All language subtitles for Femina.1991

FEMINA

Look, Victor,
that fox must be dead already!

No, it's just pretending
to be dead because it's scared.

It looks just like my mother's
fur collar!

It's so small but smells
to high heaven!

All animals come from heaven.

Müde bin ich, geh zur Ruh
Schließe beide Augen zu.

Vater, lass die Augen dein
Über meinem Bette sein

What does it mean?

I don't know.

Thank you.

- I'm doing it for you and Antek.
- You're doing it for yourself.

After all, I'm not leaving you alone.
I'll be calling.

The whole month.

Shall I stay?

Very well. I'll write to the
professor that I cannot come,

I throw the ticket away
and chuck the contract.

You know what this trip means
to me.

I know.
It means everything.

Look, I could get a Nobel Prize
for this research.

After a month there, I'll be
a totally different person.

I can also be totally different
after a month here.

Dad!

Mum. Don't be afraid,
they're just soldiers.

It's the devil!
The devil possessed her!

The devil? The devil, my daughter?

You need exorcisms and raw eggs!

Devil, exorcisms and raw eggs.

Hello.

I…

I understand.
I'll come as soon as possible.

Antek.

My mother died.

Can you hear me?
Your grandmother died.

- Grandma Wegner?
- Yes.

How long is she going to be dead?

Forever.

Life is a dream
and death is awakening.

But not for everyone, not for everyone.

Death...

...is life.

- Bogienka...
- Ich bin Vater, ich bin Vater...

A raw egg and raw liver -
it's the best way to grow up.

But it's gross!

Don't worry.
Everyone has to go through it.

Don't look into its eyes
or it will shed its coat.

Do you want to buy some fur skins?

First you make a cut under the belly...
throw the guts away...

then you have a beautiful,
nice collar.

Remember, Bogienka. A woman without
a fur coat is not a woman.

And if no fur coat, then she should
at least have a fur collar.

When I die you can wear mine.

It all happened so suddenly!

She didn't even call out;
typical for Aniela.

Always so quiet…

So that nobody knows anything!

Where's Antek?

I left him with my in-laws.
He's too little for funerals.

It's just like hearing Aniela.

“He's too little for funerals”.

Yeah…

Oh, see this?

A pelmet.

She didn't manage to put
the curtains up.

Even if…

Even if she'd have managed to do it,
it would still… all for nothing!

All for nothing!

A pity that Antek didn't come.

Yeah…

I'll make you some tea…

Where is my mother?

What are you saying?

Nothing.

I'm asking where my mother is?

And where could she be?

In the morgue.

- Was she alone?
- When?

When she was dying.

Oh, then, yes.
She didn't even call out!

If she would have called
I would have come

and at least held her hand.

It's terrible to die all alone.

The pillow can be cleaned, but the
stains on the bedding won't come off.

I should've put it in cold water
right away,

but I didn't think about it then.

When it all happened
I was completely confused.

Can you imagine?

Aniela is lying here with her eyes open,
and I'm walking around and asking her.

Asking her, what to do.
Can you imagine that?

I'm asking a dead person what to do!

This is my picture.

Lovely boy, isn't it?

- Auntie, make some tea.
- All right.

It's a disgrace!

A C grade for singing?
Bogna?

You disgrace our family!

Kneel in the corner and practise!

On the peas!

With a book.

Practise now.

So, Comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face…

Terrible!
Is this what they teach you?

Ordnung muss sein, Bogna.

Sing.

So, Comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face

The Internationale unites
the human race.

There is even some lavender inside.

Aniela herself prepared this for you.

She tied it with a ribbon.

For you, as a souvenir.
That's what she said.

Aniela said that this fox collar
would suit me.

See? Didn't she sense it?
She knew it!

She knew it! She even went to confession
although I don't know what for.

She must've invented some sins,
the holy woman.

She worried about you a lot.

She said you had lost touch
with God.

And when she was dying, she didn't even
call out, can you imagine?

She didn't even call out.

Peace onto this house
and all its inhabitants.

- Ich bin Vater, ich bin Vater...
- Bogusia…

Bogusia, I have a picture for you.

This is the venerable Dominik Strogov.
He was a missionary.

He converted cannibals
all his life. There.

And he died gagging on a fish bone.

Well…

How do you like it?

It's beautiful.

Bogusia,

do you date boys already?

She didn't even call out;
typical for Aniela.

Always so quiet…

She didn't even call out.

Not even…

Come and see me tonight.

I don't have breasts yet.

Wiska, I never thought
you were such a pig!

It's not a sin.
I'm not a boy.

I just left the cemetery
and I already...

desire a man.

Is this a sin?

A sin? What are you talking about?

Your mother would be proud of you.

You…

Must have something of your own.

Besides a husband and a child.

Yes.

I think I want to
have something of my own.

Let go off me.

You were always the stronger one.

Can I touch?

Don't men turn you on at all?

Men?
They turn me on, too.

Wiska, you're distorted.

You have been with Victor
for so many years…

Victor?

That's something different.

A poor man's honour.

He teaches at our old school

and writes his immortal PhD thesis
on Kant.

- Did you love him?
- I don't know.

He didn't disgust me as much
as the others.

He was good in bed and understood
what I was saying to him.

That must be love.

Do you think so?

Admit it.

You were always jealous of him.

Wegner's girl, yes!
Bogusia Wegner!

You received
a proper upbringing!

The purity of language and of the heart.
This is what I've fought for all my life.

Oh, your poor mother!
Yes, I know, I read the obituary.

Now you are a complete orphan!
You're an adult!

Yes, Professor.
I am an adult.

Your mother…

Was a decent person.
There are no such people anymore.

I'm not like my mother.

You have a child.

What is the name of your child?

Antek.

A nice Polish name.
The holy Antoni Paderewski.

A patron of lost things and people.

I'll tell you in secret,
Wegner,

that co-education did not do
our school any good.

Do you remember Professor Pinder?

She was totally bold.

She was run over by a tram.
She could not stand coeducation.

Your mother, she was innocent.

She knew how to distinguish
the good from the evil.

Ma'am,

my mother was one great
Christian commandment.

And I?

I'm totally different.

Victor?

Do you remember?

I've been stopping here every day
for 15 years since you left.

I never had the courage to go in there
and ask for this photo.

You look like an angelic virgin
in that photo.

Because I was a virgin then.

Put your hands together and
hold the candle like that.

Like…

- As if praying...
- No.

- It's out of the question.
- Why?

Because she won't pray to your camera.

Ich bin Vater, Ich bin Vater…

But everybody does it.

Everybody is everybody.
And we are us.

All right.

As you wish, all right…

This child
is the essence of innocence.

Disgusting.

Get away from her.

- I want to buy a photo from the window
display. – That's not allowed.

But this is my photo,
from my First Communion.

The window display mustn't be touched.
All has to be as my husband arranged it.

When will your husband be here?

My husband is dead.

But I'm alive.

And this is my photo.

You have to take what you want.

This is my PhD thesis…

On Kant.

I'm taking care of my mother
out of pure duty.

I am waiting for her to die in peace.

To me, she's like a sick person
found on the street.

She doesn't need any affection.

My affection.

It's enough if I change her diapers.

I live in this room.

Don't worry.
She is just like a vegetable now.

You have to take what you want.

Platform 1
Section 3

Because Aniela always said,

she always said
that he's as frail as you

when you were little.

Auntie, you just worry how
to get on that train.

Ah, yes, that's true!

So many people, so many people!
Everyone's travelling!

You know, I still think about Aniela.
And I do not understand.

I don't understand how she couldn't
even… She didn't call out!

- Nobody understood my mother.
- I did.

Mum, where are the birds?

- Maybe they flew to be free.
- What freedom? They're long dead.

To the train!

Antek! Antek!

Storeroom of sick things

On a night like this,
I would do it even with a dog.

Just like I would.

I thought that someone needs me.

It's me who needs you.

The main thing is that our daughters
don't go running after boys.

Remember? That's what our
mothers used to say.

The world if full of mad people.

Take your clothes off.

Are you ashamed?

Doesn't this turn you on?

- My mother…
- What about your mother?

She thinks that I've gone mad.

Your mother doesn't think about
anything anymore.

I can't help it.
Every woman…

Reminds me of my mother.

You didn't even touch me.

Try.

Close your eyes.

I want to cheat on Jacek.

I can't.

I slept with Victor.

Don't say anything.

Sometimes I think that…

Only what is forbidden
makes sense to me.

- You have me.
- I want more.

It's too little for me.

It hurts!

Tilt your head back.

Close your eyes.

Wipe yourself.

But don't look.

You still have time
to be ashamed.

Are you waiting for somebody?

Yes.

I'm waiting for a client.

Are you a lawyer?

No.

I'm a prostitute.

You are not and you never will be.

Never.

- Am I not capable of it?
- You're from different stock.

Do you want to come with me?

You do.

Turn around and take
Aleja Pilsudskiego.

What am I to do?

The first rule is…

Ask nothing
and be surprised at nothing.

I envy you.

What?

That this attracts you.

There.

What's your name?

Bogumila. Bogna.

He's asleep now.

Was your journey long?

Well?

I can call you by your name, right?

You could've been my daughter
and I your mother.

Boginka, Bogumila…

Bogna. Lovely name!
A truly Christian one.

That was my mother's idea.

She convinced herself
that God was my godfather.

We all have a Christian upbringing.

Only later on we get lost a little.

My name is Gabriela.

I got all this doing my job.

And saving, of course.

I always had the best clients.

I don't drink, I don't smoke,
so, I put some money by.

He has a hellish temperament.

If I'd let him, he would do it
seven times a day.

I don't even know
whom he took after.

I've always been reliable.

But I didn't like this job.

Although they paid me better
than their wives,

you can be sure of that.

- But I…
- No, no. Wait.

Now, she'll prepare a bath.

But I have to bathe him myself.

My little boy is hungry.
He'll get his portion soon.

He's very impatient.

That's for you.

They're the only ones I had at home.

Take it. You can count it.

And remember, a full hour.

45 minutes.

Don't be afraid,
he needs it.

It's like being merciful.
He must have it.

She wanted to see what's inside.

All children are curious.

But not to that extent.

You can see for yourself that
there's nothing interesting inside.

Curiosity is the first step to hell.

Family tomb

There's still a bit of work to be done.
The artist is finishing the letters.

Let's see how much
has he got to do still.

Patriots!

Nation! Nation! Nation!

...to Argentine!

They'll practice again.
There will be a great funeral on Tuesday.

A great, national funeral.

- There's more than we've asked for.
- I know.

But I'd like my mother's grave
to be beautiful.

I don't like being paid in advance.

I want you to take that money today.

It will be well done.

He's an artist from the Academy.

Yes, yes, I'm sure
it will be done well.

So, I'll be off.

Yes. You can go.

My mother is buried here.
My mother and my father.

And… one, two, three!

You are… an artist…

You've done a beautiful job...
on my mother's tombstone.

Mum, what is that dark thing?

It's liver.

You must eat raw liver and eggs.
You're anaemic.

Mum, but this is gross.

Close your eyes and eat it.

Don't worry.
Everyone has to go through it.

Dad!

Jacek!

Never again…

Never for so long.

My God, Bogna.
I didn't know I love you so much.

Jacek…

I wasn't alone all this time.

I've cheated on you. Many times.

The main thing is that
we are together.

My God, how I missed you and Antek.

I worked like a madman,
but it didn't help.

You are different.

You are beautiful.

- Antek has grown up…
- Jacek!

I was unfaithful to you.

The main thing is that
we are together.

Grammar School No 156
Named after JAN MATEJKO