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CHRIST AMONG THE WALLS

Let me in!

Let me in!

Your place is no longer here.

There's no tramp here. Come back to her!

Please...

- Go away. - Stop it.

We do not...

Pope'?

- Paulie ... - He's Dad!

Happy Birthday to You...

- Happy Birthday to You! - Happy Birthday to You!

Best wishes dear Dad ...

Happy Birthday to You!

We tried to wait for you in feet, but you were so late!

I gave you a radio as a gift birthday, I'm going to get it!

Go away, Jeremiah ...

Pope'!

- Yes'? - Let me in!

What happened?

Your hand...

I should have cut it.

I hate Annunziata ...

Oh, poor Jeremiah ...

You are beautiful...

Annunziata's hands are rough ...

He worked. He had children. Is old.

But he is no older than you.

What right do you have to be beautiful?

I took care of myself.

Men want beautiful women.

Kathleen ...

Yes'?

Where is the beauty that one was it in my life?

Why did I get to this point?

How did it happen?

You always wanted a little more. Why don't you take life as a game?

- I want life the way it is. - What do you want?

I knew it once.

I thought I knew.

It was something that happened ...

A moment arrived in mine life where I wanted something ...

For the first time in my life ...

I knew I really wanted something ...

I was busy with a job ...

The biggest I've ever seen.

It wasn't just the biggest ...

... it was also the coldest that I ever did.

Cold, cold ...

I can't make out anymore between hands and bricks.

These are the bricks! Come on, uncle, down with work.

- Too cold... - Come on, Luigi, come on!

My fingers are splitting from the cold. It exhausts me, this frost!

Take cover behind the wall!

Lay the bricks with your tongue if you have hands too cold, this is work!

And it's hot! For a dollar and twenty-five an hour.

It is not worth it.

Meledetti all! At least they brought Get rid of this damn mud!

Damn the day I have laid my first brick.

Penate and tear the muscles.

Have you warmed up?

Yes'. Nice warm.

Until we finish the job, eh?

It is the shortcut to the sky.

One dollar twenty-five per hour.

You wouldn't do the same yourself on the ground ...

Jeremiah, listen: it was an accident.

Sure, man, we know that.

My place is not up here.

I'm not cut out to be a laborer.

- My place is down. - Yes, in fact you were about to finish us.

Forty floors ...

Forty or ten makes no difference.

The best thing to do ...

... is that you forget about it and immediately return to work.

And how do I do this...

It's not like I'm afraid ...

It is that all this is not for me.

Sure, man.

I quit.

You know, it's the smartest thing what he could do in his life.

Maybe...

And at least he knows that for a mason it's easier to go down than up.

Will you do the smart too?

I had the chance to go out from this round once ...

... but who likes to do the alcohol smuggler?

- He came close. - Yes'.

More than ever.

- Luigi. - Yes'?

How much time will pass before that forget us completely?

In my case, two days.

In your...

A week.

Nobody would cry you?

Nobody.

And to you?

Nobody.

In practice, none.

Come on, let's eat.

- Hi, Jimmy. - Hey there'.

Hi, Margherita.

Poor little mother.

This crazy woman came here alone, and with a child, in this cold!

On a day like this a man needs hot food.

And what about this one?

- Is it one we haven't seen yet? - Yeah, this one is fairly new.

- Eye with those dirty hands. - He'll be a bricklayer too.

Not this one. It will become a great American manufacturer.

And I'll help him make money.

Here's something better than money.

Will you keep it for a moment, Giovanna?

Giulio!

This food makes me forget good manners.

Throw this American crap e enjoy some real Italian cuisine.

Are you sure that's enough?

If I had an Italian girl I didn't you would never ask for such a thing.

How long have you not put it foot in an Italian home?

When he cooks an Italian, there is so much food to feed Garibaldi's army.

I forgot to tell you that the baby put another tooth.

Another tooth? Let me see!

Luigi.

Why have you never married?

Why'?

Because I was as crazy as you.

I just wanted to have fun.

This shoemaker arrived who wanted my own girl ...

Filomena married him, and I came to America.

Was she beautiful?

It is mandatory that all of them are women beautiful?

- Well, it's not a disadvantage. - He had other qualities.

Now he has ten children.

Her husband does not earn one dollar fifty per hour.

He doesn't make any money either fifty cents.

But...

... sits at the head of a table ...

... with ten children who eat spaghetti ...

... and Filomena who serves them.

I did this last year when i was there.

See for yourself.

Who are you?

This is Annunziata, the bigger, if I saw her ...

She takes care of the whole house by herself.

He takes care of all the children ...

... when parents are at work.

What do you have?

Nothing, I ...

... I just realized that Annunziata must now be the same age ...

... of Filomena, when I was courting her.

Eh ... these are sad things.

You don't see faces like this around here.

I was just like you.

Storielle ... it was all that I wanted stories, never love.

I think I should have married one of my stories.

Oh, Jeremiah ...

... if only you had your tender age ...

Jeremiah ...

What do you have? You stared at me all evening.

I was thinking.

At what?

To us.

- So early, Jeremiah? - You are happy?

I enjoy it, don't you?

Don't you want anything else?

Yes, but I'm not hard to please.

I'll take what I have now.

Look, what are you worried about?

I don't want it to go on like this.

Oh...

Look...

I want more'.

I want to build a life, a life that grows.

A family, a home.

I want to get married.

You mean you've decided that, on two feet?

To marry you?

The way I understand it ...

... we need people fall madly in love.

Would you marry me?

Answer me.

If I had another job ...

You don't think I could to keep my family?

What kind of life?

Let's take a look at your friends, especially those with family.

Why, what's wrong with that?

What's wrong with it? How do they live?

If they work a week at month I'm in seventh heaven.

I could get you a stable job at the store, a respectable job.

You would have decent clothes ...

I don't want a respectable job at the store, I'm a bricklayer!

- I'm a builder. - Can't you change?

Why tire us, Jeremiah?

We are in 1921.

Everything is happy, in a world completely new.

- They are such wonderful times. - Kathleen.

Do you want to marry me?

Jeremiah!

No. I've seen too many to fall for it.

What takes you men anyway?

Don't you understand when you're lucky?

I have to go.

Things are as they are.

Luigi.

I would like to see that photo again.

I want to marry Annunziata.

Excuse me ... Excuse me ...

Jeremiah! Jeremiah!

They are separating the sheep from the goats.

Sheep and goats?

Immigration is deciding who can come in and who has to go back.

Maybe they won't let you in.

Why shouldn't they? She has a husband waiting for her.

He paid her a deposit.

I'm going to see what they say.

- What's wrong, are you? - No, no ...

If you faint now, what will you do at the wedding?

It's the heat!

The heat will be the least of your problems!

Luigi.

I need to talk to you. Come.

Excuse me.

Luigi.

He must go back.

- What do you say? - I can't marry her!

- Remember that I guaranteed for you! - Forgive me, Luigi, I did a terrible thing!

What have you done?

I lied to you.

- Do you have a hidden wife? - No, no, Luigi, here ...

In the letter in which he said that would come ...

... has set a condition.

He said ...

This part is not important now ...

Oh, here it is.

Please don't consider me blatant, but there's something I have to ask you.

Here in the Abruzzi, however poor we were, we always had our home.

I could not live under the roof of a stranger: there would be no happiness for me.

So if ...

... now you can't give me a house, it does not matter...

... how small, I'll wait for you until you can.

Well...

I ... told her to have a home.

- Did you tell her you got it? - I couldn't wait!

- It's done, I'll pay you for the return journey ... - Are you crazy?

Hey, Jeremiah!

They are coming, come!

You have to tell him.

Now?

How would you feel? It would scare her!

Yes, yes'...

He would think he had happened in the midst of villains.

All right.

Give her a moment to recover.

But listen ...

Tell her you'll give her a home.

That you will work to give it to him.

- And tell him right away! - I'll do it, Luigi, I'll do it.

Excuse me...

- Jeremiah! - Eh?

Jeremiah is waiting for you here.

It'll be fine.

Jeremiah.

It'll be fine.

The bride is coming ...

The bride is coming ...

Great is the gift ...

Holding on to his side.

Before you eat it!

I declare my love for this little naked angel ...

... lying in its roasted beauty ...

... before these my eyes.

Why'...

... love is hunger.

And want to consume.

Without money, you are poor ...

Without food, you're hungry ...

Without wine, you're sober ...

Without laughter, you're sad ...

Without love, you are nothing ...

Nothing at all ...

Not a man, not a mouse ...

Not a woman, not a bride ...

Nothing, nothing ...

Nothing at all.

Without love you are nothing ...

Nothing ...

Nothing at all.

You can buy food with money.

Become fat.

Buy wine.

Get drunk and be happy.

But you can't buy love.

But you can't buy love.

Without love you are nothing, nothing at all.

Not a man, not a mouse ...

Not a woman, not a bride ...

Nothing, nothing ...

Nothing at all.

Without love you are nothing, nothing ...

Nothing at all!

To the spouses!

Warning!

Farmers.

I have something to say.

This is a real marriage.

For the one who was sent to right of the bride and groom, ...

... in the place of honor.

Myself.

The midwife!

To the offspring!

To the offspring!

The bride!

I didn't know what I would find, when I arrived here.

Now I know.

I'm...

... among my people.

Abbuffiamoci.

Jeremiah.

I've been talking to you all night.

I have plans for myself, and I want to that you know that I keep you in mind.

I don't forget about friends.

- I appreciate it. - I'm leaving and I'll take you with me.

One day we could become great entrepreneurs!

- But no! - With ironed clothes!

I'm fine, I'm a worker, I don't like ironed stuff.

It will be good, we will be a good team.

- I'm watching you. - Jeremiah!

It's here! The House!

A moment...

In business Jeremiah has a wooden head.

We hear the conditions.

A thousand dollars for the house.

- A thousand dollars! - It's a good house, I can make it good.

Ok.

Twenty-five dollars in cash now.

As soon as I'm paid 750 cash dollars, can move.

Balance: $ 250 in installments weekly from 5 dollars.

Signed: Jaroslav.

But...

You promised me I could have the house for the three days of honeymoon.

- What good is a house for three days ... - But you promised me!

PS: I rent the house for i three days of honeymoon.

- Signed: Jaroslav. - Approved?

- 750 dollars and moves? - 750 dollars and moves.

Approved.

Approved.

Luigi.

Go, have fun!

I haven't told him yet.

Of the House.

What do I have to do?

Didn't you tell him yet?

What are you waiting for!

Tell him!

What should I tell you? What words should I use?

Just tell her ... that you ...

You can not.

Not the wedding night.

There is only one moment like this in life.

It must be enjoyed to the fullest.

Let me have yours three days of honeymoon.

Let their memory be it ... like a jewel.

Which will adorn her for the rest of her life.

That's what I thought too.

Jeremiah.

Take me home now, Jeremiah.

Yes, it's time.

Come on everyone! He guaranteed it!

What they call this place where are we going?

- Paradise. - No.

- I mean, other people. - Oh, them.

They call it ... Brooklyn.

- Are you sure this is the place? - Sure! This is the house!

Tuesday at noon?

Tuesday at noon.

You were right, Jeremiah.

It's an old house.

His bones creak and has rheumatism.

But we will make it young again.

We will make it beautiful.

Why are you crying?

I'm in my home.

In all these years I dreamed of this moment.

But something told me ...

"It will never happen to you, Annunziata".

Every day, on the ship, I kept saying ...

"Maybe he won't love me".

"Maybe I won't love him".

"Perhaps the ship will sink".

"Maybe I'll get sick and they will send me back ".

"Perhaps he will change his mind".

But isn't it wonderful, Jeremiah?

None of those things happened.

And here we are, in our home.

And I am happy.

Are you as happy as me?

Yes'.

And the honeymoon ...

... it will be pure happiness.

It's an old superstition.

If you want your home to be lucky, you have to sprinkle it with salt.

Especially in the corners.

Not that you believe it, but ...

How much is the salt?

If you want, you can laugh at me ...

I have no desire to laugh of you, Annunziata.

Then I'll hang the photos of St. Joseph at the door.

You are not sorry to have left Italy?

You are Italy, Jeremiah.

You are the family, Annunziata.

You are the love.

- You need some wine. - The sun is my wine.

I never drink before sunset.

I mean, never before today.

Also, a glass of wine it makes me shines.

Me too.

And besides, we have so many things to talk about.

And there the soil is good for tomatoes.

And I want to repair the stairs.

And you have to paint the entrance, and the living room ...

And I want them blue.

Blue...

The two drunks.

The world turns!

Of all the spaghetti ever created, these are the greatest!

No, wait, wait! Don't eat them.

- I forgot the cheese. - Don't worry about cheese!

"Don't worry about cheese"? What are we, cannibals?

I'm going to get the cheese.

But before...

...give me a kiss.

If in the future ...

... someone will want to know what is real happiness, ...

tell him to come in the house of Jeremiah.

In Brooklyn.

I think you would do better to kiss me again ...

How confused my became head in the last three days!

Three days...

Has it been three days?

Annunziata!

Annunziata!

Stupid...

Announced, forgive me, but I didn't have enough money ...

Annunziata, look at me ...

I couldn't wait.

I wanted to tell you, but ...

... but me and Luigi, we thought that ...

Annunziata, listen to me, I've already paid $ 25, and I have 200 in the bank.

As soon as we have 750 dollars Jaroslav will let us transfer.

I'm early?

Madam, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

$ 500, you move.

Announced, did you hear that? $ 500 and we move!

Annunziata ...

I'm going to wash the dishes.

And to put in order.

We have to leave the house clean.

- Hi, Jeremiah! - Hello!

- See you again! - Welcome home!

Let me in, let me in!

No, go away!

Just a moment.

There is a nice morning sun.

Would you like to sprinkle the salt?

No.

I hang at the door the photo of St. Joseph.

It's not the outer door.

Jeremiah.

You'll never lie to me again.

Never.

For no reason.

We will never lie to each other.

Whatever it is in our hearts...

... we'll tell you.

Yes, Annunziata.

I promise we will have a home.

I'll work like two men, we'll save every penny.

We need only another 275 dollars.

- 275 dollars? - Yes, but I earn a dollar 50 per hour.

I work 8 hours a day, and if I have one week good arrival at 66 dollars!

$ 66!

- Then in a short time ... - No, no, wait, Annunziata ...

The truth is'...

Even when things are going well, I ...

... I work alone one week out of three.

Even so, one in three it's 22 a week!

Yes, but then there's the rent, food, clothes ...

What are they doing...?

At least ... 19 a week.

We will make them 15.

- No we can not. - I'll eat less!

No.

All right.

We'll do ... 16.

It is not possible!

- 17! - I tell you ...

I won't need more.

- All right, 17. - So 5 will be for the bank.

5 a week. To get to 275 do ...

- Fifty five! - ... five!

Oh yes, Jeremiah ...

It's only 55 weeks.

There won't be many.

With God's help ...

... there won't be many.

I'll tell you exactly what I said to the boss.

I told him 'don't worry about the your money and this deadline '' ...

'' take this assignment as well '' ...

"I work with these men, I know them!''

"And I can promise you one thing:"

'' even if it means working harder and faster, we'll finish this job on time. "

We work hard and fast all the time, Murdin ...

You wonder why you work harder and faster.

Look, I was also a cementist.

You won't believe he asks you to go fast just for fun, no?

I thought of you too. Listen.

For the man who poses more bricks, better ...

... there will be a bonus of 100 dollars.

One hundred greenbacks.

Do you think that's a good thing, Murdin?

Sure, don't you?

I mean, we'll all work more tough, but only one will benefit from it.

Yes, but 100 bucks ...

Yes, but every man here thinks that he'll be the lucky one.

Remember, only one can win.

- What do we earn for extra work? - Thing?

Listen, friends, listen.

There are 100 greenbacks waiting for one of you.

100 greenbacks you will never know how else to do them.

What do you want from me, going to the boss to tell him to take another team?

Tell me, don't you feel like doing?

Ok, then let's go.

Jeremiah.

We don't have to put ourselves against each other.

If we don't do it, it will somebody else. I need that money.

We all need money.

- There's another way, Jeremiah. - Such as?

The five of us can work together ...

so that one of us will win for sure.

And divide the money by five?

- But it's only $ 20! - Jeremiah!

We have always been ... like five branches of a bundle.

All right.

But whoever wins must have more than the others.

I guess you think you are what will win.

Yes, there's a chance.

I can lay bricks better of anyone in the state, ...

in the nation, ...

... in the whole cylindrical universe!

How do you call yourself a bricklayer, if you ...

Calm.

We've already started.

Against each other.

Let's work together, we divide in equal parts.

Agree?

Agree.

Agree.

They understood.

You will work a little more, so we can all get the prize.

I got it.

Wake up, wake up, wake up! Wake up, this is money!

Everyone has to work, not only one! Come on, try touching me!

Wait a minute!

Are you fighting like women? Look!

I'm already ahead.

The winner is'...

Jeremiah.

A job well done requires a celebration!

I'm going to drink, who's coming?

- I! - I already feel the taste of wine!

What's better on a Saturday afternoon with an extra in your pocket?

Twenty extra dollars.

I? No, no, I'm going home.

- No! - Come!

I remember when Jeremiah was a man, not just a husband!

I remember when he had an appetite for le women, and he wasn't so terrified!

I remember when the grape told him something.

Hey! Here we go! Let's drink to his memory.

- To Jeremiah! - To Jeremiah!

In memory ... of Jeremiah.

Hey, Jeremiah, listen!

If you don't come with us you will regret it.

But even if you come with us you will regret it.

So come with us e repent like the rest of us!

Watch me!

It will dry on the way home!

Can you only talk about this?

- Is there anything better? - Anything!

Ah, the female!

No matter how much trouble you bring, it wasn't invented nothing better for human males!

Think about how ...

... how it softens the soul of a man ...

And to delight a man's blood ...

And much better when she's in marriage.

- Hi guys. - Hi Kathleen.

Friend Giulio.

- Friend Luigi. - I feel we are very superfluous.

- So we're leaving. - And me too.

- So, Severina? - Exactly, Severina ...

Had...

You played the double game with me, Jeremiah.

I?

You did what you said.

You didn't believe did you really mean it?

No, inside of me no.

It is the last time I will trust of a feeling "inside me".

What is married life like?

Beautiful.

It was worth it?

Yes'.

Did you find anyone?

You won't believe it.

It's really a piece of bread.

And cheese.

It doesn't bring me flowers.

He brings me cheese.

What do you do with flowers?

- You are happy? - Never like that again.

It's not true, I'm ... alone.

- I'm sorry. - Wait, don't go ... not yet ...

I've moved. You don't even know where I live.

- Isn't it better this way? - No.

I want you to know where I am, in case...

In the case of that, Kathleen?

Oh, I don't know.

It's just that sometimes I wake up ...

... thinking, "Jeremiah he doesn't even know where I am ".

Take it, it will make me feel better.

All right.

- Good night. - Night.

Annunziata!

- Annunziata! - Wait up! Do not come!

Jeremiah ...

- But I'm your husband! - Oh, please, no!

Why were you screaming?

- I have something to tell you. - Thing?

That I love you.

- Is that something to scream? - Yes'.

- You're drunk. - Yes'.

No.

- How crazy I married. - You married me for my money.

Didn't you know I'm rich? Wait up...

- $ 20 bonus. - $ 20!

To be the greatest world mason!

$ 20!

I know, we're putting ourselves more time than expected.

It does not matter.

Wine?

Why not? It's an opportunity.

But it will have cost $ 2.50!

- What's the difference? - What difference?

All these months you've worked a whole week only once.

I don't care if we go slow.

But what if something happens?

I do the best I know and I work as hard as I can.

It's not like spending money for me or in women.

Jeremiah ...

- We'll soon be like other marriages. - Well ...

So ... what did you expect?

Between a man and a woman?

There will always be some disagreement.

I should have stopped at the tavern with the others.

Why didn't you do it?

I was sorry you were here alone.

The others are also sorry for their wives?

Some wives are more beautiful than the others.

I'm not beautiful.

What are they looking for ...

... these men who don't do they feel sorry for their wives?

Some men...

... they can't find a jewel, and yes content with 10 cent imitations.

Announced, listen.

From now on, whatever happens ...

... Saturday night we will forget all thoughts.

We'll keep it aside, just for us.

We will also forget to be husband and wife.

Saturday night...

... when my husband ...

... will make me fall in love with him ...

... each time like the first time.

I'll take the land from under ai Feet, I'll make your head spin!

And I'll do it without wine.

On Saturday night.

- And see ... - Come on, come on, come on, come on ...

- A nice jack for you. - Just what I needed.

Luigi has a gift. He always knows what I need.

- He takes them all. - No way.

Misfortune is a faceless god.

Yes'! Four queens.

Four queens!

Liar! Hypocritical! Mind with three queens in your hand!

And instead I have four queens! Everyone standing!

- Why does it take so long? - Go home and find out.

He is afraid that a leap out I work and I let it go.

A job?

While at this moment his neoerede punches the table ...

... looking for his stupid father.

Annunziata is like a tiger!

"I'll do what needs to be done without your help '' he said.

"You stay out".

That's the way it is because it's the first and he doesn't know how it is.

- Believe me, he needs you. - Go Go!

If a job comes up, I'll call you first.

- Promised? - Promised!

Come to hell!

Water to the flames of hell!

Go to hell ...

Water in the flames of hell ...

Salt to ...

Shhh!

What happens? How are you?

Someone made an evil eye of her!

We must cast out the devil.

Annunziata ...

Why are you here?

I thought that maybe would have been better ...

Go back to the union room ...

A job!

Mala Fortuna ... Strange ...

It all started in the best way...

- I'll call a doctor. - No!

25 dollars!

I won't have a doctor.

I won't have it!

It's quite enough already ...

Baby will be born in a house not his ...

But he ... will grow ...

...in his home...

No doctor.

Things must be done.

- Which things? - Go to the kitchen ...

... seven eyelashes torn from the eye right, six from the left, ...

... boiling in salt water, e spread it in the corners of the room.

- I'll call a doctor. - No!

One two Three...

four five...

It's a boy!

- How is she? - She's fine, but she's exhausted.

Kick and swing, small.

Sing your splendid work.

Sing and live, live and sing!

I have a child.

I have a child!

And how will you call it?

We will call him ...

Paul.

It's a female!

I have a daughter!

It's a boy!

We have another child.

It's a boy!

I have three children!

- Give the hat, Dad. - I'll take my shirt.

Watch me! Watch me! I'm a bricklayer!

- A mason ... how is the baby? - Look at the child.

A few more weeks.

Even if we had the 500 dollars ...

... we should still pay $ 5 a week.

We will not have to pay the rent.

Jeremiah, it will be done.

And we'll have it again our Saturday nights.

And wine.

A few more weeks.

I have some work.

Half a day, for a single man.

- Half a day, for a single man? - What the hell ...

Are there no more bricks? We do not have more hands? Why don't we build?

You did not hear? There is a Depression.

Decide between you who will take the job.

Jeremiah, I wanted to talk to you. Will you be home tonight?

I'm always at home.

I'll jump.

Half a day for a single man.

- Wall Street collapsed. - No wall built by me collapsed.

The careers of the builders they are finished.

The soul of a nation contradicts itself.

Half a day, for a single man.

At Giulio's house the air has become hungry.

Bellies, sores.

The hearts of Giulio children have become ...

... swollen bladders.

At the house of Jeremiah ...

... the dream is dying.

There is worse than hunger.

The money was put aside for the home.

Money raised from my food and from my comfort.

Now we're eating our dream.

We are childless.

I only have my woman.

His blood is sick.

He desperately needs of food and heat.

I have to worry only of my hunger and my cold.

Not much to worry about in the case of Luigi.

He has enough in the bank for go on for a while.

What's to say?

There is to say only that at Giulio's house there is more hungry and cold than everyone's.

It must be said that Murdin must to decide; he is the foreman.

You think he'll choose you why are you the fastest?

No.

The job goes to Giulio.

Thank you.

Heaven has forgotten us.

Mum? What are you thinking about?

What are you thinking about?

I was praying ... and look!

Guys! The snow!

- Money! - Money! Money!

Hey.

Where am I?

And what is this smell?

Spaghetti! With real meat sauce!

Spaghetti?

Oh, no, I have to be in the wrong house. Forgive me...

No, no, you're in the right house.

Who are you?

- I'm Annina. - Ah, Annina!

- And who is the beautiful lady? - Don't be stupid, it's mom!

You! I remember seeing you somewhere...

- Come on, let's eat ... - Come on, let's eat!

Oh look look look, sniffs, sniffs ...

And wait to see what else I have.

Wine!

Giulio's wife brought him.

I do not know why'.

It's good.

Tonight there is wine for everyone.

John, Annina ...

John ...

- Annina ... - The beautiful lady ...

And for me.

- To us! Hooray! - Hurray! Hooray!

It's Murdin. I let him in.

I'd like to talk to you.

Forward.

Ate?

- Thanks, too much trouble, thanks. - No, no, sit down.

Maybe after listening how I came to tell you, ...

... maybe you won't want to that I eat with you.

You are welcome to the our table. Sit.

Is it for the house?

Yes'.

But we can talk later.

We have no secrets for my children.

They know what good and evil is.

It's the house.

I can not do otherwise.

I have to sell the house.

Sell ​​the house ?!

All my money is gone!

I told charity women: '' the government must help me, ...

... because I'm old and hungry ".

But the charity woman says: '' no Jaroslav, you have a home, ...

... sell the house, the government does not it can help you until you sell it ".

- What can a poor man do? - But you can not.

- Annunziata ... - No! He can not'!

This is our thing. We have worked for her. We loved it.

I'll give you some money.

I'll give you $ 100.

There are only 125 left!

- It does not matter! - Annunziata!

It's my home!

The house you promised me.

It will be mine!

I can't accept you, ma'am.

Take them, Jaroslav.

Take them.

He won't sell the house.

I won't sell the house.

Even if I'm starving.

Sit down.

There will be spaghetti with meat sauce tomorrow too?

- If it snows ... - Will it snow?

Paul went to check.

Who will tell you?

- Mrs. Olson's radio man. - Dad didn't hear about it?

No. Only the radio man knows.

Someone knocks.

I'm going.

A moment.

Oh, Murdin, come in.

- We save on electricity. - Sure.

- Now I turn it on. - No, that's okay.

- All right. Sit down. - Thank you.

I have a chance to have a contract.

And how?

I made an offer.

What makes you believe who will win the contract?

My offer will be the lowest.

- Wasn't the race secret? - Not for me.

- Did you offer less than this amount? - Turn the page.

This is my offer.

It's impossible.

Do you mean you can't do that?

- Do you think you can? - We will have to cut some costs.

Looks like they were already cut.

Props, for example ...

The props are for the men's safety!

The wood is not strong enough.

You know the safety rules well they are about three times ...

... more severe than that is really necessary.

Good luck, Murdin. You will need it.

I want you to join me in this enterprise.

As a foreman.

No.

- We can work together ... - No!

- I don't understand why you get so hot ... - At least I want to be able to sleep at night!

Well...

Pope'...

- Yes'... - They said no more snow on the radio.

All right, Paulie.

Well, spaghetti sauce it is also good without meat.

Go to mom.

We live in difficult times, Jeremiah.

Think about it.

All right, Murdin, I'll think about it.

Tomorrow will rain'.

No need to save on electricity '.

I ... I have a job with Murdin.

Well, this is the job to do.

A job! It took a miracle, of these days.

It's not big?

Hey, Jeremiah, how did you do?

Yes'.

Well, it went like this.

I ... I went to Murdin, and I told him ...

... "your boys want to work, and this is your moment. "

"If you find a job, they do it to you."

Hunger gave our men four arms and two backs.

Everyone will work like two men, restless.

- From sunrise to sunset. - Jeremiah ...

I would like to say something ...

My ... my nose is famous.

There's something about this job ... a smell ... that doesn't come back to my nose.

- And who asked you to smell it? - I say nothing, Jeremiah, it's just ...

... it's not just a job of construction, it's a demolition.

Throw down entire walls.

This job is not safe.

What do you want, a seal of golden american guarantee?

Sure ... go sell the apples, that's for sure.

- Freezing in a corner is safe. - It is safe to sit at home.

Not with his wife.

Starving, the most safe in the world, zero risk.

I don't ask questions often, but when I do I want an answer.

What do you want to know?

I want to know how Murdin got the job.

He cut down on security to win the contract?

Here's what I want to know.

- Listen, Giulio ... - I answer.

Idiot.

With Jeremiah as foreman ...

... since he studied carefully projects ...

He did it?

I've seen the projects.

It's enough for me. Let's go guys, they are waiting for us, come on!

What a fool I am.

Even if I knew the world was me it will fall on me, I should go anyway.

Jeremiah ...

What's wrong?

What do you mean?

We don't talk to each other anymore.

We talk to each other all the time.

Only with the lips.

- Can you imagine? - No.

You always talked about your work.

Who was jealous and who was satisfied.

You should have understood by now that all the jobs are the same.

You know what I ask you, ...

...but yet,...

...you do not answer.

Why, Jeremiah?

There's nothing to say.

What do you think, to be to beat the carpet?

- I can't go faster. - Why not?

- I'm scared. - You accepted the job!

Floors and walls are made of paper.

You knew how the job was. If not You can do it, I'll take another one.

Here we go!

And do you call this fast work?

Yes, I call it fast.

We have promised.

We promised to finish work quickly.

You're not working with me!

You know, my father wanted let me be a barber.

Which barber works like this?

You would still have a chance to become a barber!

Giulio, you're a lucky man.

Here it is.

Giulio, Margherita's pizzas they would bring any man to marriage.

What did you think?

The chief does not eat with his men.

What is a delegation?

Jeremiah, ...

We came to talk to you.

We've always been like ...

... five branches in a bundle.

We know each other well ...

... that this job is not good.

- And that's why we wanted ... - I don't want to hear any more complaints.

This job is good like any other.

For every job there are hundreds of hungry men on the street.

Have I tied you with ropes? This is a free country.

You think the job is too dangerous? Leave him.

Leave him.

So we, ...

... we wanted to ask you if would you come tonight from Gennaro, ...

...like old times.

And with a bottle of wine for ...

... wash away this ...

...bad situation that was created between you and us.

Luigi, the siren!

Jeremiah, however you try, my soul ...

... is lost in sweets hills of the Abruzzi.

Luigi, get up!

- Jeremiah ... - I said get up!

Don't talk to me like that! We are friends.

Until this work ends, I have no friends.

Jeremiah ...

There is nothing in the world that is worth all this.

- Go to work, Luigi! - Jeremiah, look ...

If I'm forced, I'll replace you too.

We need more props.

This job is like a house made of straws.

Just a little wind and everything collapses.

Come on, Jeremiah, relax, everything is going well.

We can not do it.

Do the kids complain?

- No but... - Look, we didn't chain them.

At any time, whoever wants can leave.

- Any time. - But ...

How can hungry men quit?

Ah, cut it short, it's just a job like the others.

There's nothing to worry about.

Stop worrying, and continues with work.

- Who is it'? - Luigi.

Call an ambulance.

Luigi ...

What can I do for you, Luigi?

Jeremiah!

What have you got, Jeremiah?

Anything.

You are not drunk ...

I have to go.

- Come to Gennaro, let's talk for a moment. - No.

"Are you in trouble, Jeremiah?" - I'm OK.

Annina!

It is a torment!

They have no room to play, they are becoming savages.

Good one moment ... Enough!

Yes'!

Good!

Here we go.

Come on, kids, come on.

Luigi.

Dead?

No. Crippled

- I think I'll go for a walk. - Yes, Jeremiah.

Why don't you go to the tavern?

It will relax you.

There's another meeting of the union today.

Not today!

Why'? What is it today?

Anything.

I thought you would be stayed home tonight.

It's been so long ...

... since we have ate all together.

Will you be home for dinner?

- Yeah, I'll try. - Please.

The children.

They haven't seen you for a long time.

I'll be home.

Mum? I'm hungry.

I would not forget my birthday.

It will come'.

You heard mom, it's ad a union meeting.

He can't be at the meeting from all this time.

Oh, it's coming.

Well, that's enough.

Oh, please, mom, another few minutes.

I struggled so much to build that radio.

Let's eat.

It just happened that I was ...

... the one to which Murdin he turned.

It could be any of the others.

They would have done the same things that I did.

You believe me, don't you, Kathleen?

I believed it every time you told me.

Why are you looking at me like that?

I felt sorry for the wine ...

It's a very good wine, but you you didn't even notice.

The way you are using it, the more wine economic would have been the same thing.

Yes, it's quality.

The worst is, it doesn't seem benefit you for nothing.

I know very well how the wine feels.

It must have cost a lot.

Why'?

I thought it would make you happy.

It's your birthday.

Birthday?

- You remembered it. - Yes, I remembered.

I have to go home.

But you can't in this state!

Let me in!

Come back to her.

- Don't say that anymore. - We don't want you ...

'' Best wishes dear Dad ', happy Birthday to You''.

It's a puzzle, isn't it?

What does it mean?

- Oh, I don't know. - It must mean something.

Maybe it's because I'm bad ...

... that I am being punished.

It would be understandable.

But then why are they punished Annunziata, and the children?

And why was Luigi falling down?

Poor Jeremiah ...

Something happened to him small orderly world, ...

... where everything is good or bad.

What's in your world?

Neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.

Only the strong and the weak.

But I feel strong!

Strong enough to live for yourself?

To take you from life what can you offer?

What are you trying to tell me, Kathleen?

I would run away with you, Jeremiah, now.

To run away?

Run away?

Run away from my job, from my friends, ...

...from my family, where is the strength in that?

And Jeremiah? And he? You have no right ...

... to a little peace? of happiness'?

We could be happy, Jeremiah.

No, a man does not live just for himself.

There must be something more.

What more'?

Kathleen.

I asked you to marry me once.

You were strong, you refused, you wanted freedom.

- Wasn't that enough? - Yes, yes it was.

- Is that enough now?

You see...

There's something more, Kathleen.

Yes'. I guess so.

Ours was a strange love.

All loves are strange.

Maybe someday, when you're staying walking with your wife, ...

...we will meet.

How old is your son Paul?

Nine.

Nine...

Annunziata ...

Annunziata, I didn't hit you, ...

... but home, work, fear ...

... the bitterness in my heart.

I should have told you, I would have had to tell the men.

You should have told me.

Who's gonna be okay now?

We will finish soon.

I'll talk to the men.

We will be careful. From now on we will work together.

Annunziata, we must not never go away again.

I shouldn't have ...

... let me grow old.

I love you.

This,...

This is a good Friday.

As is the costume, I'll clean up.

I have wronged you. I lied to you on security measures.

This job really is a house made of straws.

You all risked your life on my word.

I don't want this weight anymore on my conscience.

No...

You mean this job was it dangerous?

But beyond that, there was something between us, ...

... from man to man, to whom I have wronged.

And especially for this I ask your forgiveness.

Pardon?

Easy to find kind words. And it's even easier to spend them.

No, Giovanni.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm ready to consider it ...

- ...thing of the past. - So do I.

I did everything I had to. I don't know what other words to use.

You're the worst boss that we never had, you know, right?

As they say in my province, ...

... '' there is no tyrant that he had not been a slave ''.

But my generosity it is well known.

I have a heart as big as the dome of St. Peter's!

What are you doing there?

You don't have a match for an old friend?

Wait a minute.

We need to get more props before other walls collapse.

If we are united ...

... there will be no more risk.

I think it would be better ...

John! Take three men and put reinforcements on the third floor.

And spread the word.

From now on, the priority It's security.

Forget about speed.

- OK. - Well, let's get back to work.

Lights! Prepare the cement mixers.

I believe we will start today the casting of the concrete.

- The tower of Pisa would fall, it would not yield. - Well.

The men have removed the rubble from upstairs.

Probably there are no more real dangers in any case.

My son Paul has me built a radio.

- All by yourself, think! - A radio?

An electric car as magical, ...

... from which they come music and voices of Christians.

Who knows, maybe we have a new Marconi.

Eh, maybe!

I think I'll go check if reinforcements are sufficient.

Giulio!

- Stay out, huh? - OK.

- Eye! - Giulio...

We've increased the reinforcements below.

Let's try a piece of wall.

Now I can start breathing again.

Sure. But not sure enough.

More reinforcements are needed.

Jeremiah, I don't need to a golden quality seal.

I'll finish right away.

Your feet are safe, but not your head.

Do as I say. Put more reinforcements upstairs.

- Hey, Jeremiah! - Eh?

We are ready for casting!

Okay, go ahead!

- Everything is ready! - Wait a minute.

- Better check those cables up there first. - All right.

Where does that laugh come from, and why?

I felt it inside ...

- What do we have to laugh about, then? - Nothing at all!

Jeremiah! What time do you do?

According to my old onion American, there are 10 minutes to two.

- In a little while we'll go ... - No, in an hour.

- And then, home. - Jeremiah!

- Watch out for the casting! - Ok, start off!

All right, yes, yes!

Hey, Luciano, we're pouring.

Laborer! What are you thinking now?

As soon as we finish at 3, step by Mulberry Street and I buy the biggest eel!

- I prefer seafood, with shell. - Especially the oysters, what a splash!

Hey, Jeremiah, what time is it?

Five minutes to 2.

Help!

Save me! I'm being buried alive!

I can be saved! Save me!

In a few seconds I will be buried ...

If only I could breathe they would join me!

Help! Help!

Ah! If only I could do it road to bites towards the air ...

- I must! - I can not breathe!

I can't die this way!

This can't be my exit from the scene!

Air! I need air!

Save me!

Annunziata! My children!

My children ...

Annunziata! Forgive me!

I tried!

I can not!

I can't leave them!

I can not!

I can not!

Only did this who told him to do.

He was a good man.

Is there anything else you want to add?

What does it mean?

He asks if there's anything else wants to tell him about the accident.

What else is there to say?

No, nothing else to add.

Please sit back with his family.

What are they talking about now?

They are discussing about how much could be paid.

How will they calculate it?

They will determine how much you would have earned her husband for the rest of his life.

How much would he earn ...

This is the value of a man's life?

Who can tell him his value?

Can I tell you that?

It was my life ...

What do you have here?

You, men, ...

... with your clean faces and your soft hands, ...

... what do you have, can you repay me?

With what,...

... with what you can repay me for my Jeremiah?

My beautiful Jeremiah.

What do you have, ...

... within these walls, or of your hearts, ...

... to be able to offer me and to be able to say with decency, ...

"Is this for Jeremiah"?

What you can offer to these children?

What do you know about love, ...

... and of the dream, ...

... and of the house?

How can you judge the life of this man?

How can you help?

You have arrived too late.

Too late.

Case closed.

Annunziata.

Annunziata!

They have come to trial.

What have they judged?

They judged it the way they did men judge in this world of men.

It's $ 1,000.

There will be monthly payments for children.

In any case, you won't go hungry.

What are you thinking of, Annunziata?

I think in the end, ...

... Jeremiah bought us a house.

Revised subtitles by TITA BELLINI - 2013 titabellini@libero.it