1 00:00:09,343 --> 00:00:12,131 This film was restored in 2016 from the original negative 2 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:13,962 with funding from the CNC. 3 00:00:14,181 --> 00:00:16,423 Image restoration by Eclair, sound by L.E. Diapason. 4 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:57,634 THE SACRIFICE 5 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:37,378 Come here and give me a hand, boy! 6 00:03:42,347 --> 00:03:45,385 Once upon a time, long ago 7 00:03:46,977 --> 00:03:52,018 an old monk lived in an Orthodox monastery. 8 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:54,898 His name was Pamve. 9 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:59,320 And once he planted a barren tree on a mountainside 10 00:03:59,781 --> 00:04:01,443 just like this. 11 00:04:02,868 --> 00:04:04,985 Then he told his young pupil, 12 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:09,365 a monk named Ioann Kolov, 13 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:15,250 that he should water the tree each day until it came to life. 14 00:04:17,007 --> 00:04:19,294 Put a few stones there, will you? 15 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:22,877 Anyway, early every morning 16 00:04:23,388 --> 00:04:26,597 Ioann filled a dipper with water and went out. 17 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:33,187 He climbed up the mountain and watered the withered tree 18 00:04:34,024 --> 00:04:37,483 and in the evening when darkness had fallen 19 00:04:38,570 --> 00:04:41,438 he returned to the monastery. 20 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:43,613 He did this for three years. 21 00:04:44,493 --> 00:04:46,359 And one fine day, 22 00:04:47,454 --> 00:04:49,741 he climbed up the mountain and saw 23 00:04:49,956 --> 00:04:54,371 that the whole tree was covered with blossoms! 24 00:04:56,213 --> 00:05:01,880 Say what you will, but a method, a system, has its virtues. 25 00:05:03,887 --> 00:05:10,134 You know, sometimes I say to myself, 26 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,433 if every single day, 27 00:05:14,648 --> 00:05:17,106 at exactly the same stroke of the clock, 28 00:05:18,193 --> 00:05:20,606 one were to perform the same single act, 29 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,312 like a ritual, 30 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:28,528 unchanging, systematic, every day at the same time, 31 00:05:28,745 --> 00:05:30,702 the world would be changed. 32 00:05:31,623 --> 00:05:35,207 Yes, something would change. It would have to. 33 00:05:35,877 --> 00:05:40,212 One could wake up in the morning, let's say, 34 00:05:40,423 --> 00:05:42,585 get up at exactly seven, 35 00:05:44,386 --> 00:05:46,252 go to the bathroom, 36 00:05:46,721 --> 00:05:50,135 pour a glass of water from the tap, 37 00:05:51,226 --> 00:05:53,639 and flush it down the toilet. Only that! 38 00:05:53,854 --> 00:05:56,141 I'll be hard to get rid of today! 39 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:57,437 Beautiful, eh? 40 00:05:57,983 --> 00:05:59,940 Like Japanese Ikebana. 41 00:06:00,151 --> 00:06:05,772 I will come to your house to wish you well on your birthday. 42 00:06:05,991 --> 00:06:07,948 I am very honored by the invitation! 43 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:10,617 Here's the last of it. 44 00:06:11,913 --> 00:06:13,370 The post office is closed. 45 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,410 Anyone who turns up now will just have to wait till tomorrow. 46 00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:21,792 - Here! - I don't have my glasses. Please read it. 47 00:06:24,175 --> 00:06:27,964 "Happy Birthday, dear friend STOP. 48 00:06:28,179 --> 00:06:35,768 Mighty Richard greets good Prince Myshkin STOP. 49 00:06:36,605 --> 00:06:39,894 God grant you joy, health and peace STOP. 50 00:06:40,108 --> 00:06:43,067 From your loyal and loving 51 00:06:43,278 --> 00:06:47,192 Richardians and Idiotists STOP." 52 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:50,866 Oh, how touching! 53 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:53,361 A joke. 54 00:06:54,748 --> 00:06:56,785 Friends, and their jokes! 55 00:06:57,292 --> 00:06:59,784 "Idiotists..." That's not half bad. 56 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:05,798 "God grant you joy..." Say, how is your relationship to God? 57 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:08,501 Non-existent, I'm afraid. What do you mean? 58 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,304 It could be worse. 59 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:17,556 Here you are... 60 00:07:17,771 --> 00:07:19,888 a famous journalist, 61 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:25,773 a theatrical and literary critic, 62 00:07:25,987 --> 00:07:32,279 who lectures on aesthetics for students at the university. 63 00:07:33,161 --> 00:07:35,949 Hey, your lasso! Run and fetch it! 64 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:37,496 And essays... 65 00:07:38,792 --> 00:07:40,579 you write them too. 66 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:44,586 But you're so gloomy! 67 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:47,541 What's that supposed to mean, "gloomy"? 68 00:07:48,259 --> 00:07:51,502 Well, you shouldn't grieve so much. 69 00:07:53,348 --> 00:07:56,182 You shouldn't yearn so for something. 70 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,644 You shouldn't be waiting like that. That's important. 71 00:08:00,855 --> 00:08:02,812 One shouldn't be waiting for something. 72 00:08:03,024 --> 00:08:06,517 "Shouldn't be waiting"? Who says I'm waiting for anything? 73 00:08:08,571 --> 00:08:10,654 We all are... 74 00:08:12,242 --> 00:08:13,858 waiting for something! 75 00:08:16,830 --> 00:08:18,913 Take me, for example. 76 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:26,042 All my life I've been going around waiting for something. 77 00:08:27,924 --> 00:08:30,917 All my life, in fact, I've felt as if... 78 00:08:31,928 --> 00:08:34,636 as if I were waiting in a railway station. 79 00:08:35,849 --> 00:08:38,512 And I've always felt as if... 80 00:08:38,727 --> 00:08:41,891 as if the living I've done, so far, hasn't actually been real life 81 00:08:42,105 --> 00:08:45,940 but a long wait for it... 82 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:49,770 a long wait for something real, 83 00:08:52,115 --> 00:08:54,072 something important! What about you? 84 00:08:54,284 --> 00:08:56,367 Yes, if that's what you mean. 85 00:08:57,495 --> 00:09:02,286 I just never knew you were interested in that kind of problem. 86 00:09:02,876 --> 00:09:04,242 But I am! 87 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:07,207 I most certainly am! Unfortunately. 88 00:09:07,839 --> 00:09:11,332 Sometimes I get the most peculiar notions. 89 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:13,213 Yes, I mean it. 90 00:09:13,762 --> 00:09:17,051 Like that dwarf, for example. 91 00:09:17,265 --> 00:09:21,509 That notorious dwarf! 92 00:09:21,728 --> 00:09:23,264 What dwarf? 93 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,393 Look here, you've managed to muddle me up completely! 94 00:09:27,108 --> 00:09:31,398 Oh, you know who I mean. That hunchback! 95 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:33,730 Eh? The one Nietzsche mentioned. 96 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:36,736 The one who made Zarathustra faint. 97 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:39,284 Faint? What are you talking about? 98 00:09:39,788 --> 00:09:42,576 I say, do you know Nietzsche? 99 00:09:42,791 --> 00:09:44,783 No, not personally. 100 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:49,954 I haven't really studied him all that carefully. 101 00:09:52,509 --> 00:09:53,875 However... 102 00:09:55,220 --> 00:09:58,429 he interests me, I can't deny it. 103 00:09:58,640 --> 00:09:59,596 So? 104 00:09:59,808 --> 00:10:05,020 Sometimes I get silly things in my head, things like this "eternal recurrence." 105 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:09,265 We live, we have our ups and downs. 106 00:10:10,026 --> 00:10:11,688 We hope. 107 00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:14,854 We wait for something. 108 00:10:15,782 --> 00:10:19,241 We hope, we lose hope, we move closer to death. 109 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,489 Finally, we die 110 00:10:22,872 --> 00:10:26,536 and are born again. But we remember nothing. 111 00:10:27,752 --> 00:10:31,712 And everything begins again, from scratch. 112 00:10:35,176 --> 00:10:38,920 Not literally the same way, 113 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:41,381 just a wee, wee bit different. 114 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:44,638 But it's still so hopeless 115 00:10:45,895 --> 00:10:48,012 and we don't know why. 116 00:10:50,316 --> 00:10:51,773 Yes... 117 00:10:52,527 --> 00:10:53,984 No, I mean. 118 00:10:54,863 --> 00:10:57,230 Really, it's quite the same, 119 00:10:58,241 --> 00:11:01,029 literally, the same. 120 00:11:01,786 --> 00:11:05,575 Just the next performance, so to speak. 121 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:11,327 If I'd made it all, I guess I'd have done things the same way. 122 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:14,379 Funny, eh? 123 00:11:14,591 --> 00:11:16,833 But I've heard all that, it's nothing new. 124 00:11:17,051 --> 00:11:18,883 You didn't invent it! 125 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:24,807 Do you really think that mankind could devise a universal concept, 126 00:11:25,018 --> 00:11:27,476 a model, so to speak, 127 00:11:27,687 --> 00:11:31,476 of Absolute Law, of Absolute Truth? 128 00:11:32,192 --> 00:11:35,685 Why, it'd be like trying to create a new universe! 129 00:11:35,904 --> 00:11:37,770 To be a demiurge! 130 00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:42,984 And you actually believe in your dwarf, do you? In your "recurrence"? 131 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,406 Yes... 132 00:11:46,956 --> 00:11:48,948 Sometimes I do... 133 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:52,581 You understand? 134 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:55,253 If I truly believe, 135 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:58,665 it will be so. 136 00:11:59,969 --> 00:12:02,803 "Believe that it hath been given 137 00:12:04,098 --> 00:12:07,011 and it shall be given unto you." 138 00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:14,189 But now I think I'll head home. It's late, I must think of a gift. 139 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,392 You needn't do that. 140 00:12:32,502 --> 00:12:36,621 This is a very important day! 141 00:12:37,507 --> 00:12:39,965 You'll be buried in telegrams! 142 00:12:45,682 --> 00:12:46,672 What? 143 00:12:46,891 --> 00:12:48,632 What are you mumbling about? 144 00:12:49,185 --> 00:12:51,848 In the beginning was the Word. 145 00:12:52,897 --> 00:12:56,106 But you are mute, mute as a fish. 146 00:12:56,317 --> 00:12:58,104 A little smelt. 147 00:13:01,739 --> 00:13:05,278 Look here, my boy, we've lost our way. 148 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:09,112 Humanity is also on the wrong road, a dangerous road. 149 00:13:09,831 --> 00:13:14,166 So, up you go! Dear, how heavy you are. 150 00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:17,920 The first impression that Man had... 151 00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:21,295 How has he been lately? All right? 152 00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:22,966 Yes. 153 00:13:23,177 --> 00:13:26,045 In what way? He works a lot. 154 00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:31,342 I don't like his monologues. 155 00:13:33,688 --> 00:13:35,145 Alexander! 156 00:13:35,857 --> 00:13:38,144 Doctor! Wait, we'll come to you. 157 00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:41,272 You're not equipped for a jaunt through Africa. 158 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:44,362 It's quite a job, you know. 159 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:47,032 - Hello. - Hello! Welcome. 160 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:49,701 - Many happy returns. - Thanks, thanks. 161 00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:51,528 And you, young man, how are you? 162 00:13:52,707 --> 00:13:54,994 Isn't it hard to keep silent? 163 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:58,248 I can well imagine. But it's good for you. 164 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,748 Sociability is a burden. 165 00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:03,548 Not all of us can bear it. 166 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,628 - My brave boy. - Why "my"? He's "ours," after all. 167 00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:11,056 He gargles and goes to bed by himself. 168 00:14:11,267 --> 00:14:13,008 Gargles? That's nothing! 169 00:14:14,354 --> 00:14:18,724 Think how well he behaved during the operation. 170 00:14:20,109 --> 00:14:22,226 He's got the makings of a real man! 171 00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:24,232 Open wide, now. 172 00:14:26,282 --> 00:14:30,367 It looks fine. Keep that up and you'll be talking in a week. 173 00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:33,488 By the way, did you know 174 00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:37,700 that Gandhi had one day in the week when he spoke to no one? 175 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:40,415 - It was his system. - Why? 176 00:14:41,798 --> 00:14:43,881 He was probably tired of people. 177 00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:45,583 Shall we walk here? 178 00:14:45,802 --> 00:14:47,794 You've deserted your patients. 179 00:14:48,012 --> 00:14:49,298 And what elegance! 180 00:14:49,514 --> 00:14:53,303 On a day like this, one has to live up to expectations. 181 00:14:53,518 --> 00:14:56,226 Your present's in the trunk. 182 00:14:56,437 --> 00:14:58,394 Still more presents! 183 00:14:59,107 --> 00:15:02,817 - It's time we went home. - Yes, all of us. 184 00:15:03,027 --> 00:15:07,146 But why don't you two take the car? We'll follow on foot. 185 00:15:07,365 --> 00:15:09,903 We must finish our chat. Right, my boy? 186 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:12,572 Please don't be too late. 187 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:14,823 All right, little man? 188 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:17,122 Everything's almost ready. 189 00:15:20,962 --> 00:15:24,501 Have I told you how your mother and I found this place? 190 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:29,468 We came here on a trip once. You weren't even thought of then. 191 00:15:30,346 --> 00:15:32,588 It was the first time we were here. 192 00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:35,929 We had no map with us, we forgot to bring one. 193 00:15:37,353 --> 00:15:39,595 Besides, we'd run out of gas. 194 00:15:40,898 --> 00:15:45,484 We stopped somewhere near here, then we kept going on foot. 195 00:15:46,112 --> 00:15:47,819 Frankly, we were lost. 196 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:53,318 Then it started raining, a cold, ugly drizzle. 197 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,830 We came to that bend over there, by that dry old pine tree 198 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,202 and just then, the sun came out. 199 00:16:01,252 --> 00:16:03,209 It stopped raining. 200 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:07,039 The light was dazzling! Then we saw the house. 201 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:10,714 Suddenly I was sad that I didn't... 202 00:16:10,928 --> 00:16:13,511 I mean, that we didn't live there 203 00:16:13,723 --> 00:16:17,307 in that house under the pines, so close to the sea. 204 00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:19,973 How beautiful it was! 205 00:16:21,230 --> 00:16:25,144 I knew that if I lived there, I'd be happy until I died. 206 00:16:25,359 --> 00:16:27,351 Hmm? What's wrong? 207 00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:30,529 Don't be afraid. There is no such thing as death. 208 00:16:31,157 --> 00:16:34,525 No, there's the fear of death, and that is an awful fear. 209 00:16:35,036 --> 00:16:38,120 Sometimes it even makes people do things they shouldn't. 210 00:16:38,873 --> 00:16:41,240 But how different things would be 211 00:16:42,210 --> 00:16:44,577 if only we could stop fearing death! 212 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:51,129 Huh? Oh, I was talking about something else... Ah, yes. 213 00:16:51,344 --> 00:16:56,305 As I was saying, we were enchanted as we took in the beauty of it. 214 00:16:57,517 --> 00:16:59,554 We couldn't tear ourselves away. 215 00:17:00,436 --> 00:17:02,393 The peace, the stillness... 216 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:05,180 And... 217 00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:11,316 it was plain that this house was meant just for us. 218 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:15,775 It turned out to be for sale, too. What a miracle! 219 00:17:16,786 --> 00:17:19,028 And you were born in this house. 220 00:17:20,373 --> 00:17:21,659 Do you like it? 221 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:26,668 Do you like your house? Eh, my boy? 222 00:17:30,258 --> 00:17:33,171 Man has defended himself, always 223 00:17:33,386 --> 00:17:36,504 against other men, against nature. 224 00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:38,930 He has constantly violated nature. 225 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:44,853 The result is a civilization built on force, power, fear, dependence. 226 00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:47,522 All our "technical progress" 227 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:53,104 has only provided us with comfort, a sort of standard. 228 00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:57,649 And instruments of violence for keeping power. 229 00:17:57,868 --> 00:17:59,734 We are like savages! 230 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:03,743 We use the microscope like a cudgel! 231 00:18:05,543 --> 00:18:07,705 No, that's wrong... 232 00:18:08,713 --> 00:18:11,046 savages are more spiritual than we! 233 00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:14,796 As soon as we make a scientific breakthrough 234 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,133 we put it to use in the service of evil. 235 00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:23,263 And as for standard, some wise man once said that sin 236 00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:25,514 is that which is unnecessary. 237 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:29,272 If that is so, then our entire civilization 238 00:18:29,483 --> 00:18:32,692 is built on sin, from beginning to end. 239 00:18:34,196 --> 00:18:37,860 We have acquired a dreadful disharmony, 240 00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:40,070 an imbalance, if you will, 241 00:18:40,286 --> 00:18:43,529 between our material and our spiritual development. 242 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:48,166 Our culture is defective. 243 00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:52,788 I mean, our civilization. Basically defective, my boy! 244 00:18:54,425 --> 00:18:57,884 Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem 245 00:18:58,387 --> 00:19:00,549 and look for a solution together. 246 00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:04,554 Perhaps we could, if it wasn't so late. 247 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:06,931 Altogether too late. 248 00:19:07,730 --> 00:19:09,892 God, how weary I am of this talk! 249 00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:18,314 At last I know what Hamlet meant. 250 00:19:19,075 --> 00:19:21,533 He was fed up with windbags. 251 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,237 And so am I! Why do I talk this way? 252 00:19:27,124 --> 00:19:29,787 If only someone could stop talking 253 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:32,494 and do something instead! 254 00:19:33,547 --> 00:19:35,584 Or at least, try to. 255 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:41,052 Little Man! 256 00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:50,478 Little Man! 257 00:20:14,130 --> 00:20:15,996 Dear God, what's wrong with me? 258 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:42,874 Fantastic! 259 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:49,548 Such remarkable refinement! 260 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:54,852 Such wisdom and spirituality. 261 00:21:55,064 --> 00:21:58,774 And such pure childlike innocence as well. 262 00:22:03,531 --> 00:22:06,490 At once profound, yet virginal. 263 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:15,411 It's unbelievable. 264 00:22:16,544 --> 00:22:18,456 Like a prayer. 265 00:22:26,303 --> 00:22:30,263 And all this has been lost. We can't even pray any longer. 266 00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:35,185 I had a rotten day today. 267 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:42,977 Or rather, a day I lost control of. 268 00:22:45,072 --> 00:22:48,611 Thank you, Victor. 269 00:22:49,326 --> 00:22:51,192 A splendid book! 270 00:22:55,583 --> 00:22:58,576 Thanks for the wine too. We'll have it later. 271 00:23:00,296 --> 00:23:02,037 Above all, thanks for coming. 272 00:23:04,633 --> 00:23:06,295 Have you... 273 00:23:06,510 --> 00:23:09,423 never felt that your life was a failure? 274 00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:13,844 No. Why? 275 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,479 I once felt exactly that way. 276 00:23:20,983 --> 00:23:25,444 But since Little Man came along, all that has changed. 277 00:23:26,196 --> 00:23:27,903 Not all at once, of course. 278 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:32,485 A bit at a time as he grew bigger. 279 00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:36,951 I'm very attached to him, 280 00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:41,534 too much, I'm afraid. 281 00:23:43,881 --> 00:23:46,965 But there is something in all this that I resent. 282 00:23:48,302 --> 00:23:50,339 I prepared myself for a life, 283 00:23:52,014 --> 00:23:54,097 a higher life, so to speak. 284 00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:59,807 I studied philosophy, the history of religion, aesthetics. 285 00:24:01,357 --> 00:24:04,100 And I ended up putting myself in chains, 286 00:24:05,027 --> 00:24:07,269 of my own free will. 287 00:24:09,323 --> 00:24:12,987 But at the same time, I'm happy. 288 00:24:14,328 --> 00:24:16,365 Today, for example... 289 00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,538 What happened today? 290 00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:30,759 I got a telegram from my friends. 291 00:24:32,221 --> 00:24:34,679 As a joke they signed it: 292 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:37,598 "Richardians and Idiotists." 293 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:43,222 Old theater friends. We played Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky. 294 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,306 - I remember. - No. 295 00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:49,315 - Remember what? - Those performances. 296 00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:52,568 - Oh, come now. - Yes, I do! 297 00:24:52,783 --> 00:24:56,777 I remember how you dropped that vase from the tray and broke it. 298 00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:59,363 And your eyes were full of tears. 299 00:25:00,124 --> 00:25:02,116 I remember it well. 300 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:03,950 The vase, too. 301 00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:06,707 It was white, with blue flowers. 302 00:25:06,922 --> 00:25:09,289 That's right! She does remember. 303 00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:14,469 But those tears meant nothing. I had something in my eye. 304 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,515 It hurt so, I didn't think I'd get through the performance. 305 00:25:20,144 --> 00:25:23,387 Alexander was superb as Prince Myshkin. 306 00:25:24,898 --> 00:25:26,890 That role made you. 307 00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:31,520 And then you just gave it all up. 308 00:25:32,239 --> 00:25:33,980 The theater, the lot. 309 00:25:34,825 --> 00:25:37,693 You threw away everything after Richarr III and The Idiot. 310 00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:40,654 I don't know why. 311 00:25:41,623 --> 00:25:43,785 - What "everything"? - Hmm? 312 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:46,618 What do you mean by "everything"? 313 00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:48,999 The theater. 314 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,377 Everything! 315 00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:54,542 "Success," that's what you mean! 316 00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:59,048 As it happens, theater isn't "everything." 317 00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:03,055 I couldn't take it anymore. 318 00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:05,975 What do you mean? 319 00:26:06,732 --> 00:26:07,768 Well... 320 00:26:10,277 --> 00:26:13,395 For some reason, I started feeling embarrassed onstage. 321 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:19,694 I was ashamed to impersonate someone else, to play another's emotions. 322 00:26:20,746 --> 00:26:26,287 But worst of all, I was ashamed of being honest onstage. 323 00:26:28,212 --> 00:26:31,080 It was a critic who first saw that. 324 00:26:33,634 --> 00:26:36,468 But it wasn't sudden, not at all. 325 00:26:37,179 --> 00:26:41,048 So you mean that an actor may not keep his ego intact? 326 00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:44,392 That he must lose his identity? 327 00:26:44,978 --> 00:26:46,765 No, not quite. 328 00:26:47,481 --> 00:26:54,274 What I mean is that an actor's identity dissolves in his roles. 329 00:26:54,488 --> 00:26:56,775 I didn't want my ego dissolved. 330 00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:03,070 There was something in it that struck me as sinful, 331 00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:06,156 something feminine and weak. 332 00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:09,959 Aha! Feminine! So that's what's sinful. 333 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:14,168 I liked you as an actor, so you quit. That's it! 334 00:27:14,383 --> 00:27:17,342 - I don't know. That might be it. - No, that was it! 335 00:27:17,553 --> 00:27:19,385 I said it might be. 336 00:27:20,139 --> 00:27:22,222 Always the last word! 337 00:27:22,975 --> 00:27:24,341 She'll be his death! 338 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,142 Please, not today. 339 00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:29,057 It's Alexander's birthday. 340 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:33,062 Thanks for defending me, Victor. 341 00:27:33,277 --> 00:27:36,770 In other words, first he seduced me with his acting. 342 00:27:37,239 --> 00:27:40,232 Then he lured me from London and abandoned me! 343 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:45,613 But I liked being the great actor's wife. 344 00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:48,619 Forgive me, but I saw no harm in it. 345 00:27:50,127 --> 00:27:51,743 Who's that, now? 346 00:27:58,135 --> 00:28:01,503 By the way, Alexander, I'll soon be leaving. 347 00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:04,214 Leaving? 348 00:28:05,851 --> 00:28:07,638 Leaving all this. 349 00:28:09,021 --> 00:28:10,887 Has something happened? 350 00:28:12,274 --> 00:28:16,018 I've been offered a clinic in Australia. 351 00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:19,695 Are you serious? 352 00:28:24,286 --> 00:28:26,528 You must tell me about it later. 353 00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:37,247 It's Otto, the postman. He's carrying something. 354 00:28:37,466 --> 00:28:38,798 Julia! 355 00:28:39,009 --> 00:28:41,376 Your beau's come calling! 356 00:29:03,116 --> 00:29:04,732 Good evening! 357 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:11,114 - Many happy returns! - Thanks. 358 00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:15,452 Here I am, and here's a kind of present for you. 359 00:29:15,671 --> 00:29:18,584 Thank you very much. What is it? 360 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:21,041 I don't think I can do this alone. 361 00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:33,729 It's a map of Europe, from the late 1600s. 362 00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:35,684 Is it genuine? 363 00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:39,313 How could it be? It must be a copy, a reproduction. 364 00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:43,404 No, not at all! It's genuine, an original. 365 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:45,652 - How could anyone... - Is it possible? 366 00:29:46,326 --> 00:29:49,615 How beautiful it is! We must take it inside. 367 00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:51,412 Come, now. 368 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:54,707 But it's far too dear a gift. I don't know if I... 369 00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:57,080 Oh God, don't say that! 370 00:29:57,296 --> 00:30:00,414 But it's far too much. Too much, Otto! 371 00:30:01,383 --> 00:30:04,046 I know it's no sacrifice, but... 372 00:30:04,261 --> 00:30:08,175 And why shouldn't it be? Of course it's a sacrifice! 373 00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:13,601 Every gift involves a sacrifice. 374 00:30:14,313 --> 00:30:17,226 If not, what kind of gift would it be? 375 00:30:20,861 --> 00:30:23,319 Excuse me... 376 00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:26,147 Otto. My name is Otto. 377 00:30:27,117 --> 00:30:28,028 Oh. 378 00:30:29,786 --> 00:30:31,368 Excuse me, Otto. 379 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:34,368 What are you doing in these parts? 380 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:36,916 I hear you haven't lived here long. 381 00:30:37,127 --> 00:30:37,992 Smoke? 382 00:30:39,171 --> 00:30:44,007 Once I went to the morgue and saw the autopsied corpse... 383 00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:48,386 of a man who had smoked all his life. I saw his lungs. 384 00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:49,929 I haven't smoked since. 385 00:30:50,140 --> 00:30:52,883 Hear that, Alexander? 386 00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:57,812 Yes, you're completely right. 387 00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:01,274 I've only lived here two months. 388 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,694 Before then, I taught history at a secondary school. 389 00:31:04,905 --> 00:31:07,989 But when I was pensioned, I moved here. 390 00:31:08,492 --> 00:31:10,859 And here I am. 391 00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:15,789 Nowadays I have fewer expenses, and more time left over for my interests. 392 00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:20,042 My sister used to live here. She's dead now. 393 00:31:20,253 --> 00:31:23,087 I understand you're employed by the post office. 394 00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:28,338 Yes, I'm a postman. 395 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:31,011 But not regularly. Only in my spare time. 396 00:31:32,599 --> 00:31:34,215 Hello, Maria! 397 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,441 I've put everything in order, Mrs. Adelaide. Can I go now? 398 00:31:43,652 --> 00:31:45,359 Yes, yes, Maria. Thank you. 399 00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:49,690 Oh, yes! Do you think you might just warm the plates? 400 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,195 Julia can do the rest. 401 00:31:52,411 --> 00:31:53,868 Yes, Mrs. Adelaide. 402 00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:56,366 I'll put the plates to warm at once. 403 00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:59,240 I'll warm the plates. 404 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:02,247 Then can I go? Is there something more? 405 00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:03,998 No, no! You may go. 406 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,710 Julia's still here. 407 00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:09,543 Oh, one more thing! 408 00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:11,969 Would you put the candles on the table? 409 00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:14,467 Then you may go... 410 00:32:15,267 --> 00:32:16,974 You have opened the wine, haven't you? 411 00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:20,185 Well, open it. 412 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,435 Then you won't be needed. 413 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:30,105 The plates, the candles, the wine. 414 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:46,833 We're neighbors, she and I. 415 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,508 We're acquainted. 416 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,838 Indeed? Congratulations. 417 00:32:55,474 --> 00:32:59,263 She came from Iceland a few years ago. 418 00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:01,060 Really? 419 00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:03,392 She is very odd. 420 00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:05,018 Who? 421 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:07,183 Maria. 422 00:33:08,278 --> 00:33:09,644 Yes, Maria. 423 00:33:10,322 --> 00:33:12,109 Sometimes she scares me. 424 00:33:14,034 --> 00:33:19,154 It must've been lovely when men thought the world looked like this! 425 00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:24,121 This Europe looks more like Mars. 426 00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:27,124 That is, it has nothing to do with truth. 427 00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:28,546 No. 428 00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:31,590 But people lived then. 429 00:33:32,344 --> 00:33:34,461 And not badly, either. 430 00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:40,140 But wait, what's the date... 431 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:42,802 ...today? 432 00:33:46,358 --> 00:33:49,101 1392... 433 00:33:52,239 --> 00:33:54,856 It's best we put the map away now. 434 00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:58,697 Otto, will you help me? 435 00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:04,412 I have a feeling that our maps have nothing to do with truth, either. 436 00:34:04,626 --> 00:34:06,583 What truth? 437 00:34:08,505 --> 00:34:11,623 You keep going on about truth. 438 00:34:11,841 --> 00:34:16,006 - Truth! What is truth? - There's no such thing. 439 00:34:16,221 --> 00:34:19,680 We look, but don't see. Here comes a cockroach... 440 00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:21,302 A cockroach!? 441 00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:30,225 Here comes a cockroach running 'round a plate. 442 00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:34,653 He fancies that he's moving forward with a definite purpose. 443 00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:37,982 How do you know what a cockroach thinks? 444 00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:39,863 It could be a ritual. 445 00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:41,990 - Yes! - His own. 446 00:34:42,205 --> 00:34:44,697 Aha. "Could be." 447 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:48,034 Anything could be. 448 00:34:49,254 --> 00:34:50,961 "Could be"! 449 00:34:51,506 --> 00:34:56,422 Otherwise all we're left with is this "truth," "truth." 450 00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,174 - Can I help? - No, that's fine. 451 00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,589 Let's put it there, Otto. 452 00:35:02,892 --> 00:35:04,849 A fantastic map! 453 00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:09,518 I'm glad you think so. It's a first-class chart. 454 00:35:11,234 --> 00:35:14,443 Where's Little Man? Where's the boy? 455 00:35:14,654 --> 00:35:17,897 I don't know. He was here just a moment ago. 456 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,449 - Shall I look? - No, no. 457 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,617 He seemed down, to me. 458 00:35:24,998 --> 00:35:28,287 - Something wrong? - I'll be right back. 459 00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:30,914 Dinner's ready. 460 00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:37,591 You said you had more time for your interests... 461 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,048 What'd you mean? 462 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,009 Huh? 463 00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:44,806 Take it easy. 464 00:35:46,019 --> 00:35:48,011 He's around here. 465 00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:53,941 - I'm sort of a collector. - Are you? 466 00:35:54,778 --> 00:35:56,815 What do you mean, "sort of"? 467 00:35:57,572 --> 00:36:01,612 How shall I put it? I collect incidents. 468 00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:06,116 Things that are unexplainable but true. 469 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:12,293 I need a lot of time, though, to gather evidence that they're true. 470 00:36:13,046 --> 00:36:16,210 I need to travel, too, and I need money for it. 471 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,259 That's why I'm a postman... as well. 472 00:36:20,762 --> 00:36:22,549 Unexplainable? 473 00:36:22,764 --> 00:36:26,678 Little Man should be here. He loves stories like this. 474 00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:31,387 Does he, indeed? 475 00:36:32,774 --> 00:36:34,185 But still... 476 00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:37,359 I don't really understand. 477 00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:40,063 Well, for example... 478 00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:44,321 No, not that one. 479 00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:47,949 How about this one... 480 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,532 It happened before the war. 481 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:56,250 In Königsberg, a widow was living with her son. 482 00:36:57,716 --> 00:37:01,130 But then war broke out, and the boy was drafted. 483 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,835 He was 18 years old. 484 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:08,763 They decided to see a photographer and have a keepsake photo taken. 485 00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:15,143 The mother and her son were photographed together. 486 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,357 Then the boy... 487 00:37:25,827 --> 00:37:28,319 the boy was sent off... 488 00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:31,659 to the front. 489 00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:34,959 A few days later, he was killed. 490 00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:37,669 Good Lord! 491 00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:43,793 In the midst of all the commotion and calamity 492 00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:49,598 the widow, of course, forgot about the photos. 493 00:37:49,809 --> 00:37:52,927 "Of course"? Why, how could she forget such a thing? 494 00:37:53,146 --> 00:37:58,232 - It's not important. - No, it's not very important at all. 495 00:37:58,443 --> 00:38:02,983 The fact is, this woman never fetched the photographs. 496 00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:10,203 The war ended. She moved to another town far from her memories. 497 00:38:10,413 --> 00:38:13,827 But didn't she even try to find the photographer? 498 00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:16,750 It was her last photo of her son! 499 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,873 But do let him make his point. 500 00:38:21,007 --> 00:38:22,088 Sorry. 501 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:26,169 - Mommy...! - I'll be quiet. Sorry. 502 00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:32,470 It doesn't matter. 503 00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:37,058 Some years later... 504 00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,726 I think it was in 1960... 505 00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:44,733 the widow visited a photographer 506 00:38:45,615 --> 00:38:50,235 to have her photo taken. She intended to give it to a friend. 507 00:38:50,912 --> 00:38:54,622 The photo was taken, but when she got the prints 508 00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,792 she saw not only herself on them, 509 00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:00,289 but her dead son, too. 510 00:39:00,505 --> 00:39:03,373 In the photos, he was 18 511 00:39:03,591 --> 00:39:09,053 and she was as old as she was when these last photos were taken. 512 00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:17,265 Did it happen like that? 513 00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:20,393 Just as you told us? 514 00:39:21,609 --> 00:39:25,148 Yes. That's how it happened. 515 00:39:25,905 --> 00:39:28,113 How did you check it? 516 00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:31,867 I've spoken with the woman. 517 00:39:32,787 --> 00:39:34,949 And I have the photo 518 00:39:35,748 --> 00:39:40,664 showing her in 1960 and her son in a 1940 uniform. 519 00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:43,371 Oh, dear God! 520 00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:47,499 And besides... 521 00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:52,388 I have a copy of his birth certificate 522 00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:56,889 and an official copy of the notice of death. 523 00:39:58,563 --> 00:40:00,555 Are you pulling our leg? 524 00:40:04,319 --> 00:40:07,312 No, by no means! 525 00:40:08,615 --> 00:40:11,733 I have about 300 similar incidents. 526 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:18,364 284, to be exact. 527 00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:23,327 We are blind, simply. 528 00:40:24,589 --> 00:40:26,706 We see nothing. 529 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:42,618 What was that? What do you think? 530 00:41:42,834 --> 00:41:44,291 Are you ill? 531 00:41:45,378 --> 00:41:46,869 No... 532 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:49,963 nothing's wrong. 533 00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:25,950 It was only an evil angel passing by, who saw fit to touch me. 534 00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:34,003 And you see fit to joke with us, eh? Mr. Postman? 535 00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:39,839 There are jokes and then there are jokes, Doctor. 536 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:45,053 There's nothing to joke about here. 537 00:44:46,267 --> 00:44:47,223 Maria! 538 00:45:17,256 --> 00:45:19,122 Who made that? 539 00:45:20,676 --> 00:45:22,133 Little Man. 540 00:45:25,890 --> 00:45:27,882 Little Man, really? 541 00:45:28,851 --> 00:45:31,935 - Where is he? - He's upstairs. 542 00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:35,146 I think he's in his room. 543 00:45:38,945 --> 00:45:40,561 That's good. 544 00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:44,197 But what is it? 545 00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:47,613 He made it for you. 546 00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:51,405 It's his birthday present to you. 547 00:45:53,209 --> 00:45:57,453 It was he and Otto, the postman, who built it together. 548 00:46:06,097 --> 00:46:08,635 Don't say that I told you, Mr. Alexander. 549 00:46:10,351 --> 00:46:12,843 He wanted to show it off himself. 550 00:46:36,335 --> 00:46:38,247 I'll go now. 551 00:47:01,861 --> 00:47:03,227 Happy birthday. 552 00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:26,215 Go home now! 553 00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:28,293 It's so damp out. 554 00:48:20,064 --> 00:48:23,182 - May I come in? - Yes, come in. 555 00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:25,816 Oh, it's you. Come in! 556 00:48:26,695 --> 00:48:28,937 Things are almost ready downstairs. 557 00:48:32,618 --> 00:48:34,610 What on earth is that? 558 00:48:37,289 --> 00:48:38,746 What's what? 559 00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:40,912 The picture, there. 560 00:48:41,794 --> 00:48:43,535 On the wall, what is it? 561 00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:50,334 I can't see clearly. It's behind a glass. And it's so dark. 562 00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:54,881 It's the Adoration of the Three Kings 563 00:48:55,850 --> 00:48:57,967 by Leonardo. 564 00:48:59,061 --> 00:49:01,553 A reproduction, of course. 565 00:49:03,774 --> 00:49:06,312 My God, how sinister it is! 566 00:49:13,284 --> 00:49:17,153 I've always been terrified of Leonardo. 567 00:49:41,896 --> 00:49:46,937 ...Are now being organized nationwide... 568 00:49:49,862 --> 00:49:53,606 This is even the duty of all officers of the army. 569 00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:58,368 Every responsible citizen... 570 00:49:59,288 --> 00:50:02,656 is expected to behave with courage... 571 00:50:04,919 --> 00:50:07,161 to keep a cool head... 572 00:50:09,215 --> 00:50:11,798 And to help the Army... 573 00:50:12,676 --> 00:50:16,966 in its efforts to re-establish peAce, 574 00:50:17,932 --> 00:50:21,846 order, and discipline. 575 00:50:24,104 --> 00:50:28,895 The only dangerous enemy in our midst at the moment, 576 00:50:30,277 --> 00:50:31,859 is panic. 577 00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:35,693 It is contAgious, 578 00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:41,286 And won't allow itself to be ruled by common sense. 579 00:50:43,499 --> 00:50:47,038 Order And orgAnization... 580 00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:51,334 And nothing less, good citizens. 581 00:50:51,549 --> 00:50:54,132 Only order... order... 582 00:50:56,887 --> 00:50:58,549 Against this chaos. 583 00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:05,014 I beg you, I humbly appeAl 584 00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:08,346 to your courage And... 585 00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,897 in spite of all... 586 00:51:14,113 --> 00:51:15,729 to your common sense. 587 00:51:24,081 --> 00:51:27,540 Shall we eat? And wake the boy? 588 00:51:28,168 --> 00:51:30,080 We have here, unfortunately, such a base... 589 00:51:30,296 --> 00:51:32,504 with four missile warheAds. 590 00:51:33,716 --> 00:51:36,174 And it is very likely... 591 00:51:37,052 --> 00:51:42,013 thAt these warheads, tragically enough... 592 00:51:42,224 --> 00:51:43,886 What's this? 593 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:46,969 ...will be used against us. 594 00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:55,102 Communications may be broken at any time... 595 00:51:55,779 --> 00:52:00,319 but I have told you what is most important... 596 00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:03,075 ...my fellow citizens. 597 00:52:09,251 --> 00:52:12,210 You are to stay where you are. 598 00:52:12,713 --> 00:52:15,547 There is no place in all of Europe 599 00:52:16,884 --> 00:52:19,001 that is safer 600 00:52:19,637 --> 00:52:22,345 thAn where we are now. 601 00:52:24,016 --> 00:52:26,053 In this regard, 602 00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:31,764 we are all forced into the same situation. 603 00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:52,125 All districts will be under the control 604 00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:56,000 of speciAl militAry units... 605 00:52:57,341 --> 00:53:01,676 so that... so that... 606 00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:05,630 Surely this isn't... 607 00:53:42,761 --> 00:53:45,253 Shouldn't one do something? 608 00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:23,967 I've waited for this all my life. 609 00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:28,797 My whole life has been one long wait, for this. 610 00:55:21,610 --> 00:55:25,399 Can't we do something? 611 00:55:38,502 --> 00:55:40,243 Victor! 612 00:55:57,688 --> 00:55:59,600 Mama, please calm down! 613 00:56:03,944 --> 00:56:05,776 Victor! 614 00:56:18,250 --> 00:56:21,288 Shh! The boy is asleep. 615 00:56:22,337 --> 00:56:24,078 He mustn't be awakened. 616 00:56:27,467 --> 00:56:29,379 It's all my fault! 617 00:56:30,637 --> 00:56:32,549 This is my punishment! 618 00:56:44,192 --> 00:56:46,149 The boy's sleeping. 619 00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:50,571 Don't wake him. 620 00:56:50,782 --> 00:56:55,322 - Little Man! Where is he? - He's sleeping. 621 00:57:13,931 --> 00:57:15,172 Julia! 622 00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:20,393 Fetch the black bag by the piano. 623 00:58:08,986 --> 00:58:10,943 Maybe later. 624 00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:17,317 Put it on the table! 625 01:00:10,023 --> 01:00:13,016 Julia, do you need one, too? 626 01:00:28,333 --> 01:00:30,620 No, I don't want it! It's not necessary. 627 01:00:32,379 --> 01:00:33,836 Yes, it is. 628 01:00:35,966 --> 01:00:38,253 It's absolutely necessary. 629 01:00:39,177 --> 01:00:41,885 And it's completely harmless. 630 01:00:44,141 --> 01:00:48,761 It will be easier for all of us if you take it. 631 01:00:51,273 --> 01:00:53,435 No! I don't want to! 632 01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:15,124 - And you, Alexander? - No, I'll have a drink instead. 633 01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,210 Just don't drink too much. 634 01:01:19,426 --> 01:01:20,758 It'll only make it worse. 635 01:01:22,888 --> 01:01:24,254 Otto? 636 01:01:24,472 --> 01:01:26,384 Oh no, don't worry. 637 01:01:27,184 --> 01:01:29,392 Thanks, but I don't need it. 638 01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:31,393 Julia? 639 01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,478 We must go up to the boy. He's not to wake up now! 640 01:01:36,693 --> 01:01:38,229 I'll go with you. 641 01:01:38,904 --> 01:01:41,066 Julia can stay with Mama. 642 01:01:41,656 --> 01:01:43,739 Sleep now, sleep. 643 01:01:43,950 --> 01:01:45,532 We'll be right back. 644 01:02:31,081 --> 01:02:32,697 It's dead. 645 01:02:33,583 --> 01:02:35,575 The telephone's dead. 646 01:02:37,087 --> 01:02:38,919 Oh, dear God... 647 01:02:40,298 --> 01:02:43,837 Why do we always do the opposite of what we want? 648 01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:46,669 Always! 649 01:02:49,808 --> 01:02:52,175 I have loved one man... 650 01:02:54,688 --> 01:02:56,680 and married another. 651 01:03:00,819 --> 01:03:02,105 Why? 652 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,903 Would you like something to drink? 653 01:03:06,366 --> 01:03:08,358 No, no. 654 01:03:09,661 --> 01:03:11,573 Nothing. Thanks, Otto. 655 01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:14,826 No. 656 01:03:16,835 --> 01:03:18,952 I think I know, now. 657 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:25,504 We simply don't want to depend on anyone. 658 01:03:28,471 --> 01:03:30,838 When two people love each other, 659 01:03:32,892 --> 01:03:35,179 they don't love in the same way. 660 01:03:37,272 --> 01:03:39,264 One of them is strong, 661 01:03:41,318 --> 01:03:43,059 the other, weaker. 662 01:03:46,072 --> 01:03:51,693 And the weaker is always the one who loves without reckoning... 663 01:03:54,039 --> 01:03:55,655 without reservation. 664 01:04:01,463 --> 01:04:03,876 It feels now as if I've awakened 665 01:04:05,884 --> 01:04:07,750 from some kind of dream... 666 01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:13,055 after some other kind of life. 667 01:04:16,061 --> 01:04:21,147 For some reason, I always offered resistance. 668 01:04:23,943 --> 01:04:26,026 I fought against something. 669 01:04:27,989 --> 01:04:30,072 I defended myself, 670 01:04:31,451 --> 01:04:33,067 just as though I'd had... 671 01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:38,865 someone else inside me, saying: 672 01:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,745 Don't give in to anything... 673 01:04:47,175 --> 01:04:49,041 don't go along with... 674 01:04:50,428 --> 01:04:51,919 anything... 675 01:04:54,224 --> 01:04:56,307 ...or you'll die! 676 01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:03,849 But God, how foolish we are anyway! 677 01:05:08,029 --> 01:05:09,565 That's good. 678 01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:15,151 It's good that you finally understood that. 679 01:05:17,956 --> 01:05:19,743 How do you feel? 680 01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:23,705 - Better now? - Yes. 681 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,003 I've finally understood, 682 01:05:27,006 --> 01:05:28,793 even though it's a bit late. 683 01:05:31,177 --> 01:05:33,294 But what shall we do now? 684 01:05:34,931 --> 01:05:37,514 The telephone isn't working, of course. 685 01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:45,598 We could get into the car and drive north, 686 01:05:46,359 --> 01:05:48,225 where it's quieter... 687 01:05:49,237 --> 01:05:51,024 But it's no use. 688 01:05:51,698 --> 01:05:55,282 No. It's the same everywhere. 689 01:05:56,161 --> 01:05:58,323 And no one knows where it's worst. 690 01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,242 No, no! We'll stay here. 691 01:06:06,296 --> 01:06:08,538 There, there... 692 01:06:09,299 --> 01:06:11,040 Easy, easy... 693 01:06:13,344 --> 01:06:15,586 We won't go anywhere! 694 01:06:17,265 --> 01:06:19,302 We're staying here! 695 01:06:22,979 --> 01:06:24,720 Victor! 696 01:06:45,793 --> 01:06:47,455 And now... 697 01:06:48,421 --> 01:06:50,583 Now we shall eat dinner. 698 01:06:51,299 --> 01:06:54,463 Excuse me, but I must go now. 699 01:06:54,677 --> 01:06:57,841 I have a few things to put in order. 700 01:07:05,438 --> 01:07:07,100 What will you do, Marta? 701 01:07:16,574 --> 01:07:17,940 Julia. 702 01:07:18,952 --> 01:07:20,659 Go wake Little Man! 703 01:07:21,496 --> 01:07:23,453 Today is a very special day. 704 01:07:24,499 --> 01:07:25,910 We must be together. 705 01:07:26,125 --> 01:07:27,457 Please stop it! 706 01:07:27,669 --> 01:07:32,004 Julia, did you hear me? 707 01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:35,757 - It's best not to wake him. - Julia! 708 01:07:38,638 --> 01:07:40,425 I'm not going to wake him. 709 01:07:42,392 --> 01:07:44,304 I have no intention of doing it. 710 01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:48,395 And I won't allow anyone else to, either. 711 01:07:50,149 --> 01:07:53,517 He's asleep now, and we mustn't wake him, 712 01:07:54,112 --> 01:07:56,024 or frighten him. 713 01:07:57,448 --> 01:08:00,282 A lot can happen while he's sleeping. 714 01:08:00,952 --> 01:08:04,536 If God wills it, he'll never know what's happened. 715 01:08:05,748 --> 01:08:08,912 Don't scare him! Please, I beg you! 716 01:08:10,336 --> 01:08:14,125 If you have to torture someone, let it be Mr. Alexander. 717 01:08:15,633 --> 01:08:18,751 Or me, for that matter. 718 01:08:19,637 --> 01:08:23,005 Choose whom you will, since you can't do otherwise. 719 01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:30,518 But I will not allow you to torture the boy. 720 01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:43,654 My dear girl... 721 01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:46,453 My poor, dear girl... 722 01:08:58,092 --> 01:08:59,879 Forgive me. 723 01:10:54,959 --> 01:10:56,575 Our Father, Who... 724 01:10:57,378 --> 01:10:59,540 Our Father, Who art in Heaven... 725 01:11:02,341 --> 01:11:04,298 hallowed be Thy Name. 726 01:11:05,595 --> 01:11:08,178 Thy Kingdom come... 727 01:11:08,931 --> 01:11:10,342 Thy will be done... 728 01:11:12,852 --> 01:11:15,014 Give us this day our daily bread... 729 01:11:15,897 --> 01:11:18,640 And deliver us from evil. 730 01:11:19,192 --> 01:11:21,434 For Thine is the Kingdom... 731 01:11:22,862 --> 01:11:24,444 and the Power... 732 01:11:24,655 --> 01:11:26,567 and the Glory. 733 01:11:28,075 --> 01:11:29,532 Amen. 734 01:11:32,622 --> 01:11:34,238 Lord! 735 01:11:36,209 --> 01:11:39,543 Deliver us in this terrible time. 736 01:11:41,088 --> 01:11:43,125 Don't let my children die, 737 01:11:44,342 --> 01:11:46,083 nor my friends... 738 01:11:46,969 --> 01:11:48,835 my wife... 739 01:11:49,055 --> 01:11:50,466 Victor... 740 01:11:51,933 --> 01:11:54,846 all those who love Thee and believe in Thee... 741 01:11:56,187 --> 01:12:00,522 All those who do not believe in Thee, because they are blind... 742 01:12:01,692 --> 01:12:04,480 those who haven't given Thee a thought... 743 01:12:07,573 --> 01:12:13,444 simply because they haven't yet been truly miserable. 744 01:12:15,832 --> 01:12:21,294 All those who in this hour have lost their hope, their future... 745 01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:23,120 their lives... 746 01:12:24,048 --> 01:12:27,792 and the opportunity to surrender to Thy will. 747 01:12:29,971 --> 01:12:32,884 All those who are filled with dread 748 01:12:34,475 --> 01:12:37,092 who feel the end coming closer... 749 01:12:38,771 --> 01:12:42,606 who fear, not for themselves, but for their loved ones. 750 01:12:44,986 --> 01:12:48,855 All those whom no one, 751 01:12:50,199 --> 01:12:54,660 except Thou, can offer protection. 752 01:12:55,872 --> 01:12:58,740 Because this war is the ultimate war 753 01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:02,117 a horrible thing. 754 01:13:03,296 --> 01:13:08,291 And after it, there will be no victors and no vanquished... 755 01:13:08,885 --> 01:13:11,628 no cities or towns, grass or trees, 756 01:13:13,139 --> 01:13:15,096 water in the wells, 757 01:13:16,434 --> 01:13:18,926 or birds in the sky. 758 01:13:24,191 --> 01:13:27,810 I will give Thee all I have. 759 01:13:28,654 --> 01:13:31,567 I'll give up my family, whom I love. 760 01:13:33,075 --> 01:13:34,816 I'll destroy my home, 761 01:13:35,912 --> 01:13:38,495 and give up Little Man. 762 01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:44,869 I'll be mute, and never speak another word to anyone. 763 01:13:45,630 --> 01:13:49,544 I will relinquish everything that binds me to life... 764 01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:56,096 if only Thou dost restore everything as it was before... 765 01:13:56,307 --> 01:13:59,141 as it was this morning and yesterday. 766 01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:03,224 Just let me be rid of... 767 01:14:04,231 --> 01:14:06,018 this deadly... 768 01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:09,856 sickening, animal fear! 769 01:14:10,071 --> 01:14:11,858 Yes, everything! 770 01:14:15,159 --> 01:14:16,366 Lord! 771 01:14:17,453 --> 01:14:19,240 Help me... 772 01:14:25,252 --> 01:14:29,212 I will do everything I have promised Thee. 773 01:15:13,259 --> 01:15:14,875 Come here, Victor. 774 01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:17,377 Help me! 775 01:19:14,250 --> 01:19:15,707 My boy! 776 01:20:32,411 --> 01:20:36,451 - What is it? - Sorry to get you up. 777 01:20:36,665 --> 01:20:40,830 - Were you asleep? - What is it? What's happened? 778 01:20:41,045 --> 01:20:45,415 There's still one last chance! 779 01:20:46,175 --> 01:20:49,043 A chance? What kind of chance? 780 01:20:51,055 --> 01:20:53,638 A chance. One last hope. 781 01:20:54,308 --> 01:20:57,301 What kind of hope? What's the matter with you? 782 01:20:57,519 --> 01:21:02,014 Nothing's the matter with me. But Maria can do it. Maria! 783 01:21:02,691 --> 01:21:04,148 Maria? 784 01:21:04,735 --> 01:21:06,567 Which Maria? Do what? 785 01:21:06,779 --> 01:21:10,443 You must go to her and convince her. 786 01:21:10,657 --> 01:21:12,023 Do you understand? 787 01:21:12,242 --> 01:21:14,199 Where must I go? 788 01:21:14,411 --> 01:21:15,993 Whom must I convince? 789 01:21:16,747 --> 01:21:20,115 Come in, have a drink. I had one and I feel better. 790 01:21:39,103 --> 01:21:40,935 There's no light anymore. 791 01:21:42,898 --> 01:21:44,730 How long have I slept? 792 01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:02,411 You shouldn't drink that by the glassful. 793 01:22:02,626 --> 01:22:05,289 It's very good cognac, that. 794 01:22:06,255 --> 01:22:08,121 Where is everybody? 795 01:22:08,340 --> 01:22:09,672 Are they sleeping? 796 01:22:10,259 --> 01:22:14,048 They're downstairs, sitting 'round the table. 797 01:22:14,638 --> 01:22:18,177 - They're very fond of you. - Sitting 'round what table? 798 01:23:00,767 --> 01:23:04,477 You must go to Maria at once! 799 01:23:05,063 --> 01:23:07,180 Which Maria? 800 01:23:08,233 --> 01:23:10,976 Can't you express yourself more clearly? 801 01:23:12,863 --> 01:23:16,527 Maria, you know her! One of your servant girls. 802 01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:19,989 Yes, yes, yes! 803 01:23:20,204 --> 01:23:24,164 I'll explain later. Don't rush me! 804 01:23:24,374 --> 01:23:27,287 Who's rushing you, for God's sake! 805 01:23:29,087 --> 01:23:32,205 Why do you always have to beat around the bush? 806 01:23:36,011 --> 01:23:37,673 She lives... 807 01:23:37,888 --> 01:23:42,258 on a farm on the other side of the bay. 808 01:23:43,810 --> 01:23:45,722 Behind the church. 809 01:23:45,938 --> 01:23:47,850 It's closed now. 810 01:23:48,065 --> 01:23:49,647 Who? 811 01:23:50,817 --> 01:23:52,149 "Who"? 812 01:23:52,361 --> 01:23:55,775 I'm not talking about "who." I mean the church. 813 01:23:55,989 --> 01:23:58,732 But I asked who lives there. 814 01:23:58,951 --> 01:24:02,194 What's the church got to do with it? 815 01:24:02,704 --> 01:24:06,072 Who lives there? Why, Maria, of course. 816 01:24:06,291 --> 01:24:11,252 Your servant. I've been trying to tell you that for half an hour! 817 01:24:13,507 --> 01:24:16,921 Can't you pay more attention! 818 01:24:21,348 --> 01:24:22,714 This is very important. 819 01:24:22,933 --> 01:24:24,970 Pay attention? I... 820 01:24:25,185 --> 01:24:28,098 I know where she lives. My wife showed me. 821 01:24:43,954 --> 01:24:46,071 Oh, I think that... I... 822 01:24:47,374 --> 01:24:49,787 Yes, it's quite all right. 823 01:24:50,877 --> 01:24:53,085 It's all right, believe me. 824 01:24:53,672 --> 01:24:55,914 I'll sit here by you. 825 01:24:56,466 --> 01:24:58,958 What was it you said about the servant? 826 01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:04,763 Oh, yes, your servant girl... 827 01:25:10,355 --> 01:25:13,223 - Did you hear? - Hear what? 828 01:25:14,776 --> 01:25:16,563 What was that? 829 01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:20,939 I don't know... I don't know. 830 01:25:25,287 --> 01:25:27,529 I thought it sounded like music. 831 01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:32,705 In any case, you must go to Maria! 832 01:25:34,004 --> 01:25:35,961 But why? 833 01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:42,426 Don't you want all of this to be over and done with? 834 01:25:44,181 --> 01:25:46,594 For what to be done with? 835 01:25:47,351 --> 01:25:48,808 Everything! 836 01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:52,057 The whole lot! 837 01:25:52,272 --> 01:25:54,138 God, Otto! 838 01:25:55,108 --> 01:25:56,815 There is an end to this. 839 01:25:57,027 --> 01:25:58,689 Otto! 840 01:25:59,112 --> 01:26:00,228 Yes. 841 01:26:00,447 --> 01:26:04,737 You must go to Maria and lie with her. 842 01:26:06,912 --> 01:26:08,244 What? 843 01:26:08,455 --> 01:26:12,290 I say, you must go and lie with Maria! 844 01:26:12,501 --> 01:26:14,584 Lie with Maria? 845 01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:19,084 It's very simple. She lives alone. 846 01:26:19,299 --> 01:26:23,134 And if you only wish for one thing at that moment: 847 01:26:23,345 --> 01:26:26,884 That all this will be over, then it will be! 848 01:26:27,099 --> 01:26:29,182 There'll be no more of it! 849 01:26:30,018 --> 01:26:32,681 But that's madness, Otto! 850 01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,027 Good God, Otto. 851 01:26:44,282 --> 01:26:46,239 You don't understand a thing. 852 01:26:47,911 --> 01:26:49,777 It's true! 853 01:26:51,373 --> 01:26:53,490 It's a holy truth. 854 01:26:55,877 --> 01:26:58,836 She has very special qualities, you know. 855 01:26:59,047 --> 01:27:01,755 I've gathered evidence. She is a witch! 856 01:27:03,009 --> 01:27:05,092 In what sense? 857 01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:09,264 In the best sense. 858 01:27:09,933 --> 01:27:12,095 Are you joking again? 859 01:27:12,811 --> 01:27:17,021 Still having me on with your Nietzschean pranks? 860 01:27:19,901 --> 01:27:22,564 Is there any other way out? 861 01:27:23,947 --> 01:27:26,530 There is no other alternative. 862 01:27:27,242 --> 01:27:28,574 None, whatsoever. 863 01:27:29,453 --> 01:27:32,571 What alternative, Otto? What alternative? 864 01:27:32,789 --> 01:27:34,576 What are you talking about? 865 01:27:34,791 --> 01:27:36,748 It's best if I go now. 866 01:27:45,761 --> 01:27:48,378 I've left the bike for you... 867 01:27:49,139 --> 01:27:52,223 down there by the shed. 868 01:27:55,103 --> 01:27:58,346 Don't take the car, they'll hear you. 869 01:28:02,068 --> 01:28:05,311 I've put a ladder against the balcony. 870 01:28:07,365 --> 01:28:09,322 Go to Maria... 871 01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:12,489 but be careful! 872 01:28:13,497 --> 01:28:18,162 There are a couple of broken spokes in the front wheel. 873 01:28:19,085 --> 01:28:22,249 I once caught my pants-leg in them. 874 01:28:25,550 --> 01:28:27,917 I almost fell in the water. 875 01:28:28,136 --> 01:28:30,799 - What pants-leg? - The right one. 876 01:28:31,973 --> 01:28:33,885 Be careful! 877 01:28:38,522 --> 01:28:42,232 Have you finally understood what I told you? 878 01:28:43,735 --> 01:28:46,273 Do you hear what I'm saying? 879 01:28:49,783 --> 01:28:51,149 Yes, what about it? 880 01:28:51,868 --> 01:28:54,986 No... never! 881 01:28:56,122 --> 01:28:59,115 Anyway, I prefer Piero della Francesca! 882 01:30:02,814 --> 01:30:05,682 As I understood Alexander's words, he meant 883 01:30:07,110 --> 01:30:09,773 that it is peculiar for a man 884 01:30:09,988 --> 01:30:14,403 to change, of his own free will, into a work of art. 885 01:30:18,455 --> 01:30:22,745 Generally, the result of all poetic striving 886 01:30:22,959 --> 01:30:26,623 lies so far from its author that one can hardly believe 887 01:30:27,297 --> 01:30:30,256 that it is a man-made creation. 888 01:30:33,011 --> 01:30:35,970 In the case of the actor, though, the reverse is true. 889 01:30:41,227 --> 01:30:46,268 The actor is, himself, his own creation, his own work of art. 890 01:31:01,247 --> 01:31:02,988 Excuse me. 891 01:31:03,750 --> 01:31:06,914 - I'll be right back. - Don't stay long. 892 01:31:33,279 --> 01:31:35,066 How much gas do we have left? 893 01:31:35,573 --> 01:31:38,737 - Will it last? - I don't know. I'll see. 894 01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:44,080 They brought new tanks last week. Don't you remember? 895 01:33:52,877 --> 01:33:55,836 Julia! Come here to us. 896 01:38:00,666 --> 01:38:03,079 - Who is it? - It's me. 897 01:38:06,297 --> 01:38:07,833 Mr. Alexander? 898 01:38:09,634 --> 01:38:11,170 Has something happened? 899 01:38:12,970 --> 01:38:15,633 But why stand there? Come in. 900 01:38:41,332 --> 01:38:44,621 It was only by chance that I heard you knock. 901 01:38:46,629 --> 01:38:51,124 The kerosene gave out, so I got up to fill the lamp. 902 01:39:00,768 --> 01:39:02,680 Has something happened? 903 01:39:26,085 --> 01:39:27,872 Why don't you say anything? 904 01:39:29,589 --> 01:39:33,208 What is it? Is it something at home? 905 01:40:00,995 --> 01:40:04,579 Something's happened at your house again. 906 01:40:05,374 --> 01:40:06,660 Is that it? 907 01:40:07,335 --> 01:40:08,792 But don't you... 908 01:40:09,337 --> 01:40:10,748 don't you have a TV? 909 01:40:10,963 --> 01:40:13,171 Yes, a small one. But... 910 01:40:13,382 --> 01:40:16,921 it went dead about 11:00, and didn't come on again. 911 01:40:18,930 --> 01:40:20,011 What... 912 01:40:21,057 --> 01:40:22,844 What's happened to your hands? 913 01:40:30,358 --> 01:40:32,395 I fell off the bike. 914 01:40:33,903 --> 01:40:36,316 Did you come on a bike? 915 01:40:37,156 --> 01:40:39,193 Yes, I did. I fell. 916 01:40:48,292 --> 01:40:49,783 Come! 917 01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:54,254 You mustn't go about with dirty hands. 918 01:41:37,550 --> 01:41:38,791 Thank you. 919 01:41:39,343 --> 01:41:40,800 You're welcome. 920 01:42:32,772 --> 01:42:35,185 As a child, I played this prelude. 921 01:42:36,984 --> 01:42:38,600 My mother loved it. 922 01:42:44,992 --> 01:42:46,779 Years ago, 923 01:42:47,787 --> 01:42:49,528 before I was married, 924 01:42:49,747 --> 01:42:53,866 I often went to visit my mother... in the country. 925 01:43:00,174 --> 01:43:02,791 She was still alive in those days. 926 01:43:17,650 --> 01:43:21,985 Her house, a little cottage, 927 01:43:23,364 --> 01:43:25,356 was surrounded by a garden... 928 01:43:26,534 --> 01:43:28,150 a little garden, 929 01:43:31,330 --> 01:43:34,494 dreadfully neglected and overgrown. 930 01:43:37,169 --> 01:43:41,789 No one had tended it for many years 931 01:43:43,467 --> 01:43:44,958 and I don't think... 932 01:43:46,846 --> 01:43:49,714 anyone had ever been in it. 933 01:43:51,767 --> 01:43:54,601 Even then, my mother was very ill. 934 01:43:55,938 --> 01:43:58,851 She almost never left the house. 935 01:44:03,988 --> 01:44:05,604 Still, 936 01:44:06,782 --> 01:44:09,399 amidst the ruin of the garden 937 01:44:12,538 --> 01:44:16,031 there was something that was, in its way, beautiful. 938 01:44:20,045 --> 01:44:22,458 Yes, now I know what it was. 939 01:44:27,178 --> 01:44:30,296 When the weather was fine... 940 01:44:30,973 --> 01:44:34,011 she often sat at the window... 941 01:44:35,394 --> 01:44:37,010 looking out at the garden. 942 01:44:37,229 --> 01:44:40,142 She even had a special chair by the window. 943 01:44:44,153 --> 01:44:50,241 Once, though, I decided that I would tidy things up... 944 01:44:52,578 --> 01:44:54,410 in the garden, that is. 945 01:44:56,332 --> 01:45:01,327 I wanted to mow the grass, burn the weeds, prune the trees. 946 01:45:04,548 --> 01:45:06,631 On the whole, 947 01:45:08,344 --> 01:45:11,633 I wanted to redo the garden in my own taste... 948 01:45:13,349 --> 01:45:15,466 with my own hands. 949 01:45:19,480 --> 01:45:22,348 Yes, simply to please my mother. 950 01:45:25,820 --> 01:45:29,530 And for two solid weeks... 951 01:45:32,451 --> 01:45:36,445 I went at it with shears and a scythe. 952 01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:39,702 I dug... 953 01:45:40,918 --> 01:45:42,454 and cut... 954 01:45:42,962 --> 01:45:44,794 and sawed... 955 01:45:45,798 --> 01:45:47,585 and weeded... 956 01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:53,549 I kept my nose to the ground, literally. 957 01:45:57,726 --> 01:46:02,221 And I took great pains to get it ready as soon as possible. 958 01:46:03,649 --> 01:46:05,936 My mother's condition grew worse, 959 01:46:08,821 --> 01:46:11,063 and she kept to her bed. 960 01:46:14,827 --> 01:46:17,114 But I wanted her to be able... 961 01:46:19,123 --> 01:46:21,957 to sit by the window 962 01:46:24,378 --> 01:46:26,119 and see... 963 01:46:28,215 --> 01:46:31,299 her new garden. 964 01:46:35,556 --> 01:46:37,172 In short, 965 01:46:39,059 --> 01:46:42,348 when I was finished and everything was ready... 966 01:46:43,522 --> 01:46:45,479 I took a bath... 967 01:46:47,484 --> 01:46:51,945 put on fresh underwear, a new jacket, even a tie. 968 01:46:54,491 --> 01:46:58,405 Then I sat down in the chair to see what I'd made, 969 01:46:59,580 --> 01:47:02,118 through her eyes, as it were. 970 01:47:09,506 --> 01:47:10,747 I... 971 01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:14,167 I sat there... 972 01:47:14,386 --> 01:47:17,550 and looked out through the window. 973 01:47:27,107 --> 01:47:29,565 I had prepared myself to enjoy the sight. 974 01:47:30,986 --> 01:47:35,697 Anyway, I looked out the window and saw... 975 01:47:36,951 --> 01:47:38,487 What did I see? 976 01:47:40,371 --> 01:47:43,034 Where had all the beauty gone? 977 01:47:45,125 --> 01:47:47,208 The naturalness of it? 978 01:47:50,381 --> 01:47:53,670 It was so disgusting. 979 01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,428 All that evidence of violence! 980 01:48:02,768 --> 01:48:05,806 I remember once when my sister was young. 981 01:48:08,941 --> 01:48:14,187 She went to a barber and had her hair cut. It was the fashion then. 982 01:48:16,073 --> 01:48:18,907 Her hair was unbelievably lovely. 983 01:48:19,702 --> 01:48:22,365 Golden yellow, like Lady Godiva's. 984 01:48:23,205 --> 01:48:25,322 She came home pleased as punch. 985 01:48:26,667 --> 01:48:28,829 Then my father saw her. 986 01:48:29,670 --> 01:48:31,707 He began to cry. 987 01:48:34,383 --> 01:48:37,171 I think it was the same with the garden. 988 01:48:38,721 --> 01:48:39,757 And your mother? 989 01:48:52,359 --> 01:48:54,442 It's three o'clock! 990 01:48:56,113 --> 01:48:57,479 We won't have time... 991 01:49:07,416 --> 01:49:10,705 But your mother... did she see it? 992 01:49:30,481 --> 01:49:32,268 Maria... 993 01:49:37,529 --> 01:49:41,148 My being here must be an imposition on you. 994 01:49:41,825 --> 01:49:43,657 You can't sleep. 995 01:49:44,369 --> 01:49:45,951 What do you mean? 996 01:49:46,955 --> 01:49:48,662 What do you mean? 997 01:49:49,458 --> 01:49:51,120 Could you... 998 01:49:53,087 --> 01:49:55,625 Could you love me, Maria? 999 01:49:57,591 --> 01:49:59,457 What are you saying? 1000 01:50:05,224 --> 01:50:07,307 Love me, I beg you! 1001 01:50:08,310 --> 01:50:10,051 Save me. 1002 01:50:11,772 --> 01:50:14,059 Save us all! 1003 01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:18,393 I know who you are. He... He told me! 1004 01:50:19,238 --> 01:50:22,402 Please, please. 1005 01:50:24,201 --> 01:50:26,033 Save us, I beg you! 1006 01:50:27,621 --> 01:50:29,988 What are you talking about? 1007 01:50:31,291 --> 01:50:35,126 Go home now. 1008 01:50:36,296 --> 01:50:38,663 Do you want me to go with you? 1009 01:50:39,299 --> 01:50:42,133 I... I have a bicycle, too. 1010 01:51:07,161 --> 01:51:09,244 Don't kill us. 1011 01:51:10,831 --> 01:51:12,743 Save us, Maria. 1012 01:51:15,919 --> 01:51:18,912 But why? 1013 01:51:20,132 --> 01:51:23,546 You poor, poor man. 1014 01:51:24,052 --> 01:51:25,884 Why? No, not that way! 1015 01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:28,592 You poor man. 1016 01:51:32,394 --> 01:51:34,556 Don't be afraid. What's wrong? 1017 01:51:34,771 --> 01:51:37,263 Who has frightened you so? Calm down, calm down. 1018 01:51:37,482 --> 01:51:39,519 I understand, I know... 1019 01:51:39,735 --> 01:51:41,351 that it concerns your home. 1020 01:51:41,570 --> 01:51:44,608 I know her, she is wicked. 1021 01:51:44,823 --> 01:51:47,691 I know her. They've hurt you... 1022 01:51:47,910 --> 01:51:49,526 frightened you. 1023 01:51:50,454 --> 01:51:53,697 Don't be afraid of anything. 1024 01:51:53,916 --> 01:51:57,205 Everything's going to be all right. 1025 01:51:57,419 --> 01:51:58,751 Be calm. 1026 01:51:58,962 --> 01:52:02,080 Don't be afraid, not of anything. 1027 01:52:02,299 --> 01:52:05,337 It's all right now, all right. 1028 01:52:10,224 --> 01:52:13,308 You poor, poor man. 1029 01:52:13,518 --> 01:52:15,726 There, there. 1030 01:52:15,938 --> 01:52:18,100 There's nothing to fear. 1031 01:52:19,316 --> 01:52:22,650 Don't be afraid. 1032 01:52:26,156 --> 01:52:28,648 Nothing will happen to you here. 1033 01:52:34,164 --> 01:52:36,827 Don't cry, don't cry. 1034 01:52:37,042 --> 01:52:38,783 Everything will be fine. 1035 01:52:40,087 --> 01:52:42,579 - Just love me. - Yes. 1036 01:52:51,056 --> 01:52:52,422 My poor dear. 1037 01:52:52,641 --> 01:52:54,223 What have they done to you? 1038 01:53:33,307 --> 01:53:36,300 There, there... 1039 01:53:38,145 --> 01:53:39,852 No... no. 1040 01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:42,055 What is it? 1041 01:53:44,693 --> 01:53:47,606 - Calm down! - No, no! 1042 01:53:49,448 --> 01:53:55,445 I c-c-can't! 1043 01:53:57,456 --> 01:53:58,537 I can't! 1044 01:53:59,249 --> 01:54:00,330 Drink this. 1045 01:54:01,251 --> 01:54:02,332 No. 1046 01:54:03,211 --> 01:54:05,077 There... 1047 01:54:08,425 --> 01:54:10,462 It'll soon be over. 1048 01:54:19,686 --> 01:54:24,147 What's frightened you so, Alexander? 1049 01:55:15,742 --> 01:55:17,199 Mama! 1050 01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:29,956 Hello! 1051 01:57:30,168 --> 01:57:32,080 Hello, is it Martin? 1052 01:57:32,295 --> 01:57:34,332 Yes. Alexander? 1053 01:57:34,548 --> 01:57:35,664 Yes, it's me. 1054 01:57:35,882 --> 01:57:37,794 Your voice is so weAk. 1055 01:57:38,009 --> 01:57:39,500 Oh. Better now? 1056 01:57:39,719 --> 01:57:43,633 - Yes, it's better. - I wonder, is the editor in? 1057 01:57:43,848 --> 01:57:46,556 Yes, but I don't think he's free. 1058 01:57:46,768 --> 01:57:49,636 You can't imagine what things are like here today. 1059 01:57:49,854 --> 01:57:53,188 You were to see him next week. 1060 01:57:53,400 --> 01:57:57,314 Yes, but it wasn't important. A trifle... it doesn't matter. 1061 01:57:57,529 --> 01:57:58,360 I'll call back. 1062 01:57:58,572 --> 01:58:02,407 All right, until then. By the way, congratulations! 1063 01:58:02,617 --> 01:58:05,735 On what? Oh, of course! 1064 01:59:46,054 --> 01:59:50,674 Mama, did you know that our Victor is leaving for Australia? 1065 01:59:50,892 --> 01:59:53,100 What'd you say? To Australia? 1066 01:59:53,311 --> 01:59:58,557 Yes, and he's not coming back. He's been offered his own clinic. 1067 01:59:58,775 --> 02:00:00,641 I heard it last night. 1068 02:00:01,194 --> 02:00:02,730 Right, Victor? 1069 02:00:04,406 --> 02:00:06,989 - Why are you laughing? - I'm not laughing! 1070 02:00:26,594 --> 02:00:28,381 When did you decide that? 1071 02:00:37,480 --> 02:00:39,267 Australia! 1072 02:00:40,859 --> 02:00:42,851 You must be mad! 1073 02:00:46,489 --> 02:00:49,197 I don't know why I chose Australia. 1074 02:01:00,587 --> 02:01:02,078 I don't know. 1075 02:01:06,176 --> 02:01:07,883 It doesn't matter. 1076 02:01:12,557 --> 02:01:14,514 I'm tired, that's all. 1077 02:01:15,435 --> 02:01:17,472 All right! But what's to become of us? 1078 02:01:19,564 --> 02:01:21,351 Of Alexander? 1079 02:01:24,277 --> 02:01:29,022 The fact is, what I'm most tired of is the lot of you. 1080 02:01:32,577 --> 02:01:34,864 Tired of being your nursemaid. 1081 02:01:39,584 --> 02:01:42,076 Your nursemaid and your warden. 1082 02:01:46,299 --> 02:01:48,256 Tired of wiping your noses. 1083 02:01:48,468 --> 02:01:50,209 Victor, are you mad? 1084 02:01:51,054 --> 02:01:51,840 Pardon. 1085 02:01:52,055 --> 02:01:53,546 What are you saying? 1086 02:01:53,765 --> 02:01:55,506 May I smoke? 1087 02:02:07,028 --> 02:02:09,691 Marta, go away! Go, go, go! 1088 02:02:15,036 --> 02:02:16,572 Go, go, go! 1089 02:02:17,121 --> 02:02:19,454 God, Mama, I'm not a child! 1090 02:02:19,999 --> 02:02:22,412 Call your father to breakfast! 1091 02:02:22,627 --> 02:02:25,085 - But... - Is it too much to ask? 1092 02:02:25,296 --> 02:02:27,288 All right, I'll go. 1093 02:02:29,509 --> 02:02:31,045 Oh, her ways! 1094 02:02:31,886 --> 02:02:33,673 So calculating. 1095 02:02:34,639 --> 02:02:36,972 I won't let you go, Victor! 1096 02:02:37,183 --> 02:02:40,096 I don't know about Mama, but I won't let you go! 1097 02:02:46,025 --> 02:02:49,063 Something's wrong here and I'm fed up with it. 1098 02:02:53,157 --> 02:02:58,949 Yes. You can forget about me, and Marta, and the boy... 1099 02:03:00,498 --> 02:03:04,208 But Alexander is your friend! 1100 02:03:06,170 --> 02:03:08,457 He'll always be. 1101 02:03:10,216 --> 02:03:12,208 But he needs you! 1102 02:03:12,969 --> 02:03:16,383 He has a wife to take care of him. 1103 02:03:17,098 --> 02:03:19,260 She ought to, anyway. 1104 02:03:19,767 --> 02:03:23,056 He has a family, a splendid house... 1105 02:03:23,271 --> 02:03:25,979 - and a son he adores. - Fine and dandy! 1106 02:03:29,944 --> 02:03:31,151 Julia! 1107 02:03:33,740 --> 02:03:36,699 Fetch your mistress' jacket! She's cold! 1108 02:03:36,910 --> 02:03:38,071 So thoughtful! 1109 02:03:38,286 --> 02:03:41,450 Little Man. Where is he? 1110 02:03:41,956 --> 02:03:45,040 Look, he's left this note! 1111 02:03:45,251 --> 02:03:46,583 What's it say? 1112 02:03:47,128 --> 02:03:51,418 "My dears: I've slept badly this night. Please don't wake me. 1113 02:03:51,633 --> 02:03:53,841 Go and take a little walk. 1114 02:03:54,052 --> 02:03:58,387 The boy will show you his Japanese tree that we planted yesterday. 1115 02:03:58,598 --> 02:04:02,933 Or was it today? I don't remember, it matters not. 1116 02:04:03,144 --> 02:04:05,352 I kiss you all. 1117 02:04:05,563 --> 02:04:06,804 I've taken my pills. 1118 02:04:07,023 --> 02:04:09,106 Forgive me, even now. 1119 02:04:09,609 --> 02:04:12,101 June 19, 1985. 1120 02:04:12,320 --> 02:04:15,563 10:07 a.m. Papa A." 1121 02:04:19,452 --> 02:04:23,321 Shall we take a walk, before the weather changes? 1122 02:04:23,539 --> 02:04:27,453 "Forgive me, even now"... What did he mean by that? 1123 02:04:28,920 --> 02:04:30,627 And why the exact time? 1124 02:04:30,838 --> 02:04:33,376 Mama, you know how he is. 1125 02:04:34,092 --> 02:04:36,425 "How he is..." 1126 02:04:38,972 --> 02:04:42,716 I think that "his" kindness 1127 02:04:43,476 --> 02:04:45,433 would be enough to see us all through. 1128 02:04:45,645 --> 02:04:47,602 But he'll be around longer than that. 1129 02:04:48,272 --> 02:04:49,604 "How he is"! 1130 02:04:49,816 --> 02:04:51,682 What'd I say wrong? 1131 02:04:52,610 --> 02:04:56,479 Have you enough kindness left for "him"? 1132 02:04:56,698 --> 02:05:00,612 All right, Victor. But why must he be such a child? 1133 02:05:01,786 --> 02:05:03,948 Maybe I want to be a child as well! 1134 02:05:05,206 --> 02:05:08,699 We all want something. I, for one, want to go to Australia. 1135 02:05:30,023 --> 02:05:32,515 Well, gather the ashes. 1136 02:05:33,484 --> 02:05:37,228 Put them in a glass, fill it with wine, and drink it. 1137 02:05:37,447 --> 02:05:39,234 - Why? - Don't ask me. 1138 02:05:40,575 --> 02:05:42,362 Someone said so. 1139 02:05:43,036 --> 02:05:46,996 If you do, you'll remember this the rest of your life. 1140 02:05:50,710 --> 02:05:52,417 Come, let's go. 1141 02:05:52,920 --> 02:05:55,537 Julia, come with us! 1142 02:05:55,757 --> 02:05:57,749 Fetch the boy and we'll go. 1143 02:06:05,933 --> 02:06:07,845 I had a dream recently. 1144 02:06:09,145 --> 02:06:11,228 I was walking the streets, begging. 1145 02:06:13,608 --> 02:06:17,727 When I woke, I cried and cried. 1146 02:06:18,404 --> 02:06:20,441 The boy's not there! 1147 02:06:20,656 --> 02:06:22,397 He's already gone out. 1148 02:06:22,617 --> 02:06:24,279 I think I know where. 1149 02:06:25,661 --> 02:06:27,402 To the Japanese tree? 1150 02:06:27,622 --> 02:06:30,535 He and the boy are just crazy about their Japan. 1151 02:06:31,250 --> 02:06:32,582 Why just Japan? 1152 02:06:32,794 --> 02:06:35,377 First it's Australia, then Japan. 1153 02:06:36,380 --> 02:06:38,497 God, I can't take much more of this! 1154 02:06:39,675 --> 02:06:44,010 What about this morning? I turned on his music... 1155 02:06:44,222 --> 02:06:47,465 But he didn't fancy his Japanese. He shut it off. 1156 02:06:48,768 --> 02:06:52,102 He says he and the boy were Japanese in an earlier life. 1157 02:06:52,814 --> 02:06:56,558 I wish someone would tell him what to make of this life. 1158 02:06:56,776 --> 02:06:59,610 Maybe that springs from a deep inner need. 1159 02:07:00,488 --> 02:07:02,696 Maybe it's easier for him so. 1160 02:07:03,366 --> 02:07:06,109 Why can't I find an easier way? 1161 02:07:06,327 --> 02:07:07,784 Can't you? 1162 02:07:08,371 --> 02:07:12,365 You seem to have all sorts of schemes to that end. 1163 02:07:12,917 --> 02:07:15,330 But nothing quite so far-fetched as Australia. 1164 02:07:15,545 --> 02:07:21,337 My God, what is all that nonsense about? 1165 02:07:22,218 --> 02:07:24,335 Australia! It's absurd! 1166 02:08:54,727 --> 02:08:56,343 Flowers! 1167 02:11:31,801 --> 02:11:33,292 I don't understand. 1168 02:11:45,106 --> 02:11:47,063 What've I done with them? Where are they? 1169 02:15:38,339 --> 02:15:40,001 Alexander! 1170 02:15:49,350 --> 02:15:50,682 What's happened? 1171 02:15:50,893 --> 02:15:54,728 I did it. Don't be upset! Listen to me, Victor. 1172 02:15:54,938 --> 02:15:57,180 I've got something very impor... 1173 02:15:57,941 --> 02:15:59,648 No! Silence! 1174 02:16:06,825 --> 02:16:08,908 Say nothing! Ask nothing! 1175 02:16:53,372 --> 02:16:56,115 Come, Alexander! You can't stay here! 1176 02:17:06,427 --> 02:17:08,009 Come, now. 1177 02:17:15,978 --> 02:17:18,766 Let him be! What are you doing to him? 1178 02:17:19,648 --> 02:17:21,731 Don't touch him! 1179 02:19:01,333 --> 02:19:03,416 See you, Alexander! 1180 02:24:19,651 --> 02:24:22,769 In the beginning was the Word. 1181 02:24:24,948 --> 02:24:26,905 Why is that, Papa? 1182 02:26:12,889 --> 02:26:22,888 This film is dedicated to my son Andriosha with hope and confidence 1183 02:26:30,115 --> 02:26:32,027 English Translation by Susanne Heine