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(♪ WAGNER:
Elegy for Piano in A Flat Major)

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(♪ Discordant piano chords echo)

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Yes, Father, I am listening.

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Do not be proud of the honor

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to which we are called today...

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(♪ Distant bugle)

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...fear it.

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From now on,
the path to salvation

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will be all the more difficult for you.

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Yes, Father.

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Learn to be humble.

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Humility is the greatest gift
I can wish for you.

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Listen to others,

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the wise and experienced men
around you.

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Try to learn from them.

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Remember, a truly great man

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is small within himself

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and cares nothing for renown.

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Yes, Father.

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You know the anguish I used to feel
thinking of this day.

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But I am not afraid anymore.

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For some time now,
I've felt at peace

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and I realize
how I must use my power.

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It seems so simple, so beautiful.

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I can invite truly wise men
to come to me.

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Great geniuses, great artists.

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And I can humbly ask for their help.

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They will create
the monuments of my reign.

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Isn't that what the rulers did
in ancient times?

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And I will become a better man.

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With the help of God.

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In fear of God.

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Serving God.

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Now, make an act of contrition.

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(Ludwig)
O God, I am heartily sorry...

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(Priest recites absolution in Latin)

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There is something that justifies
how I feel

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as I begin to conduct with you today

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this difficult and painful inquiry

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which aims at establishing
if our King

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is still, in our opinion

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fit to rule
our bereaved, ill-fated

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despised, ridiculed
and tormented Bavaria

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without betraying
the unwavering trust of his people.

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What I am referring to

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is that I am one of the few.

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One of the very few ministers who
has been in office without suspension

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since March 1864.

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Since the day when, full of illusions
and hopes, we all applauded

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our prince as he was crowned
and ascended to power.

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(♪ Military band starts playing)

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The Secretary of the Treasury.

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And now the ambassadors.

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Their Excellencies the Ambassadors
of Prussia and Austria.

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Excuse me, Your Highness.

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- His Majesty is almost ready.
- Very well.

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- Only two more minutes
- Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Your Majesty,
the King would like to see you.

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Thank you.

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Champagne.

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All right.

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I would like to remind my illustrious
colleagues of our astonishment when

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during the first meeting convened
by His Majesty, we were told that

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the only necessary and urgent
thing that needed to be done

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was tracing immediately
Maestro Wagner

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and trying everything in our power
to convince him

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to move to our country.

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What is all this?

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These are the reports
on the police officials

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I sent to find Mr Wagner, Sire.

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Police?
Why did you employ the police?

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I am not a detective, Your Majesty.

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And Mr Wagner is difficult to find.

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He is not in Munich,
not in Vienna, not in Neuchâtel.

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But he was in all those places

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up to a few moments before
the arrival of our officials

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who went to look for him.

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As Your Majesty can see
from report number four

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we have word that Mr Wagner
is traveling to Stuttgart.

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But I am waiting for confirmation.

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Confirmation? From whom?
From some other policemen?

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I thought I had made myself clear.

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I don't wish to arrest Wagner

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In all humility, I want to beg him
to honor me with a visit

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because I am convinced

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that the presence of a great poet
and composer like Richard Wagner

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could be of invaluable help
and prestige for us.

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It is not a police official who should
be sent to deliver my invitation.

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The maestro is surely,
and rightly, incited -

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that is why he doesn't wish
to be found.

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If my information is correct,

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it is not our police officials
Wagner is fleeing, Your Majesty,

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it is his creditors.

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Nonsense!

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If Wagner is in Stuttgart,
I will go personally

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and offer my apologies
and my invitation.

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I must remind Your Majesty
that our Foreign Minister

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most warmly urges Your Majesty
to visit Bad Ischl.

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Not only are the Emperor of Austria
and the Empress Elisabeth there,

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but also the Crown Prince of Prussia,
the Tsarina and...

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Does our Foreign Minister
fail to realize

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that our friendship with Richard Wagner
is far more important

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than alliance with all the crown heads
on holiday at Bad Ischl?

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I am afraid
he does not realize that, Sire.

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Try to explain it to him,
and tell him know that

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I won't move from here until
Richard Wagner has been found!

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If that is the case, Sire,
I promise to solve the problem myself.

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- It is only a question of price.
- Let's not make any further mistakes.

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Wagner will be given
a letter from me and a gift.

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I should perhaps
have been more explicit, Sire,

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I agree. A gift is required.

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Now, as for Your Majesty's visit
to Bad Ischl, we will...

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It has been a long time
since we last met, <i>mon cousin.</i>

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Sometimes I have doubts about
my future as an Empress.

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So, as you can see,
I am considering a new career

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as a circus rider.

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Have you changed?

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i>Ma <cousine.</i>

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<i>Mon cousin</i>... How long has it been
since we saw each other?

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Five years...

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No, more.
Five years and six months.

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You have a very good memory.

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(Chuckles)

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<i>Grazie. À demain.</i>

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I am sorry I could not be
at your coronation, but I was...

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Where was I? Let me think.

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Your ambassador said
you were ill in bed.

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That's not true.
I was going to come,

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but the thought
of meeting all my relatives

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made me change my mind.

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- The same happened to me today
- Really?

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I was about to go for dinner
when I heard you were here

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- Who told you?
- My aide-de-camp. He knows everything.

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He knew you were not going to attend
tonight's official dinner...

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...with the excuse of being ill, as usual.

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He also knew where you were.

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So...
I came here looking for you.

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I suppose you pretended
to be ill as well.

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Yes, you have changed, indeed.
You are much more handsome.

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The most handsome king in Europe.

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(Laughs)

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That's not much
of a compliment, though.

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Did you come to greet me
or to spy on me?

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I don't know.

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Both.

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And you gave me an excuse
to avoid the dinner.

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I am not used to official gatherings yet

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I suppose it takes training.
But you, too.

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Oh, with me things are different.

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I escape whenever I feel like it
under everyone's nose.

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But you know, it's true.

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People have been telling me
you look more and more like me.

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- Do you not think, mon cousin?
- I do not know

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I would like to, though.

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- Would you?
- Why not?

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I would like it, too.

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You can return to the inn,
Countess Ferenczy. I have an escort.

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- Very well, Your Majesty.
- Am I right?

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- I do not want to go home right away.
- As you wish.

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- I am your hostage.
- Of course.

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Changes can be deceiving.

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New places, new faces,

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new habits to learn.

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In other words,

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there was enough to make
someone like me feel content.

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At the beginning,
I did not even miss my family.

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I was occupied.
I had a husband to love,

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before I realized that he did not
know what to do with my love.

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He was looking for love elsewhere.

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And I had a mother-in-law
to win over,

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before I realized
that she is actually a hateful woman.

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She even denied me
the right to raise my children.

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My own children - entrusted with
tutors, generals and priests -

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became strangers to me.

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Then, all of a sudden,
you discover that...

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the house you've been living in
is just a gloomy, sinister palace.

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You start wondering why you've spent
the last ten years trapped there.

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How awful.

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You feel betrayed,

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like a moth that's drawn to a house
by the lights

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but gets trapped inside.

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I suddenly realized it all,

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as though I'd woken up
from a long sleep.

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My illness was the sorrow.

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Then one day I left.

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Madeira, Corfu...

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Greece...

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Italy.

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Ah, Italy.

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<i>Kennst du das Land,
wo die Zitronen blühn</i>

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I still protect myself
by running away.

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They say I am eccentric.

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But they said that even before,

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when it became clear
I hated that prison Hofburg.

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When it became clear
I really could not bear a husband

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always in uniform
always going to war.

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Whatever I do or say,
they criticise me.

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So why shouldn't I do as I please?

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Everyone has always spoken to me
about you with great admiration.

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Yes.

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When I visit the hospitals,
the wounded soldiers cheer me and cry.

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I carry off official visits
very well.

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I only have to be beautiful
and charm someone.

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Just as you are supposed to do here.

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Whom are you to charm?
The Tsar?

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I hear they want you
to marry his daughter.

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I have heard that too.

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But... I don't want marry yet.

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- I am only 19
- I was 16 when I married.

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Now they say I was too young,
that's why I soon became bored.

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They say I have many lovers,
even among my footmen!

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What do you think?
Is it true?

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I think all men must
fall in love with you.

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You are very kind,
but not an answer.

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Is it true or not?

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I have never heard it said.

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You won't answer. All right.

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I shall ask you another question.

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Is what they say about you
the truth?

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What have they said to you?

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- You never have had a woman.
- I am a Catholic.

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(Laughs)
Is that the reason?

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They also say that
you like to be alone...

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That despise the people
around you.

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That you go riding at night.

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They call you
"The Moonlight Lover".

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I do the same.

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But I don't believe I am Siegfried.

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I never thought I was Siegfried.

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Not till tonight.

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Do you know
the only time Siegfried feels fear?

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When he first meets a woman.

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- Thank you.
- Gentlemen.

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- <i>Ma cousine</i>
- I don't like her.

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Who?

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The Tsarina. You shan't marry her.
I forbid it.

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I obey.

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You may call and command me,
I shall always obey.

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Careful. I might take you seriously.

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No, you always joke with me.

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You don't understand.

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You are very handsome,
but not very quick witted.

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That is why I need you.

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Ha, apparently not.
You are leaving tomorrow.

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I must.

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If it stops snowing,
in three days we will have a full moon.

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I will be alone.

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We can go riding in the night.
Will you come with me?

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What is your pressing business
in Munich?

251
00:24:28,009 --> 00:24:30,049
Who is waiting for you there?

252
00:24:31,721 --> 00:24:34,891
I shall ask our secret service.

253
00:24:35,016 --> 00:24:36,846
You are keeping something
from me.

254
00:24:38,769 --> 00:24:41,309
When I took over the secretariat

255
00:24:41,439 --> 00:24:45,819
and became aware
of the seriousness of the situation,

256
00:24:45,943 --> 00:24:48,993
I was horrified.

257
00:24:49,113 --> 00:24:53,083
I sent a memorandum to the King,
who was away from Munich,

258
00:24:53,201 --> 00:24:56,041
telling him that
a single performance of <i>Tristan</i>

259
00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:59,372
cost more than the maintenance
of an entire battalion.

260
00:25:00,291 --> 00:25:02,171
I received no reply.

261
00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:08,300
For pity's sake! This house
is not good enough for me at all.

262
00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:10,894
It has to be furnished throughout.

263
00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:15,314
The curtains need changing.
I need a new piano.

264
00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:20,943
And the replacement furniture I want
hasn't arrived yet from Vienna.

265
00:25:21,062 --> 00:25:23,942
But you're lacking anything.
I think it's too beautiful.

266
00:25:24,065 --> 00:25:28,145
Too beautiful?
What could that be, eh? Nothing!

267
00:25:28,277 --> 00:25:33,157
Nothing can be "too beautiful"
in the place I'm going to work.

268
00:25:33,282 --> 00:25:37,292
Am I supposed to be an outcast
sleeping on a straw mattress?

269
00:25:37,411 --> 00:25:39,621
I detest everything mediocre,
less than the best.

270
00:25:39,747 --> 00:25:41,617
I must have the best
if I am to work.

271
00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:45,497
I need even more: security.

272
00:25:45,628 --> 00:25:48,628
Uncertainty about the future
destroys my nerves.

273
00:25:48,756 --> 00:25:51,586
I become ill.
I'm unable to write a single note.

274
00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:53,637
What's the use of dreaming

275
00:25:53,761 --> 00:25:56,641
about performances of my works
when I'm dead?

276
00:25:56,764 --> 00:25:59,234
I want my music performed now,

277
00:25:59,350 --> 00:26:01,810
when I say, as I say.

278
00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:06,685
Of course. But now this isn't a dream,
it's a marvellous reality.

279
00:26:06,816 --> 00:26:12,196
It's a reality? No, you're right,
it is marvellous.

280
00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:14,621
There's this house, my stipend,

281
00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:17,450
and <i>Tristan</i>
about to go into rehearsal.

282
00:26:17,577 --> 00:26:20,367
Poor Tristan,
he has waited six years.

283
00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:23,116
And soon we will have the theater
I have always dreamed of.

284
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:24,879
The King has given me a free hand.

285
00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:28,091
I've written to Semper.
Yes, he'll be down here with the plans.

286
00:26:28,212 --> 00:26:30,092
He's going to have his work
cut out for him.

287
00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:35,014
We must start engaging the singers
for <i>Tristan</i> at once.

288
00:26:35,136 --> 00:26:37,136
Do you think Mayer will be free?

289
00:26:37,263 --> 00:26:38,563
(Dog whines)

290
00:26:38,681 --> 00:26:42,351
- If not, who would you...?
- I hope he isn't free.

291
00:26:42,476 --> 00:26:45,016
Another singer might be better.

292
00:26:45,146 --> 00:26:47,356
For some time now
he's, er...

293
00:26:50,276 --> 00:26:54,776
Forgive me, but are you sure
there will be no objections to me?

294
00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:58,991
After all, Munich has some
quite able conductors.

295
00:26:59,118 --> 00:27:02,788
If someone is brought in from outside...
Well, there could be objections.

296
00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:06,291
I have no objections
and that's all that matters.

297
00:27:06,417 --> 00:27:09,417
The King has given me a free hand,
I told you.

298
00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:13,465
He embraced me and almost knelt
at my feet when I first met him.

299
00:27:13,591 --> 00:27:15,301
I was moved.

300
00:27:15,426 --> 00:27:16,796
Deeply moved.

301
00:27:17,762 --> 00:27:19,762
A strange boy.

302
00:27:19,889 --> 00:27:22,019
I need to present you to him.

303
00:27:23,476 --> 00:27:25,556
If he ever comes back -
he said he'd be away

304
00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:28,936
only two or three days,
and that was three weeks ago.

305
00:27:29,065 --> 00:27:32,935
The court authorities take advantage
of his absence. They stop paying bills.

306
00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:36,659
"The King must authorise the payments,"
they say. It's grotesque.

307
00:27:36,781 --> 00:27:37,821
(Dog whines)

308
00:27:38,491 --> 00:27:40,991
He is like a young god
descended from Olympus,

309
00:27:41,118 --> 00:27:46,538
but he is surrounded by stupid,
suspicious boars - a pack of them.

310
00:27:46,666 --> 00:27:49,416
I won't make a single friend there.

311
00:27:49,543 --> 00:27:51,593
You must come and stay with me.

312
00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:52,922
(Bellows)

313
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:56,843
(Makes playful animal noises)

314
00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:21,865
(Gasping for breath)

315
00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:25,002
So, that's decided, isn't it?

316
00:28:25,121 --> 00:28:27,711
Come upstairs.
I'll show you the rest of the house

317
00:28:27,832 --> 00:28:30,292
- You don't mind, do you?
- No, of course I don't.

318
00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:47,056
But the children will disturb you.

319
00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:54,362
Nonsense. The house is large,
they won't be a nuisance.

320
00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:31,975
Another child will soon be here.

321
00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:37,149
(Kisses)

322
00:29:51,332 --> 00:29:55,542
<i>Can you not smell
the fragrance of the night?</i>

323
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:59,089
<i>Enchanting our souls
with such sweetness</i>

324
00:29:59,215 --> 00:30:01,925
<i>Drifting upon us
mysteriously through the air</i>

325
00:30:02,051 --> 00:30:06,061
<i>My questions melt away
as I yield to its spell</i>

326
00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:11,774
<i>The same magic drew me to you,
my dear</i>

327
00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:16,114
<i>On that wondrous day
when our eyes first met</i>

328
00:30:16,232 --> 00:30:19,822
<i>No more would I hunger
for answers</i>

329
00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:23,664
<i>My eyes saw you,
and my heart...</i>

330
00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:26,333
<i>My heart understood</i>

331
00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:31,327
I like poetry, I understand it,

332
00:30:31,455 --> 00:30:33,705
but I wouldn't miss the music
so much.

333
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:36,543
But the beauty of Wagner's poetry
is in the music.

334
00:30:36,669 --> 00:30:39,089
And the beauty of his music
is in the poetry.

335
00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:41,223
One cannot exist without the other

336
00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:45,140
and from this powerful fusion
a new language is born

337
00:30:45,261 --> 00:30:49,521
that everyone can understand
anywhere in the world.

338
00:30:50,766 --> 00:30:54,306
A language
that can even spread ideas.

339
00:30:57,857 --> 00:31:00,987
I cannot explain it,
but I know...

340
00:31:01,110 --> 00:31:05,320
I know that the best thing
you can do for your people

341
00:31:05,447 --> 00:31:08,237
is to enrich their minds.

342
00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:11,867
<i>Mon cousin</i>, what do you want
to make of your Bavaria?

343
00:31:11,996 --> 00:31:14,116
A nation of musicians?

344
00:31:14,248 --> 00:31:15,828
(Laughs)

345
00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:18,418
Are you making fun of me?

346
00:31:18,544 --> 00:31:21,214
It is a very important matter,
at least for me.

347
00:31:22,590 --> 00:31:24,970
To Wagner I owe my strength,

348
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,972
my willingness
to do something in life

349
00:31:28,095 --> 00:31:30,845
to be useful to somebody
in the world

350
00:31:30,973 --> 00:31:34,483
even if he has the modest role
of an intermediary.

351
00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:39,440
I owe all of this to him.
As I owe to you.

352
00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,855
What do you owe me?

353
00:31:43,861 --> 00:31:47,071
I owe you the happiness
of the past few days.

354
00:31:47,197 --> 00:31:50,947
I spent them looking forward
to seeing you again.

355
00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:53,996
Pure and utter bliss.

356
00:31:56,165 --> 00:32:00,285
Promise me to always help me
and not to abandon me.

357
00:32:00,419 --> 00:32:03,209
- Will you promise me?
- Yes.

358
00:32:05,257 --> 00:32:09,047
You are like a child, Ludwig.
And a crazy one too.

359
00:32:10,387 --> 00:32:14,597
We all are in our family, including me.
I am sure about this.

360
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:22,479
Promise me you will never leave me.
Only this.

361
00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:26,448
That I will always be able to see you
if I need to,

362
00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:28,820
even if only for a moment.

363
00:32:28,948 --> 00:32:32,028
A moment all for myself.

364
00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:37,044
Very well.
But how can this happen?

365
00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:39,424
You are in Munich, I am in Vienna.

366
00:32:44,421 --> 00:32:46,421
I will go everywhere you are.

367
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:50,888
You never visit me... but I know
you often go to Possenhofen.

368
00:32:51,011 --> 00:32:52,391
Am I right?

369
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:57,226
From now on, I will...

370
00:32:57,351 --> 00:33:00,351
I know when
you have to come here -

371
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:02,859
for Wagner's <i>Tristan,</i>

372
00:33:02,982 --> 00:33:06,362
the opera
that we have decided to stage.

373
00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:09,025
He has been waiting for six years.

374
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,874
I promised him
that he would stage it.

375
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:14,662
You must come and see it.

376
00:33:14,785 --> 00:33:16,655
It is wonderful.

377
00:33:16,787 --> 00:33:20,077
You will understand everything
I have been trying to tell you.

378
00:33:20,207 --> 00:33:21,917
You will also understand me

379
00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:25,802
and what's happened to me
over the past few days.

380
00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:28,671
Then you will share
a moment with me

381
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,759
and you'll be able to say,

382
00:33:30,884 --> 00:33:32,224
"Now I understand."

383
00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:36,060
Do you know where
I'll wait for you?

384
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:38,351
Hmm?

385
00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:41,055
Remember five years ago,

386
00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:43,356
the Island of Roses?

387
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,320
The flag high on the yard means,
"I am waiting for you."

388
00:33:49,486 --> 00:33:51,696
Remember?

389
00:33:51,822 --> 00:33:53,742
Come.

390
00:33:53,866 --> 00:33:56,656
You have to promise me.

391
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,825
<i>Tristan...</i>

392
00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:03,415
is like an ocean
of harmonious sounds

393
00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:06,382
where you can abandon yourself

394
00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:08,673
as though in someone's arms.

395
00:35:04,144 --> 00:35:05,734
Please stay.

396
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:12,154
Elizabeth.

397
00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:13,527
Sophie.

398
00:35:17,991 --> 00:35:20,541
- Where have you been?
- When did you all arrive?

399
00:35:20,661 --> 00:35:25,671
Late. Countess Ferenczy said you were
in bed and did not want to be disturbed.

400
00:35:25,791 --> 00:35:28,251
She said it was your wish.

401
00:35:28,377 --> 00:35:30,497
And you listen to countess Ferenczy?
She is stupid.

402
00:35:34,258 --> 00:35:36,088
Yes, I did not feel too well.

403
00:35:36,218 --> 00:35:37,678
(Both laugh)

404
00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:42,345
- So to speak.
- Where have you been? Tell me.

405
00:35:42,516 --> 00:35:44,636
I could not sleep,
so I went out for a ride.

406
00:35:44,852 --> 00:35:47,192
- On your own?
- Of course.

407
00:35:47,312 --> 00:35:50,402
Well, with the groom.
Is that all right?

408
00:35:51,608 --> 00:35:53,738
Let's go, help me to undress.

409
00:36:01,827 --> 00:36:03,827
You look very well.

410
00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:12,708
- You are very pretty
- Really?

411
00:36:14,173 --> 00:36:16,513
And in the next few days here,

412
00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:18,973
you will have to be
even prettier than usual.

413
00:36:20,387 --> 00:36:22,427
Why is that?

414
00:36:25,225 --> 00:36:27,975
- Somebody is eagerly waiting for you.
- For me?

415
00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:39,204
He delayed his departure for 15 days,
can you imagine?

416
00:36:39,323 --> 00:36:41,533
- Just to see you.
- Who are you talking about?

417
00:36:44,328 --> 00:36:45,748
Who is he?

418
00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:52,543
Who would you like him to be? Eh?

419
00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,379
I do not know.

420
00:37:00,802 --> 00:37:05,312
He is handsome, he is a king.
He will be your husband

421
00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:07,642
- Who is he?
- Ludwig.

422
00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:15,480
Yes, that's right, our cousin.

423
00:37:19,154 --> 00:37:23,374
- Ludwig.
- (Laughs) Ludwig.

424
00:37:43,303 --> 00:37:45,063
Her Majesty regrets,

425
00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:47,600
she is not well this morning
and will not go riding.

426
00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:51,645
Her Majesty asked me

427
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:54,190
to invite Your Majesty
to dine with her this evening

428
00:37:54,314 --> 00:37:57,074
at 7 o'clock
in her private apartments.

429
00:37:57,276 --> 00:37:59,276
Thank Your Majesty for me,
Countess Ferenczy.

430
00:37:59,403 --> 00:38:01,663
I shall be delighted to accept.

431
00:38:07,077 --> 00:38:08,157
My horse!

432
00:38:36,732 --> 00:38:37,942
(Heels click)

433
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:49,490
- <i>Ma tante</i>
- Your Majesty.

434
00:38:50,746 --> 00:38:52,826
Marie.
Kärl-Teodor.

435
00:38:52,956 --> 00:38:54,246
(Click of heels)

436
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:02,011
- Your Majesty.
- Sophie.

437
00:39:09,056 --> 00:39:10,596
Matilde.

438
00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:18,318
Nenè.

439
00:39:19,608 --> 00:39:20,728
Maximilian.

440
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,189
(Click of heels)

441
00:39:26,031 --> 00:39:29,331
I wasn't aware you had come
to Bad Ischl with your whole family.

442
00:39:29,951 --> 00:39:33,541
Your Majesty knows Elisabeth
and her whims.

443
00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:36,423
Suddenly, she missed her
brothers and sisters

444
00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:40,341
and we all had to rush
to cheer her up.

445
00:39:51,848 --> 00:39:54,228
- You look very well, <i>ma tante.</i>
- Thank you, Your Majesty.

446
00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:56,654
The air is good in Bad Ischl.

447
00:39:56,812 --> 00:39:59,902
I have not heard from your Mother
for a long time. How is she?

448
00:40:04,653 --> 00:40:05,993
(Click of heels)

449
00:40:06,113 --> 00:40:08,203
<i>Mon cousin.</i>

450
00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:12,491
One of my couriers
was going to Schlossberg

451
00:40:12,619 --> 00:40:15,249
and I knew that
in a greenhouse there...

452
00:40:15,372 --> 00:40:17,002
Oh.

453
00:40:18,792 --> 00:40:21,842
Mmm. What a lovely scent.

454
00:40:23,463 --> 00:40:25,673
Sophie, smell them.

455
00:40:26,842 --> 00:40:29,092
Oh, yes. Wonderful

456
00:40:36,268 --> 00:40:39,398
- I haven't seen you for a long time.
- It is a pleasure to be back.

457
00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:41,651
- How have you been?
- Fine, thank you.

458
00:40:47,362 --> 00:40:51,162
There has not been such
a brilliant gathering at Bad Ischl

459
00:40:51,283 --> 00:40:54,243
for many years, I believe.

460
00:40:55,245 --> 00:40:58,495
Elisabeth tells me
the Tsarina is here

461
00:40:58,623 --> 00:41:01,003
and the Crown Prince of Prussia.

462
00:41:01,126 --> 00:41:05,296
The Emperor will join us
in a few days.

463
00:41:05,422 --> 00:41:08,802
- <i>N'est-ce pas</i>, Elisabeth?
- Yes.

464
00:41:08,925 --> 00:41:13,425
Yes, Franz sent me a telegram.
He will be here as soon as possible.

465
00:41:13,555 --> 00:41:17,515
Quite a family reunion, isn't it?

466
00:41:20,645 --> 00:41:25,145
Your Majesty was right to mention
the matter to Elisabeth.

467
00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:30,695
Sophie's presence here will seem
just a normal holiday.

468
00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:35,041
- Sophie?
- Yes.

469
00:41:36,369 --> 00:41:40,869
Sophie adores Wagner's music
almost as much as you, <i>mon cousin</i>

470
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,920
I am sure the two of you
have many things to talk about.

471
00:41:45,879 --> 00:41:49,169
Unfortunately,
I must put off that pleasure.

472
00:41:49,299 --> 00:41:50,929
I only came here to say goodbye.

473
00:41:53,094 --> 00:41:55,144
I must be in Munich
tomorrow morning.

474
00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:56,853
I leave tonight.

475
00:41:58,975 --> 00:42:03,605
And now, <i>ma tante,</i>
will you excuse me?

476
00:42:22,207 --> 00:42:23,877
(Clicks heels)

477
00:42:33,260 --> 00:42:34,930
Ludwig.

478
00:42:47,023 --> 00:42:50,443
Thank you for the happiness
of these last few days.

479
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:52,820
I will be expecting you,

480
00:42:52,946 --> 00:42:55,616
even if you never
gave me your promise.

481
00:43:13,717 --> 00:43:16,507
(Ludwig) You must come.
When you hear Wagner's opera,

482
00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:19,756
you will understand everything
I have been trying to say.

483
00:43:19,889 --> 00:43:21,809
You will understand me, too.

484
00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:24,103
What's happened to me
these past few days...

485
00:43:24,227 --> 00:43:26,557
You must come. You must!

486
00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:32,776
The staging of Richard Wagner's
<i>Tristan</i>

487
00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:36,824
in June 1865

488
00:43:36,990 --> 00:43:40,290
cost a fortune to the State.

489
00:43:40,452 --> 00:43:45,922
To that unwise spending, we should add
the King's personal expenses

490
00:43:46,082 --> 00:43:50,502
to receive in an adequate way
Empress Elisabeth

491
00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:52,798
who instead decided not to attend.

492
00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:57,722
And in doing so, she signalled
to everyone her disapproval.

493
00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:04,934
(♪ WAGNER: "Tristan and Isolde",
Liebestod)

494
00:45:42,949 --> 00:45:45,739
I hate having anyone wait for me.

495
00:45:45,869 --> 00:45:47,949
And I hate to disappoint people,

496
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:49,959
arousing false hopes.

497
00:45:52,041 --> 00:45:55,131
I had no hopes.
You didn't come to the theater

498
00:45:55,253 --> 00:45:58,633
and I was sure
you wouldn't come here.

499
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:00,006
It was a triumph.

500
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:02,929
You should have seen it.

501
00:46:03,052 --> 00:46:05,312
The audience applauded
for hours, it seemed.

502
00:46:08,141 --> 00:46:12,811
When Wagner appeared on stage,
he said...

503
00:46:12,937 --> 00:46:15,687
I wish I could remember
the exact words.

504
00:46:15,815 --> 00:46:19,485
He said,
"Like Tristan and Isolde who drink..."

505
00:46:19,611 --> 00:46:21,911
- How much did it all cost?
- What?

506
00:46:22,030 --> 00:46:24,870
Everything - Wagner, the conductor,

507
00:46:24,991 --> 00:46:26,741
the conductor's family,

508
00:46:26,868 --> 00:46:29,288
a house for Wagner,
for the conductor, for his family.

509
00:46:29,412 --> 00:46:31,372
Why do you ask me this?

510
00:46:31,498 --> 00:46:33,788
What does it matter?
It was a triumph.

511
00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:36,997
A triumph(!)
Triumphs are quickly forgotten.

512
00:46:37,128 --> 00:46:39,798
Royals may have aroused
the fiercest criticism,

513
00:46:39,923 --> 00:46:42,683
but here criticism started
even before the triumphs.

514
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,260
You, of all people,

515
00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:49,387
worry about the malicious criticism
of the public?

516
00:46:49,516 --> 00:46:51,726
Yes, when it is deserved.

517
00:46:56,773 --> 00:46:59,073
What is your ambition?

518
00:47:00,985 --> 00:47:05,105
To go down in history
thanks to Richard Wagner?

519
00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:08,280
Like my mother-in-law
with her ridiculous painters?

520
00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:11,367
If your Richard Wagner
is as great as you say,

521
00:47:11,496 --> 00:47:12,996
then he doesn't need you.

522
00:47:14,457 --> 00:47:15,787
Your pathetic friendship

523
00:47:15,917 --> 00:47:18,997
only gives you the illusion
of having created something.

524
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,630
Just as I give you
the illusion of love.

525
00:47:26,761 --> 00:47:29,431
You cannot stay alone.

526
00:47:29,556 --> 00:47:32,266
You want me to be
your impossible love

527
00:47:32,392 --> 00:47:34,562
to justify yourself somehow.

528
00:47:38,273 --> 00:47:40,613
You need help I cannot give you.

529
00:48:01,838 --> 00:48:04,338
Marry.

530
00:48:04,465 --> 00:48:05,795
Marry Sophie.

531
00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:12,562
But... I have never loved
another woman than you.

532
00:48:16,269 --> 00:48:18,479
Love is a duty also.

533
00:48:18,605 --> 00:48:21,515
And your duty is to face reality.

534
00:48:22,734 --> 00:48:24,494
Forget your dreams.

535
00:48:26,362 --> 00:48:28,992
Rulers like us
have nothing to do with history.

536
00:48:31,242 --> 00:48:34,202
We are only a display.

537
00:48:34,329 --> 00:48:36,289
History will forget us.

538
00:48:37,957 --> 00:48:41,747
Unless someone makes us
seem important by assassinating us.

539
00:48:41,878 --> 00:48:45,668
(♪ Plays delicate, lyrical waltz
from "La Périchole" by Jacques Offenbach)

540
00:48:59,062 --> 00:49:02,482
That's the music
the German people like, not mine.

541
00:49:03,775 --> 00:49:05,525
Not a day goes by now

542
00:49:05,652 --> 00:49:08,702
without some attack on me
in the Munich papers.

543
00:49:08,821 --> 00:49:10,321
Stop reading them.

544
00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,778
I shall give orders to keep
the newspapers away from you.

545
00:49:12,909 --> 00:49:15,619
You should forbid me
to leave the house as well.

546
00:49:15,745 --> 00:49:17,905
People insult me in the street.

547
00:49:22,293 --> 00:49:24,633
I really would like
to keep you prisoner,

548
00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:27,304
because then I would know
you were working -

549
00:49:27,423 --> 00:49:30,093
for yourself and for me.

550
00:49:30,218 --> 00:49:33,178
Sometimes I wonder
if my strength will last.

551
00:49:34,681 --> 00:49:36,271
I must, at least, have faith in you.

552
00:49:36,391 --> 00:49:40,311
I think sometimes
it's life itself I fear.

553
00:49:40,436 --> 00:49:43,146
Or life as it was
before I met Your Majesty.

554
00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:47,282
Now, as Your Majesty can see,

555
00:49:47,402 --> 00:49:51,362
we've done away with the boxes -
the house is like an amphitheater.

556
00:49:51,489 --> 00:49:55,449
The audience is one ideal
community with no divisions or rank.

557
00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:58,406
And the orchestra is
well below the stage.

558
00:49:58,538 --> 00:50:01,458
But I can show you that more clearly
in another drawing.

559
00:50:01,582 --> 00:50:04,042
And the lighting is entirely new.

560
00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:07,168
The spectator will be able
to concentrate on the stage.

561
00:50:07,296 --> 00:50:10,376
We must be able to plunge the house
into total darkness.

562
00:50:11,259 --> 00:50:13,219
How many seats will there be?

563
00:50:13,344 --> 00:50:16,684
1,500. ..
Yes, perhaps 1,700.

564
00:50:16,806 --> 00:50:18,266
Semper will go into all that later.

565
00:50:18,391 --> 00:50:20,641
I should like to have
at least 2,000,

566
00:50:20,768 --> 00:50:22,648
but the cost...

567
00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:26,150
No doubt they'll finally decide on
a much smaller theater,

568
00:50:26,274 --> 00:50:28,744
or cancel the whole project.

569
00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:30,530
Why do you say that?

570
00:50:30,653 --> 00:50:34,783
Because that's the way it will end,
I feel sure.

571
00:50:35,408 --> 00:50:39,748
Just think of the talk
the performance of <i>Tristan</i> caused.

572
00:50:39,871 --> 00:50:41,461
I can imagine the comments

573
00:50:41,581 --> 00:50:43,461
when the construction
of a new theater is announced.

574
00:50:43,583 --> 00:50:45,713
They'll all behave
as if they're being robbed.

575
00:50:45,835 --> 00:50:47,335
They will want to arrest me.

576
00:50:47,462 --> 00:50:50,592
It's impossible to work
for such and ignorant public.

577
00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:52,795
Great thinkers
have always acknowledged

578
00:50:52,925 --> 00:50:54,585
the importance of music
to a nation.

579
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,009
But here,
they talk only of waste of money.

580
00:50:57,138 --> 00:50:58,218
They count every pfennig.

581
00:50:58,347 --> 00:51:00,847
This much for the tenor,
for the soprano, the orchestra.

582
00:51:01,809 --> 00:51:04,649
Such criticism isn't censure.
They have another paramount.

583
00:51:04,771 --> 00:51:06,151
It's bloody stupidity!

584
00:51:06,272 --> 00:51:09,192
Forgive me, Sire, but
<i>Tristan's</i> success gave me such joy.

585
00:51:09,317 --> 00:51:10,687
Such hope.

586
00:51:10,818 --> 00:51:12,738
Now these vulgar attacks
are ruining everything.

587
00:51:12,862 --> 00:51:15,412
They're affecting Your Majesty too.

588
00:51:15,531 --> 00:51:18,531
You are troubled, sad,
without enthusiasm.

589
00:51:18,659 --> 00:51:21,619
I? No, no, that's not it.

590
00:51:21,746 --> 00:51:23,786
How can you think that?

591
00:51:24,916 --> 00:51:27,996
If you weren't here with me,
I would be in despair.

592
00:51:29,587 --> 00:51:32,257
You, my salvation.

593
00:51:32,381 --> 00:51:34,131
My only comfort.

594
00:51:35,218 --> 00:51:39,558
I am putting all my strength
into the building of this theater.

595
00:51:40,973 --> 00:51:42,523
All of my love.

596
00:51:54,654 --> 00:51:57,074
Forgive me for disturbing you,
but it is getting dark

597
00:51:57,198 --> 00:51:59,528
and poor Fanny did not dare
come and light the lamps.

598
00:51:59,659 --> 00:52:01,329
She asked my help.

599
00:52:04,914 --> 00:52:07,924
Oh, no, you must forgive us.

600
00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:18,925
- May I have the honor of serving tea?
- Yes, thank you.

601
00:52:24,308 --> 00:52:25,728
How are you today, Maestro?

602
00:52:27,228 --> 00:52:29,688
- Were you able to rest a bit?
-Mmm.

603
00:52:30,523 --> 00:52:32,903
- Milk, Your Majesty?
- Thank you.

604
00:52:35,862 --> 00:52:39,532
- Have you been unwell?
- No, no. Nothing.

605
00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:41,527
Why wasn't I informed?

606
00:52:42,827 --> 00:52:44,117
Thank you.

607
00:52:44,245 --> 00:52:46,785
- I could have waited until tomorrow
- I am quite well.

608
00:52:46,914 --> 00:52:49,214
That is not true.

609
00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:53,344
Anyone with sensitive nerves like me
has their ups and downs.

610
00:52:53,462 --> 00:52:56,132
I have had headaches
for years.

611
00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:58,297
This was not just a headache.

612
00:52:58,426 --> 00:53:01,716
I don't see why His Majesty
shouldn't know the state of your health.

613
00:53:03,014 --> 00:53:04,104
Please,

614
00:53:04,223 --> 00:53:06,683
I want you to tell me the truth
about the Maestro's illness.

615
00:53:06,809 --> 00:53:08,059
I have told you the truth.

616
00:53:08,185 --> 00:53:09,895
No!

617
00:53:10,021 --> 00:53:11,361
No.

618
00:53:13,065 --> 00:53:17,775
Well... I can speak as a someone
who has lived in daily communication

619
00:53:17,904 --> 00:53:20,784
with the Maestro
only for a short time,

620
00:53:20,907 --> 00:53:23,987
but my impressions are the same
as my husband's,

621
00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:26,788
who is the Maestro's great friend
and collaborator.

622
00:53:28,122 --> 00:53:31,712
It's true, the Maestro has always
suffered from nervous strain,

623
00:53:31,834 --> 00:53:34,214
but recently it has got worse.

624
00:53:34,337 --> 00:53:37,507
In addition to his headaches,
he has insomnia, and...

625
00:53:37,632 --> 00:53:39,722
Well, I'm quite concerned.

626
00:53:39,842 --> 00:53:42,642
But I think medicine
can do little in such cases.

627
00:53:43,346 --> 00:53:47,386
The real reason for the anxiety
must be found and eradicated.

628
00:53:47,516 --> 00:53:51,096
I've told him not to worry about those
scandal sheets. They're not worth it.

629
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:55,688
Forgive me, Sire, but it is not
that criticism which upsets Maestro.

630
00:53:55,816 --> 00:53:58,736
It's not the uncertainty
of the theater project either.

631
00:54:00,196 --> 00:54:02,236
He is worried about the future.

632
00:54:02,365 --> 00:54:06,325
About his inability to settle
a painful situation

633
00:54:06,452 --> 00:54:09,082
which has haunted him for too long.

634
00:54:09,205 --> 00:54:14,455
Some debts made in the past...
Forgive me, dear Maestro.

635
00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:19,005
His Majesty asked for my opinion,
I must give it to him honestly.

636
00:54:19,382 --> 00:54:21,432
All those worries are past now.

637
00:54:21,550 --> 00:54:24,510
- I am here.
- Of course, Your Majesty!

638
00:54:24,637 --> 00:54:28,517
But... I must admit
that the Maestro is right.

639
00:54:29,976 --> 00:54:31,766
When one is a guest,

640
00:54:31,894 --> 00:54:34,814
one cannot enjoy absolute security.

641
00:54:34,939 --> 00:54:37,569
But the Maestro is not a guest.

642
00:54:37,692 --> 00:54:40,862
He receives a stipend
like any collaborator.

643
00:54:40,987 --> 00:54:42,527
Like the most valued of collaborators.

644
00:54:42,655 --> 00:54:44,985
Of course.
Why are we discussing such things?

645
00:54:45,116 --> 00:54:49,286
Because they are things you mention
often and think of constantly.

646
00:54:49,412 --> 00:54:53,122
- Why not explain them to His Majesty?
- Madame von Bülow!

647
00:54:58,587 --> 00:55:03,297
One of these days I must meet
Madame von Bülow privately.

648
00:55:03,426 --> 00:55:04,836
She will become my ally.

649
00:55:04,969 --> 00:55:07,599
She will tell me how
I can set my friend's mind at rest.

650
00:55:12,018 --> 00:55:14,978
Please, please stay.
I know the way.

651
00:55:15,104 --> 00:55:18,364
Give me the pleasure of feeling
I'm at home here.

652
00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:20,782
I will see His Majesty out.

653
00:55:41,422 --> 00:55:45,092
I can tell you now
what the Maestro needs.

654
00:55:45,217 --> 00:55:48,507
The request he means to send
to Your Majesty in a letter, I believe,

655
00:55:48,637 --> 00:55:51,307
so my husband told me.

656
00:55:51,432 --> 00:55:54,892
The Maestro would like to have
at his disposal a sum

657
00:55:55,019 --> 00:55:57,099
that would allow him
to settle his old debts

658
00:55:57,229 --> 00:55:59,819
and feel confident about the future.

659
00:56:00,691 --> 00:56:03,611
Otherwise,
he would prefer to leave Munich.

660
00:56:03,736 --> 00:56:07,026
Oh, no! No... no.

661
00:56:07,156 --> 00:56:10,486
He would require 200,000 gulden.

662
00:56:13,370 --> 00:56:16,870
- 200,000?
- Gulden.

663
00:56:18,167 --> 00:56:20,167
Part of the amount could be given him
in cash

664
00:56:20,294 --> 00:56:22,764
and the rest in the form of interest
in monthly payments.

665
00:56:27,510 --> 00:56:31,760
I would have to ask for a loan
from the State Treasury

666
00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:36,439
And it would have to be approved
by Pfistermeister and Von der Pfordten.

667
00:56:44,527 --> 00:56:47,067
I will send the Maestro an answer.

668
00:56:59,834 --> 00:57:01,464
(Large door closes)

669
00:57:01,585 --> 00:57:03,165
They promise you heaven and earth,

670
00:57:03,295 --> 00:57:06,465
swear eternal friendship and love,
and then what?

671
00:57:07,550 --> 00:57:10,010
Are these the great patrons of art?

672
00:57:10,136 --> 00:57:14,966
This half-witted boy, the latest lunatic
in a family of lunatics.

673
00:57:15,099 --> 00:57:18,729
He will give you everything you want,
I know he will.

674
00:57:21,313 --> 00:57:24,323
Oh, my darling. My darling.

675
00:57:28,946 --> 00:57:30,986
Darling, Cosima.

676
00:57:33,492 --> 00:57:36,502
(Papers rustle)

677
00:57:36,620 --> 00:57:39,000
(Ludwig)
What sort of a country is this?

678
00:57:42,793 --> 00:57:44,923
A nation of policemen?

679
00:57:48,257 --> 00:57:50,127
Pfistermeister used the police

680
00:57:50,259 --> 00:57:53,299
to invite my guests
who are then followed -

681
00:57:53,429 --> 00:57:55,759
spied on by the police.

682
00:57:55,890 --> 00:57:58,480
And the letters
my guests write and receive,

683
00:57:58,601 --> 00:58:00,771
are brought to me like trophies.

684
00:58:00,895 --> 00:58:03,645
It's outrageous. It's outrageous!

685
00:58:04,190 --> 00:58:08,070
These are normal precautions, Sire.

686
00:58:08,194 --> 00:58:13,034
In this instance, they're all the more
excusable since Wagner is a foreigner.

687
00:58:13,157 --> 00:58:15,237
With a record as a revolutionary.

688
00:58:16,535 --> 00:58:19,705
If Richard Wagner weren't an artist

689
00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:21,830
he would be a saint.

690
00:58:21,957 --> 00:58:24,837
His genius has a moral,
purifying quality.

691
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,880
His art enlightens.

692
00:58:27,004 --> 00:58:31,344
It is an antidote to the evils
and corruptions of our society!

693
00:58:31,467 --> 00:58:35,217
Richard Wagner's name
will go down through centuries.

694
00:58:35,346 --> 00:58:37,766
Because art is truth.

695
00:58:37,890 --> 00:58:39,770
What remains of an artist

696
00:58:39,892 --> 00:58:44,862
is not his weaknesses, which may
shock you, but his work.

697
00:58:45,814 --> 00:58:48,734
Your Majesty is right, of course.

698
00:58:48,859 --> 00:58:53,779
But, if I may say so,
it would be very dangerous

699
00:58:53,906 --> 00:58:57,736
to allow the guardians of law and order
to make exceptions.

700
00:58:59,161 --> 00:59:02,501
Their point of view
is different from ours.

701
00:59:02,623 --> 00:59:06,213
For them,
Richard Wagner is simply a man

702
00:59:06,377 --> 00:59:09,207
who squanders the taxpayers' money

703
00:59:09,338 --> 00:59:12,628
Madame von Bülow is not a muse,

704
00:59:12,758 --> 00:59:14,718
but an adulteress.

705
00:59:14,843 --> 00:59:17,813
And her husband
is a contemptible opportunist

706
00:59:17,930 --> 00:59:20,430
who pretends not to know
about the relationship

707
00:59:20,557 --> 00:59:23,057
between his own wife and Wagner

708
00:59:23,185 --> 00:59:24,895
in order to keep his position.

709
00:59:25,020 --> 00:59:28,320
Oh slander!
Slander! Slander!

710
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,110
No, it's the truth.

711
00:59:30,234 --> 00:59:33,574
As these letters clearly show.

712
00:59:33,696 --> 00:59:36,986
And Your Majesty must realize this.

713
00:59:37,116 --> 00:59:41,946
Wagner's detractors are perhaps
insensitive to questions of art,

714
00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:44,539
but they are not liars.

715
01:00:25,664 --> 01:00:27,884
Mr Wagner and the Bülows

716
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,920
are in Your Majesty's antechamber.

717
01:00:31,045 --> 01:00:33,455
They would like to be received
with the greatest urgency.

718
01:00:37,968 --> 01:00:40,258
(Faintly) No.

719
01:00:40,387 --> 01:00:41,967
No.

720
01:00:46,769 --> 01:00:49,229
(Scrunches paper)

721
01:00:57,321 --> 01:00:59,821
Show them in.

722
01:01:01,241 --> 01:01:03,371
(Door opens)

723
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:16,049
His Majesty the King
will receive you at once.

724
01:01:17,341 --> 01:01:18,551
Thank you.

725
01:01:44,201 --> 01:01:46,251
Your Majesty advised me

726
01:01:46,370 --> 01:01:49,500
to ignore what the newspapers
wrote about me.

727
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:54,713
The criticisms, attacks, insinuations,
the daily insults of the local press...

728
01:01:54,837 --> 01:01:56,837
I have followed
Your Majesty's advice.

729
01:01:56,964 --> 01:01:59,514
I have borne everything
and I have remained silent.

730
01:01:59,633 --> 01:02:03,473
I would continue this silence
if it concerned only me.

731
01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:08,141
But now it is something
that does not only concern me.

732
01:02:08,267 --> 01:02:11,517
Your Majesty, an article has appeared
in the <i>Volksbote</i>

733
01:02:11,645 --> 01:02:15,935
clearly stating that my wife
is the mistress of Richard Wagner.

734
01:02:18,152 --> 01:02:20,402
I have challenged the editor to a duel.

735
01:02:26,702 --> 01:02:29,162
All this is very serious, Sire.

736
01:02:33,375 --> 01:02:36,125
Yes, it is.

737
01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:37,883
It is indeed.

738
01:02:39,631 --> 01:02:42,471
But we are all in this plot together.

739
01:02:44,803 --> 01:02:48,393
Maestro von Bülow
knows everything about his wife,

740
01:02:48,515 --> 01:02:51,975
but pretends not to
for fear of having to give up

741
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:55,402
the profitable
and distinguished position

742
01:02:55,522 --> 01:02:57,862
of conducting her lover's operas.

743
01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:02,319
And I,
who also knows everything,

744
01:03:02,446 --> 01:03:05,566
because my friend Wagner
hides nothing from me.

745
01:03:06,033 --> 01:03:07,743
I...

746
01:03:07,868 --> 01:03:11,208
his adviser, his friend.

747
01:03:11,330 --> 01:03:13,580
Especially such an important fact

748
01:03:13,707 --> 01:03:16,127
which affects not only his private life,

749
01:03:16,251 --> 01:03:18,301
but also public opinion.

750
01:03:19,838 --> 01:03:21,758
I...

751
01:03:23,383 --> 01:03:27,933
a friend, admirer and confidant,

752
01:03:28,055 --> 01:03:32,635
naturally want to help
my beloved artist.

753
01:03:32,768 --> 01:03:37,938
It is a hateful slander, Your Majesty.
It's unforgivable. Unforgivable!

754
01:03:38,065 --> 01:03:41,435
Only Your Majesty can help us
and wipe it away.

755
01:03:46,657 --> 01:03:50,737
If Your Majesty were to write a letter
to Mr von Bülow,

756
01:03:50,869 --> 01:03:56,169
a simple letter expressing esteem
and friendship.

757
01:03:56,291 --> 01:03:59,711
Once that letter was published
in the newspapers...

758
01:04:05,175 --> 01:04:08,885
Lohengrin does battle to defend Elsa,

759
01:04:10,681 --> 01:04:14,891
but it is easier to fight a duel
than to write a letter.

760
01:04:26,363 --> 01:04:30,033
If it pleases Your Majesty,
I have prepared a draft.

761
01:04:31,827 --> 01:04:34,617
"My dear Mr von Bülow,

762
01:04:34,746 --> 01:04:37,036
"having had occasion
to appreciate fully

763
01:04:37,165 --> 01:04:40,835
"the noble and generous gifts
of your most esteemed wife..."

764
01:04:40,961 --> 01:04:43,381
All right. All right.

765
01:04:45,841 --> 01:04:48,091
I understand.

766
01:04:48,844 --> 01:04:51,814
I will copy it
and have it delivered tomorrow.

767
01:04:51,930 --> 01:04:53,810
Doesn't Your Majesty wish me
to read the rest?

768
01:04:53,932 --> 01:04:56,892
No, that's not necessary

769
01:04:57,019 --> 01:04:59,649
I am sure it will do very well.

770
01:05:16,371 --> 01:05:18,621
Sire, my gratitude.

771
01:05:18,749 --> 01:05:21,919
It is no more than my duty.

772
01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:26,128
Wagner knows how highly I value
true friendship.

773
01:05:49,905 --> 01:05:52,615
(♪ Discordant piano)

774
01:06:09,132 --> 01:06:12,682
His Majesty the King
has instructed me

775
01:06:12,803 --> 01:06:18,063
to order you to leave Munich
as quickly as possible.

776
01:06:18,183 --> 01:06:22,773
Here is His Majesty's message.

777
01:06:32,364 --> 01:06:34,914
"My dear friend,

778
01:06:35,033 --> 01:06:38,373
"much as it grieves me,
I must ask you to carry out

779
01:06:38,495 --> 01:06:41,865
"the request made by Minister Lutz.

780
01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:44,668
"My love for you
will endure forever.

781
01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:50,007
"And I beg you to keep forever
your friendship for me.

782
01:06:50,132 --> 01:06:52,802
"I could not act otherwise.

783
01:06:54,344 --> 01:06:57,474
"Until death, yours faithfully,
Ludwig."

784
01:07:33,759 --> 01:07:35,759
Do not say anything.

785
01:08:04,372 --> 01:08:07,542
I can state that His Majesty,
the King of Bavaria

786
01:08:07,667 --> 01:08:11,507
has been afflicted by a certain
mental instability

787
01:08:11,630 --> 01:08:14,090
since 1866,

788
01:08:14,216 --> 01:08:18,506
on the eve of our unfortunate
participation in the war of that year.

789
01:08:20,013 --> 01:08:25,063
The position taken by our sovereign
against the government,

790
01:08:25,185 --> 01:08:29,225
which proposed to maintain
our alliance with Austria,

791
01:08:29,356 --> 01:08:32,896
gave rise to much discontent
among the people.

792
01:09:08,854 --> 01:09:10,274
His Majesty is not here.

793
01:09:21,783 --> 01:09:23,953
His Majesty is waiting,
Your Highness.

794
01:09:49,227 --> 01:09:51,767
(♪ Music box plays)

795
01:10:04,743 --> 01:10:06,293
(Knocks on door)

796
01:10:06,411 --> 01:10:07,751
(Ludwig) Come in.

797
01:10:10,165 --> 01:10:13,585
Your Majesty, His Royal Highness
Prince Otto is here.

798
01:10:21,426 --> 01:10:23,086
Are they angry?

799
01:10:23,219 --> 01:10:26,889
They are waiting for me.
They think you aren't here.

800
01:10:28,808 --> 01:10:30,688
Let them wait.

801
01:10:34,981 --> 01:10:38,401
We have to go back
to Munich tonight.

802
01:10:42,155 --> 01:10:45,075
And then tomorrow...

803
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,950
Tomorrow I leave for the front again.

804
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:53,250
Do you mind it very much?

805
01:10:55,335 --> 01:10:57,245
Yes, yes, I mind.

806
01:10:57,379 --> 01:10:59,589
I mind the filth and the smell.

807
01:10:59,714 --> 01:11:01,804
And the screams of the soldiers
in the hospitals

808
01:11:01,925 --> 01:11:05,795
when they operate without chloroform
because the supplies have run out.

809
01:11:06,888 --> 01:11:08,968
What should they want me to do
this time?

810
01:11:11,726 --> 01:11:13,936
Come back to Munich.

811
01:11:14,062 --> 01:11:15,692
You are the King.

812
01:11:15,814 --> 01:11:17,734
Ludwig...

813
01:11:21,069 --> 01:11:22,779
We are losing the war.

814
01:11:34,249 --> 01:11:35,629
Look!

815
01:11:37,002 --> 01:11:39,922
The four quarters of the moon.

816
01:11:40,046 --> 01:11:42,546
Remember when we were children
we went fishing at night.

817
01:11:43,258 --> 01:11:46,548
Yes. And you were furious
because I caught more than you did.

818
01:11:46,678 --> 01:11:48,598
Because I was the King

819
01:11:51,850 --> 01:11:54,730
I did not want this war.

820
01:11:54,853 --> 01:11:58,443
I want everybody to know!
They must realize that.

821
01:12:00,442 --> 01:12:01,692
Yes.

822
01:12:09,951 --> 01:12:13,161
(♪ Music box continues to play)

823
01:12:17,709 --> 01:12:18,789
What is wrong?

824
01:12:21,379 --> 01:12:23,089
Oh, I don't know.

825
01:12:23,214 --> 01:12:25,054
My eyes sting.

826
01:12:27,302 --> 01:12:30,852
It must be because
I can't sleep anymore.

827
01:12:30,972 --> 01:12:34,522
When I sleep,
I dream that I can't sleep,

828
01:12:34,642 --> 01:12:37,102
that I can't close my eyes,

829
01:12:37,228 --> 01:12:40,228
and I lie there asleep,

830
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:42,686
but it's as if I were awake.

831
01:12:42,817 --> 01:12:46,147
My eyes are wide open
and they sting.

832
01:12:51,451 --> 01:12:53,041
You are not well.

833
01:13:10,345 --> 01:13:14,305
Why don't you stay
here with me at Berg?

834
01:13:14,432 --> 01:13:16,142
I can't.

835
01:13:16,267 --> 01:13:17,767
You know that.

836
01:13:19,104 --> 01:13:21,064
I have to go back.

837
01:13:22,857 --> 01:13:25,897
It would be dishonorable
towards our allies too.

838
01:13:28,780 --> 01:13:32,410
They are our relatives, after all.

839
01:13:32,534 --> 01:13:35,374
Our Prussian enemies
are relatives also!

840
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:38,870
(Stops music box)

841
01:13:38,998 --> 01:13:40,998
We do everything in the family -

842
01:13:41,126 --> 01:13:42,336
fight wars,

843
01:13:42,460 --> 01:13:43,590
marry,

844
01:13:43,711 --> 01:13:45,381
beget children.

845
01:13:45,505 --> 01:13:48,465
And it's all incestuous and fratricidal.

846
01:13:51,136 --> 01:13:53,506
- And we never know why.
- You are the King,

847
01:13:53,638 --> 01:13:56,098
if you didn't want the war,
you should have forbidden it.

848
01:13:56,224 --> 01:13:57,644
I did.

849
01:13:57,767 --> 01:14:00,767
I'm doing everything possible
to make my view clear.

850
01:14:00,895 --> 01:14:04,725
As far as I am concerned,
the war doesn't exist.

851
01:14:32,719 --> 01:14:34,299
Tell the generals

852
01:14:34,429 --> 01:14:36,719
the King does not know
the war exists.

853
01:14:47,859 --> 01:14:49,239
(Door opens)

854
01:14:53,239 --> 01:14:54,739
(Door closes)

855
01:15:39,827 --> 01:15:42,617
(Ducks begin to quack
in the distance)

856
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,720
Who is there? Who is it?

857
01:16:36,843 --> 01:16:38,303
It's me, Sire, Volk!

858
01:16:40,054 --> 01:16:42,684
Why aren't you at the castle?

859
01:16:42,807 --> 01:16:44,847
Who gave you permission
to come out?

860
01:16:44,976 --> 01:16:48,726
I thought Your Majesty
wouldn't require me, so I...

861
01:16:50,773 --> 01:16:54,573
A groom on duty is forbidden
to leave the Royal apartment.

862
01:16:54,694 --> 01:16:56,284
Don't you know that?

863
01:16:58,156 --> 01:17:00,446
Yes, Your Majesty.

864
01:17:01,034 --> 01:17:05,584
Nevertheless, you came here.
And you left your post.

865
01:17:07,707 --> 01:17:09,917
I couldn't sleep.

866
01:17:13,129 --> 01:17:16,379
(Guard shouting commands)

867
01:17:18,301 --> 01:17:21,891
Aren't you afraid
that the sentries will catch you?

868
01:17:22,013 --> 01:17:24,063
I can hear them coming.

869
01:17:24,182 --> 01:17:25,892
I hide in the bushes.

870
01:17:39,697 --> 01:17:42,367
- Can you swim?
- A little, Sire.

871
01:17:42,492 --> 01:17:45,242
But I never go
where I can't touch the bottom.

872
01:17:45,370 --> 01:17:47,210
I come from the mountains.

873
01:17:55,129 --> 01:17:57,969
- Are you cold?
- Yes, a little, Sire.

874
01:18:05,431 --> 01:18:07,731
Here... Take this.

875
01:18:19,779 --> 01:18:21,109
Help me.

876
01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:25,622
Help me, help me.

877
01:18:25,743 --> 01:18:27,543
I beseech you.

878
01:18:29,163 --> 01:18:30,833
Help me.

879
01:18:33,376 --> 01:18:35,336
(Footsteps approach)

880
01:18:35,461 --> 01:18:37,711
(Man) A matter of the greatest urgency
and importance!

881
01:18:37,839 --> 01:18:38,919
(Knocks on door)

882
01:18:39,048 --> 01:18:42,838
Captain Dürckheim asks
to be received by His Majesty.

883
01:18:52,228 --> 01:18:53,268
Come in!

884
01:19:12,498 --> 01:19:14,578
We have been defeated, Sire.

885
01:19:20,256 --> 01:19:22,176
We have surrendered.

886
01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:30,814
- Did you suffer many losses?
- No.

887
01:19:32,518 --> 01:19:36,148
We did not have many casualties.

888
01:19:37,315 --> 01:19:41,235
The enemy outnumbered us
and our troops became demoralised.

889
01:19:42,570 --> 01:19:46,200
Continuing to fight would have led
to a useless massacre.

890
01:20:02,965 --> 01:20:07,295
I am glad it's over, and that
it lasted such a short time.

891
01:20:08,012 --> 01:20:10,142
Seven weeks, Your Majesty.

892
01:20:11,432 --> 01:20:14,392
And they seemed an eternity
to those who lived through them.

893
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:21,534
Do you have any news
of my brother, Otto?

894
01:20:21,651 --> 01:20:25,991
He Prince has come back to Munich.
He is very depressed.

895
01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:31,485
You are very fond of my brother,
aren't you, Dürckheim?

896
01:20:34,288 --> 01:20:36,078
Yes, Sire.

897
01:20:36,207 --> 01:20:37,247
Very fond.

898
01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:44,715
Otto will be your king one day.

899
01:20:49,053 --> 01:20:50,683
Very soon.

900
01:20:53,975 --> 01:20:56,805
Because I...

901
01:21:01,315 --> 01:21:04,645
His Highness Prince Otto
is terribly unhappy.

902
01:21:04,777 --> 01:21:07,487
He is so young.

903
01:21:07,613 --> 01:21:12,703
And yet he seems to have burned
his youth away without having lived it.

904
01:21:13,953 --> 01:21:16,623
His ambitions
were stifled by disappointments.

905
01:21:18,374 --> 01:21:20,544
And he is filled
with a sadness and fear.

906
01:21:21,711 --> 01:21:24,301
He lives in a state
of lonely anguish.

907
01:21:25,673 --> 01:21:28,473
He never sleeps more
than two hours a night.

908
01:21:28,593 --> 01:21:30,393
He never rests.

909
01:21:30,511 --> 01:21:33,011
He has looked for happiness...

910
01:21:35,433 --> 01:21:37,483
...in what is impossible.

911
01:21:39,854 --> 01:21:42,734
He wants security

912
01:21:42,857 --> 01:21:46,607
in what is outside the rules.

913
01:21:46,736 --> 01:21:48,696
Why shouldn't he?

914
01:21:49,947 --> 01:21:53,827
The world around us
is intolerably petty.

915
01:21:55,661 --> 01:21:59,961
Men dream only of material security,

916
01:22:00,082 --> 01:22:03,592
and are prepared
to give their lives to achieve it.

917
01:22:03,711 --> 01:22:05,961
I want to be free.

918
01:22:06,088 --> 01:22:09,508
Free to seek happiness
in the impossible.

919
01:22:09,634 --> 01:22:12,264
But unlike my brother,

920
01:22:12,386 --> 01:22:15,346
I try to suit my actions
to my ideas.

921
01:22:16,849 --> 01:22:20,939
That's why I abandoned this stupid war
I was unable to prevent

922
01:22:21,062 --> 01:22:23,692
I am not a coward!

923
01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:26,074
I hate falsehood.

924
01:22:29,862 --> 01:22:31,952
I want to live in truth.

925
01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:34,448
Forgive me, Sire.

926
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:39,870
Allow a very ordinary man
to express an opinion.

927
01:22:41,415 --> 01:22:45,245
Your Majesty says
you want to live in truth.

928
01:22:47,922 --> 01:22:49,342
But I think what you mean is

929
01:22:49,465 --> 01:22:52,215
you want to live as a free man

930
01:22:52,343 --> 01:22:56,313
following only
your own tastes and instincts.

931
01:22:56,430 --> 01:22:58,430
Without hypocrisy or lies.

932
01:22:58,557 --> 01:22:59,927
Am I right?

933
01:23:03,020 --> 01:23:07,530
In my opinion, the truth
doesn't have anything to do

934
01:23:07,650 --> 01:23:10,190
with this search for the impossible.

935
01:23:12,488 --> 01:23:14,778
When freedom is a privilege
of the few,

936
01:23:17,284 --> 01:23:21,754
it does not have anything to do
with real freedom,

937
01:23:23,124 --> 01:23:25,754
the same freedom that belongs
to every man

938
01:23:27,253 --> 01:23:31,883
and that each of us
has the right to hold on to.

939
01:23:39,515 --> 01:23:41,345
We live in a world

940
01:23:41,475 --> 01:23:43,725
where there are no innocents,

941
01:23:43,853 --> 01:23:46,983
where nobody has the right
to judge anybody.

942
01:23:47,106 --> 01:23:49,016
I am speaking as a friend.

943
01:23:49,150 --> 01:23:52,820
The generosity
that Your Majesty showed me

944
01:23:52,945 --> 01:23:56,565
when we were both younger
emboldens me now

945
01:23:58,284 --> 01:24:00,914
to speak frankly,

946
01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:03,286
from one man to another.

947
01:24:04,415 --> 01:24:07,745
I am a soldier who was left alone
on the battlefield

948
01:24:09,378 --> 01:24:13,468
at a time of danger and bitterness.

949
01:24:13,591 --> 01:24:18,641
But I feel neither contempt
nor rancour

950
01:24:18,763 --> 01:24:21,853
for the king who abandoned me.

951
01:24:21,974 --> 01:24:24,444
Instead, I feel great pity.

952
01:24:25,186 --> 01:24:28,646
My king thinks he has made
a brave decision,

953
01:24:28,773 --> 01:24:33,823
but he is mistaken if he thinks
he can find happiness

954
01:24:33,944 --> 01:24:36,864
outside the rules
and the duties of men.

955
01:24:37,782 --> 01:24:41,992
Those who love life cannot afford
to search for the impossible.

956
01:24:43,954 --> 01:24:47,254
Instead,
they have to tread cautiously.

957
01:24:56,425 --> 01:24:58,585
This is true even for a sovereign.

958
01:24:58,719 --> 01:25:00,009
Even for a sovereign,

959
01:25:00,137 --> 01:25:05,847
because the great power
that a monarch has

960
01:25:05,976 --> 01:25:10,816
is limited by the boundaries
of the society of which he is part.

961
01:25:10,940 --> 01:25:14,400
What man could follow him
beyond those boundaries?

962
01:25:14,527 --> 01:25:15,947
Who?

963
01:25:18,197 --> 01:25:21,907
Certainly not the poor and weak

964
01:25:22,034 --> 01:25:25,504
whose overriding concern
is to find security.

965
01:25:26,163 --> 01:25:29,753
Not just material well-being,
but also moral.

966
01:25:29,875 --> 01:25:34,455
The same security Your Majesty
was talking about with such contempt.

967
01:25:34,588 --> 01:25:36,588
The only people following him

968
01:25:36,715 --> 01:25:39,715
will be the ones who see freedom

969
01:25:39,844 --> 01:25:45,104
as a quest for pleasure
without any moral boundaries.

970
01:25:45,224 --> 01:25:46,734
No.

971
01:25:47,852 --> 01:25:50,772
No, you surely do not want this.

972
01:25:50,896 --> 01:25:53,646
Being followed only
by low-down servants

973
01:25:53,774 --> 01:25:56,784
opportunists and con artists.

974
01:25:56,902 --> 01:26:01,032
No, I do not believe it. Your Majesty
cannot like such creatures.

975
01:26:01,156 --> 01:26:04,866
Who would take advantage of his
generosity and would try to deceive him.

976
01:26:07,580 --> 01:26:11,130
Why would a young person,
with his whole life ahead of him,

977
01:26:11,250 --> 01:26:13,960
not be tempted to find
a different reason to live?

978
01:26:17,131 --> 01:26:22,391
Even if it is difficult because it is
the one of common people

979
01:26:23,470 --> 01:26:25,470
who accept mediocrity.

980
01:26:26,724 --> 01:26:29,564
It takes a great deal of courage
to accept mediocrity

981
01:26:29,685 --> 01:26:34,145
when you are someone who strives
for ideals beyond this world, I know.

982
01:26:37,735 --> 01:26:42,735
But it is the only way to be saved
from a terrible loneliness.

983
01:27:38,420 --> 01:27:42,220
- I must speak to my mother.
- Her Majesty is still asleep.

984
01:27:42,341 --> 01:27:44,221
Wake her! Go on.

985
01:27:45,260 --> 01:27:47,890
Go! Quickly.

986
01:28:03,153 --> 01:28:06,573
Her Majesty the Queen
is awaiting Your Majesty.

987
01:28:18,711 --> 01:28:21,171
I beg your pardon
for waking you up at this hour,

988
01:28:21,296 --> 01:28:24,506
but there was something
I had to tell you immediately.

989
01:28:24,633 --> 01:28:27,303
I have decided to marry.

990
01:28:27,428 --> 01:28:29,218
Oh, Ludwig.

991
01:28:32,099 --> 01:28:34,389
I was sure this would be
good news for you.

992
01:28:40,691 --> 01:28:44,241
Aren't you even going to ask me
who the woman of my choice is?

993
01:28:44,361 --> 01:28:47,991
I was waiting for Your Majesty
to inform me.

994
01:28:48,115 --> 01:28:51,325
I have complete faith
in Your Majesty's judgement.

995
01:28:54,455 --> 01:28:57,705
I want you to go at once

996
01:28:57,833 --> 01:28:59,883
to Possenhofen

997
01:29:00,044 --> 01:29:04,474
and ask Duchess Ludovica
for the hand of Princess Sophie.

998
01:29:07,718 --> 01:29:11,928
Sophie will be
the ideal wife for you.

999
01:29:12,056 --> 01:29:14,596
I have invited Father Hoffman
to come here.

1000
01:29:14,725 --> 01:29:17,385
Please, receive him at once.

1001
01:29:17,519 --> 01:29:20,729
And I want you to communicate
my decision to him.

1002
01:29:20,856 --> 01:29:23,396
And I want him to accompany you
to Possenhofen,

1003
01:29:23,525 --> 01:29:26,775
since Princess Sophie is a Catholic.

1004
01:29:26,904 --> 01:29:29,204
- Er, Ludwig...
- Goodbye, Helen.

1005
01:29:39,583 --> 01:29:41,713
(Bell rings)

1006
01:29:48,801 --> 01:29:51,511
- Oh, Your Majesty.
- My dressing gown, quickly! Quickly!

1007
01:29:51,637 --> 01:29:53,057
Yes, Ma'am.

1008
01:29:54,348 --> 01:29:56,228
Quickly!

1009
01:30:02,147 --> 01:30:05,897
As soon as Father Hoffman arrives,
he's to be shown into my room.

1010
01:30:06,026 --> 01:30:07,736
Yes, Your Majesty.

1011
01:30:17,704 --> 01:30:19,464
But Father Hoffman is here!

1012
01:30:25,379 --> 01:30:26,709
Your Majesty.

1013
01:30:30,342 --> 01:30:32,892
- What has happened?
- Have you seen my son?

1014
01:30:33,011 --> 01:30:35,931
Yes, just now as he was leaving.

1015
01:30:36,056 --> 01:30:40,436
But he didn't say a word to me.
He seemed very...

1016
01:30:40,561 --> 01:30:42,061
Happy.

1017
01:30:43,147 --> 01:30:45,727
He is beside himself with joy.

1018
01:30:49,820 --> 01:30:51,240
Ludwig is going to marry.

1019
01:30:54,116 --> 01:30:55,986
He wished me to tell you.

1020
01:30:57,244 --> 01:30:59,164
And he wants you
to come with me

1021
01:30:59,288 --> 01:31:01,118
to ask for the girl's hand.

1022
01:31:01,248 --> 01:31:03,918
Now, this is correct
because the princess is Catholic

1023
01:31:04,042 --> 01:31:07,252
and the request of a Protestant
mother would not be enough.

1024
01:31:09,047 --> 01:31:11,087
He means to marry?

1025
01:31:11,216 --> 01:31:14,926
Princess Sophie,
the sister of Elisabeth.

1026
01:31:17,097 --> 01:31:19,557
Isn't this wonderful news?

1027
01:31:21,101 --> 01:31:24,271
Father, I feel like I am waking up
from a nightmare.

1028
01:31:26,064 --> 01:31:30,694
A nightmare you have not helped me
much with, truth be known.

1029
01:31:32,154 --> 01:31:34,574
- Please, take a seat.
- Thank you.

1030
01:31:41,955 --> 01:31:44,995
It must be a great relief.

1031
01:31:50,172 --> 01:31:52,262
I hope...

1032
01:31:52,382 --> 01:31:56,722
that His Majesty has found
a stable balance.

1033
01:31:58,430 --> 01:32:00,470
It's just that...

1034
01:32:00,599 --> 01:32:06,019
a lot of young men struggle
to find balance within themselves.

1035
01:32:07,397 --> 01:32:09,777
- An inner harmony.
- He has found it.

1036
01:32:11,485 --> 01:32:14,355
What matters is that he's found it
and is getting married.

1037
01:32:16,073 --> 01:32:21,123
I'm surprised that His Majesty has never
mentioned his intentions to me.

1038
01:32:22,371 --> 01:32:27,461
I was saying that I hope
that he has weighed this up carefully

1039
01:32:27,584 --> 01:32:30,004
before arriving at his decision.

1040
01:32:30,128 --> 01:32:31,758
Because...

1041
01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:35,590
this choice
does not only involve him,

1042
01:32:36,677 --> 01:32:40,347
but also his spouse who,
with the blessing of the Lord...

1043
01:32:40,472 --> 01:32:42,772
Enough, Father Hoffman!

1044
01:32:47,854 --> 01:32:50,694
What matters is that
they get married,

1045
01:32:50,816 --> 01:32:54,026
and that the wedding is celebrated
as soon as possible.

1046
01:32:55,612 --> 01:32:57,702
This is exactly what
we all hoped for.

1047
01:32:58,949 --> 01:33:02,999
- Am I right?
- Of course. It is a relief for all of us.

1048
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:05,410
And for the country.

1049
01:33:05,539 --> 01:33:09,839
We will probably need
a papal dispensation,

1050
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:13,460
given the close relationship
between the two.

1051
01:33:13,588 --> 01:33:15,128
Of course.

1052
01:33:15,257 --> 01:33:18,507
I am sure there will not be
any problems.

1053
01:33:20,429 --> 01:33:24,019
- Their parents are cousins too.
- Exactly.

1054
01:33:24,141 --> 01:33:25,641
Some believe that's why

1055
01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:29,147
the Wittelsbach
and Hohenzollers families

1056
01:33:29,271 --> 01:33:32,731
have had so many cases
of anomalies.

1057
01:33:32,858 --> 01:33:37,068
But as far as I know,
young Sophie enjoys good health.

1058
01:33:37,195 --> 01:33:41,575
And His Majesty the King has never
given us any reasons to worry.

1059
01:33:41,700 --> 01:33:46,910
We should mention certain timidities
and indispositions of His Majesty

1060
01:33:47,039 --> 01:33:51,589
so that Sophie can help him
and be understanding.

1061
01:33:51,710 --> 01:33:54,250
Like her sisters,

1062
01:33:54,379 --> 01:33:59,549
Sophie will quickly learn
that a woman in her position

1063
01:33:59,676 --> 01:34:04,256
does not only have rights
and privileges, but also duties.

1064
01:34:04,389 --> 01:34:06,809
Many duties.

1065
01:34:29,039 --> 01:34:30,709
My dear.

1066
01:34:38,507 --> 01:34:41,467
- Sophie, are you happy?
- Yes, indeed.

1067
01:34:41,927 --> 01:34:44,597
Sophie is really very beautiful, no?

1068
01:34:44,721 --> 01:34:46,561
Yes.

1069
01:34:46,681 --> 01:34:50,851
These family reunions, Dürckheim,
are very, very tiring.

1070
01:34:52,771 --> 01:34:54,861
All my best wishes.

1071
01:34:57,442 --> 01:35:00,952
I... Well, I...
I'm very, very pleased.

1072
01:35:01,655 --> 01:35:03,485
Oh, thank you, Otto.

1073
01:35:03,615 --> 01:35:06,735
Bravo, Otto.
You are always so sweet.

1074
01:35:06,868 --> 01:35:09,328
- Elizabeth.
- Sophie.

1075
01:35:10,664 --> 01:35:13,964
- Nenè, Matilde, <i>ma tante...</i>
- Elisabeth!

1076
01:35:14,584 --> 01:35:16,464
- My dear child.
- <i>Maman.</i>

1077
01:35:18,964 --> 01:35:21,384
I am very pleased too.

1078
01:35:21,508 --> 01:35:23,968
Congratulations, <i>mon beau-frère.</i>

1079
01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:31,101
My dear, dear Otto,
you are always so sweet.

1080
01:35:31,226 --> 01:35:33,476
Everybody is pleased.

1081
01:35:33,603 --> 01:35:37,323
And the station looked beautiful,
all decked with flags.

1082
01:35:37,440 --> 01:35:38,900
Father.

1083
01:35:40,277 --> 01:35:43,817
You didn't believe I would come?
I didn't think I would either.

1084
01:35:43,947 --> 01:35:46,197
Everything is always so complicated.

1085
01:35:46,324 --> 01:35:48,664
I've been told <i>ma tante,</i>
that a great deal of work

1086
01:35:48,785 --> 01:35:50,695
will be done here in the residence.

1087
01:35:50,829 --> 01:35:52,789
So the old residence
will become new too.

1088
01:35:52,914 --> 01:35:55,714
Who will see to it all?
Sophie, assert yourself.

1089
01:35:57,169 --> 01:35:59,209
But Sophie isn't like me.

1090
01:35:59,337 --> 01:36:03,797
I can only say whether I like something
or whether I dislike it.

1091
01:36:03,925 --> 01:36:06,885
I really must drink something hot,
excuse me.

1092
01:36:07,012 --> 01:36:09,222
(Chattering begins)

1093
01:36:10,599 --> 01:36:12,429
Thank you. I'll do it.

1094
01:36:13,602 --> 01:36:15,772
Forgive me, but I'm terribly thirsty.

1095
01:36:20,692 --> 01:36:22,862
We are not going to live
in the residence.

1096
01:36:22,986 --> 01:36:25,946
- You aren't?
- I mean, only for a short while.

1097
01:36:26,072 --> 01:36:28,912
As little as possible.
Until the new house is ready.

1098
01:36:29,034 --> 01:36:30,544
(Brief silence)

1099
01:36:33,538 --> 01:36:35,578
(Chattering resumes)

1100
01:36:52,182 --> 01:36:54,022
What is all that?

1101
01:36:54,226 --> 01:36:56,686
Something I have been thinking about
for a long time

1102
01:36:57,562 --> 01:36:59,652
I would like to build a castle.

1103
01:37:01,149 --> 01:37:03,489
Remember the Graswang
and Ettal?

1104
01:37:04,277 --> 01:37:06,237
Above Oberammergau.

1105
01:37:06,363 --> 01:37:09,073
And there is another place
I like almost as much.

1106
01:37:10,533 --> 01:37:12,743
Perhaps even more.

1107
01:37:13,954 --> 01:37:17,374
Herrenchiemsee.
I haven't decided yet.

1108
01:37:18,917 --> 01:37:22,707
We could go there tomorrow,
on horseback.

1109
01:37:25,006 --> 01:37:27,426
You remember Bad Ischl?

1110
01:37:28,677 --> 01:37:31,597
It's not a tiring ride.
Not at all.

1111
01:37:34,432 --> 01:37:37,192
And you could give me your advice.

1112
01:37:37,310 --> 01:37:42,230
Tomorrow, I will not be here,
unfortunately. I'm going on to Zurich

1113
01:37:52,951 --> 01:37:54,661
I only stopped to see Sophie

1114
01:37:55,328 --> 01:37:58,288
and to give both of you
Franz's congratulations.

1115
01:37:59,624 --> 01:38:01,634
And my own, of course.

1116
01:38:09,759 --> 01:38:11,719
(♪ Sings in German)

1117
01:38:47,589 --> 01:38:50,509
(Singing off key)

1118
01:39:14,282 --> 01:39:17,292
(Straining for a high note)

1119
01:39:31,299 --> 01:39:35,469
With the wedding approaching,
His Majesty gave the go ahead

1120
01:39:35,595 --> 01:39:39,215
to the building works
for his damned castles.

1121
01:39:39,349 --> 01:39:44,309
I was in charge of making the King
experience certain things

1122
01:39:44,437 --> 01:39:48,527
that he was thought to be
totally new to.

1123
01:39:54,447 --> 01:39:56,867
It was all so complicated.

1124
01:39:58,284 --> 01:40:01,834
They told me so many things
about you.

1125
01:40:01,955 --> 01:40:04,245
They recommended you.

1126
01:40:05,250 --> 01:40:06,840
Who did?

1127
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:14,050
Your Majesty sent his aide-de-camp
to the theater

1128
01:40:14,175 --> 01:40:15,675
to invite me for dinner

1129
01:40:15,802 --> 01:40:19,432
and I suddenly found myself at the
center of a grand State affair.

1130
01:40:21,057 --> 01:40:24,307
Closed carriage, curtains down.

1131
01:40:25,770 --> 01:40:27,360
I was taken to a place full of offices.

1132
01:40:30,150 --> 01:40:31,440
And then?

1133
01:40:32,652 --> 01:40:34,992
Do you want to know?
Are you curious?

1134
01:40:39,617 --> 01:40:40,947
Thank you.

1135
01:40:47,834 --> 01:40:51,304
There were some gentlemen.

1136
01:40:51,421 --> 01:40:55,091
I think one of them
was sent by the Archbishop.

1137
01:40:55,216 --> 01:40:57,296
A very indiscreet person.

1138
01:41:00,013 --> 01:41:02,523
And another one was sent

1139
01:41:04,601 --> 01:41:07,101
by Her Majesty the Queen Mother.

1140
01:41:08,354 --> 01:41:10,444
Oh, my God, Your Majesty!

1141
01:41:10,565 --> 01:41:15,565
Are things always so complicated
when a king wants to make love?

1142
01:41:15,695 --> 01:41:20,365
For us actors it is much simpler.
A gaze is all we need.

1143
01:41:20,492 --> 01:41:21,872
A sign like this.

1144
01:41:56,945 --> 01:41:58,565
They told me this too -

1145
01:41:58,696 --> 01:42:01,616
that you are very shy.

1146
01:42:01,741 --> 01:42:03,241
(Laughs gently)

1147
01:42:03,868 --> 01:42:06,828
Then they asked me
all sorts of questions.

1148
01:42:08,414 --> 01:42:13,504
- Even about my health.
- They did?

1149
01:42:15,129 --> 01:42:18,339
It was indecent.
Really!

1150
01:42:23,179 --> 01:42:26,139
And they warned me
to be... discrete.

1151
01:42:27,225 --> 01:42:29,595
Except with them, of course.

1152
01:42:29,727 --> 01:42:30,767
(Laughs)

1153
01:42:33,106 --> 01:42:35,146
They want to know what happened.

1154
01:42:46,786 --> 01:42:49,326
Will you tell them?

1155
01:42:49,455 --> 01:42:51,365
With Your Majesty's permission,

1156
01:42:51,499 --> 01:42:53,379
I'd love to lie to them.

1157
01:42:53,501 --> 01:42:55,801
They're too curious.

1158
01:42:56,713 --> 01:42:58,053
Too nosey!

1159
01:42:59,716 --> 01:43:02,216
We... could make love

1160
01:43:03,761 --> 01:43:06,311
and say we didn't. Hm?

1161
01:43:08,141 --> 01:43:11,391
Or we could not make love,

1162
01:43:11,519 --> 01:43:13,609
and say we did.

1163
01:43:13,730 --> 01:43:15,020
Hmm?

1164
01:43:28,161 --> 01:43:30,791
Yes, we mustn't disappoint
their curiosity.

1165
01:43:34,834 --> 01:43:37,754
We must tell them things
that will horrify them.

1166
01:43:37,879 --> 01:43:40,379
That you beat me, for example.

1167
01:43:52,518 --> 01:43:56,858
- Will they believe you?
- Your Majesty, I am a great actress.

1168
01:44:03,154 --> 01:44:07,744
The funny thing is
that you will go to them anyway

1169
01:44:07,867 --> 01:44:12,787
and tell them everything
that hasn't happened between us.

1170
01:44:12,914 --> 01:44:14,044
No, no!

1171
01:44:17,043 --> 01:44:18,383
No.

1172
01:44:18,503 --> 01:44:20,463
- That's what they pay you.
- No.

1173
01:44:20,588 --> 01:44:22,668
- And that's what you'll do.
- No! No!

1174
01:44:22,799 --> 01:44:24,509
- No, Your Majesty. No!
- Yes.

1175
01:44:24,634 --> 01:44:26,644
No, no, no...

1176
01:44:26,761 --> 01:44:28,391
I am certain.

1177
01:44:33,601 --> 01:44:35,941
And why shouldn't you?

1178
01:44:36,062 --> 01:44:39,322
After all, if you don't today,
others will tomorrow.

1179
01:44:39,440 --> 01:44:41,440
(Sobs)

1180
01:44:46,197 --> 01:44:49,527
Do you think I do not know
what's going on around me?

1181
01:44:50,451 --> 01:44:52,371
I know.

1182
01:44:52,495 --> 01:44:57,325
I am surrounded by people
who observe everything I do.

1183
01:44:57,458 --> 01:45:00,838
Not to protect me, but to ruin me.

1184
01:45:03,131 --> 01:45:07,221
I don't understand
how they will achieve their aim.

1185
01:45:07,343 --> 01:45:08,893
But I know

1186
01:45:09,011 --> 01:45:10,761
this is their aim.

1187
01:45:14,642 --> 01:45:18,772
All I can do is watch

1188
01:45:18,896 --> 01:45:21,106
fascinated,

1189
01:45:21,232 --> 01:45:24,652
while they move,
silent and cautious.

1190
01:45:24,777 --> 01:45:27,317
It is as if I were watching them

1191
01:45:27,447 --> 01:45:30,827
set up their gallows
on which they will hang me.

1192
01:45:33,244 --> 01:45:36,004
No. No, Your Majesty.

1193
01:45:36,122 --> 01:45:38,252
It's not true.
Please, Your Majesty...

1194
01:45:38,374 --> 01:45:40,294
Go now.

1195
01:45:40,418 --> 01:45:42,128
And make them pay you.

1196
01:45:45,298 --> 01:45:48,258
Make them pay you handsomely.

1197
01:45:49,343 --> 01:45:50,683
Go, <i>madame.</i>

1198
01:45:51,554 --> 01:45:53,354
(Screams)

1199
01:45:53,473 --> 01:45:57,233
- Ha ha, prostitute!
- Your Majesty! Please!

1200
01:45:57,351 --> 01:45:59,941
(Bell rings)

1201
01:46:00,062 --> 01:46:04,822
Help me! Help me!
Help me, please. Please.

1202
01:46:04,942 --> 01:46:06,152
Please...

1203
01:46:06,277 --> 01:46:07,777
(Sobbing)

1204
01:46:12,742 --> 01:46:13,952
Your Majesty...

1205
01:46:14,076 --> 01:46:17,206
(Sobbing continues)

1206
01:46:17,330 --> 01:46:20,790
Help Madame von Buliowski out
and send her home.

1207
01:46:22,752 --> 01:46:24,632
(Wails) Your Majesty!

1208
01:46:41,938 --> 01:46:45,978
The jewels that the queens of Bavaria
have been wearing for 700 years.

1209
01:47:00,665 --> 01:47:03,245
But I will give you a better present.

1210
01:47:03,376 --> 01:47:05,666
It is a secret,
you cannot tell anybody.

1211
01:47:06,796 --> 01:47:09,666
I will introduce you
to Richard Wagner.

1212
01:47:24,564 --> 01:47:28,194
Our engagement is more exhausting
than a military campaign.

1213
01:47:29,944 --> 01:47:32,034
It's a real torment

1214
01:47:32,154 --> 01:47:35,584
which Sophie undergoes
without making any complaint.

1215
01:47:36,659 --> 01:47:38,949
She is the perfect fiancee.

1216
01:47:40,538 --> 01:47:42,618
And she loves your music
very much.

1217
01:47:46,711 --> 01:47:49,171
Do you know what she is afraid of
at the moment?

1218
01:47:50,631 --> 01:47:53,591
She is afraid that I will ask her
to sing for you.

1219
01:47:53,718 --> 01:47:54,758
Oh...

1220
01:47:55,803 --> 01:47:57,813
She is afraid of your criticism,

1221
01:47:57,930 --> 01:48:01,890
not only as a singer,
but also as a fiancée.

1222
01:48:03,644 --> 01:48:06,444
She has the notion that
by asking you to meet her,

1223
01:48:06,564 --> 01:48:09,484
I was submitting her
for your approval.

1224
01:48:28,085 --> 01:48:31,335
- When will you come back?
- Soon, Sire, soon.

1225
01:48:31,505 --> 01:48:33,165
And not at night in secret.

1226
01:48:33,299 --> 01:48:37,639
I shall return with my wife and my
new opera for the new theater.

1227
01:48:37,762 --> 01:48:40,512
It will repay me
for so much bitterness.

1228
01:48:40,640 --> 01:48:43,100
So much loneliness.

1229
01:48:43,225 --> 01:48:44,765
Sophie is sweet.

1230
01:48:46,020 --> 01:48:48,020
She's pretty and docile.

1231
01:48:49,690 --> 01:48:51,030
For the first time

1232
01:48:51,150 --> 01:48:54,110
I have seen true love
for Your Majesty in someone's eyes.

1233
01:48:54,236 --> 01:48:56,946
I have decided
to postpone the wedding

1234
01:48:57,073 --> 01:48:58,453
a month,

1235
01:48:58,574 --> 01:48:59,874
perhaps two.

1236
01:49:01,535 --> 01:49:03,785
I wish the wedding day were past.

1237
01:49:03,913 --> 01:49:06,213
I can already hear the crowds yelling,

1238
01:49:06,332 --> 01:49:09,092
the banquets, the ceremonies,

1239
01:49:09,210 --> 01:49:11,170
here and in the church.

1240
01:49:12,546 --> 01:49:14,626
It is a nightmare.

1241
01:49:14,757 --> 01:49:16,877
It keeps me awake at night.

1242
01:49:17,009 --> 01:49:19,639
My aunts, uncles,

1243
01:49:19,762 --> 01:49:21,972
my cousins from all over Europe

1244
01:49:22,098 --> 01:49:23,978
the kisses, the hand-shakes,

1245
01:49:24,100 --> 01:49:25,640
congratulations.

1246
01:49:26,894 --> 01:49:28,944
And embraces.

1247
01:49:29,063 --> 01:49:31,693
You can open your heart
to me, Sire.

1248
01:49:31,816 --> 01:49:36,316
My affection for you is just the same
as the day you called me to Munich,

1249
01:49:36,445 --> 01:49:38,025
rescuing me from poverty,

1250
01:49:38,155 --> 01:49:41,525
and welcoming me with open arms -
I have not forgotten that.

1251
01:49:41,701 --> 01:49:43,661
I came here at once now

1252
01:49:43,786 --> 01:49:47,576
because I realized
Your Majesty needed me.

1253
01:49:47,707 --> 01:49:51,167
Forget all the things
that have happened.

1254
01:49:52,420 --> 01:49:55,670
One can betray friends,
even lie to them,

1255
01:49:55,798 --> 01:49:58,128
but still love them.

1256
01:49:58,259 --> 01:50:00,719
Be magnanimous, try to forgive.

1257
01:50:02,513 --> 01:50:06,143
I know that no one will give you
the advice I could, because...

1258
01:50:06,267 --> 01:50:11,767
whatever I say comes from
a very deep, very sincere feeling.

1259
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:36,010
What is depressing you, my friend?

1260
01:50:36,130 --> 01:50:38,130
I understand many things,

1261
01:50:38,257 --> 01:50:40,927
but I cannot
help if you don't ask me to.

1262
01:50:46,849 --> 01:50:48,599
<i>Bon voyage.</i>

1263
01:50:50,561 --> 01:50:52,061
<i>Adieu.</i>

1264
01:50:56,984 --> 01:50:59,114
My name is Richard Hornig.

1265
01:51:00,071 --> 01:51:03,241
I have been in His Majesty's service
for 10 years.

1266
01:51:04,158 --> 01:51:06,948
I entered the King's household
very suddenly,

1267
01:51:07,078 --> 01:51:09,618
when His Majesty
in one of his moments of anger,

1268
01:51:09,747 --> 01:51:11,957
chased his footman Volk away

1269
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:15,170
and I was ordered
to take his place.

1270
01:51:17,421 --> 01:51:21,511
In all my years of serving the King,
I have never betrayed his trust.

1271
01:51:21,634 --> 01:51:24,264
And I have no intention
of doing so today.

1272
01:51:26,847 --> 01:51:28,637
Besides,

1273
01:51:28,766 --> 01:51:31,306
nothing in the King's behaviour

1274
01:51:31,435 --> 01:51:34,395
differs from what everyone
used to consider

1275
01:51:34,522 --> 01:51:36,982
behaviour worthy
of a sovereign's dignity.

1276
01:51:47,243 --> 01:51:49,543
(Bell clangs repeatedly)

1277
01:52:51,932 --> 01:52:53,022
Wait here.

1278
01:53:23,756 --> 01:53:25,666
Take this!

1279
01:53:25,799 --> 01:53:28,509
- Can you hoist this flag?
- Yes, Your Majesty.

1280
01:53:46,487 --> 01:53:50,277
- Good. Very good
- I used to do this in the Army.

1281
01:53:58,916 --> 01:54:00,746
This is the first time
I have seen you.

1282
01:54:00,876 --> 01:54:03,246
I have only been in service
a few days, Your Majesty.

1283
01:54:11,804 --> 01:54:15,524
- What did you do before?
- I worked on a farm, sire.

1284
01:54:15,641 --> 01:54:17,061
Taking care of the horses.

1285
01:54:40,916 --> 01:54:43,706
Light the fire.

1286
01:54:43,836 --> 01:54:45,666
At once, Your Majesty.

1287
01:55:14,700 --> 01:55:16,910
Take off your gloves!

1288
01:55:53,322 --> 01:55:58,372
- What are you waiting for?
- Has Your Majesty any orders for me?

1289
01:56:01,163 --> 01:56:03,213
You can sleep here tonight,
if you want.

1290
01:56:07,086 --> 01:56:09,046
Yes, Your Majesty.

1291
01:56:30,234 --> 01:56:31,744
Elsa?

1292
01:56:35,572 --> 01:56:38,912
What "Elsa" are you talking about?
Who is this "Elsa"?

1293
01:56:39,451 --> 01:56:41,451
I am Elsa.

1294
01:56:41,578 --> 01:56:44,828
Ludwig doesn't even
like my name.

1295
01:56:44,957 --> 01:56:47,077
He has never called me Sophie.

1296
01:56:47,209 --> 01:56:50,629
It's been Elsa
from the very beginning.

1297
01:56:51,338 --> 01:56:53,298
Like the heroine of <i>Lohengrin.</i>

1298
01:56:53,424 --> 01:56:56,974
But all lovers change the names
of their fiancées.

1299
01:56:57,094 --> 01:56:58,644
Lovers?

1300
01:57:06,770 --> 01:57:09,230
We've always know that Ludwig
is a bit extravagant.

1301
01:57:09,356 --> 01:57:11,276
Yes, I know.

1302
01:57:11,400 --> 01:57:13,900
But I am in love with him.

1303
01:57:14,027 --> 01:57:15,777
And it makes me suffer

1304
01:57:15,904 --> 01:57:19,914
when he leaves me all alone
at the ball they gave in our honor.

1305
01:57:20,033 --> 01:57:22,833
Never asking me to go outwith him.

1306
01:57:22,953 --> 01:57:26,373
Coming to see me less and less often.

1307
01:57:26,498 --> 01:57:32,248
So I spend all day shut up in the house
for fear of missing one of his visits.

1308
01:57:33,130 --> 01:57:37,760
Then, when he does come,
he hardly speaks to me.

1309
01:57:37,885 --> 01:57:42,715
Sometimes he comes
and spends the night outside the gate

1310
01:57:42,848 --> 01:57:46,098
and leaves a bunch of flowers for me

1311
01:57:46,226 --> 01:57:49,146
without a note or anything,

1312
01:57:49,271 --> 01:57:53,151
as if he were putting them
on a grave.

1313
01:57:53,275 --> 01:57:57,065
And I do feel dead.
Dead and buried.

1314
01:57:57,196 --> 01:58:01,736
I felt dead when he insisted
on introducing me to Wagner.

1315
01:58:01,867 --> 01:58:04,907
Everyone looks at me with pity.
Just pity.

1316
01:58:08,207 --> 01:58:10,287
Well, it's your fault too.

1317
01:58:23,639 --> 01:58:25,769
Why do you stay
shut up in the house

1318
01:58:25,891 --> 01:58:28,941
waiting till he condescends
to visit you? Go out!

1319
01:58:29,061 --> 01:58:31,151
Go on with your normal life.

1320
01:58:31,271 --> 01:58:35,781
Go to the theater if you feel like
it. Travel and enjoy yourself!

1321
01:58:35,901 --> 01:58:38,201
Show him that you are
an independent person

1322
01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:40,360
with many interests of your own.

1323
01:58:40,489 --> 01:58:42,819
That will attract him.
Make him want you!

1324
01:58:42,950 --> 01:58:44,740
He doesn't want me.

1325
01:58:44,868 --> 01:58:46,868
He doesn't care a thing about me.

1326
01:58:46,995 --> 01:58:48,705
And you know that very well.

1327
01:58:48,830 --> 01:58:51,420
Why, why didn't you tell me
he was in love with you?

1328
01:58:51,542 --> 01:58:52,672
No!

1329
01:58:53,752 --> 01:58:55,002
No.

1330
01:58:58,173 --> 01:59:00,843
What makes you say such things?
It's not true. It's not true!

1331
01:59:00,968 --> 01:59:02,798
It is true. People have told me.

1332
01:59:02,928 --> 01:59:05,098
But I had already realized it
by myself.

1333
01:59:05,222 --> 01:59:07,022
Too late, unfortunately.

1334
01:59:07,140 --> 01:59:09,980
And if you want the truth,
they told me that you knew.

1335
01:59:10,102 --> 01:59:13,612
Who? Who told you that?
Don't ever say that, you silly child!

1336
01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:17,440
(Sobbing)

1337
02:00:00,944 --> 02:00:03,284
Come...

1338
02:00:03,405 --> 02:00:05,985
Come, look at me.

1339
02:00:06,116 --> 02:00:08,576
Don't believe the nonsense
people tell you.

1340
02:00:13,165 --> 02:00:16,665
I'm not the one you must fear.
Not I.

1341
02:00:16,793 --> 02:00:18,883
Nor any other woman.

1342
02:00:22,799 --> 02:00:25,339
Ludwig...

1343
02:00:25,469 --> 02:00:28,599
The danger with Ludwig,
if anything...

1344
02:00:29,681 --> 02:00:32,271
It happens to many young men,
didn't you know that?

1345
02:00:32,392 --> 02:00:35,732
To all, I think, when they are
so young and so sensitive.

1346
02:00:35,854 --> 02:00:38,944
Most of the time,
they get over these things with help.

1347
02:00:41,943 --> 02:00:43,953
I am very fond of Ludwig.

1348
02:00:45,447 --> 02:00:49,787
Perhaps, because we are
very much alike, not only physically.

1349
02:00:51,161 --> 02:00:54,581
He has many faults,
many qualities.

1350
02:00:56,083 --> 02:00:58,133
He is very vulnerable.

1351
02:00:59,461 --> 02:01:01,551
You can save him, Sophie.
You must!

1352
02:01:02,589 --> 02:01:05,509
But you have to be very strong.

1353
02:01:05,634 --> 02:01:07,224
Be close to him.

1354
02:01:07,344 --> 02:01:10,724
Don't allow any further delays
of the wedding.

1355
02:01:13,350 --> 02:01:15,560
If he doesn't speak,
then you must speak.

1356
02:01:15,686 --> 02:01:17,056
If he neglects you,

1357
02:01:17,187 --> 02:01:21,017
then give him the impression
that you neglected him first.

1358
02:01:21,149 --> 02:01:25,109
I shall tell our father to write
to Ludwig and set the date immediately.

1359
02:01:25,237 --> 02:01:27,777
No more postponements.

1360
02:01:31,618 --> 02:01:33,408
I do not want to marry Sophie.

1361
02:01:38,375 --> 02:01:42,585
- It is too late
- No, it is not too late!

1362
02:01:43,797 --> 02:01:46,297
And it wouldn't be the first time
an engagement was broken.

1363
02:01:46,967 --> 02:01:50,007
A king cannot give scandal.

1364
02:01:51,054 --> 02:01:55,234
He cannot expose himself
to horrible and justified criticism.

1365
02:01:57,477 --> 02:02:00,017
They will be merciless!

1366
02:02:03,442 --> 02:02:07,202
And this is the reason why I should
be merciless towards Sophie?

1367
02:02:07,320 --> 02:02:11,950
The Lord will be merciful to her.
Leave it to Him.

1368
02:02:13,952 --> 02:02:15,792
I am deceiving her.

1369
02:02:17,622 --> 02:02:20,252
You knew that from the beginning.

1370
02:02:22,002 --> 02:02:25,092
She isn't marrying me out
of sheer ambition.

1371
02:02:25,213 --> 02:02:28,843
- I hadn't realized that...
- If Sophie loves you,

1372
02:02:28,967 --> 02:02:30,177
you can only rejoice.

1373
02:02:30,302 --> 02:02:32,432
She loves me now,

1374
02:02:32,554 --> 02:02:36,604
but she will come to hate me,
as I will hate her!

1375
02:02:43,148 --> 02:02:47,148
What entitles you
to such presumption?

1376
02:02:47,277 --> 02:02:51,567
How can you claim to know
what the Lord has in store for you?

1377
02:02:51,698 --> 02:02:54,368
You are asked only to marry her

1378
02:02:54,493 --> 02:02:56,663
and to have children.

1379
02:03:01,875 --> 02:03:04,205
Listen to me, Ludwig.

1380
02:03:04,336 --> 02:03:07,546
When the devil sends temptations,

1381
02:03:07,672 --> 02:03:11,262
they must be turned back
against him.

1382
02:03:11,384 --> 02:03:15,144
They must be used to honor God.

1383
02:03:16,306 --> 02:03:18,556
In the darkness of a room,

1384
02:03:18,683 --> 02:03:21,773
aided by the image of sin itself,

1385
02:03:21,895 --> 02:03:24,305
you will realize

1386
02:03:24,439 --> 02:03:28,859
that the warmth of one body
is the same as another's.

1387
02:03:30,612 --> 02:03:33,662
Father, you are teaching me
something new.

1388
02:03:34,825 --> 02:03:38,945
Your people want you
to be one of themselves.

1389
02:03:39,079 --> 02:03:43,829
More powerful, more privileged,
touched by divine providence,

1390
02:03:43,959 --> 02:03:46,169
but still one of them.

1391
02:03:47,379 --> 02:03:51,219
If you insist on being different,
they will never forgive you.

1392
02:03:51,341 --> 02:03:52,681
Never!

1393
02:03:54,845 --> 02:03:59,095
Wagner... was driven from Munich

1394
02:03:59,224 --> 02:04:02,064
because he is a genius.

1395
02:04:02,185 --> 02:04:04,595
That was what made him
a foreigner.

1396
02:04:05,772 --> 02:04:07,772
He was different.

1397
02:04:09,359 --> 02:04:14,609
Ludwig, you are one of
the Lord's favored because

1398
02:04:15,323 --> 02:04:18,913
you are more exposed to sin
than others.

1399
02:04:19,035 --> 02:04:23,575
And so you can prove
more than the others can

1400
02:04:23,707 --> 02:04:26,167
your love of God.

1401
02:04:28,336 --> 02:04:31,916
I know from your own lips
that until now

1402
02:04:32,048 --> 02:04:36,548
you have always had the strength
to resist temptation,

1403
02:04:36,678 --> 02:04:38,678
to reject sin.

1404
02:04:52,819 --> 02:04:54,109
Yes.

1405
02:05:04,998 --> 02:05:09,168
I want you to tell me
if this is still true.

1406
02:05:09,294 --> 02:05:10,714
(Ludwig) Yes

1407
02:05:52,170 --> 02:05:57,970
I ask you this as if in
the holy sacrament of confession.

1408
02:06:25,203 --> 02:06:29,123
I daresay that calling off
the engagement with Princess Sophie

1409
02:06:29,249 --> 02:06:31,749
marked the beginning
of our misfortunes.

1410
02:06:31,876 --> 02:06:36,256
From that inauspicious day,
our King lost his interest in State affairs.

1411
02:06:38,717 --> 02:06:42,797
Despite everything that was going on
in the world, His Majesty

1412
02:06:42,929 --> 02:06:47,059
seemed interested only
in building all of those castles

1413
02:06:47,183 --> 02:06:49,193
in which nobody would ever live.

1414
02:06:52,313 --> 02:06:56,613
To make matters worse, Prince Otto
was getting more and more ill

1415
02:06:56,735 --> 02:07:00,655
and the Queen Mother sought comfort
in the Catholic religion.

1416
02:07:05,827 --> 02:07:09,537
(Priest speaks in Latin)

1417
02:07:17,922 --> 02:07:21,892
(Continue speaking in Latin)

1418
02:08:37,669 --> 02:08:40,799
Our heart is filled with joy,
Your Majesty.

1419
02:09:13,621 --> 02:09:16,791
How painful for a mother -
he did not want to be caressed.

1420
02:09:23,256 --> 02:09:25,376
On behalf of
our Provincial Father too,

1421
02:09:25,508 --> 02:09:28,848
I would like to express
my contentment

1422
02:09:28,970 --> 02:09:31,930
for Your Majesty's decision
to attend this ceremony

1423
02:09:32,056 --> 02:09:34,806
compensating partly
for the King's absence

1424
02:09:34,934 --> 02:09:39,814
and the deepest sorrow
that is caused by

1425
02:09:39,939 --> 02:09:43,439
seeing him living
more and more in seclusion.

1426
02:09:44,777 --> 02:09:47,777
Lately, I have been
visiting him frequently

1427
02:09:47,906 --> 02:09:50,906
to ask him about his health.

1428
02:09:51,034 --> 02:09:54,544
Very often His Majesty
refuses to see me.

1429
02:09:57,832 --> 02:10:01,132
Remember His Majesty
in your prayers.

1430
02:10:05,089 --> 02:10:09,259
I never forget our beloved King
in my prayers.

1431
02:10:09,385 --> 02:10:13,305
But I must say that it's a source
of great embarrassment to me

1432
02:10:13,431 --> 02:10:15,431
and profound dismay,

1433
02:10:15,558 --> 02:10:21,188
having to explain the King's position
to his Catholic subjects.

1434
02:10:21,314 --> 02:10:25,364
Sadly, we are on the verge
of a war that, at best,

1435
02:10:25,485 --> 02:10:31,405
will result in Prussian forces
becoming triumphant in Europe.

1436
02:10:31,532 --> 02:10:36,962
And we may hope that the course
of these earthly events which,

1437
02:10:37,080 --> 02:10:41,670
as the Lord knows,
are totally alien to us,

1438
02:10:43,336 --> 02:10:46,836
will encourage us
to keep on strengthening

1439
02:10:46,965 --> 02:10:50,755
the sacred bonds
with the mother church

1440
02:10:50,885 --> 02:10:53,045
and the Holy Pope.

1441
02:10:54,472 --> 02:10:56,642
But our King is not helping matters.

1442
02:10:58,726 --> 02:11:01,056
If God, in his eternal mercy

1443
02:11:01,187 --> 02:11:03,607
accepted me
as His humble servant,

1444
02:11:03,731 --> 02:11:06,111
I am sure that He will help us.

1445
02:11:07,277 --> 02:11:09,027
I have faith.

1446
02:11:37,473 --> 02:11:41,443
It's useless for you to wait, Father.
His Majesty will not receive you.

1447
02:11:41,561 --> 02:11:44,651
Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother
sent me here.

1448
02:11:44,772 --> 02:11:46,572
Prince Otto is very ill.

1449
02:11:46,691 --> 02:11:50,111
His Majesty is ill too.
His teeth are troubling him.

1450
02:11:50,236 --> 02:11:53,236
No, believe me, Father,
it's a waste of time waiting.

1451
02:11:55,575 --> 02:11:57,155
Count Holnstein is with His Majesty now.

1452
02:11:57,285 --> 02:11:59,945
He arrived early this morning
from Versailles,

1453
02:12:00,079 --> 02:12:03,419
where His Majesty sent him
on an important mission.

1454
02:12:03,541 --> 02:12:05,421
He had to wait six hours.

1455
02:12:12,467 --> 02:12:15,547
Forgive me,
tell His Majesty I was here.

1456
02:12:15,678 --> 02:12:17,178
And tell him the reason.

1457
02:12:24,020 --> 02:12:26,310
I cannot wait any longer.

1458
02:12:26,439 --> 02:12:28,899
I must see His Majesty the King.

1459
02:12:31,319 --> 02:12:33,489
I will take sole responsibility for this.

1460
02:12:47,752 --> 02:12:49,632
(Silence)

1461
02:12:51,381 --> 02:12:54,131
(Silence continues)

1462
02:13:30,294 --> 02:13:32,554
When did you get here?

1463
02:13:37,718 --> 02:13:39,598
At eight o'clock this morning,

1464
02:13:39,720 --> 02:13:42,310
and I have been waiting
out there since,

1465
02:13:42,432 --> 02:13:44,932
as Your Majesty knows very well.

1466
02:13:53,359 --> 02:13:55,279
I am ill.

1467
02:14:02,452 --> 02:14:07,002
Chloroform is the only thing
that helps me get any sleep.

1468
02:14:09,709 --> 02:14:12,879
- Does the smell bother you?
- Not at all.

1469
02:14:14,755 --> 02:14:17,425
Shall I ask someone
to open the window?

1470
02:14:20,219 --> 02:14:22,009
I am so cold.

1471
02:14:27,602 --> 02:14:29,562
Take a seat.

1472
02:14:29,687 --> 02:14:33,107
Thank you,
but I must go tonight.

1473
02:14:34,692 --> 02:14:38,152
- Really? Where to?
- To Versailles

1474
02:14:39,572 --> 02:14:42,912
I have spoken to Chancellor Bismarck

1475
02:14:43,034 --> 02:14:46,954
and I must give him
an immediate answer.

1476
02:14:58,090 --> 02:15:00,430
What is this?

1477
02:15:00,551 --> 02:15:02,141
Who wrote it?

1478
02:15:04,639 --> 02:15:06,349
I... I don't understand.

1479
02:15:06,474 --> 02:15:09,894
It is the letter
you should write immediately

1480
02:15:10,019 --> 02:15:11,809
to the King of Prussia.

1481
02:15:14,357 --> 02:15:15,777
I ought not to say this,

1482
02:15:15,900 --> 02:15:19,070
but the Chancellor himself
dictated it to me himself.

1483
02:15:20,988 --> 02:15:23,158
I am expected to write this?

1484
02:15:23,282 --> 02:15:25,832
You copy it and sign it,

1485
02:15:25,952 --> 02:15:28,412
then I will deliver it
as quickly as possible.

1486
02:15:38,422 --> 02:15:39,802
What?

1487
02:15:42,134 --> 02:15:43,684
What?

1488
02:15:49,642 --> 02:15:53,732
I am to ask Wilhelm
to do me the favour

1489
02:15:53,854 --> 02:15:57,574
of accepting my kingdom as a gift?

1490
02:15:59,318 --> 02:16:00,698
No.

1491
02:16:00,820 --> 02:16:02,910
You are asking
the future Emperor

1492
02:16:03,030 --> 02:16:05,120
of the great, new Germany,

1493
02:16:05,241 --> 02:16:08,911
to admit Bavaria as part of
the Federation of Allied States.

1494
02:16:12,164 --> 02:16:14,044
This is not an alliance.

1495
02:16:15,251 --> 02:16:19,671
It means handing the country
over to them.

1496
02:16:19,797 --> 02:16:21,587
Becoming slaves.

1497
02:16:21,716 --> 02:16:23,966
Worse than slaves!

1498
02:16:24,093 --> 02:16:28,973
We'd be putting ourselves in the most
humiliating position imaginable.

1499
02:16:29,098 --> 02:16:31,018
No! No!

1500
02:16:31,142 --> 02:16:33,942
I can do anything,
but not this!

1501
02:16:34,061 --> 02:16:36,481
Slavery?

1502
02:16:36,606 --> 02:16:39,146
Humiliation?

1503
02:16:39,275 --> 02:16:41,645
I don't understand.

1504
02:16:41,777 --> 02:16:46,067
People become slaves when
they are defeated, taken prisoner.

1505
02:16:46,198 --> 02:16:49,868
Defeat is humiliation -
the inevitable fate of Bavaria,

1506
02:16:49,994 --> 02:16:53,254
if the country
doesn't join the Alliance.

1507
02:16:53,372 --> 02:16:55,372
With one sneeze
the great, new Germany

1508
02:16:55,499 --> 02:16:58,129
could blow the kingdom of Bavaria
off the map.

1509
02:16:59,420 --> 02:17:01,260
We must face facts, Sire.

1510
02:17:02,632 --> 02:17:04,722
Bismarck's advice is sound.

1511
02:17:05,885 --> 02:17:09,255
It would have been wiser if you
had written the letter even before.

1512
02:17:10,181 --> 02:17:14,851
Your uncle, King Wilhelm,
would certainly have valued it more.

1513
02:17:16,062 --> 02:17:18,312
But write it now,

1514
02:17:18,439 --> 02:17:21,479
before he is proclaimed Emperor
in spite of us.

1515
02:17:21,609 --> 02:17:24,489
This is the psychological moment.

1516
02:17:26,530 --> 02:17:28,490
And...

1517
02:17:28,616 --> 02:17:31,946
there would be
financial advantages too.

1518
02:17:33,412 --> 02:17:34,412
Yes,

1519
02:17:36,415 --> 02:17:40,335
Bismarck led me to believe
that you can count on that.

1520
02:17:42,713 --> 02:17:44,883
No.

1521
02:17:45,007 --> 02:17:47,887
Not now at least.

1522
02:17:48,010 --> 02:17:50,350
I won't.

1523
02:17:50,471 --> 02:17:52,471
I couldn't.

1524
02:17:52,598 --> 02:17:54,138
I can't!

1525
02:17:54,266 --> 02:17:58,186
No, I can't!
I can't! I can't!

1526
02:17:58,312 --> 02:17:59,402
I can't!

1527
02:18:00,940 --> 02:18:04,690
No, I can't... I can't...

1528
02:18:11,784 --> 02:18:14,164
It's almost five o'clock.

1529
02:18:14,286 --> 02:18:18,166
If I can leave Munich
by nine?

1530
02:18:18,290 --> 02:18:21,420
We all know
that there is no other solution.

1531
02:18:21,544 --> 02:18:25,174
We can at least spare ourselves
the effort of talking about it.

1532
02:18:25,297 --> 02:18:28,877
If it is true that
there is no other solution,

1533
02:18:31,804 --> 02:18:36,064
if my government feels
there is no other solution,

1534
02:18:36,183 --> 02:18:39,063
let the government take this step.

1535
02:18:39,895 --> 02:18:42,055
If I were to tell Your Majesty

1536
02:18:42,189 --> 02:18:45,989
what the government
would like to do at this moment,

1537
02:18:46,110 --> 02:18:49,200
Your Majesty would not hesitate
to write this letter.

1538
02:18:50,781 --> 02:18:53,371
But I won't use such methods.

1539
02:18:56,370 --> 02:18:58,000
All I say is this.

1540
02:18:58,122 --> 02:19:01,672
Your Majesty needs
a personal alliance.

1541
02:19:01,792 --> 02:19:06,552
An alliance among people
of the same blood, the same nobility.

1542
02:19:06,672 --> 02:19:10,472
An alliance that would bring
many advantages,

1543
02:19:10,593 --> 02:19:13,393
some of them immediately.

1544
02:20:13,739 --> 02:20:15,949
(Shouting and bawling)

1545
02:20:36,136 --> 02:20:38,636
(Frenzied cries continue)

1546
02:20:53,529 --> 02:20:54,989
Let go of him!

1547
02:20:55,114 --> 02:20:57,374
But, Your Majesty...

1548
02:21:02,538 --> 02:21:05,038
(Bawling stops abruptly)

1549
02:21:26,270 --> 02:21:29,360
(Whispers) Otto... Otto.

1550
02:21:36,906 --> 02:21:38,026
Otto.

1551
02:21:39,950 --> 02:21:42,370
Don't you recognize me?

1552
02:21:42,494 --> 02:21:45,004
It's me, Ludwig.

1553
02:22:25,746 --> 02:22:30,286
(♪ Orchestra plays Wagner's
"Siegfried Idyll")

1554
02:24:26,617 --> 02:24:29,157
(Wagner)
Happy birthday, my dear.

1555
02:24:30,079 --> 02:24:32,329
Happy Christmas!

1556
02:24:32,456 --> 02:24:34,576
Happy everything!

1557
02:24:36,001 --> 02:24:39,881
This is my present for you,
and for him.

1558
02:25:12,538 --> 02:25:15,038
No one has ever had
such a beautiful present.

1559
02:25:36,854 --> 02:25:39,574
Our best wishes,
Madame Wagner.

1560
02:25:39,690 --> 02:25:43,780
Best wishes from all of us,
from the whole world.

1561
02:25:45,404 --> 02:25:47,164
(Rattling...)

1562
02:25:56,373 --> 02:25:57,833
(Rattling stops)

1563
02:25:57,875 --> 02:26:00,285
Play it once more, please.

1564
02:26:57,226 --> 02:26:59,976
For the purpose
of this difficult inquiry

1565
02:27:00,103 --> 02:27:03,773
in order to understand the problem
and ascertain a solution,

1566
02:27:03,899 --> 02:27:07,319
I suggest that my colleagues
visit all of His Majesty's castles,

1567
02:27:07,444 --> 02:27:11,914
of which only Linderhof Castle
has been occupied by him

1568
02:27:12,032 --> 02:27:14,452
on an occasional basis.

1569
02:27:15,994 --> 02:27:19,874
I would also like to remind you that
Wagner, who left Bavaria long ago,

1570
02:27:19,998 --> 02:27:22,498
has still been
a burden on our finances.

1571
02:27:22,626 --> 02:27:27,086
When his new theater in Bayreuth
was opened in August 1876

1572
02:27:27,214 --> 02:27:29,884
with his famous Tetralogy,
it was only because of

1573
02:27:30,008 --> 02:27:32,838
the financial support
that with his renowned greediness,

1574
02:27:32,970 --> 02:27:35,890
Wagner was able to obtain
from our naive King.

1575
02:27:36,014 --> 02:27:40,814
He had no money, but he made
no efforts to economise.

1576
02:27:42,980 --> 02:27:47,940
On the contrary, he went on spending,
giving money away -

1577
02:27:48,068 --> 02:27:53,618
large sums for a valet
with a handsome face or a slim figure,

1578
02:27:53,740 --> 02:27:57,450
or an actor
whose voice had caught his fancy.

1579
02:27:57,577 --> 02:28:01,617
<i>A glooming peace this morning
with it brings.</i>

1580
02:28:01,748 --> 02:28:05,918
<i>The sun, for sorrow,
will not show his head.</i>

1581
02:28:06,044 --> 02:28:08,964
<i>Go hence, to have more talk</i>

1582
02:28:09,089 --> 02:28:12,339
<i>of these sad things.</i>

1583
02:28:12,467 --> 02:28:17,137
<i>Some shall be pardon 'd,
and some punished</i>

1584
02:28:17,264 --> 02:28:20,684
<i>For never was a story
of more woe</i>

1585
02:28:20,809 --> 02:28:23,349
<i>than this of Juliet</i>

1586
02:28:23,478 --> 02:28:26,018
<i>and her Romeo.</i>

1587
02:28:30,527 --> 02:28:35,777
Mr Kainz, congratulations!

1588
02:28:36,783 --> 02:28:38,583
A great success!

1589
02:28:41,079 --> 02:28:44,419
Bravo, I am happy.
I am very happy!

1590
02:28:46,710 --> 02:28:52,220
Thank you. Thank you very much.

1591
02:28:56,261 --> 02:28:59,221
(Applause continues)

1592
02:29:05,812 --> 02:29:08,022
- Thanks to you all, very, very much.
- Congratulations.

1593
02:29:08,148 --> 02:29:12,188
- You were marvellous.
- No, you were marvellous!

1594
02:29:13,111 --> 02:29:16,491
(Clanking of stage machinery)

1595
02:29:21,328 --> 02:29:26,328
Mr Kainz,
from His Majesty the King.

1596
02:29:29,127 --> 02:29:30,547
Good evening.

1597
02:29:30,670 --> 02:29:33,840
I have a message for you,
from His Majesty.

1598
02:29:34,800 --> 02:29:36,510
And this.

1599
02:29:57,531 --> 02:30:00,031
His Majesty the King had instructed me

1600
02:30:00,158 --> 02:30:04,198
to wait upon the young actor Kainz,
bringing him a gift

1601
02:30:04,329 --> 02:30:07,919
and an invitation to spend
three days at Linderhof castle.

1602
02:31:09,144 --> 02:31:10,854
Good evening.

1603
02:31:16,985 --> 02:31:19,605
(Cascading water)

1604
02:33:06,344 --> 02:33:09,184
(Hoarse, trumpeting bird cry)

1605
02:33:42,881 --> 02:33:44,721
(Rasping bird cry)

1606
02:34:21,336 --> 02:34:22,916
(Clears throat)

1607
02:34:27,217 --> 02:34:31,137
Allow me to give you
a piece of advice, Herr Kainz,

1608
02:34:31,262 --> 02:34:33,222
for your own good.

1609
02:34:38,103 --> 02:34:41,983
You see, the King expected
to meet Romeo,

1610
02:34:42,107 --> 02:34:44,857
not Herr Joseph Kainz.

1611
02:34:47,112 --> 02:34:49,912
It was Romeo he invited
to Linderhof.

1612
02:34:51,282 --> 02:34:55,082
If you can manage to be Romeo,
or Didier,

1613
02:34:55,203 --> 02:34:58,123
one of your heroes
in other words,

1614
02:34:58,248 --> 02:35:02,038
then you are sure to be
a success.

1615
02:35:12,887 --> 02:35:14,757
(Melodramatic voice) <i>Knee!</i>

1616
02:35:14,889 --> 02:35:17,599
<i>before each of these crosses</i>

1617
02:35:17,726 --> 02:35:20,556
<i>and shed hot tears,</i>

1618
02:35:20,770 --> 02:35:24,320
<i>repenting the crime
you have committed.</i>

1619
02:35:27,944 --> 02:35:31,284
<i>If you can then pass happily
through the horrors</i>

1620
02:35:31,406 --> 02:35:33,316
<i>and dangers of the road.</i>

1621
02:35:33,450 --> 02:35:37,450
<i>If the mountain does not rain
avalanches down on you</i>

1622
02:35:37,579 --> 02:35:40,579
<i>from its icy peaks,</i>

1623
02:35:40,832 --> 02:35:43,132
<i>you will reach a bridge</i>

1624
02:35:43,251 --> 02:35:45,461
<i>covered with spray
as light as dust.</i>

1625
02:35:46,463 --> 02:35:49,053
<i>If the bridge does not break</i>

1626
02:35:49,174 --> 02:35:52,724
<i>beneath the weight of your sin,</i>

1627
02:35:52,844 --> 02:35:56,434
<i>if you leave it behind you,</i>

1628
02:35:56,556 --> 02:35:59,226
<i>you will see a black opening</i>

1629
02:35:59,350 --> 02:36:03,520
<i>yon, in the cliff before you.</i>

1630
02:36:03,730 --> 02:36:05,940
<i>Daylight</i>

1631
02:36:06,107 --> 02:36:09,397
<i>has never penetrated there.</i>

1632
02:36:10,779 --> 02:36:12,909
<i>Pass then,</i>

1633
02:36:13,072 --> 02:36:15,532
<i>through that black gap</i>

1634
02:36:15,742 --> 02:36:20,662
<i>that will lead you to a radiant,
smiling valley.</i>

1635
02:36:20,789 --> 02:36:23,079
<i>But you must move through it quickly,</i>

1636
02:36:23,208 --> 02:36:25,998
<i>since you are not allowed to linger</i>

1637
02:36:26,127 --> 02:36:29,917
<i>where peace reigns.</i>

1638
02:36:36,596 --> 02:36:39,426
Oh, Rudolph!

1639
02:36:39,599 --> 02:36:42,139
My royal ancestor!

1640
02:36:42,268 --> 02:36:44,098
This is how

1641
02:36:44,270 --> 02:36:47,320
your descendant
must enter the territory

1642
02:36:47,482 --> 02:36:48,902
of your empire

1643
02:36:49,025 --> 02:36:52,315
<i>And thus, as you climb,</i>

1644
02:36:52,445 --> 02:36:55,445
<i>you will reach the heights
of the Gottardo</i>

1645
02:36:55,573 --> 02:37:00,083
<i>where the eternal lakes
are filled</i>

1646
02:37:00,203 --> 02:37:04,213
<i>with waters
which fall from heaven.</i>

1647
02:37:06,292 --> 02:37:10,632
<i>There, you will bid farewell
to German soil.</i>

1648
02:37:11,881 --> 02:37:16,011
<i>Another river will lead you
on its rapid course to Italy</i>

1649
02:37:16,135 --> 02:37:18,425
<i>your promised land.</i>

1650
02:37:23,226 --> 02:37:28,016
I will take you to the very places

1651
02:37:28,147 --> 02:37:31,897
where your characters
suffered and lived.

1652
02:37:32,026 --> 02:37:36,526
We will follow William Tell's footsteps
through Switzerland.

1653
02:37:37,782 --> 02:37:39,452
And then...

1654
02:37:40,743 --> 02:37:42,753
And then to Italy.

1655
02:37:43,705 --> 02:37:44,575
Yes...

1656
02:37:46,124 --> 02:37:48,134
Italy especially.

1657
02:37:48,793 --> 02:37:49,923
No!

1658
02:37:50,044 --> 02:37:54,264
No, later.
We will talk later.

1659
02:38:11,232 --> 02:38:13,322
Be Didier again.

1660
02:38:16,112 --> 02:38:19,532
<i>Be silent. I could have...</i>

1661
02:38:24,120 --> 02:38:26,920
(Ludwig laughs)

1662
02:38:28,917 --> 02:38:31,537
<i>Ah, be silent.</i>

1663
02:38:31,669 --> 02:38:36,049
<i>I too for my misfortune
could have been born a woman.</i>

1664
02:38:40,845 --> 02:38:45,055
(Chattering in German)

1665
02:39:00,531 --> 02:39:02,451
<i>But...</i>

1666
02:39:02,575 --> 02:39:06,825
<i>if he who addressed me
was an honest man,</i>

1667
02:39:08,039 --> 02:39:11,629
<i>full of an idiot's sense of honor,</i>

1668
02:39:11,751 --> 02:39:13,631
<i>if, by chance,</i>

1669
02:39:13,753 --> 02:39:18,553
<i>I had happened to meet
a heart still full of illusions...</i>

1670
02:39:18,675 --> 02:39:24,505
<i>Rather than not say
to that honest man, "I am thus."</i>

1671
02:39:24,639 --> 02:39:26,849
<i>Rather than receive him joyously,</i>

1672
02:39:27,600 --> 02:39:32,020
<i>Rather than not warn him myself
that my chaste, pure eye</i>

1673
02:39:32,188 --> 02:39:34,398
<i>was mere falsehood.</i>

1674
02:39:34,524 --> 02:39:38,954
<i>Rather than be so false,
treacherous, debased,</i>

1675
02:39:39,070 --> 02:39:45,330
<i>I would have preferred to make
my grave with my own finger nails.</i>

1676
02:39:49,330 --> 02:39:50,710
Go on.

1677
02:40:03,678 --> 02:40:06,638
<i>You would laugh heartily</i>

1678
02:40:06,764 --> 02:40:09,104
<i>if you could see yourself</i>

1679
02:40:09,225 --> 02:40:15,055
<i>as my heart, that strange mirror,
saw you.</i>

1680
02:40:15,189 --> 02:40:17,279
<i>You were right</i>

1681
02:40:17,400 --> 02:40:19,860
<i>to break it.</i>

1682
02:40:19,986 --> 02:40:22,106
<i>My lady,</i>

1683
02:40:22,238 --> 02:40:25,738
<i>you were there.</i>

1684
02:40:25,867 --> 02:40:30,157
<i>Innocent, pure, chaste.</i>

1685
02:40:31,914 --> 02:40:33,964
<i>Oh, woman!</i>

1686
02:40:34,083 --> 02:40:36,923
<i>What wrong was ever done you</i>

1687
02:40:37,045 --> 02:40:40,715
<i>by this man
of sweet and profound heart?</i>

1688
02:40:40,840 --> 02:40:44,180
<i>He who loved you
for so long</i>

1689
02:40:44,302 --> 02:40:47,812
<i>on his knees</i>

1690
02:40:47,930 --> 02:40:50,600
<i>before you.</i>

1691
02:41:03,404 --> 02:41:06,164
You will become my great friend.

1692
02:41:06,282 --> 02:41:08,492
I will make you the sole star
of my theater.

1693
02:41:08,618 --> 02:41:11,078
You will play the greatest dramas
of all the world...

1694
02:41:11,204 --> 02:41:13,374
of all time.

1695
02:41:13,498 --> 02:41:17,628
All the other actors
will be envious and jealous.

1696
02:41:18,836 --> 02:41:22,046
You must expect that,
but you mustn't fear it.

1697
02:41:22,173 --> 02:41:24,883
You will be under
the King's protection.

1698
02:41:25,009 --> 02:41:29,429
The King will protect you
and will spare you suffering and worry.

1699
02:41:30,139 --> 02:41:32,639
But you...

1700
02:41:32,767 --> 02:41:35,807
you must be loyal to me.

1701
02:41:35,937 --> 02:41:38,477
I want only your loyalty.

1702
02:41:40,942 --> 02:41:42,942
Everyone hated Wagner too.

1703
02:41:43,069 --> 02:41:45,149
I forced him on the whole world.

1704
02:41:46,823 --> 02:41:48,953
But Wagner

1705
02:41:49,075 --> 02:41:51,155
betrayed my trust.

1706
02:41:53,412 --> 02:41:57,962
I... I was that man with a heart
still full of illusion.

1707
02:41:58,084 --> 02:42:02,594
And ever since, I have been
searching for a true friend.

1708
02:42:05,133 --> 02:42:09,763
And now... now I have found him.

1709
02:42:22,108 --> 02:42:24,318
We shall leave very soon.

1710
02:42:24,443 --> 02:42:27,953
We shall always travel.
If they will not allow me...

1711
02:42:28,072 --> 02:42:30,782
Who could prevent you
from doing anything?

1712
02:42:30,908 --> 02:42:34,288
You are the King, and the Master.

1713
02:42:34,412 --> 02:42:36,412
To be King is not always easy.

1714
02:42:37,165 --> 02:42:39,455
Erm... Why not abdicate?

1715
02:42:39,584 --> 02:42:41,344
What?

1716
02:42:41,460 --> 02:42:44,800
(Speaks French)

1717
02:42:51,304 --> 02:42:54,854
You must never
address me that way again!

1718
02:42:54,974 --> 02:42:58,024
Never again, never!

1719
02:43:08,196 --> 02:43:09,406
I'm...

1720
02:43:09,530 --> 02:43:12,280
I am very tired, Your Majesty.

1721
02:43:14,619 --> 02:43:18,789
May I retire
and sleep for a few hours?

1722
02:43:18,915 --> 02:43:20,705
Sleep?

1723
02:43:20,833 --> 02:43:24,923
The sleigh is ready, come!
I will show you my true realm,

1724
02:43:25,046 --> 02:43:28,796
my mountains
under the sun's first rays.

1725
02:43:28,925 --> 02:43:31,135
A world of our own.

1726
02:43:32,136 --> 02:43:35,506
Pure and uncontaminated.

1727
02:43:35,640 --> 02:43:38,640
Think of your soul, Didier,

1728
02:43:38,768 --> 02:43:40,848
not of your body.

1729
02:43:45,942 --> 02:43:49,072
(Sleigh bells jingle)

1730
02:44:03,292 --> 02:44:06,212
(Kainz)
<i>'The mountaintops thunder.</i>

1731
02:44:07,630 --> 02:44:10,550
<i>'The little bridge trembles.</i>

1732
02:44:11,676 --> 02:44:15,546
<i>'But the hunter fears not
the dizzying path.</i>

1733
02:44:15,680 --> 02:44:20,310
<i>'Boldly he strides over the icy peaks</i>

1734
02:44:20,434 --> 02:44:25,614
<i>'where spring never shines,</i>

1735
02:44:25,731 --> 02:44:30,111
<i>'where no bough is green.'</i>

1736
02:44:45,960 --> 02:44:47,880
(Gentle snoring)

1737
02:45:14,488 --> 02:45:15,818
You snored.

1738
02:45:15,948 --> 02:45:18,868
That is the poem
I wanted to hear from you.

1739
02:45:20,202 --> 02:45:24,752
<i>The south wind has risen...</i>
Come, recite!

1740
02:45:26,625 --> 02:45:28,455
No,

1741
02:45:28,586 --> 02:45:31,166
I can't.

1742
02:45:31,297 --> 02:45:33,667
I don't feel up to it.

1743
02:45:33,799 --> 02:45:37,089
I hate being a buffoon
acting by command.

1744
02:45:37,219 --> 02:45:38,849
I am an artist!

1745
02:45:39,805 --> 02:45:43,975
Please, just this once.
I beg you.

1746
02:45:44,101 --> 02:45:46,101
- No, I cannot.
- I order you!

1747
02:45:46,228 --> 02:45:47,728
I cannot!

1748
02:45:48,939 --> 02:45:52,399
It is beyond me, I'm worn out.

1749
02:45:52,526 --> 02:45:54,696
We have been traveling for a week.

1750
02:45:54,820 --> 02:45:57,990
I feel as if
I haven't slept the whole time.

1751
02:45:58,115 --> 02:46:00,365
My memory fails me.

1752
02:46:05,081 --> 02:46:08,081
If you are tired, then rest.

1753
02:46:21,347 --> 02:46:22,677
(Bell clangs)

1754
02:46:24,683 --> 02:46:27,603
Mr Kainz declared

1755
02:46:27,728 --> 02:46:32,358
that the letters written to him
by His Majesty the King

1756
02:46:32,483 --> 02:46:34,783
almost daily

1757
02:46:34,902 --> 02:46:39,202
during the brief period
of their friendship,

1758
02:46:39,323 --> 02:46:41,953
were stolen from him.

1759
02:46:42,076 --> 02:46:43,986
Mr Kainz is a liar.

1760
02:46:44,120 --> 02:46:48,460
Mr Kainz sold, and at a high price,
the King's letters

1761
02:46:48,582 --> 02:46:54,922
just as he sold a number of presents
he had received from His Majesty.

1762
02:46:55,047 --> 02:46:57,717
He sold the letters in Switzerland

1763
02:46:57,842 --> 02:47:00,222
to an agent of mine.

1764
02:47:00,344 --> 02:47:02,724
These letters are in my possession.

1765
02:47:02,847 --> 02:47:07,557
I believe these letters
are the most undeniable evidence

1766
02:47:07,685 --> 02:47:12,725
that His Majesty the King
is not in possession

1767
02:47:12,857 --> 02:47:15,607
of his mental faculties.

1768
02:47:15,734 --> 02:47:18,324
I bore everything I could

1769
02:47:18,446 --> 02:47:21,776
as a loyal servant
of the kingdom and the State

1770
02:47:21,907 --> 02:47:24,327
from a despot
who knew no restraint

1771
02:47:24,452 --> 02:47:27,292
in satisfying his whims.

1772
02:47:27,413 --> 02:47:31,753
Reluctantly, I sent funds
to Wagner in Bayreut.

1773
02:47:31,876 --> 02:47:33,916
I watched Linderhof being built

1774
02:47:34,044 --> 02:47:38,054
and, clenching my teeth,
the castle of Neuschwanstein.

1775
02:47:38,174 --> 02:47:41,434
But in the autumn of 1877

1776
02:47:41,552 --> 02:47:45,762
when I realized that His Majesty
had firmly determined

1777
02:47:45,890 --> 02:47:48,770
to start building Herrenchiemsee,

1778
02:47:52,062 --> 02:47:53,522
then I resigned.

1779
02:47:58,444 --> 02:48:02,824
(Horse-drawn carriage approaches)

1780
02:48:27,806 --> 02:48:30,056
(Carriage door opens and closes)

1781
02:50:05,529 --> 02:50:08,819
(Distant laughter echoes)

1782
02:50:16,206 --> 02:50:20,586
(Pendulum clock ticks,
echoing in an empty room)

1783
02:50:47,071 --> 02:50:50,121
Why is that black veil on the piano?

1784
02:50:50,240 --> 02:50:52,120
I've heard about that.

1785
02:50:52,242 --> 02:50:56,372
The King ordered it
to be put up for Wagner's death.

1786
02:50:59,041 --> 02:51:01,461
That was long time ago.

1787
02:54:18,782 --> 02:54:22,202
(Laughter echoes around the room)

1788
02:56:39,631 --> 02:56:42,761
(Drill sergeant shouts
commands in German)

1789
02:56:49,683 --> 02:56:51,853
(Shouting continues)

1790
02:57:02,070 --> 02:57:04,030
Osterholzer!

1791
02:57:08,577 --> 02:57:10,947
I can't... I can't see her.

1792
02:57:11,079 --> 02:57:13,079
I can't receive her. Go!

1793
02:57:30,140 --> 02:57:32,480
You will tell her I am ill.

1794
02:57:35,937 --> 02:57:37,977
I'm suffering.

1795
02:57:38,106 --> 02:57:40,146
I'm suffering very much.

1796
02:57:42,069 --> 02:57:44,649
I want no one's pity. Nobody's!

1797
02:57:47,074 --> 02:57:51,504
Go! Go, Hornig, and tell her...

1798
02:57:51,620 --> 02:57:54,000
(Gasping) ...that I am sorry.

1799
02:57:54,122 --> 02:57:56,792
I will come to visit her
as soon as I am better.

1800
02:57:56,917 --> 02:57:59,037
Naturally,
Neuschwanstein is at her disposal,

1801
02:57:59,169 --> 02:58:01,759
if she cares to stay,
for as long as she likes.

1802
02:58:10,764 --> 02:58:12,854
I cannot see her.

1803
02:58:38,750 --> 02:58:42,250
- Tell His Majesty I am here.
- His Majesty is ill, he cannot see you.

1804
02:58:50,011 --> 02:58:53,271
His Majesty says that the castle
is at Your Majesty's disposal

1805
02:58:53,390 --> 02:58:55,390
for as long as you wish.

1806
02:59:00,188 --> 02:59:02,108
We are going back to Possenhofen.

1807
02:59:05,026 --> 02:59:06,776
Elisabeth...

1808
02:59:08,864 --> 02:59:10,914
(Sobbing) Elisabeth!

1809
02:59:13,160 --> 02:59:16,330
And then he began to cry.

1810
02:59:16,454 --> 02:59:19,794
He had sent us out of the room,

1811
02:59:19,916 --> 02:59:23,796
but we could still hear him.

1812
02:59:23,920 --> 02:59:26,300
He was crying and shouting,

1813
02:59:26,423 --> 02:59:29,593
"Elisabeth! Elisabeth!"

1814
02:59:31,595 --> 02:59:33,385
(Ludwig sobs) 'Elisabeth...

1815
02:59:35,182 --> 02:59:36,892
'Elisabeth!'

1816
02:59:43,106 --> 02:59:44,686
(Laughter)

1817
03:00:10,759 --> 03:00:12,639
Karl!

1818
03:00:15,430 --> 03:00:17,350
Now it's your turn.

1819
03:00:27,234 --> 03:00:30,074
(Shouts of joy and wild laughter)

1820
03:00:45,252 --> 03:00:47,712
(♪ Cheerful folk dance)

1821
03:01:54,112 --> 03:01:56,322
(♪ Folk band plays ballad)

1822
03:01:56,448 --> 03:01:58,738
(♪ Feeble singing)

1823
03:02:47,540 --> 03:02:49,500
(♪ Singing peters out)

1824
03:02:49,626 --> 03:02:53,046
(♪ Accordionist plays unaccompanied)

1825
03:05:33,289 --> 03:05:36,789
Who did you put in charge
of conducting this inquiry?

1826
03:05:36,918 --> 03:05:38,918
Count von Holnstein, Highness.

1827
03:05:40,129 --> 03:05:43,549
The Count has always been
very close to His Majesty.

1828
03:05:43,675 --> 03:05:46,835
His advice
is therefore very helpful for us

1829
03:05:46,970 --> 03:05:49,060
I have always distrusted favorites.

1830
03:05:50,098 --> 03:05:54,768
And ex-favorites have to be regarded
with even more suspicion.

1831
03:05:57,272 --> 03:06:00,572
What part does Colonel Dürckheim
play in all of this?

1832
03:06:00,692 --> 03:06:03,862
He has been close to Ludwig
since he was young.

1833
03:06:03,987 --> 03:06:06,777
Highness,
we thought it would be better

1834
03:06:06,906 --> 03:06:10,236
to keep this situation
as confidential as possible

1835
03:06:10,368 --> 03:06:12,698
due to the decisions
we may have to make

1836
03:06:12,829 --> 03:06:16,169
should our King be declared
incapable of ruling.

1837
03:06:18,668 --> 03:06:20,628
As Your Majesty may know,

1838
03:06:20,753 --> 03:06:22,803
in spite of the King's eccentricity

1839
03:06:22,922 --> 03:06:26,432
and the recent excessive spending
on his empty castles

1840
03:06:26,551 --> 03:06:28,591
the people still love Ludwig
very much.

1841
03:06:30,596 --> 03:06:34,636
Moreover, it is in the interests
of some people to have a king

1842
03:06:34,767 --> 03:06:36,807
who does not rule.

1843
03:06:42,942 --> 03:06:46,202
Are you saying that Colonel Dürckheim
is one of these people too?

1844
03:06:46,321 --> 03:06:50,241
No, not at all. We have great respect
for Colonel Dürckheim.

1845
03:06:50,366 --> 03:06:52,986
I feel the same way as you.

1846
03:06:53,119 --> 03:06:55,579
So, I am sure you gentlemen
will not mind

1847
03:06:55,705 --> 03:06:58,325
if I want to hear his opinion
on the matter.

1848
03:06:58,458 --> 03:07:03,498
I also think it is more fair
if we hear him while you are present.

1849
03:07:03,629 --> 03:07:05,419
(Hand bell)

1850
03:07:09,761 --> 03:07:11,601
Call Colonel Dürckheim.

1851
03:07:12,096 --> 03:07:13,676
(Heels click)

1852
03:07:19,771 --> 03:07:22,021
(Heels click)

1853
03:07:32,075 --> 03:07:36,155
The Cabinet of Ministers,
represented by Count Törring here

1854
03:07:36,287 --> 03:07:40,327
is offering me the regency of Bavaria
in case it becomes necessary

1855
03:07:40,458 --> 03:07:43,458
to make our King Ludwig II abdicate.

1856
03:07:45,630 --> 03:07:49,550
From what I hear, it is clear that
he is not of sound mind.

1857
03:07:55,056 --> 03:07:56,806
Please, Colonel, take a seat.

1858
03:07:58,142 --> 03:08:01,942
Obviously, I would only accept the
regency if there was a medical report

1859
03:08:02,063 --> 03:08:04,443
confirming this necessity.

1860
03:08:17,412 --> 03:08:21,622
I very much appreciate
your impartiality, Colonel.

1861
03:08:21,749 --> 03:08:25,589
I know that on many occasions

1862
03:08:25,711 --> 03:08:28,841
you showed loyalty to the King.

1863
03:08:28,965 --> 03:08:31,545
So, I would like to know
your opinion

1864
03:08:34,679 --> 03:08:39,389
I am the first one to admit that
over the past few years His Majesty

1865
03:08:39,517 --> 03:08:43,437
has shown less and less interest
in State affairs.

1866
03:08:44,772 --> 03:08:49,112
Loneliness gave him shelter,

1867
03:08:50,820 --> 03:08:53,070
but are we sure

1868
03:08:53,197 --> 03:08:57,077
that his lack of interest
is not just a façade?

1869
03:08:58,119 --> 03:09:04,079
Maybe his eccentricity
is only a way to show to himself

1870
03:09:04,208 --> 03:09:05,958
and to the whole world

1871
03:09:06,085 --> 03:09:10,465
the privileges
he has the right to allow himself?

1872
03:09:12,008 --> 03:09:14,968
I apologize, Your Highness,
but this is my opinion.

1873
03:09:16,429 --> 03:09:19,309
The King's private life is as eccentric

1874
03:09:19,432 --> 03:09:22,602
as his own Government
wanted it to be.

1875
03:09:22,727 --> 03:09:25,607
Before putting an end to the excessive
spending for his castles

1876
03:09:25,730 --> 03:09:28,820
this was regularly approved
by the Treasury.

1877
03:09:32,361 --> 03:09:37,661
Somebody must have wanted to keep
the King occupied in his follies.

1878
03:09:37,783 --> 03:09:41,953
Somebody who has been very close
to the King in the past few years

1879
03:09:42,079 --> 03:09:44,329
and who has had
a bad influence on him.

1880
03:09:44,457 --> 03:09:46,377
He was appointed by the Government.

1881
03:09:46,501 --> 03:09:48,291
Forgive me, Your Highness,

1882
03:09:48,419 --> 03:09:51,419
but Colonel Dürckheim
seems to be accusing

1883
03:09:51,631 --> 03:09:54,881
our Government of plotting
against the King.

1884
03:09:55,760 --> 03:09:58,050
Your words, not mine.

1885
03:10:00,723 --> 03:10:04,693
It is my duty to answer honestly
to His Majesty's question.

1886
03:10:10,024 --> 03:10:13,444
I realize the seriousness
of what I said,

1887
03:10:13,569 --> 03:10:18,569
but the proof is in the fact that
some measures have been considered

1888
03:10:18,699 --> 03:10:22,699
before making any attempts to help
the poor soul, if I may say so.

1889
03:10:22,828 --> 03:10:25,078
Our King is going through a crisis.

1890
03:10:25,206 --> 03:10:30,376
How many years has this crisis
been going on, Colonel Dürckheim? Eh?

1891
03:10:32,547 --> 03:10:34,717
Let us look at the facts.

1892
03:10:34,840 --> 03:10:38,930
Obviously, the Government
tried to be very understanding

1893
03:10:39,053 --> 03:10:43,893
because it wanted to prevent
a scandal before it was too late.

1894
03:10:44,016 --> 03:10:45,886
If there will be one.

1895
03:10:46,018 --> 03:10:49,558
We are carrying out a detailed inquiry.

1896
03:10:49,689 --> 03:10:51,899
Colonel Dürckheim will be interviewed

1897
03:10:52,024 --> 03:10:56,284
and he will repeat
what he said to us in private.

1898
03:10:59,865 --> 03:11:02,535
And maybe there will be others

1899
03:11:02,660 --> 03:11:07,540
who, like him, may think that
the Government's responsibilities

1900
03:11:07,665 --> 03:11:11,415
are much heavier than the King's.

1901
03:11:11,544 --> 03:11:14,264
In this case, dear Pfistermeister,

1902
03:11:14,380 --> 03:11:17,550
our only option will be to resign
and go to see a doctor.

1903
03:11:17,675 --> 03:11:20,545
Because if the King
is judged to be of sound mind,

1904
03:11:20,678 --> 03:11:23,178
then we must be crazy!

1905
03:11:25,057 --> 03:11:28,017
I am Professor Bernard von Gudden,

1906
03:11:28,144 --> 03:11:32,824
Director of
The Psychiatric Institute of Munich.

1907
03:11:32,940 --> 03:11:35,820
After the investigation
of the mental condition

1908
03:11:35,943 --> 03:11:38,363
of His Majesty the King,

1909
03:11:38,487 --> 03:11:42,407
this commission has reached
the following conclusions.

1910
03:11:43,743 --> 03:11:49,173
His Majesty is in an advanced stage
of a mental illness

1911
03:11:49,290 --> 03:11:54,550
familiar to all experts as "paranoia".

1912
03:11:54,670 --> 03:11:59,800
Since this illness
impedes the exercise of free will,

1913
03:11:59,925 --> 03:12:02,085
it does not allow the Sovereign

1914
03:12:02,219 --> 03:12:06,519
to concern himself
with the government of his realm.

1915
03:12:06,641 --> 03:12:11,151
This impediment will last
for the rest of his life.

1916
03:12:14,607 --> 03:12:17,277
(Babble of conversation)

1917
03:12:24,533 --> 03:12:25,873
<i>Cin cin!</i>

1918
03:12:31,290 --> 03:12:33,790
(Chattering continues)

1919
03:12:35,795 --> 03:12:39,085
What?
What? What, Osterholzer?

1920
03:12:39,215 --> 03:12:41,425
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen,
listen to me!

1921
03:12:42,927 --> 03:12:47,387
If that groom manages to warn the King
our mission could be compromised.

1922
03:12:53,312 --> 03:12:56,402
We cannot wait until tomorrow,
we must act now.

1923
03:12:58,275 --> 03:12:59,645
Hesselschwerdt!

1924
03:13:02,405 --> 03:13:06,195
How far is it from Hohenschwangau
to Neuschwanstein?

1925
03:13:06,325 --> 03:13:07,615
It's right there.

1926
03:13:07,743 --> 03:13:10,333
You need only 15 minutes by carriage,
even with this rain.

1927
03:13:11,497 --> 03:13:14,207
Gentlemen, we must go at once.

1928
03:13:14,333 --> 03:13:16,383
Remember, every minute is precious.

1929
03:13:16,502 --> 03:13:18,302
(All agree)

1930
03:13:26,011 --> 03:13:27,601
They have come to arrest the King.

1931
03:13:38,023 --> 03:13:40,943
They came from Munich.
It's a plot.

1932
03:13:41,068 --> 03:13:44,448
I managed to escape.
They don't know I'm here.

1933
03:13:45,406 --> 03:13:49,116
- "They" who?
- The men came in three carriages.

1934
03:13:49,243 --> 03:13:53,413
Tomorrow, or maybe even tonight,
they are going to come up here.

1935
03:13:53,539 --> 03:13:56,579
Your Majesty's orders
are to be disregarded.

1936
03:13:56,709 --> 03:13:59,209
That's what
Count von Holnstein said.

1937
03:14:25,404 --> 03:14:27,664
Von Holnstein?

1938
03:14:27,782 --> 03:14:30,412
Here in Neuschwanstein?

1939
03:14:30,534 --> 03:14:32,624
I don't know, Your Majesty.

1940
03:14:55,893 --> 03:14:58,193
(Coachmen shouting)

1941
03:15:18,332 --> 03:15:20,792
(Thunder bellows)

1942
03:15:50,990 --> 03:15:53,370
(Roaring thunder)

1943
03:16:16,348 --> 03:16:18,138
Von Holnstein.

1944
03:16:20,144 --> 03:16:23,814
- Did you say von Holnstein?
- Yes, Your Majesty.

1945
03:16:33,365 --> 03:16:34,825
And who else is with him?

1946
03:16:34,950 --> 03:16:39,370
I recognized
cabinet minister Crailsheim,

1947
03:16:39,496 --> 03:16:42,286
Professor Gudden,

1948
03:16:42,416 --> 03:16:44,076
Hesselschwerdt.

1949
03:16:47,588 --> 03:16:49,838
What do they plan to do?

1950
03:16:54,720 --> 03:16:58,970
(Yells) I'll have them all arrested!
All! All!

1951
03:16:59,099 --> 03:17:01,809
Mayr! Mayr!

1952
03:17:01,936 --> 03:17:05,146
I want them to be lashed
until they bleed!

1953
03:17:05,272 --> 03:17:07,112
I want their eyes put out!

1954
03:17:08,108 --> 03:17:12,068
I want them shot. I'll shoot them
myself with my own hands!

1955
03:17:14,156 --> 03:17:16,946
Hurry! Hurry...

1956
03:17:17,117 --> 03:17:19,327
Call the guards, Mayr.

1957
03:17:19,453 --> 03:17:22,503
Have them all arrested! Go!

1958
03:17:38,722 --> 03:17:40,182
Halt!

1959
03:17:40,307 --> 03:17:42,307
Take another step and I will shoot!

1960
03:17:42,434 --> 03:17:46,064
We must accompany the King
to Schloss Berg.

1961
03:17:46,188 --> 03:17:47,648
(Lock clunks)

1962
03:17:48,857 --> 03:17:50,147
What do you want?

1963
03:17:50,275 --> 03:17:52,815
His Majesty has been deposed
by the Council of State.

1964
03:17:52,945 --> 03:17:54,605
And His Royal Highness
Prince Luitpold

1965
03:17:54,738 --> 03:17:55,858
has assumed the regency.

1966
03:17:55,990 --> 03:17:57,990
Tell the soldiers to put down their arms
and have the gates open.

1967
03:17:58,117 --> 03:17:59,787
We have orders from the King

1968
03:17:59,910 --> 03:18:03,290
to open fire on anyone
who attempts to approach.

1969
03:18:03,414 --> 03:18:07,794
I have with me an official document
which declares the King insane.

1970
03:18:07,918 --> 03:18:10,378
I am authorized to read it to you.

1971
03:18:11,672 --> 03:18:13,552
(Gunshots)

1972
03:18:13,674 --> 03:18:15,724
- They're under orders.
- Holnstein, how are you going to...

1973
03:18:15,843 --> 03:18:18,683
- You are making matters worse!
- They won't believe it.

1974
03:18:18,804 --> 03:18:21,104
Surely there must be some way
of convincing them?

1975
03:18:23,058 --> 03:18:25,438
(Osterholzer) They have arrested
them all.

1976
03:18:27,062 --> 03:18:28,362
Good.

1977
03:18:35,029 --> 03:18:38,489
You, Mayr, fetch me
the key to the tower.

1978
03:18:38,615 --> 03:18:40,155
At once!

1979
03:18:40,284 --> 03:18:45,004
If necessary, we'll climb up there.
I can defend myself better.

1980
03:18:46,957 --> 03:18:48,577
Or jump,

1981
03:18:48,709 --> 03:18:50,999
if they try to seize me.

1982
03:18:52,296 --> 03:18:55,466
Anything rather than
what they have in mind -

1983
03:18:57,009 --> 03:19:02,099
to keep me alive by killing me,
like my brother?

1984
03:19:02,222 --> 03:19:05,142
No, I will not allow them to do it.

1985
03:19:10,189 --> 03:19:11,519
Quickly, the key!

1986
03:19:15,819 --> 03:19:19,529
The key... We don't have it, Sire.

1987
03:19:20,074 --> 03:19:22,494
Find it! Find it at once!
Go!

1988
03:19:23,952 --> 03:19:25,412
Go!

1989
03:19:29,958 --> 03:19:32,338
(Thunder rumbles)

1990
03:19:35,839 --> 03:19:37,589
Colonel Dürckheim.

1991
03:19:48,102 --> 03:19:53,232
Dürckheim, I have had that delegation
of conspirators arrested.

1992
03:19:53,357 --> 03:19:55,777
I approve Your Majesty's action,

1993
03:19:55,901 --> 03:19:57,901
but the Council of State
has made that declaration.

1994
03:19:58,779 --> 03:20:01,529
The people
must be roused up against it.

1995
03:20:01,657 --> 03:20:05,447
We will accompany Your Majesty
at once to Munich.

1996
03:20:05,577 --> 03:20:07,747
I believe
we can count on the Army.

1997
03:20:07,871 --> 03:20:11,961
Your Majesty will speak to the soldiers
and officers stationed at...

1998
03:20:14,128 --> 03:20:16,878
Your Majesty,
we haven't a moment to lose.

1999
03:20:18,757 --> 03:20:21,007
- We must reach Munich.
- Munich?

2000
03:20:22,803 --> 03:20:25,063
Munich.

2001
03:20:25,180 --> 03:20:27,640
Not even a team of elephants

2002
03:20:27,766 --> 03:20:30,346
could drag me to that city I hate.

2003
03:20:32,688 --> 03:20:34,108
Sire...

2004
03:20:37,442 --> 03:20:40,702
That is the only hope
of saving the situation.

2005
03:20:42,823 --> 03:20:46,743
Unless Your Majesty
prefers to leave the country?

2006
03:20:46,869 --> 03:20:51,039
We could try to cross
into the Tyrol over the border,

2007
03:20:51,165 --> 03:20:55,165
but afterwards, it would be
very difficult to be called back.

2008
03:20:56,461 --> 03:21:01,051
The Army, the people
ask for nothing better, I believe,

2009
03:21:01,175 --> 03:21:03,335
than to rush
to Your Majesty's support.

2010
03:21:03,468 --> 03:21:06,388
But this help
must be asked to them.

2011
03:21:06,513 --> 03:21:09,063
They must be won over.
Only Your Majesty's presence...

2012
03:21:09,183 --> 03:21:11,483
No! No...

2013
03:21:12,853 --> 03:21:14,103
No.

2014
03:21:16,148 --> 03:21:17,478
And no.

2015
03:21:24,948 --> 03:21:28,868
Does Your Majesty prefer
trying to leave the country?

2016
03:21:28,994 --> 03:21:30,414
I am ready to help.

2017
03:21:34,041 --> 03:21:35,831
I don't feel like traveling.

2018
03:21:35,959 --> 03:21:38,839
And besides,
what would I do in the Tyrol?

2019
03:21:40,923 --> 03:21:43,383
Make them leave me alone.

2020
03:21:46,345 --> 03:21:50,385
I have always done everything I could
to be useful to Your Majesty.

2021
03:21:52,643 --> 03:21:54,693
In the past I have failed.

2022
03:21:57,231 --> 03:21:58,401
I failed today.

2023
03:22:01,235 --> 03:22:02,945
You can be very useful to me.

2024
03:22:04,446 --> 03:22:06,156
Very.

2025
03:22:16,416 --> 03:22:18,336
I want some poison.

2026
03:22:19,336 --> 03:22:21,796
Get me some poison.

2027
03:22:21,922 --> 03:22:24,382
You only have to go to the pharmacy
in Kempten.

2028
03:22:25,342 --> 03:22:27,432
But go, go at once.

2029
03:22:44,278 --> 03:22:46,028
Your Majesty,

2030
03:22:47,572 --> 03:22:49,532
I came here to save you,

2031
03:22:50,784 --> 03:22:52,454
not to help you die.

2032
03:23:05,257 --> 03:23:07,007
The King's orders.

2033
03:23:08,510 --> 03:23:09,510
(Knocks)

2034
03:23:16,059 --> 03:23:17,389
By order of the King,

2035
03:23:17,519 --> 03:23:20,689
these gentlemen must remain
under close surveillance.

2036
03:23:20,814 --> 03:23:23,904
They are not to leave these rooms
under any condition.

2037
03:23:24,067 --> 03:23:28,107
And they are to receive
neither food nor drink. Nothing.

2038
03:23:50,927 --> 03:23:53,307
I think there is no hope for us.

2039
03:23:55,640 --> 03:23:57,680
Munich is far.

2040
03:23:58,393 --> 03:24:00,483
We are all in a trap.

2041
03:24:02,731 --> 03:24:05,611
I order you to send this message
to the Prime Minister.

2042
03:24:05,734 --> 03:24:09,074
"Extreme speed is necessary.
We are in mortal peril.

2043
03:24:09,196 --> 03:24:11,366
"The King has ordered us
to be put to death!

2044
03:24:12,074 --> 03:24:14,334
"We need help as soon as possible."

2045
03:24:20,832 --> 03:24:23,212
I want to know if you have informed
the Supreme Command

2046
03:24:23,335 --> 03:24:24,835
of the liberty taken in...

2047
03:24:24,961 --> 03:24:27,011
Colonel Dürckheim,
I hope you are aware

2048
03:24:27,130 --> 03:24:29,220
of the grave responsibility
you have assumed.

2049
03:24:29,341 --> 03:24:31,761
It will have irreparable
consequences for you.

2050
03:24:31,885 --> 03:24:33,295
Without examining our instructions

2051
03:24:33,428 --> 03:24:36,308
you have allowed Baron Crailsheim,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs,

2052
03:24:36,431 --> 03:24:39,141
- Count Törring...
- By His Majesty's orders

2053
03:24:39,267 --> 03:24:40,807
you are all free.

2054
03:24:56,868 --> 03:24:58,748
Do your duty.

2055
03:25:02,332 --> 03:25:04,292
May I give you some advice?

2056
03:25:06,420 --> 03:25:08,050
Act cautiously.

2057
03:25:08,171 --> 03:25:09,711
His Majesty...

2058
03:25:12,008 --> 03:25:14,928
must be protected against himself.

2059
03:25:34,823 --> 03:25:39,123
(♪ WAGNER: Elegy for Piano
in A Flat Major)

2060
03:25:39,244 --> 03:25:43,084
Do you believe in the immortality
of the soul, Weber?

2061
03:25:44,666 --> 03:25:48,706
Yes, Your Majesty.
Yes, I do. But...

2062
03:26:02,851 --> 03:26:04,441
So do I.

2063
03:26:08,565 --> 03:26:11,735
I believe in the immortality
of the soul

2064
03:26:11,860 --> 03:26:14,110
and the justice of God.

2065
03:26:16,573 --> 03:26:19,333
I have read many things
about materialism.

2066
03:26:20,410 --> 03:26:22,910
It will not satisfy a man.

2067
03:26:23,872 --> 03:26:27,542
He will not be reduced
to the level of an animal.

2068
03:26:31,463 --> 03:26:33,673
Take this.

2069
03:26:49,064 --> 03:26:50,904
Drowning

2070
03:26:51,024 --> 03:26:53,654
is a fine death.

2071
03:26:57,739 --> 03:26:59,949
There is no mutilation.

2072
03:27:03,078 --> 03:27:06,668
But to jump

2073
03:27:06,790 --> 03:27:08,460
from a height...

2074
03:28:07,350 --> 03:28:08,980
This too.

2075
03:28:11,521 --> 03:28:14,071
I will write a letter.

2076
03:28:14,190 --> 03:28:17,070
If this watch should return
to the Royal Treasury

2077
03:28:18,737 --> 03:28:21,567
because of my death,

2078
03:28:21,698 --> 03:28:24,778
they should refund

2079
03:28:24,909 --> 03:28:27,199
25,000 gulden.

2080
03:28:28,705 --> 03:28:30,325
Your Majesty.

2081
03:28:30,457 --> 03:28:32,247
(Footsteps)

2082
03:28:37,088 --> 03:28:38,918
Your Majesty!

2083
03:28:39,049 --> 03:28:40,839
I have the key.

2084
03:28:42,510 --> 03:28:45,060
The key to the tower.

2085
03:28:45,180 --> 03:28:47,220
Mayr, Mayr!

2086
03:28:53,229 --> 03:28:55,069
I misjudged you.

2087
03:29:36,356 --> 03:29:38,436
(Wails)

2088
03:30:50,305 --> 03:30:51,765
Your Majesty,

2089
03:30:51,890 --> 03:30:56,190
I have never had to perform
such an unpleasant duty.

2090
03:30:56,311 --> 03:30:59,311
Four analysts
have expressed their opinion

2091
03:30:59,439 --> 03:31:01,609
on Your Majesty's health.

2092
03:31:01,733 --> 03:31:04,943
As a result of their decision

2093
03:31:05,069 --> 03:31:09,159
His Highness Prince Luitpold
has assumed the regency.

2094
03:31:09,282 --> 03:31:13,792
I have been ordered to take
Your Majesty to Schloss Berg

2095
03:31:13,912 --> 03:31:15,542
this very night.

2096
03:31:18,500 --> 03:31:19,920
Berg...

2097
03:32:35,702 --> 03:32:37,582
My loyal Sauer.

2098
03:32:49,132 --> 03:32:50,762
(Heels click)

2099
03:33:28,254 --> 03:33:30,634
(Heels click)

2100
03:34:01,496 --> 03:34:02,956
(Heels click)

2101
03:34:22,558 --> 03:34:24,098
(Heels click)

2102
03:35:30,001 --> 03:35:33,461
(Sardonic laugh)

2103
03:35:33,588 --> 03:35:34,838
Please.

2104
03:36:00,990 --> 03:36:02,950
It has begun raining again.

2105
03:36:04,744 --> 03:36:06,504
It will never stop.

2106
03:36:09,123 --> 03:36:10,583
Never.

2107
03:36:23,888 --> 03:36:26,678
(Distant rumble of thunder)

2108
03:36:40,446 --> 03:36:42,816
(Thunder continues to rumble)

2109
03:36:47,703 --> 03:36:50,673
Your Majesty should eat something now.

2110
03:36:53,084 --> 03:36:56,424
- What do you think I should eat?
- Anything.

2111
03:36:59,048 --> 03:37:02,638
You can eat anything you want,
Your Majesty.

2112
03:37:08,141 --> 03:37:12,231
No knives. An odd way
to lay the table.

2113
03:37:14,021 --> 03:37:17,111
Only one dessert fork.

2114
03:37:23,698 --> 03:37:26,278
Am I supposed to start
with the dessert?

2115
03:37:40,590 --> 03:37:43,550
I am not hungry. I want to sleep.

2116
03:37:43,676 --> 03:37:46,346
Of course, Your Majesty.

2117
03:38:00,067 --> 03:38:02,067
Wake me up at midnight.

2118
03:38:02,987 --> 03:38:05,777
I will take a walk,

2119
03:38:05,907 --> 03:38:08,777
then I will eat.

2120
03:38:09,911 --> 03:38:14,171
Your Majesty is expected to follow
a more regular schedule from now on.

2121
03:38:16,918 --> 03:38:18,378
Of course.

2122
03:38:19,253 --> 03:38:21,763
Sleep at night, eat at set times

2123
03:38:21,881 --> 03:38:24,591
and with regards to going out-
maybe in the future.

2124
03:38:24,717 --> 03:38:28,387
Soon I will ask them myself
to grant you permission, Your Majesty

2125
03:38:30,514 --> 03:38:34,444
I would like to rest now,
and to be left alone.

2126
03:38:34,560 --> 03:38:36,020
If it's possible.

2127
03:38:36,646 --> 03:38:38,606
Of course, Your Majesty.

2128
03:39:37,081 --> 03:39:40,711
(♪ Music box plays)

2129
03:40:31,344 --> 03:40:35,974
(♪ Music box repeats tune
again and again)

2130
03:40:56,952 --> 03:41:00,162
(Footsteps approach)

2131
03:41:11,550 --> 03:41:14,180
(Footsteps stop)

2132
03:41:40,538 --> 03:41:44,248
He has behaved
with truly regal courtesy

2133
03:41:44,375 --> 03:41:46,785
and with perfect discipline.

2134
03:41:46,919 --> 03:41:49,549
No sign of restlessness.

2135
03:41:49,672 --> 03:41:52,932
His answers are always
to the point.

2136
03:41:53,050 --> 03:41:56,970
In all sincerity, I do not feel
I can refuse His Majesty.

2137
03:41:57,096 --> 03:41:59,266
Give him one concession.

2138
03:41:59,390 --> 03:42:04,400
He keeps asking for permission
to go out and stroll in the park.

2139
03:42:05,855 --> 03:42:08,725
It is not raining now, but...
look at those clouds.

2140
03:42:08,858 --> 03:42:11,148
It's going to rain again any minute.

2141
03:42:11,277 --> 03:42:14,567
Apart from any other consideration,
it wouldn't be hard for a physician

2142
03:42:14,697 --> 03:42:16,907
to advise against a walk in the rain.

2143
03:42:17,032 --> 03:42:20,792
His Majesty has
a very strong constitution.

2144
03:42:20,911 --> 03:42:25,961
Naturally, I shall advise him
to wait until the weather improves,

2145
03:42:26,083 --> 03:42:28,093
but if he insists

2146
03:42:28,210 --> 03:42:31,260
I am prepared
to go with him myself,

2147
03:42:31,380 --> 03:42:33,090
rather than refuse him again.

2148
03:42:33,215 --> 03:42:36,135
Yes, I will accompany him myself.

2149
03:42:37,970 --> 03:42:42,350
You have been seduced,
Professor Gudden. Be careful.

2150
03:42:42,475 --> 03:42:45,265
(Thunder rumbles)

2151
03:43:00,659 --> 03:43:04,999
There is nothing more beautiful
and fascinating than the night.

2152
03:43:05,122 --> 03:43:09,002
They say the cult of the night,
of the moon

2153
03:43:09,126 --> 03:43:11,296
is a maternal cult.

2154
03:43:11,420 --> 03:43:13,840
The cult of the sun, of daytime...

2155
03:43:13,964 --> 03:43:16,804
is a masculine myth, therefore paternal.

2156
03:43:18,511 --> 03:43:20,601
However, the mystery,

2157
03:43:20,721 --> 03:43:23,181
the greatness of night

2158
03:43:23,307 --> 03:43:25,597
for me lies in

2159
03:43:27,269 --> 03:43:31,269
the infinite, sublime kingdom
of the heroes.

2160
03:43:31,398 --> 03:43:34,858
Which is also the kingdom

2161
03:43:34,985 --> 03:43:37,105
of reason.

2162
03:43:40,991 --> 03:43:42,741
Poor Dr Gudden!

2163
03:43:44,161 --> 03:43:47,871
Forced to study me from morning
to night, from night to morning.

2164
03:43:47,998 --> 03:43:49,918
But I am an enigma.

2165
03:43:51,877 --> 03:43:54,797
I want to remain an enigma,

2166
03:43:54,922 --> 03:43:56,472
forever.

2167
03:43:58,384 --> 03:44:00,344
To others

2168
03:44:02,096 --> 03:44:03,966
and also to myself.

2169
03:44:35,588 --> 03:44:36,958
(Heels click)

2170
03:44:58,652 --> 03:45:00,742
Excellent.

2171
03:45:00,863 --> 03:45:05,163
- Delicious.
- I'm tempted to have some more.

2172
03:45:05,284 --> 03:45:07,164
It is half past seven.

2173
03:45:07,286 --> 03:45:10,956
He said he would not stay out
more than an hour.

2174
03:45:13,167 --> 03:45:16,707
- What time did they leave?
- I saw them. It was before six.

2175
03:45:17,379 --> 03:45:20,759
Send someone to look for them.
They must have gone by the lake.

2176
03:45:21,925 --> 03:45:24,595
Get some torches, quick!

2177
03:45:24,720 --> 03:45:26,720
Who went with them?

2178
03:45:27,264 --> 03:45:29,774
They were alone.
Professor Gudden did not want

2179
03:45:29,892 --> 03:45:31,812
any nurses accompanying them.

2180
03:45:31,935 --> 03:45:37,515
- His Majesty seemed very calm today.
- How crazy! So irresponsible!

2181
03:45:37,650 --> 03:45:41,900
Dr Müller, do I have to teach you
that crazy people can be clever too?

2182
03:45:46,742 --> 03:45:48,582
Go, quick!
As soon as you find them,

2183
03:45:48,702 --> 03:45:51,252
send someone to inform us. Quick!

2184
03:45:57,378 --> 03:45:59,918
So?

2185
03:46:00,047 --> 03:46:02,007
Count von Holnstein.

2186
03:46:13,936 --> 03:46:16,186
(Rain covers dialogue)

2187
03:46:16,313 --> 03:46:17,613
(Men speaking German)

2188
03:46:48,262 --> 03:46:52,932
Wire Munich at once.
Say: "The King has disappeared."

2189
03:46:53,058 --> 03:46:54,978
I am going to look for him too.

2190
03:46:58,939 --> 03:47:03,569
If I find them, I'll fire a shot
in the air to let you know.

2191
03:47:03,694 --> 03:47:05,614
(Shouting)

2192
03:47:43,817 --> 03:47:46,197
(Constant tapping)

2193
03:48:07,007 --> 03:48:09,087
(Distant gunshot)

2194
03:48:13,013 --> 03:48:14,773
(Gunshot)

2195
03:48:35,494 --> 03:48:38,584
(Men shouting)

2196
03:50:12,758 --> 03:50:16,678
(Distant shouting)

2197
03:50:56,927 --> 03:51:01,517
(♪ WAGNER: Elegy for Piano
in A Flat Major)

2198
03:51:41,346 --> 03:51:43,266
The King committed suicide.

2199
03:51:43,390 --> 03:51:46,140
In order to do that,
he had to kill Dr Gudden.

2200
03:51:46,977 --> 03:51:49,897
Take the bodies to the castle,
immediately!

2201
03:54:43,069 --> 03:54:46,989
The last original composition for piano
by Richard Wagner

2202
03:54:47,157 --> 03:54:51,367
unpublished until today, is presented
for the first time in this film.

2203
03:57:33,406 --> 03:57:38,946
Special thanks to those who,
with their efforts and enthusiasm

2204
03:57:39,079 --> 03:57:43,879
made it possible to restore
the original version

2205
03:57:44,000 --> 03:57:47,050
of Luchino Visconti's <i>Ludwig.</i>