Original subtitles

Love Between the Raindrops

Based on the Original Screenplay by

The smallest one was me, Kajda, in the middle there was Věra,

and the bigger boy was Pepan.

Věra grew up to be a pretty girl. We were very proud of her.

The two of us grew up too, just not as much.

To the right there is Pepan, and the one to the left is me.

Pepan, when he was 18.

And this is what I looked like when I was 16.

Gentlemen!

[music is playing]

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

First Movement: Exodus

[bell]

You're nice, Kajda.

Tell dad, that I'm dropping in.

Eight fifty? I'll rather let daddy be told his fortune by cards.

Only after the first, ok?

But I won't give you any dough, I'll give it to the old man with his beer.

You would spend it all on women!

Idiot!

Should kick him in the groin!

-How much did you collect? -7,20. The janitor is the only one that paid.

That one's cheating us!

Matches! Buy yourselves some matches!

I don't have all 10, little boy.

-Meh! -Meh!

Oh look, shoes!

Do you know that you almost forgot about me already?

But I don't know you yet.

Come on, don't be standing here like a holy man behind a village. Such a handsome guy.

Won't you come for a drink?

-Have you drunk Malaga before? -I don't drink.

You should be saying, I don't drink, madam.

My little muffin', know what?

So at least come dance with me.

You know what I've heard? Hold yourself, so you won't fall!

So spit it out!

-Tomorrow the president will be passing through here. -Au!

[laughter]

It's all known. He'll stop at the Inn at the Reeds and have some sausages.

You morons, he don't even know this sqaure exists.

-What square? The Free Republic of Žižkov. -Shoot!

Au!

Punks!

[laughter]

-[whistle] Guys, ok? -Count on it. Let's go!

You wanna cheat me?

26 crowns for all this stuff? I mean it's a week's work!

Don't be telling me that the council leader didn't pay up.

-He told me he'll pay on the first. -Which one?

Where will I get money for the hide and stuff?

The richer the guy, the bigger a scrooge!

Show me your pockets!

Come on show me, what are you hiding?

We're no thieves. We only kept 2,50. A dime for the client.

Forget about that!

Until we're not better off, you can forget about the movies!

-One should keep one's word, right? -Tell that to the councilman!

You should have given up so easily.

-So why do you keep reparing his crap? -Do you know what a councilman from the magistrate is?

You mean I should've kicked him out? Rich people know how to get revenge!

-Long live Bat'a! -Long live Bat'a!

Bastards! I'll show you, you punks!

Long live Bat'a!

Long live Bat'a!

Give it to them, mister Bursík!

Long live Bat'a!

Long live Bat'a!

Long live Bat'a!

Long live Bat'a!

Long live Bat'a!

And I got you! Now say goodbye to life.

I'll keep hitting you so hard, your ass will turn purple, okay?

-It wasn't me who shouted, it was them. -Really?

So remember and tell your little buggers,

Bursík is just a little coobler, but Bat'a ain't no Lord either.

We'll see about that. Now run!

-Ugh! -Fool, he won't be any different anyhow.

Kajda! At the Ponrepo they are playing King of the Prairie.

So this was our dad.

I can see him now ever clearer.

In situations, sometimes joyful, crazy and sometimes...

Greetings, Vinc.

I've heard that in the end it was easy for her.

Well it awaits all of us.

Yeah, it's just that she was 36.

And with 36 into that sticky mud. Man, I still can't imagine that.

Please, give some food to the boys.

Boys, go into the kitchen. Božka, heat up the rest of the tripe soup.

Come on, play, Kubelík!

I'll screw it one for you, I...

Not that, a funereal one.

[a harmonica is playing]

-When's the funeral? -Friday, at two at the Olšany.

-We could grab a bite to eat there after. -I guess.

The relatives from the Chabr will come, there's so many of them.

-Fanka was one of eight. -I'll do some goulash, a special one.

For you only for the conducting. The whole place will be yours.

Oh man, it was a great gal.

And I'm not saying that because she's deceased.

Like it was yesterday, when you moved to Žižkov.

[music is playing]

Hello lady! What's with the sickle?

Oh, a sickle is always useful.

What is this, Věrunka? Leave it be immediately!

What you say, Karel, that's some windows, right?

Well my friend, Vincek will do some cobbling here.

In town people wear shoes, even if it doesn't rain.

Bravo!

So, mister, when will you be done?

We keep getting wet feet in those shoes.

Be calm. Tomorrow I will press it together.

You just remember, company Bursík and sons.

[bell]

Look dad, we even have a bell here!

Oh, wow, Kajda... Show me... nice...

Mister Fort, come on in, coffee is on the table.

Mister Fort, you're also clinking in your pants?

Just stop this nonsense, I gotta go soon,

looks like it's gonna rain.

Good day to you, miss. My name is Bursík.

-We just arrived today. -Nice to meet you, I'm Holovská.

Your wife has to clean up every other Friday.

Fialová, who was here before you, was pretty dirty.

You mean you don't live there?

Since when does a nice person live on the toilet?

This is above each other on all floors?

-Check it out, Fanka. -What don't you like?

Ours was placed on the manure, this is luxurious.

You won't get me in here. I'd have the impression someone is crapping on my head.

[music is playing]

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for...

I'm a miss from Prague by now!

See, here we are in Žižkov, in the city.

Life's different here, grandpa.

-You know, I'll miss it here. -Yeah, even the cattle miss you.

From outside: My God, people, come help me!

The elephant is eating all my fuchsias!

Get out! Get out!

My God, what rabble has moved in here!

If there's gonna be any horses in this building...

-Calm, lady. -I mean, are we in a barn or what?

I'll replace it for you.

I'll buy you a whole new palm, or a cactus.

You know what? I'll just fix your shoes for free.

This was our mom. Always laughing, full of life.

How will the postman know when there's 35 Bursíks in town?

Write down Václav Bursík, and in parentheses ,,at the well''.

Oh, the postman will know, he's a Bursík too, you know.

We gotta write Věřa too.

So go see her!

I'll rather send it to her, what if she isn't home.

[music is playing]

May I?

You stinker!

May I?

[music is playing]

[noise from the fight]

And there will be quiet!

And you stop it too!

[noise from the pub]

[music is playing]

You're not in Prague, so you can become a floozy.

Should I end up here at the washtub?

-What are you talking about? -Dad, leave her be!

She's gonna be better! It's a person with a future!

-And we are beggars or what? -Věra! Věruška!

I told you mine! I don't want to see you ever again!

Our Věra will have a wedding!

[music is playing]

You think mom's cold in there? I mean in the chapel?

-Idiot! Dead people don't feel anything. -How do you know?

It's pretty clear. You're asking like a five year old.

And hurry up, I barely can watch.

Where's dad?

I don't know.

He had closed in the afternoon.

He was crying in there.

-They didn't come. The Chrapouns! -Maybe something came up.

Bullshit, Procházka! They didn't wanna spend twenty on a train.

They weep more for a swine that a human.

Youngsters, come have some goulash!

Come on, we're gonna get loaded! Come all of you!

Oh white acacias, I'm telling you

about unanswerable pain

that I have in my heart

a girl left and I'm left alone

Oh white acacias, I'm telling you

When the white acacias start smelling nice...

Don't take it that hard, mister.

The whole of Žižkov is full of nice woman and many have the heart at the right place.

-Fanka was the only one. -All pain will leave eventually.

Just cry it of, poor Vincek, I understand you.

Oh white acacias, I'm telling you

about unanswerable pain...

-We should have taken him away. -He'll make it through by himself.

Mom's been buried for just a few hours and look at him.

I still can't understand, that they didn't come.

Did you paste the stamps on well enough?

And which box did you throw it in?

You idiot! What have you got in your head!

I would tear you into pieces!

Pepan, I'll go to him now, and tell everything.

-even if he would kill me. -You'll shut up!

Now it's not funny any more.

The ones in Chabr are bastards anyways, the old man's right about that.

-Hey boys! -Hi, Věra!

This is smoked, this is warm! Just take it!

Your new guy is a butcher?

What's he raging about? I walked around the inn at the reeds and heard him outside.

Where's mom?

Where's mom?

Mommy, I always like Ed. I'll never be mad at dad.

But back into that chickenshit I don't wanna go. You were unhappy too here, weren't you?

Věra, you won't come back to us, will you?

No, Kajda.

-You know that I only walked, when he wasn't at home. - What a loony!

Like he didn't know that you gave mom 2000 a month.

Yeah, stuffing himself for the money, he didn't mind!

He only bullshits about how he'll show Baťa!

I too am gonna get out! As soon as I can!

And what about if you would come live with me, Kajda?

It's enough that you depend on those rich bastards.

I can't leave dad alone, even if he is like he is.

And you know what, I don't wanna leave Žižkova!

So just promise me, you'll come when you need something.

You know we will.

Second Movement: Wars, Big and Small

[music is playing]

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

It's better to fall, than to live down on your kneew.

That was the motto of our national heroes.

That is why I'm shouting out the glory of the day of the anniversary

where for the first time after centuries our nation could breathe freely.

You all are sons of this nation.

And thus our hearts still blaze with the holy fire

at the memory of the arrays of our brave warriors

who laid down their lives for our happiness.

Let's stay true to the ideals of democracy

on which our state is built.

We live in a free and happy country.

You young ones are our future

it's in you that we put all our hopes

that you will lift even higher the flag of our freedom.

[noise of cans and laughter]

We must look very carefully after the fruits of our victory

against enemies outside and in.

Thus I shout together with the warriors of Žižka:

Forward! Forward!

[music is playing]

they did run, the chickenshits, didn't they?

They ain0t got nothing on žižkov!

What else.

-What's wrong, Kajda? -They hit me with a rock, bastards.

That's nothing.

I lived through battles big and small. That's what Žižkov was like.

At the big ones I didn't take part and I didn't even understand what they were about.

Slowly...

Tadaa!

Oh...

Nice!

[laughter, clapping]

[music is playing]

[coughing]

Don't smoke, Kanimůra! You've got tuberculosis, moron.

-So what? -You should drink milk.

I'll leave that to you. Before I die I want to smoke a lot.

Why would you be dying?

My whole family died of it.

The doctor told mom, and thought I wasn't listening.

What are you looking at, cowards? There's nothing to it.

You just shake your legs a little and it's that's all.

[laughter]

But I'm telling you, cowards,

every Friday I wanna see a packet of cigarette butts on my grave.

And everyone who'll forget, I'm gonna come for at night.

-Where'd you leave the butts? -We promised you once before, right?

In the pubs I empty the ashtrays.

[noise]

Leave me be! I didn't do anything!

-Who are you chickenshit? -He was snooping, the bastard!

He was gawking through the hole between the barrels, wasn't he?

It's clear, he's a spy. Probably from Libeň!

We'll have to show him, so he won't forget this address.

So who are you? Tell us, as long as there is a soul in your body.

I wasn't spying, I'm from žižkov. I was visiting my aunt.

Bullcrap! If you're from žižkov, then I'm a Chinese Mandarin.

[laughter]

I'm from Vršovice, but I wasn't spying, I swear!

-He confessed, the bastard from Vršovice! -The guys over there are sly.

What about him? He's gonna get a thrashing!

-So he'll lose his appetite! -Yeah!

Silence! Castrate him!

Let me go!

[shouting]

-So, take of the pants... -And one hand...

Then the other...

See how you held.

Should I start?

Kajda will do it. So he'll show what he can do!

-I don't like it anymore, Kanimůra. -Bah! Don't be squemish and start!

Ohhh!

Oh look girls, his is as small as a shoelace!

Pigs, let him go! You're mean.

Tss!

Let's castrate Kajda too!

Without discipline all of us can go down the shithole.

Get him!

Stop it!

That's enough, Kanimůra!

What are you doing here, nobody invited you!

If you don't wanna get beat up, then get lost!

If you weren't such a wimp, I'd make burger of your face!

Guys, get him!

What are you staring at?

Come on, move! You too!

I'm innocent in this! And I'm very grateful!

Watch out for žižkov next time!

Wait!

I'll give you something to remember me by.

My stay with the žižkov gang ended and I wasn't unhappy at all about it.

Since around that time wholly different things started to interest me.

Look at this one.

Oh yeah, these legs! She's great!

Give me the one in the circle again.

She's incredibly similar to a girl in eight grade.

There's lots of great girls in žižkov.

-Some of them you can even have for a twenty. -But that's not very safe, Pepan.

What do they do condoms of? For example a Primeros?

I'd really like to know why there's a question mark there.

Hey.

A rocket, right?

[Dad's singing] Shush!

And now put your hands immediately on the duvet, you depraved kids!

You want to have hairy palms?

Come on, what did I say?

Oh, so it's like that!

This is how you learn, Kajda?

For this I toil, so I can put you through school!

And you pepan, now that you're already such a pig,

do you have to spoil another one too?

I'm confiscating this! Immediately.

-You don't have the right! -I don't have the right?

I gave you life, you winner! I'm saying, I'm confiscating!

And I don't wanna hear a thing!

Such filth!

I bet he's rummaging it.

-Clearly. -Be calm, I'll steal it back again tomorrow.

[music is playing]

You are watching some of the Italian bombers at the Abyssinian front.

An American actress is preparing an decoration of flowers

for the ball with Hollywood stars.

The famous figure skater Sonja Henie.

Mexican Dolores del Rio and Gary Cooper,

a prototype of fearless manhood.

[gong]

Before entering marriage

it's necessary to be aware of the responsibility for the health of the future children.

Get a check-up.

So your kids won't come to know the coldness of hospitals,

so that their childhood is shone upon by the joyful laughter of playgrounds.

What crap. Such a scam!

The biggest ever.

And they dare writing that the secret of marriage is hinted at.

What you want? At least you learned how newborns' diapers are changed.

Hey, gentlemen, now we're gonna get back our appetite.

You ain't seen such a chubby one before.

-Are you at least sixteen? -Guys, I'm 36.

I just got rejuvenated at the saloon.

[music is playing]

Look, a fairy!

Why are you snooping around? Get lost little fuckers!

[laughter]

[music is playing]

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

A German spy headquarters was found at žižkov!

Matches! Buy yourselves some matches!

...love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him...

Come on!

Watch out, watch out!

Come, coward, come!

You got me K.O.

I'm dying, the beautiful Lily is yours.

I loved Lily with all my being

and spouted verses for her like a hydrant.

If only I could tell her.

I'd kiss the tiles, which she passes.

She had no idea, we weren't meeting on the stairs by chance.

-Good day to you. -Wait, where are you running to?

-You aren't afraid of me, are you? -I'm not running.

Don't you like me anymore?

I still do.

Oh stop it, I'm too old for you, aren't I? Like Karlštejn.

Come by some day, I'll show you the last Dvorský.

[music is playing]

She says she works at night. But where? At the whorehouse!

Now she should change bedsheets. And get it all disinfected.

-Whores won't live at my place! -Bu!

So what you looking at, dear gossiping ladies?

At least your husbands will see a real one for once.

Gentlemen, I'm waiting for you at the bar Mascot. You won't be sorry.

Wanna watch too?

-You are moving? -Yeah.

You think I'm gonna end up in here? Goodbye!

This is the tragic way my first love ended.

Just paste, paste, here I still have my forehead and ass. Suit yourselves.

Stop it, mister Bursík. I'm an official.

I don't buy that, and I don't believe you that Bat'a's taxes are ok.

When they tell me to end it with Bat'a,

I'll paste up his store from top to bottom.

-I can see that. -At least pay something,

I mean the state has to live on something too, right?

-The streets must be lit. -Yeah, especially for the cops, the whore

and disdainers, who for poison the nation for any puny amount of money.

I'd wish you had that puny amount.

And you're not the only one. The whole street is plastered.

Oh come on, stop goofing around here like some kind of gigolo!

They're nailing your old man to the cross and you don't care?

I should pour gasoline on all of this and put it on fire.

The cabinetmaker under the Bezovka hanged himself on the toilet pipe

and what did he gain? His kids will die begging.

Do not touch that! You don't have the right.

-That's a tool for production! -You're a cobbler, right?

-I am, but I also can be a tailor. -Right...

I'm gonna sow on the new clothes ''We're drowning in prosperity''...

-I told you something, didn't I? -I leave the tool here,

but I'm telling you, at least five hundred. Try to keep it up.

He says at least five hundred.

He can talk, stinker, when he has his retirement secured.

I would have to rob a bank.

You too stop lying around and start doing something!

Now that they kicked you off school, I won't be feeding you for free!

Why are you shouting at me?

For the few sausages I get from Monday to Saturday?

-On the first I'll go to the tracks and you'll see. -How are you talking to me?

If I said this to my dad, he would've killed me!

I'm gonna leave too, if we're in your way.

Wait, it's not about you at all.

Your head is not totally empty.

I'll even eat the pavement, but I want

-you to be something big. -Don't start with it again.

I don't know how to say it, you know, a stupid cobbler..

Kajda, could you tell me again in Latin about the Golden Age?

Aureo prima... [talks Latin]

That's beautiful.

We somehow managed to miss the golden age of humanity.

Or maybe we just didn't aim well enough.

At least five hundred!

Boys, you see?

If you bring this to the pawnbroker,

-then he will give us a few fives, right? -You want to sell mom's stuff?

For a few fives, yes? Not with me!

You see him?

Kajda, you understand me right, we have to give something to the pawnbroker.

And mom doesn't need them anymore.

And she wouldn't be mad at us, I know her.

Also mom is buried already, but we are here. Here, take it.

I would go alone with it, but you know people. Wait!

Not these.

I've always loved this the most on mom.

When you come back, I'll prepare some dinner, alright?

,,Vincenc'' can be small, but the

,,Bursík'' has to be from one end to the other, you know?

So that people will see it from afar, right Fanny?

And then I'd like to ask you,

to do the ,,B'' somehow differently, than the Ba´ta over there.

You know, mister, I have decided to declare a war on him.

On him and his serially produced shoes.

Trust me people, someday you'll be happy to return

to honest craftsmanship. These little czech hands are capable of many things.

That is why I will destroy him, the abuser of human feet.

Tradyta, tatata...

These are clothes for a few bucks, boy.

This here for five, this fur coat...

...for twenty, it will kill me.

Today everybody wants to sell, but nobody wants to buy.

I would clothe the whole žižkov in these clothes

that keep rotting away here.

Come when the crisis will have passed, there's gonna be war anyways. Is this good?

The sleeves are a little short and it's too tight on the back.

That's ok, the sleeve has some extra material folded in,

and as for the back, let some lady loosen it up and you'll be just like in a magazine.

You won't even get such a fabric at Barhoň.

So look, 100 for everything.

But not more. Nobody will give you more in the whole of Prague.

-I hope you didn't steal it. -No, my mom died.

Oh.

So take the stuff and bring them into the back of the storehouse.

Here behind the curtain.

[girls' laughter]

What are you looking at? Never seen a top hat?

You can't talk?

I can. And I've seen a top hat before.

A whole hundred of 'em in some American movie.

Some dancers were wearing them while throwing their legs into the air.

You're bullshitting!

Can you guess who this is?

-Even kids from help classes would. -Hm.

And this?

Don't know.

See, told you you were bullshitting. It's Fred Astaire.

Yeah, but he doesn't know how to tap-dance.

In any case, I'll become a dancer. In a year I'll leave here.

People will be clapping and colorful lights will be shining down upon me.

I bet you can't even do one basic step.

No, but I know other stuff.

Hm, at the most how to think of girls and indecently at that!

-That's normal, right? -You really can't do a lot.

Actually I can also run in between raindrops.

-Bullshit. -No, really.

So you brush by them just like that

and not one single drop is allowed to splatter on you.

See, so I don't even need and umbrealla?

Listen, you're quite a nut.

-Mistake, a magician. -You're broke, just say it.

-What's your name? -Kajda.

Oh my, that's one weird name. Kajda...

It's like when you stretch the elastic in your boxers.

-And you? -I'm called Pája. Understand? Pája.

And you won't find out more. Come visit me, when you'll see this on the billboards:

Tonight the famous dancer Pája is having a show.

How much did he pay for this?

-A hundred. -Scrooge.

-That's your dad? -Pff!

Before leaving, I'll make sure to burn the place.

That's gonna be the biggest fire žižkov has ever seen.

Go on, leave already, he could come back here.

-What about tomorrow? -Don't even dare!

Why?

You know what? We'll leave it to fate.

[music is playing]

Hi, Kajda! Where are you heading?

Have you done your math for tomorrow?

[laughter]

What's wrong, hotshot? Hands made of lead, aren't they?

-That's gonna pass. -They called me from the directorate!

In a while your highness the King Karol will be passing through -

from Romania with his son. So you go stand along the road

and don't run around like monkeys!

-An official visit, you understand? -Aren't we gonna get us a tailcoat?

Kings belong into fairy-tales.

Today's gonna be the first paycheck, right?

-So žižkov is gonna be wild. -For the few bucks?

The first paycheck is the first paycheck. Don't whine and rather hold the hoe.

If they don't kick you out of here, you're gonna get a steady one, idiot.

That's gonna make me a steady idiot, right?

Maybe you're gonna be the stationmaster at the Wilson station.

I advise you as an expert, spend all of the money from the first paycheck.

Some rum, and some chick, that's something too, right?

-Well, yeah. -Thanks...

And above all, you don't start saving right from the start.

That would be hopeless, trust me.

Once you start in poverty, it sticks to you like scabies.

[hooting of a train]

People, there's gonna be quite a blow-out at the castle today.

Lots of potentates in dickeys,

cognac will be poured from cans

and they're gonna be standing in caviar up to their asses.

But in any case this engine was really nice.

That's interesting. One is born in a palace, the other in a courtyard.

-Some justice, right? -Don't look for justice in this world.

We could do that in a fairytale right away.

Step on it, men! Step on it!

Kajda, come on, punch it!

-Here! -I'd rather not, Pepan.

You wanna insult me? I took my first paycheck today, we gotta drink.

-But I haven't eaten since morning. -Mister Procházka,

one goulash, fast! And no excuses.

[vocals and a harmonica]

Pepan, have you ever had a woman?

Like, how?

Like that.

Oh that. Naturally. She had tight legs.

Blow!

What about you, have you knocked up someone, or what?

-I don't actually know. -I've been watching you for a week now.

-Stick some wire up your nose and you'll be shining. -But I really don't know.

So just bend her over and don't write her your little rhymes.

But she is so damn pretty.

I was feeling wonderful,

but I started being afraid.

That I might lose her.

That I might not find her again.

Or that I'm but air for her.

You got a cigarette, little boy?

You don't smoke yet, right?

Well, I could teach you, if you want.

Third Movement: The Lover in the Top-Hat

[music is playing]

Ohhhh...

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

A stunner, a looker in his best years. I think you'll agree.

Really?

Leave it to me. I've already told you that...

One Zorka.

Thanks.

I've told you before, a delicate being.

A little chubby, but who's perfect these days?

I'll take it. But you also told me, she had...

Sure she has. Quite a nice sum on her account.

She sold the little bakery store after her...

and you as a self-employed... Well, you'll be quite a catch for her.

You think?

I have a heart too, if it's gonna work out, I'll repay you somehow.

Above all I want her to be neat and to take care of my boys.

Be calm about that, she's affection personified.

-Ten Zorkas, like always? -Yes.

Please, Mrs Levinská, not a word to anybody.

Sure, count on me.

My hands are grouping in an unknown landscape.

Your skin is so smooth like the one on a grape.

[music is playing]

We'll measure a dream together.

You have my shape, I look like you.

[music is playing]

Father: Lord, what a smell! Hm...

It hasn't smelled this good around here, I can't even remember. For what it's worth,

a home without a woman is like a cold barn.

I put in lots of marjoram. Tripe soup needs a lot of marjoram.

-And also lots of ingredients. -That too.

Bětuška, now it's gonna be like paradise for us here.

Bětušk

That's the late Lempl.

He asked me to not leave him alone in the graveyard.

He loved me a lot, you know?

We three are gonna be here like this? What if we will want to, you know...

-What? -Well...

-When we will want to be together. -Wait! We haven't agreed yet.

-I'm just here on trial. -Please, what kind of trial?

I mean, are we twenty-year-olds? We're without commitments, free...

I here owner of a great little firm.

Bětuška, as far as feelings go,

I've found liking in you from the start, the moment I saw you.

-What if the sons would come home? -So they would!

But they're big boys!

I'm so proud of them. Especially Kajda, he's quite smart.

If Edison hadn't invented the lightbulb, he would've made it himself.

Why do you keep running from me?

I mean you said yourself, we're gonna make a rehearsal, right?

Gosh...

But first, Bursík dear, you'll have to catch me.

Otherwise I won't give in.

-I need you to catch me. -How do you mean?

To capture me. To overpower me.

You have to catch me, so you can break me

so that I could kneel in front of you.

-Don't cut, that doesn't count! -Good, I can do that.

But you decide, if we're going to make love or wrestle.

My strength is leaving me really fast, Bětka!

-Bětka, it's not worth it. -You have to be faster, dear!

Lempl was skinny, but a real man.

And I got you and won't let you go! I'll break you.

You subdued me!

-I'm choking, I'm choking... -Come, love,

-let's go into the bedroom. -Come already.

Bětuška!

Bětulinka, may I?

You can't do that, Vincek, can you?

What use would it be anyways?

I can do wholly other things though.

I hope, there are no bedbugs here.

No, darling, and if any would appear I would catch them with my own hands.

Bětulinka...

-Meeehhhh! -Oh!

What was that?

Can't I bleat? I'm at home, right.

Don't make a fool of me! Don't laugh at these stupidities!

You will be nice to the lady.

She can take out the thorn in our heel. [knocking]

Yes! Bětuška, finally I can show you my kids.

You'll get out of bed, right? This is Pepan,

this is Kajda. Boys, this is your new...

-This is... -Father told you nothing about me?

Well, whatever, you can all me auntie.

Or if you prefer, I'm also called Běta.

And if you'll be nice to me, I'll be twice as nice.

Why are you gazing? Can't you greet?

You look as if kicked by a horse.

We'll all get along eventually anyways. So, hope our soup didn't get cold.

Why don't you sleep?

I feel so awful thinking about her staying.

Maybe she's not bad.

She would cover the half of žižkov with that ass.

-Listen! -What?

I have a feeling they're in the process of adding us a brother over there.

He's capable of anything.

If he stays there, I'm leaving.

No matter where I would sleep.

[crying] [knocking]

Coming!

Boys, what are you doing here?

You were crying?

No, it's just my nose that's running.

So what would the gentleman wish?

Nothing really.

Come on, Kajda, just tell me.

-Dough? -Not really, I just give it on conditions.

-So what? -Hey,

Kajda needs to move in with you.

The old man has got himself an awful old hag.

He thinks,

that her checkbooks will save his bankrupt business.

Kajda, don't be mad, but it's not possible at the moment.

It's all or nothing for me.

-I'm gonna get married, you know. -Really? How many times would that make it?

Why are you so mean? Everything's totally different.

Yeah sure! Isn't he married again by any chance?

Věra, don't be silly, take him in at least for a while.

It's not like your guy is sleeping here all the time.

His wife is very sick.

Oh, so you're waiting like a vulture for carrion?

You're too mean, Pepan. I really like him.

That's different, now I'm gonna cry.

Falling in love with a rich guy is easy.

-With a laborer it's more of a toil, right? -Kajda...

-Don't be mad, you'll understand, right? -Yeah. Just forget it.

[knocking]

Woof!

That's my little brothers.

Send them here, I won't bite.

Au!

-Sorry. -Pepan!

Kajda, wait!

-Here. -Thanks, Věra.

You know, Pepan is fair, you just don't know him well.

And I have just one.

[music is playing]

What the hell is that guy up to in there all the time?

-It's almost as if he has his gold treasure in there. -Show me!

-You didn't realize what he is doing? -Nah.

So your cataract is advancing pretty fast.

Just so you know...

Oh, like that!

Looks like the purple one has a full belly of young ones.

Ah yeah, so this you see well enough.

If they only knew you were watching,

they would break this thing.

I'm not getting mixed up in anything, just an witness.

-But some day you'll get involved gladly. -Well some day, naturally.

The unemployed are at loss at what to do with their energy.

If only I had a better glass, so I could see into their cards.

-Want some? -Hm.

Thanks.

You're rude!

Papapa...

Calm please!

You don't even know there's a new Vrchlický, alias Karel Bursík, among us!

Give it!

''The lover in the top-hat.''

Listen!

''In the windows' crannies,

in the mirror's shards,

I look for you ever more.

where did you fall to,

my lover in the top-hat?

Your breasts are like coconut-shells.

You eyes I aliken to containers of dew,

my lover in the top-hat.

Confused and always alone I run along the slopes.

Fevereshly I remember our meeting,

my lover in the top-hat.''

Excellent!

-It really is nice. -Do you also write about girls without hats?

Do we know the one in the top-hat?

-Write something about me. -About me! -About me!

[music is playing]

-Why are you coming after me? -I've been waiting for you a hundred years already.

Yeah, that's the way you look like. Standing there in the rain.

-Why didn't you ever come out of the shop? -I went through the back, smartypants.

-Why? -I can walk where I want to, can't I?

Minda! Minda! Here, Kitty Kitty...

Minda, where are you?

-Minda, kitty kitty... -Here, kitty...

-Why are you staring? Do something! -What should I do?

There's gotta be an entrance somewhere, right?

So don't just stand around like an idiot!

[singing of birds]

Thanks.

People, it is so nice here.

-Who could it be that lives here? -Maybe nobody.

Whatever, now we do. This is our island and other than that nothing,

no žižkov and broken pavement and smelly sewers.

You want to be alone with me on this island?

Frankly yes, you're really pleasant.

-So we stay here. -Hm.

What are you looking for here, sir?

Kajda: Our kitten ran into this place.

I don't tolerate cats here. Nothing bad can happen to the birds here.

-Right, redhead? -It's very nice here, sir.

We didn't come to steal anything.

There's nothing to steal here anyways. But if you like it here,

you can keep coming here, whenever you feel like it.

The gate can't be closed anyways.

And you can eat fruit until you pop.

Save for the grapes, you're not allowed to touch them when they're ripe..

Grapevines in žižkově, that's unique, you understand?

We do!

If you violate this agreement, it's over. You can't ever come here again.

-You're a very nice person, sir. -I am and I'm not. Depends on you.

And order there must be in the world.

[music is playing]

Gotta go home already.

So up to here. You can't come further with me.

Hurry up, or you'll get in trouble at home.

-I just wanted to accompany you home. -Not a chance, I'm in a terrible hurry.

And I don't want to either. I have a visitor at home. Societal obligation, you know?

-What's your dad's job? -A musician. And that's enough.

If you want me to come tomorrow, stop asking questions.

-Bětka, please, don't leave! -And we're not on familiar terms!

-It was always like that, I love you... -Exactly.

Bětuška, here, Bětuška, there... And all the while you were thinking of my money!

-No! -For your bankrupt business.

Nobody doesn't want any money.

-How come? -Do you even have a heart talking like this?

Don't be afraid for my heart. All the talks of the wonderful autumn of life

-and from you took a thousand from my account! -I never did that!

I just borrowed that. With the intention of returning the moment my clients pay up.

I thought you understood me.

Understand? And also,

I don't like the other stuff either. You know what.

-No. -So we won't agree.

Anyways, something else came up.

-Just so you know. -What don't you like?

I mean... I...

It's only now that I see what a floozy you are!

When you talk about stuff like that in front of my son.

And how is he supposed to learn here, when you keep acting up?

Take your money and get out!

-I hope you choke on them, you... -I'm leaving. At least I have where to.

I'm sorry you have such a dad. Luckily you're not like him.

If you're gonna need to sow something, come visit me.

Madame, just go after whatever it is came up!

And hang these lines above the stove of your new one!

...And for love, some love together with him...

How come I'm so unlucky. You tell me.

That anything I attempt ends up kind of badly.

I mean, just because I drink too much occasionally, doesn't make me a bad person.

If I thought, there's someone above, I'd ask him,

why it is with me that he is so cruel.

Kajda, in the end you're the only thing I got in this world.

But you'll finish your studies and fly away...

-And I can start tying my noose. -Daddy, please.

So, lay me down next to mom and write:

Here lies Vincenc Bursík, A cobbler, who meant it well.

Why don't you return to Chabry?

I don't belong there anymore.

You bitch!

It was pretty loud at your place today, right?

[music is playing]

Fourth Movement: The Sophisticated Knight from the Furnaces of Žižkov Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

[clapping]

[music is playing]

May I, sir, for a word?

Apparently you came here to buy some shoes.

In that case I'm giving you advice. Don't buy anything there,

they are of bad quality, they won't hold.

It's a scam.

Should I walk barefoot or what? In rain or mud?

Vincenc Bursík, master cobbler.

If I may, I'll give you my address.

Come anytime you want, you'll be welcome.

Here, sir. My address. Vincenc Bursík, master cobbler.

And now, if I may, a presentation of the quality of my work.

Handsewn shoes made to fit.

According to size and form of your foot.

Such a shoe has to fit, it can never pressure your foot.

The shoe actually becomes a part of your body.

Let the shoes be passed around. You have my address,

so I hope, you'll come, that I won't be waiting in vain.

Such shoes were worn by your dad, your grandpa, your ancestors...

And boy, how they swaggered in those!

If someone is thinking that the father of the nation, Charles IV.,

would've put on some bat'a shoes, they are goddamnit wrong.

-There was no Bat'a back then. -Step up on this box,

-so we can hear you better. -It's true, Bat'a was not around.

And he couldn't have been, 'cause if he had, they would've drowned him in the Vltava

like those bakers, that kept skimping on the buns.

You just thought you found yourselves in that piece of junk, 19, 29, 39, right?

-Mister, a policeman is coming this way. -I've nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm an honest craftsman. These hands have never

-touched anything bad. -Sir, come with me.

What have I done? You have no right to this!

-We will explain. -For what?

Unfair competition. That's what the articles are for.

When I'm trying to prevent people from hurting their feet,

that's unfair competition? I've never had anything to do with police in my life.

-Just come with us. And no superfluous talking! -Wait, someone stole my shoes.

-Stop shouting, here they are. -Thank you.

This kind of behavior you keep for the reich, you kraut.

We won't give up Prague, we'll rather destroy her...

Hey stunner, don't you wanna come warm your feet?

Twenty crowns, ok?

So come with me, but be quiet.

You wanna keep on your coat, or what?

Why d'you keep standing?

And pay up first.

Thanks, love.

You're pretty good-looking.

Hope, you're not sick.

-You have a condom? -Whose shoes are that?

My husbands.

But don't be afraid, he'll come after midnight.

-You're married? -So what?

We have to live on something.

He goes to help empty wagons and I sow during the day.

And you're not here for my confession.

What's he staring for like that?

Don't mind that, he doesn't care. Come on.

Come.

Should I turn off the lights, or do you prefer to do it with them on?

Listen, have you ever had a woman before?

-Not yet. -You little angel...

Come, don't be afraid.

Don't be stupid, Pepan. It's gonna be morning soon.

You blind? I'm washing myself.

Some perfume is smelling really strong here.

So what?

I robbed a drugstore.

-Dad was locked-up until midnight. -He's going downhill pretty fast.

What did he do?

Oh, he just tried to convince people on the streets not to by at Bat'a.

What an idiot.

Yeah, but what are we going to do about him?

I mean he's of full age, goddammit.

The whole world's full of shit anyways.

[music is playing]

No, don't be an idiot!

-What do you think, is it gonna come off? -Certainly.

Now all we need is a snake.

People have been all the same since then.

-All that changes is the scenery and clothing. -Maybe there are exceptions.

[crowing of the rooster] Pss! What are you doint?

Maybe there are exceptions. These two here appeal to me a lot.

I'm almost crossing my fingers, so they won't fail.

Oh, wait...

I'm not even wondering why.

You've set up quite a nice film here.

You even thought of the storyline.

The girl doesn't look too bad for a floozy from žižkov.

I'm betting a bottle of wine, that they'll fail.

If you're not afraid.

It's a deal.

A bottle of good, old beaujolais.

And how will you be sure if they picked some or not?

I have them counted.

Before I met you I kept thinking up such stupidities.

Like that I'm a pilot and that I'm rescuing a lady in the jungle.

And me, before you showed up in our storehouse,

I just talked with cats and mice, you know?

[crowing]

-Where did you learn to kiss like that? -From you. Don't you like it?

You're crazy.

Not here, we're not alone.

And are we ever gonna be alone?

You'd want to?

Terribly so.

-And you're not afraid? -What should I be afraid of, you?

It's supposed to hurt.

But I know how to clench my teeth.

So when?

Look, it's raining!

-Come, let's hide. -Why?

Now we'll see if you really are a magician.

You know how to run in between raindrops, remember?

You have to teach me.

[music is playing, laughter]

Wow, Kajda, you're really great! You know?

See, both of us are dry.

It looked like a plank initially.

And now there's two cakes with raisins on top.

Seven! It's about the license introduced by the company.

-Five thousand isn't enough even for my debts. -Sorry, no more than five.

We're just interested in the location and the room,

keep your tools. The co-op will modernize it.

Under today's circumstances, you can't work like that. So what?

I'm not pressuring you.

You can stick this awl into my lungs right away!

I'll come by tomorrow and we'll sign it.

Sings drunkenly: I have nothing, you have nothing,

if we add it up...

Dad!

What are you doing?

You snooping, you student?

You came to see how your dad looks, when he's knocked down?

So look!

-See? -I wanted to know, how it ended.

How? The company Bursík is closing. Bankruptcy.

Or how we say in Czech, in the shithole.

-Have you considered it well enough? -What's to consider?

The bank won't lend me a penny.

The old man Procházka is whining,

that he can't pay the brewery and ice producer...

And I'm just speculating where I've made the mistake.

Human stupidity is infinite. And I'm such an idiot, that I thought,

that people will realize themselves that the bat'a shoes are worth shit.

Nobody came. Here, drink.

-Dad, you should stop drinking. -Don't lecture me.

You've studied, you should be able to give advice.

My God, how is it possible, that one can't walk in those shoes?

-What about Věra? -What about Věra?

Don't lie to me. You are meeting up behind my back, some kids you are.

Věra has already forgotten, that you expelled her.

Listen,

do you think she has some? Could she lend me?

I don't know. Ask her yourself.

-Like I know where to find her. -She's working at Bat'a at Wenceslas' square.

-No way! At Bat'a's? -So what?

Just stick it to me, kids!

Please, just let him be. What do you think it looks at our place?

Dad walks through pubs with his harmonica,

comes back in the morning totally drunk and doesn't care about anything.

He probably doesn't even know, how many kids he has.

Just imagine five hungry kids.

They are my societal obligations, you know?

But today I'm fine. Can't even remember when I was this fine the last time.

I even gave an extra portion of milk to the cat. And the mice too.

Miao!

Just imagine, everybody keeps saying, there's gonna be war.

You could make me cry. So it be! Today I want to drink and dance.

[music is playing]

-May I, sir? -Come on, you know I don't know how to.

If you know how to run in between raindrops, you can do this.

Every true gentleman knows how to tango.

Don't watch your legs and count.

One, two, leg,

One, two, leg,

One, two, leg,... See how easy it is.

We could apply to dancing competitions.

Yay...

You know what? Tell me the poem with the top-hat again, will you?

I'd rather not, please.

You know, the longer I know you, the less I want to write.

You said, you were going to write books, when you finish studying.

But not poems.

The kind of books, where people are going to be tense. Like Verne?

-Two years of holidays and like, you know? -People are going to ride trains,

are going to read and are going to be immensely tense.

And you'll grow a beard,

have glasses on your nose and you're going to be immensely rich.

-Do you ever even think of me? -Even when doing math.

Do you want to see me?

[sighs]

No...

No, no...

-You would want to hurt me. -No, really.

You can't make me a child. Dad would kill me.

Don't be afraid.

-No, leave me be, not today! -Why?

No!

It's cold here!

[music is playing]

What are you looking at? Move!

[music is playing]

Mister, what are you doing here?

Company Bursík and sons in liquidation!

[laughter]

Hey, watch out, don't burn this place!

[laughter]

Yeah, you people just amuse yourselves!

Everybody in this building owes me!

The misses over there, 12,50 for soles!

This one 2,20! Heels, 5,50!

The devil take it all!

Don't stand around, come here! Come warm yourselves at my place!

-I can still manage that! -I just hope the whole

-of žižkov won't catch fire! -It would be no loss.

Fifth Movement: An Imaginary Report oo the Expulsion from Paradise

Come in, mister Kajda. Kamil! He's asleep.

Get up, lazy ass!

-Hi! -Hi!

See what housemaids dare nowadays.

See that behind?

She has one, so she dares. What an attitude!

[talking latin]

You gotta learn it like this...

[latin]

Duh! We'll end it here, right? Marta, snack!

Come drink, before that beast comes.

She taddles a lot too. Here!

[latin] I'm curious,

what use it will be in our company.

Hey, yo,

-how do you say this in Latin? -What?

-Well, doing it with a woman. -Yes...

-Probably concubare, but I don't know exactly. -Concubare?

Kamil sings: Concubare, concubare...

The hand!

So!

Au!

Ts! What class.

This is dad's army of salvation. Watch!

Anita.

Or this here is a russian countess.

Pick which one you want, I'll steal it for you.

Even if dad watches them like a dragon.

Maybe this one, the redhead. Man, that's hell.

The pants are gonna come off, you won't even know how.

So what do you want?

-Well... -Oh yeah!

You have a lover in a top-hat, am I right?

And come by dad at the bar in the evening.

He wants to settle up everything. Mister councillor.

[sounds of a siren]

[music is playing]

[sounds of a siren]

[music is playing]

[sounds of a siren]

[music is playing]

[music is playing, clapping]

-Looking for someone? -Mister Vochoč invited me.

Wait here, I'll call him right away.

Kajda: Good evening.

-Do I know you? -You were living on our balcony.

-You used to play the gramophone. -Oh, that respectable house!

-Aren't you Kajda? -Yes.

The only knight in the building.

You know I used to be in love with you?

Seriously?

If I had sensed it, everything could've been different.

Come, we're going to wash it down with something sweet.

What, Lili? The attorney is waiting for you.

So behave.

Come sit down here, young sir. But next time through the back, ok?

Hm.

I owe you, this is the first semester the punk didn't flunk.

I know how to honor that.

And if you push him to seventh grade, I'll reward myself appropriately.

Thank you, I'll do my best.

-Kamil isn't stupid. -That I hope.

But there's lots of trouble with him. I blame myself for not having the time to spend with him.

This business here...and a mother is missing.

Sorry.

-The one counts like yesterday? -Naturally.

I've heard all the best about you from Profesor Benetka.

I envy your father.

Are you catholic?

I'm not interrogating you, I just like people with a moral standard.

It's necessary in my line of work.

But you can't understand that at your age.

Always come on the first.

I don't dare to entrust money to my scoundrel.

The seventh grade means a new suit for you, which I'm sure you'll need.

And there's some food in the kitchen. I'm sure you want some.

Quite a fucker your brother.

He won't make a whorehouse here for that lousy hundred a month.

Dad, but he's grown up, right?

Yeah? Well with such a way of being grown up, he can move out immediately.

We have always and will be a decent family.

He could want right away, that I take champagne to his bed!

-You know how long they're in there? -What if it's a nice girl?

A nice girl gets in your bed right away!

Did you eat dinner? Why do I ask, there's nothing here.

Here, take some.

I got these on conditions.

Aura prima primisima!

That's food for a week.

See how some people are doing?

I mean this is crab! You my deformed boy!

We'll keep that for tomorrow. This will be edible till Sunday.

-There's beer outside the window, bring it here. -Ok.

Or you know what? Shit! We'll eat everything right away!

And we won't keep anything for Pepan, when he's acting like that!

That's some nice food!

I can't eat any more, Kajda. Maybe my stomach got smaller from all the sausages...

But you, when you're going to be a gentleman, you're going to eat like this all the time.

-I don't want to be a gentlemen. -Oh...

-Not the kind you're thinking of. -Be calm, these ideals will leave you.

Oh, and, they came after me from the fund for the protection of the republic.

-After me! -Did you give any?

Yeah, the last five, the idiot I am.

But when I see this situation, I'd give my last shirt.

-Why aren't you asleep? -Just look after yourself.

Now you're staring!

Don't act and take some.

-And take some salami to the girl. -Thanks.

In the end, we're still a family.

[music is playing]

Did you lose something, sir?

Don't you have a match, please?

Oh, but I forgot some cigarettes.

[music is playing]

-Someone there? -Come in, the hall is free.

What do you say to the gathering of the whole Sokol? That's ointment for the wounds!

So the Krauts will lose their appetite to provoke.

[music is playing]

My God!

I knew it.

[noise from the fair]

Bang!

[noise from the fair]

Show me!

Thanks.

Thanks.

This is my brother... and this is Pája.

Hi.

I invite you to the swing of death. Saltos, saltos, flights through the air.

Anybody who isn't afraid, follow me.

Not me, I'd die there.

And you, lady? I hope you have laced underwear.

[noise from the fair]

[music is playing]

[laughter]

What are you saying?

It's ok.

A little tiny, right? How far did you go already?

What you mean?

You know how, right?

Yeah, good.

What do you mean good?

Oh...

Pája!

-But we promised. -Why are you the way you are?

-Which way? -Objectionable.

Please, hide me.

Are you cold?

I'm afraid, Kajda.

Of what?

I can't tell you. Of everything, even myself.

I'm so stupid, I don't even deserve you.

You're so incredibly nice, smart, just everything so incredibly...

Oh how I loved her! How happy I was!

They said, that war was about to come, that they would bomb Prague

and I had the feeling I was starting to live,

that the world was opening up before me and falling at my feet.

[sounds of a plane]

Come with us, golden girl, to march

so you'll enjoy yourself

Left!

When the golden stars will be falling from the sky...

One patriot and one griotte, please.

Here!

Pepa, I won't.

All girls like griotte, so why are you acting up?

I know, but I don't want it.

Stroke the bear for luck.

Deference.

Don't start with any stupidities.

I'm not Kajda.

When you're going to be with him, then please.

But we're together now.

See!

Is it my fault, that I like both of you?

Why am I so skinny? I don't appeal to you, do I?

-I'm not partial to these little speeches. -This is how you work!

-Instead of work you stay with a dude! -Daddy, I only...

What only? Run home to the kids, or...

Don't be mad, father, we're just talking a little.

-Go home! -Drink a little.

She's from a good family! And not a mattress!

Kamelot: Chamberlain on the road to Munich!

Doesn't matter, we'll go to the Baráčkovy's place. They don't let harmonica players in there.

-Pepan! -Sorry.

-I should go home. -But I don't accept it and forbid it.

So, we're closing here, people.

Know what, Pepa?

Come, I'll take you somewhere.

What do you think? Isn't it perfect here?

What is it that has grown here? Am I a nut, or what?

-You think it's edible? -These aren't to be picked.

And who forbade it, hm?

The mister this place belongs to.

We can pick anything, except the grapes.

Just more of your nonsense. I'll even pick all of it.

And you won't, you're not allowed!

-No, Pepa, don't do it! -Don't come to me with this behavior.

-Just confess you're afraid. -I'm not.

But you are.

Of the mister, so he won't beat you up.

That's not true.

So of what?

[music is playing]

I don't even know.

So know what?

If you're not afraid, then you pick the grapes for me.

-Pepa! -Go on, girl!

Nothing can happen to you next to me.

[music is playing]

Too sour!

What are you doing here? Get out! Get lost right now!

What happened, miss? It's not meant to be eaten anyways.

I'll be happy to ante it up for you. I can buy tons of those at the market.

And get out, before I call a cop.

-Come! -What's wrong?

[noise of cars passing]

It was always a joy to watch you

when you were marching...

[noise of cars passing]

Why is the little bird flying with us

What news is he carrying...

What a day you've chosen!

-How much? -How long will you be there?

-Two hours. -Twenty.

And don't open the pipes, the taps are broken.

Come on already. Come...

Just light the small lamp and a blanket over the window. For darkening.

Yes.

What are you standing for?

Don't be afraid, I'm not going to do anything.

Get naked already!

Don't wait my dear, you won't live to see me

...Catherinian Sunday...

-Pepa! I beg you, no! -Don't be crazy, you wanted it!

Keep your hands up, dammit!

-Don't tell me you don't want to. -No, Pepa, I really like Kaja.

I endorse that, I like him too.

Don't think of him now, I'm with you now.

[moans]

Mine is the nicest of all she wept

Mine is the nicest of all...

Sixth Movement: The Story of the Shy Bottle

Cottages under the mountains

What happened to you

You used to be so beautiful

You our Czech cottages

Sorrowfully we now wander the world

Happiness is but a withered flower

and of you we talk with love

Just like our Republic! They sold her, whores.

Yeah, just everybody take a piece.

Get up girl, your time has come.

Yesterday I waited for you

When I cut the grass

I wanted to give you a kiss under the moon...

Why are you silent, fishes?

What's the problem? They bit us, we lost some lands, but we're still together.

Finally there is going to be order in this Republic. Bang!

The last one was quite the brothel anyways. Just lots of bullshit about democracy

-and in the end they would crawl to Moscow. -Go to hell!

I'm just as good a Czech as you are!

Tell me, Bursík, how did they put up with you.

Don't be afraid, now there's going to be enough work.

They're starting to make a highway. you could start right away.

But, sir, I'm a qualified cobbler!

-I know how to make shoes with my own hands. -I don't need that. You can't be picky.

Next, please.

[music is playing]

[laughter]

[music is playing]

Father, you're so nice to have come visit me.

I didn't come for you, daughter dear.

I'm going to this company that killed me and you work for now.

-Miss! -Coming. But it's not my fault.

So what are you doing here, where they eliminated your father?

-Miss, the customer is waiting. -That's my daughter.

-Private visitors are forbidden. -I'm not a private visitor.

-Do you have a request or a complaint? -I do, you have killed me nicely.

Send this to the Bat'a family. Come on, take it!

-Just no scandal. -Give my greetings.

Shorten it!

I'll rather leave.

You could get into trouble for me.

-But no.... -Věruška, you've grown!

You're such a beautiful lady, mom would be proud.

-You were smart to leave. -Daddy!

I'm going to get married soon, probably. Would you come to my wedding?

-If you won't be ashamed of me. -Daddy!

-Hey look, a boot tree! -Oh girls, show me!

-And this thing! -And an awl!

[laughter]

Drunk: What's the problem?

Come outside!

What happened, little brother?

Come outside, you pig!

She told me everything!

Show yourself, Ovidia!

[panting]

So what?

What's wrong?

Let me go, you bastard!

[panting]

Au!

[moaning]

That could be enough, right?

[moaning]

Au!

Leave it be! Or I'll kill you! Stop!

I'm gonna kill you, you pig!

I did not want this, little brother, really.

Go to hell!

-Leave me be! -Pája: Pepane

You killed him!

Get out you piece of shit! You bastard! I never want to see you again!

Kajda, my little Kajda...

-Go after him, he's not evil. -No, I want to stay with you.

Go after him!

You belong to him.

Go!

-So what's up with you? -Go!

Don't be afraid,

I'm alright.

[music is playing]

The Lesov hillsides dipped in gold by the sun

With the happiness of pure love they are sanctified

The Lesov hillsides nothing but rocks

There it comes after me my delight

There it comes after me my delight

[noise of an engine]

That's a fuck-up.

Pepa, dad threw me out of the apartment today.

What?

He can go to hell. You won't deliver on the pavement. You can come to our place.

-And what about Kajda? -No worries, I'll leave.

I'll make it, no worries.

You know who's inside?

How should I know? The face is behind bars.

So check the shoes.

So, goodbye.

And so I left Žižkov,

just like all of us have to leave our youth.

What once was, is not, and what remains, are memories.

of loves and bitterness, even unripened grapes.

I'm going to go on and there is a reason for it

Everybody lied to me and thus I say goodbye

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

Maybe it's desire

Maybe just mere passion

Or maybe I'm just dreaming too often

I've been looking for happiness for many years

And for love, some love together with him

And I'm waiting on the square

And I'm waiting in the suburbs

And I'm waiting, searching, yearning, dreaming

[music is playing] The End