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A FILM BY WERNER SCHWEIZER

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"From now on,
everything will be different.

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"I'm starting a new life.

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"I've set my heart
on achieving many things:

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"freedom, crazy adventures
in far-off countries,

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"professional success,
leading a truly exciting life.

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"In America, I'll finally belong
to no one but myself."

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"If I hadn't met Iris,
I'd be the happiest of men.

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"But I am like he who has breathed in
the scent of the Fairy Kingdom.

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"And for whom ordinary women
have no more attraction.

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"And now she has left me.

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"What am I going to do?"

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ENEMIES IN LOVE

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BASED ON THE NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME
BY WILFRIED MEICHTRY

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UNIVERSITY OF BERN
1940

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That was so boring!

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-What a waste of time!
-It really was.

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Prof. Lüthi is as effective as
a sleeping pill.

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Well, I found it rather interesting.

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What a little go-getter you are!

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Gentlemen, here is the future lawyer
of the petty bourgeoisie.

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The lecture had
some interesting aspects.

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We don't care.

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Let him talk about results.
It's the means that count.

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It's just hot air.

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It was at the University of Bern.

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LAWYER
CLASSMATE

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We passed each other
in the corridors.

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And I noticed her.

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She walked quickly
and with a swagger.

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She was a beautiful woman

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with her blond hair
and mischievous eyes.

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But I was never a rival to Peter.

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I could never have given her
what Peter had to offer.

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Oh!

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Mr. von Roten?

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I'm really sorry,
I don't know what I was thinking.

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No, wait.

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Come in.

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Oh...

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I'm sorry, I don't know...

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Just like a novel.

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Please excuse me.

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Make yourself at home.

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Let me slip something on
and I'll be right back.

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What can I get you?

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-Coffee? Tea?
-Coffee, please.

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"Criminal law and the rule of law."

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"Modern Woman, The Lost Sex."

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Look me in the eyes,
Mr. von Roten.

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Do you take milk and sugar?

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Milk and sugar,
Mr. von Roten?

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Just sugar, please.

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Are legal texts so interesting?

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As a lawyer, I have no choice.

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Apart from that?

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I'm interested in knowing what
I'll be able to do in the future.

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Yes, Miss Meyer.

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You find that amusing!

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Do you believe in freedom?

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Do you?

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We are all just...

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cogs in the machine.

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Cogs in the machine?

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You're young,

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handsome, intelligent, cultured.

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You have the whole world
at your disposal.

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You're too romantic.

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Is that why you let men climb
into your apartment at night?

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What?

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I'm a realist, Miss Meyer.

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You can go now,
Mr. von Roten.

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But this time, use the door.

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"Life disgusts me.

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"I feel only one thing:
that everything is absurd, absurd.

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"I've made huge efforts in all areas.

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"And I feel my destiny
is like that of all martyrs.

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"I think I'll buy a gun

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"and put a bullet in my head."

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That's not what I'd say
if I look at this photo.

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WRITER

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I think she's both...

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But I can tell you
that when I saw her...

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Obviously, maybe there...

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There, she looks a little sad.

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There.

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She looks quite sad.

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When I saw her, she wasn't sad.

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She was really quite...

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energetic and determined.

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But with a feminine sensibility.

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THREE YEARS LATER
1943

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"Dear Miss Meyer,

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"I was delighted to receive
your letter after all this time.

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"You were the most beautiful
of all the students back then.

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"But that night,

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"when you invited me
into your room,

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"it was for me the ultimate proof
of your depravity.

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"I had to call on all my virtue
to resist you.

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"Today, I think our meeting back then

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"was just a big misunderstanding."

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One of her qualities was
that she made good choices.

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I would have trusted her.

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If she said to me,

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"I agree with you, I'm doing that"

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even if it was dangerous,
I trusted her.

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"It's hard to express, Mr. von Roten,
how much I admire you.

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"Your character,
your intelligence

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"and your supreme cheerfulness.

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"You strike me like a Greek god,

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"fascinating and wonderful.

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"It's marvelous how your character

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"clearly embraces such contrasts.

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"You are smart, witty, astute,

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"and extraordinarily open-minded.

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"You have sparks of pure intuition."

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That's when she confided in me
about the handsome man from Valois

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she had met.

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COUSIN OF IRIS

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And about the time
she'd spent in Valais

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and whether to become a Catholic.

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The first thing he told us

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was that he wanted
to become King of Valais.

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That is obviously difficult.

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COUSIN OF IRIS

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"When I read your letters.
I could feel my blood pulsating.

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"You offer me
such indescribable happiness

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"that I have to wonder

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"if your letters
do not contain opium,

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"hashish or something even worse,

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"but it is not so.

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"Because the happiness remains.

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"And I can make it appear anywhere,

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"as if by magic,
as soon as I think of you."

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My parents' biography is based

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on the extensive exchange of letters

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that took place
between the 1930s and the 1950s.

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DAUGHTER OF IRIS AND PETER

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My mother always kept those letters.

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And apparently,
she also asked my father

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to give her
those she had written to him.

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She kept them in a trunk
along with other letters

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she had received
and that were close to her heart.

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They were love letters.

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I knew all that.

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My mother originally intended

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to keep these letters
in a small mattress,

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and for the mattress
to be put in her coffin,

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so that her body rested
on these letters

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and everything would be burned
when she was cremated.

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"Our relationship is our life's work.

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"Our love is the heart of our lives.

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"It is the light by which
we can make out the shapes

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"and colors of this world
with absolute clarity."

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-Should we have a swim?
-Of course we should.

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"I have no fear.

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"The essential thing
is to maintain our love

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"and to nurture it.

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"It will bring us both

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"a strong sense of self-fulfillment

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"and an even greater sense
of achievement.

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"Peter, be prepared to discover

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"and apprehend
a totally unknown continent.

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"And to forge ties
you could never have imagined."

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Peter came from a very conservative
and Catholic background

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and was clearly fascinated
by a world so different from his own.

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He was a free-thinking, open man.

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And for him, it must have been
unbelievable such a woman existed.

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A beautiful woman
who was also intelligent.

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I think the Frauenblatt
is the ideal opportunity for me.

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They're giving me the editorial

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and I really want to create
a fashion supplement.

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"When I think of all
the possibilities ahead of us,

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"I feel giddy.

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"Together our life has meaning
and we find our reason for being.

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"You're the small hand
counting the hours.

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"I'm the big hand
counting the minutes

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"and our love is the clock face."

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You don't want to have
sexual relations with me?

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Iris...

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The Catholic church forbids it
before marriage.

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That's ridiculous, a priest's idea.

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I'm craving it.

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I crave to touch you.

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One day, you'll regret your chastity,
believe me.

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Maybe we should order.

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Do you want to marry me?
Or do you need to ask your priest?

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Yes... No...

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-Yes, I want to.
-What do you want?

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I want you to be my wife.

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But my mother wouldn't consent.

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You're not taking her to the altar.

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"What a world!

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"Men are the masters.

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"And women are servants.

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"Women must not have opinions,

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"or demands or power.

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"They must stay at home
and take care of daily life:

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"slicing ham for the casserole,
sewing on a button...

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"And an ink stain on the tablecloth
is a catastrophe."

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This situation is simply intolerable.

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They were the landed gentry.

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They were aristocratic landowners.

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The idea of succeeding in life

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meant having property
on which one could live.

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It isn't...

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One could have servants.

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They were considered

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as members of the family,
but on a different level.

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It was something bourgeois,
but in a landowning sense.

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She wants it to be Mother's Day
every day of the year.

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You needn't worry, though,
she's not Catholic.

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What if she converts?

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Take the other glasses.

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They are at the gate.

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In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

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Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name

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Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

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On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day

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Our daily bread
Forgive us our trespasses

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As we forgive those
Who trespass against us

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Lead us not into temptation

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But deliver us from evil. Amen.

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-Thank you.
-You're welcome.

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Allow me.

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-Your plate.
-Yes.

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I remember Peter said one day

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that this Miss Meyer
was an intelligent woman.

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PETER'S SISTER

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Not a woman one should marry
but ideal to converse with.

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What do you think,

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Miss Meyer, do you like it?

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It's excellent, Mrs. von Roten.

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-Your health.
-Your health.

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Miss Meyer,

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do you seriously think

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that men and women are equal?

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They are. Obviously.

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History teaches us quite differently.

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In that case, it's time to turn
the wheel of history.

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You know you are in opposition
to divine providence?

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Women are subject to men,
is that it?

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I know, Mr. von Roten.

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-You see.
-But what is this argument?

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Using this archaic dictum as argument
is not defending faith but power.

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In the name of religion,
you deliver patriarchal speeches

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that have nothing to do
with faith.

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This is scandalous!

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How dare you!

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"What is the reason for your family

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"to display such hostility
towards me?

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"Is it Catholicism?

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"No, they simply don't know
how to classify me.

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"In their world view,

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"there is no place for a woman
with her own ideas and goals.

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"I represent a way of life and
determination that troubles them."

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And this is Johann Christian,
the ancestor so to speak.

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00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,840
Up there is his son, Christian Georg.

261
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,640
This is Hildebrand von Roten,
Prince Bishop of the diocese of Sion,

262
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,520
from 1750 to 1761.

263
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:03,960
And that's...

264
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,200
Heinrich von Roten.

265
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:11,400
Iris?

266
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,040
-That's my father!
-I know,

267
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,119
Catholic, conservative,
National Councilor...

268
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,720
I was six months old when he died.

269
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,359
Is that any reason
to play the model son?

270
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,280
You want me to give it all up?

271
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,200
You have understood nothing.

272
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,160
I'm supposed to throw it all away?

273
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:34,680
Look at you.

274
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,880
You're on really bad terms
with your family.

275
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:46,160
RAPPERSWIL
NEAR LAKE ZURICH

276
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,480
Iris's mother was like a statue.

277
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,760
A beautiful woman, very reserved.

278
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,480
But Iris was not very complimentary
about her parents.

279
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,400
LAWYER
CLASSMATE

280
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,080
She didn't complain about them,

281
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,840
but she found it sad
her mother wasn't more fulfilled.

282
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,640
She attributed the cause
to the society of men.

283
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,480
It became her hobbyhorse,
this society of men.

284
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,840
According to her,
men work together to oppress women.

285
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,800
She liked Manfred.
There were high expectations of him

286
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,200
and I think he liked Iris
but didn't understand her.

287
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,000
For him, she was an enigma.

288
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,800
"I was first beset

289
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,080
"by the demon of melancholia
at a children's party.

290
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,760
"I felt as if nobody liked me.

291
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,520
"That I was completely excluded
from society.

292
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,040
"I felt as if everyone else
was of the same species

293
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,200
"and that I was
the only one different.

294
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,880
"As a young girl, I read
Famous Swiss People.

295
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,359
"It was said of Benjamin Constant

296
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,000
"that he lived his life
in a permanent need to be loved.

297
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,240
"With me, that need is even stronger.

298
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,359
"I have a constant,
unquenchable thirst for love."

299
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,720
You can't do such a thing.

300
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,920
Read it first.

301
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,480
"Article one:

302
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,600
"Regarding my professional life,

303
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,560
"I am totally free.

304
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,080
"If I decide to take up
a professional activity,

305
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,560
"no other activity
shall take priority over it,

306
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,040
"not the running of the household
nor the children's education

307
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,440
"nor their learning."

308
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,160
I will only accept living with you
if we are totally equal.

309
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,760
"We must agree on the way
to educate our children."

310
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,520
You haven't read everything
about running the household.

311
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,880
"Apart from domestic chores
as I see fit,

312
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,760
"I don't want to concern myself with
or know about

313
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,359
"cooking, sewing, cleaning, etc.

314
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,040
"So, we'll need
a full-time housekeeper

315
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,720
"or at least several hours a day."

316
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,600
I fully accept this contract.

317
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,600
On condition you become a Catholic.

318
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,440
Back to that again?

319
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,359
Peter, please.

320
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,960
I thought she was inconsistent.

321
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,720
It was all about women for her.

322
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,760
She wanted
the right to vote for women,

323
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,080
yet she didn't call herself
Iris Meyer

324
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,040
but took her husband's name.

325
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:30,320
It was obviously better to be called
von Roten than Meyer.

326
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,600
IRIS MEYER AND PETER VON ROTEN

327
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,520
HAVE THE PLEASURE
OF ANNOUNCING THEIR WEDDING

328
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,960
I had imagined it quite differently.

329
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,080
What do you mean?

330
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,640
I don't know.

331
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,640
More tenderness.

332
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,280
Sensuality.

333
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,040
Something less selfish.

334
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,560
During the sexual act,
both partners should come.

335
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,720
Not just the man,
but also the woman.

336
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,440
No lessons now, please.

337
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,360
I'm not your pleasure machine.

338
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,640
A woman is more than just her sex.

339
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,040
I...

340
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,720
Yes.

341
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,040
I'm just not very...

342
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,400
At ease...

343
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:16,880
With things.

344
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,120
"With things..."

345
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,400
What did those priests of unhappiness
do to you?

346
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,720
I am the result of 2,000 years
of anti-sexuality

347
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,160
and Catholic prohibitions.

348
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,520
You married me, you did it...

349
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,040
Against the wishes of your family.

350
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,840
Thank you for having given up
on making me convert.

351
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,200
Yes...

352
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,440
Now, in the eyes of everyone,
I'm the black sheep.

353
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,800
Better than following the herd,
don't you think?

354
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,960
P. AND I. VON ROTEN
LAW OFFICE

355
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,600
"I did it all wrong.

356
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,360
"I should never have got married.

357
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,080
"A woman should have sexual relations

358
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,640
"with all the men
she loves or desires.

359
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,880
"Just one man for life is pitiful."

360
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,120
-Hello. Do you mind?
-No, go ahead.

361
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,360
"The husband is in charge
of the family and the conjugal union.

362
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:27,920
CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS

363
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,440
"The wife must keep house."

364
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,600
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is
still the situation in Switzerland.

365
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,560
And if that weren't enough,

366
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,080
article 167 of the civil code
states that,

367
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,040
"A woman may not undertake a career

368
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,000
"without having obtained
her husband's permission."

369
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,560
Swiss women must wage war
in their fight against this law.

370
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,360
The patriarchal rooster
must continue to be plucked

371
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,760
until women have obtained
the right to vote.

372
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,160
Ladies and Gentlemen,

373
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,960
I am convinced
that women must fight for this right

374
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,040
and not wait for men
to join them in this fight.

375
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,480
"When you became a suffragette,
it disgusted me more

376
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,840
"than if you were a morphine addict
or a brothel madam.

377
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,960
"I imagined you having meetings
surrounded by old spinsters.

378
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,160
"I was so distressed!

379
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,080
"But recently,
when I came to your talk,

380
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,320
"I understood what loyalty meant.

381
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,320
"It means:
Supporting you unconditionally.

382
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,080
"Even if many people
find it ridiculous.

383
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,240
"Being loyal means joining the fight
for women's right to vote.

384
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,080
"Saying that you are a woman
of exceptional intelligence.

385
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,640
"And that there is no shame
in following you."

386
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,760
It was a really beautiful spring day.

387
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,360
Perhaps May or June,

388
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,520
since I was always
in Geesch at that time.

389
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,239
We went out for a walk.

390
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,280
She was young and beautiful.

391
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,960
Very alive, very determined,
with even a certain...

392
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,280
She could be quite dictatorial.

393
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,320
She stopped for a moment.

394
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,960
She turned around and looked at me.

395
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,880
And she said, "You know...

396
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:31,560
"It's very beautiful.

397
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,719
"When you're 60,
you should end your life.

398
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,840
"I will kill myself then.

399
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000
"You should be able
to end your life."

400
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,560
Moved by the beauty of life
and the beauty of the countryside,

401
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,920
young and beautiful, she said,
"Life should end when you're 60."

402
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,360
-Mrs. von Roten.
-Yes.

403
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,680
The photos of the reception
in honor of your husband.

404
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:41,520
Thank you.

405
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,960
Your husband will be
a great National Councilor.

406
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,960
It was a lovely reception.

407
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,280
For you, maybe.

408
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,280
Have a nice day.

409
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,000
Members of the National Council
and Council of States, dear friends.

410
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,160
The municipality of Raron

411
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,960
is proud of its son, Peter von Roten,

412
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,800
who is the youngest member
of the Swiss National Council.

413
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:09,400
Thank you.

414
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,160
Thirty years!

415
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,920
Yes, thirty years
after his father Heinrich...

416
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,880
Whom no one has forgotten.

417
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,320
A member of the noble
von Roten family

418
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,800
is once again entering Parliament.

419
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,320
Thank you.

420
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,600
Councilor von Roten,

421
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,880
may I take a photo of the two of you?

422
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,080
-Yes, please.
-Over here?

423
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,080
Yes.

424
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,160
Yes, over here.

425
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,239
-Here?
-Yes.

426
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,360
Very good.

427
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,160
Thank you very much.

428
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:26,440
They're lovely.

429
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,680
And one final one.

430
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,160
Allow me to introduce you.

431
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,160
Mr. Eicher,

432
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,400
-my wife Iris.
-Delighted.

433
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,120
A female lawyer from Zurich
here in the flesh in Valais!

434
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,880
Yes, and one with horns
like the devil.

435
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,080
She has a sense of humor.

436
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,600
Women's right to vote,
is that a serious thing?

437
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,600
-Yes.
-Mr. Anthamatten, I can speak.

438
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:05,600
And yes, it's serious!

439
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,960
It's not natural.

440
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,160
What will happen to the children,

441
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,400
running the household?

442
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,239
True, women are ignorant of politics.

443
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,280
Do you not have other arguments?

444
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,880
Yes, a woman...

445
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,680
The cow should stay in the stable.
It has an udder and has to be milked.

446
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,280
Be careful the cow doesn't gore you

447
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,760
and toss you into the manure pit.

448
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,000
-That's who you married?
-Yes, that's her.

449
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:52,480
Iris.

450
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,480
Iris...

451
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,960
You just stood there
and said nothing!

452
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:10,680
But...

453
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:39,480
Iris?

454
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:45,680
Iris?

455
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,120
What is it?

456
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:54,920
Huh?

457
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:00,920
Did you have a good day?

458
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,160
Iris.

459
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,880
This damned canton of Valais
is getting on my nerves.

460
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,840
No... But... Iris?

461
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,120
You're handling your first case.

462
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,320
I've just got two dirtbags acquitted.

463
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,760
Call that a case?

464
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,560
Iris, look, I know
this isn't easy for you.

465
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,880
It's a den of evil, this place.

466
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,120
I'm losing my dignity here.

467
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,440
Your dignity?

468
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,360
You have your life,
you're Peter von Roten, you're a man.

469
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,080
You'll become a Federal Councilor
while I suffocate.

470
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:55,040
You say you're suffocating,
losing your dignity.

471
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,600
I don't want to hear this.

472
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,480
Stop it.

473
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:01,239
What do you want me to do?

474
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,800
You have such high ideas.

475
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,000
You invent a world
sitting at your machine

476
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,680
and you want people
to be just as you imagined them

477
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,040
outside your office.

478
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,719
But these are normal people
living according to their ways.

479
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,440
You're lying to yourself.

480
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,200
You provoke people
and I'm the one who pays.

481
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:27,360
You don't see what happens to me
every day in Raron!

482
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,800
And what was that outburst
at the reception?

483
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,560
You dare to say I am not loyal?

484
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,920
You have made a fool of me.

485
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,480
I am loyal!

486
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:45,200
I won't have people making fun of me,
making jokes at my expense.

487
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,000
My family thinks I am ridiculous.

488
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,400
Yes, that's it, just walk away!

489
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:22,360
Iris...

490
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,080
Please forgive me.

491
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,920
I'm tired of everything, Peter,
including you.

492
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,480
What has this to do with me?

493
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,680
After dinner,
you go to bed and sleep.

494
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,200
We barely speak to each other.

495
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,120
I want more, from sex too.

496
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,560
I do too.

497
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,680
I need to leave here.

498
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,440
So, you're back
to this America thing again.

499
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:41,920
"Dear Peter,

500
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,680
"Your behavior drove me half crazy

501
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,280
"and extinguished all my desires.

502
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,600
"In America, I'll believe once again

503
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,200
"that I don't belong to anyone
but myself

504
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,160
"and I will explore
all erotic possibilities

505
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,120
"that life offers.

506
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:04,400
"I want to breathe the air of a place
where equal rights are visible.

507
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,760
"I don't yet know if
and when I will return.

508
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,680
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA
SEPTEMBER 1948

509
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,880
"I'm going to write a book.

510
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,520
"A feminist book that will set out
to women in clear terms

511
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,880
"the reality of their situation
and the misery of their condition.

512
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,800
"The issue for me is
that women must be deeply fulfilled.

513
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,840
"Women must be
physically, spiritually

514
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,719
"and economically free
throughout their lives.

515
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,360
"It's not just
about the right to vote."

516
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,200
"October 29, 1948."

517
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,640
"Peter, do you want to know
how it all started with Louis?"

518
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:04,920
Iris.

519
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:06,560
Iris.

520
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:09,680
Hello.

521
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,920
You may not know me,

522
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,480
but we take the same journalism class
at 10 a.m.

523
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,960
Would you like to get a coffee?

524
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:18,600
"He surprised me.

525
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,920
"The men who manage to surprise me
always have a lot of sex appeal.

526
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,400
"Louis told me
there aren't many people

527
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,040
"whom he can speak with
for more than two hours

528
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,560
"without ending up
being annoyed by them.

529
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,480
"Might I be an exception?

530
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,520
"Not just because he likes me,
but because he loves me.

531
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,760
Louis, kiss me.

532
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,560
"Dear Iris, I fear
I will never see you again.

533
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,080
"I am obsessed with the idea

534
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,080
"that you like being with Louis
more than me.

535
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,480
"If, erotically and sexually,
he satisfies you in ways

536
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,360
"that I do not,

537
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,040
"then, what can I do?

538
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:29,360
"This anxiety plagues me
more than jealousy."

539
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,480
You refused to listen to me.

540
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,040
Come to the chapel with me.

541
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,560
It's not just about you,
but your family.

542
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,200
Aren't you ashamed?

543
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,320
"How easy and convenient it was

544
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,080
"when I was a devout Catholic!

545
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,120
"I received from the pulpit

546
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,640
"instructions on how
to live my daily life.

547
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,080
"Now, I'm like a leaf,

548
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,760
"blown this way and that by the wind.

549
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,600
"I have nothing to support me."

550
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:35,760
Forgive us our trespasses

551
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,080
As we forgive those
who trespass against us

552
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,600
Lead us not into temptation

553
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,040
But deliver us from evil...

554
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,800
Do you need something?

555
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,040
Just a signature.

556
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:02,520
Very well.

557
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,080
Will Mrs. von Roten stay long
in America?

558
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:14,760
Yes.

559
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,280
It may be quite a while.

560
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:19,800
She's looking for men.

561
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:23,760
I mean...

562
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,680
She's doing some research.

563
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,480
Oh, I see...

564
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,520
It's for her book.

565
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:51,920
You work too hard.

566
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,520
I have to, I'm trying to hold back
the tide with a broom.

567
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,520
I think it will be a success.

568
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,080
No, they'll think it's pornography.

569
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,480
Well, you should give it up then,

570
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,600
all this feminism stuff.

571
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,400
-Oh...
-Listen.

572
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,160
I have a picnic.

573
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,560
Ham, cheese and wine.

574
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,880
You're a lifesaver, you know?

575
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,680
I have my car here.

576
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,760
"I wonder if it's normal
that I'm not at all jealous.

577
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:39,960
"Quite the opposite.

578
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,640
"I find that I remain indifferent
to your physical infidelity.

579
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,400
" It even pleases me.

580
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,600
"Pleases me...

581
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,360
"Really pleases me.

582
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,000
"It really pleases me.

583
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,400
"If you've got
what you're looking for.

584
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,280
"I am happy
for your erotic successes.

585
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,520
"Yet the idea that you could fall
in love with someone else...

586
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,280
"and forget me...

587
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,480
"is excruciating."

588
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:44,320
Today, we're at the University
of Bloomington in Indiana

589
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,400
where the Institute for Sex Research
is located.

590
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,920
Dr. Kinsey has degrees in biology
and psychology.

591
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,239
For 25 years, he studied
the behavior of insects.

592
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:56,960
Dr. Kinsey,

593
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,360
can you tell us
how you went from studying insects

594
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,080
to human sexual behavior?

595
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,560
I looked at data in psychology,

596
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,360
biology and medicine.

597
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,360
While working on that data,

598
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,320
I discovered that we knew

599
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,800
practically nothing
about human sexual behavior,

600
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,040
whereas the field
of animal sexuality...

601
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,120
I really have to write my book.

602
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,560
Five pages every day.

603
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,600
This book is a real obsession.

604
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:29,880
Obviously!

605
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,640
Why should we let
these old insect gazers

606
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,920
reduce us to common beasts?

607
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:43,120
In America, 50% to 60% of marriages
end in separation or divorce.

608
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,239
This can be for several reasons,

609
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,600
but 75% of divorce petitions

610
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,560
are motivated primarily
by sexual problems.

611
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,080
Thank you.

612
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,040
"One thing struck me about Louis.

613
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,800
"Unlike Peter, he is very familiar
with female sexuality

614
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,440
"and techniques
for bringing women to climax.

615
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,440
"The following point is important.

616
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,560
"An experienced man knows how to use
foreplay to arouse a woman

617
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,320
"before painlessly introducing
his penis into her vagina.

618
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:48,880
"Am I in love with Louis?

619
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,040
"Moments when I am sure
I am not in love alternate

620
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,239
"with those
with such a magnetic power

621
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,520
"that it seems like the same blood
runs in both our bodies."

622
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:20,280
The National Council

623
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,360
is planning financial reforms.

624
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,080
The President
of the Confederation, Nobs,

625
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,440
discusses with a National Councilor.

626
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:33,640
The committee members
review their report.

627
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:38,480
Olbrecht, Reichling and Dietschi
all agree.

628
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,040
Mr. Cellio argues with Mr. Maspoli.

629
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:47,480
The journalist, Œri, pores
over the text of a new editorial.

630
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:52,480
Mr. von Roten confers
with Colonel Bircher.

631
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:56,040
The President of the Radical
Democratic Party, Pini from Biasca,

632
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,719
and Bühler from Zurich,
will align themselves

633
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,560
in this debate with the federalists.

634
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,320
"Peter, I'm going to be
completely frank.

635
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,840
"Louis's wonderful caresses
do me the world of good.

636
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,840
"How I would suffer
to be deprived of them!

637
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:27,320
"I wouldn't mind if you did something
to compensate, dear Peter."

638
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,280
"Something to compensate?

639
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:36,480
"Sexual relations
with another woman?"

640
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:38,160
Von Roten!

641
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:41,600
In my office.

642
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,239
Councilor.

643
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:56,440
What's this I hear?

644
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,080
What are you talking about?

645
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,360
What's this bill
on women's right to vote?

646
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,280
It's high time.

647
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,040
You will drop it.

648
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:11,840
I already filed it this morning.

649
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,800
Stop, von Roten,
can't you see what's happening?

650
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,960
You're being manipulated
by your wife.

651
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,480
That has nothing to do with it.
She's right.

652
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,960
As a politician, you're finished.

653
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,760
"Iris, there's nothing more pitiful

654
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,360
"than these sweaty old men
in the Federal Palace.

655
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,440
"What's the point of the life
I lead here?

656
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:50,760
"Am I, Peter von Roten,
Catholic National Councilor,

657
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,640
and editor of the Catholic newspaper,
Walliser Bote,

658
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:56,840
"considering having
erotic adventures?

659
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:58,800
"I should accept the idea

660
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,040
"that you sleep with other men

661
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,280
"and I can even go so far
as to justify it.

662
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,640
"Sometimes, I think you and I

663
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,840
"are amoral monsters."

664
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,680
Miss Genoud, Mr. von Roten.

665
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:17,840
Come in.

666
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:20,320
Miss Genoud.

667
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:21,480
Pleased to meet you.

668
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,440
Likewise. Please, sit down.

669
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:31,520
Right...

670
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:33,080
So...

671
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:35,800
What can I do for you?

672
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:38,520
It's about my will.

673
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,880
Really, your will?

674
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,800
No, I meant my father's will.

675
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:48,680
All right, that's better.

676
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:50,400
I want to contest it.

677
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,760
"Dear Iris, as soon as she entered,

678
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,840
"I noticed the friendly and
persistent way she looked at me.

679
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,520
"And how she squeezed my hand.

680
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,360
"I almost feel guilty telling you

681
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:02,800
"that she is very pretty.

682
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,960
"And during our conversation,

683
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,120
"I toyed with the idea
of an erotic adventure with her."

684
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,680
We will now hear from the defense,
Mr. von Roten.

685
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,640
Elisa Zumstein and Victor Juon

686
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,240
lived together for two years
without a marriage license.

687
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,120
It's a violation of the law
that prohibits cohabitation.

688
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,360
It should be punished,
as prosecution counsel has said.

689
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,360
Mr. Loretan, he loves her.
Do you understand?

690
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,320
And she loves him.

691
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,960
That's why they moved in together.

692
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,920
And that's what the prosecution
wants to punish.

693
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,680
It is outrageous that two people

694
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,160
cannot go to bed together
without informing the State.

695
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,120
Permission to speak.

696
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,760
You may speak, Mr. Loretan.

697
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,720
Your Honor,

698
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,080
I think Mr. von Roten is confused

699
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,320
about his duties here.

700
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,360
He is here in the Court
of the Canton of Valais

701
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,720
and not at the Walliser Bote.

702
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,920
We're dealing with the law
and respect for the law, not love.

703
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,640
Mr. von Roten, you may continue.

704
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,040
Mr. Loretan,
I'll go one step further.

705
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:36,720
You condemn people for adultery

706
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,160
and you insist on the idea
of conjugal duty.

707
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,680
Do you think it makes any sense

708
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,480
to impose fidelity through the law?

709
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:49,280
In other words,

710
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,920
can one demand
that a partner one loves

711
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,680
be absolutely faithful?

712
00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,200
This is a scandal.

713
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,800
Mr. von Roten is spreading debauchery
and the most heinous decadence.

714
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,080
Mr. von Roten,
stick to the facts.

715
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:13,280
We're adjourned until tomorrow.

716
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:14,440
OK?

717
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:24,800
Mr. von Roten.

718
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:26,120
Ah...

719
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:28,880
Miss Genoud.

720
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,080
Hello.

721
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:32,880
You distracted me,
I almost lost track.

722
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:34,840
I thought I was encouraging you.

723
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:38,520
Would you like a coffee?

724
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,120
"Today, she invited me for a coffee.

725
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,080
"Suddenly, she took my arm

726
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,120
"and put her head on my shoulder.

727
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,320
"She told me her name was Isabelle.

728
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,240
"And with that,
we were on first name terms.

729
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:58,000
"Then, in the blink of an eye,
we were in the barn.

730
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,720
"We kissed in the hay, nothing more.

731
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,960
"Iris, I have to admit,
it seemed crazy and reckless.

732
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,560
"Anyone could have come in on us."

733
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,240
"Afterwards, we had to look
for her earrings in the hay,

734
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,120
"and then her purse and keys."

735
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,360
It's entirely her fault
that her husband moved to the left.

736
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:26,240
PETER'S SISTER

737
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,160
Because she was away
for months in America.

738
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:01,640
Iris!

739
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:03,760
Iris, wait.

740
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:05,320
I'm sorry.

741
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:07,920
I've only just got out
of a study group.

742
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,280
That's why you kept me waiting?

743
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,320
I have five exams next week.

744
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,640
And it's too much for you?

745
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,640
My job, my studies, you...

746
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:23,600
I...

747
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,080
I'm in love with you.

748
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,840
Don't fall apart now, young man.

749
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,600
My career, my future, everything...

750
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,200
I will predict your future.

751
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,000
In future, remember

752
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,400
that every day spent without me
will haunt you

753
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,480
even when you're old.

754
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,520
Come on, darling, let's go.

755
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,840
-Just one hour, OK?
-OK.

756
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:56,800
"It's amazing, Peter,

757
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,680
"how things
that would normally leave me cold

758
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,200
"are made alive and interesting
when I'm in love.

759
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,840
"Desire is as important to me
as eating or sleeping.

760
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,720
"Especially since I shut myself away
in order to write."

761
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,120
-You came?
-As you can see.

762
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,200
I have a meeting close by.

763
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,440
-You have a meeting.
-Yes, and...

764
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:32,800
I thought that...

765
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:34,560
OK.

766
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:35,840
But I can't stay long.

767
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,600
Henriette, bring some glasses.

768
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,960
Peter, sit down a moment.

769
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,400
You're really naughty.

770
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:50,240
"Dear Iris, I feel guilty

771
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,680
"telling you
about my sexual relations.

772
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,720
"They also take up
almost all my time.

773
01:03:57,600 --> 01:03:59,880
"I find these erotic adventures

774
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,800
"more exciting
than political adventures.

775
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,840
"I'm writing to you about this
to help with your research.

776
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,640
"And I hope it will be useful
for your book."

777
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:26,600
Hello, Iris.

778
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,640
Can you tell me what this means?

779
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:33,240
This is not the time.

780
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,880
"Iris, I can't do this anymore,
it's too much."

781
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:42,200
Please leave.

782
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:43,480
Coward...

783
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:46,960
Women...

784
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,160
Always looking for problems.

785
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,240
You're as spineless as the rest.

786
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:57,080
You're pathetic.

787
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,160
As soon as you feel something,
you run away.

788
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,560
I don't need to listen
to this nonsense.

789
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:14,680
"It ended catastrophically yesterday
with the wretched Louis.

790
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,760
"I'd hoped for so much
from this relationship.

791
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,040
"It really stimulated my thoughts.

792
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,360
"Then in one night,
it was reduced to dust.

793
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,360
"I have to get this wretch
out of my mind.

794
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:03,400
"Peter,

795
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,480
"you never let yourself be humiliated

796
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,520
"and you never lose your dignity.

797
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:11,960
"Whereas I am like a bad swimmer

798
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:13,840
"who keeps swallowing water.

799
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,640
"There's no dignity to be had
with your head underwater.

800
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,240
"In such moments I despise myself.

801
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:24,840
"I'm the perfect example
of dependency, misery and weakness.

802
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,360
"Until I get my head above water

803
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:29,680
"and I'm myself again.

804
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,360
"I need some success so much.

805
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,440
"Up until now,
my efforts have led to nothing.

806
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:43,280
"I am in a miserable room

807
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,960
"with a greasy cord
to switch on the light.

808
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,400
"To be heartbroken is the last reason

809
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,800
"I came to America."

810
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:58,360
Women, who are like
a coup de théâtre in Nature,

811
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,480
as Schopenhauer said,

812
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,280
are anatomically closer
to their children

813
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:05,800
than their husbands.

814
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:10,480
By instinct,
men have an ability to learn

815
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:11,840
and are very aware.

816
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,240
Women, on the other hand,

817
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,160
and this is quite obvious
when you see those who support

818
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:20,360
Councilor von Roten,
are very vulnerable.

819
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,680
They blush and shout.

820
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:26,400
The main argument
against the vote for women

821
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:29,400
is that motherhood
is the will of God.

822
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:32,520
So, that must remain their main task.

823
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:38,880
Councilor Bircher
has an outdated argument.

824
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:42,200
A hundred years ago,
we invoked God's will

825
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,480
to keep farmers and workers

826
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,680
under the yoke of servitude.

827
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,240
Councilor Bircher wants
to convince us

828
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,480
that sewing, cooking, having babies,

829
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,080
is the only role
that God assigned to women.

830
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:01,960
As if God had created men
to enjoy cigars and a glass of wine.

831
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:07,040
And women to serve food,
clean and tidy up.

832
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:11,960
Look, there he is.

833
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,439
This little wuss certainly won't give
the same speech twice.

834
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,920
Commissioner, Gentlemen.

835
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,040
The great genius Roten...

836
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,880
-Have you lost your mind?
-What do you mean?

837
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,920
Why this relentless attack
against military planes?

838
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,880
Do you want to abolish the army,

839
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:42,960
-you feminist lackey?
-The Russians

840
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,560
know where our bunkers are.

841
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,200
As for the vote for women,
the time has come.

842
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,439
Oh yes, sure, the time has come.

843
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,960
You're fouling your own nest.

844
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,240
You're absolutely right.

845
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:01,520
"Nest"?

846
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:04,479
That's exactly the right word.

847
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:08,360
You're going too far.

848
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,200
"Dear Iris,

849
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:16,479
"although in the newspapers
I am now

850
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:20,240
"the youngest and most promising
Councilor in Switzerland,

851
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,720
"for the Catholic Conservative Party

852
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:24,720
"I am a constant source
of irritation.

853
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,200
"I have been told that with my bill

854
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:31,920
"on women's right to vote,
I won't be re-elected."

855
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,920
"When I see how intelligently
and generously

856
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:38,800
"you describe the National Council,

857
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:40,560
"you seem like a son of the Gods

858
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,320
"observing the nocturnal activities
of unleashed goblins.

859
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,600
"As for me, everything is now
about my chapter on eroticism.

860
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,200
"My experience with Louis

861
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,600
"has helped me, despite everything,
to explore female psychology."

862
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,560
That was a nightingale not a lark.

863
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:18,120
No.

864
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,439
It's the Catholic Conservatives.

865
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,520
Calling me to the headquarters
of the Federal Council.

866
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,320
Why don't you leave Iris?

867
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:50,800
Impossible.

868
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:52,920
You know that?

869
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,240
Are you so sure
she will come back one day?

870
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,240
That's not the issue.

871
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,400
Peter, I want to know
what ties you to her.

872
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,640
"My dear Peter,
my latest conquest is called Ed.

873
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,960
"He's a businessman,
young, successful

874
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,680
"who wears crocodile skin shoes
and is learning to fly.

875
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:30,840
"I've kissed him a few times
but I'm not in love.

876
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:33,880
"Why did I love that miserable Louis

877
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:35,920
"but I don't love Ed?

878
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:44,800
"Actually, Peter,
you should stop seeing Miss G.

879
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:46,560
"She's in love with you."

880
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,040
"I will stop seeing Miss G.

881
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:59,280
"I'm currently seeing a Finnish woman
I met at a reception.

882
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:04,840
"I couldn't stop myself
from kissing her.

883
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,400
"What can I do
if women throw themselves at me?

884
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,680
"Iris, you have led me astray
with your theories."

885
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:19,479
"Male psychology remains
an enigma to me.

886
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:23,160
"I don't understand
the impersonal desires of men.

887
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:28,439
"You shouldn't devour everything
and anything the way you do."

888
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:35,560
"It's ridiculous being devoured
by sexuality the way I am.

889
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:40,400
"Compared to you, I feel I am in love
like an insatiable ogre."

890
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,520
"The chapter on motherhood is ready.

891
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,920
"I'll send it to you with the others.

892
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:51,000
"I'm sure

893
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:55,120
"I won't find a publisher
for this book.

894
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,320
"And even if it were printed,
it would be banned.

895
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,040
"It's difficult writing a book

896
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,760
"that will only create mortal
enemies for us."

897
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:07,320
"Your book is a masterpiece.

898
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,080
"The subject alone
makes it completely new.

899
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:13,760
"Not just in Switzerland,
but the whole of Europe.

900
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:19,160
"You really sense the hunger
and thirst for justice.

901
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:22,760
"You will be the Copernicus
and the Galileo of feminism.

902
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:28,000
"I still love you, now more
than ever. Your loving Peter."

903
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:31,000
"My dear Peter,

904
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,439
"I have to admit
I'm feeling a little homesick.

905
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,840
"If only we'd had
more romantic experiences

906
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:40,200
"before we were married,

907
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,240
"things would have been
better for us."

908
01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:49,680
"Iris...

909
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:51,840
"Could we have spent the time

910
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,720
"more stupidly than we did
by torturing each other?"

911
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,520
ONE YEAR LATER
AUGUST 1949

912
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,840
"The only thing
that consoles me in all this

913
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,320
"is that we have become
reasonable enough

914
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:04,080
"to accept each other."

915
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,520
"When I think of you,

916
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,000
"you seem from afar
the most attractive

917
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,200
"and most interesting man of all.

918
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,400
"The only man with whom
I would like children."

919
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,520
MRS. PETER VON ROTEN
HAS THE PLEASURE OF INVITING YOU

920
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:06,720
TO A RECEPTION ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1955
HEUBERG 12, BASEL

921
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:09,160
MORNING DRESS/BLACK TIE

922
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,479
Sarah!

923
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:16,560
How are you?

924
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:18,560
I'm pleased you remember me.

925
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:19,960
Ernest!

926
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:24,479
-It's different.
-Don't you think...

927
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:26,680
Darius, just a moment.

928
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,600
-Pleased to meet you.
-Darius.

929
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:32,200
Ladies, Gentlemen.

930
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:44,840
Oh!

931
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:46,400
Hortensia, honey...

932
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,400
If you want, you can stay up
like an adult.

933
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,760
When you get tired,
just tell Rosetta you want to sleep.

934
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:55,120
-OK?
-Yes.

935
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:56,439
You're so grown up.

936
01:15:58,000 --> 01:15:59,560
What a delightful child!

937
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:02,040
She's really grown!

938
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,320
Little Hortensia wandered
among the guests

939
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:09,040
in the Basel apartment.

940
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:13,760
Nine o'clock came,
then ten, then ten-thirty.

941
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:15,960
I thought that was interesting.

942
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,880
I wondered how she managed
in the morning.

943
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,360
We never see her.

944
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:24,880
She lives with a family
in the east of Switzerland.

945
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,800
You put your daughter in a family?

946
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:31,880
Yes.

947
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:34,360
How could you do that?

948
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,800
I have no skill for dealing
with small children.

949
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:40,840
And my career keeps me busy.

950
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,880
Working is more important
than raising her?

951
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:46,800
That isn't normal.

952
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:48,200
You think so?

953
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:51,120
Leading a life
of washing diapers,

954
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,880
preparing muesli and beating carpets
has no interest for me.

955
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,640
You must admit it's quite extreme.

956
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:01,280
Indeed it is.

957
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,320
When I ask for day care to be set up,
who is against?

958
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:06,280
Women.

959
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:11,439
That's going a bit far.

960
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,360
-Make room for me?
-With pleasure.

961
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:14,800
We'll shove over.

962
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:16,720
Very kind.

963
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:19,680
-Do you like the champagne?
-Yes.

964
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:23,840
Little Hortensia dragged a pillow
behind her

965
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,360
and then she could just find
a place to sleep wherever.

966
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:30,120
Once, in the doorway
between two rooms.

967
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:34,479
She lay down, put her head
on the pillow and fell asleep.

968
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,840
I was struck by that.

969
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,880
I thought, "That's great.

970
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:42,439
"The child can sleep
when she needs to, it's all OK."

971
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:44,920
Rosetta.

972
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:49,280
Come here.

973
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:51,640
Come.

974
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:53,640
There we go.

975
01:17:57,280 --> 01:17:59,280
You'll soon be asleep in your bed.

976
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:54,200
I loved being in different places,

977
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:59,520
although at the beginning
I was a little homesick.

978
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:02,280
But I don't remember being unhappy

979
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:03,479
in any place I stayed

980
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:04,960
for a long time.

981
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:12,479
I was in the old town

982
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:14,960
and there were no children there.

983
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,760
When my parents put me
with a family in Flawil,

984
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:22,600
for a year and a half with a friend
of my mother's who was a teacher,

985
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,560
the aim was to let me be

986
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,600
with other children.

987
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:41,160
My father and I sometimes had
some strange little adventures.

988
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:45,000
He would take me somewhere,
to church, for example,

989
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,600
and suddenly he'd disappear.

990
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,400
Or he'd take me somewhere
in the city center

991
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:54,800
where I could ride my scooter,
but he didn't have the patience.

992
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:57,160
He told me he'd be back in an hour.

993
01:19:57,920 --> 01:19:59,120
He was like a dancer

994
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:01,720
leaping about
from one place to another.

995
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:13,040
I know I mattered more
in my mother's life

996
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:16,320
than my father's.
There's no doubt.

997
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:24,920
"Men are really opposed to this idea

998
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:26,680
"because they are afraid

999
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,760
"that with full equality for women,
not just in the law,

1000
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,360
"but also politically,

1001
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:37,280
"we'll see a fly land
on a child's pacifier."

1002
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:41,120
Keeping up?

1003
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:43,640
A child's pacifier...

1004
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:46,320
What does that sentence mean?

1005
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,160
Like on the posters everywhere.

1006
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:55,320
"But men are not thinking
of the pacifier of their dear child,

1007
01:20:55,479 --> 01:21:00,040
"they are in fact thinking
of their own."

1008
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,040
She was really very intelligent.

1009
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:09,720
She wanted to achieve something
with her book.

1010
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:11,840
I was already thinking back then,

1011
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:14,680
after I'd been writing
for her for some time,

1012
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:17,320
"No one will read this book."

1013
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,000
"His wife is only there
to pick up the role...

1014
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:27,680
"The role of his dear mother,

1015
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:29,720
"who sacrificed everything
for family."

1016
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:31,360
I can't keep up.

1017
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:32,439
Try to go faster.

1018
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,080
You're dictating too fast.

1019
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:39,479
One day, for example,

1020
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:43,800
she told me we women
are too credulous.

1021
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:49,720
That if a married man suddenly wants
to go to bed with a young woman,

1022
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:51,920
she should say to him,

1023
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:55,280
"OK, but first put 20,000 francs
in my bank account

1024
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,680
"in case I have a child
and you skedaddle."

1025
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:02,800
It was quite strange.

1026
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:06,000
But she thought that was necessary.

1027
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,080
Once a month

1028
01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:10,240
I met up with former classmates.

1029
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:14,040
When I told them that,
they died with laughter.

1030
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:20,800
Who prepares meals in your home?

1031
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,439
-Me.
-Why you?

1032
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,080
My grandmother cooked,
my mother cooked.

1033
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:28,320
So, I cook.

1034
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:37,080
She was beside herself at the idea
of such stupid people as me existing.

1035
01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:39,200
That I didn't say,

1036
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:42,439
"Yes, you're right,
I agree with you."

1037
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,320
I simply didn't know what she wanted.

1038
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,280
We all hoped we would one day have
the right to vote.

1039
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:51,479
But getting everything
she was asking for in one fell swoop

1040
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:53,240
was unimaginable.

1041
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:00,120
"Iris, my darling.

1042
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,120
"I can't wait any longer.

1043
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:03,520
"Everything's ready.

1044
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:04,640
"On the legal side,

1045
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,080
"I also got advice
from a federal judge.

1046
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,680
"Now, it's up to women to be brave."

1047
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,080
I fear you're getting your hopes up.

1048
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,240
You could be disappointed.

1049
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:22,160
I'm sure it will work.

1050
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:26,760
From the Rhône valley, a cable car
goes to a mountain village

1051
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,240
that's making
quite a name for itself.

1052
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:33,479
For the first time,

1053
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:37,880
women enter this place
of male superiority.

1054
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:41,200
Are they afraid?

1055
01:23:42,080 --> 01:23:45,040
An army of reporters is here
to capture

1056
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:46,760
this historic moment.

1057
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,920
Do the women of Unterbäch
think of themselves as pioneers?

1058
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,640
No, they're fulfilling the duty
they feel is theirs

1059
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,600
with more apprehension
than necessary

1060
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,000
due to the presence
of the photographers.

1061
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,840
I've got you the vote,
you have your book.

1062
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:13,160
DER SPIEGEL:
PROGRESS IN UNTERBACH

1063
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:18,960
WOMEN'S VOTE BY THE BACK DOOR?

1064
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:20,320
ESCAPADE IN UNTERBACH

1065
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:50,040
"This is the book
I would have liked to read

1066
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:52,360
"when I was 20 but couldn't find.

1067
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:56,920
"It was written for young women
who want the impossible

1068
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:01,040
"and for the few men
with enough intellectual curiosity

1069
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,960
"to take an interest in the issue
of male domination

1070
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:06,880
"as seen from the other side."

1071
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:12,439
It has always been clear

1072
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:16,439
that it was a life's work,
her life's work.

1073
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:18,960
She was very proud of it.

1074
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:27,120
But from the start, it was doubtful
it would ever see the light of day.

1075
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:33,520
"Peter, just imagine.

1076
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:35,640
"The typographers at Éditions Hallwag

1077
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:37,400
"wanted to go on strike.

1078
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:39,120
"They thought my book

1079
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:41,120
"was a monstrous insult
against men.

1080
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:43,400
"The publisher had to step in.

1081
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:46,280
"Now, my book will finally come out.

1082
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:54,120
"How many years of my life
has this book cost me?

1083
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:56,840
"I feel like my footprints

1084
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,160
"are now etched in the floor
under my desk."

1085
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,040
WOMEN IN THE PLAYPEN
A STUDY OF THE FEMALE CONDITION

1086
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:18,680
"That's the plight of mothers today.

1087
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:21,840
"Mothers are tired
from all the efforts

1088
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:24,240
"and sacrifices they make
so they can give,

1089
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,120
"even the most insignificant child,

1090
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:29,720
"even the most mediocre son,
a happy life.

1091
01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:34,040
"And so that he may mistake
his mediocrity for stature."

1092
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:38,800
"A louse grows fat
sucking on the vital sap of a rose."

1093
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,040
WOMEN IN THE PLAYPEN

1094
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:46,520
An extremely daring book.

1095
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:50,560
I read it in one go
and then re-read it.

1096
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:54,720
All the male relatives also read it.

1097
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:59,080
We quickly realized
it was a unique work

1098
01:26:59,920 --> 01:27:03,280
and that it was going to generate
a lot of discussion.

1099
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:08,680
The publication of
Frauen im Laufgitter,

1100
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:12,560
Women in the Playpen coincided
with the start of the school year.

1101
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:16,360
I was just six years old
yet I was well aware

1102
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:18,160
something wasn't right.

1103
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:21,400
I could see it in the reactions
of my mother.

1104
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:25,600
On the wall of our house,
someone had written,

1105
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:28,240
"Whore."

1106
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:30,880
I didn't know what "whore" meant.

1107
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,560
But I knew that writing on walls
was not something you did.

1108
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:48,120
Listen, this concerns you:

1109
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:52,040
"Madam,
your husband must be a monster

1110
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,360
"for you to publish
this horrible book."

1111
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:56,640
Hear that? You're a monster.

1112
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:58,320
You're only realizing that now?

1113
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,760
I have grounds to sue for libel

1114
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:15,120
till the end of my days.

1115
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:17,360
Throw it all in the trash.

1116
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:21,360
This woman wants

1117
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:25,040
all men to be reincarnated
as women after death.

1118
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:26,600
That's a nice idea.

1119
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:28,280
And women as men...

1120
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:29,439
How horrible!

1121
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,200
What?
Wouldn't you like to be a boy?

1122
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,280
-Absolutely not.
-Why not?

1123
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:39,120
Because I'd have to marry a girl.

1124
01:28:43,920 --> 01:28:45,400
He loved his wife very much.

1125
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:47,320
You could see that straight away.

1126
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:49,600
He admired her.

1127
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,520
She was so lucky to marry that man.

1128
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:55,479
Because he understood her.

1129
01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:57,479
He approved of all her ideas

1130
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,560
and everything she said,
wrote or did.

1131
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:04,200
He was totally on her side.

1132
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,800
You'll see,
they'll all be behind you tomorrow.

1133
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:12,240
The League of Women is with you.

1134
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:15,040
I don't know what to expect.

1135
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,200
-Excuse me, Mrs. von Roten.
-Yes.

1136
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:20,680
They're talking about your book
on the radio.

1137
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:22,120
Thank you.

1138
01:29:25,439 --> 01:29:26,600
In her lifetime,

1139
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,320
she washes 24 tons
of dishes and cutlery,

1140
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:32,760
and she sweeps and cleans a surface
as big as Sicily.

1141
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,560
How do you know that?

1142
01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,080
Read this book
and you'll be ready for divorce.

1143
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:39,400
Turn that nonsense off.

1144
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:43,320
Isn't she an admirer of
Elvis Presley?

1145
01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:59,200
In America, anyone who wears a skirt
is running after her.

1146
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:03,479
This woman should do the hula hoop,

1147
01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:05,280
that would change her ideas.

1148
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:07,479
After several hours
shaking her belly,

1149
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:09,920
she would see men in a different way.

1150
01:30:21,360 --> 01:30:23,479
"You know what's most hurtful, Peter?

1151
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:26,920
"Instead of criticizing
the content of my book,

1152
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:31,000
"they mock me in public
and ruin my reputation.

1153
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:35,280
"The trash that the press
and radio heaps on me

1154
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:37,640
"reaches the most remote villages.

1155
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:42,360
"The whole country is invited
to wallow in this filth."

1156
01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:48,360
So, let's discuss today's issue:
Women in the Playpen.

1157
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:51,800
Your book, Mrs. von Roten.

1158
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:55,960
Its tone is so...
aggressive and violent.

1159
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:57,160
It harms all women.

1160
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,000
Us as well as everyone else.

1161
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,320
Do you think that men will willingly
allow you to vote?

1162
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,000
Because you're nice and pretty?

1163
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:09,760
You've spent 50 years
struggling for it.

1164
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:12,560
Sorry I'm late.

1165
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:16,479
Mrs. von Roten,
Your book is incredible!

1166
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,439
It has completely convinced me.

1167
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:22,560
May I ask the opinion
of the other women here present?

1168
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:24,479
Mrs. von Roten...

1169
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:28,880
What you write about men,
that's your business.

1170
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:31,880
But making fun of us, of women,

1171
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:33,439
I find that scandalous.

1172
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:37,960
And as for sexuality,

1173
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:41,520
free love, a single child,
that's just not possible.

1174
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,120
It's disgusting.

1175
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:47,040
What are you trying to say?

1176
01:31:48,479 --> 01:31:53,680
We have just one objective:
women's right to vote.

1177
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,520
We have fought for this objective.

1178
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,640
This is not the time to upset men.

1179
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:01,920
You can't say such a thing.

1180
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:04,800
This amazing book
should be our bible!

1181
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:10,400
We're sorry, but in the interest
of women's right to vote,

1182
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:13,520
we must distance ourselves
from your book and its content.

1183
01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:29,560
You dare to renounce a book
that defends the feminist cause

1184
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:31,560
and all of its ideals?

1185
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:06,360
ALLIANCE OF WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONS
AGAINST "WOMEN IN THE PLAYPEN"

1186
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:09,280
If I open that book today,

1187
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:11,280
I think the case
against that woman,

1188
01:33:11,439 --> 01:33:14,040
brought by people
of her own generation,

1189
01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:15,720
was deeply unjust.

1190
01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:20,640
If you ask me
how I came to change my opinion,

1191
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:22,400
it's due primarily

1192
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:25,520
to the refusal to grant women
the right to vote

1193
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,000
on February 1, 1959.

1194
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:31,120
Men rejected it
by a two-thirds majority.

1195
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:34,439
I was so angry I wanted to emigrate.

1196
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:40,680
"The stale petty-bourgeois attitude
of the women's associations

1197
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:42,479
"is an indisputable obstacle

1198
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:45,280
"on the road to equality
between men and women.

1199
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:49,960
"These so-called feminist leaders
have betrayed the movement.

1200
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:52,680
"I watch with dread

1201
01:33:52,840 --> 01:33:55,120
"as their pseudo-feminist play acting

1202
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:59,680
"degenerates more and more
into a kind of embarrassing charity."

1203
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:05,600
And then carnival came.

1204
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:08,200
It was the main theme.

1205
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:11,120
It was the main theme
for the Basel Carnival.

1206
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:22,120
Iris found it very hard to handle.

1207
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:25,560
Because the attacks were very harsh.

1208
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:31,000
They insulted her personally.

1209
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,800
TRASH IN THE PLAYPEN

1210
01:34:52,479 --> 01:34:54,560
That carnival was horrible
for my mother.

1211
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:02,160
So much so that she kept away,

1212
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:07,040
repelled by those attacks
and those people.

1213
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:15,439
"My dear Iris,

1214
01:35:15,720 --> 01:35:18,160
"I was horrified
by the way they treated you.

1215
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:22,080
"But just think:
many enemies, many honors.

1216
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:28,320
"You'll recover, my dear, dear Iris."

1217
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:42,640
The big battle in Iris's life
was in fact now behind her.

1218
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:49,400
She used to fight
using every conceivable means.

1219
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:52,920
And then it was over.

1220
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:56,320
The result was not at all
what she had imagined.

1221
01:35:56,479 --> 01:35:58,080
Women didn't support her,

1222
01:35:58,240 --> 01:36:00,840
the women's right to vote failed.

1223
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:05,320
Almost overnight it seemed she wanted
nothing more to do with feminists.

1224
01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:08,920
It was like
she was done with all that.

1225
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,479
"As a young woman,
during the course of my life,

1226
01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:23,960
"I always wanted to explore
as much as possible,

1227
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:26,640
"every square centimeter
of the Earth.

1228
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:30,640
"Traveling around the world

1229
01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:33,920
"seemed to me the greatest promise
for the future.

1230
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:41,560
"Today, I feel yet again a nostalgia,

1231
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:45,120
"a desire to see new countries
and have new encounters."

1232
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:57,720
In 1960, she went to Turkey
in a Fiat 600.

1233
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:02,640
With the aim
of writing a book about Turkey

1234
01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:07,120
and it was wonderful.

1235
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:15,760
"Antalya, June 28, 1960.

1236
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:19,280
"Darling,

1237
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:24,200
"A woman driving alone in a country

1238
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:26,160
"causes a commotion
in a village.

1239
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:28,680
"Everyone came out.

1240
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,600
"The men and young boys at least.

1241
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:34,479
"Two questions concerned them.

1242
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:37,360
"The first was about my nationality.

1243
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,439
"The second was about my husband.

1244
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:47,040
"I have been in this Turkish town
for a week.

1245
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:49,200
"I met an interesting man.

1246
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:53,880
"His name is Kani. He's an engineer
and he has opened doors for me.

1247
01:37:56,240 --> 01:37:58,439
"The people here are very hospitable.

1248
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:03,000
"Tourists are considered as guests
not as cash cows."

1249
01:38:06,240 --> 01:38:10,360
I never wondered
what this companion's role was.

1250
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:17,280
It was only after her death
in connection to her biography

1251
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:19,120
that I thought about it.

1252
01:38:19,400 --> 01:38:21,479
Or when I read her letters.

1253
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:25,160
But it didn't surprise or shock me.

1254
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:29,040
I think it was in keeping
with what she always said.

1255
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,680
There's no contradiction.

1256
01:38:35,479 --> 01:38:38,680
That's what I've always found
really astonishing about Iris.

1257
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:41,560
When you read Women in the Playpen,

1258
01:38:41,720 --> 01:38:44,640
you can't fail to notice
that she is living exactly

1259
01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:47,160
according to the principles
she defended.

1260
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:56,640
THE NOMAD'S HAREM
BY IRIS VON ROTEN

1261
01:38:57,160 --> 01:39:00,960
ANCIENT BATHS
BY IRIS VON ROTEN

1262
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:05,160
"July 4, 1965.

1263
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:06,400
"Dear Peter,

1264
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:09,920
"I arrived back in Tehran yesterday.

1265
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:12,320
"I traveled the whole way

1266
01:39:12,479 --> 01:39:14,439
"from Isfahan under a full moon.

1267
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,040
"It's much more beautiful
than the light of day.

1268
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:20,320
"I wonder
if I should come back through Iraq.

1269
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:24,479
"Today, I found four letters
from you at the consulate.

1270
01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:26,320
"Goodbye, darling."

1271
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:38,760
What annoyed me about my father

1272
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:41,840
was that he had
a kind of camp of admirers.

1273
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,439
And among the throng, there was
a certain number of women...

1274
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:48,760
at least,
this was the impression I had...

1275
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:51,680
who had no restraint.

1276
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:58,120
And as in the case with celebrities,
they crossed the line.

1277
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:00,040
That's how it felt to me

1278
01:40:02,240 --> 01:40:06,320
That said, I don't think he had
a relationship with A, B, C or D.

1279
01:40:06,479 --> 01:40:08,960
Nor did he have affairs
with each of these women

1280
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:11,200
who were part of the fan club.

1281
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:36,640
Mr. von Roten.

1282
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:40,360
Looking at your long hair,

1283
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:42,479
one could easily now believe

1284
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:45,760
that the aristocrat from Valais
has become a hippy.

1285
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:50,280
No, I am and remain a traditionalist.

1286
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:53,040
Who is critical towards the State,

1287
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:55,640
who has committed to fight
for homosexual rights

1288
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:57,640
and wants to legalize drugs.

1289
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:00,840
Marijuana would grow as well
in our climate as our Fendant

1290
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:02,680
that makes a renowned wine.

1291
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:05,040
We should launch an initiative.

1292
01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:09,920
The liberalization of absinthe,
hashish, cocaine and opium.

1293
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:12,000
Are you up for that?

1294
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:14,760
I'm going to write what you say.

1295
01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:15,920
I know.

1296
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:20,200
Mr. von Roten,
for dozens of years now,

1297
01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:23,479
you have fought for Mass
to be celebrated in Latin.

1298
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:25,280
Is that just a whim?

1299
01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:28,560
No, it's serious.

1300
01:41:29,439 --> 01:41:30,720
Please explain.

1301
01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:35,040
Do you know
the old church hymns in Latin?

1302
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:38,760
The "Libera me"?

1303
01:41:39,439 --> 01:41:41,080
Or the "Requiem Aeternam"?

1304
01:41:41,880 --> 01:41:42,800
No.

1305
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:45,880
And how could you?

1306
01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:48,960
Those melodies...

1307
01:41:51,200 --> 01:41:55,200
are by far the most splendid thing
Catholicism has created.

1308
01:41:58,880 --> 01:42:01,800
Anyone who cannot feel
deep within himself

1309
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:04,400
the power of the requiem...

1310
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:09,560
must have a heart of stone.

1311
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:37,800
"My dear Peter,

1312
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,800
"I would like to paint
a hundred big pictures.

1313
01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:44,720
"In the same way
I need air to breathe,

1314
01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:47,080
"I feel an immense need every day
for beauty.

1315
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,800
"If I don't have the chance
to take it in often enough,

1316
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:55,080
"something feels missing
from the harmony of my day."

1317
01:43:32,520 --> 01:43:34,880
That bouquet is extraordinary, Iris.

1318
01:43:36,080 --> 01:43:37,640
It's a work of art.

1319
01:43:38,840 --> 01:43:39,720
Thank you.

1320
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:45,160
In two days, they'll have wilted.

1321
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:48,680
Of course,
but today they are splendid.

1322
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:52,560
It all goes so fast, Peter,
much too fast.

1323
01:43:57,479 --> 01:43:59,160
You haven't slept at all?

1324
01:44:01,160 --> 01:44:04,200
The old sleeping pills don't work,
I need different ones.

1325
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:06,960
I'm sorry, my dear.

1326
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:08,880
I have an article to write.

1327
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:15,240
Or do you want me to stay with you?

1328
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:17,880
No, go and work.

1329
01:44:31,439 --> 01:44:33,960
Certain things became harder then.

1330
01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:38,000
Some things became too much for her.

1331
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,120
But it was always the same worries:

1332
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:43,720
allergies, insomnia,

1333
01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:46,760
sometimes other health worries
I knew nothing about.

1334
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:51,600
We could see she was not well,
but we made the best of it.

1335
01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:55,000
Medical issues were never a subject

1336
01:44:55,160 --> 01:44:56,439
we discussed as a family.

1337
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:58,080
We found it awkward.

1338
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:05,920
We never really had a reason
to prevent her from deciding

1339
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:09,760
when life simply no longer
had any more attraction for her.

1340
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:26,000
"Just as a guest should know
when to leave,

1341
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:30,280
"we should also know
when to depart this life.

1342
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:37,320
"The right age always seemed to me
to be between 65 and 75.

1343
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:41,040
"On the other hand,

1344
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:45,680
"suicide has always been considered
wrongly as a sign of unbalance.

1345
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:49,080
"That makes the decision
even harder to take

1346
01:45:49,240 --> 01:45:50,520
"and to carry out.

1347
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:55,760
"Today, however,
I have to make that decision."

1348
01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:02,080
STATEMENT REGARDING THE SUICIDE

1349
01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:04,560
JUST AS A GUEST SHOULD KNOW
WHEN TO LEAVE

1350
01:46:04,720 --> 01:46:06,960
WE SHOULD ALSO KNOW
WHEN TO DEPART THIS LIFE

1351
01:46:17,760 --> 01:46:19,479
"Iris is no longer here.

1352
01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:21,880
"She endured so much.

1353
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:24,320
"But she never threw in the towel.

1354
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:28,160
"And, as with everything,
she embraced her death

1355
01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:30,960
"and carried it out in style.

1356
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:33,479
"Between a hibiscus in bloom

1357
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:36,320
"and a scented jasmine
she floated,

1358
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:39,680
"her legs just above the floor
covered with a rug.

1359
01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:44,400
"So that, visually, she looked like
the Angel of Annunciation.

1360
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:48,360
"Or in a more heathen way, Iris
as the Messenger of Olympus

1361
01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:52,920
"who has something to announce
to us mere mortals."

1362
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:55,080
OR PUT MORE SIMPLY

1363
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:59,560
A LARGE EXCLAMATION POINT
AT THE END OF A BRAVE SENTENCE

1364
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:04,400
An incredible sadness, yes.

1365
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:08,439
A few days later,
he talked to me for hours.

1366
01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:11,280
It was a sort of monologue
in which he told me

1367
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:15,360
how they met
and what he thought of her then.

1368
01:47:15,840 --> 01:47:17,760
We had a conversation

1369
01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:20,880
like I'd never been able to have
with him before.

1370
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:31,600
"Iris appeared to me in a dream.

1371
01:47:32,360 --> 01:47:35,840
"Elegant, as always,
but still young.

1372
01:47:36,720 --> 01:47:38,320
"It was very clear to me

1373
01:47:38,479 --> 01:47:42,280
"that something wasn't right,
that one of us was dead.

1374
01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:44,600
"But I didn't know which one of us.

1375
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:48,479
"She came to meet me,
she was so alive.

1376
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:52,439
"I approached her
and she snuggled up to me.

1377
01:47:53,120 --> 01:47:55,439
"I wanted to hug her and keep her

1378
01:47:55,640 --> 01:47:58,720
"but she vanished in my arms.

1379
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:00,720
"And I woke up.

1380
01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:10,600
"The most significant moment
in my life

1381
01:48:10,760 --> 01:48:15,479
"was certainly not getting my Ph.D.
or being on the National Council.

1382
01:48:15,920 --> 01:48:18,160
"It was climbing up to her room

1383
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:21,080
"and all the innumerable letters
she wrote to me."

1384
01:48:24,360 --> 01:48:26,320
PETER VON ROTEN DIED AUGUST 20, 1991

1385
01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:30,760
A YEAR AFTER IRIS COMMITTED SUICIDE

1386
01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:20,400
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