Femina

Look, Victor, this fox is dead.

No, it's just pretending because it's afraid.

It looks like my mother's fur stole.

So small, and it stinks like an ungodly creature!

All creatures are God's creatures.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

Action!

Thanks.

I'm doing this for you and for Antek.

You're doing it for yourself.

I'm not leaving you alone. I'll call.

A whole month...

You want me to stay? Yes?

I'm awfully sorry, sir, but I won't be able to come over...

I'll throw away the ticket and the contract.

You know what this means to me.

- Antek, come here. - I know it means the world.

Listen, I might be in for the Nobel Prize.

After a month I'll be somebody else over there.

In a month's time, I might be somebody else too.

Daddy!

Mom, don't be scared, they're only soldiers.

It's the devil! The devil got into her!

The devil? The devil?

We need exorcism and raw eggs!

The devil! Exorcism...

and raw eggs!

I'm listening.

I understand, I'll be right over.

Antek...

...my mother just died.

Do you hear me? Your grandma has died.

Grandmother Wegenerowa?

- Yes, - How long will she be dead for?

Forever.

Life is a dream....

and death is the awakening.

But not for everyone.

Raw egg, raw liver.

That's the best way to grow up.

But that's disgusting!

Don't worry, everyone has to go through this.

Madam, don't look in his eyes or they'll fall out.

Does the lady wish to buy some furs?

First you have to cut the skin on the belly.

Remove the intestines...

...and you'll have a wonderful fur stole.

Remember, Bogienka,

a woman without a fur is not a woman.

If not a fur, at least a fur stole.

When I die, you can have mine.

It happened so suddenly!

She didn't even call me, as she usually would.

She was so quiet

She didn't let anybody know.

Where's Antos?

I left him with my mother-in-law

He's too young for funerals.

You sound exactly like Aniela.

Too young for a funeral.

You see?

The lambrequin...

She didn't have time to put the curtains up.

And if...

If she'd had the time, it would have been...

...all for nothing.

Everything for nothing.

It's a shame that Antos didn't come.

I'll make you some tea.

Where is mother?

What did you say?

Nothing, I'm asking where Mother is.

Where do you think?

In the funeral parlour.

- Was she alone? - When?

- When she was dying? - Oh, yes. She didn't even call.

If she'd called, I would have come.

I would have held her hand.

It's terrible to die alone.

I can wash that, but...

...the stains on the sheet will remain.

They should have been put in cold water immediately...

I wasn't thinking clearly.

The way it happened...

It made me quite woozy.

You imagine it!

Aniela is lying here,

her eyes open,

and I'm walking around the room,

asking her what to do, can you imagine that?

I'm asking a dead woman what I'm supposed to do!

- This is my picture - A handsome boy, isn't he?

- Can you make me some tea? - Yes.

Bogdanna? Only a "C" in music?

Bogna?

You're disgracing our family! Stand in the corner. Sing!

Oh, peas.

And with a book!

Now, sing!

'Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place...

Furchtbar! Is this what they teach you?

Ordnung muss sein, Bogna.

Sing!

'Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place...

The international party shall be the human race.

Even the lavender is in the midst.

Aniela, I did this for you, by myself.

I tied the ribbon by myself.

For you, to remember, she said.

I'll look dandy in this fur stole, Aniela said.

So what! She didn't have any sense of foreboding?

She knew, she even went to confession, but for what?

She must have invented sins, she was a saint!

She cared for you a lot.

She was saying that you'd lost contact with God.

But she didn't even call when she was dying! Can you imagine?

She didn't even call!

Peace on this house and all its inhabitants.

Bogusiu...

Bogusiu, I've got a picture for you.

It's Dominik Strogoff, a worthy man.

All his life he worked amongst cannibals.

He choked to death on a fish bone.

Well, how do you like it?

It's beautiful.

Bogusiu? Are you going out with boys yet?

She didn't even call, so typical of her.

Always so quiet.

She didn't call.

Come to my place this evening.

I don't have breasts yet.

I never thought you were that way.

It isn't a sin, I'm not a boy.

I'm just out of the cemetery,

and I want a man already.

- Is that a sin? - A sin?

What are you talking about?

Your mother would have been proud of you.

You...

must have something for yourself.

Besides your husband and child.

Yes...

I think I want to have something for myself.

Let go

You were always stronger.

May I touch you?

- Do men not arouse you anymore? - Men?

They arouse me as well.

Wiska, you're wounded.

You've been with Victor for so long...

Viktor?

That's a different story.

Honour of the poor, he teaches in our old school.

He's writing his immortal doctorate on Kant.

- Did you love him - I don't know

He didn't repel me like the others.

He was good in bed...

And he understood what I was talking about.

That's love, I suppose.

Do you think so? Tell the truth.

You've always been jealous.

Wegner! Bogusia Wegner! You received a good upbringing.

Purity of language and purity of a heart!

I've been fighting for that my entire life.

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

Now you're an orphan.

You're an adult!

Yes madam, I'm an adult.

Your mother

was a decent human being.

Not that many left.

I'm not like my mother.

Do you have any children?

What's the name of your child?

Antek.

Nice Polish name, Saint Antoni Padewski

Saint of lost things and lost people.

I'll tell you a secret.

The co-ed system was not a good thing for our school.

Do you remember Professor Pinder?

She was completely bald

She threw herself under a tram, she couldn't bear co-education.

Your mother, she knew the difference between good and evil.

Madame Professor,

My mother was just one huge Christian commandment.

Me?