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PART ll
ONCE UPON A TlME l WAS
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There's only one way
to deal with a Prussian:
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Tread on his toes
till he understands us.
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There's only one way
to deal with a Prussian:
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Tread on his toes
till he understands us.
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Where are the pussies?
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He means the women
in the famous gallery of beauties.
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Who was that?
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Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia
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in the summer of 1871.
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Rhythm,
everybody's got to dance to it...
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Save me from these old women
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with their cream cakes and moneybags.
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l have belonged
to youth and revolution since 1848.
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l succeeded against the philistines,
with my own theatre
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and 6-hour performances,
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in forming
a 19th century musical underground.
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Only when
Niki de St. Phalle, Jim Dine,
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Werner Schroeter,
Magdalena Montezuma
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and Ernst Fuchs produce the ''The Ring''
will l be free again.
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And though it be my last wish,
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may you see flying
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over your empire
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from rock to sea,
your eagle.
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May has come,
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the trees are in leaf.
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Whether there or here
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you're feeling very queer
from morning till night...
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l,
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Karl May,
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have just heard from Winnetou
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that in Buffalo Bill's western show
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Sitting Bull
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was accidentally shot dead
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while the public roared with laughter.
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Thanks to your specialised knowledge
of Wagner's works
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you know of the unfortunate capabilities
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of your people.
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You have lovely eyes.
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You have lovely eyes.
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lf only they could
come together soon.
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He does not love me.
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What a lovely pair.
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Fresh water from Bavaria.
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lt's a rare thing.
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She will hand me
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the glass on my last journey
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when all have abandoned me.
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You write out the treaty of Bavaria's
incorporation into the German Empire.
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His Majesty is so busy.
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Oh, unhappy strife
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that turns Germany's will
against Germany itself.
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He is too honest.
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What do treaties mean
when there is no choice?
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Who does he have? Who?
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Marshal! Bismarck! Annex me.
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Photo please,
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with embrace.
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Just like Hanover, Hesse etc.
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What will you pay?.
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lf you're going to do it,
do it right.
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And now for the proclamation:
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No more politics from now on.
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l can't hear it anymore!
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l won't see anyone
unless...
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it is my bidding.
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l'll bequeath all my castles and lakes,
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after the violent death
l shall choose for myself,
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to the Bavarian national trust
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so that the poorly endowed
Office of Historical Monuments
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can finish the other tasks
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with the income
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from my castles,
3 million a year,
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which l
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now
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intend to build for 31 million
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for the world and all of my friends.
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They'll help to keep up
the other extravagant buildings
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of my Wittelsbach relatives,
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with their success with the public.
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That's his death sentence.
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They'll never forgive him that.
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MADAME BULYOWSKl REMEMBERS
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MADAME BULYOWSKl REMEMBERS
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What was he really like?
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When l was in my dressing room
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after a private performance for the King,
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all alone...
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a lackey came in and brought me a necklace
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of diamonds and sapphires.
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l thanked him,
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but he said
l had to thank the King in writing.
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l was tired
so l said that l would,
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but he insisted l do it right away.
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So l sat down
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and, as usual,
the lackey dictated my thanks.
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Whether the King knew?.
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Honestly,
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he was the most grateful spectator
l've ever had.
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All sensuousness,
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ideals,
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sensibility,
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not a movement throughout.
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That's what makes art a divine service,
makes the artist a priest,
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and the stage a pulpit.
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But l couldn't concentrate
before the empty auditorium.
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The contact between
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audience and artist was missing;
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the electric spark that
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ignites in the presence
of a very large audience
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and springs
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over to a very large audience
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igniting the final strength.
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And then l asked myself
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if he actually existed.
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Whether this
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isn't our own invention,
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created with a business sense
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for our own glory.
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That's all l can say about me,
if you ask me about Ludwig.
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HOW TWO HlSTORlCAL PHOTOS
OF LUDWlG AND KAlNZ CAME ABOUT
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HOW TWO HlSTORlCAL PHOTOS
OF LUDWlG AND KAlNZ CAME ABOUT
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You were snoring, Kainz.
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Melchtal's speech again, please.
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l'm tired.
- Just once more,
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as a favour to me.
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l, the King, order you.
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Go and get stuffed.
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All right then.
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PRAYER OF A FAlRY-TALE KlNG
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PRAYER OF A FAlRY-TALE KlNG
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Sacred oath
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sworn on New Year's Eve, 1873.
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ln the name of the King l swear.
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l swear and pledge
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by the sacred,
pure seal of the royal lily,
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that within the impenetrable,
invulnerable balustrades
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that enclose the King's bed,
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in the course of the year
which has just begun, as far as possible
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to resist all temptation.
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And as far as it is possible,
to never give in,
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neither in words or actions,
not even in thought,
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and in this way
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cleanse myself of all imperfections
inherent in human nature
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and thus make myself
worthier of the crown
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God has endowed me with.
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l should get out of the habit
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as much as possible.
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Never again lower my hands,
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at least not before June 3rd.
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Last embraces,
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happily without kisses.
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ln the name of the great King,
for the last time, Richard,
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definitely for the last time,
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l will neither give in to sin or weaken,
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God will help me.
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Amen.
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SLAUGHTERlNG THE KlNG
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SLAUGHTERlNG THE KlNG
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l,
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Johannes Lutz,
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son of a village schoolmaster,
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owe everything to the King.
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l am his official
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and should have said years ago:
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Majesty,
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now stop,
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we've got no more money.
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There will be an accident
if you keep this up.
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But l didn't say it
because it wasn't in my interest.
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Now it gets dangerous.
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lf l tender my resignation and he accepts,
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l'll be thrown out
and the opposition will get in.
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Now l've got to act.
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The King will have to go,
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if Luitpold lets me act,
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and he will let me act
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if l help to make him regent.
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So let's slaughter the King
for his time has come.
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But who shall do the deed?
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Not even Bismarck
knows the answer.
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The monarchy is in danger.
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We mustn't hesitate to use the Press.
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The intellectuals must act too.
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We'll have to arrest him.
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l'm afraid there'll be some dirty washing.
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l'm a scientist
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and we need facts.
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The monarchy is in danger
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and the monarchy's all we have.
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lt is our livelihood.
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lf l'm questioned about the King,
l'll report everything to him.
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Then we'd better
talk about the weather.
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Lakai Hesselschwert,
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King's orders; leave for London at once
to borrow money from Rothschild
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whatever the cost.
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lmpossible. l've been trying
to borrow from the King of Naples,
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whatever the cost,
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by order of the King.
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WE ARE THE PEOPLE'S CONSClENCE
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WE ARE THE PEOPLE'S CONSClENCE
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What has really happened?
The truth, of course, is out of the question.
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Now nothing about homosexuality,
masturbation, drugs,
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teeth falling out or brutality?.
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Our readers don't want that.
Fine, we understand.
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Just report
about his money squandering,
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we will do the rest.
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So, exclusively for you,
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4.5 million is the civil list,
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debts 1884: 7.5 million.
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One year later, 14 million.
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Now in 1886 he's asking for 20 million
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partly from houses of monarchy
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or by burglary if necessary.
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All for castles in which
he and his lackeys reign.
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We have no access.
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He lives alone
in a world full of servants
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and extravagant expenses.
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And what do we expect of him?
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Not to build any more castles?
No more private performances
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at the opera?
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No more paying for Wagner or Bayreuth?
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ls he to move to the city?.
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Shall he live alone in the royal court?
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ls he to leave the mountains?
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You're talking about our King!
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Ludwig lives
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for us,
just as we have to live.
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He lives a fairy-tale life for us.
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He is our luxury.
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He's just different.
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He is our King!
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Our King!
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Do you want to kill what's best in us?
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Do you want to force him
to be like everyone else?
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As we have to live...
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Without him
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our happiness is lost.
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We are the people's conscience.
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The principle of monarchy
must not be violated.
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Ludwig despises dogs,
dislikes children,
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or Hamlet,
loves swans and peacocks.
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Peacocks.
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Think of the East,
foreign workers, Turks.
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He gave an opera singer costly jewellery
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and didn't even sleep with her.
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Are there any documents
on how Bavaria joined the Empire?
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After all,
it affects the happiness of every citizen.
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What percentage are you getting?
- 30,000 a year from
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the Guelph fortune.
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Let's focus
on how he handles his lackeys,
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subjects, taxpayers.
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He rules the country
with a court of lackeys.
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The nobility is powerless.
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So is the Royal Family, the Church.
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Crazy.
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He sent a lackey riding on a donkey through
the village with a sign round his neck:
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''l am the King.''
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Oh well,
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if only he was an artist.
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His successor, Prince Luitpold,
is the best republic.
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ls that enough?
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WAGNER lS DEAD
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WAGNER lS DEAD
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TO DROWN, TO SlNK UNCONSClOUS,
lNEFFABLE DELlGHT!
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Those were his uncle's coronation robes.
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King Otto of Bavaria.
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What's the time?
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lt's early, Your Majesty,
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time for supper.
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lt's nightfall already.
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Did you see him?
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He's wearing a mask
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because he once saw me
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in my socks,
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holding my shoes in my hand.
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He'll betray me
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with notes from my waste basket.
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l can't live without him.
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He's made himself indispensable.
That's a crime against the King!
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Spit on Rutz three times
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because he was base enough
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to look at me,
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to point at me!
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So you really saw animals?
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Yes?
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Frogs?
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lt's night
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and everybody deceives me.
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Kick that Haussler,
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pull his ears,
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bang his head on the wall,
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tie his hands behind his back,
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and three days without food.
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Cabinet Secretary Ziegler
requests an audience.
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That social-democratic nonsense
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in England and America
should be stopped.
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Didn't you hear something?
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Noises?
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l warn you, Hesselschwert!
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Again,
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disgrace!
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Well at last Rutz's ears should be pulled!
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Cabinet Secretary Ziegler
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should be assassinated by bandits
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in Bozen,
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or at least given a good thrashing!
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He's a part of it.
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Once upon a time l was.
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What time is it?
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An editor got sentenced to 6 months
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for writing that the King was mentally sick.
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My assistant, Dr. Muller,
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was in a strange mood.
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He had to restrain himself
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from shouting for joy when he heard
he'd been chosen to attend the King.
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Medically speaking, it's certainly
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an impressive case.
l had no choice.
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l was under pressure from the
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Viennese psycho-analytical school
of Sigmund Freud and his colleagues.
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Sociology,
childhood theories etc.
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l had to take steps to oppose them,
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to act quickly, purely scientifically.
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l had my own methods, of course.
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Card-indexes, interrogations etc.
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Besides, our holiday
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was already planned
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at Dr. Muller's in Franconia
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to take care of an inheritance matter,
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so Muller insisted on hurrying.
Poor Ludwig.
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Who could imagine
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he'd end like that?
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One example.
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They say
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that in Oberammergau,
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shattered by the Crucifixion,
he confessed:
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''l, too, can see myself dying
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nailed to the cross,
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00:43:05,549 --> 00:43:09,110
ogled,
stabbed in my side,
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with a crown of thorns on my head.''
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lN THE NAME OF THE KlNG
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lN THE NAME OF THE KlNG
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7 courses,
40 litres of beer,
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00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:27,867
10 bottles of champagne,
for 6 people.
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00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:34,608
The gentlemen have dined
on the occasion of their honourable mission.
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00:43:38,382 --> 00:43:40,350
ln the name of the King...
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00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,283
lt is done.
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00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:46,423
You have come to arrest me.
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00:43:47,725 --> 00:43:51,593
lt's all just a question of money.
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A few million
and everything would be taken care of.
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l mean,
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00:44:02,339 --> 00:44:04,307
l'd like to see anyone
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00:44:04,842 --> 00:44:07,572
declaring me insane then.
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00:44:10,547 --> 00:44:14,210
lncluding your payment Prof. Gudden,
of course.
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00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,379
l want to dupe you.
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00:44:19,623 --> 00:44:21,784
What happens if l pay?.
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00:44:22,326 --> 00:44:25,227
Money's no problem for a king,
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is it?
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Your wars cost a lot more.
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00:44:39,910 --> 00:44:43,437
l'm a conservative who's failed
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00:44:45,549 --> 00:44:47,540
and you are progress.
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00:44:47,718 --> 00:44:50,846
But not for long;
others will follow.
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l'm a jurist, it is my nature.
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ln the name of the King...
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00:45:08,005 --> 00:45:09,996
Let's stop this.
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00:45:29,326 --> 00:45:31,760
Blow up all my castles,
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that's an order,
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a legacy.
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Alfons,
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what do you think
of the immortality of the soul?
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00:46:08,065 --> 00:46:09,965
You see?
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l can't believe that nothing remains,
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that nothing remains of what was.
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00:46:26,750 --> 00:46:28,911
Here's my watch,
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my hatpin.
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The cheque to pay off my misdeeds.
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00:46:55,813 --> 00:47:00,443
Bismarck advises me to flee.
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00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:06,916
They don't understand.
l've nothing in common with them.
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l am a king.
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l've got to return.
War Minister's orders.
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Ask my uncle, the Prince Regent,
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if he'll leave you with me.
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00:47:28,846 --> 00:47:31,178
He knows how much l love you.
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00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:34,310
You should order me
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as a king,
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00:47:36,486 --> 00:47:38,181
my King.
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00:47:40,424 --> 00:47:42,358
Not your King,
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l am the King.
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00:47:48,932 --> 00:47:50,866
Latest report from Munich:
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They maintain
there are red flags in the streets
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and that
our proclamation has been published
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by the social democrats
to confuse the people.
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00:48:02,913 --> 00:48:05,211
To keep calm, the first civic duty.
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00:48:05,749 --> 00:48:07,740
Poor Uncle Luitpold.
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00:48:08,318 --> 00:48:12,755
He has a terrible time trying to rule.
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00:48:28,472 --> 00:48:30,167
l had a dream.
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00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:34,174
During a performance
of the ''Twilight of the Gods,''
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the audience got up.
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00:48:39,082 --> 00:48:42,779
A lady stood up,
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looked at me insolently,
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00:48:45,522 --> 00:48:50,357
and began to sing a song impromptu.
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00:48:52,696 --> 00:48:54,561
Disgusting.
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THE KlNG lS DEAD.
LONG LlVE THE REGENT
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00:49:12,182 --> 00:49:16,516
THE KlNG lS DEAD.
LONG LlVE THE REGENT
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The King is dead.
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Committed suicide in Lake Starnberg.
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00:49:24,561 --> 00:49:26,688
Red flags in Munich.
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A socialist proclamation
on the walls of the residence.
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00:49:32,035 --> 00:49:35,163
You don't really believe that.
- Majesty!
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00:49:37,641 --> 00:49:39,302
Fine,
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00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:44,004
so the King went bathing
and lost his kingdom.
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00:49:46,850 --> 00:49:48,715
Majesty!
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00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:54,247
According to the constitution,
you are now King.
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00:49:55,759 --> 00:49:57,192
Me?
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00:49:59,696 --> 00:50:00,720
Me?
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00:50:02,799 --> 00:50:08,066
Prince Luitpold, the Prince Regent,
will reign until your death,
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00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:11,607
in your name.
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00:50:19,216 --> 00:50:21,309
Everybody out!
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00:51:17,374 --> 00:51:19,604
The King is dead!
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00:51:19,776 --> 00:51:22,336
Long live the King!
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00:51:37,060 --> 00:51:37,828
MAYR THE LACKEY ONCE MORE:
WHAT WOULD WE BE WlTHOUT HlM
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00:51:37,828 --> 00:51:39,557
MAYR THE LACKEY ONCE MORE:
WHAT WOULD WE BE WlTHOUT HlM
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00:51:43,900 --> 00:51:46,027
This is the original mask.
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00:51:46,870 --> 00:51:48,963
Actually l wanted to swear
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00:51:50,474 --> 00:51:54,934
but no offence meant.
Beer, that's all l have to say.
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00:51:55,779 --> 00:52:01,183
But how could he hate beer?
ln Bavaria!
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00:52:01,918 --> 00:52:04,045
He didn't know a thing about art.
428
00:52:04,221 --> 00:52:07,884
Look at those fat women
in Wagner's operas.
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00:52:08,091 --> 00:52:11,959
No grasp of
the popular taste of the time.
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00:52:16,733 --> 00:52:19,702
But didn't we all live on him?
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00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:24,664
And not badly.
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00:52:25,609 --> 00:52:27,577
And we still do.
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00:52:27,744 --> 00:52:29,473
Listen,
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00:52:29,646 --> 00:52:31,671
l knew him,
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00:52:32,449 --> 00:52:34,815
that alone is enough.
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00:52:36,052 --> 00:52:38,816
Otherwise l'd have
long since been forgotten.
437
00:52:40,657 --> 00:52:42,488
Honestly,
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00:52:42,659 --> 00:52:46,220
lackey to a modern head of state...
439
00:52:46,863 --> 00:52:49,832
just imagine that job!
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00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:56,696
But in those days
with King Ludwig...
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00:52:59,276 --> 00:53:01,369
Hops and malt
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00:53:02,345 --> 00:53:04,404
our King preserve.
443
00:53:06,650 --> 00:53:08,584
lncidentally,
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00:53:08,752 --> 00:53:10,845
after checking the bills
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00:53:11,021 --> 00:53:15,185
it was discovered
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00:53:15,358 --> 00:53:20,125
that the final total of debts
447
00:53:20,297 --> 00:53:23,198
was only 13 million.
448
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:27,233
The very great number of visitors
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00:53:27,404 --> 00:53:33,274
to the King's castles
even in the year of his death, 1886,
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00:53:34,778 --> 00:53:37,542
suggested the idea
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00:53:38,982 --> 00:53:43,146
of safeguarding
this source of revenue,
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00:53:43,887 --> 00:53:48,881
despite the immediate disposal
of the furniture and so on.
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00:53:51,828 --> 00:53:57,892
Alfons Weber, who on
the night before King Ludwig's death
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00:53:58,635 --> 00:54:03,868
had received from him,
together with some jewellery,
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00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:10,275
a cheque for 25,000 gold marks,
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00:54:10,814 --> 00:54:13,806
even had to give back two clasps,
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00:54:14,017 --> 00:54:18,784
one of which belonged to the Treasury.
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00:54:19,623 --> 00:54:20,783
And
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00:54:21,424 --> 00:54:24,689
he was paid off with 9,000 marks.
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00:54:35,105 --> 00:54:37,007
THE END OF A FAlRY-TALE KlNG
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00:54:37,007 --> 00:54:39,373
THE END OF A FAlRY-TALE KlNG
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00:54:39,576 --> 00:54:41,669
Here we go!
463
00:54:52,989 --> 00:55:00,486
Quietly the day comes to an end
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00:55:01,464 --> 00:55:09,428
and the lights go out one by one
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00:55:20,517 --> 00:55:22,417
Hops and malt,
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00:55:22,585 --> 00:55:24,985
our King preserve!
467
00:55:46,776 --> 00:55:50,234
Just as our Saviour rose again,
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00:55:50,413 --> 00:55:53,280
so he will return.
469
00:55:58,722 --> 00:56:02,283
Just as our Saviour rose again,
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00:56:03,526 --> 00:56:06,222
so he will return.
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00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:12,797
Our Father in Heaven,
give us this day our daily nostalgia
472
00:56:12,969 --> 00:56:16,598
and comfort us in our homesickness
473
00:56:16,773 --> 00:56:19,936
and deliver us from melancholy
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00:56:20,143 --> 00:56:23,169
for Thine is the madness
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00:56:23,346 --> 00:56:25,507
world without end. Amen.
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00:58:10,787 --> 00:58:11,721
REQUlEM FOR A VlRGlN KlNG
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00:58:11,721 --> 00:58:14,815
REQUlEM FOR A VlRGlN KlNG
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