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(19 Oct 2007)
Zbosze, Poland - 16 October 2007
1. Wide of road to Zbosze
2. Wide of German couple, the Drehers (who were expelled by Poland from their home in what was then Germany but became Poland at the end of World War II) greeting members of the Polish family now living in their former family home
3. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Mrs Kulik, Polish resident living in the former Dreher family home: (speaking to the Drehers)
"I remember that during the war, I talked to the soldiers. (she interjects a few words in German) I had to speak German to them."
4. Interior house, Mrs Kulik holding old photograph of the house, Drehers and Kuliks looking at it
5. SOUNDBITE: (German) Alfred Dreher, who was expelled from former West Prussia in Germany when it became Polish territory after World War II:
"I was born in this place, in this room. We always spent our holidays here, and then I had my room upstairs. I woke up to the sound of the ducks cackling on their morning walk towards the pond."
6. Mid of Mr Kulik, the head of the house (Mrs Kulik's son), entering the room and greeting Alfred Dreher
7. Cutaway of Mr Kulik's granddaughter
8. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Mr Kulik, Polish resident living in the former Dreher family home:
"I know what longing feels like, and whenever you want to, you can come here. I know how the heart does hurt, when one thinks about his homeland." (Polish translator then translates into German for the Drehers)
9. Wide of the Kulik family outside the farm house
Bydgoszsz, Poland - 17 October 2007
10. Wide of road to Bydgoszsz
11. Wide of the Dreher couple, translator and Polish woman Genoweva Martynowicz having coffee in living room of the Dreher family's former flat, talking
12. Close up of Mr and Mrs Dreher's hands exchanging photos
13. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Genoweva Martynowicz, Polish resident living in the Dreher family's former flat:
"It all depends on how people live together as neighbours."
14. Cutaway close up of cups
15. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Genoweva Martynowicz, resident living in the Dreher family's former flat:
"I don't care whether my neighbour is German or Polish, as long as he behaves like a decent human being." (Polish translator then translates into German for the Drehers)
16. Wide of the Dreher couple, translator and Genoweva Martynowicz in front of the house
17. Mid of election poster for the Kaczynskis' party, the PIS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc/Law and Justice party)
18. SOUNDBITE: (German) Alfred Dreher, who was expelled from former West Prussia in Germany when it became Polish territory after World War II:
"It is that feeling of being familiar, from childhood on I have had this familiarity. From the age of nine I have felt that this is where I belong."
19. Close up of canal with flowing water
20. SOUNDBITE: (German) Alfred Dreher, who was expelled from former West Prussia in Germany when it became Polish territory after World War II:
"If you look at this view, this is what I consider my personal homeland."
Frankfurt, Germany - 16 October 2007
21. Establishing shot Erika Steinbach, President of Bund der Vertriebenen/German Federation of Expellees, organisation representing Germans expelled after World War II from Germany's former territories in Central Europe
22. SOUNDBITE: (German) Erika Steinbach, President of Bund der Vertriebenen/German Federation of Expellees
Warsaw, Poland - 19 October 2007
23. Wide of press conference of Civic Platform, the main opposition party in Poland
24. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Grzegorz Schetyna, Civic Platform Party lawmaker:
25. Street scene
26. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox pop, woman, Warsaw resident:

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