All language subtitles for Genoveffa di Brabante (1964)

Look, there's a knight.

Take care of the Duke of Brabante
and I'll take care of him.

Brabante, let's go!

Count Sigfrid!
Quick, get a stretcher!

Count Sigfrid!

Impossible.
It's him, I recognize him.

He looks so pale.

Some bandits attacked us. Count Sigfrid
arrival made our men attack too.

That's incredible! Who could
imagine it would happen.

Brabante's most ferocious enemy
helped you.

Gentlemen, tell me your decisions.

I think God sent us our worst enemy.

We think we shouldn't
go against God's decision...

We'll have to confine Count Sigfrid
until his men will surrender.

Should I thank who helped me
when everything was almost lost?

I'm astonished to hear that.

It's the only way to stop a
terrible war that

is going on for many years and
that is sucking everything we have!

I won't end the war between the
Brabante and Count Sigfrid cowardly.

He saved my life and if it'll cost
many more years of sacrifice,

when Count Sigfrid is fine, he'll
leave this castle as a free man

and he'll go back to his people.

Then he'll attack us again!

Gentlemen, this is my decision
and you'll have to accept it.

Nobody will have to harm Count
Sigfrid until he's our guest!

Why don't you kill me?
What are you waiting for?

I'll do it. Please go now Berta.

Who are you?
Why do you take care of me?

I'm Genoveffa of Brabante, the daughter
of the enemy you saved today.

That's why I'm here.

He bled a lot.
He will need a lot of treatments.

I'm scared to know he is here.

I'd prefer if you let him go back
to his people followed by our men.

That would kill him!

It will be a sad way to show him
how grateful I am.

The Brabante are fair even with
their enemies.

You shouldn't worry anyway.

I'll take care of him until he's fine.

Then God will decide for him.

God we thank you for the food
you gave us today.

I didn't think I would recover
so soon.

Do you mind if we stop here?

Here you can see the Brabante's
lands borders.

After the river you can see my lands.
You have to ride three days

and three nights, cross the mountains

to reach my castle that dominates
the valley.

You'll meet your people soon. Your
parents must be waiting for you.

I don't remember them. My mother
died when I was born.

My father died fighting when I was
two years old.

Please forgive me. People just
told me you are...

A monster who loves blood.
They are right.

My law is violence. My sword talks
for me.

In my life I've never tolerated
oppositions or contrasts.

Tomorrow you will leave...

and soon you'll forget what
happened to you in these days.

Actually I feel something changed
in me. Sometimes I'm surprised

that I can stop and listen to
a love song...

the one your pageboy sings.

I have then a strange feeling
and it upsets me.

It's your hands fault that
touched my face in

an unintentional caress.

I have to go now.

I didn't know what a friendly
caress would mean.

I'll come back later as usual.
Please wait for me here.

Can't you stay a little more?

When you leave me alone, I
feel a great anger in me.

It's my past memory that makes
me desperate and frustrated.

It's the anxiety to have again
what I lost and that I think

I can have it back only when
you are next to me and

you tell me about feelings
I used to ignore.

Your words make me so happy.

I'm happy I gave your heart
the hope for a new life.

I really have to go now.

Don't make me wait too long. I
told you I'm afraid to be alone.

I'll be back soon. Don't worry.

I like to be with you too.

Alarm! Count Sigfrid's men
are near the castle!

I want to talk with the Duke
of Brabante!

We want to know something about
Count Sigfrid! Right now!

Let the lift bridge go down.

It would be stupid! I'm sure
it's a betrayal.

Let the bridge down. Nobody
has to attack until I

I said so. Go now!

Stay there, Golo.

There's peace between our lineages.

As far as you can see my dominion,

every person who shows the
Brabante's sign,

must be considered sacred.

Go, Golo!

Go beyond our borders.
I'll come back soon.

- When will Count Sigfrid leave?
- Tonight.

I hoped I could see you again
before leaving the castle.

I came here to say goodbye because
we won't meet again.

Are you really sure?

Genoveffa tell me, what's
frightening you?

Why did you try not to meet
me during these days?

You need not my treatments so I
helped someone else.

There are few women here.

You are not sincere with me.
It's not the first time in your life.

What reason should I have?
Everything is against us!

You said it too: your life, your
behaviour...

your need of violence!
It's better like this, trust me.

- Am I cruel? What about you?
- I don't understand...

You pretend you don't understand
or you don't understand me.

Why is your voice trembling then?

I love you, Genoveffa. I tried to
fight this love that

made me a different man.

I love you too.

I've been loving you since the
day I saw you wounded in that bed.

I tried to fight it, but it
didn't work and now...

I'm ready to follow you anywhere
in the world!

Genoveffa you will be mine
in life and death.

Yes, I'll be yours in life
and death.

I marry you in the name
of the Father, the Son

and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

She's the only gift we have in the
world. We give her to you.

From now on, your daughter and I
will be just one thing that

only death could part.

Let's go! Let's go!
The road is clear!

Listen to me dear Genoveffa. Now
we'll stop here for the night.

We will reach the castle tomorrow.
I think this is a good idea.

Thank you. I am a little tired.

Rambaldo!

Take some cloaks, quick!

Thank you.

Help us! Please!

Who's your boss? Who are you?
Talk! Who's your boss?

We work for...

Sigfrid!

Rambaldo!

I greet you and I thank you.

This is Bertrand. He taught me how to
use a sword.

This is Laudomia, my nurse.
She would die for me.

This is Gondrano, the horseshoer.

A horse with his shoes can ?y
and never feels tired.

This is Lucprando, he
instructs my hawks.

Who are they?

They are Gertrude’s children,
she's the chef of this castle.

She has been sick since a long time.
She might be desperate she's not here.

And this is Golo.

Welcome back, Sir.

My faithful vassal. He takes my
place when I'm not here.

From now on, my life is yours My Lady.

- Why were you so late?
- We've been attacked.

I had to come! Those were Duke of
Borgogna's men.

They are around since 15 days.

You must be tired.
Should we go?

No. I'd like to go and greet
the mother of those 2 children.

She's sick as you said. Maybe she
will feel better meeting me.

Come.

How do you feel?

Better, much better now.

I'll prepare a potion against your
fever and you'll take every 2 hours.

Thank you. God bless you My Lady!

This is Iberto, her husband.

If you go on like that, they won't care
about me anymore and I'll be happy.

Dances, parties and happiness.

It's over the time when we used
to raid and get new gold and

make enemies be afraid of us!

The Count wants it and we
have to obey.

Let's follow our Lady will!

Amen.

This song played by Rambaldo
is really beautiful.

30 days have gone since you're
here and everything's changed.

Everyone seems so happy.

Do you mind?

I feel I've never had a life before.
This is all thanks to you.

Thanks to our love.

Golo, what's wrong? What do you want?

I'm sorry, but the King sent a man
telling that he needs his faithful

knights for the new crusade. And you
are the first one.

The order is to leave immediately.

Golo, go and wait for my orders.

What will you do?

Be strong. I have to go
and go to the King.

You'll stay here as the Lady of
this castle and of our lands.

I won't stay away too long.
The thought of you waiting for me

will make me finish the war soon.

Golo will stay here and he will
take care of you and defend you.

I'm sincere with you.

I will always be sincere.
This will be a long war.

It's better you don't delude yourself,
my Lady.

But don't worry, I will always
be next to you.

- What news do you have this time?
- Good, I hope.

I've Count Genoveffa's letter
for her father.

Go.

Six months have gone since Sigfrid
left me and I have no news.

This surprises me and upsets me.
I can't understand why.

What makes me more sad is that
he left without knowing I'm pregnant.

I'm pregnant of his child.

God bless you. Your daughter
Genoveffa.

When you are fine, we will go to
Sigfrid's castle, to meet our daughter.

When will it happen? When?

Few poor coins.

This is what it's left.
Everything is gone,

in order to help our men
during the war.

Sure, I know that ambition,
the desire to be the first one

as Sigfrid wants to be,
is understandable.

But here you have the consequences.

If war means glory for him,

it means also pain and misery
for who is still here!

Golo, what do you suggest then?

There's only a way. We
have to increase the taxes on

the harvest and the cattle.

You know that this is impossible.

Our men already paid what they could.

Then you suggest something.
Or you do it! Or you!

Or you suggest it!

Good. I will ask for more taxes as
your silence means something.

Soon Sigfrid will ask for more men.

And I need to be ready to fulfill
his request!

Let's wait for his request,

before asking a new sacrifice
to our men.

I'm the Lord and you have
to obey me! All of you!

Then this is not the right
place for me here.

I'm tired to bear with your
wicked actions and abuse of power!

- Be careful!
- I repeat what I just said!

I have enough of you! I'll leave
tonight and reach Sigfrid,

who is fighting for us in the Holy Land
and who ignores what's going on here.

I'll talk to him and when I'll be back,
Golo, you will be afraid of me!

His body is near the ladder full
of blood.

Nobody wants to do something.

He payed a big price for
being my friend.

He's the Baron of Reus!

Be quiet!

Go back! Go back!

Go back now!

He was very old. I helped
him on that balustrade.

His head felt dizzy for sure,
due to the height.

Take him away and bury him as
a Christian!

I made everything for two people.

He obeyed me. I don't like you
to eat all alone.

Solitude makes you upset,
makes you rough,

and makes you have bad thoughts.

- From now on I will eat with you.
- Then you'll be alone here!

I won't let you humiliated me in
front of a servant!

One day you will ask me to be with you!

Serve me! What are you waiting for?

Eat something.

I'm scared, Berta.

Everyday Golo is more overbearing.

He is like a spider that's making his
net and I'm in it,

and I can't escape it!

He made the Baron of Reus killed
because he didn't accept his orders.

I'm scared, do you understand?

Sigfrid is too far from here and I'm
in Goio's net with no defense.

I don't understand why the Count
doesn't write you.

Maybe this will make Golo afraid.

His silence makes me scared.
No letters, no life signs...

We have to do something.

But what?

By this time, my man must be at
the castle. Don't you think so?

Sure. You will receive news from
your Lady, don't worry.

Another one from Count Sigfrid. It's
hidden under the saddle of my horse.

Moving and loving as usual.

You will go together with
the other letters!

Are you crazy?!

You made me crazy since you arrived
in this castle!

You, with your love for a man
I really hate!

- Leave me alone!
- Nobody will ever tear us apart!

Try to understand! Even if you
scream with all your breath,

these walls would be deaf!

Sigfrid will never come back from this
war. Don't think you'll see him again.

And you'll be mine if you want
it or not!

Leave her!

Come on.

We can't go on like this.
We have to find a solution.

We have to warn Count Sigfrid!

Now I'm sure he never received
any letters from me.

This time he will receive one.
I'll take it to him.

- How could you get out?
- I'll help him!

The soldier who is guarding the
door is in love with me,

I'll divert his attention tonight
so that Rambaldo could escape.

I knew she was his lover and tonight

I found them together!

He payed with his life!

And for her, the one who put in
disgrace Count Sigfrid's reputation,

no punishment will be enough!
Put her in jail!

And you will be tortured until
you say everything about this affair!

No! Leave me alone!

If you want to enjoy yourself,
you can watch through that door.

Talk! For how long Genoveffa has been
Rambaldo's lover?

We are alone here.
Nobody can listen to what we say.

I came here to offer you the last
chance to be free.

It's up to you if to live or die
with disgrace.

You are in my hands now, don't you
understand that? Nobody can save you!

You can! I'm the leader here!

I'll go on my knees if you
will be mine.

We'll leave the castle together and
go far where nobody could come.

I'm rich, very rich and you'll
become a queen!

Say another word and
I'll kill myself!

If you're looking for death,
I won't stop you.

It will show you cheated. If you'll

change your mind, let me know.
I give you one more day, then...

I haven't received any news since
months and I can't find the reason.

None of the man I sent to the castle
has ever came back.

All news will come back together.
As I say: no news, good news!

Something bad could have happened.
Someone could have attacked the castle,

and took advantage of my distance.

No, you are too sad this morning. Don't
worry, everything will be all right.

You'll leave this time and don't come

back alive if you don't have news
from my wife.

Sure.

You are a strange messenger. You
said you don't have letters. Why?

Sigfrid's order was clear: I have
to talk to Count Genoveffa.

Nobody can talk to her until
you tell me everything, everything!

I just have a leader and
I obey to him!

We'll see that!

No, leave him!

Have compassion of him!
Leave him to me!

I'll do anything you want, I'll
be your slave and obey, but save him!

Have compassion, please!

It's too late now!

Do what I've said!

What are you doing? Are you crazy?

You don't have to worry now.

I'll leave you here in the forest
hoping God has mercy of you.

I just give you back what you've
done for me and my children.

But your soldier...

I will tell that he didn't want me
to kill you and the baby so

I had to kill him. Golo will believe
me and he will be happy

he got rid of you!

Thank you Lord.

I killed them in the forest where

nobody could ever find them.

Thank you Lord.
This will be our shelter.

FOUR YEARS LATER...

Good news, everything is going in the
right way. Count Sigfrid is imprisoned.

It's written he fell from the horse and
he was surrounded by enemies.

Sigfrid, wait for me!

Look how beautiful these ?owers are!

These are the first flowers, Spring
is coming soon.

Let's go to find some more.

Mom, look!

Let's go, quick!

Come!

Come on! What's wrong?
Try to stand up!

Take this, bastard!

We'll stop here for the night.
Shut the prisoners up!

Go!

Ask for dry bread and water.

Sit down!

Everybody sit down!

Nobody moves!

We should have killed
these bastards!

Mom, can I make the fire
outside the cave?

Why, my dear?

I want to make a big fire that
it could be seen far away.

You could do it, but you would need
a lot of wood and you're so small.

I'm strong, you know? I'll make it
so that someone

will see it and will come to
search for us.

There's a dead body here!
I said there's a dead man!

Stand up!

Come, take him away!

Let's take different ways so
that they won't follow us!

Stay down! Don't move!

Sigfrid...

Come here.

Listen, my child.

Soon your mother will have to
go for a far away trip.

- I'll go with you.
- No, my son, this is impossible.

You'll have to be strong and brave
like your father.

Who is my father?

A tall and strong man as
you've never seen before.

Taller and stronger than me?

You are just a child,
I've already told you that.

- Men are different, they're taller.
- Like this?

Much more.

But they look like you and me.

They can fight, use weapons and
they go hunt deers and wolves.

- Are men good?
- Not all of them.

And you will have to pay attention.

Your father was a good man.

- Why does he leave us here then?
- Because he doesn't know where we are.

We got lost in the forest and
he couldn't find us.

- How can I find him?
- It will be easy.

When you go out the forest
and meet someone,

a man or a woman, ask this person
to take you to Count Sigfrid.

He has my name!

You are his son so you have his name.

You're the only one who can have
this name. When you'll say you are

Sigfrid's son, they'll go on their
knees and take you to meet him.

What about you?

I'll stay here, but you don't have
to come back here because

- I won't be here anymore.
- Why? Where will you be?

Promise me you will always
be a good boy.

I promise.

And that you will never forget me.

And that the night, before going to
bed, you'll pray as I taught you.

Like this?

Count Sigfrid came back!
Let the bridge down!

Poor man! He looks so upset!

Why are you looking at me like that?
It seems you've seen a ghost!

Forgive me.

I look upset because we heard
you were dead.

Where is my wife?

I have to tell you a bad news: your
wife cheated on you Sigfrid,

no! Leave me! Everybody saw she
was guilty!

And I, following the law, I ordered
she was killed with

her child. That child wasn't yours.

Stop! I told you to shut up!

Let her sing, Golo!

God, help me!

What my child will do when
I'm dead?

You know the truth as I do!

How come your heart doesn't
fail seeing Count Sigfrid's pain?

What can I do?

I saved that woman and
her son's life!

What could you do? Talk to the Count,
tell him the truth, he'll believe you!

Will he believe me even after Golo
will say I lied and betrayed him?

It's pointless. Count Sigfrid
trusts only one man.

That man is Golo and
I don't feel like facing him!

- What if I make you feel brave?
- How?

With a proof that says Golo
has always lied!

The night when Genoveffa was accused
of being cheating and you all followed

Golo, I was left alone with Rambaldo's
corpse and I went near him to close

his eyes and I saw this letter
and I took it.

Genoveffa wrote this letter to her
husband telling him how she suffered

with Golo!

He will believe this letter!

Be sure! He'll believe you when
you tell him that Golo organized

the attack to the field that night
with bandits!

Go! What are you waiting for?

Go. God is with us.

I just wanted...

Reibert was killed because he
shouldn't talk. Like him, other

men died. This happened when you

left the castle. We all had to

suffer for Golds behaviour. Berta,

poor Berta, told me that you wife

had to face always Golo. He threatened

her forcing her...

Then, as she refused his requests,

he planned one more thing. He

disgraced her and nobody could
say nothing.

Rambaldo, who wanted to take
you a letter, was killed with no mercy

and Berta was tortured a whole night
and became crazy.

Golo had planned everything.
Your wife and your son,

had to be taken into the forest
where Reibert's mercy saved them.

Swear in front of your dead husband
that you said the truth!

I swear! I swear!

Golo, bastard!

Go back and don't come!

Go back!

Defend yourself, Golo!

Don't do it!

No! You don't have to do it!
How do you dare to kill that animal?

I was hunting. For a hunter it is
normal to kill.

- What is that?
- It's a horse. You've never seen one?

No! Even my mother, who knows
everything, told me about it.

What's wrong? Are you scared of me?

My mother told be to be careful
with men. And you're a man, isn't it?

Of course. What a strange question.
Tell me, who are you?

If you want me to tell you, you
have to go on your knees!

I'm Count Sigfrid's son,
Lord of this land!

Lord of this forest and of your horse
too! Everybody has to obey him,

you too, you know?

Son!

Quick, take me to your mother!

We live there.

There!

Mom, mom!

Mom, dad is back.

It's you!

- It seems impossible.
- How can you forgive me?

Don't talk, please. Stay here.
Hold me!

Hold me so that I'll forget
about the pain,

and I will find the happiness
I lost.

I didn't know, I couldn't know.

I would have left everything and
came back to you.

Now I'm happy and it doesn't
matter about anything else.

We'll be happy again, in our castle.
The three of us!

Take me away from here,
in your arms...

Towards life, our life.

THE END