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DAYS OF LOVE

Subject and screenplay

Angela and Pasquale The fiancés

Angela'a relatives

Pasquale's relatives

Set, costumes Artistic consultant for color

To all those girls and all those young men

who are able to realize their dream to get married

- through painful and often bizarre events -

this tale of love is dedicated.

This, for the other day. - I won't do it anymore, forgive me!

This is for yesterday. - Enough! Enough! What a pain!

And this for tomorrow!

Will you go to Pasquale? - Now yes!

Tell him: "Aunt Angela said to take her to the movies tonight." Come on!

Run!

Thirty one, thirty-two...

Pasquale! Pasquale!

Aunt Angela wants you, said to take her to the movies!

Pasquale!

Oof! Now I have to start over.

Farmers! Men and women! Brides and married women!

The firm Scaramani of Modena invites everyone to the market tomorrow!

We have baptisms, confirmations and weddings.

We sell trousseaus of great brand at low price!

We do special discounts to marriageable engaged couples!

We give away everything you need for the intimacy of man and woman.

Petticoats, underpants, panty girdles and blouses, bras and corsets...

Angelina, don't start dreaming! Come and get the tomatoes!

Coming, coming...

Shoo!

Shoo!

I've got your same strength, I!

But with whom do you speak?

With the horseflies.

137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142...

Oh, you're here! - 143...

Tonight you must bring me to the movies!

147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152,

and 153!

What're you doing, the engineer?

You see it?

It's 153 steps, times 2.50... gives...

383.50 !

A plant every 4 meters!

What plant! Tonight I want to go to the movies!

I'm thinking about it from three days! Now I'll explain.

This is the piece of ditch of your family,

this is the piece of ditch of my family.

When we marry, if you get your piece and I get mine,

we can plant almost 38 orange trees!

I didn't sleep a wink, studying this thing!

It was better if you slept. Maybe oranges grow in the ditches? - Wait.

But we fill it with soil!

And we turn it into a field like any other.

They must give us the ditch, Angelina!

Hey Mom! - What do you want? - You know how long is the ditch?

153 steps of Pasquale.

We need just the steps of Pasquale! - Your brother is right!

The ditch filled with soil, can take 42 orange trees!

But is Pasquale, telling you these fibs, huh?

When I marry, I want the ditch.

But why don't you want to give it to me?

The ditch is there because it serves as a border!

But when I will marry Angela, we'll be all one family.

The border is no longer needed!

Issues can always arise!

Go do the onions, go, so we'll eat them this winter!

Well?

That one! When she can be spiteful...

She said no.

Then I too will say no.

But really, at home, who's the boss?

Your mother.

Pasquale!

You know that it takes 7 years before the oranges grow well?

But I've thought of everything. While the oranges grow, I'll plant vegetables.

Why then I'm awake at night?

You think of the ditch, of orange trees,

while they don't give us permission to marry.

I can't take it anymore, Angelina.

Give me a kiss. - My, what a stink, this garlic!

Loreta, should we give this ditch?

But we're women, how can we decide for ourselves?

Then, as a man, I say yes.

A good thing is, Loreta,

that if they go to live alone, will be two mouths less to feed.

All right.

But the seedlings needed to grow the orange trees,

will you buy them when the time comes?

Oh, no! Pasquale had the idea, and he buys them!

Then he must reconsider it.

Loreta, before I saw them kissing!

At my home, men have always been ardent!

If they don't marry soon, some misfortune happens!

Watch your daughter, so nothing happens!

For 3 Saturdays you told me no,

but tonight they show "Buried alive", and I want to go.

When we're married you'll have to get over this film craze. - Why?

Because at night we'll have things to do!

I like to bathe at sea and not in here!

It's September now, the sea is closed, huh!

I want many children, Angelina!

But remember that I must do the perm.

You look so good with straight hair!

And then... those are not things for us.

Pasquale...

Am I run-down?

What has run-down?

The beauty.

Last year I was better.

The labor of the season. You'll recover soon.

It's because I always think of you.

Don't make me laugh, Angelina, or I come there and...

Soon! It's late!

Come on, we're leaving!

Shoo! Shoo!

But you come always looking for me?

I'm wearing out! - Can't be seen, can't be seen!

We give you the ditch, but it's Pasquale's family that must resolve!

If with the ditch you put some money, we make a good impression on his family.

Where's this money? - So there's nothing left?

We paid taxes, retailers and some debts.

How much is left? - Some 70,000 lire. What you do with it?

Wake up, Francesco! This one sleeps standing up like horses!

They let me do just half a day, damn! But 400 lire is still good!

Give it to your daughter for Pasquale. - What's he got to do with my money?

Keep on sleeping, it's better!

You have to make you wish for!

The longer the wait, the more stuff is given to the woman.

Loreta, I've waited you 5 years!

And in the end... Oh well, you brought the land,

but how better if you'd brought me nothing! - Why?

Because... - The female, if she brings stuff, she wants to rule.

Even your son knows it! - And then, Angela can't bring what she doesn't have.

Why, can't they give 2 tons of pears a year, and a piece of land?

So say you want to starve Angela's family!

They have a yard of land and live on it in 10!

Children need a thrashing, and you never gave any! - You gave enough yourself!

But why shouldn't he marry yet? Huh?

Good evening, Pasquale! - Good evening.

They say the son of Quirino ran away with Giuseppina!

Who is Giuseppina? - The daughter of Vincenzo the carpenter.

They wanted to marry since long, the families didn't want, and they fled!

Good evening, Filomena.

Pasquale! - Huh? - Beat her, Pasquale!

Beat up your sister! You see her?

Instead of helping, walks around all day!

It's the fourth time that she goes out to flirt!

Go home! Choose them attractive, at least!

Walk! Tonight I'm not quite in the mood!

When will you stop doing the nurse?

Cristina, Cristina!

You make children, you nurse them too! You can't get rid of this vice, huh?

It's he who wants to hold him!

I can not live without a creature in my arms!

Hurry up, Pasquale, so I vent with your children!

I'll never have children! - Why?

Now you'll hear your sister, for bringing her kids in the country! Here she is!

How many times shall I say it? My children must not go in the country!

Or, when adult, they'll have a hoe in hand!

So send them to their father in America, he will make them lords!

Shut up... idiot!

Hey, Saverio! - Need help, Angelina? - No, I do by myself.

The bridal shoes, you like them with buckles or with a white ribbon?

No, no, with white ribbon!

Saverio, I didn't order anything, huh? - But it's a gift to her!

Saverio loves me!

Bye! - Bye.

The shoes, I got them already.

So what, you need only shoes?

But aren't there 70,000 lire? - And are enough?

But what is, 70,000 lire?

Good evening, Angela. - Good evening, Leopoldo.

Good evening, grandma Filomena.

Good evening, grandpa Onorato. - Good evening!

Good evening, Pasquale. - Go to sleep!

He believes to be already a parson!

Give me a hand, Pasquale.

And you? Did I said no, maybe?

Easy saying to want to marry!

You know what it takes?

Suits for you, for your father, your grandfather, dragees, honeymoon...

It never ends!

I want to know first what it costs! - And I'll inquire!

Tomorrow I'll inquire!

She's convinced? - Yeah.

But remember that inside the dresser, there are only 50,000 lire.

Angelina!

Angelina!

Well? You like to banter? These are of 5 grams.

They cost 4 thousand lire.

The two of them? - No, each.

However, this is stuff that nobody buys... Only some poor wretch.

This is what you need!

8 grams,

10 e 12 grams, if you want to make a good impression.

You want to see them? But they cost 8,000 lire each.

Hey, what? You go away?

What boors!

But you, what you have for the expenses?

And...you?

Hey!

To me, Mom didn't say. - Neither to me.

Well, I got tired of asking everyone, without ordering anything.

So pretend it's for someone else! - Yeah, sure...

That friend says he wants to save up, OK?

With the almond, 800, without almond, 400.

You feel the difference?

They're the same!

No offense, young man, but you live with the hoe.

Smell it, smell it!

What you doing? - I remove the smell of this!

Well? To me they're equal.

But couldn't we mix them both, and make 500 lire per kilo?

But you think they're pebbles? You want to waste my time!

When you want to buy them, remember:

10 kilos with almond and 10 kilos without almond,

makes 12,000 lire. You understand?

All right.

So I'm going to say it, to that friend.

Let's go. - Look what beautiful wedding favors!

We also have this worsted,

and a striped.

No, black, black! - But, you get married?

No!

It's for grandpa Onorato.

Can die at any moment. He worked hard, at least when he dies...

But hasn't he the suit of when he got married?

It's all moth-eaten!

What are their prices?

8,000 lire per meter, 4 and 2.

No, cheaper, cheaper.

As cheaper, young man, there's the paper!

Well, who can see him under there?

However, he must make a good impression, before closing the casket.

But in short, how much?

Well, it's expensive, to die!

Two and a half meters of fabric... he's small anyway... 5,000 lire.

4,500 lire for manufacturing, and 1,500 lire for the linings.

11,000 lire in all.

Multiplied by 3! - But what's he saying?

Yes, it takes 3 of the same.

One for him, one for my father, and one for me.

What? You die in three?

We must accompany him at the funeral. - Then it takes 33,000 lire.

We don't need to buy clothes.

Dad could borrow his from Serafino Scoppetta.

I'll dye to black the gray one,

and we leave at home grandma and Teresa. What do they come for?

Not enough the money, huh?

I can't remember if you said 60 or 50 thousand.

Fifty thousand! Fifty thousand!

I recall they were more. - No, you remember bad, my son

But what you do with this, huh?

Don't start, okay? I don't give my stuff to anyone!

The money you keep aside for Masses, can't you give it to Pasquale? No, huh?

How do you know?

Pull out my money!

I could have stolen it! Instead I'm honest.

You see?

The Church sends me into heaven, you don't!

But I need it!

You make me die without Masses!

I'll have them said for you!

Don't you know that also the wedding dress is on you?

Oh, yes!

But Angela is content with little. - Yeah, yeah...

You like it, Miss? - Nice, nice.

A wedding with a dress like that, who will ever forget?

Sure that this model would look just great on you, with the figure you have!

Filippuccia Modesti would make it for 35,000 lire.

But we've bet that you make it for 25.

You better go back to her, because I can't make it even for 40.

Then the bet will be won by Filippuccia. - So let her win! What reasoning!

But Miss, we want to become your customers.

We even brought eggs. Look.

Then you have to order, and not make bets.

By me, a dress like this is worth 50,000!

With veil and orange blossoms?

But why you want to save up? Anyway, pays the groom!

If then you don't want to scare him, tell him the price a bit at a time.

Are you done with marking? - Yes.

Darn, it shows. How can we do?

Oh, that's it!

Makes 150 thousand seven hundred twenty-three.

No, 120 thousand seven hundred twenty-three.

But if it is 150,723, why must you say it makes 120 thousand?

Try, try again, it'll come out.

Oof! We can continue until tomorrow, but it won't come out, Pasquale!

Now let me say a prayer.

My Madonna, I no longer sleep at night,

give me grace, let my brother marry!

Or else he'll end up cursing. Already he never had devotion.

Indeed, give him that too, while you're at it. Amen.

Are you done with the accounts?

Here. You may need it for the rings.

But when a boy looks at me, you must keep quiet, okay?

Pasquale!

Pasquale!

Angelina, go to sleep, you say you're run-down. Always on your feet!

It takes lots of money to get married!

Don't you worry!

Then remember as well: "Angela and Pasquale, newlyweds."

What's that?

The wedding cards!

But why should people care if two peasants marry?

They care, they care!

Okay, they care. - Will you let me sleep?

Wait, Angelina!

Tomorrow we won't see each other. - Why?

I'll go work at daily wage.

So I will earn 1,000 lire.

I didn't want to tell you...

Me too.

Goodnight, Angelina.

But you always talk about weddings? - What should we talk about? Funerals?

My sister's wedding, it took half a million!

Of chatters!

As for me, I'll get the money for the refreshments and won't invite anyone.

So you make a bad impression!

At weddings and funerals one shouldn't save up! If not, people criticize you!

Just invite only close relatives! - Imagine! I have 35 aunts and uncles!

Pasquale, anyway the refreshment is on the bride.

Well, it's money anyway!

You can't invite less than 100 people!

Why should I invite 100 people?

My relatives are a dozen.

Those who invited you to their ceremonies, won't you invite them?

Or they take offense.

And consider that each invitee brings with him 3 or 4 people.

To say the least, you must invite 30 families.

15 you and 15 Pasquale.

At my wedding, I'll make dance all of Fondi!

It won't cost you little! When people dance, they get thirsty.

It will take beer, wine, liquor. - It takes even liquors?

Not only! Tons of bagels, cream puffs, cakes, trifle, ice cream.

Ice creams are so good!

Oh, I never had a craving for ice cream!

Invitees arrive with empty bags, but walk away with some bundles!

They're fine for 15 days!

But invitees bring the envelope, with 1,000, 2,000 and even 5,000 lire.

This pays refreshments and honeymoon.

To Venice!

Only Venice? He must also take you to Naples, Capri.

Anyway, the honeymoon is payed by the groom!

Don Guido, I'd like to know where this money comes out of!

700 lire for the papers,

1,500 for the organist,

as many for the sexton, 1,000 lire for the Mass,

and the rest for decoration.

But this decoration, is it really necessary?

Sure!

Flowers, potted plants, armchairs...

Kneeling stools covered with red damask, the runner.

And the candles? At least some thirty!

The wedding is for free,

but in order to look good, you have to spend.

The flowers, I can find them by myself. There are so many!

And the candles...

Can't we just take one large candle...

we cut it, and they become thirty?

Don Guido, my brother has forgotten that without your help,

I couldn't enter the seminary.

In these things, you should not save up.

He too now!

2.500...

723...

11.000...point 60.

Are they going to church, with all those chairs?

So, I'm going out to the field. - Check also our property.

Yes, anyway I sleep there.

So, will be done this marriage? - Of course yes.

The shoes are made! It's true that it will be done?

Dunno! - But how! The brother of the bride doesn't know?

Rosina, and us, when will we get married? - Keep on selling balloons, pal!

350,600!

Do you think we are orange trees owners?

And us?

312,050!

Where do we find all this money?

Even the permanent!

Now, to go to the fields, one must have curls!

Wait a minute...

The bedroom, can be taken off.

2 mattresses suffice. When they sleep, who sees them?

If that's the way to go, even the wedding dress isn't needed! For 2 hours!

The dress is seen by all. A good impression for you too, who pay for it.

You have only Angela.

We have also Teresa! In a few years it's her turn.

If you want, I could marry even immediately.

Don't start finding excuses!

We must get married like everybody does!

We renew the papers every 3 months from 2 years.

The Lord made us male and female to get married. Can't you make a debt?

Angelina, look at me!

After 10 years of marriage, I'm still going blind to pay debts.

Darn that scoundrel who left me and went to America!

Well, we can sell...the cow,

the goat... a few hens.

And we, the pig, the donkey...

The animals are needed!

Why? Humans are useless?

Finally, you gotta do something! - You want us to go steal?

Then let's do without!

Without what?

Without the white dress. Without the black one!

Without the refreshments!

In town, poor people do like that!

I did it the soldier in Milan, I know about!

I want to marry. Naked! But I want to marry.

No! Rather than cutting a poor figure, I become a nun!

You know, without white dress, people say that...

Do worry about what people say!

Angela is right!

Yes, she's right! In our family there never was a marriage without white dress!

In our family there never was a marriage without refreshments!

You marry once only, and you need to save face.

How can you save it if there's no money?

Yes, but people do not have to know.

It's useless, we must postpone to another year.

Pasquale,

we'll go at daily wage every day.

We save on everything, and work more.

Oh, yes? Because this year we went for a walk!

You! You! You!

Haven't you all worked like mules?

How many odd jobs have you done? And you?

You! How much chicory did you go for? And all the clothes you washed?

And you.

How many crates of oranges, lemons, grapes have you carried on the shoulders?

And I haven't rested a single day!

Not even on Sundays!

We've been doing this for two years! Now I'm fed up!

Me too. I won't wait any longer!

It is our fault that money's not enough?

It's better to forget about it, so we all spare ourselves a poor figure.

Then you know that I do?

We run away!

Come on, Angelina.

My God, but he's crazy! - No, I'm not crazy.

Yes! We elope!

We'll stay 2 days in the country!

And then, after what's happened, I want to see if you let me marry her!

It can not be, can not be! - Shut up, you!

Did you understand? We elope!

Then elope, go on!

So you get it over with!

Yet...

Righetto Manni has not done the same?

And the son of Quirino? - But the ones you say,

they fled because the families were opposed.

But they got married without ceremony saving up on everything!

They also saved up the wedding dress and the honeymoon!

Even the refreshments! Oh yes! We won't spend a single penny!

But you understand? They had eloped because their families had quarreled!

Instead, everyone knows that we get along!

And couldn't we quarrel as well? We could pretend.

What do you mean?

Now I'll explain.

It's like,

you pretend to be angry with us because Pasquale has stolen Angela.

And... we get angry with you, because Angela has let herself steal.

This way, people believe it.

Sure! Now we get to do theater.

People will understand that it's all a ploy.

Enough!

I too want to talk!

First without the furniture.

Then without refreshments and wedding dress.

Now even with nothing!

I am not a wretch!

What're you doing, Angelina? Wait!

Run after her, Pasquale!

Just a moment, one moment. Don't mix up the chairs!

If you don't elope with me, I leave you! - So, leave me!

And I'll go with other girls. - Right!

As if you'd never gone.

You think I don't know? When soldier...

You have the military, we, not even that. - So elope.

Yes, elope, elope!

Instead of the white dress, people will remember that I fled.

As if you were the first. Now, even the lords elope.

But they elope by car!

For years I thought of the parade in the square,

with orange blossoms, and all looking at me.

We'll make the honeymoon when comes the first child.

Meanwhile, now, with yours and my money...

Angelina! - Then you have not understood anything!

What's there to understand?

They make us flee just to save up.

They'll never give us the money.

Oh, no!

What they have, they must give us perforce!

The ditch included.

We will buy a cart... and even a mule!

And when we return you'll get a perm, Angelina!

Have you seen?

Our money is never enough to do anything.

Three peppers, cheese,

six eggs,

six apples,

and three pears.

Fork and knife, no... They may get lost!

Let Pasquale bring his.

But look! Tomorrow I have to quarrel!

I'm no good at pretending! If I get mad, who knows what comes out!

I'll write you what to say, and you learn it.

At least you have some dragees. You'll eat them with Pasquale.

They're even nutritious, there is sugar.

Why don't you give me now the money you saved up?

Worry about eloping, Angelina!

Do everything as I told you, understand?

But can't I wait until after the church?

Tonight, he'll be your husband.

What more do you want to wait, my child?

Angelina! Angelina!

Look out the window, we must tell you something urgent! Hurry up!

Come with us to cut the reeds?

Tomorrow morning at Don Carluccio's field.

They give us 600 lire because it's Sunday.

I'll come, I'll come.

But how? You have to elope!

Can't be put off? So I earn 600 lire.

Bring a towel, when we're finished we'll go bathe in the lake.

Want to see that Angela changes her mind now? - She's a fanatic!

Soon as eloped, give her two slaps right away,

so she knows which way the wind blows!

The loser is me.

After this, Don Guido will no longer let me serve Mass.

Come on, Pasquale! Come on!

Quick, quick!

Remember, tomorrow you have to pretend to quarrel with Angela's family.

Leave it to me! Leave it to me!

Pasquale, are you going to war?

Well, almost!

Here.

Why, couldn't I elope too?

You're daughter to us, not to them!

Dad.

Return victorious, Pasquale!

Hey! You who know everything,

solve this problem: why does man live?

It is not known!

I say that there must be a reason, if man lives.

He lives because he must live! - And if one didn't want to live?

He kills himself! - Nice solution!

Hey, she's running! - Where are they going?

Let's go see! - Yes, come on!

Stop, Pasquale!

Pasquale.

Pasquale!

But what're you doing? - Shouldn't we elope?

But if you run away, how do I find you? - I was ashamed, for those.

Now they follow us, let's go! - I'll wait in front of the church.

I won't cross the town with you!

That is him! - She's over there, let's go!

Damn! - Hey! She's gone mad!

Right in the middle of the road you have to dance?

They baptized the son of Michele, the house is full. - Let me through!

What's in this backpack? Let me see! - Leave it alone!

Give me the backpack!

Do not make me angry!

Get on the crossbar. - But what did you do?

They stole nearly all the stuff to eat!

Light the lamp.

Angelina.

Pasquale.

Alone at last!

Yes, I know.

Pasquale.

Angelina.

We go... to the hut? - Yes.

Stop that, you make me laugh!

Careful, we fall!

We've fallen.

The eggs are broken.

Well, we'll be fasting.

Hey, where you going? What're you doing?

What are you doing? - Each one returns to his home.

Look, Angelina, if we are to elope, let's elope.

Hey, this is my field! Who is it?

It's us! Are you blind? - And what are you doing here?

We're eloped.

Eloped? But I'll kill you! And you, I'll take you back home by dint of slaps!

But at home they know it!

We're all in agreement, Antonio, don't be stupid! Else, why should we elope?

So, you won't get married, if you elope!

No, it's to make it quicker and to save. We'll marry later!

Listen.

Now do me a favor, you walk away, and we take care of the field.

Of course! You'll take care! - You'll go to sleep in town, on a bed!

Aren't you glad? - No! I'm jealous!

Gee, look at this! Hey, what's it to you?

It makes me so angry!

So she must remain spinster for life?

And you, would you be pleased if your sister...

What can you do...

So are women.

Come on, go away.

Go. - Okay, I'm leaving. - Good, good.

Angelina.

So, I go?

Goodbye. - Come on.

Pasquale!

What a nice idea you had, with that ditch.

Shall we start filling it with soil? So we'll have the job already done.

Not now. Soon it is night!

Angelina...

Do you love me?

Why, don't you know?

Then you have to prove it to me.

Pasquale, these are watching.

Animals are like humans. - So, they see what?

They see us.

They don't understand anyway.

What did I tell you? - Darn!

Let's go, they don't want. - No!

I'll cast them out.

Shoo, shoo!

If we had done a real wedding, we'd have the sheets, not the straw.

And we'd be at the hotel as lords.

But we're not lords! Will you understand once and for all?

And I can't put up with it!

Wait! Come here.

But where you going to? - I don't know, but here, no.

You're lucky that I've else to do, or...!

Instead of this slog, at this hour we would go by car!

In that case, only up to the station.

You think it's little? You know how many people would die of envy?

It's you who want me to die! I don't want anyone to die.

But I do.

Look at all the orange blossoms!

If I look there, we fall.

You smell the scent?

I smell nothing!

If you take away even marriage with orange blossoms,

what remains to a poor girl?

Get off.

What will you do?

Where are you taking me? - Keep quiet, there may be the owner.

Pasquale...

Don't you move, huh?

Here, like this one.

Hey! Do not steal!

We may need them.

But you shouldn't!

No, you shouldn't!

Run, Angelina, run!

Ouch! - Run, run!

I saw you, you know?

You're Cafalla's granddaughter. It's the fourth time you come here!

But if you come again, I'll report you! - I had told you not to steal!

My God, it's like being in hell!

It burns? - Like fire, he shot with salt!

Let me see.

Are you crazy?

I want to medicate you. - It's nothing. He shot me once already.

Then you have it as a vice!

Stop it with your hands!

But I'm your husband!

Not yet.

I want to give you a massage, what's so bad? - No, go away.

But what did you think?

I don't trust.

But when we return we get married.

And what if you change your mind?

An abandoned girl is married only by a widower, an old man or a cripple.

Then we eloped just to take a walk?

You want to dishonor me and then flee. - Me?

That 's why you wanted to elope!

You don't lose anything.

But who said that? - You didn't say so but you thought so.

And if you didn't think so yet, you still might.

It wouldn't be the first time a man does as he likes, and then,... so long.

Now I know how to do with you! - Don't you dare!

Hey, don't make me angry or it's worse for you!

Come on, get angry, get angry! - Oh yeah?

Damn!

Stop it!

If I catch you!

I come even up there, you know?

You got crooked legs! That's why you didn't want to be medicated!

They're straight!

No, they're crooked, Angelina.

Ouch!

You treat me like a beast.

You should know that I like marriage,

because we want children,

and to be always together.

Here. You eat it.

Don't you remember when we were kids and I already loved you?

It may serve...

to frighten... the sparrows.

And with that, I can put wine in the flasks.

Look.

Look how beautiful it is.

With it, we can pound the salt!

Are you crazy? It 's a bomb!

The gypsies!

Come on, let's go! - Where to? It's night now.

What do we do all alone in the fields? At least here there are them too.

They're thieves, they steal us everything!

Pasquale, but what should they steal?

Oh my God, now it blows up!

I told you it was good to pound salt!

Later I seek more.

Who knows what else there is that can serve us for the home!

Here, take it.

Today is a holiday, and this one is dead.

Whom should be taking, these? - It must have died the usual old woman.

Come on.

Come on! Let's get away!

But when will they start?

They forgot that we have to do the comedy?

You go and wash yourself. - Oof!

"Stingy" is good. - "Brazen-faced"!

"Brazen-faced"...no. That's too strong!

If they won't start, I will!

It's up to them, who were offended. Angela is the female.

Stop it! You unnerve me!

Put on your shoes, and start.

Nunzia, you go first.

Me?

I won't meddle in your muddles! I've already got my own troubles!

It's you who must start, as father.

Well then, the mother is better.

Me? I've never quarreled with anyone! What if the police come?

Better! So it seems like the real thing! Come on Francesco.

Come on Francesco! - Go!

Come on!

Oreste!

Come out, Oreste!

Fine action he's done, that artichoke! Your son Pasquale!

You hear me?

The whole alley has to know!

But what? - Dunno.

Come on, you reply. - I'll spoil everything, beware.

He's called you! - I'm ashamed.

What has done you, my son Pasquale? Will you explain?

But what's he doing? He's gone?

Dumb! Why did you close? - I'm no good at it!

They await a reply!

Oreste!

Come out, Oreste!

Reply! He's called you back! - No, I won't go out there anymore!

Oreste!

Will you look out, yes or no?

Fine action he's done,

that artichoke of your son Pasquale!

We understood!

But may we get to know what he did, this Pasquale?

No, no, wait!

Excuse me? Make way, make way!

Take it easy!

Let's hear it! What has my son done?

Walk!

What's he done? What's he done?

So you pretend nothing, huh? - My poor daughter!

Will you say what has done my Pasquale?

Get away!

He's done...

that he stole Angela!

And who gives a damn? - Tu-tu!

Then I too don't give a damn! - No, she probably let slip it!

If I let slip mine!

Carmelina, go to Angela's home.

Tell them they mustn't take offense if we let slip a few insults.

Indeed, tell them that they too can offend!

Go, go!

No, no!

Go by the roofs, so no one will see you! Quick!

It took me so long to make them, and now they're no longer needed.

Make peace, Oreste.

Before, you went on so well, and now?

Before it was so, and now it isn't. Maybe you're in command at our house?

And you, you must shave me right here!

I want to look up face those stinkers!

Says to not take offense if there's one word too many.

Indeed says, that if you too say a few, they're glad.

Oh, yes? - Yes!

Open up, Adolfo!

Now I'll fix them!

Thugs! Impostors!

Filomena, you should put your face in the trash! You

and your whole race: ancestors, descendants, children and grandchildren!

See how skinny is the canary!

Even birds they let starve to death, in that house of wretches!

And they want to give our daughter to that artichoke of Pasquale!

The canary can think better than all of you!

And with what will you feed Angelina? With the canary?

Take this! Eat!

Eat, since today you got nothing for lunch!

What you doing? This stuff is expensive! - They shouldn't touch my canary!

Michele!

A quart of coffee for those gentlemen.

For years they've been drinking garbanzo's coffee!

But first, pay up all the debts you have!

Serves you right, braggart! You're only good to make people laugh!

The scandal, the people! Who dares going out! We'll end up arguing for real!

You wanted this comedy!

If we don't quarrel, we must pay for refreshments, furniture and all else.

Come on who's next! And make it quick!

Prepare the bed in the stable, with the animals.

Angela and Pasquale will no longer enter my house! You understand? Here!

Neighbor!

Keep them yourself, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and so be it!

In your stable, Filomena!

With all due respect, our animals are cleaner than Pasquale!

Here! So he will wash when he gets back!

Magrelli, a fine to that youngster!

And it's the fiftieth! Let's see who's toughest!

Get away from here, clear out! Away, I said!

Hey, what's that? You brazen-faced! - I didn't mean to, she tripped over me!

Let me through!

But look! He says to step back, and you go forward. - Stand back!

Why didn't you come, last night?

I was put of service. - Oh, come on!

Stand back! Stand back!

Nice things that happen, huh?

You've upset the whole town with your screams! - Who was screaming?

How, who was screaming? - They, they have upset! - Yes, they!

I did say the police would come! - Hush!

I wonder why you're so flustered. They ran off?

Alright, so many do, then they return and everything settles!

It's OK, they've always been friends!

Not true at all!

We never wanted this marriage!

Marshal!

Do a good deed. Go seek those two who eloped.

God forbid! Now I must do even the hunting dog!

We'll come all, marshal!

We've got the bikes! - But no!

Marshal, don't say no, so the families will make peace! Say something, you!

I can't, I!

Wait.

Marshal, I know where they are. I can even take you there right away.

Who are you? - I'm the brother. I saw them last night at the hut.

Marshal, is not true at all! - Stand still! Stop!

Come on, later we'll make a great party! - With dragees and refreshments!

With the dance party here in the alley!

You'll get by with a gallon of wine each!

It also takes spaghetti for all!

And the bride must wear the white dress!

So, marshal? We go?

Alright! Let's move!

I'll do an experiment.

Let's see if in this town will end the habit of eloping! Let's go!

Stop! Stop! Where are you going?

Wait a minute!

Stop!

Pasquale!

Young man, I want to guess your future. You're always up to something!

One person loves you, and one betrays you.

Are you spring-loaded?

The cockerel of luck. - Yes, yes.

10 lire. - Pay! So we'll know our fortune.

What does it say?

You don't know how to read? - Well, he reads quicker.

Well? - Says that we'll get married soon!

But there are written so many things! Give me. Read this!

"Girl, you're young, you don't know enough about life.

You're beautiful. Beware of a young man, because he can put you in trouble.

Be careful, if you don't want to be left alone with a bastard child." - Go away!

Trickster!

Now you believe this guy to be me.

Who else? It's your portrait!

Oh God, where did I put my scarf?

What must you do now?

Don't you hear them?

Where are you going?

To Mass! Have you forgotten it's Sunday?

We go back to Fondi? - You don't get it! Our Lady of the Angels is near here.

We eloped to go to Our Lady of the Angels!

Then we eloped only to commit sins?

What sins!

Isn't it a sin, to flee with you? Isn't it a sin to sleep with a man?

For all that we did!

That doesn't matter.

The thought is enough.

I'm amazed at you, with a brother priest!

On Sundays, Mass is mandatory.

This is not a Sunday like others!

Sundays are all equal.

Indeed, I also want to make confession, since I'm there.

Angelina! Even today out in the fields? - Oh, yes.

Move over, pretend you're not with me.

The daughter of the American gets married today.

We bring the furniture. - You should see that trousseau!

All embroidered!

Have you seen? They recognized me!

You wait here, I go to Mass and come right back.

And who tells me that you'll return? Together, or nothing!

But I can't let myself be seen with you by people!

Then we remain here!

With you one can never do anything!

Your sins, I'll take them all on me.

And next Sunday you can hear two Masses, or three,

and so the score is even.

Why can't I do like the daughter of the American?

You've got dollars under the bed, you?

You've got sheep?

We run away like two thieves.

We can't even go to Mass together,

and we must even fear people.

I'm so hungry, Pasquale!

And I'm not?

How do we do?

Let's go to my hut.

But, there are the animals that look.

Yes, but this time we eat them, and...

Let's hope Pasquale did what he had to, or it's trouble, I tell you!

My poor girl, imagine the fear when she sees the marshal! - Shut up you! - Run!

I didn't like at all that quarrel! I'd rather do it now, without people around.

Don't waste time, let's find them! - Instead of pretending, you did for real!

If I were to do for real, too much I should have said!

Such as what?

Were it for me, Pasquale would have left Angela! - Lorena, don't start over!

Pasquale could have had a lordly marriage!

You have some nerve!

To come with us, you had to borrow the cart!

And you, what did you give to that lazybones? Three feet of ditch?

Pietro Cafalla, don't touch that subject!

It's some time that we no longer speak of the ditch! It's not convenient for you!

Come on, speak up!

Do you believe in fate?

No!

I'm still thinking about the words of the horoscope. - Don't start again!

Let's eat, first.

Then be more tidy!

The police with the marshall! They come here!

And Don Guido!

What happened?

The lemons you stole last night. The guy's reported you!

And why all these people?

Oof!

It's them!

There they are!

Marshal!

Marshal! - Francesco! Have you gone mad?

Jokes are over, Oreste, my daughter will go to America. - No, wait!

Marshal! - What? - I saw them! Down there!

Quiet. - Don't listen to him!

Don't shout! - We must catch them, Marshal.

But how? The countryside is large! If they're in love, come to an agreement.

We came to bring peace and to make a Christian marriage.

Come to an agreement! - With them? Never!

Not with them!

But with me you must, Francesco! - What's it to you?

Angela comes at night to steal my lemons.

She came last night too. - Must have been Pasquale, to steal.

No, it was Angela! And it's not the first time I pinch her.

You hear?

Everyone knows you're a family of thieves! - Go easy on words!

It's the truth! They always stole! Pietro stole when young, and steals now!

And what did I steal from you?

I had warned you, you should have kept quiet!

Marshal! - What's up?

Now I'll show you something nice! Let me through!

Watch carefully! You see what I'm doing?

You can steal in many ways, not just with your hands. Look! You got it now?

Or not yet? Here's how he did as a young, that scoundrel!

He came at night with his wife, and always dug on our side!

We never managed to get them in the act!

Witch! - Thief, thief and thief!

Quiet! Quiet!

Stop! In the name of God, stop!

Thief by day and by night!

Shame on you! - I'll handcuff everyone!

Pietro Cafallo, not even the jail wanted you!

In jail, I want to see your son, bound hand and foot!

I sue Pasquale for rape, marshal!

Do you realize what you say? - So sue him, I'll begin investigations!

I'll sue him immediately! - I will too!

Better off in jail, than married to that one!

Since I'm here, I want to tell you.

You know why I didn't want to marry you?

Because you have a face that's too nasty,

and a dirty tongue.

But this nasty face, fifty years ago, has saved your life.

And this dirty tongue went to speak with the congressman,

and you haven't done Menelik's war.

Did you forget?

I tell you one thing: Angela and Pasquale will not be married!

I've always said it. We should create a marriage loan fund for poor citizens.

Look at that sun!

Don't you feel that nice breeze? It reminds me of Lake Ashangi.

Reverend, let's forget the poor at least for one day.

Certainly though, in Venice would have been another matter.

But why should they be right here?

Those who elope always come to the lake. I too came here, that time.

I can only elope with someone like me.

Give it to me, your uniform is all stained.

I know!

I know that I'd need a woman! But there is the law!

I must wait two more years! - I'll wait, I have nothing else to do!

Angelina, we should to get off now.

Angelina, we get off?

How beautiful the sky!

Yeah, it's beautiful.

And we look at it just to know whether it rains or not.

And when do we have the time to look at it for free!?

You say the sky here is the same as in America?

But with your hunger, where do you find the energy to speak?

You're really odd, you know that, Angelina?

Pasquale, what do you think? The stars get wet when it rains?

What do I know! These are matters for scientists.

Flee, Pasquale, flee!

Row fast, or they see us!

But what they do these scientists?

They think.

We know how to work the land, Saverio knows how to make shoes,

and they know how to think.

Oh God, what do they think about?

About everything.

We are really ignorant, Pasquale!

It's the first time that I don't have to hoe the soil, wash clothes,

take care of the chickens, cook.

How rich are the rich people who never do anything!

Very nearly I'm no longer hungry, Pasquale.

Lucky you!

Why do we get off?

With all of these shots I'm not comfortable in the water!

Who knows when I'll ever come back on the lake!

Will you teach me to ride a bike?

But I must always do what pleases you?

And you, what I like, never!

Alright, get on, get on...

Sit straight! Put your feet there.

Come on, start pedaling!

Let me, let me!

Oh God, I fall! I fall!

You grab the handlebars like a hoe! You should hold them gently.

Yeah, let's go!

But it's no use if you don't pedal!

Oh God, you make me fall!

Don't look at the wheel, look ahead of you!

Come on!

Come on!

I learned! I learned!

Marshal, imagine my luck if we find Angela among those reeds, killed by Pasquale!

You hear how these youngsters speak? And you marvel for who elopes!

There's nothing doing! Now existentialism has arrived to Fondi!

You're all dirty with soil.

Here! You said that my legs are crooked!

Stop! Stop!

It's Angela's voice!

Imagine if she knows how to sing!

Of course she sings! Don Guido knows how she sings in church.

This is not a church song, I can't recognize Angela.

I recognize her myself! Let's go!

Shall we run after voices? They all sing in Italy, my son.

Marshal, you must come with me! - No!

You come with us.

I have a plan in mind that you'll like.

Let's go, Vincenzo!

You spoil everything.

We were so well this way!

You, you're well this way!

I've never toiled so much!

I followed you for miles!

I brought you on the bicycle,

I paddled!

Why must we always quarrel?

I've had enough! I'm leaving! - No!

You only care about the perm, the movies, the parade in the square.

Even love, you've made it become a toil!

I get home.

Wait till night falls. - Yeah. So, after, you say we must wait until daylight.

Pasquale,

I'm afraid. I don't know why, but I'm afraid.

What of?

You are a man, you can't understand it.

Angelina!

But you love me seriously?

Since last night I'm thinking about it.

So neither you love me! From me you only want one thing.

Angelina, but what happens?

Anything at all?

Nothing, absolutely nothing. Didn't you see that he slapped me?

To me, you were wrong. - Yes, you're quite wrong.

By now everyone knows that you're eloped!

You mean?

That, for the people, you've been compromised.

Compromised?!

When you return to town, who will ever believe that nothing happened?

But they must believe it!

Imagine! Who knows the rumors they've invented already! Else than compromised!

If he changes his mind, farewell! Who will take you anymore?

So then what should I do?

What you should do... You ask, even?

Well? - Now try this, reverend. - Mine is better!

Let's see. This is Belgian, by the weight. - Another one!

200 apiece, huh? - What? To the kids you charge 50!

Then find another one who sells balloons around here! - Come on!

If you don't arrest the criminal Pasquale, nobody eats here! I burn everything!

What fine fishes! We were really lucky.

I burn everything! - Here! Burn!

Pasquale!

Pasquale!

Pasquale!

Pasquale!

My Madonna, if you let me find him, I'll say even 12 Hail Marys.

Pasquale!

Pasquale, where are you? I'm repented!

My Pasquale!

Pasquale, why did you do that?

Answer me!

Tell me you're not dead, Pasquale!

Has fainted!

Say, you wanna drown me?

Leave me alone, huh?

But we're eloped, we're in love! - Yeah...

It's hot, I take a bath.

Come, or we'll be late!

Mamma mia, it's so hot!

Hey! But it's catching fire!

Hey! It's burning, it's burning! - My God!

Imagine if one has to get a perm at one o'clock! Dead!

Go away! Go away, I'm fed up!

You got burned?

They broke everything! - It's nothing, nothing.

What's up? Are you mad?

It happens that you can no longer marry!

Angelina!

Come!

Come on, inside! - What's this, Carnival?

Put him under lock and key, otherwise he runs away!

What a dump!

What can you do, Angelina? We were born with bad luck!

Maybe you, but not me!

Where is going this madwoman now?

Oh, no!

She wants him, so she deals with it!

Who's there? - Pasquale, it's me!

Untie me, Angelina!

Untie me, Angelina.

Go easy, they might hear you. - Yes, yes.

But I must go sell the cockles! - The rubbish! They will fine me!

I was just going to the fields!

I'll pay you well! A matter of minutes!

Hey! - What do you want? - Come, you'll earn 300 lire!

300 lire?

Pasquale Droppio,...

do you take Angela Cafalla present here to be your lawful wife,

according to the rites of the Holy Roman Church?

Yes, yes.

And you,

Angela Cafalla,...

do you take Pasquale Droppio present here to be your lawful husband,

according to the rites of the Holy Roman Church?

Yes.

Join your right hands.

Look at that!

The rings!

Congratulations! - Thanks. - 10 male children!

Not even the major altar!

They put us here, you see?,

because there is the big Jesus Christ. It brings good luck!

Hey, good luck, and the 300 lire? - Wait, later, later.

Sit down!

It's not over yet.

Don Guido, the market is open, can I go? If not, they steal my place.

Now you're married.

But you call this a marriage?

Think how it could have been nice with music, flowers, the altar all lit up ...

Why did you elope, my children?

Why did you forsake the principles of Holy Mother Church?

Open, open!

Open up! - They don't have the consent!

You can not marry them! - Open up! Open!

My sermons! They have been useless!

They leave? - And my 300 lire? - And mine?

Pass by the sacristy! - Yes! - Come on, come on!

Now we have to fill it with soil.

These days are gone so soon!