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♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving in the... ♪

Patricia.

♪ That I'll be leaving in the fairest of the season ♪

♪ Should I stay or should I go ♪

So, I have a patient that is coming in five minutes.

I can ask him to come back later, please.

♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving in the fairest of the season ♪

♪ Leaving... In the... ♪

This song, it's stuck in my head, and it's so loud.

They're going to try and keep her alive after all.

Markos?

I have to tell Sara to get out of there.

She's the only girl I actually give a damn about.

If I leave without her they may pick her next.

Or Olga

I should warn Olga, too.

Olga's already figured out things.

She saw how they groomed me.

There's more in that building than what you can see.

They've been underground since the war.

And you think they can hear you now?

At the beginning they gave me things. Perfect balance, perfect sleep.

Talking with our minds.

But they took my hair.

They took my urine. They took my eyes!

Now she can see me.

♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving in the fairest of the season ♪

♪ I'll be leaving... ♪

Mother Markos.

Oh, she wants to get inside of me.

I can feel her.

Oh, I thought I wanted it.

I let it happen.

If they find out I was here they won't hesitate.

Morning, pastor.

- You're Miss Tanner. - Yes, come in.

Nah?

I tried to call you at your hotel this morning to ask you if you could reschedule.

- Why? - Company business. It's not a good time just today.

But here you are.

And six, and seven, and eight..

Elbows up. And one...

Come in, Susie.

Miss Millius and Miss Mandel are the company's apetitas.

And Viva Blanc? I was told she would be here.

Oh dear, you have no formal training or references.

Your insistence to audition happened to catch Madame Blanc on a good day.

But you really shouldn't be here at all.

Do you understand? Yeah? Good.

I prefer dancing without music. Danke shoen.

You can keep time in your head, yes?

Hypnos. Here we have the line between the elbows. Face forward. Perfect.

And morphos. Here, not so close to the face.

More like you're holding a bird or something.

- ..or something. - They did it when we were in morning rehearsal.

They just put her things in shipping boxes.

You don't think she had to go underground, do you?

I don't care what happened. I just wanted a call.

I'm really worried.

Fraulein Bannion. Kommen Sie.

I've just spoken with Madame Blanc.

Well done, Miss Bannion.

I imagine you will need to return home to settle things and make arrangements for moving to Berlin.

No, no, I can start right now.

Good!

This is Miss Boutaher, our technical director.

Guten tag.

And this is Miss Vendegast, she acts as house mother.

...for our dancers who reside here.

Where do you come from?

Ohio.

We operate as sort of a cooperative, as we cannot pay our dancers a lot of money.

We offer dormatory style homes, rent free.

You don't charge anything at all?

Not a mark.

In this company we fully understand the importance of a woman's financial autonomy.

Normally we would be full at this time of year, but we have had a room open.

Yeah. Patricia's.

Do you know Patricia?

Mmm...

No, I heard some girls talking about her in the hall.

Now that you're one of us, I won't be coy. Patricia has just left the company under sad circumstances.

We think she won't be back, so there's room if you want.

We'll send you one of our girls to help you with your luggage.

After lunch? It's alright for you?

Yes! It's all... yes. It's perfect.

- Hello, hi, I'm sorry I'm late. It's the rain. - Hi.

Whenever it rains, everyone jumps in a cab and like an idiot I just let ours go.

Hi, I'm Sara, and we're going to have to take our chances on the street.

Do you have an umbrella?

Oh, when you weren't here by 6, I had to take the room for another night.

God, Susie, I'm sorry, everything was a mess at the company today.

Why are you smiling?

I'm sorry, um, when you said Berlin a second ago you said everyone in Berlin

and I just thought, that includes me now, I live in Berlin.

Yes, congrats. I heard you were a sensation today.

Have you called your family yet, to tell them?

Miss Blanc came into my audition.

- But she left right after. - She's incredible.

The way she transmits her work, her energy. When it shines on you it's addictive is the word for it.

She's tough. She kept the company alive through the war.

When the right just wanted women to shut off their minds and keep their uteruses open.

There was Blanc.

Thank you.

What? Was that French?

It's a bomb! I can smell it.

There's a bank that way.

Don't you know what's happening here?

The hijackers are negotiating the release of the prisoners tonight.

The RAF. Baader Meinhoff.

They kidnapped an executive, during war, the Nazi SS

an officer, and now he run's the German employer's association.

You don't get how awful that is, do you?

I'm sorry.

I'm just worried about my friend.

Danke shoen.

Bedrooms are on the second floor.

Why don't you try speaking to me like you love me? Hm?

For a change?

This is my room. And here... is yours!

We're neighbors

You can knock on the wall if you ever need anything.

- Good morning. Good morning. - Hello. - Good morning.

How's your knee? Okay?

Thank you.

We have some happier company business today, we have a new dancer.

This is Susie Bannion, who is joining us from America.

I was privileged to witness her audition yesterday, we are very lucky to have her.

Would you like to say something, Susie?

Um, I don't know.

Hello

I feel like I'm not even here yet, I don't know.

You join in whenever you feel ready, but there's no rush. Welcome to our little family.

- I'm Susie. - Hi.

Alright, so for today's rehearsal, I want to pick up exactly where we left off with Volk.

I've spoken with Olga, and she's going to dance Patricia's part.

And, Sara, I'd like you to dance Olga's part.

Is everyone happy with that? Ok, good.

No, no no, music off please! One moment.

Ok, so, and one and two and three. You pull it from the ground, alright?

Gravity, remember. And everyone from here, please? And Tanner

One and two and three. And one and two and three

- This is shit. Such shit. - Ok.

Ok, why don't we all break for ten minutes.

- You can't even be bothered to respect your lies - Miss Ivanova!

No no no no no. It's ok.

Let's face this.

Patricia is gone, Olga. We don't know where. If she's gone into hiding, she wouldn't have told us, would she?

- She was have told someone. - We know she had dealings with people who were interested in targets.

- We know there was another bomb in Kreuzberg last night. - She wouldn't do that.

Shhshhshh. She wanted to live her beliefs. Who doesn't admire that?

There's so much to change in the world. If she wants to live in a cellar filling bottles with petrol, that's her choice.

And who won't be heartbroken if she's shot by police.

You manipulate everything.

- She didn't trust you because you are hypocrites!

- Will you take Olga to her room, please, Tanner?

No, Miss Tanner!

Call Olga a cab. She's had enough.

And is going to pack her things and get the fuck out of this box of rabies.

I'm sorry about that.

It's a hot thing we do.

Ok, so, who will dance the protagonist?

- Sonja? - I can't. Not yet.

Caroline?

Very well. We'll manage. I suggest that we all take it from the top.

I'll dance.

I know it. It's in the documentary.

I-I've seen it a hundred times at the library.

Sweetheart, we rehearsed this piece

for ten months before we performed it.

- I've seen it in person too. - First do it alone, then.

We don't want to put the others at risk.

The last thing we need

is someone to get kicked in the ribs.

All right?

Ok, stop. Stop, stop.

Alright. Clear your head. I want you to start over. Have you stretched?

This is no joke.

Olga.

Olga.

Come over here! Come.

Come to me.

Remember you start on one with the music, and if you feel ill at any time, just stop. You start here.

And...

Louder!

Bravo. Bravo, Susie.

It'll pass.

You're not the first dancer who lost the room.

I'm not usually dizzy.

An occasional collapse is a vocational hazard I'm afraid.

I... I didn't... I didn't collapse.

You're on the floor and that's not where the dance ends.

I was trying not to throw up in your studio.

Susie, it's fine. It was wonderful.

Sara, could you take her to her room please?

You can rest for the rest of the day.

- How unlikely. - OK, come on girls. Let's go.

And one, and two, and three.

And...

No, Susie. We have to study America.

I said no.

Susanna.

You don't look better.

Or are you this pale all the time?

I will leave you.

Good night.

The Amish split from the Mennonites in the 17th century.

They were worried the Mennonites were becoming too liberal.

"They", not "we"?

You've left religious thinking behind you then?

Are you not comfortable talking about these things?

I don't know why we are.

It's difficult not to be curious about you.

In two days you've auditioned, been accepted and danced a lead.

How did your journey towards us begin?

I went to New York, to the Martha Graham Center.

I saw you there three times.

I went once by bus and I hitchhiked the other two.

That's risky.

Were you punished?

Yeah.

But I felt I had to see you.

What did it feel today to dance Volk in front of the one who made it?

I know that's a vain question. Let me ask you another.

When you were dancing what did it feel like

inside you, inside your body?

It felt like what I think it must feel like to fuck.

You mean to fuck a man.

No, I... was thinking of an animal.

You looked...

I'm going to ask Caroline to work on your jumps with you.

Yours are nowhere near good enough yet.

We'll have to build you up.

So that I can dance the protagonist when you perform it.

I need to see you dance at this level time and time again.

I can do it.

Olga made Volk seem like such heavy lifting.

She never understood the heart of Vol.

She lacked conviction.

I'm relieved she's gone.

Thank you for your help with that.

Madame Blanc wants me to dance the protagonist in Volk.

I didn't think it was going to be like this.

She's so kind.

That's wonderful.

Are you all right?

I'm fine. I was just...

I was just thinking about what Olga said in rehearsal... about Patricia.

What do you mean?

She was active in some political groups.

No one knows where she is really, if she's all right.

Was it true... what Olga said?

Yes.

Patricia didn't trust the matrons.

And I never understood why.

If I asked you for a favor tomorrow would you do it?

Yes.

We might get caught.

Okay.

Mother. Mother.

Mother. Mother.

Susanna.

- Guten Morgen. - Guten Morgen.

Guten Morgen.

Okay, well, let's meet soon.

Yeah, right across from...

Yeah, no, I'm ready. I'm almost out the door.

- I'll see you soon. - Marketa.

- Marketa, come on. - I'll see you soon.

Come on.

Come, come, come.

Are you sure no one's coming?

Oh, I'm sure. Don't worry.

Nobody comes here during the weekend.

Patricia's isn't here.

Try looking for Olga's.

Olga...

She's not here.

I just need a number.

For her parents.

Or someone who can tell me for sure she is or isn't in Berlin.

How odd.

1961.

1955.

1949.

It's bizarre.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Here kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.

There's nothing. Come on.

Sit down.

This morning we turn our instincts inward. Miss Milius, Miss Mandel, can you close the mirrors please?

Miss Marks, no music.

I want to start work on a new piece, a piece about rebirths.

The inevitable pull that they exert, and our efforts to escape them.

We learn it now, but Susie, you will improvise freely at its heart.

I'm interested in your instincts here.

The piece will be called Wieder Offnen, Open Again.

Allez.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four...

One.

Did something happen?

- Hmm? - To you, during it?

No.

Did you... did you...

Did you feel something there?

Someone?

Or just something.

What made you say that?

I don't know.

Am I confusing you?

No, it's, um...

It's odd... It's the...

The sort of thing Patricia would say. Bizarre.

Come on.

Let's get changed or Sonia will leave without us.

I've got a dress you can wear.

Double caposhi.

Susie!

Oh, Susie!

Is it true?

Is it true?

I know who I am!

I know who I am!

It's all right. It's OK.

Is she all right?

It's just a nightmare.

Markos company special.

I'm surprised it took this long.

Hey, let me know if she needs a Valium.

She's right. I dreamt of hairballs and toilets

for three weeks before I got a decent night of sleep here.

Move over.

I've only ever slept in bed with my sister.

We're sisters now.

Herr Klemperer?

And one, and two, and three, and one, and two, and three...

Do you want to do the jumps?

OK

And one, and two, and three, and one, and two, and three

No, elbows higher.

All right, one moment.

Susie, part of the jump is muscle, and that will develop as you condition

but you seem to have an aversion to them and I don't quite see why.

Are you so happy to be stuck to the earth?

There's a yield before the push which I don't think you're quite understanding.

Caroline. Could you come and do a series for us, please?

Thank you.

And now you.

What I really want is to be on the floor right now anyway.

Well, of course. That's because you're mistaking physical weakness with artistic preference.

And because you're tired.

At this point, the jumps are opposing the pull of the structure but...

It's soon for that, don't you think?

The floor work is-is keeping the other dancers pushed down...

So this-this could echo that.

...on-on a slightly higher point of elevation.

If I stay close to the ground now, and go straight into the jumps where you have them later

Then that's more to the point.

The resistance is more emphatic.

Right?

I don't know how aware you are

of what times we lived through here 40 years ago.

Out of which this piece was made.

We learned a great cost through those years, the value of the balance of things.

Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.

But we must aim upwards.

We need to get you in the air.

Leave her, leave her, leave her!

I heard it. I hope...

I'm looking for a dancer from your company.

Who are you looking for?

You are Sara.

Yes. May I help you?

I am a friend from Patricia.

I don't know what to make of any of this.

I know the kind of thing she was involved with, but I can't see how any of this woud be happening inside the company.

Well, she describes something like a revolutionary organization and a crisis of leadership.

With Markos very ill...

I live there. I have friends there. I don't see any evidence of this at all.

No one has ever approached me or any of the other girls as far as I know.

Well, read this.

What is this?

This is Patricia's diary.

Mother Markos, mother Meinhof

The dance rehearsal, polital action

these two areas in Patricia's life were of equal importance.

This is how transformation happens.

How delusion is made.

Delusions are lies that tell the truth.

- This says "witches." - Mmm.

Maybe Patricia's fantasies about witches

they are her way of processing some other form of intrigue.

The company's a family. There's a lot of love there.

Love and manipulations, they share houses very often. They're frequent bedfellows.

Sorry, I don't see this.

Eat.

Eat.

Only...

maybe the police, they missed something.

Our Patricia, she did spoke of whole hidden areas of the building.

Actual rooms that are secret.

I don't want to be disrespectful. I don't.

- But you're asking me and I'm telling you. - Oh, please.

It's a dance company. We're not talking about anything else.

Sara. Please, only look closer.

Thank you for caring for Patricia

but I hope you don't come again.

- Good night. - Good night.

Sara, hurry up.

I'm tired. I need the bathroom.

- Good night, Doll. - Good night.

She hasn't come back yet?

Maybe she's seeing somebody.

Part of the issue always is not being able to see your body in the space.

One angle in one mirror or on film is not enough.

Movement is never mute. It is a language.

It's a series of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences.

Like poems.

Like prayers.

Spells?

When you jump it's not the height but the space beneath you that matters.

Every leap into the air must be a coup de foudre.

- I don't understand. - A strike of lightning.

A bolt of love, in fact.

That's beautiful.

There are two things that dance can never be again: beautiful and cheerful.

Today we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing.

And if you are going to be a dancer you must learn French.

When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator.

You empty yourself so that her work can live within you.

Do you understand?

Yeah.

You're in a company now. You have to find your right place. You have to decide what you want to be for this company.

Is it the head? The spine? The sex? The heart?

The hands.

I want to be this company's hands.

Higher... Higher... Higher...

Higher... Higher! Higher!

Higher.

Higher! Higher!

Higher!

Higher. Higher! Higher!

Higher! Higher! Higher!

Sometimes I only need to be told twice.

55, 56, 57, 58, 59-

60, 61, 62, 63.

65, 64, 63, 62.

23, 22, 21.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

Two, one.

Patricia wrote about three mothers, lost in time, predating all Christian invention.

Pre-god, pre-devil. Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum

and Mother Suspiriorum.

Darkness, Tears and Sighs.

I saw images of that last night in porcelain and these very fine things.

You can tell they have money.

Patricia said that Markos claims to be one of the three.

But there is disent amongst them. She wrote about Markosites and Blancites.

An internal division.

Madame Blanc's involved in this?

Do they believe they're witches?

You can give someone your delusion, Sara.

That's religion.

That was the Reich.

The Reich had these things.

Insignia. Esoteric ritual.

These mothers, yeah, they could be codenames for founding members with metaphoric histories, I don't know.

But I do know you're living with dangerous people.

Patricia could still be in-

...in there.

They could be holding her in the building.

Well, I can not promise that your searches will come back to inspect a cabinet full of porcelain

after all that has happened. But we can try.

And in the meantime you must take care of yourself. Perhaps you should leave.

You have somewhere you can go?

I'll figure it out.

And I think you should put this back.

Or better still, you leave it here.

Not good for them to know that you have it.

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him

anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick.

And the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins-

My daughter.

...they shall be forgiven him.

My last one.

She's my sin... She's what I smear on the world.

You're making some kind of deal with them.

I don't know what you're talking about.

How can you know what they're going to ask you in return?

Sara, whatever you have in your mind, nothing is wrong.

You just haven't seen the bill yet.

Nothing's wrong.

What's the matter with you?

Huh?

You don't be so afraid about the white, Susie.

They need to see you from the very back row.

Where is Sara?

She came early in the morning

did her makeup and left.

Girls, Vier Minuten!

Four minutes!

Vier Minuten!

Sara. Sara.

Patricia. Patricia.

Patricia, I knew it! Sorry it took me so long. I'm so sorry.

- What did they do to you? - They would come here every day.

It's all over now. I'll get you out.

The performance is starting upstairs. Everyone will be looking the other way.

Get up. Get up.

Patricia!

Patricia, get up!

Get up.

Sara!

Sara!

Markos! Markos! Markos! Markos!

Marketa, where is Sara?

Sara!

- I don't know. - Is she upstairs?

No. I looked.

Just dance as if she's with you.

Sara!

Go.

No.

Sara, lie still.

- No! - Sara.

Please!

No! No!

I'm sorry I went off book.

This can't happen again. You're only just starting to understand, Susie.

We brought Sara back upstairs to try to complete the performance in time.

- But then you derailed it. - Did I hurt those people?

Not this time. They saw her dance.

That's all.

It's all a mess, isn't it? The one out there...

The one in here.

The one that's coming.

Why is everyone

so ready to think the worst is over?

I could explain everything to you.

I think it would be wrong, though.

One, two, three, four...

Herr Doktor.

I'm ready, Madame.

You look afraid.

She's afraid for you.

There will be nothing of you left inside.

Only space... for me.

I came here for this.

You've all waited long enough.

It is happening.

It is happening!

You come here.

Hmm?

You must have no doubts, Susie. If you do, I can take you back. I can take all of this from your head.

You can forget everything.

I want this to be pure.

We all know what you want.

This isn't for vanity. This isn't

art!

There's something wrong here. Can you not feel it? This isn't right. We have to stop this now.

We've been on two sides of this for too long now.

If you accept me

you must put down the woman who bore you.

Think of that false mother now.

Reject her.

Expel her.

You have the only mother you need here. Death to any other mother. Say it.

Death to any other mother.

Who are you?

For whom were you anointed, which of the three mothers?

Mother death.

Mother Suspiriorum.

I am she.

Markos.

Markos!

Markos!

Markos.

Death to any other mother.

Markos.

Markos!

Markos!

Markos!

♪ Unmade ♪

♪ Unmade ♪

♪ I swear that there's nothing ♪

♪ I swear there's nothing... ♪

I am the mother.

- What do you ask? - To die.

Mother, we're so tired.

- What do you ask? - To die.

I want to die.

Sweet girl.

What do you ask?

Tired.

♪ Come under my wings ♪

♪ Come under my wings ♪

♪ Come under my wings ♪

- ♪ Under my wings. ♪ - Yes.

Dance. Dance. Keep dancing.

It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

Good. Good.

My god, what a night.

I definitely drank too much wine.

Guten Morgen.

Good morning.

I regret what my daughters did to you.

I wasn't in a position to prevent it.

I believe you deserve to know the truth.

Your wife did try to make it south

to Teplice.

She was apprehended by border guards

in the woods just outside of Glashütte.

She was then taken to Theresienstadt camp.

She lived there for 20 days.

On the 11th of November, 1943

the commandant of the camp, a man named Burger...

ordered all 40,000 detained there

stand outside in the cold for a census.

Hours and hours passed.

Some hundreds died of exposure.

Your wife had two women with her as she died.

Women she had befriended

who made her feel that she was not alone.

Her final thoughts were of her birthday when you took her to a concert as a surprise.

Chopin and Brahms.

It was the first time you held her hand.

She was cold when she died.

But she wasn't afraid.

She was thinking only of you.

Of Anke Meier...

...of Patricia Hingle...

...of Sara Simms...

...of Susanna Bannion...

of all the women of your undoing...

...every memory will vanish.

They will melt away in the sun

and be gone.

Herr Doctor.

- Ja? - Ja.

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