Vika

- DJ Vika! - DJ Vika!

I'd love to have a grandma like you.

So cool!

You are a hell of a woman!

Take a picture of us, okay?

Awesome! We respect you so much!

Can I have a picture?

My grandchildren. I'll adopt you all.

Vika! Vika! Vika!

Yes.

Scold someone! That's it!

And now shoot!

Cool! Awesome!

You're a space girl.

- Well! - Now things are going to happen.

I told myself I wouldn't be that old person,

who just sits around like a plant in the window.

I'll just show that it's possible to live in a different way.

Wonderful! Wow, what a firecracker!

Do you work standing up?

I play all night, until 4 or 5 am.

I started DJ-ing when I retired. I'm a special education teacher.

I worked for 30 years in a juvenile prison, behind bars!

When I was hired, they said:

"A young lady? In here? In a shithole like this? Go to TV, miss."

I said, "No, I want to be here. Will you take me?"

He gave me two weeks to prove myself.

And I stayed.

Later, I became the manager, then director of the facility.

And then I retired.

Incredible.

You want to turn an 80-year-old granny into a model, my dear?

My husband will be turning in his grave.

This is great.

- That could... - It's great.

Toilet granny!

EQUALITY TOLERANCE

Welcome to my cave.

This is the first time I've seen such a professional studio.

This is a synthesizer...

- For special effects? - For...

Is it? For special effects?

Not only, you can also play on it.

Oh, very avant-garde!

And release.

At the start of the beat, release it.

Basic dance scratch. And here.

Good. That's good.

Vika and Warsaw.

The Vistula...

Vistula, Vika, Warsaw.

Right.

And smile.

- You have grandchildren, don't you? - I do, my dear.

My grandson is your age.

- Does he come to your parties? - That's why I say you're my grandson.

Do you ever see them at parties?

They don't have time, you know.

They're a completely different species.

I think my granddaughter is even a little ashamed.

Ashamed of me.

We're not that close, it's hard for me to say.

But I don't want to buy relationships.

I leave it all to nature.

You can't force it.

- Ho, ho, ho! - Hi, hello.

- What a lovely scent. - Me?

My borrowed husband.

Hi!

Drowning in aftershave.

Hi, Vika. Where were you? I was ringing the bell.

I was just deaf.

Okay.

Right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome Mrs. Szmyt,

known also as DJ Vika in the, let's say, world of entertainment.

She is considered to be the oldest DJ in Poland.

Sometimes, I used to wonder

if it's possible to do anything at all at this age.

We are closer to the end than the beginning.

That's why I don't think about it,

because when I look at my date of birth, I wonder how long I can keep going.

The other day, I couldn't get out of the bathtub.

So I rolled over onto my belly, pulled myself up with my elbows

and somehow got out.

After all, was I supposed to call my neighbour

to come and get me out of the bath? I had to learn to do it all myself.

Because there's no one else around.

I don't tell anyone about my suffering,

I don't think one should.

It's better to sell yourself as being healthy, right?

That you can cope with it all,

and having a quiet cry at home won't hurt either.

- I hate looking at old people! - You can hate that all you want,

you just look into a mirror and there you are.

I show old age by being old myself.

I have the courage to show myself.

- To live in public, but I try... - You don't have to show it.

No, we need to show it. You can't run away from old age, madam.

We're the ones who can show it in a beautiful way.

We're not getting any younger, my dears. Just older.

Without a mirror, you can't see it.

But my dear, we look in the mirror every day and we just have to love ourselves

the way we are, as we will have a healthier life then.

And you are a beautiful woman, truly.

- I'd rather play for the gays. - For sure. Come on, your turn.

I prefer to look at the young, because when I look at them,

I think I still have plenty of time.

And when I look at old people,

I'm like, "Damn, how much of this life do I have left?"

If you look at them,

you don't know if you'll manage to do all the things you still want to.

I can't find the right spot, damn it.

It's not that easy, girl.

- Look what's going on! - We'll be late. Damn it.

We'll manage somehow.

What if they throw tomatoes at us?

I can deal with tomatoes, I hope they won't throw fucking stones at us.

Listen to this... We'll start with this one.

It'll get everyone dancing.

- Get them on the dance floor. - Okay.

Please come up to the dance floor. Gentlemen, invite the ladies.

Those who dance never grow old. Come on up, everyone.

Cool. Smile.

- Great, have a look. - Now my turn.

Done? And one more.

Look, "Paradise". Cafe and dancing.

- I wonder if they hold dances. - Why don't we go?

But I don't know if they have dance evenings in resorts like this.

- When I was in Szczawno... - I thought it was a funeral home, this...

Vika, your associations amaze me.

Oh, it's simply a natural medicine spa.

When I'm around people,

I look at the different relationships in families.

Some children take their mothers on vacation.

And when I ask what it was like,

they say, "The kids invited me to lunch today." And things like that.

As for my grandchildren, I don't blame them...

No, absolutely not.

But I don't get calls every month.

More like once every six months or so.

- That's not often. Once every six months? - Yes, it's not every week, not at all.

I didn't have the possibility to devote time to my grandchildren.

Because of my work or trips abroad when they were growing up.

I never had a life where I could take care of my grandchildren.

There's no explanation for her lack of interest

or the fact that she never calls or visits you.

There are no excuses.

Well, that's why I don't get involved.

Besides, I've been thinking,

about old age,

that...

no matter how close the relationship is,

old age is always a problem.

An old person is a kind of problem,

a burden for young people.

A bit of a headache.

A burden.

You have reached the voicemail, leave your message at the tone.

Bye-bye, my love.

Bye.

Bye, I'm going.

What a person needs most in life

is most certainly tenderness.

But a tenderness...

A kind of tenderness, that you can no longer...

That you can no longer have.

You just can't.

If your partner's gone, it's a tough time.

Yes...

And then I remember I'm old...

which I forget...

when I'm DJ-ing.

- Will you use this to cover yourself? - I will a little, yes.

I just remembered a joke.

A drunk boy goes to bed with a girl.

He wakes up the next morning

and looks at her, but she's so old, wrinkled, ugly.

He asks, "How old are you?"

"How old do I look?"

And he says, "People don't live that long."

That's why I don't have affairs.

But is it a good thing?

Time will tell.

If you're fit, then okay, but after that...

What I'm most afraid, though...

is an illness that will make me dependent on someone.

It can't go up yet as it's still warming up.

A balloon requires patience.

Not the way they're doing it. Because this one is already broken.

- It won't fly... - It won't.

It just won't.

Wooh, go on. That's it, fly!

Bravo, bravo!

It's flying!

See? It's up!

Honey,

look here.

Look at how beautiful it is, see.

That's what I wanted to capture,