1 00:00:00,772 --> 00:00:03,842 We broadcast "Violanta" as part of our retrospective 2 00:00:03,962 --> 00:00:06,632 dedicated to films by Swiss director Daniel Schmid. 3 00:00:06,752 --> 00:00:12,035 It's a film he shot in 1976, featuring the great stars of European cinema: 4 00:00:12,155 --> 00:00:17,305 Maria Schneider, Lucia Bos�, G�rard Depardieu, Michel Simon and others. 5 00:00:17,892 --> 00:00:20,943 Daniel Schmid wrote the screenplay for this film 6 00:00:21,063 --> 00:00:22,664 together with Wolf Wondratschek. 7 00:00:22,784 --> 00:00:25,015 The music has been composed by Peer Raben, 8 00:00:25,135 --> 00:00:28,681 the composer who was responsable for most of Fassbinder's films. 9 00:00:29,185 --> 00:00:32,255 "Violanta" was shot in the Palazzo Salis, 10 00:00:32,375 --> 00:00:34,869 an exuberant middle-class house from the 18th century, 11 00:00:35,167 --> 00:00:37,746 which has meanwhile been carefully renovated 12 00:00:37,866 --> 00:00:40,273 and still looks authentic today. 13 00:00:40,393 --> 00:00:42,921 This Palazzo Salis is located in Soglio, 14 00:00:43,041 --> 00:00:47,342 a small village in the Bergell, the narrow Swiss valley that borders Italy, 15 00:00:47,462 --> 00:00:51,254 a valley in which Daniel Schmid spent a major part of his youth. 16 00:00:52,034 --> 00:00:55,385 Ernst Burgm�ller returned to this valley together with the director, 17 00:00:55,665 --> 00:00:58,332 on search for traces of the past. 18 00:00:58,452 --> 00:01:02,199 The following report, which we'll show you as an introduction to "Violante", 19 00:01:02,319 --> 00:01:05,585 was made in that very Palazzo Salis in Soglio. 20 00:01:10,778 --> 00:01:15,866 Here's an intersection of North and South, an absolute one. 21 00:01:16,427 --> 00:01:20,954 The valley descends in three steps, 22 00:01:21,442 --> 00:01:24,126 not quickly enough, as Rilke said, 23 00:01:24,246 --> 00:01:26,674 to get to the South, the sea. 24 00:01:27,042 --> 00:01:29,744 There are three steps from Maloja. 25 00:01:29,864 --> 00:01:34,923 And that's where that South-Northern intersection is situated. 26 00:01:36,503 --> 00:01:39,422 Polar lights and Mediterranean. 27 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:42,804 It's unique. Well, I'm marred. 28 00:01:43,253 --> 00:01:44,811 I grew up there. 29 00:01:45,745 --> 00:01:52,473 DANIEL SCHMID 'VIOLANTA' the judge and the Palazzo Salis 30 00:01:53,470 --> 00:01:56,539 a report by Ernst Buchm�ller 31 00:01:56,659 --> 00:01:58,419 Since my early childhood this house has been 32 00:01:58,539 --> 00:02:01,395 - my mother came from the village below - 33 00:02:01,515 --> 00:02:04,679 a place of magic for me, 34 00:02:06,167 --> 00:02:09,620 a place of fantasy, 35 00:02:09,858 --> 00:02:11,991 of tales and imaginations. 36 00:02:12,594 --> 00:02:16,103 And then came the name. 37 00:02:17,903 --> 00:02:21,482 And the name, which was strange, I didn't know, 38 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:25,496 while this house was being renovated, 39 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:28,556 they found, only after the film had been made, 40 00:02:28,912 --> 00:02:32,378 a portrait painting of a woman called Violanta. 41 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:18,318 Film means timing, you know, 42 00:03:18,599 --> 00:03:20,577 it's not just the art of acting. 43 00:03:20,836 --> 00:03:23,587 Timing is heriditary, you possess it. 44 00:03:24,527 --> 00:03:28,162 You can learn it, but you somehow need to possess it. 45 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:33,959 If you tell ten people: You go from here to there, and then you go up there, 46 00:03:34,858 --> 00:03:39,307 you approach the window and open it, then you get down again and leave, 47 00:03:40,528 --> 00:03:43,925 when you do that with a hundred people, it'll be of no interest with 90 of them. 48 00:03:44,851 --> 00:03:48,079 Or with 98. There are two people with which it becomes interesting. 49 00:03:48,501 --> 00:03:50,087 You don't know why. 50 00:03:50,207 --> 00:03:53,890 It' just the way someone naturally arranges the space. 51 00:03:55,715 --> 00:03:57,413 The way one deals with a space. 52 00:03:58,265 --> 00:04:03,177 And if one can repeat it, then it's obviously twice as great. 53 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:25,804 'Violanta' is the story of a homecoming. 54 00:04:26,295 --> 00:04:28,386 Someone returns on the occasion of a festivity, 55 00:04:28,506 --> 00:04:29,816 a marriage, 56 00:04:30,096 --> 00:04:34,784 disturbing erstwhile agreements and setting a ball rolling 57 00:04:35,345 --> 00:04:38,237 between silent people. 58 00:04:38,767 --> 00:04:41,489 And suddenly a past appears, 59 00:04:42,528 --> 00:04:44,086 ghosts appear, 60 00:04:44,844 --> 00:04:46,725 phantoms appear, 61 00:04:47,885 --> 00:04:50,411 and they start intermingling. 62 00:04:50,777 --> 00:04:55,057 'Violanta' is a film with a doppelganger theme, if you like, 63 00:04:55,928 --> 00:04:58,117 it centers on a strong woman 64 00:04:58,735 --> 00:05:00,391 who reigns over a valley 65 00:05:01,088 --> 00:05:02,955 and 66 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:05,734 whose story is being unfolded. 67 00:05:15,970 --> 00:05:19,030 The film 'Violanta' is based on the novella 'The Judge' 68 00:05:19,150 --> 00:05:21,682 by the Swiss writer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, 69 00:05:21,802 --> 00:05:26,227 a novella that also fascinated the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. 70 00:05:27,056 --> 00:05:31,112 Freud mentioned it early on in his writings and lectures. 71 00:05:31,834 --> 00:05:34,613 He referred to it as a prime example 72 00:05:35,076 --> 00:05:37,266 of a pathological novella. 73 00:05:37,546 --> 00:05:42,403 Not psychological or psychologized, but pathological. 74 00:05:42,901 --> 00:05:47,856 It's the story of individuals which are all connected in the wrong ways. 75 00:05:48,347 --> 00:05:51,519 Wrongly projected, the inverted pairs. 76 00:05:51,818 --> 00:05:53,797 And it continues, just like a curse. 77 00:05:55,356 --> 00:05:58,121 They're under a spell, fascinated, 78 00:05:58,570 --> 00:06:00,605 fascinated by themselves, 79 00:06:00,725 --> 00:06:03,159 but structures and curses 80 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,689 always tend to catch up with them. 81 00:06:09,349 --> 00:06:10,907 Malediction. 82 00:06:41,266 --> 00:06:45,139 The curtains are like veils or like shadows. 83 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,618 Like reflections. Like mirrors. 84 00:06:51,443 --> 00:06:53,492 This causes a prism. 85 00:06:53,612 --> 00:06:55,681 It's the kind of distance that I need. 86 00:06:56,002 --> 00:06:57,546 I really need that. 87 00:06:57,897 --> 00:07:00,521 I can't ever tell stories 88 00:07:00,774 --> 00:07:02,374 at the place where they took place. 89 00:07:02,494 --> 00:07:07,007 I always need to have a veil, a tulle. 90 00:07:07,779 --> 00:07:12,691 A piece that filters. 91 00:07:13,884 --> 00:07:15,498 I need to dissemble. 92 00:07:16,692 --> 00:07:23,507 It's beautiful if one manages to make it one's own. 93 00:07:23,844 --> 00:07:26,132 If one tries that. It's an attempt. 94 00:07:26,623 --> 00:07:30,103 It's not perfect. A film is never perfect. It's never finished. 95 00:07:39,244 --> 00:07:40,605 Donna Violanta, 96 00:07:41,377 --> 00:07:43,342 your letter confronts me with a problem. 97 00:07:44,998 --> 00:07:49,054 Do you in fact want me to leave Venice and return to the valley? 98 00:07:49,441 --> 00:07:52,304 As you can see, I didn't consider such a step. 99 00:07:52,809 --> 00:07:54,479 At least not yet. 100 00:07:55,813 --> 00:07:59,293 Since the day you took over the position of my mother, 101 00:08:00,233 --> 00:08:03,672 thinking about a return is unbearable for me. 102 00:08:04,332 --> 00:08:07,054 But I have a sister that I don't know. 103 00:08:08,079 --> 00:08:10,844 The daughter you received from my father. 104 00:08:11,311 --> 00:08:13,725 Since Laura is getting married, 105 00:08:14,104 --> 00:08:15,914 I decided to come over for a couple of days. 106 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:19,578 In the mountains life is always full of surprises. 107 00:08:20,321 --> 00:08:21,613 Yours, Silver. 108 00:11:26,948 --> 00:11:29,993 Teresa! Close the damned door! 109 00:11:42,977 --> 00:11:46,934 Can't you hear? I told you to close the damned door! 110 00:11:47,054 --> 00:11:49,068 Stop shouting! I'm not deaf! 111 00:11:49,822 --> 00:11:51,563 You bawl as if you wanted to wake up the dead. 112 00:11:52,601 --> 00:11:54,356 Should the guests remain outside? 113 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,191 Please! 114 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,433 Here! 115 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:14,679 Sit down beside the window! 116 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:18,230 Come on! 117 00:12:24,966 --> 00:12:29,037 Poor boy! You almost freezed to death! 118 00:12:41,025 --> 00:12:44,056 Do you want to eat or drink something? 119 00:12:44,660 --> 00:12:47,678 - Yes. - A bottle of our best drink for you! 120 00:12:49,244 --> 00:12:52,384 If strength is entirely without clemency, 121 00:12:52,735 --> 00:12:54,893 then it can't be called strength. 122 00:12:55,322 --> 00:12:58,059 And if clemency lacks strength, 123 00:12:58,179 --> 00:13:00,269 then it can't be called clemency. 124 00:13:07,404 --> 00:13:09,597 Just like the bride. Tomorrow. 125 00:13:26,137 --> 00:13:29,049 Everything that is just, he never mistreated her. 126 00:13:29,540 --> 00:13:32,891 I didn't say that. I'm just saying she controls everything. 127 00:13:33,902 --> 00:13:36,446 She controls everything that happens in her house. 128 00:13:37,288 --> 00:13:40,804 Not just in her house, but in the entire valley. 129 00:13:42,909 --> 00:13:44,558 Given her wealth. 130 00:13:46,175 --> 00:13:48,298 She needs to secure her interests. 131 00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:53,018 No person ever had as much power over this valley as that woman. 132 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,965 But it's good that way. 133 00:13:56,855 --> 00:14:00,697 Because blood no longer flows since she reigns over the valley. 134 00:14:01,136 --> 00:14:04,890 Only the water of the wild stream flows today. She's just. 135 00:14:13,016 --> 00:14:17,209 What's this damned racked? If you won't stop at once, I'll throw you out! 136 00:14:19,011 --> 00:14:22,695 Stop it! Sit down! Take your instruments! Understood? 137 00:14:26,116 --> 00:14:28,099 Here you are! For you to warm up again! 138 00:14:29,384 --> 00:14:31,349 And now! Music! 139 00:14:31,469 --> 00:14:32,893 Music! 140 00:15:15,626 --> 00:15:18,896 Tomorrow will be a great day for the valley. 141 00:15:20,749 --> 00:15:22,138 I know. 142 00:15:37,306 --> 00:15:38,794 Do you know Violanta? 143 00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:43,416 Ever since her husband died, she has been the judge in this valley. 144 00:15:44,174 --> 00:15:45,549 Violanta! 145 00:15:46,546 --> 00:15:47,921 She's very beautiful. 146 00:15:48,665 --> 00:15:50,349 Despite her age. 147 00:15:51,038 --> 00:15:52,497 She's still very beautiful. 148 00:15:56,694 --> 00:15:59,459 Do you know the bride? Laura. 149 00:16:05,961 --> 00:16:07,281 Will you stay for tonight? 150 00:16:09,933 --> 00:16:11,660 I got a nice room for you. 151 00:16:17,891 --> 00:16:21,330 If you like, I'll bring you the food. 152 00:17:17,810 --> 00:17:19,676 What's the matter with her? 153 00:17:21,108 --> 00:17:25,290 Nothing. She has always been like that, as far as I can remember. 154 00:17:25,410 --> 00:17:27,011 It must be the harvest moon. 155 00:17:37,578 --> 00:17:39,655 I saw him arrive. 156 00:19:02,906 --> 00:19:04,198 Alma! 157 00:19:07,819 --> 00:19:09,727 Alma, what's the matter with you? Say! 158 00:19:15,062 --> 00:19:18,219 Did you never have the feeling to slowly go mad? 159 00:19:20,134 --> 00:19:21,481 Gradually. 160 00:19:22,870 --> 00:19:24,176 Little by little. 161 00:19:26,196 --> 00:19:28,021 Almost without noticing it. 162 00:19:34,313 --> 00:19:35,871 I don't understand you. 163 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:38,425 I kept it a secret. 164 00:19:39,380 --> 00:19:41,471 A deadly silence. 165 00:19:44,008 --> 00:19:48,176 I never stopped writing about you. For more than fifteen years. 166 00:19:50,478 --> 00:19:54,212 Now the moment has arrived. The payment is due. 167 00:19:55,571 --> 00:19:58,813 - Which payment? - My husband. Back then... 168 00:20:00,778 --> 00:20:02,967 I poisoned him after the wedding day. 169 00:20:05,488 --> 00:20:07,621 But noone except me knows about that. 170 00:20:09,909 --> 00:20:12,618 I never said anything because of my son. 171 00:20:14,746 --> 00:20:17,637 His life would have been a living hell if he had known 172 00:20:18,901 --> 00:20:20,893 that his mother is a murderess. 173 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:26,318 But now... 174 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:28,928 Now he has become a man. 175 00:20:29,518 --> 00:20:31,412 He has left. 176 00:20:33,105 --> 00:20:34,593 It was his son. 177 00:20:38,138 --> 00:20:39,345 No. 178 00:20:41,942 --> 00:20:44,201 You know that I loved another man. 179 00:21:02,639 --> 00:21:04,547 How could I forget that? 180 00:21:04,898 --> 00:21:06,667 It was a man from the mountains. 181 00:21:06,947 --> 00:21:08,281 He drowned in the lake. 182 00:21:09,974 --> 00:21:11,896 Who gave you the poison for your husband. 183 00:21:16,528 --> 00:21:17,777 Adrian. 184 00:21:21,612 --> 00:21:26,244 Yes, he disappeared in the mountains right after that. 185 00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:28,041 That's what they say. 186 00:21:29,490 --> 00:21:31,020 He showed me where 187 00:21:32,156 --> 00:21:34,051 he had found the roots. 188 00:21:37,027 --> 00:21:38,781 Why did you poison him? 189 00:21:40,872 --> 00:21:42,682 My husband... 190 00:21:44,311 --> 00:21:46,528 I didn't love him. 191 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:49,742 He was forced upon me. 192 00:21:51,747 --> 00:21:52,884 You know that 193 00:21:54,175 --> 00:21:57,178 everything your father decided was a law over here. 194 00:22:01,543 --> 00:22:03,059 What do you want from me? 195 00:22:13,528 --> 00:22:15,521 I can't take it anymore. 196 00:22:16,419 --> 00:22:18,664 Violanta, I can't live like that. 197 00:22:19,647 --> 00:22:20,826 What should I do? 198 00:22:23,524 --> 00:22:25,686 You're the one who decides in the valley. 199 00:22:26,935 --> 00:22:28,900 I can't judge you. 200 00:22:32,688 --> 00:22:34,064 Why can't you? 201 00:22:35,033 --> 00:22:36,885 You're the judge. 202 00:22:38,381 --> 00:22:41,553 Do you want to watch the people from the valley judging me? 203 00:22:46,185 --> 00:22:47,841 Let the dead rest in peace. 204 00:22:48,162 --> 00:22:49,538 You must live on. 205 00:22:49,959 --> 00:22:51,278 I can't judge you. 206 00:23:05,752 --> 00:23:07,759 Noone dies just because you want it. 207 00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:10,372 You did what had to be done. 208 00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:12,646 It's what was written. 209 00:23:14,737 --> 00:23:16,716 What was written? 210 00:23:19,472 --> 00:23:21,114 Now it's too late. 211 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,991 It's impossible to judge you now. 212 00:23:25,198 --> 00:23:26,798 Time extinguished it. 213 00:23:38,076 --> 00:23:40,041 No, nothing. 214 00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:42,394 Nothing is extinguished. 215 00:23:43,335 --> 00:23:45,229 You need to live on, Alma. 216 00:23:46,029 --> 00:23:47,868 There is no other judgement. 217 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:55,416 Andr�! 218 00:24:02,059 --> 00:24:03,392 Take her away! 219 00:24:03,813 --> 00:24:04,978 Calm her down! 220 00:28:09,289 --> 00:28:10,397 Violanta! 221 00:28:38,334 --> 00:28:40,187 - Help me! - For God's sake! 222 00:28:40,307 --> 00:28:42,418 - Hurry up! Quickly! - What a misfortune! 223 00:28:43,303 --> 00:28:44,973 How is that possible? 224 00:32:08,618 --> 00:32:10,247 Let me see how you look like! 225 00:32:11,608 --> 00:32:12,969 Where is he, Mum? 226 00:32:13,513 --> 00:32:15,681 He'll surely be here soon. You know it brings bad luck 227 00:32:15,801 --> 00:32:18,201 if the groom sees his bride before the wedding. 228 00:32:18,622 --> 00:32:20,026 I'm not talking about the groom. 229 00:32:22,595 --> 00:32:23,998 - Silver? - Yes. 230 00:32:24,447 --> 00:32:26,103 I await him impatiently. 231 00:32:26,342 --> 00:32:27,984 Did he answer your letter? 232 00:32:28,939 --> 00:32:30,314 He has arrived. 233 00:32:31,647 --> 00:32:33,261 My brother! 234 00:32:35,044 --> 00:32:36,546 You'll wait here! 235 00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:21,537 It's true what people say... 236 00:34:23,949 --> 00:34:26,728 They didn't exaggerate. You're still a beautiful woman. 237 00:34:29,029 --> 00:34:31,317 And you grew up and became a man. 238 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,434 Much time has passed, Silver 239 00:34:40,548 --> 00:34:42,478 No, in fact it didn't. 240 00:34:44,804 --> 00:34:46,962 Here it's unlike other places. 241 00:34:47,629 --> 00:34:49,840 I never stopped thinking about this house. 242 00:34:50,717 --> 00:34:53,559 Perhaps you were just dreaming that you once lost it. 243 00:34:53,962 --> 00:34:56,506 And now you're dreaming that you return. 244 00:34:57,741 --> 00:35:01,548 No, I wouldn't have never returned if not for... 245 00:35:29,591 --> 00:35:33,363 If you're sister didn't get married. It't true, the two of you never met. 246 00:35:34,310 --> 00:35:36,749 You're weren't born yet when he left back then. 247 00:35:38,683 --> 00:35:42,454 How beautiful he has become! They will make a nice couple. 248 00:35:43,314 --> 00:35:46,683 Shup your mouth! She's his sister! 249 00:35:47,542 --> 00:35:49,700 Come on! I want to introduce you! 250 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:55,412 There they are! The sister and the brother! The brother and the sister! 251 00:36:26,157 --> 00:36:30,069 - How are the girls in Venice? - They are... 252 00:36:32,244 --> 00:36:34,332 ...Italian. 253 00:36:35,111 --> 00:36:38,163 And are they irresitible? 254 00:36:40,188 --> 00:36:41,767 I can't say for sure. 255 00:36:43,083 --> 00:36:46,083 I didn't have that many opportunities. I don't know much about them. 256 00:36:48,205 --> 00:36:49,942 They're very fancy. 257 00:36:51,109 --> 00:36:53,565 Didn't you ever attend one of those festivities? 258 00:36:54,881 --> 00:36:56,776 Only if my friend urged me. 259 00:36:58,197 --> 00:37:01,179 Laura, leave us alone! 260 00:37:12,699 --> 00:37:15,611 The two of you are very much alike. Aren't you? 261 00:37:22,321 --> 00:37:25,373 - No, we are different. - Please go, Laura. 262 00:37:43,987 --> 00:37:47,461 I suppose that you want to talk to me, like everyone else. Isn't that right? 263 00:37:48,198 --> 00:37:50,970 I'm not like everyone else here. 264 00:38:05,307 --> 00:38:09,500 You say things that you shouldn't be saying. But I like that about you. 265 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,271 Tell me what you hold against me, Silver! 266 00:38:15,165 --> 00:38:18,551 You replaced my mother. It's because of you that she lost her mind. 267 00:38:18,671 --> 00:38:22,411 She went crazy. Like many other women in this region. 268 00:38:27,441 --> 00:38:29,984 I wasn't able to help her. 269 00:38:31,616 --> 00:38:35,792 - But you were the mistress. - I was just a girl. 270 00:38:37,271 --> 00:38:39,938 The men gambled for me and I lost. 271 00:38:42,236 --> 00:38:44,376 I didn't want your father. 272 00:38:44,745 --> 00:38:47,499 I loved someone else and they killed kim. 273 00:38:49,255 --> 00:38:52,624 Your father took me and I had to accept it. 274 00:38:54,466 --> 00:38:56,905 And now you've also become a man. 275 00:38:57,431 --> 00:38:59,694 The dead ones return. 276 00:39:00,869 --> 00:39:03,308 No. Not if they are really dead. 277 00:39:04,066 --> 00:39:06,487 They're only dead if one forgets about them. 278 00:39:08,715 --> 00:39:10,451 You're fancy. 279 00:39:10,837 --> 00:39:14,223 You speak just like the young women in Venice. 280 00:39:16,006 --> 00:39:18,112 What's the name of the bridegroom? 281 00:39:21,498 --> 00:39:25,620 His name is David. He's a very sensitive man. 282 00:39:27,987 --> 00:39:30,286 I ask you to protect Laura. 283 00:39:30,977 --> 00:39:34,626 I didn't want to give Laura to one of those harsh men like your father. 284 00:39:35,310 --> 00:39:38,731 They disdain the law. They destroy themselves. 285 00:39:39,956 --> 00:39:43,710 There's not even a single household in this valley that isn't bloodstained. 286 00:40:03,511 --> 00:40:07,195 - Who's that? - She comes from the mountains. 287 00:40:12,380 --> 00:40:17,274 - What are your plans for her? - I'll decide after the marriage. 288 00:40:22,721 --> 00:40:25,405 She doesn't look like a woman from the mountains. 289 00:42:09,147 --> 00:42:10,638 Laura? 290 00:42:42,964 --> 00:42:45,104 You can leave, Andr�. 291 00:42:48,876 --> 00:42:50,455 I will stay here. 292 00:42:51,846 --> 00:42:53,407 Don't be afraid! 293 00:42:55,372 --> 00:42:58,898 Where would you go? Not even the priest can help you. 294 00:43:00,530 --> 00:43:02,126 Helping me! 295 00:43:04,932 --> 00:43:07,213 Who can stop a landslide? 296 00:43:08,072 --> 00:43:09,862 Or an earthquake! 297 00:43:11,616 --> 00:43:13,441 Or a thunderstorm! 298 00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:16,915 I don't want your help! 299 00:43:17,399 --> 00:43:18,943 Noone can help me! 300 00:43:21,592 --> 00:43:25,803 You... you're like a saint. 301 00:43:26,364 --> 00:43:28,820 And you're so wise. 302 00:43:34,672 --> 00:43:38,041 But you're going to listen to me. I'm going to force you. 303 00:43:40,146 --> 00:43:41,742 All of you! 304 00:43:47,481 --> 00:43:48,902 Sit down! 305 00:43:59,396 --> 00:44:01,572 Now it's too late, Alma. 306 00:44:01,958 --> 00:44:04,098 To much time has gone by. 307 00:44:04,975 --> 00:44:07,326 Noone can hold you responsible for it anymore. 308 00:44:08,244 --> 00:44:10,928 You must think about your son. Even if he's grown up now. 309 00:44:12,304 --> 00:44:16,340 It's as it is. Even if you didn't love the one who was your husband. 310 00:44:18,111 --> 00:44:22,585 It doesn't mean anything. Afterall, we are the only ones who know about it. 311 00:44:24,384 --> 00:44:29,419 Laura and Silver would make a nice couple, right? 312 00:44:30,332 --> 00:44:34,384 Both of them being together is mysterious. 313 00:44:34,938 --> 00:44:36,254 Wonderful. 314 00:44:38,307 --> 00:44:40,342 Yes, she loves him. 315 00:44:43,043 --> 00:44:45,412 And she wants him all for herself. 316 00:44:45,532 --> 00:44:49,569 She wants to know everything about him. She's even jealous of Venice. 317 00:44:50,902 --> 00:44:52,867 Laura wants to seduce him. 318 00:44:54,429 --> 00:44:56,481 But he resists. 319 00:44:57,787 --> 00:45:01,366 I saw them leave together. They want to go to David. 320 00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:04,138 Together? 321 00:45:07,050 --> 00:45:10,752 Why do you look at me like that? It pains you, right? 322 00:45:11,871 --> 00:45:13,941 Memories are of no use. 323 00:45:14,256 --> 00:45:16,397 As are confessions. 324 00:45:19,081 --> 00:45:21,239 Shout! Shout it out! 325 00:45:21,818 --> 00:45:23,941 Noone will listen to you. 326 00:45:30,629 --> 00:45:31,927 Love, Alma. 327 00:45:32,612 --> 00:45:34,840 Attend tomorrow's wedding and forget about it! 328 00:47:29,850 --> 00:47:32,131 You see, everythings melts away. 329 00:47:38,121 --> 00:47:40,717 You always win, Fortunat. 330 00:47:44,875 --> 00:47:46,770 Now we double the stakes! 331 00:47:48,415 --> 00:47:51,450 You got nothing left to stake. It's over. 332 00:47:54,730 --> 00:47:57,222 Everything you had is lost. 333 00:47:59,959 --> 00:48:03,327 The fields, the forests, the house. 334 00:48:04,959 --> 00:48:07,871 You got nothing left. 335 00:48:12,834 --> 00:48:15,062 Simon, there's nothing left you own. 336 00:48:18,904 --> 00:48:20,781 Then the stake is life itself! 337 00:48:22,374 --> 00:48:25,638 If I should lose, you kill me! 338 00:48:26,673 --> 00:48:33,129 But if I should win, you'll have to give me your sister! 339 00:48:34,311 --> 00:48:35,592 Violanta! 340 00:48:35,712 --> 00:48:37,451 Agreed! 341 00:48:37,750 --> 00:48:40,258 If you beat me, she's yours! 342 00:48:55,048 --> 00:48:56,995 But if you lose, 343 00:48:59,311 --> 00:49:00,873 Simon, 344 00:49:14,447 --> 00:49:17,710 I'll kill you. 345 00:49:25,661 --> 00:49:27,644 You know that. 346 00:49:32,837 --> 00:49:34,749 They play dice with you as the stake, Violanta! 347 00:49:38,522 --> 00:49:41,031 - If Simon... - Don't, Adrian! 348 00:49:44,610 --> 00:49:46,013 Adrian! 349 00:49:47,224 --> 00:49:48,417 Embrace me! 350 00:49:50,939 --> 00:49:52,694 Hold me tight! 351 00:49:54,536 --> 00:49:56,571 Your brother has gone crazy, Violanta! 352 00:49:57,536 --> 00:49:59,378 Kiss me, Adrian! 353 00:50:29,721 --> 00:50:31,405 Go and get her! 354 00:50:41,674 --> 00:50:43,516 As agreed, Simon! 355 00:52:22,543 --> 00:52:24,034 You pig! 356 00:53:10,826 --> 00:53:12,036 Do you love him? 357 00:53:13,984 --> 00:53:15,668 Who? David? 358 00:53:17,317 --> 00:53:18,896 Have you known him for long? 359 00:53:28,586 --> 00:53:30,183 Which way do we ride? 360 00:53:38,410 --> 00:53:40,866 This path leads to the fields. 361 00:53:42,059 --> 00:53:43,989 And there's the lake. 362 00:53:44,463 --> 00:53:45,726 You still know that? 363 00:53:47,822 --> 00:53:50,786 Well then! Let's ride! 364 00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:00,492 At night the mountains talk. 365 00:56:01,246 --> 00:56:05,299 The lake is enchanted, people get lost and don't find their way back. 366 00:56:09,232 --> 00:56:11,127 I've been promised to David. 367 00:56:20,618 --> 00:56:22,442 Now I want to wake up. 368 00:56:23,459 --> 00:56:25,073 Shake me! 369 00:56:30,722 --> 00:56:33,792 There's no awakening for the two of us. 370 00:56:59,064 --> 00:57:00,537 Did they take the horses? 371 00:57:00,853 --> 00:57:02,941 I don't know. The horses aren't in the stable. 372 00:57:20,151 --> 00:57:21,782 The thunderstorm is getting closer. 373 00:57:21,902 --> 00:57:23,414 Everything will get destroyed. 374 00:57:27,282 --> 00:57:29,300 Nothing will get destroyed. 375 00:57:32,405 --> 00:57:34,703 There they are! It must be them! 376 00:57:45,174 --> 00:57:46,841 Where are they? 377 00:57:52,437 --> 00:57:53,771 Where is Laura? 378 00:57:56,192 --> 00:57:57,525 Laura? 379 00:57:58,192 --> 00:57:59,999 She wanted to visit you. 380 00:58:00,683 --> 00:58:02,262 She still hasn't returned. 381 00:58:03,428 --> 00:58:04,919 Did she leave alone? 382 00:58:05,761 --> 00:58:07,393 Her brother accompanied her. 383 00:58:10,217 --> 00:58:12,568 But I... I would have seen her! 384 00:58:13,744 --> 00:58:15,393 Go and look for her! You will bring her back! 385 00:58:15,740 --> 00:58:18,547 The two of you accompany him! And you will light the candles! 386 00:58:22,740 --> 00:58:25,442 Alma, you have to light the candles! Get busy! 387 00:58:27,495 --> 00:58:29,284 Laura is happy now! 388 00:58:38,446 --> 00:58:40,464 Who are we? 389 00:58:41,244 --> 00:58:43,297 You and me, my brother! 390 00:59:32,358 --> 00:59:34,428 I can't live without you! 391 01:00:20,002 --> 01:00:23,090 My husband expulsed me. 392 01:00:23,581 --> 01:00:26,160 He fell in love with that girl. 393 01:00:27,137 --> 01:00:28,874 Violanta! 394 01:00:32,874 --> 01:00:35,751 But shortly after that he died. 395 01:00:39,264 --> 01:00:41,527 I have a son who lives in Venice. 396 01:00:42,509 --> 01:00:44,264 His name is Silver. 397 01:00:46,632 --> 01:00:49,702 But I haven't seen him for many years. 398 01:00:53,639 --> 01:00:56,095 Do you know Violanta? 399 01:00:57,814 --> 01:00:59,393 Mother! 400 01:01:28,091 --> 01:01:32,319 Since she has gone mad, she asks everyone about her son Silver. 401 01:01:40,336 --> 01:01:42,231 I'm Arthur. 402 01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:45,705 I knew Violanta. 403 01:01:46,953 --> 01:01:48,795 What's her secret? 404 01:01:53,932 --> 01:01:56,984 She remains alive. That's her secret. 405 01:02:12,258 --> 01:02:15,433 You have to try your luck if you're a real man. 406 01:02:15,553 --> 01:02:18,455 - Violanta! - You can have a verdict for three shots! 407 01:02:20,381 --> 01:02:23,171 You can get your sister if you hit the target. 408 01:02:23,943 --> 01:02:25,592 Where's the target? 409 01:02:30,951 --> 01:02:32,442 You don't need one! 410 01:02:36,424 --> 01:02:38,477 Shoot at me! 411 01:02:39,652 --> 01:02:41,477 You got lots of time! 412 01:03:21,593 --> 01:03:23,699 Slack! 413 01:03:24,050 --> 01:03:29,330 Here someone is interested in you. A strange fellow with a peculiar taste! 414 01:03:53,593 --> 01:03:56,874 You're a foreigner here! 415 01:03:57,154 --> 01:04:00,242 - Come here! - Laura, what are you doing here? 416 01:04:03,034 --> 01:04:05,052 Don't be a coward! 417 01:04:06,701 --> 01:04:10,122 Come on, touch me! Why do you hesitate? 418 01:04:10,999 --> 01:04:12,982 What are you afraid of? 419 01:04:16,651 --> 01:04:18,195 Don't you want to have fun? 420 01:04:22,939 --> 01:04:24,525 You don't like me! 421 01:04:42,639 --> 01:04:44,379 You have to kill her! 422 01:04:46,394 --> 01:04:48,232 And you? Who are you? 423 01:04:51,025 --> 01:04:52,710 Me? 424 01:04:53,776 --> 01:04:55,376 I'm Alma. 425 01:04:56,903 --> 01:05:00,425 I'm Violanta's shadow. 426 01:05:03,822 --> 01:05:06,208 I killed my husband. 427 01:05:07,431 --> 01:05:09,353 Well, a long time ago. 428 01:05:11,515 --> 01:05:13,143 And you? 429 01:05:14,097 --> 01:05:15,585 What's your crime? 430 01:05:16,257 --> 01:05:17,829 I love my sister Laura! 431 01:05:20,384 --> 01:05:22,012 You're one of us. 432 01:05:23,275 --> 01:05:24,594 Well then... 433 01:05:24,714 --> 01:05:27,219 From now on you'll have to live on with that burden. 434 01:05:30,732 --> 01:05:32,501 Oh, kill her! 435 01:05:50,121 --> 01:05:52,128 I came back. 436 01:06:00,361 --> 01:06:03,575 And now, ladies and gentlemen, have a good look! 437 01:06:04,361 --> 01:06:07,238 What a gruesome spectacle around a poor woman. 438 01:06:07,929 --> 01:06:12,041 For the past 100 years she got beheaded each evening. 439 01:06:12,518 --> 01:06:14,511 Each time at the same hour. 440 01:06:14,933 --> 01:06:19,662 Because she had seen something that she shouldn't have seen. 441 01:06:59,528 --> 01:07:00,819 Do you try to run away from me? 442 01:07:01,675 --> 01:07:03,724 I'm not trying to run away from you! 443 01:07:05,914 --> 01:07:07,556 You're just like the others! 444 01:07:07,995 --> 01:07:09,370 You're like them. 445 01:07:10,521 --> 01:07:12,430 You're all crazy. 446 01:07:36,174 --> 01:07:38,013 Look! There he is! 447 01:07:50,133 --> 01:07:51,453 Take her! 448 01:08:59,684 --> 01:09:01,031 My brother! 449 01:09:03,352 --> 01:09:04,559 Rain! 450 01:09:15,945 --> 01:09:17,644 You'll be happy! 451 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:22,668 I just was with Laura. 452 01:10:23,216 --> 01:10:24,409 She fantasizes. 453 01:10:25,447 --> 01:10:27,973 She talked about the thunderstorm surprising you. 454 01:10:28,444 --> 01:10:30,129 And about you saving her. 455 01:10:31,658 --> 01:10:33,188 She's feeling better now. 456 01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:46,148 You came to settle a score, right? 457 01:10:48,970 --> 01:10:51,567 To settle it with me. 458 01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:57,949 You think there are some secrets to be found here. 459 01:11:00,721 --> 01:11:04,247 Did you see your mother? She doesn't know who she is. 460 01:11:10,625 --> 01:11:12,309 And your father. 461 01:11:20,591 --> 01:11:22,030 Do you love her? 462 01:11:25,012 --> 01:11:26,696 I wanted to kill her. 463 01:11:28,047 --> 01:11:29,451 She's your sister. 464 01:11:29,571 --> 01:11:31,626 My sister? What do I care? 465 01:11:32,100 --> 01:11:34,980 It's against nature. And against the law. 466 01:11:36,699 --> 01:11:39,208 Nature. Law. 467 01:11:40,085 --> 01:11:43,226 Those are things that are meaningless. Just like everything else. 468 01:11:46,385 --> 01:11:48,736 Those are tales for fools. 469 01:11:52,806 --> 01:11:54,771 I'm my own man. 470 01:11:55,157 --> 01:11:57,455 I want to live my own life. 471 01:12:05,390 --> 01:12:07,548 The two of you don't know each other. You don't know anything about each other. 472 01:12:08,039 --> 01:12:10,110 You didn't ever meet throughout your lives. 473 01:12:11,802 --> 01:12:13,924 I love her anyhow. 474 01:12:17,047 --> 01:12:18,661 But that's ridiculous. 475 01:12:19,012 --> 01:12:21,819 You love her, because you search for yourself inside her. 476 01:12:22,696 --> 01:12:25,819 - That's not true. - Narcissism. 477 01:12:26,415 --> 01:12:27,959 No. 478 01:12:29,152 --> 01:12:30,941 You'll leave after the wedding. 479 01:12:31,537 --> 01:12:35,555 You'll leave with your inheritance, but never with your sister. 480 01:12:41,688 --> 01:12:43,583 Tell me... 481 01:12:45,776 --> 01:12:48,320 How can a human being live without feelings? 482 01:12:50,285 --> 01:12:52,250 Without love? 483 01:12:55,019 --> 01:12:56,686 Without a soul? 484 01:12:58,090 --> 01:13:00,581 You talk just like Alma. 485 01:13:00,862 --> 01:13:03,037 But you're not crazy. 486 01:13:03,844 --> 01:13:05,704 In Venice you'll forget about all this. 487 01:13:08,831 --> 01:13:10,568 You think about life, 488 01:13:11,357 --> 01:13:12,954 but you're not living it. 489 01:13:14,954 --> 01:13:16,463 Just like all cowards. 490 01:13:17,586 --> 01:13:19,481 You're a romantic. 491 01:13:21,095 --> 01:13:23,288 I saw them. 492 01:13:24,674 --> 01:13:26,972 The dead awakened. 493 01:13:32,982 --> 01:13:35,035 Let the dead rest in peace. 494 01:13:38,368 --> 01:13:39,789 Let them wait. 495 01:14:29,167 --> 01:14:30,535 Adrian! 496 01:14:42,111 --> 01:14:44,128 For how long haven't you been here? 497 01:14:45,883 --> 01:14:48,444 I assumed that you had found peace. 498 01:14:50,549 --> 01:14:51,917 How meaningless! 499 01:14:53,110 --> 01:14:55,847 A dead man dreaming about life at night. 500 01:14:56,408 --> 01:14:58,286 That's not possible, Adrian. 501 01:14:59,900 --> 01:15:02,040 One needs a lot of time in order to die. 502 01:15:02,995 --> 01:15:04,942 Look out of the window! 503 01:15:05,062 --> 01:15:07,240 You can see nothing but tormented shadows. 504 01:15:08,100 --> 01:15:09,538 What are you saying? 505 01:15:10,609 --> 01:15:13,416 People need to prepare tomorrow's wedding. 506 01:15:13,959 --> 01:15:17,590 Your brother killed me while I lay in your arms. 507 01:15:18,484 --> 01:15:20,765 He pushed me into the abyss. 508 01:15:30,273 --> 01:15:32,588 What do you want, Adrian? 509 01:15:40,413 --> 01:15:42,571 You were so young back then, Violanta. 510 01:15:43,059 --> 01:15:44,849 You were a real beauty. 511 01:15:45,375 --> 01:15:47,603 With eyes like hazelnuts. 512 01:15:48,726 --> 01:15:50,884 You were afraid of even touching me. 513 01:15:52,305 --> 01:15:53,778 We loved each other. 514 01:15:54,059 --> 01:15:56,761 We drank the water of the lake together. 515 01:15:57,571 --> 01:16:00,220 But you were a coward, just like the other men. 516 01:16:00,974 --> 01:16:03,342 My brother intimidated you like he did with them. 517 01:16:04,939 --> 01:16:07,009 My God, how much I loved you! 518 01:16:07,799 --> 01:16:09,535 I wanted to run away with you. 519 01:16:09,900 --> 01:16:12,321 No matter where. Far away from the valley. 520 01:16:13,584 --> 01:16:15,935 But you were afraid of me. 521 01:16:16,935 --> 01:16:18,637 That's not true. 522 01:16:22,385 --> 01:16:24,227 Leave her alone! 523 01:16:24,859 --> 01:16:26,315 Don't look at her! 524 01:16:26,911 --> 01:16:28,859 You got nothing to do with her. 525 01:16:30,455 --> 01:16:32,016 I know. 526 01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,104 You don't know anything. 527 01:16:36,847 --> 01:16:38,479 Like Simon. 528 01:16:39,847 --> 01:16:41,654 Ghosts. 529 01:16:43,724 --> 01:16:47,093 Lies, Violanta. Nothing but lies. 530 01:19:20,141 --> 01:19:21,474 As cold as a stone! 531 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,755 There you are! 532 01:19:26,498 --> 01:19:30,235 Simon! Still the same! 533 01:19:32,709 --> 01:19:34,639 I'm still alive. 534 01:19:37,367 --> 01:19:41,595 You weren't as lucky as you thought when you gambled for me. 535 01:19:43,928 --> 01:19:47,209 You didn't win me. You won my hate. 536 01:19:50,158 --> 01:19:53,088 You were very proud of yourself. Right, Simon? 537 01:19:55,062 --> 01:19:59,097 When you lead me through the valley to the curch, you pranced like a peacock. 538 01:20:04,642 --> 01:20:09,694 And while Adrian's dead body rooted in the depths, 539 01:20:11,256 --> 01:20:14,344 you came by to collect your prize. 540 01:20:16,849 --> 01:20:20,042 You thought that you could tame me like a horse. 541 01:20:21,007 --> 01:20:23,025 But you didn't succeed. 542 01:20:25,183 --> 01:20:27,200 Your anger, your lust 543 01:20:27,814 --> 01:20:30,200 didn't tame the hate. 544 01:20:36,135 --> 01:20:38,346 I loved Adrian. 545 01:20:46,411 --> 01:20:48,498 Look what he gave me! 546 01:20:48,779 --> 01:20:50,586 It was his wedding gift. 547 01:20:53,832 --> 01:20:57,112 I put it inside your wine. And then I also drank it. 548 01:20:58,845 --> 01:21:02,810 And I also took this. Antivenom. 549 01:21:04,214 --> 01:21:06,898 Adrian knew everything about herbs. 550 01:21:07,547 --> 01:21:09,319 That saved me. 551 01:21:12,016 --> 01:21:16,069 But you gulped it greedily. And you died like a pig. 552 01:21:18,297 --> 01:21:20,332 I cried in front of everyone. 553 01:21:22,550 --> 01:21:27,252 The only thing I cared about at that moment was my child. 554 01:21:28,480 --> 01:21:32,322 Adrian's child. Laura. 555 01:21:35,616 --> 01:21:40,476 Die! Die! Slip under the stones and stay there forever! 556 01:22:05,495 --> 01:22:08,794 You're barefoot, Laura. You�re going to catch a cold! 557 01:22:11,074 --> 01:22:13,408 Don't say anything! 558 01:22:24,285 --> 01:22:26,197 The tower bells toll. 559 01:22:28,285 --> 01:22:30,373 It's all just a dream. 560 01:22:31,145 --> 01:22:32,846 Just a dream. 561 01:22:34,811 --> 01:22:36,390 Look at me! 562 01:22:37,359 --> 01:22:39,464 I heard you talk. 563 01:22:40,482 --> 01:22:44,113 Nothing. It was nothing. 564 01:22:45,254 --> 01:22:46,990 It was just a dream. 565 01:22:51,362 --> 01:22:54,380 Silver... Silver is not my brother. 566 01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:56,678 You killed his father. 567 01:22:57,204 --> 01:22:59,397 You're dreaming. 568 01:23:01,582 --> 01:23:03,705 I woke up and followed you. 569 01:23:05,494 --> 01:23:10,530 - And I heard... - No. No, you just imagined it. 570 01:23:11,038 --> 01:23:14,933 It was all just a dream, Laura. Nothing else. 571 01:23:18,831 --> 01:23:20,796 And what is that? 572 01:23:46,566 --> 01:23:50,847 I want you to remain pure and innocent. I want you to become happy. 573 01:23:55,947 --> 01:23:59,123 I don't want to involve you in our nightmares. 574 01:24:02,544 --> 01:24:05,263 A life brimfull of lies. 575 01:24:06,386 --> 01:24:08,386 Just like me. 576 01:24:14,698 --> 01:24:16,698 Now you know it. 577 01:24:17,628 --> 01:24:19,680 We're accomplices. 578 01:24:26,379 --> 01:24:28,239 And does Silver know about it? 579 01:24:29,081 --> 01:24:31,414 No. You won't tell him. 580 01:24:35,300 --> 01:24:38,072 The mistress of this valley is a murderess. 581 01:24:39,142 --> 01:24:43,055 If people were to learn about the truth, there would be no more order or justice. 582 01:24:44,669 --> 01:24:47,055 You hold the entire responsibility. 583 01:24:48,589 --> 01:24:52,466 You're going to replace me. You and David. 584 01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:59,537 Let's go! 585 01:25:00,291 --> 01:25:02,414 Tomorrow will be your wedding day. 586 01:26:10,627 --> 01:26:13,294 Now Alma has completely lost her mind.