A Generation (1955)

Urszula Modrzynska: Dorota

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Quotes 

• Dorota : Friends! Friends, the Union of Fighting Youth is being formed, the combat organization of Polish youth. We will not lay down our arms! We have blood, tears, and destruction to avenge. And now, not sometime in the future! They murder us! They send us to rot in camps! Let's take revenge! Let's fight for a free Poland! For a just Poland! Young workers, make contact with the Union of Fighting Youth! Join the People's Guard, the militant arm of the Polish people! Don't wait to be liberated! To arms! Death to the occupiers!

• Sekula : Hello Dorota. I'd like you to meet this young man. A new recruit, and not a bad one, I believe.

  Dorota : Time will tell. What shall we call you? Tiger? Panther? Poppy? Animal, vegetable or mineral?

  Stach Mazur : This is no laughing matter. Give me an ordinary human name.

  Dorota : You have a bit of the country about you. I'll call you "Bartek."

  Stach Mazur : Then Bartek it is.

• Dorota : Do you know what the People's Guard is? Our Workers' Party? You know who it is you want to join?

  Stach Mazur : Yes. Well, maybe not exactly, but - please don't laugh - but, I feel it.

  Dorota : I'm not laughing. You may make a good member of the guard.

• Dorota : They say there's only a handful of us. But we don't care what those people say, who turned our country over into the hands of criminals. We are the soldiers in the great army of the people, fighting the Nazi invaders in the sacred cause of freedom. No one ever stands alone in a just war. The Red Army is with us.

• Dorota : Have you gone mad? To do a job in your own area? Where they see you every day? It was irresponsible. It's against the basic rules of the underground.

• Dorota : We've heard a thing or two about you. Seems you're a good shot. You captured a pistol. May I see it?

  Jacek (as Ryszard Kotas) : Careful. It might go off.

  Dorota : Filthy as an old rag. You have to take care of a gun. You know what it takes to get one.

  Mundek : Five minutes of sweat and fast legs.

• Dorota : Our organization is a combat group, not a gang of gunslingers.

  Stach Mazur : [to Jancek]  See?

  Dorota : We're not concerned about the Jerries. We're concerned about you. We want you to retain your humanity through all this.

• Dorota : You're a strange one. Comrades say you're brave, yet you're such a child.

  Stach Mazur : Me brave? I get scared. Very scared. When I think how I too may be shot before this is over and never live to see my future. And how, if I got killed, I'd never see you again.

• Dorota : Could it be just our imagination? Could it be it's easier to die for a cause than to live for it?

  [kiss] 

  Dorota : My real name is Eve.

  Stach Mazur : I'll be damned. It is worth fighting for. It is worth living. It is worth living.

  Dorota : It is curfew time. You can't go out in the street.

  [kiss]