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Central Film Production in Prague Presents

DAlSlES

Story by Vera Chytilova Pavel Juracek

Screenplay by Ester Krumbachova Vera Chytilova

With Artistic Collaboration from Ester Krumbachová Jaroslav Kucera

Starring Ivana Karbanova Jitka Cerhova

Also Starring Marie Ceskova .

Jirina Myskova Marcela Brezinova

Julius Albert Dr. Oldrich Hora

Jan Klusak . Josef Konicek

Jaromir Voomaka

Assistant Director Rudolf Jaros Second Camera Frantisek Ulrich

Poduction Assistant Jaroslav Vlk

Costume Design Ester Krumbachova

Makeup Ladislav Bacilek

Sets Frantisek Straka

Costumes Ester Krumbachova

Edited by Miroslav Hájek

Sound Ladislav Hausdorf

Set Design Karel Lier

Music by Jiri Slitr Jiri Sust

Music Recorded by Cinematic Symphony Orchastra conducted by by František Belfín

Sound Department Ladislav Hausdorf

Music Department Prazsky Dixieland

Production Manager Rudolf Hajek

Cinematography Jaroslav Kucera

Directed by Vera Chytilová

l can't even do that.

So what can you do?

Nothing, really.

What are you doing?

A baby doll.

l'm like a baby doll, aren't l?

l'm a baby doll.

l see.

Do you understand?

Nobody understands anything.

lt's us they don't understand.

Everything is f*cked up in this world.

What do you mean, everything?

You know, everything.

In this world. . .

Know what?

When everything is f*cked up. . .

What?

We'll. . .

Be f*ck-ups. . .

Too.

Us too. Right.

ls that a problem?

No problem!

What have you got there?

What are you sucking on?

Let me see.

No, no, no.

What are you doing over there?

What's there?

Let's go.

Where to?

Anyplace where something's going on.

And, now what?

You should've been here yesterday, girls.

Did we ever have fun!

Well, we can't be everywhere at once.

We're awfully busy. . .

all the time.

So. . .

What do you think?

Well, it's not bad.

But it's not really you.

Let me see.

Well. . .

l'm off!

Will you have a bit of wine, Maria?

l don't know. Of course you will.

Waiter, what have you got?

Any special wish?

A bottle of wine?

A bottle or a glass?. Just a glass.

Our Marie

Don't look now.

Oh, my. You're here?

lt's nice here, isn't it?

You must be him.

Sis told me about you.

Won't you even introduce me?

l'm her sister.

Marie!

Will the lady have something to eat too?

Yes. And something to drink too.

One more glass, please.

Do you have escargot? Sorry, we don't, but -

You probably don't have rabbit either.

They have venison, miss.

No. That's way too big. l only eat small animals.

l'll have the chicken. ls it too big?

Just a moment.

And some hors d'oeuvres first.

Dessert?

No, thank you. Have some, Maria.

l don't know.

Sure, we'll have some.

This one and this one.

Don't be foolish, have some too.

Can you believe she's afraid she'll get fat?

What's wrong? Why aren't you eating?

Are you on a diet?

No, that is. . .

l couldn't stand that.

l don't like sweets.

Do you understand, Marie?

l have a fantastic appetite.

l love food.

and this is divinely exquisite.

Do you have children?

What, I beg your pardon?

lt's warm in here, isn't it?

Yes, yes. l think so, too.

Oh, here it comes!

How old are you?

Why are you so interested in us?

Relax.

Waiter!

Do you smoke at all?

Could you offer me a cigarette?

Wait a minute, l'm still eating! Pardon me.

You're ruining her health. Have you got one with a filter?

See that sewage in his mouth.

The spoons are so heavy.

What time does your train leave?

ln about 40 minutes.

Forty minutes?

We must hurry then.

Waiter! The bill, please.

We'll just make it by cab.

Well, we've made it.

Maria, would you be so kind as to get the paper for me?

l don't understand.

l told her you were an uncle.

What uncle?

Well, an uncle of my boyfriend.

What boyfriend?

He's from Jičín.

She'll tell on me.

What do you mean?

She'd say l fool around. . .

with old geezers.

Here's your paper.

- Thanks, miss. And so long. - Good-bye.

Bye-bye.

- Thanks. - Bye.

Pardon me.

You know, he didn't want to leave alone.

Goodness Gracious!

Mister railroad man, when does that train stop first?

That one?

l don't know. When it gets to the next station, l suppose.

But l thought this was the Orient Express.

So what?

Bohemia is beautiful too.

My beautiful Bohemia

How will we pay for the gas bill?

The dead don't give a damn.

But you forgot to close the window.

Your legs are crooked.

Don't you know, that's the key to my personality?

Tie your legs together at the knees.

Very good.

You need to practice. Get me some water!

Physical Rehabilitation Center.

Die, die, die!

Die, die, die!

Can you sense it?

What?

Sense how fragile our lives are!

lt's nice that we're home. Don't you think so?

What are you talking about?

Go ahead, say it's nice that we're home.

Or do you have a problem with it? no problem.

Then say that it's nice.

l'll say whatever l please.

Maybe l'll get a piano. . .

if l start fooling around with decrepit geezers like you do.

What?

Who's fooling around?

We're supposed to be f*ck ups, aren't we?

And l'm respectably employed you poop head!

You have milk on your breasts.

Don't worry it looks good on you.

Beautiful, isn't it?

Why do you want to f*ck us over?

Don't you realize we haven't finished growing up?

What do you mean, growing up?

What time does it leave? What do you mean?

Let me fix your hankie a bit.

Annie said you were a scientist.

A hankie, a hankie, a big, white hankie.

Our daddy warned us against perverts like you. Watch your hankie.

Anna!!! , this is going too far.

Don't worry about it.

She's had Alzheimer's disease since birth.

How is Gertrude doing?

How old is your old lady?

That's it. l've had enough!

This is the fifth one to leave.

This isn't fun anymore.

We must come up with some better pranks.

lt's so unusual.

l wouldn't think it possible. . .

as if you were a message from another world.

You're heavenly and yet so human.

You're from another century.

Do you hear me?

Julia.

Please.

Don't be like that.

l wish you'd never come into my life!

Understand?

Julia?

What is it?

Forgive me, it was a misunderstanding.

l didn't understand you.

l don't know what's wrong with me today.

Don't treat me cruelly when you know how l love you...

Julia.

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

Julia.

Now l know what love means.

l wish this moment would last forever.

Don't be so cruel to me!

My life is torture without you.

I don't know what this means.

l must have fallen in love with you.

Damn.

Julia.

lsn't there any food around here?

At least some jam?

Hello!

Oh, girls, what took you so long?

How are you? Would you like some coffee?

Not today. We're in a hurry.

Yeah, if l were as young as you are. . .

Youth, my youth

Where have you gone?

Why do tears come to my eyes

At the very thought of you?

What's the big hurry?

Just want to be someplace else. lt's no fun here today.

Stay with me, girl of mine

Be my friend

Leave love alone Bye-bye, now.

Stay a while, girls.

Don't go.

Sit down.

l'll make you some good coffee.

Look.

An angel with no wings.

Look, she's got at least five crowns here.

She went to get coffee for us and we've robbed her.

What do you mean, we?

l'm the one who stole it.

So you're a thief.

Yes.

l'm a bigger f*ck up than you.

There. . .

lt also means that l'm lying.

That's nothing.

Everybody's lying.

Nobody ever notices.

Come along.

Let's do something intense...

We're on fire!

Juliia, is that you? Yes, it's me.

Juliia, I keep thinking of you constantly.

I must have fallen in love with you.

That night we didn't sleep, you don't know what that night means to me.

Juliia.

I'm still waiting for you.

Im terrified that I won't ever see you again.

Don't be so cruel to me since you know how much I love you.

Are you there, Juliia?

Are you angry with me? Don't be.

Forgive me, but life without you is torture.

You are from another century.

I love you, Juliia.

I never would have thought it possible, you know?

Now I know what love means.

Another piece of yummy meat!

Are you crazy?

l don't see any other meat around here.

How about this?

Not that!

Only fruit now.

What are you saying? What fruit?

I don't understand you.

Do tell me you will come again.

Do you hear me, Juliia? l'm still hungry.

I can't hear you well.

The domestic fowl.

- I've probably fallen in love with you. - Chicken.

My little chicken.

That's too big.

A nice steak.

Yes, a steak.

l'll put it on a piece of bread.

Yes, yes, I'll prepare some sandwiches.

Juliia, forgive me.

Juliia, I love you.

I love you, Juliia, but tell me, promise me,

that you won't treat me as cruel as last time.

Juliia, I can't believe that this has happened to me.

I've never felt anything like this.

Juliia, now I think that

I finally understand what love ...

What are you doing?

Oh, that's too bad.

What's his name?

You know, l don't know.

l totally forgot. . .

to ask him.

But l've got his phone number.

Are you going to see him? Sure.

Anička, here too, please.

Good gracious, girls, you're all tattered and torn.

And all these frills.

What on earth have you been doing?

All these frills.

For goodness sake, why are you taking so long?

l'm waiting for you like an idiot.

Where have you been?

You're taking it easy here and l'm to get rid of him all by myself?

Watch the bones.

Watch out for the bones.

Watch out for the little bones.

fishy, fishier, fishiest.

Girlies,

girlies,

girlies,

girlies.

The world is completely f*cked-up, right?

Kiss me. . .

What time does your train leave?

Look!

Rails!

l'm exhausted.

l can't think of anything new.

We'll have to think up better f*ck ups. Yeah.

Aplt,

Augusta,

Arsen. . .

lsn't he in jail?

That's all the As. Now for the B's.

Beefy.

Too lyrical.

Batty.

Whatever happened to Batty?

He started working.

Lazy.

Horrible.

l don't remember him.

No, l mean it's horrible we don't have any names that start with an H.

- Stop being silly. - l can't read this one.

But that's Doda.

Oh, l see.

Hey, do you remember the one who kept repeating,

"What will happen to us? What will happen to us?"

The one who died?

Yeah.

l must have his signature here somewhere.

Ah, Romeo is here. . .

and Juliiat is all excited.

Marie, it's me, Honza. Can you hear me?

Open the door, please.

Marie, please open up. I know you're home.

I have to talk to you.

I must explain...

It was just a little misunderstanding, you see.

Sweet Marie, I keep thinking about you. Open up, please.

Why don't you open that door, Marie?

He keeps thinking about you all the time.

Marie.

Go and open the door. . .

since he's thinking of you all the time.

Please.

He probably loves you.

Stop twitching

since he keeps thinking about you all the time.

Marie.

He has a wonderful voice, Honza does.

Open up, please.

Sweet Honza.

Juliet.

Romeo.

Do you love me, Romeo?

Look, Honza, Do you have anything to eat?

Or is that a problem?

No. Why? Who says l'm saying anything?

Well, then let me have his address.

A pencil.

Legibly, okay?

l don't like you anymore.

l don't like you either.

But l mean it.

Really.

Not anymore.

l don't like you at all anymore.

Where are you going?

All right? Where have you been?

At the end.

At the end of what?

Well, at the end of the pier. How about that?

Come.

Where to?

Home to sleep.

Come on.

See, l told you to come.

Nah, nah, nah.

No! We must smoke.

lt's so f*cked up.

It's f*cked up, all right

Come.

Come on, now.

Look, a butterfly.

That's what l don't understand.

Why do they say. . .

"l love you"?

Do you understand?

Why can't they say, for example, "Egg"?

What a good idea.

Give me an egg.

No.

l only meant it as an example.

Come on.

Love must mean something, understand?

So what's Love mean?

You mean Love really means something?

That this something exists?

Even when someone you love no longer exists.

Like when someone dies?

Take you, for example. Why me?

What about you?

We're sitting here

and now imagine

that it wasn't us.

That would be a darn pity.

And who tells us that it actually is us?

And that you really exist?

Well, because of you.

Of course.

But, it would be hard to prove in your case.

Look.

You're not registered at this address.

You have no employment.

There's no evidence of you.

There's nothing.

ls something there?

Let me.

Something ought to be happening.

But what?

Girls, you keep rushing off someplace.

Red roses, red roses

How I love red roses

I want them for you, my love

I want to pick them just for you

And lay them on your soft hair

How I love red roses

WOMEN NO ADMlTTANCE

What do you want to do?

Well, we can try some other place.

Can't we?

All right.

We should try everything once.

"What are you staring at?"

What's he doing?

Watering the garden.

What a beautiful life.

What, having to get up this early?

Nobody pays any attention to us.

What if we need something?

lf people only knew how cold it is in the early morning.

What are you thinking of?

You should see yourself right now.

l'd like to know why that guy in the garden

paid no attention to us.

What are we doing here?

Why didn't he tell us off at least?

He didn't even feel sorry for us.

Who cares about that old man?

We're young.

We're young and we've got a long life ahead of us.

You know what frightens me?

That the old man didn't see us at all.

That's stupid.

l thought we'd suddenly disappeared into thin air.

What an idea! Then why didn't he pay attention to us?

Or the men on the bicycles?

Well, why?

Why is the water here? Why?

Why is there a river? Why?

Tell me. Why?

Why am l cold? Why?

Well, why?

There, you see? We do exist after all.

We exist, we exist, we exist, we exist. . .

lt's swell that we're home.

Die, die, die.

l'm burning, you're burning, it's burning, we're burning.

Sense how fragile our lives are!

Don't be so cruel to me since you know how much l love you.

What will happen to us?

What will happen to us?

What will happen to us?

We lack evidence of even existing.

Now l'm lying here

and now imagine it wasn't me.

No more walks, all right?

Right.

No more walks, ever again.

All right?

You've gone too far.

You've got a problem?

You've got a problem?

No problem.

NO ADMlTTANCE

Let's go away. There's nothing here.

2nd FLOOR ENTRANCE CATERlNG

Look, food.

Well, l'm hungry.

Maybe we'll find something there.

Only the cold.

Well, let's go then.

Hurry, somebody's coming.

They're gone.

NO PERSONNEL TRANSPORT!

My leg fell asleep.

Are we here already?

Let go.

I think we're here.

Where is it?

Where is what?

The food.

Come along.

Come along.

Gee.

Ooh.

Well.

Gee.

Gee.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. . .

Gee.

What are you drinking?

Wine.

What are you licking?

Not like that. Carefully.

So nobody can tell. Observe.

See, carefully.

That's interesting and spicy.

That's excellent.

Look at that animal,

and the little eye it has.

Smells good.

That's a nice relish.

Why don't we put everything on plates?

Yes, let's have a real feast!

There.

There.

What now?

Mushrooms.

Gee.

ls that a problem?

Of course it isn't.

Have you tried this green thing here? Which one?

We don't have anything to drink.

Hurry, hurry.

l can't hold it. Now.

Johnny Walker!!!

Look here. Cakes.

These are even better.

This is what l call cake.

Not like the sorry excuse you have.

You've got a problem?

No problem.

Fashion show!

THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY FOR THEM TO END UP

Help!

WAS THERE ANY POSSlBLE WAY TO REPAIR THEIR DESTRUCTlON?

We're drowning here.

We're calling for help.

It's because we f*cked up.

Help!

Help!

Help us!

Help!

We don't want to be f*ck ups anymore!

BUT EVEN lF THEY WERE GlVEN A SECOND CHANCE,

AT BEST, lT WOULD LOOK LlKE THlS

Come, let's clear this away in a hurry.

There.

lf we're virtuous and hardworking we'll be happy

We've got to tidy it up There.

We shall be happy and hardworking and everything will be wonderful.

It still needs a bit more here,

hard working and virtuous. . .

There!

everything will be wonderful and clean.

Let's clear this away too,

and we shall be happy, virtuous and hard working.

Everything will be wonderful, clean and orderly. . .

Clean, Orderly, Wonderful

Wonderful, Orderly, Clean

Clean, Orderly, Wonderful

Wondrous, Orderly, Clean

Virtuous, Hardworking, Happy

Clean, Orderly, Wonderful

Spotless, WondERFUL, Orderly, Clean

Virtuous, Hardworking, Happy

Clean, Orderly, Wonderful

Spotless, Wonderful, Orderly, Clean

Tidy, Spotless, Wonderful

Virtuous, Hardworking, Happy

Wonderful, Orderly, Clean

Diligent, Virtuous, Hardworking

Hardworking, Happy, Contented

Are you crazy?

Clean, Spotless, Good as New

Orderly, Neat, Spotless

Contented, Virtuous, Hardworking

We'll do everything and we'll be virtuous and contented and beautiful

and happy once again.

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That was quite a job, wasn't it?

Yes, yes.

But we've fixed everything.

hardworking, happy, contented

wholesome, happy, contented, hardworking

Now l'm happy.

l'm happy too.

We're both so happy.

So say it, that we're happy.

Are we fooling ourselves?

No.

Finally, we really are happy.

Nothing bothers us at all.

THIS FlLM lS DEDlCATED TO BUREAUCRATS

WHOSE SOLE SOURCE OF OUTRAGE IS PEOPLE IGNORING "KEEP OFF THE GRASS" SIGNS.

THE END