„ The Soldier of September”
Polish soldier crawling
towards two tanks, which block the way to Modlin Fortress,
then quickly returns to his fight position...
This Soldier will be awarded
for this act with Cross of Braves.
The story of Mr. Ernest Nizałowski' s life is saturates with the beauty and
atrocities of XX century...
His father is one of the
first, who built an airplane and later his son, Ernest, became pilot too.
After II World War started,
when many of Polish found shelters in Hungary, Nizałowski
got on the train and enlisted to Polish Army in Poland. He wanted to defeat his
second fatherland... He got to German slavery. For 16 months he had been imprisoned
in Marienburg (Malbork)
cage. He escaped and returned to his home in Hungary.
Fatherland? Poland is his fatherland,
its ground he kissed crossing by the border, but his fatherland is also Hungary
"mother's"...
The young men, speaking
fluently with few languages, joined cage's group in Zugliget,
which helped refugees to cross the borders and was directed by Józef Antall senior, leader of
Refugee department of Internal Affair Office and colonel Zoltan
Balo (general in later times), and leader of XXI
department do Army's Affair Ministry. In 1930 he escorted refugees to England
as the translator. In 1943 he escorted groups of 10-12 people through
Yugoslavia and Italy to Lyon in France. During these last actions he met Henryk Sławik, leader of
Civil Polish Committee.
Our hero made it impossible
to detonate rail bridge in Kőbány (Budapest), then he got to Russian slavery and became translator...
After II World War he started
service in the army and then in police. As the translator he had been working
with László Rajka till
1949, when- during many of suits brought that times- based on invented accusations, he
was sentenced and had been waiting for execution for couple of years. We was made free based on the amnesty in 1953.
When he is 94 years old, he pilot an airplane. Currently he is almost 100 years old and
is still active in caring the Polish and Hungary relationship.
The film is a relation about
him, computability and non-computability of his destiny, illustrated with
scenes from his life, which makes it easier for the viewer to imagine.
