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No! No! No! No!
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Turn on all the lights and...
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No, there's no way around it.
Turn on the brightest lights!
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East Berlin, 1956.
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Chausee street 125.
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Berthold Brecht's flat.
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Even the beloved of my youth
who I was very fond of...
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...and who slipped away from me
because of my weird apathy...
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...is memorised by me like a
book character that I read about.
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Bidi in Beijing.
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In the Allgau Bi.
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He says hello,
she says good morning.
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I come right after Goethe.
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That's what he said.
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But the way he said it,
it was a bit pretentious.
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I didn't see that back then.
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Summer 1917.
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The sixth-former Brecht has his first
date with student Paula Banholzer.
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Finally.
He has a song for her.
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Why do you say something like that?
- What do you mean?
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Stumble through the hellish heat.
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It's just a song, Paula.
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A game.
- One doesn't joke about hellish heat.
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Aren't you afraid that you'll
spend eternity with sinners...
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...in hellish heat, you mean?
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Now you're even laughing!
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But...
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...don't you believe in hell?
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I do.
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And in heaven.
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I'd prefer that.
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Although being in hell with Lucifer and the
sinners would be more interesting company.
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Is nothing sacred to you?
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You and I.
- Sacred? Us?
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Important.
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Something special.
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I'm nothing special.
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I'm nothing.
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That can change.
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I'm catholic.
Just so you know.
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And you?
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I read the bible a lot.
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A nice book.
A strong book.
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But also an evil book.
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The Holy Scripture?
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Yes!
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I was so shocked that
I immediately ran away.
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All the way back!
He couldn't run after me.
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I was so shocked that
he dared to do that.
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He apologised later.
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I learned to live with it.
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The fact that he was that way.
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I was unexperienced in those things.
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We opened an umbrella.
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Then he was so glad that
he was allowed to kiss me.
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Then he was pleased.
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Shall we call each other
by our first names?
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Eugen?
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Not Eugen.
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Bidi.
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And you're Bi now.
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Why Bi?
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Bittersweet.
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Bittersweet.
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English...
That's how I was.
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Partially bitter, partially sweet.
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He chose that.
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Maybe it was true.
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He said it because I wasn't
willing to be intimate with him.
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That was bitter for him.
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I want you to be mine.
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Everyone shall know.
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But you mustn't go out
with another man anymore.
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I think he was afraid because
of my other admirers.
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He was angry and
ordered me to his room.
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I sat in a corner, very shy.
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He talked for
more than an hour.
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He just gave a lecture.
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He later told me that
he was scared I could leave.
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Augsburg during the Great War.
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They went to war in 1914.
Delightedly.
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Brecht's friend Caspar Neher
had volunteered.
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Brecht wrote a play.
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His Baal celebrated life.
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When a trull has fat hips
I throw her onto the green grass.
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I air the skirt and the trousers.
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It's sunny and I love it.
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Yes!
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Yes, that's the Baal.
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He takes one woman after another.
- And men!
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He throws them away
when they're digested.
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He's like life.
It knows no morale.
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Yes!
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The Baal could make you famous.
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You too.
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I need you.
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Weird.
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If we died next week...
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Cas, I have plans with you.
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I was interested in what the war is.
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That's why I volunteered.
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Now we know better.
- Yes.
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Death lives there.
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You can see it every day.
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It rips people apart.
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The dead get kicked into the mud.
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Eleven classmates were conscripted.
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They're ready to give up their
lives for their fatherland.
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Dulce et decorum
est pro patria mori.
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It's sweet and honourable
to die for the fatherland.
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A saying by the noble Horace.
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All of you explained these
words nicely in your essays.
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I'd be so glad to do my duty.
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To die as a hero at the frontline.
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Wiedemann.
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Yes!
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Sit down!
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Brecht!
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Get up!
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Read this!
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There!
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The saying that it's sweet and
honourable to die for the fatherland...
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...can only be seen as propaganda.
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Dying is always tough, whether you
do so in bed or on the battlefield.
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Especially when it comes
to young men in the...
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That's a shabby, materialistic
conception of man.
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No ideals.
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He said something that
many people thought.
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Keep going.
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He said too much
although many thought it.
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Because many people didn't think it through.
They felt it, but they never said it.
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Only idiots can be vain enough to...
- I can't hear you.
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Only idiots can be vain enough to
call it a jump through the dark gate.
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And only as long as they think
they won't die soon.
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Shut up!
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That s a mockery of
your classmates' deaths.
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You ruined your life with that.
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The school conference will decide
whether you can stay at this school.
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Brecht, you re a disappointment.
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May God help you.
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They want to expel you.
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I can't tell mum, as she's
getting sicker and sicker.
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Eugen, what did you think?
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Dear God!
- It's true.
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Tecum phillipos et celerem fugam.
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The Horace fled.
- You can't say everything you think!
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Let your father tell you that.
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One mustn't say the truth?
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What do you know?
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You wrote different truths
when the war started.
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We Germans have to protect
our honour. Our freedom.
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That's worth any sacrifice.
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The newspapers wrote it.
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I was proud.
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Do you know what
your new truths mean?
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No A-levels or medicine study.
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No exemption.
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A certificate because of my heart...
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I won't be picked at the mustering.
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No, you'll be drafted once
you're expelled from school.
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You'll end up at the frontline.
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There's no exception anymore.
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One does his duty.
And you?
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What are you doing?
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I write.
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Yes, you write.
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You write and feel superior to all of us.
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A poet.
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What shall become of this?
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I want to become famous.
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I'll show the world how it is.
How it really is.
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They left a spot for you
under Goethe and Schiller.
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Yes, I'm next.
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I'll be next.
I'll stand there one day.
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Did you believe him?
- Absolutely.
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He always said:
I'm the last German poet.
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The last German genius.
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Listen, people!
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The story that just recently took place.
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That I tell you faithfully.
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Let's take a page out of this book.
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Theatre should be like that.
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A singer starts the play.
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A clown comments.
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Watch out for Hamlet.
He'll make a great mistake.
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He'll be knocked out.
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Look at the fat guy.
A hundredweight and flies like a pidgeon.
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Look at the skirt,
they're having sex up there.
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The funfair changes the people.
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Be glad that you can do your A-levels.
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You just got off.
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They said it was the action of a young
man who was confused by war.
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Others went to the madhouse for that.
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I'm needed.
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It's you?
- Miss Röcker!
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You're back at the Brecht family?
- It's bad with Mrs. Brecht.
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She can't take care
of the household anymore.
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Mr. Neher!
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Eugen hasn't heard
from you in a long time.
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From the frontline.
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Where were you?
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Mrs. Brecht...
- Sit down next to me.
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Eugen will study medicine in autumn.
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In Munich.
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My brother won't need to join the army.
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I hope they'll pick me next year.
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How are you?
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In the sun...
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...some power returns.
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That helps...
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...against the pain.
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I'm more of a guest in life.
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Look at that!
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Raised from the dead.
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Miss Röcker...
- And my father?
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I think they had something going.
- It can become like that again.
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The doctors checked me.
- So?
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FFAS.
- Fit for active service.
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What a combination of words.
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That's what the marching order says.
- I won't go to your funeral.
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If that's what destiny wants...
- Destiny?
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Cas, the war, the bloodbath
is one big lie.
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I think all of life is a lie.
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I recently saw a spider.
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It throws its web
from one side to another.
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It climbs up and down.
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It was beautiful.
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How it carries that thread in its body.
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A thread that takes it anywhere.
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Cas!
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Listen! You still have it!
- No!
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I'm a dead brick.
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I've already been in a trench,
stuck under bars.
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Buried alive.
- I could hardly move.
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It was dark. I forgot how
many days and nights...
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And when you're dead,
the worms come.
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First, the rats come.
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We're lying at the Lech,
in the sun.
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Float through the water.
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Look into the naked, hungry sky.
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In the evening.
Ultraviolet.
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Podsnappery is in bed and snores.
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And Paula?
How are things with her?
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You nosy pastor!
Gruesome!
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Paula will have to confess soon.
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When a trull has fat hips...
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...I throw her onto the green grass.
- ...I throw her onto the green grass.
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I air skirt and trousers.
- ...and trousers.
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Sunny as I love it!
- ...as I love it!
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When the trull bites out of ecstasy...
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...I wipe away with green grass.
- ...I wipe away with green grass.
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Mouth, bite and lap and nose...
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...clean as I love that!
- ...clean as I love that!
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It's gruesome.
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What's gruesome?
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I have to go back.
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And you, too.
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Bert as a medicine
student is exempted.
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Neher, we have plans!
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Remember that they won't
grub you out again.
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Three, four!
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When the trull does the nice thing...
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...fiery and in excess...
- ...fiery and in excess...
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00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,560
I give her my hand and laugh...
265
00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,160
...kindly as I love that!
- ...kindly as I love that!
266
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,760
The Baal lives in an attic.
267
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:43,080
Now he takes Sophie inside on his arms
as if he had stolen her from the street, you see?
268
00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,120
Sophie breathes heavily.
269
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,200
Serenely Baal says:
270
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,040
Can't you breathe properly?
271
00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,600
Sophie: I don't know what's wrong.
272
00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:02,640
She leans against the wall.
Baal: I know what it is. It's spring.
273
00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:05,560
It gets dark and you smell me.
274
00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,880
That's how it is with animals.
- Animals?
275
00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,720
That shall be said in theatre
in front of all the people?
276
00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,920
Yes!
277
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:23,720
Baal closes the door,
goes to her and hugs Sophie.
278
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,520
Sophie is breathless.
279
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,840
Leave me alone!
You're so ugly!
280
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,360
So ugly that it shocks one.
281
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,840
Baal: But so...
282
00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,880
...it doesn't matter.
283
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,880
Baal kisses Sophie.
284
00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:53,240
Sophie: Don't! Don't!
285
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,760
Do you know that nobody has ever...
286
00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,680
Nothing has ever
been where I am!
287
00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,120
Baal leads Sophie to the bed.
288
00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:09,480
They sit down.
289
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,520
Baal:
290
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:22,120
You have to love me!
That's what I got you for!
291
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:24,920
I have to go home.
292
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,120
They're waiting for me at home.
- Yes, you have to.
293
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,360
If they send you to the countryside again...
294
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,560
To hoard?
- Yes, that's what I meant.
295
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,560
What then?
296
00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,720
He had a room in Munich.
I think it was in Schwabing.
297
00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:49,360
He said I should lie down in his room.
298
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,680
He had to go to university to do a lecture
and he'd pick me up for lunch.
299
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,680
Dear Cas!
300
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,560
The Bittersweet case is
getting close to a catharsis.
301
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,600
It has to be over until you read this.
302
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000
She seems to want it.
303
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,440
May God and I help her.
304
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,480
Bidi?
305
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,400
No, Bidi!
Don't!
306
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,280
No!
307
00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:03,520
Then we went to eat something.
The dessert was blueberry cuts.
308
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,680
The teeth and lips turned blue.
309
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:16,440
He saw me and had to laugh and kissed me in front
of all the people because he liked it so much.
310
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,520
I was ashamed but he liked that.
311
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,120
That's how it was.
312
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,920
From that day on I couldn't get
rid of a certain guilty conscience.
313
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,840
On the other hand, I stuck
to Brecht even more intimately.
314
00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,640
From now on our best time started.
315
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,280
Dear Cas, I now have
Bittersweet completely.
316
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,320
You have to paint her.
She didn't get her period.
317
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,960
Of course I wasn't even a bit careful.
318
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,080
It'd have harmed the fun.
319
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,080
I'm not a tarot player.
320
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,720
I can't hold my trumps back.
321
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,360
Come back!
322
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,120
I'll return.
323
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,400
I want to fight.
324
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,480
So the war won't come
to you. To Germany.
325
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,800
Be careful!
326
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:23,920
And return safely.
327
00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,240
My instructors say I'm the best
soldier in the depot of recruits.
328
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,880
A good soldier sees danger.
329
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,480
Should it happen...
330
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,840
One letter is for mum
and one is for you.
331
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,960
Thanks for everything.
332
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,280
Be careful!
333
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,280
I'll write to you.
334
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,200
I'm scared for him.
335
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,080
He swims in the hero joy.
336
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,880
I don't like how you say that.
337
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,400
The enemy isn't on German soil yet.
338
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,120
It's about an honourable peace.
339
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,920
Honour, duty and fatherland.
340
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,160
And then?
A hero's death.
341
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,440
The way you look...
342
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,440
You don't even wear a belt.
343
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,200
I lost it.
344
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,000
What are those shoes?
345
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,280
I'm just a paramedic soldier.
346
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,480
I nurse people with social diseases.
347
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,200
They have their wounds
from a different battlefield.
348
00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:02,960
And when the war in the fourth
spring didn't look out on peace...
349
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:11,800
...the consequence for the
soldier was a hero's death.
350
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:19,480
The doctors went to the cemetery.
351
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:27,840
They dug out the fallen soldier.
352
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,760
With a farewell!
353
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,520
With trull and dog and cleric.
354
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,160
And in the middle of it is the dead soldier.
355
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,520
Like a drunk monkey.
356
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,760
The stars aren't always there.
357
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,640
A dawn will come.
358
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:59,720
But as the soldier learned it,
he accepts the hero's death.
359
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,040
More than two million
dead soldiers at the frontline.
360
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,280
More than two
million war cripples.
361
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,920
And 426,000 people died
of hunger in Germany.
362
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,480
The war was lost.
363
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,120
Turn of eras!
364
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,880
In November 1918 the empire
collapsed in a revolution.
365
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,360
The radical left amongst
the revolutionaries...
366
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,880
...demanded the capitalistic social
system to be overthrown.
367
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,160
The young republic, headed by the social
democrats, called the military for help.
368
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,080
In Berlin's newspaper neighbourhood
the armed forces fight Spartacus.
369
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,200
What is it?
Talk!
370
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,040
I have to leave.
- Leave?
371
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,120
Our child, I...
372
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,000
It mustn't be born here.
373
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:32,240
I wasn't asked. I was someone
who suddenly had to leave.
374
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,400
The bus only drives once a day.
375
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,240
Yes, one really is stuck here.
376
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,840
I mustn't show up in Augsburg.
377
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,400
The shame!
378
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,000
And the child?
379
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,920
We'll find foster parents and maybe
I can return home in a year.
380
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:05,400
The child wasn't there yet and he
came at least every four weeks.
381
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,400
He slept in the room next door.
382
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,640
I went to him and he
was out of his mind.
383
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,640
What is it? What's wrong?
- My heart!
384
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,960
He was scared.
385
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,520
One is scared when
it comes to the heart.
386
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:30,320
He was so scared. I made
cold compresses for him.
387
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,920
He said it got better.
And it really did.
388
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,720
He slowly calmed down.
389
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:43,080
One day I'll open the drawer and
enough money will be in there.
390
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,760
I really thought about that because
I had never seen anything like that.
391
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,640
Calm down! Calm down!
392
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,440
Everything's fine.
393
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,800
Feuchtwanger! Feuchtwanger!
394
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,360
He's reading my Spartacus.
395
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,360
The man is famous in Munich.
396
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,200
If he suggested it
to the intimate theatre...
397
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,400
Yes, if he suggested it
to the intimate theatre...
398
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,960
Caspar Neher's diary.
March 1919.
399
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,520
I spent time with Bert today
and was glad.
400
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:26,000
We realised that Bert is a genius.
So am I!
401
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,680
We believe in our genius like
in the straw of the drowning.
402
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,360
The students Brecht and Neher
commute between Augsburg and Munich.
403
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,640
With sympathy they see the revolution
in Munich starting a council republic.
404
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,000
A dream of many artists.
405
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,040
When the communists take over the power
in the republic, the armed forces march in.
406
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,600
Brecht and Neher see the military...
407
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,640
...supported by the corps of volunteers,
fight down the council republic bloodily.
408
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,120
Brecht's brother, Walter,
joined the corps of volunteers.
409
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,840
Walter, you don't have to
risk your life anymore.
410
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,280
Spartacus is dead.
411
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,800
You'd never risk your life.
412
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000
No!
No way!
413
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,480
Especially not for
the corps of volunteers.
414
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,480
Get to your student flat safely.
415
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,480
Yesterday they stabbed a guard here.
416
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,080
The comrades are pretty angry.
417
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,520
Out!
418
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,880
Out!
419
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,040
Above Theresienwiese, enemy corpses
were lying in several rows.
420
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,880
They were killed quickly.
421
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,680
We had to watch some of us going
to the corpses and disgracing them.
422
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,720
The mass grave was awaiting the corpses that
were disgraced with blood, faeces and urine.
423
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,840
Walter Brecht told me about it in 1984.
424
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,400
How did he experience the
disruption of the deathwatch?
425
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,560
It was an incredible
blasphemy and insolence.
426
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,080
That's how I understood it back then.
427
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:04,480
I'd lie if I said I'd understand it
differently after all these years.
428
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:11,000
The challenge of the others
that felt pain in that house...
429
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,680
...to cover the own feelings.
430
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,360
That's how he was.
431
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,880
20 winters had threatened her.
432
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,440
Her sufferings were legions.
433
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,240
Death was ashamed of her.
434
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,080
I went to work.
435
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,840
At 7am he sat next to the moat.
436
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,760
He told me that he had to write
the death poem for his mother.
437
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,840
Why don't we say what's important?
438
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,240
They were simple words.
439
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,320
Right behind the teeth.
440
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:56,160
They fell out when we laughed
and we choke on them in our throats.
441
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,000
Did you ever see him cry?
- No! No!
442
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,240
You can't imagine
that Brecht could cry?
443
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,080
No.
I can't.
444
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,760
Notebook 1921.
Front page.
445
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,000
Toughness!
446
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,080
He could laugh sardonically.
447
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,960
But he...
448
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,160
I can't imagine that.
449
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,280
Love is like a gipsy.
450
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,560
It doesn't ask for rights, law or power.
451
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,440
If you don't love me, I'm in flames.
452
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,800
And be careful when I'm in love.
453
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:47,920
If you don't love me,
my love burns hot in me.
454
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,920
He just came into my
wardrobe and complimented me.
455
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,680
He talked and talked.
456
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,000
I realised that
I took to him.
457
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,400
Then we went for a
walk through Augsburg.
458
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,200
He talked and talked.
459
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,400
Thanks for the farewell gift.
460
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:35,200
I'll talk to the directorship of the
intimate theatre about your play.
461
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,320
But the name "Spartacus" gives it
an incorrect political tendency.
462
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,800
A post-war soldier only
takes his own side.
463
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,200
For the wide, civil bed.
464
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,000
But just because it
wasn't brought up politically.
465
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,080
Marta has a good suggestion.
466
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,280
Drums in the night.
467
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,000
It could be by me.
- We'll pick that.
468
00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:58,760
Good night.
469
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,120
Dr. Feuchtwanger!
470
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:12,000
It's always a pleasure to meet you.
471
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:18,240
He's a dog.
- He wants everything and everyone.
472
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,560
A maneater.
473
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,280
In his own way.
474
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,760
Is this real?
475
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,560
Living is worth it.
476
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:29,440
Yes!
477
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,160
You danced tantalisingly
with Mrs. Feuchtwanger.
478
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,240
Very sensually.
479
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000
But then I ran away from her.
480
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,200
You came to me.
481
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,480
And we danced.
482
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,800
Cheek...
483
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,000
...to cheek.
484
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,760
Very sensually.
485
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,960
Why did you want to
leave before midnight?
486
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,240
Because it's my birthday now.
487
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,440
Congratulations.
488
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,080
I'm 23 years old now.
489
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,720
I'm a little older.
490
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,920
Spiritually speaking I'm a Methuselah.
491
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,960
Whole libraries are up there.
492
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,920
And some plays that
will go on stage now.
493
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,120
Drums in the night!
494
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,040
Then, The Baal.
495
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,200
And before that:
496
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,680
The Bible!
497
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:39,160
An early work.
498
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,400
An early work?
You're only 23.
499
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,280
I wrote it when I was 15.
500
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,480
Then there'll be Gargei.
501
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,280
And...
502
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
...my summer symphony.
503
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,480
Where did you get the fur?
504
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:16,520
A singer needs this nowadays.
505
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,400
Fur protects.
506
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,880
Put it away!
507
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,280
You have a weird way of dancing.
508
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:39,760
Weird!
509
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,920
It's more like rhythmic stepping.
510
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,080
What does that creep want from you?
511
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,200
I don't like it when he touches
you with his slippery frog fingers.
512
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,920
I told him I can't do it anymore.
I don't want it anymore.
513
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,440
So?
What did he say?
514
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,080
He loves me.
515
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,480
He does anything for me
if I'll stay with him.
516
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,200
I can smell him.
517
00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:46,240
How he comes close to you
with his cadaveric odour.
518
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,160
And how it disgusts you.
- He isn't like that!
519
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,200
If I want him to, he leaves me alone.
- Tell him you're mine!
520
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,200
He knows it.
- So?
521
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:58,560
He cried.
522
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,720
Machiavelli with wet tissues.
523
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,320
You won't accept money
from him anymore!
524
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,840
You won't let him into your house
anymore and definitely not into your bed.
525
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,280
No way!
526
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,040
I don't like that!
- I can't forbid the theatre to him.
527
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,520
Not that!
528
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,840
But the way you sing to him...
- I'm Carmen!
529
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,360
Yes, but also the Mar...
530
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:38,960
I'm pregnant.
531
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,280
From whom?
- From whom? You!
532
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,720
But don't worry.
I'll marry Recht.
533
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,600
Diary 21st of March 1921:
534
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,800
I already have a child
that grows up with farmers.
535
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,560
He shall become fat and not curse me.
536
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,360
But now the unborn
already fight for me.
537
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,240
I can't marry.
538
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,800
I need free elbows.
Sleep alone. Be unscrupulous.
539
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,560
I'm a gipsy.
540
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,040
I need someone who's different.
541
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,680
Someone who holds me and
stops me from running away.
542
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,920
I'll write films now.
543
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,360
And a lead for you.
544
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,080
Do you still like me a bit?
545
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,680
Silly nanny goat.
I think about you every day.
546
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,120
Once I'm 21 we can marry.
547
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,840
Well, we'd need money.
548
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,280
We could take the boy as well.
549
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,760
Come, let's keep going.
550
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,720
Horse!
551
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Here!
552
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,720
The place he lives at, with
the roadman and his wife...
553
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,520
Is this right for him?
554
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,760
They're good people.
555
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,680
Frank Banholzer stayed in
Kimratshofen for many more years.
556
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,560
He went to school here.
557
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,280
An older roadmaker and his
wife had taken him for a payment.
558
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,880
The parents only visited him rarely.
559
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,200
From Marianne for you.
560
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:08,920
I'll marry Recht.
561
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:12,040
You understand?
562
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,400
She had profuse haemorrhage.
563
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,960
She had to be operated.
And yes, the child died.
564
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,320
Mrs. Recht?
565
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,360
That's your name here?
- No, he brought me here.
566
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:06,960
Now you're free.
567
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,440
You can travel to
your job in Wiesbaden.
568
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Nothing is in the way
of your career anymore.
569
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,880
Why do you want to torture me?
I just lost my child.
570
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,400
My child, which you'd
have betrayed to him.
571
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,240
After the first bleeding you
suggested an abortion to me.
572
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,800
You and your medicine
student Müllereisert.
573
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,480
I didn't want to get rid of it.
574
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:36,840
I wanted to keep it.
575
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,120
Look, Marianne!
576
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,680
This is Frank.
577
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,600
My son.
578
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,400
I just visited him in
Kimratshofen with Paula.
579
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,040
A clever, nice boy.
580
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,000
I cruelly show her
the pictures of Frank.
581
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,840
She cries loudly.
582
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,720
I could strangle the person.
583
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:26,240
The whore shall not have a child.
My child left her, as she has no pure heart.
584
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,520
Out of me!
585
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,680
Out!
Out!
586
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:41,080
Now having her used as a whore
and throwing her to the others...
587
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:43,560
You aren't mine anymore.
588
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:53,440
One should weigh this heavily when
it comes to the Marianne story:
589
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:59,280
The half Jew is a businessman, the woman is an
opera singer and the young man is a littérateur.
590
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,680
The businessman wants her spirit.
591
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,720
The littérateur wants her body.
592
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,680
I travel to the sea with Bi.
593
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,400
We take a sunbath in the boat.
She looks incredible.
594
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,120
Slim and tender.
595
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:19,120
I taught her how to swim.
- He taught me how to swim?
596
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:21,600
He's a liar.
A liar.
597
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,640
I could swim.
I had learned it.
598
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:29,120
I was 13 when I learned to swim.
Or maybe 12.
599
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,920
We're sitting in the cabin.
Naked.
600
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,560
She has a pure, natural way.
601
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:37,840
An incredible grace and
dignity in everything.
602
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,680
She says I seem manly when I talk.
Just like my face does.
603
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,560
In bed she's childish and cheeky and
at her best when something happens.
604
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:48,880
I like her a lot.
605
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,480
He had a lot of poetic fantasy there.
606
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,760
You just were on the other side of the sea
with Bi and now you're back with Marianne.
607
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,120
You can't let anyone go.
608
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:08,560
She loves me.
And Recht broke her.
609
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,040
He can't satisfy her sexually.
610
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,960
She tells you stuff like that?
- Yes. "Only you can satisfy me".
611
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,960
She has beautiful words for that.
612
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,800
Thanks, Ma.
- Piglet!
613
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,640
A little more respect!
- Talented piglet!
614
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,760
I want Timbuktu and a child.
615
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,040
And a house without a door.
616
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:48,120
I want to be alone in bed
and in bed with a woman.
617
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:49,960
At the same time?
618
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,200
Yes, that's the problem.
619
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,760
And I also want the apples from the
tree and the wood from the tree.
620
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,280
I don't want to use an axe.
621
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:07,920
But I want the tree with blossoms, apples
and leafage in front of my window.
622
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,000
Anything else?
623
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,680
Yes!
624
00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:13,720
A servant for dunging.
- He wants everything.
625
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:15,920
Everything!
626
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:17,600
And why?
627
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,720
Because I only exist once.
628
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,240
And who's the servant?
629
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,320
Always the others.
- Always the others.
630
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,320
That love kitsch!
631
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,560
Big feelings.
632
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:59,280
I cried in long, long nights.
633
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:06,600
I'm inferior to my suffering.
634
00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:13,880
If I hadn't found out so soon...
635
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:21,880
...that you've always cheated on me!
636
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:32,200
I'd have done anything for you.
637
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:39,200
And yet you never loved me.
638
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,240
Marianne Zoff's note, 1921:
639
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,520
A great man is allowed to lie.
640
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Lie all the time.
Why not?
641
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:52,880
Anyway, if you lie so well that you
believe it yourself, that's an art.
642
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,160
And who can lie in summer
when it's hot? Really hot!
643
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,920
Brecht can. Bert Brecht
can do anything!
644
00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:38,160
On that day in September under a blue moon,
quietly under a young plum tree...
645
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:44,320
...I held it, the quiet, pale love.
646
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:51,520
In my arm, as if it were a nice dream.
647
00:49:51,640 --> 00:50:05,360
And above us in the sky was a
cloud I watched for a long time.
648
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,520
It was white...
649
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,200
Bronnen, you're finally here.
650
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:12,040
I saw!
651
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,040
I had never seen a human before.
652
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,640
I felt as if what would come next,
could never end.
653
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,000
I immediately had insight.
654
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:29,520
In that small, plain human,
the heart of our time beats.
655
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:38,120
Many moons have passed since then.
656
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:43,960
The plum trees seem to have run away.
657
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:49,040
You ask me what
happened to the love?
658
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,160
I only had one wish.
659
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:57,120
The feelings of students. Love!
Great love in the world...
660
00:50:57,240 --> 00:50:59,080
...make him my friend.
661
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:04,320
I know what you mean!
662
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:09,720
But her face?
I don't remember!
663
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:14,680
And he asked: "Love! Love in the world,
make him my friend".
664
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,760
A little emphatic and theatrical.
665
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,280
But some feelings really
must have been in him.
666
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,840
Yes, they were two
very different people.
667
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:35,240
But for some reason
they attracted each other.
668
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,520
Arnolt.
- Bertolt.
669
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,600
With a T at the end?
670
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,000
Yes, I think so.
671
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,120
I'm a fan of uncapitalization.
- Of everything?
672
00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:47,400
Yes.
All the way!
673
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,600
Brecht had "Baal" ready
and my father had "Parricide".
674
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,880
Both were on the rise.
675
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,480
They were poor and
knew how to stylise themselves.
676
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,640
Brecht with his long leather coat...
- Bronnen, Lord of the North Ocean!
677
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:08,120
...and my father with white suits...
- Brecht, Lord of the South Ocean!
678
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,400
...or suits in general.
679
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,880
He was more lordly.
680
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,280
The two of them were
like asphalt cowboys.
681
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:24,080
They walked the streets of Berlin as
they didn't have enough money for the bus.
682
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:29,080
They walked all night long.
From one premiere to the next.
683
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:32,200
Brecht always knew
someone somewhere.
684
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,480
Whether it was the caller or an actor,
someone got them into the groups.
685
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,640
They didn't have to pay and
yet they could watch it.
686
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:44,800
In Berlin, Brecht failed with
staging Bronnen's play "Parricide".
687
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,920
His first own premiere took place
in Munich's intimate theatre.
688
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,680
Paula looks great!
689
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,280
I wrote the play for her.
690
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,720
Drums in the night.
691
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,800
Your first premiere,
your fame is growing.
692
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,480
I have to thank Feuchtwanger
that my play takes place.
693
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,440
Look there!
Next to his wife!
694
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:14,800
That's Jhering, the critic
of the Berlin Stock Courier.
695
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,080
He will decide?
- Yes.
696
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,760
Whether Berlin will be able to spell
my name from tomorrow on. Yes.
697
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:24,800
Spartacus?
698
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,880
Or the power of love?
699
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:34,840
The bloodbath in the newspaper neighbourhood,
or is every man best in his own skin?
700
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,680
The bagpipe pipes.
701
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,520
People die in the
newspaper neighbourhood.
702
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,640
Houses fall on them!
The morning is coming!
703
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:50,440
They're on the asphalt
like drowned cats.
704
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,040
I'm a pig and the pig goes home.
705
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:03,840
I'll put on a fresh shirt.
706
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,040
I still am alive!
707
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,480
The screaming will be
over tomorrow morning.
708
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:17,080
But I'll be in bed tomorrow morning.
Breeding.
709
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,120
So I don't die out.
710
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,760
Don't stare so romantically,
you profiteers.
711
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,600
You cutthroats and
bloodthirsty cowards.
712
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,480
Here comes the bed.
713
00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:35,160
The great white bed.
714
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:38,960
Come!
715
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:52,920
Incredible.
716
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,080
Well, alright.
717
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:03,000
The 24 year old Bert Brecht...
718
00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:09,280
...changed Germany's
literary face over night.
719
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:20,240
With Brecht, a new tone, a new
melody, a new vision is in our time.
720
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:26,200
No, not arrived!
Just "is in our time"!
721
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,000
A sensational literary premiere.
722
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,800
The unusual success of
Bert Brecht's comedy...
723
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:39,040
..."Drums in the night" was a new sign that
the real and strong always forces through.
724
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,200
To the registrar at the
register office Munich. Urgent!
725
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:53,920
Shorten the banns for the marriage of
Eugen Bertolt Brecht and Miss Marianne Zoff.
726
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:59,800
In their names I want you
to shorten their banns...
727
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:06,880
...so that the marriage can take place
on the 3rd or 4th of November 1922.
728
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:11,040
Reason: The bride is five months pregnant.
729
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,400
The doctor's certificate is attached.
730
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:20,760
And the groom and playwright Bertolt
Brecht, who became famous due to his play...
731
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:26,840
..."Drums in the Night" has to leave
Munich for his premiere in Berlin.
732
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:32,200
He'll then travel through Germany for
a long time to get to all the premieres.
733
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:37,440
He won't be able to return quickly without
professional interferences and high costs.
734
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:41,720
How long do you want to
stay in Berlin this time?
735
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,640
I just married in Munich.
736
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,080
Don't even unpack.
737
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:49,160
Sorry, but I need my room tonight.
- A Miss?
738
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:53,840
And me, Arnolt?
739
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,040
You know Helene Weigel.
- The gifted?
740
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,720
She currently acts at the
state theatre with Jessner.
741
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,480
She wants to become great!
742
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,280
She lives right on the other side
of the street. Spichernstreet 16.
743
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,120
Right under the roof.
744
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,160
You think I can just...
- Yes.
745
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:18,800
She's famous for her cooked desserts.
746
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:20,680
Viennese kitchen.
747
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,520
For one night?
748
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:24,760
For one night!
749
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:31,080
Brecht.
750
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:33,240
I see.
751
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:38,480
Do you have my bed for tonight?
- Who said that?
752
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:39,880
Bronner.
753
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,720
Come in.
754
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,320
You have a nice flat.
755
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:02,080
Do you like it?
- An atelier!
756
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,320
And the whole city
in front of the window.
757
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:13,320
Theatres, publishers,
newspapers, bars and cinemas.
758
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,840
All friends, all enemies.
759
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,200
Do you want to conquer
all of Berlin right away?
760
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,800
If you want to win through here...
- ...you need elbows. Made of iron.
761
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,160
The Viennese cooked dessert.
762
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,840
Are you looking for a place
to sleep or to have lunch?
763
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:37,880
Both.
- I see.
764
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,920
Brecht wasn't just imaginative,
enjoyable and funny...
765
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,600
...but he also had the spirit of a child.
766
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,600
He attracted views, feelings and
touching attempts, without wanting to.
767
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,160
He wanted to have what
he saw or heard about.
768
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,560
You could help me if you
want a soft place to sleep there.
769
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:06,080
Don't you think the mattress
would be better there?
770
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,760
At mine?
- Yes.
771
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,360
All I can say is:
772
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,360
Sleep well, Sir.
773
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:22,920
It's cold.
774
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:26,880
No!
775
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,280
One blanket is too little
for such a night.
776
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:31,560
No!
777
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:52,760
On that day in September under a blue moon,
quiet under a young plum tree...
778
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:59,280
...I held it, the quiet pale love.
779
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:05,560
In my arms, as if it was a nice dream.
780
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:17,400
And above us in the sky was a cloud
that I looked at for a long time.
781
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:25,720
It was very white and very far above.
782
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,960
And when I looked up...
783
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,680
...it was gone.
784
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,640
This is how it shall stay.
785
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:46,880
What shall stay as it is?
786
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:49,600
Always a gift.
787
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,160
No tributes.
788
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,000
No tributes.
789
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:07,720
Paula Banholzer married the
merchant Hermann Gross in 1924.
790
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,000
She mustn't take Brecht's son to her.
791
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:15,920
My mother was refused
by my father's family.
792
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:20,160
She was stained with a mark of shame.
793
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:26,360
An illegitimate child with Brecht who, in
Germany, was seen as a communist back then.
794
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:28,240
You know better than I do.
795
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,800
And my mother had a seven
year relationship with that man.
796
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,000
That was held against my mother.
797
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:39,120
Brecht's son, Frank Banholzer, served
as a soldier in Hitler's Wehrmacht.
798
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,240
He was killed in a cinema
at the eastern front.
799
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,040
Partisans had blown up the building.
800
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:55,920
Thanks.
801
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,800
Now you can try out your
music in your new headquarter.
802
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,120
Come to me if you
want something to eat.
803
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,200
How did you convince the housing office?
804
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,360
Just to let you know, I'm an actress.
805
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,480
And the poor official...
806
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,720
...accepted that he can't let a pregnant
woman walk up all those stairs.
807
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:22,880
Helli, you're just great.
808
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,400
The way you take care...
- Yes, I'm a useful person.
809
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:27,880
A special one.
810
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,520
There's no other one like you.
811
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,440
One you can't get rid of anymore?
812
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,360
I can't and don't want to anymore.
813
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:40,960
Especially now.
814
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:47,720
He shall be a feast for your eyes.
815
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:50,400
Like the father.
816
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:52,600
Madame!
817
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,880
The two of us are often
well-disposed towards you.
818
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,360
Always a gift.
819
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:10,600
No tributes.
820
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,040
It shall stay like this.
821
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:15,920
It shall stay like this.
822
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,640
Alright, be careful with the steep stairs.
823
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,560
It really isn't that
simple anymore.
824
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,760
Hello, you called me.
You need a secretary?
825
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,360
Yes.
Miss Hauptmann, Miss Weigel.
826
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,160
I was the former tenant.
827
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:48,320
Here you go.
828
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:53,320
Come!
829
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:57,320
So...
830
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:03,000
You know the English language?
- I was a teacher.
831
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:07,280
So you could teach me.
- If you like it. Really?
832
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,200
There's another question.
833
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,080
Can you write with a typewriter?
- With ten fingers.
834
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:18,520
Very well.
835
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:20,000
You'll need that.
836
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,120
Kiepenheuer has my back.
837
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,320
I'll talk to him.
He shall pay you as my secretary.
838
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,680
Do you think he will?
- Yes.
839
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:31,960
Well...
840
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,200
But...
841
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,680
...Elisabeth doesn't work out.
842
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,280
How else can I call you?
843
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,920
Bess!
My mother grew up in New York.
844
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:48,960
Bess!
845
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:51,120
Yes, that fits.
846
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,600
And you fit me.
847
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,200
Wonderful.
848
01:04:56,600 --> 01:05:01,320
And we met and I know that
nobody was there for the first year.
849
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:08,720
Feuchtwanger came, but he was
busy enough taming Berlin.
850
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:13,720
Brecht and I talked a lot.
851
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:19,520
Nowadays I can hardly imagine what
kind of partner I was back then.
852
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,040
They show the new Chaplin
in the Marmorhaus.
853
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:27,600
And here, I translated
the Kipling poems for you.
854
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:28,880
Very good.
855
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:34,880
How about Samson Körner?
- He'll tell us about his life.
856
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:39,040
Very good. You stenograph
and I'll make it a biography.
857
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,880
It could be an interesting story.
858
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,640
Kortner should have to read from it
in the Sportpalast before the fight.
859
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:47,480
The newspapers love that.
860
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,520
The Steyer plants will do a contest.
861
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:58,520
The winner will get a new car.
862
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,200
What is Berlin without your own car?
863
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:09,640
Bess!
864
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:12,840
We'll advertise!
865
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,680
Singing Steyr cars!
866
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:22,520
We drive you without any shaking.
867
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:33,680
You think you're lying in water.
868
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:35,280
Drive us!
869
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,840
The way his eyes follow my hand.
It's incredible.
870
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:48,640
Like his father.
871
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:55,720
His brother Walter visited us.
872
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,040
He had to say "Miss Weigel".
873
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:01,840
Nobody told him that he's
the uncle of our Stefan now.
874
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:03,400
And Marianne?
875
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,360
The wife has no idea.
876
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:11,080
He's very discreet when
it comes to family business...
877
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,840
Tell me the truth! You have
something going with Weigel!
878
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,160
Who said that?
- I was told so!
879
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,280
Those are lies.
880
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:26,200
Is it also a lie that you
have a child with her?
881
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,720
And that you always
go to her for lunch?
882
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,480
And that you already got
used to the new child?
883
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:35,560
Marianne, you're wrong,
Weigel and I don't even get along.
884
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:37,560
In the end you'll marry her!
885
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:41,320
Marianne!
I married you and I only know one child.
886
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,800
And that's our Hanne.
You got that?
887
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,640
But if you'll go with another man, it's over!
888
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,400
Do you really want to travel through the
province with that comedian Theo Lingen?
889
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:57,920
There'll be war between us!
890
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:03,600
Situation: Horrible!
891
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:05,600
Here am I, there's the revolver.
892
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,600
Finally, give me the valerian!
893
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:11,720
Nissen, a nice guy, but shooting callers:
That's attempted murder.
894
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:16,680
Works right away.
It calms down.
895
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,680
22nd November, 1927.
896
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:24,320
Brecht is divorced from Marianne.
The court decided:
897
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:29,840
As the witnesses refuse to give evidence,
it seems proven that the respondent had...
898
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:34,280
...intercourse with the actor
Theodor Lingen and that the petitioner...
899
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,520
...had intercourse with
actress Helene Weigel.
900
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:46,480
Brecht's attempt to have Marianne
judged as the lone adulterer had failed.
901
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:05,400
Brecht!
902
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:09,400
I'm glad I finally found you.
My name is Aufricht.
903
01:09:10,440 --> 01:09:13,000
I just took over the Schiffbauerdamm.
904
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,600
Your own theatre?
- Yes.
905
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:19,560
Congratulations.
- Thanks.
906
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,360
But I have a little problem.
907
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:29,040
I have no play to open with.
908
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:31,280
One beer, please.
- Sure.
909
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:32,200
Thanks.
910
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,480
Joe Fleischhacker.
That's your play.
911
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:49,000
It takes place in America.
At Chicago's wheat stock.
912
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:51,840
We'll show the speculation
with the world's bread.
913
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,360
The crimes of capitalism.
- The wheat stock on stage, I don't know.
914
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,080
It's theft.
Exploitation of the poorest.
915
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,040
Look, Aufrecht,
it's like the theft of wages.
916
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:05,360
The businessmen take the
profit that the workers create.
917
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,360
I thought about something else.
918
01:10:08,480 --> 01:10:11,520
The first crime
that all others stem from.
919
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,080
I need something entertaining.
920
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,840
I might have a little side
achievement I'm working on.
921
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,160
I'm working on it for fun, you see?
922
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:31,160
Beggar's Opera.
923
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,400
What kind of book
did you have with you?
924
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:37,880
Beggar's Opera by John Gay.
925
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:39,720
An opera for beggars?
926
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,520
To be precise,
it's the opera for beggars.
927
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,240
Beggar's Opera?
928
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:50,680
The play is 200 years old.
Yet it still is a sensational success in London.
929
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,480
You're breathing incorrectly.
Dr. Schmitt told you!
930
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:55,240
The residual breath has to get out.
931
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,440
What is the play about?
932
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:03,680
Personnel. Whores, beggars, thieves
and a lawyer who's their concealer.
933
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,520
Everything's about money?
- Lies and fraud.
934
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:08,920
Very nice.
935
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:10,120
What is it about?
936
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,440
Peachum started a
beggar empire in London.
937
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,520
He takes whatever
he finds on the street.
938
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:23,360
The self-employed craftsmen of
the beggars, the talented ones.
939
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:26,600
His organisation gives them
exact locations in the city.
940
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,200
The company gives
them masks and costumes.
941
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:31,280
A company and his employees.
942
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:36,480
He owns the resources
and he exploits the beggars.
943
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,880
There's an interesting character.
944
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,080
A certain MacHeath.
945
01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:46,640
A robber who's drawn towards
beautiful women and prostitutes.
946
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:52,080
He lies and cheats on one with
another and the second with the third.
947
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,680
But then a real robber
gets into his way.
948
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:57,360
And he steals his daughter.
949
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:00,280
That's good.
950
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:02,200
That smells of theatre.
951
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,000
That's what the Beggar's Opera is about.
952
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,720
The civil lifestyle of criminals.
953
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,440
And the criminal lifestyle of the citizens.
954
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,640
The love that citizens feel for
robbers in novels and cinema...
955
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:17,520
...comes from the mistake
that robbers aren't citizens.
956
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:22,000
And that comes from the mistake
that citizens aren't robbers.
957
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:27,080
Aufricht?
958
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,560
You'll pay these peanuts, right?
959
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:34,480
Wait!
When can I read it?
960
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,640
Tomorrow afternoon you can have
the first scenes picked up at mine.
961
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,840
Spichnerstreet 16.
Right under the roof.
962
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:43,640
Thanks.
963
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:47,480
First act, second scene!
A robber is just a sentimentalist as well.
964
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:50,520
MacHeath wants to
celebrate his wedding.
965
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,080
In white. The bride
demands that. The innocence.
966
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:55,480
It's already gone.
967
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:58,760
Yet he needs a bridal bed.
968
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,280
The nicest day in the life of a woman.
969
01:13:06,480 --> 01:13:09,160
All that is needed...
970
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,000
The great feelings.
971
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,560
The operas sing it all the time.
972
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:16,480
You learned it.
973
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,800
Puccini.
Yes! Exactly!
974
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,920
That's what I mean!
975
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:29,120
Here's the moment of great empathy.
976
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:31,920
The old theatre shows what it can do.
977
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:33,680
The love kitsch.
978
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:36,960
The pit closes its eyes.
979
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:39,960
They swim away in the boxes.
980
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,480
And now we cut it open!
981
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:48,160
We show how fleshy
the civilian love is.
982
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:52,280
The wallet and the
filled seminal gland.
983
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:53,840
That's the basis.
984
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:58,280
Brecht, you're a materialist.
- Yes!
985
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:03,480
And from the bottom to the top,
there's a loving heart.
986
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:11,440
But the robber has no marriage
contract in front of state and altar.
987
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:23,680
And when you have no papers from the
register office and no flowers on the altar...
988
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,240
...love still remains.
989
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:32,480
Or not.
990
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,320
Very good.
991
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:38,320
That should be sung as a
duet of the loved ones.
992
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,040
Weill has to make us
the music for this.
993
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:43,880
I'll convince Aufricht.
994
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:50,280
Love persists...
995
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,080
...or it doesn't.
- ...or it doesn't.
996
01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,120
At this...
997
01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:00,280
...or that place.
- ...or that place.
998
01:15:40,480 --> 01:15:43,920
Brecht will include many songs.
- Light!
999
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:51,400
I'll therefore put a gigantic
fairground organ here.
1000
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:54,040
I'll decorate the pipes with putti.
1001
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,280
The music shall get out of
the ditch, that hiding place.
1002
01:15:57,440 --> 01:15:59,800
The musicians shall
not remain invisible.
1003
01:15:59,920 --> 01:16:02,200
They'll be right here under the organ.
1004
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,280
Everyone shall see everything.
1005
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,520
Everything far above
the heads of the actors.
1006
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:08,120
Just like in circus.
1007
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:10,480
And that's how the alterations
shall take place as well.
1008
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:14,200
Yes! And here will be
a half-height curtain.
1009
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,040
Behind it the alterations
will take place.
1010
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:20,320
Almost visible, almost open.
We emphasise that this is just theatre.
1011
01:16:20,440 --> 01:16:24,000
Weill will make the music.
- Weill? Kurt Weill?
1012
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:27,240
He makes that strict
atonal cacophony.
1013
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:29,560
He'll make my audience run away.
1014
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:32,640
No cacophony!
- Weill will make us snappy music.
1015
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:35,800
Sophisticated, catchy songs.
With style.
1016
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:38,760
Don't you want to take
over the whole theatre, Brecht?
1017
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:41,720
Weill has found a new tone.
1018
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,040
He underlines sentences
with his music.
1019
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:45,800
It makes you think!
1020
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:52,600
The troops live under
the cannon's thunder...
1021
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:57,240
From Sind to Cooch Behar...
1022
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:02,000
Moving from place to place
where they come face to face...
1023
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:06,480
With a different breed of fellow
whose skins are black or yellow...
1024
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:11,080
And quick as winking chopped them
into beefsteak tartar!
1025
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,400
That's good.
I like it.
1026
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:18,920
My wedding with Miss Polly Peachum
will take place in this horse bam today.
1027
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,440
She followed me out of love.
1028
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:25,480
To share the rest of my life with me.
1029
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,640
Operetta from bottom to top.
1030
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,000
All of this is way too cute.
1031
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,360
Paulsen, tell me this:
1032
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,200
The blue ribbon...
1033
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:41,840
What about it?
1034
01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:45,640
Could you forgo it?
- I'd rather forgo this role.
1035
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,440
I don't have a proper appearance
in the beginning of the play.
1036
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:52,400
You have to write something, Brecht.
So everyone knows who's the lead!
1037
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:54,880
Fine.
1038
01:17:55,560 --> 01:18:00,800
Let's do him the favour. Weill and I
will introduce him with a bloody ballad.
1039
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:05,840
He'll sing about his crimes.
Alright. With the blue ribbon.
1040
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:25,480
That's nice.
1041
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:32,440
Oh, the shark, babe,
has such teeth, dear...
1042
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:38,400
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth...
- Yes! Yes!
1043
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:43,400
...and it shows them pearly white.
1044
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:49,720
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath,
babe...
1045
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:55,000
...and he keeps it, out of sight.
1046
01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:58,000
That's good, Weill.
That's good.
1047
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,360
A nice, ironic contrast.
1048
01:19:00,480 --> 01:19:05,640
The tenderly sung "jackknife".
1049
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,120
The word could be sharp as well.
1050
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:11,080
So that it cuts.
1051
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:13,600
Just a jackknife...
1052
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:18,400
And he keeps it, out of sight.
1053
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:22,080
It'd be better if Gerron
sang the song as a balladeer.
1054
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:25,800
Right in the beginning
on the Soho market.
1055
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:27,800
Paulsen will be glad about that.
1056
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:31,360
Paulsen!
1057
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:38,680
Operetta Paulsen sneaks onto the stage
and hears how his crimes are sung about.
1058
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:52,560
To the ramp!
- Yes!
1059
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:16,440
Oh, the shark, babe,
has such teeth, dear...
1060
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:22,040
...and it shows them pearly white.
1061
01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:33,680
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe.
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight...
1062
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:09,440
The troops live under
the cannon's thunder...
1063
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:14,520
Moving from place to place,
where they come face to face...
1064
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:19,120
With a different breed of fellow
whose skins are black or yellow...
1065
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,560
And quick as winking chopped them
into beefsteak tartar!
1066
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:58,880
The newspapers
predict 500 shows.
1067
01:21:59,960 --> 01:22:02,560
500 shows in Berlin.
1068
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:06,080
Now you've conquered the city.
- This means fame.
1069
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,080
Cheers!
1070
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:14,120
What about Munich?
Leipzig? Dresden?
1071
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:17,040
Hamburg? Cologne? Königsberg?
1072
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,600
What about London? Paris?
- New York?
1073
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:26,160
And Moscow?
1074
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:35,280
All in white.
1075
01:22:35,480 --> 01:22:38,520
Brecht and Helene Weigel with
their children Stefan and Barbara.
1076
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,240
They're in their own summer
house on Lake Ammer.
1077
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,800
Brecht's and Marianne's daughter
Hanne is sometimes there as well.
1078
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:51,000
Brecht?
1079
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:31,520
The poet Bert Brecht married
Berlin actress Helene Weigel.
1080
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,040
It's against the deal.
1081
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,880
Burdens were placed on you that can
only be placed on the safest shoulders.
1082
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:11,920
You were overlooked
like the most obvious.
1083
01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:15,160
One expected a
special insight from you.
1084
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,240
Like those who eat last are
those who are closest to it:
1085
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:19,920
The chefs.
- The chefs.
1086
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:21,920
I know that very well.
1087
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:26,160
So don't put your name on the
never ending list of apostates.
1088
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:29,040
But that's how it is.
It was that tough.
1089
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:30,600
It was tough.
1090
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:33,720
For everyone.
1091
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,880
Especially for those who
were always there.
1092
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:40,400
Right?
1093
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:42,200
How could this be described?
1094
01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:46,520
But he was someone
who wanted to own.
1095
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,880
Who wanted to own people as well.
1096
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:55,960
He always had a circle around
him of good friends and women.
1097
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:57,920
He didn't like to give that away.
1098
01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,640
Marianne Zoff and her daughter Hanne.
1099
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:05,400
After she divorced Brecht,
she married Theo Lingen in 1928.
1100
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:09,000
The popular actor managed
to get his Jewish wife...
1101
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:13,400
...her mother and Brecht's daughter
through the terror of Nazi Germany.
1102
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:18,800
Goebbels needed the popular comedian
for his entertainment cinema.
1103
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:22,480
Those faces!
1104
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:32,040
Maxim Gorki's novel
"The Mother" in cinema.
1105
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:36,160
Afilm by Pudowkin about the
prehistory of the Russian revolution.
1106
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:40,160
That'd be a role for you.
1107
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:43,000
I'm way too young for that.
1108
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:46,000
Pelagea Wlassowa lost
her son in the battles.
1109
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,800
She takes over the
flag of the revolution.
1110
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,600
How they were hunted
on the 1st of May!
1111
01:26:15,480 --> 01:26:17,800
How they were shot at.
1112
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:21,800
Right in front of our eyes.
In front of the Liebknecht's house.
1113
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:23,200
It was rough.
1114
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:25,600
I'd never have thought it possible.
1115
01:26:26,440 --> 01:26:29,160
They shot down all
the demonstrations.
1116
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:31,440
The newspaper said
that 20 people died.
1117
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,600
The social democrats killed them.
- No Helli, I meant...
1118
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,880
...how real it suddenly was.
1119
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:42,480
How close.
1120
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:49,040
Hyperinflation, financial
crisis, mass unemployment.
1121
01:26:50,440 --> 01:26:54,600
All the suffering under the shining
surface of the Weimar Republic...
1122
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:58,960
...is seen as a necessary
crisis of capitalism by Brecht.
1123
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:04,400
The writings of Marx, Engels
and Lenin opened his eyes.
1124
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,920
Together with Günther Weisenborn,
Brecht edits Gorki's novel for the stage.
1125
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:16,920
After the death of her son, the
mother takes over the leadership.
1126
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:22,200
She learns everything the Bourgeoisie knows.
Almost expropriating it.
1127
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:28,240
She realises the connection between possessing
the resources in the factories and exploitation.
1128
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:32,120
That way she takes over the lead.
Becomes a mother for all sons.
1129
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:38,160
What's the problem with communism?
1130
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:45,000
It's sensible,
anyone can understand it.
1131
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:52,040
It's easy.
You're not an exploiter...
1132
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:55,120
...so you can grasp it.
1133
01:27:55,240 --> 01:28:01,280
It's a good thing for you,
find out more about it.
1134
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:06,800
The stupid call it stupid...
1135
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:10,480
And the squalid call it squalid.
1136
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:16,800
It is against squalor
and against stupidity.
1137
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:30,640
But we know:
It is the end of crime.
1138
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:40,000
It is not madness,
but the end of madness.
1139
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:47,840
It is not the riddle
but the solution.
1140
01:28:48,440 --> 01:28:59,880
It is the simple thing
so hard to achieve.
1141
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:19,480
After Hitler took over power, and the Reichstag
was set on fire, the first waves of arrests started.
1142
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:23,480
Friends warned Brecht about an arrest.
1143
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:25,720
Helene Weigel was also in danger.
1144
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:28,680
For the Nazis she was
a Jewish Bolshevik.
1145
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:30,160
Your passports, please!
1146
01:29:30,440 --> 01:29:34,320
Elisabeth Hauptmann put her son
Stefan into the plane to Prague.
1147
01:29:34,440 --> 01:29:38,040
Daughter Barbara was brought to her
grandfather in Augsburg.
1148
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:52,680
A great police action has just started.
1149
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:58,000
In several areas, from the basement
to the roof and through all flats.
1150
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:06,520
It's checked for example, whether
the people are politically wanted.
1151
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:13,240
A lot of patrol cars with policemen
and machine guns come closer.
1152
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:19,920
An incredible sensation. Afear of communism
started amongst the social democratic officials.
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