WEBVTT 1 00:00:26.026 --> 00:00:31.198 THE SACRIFICE 2 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.609 Come here and give me a hand, my boy! 3 00:06:01.778 --> 00:06:05.616 Once upon a time, long ago 4 00:06:06.992 --> 00:06:11.997 an old monk lived in an orthodox monastery. 5 00:06:13.248 --> 00:06:15.125 His name was Pamve. 6 00:06:15.334 --> 00:06:19.296 And once he planted a barren tree on a mountainside 7 00:06:19.505 --> 00:06:21.548 just like this. 8 00:06:22.633 --> 00:06:25.552 Then he told his young pupil, 9 00:06:25.761 --> 00:06:28.680 a monk named Ioann Kolov, 10 00:06:28.889 --> 00:06:35.062 that he should water the tree each day until it came to life. 11 00:06:37.231 --> 00:06:39.274 Put a few stones there, will you? 12 00:06:40.359 --> 00:06:43.278 Anyway, early every morning 13 00:06:43.487 --> 00:06:47.449 Ioann filled a dipper with water and went out. 14 00:06:47.658 --> 00:06:52.830 He climbed up the mountain and watered the withered tree 15 00:06:53.914 --> 00:06:57.876 and in the evening when darkness had fallen 16 00:06:58.085 --> 00:07:01.004 he returned to the monastery. 17 00:07:01.213 --> 00:07:04.132 He did this for three years. 18 00:07:04.341 --> 00:07:09.346 And one fine day, he climbed up the mountain and saw 19 00:07:09.555 --> 00:07:14.726 that the whole tree was covered with blossoms! 20 00:07:15.811 --> 00:07:20.983 Say what you will, but a method, a system, has its virtues. 21 00:07:23.110 --> 00:07:29.324 You know, sometimes I say to myself, 22 00:07:31.451 --> 00:07:33.495 if every single day, 23 00:07:34.580 --> 00:07:37.499 at exactly the same stroke of the clock, 24 00:07:37.708 --> 00:07:40.627 one were to perform the same single act, 25 00:07:40.836 --> 00:07:42.713 like a ritual, 26 00:07:42.921 --> 00:07:47.926 unchanging, systematic, every day at the same time, 27 00:07:48.135 --> 00:07:51.054 the world would be changed. 28 00:07:51.263 --> 00:07:53.140 Yes, something would change. 29 00:07:53.348 --> 00:07:55.225 It would have to. 30 00:07:55.434 --> 00:07:59.396 One could wake up in the morning, let's say, 31 00:07:59.605 --> 00:08:02.691 get up at exactly seven, 32 00:08:03.775 --> 00:08:06.153 go to the bathroom, 33 00:08:06.361 --> 00:08:09.865 pour a glass of water from the tap, 34 00:08:11.074 --> 00:08:13.994 and flush it down the toilet. Only that! 35 00:08:14.203 --> 00:08:16.079 I'll be hard to get rid of today! 36 00:08:16.288 --> 00:08:18.165 Beautiful, eh? 37 00:08:18.373 --> 00:08:20.250 Like Japanese Ikebana. 38 00:08:20.459 --> 00:08:24.421 I will come to your house to wish you well 39 00:08:24.630 --> 00:08:28.592 on your birthday. I am very honored by the invitation! 40 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.178 Here's the last of it. 41 00:08:31.386 --> 00:08:33.263 The post office is closed. 42 00:08:33.472 --> 00:08:38.977 Anyone who turns up now will just have to wait till tomorrow. Here! 43 00:08:39.436 --> 00:08:42.314 I don't have my glasses. Please read it! 44 00:08:43.398 --> 00:08:47.361 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FRIEND STOP 45 00:08:47.569 --> 00:08:55.786 MIGHTY RICHARD GREETS GOOD PRINCE MYSCHKIN STOP 46 00:08:56.495 --> 00:08:59.915 GOD GRANT YOU JOY HEALTH AND PEACE STOP 47 00:09:00.123 --> 00:09:02.876 FROM YOUR LOYAL AND LOVING 48 00:09:03.168 --> 00:09:06.964 RICHARDIANS AND IDIOTISTS STOP" 49 00:09:08.423 --> 00:09:10.467 Oh, how touching! 50 00:09:11.552 --> 00:09:13.595 A joke. 51 00:09:14.680 --> 00:09:16.557 Friends, and their jokes! 52 00:09:16.765 --> 00:09:20.727 "Idiotists..." That's not half bad. 53 00:09:20.936 --> 00:09:25.399 "God grant you joy..." Say, how is your relation to God? 54 00:09:25.607 --> 00:09:28.527 Non-existent, I'm afraid. What d'you mean? 55 00:09:28.735 --> 00:09:31.321 It could be worse. 56 00:09:35.534 --> 00:09:37.411 Here you are... 57 00:09:37.619 --> 00:09:39.663 a famous journalist, 58 00:09:41.248 --> 00:09:45.752 a theatrical and literary critic, 59 00:09:45.961 --> 00:09:52.301 who lectures on esthetics for students at the university. 60 00:09:53.260 --> 00:09:56.180 Hey, your lasso! Run and fetch it! 61 00:09:56.388 --> 00:09:58.265 And essays... 62 00:09:58.474 --> 00:10:00.517 you write them, too. 63 00:10:01.602 --> 00:10:04.688 But you're so gloomy! 64 00:10:04.897 --> 00:10:07.858 What's that supposed to mean, "gloomy"? 65 00:10:07.983 --> 00:10:12.446 Well, you shouldn't grieve so much. 66 00:10:13.071 --> 00:10:17.034 You shouldn't yearn so for something. 67 00:10:17.242 --> 00:10:20.162 You shouldn't be waiting like that. That's important. 68 00:10:20.370 --> 00:10:23.290 One shouldn't be waiting for something. 69 00:10:23.499 --> 00:10:28.504 "Sholdn't be waiting"? Who says I'm waiting for anything? 70 00:10:28.712 --> 00:10:32.841 We all are... waiting for something! 71 00:10:36.011 --> 00:10:39.097 Take me, for example. 72 00:10:40.682 --> 00:10:45.354 All my life I've been going around waiting for something. 73 00:10:47.481 --> 00:10:51.443 All my life, in fact, I've felt as if... 74 00:10:51.652 --> 00:10:55.614 as if I were waiting in a railway station. 75 00:10:55.823 --> 00:10:58.742 And I've always felt as if... 76 00:10:58.951 --> 00:11:02.913 as if the living I've done, so far, hasn't actually been real life 77 00:11:03.121 --> 00:11:04.998 but a long wait for it... 78 00:11:05.207 --> 00:11:09.336 a long wait for something real, 79 00:11:11.964 --> 00:11:14.383 something important! What about you? 80 00:11:14.591 --> 00:11:16.969 Yes, if that's what you mean. 81 00:11:17.177 --> 00:11:22.182 I just never knew you were interested in that kind of problem. 82 00:11:22.391 --> 00:11:26.895 But I am! I most certainly am! Unfortunately. 83 00:11:27.104 --> 00:11:31.066 Sometimes I get the most peculiar notions. 84 00:11:31.275 --> 00:11:33.152 Yes, I mean it. 85 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.280 Like that dwarf, for example. 86 00:11:36.488 --> 00:11:41.034 That notorious dwarf! 87 00:11:41.535 --> 00:11:43.495 What dwarf? 88 00:11:43.787 --> 00:11:47.040 Look here, you've managed to muddle me up completely! 89 00:11:47.249 --> 00:11:51.086 Oh, you know who I mean! That hunchback! 90 00:11:51.086 --> 00:11:54.006 Eh? The one Nietzsche mentioned. 91 00:11:54.214 --> 00:11:56.091 The one who made Zarathustra faint. 92 00:11:56.300 --> 00:11:59.219 Faint? What are you talking about? 93 00:11:59.428 --> 00:12:02.347 I say, do you know Nietzsche? 94 00:12:02.556 --> 00:12:05.642 No, not personally. 95 00:12:06.727 --> 00:12:11.732 I haven't really studied him all that carefully. 96 00:12:11.940 --> 00:12:13.984 However... 97 00:12:15.068 --> 00:12:17.988 he interests me, I can't deny it. 98 00:12:18.197 --> 00:12:19.531 So? 99 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:22.659 Sometimes I get silly things in my head, things like 100 00:12:22.868 --> 00:12:25.454 like this "eternal rotation". 101 00:12:26.538 --> 00:12:29.458 We live, we have our ups and downs. 102 00:12:29.666 --> 00:12:31.543 We hope. 103 00:12:31.752 --> 00:12:35.172 We wait for something. 104 00:12:35.380 --> 00:12:38.842 We hope, we lose hope, we move closer to death. 105 00:12:39.051 --> 00:12:41.970 Finally, we die 106 00:12:42.179 --> 00:12:46.308 and are born again. But we remember nothing. 107 00:12:47.392 --> 00:12:51.522 And everything begins again, from scratch. 108 00:12:54.691 --> 00:12:58.654 Not literally the same way, 109 00:12:58.862 --> 00:13:01.782 just a wee, wee bit different. 110 00:13:01.990 --> 00:13:05.410 But it's still so hopeless... 111 00:13:05.619 --> 00:13:08.205 and we don't know why. 112 00:13:10.123 --> 00:13:11.124 Yes... 113 00:13:12.417 --> 00:13:14.294 No, I mean! 114 00:13:14.503 --> 00:13:17.422 Really, it's quite the same, 115 00:13:17.631 --> 00:13:20.717 literally, the same 116 00:13:21.802 --> 00:13:25.764 Just the next performance, so to speak. 117 00:13:25.973 --> 00:13:31.145 If I'd made it all, I guess I'd have done things the same way. 118 00:13:32.229 --> 00:13:34.106 Funny, eh? 119 00:13:34.314 --> 00:13:38.443 But I've heard all that, it's nothing new. You didn't invent it! 120 00:13:40.028 --> 00:13:44.533 Do you really think that mankind could devise a universal concept, 121 00:13:44.741 --> 00:13:46.618 a model, so to speak, 122 00:13:46.827 --> 00:13:51.165 of Absolute Law, of Absolute Truth? 123 00:13:51.498 --> 00:13:54.960 Why, it'd be like trying to create a new universe! 124 00:13:55.169 --> 00:13:57.212 To be a demiurge! 125 00:13:58.297 --> 00:14:03.302 And you actually believe in your dwarf, do you? In your "rotation"? 126 00:14:03.510 --> 00:14:05.554 Yes... 127 00:14:06.638 --> 00:14:08.682 Sometimes I do... 128 00:14:10.809 --> 00:14:12.686 You understand? 129 00:14:12.895 --> 00:14:14.938 If I truly believe, 130 00:14:16.523 --> 00:14:18.567 it will be so. 131 00:14:19.151 --> 00:14:26.867 "Believe that it hath been given and it shall be given unto you." 132 00:14:28.535 --> 00:14:33.540 But now I think I'll head home. It's late, I must think of a gift. 133 00:14:33.749 --> 00:14:36.835 You needn't do that. 134 00:14:52.518 --> 00:14:55.604 This is a very important day! 135 00:14:57.731 --> 00:14:59.775 You'll be buried in telegrams! 136 00:15:00.859 --> 00:15:02.903 Au revoir! 137 00:15:05.531 --> 00:15:06.365 What? 138 00:15:06.573 --> 00:15:08.450 What are you mumbling about? 139 00:15:08.659 --> 00:15:11.245 In the beginning was the Word. 140 00:15:12.329 --> 00:15:15.749 But you are mute, mute as a fish. 141 00:15:15.958 --> 00:15:17.501 A little smelt! 142 00:15:21.171 --> 00:15:24.633 Look here, my boy, we've lost our way. 143 00:15:24.842 --> 00:15:28.804 Humanity is also on the wrong road, a dangerous road. 144 00:15:29.012 --> 00:15:33.142 So, up you go! Dear, how heavy you are. 145 00:15:34.226 --> 00:15:37.146 The first impression that Man had... 146 00:15:37.354 --> 00:15:40.774 How has he been lately? All right? 147 00:15:40.983 --> 00:15:42.359 Yes. 148 00:15:42.568 --> 00:15:45.654 In what way? He works a lot. 149 00:15:48.824 --> 00:15:51.910 I don't like his monologues. 150 00:15:52.995 --> 00:15:54.872 Alexander! 151 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:56.957 Doctor! Wait, we'll come to you! 152 00:15:57.166 --> 00:16:01.628 You're not equipped for a jaunt through Africa! 153 00:16:01.837 --> 00:16:04.256 It's quite a job, y'know! 154 00:16:04.464 --> 00:16:06.341 Hello. – Hello! Welcome! 155 00:16:06.550 --> 00:16:09.469 Many happy returns! – Thanks, thanks! 156 00:16:09.678 --> 00:16:11.555 And you, young man, how are you? 157 00:16:11.763 --> 00:16:14.683 Isn't it hard to keep silent? 158 00:16:14.892 --> 00:16:17.811 I can well imagine. But it's good for you. 159 00:16:18.020 --> 00:16:23.025 Sociability is a burden. Not all of us can bear it. 160 00:16:23.233 --> 00:16:26.153 My brave boy! – Why "my"? He's "ours", after all. 161 00:16:26.361 --> 00:16:30.324 He gargles and goes to bed by himself. 162 00:16:30.532 --> 00:16:33.452 Gargles? That's nothing! 163 00:16:33.660 --> 00:16:37.789 Think how well he behaved during the operation! 164 00:16:38.874 --> 00:16:41.793 He's got the makings of a real man! 165 00:16:42.002 --> 00:16:44.046 Open wide, now! 166 00:16:46.173 --> 00:16:50.135 It looks fine. Keep that up and you'll be talking in a week. 167 00:16:50.344 --> 00:16:52.221 By the way, did you know 168 00:16:52.429 --> 00:16:57.434 that Gandhi hade one day in the week when he spoke to no one? 169 00:16:57.643 --> 00:17:01.063 It was his system. – Why? 170 00:17:01.271 --> 00:17:03.148 He was probably tired of people. 171 00:17:03.357 --> 00:17:05.234 Shall we walk here? 172 00:17:05.442 --> 00:17:07.319 You've deserted your patients. 173 00:17:07.528 --> 00:17:09.404 And what elegance! 174 00:17:09.613 --> 00:17:13.075 On a day like this, one has to live up to expectations! 175 00:17:13.283 --> 00:17:15.661 Your present's in the boot. 176 00:17:15.869 --> 00:17:18.288 Still more presents! 177 00:17:18.497 --> 00:17:22.459 It's time we went home. – Yes, all of us. 178 00:17:22.668 --> 00:17:26.630 But why don't you two take the car, we'll follow on foot. 179 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.758 We must finish our chat. Right, my boy? 180 00:17:29.967 --> 00:17:32.344 Please don't be too late. 181 00:17:32.553 --> 00:17:34.429 Alright, Little Man? 182 00:17:34.638 --> 00:17:36.682 Everything's almost ready. 183 00:17:40.394 --> 00:17:44.356 Have I told you how your mother and I found this place? 184 00:17:44.565 --> 00:17:49.570 We came here on a trip, once. You weren't even thought of then. 185 00:17:49.778 --> 00:17:52.698 It was the first time we were here. 186 00:17:52.906 --> 00:17:56.869 We had no map with us, we forgot to bring one. 187 00:17:57.077 --> 00:17:59.997 Besides, we'd run out of petrol. 188 00:18:00.205 --> 00:18:05.210 We stopped somewhere near here, then we kept going on foot. 189 00:18:05.419 --> 00:18:07.462 Frankly, we were lost. 190 00:18:08.547 --> 00:18:12.676 Then it started raining, a cold, ugly drizzle. 191 00:18:13.760 --> 00:18:17.723 We came to that bend over there, by that dry old pine tree 192 00:18:17.931 --> 00:18:20.309 and just then, the sun came out. 193 00:18:20.517 --> 00:18:22.936 It stopped raining. 194 00:18:23.145 --> 00:18:25.022 The light was dazzling! 195 00:18:25.230 --> 00:18:27.608 Then we saw the house. 196 00:18:27.816 --> 00:18:30.235 Suddenly I was sad that I didn't... 197 00:18:30.444 --> 00:18:33.363 I mean, that we didn't live there 198 00:18:33.572 --> 00:18:37.534 in that house under the pines, so close to the sea. 199 00:18:37.743 --> 00:18:40.120 How beautiful it was! 200 00:18:40.329 --> 00:18:43.790 I knew that if I lived there, I'd be happy until I died. 201 00:18:43.999 --> 00:18:47.085 Hm? What's wrong? Don't be afraid. 202 00:18:48.170 --> 00:18:50.047 There is no such thing as death. 203 00:18:50.255 --> 00:18:54.218 No, there's the fear of death, and that is an awful fear. 204 00:18:54.426 --> 00:18:58.388 Sometimes it even makes people do things they shouldn't. 205 00:18:58.597 --> 00:19:01.517 But how different things would be 206 00:19:01.725 --> 00:19:04.812 if only we could stop fearing death! 207 00:19:05.896 --> 00:19:09.858 Huh? Oh, I was talking about something else... Ah yes. 208 00:19:10.067 --> 00:19:15.239 As I was saying, we were enchanted as we took in the beauty of it. 209 00:19:16.824 --> 00:19:19.243 We couldn't tear ourselves away. 210 00:19:19.451 --> 00:19:22.371 The peace, the stillness... 211 00:19:22.579 --> 00:19:24.623 And... 212 00:19:25.707 --> 00:19:27.584 it was plain that this house 213 00:19:27.793 --> 00:19:30.838 was meant just for us. 214 00:19:31.964 --> 00:19:35.926 It turned out to be for sale, too. What a miracle! 215 00:19:36.134 --> 00:19:39.221 And you were born in this house. 216 00:19:42.391 --> 00:19:46.520 Do you like it, your house? Eh, my boy? 217 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:52.609 Man has defended himself, always 218 00:19:52.818 --> 00:19:55.737 against other men, against Nature. 219 00:19:55.946 --> 00:19:57.823 He has constantly violated Nature. 220 00:19:58.031 --> 00:20:04.079 The result is a civilisation built on force, power, fear, dependence. 221 00:20:04.288 --> 00:20:06.165 All our "technical progress" 222 00:20:06.373 --> 00:20:12.379 has only provided us with comfort, a sort of standard. 223 00:20:14.715 --> 00:20:19.720 And instruments of violence for keeping power. We are like savages! 224 00:20:19.928 --> 00:20:23.015 We use the microscope like a cudgel! 225 00:20:25.142 --> 00:20:28.061 No, that's wrong... 226 00:20:28.270 --> 00:20:31.190 savages are more spiritual than we! 227 00:20:31.398 --> 00:20:34.318 As soon as we make a scientific breakthrough 228 00:20:34.526 --> 00:20:38.489 we put it to use in the service of evil. 229 00:20:38.697 --> 00:20:42.659 And as for standard, some wise man once said that sin 230 00:20:42.868 --> 00:20:45.787 is that which is unnecessary. 231 00:20:45.996 --> 00:20:48.916 If that is so, then our entire civilisation 232 00:20:49.124 --> 00:20:53.086 is built on sin, from beginning to end. 233 00:20:53.295 --> 00:20:57.257 We have acquired a dreadful disharmony 234 00:20:57.466 --> 00:20:59.343 an imbalance, if you will, 235 00:20:59.551 --> 00:21:03.680 between our material and our spiritual development. 236 00:21:05.265 --> 00:21:07.684 Our culture is defective. 237 00:21:07.893 --> 00:21:12.898 I mean, our civilisation. Basically defective, my boy! 238 00:21:13.106 --> 00:21:17.069 Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem 239 00:21:17.277 --> 00:21:20.364 and look for a solution together. 240 00:21:21.448 --> 00:21:26.453 Perhaps we could, if it wasn't so late. Altogether too late. 241 00:21:26.662 --> 00:21:29.581 God, how weary I am of this talk! 242 00:21:29.790 --> 00:21:32.709 "Words, words, words!" 243 00:21:35.504 --> 00:21:37.881 At last I know what Hamlet meant. 244 00:21:38.966 --> 00:21:41.301 He was fed up with windbags. 245 00:21:41.510 --> 00:21:44.346 And so am I! Why do I talk this way? 246 00:21:46.473 --> 00:21:49.393 If only someone could stop talking 247 00:21:49.601 --> 00:21:52.521 and DO something instead! 248 00:21:52.729 --> 00:21:55.816 Or at least, try to. 249 00:21:58.986 --> 00:22:01.029 Little Man! 250 00:22:08.370 --> 00:22:10.414 Little Man! 251 00:22:33.395 --> 00:22:35.230 Dear God, what's wrong with me? 252 00:24:01.066 --> 00:24:02.276 Fantastic! 253 00:24:06.488 --> 00:24:09.575 Such remarkable refinement! 254 00:24:11.702 --> 00:24:14.621 Such wisdom and spirituality! 255 00:24:14.830 --> 00:24:18.959 And too, such pure childlike innocence. 256 00:24:23.172 --> 00:24:26.258 At once profound, yet virginial. 257 00:24:33.390 --> 00:24:35.100 It's unbelievable! 258 00:24:35.684 --> 00:24:37.728 Like a prayer. 259 00:24:46.111 --> 00:24:50.240 And all this has been lost. We can't even pray any longer. 260 00:24:52.367 --> 00:24:54.411 I had a rotten day today. 261 00:24:58.624 --> 00:25:02.794 Or rather, a day I lost control of. 262 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:07.966 Thank you, Victor. 263 00:25:09.051 --> 00:25:12.137 A splendid book! 264 00:25:15.307 --> 00:25:19.269 Thanks for the wine too. We'll have it later. 265 00:25:19.478 --> 00:25:22.564 Above all, thanks for coming! 266 00:25:23.649 --> 00:25:25.526 Have you... 267 00:25:25.734 --> 00:25:29.863 never felt that your life was a failure? 268 00:25:31.990 --> 00:25:33.492 No. Why? 269 00:25:36.161 --> 00:25:39.248 I once felt exactly that way. 270 00:25:40.332 --> 00:25:44.461 But since Little Man came along, all that has changed. 271 00:25:45.546 --> 00:25:47.422 Not all at once, of course. 272 00:25:47.631 --> 00:25:51.760 A bit at the time as he grew bigger. 273 00:25:53.887 --> 00:25:57.099 I'm very attached to him, 274 00:25:59.101 --> 00:26:02.187 too much, I'm afraid. 275 00:26:03.272 --> 00:26:08.277 But there is something in all this that I resent. 276 00:26:08.485 --> 00:26:10.529 I prepared myself for a life, 277 00:26:11.613 --> 00:26:14.533 a higher life, so to speak. 278 00:26:14.741 --> 00:26:19.913 I studied philosophy, the history of religion, esthetics. 279 00:26:20.998 --> 00:26:24.960 And I ended up putting myself in chains, 280 00:26:25.169 --> 00:26:28.255 of my own free will. 281 00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:32.426 But at the same time, I'm happy. 282 00:26:34.011 --> 00:26:36.597 Today, for example... 283 00:26:43.937 --> 00:26:45.981 What happened today? 284 00:26:47.065 --> 00:26:50.152 I got a telegram from my friends. 285 00:26:51.737 --> 00:26:54.156 As a joke they signed it: 286 00:26:54.364 --> 00:26:57.451 "Richardians and Idiotists". 287 00:26:58.535 --> 00:27:02.498 Old theatre-friends. We played Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky. 288 00:27:02.706 --> 00:27:04.583 I remember! – No! 289 00:27:04.791 --> 00:27:08.754 Remember what? – Those performances. 290 00:27:08.962 --> 00:27:11.882 Oh. come now! – Yes, I do! 291 00:27:12.090 --> 00:27:16.053 I remember how you dropped that vase from the tray and broke it! 292 00:27:16.261 --> 00:27:19.681 And your eyes were full of tears. 293 00:27:19.890 --> 00:27:21.767 I remember it well. 294 00:27:21.975 --> 00:27:26.480 The vase, too. It was white, with blue flowers. 295 00:27:26.688 --> 00:27:29.608 That's right! She does remember! 296 00:27:29.817 --> 00:27:33.779 But those tears meant nothing. I had something in my eye. 297 00:27:33.987 --> 00:27:37.950 It hurt so, I didn't think I'd get through the performance. 298 00:27:38.158 --> 00:27:43.288 Alexander was superb as Prince Myschkin. 299 00:27:44.414 --> 00:27:46.291 That role made you! 300 00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:50.629 And then you just gave it all up. 301 00:27:51.713 --> 00:27:54.091 The theatre, the lot! 302 00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:58.262 You threw away everything after Richard III and The Idiot. 303 00:27:58.470 --> 00:28:00.889 I don't know why. 304 00:28:01.098 --> 00:28:02.975 What "everything"? – Hm? 305 00:28:03.183 --> 00:28:06.603 What d'you mean by "everything"? 306 00:28:06.812 --> 00:28:08.355 The theatre. 307 00:28:09.439 --> 00:28:11.316 Everything! 308 00:28:11.525 --> 00:28:14.611 "Success", that's what you mean! 309 00:28:15.696 --> 00:28:20.159 As it happens, theatre isn't "everything"! 310 00:28:20.367 --> 00:28:22.786 I couldn't take it any more. 311 00:28:22.995 --> 00:28:25.038 What d'you mean? 312 00:28:26.123 --> 00:28:27.124 Well... 313 00:28:29.751 --> 00:28:34.256 For some reason, I started feeling embarrassed onstage. 314 00:28:34.464 --> 00:28:39.970 I was ashamed to impersonate some- one else, to play other's emotions. 315 00:28:40.179 --> 00:28:45.934 But worst of all, I was ashamed of being honest onstage. 316 00:28:48.020 --> 00:28:51.106 It was a critic who first saw that. 317 00:28:53.233 --> 00:28:55.277 But it wasn't sudden, not at all. 318 00:28:56.361 --> 00:29:01.366 So you mean that an actor may not keep his ego intact? 319 00:29:01.575 --> 00:29:04.495 That he must lose his identity? 320 00:29:04.703 --> 00:29:06.580 No, not quite. 321 00:29:06.788 --> 00:29:12.836 What I mean is that an actor's identity dissolves in his roles. 322 00:29:13.045 --> 00:29:16.131 I didn't want my ego dissolved. 323 00:29:17.716 --> 00:29:22.387 There was something in it that struck me as sinful 324 00:29:23.472 --> 00:29:25.349 something feminine and weak. 325 00:29:25.557 --> 00:29:29.520 Aha! Feminine! So that's what's sinful! 326 00:29:29.728 --> 00:29:33.690 I liked you as an actor, so you quit. That's it! 327 00:29:33.899 --> 00:29:36.819 I don't know. That might be it. – No, that was it! 328 00:29:37.027 --> 00:29:39.071 I said it might be. 329 00:29:40.155 --> 00:29:44.117 Always the last word! – She'll be his death! 330 00:29:44.326 --> 00:29:46.203 Please, not today! 331 00:29:46.411 --> 00:29:48.455 It's Alexander's birthday! 332 00:29:49.540 --> 00:29:52.459 Thanks for defending me, Victor. 333 00:29:52.668 --> 00:29:56.630 In other words, first he seduced me with his acting. 334 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:01.301 Then he lured me from London and abandoned me! 335 00:30:01.510 --> 00:30:04.972 But I liked being the great actor's wife. 336 00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:08.267 Forgive me, but I saw no harm in it! 337 00:30:09.351 --> 00:30:11.395 Who's that, now? 338 00:30:17.693 --> 00:30:21.655 By the way, Alexander, I'll soon be leaving. 339 00:30:21.864 --> 00:30:23.907 Leaving? 340 00:30:24.992 --> 00:30:27.035 Leaving all this. 341 00:30:28.620 --> 00:30:31.540 Has something happened? 342 00:30:31.748 --> 00:30:35.377 I've been offered a clinic in Australia. 343 00:30:37.504 --> 00:30:39.548 Are you serious? 344 00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:46.847 You must tell me about it later. 345 00:30:53.145 --> 00:30:57.107 It's Otto, the postman. He's carrying something! 346 00:30:57.316 --> 00:31:00.402 Julia! Your beau's come calling! 347 00:31:22.341 --> 00:31:24.384 Good evening! 348 00:31:27.554 --> 00:31:30.474 Many happy returns! – Thanks. 349 00:31:30.682 --> 00:31:34.645 Here I am, and here's a kind of present for you. 350 00:31:34.853 --> 00:31:37.773 Thank you very much! What is it? 351 00:31:37.981 --> 00:31:41.068 I don't think I can do this alone. 352 00:31:47.366 --> 00:31:52.538 It's a map of Europe, from the late 1 600's. 353 00:31:53.622 --> 00:31:54.957 Is it genuine? 354 00:31:55.165 --> 00:31:58.627 How could it be? It must be a copy, a reproduction. 355 00:31:58.836 --> 00:32:02.798 No, not at all! It's genuine, an original! 356 00:32:03.006 --> 00:32:05.926 How could anyone... – Is it possible? 357 00:32:06.134 --> 00:32:10.097 How beautiful it is! We must take it inside. Come, now! 358 00:32:10.305 --> 00:32:14.268 But it's far too dear a gift. I don't know if I... 359 00:32:14.476 --> 00:32:16.353 Oh God, don't say that! 360 00:32:16.562 --> 00:32:20.524 But it's far too much! Too much, Otto! 361 00:32:20.732 --> 00:32:23.652 I know it's no sacrifice, but... 362 00:32:23.861 --> 00:32:29.032 And why shouldn't it be? Of course it's a sacrifice! 363 00:32:30.117 --> 00:32:33.537 Every gift involves a sacrifice. 364 00:32:33.745 --> 00:32:37.374 If not, what kind of gift would it be? 365 00:32:39.501 --> 00:32:41.545 Excuse me... 366 00:32:42.629 --> 00:32:46.091 Otto. My name is Otto. 367 00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:47.801 Oh. 368 00:32:49.386 --> 00:32:50.762 Excuse me, Otto. 369 00:32:50.971 --> 00:32:53.891 What are you doing in these parts? 370 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:55.976 I hear you haven't lived here long. 371 00:32:56.185 --> 00:32:57.186 Smoke? 372 00:32:58.270 --> 00:33:03.775 Once I went to the morgue and saw the autopsied corpse... 373 00:33:03.984 --> 00:33:07.446 of a man who had smoked all his life. I saw his lungs. 374 00:33:07.654 --> 00:33:09.531 I haven't smoked since. 375 00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:12.826 Hear that, Alexander? 376 00:33:13.327 --> 00:33:17.247 Yes, you're completely right. 377 00:33:18.081 --> 00:33:20.459 I've only lived here two months. 378 00:33:20.667 --> 00:33:24.630 Before then, I taught history at a secondary school. 379 00:33:24.838 --> 00:33:27.758 But when I was pensioned, I moved here. 380 00:33:27.966 --> 00:33:30.385 And here I am. 381 00:33:30.594 --> 00:33:35.599 Nowadays I have fewer expenses, and more time over for my interests. 382 00:33:35.808 --> 00:33:39.770 My sister used to live here. She's dead now. 383 00:33:39.978 --> 00:33:44.107 I understand you're employed by the post office. 384 00:33:45.192 --> 00:33:47.069 Yes, I'm a postman. 385 00:33:47.277 --> 00:33:51.240 But not regularly. Only in my spare time. 386 00:33:51.448 --> 00:33:53.492 Hello, Maria! 387 00:33:57.704 --> 00:34:02.709 I've put everything in order, Mrs. Adelaide. Can I go now? 388 00:34:02.918 --> 00:34:04.795 Yes, yes, Maria. Thank you. 389 00:34:05.003 --> 00:34:08.966 Oh, yes! Do you think you might just warm the plates? 390 00:34:09.174 --> 00:34:11.051 Julia can do the rest. 391 00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:13.136 Yes, Mrs. Adelaide. 392 00:34:13.345 --> 00:34:15.222 I'll put the plates to warm at once. 393 00:34:15.430 --> 00:34:21.478 I'll warm the plates. Then can I go? Is there something more? 394 00:34:21.687 --> 00:34:23.730 No, no! You may go. 395 00:34:24.273 --> 00:34:26.316 Julia's still here. 396 00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:28.777 Oh, one more thing! 397 00:34:28.986 --> 00:34:31.905 Would you put the candles on the table? 398 00:34:32.114 --> 00:34:37.119 Then you may go... You have opened the wine, haven't you? 399 00:34:37.327 --> 00:34:39.371 Well, open it. 400 00:34:40.956 --> 00:34:43.000 Then you won't be needed. 401 00:34:44.626 --> 00:34:48.755 The plates, the candles, the wine. 402 00:35:02.853 --> 00:35:06.273 We're neighbours, she and I. 403 00:35:09.109 --> 00:35:10.986 We're acquainted. 404 00:35:11.195 --> 00:35:14.114 Indeed? Congratulations. 405 00:35:14.323 --> 00:35:18.285 She came from Iceland a few years ago. 406 00:35:18.494 --> 00:35:19.495 Really? 407 00:35:20.579 --> 00:35:21.955 She is very odd. 408 00:35:22.164 --> 00:35:23.165 Who? 409 00:35:25.083 --> 00:35:26.084 Maria. 410 00:35:27.377 --> 00:35:29.254 Yes, Maria. 411 00:35:29.463 --> 00:35:31.507 Sometimes she scares me. 412 00:35:33.091 --> 00:35:37.763 It must've been lovely when men thought the world looked like this! 413 00:35:40.390 --> 00:35:42.810 This Europe looks more like Mars. 414 00:35:43.018 --> 00:35:45.938 That is, it has nothing to do with truth. 415 00:35:46.146 --> 00:35:50.692 No! But people lived then! 416 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.403 And not badly, either. 417 00:35:56.573 --> 00:35:59.993 But wait, what's the date... 418 00:36:00.202 --> 00:36:01.745 ...today? 419 00:36:05.415 --> 00:36:08.001 1392... 420 00:36:11.171 --> 00:36:14.258 It's best we put the map away now. 421 00:36:16.385 --> 00:36:18.262 Otto, will you help me? 422 00:36:18.470 --> 00:36:23.475 I have a feeling that our maps have nothing to do with truth, either. 423 00:36:23.684 --> 00:36:25.727 What truth? 424 00:36:27.312 --> 00:36:31.191 You keep going on about truth. 425 00:36:31.483 --> 00:36:35.737 Truth! What is truth? – There's no such thing! 426 00:36:35.946 --> 00:36:39.491 We look, but don't see. Here comes a cockroach... 427 00:36:39.700 --> 00:36:41.410 A cockroach!? 428 00:36:42.202 --> 00:36:46.039 Par example, madame! Excusez-moi! 429 00:36:46.248 --> 00:36:49.543 Here comes a cockroach running 'round a plate. 430 00:36:49.751 --> 00:36:53.714 He fancies that he's moving forward with a definite purpose. 431 00:36:53.922 --> 00:36:56.842 How d'you know what a cockroach thinks? 432 00:36:57.050 --> 00:36:58.927 It could be a ritual. 433 00:36:59.136 --> 00:37:02.055 Yes! – His own. 434 00:37:02.264 --> 00:37:04.141 Aha. "Could be." 435 00:37:04.349 --> 00:37:07.436 Anything could be. 436 00:37:08.520 --> 00:37:10.397 "Could be"! 437 00:37:10.606 --> 00:37:15.611 Otherwise all we're left with is this "truth", "truth". 438 00:37:15.819 --> 00:37:18.739 Can I help? – No, that's fine. 439 00:37:18.947 --> 00:37:20.991 Let's put it there, Otto. 440 00:37:22.075 --> 00:37:23.952 A fantastic map! 441 00:37:24.161 --> 00:37:28.290 I'm glad you think so. It's a first-class chart. 442 00:37:30.417 --> 00:37:33.337 Where's Little Man? Where's the boy? 443 00:37:33.545 --> 00:37:36.965 I don't know. He was here just a moment ago. 444 00:37:37.174 --> 00:37:39.593 Shall I look? – No, no. 445 00:37:39.801 --> 00:37:41.845 He seemed down, to me. 446 00:37:43.972 --> 00:37:47.935 Something wrong? – I'll be right back. 447 00:37:48.143 --> 00:37:50.187 Dinner's ready. 448 00:37:53.357 --> 00:37:56.443 You said you had more time for your interests... 449 00:37:57.277 --> 00:37:59.321 What'd you mean? 450 00:38:00.781 --> 00:38:02.157 Huh? 451 00:38:02.491 --> 00:38:04.117 Take it easy. 452 00:38:04.827 --> 00:38:06.870 He's around here. 453 00:38:07.955 --> 00:38:13.210 I'm sort of a collector. – Are you? 454 00:38:13.961 --> 00:38:16.588 What d'you mean "sort of"? 455 00:38:16.797 --> 00:38:21.802 How shall I put it? I collect incidents. 456 00:38:22.010 --> 00:38:25.472 Things that are unexplainable but true. 457 00:38:25.681 --> 00:38:31.728 I need a lot of time, though, to gather evidence that they're true. 458 00:38:31.937 --> 00:38:34.857 I need to travel, too, and I need money for it. 459 00:38:35.065 --> 00:38:39.319 That's why I'm a postman... as well. 460 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:42.239 Unexplainable? 461 00:38:42.406 --> 00:38:46.160 Little Man should be here. He loves stories like this. 462 00:38:46.994 --> 00:38:50.956 Does he, indeed? 463 00:38:52.166 --> 00:38:56.086 But still... I don't really understand. 464 00:38:56.962 --> 00:38:59.006 Well, for example... 465 00:39:01.633 --> 00:39:03.177 No, not that one! 466 00:39:05.304 --> 00:39:07.347 How about this one... 467 00:39:08.432 --> 00:39:11.351 It happened before the war. 468 00:39:11.560 --> 00:39:15.689 In Königsberg, a widow was living with her son. 469 00:39:16.773 --> 00:39:21.945 But then war broke out, and the boy was drafted. He was 18 years old. 470 00:39:23.030 --> 00:39:28.202 The decided to see a photographer and have a keepsake photo taken. 471 00:39:29.286 --> 00:39:34.791 The mother and her son were photographed together. 472 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:36.543 Then the boy... 473 00:39:44.927 --> 00:39:47.679 the boy was sent off... 474 00:39:48.555 --> 00:39:50.098 to the front. 475 00:39:51.183 --> 00:39:54.269 A few days later, he was killed. 476 00:39:55.103 --> 00:39:57.189 Good Lord! 477 00:40:00.025 --> 00:40:04.530 In the midst of all the commotion and calamity 478 00:40:04.738 --> 00:40:08.700 the widow, of course, forgot about the photos. 479 00:40:08.909 --> 00:40:11.829 "Of course"? Why, how could she forget such a thing? 480 00:40:12.037 --> 00:40:17.042 It's not important. – No, it's not very important at all. 481 00:40:17.251 --> 00:40:22.422 The fact is, this woman never fetched the photographs. 482 00:40:24.007 --> 00:40:29.012 The war ended. She moved to another town far from her memories. 483 00:40:29.221 --> 00:40:33.183 But didn't she even try to find the photographer? 484 00:40:33.392 --> 00:40:35.811 It was her last photo of her son! 485 00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:39.106 But do let him make his point! 486 00:40:40.190 --> 00:40:41.024 Sorry. 487 00:40:41.233 --> 00:40:45.362 Mummy...! – I'll be quiet. Sorry! 488 00:40:49.575 --> 00:40:51.618 It doesn't matter. 489 00:40:54.246 --> 00:40:56.290 Some years later... 490 00:40:57.916 --> 00:41:00.836 I think it was in 1 960... 491 00:41:01.044 --> 00:41:03.964 the widow visited a photographer 492 00:41:04.173 --> 00:41:09.678 to have her own photo taken. She intended to give it to a friend. 493 00:41:09.887 --> 00:41:13.348 The photo was taken, but when she got the prints 494 00:41:13.557 --> 00:41:16.977 she saw not only herself on them, 495 00:41:17.186 --> 00:41:19.062 but her dead son, too. 496 00:41:19.271 --> 00:41:22.733 In the photos, he was 18 497 00:41:22.941 --> 00:41:28.113 and she was as old as she was when these last photos were taken. 498 00:41:34.411 --> 00:41:36.455 Did it happen like that? 499 00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:39.583 Just as you told us? 500 00:41:40.667 --> 00:41:43.754 Yes. That's how it happened. 501 00:41:44.838 --> 00:41:46.882 How did you check it? 502 00:41:48.467 --> 00:41:51.053 I've spoken with the woman. 503 00:41:52.137 --> 00:41:54.014 And I have the photo 504 00:41:54.223 --> 00:42:00.521 showing her in 1 960 and her son in a 1 940 uniform. 505 00:42:01.063 --> 00:42:02.981 Oh, dear God! 506 00:42:04.650 --> 00:42:06.693 And besides... 507 00:42:07.778 --> 00:42:11.740 I have a copy of his birth certificate 508 00:42:11.949 --> 00:42:16.078 and an official copy of the notice of death. 509 00:42:17.663 --> 00:42:19.706 Are you pulling our leg? 510 00:42:23.418 --> 00:42:26.505 No, by no means! 511 00:42:27.589 --> 00:42:30.676 I have about 300 similar incidents. 512 00:42:32.803 --> 00:42:36.932 284, to be exact. 513 00:42:40.102 --> 00:42:42.146 We are blind, simply. 514 00:42:43.230 --> 00:42:45.274 We see nothing. 515 00:43:59.348 --> 00:44:01.725 What was that? What d'you think? 516 00:44:01.934 --> 00:44:03.477 Are you ill? 517 00:44:04.561 --> 00:44:05.562 No... 518 00:44:07.147 --> 00:44:08.690 nothing's wrong. 519 00:44:40.013 --> 00:44:45.185 It was only an evil angel passing by, who saw fit to touch me. 520 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.403 And you see fit to joke with us, eh? Mr. Postman? 521 00:44:54.611 --> 00:44:58.740 There are jokes and JOKES, Doctor. 522 00:45:00.868 --> 00:45:03.954 There's nothing to joke about here. 523 00:46:47.224 --> 00:46:50.644 "Which of you has done this?" 524 00:46:50.853 --> 00:46:52.396 "The Lords...?" 525 00:47:05.450 --> 00:47:05.951 Maria! 526 00:47:36.231 --> 00:47:38.275 Who made that? 527 00:47:39.860 --> 00:47:41.403 Little Man. 528 00:47:45.073 --> 00:47:47.117 Little Man, really? 529 00:47:47.701 --> 00:47:51.663 Where is he? – He's upstairs. 530 00:47:51.872 --> 00:47:53.916 I think he's in his room. 531 00:47:58.128 --> 00:48:00.172 That's good. 532 00:48:01.256 --> 00:48:03.300 But what is it? 533 00:48:04.885 --> 00:48:07.304 He made it for you. 534 00:48:07.513 --> 00:48:10.599 It's his birthday present to you. 535 00:48:12.184 --> 00:48:16.855 It was he and Otto, the Postman, who built it together. 536 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:29.201 Don't say that I told you, Mr. Alexander. 537 00:48:29.409 --> 00:48:32.496 He wanted to show it off himself. 538 00:48:55.477 --> 00:48:57.521 I'll go now. 539 00:49:21.003 --> 00:49:22.546 Congratulations! 540 00:49:43.442 --> 00:49:46.528 Go home now! It's so damp out. 541 00:50:39.206 --> 00:50:42.668 May I come in? – Yes, come in! 542 00:50:42.876 --> 00:50:44.920 Oh, it's you. Come in! 543 00:50:46.004 --> 00:50:48.048 Things are almost ready downstairs. 544 00:50:51.718 --> 00:50:53.762 What on earth's that? 545 00:50:56.431 --> 00:50:58.308 What's what? 546 00:50:58.517 --> 00:51:00.394 The picture, there. 547 00:51:00.602 --> 00:51:03.689 On the wall. What is it? 548 00:51:04.773 --> 00:51:09.778 I can't see it clearly. It's behind a glass. And it's so dark. 549 00:51:09.987 --> 00:51:14.783 It's the ADORATION OF THE THREE KINGS 550 00:51:14.992 --> 00:51:17.244 by Leonardo. 551 00:51:18.328 --> 00:51:21.415 A reproduction, of course. 552 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.586 My God, how sinister it is! 553 00:51:32.384 --> 00:51:36.013 I've always been terrified of Leonardo. 554 00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:06.251 ...are now being organized nationwide... 555 00:52:08.378 --> 00:52:12.508 This is even the duty of all officers of the army. 556 00:52:14.635 --> 00:52:17.721 Every responsible citizen... 557 00:52:18.806 --> 00:52:21.892 is expected to behave with courage... 558 00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:27.105 to keep a cool head... 559 00:52:28.190 --> 00:52:31.109 And to help the army... 560 00:52:31.318 --> 00:52:36.323 in it's efforts to re-establish peace, 561 00:52:36.532 --> 00:52:39.618 order, and discipline. 562 00:52:42.788 --> 00:52:46.917 The only dangerous enemy in our midst at the moment, 563 00:52:49.044 --> 00:52:51.088 is panic. 564 00:52:52.172 --> 00:52:55.092 It is contagious, 565 00:52:55.300 --> 00:53:00.472 and won't allow itself to be ruled by common sense. 566 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:05.686 Order and organisation... 567 00:53:06.770 --> 00:53:09.690 and nothing less, good Citizens! 568 00:53:09.898 --> 00:53:12.985 Only order... order... 569 00:53:16.155 --> 00:53:18.198 against this chaos. 570 00:53:20.826 --> 00:53:23.412 l beg you, l humbly appeal 571 00:53:24.496 --> 00:53:27.583 to your courage and... 572 00:53:30.752 --> 00:53:32.629 in spite of all... 573 00:53:32.838 --> 00:53:35.924 to your common sense. 574 00:53:43.265 --> 00:53:46.351 Shall we eat? And wake the boy? 575 00:53:47.436 --> 00:53:49.313 We have here, unfortunately... 576 00:53:49.521 --> 00:53:53.484 such a base, with four missile-warheads... 577 00:53:53.692 --> 00:53:55.569 And it is very likely... 578 00:53:55.777 --> 00:54:00.782 that these warheads, tragically enough... 579 00:54:00.991 --> 00:54:02.868 What's this? 580 00:54:03.076 --> 00:54:06.163 ...will be used against us. 581 00:54:10.375 --> 00:54:14.505 Communications may be broken at any time... 582 00:54:15.047 --> 00:54:19.551 but l have told you what is most important... 583 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.846 ...my fellow citizens. 584 00:54:28.101 --> 00:54:31.021 You are to stay where you are. 585 00:54:31.230 --> 00:54:34.316 There is no place in all of Europe 586 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.320 that is safer 587 00:54:38.529 --> 00:54:41.615 than where we are now. 588 00:54:42.699 --> 00:54:45.619 In this regard, 589 00:54:45.828 --> 00:54:50.999 we are all forced into the same situation. 590 00:55:08.225 --> 00:55:11.687 All districts will be under the control 591 00:55:11.895 --> 00:55:14.982 of special military units... 592 00:55:16.066 --> 00:55:20.654 so that... so that... 593 00:55:23.365 --> 00:55:25.409 Surely this isn't...! 594 00:56:01.945 --> 00:56:05.032 Shouldn't one do something? 595 00:56:39.983 --> 00:56:42.569 I've waited for this all my life. 596 00:56:44.696 --> 00:56:48.826 My whole life has been one long wait, for this! 597 00:57:28.365 --> 00:57:30.242 Don't touch me! Do something! 598 00:57:30.450 --> 00:57:32.327 You men! 599 00:57:32.536 --> 00:57:34.580 Why don't you say something? 600 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.464 Can't we do something? 601 00:58:17.372 --> 00:58:19.416 Mama, please calm down! 602 00:58:24.671 --> 00:58:26.715 My God! 603 00:58:29.885 --> 00:58:31.929 Victor! 604 00:58:33.013 --> 00:58:37.142 At least you could do something! Please! 605 00:58:38.227 --> 00:58:40.270 Ssh! The boy is asleep. 606 00:58:42.397 --> 00:58:44.441 He mustn't be awakened! 607 00:58:47.611 --> 00:58:51.740 It's all my fault! This is my punishment! 608 00:59:03.752 --> 00:59:05.796 Ssh, the boy's sleeping. 609 00:59:08.465 --> 00:59:10.342 Don't wake him. 610 00:59:10.551 --> 00:59:13.637 Little Man! Where is he? 611 00:59:17.850 --> 00:59:19.893 Julia! Go get Little Man! 612 00:59:22.020 --> 00:59:26.150 Alexander, don't you even understand? 613 00:59:33.490 --> 00:59:34.491 Julia! 614 00:59:37.661 --> 00:59:40.747 Fetch the black bag by the piano! 615 01:00:28.754 --> 01:00:30.797 Maybe later. 616 01:00:31.882 --> 01:00:33.926 Oh, God! 617 01:00:35.010 --> 01:00:37.054 Put it on the table! 618 01:00:43.352 --> 01:00:45.395 Alexander! 619 01:00:47.523 --> 01:00:50.609 I can't bear it anymore! 620 01:00:52.736 --> 01:00:54.780 Please, please! 621 01:02:29.708 --> 01:02:32.794 Julia, do you need one, too? 622 01:02:47.935 --> 01:02:50.521 No, I don't want it! It's not necessary. 623 01:02:52.105 --> 01:02:54.024 Yes, it is. 624 01:02:55.692 --> 01:02:58.070 It's absolutely necessary. 625 01:02:58.904 --> 01:03:01.698 And it's completely harmless. 626 01:03:03.742 --> 01:03:08.330 It will be easier for all of us if you take it. 627 01:03:10.916 --> 01:03:13.418 No! I don't want to! 628 01:03:30.477 --> 01:03:34.731 And you, Alexander? – No, I'll have a drink instead. 629 01:03:36.692 --> 01:03:38.944 Just don't drink too much. 630 01:03:39.194 --> 01:03:41.321 It'll only make it worse. 631 01:03:42.698 --> 01:03:44.032 Otto? 632 01:03:44.241 --> 01:03:46.660 Oh no, don't worry. 633 01:03:46.869 --> 01:03:49.788 Thanks, but I don't need it. 634 01:03:49.997 --> 01:03:50.998 Julia! 635 01:03:53.125 --> 01:03:56.044 We must go up to the boy. He's not to wake up now! 636 01:03:56.253 --> 01:03:58.297 I'll go with you. 637 01:03:58.839 --> 01:04:01.258 Julia can stay with Mama. 638 01:04:01.466 --> 01:04:05.053 Sleep now, sleep. We'll be right back. 639 01:04:50.474 --> 01:04:52.518 It's dead. 640 01:04:53.060 --> 01:04:55.103 The telephone's dead. 641 01:04:56.730 --> 01:04:58.774 Oh, Dear God... 642 01:04:59.858 --> 01:05:03.987 Why do we always do the opposite of what we want? 643 01:05:04.863 --> 01:05:05.864 Always! 644 01:05:09.243 --> 01:05:11.286 I have loved one man... 645 01:05:14.456 --> 01:05:16.500 and married another. 646 01:05:20.504 --> 01:05:21.547 Why? 647 01:05:21.755 --> 01:05:24.842 Would you like something to drink? 648 01:05:25.926 --> 01:05:27.970 No, no! 649 01:05:29.555 --> 01:05:31.598 Nothing! Thanks, Otto. 650 01:05:33.225 --> 01:05:34.226 No. 651 01:05:36.353 --> 01:05:38.397 I think I know, now. 652 01:05:41.567 --> 01:05:45.696 We simply don't want to depend on anyone. 653 01:05:48.323 --> 01:05:50.909 When two people love each other, 654 01:05:52.494 --> 01:05:55.080 they don't love in the same way. 655 01:05:56.707 --> 01:05:58.917 One of them is strong, 656 01:06:00.502 --> 01:06:02.838 the other, weaker. 657 01:06:05.507 --> 01:06:10.929 And the weaker is always the one who loves without reckoning... 658 01:06:13.724 --> 01:06:15.934 without reservation. 659 01:06:20.981 --> 01:06:23.775 It feels now as if I've awakened 660 01:06:25.444 --> 01:06:27.905 from some kind of dream... 661 01:06:30.115 --> 01:06:32.784 after some other kind of life. 662 01:06:35.579 --> 01:06:40.626 For some reason, I always offered resistance. 663 01:06:43.545 --> 01:06:45.964 I fought against something. 664 01:06:47.382 --> 01:06:49.801 I defended myself, 665 01:06:50.886 --> 01:06:54.223 just as though I'd had... 666 01:06:54.473 --> 01:06:58.268 someone else inside me, saying: 667 01:07:00.938 --> 01:07:04.191 Don't give in to anything... 668 01:07:06.693 --> 01:07:09.071 don't go along with... 669 01:07:09.905 --> 01:07:11.949 anything... 670 01:07:13.826 --> 01:07:16.495 ...or you'll die! 671 01:07:19.540 --> 01:07:23.460 But God, how foolish we are anyway! 672 01:07:27.673 --> 01:07:30.050 That's good. 673 01:07:30.592 --> 01:07:34.555 It's good that you finally understood that. 674 01:07:37.683 --> 01:07:39.935 How d'you feel? 675 01:07:40.477 --> 01:07:43.397 Better now? – Yes. 676 01:07:43.647 --> 01:07:48.277 I've finally understood, even though it's a bit late. 677 01:07:50.737 --> 01:07:53.448 But what shall we do now? 678 01:07:54.449 --> 01:07:57.494 The telephone isn't working, of course. 679 01:08:00.873 --> 01:08:05.002 We could get into the car and drive north, 680 01:08:05.878 --> 01:08:08.630 where it's quieter... 681 01:08:09.047 --> 01:08:11.341 But it's no use. 682 01:08:11.592 --> 01:08:14.887 No. It's the same everywhere. 683 01:08:15.637 --> 01:08:18.307 And no one knows where it's worst. 684 01:08:18.682 --> 01:08:21.477 No, no! We'll stay here! 685 01:08:25.689 --> 01:08:27.733 There, there... 686 01:08:28.859 --> 01:08:31.361 Easy, easy... 687 01:08:32.905 --> 01:08:35.240 We won't go anywhere! 688 01:08:36.658 --> 01:08:39.411 We're staying here! 689 01:08:42.456 --> 01:08:44.166 Victor! 690 01:09:05.687 --> 01:09:07.815 And now... 691 01:09:08.023 --> 01:09:10.067 Now we shall eat dinner! 692 01:09:11.151 --> 01:09:14.071 Excuse me, but I must go now. 693 01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:17.366 I have a few things to put in order. 694 01:09:25.040 --> 01:09:27.292 What will you do, Martha? 695 01:09:36.176 --> 01:09:38.554 Julia. 696 01:09:38.762 --> 01:09:40.639 Go wake Little Man! 697 01:09:40.848 --> 01:09:42.891 Today is a very special day. 698 01:09:43.976 --> 01:09:45.352 We must be together. 699 01:09:45.561 --> 01:09:47.437 Please stop it! 700 01:09:47.646 --> 01:09:50.732 Julia, did you hear me? 701 01:09:52.860 --> 01:09:55.946 It's best not to wake him. – Julia! 702 01:09:58.073 --> 01:10:01.160 I'm not going to wake him! 703 01:10:01.827 --> 01:10:04.163 I have no intention of it! 704 01:10:04.705 --> 01:10:07.916 And I won't allow anyone else to, either! 705 01:10:09.585 --> 01:10:13.172 He's asleep now, and we mustn't wake him, 706 01:10:13.463 --> 01:10:15.549 or frighten him. 707 01:10:17.092 --> 01:10:19.761 A lot can happen while he's sleeping. 708 01:10:20.554 --> 01:10:24.141 If God will, he'll never know what's happened. 709 01:10:25.184 --> 01:10:27.352 Don't scare him! 710 01:10:27.603 --> 01:10:29.730 Please, I beg you! 711 01:10:29.980 --> 01:10:34.026 If you have to torture someone, let it be Mr. Alexander! 712 01:10:35.110 --> 01:10:38.614 Or me, for that matter! 713 01:10:39.323 --> 01:10:42.951 Choose whom you will, since you can't do otherwise! 714 01:10:43.619 --> 01:10:49.625 But I will not allow you to torture the boy! 715 01:11:01.136 --> 01:11:03.555 My dear girl... 716 01:11:03.764 --> 01:11:06.850 My poor, dear girl... 717 01:11:17.820 --> 01:11:19.363 Forgive me! 718 01:13:14.102 --> 01:13:15.979 Our Father, who... 719 01:13:16.188 --> 01:13:19.274 Our Father, who art in Heaven... 720 01:13:21.401 --> 01:13:23.445 hallowed be Thy Name. 721 01:13:24.530 --> 01:13:27.449 Thy Kingdom come... 722 01:13:27.658 --> 01:13:29.701 Thy will be done... 723 01:13:32.329 --> 01:13:34.748 Give us this day our daily bread... 724 01:13:34.957 --> 01:13:37.876 And deliver us from evil. 725 01:13:38.085 --> 01:13:40.128 For Thine is the Kingdom... 726 01:13:41.213 --> 01:13:43.090 and the Power... 727 01:13:43.298 --> 01:13:45.342 and the Glory. 728 01:13:47.469 --> 01:13:49.513 Amen. 729 01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:52.641 Lord! 730 01:13:55.811 --> 01:13:58.897 Deliver us in this terrible time. 731 01:13:59.982 --> 01:14:02.901 Don't let my children die, 732 01:14:03.110 --> 01:14:05.154 nor my friends... 733 01:14:06.238 --> 01:14:08.115 my wife... 734 01:14:08.323 --> 01:14:10.367 Victor... 735 01:14:11.451 --> 01:14:15.414 all those who love Thee and believe in Thee... 736 01:14:15.622 --> 01:14:20.627 All those who do not believe in Thee, because they are blind... 737 01:14:20.836 --> 01:14:24.965 those who haven't given Thee a thought... 738 01:14:27.092 --> 01:14:32.264 simply because they haven't yet been truly miserable. 739 01:14:34.892 --> 01:14:39.563 All those who in this hour have lost their hope, their future... 740 01:14:40.647 --> 01:14:42.524 their lives... 741 01:14:42.733 --> 01:14:46.862 and the opportunity to surrender to Thy will. 742 01:14:48.989 --> 01:14:52.075 All those who are filled with dread 743 01:14:53.660 --> 01:14:56.246 who feel the End coming closer... 744 01:14:57.831 --> 01:15:02.503 who fear, not for themselves, but for their loved ones. 745 01:15:04.630 --> 01:15:07.716 All those whom no one, 746 01:15:09.843 --> 01:15:12.930 except Thou, can offer protection. 747 01:15:15.057 --> 01:15:18.143 Because this war is the ultimate war 748 01:15:19.228 --> 01:15:21.271 a horrible thing. 749 01:15:22.356 --> 01:15:27.361 And after it, there will be no victors and no vanquished... 750 01:15:27.569 --> 01:15:30.656 no cities or towns, grass or trees, 751 01:15:32.574 --> 01:15:35.702 water in the wells, 752 01:15:35.911 --> 01:15:38.997 or birds in the sky. 753 01:15:43.210 --> 01:15:46.296 I will give Thee all I have. 754 01:15:47.881 --> 01:15:50.467 I'll give up my family, whom I love. 755 01:15:52.594 --> 01:15:55.514 I'll destroy my home, 756 01:15:55.722 --> 01:15:58.809 and give up Little Man. 757 01:15:59.351 --> 01:16:02.980 I'll be mute, and never speak another word to anyone. 758 01:16:04.898 --> 01:16:09.236 I will relinquish everything that binds me to life... 759 01:16:11.155 --> 01:16:15.325 if only Thou dost restore everything as it was before... 760 01:16:15.534 --> 01:16:18.620 as it was this morning and yesterday 761 01:16:20.205 --> 01:16:22.249 Just let me be rid of... 762 01:16:23.333 --> 01:16:24.877 this deadly... 763 01:16:25.961 --> 01:16:28.797 sickening, animal fear! 764 01:16:29.089 --> 01:16:32.176 Yes, everything! 765 01:16:34.303 --> 01:16:35.304 Lord! 766 01:16:36.388 --> 01:16:38.432 Help me... 767 01:16:44.730 --> 01:16:48.859 I will do everything I have promised Thee. 768 01:17:32.694 --> 01:17:34.571 Come here, Victor! 769 01:17:34.780 --> 01:17:36.824 Help me! 770 01:21:33.560 --> 01:21:35.604 My boy! 771 01:22:51.763 --> 01:22:55.726 What is it? – Sorry to get you up. 772 01:22:55.934 --> 01:22:59.897 Were you asleep? – What is it? What's happened? 773 01:23:00.105 --> 01:23:03.692 There's still one last chance! 774 01:23:05.319 --> 01:23:08.405 A chance? What kind of chance? 775 01:23:10.532 --> 01:23:13.452 A chance! One last hope! 776 01:23:13.660 --> 01:23:16.580 What kind of hope! What's the matter with you? 777 01:23:16.788 --> 01:23:20.918 Nothing's the matter with me. But Maria can do it! Maria! 778 01:23:22.002 --> 01:23:23.879 Maria? 779 01:23:24.087 --> 01:23:25.964 Which Maria? Do what? 780 01:23:26.173 --> 01:23:29.593 You must go to her and convince her. 781 01:23:29.801 --> 01:23:31.678 Do you understand? 782 01:23:31.887 --> 01:23:33.764 Where must I go? 783 01:23:33.972 --> 01:23:35.849 Whom must I convince? 784 01:23:36.058 --> 01:23:40.187 Come in, have a drink. I had one and I feel better. 785 01:23:58.288 --> 01:24:00.332 There's no light anymore. 786 01:24:02.125 --> 01:24:04.711 How long have I slept? 787 01:24:18.308 --> 01:24:21.728 You shouldn't drink that by the glassful. 788 01:24:21.937 --> 01:24:24.523 It's very good cognac, that! 789 01:24:25.607 --> 01:24:27.484 Where is everybody? 790 01:24:27.693 --> 01:24:29.570 Are they sleeping? 791 01:24:29.778 --> 01:24:33.740 They're downstairs, sitting 'round the table. 792 01:24:33.949 --> 01:24:38.078 They're very fond of you. – Sitting 'round what table? 793 01:25:19.828 --> 01:25:22.915 You must go to Maria at once! 794 01:25:23.999 --> 01:25:26.043 Which Maria? 795 01:25:27.628 --> 01:25:31.256 Can't you express yourself more clearly? 796 01:25:32.341 --> 01:25:36.470 Maria, you know her! One of your servant-girls. 797 01:25:37.554 --> 01:25:39.431 Yes, yes, yes! 798 01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:42.017 I'll explain later. 799 01:25:42.226 --> 01:25:43.602 Don't rush me! 800 01:25:43.811 --> 01:25:46.897 Who's rushing you, for God's sake! 801 01:25:47.981 --> 01:25:52.110 Why do you always have to beat about the bush. 802 01:25:55.280 --> 01:25:57.157 She lives... 803 01:25:57.366 --> 01:26:01.495 on a farm on the other side of the bay. 804 01:26:03.080 --> 01:26:04.957 Behind the church. 805 01:26:05.165 --> 01:26:07.042 It's closed now. 806 01:26:07.251 --> 01:26:08.252 Who? 807 01:26:09.878 --> 01:26:10.712 "Who"? 808 01:26:10.921 --> 01:26:14.883 I'm not talking about "who". I mean the church. 809 01:26:15.092 --> 01:26:18.011 But I asked who lives there. 810 01:26:18.220 --> 01:26:21.306 What's the church got to do with it? 811 01:26:22.391 --> 01:26:26.353 Who lives there? Why, Maria, of course. 812 01:26:26.562 --> 01:26:30.691 Your servant. I've been trying to tell you that for half an hour! 813 01:26:32.818 --> 01:26:35.904 Can't you pay more attention! 814 01:26:40.617 --> 01:26:42.494 This is very important! 815 01:26:42.703 --> 01:26:44.580 Pay attention? I... 816 01:26:44.788 --> 01:26:48.417 I know where she lives. My wife showed me. 817 01:27:03.056 --> 01:27:05.100 Oh, I think that...I... 818 01:27:06.685 --> 01:27:08.729 Yes, it's quite alright. 819 01:27:10.147 --> 01:27:12.733 It's alright, believe me. 820 01:27:12.941 --> 01:27:15.360 I'll sit here by you. 821 01:27:15.569 --> 01:27:18.655 What was it you said about the servant? 822 01:27:21.283 --> 01:27:23.869 Oh, yes, your servant-girl... 823 01:27:29.625 --> 01:27:32.211 Did you hear? – Hear what? 824 01:27:34.338 --> 01:27:36.381 What was that? 825 01:27:37.466 --> 01:27:40.552 I don't know... I don't know. 826 01:27:44.765 --> 01:27:47.851 I thought it sounded like music. 827 01:27:48.936 --> 01:27:50.979 In any case, you must go to Maria! 828 01:27:53.106 --> 01:27:55.150 But why? 829 01:27:57.277 --> 01:28:02.449 Don't you want all of this to be over and done with? 830 01:28:03.534 --> 01:28:05.577 For what to be done with? 831 01:28:06.662 --> 01:28:09.039 Everything! 832 01:28:09.248 --> 01:28:10.624 The whole lot! 833 01:28:10.833 --> 01:28:12.876 God, Otto! 834 01:28:14.461 --> 01:28:16.338 There is an end to this! 835 01:28:16.547 --> 01:28:17.548 Otto! 836 01:28:18.131 --> 01:28:18.966 Yes! 837 01:28:19.174 --> 01:28:23.846 You must go to Maria and lie with her. 838 01:28:25.931 --> 01:28:26.932 What? 839 01:28:27.516 --> 01:28:31.478 I say, you must go and lie with Maria! 840 01:28:31.687 --> 01:28:33.730 Lie with Maria? 841 01:28:35.315 --> 01:28:37.734 It's very simple. She lives alone. 842 01:28:37.943 --> 01:28:42.406 And if you only wish for one thing at that moment: 843 01:28:42.614 --> 01:28:46.076 That all this will be over, then it will be! 844 01:28:46.285 --> 01:28:48.328 There'll be no more of it! 845 01:28:49.413 --> 01:28:52.499 But that's madness, Otto! 846 01:28:59.840 --> 01:29:01.884 Good God, Otto! 847 01:29:03.468 --> 01:29:06.054 You don't understand a thing! 848 01:29:07.139 --> 01:29:09.183 It's true! 849 01:29:10.767 --> 01:29:12.811 It's a holy truth. 850 01:29:15.272 --> 01:29:18.400 She has very special qualities, y'know. 851 01:29:18.609 --> 01:29:22.029 I've gathered evidence. She is a witch! 852 01:29:22.237 --> 01:29:25.157 In what sense? 853 01:29:25.365 --> 01:29:27.951 In the best sense! 854 01:29:29.036 --> 01:29:31.955 Are you joking again? 855 01:29:32.164 --> 01:29:36.293 Still having me on with your Nietzschean pranks? 856 01:29:39.463 --> 01:29:42.883 Is there any other way out? 857 01:29:43.091 --> 01:29:46.011 There is no other alternative. 858 01:29:46.220 --> 01:29:48.639 None, whatsoever! 859 01:29:48.847 --> 01:29:53.852 What alternative, Otto? What alter- native? What are you talking about? 860 01:29:54.061 --> 01:29:56.104 It's best if I go now. 861 01:30:04.988 --> 01:30:08.242 I've left the bike for you... 862 01:30:08.450 --> 01:30:10.702 down there by the shed. 863 01:30:14.373 --> 01:30:16.959 Don't take the car, they'll hear you. 864 01:30:21.171 --> 01:30:25.300 I've put a ladder against the balcony. 865 01:30:26.385 --> 01:30:28.428 Go to Maria... 866 01:30:29.513 --> 01:30:31.557 but be careful! 867 01:30:32.641 --> 01:30:38.147 There are a couple of broken spokes in the front wheel. 868 01:30:38.355 --> 01:30:40.941 I once caught my pants-leg in them. 869 01:30:44.945 --> 01:30:47.030 I almost fell in the water. 870 01:30:47.239 --> 01:30:51.201 What pants-leg? – The right one. 871 01:30:51.410 --> 01:30:53.453 Be careful! 872 01:30:57.666 --> 01:31:01.253 Have you finally understood what I told you? 873 01:31:02.880 --> 01:31:05.966 Do you hear what I'm saying? 874 01:31:09.136 --> 01:31:11.013 Yes, what about it? 875 01:31:11.221 --> 01:31:14.308 No... Never! 876 01:31:15.392 --> 01:31:19.521 Anyway, I prefer Piero della Francesca! 877 01:32:22.042 --> 01:32:26.004 As l understood Alexander's words, he meant 878 01:32:26.213 --> 01:32:29.132 that it is peculiar for a man 879 01:32:29.341 --> 01:32:34.513 to change, of his own free will, into a work of art. 880 01:32:37.683 --> 01:32:41.645 Generally, the result of all poetic striving 881 01:32:41.854 --> 01:32:45.816 lies so far from its author that one can hardly believe 882 01:32:46.024 --> 01:32:49.111 that it is a man-made creation. 883 01:32:51.738 --> 01:32:56.410 In the case of the actor, though, the reverse is true. 884 01:33:00.080 --> 01:33:05.878 The actor is, himself, his own creation, his own work of art. 885 01:33:20.434 --> 01:33:22.311 Excuse me. 886 01:33:22.519 --> 01:33:25.606 I'll be right back. – Don't stay long! 887 01:33:52.216 --> 01:33:54.092 How much gas have we left? 888 01:33:54.301 --> 01:33:56.178 Will it last? 889 01:33:56.386 --> 01:33:58.263 I don't know. I'll see. 890 01:33:58.472 --> 01:34:03.143 They brought new tanks last week. Don't you remember? 891 01:36:12.272 --> 01:36:14.858 Julia! Come here to us! 892 01:40:20.062 --> 01:40:23.148 Who is it? – It's me. 893 01:40:25.776 --> 01:40:27.319 Mr. Alexander? 894 01:40:28.403 --> 01:40:30.447 Has something happened? 895 01:40:32.574 --> 01:40:35.661 But why stand there? Come in! 896 01:41:00.727 --> 01:41:04.857 It was only by chance that I heard you knock. 897 01:41:05.941 --> 01:41:10.070 The kerosene gave out, so I got up to fill the lamp. 898 01:41:19.997 --> 01:41:22.583 Has something happened? 899 01:41:45.355 --> 01:41:47.608 Why don't you say anything? 900 01:41:48.692 --> 01:41:52.821 What is it? Is it something at home? 901 01:42:20.474 --> 01:42:24.436 Something's happened at your house again. 902 01:42:24.645 --> 01:42:26.021 Is that it? 903 01:42:26.230 --> 01:42:28.106 But don't you... 904 01:42:28.315 --> 01:42:30.192 don't you have a TV? 905 01:42:30.400 --> 01:42:32.277 Yes, a small one. But... 906 01:42:32.486 --> 01:42:36.615 it went dead about 11:00, and didn't come on again. 907 01:42:38.200 --> 01:42:39.201 What... 908 01:42:39.785 --> 01:42:42.871 What's happened to your hands? 909 01:42:49.670 --> 01:42:51.713 I fell off the bike. 910 01:42:53.340 --> 01:42:55.384 Did you come on a bike? 911 01:42:56.468 --> 01:42:58.512 Yes, I did. I fell. 912 01:43:07.938 --> 01:43:08.939 Come! 913 01:43:10.524 --> 01:43:13.610 You mustn't go about with dirty hands. 914 01:43:56.945 --> 01:43:58.280 Thank you! 915 01:43:58.489 --> 01:44:00.032 You're welcome. 916 01:44:52.209 --> 01:44:55.295 As a child, I played this prélude. 917 01:44:56.380 --> 01:44:58.423 My mother loved it. 918 01:45:04.179 --> 01:45:05.722 Years ago, 919 01:45:07.307 --> 01:45:09.184 before I was married, 920 01:45:09.393 --> 01:45:13.021 I often went to visit my mother... in the country. 921 01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:22.406 She was still alive in those days. 922 01:45:37.045 --> 01:45:41.175 Her house, a little cottage, 923 01:45:42.759 --> 01:45:45.679 was surrounded by a garden... 924 01:45:45.888 --> 01:45:47.431 a little garden, 925 01:45:50.601 --> 01:45:53.687 dreadfully neglected and overgrown. 926 01:45:56.857 --> 01:46:01.278 No one had tended it for many years 927 01:46:03.113 --> 01:46:05.157 and I don't think... 928 01:46:06.241 --> 01:46:09.328 anyone had ever been in it. 929 01:46:11.246 --> 01:46:13.499 Even then, my mother was very ill. 930 01:46:14.583 --> 01:46:17.669 She almost never left the house. 931 01:46:23.425 --> 01:46:24.426 Still, 932 01:46:26.053 --> 01:46:28.096 amidst the ruin of the garden 933 01:46:31.767 --> 01:46:35.395 there was something that was, in its way, beautiful. 934 01:46:39.608 --> 01:46:42.694 Yes, now I know what it was. 935 01:46:46.907 --> 01:46:49.827 When the weather was fine... 936 01:46:50.035 --> 01:46:53.121 she often sat at the window... 937 01:46:54.706 --> 01:46:59.378 looking out at the garden. She even had a special chair by the window. 938 01:47:03.590 --> 01:47:09.930 Once, though, I decided that I would tidy things up... 939 01:47:11.932 --> 01:47:13.976 in the garden, that is. 940 01:47:15.561 --> 01:47:20.232 I wanted to mow the grass, burn the weeds, prune the trees. 941 01:47:23.902 --> 01:47:25.445 On the whole, 942 01:47:27.573 --> 01:47:32.578 I wanted to re-do the garden in my own taste... 943 01:47:32.786 --> 01:47:34.830 with my own hands. 944 01:47:39.042 --> 01:47:42.129 Yes, simply to please my mother. 945 01:47:45.299 --> 01:47:49.428 And for two solid weeks... 946 01:47:51.555 --> 01:47:55.684 I went at it with shears and a scythe. 947 01:47:57.811 --> 01:47:59.688 I dug... 948 01:47:59.897 --> 01:48:01.773 and cut... 949 01:48:01.982 --> 01:48:04.026 and sawed... 950 01:48:05.110 --> 01:48:06.612 and weeded... 951 01:48:09.281 --> 01:48:13.410 I kept my nose to the ground, literally. 952 01:48:17.623 --> 01:48:22.628 And I took great pains to get it ready as soon as possible. 953 01:48:22.836 --> 01:48:25.923 My mother's condition grew worse, 954 01:48:28.050 --> 01:48:30.093 and she kept to her bed. 955 01:48:34.306 --> 01:48:37.392 But I wanted her to be able... 956 01:48:38.477 --> 01:48:41.563 to sit by the window 957 01:48:43.690 --> 01:48:45.734 and see... 958 01:48:47.861 --> 01:48:49.905 her new garden. 959 01:48:55.160 --> 01:48:57.204 In short, 960 01:48:58.288 --> 01:49:02.251 when I was finished and everything was ready... 961 01:49:02.459 --> 01:49:04.503 I took a bath... 962 01:49:06.630 --> 01:49:10.759 put on fresh underwear, a new jacket, even a tie. 963 01:49:13.929 --> 01:49:18.934 Then I sat down in the chair to see what I'd made, 964 01:49:19.143 --> 01:49:22.229 through her eyes, as it were. 965 01:49:28.527 --> 01:49:29.528 I... 966 01:49:30.612 --> 01:49:32.656 I sat there... 967 01:49:33.740 --> 01:49:36.827 and looked out through the window. 968 01:49:46.253 --> 01:49:50.215 I had prepared myself to enjoy the sight. 969 01:49:50.424 --> 01:49:54.553 Anyway, I looked out the window and saw... 970 01:49:56.138 --> 01:49:58.182 What did I see? 971 01:49:59.808 --> 01:50:02.895 Where had all the beauty gone? 972 01:50:04.480 --> 01:50:06.523 The naturalness of it? 973 01:50:09.693 --> 01:50:13.322 It was so disgusting. 974 01:50:15.949 --> 01:50:18.535 All that evidence of violence! 975 01:50:22.206 --> 01:50:25.834 I remember once when my sister was young. 976 01:50:27.961 --> 01:50:33.133 She went to a barber and had her hair cut. It was the fashion then. 977 01:50:35.260 --> 01:50:39.014 Her hair was unbelievably lovely. 978 01:50:39.223 --> 01:50:41.475 Golden-yellow, like Lady Godiva's. 979 01:50:42.559 --> 01:50:45.479 She came home pleased as a punch. 980 01:50:45.687 --> 01:50:47.731 Then my father saw her. 981 01:50:48.816 --> 01:50:50.859 He began to cry. 982 01:50:53.487 --> 01:50:57.115 I think it was the same with the garden. 983 01:50:58.200 --> 01:51:00.244 And your mother? 984 01:51:11.755 --> 01:51:13.799 It's three o'clock! 985 01:51:14.883 --> 01:51:16.927 We won't have time... 986 01:51:26.854 --> 01:51:30.149 But your mother... did she see it? 987 01:51:49.877 --> 01:51:50.878 Maria... 988 01:51:57.176 --> 01:52:01.138 My being here must be an imposition on you. 989 01:52:01.346 --> 01:52:03.724 You can't sleep. 990 01:52:03.932 --> 01:52:05.976 What do you mean? 991 01:52:06.560 --> 01:52:08.937 What do you mean? 992 01:52:09.146 --> 01:52:10.689 Could you... 993 01:52:12.816 --> 01:52:15.903 Could you love me, Maria? 994 01:52:16.987 --> 01:52:19.031 What are you saying? 995 01:52:24.786 --> 01:52:26.830 Love me, I beg you! 996 01:52:27.915 --> 01:52:29.458 Save me! 997 01:52:31.043 --> 01:52:32.586 Save us all! 998 01:52:34.713 --> 01:52:38.675 I know who you are. He... he told me! 999 01:52:38.884 --> 01:52:41.970 Please, please! 1000 01:52:43.055 --> 01:52:45.098 Save us, I beg you! 1001 01:52:47.226 --> 01:52:49.269 What are you talking about? 1002 01:52:50.854 --> 01:52:54.733 Go home now. 1003 01:52:56.068 --> 01:52:58.487 Do you want me to go with you? 1004 01:52:58.695 --> 01:53:01.782 I...I have a bicycle, too. 1005 01:53:26.849 --> 01:53:28.892 Don't kill us. 1006 01:53:30.477 --> 01:53:32.521 Save us, Maria! 1007 01:53:35.190 --> 01:53:37.734 But why? 1008 01:53:39.862 --> 01:53:42.447 You poor, poor man! 1009 01:53:43.532 --> 01:53:46.451 Why? No, not that way! 1010 01:53:46.660 --> 01:53:48.704 You poor man. 1011 01:53:51.874 --> 01:53:53.750 Don't be afraid. What's wrong? 1012 01:53:53.959 --> 01:53:56.879 Who has frightened you so? Calm down, calm down. 1013 01:53:57.087 --> 01:53:58.964 I understand, I know... 1014 01:53:59.173 --> 01:54:01.049 that it concerns your home. 1015 01:54:01.258 --> 01:54:04.178 I know her, she is wicked. 1016 01:54:04.386 --> 01:54:06.430 I know her. They've hurt you... 1017 01:54:07.514 --> 01:54:09.892 frightened you. 1018 01:54:10.100 --> 01:54:13.020 Don't be afraid of anything. 1019 01:54:13.228 --> 01:54:15.814 Everything's going to be all right. 1020 01:54:16.899 --> 01:54:18.233 Be calm. 1021 01:54:18.442 --> 01:54:21.361 Don't be afraid, not of anything. 1022 01:54:21.570 --> 01:54:24.156 It's all right now, all right. 1023 01:54:29.912 --> 01:54:32.498 You poor, poor man! 1024 01:54:33.582 --> 01:54:35.459 There, there. 1025 01:54:35.667 --> 01:54:37.711 There's nothing to fear. 1026 01:54:38.795 --> 01:54:40.839 Don't be afraid. 1027 01:54:45.886 --> 01:54:48.138 Nothing will happen to you here. 1028 01:54:53.894 --> 01:54:55.938 Don't cry, don't cry. 1029 01:54:56.522 --> 01:54:58.565 Everything will be fine. 1030 01:54:59.650 --> 01:55:02.736 Just love me. – Yes. 1031 01:55:10.577 --> 01:55:11.954 My poor dear. 1032 01:55:12.162 --> 01:55:14.206 What have they done to you? 1033 01:55:53.871 --> 01:55:55.914 There, there... 1034 01:55:58.041 --> 01:55:59.918 No...no. 1035 01:56:00.127 --> 01:56:02.171 What is it? 1036 01:56:04.298 --> 01:56:06.341 Calm down! – No, no! 1037 01:56:08.468 --> 01:56:13.474 I c–c–can't! 1038 01:56:13.682 --> 01:56:16.768 I can't! 1039 01:56:18.896 --> 01:56:20.772 Drink this. 1040 01:56:20.981 --> 01:56:21.982 No. 1041 01:56:23.066 --> 01:56:24.067 There... 1042 01:56:28.280 --> 01:56:30.324 It'll soon be over. 1043 01:56:39.208 --> 01:56:43.504 What's frightened you so, Alexander? 1044 01:57:35.013 --> 01:57:36.014 Mama! 1045 01:59:48.480 --> 01:59:49.314 Hello! 1046 01:59:49.523 --> 01:59:51.400 Hello, is it Martin? 1047 01:59:51.608 --> 01:59:53.485 Yes. Alexander? 1048 01:59:53.694 --> 01:59:55.571 Yes, it's me! 1049 01:59:55.779 --> 01:59:57.656 Your voice is so weak. 1050 01:59:57.865 --> 01:59:59.741 Oh! Better now? 1051 01:59:59.950 --> 02:00:02.870 Yes, it's better. – I wonder, is the editor in? 1052 02:00:03.078 --> 02:00:05.998 Yes, but l don't think he's free. 1053 02:00:06.206 --> 02:00:10.169 You can't imagine what things are like here today. 1054 02:00:10.377 --> 02:00:12.754 You were to see him next week. 1055 02:00:12.963 --> 02:00:16.925 Yes, but it wasn't important. A trifle... it doesn't matter. 1056 02:00:17.134 --> 02:00:19.011 I'll call back. 1057 02:00:19.219 --> 02:00:22.139 Alright, until then. By the way, congratulations! 1058 02:00:22.347 --> 02:00:24.933 On what? Oh, of course! 1059 02:02:05.284 --> 02:02:09.788 Mama, did you know that our Victor is leaving for Australia? 1060 02:02:09.997 --> 02:02:11.874 What'd you say? To Australia? 1061 02:02:12.082 --> 02:02:17.921 Yes, and he's not coming back. He's been offered his own clinic. 1062 02:02:18.130 --> 02:02:20.215 I heard it last night. 1063 02:02:20.424 --> 02:02:22.467 Right, Victor? 1064 02:02:23.552 --> 02:02:27.681 Why're you laughing? – I'm not laughing! 1065 02:02:45.949 --> 02:02:47.993 When did you decide that? 1066 02:02:56.919 --> 02:02:58.962 Australia! 1067 02:03:00.047 --> 02:03:02.090 You must be mad! 1068 02:03:05.761 --> 02:03:09.389 I don't know why I chose Australia. 1069 02:03:19.858 --> 02:03:21.902 I don't know. 1070 02:03:25.572 --> 02:03:27.616 It doesn't matter. 1071 02:03:31.829 --> 02:03:33.872 I'm tired, that's all. 1072 02:03:34.456 --> 02:03:37.543 All right! But what's to become of us? 1073 02:03:38.627 --> 02:03:40.671 Of Alexander? 1074 02:03:43.841 --> 02:03:47.970 The fact is, what I'm most tired of is the lot of you. 1075 02:03:51.974 --> 02:03:54.017 Tired of being your nursemaid. 1076 02:03:58.939 --> 02:04:00.983 Your nursemaid and your warden. 1077 02:04:05.737 --> 02:04:07.614 Tired of wiping your noses. 1078 02:04:07.823 --> 02:04:10.200 Victor, are you mad? 1079 02:04:10.409 --> 02:04:11.243 Pardon! 1080 02:04:11.451 --> 02:04:13.328 What are you saying? 1081 02:04:13.537 --> 02:04:15.080 May I smoke? 1082 02:04:26.383 --> 02:04:29.678 Martha, go away! Go, go, go! 1083 02:04:34.391 --> 02:04:36.268 Go, go, go! 1084 02:04:36.477 --> 02:04:38.896 God, Mama. I'm not a child! 1085 02:04:39.104 --> 02:04:41.482 Call your father to breakfast! 1086 02:04:41.690 --> 02:04:44.109 But... – Is it too much to ask?! 1087 02:04:44.318 --> 02:04:46.361 Alright, I'll go. 1088 02:04:48.489 --> 02:04:50.532 Oh, her ways! 1089 02:04:51.074 --> 02:04:53.118 So calculating! 1090 02:04:53.702 --> 02:04:55.579 I won't let you go, Victor! 1091 02:04:55.787 --> 02:04:59.917 I don't know about Mama, but I won't let you go! 1092 02:05:05.172 --> 02:05:09.301 Something's wrong here and I'm fed up with it. 1093 02:05:12.471 --> 02:05:17.643 Yes. You can forget about me, and Martha, and the boy... 1094 02:05:19.770 --> 02:05:22.856 But Alexander is your friend! 1095 02:05:25.818 --> 02:05:27.861 He'll always be. 1096 02:05:29.154 --> 02:05:31.198 But he needs you! 1097 02:05:32.282 --> 02:05:35.369 He has a wife to take care of him. 1098 02:05:36.453 --> 02:05:38.330 She ought to, anyway. 1099 02:05:38.539 --> 02:05:41.625 He has a family, a splendid house... 1100 02:05:42.709 --> 02:05:46.839 and a son he adores. – Fine and dandy! 1101 02:05:48.966 --> 02:05:49.967 Julia! 1102 02:05:52.928 --> 02:05:56.056 Fetch your mistress' jacket! She's cold! 1103 02:05:56.265 --> 02:05:58.142 So thoughtful! 1104 02:05:58.350 --> 02:06:00.394 Little Man! Where is he? 1105 02:06:01.478 --> 02:06:04.398 Look, he's left this note! 1106 02:06:04.606 --> 02:06:06.483 What's it say? 1107 02:06:06.692 --> 02:06:10.654 "My dears: I've slept badly this night. Please don't wake me. 1108 02:06:10.863 --> 02:06:12.739 Go and take a little walk. 1109 02:06:12.948 --> 02:06:17.953 The boy'll show you his 'Japanese tree' that we planted yesterday. 1110 02:06:18.162 --> 02:06:22.124 Or was it today? I don't remember, it matters not. 1111 02:06:22.332 --> 02:06:24.209 I kiss you all. 1112 02:06:24.418 --> 02:06:26.295 I've taken my pills. 1113 02:06:26.503 --> 02:06:28.380 Forgive me, even now. 1114 02:06:28.589 --> 02:06:31.508 June 19, 1 985. 1115 02:06:31.717 --> 02:06:34.803 10:07 a.m. Papa A." 1116 02:06:39.016 --> 02:06:42.436 Shall we take a walk, before the weather changes? 1117 02:06:42.644 --> 02:06:46.273 "Forgive me, even now"... what did he mean by that? 1118 02:06:48.192 --> 02:06:50.068 And why the exact time? 1119 02:06:50.277 --> 02:06:52.529 Mama, you know how he is. 1120 02:06:53.614 --> 02:06:55.657 "How he is..." 1121 02:06:58.285 --> 02:07:02.789 I think that "his" kindness 1122 02:07:02.998 --> 02:07:04.875 would be enough to see us all through. 1123 02:07:05.083 --> 02:07:07.461 But he'll be around longer than that. 1124 02:07:07.669 --> 02:07:09.046 "How he is..."! 1125 02:07:09.254 --> 02:07:11.632 What'd I say wrong? 1126 02:07:11.840 --> 02:07:15.302 Have you enough kindness over for "him"? 1127 02:07:15.511 --> 02:07:19.640 Alright, Victor. But why must he be such a child? 1128 02:07:20.724 --> 02:07:22.768 Maybe I want to be a child as well! 1129 02:07:24.353 --> 02:07:27.981 We all want something. I, for one, want to go to Australia. 1130 02:07:48.877 --> 02:07:50.921 Well, gather the ashes. 1131 02:07:52.506 --> 02:07:55.968 Put them in a glass, fill it with wine, and drink it. 1132 02:07:56.176 --> 02:07:59.596 Why? – Don't ask me. 1133 02:07:59.805 --> 02:08:01.849 Someone said so. 1134 02:08:02.432 --> 02:08:06.562 If you do, you'll remember this the rest of your life. 1135 02:08:09.731 --> 02:08:11.608 Come, let's go. 1136 02:08:11.817 --> 02:08:13.861 Julia, come with us! 1137 02:08:14.945 --> 02:08:16.989 Fetch the boy and we'll go. 1138 02:08:25.372 --> 02:08:27.416 I had a dream lately. 1139 02:08:28.500 --> 02:08:31.587 I was walking the streets, begging. 1140 02:08:32.671 --> 02:08:35.757 When I woke, I cried and cried. 1141 02:08:37.885 --> 02:08:39.761 The boy's not there! 1142 02:08:39.970 --> 02:08:41.847 He's already gone out. 1143 02:08:42.055 --> 02:08:44.099 I think I know where. 1144 02:08:45.184 --> 02:08:47.060 To the Japanese tree? 1145 02:08:47.269 --> 02:08:50.189 He and the boy are just crazy about their Japan. 1146 02:08:50.397 --> 02:08:52.274 Why just Japan? 1147 02:08:52.483 --> 02:08:54.526 First it's Australia, then Japan. 1148 02:08:55.611 --> 02:08:57.654 God, I can't take much more of this! 1149 02:08:58.739 --> 02:09:03.202 What about this morning? I turned on his music... 1150 02:09:03.410 --> 02:09:07.915 But he didn't fancy his Japanese. He shut it off. 1151 02:09:08.123 --> 02:09:12.085 He says he and the boy were Japanese in an earlier life. 1152 02:09:12.294 --> 02:09:15.214 I wish someone would tell him what to make of this life. 1153 02:09:15.422 --> 02:09:19.384 Maybe that springs from a deep inner need. 1154 02:09:19.593 --> 02:09:21.637 Maybe it's easier for him so. 1155 02:09:22.721 --> 02:09:25.641 Why can't I find an easier way? 1156 02:09:25.849 --> 02:09:27.726 Can't you? 1157 02:09:27.935 --> 02:09:31.897 You seem to have all sorts of schemes to that end. 1158 02:09:32.105 --> 02:09:35.025 But nothing quite so far– fetched as Australia. 1159 02:09:35.234 --> 02:09:39.363 My God, what is all that nonsense about? 1160 02:09:41.490 --> 02:09:43.534 Australia! It's absurd! 1161 02:11:13.749 --> 02:11:15.792 Flowers! 1162 02:13:50.697 --> 02:13:52.699 I don't understand. 1163 02:14:04.253 --> 02:14:07.339 What've I done with them. Where are they? 1164 02:17:57.820 --> 02:17:59.863 Alexander! 1165 02:18:08.247 --> 02:18:10.123 What's happened? 1166 02:18:10.332 --> 02:18:14.294 I did it. Don't be upset! Listen to me, Victor. 1167 02:18:14.503 --> 02:18:16.547 I've got something very impor... 1168 02:18:17.089 --> 02:18:18.632 No! Silence! 1169 02:18:25.973 --> 02:18:29.059 Say nothing! Ask nothing! 1170 02:19:12.895 --> 02:19:17.024 Come, Alexander! You can't stay here! 1171 02:19:25.407 --> 02:19:27.451 Come, now. 1172 02:19:34.791 --> 02:19:38.754 Let him be! What are you doing to him? 1173 02:19:38.962 --> 02:19:41.006 Don't touch him! 1174 02:21:20.105 --> 02:21:22.149 See you, Alexander! 1175 02:26:39.132 --> 02:26:41.927 In the beginning was the Word. 1176 02:26:44.429 --> 02:26:47.224 Why is that, Papa? 1177 02:28:33.330 --> 02:28:37.918 This film is dedicated to my son Andriosha 1178 02:28:38.293 --> 02:28:48.637 with hope and confidence Andrei Tarkovsky