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In the beginning
there was a tree...
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an autumn tree...
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It had lost its leaves.
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But there was
fruit on it
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left for the birds.
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Snow fell already...
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Strange clouds appeared,
as if it were summer...
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not autumn.
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The sky was dark
and deep.
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Thunder could be heard.
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There was movement
over the water.
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There were birds.
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Birds who flew
for no other reason
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than beauty alone.
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Then the clouds changed.
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The sky became flat.
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The light shone
upon God's command.
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A scent of lilacs...
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Then the flight
over water,
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deep and dangerous.
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I was afraid of falling...
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Someone left me...
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I started to feel better...
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I breathed deeply.
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Then movement started.
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I realized it was winter.
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I was cold.
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I could almost touch
the road...
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So smooth
and transparent.
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Houses appeared,
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like an abandoned village
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under a cold sun...
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Windows, roofs...
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And the people?
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It must be noon,
but where are the people?
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Grey buildings,
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like prisons.
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Then came the fog.
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I found myself
on a clearing.
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For whom
is all that beauty?
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No one to see it...
Still it's just as beautiful
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or even more so.
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What ideal solitude...
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Perfect, cold...
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Who watches me
over there?
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Watching me
from behind that tree...
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Someone cold, lonely
and bored.
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Soldiers walk
along a path...
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A row of houses...
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I tried to concentrate
and to recall
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at least one face
of those
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who had lived here.
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People
once lived here.
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I knew them.
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I believe I lived
among them, too.
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When someone died,
we wept.
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We were afraid that
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we were becoming
fewer.
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We began to move our houses
closer to the road.
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Everyone did so.
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We all wanted
to live close together.
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No one wanted
to live apart.
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But I can't recall
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whether it helped us.
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Then the black sheet
appeared...
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Then I...
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for some reason,
I was walking with a monk...
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We kept silent.
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I have never been here
before.
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What awaits me?
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We entered the church.
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What an angry look...
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A notebook in his hands...
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A pensive monk stood
in near obscurity.
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At a bright window,
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a child was being
baptised.
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Day and night
at the same time,
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on both sides
of the church.
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I ask my monk
to stop.
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He agrees and waits.
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I ask him a question.
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I ask him why
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did Christ pray
that his Father
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not send him
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to his sacrificial cross?
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Why did
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Christ,
want to avoid crucifixion?
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If he so loathed
being crucified,
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then how can I accept
his sacrifice?
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Why did I speak about this?
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My monk keeps silent.
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God knows
what he is thinking about...
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Perhaps about those
he left behind?
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And I doubt seriously
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he knows the answer
to my question.
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The baptism is performed.
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An act of will, of predestination...
A duty until death.
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The face of the godfather.
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I can't tell
what he is thinking.
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What can this child know
about sacrifice?
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Isn't it too early?
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What is he thinking
about?
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And he, what is he
thinking about?
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What are they all
thinking about?
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My God,
help me to understand.
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Is it necessary
to be so strong?
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Even church-going
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hasn't warmed their hearts...
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I say good-bye
to the monk.
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He invites me to the mass
and blesses me.
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I wanted to speak
about the Prayer of the Chalice.
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It must be a painful question...
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These people...
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These are monks,
who have...
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...all abandoned somebody
in their former lives.
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Is the price of prayer
so high?
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What I am doing here?
Who sent me?
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It seems to me
I have already seen
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all these people
somewhere...
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Surely I have.
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The face of a soldier.
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He looks at me and says nothing.
No, he looks away.
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Where am I?
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Why I am here?
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I see his eyes...
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What right does he have
to scrutinize me like this?
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Other faces appear,
other eyes...
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What right do they have
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to scrutinize me?
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Who are they?
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Through a window,
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I see a foreign town.
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It is snowing.
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I see smoke
above the night town.
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I can't recognise it.
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The shore
begins to move away...
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I see a strip of water.
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Everything now looks
like the flight
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of a night bird...
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Then...
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I am flying above the roofs
and street lamps,
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and I am doing my best
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not to look into windows.
I still don't know the town.
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Then the town
disappeared from view.
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There was no one
around.
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As if no one lived here...
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Only scenery
built in the night
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for those living above...
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to make them believe
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that below, on Earth,
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everything has been fine
since long ago...
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As fine as only a creation
of God could be.
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The moon came out,
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Its purpose was unclear.
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No light,
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neither any cold warmth...
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I walked over an iron deck,
covered with snow...
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No one was around:
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Only night and sea.
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I could not ask
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where this great ship
was going to...
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Nor how did I get
onto it...
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The waves were black.
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They had
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neither sense
nor compassion.
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I noticed I was on the very
edge of the deck.
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I felt that the sea
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was kind and indulgent.
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It seemed full of
force and generosity.
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It could easily sweep me
from the deck
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and throw me capriciously
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into the cold and evil
waves...
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I sank into my thoughts...
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I couldn't say even to myself,
what they were about.
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I heard the voices
of sea and wind,
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and still some other
music,
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perhaps that of my heart.
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I wanted to cry,
but there were no tears.
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I wanted to fall
into the sea,
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but I had no force.
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"The sea was big",
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a schoolboy wrote once.
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Chekhov had smiled
at that phrase.
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Why have I recalled that
now?
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The sea began to get warm.
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It seemed it was going
to evaporate before our eyes.
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The shore appeared
suddenly.
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It was cold.
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There were rocks
and trees...
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It was twilight...
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Or the night was
drawing to its end.
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Then there was shore,
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snow under the feet,
ground wind...
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It was as cold
as before...
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but too beautiful.
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Then some square
in some town.
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It seemed to me I was
in Germany,
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I can't tell why...
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Through the snowy wind,
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I saw gothic-style buildings...
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This must be the place
I had dreamed of visiting.
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But how few things
I will be able to see.
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My life is fleeting.
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I can't visit here...
What a pity.
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Where are the people?
Just a single human face...
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The movement
started again.
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I didn't want to be
on these streets...
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But presumably
no other way
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had been assigned for me.
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Why should I need it all?
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If people live
like this,
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if they see nothing else
and follow only these roads,
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what becomes of them,
and what do they expect
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from life?
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I was trying to find my place
in this stream.
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Trying to understand
the purpose
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behind being driven
westward across all this space.
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Who am I?
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Where are they all hurrying to
in the night?
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During a storm,
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better to wait and not risk
their lives...
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They mustn't be too fond
of life.
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For people, work is more
than life.
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This is how people are.
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It seemed the dawn
was approaching...
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There was a crossing
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and a stop.
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A caf�
by the highway...
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Then I began to realise
that my travel
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had a purpose.
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I didn't come here
by chance.
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For some reason,
this man has noticed me.
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He smiles...
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He smiles.
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Very good.
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A kind man.
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I understand he is waiting
for someone.
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He comes to my table
and takes a seat.
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I realise he needs
somebody...
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I understand he badly wants
to speak.
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He has something
to tell me.
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He is kind, I know...
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He begins to speak.
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I listen to his voice.
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"I am grateful to God
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for the humility I learned
in this life.
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A humility that I assume
with pride.
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It makes me feel
not inferior to the others,
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but equal to them.
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Equal to all people,
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yet not equal to Him
who created us.
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I consider everyone
as equal.
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There was a time
when I believed
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to know everything,
like a god.
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That is why I lost
myself.
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I knew
what we were capable of,
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but I forgot that all
we were capable of,
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we should do
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with respect for others,
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for other people.
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Once it happened that
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I was arrested by mistake
in the USA.
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I spent one night
in a cell.
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I was treated
as an inferior.
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That remains
my worst experience to this day.
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When I came back
to the Netherlands,
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I was full of rage.
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An indescribable rage.
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Anger has almost no limits
in humans.
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Yes, and I fell into
depression.
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I slept for
9 months.
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I didn't want to go out
273
00:22:25,844 --> 00:22:27,141
nor to talk.
274
00:22:28,246 --> 00:22:31,044
At last, I picked up
the lost thread.
275
00:22:31,416 --> 00:22:32,713
I went out to people.
276
00:22:34,019 --> 00:22:36,886
Now I can only say
I became stronger.
277
00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:39,551
I will never learn
278
00:22:40,092 --> 00:22:40,956
the reason of life.
279
00:22:42,861 --> 00:22:43,793
But I can--
280
00:22:45,764 --> 00:22:47,789
The reason is to live,
to be alive...
281
00:22:49,601 --> 00:22:50,659
I mean, I am happy...
282
00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:52,462
to be living".
283
00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:02,841
I look at him and think:
If you are so happy,
284
00:23:03,749 --> 00:23:05,148
then why
do you need me?
285
00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:07,712
A stranger, a foreigner,
a mute...
286
00:23:09,020 --> 00:23:09,952
He looks me
in the eyes,
287
00:23:10,455 --> 00:23:11,444
and continues.
288
00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:14,249
"I believe in the goodness
of man.
289
00:23:14,993 --> 00:23:16,824
I believe
in his cruelty too,
290
00:23:17,863 --> 00:23:19,490
the evil side.
291
00:23:20,031 --> 00:23:23,125
I think both feelings
have the same power.
292
00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:26,502
But there's a choice.
293
00:23:27,706 --> 00:23:30,402
You can always choose
between kindness
294
00:23:31,143 --> 00:23:32,132
and aggression.
295
00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:37,511
Aggression
is a simpler solution.
296
00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:39,442
But kindness is...
297
00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:42,979
perhaps it sounds
a little bit...
298
00:23:44,222 --> 00:23:46,417
a bit like '60s,
flower-power.
299
00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:49,886
I would say,
the most important is love.
300
00:23:51,863 --> 00:23:53,558
If I were allowed
301
00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:55,857
to name God,
302
00:23:57,769 --> 00:23:59,259
I would name him
Love.
303
00:24:06,711 --> 00:24:09,680
This is the creative force,
304
00:24:12,551 --> 00:24:16,715
which is very close
to hate".
305
00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:30,065
Then he stopped.
306
00:24:34,339 --> 00:24:38,673
I understood he had said
all that he wanted.
307
00:24:39,945 --> 00:24:44,041
He did not need me
anymore.
308
00:24:51,056 --> 00:24:55,152
Surely, I will never
see him again...
309
00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:57,821
A pity...
310
00:25:00,632 --> 00:25:02,156
The creative force
311
00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:06,931
together with hate...
312
00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:12,871
It's too human...
313
00:25:31,429 --> 00:25:32,191
Then...
314
00:25:35,934 --> 00:25:39,370
then I felt a live warmth
from the stones.
315
00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:43,340
I found myself
in a completely different place.
316
00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:46,240
The moon...
317
00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:48,802
Old walls around...
318
00:25:51,149 --> 00:25:53,379
An ancient tower,
a lighthouse.
319
00:25:54,619 --> 00:25:56,849
Is it an island?
320
00:25:58,623 --> 00:26:01,490
Is this a fort
on the island?
321
00:26:07,866 --> 00:26:11,427
I was still alone,
but someone guided me.
322
00:26:13,805 --> 00:26:18,208
It was neither night,
nor dawn.
323
00:26:21,346 --> 00:26:22,711
Then there was...
324
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:27,241
a blossoming tree
in my path.
325
00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:32,655
And if this were Japan?
326
00:26:39,331 --> 00:26:41,526
The branches are cold.
My hands are freezing...
327
00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:49,405
No, I'm not in Japan.
328
00:27:18,703 --> 00:27:20,364
A door opened
in the wall.
329
00:27:23,541 --> 00:27:25,031
I went inside.
330
00:27:37,522 --> 00:27:39,319
A wooden staircase...
331
00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:41,588
An affluent interior...
332
00:27:44,029 --> 00:27:45,087
The floor creaked.
333
00:27:49,567 --> 00:27:51,797
Why is that frame
empty?
334
00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:03,546
Moonlight
on the walls...
335
00:28:07,585 --> 00:28:08,745
In the silence
of the house
336
00:28:11,489 --> 00:28:13,480
that opened its doors
for me,
337
00:28:14,926 --> 00:28:16,359
no one greeted me.
338
00:28:23,101 --> 00:28:25,899
I studied
a large painting:
339
00:28:28,173 --> 00:28:29,367
A ship's return.
340
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:33,739
The separation
must have been long...
341
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,109
People meet
their loved ones...
342
00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:41,345
Some are wading...
343
00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:45,651
What joy...
344
00:28:47,058 --> 00:28:48,355
This life is not unfamiliar.
345
00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:51,228
Their joy
is like ours.
346
00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:02,767
They must be looking
at their near ones ashore.
347
00:29:07,712 --> 00:29:08,940
I am standing by the door.
348
00:29:09,514 --> 00:29:11,277
They bring me in.
349
00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:18,456
I'm stepping on paper,
350
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:21,889
placed
to protect the parquet.
351
00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:26,790
Then, a salon...
352
00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:30,033
This palace must be
under repair.
353
00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:32,965
Who has brought me
here?
354
00:29:35,707 --> 00:29:36,571
Why am I here?
355
00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:52,385
Paintings...
356
00:30:13,745 --> 00:30:14,609
A landscape.
357
00:30:16,514 --> 00:30:17,640
A river, a sail...
358
00:30:19,384 --> 00:30:20,248
Silence.
359
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:23,685
If I just
enter there,
360
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:27,314
I will never come back.
361
00:30:29,494 --> 00:30:30,756
Human life:
362
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:35,289
Why is this boat next
to the shore?
363
00:30:38,703 --> 00:30:40,898
The water is pure,
with a scent of grass.
364
00:30:42,807 --> 00:30:44,570
Is it evening or morning?
365
00:30:47,979 --> 00:30:48,604
It's morning.
366
00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:07,194
What's that there?
367
00:31:36,961 --> 00:31:37,791
The food-givers...
368
00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:42,024
Eternal slaves
of man.
369
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:51,405
And what's that?
370
00:31:59,617 --> 00:32:00,811
The walls are cold...
371
00:32:07,458 --> 00:32:10,427
I want to go faster,
but something retains me.
372
00:32:11,729 --> 00:32:14,391
As if I was going
to miss something.
373
00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:19,003
I travelled across
an immense distance
374
00:32:20,538 --> 00:32:23,234
to get here in an instant.
But all is empty...
375
00:32:25,143 --> 00:32:25,973
and dark around...
376
00:32:28,846 --> 00:32:30,507
In that frame
there is nothing either...
377
00:32:32,850 --> 00:32:33,908
A draught...
378
00:33:04,916 --> 00:33:05,974
A tall window...
379
00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:11,722
Some music...
380
00:33:17,729 --> 00:33:19,321
I believe someone
has passed...
381
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:21,757
Anybody there?
382
00:33:23,134 --> 00:33:23,623
No...
383
00:33:31,376 --> 00:33:33,867
Then... I find myself
near a windmill.
384
00:33:34,445 --> 00:33:37,073
At last,
I see people.
385
00:33:38,449 --> 00:33:39,074
Here they are,
386
00:33:40,551 --> 00:33:41,609
sitting in the boat.
387
00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:47,217
They sat there once
and remained forever
388
00:33:47,658 --> 00:33:48,682
in their village.
389
00:33:50,094 --> 00:33:50,958
That evening
390
00:33:52,764 --> 00:33:53,753
is their eternal day.
391
00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:57,731
The mill must be
on an island.
392
00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:03,203
How calm it is.
393
00:34:47,251 --> 00:34:49,048
Then I fall into a kind
of labyrinth...
394
00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:52,045
I still can't understand
395
00:34:53,057 --> 00:34:54,854
who is playing so freely
with me:
396
00:34:58,663 --> 00:34:59,721
And that?
397
00:35:02,467 --> 00:35:03,491
A town street.
398
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:06,127
But... it's winter.
399
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,832
They are all frozen...
400
00:35:12,643 --> 00:35:15,305
The past
must have been cold.
401
00:35:16,547 --> 00:35:18,208
And life was
so beautiful
402
00:35:19,550 --> 00:35:22,144
only because
of the cruelty of winds
403
00:35:24,255 --> 00:35:25,381
and the frost
of the sky...
404
00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:29,585
Perhaps then the Lord
was especially keen
405
00:35:29,927 --> 00:35:31,155
to follow the life of men
406
00:35:32,230 --> 00:35:33,458
and tried them
severely...
407
00:35:36,267 --> 00:35:37,393
Maybe now...
408
00:35:38,603 --> 00:35:41,538
he is busy creating
a new, better world.
409
00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:45,667
And our life
is left to itself.
410
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,909
Then...
411
00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:00,046
Sounds around me...
412
00:36:03,094 --> 00:36:04,356
What's there
under my feet?
413
00:36:11,802 --> 00:36:14,032
That is
the Tower of Babel.
414
00:36:16,874 --> 00:36:17,499
Breughel...
415
00:36:20,144 --> 00:36:20,633
Breughel.
416
00:36:23,614 --> 00:36:24,171
Breughel.
417
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:29,686
What is it?
418
00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:34,452
A philosophy
or life itself?
419
00:36:36,427 --> 00:36:37,223
Freedom?
420
00:36:40,264 --> 00:36:43,597
Or a dream of a cage?
421
00:36:45,336 --> 00:36:46,132
Who are they,
422
00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:49,572
the builders
of this tower?
423
00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:54,039
Christians or heathens?
424
00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:56,769
What does it matter?
425
00:36:58,382 --> 00:36:59,872
Christians, heathens...
426
00:37:04,755 --> 00:37:06,416
The Tower of Babel
427
00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:10,794
and sail boats...
428
00:37:11,929 --> 00:37:14,727
It was wise
to put them together.
429
00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:18,124
Then I understood
430
00:37:19,370 --> 00:37:23,773
it was my last occasion
to see the Tower of Babel.
431
00:37:25,009 --> 00:37:27,603
So I said farewell to it.
432
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:33,308
I walked with difficulty
towards a light.
433
00:38:08,319 --> 00:38:11,083
I saw an alley
in sunlight...
434
00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:17,561
Gentle and kind...
435
00:38:19,263 --> 00:38:19,991
...Van Gogh.
436
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,537
I heard someone's
light steps,
437
00:38:32,576 --> 00:38:35,670
yet I was sure
to be alone...
438
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:41,346
I was sure to have all this
only for myself...
439
00:38:42,353 --> 00:38:43,547
Otherwise
what was the reason
440
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:47,486
to bring me here
through time and sea?
441
00:38:48,459 --> 00:38:51,519
Through the wind
by those terrible roads,
442
00:38:52,196 --> 00:38:55,495
past the abandoned villages
and freezing forests...
443
00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,771
Pictures were hanging here
just minutes ago.
444
00:39:14,618 --> 00:39:17,815
What is that doing here?
445
00:39:47,251 --> 00:39:49,481
The moon returned.
446
00:39:51,088 --> 00:39:53,556
It made me turn.
447
00:40:06,437 --> 00:40:09,031
A square
in an old town...
448
00:40:10,975 --> 00:40:13,205
The calm
of summer...
449
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,775
An eternal life...
450
00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:22,579
Didn't I paint this picture
myself?
451
00:40:24,054 --> 00:40:27,023
Didn't I see all that
before me?
452
00:40:27,358 --> 00:40:29,155
Every tree,
every shadow...
453
00:40:30,628 --> 00:40:31,993
I remember well this sky.
454
00:40:33,531 --> 00:40:34,395
I remember it well,
455
00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:39,568
because I waited
a long time
456
00:40:40,471 --> 00:40:42,769
for the cloud
to move away from me,
457
00:40:43,507 --> 00:40:46,943
so that I could see
its reverse side
458
00:40:48,712 --> 00:40:51,203
and read what was written
on it:
459
00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:56,151
If there is faith,
the sky is alive.
460
00:40:58,355 --> 00:40:59,515
Is all death below?
461
00:41:01,692 --> 00:41:03,125
Above, all is life...
462
00:41:05,162 --> 00:41:08,325
And everything is easy
there.
463
00:41:14,405 --> 00:41:16,134
An eternal life.
464
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:29,384
Pieter Saenredam.
465
00:41:32,656 --> 00:41:36,752
Yes, this is his work.
466
00:41:38,062 --> 00:41:41,293
I was just standing by,
here on his right.
467
00:41:43,634 --> 00:41:45,693
And that,
he added it later...
468
00:41:46,604 --> 00:41:48,401
There was no baby carriage.
469
00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:52,706
These people...
470
00:41:54,311 --> 00:41:58,680
They used to come here
to talk.
471
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,618
I do remember
the trees,
472
00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:06,152
but I believe
there were more of them.
473
00:42:07,825 --> 00:42:11,591
I don't remember any children.
No, no children.
474
00:42:13,664 --> 00:42:16,792
And that window
never did open.
475
00:42:17,935 --> 00:42:21,735
Pieter invented it.
Nobody knew who lived there.
476
00:42:23,807 --> 00:42:27,573
Neither had I ever seen
that gentleman.
477
00:42:32,249 --> 00:42:33,546
St. Mary's Square.
478
00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,978
This is St. Mary's Square.
479
00:42:57,708 --> 00:43:00,268
The paint has dried.
Everything has stopped.
480
00:43:02,179 --> 00:43:03,373
Everything is still,
481
00:43:05,115 --> 00:43:08,516
until we
return to this town...
482
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,010
Everything will remain still.
483
00:43:13,123 --> 00:43:14,385
Should we return?
484
00:43:16,226 --> 00:43:17,124
But how?
485
00:43:19,563 --> 00:43:21,258
The clock has stopped.
486
00:43:25,002 --> 00:43:26,060
So let us restart it!
487
00:43:29,173 --> 00:43:30,071
Let us restart...
488
00:43:33,410 --> 00:43:34,104
The tower...
489
00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:43,843
The shadows are
motionless...
490
00:43:55,733 --> 00:43:57,598
The sun has changed position.
491
00:44:03,007 --> 00:44:04,031
No going back...
492
00:44:42,913 --> 00:44:44,642
But the canvas
remains warm.
493
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:32,788
Camera:
Alexander Degtiarev
494
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,398
Sound:
Serguei Modhkov
495
00:45:42,206 --> 00:45:45,471
Assistant director:
Alexei Jankowski
496
00:45:48,712 --> 00:45:52,079
Editing and visual effects:
Sergei lvanoff
497
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,127
a film by
Alexander Sokurov
498
00:47:14,464 --> 00:47:16,488
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