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Amelie
Dear Laryska,
You said such nice words about your parents… You and Don said something very important. It is not so important how old we are here, what nationality or race we represent, but it is very important what we think about the experienced people and our parents in particular, whether we respect them. This Christmas thread has much to do with the issue of our parents and grandparents. They instilled the devotion to the ancient traditions in us. Their life was usually harder than our life because there was much more manual work and all kind of chores a few decades ago.
My loving and beloved parents had a very hard time during the war. My father was an anti-Nazi fighter and he lost the best six years of his life hiding somewhere in the forest. My mother was kicked out of the burning Warsaw by the Nazis and sent to Lower Silesia to be a slave labourer for the German bauer. She barely survived. My parents never preached hatred to me. In spite of all wrongs inflicted upon them by the Germans, they are glad that the presidents of Poland and Germany were able to shake their hands 60 years after the first shells from the German guns placed on Schlezwig-Holstein war ship, aimed at Westerplatte fortress in Gdansk, were shot.
Kasper, please respect your own parents. If you do, the rest will be much easier for you. Please watch the French film "Amelie". It is absolutely the best film I saw this year. Good old France is shining with all her beauty again there. You can order it as a Christmas giftt for your mom.
BTW Katya, Laryska, Donquichotte, Forest, Happy_Gunner(thank for the cute images), Holland, Rajkumar and others, thank you for your kind response to my greetings!
Don, I do remember a French film "La bonne annee", (It was translated as "Joyeux Noel" into PL) directed by Claude Lelouche). It was good, however AMELIE is a perfect anti-Hollywood masterpiece.
[Edited by Zbyszek on 18th December 2002 at 18:52]
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