Lotna is a Polish war film released in 1959 and directed by Andrzej Wajda.
This highly symbolic movie is both the director's tribute to the long and glorious history of the Polish cavalry, as well as a more ambiguous portrait of the passing of an era. Wajda was the son of a Polish Cavalry officer who was murdered by the Soviets during the Katyn massacre.
The horse Lotna represents the entire Romantic tradition in culture, a tradition that had a huge influence in the course of Polish history and the formation of Polish literature. Lotna is Wajda's meditation on the historical breaking point that was 1939, as well as a reflection on the ending of an entire era for literature and culture in Poland and in Europe as a whole. Writing of the film, Wajda states that it "held great hopes for him, perhaps more than any other." Sadly, Wajda came to think of Lotna "a failure as a film."
The film remains highly controversial, as Wajda includes a mythical scene in which Polish horsemen suicidally charge a unit of German tanks, an event that never actually happened.
Me estoy portando mal
No debo obrar así
Yo sé que no es feliz
Pero tiene su hogar
Porque la conocí y la llegué a querer
Si hoy puedo enloquecer si no la veo más
Ella empezó a notar lo que siente mi amor
Se aleja más y más como a la tarde el sol
Soy joven ya lo sé, ella un poco mayor
Pero mi corazón no quiere comprender
Y gritaré tu nombre, mujer, tu nombre
Mi amor no sabes que a mi edad
También se puede amar
Me estoy portando mal
No debo obrar así
Yo se que no es feliz
Pero tiene su hogar
Porque la conocí y la llegué a querer
Si hoy puedo enloquecer si no la veo más
Y gritaré tu nombre, mujer, tu nombre
Mi amor no sabes que a mi edad