All language subtitles for Damnation (1988)

STARRING

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DAMNATION

Let me in.

What for?

Let me in!

I've been thinking things over.

One has to learn to make
one's own decisions.

I'm staying with my family.

I'm going to try to make

my daughter different than us.

She'll have a different life.

We won't have to explain
things to her.

Let me in.

Go away.

Why can't you love me?

I love you
and you know it.

You've got nothing to lose, Karrer.

All you're risking is your own skin.

Take a look around.

You visit five lousy bars a day.

And collapse into your bed at night.

It's time you moved
out of here for a while.

What did you say?

You can't go on
endlessly drinking cheap brandy.

All it does
is put you in a daze.

It destroys your brain
and puffs up your liver.

I knew an old bum
whose hands were so shaky

he wrapped a scarf round his wrist
to get the glass up to his mouth.

He didn't stay here long.

I've never been abroad.

A change would do me good.

You go to the given address,

pick up the package
and bring it here.

You get 20% as traveling expenses.

Make it more tempting for me.

That's all you get.

It's not the money.

I just don't feel like
leaving here.

It's up to you.
I wanted to help...

What if...

I know someone...

who would collect the package,

for the 20%.

Plus petrol.

Petrol? You can't even drive.

I'm talking about someone else.

I can't trust just anybody.

Neither can I.

♪ Finished ♪

♪ It's finished ♪

♪ It's all over ♪

♪ And there won't be another ♪

♪ It won't be good ♪

♪ Ever again ♪

♪ Never more ♪

♪ Maybe never more ♪

♪ It's like a nightmare ♪

♪ All of it ♪

♪ Maybe ♪

♪ Is there someone new? ♪

♪ Where will he come from...
If he comes? ♪

♪ Or won't he come... ♪

♪ Ever again? ♪

♪ Maybe never more ♪

♪ Take it or leave it ♪

♪ What can you do? ♪

♪ You lose your words ♪

♪ Yet you cannot go ♪

♪ It's been over for a long time ♪

♪ It's good that utopia exists ♪

♪ Good to know
I won't be here long ♪

♪ Take it or leave it ♪

♪ Say, honey,
Why? ♪

♪ Is it over? ♪

♪ Is it over now? ♪

♪ And there won't be another ♪

♪ It won't be good ♪

♪ Ever again ♪

♪ Maybe never more ♪

♪ He's got my soul ♪

♪ Things are going his way ♪

♪ Without him
This world is barren ♪

♪ With him life is full
And happy ♪

♪ How could it be over? ♪

♪ Silly ♪

♪ Never again ♪

♪ Maybe never more ♪

♪ It's over ♪

♪ All over ♪

♪ There's no end ♪

♪ No end now ♪

♪ It can't fade ♪

♪ And it won't fade ♪

♪ Ever again ♪

♪ Never maybe ♪

♪ Maybe never more ♪

Leave my wife alone.

You're misunderstanding things.

All right.

The next time I find you here,

I'll break your neck.

He's completely insane.

Take my advice,

and don't go looking for trouble.

Go home now and go to bed.

All they can do...

is get you into trouble.

That woman is...

a witch.

And her husband has had it.

He'll never get away,
with all that debt he's piled up.

It'll happen to anyone
who makes a pass at that woman.

That woman is...

a leech.

She's a bottomless swamp...

who sucks you in
and swallows you up.

That's the sad end of it all, son.

Button up your coat properly.
You never know in this weather.

The fog gets into the corners,
into the lungs.

It settles in your soul.

We'll know what to cling to
once this world explodes.

Mouth to mouth, heart to heart,
star to star.

But there'll be no shame anymore
when the veil comes off.

I'm talking about Maya's veil.

That obscures people's minds.

Besides, Görgey was some strategist.

He told Paskievics:

"Look, if you want to kill Hungarians,
do it through an internal war.

"What do you mean?

"All I'm asking is a million.

"To renew your faith
and your honor!

"My honor?
Who would be witness to that?

"Who would see about it..."

It's true...

I could offer this to someone else,
but I thought of you.

The trip's only three days.

You pick up the parcel
and bring it home.

- How much?
- 20%.

All right.

This way,
it's a nice family story.

But it finishes like
any other story.

Because stories end badly.

All stories are
about disintegration.

The heroes always disintegrate,

and they disintegrate
the same way.

If they didn't,

it wouldn't be disintegration,
but revival.

And I'm not talking about revival,
but disintegration.

Irrevocable disintegration.

So, what's about to
happen here

is just one form of ruin
amongst the million that exist.

So if they put you in jail
because of your debts,

don't count on temporary ruin.

Because this ruin is always final,

as ruin generally is.

At the same time,

there might just be a way
to stop this ruin.

Mainly with money,
and not by playing the hero.

Needless to say it doesn't help
the inevitability of this breakdown.

Perhaps a single crack
can be covered over...

I like the rain.

I like to watch the water
run down the window.

It always calms me down.

I don't think about anything.

I just watch the rain.

I'm not attached to
anything anymore.

I don't depend on anyone.

I'm going to leave.

Because nothing is stable here.

I can't trust anyone.

I know that I'm alone.

I know it well.

But I can't give up...

and I won't give up.

Big city audiences will applaud me.

I'll be a winner.

I don't let other people
drag me down.

One must return to beauty.

Rediscover life again.

The joy of great things.

The taste of victory and success.

And that's where you've failed.

Because you've given up.

You've killed the love

and decency in yourself.

Things will end badly for you.

Because one cannot
live without love...

and decency.

You really might be stronger than me.

You don't know what I can do.

And what I can't do.

On the house.

Do you know the Old Testament,
young man?

"They have blown the trumpet

"and made everything ready,

"no one will go into battle,

"for my wrath is on the whole crowd.

"Outside is the sword,
inside are plague and famine.

"Those in the country
shall die by the sword,

"those in the city are devoured
by famine and plague.

"The fugitives who escape
shall flee to the mountains,

"moaning like the doves of the valleys,

"each for his own sins.

"Hands shall go limp,
knees shall become weak as water.

"Horror shall descend upon them.

"They shall throw their silver
into the streets, their gold shall be unclean.

"Their silver and gold cannot save them
on the day of the Lord's wrath.

"It will not satisfy their hunger,
or fill their stomachs,

"for it has caused them
stumble into sin.

"I turn my face away from them,

"as they desecrate
my treasured place.

"The land is full of bloodshed
and the city is full of violence.

"I will bring the most wicked of the nations
to take possession of their houses.

"When terror comes,

"they shall seek peace,
but there shall be none.

"They shall seek in vain
a vision from the prophet,

"they will receive no teaching
from the priests,

"and no counsel from the elders.

"The hands of the people of the land
shall tremble.

"I shall deal with them
according to their conduct...

"and by their own standards
I shall judge them.

"Then they shall know...

"that I am the Lord."

I see you have to go.

I won't keep you any longer.

Let's go out for dinner.

Our business is finished.

There's nothing for you here.

I don't understand.

What don't you understand?

I still don't understand.

You will, one day.

But I want to understand now.

- Then understand now!
- But I don't understand.

You will, one day.

Let's go out for dinner.

Let go of me!

Dirty little snooper.

Calm down!

You won't get away with it.

No way.

You'll rot like a rat!

- You're totally crazy.
- Leave me alone!

Let me go!

Leave me alone!

- Take it easy!
- Get out of here!

- Leave me alone!
- Stop it!

Leave me alone!
Get out of here!

♪ ...they all fell,
And were swept away ♪

♪ By the cold winter winds. ♪

♪ There was a message from ♪

♪ My baby
On one of the leaves: ♪

♪ Goodbye my love,
My darling, ♪

♪ We can't live our lives together. ♪

♪ Autumn and the grim winter passed, ♪

♪ Springtime came again, ♪

♪ There was a message ♪

♪ From my baby
On one of the leaves... ♪

♪ Goodbye my love,
My darling, ♪

♪ We can't live our lives... ♪

♪ The leaves from the silver birch
Have fallen, ♪

♪ They all fell
And were swept away ♪

♪ By the cold winter winds. ♪

♪ There was a message from my baby
On one of the leaves: ♪

♪ Goodbye my love,
My darling, ♪

♪ We can't live our lives together. ♪

♪ ...springtime came again. ♪

♪ There was a message from ♪

♪ My baby
On the leaves: ♪

♪ Goodbye my love,
My darling... ♪

Leave me alone.

Listen to me.

- I'm sorry--
- I've had enough of you.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

- Stop, or I'll kill you.
- Leave me alone.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

- You know I didn't.
- Get away from me.

You're right about everything.

I admit you're right
about everything.

You know that I love you.

I couldn't lie to you now.
I will change.

I promise I'll change,
but you have to help me.

Hit me if you want to...

When you looked at me yesterday,

I realized something.

I realized that, between you
and a world forever out of reach,

there is a strange and empty tunnel.

I don't know anyone else
who knows that road.

You're standing alone
at the entrance to the tunnel,

because you know something
I can't even find a name for,

something deeper
and more ruthless

than I can ever understand.

I realize that I can never get
closer to that world.

I can only long for it...

because it's hidden by
a light and warmth that I cannot bear.

I've neither been able to
believe in it nor to renounce it.

Yesterday I realized
I had made a fatal mistake.

If I were to lose you,

it would be
the unforgivable end of me,

because I know nothing
of that unnameable world.

Since you are part of it,

you mean the world to me.

That can never change.

Please don't repudiate me.

Let me see you,
and I'll do anything for you.

Kick me, spit on me —
and I'll return again and again

for you to kick and spit on.

Because you are right,

you are ruthlessly right.

And I really do love you.

Are you just going to stand there?

I sit by the window and look out
completely in vain.

For years and years
I've been sitting there,

and something always tells me that
in the next minute I'll go mad.

But I don't go mad
the next minute,

and I have no fear of going mad...

because fear of madness would mean
that I'd have to cling to something.

Yet I don't cling to anything.

I cling to nothing, but everything
clings to me. They want me to look at them.

To look at the hopelessness of things.

To watch, as a scruffy dog
outside my window walks up to a puddle

and has a drink, under the pewter sky
in the torrential rain.

They want me to watch
the pitiful effort...

everyone makes
when trying to speak

before they drop
into the grave.

But there's no time,

for they're already falling.

And they want this
irreversibility of things to drive me mad,

but the next second
they want me not to go mad.

Once, I almost talked about it
with a woman.

I told her that I hated her,
that I'd never loved her.

Yet I didn't hate her,
just like I'd never loved her.

I wanted to know if it
made sense to speak at all.

I told her that I hated
her tenderness, her faithfulness,

her being so neat and precise.

I was revolted by the blind trust
with which she clung to me.

She looked at me disapprovingly

and went off to
heat up my supper.

I just stood there and yelled.

For three days, we stayed inside.
She kept walking behind me.

She only started crying
the second day.

She stood crying in her nightie.

She didn't sob,
she just whimpered.

Just wailing without moving.

Then she crawled into the corner

and wouldn't move.

I was looking at her nightie.

All I saw was the nightie...

that lacy nylon nightie.

Then I jumped on her.

I pulled it and tore it,
I ripped it.

But she still didn't understand,

she just kept clinging to me
and repeating something to me.

Then she went into the bathroom
and locked the door.

I just watched the buckets of coal
in the air...

and counted them.

Then I started all over
and counted them again.

I don't know how long it lasted.

It was dawn
by the time I broke the door down.

It was what I'd expected,

but even so,
it shocked me.

I couldn't believe that frail body
had so much blood in it.

Just as I'd never have believed

there'd be somebody I could trust
the way I trust you,

somebody who could
make me believe it's worth speaking.

I know you understand that I love you
and that it's not over.

And that you're able to
step out of this story like any other.

And I don't want anything...

only that we should
get out of this pigsty forever

and never lose each other again.

So now...

it's me you want to look at?

I'd do the basest things...

to make you choose me.

Maybe.

But my husband returns
tomorrow evening.

The problem is,
I'm afraid of children.

Because those innocent
bright blue eyes,

those blond braids,

those tinkling voices,

hide a stealthy and ruthless power,

and its purpose is to maintain
the madness of hopelessness.

To give a new incentive
to the reality beating on our eardrums,

to ridicule all resistance

without the tiniest chance of salvation.

Yet they proclaim
a minute chance of salvation,

resurrection itself,

and in such a way that we cannot
escape its elemental continuity.

Perhaps it just means
that I've given up,

that I'm a coward,
a godawful coward.

I don't even dare hope my fate
will change for the better.

All I do is make excuses
for my cowardice through nausea.

How about thinking of
something other than yourself for once?

Can't you understand?

I've grown old.

I'm a wreck who doesn't
dare to do anything.

That's the surest sign of getting old.

Even before your teeth fall out,

before you go bald,

before you destroy your liver,

your courage departs
and you haven't the guts

to do what you would have done before

to try for the slightest chance of success.

Your problem is that
you see things from your perspective.

You think how you feel about
yourself or others

makes a difference?

You should realize that things
have an order in the world

and you can't do anything
to upset that.

Other people get old, too.

Do you think we're all cowards?

No.

I know that you yourself
are just cautious.

All right. Drink up.
I'm closing.

Give me another one.

This is the last.

I wish I knew...

what makes you think you'll survive
anything and anyone?

Why don't things have an effect on you?

I don't understand that.

There are lots of things
you don't understand, Karrer.

Doesn't matter.

Drink!

You, too!

There's always a chance to escape.

There may be cracks
in the fabric of things.

But there's always a chance.

Only you won't get away with it.

If I don't break your neck,
someone else will.

Things will end badly for you,
I'm sure.

I'll drink to that.

And to you!

I can't put up with your friend.

What's wrong with him?

I don't like people who
try to cheat you from the start.

He has a lot to learn
before he takes me on.

He shouldn't try it
at my expense.

He cheated you?

The package has been opened.

- Things are missing.
- Why not ask?

He'd say
it was damaged on the journey.

Is there a lot of damage?

I have my safety margins.

But my reliability's at stake.

You know me...

people can talk to me,

discuss things.

I've got a good heart.

He should be glad
I pulled him out of trouble.

I'll never understand his kind.

I'm just sitting here
mourning for you, darling.

Counting the time until I'm seventy.

We never had a son,

and others had more to lose.

But I won't see you after death, love.

Because I didn't believe in it.

And you had your doubts.

It's just around twilight
when I think of you.

I see your tired forehead
in the dust.

What a lovely colorful crowd.
A party.

Dance.

Arms and legs, waists and shoulders,
working in perfect harmony.

The way they speak...

movements,

glances that raise the dancer

over earthly troubles.

The young are so lovely.

Believe me,

there is nothing like...

finding one another...

when there is music that warms the heart.

Two hands clasped together,

one foot senses where
the other will step.

And follows,
no matter where the other steps.

Because it believes they'll be
flying from now on.

From every swing and turn.

Who knows?
Perhaps...

it is flying.

Go on, young man,

before it's too late.

Believe me, there is nothing worse
in a man's life

then when he realizes
that those he loves,

those he feels are friends...

well, when suddenly it turns out

that they're on
a fatal path and cannot find the proper way.

Because their sins prevent them

from ever becoming
honest citizens again,

because they've lost
the chance forever

to live freely with
a clear conscience

under the protection of the law,

enjoying their days.

So...

it was this awful inner tension
that brought me here,

setting the affectionate friend in me aside,

to fulfill my duties,

because of my deep respect for order.

Please do not consider my report
a confidential case.

Not cheap tattling.

And I authorize you,
if necessary,

to mention my name.

Since I've told you everything,

aware of my responsibilities,

and facing all the consequences...

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