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THE FOUNDLING by George Moorse
premiered in May 1967

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at the Festival Mostra Internazionale
del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro in Italy.

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In 2023, the film was digitized in 4K resolution
on behalf of Deutsche Kinemathek

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and restored in 2K by BASIS BERLIN Postproduktion,

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based on the 35 mm original negative
and the sound mix on 16 mm magnetic tape.

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Several seconds of music are missing on that tape.
The gaps were completed from a 35 mm print.

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Digitization was funded
by the German film heritage program.

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A CO-PRODUCTION OF THE BAYERISCHER
RUNDFUNK STUDIENPROGRAMM

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AND THE LITERARISCHES
COLLOQUIUM BERLIN

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THE FOUNDLING

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A GEORGE MOORSE FILM

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BASED ON THE NOVELLA
BY HEINRICH VON KLEIST

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I wanted to wish you
a pleasant journey.

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Want to come with me?
- Yes.

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All right, get in.

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Can you count?
- Yes.

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Count the trees.

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I can't see any.

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Do you have brothers and sisters?
- No.

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What games do you like to play?

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I don't know.

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Whatever the others are playing.

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When the warnings came over the radio
I wanted to turn around.

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But the roads were already blocked.

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They sent out units to find people
who were already infected.

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Paolo remained calm.

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But he understood what was happening.

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I tried to get around the road blocks
and...

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...there was the boy.

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He stopped us and told us
his parents had already died

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and that he had run away
from a quarantine facility.

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He was crying.

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He was there!

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I had to take him with me.

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Then I saw that he had symptoms.

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I stopped by the side of the road
to get rid of him,

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and then they appeared.

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They took us to a facility.

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There was no arguing with them.

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Then, when Paolo fell sick,

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I wasn't allowed to see him,
until the second day.

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<i>He...</i>

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<i>He was... he...</i>

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<i>...couldn't speak anymore.</i>

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<i>I stayed with him.</i>

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<i>It was like a dream
that he had finished dreaming.</i>

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<i>We will love Nicolo instead.</i>

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<i>Won't we?</i>

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So, Nicolo, it's time.

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Have you got cold feet?
Do you even have a ring?

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Come on, show it to me.

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Sometimes you can be so petty.
- Me?

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<i>You</i> need the connection with Constanze.

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And I don't at all mind
your getting married.

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I've been forbidden to you
for a long time.

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What marrying Constanze gets me
I could get for myself in a few years.

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If you say so.
But you're doing it anyway.

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And you'll have much more to put up with.
What were you actually thinking?

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The less you notice, the freer you are.
- Free?

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I'm doing all they tell me.

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They're the ones marrying Constanze,
not me.

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They're doing this
to latch onto me, you know?

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I can't even turn around.
- But you did just turn around.

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Those bad times took
the very best away from us

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but they also gave us
the best and most beautiful.

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They used to say
we were living under an unlucky star.

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But that unlucky star rose in the sky

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and we saw it was the sun.

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We saw that our children,

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our Nicolo and now our Constanze,

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are opening their hearts and minds
to one another under that sunshine.

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Today we are celebrating
the birth of something new

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and the continuation of something older.

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You know, Nicolo, the wardrobe
will make the room appear bigger.

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Would you have liked a different home?

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No. I like your parents very much.

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Cars should be made lighter, so we could
just take off and drive over the others.

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Never mind, Nicolo.
We'll get home eventually.

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We'll make the parts
almost exactly how we made the film.

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Back then we bought a welding unit
and made plastic bags from the film.

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What do you think? We'll build a booth
and spray the body parts ourselves.

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We'd be independent of Gordinio.

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Nicolo.
- Yes?

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I was looking at you.
- Why?

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It wouldn't be so nice without you.
- So I'd hope.

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You know...

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sometimes it's very easy to be happy.

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You don't even know why.

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Are you going to have a baby?

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I don't feel like I am.
And I don't always think of it.

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Not always?

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I'm only happy when I'm not thinking.

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And that rarely happens.

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I'll read you the contract
drawn up by the public notary,

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myself, Caccione,
whose signature appears here.

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"At the higher regional court
there appeared today:

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First, the businessman Antonio Piachi,

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second, his wife, Elvire Piachi,

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third, their adopted son, Nicolo Piachi.

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The attendees have been known
to me personally for a long time.

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The first attendee declared:

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'I am the owner of a large
plastics wholesale enterprise.

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The company owns a residential
and commercial property

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and three other building plots.

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Further details, blueprints

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and the land register numbers
of the relevant agencies

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are attached to this contract
as appendices.

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Other appendices to this contract

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are the balance sheets
of the business assets and real estate

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and all assets and debts
as of December 31st.

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These appendices constitute
the subject of this agreement.'

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On that basis, the attendees have agreed
to the following transfer agreement:

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Paragraph one:
Mr Antonio Piachi,

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with the express agreement of his wife,
Elvire Piachi,

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hereby transfers
his large plastics wholesale enterprise

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including the residential and commercial
property and the three further plots

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with all assets and debts
as per the attached appendices

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to his adopted son Nicolo Piachi.

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Paragraph two:
The transfer takes effect on January 1st.

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The parties to the contract
are in agreement with regard to

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the assets and debts of the company.

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The transferee Nicolo Piachi promises

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to release the transferor Antonio Piachi
from all obligations.

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Paragraph three:

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In return, Nicolo Piachi promises

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to provide Antonio Piachi
and his wife Elvire

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with a lifelong annual pension

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of 60,000 Swiss francs,
payable in monthly instalments

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in advance.

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Paragraph four:

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The transfer is deemed
to have taken place.

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The conveyance of the property

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and alteration in the land register
will follow

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once official authorisation
has been granted to this agreement."

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I don't have much time.
- Really? I have to go soon, too.

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Why didn't you call?
- I can't call from the office.

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They tell the old man everything.

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Recently he lectured me
on the dangers of politics.

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And you.
- The poor thing.

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This weekend?
- We'll be in St. Moritz.

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Until Tuesday.
- With this little birdie too?

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Clara, come here!

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I like you, Nicolo.

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I like you too.
- Come on, Clara!

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Play nicely with Sofia.

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Let's go.

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Bye, Nicolo.
- Bye, sweetie.

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Goodbye.

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I have to get dressed.

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I'll leave now, Xaviera.
- I didn't mean "go", but it's up to you.

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<i>"Stupid, stupid, stupid!</i>

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What does that mean?"
Answer: "How can I improve my situation?"

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Has he seen her again?

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It's not worth
hating her so much, Elvire.

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She knows that he's weak.

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She promised us
not to bother him anymore.

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She doesn't need him.
- No...

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I believe in Nicolo.
He has lots of work to do.

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He's really been getting behind
this diversification project.

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He has no time.

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Not for all that
political nonsense either.

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He must see that it doesn't do any good

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trying to progress in that way.

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I'll go see Constanze.
- I'll come with you.

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Maybe she'd like to take a walk.

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GRAND AGREEMENT

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And so I repeat the question
that I asked on September 5th...

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And that question is:

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Does it make sense for our people

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to be bound to the Treaty of Milan
for so many years to come?

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We are in agreement

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that the President does not have
an answer to that question.

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I would add:

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That question cannot be asked
of him alone,

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it must be put to the people as a whole.

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But the real tragedy this year

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lies in the fact

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that not one
of the government officials involved

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has given any kind of an answer

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or has demonstrated
any kind of leadership.

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How can we ignore

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the clear will of the people

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to finally eradicate
this shameful treaty?

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But...

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But there is...

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there is a much greater
and more important agreement,

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an honest-to-goodness agreement,
that I wish to speak about.

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This country, this society,

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is an agreement between us and among us.

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Today, we are remembering and honouring

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that agreement, and...

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Piachi. I remember you well.

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We should have
a proper talk some time.

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You're still up?

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Was it nice, Nicolo?
- Nice?

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Go to sleep now, Constanze.
You'll get ill.

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Yes, I'm going.

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I'll be right there.

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Elvire!

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Elvire!

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Elvire.

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Elvire...

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I'll get you something.

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Elvire.

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Elvire!

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Elvire!

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Elvire!
- What happened?

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What's wrong?
- Can you lift her?

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At first I was afraid of her.

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She never talked.

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Probably because what she wanted to say
can't be said.

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Unless it's about me.

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That's over, Nicolo.

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I used to think she must be my sister.

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Where are we going?

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My place?
- Mm.

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And now?
- Full stop.

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Full stop.

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What good is victory, question mark.

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"What good is victory, question mark."

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If we wish to demonstrate
our unity to the world, comma...

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"If we wish to demonstrate
our unity to the world, comma..."

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Our answer
to the question of September 5th...

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If this is how it is,
we may as well pack up and go home.

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Only an idiot would believe
it could go on that way forever.

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Then it turns around.
Boom, they're done.

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Like I told you.

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Yeah? There you go.
- I'm sick of your chatter.

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Be quiet. I'm not interested.

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He who leads a good,
decent, respectable life...

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Bernd said that it's...

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For years, the press spread lies
about our best friends.

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...led us through several crises.
- For years, the press...

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He deserves our warmest gratitude.
- ..."our best friends".

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THE GRAND AGREEMENT

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The donation, you know...
<i>Ciao, Nicolo!</i>

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One attained greatness
by striving for the possible.

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One, by striving for the eternal.

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But the one
who strived for the <i>im</i> possible...

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Nah, I wrote it all myself.

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...became the greatest of all.

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But it's true.

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Get that down you.

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...That a wrong idea of humanity...
- ...That a wrong idea of humanity...

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...could do harm, comma...
- ...could do harm, comma...

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...was not clear.
- ...was not clear.

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Look at India.
They're just sitting there.

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What <i>is </i>that?

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...Than a bad idea...
- ...Than a bad idea...

250
00:29:29,917 --> 00:29:34,000
Give me that bottle.
- We all have to stick together now, yeah?

251
00:30:56,792 --> 00:30:58,417
Piachi residence.

252
00:31:01,583 --> 00:31:03,542
No, Xaviera Tartini.

253
00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:06,750
Goodbye.

254
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,417
Now all that's left is the flowers

255
00:31:37,583 --> 00:31:39,375
and the music.

256
00:31:39,917 --> 00:31:43,667
I expect your wife
has gone to comfort your son.

257
00:31:44,958 --> 00:31:46,458
Yes.

258
00:31:46,958 --> 00:31:49,125
Excuse me, I'll go check.

259
00:31:55,042 --> 00:31:57,375
No, no, Xaviera. Not there.

260
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:01,417
I'll come to you.
I have to get out of here.

261
00:32:02,042 --> 00:32:03,875
Fine. In an hour, yes?

262
00:33:25,625 --> 00:33:27,583
Who have you got in there?

263
00:33:28,708 --> 00:33:30,708
Xaviera Tartini.

264
00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:49,125
Well, well.

265
00:33:51,708 --> 00:33:55,292
You didn't go home all night?
- I drove around.

266
00:34:18,875 --> 00:34:20,250
No.

267
00:34:53,083 --> 00:34:54,708
Over there.

268
00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:06,750
What do you want?
It's just how I am.

269
00:35:06,917 --> 00:35:09,292
And I hadn't seen her for years.

270
00:35:09,625 --> 00:35:12,333
I wasn't doing well.
I needed someone.

271
00:35:12,625 --> 00:35:14,250
I know.

272
00:35:14,417 --> 00:35:16,583
She felt sorry for you.

273
00:35:17,042 --> 00:35:18,708
So did I.

274
00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:21,792
But I don't like that kind of pity.

275
00:35:22,292 --> 00:35:25,500
She just uses it
to bind you closer to her.

276
00:35:26,250 --> 00:35:29,833
You are debased
so that she can rise above you.

277
00:35:30,292 --> 00:35:32,500
That's just an idea you have.

278
00:35:32,792 --> 00:35:36,750
I believe in you, Nicolo,
even if it doesn't seem that way to you.

279
00:35:37,208 --> 00:35:39,125
That won't change.

280
00:35:39,917 --> 00:35:43,542
Sometimes you have to act
in opposition to your own beliefs

281
00:35:44,042 --> 00:35:46,333
to avoid being disappointed.

282
00:35:46,750 --> 00:35:50,625
Actually, you've achieved everything
I might have hoped for.

283
00:35:51,667 --> 00:35:53,917
The path seemed easy for you.

284
00:35:54,083 --> 00:35:56,125
It opened up before you.

285
00:35:56,625 --> 00:36:00,375
The only problem sometimes
was the way you went along it.

286
00:36:00,833 --> 00:36:02,625
You're right.

287
00:36:02,792 --> 00:36:05,125
What we have didn't come cheap,

288
00:36:05,292 --> 00:36:08,208
and we shouldn't sell it cheaply either.

289
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:11,583
Fine. I won't see her again.

290
00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:13,750
It was irresponsible.
- Yes.

291
00:36:14,417 --> 00:36:17,875
I know I could have made things
a lot easier on myself.

292
00:36:19,167 --> 00:36:23,083
But I decided to do without the things
that I could have got that way.

293
00:36:23,667 --> 00:36:25,875
And what did you say in response?

294
00:36:26,625 --> 00:36:29,500
I kept agreeing
until I was the size of a snail.

295
00:36:30,667 --> 00:36:33,083
They'll get you to do what they want.

296
00:36:33,417 --> 00:36:37,083
It's Elvire. You should have seen her
when you called.

297
00:36:37,917 --> 00:36:41,583
She's young, too.
At some point she'll have someone else.

298
00:36:41,750 --> 00:36:43,625
But then I'll be there.

299
00:38:30,250 --> 00:38:31,625
Colino.

300
00:38:34,958 --> 00:38:37,000
Colino.

301
00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:45,125
You...

302
00:38:46,333 --> 00:38:47,833
You...

303
00:38:57,708 --> 00:38:59,208
You...

304
00:39:00,667 --> 00:39:02,375
You...

305
00:39:08,125 --> 00:39:10,042
Colino.

306
00:39:13,833 --> 00:39:15,458
Colino.

307
00:42:12,125 --> 00:42:14,750
Why didn't you already know about that?

308
00:42:14,917 --> 00:42:17,083
I'd never been inside her room.

309
00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:19,625
The old man doesn't take care of her.

310
00:42:19,792 --> 00:42:22,958
You know, she spends
most of the day at home alone.

311
00:42:24,208 --> 00:42:26,125
Yes, with her Colino.

312
00:42:26,292 --> 00:42:27,458
"Colino"!

313
00:42:28,167 --> 00:42:31,208
Colino...
Show me that picture.

314
00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:34,000
If it's somebody from the city,

315
00:42:34,167 --> 00:42:38,167
or anyone at all, really,
then I'd have to know him somehow.

316
00:42:38,417 --> 00:42:40,208
"Somehow"!

317
00:42:41,208 --> 00:42:43,500
Maybe she's with him right now.

318
00:42:44,292 --> 00:42:46,208
If she has any sense.

319
00:42:57,125 --> 00:43:01,083
<i>Clara lies there in her pram
Along comes the plump madam</i>

320
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:06,250
<i>Takes her home from the shop
Clara shouts for "fizzy pop!"</i>

321
00:43:57,333 --> 00:43:59,125
Do it.

322
00:44:04,292 --> 00:44:06,042
It's you, Nicolo!

323
00:44:06,458 --> 00:44:10,000
Didn't you notice, Nicolo?
He looks very like you.

324
00:44:10,167 --> 00:44:13,042
You know, Clara,
he looks just as similar to me

325
00:44:13,208 --> 00:44:16,167
as you do to the man
who thinks he's your father.

326
00:44:16,333 --> 00:44:19,625
Never mind. Let's go.
I don't recognise that man.

327
00:44:19,792 --> 00:44:22,583
Are you certain?
- Absolutely certain.

328
00:45:05,042 --> 00:45:07,667
Elvire, let's go out this month.

329
00:45:07,833 --> 00:45:09,833
Let's go to some bars.

330
00:45:14,083 --> 00:45:16,625
Nicolo, I haven't told you this yet.

331
00:45:17,042 --> 00:45:20,292
In Vaduz they have
this wonderful new toboggan run

332
00:45:20,458 --> 00:45:22,750
that leads down to the village.

333
00:45:23,417 --> 00:45:25,750
Mother was too scared to try it.

334
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,333
I told her she'd ruin her reputation
with her admirers.

335
00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:32,542
But she still stayed back
with the others.

336
00:46:45,458 --> 00:46:47,458
Does Nicolo like me?

337
00:46:48,625 --> 00:46:50,208
I think so.

338
00:46:50,375 --> 00:46:52,833
I don't know.
He'd never tell me.

339
00:47:01,583 --> 00:47:05,500
<i>This romantic velvet dress
flowing from high, narrow shoulders,</i>

340
00:47:05,667 --> 00:47:10,000
<i>perfect for a candlelit dinner,
is modelled by Susan Small.</i>

341
00:47:10,458 --> 00:47:13,583
<i>Earrings of amethyst
ringed with diamonds...</i>

342
00:47:13,750 --> 00:47:16,208
That's pretty.
- You think?

343
00:47:26,458 --> 00:47:27,958
Oh, no!

344
00:47:29,792 --> 00:47:31,292
Look!

345
00:47:39,292 --> 00:47:41,167
Do you like it?
- Mm-hm!

346
00:47:44,250 --> 00:47:46,000
This one.

347
00:47:55,417 --> 00:47:57,292
Give me that.

348
00:47:57,458 --> 00:47:59,125
This one?
- Mm.

349
00:48:03,542 --> 00:48:05,250
This one's very chic.

350
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:08,667
It's always the same...
- Look, there's Nico.

351
00:49:08,833 --> 00:49:10,375
Yeah?
- Nicolo!

352
00:49:10,542 --> 00:49:13,333
Nicolo! Nicolo!
- Nicolino! Nicolo!

353
00:49:13,833 --> 00:49:15,208
Nicolo!

354
00:49:15,375 --> 00:49:17,417
Nicolino!
- Wait a minute.

355
00:49:23,417 --> 00:49:25,083
Hey, wait a minute!

356
00:49:52,708 --> 00:49:54,875
I thought we'd get along.

357
00:49:56,167 --> 00:49:58,375
I can't live in this house.

358
00:50:00,917 --> 00:50:02,750
I'm going to leave.

359
00:50:35,417 --> 00:50:36,917
You...

360
00:50:38,167 --> 00:50:39,667
You...

361
00:50:40,250 --> 00:50:41,375
You...

362
00:50:57,500 --> 00:50:59,042
Colino...

363
00:51:31,958 --> 00:51:33,667
Colino.

364
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,500
You...

365
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,500
You...

366
00:52:16,917 --> 00:52:18,417
Elvire?

367
00:52:19,042 --> 00:52:20,542
Yes?

368
00:52:21,208 --> 00:52:22,708
Colino.

369
00:52:37,458 --> 00:52:39,458
Strange name, isn't it?

370
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:42,083
With the same letters as my name.

371
00:53:21,250 --> 00:53:25,667
It wasn't easy to find out.
Do you know why Piachi married Elvire?

372
00:53:26,375 --> 00:53:30,250
They don't discuss it. I expect
he wanted to protect her from the worst.

373
00:53:30,417 --> 00:53:32,000
From people.

374
00:53:32,167 --> 00:53:35,167
Her father was
a business partner of Piachi's.

375
00:53:35,333 --> 00:53:38,167
At the age of 17
Elvire was in a terrible state.

376
00:53:38,333 --> 00:53:40,500
Something to do with her nerves.

377
00:53:40,667 --> 00:53:43,292
Piachi's first wife was already dead

378
00:53:43,458 --> 00:53:45,667
and he had his son, Paolo.

379
00:53:46,042 --> 00:53:48,792
Who else was Elvire
supposed to marry?

380
00:53:48,958 --> 00:53:51,667
You were going to tell me about Colino.

381
00:53:51,833 --> 00:53:54,042
Elvire was 13 or 14 years old.

382
00:53:55,458 --> 00:53:58,958
Some officers
were billeted at her parents' house.

383
00:53:59,125 --> 00:54:01,000
There was a fire.

384
00:54:01,167 --> 00:54:04,708
Elvire climbed onto the roof
and was going to jump off.

385
00:54:04,875 --> 00:54:07,750
One of the officers brought her down.

386
00:54:08,292 --> 00:54:12,583
While he was doing it, a chunk of wall
fell on his head and injured him badly.

387
00:54:12,750 --> 00:54:15,417
He was in hospital for months.

388
00:54:15,875 --> 00:54:18,750
Elvire stayed with him until he died.

389
00:54:19,042 --> 00:54:21,583
His name was Colino, by the way.
- What?

390
00:54:21,875 --> 00:54:24,250
Yes. Afterwards she was in therapy.

391
00:54:24,417 --> 00:54:28,583
She went back to it every now and again.
It was the shock, you know?

392
00:54:30,125 --> 00:54:32,042
He can't be dead.

393
00:54:32,417 --> 00:54:33,917
He is.

394
00:54:34,083 --> 00:54:37,542
It doesn't matter.
I'm still not finished with her.

395
00:54:37,708 --> 00:54:41,417
Leave Elvire in peace.
What else do you want from her?

396
00:54:41,583 --> 00:54:44,208
She hasn't blamed you.
- It's not that.

397
00:54:44,375 --> 00:54:46,833
What then?
- She started everything.

398
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,292
Nicolo!

399
00:54:48,458 --> 00:54:50,333
You understand?
- Maybe.

400
00:54:50,875 --> 00:54:54,833
But I love you, and now I'm not going
to give you any more advice.

401
00:56:07,375 --> 00:56:10,458
Good night, Mrs Piachi.
- Good night, Maria.

402
00:56:36,583 --> 00:56:38,083
Maria?

403
00:56:42,625 --> 00:56:44,042
Maria?

404
01:00:09,667 --> 01:00:11,750
I didn't do anything to her.

405
01:00:12,667 --> 01:00:14,583
I won't touch her again.

406
01:00:17,958 --> 01:00:20,375
No. <i>You're</i> going to leave.

407
01:00:21,292 --> 01:00:23,292
It all belongs to me.

408
01:00:25,042 --> 01:00:27,458
Go at once, and take her with you.

409
01:00:27,917 --> 01:00:29,667
Go, I tell you.

410
01:00:37,250 --> 01:00:38,833
Good.

411
01:00:39,917 --> 01:00:41,500
Very good.

412
01:00:44,833 --> 01:00:47,625
This time she'll come to me
in the clinic.

413
01:00:48,208 --> 01:00:50,208
However, I cannot predict

414
01:00:50,375 --> 01:00:54,500
the extent to which a purely
medical treatment will be possible.

415
01:00:54,667 --> 01:00:56,750
That remains to be seen.

416
01:00:57,583 --> 01:01:00,417
I... understand, Doctor.

417
01:01:11,375 --> 01:01:14,333
I want to relinquish my pension at once.

418
01:01:14,750 --> 01:01:17,167
Everything that he gives me.

419
01:01:17,833 --> 01:01:20,250
I don't want any half measures.

420
01:01:20,750 --> 01:01:22,667
I want all of it back.

421
01:01:24,292 --> 01:01:26,458
I didn't do anything wrong.

422
01:01:26,792 --> 01:01:29,708
I've questioned my actions
a thousand times.

423
01:01:29,875 --> 01:01:32,667
I've interrogated myself thoroughly.

424
01:01:35,458 --> 01:01:39,167
Do you think that all that questioning
is pointless?

425
01:01:40,208 --> 01:01:44,000
That we won't be able to find the error
where we are seeking it?

426
01:01:44,333 --> 01:01:47,042
Because it was
already there before us?

427
01:01:47,625 --> 01:01:50,458
Because it's an inherent flaw
in humanity?

428
01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:53,792
What do you think, Valerio?

429
01:01:55,792 --> 01:01:57,292
Tell me.

430
01:02:01,917 --> 01:02:03,750
Did you speak to him?

431
01:02:03,917 --> 01:02:08,292
After three days in the hunter's cabin,
he had no choice but to listen to me.

432
01:02:09,625 --> 01:02:13,958
I don't want to imagine that.
- Please don't. I told him everything.

433
01:02:14,833 --> 01:02:16,833
Is he going to do anything?

434
01:02:17,125 --> 01:02:20,792
Of course. You're definitely
going to win now, Nicolo.

435
01:02:21,083 --> 01:02:23,083
He says hello, by the way.

436
01:02:23,375 --> 01:02:27,917
He remembers you very well
and he knows how deeply involved you are.

437
01:02:28,708 --> 01:02:33,333
He just wanted to be sure I'd marry you.
After that, it all worked out.

438
01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:35,417
He was pleased.

439
01:02:35,667 --> 01:02:38,125
Clara needs a young father, he says.

440
01:02:38,917 --> 01:02:42,125
He also mentioned a procurement matter.

441
01:02:42,292 --> 01:02:44,792
Plastic items for the military.

442
01:02:45,167 --> 01:02:47,000
Oh, yes. That.

443
01:02:47,208 --> 01:02:50,292
Are you pleased?
- Strangely, I am, Nicolo.

444
01:03:45,167 --> 01:03:47,167
Of course you can appeal,

445
01:03:47,333 --> 01:03:50,750
but I can tell you, sir,
you have no prospect of success.

446
01:03:51,333 --> 01:03:53,167
It's impossible.

447
01:03:53,333 --> 01:03:55,500
He still has a very good pension.

448
01:03:55,667 --> 01:03:59,208
By the way, the opposing party
has proposed compensation.

449
01:04:00,083 --> 01:04:03,833
That wasn't compensation.
It was much too low.

450
01:04:04,125 --> 01:04:06,333
My client doesn't want compensation.

451
01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:09,250
He simply wants his rights to be upheld.

452
01:04:09,875 --> 01:04:13,250
You're trying to tell me
this is a matter of honour.

453
01:04:13,417 --> 01:04:16,542
Don't you understand that it is hopeless?

454
01:04:16,958 --> 01:04:20,167
You have taken the wrong course, sir.

455
01:04:20,625 --> 01:04:24,083
The judgement you are demanding
would only be possible

456
01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:26,875
if we were to overturn
all our principles.

457
01:04:27,625 --> 01:04:29,375
I'm sorry.

458
01:06:51,875 --> 01:06:53,583
Are you insane?

459
01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:56,458
Here is your judgement.

460
01:06:56,625 --> 01:06:58,958
You... You...

461
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,625
There!

462
01:07:07,542 --> 01:07:10,167
There! There! There!

463
01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:45,500
I will now show you several cards
with images,

464
01:07:46,375 --> 01:07:49,583
and I will ask you to tell me
what they might depict.

465
01:07:50,167 --> 01:07:53,708
You can say as much
or as little as you would like.

466
01:07:54,708 --> 01:07:57,833
You can also turn the images around

467
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:59,750
as much as you like.

468
01:08:00,167 --> 01:08:04,167
And when you are finished,
give the cards back to me.

469
01:08:11,250 --> 01:08:13,083
Nothing occurs to you?

470
01:08:23,917 --> 01:08:26,125
Don't you want to say anything?

471
01:08:27,792 --> 01:08:29,292
No.

472
01:08:30,083 --> 01:08:32,500
Let me go back to my cell.

473
01:08:40,042 --> 01:08:42,708
Would you like a cup of tea, Mr Piachi?

474
01:08:43,667 --> 01:08:46,458
I want to go back to my cell.

475
01:08:47,250 --> 01:08:48,750
Why?

476
01:08:49,875 --> 01:08:51,708
I'm guilty.

477
01:08:52,458 --> 01:08:54,500
Can't you understand that?

478
01:09:35,708 --> 01:09:37,917
You spoke to them yesterday?

479
01:09:38,417 --> 01:09:41,417
I want to be tried!
Don't you understand?

480
01:09:41,708 --> 01:09:43,542
I'm guilty.

481
01:09:44,542 --> 01:09:46,542
Doctors! And you!

482
01:09:46,958 --> 01:09:49,625
I don't need your help any more.

483
01:09:49,792 --> 01:09:51,375
Lawyers!

484
01:09:51,875 --> 01:09:56,792
Maybe I should kill those damned doctors,
then they'll finally find me guilty.

485
01:10:23,500 --> 01:10:27,042
Yes, a trial is unthinkable
under those circumstances.

486
01:10:27,458 --> 01:10:30,458
We don't want
to complicate the situation further.

487
01:10:30,625 --> 01:10:32,208
The press.

488
01:10:32,917 --> 01:10:34,333
Precisely.

489
01:10:35,542 --> 01:10:38,083
The heir is sitting here in my office.

490
01:10:39,417 --> 01:10:40,750
Yes.

491
01:10:40,917 --> 01:10:42,792
I'm aware of that.

492
01:10:42,958 --> 01:10:45,083
But you know how things are.

493
01:10:47,167 --> 01:10:50,417
I don't want to concern myself
with that any longer.

494
01:10:51,625 --> 01:10:56,458
Yes, he's violent. I hear he threatened
the court-appointed psychiatrist.

495
01:10:59,042 --> 01:11:02,583
Then consult a doctor
who can come up with a solution.

496
01:11:04,875 --> 01:11:07,083
Yes, do that too if you want.

497
01:11:10,125 --> 01:11:13,833
So long as it doesn't go beyond
the pre-trial hearings.

498
01:11:31,542 --> 01:11:33,625
Take a seat, Mr Piachi.

499
01:11:34,792 --> 01:11:36,625
Take a seat.

500
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:39,500
Prefer to stand?

501
01:11:47,250 --> 01:11:51,292
Mr Piachi, there are very few of us
who don't have demons.

502
01:11:51,875 --> 01:11:54,875
You're agitated right now,
but you'll calm down

503
01:11:55,292 --> 01:11:58,125
and then you'll need someone to talk to.

504
01:12:02,125 --> 01:12:05,375
I will invite you to do so.
Quite often, I expect.

505
01:12:05,875 --> 01:12:08,625
And one day you'll speak to me.

506
01:12:09,125 --> 01:12:11,250
There's nowhere for you to go.

507
01:12:12,208 --> 01:12:14,458
Do you understand, Mr Piachi?

508
01:12:15,167 --> 01:12:18,792
Until you speak to me
you won't get any further than this.

509
01:12:56,458 --> 01:12:58,458
How are you, Mr Piachi?

510
01:13:00,542 --> 01:13:02,750
Oh, yes. You prefer to stand.

511
01:13:04,833 --> 01:13:08,542
So you managed to appear
before the examining magistrate.

512
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,042
You claimed a judgement
had already been made.

513
01:13:12,208 --> 01:13:15,375
That they needn't trouble themselves
since you'd written it yourself.

514
01:13:17,958 --> 01:13:20,375
There is no judgement, Mr Piachi.

515
01:13:21,333 --> 01:13:23,833
You're very agitated, Mr Piachi.

516
01:13:24,708 --> 01:13:27,042
Wouldn't you prefer to sit down?

517
01:13:27,917 --> 01:13:30,375
Or take something to calm you down?

518
01:13:31,750 --> 01:13:33,375
What a pity.

519
01:13:34,542 --> 01:13:38,708
I have these interesting cards and wanted
to ask you to arrange them for me.

520
01:13:46,750 --> 01:13:49,292
But I'll see you again. Tomorrow.

521
01:13:50,625 --> 01:13:52,292
And the next day.

522
01:14:06,458 --> 01:14:08,708
How are you today, Mr Piachi?

523
01:14:09,500 --> 01:14:11,000
Tired.

524
01:14:11,667 --> 01:14:14,375
Weren't you going to come see me today?

525
01:14:15,417 --> 01:14:16,917
Tired.

526
01:14:19,917 --> 01:14:21,042
Tired!

527
01:14:21,750 --> 01:14:23,417
Tired!

528
01:14:25,583 --> 01:14:27,125
Tired!

529
01:14:37,292 --> 01:14:39,417
Let go! Stop!
- No.

530
01:14:44,708 --> 01:14:46,208
Stop!

531
01:14:47,375 --> 01:14:48,667
Stop!

532
01:15:19,292 --> 01:15:22,208
THE END

533
01:15:22,452 --> 01:15:25,452
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