1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:13,930 --> 00:00:20,394 THE SACRIFICE 3 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:45,594 Come here and give me a hand, boy! 4 00:05:50,516 --> 00:05:53,602 Once upon a time, long ago 5 00:05:55,188 --> 00:06:00,233 an old monk lived in an Orthodox monastery. 6 00:06:01,235 --> 00:06:03,153 His name was Pamve. 7 00:06:03,654 --> 00:06:07,657 And once he planted a barren tree on a mountainside 8 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:09,659 just like this. 9 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:13,205 Then he told his young pupil, 10 00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:17,542 a monk named Ioann Kolov, 11 00:06:17,627 --> 00:06:23,465 that he should water the tree each day until it came to life. 12 00:06:25,134 --> 00:06:27,469 Put a few stones there, will you? 13 00:06:28,471 --> 00:06:31,056 Anyway, early every morning 14 00:06:31,557 --> 00:06:34,810 Ioann filled a dipper with water and went out. 15 00:06:35,478 --> 00:06:41,400 He climbed up the mountain and watered the withered tree 16 00:06:42,151 --> 00:06:45,987 and in the evening when darkness had fallen 17 00:06:46,739 --> 00:06:49,699 he returned to the monastery. 18 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:51,868 He did this for three years. 19 00:06:52,662 --> 00:06:54,579 And one fine day, 20 00:06:55,623 --> 00:06:57,999 he climbed up the mountain and saw 21 00:06:58,084 --> 00:07:02,546 that the whole tree was covered with blossoms! 22 00:07:04,382 --> 00:07:10,137 Say what you will, but a method, a system, has its virtues. 23 00:07:12,056 --> 00:07:18,395 You know, sometimes I say to myself, 24 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:22,607 if every single day, 25 00:07:22,692 --> 00:07:25,402 at exactly the same stroke of the clock, 26 00:07:26,237 --> 00:07:28,905 one were to perform the same single act, 27 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:30,615 like a ritual, 28 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:36,621 unchanging, systematic, every day at the same time, 29 00:07:36,706 --> 00:07:39,040 the world would be changed. 30 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:41,543 Yes, something would change. 31 00:07:41,627 --> 00:07:43,628 It would have to. 32 00:07:43,713 --> 00:07:48,508 One could wake up in the morning, let's say, 33 00:07:48,593 --> 00:07:50,719 get up at exactly seven, 34 00:07:52,388 --> 00:07:54,556 go to the bathroom, 35 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,393 pour a glass of water from the tap, 36 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:01,897 and flush it down the toilet. Only that! 37 00:08:01,981 --> 00:08:04,274 I'll be hard to get rid of today! 38 00:08:04,358 --> 00:08:05,817 Beautiful, eh? 39 00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:08,069 Like Japanese Ikebana. 40 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:13,992 I will come to your house to wish you well on your birthday. 41 00:08:14,076 --> 00:08:16,328 I am very honored by the invitation! 42 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:18,788 Here's the last of it. 43 00:08:19,790 --> 00:08:21,458 The post office is closed. 44 00:08:21,959 --> 00:08:26,505 Anyone who turns up now will just have to wait till tomorrow. 45 00:08:26,589 --> 00:08:27,506 Here! 46 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:29,841 I don't have my glasses. Please read it. 47 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:36,056 "Happy Birthday, dear friend STOP. 48 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:43,980 Mighty Richard greets good Prince Myshkin STOP. 49 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:47,859 God grant you joy, health and peace STOP. 50 00:08:47,944 --> 00:08:51,196 From your loyal and loving 51 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,408 Richardians and Idiotists STOP." 52 00:08:56,911 --> 00:08:59,037 Oh, how touching! 53 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:01,540 A joke. 54 00:09:02,708 --> 00:09:05,043 Friends, and their jokes! 55 00:09:05,127 --> 00:09:07,921 "Idiotists..." That's not half bad. 56 00:09:09,131 --> 00:09:13,885 "God grant you joy..." Say, how is your relationship to God? 57 00:09:13,970 --> 00:09:16,763 Non-existent, I'm afraid. What do you mean? 58 00:09:16,847 --> 00:09:20,058 It could be worse. 59 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:25,564 Here you are... 60 00:09:25,648 --> 00:09:28,108 a famous journalist, 61 00:09:29,443 --> 00:09:33,905 a theatrical and literary critic, 62 00:09:33,990 --> 00:09:40,495 who lectures on aesthetics for students at the university. 63 00:09:41,497 --> 00:09:44,082 Hey, your lasso! Run and fetch it! 64 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:45,667 And essays... 65 00:09:46,794 --> 00:09:48,962 you write them too. 66 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,632 But you're so gloomy! 67 00:09:52,717 --> 00:09:55,719 What's that supposed to mean, "gloomy"? 68 00:09:56,387 --> 00:09:59,681 Well, you shouldn't grieve so much. 69 00:10:01,350 --> 00:10:04,352 You shouldn't yearn so for something. 70 00:10:05,688 --> 00:10:08,690 You shouldn't be waiting like that. That's important. 71 00:10:08,774 --> 00:10:10,775 One shouldn't be waiting for something. 72 00:10:10,860 --> 00:10:14,696 "Shouldn't be waiting"? Who says I'm waiting for anything? 73 00:10:16,490 --> 00:10:18,825 We all are... 74 00:10:20,369 --> 00:10:22,037 waiting for something! 75 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:27,125 Take me, for example. 76 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:34,215 All my life I've been going around waiting for something. 77 00:10:36,052 --> 00:10:39,095 All my life, in fact, I've felt as if... 78 00:10:40,056 --> 00:10:43,224 as if I were waiting in a railway station. 79 00:10:43,893 --> 00:10:46,728 And I've always felt as if... 80 00:10:46,812 --> 00:10:50,148 as if the living I've done, so far, hasn't actually been real life 81 00:10:50,232 --> 00:10:54,152 but a long wait for it... 82 00:10:54,236 --> 00:10:57,906 a long wait for something real, 83 00:11:00,242 --> 00:11:02,285 something important! What about you? 84 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:04,496 Yes, if that’s what you mean. 85 00:11:05,623 --> 00:11:10,669 I just never knew you were interested in that kind of problem. 86 00:11:10,753 --> 00:11:12,587 But I am! 87 00:11:13,089 --> 00:11:15,840 I most certainly am! Unfortunately. 88 00:11:15,925 --> 00:11:19,511 Sometimes I get the most peculiar notions. 89 00:11:19,595 --> 00:11:21,346 Yes, I mean it. 90 00:11:21,847 --> 00:11:25,266 Like that dwarf, for example. 91 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:29,729 That notorious dwarf! 92 00:11:29,814 --> 00:11:31,481 What dwarf? 93 00:11:31,565 --> 00:11:35,026 Look here, you've managed to muddle me up completely! 94 00:11:35,111 --> 00:11:39,364 Oh, you know who I mean. That hunchback! 95 00:11:39,448 --> 00:11:41,908 Eh? The one Nietzsche mentioned. 96 00:11:42,576 --> 00:11:44,869 The one who made Zarathustra faint. 97 00:11:44,954 --> 00:11:47,455 Faint? What are you talking about? 98 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:50,625 I say, do you know Nietzsche? 99 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:52,877 No, not personally. 100 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,091 I haven't really studied him all that carefully. 101 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:02,053 However... 102 00:12:03,222 --> 00:12:06,558 he interests me, I can't deny it. 103 00:12:06,642 --> 00:12:07,767 So? 104 00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:13,148 Sometimes I get silly things in my head, things like this "eternal recurrence." 105 00:12:15,109 --> 00:12:17,444 We live, we have our ups and downs. 106 00:12:18,112 --> 00:12:19,779 We hope. 107 00:12:20,448 --> 00:12:22,949 We wait for something. 108 00:12:23,868 --> 00:12:27,370 We hope, we lose hope, we move closer to death. 109 00:12:27,455 --> 00:12:29,622 Finally, we die 110 00:12:30,958 --> 00:12:34,627 and are born again. But we remember nothing. 111 00:12:35,838 --> 00:12:39,841 And everything begins again, from scratch. 112 00:12:43,262 --> 00:12:47,140 Not literally the same way, 113 00:12:47,224 --> 00:12:49,517 just a wee, wee bit different. 114 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:52,771 But it's still so hopeless 115 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:56,149 and we don't know why. 116 00:12:58,402 --> 00:12:59,903 Yes... 117 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:02,614 No, I mean. 118 00:13:02,698 --> 00:13:05,366 Really, it's quite the same, 119 00:13:06,202 --> 00:13:09,162 literally, the same. 120 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:13,708 Just the next performance, so to speak. 121 00:13:15,878 --> 00:13:19,756 If I'd made it all, I guess I'd have done things the same way. 122 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:22,425 Funny, eh? 123 00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:24,969 But I've heard all that, it's nothing new. 124 00:13:25,054 --> 00:13:26,971 You didn't invent it! 125 00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:32,977 Do you really think that mankind could devise a universal concept, 126 00:13:33,062 --> 00:13:35,688 a model, so to speak, 127 00:13:35,773 --> 00:13:39,609 of Absolute Law, of Absolute Truth? 128 00:13:40,277 --> 00:13:43,863 Why, it'd be like trying to create a new universe! 129 00:13:43,948 --> 00:13:45,907 To be a demiurge! 130 00:13:46,909 --> 00:13:51,079 And you actually believe in your dwarf, do you? In your "recurrence"? 131 00:13:52,206 --> 00:13:53,498 Yes... 132 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,627 Sometimes I do... 133 00:13:58,963 --> 00:14:00,839 You understand? 134 00:14:00,923 --> 00:14:03,341 If I truly believe, 135 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,761 it will be so. 136 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:10,932 "Believe that it hath been given 137 00:14:12,142 --> 00:14:15,103 and it shall be given unto you." 138 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:22,360 But now I think I'll head home. It's late, I must think of a gift. 139 00:14:22,444 --> 00:14:24,445 You needn't do that. 140 00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:44,716 This is a very important day! 141 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:48,052 You'll be buried in telegrams! 142 00:14:49,054 --> 00:14:50,722 Au revoir! 143 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:54,726 What? 144 00:14:54,810 --> 00:14:56,728 What are you mumbling about? 145 00:14:57,396 --> 00:14:59,939 In the beginning was the Word. 146 00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:04,235 But you are mute, mute as a fish. 147 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,154 A little smelt. 148 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:13,494 Look here, my boy, we've lost our way. 149 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:17,165 Humanity is also on the wrong road, a dangerous road. 150 00:15:17,833 --> 00:15:22,170 So, up you go! Dear, how heavy you are. 151 00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:26,049 The first impression that Man had... 152 00:15:26,133 --> 00:15:29,427 How has he been lately? All right? 153 00:15:29,511 --> 00:15:31,137 Yes. 154 00:15:31,221 --> 00:15:34,182 In what way? He works a lot. 155 00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:39,479 I don't like his monologues. 156 00:15:41,732 --> 00:15:43,232 Alexander! 157 00:15:43,901 --> 00:15:46,235 Doctor! Wait, we'll come to you. 158 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,364 You're not equipped for a jaunt through Africa. 159 00:15:50,532 --> 00:15:52,867 It's quite a job, you know. 160 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:55,119 - Hello. - Hello! Welcome. 161 00:15:55,204 --> 00:15:57,830 - Many happy returns. - Thanks, thanks. 162 00:15:57,915 --> 00:15:59,582 And you, young man, how are you? 163 00:16:00,751 --> 00:16:03,002 Isn't it hard to keep silent? 164 00:16:03,671 --> 00:16:06,297 I can well imagine. But it's good for you. 165 00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:09,717 Sociability is a burden. 166 00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:11,636 Not all of us can bear it. 167 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,806 - My brave boy. - Why "my"? He's "ours," after all. 168 00:16:14,890 --> 00:16:19,185 He gargles and goes to bed by himself. 169 00:16:19,269 --> 00:16:21,104 Gargles? That's nothing! 170 00:16:22,398 --> 00:16:26,734 Think how well he behaved during the operation. 171 00:16:28,070 --> 00:16:30,279 He's got the makings of a real man! 172 00:16:30,364 --> 00:16:32,281 Open wide, now. 173 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:38,413 It looks fine. Keep that up and you'll be talking in a week. 174 00:16:39,415 --> 00:16:41,582 By the way, did you know 175 00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:45,753 that Gandhi had one day in the week when he spoke to no one? 176 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:48,464 - It was his system. - Why? 177 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,968 He was probably tired of people. 178 00:16:52,052 --> 00:16:53,678 Shall we walk here? 179 00:16:53,762 --> 00:16:55,930 You've deserted your patients. 180 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:57,682 And what elegance! 181 00:16:57,766 --> 00:17:01,227 On a day like this, one has to live up to expectations. 182 00:17:01,311 --> 00:17:04,355 Your present's in the trunk. 183 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,441 Still more presents! 184 00:17:07,109 --> 00:17:10,903 - It's time we went home. - Yes, all of us. 185 00:17:10,988 --> 00:17:15,199 But why don't you two take the car? We'll follow on foot. 186 00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:17,952 We must finish our chat. Right, my boy? 187 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,580 Please don't be too late. 188 00:17:21,415 --> 00:17:23,041 All right, little man? 189 00:17:23,125 --> 00:17:25,084 Everything's almost ready. 190 00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:32,550 Have I told you how your mother and I found this place? 191 00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:37,513 We came here on a trip once. You weren't even thought of then. 192 00:17:38,348 --> 00:17:40,641 It was the first time we were here. 193 00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:43,978 We had no map with us, we forgot to bring one. 194 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:47,690 Besides, we'd run out of gas. 195 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:53,488 We stopped somewhere near here, then we kept going on foot. 196 00:17:54,156 --> 00:17:56,407 Frankly, we were lost. 197 00:17:57,409 --> 00:18:01,370 Then it started raining, a cold, ugly drizzle. 198 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:05,917 We came to that bend over there, by that dry old pine tree 199 00:18:06,001 --> 00:18:08,169 and just then, the sun came out. 200 00:18:09,171 --> 00:18:11,214 It stopped raining. 201 00:18:11,882 --> 00:18:13,549 The light was dazzling! 202 00:18:13,634 --> 00:18:16,219 Then we saw the house. 203 00:18:16,303 --> 00:18:18,763 Suddenly I was sad that I didn't... 204 00:18:18,847 --> 00:18:21,557 I mean, that we didn't live there 205 00:18:21,642 --> 00:18:25,311 in that house under the pines, so close to the sea. 206 00:18:26,313 --> 00:18:28,022 How beautiful it was! 207 00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:33,152 I knew that if I lived there, I'd be happy until I died. 208 00:18:33,237 --> 00:18:35,404 Hmm? What's wrong? 209 00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:38,533 Don't be afraid. There is no such thing as death. 210 00:18:39,201 --> 00:18:42,537 No, there's the fear of death, and that is an awful fear. 211 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:46,165 Sometimes it even makes people do things they shouldn't. 212 00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:49,210 But how different things would be 213 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:52,547 if only we could stop fearing death! 214 00:18:54,049 --> 00:18:59,178 Huh? Oh, I was talking about something else... Ah, yes. 215 00:18:59,263 --> 00:19:04,350 As I was saying, we were enchanted as we took in the beauty of it. 216 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:07,562 We couldn't tear ourselves away. 217 00:19:08,397 --> 00:19:10,398 The peace, the stillness... 218 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:13,192 And... 219 00:19:14,194 --> 00:19:15,820 it was plain that this house 220 00:19:15,904 --> 00:19:19,448 was meant just for us. 221 00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:23,744 It turned out to be for sale, too. What a miracle! 222 00:19:24,746 --> 00:19:26,998 And you were born in this house. 223 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,168 Do you like it? 224 00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:34,630 Do you like your house? Eh, my boy? 225 00:19:38,218 --> 00:19:41,262 Man has defended himself, always 226 00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:44,599 against other men, against nature. 227 00:19:44,683 --> 00:19:46,976 He has constantly violated nature. 228 00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:52,899 The result is a civilization built on force, power, fear, dependence. 229 00:19:52,983 --> 00:19:55,526 All our "technical progress" 230 00:19:55,611 --> 00:20:01,115 has only provided us with comfort, a sort of standard. 231 00:20:03,118 --> 00:20:05,786 And instruments of violence for keeping power. 232 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:07,705 We are like savages! 233 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,709 We use the microscope like a cudgel! 234 00:20:13,629 --> 00:20:15,630 No, that's wrong... 235 00:20:16,673 --> 00:20:19,008 savages are more spiritual than we! 236 00:20:20,177 --> 00:20:22,803 As soon as we make a scientific breakthrough 237 00:20:23,639 --> 00:20:26,974 we put it to use in the service of evil. 238 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:31,187 And as for standard, some wise man once said that sin 239 00:20:31,271 --> 00:20:33,439 is that which is unnecessary. 240 00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:37,235 If that is so, then our entire civilization 241 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,655 is built on sin, from beginning to end. 242 00:20:42,324 --> 00:20:45,826 We have acquired a dreadful disharmony, 243 00:20:46,495 --> 00:20:48,120 an imbalance, if you will, 244 00:20:48,205 --> 00:20:51,540 between our material and our spiritual development. 245 00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:56,087 Our culture is defective. 246 00:20:57,172 --> 00:21:00,758 I mean, our civilization. Basically defective, my boy! 247 00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:05,846 Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem 248 00:21:06,515 --> 00:21:08,516 and look for a solution together. 249 00:21:09,851 --> 00:21:12,520 Perhaps we could, if it wasn't so late. 250 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:14,897 Altogether too late. 251 00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:18,276 God, how weary I am of this talk! 252 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,028 "Words, words, words!" 253 00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:26,367 At last I know what Hamlet meant. 254 00:21:27,035 --> 00:21:29,537 He was fed up with windbags. 255 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:33,291 And so am I! Why do I talk this way? 256 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:37,795 If only someone could stop talking 257 00:21:37,879 --> 00:21:40,548 and do something instead! 258 00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:43,634 Or at least, try to. 259 00:21:47,597 --> 00:21:49,098 Little Man! 260 00:21:56,898 --> 00:21:58,524 Little Man! 261 00:22:22,090 --> 00:22:24,091 Dear God, what's wrong with me? 262 00:23:49,219 --> 00:23:50,886 Fantastic! 263 00:23:55,058 --> 00:23:57,560 Such remarkable refinement! 264 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,773 Such wisdom and spirituality. 265 00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:06,777 And such pure childlike innocence as well. 266 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:14,452 At once profound, yet virginal. 267 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,377 It's unbelievable. 268 00:24:24,421 --> 00:24:26,380 Like a prayer. 269 00:24:34,347 --> 00:24:38,350 And all this has been lost. We can't even pray any longer. 270 00:24:41,062 --> 00:24:43,230 I had a rotten day today. 271 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,030 Or rather, a day I lost control of. 272 00:24:53,074 --> 00:24:56,660 Thank you, Victor. 273 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:59,246 A splendid book! 274 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:06,587 Thanks for the wine too. We'll have it later. 275 00:25:08,256 --> 00:25:10,090 Above all, thanks for coming. 276 00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:14,386 Have you... 277 00:25:14,471 --> 00:25:17,473 never felt that your life was a failure? 278 00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:21,894 No. Why? 279 00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:27,483 I once felt exactly that way. 280 00:25:28,985 --> 00:25:33,489 But since Little Man came along, all that has changed. 281 00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:35,950 Not all at once, of course. 282 00:25:36,034 --> 00:25:40,538 A bit at a time as he grew bigger. 283 00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:45,000 I'm very attached to him, 284 00:25:47,629 --> 00:25:50,130 too much, I'm afraid. 285 00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:55,010 But there is something in all this that I resent. 286 00:25:56,304 --> 00:25:58,389 I prepared myself for a life, 287 00:26:00,016 --> 00:26:02,184 a higher life, so to speak. 288 00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:07,815 I studied philosophy, the history of religion, aesthetics. 289 00:26:09,317 --> 00:26:12,152 And I ended up putting myself in chains, 290 00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:15,322 of my own free will. 291 00:26:17,325 --> 00:26:20,995 But at the same time, I'm happy. 292 00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:24,373 Today, for example... 293 00:26:32,507 --> 00:26:34,550 What happened today? 294 00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:38,804 I got a telegram from my friends. 295 00:26:40,181 --> 00:26:42,725 As a joke they signed it: 296 00:26:42,809 --> 00:26:45,644 "Richardians and Idiotists". 297 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,275 Old theater friends. We played Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky. 298 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,360 - I remember. - No. 299 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:57,406 - Remember what? - Those performances. 300 00:26:57,490 --> 00:27:00,659 - Oh, come now. - Yes, I do! 301 00:27:00,744 --> 00:27:04,830 I remember how you dropped that vase from the tray and broke it. 302 00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:07,416 And your eyes were full of tears. 303 00:27:08,084 --> 00:27:10,169 I remember it well. 304 00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:12,004 The vase, too. 305 00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:14,757 It was white, with blue flowers. 306 00:27:14,841 --> 00:27:17,343 That's right! She does remember. 307 00:27:18,511 --> 00:27:22,431 But those tears meant nothing. I had something in my eye. 308 00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:26,477 It hurt so, I didn't think I'd get through the performance. 309 00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:31,565 Alexander was superb as Prince Myshkin. 310 00:27:32,734 --> 00:27:34,777 That role made you. 311 00:27:35,612 --> 00:27:39,406 And then you just gave it all up. 312 00:27:40,075 --> 00:27:41,909 The theater, the lot. 313 00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:46,830 You threw away everything after Richard III and The Idiot. 314 00:27:46,915 --> 00:27:48,582 I don't know why. 315 00:27:49,501 --> 00:27:51,752 - What "everything"? - Hmm? 316 00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:54,505 What do you mean by "everything"? 317 00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:56,924 The theater. 318 00:27:57,592 --> 00:27:59,301 Everything! 319 00:27:59,803 --> 00:28:03,263 "Success," that's what you mean! 320 00:28:04,099 --> 00:28:06,975 As it happens, theater isn't "everything." 321 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,938 I couldn't take it anymore. 322 00:28:11,898 --> 00:28:13,899 What do you mean? 323 00:28:14,567 --> 00:28:15,693 Well... 324 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:21,281 For some reason, I started feeling embarrassed onstage. 325 00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:27,579 I was ashamed to impersonate someone else, to play another's emotions. 326 00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:34,169 But worst of all, I was ashamed of being honest onstage. 327 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:39,007 It was a critic who first saw that. 328 00:28:41,469 --> 00:28:44,346 But it wasn't sudden, not at all. 329 00:28:45,014 --> 00:28:48,976 So you mean that an actor may not keep his ego intact? 330 00:28:49,644 --> 00:28:52,312 That he must lose his identity? 331 00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:54,648 No, not quite. 332 00:28:55,316 --> 00:29:02,239 What I mean is that an actor's identity dissolves in his roles. 333 00:29:02,323 --> 00:29:04,658 I didn't want my ego dissolved. 334 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:10,998 There was something in it that struck me as sinful 335 00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:14,126 something feminine and weak. 336 00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:17,796 Aha! Feminine! So that's what's sinful. 337 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:22,134 I liked you as an actor, so you quit. That's it! 338 00:29:22,218 --> 00:29:25,262 - I don't know. That might be it. - No, that was it! 339 00:29:25,346 --> 00:29:27,514 I said it might be. 340 00:29:28,183 --> 00:29:30,309 Always the last word! 341 00:29:30,810 --> 00:29:32,269 She'll be his death! 342 00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:34,021 Please, not today. 343 00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:37,065 It's Alexander's birthday. 344 00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:40,944 Thanks for defending me, Victor. 345 00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:44,615 In other words, first he seduced me with his acting. 346 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:48,076 Then he lured me from London and abandoned me! 347 00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:53,540 But I liked being the great actor's wife. 348 00:29:53,625 --> 00:29:56,460 Forgive me, but I saw no harm in it. 349 00:29:57,921 --> 00:29:59,588 Who's that, now? 350 00:30:06,179 --> 00:30:09,681 By the way, Alexander, I'll soon be leaving. 351 00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:12,226 Leaving? 352 00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:15,646 Leaving all this. 353 00:30:16,981 --> 00:30:18,899 Has something happened? 354 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:24,071 I've been offered a clinic in Australia. 355 00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,741 Are you serious? 356 00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:34,581 You must tell me about it later. 357 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:45,300 It's Otto, the postman. He's carrying something. 358 00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:46,844 Julia! 359 00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:49,429 Your beau's come calling! 360 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,786 Good evening! 361 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:19,209 - Many happy returns! - Thanks. 362 00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:23,463 Here I am, and here's a kind of present for you. 363 00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:26,633 Thank you very much. What is it? 364 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:29,052 I don't think I can do this alone. 365 00:31:36,352 --> 00:31:41,690 It's a map of Europe, from the late 1600's. 366 00:31:42,191 --> 00:31:43,692 Is it genuine? 367 00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:47,279 How could it be? It must be a copy, a reproduction. 368 00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:51,408 No, not at all! It's genuine, an original. 369 00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:53,660 - How could anyone... - Is it possible? 370 00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:57,664 How beautiful it is! We must take it inside. 371 00:31:58,666 --> 00:31:59,499 Come, now. 372 00:31:59,584 --> 00:32:02,753 But it's far too dear a gift. I don't know if I... 373 00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:05,088 Oh God, don't say that! 374 00:32:05,173 --> 00:32:08,508 But it's far too much. Too much, Otto! 375 00:32:09,385 --> 00:32:12,095 I know it's no sacrifice, but... 376 00:32:12,180 --> 00:32:16,183 And why shouldn't it be? Of course it's a sacrifice! 377 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:21,563 Every gift involves a sacrifice. 378 00:32:22,231 --> 00:32:25,192 If not, what kind of gift would it be? 379 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:31,365 Excuse me... 380 00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:34,117 Otto. My name is Otto. 381 00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:36,036 Oh. 382 00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:39,414 Excuse me, Otto. 383 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:42,376 What are you doing in these parts? 384 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:44,878 I hear you haven't lived here long. 385 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:45,963 Smoke? 386 00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:51,969 Once I went to the morgue and saw the autopsied corpse... 387 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:56,431 of a man who had smoked all his life. I saw his lungs. 388 00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:57,975 I haven't smoked since. 389 00:32:58,059 --> 00:33:01,019 Hear that, Alexander? 390 00:33:01,896 --> 00:33:05,774 Yes, you're completely right. 391 00:33:06,275 --> 00:33:09,319 I've only lived here two months. 392 00:33:09,404 --> 00:33:12,739 Before then, I taught history at a secondary school. 393 00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:15,993 But when I was pensioned, I moved here. 394 00:33:16,577 --> 00:33:18,870 And here I am. 395 00:33:18,955 --> 00:33:23,750 Nowadays I have fewer expenses, and more time left over for my interests. 396 00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:28,171 My sister used to live here. She's dead now. 397 00:33:28,256 --> 00:33:31,216 I understand you're employed by the post office. 398 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,471 Yes, I'm a postman. 399 00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:39,057 But not regularly. Only in my spare time. 400 00:33:40,601 --> 00:33:42,269 Hello, Maria! 401 00:33:46,524 --> 00:33:51,570 I've put everything in order, Mrs. Adelaide. Can I go now? 402 00:33:51,654 --> 00:33:53,405 Yes, yes, Maria. Thank you. 403 00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:57,868 Oh, yes! Do you think you might just warm the plates? 404 00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:00,245 Julia can do the rest. 405 00:34:00,329 --> 00:34:01,997 Yes, Mrs. Adelaide. 406 00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:04,458 I'll put the plates to warm at once. 407 00:34:04,959 --> 00:34:07,377 I'll warm the plates. 408 00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,338 Then can I go? Is there something more? 409 00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:12,090 No, no! You may go. 410 00:34:13,009 --> 00:34:14,843 Julia's still here. 411 00:34:15,470 --> 00:34:17,637 Oh, one more thing! 412 00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:20,057 Would you put the candles on the table? 413 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,726 Then you may go... 414 00:34:23,394 --> 00:34:25,312 You have opened the wine, haven't you? 415 00:34:26,647 --> 00:34:28,356 Well, open it. 416 00:34:29,817 --> 00:34:31,735 Then you won't be needed. 417 00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:38,200 The plates, the candles, the wine. 418 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,925 We're neighbors, she and I. 419 00:34:57,845 --> 00:34:59,638 We're acquainted. 420 00:34:59,722 --> 00:35:02,891 Indeed? Congratulations. 421 00:35:03,518 --> 00:35:07,354 She came from Iceland a few years ago. 422 00:35:07,438 --> 00:35:09,106 Really? 423 00:35:09,690 --> 00:35:11,525 She is very odd. 424 00:35:11,609 --> 00:35:13,110 Who? 425 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:15,237 Maria. 426 00:35:16,322 --> 00:35:18,281 Yes, Maria. 427 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:20,700 Sometimes she scares me. 428 00:35:22,036 --> 00:35:27,207 It must've been lovely when men thought the world looked like this! 429 00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:32,170 This Europe looks more like Mars. 430 00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:35,215 That is, it has nothing to do with truth. 431 00:35:35,299 --> 00:35:36,633 No. 432 00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:39,636 But people lived then. 433 00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:42,472 And not badly, either. 434 00:35:45,601 --> 00:35:48,270 But wait, what's the date... 435 00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:50,897 ...today? 436 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:57,237 1392... 437 00:36:00,366 --> 00:36:02,993 It's best we put the map away now. 438 00:36:04,912 --> 00:36:06,872 Otto, will you help me? 439 00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:12,169 I have a feeling that our maps have nothing to do with truth, either. 440 00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:14,671 What truth? 441 00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:19,759 You keep going on about truth. 442 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:23,763 - Truth! What is truth? - There's no such thing. 443 00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:27,851 We look, but don't see. Here comes a cockroach... 444 00:36:27,935 --> 00:36:29,436 A cockroach!? 445 00:36:30,605 --> 00:36:34,524 Par example, madame! Excusez-moi! 446 00:36:35,359 --> 00:36:38,320 Here comes a cockroach running 'round a plate. 447 00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:42,240 He fancies that he's moving forward with a definite purpose. 448 00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:46,036 How do you know what a cockroach thinks? 449 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,038 It could be a ritual. 450 00:36:48,122 --> 00:36:50,207 - Yes! - His own. 451 00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:52,876 Aha. "Could be." 452 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,129 Anything could be. 453 00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:59,132 "Could be"! 454 00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:04,471 Otherwise all we're left with is this "truth," "truth." 455 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:07,307 - Can I help? - No, that's fine. 456 00:37:07,808 --> 00:37:09,726 Let's put it there, Otto. 457 00:37:10,978 --> 00:37:12,979 A fantastic map! 458 00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:17,651 I'm glad you think so. It's a first-class chart. 459 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,489 Where's Little Man? Where's the boy? 460 00:37:22,573 --> 00:37:25,951 I don't know. He was here just a moment ago. 461 00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:28,536 - Shall I look? - No, no. 462 00:37:28,621 --> 00:37:30,622 He seemed down, to me. 463 00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:36,878 - Something wrong? - I'll be right back. 464 00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:38,880 Dinner's ready. 465 00:37:42,343 --> 00:37:45,553 You said you had more time for your interests... 466 00:37:46,055 --> 00:37:48,014 What'd you mean? 467 00:37:49,517 --> 00:37:51,017 Huh? 468 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:52,769 Take it easy. 469 00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:55,981 He's around here. 470 00:37:58,317 --> 00:38:01,987 - I'm sort of a collector. - Are you? 471 00:38:02,738 --> 00:38:04,823 What do you mean, "sort of"? 472 00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:09,619 How shall I put it? I collect incidents. 473 00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:14,124 Things that are unexplainable but true. 474 00:38:14,959 --> 00:38:20,297 I need a lot of time, though, to gather evidence that they're true. 475 00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:24,217 I need to travel, too, and I need money for it. 476 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,221 That's why I'm a postman... as well. 477 00:38:28,723 --> 00:38:30,557 Unexplainable? 478 00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:34,644 Little Man should be here. He loves stories like this. 479 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:39,357 Does he, indeed? 480 00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:42,193 But still... 481 00:38:43,362 --> 00:38:45,363 I don't really understand. 482 00:38:46,032 --> 00:38:48,199 Well, for example... 483 00:38:50,536 --> 00:38:52,454 No, not that one. 484 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,082 How about this one... 485 00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:59,627 It happened before the war. 486 00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:04,424 In Königsberg, a widow was living with her son. 487 00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:09,095 But then war broke out, and the boy was drafted. 488 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,972 He was 18 years old. 489 00:39:11,807 --> 00:39:16,936 They decided to see a photographer and have a keepsake photo taken. 490 00:39:18,731 --> 00:39:23,276 The mother and her son were photographed together. 491 00:39:23,944 --> 00:39:25,445 Then the boy... 492 00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:36,373 the boy was sent off... 493 00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:39,751 to the front. 494 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:42,962 A few days later, he was killed. 495 00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:45,882 Good Lord! 496 00:39:49,095 --> 00:39:51,971 In the midst of all the commotion and calamity 497 00:39:53,474 --> 00:39:57,185 the widow, of course, forgot about the photos. 498 00:39:57,853 --> 00:40:01,106 "Of course"? Why, how could she forget such a thing? 499 00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:06,319 - It's not important. - No, it's not very important at all. 500 00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:11,157 The fact is, this woman never fetched the photographs. 501 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:18,248 The war ended. She moved to another town far from her memories. 502 00:40:18,332 --> 00:40:21,918 But didn't she even try to find the photographer? 503 00:40:22,002 --> 00:40:24,754 It was her last photo of her son! 504 00:40:24,839 --> 00:40:26,840 But do let him make his point. 505 00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:30,093 Sorry. 506 00:40:30,177 --> 00:40:34,139 - Mommy...! - I'll be quiet. Sorry. 507 00:40:38,644 --> 00:40:40,478 It doesn't matter. 508 00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:45,024 Some years later... 509 00:40:46,652 --> 00:40:49,946 I think it was in 1960... 510 00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:52,699 the widow visited a photographer 511 00:40:53,534 --> 00:40:58,204 to have her photo taken. She intended to give it to a friend. 512 00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:02,625 The photo was taken, but when she got the prints 513 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:05,837 she saw not only herself on them, 514 00:41:05,921 --> 00:41:08,298 but her dead son, too. 515 00:41:08,382 --> 00:41:11,384 In the photos, he was 18 516 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:17,056 and she was as old as she was when these last photos were taken. 517 00:41:23,272 --> 00:41:25,231 Did it happen like that? 518 00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:28,359 Just as you told us? 519 00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:33,114 Yes. That's how it happened. 520 00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:36,075 How did you check it? 521 00:41:37,244 --> 00:41:39,829 I've spoken with the woman. 522 00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:42,916 And I have the photo 523 00:41:43,709 --> 00:41:48,671 showing her in 1960 and her son in a 1940 uniform. 524 00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:51,299 Oh, dear God! 525 00:41:53,469 --> 00:41:55,470 And besides... 526 00:41:56,597 --> 00:42:00,391 I have a copy of his birth certificate 527 00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:04,812 and an official copy of the notice of death. 528 00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:08,525 Are you pulling our leg? 529 00:42:12,279 --> 00:42:15,281 No, by no means! 530 00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:19,494 I have about 300 similar incidents. 531 00:42:21,497 --> 00:42:26,334 284, to be exact. 532 00:42:28,963 --> 00:42:31,256 We are blind, simply. 533 00:42:32,466 --> 00:42:34,634 We see nothing. 534 00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:50,793 What was that? What do you think? 535 00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:52,378 Are you ill? 536 00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:54,881 No... 537 00:43:55,924 --> 00:43:58,009 nothing's wrong. 538 00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:34,003 It was only an evil angel passing by, who saw fit to touch me. 539 00:44:39,093 --> 00:44:42,095 And you see fit to joke with us, eh? Mr. Postman? 540 00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:47,975 There are jokes and then there are jokes, Doctor. 541 00:44:50,229 --> 00:44:53,147 There's nothing to joke about here. 542 00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:38,544 "Which of you have done this?" 543 00:46:39,963 --> 00:46:41,464 "The Lords...?" 544 00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:55,311 Maria! 545 00:47:25,259 --> 00:47:27,260 Who made that? 546 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,221 Little Man. 547 00:47:33,934 --> 00:47:35,977 Little Man, really? 548 00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:40,064 - Where is he? - He's upstairs. 549 00:47:40,732 --> 00:47:43,276 I think he's in his room. 550 00:47:46,989 --> 00:47:48,656 That's good. 551 00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:52,285 But what is it? 552 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:56,330 He made it for you. 553 00:47:56,415 --> 00:47:59,417 It's his birthday present to you. 554 00:48:01,295 --> 00:48:05,464 It was he and Otto, the postman, who built it together. 555 00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:16,809 Don't say that I told you, Mr. Alexander. 556 00:48:18,478 --> 00:48:20,980 He wanted to show it off himself. 557 00:48:44,338 --> 00:48:46,339 I'll go now. 558 00:49:09,821 --> 00:49:11,364 Happy birthday. 559 00:49:32,678 --> 00:49:34,345 Go home now! 560 00:49:34,429 --> 00:49:36,430 It's so damp out. 561 00:50:28,066 --> 00:50:31,861 - May I come in? - Yes, come in. 562 00:50:31,945 --> 00:50:33,946 Oh, it's you. Come in! 563 00:50:34,781 --> 00:50:37,116 Things are almost ready downstairs. 564 00:50:40,579 --> 00:50:42,747 What on earth is that? 565 00:50:45,292 --> 00:50:47,209 What's what? 566 00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:48,961 The picture, there. 567 00:50:49,796 --> 00:50:51,630 On the wall, what is it? 568 00:50:53,633 --> 00:50:58,471 I can't see clearly. It's behind a glass. And it's so dark. 569 00:50:59,306 --> 00:51:02,975 It’s the Adoration of the Three Kings 570 00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:06,062 by Leonardo. 571 00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:09,648 A reproduction, of course. 572 00:51:11,818 --> 00:51:14,403 My God, how sinister it is! 573 00:51:21,328 --> 00:51:25,331 I've always been terrified of Leonardo. 574 00:51:49,940 --> 00:51:55,111 ...are now being organized nationwide... 575 00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:01,784 This is even the duty of all officers of the army. 576 00:52:03,995 --> 00:52:06,497 Every responsible citizen... 577 00:52:07,332 --> 00:52:10,751 is expected to behave with courage... 578 00:52:12,921 --> 00:52:15,256 to keep a cool head... 579 00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:19,927 and to help the army... 580 00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:25,141 in its efforts to re-establish peace, 581 00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:29,436 order, and discipline. 582 00:52:32,107 --> 00:52:37,069 The only dangerous enemy in our midst at the moment, 583 00:52:38,196 --> 00:52:39,989 is panic. 584 00:52:41,116 --> 00:52:43,868 It is contagious, 585 00:52:44,536 --> 00:52:49,415 and won't allow itself to be ruled by common sense. 586 00:52:51,543 --> 00:52:55,087 Order and organization... 587 00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,383 and nothing less, good citizens. 588 00:52:59,467 --> 00:53:02,261 Only order... order... 589 00:53:05,098 --> 00:53:07,141 against this chaos. 590 00:53:09,769 --> 00:53:13,105 I beg you, I humbly appeal 591 00:53:13,815 --> 00:53:16,442 to your courage and... 592 00:53:19,654 --> 00:53:22,031 in spite of all... 593 00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:23,949 to your common sense. 594 00:53:32,167 --> 00:53:35,669 Shall we eat? And wake the boy? 595 00:53:36,171 --> 00:53:38,214 We have here, unfortunately, such a base... 596 00:53:38,298 --> 00:53:40,633 with four missile warheads. 597 00:53:41,801 --> 00:53:44,303 And it is very likely... 598 00:53:44,971 --> 00:53:50,184 that these warheads, tragically enough... 599 00:53:50,268 --> 00:53:51,894 What's this? 600 00:53:51,978 --> 00:53:55,105 ...will be used against us. 601 00:53:59,319 --> 00:54:03,364 Communications may be broken at any time... 602 00:54:03,865 --> 00:54:08,452 but I have told you what is most important... 603 00:54:09,162 --> 00:54:11,664 ...my fellow citizens. 604 00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:20,297 You are to stay where you are. 605 00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:23,676 There is no place in all of Europe 606 00:54:24,761 --> 00:54:27,179 that is safer 607 00:54:27,722 --> 00:54:30,516 than where we are now. 608 00:54:32,143 --> 00:54:34,270 In this regard, 609 00:54:34,354 --> 00:54:39,900 we are all forced into the same situation. 610 00:54:57,168 --> 00:55:00,254 All districts will be under the control 611 00:55:00,338 --> 00:55:04,341 of special military units... 612 00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:10,180 so that... so that... 613 00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:14,351 Surely this isn't... 614 00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:53,390 Shouldn't one do something? 615 00:56:29,260 --> 00:56:32,096 I've waited for this all my life. 616 00:56:34,057 --> 00:56:37,559 My whole life has been one long wait, for this. 617 00:57:16,766 --> 00:57:18,600 Don't touch me! Do something! 618 00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:22,771 You men! Why don't you say something? 619 00:57:29,612 --> 00:57:33,282 Can't we do something? 620 00:58:05,773 --> 00:58:07,774 Mama, please calm down! 621 00:58:15,742 --> 00:58:17,743 My God! 622 00:58:18,870 --> 00:58:20,913 Victor! 623 00:58:21,414 --> 00:58:25,000 At least you could do something! 624 00:58:25,084 --> 00:58:26,084 Please! 625 00:58:26,169 --> 00:58:29,421 Shh! The boy is asleep. 626 00:58:30,256 --> 00:58:32,174 He mustn't be awakened. 627 00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:37,554 It's all my fault! 628 00:58:38,723 --> 00:58:40,682 This is my punishment! 629 00:58:52,278 --> 00:58:54,321 The boy's sleeping. 630 00:58:56,824 --> 00:58:58,700 Don't wake him. 631 00:58:58,785 --> 00:59:03,455 - Little Man! Where is he? - He's sleeping. 632 00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:08,835 Julia! Go get Little Man! 633 00:59:10,171 --> 00:59:14,841 Alexander, don't you even understand? 634 00:59:22,016 --> 00:59:23,308 Julia! 635 00:59:26,062 --> 00:59:28,564 Fetch the black bag by the piano. 636 01:00:17,071 --> 01:00:19,573 Maybe later. 637 01:00:19,657 --> 01:00:21,325 Oh, God! 638 01:00:23,369 --> 01:00:25,412 Put it on the table! 639 01:00:31,669 --> 01:00:33,712 Alexander! 640 01:00:35,673 --> 01:00:39,343 I can't bear it anymore! 641 01:00:41,304 --> 01:00:43,138 Please, please! 642 01:02:18,151 --> 01:02:21,153 Julia, do you need one, too? 643 01:02:36,252 --> 01:02:38,754 No, I don't want it! It's not necessary. 644 01:02:40,465 --> 01:02:41,965 Yes, it is. 645 01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:46,470 It's absolutely necessary. 646 01:02:47,305 --> 01:02:50,098 And it's completely harmless. 647 01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:56,980 It will be easier for all of us if you take it. 648 01:02:59,192 --> 01:03:01,651 No! I don't want to! 649 01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:23,256 - And you, Alexander? - No, I'll have a drink instead. 650 01:03:25,134 --> 01:03:27,385 Just don't drink too much. 651 01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:29,221 It'll only make it worse. 652 01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:32,474 Otto? 653 01:03:32,558 --> 01:03:34,559 Oh no, don't worry. 654 01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:37,562 Thanks, but I don't need it. 655 01:03:38,231 --> 01:03:39,564 Julia? 656 01:03:41,609 --> 01:03:44,653 We must go up to the boy. He's not to wake up now! 657 01:03:44,737 --> 01:03:46,404 I'll go with you. 658 01:03:47,073 --> 01:03:49,241 Julia can stay with Mama. 659 01:03:49,742 --> 01:03:51,952 Sleep now, sleep. 660 01:03:52,036 --> 01:03:53,703 We'll be right back. 661 01:04:39,041 --> 01:04:40,709 It's dead. 662 01:04:41,586 --> 01:04:43,628 The telephone's dead. 663 01:04:45,131 --> 01:04:46,923 Oh, dear God... 664 01:04:48,259 --> 01:04:51,887 Why do we always do the opposite of what we want? 665 01:04:53,180 --> 01:04:54,681 Always! 666 01:04:57,768 --> 01:05:00,228 I have loved one man... 667 01:05:02,648 --> 01:05:04,691 and married another. 668 01:05:08,779 --> 01:05:10,113 Why? 669 01:05:10,197 --> 01:05:12,866 Would you like something to drink? 670 01:05:14,285 --> 01:05:16,328 No, no. 671 01:05:17,580 --> 01:05:20,123 Nothing. Thanks, Otto. 672 01:05:21,334 --> 01:05:22,792 No. 673 01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:26,922 I think I know, now. 674 01:05:29,842 --> 01:05:33,511 We simply don't want to depend on anyone. 675 01:05:36,557 --> 01:05:38,850 When two people love each other, 676 01:05:40,853 --> 01:05:43,188 they don't love in the same way. 677 01:05:45,274 --> 01:05:47,275 One of them is strong, 678 01:05:49,278 --> 01:05:51,571 the other, weaker. 679 01:05:53,991 --> 01:05:59,663 And the weaker is always the one who loves without reckoning... 680 01:06:01,999 --> 01:06:03,667 without reservation. 681 01:06:09,382 --> 01:06:11,883 It feels now as if I've awakened 682 01:06:13,886 --> 01:06:15,762 from some kind of dream... 683 01:06:18,474 --> 01:06:21,267 after some other kind of life. 684 01:06:24,021 --> 01:06:29,150 For some reason, I always offered resistance. 685 01:06:31,946 --> 01:06:34,531 I fought against something. 686 01:06:35,908 --> 01:06:38,076 I defended myself, 687 01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:41,079 just as though I'd had... 688 01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:46,918 someone else inside me, saying: 689 01:06:49,422 --> 01:06:51,756 Don't give in to anything... 690 01:06:55,177 --> 01:06:57,595 don't go along with... 691 01:06:58,431 --> 01:06:59,931 anything... 692 01:07:02,393 --> 01:07:04,310 ...or you’ll die! 693 01:07:08,065 --> 01:07:11,901 But God, how foolish we are anyway! 694 01:07:15,990 --> 01:07:17,824 That's good. 695 01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:23,121 It's good that you finally understood that. 696 01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:27,709 How do you feel? 697 01:07:28,878 --> 01:07:31,921 - Better now? - Yes. 698 01:07:32,006 --> 01:07:33,965 I've finally understood, 699 01:07:34,884 --> 01:07:36,801 even though it's a bit late. 700 01:07:39,138 --> 01:07:41,306 But what shall we do now? 701 01:07:42,892 --> 01:07:45,560 The telephone isn't working, of course. 702 01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:53,651 We could get into the car and drive north, 703 01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,279 where it's quieter... 704 01:07:57,239 --> 01:07:59,074 But it's no use. 705 01:07:59,658 --> 01:08:03,286 No. It's the same everywhere. 706 01:08:04,121 --> 01:08:06,331 And no one knows where it's worst. 707 01:08:07,083 --> 01:08:09,250 No, no! We'll stay here. 708 01:08:14,215 --> 01:08:16,257 There, there... 709 01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:19,094 Easy, easy... 710 01:08:21,305 --> 01:08:23,640 We won't go anywhere! 711 01:08:25,267 --> 01:08:27,352 We're staying here! 712 01:08:31,023 --> 01:08:32,732 Victor! 713 01:08:53,796 --> 01:08:55,463 And now... 714 01:08:56,549 --> 01:08:58,550 Now we shall eat dinner. 715 01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:02,554 Excuse me, but I must go now. 716 01:09:02,638 --> 01:09:05,890 I have a few things to put in order. 717 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:15,817 What will you do, Martha? 718 01:09:24,577 --> 01:09:25,910 Julia. 719 01:09:26,745 --> 01:09:28,663 Go wake Little Man! 720 01:09:29,415 --> 01:09:31,416 Today is a very special day. 721 01:09:32,459 --> 01:09:33,960 We must be together. 722 01:09:34,044 --> 01:09:35,503 Please stop it! 723 01:09:35,588 --> 01:09:39,924 Julia, did you hear me? 724 01:09:41,010 --> 01:09:43,928 - It's best not to wake him. -Julia! 725 01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,474 I'm not going to wake him. 726 01:09:50,394 --> 01:09:52,395 I have no intention of doing it. 727 01:09:53,063 --> 01:09:56,441 And I won't allow anyone else to, either. 728 01:09:58,152 --> 01:10:01,529 He's asleep now, and we mustn't wake him, 729 01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:04,073 or frighten him. 730 01:10:05,451 --> 01:10:08,286 A lot can happen while he's sleeping. 731 01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:12,665 If God wills it, he'll never know what's happened. 732 01:10:13,709 --> 01:10:15,710 Don't scare him! 733 01:10:15,794 --> 01:10:17,462 Please, I beg you! 734 01:10:18,255 --> 01:10:22,091 If you have to torture someone, let it be Mr. Alexander. 735 01:10:23,594 --> 01:10:26,763 Or me, for that matter. 736 01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:31,059 Choose whom you will, since you can't do otherwise. 737 01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:38,524 But I will not allow you to torture the boy. 738 01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:51,704 My dear girl... 739 01:10:51,789 --> 01:10:54,457 My poor, dear girl... 740 01:11:06,178 --> 01:11:07,887 Forgive me. 741 01:13:02,961 --> 01:13:04,629 Our Father, Who... 742 01:13:05,297 --> 01:13:07,548 Our Father, Who art in Heaven... 743 01:13:10,302 --> 01:13:12,303 hallowed be Thy Name. 744 01:13:13,555 --> 01:13:16,224 Thy Kingdom come... 745 01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:18,393 Thy will be done... 746 01:13:20,896 --> 01:13:23,564 Give us this day our daily bread... 747 01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:26,651 And deliver us from evil. 748 01:13:27,152 --> 01:13:29,487 For Thine is the Kingdom... 749 01:13:30,823 --> 01:13:32,532 and the Power... 750 01:13:32,616 --> 01:13:34,617 and the Glory. 751 01:13:36,078 --> 01:13:37,578 Amen. 752 01:13:40,582 --> 01:13:42,250 Lord! 753 01:13:44,169 --> 01:13:47,547 Deliver us in this terrible time. 754 01:13:49,049 --> 01:13:51,175 Don't let my children die, 755 01:13:52,344 --> 01:13:54,137 nor my friends... 756 01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:56,931 my wife... 757 01:13:57,015 --> 01:13:58,516 Victor... 758 01:13:59,935 --> 01:14:02,937 all those who love Thee and believe in Thee... 759 01:14:04,189 --> 01:14:08,526 All those who do not believe in Thee, because they are blind... 760 01:14:09,695 --> 01:14:12,488 those who haven't given Thee a thought... 761 01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:21,497 simply because they haven't yet been truly miserable. 762 01:14:23,792 --> 01:14:29,380 All those who in this hour have lost their hope, their future... 763 01:14:29,465 --> 01:14:31,132 their lives... 764 01:14:31,967 --> 01:14:35,803 and the opportunity to surrender to Thy will. 765 01:14:37,973 --> 01:14:40,892 All those who are filled with dread 766 01:14:42,436 --> 01:14:45,104 who feel the end coming closer... 767 01:14:46,773 --> 01:14:50,610 who fear, not for themselves, but for their loved ones. 768 01:14:53,197 --> 01:14:56,866 All those whom no one, 769 01:14:58,202 --> 01:15:02,705 except Thou, can offer protection. 770 01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:07,710 Because this war is the ultimate war 771 01:15:07,794 --> 01:15:10,630 a horrible thing. 772 01:15:11,298 --> 01:15:16,385 And after it, there will be no victors and no vanquished... 773 01:15:16,887 --> 01:15:19,722 no cities or towns, grass or trees, 774 01:15:21,183 --> 01:15:23,184 water in the wells, 775 01:15:24,478 --> 01:15:26,979 or birds in the sky. 776 01:15:32,152 --> 01:15:35,821 I will give Thee all I have. 777 01:15:36,657 --> 01:15:39,617 I'll give up my family, whom I love. 778 01:15:41,119 --> 01:15:42,954 I'll destroy my home, 779 01:15:43,956 --> 01:15:46,624 and give up Little Man. 780 01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:53,005 I'll be mute, and never speak another word to anyone. 781 01:15:53,674 --> 01:15:57,677 I will relinquish everything that binds me to life... 782 01:15:59,888 --> 01:16:04,183 if only Thou dost restore everything as it was before... 783 01:16:04,268 --> 01:16:07,270 as it was this morning and yesterday 784 01:16:09,273 --> 01:16:11,357 Just let me be rid of... 785 01:16:12,276 --> 01:16:14,110 this deadly... 786 01:16:14,778 --> 01:16:18,030 sickening, animal fear! 787 01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:19,991 Yes, everything! 788 01:16:23,036 --> 01:16:24,036 Lord! 789 01:16:25,497 --> 01:16:27,331 Help me... 790 01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:37,258 I will do everything I have promised Thee. 791 01:17:21,345 --> 01:17:23,012 Come here, Victor. 792 01:17:23,847 --> 01:17:25,514 Help me! 793 01:21:22,252 --> 01:21:23,752 My boy! 794 01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:44,541 - What is it? - Sorry to get you up. 795 01:22:44,626 --> 01:22:48,963 - Were you asleep? - What is it? What's happened? 796 01:22:49,047 --> 01:22:53,425 There's still one last chance! 797 01:22:54,177 --> 01:22:57,137 A chance? What kind of chance? 798 01:22:59,057 --> 01:23:01,725 A chance. One last hope. 799 01:23:02,394 --> 01:23:05,437 What kind of hope? What's the matter with you? 800 01:23:05,522 --> 01:23:09,858 Nothing's the matter with me. But Maria can do it. Maria! 801 01:23:10,735 --> 01:23:12,236 Maria? 802 01:23:12,737 --> 01:23:14,655 Which Maria? Do what? 803 01:23:14,739 --> 01:23:18,534 You must go to her and convince her. 804 01:23:18,618 --> 01:23:20,119 Do you understand? 805 01:23:20,203 --> 01:23:22,329 Where must I go? 806 01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:24,081 Whom must I convince? 807 01:23:24,749 --> 01:23:28,252 Come in, have a drink. I had one and I feel better. 808 01:23:47,063 --> 01:23:48,981 There's no light anymore. 809 01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:52,735 How long have I slept? 810 01:24:06,791 --> 01:24:10,502 You shouldn't drink that by the glassful. 811 01:24:10,587 --> 01:24:13,338 It's very good cognac, that. 812 01:24:14,299 --> 01:24:16,216 Where is everybody? 813 01:24:16,301 --> 01:24:17,801 Are they sleeping? 814 01:24:18,303 --> 01:24:22,139 They're downstairs, sitting 'round the table. 815 01:24:22,724 --> 01:24:26,226 - They're very fond of you. - Sitting 'round what table? 816 01:25:08,770 --> 01:25:12,564 You must go to Maria at once! 817 01:25:13,066 --> 01:25:15,234 Which Maria? 818 01:25:16,236 --> 01:25:19,071 Can't you express yourself more clearly? 819 01:25:20,907 --> 01:25:24,576 Maria, you know her! One of your servant girls. 820 01:25:26,329 --> 01:25:28,080 Yes, yes, yes! 821 01:25:28,164 --> 01:25:32,292 I'll explain later. Don't rush me! 822 01:25:32,377 --> 01:25:35,712 Who's rushing you, for God's sake! 823 01:25:37,048 --> 01:25:40,217 Why do you always have to beat around the bush? 824 01:25:44,055 --> 01:25:45,806 She lives... 825 01:25:45,890 --> 01:25:50,310 on a farm on the other side of the bay. 826 01:25:51,813 --> 01:25:53,814 Behind the church. 827 01:25:53,898 --> 01:25:55,983 It's closed now. 828 01:25:56,067 --> 01:25:57,734 Who? 829 01:25:58,736 --> 01:25:59,736 "Who"? 830 01:26:00,321 --> 01:26:03,782 I'm not talking about "who." I mean the church. 831 01:26:03,867 --> 01:26:06,869 But I asked who lives there. 832 01:26:06,953 --> 01:26:10,289 What's the church got to do with it? 833 01:26:10,790 --> 01:26:14,251 Who lives there? Why, Maria, of course. 834 01:26:14,335 --> 01:26:19,339 Your servant. I've been trying to tell you that for half an hour! 835 01:26:21,509 --> 01:26:25,012 Can't you pay more attention! 836 01:26:29,392 --> 01:26:30,851 This is very important. 837 01:26:30,935 --> 01:26:33,270 Pay attention? I... 838 01:26:33,354 --> 01:26:36,190 I know where she lives. My wife showed me. 839 01:26:51,831 --> 01:26:54,166 Oh, I think that... I... 840 01:26:55,376 --> 01:26:57,878 Yes, it's quite all right. 841 01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,131 It's all right, believe me. 842 01:27:01,633 --> 01:27:04,301 I'll sit here by you. 843 01:27:04,385 --> 01:27:07,054 What was it you said about the servant? 844 01:27:10,183 --> 01:27:12,851 Oh, yes, your servant girl... 845 01:27:18,358 --> 01:27:21,318 - Did you hear? - Hear what? 846 01:27:22,820 --> 01:27:24,655 What was that? 847 01:27:25,990 --> 01:27:28,992 I don't know... I don't know. 848 01:27:33,289 --> 01:27:35,624 I thought it sounded like music. 849 01:27:37,627 --> 01:27:40,796 In any case, you must go to Maria! 850 01:27:42,006 --> 01:27:44,007 But why? 851 01:27:46,344 --> 01:27:50,514 Don't you want all of this to be over and done with? 852 01:27:52,183 --> 01:27:54,685 For what to be done with? 853 01:27:55,353 --> 01:27:56,853 Everything! 854 01:27:57,939 --> 01:28:00,148 The whole lot! 855 01:28:00,233 --> 01:28:02,192 God, Otto! 856 01:28:03,152 --> 01:28:04,945 There is an end to this. 857 01:28:05,029 --> 01:28:06,780 Otto! 858 01:28:06,864 --> 01:28:07,864 Yes. 859 01:28:08,366 --> 01:28:12,869 You must go to Maria and lie with her. 860 01:28:14,706 --> 01:28:16,206 What? 861 01:28:16,291 --> 01:28:20,294 I say, you must go and lie with Maria! 862 01:28:20,378 --> 01:28:22,713 Lie with Maria? 863 01:28:24,048 --> 01:28:27,009 It's very simple. She lives alone. 864 01:28:27,093 --> 01:28:31,179 And if you only wish for one thing at that moment: 865 01:28:31,264 --> 01:28:34,891 That all this will be over, then it will be! 866 01:28:34,976 --> 01:28:37,227 There'll be no more of it! 867 01:28:38,062 --> 01:28:40,731 But that's madness, Otto! 868 01:28:48,156 --> 01:28:50,073 Good God, Otto. 869 01:28:52,285 --> 01:28:54,286 You don't understand a thing. 870 01:28:55,913 --> 01:28:57,873 It's true! 871 01:28:59,417 --> 01:29:01,585 It's a holy truth. 872 01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,923 She has very special qualities, you know. 873 01:29:07,008 --> 01:29:09,843 I've gathered evidence. She is a witch! 874 01:29:11,054 --> 01:29:13,221 In what sense? 875 01:29:14,474 --> 01:29:17,309 In the best sense. 876 01:29:17,977 --> 01:29:20,145 Are you joking again? 877 01:29:20,813 --> 01:29:25,108 Still having me on with your Nietzschean pranks? 878 01:29:27,987 --> 01:29:30,655 Is there any other way out? 879 01:29:31,991 --> 01:29:34,659 There is no other alternative. 880 01:29:35,286 --> 01:29:37,287 None, whatsoever. 881 01:29:37,372 --> 01:29:40,707 What alternative, Otto? What alternative? 882 01:29:40,792 --> 01:29:42,709 What are you talking about? 883 01:29:42,794 --> 01:29:44,878 It's best if I go now. 884 01:29:53,805 --> 01:29:56,473 I've left the bike for you... 885 01:29:57,141 --> 01:30:00,268 down there by the shed. 886 01:30:03,147 --> 01:30:06,483 Don't take the car, they'll hear you. 887 01:30:10,154 --> 01:30:13,448 I've put a ladder against the balcony. 888 01:30:15,410 --> 01:30:17,411 Go to Maria... 889 01:30:18,162 --> 01:30:20,580 but be careful! 890 01:30:21,374 --> 01:30:26,294 There are a couple of broken spokes in the front wheel. 891 01:30:27,130 --> 01:30:30,298 I once caught my pants-leg in them. 892 01:30:33,594 --> 01:30:35,929 I almost fell in the water. 893 01:30:36,013 --> 01:30:38,849 - What pants-leg? - The right one. 894 01:30:40,017 --> 01:30:41,935 Be careful! 895 01:30:46,441 --> 01:30:50,277 Have you finally understood what I told you? 896 01:30:51,779 --> 01:30:54,322 Do you hear what I'm saying? 897 01:30:57,785 --> 01:30:59,661 Yes, what about it? 898 01:30:59,745 --> 01:31:03,081 No... never! 899 01:31:04,167 --> 01:31:07,169 Anyway, I prefer Piero della Francesca! 900 01:32:10,858 --> 01:32:13,777 As I understood Alexander's words, he meant 901 01:32:14,946 --> 01:32:17,906 that it is peculiar for a man 902 01:32:17,990 --> 01:32:22,494 to change, of his own free will, into a work of art. 903 01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:30,877 Generally, the result of all poetic striving 904 01:32:30,962 --> 01:32:34,673 lies so far from its author that one can hardly believe 905 01:32:35,341 --> 01:32:38,343 that it is a man-made creation. 906 01:32:41,013 --> 01:32:44,015 In the case of the actor, though, the reverse is true. 907 01:32:49,230 --> 01:32:54,818 The actor is, himself, his own creation, his own work of art. 908 01:33:09,292 --> 01:33:11,126 Excuse me. 909 01:33:11,794 --> 01:33:15,046 - I'll be right back. - Don't stay long. 910 01:33:41,324 --> 01:33:43,158 How much gas do we have left? 911 01:33:43,659 --> 01:33:44,618 Will it last? 912 01:33:44,702 --> 01:33:46,870 I don't know. I'll see. 913 01:33:47,538 --> 01:33:52,208 They brought new tanks last week. Don't you remember? 914 01:36:00,921 --> 01:36:03,923 Julia! Come here to us. 915 01:40:08,752 --> 01:40:11,254 - Who is it? - It's me. 916 01:40:14,341 --> 01:40:15,925 Mr. Alexander? 917 01:40:17,594 --> 01:40:19,262 Has something happened? 918 01:40:21,098 --> 01:40:23,766 But why stand there? Come in. 919 01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:52,795 It was only by chance that I heard you knock. 920 01:40:54,715 --> 01:40:59,218 The kerosene gave out, so I got up to fill the lamp. 921 01:41:08,812 --> 01:41:10,772 Has something happened? 922 01:41:34,171 --> 01:41:36,005 Why don't you say anything? 923 01:41:37,633 --> 01:41:41,302 What is it? Is it something at home? 924 01:42:09,081 --> 01:42:12,750 Something's happened at your house again. 925 01:42:13,460 --> 01:42:15,128 Is that it? 926 01:42:15,212 --> 01:42:17,130 But don't you... 927 01:42:17,214 --> 01:42:18,881 don't you have a TV? 928 01:42:18,966 --> 01:42:21,300 Yes, a small one. But... 929 01:42:21,385 --> 01:42:25,054 it went dead about 11:00, and didn't come on again. 930 01:42:27,015 --> 01:42:28,182 What... 931 01:42:28,976 --> 01:42:30,977 What's happened to your hands? 932 01:42:38,402 --> 01:42:40,653 I fell off the bike. 933 01:42:41,989 --> 01:42:44,490 Did you come on a bike? 934 01:42:45,242 --> 01:42:47,326 Yes, I did. I fell. 935 01:42:56,420 --> 01:42:57,920 Come! 936 01:42:58,964 --> 01:43:02,300 You mustn't go about with dirty hands. 937 01:43:45,594 --> 01:43:46,928 Thank you. 938 01:43:47,429 --> 01:43:48,930 You're welcome. 939 01:44:40,857 --> 01:44:43,359 As a child, I played this prelude. 940 01:44:45,112 --> 01:44:46,779 My mother loved it. 941 01:44:52,911 --> 01:44:55,204 Years ago, 942 01:44:55,872 --> 01:44:57,707 before I was married, 943 01:44:57,791 --> 01:45:01,961 I often went to visit my mother... in the country. 944 01:45:08,218 --> 01:45:10,886 She was still alive in those days. 945 01:45:25,694 --> 01:45:30,197 Her house, a little cottage, 946 01:45:31,533 --> 01:45:33,576 was surrounded by a garden... 947 01:45:34,661 --> 01:45:36,329 a little garden, 948 01:45:39,458 --> 01:45:42,960 dreadfully neglected and overgrown. 949 01:45:45,297 --> 01:45:50,426 No one had tended it for many years 950 01:45:51,553 --> 01:45:53,220 and I don't think... 951 01:45:54,890 --> 01:45:58,059 anyone had ever been in it. 952 01:45:59,895 --> 01:46:02,730 Even then, my mother was very ill. 953 01:46:04,024 --> 01:46:07,026 She almost never left the house. 954 01:46:12,115 --> 01:46:13,783 Still, 955 01:46:14,868 --> 01:46:17,536 amidst the ruin of the garden 956 01:46:20,624 --> 01:46:24,627 there was something that was, in its way, beautiful. 957 01:46:27,881 --> 01:46:30,549 Yes, now I know what it was. 958 01:46:35,305 --> 01:46:38,474 When the weather was fine... 959 01:46:39,059 --> 01:46:42,186 she often sat at the window... 960 01:46:43,522 --> 01:46:45,189 looking out at the garden. 961 01:46:45,273 --> 01:46:48,275 She even had a special chair by the window. 962 01:46:52,239 --> 01:46:58,411 Once, though, I decided that I would tidy things up... 963 01:47:00,664 --> 01:47:03,082 in the garden, that is. 964 01:47:04,418 --> 01:47:09,422 I wanted to mow the grass, burn the weeds, prune the trees. 965 01:47:12,551 --> 01:47:14,718 On the whole, 966 01:47:16,430 --> 01:47:20,099 I wanted to redo the garden in my own taste... 967 01:47:21,435 --> 01:47:23,894 with my own hands. 968 01:47:27,566 --> 01:47:30,568 Yes, simply to please my mother. 969 01:47:33,864 --> 01:47:37,700 And for two solid weeks... 970 01:47:40,829 --> 01:47:44,623 I went at it with shears and a scythe. 971 01:47:46,126 --> 01:47:47,626 I dug... 972 01:47:48,712 --> 01:47:50,921 and cut... 973 01:47:51,006 --> 01:47:53,215 and sawed... 974 01:47:53,884 --> 01:47:55,676 and weeded... 975 01:47:57,846 --> 01:48:01,682 I kept my nose to the ground, literally. 976 01:48:05,812 --> 01:48:10,399 And I took great pains to get it ready as soon as possible. 977 01:48:11,735 --> 01:48:14,236 My mother's condition grew worse, 978 01:48:16,948 --> 01:48:19,408 and she kept to her bed. 979 01:48:22,913 --> 01:48:25,581 But I wanted her to be able... 980 01:48:27,250 --> 01:48:30,085 to sit by the window 981 01:48:32,464 --> 01:48:34,215 and see... 982 01:48:36,259 --> 01:48:39,428 her new garden. 983 01:48:43,683 --> 01:48:45,351 In short, 984 01:48:47,020 --> 01:48:50,523 when I was finished and everything was ready... 985 01:48:51,483 --> 01:48:53,651 I took a bath... 986 01:48:55,612 --> 01:49:00,449 put on fresh underwear, a new jacket, even a tie. 987 01:49:02,619 --> 01:49:06,580 Then I sat down in the chair to see what I'd made, 988 01:49:07,582 --> 01:49:10,292 through her eyes, as it were. 989 01:49:17,467 --> 01:49:18,592 I... 990 01:49:19,678 --> 01:49:22,304 I sat there... 991 01:49:22,389 --> 01:49:25,724 and looked out through the window. 992 01:49:35,235 --> 01:49:39,071 I had prepared myself to enjoy the sight. 993 01:49:39,155 --> 01:49:43,909 Anyway, I looked out the window and saw... 994 01:49:44,995 --> 01:49:46,662 What did I see? 995 01:49:48,498 --> 01:49:51,166 Where had all the beauty gone? 996 01:49:53,211 --> 01:49:55,546 The naturalness of it? 997 01:49:58,425 --> 01:50:01,760 It was so disgusting. 998 01:50:04,806 --> 01:50:07,600 All that evidence of violence! 999 01:50:10,895 --> 01:50:13,981 I remember once when my sister was young. 1000 01:50:17,027 --> 01:50:22,364 She went to a barber and had her hair cut. It was the fashion then. 1001 01:50:24,200 --> 01:50:27,036 Her hair was unbelievably lovely. 1002 01:50:27,704 --> 01:50:30,789 Golden yellow, like Lady Godiva's. 1003 01:50:31,458 --> 01:50:33,459 She came home pleased as punch. 1004 01:50:34,628 --> 01:50:36,962 Then my father saw her. 1005 01:50:37,631 --> 01:50:40,132 He began to cry. 1006 01:50:42,469 --> 01:50:45,638 I think it was the same with the garden. 1007 01:50:46,514 --> 01:50:47,890 And your mother? 1008 01:51:00,362 --> 01:51:02,863 It's three o'clock! 1009 01:51:04,115 --> 01:51:05,616 We won't have time... 1010 01:51:15,543 --> 01:51:18,879 But your mother... did she see it? 1011 01:51:38,608 --> 01:51:40,442 Maria... 1012 01:51:45,532 --> 01:51:49,660 My being here must be an imposition on you. 1013 01:51:49,744 --> 01:51:51,912 You can't sleep. 1014 01:51:52,455 --> 01:51:54,123 What do you mean? 1015 01:51:54,958 --> 01:51:56,792 What do you mean? 1016 01:51:57,460 --> 01:51:59,294 Could you... 1017 01:52:01,005 --> 01:52:03,966 Could you love me, Maria? 1018 01:52:05,593 --> 01:52:07,594 What are you saying? 1019 01:52:13,268 --> 01:52:15,602 Love me, I beg you! 1020 01:52:16,312 --> 01:52:18,188 Save me. 1021 01:52:19,858 --> 01:52:22,192 Save us all! 1022 01:52:23,361 --> 01:52:26,530 I know who you are. He... He told me! 1023 01:52:27,365 --> 01:52:30,534 Please, please. 1024 01:52:32,287 --> 01:52:34,621 Save us, I beg you! 1025 01:52:35,665 --> 01:52:38,167 What are you talking about? 1026 01:52:39,335 --> 01:52:43,297 Go home now. 1027 01:52:44,466 --> 01:52:46,800 Do you want me to go with you? 1028 01:52:47,302 --> 01:52:50,304 I... I have a bicycle, too. 1029 01:53:15,288 --> 01:53:17,372 Don't kill us. 1030 01:53:18,458 --> 01:53:20,793 Save us, Maria. 1031 01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:26,882 But why? 1032 01:53:28,218 --> 01:53:31,553 You poor, poor man. 1033 01:53:32,180 --> 01:53:34,014 Why? No, not that way! 1034 01:53:34,641 --> 01:53:36,642 You poor man. 1035 01:53:40,480 --> 01:53:42,773 Don't be afraid. What's wrong? 1036 01:53:42,857 --> 01:53:45,359 Who has frightened you so? Calm down, calm down. 1037 01:53:45,443 --> 01:53:47,653 I understand, I know... 1038 01:53:47,737 --> 01:53:49,488 that it concerns your home. 1039 01:53:49,572 --> 01:53:52,783 I know her, she is wicked. 1040 01:53:52,867 --> 01:53:55,869 I know her. They've hurt you... 1041 01:53:55,954 --> 01:53:57,621 frightened you. 1042 01:53:58,456 --> 01:54:01,708 Don't be afraid of anything. 1043 01:54:01,793 --> 01:54:05,295 Everything's going to be all right. 1044 01:54:05,380 --> 01:54:06,839 Be calm. 1045 01:54:06,923 --> 01:54:10,133 Don't be afraid, not of anything. 1046 01:54:10,218 --> 01:54:13,387 It's all right now, all right. 1047 01:54:18,226 --> 01:54:21,436 You poor, poor man. 1048 01:54:21,521 --> 01:54:23,814 There, there. 1049 01:54:23,898 --> 01:54:26,233 There's nothing to fear. 1050 01:54:27,235 --> 01:54:30,737 Don't be afraid. 1051 01:54:34,242 --> 01:54:37,077 Nothing will happen to you here. 1052 01:54:42,208 --> 01:54:44,960 Don't cry, don't cry. 1053 01:54:45,044 --> 01:54:46,879 Everything will be fine. 1054 01:54:48,131 --> 01:54:50,632 -Just love me. - Yes. 1055 01:54:59,142 --> 01:55:00,601 My poor dear. 1056 01:55:00,685 --> 01:55:02,352 What have they done to you? 1057 01:55:42,268 --> 01:55:44,478 There, there... 1058 01:55:46,272 --> 01:55:48,023 No... no. 1059 01:55:48,524 --> 01:55:50,192 What is it? 1060 01:55:52,820 --> 01:55:55,739 - Calm down! - No, no! 1061 01:55:57,575 --> 01:56:03,580 I c-c-can't! 1062 01:56:05,583 --> 01:56:06,667 I can't! 1063 01:56:07,210 --> 01:56:08,710 Drink this. 1064 01:56:09,379 --> 01:56:11,046 No. 1065 01:56:11,130 --> 01:56:13,173 There... 1066 01:56:16,344 --> 01:56:18,679 It'll soon be over. 1067 01:56:27,689 --> 01:56:32,192 What's frightened you so, Alexander? 1068 01:57:23,661 --> 01:57:25,162 Mama! 1069 01:59:37,003 --> 01:59:38,044 Hello! 1070 01:59:38,129 --> 01:59:40,213 Hello, is it Martin? 1071 01:59:40,298 --> 01:59:42,382 Yes. Alexander? 1072 01:59:42,466 --> 01:59:43,758 Yes, it's me. 1073 01:59:43,843 --> 01:59:45,927 Your voice is so weak. 1074 01:59:46,012 --> 01:59:47,679 Oh. Better now? 1075 01:59:47,763 --> 01:59:51,558 - Yes, it's better. - I wonder, is the editor in? 1076 01:59:51,642 --> 01:59:54,603 Yes, but I don't think he's free. 1077 01:59:54,687 --> 01:59:57,772 You can't imagine what things are like here today. 1078 01:59:57,857 --> 02:00:01,318 You were to see him next week. 1079 02:00:01,402 --> 02:00:05,447 Yes, but it wasn't important. A trifle... it doesn't matter. 1080 02:00:05,531 --> 02:00:06,531 I'll call back. 1081 02:00:06,616 --> 02:00:10,535 All right, until then. By the way, congratulations! 1082 02:00:10,620 --> 02:00:13,496 On what? Oh, of course! 1083 02:01:53,889 --> 02:01:58,643 Mama, did you know that our Victor is leaving for Australia? 1084 02:01:58,728 --> 02:02:01,021 What'd you say? To Australia? 1085 02:02:01,105 --> 02:02:06,609 Yes, and he's not coming back. He's been offered his own clinic. 1086 02:02:06,694 --> 02:02:08,570 I heard it last night. 1087 02:02:09,071 --> 02:02:11,031 Right, Victor? 1088 02:02:12,408 --> 02:02:15,076 - Why are you laughing? - I'm not laughing! 1089 02:02:34,430 --> 02:02:36,264 When did you decide that? 1090 02:02:45,524 --> 02:02:47,192 Australia! 1091 02:02:48,986 --> 02:02:50,945 You must be mad! 1092 02:02:54,450 --> 02:02:57,452 I don't know why I chose Australia. 1093 02:03:08,631 --> 02:03:10,465 I don't know. 1094 02:03:14,136 --> 02:03:16,137 It doesn't matter. 1095 02:03:20,518 --> 02:03:22,477 I'm tired, that's all. 1096 02:03:23,354 --> 02:03:25,480 All right! But what's to become of us? 1097 02:03:27,483 --> 02:03:29,317 Of Alexander? 1098 02:03:32,321 --> 02:03:36,991 The fact is, what I'm most tired of is the lot of you. 1099 02:03:40,496 --> 02:03:42,956 Tired of being your nursemaid. 1100 02:03:47,586 --> 02:03:50,213 Your nursemaid and your warden. 1101 02:03:54,176 --> 02:03:56,261 Tired of wiping your noses. 1102 02:03:56,345 --> 02:03:58,179 Victor, are you mad? 1103 02:03:59,014 --> 02:03:59,764 Pardon. 1104 02:03:59,849 --> 02:04:01,599 What are you saying? 1105 02:04:01,684 --> 02:04:03,685 May I smoke? 1106 02:04:14,947 --> 02:04:17,615 Martha, go away! Go, go, go! 1107 02:04:22,997 --> 02:04:24,956 Go, go, go! 1108 02:04:25,040 --> 02:04:27,375 God, Mama, I'm not a child! 1109 02:04:28,043 --> 02:04:30,628 Call your father to breakfast! 1110 02:04:30,713 --> 02:04:33,089 - But... - Is it too much to ask? 1111 02:04:33,174 --> 02:04:35,383 All right, I'll go. 1112 02:04:37,428 --> 02:04:39,095 Oh, her ways! 1113 02:04:39,805 --> 02:04:41,639 So calculating. 1114 02:04:42,725 --> 02:04:44,976 I won't let you go, Victor! 1115 02:04:45,060 --> 02:04:48,897 I don't know about Mama, but I won't let you go! 1116 02:04:54,111 --> 02:04:57,071 Something's wrong here and I'm fed up with it. 1117 02:05:01,202 --> 02:05:07,040 Yes. You can forget about me, and Martha, and the boy... 1118 02:05:08,459 --> 02:05:12,253 But Alexander is your friend! 1119 02:05:14,256 --> 02:05:16,424 He'll always be. 1120 02:05:18,135 --> 02:05:20,261 But he needs you! 1121 02:05:20,930 --> 02:05:24,432 He has a wife to take care of him. 1122 02:05:25,100 --> 02:05:27,560 She ought to, anyway. 1123 02:05:27,645 --> 02:05:31,147 He has a family, a splendid house... 1124 02:05:31,232 --> 02:05:34,234 - and a son he adores. - Fine and dandy! 1125 02:05:38,030 --> 02:05:39,030 Julia! 1126 02:05:41,784 --> 02:05:44,702 Fetch your mistress' jacket! She's cold! 1127 02:05:44,787 --> 02:05:46,120 So thoughtful! 1128 02:05:46,205 --> 02:05:49,457 Little Man. Where is he? 1129 02:05:49,959 --> 02:05:53,044 Look, he's left this note! 1130 02:05:53,128 --> 02:05:54,629 What's it say? 1131 02:05:55,130 --> 02:05:59,467 "My dears: I've slept badly this night. Please don't wake me. 1132 02:05:59,552 --> 02:06:01,719 Go and take a little walk. 1133 02:06:01,804 --> 02:06:06,558 The boy will show you his Japanese tree that we planted yesterday. 1134 02:06:06,642 --> 02:06:10,979 Or was it today? I don't remember, it matters not. 1135 02:06:11,063 --> 02:06:13,398 I kiss you all. 1136 02:06:13,482 --> 02:06:14,941 I've taken my pills. 1137 02:06:15,025 --> 02:06:17,151 Forgive me, even now. 1138 02:06:17,653 --> 02:06:20,154 June 19, 1985. 1139 02:06:20,239 --> 02:06:23,575 10:07 a.m. Papa A." 1140 02:06:27,496 --> 02:06:31,416 Shall we take a walk, before the weather changes? 1141 02:06:31,500 --> 02:06:35,503 "Forgive me, even now"... What did he mean by that? 1142 02:06:36,880 --> 02:06:38,715 And why the exact time? 1143 02:06:38,799 --> 02:06:41,467 Mama, you know how he is. 1144 02:06:42,136 --> 02:06:44,470 "How he is..." 1145 02:06:46,974 --> 02:06:51,394 I think that "his" kindness 1146 02:06:51,478 --> 02:06:53,605 would be enough to see us all through. 1147 02:06:53,689 --> 02:06:55,523 But he'll be around longer than that. 1148 02:06:56,358 --> 02:06:57,817 "How he is!" 1149 02:06:57,901 --> 02:07:00,069 What'd I say wrong? 1150 02:07:00,738 --> 02:07:04,616 Have you enough kindness left for "him"? 1151 02:07:04,700 --> 02:07:08,703 All right, Victor. But why must he be such a child? 1152 02:07:09,788 --> 02:07:11,956 Maybe I want to be a child as well! 1153 02:07:13,292 --> 02:07:16,794 We all want something. I, for one, want to go to Australia. 1154 02:07:37,983 --> 02:07:40,526 Well, gather the ashes. 1155 02:07:41,403 --> 02:07:45,281 Put them in a glass, fill it with wine, and drink it. 1156 02:07:45,366 --> 02:07:47,408 - Why? - Don't ask me. 1157 02:07:48,494 --> 02:07:50,328 Someone said so. 1158 02:07:50,996 --> 02:07:54,791 If you do, you'll remember this the rest of your life. 1159 02:07:58,754 --> 02:08:00,421 Come, let's go. 1160 02:08:00,923 --> 02:08:03,591 Julia, come with us! 1161 02:08:03,676 --> 02:08:05,760 Fetch the boy and we'll go. 1162 02:08:13,894 --> 02:08:15,895 I had a dream recently. 1163 02:08:17,106 --> 02:08:19,607 I was walking the streets, begging. 1164 02:08:21,777 --> 02:08:25,697 When I woke, I cried and cried. 1165 02:08:26,281 --> 02:08:28,533 The boy's not there! 1166 02:08:28,617 --> 02:08:30,576 He's already gone out. 1167 02:08:30,661 --> 02:08:32,328 I think I know where. 1168 02:08:33,622 --> 02:08:35,456 To the Japanese tree? 1169 02:08:35,541 --> 02:08:38,543 He and the boy are just crazy about their Japan. 1170 02:08:39,336 --> 02:08:40,670 Why just Japan? 1171 02:08:40,754 --> 02:08:43,423 First it's Australia, then Japan. 1172 02:08:44,341 --> 02:08:46,843 God, I can't take much more of this! 1173 02:08:47,594 --> 02:08:52,098 What about this morning? I turned on his music... 1174 02:08:52,182 --> 02:08:55,518 But he didn't fancy his Japanese. He shut it off. 1175 02:08:56,687 --> 02:09:00,189 He says he and the boy were Japanese in an earlier life. 1176 02:09:00,858 --> 02:09:04,694 I wish someone would tell him what to make of this life. 1177 02:09:04,778 --> 02:09:07,697 Maybe that springs from a deep inner need. 1178 02:09:08,532 --> 02:09:10,742 Maybe it's easier for him so. 1179 02:09:11,410 --> 02:09:14,245 Why can't I find an easier way? 1180 02:09:14,329 --> 02:09:15,830 Can't you? 1181 02:09:16,415 --> 02:09:20,418 You seem to have all sorts of schemes to that end. 1182 02:09:20,961 --> 02:09:23,421 But nothing quite so far-fetched as Australia. 1183 02:09:23,505 --> 02:09:29,385 My God, what is all that nonsense about? 1184 02:09:30,220 --> 02:09:32,388 Australia! It's absurd! 1185 02:11:02,855 --> 02:11:04,522 Flowers! 1186 02:13:39,803 --> 02:13:41,804 I don't understand. 1187 02:13:53,025 --> 02:13:55,192 What've I done with them? Where are they? 1188 02:17:46,424 --> 02:17:48,092 Alexander! 1189 02:17:57,269 --> 02:17:58,936 What's happened? 1190 02:17:59,020 --> 02:18:02,815 I did it. Don't be upset! Listen to me, Victor. 1191 02:18:02,899 --> 02:18:05,234 I've got something very impor- 1192 02:18:05,986 --> 02:18:08,362 No! Silence! 1193 02:18:14,869 --> 02:18:17,037 Say nothing! Ask nothing! 1194 02:19:01,249 --> 02:19:04,251 Come, Alexander! You can't stay here! 1195 02:19:14,387 --> 02:19:16,055 Come, now. 1196 02:19:23,938 --> 02:19:26,774 Let him be! What are you doing to him? 1197 02:19:27,859 --> 02:19:29,860 Don't touch him! 1198 02:21:09,544 --> 02:21:11,545 See you, Alexander! 1199 02:26:27,403 --> 02:26:30,572 In the beginning was the Word. 1200 02:26:33,034 --> 02:26:35,368 Why is that, Papa? 1201 02:28:21,601 --> 02:28:29,983 This film is dedicated to my son Andriosha 1202 02:28:30,067 --> 02:28:38,491 with hope and confidence Andrei Tarkovsky 1203 02:28:39,368 --> 02:28:42,370 English Translation by Susanne Heine 1203 02:28:43,305 --> 02:28:49,177 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/5cyms Help other users to choose the best subtitles