This rarely happens when I tell my son and loved ones: drop everything and watch this film. The Poles have made an incredible film, the title of which will be translated by everyone, no matter what. “CONSEQUENCES” is the first one that suggests itself, but I translate “STUBLE” (in the Russian box office it was translated as “Spikelets”). I have the right: the authors left me many hints that this could be so. I remember how painful it is to walk on stubble. These are nails made from straw, which is dense and strong at the base of the stem. They inevitably remain after any harvest - whether you sting with a sickle, wave a scythe, or walk across a field with a combine harvester. Rough golden stubble covers the face of the earth, if you look from a distance, and if you walk barefoot, you walk on nails. Till blood. And if your soul sinks into your heels because of something, then the stubble - through your heel - sticks right into your soul. But to get stubble, you have to sow something and then reap the harvest. In this place the title refers to the eternal: “What you sow is what you reap.” With one difference: the fathers sowed, and their children will go through the stubble. The plot of the film is simple. Entirely drawn from life, but simplified. In life it was like this: on July 10, 1941, half of the inhabitants of the Polish town of Jedwabne, which is 85 miles from Warsaw, destroyed the other half. The killers, led by the mayor, were Catholics. Their victims - one thousand six hundred souls - were Jews. The Poles killed them for several hours in the short July night. With your hands. Armed with anything - knives, axes, hammers. Those who had guns shot. Those who survived the meat grinder hid in a barn nearby, but not for long; The barn was set on fire, and the unkilled Jews were burned alive. After the victory, a monument was erected to the dead - as if they had fallen at the hands of the Nazis. And for half a century, the residents of Jedwabne walked past the memorial plaque, knowing full well the truth, but no one said a word.