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I introduce you Professor Zoltai of Stanford.

Has it been a long time since you've been to Hungary?

It's the first time since I left.

- You came for the congress? - Of course.

You speak our language well.

Being Hungarian is not a matter of citizenship.

The mind of man is not a tabula rasa

A mother tongue...

is impressed upon the wax of the conscious...

Along with many other things...

Along with many other things...

Several thousand years ago, for example...

SEASON OF MONSTERS

Producer

A small manoeuvre of aeronautical acrobatics...

He approaches Margaret Bridge,

Now the helicopter makes a tight turn...

goes back again... descending all the time...

goes back again...

descending all the time...

and flies past the Parliament building

The task is further complicated by a strong Northerly wind...

which makes the work of the pilot all the more difficult

Catastrophe is a Greek word meaning to make something stand on its head.

A Greek word to signify an unexpected end to a play.

This could be positive or negative.

In comedies, even weddings or happy endings could be termed catastrophes

In tragedies it was the opposite: it could be death, destruction

But tragedies leave a stronger impression on the memory

This the word came to embody the sad meaning ...the end of a tragic event

The destruction of mankind is the tragedy

We may distinguist five kinds of catastrophe

The first catastrophe we can envisage is when the

entire universe loses its ability to sustain life

The second tragedy is the death of the sun...

rendering the survival of mankind impossible

The third is when events or developments on earth...

render the maintenance of life impossible.

The fourth is a catastrophe which destroys mankind

while leaving other forms of life unharmed.

The fifth catastrophe is when although mankind survives...

it destroys itself and conditions for life to the

extent that life is reduced to mere vegetation

- Hello, Professor. - Hello.

Doctor, your friend Professor Zoltai...

left a farewell letter addressed to you. Please read it.

The deceased is Zoitan Zoltai, Professor of Medicine, American citizen

We found the body in the suite lying face upwards on a couch...

head turned towards the right

Colonel, the monitor is working now

A farewell letter on the coffee table...

with empty medicine packages and two glasses...

with dried remnants of a chemical substance

All the evidence indicates suicide due to the overdose of medicine

There's no evidence of homocide. An autopsy's recommended

Merci...

Do you know him, Comrade?

We three attended the same high school

I mean, the living and the deceased.

Doctor, you left the farewell letter.

The original is your property.

Are you sure it was suicide?

Damn you! Go screw your mother!

You shits!

Put something under his head.

So, its a shitty world?

- Amongst other things - You are completely right.

- But why isnt this kid healthy then? - You're the doctor!

It's not a medical matter.

Why did God... Make him like that?

You've become a believer?

Have you any other way to explain the world?

No, but I don't care.

At school, you reported me as a believer.

Now God is your explanation?

I'm not explaining anything.

I'm just studying, that's all!

Go ahead, run!

I heard they gave you Zoltai's farewell letter.

- Give it to me! - Why?

You'll burst into tears.

- Bardócz, you're incurable. - Says you!

You were an extremist as a kid, you still are.

Did you say something?

You still have principles

and they're something you don't need.

It's time for action. You can't support a family by philosophy

- How many women have you? - I'm bashful, I'm always besieged

by women. I must earn to pay for them all.

I've no time to philosophize!

Do you know what Hegel said?

Philosophy always surfaces when spiritual harmony is destroyed

Hegel...

Hey good friends, come inside!

A good master awaits us. The bowels of the earth await.

The devil's jaws are open wide

So, the door is open

Let's eat and drink as never before.

Let's forget those thirty or sixty years

Celebrate the fact that we are still alive.

Thirty years ago, my friends... we all failed the Great Exam887

The stale wine reeks and shirtfronts are stained with the Lamb's blood.

Hey, good friends, come inside

Up to the knees in blood, the good master awaits us

The devilish jaws are open wide

Come on inside

There will be a big treat, if you've got the stomach for it

Angel goulash, devil stew

I don't want another sixty years like the last

But give me your hands, as a sign for generations to come

Twelve tears of prison, four in a camp... and I oppose capital punishment

My daughter's invention. She's right, because objects do survive us

Well now, get acquainted.

- Lion. - Nice to meet you.

Bardócz...

We met at the hotel

- Which hotel? - In the elevator

But I've been here for two weeks

Professor, you have a beautiful daughter.

The area of the universe occupied by mankind...

is miniscule compared to the infinity of space

Could this mean that whatever we do...

as individuals or as races

is nothing but an insignificant zephyr?

Not at all.

Yet our deeds are unique and man's fate on Earth has a cosmic significance.

Because consciousness and the awareness of evolution

probably cannot be found anywhere else

The awareness of passing away.

Zoita's farewell note

I don't want to get emotional.

Master!

Come with us

You shouldn't be so downcast on your birthday

Your health, Master

Who cares if skies are overcast?

- That's Komondi's car - So the Swede has arrived

TV is a great thing, it invades your private life

Professor Komondi is fixing things... and how stupid he is

Let everyone disappear in silence!

Master Kovacs!

Komondi is here!

I'm here.

Professor Zoltoi, you and Professor Komondi were friends, classmates...

It was a special high school, was it not?

Hey, you idiots, anyone home?

Nobody?

Many celebrities came out of it, Professor Komondi in Sweden.

Where are the virgins dressed in white, Master?

Professor Bardócz was also invited, but he could not come.

Have you seen Master Kovacs?

A deaf mute!

Where are you, you idiots? Master!

Professor Kamandi has come from Sweden

Doctor Bardócz was invited, but he couldn't come.

It's MacLean's Three Unit Brains Theory

He said the oldest layer is the reptillian brain

The limbic system is above that, topped by the neo-cortex

So when someone lies on a psychiatrist's couch...

it is as though a crocodile, a horse and a humanoid were lying there

You speak our language so well, I thought you left long ago

Being Hungarian is not a matter of citizenship, madame!

I think Locke was wrong

The mind of man is not a tabula rasa

A mother tongue is impressed upon the wax of consciousness in the womb

I looked back over my shoulder as I left my lovely little Hungary

and tears fell from my eyes.

I eat and drink nought but sorrow.

I am sad the whole day long

I look at the starry sky...

You must be mad, Pityu!

Are you mistaking emotions for pathological forms?

Psychiatrists are fools, you're the living example

Boys, give me brandy and wine!

My dear friends,

It breaks ny heart that I cannot stay long with you

But there's the Congress in Budapest

Don't sing in Polish

You should practice our solitary little Hungarian language

What do you mean, solitary?

Besides Finno-Urgic, or Ural-Altaic languages

Hungarian has been compared with other languages

Thus, our proper pre-historical relationships are being correlated...

with Jews, Egyptians, Etruscans, Sumerians

And Hittite, Basque, Farsi, Greek, Chinese, Sanskrit, English, Japanese

Dravidian, Maori, Armenian, Tibetan, Tamil, Korean, Khamcharkan, Yuccan, Japanese, Aino

Manipuri, Telugu, Brahui...

Yes, Master

On the main street of Kisnyek

My love is dressed in blue linen

He comes to me, wearing his best hat

His heart breaks with joy

Far beyond Kisnyek's rose gardens

My love is harvesting rosemary.

Is it I who do the picking

My love bundles the sheaves

Listen to me, lads: "When I compare my brief

life to the eternity of past and future...

or the minute space that I occupy...

when I glimpse the infinite spaces as indifferent to me...

as I am indifferent to them... I feel my heart shudder

I said in astonishment why I am here, not elsewhere

I have no special reason to be here or to live now...

and not in another time

Who placed me here?

What kind of order directed me to this time and space?

The silence of those infinite spaces is fearsome." That is what Pascal is saying

Old evolutionist fool!

Hello!

Hello!

Hello! Cheers!

Quiet, quiet!

He says there's a monster in the lake.

What's in the lake?

Catch it!

Leave it alone!

Come with me, friend.

Show me what's in there.

Where did you see it?

There? In the middle?

He's famous.

He's Komondi. I like him.

Do you know him? - No, I saw him on TV.

He was my mother's lover

You're lying.

No, she told me before

Why should I lie?

I wouldn't mind going to bed with him.

Go to him then.

I'm not so bold.

I'll do it.

- Professor! - Yes...

Allow me to introduce my friend...

And my friend's friend

Three beautiful girls!

Congratulations! You are very clever!

Very clever...

Professor, bathe with us

Swimming is forbidden here.

The lake is full of fish.

Be careful

Go to the middle, catch as many fish as you can.

I'll make fish soup.

That's the right way! Catch lots of fish

I'll get some wood.

Ah, it's slippery, ouch!

Look what I've found in a fish's mouth.

The ring of Polycrates

Bravo!

So we have a classical education

Are we reading Friedrich Schiller?

Shall I give it back?

A lovely ring

Will it bring you luck?

Or no?

- A lovely ring. - You recognise it?

Komondi gave it to you?

How do you know?

I saw it

It belonged to his wife

His last wife.

His last?

- Did you kill him? - No.

Death is something that must be deserved.

Get up. Come on!

All right, you're clever. Come on.

What's wrong with you?

My friends are watching the fires.

It's the season for stubble fires.

Sir, would you explain.

- Call me Janos. - Then, Janos, explain to me...

Strange things have happened to me,

Zoltai's death, your daughter, fires, lights, explosions.

Des feux? Grâce à Dieu, il n'y a eu aucun rapport d'incendie pour le moment.

No fires have been reported. Aren't you imagining things?

And Zoltai, he could never cope. He committed suicide.

A prophet shall be born in the country under the sign of Scorpio....

Circus performers... they sometimes come and visit me

Come! It's good!

You'll get one... so will you, and you...

Kiss the Doctor,

and then the others

Oh, my Lord, my Lord Jesus

Oh, my Lord Jesus!

Good... Okay, okay...

- Où est la bague? - Quelle bague?

Where is the ring?

What ring?

What did he want?

He wanted the ring.

It's here, on me.

I've got it. I don't want it to bring harm to you.

Polycretes' head was cut off because of the ring. I'm going to get Komondi.

I'll get Komondi.

What about me?

Hide somewhere

I was thirty when I first saw

a naked woman.

Before that I only dissected them... corpses, of course.

Back home in Transylvania...

everyone bathed clothed in the river.

My father wore a shirt and pants, even kept his hat on.

Only the Romanian peasants bathed naked.

What do you and your friend want from me?

I leave a house to each of my wives.

I've had four.

Now get the hell out of here!

- Don't say that. - To fucking hell!

Don't say such things. Only nice words become a beautiful maiden.

I love you...

I'm not even a Hungarian from Transylvania!

They're morally strong, immutably pure. They know how to wait things out.

But I, I left my country wisely

One, two, three,

seven, eight, nine...

I'm counting my sheep. I'm lamenting my lost freedom.

Power is wonderful.

No wasting time taking trams or sweating in cars.

Why didn't you come to me at the hotel when I went to see Zoltai?

- Me? - Yes.

- You smoke? - No.

- I was away on business. - Ah, okay.

Maybe I'm seeing things.

Maybe, but I was abroad.

Perhaps your being a policeman ensures your distancing.

A policeman has official excuses if he doesn't wish any involvement

Police are separate, we treat them as if they were priests.

Superficially, we get along fine, but we don't trust

them. We're embarrassed in the company of policemen

Did you send me this present?

No, I got you this.

My pigeon, my treasure,

My beloved leather drinking flask

For you I die, for you I live.

I will not part with you for one hundred girls

Break it!

What do you want?

My dear, people are imperfect weak and mortal...

because their brains lack the harmony of equality

- Who are they? - My fourth and third wives.

They're dead, and dead they will stay

Because there is no resurrection

The god of humans is not the true god.

He is just an evil amateur.

He didn't want the world and its people to be equals and endless.

He created life obliged to die...

instead of creating an eternal life with a right of death

Endless existence would have made men equal to the endless world...

and everyone would have been equal to everyone else.

There would have been no povery, servitude, stupidity, ego, hatred

Only people aware of their contradictions. Happy people.

Listen to me!

Only I know what to do in the human brain...

how to short circuit neurons to activate the harmony of equality

I have to reveal it to you...

because they persecute me, destroy me before I reveal the secret.

I have to tell you. Understood?

Now would be the time to renew strength

Now would be the time to rot forever

Now would be the time for muscles to twitch

Now would be the time to be slashed on the breast

Now would be the time for the smiling girl

Now would be the time for the pitcher to go to the well

Now would be the time we've waited for

Now would be the time for us to fall

Now would be the time, but there is no time

This would be the time, if the strength was there

Now would be the time, but it will pass forever

Now would be the time to hear what God has to say

Don't be scared, my love.

Stop fooling

Everyone is scared of me now?

Help!

Love is a beautiful woman, without spirit, without value

Man forgets everything, to live, to lie, to die, to give.

But this balloon of kisses, never deflates

My love, years and days, believe me, will never be more beautiful.

Tomorrow and forever people will embrace, give birth, bury their dead.

Somehow we should forget that today

A little oblivion, that is what people call happiness

Darling, we are forgetting, too, are we not?

The years, the days will not spoil our ecstasy

Who cares how we love, who cares how we kiss?

Death is so close, and it is so nice to defeat him

Come, kiss me and save me from him.

I like him, even though he is a murderer.

He was my mother's lover. I'm attracted to him too.

Please, save me from him.

Where have you been?

- For a walk - A walk?

- I had a headache - And where is your car?

- What of it? - It's not where you left it.

It's been stolen?

- Where are the performers? - They stole it?

- Don't play the fool. - Do you want to kill me?

I'm no murderer. I'll hand you to the police.

Hey... Pityu! Ouch!

You see, Kati.

A scientist's life is not easy when he voices a different opinion

Do you know why your friend wants to kill me?

Because I have long written that this is the worst of all possible worlds.

Every scientist, priest and artist is a liar when they say

Varfetas delectat

Give me the gun or I'll kill the bitch!

Hands up!

God damn you!

Well, that's that.

- Is he ill? - I knocked him down

- Bon sang, il a une malaise? - Non, je l'ai assommé.

Are you mad?

Professor, you're mistaking me for one of my patients

What happened between you?

Nothing between us. He killed a couple of artistes. Your friends.

Impossible!

True all the same. We must lock him up and inform the police.

Lock him in the cellar.

When he arrived, I saw disturbances in his eyes.

I know him well, I was in contact with him since he left.

I went to see him in Sweden, and two congresses in America.

You should know that he is the greatest scientist in his field

But he has often been rejected for his radical theories

He says he can make men equal

by operating on the brain. - Ridiculous!

Humanity, Equality, brain operations...

But he's crazy. Before no one thought so, but he was mad.

Mad!

And a murderer too!

He killed Zoltai.

Killed?

And the suicide note?

This one?

Theatrics!

- Theatrics? - Yes

- Help! Help! - Here, station 24/65.

We need help. A car has fallen into the lake.

We need assistance to lift it out

It would be nice to take the Virgin Mary by the hand one day

We brought the crane

I would say, I have a house, let us be the holy family

Where shall we stand?

Hear the bells? If you can hear them,

It means it will rain

Are you crazy? What do you want from me?

Didn't I tell you I hadn't time?

That I have a congress in Budapest, that I only have two hours?

Hello Agnes!

Professor, only two hours. There's the Congress in Budapest.

I have a congress in Budapest! Is that so difficult to understand?

Are you alright?

What's wrong with you all?

The Congress. Understand?

- How did you get here? - You had me brought here, didn't you?

But it was you who sent for me...

- You won't be there. - They locked me in the celler.

- Where did they lock you up? - Come and see!

Are we drunk or drugged? Are you setting the police on me?

- That's where we locked you up. - Where was I locked up?

- In there. - Stop kidding.

That's a joke.

What a great idea.

What's all this about?

A joke? They're lifting your car from the lake.

The performers inside aren't in good shape.

One could say they're corpses.

Boys, listen to me!

Firstly, my car is parked in front of the Budapest Hilton.

Is that clear?

Second, you're so drunk, it's...

Is everyone insane or drunk in this country?

I came here to work, idiot!

I don't have the time, I'm busy

His lips are switchblades, he gobbles. Fish die where he bathed in the lake.

The flowers in his hands are carnivorous.

He is shoved towards us by insane time

Boys!

- Who said my car was in the water? - Bardócz!

- Bardócz? Where is he? - At the farm!

Bardócz is one of the world's leading experts on hypnosis

He has a vast reputation and not only in his own field.

I've seen him float in the air. Levitation.

You scoff at that.

I and legal authorities witnessed that he was buried for two weeks

A lovely car. A final reminder of a horrible age.

If you want to dispose of it, send it to me in Sweden

Bardócz was in India for three years where he learnt hypnosis.

I think he used mass-hypnosis on you.

And he's killed too.

I think he killed Zoltai.

I noticed at once that something was wrong with him.

I thought it was the shock of Zoltai's death.

You said he killed him.

Zoltoi's death? That's part of the game.

His eyes were confused, his movements uncoordinated

Did he say he killed the performers?

Are you okay? Didn't it occur to you that maybe it was him?

I sensed that he was almost insane.

We must find him, because I think he's dangerous.

Come on, let's go! Quickly... we'll find him!

Follow me!

Listen, Bardócz is also a philosopher

Equaility is a sin for him. He favours the worst kind of aristocratism.

He says the unintelligent are a waste, have no place in life or an afterlife.

But the talented can create eternal life, even in bodily existence.

Do you understand?

You can't understand it, of course its ridiculous, disgusting.

Come on, let's find him.

I know the guest who is coming.

He crawled from the earth a thousand years ago

He peeps out of bleeding wounds

He limps away from our dead mother

His lips are switchblades, he gabbles

Fish die where he bathed in the lake.

His lips are switchblades, he gabbles

- Aren't you coming with us? - You better stay, there's been a crime.

People have been murdered.

- Who was murdered? - The performers.

Do you know them? Do you know their names?

- Where did they come from? - How would I know?

- Which circus did they work for? - How would I know?

- Have you seen the bodies? - I haven't.

- So, what's the crime, Komandi? - The fact that it happened.

- Who did it? Bardócz? - You said it.

No, I'm asking you.

A cop's question is like a statement. You're shit if you leave now.

You're a policeman.

Arrest this girl, she was his accomplice.

Are you coming or not?

You'd better stay, there's been a crime.

People have been murdered.

Was Komondi killed?

- No, the circus performers. - The circus performers?

- Do you know their names? - How would I know?

- Where did they come from? - How would I know?

Which circus did they work for?

I don't know.

Have you seen the bodies?

I haven't.

So, what's the crime?

The fact that it happened.

Who did it?

- Hello. - Hello.

"Now I must ponder,"

"What would be if you didn't love me."

"I would put out my own fire, close my tired eyes, because its so good to die."

"If you didn't love me so, I'd sit under the white foaming green skies."

"Besides clouds of twittering stars on the banks of quietness."

"And contemplate the worlds like flowers on a bush."

Hmm... hmmm

Relax, you fool.

Alright, stay.

Stay, stay!

Stay, you idiot!

He's mad! Abnormal!

I know the guest who is coming.

He crawled from the earth a thousand years ago.

Life peeps out of bleeding wounds.

He limps away from our dead mother

His lips are switchblades, he gobbles

Fish die where he bathed in the lake.

The flowers in his hands are carvnivorous

He is shoved towards us by insane time

It makes no difference if you kill me.

I've completed my mission.

Now the idea of equality lives within you!

Indestructable!

Je vais mourir maintenant...

Now I shall die as punishment,

but not for any crime. It is because I have been dedicated the the great idea

I love you... I love you...

You will enter eterntiy.

Because eternity is created by human intellect.

And human intellect is an embodiment of energy.

You don't understand? It's simple.

You have a privileged intellect...

so you will be able to recreate a concetre Kati, even after death

Bardócz was present when I was born.

In the ambulance at Sarvar, April 11th, 1961, at 12 o'clock.

I hope you can understand me,

because you will have no chance to hear again.

Your problem is, you don't know what it's all about.

But it's bloody simple.

This world has been screwed up.

They say there used to be better ones.

Some remnants remain.

Just an explosion, a flash, and it was all over.

We must create catastrophes.

Fools say catastrophe is disaster. But its an engine turning the wheels

Perhaps a better world will be born.

People with six brains, so Einstein will be an illiterate to them

Understand? You don't understand anything! Drop dead!

Create both!

Hail Peter! Hail Paul!

The barometer indicates a squall

Ne sois pas triste ma belle, ça ne vaut pas un centime

Never mind, sweetheart, it means nothing at all

Hail Peter! Hail Paul!

Barometers don't worry me at all

There'll be fresh grapes and new bread for all

Hail Peter!, Hail Paul!

- How many are there? - I don't know.

Didn't you count them?

- Sure. - They should be resurrected.

Resurrect them!

Me?

Weren't you sent for that?

Why are you shouting?

Everyone knows you were meant to bring a little joy to this rotten world

Weren't you appointed to raise people from the dead?

Must you ask your Father for directives for every crappy case?

Come on, resurrect them!

If you don't you're a murderer too...

like your Dad who dumped us in this bloody world.

For a final twist, He added this death thing

What fun does the old turd get out of making everyone equal in death?

Great idea!

Let me be the first to congratulate Him!

- Don't be coarse! - Get started!

Which shall I start with?

Take them in the order laid out

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

And God saw that it was good.

A big black cloud is building up

with a greening, yellow-footed raven in the middle

Stop, raven and take my message...

to my father, mother and my betrothed

My angel, do you see that withering birch?

I'll marry you if it turns green again

I am a prisoner waiting to be freed.

God only knows when I shall be released.