.
Say what you wanted
to say to me.
Don't be afraid of me, Jagna.
I hardly recognize you.
I'm the same person
I was when you left me.
I never left you.
I've been thinking about you
day and night.
Maybe you had
something else on your mind?
Yes, I did. I was thinking
about how you disgraced me.
How I disgraced you?
Did I ask you
to become my stepmother?
Did I force you
to fool around with the mayor?
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SOFTLY KISSING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
Jagna, would you
run away with me?
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[LAUGHING]
-[ANTEK GRUNTS]
-[GASPS]
-[ANTEK GRUNTS]
-[JAGNA CRIES]
Antek, no!
-[JAGNA CRYING]
-[ANTEK GRUNTING]
-[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
-[GRUNTING]
[WOMEN SINGING]
An owl sits in the grove
And listens to people talk
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And listens to people talk
[SINGING STOPS]
What a drought.
[MUSIC FADES]
We were so worried about you.
Luckily, Hanka bailed you out.
[FLIES BUZZING]
Worried, were you? [SCOFFS]
-Of course.
-[CHUCKLES]
-You are the first farmer now.
-Hmm.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAN GRUNTS]
-Two sacks for you, ma'am.
-[COINS JINGLE]
Hanka?
How easily the inheritance
passed on to you.
You only need to kick Jozka out
and all will be yours.
[MAN GRUNTS]
Got your eye on Jagna already?
She's just become a widow.
It's not that. Just saying Hanka
had no right to kick her out.
-It was Jagna's home.
-It wasn't.
It's back where it belongs,
with the family.
Are you sure?
Her mother has filed
Jagna's claim at court.
[BLACKSMITH CHUCKLES]
They'll get her property back.
We'll see.
[MATEUSZ SIGHS]
[GOAT BLEATS]
Jagna.
People are complaining
about you in the village.
Let them bark.
They're hot and moody
and it makes them angry.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
You know...
[SIGHS] The men... are already
lining up to bring you vodka.
Let them drink it themselves.
Not all men are alike.
Maybe it would...
help you in the village...
if you chose someone.
It'd stop people's tongues
from wagging.
I don't need help from men.
I've had enough
of their help already.
[MATEUSZ SIGHS]
Jagna, my dear child.
Haven't you slept?
Why did you reject Mateusz?
He's a good carpenter.
Wasn't that Jesus's profession?
He has his past,
but so do you now.
I don't want Mateusz.
I don't want any man.
Don't talk like that!
You need to go to confession.
You can do penance
and with time,
people will forgive you.
I won't go to confession.
Fear the Lord, child.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Praise be to God.
Praise be, Hanka.
I'm going on a pilgrimage.
Please forgive me for any sins
I committed against you.
God bless you
for your kind words.
But what's done is done.
I ask you from my heart
for forgiveness.
I don't hold a grudge
in my heart.
I'll pray for you.
[FOOTSTEPS RETREATING]
-[BIRDS CHIRPING]
-[CREAKING]
JASIO: Jagna?
Don't you recognize me?
[CHUCKLES]
How could I not recognize you?
It's just that you look
so elegant now, so different.
You're coming back
from your travels.
Right now, I came here
from home to get some peace.
-And you?
-Just wandering around.
Is that a holy book?
No, it's about
faraway countries and oceans.
Jesus! About oceans!
Have a look!
Look.
See this pyramid?
It's taller
than five of our churches
stacked on top of each other.
-It must be like a mountain.
-[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Uh, and what are these?
They look like my cutouts.
I saw your beautiful cutouts
when I visited you at Christmas.
Not even in the Warsaw markets
have I seen cutouts
as beautiful.
They've been looking for you,
Master Jasio!
-All over the village.
-I better go.
KOZLOWA: Interrupted
your prayers, have I?
-[LAUGHS]
-Goodbye.
A secluded place,
far from people's eyes.
May your foul tongue shrivel.
So I rush off to look for him,
I look around, and...
Excuse me, Jasio lost his book.
What a nerve.
[COW MOOS]
Get away from here.
Never show your face here again!
I'll not shed tears
because of you,
like Hanka
and the mayor's wife did.
I'll teach you not to flirt.
-You'll remember me, you hussy.
-[GASPS]
Go to your kennel, bitch!
-[CRIES]
-[COW MOOS]
I heard that Jagna
is now after the organist's son.
Has your time in prison made you
hungry for gossip?
I'm only repeating what I heard.
Tell me who said so,
and I'll set them straight.
-[CLAMORING]
-I won't give a single zloty!
Eh!
Five thousand is missing
from the district's treasury.
They're taking
the whole farm from them.
And if that wasn't enough,
Lipce has to pay for the rest!
I'm not going to pay anything!
ORGANIST'S WIFE: People!
Don't you know
how the mayor spent this money?
-On Jagna.
-That's right! Of course!
That's twiddle-twaddle.
You saw that, did you?
You think I don't know?
You think I'm not ashamed
-to have a whore in the family?
-Do something.
[INDISTINCT FAINT CHATTER]
[GOAT BLEATS]
She bewitched my man.
He'd buy her anything.
Everyone saw it!
Where did she get those dresses?
[ALL CLAMORING]
Because she was Boryna's wife!
She got all the fancy clothes
from him!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
PLOSZKA: What do you care?
Why are you on her side?
JAGUSTYNKA: Mother of God,
save us.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
She even tried
to seduce my Jasio.
-[ALL MURMURING]
-MAN: Oh, my!
The innocent boy ran
and told me everything.
MAN: Mmm.
That's horrible.
Not even a priest is safe!
WOMAN: Yeah!
MAN: Yes!
Look at the poor harvest
we've had.
Surely, a whore like that
has brought God's wrath
upon the village.
-It's all her fault.
-Time to end it.
There's only one way.
Banish her.
Exactly!
-That's how it must be.
-[ALL AGREEING]
PLOSZKA: Everyone has agreed
to banish Jagna
from the village.
Yeah, banish her.
Say your piece, Antoni.
MAN: Banish her.
MAYOR'S WIFE: Well, Antoni,
we're all listening.
PLOSZKA: With your father gone,
you're our first farmer now.
We can't decide without you.
[ALL MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]
MAN: Quiet now.
Quiet.
[DRUMBEAT SOUNDS]
I live in this village
and I stand with its people.
You want to expel her,
then do so.
[CROWD MURMURING]
You want to put her
on the altar? Then do that.
[VOICE BREAKING]
It is all the same to me.
[ALL MURMURING]
MAN: So, we banish her.
Antek!
[ALL MUTTERING]
MAN: Now we must sort this out.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
You know
what they'll do to Jagna.
The law... is on their side.
To hell with the law.
What they're accusing her of...
it's not true.
Will you stand
against the whole village?
-Are you on their side?
-I'm on no one's side.
But I care for her as much
as I care for dirt.
Jesus!
That you should...
dare to kick out
a person like...
[VOICE BREAKING] a rabid dog.
[CHURCH BELL TOLLING]
[MATEUSZ BREATHING HEAVILY]
Antek!
Your word means something.
It's too late.
[CRIES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[COW MOOING]
[HENS CLUCKING]
[OXEN BELLOW]
[SHUDDERING]
[CLAMORING]
SZYMEK: Mother,
the village is coming for her!
MATEUSZ: Quick! Close the door.
SZYMEK: Take her away!
-Hide!
-[JAGNA SHUDDERS]
I won't hide from anyone.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
-MATEUSZ: What're you doing?
-Take it.
BLACKSMITH: Together, men!
One, two, three!
MATEUSZ: Hold it!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
-[MEN GRUNTING]
-[WOMAN SCREAMING]
Jagna! Jagna!
-[MATEUSZ YELLING]
-[SHRIEKS]
JAGUSTYNKA:
People! People! Move back...
What are you doing here?
What are you doing... [GROANS]
[CROWD SHOUTING, CLAMORING]
[MATEUSZ GRUNTING]
DOMINIKOWA: Leave Jagna alone!
ORGANIST: Out the way, Mother!
[DOMINIKOWA SCREAMS]
JAGNA: [GASPING] Mother!
[GROANING]
-Grab her!
-Yes!
Take her!
ORGANIST: Come here!
Come here!
You'll pay for everything.
You'll pay, you whore.
Whore!
What now, hussy?
-[GRUNTS]
-[JAGNA GROANS]
Not so pretty anymore.
-[CROWD LAUGHING]
-[JAGNA GROANS]
-Right in that painted face!
-MAYOR'S WIFE: Take her out!
-[BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[CROWD CLAMORING]
[GROANING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
You've had your fun?
Shame on you now!
Take her to the soldiers!
Feel the same shame
you made us feel!
MAN: The holy ground
would spit you out!
-[CRIES OUT]
-The bitch deserves it.
WOMAN: Go to hell, slut!
Get her down! Bitch!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Get her on the cart!
Tie her up!
WOMAN: Tie her up!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INAUDIBLE]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
That's enough!
[CROWD MUTTERING]
Come back to the village
and we'll set the dogs on you.
[SPITS]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
[SHIVERING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GASPING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[GASPING]
[CALMING MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC CONTINUING]
[INSTRUMENTAL
FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMEN VOCALIZING]
[BIRDS AND INSECTS CHIRPING]
[BLOWS AIR]
Look, Kuba.
They're flying away.
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
-[BELL TOLLING]
[PRIEST CHANTING IN LATIN]
[CHUCKLES]
[CHURCH BELL RINGS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
-[VOCALIZING WIND BLOWING]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
ANTEK: Hanka! Come over here.
Has God blessed you
with a good potato harvest?
PLOSZKA: Yes, indeed.
BLACKSMITH: She said the baby
has the same eyes,
dark and rheumy.
The spitting image of Boryna.
-No!
-[LAUGHTER]
Many a young girl
will chase after him.
[LAUGHTER]
They had no room for her
in the hallway, or the barn.
-Just like mine.
-WOMAN: Right.
The plague-ridden scum.
Her own children.
It's getting cold. Come get
your mother's wool, Magda.
There's no point.
Father won't hand over anything,
not even her clothes.
DOMINIKOWA: Jagna, come.
[CHUCKLES]
You're so dressed up.
What a fancy necklace.
Made from an alder branch
I found. I cut it and--
Beautiful and talented.
She could marry a rich widower.
I won't look after
someone else's children.
There's nothing to worry about.
His are already weaned.
I'm fine where I am.
Sooner or later
you'll have to flee the nest.
Get yourself a husband
and you'll also get his farm.
And you'll become a woman.
I don't care about that.
Don't talk rubbish, Jagna.
She's still young and speaks
without thinking. [CHUCKLES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Don't you dare
slink off to the inn.
-You'll feel my whip if you do.
-SZYMEK: Come on, Mother.
DOMINIKOWA: No.
And you?
As if I needed more trouble.
What did I do?
You talked back
to the mayor's wife.
Do you want them
to speak ill of you?
I didn't mean to offend her.
I'm just happy here with you.
[CHUCKLES]
[DOGS BARKING]
My dear child.
[COW BELLOWS]
What's going on at Boryna's?
[COW BELLOWS]
[HANKA AND JOZKA SOBBING]
-[COW BELLOWS]
-JOZKA: Poor thing.
I won't be ringing the bell
at her funeral.
Clink your pots instead.
-Daddy!
-BORYNA: Whoa!
JOZKA: Rosey is dying.
Jambrozy has bled her,
but nothing happened.
Then we put melted wax
down her throat. Still nothing.
Our best cow.
May the Devil twist your guts
if that's how you tend her.
Always eager to eat my food,
but you won't lend a hand.
I've been out digging potatoes
all afternoon.
As if you ever notice anything.
[WHIMPERING]
Scum! To waste such a beast.
[HANKA CRYING]
What? Sniveling again?
It's all you're good for.
Leave her alone.
Don't insult my wife.
You're no better.
-Do you care for this farm?
-What am I? Your farmhand?
I work like a horse for nothing.
Not a nice word from you.
Shut up before I lose my temper.
You live on my land,
eat my food.
-My bread's making you bold.
-This bread is my birthright!
You've inherited it as I should
now inherit it from you.
I doubled this land
with my own hands.
And while these hands can work,
it stays mine.
If you don't like it,
try your luck elsewhere.
You can get fresh bread daily
from Hanka's three acres.
I'd eat moldy potatoes if they
weren't thrown in my face.
-[GRUNTS]
-[HANKA SOBS]
Father wants you
to butcher the cow.
I'm no butcher.
Must you always fight with him?
He's your father.
Make peace with him.
Do it for us, for our children.
Come on, Antek.
You make peace if you want.
But don't tell me what to do.
Without a housewife at home,
things drain away,
like through a sieve.
It's time for you to marry.
Period.
[LAUGHS] You're joking.
My wife's body is still warm
in her grave.
The whole village
would start talking.
Eat up. Eat up.
Listen, Boryna.
There are so many
unwed girls here,
that when a man
goes about the houses,
he smolders hot as a stove.
Take Zoska.
Slender, hardworking,
and her dowry is not bad.
She's a grumpy shrew,
and has one thick hip.
What does he need her dowry for?
Isn't he the richest farmer
in the village?
How about Staszek's Weronka?
Taken.
Roch's son
sent her vodka yesterday.
Jagna Dominikowa?
[MURMURS AGREEMENT]
MAYOR: A fine girl!
BORYNA: Jagna?
MAYOR'S WIFE: Yes.
They say
she's always chasing after boys.
Oh, well. It's just a rumor.
People gossip
just for the sake of it.
ORGANIST'S WIFE: Take care.
JASIO: I'll be back.
Don't worry.
COACHMAN: Let's go.
[JAGNA CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLING]
God bless.
Jasio left for his studies?
He'll be back soon enough.
I shouldn't worry.
He's off to the seminary
to become a priest.
You've brought me some herbs.
Thank you.
Give your mother our blessings.
The priest talks so well of her.
Such a wise woman.
Wait, I'll give you something
for these.
Mother said there's no need.
Don't be silly. I insist.
[COW MOOING]
JOZKA: Poor thing.
His wing is broken.
Will you take him, Jagna?
I can't. Father would
get rid of him for sure.
WITEK: Take Storky.
I'll cure him before spring.
I'll feed him and everything.
Take him.
JOZKA: Do take him, Jagna.
Maybe I could find room
somewhere in the barn.
Hatching some plan, are you?
[CHUCKLES]
Antek, don't tell Father.
Why would I, Jozka?
Go home.
Father's looking for you.
You really want to keep
this scrawny thing?
I really do.
[CHUCKLES]
-SZYMEK: Have you heard?
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
The squire's driving everyone's
livestock out of Wolf's Hollow.
All that land! He begrudges us
our grazing rights.
[ROOSTER CROWS]
They say your son-in-law
means to take you to court.
That damned blacksmith.
Running amok, the lot of them.
Coveting what's mine.
[CHUCKLES]
They might back off
if you were to marry again.
-I won't take just any girl.
-Hmm.
Throw in some land and even
the very best won't hold back.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
BORYNA: For land, they run
like sows to a trough.
Are men any different?
Always sniffing around
for a dowry, like dogs.
Only...
MAN: Look, it's Boryna.
They say the squire
wants to sell Wolf's Hollow.
He can want all he likes,
but we have wood gathering
and grazing rights there.
Sue him then.
Who has time for the courts
when there's so much work
to do before winter?
True. The burdens we bear.
[INSTRUMENTAL
FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
-[COWS MOOING]
-[HORSES WHINNYING]
[SHEEP BLEATING]
[QUACKING]
VENDOR: Potatoes!
Cheap potatoes!
[PLAYING TUNE]
-[HORSE HUFFS]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Three notes.
[LIVELY CHATTER CONTINUING]
VENDOR 1: If anyone has a pot
with a hole, come to me.
Boots with laces. Red and black.
And greased with fat.
VENDOR 2: It looks good on you.
[CHUCKLING]
How much?
Three notes.
I'll take it.
You'd make a fine farm boy.
Or not.
Oh, well.
I'd hire you in an instant.
I'd be too expensive.
For some,
but not for me.
And I wouldn't work
in the fields.
I'd do all the work for you.
Jagna.
Take this.
I bought it for you.
JAGNA: [GASPING] Pure silk.
[GASPING]
I can't.
Take it, Jagna.
And if some boy
brings you vodka,
don't drink it...
Why the rush?
I said seven.
Six and a half.
It's all blighted.
Your face will be blighted after
I punch it. The wheat's pure.
People say
I should take you to court.
[LAUGHS]
Go ahead!
Give Magda the land
that is rightfully hers.
I won't take it to the grave
with me.
But as long as I breathe,
I won't give up a single acre.
Then pay us the value
of those two acres.
[COUNTER RATTLES]
Enough.
A man has a need for money
when he's on the lookout
for a new wife.
[LAUGHING] Yeah, sure.
If I choose to, I'll marry.
Any objections?
Objections? No, but--
I might even
send vodka tomorrow.
Do it. Why would I mind?
But give us the calf at least,
Rosey's calf,
and I'll help you.
You'll help. Sure you will.
Jambrozy!
Come, drink with us.
[GRUNTS IN AFFIRMATION]
[PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[JAGNA GASPS SOFTLY]
What are you
thinking about, Jagna?
Nothing much.
[SIGHS]
ANTEK: How's the stork? Better?
He's better, thank you.
[SIGHS]
[CHUCKLES]
I'd like to hang
onto those clouds
and float far away with them.
I'd go with you.
Would you like that?
MARYSIA:
An owl sits in the grove
And listens to people talk
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And listens to people talk
JAGNA AND MARYSIA:
There were two people
And both were young
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And both were young
And from their whispers
Came a...
Shut it!
Sounds like you're being
skinned alive.
[SHEEP BLEATING]
...came a child!
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And there came a child!
ANTEK:
There were two people
-And both were young
-[CHUCKLES]
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And both were young
And from their whispers...
-[COWS MOOING]
-[DUCKS QUACKING]
JOZKA: Did you hear that Walek
is sending vodka
to Ala Paciotkowa tomorrow?
Is she already old enough?
She's got so much land
that boys are in a hurry.
They'll line up for you, too,
for sure.
Only if your daddy doesn't spend
your dowry on a new wife first.
Stop spouting nonsense.
He buried Mother in the spring.
What does that matter to a man?
Every man is a pig,
always ready to thrust his snout
into a fresh trough.
SZYMEK: Come on, Jagna!
I'm soaked to the bone.
If you run into Antek,
tell him to hurry.
-Hail Mary, full of grace...
-Hurry! Let's hurry!
SZYMEK: Move, come on.
[GRUNTING]
-Come on, girl! Come on!
-[HORSE NEIGHING]
Go! Move your ass!
[PANTS, GASPS]
SZYMEK: Jagna? Jagna!
You shouldn't have loaded
so much for one horse.
I'm not doing two trips
in this weather.
We'll push on three.
One, two, three!
SZYMEK: Come on! Move!
[JAGNA GASPS]
SZYMEK: Go on! A little more!
You're clear now, Szymek!
SZYMEK: Thank you, Antek.
God be with you! Jagna!
You go on!
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Hanka is waiting for you.
I'll walk you
to the mill, Jagna.
The water
has caused a breach there.
It got so dark, hasn't it?
Are you afraid?
Why would I be?
-[THUNDER CRACKING]
-[GASPING]
Will you come
to the cabbage party tomorrow?
Go now.
They are waiting for you.
[EXCLAIMS, CHUCKLES]
Will you come?
I will.
[SIGHING]
[WOMAN CLEARS THROAT]
Hey! Off with you!
-Ala and Walek got engaged.
-JAGUSTYNKA: Really?
JOZKA: She'll be
a beautiful bride.
She bought such pretty ribbons
at the market.
Beautiful for a day.
Until they chop off her braids
at the unveiling.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
Then the guy
will get a surprise!
Jagustynka, never a nice word
for anyone.
I'm just telling it how it is.
We all have to go through that.
-[CABBAGES THUD]
-Let's have them.
Colorful as a flowery meadow.
The girls are all dressed up,
like for a wedding. [LAUGHS]
Planning on marrying cabbages,
are you, girls?
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
ZOSKA: Did you know
Mateusz is back?
He alone built the councilor's
house in six months.
He built us a new henhouse
in one day.
He's a skilled craftsman.
JAGUSTYNKA: Skilled indeed.
I bet he'll be able to make
something new pop out
in the village in nine months.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
Lukasz! Play some music!
-[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
-[SHOUTS JOYFULLY]
[WOMEN CHEERING]
Well, ladies, all this work
must be making you thirsty.
[LAUGHS]
KUBA: Jagusia,
some bread and lard.
-Give me some.
-BORYNA: For you, and for you.
I don't like the taste of vodka.
One for you, Jagustynka.
Cheers!
Cheers!
[MUSIC STOPS]
WOMAN: Bravo!
-Bravo, musicians!
-KOZLOWA: Bravo!
Thank you for the hospitality,
but I have to run now.
You didn't even eat anything.
Mother's expecting me.
HANKA: God be with you.
JAGUSTYNKA: God be with you.
[HUMMING]
[VIOLIN HARMONIZING]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[GASPS]
[GASPING]
[BIRDS SCREECHING]
That one's like me.
Flying away before the others.
No.
This one's like you.
So bulky
he might fall out of the sky.
[ANTEK LAUGHS]
And then he'd crash...
-[JAGNA GASPS]
-...on some pretty girl below.
[KISSES]
This is you.
I'm like dirt to you?
No...
You are like the holy soil
that brings life.
[BIRDS SCREECHING]
You bring life to me.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
DOMINIKOWA: Yes! Come in!
Praised be.
Praised be.
Mind you, an important man
has come to see you.
I'm listening.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
You're a wise woman, so you know
that sooner or later, Jagna...
has to leave her home.
I am bringing this
from the village's first farmer.
Shall we drink to that, Mother?
Drink away, but you haven't
told us who the man is.
Who?
Why, Boryna himself.
[SCOFFS] An old widower!
Old? He recently went to court
for a paternity case!
[CHUCKLES] True...
-Except it wasn't his.
-Of course it wasn't.
A farmer like him
with a wench like that?
Let's drink, Mother.
Let's drink.
I could, but likely he'll soon
be drinking with the angels.
Then what? His children
will kick the stepmother out.
No, that's not for us.
Maciej promised
a land settlement for Jagna.
I... the mayor, swear it.
Well... [CLEARS THROAT]
[GLASS THUDS]
We'll think about it.
Drink, Jagna.
Drink.
We've got you a man...
as solid as an oak.
You'll be the first lady
of the village.
Mmm.
Drink up.
Hmm?
I said, drink.
Drink, Jagna.
Jagna!
-MAYOR: Leave her, Mother.
-[DOOR SLAMS]
-[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
-[COW MOOING]
I've told you, Mateusz.
You did, you did...
Uh, what did you tell me?
To leave me alone.
I just want to talk to you.
Be quick. I have work to do.
Your mother wants to sell you.
Like selling a heifer
on market day.
You'll go with the old man?
If she tells me to, I will.
Do I have a choice?
You do!
Just tell her... what you want.
Sure. That's easy
for you to say.
Jagna.
-Back from your travels already?
-I'm back, Mother.
Your mother was a bitch.
There's nothing for you here.
I've come to see Jagna, not you.
Stay away from Jagna,
do you hear?
She's been maligned
in the village because of you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I'll leave her those three acres
next to Michal's land.
[CHUCKLES]
Her late father left her five,
and one in the forest.
Match that and give her six.
What?
The land by the road is better,
where you grow potatoes.
Those are my best fields!
And isn't Jagna
the best girl in the village?
I suppose.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
But six acres? To most people
that's a lot of land.
No one will take it
as long as you live,
and remember, the fields
from her father will be yours.
You can sow them immediately.
[LAUGHS]
BLACKSMITH: To you, farmer!
BORYNA: Thank you, my friends!
-Cheers!
-[WOMAN LAUGHS]
Play some music!
-Jagusia is moving in!
-[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
My dear. Sit down.
[LAUGHS]
Don't worry, Jagna!
[LAUGHING LOUDLY]
You'll like it here with me.
Better than staying
with your mother.
[BORYNA SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[BORYNA LAUGHING]
[CLANKING]
You're on Father's side.
I'm on the side of order.
Paid you off well, has he?
Not from your pocket.
It is from mine, damn it, mine!
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHS]
You've taken enough,
so you're not bothered.
And the calf he just gave you?
Is that nothing?
-You could have taken it, too.
-I'm not a thief.
Calling me a thief?
Hey, hey!
I'm a public official.
Easy, Antek, or you'll be sorry.
You're nothing but a drunk.
A Judas and an embezzler.
I bet he paid you both well
to be on his side!
It seems to me, Antek...
that it's not the land
that's bugging you.
What then?
You've been chasing
after Jagna...
so now you're moody.
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHS]
Let go of him.
Antek.
Let go of him.
[MAYOR PANTING]
JOZKA: And on the second day,
when all the people had left,
and the Blessed Virgin,
and the Holy Apostles were gone,
only the little dog remained.
And he sat, and howled...
Do you ever shut up?
Why are you
jumping down her throat?
Cheers!
Cheers.
You've signed over
a whole six acres to Jagna.
Because I chose to.
And if I choose, I can sign over
everything to her.
[GLASS THUDS]
You could,
if it belonged only to you.
Who else does it belong to?
[SLAMS]
[JAGUSTYNKA CLEARS THROAT]
Who else? Tell me.
It's ours.
You fool. The land is mine.
And I'll do
whatever I want with it.
You can't take what's ours.
Listen to her!
[SCOFFS]
Brought us three acres of sand,
and now she talks back to me.
[SPOON CLATTERS]
If your lot is so bad here,
go find something better.
We're not going anywhere.
Our land is here.
Give it to her if you want to,
but divide the rest
among your children.
Antek, Magda and Jozka.
Look at her.
Now she's dividing up my land.
We only want what's just!
You'll find justice
at the end of my stick.
Lift a finger against her
and you won't live
to see your wedding day.
Six of our best acres
signed over to her.
Mother's clothing,
her beads, everything!
And for whom?
For whom? For that dirty sow!
[UTENSIL CLATTERS]
-What did you say?
-She's a dirty whore...
and the entire village knows it.
The whole world even!
Don't you dare,
or I'll beat your foul mouth
to a pulp!
[BOTH GRUNT]
I'll say it, too.
Your Jagna is a common whore.
You hear me?
Whoever wanted her, had her.
[BORYNA GRUNTS]
KUBA: Stop this!
[GRUNTS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
HANKA: Antek!
For God's sake, men! Stop!
HANKA: Enough!
[PANTING]
A worthless bitch.
You're just too old to realize
that you've paid more
than others would.
Leave.
Come sunrise,
I don't want to see you here.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[BABY CRYING]
[BIRD CAWS]
DOMINIKOWA: Why so gloomy?
Don't be like this with Boryna.
Be soft, be gentle...
He might gift you more land
or toss a pretty coin your way.
I don't care about money.
There must be something
more important.
Eh...
Have you no fear of God?
Foolish girl.
Look. Look!
Your settlement from Boryna,
six acres of pure soil.
Do you think that you'd be happy
without that holy soil?
God did not create you
to be poor. No!
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
Love comes and goes...
but land remains.
WOMEN: She let
Her golden hair down
Welcome! Drink people, drink!
Drink, my dears!
Her golden hair
She let
Her golden hair down
Her golden hair
Don't let me go
Please, Mum
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Please, Mum
Don't let me go
Let me stay
How can I, my dear child
Not let you go?
How can I, my dear child
Not let you go?
A good man
Came to claim you
To be his wife
A good man
Came to claim you
To be his wife
To be his wife
ALL: In the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
DOMINIKOWA: Eat something.
KOZLOWA: Look at her.
A grand lady.
She's the first lady
of Lipce now,
and she sits there
as if she's at a funeral.
She's overwhelmed.
She's a beauty though.
I'll give her that.
Why wouldn't she be?
All she does is sleep and eat.
And lie behind every bush
with anyone in trousers.
Zoska, in the name
of the Holy Virgin.
This is no place
for such gossip.
They'll last till spring.
Then she'll get bored
and start chasing farmhands.
Her mother was the same.
-[WOMEN EXCLAIM]
-Jagustynka.
Aren't I right?
She prays away now
because she's wrinkled
as a potato after winter.
But in her youth, she'd fall
on her knees for other reasons.
Now she'll feel at home.
And help herself
to Mother's things.
ZOSKA: Cheers!
MAYOR: Cheers!
-We'll fight for what's ours.
-MUSICIAN: One, two...
WOMAN 1: Go on, dance.
WOMAN 2: Beautiful!
Look, Mother.
Our Jagna looks beautiful.
MAN: Pour! Pour!
WOMAN 3: So beautiful!
[ALL CLAPPING AND STOMPING
RHYTHMICALLY]
[ALL CHEER IN UNISON]
[LAUGHTER, LIVELY CHATTER]
[MAYOR GRUNTING]
[ALL CHEERING]
[MAN CHEERS]
[BLACKSMITH LAUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
There's never been a wedding
like this in Lipce,
-nor will there ever be again.
-[MAN LAUGHS]
Ah! Jagna, my beauty!
-I have to rejoin the guests!
-What a hostess.
MAYOR: Drink, young lady!
BORYNA: Bottoms up!
MAYOR: Cheers!
BORYNA: Bottoms up!
MAN: Cheers! Bottoms up!
-[GASPS]
-[BORYNA GROWLS]
-[LAUGHS LOUDLY]
-[WOMEN CHEERING]
[BORYNA SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN: Come on!
Come on, follow me!
[CHEERING]
Come on, follow me!
Come with me!
-[MUSIC CONTINUING]
-[ALL CHEERING]
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CONTINUING]
[WOMEN VOCALIZING]
[CROW CAWS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SHEEP BLEATS]
[GOOSE HONKS]
[ANTEK SIGHS]
I hear they are hiring
at the mill.
I told you already.
I won't work
for the peasants here.
Maybe... I could work there.
Don't be silly, Dad.
Antek, we're living
on potatoes and salt.
I won't work in Lipce.
It's been more than three weeks
since anyone's spoken to me.
You fought with your father.
Don't other men
fight with their fathers?
Maybe, but you're the only one
whose father is Boryna.
Let them spit on me.
You want that?
It's not about what I want,
it's about what we need!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCOFFS]
[BIRDS CAWING]
[LAUGHS] And the old man.
He boils milk for her,
makes her tea,
and brings it to her bed.
[LAUGHS] He waits on her
hand and foot,
but Jagna will go back
to her old ways soon enough.
[BOTH LAUGH]
I heard that she's frisky
toward her stepson.
Nah! All the gossip about them
knowing each other is not true.
I heard that he'd whine
at her door
and she had to chase him off
with a broom.
[WOJTEK AND PLOSZKA LAUGH]
Many a time
she complained to me.
Wasn't I in her bedroom
more than once?
You're not the first
nor the last to do so.
You're lying.
What did you say?
You're lying, you scum.
-[SHOUTING]
-PLOSZKA: Hey! Boys!
Stop!
Antek!
[ANTEK SHOUTING]
Mateusz!
Jesus, he's gone
straight under the wheels.
I'll do the same thing to anyone
else who bothers Jagna.
[WHEEL CRANKING]
Mateusz! He's alive?
He's alive. He's alive!
[WOMEN HUMMING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Beautiful!
It's not.
Witek, is the stove hot yet?
I'll bring more wood.
Close the door!
The cold is getting in!
Master Jasio!
Praised be Jesus Christ!
Forever and ever.
I bring the altar breads.
Welcome, Jasio!
Good day.
Back from school already?
Since Sunday, three days ago.
What's new?
Everything is quiet
with us peasants, as usual.
Quiet? What about your wedding?
It was so much fun
that people kept dancing
for three days.
Look at Jagna's cutouts.
Very beautiful.
Truly.
-I ran into Antek.
-JAGUSTYNKA: Oh, yes?
He's grown so thin.
He looked weary.
JAGUSTYNKA: Weary indeed.
He wore himself out...
while breaking Mateusz's ribs.
Thank you for your hospitality.
And... Merry Christmas.
JOZKA: Goodbye, Jasio.
JAGUSTYNKA:
God be with you, Jasio.
[COW MOOS]
-[DOG BARKS]
-[DOOR CLOSES]
What happened?
Why were they fighting?
Why, over you, of course.
Like dogs fighting
over a bitch in heat.
You're lying.
JAGUSTYNKA:
I'm telling the truth!
Mateusz was boasting
to the peasants
that he spent time
in your bedroom.
So Antek
almost beat him to death.
Don't you worry, dear.
Antek will fight
against the whole world for you.
-[ORGAN PLAYING]
-[HORSES WHINNYING]
[LIVELY CHATTER]
Maciej, did you see what
we sent you with the farmhand?
Ah, yes. Fine work, Michal.
Thank you.
I see you're wearing
Mother's hat.
It suits you.
Let's go.
[PEOPLE SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROL]
Jagna, come to the meadow
one day.
[BOTH PANTING]
-I have a husband.
-Yes, you do. My father.
Can you change that?
[SIGHS]
-[LIVELY CHATTER]
-[GLASS THUDS]
Easy... I come in peace.
You shamed me
in front of the whole world.
You beat me so badly
they even summoned the priest.
[CHUCKLES]
But I am not holding a grudge.
Why were you lying to the men?
I only said those things
because I was angry...
Who am I to Jagna?
INNKEEPER: Welcome!
MAN: Welcome!
BORYNA: Welcome!
-Welcome!
-Praise be.
Praise be.
Are they in the alcove?
Come, Jagna.
[SIGHS]
Forget about it
while you still can.
ANTEK: How can I,
when it runs through my bones
like fire?
MATEUSZ: I know how it feels.
Didn't I go after her myself?
But she preferred you.
The squire had no right.
Yet, he's sold logging rights
in Wolf's Hollow!
-[BAND PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC]
-[CHEERING]
Lipce has always
had rights there.
He owns the wood.
But we will seek a compromise.
What compromise?
The forest is already sold.
[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUING]
They marked the trees
and will start cutting them.
Let them mark them.
We won't let him cut them down.
We won't let him.
[BORYNA COUGHS]
[SHOUTING GLEEFULLY]
I wait every day.
You think I can leave?
They watch me.
Play the volta, boys!
And make it lively!
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[ANTEK LAUGHS]
[JAGNA LAUGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
JAGNA: I was only...
I was only dancing.
He'll weep someday...
-Move.
-I was only dancing!
-Move!
-Leave me!
[BORYNA COUGHING]
BORYNA: Stupid.
Decorates the house,
but she can't see the dirt.
That's because it's clean.
Has the illness
got to your eyes?
I swear, when I get up,
you'll regret it.
Shush, Jagna!
Go and see if Jozka needs help.
Come on, it's not her fault.
Whose fault is it then?
You left her to go drinking
in the back room.
The music was playing,
everyone was having fun dancing.
What was she meant to do?
Stand in a corner
like some old maid?
Just cure me
and don't give me life lessons.
[COUGHING]
I know well enough.
-[BIRDS CLUCKING]
-[WIND WHOOSHING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Hanka?
Hanka!
[HORSE NEIGHING]
For the love of God, Hanka!
[HANKA PANTING]
[BORYNA ROLLS TONGUE]
Stop by some time.
-[NEIGHS]
-Even tomorrow.
You drove us out.
So how could I come to see you?
[HORSE GRUNTS]
I can't let you
and my grandchildren starve.
-Go!
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
[SIGHS]
[REVELERS PLAYING JAUNTY TUNE]
[MEN VOCALIZING]
[GROWLS]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
[LAUGHS WICKEDLY]
[SHOUTS]
[MAN HOWLS]
ALL:
In the cherry orchard
Walked a pretty girl
In the cherry orchard
Walked a pretty girl
Searching for
Her lost innocence
[MEN GROWLING]
JOZKA: It's the revelers!
The revelers are here!
-[WOMEN SQUEALING]
-[MEN GROWLING]
[GROWLS]
[GROWLING CONTINUES]
[JAUNTY TUNE CONTINUES]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[BUTTONS TEAR]
-[JAGNA GASPS]
[WOMEN SQUEALING]
[WOMAN CHUCKLES, EXHALES]
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[JAGNA MOANING]
[GASPING]
[JAGNA MOANS]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[JAGNA MOANING]
[BOTH PANTING]
Fire. Fire!
[COUGHING]
[REVELERS ULULATING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Fire.
[SHOUTING] Fire! Fire!
People, fire!
[MUSIC ENDS]
[DOG BARKING]
[JAGUSTYNKA SIGHS]
Jagna's apron.
Give it to me. Keep working.
They say that Boryna
caught them in the hay
and that's
when the fire started.
Antek did it, for sure,
out of spite.
Did you see it?
Did you see him light it?
Then what are you
blabbering for? [SIGHS]
I heard the old man
beat her so badly
that she's still lying ill.
I said it would end like this.
KOZLOWA: That's enough. Quiet.
[GOAT BLEATS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
I see you've been begging.
Since we live like beggars,
I seek compassion elsewhere.
You have no shame.
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
Is it from Father?
[GOAT BLEATS]
I told you not to go to him,
damn it.
He invited me, so I went.
The children and I won't starve
because you don't care.
ANTEK: Take it back.
I don't need anything from him.
But the children do,
and so do I!
Take it back or I'll take it
and shove it down his throat!
He can choke on his charity.
[HANKA GRUNTS, SHOUTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I dare you!
Touch it and you'll see!
He bought you cheap.
With a crust of bread...
like a stray dog.
You've sold us even cheaper,
for a scrap of Jagna's skirt.
-[CRYING]
-[GOAT BLEATS]
Go on! Run to your bitch!
-[PANTS]
-[THUD]
[CALM MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT ARGUING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Lipce must fight.
[PANTING]
They took our wood today.
If we don't defend ourselves,
they'll come for our land next.
Our homes,
everything that we own.
Slaves of the squire or Boryna,
what's the difference?
Goodness, stop this nonsense.
It's no wonder
he's punishing you now.
He's made of flesh and blood,
not paper like your cutouts.
He's your husband.
I did not choose him.
[ANTEK BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[JAGNA GASPS]
-[KISSING]
ANTEK: Do you love me?
Haven't I said so?
[EXHALES]
Don't I come see you
every time you call?
You love me indeed.
Like some mad dog that can bite
and you can't shake off!
[BREATH TREMBLING]
I have to go now.
[BOTH GRUNT]
If I've gone to the dogs,
it is because of you.
Because I loved you.
You understand?
You love me?
You only take it out on me.
What? What?
You need another man already?
You think I ever wanted you?
Boryna's farmhand?
[CHUCKLES]
-[GASPS]
-[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
-[BREATHES SHARPLY]
-[JAGNA CHOKES]
[CHOKING]
[GASPS, BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SIGHS]
BORYNA: People,
we have suffered an injustice.
An injustice we cannot tolerate.
We have rights in Wolf's Hollow.
[PEOPLE AGREEING]
The forest is ours
and the squire is cutting it.
We complained in vain.
We took the squire
to the court.
[SCOFFS]
Justice was denied to us.
But enough is enough.
They are cutting down our wood!
-Are we going to let them?
-ALL: No!
We must defend what's ours.
Look, it's a mob.
Fetch the horsemen.
BORYNA:
Don't be afraid, people.
[HORSE NEIGHING]
It's our right,
our will, our justice.
All together, people.
Follow me, people!
To the forest!
ALL: To the forest!
Don't just stand there! Attack!
[ALL YELLING]
[CHOKING]
Jagustynka, take the women
and smash their shacks.
How many times do we have to...
JAGUSTYNKA: Traitors!
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
[NEIGHING]
MAN: Horsemen!
Watch out, men!
Come on, men!
Rally round, don't give up!
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
-[GRUNTS]
-[YELLING]
-[HORSE WHINNIES]
Son of a bitch.
[GRUNTS]
MATEUSZ: Get the horses!
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
-[YELLS]
-[MEN GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
[BORYNA GRUNTS]
[CLICKS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
BOROWY: Boryna!
[BORYNA GRUNTING]
-[BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[MEN SHOUTING]
[YELLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[SCREAMING]
[THUDS]
-[SQUISHES]
-[PANTING]
JAGUSTYNKA: Jesus! [GASPS]
MAN 1: Is he dead?
MAN 2: Is he breathing?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Father.
[IN RUSSIAN]
Show me Anton Boryna!
MAN: [IN POLISH] Soldiers.
ANTEK: Father.
Is that you, my son?
-[GASPS]
-It's you...
[ANTEK CRYING]
MATEUSZ: He was
defending his father.
PLOSZKA: Justice is on our side.
-[GUNSHOT]
-[CROWD SHRIEKING]
[IN RUSSIAN]
You're all... under arrest!
MATEUSZ: [IN POLISH]
Us? Arrest them!
[OFFICER IN RUSSIAN]
Take everyone except women!
[IN POLISH] Father. I'm sorry...
[IN RUSSIAN] Stand up.
You're coming with me.
[IN POLISH] Maciej, no...
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
WOMEN: Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
[GEESE HONKING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[ROOSTER CROWING]
I thought only peasants
are up at this hour.
[COW MOOS]
Blacksmiths don't need
to get up at dawn.
With Father ill, and Antek
and the rest in jail...
I thought I'd check in on you.
No need, thanks.
I'm keeping my eye on things,
as Father asked.
Four eyes can see more than two.
-I'll wait until Jagna's up.
-HANKA: Wait all you want.
-[DOOR OPENS]
-[ROOSTER CROWING]
JAGNA: Get out, Hanka.
[SOFTLY] Quiet.
There's a sick man here.
Not that you care.
He could be starving to death
and you wouldn't lift a finger,
heiress.
My husband is my business,
not yours.
The whole farm would go to ruin
if you were to run things.
That's why Father
put me in charge.
[COW MOOING]
And go feed
that whining cow of yours.
[COW MOOING]
[BORYNA GROANS SOFTLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANING SOFTLY]
Has he said anything?
[GASPS] Jesus, Michal.
BLACKSMITH: Sorry, Jagna.
I didn't mean to scare you.
I came to see
how Father is doing.
Did he say anything?
No.
BLACKSMITH: The organist told me
that Father has a lot of money.
He probably hid it
in the storeroom.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Let's split the money evenly
before Hanka steals everything.
Just give me the key, Jagna.
Hanka has the keys now.
[GASPING]
Don't turn your back on me
when I'm talking to you.
[HAND RUSTLES]
[CROWS CAWING]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
MAYOR: You're running
errands now? [CHEWING]
It'd probably
be easier for you...
if they let Antek out?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I can make inquiries.
I have influence.
Come.
Sit down with me.
We'll figure it out.
If you have such influence,
why are the men still in jail?
-For defending what's theirs?
-Don't get upset, Jagna.
I am on your side.
I can help Antek.
[MUSIC TURNS SINISTER]
Keep cranking.
[DOOR CREAKS]
[RUSTLING]
[JAGNA YELPS]
Hanka!
[MUSIC FADES]
Why are you yelling?
You hung that thing over my bed.
That was the only place.
HANKA: Isn't it
convenient for you?
If you get hungry,
you can rip a piece off,
since you take
what others worked for.
[JAGNA HISSES]
Let her go
if she wants to fight.
I dare you.
I'll scratch that pretty face
so even your own mother
won't recognize you.
-Hanka!
-[HANKA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hanka...
throw them out.
Are you in pain?
Throw them all out.
[JAGNA EXHALES SHAKILY]
[MUSIC TURNS TENSE]
[CRIES]
[WHISPERS] Come, come, now.
In the storeroom. In the wheat.
Inside the wheat barrel...
you'll find some money. Hide it!
So they don't take it from you.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
BORYNA: Save Antek.
[CRYING]
Don't let them take it.
It's yours.
All yours.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
JAGNA: You said
you could help Antek.
MAYOR: All in good time.
[GLASSES CLATTER]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY, CLEARS THROAT]
[GLASS CLINKS]
[FROG CROAKING]
Come, Jagna, come.
Let's rest here.
-[GRUNTS, LAUGHS]
-JAGNA: Oh!
[LAUGHS]
-Look!
-There's nothing to see here.
Come here, Jagna. Come now...
-[GRUNTING]
-[JAGNA YELPING]
-[MAYOR YELLS]
-[SHRIEKS]
-[MAYOR GROWLING]
-[STRUGGLING]
[YELLS]
[JAGNA EXHALES]
[YELPS, GROANS]
[JAGNA CRIES]
I'm sorry. I got carried away.
[BOTH GRUNT]
Touch me again, you pig,
and I'll tell everyone.
Tell them...
As if anyone would believe you.
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC FADES]
Per eundem Christum,
Dominum nostrum.
CROWD: Amen.
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
CHOIR:
O, happy day is upon us
Our prayers
Were not in vain
For Christ has risen today
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Heavenly King we praise
Yearn for His beauty
And grace
For He has conquered death
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
-[SNIFFLING]
-[SINGING STOPS]
[MUSIC TURNS EERIE]
[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
[EERIE MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[WHISPERING CONTINUES]
VOICES: [ECHOING] Come, farmer.
[SOMBER HUMMING]
VOICES: Farmer.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
VOICES: [LOUDER] Farmer.
BORYNA: Time to sow.
VOICES: Time to sow.
[BORYNA GRUNTING]
Time to sow...
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Time to...
sow...
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[SOMBER HUMMING]
WOMEN: Dear God,
giver of salvation
and forgiveness.
We ask for your mercy
to take Boryna, your servant.
By the grace of the Virgin Mary
and all the Saints.
To you, with eternal blessing.
For Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Amen.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[CROWS CAWING]
[WOLF HOWLING]
[EXHALES]
Come to me.
-[WIND WHOOSHING]
-[JAGNA GASPING]
[BELL TOLLING]
[MURMURING]
[WOMAN MOANING IN FEAR]
[GROANS]
-[EXHALES]
-[WOMEN SINGING]
[MUMBLING CONTINUES]
[BORYNA GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MUSIC CRESCENDOES]
-[GASPS]
-BLACKSMITH: What's new?
HANKA: Everything is as usual.
Plenty of work to be done.
As usual? [BREATHING HEAVILY]
You took Father's money?
You would steal it, so you think
everyone is like you?
What you've stolen is yours.
But the land must be divided.
I won't give it up.
I'm just minding
my husband's property.
-I have no rights.
-BLACKSMITH: Ah!
Now that Father's dead,
Antek is in charge.
It's all up to him.
In charge
of his prison cell maybe.
But honest people
will make the decisions here.
"Honest." Look at him.
You only want to grab
as much as you can.
Oh, poor little thing. Oh.
Sitting on six acres of
our finest land, looking pretty.
[SCOFFS]
You're right, Hanka.
Let's wait...
for Antek to return.
He can take it up
with this harlot.
[SCOFFS]
I wish I'd broken my legs
before I entered this house.
No one's tied you down.
You were free to leave anytime.
[DOG BARKING]
And don't spit at me.
After all you've done to me.
What have I done?
Have I stolen anything?
Killed somebody?
You went after him
like a bitch in heat
when you knew he had a family.
I went after him, did I?
You don't see his faults?
How he'd stand by my door
even to get
a glimpse of my shoe.
It was he who befuddled me
and did as he pleased.
You want to know the truth?
However, you may regret it.
If I wanted, he'd kick you out
and follow me anywhere,
no matter what you do.
Don't you dare
compare yourself to me.
Get out of this house now!
Get out!
[CRIES] Don't let Antek
turn away from us again.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Here. Is this what you want?
Take it then and I hope
you choke on it to death!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS HOOTING]
[PIGEON COOING]
[BIRD SCREECHING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Jagna. [BREATHING HEAVILY]
Don't touch me.
Say what you wanted
to say to me.
Don't be afraid of me, Jagna.
I hardly recognize you.
I'm the same person
I was when you left me.
I never left you.
I've been thinking about you
day and night.
Maybe you had
something else on your mind?
Yes, I did. I was thinking
about how you disgraced me.
How I disgraced you?
Did I ask you
to become my stepmother?
Did I force you
to fool around with the mayor?
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SOFTLY KISSING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
Jagna, would you
run away with me?
[JAGNA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[LAUGHING]
-[ANTEK GRUNTS]
-[GASPS]
-[ANTEK GRUNTS]
-[JAGNA CRIES]
Antek, no!
-[JAGNA CRYING]
-[ANTEK GRUNTING]
-[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
-[GRUNTING]
[WOMEN SINGING]
An owl sits in the grove
And listens to people talk
Day by day, night by night
There was hunger
There was passion
And listens to people talk
[SINGING STOPS]
What a drought.
[MUSIC FADES]
We were so worried about you.
Luckily, Hanka bailed you out.
[FLIES BUZZING]
Worried, were you? [SCOFFS]
-Of course.
-[CHUCKLES]
-You are the first farmer now.
-Hmm.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAN GRUNTS]
-Two sacks for you, ma'am.
-[COINS JINGLE]
Hanka?
How easily the inheritance
passed on to you.
You only need to kick Jozka out
and all will be yours.
[MAN GRUNTS]
Got your eye on Jagna already?
She's just become a widow.
It's not that. Just saying Hanka
had no right to kick her out.
-It was Jagna's home.
-It wasn't.
It's back where it belongs,
with the family.
Are you sure?
Her mother has filed
Jagna's claim at court.
[BLACKSMITH CHUCKLES]
They'll get her property back.
We'll see.
[MATEUSZ SIGHS]
[GOAT BLEATS]
Jagna.
People are complaining
about you in the village.
Let them bark.
They're hot and moody
and it makes them angry.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
You know...
[SIGHS] The men... are already
lining up to bring you vodka.
Let them drink it themselves.
Not all men are alike.
Maybe it would...
help you in the village...
if you chose someone.
It'd stop people's tongues
from wagging.
I don't need help from men.
I've had enough
of their help already.
[MATEUSZ SIGHS]
Jagna, my dear child.
Haven't you slept?
Why did you reject Mateusz?
He's a good carpenter.
Wasn't that Jesus's profession?
He has his past,
but so do you now.
I don't want Mateusz.
I don't want any man.
Don't talk like that!
You need to go to confession.
You can do penance
and with time,
people will forgive you.
I won't go to confession.
Fear the Lord, child.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Praise be to God.
Praise be, Hanka.
I'm going on a pilgrimage.
Please forgive me for any sins
I committed against you.
God bless you
for your kind words.
But what's done is done.
I ask you from my heart
for forgiveness.
I don't hold a grudge
in my heart.
I'll pray for you.
[FOOTSTEPS RETREATING]
-[BIRDS CHIRPING]
-[CREAKING]
JASIO: Jagna?
Don't you recognize me?
[CHUCKLES]
How could I not recognize you?
It's just that you look
so elegant now, so different.
You're coming back
from your travels.
Right now, I came here
from home to get some peace.
-And you?
-Just wandering around.
Is that a holy book?
No, it's about
faraway countries and oceans.
Jesus! About oceans!
Have a look!
Look.
See this pyramid?
It's taller
than five of our churches
stacked on top of each other.
-It must be like a mountain.
-[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Uh, and what are these?
They look like my cutouts.
I saw your beautiful cutouts
when I visited you at Christmas.
Not even in the Warsaw markets
have I seen cutouts
as beautiful.
They've been looking for you,
Master Jasio!
-All over the village.
-I better go.
KOZLOWA: Interrupted
your prayers, have I?
-[LAUGHS]
-Goodbye.
A secluded place,
far from people's eyes.
May your foul tongue shrivel.
So I rush off to look for him,
I look around, and...
Excuse me, Jasio lost his book.
What a nerve.
[COW MOOS]
Get away from here.
Never show your face here again!
I'll not shed tears
because of you,
like Hanka
and the mayor's wife did.
I'll teach you not to flirt.
-You'll remember me, you hussy.
-[GASPS]
Go to your kennel, bitch!
-[CRIES]
-[COW MOOS]
I heard that Jagna
is now after the organist's son.
Has your time in prison made you
hungry for gossip?
I'm only repeating what I heard.
Tell me who said so,
and I'll set them straight.
-[CLAMORING]
-I won't give a single zloty!
Eh!
Five thousand is missing
from the district's treasury.
They're taking
the whole farm from them.
And if that wasn't enough,
Lipce has to pay for the rest!
I'm not going to pay anything!
ORGANIST'S WIFE: People!
Don't you know
how the mayor spent this money?
-On Jagna.
-That's right! Of course!
That's twiddle-twaddle.
You saw that, did you?
You think I don't know?
You think I'm not ashamed
-to have a whore in the family?
-Do something.
[INDISTINCT FAINT CHATTER]
[GOAT BLEATS]
She bewitched my man.
He'd buy her anything.
Everyone saw it!
Where did she get those dresses?
[ALL CLAMORING]
Because she was Boryna's wife!
She got all the fancy clothes
from him!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
PLOSZKA: What do you care?
Why are you on her side?
JAGUSTYNKA: Mother of God,
save us.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
She even tried
to seduce my Jasio.
-[ALL MURMURING]
-MAN: Oh, my!
The innocent boy ran
and told me everything.
MAN: Mmm.
That's horrible.
Not even a priest is safe!
WOMAN: Yeah!
MAN: Yes!
Look at the poor harvest
we've had.
Surely, a whore like that
has brought God's wrath
upon the village.
-It's all her fault.
-Time to end it.
There's only one way.
Banish her.
Exactly!
-That's how it must be.
-[ALL AGREEING]
PLOSZKA: Everyone has agreed
to banish Jagna
from the village.
Yeah, banish her.
Say your piece, Antoni.
MAN: Banish her.
MAYOR'S WIFE: Well, Antoni,
we're all listening.
PLOSZKA: With your father gone,
you're our first farmer now.
We can't decide without you.
[ALL MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]
MAN: Quiet now.
Quiet.
[DRUMBEAT SOUNDS]
I live in this village
and I stand with its people.
You want to expel her,
then do so.
[CROWD MURMURING]
You want to put her
on the altar? Then do that.
[VOICE BREAKING]
It is all the same to me.
[ALL MURMURING]
MAN: So, we banish her.
Antek!
[ALL MUTTERING]
MAN: Now we must sort this out.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
You know
what they'll do to Jagna.
The law... is on their side.
To hell with the law.
What they're accusing her of...
it's not true.
Will you stand
against the whole village?
-Are you on their side?
-I'm on no one's side.
But I care for her as much
as I care for dirt.
Jesus!
That you should...
dare to kick out
a person like...
[VOICE BREAKING] a rabid dog.
[CHURCH BELL TOLLING]
[MATEUSZ BREATHING HEAVILY]
Antek!
Your word means something.
It's too late.
[CRIES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[COW MOOING]
[HENS CLUCKING]
[OXEN BELLOW]
[SHUDDERING]
[CLAMORING]
SZYMEK: Mother,
the village is coming for her!
MATEUSZ: Quick! Close the door.
SZYMEK: Take her away!
-Hide!
-[JAGNA SHUDDERS]
I won't hide from anyone.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
-MATEUSZ: What're you doing?
-Take it.
BLACKSMITH: Together, men!
One, two, three!
MATEUSZ: Hold it!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
-[MEN GRUNTING]
-[WOMAN SCREAMING]
Jagna! Jagna!
-[MATEUSZ YELLING]
-[SHRIEKS]
JAGUSTYNKA:
People! People! Move back...
What are you doing here?
What are you doing... [GROANS]
[CROWD SHOUTING, CLAMORING]
[MATEUSZ GRUNTING]
DOMINIKOWA: Leave Jagna alone!
ORGANIST: Out the way, Mother!
[DOMINIKOWA SCREAMS]
JAGNA: [GASPING] Mother!
[GROANING]
-Grab her!
-Yes!
Take her!
ORGANIST: Come here!
Come here!
You'll pay for everything.
You'll pay, you whore.
Whore!
What now, hussy?
-[GRUNTS]
-[JAGNA GROANS]
Not so pretty anymore.
-[CROWD LAUGHING]
-[JAGNA GROANS]
-Right in that painted face!
-MAYOR'S WIFE: Take her out!
-[BREATHING HEAVILY]
-[CROWD CLAMORING]
[GROANING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
You've had your fun?
Shame on you now!
Take her to the soldiers!
Feel the same shame
you made us feel!
MAN: The holy ground
would spit you out!
-[CRIES OUT]
-The bitch deserves it.
WOMAN: Go to hell, slut!
Get her down! Bitch!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Get her on the cart!
Tie her up!
WOMAN: Tie her up!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INAUDIBLE]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
That's enough!
[CROWD MUTTERING]
Come back to the village
and we'll set the dogs on you.
[SPITS]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
[THUNDER BREAKING]
[SHIVERING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GASPING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[GASPING]
[CALMING MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC CONTINUING]