1 00:00:03,042 --> 00:00:04,876 My sweet... 2 00:00:05,376 --> 00:00:11,084 This is the blessed spot where we met 17 years ago. 3 00:00:11,292 --> 00:00:16,501 Only the leopard is new. 4 00:00:17,917 --> 00:00:25,251 Kind nature long ago relieved the other of his shackles. 5 00:00:26,376 --> 00:00:29,626 You see, dear, I keep talking of nature's benevolence, 6 00:00:29,917 --> 00:00:32,667 of merciful fate, of the kindness of God. 7 00:00:33,417 --> 00:00:39,209 We judge and criticise others, rebuke them. 8 00:00:39,626 --> 00:00:41,834 But what about we ourselves? 9 00:00:43,292 --> 00:00:46,792 I always have the feeling that I do so little for you. 10 00:00:47,001 --> 00:00:51,626 - We are not doing badly, Roman. - Not badly... 11 00:00:52,209 --> 00:00:53,959 Thanks to your dowry, 12 00:00:54,209 --> 00:00:59,667 to your blessed mother's support 13 00:01:01,876 --> 00:01:05,834 and the support of your aunt. 14 00:01:07,292 --> 00:01:11,792 Perhaps I furnished our apartment, 15 00:01:12,542 --> 00:01:16,084 but that's about all. 16 00:01:17,376 --> 00:01:22,751 Dear, I must take care of you. Zina is 16, Mili 14. 17 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,542 Come now, children... 18 00:01:26,834 --> 00:01:30,084 Cages are for mute creatures. 19 00:01:31,209 --> 00:01:34,751 I've discovered how I can increase my income. 20 00:01:35,376 --> 00:01:38,042 I'll hire an agent on commission. 21 00:01:38,334 --> 00:01:41,292 It will be Mr. Strauss. 22 00:01:42,334 --> 00:01:44,709 A good, decent man. 23 00:01:45,251 --> 00:01:48,626 I'll invite him to our party. 24 00:01:53,001 --> 00:01:56,376 We are a lovely and blessed family, 25 00:01:56,542 --> 00:02:02,042 but I always have the feeling that I do so little for you. 26 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:10,459 FILMOVÉ STUDIO BARRANDOV presents 27 00:02:17,209 --> 00:02:19,792 as 28 00:02:20,001 --> 00:02:26,376 THE CREMATOR 29 00:02:27,417 --> 00:02:31,792 Based on the novel by 30 00:02:34,001 --> 00:02:39,834 Screenplay by 31 00:02:43,667 --> 00:02:46,084 Starring 32 00:04:04,084 --> 00:04:08,001 Costume designer Wardrobe 33 00:04:08,459 --> 00:04:11,751 Production Designer Make-up 34 00:04:13,167 --> 00:04:18,584 Art Director Assistant Art Director 35 00:04:19,876 --> 00:04:22,334 Edited by 36 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:26,709 Sound 37 00:04:27,709 --> 00:04:31,251 Music by 38 00:04:34,209 --> 00:04:41,001 Played by Conducted by 39 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:47,542 Production Manager 40 00:04:48,417 --> 00:04:52,667 Director of Photography 41 00:04:54,001 --> 00:04:59,209 Directed by 42 00:05:46,417 --> 00:05:50,876 No a drop of liquor, Mr. Rybka, just tea. 43 00:05:51,209 --> 00:05:53,209 Mr. Prachar is a poor man. 44 00:05:53,376 --> 00:06:00,626 You may serve weak coffee... to those willing to pay. 45 00:06:05,709 --> 00:06:08,626 What about my cream coffin? 46 00:06:09,542 --> 00:06:12,251 Smokers must also do without. 47 00:06:12,376 --> 00:06:16,501 You'll neither drink nor smoke during eternity. 48 00:06:31,542 --> 00:06:34,834 How about next to this charming lady. 49 00:06:42,334 --> 00:06:45,959 I still didn't get my cream coffin. 50 00:06:46,626 --> 00:06:50,792 Indeed, Mr. Strauss, working in contact with confectioners 51 00:06:50,959 --> 00:06:53,792 must be rather pleasant. 52 00:06:53,917 --> 00:07:01,376 But why not offer such sweet people something... 53 00:07:03,001 --> 00:07:05,417 ...else? 54 00:07:09,459 --> 00:07:14,084 Not goods but something more personal for those fine people. 55 00:07:14,167 --> 00:07:15,917 Offer your treats 56 00:07:16,001 --> 00:07:21,167 and then hand them a flyer with an application form. 57 00:07:22,626 --> 00:07:23,751 COME JOIN US! 58 00:07:23,876 --> 00:07:26,042 You'll get five crowns 59 00:07:27,126 --> 00:07:29,959 for every subscriber. 60 00:07:31,459 --> 00:07:34,292 Excuse me, Mr. Strauss. Excuse me, my angel. 61 00:07:34,376 --> 00:07:38,959 A friend from the war, Mr. Reinke, has arrived. 62 00:07:39,167 --> 00:07:42,459 We fought together for Austria. 63 00:07:44,834 --> 00:07:48,584 A warm welcome! I haven't seen you for ages. 64 00:07:48,626 --> 00:07:51,376 - You must come and visit. - Oh, paunchy... 65 00:07:51,709 --> 00:07:56,917 Afterward, we must introduce our wives. 66 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:59,084 Mr. Rybka... 67 00:08:01,251 --> 00:08:05,792 What's this? I thought we were going to a concert. 68 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:08,792 Well... they're playing, aren't they? 69 00:08:09,084 --> 00:08:10,209 Are you kidding? 70 00:08:10,876 --> 00:08:14,501 A philharmonic is an orchestra. I see... how many musicians? 71 00:08:14,959 --> 00:08:16,292 Four! 72 00:08:17,084 --> 00:08:21,251 The others might turn up... ...maybe. 73 00:08:22,334 --> 00:08:25,626 I am sure you love music, Mr. Strauss. 74 00:08:26,334 --> 00:08:28,792 Sensitive people do. 75 00:08:29,042 --> 00:08:30,167 The poor, pitiful souls 76 00:08:30,251 --> 00:08:36,209 who die without knowing Schubert, or Liszt... 77 00:08:36,417 --> 00:08:40,626 Are you by any chance related? To Johann Strauss? Or Richard? 78 00:08:40,834 --> 00:08:42,792 Composer of 'Der Rosenkavalier'? 79 00:08:43,001 --> 00:08:46,126 No, I'm sorry to say, Mr. Kopfrkingl. 80 00:08:46,584 --> 00:08:51,167 - But I love their music. - Yes? 81 00:08:52,376 --> 00:08:55,376 Anyway, the applications... 82 00:08:55,792 --> 00:09:00,626 People's suffering, Mr. Strauss, is another matter, 83 00:09:00,667 --> 00:09:03,084 and animals suffer, too. 84 00:09:04,042 --> 00:09:08,792 I have a wonderful book on Tibet. 85 00:09:10,334 --> 00:09:12,751 This is Potala, 86 00:09:13,459 --> 00:09:15,584 the Dalai-Lama's palace. 87 00:09:16,959 --> 00:09:18,751 Lhasa. 88 00:09:19,626 --> 00:09:22,292 You can read it like the Bible. 89 00:09:22,792 --> 00:09:25,834 God knew what he was talking about when he said: 90 00:09:26,292 --> 00:09:30,959 "Remember, thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return." 91 00:09:31,417 --> 00:09:37,876 Dear friends, a crematorium is pleasing to our Lord, 92 00:09:38,001 --> 00:09:42,626 helping Him to hasten our transformation into dust. 93 00:09:42,959 --> 00:09:48,334 Some object, saying that Christ was buried, not cremated. 94 00:09:50,126 --> 00:09:53,709 Quite a different matter, dear friends. 95 00:09:54,042 --> 00:09:58,584 I tell those good people: They embalmed our Saviour, 96 00:09:58,834 --> 00:10:01,959 wrapped Him in a shroud and interred Him in a cave. 97 00:10:02,751 --> 00:10:06,042 But none of you will be interred in a cave 98 00:10:06,209 --> 00:10:09,042 or wrapped in a shroud. 99 00:10:11,209 --> 00:10:13,626 My dear friends, 100 00:10:14,626 --> 00:10:20,584 we live in a humane country that builds crematoria. 101 00:10:20,709 --> 00:10:27,126 But not without reason, and not to visit like a museum. 102 00:10:27,459 --> 00:10:32,084 After life's tribulations, they allow people to lie down quietly 103 00:10:32,209 --> 00:10:34,626 and be transformed into dust. 104 00:10:35,126 --> 00:10:39,417 I have a wonderful book on Tibet - page 38, for example: 105 00:10:42,876 --> 00:10:48,751 "Suffering is an evil we must be rid of, or at least alleviate. 106 00:10:49,084 --> 00:10:53,959 "The sooner a man turns to dust the sooner he is free, 107 00:10:54,417 --> 00:10:55,959 "transformed, 108 00:10:56,167 --> 00:10:58,292 "enlightened 109 00:10:58,459 --> 00:11:00,501 "reincarnated..." 110 00:11:02,667 --> 00:11:05,917 Animals, too. It takes 20 years in a grave 111 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:09,417 but just 75 minutes in a crematorium. 112 00:11:11,667 --> 00:11:14,417 Well, dear friends... 113 00:11:16,334 --> 00:11:18,667 to humanity's happiness. 114 00:11:25,792 --> 00:11:31,584 Now, dear friends, enjoy the lovely music and dancing. 115 00:11:32,251 --> 00:11:36,584 Partake of the refreshments, and may no one feel lonely. 116 00:11:37,584 --> 00:11:39,751 Good bye. 117 00:11:40,542 --> 00:11:45,084 - A pleasant and witty man. - And how he has suffered. 118 00:11:45,167 --> 00:11:50,001 He had to go on disability because of an ulcerated liver 119 00:11:50,751 --> 00:11:52,584 ...or was it kidneys? 120 00:11:53,501 --> 00:11:56,209 Well, something connected with urine. 121 00:11:56,417 --> 00:12:00,959 Then he lost his wife and son to fever. You don't like it? 122 00:12:01,084 --> 00:12:05,626 I could increase his commission if he does well. 123 00:12:06,792 --> 00:12:09,751 Jews are good businessmen. 124 00:12:09,792 --> 00:12:15,292 You think he's a Jew, dearest? Strauss isn't a Jewish name. 125 00:12:15,751 --> 00:12:18,209 A name means nothing. 126 00:12:18,709 --> 00:12:21,959 You call me Lakme instead of Marie. 127 00:12:22,626 --> 00:12:26,042 You want me to call you Roman instead of Karel. 128 00:12:26,167 --> 00:12:29,417 Because I'm romantic and love beauty, my dear. 129 00:13:02,459 --> 00:13:04,626 That's the one. 130 00:13:06,459 --> 00:13:09,126 And that noble face. 131 00:13:11,626 --> 00:13:14,792 We're framing it for the Japanese Embassy. 132 00:13:21,917 --> 00:13:24,042 Yes, that's the one. 133 00:13:24,334 --> 00:13:27,792 It's Emiliano Chamorro, president of Nicaragua. 134 00:13:27,834 --> 00:13:31,792 Yes, it's financial officer Louis Marin, 135 00:13:33,417 --> 00:13:36,834 Minister of Pensions under Poincaré. 136 00:13:36,876 --> 00:13:41,667 But it says on the frame he's the Nicaraguan president... 137 00:13:41,709 --> 00:13:46,792 - Never mind that, Mr... - Holy. - What? - Holy. 138 00:13:47,584 --> 00:13:53,459 Never mind, Mr. Holy, just cover the name with some tape. 139 00:13:53,751 --> 00:13:56,667 Ah, yes, and something else. 140 00:13:56,709 --> 00:14:03,001 This is the Cremation Law. Please frame it for me, 141 00:14:03,167 --> 00:14:08,459 and decorate it with some nice sombre pattern. 142 00:14:10,251 --> 00:14:13,376 Yes, yes... 143 00:14:21,376 --> 00:14:24,542 I imagined something more cheerful. 144 00:14:30,209 --> 00:14:33,459 I bought you some pictures, my angel. 145 00:14:33,709 --> 00:14:37,126 With my first extra income, 146 00:14:37,417 --> 00:14:40,334 so our home would be even more beautiful. 147 00:14:46,501 --> 00:14:48,542 So Zina's practicing. 148 00:14:49,459 --> 00:14:51,126 What a talented child. 149 00:14:54,001 --> 00:14:55,584 Mili isn't home? 150 00:14:55,626 --> 00:14:59,834 He's out with Jan, Dr. Bettelheim's nephew. 151 00:15:00,501 --> 00:15:03,417 At least he isn't wandering around. 152 00:15:05,667 --> 00:15:11,042 Jan is a decent boy who won't go farther than the bridge. 153 00:15:19,209 --> 00:15:22,417 - Who's this? - The President of Nicaragua. 154 00:15:23,126 --> 00:15:25,334 Let's put him... 155 00:15:30,209 --> 00:15:33,376 I think he'll go here, dearest. 156 00:15:36,251 --> 00:15:40,459 - And where will we hang this? - In the bathroom. 157 00:15:41,667 --> 00:15:43,917 Do you know, my angels... 158 00:15:44,834 --> 00:15:48,959 this bathroom is the nicest room we have? 159 00:15:50,042 --> 00:15:53,626 I don't know, a bouquet might be better. 160 00:15:55,417 --> 00:15:57,959 Or a hunting scene... 161 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:02,334 ...pursuing a deer. 162 00:16:03,126 --> 00:16:05,417 And how's Enchantress? 163 00:16:09,084 --> 00:16:12,334 Don't let the poor animal suffer. 164 00:16:14,459 --> 00:16:16,959 Would you like some too? 165 00:16:17,667 --> 00:16:22,459 Give it to Enchantress then. It's yesterday's, anyway. 166 00:16:23,584 --> 00:16:27,042 Help yourselves. May I? 167 00:16:35,876 --> 00:16:39,667 Prague statisticians say married men live longer. 168 00:16:39,917 --> 00:16:44,501 We're lucky, Walter, and we should thank our lovely ladies. 169 00:16:45,959 --> 00:16:50,584 Without them we'd die sooner. 170 00:16:54,876 --> 00:17:01,584 When I remember, Walter, how we enlisted in the Great War... 171 00:17:02,667 --> 00:17:05,751 how we fought and died... 172 00:17:07,667 --> 00:17:13,292 how our poor horses suffered... 173 00:17:13,834 --> 00:17:15,292 It all seems unbelievable. 174 00:17:16,542 --> 00:17:23,876 Peace, justice and happiness should reign in the world. 175 00:17:29,792 --> 00:17:33,209 They don't drop like manna from heaven. We must fight for them. 176 00:17:33,542 --> 00:17:38,292 Take Austria. Joining the Reich was only the first step. 177 00:17:38,917 --> 00:17:40,792 The Fuehrer is a political genius. 178 00:17:40,876 --> 00:17:47,292 He has rid his huge nation of poverty and unemployment. 179 00:17:48,751 --> 00:17:51,917 Haven't you seen our Party flyers? 180 00:17:52,876 --> 00:17:58,459 That's Louis Marin, former Minister of Pensions. 181 00:17:59,709 --> 00:18:04,209 I bought it at Mr. Holy's frame shop. He's a widower. 182 00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:09,126 Our nation was wronged after the war, and those 183 00:18:09,459 --> 00:18:13,501 with German blood in their veins must put the wrong right. 184 00:18:14,459 --> 00:18:15,584 COME JOIN US 185 00:18:20,751 --> 00:18:22,459 Have some almonds. 186 00:18:24,167 --> 00:18:30,042 You'd rather hear about some sensational death, eh? 187 00:18:31,042 --> 00:18:34,042 Life is full of tragedies, Mrs. Reinke. 188 00:18:34,959 --> 00:18:43,834 Mr. Strauss went on disability, then lost his wife and child. 189 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:50,334 I don't know... Our children go to Czech schools. 190 00:18:51,667 --> 00:18:54,667 We only speak Czech at home, like right now. 191 00:18:55,042 --> 00:18:58,334 All my books are in Czech... 192 00:18:58,584 --> 00:19:01,917 even my book on Tibet. 193 00:19:02,459 --> 00:19:06,292 Our blood is Czech too. 194 00:19:06,542 --> 00:19:11,751 Investigate and you'll find at least one drop of German blood. 195 00:19:15,584 --> 00:19:17,167 Perhaps... 196 00:19:17,959 --> 00:19:19,834 perhaps a drop. 197 00:19:20,167 --> 00:19:25,876 Well, a truly sensitive person feels even that drop. 198 00:19:26,709 --> 00:19:32,292 I've got to see Goermann. He's meeting the Minister in Berlin. 199 00:19:32,667 --> 00:19:35,459 This republic is an obstacle to our deliverance. 200 00:19:35,542 --> 00:19:38,376 But that would take too long to explain. 201 00:19:38,584 --> 00:19:43,584 I wanted to tell you something interesting. 202 00:19:43,917 --> 00:19:47,834 Siamese twins were born; two heads, two sets of limbs... 203 00:19:47,917 --> 00:19:52,501 Poor kids, a life twice blessed. 204 00:19:53,042 --> 00:19:55,126 - Where've you been, Mili? - Right here. 205 00:19:55,209 --> 00:19:58,167 Jan and I were looking at cars... 206 00:20:00,834 --> 00:20:04,292 Pity you missed a noteworthy conversation. 207 00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:09,417 Mr. Reinke also went to high school before going to college. 208 00:20:10,126 --> 00:20:14,667 He is meeting a Mr. Goermann... and you're behind in German. 209 00:20:15,042 --> 00:20:19,792 We speak Czech at home, but you should learn German. 210 00:20:19,959 --> 00:20:23,001 It's a huge nation. 211 00:20:27,542 --> 00:20:29,751 Ah, Mr. Strauss! 212 00:20:34,542 --> 00:20:36,292 Go on, go on. 213 00:20:36,626 --> 00:20:40,709 See how successful the poor man is. 214 00:20:45,084 --> 00:20:49,459 - Good clay. - Welcome, Mr. Dvorak. 215 00:20:49,584 --> 00:20:53,959 Don't be frightened. I'll initiate you very gently. 216 00:21:00,542 --> 00:21:04,334 - This is our porter, Mr. Vrana. - Good day. 217 00:21:04,459 --> 00:21:07,167 He has liver trouble, poor man. 218 00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:13,001 I've been coming to this temple of death for 15 years, 219 00:21:13,376 --> 00:21:17,334 and every time I enter a holy feeling enshrouds me. 220 00:21:17,834 --> 00:21:20,751 It's like my marriage. 221 00:21:21,042 --> 00:21:23,626 We've been together for 17 years, 222 00:21:23,709 --> 00:21:25,751 and it's still just as beautiful 223 00:21:26,042 --> 00:21:31,417 as the day we met at the leopard's cage. 224 00:21:38,959 --> 00:21:42,876 Come, Mr. Dvorak, nothing to be afraid of. 225 00:21:43,167 --> 00:21:47,376 You have chosen a beautiful, noble profession. 226 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:51,042 But one full of responsibilities. 227 00:21:54,917 --> 00:21:56,709 Good day. 228 00:21:59,501 --> 00:22:02,292 That's Mr. Fenek, a morphine addict. 229 00:22:05,542 --> 00:22:10,126 Have you heard? The Allies are pushing for appeasement. 230 00:22:10,626 --> 00:22:13,959 Don't worry. It will all turn out fine. 231 00:22:14,459 --> 00:22:18,667 Even I might have a drop of German blood. 232 00:22:18,751 --> 00:22:21,417 One can't help one's origins. 233 00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:26,751 No coat, Mr. Dvorak? We'll find one and I'll show you around. 234 00:22:29,126 --> 00:22:33,626 Mrs. Liskova... How about coming too? 235 00:22:33,959 --> 00:22:37,042 You don't know how our equipment works either. 236 00:22:37,209 --> 00:22:40,626 It's not necessary for cleaning, Mr. Kopfrkingl. 237 00:22:41,584 --> 00:22:45,084 Let's go then, Mr. Dvorak. 238 00:22:51,376 --> 00:22:53,376 May I smoke? 239 00:22:53,876 --> 00:22:56,792 Of course, if it makes you happy... 240 00:22:56,876 --> 00:23:03,042 No thanks, I don't smoke or drink. I'm a total abstainer. 241 00:23:03,417 --> 00:23:07,209 We can hear the ceremony through that speaker. 242 00:23:07,376 --> 00:23:10,959 Beautiful music everywhere... Do you do like music? 243 00:23:11,334 --> 00:23:15,959 Mr. Dvorak? Sensitive people love music. 244 00:23:18,584 --> 00:23:20,876 I really love it. 245 00:23:26,667 --> 00:23:31,084 That's nothing, just Mrs. Lesetinska practicing. 246 00:23:31,542 --> 00:23:34,751 This lets down the catafalque. 247 00:23:48,834 --> 00:23:53,542 Upstairs is the world of the survivors. 248 00:23:54,751 --> 00:23:57,917 Our work begins down here. 249 00:23:58,251 --> 00:24:01,876 The furnaces always remind me of the ovens used 250 00:24:02,084 --> 00:24:05,959 for the baking our daily bread. 251 00:24:07,417 --> 00:24:10,042 That's our timetable. 252 00:24:12,834 --> 00:24:17,292 A schedule of death no one can avoid... 253 00:24:17,459 --> 00:24:21,334 unless he's buried in the ground. 254 00:24:25,751 --> 00:24:28,209 Come, Mr. Dvorak. 255 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:34,417 We have two gas furnaces which can transform 256 00:24:35,084 --> 00:24:39,292 the deceased into dust in an hour and 15 minutes. 257 00:24:39,417 --> 00:24:41,792 We take a break in the afternoon, 258 00:24:41,959 --> 00:24:48,084 and you can breathe fresh air in the cemetery. 259 00:24:55,417 --> 00:25:00,626 These little windows allow us to see inside. 260 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:08,917 There's nothing to see now, Mr. Dvorak. You must wait 261 00:25:09,459 --> 00:25:12,376 for a nice cremation. 262 00:25:17,376 --> 00:25:20,876 The ashes are packed into these canisters. 263 00:25:21,126 --> 00:25:27,584 But the soul is not. It's floating in the ether, 264 00:25:28,376 --> 00:25:34,292 free of the bonds of suffering. Free and purified it seeks 265 00:25:34,584 --> 00:25:36,667 another body. 266 00:25:45,376 --> 00:25:48,667 Here are this afternoon's coffins. 267 00:25:48,959 --> 00:25:53,709 The first is upstairs waiting for the surviving family 268 00:25:55,501 --> 00:25:58,542 to say their goodbyes. 269 00:25:59,084 --> 00:26:02,917 But some coffins are not sent for viewing. 270 00:26:03,209 --> 00:26:08,792 As you see, these are already nailed shut. 271 00:26:13,667 --> 00:26:17,709 Just leave it there, Mr. Dvorak. 272 00:26:18,667 --> 00:26:21,167 It may come in handy. 273 00:26:21,376 --> 00:26:26,959 Today we cremate Miss Strunna. Can you give me a hand? 274 00:26:35,709 --> 00:26:40,209 Here she is. I already saw her yesterday. 275 00:26:40,501 --> 00:26:43,501 Her complexion is remarkably rosy, 276 00:26:43,792 --> 00:26:46,626 as if she were alive. 277 00:26:47,251 --> 00:26:49,667 As if she might awaken... 278 00:26:51,417 --> 00:26:53,834 and rise. 279 00:26:54,709 --> 00:26:58,167 You may think she's not really dead, 280 00:26:58,334 --> 00:27:01,542 but you would be in error, Mr. Dvorak. 281 00:27:01,959 --> 00:27:04,667 She has been pronounced dead, 282 00:27:05,042 --> 00:27:10,376 and it is our duty to cremate her. 283 00:27:11,751 --> 00:27:16,584 It would be very unlucky if Miss Strunna were still alive, 284 00:27:16,667 --> 00:27:20,459 as she had her whole life ahead of her. 285 00:27:21,709 --> 00:27:27,042 It would only be lucky if she were to have suffered. 286 00:27:27,459 --> 00:27:34,292 Suffering is a great evil and we must try to alleviate it. 287 00:27:35,709 --> 00:27:40,167 Don't worry, Mr. Dvorak, Miss Strunna is, I suppose 288 00:27:40,334 --> 00:27:42,542 really dead. 289 00:27:43,792 --> 00:27:46,834 Such mistakes usually don't happen nowadays. 290 00:27:47,459 --> 00:27:49,584 How beautiful... 291 00:27:50,459 --> 00:27:53,042 How gorgeous, my angels. 292 00:27:53,417 --> 00:28:00,126 If only they were artificial they'd bloom even in the snow. 293 00:28:02,167 --> 00:28:06,251 Mr. Dvorak's so nervous he smokes all the time. 294 00:28:06,417 --> 00:28:09,751 Come on, Mili! Don't keep wandering off. 295 00:29:22,834 --> 00:29:25,209 They exercise so nicely. 296 00:29:27,834 --> 00:29:31,501 My pretties, I know something far better. 297 00:29:55,959 --> 00:30:00,334 - What is it? - Not afraid, are you? 298 00:30:00,626 --> 00:30:03,709 Laget, the mass-murderer. 299 00:30:04,626 --> 00:30:08,626 He murdered every day... and every night. 300 00:30:14,209 --> 00:30:18,209 - They look so alive... - Stop acting so stupid. 301 00:30:18,334 --> 00:30:22,459 This is a wax museum, right? 302 00:30:23,792 --> 00:30:28,334 Now, in dread of His wrath let's all see the bath. 303 00:30:28,501 --> 00:30:30,209 Lights! 304 00:30:32,959 --> 00:30:36,042 - Will there be water and steam? - Shut up. 305 00:30:36,959 --> 00:30:39,084 It's just wax museum. 306 00:30:43,376 --> 00:30:47,584 This is the St. Francis Spa, 307 00:30:47,667 --> 00:30:51,501 where people come to fix a flaw. 308 00:30:51,834 --> 00:30:54,667 This lady will give the baths a try... 309 00:30:54,834 --> 00:30:58,001 She smiles sweetly at this young guy. 310 00:30:58,417 --> 00:31:00,834 Then sits to calmly in the tub, 311 00:31:01,292 --> 00:31:05,334 but he's planning more than a scrub. 312 00:31:12,084 --> 00:31:14,209 Old baths. 313 00:31:15,751 --> 00:31:18,876 How much nicer our bathroom is. 314 00:31:19,126 --> 00:31:24,167 - She looks like the milk woman. - Ssh! You're not at the dairy. 315 00:31:24,334 --> 00:31:25,959 Darkness. 316 00:31:29,459 --> 00:31:34,501 This bloke had the plague so he hanged himself dead. 317 00:31:34,584 --> 00:31:42,376 He was decisive and brave and didn't want it to spread. 318 00:31:42,876 --> 00:31:48,501 He hangs here by the neck, and no one can bring him back. 319 00:31:48,667 --> 00:31:52,126 - He looks alive. - He's dead, hanged. 320 00:31:52,917 --> 00:31:57,417 This unfortunate lad was killed by murderer Moore. 321 00:31:57,501 --> 00:32:01,292 It only took a second with this iron bar. 322 00:32:01,584 --> 00:32:05,584 Sweet, blue-eyed Moore had everyone baffled. 323 00:32:05,834 --> 00:32:10,042 He murdered 6 people and ended at the scaffold. 324 00:32:10,376 --> 00:32:12,292 There he is. 325 00:32:13,792 --> 00:32:16,834 - I knew it. - The hell you did. You're nuts. 326 00:32:16,959 --> 00:32:20,876 I can't even take you to a wax museum. She's an idiot... 327 00:32:21,042 --> 00:32:22,459 This way please, 328 00:32:22,667 --> 00:32:28,001 toward our wax gnome by the name of Tom. 329 00:32:29,584 --> 00:32:30,959 He's alive! 330 00:32:31,042 --> 00:32:32,834 The show is through for most of you. 331 00:32:32,876 --> 00:32:41,584 But men whose nerves are strong might like to come along. 332 00:32:52,709 --> 00:32:57,834 Here we have various diseases... pox and syphilis... 333 00:32:57,917 --> 00:33:00,584 Both contagious. 334 00:33:01,584 --> 00:33:06,251 How horrible to die this way. 335 00:33:06,376 --> 00:33:07,584 Indeed. 336 00:33:28,042 --> 00:33:30,584 But modern doctors 337 00:33:32,292 --> 00:33:35,751 can protect us. 338 00:33:39,584 --> 00:33:41,042 Like... 339 00:33:41,959 --> 00:33:49,626 our kind Dr. Bettelheim. 340 00:34:03,209 --> 00:34:09,417 You still feel these tests are necessary, Mr. Kopfrkingl? 341 00:34:09,792 --> 00:34:14,626 Doctor, I have intercourse only with my beloved wife. 342 00:34:15,376 --> 00:34:20,709 I'm afraid to seem like a bit of a hypochondriac, 343 00:34:21,126 --> 00:34:24,959 but I worry about being infected at the crematorium. 344 00:34:25,042 --> 00:34:31,167 You don't deal with corpses. Infection is impossible. 345 00:34:31,542 --> 00:34:34,292 How glad I am that you are our neighbour, 346 00:34:34,334 --> 00:34:37,501 and that my son is friends with your nephew. 347 00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:43,209 Mili wanders around and today that's dangerous. 348 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:48,167 I hear martial law has been declared in the border region. 349 00:34:48,459 --> 00:34:51,459 That will mean hell for many people. 350 00:34:51,792 --> 00:34:55,334 Violence never pays, Mr. Kopfrkingl. 351 00:34:55,667 --> 00:34:58,334 It's not a reliable principle of power. 352 00:34:58,584 --> 00:35:03,792 This is 20th-century Europe in a civilized world. 353 00:35:04,084 --> 00:35:07,501 Aggressors are always defeated in the end. 354 00:35:08,709 --> 00:35:13,917 If you think it necessary, Mr. Kopfrkingl, come again. 355 00:35:17,834 --> 00:35:23,251 Mr. Kopfrkingl... Come have a look. 356 00:35:25,959 --> 00:35:30,959 Banana flies, used for heredity tests. 357 00:35:31,334 --> 00:35:38,459 This one is a 'Drosophila Funebris', the funeral fly. 358 00:35:38,667 --> 00:35:41,709 Would you like the collection? 359 00:35:41,959 --> 00:35:46,251 I'll let it go cheap... for just a pinch of morphine. 360 00:35:49,376 --> 00:35:53,501 I have a weakness for such... decorations. 361 00:35:53,667 --> 00:35:57,251 We have a butterfly pinned on the bathroom wall. 362 00:35:57,542 --> 00:36:02,042 But where would I get morphine? I don't even smoke. 363 00:36:02,334 --> 00:36:06,459 That friend of yours is a chemical engineer... 364 00:36:07,042 --> 00:36:11,917 Mr. Reinke is out of town. It's mobilisation, Mr. Fenek. 365 00:36:12,334 --> 00:36:16,917 When he comes back then. I still have a bit left. 366 00:36:17,126 --> 00:36:19,417 I came in early 367 00:36:20,459 --> 00:36:23,001 so I could see you. 368 00:36:23,834 --> 00:36:26,334 There are better things to look at. 369 00:36:27,834 --> 00:36:30,584 How long have you been living like this? 370 00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:41,667 Do you find meaning in life by cleaning every morning? 371 00:36:42,292 --> 00:36:45,334 Times are hard - it's mobilisation. 372 00:36:46,167 --> 00:36:51,209 You need someone to cling to, to protect you. 373 00:36:53,209 --> 00:36:56,376 Let's talk about it later tonight. 374 00:36:57,459 --> 00:36:59,626 What's the matter? 375 00:37:02,751 --> 00:37:06,417 I frightened Mrs. Liskova. 376 00:37:06,584 --> 00:37:11,751 Mr. Kopfrkingl, a crematorium is no place for jokes. 377 00:37:12,501 --> 00:37:14,584 You're right, bad timing. 378 00:37:14,709 --> 00:37:21,167 I wanted to invite her to our place for a change of pace. 379 00:37:23,001 --> 00:37:25,459 Maybe some other time. 380 00:37:28,084 --> 00:37:32,542 Well, Mr. Kopfrkingl! Do come in. 381 00:37:33,292 --> 00:37:34,917 MASSAGE PARLOUR 382 00:37:38,417 --> 00:37:41,459 How sweet and thoughtful of you. 383 00:37:48,417 --> 00:37:54,334 - I bought this for Zina. - The young lady has a client. 384 00:37:55,084 --> 00:38:01,626 Perhaps you'd consider another? They all say how nice you are. 385 00:38:01,792 --> 00:38:05,417 You'd have to wait a bit for Miss Dagmar. 386 00:38:05,959 --> 00:38:09,876 Pity you only come once a month. 387 00:38:10,042 --> 00:38:14,292 You should honour us more often. 388 00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:17,626 Maybe I should. 389 00:38:19,126 --> 00:38:21,542 I can afford to now. 390 00:38:22,876 --> 00:38:25,417 I have an agent, 391 00:38:27,917 --> 00:38:30,959 and it's healthy. 392 00:38:37,834 --> 00:38:44,626 Ah, Miss Dagmar. You didn't have to wait long after all. 393 00:38:49,584 --> 00:38:53,667 - Farewell, goodbye. - Goodbye. Here... 394 00:39:03,209 --> 00:39:08,459 Mr. Kopfrkingl, I've waited all month. Let me just tidy up. 395 00:39:16,251 --> 00:39:20,167 I wouldn't like my Zina's present to be crumpled. 396 00:39:23,334 --> 00:39:28,709 We have a new man at the ovens, Mr. Dvorak. 397 00:39:29,084 --> 00:39:32,042 He helps prepare the coffins. 398 00:39:32,292 --> 00:39:36,167 He smoked from nerves when he started. 399 00:39:36,334 --> 00:39:38,792 He's not so nervous now. 400 00:39:39,084 --> 00:39:45,084 Thank God he no longer smokes so much. 401 00:39:46,167 --> 00:39:49,209 Mr. Strauss is a success at selling cremations. 402 00:39:49,334 --> 00:39:51,917 People at sweet shops are gentle, 403 00:39:52,459 --> 00:39:54,542 kind, 404 00:39:55,209 --> 00:39:57,584 and pleasant. 405 00:39:58,209 --> 00:40:00,292 Alright, let's go... 406 00:40:01,459 --> 00:40:05,917 I need another agent, a seller of toys... 407 00:40:06,209 --> 00:40:11,042 or cosmetics. Either would serve. 408 00:40:12,167 --> 00:40:15,917 I must take care of my family. 409 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:30,292 We have a beautiful and blessed home. 410 00:40:33,042 --> 00:40:36,542 I must take care of you even better. 411 00:40:39,792 --> 00:40:42,751 I'd like to take on another agent. 412 00:40:43,709 --> 00:40:46,584 Mr. Dvorak no longer smokes so much. 413 00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:49,917 But haven't I already mentioned that? 414 00:40:50,709 --> 00:40:53,751 You look so sad lately, Lakme. 415 00:40:53,959 --> 00:40:56,834 anything worrying you? 416 00:40:57,876 --> 00:40:59,667 Any problems? 417 00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:04,001 Our angel's birthday is coming up. 418 00:41:05,334 --> 00:41:08,042 I bought her an outfit. 419 00:41:12,584 --> 00:41:18,334 Let's hope her Kaja's as much a family man as I am 420 00:41:26,584 --> 00:41:31,501 Even these died on us. Everything dies here. 421 00:41:32,501 --> 00:41:37,959 Mrs. Liskova is quitting. She couldn't get used to it here. 422 00:41:37,959 --> 00:41:41,542 Such a shame, Mrs. Liskova. Why so suddenly? 423 00:41:42,126 --> 00:41:46,917 Now I won't be able to take you out. 424 00:41:48,376 --> 00:41:55,584 We're so busy too, and German soldiers stand at the border. 425 00:41:56,959 --> 00:42:00,834 Even Mr. Vrana can't light it. 426 00:42:04,959 --> 00:42:08,459 You're so upset, but why would they occupy us? 427 00:42:08,542 --> 00:42:11,209 Violence never pays. 428 00:42:11,334 --> 00:42:14,667 This is 20th-century Europe in a civilized world. 429 00:42:14,709 --> 00:42:17,959 When does Miss Carska's turn come, Mr. Dvorak? 430 00:42:18,834 --> 00:42:20,292 Seventh. 431 00:42:23,209 --> 00:42:29,292 The first this afternoon. No waiting for her, poor... 432 00:42:30,959 --> 00:42:33,084 Miss Carska. 433 00:42:37,542 --> 00:42:40,001 She was just about to get married. 434 00:42:40,626 --> 00:42:45,334 I'll make sure she's perfectly ready. 435 00:43:02,084 --> 00:43:08,084 Mr. Kopfrkingl, I don't want to trouble you, 436 00:43:09,042 --> 00:43:11,251 but have you got the morphine? 437 00:43:11,292 --> 00:43:15,959 I told you Mr. Reinke is out of town. Be patient. 438 00:43:16,126 --> 00:43:22,126 You can't worry about morphine with the Germans at the border. 439 00:43:23,251 --> 00:43:28,709 They've convened a conference. It may mean war, and Miss Carska 440 00:43:29,709 --> 00:43:33,126 was just about to get married. 441 00:43:33,251 --> 00:43:35,501 "How horrible it is to lose 442 00:43:35,626 --> 00:43:40,501 "so many loved ones in their prime. 443 00:43:40,834 --> 00:43:45,751 "Frost burns flowers' flushed cheeks, 444 00:43:46,292 --> 00:43:51,501 "and the Angel of Death takes his toll." 445 00:43:53,709 --> 00:43:56,667 An educated speaker. 446 00:43:58,042 --> 00:44:01,876 They're playing Dvorak's 'Largo', Mr. Dvorak. 447 00:44:02,209 --> 00:44:09,542 In 75 minutes Miss Carska's ashes will fill an urn. 448 00:44:09,792 --> 00:44:11,626 But not her soul. 449 00:44:13,209 --> 00:44:15,209 That can't be. 450 00:44:15,334 --> 00:44:19,251 It will be reincarnated, liberated, as the Tibetans say. 451 00:44:20,126 --> 00:44:22,876 It will rise into the ether. 452 00:44:37,834 --> 00:44:44,667 You know, premature death is a blessing only if it relieves 453 00:44:45,459 --> 00:44:48,417 ...great suffering. 454 00:44:50,709 --> 00:44:54,001 I'd like to leave, too. 455 00:44:55,042 --> 00:44:59,709 I think I'd be happier in a boiler room. 456 00:45:00,834 --> 00:45:04,209 What's wrong now, Mr. Dvorak? 457 00:45:04,834 --> 00:45:08,167 I thought you had overcome your fears. 458 00:45:08,292 --> 00:45:12,042 I was even telling my dear wife you smoked less. 459 00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:16,334 Boiler work is a humiliation. 460 00:45:20,084 --> 00:45:27,292 Help yourselves, dear children, Kaja, girls, Vojta... 461 00:45:31,542 --> 00:45:36,167 Much has happened since the border regions were occupied. 462 00:45:39,209 --> 00:45:41,167 Lovely music... 463 00:45:42,292 --> 00:45:45,959 Let's see what they say in the papers. 464 00:45:51,334 --> 00:45:52,959 CHERRY BOMBS, SKY ROCKETS 465 00:45:53,042 --> 00:45:59,751 Mili, what odd ideas you have. Never swallow a cherry bomb. 466 00:46:02,042 --> 00:46:07,584 Understand You could be crippled for life. 467 00:46:14,167 --> 00:46:17,709 Will you take a photo, Kaja? 468 00:46:25,667 --> 00:46:32,251 A photograph eternally preserves the present moment. 469 00:46:33,542 --> 00:46:38,459 We take photos at work too, but without the finger-waggling. 470 00:46:38,542 --> 00:46:43,292 They buy them as souvenirs - the survivors, that is. 471 00:46:43,376 --> 00:46:47,792 Did anyone ever wake up in their coffin? 472 00:46:49,459 --> 00:46:53,709 Oh really, Kaja... it hasn't happened yet. 473 00:46:53,959 --> 00:46:56,376 Not even Miss Carska, 474 00:46:56,542 --> 00:47:00,751 although so young and about to be married. 475 00:47:01,042 --> 00:47:04,876 People do wake up in coffins. I read about it. 476 00:47:05,376 --> 00:47:09,042 Only if the person wasn't dead. 477 00:47:10,334 --> 00:47:15,959 But it would be impossible after 75 minutes in the furnace. 478 00:47:16,126 --> 00:47:22,709 In some human countries they even burn animals. 479 00:47:23,209 --> 00:47:26,876 You'll be cremated too, Enchantress. 480 00:47:28,292 --> 00:47:34,126 One clay you won't even recognise your present self. 481 00:47:34,959 --> 00:47:38,042 Cremation is humane. 482 00:47:39,042 --> 00:47:44,251 And rids people of the fear of death. 483 00:47:44,792 --> 00:47:50,792 My dear children... do not fear cremation. 484 00:47:53,334 --> 00:47:57,667 Zina, why don't you play for our guests? 485 00:47:57,751 --> 00:48:01,251 How about Mahler's 'Songs on the Death of Children'? 486 00:48:02,834 --> 00:48:08,292 Or something more lively... Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns? 487 00:48:08,751 --> 00:48:12,584 I'm taking Mili to a boxing match. 488 00:48:12,709 --> 00:48:17,042 My enchantress almost forgot to tell me about it. 489 00:48:17,334 --> 00:48:21,584 You've never seen a boxing match, neither have I. 490 00:48:21,751 --> 00:48:24,501 It seems a brutal sport. 491 00:48:26,042 --> 00:48:28,584 But I'm looking forward to it. 492 00:48:32,959 --> 00:48:35,042 One... two... 493 00:48:35,834 --> 00:48:38,542 You're seeing a truly manly sport for once. 494 00:48:38,709 --> 00:48:42,876 - I think it rather brutal. - Tough, yes, but that's good. 495 00:48:42,959 --> 00:48:48,209 You must be brave. Boxing is for fighters. Man against man. 496 00:48:54,084 --> 00:49:01,042 Why must I do this... Can we never be on time? 497 00:49:01,126 --> 00:49:05,584 Excuse me. These are our seats. Beat it! 498 00:49:05,626 --> 00:49:08,626 That pale-skinned girl over there 499 00:49:09,042 --> 00:49:12,917 reminds me of a waitress at our club. 500 00:49:13,292 --> 00:49:14,959 - Look! - Shut up. 501 00:49:16,501 --> 00:49:19,501 - What if he breaks his leg? - What? Drop it! 502 00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:25,751 My angel nearly forgot about your invitation today. 503 00:49:26,376 --> 00:49:30,542 - Is he bleeding? - There shouldn't be any blood. 504 00:49:37,751 --> 00:49:43,167 - Clean your glasses, Mili. - They'll knock their teeth out! 505 00:49:45,084 --> 00:49:48,667 - Are they dancing? - They're in the ring, damn it. 506 00:49:51,167 --> 00:49:52,959 They'll hurt him. 507 00:49:53,459 --> 00:49:59,167 The referee doesn't box. Watch the two men in shorts. 508 00:49:59,834 --> 00:50:03,126 White shorts is a Union man and red is a butcher's apprentice. 509 00:50:03,209 --> 00:50:08,876 - A butcher! There'll be blood! - This isn't a slaughterhouse. 510 00:50:08,959 --> 00:50:11,126 Now shut up, stupid, and watch. 511 00:50:25,084 --> 00:50:31,667 - You said he wouldn't get hurt. - It was a mistake. Now shut up. 512 00:50:39,542 --> 00:50:44,667 It is slaughterhouse! There's blood everywhere. Why did we come? 513 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:51,542 Get out of here, you nut! She's headed for the asylum... 514 00:50:59,084 --> 00:51:03,542 ...three, four, five, six... 515 00:51:04,334 --> 00:51:08,292 ...seven, eight, nine... 516 00:51:15,334 --> 00:51:17,959 Is the apprentice dead, Daddy? 517 00:51:18,709 --> 00:51:22,251 Death is the only certainty. 518 00:51:28,792 --> 00:51:31,792 COME JOIN US! 519 00:51:36,542 --> 00:51:42,667 Ah, Christmas... a truly blessed time. 520 00:51:44,417 --> 00:51:47,709 You look radiant, my angel. 521 00:51:48,792 --> 00:51:52,917 Why don't I hang you up among these pretty angels 522 00:51:53,417 --> 00:51:56,167 and all this beauty? 523 00:52:02,459 --> 00:52:05,501 Don't make them suffer. They're suffocating. 524 00:52:05,584 --> 00:52:08,042 Ana is coming soon to kill them. 525 00:52:08,167 --> 00:52:12,167 Why is Ana coming? Can't you do it? 526 00:52:12,917 --> 00:52:17,376 Dear child, of course I could, but I don't like to. 527 00:52:17,501 --> 00:52:22,667 Ana is used to it. She's a good old soul. 528 00:52:23,126 --> 00:52:26,417 Come, children, we needn't watch. 529 00:52:28,126 --> 00:52:34,126 Leave her here. My sweet one enjoys the entrails. 530 00:52:41,334 --> 00:52:47,584 One of them is dead by now... if Ana hit it well. 531 00:52:49,542 --> 00:52:53,042 It's soul is already in the ether. 532 00:53:00,459 --> 00:53:03,251 Now the second one is dead. 533 00:53:04,959 --> 00:53:09,917 You may play with their soul-bladders. 534 00:53:11,959 --> 00:53:15,251 But those are really their lungs. 535 00:53:16,792 --> 00:53:22,417 Their true souls may have just reincarnated... 536 00:53:23,042 --> 00:53:24,584 into cats, maybe. 537 00:53:25,626 --> 00:53:29,751 We may have once eaten Enchantress as a carp. 538 00:53:30,084 --> 00:53:33,542 We may even eat her again sometime as... 539 00:53:34,167 --> 00:53:36,917 something else. 540 00:53:39,126 --> 00:53:43,626 But before enjoying our repast we'll wait for Mr. Reinke. 541 00:53:43,667 --> 00:53:46,626 A pretty Christmas tree. Any carp? 542 00:53:46,792 --> 00:53:52,751 Two. My angel is frying them on our little home furnace. 543 00:53:52,917 --> 00:53:57,709 Her blessed mother used to make jellied carp, 544 00:53:58,209 --> 00:54:00,501 a foreign recipe, but we do it Czech style. 545 00:54:00,542 --> 00:54:05,084 With carp, okay. But don't you feel our blood? 546 00:54:05,417 --> 00:54:10,876 We're fighting for the cause and you fry carp the Czech way? 547 00:54:11,167 --> 00:54:17,459 I thought you opposed violence, wanted justice and salvation. 548 00:54:17,667 --> 00:54:20,876 This republic is a bastion for our enemies. 549 00:54:21,501 --> 00:54:26,626 It's a humanitarian state with good laws. 550 00:54:27,417 --> 00:54:29,334 For instance, the one on cremation. 551 00:54:29,376 --> 00:54:34,542 We will implement a higher moral code, a new world order. 552 00:54:35,709 --> 00:54:39,126 You are an honest sensitive, dutiful man. 553 00:54:39,626 --> 00:54:43,667 You are strong and brave. A pure Germanic soul. 554 00:54:44,209 --> 00:54:49,167 Listen, Karel, we want to put you to the test. 555 00:54:49,667 --> 00:54:54,792 On March 6th there will be some kind of celebration 556 00:54:54,834 --> 00:54:58,542 at the Jewish Town Hall here in Prague. 557 00:54:58,709 --> 00:55:04,167 Get your old Jew Bettelheim to invite you, 558 00:55:04,417 --> 00:55:07,584 the one who got rich curing VD. 559 00:55:07,876 --> 00:55:12,834 Listen to their talk, their opinions... 560 00:55:13,209 --> 00:55:19,792 It's a way of helping the poor unfortunate Jews. 561 00:55:22,626 --> 00:55:26,126 How is it going to help them? 562 00:55:26,876 --> 00:55:31,084 They are poor, misguided people who understand nothing. 563 00:55:31,459 --> 00:55:35,626 They fight against our Fuehrer because they don't get it. 564 00:55:35,834 --> 00:55:38,459 They are a lost nation which understands nothing. 565 00:55:38,501 --> 00:55:44,792 You can help them by finding out what they say and think... 566 00:55:46,417 --> 00:55:50,084 Walter won't be having almonds today, dear. 567 00:55:51,042 --> 00:55:55,292 I bought you an application to join the Party. 568 00:55:57,459 --> 00:56:00,917 Become a member. There's still time. 569 00:56:02,584 --> 00:56:04,876 I have to go now. 570 00:56:05,209 --> 00:56:09,042 The wife and I are spending Christmas Eve at the casino. 571 00:56:09,126 --> 00:56:13,167 We usually don't bring our wives. 572 00:56:13,876 --> 00:56:17,792 We already have excellent companions there. 573 00:56:19,126 --> 00:56:22,292 Gorgeous blondes only. 574 00:56:22,459 --> 00:56:28,751 Have a look. Of course, only Party members are allowed. 575 00:56:29,626 --> 00:56:31,792 Germans like you and me. 576 00:56:38,834 --> 00:56:40,209 "Mother tongue" 577 00:56:42,209 --> 00:56:45,501 "I declare... No Jewish blood... I claim German citizenship..." 578 00:56:45,792 --> 00:56:51,751 All blondes... I'll have to get used to it. 579 00:56:52,667 --> 00:56:58,126 Now it's really Christmas. Candles at home, for once. 580 00:56:58,626 --> 00:57:04,626 I usually see them on the catafalque and on graves. 581 00:57:07,834 --> 00:57:10,584 I wonder what the Bettelheims are doing. 582 00:57:11,209 --> 00:57:16,334 Celebrating Christmas like us even though they're Jews? 583 00:57:16,876 --> 00:57:22,001 He's rich, the poor man, living off other's misfortunes. 584 00:57:24,251 --> 00:57:29,667 It's Christmas Eve, my dears, and the temple of death is idle. 585 00:57:29,959 --> 00:57:36,709 No cremating today, but they should cremate on Christmas 586 00:57:36,751 --> 00:57:40,001 when so many souls need emancipating, 587 00:57:40,042 --> 00:57:45,459 need liberating into space to find new bodies. 588 00:57:45,667 --> 00:57:48,959 Christmas should be for the dead, too. 589 00:57:51,209 --> 00:57:54,959 At least the carp have profited. 590 00:57:55,542 --> 00:57:59,959 Just as a token. I don't drink. I'm an abstainer. 591 00:58:01,167 --> 00:58:03,334 Germans don't drink either. 592 00:58:03,542 --> 00:58:08,042 That humane nation also has a cremation law. 593 00:58:08,626 --> 00:58:13,709 A great future awaits them. Unfortunately... 594 00:58:14,376 --> 00:58:19,501 I hope we, too, belong to this chosen people 595 00:58:20,459 --> 00:58:24,751 who will implement a higher moral code. 596 00:58:25,501 --> 00:58:31,376 Blood is blood and cannot be renounced. 597 00:58:32,917 --> 00:58:37,209 Do you still feel it's necessary, Mr. Kopfrkingl? 598 00:58:37,251 --> 00:58:40,917 What kind of blood do I have, Doctor? 599 00:58:42,042 --> 00:58:45,542 It'll be negative, as usual. 600 00:58:45,876 --> 00:58:51,167 That's not what I meant. I was wondering... 601 00:58:52,542 --> 00:58:55,917 whether it's Czech blood... 602 00:58:57,209 --> 00:58:58,667 or German? 603 00:58:59,251 --> 00:59:01,917 It's impossible to tell. 604 00:59:05,626 --> 00:59:11,709 Well, then, whether it's Slavic or Germanic? 605 00:59:13,667 --> 00:59:19,584 There's no difference in blood. The same as with human ashes. 606 00:59:19,667 --> 00:59:26,376 You yourself always say that - whether French or Spanish, 607 00:59:26,834 --> 00:59:31,751 doctor or clerk... It's all the same. 608 00:59:32,084 --> 00:59:37,417 Isn't the Jewish community 609 00:59:38,501 --> 00:59:44,459 planning some kind of celebration with pretty songs? 610 00:59:44,667 --> 00:59:52,042 You mean Chevra Suda, a dinner at the Funeral Brotherhood Hall. 611 00:59:52,792 --> 00:59:59,376 It won't be so nice this year. Would you like to come? 612 00:59:59,417 --> 01:00:02,959 At the Funeral Brotherhood Hall. 613 01:01:48,834 --> 01:01:51,709 What a magnificent tremolo. 614 01:01:53,042 --> 01:01:56,501 They called the Fuehrer a fraud and a blackguard. 615 01:01:59,042 --> 01:02:01,709 What a gorgeous voice... 616 01:02:02,959 --> 01:02:04,792 So sad... 617 01:02:06,626 --> 01:02:09,334 Didn't they say that Party members would be eliminated? 618 01:02:09,376 --> 01:02:12,959 Yes, there were lots of them there, speaking, eating... 619 01:02:13,084 --> 01:02:16,709 And that cantor, those high notes... 620 01:02:22,334 --> 01:02:26,542 So they said they'd destroy Germany and assume power? 621 01:02:26,626 --> 01:02:31,501 Yes, assume power... And the singing was so soft, 622 01:02:32,209 --> 01:02:33,876 so heartrending... 623 01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:36,501 They said they'd bury Germany? 624 01:02:37,167 --> 01:02:38,376 The Reich! 625 01:02:40,084 --> 01:02:48,792 Yes, yes. It was like a grand funeral. 626 01:02:50,876 --> 01:02:55,334 You're right... It's heavenly here, 627 01:02:57,501 --> 01:03:00,626 and no one is suffering. 628 01:03:02,709 --> 01:03:06,584 Soon there will be no suffering anywhere: Warsaw, Paris, 629 01:03:06,626 --> 01:03:09,167 London, New York... 630 01:03:09,959 --> 01:03:13,876 They'll be liberated just like Bohemia and Moravia. 631 01:03:13,959 --> 01:03:19,459 Not even horses need suffer. The Reich's army is mechanised. 632 01:03:20,042 --> 01:03:24,167 You didn't see any horses when Prague was occupied, right? 633 01:03:24,334 --> 01:03:30,501 It's all mechanised, automated - just like your crematorium. 634 01:03:30,917 --> 01:03:33,584 The Fuehrer is building a paradise. 635 01:03:37,084 --> 01:03:40,542 - Good evening. - We must celebrate our victory! 636 01:03:40,584 --> 01:03:42,959 Hold on, hold on... 637 01:03:51,792 --> 01:03:53,459 - Cheers! - Quick! 638 01:03:53,501 --> 01:03:58,751 I'm an abstainer. I don't even smoke. 639 01:04:04,501 --> 01:04:06,667 Today doesn't count. 640 01:04:06,959 --> 01:04:10,834 I'll remember March 15th my whole... life. 641 01:04:13,251 --> 01:04:16,334 Just a token drop, then. 642 01:04:38,584 --> 01:04:41,001 We have enemies, Karl. 643 01:04:43,709 --> 01:04:45,751 Even at the crematorium. 644 01:04:46,959 --> 01:04:49,042 We rely on you. 645 01:04:50,167 --> 01:04:55,667 You're our only man there, and you're a Party member. 646 01:04:56,209 --> 01:04:58,959 What's the situation? 647 01:04:59,376 --> 01:05:05,376 Some people just don't understand, 648 01:05:06,792 --> 01:05:08,584 like Zajic, 649 01:05:08,959 --> 01:05:10,126 Fenek, 650 01:05:10,417 --> 01:05:11,501 Beran, 651 01:05:11,626 --> 01:05:13,209 Podzimkova, 652 01:05:13,376 --> 01:05:14,917 Pelikan, 653 01:05:15,376 --> 01:05:18,959 or the porter... Vrana. 654 01:05:20,542 --> 01:05:24,459 There's something wrong with his liver, but still... 655 01:05:24,792 --> 01:05:28,334 He's an inveterate enemy of the Reich. 656 01:05:29,917 --> 01:05:33,709 Or... Liskova. 657 01:05:35,751 --> 01:05:40,751 She used to clean but quit last year. We can find her easily. 658 01:05:40,834 --> 01:05:45,834 And the director of my temple of death... 659 01:05:46,376 --> 01:05:52,334 He also lacks the proper attitude towards the Reich 660 01:05:52,792 --> 01:05:58,209 I'd like to burn all Germans in these ovens, he said once. 661 01:05:58,876 --> 01:06:03,334 I don't think he should remain director. 662 01:06:03,459 --> 01:06:05,626 We'll take care of it. 663 01:06:05,751 --> 01:06:09,584 And what about those poor, unfortunate Jews of yours? 664 01:06:11,917 --> 01:06:14,584 You employ two of them. 665 01:06:15,751 --> 01:06:19,584 Well, Mr. Strauss... 666 01:06:20,876 --> 01:06:22,667 is a good... 667 01:06:23,292 --> 01:06:25,459 decent man... 668 01:06:25,751 --> 01:06:28,876 who likes music, a good worker. 669 01:06:29,334 --> 01:06:33,167 He may be doing it only for the money. 670 01:06:33,209 --> 01:06:36,792 He confided to me that he disagrees with the Germans. 671 01:06:36,959 --> 01:06:41,792 Dr. Bettelheim's a good man too, 672 01:06:43,251 --> 01:06:45,709 but doesn't understand either. 673 01:06:46,834 --> 01:06:53,167 I'm afraid he's influenced his nephew, Jan. 674 01:07:00,376 --> 01:07:02,834 I don't like him. He makes Mili wander. 675 01:07:02,876 --> 01:07:06,126 His housekeeper, Ana... 676 01:07:07,001 --> 01:07:09,667 She isn't Jewish. 677 01:07:12,959 --> 01:07:16,292 She killed our Christmas carp... 678 01:07:16,667 --> 01:07:19,917 But she's probably also under his influence. 679 01:07:39,167 --> 01:07:44,334 Jews can't be re-educated. A misguided, unfortunate nation. 680 01:07:44,417 --> 01:07:47,709 As you say, it's the same with music... 681 01:07:48,126 --> 01:07:51,334 look, the Spartans killed sickly children. 682 01:07:51,626 --> 01:07:53,959 Some think it cruel, 683 01:07:54,167 --> 01:07:58,626 but, indeed, how merciful, especially for those children. 684 01:07:59,126 --> 01:08:02,126 They'd have been unhappy, 685 01:08:02,334 --> 01:08:06,126 and how much better for the nation. 686 01:08:08,376 --> 01:08:15,584 Listen, Karl, your wife's mother used to make jellied carp. 687 01:08:18,376 --> 01:08:21,792 You called it a foreign recipe. 688 01:08:22,709 --> 01:08:25,459 But that's the Jewish way. 689 01:08:26,417 --> 01:08:29,834 Lakme's mother was a Jew. 690 01:08:31,251 --> 01:08:33,959 Your dark-haired Lakme told me 691 01:08:34,126 --> 01:08:39,042 that you only spoke Czech until I spoke of your German blood. 692 01:08:39,251 --> 01:08:42,751 She 'forgot about' my invitation to the boxing-match. 693 01:08:42,959 --> 01:08:46,042 She didn't like your joining the Party. 694 01:08:46,167 --> 01:08:51,417 What'll she say when you send the kids to a German school? 695 01:08:51,876 --> 01:08:57,792 You see what she's done to Mili. The boy is soft, effeminate. 696 01:08:58,042 --> 01:09:00,501 That's the covert way they operate. 697 01:09:00,709 --> 01:09:04,542 They start with the family, with the children. 698 01:09:06,167 --> 01:09:09,667 How long, Mr. Kopfrkingl, have you been married? 699 01:09:09,917 --> 01:09:14,042 Our blessed marriage has lasted for 19 years. 700 01:09:14,459 --> 01:09:17,084 We met by the leopards at the zoo. 701 01:09:17,376 --> 01:09:20,417 At the predator pavilion. 702 01:09:20,667 --> 01:09:24,917 We must make sacrifices, Mr. Kopfrkingl. 703 01:09:25,417 --> 01:09:29,667 I'm afraid you'll never hold a higher post. 704 01:09:29,751 --> 01:09:35,792 There's no difference in blood. Dr. Bettelheim says so. 705 01:09:36,042 --> 01:09:40,959 It makes all the difference. Purity of blood is essential. 706 01:09:41,251 --> 01:09:45,334 Under the just, new order inferior blood must go. 707 01:09:45,959 --> 01:09:49,834 Isn't your Dr. Bettelheim a Jew? 708 01:09:51,084 --> 01:09:55,417 Lakme should realise she isn't worthy of you. 709 01:09:55,792 --> 01:10:01,876 It's incompatible with the honour of an honest and healthy man. 710 01:10:03,209 --> 01:10:06,709 Karl, many problems await her. 711 01:10:12,042 --> 01:10:16,292 Director, I couldn't get here on time. 712 01:10:16,667 --> 01:10:20,251 I had several unexpected meetings. 713 01:10:20,626 --> 01:10:23,501 That isn't like you, Mr. Kopfrkingl. 714 01:10:23,542 --> 01:10:27,584 But in these crazy times everything is changing. 715 01:10:27,834 --> 01:10:34,126 Yes, we must expect certain changes. 716 01:10:35,751 --> 01:10:39,042 You've nearly stopped smoking, Mr. Dvorak. 717 01:10:39,376 --> 01:10:44,084 Mr. Pelikan will take this fair lady for viewing. 718 01:10:44,126 --> 01:10:50,001 Okay, Mr. Pelikan, she seems just about ready. 719 01:11:03,917 --> 01:11:06,084 What about my morphine? 720 01:11:06,584 --> 01:11:09,334 You'll get none from me, Mr. Fenek. 721 01:11:09,584 --> 01:11:14,501 You won't be on my conscience. I am an honest, healthy man. 722 01:11:14,626 --> 01:11:17,417 If you don't stop pestering me I'll report you. 723 01:11:17,542 --> 01:11:21,501 Addiction is a vice incompatible with honour. 724 01:11:21,792 --> 01:11:24,792 One more word and I'll have you put in an asylum. 725 01:11:24,876 --> 01:11:29,626 Perhaps, Mr. Vrana, you didn't notice that the fires went out! 726 01:12:10,542 --> 01:12:16,042 And so they arrested Beran, Zajic and the director. 727 01:12:18,459 --> 01:12:20,709 It couldn't be helped. 728 01:12:29,209 --> 01:12:32,542 Mr. Fenek asked for morphine again. 729 01:12:32,834 --> 01:12:36,084 He's a weak, destroyed man. 730 01:12:36,792 --> 01:12:43,251 Mr. Prachar drinks, and his poor son, Vojta... 731 01:12:45,251 --> 01:12:47,959 Who else is there...? 732 01:13:06,584 --> 01:13:11,292 It's just that butcher's apprentice... That boxer. 733 01:13:11,542 --> 01:13:14,667 Where did you get this, Mili? 734 01:13:14,959 --> 01:13:19,709 I've been to that youth club, where they train. 735 01:13:20,167 --> 01:13:23,917 Their flyer said, "Come join us." 736 01:13:25,042 --> 01:13:28,251 How great to have a boxer for a friend. 737 01:13:29,376 --> 01:13:33,667 You need to be tough and brave. 738 01:13:33,876 --> 01:13:36,917 You've got my German blood in your veins. 739 01:13:37,167 --> 01:13:40,542 You'll be going to a German school next year. 740 01:13:40,959 --> 01:13:47,209 A boxer is better than that Jan Bettelheim. 741 01:13:49,251 --> 01:13:54,667 And what does the boxer say? What do you talk about? 742 01:13:55,084 --> 01:13:58,501 He says he has to train hard to be able to knock... 743 01:13:58,542 --> 01:14:03,251 the Germans' teeth out. 744 01:14:05,792 --> 01:14:08,542 That's all wrong, Mili. 745 01:14:11,834 --> 01:14:16,751 When you and Zina come back from your aunt's 746 01:14:17,501 --> 01:14:23,084 I'll explain to you how things are. 747 01:14:28,251 --> 01:14:30,209 Go and be good. 748 01:14:46,209 --> 01:14:48,959 Why don't you dress up... 749 01:14:51,334 --> 01:14:54,876 since we're alone? 750 01:14:57,709 --> 01:15:04,167 We'll have a special dinner. 751 01:15:05,876 --> 01:15:09,542 You can put on your black party dress. 752 01:15:09,876 --> 01:15:12,834 You've only worn it a few times. 753 01:15:13,501 --> 01:15:17,042 Then we'll take a bath in our lovely bathroom 754 01:15:17,292 --> 01:15:20,542 as would befit a Roman feast. 755 01:15:21,584 --> 01:15:25,709 You see, I'm to be promoted to director. 756 01:15:26,959 --> 01:15:31,001 And isn't it our wedding anniversary? 757 01:15:31,626 --> 01:15:36,834 Or that of our blessed encounter by the leopards at the zoo? 758 01:15:37,167 --> 01:15:42,792 No? We'll pretend it is. 759 01:15:47,876 --> 01:15:49,834 Didn't you enjoy the meal? 760 01:15:51,084 --> 01:15:54,209 One should savour every day of one's life... 761 01:15:55,542 --> 01:15:58,292 as if it were the last. 762 01:15:59,959 --> 01:16:03,751 Silent one, the world is open to us, 763 01:16:06,167 --> 01:16:14,542 as are the heavens across which no cloud has passed for 19 years. 764 01:16:16,584 --> 01:16:22,042 But I noticed that the bathroom fan is broken. 765 01:16:23,292 --> 01:16:32,709 I've attached a rope so that we can get to it from a chair. 766 01:16:33,501 --> 01:16:36,459 Do you hear this lovely song? 767 01:16:47,209 --> 01:16:50,334 How poor is he who dies... 768 01:16:51,376 --> 01:16:55,126 without knowing the beauty of music. 769 01:16:57,751 --> 01:17:00,792 You at least loved music. 770 01:17:02,042 --> 01:17:06,667 Come, my silent one, let's draw a bath. 771 01:17:26,834 --> 01:17:29,834 It won't be too hot for you. 772 01:17:40,251 --> 01:17:43,209 Open the fan, dearest. 773 01:17:49,251 --> 01:17:53,167 What if I hanged you, my dearest? 774 01:18:40,917 --> 01:18:43,626 May I speak to Director Kopfrkingl? 775 01:18:43,667 --> 01:18:46,501 Please take a seat. 776 01:18:50,959 --> 01:18:53,501 I was just reading... 777 01:18:54,209 --> 01:18:58,542 May I offer you a cognac? Or some Czech plum brandy? 778 01:18:58,751 --> 01:19:04,251 No thank you, I'm an abstainer. I don't even smoke. 779 01:19:04,959 --> 01:19:09,209 The Dalai-Lama has died. 780 01:19:10,792 --> 01:19:15,292 Our blessed land of Tibet has been seeking 781 01:19:15,667 --> 01:19:19,376 the reincarnation of Buddha, our Saviour. 782 01:19:20,792 --> 01:19:26,542 After years of searching we have found him at last. 783 01:19:32,876 --> 01:19:37,584 The throne in Lhasa awaits you, Rimpoche. 784 01:19:38,917 --> 01:19:41,917 I shall come for you. 785 01:19:42,084 --> 01:19:44,709 We shall then leave for the Himalayas, 786 01:19:44,959 --> 01:19:51,042 our blessed homeland paradise. 787 01:20:19,292 --> 01:20:22,292 A painful duty has befallen me. 788 01:20:23,126 --> 01:20:30,084 As new director of this grand temple of death, 789 01:20:31,709 --> 01:20:35,626 my first cremation will be that of my own beloved wife. 790 01:20:37,084 --> 01:20:46,042 19 years of happiness have ended in her tragic death. 791 01:20:47,251 --> 01:20:52,917 But truly death can be a blessing. 792 01:20:53,792 --> 01:21:00,751 A great blessing if it spares us from suffering. 793 01:21:02,751 --> 01:21:09,626 It can free us from the terror and anxiety which might... 794 01:21:13,084 --> 01:21:15,542 have awaited us. 795 01:21:17,417 --> 01:21:19,917 That's the last straw... 796 01:21:21,417 --> 01:21:25,959 You have returned to where you come from. 797 01:21:26,959 --> 01:21:32,917 Your soul has been liberated and now soars in the ether. 798 01:21:34,209 --> 01:21:40,709 Even the old Teutons, dear friends, burned their dead, 799 01:21:41,251 --> 01:21:43,917 entrusted them to the flames. 800 01:21:46,459 --> 01:21:49,167 I bid you farewell, my angel, 801 01:21:49,334 --> 01:21:55,251 as crematorium director and as your loving husband. 802 01:21:57,792 --> 01:22:00,709 But we must make sacrifices. 803 01:22:01,834 --> 01:22:04,667 The only certainty in life 804 01:22:04,917 --> 01:22:07,334 is death... 805 01:22:08,834 --> 01:22:14,959 ...and the implementation of a propitious new order. 806 01:22:15,209 --> 01:22:20,626 The Fuehrer's new, fortunate Europe and death 807 01:22:21,001 --> 01:22:26,542 are the only certainties that we humans have. 808 01:22:27,751 --> 01:22:29,584 Heil! 809 01:22:39,709 --> 01:22:44,084 The flames, my sweet, will not hurt you. 810 01:23:02,376 --> 01:23:10,084 I've also retired Mr. Vrana, the porter. 811 01:23:11,167 --> 01:23:13,042 He was too old. 812 01:23:13,376 --> 01:23:16,709 As well as Mrs. Podzimkova, the cleaning woman. 813 01:23:17,251 --> 01:23:19,959 She once said the incinerators scared her, 814 01:23:20,042 --> 01:23:22,792 so I relieved her of her fears. 815 01:23:23,542 --> 01:23:26,459 I'll keep the others for the time being. 816 01:23:26,751 --> 01:23:29,001 But Mili worries me. 817 01:23:30,917 --> 01:23:35,209 He is more and more effeminate. He never did take after me. 818 01:23:35,251 --> 01:23:39,959 - And he wanders about so much. - Hedvika, throw me the soap! 819 01:23:43,417 --> 01:23:48,626 His mother was half Jewish... and it shows. 820 01:23:50,792 --> 01:23:52,209 - Good evening. - Good evening. 821 01:23:52,251 --> 01:23:55,751 We won't intrude. Good evening. 822 01:23:58,626 --> 01:24:01,417 Mili is a Mischling of the second degree, 823 01:24:01,501 --> 01:24:05,042 a quarter Jew according to Reich law. 824 01:24:05,126 --> 01:24:09,751 I'm afraid they won't let him go to high school, 825 01:24:09,917 --> 01:24:12,042 and you can forget the Hitler Youth. 826 01:24:12,876 --> 01:24:18,584 And he wanders about so much. I think he likes soldiers. 827 01:24:18,751 --> 01:24:21,084 We're almost at war... 828 01:24:22,459 --> 01:24:26,167 He's romantic enough to join up. 829 01:24:27,167 --> 01:24:29,667 Children are always a trial. 830 01:24:33,917 --> 01:24:40,209 It's Saturday and nothing's burning at my temple of death. 831 01:24:42,501 --> 01:24:46,709 At least you'll be able to have a look at everything. 832 01:24:47,459 --> 01:24:53,667 At the place your father started 20 years ago. 833 01:24:54,376 --> 01:24:58,292 - Where're you going, Mili? - Just out. 834 01:24:58,584 --> 01:25:03,126 To walk a bit on a fine day so he won't just wander about. 835 01:25:07,667 --> 01:25:10,501 These are revolutionary times. 836 01:25:11,376 --> 01:25:17,917 We must bravely bear... our pain and suffering. 837 01:25:22,001 --> 01:25:24,917 Your blessed mother... 838 01:25:26,792 --> 01:25:30,251 I wonder what she's been reincarnated into? 839 01:25:35,959 --> 01:25:39,459 Would you like a cream coffin or a vanilla wreath? 840 01:25:41,084 --> 01:25:42,917 Both, I guess. 841 01:25:44,542 --> 01:25:47,959 Just the wreath or you won't eat your dinner. 842 01:25:50,834 --> 01:25:54,376 Let's walk through the cemetery. 843 01:25:55,501 --> 01:26:01,542 I used to take walks here before I became director. 844 01:26:03,126 --> 01:26:06,584 Go on, go on! Don't say a word. 845 01:26:06,917 --> 01:26:12,251 You think you're at a carnival? 846 01:26:12,459 --> 01:26:16,334 You see how crazy she is? She thinks she's at the fair. 847 01:26:16,751 --> 01:26:18,834 Stop or I'll kill you! 848 01:26:19,042 --> 01:26:21,251 Come along... It's nothing. 849 01:26:22,376 --> 01:26:24,542 Did you enjoy your vanilla wreath? 850 01:26:24,751 --> 01:26:26,459 That's good. 851 01:26:28,209 --> 01:26:32,667 One shouldn't desecrate a sacred place. 852 01:26:34,042 --> 01:26:36,584 That's not for you, Mili. 853 01:26:36,709 --> 01:26:40,417 Look, isn't that a nice gravestone? 854 01:26:41,917 --> 01:26:46,334 Do you see there? Greek torches... 855 01:26:47,626 --> 01:26:50,167 like in ancient Sparta. 856 01:26:50,376 --> 01:26:55,417 They've been burning ever since we hired new people. 857 01:26:55,876 --> 01:26:57,876 But they're not burning. 858 01:27:00,292 --> 01:27:01,667 Come along. 859 01:27:09,167 --> 01:27:12,959 This is where people are turned into dust. 860 01:27:13,209 --> 01:27:18,209 Don't be frightened, Mili. I'm here with you. 861 01:27:29,626 --> 01:27:31,126 Mr. Dvorak... 862 01:27:36,126 --> 01:27:39,376 this is the preparation room. 863 01:27:45,626 --> 01:27:50,376 This one is nailed shut because it won't go for viewing. 864 01:27:50,751 --> 01:27:55,501 The ceremony is Monday and then straight into the oven. 865 01:28:00,959 --> 01:28:05,751 It holds a brave pure-blooded German. 866 01:28:08,417 --> 01:28:13,376 No weak, effeminate soul. Pure origins. 867 01:28:16,459 --> 01:28:20,209 Wipe your glasses so you won't ruin your eyes. 868 01:28:21,209 --> 01:28:24,917 Mr. Dvorak wanted to get rid of this bar, 869 01:28:25,417 --> 01:28:30,251 but I said it might come in handy sometime. 870 01:28:34,001 --> 01:28:37,084 There's no difference between human ashes. 871 01:28:39,751 --> 01:28:42,167 Mili, what about if I... 872 01:28:43,709 --> 01:28:46,167 ...put you in with him? 873 01:28:46,459 --> 01:28:47,792 Daddy... 874 01:29:52,376 --> 01:29:54,667 Rimpoche, it's time. 875 01:29:54,959 --> 01:29:56,959 The throne awaits you. 876 01:29:57,334 --> 01:30:01,584 Our beloved Tibet awaits its ruler. 877 01:30:01,876 --> 01:30:05,751 The wall obscuring your vision has fallen. 878 01:30:06,626 --> 01:30:12,417 The heavens have opened, stars shine above... 879 01:30:13,042 --> 01:30:15,251 You will save the world. 880 01:30:25,126 --> 01:30:27,251 You are Buddha. 881 01:30:27,292 --> 01:30:34,751 Yes, the heavens have opened, the stars above are infinite... 882 01:30:35,876 --> 01:30:44,501 As I read for years in my book about Tibet by David-Neel: 883 01:30:45,292 --> 01:30:50,209 "free all creatures from the suffering that awaits them." 884 01:30:50,501 --> 01:30:53,626 I must save one more good soul. 885 01:30:54,209 --> 01:30:58,626 Save her from the suffering in store for her 886 01:30:58,667 --> 01:31:06,626 in the coming blissful life which awaits. 887 01:31:08,292 --> 01:31:12,209 Wait until next Saturday, my son. 888 01:31:16,167 --> 01:31:18,709 So that's it, Mr. Kopfrkingl... 889 01:31:18,792 --> 01:31:22,251 We have to test certain... as you know... 890 01:31:22,459 --> 01:31:25,251 But it's all top secret. 891 01:31:25,959 --> 01:31:29,209 You have 20 years experience... 892 01:31:29,376 --> 01:31:32,084 A gas furnace of the future... 893 01:31:32,334 --> 01:31:38,292 You'll be the expert in charge. But absolute secrecy is vital. 894 01:31:38,709 --> 01:31:40,584 It's top secret. 895 01:31:40,751 --> 01:31:43,584 Naturally, I understand completely. 896 01:31:43,959 --> 01:31:50,042 Equipment for incinerating as many people as possible 897 01:31:50,251 --> 01:31:55,667 to free them from the shackles of this world, 898 01:31:56,709 --> 01:32:02,459 and let them dissolve into the ether. 899 01:32:03,834 --> 01:32:06,542 What a tremendous opportunity. 900 01:32:06,626 --> 01:32:13,584 My crematorium takes 75 minutes to change each corpse into dust. 901 01:32:14,167 --> 01:32:22,376 If we had huge furnaces to hold a hundred, 902 01:32:23,126 --> 01:32:26,417 five hundred, a thousand, 903 01:32:27,042 --> 01:32:30,792 it could be done in 10 minutes. 904 01:32:31,334 --> 01:32:36,834 Entire halls in constant operation would be economical. 905 01:32:36,959 --> 01:32:42,292 Hundreds fed into one side, ashes streaming out the other. 906 01:32:42,334 --> 01:32:47,251 They'd get mixed, true, but ashes don't differ... 907 01:32:47,292 --> 01:32:51,709 And liberated souls would gush from the chimneys. 908 01:32:52,251 --> 01:32:56,209 We could quickly liberate all humanity, the whole world. 909 01:32:56,417 --> 01:33:02,834 Poor Mr. Prachar, Vojta... What luck for the Bettelheims, 910 01:33:03,501 --> 01:33:06,667 for all those Jews at the celebration... 911 01:33:07,209 --> 01:33:12,584 If I gave them hope that they wouldn't suffer... 912 01:33:12,626 --> 01:33:15,834 If I could tell them about reincarnation... 913 01:33:24,084 --> 01:33:25,417 Mr. Kopfrkingl! 914 01:33:25,459 --> 01:33:28,292 Mr. Kopfrkingl! You must be overworked. 915 01:33:29,167 --> 01:33:35,042 You know, a person wouldn't have to be completely dead. 916 01:33:35,459 --> 01:33:39,501 In such huge halls constantly in operation 917 01:33:39,751 --> 01:33:42,459 once you entered you'd never come out alive. 918 01:33:42,626 --> 01:33:47,209 But absolute secrecy is essential. 919 01:33:48,459 --> 01:33:51,292 Yes, secret... 920 01:33:52,751 --> 01:33:56,459 Absolute secrecy is essential. 921 01:33:57,126 --> 01:34:01,917 I've been put in charge of a huge project. 922 01:34:01,959 --> 01:34:07,251 I'm leaving my temple of death, but you can still have a look. 923 01:34:07,334 --> 01:34:10,709 Truly, Zina, there is still no news of Mili. 924 01:34:10,751 --> 01:34:15,542 He must have wandered off quite far. 925 01:34:16,209 --> 01:34:17,501 Where are you going, Zina? 926 01:34:17,542 --> 01:34:22,834 Please come another time, Kaja. I've something to show Zina. 927 01:34:23,042 --> 01:34:25,459 Should I come next week? 928 01:34:25,709 --> 01:34:30,709 Yes, my angel will be so glad. Do you have your camera? 929 01:34:30,751 --> 01:34:32,459 - No. - You don't... 930 01:34:32,751 --> 01:34:37,709 A pity, you could have taken an everlasting keepsake. 931 01:34:37,792 --> 01:34:43,126 No one will suffer any longer. I am working on a great project. 932 01:34:45,042 --> 01:34:49,292 Let's go through the cemetery. 933 01:34:50,251 --> 01:34:55,334 I used to take walks here... It may be my last time. 934 01:34:57,292 --> 01:35:02,626 Excuse me, have you seen my wife? She ran off a week ago. 935 01:35:03,084 --> 01:35:06,834 You met us here, remember? Have you seen her? 936 01:35:07,876 --> 01:35:13,209 You were here with some boy. I've already waited a week. 937 01:35:13,334 --> 01:35:16,709 Maybe she'll come back by herself, the idiot. 938 01:35:19,001 --> 01:35:23,167 Look around where your father worked for twenty years. 939 01:35:23,292 --> 01:35:28,209 That's a bit disrespectful. Don't even look, angel. 940 01:35:28,251 --> 01:35:32,251 Look, sunshine, at this lovely gravestone. 941 01:35:37,959 --> 01:35:41,584 This is where people are turned into dust. 942 01:35:41,626 --> 01:35:46,834 But the ovens are small. I'm planning something much larger 943 01:35:47,084 --> 01:35:49,459 ...and faster. 944 01:35:50,251 --> 01:35:52,709 This is the preparation room. 945 01:35:54,501 --> 01:36:00,334 The coffin's nailed because it goes right to the oven Monday. 946 01:36:14,584 --> 01:36:17,876 No, that wouldn't be proper. 947 01:36:36,501 --> 01:36:41,459 This piano teacher will be far more suitable. 948 01:36:42,917 --> 01:36:49,834 See that bar? I told Mr. Dvorak it would come in handy. 949 01:37:32,459 --> 01:37:34,501 We must go. 950 01:37:38,376 --> 01:37:41,751 The wall around us has fallen. 951 01:37:43,709 --> 01:37:48,376 Stars and eternal light are before us. 952 01:37:49,417 --> 01:37:52,334 Now you will save the world. 953 01:38:04,626 --> 01:38:09,584 Rimpoche, the nation and humanity are waiting. 954 01:38:14,751 --> 01:38:20,334 I'm glad you came. I will soon come among you. 955 01:38:21,126 --> 01:38:23,584 I shall mount my throne. 956 01:38:23,959 --> 01:38:29,876 But my poor unfortunate daughter is a quarter Jewish. 957 01:38:31,042 --> 01:38:36,584 I haven't yet saved her. 958 01:38:40,834 --> 01:38:44,542 Don't worry we'll take care of her. 959 01:38:44,584 --> 01:38:47,209 We'll take care of her ourselves. 960 01:38:47,459 --> 01:38:51,751 You've work to do, Mr.Kopfrkingl. Lots of work. 961 01:38:52,042 --> 01:38:55,459 For the nation. For all mankind. 962 01:39:01,126 --> 01:39:04,751 No one will suffer. I'll save them all. 963 01:39:20,626 --> 01:39:23,584 I'll save them all. 964 01:39:24,417 --> 01:39:27,876 The whole world. 965 01:39:44,126 --> 01:39:48,667 The End