All language subtitles for Enemies.A.Love.Story.1989.720p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG

No!

No!

Yadwiga?

Yadwiga?

- Yadwiga?
- Good morning.

What time is it?

It's 10:00

I do shopping. I iron
your shirt and underwear.

I clean kitchen floor and bathroom.

I had my breakfast, but I'm
ready to eat again with you.

Would you like perhaps tea?

Oh, no, no, no. Herman, you cannot go
with bare foot. I get your slippers.

I Polish them.

Polish? Who polishes slippers?

- They were all dried up.
- Oy.

- Yadzia. This is America, huh?
- Mm-hm_

You're not the family servant anymore.

I fill your bathtub now.

I buy you a soap.

Perfume soap.

Smell.

Three for a dime.

Come.

I wash youl.

What time does the train leave?

What?

At, uh, 2:00.

Where's the city?

Philadelphia?

In America. Where should it be?

Why don't you sell books here?
There are so many people.

People come to coney island
for popcorn, not books.

What kind of books are they?

Books on how to build
Bridges, to lose weight,

how to run the government.

Books of songs, stories,
plays, the life of Hitler.

- They write books about such swine?
- They write about all kinds of swine.

Tonight, I'll be having
supper in Philadelphia.

Who you eat with?

Alone?

Talk so I can understand you.

Matzi, pitzele. Pitzele.

Hey, pitzele. Hey.

The neighbor with the white hair said
I could earn $25 a week in a factory.

You want to work”?
You have to know how to read and write.

So you take the course.

I will enroll you. Herman!

Herman, the old woman says
you must know the alphabet first!

I will teach you.

When? You are never at home!

Such a sweet girl, that yadwiga.

Vito marcantonio to run for mayor!

Read all about it!

Marcantonio to run for mayor here!

- Yes, sir?
- Forward.

Five cents.

Ow!

No!

No!

You're supposed to report in the morning.

Where's my speech for Atlantic city?

If I had to depend on you,
I'd be an unemployed rabbi.

I got six convalescents to worry about,
apartments in borough park,

williamsburg.

And I'll tell you, I'm sick and tired of
you living in a house without a telephone.

Oy, such a greenhorn.

I know, I know. You live with an old tailor
who saved your life in Poland,

and he desperately needs
your rent money to live.

A sob story. Let me see this.

Now you're starting to write.
This is great. Great.

What's with the scribbling here?

Where's the rest of it?

If you can't finish it,
I'll get somebody else.

I'll talk into a dictaphone. I'll have Mrs.
Regal type it.

- Everything will be ready today.
- I hope so.

Meanwhile, I'll hold on to this.

Now, once and for all, your address.

I'm beginning to believe you got a wife

- and you're hiding her from me.
- I wish I had the wife.

If you want one, you could have one.

I picked out a fine woman for you.
You wouldn't even meet her.

What are you afraid of? You wait
long enough, you'll marry a shiksa.

The subject for my next speech:

Mixed marriages, the plague of the Jews.

Now, are you going to finish this?
And are you gonna give me your address?

Because if you don't, I'm
gonna have to fire you.

This town is lousy with bookworms.
Everyone wants to be a ghostwriter.

3018 pelham drive. In the... the Bronx.

- The name of the tailor?
- Pracz.

- Tell him to put in a phone and send the...
- No, no, you can't.

- You can't install without his consent.
- Why should he care?

The ringing reminds him of Auschwitz.

There are other refugees,
and they have telephones.

It'll be good for him. Put it in your room.

In case he gets sick, he could
call a doctor, maybe get help.

Lunatics. Crazy people.

That's why Hitlers rise up.

Look, I wanted us to be friends,
but there's something about you

that makes it very difficult.

I could help you a great deal,
but you close up like a clam.

Uh, maybe.

Maybe I am no longer part of this world.

Clichés. Empty words.

Some practically on the way to the oven.
But they're doing fine.

They drive cars, they do
business and have telephones.

Maybe that's my problem.
I was hiding in a barn.

Look, I don't wanna force
my friendship on you.

But I'm calling today and having
them install a telephone.

Snow cones! Get your snow cones!

Five-cent snow cones!

Snow cones! Get your snow cones!

Five-cent snow cones!

- My mother.
- Oh, Herman.

Herman.

You know.

I've got in the habit of sitting down
and falling right off to sleep.

Did I sleep long?

She walks around as quiet as a mouse.

There are real mice here. I can't
tell the difference anymore.

You're starting again.

What is burning?

- Masha, I smell something is burning.
- Nothing is burning, mama.

She blames me for everything that happens.

The whole world is sane,
and it's only your mother that's crazy.

Don't put words in my mouth, mama.

You listen to how she's carrying on?

She always has to say something contrary.

She's just like her father.

May he rest in peace in the garden of Eden.

Masha? Masha?

Water.

It's her fault, you know.
It's all her fault.

She wouldn't let me die.

I thought she was dead too. And
then one day, she finds me.

And the next day, she's
already talking back to me.

And then she marries this
man, this Leon tortshiner.

Oy, is that a charlatan.

You know, my daughter,
she can read the most difficult books.

When it comes to people,

she doesn't know her hands from her feet

now, look, she's left sitting
here, a deserted wife.

If I want to get married, I
won't wait for a divorce.

What is happening with that stove?

Masha, I smell there's
something burning here.

Look at this. Oh, my god!

There isn't a drop of
water left in this pot!

If god could allow the Jews of Europe
to be killed, what reason is there

to believe he would prevent
the extermination of Jews in America?

(Sod doesn't care.

Right, Herman?

- Who knows?
- Will you leave Herman alone?

You burn the meat. Now you're
bothering him with these questions.

Maybe suffering is an attribute of god.

- Mama baked cookies. I'll bring some.
- He has to eat the compote.

What's the difference? It all
gets mixed up in the stomach.

Will you two stop quarreling?
If you can't live together peacefully,

how can there be peace on earth?

The last two people on earth
would kill each other.

How can you understand god?

- You shouldn't argue with her.
- She infuriates me.

She's more devoted to material
things than any atheist.

First, she tells me to
marry Leon tortshiner

because he brings her little cakes.
Later, she finds fault with him.

God knows why.

What difference was it to me who I married?

After all I'd been through,
how could it matter?

Speaking of marriage, how's
your little peasant?

Did you tell her you were on
a book-selling trip again?

Tonight, I'm in Philadelphia.

What happens if she finds out about us?
She'll never find out.

There's always the possibility.

She will never separate us.

If you can spend time
with an illiterate goose,

you don't need anything better.

What sense is there in doing the dirty work
for that swindler rabbi?

Become a rabbi.

- Swindle in your own name.
- I can't do that.

Here's the compote. It's delicious.
Thanks.

The truth is, you're still
hiding in that hayloft.

Yup.

That's the truth.

This is very good.

Masha. Masha.

I don't believe your peasant
is really as cold as you say she is.

Well, don't believe it.

What about your first wife?

Did you love her?

- Tamara is dead.
- Suppose I were to die.

Or commit suicide?

How long would you remember me?

How long would you wait
before finding another?

Just this once

be honest

how long would you wait?

I would never have anyone again.

Is that the truth?

Yes, you devil.

The whole truth

Suppose...

Suppose that there were
no men left on the earth.

- Would you do it with a woman?
- Sure. Why not?

- Would you do it with a man?
- Absolutely not.

Out of the question. Out of the question.

- Do you want to know why?
- Why? No.

Because then, I wouldn't
find my other half.

But an animal.

You get me a nice sheep or a goat.

That's another story, you know.

You ever do it with a guard?

Never.

Not that they weren't interested.

Of course, there was this
lieutenant at dacha...

No never.

Never, never.

It's time to go to work, Herman.

Before work comes pleasure.

I have to go.

I have to go.

Yadzia?

Let's take a holiday.

Want one pink one.

In the hole! In the hole!

In the hole! In the hole!

I won! I won! “We have a winner!

We have a winner!

Mister, you have a winner.

All right. We got a winner!

I'm so happy.

So lucky.

God himself has sent you to me.

Herman, please.

I want to become a Jew.

I want to have your child.

They drag animals here
from all over the world

- and put them in cages.
- My cage was not this comfortable.

I have to call yadwiga.

Call her.

- Don't be angry.
- Call her. But if you love me,

you'll take me to the catskills for
my vacation, just like you promised.

I promise.

I must stay here in Baltimore another day.

Uh, in a bookstore.

I'm in a bookstore.

What... 7

it's a... it's a jungle bookstore.

That's right... no.

Oh, sure. There are jungles in Baltimore.

I know that, sweetheart. I know.

I miss you too.

I will. Listen, I will... I
will call you tomorrow.

I promise you. That's right. Bye-bye.

Say hello to the birds for me.
Yeah, bye-bye.

Yadzia.

Come home with me and I'll show you
something your yadzia would blush at.

Would you still want me...

If we both died young?

Oh, masha.

And were buried in the same
plot, and I came to you...

In your grave?

Would you still want me?

Always.

Always, masha.

Herman?

Herman?

Herman, wake up.

Herman, masha says she's gonna meet you
in the cafeteria at 12:00.

And, uh, they're looking
for you in the newspaper.

See?

Nowadays, when someone is
looked for in the newspaper,

it's no small matter.

Come in, Mr. broder.

A miracle from heaven, broder.

A miracle.

Call her in.

Your wife has returned.

Hello, Herman.

I didn't know that you were alive.

That's something you never knew.

Our children?

Dead.

Sit. Sit down.

They... they told me that
you were killed by a...

- A firing squad.
- They shot two bullets into me.

One is still here in my body.

It's as if you've risen from the dead.

We were dumped in an open
pit, hundreds of us.

They thought we were all dead.

But I crawled over some
corpses and escaped at night.

It was raining, or the
Nazis would have seen me.

Then I fled to Russia.

I lived in the woods, for years.

How is it my uncle didn't know where you were?
We had to put an advertisement in the paper.

I... I don't have my own apartment.

I live with someone else.

What do you do”? Where do you live?

I didn't know that you were alive.

Who's the lucky woman who
has taken my place, Herman?

She isn't Jewish. She, uh...

She's the daughter of the pole
whose house I lived in during the war.

A peasant? Who is she?

She was our servant.

You knew her.

- Yadwiga.
- Yadwiga?

You married her?

Forgive me.

Wasn't she a little simple-minded”?
Heh-heh.

I remember she didn't
know how to put on shoes.

Your brother used to tell me how she used
to put the left shoe on the right foot.

Tamara ..

She saved my life.

Was there no better way to repay her?

Sorry.

I shouldn't ask.

- Do you have any children by her?
- Children?

No

Well, it wouldn't shock me if you did.

You crawled into bed with her
even when you were with me.

- Nonsense. I never crawled...
- Really?

- No.
- We never really did have a marriage.

All we did was argue.
“What was I to do?

- One minute, you were a trotskyite...
- You never had respect for me.

My ideas.
That's not true. You know that

why don't you have any children by her?

Why are you looking at me like that”?
You married her.

Well, because for one minute
there, I thought, I say:

Maybe you have changed.
But you haven't. You're still the same.

- No. No, I'm not the same.
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, I'm not the same.

I'm dead.

They put nylon stockings on me.

They dyed my hair, polished my fingernails.

God help me.

But I'm dead, so I bear no
grudges against anyone.

- Nor am I dependent on anyone.
- No...

I just hope you're not playing the same
tricks on your wife you played on me.

I don't know where you're living, broder,
but you may stay with us.

Uncle, he has another wife.

There was an eyewitness who said that...
They testified that she...

You don't have to run away, Herman.
“I

I'm not going to trap you into anything.

That's what we read in the papers.
Yeah

- why didn't you tell us?
- I didn't want to trouble you, that's all.

All right, so it's not so terrible.

You didn't know she was alive.

So you weren't living
illegally with a woman.

And I'm sure that you will,
as soon as possible...

- I'll do whatever...
- What do you want to do?

You want to divorce me? No.

Oh, what should I do, move
in with your new wife? Uh

no

Look, I, uh...

I don't know. I.

Look, I have to run. I...

I'm sorry. I would like
to stay, but it's...

I have a pressing business
engagement down at...

I'm late. Uh...

I'm... I'm writing a book for a rabbi.

It's... I think you would
be interested in it.

It's very complicated, and it's, uh...

But I have to go now.
You'll have to excuse me.

What I'll do is I will call you.

It's, uh...

I will... I will be in touch with you.

Why did he get into the bathroom?

You were with a relative, huh?

I didn't even know he was alive.

What's his name?

Feivl. Feivl lemberger.

A talmudic scholar in his 60s.

You think I'm an idiot?

- She's been after you since Warsaw.
- Masha, please.

- Masha, great game.
- Thanks, Benny.

Two teas, Bernie.

It is Eva. She missed you so badly,
she put a notice in the personals.

You were so afraid I'd see the name,
you tore it out of my mother's paper.

How do you know that?

My mother called me. That's how I know.

But I got another one. I'll
call and find out the truth.

You want to call? Go ahead.
I will give you the nickel.

I'm bored with your accusations.
All the time, it's the same thing.

Don't let her push you around.
“I'll call when I feel like it

if you have no faith in me,
the whole relationship is senseless.

It's senseless, all right.

- That's right. Go on, tell him.
- You have your shiksa and me.

But some bitch from Europe shows up
and you leave me to meet her.

A whore like that probably
has syphilis too.

- That is not true! I haven't seen Eva.
- I don't know why I stay.

You're a pathological liar
and a bastard besides!

Russians.

They're hot-blooded.

Masha. Masha.

Tamara, my dead wife.

Risen from the grave. Polished her nails,
come to New York. That's the truth.

You know, Herman, compared to you,
ll eon tortshiner was an honest man.

And after all this, I was gonna tell you...

I can take my vacation now.

- Starting when?
- We can leave Sunday morning.

Oh, boy. Listen.

I don't know. I don't know, masha.
This is not a good time for me.

- It's a bad time.
- You did it deliberately.

All year, you promised to
take me to the country.

At the last minute, you change your mind!

- What are you hitting me for?
- I'll go myself.

I don't need you.

I'll pack a suitcase and go
wherever my eyes lead me.

Don't threaten me. I will take
you to the country. Masha.

Jd will never ask her
will she name the day j

js make your mind up j&

My uncle keeps nagging
me to come to a decision.

You should divorce the other one.
If not, divorce me.

I can't get a Jewish divorce from yadwiga.

We weren't married under Jewish law.

Are you at least faithful to
her, or do you have six others”?

Tamara, you know...

You might as well tell me everything.
It's pointless to hide now.

Yeah, yeah, I have a mistress.

I thought so.

What can you talk about with yadwiga?
Who is she”?

She's from over there, from the camps.

Twenty cents, grapes, please.

Well, I see nothing has changed with you.

Thank you.

This sweetheart of yours,
does she accept this arrangement?

She has no choice. Her husband won't
divorce her. She's in love with me.

Are you in love with her?

I can't live without her.

Well, well, well.

To hear such words from you.

Is she beautiful?

Intelligent?

Charming?

All three

how do you manage it?

Do you rush from one to the other?

I do the best I can.

It's not so easy.

What sort of person is your mistress?

A little crazy, but
tremendously interesting.

Children?

No

And she doesn't want any.

You're lying, Herman. If a woman loves
a man, she wants to have his child.

She wants to be his wife, too, and not
have him run off with another woman.

- Does she know about me?
- She read the notice in the paper.

She could call here at any time.

What shall I say if she calls?
That I'm your sister?

I told her that you were alive.

She didn't believe me.

Then I told her a cousin of mine showed up.

A man called feivl lemberger.

Shall I tell her that I am feivl lemberger?

(50.

Go have sabbath with your wife.

(Good shabbes.

Was good?

It was good.

Herman.

You're breaking god's commandment.

There is no god, do you hear?

And if there were, I would defy him.

If there were a god, he wouldn't care
about lighting the lights on the sabbath.

Yadzia, tomorrow, I...

I must go to Pittsburgh.

It's a long trip.

Have you slept with her yet?

- Who?
- Feivl lemberger.

Not yet. “Who is she?

- You tell me the truth.
- I told you the truth.

- Tamara's alive. She's here.
- Tamara is dead and rotting.

Felvl is one of your sweethearts.

I swear on the bones of my
parents, it isn't my sweetheart.

- Then tell me who she is.
- I told you. I told...

- Who is she?
- It's...

It's a relative of mine.
A broken woman who has lost her children.

- Why did you say feivl?
- Why did I say feivl?

Because I know you. I know
how suspicious you are.

If I just mentioned a woman one time...
Let me ask you a question.

Do you think that reb
Abraham nissen yaroslaver

would put a notice for
a sweetheart of mine?

They're pious people.
I've had it up to here.

You don't believe me, call them.

You find out for yourself
when we get there.

- Well, maybe this time you're innocent.
- Ah. Maybe...

No. Not so easy to make up.

You'll never believe
what I've been through these last few days.

You little idiot, you.

I love you, you know?

Where are the Nazis?

What kind of world is
this without Nazis? Heh.

A backward country, this America.

That lady can sing, huh?

Come on, yeshiva boy. Let's
see what you can do.

Yadzia, I'm in Pittsburgh.

No, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

That's right. That's right. No, no.
I'm working as fast as I can.

No, I promise not to stay away too long.

You miss her.

You can hardly wait to
go back with her again.

She's all alone. She's helpless.

What about me?

This is my vacation.
“Of course. Of course.

We're here one night,

and you go running to the
phone to call your peasant.

You lie to her.

And you lie to me.

I don't ever want to see you again. Ever!

No

No!

This is not the way.

What is the way?

Where was I five years ago this time?

Still among the dead.

Okay, what we're doing here is the rumba.

We're doing the box step.
Everybody, follow me.

And left and back.

It's left, front, and side, and back,

and one and two, and back,
and three, and four.

Everybody dance. Everybody do the rumba.

That's it. Left, and right, and back.

Down slow.

Now back up.

Up. Down one more time.

Down. Good.

Pick it up and down.

Oh, yeah? Pardon me.

Did you see a double life?

Oh, what an actor that Ronald colman is.

Such a voice.

Such a fine nose.

Give me John Garfield.
Now, there's an actor.

Not to mention, he's Jewish.

I heard that Ronald colman's also Jewish.

I had a relative named broder.

A third cousin, from lemberg.

Or was it tarnow?

I think it was drohobych.

Lunch. Special for lunch.
Lunch lunch.

Please, no
bathing suits in the dining room.

- No bathing suits in the dining room.
- Herman. What are you doing here?

What am I doing here?

What...? What are you doing here?

I'm coming here... always.

I always come here.

To write. I'm writing here.

- It must be a good place for that.
- Oh, yeah.

This is our second visit here.

Excellent kosher food.

- Why don't you join us for lunch?
- Oh, no, I...

It's the boiled beef today.

No, that wouldn't be possible. I'm sorry.

Is your wife here?

Oh, that? That? Uh...

No, of course not. What
would she be doing here?

I'm coming here... I come here to work.

I work, work, work, you know, deadlines.

It's... I don't have to tell you.
You know how the...

I'll... well, dinner. Maybe
we'll have dinner together.

If you'll be here, we'll have dinner.

- I'm sure it was drohobych.
- It could be.

He will never come for dinner.

Philip bronstein,
your mother wants you in the bungalow now.

Anybody who lost a set of keys
on the beach, they're in the office.

The keys are in the office.

Sadie Reuben is looking
for a canasta party.

Anybody interested, contact
her at bungalow number 17.

Whoever took the paddles for ping-pong
and didn't return them,

please do so to the office immediately.

Remember, folks, tonight
at 8:30 in the casino...

- Excuse me.
- We'll have dancing

with the Mitch felson trio.

- Have a good day.
- It's an honor to see you.

- Masha.
- What are you doing? I'm so hungry.

- Let's go for a ride.
- They're having the boiled beef today.

- Yeah, I heard. I'm not hungry. Come.
- I'm starving.

It should be cooler on the lake.

Come here. Come here. Get in. Get in.

Come. Come. Get in. Get in.
Get into the boat. Come on.

Okay.

Row. Row. Row, masha, row.

Masha, row, row, row.

Row the boat row.

Take it in the office, please.

It's been seven weeks since
I've had my visitor.

- You'll go see a doctor.
- They can't tell so soon.

I'll wait another week

an abortion in America costs $500.

And it's dangerous too.

A woman in the cafeteria
got blood poisoning

and that was the end of her.

What an ugly way to die.

And what would my mother do
if anything happened to me?

I'm sure you would let her starve.

Masha, masha.

Don't get melodramatic.

You don't even know if you're pregnant yet.

Herman.

I'm afraid of an operation.

- Herman.
- It'll be all right.

Perhaps Leon will divorce me.
I'll speak frankly to him.

If he won't divorce me, the
child will bear his name.

I can't divorce yadwiga.

You can't? When the king of england wanted
to marry the woman he loved,

he gave up his throne. You
can't get rid of a peasant?

- A divorce would kill yadwiga.
- Nothing of the sort.

- You married her in a civil ceremony.
- Masha.

- Marry me in a Jewish ceremony.
- I can't...

- I don't need their gentile papers.
- Oh, masha.

I can't. I can't do that.

Why? “Why? Why?

It would be bigamy, that's why.

- It would be worse. It would be polygamy.
- No one will ever know.

As long as there's no marriage certificate,

no one can prove that we're man and wife.

- That is not the point.
- I. Et me finish.

What... 7

if you won't agree, you
can leave this minute.

I'll find a doctor who will
perform the operation.

But don't you ever show
your face to me again.

Oh, masha, masha.

I'll give you one minute to answer.

- One minute.
- You're asking to break the law.

I would be afraid of policemen.

- You're afraid anyhow.
- That's right.

- Answer me!
- I told you, yes! Yes!

Yes!

But our baby would be a bastard anyway,
according to the Jewish law.

It was conceived before the divorce.

Jewish law and all the other laws mean
as much to me as last year's frost.

I'm only doing it for my mother.

I've wanted your child
since the day we met.

- Herman.
- I'm marrying again.

A third wife?

- Who??
- Masha.

- I thought she already had a husband.
- She's divorcing him.

She's pregnant.

Well, congratulations. You're
going to be a father again.

I'm going crazy.

Were you always like this?
Or did the war do it?

I can't remember what kind
of person you used to be.

I can't believe you've come to me
under these circumstances.

Tamara, please. My head is exploding.

Come in. I'll get you something to eat.

- Remember my cousin Isaac?
- Yeah, yeah.

Well, he married Helen edela.

They met again in the camp.

- Helen edela?
- Helen edela.

- The one that...
- Remember?

No, this was... this was big. This was big.

Oh, my god. Where are they now?

In Tel Aviv. They hate it.

I don't want to go home, Tamara.

What do you want to do?
Stay here among the dead?

I can't face yadwiga yet.

I have a sleeping pill if you want one.

If I were lying with
you, then I would sleep.

Come in my bed.

You won't believe me.

But sometimes, our little David
and Sarah come to me at night.

They talk till morning.

But when I wake up, I
don't remember anything.

I believe you.

Tamara, I want to, uh...

I want to ask you something.

Don't be mad at me, I...

What?

During all those, uh...

All those years, uh...

You never had a single man?

Suppose I did.

I'm just curious. You can be
perfectly honest with me.

- Then why are you shaking?
- I'm not shaking.

Yes

there was someone.

- Yeah?
- In Russia. Everything happened there.

Who, uh...? Who was it?

A man, not a woman.

One? Several?

Look, you told me this much.
You might as well tell me everything.

Three.

- Three”? Three men?
- I didn't know you were alive.

I assumed if you were, you'd
be doing the same thing as me.

Well, then you're a whore.

Didn't I tell you?

Herman.

Herman, wake up.

- Herman.
- Mm?~

There was no one.

Not one man.

Not three men.

Not even half a man.

You're lying. No.

Over there.

Women gave themselves to
men they hardly knew.

But whenever someone tried
to get close to me...

I always saw the faces of
our children before me.

Oh, god.

Oh, god, Herman.

Oh, god.

I bake special new year challah.

I make carp's head like I'm supposed to.

Then he calls and says he cannot be there.

He must sell encyclopedia britannica.

What is encyclopedia britannica?

And now he says he must go to Indiana.
What is Indiana?

"What is Indiana?” what is alimony
is what you should be asking.

- You need a lawyer.
- Yadwiga.

I have tickets for us.

I paid $10 for these tickets.

Please, Herman. It's important for me.

Our neighbors will be there.
Everyone will see us. Please...

I will not go to synagogue once a year

like these assimilated hypocrites
who call themselves Jews!

The neighbors say you have mistress. Ah!

Herman.

You've hit me on yom kippur.

The holiest day of the year.

I saved your life.

I took the last bite of food out of my
mouth and gave it to you in the hayloft.

I carry out your shit.

Hey, yadzia.

I'm sorry, yadzia, yadzia, yadzia.

Forgive me.

You go.

You go to the synagogue.

You go.

You pray for me, yeah?

You go.

Hello, children.

- Tortshiner?
- Broder.

Come in, please.

I have every reason to
be your enemy, broder.

But I'll tell you right off,
I'm here for your sake.

- Have some cheesecake.
- No, thank you.

You can afford it.

I have to watch my weight.

So I take the, uh...

I take the compote, huh?

Some tea”?

Yeah, I'll take tea.

- Two teas, please.
- Okay, right away.

Masha tells me that you are
something of a writer.

But I am a scientist

and I believe before one acts,
one must have all the facts.

Oh, yeah?

So, what are the facts, Mr. tortshiner?

Your masha bought her divorce from me

at a price no honest woman would pay,
even if her life depended on it.

No, no, no.

This is on me.

Normally, I would have no reason
to take an interest in you.

But I happened to strike up an acquaintance
with your employer.

Thank you. Rabbi lembeck.

He told me you suffered a great
deal during the war. Huh?

What price did she pay, Mr. tortshiner?

Drink your tea.

Getting cold.

Did you know your masha was the lover
of a red army deserter?

Who smuggled gold from bessarabia”

I won't deny it.

I am still in love with her.
She drives men crazy.

Anyway, things went bad for us,

and we had been apart
for almost two years...

When she called and said
she wanted to see me.

So she comes over all dressed
up, fit to kill, as they say.

I had already heard all about you.

She told me the whole story,
as if it had happened only yesterday.

How she had fallen in love,
she'd gotten pregnant,

she wants a divorce, blah, blah, blah.

She sat down in front of
me and crossed her legs.

Like an actress posing for a photograph.

Huh?

I said to her, "you behaved like a
prostitute when you were with me.

Now pay the price."

She hardly protested.

"We are still man and wife," she said. Heh!

I guess it's permitted.

To this day, I don't know why I did it.

Vanity, perhaps.

Anyway, I met rabbi lembeck.

He told me all about you.

And I realized she had caught
you in her net as she had me.

Perhaps she's attracted to intellectuals.

- I won't marry her.
- And I can't say I blame you.

You can't tell with masha.

She's just the type to have a bastard.
And then where would you be?

Thank you very much, Mr. tortshiner.

Broder!

Broder!

Broder, one last thing.

Every female sits in her own net
like a spider waiting for a fly.

If you don't run away, they'll suck
the last drop of life out of you.

Thank you. Again.

And these are the duties
that the wife performs for the husband.

She grinds, bakes, washes, cooks,
nurses the child, makes the bed,

and spins wool.

Rabbi eliezer says, even if she bought him
a house full of servants,

he should force her to spin wool
because idleness, it leads to insanity.

Why don't we answer the telephone?

I will never answer the
phone again on a holiday.

If you want to become Jewish,
you don't iron on shemini atzereth.

- This is a holiday!
- You write on the shabbas, not I.

Well, I won't be writing
on the sabbath anymore.

If we don't want to become like the Nazis,
then we must be Jews.

When will I become Jewish?

I'll talk to the rabbi.
I'll teach you the prayers.

Will we have a child?

If god wills it, we'll have one.

- Hello?
- Are you still alive?

What's happened to you?

What happened is I found out
you are a despicable creature.

That's what happened to me, you slut.
I curse the day that I met you.

My god, what have I done?

You've paid for your
divorce with prostitution.

Who told you this? Leon?

- Yeah, he spoke the truth.
- The truth is he asked me.

I spat in his face. If I'm lying,
may I not live to wake up in the morning.

May I never have rest in my grave.
Bring us face-to-face.

You had a lover here in America?

If I had a lover here in America..

May I get cancer.

If Leon made it up, may
the curse fall on him.

If he's telling the truth...

May the child in my womb die.

Stop it. Stop that. Stop it.

Stop it. You're swearing like a fishwife.

I don't want to live anymore.

Herman!

I am pregnant!

That's wonderful

Mazel tov!

Mazel tov, Mr. Herman. Oh,
I'm so happy for you.

Thank you.

I'm a very lucky man.

I talk about the moon j

what's the matter with you?

Either you're with your
peasant or you're working.

We're married now, remember?

And soon, we'll have a child.

Come on, yeshiva boy.

Let's show your mother-in-law how we dance.

I am not his mother-in-law!

He's not my son-in-law.
This is all crazy...

Why do you do this? Why do
I have to live with you?

It's your fault we had
to legalize our love.

Shut up, the both of you. If the
talmud is such a great book,

how come it doesn't explain
what a man should do with two wives?

- Yeah, hello?
- Herman.

Come quick, please. Come.

What? What? Talk to me.

Herman, masha's sick.

Come quick.

Who just phoned? Your mistress?

I eave me alone.

Your breakfast is ready.

Your breakfast is getting cold.

- I can't. I have to go.
- To your mistress?

Yes, to my mistress. To my mistress, yes.

You made me pregnant and
you go running to a whore?

- You're not selling books. Liar!
- Go back into the kitchen

- or I'll throw you out.
- You have a lover, a mistress.

You spend nights with her.
You dog. You liar.

There is no jungle in Baltimore!

Do you hear? There is no jungle
in the stupid Baltimore!

She's okay?

The husband? Uh yes

Mr. broder, who told you
your wife was pregnant?

- Didn't the doctor examine her?
- I don't know.

In this country, when a woman is pregnant,

she's under the continual care of a doctor.

Your wife had a hemorrhage.

But there was no baby.

The whole pregnancy was up here.

I thought she was in her sixth month.

And then suddenly, suddenly,
she's screaming, she's having cramps.

And then there's blood gushing everywhere.

- She's okay?
- Oh, my life.

Oh, yes. She'll sleep,
at least until tonight.

And I'll drop by, uh, tomorrow morning
on my way to the hospital.

She's perfectly normal inside.

You'll be a grandmother a year from now.

I won't live that long.

I wanted so much to have a grandchild.

If only somebody to name
for the murdered Jews.

(Go in.

- You're okay?
- Go in a moment.

- You're okay?
- I am.

- I'll go see masha.
- Yeah, go see masha.

How do you feel?

I have no feelings left.

Masha, masha.

The stew is finished.

Soam I

financially. Physically.

Spiritually.

I made your favorite.

Barley stew.

Come and eat.

- What happened? What?
- Oh, god!

- God! Don't answer, it's a ghost!
- Yadzia, what is it?

A ghost! “What is it? Yadzia.

- I didn't think she'd recognize me.
- Hey!

- Yadzia, come back.
- Oh!

- Stop shaking. Stop...
- No!

Hold on, quick. She's alive. She's alive.

Calm down, yadwiga. I'm not dead.
I haven't come to haunt you.

What's wrong with you”? You
could frighten her to death.

I thought I was so changed,
my mother wouldn't know me.

You could phone, yeah” you could phone.

It's okay. Everything's all right.

- Okay, sit, sit, sit.
- Oh, god.

What will happen now? Aah!

- What do you do this for?
- And I am pregnant.

Don't think I'm here to
disturb the happy couple.

I learned how to drink in Russia.

When I have a glassful, I
become a little curious.

After all, we still have
something in common.

Both of you knew me when I was alive.

Why do you do this?
Why do you do this to her? She's pregnant.

Not dead. She's not dead.
I'm not dead. I'm not alive and not dead.

The truth is, I have no claim on him.
He probably always loved you.

I'm sure he slept with you before me.

Oh, no.

I was an innocent girl.

I came to him a virgin.

Oh, congratulations.

Men love virgins.

If every man had his way,

every woman would lie down a
prostitute and get up a virgin.

Well, I see I'm an uninvited guest.
I'd better go.

Forgive me.

God is my witness, if I
had known you were alive,

I would have kept away from him.

Sit down, mistress Tamara.

I get you tea.

Don't worry, she won't divorce you.

If she does, you can always
go to the other one.

If she throws you out
too, you can come to me.

Yadzia, don't worry. Nothing
is going to happen.

Calm down, yadwiga. I won't come again.

No, mistress Tamara.

You stay here.

This is your husband and your home.

You suffered long enough.

But I don't want him.

I wouldn't live with him
even if you were to go away.

Where would you go?

Here, there is a home for you.

I'll be the servant again.
That's god's will.

No, yadwiga. You have a good heart.
But I can't accept such a sacrifice.

A slit throat cannot be
sewn together again.

Wait, wait, Walt.

Don't go.

Look, since yadwiga knows,
we can all be friends. Yeah?

No, it's good. This way, I'll have
fewer lies to tell. That's all.

Oh, no, no! No!

Mr. broder, is your wife at home?

She's in the, uh... the toilet.

A dear soul

this is Mr. pesheles from sea gate.

I told him you sell books and you write.
He's very interested in books.

Mrs. schreier, I'm sorry. This
is a very bad time for me.

It'll only take a few minutes.

Mr. pesheles is a rich man.

President of the biggest home
for the aged in New York.

- He's on the board of three hospitals...
- I don't need publicity.

If I need a publicity agent, I'll hire one.

Well, come... come in.

- Um... this is, uh, a friend of mine.
- Ahem.

She's, uh, from Europe.

She's just here a few weeks.

But you're not like a greenhorn at all.
You look like an American.

And gorgeous.

You know what?

Let's all go down to your place.

I'll send out for some bagels and lox,
and maybe even some cognac.

And then we'll all have a nice chat.

Now, what kind of books
did you say you wrote?

Excuse me, please. For one second, please.

Hello?

Broder, this is rabbi lembeck.

So you do have a phone, huh?

But not in the Bronx, Brooklyn.

Esplanade is somewhere near coney island.

Yeah, well, my, uh, friend moved.

I'm not as big a fool as you think I am.
I know everything, absolutely everything.

You married some woman named masha,
and you wouldn't even tell me.

I'm calling you because I've
gotta see you right away.

You made several serious errors
in the kabbalah article.

It does neither of us any credit.

If we make the corrections,
they'll hold the presses till tomorrow.

So give me your address.

I don't live here. I live in the Bronx

again with the Bronx?

Where in the Bronx? Honestly,
I can't figure you out.

Look, look, I will explain
everything to you. It's...

I live here temporarily, that's all.

Temporarily”? What's the matter with you?

Maybe you have two wives.

Two, maybe three. I...

Give me your address.
I'll be there in an hour.

Don't be nervous. I won't steal your wife.
No matter how many you have.

Uh, 4470 Jerome Avenue.

I'll buy you another one.

Fix it. Fix it.

Look, uh, I'm afraid that I must go now.

- I must go too. Yeah.
- Oh, pity.

It looks as if you're not going
to accept my invitation.

- Well, heh...
- Some other time, perhaps.

- Yeah.
- Come, Mrs. schreier.

By the way, I didn't get your name.

- Tamara.
- Miss or mrs?

Whatever you like.

Tamara what”? Surely, you have a last name.

Tamara broder.

Broder? “Also broder?

Cousins.

Small world.

- Well...
- Extraordinary times, huh?

My regards to your wife.

These days, a Polish peasant
who converts to judaism

is quite a phenomenon.

- Good night.
- Good night.

- Don't leave me, mistress Tamara.
- I have to go.

You are not going.

The rabbi is waiting. If I
don't go now, he will fire me.

We would starve to death.

I'll be back.

It's 3 lie!

A whore is waiting for him, not a rabbi.

I'm going to have an operation tomorrow.

They're going to remove
the bullet from my hip.

You know, sometimes in
the middle of the night,

I hear my father talking to me.

"What have you accomplished?" He asks.

"You make yourself and
everyone else miserable.

They're ashamed of you here in heaven.”

Think of me once in a while, Herman.

Forgive me.

Mazel tov, bridegroom! Masha: Don't
stand at the door. It's your home.

I'm your wife. Everything here is yours.

What a catch, broder.

Next week, you're coming to my house.

- Sure I picked the right dress?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe I should have taken the red one.

You know, Herman, the red
one looked very nice too.

- You look fine. You look fine.
- Well, maybe I made the right choice.

Yeah, you're right.

Eileen, they've arrived.

Hello.

Is that a beauty?

He nabbed the prettiest woman in America.

- Hello.
- I ook at that face.

My husband's told me so much about you.

- He has?
- I'm really glad that you came to my party.

Won't you come in?

And have some drinks and hors d'oeuvres

and make yourself at home.

(Good. Good. Excuse me. I'll be back soon.

Oh, uh, could I offer you
an hors d'oeuvre, sir?

Take a napkin.

Excuse me.

Oh, yes, yes. How are you?

I am... I'm so excited.

We bought these buildings on the upper
east side, and we'll take them down...

Pesheles.

Nathan pesheles

I came to your apartment a week ago.

Ohl

I'm so...

- I'm sorry. It's so confusing.
- I didn't know you knew rabbi lembeck.

Yeah. “Who doesn't?

Where's your wife?

I lost her she's here somewhere. I...

Come. Let's find her together.

Mrs schreier's told me so much about her.

A Polish girl that converts,
I'm dying to meet.

This is yasha kobik.

The actor I told you about who
was with me in the camps.

This 1s Herman.
You're masha's husband.

Congratulations. Tell
me, how do you do that?

I was searching for her through half the
world, and you marry her just like that.

And who is this debonair gentleman?

Oh, this is Mr. pesheles.

- I met Mr. broder in coney island.
- Coney island?

I played there once. A whole
audience full of old women.

And all deaf.

I played every spot in the yiddish theater,
from Miami to the Warsaw ghetto.

Even a hungry audience is
better than a deaf one.

And where do you live, also coney island?

What's all this talk about coney island?

Well, I went to visit Mr. broder there.

I thought the woman who
converted was his wife.

Turns out, he has a pretty one right here.

You refugees certainly know how to live.

We Americans are allowed one at a time.

- Guess what. Guess what.
- It's not what you think.

I go to the hospital last week to visit
a friend with a prostate problem,

and I meet that other woman
who was also at your house.

She was having a bullet
removed, uh, from her hip.

She was probably delirious,
but she said she was... also your wife.

What was her name”? Tamara.

- Tamara broder.
- Tamara? I thought she was dead.

- I told you my she was living in America.
- You told me she was old and ugly.

- That's what all men tell their wives.
- Well, here we are.

You all know each other.

My friend Mr. pesheles knows everyone.

And everyone knows him.

Masha, you're the most
beautiful woman at the party.

And my friend Herman here hid her.

He's hiding more than one.

You think so”? He always
played the innocent lamb.

I was beginning to believe he was a eunuch.

I wish I was such a eunuch.

- Excuse me. I'll be right back.
- Where are you running?

Herman, how many wives do you have?

- Let go of me.
- How many, three?

Ten. Ten.

I have to vo... I have to vomit.

- Where's the bathroom?
- Down the hall

thank you.

Oh, my god.

Herman!

This is the last time I'm
going to talk to you.

And I want to tell you,

you're the worst fraud
I've known in my life!

If you hear that I'm dead...

Don't come to my funeral.

Where are your wives”?

Coffee or tea?

I am such a mess.

Masha, she knows everything.

Yadwiga's suspicious.
Everything is hopeless.

- Coffee or tea”? We close in a half hour.
- Get him tea and a cheesecake.

No cake. No cake.

- I have a stomachache. I don't...
- I want to say something to you.

And don't be angry with me.

You're a lost man, Herman.

One of those people
who can't make decisions for themselves.

Here in America, they have something
what is called a manager.

- Thank you.
- Let me be your manager.

You put yourself entirely in my hands.

I'll take care of all of your needs,
but you must do exactly what I ask you.

Why should you do this, Tamara?

Really, Tamara? This is just your way
of giving me a few dollars?

No. I can see things have
become too much for you.

What do you look like now?
What, you're an angel?

Who knows what angels are.

But first, you must go back to yadwiga.

Then I'll find you a new job.

You can work for my uncle.

- It's nice. It looks very nice.
- That's good. I mean... okay, good.

Hello, matz.

Hello, pitzl.

Sit. Sit. Sit.

Happy passover.

Well, here we are, one big happy family.

Hello?

If you don't speak to me,
I'm going to hang up.

Wait

I'm in coney island.

At the beach hotel

room 5

Thanks, Kevin.

- Room 5, please.
- Down the hall to your right.

That way?

I have missed you so much.

Rabbi lembeck has a
convalescent home in Florida.

He offered me a job for 100 a week.

What about your mother?

The rabbi will take care of her too.

He'll put her in one of
his homes in Jersey.

He's crazy about me.

Would have left his wife for me if I
wanted him to, but I couldn't touch him.

If you don't like Florida, he has a home
in California. You can work for him too.

- He's as good as an angel from heaven.
- I can't leave yadwiga.

She's pregnant. She could
go into labor any day.

After she gives birth,
you'll have other excuses.

No, no, no.

I've made up my mind.

Tomorrow, I'm flying to California.
You'll never hear from me again.

Please, masha. No.

Or have you come back to Tamara?
No.

But she is also an angel.

Introduce her to the rabbi.

Maybe the two angels will make a new god.

We're both devils.

If you go with her, you're
digging your own grave.

Maybe I would be better off dead.
But I don't have the guts to kill myself.

What about yadwiga?

What about the baby”? God blesses you
with a child, you spit in his face.

This kind of talk is useless I

- I can't live without masha.
- You want three women,

but you always go to the one who calls you
the loudest and who is sickest.

She's not your lover. She's your enemy.

Look, I will send money for the baby.
I promise.

Every month, I send money for the baby.
I must go.

It's the end for me, Tamara.

(Go on. Go.

I'll take care of things with the rabbi.

- Can I help you?
- Yes, I'm looking for a nice menorah.

I think I prefer this one,
but give me a second.

They even took the light bulbs.

When did it happen?

This morning, last night. Who knows?

Why wasn't I cremated
like all the other Jews?

Did you call the police?

What can the police do?

They're thieves themselves.

I ook at this!

I ook at this!

Well, it's a sign.

It's time to leave.

I told my mother.

- Yes? What did she say?
- I told my mother. The same old words.

I'd be sorry, you would
leave me, and all the rest.

Now, we must decide where we want to go.

California or Florida. We
can go by train or bus.

- Bus is cheaper...
- Masha

but it takes a week to go to California.

You'll get there more dead than alive.
I think we should...

Mother. Come.

- What happened?
- Call a doctor.

- What happened?!
- She passed out in my cab.

Come, come, come. It's all right.

Okay. She's okay. Get water.

- It's okay. Masha!
- Where's masha?

She killed herself, the
bitch, just for spite.

- Masha...
- Mama.

- Here, mama. Yeah.
- Here here

(set the doctor. Get the doctor!

Mama, you'll be fine. I'm here, mama, okay?

I'm here, mama.

You'll be fine.

Oh, my god, what happened?

Okay, let's go.

All right, let's step back here, all right?

Stop here, please.

I brought a bulb.

How's your mother?

I have no mother.

And I have no money for a funeral.

"Where is Herman?"

Maybe your mother's better off.

She doesn't have to make
any more decisions.

That's the one advantage to being dead.

Herman

you once promised me we would die together.

Remember?

Don't you remember?

In September, labor day.

When we were in the catskills.

I remember.

Why don't we do it?

I have enough sleeping
pills for both of us.

That's a big step.

I have them in my bag. All we need...

Is a glass of water.

That we have. That's the one
thing they didn't steal.

Well?

Oh, masha.

Oh, masha, masha.

You know, Tamara's right. I'm a lost man.

I can't decide I can't
decide between women.

I can't decide on anything. I...

Masha.

Masha, I feel...

I feel like.

Yeah. Yeah, why not? Yeah.

Masha-ley.

Yes, Herman?

Before we die.

First I would like to know the truth.
About what?

If you've been faithful to me
since we've been together.

Have you been faithful to me?

If you tell the truth, I will too.

Wait. “I'll tell the truth.

- Wait.
- I will tell the truth.

I need a cigarette.

Wait

I et's hear.

Once. With Tamara, that's all.

When?

After we got back from the catskills.

I told you I was going with
the rabbi to Atlantic city.

What, you know? What?

Masha?

What is...? What's so funny? What is it”?

What you did with your wife,
I did with my husband.

Tortshiner?

- That cockroach, he told the truth?
- Mm_

I went to ask for divorce, he insisted.
Told me it was the only way I could get it.

You swore to me. You swore
to me on a holy oath.

I swore falsely.

There isn't any point in dying now.

- Let's go, masha.
- What are you talking about?

- You promised we'd kill ourselves...
- You promised you would tell the truth.

- Walit till after the funeral.
- I'm leaving.

I'm leaving. You coming”?

We'll find a hotel somewhere.
Yes

I'm coming.

Herman, I can't leave my mother.
I want a grave next to hers.

I don't want to die among strangers.

You'll lie next to me.

You are a stranger.

Herman, you're afraid.

I'm afraid, I know.

I'm afraid of god.

Masha, I must go.

I must leave everybody.

As long as you're going to leave me...

At least go back to your peasant.

- Don't leave your child.
- I have to leave everyone.

Goodbye, Herman.

I have to go. Mm.

I have

bye, Herman.

Then go.

Goodbye, masha.

- Oy!
- Did you get the diaper service?

What do you mean? Of course
I got the diaper service.

I got the baby carriage, I got
the crib with red balls on it.

I... I got the layette, whatever that is.

Who do you think you're talking to,
a piker? This is rabbi lembeck.

Mistress Tamara.

You're gonna be fine, sweetheart.

I'll be here, yadwiga. I'll be here.
Mistress Tamara.

Have you heard from Herman?

No

I hope he doesn't do away with
himself like our poor masha.

Come.

Shh, shh...

Don't cry. Don't cry.

That's my baby. Don't cry.

Oh, you're wet.

You're wet.

You're wet.

Just a minute.

I know what she wants.

She wants her apricots.

She loves her apricots.

I'm coming.

She was so wet, mistress Tamara.

Yeah. We need more diapers.

I'll order some. Oops.

There.

There, she wants her apricots.

She wants her nice, delicious apricots.

Yes

oops!

Masha.

Masha-ley.

Masha, masha, masha.

Masha-ley.

- Masha.
- Masha.

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