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What are you doing?

- What are you doing, hey.
- Going.

Where are you going?

Away.

Away, where?

Away, where, where?
What's going mean?

Don't you hear? I said
where, what's going mean?

- Put the kid to bed.
- When I'm ready.

- Where, what's going mean?
- Don't shout!

What's away? For good?

For good.

Going for good?

You think you can just pack
and say you're going!

Wait until I put
the kid down.

What's going mean?

I said, where
what's going mean?

Take it easy.

Take it easy!

You pack up
and announce you're going.

What's I'm going mean?

I asked,
what's I'm going mean?

I asked,
what's I'm going mean?

Bye.

What? You get fed up
and just walk out on us?

- Pack up and get out?!
- You'll have the flat...

And what about me...
don't want it.

Don't want the flat.

You say you're going:
so where do I go?

If I get fed up,
where can I go? Tell me!

No! You think you can, no...

- Let me go!
- No, no...

- Let me go...
- Are you crazy or what?

Anniversary.

Nine years.

Don't you want to look at it?

A big mug!

Hairspray!

- Let's have a drink.
- Let's.

Haven't you a small glass?
You're not drinking that?

Beer.

- You can't clink with beer.
- Want a chaser?

What?

- Cola?
- That'll do.

Who told you
to get me this?

Don't you like it?

- 'Course I do.
- It's like shampoo.

It's hairspray.
Don't spray it in my eyes.

Stop messing,

it's a spray.

Thanks.
Don't want some of this?

No.

You need a glass
for the chaser.

The kid's used that.

- Let me try.
- If I can't, how can you?

I did once when you couldn't.

You're joking.

- You'll never manage...
- Done it...

- You just can't clink
with beer. - Cheers.

Like it?

Fine.

- Asleep are they?
- They're asleep...

Talk to them
in the factory?

- Why?
- Did you talk to them in?

- A few days ago.
- You said you would again,

and they said that next week...

- I told you that next week...
- Didn't you go in?

Why should I have when
it's next week I have to.

- But they said it last week...
- No they didn't.

You're absolutely wrong.

No, I said last Monday

that in two weeks
I'd go in and ask again.

I thought it was today
you were going in.

What's the matter now?

The whole day I thought,
you'd be

- coming home today...
- You got it totally wrong.

- So what am I to do?
- I was waiting all the week.

There's the three shift thing
which is no good.

I can't do much about the rest

because they said
to come in next week.

You've no idea what it's like,
you say goodbye,

off you go, I watch you...

- you don't know...
- So don't watch.

Yeah, that fixes everything,
don't watch you leave.

Drink up.

Now don't cry...
Want a handkerchief?

Others manage, they dress well,
they do their hair

push teh pram and chat
with their girlfriends.

But that's not for me,
I can't do that.

- Read something.
- I can't.

I can't stand being
inside four walls

going to the shops and back.
What the hell is this for?

- Don't shout, they'll wake up.
- It'll last for ever...

- I can't stand it.
- Let's go to bed. - What?

Let's go to bed.

So I raised the subject

and we go to bed
because it's all arranged.

And why am I crying now?
One anniversary a year

and what about the other days?
I put the kids to bed...

I can't do much abouit it.
Forget it.

You go to sleep, watch TV,
read the paper,

when can I tell you about...

You think it's easy for me?

- Where are you taking that?
- Making room to make the bed.

That's all the attention
you pay me...

- How much?
- That I was...

in tears for the flat
and now we have one.

What you know about me is
what you see.

You come home,
and I try

in a good humour, good mood,
there's this dinner, that dinner,

with the kids you don't
have to do anything.

Take them to school, check
their homework, nothing.

And if you take the kid,
then it's to see football,

you have a good time, him too,
you take him for a walk

you go to the cakeshop,
I have to do the hard stuff,

I'm always jumpy with him,
always quarrelling with him

and I can't,
I can't control myself...

All the time I have to
control myself,

to be patient,

to be patient with you too,
patient in the shops,

greet everyone with a smile,

I can't take it any more.

Whether I'm with one kid
or with both of them.

You're with him
when you feel like it.

If you don't,
you lie down, read the paper,

watch TV, listen to the radio,
go out.

You go out whenever you feel like it
you go wherever you want.

I don't go anywhere...

What do you mean?

You always go wherever
and whenever you want to.

- Right, I'll make the bed...
- I nearly went mad today too,

because the kid wanted
to watch TV.

I can't watch any TV
because if he's not asleep

and I turn it on
then he's straight out here.

Either I let him watch too
or if I don't want him to

then I don't turn it on
and I don't watch it.

When you are here you turn
it on, lie back and that's it.

No I don't.

- No? Isn't it the way it is?
- What can I do?

What can you do?

I cook as well.

Your stomach's afraid
that if I go out to work,

would there be food here?

What's these "I cook as well?"
So do others.

Well, right...

this is a fine anniversary.

When did you last sit down
with me like this?

When do I have a chance
to tell you what I want?

The hell with it!

No need to tell me
for the fifth thousand time.

If you once understood...
what five thousand times?

This is the first time
I told you this.

Even if it's five thousand
would you understand?

You don't want to understand

you leave here every day,
so you don't understand.

Stop it...

Stop it.

- Easy now.
- What's the matter?

Is it that I'm not like this,
happy and all?

- You're going too much.
- What am I doing?

- Going on too much. About it.
- About what?

I got it from the first word.

- You're drinking too much.
- Hold him for a second.

Let me spread one for him.

Now, here.

I'm getting a beer.

There, there, it's coming.

- Sausage?
- What's this?

Did I put it there?

- Now what're you looking for?
- The opener.

Go ahead and eat.

Put it there, Gábor.

Want some?

- What's the time?
- Quarter to.

- If I knew this was the end...
- Right, hang on...

I'll be right there on time.

Did you wrap one up?

Wait a tic.

Come on, pass.

This way!

Who's in the middle?

Look out.

That's it.

- Didn't touch it!
- Didn't touch it!

It did... you're in!

That's the way!

That was all very sporting...

Here I am.

Watch it, this way.

Get it away.

Who's in the middle now?

Men... men... live in

in a kind of

society.

Primitive men had

a primitive society.

than came serfdom,
feudalism,

which was the time of lords
and serfs. Are you listening?

Are you sleepy or what?

Then came early capitalism

with factories...

industrialists,

investors,

workers.

Imperialism is the most
developed form of capitalism,

then came socialism.

What we're living in

is socialism.

And more developed than this
will be communism when...

in socialism everyone gets...

or in socialism

your needs...

No, in socialism you get
as much as what you work,

with communism, everyone
will get everything they need.

But here we're talking
about capitalism now.

Because at the present...

and it doesn't hurt
to know this,

because capitalism and
socialism exist together now,

and we are more developed,

but economically...
sometimes they are stronger.

You'll learn all this in school

but it doesn't hurt to know
a bit in advance.

I go in alone?
Are you crazy?

Just to say hello.

Give me the whatsit at least.

Let me show you
something strange.

So many chair,
hardly any customers.

I'll show you a strange
natural phenomen.

Do you think
it's a cloud or smoke?

- Well, both. - No.
Smoke goes into cloud.

It's smoke.

Just smoke?

That's why I'm leaving
the place, it's boring.

- You want to leave?
- No, not really, it's just...

When you can't tell smoke
from a cloud,

well then?

- Can you?
- Have you any beer?

There is,
have to look for it.

Why don't you have wine?

There's something in it.

Can't be a fly. Wind's blown
all the flies away.

- It's only soot! Cheers!
- Whole place was full of flies.

Imagine,

- I had to pay a fine. - Why?
- Because of the flies.

And the salt cellar
wasn't full and

since then there's no flies.
And there's a constant wind.

Now, there's a customer,
coming here.

I'll have to lay a table...
what's the time?

Doesn,t matter,
the firemen are coming.

Imagine, they came before
and ordered,

I couldn't hear them,
the wind from there and I'm here.

- It's a special job.
- What?

- What I'm doing.
- You can't tell me?

- Electric safety operative.
- Serious? No joking?

Serious, you walk around
with your little thing

a whatsit,
and stick it into the wall.

- And it's only one day a week.
- Can't be.

It's true.
6.000 truly.

It's a responsible job...

But you get 15 thousand here.

Yes, but then you have
to be here every day.

- Are you really going?
- Sure.

I'll be able to go off
into the woods, anything...

You're putting me on...

No, I thought the river
is lovely here,

but you can't watch it
all the time. Right?

True.

Hello.

Gábor?

Go and find him.

- What's wrong?
- What's wrong!

You said you'd just say hell,
is that a hello?

Leaving me with two kids
for an hour and a half?

- An hour and a...
- Who do you think you are?

you're crazy,
for an hour and a half...

I wasn't a minute over 20.

I had a couple of words
with Gyuri.

I don't know where's the other,
I can't be everywher!

Everyone's staring.
Keep it quiet.

Sure, what if I'd left you
sitting here like this. See?

Shut up.

Is this
going to the pool?!

No, it's not like,
so to say, whatever...

more that me and Robi,
my husband,

we haven't gone dancing
for a long time.

He can't really read my mood,
see what I mean?

I can have the desire,
like when we go to a place

where there' dancing
then I really have the need.

I'll never forget when I
was a girl,

it was crazy how many places
I went to, just to dance.

Open air places, school hops,
any chance,

off I went.

I even dance in a competition,
there were all kind of dances,

I came first in the waltz.

There was the twist,
there was those...

when a couple, who could really
do it for a really long time...

the we all stopped,
made a circle and just clapped...

And I could do it for hours,
for hours...

And everyone stopped and
watched and I enjoyed it...

What was the other one?
You had to hold, the jump?

- The jump?
- Not the twist...

And there was the madison...

it won't come...

and in it you had...

No... Letkiss! Letkiss!
That was it!

I remember.

That was a killer,
we did it until our feet...

I only noticed when I'd get
home in the early hours...

take off my sandals, and sweet
Jesus, what my feet looked like!

With the music playing,
we felt nothing, see...

- Fallen arches, what...
- When I could barely wash.

Your foot's swollen...
your arches fallen.

But now we're not so keen
anymore.

Our time's gone.

Where did you go in summer?
In summer?

Go anywhere? In summer?

Nowhere this time.

- You stayed at home?
- The kid's so small, well...

They tie you down then.
Did you go anywhere?

- A lovely trip.
- Where? A long one?

Spain, Switzerland,
West Germany, Austria...

All the way to
Switzerland too?

Switzerland, but we ended up
in Spain, wonderfull.

We went to Bulgaria once
with the kids. Our daughter

was 3, our son 6
but it was wonderful.

The children enjoyed it
so much, we walked,

slept in a tent,
it was perfect.

That's why I'm telling you,
you can do it later,

because the kids can
manage.

- The can.
- True, if you can, they can.

I could manage them, I had
no problem with the kids.

Splashing naked in the sea...

If you get good weather,
the seaside is the place.

But not if you want to see
museums or towns...

When kids are small, then

you have to arrange it
to have lots of free time.

We went to see Rila monastery,
teh kids enjoyed it too.

That little cottage

is still so nice,

It means one thing to me

the house and my young days

Once more we'll go

to look for memories

to revive a summer

and a young couple

That little cottage

is still so nice,

it means one thing to me

the house and my young days

The next song,
if you don't mind,

just this time, I'd like
to sing to a real man,

if there is one among you.

What's the matter?

I don't want a pianist,
I want a man.

What?

I can hear voices
but I don't see a man.

I'll come and have a look.
Here I come, boys!

May I?

Ladies, it looks as if

standing before you here
a real man.

We'll soon see
if you deserve that title.

Now would you hold
my hand tight please?

Try and do what I do.

I promise it won't hurt.

All you have to do first is bend
your knees, I'll show you how.

Once, two. That's it.

Let me be in love tonight

Your love and kisses
can't be to much

Moonrays smile on us
Silver light in front of us

Let me be in love tonight

Let me be tonight the one

Who whispers your name

They think we are friends
for me that's not enough,

just let me be in love tonight

Here comes the hard bit...

We've been together long

two people make a pair
Isn't that good!

Two of us, where you are

there's a house for us

Now don't hesitate

Let me be tonight the one

who whispers your name

They think we are friends
for me that's not enough,

just let me be in love tonight
Good?

just let me be in love tonight

Hold tight.

just let me be in love tonight

- With you.
- That's right.

What a fine fellow!

I've got a black baby

Black her hair and skin

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes
her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

Fiery red her lips when
she Charlestons

My own black baby.

I've got a black baby

Her eyes as black as coal

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes
her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

Fiery red lips when
she Charlestons

My own black baby

On the red day of Whitsun

I prayed and prayed

On the red day of Whitsun

For you to come back

The meadow was full

the wild flowers blooming.

I was waiting for you

Whitsun roses in my hand.

All my wait was in vain

Autumn has arrived

Whitsun roses are long

Faded and gone.

My smiling love

No more I'll call you

in Winter cold and ice

only frost-flowers open.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart
rock me tight...

my crazy heart...

Hold me gentle, sweetheart
rock me tight

I'm with you.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart
rock me tight...

my crazy heart
rock away...

Yellow leaves from the tree

Fall winds carry away.

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

Fall winds carry away

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

There I stood for a while

Wounded, crippled,

Not a word she said

in silence she fled

my heart burning for you.

There's a chance to go and
work abroad for two years.

I'm the one in the control
room they thought of.

It's the same work, they say
just a bit more developed...

... the construction.

In Romania.

I'd get paid here and there
for the two years. In Lei there.

- Why do you get paid twice?
- The law says if you work abroad...

your family gets paid here
so you can get that...

And you go alone?

The way it is...

I go myself,
myself, sure.

It's not like it's ten years,
just two years I'll be there.

It's the same, I get up...

Two years. We're not
together for two years?

I'd come home
on my holidays...

Holidays, two weeks?

No, I think I'd get three
four weeks on this,

I didn't ask, and then
it can be worked out.

I... I don't have to say yes
right away.

I said I had to talk to you.
I think it'd be great.

It looks like, it looks like,
we'd have a car inside a year...

- What's in it for me...
- It's great, we can move.

It's nothing to me
to have a car in a year

or in six years
and be alone for two years.

- I think we have to make a move...
- Don't you like it here?

It'd be good for my career,
because they thought of me,

so, it's something serious.

I mean there's 22 of us
and I'm the one they asked.

- Not to see the kids?
- I'd be home during the...

...only on holidays but what
about when they go to bed,

good night kiss, I don't know,
there's lots in their life...

You can bring the kids over.

Don't you see we'd have
a car inside a year...

So the problem is
we don't have a car?

Then you tell me why can't
I finish what I'm saying?

You've said it all.

There's a car, the second year
might mean enough money

for a house maybe.

Depend's if there's any
reason to build a house.

- If you still have a family.
- Buy it for the kids.

Don't... can't you think for
more than five minutes?

It's not five minutes!
It's a lifetime!

Two years.

What about all those
who are away for years...

They never see their kids,
the kids grow up with no dad.

They grow up and the dad
gets them ready-made.

It's important
how they grow up, important.

Here in this trap with me or
he could even... he could get more...

I thought you'd be pleased.

To be away from you?

No, it's not about that.
Living apart, that's just

the form of being away.

And all my salary
would get paid to you.

That's the only argument you have,
that the money's double,

and if the money's double,
then what'll happen?

It's not true, there's been
far worse situations...

this isn't a lousy situation,
we're just blowing it up.

There's no war, imagine
if there'd be a war,

that's four or five years...
they managed to survive

and bring up children.

So for you it's natural
for me to be happy

to be here alone with
two children and more money.

Do you seriously expect me
to accept that?

Look, you're taking it on
for two years.

And what are you taking on?

- Well, let's say...
- That you'll be fine abroad...

I won't be, no.
What I'm taking on is

two years, when I'm home,
I could help you more,

we would have a solid base...

- We wouldn't be living from
day to day, but... - What base?

You don't see the point?

We wouldn't get rich, could't buy a
palace, but we'd be able to make a move.

So what big difference
does it make?

There's nothing in life so big,
it'll pass in 5 minutes.

I thought
you'd understand.

You thought you could
leave me here with two kids...

You have two kids and then
you don't want to raise them,

just live off somewhere else.
That's the point.

I want more than this
drudgery.

And so I'm here alone
with them.

There's some that go West
for five or six years.

They have wives
who are perhaps happy

that the husband
leaves them alone a bit.

I wasn't saying that...

You think they're the type
that's happy to be alone?

No, they live well, or love
their husband so much, trust him

and think of him a bit,
not just of themselves.

Surely they choose this
for things to be a bit better.

So there's no husband
who loves his wife so much

- to think of her as well?
- That's what I'm thinking of.

Two kids and it's all over!?

The point isn't how soon
we can have a car,

- or how quickly we can pay this
or that bill. - And my career?

Your career? Does it matter where
you push a button here, or there?

- Do you want me to tell you?
- What, the factory?

- So why shouldn't I tell you?
- Don't bother to tell me.

A million times you have to
rush around... wheels and all.

You really think the world turns on
whether you press a button or not?

Yes.

So I go back and say
I talked to my wife

and someone else can go
and everyone laughs at me?

What's so special for someone
not to want to live alone?

Anyone who will laugh
is a fool.

They are fools of the type

who think their whole life
depends

if they can buy this
or buy that.

Look, I don't really see
why you can't see that.

I simply can't imagine why
you can't see that.

Find something else. The two
of us must find something.

- A hold up!?
- What will we do?

We could try a hold-up.

You're thinking again about what to
do for us to have loads of money.

You can't do without it.

Not for beer but for...

You have that, every day
you have your beer money.

Don't you see we can't
make a move?

No car, and you can't go out
on a Saturday,

for two days with a tent,
or whatever, with the kids.

I'll take a bus or walk and
be happy, not living separate...

In a bus with the pack...

Better with the pack
and be together.

Right, I'll say
I won't go.

That's not right either to
make yourself unhappy about it.

Then I'll say nothing.
I'll just play dumb.

Why, why are youbeing
so sarcastic about it all.

Don't you get it?

Don't you see, Robi, that
we have to be together,

together and work it all out.

Freedom's flowers do not
bloom

flowers...

From the spilt blood
of the dead

And the tears of slavery burn

Which the eyes
of orphans shed.

Pity, God, the Magyar, then,
Long by waves of...

- waves... of danger tossed
- waves of danger tossed

Help him by Thy strong hand

He on grief's sea may be lost

But no freedom's flowers bloom

- From the spilt...
- From the spilt blood of the dead.

And the tears of slavery burn
Which eyes of orphans shed.

- Do it again from the beginning.
- 'Neath the fort, a ruin now,

'Neath the fort, a ruin now,
Joy and pleasure erst were found,

There are only groans
and sighs

instead...

Freedom's flowers
do not bloom

From the spilt blood
of the dead...

... of the dead,

And the tears of slavery burn

- the eyes of orphans shed.
- Say it!

What are you doing?

- What are you doing, hey.
- Going.

What are you doing?

- Where are you going?
- Away.

What do you mean away?

That, away.

What's away, for food?

Yes.

What do you mean away?

Listen, what's away.
Robi, what are you doing?

Don't you understand?

Wait a bit!
I'll put him down.

Robi, what are you doing?

What do you think
you're doing?

- What's away, listen!
- Leave it out.

- What's away? What's going?
- Let me go.

Where to?

Where to, what's away?

Leve me be.
What do you think away is?

Away for good?

Not for bad.

God, I can't take this, Robi!
Don't do this.

I don't see why away.

What's away,
you can't do this.

You can't do this, away!

Say something, Robi!

Not this...

What is it, tell me,
you're just fed up?

You're fed up?
And you just say, I'm going?

- Bye.
- What's bye?

Where do I go, tell me,
what's going to happen to me?

What do you imagine, tell me?
Where do you imagine I'll go to?

If I've had enough
tell me where do I go to?

Don't you see, Robi
... are you crazy?

You think you can just say
that you're off?

No... no... no!

I'm begging you,

I'm begging,
I can't take it!

I'm afraid

he may feel better alone.

No one to nag him.

Go here, go there,
do what he wants,

have a drink,
don't have a drink.

He has a few

fixed points in his life,

things that I was
always on at him,

football, pools, beer.

Now he can do them...

Problem is, he doesn't have

any big needs so he's fine,

really fine the way he is.

He goes into a flat,
he lies down,

watches TV, reads the paper...
and he's fine.

The only thing that might
bring him back

is the children obviously.

But it wouldn't be the same.

But if it's only because of them.
I know it won't be the same.

I don't know what'll happen,

what I have to do,

what to do,
how to do it.

Because

all the time

there was tension and trouble
between us for years now...

what we should
focus on is

that after years of strife, whether
we could get together again.

Then we'd have to try.

Whether with someone new
or each of us alone.

That I don't know...

I don't want to,
that I can't even imagine.

It would drive me crazy

to believe he might think
of living with someone else.

Perhaps it'd be best if

he couldn't imagine living
without the kids.

These are the automatic ones.

Yes please.

We'd like to buy
a washing machine...

- A traditional one? Or...
- What does traditional mean?

- Automatic or semi-automatic?
- Well, an automatic.

- How many kinds are there?
- Well there's the traditional,

this is the semi-automatic
3.590 forints,

for 12.900 there's the
fully automatic,

that's got 18 programmes,

it all depends on how much
washing you want to put in.

- Isn't this a washer?
- Yes it is.

This is a Minimat 65
and this is a Midimat 85,

the difference is
one is 12.900, the other 12.800,

this one's space saving,
can take more washing.

It's bigger inside.

Yes, it's bigger
it'll take more clothes.

I can show you a brochure.
Here you are.

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