4 00:01:57,799 --> 00:02:02,219 And so it was, in those days of the First Great War, 5 00:02:03,479 --> 00:02:06,099 which would ravage the land for decades to come, 6 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,659 that Rose resolved to turn her back on soldiering. 7 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:16,800 and although her story did not begin there, 8 00:02:18,019 --> 00:02:20,479 but it nevertheless took a grave turn. 11 00:03:19,050 --> 00:03:20,630 Everything is in order. 12 00:03:21,730 --> 00:03:22,730 Nothing is missing. 13 00:03:23,210 --> 00:03:24,250 Not as far as I can see. 14 00:03:26,290 --> 00:03:28,070 You possess this document. 15 00:03:28,189 --> 00:03:30,150 That means you may claim the inheritance. 16 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:33,820 Do you know the land, sir? 17 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,420 Yes. As a boy, I spent two summers there with my mother. 18 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,660 After Father had died, we 19 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:43,200 we were graciously received at the estate. 20 00:03:47,099 --> 00:03:49,340 That was when the little chapel caught fire, 21 00:03:49,780 --> 00:03:50,879 when lightning struck it. 22 00:04:02,449 --> 00:04:04,209 The farm has stood empty for a long time. 23 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:07,589 Why did you wait until now to come forward? 24 00:04:08,810 --> 00:04:11,349 The news took an age to reach me. I was a soldier. 25 00:04:11,689 --> 00:04:12,689 Where? 26 00:04:13,789 --> 00:04:14,789 With the army. 27 00:04:16,430 --> 00:04:17,430 For ten years. 28 00:04:18,449 --> 00:04:19,449 And your mother? 29 00:04:21,389 --> 00:04:22,389 Dead too. 30 00:04:23,990 --> 00:04:24,990 All of them now. 31 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,100 As that same day was not 32 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:47,639 considered suitable for an inspection, 33 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,340 it was agreed that they would set out together the following morning 34 00:04:53,340 --> 00:04:56,360 to inspect the estate. 35 00:05:27,149 --> 00:05:32,769 The livestock was shared among the village, or it would have perished. 36 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:52,620 It is good land, but demands everything of you 37 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:54,479 for only the smallest yield. 38 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:59,000 A man must know what he is doing, or he had best leave it alone. 39 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:03,279 As a soldier, you fought for the land. 40 00:06:05,019 --> 00:06:07,599 That does not mean you can withstand the struggle against it. 41 00:06:10,629 --> 00:06:12,509 As you can see, much must be done 42 00:06:12,989 --> 00:06:14,789 before the real work can even begin. 43 00:06:16,069 --> 00:06:17,069 It is not for everyone. 44 00:06:18,529 --> 00:06:19,609 There is no shame in that. 45 00:06:21,149 --> 00:06:22,729 I would gladly buy the land from you. 46 00:06:23,449 --> 00:06:24,449 For a good price. 47 00:06:25,929 --> 00:06:27,029 And I intend to stay. 48 00:06:29,189 --> 00:06:30,689 To settle down at last. 49 00:06:32,469 --> 00:06:35,209 And seek my fortune in this splendid parish. 50 00:06:38,050 --> 00:06:40,370 In the coming days, we can put the formalities in order 51 00:06:40,370 --> 00:06:41,910 and sign the documents. 53 00:06:59,449 --> 00:07:02,589 The first arrival was complete. 54 00:07:07,449 --> 00:07:10,649 And though Rose found no one 55 00:07:10,649 --> 00:07:11,990 who wished to drink to it with her, 56 00:07:14,850 --> 00:07:18,610 they were happy enough to take her money. 58 00:09:52,549 --> 00:09:53,629 That's strange. 59 00:09:55,709 --> 00:09:56,709 It's become so narrow. 60 00:09:59,350 --> 00:10:00,690 It's all dented. 61 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:04,950 It isn't only my face. Everything has a new shape now. 62 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,379 In the village they call you "the soldier." 63 00:10:37,180 --> 00:10:39,399 And they say you are an eccentric. 64 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:40,680 Be quiet! 65 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:46,399 And that you carry something mysterious with you. 66 00:10:46,599 --> 00:10:47,620 I told you to be quiet! 70 00:11:39,370 --> 00:11:42,009 What kind of life is built on deceit? 71 00:11:43,750 --> 00:11:45,170 There is no heroism in it, 72 00:11:46,050 --> 00:11:48,730 only coercion and hardship, forever on one's guard. 73 00:11:50,470 --> 00:11:52,730 Can such a life be called freedom? 74 00:12:26,110 --> 00:12:28,830 Some say time will bring a solution. 75 00:12:29,929 --> 00:12:33,389 Others say the Lord provides for His own in their sleep. 76 00:12:35,909 --> 00:12:39,829 Whatever one may say, never had sleep 77 00:12:39,829 --> 00:12:43,329 done Rose as much good as it did that night. 78 00:12:44,990 --> 00:12:48,669 And counsel came the very next day. 79 00:12:52,060 --> 00:12:53,060 What is it? 80 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:57,660 The storm swept away our fences, and the livestock escaped. 81 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,140 Perhaps we could drive the sheep in here with you. 82 00:14:09,649 --> 00:14:11,009 Hup! Hup! Hup! 83 00:14:55,049 --> 00:14:58,549 The she-bear was found dead in the forest the next day. 84 00:15:00,469 --> 00:15:01,849 The meat had spoiled. 85 00:15:03,829 --> 00:15:05,009 But from the hide, 86 00:15:06,029 --> 00:15:08,709 in Rose's honour, they fashioned a cloak, 87 00:15:09,569 --> 00:15:11,669 a cap and a collar. 88 00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:21,829 The soldier, the eccentric, the mysterious heir, 89 00:15:22,250 --> 00:15:26,289 had become a bear-slayer, 90 00:15:26,289 --> 00:15:29,549 no longer obliged to contend with the old order, 91 00:15:29,549 --> 00:15:31,809 but one who had written her own story 92 00:15:32,250 --> 00:15:33,250 into that of the village. 93 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,960 What else, then, might yet happen? 94 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,140 And though God shows Himself but seldom, or too indistinctly, 95 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:45,520 in the affairs of daily life, 96 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,000 time visibly passed over the land. 97 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:01,340 A year had passed since her arrival, 98 00:16:02,779 --> 00:16:05,860 and Rose had been seized by a mighty spirit of enterprise. 99 00:16:05,860 --> 00:16:06,860 had come over her. 100 00:16:08,079 --> 00:16:11,480 She thought of expansion, of making the farm larger, 101 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:15,299 of surplus and profit too. 102 00:16:40,139 --> 00:16:41,899 It is good to see the land prosper again. 103 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:46,000 I did not think you capable of it. 104 00:16:49,909 --> 00:16:51,089 Nor did I trust myself. 105 00:16:52,649 --> 00:16:55,469 Every day, I stand in wonder that I am here. 106 00:16:59,950 --> 00:17:04,370 Before, I could never imagine a tomorrow. 107 00:17:06,610 --> 00:17:07,870 What might come, what might be. 108 00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:13,089 Far too busy getting through each present day unscathed. 109 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,039 And now? 110 00:17:20,150 --> 00:17:22,950 For the first time, it seems so magnificent and beautiful. 111 00:17:26,869 --> 00:17:28,190 It brings me such joy. 112 00:17:30,599 --> 00:17:33,119 To work, to imagine what else one might do. 113 00:17:37,750 --> 00:17:41,190 To think of all one might yet achieve, or build. 114 00:17:44,849 --> 00:17:46,509 And for that, one needs this land. 115 00:17:48,799 --> 00:17:50,059 It is a beginning. 116 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,559 Land has a different value from coin. 117 00:17:54,619 --> 00:17:56,259 Coin is exchanged once for something. 118 00:17:57,079 --> 00:17:58,539 The land gives to you every year. 119 00:17:59,519 --> 00:18:00,539 Like a woman's womb. 120 00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:04,750 No. 121 00:18:06,509 --> 00:18:07,950 I do not wish to sell the brook. 122 00:18:13,299 --> 00:18:15,099 But I shall make you an offer: 123 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:20,519 a way for you to gain your patch of earth, 124 00:18:20,519 --> 00:18:22,379 while everything remains as it is for me. 125 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:29,040 I have five daughters, and they eat me out of house and home. 126 00:18:31,539 --> 00:18:33,940 Rose had accomplished much thus far. 127 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,540 To do so, she had been forced to practise discipline, 128 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,960 and strict self-denial, every day. 129 00:18:44,460 --> 00:18:47,720 She had gone without in order to demand, 130 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,600 and renounced in order to receive. 131 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,640 Concealing herself in order to exist. 132 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,280 But once necessity has been satisfied, 133 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,740 the desire for more soon follows. 134 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,280 For greed is an intoxication. 135 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,920 It makes one believe that one is entitled to everything, 136 00:19:13,180 --> 00:19:16,820 and thus justifies itself by its own existence. 137 00:19:18,460 --> 00:19:19,820 It knows no bounds. 138 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,040 Greed is without measure, 139 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,700 without purpose or discipline. 140 00:19:29,780 --> 00:19:32,620 A barrel cannot be emptier than empty. 141 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,600 But it is easily made to overflow. 142 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:45,859 This is Susanna, virtuous and God-fearing, 143 00:19:46,779 --> 00:19:48,220 skilled in every womanly task. 144 00:19:49,319 --> 00:19:53,819 She tended her mother, who endured much suffering before death. 145 00:20:04,579 --> 00:20:05,579 I do not know what ails it. 146 00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:20,530 My late wife began it. 147 00:20:22,210 --> 00:20:24,670 She even worked in childbed. We have one from each of them. 148 00:20:26,430 --> 00:20:27,430 But she was weak. 149 00:20:27,490 --> 00:20:28,490 Leave it! 150 00:20:29,030 --> 00:20:30,030 Very weak. 151 00:20:31,050 --> 00:20:32,050 Often confined to bed. 152 00:20:37,250 --> 00:20:38,250 Well? 153 00:20:53,849 --> 00:20:55,869 The gentleman wishes to court you. 154 00:20:56,969 --> 00:20:58,289 I am willing to give you to him. 155 00:20:59,369 --> 00:21:00,369 Are you willing too? 158 00:21:52,349 --> 00:21:53,349 Yes. 160 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,840 May the Lord bless you and keep you. 161 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,400 Away! 162 00:23:50,150 --> 00:23:52,670 Tomorrow we shall all become better acquainted. 163 00:24:15,730 --> 00:24:16,910 Will you not see to the fire? 164 00:24:23,450 --> 00:24:24,450 Shall I? 165 00:24:25,450 --> 00:24:28,230 I can try, so that the clothes may dry. 166 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:33,660 Or you, sir. Perhaps you are more adept at it anyway. 167 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,220 The basket of preserves and cold meat 168 00:24:45,259 --> 00:24:47,660 left from the wedding— we left that by the cart as well. 169 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:51,819 I do not know. 170 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,519 Let us thank the dear Lord that 171 00:24:58,519 --> 00:25:00,680 the past days were plentiful and we did not go 172 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,680 to bed hungry. 173 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,740 that You have graciously kept me this day, 174 00:25:06,740 --> 00:25:07,840 and I beseech You 175 00:25:08,259 --> 00:25:10,380 to forgive me all my sins, 176 00:25:11,059 --> 00:25:13,860 for I commend myself, my body and soul, 177 00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:16,080 and all things into Your hands. 178 00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:18,740 May Your holy angel be with me, 179 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,819 that the evil foe may have no power over me. 180 00:25:24,019 --> 00:25:25,019 Amen. 181 00:26:18,750 --> 00:26:23,230 Of all things, what I prize most is your purity. 182 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:27,519 I intend to preserve it for a long time. 183 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,600 Nothing has been damaged, as far as I can see. 184 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,200 It would be enough to make ourselves a home. 185 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:48,759 A fine one. 186 00:28:50,539 --> 00:28:51,539 Yes. 187 00:29:10,209 --> 00:29:13,049 Will you not sing us a little song to mark the occasion? 188 00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:26,610 Come now! 189 00:29:26,610 --> 00:29:27,610 I do not know what to sing. 190 00:29:28,150 --> 00:29:29,150 Anything at all. 191 00:29:29,150 --> 00:29:30,150 That one. 192 00:29:34,469 --> 00:29:37,309 Commit all your ways 193 00:29:38,409 --> 00:29:42,129 and all that grieves your heart 194 00:29:43,009 --> 00:29:46,710 to the most faithful care 195 00:29:47,329 --> 00:29:49,149 of Him who rules 196 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:52,549 the heavens. 197 00:29:53,549 --> 00:29:57,849 He who gives clouds, air and winds 198 00:29:58,389 --> 00:30:01,589 their paths, their course and way, 199 00:30:02,529 --> 00:30:06,730 will also find the paths 200 00:30:07,289 --> 00:30:10,889 upon which your foot may walk. 201 00:30:18,989 --> 00:30:22,629 You must trust in the Lord 202 00:30:23,509 --> 00:30:26,509 if all is to go well with you. 203 00:30:30,950 --> 00:30:34,289 You must look to His work 204 00:30:34,850 --> 00:30:38,730 if your own work is to endure. 205 00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:50,750 Through worry and grieving and self-inflicted pain, 206 00:30:52,190 --> 00:30:58,589 nothing can be taken from God; it must be gained through prayer. 207 00:31:28,169 --> 00:31:29,169 Why? 208 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,400 I am allowed! 209 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:38,039 I promised the pastor I would help with reading 210 00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:39,039 and writing. 211 00:31:39,579 --> 00:31:42,659 Several people have come forward who would like to try. 212 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:46,879 Can you find no work to do here? 213 00:31:48,879 --> 00:31:49,879 I can. 214 00:31:50,939 --> 00:31:52,519 But I have given my word now. 215 00:31:53,740 --> 00:31:55,219 Perhaps I could accompany you. 216 00:31:58,599 --> 00:32:00,179 It is so quiet here. 217 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:10,980 That is your name. 218 00:32:12,779 --> 00:32:14,860 Those are five letters which then repeat. 219 00:32:16,849 --> 00:32:18,149 Would you like to try? 220 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,780 Oh, very slowly. 225 00:33:41,049 --> 00:33:42,049 Ah! 228 00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:13,250 Yes, come in. 229 00:34:13,269 --> 00:34:14,269 Wait. 230 00:34:22,110 --> 00:34:24,130 I wished to ask whether Susanna behaves well. 231 00:34:25,170 --> 00:34:26,809 Whether she is obedient in all things. 232 00:34:27,570 --> 00:34:28,570 Whether she is doing well. 233 00:34:29,630 --> 00:34:31,050 Or whether she refuses you. 234 00:34:32,829 --> 00:34:35,309 Or whether you find her conduct repellent. 235 00:34:35,450 --> 00:34:36,450 No, no, no. 236 00:34:36,490 --> 00:34:38,630 She is exactly as you described her to me. 237 00:34:39,750 --> 00:34:40,750 Better still. 238 00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:46,769 Do you know how it is? 239 00:34:47,309 --> 00:34:48,389 With breeding. 240 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,280 A bull that will not mount is replaced. 241 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:56,940 We are so occupied with the work 242 00:34:57,079 --> 00:34:58,619 that I have not considered 243 00:34:58,619 --> 00:34:59,840 breeding the animals as well. 244 00:35:01,059 --> 00:35:03,800 Marriage is a contract you have entered into. 245 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,460 It is fulfilled only when consummated. 246 00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:10,039 Best do it at once, or everything is null and void, 247 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,320 including every agreement, 248 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:18,159 such as the land upon which you stand. 249 00:35:21,590 --> 00:35:25,070 You need not concern yourself. Everything is as it should be. 250 00:36:12,699 --> 00:36:13,699 What is it? 251 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,800 Turn around. 252 00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:03,639 It will come. It will pass. 253 00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:12,650 What is it? 254 00:37:17,030 --> 00:37:19,030 Would you come down for a moment? 255 00:37:23,279 --> 00:37:24,279 I have conceived. 256 00:37:26,059 --> 00:37:27,059 What? 257 00:37:28,619 --> 00:37:29,619 Conceived. 258 00:37:31,339 --> 00:37:32,659 I am quite certain. 259 00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:35,960 A butterfly just came through the window 260 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,019 and settled upon my belly. 261 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:39,900 That is the sign. 262 00:37:40,980 --> 00:37:42,779 It happened so to Saint Veronica as well. 263 00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:47,380 It is early yet, but I congratulate you on the blessing. 264 00:37:47,739 --> 00:37:49,559 Come now! Come! 265 00:37:57,849 --> 00:37:58,849 Farewell. Ciao. 266 00:38:08,130 --> 00:38:09,829 At first, you know how it is— 267 00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:12,990 everything always lies there in the chest, 268 00:38:13,970 --> 00:38:14,970 but that cannot last forever. 269 00:38:16,349 --> 00:38:17,930 Why is the good meat in the soup today? 270 00:38:20,130 --> 00:38:21,210 It is a feast day, after all. 271 00:38:26,750 --> 00:38:30,650 We would have to build an addition and fell timber. 272 00:38:32,769 --> 00:38:34,650 We would have to make an opening in the parlour. 273 00:38:34,889 --> 00:38:35,889 Outwards! 274 00:38:36,449 --> 00:38:37,969 There by the wall would do nicely. 275 00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:40,050 Come on! 276 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,059 One cannot expect a child every time 277 00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:51,639 one performs one's lawful duty. 278 00:38:52,699 --> 00:38:53,699 We shall wait and see. 279 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,320 But it is so. 280 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:04,300 Yes. 281 00:39:06,150 --> 00:39:07,630 What does Father say? 282 00:39:08,309 --> 00:39:09,309 We shall. 283 00:39:11,650 --> 00:39:13,090 Farewell. Until next time. 284 00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:44,800 A lively, healthy child was born, earlier than Rose expected 285 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:45,800 and, in some eyes, weeks too soon. 286 00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:54,000 And while Susanna readily settled into her role 287 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,599 as a mother, Rose's paternal feelings 288 00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:02,180 were confusing and more complex in nature. 289 00:40:39,909 --> 00:40:42,769 Nevertheless, everything had changed for the better. 290 00:40:44,029 --> 00:40:46,549 For in the eyes of the community, Rose had 291 00:40:46,549 --> 00:40:47,949 risen once more. 292 00:40:49,009 --> 00:40:53,730 She had made the land bloom, as she had the flower of her wife. 293 00:40:56,449 --> 00:40:59,549 And even if no further children followed, 294 00:41:00,809 --> 00:41:04,569 Rose had already fulfilled the sole purpose of existence, 295 00:41:05,529 --> 00:41:08,129 the only service owed to the community: 296 00:41:08,569 --> 00:41:12,069 which is reproduction. 297 00:41:13,409 --> 00:41:15,989 Whatever others may claim. 298 00:41:17,849 --> 00:41:21,110 And yet it is not always, or necessarily, 299 00:41:21,110 --> 00:41:22,889 the great events 300 00:41:23,069 --> 00:41:25,130 that bring about change. 301 00:41:26,849 --> 00:41:30,949 Small things too can have great consequences, 302 00:41:31,969 --> 00:41:34,509 like the beating of a butterfly's wings 303 00:41:35,289 --> 00:41:37,069 or the sting of a bee. 304 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,539 I thought you were in the stable. 305 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,679 He is a handful and cries all day. 306 00:42:01,659 --> 00:42:02,980 Now he is awake again. 307 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000 What is that by your eye? 308 00:42:13,739 --> 00:42:14,739 Nothing. 309 00:42:14,739 --> 00:42:15,739 And there on your hand. 310 00:42:28,699 --> 00:42:30,500 Come quickly! Come! 311 00:42:31,779 --> 00:42:32,779 Come! 312 00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:37,500 Oh! 313 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,619 The sting is still in there. 314 00:42:54,519 --> 00:42:55,519 And up here. 315 00:42:58,079 --> 00:42:59,599 Help me pull him out of his breeches. 316 00:43:01,420 --> 00:43:02,420 Pull! 317 00:43:03,099 --> 00:43:04,099 Pull! 318 00:43:05,579 --> 00:43:06,579 Pull! 319 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,000 There are more. 320 00:43:18,889 --> 00:43:21,349 We must boil water. To the well! 321 00:43:28,949 --> 00:43:32,269 Why are you standing there? Run! Take the second cauldron too! 322 00:45:08,199 --> 00:45:09,199 Ah! 323 00:45:13,030 --> 00:45:14,610 You will be wondering what has happened to the master. 324 00:45:26,849 --> 00:45:27,849 Good Lord, man! 325 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:31,579 Thank you. Farewell! 326 00:45:33,949 --> 00:45:35,649 We may begin! 327 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,159 As you have no... 328 00:46:02,050 --> 00:46:03,530 He is gravely ill. 329 00:46:05,410 --> 00:46:06,410 He must rest. 330 00:46:07,590 --> 00:46:08,870 No one may see him. 331 00:46:10,250 --> 00:46:11,970 Not if we wish to avoid fearing for his life. 332 00:46:19,690 --> 00:46:21,610 Everything else shall continue as before. 333 00:46:23,050 --> 00:46:24,050 That is what was agreed. 334 00:46:25,789 --> 00:46:27,750 You maids shall work in the fields too. 335 00:46:30,849 --> 00:46:33,889 Until the Saviour restores the master's health, 336 00:46:34,049 --> 00:46:35,269 for which we shall now pray, 337 00:46:36,529 --> 00:46:38,130 I shall direct the fortunes of us all. 338 00:46:39,089 --> 00:46:40,089 So the Lord wills it. 339 00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:45,279 We go forth and journey, from one age 340 00:46:45,279 --> 00:46:48,980 to the next; we live and remember, from the old 341 00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:49,980 unto the new. 342 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:54,339 Speak Your gentle blessing upon all our paths. 343 00:46:55,019 --> 00:46:58,779 Let Your sun of grace shine upon every place, 344 00:46:59,420 --> 00:47:01,099 that we may find peace. 345 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,440 Who are you? 346 00:48:05,650 --> 00:48:06,650 Farewell. 347 00:48:23,170 --> 00:48:24,570 Control yourself! 348 00:49:02,610 --> 00:49:03,969 It is best that I go. 349 00:49:08,949 --> 00:49:10,269 Yes, it would be best. 350 00:49:11,629 --> 00:49:12,909 But you cannot. 351 00:49:14,049 --> 00:49:15,049 You are weak. 352 00:49:17,199 --> 00:49:21,779 You will collapse beyond the next tree, and there you will be found 353 00:49:21,779 --> 00:49:25,619 by someone else, and then— 354 00:49:25,619 --> 00:49:26,619 and then... 355 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,860 The child is still dependent upon me. 356 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,199 For the next few weeks, perhaps half a year. 357 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,139 Then it will become easier. 358 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,500 When the roads are clear of snow and ice, 359 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:49,840 then you may go. 360 00:49:55,099 --> 00:49:58,380 Until then, there will be ample time to invent a story. 363 00:50:38,410 --> 00:50:41,550 That night, Rose spoke until dawn. 364 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,940 Hesitantly at first, and then without stopping. 365 00:50:51,349 --> 00:50:54,429 She told of a childhood in an orphanage, 366 00:50:55,869 --> 00:50:58,869 of how she first came to put on breeches, 367 00:50:59,650 --> 00:51:01,949 and of every attempt that followed. 368 00:51:03,309 --> 00:51:06,369 Nor did she omit the war and her life as a soldier. 369 00:51:07,949 --> 00:51:09,869 She spared neither herself nor Susanna. 370 00:51:11,250 --> 00:51:12,529 She told her everything. 371 00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:17,329 Including how she came to take another man's place 372 00:51:17,769 --> 00:51:19,610 and claim an inheritance. 373 00:51:22,550 --> 00:51:24,830 And how good it felt to speak. 374 00:51:28,030 --> 00:51:31,250 She had often imagined giving herself up. 375 00:51:33,390 --> 00:51:36,390 Yet even she was surprised by the relief 376 00:51:36,970 --> 00:51:40,170 of no longer bearing the burden of her secrets alone. 378 00:51:52,099 --> 00:51:56,739 Only one thing would she not disclose: her true name. 379 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,460 Thus Susanna could not mistakenly let it slip 380 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,900 at an ill-chosen moment. 382 00:52:17,269 --> 00:52:18,269 What are you doing there? 383 00:52:19,329 --> 00:52:20,329 Looking. 384 00:52:21,150 --> 00:52:22,150 How are you, Meryn? 385 00:52:22,769 --> 00:52:23,769 Poorly. 386 00:52:23,769 --> 00:52:24,769 Go inside. 387 00:52:25,230 --> 00:52:26,710 -No, do not. -It will give me some air. 388 00:52:27,050 --> 00:52:28,769 Here, I shall open the window for you. 389 00:52:29,750 --> 00:52:30,750 Why are you standing there staring? 390 00:52:30,969 --> 00:52:32,570 Move! He will be all right. 391 00:52:34,250 --> 00:52:35,250 Back to work. 392 00:52:35,929 --> 00:52:36,929 The sow is doing well. 393 00:52:37,090 --> 00:52:38,230 Yes, she will yield plenty of meat. 394 00:52:39,829 --> 00:52:40,829 Back to work. 401 00:54:16,349 --> 00:54:17,349 Hyah! 403 00:54:41,309 --> 00:54:42,309 Are you coming? 404 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,480 Who is the child's father? 405 00:55:10,349 --> 00:55:12,710 You will not be alone for long, once I am finished. 406 00:55:14,929 --> 00:55:15,929 What? 407 00:55:16,730 --> 00:55:18,210 Your father will not permit it. 408 00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,539 He would marry you to the first man who came along, 409 00:55:24,539 --> 00:55:25,699 just as he did with me. 410 00:55:27,319 --> 00:55:28,319 To a stranger. 411 00:55:30,650 --> 00:55:32,750 You feel like the mistress now, yes. 412 00:55:35,030 --> 00:55:36,030 But it does not belong to you. 413 00:55:44,989 --> 00:55:45,989 Perhaps. 414 00:55:52,990 --> 00:55:54,610 Perhaps we need not invent a new story. 415 00:55:54,610 --> 00:55:58,410 Perhaps everything can remain as it is. 416 00:56:03,449 --> 00:56:05,369 You and I are acknowledged. 417 00:56:07,109 --> 00:56:08,109 As a household. 418 00:56:10,009 --> 00:56:11,009 That is what we are to the others. 419 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,900 That is what grants us freedom. 420 00:56:21,349 --> 00:56:22,989 It need not be otherwise. 421 00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,619 Is the bed you sleep in upstairs a good one? 422 00:57:16,399 --> 00:57:18,739 The servants ought to have a house of their own. 423 00:57:19,259 --> 00:57:21,559 At the far end of the meadow, a proper distance away. 424 00:57:22,339 --> 00:57:23,679 And we need an extension. 425 00:57:24,759 --> 00:57:26,899 It will not do for you to wash secretly in the woods. 426 00:57:27,319 --> 00:57:28,319 You are a young man. 427 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,340 Or a bathhouse. Bathing in the parlour is dangerous too. 428 00:57:40,179 --> 00:57:41,679 And reading and writing? 429 00:57:46,869 --> 00:57:48,369 You will teach me. 430 00:57:51,050 --> 00:57:54,650 Rose and Susanna had resolved not 431 00:57:54,650 --> 00:57:56,070 to decide at once. 432 00:57:57,210 --> 00:57:59,789 Everything had already changed. 433 00:58:02,449 --> 00:58:07,829 They walked taller, freer with one another, more independent. 434 00:58:09,050 --> 00:58:11,970 And perhaps because of that, they were more affectionate. 435 00:58:13,130 --> 00:58:14,650 For the first time. 436 00:58:17,449 --> 00:58:19,629 All this had come unexpectedly, 437 00:58:20,849 --> 00:58:23,549 as only words spoken aloud 438 00:58:23,549 --> 00:58:24,809 can usually bring about. 439 00:58:26,809 --> 00:58:29,569 But still more was to happen that day. 440 00:58:33,550 --> 00:58:34,550 What is it? 441 00:58:34,789 --> 00:58:37,330 One of the maids had not returned with the others 442 00:58:37,330 --> 00:58:38,510 at the appointed hour 443 00:58:38,510 --> 00:58:40,250 to the estate. 444 00:58:41,170 --> 00:58:43,530 She was not brought back until the following day 445 00:58:43,530 --> 00:58:46,330 by her father and brothers. 446 00:58:46,970 --> 00:58:49,130 We searched the forest all night 447 00:58:49,130 --> 00:58:50,130 and were beside ourselves with worry. 448 00:58:51,650 --> 00:58:54,250 I sent those two to the pond and was setting off for the village. 449 00:58:55,470 --> 00:58:56,789 We did not know. 450 00:58:57,570 --> 00:58:59,050 They found her only this morning, 451 00:58:59,170 --> 00:59:00,269 where she had hidden herself. 452 00:59:00,269 --> 00:59:01,930 Then we set out at once. 453 00:59:05,550 --> 00:59:09,130 Why did you run away and make us all sick with worry? 454 00:59:09,550 --> 00:59:10,550 Shut your mouth. 455 00:59:10,550 --> 00:59:11,710 But he has such small hands. 456 00:59:11,869 --> 00:59:13,289 I will not have people talking about us. 457 00:59:15,150 --> 00:59:16,889 Apologise to your master and ask him 458 00:59:16,889 --> 00:59:18,750 to forgive you and take you back. 459 00:59:22,199 --> 00:59:24,179 Life and work are good here. 460 00:59:24,799 --> 00:59:26,799 No worse than elsewhere. You have never complained. 461 00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,379 But I shall not keep you. 462 00:59:30,539 --> 00:59:32,739 Thank you for taking the trouble to bring me your child, 463 00:59:32,859 --> 00:59:34,699 but who can assure me she will not run away again? 464 00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:35,759 -Beg him, child. I hope... I hope... -And must we again, 465 00:59:35,759 --> 00:59:37,299 terrified that some misfortune has occurred, 466 00:59:37,379 --> 00:59:39,000 set out and abandon all our work? 467 00:59:41,139 --> 00:59:42,219 The master is no man. 468 00:59:42,439 --> 00:59:44,119 -What? -The master is no man. 469 00:59:44,119 --> 00:59:45,119 Let her speak! 470 00:59:50,730 --> 00:59:52,210 Below, he is said to be like a woman. 471 00:59:52,429 --> 00:59:53,429 We should be silent. 472 00:59:54,230 --> 00:59:55,610 This is utter nonsense. 473 00:59:55,849 --> 00:59:57,150 I know what I saw. 474 00:59:57,250 --> 00:59:58,250 When? 475 00:59:58,750 --> 01:00:00,110 When could you possibly have seen that? 476 01:00:00,389 --> 01:00:01,469 When the master was ill. 477 01:00:01,949 --> 01:00:03,549 What confused nonsense are you saying? 478 01:00:03,650 --> 01:00:04,650 No one was with him. 479 01:00:04,650 --> 01:00:06,250 -At the very beginning? -I was alone with him. 480 01:00:06,409 --> 01:00:07,409 When the stings were fresh. 481 01:00:07,409 --> 01:00:09,730 We took off his breeches and removed stings up to here. 482 01:00:09,809 --> 01:00:10,909 What could she have seen? 483 01:00:10,989 --> 01:00:12,170 -How should I know? -It seems to me 484 01:00:12,250 --> 01:00:13,589 you are not quite right in the head. 485 01:00:14,309 --> 01:00:15,849 That was days ago. Why come only now? 486 01:00:15,909 --> 01:00:17,049 I said so at once. 487 01:00:18,009 --> 01:00:19,250 You laughed at me. 488 01:00:19,250 --> 01:00:20,809 -Liar. -You ordered me 489 01:00:20,809 --> 01:00:23,710 to hold my tongue because it made no sense. 490 01:00:23,929 --> 01:00:24,949 -Liar. -Liar. 491 01:00:25,110 --> 01:00:26,110 -Liar! -Liar! 492 01:00:26,110 --> 01:00:27,309 -Liar! -Liar! 493 01:00:27,670 --> 01:00:28,670 Liar! Liar! 494 01:00:28,710 --> 01:00:29,710 Liar! Liar! 495 01:00:29,889 --> 01:00:32,009 -Liar! -Into the house, Susanna! 496 01:00:32,409 --> 01:00:33,610 And yesterday in church? 497 01:00:34,190 --> 01:00:36,130 And all before our very eyes! 498 01:00:36,589 --> 01:00:37,589 Liar! 499 01:00:39,150 --> 01:00:42,730 Your daughter is very young, yet notices more 500 01:00:42,730 --> 01:00:44,349 than one might suppose, and hopefully speaks 501 01:00:44,349 --> 01:00:46,410 of things she cannot yet possibly understand. 502 01:00:49,500 --> 01:00:51,239 We must get to work. 503 01:00:52,019 --> 01:00:54,179 If we are to bring in the harvest before dark. 504 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:55,940 We have lost half a day. 505 01:00:57,300 --> 01:00:58,579 And now we are two hands short. 506 01:00:59,739 --> 01:01:01,139 I hope the loss remains small. 507 01:01:05,099 --> 01:01:08,239 Your sons here work for my father-in-law. 508 01:01:09,079 --> 01:01:10,079 As do I. 509 01:01:12,980 --> 01:01:14,939 Then let us keep all this among ourselves, 510 01:01:16,359 --> 01:01:17,899 so that you suffer no harm from it either. 511 01:01:20,019 --> 01:01:21,019 Yes? 514 01:02:55,269 --> 01:02:56,809 Your sister still needs work. 515 01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:00,109 Yes. 516 01:03:02,599 --> 01:03:03,599 Very well, then. 517 01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:22,140 May you have a blessed night's rest. 518 01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:24,400 Now. 519 01:05:49,150 --> 01:05:51,510 It is quite simple. We shall settle this here and now. 520 01:05:52,190 --> 01:05:53,190 Settle what? 521 01:05:53,610 --> 01:05:54,710 You provide proof. 522 01:05:55,450 --> 01:05:56,510 That I am a man? 523 01:05:56,950 --> 01:05:58,710 -Yes. -And the heir to this land. 524 01:05:58,869 --> 01:05:59,869 Not an impostor. 525 01:06:00,110 --> 01:06:01,110 And how am I to do that? 526 01:06:02,329 --> 01:06:03,389 By lowering my breeches? 527 01:06:03,610 --> 01:06:04,610 Showing them my cock? 528 01:06:04,769 --> 01:06:06,490 It would take but a moment, and the matter would be settled. 529 01:06:08,349 --> 01:06:10,550 This house. Is it real? 530 01:06:11,210 --> 01:06:12,950 The soil there. The land. 531 01:06:14,450 --> 01:06:15,450 The money. 532 01:06:16,570 --> 01:06:19,410 The good wage you received, and twice as much at Christmas. 533 01:06:20,410 --> 01:06:21,410 Is that a fraud? 534 01:06:21,730 --> 01:06:24,430 And that there is always some of our yield left over for you? 535 01:06:25,990 --> 01:06:26,990 Or you? 536 01:06:27,530 --> 01:06:29,809 I taught you the alphabet from A to Z. 537 01:06:30,510 --> 01:06:31,889 The words you can now write. 538 01:06:31,970 --> 01:06:33,710 The contracts you can now read, so that 539 01:06:33,710 --> 01:06:34,750 no one can cheat you again. 540 01:06:35,070 --> 01:06:37,170 So you never again receive less than your due. 541 01:06:37,190 --> 01:06:38,190 Is that a fraud too? 542 01:06:39,369 --> 01:06:40,869 That you lost your arm? 543 01:06:40,930 --> 01:06:41,930 Is that real? 544 01:06:43,389 --> 01:06:44,849 That you stand here now? 545 01:06:44,849 --> 01:06:46,349 That you are still alive? 546 01:06:46,710 --> 01:06:47,710 Is that a fraud? 547 01:06:48,610 --> 01:06:50,530 And here, the bullet. 548 01:06:50,930 --> 01:06:51,930 Here. Look at it. 549 01:06:52,710 --> 01:06:53,710 And my flesh. 550 01:06:54,210 --> 01:06:55,369 You cannot see me now, can you? 551 01:06:55,450 --> 01:06:56,530 I ask you to help me. 552 01:06:57,630 --> 01:07:00,349 Did I choose to have my face shot apart? 553 01:07:00,470 --> 01:07:01,470 For this land and for you. 554 01:07:02,410 --> 01:07:03,410 Is that true as well? 555 01:07:03,410 --> 01:07:06,889 Or is there nothing there— all smooth and fair, and merely a fraud? 556 01:07:07,590 --> 01:07:08,590 I do not know. 557 01:07:08,990 --> 01:07:09,990 Nor do you. 558 01:07:10,210 --> 01:07:11,730 And perhaps it is therefore best now 559 01:07:11,730 --> 01:07:14,710 that each goes home and considers what that means. 560 01:07:14,849 --> 01:07:15,849 Fraud. 561 01:07:22,690 --> 01:07:25,490 Have I ever seen your cocks? 562 01:07:25,990 --> 01:07:27,470 Do I ask you about them? 563 01:07:28,170 --> 01:07:29,530 We can gladly do all of that. 564 01:07:29,889 --> 01:07:31,670 But then I want it done officially. 565 01:07:32,150 --> 01:07:34,610 Then I want to see what every one of you has 566 01:07:34,610 --> 01:07:35,789 between his legs. 567 01:07:35,910 --> 01:07:36,910 Man and woman. 568 01:07:36,970 --> 01:07:38,590 Your cock, and yours. 569 01:07:38,950 --> 01:07:40,550 And your father's. 570 01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:43,369 Fetch me the bailiff. We shall make it official. 571 01:07:44,210 --> 01:07:46,750 Provided you can afford the document, of course. 572 01:07:47,470 --> 01:07:49,250 The pastor shall announce it in church at once. 573 01:07:49,450 --> 01:07:51,050 Better still, from the pulpit. 574 01:07:52,150 --> 01:07:53,150 Go on. Fetch the bailiff. 575 01:07:54,849 --> 01:07:57,110 Then you go, and you two go with him, 576 01:07:57,170 --> 01:07:58,630 so no one says I bribed the bailiff. 577 01:08:00,369 --> 01:08:02,890 The rest of you may remain seated outside my door 578 01:08:03,369 --> 01:08:06,190 and guard it, so you need not go without the proof 579 01:08:06,269 --> 01:08:07,409 now that you desire it. 580 01:08:07,889 --> 01:08:10,130 Until I must look upon your flesh, 581 01:08:10,190 --> 01:08:11,550 when I can no longer see your faces. 582 01:08:24,390 --> 01:08:27,310 The bailiff was said to have been no less astonished 583 01:08:27,310 --> 01:08:30,210 by the matter with which 584 01:08:30,210 --> 01:08:31,650 he had been approached. 585 01:08:35,399 --> 01:08:39,479 Yet not even his presence that day 586 01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,479 could bear witness to the demanded proof. 587 01:08:48,500 --> 01:08:51,539 News of the events had left everyone 588 01:08:51,539 --> 01:08:52,920 profoundly shaken. 589 01:08:54,949 --> 01:08:57,970 The community which had accepted Rose 590 01:08:57,970 --> 01:08:59,109 into its midst 591 01:09:00,189 --> 01:09:03,010 felt defrauded and deceived. 592 01:09:04,449 --> 01:09:07,369 It believed itself, through Rose's deceit, 593 01:09:08,570 --> 01:09:11,029 dishonoured, defiled and sullied. 594 01:09:12,909 --> 01:09:16,449 What they urgently demanded was a great example, 595 01:09:17,409 --> 01:09:19,109 by which they could cleanse themselves. 596 01:09:20,869 --> 01:09:24,649 And so an example had to be set. 597 01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:45,319 On the third day of their wandering, 598 01:10:45,319 --> 01:10:47,359 several adventurers succeeded 599 01:10:48,220 --> 01:10:51,439 in tracking down the two fugitives 600 01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:52,880 and bringing them back to the village. 601 01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:07,840 Splendid! 602 01:11:10,300 --> 01:11:11,440 Tall domestic animals. 603 01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:12,640 Yes. 604 01:11:16,140 --> 01:11:17,140 Breeches. 605 01:11:43,649 --> 01:11:46,589 But among the learned men of the land too, 606 01:11:46,589 --> 01:11:47,809 a dispute had broken out: 607 01:11:48,889 --> 01:11:52,549 who was fit, in so curious a case, 608 01:11:52,969 --> 01:11:54,229 to pronounce judgment? 609 01:11:58,649 --> 01:12:02,269 For that very reason, three more months were to pass 610 01:12:03,770 --> 01:12:07,109 before Rose could be given a proper trial. 611 01:12:26,399 --> 01:12:27,460 You binder! 612 01:12:39,850 --> 01:12:41,130 And the horn. 613 01:12:55,300 --> 01:12:56,360 The thorn. 614 01:13:27,350 --> 01:13:28,350 No. 615 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:41,560 The examinations have established 616 01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,779 that the accused is a healthy woman. 617 01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:47,340 She has nothing male about her. 618 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,180 Her clitoris is of normal size; 619 01:13:52,180 --> 01:13:55,500 she could not have penetrated her supposed wife with it. 620 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,680 Semen, however, did flow 621 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:03,000 into the accused herself, 622 01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,020 for she is with child. 623 01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:29,079 She is a woman, but has long presented herself as a man. 624 01:14:31,020 --> 01:14:32,020 Yes. 625 01:14:36,500 --> 01:14:37,800 And the inheritance— 626 01:14:40,140 --> 01:14:41,140 to whom does it belong? 627 01:14:45,850 --> 01:14:49,609 He was a comrade, a friend. He often spoke of it, 628 01:14:49,609 --> 01:14:51,109 at great length. 629 01:14:53,130 --> 01:14:55,750 Of returning after the war, and what it would be like. 630 01:14:57,899 --> 01:14:59,099 But he fell. 631 01:15:00,179 --> 01:15:01,859 His leg was blown off, 632 01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:04,699 and he bled to death. 633 01:15:08,199 --> 01:15:09,559 So I took his belongings. 634 01:15:14,649 --> 01:15:17,189 Including this—the document. 635 01:15:19,409 --> 01:15:25,069 I thought it a shame if no one claimed it and carried on. 636 01:15:26,109 --> 01:15:27,109 We were like brothers, after all. 637 01:15:30,210 --> 01:15:31,210 And this contrivance? 638 01:15:34,750 --> 01:15:35,750 Yes. 639 01:15:38,859 --> 01:15:39,859 Where did you obtain it? 640 01:15:41,359 --> 01:15:42,719 During the war as well. 641 01:15:45,250 --> 01:15:49,149 At times we too were ordered to show the vanquished 642 01:15:49,149 --> 01:15:50,989 who was master. 643 01:15:54,350 --> 01:15:55,530 Under orders. 644 01:15:55,810 --> 01:15:56,810 Yes. 645 01:15:59,579 --> 01:16:00,579 It was foolish. 646 01:16:02,250 --> 01:16:03,250 And brutal. 647 01:16:06,279 --> 01:16:08,159 But it would have been dangerous for me 648 01:16:08,159 --> 01:16:10,579 not to join in, so I had it made. 649 01:16:12,500 --> 01:16:14,139 No one noticed a thing. 650 01:16:16,350 --> 01:16:18,770 And your supposed wife now? 651 01:16:21,149 --> 01:16:24,429 She knew nothing. She bears no guilt. 652 01:16:24,529 --> 01:16:25,889 Please, she must be released. 653 01:16:26,829 --> 01:16:28,269 But who, then, fathered your child? 654 01:16:35,250 --> 01:16:36,270 And this pregnancy? 655 01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,440 Was this how they showed me too who was master? 656 01:16:41,579 --> 01:16:42,579 Who? 657 01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,180 I do not know. There were four of them. 658 01:16:51,770 --> 01:16:53,210 Why did you act as you did? 659 01:16:58,250 --> 01:17:01,149 I thought I would see what was possible. 660 01:17:06,090 --> 01:17:07,090 What? 661 01:17:08,359 --> 01:17:10,289 That I could live this way. 662 01:17:12,329 --> 01:17:13,369 As a man? 663 01:17:15,250 --> 01:17:17,250 No. I did not wish to be a man. 664 01:17:18,670 --> 01:17:19,670 Then what? 665 01:17:22,500 --> 01:17:28,800 There was more freedom in breeches, and they are only a piece of cloth. 666 01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:30,819 I have nothing more in my breeches. 667 01:17:33,539 --> 01:17:34,619 Who permitted you to do that? 668 01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:40,200 No one. 669 01:17:41,180 --> 01:17:42,180 Oh, no one? 670 01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:45,800 I did. 671 01:17:47,899 --> 01:17:50,059 So you created yourself. 672 01:17:52,199 --> 01:17:54,139 Community can exist only with rules. 673 01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,159 And rules are determined by facts. 674 01:17:57,939 --> 01:17:59,839 Yet between your legs 675 01:17:59,839 --> 01:18:02,000 no male organ of generation was found, 676 01:18:02,759 --> 01:18:03,819 but rather a hole. 677 01:18:05,219 --> 01:18:06,719 One may desire the impossible. 678 01:18:07,319 --> 01:18:08,699 One cannot live it. 679 01:18:09,139 --> 01:18:11,879 And in seeking to live the impossible, 680 01:18:12,219 --> 01:18:14,420 you chose to oppose reality 681 01:18:14,420 --> 01:18:15,960 and necessity— 682 01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:19,659 which, for you, means obeying 683 01:18:19,659 --> 01:18:20,759 the dictates of your body. 684 01:18:21,119 --> 01:18:23,739 You placed yourself above the law 685 01:18:23,739 --> 01:18:26,219 which alone makes communal life possible. 686 01:18:26,519 --> 01:18:29,239 And when you set yourself against reality, 687 01:18:29,719 --> 01:18:32,679 against necessity and against the laws, 688 01:18:33,059 --> 01:18:35,579 you also set yourself against the community. 689 01:18:35,899 --> 01:18:37,859 That is what you chose. 690 01:18:38,179 --> 01:18:41,479 That is the possibility by which to live, 691 01:18:41,859 --> 01:18:43,619 whose freedom you took for yourself. 692 01:18:48,500 --> 01:18:54,180 Did you always truly believe you could succeed? 693 01:18:56,300 --> 01:18:57,579 Do you feel no guilt? 694 01:19:02,149 --> 01:19:04,289 The one guilty before the community 695 01:19:06,550 --> 01:19:07,890 is no longer part of it. 696 01:19:09,909 --> 01:19:11,430 That person must be removed. 697 01:19:12,930 --> 01:19:13,930 For a time. 698 01:19:14,789 --> 01:19:15,789 Into the dungeon. 699 01:19:17,430 --> 01:19:18,430 For ever. 700 01:19:20,149 --> 01:19:21,269 And then put to death. 701 01:19:25,350 --> 01:19:29,130 But perhaps no limits can be placed upon you. 702 01:19:30,450 --> 01:19:32,090 Perhaps you will grow wings 703 01:19:32,090 --> 01:19:35,430 and simply fly away from us. 704 01:19:38,329 --> 01:19:40,010 Or do you not consider that possible? 706 01:20:11,449 --> 01:20:13,269 Sentence has been passed. 707 01:20:15,449 --> 01:20:16,449 The sword. 708 01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:23,340 As soon as you have given birth. 709 01:20:25,649 --> 01:20:27,789 No harm is to come to the child, 710 01:20:27,849 --> 01:20:29,509 for that would offend God's commandments. 711 01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:39,760 You will remain here until your confinement. 712 01:20:45,850 --> 01:20:50,350 Judgment has also been passed upon Susanna. 713 01:20:52,329 --> 01:20:53,329 The sack and the river. 714 01:20:56,550 --> 01:20:59,190 The sentence was carried out at once. 715 01:21:01,500 --> 01:21:05,479 She is said not to have taken it well, 716 01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:10,760 and caused her executioner much trouble and toil, 717 01:21:12,899 --> 01:21:15,000 and herself much pain. 718 01:21:35,270 --> 01:21:38,949 Merciful Father, in the face of death, 719 01:21:38,949 --> 01:21:40,849 I confess to You my sins and misdeeds, 720 01:21:41,489 --> 01:21:44,049 committed in thought, word and deed. 721 01:21:45,069 --> 01:21:46,989 I grieve for them sincerely and repent. 722 01:21:48,349 --> 01:21:51,269 I beseech You, for the sake of the bitter, innocent suffering 723 01:21:51,269 --> 01:21:53,309 and death of Your Son, Jesus Christ, 724 01:21:53,309 --> 01:21:54,309 to grant this prayer. 725 01:21:54,429 --> 01:21:56,289 Be gracious to me, a sinful mortal, 726 01:21:56,289 --> 01:21:58,289 and my shameful deeds for all eternity... 727 01:21:58,289 --> 01:22:01,889 forgive, that I may be worthy to enter Your house. 728 01:22:03,729 --> 01:22:07,049 Merciful Father, in the face of death, 729 01:22:07,049 --> 01:22:09,069 I confess to You my sins and misdeeds. 730 01:22:21,300 --> 01:22:23,300 They sell it on every corner. 731 01:22:26,199 --> 01:22:27,639 Three sellers on the way here alone. 732 01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:33,360 They shout themselves hoarse. 733 01:22:34,579 --> 01:22:36,880 They cannot pocket the kreuzers fast enough. 734 01:22:40,649 --> 01:22:42,549 This is what people say about her. 735 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:48,039 Is that how it happened? 736 01:22:50,300 --> 01:22:53,520 In the final weeks of her life, 737 01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:55,500 Rose had found one last task, 738 01:22:56,079 --> 01:22:58,680 which she was determined to finish. 739 01:23:00,380 --> 01:23:02,680 Others had decided the course of her life, 740 01:23:03,500 --> 01:23:06,520 but Rose would not surrender her story. 741 01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:10,220 She had begun to write herself. 742 01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:13,900 It was intended for no one else, 743 01:23:15,060 --> 01:23:16,220 only for herself. 744 01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,680 And having reached the point of her present, 745 01:23:21,480 --> 01:23:23,500 she wrote herself beyond that point, 746 01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,140 giving herself a fantasy 747 01:23:26,579 --> 01:23:28,699 of how things might have been. 748 01:23:29,779 --> 01:23:33,039 For impossibility is only a word. 749 01:23:34,119 --> 01:23:36,300 And words could be changed. 750 01:23:37,619 --> 01:23:40,480 Once spoken, they exist in the world. 751 01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:44,760 They become reality and bring reality in their wake. 752 01:23:46,780 --> 01:23:49,279 All this passed through Rose's mind 753 01:23:49,779 --> 01:23:52,180 while elsewhere there was talk 754 01:23:52,860 --> 01:23:55,680 of separating Rose's head from her body. 755 01:24:03,350 --> 01:24:08,130 The prisoner has asked to rehearse her execution. 756 01:24:09,829 --> 01:24:12,110 We have agreed to grant her request. 757 01:24:13,650 --> 01:24:14,970 And you will assist her. 758 01:24:24,350 --> 01:24:29,450 Forgive me, God; forgive me, King; forgive me, people. 759 01:24:35,890 --> 01:24:39,949 Forgive me, God; forgive me, King; forgive me, people. 760 01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:52,960 Forgive me, God; forgive me, King; forgive me, people. 761 01:24:53,020 --> 01:24:54,020 And the executioner? 762 01:25:06,550 --> 01:25:07,869 Do you confess your guilt? 763 01:25:08,510 --> 01:25:09,510 Yes. 764 01:25:09,970 --> 01:25:12,170 Then pay your executioner with the coin, 765 01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:28,119 and receive your punishment as purification. 766 01:26:06,149 --> 01:26:07,329 Clench your teeth! 767 01:26:24,950 --> 01:26:27,750 Now that all has run its course, the execution will be tomorrow. 768 01:26:30,050 --> 01:26:32,150 Do you wish to see your child once more beforehand? 769 01:26:32,430 --> 01:26:33,430 No. 770 01:26:34,899 --> 01:26:36,379 It can be brought here. 771 01:26:42,460 --> 01:26:44,860 It is not because I am heartless or hard. 772 01:26:47,350 --> 01:26:49,430 For the little child, it is... 773 01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:54,699 I would not merely look upon its face; 774 01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:56,100 it would look upon mine too. 775 01:27:01,290 --> 01:27:03,810 It must have no image of me, 776 01:27:03,810 --> 01:27:05,970 so it need not search for me in the world when it is older. 777 01:27:39,070 --> 01:27:42,370 The executioner's first stroke fell badly 778 01:27:42,370 --> 01:27:46,270 and hacked into Rose's shoulder. 779 01:27:47,950 --> 01:27:49,850 The second struck more truly. 780 01:27:52,570 --> 01:27:57,370 After her death, Rose's body was dismembered and burned, 781 01:27:57,370 --> 01:28:01,350 and the ashes scattered in an unknown place, 782 01:28:01,789 --> 01:28:05,590 so that no memory of her would remain. 783 01:28:12,069 --> 01:28:14,429 Today I thought perhaps we do not come from God at all. 784 01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:22,739 We merely imagined and invented ourselves. 785 01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:31,100 Then I grew quite calm and said: 786 01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:35,079 This is as far as I have come, 787 01:28:38,149 --> 01:28:39,729 and I have done what I could.