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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:46,065 --> 00:01:49,860 It is long ago since the Lama first heard the tidings 4 00:01:50,027 --> 00:01:52,530 of sage Baron Humboldt, 5 00:01:52,696 --> 00:01:54,198 who travels the world 6 00:01:54,406 --> 00:01:56,492 and knows all things. 7 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:57,910 I know nothing. 8 00:01:58,285 --> 00:02:01,622 I've spent my life understanding nature. 9 00:02:02,123 --> 00:02:05,000 I have collected knowledge and travelled the world. 10 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:12,716 Sorry? 11 00:02:13,092 --> 00:02:15,678 The Master requests you awaken his dog. 12 00:02:17,972 --> 00:02:20,850 Sorry, I don't understand the metaphor. 13 00:02:21,016 --> 00:02:22,518 It's not a metaphor. 14 00:02:22,685 --> 00:02:25,563 The Master's favourite dog died two days ago. 15 00:02:26,981 --> 00:02:28,691 He thinks you most knowledgeable, 16 00:02:29,066 --> 00:02:31,277 and requests you return the animal to life. 17 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:37,658 That I cannot do. 18 00:02:50,796 --> 00:02:53,966 The Master knows that an initiate may not do this often. 19 00:02:54,425 --> 00:02:57,011 "Initiate"? Is that really what he said? - Yes. 20 00:02:57,178 --> 00:03:01,182 He requests this kindness from you, a clever, travelled man. 21 00:03:01,891 --> 00:03:05,227 He is very attached to the dog. - Yes, but I can't... 22 00:03:05,436 --> 00:03:08,314 It's not within my capabilities to wake someone from the dead. 23 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:15,696 The Master comprehends what the clever man means. 24 00:03:15,905 --> 00:03:18,908 I don't mean anything. I simply can't do it. 25 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:21,076 The Lama comprehends that, too. 26 00:03:21,577 --> 00:03:24,079 There is nothing to comprehend. 27 00:03:26,749 --> 00:03:29,251 The Lama comprehends all things. 28 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:32,588 All things. - All things? - All things. 29 00:03:43,182 --> 00:03:48,354 Alexander von Humboldt was born to the life of a German nobleman: 30 00:03:48,562 --> 00:03:52,524 Castle, family, hunting and church on Sundays. 31 00:03:53,317 --> 00:03:57,696 But he wanted to travel... to measure... to understand. 32 00:03:57,863 --> 00:04:01,116 MEASURING THE WORLD 33 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:07,373 1785 34 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,667 in the Duchy of Brunswick. 35 00:04:10,251 --> 00:04:12,586 Education had just become compulsory, 36 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:15,005 and Carl Friedrich Gauss had learned 37 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:17,424 that it is at times better to be silent. 38 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,386 I'll teach you to bother your master 39 00:04:20,761 --> 00:04:22,346 with stupid questions. 40 00:04:23,681 --> 00:04:25,099 Sit down. 41 00:04:31,188 --> 00:04:34,775 One... Plus two... 42 00:04:36,193 --> 00:04:37,820 plus... 43 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:40,698 three... 44 00:04:44,243 --> 00:04:45,869 plus... 45 00:04:47,288 --> 00:04:48,914 four... 46 00:04:51,292 --> 00:04:54,545 plus five... 47 00:04:56,672 --> 00:04:58,424 plus... 48 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:01,093 six... 49 00:05:05,431 --> 00:05:06,765 plus... 50 00:05:09,476 --> 00:05:11,020 seven... 51 00:05:14,106 --> 00:05:17,359 and continuing ever thuswise... 52 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:22,239 up to one hundred. 53 00:05:23,032 --> 00:05:24,658 And woe betide anyone who disturbs me 54 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:27,161 before he has the answer! 55 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:47,116 Yes! 56 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:51,870 Gauss is giving up? 57 00:06:52,204 --> 00:06:54,581 The boy's mad. He'll be punished. 58 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:01,588 Where's this from? 59 00:07:03,424 --> 00:07:05,801 That's the point. We were to add together... 60 00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:08,804 all numbers from one to one hundred. 61 00:07:12,724 --> 00:07:14,226 1... 62 00:07:14,726 --> 00:07:15,894 plus 100 63 00:07:16,228 --> 00:07:18,105 is 101. 64 00:07:18,605 --> 00:07:20,482 2 plus 99... 65 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:21,859 equal 101... 66 00:07:22,109 --> 00:07:24,903 3 plus 98 equal 101. 67 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:28,740 Always 101. Fifty times 101. 68 00:07:28,907 --> 00:07:30,868 50 times 101 69 00:07:31,493 --> 00:07:33,662 is 5050. 70 00:07:40,461 --> 00:07:41,753 Gauss, get in the corner. 71 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,380 Be quiet. And stay behind. 72 00:07:43,589 --> 00:07:45,716 But... - Talking back? 73 00:08:14,119 --> 00:08:15,537 Alexander? 74 00:08:18,916 --> 00:08:20,334 Alexander! 75 00:08:24,338 --> 00:08:25,964 Alexander... 76 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:48,820 Alexander... Wilhelm, help your brother. 77 00:08:56,912 --> 00:08:58,330 Alexander. - Wilhelm. 78 00:09:04,127 --> 00:09:05,003 Continue... 79 00:09:05,504 --> 00:09:10,300 1187, 1193... - God sees all things. 80 00:09:10,884 --> 00:09:12,678 You know that. - 1201 81 00:09:13,095 --> 00:09:14,555 Yes. 82 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,433 Come here. 83 00:09:26,692 --> 00:09:30,904 On your word of honour... did you do this on your own? 84 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:36,868 It wasn't difficult, you just add... - The formula of geometric progression. 85 00:09:38,662 --> 00:09:40,664 Higher arithmetic. 86 00:09:42,249 --> 00:09:44,209 Read, mark, learn... 87 00:09:54,886 --> 00:09:57,556 Imagine! Schoolmaster Büttner 88 00:09:57,723 --> 00:09:59,308 was a mathematician of sorts. 89 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,604 He had published several treatises, and one glorious day 90 00:10:03,854 --> 00:10:07,733 Immanuel Kant had deigned to answer one of his letters. 91 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,736 Since diligence and strength had not trumped, 92 00:10:10,986 --> 00:10:12,863 he was a schoolmaster. 93 00:10:14,156 --> 00:10:15,991 My father can't pay for this. 94 00:10:17,659 --> 00:10:20,537 You'll be bringing home other books in days to come, 95 00:10:21,204 --> 00:10:22,664 yet pay for none. 96 00:10:22,873 --> 00:10:26,543 But be warned: one spot, one dog-eared or torn side, 97 00:10:27,085 --> 00:10:30,714 and you'll feel my rod such that God himself would pity you. 98 00:10:32,341 --> 00:10:33,342 Now go! 99 00:10:33,717 --> 00:10:36,219 Here he comes. - I can see him... 100 00:10:36,386 --> 00:10:39,014 Be quiet. - Hey, want to pet her? 101 00:10:40,849 --> 00:10:42,225 No. 102 00:10:43,727 --> 00:10:46,063 How did you work it out, Carl? 103 00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:49,775 It's easy. You just have to take a step back. 104 00:10:50,108 --> 00:10:51,943 Then the sum solves itself. 105 00:10:52,444 --> 00:10:55,030 If I take a step back, things just get smaller. 106 00:10:55,197 --> 00:10:56,448 Well, Johanna... 107 00:10:57,157 --> 00:10:58,158 Come on! 108 00:11:04,831 --> 00:11:07,376 Take that! - Know-it-all. - Let him be! 109 00:11:08,043 --> 00:11:09,586 Stop it! 110 00:11:13,048 --> 00:11:16,426 Alexander was the best student at the Freiberg Mining Academy. 111 00:11:17,886 --> 00:11:20,722 He developed a miner's lamp to examine plant-life 112 00:11:20,889 --> 00:11:23,016 in deep mining galleries. 113 00:11:24,059 --> 00:11:25,644 Whatever scares you, 114 00:11:25,894 --> 00:11:27,187 he said, 115 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:28,730 you have to measure. 116 00:11:29,981 --> 00:11:33,110 People thought the earth's interior was cold and solid, 117 00:11:33,485 --> 00:11:35,779 with a core of hard stone. 118 00:11:36,446 --> 00:11:39,449 Both churches thought this ordained by God. 119 00:11:40,158 --> 00:11:42,327 Alexander thought it false. 120 00:11:43,662 --> 00:11:46,873 He felt strength within himself and wild curiosity. 121 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:50,001 But sometimes, he wrote to his brother, 122 00:11:50,168 --> 00:11:52,295 he feared he was going insane. 123 00:11:54,881 --> 00:11:56,633 It was only by luck 124 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,678 that a fellow pupil happened to find him in time. 125 00:12:17,779 --> 00:12:18,989 Come! 126 00:12:27,372 --> 00:12:28,874 What's wrong? 127 00:12:30,709 --> 00:12:31,710 Go on! Bow! 128 00:12:40,385 --> 00:12:41,762 Come along. 129 00:12:42,053 --> 00:12:43,972 What's so bad about Germany? 130 00:12:45,098 --> 00:12:46,433 Nothing, Sir. 131 00:12:46,767 --> 00:12:48,977 But I want to dedicate my life to study. 132 00:12:49,478 --> 00:12:51,062 The peculiar tenacity 133 00:12:51,229 --> 00:12:52,647 of plant life. 134 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:54,566 All plant life. 135 00:12:54,858 --> 00:12:57,444 I want to understand it, and reveal it to the world. 136 00:12:58,195 --> 00:13:00,071 But then you'll settle down here, 137 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:03,033 marry a good woman and procreate, right? 138 00:13:04,117 --> 00:13:06,161 One marries if one has nothing better to do. 139 00:13:06,328 --> 00:13:07,537 Alexander! 140 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:10,832 Everyone says his brother is the future chancellor of Prussia. 141 00:13:10,999 --> 00:13:13,543 Why can't Alexander be more like his brother? 142 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:16,755 Settle down with one's compatriots? 143 00:13:17,047 --> 00:13:19,508 Nothing could be finer. - Indeed,no. 144 00:13:20,050 --> 00:13:23,470 But don't go overboard with those French girls now! 145 00:13:23,637 --> 00:13:24,805 Sir! 146 00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:26,765 His father died young. 147 00:13:26,932 --> 00:13:29,976 His upbringing fell to me alone. 148 00:13:30,477 --> 00:13:33,438 Perhaps the traces of a female hand remains. 149 00:13:34,064 --> 00:13:35,357 I was too weak. 150 00:13:36,024 --> 00:13:37,901 But this I'd have you know: 151 00:13:38,068 --> 00:13:40,320 If you travel overseas, 152 00:13:40,570 --> 00:13:43,865 there'll be no money for you! None. Over my dead body! 153 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:55,836 He wants to travel the world, too, yes? 154 00:13:57,128 --> 00:13:59,548 Sir, this is the young Carl Gauss. 155 00:14:00,215 --> 00:14:03,260 His talents relate more to the field of mathematics. 156 00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:07,055 Calculate something. 157 00:14:09,599 --> 00:14:10,976 Begging your pardon, Sir, 158 00:14:11,142 --> 00:14:13,353 but the young man is no calculating prodigy. 159 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:14,980 As Sir is doubtless aware, 160 00:14:15,146 --> 00:14:18,066 higher mathematics has nothing to do with arithmetic. 161 00:14:18,441 --> 00:14:21,027 Some of the greatest mathematicians were very bad 162 00:14:21,278 --> 00:14:22,571 at arithmetic. 163 00:14:51,516 --> 00:14:53,351 Did someone speak? 164 00:14:53,977 --> 00:14:55,979 I must beg Sir's pardon. 165 00:14:56,187 --> 00:14:58,273 The young man is of lowly birth. 166 00:14:59,441 --> 00:15:03,445 I am, however, convinced he is capable of great things 167 00:15:03,653 --> 00:15:05,906 that will augment the fame of the fatherland. 168 00:15:06,072 --> 00:15:08,533 Perhaps he will be a second Immanuel Kant. 169 00:15:09,659 --> 00:15:13,288 All we require is a grant from the court. 170 00:15:15,707 --> 00:15:19,544 He shall have it and is to come again when he can do arithmetic. 171 00:15:19,753 --> 00:15:21,212 Bow! 172 00:15:23,048 --> 00:15:24,591 Knowledge, huh! 173 00:15:25,967 --> 00:15:27,636 Right... 174 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:29,304 Alexander. 175 00:15:29,721 --> 00:15:32,349 Maybe he'll be someone like you. 176 00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:48,365 Company... halt! 177 00:15:51,117 --> 00:15:55,956 Is this your child prodigy, Büttner? - Yes... it's young Mr Gauss. 178 00:15:57,540 --> 00:16:00,752 You know what a number is, boy? 179 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:04,839 A number is no plaything. 180 00:16:05,173 --> 00:16:10,220 A number is the diameter of the hole between the eyes of a dying soldier. 181 00:16:10,595 --> 00:16:12,389 A number... 182 00:16:12,764 --> 00:16:14,683 is the depth of the hole. 183 00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,936 One number describes the angle of entry, 184 00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:21,731 another the echo of, and distance to, enemy canons. 185 00:16:21,982 --> 00:16:22,983 Numbers! 186 00:16:23,358 --> 00:16:26,945 They tell me where the enemy is, and how strong his army... 187 00:16:27,779 --> 00:16:29,572 so that I can act. 188 00:16:30,365 --> 00:16:33,702 So that the comrade, coughing out his last drops of warm blood 189 00:16:34,077 --> 00:16:37,330 on the dusty ground where my boots stand, has not died in vain. 190 00:16:37,914 --> 00:16:39,416 You are a German boy. 191 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:43,586 And a number is no plaything! 192 00:16:46,756 --> 00:16:48,341 Company... 193 00:16:53,013 --> 00:16:55,557 Mama! 194 00:16:56,975 --> 00:16:59,519 What did the Duke say? - We have the grant. 195 00:16:59,686 --> 00:17:01,730 Yes. - Rubbish. I need him here. 196 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:04,190 I'm studying... Papa. 197 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:08,111 Not... to the head! 198 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:10,780 It belongs to the Duke of Brunswick. 199 00:17:11,156 --> 00:17:12,532 You may not damage it. 200 00:17:13,033 --> 00:17:14,034 Damn! 201 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,079 This place is going to the dogs! They treat folk anyway they like! 202 00:17:18,413 --> 00:17:21,624 They take your son and... - You're going to study, Carl. 203 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:24,377 You're going to leave us. - Never. 204 00:17:24,919 --> 00:17:26,504 You'll see. 205 00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,132 I'll always be with you, 206 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:31,217 always be in this house. For sure. 207 00:17:31,593 --> 00:17:34,137 Always. - Good, upstairs you go now. 208 00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:36,973 Excuse me, Mr Büttner, - Yes? 209 00:17:38,475 --> 00:17:39,851 Albrecht, go away. 210 00:17:45,106 --> 00:17:47,108 This thing, Carl... and mathe... 211 00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:50,236 mathe-matics, is it going anywhere? 212 00:17:51,029 --> 00:17:52,030 Sorry? 213 00:17:52,489 --> 00:17:54,407 Well, I mean, university. 214 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:57,452 You have to be smart. Is my Carl up to it? 215 00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:02,665 Mr Büttner, it is most unkind that you mock me. 216 00:18:03,124 --> 00:18:04,918 I'm a simple woman and I'm concerned. 217 00:18:05,293 --> 00:18:07,670 It is not good of you. - No. Excuse me. 218 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:10,423 Beg your pardon, Mrs Gauss... 219 00:18:10,632 --> 00:18:14,719 but your son shall be one of the world's greatest mathematicians. 220 00:18:15,178 --> 00:18:16,513 I know it. 221 00:18:17,639 --> 00:18:18,640 I know it. 222 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:38,368 A strong will makes it possible, to reach a goal early. 223 00:18:39,702 --> 00:18:42,914 But it also makes waiting possible. 224 00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:50,296 Alexander! 225 00:18:50,797 --> 00:18:52,924 Wilhelm, to a Frenchman! 226 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:54,884 You throw my money 227 00:18:55,885 --> 00:18:58,513 into the maul of a Frenchman! 228 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:01,099 Mouldy shite! 229 00:19:01,724 --> 00:19:03,601 Damn... 230 00:19:05,562 --> 00:19:08,773 dirty shit! Filthy shitty... 231 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:12,110 It hurts me so. 232 00:19:12,861 --> 00:19:14,279 Wilhelm, be strong. 233 00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:18,032 Foul vile filth! 234 00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:29,460 Sit up straight! 235 00:20:40,823 --> 00:20:44,077 Humboldt invested his whole inheritance in the trip. 236 00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:46,454 And in Aimé Bonpland, 237 00:20:47,038 --> 00:20:48,957 a French doctor and botanist, 238 00:20:49,249 --> 00:20:51,834 he found an ideal travelling companion. 239 00:21:00,218 --> 00:21:00,885 Attention! 240 00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,012 Careful! 241 00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:10,853 Hey, can't you secure the cargo? 242 00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:13,690 That is Parisian Time! 243 00:21:14,524 --> 00:21:16,526 Lord! - Mauricio, Alberto, 244 00:21:16,693 --> 00:21:18,653 come here. - Find all the boxes. 245 00:21:19,112 --> 00:21:20,613 Cuidad, las casas. 246 00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:23,032 Gracias. 247 00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,205 America! - America! 248 00:21:29,664 --> 00:21:31,124 Aimé, at last! 249 00:21:31,457 --> 00:21:33,459 Far from Germany at last! From... 250 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,879 Prussia, my brother. At last I can breathe. 251 00:21:37,088 --> 00:21:38,923 Far from family. 252 00:21:39,299 --> 00:21:41,676 Unbeatable! - I'll never see my father again! 253 00:21:41,843 --> 00:21:43,469 My brothers! - My mean uncle! 254 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,596 My mother. - My imbecilic sisters. 255 00:21:46,097 --> 00:21:48,474 M. Bonpland, how good to have met you! 256 00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:49,809 Hallelujah! 257 00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:57,317 "To anyone who explores a new continent" 258 00:21:57,692 --> 00:21:59,193 he at once wrote to Wilhelm, 259 00:21:59,736 --> 00:22:03,448 "all things must be important." 260 00:22:04,615 --> 00:22:06,576 What are you writing, Alexander? 261 00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:08,870 A travelogue for my brother. 262 00:22:09,245 --> 00:22:10,788 So he always knows where I am. 263 00:22:13,374 --> 00:22:15,209 I can hardly wait. Allez, Aimé. 264 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:16,627 Come along. - Good. 265 00:22:18,296 --> 00:22:22,008 The excitement in me is like 10,000 boars! 266 00:22:22,884 --> 00:22:26,637 At last being one with the nature I dreamt of as a child. 267 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,016 And I'm not counting on going back. 268 00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:12,600 What are you thinking about, Carl? 269 00:23:13,643 --> 00:23:15,478 What a number really is. 270 00:23:16,187 --> 00:23:17,313 Is that difficult? 271 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:21,275 One cloud... plus one cloud... 272 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,029 how many clouds is that? 273 00:23:33,788 --> 00:23:35,248 It wouldn't be two? 274 00:23:36,457 --> 00:23:39,544 It's about... my re-ordering... 275 00:23:41,462 --> 00:23:43,548 all of number theory. 276 00:23:43,965 --> 00:23:45,258 How long will it take? 277 00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:48,136 It's the work of a lifetime. 278 00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:51,764 One year, perhaps. 279 00:23:52,432 --> 00:23:54,016 And then I should be done. 280 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,772 I hope I need longer. 281 00:24:01,482 --> 00:24:03,401 You hope you'll need longer? 282 00:24:06,362 --> 00:24:07,738 You'll need longer! 283 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,578 All I can tell you about numbers 284 00:24:13,744 --> 00:24:16,873 is they're on the banknotes you owe me. 285 00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:20,960 I can't always give you credit! 286 00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:23,296 Gauss! 287 00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:25,381 Gauss! 288 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:27,508 Gauss! 289 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:36,642 What is this filth, Gauss? 290 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:40,521 A heptadecagon. - A what? 291 00:24:42,899 --> 00:24:45,526 A heptadecagon. - "A heptadecagon." 292 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:50,448 Does our young grant-winner believe it's what he owes his country? 293 00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:53,117 I've solved a 2000-year-old problem... forever. 294 00:24:53,284 --> 00:24:56,746 All your purported intelligence won't be required to comprehend this: 295 00:24:56,913 --> 00:24:58,080 Remember: 296 00:24:58,748 --> 00:25:00,124 One more heptadecagon, 297 00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:06,297 more worthless piss like this, and you'll be paying back your grant! 298 00:25:07,048 --> 00:25:09,425 There'll be no professorship for you, 299 00:25:09,592 --> 00:25:12,470 you won't even be calculating the shit produced here, 300 00:25:12,637 --> 00:25:14,472 and that's plenty of shit. 301 00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:17,391 There'll be no more Gauss-the-mathematician! 302 00:25:20,061 --> 00:25:22,438 I trust you can comprehend that. 303 00:25:59,684 --> 00:26:02,603 ... 46... 304 00:26:05,398 --> 00:26:08,693 147 on one head! 305 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:10,695 How very interesting. 306 00:26:10,987 --> 00:26:13,531 There's so much to do, and you count lice! 307 00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:15,866 Un piojo! - Sorry? 308 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,952 Un piojo! - What good... 309 00:26:18,494 --> 00:26:21,706 are statistics about head lice? 310 00:26:22,582 --> 00:26:24,500 We'll know when we have them. 311 00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:27,461 Little enigmas are not to be passed over. 312 00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:30,756 All things count when exploring a new continent 313 00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:37,179 He wanted to discover animals no one had seen, 314 00:26:37,471 --> 00:26:39,557 collect plants no one yet owned. 315 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:42,602 He wanted to understand the flow of air and water, 316 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:45,855 to weigh the earth and measure the height of the firmament, 317 00:26:46,314 --> 00:26:49,191 so great, rich, varied and enigmatic 318 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:50,818 was nature. 319 00:26:57,366 --> 00:26:58,951 Four, five... 320 00:27:03,664 --> 00:27:04,915 Lord! 321 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:09,003 Where is the donkey? 322 00:27:13,716 --> 00:27:15,384 Gone! - Señor... 323 00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:18,304 On the donkey were two barometers, 324 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:20,931 a hypsometer and my best theodolite! 325 00:27:21,098 --> 00:27:23,559 Alexander! - This is completely... 326 00:27:24,727 --> 00:27:27,063 mad! It's... loco! 327 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:29,482 My best theodolite! No! 328 00:27:29,649 --> 00:27:33,194 Find the donkey! I don't care if it takes you three days. 329 00:27:33,361 --> 00:27:34,862 Failure is unacceptable. 330 00:27:35,237 --> 00:27:37,531 Please. Such things happen. 331 00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:39,700 "Such things happen." Merci beaucoup! 332 00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:41,285 Such things are not to happen! 333 00:27:41,744 --> 00:27:43,871 You... go and look for the donkey. 334 00:27:54,048 --> 00:27:56,884 Yield is not the same as size. 335 00:27:57,051 --> 00:27:58,344 That's what counts. 336 00:27:58,969 --> 00:28:01,972 Well I don't know. My Lorinda had huge ones. 337 00:28:10,981 --> 00:28:14,318 If being large doesn't make them high-yielding, 338 00:28:14,652 --> 00:28:17,405 being small certainly doesn't! 339 00:28:17,655 --> 00:28:18,698 This one... 340 00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:20,658 this one... 341 00:28:21,117 --> 00:28:22,326 is the best one... 342 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,792 I take both, right? 343 00:28:29,959 --> 00:28:32,878 Right, but let's go and drink tea now. 344 00:28:45,433 --> 00:28:47,560 Children! Come and drink coffee. 345 00:29:02,867 --> 00:29:05,953 If one gives me none, I'll get it from the other... 346 00:29:06,162 --> 00:29:07,246 Milk! 347 00:29:16,922 --> 00:29:19,884 My God, he's just a child. Remove the chains. 348 00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:23,846 Remove the chains. - Of course, of course. 349 00:29:24,054 --> 00:29:27,641 You just have to buy them. Three gold doubloons. 350 00:29:27,808 --> 00:29:30,311 He's still very young but he's sturdy. 351 00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:33,647 Is that not the man everyone is speaking about? 352 00:29:34,648 --> 00:29:38,652 Don't have him work too much at first, and he'll last longer. 353 00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:42,364 You can examine him first. 354 00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:45,326 Stop, I'm no slave owner... - Alexander... 355 00:29:46,744 --> 00:29:50,831 Just him? 15 gold doubloons for the lot. 356 00:29:54,168 --> 00:29:56,462 14. A special price for my friend, 357 00:29:57,046 --> 00:30:01,217 the slave liberator! The liberator of slaves. 358 00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:04,720 But that's the lowest I can go. 359 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:11,977 You are free! -I get new ware next week. 360 00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:14,271 Sois libres! 361 00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:18,150 Vous êtes libre. Tell them they're free. 362 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,782 He wants to know where to go. 363 00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:32,122 They don't know where to go. 364 00:30:35,417 --> 00:30:37,294 Wherever they like. They are free. 365 00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:43,217 I'll buy them all. All. Here's the money. 366 00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:45,803 I'm taking them all. Remove their chains. 367 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:48,722 They can't be released. - All of them! 368 00:30:49,139 --> 00:30:50,140 All. - Calm down. 369 00:30:50,391 --> 00:30:52,685 All of them... remove the chains. 370 00:30:54,228 --> 00:30:56,230 No! - Remove all the chains. 371 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,024 You have offended the name of God... 372 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,278 What? and the Spanish crown... 373 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:06,782 All people were equally born to freedom. - Watch out... 374 00:31:06,949 --> 00:31:10,077 von Humboldt. - You shall hear my name again. 375 00:31:10,286 --> 00:31:12,288 Calm down... - That you shall! 376 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:16,959 They are also free. 377 00:31:17,668 --> 00:31:20,588 Slavery is the second greatest evil of our era. 378 00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:22,381 Really? - Yes. 379 00:31:23,007 --> 00:31:24,258 What's the greatest one? 380 00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:27,428 The claim that humans are descended from monkeys. 381 00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:37,498 8 degrees, 33, 36... 382 00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:41,710 Eat. 383 00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:45,214 Eat. 384 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:48,509 Food. - Eat? 385 00:32:52,888 --> 00:32:54,306 Food. - Here. 386 00:33:02,272 --> 00:33:03,273 Alexander! 387 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,319 Alexander! Help! 388 00:33:08,028 --> 00:33:09,947 Help, Alexander! 389 00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:17,538 Aim well! There's only one shot. 390 00:33:18,706 --> 00:33:20,457 Damn it, Alexander... 391 00:33:21,709 --> 00:33:23,127 shoot! 392 00:33:24,253 --> 00:33:26,672 What the hell! Why won't you help me? 393 00:33:48,777 --> 00:33:51,905 Ducks. No pattern. Random distribution. 394 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:55,868 But order increases. Why? Oh, look, it's the dog. 395 00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:58,787 He's herding them. 396 00:33:59,163 --> 00:34:01,707 The force of order. 397 00:34:07,421 --> 00:34:09,006 Scram! 398 00:34:09,423 --> 00:34:13,093 Get lost! Damn hound! Get lost! 399 00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:18,348 Ludwig, get lost. 400 00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:23,729 Thanks. - What are you doing there? 401 00:34:26,482 --> 00:34:28,484 I'm measuring the land. 402 00:34:29,151 --> 00:34:31,820 It's work. Staking out triangles. - Triangles? 403 00:34:33,322 --> 00:34:36,158 It's called triangulation. - Aren't you... 404 00:34:37,076 --> 00:34:38,952 Aren't you that Carl 405 00:34:39,328 --> 00:34:41,455 whose maths got him into higher education? 406 00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:05,687 You don't remember me? - Johanna! 407 00:35:11,193 --> 00:35:13,654 Have you heard of the Prussian baron 408 00:35:14,530 --> 00:35:18,158 who's measuring the New World? Everyone's talking about him. 409 00:35:18,659 --> 00:35:21,203 Measuring is not very demanding. 410 00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:25,207 Any idiot can do it. Even a trained monkey could do it. 411 00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:28,377 It looks tricky to me. 412 00:35:30,921 --> 00:35:34,675 You need only know one side and two angles of a triangle, 413 00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:39,388 then, with this device, you can determine the other sides and angle. 414 00:35:44,685 --> 00:35:47,980 Run up a series of such triangles and you've got the whole plane. 415 00:35:48,272 --> 00:35:50,357 But a landscape is not a plane. 416 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,367 Right? 417 00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:12,838 You're right. 418 00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:18,969 Because a triangle only has a total of... 419 00:36:19,303 --> 00:36:21,972 180 degrees on a flat surface... 420 00:36:23,807 --> 00:36:27,769 That can't be true of a sphere, can it? 421 00:36:32,274 --> 00:36:34,401 Who knows? I didn't have higher education. 422 00:36:36,904 --> 00:36:38,488 You're absolutely right. 423 00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:42,826 Fine, but then... the measurements are wrong. 424 00:36:44,453 --> 00:36:47,831 Yes, slightly, the globe... Are you engaged? 425 00:36:49,249 --> 00:36:50,667 No. 426 00:36:57,507 --> 00:36:59,384 But the errors are accumulative. 427 00:37:00,928 --> 00:37:05,557 To compensate you would have to... after measuring you'd have to... 428 00:37:13,315 --> 00:37:15,484 in a sense shrink them into... 429 00:37:17,611 --> 00:37:19,363 infinitely small units. 430 00:37:21,323 --> 00:37:23,867 A simple differential operation, actually. 431 00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:26,203 But in this form... 432 00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:36,546 No one has yet done it in this form. The simplest things elude one. 433 00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:05,534 Monsieur Bonpland! Are you all right? 434 00:38:05,951 --> 00:38:07,327 Good. 435 00:38:10,414 --> 00:38:11,832 My head. 436 00:38:12,749 --> 00:38:16,753 It has been correctly bandaged. The ache is normal and will fade. 437 00:38:17,379 --> 00:38:19,631 You're a doctor yourself, Aimé Bonpland. 438 00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:21,633 You know this as well as I do. 439 00:38:28,974 --> 00:38:32,394 Alexander, don't you think we have too much cargo? 440 00:38:32,686 --> 00:38:36,106 It's little compared to all that we have to explore and measure. 441 00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:39,234 I meant too much for the boat. 442 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:42,946 We'll send some items to Europe from the next missionary point. 443 00:38:43,196 --> 00:38:44,781 To Europe? 444 00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:48,702 This is going to Europe? 445 00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:53,582 Put that back down now! - Oh, is it valuable? 446 00:38:54,207 --> 00:38:57,461 That's the Humboldt Monkey. - What? 447 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:00,672 Simia Humboldt, it's named after me. 448 00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:09,848 Have you named anything after me, too? - Not yet. 449 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:54,578 What an honour for our mission, Baron. 450 00:40:54,744 --> 00:40:56,913 Your reputation precedes you. 451 00:40:58,081 --> 00:40:59,541 You speak German? 452 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:02,752 Spanish, German, French, English, 453 00:41:02,919 --> 00:41:05,046 Greek and Aramaic. - You're a Jesuit. 454 00:41:05,839 --> 00:41:10,302 You know that the Jesuits were driven from this land. They are no longer here. 455 00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,013 Right. So you're not one? 456 00:41:13,305 --> 00:41:14,639 I didn't say that. 457 00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:19,436 Do you have any requests, Baron. Can we help you? 458 00:41:19,895 --> 00:41:23,565 Yes. I'd like to send cases of samples to Europe. 459 00:41:24,024 --> 00:41:26,026 And I require oarsmen 460 00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:28,820 familiar with the dangerous waterfalls. 461 00:41:29,070 --> 00:41:31,198 Natives who are not afraid to take a risk. 462 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:32,908 I understand. 463 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:35,118 We will doubtless find such men. 464 00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:38,371 They have to be volunteers. - Of course. 465 00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:39,706 Volunteers. 466 00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:41,875 But you do know, I hope, 467 00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:46,129 that cannibals dwell beyond the waterfalls. 468 00:41:49,132 --> 00:41:51,259 This is my assistant, Aimé Bonpland. 469 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:53,178 What? 470 00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:56,264 Alexander, I'm not your assistant. 471 00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:58,934 "Colleague", if you please. 472 00:42:00,143 --> 00:42:01,394 Come along, please. 473 00:42:05,524 --> 00:42:07,025 After you. 474 00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:09,129 Let me see. - Get lost. 475 00:43:09,296 --> 00:43:11,256 I just want a peek. - Get off! 476 00:43:14,259 --> 00:43:16,386 If you'll be seated... - How much? 477 00:43:17,012 --> 00:43:19,222 Bargain rates, 15 pfennigs to pull a tooth. 478 00:43:19,431 --> 00:43:22,142 Ten. - I've a living to make, too, Sir. 12! 479 00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:36,197 By your leave, I have to strap you in. 480 00:43:43,872 --> 00:43:45,290 Careful, careful... 481 00:43:49,669 --> 00:43:51,504 It doesn't look good. 482 00:43:51,713 --> 00:43:53,214 Back right, is it? 483 00:43:53,882 --> 00:43:55,592 It doesn't look good. 484 00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:02,766 Oh God, the pincers! 485 00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:07,145 Won't you at least wash them? 486 00:44:09,356 --> 00:44:10,732 Schnapps washes best. 487 00:44:33,838 --> 00:44:35,048 So... 488 00:44:36,299 --> 00:44:37,634 Does it still hurt? - Yes! 489 00:44:38,885 --> 00:44:39,886 Wrong tooth. 490 00:44:41,304 --> 00:44:42,472 It happens. 491 00:44:43,556 --> 00:44:45,892 It's lucky humans have so many teeth. 492 00:44:49,562 --> 00:44:51,314 Should I shave you, too? 493 00:44:51,731 --> 00:44:53,274 It's five pfennigs more. 494 00:44:55,819 --> 00:44:57,779 Terrible weather we've been having. 495 00:45:04,703 --> 00:45:06,287 Have you heard of that... 496 00:45:07,038 --> 00:45:08,123 Napoleon? 497 00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:12,669 He knew perfectly well that in 200 years 498 00:45:13,002 --> 00:45:14,879 there would be dentists, 499 00:45:15,046 --> 00:45:17,882 and toothless people would be a thing of the past. 500 00:45:18,883 --> 00:45:20,802 And no one would go bald any more. 501 00:45:20,969 --> 00:45:22,178 Almost got it. 502 00:45:22,387 --> 00:45:25,181 Why didn't people think of such things? 503 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:28,601 For them things were self-evident. 504 00:45:29,602 --> 00:45:32,856 Analgesics... How simple it would be. 505 00:45:33,022 --> 00:45:35,316 Just dull the nerve at the right place. 506 00:45:36,109 --> 00:45:38,486 Curare had to be researched properly. 507 00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:48,288 "Dear Brother, 508 00:45:48,455 --> 00:45:50,373 the trip outstrips all expectations, 509 00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:52,542 as does the abundance of discoveries. 510 00:45:52,751 --> 00:45:54,127 Ditto its dangers. 511 00:45:54,335 --> 00:45:57,130 The Orinoco is full of waiting caimans, 512 00:45:57,547 --> 00:46:01,426 their backs like floating logs in the shimmering midday sun. 513 00:46:02,010 --> 00:46:06,014 Only recently I was able to free some slaves. 514 00:46:06,347 --> 00:46:10,185 Happiness and silent gratitude illuminated their faces. 515 00:46:10,477 --> 00:46:11,936 A sight... 516 00:46:12,729 --> 00:46:14,731 hard to forget. 517 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:18,318 The concept of a new science, 518 00:46:18,568 --> 00:46:21,571 one of physical geography, becomes apparent. 519 00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:25,116 As soon as you receive this, have it announced in the papers: 520 00:46:26,034 --> 00:46:28,661 I think the world will know my name." 521 00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:00,879 M. Bonpland! An electric eel. 522 00:48:01,629 --> 00:48:03,047 What? 523 00:48:06,009 --> 00:48:07,635 What is this in aid of? 524 00:48:07,844 --> 00:48:10,179 An experiment. - An experiment. Good. 525 00:48:10,889 --> 00:48:13,266 What is it to demonstrate? - If we knew that, 526 00:48:13,516 --> 00:48:15,435 it wouldn't be an experiment. 527 00:48:15,602 --> 00:48:17,103 We have seen that such eels 528 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,439 can give off galvanic shocks 529 00:48:19,856 --> 00:48:23,192 that can knock you out or kill you. - So it would seem. 530 00:48:24,277 --> 00:48:25,987 What a strange force 531 00:48:26,195 --> 00:48:28,323 this electricity must be. 532 00:48:28,740 --> 00:48:31,284 We cannot measure it, there are no formulas, 533 00:48:31,910 --> 00:48:33,703 but feel it we can. 534 00:48:36,497 --> 00:48:37,874 Hang it up! 535 00:48:43,963 --> 00:48:46,090 Place two cupping glasses on my back. 536 00:48:48,259 --> 00:48:50,094 Good. 537 00:48:54,974 --> 00:48:57,060 Good. The second. 538 00:49:00,396 --> 00:49:04,484 Good. - Remove them and cut open the blisters. 539 00:49:05,485 --> 00:49:06,819 Cut them open? 540 00:49:27,006 --> 00:49:28,800 Yes. Good. 541 00:49:30,051 --> 00:49:31,552 Now the piece of zinc. 542 00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:33,888 Zinc. 543 00:49:36,057 --> 00:49:39,936 Very good. Now please apply a piece of silver to the other wound. 544 00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,818 Aimé, so much knowledge is lost to man because he fears pain, but he who... 545 00:49:54,617 --> 00:49:56,202 Please take a note. 546 00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:58,287 Cucullaris muscle. 547 00:49:58,538 --> 00:50:01,708 Occipital bone. Extension of the dorsal vertebra. 548 00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:04,127 There is definite flow of galvanic energy. 549 00:50:04,627 --> 00:50:06,796 Have you got that? - Indeed. -Good. 550 00:50:07,005 --> 00:50:08,214 Now, quick... 551 00:50:08,464 --> 00:50:10,299 the eel. I have to know... 552 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,636 if its muscles still contain electric energy. 553 00:50:17,557 --> 00:50:19,058 The eel... 554 00:50:22,478 --> 00:50:23,938 Good. Now the silver. 555 00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:25,815 Silver? - Silver! 556 00:50:26,816 --> 00:50:28,026 Silver! 557 00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:31,904 One, two, three... 558 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:33,614 Carl? 559 00:50:34,741 --> 00:50:36,159 Have you seen? 560 00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:41,622 The baron writes of caimans in the river, 561 00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:44,667 and is searching for the passage between the Orinoco 562 00:50:45,001 --> 00:50:46,419 and the Amazon. 563 00:50:46,919 --> 00:50:48,880 He is quite fearless. 564 00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:52,258 And so handsome. 565 00:50:55,053 --> 00:50:56,637 I've almost finished my book. 566 00:51:00,850 --> 00:51:02,602 And... what's it about? 567 00:51:10,693 --> 00:51:12,403 The number line. 568 00:51:12,987 --> 00:51:14,322 This is zero, 569 00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:17,575 One, two, three, the natural numbers. 570 00:51:17,784 --> 00:51:20,119 The integers, the negative ones, too. 571 00:51:20,286 --> 00:51:23,581 There are fractions, rational numbers, square roots, irrational numbers. 572 00:51:24,207 --> 00:51:26,334 Calculations yield new numbers, 573 00:51:26,626 --> 00:51:28,544 the field must always be extended. 574 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,297 There is no more room here, 575 00:51:32,090 --> 00:51:34,217 but if I include the vertical axis, 576 00:51:36,135 --> 00:51:38,679 a new mathematical space opens. 577 00:51:40,139 --> 00:51:41,891 I name this number I, 578 00:51:43,810 --> 00:51:47,230 that number minus I, and can solve previously irresolvable equations, 579 00:51:47,396 --> 00:51:50,525 can describe the reduction of polynomials and show... 580 00:51:50,858 --> 00:51:53,236 that all polynomials are reducible. 581 00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:00,660 And what use is that? 582 00:52:01,369 --> 00:52:05,039 Electricity can be... Use? It's not a matter of usefulness. 583 00:52:05,832 --> 00:52:07,166 I've almost finished. 584 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,710 Then I will come to you. 585 00:52:36,821 --> 00:52:38,156 Gracias. 586 00:52:43,870 --> 00:52:44,954 Yes... 587 00:52:45,538 --> 00:52:48,124 Thank you... 588 00:53:35,087 --> 00:53:36,380 Aimé Bonpland? 589 00:54:12,291 --> 00:54:14,293 Stop! - Alexander! 590 00:54:20,508 --> 00:54:22,051 One moment... 591 00:54:24,303 --> 00:54:26,347 What is your problem? - My problem? 592 00:54:27,598 --> 00:54:30,351 Yes. - Aimé Bonpland, if you do this again, 593 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:34,105 I'll no more work with you. 594 00:54:34,563 --> 00:54:35,940 What's wrong about it? 595 00:54:37,275 --> 00:54:40,403 You yourself are a man. - Think of your fiancée. 596 00:54:40,569 --> 00:54:42,029 My fiancée? 597 00:54:43,739 --> 00:54:46,284 I don't have one. - Man is not an animal. 598 00:54:47,368 --> 00:54:49,578 Yet at times he is. - Kant! 599 00:54:49,870 --> 00:54:51,580 Have you read Immanuel Kant? 600 00:54:51,831 --> 00:54:54,250 "Act only according to that maxim which 601 00:54:54,458 --> 00:54:58,045 you can will it become universal law." - Alexander. 602 00:54:58,629 --> 00:55:00,631 I am a Frenchman. - Well? 603 00:55:01,841 --> 00:55:03,884 We don't read foreign books. 604 00:55:05,261 --> 00:55:06,971 One more time, 605 00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:10,266 and you're travelling alone, you hear me? 606 00:55:13,311 --> 00:55:15,146 Well, do you? -I do. 607 00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:16,814 Listen, Alexander. 608 00:55:17,773 --> 00:55:20,818 If anyone has reason to be angry here 609 00:55:21,027 --> 00:55:23,029 it's me. - Not that again! 610 00:55:23,237 --> 00:55:26,240 I had to save the equipment. Had I not reacted quickly, 611 00:55:26,407 --> 00:55:29,368 Parisian Time would have been damaged. You'd have done the same. 612 00:55:30,536 --> 00:55:33,289 You say I wouldn't have helped you 613 00:55:33,497 --> 00:55:35,666 if those two were beating you to death? 614 00:55:36,167 --> 00:55:37,543 Right. 615 00:55:37,710 --> 00:55:41,339 I'd have let him smash your brains out? - Of course. 616 00:55:43,049 --> 00:55:44,800 I expect you're right. 617 00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:51,223 Oh God, Alexander! Why must you be so German? 618 00:55:58,564 --> 00:56:00,107 Work calls. 619 00:56:06,155 --> 00:56:09,408 Usurers! Impertinent usurers! - This is still cheap. 620 00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:11,077 Nonsense. Our discount... 621 00:56:11,285 --> 00:56:14,163 was taken into account. This is excellent meat. 622 00:56:14,538 --> 00:56:15,915 Rubbish. 7, 5. 623 00:56:16,082 --> 00:56:18,042 5. Take P, a positive prime number, 624 00:56:18,376 --> 00:56:21,253 you pig! - Take K, an integer non-divisible by P, 625 00:56:21,629 --> 00:56:24,799 you stingy wreck! Take A, the entirety of all numbers. 626 00:56:25,091 --> 00:56:27,385 Take B, the entirety of all numbers. 627 00:56:27,718 --> 00:56:29,887 Half P plus 1, half P plus 2, 628 00:56:30,388 --> 00:56:32,390 half P plus 3, half P plus 5, 629 00:56:32,556 --> 00:56:34,558 and continuing ever thuswise... 630 00:56:34,725 --> 00:56:38,312 Take the smallest positive results of the products of K, 631 00:56:38,479 --> 00:56:41,649 and the individual digits of A, as specified by P... 632 00:56:50,533 --> 00:56:52,076 Finished! 633 00:57:12,054 --> 00:57:14,056 I'm getting married, Mother. 634 00:57:16,976 --> 00:57:18,227 Why? 635 00:57:18,602 --> 00:57:20,729 Who knows how long you'll be here for me? 636 00:57:22,273 --> 00:57:23,649 I need someone. 637 00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:26,986 Her name is Johanna. 638 00:57:27,486 --> 00:57:30,281 I went to school with her. - That's right. 639 00:57:31,115 --> 00:57:32,658 You cannot be alone. 640 00:57:33,826 --> 00:57:35,494 You need someone. 641 00:57:37,663 --> 00:57:40,708 You'll need to find a post. - That's right. 642 00:57:43,919 --> 00:57:46,714 You'll have to be able to feed a family. 643 00:58:07,818 --> 00:58:09,403 Unbelievable! 644 00:58:11,530 --> 00:58:13,491 Yes! Unbelievable. 645 00:58:15,576 --> 00:58:17,244 What a find. 646 00:58:17,786 --> 00:58:20,122 What are you doing there... Alexander? 647 00:58:23,792 --> 00:58:24,793 Alexander! 648 00:58:29,798 --> 00:58:31,717 We're leaving! Pack up! Now! 649 00:58:32,176 --> 00:58:34,261 What happened? - Aimé... 650 00:58:34,762 --> 00:58:37,473 Come on. Help me. - Yes, but how? 651 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,391 Take a mummy. - Why? 652 00:58:39,850 --> 00:58:42,144 Lord, need I always argue with you? 653 00:58:42,561 --> 00:58:43,938 Take one! 654 00:58:44,772 --> 00:58:46,232 Go on! 655 00:58:50,277 --> 00:58:53,405 Do it! - Help me. -Allez. 656 00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:55,282 You cannot be serious. 657 00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:59,870 Alexander! We're grave robbing from the Indians. 658 00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:02,790 You go too far. 659 00:59:03,415 --> 00:59:04,875 Oh, come along, now! 660 00:59:05,334 --> 00:59:06,919 Aimé, my dear friend, 661 00:59:07,670 --> 00:59:10,798 scientific knowledge is all that counts here. 662 00:59:20,891 --> 00:59:24,228 What's in there? - Various things. 663 00:59:24,645 --> 00:59:27,022 Some things. - Doesn't seem so. 664 00:59:28,899 --> 00:59:30,401 Want to take a look? 665 00:59:34,905 --> 00:59:36,198 A look? 666 00:59:43,914 --> 00:59:45,374 Bonpland? 667 00:59:45,583 --> 00:59:46,625 Come on! 668 00:59:50,254 --> 00:59:52,840 My God, all this superstition, it's unbearable. 669 00:59:53,716 --> 00:59:56,594 How are we to import the Enlightenment? 670 01:00:10,190 --> 01:00:11,650 What is this? 671 01:00:12,443 --> 01:00:14,653 Your oarsmen, the volunteers. 672 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:16,405 I cannot accept this. 673 01:00:16,614 --> 01:00:18,616 I would advise you to swiftly travel forth. 674 01:00:18,949 --> 01:00:20,034 There's bad blood. 675 01:00:20,284 --> 01:00:23,704 You didn't behave diplomatically. - Stop. 676 01:00:24,288 --> 01:00:27,666 Those two men did no harm. And they are not volunteers. 677 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,668 You never know with these people. 678 01:00:29,835 --> 01:00:32,880 First they volunteer, then they can't be found. 679 01:00:33,339 --> 01:00:35,299 And anyway, they all look so similar. 680 01:00:36,425 --> 01:00:39,094 Take your stones and corpses 681 01:00:39,428 --> 01:00:42,097 and, as you travel, give thought to how... 682 01:00:42,431 --> 01:00:44,433 how easy it is to be humane 683 01:00:44,725 --> 01:00:46,769 if one is in Weimar or Paris. 684 01:00:46,977 --> 01:00:51,273 But if with just a few soldiers, you have to rule over thousands of heathens, 685 01:00:51,690 --> 01:00:55,694 who wouldn't hesitate a moment to chop your head off... 686 01:00:56,028 --> 01:01:00,157 - and why should they hesitate - then everything is slightly more complex. 687 01:01:00,616 --> 01:01:02,368 Why are you here at all? 688 01:01:02,910 --> 01:01:04,411 What is your real plan? 689 01:01:04,620 --> 01:01:07,247 Nobody travels across the whole world 690 01:01:07,414 --> 01:01:10,834 just to measure a piece of land they don't even own. 691 01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:12,878 But... But... 692 01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:17,299 What is it to be: the waterfalls or a journey home... 693 01:01:18,133 --> 01:01:20,302 your exploration, your skeletons, 694 01:01:20,678 --> 01:01:23,389 or the freedom of these people? 695 01:01:24,723 --> 01:01:26,392 So, I have no choice. 696 01:01:26,725 --> 01:01:28,435 I wouldn't say that. 697 01:01:28,977 --> 01:01:30,979 You have ten seconds. 698 01:01:33,315 --> 01:01:34,858 We leave the mummies here. 699 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:37,194 I told you... - This is no use. 700 01:01:37,695 --> 01:01:39,738 This is by no means acceptable. 701 01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:41,740 I will not tolerate this. 702 01:01:42,408 --> 01:01:44,910 Now three seconds remain. 703 01:01:52,501 --> 01:01:56,046 One... two... three... 704 01:01:56,338 --> 01:02:00,008 four... five... six... 705 01:02:00,342 --> 01:02:03,387 seven... and all that is one snake! 706 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:22,114 Who do we have here? 707 01:02:25,534 --> 01:02:29,204 Ah... Humboldt Monkey. Ah, Gauss! 708 01:02:29,496 --> 01:02:32,082 You wished to see me? - My book... 709 01:02:32,791 --> 01:02:34,293 Baron. 710 01:02:35,335 --> 01:02:37,171 The first copy. 711 01:02:56,732 --> 01:02:57,941 This is... 712 01:03:08,410 --> 01:03:09,953 fine, Gauss. 713 01:03:10,579 --> 01:03:11,580 Fine. 714 01:03:11,830 --> 01:03:13,248 We need capable teachers 715 01:03:13,457 --> 01:03:15,417 for our new university. 716 01:03:15,918 --> 01:03:17,961 Our youth... 717 01:03:18,462 --> 01:03:20,881 needs teaching. - Baron... 718 01:03:21,048 --> 01:03:22,591 Let's have a look. 719 01:03:25,219 --> 01:03:26,762 These teeth! 720 01:03:28,013 --> 01:03:29,848 Come. Want to touch them? 721 01:03:30,933 --> 01:03:34,561 It is... Such unbelievable teeth! 722 01:04:08,929 --> 01:04:10,389 I brought you something. 723 01:04:13,058 --> 01:04:14,977 Your book. - Yes. 724 01:04:16,562 --> 01:04:24,111 "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, by... Carl Friedrich Gauss". 725 01:04:24,278 --> 01:04:26,280 It's central to mathematical history. 726 01:04:26,864 --> 01:04:28,991 How modest. - Modesty is irrelevant. 727 01:04:29,157 --> 01:04:32,828 It is a key work in mathematical history. No one will deny that. 728 01:04:33,662 --> 01:04:36,039 My life's work is done... 729 01:04:37,291 --> 01:04:39,835 The future is an anticlimax. 730 01:04:41,295 --> 01:04:44,298 And it's me you're sharing this with? - Yes. 731 01:04:50,888 --> 01:04:52,264 Johanna, I... 732 01:04:58,562 --> 01:05:01,023 I can feed a family. It's not hard at all. 733 01:05:01,523 --> 01:05:03,442 I can measure land. 734 01:05:03,609 --> 01:05:07,029 I can discover stars, I can speculate on the stock exchange. 735 01:05:09,197 --> 01:05:12,075 Earning money is easy if you've nothing better to do. 736 01:05:12,242 --> 01:05:15,495 You needn't worry about that. -I don't worry about it. 737 01:05:19,291 --> 01:05:20,292 But? 738 01:05:23,629 --> 01:05:25,339 He's too fine for a proper job! 739 01:05:27,633 --> 01:05:29,176 A book! - Excuse me, Minna. 740 01:05:42,189 --> 01:05:45,067 I doubt that it's possible to be happy beside you. 741 01:05:46,652 --> 01:05:48,779 Have I... - You have too much to do. 742 01:05:50,030 --> 01:05:51,949 A man like you shouldn't marry. 743 01:05:52,324 --> 01:05:57,204 You draw strength and life from the people around you, 744 01:05:57,371 --> 01:06:00,374 like the earth from the sun, or... 745 01:06:01,375 --> 01:06:03,335 the sea from rivers... I... 746 01:06:03,752 --> 01:06:06,421 I am honoured, 747 01:06:07,297 --> 01:06:09,383 and I am moved, and... 748 01:06:09,925 --> 01:06:12,052 perhaps I do love you, but... 749 01:06:12,344 --> 01:06:14,346 I must, nonetheless, refuse. 750 01:06:22,187 --> 01:06:24,314 I expected rejection, 751 01:06:26,775 --> 01:06:29,653 but not with such good justification. 752 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,784 I remain your servant... 753 01:06:36,451 --> 01:06:39,913 Are you going away? -I am travelling to Königsberg. 754 01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:41,498 I must visit someone. 755 01:06:41,999 --> 01:06:44,084 There are two ways to be understood: 756 01:06:44,584 --> 01:06:46,461 One is through true love, 757 01:06:48,380 --> 01:06:50,507 the other through pure reason. 758 01:06:57,806 --> 01:06:59,933 881,451... 759 01:07:00,851 --> 01:07:03,395 881,473... 760 01:07:04,855 --> 01:07:07,315 881,477... 761 01:07:08,191 --> 01:07:10,652 881,479... 762 01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:14,239 Are you praying? - Prime numbers. 763 01:07:46,063 --> 01:07:47,898 How far will we go? 764 01:07:48,106 --> 01:07:50,108 The Amazon. - To the Amazon? 765 01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:53,779 There's no way from here to the Amazon, everyone knows that. 766 01:07:54,071 --> 01:07:56,364 There must be a passage. 767 01:07:57,032 --> 01:07:58,533 A natural canal. 768 01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:03,747 The world is a unity. 769 01:08:03,914 --> 01:08:05,999 All currents interact, 770 01:08:06,166 --> 01:08:08,168 all systems are one. 771 01:08:09,127 --> 01:08:11,379 Even if you're right, it's deep in the jungle. 772 01:08:11,546 --> 01:08:13,507 The jungle is only a forest. 773 01:08:16,718 --> 01:08:20,430 Don't breathe so deeply, there are miasma and fever-vapours... 774 01:08:20,889 --> 01:08:24,643 Always complaining, objecting, always the negative energy. 775 01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:28,271 Is a little enthusiasm too much to ask? 776 01:08:32,984 --> 01:08:34,986 The magnetic equator. 777 01:08:36,154 --> 01:08:39,616 As a child, Humboldt had dreamt of this place. 778 01:08:41,326 --> 01:08:44,287 The terrain was detailed on no map. 779 01:08:44,579 --> 01:08:48,708 They could only guess where the water was bringing them. 780 01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,905 Might I speak with Professor Kant? - The professor receives no visitors. 781 01:09:20,115 --> 01:09:23,160 Listen, I have come from very, very... 782 01:09:24,911 --> 01:09:27,539 very far away, and must speak to him. 783 01:09:28,373 --> 01:09:31,376 And believe you me, he wants to speak to me, too. 784 01:09:46,641 --> 01:09:47,893 Is that him? 785 01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:05,452 My name is Carl Friedrich Gauss, you may have heard of me. 786 01:10:05,660 --> 01:10:08,163 This is my work, the foundation of number theory. 787 01:10:14,169 --> 01:10:16,004 Professor Kant, I... 788 01:10:19,174 --> 01:10:22,636 Professor Kant, I have never been able to speak to someone as an equal. 789 01:10:22,802 --> 01:10:25,555 Everyone is slower, duller, more stupid... 790 01:10:26,932 --> 01:10:28,642 I didn't ask for this. 791 01:10:28,808 --> 01:10:33,063 I am... very alone... But you must know this feeling. 792 01:10:34,356 --> 01:10:35,982 He explained everything: 793 01:10:36,274 --> 01:10:38,485 His presumption that space buckles; 794 01:10:38,693 --> 01:10:41,821 that parallel lines meet in the infinite; 795 01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,658 his suspicion that time is flexible; 796 01:10:45,075 --> 01:10:47,410 that these insights are neither dream nor fantasy, 797 01:10:47,577 --> 01:10:50,580 but calculable matters which, in the future, 798 01:10:50,789 --> 01:10:52,791 will be thought self-evident. 799 01:10:53,083 --> 01:10:54,417 He had never spoken of this. 800 01:10:54,584 --> 01:10:58,588 He knew how swiftly one is ridiculed or called mad, 801 01:10:58,922 --> 01:11:00,340 how dangerous thought is. 802 01:11:01,049 --> 01:11:02,842 Professor, I need your opinion. 803 01:11:04,469 --> 01:11:07,555 I've waited all my life to meet the one person 804 01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:11,434 who can understand me, and to whom I can explain... 805 01:11:11,726 --> 01:11:13,770 all I have discovered. 806 01:11:15,063 --> 01:11:17,857 Wiener! - Sorry? 807 01:11:20,694 --> 01:11:22,821 The servant should buy wieners. 808 01:11:24,114 --> 01:11:26,116 Wieners. And stars. 809 01:11:26,408 --> 01:11:28,451 He should buy them, too. 810 01:11:33,290 --> 01:11:34,582 You see, Sir: 811 01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:39,421 Civility has not quite left me. 812 01:11:41,589 --> 01:11:43,091 This is Immanuel Kant? 813 01:11:45,010 --> 01:11:52,350 The Lord, in His great bounty... 814 01:11:53,393 --> 01:11:59,566 to this day accompanies me... 815 01:12:00,984 --> 01:12:08,700 The Lord, in His great bounty... 816 01:12:09,576 --> 01:12:15,415 to this day sustaineth me... 817 01:12:50,408 --> 01:12:51,409 Carl... 818 01:12:55,497 --> 01:12:57,374 I've thought it over. - What? 819 01:12:57,749 --> 01:12:59,793 I want to marry you. - What, now? 820 01:13:00,043 --> 01:13:01,503 Yes. 821 01:13:02,629 --> 01:13:04,089 Now it's too late. - What? 822 01:13:04,839 --> 01:13:06,424 Curare! 823 01:13:06,841 --> 01:13:08,760 The whole bottle. - But... 824 01:13:09,344 --> 01:13:12,680 But I want to say "I do." - Johanna... 825 01:13:13,181 --> 01:13:14,849 I'm dying. 826 01:13:16,184 --> 01:13:17,727 I drank the whole bottle. 827 01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:19,771 What? - The whole bottle. 828 01:13:20,021 --> 01:13:22,524 Nothing and no one can save me. - Stop. 829 01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,734 Johanna... I'm dying. 830 01:13:29,781 --> 01:13:30,782 Carl? 831 01:13:39,666 --> 01:13:41,167 Ejaculate of the Lord! 832 01:13:42,085 --> 01:13:43,503 What shit luck! 833 01:13:45,547 --> 01:13:47,215 Aimé, are you well? 834 01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:51,678 I'm feverous. -I did tell you. 835 01:13:52,262 --> 01:13:55,390 It's the miasma rising from the jungle. 836 01:13:55,890 --> 01:13:58,101 I can feel it, too, but uniform helps. 837 01:13:58,977 --> 01:14:00,895 Uniform? - Yes. 838 01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:04,023 One must be so correct that fever cannot assail one. 839 01:14:04,190 --> 01:14:08,611 Illness is disorder. But, if you refuse to admit disorder... 840 01:14:09,404 --> 01:14:12,824 And this works? - Hitherto, yes. Commendably. 841 01:14:13,908 --> 01:14:15,869 Sometimes I think you're joking, 842 01:14:16,035 --> 01:14:18,121 but then I remember you're Prussian. 843 01:14:21,583 --> 01:14:23,585 A most injust prejudice. 844 01:14:23,877 --> 01:14:26,045 Prussians have splendid humour. 845 01:14:26,254 --> 01:14:29,841 Yes, yes... - Indeed. Prussians laugh often. 846 01:14:31,342 --> 01:14:32,343 Yes! 847 01:14:32,677 --> 01:14:35,138 Read Gryphius' splendid comedies, 848 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:39,517 or the unmatched poetry of Martin Opitz. - Martin Opitz? 849 01:14:39,893 --> 01:14:42,061 Martin Opitz, yes. 850 01:14:43,271 --> 01:14:44,689 Martin Opitz. 851 01:14:50,987 --> 01:14:53,198 The bride! 852 01:14:53,448 --> 01:14:55,909 Gauss, a speech! - No, no, no! 853 01:14:56,075 --> 01:14:58,953 Carl, yes, a speech. - No... no! 854 01:14:59,787 --> 01:15:01,915 Now, Son, don't be coy. - Mama, please. 855 01:15:02,290 --> 01:15:04,959 A speech. Get on with it! 856 01:15:09,756 --> 01:15:11,799 I don't believe in happiness, 857 01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:16,596 I didn't believe I'd find happiness, 858 01:15:18,223 --> 01:15:20,767 and now it's here it looks to me like... 859 01:15:22,143 --> 01:15:23,561 a miscalculation: 860 01:15:23,895 --> 01:15:26,731 Something unintended and soon to be rectified. 861 01:15:30,985 --> 01:15:35,365 Let's hope that won't happen soon. Thanks to you all, enjoy the party. 862 01:15:38,993 --> 01:15:41,621 That was the speech I've always wished for. 863 01:16:10,525 --> 01:16:13,403 Have you ever done this before? - No. 864 01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:16,155 What makes you ask? 865 01:17:07,123 --> 01:17:08,875 I don't believe it! 866 01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:35,943 I've got it. - What? 867 01:17:40,198 --> 01:17:43,785 How to offset errors in planet-trajectory calculation. 868 01:17:44,952 --> 01:17:46,412 I've got it at last. 869 01:17:47,622 --> 01:17:49,248 What... right now? 870 01:17:49,749 --> 01:17:51,292 It'll alter cosmology. 871 01:17:53,252 --> 01:17:55,463 It's all thanks to you. You did it. 872 01:18:23,449 --> 01:18:26,160 You make the sweetest compliments. 873 01:19:41,444 --> 01:19:42,904 Strange, these roast monkeys. 874 01:19:44,155 --> 01:19:46,908 They resemble the limbs of small humans. 875 01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:49,118 It takes an effort of will to eat them. 876 01:19:49,911 --> 01:19:51,412 I can't eat that. 877 01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:55,583 You have to. Our supplies are finished. You have to. 878 01:19:57,001 --> 01:19:59,921 If I eat anything... - Yes? 879 01:20:00,296 --> 01:20:01,714 Oh, nothing. 880 01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:03,883 You know, Alexander, 881 01:20:04,675 --> 01:20:06,511 we are scientists. 882 01:20:07,136 --> 01:20:10,473 Yes. - We want to be realistic. 883 01:20:11,224 --> 01:20:14,852 True. - Everyone knows there's cannibalism here. 884 01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:17,688 So? 885 01:20:18,856 --> 01:20:20,233 Alexander, 886 01:20:21,526 --> 01:20:24,904 the people here regularly eat human flesh. 887 01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:29,242 So? - So? 888 01:20:30,535 --> 01:20:31,911 So... so... 889 01:20:32,078 --> 01:20:34,372 so this looks like human flesh, 890 01:20:34,664 --> 01:20:38,084 and they eat people around her. - Aimé! 891 01:20:38,835 --> 01:20:41,087 What? - We are all exhausted. 892 01:20:42,129 --> 01:20:44,715 You're feverous, so I won't be pedantic. 893 01:20:45,925 --> 01:20:47,552 Sorry? - If you ever, 894 01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,137 ever again dare say a Prussian civil servant, 895 01:20:50,471 --> 01:20:53,933 a scion of the Humboldt family, the godson of the Duke of Brunswick, 896 01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:56,727 ate human flesh, Aimé, then... 897 01:20:57,812 --> 01:20:59,564 I'll demand satisfaction. 898 01:21:01,482 --> 01:21:04,443 Unbelievable! - What! 899 01:21:05,486 --> 01:21:06,487 Truly. 900 01:21:07,822 --> 01:21:09,240 Mon Dieu! 901 01:21:11,659 --> 01:21:12,869 Aimé! 902 01:21:13,327 --> 01:21:14,328 Aimé 903 01:21:15,705 --> 01:21:18,040 Come along! Come on. Careful! 904 01:21:18,749 --> 01:21:19,876 Aimé, come on. 905 01:21:21,836 --> 01:21:23,546 Come on, more around. 906 01:21:23,796 --> 01:21:25,673 Just turn a little. Good. 907 01:21:26,257 --> 01:21:28,801 No, no. He stays on the ground. 908 01:21:29,468 --> 01:21:31,929 No, listen, let go of him. Leave him there. 909 01:21:33,514 --> 01:21:35,808 What are you doing? Stop it! 910 01:21:36,183 --> 01:21:37,810 Hey, stop that. Let go of him! 911 01:21:38,102 --> 01:21:42,398 That's my friend. He has a fever. What are you doing? 912 01:22:49,382 --> 01:22:51,050 Alexander! 913 01:22:52,343 --> 01:22:55,179 Aime! - Alexander, you wouldn't believe it. 914 01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:57,223 Aimé, how are you? 915 01:22:57,390 --> 01:23:00,768 Write down what happened. You have to be my witness. 916 01:23:01,394 --> 01:23:04,939 The things I saw... - The boats, Aimé. We... 917 01:23:05,272 --> 01:23:06,649 have a long way to go. 918 01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:08,776 But the singing! 919 01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:10,778 Did you hear it? 920 01:23:11,612 --> 01:23:13,614 It healed me. 921 01:23:14,949 --> 01:23:17,326 Tra-la-la-la. Singing. 922 01:23:17,660 --> 01:23:20,538 But I know... I know what I saw. 923 01:23:20,705 --> 01:23:23,582 Maybe we're dreaming. Or maybe the jungle is. 924 01:23:24,959 --> 01:23:26,669 You don't understand 925 01:23:27,461 --> 01:23:30,297 what happened to me... - Aime, we have to survive. 926 01:23:30,715 --> 01:23:32,842 We have to keep all things in order. 927 01:23:33,092 --> 01:23:35,720 No matter what we see. - Unbelievable. 928 01:23:41,851 --> 01:23:44,270 Don't you want to make a note of it 929 01:23:44,437 --> 01:23:45,813 for the sake of science? 930 01:23:46,022 --> 01:23:49,191 For science's sake, Aimé, I shall not. 931 01:23:50,860 --> 01:23:52,028 Now come along. 932 01:24:11,338 --> 01:24:14,759 Given this superiority... it seems virtually hopeless. 933 01:24:16,010 --> 01:24:18,763 The French are vastly superior in number. 934 01:24:21,015 --> 01:24:23,392 Shouldn't we talk to Napoleon? 935 01:24:24,101 --> 01:24:26,228 It's too late. The enemy is here. 936 01:24:26,395 --> 01:24:27,730 Morale is what counts. 937 01:24:28,189 --> 01:24:31,150 One German soldier is worth ten Frenchmen. 938 01:24:33,694 --> 01:24:36,405 58,000 men stand ready to serve you. 939 01:24:36,739 --> 01:24:38,115 That moves me indeed. 940 01:24:39,617 --> 01:24:42,036 So, war is here, then. 941 01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,538 War. 942 01:24:46,207 --> 01:24:47,374 Where is my horse? 943 01:24:49,168 --> 01:24:50,461 My Sabre? 944 01:24:54,465 --> 01:24:57,551 On the one side an unwilling commander, 945 01:24:58,010 --> 01:24:59,303 the Duke of Brunswick, 946 01:24:59,845 --> 01:25:00,846 Look! 947 01:25:01,013 --> 01:25:04,975 On the other, the greatest military genius in history, 948 01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:07,353 Napoleon Bonaparte. 949 01:25:08,270 --> 01:25:10,523 The battle was brief. 950 01:25:11,148 --> 01:25:13,150 What's going on? - From the duke! 951 01:25:13,317 --> 01:25:17,571 Infantry, the guard... Going to war for the fatherland! 952 01:25:18,030 --> 01:25:19,657 We will annihilate Napoleon. 953 01:25:19,824 --> 01:25:22,993 And continuing ever thuswise, 954 01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:25,871 until infinity equals zero. 955 01:25:26,038 --> 01:25:27,498 Professor? 956 01:25:27,915 --> 01:25:29,458 I'm leaving. - What? 957 01:25:29,959 --> 01:25:32,962 Our duke fell in battle this morning. - Yes... 958 01:25:33,129 --> 01:25:38,384 I understand nothing of what you teach. It's too hard, no mortal can keep up. 959 01:25:39,051 --> 01:25:41,637 But he can fight and, if need be, die. 960 01:25:42,012 --> 01:25:44,807 I'm marching with the troops. - Vengeance! 961 01:25:44,974 --> 01:25:48,561 Vengeance for the duke! 962 01:25:48,978 --> 01:25:51,021 Revenge! - Victory! 963 01:25:54,233 --> 01:25:56,443 Good. Good. 964 01:25:58,529 --> 01:26:00,281 Professor... 965 01:26:00,614 --> 01:26:03,284 What now? - Your wife... It's begun. 966 01:26:16,046 --> 01:26:17,673 I'm here, I'm here. 967 01:26:49,622 --> 01:26:51,665 Will I die? 968 01:26:52,625 --> 01:26:54,251 Yes. 969 01:26:56,587 --> 01:26:58,088 Don't grieve too long. 970 01:26:58,422 --> 01:27:00,216 One lives, then dies... 971 01:27:01,258 --> 01:27:02,885 It is so. 972 01:27:09,058 --> 01:27:11,101 You must marry again. 973 01:27:12,603 --> 01:27:14,271 You won't manage alone. 974 01:27:16,565 --> 01:27:18,108 Take Minna. 975 01:27:18,609 --> 01:27:20,277 She'll say yes. 976 01:27:23,948 --> 01:27:25,449 Yes. 977 01:28:07,032 --> 01:28:11,120 Come along, Aimé. We're going too slowly. 978 01:28:11,537 --> 01:28:13,163 Fascinating... 979 01:28:23,716 --> 01:28:26,093 Aimé, I have to... Aimé... 980 01:28:27,344 --> 01:28:30,139 Aimé, I have to ask you a question. 981 01:28:31,181 --> 01:28:32,850 Concentrate, now. 982 01:28:34,310 --> 01:28:37,521 The wall here, this thing, it's a wall, right? 983 01:28:54,371 --> 01:28:58,417 Two minutes to simmer. "Considering air pressure, 984 01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:00,502 and temperature..." 985 01:29:04,173 --> 01:29:08,427 Aimé, I can inform you that we are at an altitude of... 986 01:29:09,094 --> 01:29:12,264 18,690 feet. 987 01:29:14,516 --> 01:29:17,061 Hallelujah! - Wonderful. 988 01:29:18,270 --> 01:29:21,774 No man has risen to this height before. 989 01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:24,401 We've ascended Chimborazo. 990 01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,987 Yes, Chimborazo! - The world's highest mountain. 991 01:29:28,614 --> 01:29:30,282 Come along! Yes. 992 01:29:34,828 --> 01:29:36,872 But... the summit. 993 01:29:40,084 --> 01:29:43,379 With or without summit, we're the highest of anyone. 994 01:29:44,421 --> 01:29:47,466 One could just claim to have been up there. 995 01:29:47,633 --> 01:29:51,178 Monsieur Bonpland, I'll pretend not to have heard that! 996 01:29:53,263 --> 01:29:55,808 Exploration, Aimé, is motion. 997 01:29:56,058 --> 01:29:58,977 By definition, it is motion that never ceases. 998 01:29:59,144 --> 01:30:00,521 There is no summit. 999 01:30:00,771 --> 01:30:03,232 And thus no reason to reach it. 1000 01:30:03,857 --> 01:30:05,734 You see? - Yes, I do. 1001 01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:08,195 Voilà. - You are right. 1002 01:30:08,362 --> 01:30:11,156 And we discovered the Orinoco-Amazon Channel. 1003 01:30:11,323 --> 01:30:13,158 Excuse me, what's that? The channel? 1004 01:30:13,325 --> 01:30:15,869 Of course. We were there. - You were feverous. 1005 01:30:16,787 --> 01:30:18,455 Yes, but... - You noticed nothing. 1006 01:30:18,747 --> 01:30:21,875 I dragged you along. Who did it, then? 1007 01:30:22,042 --> 01:30:23,043 Tell me. 1008 01:30:23,419 --> 01:30:25,045 What help were you? - That... 1009 01:30:25,671 --> 01:30:27,256 I'm waiting, Aimé. Well? 1010 01:30:28,632 --> 01:30:32,678 You see? - No man had ever been so high, 1011 01:30:33,178 --> 01:30:36,890 no one knew that lack of oxygen causes delusions. 1012 01:30:40,477 --> 01:30:42,104 Voilà. 1013 01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:48,068 Alexander? 1014 01:30:49,027 --> 01:30:50,487 Alexander? 1015 01:30:57,703 --> 01:30:59,329 Alexander! 1016 01:31:07,212 --> 01:31:09,047 Cher ami, 1017 01:31:10,507 --> 01:31:12,342 Aimé. 1018 01:31:12,801 --> 01:31:13,969 Aimé, 1019 01:31:14,803 --> 01:31:18,348 come on, we have to be down by sunset. - I thought I'd killed you. 1020 01:31:19,057 --> 01:31:21,059 What's that? 1021 01:31:22,102 --> 01:31:23,812 It's hard to hear. 1022 01:31:24,188 --> 01:31:26,440 My ears... the wind... 1023 01:31:28,233 --> 01:31:30,068 What did you say? 1024 01:31:31,445 --> 01:31:32,821 Let's go. - Yes. 1025 01:31:33,071 --> 01:31:36,408 Exploration is motion that never ceases. 1026 01:31:36,575 --> 01:31:38,202 By definition. 1027 01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,829 Come along. 1028 01:31:54,968 --> 01:31:57,221 Who were they, he wondered. 1029 01:31:57,387 --> 01:31:59,723 How had they grown so quickly? 1030 01:32:00,349 --> 01:32:01,934 Why did they want so much, 1031 01:32:02,267 --> 01:32:06,647 were so much like him, yet were capable of so little? 1032 01:32:07,648 --> 01:32:09,107 So, Eugen, 1033 01:32:09,274 --> 01:32:13,403 is there more red in your glass than apple juice in Wilhelmine's? 1034 01:32:17,783 --> 01:32:21,495 Look, you lost one spoonful of red, gained one of mixed instead. 1035 01:32:21,662 --> 01:32:23,413 The glass is as full as before. 1036 01:32:25,499 --> 01:32:28,752 Papa, can I have a drink now? - Here I am. 1037 01:32:37,010 --> 01:32:38,345 Something else... 1038 01:32:39,930 --> 01:32:41,932 Mnemonics. You'll like this. 1039 01:32:42,558 --> 01:32:45,686 You can remember a whole deck of cards. It's easy. 1040 01:32:46,979 --> 01:32:51,692 For each number we think of an animal, for each suit an emotion, 1041 01:32:52,109 --> 01:32:53,986 the court cards are actions. 1042 01:32:54,528 --> 01:32:56,530 Then we make all that into a story. 1043 01:32:57,489 --> 01:33:00,284 Shall we try it out? Here we go. 1044 01:33:01,326 --> 01:33:02,786 Five of leaves, 1045 01:33:03,495 --> 01:33:05,372 knave of acorns, 1046 01:33:05,622 --> 01:33:07,165 eight of hearts 1047 01:33:07,958 --> 01:33:09,376 king of bells. 1048 01:33:10,335 --> 01:33:11,420 The... 1049 01:33:13,255 --> 01:33:14,631 rabid rat 1050 01:33:15,257 --> 01:33:18,635 scared the big fat cat 1051 01:33:20,596 --> 01:33:22,598 as she was laying eggs. 1052 01:33:23,557 --> 01:33:25,058 Repeat! 1053 01:33:30,731 --> 01:33:32,566 Did you get it? 1054 01:33:42,326 --> 01:33:45,162 I'm tired. - Goodnight. 1055 01:33:52,836 --> 01:33:57,716 Perhaps parallel lines do meet at the infinite, 1056 01:33:58,383 --> 01:34:01,720 perhaps time is indeed flexible, 1057 01:34:02,471 --> 01:34:05,265 but, above all things, time passes. 1058 01:34:05,682 --> 01:34:09,102 It passes always, passes ever faster, 1059 01:34:09,478 --> 01:34:13,940 and when scarcely any time is left is when time passes fastest of all. 1060 01:34:14,107 --> 01:34:19,571 Over the years, Alexander von Humboldt became the world's most famous explorer, 1061 01:34:20,238 --> 01:34:23,116 and Carl Friedrich Gauss became old. 1062 01:34:27,496 --> 01:34:28,997 Carl? 1063 01:34:29,623 --> 01:34:31,416 Carl, wake up! - No. 1064 01:34:31,667 --> 01:34:33,585 Carl, the coach is waiting. - Get lost! 1065 01:34:33,752 --> 01:34:35,629 Carl, you have to get up. You can't... 1066 01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:41,385 Carl! - Get lost! 1067 01:34:41,593 --> 01:34:44,096 It's me. You have to get up. 1068 01:34:44,721 --> 01:34:46,723 A horse-drawn carriage is waiting. 1069 01:34:46,890 --> 01:34:48,725 With four horses, Carl. Get up. 1070 01:34:48,892 --> 01:34:51,061 Mama, I don't want to. - You have to. 1071 01:34:51,561 --> 01:34:53,897 It's not for long, you'll be back soon. 1072 01:34:54,356 --> 01:34:56,400 Come on, get up. Where is he, then, 1073 01:34:56,692 --> 01:34:58,652 my brave young boy? Well? 1074 01:35:00,612 --> 01:35:03,949 Come on. He's off for a big trip. 1075 01:35:05,701 --> 01:35:07,160 Yes. 1076 01:35:08,995 --> 01:35:11,581 In September, 1828, 1077 01:35:12,082 --> 01:35:14,126 the country's greatest mathematician 1078 01:35:14,334 --> 01:35:16,837 left his hometown for the first time in years, 1079 01:35:17,212 --> 01:35:20,716 so as to attend the German Natural Science Congress in Berlin. 1080 01:35:21,508 --> 01:35:23,760 He of course hadn't wanted to go, 1081 01:35:23,927 --> 01:35:26,263 had refused for months on end, 1082 01:35:26,805 --> 01:35:29,599 but Alexander von Humboldt persisted in his demands 1083 01:35:29,850 --> 01:35:35,105 until, in a weak moment and the hope the day would never come, 1084 01:35:35,564 --> 01:35:37,399 Gauss had finally consented. 1085 01:36:04,509 --> 01:36:06,136 Papa, we're there. 1086 01:36:12,434 --> 01:36:14,519 Professor Gauss? - Er, no... 1087 01:36:14,686 --> 01:36:16,688 Eugen Gauss... just the son. 1088 01:36:21,318 --> 01:36:22,694 Eugen! 1089 01:36:30,994 --> 01:36:32,788 Professor Gauss! 1090 01:36:33,163 --> 01:36:35,916 At last. This is a great moment for Germany, 1091 01:36:36,625 --> 01:36:38,376 for science and for myself. 1092 01:36:38,710 --> 01:36:41,922 I meet you at last. - We've met before. 1093 01:36:42,130 --> 01:36:46,009 It is truly... so long have I waited 1094 01:36:46,259 --> 01:36:48,970 to stand, countenance to countenance with you. 1095 01:36:50,597 --> 01:36:55,018 You don't remember? - I... do. 1096 01:36:55,602 --> 01:36:57,604 You don't remember. I knew it. 1097 01:36:58,021 --> 01:36:59,981 And I knew we'd meet again. 1098 01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:01,775 Attention, attention! 1099 01:37:02,859 --> 01:37:03,860 Attention! 1100 01:37:09,032 --> 01:37:11,117 What happens now? What's all this? 1101 01:37:11,368 --> 01:37:15,455 My employee, M. Daguerre, has been working on a device 1102 01:37:15,664 --> 01:37:20,168 that captures the instant on a light-sensitive, silver-iodide surface, 1103 01:37:21,169 --> 01:37:24,256 and creates an image of us both for posterity. 1104 01:37:24,506 --> 01:37:25,882 Please do not move. 1105 01:37:27,676 --> 01:37:29,636 Not at all. 1106 01:37:30,887 --> 01:37:34,182 I want to go home. - One instant. Please don't move. 1107 01:37:37,978 --> 01:37:41,439 How was your journey? - Potholes, rain, cramped coach. 1108 01:37:41,815 --> 01:37:43,608 Do you like Berlin? - Dreadful town. 1109 01:37:43,859 --> 01:37:45,277 Yes. 1110 01:37:50,615 --> 01:37:52,951 How soon will this be over? - Another ten minutes. 1111 01:37:53,118 --> 01:37:55,745 It used to take much longer. I thought at first... 1112 01:37:56,121 --> 01:37:58,456 my back... - This is ridiculous! 1113 01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:00,834 Now the instant is lost forever. 1114 01:38:02,794 --> 01:38:04,921 Like all the rest of them. 1115 01:38:05,088 --> 01:38:06,631 Got anything to eat? 1116 01:38:53,303 --> 01:38:55,013 Excuse me. 1117 01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,807 Papa, I'm to remind you to take your pills. 1118 01:38:57,974 --> 01:39:00,226 Get lost. - Papa, you said... 1119 01:39:00,477 --> 01:39:02,646 I've no interest in what I said. 1120 01:39:02,938 --> 01:39:06,399 But I... - I may contradict myself, but you shan't. 1121 01:39:07,859 --> 01:39:09,486 What do you look like? 1122 01:39:10,946 --> 01:39:14,157 I'm meeting friends. - How amusing. 1123 01:39:15,075 --> 01:39:17,160 You have friends? - Thousands of them. 1124 01:39:17,869 --> 01:39:20,789 The whole country. And the despot has a thousand enemies. 1125 01:39:21,706 --> 01:39:25,961 Freedom shall be ours, not just a word in a play by Schiller. 1126 01:39:32,676 --> 01:39:35,387 Yes... it's... the animals... 1127 01:39:39,349 --> 01:39:41,017 Yes... 1128 01:39:41,518 --> 01:39:43,645 Family is a great challenge. 1129 01:39:43,979 --> 01:39:45,730 The greatest, perhaps. 1130 01:39:47,023 --> 01:39:49,067 My brother, Wilhelm, 1131 01:39:49,734 --> 01:39:53,071 is known as the teacher of Prussia... 1132 01:39:55,407 --> 01:39:57,200 And as for our congress, 1133 01:39:58,159 --> 01:40:01,037 the king will be there, as shall no less than three ministers, 1134 01:40:01,204 --> 01:40:03,790 all of whom will be glad to make your acquaintance. 1135 01:40:03,957 --> 01:40:07,377 I am not glad. - I'm so glad. 1136 01:40:08,628 --> 01:40:10,880 The coach is waiting. - Receptions... 1137 01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:13,883 projects, talk, plans, 1138 01:40:14,342 --> 01:40:16,136 intrigue, that's not science. 1139 01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:21,558 And what, may I ask, is science? - A man, alone. 1140 01:40:21,975 --> 01:40:24,811 On his desk, before him, a sheet of paper. 1141 01:40:25,020 --> 01:40:29,065 A pencil in his hand, clear skies ahead. If he does not surrender... 1142 01:40:29,399 --> 01:40:31,818 before understanding something, 1143 01:40:31,985 --> 01:40:33,695 that is science. 1144 01:40:34,571 --> 01:40:38,783 And what if the man at the desk leaves it and goes travelling? 1145 01:40:39,075 --> 01:40:43,663 He'll be hiding somewhere. In a hole, a volcano, the mountains, 1146 01:40:43,913 --> 01:40:45,206 the forest. - Jungle! 1147 01:40:45,415 --> 01:40:48,918 The jungle is only a forest. Hiding out is chancing it. 1148 01:40:49,252 --> 01:40:51,921 A pursuit for the mediocre. 1149 01:40:52,255 --> 01:40:56,843 For those suffering boredom. - The man at the desk needs a caring wife 1150 01:40:57,135 --> 01:40:59,929 to cook his meals, warm his feet, and also... 1151 01:41:00,263 --> 01:41:03,558 wondrous and wonderfully educated children 1152 01:41:03,808 --> 01:41:07,479 to clean his equipment, and remind him to take his pills. 1153 01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,940 He needs a house to shelter him from the rain, and a priori, above all, 1154 01:41:11,483 --> 01:41:14,152 a hat to stop his ears from hurting. 1155 01:41:14,444 --> 01:41:16,696 Whom are you talking about? - I'm just... 1156 01:41:17,238 --> 01:41:19,991 generalising. - He needs all that and more! 1157 01:41:20,158 --> 01:41:23,244 House, wife, hat... How else should he stand it all? 1158 01:41:23,828 --> 01:41:27,165 Where would you have been without your Frenchman? 1159 01:41:31,628 --> 01:41:33,088 Life is terrible. 1160 01:41:33,296 --> 01:41:34,964 It can be improved. - By whom? 1161 01:41:35,131 --> 01:41:36,758 We can improve it, Mr Gauss. 1162 01:41:40,053 --> 01:41:41,971 I don't care to. 1163 01:41:53,274 --> 01:41:55,068 Five years of preparation, 1164 01:41:55,985 --> 01:41:58,363 and now this. - Excellency... 1165 01:41:58,988 --> 01:42:01,032 If you require... - No, get out! 1166 01:42:05,745 --> 01:42:07,080 Alexander. 1167 01:42:13,128 --> 01:42:14,921 Pleased to meet you. 1168 01:42:36,818 --> 01:42:38,778 The prince of mathematicians. 1169 01:42:42,866 --> 01:42:44,784 Oh yes? Very nice. 1170 01:42:45,743 --> 01:42:47,495 Welcome. - Thank you. 1171 01:42:49,038 --> 01:42:50,999 My grandson also likes maths. 1172 01:42:54,210 --> 01:42:57,964 What is 14 times 16? -221. 1173 01:43:00,383 --> 01:43:03,303 Is he right? - Huh? - Is he right? 1174 01:43:06,931 --> 01:43:08,308 I beg to differ. 1175 01:43:09,392 --> 01:43:12,270 Well, we're establishing a new university, 1176 01:43:12,437 --> 01:43:14,814 with the help of one's venerable brother. 1177 01:43:16,524 --> 01:43:19,194 We'd like to offer you a professorship 1178 01:43:25,742 --> 01:43:28,369 I beg to differ. - What? 1179 01:43:29,746 --> 01:43:31,206 I like it at home. 1180 01:43:42,926 --> 01:43:43,927 Yes... 1181 01:43:44,302 --> 01:43:49,140 Ancient theories! All Paris was laughing about it three years ago. 1182 01:43:49,390 --> 01:43:52,769 No, no, no... - Who does he think he is? 1183 01:43:53,311 --> 01:43:55,313 Prince of mathematicians? The devil take him! 1184 01:43:55,563 --> 01:43:57,106 What arrogance! 1185 01:43:57,273 --> 01:43:59,359 Humboldt's days are over. 1186 01:44:08,785 --> 01:44:11,913 Ah, Mr von Humboldt, we'll remember this. 1187 01:44:13,790 --> 01:44:16,501 Thanks. - We don't find this funny. 1188 01:44:17,043 --> 01:44:21,923 We know about your inclinations, we know about everything. 1189 01:44:23,091 --> 01:44:24,259 And we don't forget. 1190 01:44:40,149 --> 01:44:43,486 Mr Gauss... - Are there no carriages to bring me home? 1191 01:44:43,778 --> 01:44:45,571 Mr Gauss, that was a catastrophe. 1192 01:44:45,738 --> 01:44:48,366 You... insulted the king. - How? 1193 01:44:48,658 --> 01:44:50,118 I even shook his hand. 1194 01:44:53,162 --> 01:44:57,083 Should the king feel honoured? - Why ever not? 1195 01:45:01,170 --> 01:45:03,965 This congress was a one-time opportunity 1196 01:45:04,257 --> 01:45:07,760 to find funds for new projects... - Spare me with your projects! 1197 01:45:07,927 --> 01:45:09,304 Stay where you are! 1198 01:45:12,140 --> 01:45:14,142 Lord, what is going on? 1199 01:45:16,936 --> 01:45:19,147 In you go! -ls that not your son? 1200 01:45:20,231 --> 01:45:21,816 Shut up! Not a word! 1201 01:45:22,191 --> 01:45:24,235 Come along. Come with me. 1202 01:45:24,736 --> 01:45:26,154 Mr Vogt? 1203 01:45:27,322 --> 01:45:29,157 Gendarme Commander Vogt. 1204 01:45:29,657 --> 01:45:31,200 Mr von Humboldt. - My dear Vogt. 1205 01:45:32,702 --> 01:45:35,288 This is an unfortunate thing. 1206 01:45:35,621 --> 01:45:38,833 That carriage contains this gentleman's son. 1207 01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,002 My son and his thousand friends. 1208 01:45:41,461 --> 01:45:46,007 Congratulations! - Mr Gauss, the pre-eminent mathematician. 1209 01:45:46,674 --> 01:45:50,678 It is of great importance that you be merciful here. 1210 01:45:51,012 --> 01:45:53,014 Of great importance? - Let him go... 1211 01:45:53,806 --> 01:45:56,142 Please. - This is a serious matter. 1212 01:45:57,852 --> 01:46:00,480 Forced labour at least. 20 years to life. 1213 01:46:01,481 --> 01:46:03,775 Perhaps the death sentence, even. 1214 01:46:04,484 --> 01:46:07,153 It's not that nothing can be done, but... 1215 01:46:08,321 --> 01:46:12,241 it's not easy. - You need only send him home. 1216 01:46:12,784 --> 01:46:14,660 His name has not yet been noted. 1217 01:46:14,827 --> 01:46:18,831 No one will know, and... my gratitude... expresses itself how? 1218 01:46:19,624 --> 01:46:21,709 Excuse me? - Your gratitude? 1219 01:46:22,126 --> 01:46:24,796 Excuse me? - Expresses itself how, Mr von Humboldt? 1220 01:46:26,089 --> 01:46:28,883 I don't understand. - Lord! The man wants a bribe. 1221 01:46:29,258 --> 01:46:30,927 Are you mad? - Corrupt! 1222 01:46:31,094 --> 01:46:33,971 The miserable scum-swiller! - I don't have to take this. 1223 01:46:34,305 --> 01:46:36,349 Oh, but you do, faecal friend! 1224 01:46:36,516 --> 01:46:39,185 Crooked, lippy, shitty dwarf, hear the truth! 1225 01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:41,521 Gauss! - I demand satisfaction. My second... 1226 01:46:41,687 --> 01:46:44,607 To hell with him. Think I'd let a corrupt crapper kill me? 1227 01:46:44,774 --> 01:46:47,318 Not another word! Stop, stop at once! 1228 01:46:47,485 --> 01:46:51,989 Dear Mr Vogt, this man is mad, old, confused, not to be taken seriously. 1229 01:46:52,657 --> 01:46:54,700 Not seriously at all, no! 1230 01:46:54,867 --> 01:46:57,161 Please be understanding. 1231 01:46:59,497 --> 01:47:01,040 There are limits, though. 1232 01:47:02,417 --> 01:47:04,210 It's not that easy. 1233 01:47:06,587 --> 01:47:08,965 But a civil servant is also a human. 1234 01:47:10,174 --> 01:47:12,051 Get the old man out of here. 1235 01:47:12,593 --> 01:47:14,011 You see... 1236 01:47:14,178 --> 01:47:15,596 You've bribed him. 1237 01:47:16,222 --> 01:47:18,015 He's corrupt, that Mr Vogt. 1238 01:47:18,641 --> 01:47:20,726 Corrupt! The whole town is. 1239 01:47:21,060 --> 01:47:23,771 Stop that! - Arrest him! 1240 01:47:30,236 --> 01:47:33,489 A shadow is cast across this land. It darkens by the day. 1241 01:47:34,157 --> 01:47:36,742 I shouldn't have come. I knew it. 1242 01:47:37,910 --> 01:47:40,079 All this to do you a favour! 1243 01:47:41,539 --> 01:47:43,541 Excuse me, did you say favour? 1244 01:47:43,708 --> 01:47:45,168 Yes. 1245 01:47:45,626 --> 01:47:48,379 To do me a favour? - A favour, yes. 1246 01:47:48,546 --> 01:47:50,256 A... 1247 01:47:50,548 --> 01:47:53,092 Who do you think you are? A favour! 1248 01:47:53,759 --> 01:47:57,513 You think God outdid himself when he made you? 1249 01:47:58,139 --> 01:47:59,849 Because you don't have to count? 1250 01:48:00,057 --> 01:48:04,020 1+2+3+4... can be done step by step. It just takes a little application. 1251 01:48:04,187 --> 01:48:08,191 You, Mr Gauss, you've never had to apply yourself, 1252 01:48:08,357 --> 01:48:09,859 but others have to fight. 1253 01:48:10,026 --> 01:48:13,988 They don't have your brain, your genius, but they get things done. 1254 01:48:14,155 --> 01:48:16,532 Through diligence, Mr Gauss, and discipline. 1255 01:48:17,492 --> 01:48:20,203 But that just makes you grin, doesn't it? 1256 01:48:21,245 --> 01:48:23,372 Who do you think you are? 1257 01:48:23,748 --> 01:48:25,500 Do you feel disadvantaged, 1258 01:48:25,666 --> 01:48:29,170 feel sorry for yourself because of your poor background? 1259 01:48:29,462 --> 01:48:31,839 We are disadvantaged, Mr Gauss! 1260 01:48:32,340 --> 01:48:37,136 We are disadvantaged. You didn't earn that mind. 1261 01:48:37,303 --> 01:48:38,471 Sign it! 1262 01:48:38,804 --> 01:48:42,141 It's nothing to be proud of. Pride is for those who earned it. 1263 01:48:43,601 --> 01:48:45,520 Don't do me any favours. 1264 01:48:47,188 --> 01:48:50,525 Don't talk to me about God. And I worked harder than you! 1265 01:48:51,192 --> 01:48:53,277 I doubt that. - When I'd had enough, 1266 01:48:53,444 --> 01:48:57,698 couldn't stand it anymore, found it too silly, I took curare. 1267 01:48:58,032 --> 01:49:01,869 And God, of whom you like to speak, saved my life in what was doubtless 1268 01:49:02,036 --> 01:49:04,413 one of His most idiotic miracles. 1269 01:49:05,206 --> 01:49:07,083 I don't know why He did it. 1270 01:49:07,917 --> 01:49:09,752 You don't? - No. 1271 01:49:10,878 --> 01:49:14,382 You can drink all the curare you want. - Sorry? 1272 01:49:15,174 --> 01:49:17,718 It has to be introduced into the bloodstream. 1273 01:49:17,885 --> 01:49:19,720 Then it kills at once. 1274 01:49:20,888 --> 01:49:24,016 Are you certain? - Of course. I discovered it. 1275 01:49:24,392 --> 01:49:27,812 The bottle you emptied was doubtless one I brought back. 1276 01:49:32,400 --> 01:49:34,402 I have to leave the country. 1277 01:49:35,903 --> 01:49:37,738 What? -I have to go far away. 1278 01:49:38,948 --> 01:49:40,533 I can never return. 1279 01:50:17,737 --> 01:50:20,031 We might also have to leave the country. 1280 01:50:20,531 --> 01:50:22,366 You like to travel, anyway. 1281 01:50:23,159 --> 01:50:24,702 I am old. 1282 01:50:25,077 --> 01:50:30,166 Not all that old. You just feel frail from always being in this ghastly town. 1283 01:50:33,586 --> 01:50:35,630 I was invited to Russia. 1284 01:50:36,505 --> 01:50:40,468 The effort and expense involved is great. - Did that ever stop you? 1285 01:50:43,638 --> 01:50:47,183 I could see the great expanses of Asia before I die, 1286 01:50:47,350 --> 01:50:49,644 and measure the magnetic field. 1287 01:50:50,353 --> 01:50:52,897 I'd like to find out if the inside of the earth 1288 01:50:53,105 --> 01:50:55,441 contains one or many magnets. 1289 01:50:58,527 --> 01:51:02,114 The question is wrongly formulated. The vertical component of magnetism 1290 01:51:02,281 --> 01:51:04,700 can be represented as a function of geographic location. 1291 01:51:04,867 --> 01:51:08,621 And the horizontal ones can figure in a power series 1292 01:51:08,996 --> 01:51:10,915 reciprocal to the earth's radius. 1293 01:51:13,417 --> 01:51:16,045 Simple spherical harmonics... no? 1294 01:51:19,924 --> 01:51:21,801 I'll calculate it for you. 1295 01:51:22,218 --> 01:51:24,303 You only need a measuring needle, 1296 01:51:24,470 --> 01:51:26,138 and to send me the results. 1297 01:51:26,931 --> 01:51:28,557 Travel far. 1298 01:51:29,308 --> 01:51:31,268 Travel far. Don't fail. 1299 01:51:32,103 --> 01:51:36,273 Honestly? - There's nothing better than being busy. 1300 01:51:36,941 --> 01:51:38,317 You have five years. 1301 01:51:38,526 --> 01:51:40,236 Approximately. - Sorry? 1302 01:51:40,653 --> 01:51:43,406 Mortality statistics. I work with them now. 1303 01:51:43,614 --> 01:51:46,659 It's well paid. You've got 5, I've got 9, my wife, sadly, 11. 1304 01:51:46,826 --> 01:51:49,495 Unpleasant to think she'll survive me. 1305 01:51:50,871 --> 01:51:53,958 Five years? - Statistically speaking, yes. 1306 01:51:56,669 --> 01:51:58,295 Yes. I'll go to Asia. 1307 01:52:02,133 --> 01:52:04,802 I sometimes wonder which of us travelled more, 1308 01:52:04,969 --> 01:52:07,054 and which stayed more at home. 1309 01:52:09,306 --> 01:52:11,600 But we've nothing to complain of. We're here. 1310 01:52:11,851 --> 01:52:15,730 No cannibal ate you, no imbecile beat me to death. 1311 01:52:16,856 --> 01:52:18,607 And what remains? 1312 01:52:19,233 --> 01:52:20,860 Curiosity. 1313 01:52:21,235 --> 01:52:24,739 Dear friend... Never-ending curiosity. 1314 01:52:54,769 --> 01:52:59,190 Contrary to statistical predictions, Carl Friedrich Gauss died 1315 01:52:59,356 --> 01:53:03,068 four years earlier than Alexander von Humboldt, 1316 01:53:03,235 --> 01:53:08,324 who managed to travel Russia, Siberia and the steppes of Asia. 1317 01:53:09,950 --> 01:53:13,996 One year after Humboldt, on the other side of the world, 1318 01:53:14,163 --> 01:53:16,874 his poor and abandoned colleague, 1319 01:53:17,208 --> 01:53:20,044 Aimé Bonpland, died at the age of 85. 1320 01:53:21,337 --> 01:53:22,838 And what of Eugen? 1321 01:53:25,132 --> 01:53:27,384 I memorised the pack. - Memorised it? 1322 01:53:27,551 --> 01:53:31,263 My father taught me. - What, to memorise the pack? 1323 01:53:31,430 --> 01:53:34,850 He tried to. I never got it, but today it worked. 1324 01:53:37,144 --> 01:53:38,729 We'll do a test. 1325 01:53:38,896 --> 01:53:41,774 One mistake, and you're swimming to America. 1326 01:53:42,066 --> 01:53:43,692 Now come here. 1327 01:53:45,653 --> 01:53:47,154 Give him the cards. 1328 01:53:49,698 --> 01:53:51,116 Eight of clubs. 1329 01:53:56,247 --> 01:53:59,959 Eight stupid rhinos wait for rain in the castle. 1330 01:54:00,334 --> 01:54:01,836 Eight of hearts. 1331 01:54:06,340 --> 01:54:07,508 Is your father proud of you? 1332 01:54:09,468 --> 01:54:10,928 Three of spades. 1333 01:54:12,763 --> 01:54:14,890 America! 1334 01:54:19,478 --> 01:54:22,064 Eugen Gauss never saw his father again. 1335 01:54:23,732 --> 01:54:25,276 He invented nothing, 1336 01:54:25,609 --> 01:54:27,069 discovered nothing, 1337 01:54:27,653 --> 01:54:30,072 and no law of nature bears his name. 1338 01:54:31,699 --> 01:54:33,200 But he lived his own life. 1339 01:54:33,993 --> 01:54:35,160 He got to Missouri, 1340 01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:38,455 founded the First National Bank, 1341 01:54:39,164 --> 01:54:40,958 and had seven children. 1342 02:02:47,611 --> 02:02:50,113 BABELFISCH TRANSLATIONS Thomas Cooper 90104