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DUE SOLDI DI SPERANZA

This film was shot at Boscotrecase, on the slopes of Vesuvius, near Naples.

Took part in it the whole town,..

with its inhabitants, its streets, its churches, its houses.

To these hospitable, polite and civilized people,..

the production of the film wishes to express its loving gratitude.

Antonio! It's really true that Antonio is back!

My son! Oh God, where is he? Where is he? Let me see him!

Ah, here he is! - Mom! - Son! - Dear mom!

Beloved son! How handsome you are! - Hello, Mom!

I expected you, and prayed to God that you'd come back!

And I'm back, you see?

Did you bring us some coffee? - Yes, and not just coffee, Mom!

He's back, the boy! - Come, son!

Got lots to tell you! You'll hear! - Sit.

It's for me to say, sit!

Son, you shouldn't have gone in the army, being the sole support of our home.

Right! - But these stinkers made you go!

Never mind! Angiolina, Giuliana? - Working at the broken bridge.

Let me do the speaking, let me say a word. This is my son!

Yes, they work at the bridge. And they became skinny and ugly!

Have even lost their hair carrying baskets on the head!

When they're back at night, they fall asleep, like that!

But the bridge is finished now. - Yes, it's finished!

Now that it's finished, we won't even have that income!

Mom, I'm back now!

Your son is a strong boy. - A sturdy boy. - A hard worker.

And I am 20, somehow we'll do, to make a living!

Mom, this is out! Why, the cat has kittened in the stove?

My son, since you went away, it's only been ashes!

We couldn't light the fire anymore! - Ouch! - Son!

Tomorrow I'll buy you matches.

Hush son! You haven't changed in the army, and you always want to joke!

Always want to joke! - While we're joking,..

give me something to eat, I'm so hungry!

Okay, I got it. Wait! Now I'll go and buy it.

Virginia! Michelino!

Ready or not?

Come on, we're hungry, Mom!

Coming, coming!

Giulia'! Sleeping, Giuliana?

I'm coming! - Me too! - Get out of my way!

What a special meal! Smell, smell!

Gimme the dish!

Give me the dishes.

There it is, they're eating it!

What's up? The police in my house? Are we rogues, us?

Yes, you're a rogue! You're eating my rabbit!

You're mad! Wanna drive me mad too? - I wanna send you to jail!

Madonna, mother of God, what do I hear?

Now that my son is back from military! Where he shouldn't have gone!

And now says it's rabbit, sergeant! - Quiet.

It's hare, sarge! If you want to check, here is the tail on the ass!

Lady, now you want to fool me too?

This tail is old, and dry!

It probably dried! - And just how did you catch this hare?

How, sarge? With my hands!

Catching a hare by hand!

Corporal, need a fiacre to arrest her? - Shut up! - Must shut up even?

If this is hare... - It's hare, it's hare!

I swear on my children's health!

May I be stuck in this house!

If this is hare, you're in violation, because hunt is closed.

I've hunted, maybe? I caught it with my hands, sergeant!

Corporal, let's do this.

I pay the fine and the money goes to her. Okay? - No!

Maybe it's better, lady!

But how, corporal, 50 lire? - Sure, take'm, lady!

Even the shame of being named as dishonest!

Here's the money, lady. Good night, marshal. - Good night.

Don't worry, Mom! If we had bought it, it would have cost more.

The morning after, Antonio took to the streets.

Tot�, you're here! - And the Pope is in Rome!

What corps is this? - Tank drivers corps. Hi!

Hi Tot�! How are you?

Good morning marshal! Hi!

'morning reverend!

Tot�, you here! - And the Pope is in Rome!

Cheers, sweeper! - Welcome Tot�!

Why not apply as volunteer? You'd eat at government's expense!

Now you'll be unemployed like us!

I'm back from the service, and I'd liked to sign the leave.

In 11 months that..

you've been in the city,..

you haven't learned how to speak Italian yet?

Sir, if I were to speak correctly, I'd do the figure of the fool!

But if I speak my way they understand me!

And everyone else, how do they understand?

They bring their ears closer and understand me!

Marshal, I served the Government for 11 months in abundance.

Can you help me find a job?

All of you soldiers come to me with this music!

Well, marshal,..

to change the music, should change the conductor, not the musicians!

The service has put ideas in your head?

Don't worry, marshal,..

I'm a nice guy, and I know that I mustn't have ideas!

Marshal, if I can't find work, do I have to steal?

Sure! Then come here, and I'll feed you!

Marshal, I like only sugar, chequered!

There was... - Here, gipsy!

Who? - Carmela, looking for you.

She wanted to see you with the new uniform!

Go, baby, go! How cute!

Gone for a walk?

Been in the square?

At the marshal's, seeking a job! - There is a job for you!

With the other unemployed to hold the church's gate,..

so it doesn't drop!

Leaning on the church's gate on the square,..

the unemployed spent the long day,..

waiting for a job that wasn't there.

And two weeks later, Antonio was already amidst them.

So it was that she saw him for the first time, Carmela.

Come, come!

Come, he's still in uniform! - Still in uniform!

Let me see him! - Look, look at him! Your Antonio! - Stupid!

Come! - Let's go!

Carmela! Carmela! Where is that dimwit going?

Want some?

Who's that? - Carmela.

Pasquale's daughter. She laughed at you. - Imagine the fun!

Hey, you, unemployed! - What? - Unemployed!

Anyone who wants to come for a day to bottle sodas?

There's a fair after tomorrow! - What's the pay?

Let's say 300 lire.

We earn 250 a day for unemployment!

You think that for 50 lire difference,..

we risk this job of unemployed, huh?

Don Amoroso, I'll risk! If you want me, here I am!

Don Amoro'!

Don Amoro'!

Don Amoro', I want a well-chilled soda, because it's very hot!

We love each other, and we meet everywhere!

Even the dog and the cat meet everywhere.

Don't get too familiar! There is someone here who can resent some!

But there's no one here!

Yet, someone is!

She's got the fire within, but the soda won't extinguish it!

It takes Rome's Tiber!

Don Amoro', I've finished the job, and I'd gladly smoke a cigarette!

Smoking is not prohibited!

Don Amoro', if you gave me the money, I'd go buy them.

What money?

What! I worked all day bottling sodas!

This morning at ten your mother sent for the pay, to buy macaroni!

This morning at ten? - At ten.

Then I'll smoke macaroni!

Take care, Don Amoro'!

You're right, my beautiful son! We suck your blood!

Baby, go get the salt!

But these innocent creatures have to eat something!

Hurry up!

Mom, I'll give you the money, but don't send for it at 10 in the morning!

Else they take advantage of our despair.

All right son, I understand. Too early at 10? Tomorrow I'll send at 12!

Tomorrow no more work with sodas. It's over!

Giulia'! Giuliana, Giulia'! Want to come to the square with me?

No.

Tot�, you're here!

I'm here,... and the pope is in Rome!

Goodbye, then!

What's with her, with those braids like bell ropes?

The braids, you want them wrapped or loose?

Please, I'm late already!

15 minutes more, and the perm would have been perfect!

Butter salad!

Carmela?

Carme'!

Where've you been until now? Where you going? - Shopping.

Jesus, what you done? - I washed my hair. - And it shrunk? - Yes!

What's going on? What's up?

Lady, wanna buy? - Okay! Will you weigh it?

Weigh it well, though! No hit to the balance!

4 kilos, lady. - You gave the hit, huh?

The lettuce money goes to the boss, and that of the hit goes to me!

Carme'! Madonna, what sort of daughter!

May a rocket blow you up!

The fuse wrap is no good!

What have you done, unfortunate child?

Get a potato and put it in your face, or you'll turn as black as a Moroccan!

I'm going for shopping!

You heard? Carmela cut her hair! - So much the better! - Where you going?

Mom says it's 11.15 so give me Antonio's pay cause I have to go shopping.

Shall I give it to her? - Oh, go ahead!

One... two... three.

300 lire! - How, 300 lire?

With my hits alone you earned 1,000 !

Cash in advance is half a theft!

Same old story! I don't want you to send for my pay!

Son, it was almost noon. These innocent mouths wanted to eat!

And then, I slog, and you bet the money at the lottery!

Who's playing the lottery, my son?

And what is this?

It's...my son, I go to church every morning, and I always pray for you!

But you make love with Carmela, the daughter of Pasquale Art�,..

while your sisters, poor creatures without a father,..

are yet to marry, and don't even have a nightgown as dowry!

Mom, I say white, and you reply black!

Yet, they all said that Carmela passed by and laughed at your face! - Yeah!

Good evening. - Good evening!

While we are here, and I stopped you,..

I want to ask you, why every time you laugh at me?

You wanna take for a ride?

No, I'd just like to take you!

Who? - You, just you!

Carme', am I a baby, that you can take? - I wish you were!

I'm a grown-up baby, Carme'!

Know what? Go get the water and then leave me alone, because at home,..

my mother and my sisters talk my head off, because of you!

I already have a dowry, and a savings account, you know?

Go. Go get the water, go!

You're still here? - The road is for all!

See? I cut my braids!

The hair has changed, but the head is the same!

Oh! - Well?

But you, you have a heart in your chest, or not?

I don't know how the government could ever take you!

Carme'!

Carmela, let's thank the pitcher that has more sense than us!

I can't do nonsense!

Carme', think about it. For me, it's like having four wives already!

One is mom, the other is my older sister, then my younger sister,..

then me and my whole family, which is a wife more than anyone else!

Because we all have a hunger, arrear and future!

Come here! Get the pitcher!

Come, little one.

A few days later, Antonio met Pasquale, the fireworks maker.

You know who I am? - I think so.

I'm Pasquale Art�, Carmela's father.

I wanna talk to you. Come to my house tonight. - OK!

Antonio wore his good suit, and went with a secret hope.

Pasquale Art� manufactured fireworks in town.

His two sons helped him, but often the work was too much.

Enough to hire a helper as well.

Sure, the job was dangerous,..

but if Pasquale would hire him...

How shall I do? - Shut up, woman!

Did it blow up well? - Very exactly!

Pasqua', you'll make me die of heartache! You mustn't try fireworks in house!

For San Giulio's feast I'll make a rocket such to send a mule in the air!

The neighbors complain!

If the neighbors complain, I make them blow up!

Ah, you're here? Carmela!

Carme'! - I'm here.

Set the table!

So? - So!

The town murmurs. - And says what?

That you fancy Carmela.

Don Pasca', maybe you're not well informed.

Water goes down, not up!

As for work, how are you?

I'm just back from the military!

Do you have it or not? - I have the will to find it!

You know what I thought?

In the Catherine-wheel, I'll put a volley of flashes never seen before!

Pasca', Pasca'! You've already tried once, and it blew up in your face!

Our job is like that!

We have the fuse in one pocket, and the holy oil in the other!

Sure, it's a job that takes guts! - Not a job for just anyone!

But if one has to work, he'll find the guts!

So, you have this liking for Carmela? - Oh, well!

Do you have it or not? - As for me, I have it!

Carmela!

Carme'!

You called me?

And you, you've got this liking?

I do as you like.

No, you have to say in front of everyone, if you've got this liking!

I sure have it!

Then forget it, because this young man is out of work and penniless!

And if you were wise, and considered her condition,..

you shouldn't have even come tonight!

Excuse me, Don Pasca',..

but I came here on your invitation!

Invitation or not, I won't give you my daughter!

Don Pasca'...

what shall I answer you?

Keep her!

At Cusano, as in many other towns of the South,..,

the station was below and the town, somewhat distant, at the top.

7 coachmen with 7 cabs ensured the service between the station and the town.

Want a cab? Come, come! - Ready, sir, come here! The cab's ready!

Come, come here! - Come up!

Let's go! Get out of the way!

Come here sir! My horse is very strong, these are all parrots! Come here!

And since a stretch in the climb was very tough,..

and often the old and malnourished horses couldn't make it,..

Antonio, for a living, had devised this occupation.

Hurry up, the horse can't do it! Come!

He worked as cabs' helper.

Go!

Come on, so tonight we both can eat! Come on!

Come on, that we have arrived!

Don Valerio,..

today's climb was very hard! And I gladly would drink a Coke!

Little sis is here, see?

Your mother already sent the collector. - 200 lire, 200 lire! - Damn!

I have to emigrate to Venezuela!

Cool off!

And my sister should marry the cab helper?

Now we start again with this story?

Mind you, I don't accept calls,..

won't talk to anyone, and want to be on my own!

That's what she got into her head! - She has a cable car, in her head!

You know that Sparanise inaugurated the new bus line? - Which line?

Between station and town. - So?

The bus company said they'll start one here too.

Here?

Hey, you heard what they say? They'll bring the bus here too!

If they put the bus here, what do we eat?

We eat the horses!

We should do something, even to show the town that coachmen are coachmen!

And what would you do?

We sell carriage and horse, and start a bus line!

You think a bus costs a penny?

Horse, carriage and all, must sell! - And the hat you're wearing!

I sell my horse, who's a runner, to buy a bus?

Runner? He walks with 3 legs because the fourth is paralyzed!

We need to make a cooperative, to buy the bus!

And who'll buy the bus? - The cooperative.

We buy what, then? - The cooperative is us!

Me, a cooperative?

You need a driver for this cooperative? - You know one?

Visciano, it's 23 years I know him. I was in the Army tank drivers.

But you were a cook in the army! - Balza', in the tank drivers corps,..

the lousiest cook can drive a car blindfolded, like that!

2 days later they all went to Naples, where there was a bus for sale,..

almost as new.

Pal, doesn't start!

How, doesn't start! It does! Come on, get in, it starts!

There is even the automatic startup!

Hey buddy, this door is battered!

If it rains, passengers drown, here! - There's a forest of spider webs!

Hey man! The coil-spring made me a hole here!

The body is a detail, what matters is the engine!

Perhaps there is no petrol!

But I put an abundant liter!

You see, it seems an Alfa Romeo! Let's take this ride!

So let's go, let us change air! Let's go!

Hey, wait a minute, stop! The door!

It's all coming loose here! Stop!

Hi Giulia'! - Been to Naples?

# to Naples, to Naples... #

Did you find the bus?

In a good mood, tonight!

Gaiety doesn't cost money!

Take care Giulia'. If all goes well, I'll buy you a nice kerchief, even silk!

# A silk handkerchief, one night on the loose,.. #

# how mother made you, who knows who knows who knows! #

# We don't need the bridal bed,.. #

# above the fragrant grass,.. #

# is more beautiful, to be with you. #

# Let your mom, and come with me! #

# Country girl, if you love me,.. #

# we don't need the bridal bed... #

We love each other! We meet everywhere!

Even the dog and the cat meet everywhere!

Carme',..

Gotta tell you something.

I'm too young, and I can't make love with anyone!

Not even with me?

Careful, my older brother is a tough guy!

And here there's one tougher than him!

I have a job as driver for the new bus!

Driver? I'd like to eat you! - I'm not a dish of spaghetti!

If you were a dish of spaghetti, I'd eat you like that!

You got a hat? - Which hat?

How, wanna be a driver without a hat?

Carmela!

Carme', what are you doing with the lights on?

I'm saying prayers, even the rosary!

Ave Maria...

Carme'?

Carme'!

Carme', have you finished saying prayers, and even the rosary?

Yes, I'm done, I'm done!

"Diver"

Each year, the day of St. Peter, there was a great fair in Scafati.

And on St. Peter day, the coachmen went together to Scafati,..

to sell horses and carriages, and so buy the bus.

I can't sell her! I don't want to leave Giulietta!

Yeah, and the bus?

My dying father told me:..

"Now you're alone. This is your family, sister and mother!"

This is the grandma! Has no more teeth, and needs to be fed with semolina!

But you say? This eats hay, and a lot too!

Hear? Says she eats a lot! Has worms, and will cost us a fortune in oats!

20,000, and I loose!

Where's your horse? - In town! - I should buy a horse that's in town?

A beautiful mare! - With a nice spot here!

We had to ensure the service to the station!

Here! - Farewell Giulietta! Don't fatigue her!

No, she won't fatigue! The fatigue will be on the buyer's stomach!

What did he mean by that? - Nothing, forget about it!

You're crazy! I won't buy a horse I can't see!

But you're saying! I have the photo. Here it is!

Not a good horse? - Sure, beautiful! Who is this young man? - It's me!

If that's you, this horse is dead since 5 years!

It's alive, and walks too! - It's a galloper horse!

Come on, walk! - This horse just walks downhill!

Walk! Come, slacker, today is the last day. From tomorrow we travel by bus!

Goodbye, and thanks a lot! - Good Trip! Enjoy your trip! - Goodbye!

Wait a minute! - Wait! Wait!

Stop! - Here's the wine!

Give me a hand! - Get in! - Goodbye! - Let's go! - Come on!

So long!

Goodbye! - Goodbye!

Take the wine! Take! - Give me that!

He who drinks alone, will choke!

Watch the curve!

Goodbye, my beautiful Naples! We head to a new life!

So long, guys!

Hello, beautiful ... beautiful!

Come, come! Hurry!

Get out of the way!

... super vos et maneat semper!

Mr. parson doesn't drink?

Will you let me end this blessing?

In nomine patris et filii.. Come here! ..et spiritus sancti. Amen!

"Cusano station Cusano town"

Wine for the parson!

Come, come my son!

You don't bless the wine, reverend!

Our assessor must do the toast!

Yes, yes, he must do the toast! - Fill for the toast!

Then I'll say "long live the bus"!

Cheers! - Cheers!

Cheers! - Cheers!

This event, of which we are proud,..

inspired me a quatrain that, if you please, I'll quote!

Say! Say! - Silence!

This coachmen cooperative is indeed very clever,..

it shows to people that will can win forever!

It was Carmela who blew up the firecrackers!

It was Carmela who blew up the firecrackers!

Where you coming from? - From the station.

There's the opening of the new bus line!

Who blew those firecrackers?

I dunno! - I'll ask around,..

and if you stole'm from me, you'll get a slap that will make you sleep!

Dad, make me sleep!

# Are almost three Sundays you told me "Oh Mom" #

Hey, the train! - The train is here! Let's go see!

Cusano station! Cusano town!

Now come the passengers! - Cusano station!

Come, gentlemen! Cusano station!

Where is the station? - Cusano town!

Cusano station! Cusano town!

Hey, come on down!

Careful, the kid gets hurt!

Excuse me, let me through! Get out of the way!

It's the new bus service! - Cusano station! Cusano town!

Get in! There's the new bus, Miss!

The bus! The bus!

One moment, one moment! - Go, go, get in!

Wait! - The baggage, Tot�! - Give it to me!

Come, come!

Don't worry, you'll arrive soon, it's a new bus.

This way! This way!

You'd be what? - Ticket collector!

I am the collector! - And why? - And why you?

I do the collector, because I have to check the tickets!

Who checks you? - Wanna check me? - Sure, says well!

What's going on?

They want to be controllers, but I am it, the eldest!

No, it must be me, cause I even have the hat!

I have a hat too!

Friends, what happens?

Sir, there are more hats than heads!

The cooperative ... We are all members.

You'll be the controller one day each.

So now it's my turn! - Yours? Why yours?

We dumber than you? - We're no dumb! - Me neither!

And I sold my horse!

My life! With a spot on the forehead, and the bus won't start without me!

Get out of the way! Out of the way!

The bus won't start without me!

You are possessed!

Pagans! Excommunicated!

Stop, or I'll call the bus company!

Excommunicated pagans ! Let's go, kid!

The cooperative no longer exists! - Please, wait a minute!

At least let us make this maiden voyage!

Let's go away!

Let's get the bags and walk!

If you don't stop I'll call the bus company!

The bus company!

The bus!

It was really a good inauguration!

Antonio then decided to emigrate to the city.

Bye mom, I'm leaving. - Son, when will I see you?

When I'm back.

Watch out for trams! Watch out for cars!

Yes, mom. - If you see people arguing, do not meddle!

Mind your own business! - OK.

You might get called in as witness!

And don't forget some coffee! - Take care, mom!

Take care and good luck!

Madam, good morning. - Good morning.

I'm going to Naples. Going to the station, I came by to say hello.

Kind of you to have stretched the way so! - Few steps!

But Carmela is not there!

You know, Naples is a great city,..

and I think I can find some work!

Nice to have you greeted. Madam, good morning. - Good morning.

Hello Carme'. - Where you going?

To Naples, to find work, if there's any! - You leaving?

- Yeah. - Going to Naples? - Yes.

Carme',..

while I'm in Naples, don't forget me!

I'll wait forever, until I'm old!

With white hair and half-blind!

And should I look at another man while you're away, that may blow up..

myself, my father, my brothers and the whole amphitheater!

So we do a pretty Catherine wheel!

Take care, Carme'!

Please, this street's name?

Why, you're not from Naples? - No.

And where from? - Cusano. I came to look for work.

At Naples? - I did the military.

And since I was in a bad way, I said "Now I emigrate."

What did you say? - I emigrate.

You have a face that I am not persuaded. Don't you know in Naples don't migrate?

What does this word mean?

That if one isn't well where he is he tries to eke out a living elsewhere.

And you come to Naples to work? This is crazy!

With 2 million inhabitants, and the unemployment there is,..

he comes to Naples to work! Give me your employment card!

Jesus, I don't have it! As unemployed, how can I have an employment card?

I understand! There is bad faith! Come with me, young man!

But why? What have I done?

Did I steal? Did I kill someone... - Silence!

Answer! Born of? - The late Francesco, my father is dead.

Who is this? - A peasant, sir!

Who are you? - I'm a peasant, sir.

Question him, and be quick! - Yes, sir!

Who's that, the commissioner? - Silence, and come here.

Name and surname? - Catalano Antonio.

Name and surname?

Catalano Antonio, of the late Francesco, because my father is dead.

Got livelihoods? Got a job in the city?

I wish, Commiss ... Sir! Why don't you find one for me?

Huh? Don't you know that, without a job, you can't stay in the city ?

But if I can't stay in the city,..

how am I going to find a job?

He was sent back with a warrant,..

because it was forbidden to foreigners to do the unemployed.

The migration of Antonio had been short.

Tot�! You're back! - So they say!

'Cause they told you... - What?

Sorry, I thought you knew!

But if I knew you didn't know I wouldn't have said anything, not to let you know!

Well, now that you know I don't know, tell me what it is, so I know too!

It's the town's chatter. They say that while you were in Naples,..

your sister did the trouble with Luigi Bellomo. - Ah!

And don't tell me anything more? - For now, no more!

But you got angry? - I only got a cup of coffee.

Wanna smoke? - Thanks.

Hope you had a good journey!

It's no use for you to turn the tables, Mom!

Because I know everything. - But how?

You've hardly arrived and you know all already?

Wicked town!

Stinking town!

They want trouble to happen! They want killings to happen! - Mom!

Yes, yes, killings, killings! - That's all we need! 20 years in jail!

What? You wouldn't be able to kill that infamous villain of Luigi Bellomo,..

to save the honor of your sister?

I wouldn't.

The house of Luigi Bellomo was a little out of the town.

Who is it? - Friends!

Don Luigi, you recognize me? - Broccoli I no longer have!

Then we'll talk about eggplants!

Lui', who is this that entered? What does he want in my house?

I don't know. - Then what did he come for?

I'm the brother of your daughter-in-law! - I have no daughters-in-law!

Giulia'! Come here!

Come here and tell what happened!

Who's this woman now? What does she want here?

Speak up! You're ashamed?

You should have felt shame before, while I was in Naples to work for you!

You were in Naples, and he came one day by my mistress' with a basket of figs.

The mistress was not there, and he told me "Beautiful girl, want a fig?"

I ate one, and one him.

And a fig for me, and a fig for him, and a fig for me, and a fig for him ...

My son! What are you doing? You want to ruin yourself!

What did you come here for? What did you come here for?

And if you go to jail, how will we live?

You mustn't do this madness! Madonna! You mustn't!

Mom! - Take cover, for God's sake!

He's got a knife! - What are you saying, Mom!

Yes, he said he wants to kill you! - Mamma mia, mamma mia! Help!

Help! He has a knife! Help, he's got a knife!

One moment! A knife? - Wants to kill him! - Really got a knife?

Mamma mia, help! - Let me do, mom,..

I'm 22, and 20 years in jail, makes 42. I get out when I'm still young!

Wait a minute, wait! - Madonna!

Madonna!

Wait, come here! Can't we resolve this situation peacefully among us?

And how can it be solved peacefully?

But how can it be solved peacefully?

Let's sit down!

First, you have to marry my sister!

Gotta marry her!

As is, cause she has no dowry!

Doesn't even have a sheet!

Not a sheet, and wants to marry my son, who is owner?

My sister is an honest girl! - Honest!

Ah...if she was honest, she wouldn't put herself in a fix!

If she was honest, she wouldn't be in a fix!

But first we need the papers! - So get them now! - Now!

Where? Where is this criminal?

There he is! - Stand, before the law!

But I...

Pull out the knife! - What knife?

Corporal, but you're saying?

You be quiet! Not impede the course of justice! Hands up!

Turn around!

But this knife?

He had it, he had it! I saw it shimmering!

But you're saying?

What's she saying, the old crazy? - Silence! Turn around you!

But what have you seen shimmer? - The knife! I saw the knife gleaming!

Come here! What have you seen? - I saw Antonio's mother shouting,..

"Save yourselves, he'll kill you!"

Eh... kill you! One shouts so many things!

My son is peaceful as a lamb! I just shouted so, to give a little scare!

So, the parson was involved.

I am practicing Catholic, father!

I deprive myself of bread, in order to light candles to Jesus!

You steal a chicken, you sell it for 500 lire,..

then you spend 20 lire for a candle to our Lord,..

and you think you get a clear conscience!

But with so many chickens lit up,..

the Lord might as well lend a hand now, to that poor daughter of mine!

Oof!

And you, you're not afraid of hell, you who are old?

I'm afraid of hell, but I'm most afraid of cuckolding,..

my son is old, and she is young and eager!

There's a young girl who can come and work at home,..

while you have one foot in the grave!

An honest girl!

If she was honest, she wouldn't be in a fix!

A beautiful girl, healthy, with a grandson already on the way,..

and who knows if your son can ever make another!

My son got land. He's an owner, while that one doesn't even have a shirt!

The mother steals chickens, and her brother is unemployed!

Oof!

In short, let's do so.

I will help Antonio, and I'll find him a job,..

to make a trousseau for Juliana,..

and put together four bedsheets!

Thank you padre, thank you! - Well, four sheets, a double mattress,..

some pillowcases, some tablecloths, even some napkins, a few terry towels...

And the parson, who was really a holy man,..

took Antonio to help the sexton, who was beginning to be very old,..

with a mandate to sweep the church every morning,..

collect the drippings of candles,..

dig the garden of the rectory in his spare time,..

and finally, ring the largest bell.

Let's go ring the bells!

The bells!

Come, my son! Come!

You know how? - I know, don Rosario, don't worry!

Stick to the rope and then pull.

You ring the big bell, and I ring the small one!

I too, the first times, hit my head so under the beam!

That's why I can't think straight!

Go inside, there's people passing!

You'll sunbathe when you're married.

# Are almost three Sundays you told me "Oh Mom" #

# Make me a dress now, and you had it done! #

Hi. - Hi.

There is no one home? - None.

And Giuliana, how is she?

She's fine.

And Antonio, that brother of hers, is still in Naples?

He's back long since!

I haven't seen him more. Maybe something happened that he's ashamed?

Shame should be on you, running after him!

If you're still behind the door,..

then tell Antonio that I am glad, that finally he's found a great job!

# You made me have this reddish basket... #

For the danger of fireworks, the hut of Pasquale Art� was located out of town.

To bring him lunch at noon, Carmela had to pass under the hill,..

and the countrywomen, since some time, had taken the habit of teasing her.

# Who made love with a young man returning from the military.. #

# but that young man was arrested.. # - Stupid!

# and the girl became sacristan as well! #

# And she rang the bell! #

May you burst! And while bursting ...

and while bursting, may you do such a blow..

that, for the fear, all those next to you gotta die with you!

And when we're dead,..

you, with this thought of yours, will come and sing us the "de profundis"!

That pagan demon of Pasquale Art�..

will drive all of us crazy with these bangs!

# ...if you love me... #

How are the pumpkins doing?

By the grace of God, they're fine!

# We don't need.. #

# the bridal bed,.. # Sing, sing, son, singing helps the work!

Bird in cage! If it doesn't sing for work, it sings in rage!

# Country girl, if you lo.. #

Antonio! Antonio?

What's up?

Antonio, it's so hot, that the parishioner fell asleep.

So, let him sleep!

Antonio?

Antonio!

But what? - Taking advantage that the parishioner is sleeping,..

you water all the orchard,..

so, when he wakes up with the fresh, he has a nice surprise!

So, let's make him this pleasant surprise! All right!

Carme', every day this story?

Die! With the house and the sexton!

Go ring the bells! Go sing the "De profundis"! Go!

As long as I sing it, they won't sing it to me!

Damn you! The military, the hat you wore! The affection I got for you!

Damn your sister, the trouble she got into!

And her sheets, 'cause it's why you're doing the sexton for her!

Carme',..

I have to thank God and the priest, who found me this job!

# These things do happen, who do you want to blame? #

Myself, I blame myself! Who's crazy about you, like a mad horse!

Carme'! I've always told you, you gotta get over this craze!

No! You didn't say that, when you left to Naples!

When I went to Naples I was very hopeful!

But there, hope was the only thing left!

Then I'm back to town, and find this other fix!

Carme', what was I to do? - Why didn't you show up anymore?

And why should I?

Why? How, why?

And our lives do not count at all?

And my love for you? And the love you felt for me?

Did you forget? - Juvenile illusion!

Why, you're old?

Poor and desperate, which is even worse!

If you loved me, you'd find a way out for us too!

So, I don't love you! - I don't want to be called sacristan!

And I'll do so to make you kick out by the parson!

If you come tease me again while I'm working, I'll give you 2 slaps,..

that those of your father will seem purgatives and refreshing!

Between them, everything seemed to remain as before.

Carmela, however, didn't know that Antonio..

had taken a strange habit.

Every night, secretly took the train to Naples.

He stayed in town all night, and returned at dawn,..

with the first train, trying not to be seen.

Good morning, Don Rosario!

Since a week I learned to get out of bed early!

Since a week I don't even see it, a bed!

But with time the jealous eye of Carmela came to notice this secret traffic.

One evening that Antonio took the train as usual,..

Carmela disappeared from town.

Carmela! Carme'!

No, that, that to me! - Hey, here's Joe Louis!

He's here! - Good evening.

Good evening. - You're here, come, come! He arrived!

Good evening.

It's very late! - I was late to ring the vespers!

You always wanna joke!

Come here! Get the ladder! - No, hold, hold!

I have to keep my hands free!

Take the bucket and take the posters! - No, at most I can take the brush!

It's best to start from Concordia, it's faster! And then we do all the round!

Carme'!

What are you doing here? - And you, what are you doing here?

Carme', if I tell you something, you won't do crazes?

A walnut alone in a bag, makes no noise! It takes two!

For this, the work I do in town, is for Giuliana.

But this one, is for us!

And in the bell tower, what do you do? - Come on!

You see that? - What?

The bedroom, with mirror table and dresser?

So?

Every night I take away a piece. I already paid two installments.

But what job do you do? - I do the general strike!

We're all full of work, to do this general strike.

And when you do it?

When it's time X.

You have it, Tot�! - What?

A heart in your chest, as no man!

Hey, where are you? - What are you doing?

Who's this?

This is my fianc�e!

Pretty, huh? - And now back home, Carme'!

The trouble is done, I wanna stay with you!

Miss, there is danger of blows! - Sure!

So, I always get them! Maybe once I could vent!

Good! Get the bucket, comrade! - Carme'!

Go! I'll be right! - Hurry!

I told you to go home, Carme'!

Okay, as you want!

You were my first love, and you'll be the last too, sacristan!

Be careful of your father! You know he's got a good nose!

More than few slaps, what can he do me?

# Are almost three Sundays you told me "Oh Mom" #

# Make me a dress now, and you had it done! #

# You made me have this reddish bask... #

Carme'!...

Say it, my child! Tell where you've been, so I can untie you!

Tell your mom, Carme ... - Woof! Woof! Woof!

# ...if you love me... #

# We don't need the bridal bed... #

Come here, I'll break you a leg! - Go to stand guard at the priest's bed!

And so I'm closer to my sexton!

And then you end up like his sister!

You speak out of envy!

Carmela!...

Amen!

3 times 8, 24! - 24.

I write 4, and carry 2.

7 times 6? - 49!

7 times 6 makes 46! Plus 2 that I carried, makes 48.

4.840 lire! - Two more installments, and then we'll have the mattress too!

The priest put no salt on your head!

I was baptized by my father,..

with...gunpowder!

Giuliana became whiter than that Madonna, by never going out!

Of course! After the mess she made, would also like to go out?

While you're doing two jobs for her fault!

And the women of the hill, for this continue to tease me!

My blood is seething! - Carme', don't tell anyone!

How careless! I put a crystal vase in the hands of a child!

I am a child as you say. But love develops my brain and makes me think!

Carme'! - Rest assured, I won't tell!

Could be my father?

Where you going? - Hurry, come up!

I'm opening!

I'm opening!

What you waiting? Must ring the vespers!

Solitude had made me distracted! - Go ring!

Let's do a little ringing with this too!

Carme', give me a glass of water.

A glass of water!

Did you say something?

Carmela!

Carme'!

They told us that the bells have dazed your brain!

Yours! - Carmela!

Carme'!

In town, they say that your sacristan wants to become a priest!

And he leaves you for good! Now, he's just teasing you!

He's teasing you and the whole town, cause he's more communist than you!

So you were teasing me and the whole town, huh? Shame! I can't believe it!

But Reverend Father... - Silence!

You do the communist at Naples, then ring the bells here!

Reverend Father, if I had done the communist in town, well...

But I did it at Naples, and Naples is far enough!

Impudent! Rosario!

But Reverend Father... - Silence!

Throw him out!

Out!

Come on, son, let's go. - Go, go!

Just now that you rang the bells so well!

Those bells!

Instead of making Carmela deaf, should have made her mute!

Good evening, ma'am. - Good evening.

Good evening Don Pasca'!

Leave it, ma'am! It will be a short visit!

Your daughter is there? - No.

You know you mustn't talk to my daughter!

I don't want to talk to her.

Stay calm, Don Pasqua'!

'Cause even the donkey, that is peaceful and faithful,..

becomes an evil beast, when furious!

Good evening, and sorry for the trouble!

Get dressed! Do your hair! You seem the witch from Benevento!

Where you going, that you mustn't go out?

Where do you want me to go? I'm undressed!

The rag fell me from the window!

Carme'!

Carme'!

Madonna, what sin have I done to deserve such a daughter?

Who is it? -Carmela, the daughter of Pasquale Art�!

Go away, go away, foul murderess, you're the death of my house!

I must speak with Antonio! I must explain to him!

Antonio is not there, poor son! Two days he's gone and we haven't seen him since!

And where did he go? Open, because it's raining here!

The hail should fall on your head!

What, with your cursed tongue, put us in the street!

You ruined my daughter too!

Now the mother of Luigi Bellomo doesn't want her anymore.

She says we are communists and we want her stuff!

You have ruined me, and my brother, to whom we don't know what happened!

Go away! - Go!

Antonio, no one knew anything in town.

They said he was in Naples, and that he worked. - Mail!

Then he began to write and, once in a while, a letter arrived. -Catalano, mail!

A letter! A letter from my blessed son! Postman, how I waited for you!

I awaited like Mary awaits the holy angel!

A letter from Antonio!

My son, my blessed son!

Blessed is my son, who writes to me!

Don Vincenzo, Don Vince'! I got mail from my son!

I'm glad, Donna Giacomina!

Don Vince', read this letter with great feeling! - You will be served!

I begin to read.

"Dear Mom and Giuliana, including all my dear sisters!"

Okay this way?

"I am writing you these few lines to..

let...you...know...that...here..

I'm fine, and that I work,..

and I'm enclosing a bit of money." - Is there?

And why not!

"I hope that with this money that I'm sending..

the trousseau for Giuliana is completed, and that we'll have less worries, we,..

as a family.

And that so we settled the first of our five sisters."

How much he sent?

3.000 lire.

3.000 lire.

Wanna play some of it?

Don Vince', keep on reading!

"I'm fine, despite the thought of you, cause I always think of you, much, much!

And of the work I do in the morning and also the evening,..

because it's a work that makes me work hard!

And I'm eager to see you.

And so I send you affectionate kisses from your son Antonio."

There's no more? - No more.

Don Vince', you read really with a nice feeling!

Thanks. - So, this little play?

Don Vince', I don't play. I swore!

Only the straight pair on Naples. 5 and 38.

Well, I always play that!

Just on Naples? And if it comes out on another wheel?

OK, on all!

Jesus! And the 49? You always put the 49!

Put the 49 too!

And the number of Santa Teresa, don't you play it?

Don Vince', you read very well,..

but next time I'll ask the apothecary to read the letter!

Good morning.

I'd like to play the number of St. Teresa.

How much? - Some 20 lire.

May be my impression, but I think I saw Antonio's mother.

She was here. - She did a play? - Yes.

With the money in the letter? - Yes.

And you read the letter? - Yes.

And it was from Naples?

Carme', the letter I read it to her.

The letter was from Naples, it was from Antonio, but again he didn't name you!

He doesn't care, he's in Naples with a lady,..

and lives the life of a pasha!

Meanwhile, Antonio, lived the life of the pasha.

Since Mrs. Flora Angelini,..

who owned three small cinemas in the suburbs,..

had the habit to feature the same film in her 3 theaters,..

Antonio had to race up and down,..

to bring the reels from one cinema to another.

Come, come, hurry!

Anto', quick, they're waiting at the Mocador! - OK.

Water please?

Run, hurry! They're waiting for the fourth part at the Mocador. Drink later!

Boss, when do we show the fourth part? - Now, now! Wait!

Boss, there's a revolt in the hall! Go sell peanuts, you. Go!

Some people!

The lady! No, ma'am, we haven't seen him yet!

We too are waiting for the fourth part! Ah, here he is!

Yes! Yes, he came right now. I'll send him right away!

Where have you been until now? - The Bombay is at Porta Capuana!

Antonio! Antonio!

Here! Take it to the Bijou!

Antonio, hurry! The lady is waiting for you at home, the child is sick!

The film for the Bijou!? - Get in the car!

In addition, Mrs. Flora Angelini had a child who, poor thing, was very ill.

Anto'! Anto', quick, the child is sick!

And had to be kept alive with constant blood transfusions.

And these films? - The child is sick again!

And Antonio, who came from the country, had a really good blood!

Miss, phone the manager of the Bijou. Tell them to show the third part.

They'll show the second afterwards!

The baby! My baby! Antonio! Save him, save him, save him, Antonio!

We'll save him again, your child. Don't despair!

Can I get a glass of water?

Hurry, go get a glass of water! Plain water or soda? - Whatever, lady!

Anto', you crazy? Drink before the transfusion?

Relax as last time. Come! - But...

My baby!

Give it here, I'll drink it!

Mommy's child!

Doctor! Doctor, come see!

How he took back his colour!

Just like last time!

You should thank this young man who has the stamina of an ox!

How do you feel? How do you feel?

He's sleeping!

Lady, red wine disturbs me! - Red wine is blood!

The Bijou's manager says that with the part that's missing,..

you don't understand who was that killed the woman! - The reel!

You tell the manager to explain it himself during the intermission!

What do they expect, for 50 lire? The variety show?

And you, hurry! Is half an hour you're eating!

And drink!

Hey, what're you doing?

She still thinking of the sacristan! - Shut up!

And you be careful with the powder, 'cause it bursts!

Would to heaven!

Wish it could blow up myself, you, the amphitheater and the whole town,..

and Naples, and the whole world!

Hey! Oh! - But you're crazy?

Look Dad, better deliver the fireworks late for the feast of the Conception,..

than to get help from that holy terror!

Pasquale Art� has one word only! Keep on working!

Ma'am, I don't like red wine! - Red wine is blood!

Don't you drink? - Yes, ma'am.

Carmela! Carme', come down...

May I know what's wrong?

It's 2 or 3 days that you act very strange!

Nothing! What should be wrong?

Can I have some salt? - It's salty already!

Ah, never mind, thanks.

In my parts, is already the season of chestnuts.

Can I have some pepper? - What's with this steak, ain't it good?

Sure!

It's fresh, well cooked, rare. What's wrong with you?

Ma'am, next Tuesday, is the feast of the Conception.

I'd like to return to town to eat a nice dish of pasta and beans!

Pasquale, my husband! Carmela! My sons! - They are safe! They're safe!

There! Look! Carmela! - Where is she?

See her running away? - No!

You see Carmela, you see her? Your sons, and Pasquale! They're all safe!

Pasquale! See Pasquale running?

Lord, I thank you...

Madonna, it's Carmela's fault ! This time the father kills her!

What's that? - The town's feast? Beautiful fireworks!

No feast. The Conception is after tomorrow.

What is it?

Vincenzo, what is it?

Carmela has really gone crazy. She blew up the whole deposit.

Carmela? Was she working with her father? - Yes.

Daddy, Daddy! Look how beautiful this is!

The fireworks for the Conception!

Nobody got hurt? - No.

Anto', Carmela was not found anywhere!

She hides for fear of her father!

In town they said that maybe she fled to America where she has a brother!

What, you don't eat anymore? You had so much desire for this pasta and beans!

I'm going for a cup of coffee!

A cup of coffee!...

I know, where he goes!

# Country girl, if you love me,.. #

# Country girl, if you love me,.. #

Carme'!

You were here? You were hiding here?

What have you done? Did you get burned, you hurt yourself?

Madonna mia! Come, let's go! - Don't touch me!

You have what I don't have! - What?

The lady at Naples, that's what!

But you say? - She's younger than me, prettier than me!

She has more money! That's what! Money!

Pimp! Pimp! Pimp!

With this jealousy that I got, I did this trouble too!

It's all night that I'm hiding here.

With hunger, cold, and fear that the spirits of the dead take me with them!

Carme'!...

Because you're in Naples with another woman!

And you don't care about me! Nor do you remember me when you write!

At least you could send me a line!

But for you, I know, I was like dead and buried!

And maybe I was really dead! Maybe I was blown up with fireworks!

So it would end this ill-fated love! I should have never met you!

Come on, Carme'!

'Cause for you, I know, I'm like the plague!

I'm like weed, that must be pulled up!

My destiny was to die!

At least there, in a tomb, I wouldn't have hurt you anymore!

I want to die! I want to stay here! - Come on, let's go!

Don Pasquale!

Nothing.

Don Pasquale?

The light went on!

What? - It's us. We came for Carmela!

Oh god, Carmela, my daughter! Got hurt?

Where is she? - At her aunt's.

Yes, at her aunt's. - At your sister's!

She sends to say that she's there, that..

she won't move, that if you want her back, you go pick her up!

I'm coming down! - We did it!

Stay here!

Go, go!

Let's go!

Go! Go! Go!

Carme', now go home quickly, before your father comes back!

And you go back to Naples...

Carme'! Do you think i would, if I could avoid it?

Being with feet in one place, and heart in another, is very hard!

And your heart, where is it?

Really wanna get a hiding tonight!

With that one in Naples, nothing at all? - Carme'!

That she should buy your blood, is a disgrace!

Let's thank God...

that I too have something to sell! Now go!

No need for you to write me, I'll find a way to visit you!

Now does another trouble! Carme'!

Who's speaking?

Who am I speaking to?

Who are you?

But who is it speaking?

Who do you want to speak to?

Am I speaking with Mrs. Angelini?

What Mrs. Angelini! I'm the blood donor!

Antonio! - Carme'!

What are you doing? Where are you? Where do you call from?

There's no sound anymore!

Where are you? - I'm at Naples!

And what are you doing in Naples?

My father..

brought me to a specialist. With the blows they always give me,..

I made him believe that they stunned my head!

But next week I'll come back alone.

'Cause you know that my father, who sucks so much is stingy,..

who breaks even a penny in half, doesn't want to spend money to travel!

I'm making this call profiting by..

that he went to buy back all the material for the fireworks.

But now he's here...He's back! Goodbye. Bye, bye!

Daddy's going to give it to you, huh?

Carme'! Carme'?

I'm so happy to have spoken with you. Are you okay? I'm fine.

And don't worry, as soon as I can, I leave this job!

How're you? - Bad.

I think of you always, even if my character doesn't show it!

And you have your own character, which is to make trouble!

Bye, bye Carme'! See you.

And don't do crazes, Carme'!

I'll be right! I'll be right!

Ciccillo!

Op-l�! Op-l�! - Antonio! - Cicci'!

Antonio, what are you doing? Lady! - Op-l�!

Cicci'!

Ouch!

Op-l�! - Antonio!

Anto'!

Laughs!

Laughs!

It's the first time he laughs!

Rosa! Rosa, come see how he laughs!

By dint to change his blood, we'll end up changing his character too!

Antonio was promoted to projectionist,..

so that he wouldn't tire from bringing films from one cinema to another.

Carmela, on the pretext of going to the specialist, secretly came to visit him.

"...and if I touch you, you tremble!" "No, leave me!"

"Why should I leave you? Why? Now that you're mine forever! "

"No! No!"

"My love!"

Oh, hello lady!

Ticket! Oh, sorry!

The cabin is there!

See? I work hard bringing reels, and he's in the cabin with his chick!

Who is that slut? - Who's a slut?

What is she doing here? - She helps me a little.

And to think that I picked you when you were dying of hunger!

I got you in my house! I gave you a job!

I dressed you from head to toe!

I gave you steaks morning and evening!

Really, what do you want?

The job here, don't we do it? The child, didn't we heal him?

We give you the blood! And buying blood is a shame!

But who's this, who meddles with such...

But who's this, who meddles with such arrogance?

Did you sell me the blood maybe? - Yes, I did!

'Cause this is my man, my husband, the father of my children!

You little slut! What children you talking about?

Madonna, and I thought that this was a fine young man,..

with a holy man's life, without intemperance nor fun,..

because he healed my son!

And I believed it! And when, at times, I looked at him,..

I felt like a rapture.

Why, I too am a woman like you!

While I hugged him, while I kissed him,..

I heard my child's voice telling me:..

"Stop! Leave him alone, mother! That blood is mine! Do not touch it!"

But instead...here's my steak, my bread, where they were going to end!

With this lousy, plucked, lout girl, more starved than him!

I am starving? And you're an old parrot! - Me?

Hey, Tot�, here you are!? - Tot�, you're here?

If you see me, I'm here!

Jesus! Didn't you have a good job in Naples?

I had it! But, you know Carmela, the daughter of Pasquale Art�? - Well?

Well, now I don't have a job anymore!

Jesus! What are you doing? Carme', what are you doing?

Carme'! - I wanna die drowned, I want to drown!

Move!

Here is an egg. You don't eat since 3 days!

Madonna! Look at your state! - Let me die!

It's just what we need, that you get ill!

Dry yourself, my child! - I wanna die! I wanna die of bronchitis!

Madonna mia!

What do you care? Why, are you a mom, you?

If I came with a good word, you would only say "Dry yourself! Eat!"

Have you ever been in love? - Me?

What would you have done if dad had left you for good?

My child, it was such a wrong marriage, that I would have thanked God!

I'm gonna get you a shirt, before your father gets back and sees you that way.

With what little money he had saved for himself,..

Antonio did marry his sister.

He had not seen Carmela anymore.

The wedding took place at dawn, because the bride was ashamed of the people.

Anto'! This Luigi Bellomo is really an animal!

He didn't even let me ring the bells!

And you even wanted to ring the bells?

You think this marriage is truly a celebration, to call people to come see?

To see the carriage waiting for guests. And flowers. The bride dressed in white.

And the amorous groom!

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

It's small, it won't fit. - Put it on the small finger!

Ego coniungo vos in matrimonium.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

Don't worry. She cries for happiness,..

because now enters a house where she will be like a queen!

Not so, my pretty crony? - Pretty, I'm not!

And even less your crony!

Go, go, my lovely daughter, you've got a luck like heaven!

Farewell Giulia'!

That same morning, around 12, Michelina came to call Carmela.

Me?

Yes, he said that he must speak to you, necessarily.

No, no, not by there! - And where's he waiting? - Outside the bishopric!

Ah, you're here! Come, come!

This morning I met your father at the amphitheater.

He was sitting there, and I told him:

Don Art�,..

you know it, I had a job, and Carmela, your daughter, made me loose it!

I had another job in Naples, and Carmela your daughter, made me loose that too!

But,... you know the dog.

The more it gets beaten, the more it gets attached to the master!

And that's what happened with her. So now I love her.

So you told him? - Exactly! - Tot�!

And then I told him:

So now I'm jobless, and what's more, with this monkey on my back...

that I can't live without Carmela! - Tot�!

Now that I settled my sister, if I had a job, I could think of myself!

And what did he say? - Nothing.

And I also said:

Don Art�, my character is even more annoying than yours!

And it costs me much to make this request!

Give me a hand! I know you need people for work.

And what did he say? - Nothing.

And I said: Put me to work under your youngest son!

And if the job is risky, God will help me!

And he? What did he say?

Nothing.

Carme', he never answers anything!

If it were not my father, may he die!

So, since I love you more than my life,..

and even this last hope of marrying you has vanished,..

because marriage is a luxury too forbidden to the poor,..

I've decided that,..

if you don't get out of my way, but just so that I won't see you anymore,..

not even in the town square, not even behind the window,..

so that you just disappear from town... I'll kill you!

I get into trouble, I go to jail...

but I take you off from the world, and so I'm quiet!

Antonio! Antonio!

Stop!

Two days later, towards evening, Antonio received a note.

He left everything, ran away, and put himself on the county road.

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

What do you want? - Give me a ride, for God's sake!

How far? - To Capua, please do me this mercy!

All right, get in! - Thank you.

The note said that..

they wrote on behalf of Carmela, that Carmela, beside herself,..

had run away from home and was in Capua where, crossing a street,..

desperate as she was, had been hit by a tram.

You'll see that she's OK. Don't worry! - Let's hope so! Thanks.

And that now she was in the hospital, to go see her, for goodness sake!

Because at home no one knew, and she didn't want to see anyone from home.

The hospital? - Over there!

Where, sorry! - Over there. Turn right!

Madonna! Madonna!

Carme'!

Carme'!

Carme', may I know what...?

Since I too love you more than my life,..

and we have to get married,..

so we escaped, you and I ! And the whole town knows it!

What, does the whole town know? - That we are here now.

At Capua.

Together.

Out of home.

At night.

My Madonna! Madonna!

Two hours! Two hours of travel from town to Capua that almost killed me!

Since when they told me..

"Carmela ran away like crazy! She's at Capua. She was hit by a tram!"

"Ran away? Why ran away? At Capua? And what for?"

Hit by a tram?

How did it happen? How is she? I'll find her dead? Alive?

She broke her legs, or has any permanent scarring?

What shall I do to you? What should I do to you now?

Don't you get it? Only this way Dad will have to take you to work with him!

And so we can finally get married. Because we too have the right to live!

And we must live now, because youth goes away!

Who lives on hope, dies in despair!

And when the trouble is done, is done! You know it too!

Even this you had to do to me!

Let's go! - Where to?

Didn't we run away? Don't they all know that we're together?

So let's go spend the night out of home, come!

Walk!

Inn...

Come here!

Almost midnight.

Easy walking, around two we'll arrive to the county road.

It means that we'll also take this nice 12 km walk all the way to town!

You taking me home?

No, to the movies!

To my dad's?

No, to mommy's!

Don't run! Don't run! Wait!

Wouldn't it be best at my aunt's? - Which aunt?

How? My aunt, my Confirmation godmother, at St. Antonio.

Dad will never believe us! It takes someone to soothe him, to persuade him!

Right...!

It takes one going there to soothe him,..

to make him understand that we made a fling, but we haven't done anything,..

he listens,..

doesn't believe it,..

and I must bear the consequences of a kidnapping done without my knowledge!

Dad will kill me for a bruising!

Alright!

Carme', with you I got a license.

But a really special license!

The license as fool! Come on!

Despite the scandal caused in town by the escape of Carmela,..

Pasquale Art�, calm as always, went to work.

Dad, there's the aunt!

Go away, we are trying out the fireworks!

This is something crazy!

I gotta talk to you!

I gotta talk to you!

We're busy.

Work is not an impediment.

Pasca', tears and tears are lost! - And who's crying?

This morning they came to me, and told me the truth.

It was Carmela who ran away and sent for him with an excuse.

And you know how Carmela is! - Gimme the string!

You must believe me if I say that he's a fine young man, who respected her!

Gimme the paper! - Pasca', they're young, and he loves her!

He can keep her if he loves her! The string!

I see that you have a lot of work. - Thank God!

The cane!

Our father died at the fair in Caiazzo, lighting the fireworks!

And our brother Giacinto blew up while pounding the powder!

Pasca', there are few people willing to blow up!

I know. - So?

Why not take Antonio to work with you,..

so all is settled, and he can think of a family!

These canes are old.

Carmela is my goddaughter, and this story must be settled!

Since I go home for lunch at noon today,..

let them come! - Both? - Both.

They're coming! They're coming! You see? You see?

Fine stuff, fine stuff! First quality stuff! Come, come!

If you set up a house, 50 lire apiece! If you set up a house, 50 lire apiece!

Buy, buy!

Come here, come in!

Fine stuff! Women, get the trousseau! Women, come!

Let's go. 50 lire apiece!....

Buy, buy!

Here, this is your stuff! - Mom?

Take your stuff and leave! - You don't even let us in?

Go away or your father will kill you, and kills me too!

Mariarosa, will you serve this soup or not?

That's why he sent for us!

To do us this affront before all?

Are we animals, to close the door on us?

We're humans! What manners! You must at least speak to us!

What's going on? What is it?

Go away, you and that shameless! She's done with you the end she deserved!

And I won't give you any money!

And rather than take you to work with me, I take the village idiot!

And now that you know how things stand, if you're so dumb to take her,..

take her, and take her away as she is!

But he says? But he is saying? How? To take her as she is?

My son, think about what you do! My son, think of us too!

Thank God that you are Carmela's father!

Keep her stuff, I don't want it!

And do know that Carmela is as beautiful and clean as when she left your house!

And if they call me dumb for this, let them, cause it's an honor for me!

And now that you gave her to me, I'll be so dumb to take her away!

And take her away as she is,..

without even these clothes, because you bought them!

Bravo Tot�, well done!

He's crazy! Crazy!

Undress here, before all!

Bravo Tot�, well done!

He's gone crazy!

Because you can't take away Carmela's most beautiful dowry!

It's her heart. Her love for me. And even all the troubles she put me in!

Come with me.

The shoes! Take off your shoes! - The shoes! Mamma mia! - Off!

Give him the shoes too! Throw them to him!

He really made a scene! He stripped her naked! Antonio! Toto, Toto!

Bravo! Bravo Antonio! You did well!! You did well!!

My son, what have you done? Better if you didn't get back from the military!

Try this. No, this one. No, neither this one!

Antonio's gone crazy!

Here, take this! - Hey, is that the way?

What a fuss for a shirt! - What, takes the stuff and doesn't pay?

I pay! Don't worry, I'll pay you!

With what? Everybody knows you're desperate!

One cannot always be desperate!

Have no fear! Time will come when I pay you!

Poor thing!

Don't worry, that he'll pay!

I will pay! Antonio Catalano, Nursery street, 74!

Then keep it! - Bravo! Bravo! That's the way!

Tot�! Come here! The bride has no shoes! Come here, try this pair!

Come Tot�, come, come!

Come! Thanks!

Come, come! Try this pair, see if they fit!

These aren't good! - The ones with the Tyrolean heel!

More fashionable!

Wait! Won't you give her a pair of stockings?

True, she needs socks!

Tot�, bravo! - You've earned respect! - Congratulations!

A pair of stockings? - Sure! Ant�, but you'll pay me?

I'll pay! Antonio Catalano, Nursery street, 74!

He'll pay! Antonio Catalano, Nursery street, 74!

If you lost your mom, there's another one for you here!

And here's a father, if you want him!

Now I want a shirt for me! And must be silk!

Got no silk! Got a checkered one!

Come here, I'll buy me a shirt! - The other sock!

Here, Tot�! - Better! Cowboy style!

Tot�, come here! I have a silk shirt!

I'll even give you credit! You'll pay!

I'll pay! When and how I can! - He'll pay! - Don't worry!

My son! And you always said..

"If the soup is not here, I won't marry for fear!"

My son!

Mum, and when should I wait to eat this fresh bread?

When I'd loose my teeth in old age?

Here! A beautiful scarf for you too,..

and must be all flowery and colorful as the feast it is today!

For the feast let's have a good meal! Go buy a chicken, and pay this time!

And how do I pay? - You pay it on credit!

And don't worry, because who created us is not poor!

If the Almighty wants to keep us alive, he must also let us eat! True or not?

If not, why put us in this world? Eh?

Two Cents Worth of Hope

The End