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This is a story like all childhood memories.

Unusual, nearly incredible.

The resemblance to real characters is not a coincidence.

This has really happened.

Perhaps in this way,

perhaps in another way.

The Dakota!

What are you doing?

Don't be crazy, folks!

The war is over! Stop worrying!

They are American! Pull the cross!

Hurry up! So that they see us!

Folks, Unrra!

It's Unrra!

Carefully!

Hell!

Do you want to break it?

Mary, come!

Quick! No more hunger!

Bo�ka, hurry up... here are clothes.

How nice!

What do I look like?

Like Roosevelt and Churchill together.

Double for me, I am from a camp.

Everybody is.

Just one.

Injured and ill people, go ahead!

Move aside!

Come, everybody. The train is here.

Out! Everybody out!

Don't panic.

Look out!

Haven't you got any coal?

Don't get on!

What are you doing? Murderers! Fascists!

For Christsake!

Just you wait! You have been here before!

Don't give him anything. He's already had.

What have I had? I'm a cripple!

A mine's torn off my leg!

At the front.

Stop, you bastard. I'll tear your...

Just look at him. What are you doing?

Give it back, glutton!

You spilt it!

Give it here!

I'm hungry. Shit!

What did he say about his leg?

Beat him!

Mikl��, you watch the bicycles.

Out of the way!

THE SLOVAK FILM presents

with:

I'M SITTING ON A BRANCH AND FEEL FINE

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Screenplay:

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Holly shit!

It's Hitler!

Miss...

What does he want here?

Let's catch him! We'll be medalled.

People, Hitler!

Hitler... Hitler...

I identified him!

I am not Hitler. Have you gone mad?

I will shoot.

Dirty mob.

Catch him! Catch him!

A bike.

Buy my picture, young man... for bread.

I was pretty.

I am hungry too.

Have you gone mad? For such bacon!

It's a treasure nowadays.

I'd buy it.

Have you got gold?

Something better... an American bicycle.

I paid three hundred for it.

Stuff that!

Are you selling a bike? I'll buy it!

What for?

Pork cans, mate.

Two? It's not enough!

Wait, wait!

I'll give you an airman's watch.

It has no hands!

But it has 17 rubies.

I'll also give you shoes. Fighter's shoes!

They'll last you forever.

Wait, we'll make a deal.

For food I'll take you anywhere.

Where are you going?

Home, to Moravia.

Where are you coming from? From Italy.

My name is Pepe. And yours?

Prengel.

What do they call you at home? - Prengel.

My father is "Old Pregnel" and I am Pregnel.

Special issue. Hitler is hiding in Slovakia.

Turn here.

I can't do anymore. I'm hungry.

What will you eat?

Your cans are mine now.

Meat, buddy.

I ate it everyday before the War.

You have no idea who I am.

A world-famous artiste. The tops.

Pepe Angelis...

What a name it was!

Kludsk" himself almost engaged me.

He had the biggest circus in the world. But he drowned in the Titanic.

As I was not there, I was the only one to survive.

I was loyal to old Berousek.

Ferda Berousek

A famous circus family from Olomouc.

It's a poem.

But there should be marjoram.

If I hadn't been to the camp, I might not have known hunger.

And the delightful sensation when eating food.

I may live only for this instant, old Berousek used to say.

What's up? Are you a somnambulist?

Is it a training?

Sorry.

Good day.

Why did you take the bicycle?

I wanted to give it back... originally.

The enemy is running away... captured material.

Move on!

But my pal wanted to go to Moravia.

Pardon him, indeed we are humans.

You could forgive him.

He didn't steal it. He found it.

We're Christians, aren't we?

Good gracious, my meat's burning!

Stop!

The bicycle!

Stop! Stop!

Go to hell!

Go... Christ!

She's eaten everything, bitch.

Children, come away from the fire!

You're so fat, nice...

I will not give it to you.

I can help you eat it.

I won't give you my egg. Mom!

He's capable of robbing a child!

Rogue! Thief!

What are you doing with my bike?

Get lost, or I'll kill you, circus man!

I stole it first.

It's mine.

Let go. They nearly killed me because of you.

Give it to me, you rat!

Who's a rat, you sewer-rat!

Give me the bike!

You hungry son of a bitch, profiteer!

Let go! It's mine!

Gold! Gold!

Gold!

Shut up!

Gold!

You wanted to rob a poor prisoner.

Well, you've been given gold in the camp.

I'll give you some. There's enough for you too.

We'll have bread, cheese,

ham, chocolate, beer,

champagne and women.

I'll drink it from their shoes.

With such heels!

Hop, girls! Hop!

They wouldn't have been so mad just for a bike.

What will you do?

We'll go home,

count it and divide it.

Fifty - fifty. Like brothers.

Brothers... in two halves.

Good.

Come. It's safer on the way.

It's getting warmer here.

A man will be as rare as a unicorn after the war.

How many women will I get? According to the statistics?

Five?

The papers say twenty.

In reality perhaps fifty.

God, why did you give us thirty-two teeth, but only one dick?

How shall we cope with them?

When did you last make love?

They'll be searching fore us. Even underground.

This is a good enough motive for murder.

Don't whimper, you're a millionaire.

Unrra! Give us something to eat!

Here! One box for us!

Hurry up!

If they are from the national committee, they'll take it.

Greet them like a Christian.

God bless you and Christ too.

Good afternoon.

What nice clothes!

What do you want?

We haven't eaten for a week.

We can help you with hay... wood...

We are skilful.

We are a poor village.

We have little for ourselves, don't need any strangers.

Feeding tramps, that wouldn't get us far.

There's blood, Jewish gold.

They believed it would save them.

We should give it back.

What? Give back? To who?

Where are the poor wretches?

It might cost us our lives.

We mustn't touch it for two years. Agree?

Soup at least! What kind of Christians are they?

Are you Christians?

You rake in... Rake in like bugs in manure.

You swine!

I'm hungry!

Hungry!

Stop shouting!

They'll soon sleep.

Be silent.

They are here.

Fine. Where?

Look into them. What's inside?

There's food, of course.

Move.

Halt, or I'll shoot.

They have a machine-gun!

I've had it now.

Never will I eat in my life.

Hang on, this way!

Let's open it!

Be patient. We'll eat in safety.

I can't bear this.

You must!

What a smell!

Dried meat. What?

Pork. Oh my, beans.

Of course, it's square. American.

It's sweet.

And sticky.

Gum.

Can't be eaten.

Fucking chewing-gum!

I told you to have a look what there was.

Gum. Nothing but gum!

Just gum!

Americans.

If they like it, we'll eat it too.

Can you see that?

Our breakfast.

Let's surround it.

Got it?

It ran away.

So many tanks like near Stalingrad.

In Ardennes.

Wait!

They've found us!

Up!

Climb up the tree!

M��a, fall!

You're German!

Shit, our gold!

They can find it!

What's that?

An anti-tank bomb, I'm a commander now.

An officer's Mercedes.

Fire!

You unruly children!

My eye can see you!

You'll be burning in hell-fire.

You've caused the end of the world.

Throw away the guns and return to your parents.

The Day of Judgment has come.

Brats.

Children, family, it's not for me.

I live for change.

Life is a constant change and movement.

Not a word to my dad!

He considers comedians to be parasites.

I've been to the circus once.

I still feel father's hand on my arse.

But it was beautiful.

Ahead, folks!

It got stuck.

It can blow up.

Come on, old stuff!

Move aside, it's working.

Come, circus man!

You're a dab-hand.

Dab-hand? A front driver!

It's beautiful!

I am in the land of milk and honey.

I'll give you a hiding!

Go away!

Don't shoot, we are allies!

I am from Moravia! Shit!

I'm not interested in that.

Mr. Zbon˷k, does your pig still crow?

You, Prengel?

Like my dad. Doesn't listen to the president either.

Are you back?

Should I have stayed there?

It would've been better.

You shouldn't have come back.

My God! It was here...

Here was my bed!

What...

They are well now.

Death cures all illnesses.

Old Berousek used to say.

Who can I tell about everything?

To me.

Prengel, come with me.

Leave me alone!

We're rich people!

Go to hell!

We can buy a circus!

Make yourself scarce with the bloody gold!

Mom, where are you?

My bowels!

You can't do anything here.

Come with me. Come.

You'll get to know the world.

See that beast?

That's the beast that ate my can. Speed up!

Just you wait! I'll eat you now!

On the fence!

Prepare your stomach for a feast.

Halt!

Surrender! You are surrounded!

Damn, it's gone!

Is there anybody?

How many people fell down here.

A blessed house, the Bible is here.

Old Berousek even slept on it.

We'll spend the night here

and divide the gold in the morning and good bye,

I'll go to a circus.

Wood.

I'm going with you.

I can't stay. I'd go mad here.

Fine. Allah is glad too.

He sent us bread.

In a bottle.

When I was a small boy,

I climbed to the top of a tree

and looked into the distance,

Not a soul. All the days.

You should've run away.

My dad died when I was six.

I was already turning somersaults.

I didn't know my mother.

I followed the coffin, sad, tears in my eyes,

but laughed in my mind.

Laughed? Why?

My father forbade me a trapeze.

I longed to fly.

I would have done anything to be able to fly.

I loved him, but when he died, I got wings.

Stalin - generalissimo of the U.S.S.R.

Special issue. Stalin - generalissimo of the U.S.S.R.

Congratulations.

Hey, you our house calls you!

Someone girls, someone rum, only our bubble gum.

American cigarettes for gentleman!

Like an Italian. You'd sell your own mother.

Business is business.

Cigarettes, drink, women, let the new life begin!

Come closer!

Ten Chesterfield for a crown for a beautiful lady.

Be quiet!

The light is gratis.

Away with the black goods!

I suffered in the camp under number 73362.

I am a victim!

Put everything on the table!

Nothing but gum.

Turn around, hands up...

Is this possible? I suffered for my fatherland,

and you bugger around about cigarettes!

We'll find out...

Certification...

Joseph Matsasek.

Is it in English?

I got it in the camp...

...when the Americans came.

Prengel, is that you?

My schoolteacher!

You're back...

It's terrible what happened to your parents.

I know. Come.

Sir, there's a friend of mine.

�elka, leave it and bring us tea.

You'll be recompensed for

what happened to your family.

I don't want that. What?

Money won't bring them to life.

I know. But with time... Where will you reside?

And what about that...

...that house in which we spent the night?

At Mahler's.

Mahler? He was a musician.

In your village, maybe. But ours was a baker.

Not in our village. He was a world famous musician. Our Mahler

died in the concentration camp. The house is devastated.

We'll get it all dolled up. We'll fix it, clean it...

We can even bake, if you want.

A good idea. We have problems with bread.

We bring it all the way from Lhota.

But they only baked gingerbread.

Give us flour.

It'll be a piece of cake.

It'll be difficult to get there by car.

We don't need oil, we use wood as fuel.

Give me some wood, I'll move the universe.

Where did you learn such a good Slovak?

In Mathausen, from prisoners.

Work, nothing but work. It is my life.

Propaganda is the basis for progress.

The most difficult thing is to change human thought.

They are so backward!

They don't know the elementary revolutionary theses.

We shall teach them.

Let me go.

We need you here. I do everything myself.

�elm�ra, you are an exceptional woman.

You radiate such an aura,

strength, wisdom, intelligence...

I took part in the party course in �ilina.

What an exciting smell.

It's a machine spirit.

My head is swinging.

What about... your head? Is it swinging?

It's not.

We'll work together all night long.

We'll be putting it in, out,

push, make... copies.

Sorry. But we were so close...

Be careful. I can be dangerous.

We will bake... you promise anything. You can leave.

But everybody knows me here.

People need bread and games.

I'm for games, you're for bread.

I bet you've baked it. I have.

You may be in the world to feed hosts.

Be silent!

My bike! Indeed, we took it to pieces.

Hande hoch!

Help! Ich bin a postman, don't kill me!

What are you doing here? This house was allocated to us!

I wanted to check if it was a thief.

You are a thief! Admit it!

Shall we torture him?

Let me go. I'll tell you everything. There is gold here. I am certain.

What?

Mahler's gold.

Mr. Kri�tof�k...

Prengel...

You knew Mahler.

He had bakeries everywhere, but lived with his daughter like a beggar.

She was said to be a beauty, but nobody had seen her.

The old man feared for her.

All right. But what about the gold?

The last time I was here, Mahler was as white as a ghost.

He said Yahveh had come to see him.

The next day his family was taken off.

He was packing jewels here,

gold cutlery.

I saw it through the blind.

From that time

I have always looked for it.

It is over, postmaster.

Do you know her?

Mahler's daughter Ester... her hair like fire.

I have never seen her. Strange, eyes like a cat, hair like fire.

Bakers, where are you?

Good morning. Morning.

Were you drinking last night?

Baking.

Very good. How many?

Nearly forty.

Here they are.

If at first you don't succeed, try again.

I'll take you under my patronage.

Mainly Pepe.

You're an angel.

In spite of my five capacities I'll find time for you.

We are missing tenderness.

A soft woman's bosom

in which to rest.

The soft bosom you say!

Hard comrade's aid is what you need!

We need tough, enthusiastic and optimistic people today.

I'll change you into new people.

We prefer staying as we are. We are fine like this.

Do you hear that? Did you hear that?

Nobody can stay like he is! Nothing can stay like it is.

Give them food coupons.

It's hard to cut.

The oven is not hot enough. When it's O.K.,

everybody will buy our bread.

Perhaps the soldiers will eat it.

To new days!

Cheers!

Cheers!

Our future depends on today's deeds.

To the victory of progress!

You can count on us!

Stop, thief!

What do you want?

You won't escape me!

Go away. We have nothing in common.

Son of a bitch!

Angelis, Alberti, Matsasek, who else?

These are artists' names.

And only an asshole believes you were in the resistance!

Not in the resistance, in the camp.

What for?

Stealing the meat of beasts of prey and giving it to people, like your J�no��k.

You also stole our gold just like J�no��k.

Gold, I don't a damn about it.

You'll be killed for it.

I only took this much.

I don't care. But you piss me off.

Take it easy.

All you do is talk rubbish.

We'll bake bread for people... You can rely on us...

Comedian!

You are a carp, Prengel.

Born in a pond, you'll die there.

But I am a trout.

I must travel and meet people. Women, girls... only a circus can give me this.

I'll come every summer.

Circus Central with the renowned Alberti!

Will you use your brains?

Come with me, we are both orphans.

Oh my...

Where have I seen her before?

She looks like Ester.

Hey, young lady!

Wait!

We'll drive you home!

What a noble woman! Come here, my beauty!

Have you ever drunk French cognac? Drink, you'll be more submissive!

Leave her alone! Let me go!

Ester, come with us. We are not aliens.

My name is Pepe.

Shit! Soldiers, attention! Quick march!

Stop shouting! You fascist... There!

We won't kill each other for a woman.

After all, we are Slovaks. Here.

She's here!

Ester! Rusty-red like rum.

You must do it in this way.

Are you crazy?

I am experienced at it.

I'll teach you.

Wait, wait...

Let the professor do it.

This is the way to satisfy a lady.

Gone away again.

And barefoot.

Ester! - Ester!

An angel has flown over us.

What angel? That's what granny used to say

when everything was silent.

Il Pidocchio.

What are you saying?

The louse. She has lice.

What?

It is Italian.

I was just testing you. I speak Italian. Passively, actively, you Pinocchio.

Not Pinocchio, il Pidocchio.

Why won't she speak? Is she deaf?

Are you in? Quiet, keep quiet.

The postmaster.

They might be robbed.

He'll drink it.

Bakers!

Where are you?

We baked this for you.

She doesn't hear or see us.

I'll teach you a lesson!

Don't shoot! It's us!

We are buying honey.

New firm... We'll bake gingerbread.

We used to leave several apples on the tree in winter.

Just for the beauty of it.

They glowed in the white frost like blood.

Who are you trying to tell? She is deaf.

Rather dumb.

Don't get scared. I'm your master.

Go to Prengel, you cows!

What a beauty you are!

She can hear.

Old Berousek used to say: He who didn't love a red-head, never experienced love.

You think about only one thing.

What are you for her? Look at yourself.

A shabby tramp.

What is it shabby?

An old circus bear who's lost his fur. Like you.

You are right.

I could dazzle the world. I could travel and shine.

But I am a fool. I work instead.

She loves me, but she doesn't know it yet.

Why not me? Am I mangy?

Let's make an agreement.

We won't touch her until she's O.K.

Or till she wants it.

America has a new bomb!

They bombed Hiroshima!

Millions of Chinamen are dead!

The old bloody junk!

Easy... Well...

The swing was right here! How did you guess?

Ester recalled it. This is her home, after all.

This is supposed to be Ester?

You think I am a fool.

Take the loaf. It's warm.

Who should it be? Don't you know her?

You've got it nicely fixed up.

I saw nothing, I know nothing.

What are you doing?

What are you staring at?

Excuse me.

Sorry. I am hallucinating.

You're both asleep...

You are nice.

You are beautiful. Nicer than on the picture.

I dream of you constantly.

It doesn't matter that you don't speak. But you understand.

I'll teach you.

I'll teach you everything.

You're trembling...

Don't worry...

She has cold feet, can't you see?

Good evening.

Here, socks.

Once again and my knife is in your ribs.

What did you promise?

She did want it!

Neighbours, citizens!

Hearts for maidens, maidens for young men!

And the children choose themselves!

Marzipan, gingerbread!

What are you talking about? What is the difference?

I don't know, but it sounds good. It looks like we are specialists.

Red-headed dumb nymph!

Here come two kings with precious things!

What rhymes!

Paraffin. I learned it in Rimini.

Everybody had lice there.

Prengel, you're a nice bugger!

You know all Italy but say nothing.

Tell me your story.

Italians are like children.

Like us.

There are thousands of churches and thousands of...

Whores.

They all go to confession.

Oh, our bathkeeper.

Don't be ashamed. Why are you ashamed?

He is telling me about Italy.

Tell her about the Catholic women.

Not to her. I am not a good narrator.

I prefer singing.

We are single men, we are fine.

We go with girls anytime.

But you, married men, you must stay in, stay with your old women.

We've bought the whole market. All the dresses, hats.

The most important thing now.

Gingerbread sweet like honey,

give it to the one you love.

She offers me her mouth. Her soul.

And this to me.

Shall we swap?

I want her complete.

Stay away! Go!

She dances like Rimini courtesans.

What are you talking about? What courtesans?

You snuffed it. Ask her for a dance.

I cannot dance.

Neither can I... but I dance. I don't know many things, but I do them.

Solo for war orphans now!

May I have the pleasure? Of course.

Dance, orphans.

We played this to circus horses.

You needn't if you don't want to.

A hat.

If I were a man, everything would be different.

You speak!

Pepe, she speaks!

What? Speaks!

We must drink to it. Plum-brandy... Glasses are here.

I neither want to hear, nor see myself.

Switch the light off, intimate illumination...

Long live speaking girls! We'll celebrate till the morning.

Open!

Open! I hear you!

�elm�ra.

Answer the door!

Why me?

What a surprise... nice...

Good evening, nobs.

I am bringing you papers and books.

But you seem to have affection for other things.

We are practicing this kind of...

culture program... in case we need it.

Plum-brandy?

I act the part of a woman.

Oh, God, no! This is a chemical preparation. We don't drink that.

Against pino...

Oil.

Yeah, oil.

You see, �elka doesn't believe us.

I hope you will get over it.

And read what I brought you.

Yes, tonight.

I take the record-player.

And give up the market money-making.

Holy Virgins of gingerbread!

You spread obscurantism.

And what is more, illicitly.

I can't bear it anymore. I can't get along with it... alone.

I fear to sleep in the darkness.

My closest relations stayed there.

They are dead. Dad, mom...

Don't think about that. You are alive.

I don't want to live.

I'll get rid of my repulsive, dirty body.

I hate it!

You are cold. Go to bed.

Lie down.

And sleep. Don't worry. I'm here with you.

Why do I live?

I don't know. I'm just an ordinary man.

Do you want me?

Find me.

God himself kissed me.

What have you done? Are you all right?

It's not my fault she finds me attractive.

I wish you had broken your neck, you asshole!

I impress her.

What's up?

It hurts.

It's broken.

You'll need plaster.

How will I shave?

Don't know. How will you clean your arse?

I thought you would work again on the railway.

Trains are operating again. They need people.

I have travelled enough.

What's up with you? I want a trade license.

You've changed completely. Are you going to get married?

Perhaps I was born to be a baker.

We made something for you.

It looks just like the real one. Only needs tobacco for his pipe.

What a beauty!

Jozef Visarionovi�.

I knew you would understand.

That we would follow the same path.

Can you make it of marble?

He bears a resemblance, doesn't he?

It's beautiful.

And delicious, sweet.

We made him life-like.

It is difficult to prepare a good paste.

Try it.

It is a waste.

�elka, try it.

Unfortunate man!

What have you done?

You've desecrated the Father of nations!

Tell him, comrade Kornet!

You've cut off the ear of the greatest man in the world!

We can make many such...

We have a mould.

I'll marry her.

My father can turn in the grave,

I'll marry her... though she is a Jew.

Why you? What gives you the right...?

Ester is like me. Crazy, ethereal, subtle...

I love her, do you understand? I love her...

Love, love... comedian!

You're using words a real man says only once in his life.

Such a lady-killer is only for powdered hussies!

We shall see. Let her decide.

Today.

Agreed. And the loser?

He will leave and never show up again.

Ester! An important matter!

An important question!

Did she break out?

Ester?! She's run away.

What's up? Looking for your lady?

I saw her up there... at noon.

Where?

Up there?

Ester, where are you...? Ester!

I've got her. Is she alive?

Why did you do that? I meant it well...

She has a fever. We'll cal for a doctor.

It's not necessary. Massage with vinegar water will do. I was with the ambulance.

You said you'd been a driver. Yes, the ambulance driver.

Pepe, she is pregnant.

Ester, are you with child?

That beats me!

Go out!

It hurts!

You bloody son of a bitch!

I did nothing to her. I swear by my father!

What about swearing by old Berousek? Clown!

It's not possible.

Count... When did she come here?

Who could have done it to her?

An angel flew over.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe I am in this world

just for such a woman.

Old Berousek used to say.

We are single men, we are fine.

We go with girls anytime.

But you, married men, you must stay in,

stay with your old women.

Merry Christmas!

Do Jews have the infant Jesus?

Esterka, this is for you...

form the infant Jesus.

Nothing but beauty!

Try it on!

Everything is yours.

...and this.

Dance now!

Turn round! Dance, Ester!

You're beautiful!

I never want to dance again.

I danced during the whole war. I longed for life...

I am damned now.

Why am I here?

Why didn't I go with you?

How can I forget what will happen?

Do you understand that?

She doesn't know what she is saying.

What camp was it she could have danced at?

What are you doing? My number is fading.

Nobody will believe it about the concentration camp.

Hang on... Excuse me. Can I see your number?

I haven't been to the concentration camp.

I haven't told you anything like that.

She would be skinny, from the concentration camp. Is she Ester?

Perhaps she's not Hebrew at all.

What does it matter?

The seventh... No, the eighth at least.

The movements have ceased.

More boys than girls are born. So, it will be a boy.

To avoid infection...

...we need a clean sheet and a lot of water.

We'll catch the baby in the cloth

and wait till he cries. If not...

Tommy guns!

Murderers! Bandera's group!

The caliber 26 machine gun.

Is it here? It has started!

Escape!

The hat!

Hold on to me!

I dropped a chapter.

She won't bear without the book!

Run away if you want to survive.

Hold her! It will be over soon.

She bites. Water!

Breathe like a dog.

Mr. Zbon˷k!

Water!

Bite into it!

Hurry up with the water!

Wrap her up. It's a girl.

Beautiful like her mom.

We'll need milk.

Who are you? Nobody, so far.

But only at the moment of your birth.

And then it begins.

Mother Jew, father Mohammedan,

uncle a fascist, grandfather a communist.

And the fight begins. There are ups and downs...

She's hungry.

I don't want to live.

I want nothing.

Hey, artists! The order is for everybody!

Why did you stay?

Don't play at being heroes. Go into the town.

Bandera's group roam about.

They kill everybody.

We can defend ourselves.

I was on the front for two years.

I don't want to mess in your affairs,

but you should go to the Register of Births.

And something else. We need talented men for the election.

Whenever you like.

We must win.

Long live politics! Long live elections!

Warm milk at noon. Give her a dry nappy if she cries.

Let me do it. I used to shave my daddy.

We won't lock you here, but don't leave the house.

We are back by the evening.

Come on, Pepe!

Slovaks! Work was always our lot!

We went to bed with work, we got up with work.

It is also our party's programme. Party of work!

Vote for communists, everything will be yours!

Cows, horses, factories!

Long live Stalin!... Bene�!... Kornet!

Partisans salute May Day!

Today gingerbread is gratis... tomorrow wine, champagne, women!

Vote for �elka, No 3!

We thank Stalin for a happy life!

The nationalization and land reform

will bring social justice!

Vote for Gottwald, vote for a better life!

Who's not with us, is against us!

Smile! Hold it!

Hitler, listen, Stalin read you a lesson!

Let's have a beer, Janko.

To our mayor!

He shouldn't be here! He didn't take part in the Uprising.

What do you mean by that?

I fought... I was on the front abroad.

Ask for the Slovaks there!

Do you think that the Uprising was only in your village?

I am a woman too. I want to love too.

I know this is not a good time for it... We must fight, build, but...

What is it? It's so hard...

A gun. Let it be.

The functionary also has the right to love.

Carefully. Will it shoot?

It is secured.

Undress me... I want you, make love to me...

We have equal rights, the future belongs to us.

Mac��ek! Hey, comrade Mac��ek!

What's up? Go to hell!

She's come.

Who has come?

A comrade. You don't know her.

Send her to hell!

It is May Day but we lie about like reactionaries.

Stay here.

Next time.

Don't leave, please.

I must.

You know you mustn't come to town.

If you knew what they are doing to her.

I have seen it.

Traitor! You don't understand me.

You don't understand anything!

But I am strong... strong.

I laugh... laugh.

That goat is brighter than she is.

Is it possible?

You cannot stay alone with the baby.

Don't cry.

Leave it.

Can't you see she's hungry?

Come to your prettier dad.

Here is our Lisa.

She gives us milk.

And here is mummy. She will play something.

Here you are, your good pap.

Ester, put it down!

You bitch! You wanted to kill her!

I did! And you and myself!

What kind of a person are you?

All of them.

The child is a creature of God.

Kill me!

Forgive me, Ester.

I am accustomed to beating.

I was always beaten when I refused somebody.

I could not oppose.

I wanted to live.

I paid for my life by myself

with words: The end of the War is drawing near.

And the baby...

...is innocent, Ester.

I am not Ester.

She was my classmate at the boarding school in M�hlbach.

Once I spent a holiday here.

As I am alone I came here.

And I found you.

We love you.

I know. I know.

I am proud to know you.

My picture has never been in the paper.

Is that us?

Let's have a drink!

I can fetch you a newspaper. Gratis.

You'll pay when you find the gold.

What would you do with it? Gold brings bad luck.

Cheers.

To the baby!

Where is my bicycle? Thief! Thief! Thief!

Bicycle!

He took it to pieces.

Must have been nuts.

The Register is not a railway station.

The birth is registered within a week,

and your child is almost one year old.

Of course, you went to the priest and let the office be.

Sorry.

Religion?

Is it necessary?

O.K. Undenominational. Father?

Father?

You shouldn't have come with her.

Which of you is the father?

Madam Register, none of us.

Father unknown.

If need be... I could be the father.

Why you? Put down my name!

No, mine!

Put down mine!

How dare you? You are drunk!

Sorry, we are a complicated family.

Come when you are sober.

That didn't go very well, did it? Bloody ink-slingers.

What are you doing here?

Coming from the Register.

At last!

You should get married now.

Wedding? Why not. I will take her away.

Into the town. Everybody looks at her like at a circus horse.

She doesn't belong in such a hole.

It is your home, mate.

Ester, we come wooing!

We were at the Register!

Your bridegrooms are here!

Where is the gold?

Ester!... come out!

She took the gold!

We gave it to her.

She has gone again.

I don't understand it. She was O.K.

She left us and the baby.

You see, we are clever. A big love,

no making love, and we are stuck with the baby.

It's terrible...

Look what she's done.

The devil must have got into her.

Ester, come home!

The baby needs you.

I am not in the world to make roots here.

And the baby?

Place her in an orphanage.

In Rakova's manor house.

Trench-mortars. Machine-gun.

To the town with them!

Hurry up!

They were about thirty,

but the war is over.

They are the last victims.

Where is your lady? Gone to her aunt's.

She ran away.

And left the child.

She might have gone with those...

Oh no, she was a Jew.

That's not for certain. Who knows what she was.

We are destined for each other. You're right.

We will be fine together.

Yes, we are fine. Sing, Pepe.

We are single men, we are fine.

I will lead you, shape you.

Shape me.

I'll make a man of you...

...outstanding and powerful.

You mustn't sleep.

Wake up! Want me!

We'll bite each other like dogs.

I'll wake you up.

In the morning, �elka.

Don't sleep.

I'll wake you up.

Good-bye.

And what'll we two do?

Let's kneed dough.

We must work.

Have you got a light, madam?

Mac��ek! Pepe!

Get off! Come back!

Stop playing the fool!

Pepe, she hasn't left.

It was them. They wanted the bloody gold.

We shouldn't have left her alone.

Forgive us, Ester.

Where do you have water here?

You're not funny chaps at all.

You are pale.

Wash at home.

Can't you spare some water?

Go away, please.

Leave me alone!

Go to hell!

What did you say?

To hell with you!

You'll be sorry for that!

Halt! Hands up!

You nobodies!

You don't know me yet!

But I shall wait.

I'll wait for you.

And God said:

Let the Earth bring forth the fruit tree

yielding fruit after his kind.

Didn't we grow on the tree like apples?

But we don't want to fall down.

It's freezing,

but we are still on the branch.

Who is doing better than me?

Some children don't have daddies, I have two.

I have two daddies. Like a wizard.

What are you saying, L�za?

Be silent, will you?

Ester, we want to eat!

Come, we are hungry.

L�za talks such nonsense... Like Pepe, doesn't she?

The dancer in Paris now! Cancan!

She is a pioneer. Going to the meeting.

I love cancan, you love meetings.

We are of different stuff.

Prengel of dough, me of paste,

Ester of batter.

A sea of sweet dreams,

and mom sends an angel

to kiss Ester once

and once again,

and then he flies to dad Pepe

to keep guard over Ester till the morning.

Good night.

She must go to school in autumn.

It cannot be avoided.

Do you want to avoid me?

You would be eaten by dirt without me. You don't want to wash.

Don't be so strict.

If you ran away,

I would marry the seven dwarves.

And old Kri�tof�k too?

Oh no, he stinks.

Did you hear the news?

Your teacher Kornet has shown his true colours!

The great functionary was a shady creature.

They locked him up and took all of his medals.

The great Mr. Uprising.

When was he arrested?

Yesterday.

He worked in a treasonous centre.

Well, well...

Ester, come here, at once!

What have you done?

How is that?

Let me be! Confess it!

You've destroyed the only remembrance of Mom!

I have destroyed nothing! I'm going now.

She glued it on the heart.

God, I'm so stupid.

Pull!

Our gold!

She is a princess!

Where did you find it?

On the branch.

Ester hid it on the tree.

Bloody gold! She was murdered for it! Take it off!

It is my treasure.

We'll save it for you. Give it here!

I'll leave you! Forever!

Stop scowling.

It is your treasure.

It must be hidden. Otherwise it is not treasure.

But I want to play with it first.

What shall we play?

Something by Mahler.

Long skirts are in fashion now.

Thank you, Daddies.

We wish you to grow up...

...and to grow wise.

Let us all be together forever!

Blow!

One, two, four, six, seven.

Black Day!

Generalissimo Stalin died!

Hey, bakers!

Even trees weep.

It is mourning.

Am I... drunk?

Mahler's gold.

Sons of a bitch! They've pinched it!

From me, an honest citizen!

Comrade lady chairman, may I leave?

You are a witness, comrade, stay here.

Bring the evidence.

You can type.

My gold. There is no justice in the world.

It is a misunderstanding.

A complicated story.

I stole only the bicycle.

I confess that.

We'll make out the record at the station.

We'd rather stay here.

Here �elka can...

Sit down!

Madam comrade knows us. She can explain...

What do you want to explain?

We fulfilled the five-year plan in four years

but what are you? Subversive elements.

Sponges, abuse our goodness.

You'd have been hanged after the war.

What's up?

What about the girl?

You offended against the law about precious metals.

You are suspected of profiteering and acting against nationalization.

Even if you were telling the truth,

you should have informed us of the find.

Don't worry, darling.

We are going to go by car. I'm not going!

Catch her! There she is, on the tree!

What do you want here?

Daddies! This is our tree!

I don't want to go with you!

Prengel... Pepe... help!

Sign it.

The value is about one million four hundred crowns.

Go away! I am not going with you!

Hold her!

Leave me alone!

Help! She bites, the little bitch!

We are building socialism form nothing

and you lie in gold! Speculators!

Daddies! Don't give me to them!

I want to be with you.

We may be born just for this very moment.

Don't give me to them!

Get on!

Leave!

Be glad to leave!

You'd run wild with them. I wouldn't!

We'll bring you up to be a citizen of the new society.

I did fool you, didn't I?

Kri�tof�k cannot be imposed on so easily.

After all, justice does exist.

Move! Hear me?

Faster! Faster!

Did you know that an artificial earth satellite was just launched.

With a rocket.

You can hear the music everywhere.

You leave on such a great day.

You don't deserve such luck.

I hope you'll behave.

I hope you drew a lesson from the sentence.

You are young.

You can leave.

Good-bye.

The satellite will fly over at 4.00 p.m.

It will not be seen in the sunshine.

Now you can listen to

its typical sound.

Master!

Is that you?

You came back.

I was released. It is good.

And where is that friend of yours? That comedian?

I don't know.

And where is our girl?

Come.

We will find her.

Don't run! Pay attention! This is our headmistress.

Good morning.

What's the torch for?

I want to be a princess. You are.

Beautiful like a Christmas tree.

It's fantastic! You are here too!

Daddy!

My little princess!

Be careful!

It's fragile!

Do you speak Czech again?

I was taught.

Prengel, I am weeping. You old comedian!

You made me cry!

Comrades!

Here are the results of the competition

of the ideologically most valuable mask.

The third prize goes to �ofia, a tractor driver.

Congratulations!

The second is Jaroslav in the mask of comrade Tencer.

And now...

The winner is Ester!

Her mask is a symbol of progress,

the Soviet Sputnik!

Congratulations!

What's up?

Are you weeping?

She weeps for joy,

because it's a nice day for her.

I didn't have such in my youth.

We have reached for the stars.

We are becoming the masters of nature.

That is why

we shall go on helping to keep peace

and progress in the world by our work.

Stop weeping.

You are the winner.

I am laughing now.

And I will always laugh because I'm yours.

Ours, even when you are not with us.

I want to be only with you, forever.

You will be.

Don't worry.

Who will be the first up?

Do you know what old Berousek said

when counting money?

Of course I do.

Maybe I was born for this very moment.

Right, for this moment...

We are fine.

We are single men, we are fine.

We go with girls anytime.

But you, married men, you must stay in,

stay with your old women.