1 00:02:06,753 --> 00:02:10,340 Yes, Salvatore Di Vita. 2 00:02:14,385 --> 00:02:17,847 You mean you don't know him, Miss? 3 00:02:17,972 --> 00:02:21,601 That's right, and I'm his mother. 4 00:02:21,726 --> 00:02:26,856 I've been calling from Sicily, all clay long. 5 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:32,320 I see... he's not there. 6 00:02:34,489 --> 00:02:37,700 Could you please give me his number? 7 00:02:40,244 --> 00:02:44,666 65622056. 8 00:02:44,791 --> 00:02:46,876 Thank you. Goodbye. 9 00:02:51,964 --> 00:02:53,758 It's useless to call. 10 00:02:54,384 --> 00:02:56,761 He's busy. God knows where he is. 11 00:02:56,886 --> 00:02:59,138 He won't even remember. 12 00:03:00,390 --> 00:03:02,767 Forget it. 13 00:03:02,892 --> 00:03:05,895 He hasn't been here for 30 years. 14 00:03:07,605 --> 00:03:09,273 You know what he's like. 15 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,487 He'll remember. 16 00:03:14,612 --> 00:03:18,408 I'm sure he will. I know him better than you do. 17 00:03:18,533 --> 00:03:22,745 If he finds out we didn't tell him, he'll be angry. 18 00:03:24,247 --> 00:03:30,044 I'd like to talk to Signor Salvatore Di Vita. I'm his mother. 19 00:04:05,788 --> 00:04:08,666 What the fuck are you looking at? 20 00:04:58,758 --> 00:05:02,929 Salvatore... what time is it? 21 00:05:04,931 --> 00:05:06,974 It's late. 22 00:05:09,685 --> 00:05:14,440 Sorry, I couldn't phone to say I'd be late. 23 00:05:16,025 --> 00:05:18,945 Go back to sleep. 24 00:05:22,156 --> 00:05:24,367 Your mother phoned. 25 00:05:25,827 --> 00:05:27,995 She thought I was someone else. 26 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:31,249 What did you tell her? 27 00:05:31,374 --> 00:05:36,504 Nothing, I didn't want to disappoint her. We had a long chat. 28 00:05:38,422 --> 00:05:41,300 She said you've not visited her for 30 years. 29 00:05:41,425 --> 00:05:43,928 She must come to see you. 30 00:05:44,887 --> 00:05:47,056 She called just to say that? 31 00:05:51,686 --> 00:05:57,817 No, she said someone's died. Someone called Alfredo. 32 00:05:58,526 --> 00:06:00,903 The funeral is tomorrow. 33 00:06:02,154 --> 00:06:04,907 Who is he? A relative? 34 00:06:07,076 --> 00:06:10,872 No... go back to sleep. 35 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:27,615 How can I say Mass with this boy? 36 00:07:42,129 --> 00:07:43,422 Toto! 37 00:07:55,810 --> 00:07:57,645 Thank God for that! 38 00:07:58,312 --> 00:07:59,689 How do I have to tell you? 39 00:07:59,814 --> 00:08:02,525 Without the bell, I don't know where I am. 40 00:08:02,650 --> 00:08:07,029 Always asleep! What do you do at night? Eat? 41 00:08:07,154 --> 00:08:11,409 Father Adelfio, at home we don't even eat at lunchtime. 42 00:08:11,534 --> 00:08:15,037 The vet says that's why I'm tired. 43 00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:18,749 I'll tell you why you're tired. Think I don't know? 44 00:08:18,874 --> 00:08:22,169 Run along now, I've something to do. 45 00:08:22,294 --> 00:08:24,380 - Can I come with you? - No, you can't. 46 00:08:25,631 --> 00:08:28,342 Toto, go away! 47 00:08:40,688 --> 00:08:42,398 Alfredo! 48 00:08:47,820 --> 00:08:49,613 You can start. 49 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:04,336 Here we go again. 50 00:09:22,313 --> 00:09:25,524 The frame! 51 00:09:35,659 --> 00:09:38,454 THE LOWER DEPTHS 52 00:09:56,931 --> 00:09:59,850 One day, everything will be ours. 53 00:10:00,768 --> 00:10:03,437 We'll go away together. 54 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:06,565 To live the good life... 55 00:10:07,358 --> 00:10:09,193 ...where no one knows us. 56 00:10:09,735 --> 00:10:11,946 Stop dreaming. 57 00:10:12,696 --> 00:10:15,116 You don't love me any more. 58 00:10:16,242 --> 00:10:18,035 Why? 59 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:36,846 I'd have preferred a good word. 60 00:10:36,971 --> 00:10:39,932 - I can '1'. - Oh, well. 61 00:12:26,747 --> 00:12:29,583 100 lire! Pure nylon! 62 00:12:46,183 --> 00:12:48,686 You mustn't come here. 63 00:12:48,811 --> 00:12:50,980 How many times do I have to tell you? 64 00:12:51,105 --> 00:12:52,523 You're only little. 65 00:12:52,648 --> 00:12:57,444 If there's a fire, you'll go up in smoke. 66 00:12:57,569 --> 00:13:00,489 "And turn into a piece of charcoal." 67 00:13:03,117 --> 00:13:05,369 You've got a big mouth. 68 00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:08,414 One of these days I'll cut it off. 69 00:13:10,416 --> 00:13:12,334 Like that. 70 00:13:25,931 --> 00:13:27,725 Can I have it? 71 00:13:28,642 --> 00:13:30,894 Please can I have it? 72 00:13:32,354 --> 00:13:34,898 Well, can I or not? 73 00:13:37,568 --> 00:13:39,069 Are you deaf or something? 74 00:13:39,194 --> 00:13:41,989 I have to splice it back before I return the film. 75 00:13:42,114 --> 00:13:45,075 You're such a pest! 76 00:13:46,076 --> 00:13:51,332 Then why didn't you splice these before you returned the films? 77 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:58,172 Well, sometimes I can't find the right place, so they stay here. 78 00:13:58,297 --> 00:14:00,215 They kiss too much, anyway. 79 00:14:01,925 --> 00:14:05,929 - Then I can have these. - Now you listen to me. 80 00:14:09,058 --> 00:14:11,977 Let's make a deal, before I kick you up the arse. 81 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:16,357 - All these are yours, a present. - Thank you. 82 00:14:16,482 --> 00:14:20,944 But first, you don't come here again. Second, I keep them here. Get it? 83 00:14:21,528 --> 00:14:24,823 OK, so we're agreed. Now, scram! 84 00:14:37,169 --> 00:14:39,421 What kind of deal is that? 85 00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:42,758 If they're mine, how come you keep them? 86 00:14:47,221 --> 00:14:49,723 Don't come back or I'll thrash you! 87 00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:00,442 "Shoot first, think later. 88 00:15:01,151 --> 00:15:05,989 "This is no job for weaklings, cuckolds and traitors. 89 00:15:10,244 --> 00:15:14,998 "Hey, you bastard! Hands off that gold! 90 00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:22,172 "Stay away from me, you dirty swine... 91 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:26,009 "...or I'll smash your face in!" 92 00:15:44,653 --> 00:15:48,031 If the war's over, why doesn't Dad come back? 93 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:52,578 He'll come back, you'll see. One of these clays. 94 00:15:54,037 --> 00:15:58,167 I don't remember him anymore. Where is Russia? 95 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:04,006 It takes years to get there... and years to come back. 96 00:16:05,757 --> 00:16:08,260 Go to bed, Toto. It's late. 97 00:16:45,047 --> 00:16:47,633 You can fool your mother, but not me. 98 00:16:48,717 --> 00:16:53,722 Get your piece of paper and join the police, you little wretch! 99 00:17:02,773 --> 00:17:04,608 Come on! 100 00:17:17,704 --> 00:17:20,832 Well? How much is 5 x 5? 101 00:17:23,961 --> 00:17:24,878 30. 102 00:17:32,970 --> 00:17:36,682 Quiet! The five times table, you dimwit! 103 00:17:36,807 --> 00:17:38,850 1 x 5 = 5. 104 00:17:38,976 --> 00:17:41,687 2 x 5 = 10. 105 00:17:41,812 --> 00:17:44,398 3 x 5 = 15. 106 00:17:44,523 --> 00:17:47,150 4 x 5 = 20. 107 00:17:47,734 --> 00:17:49,695 5 x 5? 108 00:17:50,821 --> 00:17:52,030 40. 109 00:18:01,623 --> 00:18:04,501 Quiet! Quiet! 110 00:18:05,043 --> 00:18:06,336 Boccia! 111 00:18:07,713 --> 00:18:09,548 25. 112 00:18:15,137 --> 00:18:16,930 For the last time... 113 00:18:17,055 --> 00:18:20,475 - 5 x 5? - Christmas! 114 00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:04,186 I've a ticket, I want to see the film. 115 00:19:04,311 --> 00:19:07,439 Get down. You can't stay here. 116 00:19:07,564 --> 00:19:09,650 Go back to your seat! 117 00:19:09,775 --> 00:19:13,737 They're all over the place, like rabbits. 118 00:19:25,540 --> 00:19:28,752 I must go to Oregon. Wait for me at my ranch. 119 00:19:29,961 --> 00:19:31,838 Wait for a dead man? 120 00:19:32,464 --> 00:19:35,509 A star-studded cast 121 00:19:35,634 --> 00:19:39,262 featuring John Wayne, Claire Trevor... 122 00:19:51,650 --> 00:19:55,487 Good evening, everyone! Can't I say hello? 123 00:19:55,612 --> 00:19:59,950 - Double-bill today. - So what? I come here to sleep. 124 00:20:06,998 --> 00:20:09,209 Cut the news, Alfredo! 125 00:20:12,504 --> 00:20:14,715 ITALY DOESN'T FORGET. RESISTANCE RALLY. 126 00:20:15,507 --> 00:20:18,093 Quiet! This is important. 127 00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:23,724 The men and women who fought in the Resistance 128 00:20:23,849 --> 00:20:27,519 are reunited in Rome for the First Resistance Rally 129 00:20:27,644 --> 00:20:32,899 organised by CVL. Prime Minister Parri... 130 00:20:48,248 --> 00:20:50,500 Hello, everybody! 131 00:20:52,294 --> 00:20:56,798 - Can we watch the film or what? - You shut up, then. 132 00:20:56,923 --> 00:20:59,718 THE EARTH TREMBLES - EPISODE OF THE SEA 133 00:20:59,843 --> 00:21:02,179 Featuring SICILIAN FISHERMEN 134 00:21:20,822 --> 00:21:21,948 What does it say? 135 00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:25,452 - Who knows? I'm illiterate. - You too? 136 00:21:30,874 --> 00:21:35,045 The Italian language is not spoken by the poor in Sicily. 137 00:21:35,504 --> 00:21:38,465 12 hours of blood and sweat 138 00:21:38,590 --> 00:21:43,637 to take home the bare minimum required not to die of hunger. 139 00:21:44,596 --> 00:21:47,265 And yet, their nets 140 00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:50,977 were full when they pulled them up. 141 00:21:51,102 --> 00:21:55,690 All day fishing, and what do we have to show for it? 142 00:21:55,816 --> 00:21:57,526 That may be so 143 00:21:57,651 --> 00:22:03,240 but what can we do? 144 00:22:31,434 --> 00:22:32,894 I knew it! 145 00:22:34,813 --> 00:22:38,483 20 years going to the cinema, and I've never seen a kiss! 146 00:22:39,317 --> 00:22:41,653 Will we ever? 147 00:22:45,156 --> 00:22:47,075 Son of a bitch! 148 00:22:53,081 --> 00:22:55,792 THE END 149 00:23:47,302 --> 00:23:50,221 - You and you, to work. - What about me, Don Vincenzo? 150 00:23:50,347 --> 00:23:53,892 You? Get a job from Stalin. 151 00:23:54,017 --> 00:23:58,730 Don't you worry, his day will come. 152 00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:00,231 I always get left out. 153 00:24:01,274 --> 00:24:04,861 Nice film. That young man worked ever so hard. 154 00:24:04,986 --> 00:24:06,613 Pity he was so unlucky. 155 00:24:06,738 --> 00:24:09,783 Why did he go and buy that boat? 156 00:24:09,908 --> 00:24:12,827 Idiot! You didn't understand anything. 157 00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:19,584 Right, boys. Here you work from dawn to dusk. 158 00:24:19,709 --> 00:24:22,212 And no questions about pay. 159 00:24:51,366 --> 00:24:53,618 I've been looking for you all clay. Did you buy the milk? 160 00:24:56,121 --> 00:24:58,289 And the money? 161 00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:00,458 Stolen. 162 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:04,421 You went to the cinema? 163 00:25:07,173 --> 00:25:09,342 The cinema! 164 00:25:13,013 --> 00:25:17,767 - Signora Maria, wait! - Leave him alone, you're hurting him. 165 00:25:17,892 --> 00:25:23,565 And you, why do you tell lies? You know you got in free. 166 00:25:23,690 --> 00:25:25,942 Go on, tell your mother. 167 00:25:26,067 --> 00:25:29,821 Maybe he lost it inside. How much? 168 00:25:29,946 --> 00:25:31,531 50 lire. 169 00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:36,828 What did you find under the seats tonight? 170 00:25:41,541 --> 00:25:42,959 A comb... 171 00:25:46,838 --> 00:25:48,506 two heels... 172 00:25:51,634 --> 00:25:52,844 a tobacco pouch... 173 00:25:52,969 --> 00:25:54,262 And... 174 00:25:54,888 --> 00:25:57,348 50 lire. 175 00:26:03,855 --> 00:26:05,732 See? 176 00:26:06,524 --> 00:26:10,779 Thank you, Alfredo. Good night. 177 00:26:10,904 --> 00:26:13,448 - Good morning. - Good night. 178 00:26:21,247 --> 00:26:23,666 I understood right away. 179 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:26,920 The square is mine! 180 00:26:30,882 --> 00:26:37,013 It's midnight! Out! I must close the square. 181 00:28:05,393 --> 00:28:08,062 Hard on the feet, eh, Father? 182 00:28:08,938 --> 00:28:12,192 Going, it's downhill and all the saints help you. 183 00:28:12,317 --> 00:28:16,029 Coming back, the saints just watch. 184 00:28:16,905 --> 00:28:18,573 If it is God's Will... 185 00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:21,242 See you tonight. 186 00:28:26,497 --> 00:28:29,375 What's wrong? Your foot this time? 187 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,794 Always something. 188 00:28:33,421 --> 00:28:35,590 Oh dear, what can we do? 189 00:28:39,761 --> 00:28:42,680 Did you know my father, Alfredo? 190 00:28:42,805 --> 00:28:45,516 Of course I knew him. 191 00:28:45,642 --> 00:28:50,438 Tall, thin, good-tempered, with a moustache like mine. 192 00:28:50,563 --> 00:28:54,108 He always smiled. He looked like Clark Gable. 193 00:28:54,234 --> 00:28:58,988 Now I'm older, Alfredo, and I'm in the fifth year, 194 00:28:59,113 --> 00:29:05,119 I'm not asking to go into the booth, but couldn't we at least be friends? 195 00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:10,750 "I choose my friends for their looks, and my enemies for their intelligence." 196 00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:14,003 You're too clever to be my friend. 197 00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:16,839 I always tell my children 198 00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:20,176 to be careful how they choose their friends. 199 00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:22,845 But you don't have any children. 200 00:29:25,014 --> 00:29:27,642 But when I do, I'll tell them. 201 00:29:32,563 --> 00:29:36,943 Don't cry. It's all right, I'm here. 202 00:29:37,068 --> 00:29:39,654 The fire's out. 203 00:29:41,406 --> 00:29:43,074 Mum, what happened? 204 00:29:43,199 --> 00:29:44,993 You scoundrel! 205 00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:50,498 Your sister could have burned to death because of you! 206 00:29:50,623 --> 00:29:54,419 You'll be the end of me! 207 00:29:55,253 --> 00:29:58,965 I told you not to keep your films near the fire. 208 00:29:59,090 --> 00:30:01,884 You even burned my photos. 209 00:30:11,019 --> 00:30:14,731 - You and your films! - He was burning down the house. 210 00:30:20,236 --> 00:30:24,115 Aren't you ashamed of playing games with him at your age? 211 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,619 - What have I done? - Who gave him the films? 212 00:30:30,788 --> 00:30:33,750 You shouldn't give them to him, he's mad! 213 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:37,545 All he talks about is you and the cinema. 214 00:30:39,047 --> 00:30:42,175 Swear you won't let him in again. 215 00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:46,554 I give you my word. 216 00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:53,936 May God send your father home, he'll deal with you. 217 00:30:54,729 --> 00:30:59,525 Dad is not coming back, and I know why. He's dead. 218 00:31:00,610 --> 00:31:02,028 No, it's not true! 219 00:31:04,489 --> 00:31:06,699 He'll be back, you'll see. 220 00:31:37,397 --> 00:31:43,403 so the good and evil of men comes and goes, and time is like a flowing river." 221 00:31:47,281 --> 00:31:51,869 THE END 222 00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:07,510 They smoke like chimneys. 223 00:32:15,643 --> 00:32:18,604 Go and buy a ticket! 224 00:32:41,878 --> 00:32:45,131 I'll make mincemeat out of you! 225 00:32:59,604 --> 00:33:01,731 Signora Anna! 226 00:33:23,169 --> 00:33:26,964 Don't blame me, your wife told me to bring your lunch. 227 00:33:27,089 --> 00:33:29,884 - Give it to me. - I told Mum 228 00:33:30,009 --> 00:33:34,347 you didn't give me the film. It wasn't your fault. 229 00:33:34,847 --> 00:33:36,807 I thought you were joking when you said 230 00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:39,393 the film could catch fire. 231 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,563 I just wanted to tell you. Now I'll go. 232 00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:47,902 Toto... come here. 233 00:33:50,238 --> 00:33:53,115 Come and sit down. 234 00:33:55,868 --> 00:33:59,872 Now, listen. I started this job when I was ten. 235 00:34:00,748 --> 00:34:03,751 We didn't have these modern machines then. 236 00:34:05,378 --> 00:34:07,713 Films were silent. 237 00:34:07,838 --> 00:34:11,926 You turned the projector by hand with a crank. 238 00:34:12,051 --> 00:34:14,428 All day long! 239 00:34:14,554 --> 00:34:17,139 And it was hard, this damned crank. 240 00:34:18,015 --> 00:34:21,936 If you got tired, and slowed down a bit... 241 00:34:22,979 --> 00:34:26,607 everything was burned, in a flash. 242 00:34:29,068 --> 00:34:34,574 So why don't you teach me, now there's no crank and it's easy? 243 00:34:35,366 --> 00:34:37,326 Because I don't want to, Toto. 244 00:34:38,744 --> 00:34:41,330 This is no job for you. 245 00:34:41,455 --> 00:34:45,668 You work like a slave, always alone. 246 00:34:45,793 --> 00:34:49,297 You watch the same film 100 times. Nothing else to do. 247 00:34:49,422 --> 00:34:53,509 You end up talking to Greta Garbo and Tyrone Power. 248 00:34:53,634 --> 00:34:58,806 Always working. Every holiday, Easter, Christmas... 249 00:34:59,974 --> 00:35:02,184 You only get Good Friday off. 250 00:35:02,310 --> 00:35:08,274 And if they hadn't put Christ on a cross, we'd work even then. 251 00:35:08,399 --> 00:35:11,193 So why don't you change jobs? 252 00:35:18,701 --> 00:35:20,286 Because I'm stupid. 253 00:35:22,538 --> 00:35:27,710 Who else around here would be a projectionist? No one. 254 00:35:28,461 --> 00:35:30,921 It takes an imbecile like me. 255 00:35:32,256 --> 00:35:34,425 It's my luck. 256 00:35:35,718 --> 00:35:38,137 When I was little, there was the war. 257 00:35:39,221 --> 00:35:42,850 When I grew up, there was another war. 258 00:35:45,227 --> 00:35:49,523 So, you want to be a stick-in-the-mud like me? 259 00:35:51,984 --> 00:35:55,696 Good boy. 260 00:35:55,821 --> 00:35:58,449 It's for your own good. 261 00:35:58,574 --> 00:35:59,909 Always stuck in here. 262 00:36:00,034 --> 00:36:03,162 Boiling hot in summer, freezing cold in winter. 263 00:36:03,287 --> 00:36:07,833 Breathing in fumes, and earning a pittance. 264 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:12,088 Is it all bad? 265 00:36:12,213 --> 00:36:15,758 You get used to it. And then, from up here 266 00:36:15,883 --> 00:36:17,718 when the cinema is full, 267 00:36:17,843 --> 00:36:22,848 you hear people laughing, and that makes you happy. 268 00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:25,017 It makes you feel good. 269 00:36:25,976 --> 00:36:28,479 Like you're the one who makes them laugh 270 00:36:29,355 --> 00:36:32,650 and makes them forget their troubles. 271 00:36:33,984 --> 00:36:35,486 That, I like. 272 00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:50,918 You didn't hear a word I said. What are you up to? 273 00:36:52,086 --> 00:36:54,922 I can't turn my back for a minute. 274 00:36:55,047 --> 00:36:58,926 Your mother is right. You're mad! 275 00:36:59,927 --> 00:37:03,848 How on earth did he do it? He watches and learns. 276 00:37:06,726 --> 00:37:10,646 I'll tell the manager not to let you in. Did you hear? 277 00:37:11,355 --> 00:37:13,149 And I'll tell Father Adelfio. 278 00:37:13,274 --> 00:37:17,403 No more altar boy, you understand? 279 00:37:17,528 --> 00:37:19,155 Alfredo! 280 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,073 Get stuffed! 281 00:37:29,248 --> 00:37:33,377 I've won! I've won the pools! 282 00:37:40,468 --> 00:37:44,346 Ciccio from Naples has won the pools! 283 00:37:45,431 --> 00:37:51,145 The Neapolitan has won the pools! Come along, quick. 284 00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:54,565 These Northerners have all the luck! 285 00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:31,477 The square is mine! 286 00:38:35,147 --> 00:38:39,485 Keep still! Are the horse-flies bothering you? 287 00:38:40,152 --> 00:38:43,823 You've a louse factory up here. Off you go. 288 00:38:59,505 --> 00:39:03,342 What do you want? Off you go. 289 00:39:12,893 --> 00:39:17,648 A shopkeeper owns two shops. 290 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:22,361 In one, he sells fruit... 291 00:39:24,029 --> 00:39:25,114 Be seated. 292 00:39:26,031 --> 00:39:31,370 Here are the external candidates for the School Certificate. 293 00:39:37,626 --> 00:39:39,587 Quiet! 294 00:39:43,215 --> 00:39:44,842 Quiet! 295 00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:34,743 Rotten little stinker! 296 00:41:35,327 --> 00:41:38,038 - Help me, Toto. - Quiet! 297 00:41:39,665 --> 00:41:42,960 - I haven't got a clue! - Quiet! 298 00:43:03,874 --> 00:43:05,709 Francesco Messana. 299 00:43:05,834 --> 00:43:07,795 In the name of the law, you're under arrest. 300 00:43:23,894 --> 00:43:26,980 Son of a bitch! Pencil-pusher! 301 00:43:27,106 --> 00:43:29,983 This is where it can catch fire. 302 00:43:30,109 --> 00:43:32,903 If it does, you cut here and there 303 00:43:33,028 --> 00:43:36,949 or the whole reel will burn. Got it? 304 00:43:41,328 --> 00:43:45,415 I won't stand for this sort of thing! 305 00:43:45,541 --> 00:43:48,418 Which side is the gelatine on? 306 00:43:49,962 --> 00:43:51,922 It tastes good. 307 00:44:01,765 --> 00:44:06,145 These are the invoices. Always keep them safe. 308 00:44:06,270 --> 00:44:09,565 - Yes, Alfredo. - Don't ever forget. 309 00:44:28,292 --> 00:44:32,838 This is for you. Today you can load the reels. 310 00:44:34,006 --> 00:44:37,676 - It's so high up. - Now you can do it alone. 311 00:44:38,343 --> 00:44:40,304 Stay still. 312 00:44:44,266 --> 00:44:46,101 What a woman! 313 00:44:47,186 --> 00:44:50,939 Children, say goodbye to Peppino. He's going to Germany. 314 00:45:00,115 --> 00:45:02,701 Why won't you say goodbye to your friend? 315 00:45:02,826 --> 00:45:06,079 My father says he's a Communist. 316 00:45:06,914 --> 00:45:08,248 God bless you, Mum. 317 00:45:08,373 --> 00:45:11,793 - Will he find work in Germany? - Who knows? 318 00:45:12,336 --> 00:45:15,964 It's like an adventure. You live in hope. 319 00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,551 Screw this country! 320 00:45:20,802 --> 00:45:24,223 Go and work in Germany, you and your Stalin. 321 00:45:28,227 --> 00:45:31,730 Goodbye, Peppino! Come back soon. 322 00:45:39,780 --> 00:45:43,450 At least Germany is closer than Russia. 323 00:45:47,412 --> 00:45:50,958 After six years, the return of spring fashion. 324 00:45:51,083 --> 00:45:53,460 A fresh new look 325 00:45:53,585 --> 00:45:56,004 unlike the pompous styles of wartime. 326 00:46:14,064 --> 00:46:16,692 I'll make mincemeat out of you! 327 00:46:36,878 --> 00:46:39,673 LOOKING FOR NEWS, WRITE TO US 328 00:46:40,549 --> 00:46:44,469 Another sad page in the tragedy of our men in Russia. 329 00:46:45,304 --> 00:46:50,058 The Ministry of Defence has released a new list of Italian dead 330 00:46:50,183 --> 00:46:53,020 until now considered missing. 331 00:46:53,145 --> 00:46:57,941 The names will be posted by the military authorities. 332 00:46:58,066 --> 00:47:02,279 All the families concerned will be notified. 333 00:47:06,325 --> 00:47:10,203 Unfortunately, we don't know where he's buried. 334 00:47:10,329 --> 00:47:13,749 Here is the pension form for you to sign. 335 00:47:55,082 --> 00:47:58,585 Hadn't I told you? He's courting me. 336 00:47:59,211 --> 00:48:01,338 Well, he's no oil painting... 337 00:49:53,074 --> 00:49:55,660 Go home, we can't have another show. 338 00:49:55,785 --> 00:50:01,041 It's late, can't you understand? 339 00:50:02,918 --> 00:50:05,462 Some people have seen it twice. 340 00:50:08,507 --> 00:50:11,635 We've been waiting an hour. 341 00:50:16,765 --> 00:50:20,352 Tomorrow we'll show another film. 342 00:50:20,477 --> 00:50:24,397 A Western, I promise! Go to bed. 343 00:50:25,232 --> 00:50:31,780 Close the doors. They'll wreck the Paradise. Hell, even. 344 00:50:35,492 --> 00:50:38,411 Alfredo, you let us in! 345 00:50:38,537 --> 00:50:41,373 What do you want me to do? 346 00:50:41,998 --> 00:50:44,834 We've been waiting for hours. 347 00:50:45,877 --> 00:50:48,171 "The mob doesn't think. 348 00:50:49,047 --> 00:50:51,132 "It has no mind of its own." 349 00:50:52,551 --> 00:50:56,429 The great Spencer Tracy said it in "Fury". 350 00:50:56,555 --> 00:50:58,390 Well, what do you say? 351 00:50:59,891 --> 00:51:03,270 Shall we let the poor devils see the film? 352 00:51:04,813 --> 00:51:08,191 I wish we could, but how? 353 00:51:10,151 --> 00:51:14,990 "If you have no faith in me, have faith in what you see." 354 00:51:15,115 --> 00:51:18,201 So, get your arse off that stool. 355 00:51:21,955 --> 00:51:23,873 Pay attention. 356 00:51:30,005 --> 00:51:32,090 Now we pass through these walls. 357 00:52:07,375 --> 00:52:10,128 Look out of the window, kid. 358 00:52:14,758 --> 00:52:17,385 It's beautiful, Alfredo! 359 00:52:18,428 --> 00:52:21,931 Over there! Look, the cinema! 360 00:52:31,107 --> 00:52:33,526 Thank you, Alfredo! 361 00:52:40,533 --> 00:52:43,078 What on earth is going on? 362 00:52:44,871 --> 00:52:46,998 It's the cinema. 363 00:52:49,668 --> 00:52:51,336 Go to hell! 364 00:52:58,093 --> 00:53:00,679 There's no sound, Alfredo. 365 00:53:00,804 --> 00:53:02,514 Shall we keep them happy? 366 00:53:37,090 --> 00:53:39,092 Want to go down? 367 00:53:57,986 --> 00:53:59,612 - Come. Look at this. - Oh, my God! 368 00:54:06,327 --> 00:54:11,040 - Ah, Nunzio! Half price will do. - As you wish. 369 00:54:21,384 --> 00:54:23,678 You must buy tickets, folks. 370 00:54:27,724 --> 00:54:28,975 Half price. 371 00:54:29,100 --> 00:54:32,061 Get stuffed! The square belongs to everyone. 372 00:54:34,439 --> 00:54:38,985 The square is mine! Don't joke about it, it makes me mad. 373 00:56:24,007 --> 00:56:25,675 Run! 374 00:56:51,659 --> 00:56:56,289 Oh, my God, what's happened? I can't believe it. 375 00:57:32,867 --> 00:57:35,161 Help! 376 00:57:40,583 --> 00:57:41,709 Help! 377 00:57:53,763 --> 00:57:56,432 Poor Alfredo. What a shame. 378 00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,811 It's all burned down. 379 00:58:04,691 --> 00:58:07,151 All burned down! 380 00:58:24,002 --> 00:58:25,586 What do we do now? 381 00:58:25,712 --> 00:58:29,841 No more entertainment in the village, nothing. 382 00:58:29,966 --> 00:58:32,844 How can we rebuild all this? 383 00:58:35,013 --> 00:58:39,100 Look at Ciccio from Naples. You'd hardly know him. 384 00:58:39,225 --> 00:58:41,811 Who has that kind of money? 385 00:58:50,820 --> 00:58:52,822 The New Cinema Paradise! 386 00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:32,487 This cinema is for you! 387 00:59:40,244 --> 00:59:43,581 He's just a boy. What about the child labour laws? 388 00:59:43,706 --> 00:59:47,919 I got a license through my connections. 389 00:59:48,044 --> 00:59:50,129 But don't ask me how it works. 390 00:59:50,254 --> 00:59:54,092 Officially, I'm the projectionist, but the money goes to Toto. 391 00:59:54,801 --> 00:59:59,097 Stay on your toes, Toto. No falling asleep. 392 00:59:59,222 --> 01:00:01,140 No more disasters. 393 01:00:01,265 --> 01:00:04,393 Do as poor Alfredo taught you. 394 01:00:04,519 --> 01:00:06,229 And God bless you, son. 395 01:00:07,522 --> 01:00:09,273 Thank you, Father. 396 01:00:09,398 --> 01:00:14,737 What's this? A funeral? Life goes on. Music! 397 01:01:30,062 --> 01:01:32,273 You've fallen in love with that peasant? 398 01:01:33,524 --> 01:01:34,859 Maybe. 399 01:01:37,612 --> 01:01:40,072 And he's asked you to marry him? 400 01:01:45,828 --> 01:01:47,955 Then it's all over between us? 401 01:01:55,546 --> 01:01:56,923 What a dish! 402 01:02:21,405 --> 01:02:23,699 My God, they're kissing! 403 01:02:28,454 --> 01:02:31,123 I shall not watch pornographic films. 404 01:02:36,754 --> 01:02:38,589 Bravo, Don Ciccio! 405 01:03:09,578 --> 01:03:12,039 Any room for me in this new paradise? 406 01:03:17,670 --> 01:03:21,924 Bring him home afterwards, Toto. I'm going now, Alfredo. 407 01:03:22,633 --> 01:03:24,719 I'm so glad you're here. 408 01:03:28,389 --> 01:03:30,516 How is school? 409 01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:34,103 Fine, but now I'm working 410 01:03:34,228 --> 01:03:36,188 maybe I won't go any more. 411 01:03:39,525 --> 01:03:45,156 Don't do that, Toto. You'll end up with egg on your face. 412 01:03:45,281 --> 01:03:47,325 What does that mean? 413 01:03:47,908 --> 01:03:49,618 It means... 414 01:03:51,245 --> 01:03:55,666 that this is no job for you. 415 01:03:55,791 --> 01:03:57,960 Now the Paradiso needs you 416 01:03:58,085 --> 01:04:01,464 and you need the Paradiso. But it won't last. 417 01:04:03,799 --> 01:04:07,053 One day you'll move on to other things. 418 01:04:08,095 --> 01:04:09,889 Other things. 419 01:04:11,015 --> 01:04:13,601 More important things. 420 01:04:13,726 --> 01:04:15,353 Much more important. 421 01:04:18,939 --> 01:04:22,360 I know. Now I've lost my sight... 422 01:04:22,902 --> 01:04:24,320 I see better. 423 01:04:25,446 --> 01:04:27,281 Things I never saw before. 424 01:04:27,948 --> 01:04:32,870 Thanks to you, who saved my life, I'll never forget. 425 01:04:34,372 --> 01:04:36,374 Don't look so gloomy. 426 01:04:37,124 --> 01:04:40,461 I'm not gaga yet. Want proof? 427 01:04:41,337 --> 01:04:45,257 Let's see. Right now, for instance... 428 01:04:45,383 --> 01:04:50,638 the film is out of focus. Check it. 429 01:04:54,892 --> 01:04:59,522 You're right, it's out of focus. How did you do? 430 01:04:59,647 --> 01:05:03,401 It's difficult to explain. 431 01:05:13,702 --> 01:05:17,748 Only two days? I don't give a shit about other cinemas. 432 01:05:17,873 --> 01:05:21,502 I'll be crucified if I can't show the film for more than two days. 433 01:05:22,545 --> 01:05:27,299 Even if we open at 8 in the morning, we still can't do it. 434 01:05:27,425 --> 01:05:29,802 It's a big place and you know it. 435 01:05:29,927 --> 01:05:34,765 I could make life very difficult for you by writing to Rome. 436 01:05:34,890 --> 01:05:39,019 I'm warning you. Don't mess with me or you'll regret it. 437 01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,647 I have an idea, Don Ciccio. 438 01:05:41,772 --> 01:05:45,067 Remember the old cinema in the next village? 439 01:05:46,235 --> 01:05:51,240 The projector's gone rusty but I could easily fix it. 440 01:05:51,365 --> 01:05:56,078 Get the cinema cleaned up, hire a projectionist 441 01:05:56,203 --> 01:05:58,247 and we show the film in both places. 442 01:05:58,372 --> 01:06:02,168 Don't be stupid. You should know better, Toto. 443 01:06:02,293 --> 01:06:05,546 I'm lucky that they send me the one copy. 444 01:06:05,671 --> 01:06:07,047 Imagine if I asked for two. 445 01:06:07,173 --> 01:06:11,010 They'd chop my head off and play ball with it. 446 01:06:12,011 --> 01:06:14,930 - Who says we need two copies? - You mean we don't? 447 01:06:51,091 --> 01:06:53,969 I swore on the Virgin Mary to my son. 448 01:06:55,221 --> 01:06:57,723 We see a child asleep in her bed. 449 01:07:17,952 --> 01:07:19,161 Get something, hurry. 450 01:07:22,998 --> 01:07:26,252 "The lawyer told me. Now I know." 451 01:07:26,377 --> 01:07:29,421 The lawyer told me. Now I know. 452 01:07:30,172 --> 01:07:35,094 "Everyone must know. Yes, everyone must know." 453 01:07:35,553 --> 01:07:36,929 Everyone must know. 454 01:07:39,265 --> 01:07:41,934 "Do you... believe me?" 455 01:07:42,059 --> 01:07:43,269 Do you believe me? 456 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,397 "Yes. I believe you." 457 01:07:46,522 --> 01:07:49,817 Yes. I believe you. 458 01:07:58,409 --> 01:08:01,287 "Our own home. How I've dreamt of it!" 459 01:08:01,412 --> 01:08:04,331 - Our own home. - How I've dreamt of it! 460 01:08:11,839 --> 01:08:12,881 "Tonino!" 461 01:08:13,007 --> 01:08:17,011 Tonino! Mammal My son! 462 01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,577 The End. 463 01:08:41,702 --> 01:08:45,623 THE END 464 01:08:50,878 --> 01:08:54,381 I don't like it! I don't like it! 465 01:09:00,471 --> 01:09:02,514 I cut the end credits to go faster. 466 01:09:04,141 --> 01:09:07,478 Bring me Part One, while I show a newsreel 467 01:09:07,603 --> 01:09:14,318 I'll call the police. Take him, he's seen it ten times. One moment! 468 01:09:36,131 --> 01:09:38,676 Here's Part One, Boccia. 469 01:09:38,801 --> 01:09:42,137 Hurry! The house is packed. 470 01:09:44,139 --> 01:09:48,435 What are you doing? Get the bloody thing rolling. 471 01:09:49,353 --> 01:09:51,313 People are getting restless. 472 01:09:58,987 --> 01:10:02,282 Bunch of animals! Shut up! 473 01:10:24,430 --> 01:10:26,348 To hell with it! 474 01:10:32,730 --> 01:10:36,900 When is it starting, Toto? We've got work to do tomorrow. 475 01:10:40,154 --> 01:10:42,781 Toto, what's going on? They're furious. 476 01:10:42,906 --> 01:10:44,992 It's been half an hour. 477 01:10:45,117 --> 01:10:46,869 And what do you want me to do? 478 01:10:49,329 --> 01:10:53,333 Where's that son of a bitch? I'll be ruined. 479 01:11:00,048 --> 01:11:06,430 I'll have you know I left my wife sick in bed in order to watch this film. 480 01:11:06,555 --> 01:11:08,724 And I still haven't seen a thing. 481 01:11:08,849 --> 01:11:14,646 If it doesn't start in 10 minutes, we want our money back. 482 01:11:14,772 --> 01:11:17,191 Or I'll give you a taste of my cane. 483 01:11:23,947 --> 01:11:26,658 Calm down. Can I say something? 484 01:11:26,784 --> 01:11:29,787 I'll show you Part One again. 485 01:11:29,912 --> 01:11:35,417 - We've seen Part One. - We want to know how it ends. 486 01:11:38,170 --> 01:11:39,671 Quiet! 487 01:11:39,797 --> 01:11:43,801 I've already seen it. I'll tell you how it ends. 488 01:12:15,332 --> 01:12:17,501 Boccia, what's wrong? 489 01:12:24,383 --> 01:12:27,261 - You idiot! - This is good. 490 01:12:27,386 --> 01:12:29,388 Go away! Go. 491 01:13:04,548 --> 01:13:08,260 What are you doing? Watch the screen, you pigs. 492 01:13:19,855 --> 01:13:20,981 Behave yourself. 493 01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:19,915 I told you, it doesn't catch fire. 494 01:14:23,835 --> 01:14:26,129 Progress always comes too late. 495 01:14:26,254 --> 01:14:29,800 SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS 496 01:14:29,925 --> 01:14:31,385 AND SEVEN UNFORGETTABLE SONGS 497 01:14:46,775 --> 01:14:48,568 Workers of the world... 498 01:15:22,936 --> 01:15:25,522 Go on, stick it in. 499 01:15:25,647 --> 01:15:27,274 Don't be afraid. 500 01:15:27,399 --> 01:15:30,318 Is it true that if I bleed I should squeeze lemon on it? 501 01:15:34,197 --> 01:15:37,492 Where did you get that from, you silly boy? 502 01:15:39,578 --> 01:15:42,539 Go on, stick it in. Don't worry. 503 01:15:43,665 --> 01:15:46,710 Like this, you see? 504 01:15:47,169 --> 01:15:51,840 See? Nothing happens. Good boy. 505 01:16:04,936 --> 01:16:06,646 Now you're a man. 506 01:16:06,772 --> 01:16:11,068 What am I saying? A young bull, that's what you are. 507 01:16:54,361 --> 01:16:56,613 She's new. 508 01:16:57,739 --> 01:16:59,282 Not bad. 509 01:16:59,825 --> 01:17:01,159 She's nice. 510 01:17:01,284 --> 01:17:04,955 Her father's a bank manager, a big shot. 511 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,708 Jerks it off with his shirt, not to get his hands dirty. 512 01:17:13,547 --> 01:17:15,507 Faster, faster. 513 01:17:17,509 --> 01:17:19,761 Last one's a sissy. 514 01:17:32,023 --> 01:17:33,525 Excuse me. 515 01:17:39,573 --> 01:17:41,575 You dropped this. 516 01:17:42,325 --> 01:17:44,452 Thanks. I hadn't noticed. 517 01:17:47,330 --> 01:17:52,252 - I'm Salvatore. And you? - Elena. My name is Elena. 518 01:17:53,086 --> 01:17:57,674 I wanted to tell you the other day, at the station... 519 01:18:02,679 --> 01:18:06,558 Charles Chaplin's "Modern Times". Right, Toto? 520 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,897 I know it by heart. 521 01:18:12,022 --> 01:18:16,151 I showed it in 1940, on the Sunday my first wife died. 522 01:18:16,276 --> 01:18:20,822 They kept it from me all day so they wouldn't have to close the cinema. 523 01:18:20,947 --> 01:18:23,450 I only found out at the end. 524 01:18:25,577 --> 01:18:27,704 It's stuck in my mind. 525 01:18:30,749 --> 01:18:32,709 I'll never forget. 526 01:18:34,878 --> 01:18:37,756 What is it? Is it your footage? 527 01:18:38,465 --> 01:18:39,633 What do you see? 528 01:18:40,091 --> 01:18:43,428 A young bull being slaughtered. 529 01:18:44,179 --> 01:18:48,058 A big pool of blood on the ground. 530 01:18:48,183 --> 01:18:50,602 Another young bull steps over the blood... 531 01:18:51,061 --> 01:18:52,979 on its way to its death. 532 01:18:59,819 --> 01:19:02,781 What do you see now? Tell me. 533 01:19:02,906 --> 01:19:06,243 Nothing, it's out of focus. 534 01:19:09,537 --> 01:19:11,039 A woman. 535 01:19:12,916 --> 01:19:14,626 It's a woman! 536 01:19:17,379 --> 01:19:19,589 Yes, a girl I saw at the station. 537 01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:22,008 What's she like? 538 01:19:22,592 --> 01:19:24,135 She's very nice. 539 01:19:25,136 --> 01:19:29,432 My age, slim, with long brown hair. 540 01:19:30,392 --> 01:19:33,687 She has big blue eyes and a clear gaze. 541 01:19:33,812 --> 01:19:36,147 A beauty spot on her lip. 542 01:19:36,273 --> 01:19:39,150 Tiny one, you only see it close. 543 01:19:39,943 --> 01:19:43,738 And when she smiles, you feel... I don't know. 544 01:19:46,658 --> 01:19:48,618 Love. 545 01:19:55,083 --> 01:19:57,627 I know how it is, Toto. 546 01:19:57,752 --> 01:20:00,797 The blue-eyed ones are the worst. 547 01:20:00,922 --> 01:20:06,303 You can never get close to them, whatever you do. 548 01:20:06,428 --> 01:20:10,348 "The bigger the man, the deeper the imprint. 549 01:20:10,473 --> 01:20:15,854 "And when he's in love, he suffers knowing it's a dead end." 550 01:20:15,979 --> 01:20:19,607 It's nice what you say, but sad. 551 01:20:21,985 --> 01:20:23,361 I didn't say it. 552 01:20:23,486 --> 01:20:26,406 It was John Wayne in "The Shepherd of the Hills". 553 01:20:27,282 --> 01:20:29,409 You old sneak! 554 01:21:10,909 --> 01:21:14,537 - Hello, Elena. - Hi! Why are you running? 555 01:21:16,122 --> 01:21:17,582 Because�. 556 01:21:19,292 --> 01:21:22,754 I wanted to tell you... 557 01:21:22,879 --> 01:21:25,340 You remember when...? 558 01:21:27,842 --> 01:21:29,677 Nice day, isn't it? 559 01:21:34,682 --> 01:21:36,810 Yes, beautiful day. 560 01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:42,399 Excuse me, I must go. Bye, Salvatore. 561 01:21:46,778 --> 01:21:50,615 What a jerk! 562 01:21:51,866 --> 01:21:54,702 "Nice day, isn't it?" How stupid! 563 01:22:06,089 --> 01:22:07,424 You don't believe me. 564 01:22:07,549 --> 01:22:09,843 But I'll be the man in your life. 565 01:22:10,677 --> 01:22:12,971 I'm not Marlon Brando, I know. 566 01:22:13,096 --> 01:22:17,100 But take a good look at me. I'm not that bad, am I? 567 01:22:20,937 --> 01:22:25,442 Shall I try again? Maybe this time I'll succeed. 568 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:36,578 Please may I speak to Elena? 569 01:22:37,537 --> 01:22:39,539 Is that you, Elena? 570 01:22:39,664 --> 01:22:43,710 Sorry, I didn't recognise you. I'm Salvatore, remember? 571 01:22:45,003 --> 01:22:51,176 I know I sound like an idiot whenever we meet, but I'm not like that. 572 01:22:51,301 --> 01:22:55,472 I can't find the words to say it, but I can't stop thinking about you. 573 01:22:57,390 --> 01:23:02,937 I think of you night and day. I dream of you every night. 574 01:23:03,062 --> 01:23:05,482 Sounds silly on the phone, but I love you. 575 01:23:05,607 --> 01:23:07,942 Stop this, or I'll call the police. 576 01:23:08,067 --> 01:23:11,654 - Who's that? - Elena's mother, you cretin. 577 01:23:11,779 --> 01:23:15,658 I'm sorry, madam. I really didn't know... 578 01:23:16,493 --> 01:23:18,161 Bloody hell! 579 01:23:18,995 --> 01:23:23,333 I told you. You thought I was kidding you. 580 01:23:23,458 --> 01:23:28,880 Take it from me. The blue-eyed ones are the worst. 581 01:23:29,005 --> 01:23:32,258 But why? There must be a way to make her understand. 582 01:23:32,383 --> 01:23:38,181 Forget it, Toto. Feelings can never be understood. 583 01:23:38,306 --> 01:23:43,353 - You can't explain them. - Oh, you made the world! 584 01:23:43,478 --> 01:23:48,608 Hey, don't get angry with me. What's come over you? 585 01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:51,861 Where are you? 586 01:23:51,986 --> 01:23:55,198 - Out of the way. You mad? - Toto, come here! 587 01:23:59,786 --> 01:24:01,621 Can't see where I'm going. 588 01:24:12,465 --> 01:24:15,802 How dare you talk to me like that? 589 01:24:15,927 --> 01:24:18,680 With all due respect to the Lord, 590 01:24:18,805 --> 01:24:21,391 who made the world in three days. 591 01:24:21,516 --> 01:24:23,893 I'd have taken longer, 592 01:24:24,018 --> 01:24:27,063 but certain things I could have done better. 593 01:24:27,188 --> 01:24:30,942 Like I said, you have all the answers. 594 01:24:33,444 --> 01:24:37,949 I'll tell you a story. Just for you, Toto. 595 01:24:38,074 --> 01:24:42,453 Let's sit down. God Almighty! 596 01:24:43,913 --> 01:24:45,707 Once upon a time... 597 01:24:47,041 --> 01:24:49,419 a king gave a feast. 598 01:24:49,544 --> 01:24:53,214 The most beautiful princesses were there. 599 01:24:54,841 --> 01:24:57,385 A soldier who was standing guard 600 01:24:57,510 --> 01:25:00,096 saw the king's daughter go by. 601 01:25:00,221 --> 01:25:04,851 She was the loveliest one, and he fell instantly in love. 602 01:25:04,976 --> 01:25:11,608 But what is a simple soldier next to the daughter of a king? 603 01:25:12,525 --> 01:25:15,987 One day he managed to meet her 604 01:25:16,112 --> 01:25:20,908 and told her he could no longer live without her. 605 01:25:21,868 --> 01:25:26,497 The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling 606 01:25:26,623 --> 01:25:29,125 that she said to the soldier, 607 01:25:29,250 --> 01:25:34,130 "if you can wait for 100 days 608 01:25:34,255 --> 01:25:38,301 "and 100 nights under my balcony 609 01:25:38,426 --> 01:25:40,345 "I shall be yours." 610 01:25:43,389 --> 01:25:48,645 With that, the soldier went and waited one day, two days 611 01:25:48,770 --> 01:25:50,897 then ten, twenty. 612 01:25:51,022 --> 01:25:56,319 Each evening the princess looked out, and he never moved! 613 01:25:56,444 --> 01:26:00,281 Always there, come rain, come thunder. 614 01:26:00,406 --> 01:26:05,662 Birds shat on his head, bees stung him, but he didn't budge. 615 01:26:07,330 --> 01:26:12,168 After 90 nights... 616 01:26:14,212 --> 01:26:16,381 he had become... 617 01:26:18,633 --> 01:26:20,677 all dry and pale. 618 01:26:21,803 --> 01:26:25,556 Tears streamed from his eyes. 619 01:26:25,682 --> 01:26:27,725 He couldn't hold them back. 620 01:26:27,850 --> 01:26:32,271 He didn't even have the strength to sleep. 621 01:26:32,397 --> 01:26:36,984 And all that time, the princess watched him. 622 01:26:39,153 --> 01:26:42,198 When the 99th night came 623 01:26:42,323 --> 01:26:45,368 the soldier stood up, 624 01:26:45,493 --> 01:26:48,830 took his chair, and left. 625 01:26:48,955 --> 01:26:50,957 How come? Right at the end? 626 01:26:52,834 --> 01:26:54,836 Right at the end, Toto. 627 01:26:55,420 --> 01:26:58,339 Don't ask me what it means, I don't know. 628 01:27:00,842 --> 01:27:03,678 If you can figure it out, you tell me. 629 01:28:02,820 --> 01:28:05,531 Please, don't ask me why. 630 01:28:26,803 --> 01:28:31,265 What is it, Alfredo? Not now, I must administer the sacrament. 631 01:28:31,390 --> 01:28:35,144 Father Adelfio, I need you urgently. 632 01:28:35,269 --> 01:28:40,107 I have terrible doubts tormenting my soul. 633 01:28:48,241 --> 01:28:50,243 - Father, I have sinned. - Do that later. 634 01:28:51,619 --> 01:28:53,704 Please, don't turn around. 635 01:28:53,830 --> 01:28:57,458 - Just act normal. It's Salvatore. - How did you get in here? 636 01:29:01,838 --> 01:29:06,050 - That's a terrible thing to say. - I know. 637 01:29:06,175 --> 01:29:10,346 Take the miracle of the loaves and fishes. 638 01:29:12,014 --> 01:29:15,977 I've often wondered. How is it possible? 639 01:29:16,102 --> 01:29:22,483 It's terrible. Mum told Dad. How could you mistake her voice? 640 01:29:22,608 --> 01:29:24,861 Sorry, Elena, I was stupid. 641 01:29:25,361 --> 01:29:27,655 But I had to talk to you. 642 01:29:36,873 --> 01:29:38,916 You're beautiful, Elena. 643 01:29:39,041 --> 01:29:40,751 That's what I wanted to say. 644 01:29:42,211 --> 01:29:45,214 I can never find the words when I see you. 645 01:29:46,424 --> 01:29:48,467 I get the shivers. 646 01:29:49,886 --> 01:29:52,972 I don't know how other people do it. 647 01:29:53,097 --> 01:29:55,349 It's my first time. 648 01:29:57,768 --> 01:29:59,562 But I'm in love with you. 649 01:29:59,687 --> 01:30:01,689 Father, I have sinned. 650 01:30:02,481 --> 01:30:03,608 I absolve you from your sins 651 01:30:03,733 --> 01:30:07,612 in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 652 01:30:12,909 --> 01:30:15,369 You're even prettier when you laugh. 653 01:30:22,585 --> 01:30:27,506 You're very sweet, and I like you. 654 01:30:27,632 --> 01:30:29,926 But I'm not in love with you. 655 01:30:34,722 --> 01:30:37,975 - It's OK. I'll wait. - For what? 656 01:30:38,476 --> 01:30:42,271 For you to love me. Listen to me. 657 01:30:44,190 --> 01:30:46,817 Every night, after work 658 01:30:46,943 --> 01:30:50,279 I'll wait outside your house. Every night. 659 01:30:51,364 --> 01:30:57,119 When you change your mind, open your window. I'll understand. 660 01:30:57,244 --> 01:30:58,537 You understand now? 661 01:30:58,663 --> 01:31:03,751 Yes... finally, I see the light. 662 01:31:07,630 --> 01:31:11,384 Next time, don't talk heresy. 663 01:31:11,509 --> 01:31:13,344 You survived the fire in the cinema. 664 01:31:13,469 --> 01:31:17,974 But from the eternal fire, no one can save you. 665 01:32:48,314 --> 01:32:50,524 What's Toto doing? 666 01:32:51,567 --> 01:32:54,403 The cinema is closed at this hour. 667 01:33:11,796 --> 01:33:13,506 Attention, please! 668 01:33:14,090 --> 01:33:17,760 15 seconds to the New Year! 669 01:33:19,220 --> 01:33:22,848 Fourteen, thirteen, twelve, 670 01:33:22,973 --> 01:33:27,478 eleven, ten, nine, eight, 671 01:33:27,603 --> 01:33:32,483 seven, six, five, four, 672 01:33:32,608 --> 01:33:35,986 three, two, one! 673 01:33:37,488 --> 01:33:40,950 Don't worry, he must be with his friends. 674 01:33:41,075 --> 01:33:44,620 - Cheers! - Happy New Year! 675 01:33:47,540 --> 01:33:50,126 Happy New Year. 676 01:33:50,835 --> 01:33:52,711 Let's drink to Toto. 677 01:36:09,932 --> 01:36:12,309 Turn the lights on, Toto! 678 01:36:58,647 --> 01:37:01,275 Look, the car's still running in. 679 01:37:06,530 --> 01:37:08,657 How will we get home? 680 01:37:10,534 --> 01:37:12,328 Stop! 681 01:37:14,038 --> 01:37:16,040 Oh, my God! It's my father. 682 01:37:18,667 --> 01:37:20,002 Good evening. 683 01:37:35,184 --> 01:37:36,584 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 684 01:37:36,685 --> 01:37:42,107 From Milan, we present "Double or Quit". 685 01:37:42,232 --> 01:37:44,151 With Mike Bongiorno. 686 01:37:51,033 --> 01:37:54,244 I've forgotten what I had to say... 687 01:37:54,953 --> 01:37:56,663 You pulling my leg? 688 01:37:56,789 --> 01:37:59,541 How can you watch TV without a film? 689 01:38:00,125 --> 01:38:02,294 You just can, Alfredo. 690 01:38:03,045 --> 01:38:06,882 You can even buy a TV set and watch it at home. 691 01:38:07,007 --> 01:38:11,762 This may be so, but I don't like it. I can smell a rat. 692 01:38:11,887 --> 01:38:14,306 - From Massa... - Macinaia. 693 01:38:15,516 --> 01:38:18,143 I guess it's a village near Massa Carrara? 694 01:38:18,268 --> 01:38:20,104 No, it's near Lucca... 695 01:38:21,563 --> 01:38:23,941 Great idea, don't you think? 696 01:38:24,066 --> 01:38:29,405 Couldn't have bought the equipment without a loan from your bank. 697 01:38:29,530 --> 01:38:32,282 Times have changed. 698 01:38:32,408 --> 01:38:35,744 It's a new machine. A teleprojector. 699 01:38:40,666 --> 01:38:43,836 - So, you are a landowner. - Yes, I am. 700 01:38:43,961 --> 01:38:46,296 What's your area of expertise? 701 01:38:46,422 --> 01:38:50,092 - "The Divine Comedy". - Very well. 702 01:38:50,884 --> 01:38:55,973 Maybe your father doesn't like what I do. He thinks I'm poor. 703 01:39:00,060 --> 01:39:02,479 We're going to Tuscany in the summer. 704 01:39:03,439 --> 01:39:06,567 If you came, we could meet in secret. 705 01:39:06,692 --> 01:39:10,696 I'm working at the outdoor cinema. I'll miss you. 706 01:39:10,821 --> 01:39:14,116 Don't be sad. I'll write every day. 707 01:39:14,241 --> 01:39:17,703 I'll be back at the end of summer. 708 01:39:41,852 --> 01:39:45,522 Outdoor cinema tonight at the Imperia. 709 01:39:46,690 --> 01:39:49,735 Last one's a sissy! 710 01:39:57,242 --> 01:39:59,244 Standing room only! 711 01:39:59,828 --> 01:40:02,956 You get in free and pay to leave. 712 01:40:11,632 --> 01:40:16,512 Come on in, the show's just started. Have your tickets ready. 713 01:40:48,752 --> 01:40:52,256 Salvatore, my love. The days are never-ending here. 714 01:40:52,381 --> 01:40:57,970 I see your name everywhere, in books, crosswords, newspapers. 715 01:40:58,095 --> 01:41:00,264 You're always before my eyes. 716 01:41:00,389 --> 01:41:02,724 Sadly, I have bad news. 717 01:41:02,849 --> 01:41:06,353 We're moving to Palermo, because of university. 718 01:41:06,478 --> 01:41:10,274 It'll be difficult to see each other, but don't worry. 719 01:41:10,399 --> 01:41:14,570 I'll come and see you at the Paradiso. 720 01:41:20,325 --> 01:41:24,371 If only I'd have known, I'd have changed my pants this morning. 721 01:41:24,496 --> 01:41:26,373 - Are you ready? - Of course. 722 01:41:26,498 --> 01:41:30,627 I knew she was easy. 723 01:41:32,754 --> 01:41:35,591 - Guys, who's going to help me out? - Coming! 724 01:41:45,392 --> 01:41:48,854 Hey, I caught an octopus! 725 01:42:06,955 --> 01:42:12,753 Post for Di Vita. Every blessed day. Here! 726 01:42:13,629 --> 01:42:16,089 Hey, don't mess around. 727 01:42:47,204 --> 01:42:50,457 Remember us and the wine we produced in your cave! 728 01:42:50,582 --> 01:42:54,961 - Ulysses, he'll know where we are. - Stop it, don't be scared. 729 01:42:55,087 --> 01:42:56,463 Who is the boss now? 730 01:42:56,588 --> 01:43:00,175 God with His might, or man with his wit? 731 01:43:28,537 --> 01:43:30,997 When will this bloody summer end? 732 01:43:32,207 --> 01:43:34,584 In a film, it'd already be over. 733 01:43:34,710 --> 01:43:38,672 Cut, and there's a storm. Great! 734 01:43:53,145 --> 01:43:55,522 Tell them I'm Ulysses! 735 01:44:07,659 --> 01:44:09,828 Elena! But when...? 736 01:44:09,953 --> 01:44:14,750 Today. You can't imagine the excuses I made up. 737 01:44:47,657 --> 01:44:50,786 Sophia Loren is always Sophia Loren. 738 01:44:50,911 --> 01:44:54,247 Long legs and great boobs. 739 01:44:54,372 --> 01:44:57,876 - Like Lana Turner. - More beautiful. 740 01:44:58,001 --> 01:45:02,923 - For Toto. You give it to him. - What is it? 741 01:45:04,549 --> 01:45:08,637 The devil take me! What will I do now? 742 01:45:13,141 --> 01:45:14,976 What did they say? 743 01:45:15,101 --> 01:45:19,105 That as a war orphan, I'm exempt from military service. 744 01:45:19,231 --> 01:45:22,400 But nothing doing - clerical error. 745 01:45:22,526 --> 01:45:28,156 Must go to Rome on Friday. They say I'll be discharged in ten days. 746 01:45:28,281 --> 01:45:34,454 - You should go. My father's here. - Good, I'll talk to him. 747 01:45:34,579 --> 01:45:36,289 This time I'll convince him. 748 01:45:36,414 --> 01:45:40,126 No, Salvatore. He has other plans for me. 749 01:45:41,753 --> 01:45:43,088 Who? 750 01:45:43,213 --> 01:45:45,340 The son of a colleague of his. 751 01:45:45,465 --> 01:45:49,719 We'll talk about it on Thursday. Wait for me at the Paradiso. 752 01:45:49,845 --> 01:45:52,681 I'll get the 5 o'clock bus. I love you. 753 01:46:32,095 --> 01:46:34,806 It's a good film, Toto. 754 01:46:34,931 --> 01:46:37,559 But people here don't understand it. 755 01:46:37,684 --> 01:46:42,272 Tonight, load tomorrow's reels, ready for the new man. 756 01:46:44,232 --> 01:46:49,487 Hey, cheer up! I'll wait for you, don't worry. 757 01:46:49,613 --> 01:46:51,489 No one's taking your job. 758 01:46:51,615 --> 01:46:54,701 It'll be waiting for you. Don't look so gloomy. 759 01:47:59,391 --> 01:48:01,559 You were expecting someone else? 760 01:48:02,394 --> 01:48:05,522 No, Alfredo. I came down to help you. 761 01:48:05,647 --> 01:48:07,983 No, you were waiting for her. 762 01:48:09,234 --> 01:48:13,530 Not nice waiting alone. I'll keep you company. 763 01:48:15,198 --> 01:48:17,075 Maybe you'd rather I went. 764 01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:21,121 No, don't go. In fact, I need your help. 765 01:48:46,187 --> 01:48:48,857 I can't hear this. 766 01:49:15,550 --> 01:49:16,801 Open up! 767 01:49:33,651 --> 01:49:35,862 Open up! Elena! 768 01:49:50,794 --> 01:49:54,506 THE END 769 01:50:00,595 --> 01:50:01,888 I like it! 770 01:50:23,660 --> 01:50:24,911 I'm here. 771 01:50:25,036 --> 01:50:29,332 Where were you? Where did you go? 772 01:50:29,457 --> 01:50:33,419 Calm down. Here, sit down. 773 01:50:37,674 --> 01:50:39,384 Did she come? 774 01:50:40,176 --> 01:50:42,512 No one came. 775 01:51:02,782 --> 01:51:06,494 Salvatore Di Vita reporting for duty. 776 01:51:13,293 --> 01:51:15,837 I wish to know when I'll be discharged, sir. 777 01:51:15,962 --> 01:51:19,382 No news as yet. Dismissed. 778 01:51:26,431 --> 01:51:31,477 Her father's been transferred and no one knows where to? 779 01:51:31,603 --> 01:51:34,981 Sod you, bastard! You won't bloody well tell me, will you? 780 01:51:44,741 --> 01:51:47,327 NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS 781 01:51:57,420 --> 01:52:01,925 I should have done ten days and it's been a year, sir. 782 01:52:02,050 --> 01:52:04,093 Without a day's leave. 783 01:52:28,952 --> 01:52:32,288 Di Vita, you've been discharged. 784 01:54:11,304 --> 01:54:13,848 You've lost weight. 785 01:54:13,973 --> 01:54:16,267 They didn't treat you very well, did they? 786 01:54:16,392 --> 01:54:21,898 They say you never go out or talk to anyone. Why? 787 01:54:23,358 --> 01:54:25,193 You know how it is. 788 01:54:26,527 --> 01:54:29,405 Sooner or later, the time comes 789 01:54:29,530 --> 01:54:34,285 when it makes no difference whether you talk or not. 790 01:54:36,579 --> 01:54:38,998 So you might as well shut up. 791 01:54:46,047 --> 01:54:47,382 It's hot in here. 792 01:54:49,384 --> 01:54:50,968 Take me to the sea. 793 01:54:51,094 --> 01:54:54,764 At Christmas, this lieutenant pinches a girl's bum. 794 01:54:54,889 --> 01:54:58,601 She turns round. It's the colonel's daughter. 795 01:54:58,726 --> 01:55:00,311 Terrified, he says, 796 01:55:00,436 --> 01:55:05,066 "if your heart is as hard as what I've just felt, I'm a dead man." 797 01:55:11,781 --> 01:55:13,616 Have you seen her? 798 01:55:17,328 --> 01:55:19,122 No one knows where she is. 799 01:55:21,416 --> 01:55:24,919 It was probably meant to be like this. 800 01:55:25,670 --> 01:55:30,133 Each of us has a star to follow. 801 01:55:30,258 --> 01:55:34,387 And now... what are you planning to do? 802 01:55:44,564 --> 01:55:46,858 Listen to this one. 803 01:55:46,983 --> 01:55:49,527 The commander says to the sergeant, 804 01:55:49,652 --> 01:55:53,948 "Remember when there was a windmill there?" 805 01:55:55,199 --> 01:55:58,244 "Yes, sir. I remember. 806 01:55:58,369 --> 01:56:02,915 "The windmill's gone, but the Wind's still there." 807 01:56:11,924 --> 01:56:15,970 Remember the story about the soldier and the princess? 808 01:56:27,482 --> 01:56:31,027 Now I understand why the soldier left right at the end. 809 01:56:36,365 --> 01:56:39,994 One more night and the princess would have been his. 810 01:56:40,119 --> 01:56:43,664 But she might not have kept her promise. 811 01:56:43,789 --> 01:56:47,627 That would have been too cruel. It would have killed him. 812 01:56:48,711 --> 01:56:55,009 This way, at least, for 99 nights he lived in hope that she'd be his. 813 01:56:56,969 --> 01:57:00,556 Do as the soldier, Toto. Go away from here. 814 01:57:01,849 --> 01:57:03,893 This land is cursed. 815 01:57:04,894 --> 01:57:10,024 Living here every day, you think it's the centre of the world. 816 01:57:11,192 --> 01:57:14,946 That nothing will ever change. 817 01:57:15,071 --> 01:57:18,157 Then you leave, for a year or two. 818 01:57:19,200 --> 01:57:21,410 And when you return everything's changed. 819 01:57:21,536 --> 01:57:23,412 The thread is broken. 820 01:57:24,539 --> 01:57:28,751 You don't find what you were looking for. What was yours is gone. 821 01:57:30,211 --> 01:57:35,299 You need to go away for a long time, for many years 822 01:57:35,424 --> 01:57:39,136 before you can come back and find your people... 823 01:57:40,721 --> 01:57:43,474 the land where you were born. 824 01:57:44,308 --> 01:57:46,269 But not now. It's impossible. 825 01:57:47,228 --> 01:57:49,438 Now you're blinder than I am. 826 01:57:49,564 --> 01:57:53,276 Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? 827 01:57:54,318 --> 01:57:56,279 No, Toto. 828 01:57:57,989 --> 01:58:00,408 No one said it. 829 01:58:01,867 --> 01:58:03,744 This time, I'm saying it. 830 01:58:05,246 --> 01:58:09,208 Life is not what you see in films. 831 01:58:09,333 --> 01:58:12,962 Life is much harder. 832 01:58:15,172 --> 01:58:17,133 Go away! 833 01:58:17,258 --> 01:58:20,636 Go back to Rome. You're young. 834 01:58:20,761 --> 01:58:22,555 The world's your oyster. 835 01:58:23,931 --> 01:58:25,558 I'm old. 836 01:58:26,851 --> 01:58:28,894 I don't want to hear you any more. 837 01:58:29,979 --> 01:58:32,356 I want to hear about you. 838 02:00:04,865 --> 02:00:06,701 Don't come back. 839 02:00:07,952 --> 02:00:11,872 Don't think about us. Don't look back, don't write. 840 02:00:13,082 --> 02:00:16,919 Don't give in to nostalgia. Forget about us. 841 02:00:18,713 --> 02:00:22,091 If you come back, don't come and see me. 842 02:00:22,216 --> 02:00:25,761 I won't let you in, you understand? 843 02:00:32,977 --> 02:00:34,937 Thank you... 844 02:00:35,730 --> 02:00:37,898 for everything you've done. 845 02:00:40,651 --> 02:00:43,738 Whatever you end up doing, love it. 846 02:00:45,573 --> 02:00:47,992 The way you loved the projection booth 847 02:00:49,535 --> 02:00:51,579 when you were a little boy. 848 02:01:00,463 --> 02:01:04,633 Is he already gone? Toto, farewell! 849 02:01:11,348 --> 02:01:13,350 I'm too late, what a pity! 850 02:02:13,536 --> 02:02:16,163 It's Toto. I knew it. 851 02:02:48,237 --> 02:02:53,242 Your sister Lia will be so happy to see you. And the children. 852 02:02:53,367 --> 02:02:56,579 You won't recognise them. 853 02:02:56,704 --> 02:02:58,747 When are they coming to Rome? 854 02:02:58,873 --> 02:03:01,584 See how nice the house is? 855 02:03:01,709 --> 02:03:05,379 We've had it all redone, thanks to you. 856 02:03:05,504 --> 02:03:09,133 Come, I've a surprise for you. 857 02:03:11,010 --> 02:03:13,304 Are you tired? 858 02:03:13,429 --> 02:03:16,348 You've time to rest before the funeral. 859 02:03:16,473 --> 02:03:19,101 No, Mum. The flight is only an hour. 860 02:03:20,394 --> 02:03:24,064 Don't say that, after all these years. 861 02:03:24,189 --> 02:03:27,860 Come, I've put all your things in here. 862 02:05:15,718 --> 02:05:18,887 He must be glad you came, Toto. 863 02:05:20,723 --> 02:05:23,851 He always talked about you, always. 864 02:05:25,310 --> 02:05:27,021 Right up to the end. 865 02:05:33,235 --> 02:05:35,487 He really loved you. 866 02:05:49,168 --> 02:05:51,420 He left something for you. 867 02:05:52,880 --> 02:05:55,132 Before you leave 868 02:05:55,257 --> 02:05:57,051 come and see me. 869 02:07:42,489 --> 02:07:45,284 When did you close it down? 870 02:07:45,409 --> 02:07:48,704 Six years ago in May. No one ever came. 871 02:07:49,955 --> 02:07:54,918 You know it better than I do. The recession, TV, videos... 872 02:07:55,752 --> 02:07:58,630 The cinema has become a memory. 873 02:08:00,174 --> 02:08:04,386 The city has purchased the site for a public car park. 874 02:08:04,511 --> 02:08:08,390 They're pulling down on Saturday, Signor Di Vita. Pity! 875 02:08:10,392 --> 02:08:12,102 Why "Signor Di Vita?" 876 02:08:13,562 --> 02:08:15,480 It didn't use to be like that. 877 02:08:15,606 --> 02:08:20,360 It's awkward to be casual with an important person. 878 02:08:20,485 --> 02:08:24,031 However, if you insist... Toto. 879 02:08:27,201 --> 02:08:28,744 Excuse me. 880 02:08:34,082 --> 02:08:36,752 Who would have believed it? Toto. 881 02:09:09,910 --> 02:09:13,622 Uncle, next time grandma goes to Rome, I'll go with her. 882 02:09:13,747 --> 02:09:16,166 I want to see where you work. 883 02:09:16,291 --> 02:09:19,294 OK, but there's not much to see. 884 02:09:19,419 --> 02:09:22,089 My job is much ado about nothing. 885 02:09:24,258 --> 02:09:27,886 Careful, Salvatore. 886 02:09:28,011 --> 02:09:31,181 They're worse than cannibals, they'll take advantage of you. 887 02:09:33,934 --> 02:09:35,269 Are you off tomorrow? 888 02:09:39,564 --> 02:09:43,068 I don't know. I really don't know, Filippo. 889 02:10:03,672 --> 02:10:05,090 Must be for you. 890 02:10:05,716 --> 02:10:10,262 They've been ringing all clay asking when you'll be back. 891 02:13:30,670 --> 02:13:32,589 Double whisky, please. 892 02:13:43,016 --> 02:13:48,271 Excuse me, aren't you Dr L�nera? I'm a fan of yours. 893 02:13:53,860 --> 02:13:55,445 Thank you. 894 02:15:10,478 --> 02:15:13,690 I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else. 895 02:16:35,855 --> 02:16:37,649 It's always me ringing. 896 02:16:37,774 --> 02:16:41,611 I asked you to pick me up at lunchtime. 897 02:16:41,736 --> 02:16:44,656 Forget it, I'm not going. 898 02:16:44,781 --> 02:16:47,575 In fact, I'll go on my own. 899 02:17:35,081 --> 02:17:37,333 What are you thinking, Toto? 900 02:17:40,795 --> 02:17:44,841 We've never really talked, Mum. 901 02:17:48,470 --> 02:17:51,681 When I was little, I saw you... 902 02:17:53,475 --> 02:17:55,477 as an old woman already. 903 02:17:56,853 --> 02:17:59,105 Maybe all kids are like that, who knows? 904 02:18:09,240 --> 02:18:11,409 It's taken me all this time... 905 02:18:13,286 --> 02:18:17,415 to realise that you were young then, and beautiful. 906 02:18:19,125 --> 02:18:21,377 You had your whole life ahead of you. 907 02:18:23,379 --> 02:18:27,759 Why, then? Why did you stay on your own? 908 02:18:28,843 --> 02:18:31,137 Without anyone to look after you. 909 02:18:32,806 --> 02:18:36,518 You could have remarried. Why didn't you? 910 02:18:39,896 --> 02:18:42,565 I might not have understood at the time. 911 02:18:44,025 --> 02:18:46,486 But later... yes. 912 02:18:48,279 --> 02:18:51,241 There was never anyone, if that's what you're thinking. 913 02:18:52,325 --> 02:18:54,452 I didn't want to. 914 02:18:54,577 --> 02:18:57,747 I remained faithful, first to your father 915 02:18:57,872 --> 02:19:00,959 and then to you and Lia. 916 02:19:01,084 --> 02:19:04,754 It's the way I am, what can I do? 917 02:19:04,879 --> 02:19:06,756 And you're like me. 918 02:19:08,007 --> 02:19:11,386 You're too attached to the past. 919 02:19:11,511 --> 02:19:14,889 I'm not sure it's a good thing. 920 02:19:15,014 --> 02:19:19,018 Being faithful has its drawbacks. 921 02:19:19,143 --> 02:19:22,105 Fidelity brings loneliness. 922 02:19:29,696 --> 02:19:31,364 I shouldn't have called you. 923 02:19:33,741 --> 02:19:36,035 It's not your fault, Mum. 924 02:19:36,160 --> 02:19:38,454 I've always been afraid to come back. 925 02:19:42,166 --> 02:19:44,502 Now, after all these years... 926 02:19:45,712 --> 02:19:50,133 I thought I was stronger and had forgotten many things. 927 02:19:52,176 --> 02:19:56,890 But it's all right there in front of me... 928 02:19:58,141 --> 02:20:00,184 as if I'd never gone away. 929 02:20:02,437 --> 02:20:05,273 And yet, I hardly know Lia. 930 02:20:09,360 --> 02:20:11,321 And you, Mum... 931 02:20:12,572 --> 02:20:14,574 I deserted you. 932 02:20:15,783 --> 02:20:17,827 I ran away like a criminal. 933 02:20:17,952 --> 02:20:19,829 Without an explanation. 934 02:20:19,954 --> 02:20:24,125 I never asked for one. You don't have to explain. 935 02:20:24,250 --> 02:20:27,795 I always thought you were doing the right thing. 936 02:20:27,921 --> 02:20:30,214 Don't dwell on it. 937 02:20:30,340 --> 02:20:32,842 Only one thing bothered me. 938 02:20:32,967 --> 02:20:37,639 At night, before I went to bed, 939 02:20:37,764 --> 02:20:39,265 I'd lock the door. 940 02:20:40,934 --> 02:20:43,269 - You never used to. - I know. 941 02:20:44,771 --> 02:20:48,316 When you worked in the cinema, late at night, 942 02:20:48,441 --> 02:20:53,488 I could never sleep till you got home. 943 02:20:54,906 --> 02:20:57,909 Then, when you got back, 944 02:20:58,034 --> 02:21:00,787 I pretended to be asleep. 945 02:21:00,912 --> 02:21:03,456 But I was aware of all your movements. 946 02:21:03,581 --> 02:21:08,086 Then, when you were asleep, I'd get up 947 02:21:08,211 --> 02:21:10,838 and lock the door. 948 02:21:12,757 --> 02:21:16,427 After you'd gone... 949 02:21:17,261 --> 02:21:19,806 whenever I did that 950 02:21:19,931 --> 02:21:23,267 I felt as though I was locking someone out. 951 02:21:24,769 --> 02:21:26,604 Shutting him off. 952 02:21:27,855 --> 02:21:30,191 You were right to leave. 953 02:21:30,316 --> 02:21:32,860 It allowed you to do what you wanted. 954 02:21:35,279 --> 02:21:39,742 When I phone you, it's a different woman every time. 955 02:21:39,867 --> 02:21:42,495 I pretend that I know them 956 02:21:42,620 --> 02:21:47,041 to avoid embarrassing introductions. 957 02:21:47,166 --> 02:21:51,212 I bet they take me for a dotty old woman. 958 02:21:53,673 --> 02:21:59,512 But I haven't yet heard the voice of someone who really loves you. 959 02:21:59,637 --> 02:22:02,515 I can tell, you know. 960 02:22:02,640 --> 02:22:07,687 All the same, I'd like to see you settling down. 961 02:22:08,646 --> 02:22:10,356 In love with someone. 962 02:22:11,941 --> 02:22:14,318 But your life is there. 963 02:22:14,444 --> 02:22:16,487 Here, there are only ghosts. 964 02:22:17,447 --> 02:22:18,906 Let go, Toto. 965 02:23:23,096 --> 02:23:24,806 Boccia! 966 02:23:31,771 --> 02:23:33,689 His name was Lo Meo. 967 02:24:33,499 --> 02:24:35,668 Hello! Who is it? 968 02:24:39,172 --> 02:24:42,592 - May I speak to Signora Elena? - Speaking. 969 02:24:44,468 --> 02:24:46,137 Who is it? 970 02:24:48,222 --> 02:24:49,849 Salvatore. 971 02:24:57,064 --> 02:24:58,566 Who? 972 02:25:00,234 --> 02:25:03,779 Di Vita. I'm Salvatore Di Vita. 973 02:25:06,532 --> 02:25:08,701 Remember me? 974 02:25:09,202 --> 02:25:14,207 I'm ringing from the bar across the road, Elena. 975 02:25:26,427 --> 02:25:28,554 Of course I remember you. 976 02:25:32,600 --> 02:25:36,562 I'd like to see you, Elena. Let's meet. 977 02:25:38,439 --> 02:25:40,191 It's been a long time. 978 02:25:41,108 --> 02:25:43,110 Why should we meet? 979 02:25:44,403 --> 02:25:46,322 What good would it do? 980 02:25:47,114 --> 02:25:48,908 Please, don't say no. 981 02:25:50,117 --> 02:25:54,121 I'm old, Salvatore. And so are you. 982 02:25:54,247 --> 02:25:56,082 It's best not to see each other. 983 02:28:07,838 --> 02:28:09,423 How did you know I'd be here? 984 02:28:11,467 --> 02:28:15,179 It's been a long time, but I haven't forgotten certain things. 985 02:28:16,597 --> 02:28:19,433 There aren't many places you'd go to. 986 02:28:22,311 --> 02:28:23,896 I did the rounds. 987 02:28:42,915 --> 02:28:44,667 You're still beautiful. 988 02:28:48,712 --> 02:28:52,216 What are you saying? I'm old. 989 02:28:57,346 --> 02:28:59,348 Don't look at me like that. 990 02:29:03,436 --> 02:29:05,271 Why have you come back? 991 02:29:07,148 --> 02:29:11,110 Alfredo's dead. Remember him? 992 02:29:12,778 --> 02:29:16,782 Of course I remember him. I'm sorry. 993 02:29:20,077 --> 02:29:21,954 You were very fond of him. 994 02:29:24,790 --> 02:29:26,417 I saw your daughter. 995 02:29:27,751 --> 02:29:29,462 She's very beautiful. 996 02:29:32,006 --> 02:29:34,175 God knows how many Salvatores she's got in tow. 997 02:29:36,469 --> 02:29:38,095 A few. 998 02:29:39,555 --> 02:29:42,475 But there are not many Salvatores. 999 02:29:46,395 --> 02:29:49,523 I've a son, too. He's older. 1000 02:29:52,485 --> 02:29:53,527 And you? 1001 02:29:53,652 --> 02:29:56,489 No children. I never married. 1002 02:30:01,202 --> 02:30:02,912 You happy? 1003 02:30:03,037 --> 02:30:04,914 I am, all things considered. 1004 02:30:07,249 --> 02:30:09,752 Though it's not what I dreamt of. 1005 02:30:13,339 --> 02:30:15,591 You know my husband, don't you? 1006 02:30:18,677 --> 02:30:21,096 Boccia, I remember him well. 1007 02:30:23,349 --> 02:30:26,769 What does he do? What's his job? 1008 02:30:28,354 --> 02:30:32,733 He's a politician. A local councillor. 1009 02:30:35,486 --> 02:30:38,197 We met again at Pisa University. 1010 02:30:41,242 --> 02:30:44,411 How come you didn't marry your father's...? 1011 02:30:44,537 --> 02:30:48,165 I didn't want to. I got my own way in the end. 1012 02:30:54,088 --> 02:30:56,882 I was still waiting for you at the time. 1013 02:31:02,846 --> 02:31:06,809 I never forgot you. Never. 1014 02:31:07,351 --> 02:31:09,019 Neither did I. 1015 02:31:11,063 --> 02:31:13,357 Even though you'd disappeared. 1016 02:31:17,945 --> 02:31:19,989 But why talk about it now? 1017 02:31:26,161 --> 02:31:31,792 It's pathetic, and absurd. You still live in Rome? 1018 02:31:31,917 --> 02:31:33,877 What are you saying? 1019 02:31:34,628 --> 02:31:37,965 We'd arranged to meet at the Paradiso. 1020 02:31:38,090 --> 02:31:42,177 But you never showed up. Not a word, nothing. 1021 02:31:42,970 --> 02:31:45,973 How long ago was it? Over 30 years. 1022 02:31:50,936 --> 02:31:52,855 But I... 1023 02:31:52,980 --> 02:31:55,107 I did show up. 1024 02:32:03,949 --> 02:32:05,993 But I was late. 1025 02:32:08,037 --> 02:32:10,623 I'd quarrelled with my parents. 1026 02:32:13,125 --> 02:32:17,129 Trying to convince them not to come between us. 1027 02:32:18,964 --> 02:32:21,050 But it was no use. 1028 02:32:23,469 --> 02:32:29,516 They'd made up their minds to leave Sicily once and for all. 1029 02:32:31,852 --> 02:32:33,896 And that's what we did. 1030 02:32:35,314 --> 02:32:38,984 I didn't know what do, what to say. 1031 02:32:41,320 --> 02:32:46,116 So I agreed to do what they wanted. 1032 02:32:48,911 --> 02:32:54,208 But I convinced my father to let me see you one last time. 1033 02:32:56,168 --> 02:32:58,003 I was hoping... 1034 02:32:59,171 --> 02:33:04,093 we'd take a decision when we met. 1035 02:33:05,928 --> 02:33:08,013 I thought maybe... 1036 02:33:09,848 --> 02:33:11,975 we'd run away together. 1037 02:33:18,232 --> 02:33:23,445 My father took me to the cinema. But Alfredo was there, not you. 1038 02:33:26,740 --> 02:33:30,244 And I couldn't wait for you to come back. 1039 02:33:32,955 --> 02:33:34,456 Hurry up, Elena. 1040 02:33:34,581 --> 02:33:37,793 I told Alfredo what was happening. 1041 02:33:37,918 --> 02:33:42,464 I said we were going away and asked him to let you know. 1042 02:33:45,718 --> 02:33:47,594 He was very nice to me. 1043 02:33:48,679 --> 02:33:52,266 He listened to me patiently. 1044 02:33:54,601 --> 02:33:58,355 Calm down, don't get upset. 1045 02:34:00,190 --> 02:34:02,776 Listen to what I have to say. 1046 02:34:02,901 --> 02:34:07,072 If you want me to tell Toto, I will. 1047 02:34:08,031 --> 02:34:12,578 But if you want my advice, let it be. 1048 02:34:12,703 --> 02:34:15,164 It's best for you two to stay apart. 1049 02:34:16,665 --> 02:34:18,417 My dear child... 1050 02:34:20,335 --> 02:34:23,130 Out of the fire of love come ashes. 1051 02:34:23,255 --> 02:34:27,009 Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out. 1052 02:34:27,134 --> 02:34:31,555 You'll meet other people, plenty of them. 1053 02:34:31,680 --> 02:34:34,475 But there's only one future for Toto. 1054 02:34:35,100 --> 02:34:39,521 He doesn't know it yet, and wouldn't believe me if I told him. 1055 02:34:39,646 --> 02:34:42,024 He'd kill me if I did. 1056 02:34:43,817 --> 02:34:47,988 But you, my dear... you can understand. 1057 02:34:48,113 --> 02:34:51,742 You must understand. Do it for him. 1058 02:35:10,511 --> 02:35:14,056 I never wanted anyone to know my secret, not even you. 1059 02:35:21,980 --> 02:35:23,816 Bloody Alfredo! 1060 02:35:26,610 --> 02:35:28,737 He charmed everyone, even you. 1061 02:35:31,073 --> 02:35:33,700 I said I'd follow his advice. 1062 02:35:33,826 --> 02:35:36,411 But I left a note for you before I left. 1063 02:35:48,340 --> 02:35:50,175 I was on my way down. 1064 02:35:52,344 --> 02:35:55,347 I knew Alfredo couldn't see me. 1065 02:35:57,432 --> 02:35:59,309 So I went back up. 1066 02:36:01,812 --> 02:36:05,524 I saw him sitting there, by the projector. 1067 02:36:07,484 --> 02:36:10,195 I took one of those bits of paper on the wall. 1068 02:36:12,406 --> 02:36:14,867 And wrote a note saying where to find me. 1069 02:36:17,536 --> 02:36:19,538 And that I'd wait for you. 1070 02:36:23,959 --> 02:36:26,336 But you disappeared all the same. 1071 02:36:37,139 --> 02:36:39,766 If you knew how I searched for you. 1072 02:36:42,477 --> 02:36:44,229 You can't imagine. 1073 02:36:45,898 --> 02:36:48,191 I wrote, I phoned... nothing. 1074 02:36:50,777 --> 02:36:52,654 No one ever replied. 1075 02:36:57,159 --> 02:36:59,077 That's why I left... 1076 02:37:03,248 --> 02:37:05,751 and never came back. 1077 02:37:08,128 --> 02:37:10,172 But for years I dreamt of you. 1078 02:37:22,351 --> 02:37:24,728 Time went by. 1079 02:37:25,520 --> 02:37:30,859 Yet I looked for you in every woman I ever met. 1080 02:37:32,653 --> 02:37:36,990 I was lucky in my career. Very lucky, it's true. 1081 02:37:40,953 --> 02:37:43,622 But something was missing. 1082 02:37:46,750 --> 02:37:53,006 I could never have imagined it would be the fault 1083 02:37:53,131 --> 02:37:55,759 of the man who was like a father to me. 1084 02:37:57,594 --> 02:37:59,346 A mad man! 1085 02:38:00,055 --> 02:38:03,433 He wasn't mad. I hated him at first. 1086 02:38:04,559 --> 02:38:06,353 But as time went by... 1087 02:38:07,854 --> 02:38:09,731 I understood his advice. 1088 02:38:11,942 --> 02:38:14,319 And I understood your silence. 1089 02:38:15,988 --> 02:38:18,240 But I never found that note. 1090 02:38:20,784 --> 02:38:22,995 I covered it with my own hands. 1091 02:38:24,955 --> 02:38:28,583 I didn't see it, there's no other explanation. 1092 02:38:28,709 --> 02:38:31,670 No point explaining any more. 1093 02:38:33,255 --> 02:38:35,007 That's how it was. 1094 02:38:36,425 --> 02:38:38,802 But Alfredo didn't betray you. 1095 02:38:38,927 --> 02:38:41,388 He knew you better than anyone. 1096 02:38:45,434 --> 02:38:48,145 If you'd chosen to stay with me, you'd never have made any films. 1097 02:38:48,270 --> 02:38:50,355 And that would have been a great pity. 1098 02:38:50,480 --> 02:38:54,401 They're such beautiful films. I've seen them all. 1099 02:38:57,654 --> 02:39:00,323 But you shouldn't have changed your name. 1100 02:39:01,908 --> 02:39:03,744 What's wrong with your name? 1101 02:40:19,069 --> 02:40:21,613 He left this for you. 1102 02:40:36,711 --> 02:40:43,301 When they showed your films on television, he was happy. 1103 02:40:45,387 --> 02:40:49,766 He just sat in front of the TV and forgot all his ailments. 1104 02:40:52,727 --> 02:40:56,314 He knew every single word by heart. 1105 02:40:56,439 --> 02:41:00,193 And I told him what the images were. 1106 02:41:00,318 --> 02:41:05,866 And when you were in the papers, he'd make me read it again and again. 1107 02:41:10,662 --> 02:41:12,247 He never asked to see me? 1108 02:41:12,372 --> 02:41:15,250 No. Never. 1109 02:41:16,877 --> 02:41:18,879 Your mother once said 1110 02:41:19,838 --> 02:41:23,133 you'd come if he wanted you to. 1111 02:41:24,759 --> 02:41:27,429 He was furious. He said, 1112 02:41:27,554 --> 02:41:32,017 "No. Toto must never return to Giancaldo." 1113 02:41:34,936 --> 02:41:37,522 He wasn't being mean. 1114 02:41:37,647 --> 02:41:39,357 He was a good man. 1115 02:41:40,817 --> 02:41:43,445 Who knows what went through his head? 1116 02:41:44,988 --> 02:41:49,075 He started saying strange things towards the end. 1117 02:41:51,828 --> 02:41:54,623 Just before he closed his eyes... 1118 02:41:55,874 --> 02:41:59,711 he told your mother not to let you know. 1119 02:42:13,975 --> 02:42:18,939 1977, 1976, 1968... 1120 02:42:43,338 --> 02:42:45,173 Moby Dick. 1121 02:42:47,801 --> 02:42:49,928 Dreams in a Drawer. 1122 02:42:50,762 --> 02:42:52,430 The Challenge. 1123 02:42:53,265 --> 02:42:55,267 The Searchers. 1124 02:42:59,020 --> 02:43:00,981 Magnificent Obsession. 1125 02:43:03,441 --> 02:43:05,360 The Scream. 1126 02:43:17,622 --> 02:43:21,751 "Forgive me, Salvatore. 1127 02:43:24,212 --> 02:43:26,673 "One day I'll tell you what happened. 1128 02:43:27,674 --> 02:43:30,802 "I'm so sorry I couldn't see you. 1129 02:43:30,927 --> 02:43:34,764 "Unfortunately, I'm leaving with my mother tonight. 1130 02:43:35,849 --> 02:43:39,394 "We're moving to Tuscany. 1131 02:43:41,146 --> 02:43:44,357 "But I love only you. 1132 02:43:45,108 --> 02:43:48,278 "I'll never love anyone else, I swear. 1133 02:43:50,405 --> 02:43:55,076 "I'm giving you the address of a friend for you to write. 1134 02:43:57,329 --> 02:43:59,164 "Don't ever leave me. 1135 02:44:02,083 --> 02:44:04,502 "I love you. 1136 02:44:05,795 --> 02:44:07,756 "Elena" 1137 02:44:11,801 --> 02:44:12,927 When do you leave? 1138 02:44:15,347 --> 02:44:17,223 This afternoon. 1139 02:44:18,558 --> 02:44:22,312 Elena, maybe in future we can... 1140 02:44:22,437 --> 02:44:27,233 There is no future, Salvatore. Only the past. 1141 02:44:29,152 --> 02:44:32,238 Even what happened yesterday is only a dream. 1142 02:44:32,364 --> 02:44:34,074 A marvellous dream. 1143 02:44:36,701 --> 02:44:38,828 We never did it when we were young. 1144 02:44:40,413 --> 02:44:41,581 Remember? 1145 02:44:44,709 --> 02:44:47,921 I couldn't have hoped for a better ending. 1146 02:44:55,095 --> 02:44:57,305 I'll never agree with you. 1147 02:44:58,890 --> 02:45:00,767 Never, Elena. 1148 02:46:43,745 --> 02:46:46,247 The square is mine! 1149 02:47:11,981 --> 02:47:14,817 Check the leader. Roll when you're ready. 1150 02:47:14,943 --> 02:47:18,530 OK. Congratulations, I loved your film. 1151 02:47:20,198 --> 02:47:23,743 - Well? - The film's being distributed. 1152 02:47:23,868 --> 02:47:28,623 There'll be a press conference with the actors, producer... 1153 02:47:28,748 --> 02:47:33,920 The prize has just been announced and the telegrams are already mounting. 1154 02:47:34,587 --> 02:47:37,298 Aren't you happy? 1155 02:47:37,423 --> 02:47:40,009 Yes, of course. We'll talk later. 1156 02:51:00,710 --> 02:51:05,006 THE END