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(Brasny orchestral music)
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(crows)
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(Triumphant music)
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(Dramatic orchestral music)
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(music becomes subdued)
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(Sings soprano)
♪ I only give my heart to that alone
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♪ To whom I could be the highest ♪
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♪ He who wins me, who conquers me
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♪ Who sinks lovingly at my feet
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♪ I only give my heart to one man
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♪ To whom I can be good in love
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♪ The one I like
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♪ The one I desire
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♪ Whether he is a servant
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♪ Or would be king
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(Speaks with an accent)
The men courted me
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I'm used to flattery
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(Sings with trill)
♪ I spoiled this game
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♪ It's just that my heart wasn't in it either
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♪ They beat me into gangs
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♪ Then I was always a different woman
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♪ But I never understood it
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♪ To love just to pass the time
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♪ I only give my heart to that alone
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♪ To whom I could be the highest
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♪ He who wins me, who conquers me
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♪ Who sinks lovingly at my feet
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♪ I only give my heart to one man
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♪ To whom I can be good in love
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♪ The one I like
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♪ The one I desire
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♪ Whether he is a servant
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(Sings in falsetto)
♪ Or would be king
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(music fades away)
(applause)
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(cheers)
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(Muffled thunderous applause)
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(he shouts angrily)
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(He breathes raggedly)
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(Applause and shouts of bravo
continue)
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- What happened, Mr. Höfgen?
- What do you want here?
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Get the hell out of there!
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(Applause and cheering decreases)
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We are one
invited to a boring banquet.
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We have to go there. Don't be angry.
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- A few minutes, Dorchen?
- We're already late anyway.
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Excuse me.
Excuse me, good evening.
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I want to tell you
how wonderful you were. Fantastic.
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Good thing I caught you.
That was great.
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You fraudsters,
They weren't even in the imagination.
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They are said to be very talented.
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Me, gifted? Louder, please.
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Oh yes, you really are
very talented, Mr. Höfgen.
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I'm sure you'll prove it
how talented you are.
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I have to go now.
Goodbye.
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- Böck, seven marks.
- (Woman) But Hendrik.
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If you need money, I can give it to you
Borrow 50 marks until the first.
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Don't interfere with men's things.
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Böck gives, and he likes to give. Come here.
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Good evening, Miklas.
Good evening.
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Thank you very much.
So!
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The Doctor Kroge,
it makes me starve.
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- Good evening, Höfgen, you old sinner.
- The sinner sits down.
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Mr. Director, how did you like it?
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What's bothering you, Hendrik?
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That I'm a provincial actor.
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That's all? And nothing else?
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(fog horn sounds)
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Good afternoon.
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- You're late.
- (He sighs)
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You will experience again that I am you
face what you so fear.
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Not just that, right, Heinz?
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- Please don't call me Heinz.
- Why not, that's your name.
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I do not like that. Do you understand?
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I understand everything, Heinz.
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Also that you don't even drink a beer
like a man when he feels like it.
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- Let's get started?
- Say, what do you want with beer?
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That doesn't even suit you,
that you just say “beer”.
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It sounds like one coming out of your mouth
Lie if you say, "One beer, please."
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I don't drink, Juliette.
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I know, Heinz.
Take off your shoes.
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Well, what is it?
(Sluggish bass music sounds)
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Don't stand there
like you peed your pants.
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(Music becomes more upbeat)
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(Rhythmic)
One, two... One, two, three, four.
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- On one.
- One two three four.
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(She continues counting to the beat)
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- One, two...
- Four.
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- One, two...
- Four.
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Yeah.
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Just don't fall down.
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(jazz music continues playing)
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Faster. Faster.
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What's in your bones, man.
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You want to be an actor,
let yourself be seen for money too.
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(laughing)
You strange piece of misery.
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- (kissing sound)
- (She laughs loudly)
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(Snorting) Oh God.
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Could you love the music,
wouldn't it be tiring?
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You're always laughing at me, Juliette.
You're just laughing at me.
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- Come!
- I can't cry now.
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- Would you love me, could I?
- I love you like that too.
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You only love yourself.
That's not embarrassing enough for you.
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Do you think? Keep talking,
What you say here is very nice.
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You don't pay any attention to me anyway.
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You just pay attention
that on your face...
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It's a mask, you hear?
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I too have skin and bones,
and a body weight.
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And eyelashes, and fingernails,
just like you.
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Yes?
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I... I freeze when I'm cold.
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I too am hungry and thirsty.
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Think of my mother and I know
that I feel you in the world,
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and communists, but...
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my eyes are not my eyes.
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- Yes!
- My hands are not my hands.
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My face is not my face.
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And my name is not my name!
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Because I'm an actor.
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Juliette, do you know what that means?
an actor?
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An actor, that is...
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a mask.
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Come on.
(Wild) Come on!
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(Screaming) Juliette!
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Juliette!
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(she cheers)
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(she moans pleased)
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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I have the honor of seeing you again
to welcome you to a reading sample.
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But allow me,
that I give you first
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Miss Nicoletta von Niebuhr
imagine,
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who plays the female lead as a guest
will play in this production.
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(sparse applause)
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- Can my girlfriend stay there?
- I have nothing against that.
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- Two cognacs and one absinthe.
- Yes, Mr. Director.
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Come immediately, Mr. Director.
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- Three beers, please.
- Yes i do.
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- Here you go, two cognacs, one absinthe.
- Thanks.
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- Here's to good cooperation.
- Yes.
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Now you have to see me
sorry, sorry.
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- (Hendrik) Would you like a beer?
- (Man) Yes.
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Good, Father Hansemann...
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- Will we both look beautiful too?
- We are beautiful.
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May I introduce:
my best friend, Barbara Bruckner.
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I am very pleased.
What is?
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- They smell really nice of lavender.
- Yes?
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You will also find
that I smell like lavender?
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Well, what do you say?
A man and lavender.
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I need this like bread.
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Something on the temples and neck,
and I feel rested.
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It would be better if I slept,
but unfortunately I don't have time for that.
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A beer and a mineral water.
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We listen to each other
what he has to say.
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We accept good things, we do the rest
it the way we see fit.
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It's good, but old-fashioned.
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The perspective of
Hamburger Künstlertheater, that's me.
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That means better, both of us.
Naturally.
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Most of the pieces here
are just bourgeois nonsense.
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But Otto and I have a concept
for a theater that concerns everyone.
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Our dock workers, for example.
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(Nicoletta) Where do you want to play this?
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It doesn't matter at all, in the harbor,
in factories, in the basement.
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The comrades want the piece.
We promised it for last week.
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- Let's do it. Just the premiere.
- Yes, yes.
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We must take political responsibility
of the theater is difficult.
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Before we pretend to be revolutionary,
we have to be good first.
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That's where it starts.
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- Who will play there?
- Everyone who thinks like us.
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Also workers, if it fits.
It depends on what we say.
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And not how. But that also works,
when Hendrik stages our plays.
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Speak.
Why are you looking at me like that?
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- I can't?
- If you enjoy it, all right.
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(Loud cheers)
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(Applause and cheering continues)
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(They speak incomprehensibly)
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(Romanous applause continues)
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(birds chirping)
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I'm leaving without you
completely ruined, Barbara.
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There is too much bad in me.
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I can't conquer it myself.
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But you could
strengthen the good in me.
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I can't speak anymore.
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It falls to me
so many roles that were once played.
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I love you, Barbara.
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I'm in love. Into a woman.
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Juliette,
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am I actually a beautiful man?
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Oh, I never saw you in the theater.
Maybe you're beautiful, but...
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honestly
I never liked you, Heinz.
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Just... your lying, cold eyes,
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who have
a childlike, sad expression.
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You do it cleverly.
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(Sighing)
And who did you fall in love with?
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- Into a girl.
- Hmm, fantastic.
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That you fall in love.
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In the end you still will
Learn to walk, not just dance.
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(Strongly) Love the girl, Heinz.
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And don't tell me anything about him.
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Let's stick with it,
that we then look for each other?
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Yes.
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You know what?
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I'm coming with you.
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I have nothing to lose, Heinz.
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Tell me, are you crazy?
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Go to a psychiatrist, Heinz.
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Even though you wouldn't have the courage
to talk about you, huh?
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Go ahead, Heinz,
We'll see each other again soon anyway.
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Even if I didn't want it.
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Sorry, grandmother,
Do you have time for me now?
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This is my...
- ...fiancé.
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- Yes.
- I'll take a look at the new grandson.
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- Not so bad.
- (He laughs loudly)
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Forgive me. My wife's mother
apologizes, she'll be right there.
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I assume you know, dear Höfgen,
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mothers who love their only son,
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do not insist
that he leaves her protection.
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Hello, Sebastian.
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This is Sebastian.
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Mama.
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(Sighing) Well.
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I am pleased.
I'm extremely pleased.
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Barbara, my dear child.
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Nicoletta von Niebuhr,
also a child of the house.
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friend of the happy bride,
almost her sister.
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Multiple mistresses of the groom,
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of course only on stage
and according to stage directions.
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Which hopefully will happen often.
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May I call you Aunt Bella?
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Yes of course, Nicoletta.
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Come on, Höfgen,
let's leave the ladies alone.
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Let's go for a walk.
I'll show you the garden.
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- But yes, I'm very interested in that.
- (The women giggle)
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(He chokes quietly)
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(He coughs violently)
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(coughing continues)
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(cough dies down)
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You have too
strange memories like mine?
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You know, those where one
gets hot and cold when you think about it.
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And you have to think about it often.
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I'm about
been twelve years old,
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that's when I became a member
in the boys' choir at our high school.
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I had immense joy,
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and I also imagined better
to be able to sing than anyone else.
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On the occasion of a wedding
we should sing in church.
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Of course I wanted to stand out
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had immense pride
on my soprano.
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And when the choir started,
I had a tremendous idea:
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I sang an octave higher
than everyone else.
248
00:22:35,709 --> 00:22:38,709
And as I stood there,
proudly puffed up and sang,
249
00:22:39,459 --> 00:22:42,418
then my music teacher threw
a long look at me.
250
00:22:42,584 --> 00:22:44,709
More disgusted than punitive.
251
00:22:44,876 --> 00:22:47,418
And he said quietly: Be quiet.
252
00:22:49,251 --> 00:22:50,751
Do you understand?
253
00:22:51,293 --> 00:22:54,126
So very quiet, very dry.
Just be quiet.
254
00:22:54,293 --> 00:22:57,834
And I had the feeling
to be a jubilant angel.
255
00:22:58,668 --> 00:23:00,876
Do you also have memories like this?
256
00:23:02,918 --> 00:23:04,251
No.
257
00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:09,668
You never have you
really ashamed in your life.
258
00:23:09,834 --> 00:23:12,626
But I often,
and that was just the first time.
259
00:23:13,501 --> 00:23:15,501
You know, I have to
260
00:23:15,668 --> 00:23:17,751
so often so terribly ashamed.
261
00:23:18,668 --> 00:23:21,668
So shame into hell.
262
00:23:24,709 --> 00:23:26,751
Do you understand? Hm?
263
00:23:28,043 --> 00:23:31,793
Here is the room in the basement,
the window faces the street.
264
00:23:31,959 --> 00:23:35,334
There will be a lamppost,
and there's another one.
265
00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:38,876
Behind it is the bakery,
where the women line up for bread.
266
00:23:39,043 --> 00:23:40,376
Stop.
267
00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:43,293
Great.
268
00:23:43,876 --> 00:23:47,376
Ms. Schulk, you come from the depths
and go there.
269
00:23:47,543 --> 00:23:50,293
Barbara,
can a lamp post come here,
270
00:23:50,459 --> 00:23:54,501
with such a strong light,
that it makes your eyes peel out?
271
00:23:54,668 --> 00:23:56,918
You then give your monologue here:
272
00:23:57,084 --> 00:24:00,334
"I am the widow Queck
with the unpaid interest."
273
00:24:00,501 --> 00:24:04,543
Barbara, we could still be here
put up two or three lanterns,
274
00:24:04,709 --> 00:24:06,376
into the auditorium.
275
00:24:06,543 --> 00:24:09,043
So that the people
feel like you're on your street,
276
00:24:09,209 --> 00:24:11,126
in their dirty street.
277
00:24:11,293 --> 00:24:13,418
Here we can glue everything,
278
00:24:13,584 --> 00:24:17,543
with posters and political slogans,
colorfully mixed up.
279
00:24:17,709 --> 00:24:20,626
We'll put it back there
a general store,
280
00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:23,251
in which there is nothing, you understand?
281
00:24:23,418 --> 00:24:27,168
Everything in this room should express,
that we want to talk about.
282
00:24:27,334 --> 00:24:30,168
And from time to time
two police officers come
283
00:24:30,334 --> 00:24:32,793
push through
and fixate the audience.
284
00:24:32,959 --> 00:24:35,793
It has to be over
with passive sitting,
285
00:24:35,959 --> 00:24:38,626
of isolation
the actor and audience.
286
00:24:38,793 --> 00:24:41,918
The viewer must be active
take part in the action.
287
00:24:42,084 --> 00:24:44,834
The time of the peep box
is finally over!
288
00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:46,834
The actor with his text
289
00:24:47,001 --> 00:24:50,376
is just an element of the imagination,
but not the center.
290
00:24:50,543 --> 00:24:53,168
Space, light, walls, movements, sounds,
291
00:24:53,334 --> 00:24:56,751
all of this has to
merge to great effect.
292
00:24:56,918 --> 00:24:58,793
Then we have real theater.
293
00:24:58,959 --> 00:25:02,418
We have to help the workers
show a total theater!
294
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:06,251
A theater that shocks her
and makes it glow.
295
00:25:06,501 --> 00:25:09,459
I am Widow Queck
and cannot pay the interest.
296
00:25:09,626 --> 00:25:13,459
I work for master baker Meininger,
who owns the house.
297
00:25:13,626 --> 00:25:16,668
That's the only way I can bring it
my seven hungry children through.
298
00:25:16,834 --> 00:25:19,918
Wait a moment,
the half hour must be paid.
299
00:25:20,084 --> 00:25:22,959
On your behalf
We stand around for half an hour.
300
00:25:23,126 --> 00:25:25,168
There is logic and hunger here.
301
00:25:26,501 --> 00:25:31,084
Yes, yes, I already have 51 marks
and 25 pfennig debts to pay.
302
00:25:31,251 --> 00:25:35,668
I have nothing. In the last few days
I couldn't even, uh...
303
00:25:36,793 --> 00:25:40,293
You stupid goose.
And you're sabotaging our work.
304
00:25:40,459 --> 00:25:42,209
As if I didn't know that.
305
00:25:42,376 --> 00:25:47,459
Surely the gentleman has Miklas or one of them
his party friends incited you.
306
00:25:47,626 --> 00:25:51,126
- (Woman) What do you want?
- Why don't you prompt?
307
00:25:52,209 --> 00:25:54,084
You don't need to prompt anymore.
308
00:25:54,251 --> 00:25:58,126
You can with provincial comedians
not make revolutionary theater.
309
00:25:58,293 --> 00:26:01,918
You can with dilettantes
no fuss at all!
310
00:26:02,084 --> 00:26:05,626
Even a revolution requires professionals,
even to revolution!
311
00:26:08,793 --> 00:26:10,376
I invite you for schnapps.
312
00:26:10,543 --> 00:26:14,084
We drink to failure
his workers' theater.
313
00:26:14,251 --> 00:26:17,001
Miklas, you are
completely out of the house.
314
00:26:21,043 --> 00:26:22,959
Good day.
Good day.
315
00:26:23,626 --> 00:26:25,543
Two clear ones please, Hansemann.
316
00:26:31,043 --> 00:26:34,084
Let's afford it again
a defiant evening?
317
00:26:37,334 --> 00:26:41,459
- I would like to invite you to dinner.
- What, me?
318
00:26:44,376 --> 00:26:46,376
- Good morning.
- (Hendrik) Tomorrow.
319
00:26:47,459 --> 00:26:49,209
You're still half asleep.
320
00:26:49,793 --> 00:26:51,543
I'm awake.
321
00:26:52,043 --> 00:26:55,168
I was already on the phone
with our grocer.
322
00:26:55,334 --> 00:26:58,709
He's a little impatient
because of the big bill.
323
00:26:59,376 --> 00:27:03,793
Sorry I didn't tell you
offers the sight of delicious freshness.
324
00:27:04,751 --> 00:27:07,626
But if I, like you,
would ride out every day,
325
00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:10,334
Then I would probably look more attractive.
326
00:27:11,459 --> 00:27:15,209
But in our circles
Such a noble morning exercise is not common.
327
00:27:15,376 --> 00:27:18,793
You hit the tone of the
insulted husband, like Moliere.
328
00:27:18,959 --> 00:27:20,709
Oh, stop it!
329
00:27:21,501 --> 00:27:23,626
It is also not common
all night long
330
00:27:23,793 --> 00:27:27,709
with a rag of
National Socialists sitting at the table.
331
00:27:27,876 --> 00:27:32,084
- Miklas is no slouch.
- All National Socialists are scoundrels.
332
00:27:34,043 --> 00:27:37,876
You have to be careful about being with them.
It defiles directly.
333
00:27:39,043 --> 00:27:41,501
That you of all people
have no understanding for it.
334
00:27:41,668 --> 00:27:44,626
But that's the famous one
liberalism of your family.
335
00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:47,376
You have no mind,
just playful curiosity.
336
00:27:47,543 --> 00:27:51,001
For you is conviction
a psychological phenomenon.
337
00:27:51,251 --> 00:27:55,293
Miklas is sorry, he's just playing
small roles, barely earning anything.
338
00:27:55,459 --> 00:27:57,876
Besides, he will
treated badly by you.
339
00:27:58,043 --> 00:28:01,126
He has to do something to lift himself up.
That's why he's taking part.
340
00:28:01,376 --> 00:28:05,168
Aha, how much understanding
you're fighting for this rascal.
341
00:28:05,334 --> 00:28:08,751
How would they treat us?
would they come to power?
342
00:28:09,001 --> 00:28:10,876
Oh, God protect us from this.
343
00:28:11,043 --> 00:28:13,668
And yet you chat
with him at a table.
344
00:28:13,834 --> 00:28:16,709
I know
that is your civil tolerance.
345
00:28:16,876 --> 00:28:19,376
Always have understanding
for his mortal enemy.
346
00:28:19,543 --> 00:28:24,251
Sure you would too
get involved with fascist terror.
347
00:28:24,418 --> 00:28:28,668
Your liberalism could...
probably also get used to the dictatorship.
348
00:28:29,209 --> 00:28:32,668
No, thank you very much.
Can I tell you something, my love?
349
00:28:32,834 --> 00:28:37,126
It is common practice to have an egg
to eat out of the shell and with salt.
350
00:28:37,293 --> 00:28:41,376
I know, at Villa Bruckner
if you eat it from the glass,
351
00:28:41,543 --> 00:28:43,959
and with six spices,
certainly very original.
352
00:28:44,126 --> 00:28:46,793
But unnecessary,
to make fun of someone
353
00:28:46,959 --> 00:28:50,001
of these originalities
is not used to.
354
00:29:05,001 --> 00:29:08,501
- Young lover in Halberstadt?
-Herbert Boltz.
355
00:29:08,668 --> 00:29:11,959
- Where does Ms. Türkheim-Gavernitz play?
-Heidelberg.
356
00:29:12,126 --> 00:29:14,418
- Where does Hannelore Kühn play?
- In Mannheim.
357
00:29:15,126 --> 00:29:17,543
- Who plays Othello there?
-Max Krause.
358
00:29:17,709 --> 00:29:19,709
- And Iago?
- Johannes Fiedler.
359
00:29:20,959 --> 00:29:23,126
- Desdemona in Leipzig?
- Käthe Müthel.
360
00:29:23,376 --> 00:29:28,001
- And in Jena the first sentimental?
- A stupid cow named Lindenthal.
361
00:29:28,168 --> 00:29:31,751
- Yes...
- Why is she a stupid cow?
362
00:29:32,501 --> 00:29:34,751
I don't know, but she is one.
363
00:29:35,001 --> 00:29:37,334
I know why you insult the lady.
364
00:29:37,501 --> 00:29:41,168
She is friends with
a National Socialist leader.
365
00:29:41,418 --> 00:29:43,376
I'm only moderately interested
366
00:29:43,543 --> 00:29:47,293
Titles and names of lovers
to find out about Miss Lindenthal.
367
00:29:47,876 --> 00:29:51,209
(Suggestive) I have to
be quite a long list.
368
00:29:51,459 --> 00:29:53,126
Beware, Höfgen.
369
00:29:55,126 --> 00:29:58,126
I tolerate the public insult
not a lady.
370
00:29:58,293 --> 00:30:01,626
Only because she is a member of the NSDAP.
371
00:30:02,043 --> 00:30:05,209
And because she's friends
with a German hero.
372
00:30:05,918 --> 00:30:08,334
(Provocative) You won't tolerate it? Hmm.
373
00:30:09,584 --> 00:30:10,918
Aye, aye.
374
00:30:12,543 --> 00:30:14,543
Stop it, you're drunk.
375
00:30:16,376 --> 00:30:19,751
No, that's not me.
Oh no, on the contrary.
376
00:30:20,293 --> 00:30:23,501
Apparently I'm the only one here
with a sense of honor in his body.
377
00:30:23,668 --> 00:30:28,001
Nobody in this Jewish environment
bothers insulting a lady.
378
00:30:29,834 --> 00:30:31,418
Let me!
379
00:30:33,084 --> 00:30:34,293
(Pressed) No!
380
00:30:34,751 --> 00:30:37,334
- Hans, calm down.
- Go away!
381
00:30:40,334 --> 00:30:43,376
I believe you,
that you are not drunk.
382
00:30:43,918 --> 00:30:47,668
So you won't
can expect extenuating circumstances.
383
00:30:47,834 --> 00:30:50,459
And under the Jewish environment,
in which you are,
384
00:30:50,626 --> 00:30:52,834
you don't have to suffer much longer.
385
00:30:54,459 --> 00:30:56,293
I promise you that.
386
00:30:57,293 --> 00:30:59,459
Yes, you may be right.
387
00:31:00,251 --> 00:31:03,793
Like you, I am of the opinion
he behaved impossibly.
388
00:31:03,959 --> 00:31:08,043
But I can have a destitute,
sick people are not dismissed like that.
389
00:31:08,293 --> 00:31:10,793
Sick? He's not sick at all.
390
00:31:10,959 --> 00:31:14,334
Why so indecisive?
Always ready to compromise.
391
00:31:14,501 --> 00:31:17,001
Just like our governing parties.
392
00:31:17,626 --> 00:31:19,126
Sorry, Barbara.
393
00:31:19,293 --> 00:31:23,043
We have to show the murder pack
that there are limits.
394
00:31:23,209 --> 00:31:26,793
I conjure you,
does not insist on immediate dismissal.
395
00:31:26,959 --> 00:31:29,168
It's punishment enough for him
396
00:31:29,334 --> 00:31:32,001
that he is for the next season
is not engaged.
397
00:31:32,168 --> 00:31:36,293
He doesn't know what he said.
He's lost his nerve.
398
00:31:36,459 --> 00:31:38,293
I'm surprised, Otto.
399
00:31:39,834 --> 00:31:43,918
I am very surprised
that I just hear you speak like that.
400
00:31:44,084 --> 00:31:48,043
Come on, stay objective. It's about
not to make him a martyr.
401
00:31:48,293 --> 00:31:52,251
- That would be in this political...
- Sorry to interrupt.
402
00:31:52,418 --> 00:31:56,959
This interesting but theoretical
Entertainment has no meaning.
403
00:31:57,126 --> 00:31:59,459
The case is simple:
either him or me.
404
00:31:59,626 --> 00:32:02,709
So if Miklas
doesn't leave the theater, yes...
405
00:32:03,626 --> 00:32:05,459
Then I'll leave it.
406
00:32:05,626 --> 00:32:07,501
(Director) Such nonsense.
407
00:32:07,668 --> 00:32:09,918
You can rest easy, Höfgen.
408
00:32:10,084 --> 00:32:12,043
He is dismissed without notice.
409
00:32:14,251 --> 00:32:16,251
(fast music)
410
00:32:19,876 --> 00:32:22,668
(Song: "Can Can"
by Jacques Offenbach)
411
00:32:55,293 --> 00:32:57,293
(music increases)
412
00:33:03,459 --> 00:33:05,043
Yes, yes, yes!
413
00:33:08,459 --> 00:33:11,668
Over, over, over!
This isn't a funeral march.
414
00:33:12,626 --> 00:33:15,626
- Number nine.
- (Orchestra starts again)
415
00:33:16,668 --> 00:33:18,168
Light!
416
00:33:56,043 --> 00:33:57,668
Sorry for disturbing you,
417
00:33:57,834 --> 00:34:00,834
You should have the poster
the next premiere.
418
00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,543
It must be returned to the print shop immediately.
419
00:34:07,376 --> 00:34:11,293
You can't even do it here in the house
write my name correctly?
420
00:34:12,043 --> 00:34:14,793
My name is not Henrik,
but Hendrik.
421
00:34:17,918 --> 00:34:19,668
Hendrik Höfgen.
422
00:34:20,084 --> 00:34:22,418
You will have to remember the name.
423
00:34:25,876 --> 00:34:29,418
Understand me, Dr. Kroge,
I don't want to commit myself.
424
00:34:29,668 --> 00:34:31,709
That's straining my nerves.
425
00:34:31,876 --> 00:34:35,876
If you are firmly committed, you are not free,
and I must be free, free.
426
00:34:36,751 --> 00:34:40,543
Favorite of a provincial audience
I can't and don't want to be.
427
00:34:40,709 --> 00:34:43,251
No, no, no,
I don't want to be that.
428
00:34:43,418 --> 00:34:46,251
So you want
leaving Hamburg for good?
429
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:48,668
This is still completely undecided.
430
00:34:53,584 --> 00:34:55,584
The Professor
invited me to a guest performance.
431
00:34:55,751 --> 00:34:59,209
You never know
what happens to a guest performance in Berlin.
432
00:34:59,959 --> 00:35:02,168
Martin will be my partner.
433
00:35:02,418 --> 00:35:03,959
All right then.
434
00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:07,334
Then accept.
435
00:35:08,251 --> 00:35:09,668
Thanks.
436
00:35:09,918 --> 00:35:11,918
(train rattle)
437
00:35:12,709 --> 00:35:14,209
Berlin.
438
00:35:17,876 --> 00:35:20,043
(Slow piano music)
439
00:35:20,293 --> 00:35:25,668
(Carried singing)
♪ And you have a good night's slumber
440
00:35:26,209 --> 00:35:31,376
♪ Eyes barely closed
441
00:35:32,626 --> 00:35:37,918
♪ This is how my image will haunt you
442
00:35:39,334 --> 00:35:43,834
♪ Until the deepest dream
443
00:35:44,418 --> 00:35:49,834
♪ This is how my image will haunt you
444
00:35:50,709 --> 00:35:55,793
♪ Until the deepest dream
445
00:35:56,418 --> 00:35:59,293
♪ To the deepest ones
446
00:35:59,459 --> 00:36:01,834
♪ The deepest dream
447
00:36:02,751 --> 00:36:07,001
♪ To the deepest ones
448
00:36:07,168 --> 00:36:13,418
♪ The deepest dream
449
00:36:18,043 --> 00:36:21,293
Yes, thank you, ladies.
So see you tomorrow then.
450
00:36:21,459 --> 00:36:23,959
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
451
00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:29,918
So you are this Höfgen.
452
00:36:30,626 --> 00:36:33,168
Mmm. You have friends, Mr. Höfgen.
453
00:36:33,668 --> 00:36:37,834
People from the theater
what understand, pointed me to you.
454
00:36:38,084 --> 00:36:41,376
Also your father-in-law
spoke to me about you.
455
00:36:41,543 --> 00:36:45,626
When we met the other day
met in the Ministry of Culture.
456
00:36:46,501 --> 00:36:49,709
(Thoughtful)
And now Dora Martin too.
457
00:36:56,459 --> 00:36:59,584
In life I am
maybe a little inconspicuous.
458
00:36:59,751 --> 00:37:02,251
But on stage, I hope, not.
459
00:37:03,043 --> 00:37:05,043
For this ability to transform
460
00:37:05,209 --> 00:37:08,876
my father-in-law has
found very apt words.
461
00:37:10,626 --> 00:37:12,751
(Sceptical) Well.
462
00:37:12,918 --> 00:37:15,543
You could do it
try with you.
463
00:37:19,293 --> 00:37:20,959
Don't expect too much.
464
00:37:21,126 --> 00:37:24,584
It's not a big commitment
what I want to offer you.
465
00:37:24,751 --> 00:37:28,959
You are probably from Hamburg
used to a decent income.
466
00:37:29,126 --> 00:37:33,543
You will contact us first
have to settle for something less.
467
00:37:33,709 --> 00:37:35,543
Are you demanding?
468
00:37:36,084 --> 00:37:38,751
Uh... I don't care about money.
469
00:37:39,293 --> 00:37:41,501
I'm pretty modest.
470
00:37:42,043 --> 00:37:44,834
I just need
a fresh shirt every day
471
00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:47,001
and a little eau de cologne.
472
00:37:48,043 --> 00:37:51,751
Please discuss details with us
Miss Bernhardt. I'll instruct them.
473
00:37:51,918 --> 00:37:55,793
Yes, then please say hello
Your father-in-law from me.
474
00:37:57,459 --> 00:37:59,126
-Hendrik Höfgen.
- Ah yes.
475
00:37:59,293 --> 00:38:00,668
- Bernhardt.
- I am very pleased.
476
00:38:00,834 --> 00:38:03,251
- Here is your contract.
- Thank you very much.
477
00:38:05,043 --> 00:38:07,084
- Can I? Thanks.
- Please.
478
00:38:13,001 --> 00:38:17,251
700 marks monthly salary minus taxes.
You have no role claim.
479
00:38:20,834 --> 00:38:21,876
So.
480
00:38:24,709 --> 00:38:26,543
(He blows on the paper)
481
00:38:27,959 --> 00:38:30,918
Please be kind
and give the flowers
482
00:38:31,876 --> 00:38:34,043
with this card
483
00:38:35,084 --> 00:38:36,668
Ms. Martin.
484
00:38:38,334 --> 00:38:39,376
Yes?
485
00:38:59,126 --> 00:39:01,126
Well, Hendrik Höfgen?
486
00:39:03,168 --> 00:39:05,376
Now you're a beginner again.
487
00:39:06,876 --> 00:39:10,501
Hamburg fame,
Routine and security are behind you.
488
00:39:12,334 --> 00:39:15,959
(Imploring) Now you have to
gather all your strength.
489
00:39:22,876 --> 00:39:24,459
And that there
490
00:39:25,084 --> 00:39:28,168
is now... being processed.
491
00:39:31,209 --> 00:39:33,626
(Upbeat music starts)
492
00:40:06,251 --> 00:40:08,251
(music gets faster)
493
00:40:28,168 --> 00:40:30,001
(music ends)
494
00:40:47,501 --> 00:40:49,418
(Muffled conversations)
495
00:40:56,668 --> 00:41:00,584
- (Whispers) Who is this?
- The hamburger has something to do with Martin.
496
00:41:00,751 --> 00:41:04,876
- He is Bernhardt's lover.
- You are misinformed, dear.
497
00:41:05,043 --> 00:41:06,709
Good evening, Mr. Höfgen.
498
00:41:06,876 --> 00:41:10,001
It's nice that you despite
from all your hard work.
499
00:41:10,168 --> 00:41:12,834
May I have you
meet some admirers?
500
00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:15,334
Mr. Davidson from the London Times,
501
00:41:15,501 --> 00:41:18,126
Caesar von Muck and Mr. Müller-Andrea.
502
00:41:18,668 --> 00:41:22,334
(English) I admired you very much
in the Russian play.
503
00:41:22,501 --> 00:41:24,251
They move so wonderfully.
504
00:41:24,418 --> 00:41:26,834
No other German
not even Konrad Beit,
505
00:41:27,001 --> 00:41:29,001
moves so expressively.
506
00:41:29,209 --> 00:41:31,834
We become your career
follow with great interest.
507
00:41:32,084 --> 00:41:36,459
Just don't get lost
the influence of cultural Bolshevism,
508
00:41:36,626 --> 00:41:38,459
which already prevails on Kurfürstendamm.
509
00:41:38,626 --> 00:41:40,459
What does this mean?
510
00:41:40,626 --> 00:41:45,543
German culture needs to be renewed
return to their ethnicity,
511
00:41:45,709 --> 00:41:47,543
to the primal nature of blood and soil.
512
00:41:47,709 --> 00:41:51,418
These Russian romps
or French salon pieces
513
00:41:51,584 --> 00:41:54,418
are alien to the spirit,
that the German people need.
514
00:41:54,584 --> 00:41:58,001
Truly, every culture
must find her own roots.
515
00:41:58,168 --> 00:42:02,501
In Germany there is currently
a strong national consciousness.
516
00:42:02,668 --> 00:42:05,876
That will definitely happen
impact on culture.
517
00:42:06,043 --> 00:42:08,918
The German culture
is with actors
518
00:42:09,084 --> 00:42:10,626
like Mr. Höfgen, in good hands.
519
00:42:10,793 --> 00:42:14,001
To your career
and German culture.
520
00:42:14,168 --> 00:42:17,043
Oh, Leni,
Do you already know Mr. Höfgen?
521
00:42:17,209 --> 00:42:21,418
Berlin's new theater star, that's it
I'm sure it'll be in the Times tomorrow too.
522
00:42:21,584 --> 00:42:24,293
I saw you on stage.
They danced, didn't they?
523
00:42:24,459 --> 00:42:26,584
Yes, I like to dance often.
524
00:42:26,751 --> 00:42:29,584
- I have a good dance teacher.
- Like that?
525
00:42:29,751 --> 00:42:32,209
I'm making a bust
from your character head.
526
00:42:32,459 --> 00:42:34,459
(piano plays)
527
00:42:35,584 --> 00:42:38,584
(He sings)
♪ No tie on the neck, no money in the bag
528
00:42:38,751 --> 00:42:41,709
♪ We are a shabby bunch of scoundrels
529
00:42:42,168 --> 00:42:45,543
♪ What the citizen spits on
530
00:42:46,168 --> 00:42:50,209
♪ The citizen bare of Stiebellack
With medal spikes on the tailcoat
531
00:42:50,376 --> 00:42:55,126
♪ The citizen with the Chapeau claque
Pious and full of integrity
532
00:42:57,334 --> 00:43:00,001
♪ Where did the citizen get everything from
533
00:43:00,251 --> 00:43:03,043
♪ The money bag and the shooting rifle
534
00:43:03,209 --> 00:43:05,501
♪ He's stealing it just like us
535
00:43:06,418 --> 00:43:07,959
♪ They just make it difficult for us to steal
536
00:43:08,126 --> 00:43:10,209
♪ But he has more than his desire
537
00:43:10,376 --> 00:43:15,418
♪ To do this, empty your pockets
Of all the workhorses
538
00:43:17,209 --> 00:43:20,293
♪ Oh, if only I were a rich man
539
00:43:20,459 --> 00:43:23,501
♪ Who can steal without any effort
540
00:43:23,668 --> 00:43:26,709
♪ Praised and honored
541
00:43:26,959 --> 00:43:30,834
♪ I'll meet you on the street then
Your straw buddies Fritz, Johann
542
00:43:31,001 --> 00:43:35,751
♪ You scoundrels, I'm spitting on you
You dogs are worth it
543
00:43:35,918 --> 00:43:38,959
♪ You dogs are worth it
544
00:43:39,126 --> 00:43:41,126
(applause)
545
00:43:44,834 --> 00:43:47,876
(man) Get out! You Jew pig!
546
00:43:51,668 --> 00:43:54,168
- You should disappear.
- Yes Yes Yes.
547
00:43:55,501 --> 00:43:57,501
(beats continue)
548
00:44:01,626 --> 00:44:03,376
They're completely drunk.
549
00:44:06,959 --> 00:44:10,834
One of the most famous
of the State Theater: Hendrik Höfgen.
550
00:44:13,834 --> 00:44:16,376
Not the State Theater today,
nothing famous,
551
00:44:16,543 --> 00:44:19,168
I am your comrade Hendrik Höfgen.
552
00:44:22,459 --> 00:44:25,793
(Sings)
♪ What does the proletariat want?
553
00:44:25,959 --> 00:44:28,918
♪ That no one has to rule
554
00:44:29,334 --> 00:44:32,376
♪ What does the proletariat want?
555
00:44:32,543 --> 00:44:35,459
♪ That no one has to rule
556
00:44:35,876 --> 00:44:38,626
♪ No master should command
557
00:44:38,793 --> 00:44:41,334
♪ No servant should torment himself
558
00:44:41,501 --> 00:44:46,209
♪ Freedom, equality for all souls
559
00:44:47,168 --> 00:44:49,459
I dictate. Heading:
560
00:44:50,126 --> 00:44:54,084
"The actor Höfgen
conquered in one fell swoop
561
00:44:54,251 --> 00:44:56,543
the hearts of the Berlin workers."
562
00:44:57,001 --> 00:44:58,168
New paragraph.
563
00:44:59,459 --> 00:45:01,293
-Hendrik?
- Hello.
564
00:45:02,959 --> 00:45:05,126
I was at the antique dealer.
565
00:45:05,293 --> 00:45:07,959
I bought the picture
and a few little things.
566
00:45:08,126 --> 00:45:10,918
- It's not bad, is it?
- No, why?
567
00:45:11,168 --> 00:45:14,376
You can admire it right now.
I'm just changing.
568
00:45:45,626 --> 00:45:47,001
(she groans)
569
00:45:49,251 --> 00:45:51,709
(Breathlessly) I love you, Barbara.
570
00:45:51,876 --> 00:45:54,293
Not just your father,
or your grandmother,
571
00:45:54,459 --> 00:45:56,501
I... I love you.
572
00:45:56,668 --> 00:45:58,168
Me, Hendrik Höfgen.
573
00:46:13,501 --> 00:46:16,834
Welcome to my home,
my dear Sebastian.
574
00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:19,543
Unfortunately I have to go
the theater awaits me.
575
00:46:19,709 --> 00:46:23,501
But when I'm back,
we can talk to each other.
576
00:46:23,668 --> 00:46:25,168
The three.
577
00:46:25,668 --> 00:46:27,668
(mischievous music)
578
00:46:34,709 --> 00:46:36,709
(music continues)
579
00:46:44,668 --> 00:46:46,668
(Music becomes triumphant)
580
00:46:54,084 --> 00:46:56,084
(Music becomes playful)
581
00:47:13,418 --> 00:47:15,418
(music continues)
582
00:47:32,709 --> 00:47:34,209
On!
583
00:47:34,376 --> 00:47:35,793
Two!
584
00:47:35,959 --> 00:47:37,084
Three!
585
00:47:37,251 --> 00:47:38,626
- (Everyone) Up!
- Four!
586
00:47:39,418 --> 00:47:40,543
Five!
587
00:47:40,709 --> 00:47:43,293
- Six!
- (All) For all goals.
588
00:47:43,459 --> 00:47:45,834
We are the strength of our people.
589
00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:48,834
We will together
create a new world.
590
00:47:49,084 --> 00:47:51,751
- What is your father's job?
- Road workers.
591
00:47:52,001 --> 00:47:53,793
- And your father?
- farmer.
592
00:47:54,043 --> 00:47:57,209
- And yours?
- Teacher, he ensures our education.
593
00:47:57,459 --> 00:48:00,918
- And your father?
- Baker, he bakes bread for our people.
594
00:48:01,168 --> 00:48:03,626
Müller,
he can grind our grain.
595
00:48:03,876 --> 00:48:05,793
He is a doctor and makes us healthy.
596
00:48:06,043 --> 00:48:07,959
Bricklayer, he built our houses.
597
00:48:08,209 --> 00:48:09,918
- Railway worker.
- Electrician.
598
00:48:10,168 --> 00:48:12,168
We are the sons of one people.
599
00:48:12,334 --> 00:48:15,959
We all have the same goal:
unity and strength.
600
00:48:16,126 --> 00:48:17,876
- We follow the leader.
- No.
601
00:48:18,126 --> 00:48:20,918
That doesn't convince me.
That was too weak.
602
00:48:21,084 --> 00:48:23,251
"We are the sons of one people.
603
00:48:23,418 --> 00:48:26,001
We have the same goal:
unity and strength.
604
00:48:26,168 --> 00:48:29,043
We follow the leader."
Again, one, two, three.
605
00:48:29,293 --> 00:48:31,959
- Unity and strength!
- Again!
606
00:48:32,126 --> 00:48:35,251
- (Louder) unity and strength.
- Loud, and again!
607
00:48:35,418 --> 00:48:38,668
- Unity and strength!
- We follow the leader.
608
00:48:38,918 --> 00:48:40,418
Blood...
609
00:48:41,334 --> 00:48:44,209
is a very special juice.
610
00:48:46,584 --> 00:48:49,209
(Quiet)
Leave in the depths of sensuality
611
00:48:49,376 --> 00:48:51,834
to satisfy our burning passions.
612
00:48:53,334 --> 00:48:55,626
There is no measure or goal set for you.
613
00:48:55,793 --> 00:48:59,459
Do you like to snack everywhere?
to grab something while fleeing.
614
00:48:59,626 --> 00:49:02,001
Enjoy what makes you happy.
615
00:49:02,168 --> 00:49:05,543
Just reach out to me
and don't be stupid.
616
00:49:05,709 --> 00:49:08,251
You hear yes,
There is no mention of Freud.
617
00:49:08,418 --> 00:49:11,709
I consecrate myself to the frenzy,
the most painful pleasure.
618
00:49:11,876 --> 00:49:14,876
hatred in love,
refreshing annoyance.
619
00:49:15,126 --> 00:49:17,043
Oh believe me,
620
00:49:17,209 --> 00:49:21,376
some thousands of years
chewing on this hard food,
621
00:49:21,543 --> 00:49:23,876
that from the cradle to the grave
622
00:49:24,043 --> 00:49:27,668
not a person
digested the old leaven.
623
00:49:28,084 --> 00:49:29,959
Believe us:
624
00:49:30,126 --> 00:49:31,876
This whole thing
625
00:49:32,043 --> 00:49:35,168
is made only for one God.
626
00:49:35,334 --> 00:49:38,418
He finds himself in an eternal splendor.
627
00:49:38,584 --> 00:49:41,209
He has brought us into darkness.
628
00:49:41,376 --> 00:49:45,043
- Only day and night.
- Only I want.
629
00:49:46,459 --> 00:49:48,209
That can be heard.
630
00:49:48,668 --> 00:49:50,751
But there's only one thing I'm afraid of:
631
00:49:50,918 --> 00:49:53,668
Time is short, art is long.
632
00:49:53,834 --> 00:49:55,709
I think you would let yourself be taught.
633
00:49:55,876 --> 00:49:58,209
Associate yourself with a poet.
634
00:49:58,709 --> 00:50:00,543
Let the Lord be in your thoughts,
635
00:50:00,709 --> 00:50:04,334
and all noble qualities
pile on your crown of honor.
636
00:50:04,501 --> 00:50:07,084
The lion's courage,
the deer's speed.
637
00:50:07,251 --> 00:50:10,251
The Italian's fiery blood,
the durability of the north.
638
00:50:10,418 --> 00:50:14,626
Let him find you the secret,
Combining magnanimity and deceit.
639
00:50:14,793 --> 00:50:19,168
To you, with warm youthful impulses,
according to a plan to fall in love.
640
00:50:20,709 --> 00:50:23,126
I would like to know such gentlemen myself.
641
00:50:23,918 --> 00:50:27,709
I would call him Mr Microcosm.
642
00:50:28,668 --> 00:50:30,334
What am I then?
643
00:50:30,793 --> 00:50:34,251
If it is not possible,
to win the crown of humanity,
644
00:50:34,418 --> 00:50:36,418
that all senses crave.
645
00:50:36,584 --> 00:50:39,001
You're at the end,
646
00:50:39,168 --> 00:50:40,834
what you are.
647
00:50:41,626 --> 00:50:44,668
Put on wigs
of millions of curls.
648
00:50:45,584 --> 00:50:49,501
Put your foot down
on feet-high socks.
649
00:50:50,668 --> 00:50:53,251
You always stay,
650
00:50:53,418 --> 00:50:55,168
what you are.
651
00:51:14,584 --> 00:51:17,209
- Congratulations.
- (Applause continues)
652
00:51:17,668 --> 00:51:19,168
Bravo.
653
00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:24,959
(applause dies down)
654
00:51:25,584 --> 00:51:28,334
It was wonderful.
They were fantastic.
655
00:51:28,501 --> 00:51:32,293
This is the role of a lifetime.
Mephistopheles is the role of a lifetime.
656
00:51:32,459 --> 00:51:35,793
(Breathless) You don't say that
without malice, right?
657
00:51:35,959 --> 00:51:38,626
I don't blame anyone
that he is what he is.
658
00:51:38,793 --> 00:51:43,459
- Anyway, thank you very much...
- Let's leave these usual sayings.
659
00:51:43,626 --> 00:51:46,959
- What are your next plans?
- I'm currently learning English.
660
00:51:47,126 --> 00:51:48,793
What? English, why?
661
00:51:48,959 --> 00:51:51,793
- I will work in America.
- In America?
662
00:51:52,209 --> 00:51:54,918
- Why?
- The curtain is gradually falling on us.
663
00:51:55,084 --> 00:51:56,793
Didn't you notice that?
664
00:51:56,959 --> 00:52:00,668
You have a wonderful position here,
rush from success to success.
665
00:52:00,834 --> 00:52:02,918
Thousands love you. Why then?
666
00:52:03,084 --> 00:52:07,001
The love of thousands.
They quickly become enthusiastic about others.
667
00:52:07,168 --> 00:52:09,876
Dora, there's always theater going on.
668
00:52:10,376 --> 00:52:13,043
No matter,
what is happening in Germany.
669
00:52:13,209 --> 00:52:16,626
"No matter what happens in Germany."
Are you serious?
670
00:52:16,793 --> 00:52:18,293
Ah...
671
00:52:18,751 --> 00:52:20,418
Then I wish you good luck.
672
00:52:20,584 --> 00:52:24,376
We won't see each other for a long time.
I'm leaving in a few days.
673
00:52:25,126 --> 00:52:27,459
Already in the next few days?
674
00:52:27,626 --> 00:52:30,293
I don't want to wait,
until it's too late.
675
00:52:30,459 --> 00:52:33,376
But you're always fine,
Hendrik Höfgen.
676
00:52:33,543 --> 00:52:36,376
No matter,
what is happening in Germany.
677
00:52:42,251 --> 00:52:44,251
(He coughs)
678
00:52:45,834 --> 00:52:47,334
It's open.
679
00:52:48,543 --> 00:52:51,876
Don't you know anymore, Mephistopheles?
that I never lock the door.
680
00:52:52,043 --> 00:52:55,584
I don't need a chain
nor bars or life insurance.
681
00:52:55,751 --> 00:52:59,334
- You must have completed one.
- Oh, I don't need one.
682
00:52:59,876 --> 00:53:02,876
Well then sit down, sir,
here with me.
683
00:53:03,459 --> 00:53:06,876
You would have me too
Can accommodate better, do you hear?
684
00:53:08,293 --> 00:53:11,376
- Have you registered yet?
- Yes, sir.
685
00:53:11,543 --> 00:53:13,043
The caretaker?
686
00:53:13,459 --> 00:53:15,501
- What did he say?
- Nothing.
687
00:53:15,668 --> 00:53:18,418
He was drunk
played a hit song:
688
00:53:18,584 --> 00:53:21,126
- "No tie on the neck..."
- Of course.
689
00:53:21,293 --> 00:53:25,126
Well, he gave me the key,
and I moved in.
690
00:53:30,834 --> 00:53:32,668
I've been waiting for you so much.
691
00:53:34,334 --> 00:53:36,751
- And your wife, how is she?
- Oh no.
692
00:53:36,918 --> 00:53:39,376
She is with her father. Thank God.
693
00:53:40,043 --> 00:53:41,876
You are worried
694
00:53:42,043 --> 00:53:44,376
about... the... republic.
695
00:53:46,501 --> 00:53:48,501
- Around the Republic...
- (she moans)
696
00:53:52,001 --> 00:53:55,584
In Hamburg the foreigners have
with whom I spoke
697
00:53:55,751 --> 00:53:57,793
also great concern for Germany.
698
00:53:57,959 --> 00:54:02,126
About German culture,
whose first parrot you are.
699
00:54:02,293 --> 00:54:04,709
As if she were in great danger.
700
00:54:04,876 --> 00:54:08,834
What are the Jews planning against Germany?
Everyone is talking about them.
701
00:54:09,001 --> 00:54:13,501
Even the whores, although those
the color of the fly doesn't matter.
702
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:18,334
Barbara definitely understands
something about politics, right?
703
00:54:18,501 --> 00:54:20,334
Is she taking care of you?
704
00:54:21,543 --> 00:54:22,876
No.
705
00:54:23,043 --> 00:54:26,251
In fact, she is most of the time
completely different opinion than me.
706
00:54:26,418 --> 00:54:28,751
- Hmm, did you tell her that too?
- No.
707
00:54:28,918 --> 00:54:30,751
What would be the point of that?
708
00:54:31,376 --> 00:54:33,668
Words don't mean everything.
709
00:54:33,834 --> 00:54:35,334
Well, oh.
710
00:54:36,293 --> 00:54:37,543
You.
711
00:54:37,709 --> 00:54:41,709
(Quietly) I would like to
sleep here with you.
712
00:54:41,876 --> 00:54:43,709
Should I make the bed?
713
00:54:44,876 --> 00:54:46,376
Yes!
714
00:54:49,251 --> 00:54:50,584
Hendrik!
715
00:54:51,084 --> 00:54:52,418
Hendrik!
716
00:54:54,709 --> 00:54:57,751
- Wake up. Don't you hear? Stand up.
- (He hums)
717
00:54:58,334 --> 00:55:00,084
What, you're already here?
718
00:55:00,251 --> 00:55:02,668
I came especially with the early train,
because of you.
719
00:55:02,834 --> 00:55:05,751
- What's up?
- When did you come to bed?
720
00:55:05,918 --> 00:55:10,084
(Sighing) I'm tired,
I filmed all night. Why?
721
00:55:10,251 --> 00:55:13,793
The Nazis won the election.
Do you know who the Reich Chancellor is?
722
00:55:13,959 --> 00:55:15,459
No.
723
00:55:20,001 --> 00:55:22,543
- (Hitler's voice sounds)
- Do you hear that?
724
00:55:23,209 --> 00:55:24,959
Do you hear that?
725
00:55:25,126 --> 00:55:27,126
Once your stand...
726
00:55:29,626 --> 00:55:32,918
(Sighing) That Bohemian private
is Reich Chancellor?
727
00:55:33,084 --> 00:55:34,418
Here, read.
728
00:55:34,584 --> 00:55:38,876
I believed from the National Socialists
there is no need to be afraid.
729
00:55:40,626 --> 00:55:44,084
- (He murmurs)
- Think about the story with Miklas.
730
00:55:46,293 --> 00:55:48,668
This can have unpleasant consequences.
731
00:55:48,834 --> 00:55:52,293
- Or not? What do we do now?
- (Mumbling) Yes, yes...
732
00:55:53,751 --> 00:55:56,084
You have to now
keep a clear head.
733
00:55:56,251 --> 00:55:58,584
And don't panic.
734
00:55:59,251 --> 00:56:01,793
So the Austrian cabaret artist
735
00:56:02,334 --> 00:56:04,334
became Reich Chancellor.
736
00:56:05,543 --> 00:56:08,043
But there are opposition parties?
737
00:56:08,209 --> 00:56:10,584
Communists and Social Democrats.
738
00:56:11,168 --> 00:56:15,334
Which prevent his trees
grow into the sky, right?
739
00:56:15,501 --> 00:56:19,126
Maybe there even is
an armed resistance.
740
00:56:21,501 --> 00:56:26,126
Even if the National Socialists
rule, why do I care?
741
00:56:26,293 --> 00:56:29,376
For me that is irrelevant.
I am a Rhinelander.
742
00:56:29,543 --> 00:56:33,626
Father and mother are Rhinelanders,
what can happen to us?
743
00:56:34,126 --> 00:56:37,168
And besides, I'm an actor!
No?
744
00:56:38,418 --> 00:56:42,126
I go to my theater in the evening,
play my roles as well as possible.
745
00:56:42,293 --> 00:56:44,334
And then I'll go home again. Basta.
746
00:56:44,501 --> 00:56:47,376
There are also people
draw the consequences
747
00:56:47,543 --> 00:56:51,751
and leave the country in which
artistic work is now impossible.
748
00:56:52,418 --> 00:56:56,334
Nothing touches you
what happens outside the theater?
749
00:56:56,501 --> 00:56:59,543
There were elections
in a democratic state.
750
00:56:59,709 --> 00:57:03,043
One party won
that's all. This is not new.
751
00:57:03,209 --> 00:57:06,543
I never have me
interested in politics. Why now?
752
00:57:06,709 --> 00:57:09,543
- Don't you understand what's going on here?
- Oh...
753
00:57:09,709 --> 00:57:12,293
- (phone rings)
- Leave it alone, don't answer it.
754
00:57:12,459 --> 00:57:15,084
I'm not there, I'm not there!
I'm sick.
755
00:57:15,251 --> 00:57:17,959
I'm... Say what you want.
756
00:57:19,293 --> 00:57:21,584
Hendrik, do you think
that is a solution,
757
00:57:21,751 --> 00:57:24,751
if you lock yourself in,
are you hiding, not there?
758
00:57:24,918 --> 00:57:26,751
You bury your head in the sand.
759
00:57:26,918 --> 00:57:29,918
You don't like any
a concrete statement on this?
760
00:57:30,084 --> 00:57:33,126
Specifically, specifically?
That's my answer.
761
00:57:33,293 --> 00:57:35,168
- No.
- Hamlet, Shakespeare!
762
00:57:35,334 --> 00:57:39,168
This is self-deception. Let's go,
when our freedom is in danger.
763
00:57:39,334 --> 00:57:43,543
This is my only kind of freedom
for me, for an actor.
764
00:57:43,709 --> 00:57:47,043
You can't yourself
hide behind Shakespeare.
765
00:57:47,209 --> 00:57:50,793
I am an actor,
an actor in Germany,
766
00:57:50,959 --> 00:57:52,793
and at all times.
767
00:57:52,959 --> 00:57:55,626
You can go.
Your famous father is translated.
768
00:57:55,793 --> 00:57:59,376
You can paint backdrops anywhere,
Buy antiques.
769
00:57:59,543 --> 00:58:02,418
But I,
I need the German language!
770
00:58:02,584 --> 00:58:04,418
I need my home!
771
00:58:05,209 --> 00:58:07,043
Don't you understand that?
772
00:58:16,918 --> 00:58:18,918
(There's a knock)
773
00:58:19,584 --> 00:58:21,751
(There's another knock)
774
00:58:21,918 --> 00:58:23,918
(The bell rings)
775
00:58:25,709 --> 00:58:27,376
- Who is there?
-Otto.
776
00:58:27,543 --> 00:58:29,126
- Who?
-Otto.
777
00:58:31,126 --> 00:58:33,043
Sorry, I have to speak to you.
778
00:58:33,209 --> 00:58:35,376
- Coffee or tea?
- No, let's go.
779
00:58:35,543 --> 00:58:37,709
I ask you to perform with us.
780
00:58:37,876 --> 00:58:40,959
The answer to what happened
is to appear together,
781
00:58:41,126 --> 00:58:43,084
all of us who belong together.
782
00:58:43,251 --> 00:58:47,501
Let's show that we're still here,
now so that we don't waste anything.
783
00:58:47,668 --> 00:58:50,293
Should you the audience
beat apart?
784
00:58:50,459 --> 00:58:52,876
If so,
we have to have a tactic.
785
00:58:53,043 --> 00:58:55,501
When we tactic,
we fall forever.
786
00:58:55,668 --> 00:58:58,501
We have to each other
oppose this demagoguery.
787
00:58:58,668 --> 00:59:01,001
Everyone expects that
Still undecided among us.
788
00:59:01,168 --> 00:59:02,834
We are called to say:
789
00:59:03,001 --> 00:59:05,751
provides resistance,
rise up against the dictatorship.
790
00:59:05,918 --> 00:59:07,751
We are actors first.
791
00:59:07,918 --> 00:59:10,709
I didn't mean the street either,
but the stage.
792
00:59:11,334 --> 00:59:13,668
We should wait two or three days.
793
00:59:13,918 --> 00:59:16,293
We have to do something immediately
this evening.
794
00:59:19,168 --> 00:59:20,293
Otto?
795
00:59:21,418 --> 00:59:23,459
I'd rather stay in the reserve.
796
00:59:24,084 --> 00:59:26,084
(He whistles quietly)
797
00:59:31,251 --> 00:59:34,459
Thank God
I have no idea today.
798
00:59:52,334 --> 00:59:54,293
(Reads) "Movie contract."
799
00:59:54,459 --> 00:59:55,959
"Abroad."
800
00:59:56,668 --> 00:59:58,251
Hmm, “main role”.
801
00:59:59,334 --> 01:00:02,709
“Production Manager Altenburger”.
(He clicks)
802
01:00:08,501 --> 01:00:12,918
Oh, she's beautiful. She sits
next to the right side altar.
803
01:00:13,084 --> 01:00:14,584
- Out of! Very good.
- Yes?
804
01:00:14,751 --> 01:00:16,418
Very good. The second one, yes?
805
01:00:17,084 --> 01:00:18,918
Gentlemen, now the scene,
806
01:00:19,084 --> 01:00:23,459
where the officers at the Fisherman's Bastion
stalk the young lady.
807
01:00:34,626 --> 01:00:37,834
So what's going on?
(Emphatically) What's going on?
808
01:00:38,293 --> 01:00:42,626
- It's closing time, can we go home?
- The Reichstag burned down!
809
01:00:42,793 --> 01:00:44,293
- What?
- They say,
810
01:00:44,459 --> 01:00:47,376
the communists
would have set him on fire.
811
01:00:57,084 --> 01:01:01,168
Her wife went with her father
Paris. They should follow immediately.
812
01:01:01,334 --> 01:01:03,376
She didn't dare call you.
813
01:01:03,543 --> 01:01:06,543
You are not allowed to return to Berlin.
I'm going to Vienna.
814
01:01:06,793 --> 01:01:09,293
Are in Berlin
a lot of people disappeared,
815
01:01:09,459 --> 01:01:12,084
who you were friends with,
like Otto Ulrichs.
816
01:01:12,251 --> 01:01:14,126
You have to take everything into account.
817
01:01:14,293 --> 01:01:16,876
I'm afraid
we can never return.
818
01:01:17,043 --> 01:01:19,668
The Nazis
have been keeping black lists for years,
819
01:01:19,834 --> 01:01:23,126
on which the professor,
Your wife, your father and you are standing.
820
01:01:23,376 --> 01:01:25,959
Please never go back to Berlin again.
821
01:01:26,126 --> 01:01:28,584
Hendrik, you have to promise me that.
822
01:01:29,626 --> 01:01:30,626
Please.
823
01:01:31,751 --> 01:01:33,751
(live music plays)
824
01:01:52,168 --> 01:01:55,543
- Cheers and a thousand thanks.
- (woman) Farewell...
825
01:01:57,418 --> 01:01:59,626
- For the benefit.
- (With accent) For the good.
826
01:02:00,084 --> 01:02:02,793
To the most beautiful actress in Europe.
827
01:02:03,793 --> 01:02:06,001
(Fast music starts)
828
01:02:30,751 --> 01:02:32,584
When are you traveling home?
829
01:02:33,751 --> 01:02:36,584
I'm still staying
a few days in Budapest.
830
01:02:36,751 --> 01:02:39,334
The city is beautiful,
and then I'm going to Vienna.
831
01:02:39,501 --> 01:02:43,543
- Because of a contract.
- I understand you, Hendrik.
832
01:02:44,418 --> 01:02:46,918
Look, now I'm telling you.
833
01:02:47,084 --> 01:02:49,668
I'm not going back either
to Germany.
834
01:02:49,834 --> 01:02:52,334
I hired you for this role,
835
01:02:52,501 --> 01:02:56,584
so that you can leave inconspicuously,
if you want.
836
01:02:57,418 --> 01:03:01,793
(woman) "I heard you are in Budapest,
and got the address of the film studio.
837
01:03:01,959 --> 01:03:03,793
I hope my letter reaches you.
838
01:03:03,959 --> 01:03:07,751
I'm in Berlin and I'm allowed to
film something, in a comedy.
839
01:03:07,918 --> 01:03:12,043
I learned while recording
"Know my colleague Lindenthal."
840
01:03:12,293 --> 01:03:14,834
She is
friends with a flying officer,
841
01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:16,959
one of the most powerful in the empire.
842
01:03:17,126 --> 01:03:19,418
Lotte Lindenthal
is a great woman.
843
01:03:19,584 --> 01:03:22,709
She leaves the filming
no one feels their great influence.
844
01:03:22,876 --> 01:03:26,334
I made her aware
that you are abroad,
845
01:03:26,501 --> 01:03:29,334
and don't dare
to return to Berlin.
846
01:03:29,501 --> 01:03:33,918
"But what is he afraid of?"
You are an important artist.
847
01:03:34,084 --> 01:03:35,918
She saw her Mephistopheles several times.
848
01:03:36,084 --> 01:03:38,751
"Such important actors
are indispensable."
849
01:03:38,918 --> 01:03:42,126
She promised with her boyfriend
to talk about your case.
850
01:03:42,293 --> 01:03:44,126
And this morning she said:
851
01:03:44,293 --> 01:03:47,793
"Whatever Höfgen
of extravagances.
852
01:03:47,959 --> 01:03:51,501
With such important actors
man will understand."
853
01:03:51,668 --> 01:03:54,751
He promised nothing would happen to you,
when you get home.
854
01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:57,376
No matter what you've done before.
855
01:03:57,543 --> 01:04:01,668
So Hendrik, Berlin awaits you.
You have nothing to fear here.
856
01:04:01,834 --> 01:04:05,126
Nobody here can
Take your place at the theater.
857
01:04:05,293 --> 01:04:09,126
This is clear to me and to them
who now dominate our lives,
858
01:04:09,293 --> 01:04:12,376
in the theater for me
and my kind's hiding place.
859
01:04:12,543 --> 01:04:16,251
Where we can feel safe
and have nothing to fear.
860
01:04:16,418 --> 01:04:18,751
And that would be it for you too, Hendrik.
861
01:04:18,918 --> 01:04:20,709
Playing theater is a mission.
862
01:04:20,959 --> 01:04:24,459
"Greetings to you with old friendship
Your Angelika Siebert."
863
01:05:18,834 --> 01:05:20,418
- Your name?
-Hendrik Höfgen.
864
01:05:20,584 --> 01:05:22,001
Profession?
865
01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:23,793
Actor.
866
01:05:24,043 --> 01:05:25,209
Where?
867
01:05:25,459 --> 01:05:27,293
At the State Theater in Berlin.
868
01:05:37,834 --> 01:05:39,918
- Is something wrong?
- No no.
869
01:05:41,251 --> 01:05:42,668
Please.
870
01:05:45,709 --> 01:05:47,209
Thank you very much.
871
01:05:51,793 --> 01:05:55,584
I don't know if you are
will live with us again.
872
01:05:56,668 --> 01:05:58,918
A different spirit now reigns here
873
01:05:59,084 --> 01:06:02,168
than the one you
were used to in this house.
874
01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:06,584
With cultural Bolshevism
is over.
875
01:06:07,584 --> 01:06:10,043
(Drawn) In your friends' pieces
876
01:06:10,209 --> 01:06:12,918
and the one you like
French farces
877
01:06:13,084 --> 01:06:17,043
you won't anymore
have the opportunity to perform.
878
01:06:17,209 --> 01:06:20,376
Now German art is being made here.
879
01:06:20,626 --> 01:06:24,043
It seemed to me, frankly,
no special reason to exist,
880
01:06:24,209 --> 01:06:27,209
You from abroad
to call here again.
881
01:06:28,043 --> 01:06:31,959
But Miss Lindenthal
wants you as a partner
882
01:06:32,126 --> 01:06:35,751
in a little comedy,
with which she debuts here.
883
01:06:36,293 --> 01:06:39,209
I didn't want to be unpleasant
be against the lady.
884
01:06:40,376 --> 01:06:44,834
By the way, I am convinced that you
the role of the elegant family friend
885
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:48,793
and seducer
will not cause any difficulties.
886
01:06:49,543 --> 01:06:51,209
I'm so cold.
887
01:06:52,459 --> 01:06:54,293
I will warm you.
888
01:06:54,793 --> 01:06:58,376
What, is not heated,
in this horrible weather?
889
01:06:58,543 --> 01:07:02,959
(Indignant) So that's what you were expecting me to be like?
Really, very kind of you.
890
01:07:03,584 --> 01:07:06,293
There's a warm room over there. Come on.
891
01:07:06,459 --> 01:07:09,168
Oh no,
I'm really in a hurry today.
892
01:07:09,334 --> 01:07:13,376
- This might warm us up.
- Certainly not in this cold apartment.
893
01:07:13,543 --> 01:07:16,501
It's my new girl's fault.
She doesn't know yet.
894
01:07:16,668 --> 01:07:19,543
tell her
that you expect needs the warmth.
895
01:07:19,709 --> 01:07:22,543
Yes, but I am
just got home.
896
01:07:22,709 --> 01:07:26,168
If only you had come home earlier,
when I come here.
897
01:07:26,334 --> 01:07:29,584
You have to expect me, you know?
Impatient.
898
01:07:29,751 --> 01:07:32,626
In haste and haste
I see my husband every day.
899
01:07:32,793 --> 01:07:36,709
And anyway: where are you?
this new maid?
900
01:07:36,876 --> 01:07:39,084
She's way too pretty.
901
01:07:42,459 --> 01:07:44,668
A great honor,
to be able to play with you.
902
01:07:44,834 --> 01:07:48,584
Nice, a warm one again,
to hear soulful, graceful tone.
903
01:07:48,751 --> 01:07:52,043
How beautiful, because I know
They don't flatter me.
904
01:07:52,209 --> 01:07:57,209
Me, a flatterer? I am known
Saying unpleasant things to people.
905
01:07:57,376 --> 01:08:00,001
I like sincere people.
906
01:08:11,126 --> 01:08:14,376
(Mumbling)
If she turns around, everything will be fine.
907
01:08:14,543 --> 01:08:17,543
But if she even waves,
that's a triumph.
908
01:08:19,376 --> 01:08:24,084
I was in Hamburg for a long time. After the fire
I left the theater like Mohrenwitz.
909
01:08:24,251 --> 01:08:27,043
Bonetti even appeared
in uniform to rehearsals.
910
01:08:27,209 --> 01:08:29,959
Before I was released
he threw me out of the canteen.
911
01:08:30,209 --> 01:08:33,251
He said, "Now we have you
on the bedtime, goat."
912
01:08:33,501 --> 01:08:35,709
These guys wanted to beat me up.
913
01:08:35,876 --> 01:08:39,626
The landlady announced my room,
I couldn't stay there.
914
01:08:39,793 --> 01:08:41,918
Are you angry that I come to you?
915
01:08:42,084 --> 01:08:46,126
When I heard that you were in Berlin,
I gained hope
916
01:08:46,293 --> 01:08:50,418
and thought maybe it meant God
OK, and I came here.
917
01:08:50,584 --> 01:08:53,793
- Are you angry with me?
- I'm not angry with you, Böck.
918
01:08:55,501 --> 01:08:59,918
Pack up and stay with me until
the conditions have become orderly.
919
01:09:00,084 --> 01:09:02,084
But don't talk to anyone about it.
920
01:09:02,251 --> 01:09:05,501
Invent something
or just disappear.
921
01:09:06,793 --> 01:09:12,043
You know, it could be that I'm on
would commit suicide in her place.
922
01:09:13,293 --> 01:09:15,001
I'll buy you a radio,
so you know
923
01:09:15,168 --> 01:09:17,168
what is going on around you.
924
01:09:17,334 --> 01:09:20,876
Don't leave the apartment,
don't talk to the neighbors.
925
01:09:21,876 --> 01:09:24,334
You are the only person
for me in the world.
926
01:09:24,501 --> 01:09:28,001
- Is Budapest beautiful?
- I don't know that.
927
01:09:28,876 --> 01:09:30,709
Yes, quite nice.
928
01:09:31,209 --> 01:09:33,793
- I would have come. Barbara was gone.
- No.
929
01:09:33,959 --> 01:09:36,334
You wouldn't even get across the border.
930
01:09:36,501 --> 01:09:39,459
- I am a German citizen, like you.
- No.
931
01:09:39,626 --> 01:09:41,834
- My father was North German...
- No.
932
01:09:42,001 --> 01:09:45,501
You have to understand this now,
if you don't understand that,
933
01:09:45,668 --> 01:09:48,626
then we both will
have difficulties.
934
01:09:48,793 --> 01:09:52,168
- You're bad, like a janitor.
- You're an idiot!
935
01:09:52,334 --> 01:09:55,668
Go to hell
you... you actor!
936
01:10:22,209 --> 01:10:27,209
Ms. Lotte, I have a big request.
I just have to play Mephistopheles.
937
01:10:27,959 --> 01:10:29,709
Yes, I want to try it.
938
01:10:29,959 --> 01:10:34,209
I look forward to seeing you as Mephistopheles
to see you again, like a child.
939
01:10:34,376 --> 01:10:38,043
Between us,
You have me to thank for Mephistopheles.
940
01:10:38,209 --> 01:10:42,293
There were certain fears
in ministerial circles.
941
01:10:42,459 --> 01:10:46,126
People feared they might be the ghost
the old production
942
01:10:46,293 --> 01:10:51,334
into a cultural Bolshevik spirit
carry into our new rehearsal.
943
01:10:51,501 --> 01:10:55,584
I managed to overcome these fears
to overcome and refute.
944
01:10:55,751 --> 01:10:59,293
Caesar, thank you,
I really thank you very much.
945
01:11:05,543 --> 01:11:08,043
(Hendrik) Please give the flowers...
946
01:11:08,293 --> 01:11:10,501
- Yes?
- Ms. Lindenthal.
947
01:11:11,209 --> 01:11:12,709
So.
948
01:11:12,959 --> 01:11:16,168
- Good morning.
- (Everyone) Good morning.
949
01:11:16,668 --> 01:11:18,751
- Morning.
- Morning, Mr. Höfgen.
950
01:11:19,209 --> 01:11:20,876
Oh, Mr. Miklas,
951
01:11:21,709 --> 01:11:24,376
- Are you still there?
- Good morning.
952
01:11:24,543 --> 01:11:25,959
Fine.
953
01:11:30,459 --> 01:11:33,001
(Laughs)
I've only been here a short time,
954
01:11:33,168 --> 01:11:35,501
and come with complete devotion.
955
01:11:36,834 --> 01:11:42,251
To speak and know a man,
that everyone calls me... with reverence.
956
01:11:42,418 --> 01:11:46,001
I am very pleased by your politeness.
You see a man like others.
957
01:11:46,168 --> 01:11:48,543
Have you already done anything else?
958
01:11:49,126 --> 01:11:51,709
(Quickly)
I ask you to take care of me.
959
01:11:51,876 --> 01:11:54,793
I come with good courage,
reasonable money and fresh blood.
960
01:11:54,959 --> 01:11:58,876
Mother hardly wanted to remove me.
Would like to learn something legal.
961
01:11:59,043 --> 01:12:02,959
- You're in the right place.
- Sincerely, I want to leave again.
962
01:12:03,126 --> 01:12:07,001
In these walls, these halls
I don't want to like it at all.
963
01:12:07,168 --> 01:12:11,001
It is a very limited space,
you don't see anything green, not a tree.
964
01:12:11,168 --> 01:12:13,626
And in the halls, on the benches,
965
01:12:14,126 --> 01:12:17,043
I lose hearing, seeing and thinking.
966
01:12:17,209 --> 01:12:19,168
It just depends on habit.
967
01:12:19,334 --> 01:12:23,293
So a child takes its mother's breast
not willing right from the start.
968
01:12:23,459 --> 01:12:25,459
But soon it feeds with pleasure.
969
01:12:25,626 --> 01:12:29,834
This is how you will gain wisdom
craving more with each passing day.
970
01:12:30,543 --> 01:12:34,543
I want to on her neck
hang with joy. But just tell me...
971
01:12:36,126 --> 01:12:37,876
how can I get there?
972
01:12:38,043 --> 01:12:42,334
Explain yourself before you go any further,
what faculty do you choose?
973
01:12:42,501 --> 01:12:44,668
- That's the bottom line now, yes?
- Yes.
974
01:12:44,918 --> 01:12:48,001
The spirit of medicine
is easy to grasp.
975
01:12:48,168 --> 01:12:50,584
You studied through
the big and small world,
976
01:12:50,751 --> 01:12:54,251
to let it go in the end
as God pleases.
977
01:12:54,418 --> 01:12:57,043
In vain,
that you wander scientifically.
978
01:12:57,209 --> 01:13:00,418
Everyone only learns what they can learn.
979
01:13:00,584 --> 01:13:04,459
But he who seizes the moment
that is the right man.
980
01:13:04,626 --> 01:13:07,251
You're still pretty well built.
981
01:13:07,793 --> 01:13:11,626
You won't lack for boldness,
and if you trust yourself,
982
01:13:11,793 --> 01:13:13,918
the other souls trust you.
983
01:13:14,084 --> 01:13:16,834
Women especially learn to lead.
984
01:13:17,334 --> 01:13:19,334
It is her eternal woe and alas
985
01:13:19,501 --> 01:13:24,334
so thousandfold
to cure from one point.
986
01:13:24,959 --> 01:13:27,626
And if you act halfway honorably,
987
01:13:27,793 --> 01:13:30,626
then you have them all under your hat.
988
01:13:31,459 --> 01:13:34,293
A title
must first make it confidential.
989
01:13:35,043 --> 01:13:38,376
That your art surpasses many arts.
990
01:13:38,543 --> 01:13:42,793
As a welcome you tap to seven things,
around which someone else's years pass.
991
01:13:42,959 --> 01:13:46,126
Knows how to squeeze the little pulse,
992
01:13:46,293 --> 01:13:50,084
and grabs her
with fiery, clever looks
993
01:13:50,251 --> 01:13:53,751
probably free around the slim hips,
to see...
994
01:13:53,918 --> 01:13:58,459
(He giggles)
How tightly laced it is.
995
01:13:59,459 --> 01:14:03,043
That looks better.
You can see where and how.
996
01:14:04,209 --> 01:14:09,376
Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
and green, golden tree of life.
997
01:14:11,084 --> 01:14:12,751
That's how it is.
998
01:14:13,918 --> 01:14:16,334
(Muffled murmur of voices)
999
01:14:35,001 --> 01:14:39,043
I salute the learned gentleman.
You made me sweat profusely.
1000
01:14:39,209 --> 01:14:41,834
- What do you call yourself?
- The question seems small to me.
1001
01:14:42,001 --> 01:14:44,418
For one,
who despises the word so much.
1002
01:14:44,584 --> 01:14:48,543
The one, far from all appearances,
only strives in the depth of the being.
1003
01:14:49,501 --> 01:14:53,501
With you, gentlemen, you can
The creature can usually be read from the name.
1004
01:14:53,668 --> 01:14:58,668
Where it is all too clear,
if you are called a liar of the fly god.
1005
01:14:58,918 --> 01:15:02,209
- Who are you, then?
- I am part of that power,
1006
01:15:02,376 --> 01:15:06,084
who always wants evil
and always creates good things.
1007
01:15:06,251 --> 01:15:09,834
- What is meant?
- I am the spirit that always denies.
1008
01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:14,209
Rightly so, because everything that arises
is worth perishing.
1009
01:15:14,376 --> 01:15:16,834
So it would be better
if nothing came about.
1010
01:15:17,001 --> 01:15:22,209
So everything that you sin is,
Destruction, in short, calls evil,
1011
01:15:22,376 --> 01:15:24,876
my actual element.
1012
01:15:26,584 --> 01:15:30,959
Good evening, the Prime Minister
invites you into his box.
1013
01:15:31,793 --> 01:15:33,209
Yes.
1014
01:15:44,251 --> 01:15:46,126
Everything goes like clockwork.
1015
01:16:01,376 --> 01:16:05,668
May I give you my excellent
Introduce colleague Hendrik Höfgen?
1016
01:16:05,834 --> 01:16:07,751
Aha, our Mephistopheles.
1017
01:16:16,793 --> 01:16:18,293
Mmm.
1018
01:16:22,459 --> 01:16:23,959
Congratulations.
1019
01:16:25,543 --> 01:16:29,793
This mask is perfect. She is
evil itself, holy evil.
1020
01:16:30,418 --> 01:16:32,793
Your view is there
so mild up close.
1021
01:16:32,959 --> 01:16:35,876
Your soft handshake
is peculiar to Höfgen.
1022
01:16:36,584 --> 01:16:39,918
But that seems to be the secret
the art of acting.
1023
01:16:40,084 --> 01:16:43,501
to show strength and spirit,
while one is weak.
1024
01:16:45,168 --> 01:16:46,668
Oh well.
1025
01:16:48,084 --> 01:16:50,084
I can imagine
1026
01:16:50,251 --> 01:16:53,793
that you are thorough
prepared for this role.
1027
01:16:54,043 --> 01:16:56,251
With all my life,
Mr. Prime Minister.
1028
01:16:57,043 --> 01:16:58,876
Right, that's the only way it works.
1029
01:16:59,668 --> 01:17:01,959
That is the secret of greatness.
1030
01:17:05,043 --> 01:17:07,459
(Inaudible conversation)
1031
01:17:37,209 --> 01:17:38,834
TOI Toi Toi.
1032
01:17:39,668 --> 01:17:42,001
Keep it up, Mephistopheles.
1033
01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:53,918
(phone rings)
1034
01:17:55,001 --> 01:17:58,168
Here at Höfgen.
(Whispers) Lotte Lindenthal.
1035
01:18:01,709 --> 01:18:03,334
- Hofgen. Yes...
-Hendrik?
1036
01:18:03,501 --> 01:18:05,876
- What are you doing tonight?
- Nothing.
1037
01:18:06,043 --> 01:18:07,584
- Are you coming to us?
- Gladly.
1038
01:18:07,751 --> 01:18:10,376
- There are only a few friends there.
- Very much.
1039
01:18:10,543 --> 01:18:12,293
- At eleven.
- Many thanks.
1040
01:18:12,459 --> 01:18:15,459
- So see you then. Goodbye.
- Thank you very much. Thanks.
1041
01:18:15,626 --> 01:18:17,126
little goat.
1042
01:18:17,293 --> 01:18:20,418
(He sings)
♪ Only a few friends are there
1043
01:18:20,584 --> 01:18:22,751
♪ Only a few friends are there
1044
01:18:22,918 --> 01:18:24,626
Little goat, ah!
1045
01:18:27,043 --> 01:18:30,626
(Coughing) I'm not
an incredible villain?
1046
01:18:30,876 --> 01:18:34,126
A villain, why?
You only succeed.
1047
01:18:34,376 --> 01:18:37,918
To the renewal of German culture,
ladies and gentlemen.
1048
01:18:38,084 --> 01:18:40,709
- Long live the actors.
- (All) Vivat, vivat, vivat!
1049
01:18:46,918 --> 01:18:51,334
Also in our theaters
There are many foreign German elements.
1050
01:18:51,501 --> 01:18:56,001
We need a spiritual customs system
for cultural smugglers.
1051
01:18:56,876 --> 01:19:00,459
So that foreign elements
the German language, literature
1052
01:19:00,626 --> 01:19:04,376
and the German theater
can no longer poison.
1053
01:19:04,543 --> 01:19:07,543
Not only can
be the task of the border guard.
1054
01:19:07,709 --> 01:19:12,001
With this customs system,
cultural workers also participate.
1055
01:19:12,168 --> 01:19:14,668
- Do you understand me?
- Yes, Mr. General.
1056
01:19:15,626 --> 01:19:17,876
There are many who don't understand this.
1057
01:19:19,209 --> 01:19:22,043
Look at the painting,
my favorite work.
1058
01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:25,376
A masterpiece of German Romanticism.
1059
01:19:27,876 --> 01:19:29,876
And where should I come across it?
1060
01:19:30,043 --> 01:19:33,376
In the warehouse of one
art dealer who speaks with an accent.
1061
01:19:33,543 --> 01:19:35,376
I had it restored.
1062
01:19:35,918 --> 01:19:41,376
No, no, the future in painting
does not belong to the Liebermanns.
1063
01:19:42,543 --> 01:19:45,084
But your Mephistopheles
still bothers me.
1064
01:19:45,251 --> 01:19:49,584
Only you got this guy right for me
brought close. A great guy.
1065
01:19:50,334 --> 01:19:52,543
Doesn't stick
something of him in all of us?
1066
01:19:52,709 --> 01:19:54,959
Ah... I mean,
1067
01:19:55,418 --> 01:19:59,293
Is not in every right-wing German
a piece of Mephistopheles hidden?
1068
01:19:59,459 --> 01:20:02,418
Where would we go if only we...
have the Faustian soul?
1069
01:20:02,584 --> 01:20:04,584
This could suit our enemies.
1070
01:20:04,751 --> 01:20:09,751
No, no, their Mephistopheles,
that is also a German national hero.
1071
01:20:10,376 --> 01:20:12,793
You just can't tell people.
1072
01:20:14,834 --> 01:20:16,668
Unfortunately I have to go now.
1073
01:20:16,834 --> 01:20:19,543
Come the day after tomorrow
to my office, 10:30 a.m.
1074
01:20:19,709 --> 01:20:23,751
Foreign journalists come
French, Belgians, English, Americans.
1075
01:20:23,918 --> 01:20:28,126
They want to know a lot. Above all,
what Germany means today.
1076
01:20:28,293 --> 01:20:32,043
And German culture.
I'll tell you that myself.
1077
01:20:32,209 --> 01:20:36,334
Your job is to follow my comments
to complement, about the theater,
1078
01:20:36,501 --> 01:20:39,126
painting, sculpture, architecture.
1079
01:20:39,293 --> 01:20:41,501
They'll have something to write about.
1080
01:20:41,668 --> 01:20:44,793
They should be done by knowledgeable people
be informed.
1081
01:20:48,501 --> 01:20:52,251
Say why did you
such a soft handshake?
1082
01:21:26,834 --> 01:21:29,043
(Muffled murmur)
1083
01:21:38,876 --> 01:21:43,168
Gentlemen, it's really worth it,
think about it.
1084
01:21:48,584 --> 01:21:52,126
Listen, gentlemen,
You live in...
1085
01:22:01,126 --> 01:22:04,918
Good afternoon. Well, that's how you see it
again, how time flies.
1086
01:22:05,084 --> 01:22:08,751
You were wonderful as Mephistopheles.
This time much stronger and harder.
1087
01:22:08,918 --> 01:22:11,043
But I also thought you were very good back then.
1088
01:22:11,209 --> 01:22:15,793
Then I already felt the core of it,
which could now fully unfold.
1089
01:22:15,959 --> 01:22:18,501
I liked them too
with Lotte Lindenthal.
1090
01:22:18,668 --> 01:22:23,751
She is probably the most qualified actress
of the German type of woman.
1091
01:22:23,918 --> 01:22:26,418
Tell me, what have we lost here?
1092
01:22:26,584 --> 01:22:30,543
Why is he wasting time
with foreigners? What is it about?
1093
01:22:31,251 --> 01:22:35,293
He said they care
for German culture.
1094
01:22:35,459 --> 01:22:38,001
You'll probably ask a few questions.
1095
01:22:38,168 --> 01:22:40,626
- I understand, you spoke to him.
- Yes.
1096
01:22:41,626 --> 01:22:43,876
Hello, how are you?
Nice to see you again.
1097
01:22:44,043 --> 01:22:47,876
The Prime Minister
really wanted to talk to me.
1098
01:22:48,043 --> 01:22:50,626
We always have
Problems with the old statues.
1099
01:22:50,793 --> 01:22:53,918
Tear it down or leave it standing?
As if that were important.
1100
01:22:54,084 --> 01:22:56,584
As if our future depends on it.
1101
01:22:56,751 --> 01:23:00,709
I want to make a bust of you.
What kind of person are you?
1102
01:23:00,876 --> 01:23:04,543
Amazing, the difference
from Private and Mephistopheles.
1103
01:23:04,709 --> 01:23:07,626
In private you don't seem diabolical,
rather shy.
1104
01:23:07,793 --> 01:23:11,793
I'll make a bust of you. I know
just not whether made of clay or bronze.
1105
01:23:11,959 --> 01:23:15,543
- What do you think your face is made of?
- Maybe a mix.
1106
01:23:15,793 --> 01:23:21,043
I liked it very much, like you
played Mephistopheles. I only saw you.
1107
01:23:21,209 --> 01:23:23,709
By the way,
I'm preparing an exhibition.
1108
01:23:23,959 --> 01:23:26,834
The general wants to see them first.
Come too.
1109
01:23:27,001 --> 01:23:28,834
- Here's my number.
- Thanks.
1110
01:23:29,084 --> 01:23:33,543
If you happen to have time, call
You come to my studio.
1111
01:23:33,793 --> 01:23:35,876
You relax, I'll model you.
1112
01:23:36,043 --> 01:23:39,793
Strange, your face.
German, and yet always different.
1113
01:23:39,959 --> 01:23:43,876
Mmm, that's acting.
The rest is humility and hard work.
1114
01:23:45,709 --> 01:23:48,334
I have
Your secret discovered, Mephistopheles.
1115
01:23:49,168 --> 01:23:51,834
It is
the element of surprise, right?
1116
01:23:52,418 --> 01:23:54,168
The unexpected.
1117
01:23:55,793 --> 01:24:00,168
I've watched you
appear on the scene: always different.
1118
01:24:00,334 --> 01:24:02,543
Hm?
(He laughs hummingly)
1119
01:24:02,709 --> 01:24:06,459
Sometimes unmotivated quickly, sometimes,
when you expect something completely different,
1120
01:24:06,626 --> 01:24:08,709
too slow, yes, sluggish.
1121
01:24:09,459 --> 01:24:12,376
But always surprising
and unpredictable.
1122
01:24:13,418 --> 01:24:17,584
This awakens you
the feeling of the first experience.
1123
01:24:17,751 --> 01:24:21,751
Even if your text is well known.
This is your secret.
1124
01:24:22,626 --> 01:24:27,709
And the unfamiliar tongue, consciously
stretched pauses, very precise intonation.
1125
01:24:29,834 --> 01:24:31,668
I think I'll learn from you.
1126
01:24:33,043 --> 01:24:36,334
It is important that you never
can be calculated in advance.
1127
01:24:36,501 --> 01:24:41,918
The viewer doesn't need to know
what I do next, where I go.
1128
01:24:42,168 --> 01:24:45,793
- Can't prepare, defend yourself.
- Yes, exactly.
1129
01:24:46,043 --> 01:24:51,251
All that happened was a change in rhythm
or a longer breath.
1130
01:24:51,418 --> 01:24:54,959
General, at the theater
the others play the king.
1131
01:24:55,126 --> 01:24:59,709
But what is crucial is a strict one
Structure for the whole performance.
1132
01:24:59,876 --> 01:25:01,876
The alternation of piano and fortissimo.
1133
01:25:02,043 --> 01:25:06,001
This includes sensitivity,
an art mind
1134
01:25:06,168 --> 01:25:09,793
and, as I like to put it,
a refined culture.
1135
01:25:10,043 --> 01:25:12,751
When I hear "culture",
I cock my revolver.
1136
01:25:12,918 --> 01:25:14,668
Bourgeois nonsense.
1137
01:25:14,834 --> 01:25:19,334
Which the Bolsheviks also parrot,
to recruit lecturers and teachers.
1138
01:25:19,501 --> 01:25:21,834
Not to mention the artists, right?
1139
01:25:23,126 --> 01:25:27,168
I too stayed away from the Bolsheviks
Currents are not untouched.
1140
01:25:27,334 --> 01:25:31,584
I have to admit, I was flirtatious
with the left for a long time.
1141
01:25:32,959 --> 01:25:35,918
Well, everyone can do it
run into something stupid.
1142
01:25:38,251 --> 01:25:42,209
They were just bad, confusing times.
Let's take a sip.
1143
01:25:50,334 --> 01:25:53,334
Mr General,
there are other deserving artists,
1144
01:25:53,501 --> 01:25:55,793
who committed the same follies.
1145
01:25:55,959 --> 01:25:58,709
They atone for sins,
which they generously granted me.
1146
01:25:58,876 --> 01:26:01,001
And that concerns me.
1147
01:26:02,209 --> 01:26:07,168
I pray for a specific person
I could say for a friend.
1148
01:26:07,793 --> 01:26:10,376
I promise he's improved.
1149
01:26:10,543 --> 01:26:12,293
I pray for Otto Ulrichs.
1150
01:26:14,209 --> 01:26:17,293
Otto Ulrichs... Who is that?
1151
01:26:17,459 --> 01:26:20,584
He was head of the communist
Cabaret “The Stormbird”.
1152
01:26:21,709 --> 01:26:23,751
(Thoughtfully) Well.
1153
01:26:25,334 --> 01:26:30,251
- He's probably a pretty bad guy.
- Oh no, he's not a bad guy.
1154
01:26:30,501 --> 01:26:35,043
He may be a bit careless
and thoughtless, but not a bad guy.
1155
01:26:35,209 --> 01:26:37,376
He's even a little too decent:
1156
01:26:37,543 --> 01:26:40,168
When he gives his word, he keeps it.
1157
01:26:58,293 --> 01:27:00,626
Now I can go to the State Theater.
1158
01:27:02,126 --> 01:27:05,834
Do you know what's weird?
That I don't want to believe that.
1159
01:27:07,126 --> 01:27:09,293
How I can't believe it either
1160
01:27:10,584 --> 01:27:13,126
that I'm sitting here at the window with you.
1161
01:27:13,293 --> 01:27:16,584
I know it's reality,
but I don't feel it.
1162
01:27:40,126 --> 01:27:43,126
- Great.
- Gorgeous, really.
1163
01:27:43,293 --> 01:27:45,043
A German work.
1164
01:27:45,209 --> 01:27:48,668
- One that not everyone is capable of.
- Yes.
1165
01:27:49,626 --> 01:27:51,626
It is a courageous work.
1166
01:27:59,376 --> 01:28:01,043
Come on, Mephistopheles.
1167
01:28:03,293 --> 01:28:05,043
Sign too.
1168
01:28:12,418 --> 01:28:15,668
What did I prophesy, dear Leni?
It will be a success.
1169
01:28:15,834 --> 01:28:17,459
Thank you.
1170
01:28:35,001 --> 01:28:37,918
You crooks,
They make secret visits.
1171
01:28:39,459 --> 01:28:40,626
Yes, yes.
1172
01:28:40,876 --> 01:28:45,876
If I add something personal
may: It is a courageous work.
1173
01:28:46,043 --> 01:28:48,376
Brave because it captures our time.
1174
01:28:48,543 --> 01:28:51,334
Because it's through
the beauty of power seeks to work,
1175
01:28:51,501 --> 01:28:54,626
without affectation
and bourgeois snobbery,
1176
01:28:54,793 --> 01:28:59,918
and against the lying, crippled one
Taste of the cultural loudmouths.
1177
01:29:00,084 --> 01:29:04,668
Muscles and profiles are here too
see, here you can see the person,
1178
01:29:04,834 --> 01:29:07,459
how healthy people want to see him:
1179
01:29:07,626 --> 01:29:10,376
Strong, and beautiful in its strength.
1180
01:29:11,001 --> 01:29:14,376
combative,
and victorious in his battle.
1181
01:29:22,543 --> 01:29:27,001
- Hendrik Höfgen, a wonderful speech.
- Nicoletta, are you here?
1182
01:29:27,168 --> 01:29:30,834
- Do you know each other? I didn't know that.
- Oh, very good actually.
1183
01:29:31,001 --> 01:29:32,834
Are you in Berlin? Since when?
1184
01:29:33,001 --> 01:29:36,376
- I came especially to eat with you.
- Uh.
1185
01:29:36,543 --> 01:29:40,001
I haven't seen you for a long time,
but read everything about yourself.
1186
01:29:40,168 --> 01:29:43,709
- So where are we eating tonight?
- (Hesitantly) Wherever you want.
1187
01:29:43,876 --> 01:29:47,376
- How are things in Hamburg? Without me like that?
- Oh, Hamburg.
1188
01:29:47,543 --> 01:29:51,084
I'm in Berlin now,
to eat with you. Hamburg is a thing of the past.
1189
01:29:51,251 --> 01:29:52,834
He is not informed.
1190
01:29:53,001 --> 01:29:55,626
Kroge is in Switzerland.
It's just gone.
1191
01:29:55,793 --> 01:29:59,251
He left everything behind,
Not even Motz said anything.
1192
01:29:59,418 --> 01:30:02,918
- He's just... hush.
- The Kroge is a traitor.
1193
01:30:09,459 --> 01:30:11,751
Why are you performing with them?
do you give speeches?
1194
01:30:11,918 --> 01:30:13,584
I was asked.
1195
01:30:13,751 --> 01:30:16,543
Oh what.
You don't have to go, do you need that?
1196
01:30:16,709 --> 01:30:19,876
That is completely impossible
to say no to that.
1197
01:30:20,043 --> 01:30:24,168
No one in my position would have
done that. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
1198
01:30:24,334 --> 01:30:27,834
The general is a very nice guy.
He knows something about theater.
1199
01:30:28,001 --> 01:30:30,959
And it's not so small-minded
like most others.
1200
01:30:31,126 --> 01:30:33,043
You're a good boy.
1201
01:30:33,501 --> 01:30:35,251
Want to behave well.
1202
01:30:35,418 --> 01:30:37,793
- You want the convenience...
- Yes!
1203
01:30:37,959 --> 01:30:40,668
- Because you're afraid.
- I like to behave well!
1204
01:30:42,668 --> 01:30:45,668
- I like that.
- Then you should behave well.
1205
01:30:45,834 --> 01:30:48,209
It's just that both together become difficult.
1206
01:30:48,376 --> 01:30:50,834
(pointed)
Be with me and behave well?
1207
01:30:55,043 --> 01:30:57,293
Damn nigger, huh?
1208
01:30:58,001 --> 01:31:01,459
I can't help it
I'm different than what you're allowed to be here.
1209
01:31:01,626 --> 01:31:05,918
You can even see that in my face. You can me
spit in the face on the street.
1210
01:31:06,084 --> 01:31:08,876
I can't change it,
not even if I wanted to.
1211
01:31:09,043 --> 01:31:12,126
Hair, nose, everything stays the same,
even if I want something else,
1212
01:31:12,293 --> 01:31:14,959
if I'm ashamed of it,
and I am German.
1213
01:31:15,126 --> 01:31:18,126
A German Negro woman,
that is my native language.
1214
01:31:18,293 --> 01:31:21,376
What should I do then?
Where should I go then?
1215
01:31:21,626 --> 01:31:24,918
I don't know that.
I don't even know what will become of me.
1216
01:31:26,251 --> 01:31:28,168
You only think about yourself.
1217
01:31:28,543 --> 01:31:30,918
And I idiot dream,
that we have a child.
1218
01:31:31,084 --> 01:31:33,751
- A little girl...
- Well, that's still missing.
1219
01:31:33,918 --> 01:31:35,459
How come?
1220
01:31:35,626 --> 01:31:38,043
What can a child do?
to live in a time
1221
01:31:38,209 --> 01:31:40,334
since it
hinders his father's career?
1222
01:31:40,501 --> 01:31:42,334
(Sharp) It's enough now.
1223
01:31:42,959 --> 01:31:44,626
Now it's enough!
1224
01:31:44,793 --> 01:31:46,709
"It's enough now."
1225
01:31:46,876 --> 01:31:49,918
Oh, enough.
I can understand that very well,
1226
01:31:50,084 --> 01:31:53,418
why it's your wife
next to you couldn't stand it.
1227
01:31:55,626 --> 01:31:58,543
Here,
I took a picture of you.
1228
01:31:58,709 --> 01:32:01,918
Look. Do you recognize yourself?
again at all?
1229
01:32:02,168 --> 01:32:03,918
Evening, I need to talk to you.
1230
01:32:04,084 --> 01:32:07,293
You want to tell me openly
what else do you say behind the scenes?
1231
01:32:07,459 --> 01:32:10,543
- What do you mean?
- “Höfgen is a priority.”
1232
01:32:10,709 --> 01:32:12,876
And more like that.
Don't you say that?
1233
01:32:13,043 --> 01:32:15,668
I don't deny
that I don't like you.
1234
01:32:16,376 --> 01:32:19,418
- What do you want?
- Please sign this.
1235
01:32:19,584 --> 01:32:23,584
My signature, like that, for what?
Would you like a raise?
1236
01:32:23,751 --> 01:32:25,793
Or collect signatures,
1237
01:32:25,959 --> 01:32:29,918
because the fire regulations
seem insecure to you?
1238
01:32:30,168 --> 01:32:33,126
No, in terms of morality
some things seem uncertain,
1239
01:32:33,293 --> 01:32:37,668
if you're already talking about security,
and not just in the theater.
1240
01:32:39,168 --> 01:32:40,876
What are you protesting against?
1241
01:32:41,043 --> 01:32:44,376
Against a leadership,
that ignores our rights.
1242
01:32:45,959 --> 01:32:47,918
You're in the NSDAP.
1243
01:32:48,084 --> 01:32:51,376
- You were already there in Hamburg.
- I'm leaving the party.
1244
01:32:53,293 --> 01:32:55,043
That's your business.
1245
01:32:55,209 --> 01:32:58,001
I ask you,
read our protest letter,
1246
01:32:58,168 --> 01:33:00,001
and sign it.
1247
01:33:01,209 --> 01:33:03,876
you are,
regardless of my own opinion,
1248
01:33:04,043 --> 01:33:06,626
today
the leading actor in Germany.
1249
01:33:08,084 --> 01:33:11,418
I'll tell you what,
I won't even read that stuff.
1250
01:33:12,459 --> 01:33:16,501
Be careful yourself
and not bring others into harm.
1251
01:33:17,043 --> 01:33:19,168
Miklas, go to hell.
1252
01:33:24,709 --> 01:33:27,834
From you bastard
I won't let myself be provoked.
1253
01:33:34,459 --> 01:33:36,376
(He groans loudly)
1254
01:33:42,001 --> 01:33:43,834
(He sighs)
1255
01:33:45,418 --> 01:33:46,959
My God.
1256
01:33:49,584 --> 01:33:52,126
My congratulations, dear Höfgen.
1257
01:33:52,751 --> 01:33:55,418
Yes, there are elements
that can only be demonized.
1258
01:33:55,584 --> 01:33:57,459
They express themselves precisely.
1259
01:33:57,626 --> 01:34:00,793
As a soldier I would have to promote you.
So I'm just happy.
1260
01:34:02,334 --> 01:34:05,918
It just occurs to me
that you have nothing to fear.
1261
01:34:06,084 --> 01:34:09,793
I looked at your horoscope with passion,
old pilot habit.
1262
01:34:09,959 --> 01:34:12,626
So,
Your horoscope only has the best.
1263
01:34:13,501 --> 01:34:16,334
- All the best, Hofgen.
- Thank you very much.
1264
01:34:16,501 --> 01:34:18,501
(click on line)
1265
01:34:23,168 --> 01:34:25,251
What's happening?
Morning.
1266
01:34:26,251 --> 01:34:28,001
Morning.
Good morning
1267
01:34:29,793 --> 01:34:31,334
Good morning
1268
01:34:54,334 --> 01:34:56,168
Come on, go for a walk.
1269
01:35:11,626 --> 01:35:13,751
(multiple clicks)
1270
01:35:21,251 --> 01:35:23,293
(shots are fired)
1271
01:35:43,709 --> 01:35:45,459
It's terrible, such a young boy.
1272
01:35:48,168 --> 01:35:50,334
I never had
special sympathy for him.
1273
01:35:50,501 --> 01:35:53,709
There was something disturbing about him,
don't you think?
1274
01:35:56,751 --> 01:35:58,376
Worrying?
1275
01:36:12,126 --> 01:36:14,709
That definitely wasn't a traffic accident.
1276
01:36:19,043 --> 01:36:21,959
He was with the letter of protest
Surely with you too?
1277
01:36:22,126 --> 01:36:24,084
Yes, have you gone crazy?
1278
01:36:24,918 --> 01:36:27,334
How can you talk such nonsense?
1279
01:36:27,501 --> 01:36:31,084
Why shouldn't it have been an accident?
as advertised?
1280
01:36:31,251 --> 01:36:34,543
As if the government needs this,
a little actor
1281
01:36:34,709 --> 01:36:37,918
by a fake accident
to bring it around the corner?
1282
01:36:38,959 --> 01:36:41,626
We are
in not a bad play.
1283
01:36:42,543 --> 01:36:46,084
You shouldn't do it in heavy traffic
walk across the street.
1284
01:36:53,751 --> 01:36:55,501
I have big plans for you.
1285
01:36:55,668 --> 01:36:59,043
We are among ourselves,
say no and remain an actor.
1286
01:36:59,751 --> 01:37:03,751
But then you can't do so much
do for the cause as you could.
1287
01:37:05,626 --> 01:37:09,293
Your opening speech was very nice,
They are not just actors.
1288
01:37:10,668 --> 01:37:12,709
You've said the main thing.
1289
01:37:12,876 --> 01:37:16,834
You need a self-biography
write and submit it to me.
1290
01:37:17,584 --> 01:37:19,876
And as soon as possible.
1291
01:37:20,959 --> 01:37:22,459
Höfgen.
1292
01:37:23,293 --> 01:37:26,126
You intend
in the Prussian State Theater.
1293
01:37:26,293 --> 01:37:30,209
That's easy: always a full house
in the Prussian State Theater,
1294
01:37:30,376 --> 01:37:33,751
and the German audience
should be enthusiastic about you.
1295
01:37:34,293 --> 01:37:35,334
Do you understand?
1296
01:37:37,459 --> 01:37:39,209
It is not necessary
1297
01:37:40,293 --> 01:37:42,834
on the things in Hamburg
to go into more detail.
1298
01:37:43,834 --> 01:37:45,709
It is also not necessary
1299
01:37:46,709 --> 01:37:48,668
to mention the revolutionary theater.
1300
01:37:48,834 --> 01:37:51,418
Just mentioning
some of your roles there.
1301
01:37:54,043 --> 01:37:55,168
Well...
1302
01:37:57,793 --> 01:37:59,834
What did you imagine
1303
01:38:00,459 --> 01:38:02,126
there in Hamburg?
1304
01:38:03,501 --> 01:38:05,584
How did it occur to you?
1305
01:38:06,959 --> 01:38:08,626
As a German.
1306
01:38:09,084 --> 01:38:13,376
For Russian Bolshevism
to agitate. Incredible.
1307
01:38:14,793 --> 01:38:17,334
- Where is your wife?
- In Paris, as far as I know.
1308
01:38:17,584 --> 01:38:22,168
Exactly not. She lives in Amsterdam and
is quite active against her fatherland.
1309
01:38:22,334 --> 01:38:24,293
They make a newspaper there.
1310
01:38:27,793 --> 01:38:30,084
You don't correspond either?
1311
01:38:30,876 --> 01:38:34,001
We...
have no contact with each other.
1312
01:38:34,251 --> 01:38:37,793
Divorce won't be difficult,
I'll take care of that.
1313
01:38:39,293 --> 01:38:42,043
German citizens,
who left Germany.
1314
01:38:42,293 --> 01:38:46,709
They couldn't exterminate us,
so they signed their death warrant.
1315
01:38:46,876 --> 01:38:50,251
Where weakness dies,
humanity will become healthy.
1316
01:38:50,418 --> 01:38:53,584
Politics, like the theater,
is like a fight.
1317
01:38:53,751 --> 01:38:58,001
Like every reconstruction
is the beginning of a new war.
1318
01:38:58,418 --> 01:38:59,626
Yes.
1319
01:39:00,959 --> 01:39:02,793
But now it's not about that.
1320
01:39:03,043 --> 01:39:06,001
(Drawn) Ah, Hamburg.
1321
01:39:06,876 --> 01:39:10,501
(He sings)
♪ In a port city on...
1322
01:39:12,334 --> 01:39:15,501
There are many foreigners there,
Night bars, pubs.
1323
01:39:15,668 --> 01:39:17,668
I understand you completely.
1324
01:39:19,209 --> 01:39:21,459
But what's going on in the imperial capital...
1325
01:39:21,626 --> 01:39:24,084
I don't want to offend you,
we are men.
1326
01:39:24,251 --> 01:39:27,001
How does the Hamburg souvenir come about?
to Berlin?
1327
01:39:27,918 --> 01:39:29,959
Juliette Martens.
1328
01:39:31,584 --> 01:39:33,584
Can you tolerate it?
1329
01:39:38,251 --> 01:39:42,251
You have a good feeling for once
said in a society,
1330
01:39:42,418 --> 01:39:45,459
Professor Bruckner
don't be a man of the future.
1331
01:39:46,459 --> 01:39:50,168
With an even better feeling
you separated from his daughter.
1332
01:39:51,209 --> 01:39:55,293
If you have such a good feeling
for a pure way of looking at things,
1333
01:39:56,001 --> 01:39:58,834
then how come?
this Negro woman to Berlin?
1334
01:40:01,626 --> 01:40:03,209
Well, she's there.
1335
01:40:05,459 --> 01:40:07,209
This is racial shame.
1336
01:40:08,126 --> 01:40:10,584
I advise you,
not even keeping her picture.
1337
01:40:10,834 --> 01:40:13,876
- Mr. General...
- Wait, I'm not finished.
1338
01:40:15,418 --> 01:40:19,334
I hope
You completely understood me.
1339
01:40:22,334 --> 01:40:23,918
- Yes.
- So?
1340
01:40:25,209 --> 01:40:28,168
- Nothing should happen to her.
- Leave that to me.
1341
01:40:30,168 --> 01:40:33,376
I would like to ask you,
Mr Prime Minister,
1342
01:40:33,543 --> 01:40:36,918
that they are unscathed
can leave Germany.
1343
01:40:37,084 --> 01:40:41,001
We both understand each other,
you get them to the border and goodbye.
1344
01:40:41,168 --> 01:40:44,209
Forget
this part of our conversation.
1345
01:40:44,668 --> 01:40:46,834
At the time
hold a press conference.
1346
01:40:47,001 --> 01:40:49,918
Topic: general information
to theater life.
1347
01:40:50,168 --> 01:40:53,209
The repertoire,
the plans and your ideas.
1348
01:40:53,543 --> 01:40:55,168
In October
1349
01:40:55,584 --> 01:40:59,084
we have in our embassy in Paris
a cultural demonstration.
1350
01:40:59,251 --> 01:41:01,418
I'd like you to go.
1351
01:41:09,001 --> 01:41:10,418
(Quietly) Böck.
1352
01:41:11,001 --> 01:41:12,834
They probably know about him too.
1353
01:41:13,001 --> 01:41:14,251
Buck?
1354
01:41:14,418 --> 01:41:15,626
Buck!
1355
01:41:16,251 --> 01:41:17,751
My notebook.
1356
01:41:19,751 --> 01:41:21,501
(Quietly) Böck stays.
1357
01:41:23,876 --> 01:41:26,793
- Here it is.
- (Angrily) Yes, give it to me.
1358
01:41:29,043 --> 01:41:31,001
I have to call friends now.
1359
01:41:31,168 --> 01:41:33,543
I urgently need a friend...
1360
01:41:33,709 --> 01:41:36,459
- There, find me a friend.
- Who then?
1361
01:41:36,626 --> 01:41:38,501
You have so many friends.
1362
01:41:40,459 --> 01:41:41,959
Friends...
1363
01:41:53,876 --> 01:41:56,084
Miss von Niebuhr,
Nicoletta von Niebuhr.
1364
01:41:56,251 --> 01:41:58,543
Find her number and call.
1365
01:42:07,418 --> 01:42:09,334
Should I make coffee or tea?
1366
01:42:09,584 --> 01:42:12,543
Should I become artistic director, yes or no?
1367
01:42:13,668 --> 01:42:17,418
Can I do it?
Can I do it? Do I have to?
1368
01:42:17,959 --> 01:42:21,459
Is it my duty?
Can I make myself useful somehow?
1369
01:42:21,626 --> 01:42:26,084
Can I help someone?
And if so, should I help someone?
1370
01:42:26,251 --> 01:42:30,209
(Snorts) Or should I
as a new role?
1371
01:42:30,376 --> 01:42:32,126
Should I emigrate to America?
1372
01:42:32,293 --> 01:42:36,043
I can make so much money too
like Dora Martin in the film.
1373
01:42:36,501 --> 01:42:40,501
If I accept such an office,
with this government, then...
1374
01:42:44,001 --> 01:42:45,751
Do I even want that?
1375
01:42:47,793 --> 01:42:49,543
You need me.
1376
01:42:50,959 --> 01:42:52,959
I was almost an emigrant,
1377
01:42:53,126 --> 01:42:57,709
and now the general asks me
to save his theaters from bankruptcy.
1378
01:42:57,959 --> 01:43:00,793
Tomorrow morning
I have to give him an answer.
1379
01:43:02,209 --> 01:43:03,959
Heaven has...
1380
01:43:04,126 --> 01:43:06,793
obviously big plans for me.
1381
01:43:07,043 --> 01:43:08,709
Then you have won.
1382
01:43:10,918 --> 01:43:12,668
Would you help me?
1383
01:43:14,293 --> 01:43:16,376
I would be proud of you.
1384
01:43:19,668 --> 01:43:22,084
Yes, I will help you, Hendrik.
1385
01:43:36,918 --> 01:43:38,668
You would have to live forever.
1386
01:43:48,876 --> 01:43:50,876
Here is the passport
with a France visa.
1387
01:43:51,043 --> 01:43:53,376
You have five minutes to pack.
1388
01:43:53,543 --> 01:43:57,209
- Yes, but why?
- We are waiting for you, hurry up.
1389
01:44:08,376 --> 01:44:11,209
For the salary increase
don't thank me.
1390
01:44:11,376 --> 01:44:14,834
I made this a condition
when I took over this position.
1391
01:44:15,084 --> 01:44:16,751
Everything full of dust.
1392
01:44:17,459 --> 01:44:21,918
Aren't you like that in the statistics department?
carefully as in other rooms,
1393
01:44:22,084 --> 01:44:23,876
then I have to see the ladies
1394
01:44:24,043 --> 01:44:27,376
unfortunately from the Prussian State Theater
ask out.
1395
01:44:27,626 --> 01:44:30,251
I hope
We continue to get along well together.
1396
01:44:30,418 --> 01:44:32,959
If you have any problems,
come to me.
1397
01:44:33,126 --> 01:44:36,084
I want you
would love to invite you for coffee.
1398
01:44:36,251 --> 01:44:40,209
(Stuck)
Uh, can I give you the money for that?
1399
01:44:40,376 --> 01:44:42,959
Unfortunately I can't be there.
1400
01:44:43,209 --> 01:44:45,793
Mr. Intendant,
Joachim would like to speak to you.
1401
01:44:46,043 --> 01:44:47,626
Yes, should come in.
1402
01:44:48,043 --> 01:44:49,793
Stop, Hannelore.
1403
01:44:55,251 --> 01:44:57,584
Well, now he can come.
1404
01:44:58,209 --> 01:45:01,168
Please consider
which roles are suitable for me.
1405
01:45:01,334 --> 01:45:04,876
I can talk to you,
you are not like other directors.
1406
01:45:05,043 --> 01:45:08,043
You are an actor yourself,
understand one.
1407
01:45:09,168 --> 01:45:12,334
(He thinks) I have to pretend
as if he was saying something important.
1408
01:45:14,001 --> 01:45:18,209
You have to talk to actors like that,
that they feel comfortable. With me too.
1409
01:45:18,459 --> 01:45:20,793
(Nagging)
Oh no, I don't like premieres.
1410
01:45:20,959 --> 01:45:25,626
You have to smile and be friendly.
You are one frozen smile.
1411
01:45:26,501 --> 01:45:28,334
(Concerned) I hate this.
1412
01:45:29,709 --> 01:45:32,209
You think that's nice, yes?
But not me!
1413
01:45:32,376 --> 01:45:34,126
But I don't think it's nice at all!
1414
01:45:35,043 --> 01:45:36,876
- Morning, Mr. Kappelmüller.
- Morning.
1415
01:45:37,043 --> 01:45:39,668
- How are you and your family?
- Good.
1416
01:45:39,834 --> 01:45:42,834
- Your daughter has the master's examination?
- Yes, thanks.
1417
01:45:43,001 --> 01:45:44,418
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
1418
01:45:44,668 --> 01:45:46,501
Good morning
(He sighs)
1419
01:45:47,418 --> 01:45:49,126
Well, don't you notice anything?
1420
01:45:49,293 --> 01:45:52,043
New suit,
new shoes, new director.
1421
01:45:52,209 --> 01:45:54,001
No? Oh.
1422
01:45:54,251 --> 01:45:59,459
"...to note, ex-Bolshevik Höfgen,
as director of the State Theater,
1423
01:45:59,626 --> 01:46:04,459
in his production of Hamlet
allows former comrades to appear."
1424
01:46:10,209 --> 01:46:12,209
- Hannelore?
- Yes?
1425
01:46:12,376 --> 01:46:16,001
- Is the cast list already out?
- No, not yet.
1426
01:46:16,459 --> 01:46:19,251
Yes, good.
Let's wait two more days.
1427
01:46:19,959 --> 01:46:21,168
Thanks.
1428
01:46:26,418 --> 01:46:29,584
I have to offer more
than the old party comrades.
1429
01:46:29,834 --> 01:46:32,834
You have to have contacts
Maintain relationships.
1430
01:46:33,001 --> 01:46:34,918
That is the essence of the system.
1431
01:46:35,168 --> 01:46:39,251
(With Bavarian dialect) Yesterday
I was in the Prussian State Theater.
1432
01:46:39,418 --> 01:46:42,376
Then I saw a piece
that was called Faust.
1433
01:46:42,543 --> 01:46:46,001
Punch and Judy was called Mephisto.
Complete nonsense.
1434
01:46:46,168 --> 01:46:50,668
A certain Höfgen played it,
what a name, that was terrible.
1435
01:46:50,834 --> 01:46:54,543
I'd rather go there
Bavarian Folk Theater, see you then.
1436
01:46:55,126 --> 01:46:57,543
Why am I doing all this?
1437
01:46:58,459 --> 01:47:00,459
(Sighing) Because I enjoy it.
1438
01:47:00,709 --> 01:47:03,293
I have to me
enjoy amateurish pieces,
1439
01:47:03,459 --> 01:47:06,168
and hire actors,
because they are blonde.
1440
01:47:06,334 --> 01:47:08,584
Most of the time they are completely untalented.
1441
01:47:08,751 --> 01:47:11,251
In Frankfurt,
1442
01:47:11,418 --> 01:47:13,876
after applause for Marquis Posas
"Give freedom of thought",
1443
01:47:14,043 --> 01:47:17,376
the performance canceled.
What do you say to that?
1444
01:47:17,543 --> 01:47:22,001
Then in Munich “The Robbers”. Schiller,
a national poet, incredible.
1445
01:47:22,168 --> 01:47:24,418
We should
list German authors.
1446
01:47:24,584 --> 01:47:27,126
I'm constantly being asked to do this.
But who?
1447
01:47:27,293 --> 01:47:29,668
The really good authors
have emigrated.
1448
01:47:29,834 --> 01:47:33,834
And those who are still there
are not allowed or want to write anymore.
1449
01:47:34,001 --> 01:47:39,043
It's unbelievable what you can find here
can still do for theater at all.
1450
01:47:39,626 --> 01:47:43,209
But maybe I'll dig
a few old antics?
1451
01:47:43,376 --> 01:47:46,834
rococo wig,
white the face, then...
1452
01:47:49,834 --> 01:47:51,543
But the best thing is:
1453
01:47:51,709 --> 01:47:56,459
For the government, it's Shakespeare
now a ethnic author.
1454
01:47:56,626 --> 01:48:01,168
Let's play "As You Like It."
The displaced people are returning.
1455
01:48:01,334 --> 01:48:05,043
This is how we show the opponents of the dictatorship
the will to liberation is alive.
1456
01:48:05,209 --> 01:48:09,418
I didn't hear that, Otto.
I can't have heard that at all.
1457
01:48:16,084 --> 01:48:18,501
I'm not
an incredible villain?
1458
01:48:20,251 --> 01:48:22,834
Isn't it a huge mess?
what am I doing here?
1459
01:48:28,793 --> 01:48:32,584
"...Prince and Nicklich,
both in the theater association...
1460
01:48:32,751 --> 01:48:37,251
...ethnic perspectives
please initiate her dismissal."
1461
01:48:38,668 --> 01:48:40,543
- Good morning, Mr. Intendant.
- Good morning.
1462
01:48:40,709 --> 01:48:42,668
- Morning.
- Good morning.
1463
01:48:42,834 --> 01:48:45,251
- Well, how are you?
- Good.
1464
01:48:46,043 --> 01:48:47,543
Good morning
1465
01:48:48,209 --> 01:48:49,876
- And you?
- Thank you, Mr. Intendant.
1466
01:48:50,043 --> 01:48:52,334
- Don't let them bother you.
- Goodbye.
1467
01:48:52,584 --> 01:48:56,334
“The stagehands in question
Prince and Nicklich...
1468
01:48:57,209 --> 01:49:00,251
(keystrokes)
are irreplaceable for us,
1469
01:49:02,251 --> 01:49:05,876
and their absence could
the smooth running of the theater
1470
01:49:06,584 --> 01:49:08,084
endanger."
1471
01:49:08,751 --> 01:49:11,793
Period.
Date, greeting, signature.
1472
01:50:17,959 --> 01:50:19,959
(Upbeat music)
1473
01:50:27,084 --> 01:50:29,084
(music continues)
1474
01:50:44,376 --> 01:50:46,376
(music fades away)
1475
01:50:59,668 --> 01:51:03,376
Did you bring me something?
At least a leather coat?
1476
01:51:04,293 --> 01:51:07,126
- Leather coat?
- There are a lot of them in Germany.
1477
01:51:07,293 --> 01:51:10,043
who took me to the border,
also wore one.
1478
01:51:10,209 --> 01:51:12,168
This is the new men's fashion.
1479
01:51:17,418 --> 01:51:19,251
Your eyes are so dead.
1480
01:51:19,834 --> 01:51:21,584
How are you looking?
1481
01:51:22,001 --> 01:51:24,418
- Empty?
- No, blunt.
1482
01:51:24,876 --> 01:51:27,293
That's how I feel too
for a few days.
1483
01:51:27,459 --> 01:51:29,876
You see.
And you were never like that.
1484
01:51:31,668 --> 01:51:33,418
- I've been thinking about you.
- Yes?
1485
01:51:33,584 --> 01:51:36,209
I guess I have to be very grateful to you, huh?
1486
01:51:36,376 --> 01:51:40,543
Without you I would probably already be in a concentration camp,
if I were even still alive.
1487
01:51:42,418 --> 01:51:44,001
You know, Hendrik,
1488
01:51:44,168 --> 01:51:46,668
if you
If you still feel comfortable with me, stay here.
1489
01:51:46,834 --> 01:51:50,501
I'll take care of you. You don't need
out of the room for a while.
1490
01:51:50,668 --> 01:51:53,668
Then we'll find something
you are talented after all.
1491
01:51:54,418 --> 01:51:57,251
- I could have gone to America.
- You see.
1492
01:51:58,084 --> 01:52:00,751
I think I was really talented.
1493
01:52:01,501 --> 01:52:03,334
But also terribly cowardly.
1494
01:52:04,043 --> 01:52:08,584
And what should I do somewhere else?
Extra, stagehand, technician?
1495
01:52:10,001 --> 01:52:13,959
Do you believe that these hands
were born to do hard work?
1496
01:52:14,126 --> 01:52:16,626
I'll take care of you.
So what do you want?
1497
01:52:18,168 --> 01:52:21,918
- (Whispering) Success.
- Hendrik Höfgen, imagine.
1498
01:52:22,084 --> 01:52:23,834
You were mine.
1499
01:52:24,376 --> 01:52:25,793
- Hmm?
- Hmm.
1500
01:52:26,459 --> 01:52:28,043
- Juliette?
- Hmm?
1501
01:52:28,459 --> 01:52:30,084
I have to go now.
1502
01:52:31,918 --> 01:52:35,084
- Do I still see you?
- I don't know. I have to go to the hotel.
1503
01:52:35,251 --> 01:52:37,293
- Can I take you to the train?
- No.
1504
01:52:37,751 --> 01:52:40,459
That wouldn't be good.
You don't fit the picture.
1505
01:52:43,293 --> 01:52:46,834
Okay, let's leave the train station.
Do everything the way you want.
1506
01:52:47,709 --> 01:52:49,459
I do.
1507
01:52:51,168 --> 01:52:52,834
I'm here.
1508
01:52:55,543 --> 01:52:56,626
-Juliet.
- Hmm?
1509
01:52:56,793 --> 01:52:59,584
Don't write to me anymore.
This is not good.
1510
01:53:43,584 --> 01:53:46,001
Very few people
are here in the coffee house.
1511
01:53:49,043 --> 01:53:52,543
- Don't you want to sit in the sun?
- No.
1512
01:53:52,709 --> 01:53:55,959
Although lately I have
had very little sun.
1513
01:53:58,918 --> 01:54:01,043
- May I ask you something?
- Mmm.
1514
01:54:01,209 --> 01:54:04,459
- Do you still live alone?
- No, I have friends.
1515
01:54:04,626 --> 01:54:06,126
And you?
1516
01:54:06,626 --> 01:54:08,626
Friends? In these times?
1517
01:54:09,293 --> 01:54:10,709
Difficult.
1518
01:54:11,668 --> 01:54:14,584
How can you live in Berlin?
You know, don't you?
1519
01:54:14,751 --> 01:54:18,501
- Look what's happening. Why?
- Barbara... I live in the theater.
1520
01:54:18,668 --> 01:54:20,668
- But that's in Berlin.
- Yes.
1521
01:54:20,834 --> 01:54:24,668
But I believe you can
Don't judge it that way from Paris.
1522
01:54:28,334 --> 01:54:31,043
You're not just an actor anymore,
after the oath.
1523
01:54:31,209 --> 01:54:33,043
You're director now, huh?
1524
01:54:33,293 --> 01:54:36,126
No vow,
I just moved my lips.
1525
01:54:36,293 --> 01:54:39,751
Someone has to save the values
into a better world.
1526
01:54:39,918 --> 01:54:41,751
I'm going to play Hamlet.
1527
01:54:41,918 --> 01:54:45,959
It doesn't matter whether it's Shakespeare
the power likes it or not.
1528
01:54:46,209 --> 01:54:48,626
Shakespeare is for them
just a piece of jewelry.
1529
01:54:48,793 --> 01:54:52,584
This is what you infect yourself with and brag about:
"We have that too, we're not like that."
1530
01:54:52,751 --> 01:54:56,459
- You can't stay there.
- I have a family in Berlin.
1531
01:54:56,626 --> 01:54:59,501
I am married to the theater.
You know that.
1532
01:54:59,668 --> 01:55:02,251
I can help people
who are doing badly.
1533
01:55:02,418 --> 01:55:05,959
And if I go away...
Nothing better comes along.
1534
01:55:06,584 --> 01:55:08,084
Phrases.
1535
01:55:08,626 --> 01:55:10,584
It's always the same with you.
1536
01:55:10,751 --> 01:55:14,126
Your way of deceiving yourself
still works.
1537
01:55:15,084 --> 01:55:17,418
It doesn't matter how many you save.
1538
01:55:17,584 --> 01:55:21,043
This is just a friendly gesture
towards friends.
1539
01:55:21,209 --> 01:55:25,709
You legalize these people. From that
You can never clear yourself of the accusation.
1540
01:55:25,959 --> 01:55:29,751
We can't choose where we
be born. Time comes to us.
1541
01:55:29,918 --> 01:55:31,834
The people cannot emigrate.
1542
01:55:32,001 --> 01:55:34,584
As an actor, I have to live there
1543
01:55:34,751 --> 01:55:37,293
so that I her
can watch and play.
1544
01:55:37,459 --> 01:55:41,918
I am there, live there. I can tell it
there are also decent people among them.
1545
01:55:42,084 --> 01:55:45,668
What I've always hated
are these “coffee house geniuses”.
1546
01:55:45,834 --> 01:55:49,001
That's exactly how I hate it
these coffeehouse resisters.
1547
01:55:49,168 --> 01:55:53,626
The valuable, the art, the theater,
ignores everything at all times.
1548
01:55:53,793 --> 01:55:57,043
That is my unwavering belief.
And that's true too.
1549
01:55:57,293 --> 01:56:00,084
Why did you want you
meet with me?
1550
01:56:00,251 --> 01:56:03,668
Well... I know that
actually not anymore.
1551
01:56:07,584 --> 01:56:10,418
That could even be the case
become dangerous for you.
1552
01:56:13,668 --> 01:56:15,418
Tell me, Barbara,
1553
01:56:15,584 --> 01:56:17,334
do you actually have me...
1554
01:56:18,834 --> 01:56:20,584
ever loved?
1555
01:56:23,418 --> 01:56:25,376
Why do you think I came here today?
1556
01:56:25,543 --> 01:56:27,959
If you had listened
wouldn't you ask
1557
01:56:28,126 --> 01:56:30,126
or do you not understand that either?
1558
01:56:31,334 --> 01:56:33,668
- You agree with everything?
- Thank you very much.
1559
01:56:33,834 --> 01:56:36,834
You have to,
otherwise you wouldn't live there.
1560
01:56:37,084 --> 01:56:39,584
Tell me, what does freedom mean to you?
1561
01:56:39,751 --> 01:56:41,668
Do you even need them to live?
1562
01:56:41,834 --> 01:56:44,168
Or do you just need love and success?
1563
01:56:44,418 --> 01:56:48,126
Success is enough for me
That means that many people love me.
1564
01:56:48,293 --> 01:56:50,668
And the anger of the envious is good.
1565
01:56:51,293 --> 01:56:55,751
Barbara, you're not allowed to see me
blame for your powerlessness.
1566
01:56:55,918 --> 01:56:58,751
- Mr. Höfgen.
- Mr. Davidson, what a surprise.
1567
01:57:00,001 --> 01:57:02,459
(English) This is for that,
what is happening in Germany.
1568
01:57:02,626 --> 01:57:04,376
Madam, excuse me.
1569
01:57:14,376 --> 01:57:17,209
Pay.
Er, l'addition, s'il vous plait.
1570
01:57:18,209 --> 01:57:19,959
Did I come too early?
1571
01:57:20,959 --> 01:57:22,626
Farewell, Barbara.
1572
01:57:25,001 --> 01:57:26,751
Can I pay that?
1573
01:57:28,543 --> 01:57:30,376
(He snorts slightly)
1574
01:57:44,918 --> 01:57:46,751
What can I do here?
1575
01:57:59,168 --> 01:58:00,668
Freedom.
1576
01:58:02,084 --> 01:58:03,584
For what reason?
1577
01:58:16,251 --> 01:58:18,251
(tango music plays)
1578
01:58:42,876 --> 01:58:44,876
(music continues)
1579
01:59:24,459 --> 01:59:25,918
Oberon and Titania.
1580
01:59:31,709 --> 01:59:33,376
I welcome...
1581
01:59:34,709 --> 01:59:38,209
I welcome our beautiful,
enchanting for all of us
1582
01:59:38,376 --> 01:59:41,251
and truly a German wedding couple.
1583
01:59:41,418 --> 01:59:45,001
Two young people,
but still mature people,
1584
01:59:45,168 --> 01:59:49,459
of the purest race and noblest blood,
who have often enchanted us,
1585
01:59:49,626 --> 01:59:53,168
and to the best of our ability
serve our new society.
1586
01:59:53,334 --> 01:59:55,084
They live high.
1587
02:00:01,126 --> 02:00:02,876
Yes, dear doctor, thank you very much.
1588
02:00:03,043 --> 02:00:05,459
- All the best.
- Many thanks. Please.
1589
02:00:06,543 --> 02:00:09,584
- Marietta, I'm so happy.
- I wish you all the best.
1590
02:00:09,751 --> 02:00:11,501
- Thanks.
- Really nice of you.
1591
02:00:11,668 --> 02:00:14,209
Mr General,
Glad you're here too.
1592
02:00:14,834 --> 02:00:18,959
You can say whatever you want. There is
nothing more beautiful than the Grunewald.
1593
02:00:19,209 --> 02:00:21,126
I'm glad you're both here.
1594
02:00:21,293 --> 02:00:23,168
(music ends)
1595
02:00:23,334 --> 02:00:26,376
I am and remain
German artist and patriot,
1596
02:00:26,543 --> 02:00:28,876
whoever rules in the fatherland.
1597
02:00:29,043 --> 02:00:32,334
Nowhere in the world
I would like it like it does here in Grunewald.
1598
02:00:32,501 --> 02:00:35,584
And where would one
get such good old German beer?
1599
02:00:35,751 --> 02:00:38,334
Caesar, nice to have you here.
1600
02:00:38,501 --> 02:00:40,501
- Sic itur ad astra.
- Hmm.
1601
02:00:41,209 --> 02:00:45,876
In this villa you can
yes, hold home rehearsals, dear Hendrik.
1602
02:00:47,793 --> 02:00:52,084
We were proud of you,
as you spoke in Paris.
1603
02:00:52,251 --> 02:00:56,668
Just like you
answered all questions.
1604
02:00:56,834 --> 02:00:58,376
Like you...
1605
02:00:58,543 --> 02:01:02,626
have said quite openly and honestly,
like it is with us. I...
1606
02:01:02,793 --> 02:01:04,793
(music starts again)
1607
02:01:52,501 --> 02:01:54,501
(engines sound)
1608
02:01:58,418 --> 02:02:00,418
(engines fall silent)
1609
02:02:05,834 --> 02:02:07,834
(Music continues playing)
1610
02:02:14,001 --> 02:02:15,918
Keep dancing, keep dancing.
1611
02:02:17,584 --> 02:02:19,084
Good evening.
1612
02:02:20,251 --> 02:02:22,251
Oh, that's a surprise.
1613
02:02:22,918 --> 02:02:24,668
I won't say no to that.
1614
02:02:31,334 --> 02:02:33,168
(He moans with pleasure)
1615
02:02:35,918 --> 02:02:38,793
- I congratulate my Mephistopheles.
- Thank you very much.
1616
02:02:38,959 --> 02:02:42,334
With the words
of our old Admiral Tirpitz:
1617
02:02:42,501 --> 02:02:45,501
"Target recognized, strength harnessed."
I am very excited.
1618
02:02:46,251 --> 02:02:49,209
- To your Hamlet, my Mephistopheles.
- Me too.
1619
02:02:49,376 --> 02:02:53,459
By the way, did your interview
in Paris made a very good impression on everyone.
1620
02:02:53,626 --> 02:02:55,293
- Yes.
- Hmm.
1621
02:02:55,459 --> 02:02:58,543
My love.
My congratulations, my congratulations.
1622
02:02:58,709 --> 02:03:01,293
And lots of healthy German boys.
1623
02:03:01,459 --> 02:03:02,959
Thanks.
1624
02:03:05,918 --> 02:03:07,501
Madam.
1625
02:03:09,043 --> 02:03:10,626
(He hums to himself)
1626
02:03:11,668 --> 02:03:14,459
Nice.
(Grumbling contentedly) Hmm, nice.
1627
02:03:14,918 --> 02:03:16,376
Aha.
1628
02:03:16,543 --> 02:03:20,293
(drawn) So...
Yes, yes.
1629
02:03:20,459 --> 02:03:22,876
(Laughing) I might like that. Yes.
1630
02:03:34,376 --> 02:03:36,126
(Mumbling) Very nice.
1631
02:03:37,043 --> 02:03:38,543
Very nice.
1632
02:03:41,126 --> 02:03:42,876
Thank you very much, madam.
1633
02:03:45,709 --> 02:03:47,334
Cheers.
1634
02:03:50,251 --> 02:03:52,793
We have
no hours, just work.
1635
02:03:53,668 --> 02:03:55,584
Unfortunately I have to go now.
1636
02:04:00,834 --> 02:04:02,834
Be happy together,
1637
02:04:03,751 --> 02:04:05,001
Hamlet.
1638
02:04:27,001 --> 02:04:29,001
(music starts)
1639
02:04:41,543 --> 02:04:44,543
(Car doors slam, engines start)
1640
02:04:49,168 --> 02:04:51,168
(Music gets upbeat)
1641
02:04:54,876 --> 02:04:58,293
♪ In the Grunewald
There is a wood auction in the Grunewald
1642
02:04:58,459 --> 02:05:01,001
♪ It's a wood auction, it's a wood auction
1643
02:05:01,626 --> 02:05:04,793
♪ In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald
Is wood auction
1644
02:05:04,959 --> 02:05:07,918
♪ Is a wood auction
Is auction
1645
02:05:08,376 --> 02:05:11,668
♪ Right around the corner
Left around the corner
1646
02:05:11,834 --> 02:05:14,709
♪ In the middle, there is a wood auction
1647
02:05:15,168 --> 02:05:18,459
♪ Right around the corner
Left around the corner
1648
02:05:18,626 --> 02:05:21,418
♪ In the middle, there is a wood auction
1649
02:05:21,584 --> 02:05:25,126
♪ In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald
Is wood auction
1650
02:05:25,293 --> 02:05:28,209
♪ It's a wood auction, it's a wood auction
1651
02:05:28,376 --> 02:05:31,584
♪ In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald
Is wood auction
1652
02:05:32,043 --> 02:05:35,084
♪ It's a wood auction, it's an auction
1653
02:05:41,959 --> 02:05:45,251
♪ The whole fathom of wood
It costs a thaler
1654
02:05:45,418 --> 02:05:48,626
♪ a thaler, a thaler
1655
02:05:48,793 --> 02:05:52,001
♪ The whole fathom of wood
It costs a thaler
1656
02:05:52,168 --> 02:05:55,459
♪ a thaler
It only costs a thaler
1657
02:05:55,626 --> 02:05:58,834
♪ Yes, folks
The whole fathom costs a thaler today
1658
02:05:59,001 --> 02:06:02,209
♪ a thaler, a thaler
1659
02:06:02,376 --> 02:06:05,584
♪ The whole fathom of wood
It costs a thaler
1660
02:06:05,751 --> 02:06:09,043
♪ a thaler
It only costs a thaler
1661
02:06:10,876 --> 02:06:14,834
Do you know, Nicoletta, what I
I've been thinking about it a lot lately?
1662
02:06:15,001 --> 02:06:17,251
Do we actually deserve all of this?
1663
02:06:17,418 --> 02:06:21,001
If I judge myself harshly,
I have to say, yes.
1664
02:06:21,168 --> 02:06:26,001
Who else if not us, we
who represent individuality and art,
1665
02:06:26,168 --> 02:06:29,001
shouldn't and doesn't have to
be able to overcome it,
1666
02:06:29,168 --> 02:06:30,959
what is happening in the world.
1667
02:06:31,126 --> 02:06:33,751
We are an example and...
1668
02:06:33,918 --> 02:06:35,751
the encouragers for the others.
1669
02:06:35,918 --> 02:06:38,626
indifferent,
what dirt is in the world.
1670
02:06:38,793 --> 02:06:43,168
The true art, the artistic,
always remains pure and true.
1671
02:06:43,334 --> 02:06:46,293
No,
I'm married to the theater.
1672
02:06:47,418 --> 02:06:49,293
You too.
1673
02:06:49,543 --> 02:06:52,793
I wanted Otto Ulrichs
announce the salary increase,
1674
02:06:52,959 --> 02:06:55,918
and have it signed,
but I can't reach him.
1675
02:06:56,084 --> 02:06:59,084
I sent a messenger
and a neighbor told him
1676
02:06:59,251 --> 02:07:02,626
that two men
picked him up two days ago.
1677
02:07:14,709 --> 02:07:17,043
Call the Prime Minister.
1678
02:07:17,501 --> 02:07:19,293
And connect me to him.
1679
02:07:20,751 --> 02:07:25,501
If he isn't there yet, ask for one
an appointment immediately upon his return.
1680
02:07:27,418 --> 02:07:29,168
- Hello?
- Give it here.
1681
02:07:30,584 --> 02:07:32,084
Höfgen.
1682
02:07:33,251 --> 02:07:37,376
Yes, I would like to go with that
Mr Prime Minister speak.
1683
02:07:49,168 --> 02:07:50,668
- Good day.
- Good day.
1684
02:07:50,834 --> 02:07:52,501
Please come.
1685
02:07:54,793 --> 02:07:56,293
Good day.
1686
02:07:57,709 --> 02:08:00,876
- (Drawn) Well, what's wrong?
- Excellence?
1687
02:08:01,126 --> 02:08:04,626
You helped me the other day
because of a colleague.
1688
02:08:06,293 --> 02:08:08,751
Now I have to see you
ask for it again.
1689
02:08:10,001 --> 02:08:11,668
It's about:
1690
02:08:12,459 --> 02:08:14,043
Otto Ulrichs
1691
02:08:14,584 --> 02:08:16,334
is a few days ago
1692
02:08:17,584 --> 02:08:20,001
picked up from his apartment.
1693
02:08:21,126 --> 02:08:24,501
- Is that why you came to me?
- Yes, Your Excellency.
1694
02:08:25,084 --> 02:08:27,376
I'm tired of you, Höfgen, go.
1695
02:08:27,543 --> 02:08:31,043
You have nothing to do with this,
You are not competent.
1696
02:08:31,209 --> 02:08:34,334
Better leave
stay away from this thing.
1697
02:08:34,501 --> 02:08:37,668
I give you some advice:
Don't interfere in everything.
1698
02:08:37,834 --> 02:08:41,043
You'd be better off
to take care of your things,
1699
02:08:41,209 --> 02:08:44,209
so that you don't
to be crushed like a beetle.
1700
02:08:44,668 --> 02:08:46,543
Do you think you are someone?
1701
02:08:47,418 --> 02:08:49,418
Ulrich's was
involved in dirty affairs.
1702
02:08:49,584 --> 02:08:54,376
The director of my state theater
A traitor shouldn't matter.
1703
02:08:54,876 --> 02:08:56,209
Go.
1704
02:08:56,459 --> 02:08:58,209
They should go.
1705
02:08:58,793 --> 02:09:00,959
Get out, actors!
1706
02:09:46,376 --> 02:09:50,043
I know what me and the whole theater
have the general to thank.
1707
02:09:50,209 --> 02:09:53,751
I also know that we do
largely thanks to you.
1708
02:09:54,001 --> 02:09:58,459
That's why I dare to ask you,
to intervene on behalf of Otto Ulrichs.
1709
02:09:58,626 --> 02:10:02,834
- I'm very worried about him.
- Why worry? He's dead after all.
1710
02:10:03,459 --> 02:10:05,209
Don't you even know that?
1711
02:10:05,376 --> 02:10:08,209
As far as I know,
he committed suicide.
1712
02:10:11,084 --> 02:10:12,668
Suicide.
1713
02:10:15,084 --> 02:10:17,168
But he knew what he was risking.
1714
02:10:17,334 --> 02:10:19,501
I think he's more to be envied.
1715
02:11:01,501 --> 02:11:03,251
The Prince of Denmark
1716
02:11:03,834 --> 02:11:06,959
renounces rank, youth and love.
1717
02:11:07,126 --> 02:11:09,084
He is the savior of the North.
1718
02:11:09,251 --> 02:11:12,626
The lone knight with
lofty ideas in the heart and will.
1719
02:11:12,793 --> 02:11:15,084
With the idea of purity
for blood and race.
1720
02:11:15,251 --> 02:11:17,001
Hamlet is also complicated.
1721
02:11:17,168 --> 02:11:19,584
He is a big and simple person.
1722
02:11:19,751 --> 02:11:23,543
Even at the risk
to repeat myself in such a short time,
1723
02:11:23,709 --> 02:11:26,168
he is a Nordic person:
He kills.
1724
02:11:26,334 --> 02:11:30,418
And in his
also self-destructive battle...
1725
02:11:32,001 --> 02:11:33,918
he shows us the way into the future.
1726
02:11:34,084 --> 02:11:35,834
He commands us to live pure life.
1727
02:11:36,001 --> 02:11:39,334
This is his testament to us.
So he's not a weakling.
1728
02:11:39,501 --> 02:11:42,501
Entire generations of actors
made the mistake
1729
02:11:42,668 --> 02:11:45,126
him as a neurasthenic,
oedipal confused head,
1730
02:11:45,293 --> 02:11:48,126
revolutionary,
portrayed as a decadent type.
1731
02:11:48,293 --> 02:11:51,084
I do not believe that.
Hamlet is a hard man.
1732
02:11:51,251 --> 02:11:53,543
It's not just my opinion,
that you him
1733
02:11:53,709 --> 02:11:57,459
as an energetic, consistent person
will get to know.
1734
02:11:57,709 --> 02:12:00,293
Hamlet is a danger
for the German people.
1735
02:12:00,459 --> 02:12:03,793
We all have rumination within us
and have to overcome it.
1736
02:12:03,959 --> 02:12:06,793
Because actions are required
not just thoughts,
1737
02:12:06,959 --> 02:12:09,751
and certainly none
decomposing reflection.
1738
02:12:09,918 --> 02:12:12,251
Hamlet is the tragic struggle
1739
02:12:12,418 --> 02:12:15,084
between doing and not doing.
1740
02:12:15,501 --> 02:12:17,876
Between hesitation, pondering
1741
02:12:18,334 --> 02:12:19,834
and action.
1742
02:12:20,459 --> 02:12:23,668
We, the carriers
of the Germanic cultural will,
1743
02:12:23,834 --> 02:12:27,084
know,
what we have to understand from this.
1744
02:12:27,334 --> 02:12:29,459
Hamlet is a folkish work.
1745
02:12:29,626 --> 02:12:33,293
It is neither religious,
aristocratic or bourgeois,
1746
02:12:33,459 --> 02:12:35,918
but folkish
like Greek tragedies.
1747
02:12:36,084 --> 02:12:38,126
That's why we create the barrier
1748
02:12:38,293 --> 02:12:41,501
between audience and actor.
1749
02:12:41,668 --> 02:12:45,501
The space, the light,
the movements, the sounds are everything.
1750
02:12:45,668 --> 02:12:47,418
Also the viewer himself.
1751
02:12:47,584 --> 02:12:50,876
Everything merges
to a great collective effect.
1752
02:12:51,043 --> 02:12:53,709
We have to make a total fuss.
1753
02:12:54,251 --> 02:12:56,251
A theater that shocks
1754
02:12:57,001 --> 02:12:58,668
and mobilized.
1755
02:12:58,834 --> 02:13:00,834
(applause sounds)
1756
02:13:02,459 --> 02:13:04,459
(applause continues)
1757
02:13:48,376 --> 02:13:50,584
(upbeat music)
1758
02:14:06,584 --> 02:14:10,459
The theater equipment for tonight
is said to have cost 60,000 marks.
1759
02:14:10,626 --> 02:14:13,668
And that's why it has to
remain closed for five days.
1760
02:14:13,834 --> 02:14:15,668
- Nice birthday party.
- Yes.
1761
02:14:15,834 --> 02:14:17,751
- That you have to go along with it...
- Yes.
1762
02:14:17,918 --> 02:14:19,709
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
1763
02:14:23,084 --> 02:14:25,084
(Waltz music sounds loud)
1764
02:14:52,209 --> 02:14:54,168
Good evening, dear gentlemen.
1765
02:14:56,834 --> 02:14:58,501
- Good evening.
- Evening.
1766
02:15:00,418 --> 02:15:02,251
Good evening, Mr. Intendant.
1767
02:15:08,501 --> 02:15:10,751
So magnificent
people only celebrate in Berlin.
1768
02:15:10,918 --> 02:15:11,959
Good evening.
1769
02:15:12,209 --> 02:15:13,876
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
1770
02:15:14,126 --> 02:15:17,043
Very kind.
Oh, good evening, Colonel.
1771
02:15:17,209 --> 02:15:19,626
(Quiet murmur of voices)
1772
02:15:30,793 --> 02:15:33,626
Dearest Bella,
We didn't see each other for ages.
1773
02:15:33,793 --> 02:15:36,334
Are you okay?
No homesickness for Ulm?
1774
02:15:36,501 --> 02:15:39,459
Why do I ask
You're doing fantastic here.
1775
02:15:39,626 --> 02:15:41,834
Is your big son doing well too?
1776
02:15:45,168 --> 02:15:46,668
Good evening.
1777
02:15:47,293 --> 02:15:49,126
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
1778
02:15:51,334 --> 02:15:53,584
- How are you, dear Höfgen?
- Excellent.
1779
02:15:53,751 --> 02:15:56,543
- What's the mood like?
- People seem to be having fun.
1780
02:15:56,709 --> 02:15:59,209
- Congratulations on your Hamlet, fantastic.
- Thanks.
1781
02:15:59,376 --> 02:16:01,126
The boss was completely blown away.
1782
02:16:01,293 --> 02:16:05,084
It went up after the premiere
a reception and spoke only of you.
1783
02:16:05,251 --> 02:16:08,876
It was all about the theater and you.
You really are to be envied.
1784
02:16:09,043 --> 02:16:12,293
With success, that's just how it is.
Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't.
1785
02:16:12,459 --> 02:16:16,876
No, dear Höfgen, you give
something to people, you create something.
1786
02:16:17,043 --> 02:16:18,793
Yes, believe me.
1787
02:16:20,959 --> 02:16:22,626
Here they come.
1788
02:16:25,293 --> 02:16:27,501
(Solemn music begins)
1789
02:16:47,126 --> 02:16:49,126
(cheers)
1790
02:17:49,168 --> 02:17:51,168
(music ends)
1791
02:17:53,084 --> 02:17:54,751
So, how are you, Mephistopheles?
1792
02:17:54,918 --> 02:17:56,584
Very good, Your Excellency.
1793
02:17:57,876 --> 02:18:01,251
I didn't even tell you
how beautiful your Hamlet is.
1794
02:18:01,418 --> 02:18:04,668
I'm glad, thank you.
I have to say a few words.
1795
02:18:05,459 --> 02:18:07,293
Mr Prime Minister,
1796
02:18:07,876 --> 02:18:09,501
madam,
1797
02:18:09,668 --> 02:18:11,334
ladies and gentlemen.
1798
02:18:12,043 --> 02:18:13,709
We are proud.
1799
02:18:14,209 --> 02:18:16,501
Yes, we are proud and happy
this festival
1800
02:18:16,668 --> 02:18:19,418
in this house
to celebrate with you today.
1801
02:18:19,668 --> 02:18:24,001
If I have been given the honor,
to greet you on behalf of all,
1802
02:18:24,168 --> 02:18:27,334
Allow me to say greetings
to the statesman and soldier,
1803
02:18:27,501 --> 02:18:32,376
a greeting to the friend and generous
To send patrons of art ahead.
1804
02:18:33,418 --> 02:18:37,084
Whom we revere as a model,
love as a friend,
1805
02:18:37,334 --> 02:18:39,001
and follow as gentlemen.
1806
02:18:39,168 --> 02:18:43,209
Art is without its sponsors
a bird with paralyzed wings.
1807
02:18:43,459 --> 02:18:46,959
And as the poet says,
"May the gods protect you,
1808
02:18:47,126 --> 02:18:50,126
and for your goals
the heart of Rome beats."
1809
02:18:52,043 --> 02:18:54,043
(waltz music plays)
1810
02:18:58,334 --> 02:19:01,001
The Prime Minister
would like to speak to you.
1811
02:19:01,168 --> 02:19:04,001
He's waiting for you outside in the car.
I'll accompany you.
1812
02:19:04,168 --> 02:19:05,751
You alone.
1813
02:19:09,293 --> 02:19:12,626
Nicoletta will take you home.
I hurry up.
1814
02:19:18,834 --> 02:19:20,834
(engine is idling)
1815
02:20:01,418 --> 02:20:03,418
(Quiet wind howling)
1816
02:20:08,918 --> 02:20:12,334
Well, Mephistopheles?
What kind of force is looking at you here?
1817
02:20:12,834 --> 02:20:14,584
Do you feel this power?
1818
02:20:15,334 --> 02:20:17,376
This is the theater.
1819
02:20:17,543 --> 02:20:21,334
Look at this arena,
it will be finished soon. Wonderful, isn't it?
1820
02:20:22,001 --> 02:20:24,959
Here I would
stage a performance.
1821
02:20:25,459 --> 02:20:28,334
Don't blink,
look history in the eye.
1822
02:20:28,501 --> 02:20:30,334
What an echo.
1823
02:20:32,251 --> 02:20:35,251
Hendrik Höfgen!
(His voice echoes)
1824
02:20:37,918 --> 02:20:42,751
We rule over Europe, the world.
We are creating a thousand-year kingdom.
1825
02:20:42,918 --> 02:20:45,793
Hendrik Höfgen!
(echo sounds)
1826
02:20:47,084 --> 02:20:50,793
(Draws) Hendrik Höfgen!
(echo sounds)
1827
02:20:54,876 --> 02:20:56,459
Go.
1828
02:20:56,626 --> 02:20:58,043
Go!
1829
02:21:01,126 --> 02:21:02,626
In the middle.
1830
02:21:03,876 --> 02:21:06,168
(Screams) Hendrik!
(echo sounds)
1831
02:21:08,418 --> 02:21:10,793
Höfgen!
(echo sounds)
1832
02:21:20,876 --> 02:21:23,876
Well, Höfgen,
what is it like to be in that light?
1833
02:21:25,084 --> 02:21:27,251
That's the right light, isn't it?
1834
02:21:28,376 --> 02:21:30,376
(wind howls loudly)
1835
02:22:01,543 --> 02:22:03,334
What do they want from me?
1836
02:22:03,501 --> 02:22:05,168
What do they want?
1837
02:22:05,668 --> 02:22:07,668
I'm just an actor.
1838
02:22:18,918 --> 02:22:21,126
(Muffled drum beats)
1839
02:22:21,293 --> 02:22:23,293
(Upbeat music starts)
1840
02:24:04,959 --> 02:24:08,501
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Subtitles: J. Wiese, M. Urgesi