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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:01:46,793 --> 00:01:48,324 Russia! 3 00:01:51,612 --> 00:01:55,036 ...which we have lost forever. 4 00:02:00,056 --> 00:02:01,354 Winter. 5 00:02:03,672 --> 00:02:05,140 Oh, Lydia... 6 00:02:07,104 --> 00:02:08,839 The peasants celebrating 7 00:02:09,373 --> 00:02:13,780 in a flat sledge opens up the road... 8 00:02:17,347 --> 00:02:20,636 Our horses snort and, snuffling through the snow, 9 00:02:20,756 --> 00:02:23,766 swish through forests of birch and fir 10 00:02:23,886 --> 00:02:27,871 with a trinkle of harness and a crack of whip! 11 00:02:28,296 --> 00:02:32,390 The wolves are invisible behind their howls. 12 00:02:34,974 --> 00:02:38,796 Oh, what a relief it was to hear the Kremlin bells... 13 00:02:40,361 --> 00:02:43,867 and to know that soon we would be safe and warm... 14 00:02:46,163 --> 00:02:48,590 around the samovar. 15 00:02:52,176 --> 00:02:55,864 How these burning winters bring it all back 16 00:02:58,133 --> 00:03:00,054 You are a tease! 17 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:03,843 And you! 18 00:03:04,413 --> 00:03:06,124 You are a teaser... 19 00:04:40,653 --> 00:04:42,970 What's that accident all about? 20 00:04:43,735 --> 00:04:46,635 - What accident? - In America! 21 00:04:47,618 --> 00:04:49,474 Why should it matter to you? 22 00:04:50,723 --> 00:04:52,865 It doesn't say anything about an accident... 23 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,008 ... it says just to go crash. Collapse! 24 00:05:00,335 --> 00:05:02,397 The whole street collapsed? 25 00:05:04,909 --> 00:05:06,171 ...Wall Street... 26 00:05:07,426 --> 00:05:08,797 Were people killed? 27 00:05:09,258 --> 00:05:10,278 Just a few. 28 00:05:12,814 --> 00:05:14,725 Mostly jumping out of windows. 29 00:05:15,678 --> 00:05:18,039 Nearly all of them were stock holders. 30 00:05:18,420 --> 00:05:19,866 Oh Hermann... 31 00:05:22,014 --> 00:05:25,914 Really, you are such a... such a stupid woman, Lydia. 32 00:05:26,345 --> 00:05:28,458 You've lived here for 7 years already 33 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:32,084 and you still can't speak the language properly. Still, I don't mind. 34 00:05:33,211 --> 00:05:36,936 Intelligence would take the bloom off your carnality. 35 00:05:38,622 --> 00:05:43,807 No, a woman like you should keep moist and plump... 36 00:05:49,359 --> 00:05:50,329 Lydia? 37 00:05:51,567 --> 00:05:52,447 Lydia! 38 00:05:52,780 --> 00:05:54,590 Who the hell wears red socks!? 39 00:05:54,710 --> 00:05:57,570 Oh! They're Ardalion's... 40 00:05:57,988 --> 00:06:01,227 He's always taking his socks off. You know what it's like. 41 00:06:01,567 --> 00:06:03,824 Your cousin stinks. He should be in a zoo. 42 00:06:15,214 --> 00:06:18,563 Blood is thicker than water, Hermann. 43 00:06:21,084 --> 00:06:22,577 Hermann... 44 00:06:24,433 --> 00:06:26,873 Handsome, isn't it? 45 00:06:26,993 --> 00:06:28,364 Oh, Hermann! 46 00:06:29,129 --> 00:06:30,851 You're so... 47 00:06:32,113 --> 00:06:33,266 masterful! 48 00:06:34,943 --> 00:06:38,607 How dare you come into this room partly clothed. 49 00:06:39,748 --> 00:06:41,157 Off with it! 50 00:06:41,277 --> 00:06:43,163 Have you no sense of indecency? 51 00:06:47,342 --> 00:06:48,773 Don't close the door! 52 00:06:48,893 --> 00:06:50,651 - Why not? - I want it open. 53 00:06:50,771 --> 00:06:53,829 - But Elsie might... - Elsie's gone to bed. Leave it open! 54 00:07:31,147 --> 00:07:34,253 I'd like to know what's going on in your head... 55 00:07:35,298 --> 00:07:37,070 Which one? 56 00:07:37,761 --> 00:07:39,618 I don't understand? 57 00:08:16,326 --> 00:08:19,748 Lydia? Lydia... please! 58 00:08:24,498 --> 00:08:27,858 Come along my feather-brained cockatoo or you'll make me late! 59 00:08:29,304 --> 00:08:30,785 - Quick! - Yes! 60 00:08:33,359 --> 00:08:35,246 Always late, late... 61 00:08:37,783 --> 00:08:40,013 - Oh, Elsie! - Yes Madam? 62 00:08:40,133 --> 00:08:42,949 I'm just riding my husband to the office. Make up the bed!! 63 00:08:43,069 --> 00:08:45,548 I live in a house of parrots. Will you please hurry! 64 00:08:45,875 --> 00:08:46,943 Coming darling! 65 00:08:47,161 --> 00:08:48,180 Oh, Elsie... 66 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,051 And don't forget what I told you about the Christmas tree. 67 00:10:08,835 --> 00:10:10,337 - Good morning, sir. - Morning 68 00:10:17,844 --> 00:10:20,150 - Good morning - Good morning, Frau Schmitt. 69 00:10:26,439 --> 00:10:27,479 Please... 70 00:10:30,956 --> 00:10:32,096 Ah, yes... 71 00:10:34,438 --> 00:10:35,790 Too bitter... 72 00:10:36,508 --> 00:10:37,997 or not bitter enough. 73 00:10:38,369 --> 00:10:39,825 That is the problem! 74 00:10:41,732 --> 00:10:43,540 At whom are we aiming? 75 00:10:47,339 --> 00:10:49,519 Some girls only like it bitter. 76 00:10:49,788 --> 00:10:52,124 Fastidious little prigs. 77 00:10:52,921 --> 00:10:55,836 Then there are others, the rich ones, smooth... 78 00:10:56,405 --> 00:10:58,766 who like it milky and chocolaty. 79 00:10:59,955 --> 00:11:01,084 Like my mother. 80 00:11:02,635 --> 00:11:04,403 You know, my mother was like that. 81 00:11:04,805 --> 00:11:07,244 She was a fat bourgeois with too many rings 82 00:11:07,364 --> 00:11:10,423 popping chocolates into her fat, jowly face! 83 00:11:13,707 --> 00:11:17,783 On wet afternoons she would go through an entire box of peppermint creams 84 00:11:18,135 --> 00:11:20,507 and the family photograph album. 85 00:11:21,963 --> 00:11:22,946 Thank you. 86 00:11:24,086 --> 00:11:25,918 I don't know why I tell you all this. 87 00:11:26,246 --> 00:11:27,508 Please excuse me. 88 00:11:28,066 --> 00:11:30,789 No, the problem is not here in the chocolate, 89 00:11:31,008 --> 00:11:33,192 the problem is in New York. 90 00:11:34,587 --> 00:11:37,417 Germany has borrowed 7 billion dollars. 91 00:11:37,757 --> 00:11:40,111 Mostly from American investors. 92 00:11:40,718 --> 00:11:45,043 And now... the chocolate spree... is over. 93 00:11:45,523 --> 00:11:47,713 There would be plenty of money around... 94 00:11:48,126 --> 00:11:50,347 if it wasn't for this government 95 00:11:50,467 --> 00:11:53,466 giving it all away to greedy foreigners. 96 00:11:53,586 --> 00:11:56,342 But reparations must be paid, Müller. 97 00:11:56,462 --> 00:11:57,389 Who says? 98 00:11:59,430 --> 00:12:02,170 Well... the treaty of Versailles! 99 00:12:02,739 --> 00:12:05,202 I didn't start the war, Why should I pay for it? 100 00:12:06,088 --> 00:12:08,095 Anyway, the war has been over 12 years. 101 00:12:08,223 --> 00:12:10,240 My God! As long ago as that? 102 00:12:10,340 --> 00:12:12,555 Now the politicians are betraying us. 103 00:12:13,314 --> 00:12:16,130 If it wasn't for the reparations, Ge-- 104 00:12:16,250 --> 00:12:20,547 Germany could rebuild, and become strong again and... 105 00:12:20,862 --> 00:12:22,752 ...regain her place... 106 00:12:22,872 --> 00:12:25,742 as the greatest country in Europe! 107 00:12:27,010 --> 00:12:30,188 Müller, Müller! You begin to sound like that man in the newspapers. 108 00:12:30,308 --> 00:12:31,752 - Alfred... - Alfred Hugenberg sir! 109 00:12:31,872 --> 00:12:34,423 - Alfred Hugenberg. - Some of the newspapers say that, too! 110 00:12:35,224 --> 00:12:37,723 Alfred Hugenberg owns those newspapers, yeah? 111 00:12:37,990 --> 00:12:40,799 I don't care! 120 billion gold marks! 112 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:42,708 It will cripple us all! 113 00:12:43,060 --> 00:12:45,912 You should have been at the plebiscite meeting last night. 114 00:12:46,032 --> 00:12:47,807 I am a foreigner here! 115 00:12:48,059 --> 00:12:51,928 If enough of us vote against the payments. 116 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,487 That would be the end of it. 117 00:12:55,697 --> 00:12:57,630 What could the French do? 118 00:12:58,491 --> 00:13:00,724 I suppose they could occupy the Ruhr... 119 00:13:01,076 --> 00:13:03,516 like the last time you didn't keep up the payments. 120 00:13:03,795 --> 00:13:05,229 They are still there. 121 00:13:05,496 --> 00:13:07,207 French and British troops! 122 00:13:07,437 --> 00:13:09,221 On German soil! 123 00:13:11,689 --> 00:13:12,842 Excuse me. 124 00:13:14,989 --> 00:13:18,209 In my opinion, this is just a little too bitter. 125 00:13:19,242 --> 00:13:20,150 Slightly. 126 00:13:20,270 --> 00:13:21,060 Thank you. 127 00:13:25,737 --> 00:13:26,853 Hermann! 128 00:13:28,138 --> 00:13:29,513 Lydia! 129 00:13:30,129 --> 00:13:32,105 How about dinner out? 130 00:13:32,654 --> 00:13:34,236 Perfect! Good! 131 00:13:40,076 --> 00:13:42,005 Ardy's here, Hermann. 132 00:13:42,478 --> 00:13:44,068 Just borrowing the bath! 133 00:13:46,529 --> 00:13:48,022 I hope that's all right! 134 00:13:48,895 --> 00:13:50,655 By all means... 135 00:13:55,554 --> 00:13:57,653 Why don't you bring your laundry? 136 00:13:58,478 --> 00:13:59,765 ...while you're about it? 137 00:13:59,885 --> 00:14:01,353 Won't keep you a minute! 138 00:14:02,161 --> 00:14:03,896 Your gogel-mogel, Hermann? 139 00:14:04,016 --> 00:14:06,275 That gogel-mogel is my gogel-mogel! 140 00:14:07,233 --> 00:14:10,302 Only one gogel-mogel is your gogel-mogel, Ardy. 141 00:14:10,593 --> 00:14:13,942 The other gogel-mogel is Hermann's gogel-mogel. 142 00:14:22,727 --> 00:14:25,409 Since it is not a chocky-wocky... 143 00:14:27,293 --> 00:14:29,926 I don't care whose gogel-mogel it is. 144 00:14:31,998 --> 00:14:33,099 No thank you. 145 00:14:38,581 --> 00:14:42,100 I drink to the plump dumpling breasts and buttocks of your wife! 146 00:14:42,391 --> 00:14:45,900 And I drink to the plump dumpling brains of your cousin. 147 00:14:46,203 --> 00:14:47,711 I intended a complement! 148 00:14:48,031 --> 00:14:49,852 - .speaking as a painter. - And so do I! 149 00:14:49,972 --> 00:14:52,954 speaking as a connoisseur of soft centers. 150 00:14:53,949 --> 00:14:57,085 Chocolate technology lags hopelessly behind 151 00:14:57,205 --> 00:15:01,060 the sweet confectionery of Lydia's grey matter. 152 00:15:01,922 --> 00:15:03,569 If you opened her cranium, 153 00:15:03,689 --> 00:15:05,089 like an Easter egg, 154 00:15:05,477 --> 00:15:09,906 you would find inside it, a motley assortment of creams, of fondant, 155 00:15:10,026 --> 00:15:15,598 ...of praline, rum truffles, liquid liquors, 156 00:15:16,035 --> 00:15:18,086 and my favorite: 157 00:15:19,214 --> 00:15:20,852 Turkish Delight. 158 00:15:22,386 --> 00:15:23,163 My God! 159 00:15:24,218 --> 00:15:26,427 You think I patronize her? 160 00:15:27,548 --> 00:15:30,097 But anyone can tell you that she adores me! 161 00:15:31,467 --> 00:15:35,122 She needs a patronizing type like I need a patronize-able woman! 162 00:15:35,948 --> 00:15:37,817 We're a perfect couple. 163 00:15:38,266 --> 00:15:41,154 I like literature, she likes trash. 164 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:47,036 I'm clear-thinking, she's scatter-brained. 165 00:15:50,706 --> 00:15:52,308 She's messy... . 166 00:15:53,667 --> 00:15:55,815 We are a perfect match! 167 00:15:57,574 --> 00:16:00,415 Like a lock... and a key. 168 00:16:00,535 --> 00:16:02,320 Oh, Hermann! 169 00:16:02,793 --> 00:16:06,106 You talk about life as if it had some deeper significance! 170 00:16:06,226 --> 00:16:08,698 You be careful, Ardalion! Be very careful what you say! 171 00:16:09,232 --> 00:16:11,270 Because i think over there 172 00:16:11,512 --> 00:16:14,400 is a man who looks exactly like 173 00:16:14,982 --> 00:16:17,414 ...a Viennese quack! 174 00:16:20,394 --> 00:16:22,990 Lydia will be returning, but only momentarily. 175 00:16:23,110 --> 00:16:26,211 Do you want to make a bet? She usually goes out twice! 176 00:16:26,932 --> 00:16:30,002 The first time because she's left her comb on the wash basin 177 00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:32,564 or else she needs some small change... 178 00:16:32,684 --> 00:16:35,993 Ah! Here she comes now. Look at her! Isn't she wonderful? 179 00:16:36,113 --> 00:16:38,488 Look at her clothes. Aren't they beautiful? 180 00:16:38,608 --> 00:16:41,716 Her color sense is based entirely on linguistics. 181 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:46,328 Brick red goes with cherry red because, after all, they're both red. 182 00:16:46,655 --> 00:16:48,252 She calls it echoing. 183 00:16:48,482 --> 00:16:50,642 It's the same with her politics, you know? 184 00:16:51,285 --> 00:16:53,707 When they clash, she says they echo. 185 00:16:53,827 --> 00:16:56,656 - Red is red! - Ooh, what are you two talking about? 186 00:16:56,897 --> 00:16:58,367 Russian politics. 187 00:16:58,487 --> 00:17:01,593 But what can you expect of Bolsheviks? 188 00:17:01,823 --> 00:17:03,340 I couldn't find my lipstick. 189 00:17:07,072 --> 00:17:08,528 You, uh... 190 00:17:08,648 --> 00:17:09,863 dropped it. 191 00:17:24,341 --> 00:17:26,515 I suffer but I never complain. 192 00:17:27,819 --> 00:17:30,664 Ardalion? Shall I tell you a marital secret? 193 00:17:32,264 --> 00:17:36,547 There are some things which only a husband and wife know about each other. 194 00:17:36,782 --> 00:17:38,990 I don't think that would be quite fair to Liddy... 195 00:17:39,110 --> 00:17:40,058 Why not? 196 00:17:41,789 --> 00:17:45,649 It's all in the family. And, "blood is thicker than water"... 197 00:17:45,769 --> 00:17:48,572 as Lydia is apt to remark so wittily. 198 00:17:50,693 --> 00:17:52,295 - Are you ready? - No, no. 199 00:17:52,914 --> 00:17:56,038 - I find it most offensive of you to- - Just as I thought! 200 00:17:56,158 --> 00:18:00,284 You are nothing but a Ukrainian peasant pretending to be a Bohemian! 201 00:18:04,329 --> 00:18:05,833 Please give me the check. 202 00:18:07,905 --> 00:18:10,010 All right. Tell me then. 203 00:18:10,778 --> 00:18:12,421 She never quite... 204 00:18:12,973 --> 00:18:14,706 puts out her cigarette. 205 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:30,176 - Orlovious! - Huh? 206 00:18:30,296 --> 00:18:33,089 My friend says you look like a quack. He wants to speak to you. 207 00:18:33,328 --> 00:18:35,121 Well, I have more reason than most... 208 00:18:35,266 --> 00:18:38,251 Then you mean you are? Oh, my dear sir! 209 00:18:38,419 --> 00:18:41,371 Would you mind just talking shop to me for a moment? 210 00:18:41,628 --> 00:18:43,796 - Not at all but, uh... - Please, do sit down. 211 00:18:43,922 --> 00:18:45,838 - Thank you. - No, thank you. 212 00:18:47,949 --> 00:18:49,163 What do you know...? 213 00:18:49,283 --> 00:18:52,962 What do you know about this subject: dissociation? Huh? 214 00:18:53,746 --> 00:18:56,331 The, uh... the split person... 215 00:18:56,346 --> 00:19:00,261 The man who stands... outside himself. 216 00:19:00,932 --> 00:19:04,590 I'm thinking of writing a book about such a person. Maybe two books. 217 00:19:05,473 --> 00:19:08,213 What... what... what does it mean? 218 00:19:08,333 --> 00:19:09,894 What is known about it? 219 00:19:10,014 --> 00:19:11,703 What do you think it means? 220 00:19:11,943 --> 00:19:14,624 Does it only happen when you are drunk? 221 00:19:16,765 --> 00:19:18,044 Me? 222 00:19:18,472 --> 00:19:21,756 What do you make of that... Doctor? 223 00:19:22,782 --> 00:19:24,614 - Sex or violence? - Oh, please! 224 00:19:24,734 --> 00:19:26,963 Oh, please! Or tell him he's in love with his mother. 225 00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:28,683 And why shouldn't I be? 226 00:19:29,038 --> 00:19:31,429 She was beautiful and refined. 227 00:19:31,672 --> 00:19:34,476 Pure Russian... of old, princely stock. 228 00:19:35,170 --> 00:19:38,659 I remember, in the summer, she used to wear lilac silk... 229 00:19:38,775 --> 00:19:42,701 and sit in a rocking chair, fanning herself. 230 00:19:43,766 --> 00:19:47,288 I seem to hear Chopin. Rather badly played... 231 00:19:47,531 --> 00:19:51,247 It is myself... at the piano, under the careful eye 232 00:19:51,349 --> 00:19:53,865 of Frau Schiller, my governess. 233 00:19:54,556 --> 00:19:56,487 Still talking politics? 234 00:19:57,136 --> 00:20:00,700 This is Dr. Orlovius and my name is Hermann and this is my wife. 235 00:20:03,315 --> 00:20:06,805 - Mr. Orlovius. - You're not a doctor? 236 00:20:07,596 --> 00:20:10,069 I am in the insurance business. 237 00:20:11,194 --> 00:20:15,333 - But surely you implied that you-- - That I don't mind talking shop. 238 00:20:15,474 --> 00:20:18,568 Tell me. Do you have a life policy? 239 00:20:19,249 --> 00:20:20,224 No? 240 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:23,574 Then perhaps I might explain some of the advantages. 241 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,546 "Come on out, Silverman! -- We've got you surrounded!" 242 00:20:53,219 --> 00:20:55,131 "Isn't that Sergeant Brown?" 243 00:21:11,678 --> 00:21:13,964 "That's my brother. I'm going to talk to him." 244 00:21:49,537 --> 00:21:53,006 - How do they do it? - There's a line down the middle. 245 00:21:53,126 --> 00:21:55,298 This cherry brandy is disgusting, Hermann! 246 00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:56,722 "Don't you ever think of mother?" 247 00:21:57,492 --> 00:21:59,394 I can't see any line! 248 00:22:00,099 --> 00:22:02,141 - A line has length but no breadth. - Beautiful. 249 00:22:02,261 --> 00:22:04,077 "The many tears she has shed have washed the life from her eyes." 250 00:22:04,197 --> 00:22:05,993 If you could see it, it wouldn't be a line. 251 00:22:06,733 --> 00:22:08,102 It would have breadth! 252 00:22:08,222 --> 00:22:09,655 "Mother always loved you more than me. All the more since the accident." 253 00:22:09,775 --> 00:22:11,632 The fact you can't see it, proves it's a line. 254 00:22:13,925 --> 00:22:16,312 Too much sugar in the schnapps, Hermann. 255 00:22:16,646 --> 00:22:19,110 Change the recipe. That's my advice. 256 00:22:22,422 --> 00:22:24,662 Give me your hanky, pussy! 257 00:22:35,165 --> 00:22:37,050 Hanky, dear! 258 00:22:49,195 --> 00:22:51,140 "He's dead." 259 00:23:00,182 --> 00:23:02,693 "That's not Sergeant Brown. It's Silverman." 260 00:23:25,001 --> 00:23:28,353 "He's dead. We always respected you, Sergeant Brown." 261 00:23:36,518 --> 00:23:38,058 Good morning, Mr. Hermann. 262 00:23:39,681 --> 00:23:41,380 Good morning, sir. 263 00:23:51,346 --> 00:23:53,965 The liquor centers are not moving well. 264 00:23:55,685 --> 00:23:58,320 Two consignments have been returned already. 265 00:24:04,107 --> 00:24:05,970 Not enough sugar in the schnapps. 266 00:24:14,701 --> 00:24:16,164 Hello, you! 267 00:24:18,025 --> 00:24:20,194 I've seen you before somewhere. 268 00:24:20,314 --> 00:24:21,426 Your face. 269 00:24:22,311 --> 00:24:23,505 In the cinema. 270 00:24:24,286 --> 00:24:25,959 I never go to the cinema. 271 00:24:26,344 --> 00:24:29,258 Don't lie to me. I know. 272 00:25:46,261 --> 00:25:50,619 If you're not coming to bed, you could at least bring me my book! 273 00:26:02,890 --> 00:26:04,602 Please! 274 00:27:06,568 --> 00:27:08,222 Thank you, Elsie. 275 00:27:23,668 --> 00:27:24,656 Lydia? 276 00:27:25,619 --> 00:27:26,517 Lydia! 277 00:27:28,229 --> 00:27:30,847 I'm thinking of going to Dusseldorf for a couple of days. 278 00:27:30,962 --> 00:27:33,149 - Where's that? - In the Ruhr. 279 00:27:33,269 --> 00:27:36,514 - Is that in Germany? - For the moment, yes. 280 00:27:36,551 --> 00:27:38,028 Something important happening? 281 00:27:38,148 --> 00:27:41,282 A chocolate factory is on the verge of going bankrupt... 282 00:27:43,483 --> 00:27:45,844 And I am going to do a murder. 283 00:27:46,897 --> 00:27:48,193 A murder? 284 00:27:49,143 --> 00:27:50,210 Merger. 285 00:27:51,057 --> 00:27:52,616 I shall gobble them up! 286 00:27:53,999 --> 00:27:58,738 Hermann, you're wonderful! But I'll be terribly lonely without you. 287 00:28:00,937 --> 00:28:03,916 Why don't you get Ardalion to amuse you? 288 00:28:04,530 --> 00:28:06,666 Isn't that what cousins are for? 289 00:28:11,571 --> 00:28:13,163 I made a small donation. 290 00:28:13,283 --> 00:28:16,423 Those are the only people not prepared to sell us down the river. 291 00:28:16,962 --> 00:28:19,678 This is an unusual line. Ginger creams! 292 00:28:19,789 --> 00:28:22,228 It appeals to sophisticated tastes. 293 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:24,692 How many hours a day are these machines idle? 294 00:28:24,812 --> 00:28:28,794 I'll tell you frankly: Until last year, the problem was staff. 295 00:28:28,914 --> 00:28:31,831 There were plenty of better paid jobs around. 296 00:28:32,068 --> 00:28:34,786 Now I can have all the people I want, but... 297 00:28:34,992 --> 00:28:37,754 sales are down. What's the answer? 298 00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:39,512 It's murder! 299 00:28:40,171 --> 00:28:41,435 Merger. Ah, yeah. 300 00:28:41,525 --> 00:28:44,014 The wrong people have got the money. You know what I mean? 301 00:28:44,066 --> 00:28:47,578 If that man was in charge, things would be different. 302 00:28:47,698 --> 00:28:49,511 - Hugenberg? - No. Well... 303 00:28:49,631 --> 00:28:52,031 they're all working together, but Hugenberg... 304 00:28:52,891 --> 00:28:56,908 he's too soft... ...too sophisticated. 305 00:28:57,574 --> 00:28:59,837 Ginger cream... hmm? 306 00:29:02,462 --> 00:29:04,807 An Easter novelty. Very popular. 307 00:29:05,037 --> 00:29:09,124 Chocolate men... like puppets. Not the usual clumsy things. 308 00:29:09,668 --> 00:29:13,010 Two Easters would put a chocolate business back on its feet. 309 00:29:13,164 --> 00:29:15,958 There's a lot of potential here, Hermann. 310 00:29:35,002 --> 00:29:36,505 Let me sleep on it. 311 00:29:36,625 --> 00:29:38,610 Tomorrow is another day. 312 00:29:43,173 --> 00:29:45,765 Tomorrow is the same day in my experience. 313 00:29:45,971 --> 00:29:47,997 I'll call the hotel. 314 00:29:50,907 --> 00:29:51,818 Look... 315 00:29:52,261 --> 00:29:55,393 Is Hermann your first name or your surname? 316 00:29:56,591 --> 00:29:57,772 What you like: 317 00:29:57,875 --> 00:30:00,454 Hermann Hermann Hermann Hermann and hum? 318 00:30:02,593 --> 00:30:05,442 My father was a German speaking Russian from Ravel. 319 00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:09,958 My mother was a Rothschild. 320 00:30:15,658 --> 00:30:17,499 On their wedding day, 321 00:30:18,385 --> 00:30:20,117 he gave her rubies. 322 00:30:20,859 --> 00:30:23,342 Her dowry was her own weight... 323 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,539 in gold coins. 324 00:30:27,092 --> 00:30:30,875 The investigation proved them to be chocolate. 325 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:34,927 My father died of grief, my mother of diabetes. 326 00:30:36,305 --> 00:30:39,181 I inherited the balance of the chocky-wocks... 327 00:30:39,463 --> 00:30:41,799 and I have never looked back! 328 00:30:42,610 --> 00:30:45,219 My wife is a Finkelberg. 329 00:30:46,413 --> 00:30:47,850 And her dowry... 330 00:30:48,659 --> 00:30:50,212 was her weight. 331 00:30:57,802 --> 00:30:59,924 Most of my information... 332 00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:05,032 comes from forged documents. 333 00:31:05,976 --> 00:31:08,112 As is my fate. 334 00:31:10,566 --> 00:31:13,937 When the war started, I procured some papers 335 00:31:14,129 --> 00:31:20,327 which stated that I was a Blackshirt... fighting the Reds... 336 00:31:20,564 --> 00:31:23,235 in the White Army. 337 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,858 But after Revolution, 338 00:31:29,038 --> 00:31:30,591 I got out... 339 00:31:31,053 --> 00:31:32,837 as a Caucasian... 340 00:31:33,453 --> 00:31:35,238 fighting the Brownshirts... 341 00:31:37,779 --> 00:31:39,524 in the Red Army. 342 00:31:44,972 --> 00:31:46,783 All I really am... 343 00:31:47,104 --> 00:31:49,350 is just a yellow belly 344 00:31:51,635 --> 00:31:53,221 in a brown hat. 345 00:31:55,025 --> 00:31:58,683 But I'm holding on for myself. 346 00:31:59,248 --> 00:32:00,736 Mr. Hermann? 347 00:32:03,247 --> 00:32:05,623 I have decided. 348 00:32:08,667 --> 00:32:10,387 Keep your fucking sheckles! 349 00:33:22,182 --> 00:33:24,854 - Don't you see anything? - What's up? 350 00:33:33,334 --> 00:33:34,904 What's the idea? 351 00:33:41,175 --> 00:33:43,008 Are you blind, or...? 352 00:34:02,418 --> 00:34:04,647 You have my face. 353 00:34:04,748 --> 00:34:06,539 If you say so, mister. 354 00:34:07,452 --> 00:34:11,058 But the rich man never quite resembles a poor man. 355 00:34:11,378 --> 00:34:14,715 With a haircut and a shave, we would be indistinguishable. 356 00:34:14,844 --> 00:34:18,739 The price of a haircut and shave would come in very handy. 357 00:34:23,552 --> 00:34:24,399 Mister! 358 00:34:35,185 --> 00:34:36,858 You got a match? 359 00:34:41,062 --> 00:34:44,515 Couldn't you find... some work for me? 360 00:34:44,922 --> 00:34:45,780 Hmm? 361 00:34:46,036 --> 00:34:48,483 You know we are... we are strangers. 362 00:34:48,603 --> 00:34:51,280 We have, as... as you might say, a... 363 00:34:52,175 --> 00:34:53,126 a bond. 364 00:34:53,246 --> 00:34:55,950 - You can see it? - Yes. 365 00:34:57,583 --> 00:35:00,853 We are as alike as... as two peas. 366 00:35:02,752 --> 00:35:04,751 It's a freak of nature. 367 00:35:06,022 --> 00:35:08,409 Will you turn sideways please? 368 00:35:10,710 --> 00:35:13,502 Oh... excuse me... look this way. 369 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,058 I stand before me. 370 00:35:20,843 --> 00:35:22,586 I'm all right for the summer. 371 00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:24,486 I like travelling. 372 00:35:24,892 --> 00:35:26,665 Picking up this and that. 373 00:35:26,973 --> 00:35:28,141 But come the autumn.... 374 00:35:28,348 --> 00:35:30,725 The chromosomatic scale is dotted to infinity, 375 00:35:30,845 --> 00:35:33,955 - But nature's prone to doubles. - It's amazing. 376 00:35:39,324 --> 00:35:42,522 - About this job... - Where will I find you? 377 00:35:42,642 --> 00:35:45,399 This autumn I'm sure to be at the same village where I worked last year, 378 00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:46,863 near Hamburg. 379 00:35:46,983 --> 00:35:50,098 - You could write to me at the post office. - Oh? ...well... 380 00:35:53,550 --> 00:35:55,491 - I'll write it down for you. - Thank you. 381 00:35:56,582 --> 00:35:57,674 Felix 382 00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:59,882 Weber 383 00:36:00,832 --> 00:36:02,089 Hamburg. 384 00:36:02,589 --> 00:36:04,654 I hope your trip was successful, sir. 385 00:36:04,774 --> 00:36:06,605 These are difficult times, Frau Schmidt. 386 00:36:06,725 --> 00:36:07,779 Yes, Sir. 387 00:36:08,189 --> 00:36:10,897 Did you hear that Mr. Müller had resigned? 388 00:36:12,038 --> 00:36:13,116 No. 389 00:36:14,606 --> 00:36:17,569 How could he resign... without telling me? 390 00:36:17,689 --> 00:36:19,772 - Telling you, sir? - Yes, me. 391 00:36:19,892 --> 00:36:22,691 Am I mad? Do I own this factory? 392 00:36:22,811 --> 00:36:24,462 Or am I some tramp? 393 00:36:24,582 --> 00:36:26,505 Wandering around, looking for a job? 394 00:36:26,625 --> 00:36:29,650 Oh. Not our Mr. Müller. I mean the chancellor. 395 00:36:29,932 --> 00:36:32,034 The government has resigned. 396 00:36:32,612 --> 00:36:34,562 Oh, the government... 397 00:36:39,665 --> 00:36:41,373 - Hello! - Hello? 398 00:36:41,623 --> 00:36:43,964 You are still giving an excellent performance. 399 00:36:44,084 --> 00:36:44,940 Bravo. 400 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,203 Have you forgotten your place? 401 00:36:50,576 --> 00:36:51,333 No. 402 00:37:15,029 --> 00:37:16,157 Müller... 403 00:37:17,633 --> 00:37:19,609 Why did the government resign? 404 00:37:19,835 --> 00:37:23,426 Müller wanted to cut unemployment benefits and got voted out. 405 00:37:23,546 --> 00:37:24,468 Good riddance. 406 00:37:24,588 --> 00:37:27,526 Surely the unemployed should be able to share what's available. 407 00:37:27,646 --> 00:37:30,488 When unemployed increases, then the share decreases. 408 00:37:30,608 --> 00:37:32,544 When it doubles, they should get half. 409 00:37:32,664 --> 00:37:34,502 - That's a bit rough, sir. - Well... 410 00:37:34,622 --> 00:37:36,825 you have to take the rough with the smooth. 411 00:37:37,428 --> 00:37:40,888 If the government could reduce unemployment to about... 412 00:37:41,008 --> 00:37:43,969 ...oh, a dozen, they would be billionaires. 413 00:37:44,567 --> 00:37:47,257 Have you joined the boy scouts or something? 414 00:37:48,343 --> 00:37:52,564 Do you mind me wearing uniform in the office, sir? 415 00:37:54,078 --> 00:37:56,029 No, not at all. 416 00:37:56,581 --> 00:37:59,853 Most appropriate, a chocolate-colored jacket. 417 00:38:06,107 --> 00:38:07,624 This chocolate... 418 00:38:08,830 --> 00:38:10,704 this chocolate tastes, um... 419 00:38:14,844 --> 00:38:16,857 Bitter? 420 00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:24,645 What are you doing? 421 00:38:25,729 --> 00:38:29,098 It's Saturday. We're waiting for you. We're going to the lake. 422 00:38:30,593 --> 00:38:34,168 Don't you remember? You said you wanted to draw me. 423 00:38:36,413 --> 00:38:38,286 Will you wait a minute? 424 00:38:56,959 --> 00:38:58,884 La Boheme, huh? 425 00:39:23,863 --> 00:39:26,518 Is this your contribution to political art? 426 00:39:31,050 --> 00:39:32,513 Oh... no, no. No, no, no. 427 00:39:32,808 --> 00:39:35,781 That was done by the housekeeper's son. 428 00:39:35,901 --> 00:39:38,179 He is interested in politics. 429 00:39:46,195 --> 00:39:47,427 You can have it. 430 00:39:48,479 --> 00:39:51,243 - 35 marks. - No thank you. 431 00:39:52,321 --> 00:39:53,977 Get dressed, Ardalion. 432 00:39:59,379 --> 00:40:00,419 Liddy? 433 00:40:13,875 --> 00:40:14,982 Ardalion! 434 00:40:15,572 --> 00:40:16,509 Come! 435 00:40:17,673 --> 00:40:18,738 Let's start. 436 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:20,907 Start what? 437 00:40:21,259 --> 00:40:23,937 Oh... oh. Start the art, huh? 438 00:40:25,734 --> 00:40:27,107 Are you in a hurry? 439 00:40:28,514 --> 00:40:29,896 Yes. I'm in a hurry. 440 00:40:30,016 --> 00:40:31,164 By the way... 441 00:40:31,767 --> 00:40:33,795 you've got a tricky face, Hermann. 442 00:40:36,453 --> 00:40:39,346 Would you consider my face unusual? 443 00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:21,119 The modern school. It looks a bit like Hermann. 444 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,007 It looks more like Hermann than Hermann himself. 445 00:42:25,027 --> 00:42:27,453 And all's right with the world. 446 00:42:27,698 --> 00:42:28,802 Oh, please! 447 00:42:29,303 --> 00:42:31,226 - Have one of these! - So kind. 448 00:42:33,113 --> 00:42:34,466 All in order. 449 00:42:34,586 --> 00:42:36,442 And, frankly, it's a bargain. 450 00:42:37,628 --> 00:42:39,852 The premiums were set a year ago 451 00:42:39,972 --> 00:42:44,191 and are well below under the actuarial reality. 452 00:42:44,642 --> 00:42:48,120 - And what kind of reality is that? - To me, the only kind. 453 00:42:48,692 --> 00:42:52,120 And, to you, it's not reality at all: a statistical probability. 454 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:57,955 Do you mean the probability of my sudden death has increased in the last year? 455 00:42:58,075 --> 00:42:59,401 No. Statistically. 456 00:42:59,645 --> 00:43:02,768 Oh... political riots and violence in the street. 457 00:43:02,888 --> 00:43:06,901 And violence in the families. Violence... violence in the houses and... violence, 458 00:43:07,021 --> 00:43:10,435 - even in the Reichstag and so on and so on. - But I am a foreigner in this land. 459 00:43:10,555 --> 00:43:14,259 It would be presumptuous of me to have a political opinion... 460 00:43:15,748 --> 00:43:17,102 And bad manners... 461 00:43:18,090 --> 00:43:19,348 to express it. 462 00:43:19,468 --> 00:43:22,697 Insurance is above politics. 463 00:43:24,046 --> 00:43:27,896 The Brownshirts and the Communists and... the immigrants... 464 00:43:28,016 --> 00:43:30,234 and Chancellor Brüning, himself: 465 00:43:31,094 --> 00:43:32,878 They're all equal... 466 00:43:33,430 --> 00:43:35,316 under the slide rule. 467 00:43:36,099 --> 00:43:39,321 Each man's risk gravitates to the mean... 468 00:43:39,843 --> 00:43:41,569 One premium for all: 469 00:43:41,689 --> 00:43:44,483 according to age and health. 470 00:43:45,703 --> 00:43:48,727 Is the Chancellor a customer of yours? 471 00:43:48,847 --> 00:43:50,060 Oh, no! 472 00:43:50,304 --> 00:43:53,808 As a matter of fact, he wouldn't be considered such a good risk at the moment. 473 00:43:54,367 --> 00:43:58,641 Trying to force a budget through the Reichstag by presidential decree... 474 00:43:59,295 --> 00:44:01,785 well, it's not considered good for the health. 475 00:44:02,504 --> 00:44:04,921 I think you're so clever! 476 00:44:05,306 --> 00:44:07,898 - Oh, please. Have some more wine. - Thanks. 477 00:44:08,018 --> 00:44:11,853 You don't have to worry about Brüning. He is firmly in the saddle. 478 00:44:12,161 --> 00:44:14,384 You don't think there will be an election this year? 479 00:44:14,504 --> 00:44:19,117 No chance. He's got Hindenburg behind him and the army behind Hindenburg. 480 00:44:19,294 --> 00:44:21,995 Why don't you ever talk like that to me? 481 00:44:22,279 --> 00:44:25,041 Brüning can count on the Social Democrats, 482 00:44:25,161 --> 00:44:28,365 on the Nationalists, and on the National Socialists 483 00:44:28,485 --> 00:44:31,566 who will vote against the Brownshirts and the Bolshies. 484 00:44:31,887 --> 00:44:36,649 But the National Socialists are the Brownshirts. 485 00:44:38,672 --> 00:44:41,576 - You are a stupid idiot. - So what, clever dick? 486 00:44:41,696 --> 00:44:44,905 You can forget about them. What did they get at the last election? 487 00:44:45,086 --> 00:44:47,443 Three percent: twelve seats. 488 00:44:47,706 --> 00:44:51,140 There you are! I know what I'm talking about! 489 00:44:51,275 --> 00:44:53,697 But if there is an election, 490 00:44:54,531 --> 00:44:56,430 that will let the extremists in. 491 00:44:56,777 --> 00:44:58,984 There will be no election. 492 00:44:59,104 --> 00:45:01,560 I fear the National Socialists. 493 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,615 Oh! What can you expect of Bolsheviks? 494 00:45:04,735 --> 00:45:06,642 Nazis, not Communists. 495 00:45:06,762 --> 00:45:11,468 As far as I'm concerned, a Socialist is a Socialist. 496 00:45:11,588 --> 00:45:14,729 Listen. The National Socialists are against the Socialists... 497 00:45:14,849 --> 00:45:17,371 and also against the Nationalists. 498 00:45:18,151 --> 00:45:20,338 That's stupid! It doesn't make sense! 499 00:45:20,458 --> 00:45:23,084 And the People's Party is against the people! 500 00:45:24,098 --> 00:45:25,554 Stop it! 501 00:45:26,761 --> 00:45:28,647 What do you think, Hermann? 502 00:45:32,878 --> 00:45:34,564 I don't think, Lydia. 503 00:45:35,090 --> 00:45:37,490 I've just insured my life. 504 00:45:43,848 --> 00:45:47,108 Here's to my long and happy life. 505 00:45:56,451 --> 00:45:58,449 It looks like Hermann... 506 00:45:59,471 --> 00:46:02,128 in Ardalion's cesspit mind. 507 00:49:00,250 --> 00:49:01,456 Snap! 508 00:49:02,143 --> 00:49:06,043 - Don't waste time. Your turn. - That's for me! 509 00:49:06,343 --> 00:49:09,022 No, it's mine! Oh, yes... 510 00:49:16,659 --> 00:49:19,676 - Snap! - Forfeit! That's the Queen! 511 00:49:19,970 --> 00:49:23,388 - Where is the masterful one going? - I forget. 512 00:49:23,554 --> 00:49:25,533 It sounded like a hat. 513 00:49:33,337 --> 00:49:35,261 Come back and play! 514 00:49:39,949 --> 00:49:41,723 - Panama! - What? 515 00:49:41,915 --> 00:49:44,473 There is only one city in the world like a hat. 516 00:49:44,593 --> 00:49:45,998 Don't be sillies! 517 00:49:46,485 --> 00:49:48,000 Where are you going, dear? 518 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,529 - Oh! There's another one! Hamburg. - That's it! 519 00:49:54,796 --> 00:49:56,002 Not so far. 520 00:49:57,016 --> 00:49:58,735 - Overnight, though? - Oh! 521 00:49:58,945 --> 00:50:01,359 My tummy is feeling funny. 522 00:50:02,675 --> 00:50:06,295 I think I'll spend the whole time in bed. 523 00:50:07,268 --> 00:50:09,963 - Your tummy is feeling funny, Lydia? - Yes. 524 00:50:11,112 --> 00:50:13,490 - Perhaps too much gogel-mogel, yeah? - Yeah... 525 00:50:59,107 --> 00:51:02,085 I wasn't... I wasn't sure if I'd remember you but... 526 00:51:02,355 --> 00:51:05,025 but, as soon as I saw you, I remembered everything... 527 00:51:05,923 --> 00:51:07,440 except the mustache. 528 00:51:12,210 --> 00:51:13,784 There are... there aren't... 529 00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:17,754 There aren't any sparrows here this year. They had to be destroyed. They all... 530 00:51:18,193 --> 00:51:22,648 They all got parrot fever or something like... 531 00:51:23,211 --> 00:51:24,598 like that. 532 00:51:25,685 --> 00:51:30,101 I like sparrows! I... I like sparrows. I... I understand them. 533 00:51:31,187 --> 00:51:32,914 Street painters. 534 00:51:34,425 --> 00:51:37,150 I like squirrels, too, and moles are all right. 535 00:51:37,270 --> 00:51:39,954 I'd like the world to be full of squirrels and moles because... 536 00:51:40,074 --> 00:51:42,232 they are against landlords. 537 00:51:42,352 --> 00:51:44,485 You are a philosopher. 538 00:51:46,114 --> 00:51:48,440 Philosophy is an invention of the rich. 539 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,835 So is religion... poetry. 540 00:51:51,322 --> 00:51:53,414 I don't believe in love either. 541 00:51:56,406 --> 00:51:57,587 Now... 542 00:52:04,088 --> 00:52:05,786 friendship... 543 00:52:07,262 --> 00:52:08,943 that's a different thing. 544 00:52:10,511 --> 00:52:12,435 I'd like to have a friend. 545 00:52:13,552 --> 00:52:14,874 I'd work for him... 546 00:52:16,003 --> 00:52:17,338 as a gardener. 547 00:52:22,926 --> 00:52:25,572 And afterwards, his garden would become mine, and... 548 00:52:26,645 --> 00:52:28,757 I'd live in joy, and... 549 00:52:29,912 --> 00:52:31,658 in joy and dignity... and in... 550 00:52:31,778 --> 00:52:33,815 ...in a natural state. So what do you want? 551 00:52:34,395 --> 00:52:36,641 I told you. I am a film star... 552 00:52:37,963 --> 00:52:39,413 You are a storyteller! 553 00:52:41,129 --> 00:52:42,376 Felix, please. 554 00:52:42,496 --> 00:52:44,289 Felix, Felix, now... 555 00:52:45,226 --> 00:52:46,663 now listen. 556 00:52:46,981 --> 00:52:51,332 Do you know what a double is? 557 00:52:53,295 --> 00:52:54,297 No. 558 00:52:54,575 --> 00:52:56,230 But you have been to the cinema? 559 00:52:56,705 --> 00:52:58,810 Well... yes. 560 00:53:02,216 --> 00:53:05,298 When I want to spend money, I find something better than the pictures. 561 00:53:07,208 --> 00:53:11,978 Thank God most people don't feel as you do, otherwise my profession would be in ruins. 562 00:53:12,098 --> 00:53:14,222 What profession is that? 563 00:53:15,702 --> 00:53:19,641 I told you. I am a film actor. 564 00:53:23,635 --> 00:53:25,040 Ah, yeah. 565 00:53:26,286 --> 00:53:32,655 A double, Felix, is a person who, in an emergency, can stand in... 566 00:53:33,053 --> 00:53:35,005 for a given actor. 567 00:53:35,390 --> 00:53:39,300 Now, imagine this situation... . Come. 568 00:53:39,736 --> 00:53:41,174 Imagine this: 569 00:53:41,294 --> 00:53:47,346 I, a film actor, am about to make a film in which I have to play twins. 570 00:53:47,466 --> 00:53:51,375 - I saw a film with uh... - Would you please let me finish? 571 00:53:52,248 --> 00:53:53,249 Thank you. 572 00:53:55,113 --> 00:54:01,524 Sometimes that means that I must be at both ends of the screen at the same time. 573 00:54:01,644 --> 00:54:05,968 A bare-faced swindler. I once saw a film with twins. 574 00:54:06,251 --> 00:54:08,759 You only saw them one at a time... 575 00:54:08,879 --> 00:54:12,237 except when there was a line down the middle. 576 00:54:12,781 --> 00:54:14,483 Are you listening to me? 577 00:54:19,131 --> 00:54:20,466 Go on. 578 00:54:26,726 --> 00:54:29,058 Imagine another situation. 579 00:54:30,380 --> 00:54:32,472 The film is finished. Hmm? 580 00:54:33,049 --> 00:54:35,795 There is only one last shot to do... 581 00:54:36,642 --> 00:54:42,848 where the hero has to drive his car past... but he cannot do it because... 582 00:54:42,968 --> 00:54:46,895 because he's ill, has a cold, has the flu... he's in bed and ill. 583 00:54:48,165 --> 00:54:50,252 And the double has to do it. 584 00:54:50,984 --> 00:54:53,389 But the audience is none the wiser. 585 00:54:53,884 --> 00:54:57,214 And the double has 100 marks in his pocket. 586 00:54:59,773 --> 00:55:01,353 Are you following me? 587 00:55:02,027 --> 00:55:04,879 It's unkind of you to pull a poor man's leg. 588 00:55:04,999 --> 00:55:06,946 I am offering you... uh... 589 00:55:07,066 --> 00:55:09,508 money beyond your wildest dreams of avarice 590 00:55:09,628 --> 00:55:12,622 and a job beyond your fondest dreams of idleness. 591 00:55:18,125 --> 00:55:19,936 We need each other. 592 00:55:22,088 --> 00:55:23,947 It seems you need me. 593 00:55:24,884 --> 00:55:26,514 But you won't come clean. 594 00:55:29,081 --> 00:55:30,697 But it is the truth. 595 00:55:31,698 --> 00:55:33,033 More shame on you. 596 00:55:36,018 --> 00:55:37,797 Now, listen. Listen: 597 00:55:37,917 --> 00:55:41,032 filming is about to begin and if anything happens to me 598 00:55:41,152 --> 00:55:43,522 they will call you and you will arrive. 599 00:55:44,230 --> 00:55:46,065 When he calls me and I arrive nowhere. 600 00:55:46,185 --> 00:55:48,863 - What is the matter with you? - I need your letter. 601 00:55:48,983 --> 00:55:49,937 Well! 602 00:55:50,057 --> 00:55:52,887 I thought you would offer me some respectable work. 603 00:55:53,007 --> 00:55:56,002 Or at least cut me in on a straightforward job. 604 00:55:56,233 --> 00:55:58,261 I've walked a long way to meet you. 605 00:55:58,381 --> 00:56:00,014 - Yeah... - What do I find? 606 00:56:00,134 --> 00:56:01,889 - Filth! - Filth? 607 00:56:07,006 --> 00:56:09,044 Actors... actresses... 608 00:56:11,187 --> 00:56:12,517 pimps... harlots... 609 00:56:12,637 --> 00:56:15,110 I don't want your decadence, tinsel and flesh. 610 00:56:15,286 --> 00:56:19,835 Think to themselves... yes... think they are a cut above these ordinary folk. 611 00:56:19,955 --> 00:56:23,565 You want me to paint my face and mince about, huh? Uh-uh. 612 00:56:24,457 --> 00:56:26,010 Not for me. 613 00:56:27,075 --> 00:56:29,668 Plus, my friends recognize me. 614 00:56:29,788 --> 00:56:31,439 Sit down... Oh, sit! Sit down. 615 00:56:34,337 --> 00:56:36,360 I'm sorry. No. 616 00:56:41,088 --> 00:56:42,885 If you will take my advice, 617 00:56:43,950 --> 00:56:47,146 you will get out of that business before it destroys you morally. 618 00:56:47,644 --> 00:56:48,529 Felix... 619 00:56:48,902 --> 00:56:49,977 Wait! 620 00:56:53,372 --> 00:56:55,841 Excuse me, Hermann. Your key... 621 00:57:03,568 --> 00:57:05,129 Felix, wait! 622 00:57:08,607 --> 00:57:11,199 I can see that you're a very sharp fellow. 623 00:57:12,643 --> 00:57:15,957 You know I have weightier things on my mind, don't you? 624 00:57:20,021 --> 00:57:22,745 How can I regain your confidence? Huh? 625 00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,780 I am not a film actor. 626 00:57:29,669 --> 00:57:31,712 I was driving... 627 00:57:32,122 --> 00:57:33,085 Look! 628 00:57:44,049 --> 00:57:45,783 Have you no scars? 629 00:57:46,970 --> 00:57:49,740 - No identification marks? - Why? 630 00:57:51,725 --> 00:57:54,137 - Were you in the war? - I was. 631 00:57:55,850 --> 00:57:59,583 - Weren't you wounded? - I was a kitchen corporal. 632 00:58:03,174 --> 00:58:05,939 You were lucky. I was locked away in Russia. 633 00:58:06,059 --> 00:58:09,176 - I have a German father. - Ah... you were lucky! 634 00:58:09,696 --> 00:58:11,755 I only had a Polish mother. 635 00:58:11,875 --> 00:58:13,321 A Polish mother. 636 00:58:14,797 --> 00:58:16,299 Kitchen corporal. 637 00:58:17,933 --> 00:58:20,466 Have you no scars from hot fat? 638 00:58:21,144 --> 00:58:24,007 - What? - Hot fat. 639 00:58:24,738 --> 00:58:26,676 Oh! Take it all off. 640 00:59:56,626 --> 00:59:57,854 Excuse me. 641 01:00:00,855 --> 01:00:03,207 How long has this picture been here? 642 01:00:03,672 --> 01:00:05,353 It has always been here. 643 01:00:05,649 --> 01:00:07,651 How could it have been? 644 01:00:07,771 --> 01:00:09,063 - You lie! - No... 645 01:00:09,183 --> 01:00:11,142 - You lie, you lie, you lie! - No, no... no, no... 646 01:00:16,891 --> 01:00:18,505 Look... I... 647 01:00:19,776 --> 01:00:21,290 I think I'll go. 648 01:00:21,731 --> 01:00:26,204 - Oh.. excuse me. But why? - You act funny. 649 01:00:26,324 --> 01:00:29,508 Like I've told you... I... I'm not... 650 01:00:30,227 --> 01:00:31,523 I'm not an actor. 651 01:00:31,643 --> 01:00:34,255 I'm really not an actor. My business is not acting. 652 01:00:34,375 --> 01:00:36,373 My business will not defile you. 653 01:00:36,782 --> 01:00:40,483 I have nothing to do with the cinema business. 654 01:00:43,839 --> 01:00:46,516 - Robbery? - What if it is? 655 01:00:50,639 --> 01:00:54,036 I want to perform a certain operation. 656 01:00:55,043 --> 01:00:57,794 And while I'm performing that operation, 657 01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,733 I want to be seen... 658 01:01:01,008 --> 01:01:05,397 far away from the place at exactly the same time. 659 01:01:07,004 --> 01:01:09,673 - Do you understand what I'm saying? - Is it robbery. 660 01:01:10,494 --> 01:01:12,200 Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. 661 01:01:12,470 --> 01:01:13,702 Please listen... 662 01:01:13,933 --> 01:01:16,230 You will drive my car. 663 01:01:16,487 --> 01:01:18,497 You will wear my clothes. 664 01:01:18,617 --> 01:01:21,924 And you will drive through a certain village from a certain street... 665 01:01:22,168 --> 01:01:25,829 where my fa---, ah... excuse me: our face... 666 01:01:26,086 --> 01:01:28,779 our face is recognized. 667 01:01:31,126 --> 01:01:32,294 That's all. 668 01:01:33,526 --> 01:01:36,115 And you will have 1,000 marks. 669 01:01:37,799 --> 01:01:39,262 Small notes. 670 01:01:43,655 --> 01:01:45,525 If you wish. 671 01:01:46,796 --> 01:01:51,057 And you will find them... in your pocket... 672 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,340 You will get caught with the goods. 673 01:01:56,187 --> 01:01:58,287 It'll all come out at the trial. 674 01:01:58,407 --> 01:01:59,524 You'll squeal. 675 01:02:00,356 --> 01:02:02,115 A thousand marks... 676 01:02:07,410 --> 01:02:11,209 When did you ever dream of having one hundred? 677 01:02:12,817 --> 01:02:14,651 I don't care for prison. 678 01:02:15,549 --> 01:02:16,846 The food's good... 679 01:02:17,903 --> 01:02:19,448 but the people... 680 01:02:24,004 --> 01:02:25,893 What if it's all a lie? 681 01:02:33,540 --> 01:02:37,842 Some sort of double cross? Huh? 682 01:03:21,546 --> 01:03:22,786 Madness. 683 01:04:45,638 --> 01:04:48,637 Lydia is here. The woman is very ill. 684 01:04:49,612 --> 01:04:50,575 Hermann! 685 01:04:50,883 --> 01:04:53,342 How nice of you to think of coming. 686 01:04:53,745 --> 01:04:55,971 There's something wrong with my tummy. 687 01:04:56,091 --> 01:04:59,384 It's better now, but I felt awful in the soul in there. 688 01:04:59,504 --> 01:05:03,691 You know what she is like. She always gets sick when you least expect it. 689 01:05:08,074 --> 01:05:09,357 Tell me! 690 01:05:11,231 --> 01:05:13,116 There's nothing really wrong with her. 691 01:05:13,349 --> 01:05:15,248 - Woman's imagination. - Oh! 692 01:05:15,368 --> 01:05:18,834 Aren't you going to stand up for me? Hermann, go on! Tell him! 693 01:05:18,954 --> 01:05:21,739 Do be silent! Both of you! 694 01:05:22,561 --> 01:05:26,000 I'm trying to think something out. And you're putting me off. 695 01:05:33,053 --> 01:05:37,853 Do you remember a painting you made... of two roses... 696 01:05:39,075 --> 01:05:41,115 with a briar pipe. 697 01:05:43,156 --> 01:05:45,512 There was a swastika on the back. 698 01:05:48,477 --> 01:05:49,594 Oh, please. 699 01:05:50,055 --> 01:05:52,211 I remember the swastika but the... 700 01:05:53,032 --> 01:05:55,361 two roses and the briar pipe? 701 01:05:56,321 --> 01:05:57,856 Remember! 702 01:06:03,226 --> 01:06:05,139 Have a look around if you like. 703 01:07:04,198 --> 01:07:05,852 Is that the one? 704 01:07:08,264 --> 01:07:08,945 Yes. 705 01:07:16,392 --> 01:07:19,912 My offer still stands: 35 marks. 706 01:07:21,563 --> 01:07:22,384 No... 707 01:07:23,321 --> 01:07:25,456 It's even worse than I remembered. 708 01:07:31,810 --> 01:07:33,197 Lydia! 709 01:07:38,599 --> 01:07:41,208 - Did you have a good trip? - Yes, fine. 710 01:08:00,254 --> 01:08:01,200 Yes? 711 01:08:16,701 --> 01:08:17,942 Can I help you? 712 01:08:24,394 --> 01:08:27,231 - Pushkin. - Pushkin? 713 01:08:45,363 --> 01:08:48,564 Your... Pushkin... letter. 714 01:08:56,675 --> 01:08:58,043 Thank you. 715 01:09:48,550 --> 01:09:50,409 Life Insurance "New Life" 716 01:10:00,819 --> 01:10:01,756 So... 717 01:10:22,638 --> 01:10:24,433 - Health all right? - Ah... 718 01:10:41,079 --> 01:10:45,081 - Oh! Hello. Good day! - How are you? 719 01:10:47,231 --> 01:10:49,067 How's life? More popular? 720 01:10:49,187 --> 01:10:53,926 Life is a losing proposition. Policy holders are dying like flies. 721 01:10:54,461 --> 01:10:56,580 You don't look too well yourself. 722 01:10:56,700 --> 01:10:58,284 Oh, no. I'm fine. 723 01:10:58,404 --> 01:11:01,903 I'm a... I have a little insomnia... a little bit nervous... 724 01:11:03,153 --> 01:11:04,796 To tell you the truth, 725 01:11:05,399 --> 01:11:08,268 I'm a little bit... I'm a little bit depressed today. 726 01:11:08,741 --> 01:11:10,277 What's the matter? 727 01:11:12,649 --> 01:11:16,759 I've received one of those idiotic blackmail letters. 728 01:11:17,021 --> 01:11:19,668 - It's so stupid... - Blackmail? 729 01:11:19,788 --> 01:11:23,381 Oh, yeah. Some crank's demanding money with menaces... 730 01:11:24,427 --> 01:11:26,407 Have a look at it yourself. 731 01:11:28,212 --> 01:11:31,369 It's illiterate but... uh... I think it makes its point. 732 01:11:34,132 --> 01:11:37,868 - Do you know who sent it? - Yes. He's a rogue. 733 01:11:38,347 --> 01:11:42,199 - He was in the service of my family. - Will you take it to the police? 734 01:11:42,319 --> 01:11:46,148 No... why? He's not quite right in the head. 735 01:11:46,268 --> 01:11:49,108 What's the good of putting a man like that in prison? 736 01:11:49,504 --> 01:11:53,007 - That's a very charitable attitude. - Oh, nonsense, nonsense. 737 01:11:53,127 --> 01:11:55,189 Well, I go this way. 738 01:11:55,615 --> 01:11:56,976 - Goodbye. - Goodbye. 739 01:11:57,245 --> 01:12:00,760 Please... uh... greet your wife for me. 740 01:12:03,089 --> 01:12:05,050 Yes... I will. 741 01:12:05,461 --> 01:12:06,552 But... you know... 742 01:12:07,117 --> 01:12:10,312 sometimes I do envy you your bachelor balls. 743 01:12:10,588 --> 01:12:12,104 Why so? 744 01:12:13,426 --> 01:12:18,609 I have neither priest nor doctor. I need them not at all. 745 01:12:19,324 --> 01:12:24,063 So why shouldn't I confide... in my insurance consultant? 746 01:12:25,697 --> 01:12:28,758 My married life is not very happy. 747 01:12:30,824 --> 01:12:33,006 My wife is interested in... 748 01:12:33,486 --> 01:12:34,679 someone else. 749 01:12:35,719 --> 01:12:40,258 And if anything happened to me... I fear she wouldn't grieve... 750 01:12:40,664 --> 01:12:42,659 for very long. 751 01:12:42,707 --> 01:12:45,166 Certain things I have long observed. 752 01:12:56,395 --> 01:12:58,063 I wish you better things. 753 01:13:20,380 --> 01:13:22,224 I thought you were never coming. 754 01:13:22,344 --> 01:13:24,811 If I had any money, I would've paid and left. 755 01:13:24,928 --> 01:13:25,848 Black coffee. 756 01:13:25,968 --> 01:13:27,765 - Vodka. - Two black coffees. 757 01:13:28,127 --> 01:13:29,394 A beer, please. 758 01:13:30,374 --> 01:13:33,427 Lydia and I are worried about your drinking. 759 01:13:35,076 --> 01:13:37,182 We think it affects your... 760 01:13:38,697 --> 01:13:40,044 your work. 761 01:13:41,186 --> 01:13:43,458 Never felt fitter in my life. 762 01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:46,722 Your work... You've lost your taste for it. 763 01:13:46,860 --> 01:13:49,784 And Berlin encourages your natural vulgarity. 764 01:13:49,904 --> 01:13:50,849 - May I? - Please. 765 01:13:50,969 --> 01:13:53,108 - If you've come here to lecture me... - No! 766 01:13:53,228 --> 01:13:56,044 Lydia thinks you should go to the South. 767 01:13:56,164 --> 01:13:57,078 The South? 768 01:13:57,412 --> 01:13:59,260 Did you hear that? The South? 769 01:13:59,380 --> 01:14:03,752 The South... the South... the South... the South... the South... 770 01:14:04,060 --> 01:14:05,703 Oh, Hermann! Yes! 771 01:14:05,948 --> 01:14:10,517 If only I could get money, money, money... I'd be a different man. 772 01:14:10,637 --> 01:14:13,641 There is a place in the mountains where I found my inspiration. 773 01:14:13,761 --> 01:14:14,963 Lend me 1000 marks 774 01:14:15,083 --> 01:14:18,596 and, if I don't earn it back in six months, I'm a Dutchman. 775 01:14:18,975 --> 01:14:21,194 The main thing for me is that... 776 01:14:21,592 --> 01:14:25,134 The main thing for you is to get you out of Berlin. 777 01:14:32,186 --> 01:14:33,954 Do you really mean that? 778 01:14:35,186 --> 01:14:37,291 Lydia will adore the mountains. 779 01:14:37,605 --> 01:14:40,258 Lydia and I can't come with you. 780 01:14:40,650 --> 01:14:43,145 Let her come. Just for a month. 781 01:14:44,826 --> 01:14:45,840 You see... 782 01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:50,003 She's sort of jealous of my freedom. She'll think I'm getting tight somewhere. 783 01:14:52,300 --> 01:14:53,946 What about your new leaf? 784 01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:56,964 Look... 785 01:15:00,083 --> 01:15:01,764 that's for the visa. 786 01:15:02,077 --> 01:15:05,375 If you promise to stop drinking, I'll give you the money for the ticket. 787 01:15:07,026 --> 01:15:08,612 That's a promise. 788 01:15:10,271 --> 01:15:12,278 I know that I can trust you. 789 01:15:13,048 --> 01:15:14,100 Excuse me. 790 01:15:34,384 --> 01:15:36,429 - What is it? - It's a man. 791 01:15:36,549 --> 01:15:37,615 More soap... 792 01:15:39,231 --> 01:15:40,816 A man... 793 01:15:41,658 --> 01:15:46,389 - What man? What does he want? - He says you know him. 794 01:16:10,318 --> 01:16:15,016 - What does he look like? - Sort of poor. With a shoulder bag. 795 01:16:22,066 --> 01:16:25,928 Tell him to go to hell! And I'm not at home! 796 01:16:26,314 --> 01:16:28,085 I'm not in the house. 797 01:16:28,205 --> 01:16:31,121 I'm not here! I'm not in this world! 798 01:16:37,199 --> 01:16:39,220 I don't know him. 799 01:16:42,857 --> 01:16:45,322 How dare he? 800 01:16:46,271 --> 01:16:47,773 I don't know him. 801 01:16:48,795 --> 01:16:52,939 Tell him I'm dead! Do you hear me? I'm dead! 802 01:16:53,059 --> 01:16:55,478 Mr. Hermann doesn't know you. 803 01:16:56,620 --> 01:16:58,032 No! 804 01:16:58,263 --> 01:17:00,715 No! Stop! 805 01:17:00,835 --> 01:17:02,175 Stop! 806 01:17:02,295 --> 01:17:05,189 Elsie stop! Go, please... go get him! 807 01:17:06,606 --> 01:17:08,469 Go and get him! Stop him! 808 01:17:09,851 --> 01:17:11,633 Hermann! 809 01:17:19,641 --> 01:17:21,258 Lydia... 810 01:17:23,119 --> 01:17:25,776 Have you passed me on the stairs? 811 01:17:26,419 --> 01:17:28,845 What? How could I? 812 01:17:31,926 --> 01:17:34,482 I don't mean me, I... I mean... 813 01:17:36,305 --> 01:17:37,575 Never mind. 814 01:17:37,945 --> 01:17:39,139 Don't think... 815 01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:43,131 I don't know about you and Elsie! 816 01:17:44,559 --> 01:17:47,023 I've known for months! 817 01:17:49,219 --> 01:17:51,303 Oh my God. What a stupid woman. 818 01:18:09,227 --> 01:18:12,931 - Tell him I've gone... - Changed your mind? 819 01:18:21,324 --> 01:18:22,517 Perebrodov! 820 01:18:29,952 --> 01:18:31,577 How about this one? 821 01:18:34,953 --> 01:18:37,926 - Stainless steel? - A Russian painter! 822 01:18:39,499 --> 01:18:41,540 To last a lifetime. 823 01:18:42,297 --> 01:18:43,131 6 marks. 824 01:18:45,140 --> 01:18:46,565 Two for ten. 825 01:18:48,035 --> 01:18:50,138 Two for ten! 826 01:19:00,034 --> 01:19:02,584 Two for ten. 827 01:19:11,945 --> 01:19:13,857 Just my luck! 828 01:19:58,294 --> 01:20:02,994 Lydia, I'm afraid that I've made you very anxious recently. 829 01:20:04,970 --> 01:20:07,783 Because I've not been quite myself. 830 01:20:07,903 --> 01:20:09,896 What now, Hermann? 831 01:20:10,016 --> 01:20:13,533 I was just getting to the exciting part of the story. 832 01:20:17,742 --> 01:20:20,574 I have a story, too... 833 01:20:23,907 --> 01:20:27,244 More frightening, more terrifying... 834 01:20:28,172 --> 01:20:30,973 than anything you have ever read. 835 01:20:31,859 --> 01:20:33,129 Lydia? 836 01:20:35,292 --> 01:20:37,402 Hermann, what's wrong? 837 01:20:37,871 --> 01:20:39,770 Listen to me carefully. 838 01:20:40,707 --> 01:20:45,547 Listen. You have heard me speak of a brother. 839 01:20:45,635 --> 01:20:47,162 - No. - You have. 840 01:20:47,991 --> 01:20:49,794 Yes, I think so. 841 01:20:50,067 --> 01:20:53,700 My dead brother, who I was so close to... 842 01:20:54,367 --> 01:20:57,820 so close, he was almost my second self. 843 01:21:04,175 --> 01:21:07,857 - Dead? - So I thought. 844 01:21:08,572 --> 01:21:12,867 But... you remember when I went Hamburg? 845 01:21:12,987 --> 01:21:13,920 No. 846 01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:15,306 Oh, yes. 847 01:21:16,294 --> 01:21:21,583 In a cafe in Hamburg, I met him by chance. 848 01:21:22,827 --> 01:21:27,031 Now listen very carefully. 849 01:21:36,319 --> 01:21:39,082 We'd been separated by the war. 850 01:21:39,700 --> 01:21:43,923 And believed each other to be dead. 851 01:21:46,568 --> 01:21:52,103 My Felix... with whom I've been inseparable since childhood... 852 01:21:52,629 --> 01:21:56,885 And as like as two drops of blood. 853 01:21:57,004 --> 01:22:00,585 Face to face. Alive! 854 01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:07,443 I say alive, of course, because I was to find 855 01:22:07,563 --> 01:22:10,754 that Felix was morally dead. 856 01:22:11,696 --> 01:22:15,002 This sweet-natured boy that I've known all my life... 857 01:22:15,122 --> 01:22:17,148 This sensitive boy - this musician - 858 01:22:17,268 --> 01:22:20,888 the youngest musician- the youngest violinist in the Bolshoi... 859 01:22:21,337 --> 01:22:24,674 where our mother used to dance before Emperors! 860 01:22:24,794 --> 01:22:27,112 The same boy. This same boy 861 01:22:27,740 --> 01:22:29,129 He was a cheat... 862 01:22:29,249 --> 01:22:31,319 He was ruined. Ruined! 863 01:22:32,455 --> 01:22:35,599 He was a cheat... a liar, a forger... 864 01:22:35,719 --> 01:22:40,890 God, Lydia. He was a murderer. A murderer! A poisoner. 865 01:22:41,008 --> 01:22:43,813 A poisoner of the woman who kept him! 866 01:22:43,933 --> 01:22:45,778 - Hermann! It just meant... - Shh! 867 01:22:47,518 --> 01:22:50,636 In short... in short... 868 01:22:50,983 --> 01:22:52,536 a lost cause. 869 01:22:54,435 --> 01:22:55,976 Living in hell. 870 01:22:56,276 --> 01:23:00,004 Bent on self-destruction. 871 01:23:07,425 --> 01:23:11,273 Nothing would deflect him from the path that he had chosen: 872 01:23:11,775 --> 01:23:13,875 suicide. 873 01:23:15,270 --> 01:23:16,402 No! 874 01:23:29,978 --> 01:23:31,327 Don't do it. 875 01:23:33,938 --> 01:23:35,547 I'll help you. 876 01:23:40,359 --> 01:23:43,032 Was there nothing you could do to redeem him? 877 01:23:43,567 --> 01:23:46,292 That's just the question I asked him. 878 01:23:46,959 --> 01:23:48,649 And there was! 879 01:23:48,769 --> 01:23:51,323 His soul yearned for redemption. 880 01:23:52,256 --> 01:23:55,110 "I want to make a gift of my death." 881 01:23:55,495 --> 01:23:57,189 Those were his exact words. 882 01:23:57,420 --> 01:24:00,340 He suggested a plan. I said, "No... impossible." 883 01:24:00,460 --> 01:24:02,740 He begged... he pleaded. 884 01:24:03,022 --> 01:24:05,451 He wouldn't listen to me. What could I do? 885 01:24:05,571 --> 01:24:07,522 To refuse him would be a crime. 886 01:24:07,642 --> 01:24:11,619 He is determined to die on his birthday. 887 01:24:12,389 --> 01:24:13,403 Today. 888 01:24:14,404 --> 01:24:17,391 Even the president couldn't talk him out of it. 889 01:24:18,147 --> 01:24:23,232 And so... I intend to be his executioner. 890 01:24:24,971 --> 01:24:29,188 And to take his place in life... myself. 891 01:24:36,921 --> 01:24:38,590 Isn't it a swindle? 892 01:24:40,113 --> 01:24:41,426 A swindle? 893 01:24:42,495 --> 01:24:44,667 The insurance money, Hermann. 894 01:24:46,741 --> 01:24:49,760 The insurance money is not the point. 895 01:24:50,261 --> 01:24:53,611 We have reached a higher spiritual level. 896 01:24:55,892 --> 01:24:58,228 It's much more important that my poor brother 897 01:24:58,348 --> 01:25:00,829 is not swindled out of his last chance 898 01:25:00,949 --> 01:25:03,256 to regain his self-respect. 899 01:25:04,811 --> 01:25:07,417 Will you remember everything that I've told you? 900 01:25:07,537 --> 01:25:09,191 - Yes. - Good. 901 01:25:09,744 --> 01:25:12,837 When they come to tell you that I have been murdered, 902 01:25:12,957 --> 01:25:17,217 please... please don't carry on like a Greek tragedy. 903 01:25:18,478 --> 01:25:21,021 You know what a rotten actress you are. 904 01:25:27,304 --> 01:25:29,994 Orlovius has been dropped a hint 905 01:25:30,114 --> 01:25:33,228 that you are carrying on with someone else. 906 01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:36,827 So you can moderate your grief. 907 01:25:38,008 --> 01:25:41,444 Don't you listen to that Orlovius, Hermann! 908 01:25:41,714 --> 01:25:43,113 He's a gossip! 909 01:25:44,422 --> 01:25:46,064 You don't understand. 910 01:25:48,751 --> 01:25:49,726 Yeah! 911 01:25:50,689 --> 01:25:52,755 It's all so complicated! 912 01:25:55,014 --> 01:25:56,913 Nothing is ready! 913 01:25:58,135 --> 01:26:01,470 And your evening suit! It's at the cleaner's. 914 01:26:01,571 --> 01:26:05,095 I have no desire to be cremated in my dinner jacket. 915 01:26:06,253 --> 01:26:10,488 And drive out of your head any idea of getting ready! 916 01:26:10,745 --> 01:26:12,875 You know nothing! 917 01:26:12,995 --> 01:26:16,213 I'm leaving the house in a perfectly normal way. 918 01:26:17,061 --> 01:26:21,849 When I don't return tonight, you telephone our Orlovius... 919 01:26:22,105 --> 01:26:25,397 and ask his advice. It's very simple. 920 01:26:27,622 --> 01:26:30,369 - And what about Ardalion? - Ardalion? 921 01:26:30,754 --> 01:26:34,668 What's Ardalion got to do with it? I'm talking about a human tragedy, 922 01:26:34,788 --> 01:26:37,908 - and you keep talking about Ardalion! - I'm sorry! 923 01:26:38,768 --> 01:26:40,616 - I'm dizzy! - No! 924 01:26:48,474 --> 01:26:50,246 - Hermann... - What? 925 01:26:50,454 --> 01:26:51,983 Don't go! 926 01:26:55,249 --> 01:26:59,653 - You haven't shaved. - No. Nor the day before, either. 927 01:27:14,570 --> 01:27:15,648 Please... 928 01:27:16,174 --> 01:27:20,493 Everything was so simple... 'til your brother came along! 929 01:27:20,827 --> 01:27:24,498 Let him do what he likes... without you! 930 01:27:25,024 --> 01:27:26,833 It makes no difference to him! 931 01:27:27,129 --> 01:27:29,349 If he's going to be dead anyway! 932 01:27:29,469 --> 01:27:32,614 It will make a difference to his soul. 933 01:27:34,052 --> 01:27:35,900 And now, Lydia... 934 01:27:37,055 --> 01:27:38,967 it is time. It is time. 935 01:27:40,082 --> 01:27:44,878 I will see you in two or three weeks... in Switzerland. 936 01:27:46,005 --> 01:27:50,355 All you have to do... is remember exactly what I told you. 937 01:27:50,475 --> 01:27:53,070 And try not to flirt with the coroner. 938 01:27:54,988 --> 01:27:56,156 The coroner! 939 01:27:57,632 --> 01:28:00,481 Hermann... Hermann, please! 940 01:28:01,713 --> 01:28:02,971 Please! 941 01:28:04,329 --> 01:28:05,407 Lydia... 942 01:28:06,588 --> 01:28:07,974 Lydia! 943 01:28:08,821 --> 01:28:11,324 I'm... I'm just going to work. 944 01:28:12,633 --> 01:28:16,072 It's just... any other morning. 945 01:28:16,783 --> 01:28:18,798 It's perfectly normal. 946 01:28:20,389 --> 01:28:22,430 Lydia, have a happy day. Yeah? 947 01:28:27,093 --> 01:28:28,081 No? 948 01:29:22,406 --> 01:29:23,740 My blackmailer! 949 01:29:24,433 --> 01:29:26,191 What? Don't get excited. 950 01:29:26,692 --> 01:29:29,580 Do you think you're going to get one single penny out of me? 951 01:29:29,700 --> 01:29:31,544 Not if you are going to report me to the police. 952 01:29:31,664 --> 01:29:32,932 No, no, no, no, no... 953 01:29:33,052 --> 01:29:36,450 As I've promised: 1000 marks. 954 01:29:36,732 --> 01:29:38,478 The deal is on! 955 01:29:38,598 --> 01:29:41,797 I knew it! You never took my letter seriously, did you? 956 01:29:45,891 --> 01:29:46,636 No. 957 01:29:47,906 --> 01:29:49,755 Not for a moment. 958 01:29:53,462 --> 01:29:55,271 Did you meet anyone on the road? 959 01:29:55,391 --> 01:29:56,786 Only a cart, 960 01:29:58,026 --> 01:30:00,217 and I hid in the ditch like you told me. 961 01:30:03,661 --> 01:30:06,502 - Good. - I know. 962 01:30:10,497 --> 01:30:11,780 Now, Felix... 963 01:30:11,900 --> 01:30:17,107 the great moment has arrived. You have to change your clothes. 964 01:30:18,389 --> 01:30:22,047 You'll stay here all day... you can sleep the night in the car. 965 01:30:22,278 --> 01:30:25,499 And tomorrow, you can go through the village... 966 01:30:25,619 --> 01:30:27,243 driving through all the streets. 967 01:30:28,114 --> 01:30:30,773 I will give you all the instructions. 968 01:30:30,893 --> 01:30:34,276 But first of all, is your appearance. 969 01:31:31,577 --> 01:31:34,906 A bourgeois capitalist from top to toe. 970 01:31:35,133 --> 01:31:35,810 Ah! 971 01:31:35,930 --> 01:31:38,176 I've forgotten the yellow gloves. 972 01:31:51,958 --> 01:31:54,091 What else have I forgotten? 973 01:31:55,477 --> 01:31:57,286 Let me see you from the back. 974 01:32:15,483 --> 01:32:17,292 Take a few steps. 975 01:32:32,303 --> 01:32:33,638 Now, Hermann. 976 01:32:37,531 --> 01:32:38,876 Thank you. 977 01:32:46,322 --> 01:32:47,798 Elsie? 978 01:32:53,047 --> 01:32:55,152 Are you Mrs. Hermann? 979 01:32:56,782 --> 01:32:58,348 I'm Inspector Schelling. 980 01:32:59,133 --> 01:33:02,818 - Is there any news of Hermann? - Grave news. 981 01:33:03,726 --> 01:33:08,065 - We found him, murdered. - Elsie! Water! 982 01:33:09,128 --> 01:33:10,457 I'm sorry. 983 01:33:15,358 --> 01:33:16,637 Oh my God! 984 01:33:18,074 --> 01:33:19,358 What happened? 985 01:33:19,693 --> 01:33:22,241 We haven't put all the pieces together yet. 986 01:33:23,416 --> 01:33:25,413 He met somebody by arrangement. 987 01:33:26,235 --> 01:33:27,865 Perhaps there was a quarrel. 988 01:33:29,013 --> 01:33:31,110 He was shot at close range. 989 01:33:37,692 --> 01:33:40,523 Hermann didn't have an enemy in the world. 990 01:33:40,643 --> 01:33:43,365 Please, Ardy. Give me the brandy that you prepared. 991 01:33:43,485 --> 01:33:45,787 Ardy is my cousin, you know. 992 01:33:59,326 --> 01:34:03,138 Excuse me, Mr. Orlovius. Do you have a moment for me? 993 01:34:04,088 --> 01:34:08,745 - I have one more question. - Yes, of course. 994 01:34:31,324 --> 01:34:34,337 You said something about a blackmailing letter, didn't you? 995 01:34:35,166 --> 01:34:40,169 Yes. It was a threatening letter. I could see he was worried by it. 996 01:34:41,099 --> 01:34:42,813 I quite understand. 997 01:34:43,064 --> 01:34:46,443 Murdered by person or persons unknown. 998 01:34:52,860 --> 01:34:57,188 I realize money can be no compensation for his loss. 999 01:35:04,663 --> 01:35:06,755 Will you stay in Berlin? 1000 01:35:08,726 --> 01:35:10,372 I don't think so. 1001 01:35:11,553 --> 01:35:13,696 There are too many memories. 1002 01:35:19,180 --> 01:35:21,217 Hermann! 1003 01:35:38,443 --> 01:35:40,132 My name is Felix Weber. 1004 01:35:40,902 --> 01:35:43,828 I come from Zwickau. A bachelor. 1005 01:35:55,242 --> 01:36:00,762 I'm very fond of... sparrows, squirrels, moles... 1006 01:36:01,702 --> 01:36:04,392 Philosophy is an invention of the rich. 1007 01:36:05,226 --> 01:36:06,616 How do you do? 1008 01:36:08,092 --> 01:36:09,466 Come here! 1009 01:36:26,820 --> 01:36:28,419 Elsie! 1010 01:36:37,135 --> 01:36:38,571 Inspector Brun. 1011 01:36:39,765 --> 01:36:42,280 Someone from the police to see you! 1012 01:36:45,325 --> 01:36:48,699 Mrs. Hermann? Is your husband at home? 1013 01:36:50,197 --> 01:36:52,610 Don't tell me something dreadful has happened to him! 1014 01:37:03,398 --> 01:37:06,499 I had a premonition about this, Inspector! 1015 01:37:11,054 --> 01:37:12,569 We are not sure... 1016 01:37:13,031 --> 01:37:14,755 The body of a man has been found. 1017 01:37:16,047 --> 01:37:17,222 Murdered. 1018 01:37:18,268 --> 01:37:20,430 My poor Hermann! 1019 01:37:35,034 --> 01:37:37,803 The man, he was wearing your husband's clothes. 1020 01:37:40,242 --> 01:37:43,211 He had papers belonging to your husband. 1021 01:37:50,577 --> 01:37:52,810 This is your husband's passport, isn't it? 1022 01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:06,642 Of course. 1023 01:38:09,108 --> 01:38:11,316 But the victim is not in fact.... 1024 01:38:12,766 --> 01:38:14,460 this man in the photograph. 1025 01:38:14,858 --> 01:38:18,684 For heaven's sake! Who looks like his passport photograph? 1026 01:38:24,314 --> 01:38:26,470 It must be Hermann. 1027 01:38:27,728 --> 01:38:30,050 What are you talking about? 1028 01:38:30,559 --> 01:38:32,356 There is no resemblance. 1029 01:38:33,485 --> 01:38:35,275 He is a different man. 1030 01:38:35,684 --> 01:38:37,263 No resemblance? 1031 01:38:38,517 --> 01:38:39,612 Not much. 1032 01:38:42,315 --> 01:38:45,665 Tell me. Is your husband ill at all? 1033 01:38:46,498 --> 01:38:47,422 Ill? 1034 01:38:48,590 --> 01:38:51,157 He's dead... He is dead! 1035 01:38:51,670 --> 01:38:53,249 He's dead! 1036 01:39:34,839 --> 01:39:36,914 I'm expecting a message. 1037 01:39:37,453 --> 01:39:38,736 Is there one? 1038 01:39:39,231 --> 01:39:42,901 I'm so sorry, Mr. Weber. No message has arrived yet. 1039 01:39:43,021 --> 01:39:43,979 Jean? 1040 01:39:45,288 --> 01:39:47,953 How about lunch instead of the message? 1041 01:39:48,651 --> 01:39:50,423 We had a good fish today. 1042 01:39:52,220 --> 01:39:54,325 I'm glad you've read your Schiller. 1043 01:40:51,619 --> 01:40:55,306 These people... are my family. 1044 01:40:56,423 --> 01:40:59,306 - You must understand. - Right. 1045 01:41:00,137 --> 01:41:04,116 My... husband... made it possible... 1046 01:41:06,372 --> 01:41:08,388 for my dreams... 1047 01:41:09,542 --> 01:41:11,068 to come true? 1048 01:41:13,277 --> 01:41:15,196 I knew he... 1049 01:41:16,980 --> 01:41:18,572 he was going to die... 1050 01:41:19,650 --> 01:41:21,344 when we married. 1051 01:41:21,871 --> 01:41:22,817 Just so. 1052 01:41:23,459 --> 01:41:24,627 How tragic! 1053 01:41:28,902 --> 01:41:30,224 Poor stuff! 1054 01:41:33,222 --> 01:41:34,518 Some more. 1055 01:41:35,365 --> 01:41:37,061 And two lumps. 1056 01:41:37,895 --> 01:41:40,706 What do you think, Mr. Weber? Hmm? 1057 01:41:41,245 --> 01:41:42,977 The murder mystery. 1058 01:41:45,857 --> 01:41:49,617 Oh, I'm afraid I gave up reading those a long, long time ago. 1059 01:41:50,511 --> 01:41:52,072 Over the years... 1060 01:41:52,192 --> 01:41:56,025 Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, Edgar Wallace. So childish! 1061 01:41:56,145 --> 01:41:58,323 All that worrying about clues and alibis, 1062 01:41:58,443 --> 01:42:01,153 Polishing the brasses. Pocketing the wine glass. 1063 01:42:01,273 --> 01:42:03,621 The so-called perfect murder! 1064 01:42:04,455 --> 01:42:06,329 Oh, dear me! No, no, no, no, no... 1065 01:42:07,638 --> 01:42:08,697 Poor stuff! 1066 01:42:08,817 --> 01:42:13,333 Well, uh... What would be the perfect murder, then? 1067 01:42:15,356 --> 01:42:17,204 The perfect murder, Herr Doctor? 1068 01:42:17,730 --> 01:42:20,044 Yeah, the perfect murder. 1069 01:42:20,312 --> 01:42:22,405 The perfect murder... 1070 01:42:23,564 --> 01:42:24,501 Well... 1071 01:42:25,823 --> 01:42:28,518 the perfect murder would be the one... 1072 01:42:29,968 --> 01:42:31,636 which had never happened, 1073 01:42:32,054 --> 01:42:34,832 but which was committed. 1074 01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:39,311 The murder which deceives itself. 1075 01:42:39,431 --> 01:42:40,814 Deceives itself. 1076 01:42:41,399 --> 01:42:43,774 Yeah... of course, it's beyond attainment. 1077 01:42:44,813 --> 01:42:49,745 No, no, no. The perfect murder would be the one in which... 1078 01:42:51,298 --> 01:42:53,270 the victim did it! 1079 01:42:56,788 --> 01:42:57,714 Yeah. 1080 01:42:58,548 --> 01:42:59,677 You see? 1081 01:43:12,254 --> 01:43:15,579 I happen to be something of the philosopher. 1082 01:43:19,718 --> 01:43:22,732 - Which author were you discussing? - Not an author. 1083 01:43:22,963 --> 01:43:26,019 This case in the paper. Your part of the world. 1084 01:43:26,263 --> 01:43:27,161 Hmm? 1085 01:43:27,585 --> 01:43:28,765 Odd case. 1086 01:43:29,554 --> 01:43:33,033 The monster insured his life and then took another's. 1087 01:43:33,153 --> 01:43:34,650 Took another's? 1088 01:43:34,770 --> 01:43:37,640 Surely, you mean the victim's life was insured. 1089 01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:39,475 No! The murderer's. 1090 01:43:40,168 --> 01:43:43,783 It doesn't make sense. He dressed up someone in his suit and then shot him. 1091 01:43:46,900 --> 01:43:48,569 How did they know? 1092 01:43:53,839 --> 01:43:56,132 - How did they know? - Know? 1093 01:43:56,252 --> 01:44:00,407 Yes! That the victim was not the man he was dressed up to be? 1094 01:44:00,976 --> 01:44:05,046 For, presumably, there must have been some kind of a... a resemblance? 1095 01:44:05,616 --> 01:44:07,484 It doesn't mention one. 1096 01:44:08,793 --> 01:44:10,436 Well... look for yourself. 1097 01:44:14,343 --> 01:44:16,552 He must be off his head. 1098 01:44:28,293 --> 01:44:30,988 - Anything new? - No. 1099 01:44:31,912 --> 01:44:33,837 No news. Not yet. 1100 01:44:38,385 --> 01:44:43,437 If we knew... who the dead man was... 1101 01:44:44,618 --> 01:44:48,101 I think we would find your husband quickly enough. 1102 01:44:52,121 --> 01:44:54,468 I told you. It was his brother. 1103 01:44:55,278 --> 01:44:57,983 Your husband had no brother. 1104 01:44:59,977 --> 01:45:01,941 Or was he in the habit of lying to you? 1105 01:45:03,455 --> 01:45:05,445 How would I know? 1106 01:45:07,257 --> 01:45:08,720 Did this stick... 1107 01:45:09,311 --> 01:45:10,967 belong to your husband? 1108 01:45:28,864 --> 01:45:31,364 Ah... they've found a clue. 1109 01:45:35,878 --> 01:45:38,473 A clue! Fantastic. 1110 01:45:40,052 --> 01:45:41,900 They already know the murderer. 1111 01:45:42,970 --> 01:45:44,985 But they won't find him. 1112 01:45:46,641 --> 01:45:49,092 They don't know who the victim is. 1113 01:45:52,245 --> 01:45:53,901 Don't you see that? 1114 01:45:57,738 --> 01:46:01,291 That's a clue to the victim's identity. 1115 01:46:07,137 --> 01:46:09,555 Rubbish! Rubbish! 1116 01:46:10,581 --> 01:46:13,533 It's lies. All's lies! 1117 01:46:14,444 --> 01:46:15,831 Lies! 1118 01:46:20,965 --> 01:46:22,028 Look here... 1119 01:46:24,107 --> 01:46:25,493 you stop doing this. 1120 01:46:27,048 --> 01:46:28,712 Do you understand? 1121 01:46:30,789 --> 01:46:32,003 Please... 1122 01:47:18,282 --> 01:47:21,701 I came here for the peace and quiet. 1123 01:47:26,299 --> 01:47:27,781 For my nerves. 1124 01:47:32,295 --> 01:47:34,301 And this obsession... 1125 01:47:35,943 --> 01:47:37,304 with murder... 1126 01:47:48,236 --> 01:47:50,148 I can't stay here. 1127 01:48:09,851 --> 01:48:12,378 You will find it very quiet here. 1128 01:48:18,916 --> 01:48:19,981 Good. 1129 01:48:21,701 --> 01:48:23,228 Just what I wanted 1130 01:48:25,464 --> 01:48:26,920 Your passport? 1131 01:48:44,078 --> 01:48:46,329 What instrument do you play? 1132 01:48:47,889 --> 01:48:49,570 Instrument? 1133 01:48:50,353 --> 01:48:51,374 Oh, yeah... 1134 01:48:51,494 --> 01:48:52,298 Cello. 1135 01:48:53,318 --> 01:48:55,025 Cello. I'm a cellist. 1136 01:48:58,964 --> 01:49:01,919 I suppose you have all the ...newspapers here? 1137 01:49:02,404 --> 01:49:06,723 - Of course! - All bluff! All lies! 1138 01:49:08,509 --> 01:49:09,887 Bluff. 1139 01:49:23,129 --> 01:49:24,485 Lies. 1140 01:50:35,303 --> 01:50:36,690 Hello? 1141 01:50:55,761 --> 01:50:58,296 - Sir? - Have you a free room? 1142 01:50:58,416 --> 01:51:01,301 - Yes. - Perfect... perfect! 1143 01:51:02,162 --> 01:51:05,773 A remote abode of work and pure delight. 1144 01:51:08,500 --> 01:51:10,566 - I'm a musician. - Oh. 1145 01:51:10,951 --> 01:51:15,112 Last year, we had actors. A film company was here. 1146 01:51:15,747 --> 01:51:17,749 Even my little bird was killed. 1147 01:51:18,404 --> 01:51:21,292 His name was Heliogabal. 1148 01:51:22,591 --> 01:51:24,357 Sad. So Sad. 1149 01:51:30,699 --> 01:51:31,748 My key? 1150 01:51:33,212 --> 01:51:36,498 We all had parts. The whole village. 1151 01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:40,553 We all were villagers. 1152 01:51:41,054 --> 01:51:42,979 - Here's your key. - Thank you. 1153 01:51:43,301 --> 01:51:45,033 No, no, no. You have to go out there: 1154 01:51:45,153 --> 01:51:47,344 around the corner and up the stairs. 1155 01:51:47,703 --> 01:51:50,024 Your room is the first on the left. 1156 01:51:53,989 --> 01:51:56,127 The first on the left. 1157 01:53:15,417 --> 01:53:17,095 But... 1158 01:54:42,654 --> 01:54:43,999 Yes, it's him. 1159 01:55:38,332 --> 01:55:41,575 - Come. - Hermann Hermann? 1160 01:55:42,959 --> 01:55:44,403 Yes. 1161 01:55:51,909 --> 01:55:53,377 No. 1162 01:56:49,443 --> 01:56:51,124 How childish... 1163 01:56:55,413 --> 01:56:57,074 Poor people. 1164 01:56:58,986 --> 01:57:01,039 We are making a film here. 1165 01:57:04,771 --> 01:57:06,773 In a minute... 1166 01:57:08,210 --> 01:57:10,020 I will be coming out. 1167 01:57:12,273 --> 01:57:16,738 But you must keep the ...policemen back... 1168 01:57:19,199 --> 01:57:21,568 so that I can get away. 1169 01:57:26,453 --> 01:57:28,694 I am a film actor. 1170 01:57:32,626 --> 01:57:34,692 I'm coming out. 1171 01:57:38,606 --> 01:57:42,665 Don't... look... at the camera. 1172 01:57:48,424 --> 01:57:50,393 I'm coming out. 1173 02:01:23,386 --> 02:01:24,875 subtitles: depositio 1174 02:01:25,000 --> 02:01:28,121 Best watched using Open Subtitles MKV Player 84029

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