Original subtitles

[Sascha] I don't want to be like you or my parents.

[shot]

-Double suicide. -It can not go on like this.

Your brother is going crazy. Company, children, he puts everything at risk.

You want full commitment. I totally understand that.

Do you want a divorce? Or what's going on?

You question everything!

[Carmen] You can replace Frank if I agree.

It's quite a mess you're pulling off there.

Does this awaken Frank's spirits?

Is he fighting for his children, for his wife?

I'm the man of the house!

[Frank] You always throw fuel on the fire and watch everything burn down.

Class of '29, Volkssturm, total war, woke up!

If I do it the way my elders want, I'll want to kill myself in 20 years.

-Or you become a mother and an alcoholic. -[Sascha] I am.

You don't know what it means to have a family!

Have children first!

I'm burning, Frank.

[spherical music]

[distorted voices]

[Sasha stammers]

Sascha, you have to stay awake! Do you hear me?

Dad, drive faster!

-[Frank] I'm driving as fast as I can. -She's really into it.

-Oh God! Dad, she's going to die! -Not if we keep calm.

[Max] She's really into it.

Stick your finger down her throat again!

I'm driving, Becky!

-Forget it. What if she has AIDS? -Oh God!

Hey. Hello?

Do you hear me? We just found you.

Do you remember that?

-We'll put them in the twelve. -She took this one, this one too.

-And the little ones there. -What is that?

Uh... Becky, give me the pack!

This is brompaxesperm.

No, bromazepam.

Bromazepam!

Thank you for the effort. We make it.

["Walkig downtown" by Meister Feat. Erik Penny]

♪ This girl went down ♪

♪ And she won't pull herself together anymore ♪

♪ Down, down, down ♪

♪ And now she's walking into the city center ♪

♪ Where will she go? ♪

♪ Where I don't hang around ♪

♪ Who will she meet? ♪

[Carmen] Je veux. Je voulais.

Je voulus. future tense?

Quelqu'un le sait?

When I saw her yesterday with her husband,

It tore my heart apart.

Like a phone book.

[Man] Sessantanove.

And I asked myself: Does she still love him?

But then why is she sleeping with me?

And then I thought.

He, she, me.

It's all nature. There's only one solution.

-[Opera aria] -Novantadue.

I'll just give it a shot.

Bam!

This is Darwin. Do you understand?

Yes, when things get tough, who does she go to?

Look around the world. It's war.

And who is the protector?

Me, not him.

I just have to show her that.

You're right.

Bam!

A la semaine prochaine.

[Carmen sighs]

[steps]

[the door closes]

[melancholic piano music]

[a woman clears her throat]

You screwed everything up.

Who are you, then?

I am you, you idiot!

It's 1993. I've just given up Maik Fischer so

that Frank Sporbert can come into our lives.

And now I ask myself: was it worth it?

Maik Fischer has been dead for years.

He left his wife 500,000. She has had a younger man for two years.

-I had no idea. -Exactly, you didn't.

Stop!

I stand by my decision. Leaving Frank was the right thing to do.

Leaving Frank was a shitty idea!

[regular beeping]

Is this hell?

You know that pills are an unsafe thing.

I'm a coward too.

I...

I didn't want you to feel abandoned.

I'm here.

[Sasha laughs]

You me-obsessed asshole. We haven't known each other for that long.

Why are you doing something like that?

God, Frank.

You know what? I asked you the same question earlier this week.

Yes.

And?

Didn't that bother you too?

I answered you.

OK.

Help me out of here and then I'll tell you everything, okay?

[loud beeping]

[the beeping stops]

Technically you're dead now.

Then I would also like to have such an awesome wheelchair.

Thank you very much.

[door]

-[Becky] We have to go to school, Dad. -Take the bus.

-Then we'll be late. -Oh my God. Late for school.

Max, we're going to kill ourselves now too. Maybe you’ll think of us too!

[Max] Did you see the scar?

[Sascha] Do you know where my clothes are?

In the trash. They were totally messed up.

Great.

[Papageno aria from Mozart's "Magic Flute"]

Have you ever been so in love that every second felt like a gift?

♪ Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪ ♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa ♪

♪ Papapapagena ♪

♪ Papa Papageno ♪

♪ Are you now completely given to me? ♪

♪ Now I am completely devoted to you ♪

♪ Well, be like that, my dear bitch! Well, so be my heart's dust! ♪

♪ My dear female, my heart dust ♪

♪ What joy will that be? ♪

♪ What joy will that be? ♪

♪ If the gods consider us ♪

♪ If the gods consider us ♪

♪ Give to our dear children ♪

♪ Give to our dear children ♪

♪ So dear little children ♪

♪ Little child ♪

♪ Little child ♪

♪ Little child ♪

♪ So dear little children ♪

♪ So dear little children ♪

♪ First a little Papageno ♪

♪ Then a little Papagena ♪

♪ Then another Papageno ♪

♪ Then another Papagena Papageno ♪

♪ Papagena! Papageno! Papageno! Papagena! ♪

♪ Papageno! ♪

♪ It's the highest of feelings ♪

♪ It's the highest of feelings ♪

♪ When many... When many Pa-Pa-Papageno ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papagena ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papageno ♪

♪ Parents' blessings will be ♪

♪ Papageno, Papageno ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papageno ♪

♪ Parents' blessings will be Parents' blessings will be ♪

♪ Parents' blessings will be ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papagena ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papageno ♪

♪ Pa-Pa-Papageno, Pa-Pa-Papageno Pa-Pa-Papageno ♪

[Tires squeal]

[impact]

[elevator]

I've only finished The Magic Flute, believe me.

And what happened to your child?

Contractions, 25th week.

Umbilical cord cut off. Miserably suffocated.

I'm sorry for that.

Me too, Frank. Me too.

But we're probably the only ones.

My parents visited me in the hospital a week later. But...

...not a word about Miriam.

Did you know?

Clear.

The doctor told them.

My father starts rambling...

...that he wrote to the USA and that you can postpone your studies.

Of course I was very interested in everything.

When was the last time you were at the grave with them?

We need new clothes.

Mmm.

[Carmen] Oh, my circulation is at the bottom.

Better?

Without it nothing works.

I could do with another one.

You can be relied on.

When do I start this?

In two years.

But the worst thing is the withdrawal in four years,

shortly after you fell out with Max and Becky.

And always the question of whether you wouldn't have been better off staying with Frank.

You can still row back.

Yes, look if that's straight.

[Man] Yes, like that.

-Am I here at Sporbert Drehtechnik? -Nice day.

Yes they are.

Although, no.

It's called that now, but it's the same company.

That is, almost.

Aha. OK.

And the boss, is he there? Sporbert?

Yes, yes.

I want to talk to him, right now.

Oh right.

-And you were the one again... -Thomas Müller.

No jokes now.

I want to talk to him, now.

-Yes indeed. -Immediately.

Mr. Thomas Müller.

Maybe if you would wait just a moment?

Yes.

[he clears his throat]

[Crack]

[Crack]

[Sascha] I can't believe we were in the outlet store.

[Frank] Lay on the way.

That'll do you good.

Thanks for tagging along.

It's over there.

Fuck! What's going on there?

Who is this?

His stupid parents and his brother,

who is up to his duodenum in their lives.

[exciting music]

[Frank clears his throat]

[Man] You are not welcome here.

I'm sorry, what?

Please respect our family.

I do not understand a word. You, Frank?

That's her boyfriend and her child lying there.

-[Frank] Don't! -Let me through!

Hey, hey, hey! I suggest you go your own way.

We go ours.

You can't stay here forever. We do.

Fuck!

Hey!

Hey! What do you assholes think of forgetting Miriam's name!

No, Frank!

-They act as if they never existed! -Calm down!

[Cry]

Leave her, leave her.

[melancholic music]

[Becky] Are they kidding us?

Where is our father?

[Man] Not here.

He said something different to me.

-This is completely different than what you think. -In a few years I will be the boss.

What's the first thing I'll do if you don't let us through right away?

We'll stay here a little longer, okay? It was just so cozy.

Well oops.

-Are you okay? -No. What are you doing here?

Where are our parents, damn it?

How should I know that?

We want plain text. They say that when you get divorced, the world collapses.

But nothing happens to us.

Yes. And am I supposed to explain this to you now, or what?

According to me.

If no one else does it.

I don't visit you very often.

That's why I can only say what I know from Inge, Iris, Steffi and myself.

In the end it's always the same.

Basically, the relationship between a man and a woman is nothing different...

...as physics.

[Squeak]

Between woman and woman?

Let's stick with the classics, shall we?

So.

It's about energies.

This is your father, this is your mother. OK?

The two here represent what they put into the relationship,

how they show themselves and behave, both good and bad.

And this one in the middle, the center, what do you think it stands for?

The marriage contract.

Love.

The common denominator, the meaning of everything, so to speak.

And now let's see how it works.

It goes here, it goes here.

The perfect balance and harmony. It could go on forever.

But if you just tear this one out,

Then suddenly the element that was previously taken for granted is missing.

And look now.

Oh.

No balance, no harmony. Chaos.

Nothing works anymore.

Game over.

You broke it.

Do you want some ice cream?

And what now?

Surrender?

[Frank] Maybe it's smarter.

But then they won.

What have they won?

Nothing.

They just lost more.

Sometimes it's healthier to take a step back

even though we know better.

You can't change the world anyway.

So you pick your spot and just hope for the best.

I think that's crazy shit, Frank.

Maybe yes.

I'm still going back to work today. See what it is like.

You make it easy.

I'm an old fart.

Then at least help me stay young and take that hand away.

I won't give up that easily.

Is there still an ice cream parlor in the town?

-[Thomas] Sporbert! -Yes?

[Moan]

I am stronger than you. Is that clear?

So get the hell out of Carmen's life!

Really sorry you had to see that.

Who was that then?

The guy who wants to marry mom.

Is this how he proposed to her?

Go ahead. I'll come right away.

[Moan]

Fuck.

[door]

Hello, Hyun Ae.

Now your husband and son should come and beat me up, right?

They stand outside and smoke in the parking lot.

But I'll tell you what. If our daughter's name isn't

on the gravestone in two weeks, I'll think of something.

Please have respect for me and your granddaughter.

I couldn't wait.

[door]

[steps]

We're already leaving.

Sasha!

Don't hold it against her. She is stuck in her tradition.

-I thought she didn't like me. -I'll take care of Miriam's name.

It may take a while.

I don't feel like thanking you for that.

You killed my brother.

You to work, I to cram. Harvard entrance exam.

Award. Star lawyer.

My life is calling me.

Thomas?

Carmen!

Are you bleeding?

Please don't say anything now. Just listen to me.

And stand by your inner desires.

[Frank] You can do law, go into human rights.

Well. Where do you stop and where do you begin?

You can immediately sue your company's architect.

How long do you want to stare at the gravestone?

Keep living. Talk to your parents. Draw a line.

What does the R stand for?

[Man] Everything has to come out now. Furniture parts at the back.

[Clink]

Yes, out.

Richard?

What are you doing?

Shareholder resolution. Ask your wife.

Carmen, one time someone came to us, body mass index beyond good and evil.

Completely wrong diet.

And she showed me a photo of JLo and said: "That's what I want to look like."

The colleagues all laughed.

But I said:

"Okay. We're working on that now."

And now she's the wine queen.

Thomas, I understand.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

No no no.

You don't understand anything.

She's just as fat as before.

But she is a wine queen.

Because something has changed inside her head.

She watched JLo's ten bad films and said to herself:

"I'm much hotter than them."

What I mean by that:

Give us a chance.

Oh God.

I know that I want to be with you.

I already have a husband.

On paper!

Carmen?

-Who is this? -My husband.

No.

-The? -Exactly.

Carmen, what's going on here?

I would like to be with you.

The way I want it is apparently impossible.

-Should I come back later? -Yes, in 100 years!

Please come with me now.

What is Richard doing in my office?

I want to be a self-determined woman without constraints, without predetermined paths.

With someone with whom I can live a future and not the past.

Maybe you are right. You questioned everything.

Now you're rid of the office and me.

-["Goodbye" by Russ] -♪ Goodbye ♪

It's possible without you.

-♪ There's no point in taking risks ♪ -Come on.

♪ Our story ends here ♪

-[Carmen] What do we do with my car? -I can take the bike apart.

-[Carmen] Trunk? -[Thomas] Yes. That fits.

♪ Goodbye ♪

[Woman, telephone] La résidence Decker, bonjour.

[in French] Hello, Jacqueline. It's me, Sasha.

My parents, can I talk to them?

[in French] We've been trying to reach you for days.

Her parents had an accident. I'm sorry.

Hello?

♪ I wish you thrushes in spring ♪

♪ That may make your heart sing ♪

♪ And give you a kiss But most of all ♪

♪ I wish you love ♪

Subtitles by: Tobias Pur