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This film was entirely acted
by the inhabitants...
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...of the neighbouring villages
Braganca and Miranda do Douro.
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White Flower said to the prince:
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My father means to kill us as
soon as he knows we're asleep.
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Go to the stables,
there you'll see two horses.
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The stronger is Wind horse...
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...the other is Thought horse.
This is the one you shall bring.
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But the prince mistakenly
brought Wind horse.
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White Flower felt very distressed,
but there was no time left.
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She spat three times and said:
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As soon as the spittle
dries up it'll answer for me.
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They got on Wind horse and ran off.
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Every now and then her
father called: "White Flower!"
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"Father!" the girl replied.
"Sleep and rest."
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He mounted Thought horse and
soon spotted them.
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And the prince said: "Dear me!,
there comes your father to kill us."
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White flower threw away
a handful of sand, and there
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...at once, an endless sea was formed
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And the father couldn't pass
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But while the prince was sleeping,
his mother hugged him
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...and he clean forgot all about
White Flower, and her advices.
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Seven years after the prince
remembered princess White Flower
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...but found no trace of her.
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He travelled the world over.
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And one day he heard it said that
princess White Flower...
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...had been sold as a slave
and had been a prisoner...
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...in the Tower of Babylon
for seven years.
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Eventually the prince
came to an unknown land...
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...where there was a very big city...
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...and in the middle of it
there was a very tall tower.
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He asked an elderly little woman
washing clothes in the river:
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"What is that tall tower?"
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It's the Tower of Babylon, those
who go there no more return.
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What are you writing?
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My father came from
Oporto yesterday
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Me and mother went to
the station, to meet father!
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And what did he bring you?
- A story book and this ball!
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Let me play a bit too...
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Eh! What about playing outside?
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May I go too?
- No, you're not going!
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Armando, look that girl there
who looks like your sister
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That one there...
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Looks like, but she is not.
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She's now living near Miranda.
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We haven't seen her for a whole
year, since she got married.
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Armando!
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Eh! Do you want to go to the brook?
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Last year, on your sister's wedding
day we also went to the brook.
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Do you remember, Carlos?
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Armando, Armando
look here!
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Rui! What kind of stone is this?
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It's a thunderbolt!
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When there is a violent thunder-
storm... there is lightning...
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...which drills
through the ground...
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...and then a very dark,
heavy stone, comes out!
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- Mother!
- Listen, your uncle Henrique...
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Mother! The dike was like
a loom in the afternoon!
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Listen, your uncle Henrique is
going to the Big House today.
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Would you want to go there?
He has given permission.
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Wait! He also said you could bring
the boat that's in the bedroom.
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How's your husband?
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He's hanging, you know...
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Has he sent you good news?
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He has sent news, the poor.
He's there with a lot of work.
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As for me, I'm here with the kids...
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My daughter Mariana got married
and moved to Itanes... life goes.
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Where is my little Armando?
- He went home...
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Mother. I went to
the Big House just now with Armando.
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You took so long to come back
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And the boat the uncle gave you,
what happened to it?
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I forgot it. We found
a new gramophone there...
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...ask Armando to tell you.
It's so beautiful!
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If only uncle would give me
that gramophone...
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The inside has the form of a stork.
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You can close it as if it
were a suitcase!
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How I'd like to have
that gramophone...
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See you later.
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A picture of a boy...
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...a two equal beds room,
the books...
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...it must be my father...
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Mother. What was grandfather like?
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Grandfather loved you,
my dear.
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But I don't remember him!
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You were very little
when he died...
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It was winter and it
snowed heavily...
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...the branches of the trees would
bend down by the weight of the snow.
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The roads were deep,
very deep in snow...
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Mother. Did grandfather
love you too?
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Yes, he did. He loved me tenderly.
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Was he rich?
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No, silly dear.
He wasn't rich.
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But wasn't he down there...
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Oh yes, he went to Argentina...
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00:28:18,758 --> 00:28:21,098
...but he came back as
rich as he went...
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I thought he was rich, because
the Big House was shut up...
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At that time grandfather belonged
to an important family.
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He was very young and he ended up like
his brother emigrating to Argentina.
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And you, mother?
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I'll tell you, later...
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Mother, tell how you
got to know grandfather!
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I was ten...
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...my mother was poor...
there were three of us...
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...me, my mother and my grandmother.
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00:30:14,777 --> 00:30:17,451
My mother could do several jobs.
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It was her who baked
the bread of the village...
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...for this one and for one or two
other villages around here.
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One afternoon I was playing
while working for my mother
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...when I heard my grandmother call:
"Ilda! Ilda!"
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I didn't know what she wanted
when she told me to hurry up.
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It was only when I got home
that I learned I had to dress...
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...to create a good impression
on my father...
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I didn't kown him. I'd
never seen him before.
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- Mother...
- Now you must go to sleep.
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Once upon a time...
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How long have you been there?
- Not long.
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00:44:48,569 --> 00:44:51,696
Do you want to stay with us
here in the cave?
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No, we want to go home.
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Don't go! No one in the village
will recognize you.
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00:45:00,434 --> 00:45:03,142
No, we really want to go home.
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00:46:26,059 --> 00:46:29,457
I can already see
our village from here.
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I can make my house out.
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No, it isn't my house...
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00:46:37,669 --> 00:46:42,119
It seems to be Montesinho. But I
can't see my house, either.
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00:46:59,346 --> 00:47:02,168
What's the name of this village?
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00:47:14,126 --> 00:47:17,214
Where does Mr. Armando Manuel live?
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And Mr. Luis Ferreira's?
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00:47:21,597 --> 00:47:23,895
They died many, many years ago.
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They are our grandfathers in
the seventh generation...
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00:47:28,573 --> 00:47:31,831
But how come you to speak
about them now?
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00:47:33,806 --> 00:47:36,799
But we are Luis
and Armando!
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What d'you say, you rascals?
How dare you pull our leg?
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00:47:43,433 --> 00:47:46,092
How dare you play such
pranks on us?
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00:47:51,443 --> 00:47:55,384
But how can two boys like us be
their own grandfathers?
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00:47:56,763 --> 00:47:59,034
Maybe a white dove...
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00:47:59,714 --> 00:48:02,889
...maybe a black dove
were the season...
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00:48:04,130 --> 00:48:07,241
...there close to the
mysterious cave.
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00:48:08,143 --> 00:48:11,421
Maybe our stroll hasn't
lasted a few hours...
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00:48:15,939 --> 00:48:19,368
some few hours but many,
many years, some centuries...
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00:49:32,008 --> 00:49:35,299
My sorrow has no likeness in this
world, as long as life goes like this
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00:49:38,599 --> 00:49:40,956
Now I am dying for thee,
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oh, my lady red and white!
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Picture thee shall I, you say,
Having seen you with no veil.
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What wretched day I woke up
and found you not a bit ugly!
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In the name of God, amen.
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That all those who lay eyes on
this letter and read shall know...
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...that I Don Dinis
by the grace of God...
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...King of Portugal and
the Algarve...
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...give and award unto thee,
Branca Lourenco
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...my town of Mirandela with all
its things old and new...
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...rights, rightnesses,
revenues, advowsons...
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...and with every power and
royal right I have in that town...
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...you shall be made to
possess all your life.
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And all this by the purchase
of your body.
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And so that this grant may be
stronger and undoubted...
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I have given thee Branca Lourenco
this letter of mine sealed...
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...with my lead signet ring.
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Written in Lisboa on the
twenty eighth day of June.
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The King ordered it.
Afonso Martins wrote it.
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In the year thirteen
hundred and thirty nine.
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How old these books are!
Where did you get them?
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Oh, who knows. I think they were at my
grandfather's or great-grandfather's.
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00:53:38,395 --> 00:53:39,903
Look, there's Italy!
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00:53:40,961 --> 00:53:42,738
Look at the Sir with
a moustache!
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00:53:43,023 --> 00:53:44,867
Look at the flag!
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00:53:46,078 --> 00:53:48,292
Oh, look! This man's
playing the guitar...
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Let's leave this one. Let's
see another, shall we?
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00:53:56,654 --> 00:53:58,014
Yes, let's!
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Orthographic crossreferring
vocabulary!
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Hey, Armando. You can stay there.
Come here, Carlitos!
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...we must write to father...
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Adrito, we were very happy
to receive a letter from you.
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I'm going to give you a
geography lesson;
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I'm the sun and you're
the earth.
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...Everyone is good, thank God.
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But you can't be the earth!
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We really miss you coming
to see us.
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00:56:54,872 --> 00:56:59,422
You sent word you were working
in Paris.
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I was already very happy
with that...
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...you should come back when you
want to, for I miss you so.
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I'm forever working and
feeding our young cattle...
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The money you sent me
was little...
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...but I still manage as
well as I can.
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I've already sold a calf,
you know.
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They gave little
money for it.
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...but maybe now I'll be able to
pay back all that we owe.
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And on one side of the river...
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...there was a flock of white sheep.
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On the other side there was
a flock of black sheep.
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And as one white
sheep bleated...
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...one of the black sheep
would come across...
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...and would be white...
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...and as one of the black
sheep bleated...
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00:58:33,469 --> 00:58:35,861
...one of the black white sheep
would come across...
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...and would become black.
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00:58:38,612 --> 00:58:42,243
A tree that grew
on the river bank...
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... and half of it
was burning...
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...from its root to
its tip...
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... while the other half was
covered with green leaves.
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00:59:20,304 --> 00:59:25,018
We're finally going to have rain
for the wheat and the rye.
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Hello! How are you keeping?
- Hello! Not bad, you know.
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And what about you, are you fine too?
More or less, not bad either.
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How's my brother
Francisco?
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Poor soul is still ill there...
Getting worse and worse.
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00:59:42,708 --> 00:59:44,999
I've already told him to come
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But you know, he wouldn't come...
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00:59:46,816 --> 00:59:49,822
As far as I'm concerned
mines are always like that...
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they get in there and they
begin to earn some money...
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00:59:53,424 --> 00:59:55,871
But it doesn't pay. They all have
silicosis, they're all...
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He left home full of life...
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Those afternoons full of
heart-rending cries...
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...the whole village was
panic-stricken...
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...the workers' quarter
looked like, I don't know...
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01:00:07,067 --> 01:00:09,626
...a anthill of distressed women,
everything was paralysed...
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01:00:09,787 --> 01:00:12,267
...only the machines
couldn't stop...
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01:00:12,590 --> 01:00:14,684
...they all continued
working, normally...
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...the machines were impassive,
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but these people...
they ran fast...
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01:00:20,211 --> 01:00:22,759
...the old folks stood
there waiting...
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01:00:22,936 --> 01:00:26,654
...And then coming down the hill,
in helmets came the youngsters...
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...they were still kids
in manly gear...
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...helmet, gasometer and
large boots like men's...
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...they helped the miners;
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Those kids escaped in terror...
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01:00:38,311 --> 01:00:40,742
...what had happened
...and they came and told
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01:00:40,959 --> 01:00:43,618
...that it was such mine
that collapsed...
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01:00:43,908 --> 01:00:46,165
...it was this or that pile
that rolled down...
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01:00:46,310 --> 01:00:49,636
...that it was this guy who
worked with the machine and
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01:00:49,794 --> 01:00:51,943
...the whole ceiling came
down on him...
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...and there they remained...
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...and then the families
began to get together...
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...they
began to gather.
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And then in such a close-down,
promiscuous environment...
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01:01:01,405 --> 01:01:04,123
...what happens down
there in the mines where...
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...the quarters of the mines
that is, the houses are...
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built very close together...
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01:01:09,468 --> 01:01:12,212
...looking like kids'
constructions all glued together...
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01:01:12,346 --> 01:01:15,051
...they all have the same
window they all have...
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01:01:15,246 --> 01:01:18,430
...a door as well, a tiny stair
with only two steps and...
239
01:01:18,770 --> 01:01:22,762
...where you can give a message from wall to wall...
those people know one another
240
01:01:22,924 --> 01:01:25,157
...they date each other
through the walls...
241
01:01:25,324 --> 01:01:29,039
...and after a few years
those people are all near kin...
242
01:01:29,225 --> 01:01:31,487
...when there aren't
really related...
243
01:01:31,663 --> 01:01:34,012
...there's at least some
ties of friendship...
244
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:37,285
...or other form of
close relationship.
245
01:01:38,443 --> 01:01:41,445
There's something funny
about these communities...
246
01:01:41,785 --> 01:01:44,085
...the people marry one another,
the people...
247
01:01:44,279 --> 01:01:46,217
...are sons and daughters
of those...
248
01:01:46,337 --> 01:01:49,112
...other are cousins, others
grandsons, other sons-in-law...
249
01:01:49,287 --> 01:01:52,195
...others are I don't know what.
250
01:01:52,357 --> 01:01:54,897
And when there isn't
anything of the kind...
251
01:01:55,054 --> 01:01:57,942
...people avoid to segregate
anybody and they even say:
252
01:01:58,102 --> 01:02:01,062
so-and-so will be
godfather to our next daughter.
253
01:02:01,223 --> 01:02:04,641
And in the end all are
connected with the rest.
254
01:02:06,927 --> 01:02:10,230
Such a disaster hits
everybody and deeply.
255
01:05:18,542 --> 01:05:22,522
And there were some who
reported gay events...
256
01:05:22,686 --> 01:05:24,859
...some who reported
sad ones but...
257
01:05:25,022 --> 01:05:28,253
...in the end what was
most tragic still was that...
258
01:05:28,722 --> 01:05:31,752
...they told those things
and the people...
259
01:05:32,476 --> 01:05:35,262
...who accompanied
that long funeral...
260
01:05:36,843 --> 01:05:41,290
...which lasted days, well those
people were absolutely sure...
261
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,214
...that a few weeks later,
a year later...
262
01:05:45,420 --> 01:05:49,196
...they'd be the protagonists
of another similar play.
263
01:05:57,677 --> 01:06:00,376
But I don't know...
my land today... alas!
264
01:06:00,550 --> 01:06:02,749
My land had so
many people...
265
01:06:02,922 --> 01:06:05,586
...it was a place where
you could live...
266
01:06:05,752 --> 01:06:08,314
...and today it is a
a land of absentees.
267
01:06:08,483 --> 01:06:10,880
They have their names there...
268
01:06:11,044 --> 01:06:13,170
they have their
emptiness there...
269
01:06:13,195 --> 01:06:14,996
... here lived such
and such a man...
270
01:06:15,075 --> 01:06:17,297
and so-and-so.
271
01:07:29,552 --> 01:07:31,492
The little place where we were born...
272
01:07:31,888 --> 01:07:34,741
...is not very near
the frontier...
273
01:07:34,765 --> 01:07:36,450
...on the contrary!
274
01:07:36,961 --> 01:07:41,910
Distance that undoubtedly...
...no one of us has ever been there.
275
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,403
So many are the high
desert plateaux...
276
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,791
...so many are the fertile
plains to cross!
277
01:07:50,463 --> 01:07:53,767
And however much
farther than the frontier...
278
01:07:54,244 --> 01:07:55,994
if we're allowed to
compare such distances...
279
01:07:56,365 --> 01:07:58,518
...much more remote even
than the frontier...
280
01:07:58,637 --> 01:08:00,049
...there stands the capital.
281
01:08:02,316 --> 01:08:06,565
We occasionally get some news
of fights on the frontier...
282
01:08:08,261 --> 01:08:12,199
...but of the capital
we get practically nothing.
283
01:08:13,942 --> 01:08:17,053
I want to speak from our part, country-
folk, from this place and other...
284
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,281
...because the Government
officials here...
285
01:08:23,816 --> 01:08:27,158
should have better communications
with the capital.
286
01:08:29,269 --> 01:08:35,466
They do not get any order or
message from down there in...
287
01:08:35,927 --> 01:08:37,754
...but two or three months later
288
01:08:39,669 --> 01:08:41,629
if you are to
trust what they say.
289
01:08:42,755 --> 01:08:44,993
It is strange therefore...
290
01:08:45,516 --> 01:08:48,553
and it amazes
me to see us...
291
01:08:48,887 --> 01:08:50,640
...all quiet and still
in our small village...
292
01:08:50,812 --> 01:08:52,087
...with all the measures...
293
01:08:52,112 --> 01:08:54,295
...taken in the capital.
294
01:08:54,667 --> 01:08:57,100
For this place's folk,
the capital...
295
01:08:57,182 --> 01:09:00,908
...is still more unknown
than the next world itself!
296
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,724
Can a town really exist...
297
01:09:04,911 --> 01:09:07,101
...that where as far as the
eye can reach...
298
01:09:07,170 --> 01:09:09,448
...one house touches another...
299
01:09:09,804 --> 01:09:14,714
...in a flock bigger than what is
seen from our hills, and where...
300
01:09:15,314 --> 01:09:20,415
...among those houses, men
press in multitudes?
301
01:09:32,238 --> 01:09:36,382
Such is the impression these
folk have about their king.
302
01:09:37,192 --> 01:09:40,633
These folk don't know which
king reigns at present...
303
01:09:41,321 --> 01:09:44,750
...and even the name of the
dynasty remains obscure.
304
01:09:48,161 --> 01:09:52,258
In our villages kings have since
long left the throne...
305
01:09:55,868 --> 01:09:59,326
...and that king who lives
in legend only...
306
01:10:00,447 --> 01:10:03,285
...has just now delivered
a decree which the priest...
307
01:10:03,428 --> 01:10:06,384
...reads aloud at the foot
of the altar.
308
01:10:11,943 --> 01:10:16,345
In the capital
kings succeeded others...
309
01:10:17,739 --> 01:10:21,276
...whole dynasties died out
or crumbled down...
310
01:10:21,348 --> 01:10:23,496
...others were then founded.
311
01:10:25,046 --> 01:10:28,825
In the last century the
very capital was destroyed;
312
01:10:29,712 --> 01:10:32,388
...another one was erected
a long way off...
313
01:10:32,422 --> 01:10:34,067
...which was destroyed
as well...
314
01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:37,211
...so the ancient one
was reconstructed...
315
01:10:38,105 --> 01:10:41,720
...and all this didn't present
any repercussion...
316
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,478
...in our little village life.
317
01:10:46,323 --> 01:10:50,000
Our administration hasn't changed.
318
01:10:54,559 --> 01:10:58,226
The biggest officials always
come from the capital;
319
01:10:59,314 --> 01:11:03,979
...the less important ones, if they
don't, they come at least from outside;
320
01:11:04,634 --> 01:11:07,932
...only the smallest one are
men from our village.
321
01:11:09,377 --> 01:11:11,360
Nothing changed.
322
01:11:11,858 --> 01:11:14,462
And we felt happy about it.
323
01:11:30,643 --> 01:11:35,159
One, two, three, four, five.
324
01:11:40,998 --> 01:11:41,995
Thirteen and three?
325
01:11:42,650 --> 01:11:44,644
Sixteen. Throw it!
326
01:12:22,034 --> 01:12:23,846
What happened?
What happened?
327
01:12:24,140 --> 01:12:26,489
He fell over the pigeon-loft.
328
01:12:26,668 --> 01:12:28,570
It's nothing, it's nothing...
329
01:12:28,702 --> 01:12:31,406
My dear, shut up for me
to sing you a song...
330
01:12:31,589 --> 01:12:33,976
...it was nothing, you see.
331
01:12:34,623 --> 01:12:37,687
"Those men shall rise and dance."
332
01:12:39,256 --> 01:12:42,583
That's nothing, young man,
come on!
333
01:12:49,590 --> 01:12:52,373
You can already take
the calves to pasture...
334
01:12:52,533 --> 01:12:54,681
...they're pretty big now!
335
01:12:54,844 --> 01:12:57,118
There you are, you're ready now.
336
01:12:57,688 --> 01:13:00,655
There's no one who can fool the
law ordains...
337
01:13:03,095 --> 01:13:05,924
...Tell those men who laugh
to rise up and rise up...
338
01:13:11,537 --> 01:13:14,486
Tell those men to rise and dance.
339
01:16:14,622 --> 01:16:17,669
This is what the folk do with
the memories of the past;
340
01:16:18,161 --> 01:16:21,711
...as for today's, they mix
them up with the dead.
341
01:16:28,718 --> 01:16:32,114
The people know nothing
about the laws:
342
01:16:32,809 --> 01:16:35,051
The laws are a secret of the
small group...
343
01:16:35,076 --> 01:16:37,006
...of noblemen who govern us.
344
01:16:39,930 --> 01:16:42,083
What torture it is to be
governed by laws...
345
01:16:42,108 --> 01:16:44,417
...we don't know about.
346
01:16:50,142 --> 01:16:54,327
I won't even mention the
different interpretations...
347
01:16:54,500 --> 01:16:57,140
...they make at their own will...
348
01:16:59,654 --> 01:17:02,612
...not even the evil in
the interpretations...
349
01:17:02,725 --> 01:17:04,720
...chosen by the small number
of privileged people...
350
01:17:04,761 --> 01:17:06,446
...to the rest of the country's loss.
351
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:27,317
It is said that the laws
exist and have always existed...
352
01:17:27,393 --> 01:17:31,696
...as a secret entrusted
to powerful and noblemen only ...
353
01:17:32,112 --> 01:17:34,402
...and only for their own profit.
354
01:17:42,621 --> 01:17:45,493
But that can be no more than an
old tradition.
355
01:18:25,529 --> 01:18:29,516
Those laws that we are oblivious about,
and that we pursue with patience...
356
01:18:30,542 --> 01:18:33,359
...for we mean to solve
them for a long time,
357
01:18:33,998 --> 01:18:36,573
are only wild imaginations,
nothing more.
358
01:18:37,655 --> 01:18:41,083
Maybe in truth they don't exist,
after all.
359
01:20:54,613 --> 01:20:56,882
Listen, I'll be leaving.
I'm going home.
360
01:21:06,323 --> 01:21:08,850
Don't forget to
drop by Mariana's...
361
01:21:09,535 --> 01:21:12,388
...and see whether the child
is any better:
362
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,946
I have to put these
threads together first.
363
01:21:17,434 --> 01:21:19,279
Hello neighbour,
how are you doing?
364
01:21:19,468 --> 01:21:21,558
She's quite all right, thank God.
365
01:21:21,623 --> 01:21:23,183
Why hasn't she... yet...?
366
01:21:23,526 --> 01:21:24,811
No, she hasn't yet. But she's
about to...
367
01:21:26,841 --> 01:21:28,025
...And the Doctor sure is coming.
368
01:21:28,239 --> 01:21:30,389
The first time is
rather painful, eh?
369
01:21:30,554 --> 01:21:32,344
It is. But we all must suffer...
370
01:21:33,113 --> 01:21:35,493
...we must suffer a little bit...
371
01:21:35,518 --> 01:21:37,834
Tell her I wish she gets well soon.
372
01:21:38,158 --> 01:21:39,565
Now I'll stop by
Mariana's...
373
01:21:39,607 --> 01:21:42,128
And I'll stop by our neighbour's.
374
01:21:55,138 --> 01:21:56,815
Mariana!
375
01:22:02,543 --> 01:22:03,995
Good afternoon.
376
01:22:04,081 --> 01:22:07,482
Is the little girl better?
- She's sleeping now...
377
01:22:07,532 --> 01:22:09,628
She had a very hard time
during the night.
378
01:22:09,764 --> 01:22:11,544
Listen, I just passed at
Domingos'...
379
01:22:12,893 --> 01:22:14,234
...as his wife is ill...
380
01:22:14,972 --> 01:22:16,727
as she's about to have their
first baby...
381
01:22:16,964 --> 01:22:18,854
So they called for the
city doctor...
382
01:22:19,121 --> 01:22:22,022
...and they came to ask you
of you wanted me to tell...
383
01:22:22,383 --> 01:22:24,109
...the doctor to come
and see the girl...
384
01:22:25,218 --> 01:22:27,371
I'd be truly grateful.
Yes, if you please.
385
01:22:27,557 --> 01:22:30,535
All right, I'll go and make
sure if he can come...
386
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:32,512
...and then I'll tell you.
387
01:23:51,041 --> 01:23:53,757
They still have something to
eat for now...
388
01:23:54,251 --> 01:23:57,193
...Only last Winter
poor little things!
389
01:26:28,068 --> 01:26:30,951
Mariana! The doctor's
already arrived.
390
01:26:31,548 --> 01:26:34,127
He's coming to see the little girl...
391
01:26:34,596 --> 01:26:37,708
...and now everything
will be all right.
392
01:27:47,137 --> 01:27:49,329
Mariana!
393
01:27:49,353 --> 01:27:51,306
Good afternoon!
- A good afternoon, if God will!
394
01:27:51,477 --> 01:27:52,535
Are you feeling better?
395
01:27:52,701 --> 01:27:55,890
I'm a bit better,
but we're already old...
396
01:28:04,669 --> 01:28:07,083
I was twelve or something...
397
01:28:07,775 --> 01:28:09,999
...and from twelve to
eighty three...
398
01:28:11,070 --> 01:28:13,771
are the years I have
of our craft...
399
01:28:13,885 --> 01:28:17,072
Around sixty or seventy years...
400
01:28:17,184 --> 01:28:19,823
...and I miss the craft
so much!
401
01:28:20,060 --> 01:28:21,983
I can't... my eyesight...
402
01:28:22,239 --> 01:28:24,947
...my sight is not as it was,
my eyes...
403
01:28:25,252 --> 01:28:26,955
I never come here.
404
01:28:27,161 --> 01:28:29,615
...but whenever I pass by that
door I can't help coming in.
405
01:28:29,994 --> 01:28:31,673
...as I was born and
bread in this...
406
01:28:31,755 --> 01:28:33,618
I developed this love
for the craft.
407
01:28:33,783 --> 01:28:35,210
I didn't work for money...
408
01:28:35,351 --> 01:28:37,839
I worked for I
loved the craft...
409
01:28:41,113 --> 01:28:43,637
And so the time passed,
like this...
410
01:28:43,810 --> 01:28:46,556
Well, when time comes how are
we going to manage?
411
01:28:46,707 --> 01:28:48,710
I don't know. Badly,
I think...
412
01:28:48,885 --> 01:28:51,589
But you will manage
somehow.
413
01:28:54,099 --> 01:28:56,451
...but agriculture needs him...
...a blacksmith...
414
01:28:58,143 --> 01:29:01,038
We should have someone here...
415
01:29:35,336 --> 01:29:38,388
Now the folk run to
foreign countries...
416
01:29:38,773 --> 01:29:41,664
There's nobody who will want
to work these days...
417
01:29:58,569 --> 01:30:00,948
Good afternoon, Luisa!
- Good afternoon, Mr.
418
01:30:01,067 --> 01:30:02,449
What are you doing?
419
01:30:02,569 --> 01:30:05,296
What? Wasting time...
- How about Zeca da Mar?
420
01:30:05,414 --> 01:30:08,571
He's doing some work for
Antonio Roque...
421
01:30:09,399 --> 01:30:11,492
Good, good, that's fine...
422
01:30:14,857 --> 01:30:18,093
See you later , eh?
- See you later.
423
01:31:58,336 --> 01:32:01,102
Any news?
- My father wrote yesterday...
424
01:32:01,206 --> 01:32:04,402
...my mother's not here,
he wrote from Germany!
425
01:32:38,158 --> 01:32:42,489
Come closer!
That's perfect, son...
426
01:32:46,491 --> 01:32:47,929
...a fish...
427
01:32:53,300 --> 01:32:55,935
A little closer, come on,
let's get that one...
428
01:32:56,390 --> 01:32:59,641
The fish won't get out...
- It's got to, son!
429
01:33:00,797 --> 01:33:04,121
It's twisted, look!
Let me take it out.
430
01:33:04,252 --> 01:33:06,062
Do you see? Now,
look at me...
431
01:33:06,087 --> 01:33:08,621
You have to take it
out like this, look...
432
01:33:08,646 --> 01:33:12,222
You have to look for a way
in the pockets. D'you want to see?
433
01:33:12,644 --> 01:33:14,734
Now it's almost done.
434
01:33:14,872 --> 01:33:17,966
Look, look, grab it
from the side of you.
435
01:33:18,297 --> 01:33:20,385
Now it's going to fall back...
436
01:33:20,410 --> 01:33:22,411
...there, it's coming out.
437
01:33:22,436 --> 01:33:25,376
And another one again!
Wait there again!
438
01:33:39,484 --> 01:33:41,455
Germany.
439
01:33:46,687 --> 01:33:48,187
Spain.
440
01:36:35,283 --> 01:36:39,083
In Trás-os-Montes, in the
district of Braganca...
441
01:36:39,206 --> 01:36:42,216
...there is a small village
called Constantim.
442
01:36:42,938 --> 01:36:46,181
It locates very far from
the big city.
443
01:36:46,290 --> 01:36:48,636
It has rye-fields,
444
01:36:48,773 --> 01:36:51,383
and the shade of
ancient oaks.
445
01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:54,796
The looms rattle cheerfully.
446
01:36:55,973 --> 01:37:00,884
The ox-carts creak along
the narrow streets.
447
01:37:01,967 --> 01:37:05,467
Girls go to fetch water
in the fountain...
448
01:37:06,177 --> 01:37:09,178
And the boys go gather dry sticks.
449
01:37:10,468 --> 01:37:13,057
The inhabitants of
Constantim are poor.
450
01:37:13,385 --> 01:37:17,442
When alive, they are the dwellers
of Constantim.
451
01:37:18,907 --> 01:37:23,428
If dead, they are the folk
of the village of Constantim.
452
01:41:21,523 --> 01:41:23,652
Mother! A letter's just arrived!
- Who is it from, son?
453
01:41:23,709 --> 01:41:26,289
It's from aunt Matilde,
from Casal Ventoso.
454
01:41:37,441 --> 01:41:40,005
Luis, when are you
going to Oporto to study?
455
01:41:40,030 --> 01:41:42,695
Casal Ventoso, 15.1.1970.
456
01:41:42,949 --> 01:41:46,035
Dear sister, I have
much hope that this letter...
457
01:41:46,783 --> 01:41:53,464
of mine will find you happy
and in perfect health...
458
01:41:53,773 --> 01:41:59,732
...and that I may be presently doing
well at the moment, thank God.
459
01:42:07,456 --> 01:42:13,773
...Receive my wishes 1000 other
times for you and Antonio...
460
01:42:13,798 --> 01:42:16,592
...Farewell, I'll wait
for your answer...
461
01:42:18,258 --> 01:42:26,087
...a warm embrace for uncle
Domingos and Constantim...
462
01:42:26,994 --> 01:42:34,449
I embrace Jorge and
Luciano as well...
463
01:42:35,588 --> 01:42:40,776
...and will you tell
Clementina to write me...
464
01:42:42,704 --> 01:42:44,958
address...
465
01:42:47,065 --> 01:42:54,846
Goodbye and don't you
forget to write... Matilde.
466
01:43:39,559 --> 01:43:41,586
Nobody stays here...
467
01:43:44,379 --> 01:43:47,114
...Yesterday Mariana's
daughter went away...
468
01:43:47,949 --> 01:43:51,287
...tomorrow, God knows
who's going to leave...
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