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The latest Hungarian musical comedy

KATYI

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Edit! I am begging you! Answer me!

When a man burns with desire like me now, he is capable of anything!

Answer me! Do you love that man?

Yes. I love him.

And you expect me to simply just walk away,

thus becoming a laughing stock of the world? You are mistaken!

- Let me go! - I won't!

If you don't want to be mine anymore, you wont be his either! Rather...

Let me go! I hate you!

- You! - Help! Murderer!

Help! He is killing me!

Thank you. Enough of that!

You will shortly receive a letter about the Committee's decision.

Thank you very much.

Well, they'll never become members of the National Theater, that's for sure!

So, then, let's see the next one!

- Kató Varga. - Let's hope she's got more talent.

Miss Kató Varga!

So what can you do, Little Missy?

I can perform both poems, or prose.

Really?

Then let's just do something,

that suits your personality the most.

Maybe the Vagram-part from The Eaglet. Yes.

As you wish. Please start!

Accept me, Vagram! I am here, accept me!

Real ransom shines in me!

Behold, the son returns!

To compensate for all the other sons!

Lift me above the mist hovering on this square!

Strike upon me with your bloody hand! Lift me up, white as snow!

Ah! Let it be thus! I wish! I am begging you! I want this!

Because the night wind whispered into my ear just now...

Because the fever inhabiting my heart gives me salvation,

because..., because...

- ...because, - Because my clothes are white.

Because my clothes are white.

White.

White?

Just like the sacramental bread, my unhappy father.

Are there any other to curse me?

- Hush! - Okay, thank you. Let's not drag this out!

Grab your clothes, Missy, and go home!

It seems like you are confusing the stage with the world of make-believe!

You might think that it's enough to doll yourself up with some make up and nice clothes...

But that is not the case!

Acting requires other things too! Like talent!

Will-power! Knowledge! Diligence!

And a lot of other things, you all seem to lack!

Do you know what it means to portray a character?

It is to delve into another person's soul!

And not to paint ourselves into it! You will never become an actress!

Bring on the next one!

MIND-READER

What do you want to know?

About my future.

I see drinks.

Lots and lots of drinks.

You must drink a lot.

A lot. But never enough!

Why you're brandied-up!

I am...

My name IS Bertie Brandy! How could you tell?

I could smell it from here.

- My name? - That too!

Amazing!

You are sad about something.

- I will be. - Will be?

Yes. If you won't employ me.

Me? You?

- As a barker in front of the booth. - Is that why you are here?

I told you I'm curious about my future!

I am sorry, I already have a barker!

Ah... that's okay. Good day!

No! No! What about my 50 fillers?

What 50 fillers?

My fee for the mind-reading!

Oh! What kind of mind-reader are you?

You should have already guessed by now that I'm broke!

Bye!

Well, how did it go?

Can I congratulate you?

- You can. He kicked me out! - Who?

Geszti! He said I will never-ever become an actress!

He humiliated me in front of the whole committee!

Here is the fur-coat! Give it back to Szécsi!

Don't cry!

I WILL cry if I want to!

And you just shut up, because it was your idea to put on all this make up!

It was you who read it from the cards that I should go there today!

What a nice little mind-reader you are!

I AM a good mind-reader! For example, I already know what you are thinking now!

- What? - You want to take revenge!

You are right! But how?

- Write an anonymous letter to his wife! - He is single.

Let's go to his Premier tonight and boo him off stage!

That's expensive! Come up something cheaper! We'd need two tickets for that!

Set his house on fire!

Then I would get arrested! Have you no better ideas?

- I don't. - Then you're not any smarter than me!!

- Would you like a taxi? - Yes, yes!

I will get you one!

- Stop, my friend, stop! I wish to take a carriage today. - Yes, Sir!

Carriage! Little horsie!

Stop yelling! You are drunk!

Yes, I am a bit drunk after my blazing and amazing premier...

I dragged you out in front of the curtain at least twelve times...

You? It was me, you dragged you out!

Excuse me, Sir! The taxi is coming!

Thank you! Wait! Didn't I tell you that I wish to take a carriage today?

I have that too!

Yes? Here you go!

Please, Sir! Rather just give me the flowers instead!

Haha! Why do you want the flowers?

I'll sell them on the market!

- Really? Here, they're yours! - Thank you!

What? Did you just give this kid the flowers I got after my premier?

Pardon! It was my premier! It was my blazing and amazing...

How rude! Scumbag! I won't go anywhere with you! How dare you?

Adieu Senora! Finita la comedia!

Aaaa! Hail, stranger! Hail!

You can take me home, milord!

As you wish, your majesty!

Let's go! Let's go!

Hoo! Stop! Stop!

- Here! This is yours! - Thank you very much!

Come on!

Hey, don't cry! Don't cry, my angel! Don't cry!

Don't cry! Here is a flower! Sell it on the market!

You don't want it? Hey, you don't want it? What are we gonna do then?

Police! Police! Police!

Are you crying, esteemed sir?

Of course, not! It's this kid! Can't you hear?

Of course, Sir! Of course I can!

- ... did they give it to you at the premier? - Yes... what?!!

Of course, not! I have just found it in front of the gate!

- Did they leave a card or flowers next to it? - No, nothing! Nothing at all!

Does the kid belong to yourself, your esteemed sir?

- Idiot! - How do you know that he is an idiot?

Such a baby cannot even talk yet!

Not the baby! You!

What are we going to do now?

Let's go to sleep now, I am very tired!

All right, let's take the baby in.

We should we if the baby isn't ours!

Come in! Come, little buddie! Come, come, come, come!

Well, he won't be rolling off of this bed!

Good, good! But what's all this crying about? What can the problem be?

I have no problems, Sir! I am just sleepy!

Not you! The kid! Hungry perhaps?

- Should be fed, I guess! - Yes?

Are there any leftovers from dinner?

We have a bit of goulash still, but there is hardly any meat left in it...

No problem! That will be good! Bring it! Bring it! Bring it!

But please, your esteemed sir! A little baby such as this cannot eat goulash just yet!

Rather just milk!

Really? Then give some milk to the baby!

With all due respect, but I was employed as a butler and not as a nursemaid!

You, soul-less bastard! Go and lie down! I'll take care of the baby.

Wait a little, your esteemed sir!

Come! I'll just cover you nicely with the blankie!

There you go!

- My friend... What do you want...? - Here, your esteemed sir, if you please!

What are all these towels for, eh?

In the middle of the night, you're going to need them.

Really?... Come on, don't cry!

Don't cry, you sweet little babie!

If you please, esteemed sir.

- What's the problem, Ferenc? - The infant wishes to be fed!

- Ah, of course! - How was your sleep?

- Well, from time to time I woke up for a bit of rest. - I had an excellent sleep!

- The child's mother must be found! - That's right! But how?

What do you mean, how? We must call the police!

Wait a little, please! I don't think that whoever left this kid at our doorstep...

... would have told the police that her child has gone missing!

What kind of heartless mother can just cast away such a sweet little child?

We cannot be sure! Maybe she was forced by dire circumstances!

Don't be afraid, my sweet little angel!

I will find your mummy, and if she is really so poor and unlucky,

then I will look after her, and you too! How sweet you are...

- Ferenc! Look after the baby! - You can count on me, sir!

We are going to have some fun!

Look at me, buddy! I am going to show you something!

So, pick a card!

It doesn't matter which one... Choose! Pick one!

Then I will pick one instead of you!

So, what is it?

The Green Ace!

Don't you forget! The Green Ace!

Now, I put it back...

And then I shuffle the deck.

I cut the deck, one-two-three!

The Green Ace!

Hopeless!

Hallo! Midday Courier? I want to talk to Editor Tóth!

Yes. Is that you, Pista?

Hi. This is Geszti.

Yes. Thank you, it was a very nice evening.

Yes. A huge success.

But, listen to me now, Pista!

Last night, when I came home, I found a newborn baby

in a basket at my doorstep.

Yes. No, no! It's not a joke!

Yes. I would like if you could put itin the newspaper that

if the mother decides to come forward, I am willing to take care of them,

and help raise her child.

Yes. Yes. Already in today's edition?

Yes. Well, I am very grateful for your help, Pista!

Bye! Bye!

We are going to wake up early tomorrow, early tomorrow...,

because we are going to do a big house cleaning!

Yes, mother!

- What are you doing? What are you doing? - I've just started the big housecleaning!

- Greetings! - Hi!

Katie come and help us tomorrow! There will be big housecleaning! Big housecleaning!

With pleasure, Mrs. Varga! But only if that housecleaning will not be cancelled!

Why would it be cancelled? Why would it be cancelled?

Well, I was just thinking...

What are you thinking? Don't think about anything! You are not in the Carnival now!

Tell me, Kato! What have you done?

I destroyed all his pictures!

Don't try to fool me! Where did you get the child from? You didn't steal it?

What child?

Don't pretend you don't know! The one you left at Geszti's doorstep!

- Are you crazy? - I am NOT! But YOU are!

- It's in the newspaper! - What?

Perfect! We have the revenge!

- So, it was you then! - No, but whoever did it, she did it for me!

- For you? - Very MUCH for me!

What do you want?

I'm the one!

No doubt about that! But who are you?

The kid's mother!

- That's different! - No! That ain't someone! That's me! I am telling you!

Don't talk so much! Just come!

How nice everything is around here!

You chose carefully where to leave your child, that's for sure.

Sit down!

- ... while I tell his esteemed sir about the arrival! - What?

The arrival!

Why wouldya need to tell him that he's arrived? Don't he know that himself?

I am not telling him about HIS arrival, but YOUR arrival!

Ah, but he'll surely see that, when he comes down, right?

But no one knows about your arrival!

Of course I know about it! I came in, so I'm here, right?

Hopeless... Sit down! Wait!

- Esteemed sir, may I? - What is it, Ferenc?

- The child's mother is here! - Really?

Hm... What's she like?

- She resembles the child. - That pretty?

No. The same amount of brains.

Good day!

- I kiss your hand! - Come on, leave that!

And don't greet me that way "I kiss your hand!"

Yes, sir!

What is it? Why are you crying?

For the little one! My heart is breaking for the baby!

Still you abandoned the child on the street last night, didn't you?

Yes, I did, kissing your hand! 'cos...,

you know, I am very unfortunate.

One can see that clearly!

And I wanted to die first thing in the morning,I wanted to jump into the river,

but I didn't want to bring the little one with me, so

I left the child on the street, thinking that some good man would take notice,

and look after the baby, see? And that my poor baby would never find out about me, the unfortunate mother!

Khm... Err, you did the right thing

that you didn't jump into the river, because you are very young still.

- And the child... - The child ain't old either!

- What's your name? - Katyi!

- Katyi? Katie perhaps? - Yes, a pet name.

So there was somebody who wanted to pet you?

Kati what?

Csiba. Katyi Csiba.

- How old are you? - 22.

- Husband? - I had one, but he left me!

It is more or less understandable!

- Ferenc! - Yes.

- And is this why you wished to die? - Yes, this is why.

- What is the name? - Katyi Csiba!

Not yours! The father's!

Márton Csiba.

Is that the name of the child's father?

- No. This is the name of MY father. - Totally hopeless.

And what is the name of the child's father?

Bertie Brandy.

And what is the name of the little one?

Katyi.

She is called Katyi as well?

Yes. But I just call her 'little one', 'cause, you know,she ain't baptized yet.

- She is not yet baptized? - No.

- When was the birthday? - 1920...

- Not yours! The child's! - Oh, the child's!

That... that was just about...

... it could be...

... more or less... two weeks ago...

Yes? Ferenc! Bring that child overhere, will you?

That would be too roundabout sir.

Would it not be more advisable for us to come to her?

You are right. It would be more advisable. Let's go!

Let's go!

Hi!

Hey, don't you cry, my sweet and only one!Don't you cry now!

Your dear birth mother is here now!

That's why she is crying!

Do you see? That's how you should treat an infant!

She is the mother, not me!

That is most unexpected!

The little Katyi is a boy!

A strange natural phenomenon! Almost like Niagara-Falls!

The little Katyi is a boy!

Well... yes... how come he is called Katyi then?

- Well, he ain't baptized yet! - You just said that the baby is called Katyi!

- Oh, that's ME! - Hopeless...

You just go and prepare the guest room for the child and his mother,

and in the meantime you go and buy everything the baby might need!

- So, you're gonna let us stay here? - Yes. Of course I will.

Oh, may God repay you your kindness...

I told you before not to do that!

Ah! He is crying... again! Again... he is crying!

Of course he is crying! 'Cos he is hungry!

- Well, then feed him! - With what?

What do you mean, 'with what'?

With milk! Or are you not his mother perhaps?

Oh! You are right! Just give me some milk then!

You want ME to give you some milk?

Of course, you! I don't know my way around here yet!

How do you want to feed him?

With a spoon, of course!

With a spoon? A newborn baby such as this with a spoon?

- Don't you have a nipple? - No, I don't.

Hopeless!

Yes. Thank you.

You are very kind.

Yes, I found him at my doorstep.

Come on, mate! Anybody could say that!

But surely you seem to have hired his dear mother very quickly!

And tell me! Is she at least pretty?

Not the child! The mother!

I haven't checked yet! Bye!

Hallo!

Yes. Hi!

Thank you!

Boy!

Not the mother! The child!

Has this love been going on for some time? Or have you even got married in secret, perhaps?

- Esteemed sir! A woman is looking for you! - What woman?

I don't know, Sir. She hasn't been here yet. But she is very pretty!

Really? Good. I am coming.

Ferenc! Should anybody call in the meantime, just take care of it, in a smart way!

I couldn't do it any other way, Sir!

Lilli! I am kissing your hand! I am so happy that you have come for a visit after all!

I just came to congratulate!

- On yesterday's success? - No!

- On the child! - Thank you very much!

- Is that the only thing you can say? - What else can I say?

My phone's been ringing all day long, everybody keeps congratulating or mocking me...

and nobody wants to believe, that people can do good things too, once in a while.

People can be so gossipy sometimes!

- So the kid is not your yours then? - Of course, not!

At least you believe me!

- A woman in love believes a lot of things. - My dear!

We thank you very much!

No, Sir! He is not willing to give anybody any more details on this.

You don't have to come here, Mr. Editor, because he is not giving any interviews either...

You are asking how old is the baby?

I couldn't really say, Sir,

but as I see it, he cannot be too old, because he is still not house trained.

Don't be mad at me, Péter!

But you see, I really love you!

And when I read that you took in a child, I was heartstruck!

- Do you love me? - Very much. I love you very much!

I wish to see the mother of the child!

I can't help you on this one, I am afraid.

She is out buying stuff for the baby.

This is the last time I am warning you!

Look for some honest profession or you'll get a real spanking!

What a shame!

That a caretaker's daughter should practice such a profession!

At the very least why don't you follow Kató Varga's example? She would never do things like this!

You! You, name-thief!

What I do is neither trick, nor lie, nor illusion!

Me?? You're trying to convince your own father that you can read people's minds?

Yes, I can.

Well, then tell me! What am I thinking about at this moment?

That the Puliszkas living on the first floor haven't yet paid their garbage collection-fee!

True!

But you're STILL going to get a real spanking!!

Good day, Mr. Csiba!

Hey, Little Kato! Are you going to a masquarade?

Well, almost!

These girls today!

Come! And tell me, what happened?

Everything's going wonderfully!

You can thank me for that! I showed you the article in the newspaper!

You are an angel! But not a single word to Momma!

- Don't worry! - But don't be mad at me!

Why should I?

Because I borrowed your name. I became Kati Csiba!

- Use it well! - Hi, then! I am leaving!

- Why in such a hurry? - I need to buy a couple of little things for the kid.

Bye!

What is it? Is it Christmas already?

What is all this stuff?

Well, everything the child might need!

But why would a newborn baby need a wooden horse, for example?

Ooh! I bought that for myself!

Hopeless...

I wish that main door didn't have a doorbell!

But then you couldn't collect a tip to open it!

There it goes again!!

A man can't have a moment's peace!!

- Who died? - Kato!

Kato! Kato!

She left home early this morning and it is already half past eleven!

She hasn't returned yet! Hasn't returned yet!

She will!

Oh, my Katika! Didn't she tell you where she went? Where she went?

She didn't tell me a single word!

- She was talking about some masquarade! - Masquarade? Masquarade?

She was dressed up for it, for sure! She'll be back by the morning!

I hope no harm will come to her! No harm!

Don't you worry about Kato! She can take care of herself!

I hope she won't do nothing silly! Nothing silly!

Silly? Come on!

Green is the corn, Katyi!

Green is the corn, Katyi!

Hey, when there is dew on its leaves, Katyi!

Green is the corn, Katyi!

Green is the corn, Katyi!

Hey, when there is dew on its leaves, Katyi!

But don't you wink at me with your eyes, Katyi!

But rather just sit into my lap, Katyi!

I must go away soon, Katyi!

I must leave you here soon, Katyi!

Hey, I must join to army for 3 years, Katyi!

But don't you wink at me with your eyes, Katyi!

But rather...

Tell me! Why are you shouting so loud?

- I ain't shouting! I'm singing! - Of course!

At half past seven in the morning? You are going to wake up the entire house!

I didn't know ya could hear me so much!

So much? With YOUR voice? People can hear it on the next street as well!

All'right, then! I'm gonna wipe the floor in silence from now on!

Why do you need to wipe it? This is parquett!

That's why! It's slippery!

Look! Aaaaa!

Good day! Good day!

- Good day! - Ay ay ay!

- Ay ay ay! - Why are you wailing so much, old woman?

- My daughter had disappeared. She disappeared! - When?

She didn't come home since last morning! She didn't come home!

I have brought you her picture hoping that it would help you find her!

HER disappearance?? No!

Oh! I am sorry!

I gave you the picture of my puppy by accident!

The poor thing died... two years ago! Ay!

Let's just talk about the subject!

- It was a brick! A brick! - What?

The subject that fell on his head was a brick. And it killed my poor little puppy.

Tell me about your daughter!

- She disappeared! She disappeared! - You already told me that!

What's the name?

Mrs. Varga, widowed.

Not yours! Your daughter's!

Katalin Varga, but I just call her Kato. I call her Kato.

Age?

Oh, my God... Do I have to tell you?

Not yours! Your daughter's!

Oh, she is 22. She is very pretty! Very pretty!

She had five suitors already, but she turned all of them down!

Last time it was this Tony Kubicza! He asked for her hand...

He has an ice-cream factory. He makes money for the winter during the summertime!

- Well-off. Well-off. Wealthy. - I am not interested in that!

Neither was my daughter! She wasn't!

Tell me about her clothes!

Well, she has two sets of clothes.

A simple one and a little jacket. We can't afford anything better!

I am widow. And from the pension of a widow, you know...

Tell me about the clothes she wore when she disappeared!

Am I allowed to talk about that?

It was a very nice dress! Very nice!

A little bit used, though, because had it for 2 years already! Malcsika gave it to her!

Talk about the colour!

She used to be brown, but now she is turning gray. Gray. Gray.

Gray? The dress?

No! Malcsika! Malcsika!

This is the greatest invention of all times!

Even greater than the radio! Or the aeroplane! This is greater than the cinema!

Because everybody can have an accident, right?

A bit of dirt, a bit of spill! It could be anything!

Tar! Oil! Inkspots!

The miraculous Lax will clean it in no time!

Here! One for 20 fillers! Three for 50 fillers!

Fake! The whole thing is a fake!

Why would it be?

I got some of this miraculous Lax some time ago and I tried to clean a spot on my clothes!

- And? - And the spot grew even bigger!

- Tell me, Sir! Did you buy that from me? - No!

Well, then! Of course!! You didn't buy it from Bertie Brandy!

Bertie Brandy don't cheat! He don't lie!

- Here! Buy one! - May I?

Tell me, please! What is your name?

Bertie Brandy!

Really? Have you left your wife?

I have.

- But how d'ya know about that? - I just know!

- And why did you leave her? - Because of the booze!

What? Does your wife drink?

Not her. Me!

I've been lookin' for her all over. I'm sorry about the past, but she's gone!

Then come with me now!

Come one, Sir! You think I'd just leave behind my business just like that?

- I'll buy all your stuff, just come! - Where to?

To your wife! Imagine, how surprised she'll be when she sees you!

Ootchie Kootchie Kootchie

First of all I would like to ask you not to say such nonsense gibberish to the child

because from now on I am the one responsible for his education!

- Try to teach him some serious matters! - Yes, Sir! Yes!

And secondly, follow me!

- With the baby? - No, no, no!

In your shock I wouldn't want you to drop him!

So! Who do you think is here now?

I don't know.

Your husband!

- Who's husband? - Yours!

You didn't expect this, did you?

This? No!

I've brought him here. Well, are you happy?

Yes. Very. Very much.

- And you are going to make peace with him! - No! Not me! Not me!

But why? He promised not to drink ever again!

Yes, but he used to beat me as well!

Well, he won't do that from now on either!

- Come and make peace! - No, I don't want to!

- I don't want to! - Of course, you do! You two will make peace!

Don't be silly! One-two!

Here is your wife!

What is it? Will you at least say hello to each other? Hmm?

Make peace with each other! Come on!

Oh, My Bertie! My dear! It's so good that you're here!

I'll never let you go ever again!

- Thirty! - Ten!

- Twenty! - Twenty my ass!

- And you will live here as well! Are you happy? - Yes, I am very happy...

Then come and have a look at our child, too!

- There is a kid as well? - Yes. - Thirty! - Okay!

- Come, my dear! - I'm coming, darling. I'm coming!

Well, Ferenc. The woman is leaving soon!

- The mother of the baby? - Yes.

I convinced her to make peace with her husband.

It was very smart of you.

But you know, I am going to miss the child, though. I kind of got used to him already.

Yes. But at least the house will be quiet again.

Oh! Help!

Murderer! Help! Aaah!

- Bertie! Don't hurt me! Let me go, Bertie! - Relax! What is your problem?

-Ayayay! I won't let you hurt the baby! - What is it?

What's happening here? What?

He beat me! He wanted to break all the furnitures on me!

- Get out of here, you brutal beast! - I beg your pardon!

Not a word! Just get out, now!

- Will you please come with me, Sir? - Of course.

Tell me! Is this the man you wanted to kill yourself for?

Yes, he's the one.

- Shame on you! - Yes, Sir!

So you don't even know what day is it today?

I can see that you don't love me anymore.

Or else, you would know, for sure.

Why would that be?

Because today is our Golden Wedding Anniversary.

Yes. Today is the fiftieth day of our acquaintance!

- Do you remember now? - Forgive me, dear Lili!

Of course, I remember! Of course!

How could anyone forget such a thing?

No-no! Unfortunately I am busy this evening!

But tomorrow! Tomorrow we are going to celebrate this big event! All right?

Yes. I love you.

Kisses.

What do you want?

- Yeah, well, the baby needs some milk! - Then get some!

- Yes, Sir! - Wait a second!

Go to a flowershop,

and have fifty red roses sent to this address!

Yes, Sir.

But ask for a beautiful bouquet!

Yes, Sir.

And stop saying 'Yes, Sir' all the time! Once in a while say something else!

Yes, Sir.

- Hi! - Hi! - Any news?

Your mother reported your disappearance at the police station.

Three more days and I will be back, but before that, can you do me a favour?

And what is it?

Go to a flower-shop, and order a bouquet,

and have it sent to this address with this card!

- Here is the money! - And what kind of bouquet do you want?

Fifty roses, but yellow ones!

Fifty roses? Isn't it a bit too much?

You're right! Send just twenty-five, and it's OK if they they are half-rotten already!

- You can count on me! - And then call the lady at 9 PM!

- What should I say? - Tell her that Mr. Peter Geszti

won't be available neither tomorrow, nor the day after. He is busy elsewhere.

- Elsewhere? - Yes, elsewhere!

He'll be at a Christening. I have already taken care of that.

The lads from the town of Ratot,

Stole some geese, the poor boys!

He grabbed the neck the wrong way, he did...

Hey, the neck he grabbed wrong.

'Cos the goose honked.

He grabbed the neck the wrong way, he did... Hey the neck he grabbed wrong.

'Cos the goose cried.

The lads from the town of Ratot,

Ay, indeed they are so poor boys!

He looks for money in his pocket, in his pocket, Hey, in his pocket.

But all he finds there are just pumpkin-seeds.

He looks for money in his pocket, in his pocket, Hey, in his pocket.

But all he finds there are just pumpkin-seeds.

What are you saying? Where did I buy it?

- At the Market-Hall? - Yes, there!

A decent florist would already have thrown out flowers like these!

And why did you send a message that you are too busy these days?

But, my darling Lilly! This must be some awful misunderstanding!

I didn't ask anybody to call you!

Listen to me, my dear Lilly...

I am begging you, give me another chance to meet up with you!

I will prove it to you, my darling that the whole thing was just some fatal misunderstanding!

This afternoon?

Yes. I will be waiting for you!

I am kissing your hand.

Tell me, what did you do?

I was getting ready for the Christening.

- I mean what did you do with the flowers? - I had them sent.

- But from the Market-Hall? - It's much cheaper there!

This is unheard of!

- And I said red roses! - They only had yellow ones!

- But they were very-very nice! - They were all rotting away!

It must have been the heat.

- I said fifty! - They didn't have that many!

- Well, this was the last time I send you to buy flowers! - Fine.

- It's not fine! - All right, it's not fine!

Tell me, did you call anyone last evening?

I didn't call anyone at all!

I have nobody except for this child here!

All right, but just put something on the head!

- On the baby's head? - No! On yours!

Fine!

Wait a second!

Tell me, do you not have some other shoes. These are so clumsy!

Oh, it's not my shoes, but my walk!

My old man fell in love with me because of that walk!

I wish I knew who the idiot was, who called the photographers...

- ... to the church's entrance! - It was me!

You? But why?

Well, Katyi said it would be nice to have some memories...

...and I thought it could be a good advertisement, too!

A nice piece of advertisement!

Me hugging such a simpleton!

I suppose it's a matter of taste. I wouldn't hug her.

I kiss your hand, my dear Lilly!

I am so glad you came! You'll soon understand everything!

- I hope so! - Please. Have a seat!

- Some drinks? - Will you offer me today's papers, too?

- Have you seen them already? - I have!

You seemed very pleased while hugging the mother of your godchild!

- It was a pure coincidence! - Pure coincidence? A comedy perhaps!

You are in love with that woman, you just keep it as a secret, so you dressed her up as a servant!

That would be most romantic, if it were true!

But why would I want to keep this love a secret?

- I haven't thought about that yet. - And it doesn't matter anyway!

Believe me, that I am in love with you only!

I want to see that woman!

As you wish. No problems with that.

You'll soon be convinced that she is just a clumsy, ill-mannered person!

- Did you call for me, esteemed sir? - Ferenc! Send in Katyi!

My dear Lilly! You know that I love you!

- Can I believe you, Peter? - Of course!

We've known each other for so long! For fifty days already!

We celebrate our Golden Wedding anniversary today!

I could never ever lie to you!

- Really? - Katyi? Katie?

How you look???!!!

- My dear Peter. - My dear Peter??!!

What are you thinking? Get out of here!

- But, esteemed sir! - Get out! Now!

- My dear Lilly! - I had enough of your lies!

- My dear Lilly! I swear that I... - Tell it to your Katyi!

You must believe me that you are the only one I love!

- Let me go! - No! No!

- I still owe you 49 more! - Lilly!

- What a nice Golden Wedding anniversary!

Tell me! W-what is this circus? And...

And what kind of clothes have you got on now??

I just wear what I usually do, your esteemed sir.

Your esteemed sir?!!... How come you don't call me "my dear Peter" anymore? Hmm?

How could I call you like that?

I'm just a simple and poor ninny for your esteemed sir's godson!

And what about a moment ago?

Oh, I just wanted to tell you that I would take little Peter for a walk,

that's why I dressed up in my Sunday clothes,

but when you shouted at me, I couldn't even finish my sentence!

You're saying that it wasn't me, whom you called "my dear Peter"... but the child?

Of course, because we just gave him that name at the Christening, didn't we?

Tell me! How could anyone walk in such clumsy shoes?

Look there... even the heels were filed off!

- Yes, that was me. - You?

- How did you do it? - With a nail-file!

- But why? - Because it was too straight...

and I can only walk in flat shoes, 'cos they're much more comfortable.

You should try it one day!

Should I file down your shoes, too?

Of course, not! You... You...

Come over here!

Buy yourself some more Sunday clothes such as this one!

And wear them on weekdays as well!

And act like a mother!

You are 22 years old already, and... you have a child, too!

Maria! I am kissing your hand!

- I have just come to congratulate for your new role! - What new role?

- You are playing a father these days, are you not? - I am begging you, Maria! Don't torture me!

Or if you are also going to be jealous... I mean If you're going to be jealous, just admit it!

Well, then I admit it... I am jealous.

Oh, but you won't be jealous after this one! Come!

- I am kissing your hand! - Good day!

There you go! The mother and her child!

- Is he that child? - Yes. - He's so sweet!

- What is the name? - Katyi.

- A girl? - No. I am a woman.

- Not you! The child! - Oh, he is a boy!

What is he called?

Just like the father! Peter.

- Like the father? - She meant like the godfather!

- Because that's me! - Aha!

- I see. I see. - Good.

Come, my dear! Come!

This way!

Ferenc!

What do you want?

Tell me! Who's that guest of his esteemed sir?

An actress. His esteemed sir's partner.

Partner? What is that?

- You don't know what is it? - No.

So, when they play "the great lovers" at the theatre...

- At the theatre? - Of course. Sometimes in life as well.

- All right. God bless you! - Where are you going?

- I'm going to the graveyard to visit my poor brother. - Did he die?

Of course not. Why would he have died?

You just said you are going to the graveyard to visit him!

Of course! He is a grave-digger!

I hope you have calmed down now!

- You shouldn't think I doubted you for even a second. - Come in! Enter!

I'm taking the child for a walk, and I'll buy some milk as well on the way.

- Just do that! - Yes, Sir!

This Katyi is a very clever woman!

She just always comes in at the worst moments.

- Ootchie, Kootchie, Kootchie! - What?

Oooh, this child-raising makes me lose my mind completely!

You sweetheart, you darling, you...!

Come in! Enter!

I've changed my mind! Better the baby stay at home! But Ferenc is not here!

Please mind him, until I return!

Well, good bye my dear!

- Maria, are you leaving? - I don't want to disturb you, my dear. I don't do THIS role!

This is YOUR big part!

You, you "aging" actor!

- Maria! - I am sorry! I don't deal with nursemaids!

The biggest problem is this...

I thought I could go home soon.

I have been torturing him for three days already,

turning his life upside-down, ruining his love life!

And now, I have to start all over!

But why? Did you not have your revenge?

No. Because it turned out he has another lover as well!

Oh, the sugar-daddy! And tell me, why is it so urgent for you to ruin his lovelife?

- To make my vengeance complete! - Is that all?

Say... have you fallen in love with Geszti?

- Would you despise me, if I had? - No, I wouldn't.

Well, don't despise me then!

Little wheel and little buttonykins, this way runs the bunnykins!

Here she is running! Ootchie Kootchie Wootchie...

Little Peter Ootchie Mootchie Smootchie...

- Oh, you sweet one! - Esteemed sir, if you please!

- What do you want? - Your Highness is responsible for the child's education!

Wouldn't it be better to teach him something more serious than 'Ootchie Kootchie Wootchie?"

You know, to relax, such things are ALSO necessary.

I have just been teaching him about some very serious matters.

So, let's go through it again! An object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force

equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object..

Tomorrow we'll review the Chinese Revolution. All right?

Err... Just take the child, will you?

Since I have met you, I have changed.

My life was given new meaning.

I would have never believed that a woman could make me feel like this.

What did a woman mean to me until now? Some rapid intoxication?

But you, you have brought love into my life.

My dear Katie...

You are the first dawn in my life!

Come!

Caress my tired face with your rosy fingers!

Bring me your youth, your softness!

Come, dear Katie!

I can't live without you anymore!

- Here I am! - What? What do you want?

- You were calling for me! - Me? Calling you? - Yes!

You said that... that...

Oh, you little fool!

I wasn't calling for you! I was just practising my part!

Are you laughing at me now, for being so stupid?

Of course, not! Oh, how sweet...

Tell me, have you never seen me playing in the theatre before?

No, 'cos I only go to the Amusement Park!

'Cos there they show some dogs, some horses and even tigers...

And you know, there is the fun fair, and the merry-go-round,

so that's where I go on every Sunday!

It's a pity! You could have watched me playing tomorrow noon!

- Well, I can still watch you! - Really? I will give you two tickets!

- Come and bring along whoever you want! - Ah, I kiss your hand!

- Don't tell me, 'I kiss your hand!' - All right. I won't.

- G'night! - G'night!

- How much is it? - Eight-Eighty.

- Hi, dear Peter! Hi! - Greetings, Maria!

This is awkward! I left my wallet at home!

Wait! I will just call the doorman!

I will give it to you, dear Peter! You can pay me back tonight at the theatre!

- All right, thank you! - Here you are. Ten pengo. Is it enough?

- Of course. - Here. - There you go.

- Thank you. - Come!

- Is he going to perform as well? - Yes.

Here's the our opportunity to whistle him off-stage!

- Don't be silly! - Sssh!

Come in!

- Good day, Sir! - Good day! What did you bring?

This chicken. It is for you to buy!

It has tasty white meat!

What are you doing here? This isn't the Market-Hall!

- You bought another one the last time, too! - Yes, and my butler cooked it.

Buy this one as well!

- How much is it? - Eleven pengo.

- I'll give you ten. - We have a deal. It's yours!

- But I don't have money with me now! - No problems!

I will come to your flat to collect it in the afternoon!

I hope your heart already suspects who could...

... so come what may... Khm! Come in! Enter!

- Hi, my dear! Are you ready? - Greetings, Maria. Yes, I am.

I'm just putting on the finishing touches!

Tell me, my dear! Where are you dining today?

At home, for a change.

Hey! Come dine with me!

It depends... on what we'll be dining on.

A surprise! You'll see! Will you come?

I could...

And now, Peter Geszti's pre-war song.

Pardon me, Sir!

Do you know where Andrássy street is?

What a question! Of course I do!

Thank you very much.

I am sorry.

When every decent people go to sleep in bed...

I, the old bohemian start to live at dawn!

I wouldn't change with a hundred kings or bank-directors, and what's even more,

I seduce every pretty girl with this song!

I look in here, and whisper

something into your ear in secret.

I look in here and whisper

that for a long time I've been loving somebody in secret!

Here I don't whisper! It's just the belief

that you are so similar to Her!

I hope your heart already suspects who could it be!

I look in here and whisper,

I lead a happy life living in the night!

I am known by every policemen and street-kids of the town!

I am known by the old carriage-carters on the old Stefania Road!

And every old gypsy plays this melody for me only!

I look in here, and whisper,

something into your ear in secret.

I look in here and whisper

that for a long time I've been loving somebody in secret!

Here I don't whisper! It's just the belief

that you are so similar to Her!

I hope your heart already suspects who could it be!

I look in here and whisper...

And now, Klári Tolnay!

If not even the summer can bring miracles,

My heart doesn't wait, doesn't call anymore!

It feels that everything is over,

and it doesn't even ask, why.

The sky is as beautifully blue as it was

when your heart belonged to me still.

If not even the summer can bring miracles,

happiness doesn't wait for us!

A nice story is over,

And life still goes on.

If not even the summer can bring miracles,

My dreams fly back to you, waiting for you!

My heart has been waiting for you, for many nights...

A hundred memories cry to you, that my lips still yearn...

for your burning kisses!

It feels that everything is over.

and it doesn't even ask, why.

The sky is as beautifully blue as it was

when your heart belonged to me still.

If not even the summer can bring miracles,

happiness doesn't wait for us!

A nice story is over,

And life still goes on.

If not even the summer can bring miracles...

Did you know that you very much look like Tolnay?

Come on! I'm not as old as she is!

I am your humble servant, Esteemed Sir! What did you buy again?

What? An ostrich-bird! Can't you see?

It will be perfect for lunch! We are going to have a guest!

- Just give it to me. I'll cook it. - Good.

- Tell me! Did Katyi come home already? - Yes, she did.

I will just give it to her then. You go, and get some fruits!

- As you wish. May I ask, how much did you pay for this chicken? - Ten pengos.

That's a lot!

You could have bought a much better chicken for that!

I have never in my whole life spent ten pengos on a chicken!

- Just go, and get some fruits! - Yes, Sir. At once!

- Katyi! - Yes!

Tell me, Katyi! Can you cook?

- Of course! - Yes? Cook this chicken for lunch then!

- Yes, Sir - And if a woman comes, give her 10 pengos,

and tell her not to come back again. She's too expensive!

One can buy much better chickens for this much money!

Well, Katyi! How did you like the show?

- Oh, I very much liked it, but the circus is still much better! - Why?

Because there they don't just walk around moving and singing,

but they can walk on a rope, and play on a see-saw and even swallow a sword!

Now, that's much more difficult!

Well, our job is not that easy either,

even if we don't swallow swords. You know real art is portraying a personality!

Well, what they were portraying there, even I could do!

It's not so hard to sing "If not even the summer can bring miracles..."

"Happiness doesn't wait..." What!

- And how did you like me? - Your esteemed sir was very good. Very good.

Especially when you were jumping around among the naked girls, singing

"I look in here, and whisper..."

- Ay! - What is it? - Ay! The chicken!

- Good day! - Good day!

- Is the esteemed sir at home already? - He just left.

- He left? - Yes, he did.

And didn't he leave me a message?

- Yes, he did. Ten pengos. - Ten pengos?

- Is it not yours? - Yes, it is!

- Do you have it? - Yes, I do. Here!

But he said to tell you, you shouldn't come again!

- Not to come here again? - Yes, 'cos you are too expensive!

What?

Very expensive! The esteemed sir said...,

that much better chickens can be bought for this much money.

This is unheard of!

Lajos Kovács, Nr. 4, downstairs

Nr 4, downstairs

- Have a good day! - Good day!

Pardon me, but I'm looking for a gentleman with the name of a flower!

- Nr. 7, first floor. He's called Rose! - Thank you very much!

Rent for June, 55 pengős.

- 5 pengős. - Not 5! 55 pengős!

... pengős.

- My dear missy! - What is it? - Come to the counter, please!

- You have a phone-call! - I am coming.

- Who is it? - I don't know!

Hey, girl! Have you just got together with some good-for-nothing-fellow?

I haven't got together with anybody!

Hi!... I am in a hurry!

I am just calling you, because...

I am just calling you, because I want you to come back!

I can't live without you!

- Who are you talking to? - To my husband!

You can't live without me?

- Who are you talking to? - Err... to a woman-friend of mine.

- A woman-friend of yours? - Aha. Hey! No!

He doesn't want to come back to me, but he doesn't want a divorce either!

- I will talk to him! - Oh, no!

- Yes, I will! - No! - Give it to me! - Ay!

Hallo! Listen to me! You either come back to her or divorce her!

Whom am I supposed to divorce? What?

What kind of tone is this?

You brigand!

Listen to me! This is my final warning! Leave my child alone or I'll beat you to death!

What? I am supposed to leave your child alone?

Ungrateful scumbag!

That poor kid would have already died of hunger if I wasn't taking care of...

Are you taking care of her?

- Is he taking care of you? - Who?

- Your woman-friend! - She IS my woman-friend!

Is that a woman to you?

My husband sounds so strangely girlish on the phone!

Is that a girlish voice to you?

- Hallo! - Is that a woman to you? - Yes!

And she is taking care of you?

Go home at once!

He hung up.

Tell me! What have you done again?

- Me? Nothing. - Nothing?

You threw out the actress! Is that a 'nothing' to you?

- Me? Threw her out? - Yes! Instead of the market-woman!

Oh, I just mixed 'em up!

That's it! This can't continue like this anymore!

I am going to talk to your husband!

- Oh! I don't want that! I don't want that! - Still I am going to talk to him!

- With Bertie Brandy? - Of course!

Well, that man is not really my husband.

Not your husband? But even he said so!

Yes, because I gave him some money!

Why did you lie that he's your husband?

'cos my real man is... is a very debuched man, and...

he is in prison now. I was ashamed to tell the truth.

That's it!! This is the very end of my patience!

It's not enought that you turn my house upside-down, throw out my guests,

and now you admit that you were lying to me?

Is this what I deserve for my goodness?

- But esteemed sir, please... - Not a word!

Even your breath smells of lies! You can't stay at my house a moment longer!

Are you sending me back on the streets?

What? Of course not...

You'll go to the countryside with the child.

I have an aunt at Lake Balaton. she will take care of you both.

And when the child becomes old enough for school,

he'll come back to Pest and I'll look after his upbringing.

You want to take away the child from me, too? What else is left for ME then?

You will have to divorce your husband! You don't have to live together with a criminal!

You are a pretty woman. You will surely find some well-off farmer.

And now, go and pack! You will go to the train-station!

Ferenc will buy you a ticket, and make sure that you are gone!

- Have you understood everything? - You can trust me!

But only go to the police station in the afternoon! Not before!

- What if they will find you on the train? - Don't you worry about that!

- How are you going to do it? - You can guess!

- I don't know. - A fine mindreader you are!

The two of you will have enough space here!

They will be waiting for you at Lake Balaton. Why are you crying? Why?

'Cos I will never see his esteemed sir again! Or you, for that matter!

Of course, you will! We will come and visit you both!

Not me, never again! 'Cos you know, Ferenc, you are such a ...

Wait! Don't bother continuing, because I'm getting off now. God bless you!

Mr. Conductor, please!

Would it be possible to arrange that I be alone in this compartment?

Perhaps at every stop you could look out the window!

Announce at once that you were alone in the compartment the whole time!

I'll announce it!

You must say this even if you are asked by a policeman or an investigator!

I will!

If you ever change your statement, your are not a lady anymore!

- But I am still a girl! - Even more so!

- The pacifier! - Just keep it!

- This is unfathomable! - Yes, of course. What is?

This telegram from my aunt!

Katyi didn't arrive to Balaton! What could have happened to this woman?

- Esteemed sir, I am very much afraid! - Of what?

- This Katyi is going to do something crazy! - But why?

She was crying a lot on the train, and kept saying

that she would never ever see us again.

Meaning me, and Your esteemed sir!

- Do you think she.. - I do, Your esteemed sir!

She wanted to jump into the river before!

What are you talking about!

It wasn't a good idea to cast that poor woman out of the house...

especially next to that big lake!

Don't try to scare me, you sourpuss! She's all right, I am sure!

She probably came back to Pest already!

But I will find her! And I already know where!

- Where? Tell me! - At the fun fair! She goes there on Sundays!

And if you wouldn't find her, just visit the Mindreader if you are already there!

The mindreader? For what?

She knows everything, Sir!

Twenty years ago she predicted that I would get married,

- ... and I would become unhappy. - But you are still single!

Of course! Just because of the prediction! But I haven't become unhappy either!

This is the greatest miracle of the twentieth century!

The mindreader!

There are no secrets or mysteries before her!

She can tell the past, the present and the future!

The fee is 50 fillér!

This is the greatest miracle of the twentieth century!

- I just came, because... - Because you are looking for someone. - Yes.

The person you are looking for you won't find. Perhaps never again.

How do you know that?

I know everything, I see everything, I hear everything.

There are no secrets, nor mysteries before me.

Then you probably also know where that person is I'm looking for.

Step closer!

Sit down!

I am going to ask my crystal ball!

I see a train!

The train is moving!

I can hear a child crying!

What? A child crying?

I see a station, where the train stops.

A woman steps off the train.

With a child in her arms.

All that is in the crystal ball?

The woman starts to walk on the dusty country road.

I see... I see a great water glimmer in the background.

- That's the Lake Balaton. - I don't know that.

- How is that possible? - Don't disturb me, please! Lest I fall out of my magic circle! - Sorry.

The woman just walks... and walks...

- Then she stops at the water... - And?

She gazes into the water.

- She takes one step further, - And then?

I can't see anything else.

That woman was chased away by someone.

He ruined her. Even if that woman loved him very-very much!

A cognac!

Another one!

I got bored of my life,

So I came up to Budapest.

There I walk on the main street every Saturday evening.

I put some colours on my cheeks,

And keep my head up,

Hoping that somebody will fall in love with me,

at the banks of the Duna.

I put some colours on my cheeks,

And keep my head up,

Hoping that somebody will fall in love with me,

at the banks of the Duna.

Why are you keep looking at that chap?

- Are you talking about Geszti? - Who is this Geszti?

- An actor. - How do you know it's him?

I have already seen him on stage a couple of times.

That is no reason to make eyes at him!

Leave it, Lajos! You are always so suspicious!

It seems he had too much to drink.

He's just had a bit of House wine!

A bit of house wine? I've never seen such a bit house!

Katyi!

Katyi! Where are you, Katyi?

This is unheard of!

He is raising his glass to you!

Lajos!

Sir! May I have a word?

- Begone from my magic circle! - I will not!

You have just insulted a lady!

- Me? - Yes! You were eyeing her!

- And I forbid you to do that! - Forbid me? You don't say? And why is that?

First, because the lady is in my company.

- So, what... - And secondly, she is my wife.

Secondly? You married her twice? Now, you see, THAT'S interesting...

How dare you!

You married her twice. I can well understand She IS very pretty.

Here! This my name-card!

And this is my name-card. Take it!

I will wait for your duel-assistants!

Unfortunately, Sir, I have no assistants. I'm not a grocer...

Listen to that!

Taxi!

What is this? Why are you staggering? Why are you dancing?...

Here! This is... This is for you!

All right!

All right, then!

Just take him home!

Where am I supposed to take your highness?

(mumbles)

- Where do you live? - No. Don't disturb my magic circles!

He married her twice! That's great!

Lajos Toti, 314 Nemetvolgyi.

- What do you want? - I have brought Mr. Toti home.

- Where is he? - Still in the car.

You should carry him to his flat. He drunk a bit too much, and now he is asleep inside.

Well, I can't carry him up anymore,

I am an old man, and even short-sighted, but

you should just do it! First floor, second door!

- Did you bring home Her esteemed missus as well? - No.

No worries. I have keys, 'cos my wife cleans their place, too.

- I'll give it to you. - But who's gonna pay me now? - I'll pay you.

You just carry up His esteemed sir!

You can tell me whatever you want, but you surely know this man!

- No, I don't! - Then why did he raise his glass towards us?

Enough of your accusations! You are ruining my life!

- We're going to divorce from each other! - Yes, we are going to divorce!

- I won't even sleep at home this evening! - Sleep, wherever you want!

- Good night! - G'night!

Go'way! Waiter!

- At your service. - Bring me another half liter!

- Yes, Sir. - It will...

- I kiss your hand! - Good evening!

His esteemed sir is already at home.

- He came home already? - He did.

- Very good then. - Thank you very much.

Have you just come home again?

What do you mean, 'again'?

It's just that your esteemed sir has already come home once this night!

Interesting! I was the one, who drank, but it's you, who sees double!

Sweetie!

Sweetiepie!

Wake up! You are ruining your clothes!

Sweetie!

Sweetiepie!

How did you get here?

- I just came in! - When?

- Now, through the door! - How??

What do you mean, 'how'? I admit, it was all my fault...

It's just my cursed nature... Can you forgive me?

I can, but...

But first I must promise to never ever be jealous again,

and that I won't make a scandal, either. I promise!

Did you hear that?

No. I didn't hear anything.

That's impossible. I could hear that noise clearly!

It came from my room!

- Ay, what have you done! - I'll go have a look! - No, stay!

- Kiss me! - But first I am going to see what's in there!

How did YOU get here!!??

I was just about to ask you the same...

Nice! So, that's why you couldn't hear the noise!

It was you, who brought this man here! We're going to settle this now!

- No! No! - How dare you hit me!!

Another one!

I'll teach you a lesson!

It doesn't matter what you say, you cannot convince me!

I don't want to convince you, but the shops will only open an hour from now!

Still, I won't show up with empty hands!

If they invited us to Pest, we're supposed to bring something!

- A pot of flowers at least! - Where can I get a pot of flowers?

Do flowers fall from the sky perhaps?

They just did! We can go now!

Hello, my dear!

We just arrived. Is Lajos still asleep?

Yes, he is.

We brought these small flowers.

You're so very kind.

What's going on here?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

- ... just... - Oh! This I have to see!! - What is it?

By God! I'll show you now!

I can see we came at the wrong time!

At the wrong time? This is the BEST time!

What is this!!?? What's going on here?

Nothing.

- We're just arguing. - He hit me!

Both of you are under arrest!

- Here is your suspenders! - Thank you.

Lajos! Lajos!

Ayay, yes, yes...

I don't get it. How can such a well-known man

conceal a woman at his apartment?

But who is the anonymous woman who called?

We'll soon find that out as well.

Sir, I report that we couldn't find Peter Geszti at his home.

He didn't spend the night at home.

That's suspicious!

He probably must have escaped with the girl!

Do everything you can to find this Geszti - wherever he is now!

- Yes, Sir! - Please!

- No, please! - After you! - Thank you very much!

Thank you, thank you very much!

- Lajos Csóti. - Péter Geszti.

- Hello! - Hello, my friend.

I am sorry for having misunderstood you. The situation WAS most awkward...

Well, it was certainly bizarre, that's for sure!

I beg your pardon, do I have the honour to be in the company of Mr. Peter Geszti, the actor?

- That's me. - Then follow me for a moment, please!

Good bye then!

- I am very happy to have made your acquaintance! - I'm glad to have gotten to know you, too!

- Good bye! - Good bye!

Oh, could you please pass on my best regards to your bride!

- Yes. I will! - Thank you very much!

- Good bye. - Good bye.

Sir! I report that Peter Geszti is present!

- How do you do, Sir! - Take a seat, Sir!

- Thank you very much. I am all yours! - What happened to you?

Oh! Nothing! Only a little misunderstanding.

- With Her esteemed missus? - No. With her husband.

But please, she is still just a girl!

- Who? - That young lady,

who is your guest, and whom, according to a complaint, you conceal in your apartment.

- But this is Katyi! - So you admit it?

I don't have anything to admit!

This woman is just the mother of the baby I found

at my doorstep, whom I took in and accepted as my own.

Is that so? And where is this woman now?

- I don't know... ahem, she disappeared! - What?

I mean, I sent her to my aunt at Lake Balaton,

but she never arrived.

I can honestly say that I am very much worried...

A confusing story! Let's hear from the witnesses now!

Call in Mrs. Varga!

Mrs. Varga!

Good day! Good day!

- Are you Mrs. Varga? - Yes, Yes.

- Kató's mother? - I am. I am.

- That's impossible! - Why would it be impossible? I am her mother! Her mother!

- Who would know this better, if not me? - Kató's surname is Csiba!

Csiba is the other one! I'm not her mother! Not her mother!

What did I tell you?

Do you know this girl?

Yes! My daughter! Kato! Kato! Kato!

- Did you raise her? - But I failed at it. Failed at it.

How could she do this to me! To her own mother! Her own mother!

I meant is she adopted or not? Because she is called Csiba, right?

Don't shout at me, I am not deaf yet! Csiba is another one! Another one!

- When was the child born? - 22 years ago! 22 years! - I meant Kato's!

- My child! My child! My child! - When was Kato's child born?

Kato has no child! How could she? Kato is still a girl! A girl! A girl!

There we go, she isn't your daughter then! It must be that Csiba!

Who is this Csiba you keep referring to?

Caretaker Csiba. He is here, he came with me. He is outside. Outside.

- I honestly say, I don't understand this! - Send in Caretaker Csiba!

Any daughters?

Yes. But she's lost! Lost!

Not you! Csiba!

He has one too, but that one is NOT lost! Not lost!

You see? In the end it'll be me that was telling the truth!

Good day to you all!

- Are you called Csiba? - Yes. Marton Csiba.

Do you know this girl?

She is Kato Varga.

Do you also have a daughter?

Of course, Kati! They are very good friends with Kato!

Good friends! I'm starting to understand it now!

I want to hear from this Kati Csiba!

The child belongs to Kato. She must have fled from home in shame.

- Woe to me! Woe is me! - But please! She has a husband as well!

- She has a husband? A husband? - He's sitting in prison now!

She fainted! Water!

Instead may I have a Spritzer...? A Spritzer... A Spritzer...

What? She keeps talking when she's already fainted?

This one? She'll keep talking after she dies!!

The only thing I still don't understand is why did your friend

make all this fuss?

As an act of vengeance, Sir.

- Vengeance? - Because Mr. Geszti didn't admit her to the Acting School!

He said she is without any talent, and that she will never become an actress!

Even though she knew The Eaglet by heart!

So! That was Katyi?

- Wow! - In reality it looks like she is a very good actress!

But tell me! Wasn't that mysterious caller you, by any chance,

who reported that he conceals a woman in his apartment?

- Yes. It was me! - And why did you do that?

Because Kató asked me, just before she went away!

But now she is lost again! Don't you know where she is?

No. I don't know.

But sirs, don't you worry about her! She'll be back! I know her!

After all this, I know her, too! It's fantastic!

What an amazing acting talent!

I tell you this, and my eyes are never mistaken!

Right! That's why you had her thrown out of the Acting School!

- Your esteemed sir, may I? - What is it, Ferenc?

- A woman is here. - What woman?

- She came because of the child. - Yes?

I kiss your hand!

Good day! What do you want?

I came to see little Janika!

- What Janika? - The infant!

He is mine!

- So he is yours? - Yes.

Can you prove it somehow?

Of course I can!

I placed him at your doorstep in a basket!

I covered him with a nice, warm blanket.

- Am I right? - That's correct.

And why did you leave the child on the street?

I wanted to die.

But I didn't succeed.

They saved my life.

I've just left the hospital.

And I came here straight away, to thank Your esteemed sir's generosity!

And also, to see the wee child.

Yes. Well, err... Hmm!

I sent the child to the Balaton on vacation.

Why did you want to end your life?

My poor husband died.

I was left behind with the child.

Without money. Without bread.

Nobody gave me a job.

You mustn't throw away your life like that!

No. Now, I know that too.

Tell me! Can you do housekeeping?

- I can. - Can you cook, too? - That too.

Then you will stay here as my housekeeper!

You can even move here tomorrow!

- God bless Your esteemed sir's goodness! - Leave that!

It's only proper that I take care of the mother of my godson!

- Thank you very-very much! - Good! God be with you!

- See you tomorrow! - I kiss your hand!

Tell me, please, esteemed sir!

- Was she the real mother? - She was.

- Aha. And is she going to move here? - She will.

- As a housekeeper? - Yes.

- But tell me, were you eavesdropping? - Of course...

- Ferenc! - Yes, Sir!

Don't you feel like this house is empty?

Hmm, to be honest, it could use

two more pictures there, or a parrot in a cage, perhaps!

No. It's something else... something else is missing...

- A child! - A child...

Such beautiful eyes!

Soft, silky hair!

Lips, red as a cherry...

- So loveable! - A child.

- Katyi! - Of course...

The angelic smile.

And those pudgy legs!

- Katyi's? - No! The child's!

Of course...

Do you think they'll return?

I think not. He cannot even walk yet.

- Katyi? - No. The child!

Nor Katyi! She's so clumsy in those shoes!

And even if she would return, she wouldn't come here but to her mother!

To her mother!

I don't think Katyi will go home... Not with the child at least!

The child is not hers!

Not hers? Of course...

But I'd like it if she'd come back here! I'd teach her a lesson!

Would you?

Katyi!

I came back!

From Lake Balaton?

No. I stepped off the train a bit before.

Hopeless!

Why didn't you go to Balaton?

Well, I was thinking that I could live in THIS house somehow...

... but not in the house of a stranger!

Hi Péterke! Hi!

Weren't the police looking for me here?

No. Why would they have looked for you?

It's nothing. I was just asking...

On the other hand I am very glad you came back!

- Yes. And since you are a woman... - Yes...

- With a child... - Yes.

- I think we can talk openly with each other, right? - Yes.

I like you!

We will live here in this huge apartment.

Nobody cares what we do here!

You'll be my girlfriend!

Me? A girlf...

But... I have a husband!

A husband, you don't love!

- I love him! - That's not true!

So, you just go into your room, and I'll join you in ten minutes!

Kato Varga?

Yes.

It seems, I came at the right time. You won't escape this time!

I am an investigator from the state police. You are to come with me!

Why?

And what will happen to us now?

The child goes back to his father,

And you to your mother!

- Yes! - Let's go!

I lied about everything. Don't look for me, you won't find me ever again!

Kati and little Peter.

PS. The only thing that was true is that I love you.

I kiss your hand!

Kato! My dear Kato!

It is me, mother! Are you upset with me?

I am! These last few days were so hard on your mother.

Forgive me! I didn't mean any harm!

- I know everything! - Everything?

Everything. Everything. I was interrogated. Interrogated. But Geszti, too.

- Geszti too? - And Kati, as well! She confessed everything!

- The scumbag! - Kati? Kati?

No, not her. Geszti! He lied to me! He toyed with me!

Don't cry, my mummy! Don't cry!

I am not crying!

- You shouldn't cry either! - I'm not crying either!

He said you are an excelent actress!

And he also said his eyes cannot be mislead!

The scoundrel! He didn't come today either! Anyway it's probably over!

- You really fell for him badly! - Me? - You!

- Very badly.

- Where are you going? - Home.

Peter!

- Your esteemed sir! - Just call me Peter!

Well, if you... err...

I'm going now... things to do... things to do...

Excuse me... Excuse me...

- Are you mad at me? - Why?

For all the troubles I caused and for lying to you.

You didn't lie to me, you just entertained me. I recognized you as soon as you came in.

I also noticed, that you recognized,

that I am not the person, who I am.

- How well, you lie! - Just like you!

Do you know, you are very talented?

- But still you'll never become an actress! - No? - No!

You'll become a wife! My wife!

Peter!

- I... I owe you a confession... - Well?

I already have a child.

Me too!

What are they doing? What are they doing?

They're waiting for a trolly. Waiting for a trolly.

Hopeless...

THE END

ENG subs by: SWATura & moviola