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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 AmericasCardroom.com brings poker back Million Dollar Sunday Tournament every Sunday 2 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:09,494 I'll give my heart just to one man 3 00:01:09,669 --> 00:01:13,469 The greatest love since time began 4 00:01:13,807 --> 00:01:17,470 He'll come my way and he'll be strong 5 00:01:17,877 --> 00:01:21,506 And he will sing me love's sweet song 6 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:23,620 - What happened Mr. H�fgen? - What do you want? 7 00:04:23,730 --> 00:04:26,130 I don't need you now! Go to hell! 8 00:04:42,715 --> 00:04:47,846 We're invited to a boring banquet. Sorry, but we have to leave now. 9 00:04:47,987 --> 00:04:50,683 Can't you sit with us, Dora? 10 00:04:50,823 --> 00:04:52,222 No, we're much too late. 11 00:04:52,358 --> 00:04:55,191 Sorry, good evening. 12 00:04:55,328 --> 00:04:58,092 I wanted to say you were marvelous tonight. 13 00:04:58,197 --> 00:05:01,360 It was fantastic. Thank God I saw it. 14 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:07,030 You fraud, you didn't see the show. Never mind, you're talented. 15 00:05:07,173 --> 00:05:09,573 Me? Talented? Say it louder. 16 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:13,977 Yes, you're very talented, Herr H�fgen. 17 00:05:14,414 --> 00:05:18,817 I'm sure you'll soon be able to show just how talented you are. 18 00:05:19,085 --> 00:05:21,315 I must be going, goodbye. 19 00:05:34,033 --> 00:05:36,524 - B�ck. Seven marks. - But Hendrik... 20 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:40,070 ... if you need money I can lend you fifty marks. 21 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:44,106 This is men's business. B�ck likes giving money. 22 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:49,239 Good evening, Miklas. Thank you. 23 00:05:49,649 --> 00:05:50,638 So... 24 00:05:54,287 --> 00:05:57,779 ... Doctor Kroge lets me starve. 25 00:05:57,957 --> 00:06:01,859 H�fgen, you old sinner! Take a seat. 26 00:06:01,961 --> 00:06:04,225 Well, Director, how'd you like the show? 27 00:06:08,334 --> 00:06:10,700 What's getting you down, Hendrik? 28 00:06:12,638 --> 00:06:15,334 That I'm a provincial actor. 29 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,869 Is that all? Nothing else? 30 00:06:45,438 --> 00:06:46,632 Hello. 31 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:51,068 You're late. 32 00:06:51,477 --> 00:06:56,278 One day, I'll come to fetch you. 33 00:06:56,682 --> 00:06:58,673 Don't you dread that, Heinz? 34 00:06:58,785 --> 00:07:02,482 - Please don't call me Heinz. - Why not? That's your name. 35 00:07:03,790 --> 00:07:05,417 I dislike it. Understand? 36 00:07:06,626 --> 00:07:08,958 Perfectly, Heinz. 37 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:13,998 You can't even drink a beer like a man who feels like drinking one. 38 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,089 Shall we start? 39 00:07:15,201 --> 00:07:17,362 What was that about beer? 40 00:07:19,305 --> 00:07:22,433 It's not your style, simply to call for a beer. 41 00:07:22,542 --> 00:07:26,876 "A beer, please" sounds phony when you say it. 42 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:29,045 I don't drink, Juliette. 43 00:07:29,248 --> 00:07:32,240 I know, Heinz. Take your shoes off. 44 00:07:50,503 --> 00:07:52,368 Come on... 45 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:57,935 One, two... 46 00:08:41,387 --> 00:08:42,979 One, two... 47 00:08:43,189 --> 00:08:44,713 ... one, two, three, four... 48 00:08:45,825 --> 00:08:47,019 On one... 49 00:09:23,829 --> 00:09:25,592 Don't fall down now. 50 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:34,131 Faster! 51 00:09:34,507 --> 00:09:38,500 Faster! Show me what you can do. 52 00:09:38,611 --> 00:09:42,103 You want to be an actor and show off for money, too? 53 00:09:45,384 --> 00:09:47,818 You comical picture of misery. 54 00:10:04,570 --> 00:10:07,664 If you liked this music, you wouldn't get tired. 55 00:10:07,773 --> 00:10:10,298 You always laugh at me, Juliette. 56 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:17,147 I can't cry. Would you love me if I could cry? 57 00:10:17,249 --> 00:10:20,082 I love you anyway. 58 00:10:20,186 --> 00:10:24,088 You only love yourself, Heinz, and even then not enough. 59 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:28,291 Keep talking. What you say is very nice. 60 00:10:28,894 --> 00:10:34,264 Your only concern is your face being devoid of human expression. 61 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:38,994 It's a mask, you hear? 62 00:10:39,105 --> 00:10:42,939 I, too, have skin and bones and body weight... 63 00:10:43,042 --> 00:10:46,375 ... and eyebrows and fingernails, just like you. 64 00:10:48,848 --> 00:10:54,150 I, too, feel the cold. I can be hungry and thirsty. 65 00:10:54,253 --> 00:10:56,016 I, too, think of my mother. 66 00:10:56,122 --> 00:10:59,785 And I know there are Philistines and Communists. 67 00:10:59,992 --> 00:11:04,190 But my eyes are not my eyes. 68 00:11:05,531 --> 00:11:11,128 My legs are not mine, my face is not mine. 69 00:11:11,303 --> 00:11:16,502 My name is not my name, beca use I am an actor! 70 00:11:17,943 --> 00:11:21,106 Do you know what it means to be an actor? 71 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:25,917 An actor is a mask... 72 00:11:28,254 --> 00:11:29,744 ... among human beings. 73 00:11:42,968 --> 00:11:45,163 Juliette... 74 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:48,670 Juliette... 75 00:12:41,494 --> 00:12:44,054 Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor... 76 00:12:44,163 --> 00:12:47,826 ... of welcoming you to the first reading of the play. 77 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:54,101 May I introduce our guest, Nicoletta von Niebuhr... 78 00:12:54,273 --> 00:12:58,232 ...who will play the female lead in this production. 79 00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:08,578 Do you mind if my friend watches the rehearsal? 80 00:13:08,954 --> 00:13:10,319 I have no objection. 81 00:13:12,925 --> 00:13:16,258 - Two cognacs, please. - Yes, director. 82 00:13:17,797 --> 00:13:19,731 Coming up right away. 83 00:13:19,932 --> 00:13:21,422 Three beers, please. 84 00:13:21,967 --> 00:13:23,958 There you go. 85 00:13:24,069 --> 00:13:26,731 Please ex cuse me. 86 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:30,668 Please ex cuse me. 87 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:36,578 Father Hansemann... 88 00:13:36,682 --> 00:13:39,207 Hendrik, will we look lovely in this play? 89 00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:40,410 We are lovely. 90 00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:44,080 May I introduce my best friend, Barbara Bruckner? 91 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:45,521 Nice to meet you. 92 00:13:45,958 --> 00:13:46,947 What? 93 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:49,721 There's a nice smell of lavender about you. 94 00:13:49,929 --> 00:13:52,420 Can you smell the lavender, too? 95 00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:57,329 How shocking, on a man. But I need it like my daily bread. 96 00:13:57,436 --> 00:14:00,701 A little on the temples is as good as a night's sleep. 97 00:14:00,806 --> 00:14:04,674 Sleep would be better, but there's no time. 98 00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:08,445 A beer and a mineral water. 99 00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:11,172 We'll hear what he has to say... 100 00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:15,219 ... use the good bits, then play it our way. 101 00:14:15,988 --> 00:14:18,218 He's good, but old-fashioned. 102 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:21,293 The future of Hamburg Art Theater is me. 103 00:14:21,927 --> 00:14:24,361 I mean the two of us. 104 00:14:27,199 --> 00:14:31,067 Most of the plays here are shallow bourgeois stuff. 105 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:35,371 But we visualize theater that will involve everyone... 106 00:14:35,474 --> 00:14:37,772 ...the workers, the dockers. 107 00:14:37,910 --> 00:14:40,435 Where will you perform this theater? 108 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:44,274 It doesn't matter. In the docks, factories, cellars. 109 00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:47,819 They asked me about the play. We promised it for last week. 110 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,855 Let's get this opening night over first. 111 00:14:51,223 --> 00:14:55,751 We must prove that theater has a political function. 112 00:14:55,895 --> 00:15:01,128 Before it can be political or re volutionary, it first has to be good. 113 00:15:01,233 --> 00:15:03,758 Which actors will be in this sort of theater? 114 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:07,066 All who think like us. Even workers. 115 00:15:07,172 --> 00:15:10,335 It's what we say, not how we say it. 116 00:15:10,442 --> 00:15:14,435 But I've no qualms if Hendrik stages our plays. 117 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:18,579 Go on. Why are you looking at me? 118 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:20,952 Am I not allowed to? 119 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,715 If it pleases you, go ahead. 120 00:16:23,916 --> 00:16:26,578 Without you, I'll be finished, Barbara. 121 00:16:27,419 --> 00:16:29,319 There's too much evil in me. 122 00:16:29,621 --> 00:16:34,183 Alone, I'm too weak to overcome it, but you could help me. 123 00:16:37,296 --> 00:16:42,461 I can't talk anymore. So many thoughts are just parts I've played. 124 00:16:48,874 --> 00:16:50,569 I love you, Barbara. 125 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:14,699 I'm in love. With a woman. 126 00:17:15,834 --> 00:17:19,736 Juliette, am I a good looking man? 127 00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:24,237 I've ne ver seen you on stage. Ma ybe you're handsome, but... 128 00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:28,574 ...frankly, I've ne ver found you good looking, but... 129 00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:34,015 ... sometimes your cold cheating eyes are those of a sad child. 130 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:35,950 You do it well. 131 00:17:38,357 --> 00:17:41,019 Who have you fallen for? 132 00:17:41,393 --> 00:17:43,918 - A girl. - Great. 133 00:17:44,630 --> 00:17:46,393 You falling in love... 134 00:17:46,498 --> 00:17:50,127 One day you may just learn how to walk, not just dance. 135 00:17:51,437 --> 00:17:55,771 Love the girl, Heinz, and don't tell me anything about her. 136 00:17:57,876 --> 00:18:01,505 - Do we keep in touch? - Yes. 137 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:05,645 You know what? I'm coming with you. 138 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:09,410 I have nothing to lose, Heinz. 139 00:18:24,503 --> 00:18:26,266 Are you crazy? 140 00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:40,647 See a psychiatrist. 141 00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:44,719 Though I'm sure you wouldn't dare talk about yourself. 142 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:50,224 Go, Heinz. We'll meet soon anyway... 143 00:18:50,829 --> 00:18:52,854 ... even if I don't want to. 144 00:18:53,732 --> 00:18:57,099 Grandmother, have you a moment? 145 00:19:00,739 --> 00:19:03,435 - I'd like to introduce... - Your fianc�. 146 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:06,943 I have to take a closer look at my new grandson. 147 00:19:12,184 --> 00:19:14,049 Not bad at all. 148 00:19:17,189 --> 00:19:21,250 Ex cuse my mother please, she will be here shortly. 149 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:24,788 I assume you know, my dear H�fgen... 150 00:19:25,097 --> 00:19:31,900 ...that lo ving mothers rarely want their only sons to leave the nest. 151 00:19:36,041 --> 00:19:37,906 Hello, Sebastian. 152 00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:39,704 That is Sebastian. 153 00:19:47,386 --> 00:19:48,546 Mom. 154 00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:58,321 I'm really pleased. 155 00:19:58,797 --> 00:20:00,492 Barbara, my dear child. 156 00:20:00,866 --> 00:20:03,391 And I'm Nicoletta von Niebuhr... 157 00:20:03,502 --> 00:20:07,029 ...the bride's best friend, almost her sister. 158 00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:14,170 Often, the bridegroom's mistress. Only onstage, of course. 159 00:20:14,279 --> 00:20:17,043 May I call you Aunt Bella? 160 00:20:17,149 --> 00:20:19,515 But of course, Nicoletta. 161 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:29,186 Let us leave the ladies to themselves. 162 00:20:30,195 --> 00:20:33,028 I'd like to show you my garden. 163 00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:36,100 I'd love to see it. 164 00:21:38,930 --> 00:21:42,161 Have you unsettling memories, too? 165 00:21:42,267 --> 00:21:48,399 You know, Barbara, memories that give you the creeps? 166 00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:56,041 When I was about twelve, I got into our school choir. 167 00:21:56,181 --> 00:22:02,518 I was overjo yed. I thought I could sing better than the other boys. 168 00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:06,917 We had to sing in church at some wedding. 169 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:15,591 I wanted to show off. I was so proud of my soprano voice. 170 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:19,932 I had a great idea. I sang one octave higher than the others. 171 00:22:20,138 --> 00:22:23,107 As I stood there, proudly singing... 172 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:29,170 ...the music teacher looked at me more in disgust than disappro val... 173 00:22:29,281 --> 00:22:32,216 ... and he said softly, "Just keep quiet". 174 00:22:33,518 --> 00:22:35,008 Do you understand? 175 00:22:35,587 --> 00:22:38,750 Softly and dryly he said, "Just keep quiet". 176 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:42,258 When I felt I was singing like an angel. 177 00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:45,029 Do you have such memories? 178 00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:48,188 No. 179 00:22:51,303 --> 00:22:54,033 You've ne ver felt ashamed in your life. 180 00:22:54,139 --> 00:22:57,302 I often have. That was the first time. 181 00:22:57,809 --> 00:23:02,405 I often have to feel awfully ashamed of myself. 182 00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:06,681 So ashamed, I could sink down into hell. 183 00:23:08,987 --> 00:23:10,648 Do you understand me? 184 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:16,291 This is the basement room. The window faces the street. 185 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:21,560 Here's a lamp post and here, too. Behind it the bakery... 186 00:23:21,666 --> 00:23:24,533 - ...with workers' wives lined up. - Stop! 187 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:27,497 Great. 188 00:23:28,206 --> 00:23:31,835 Ms. Schult, you come up past the window. 189 00:23:31,943 --> 00:23:35,242 Barbara, can you put a lamp post here... 190 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:39,077 ...with a light to dazzle the a udience? 191 00:23:39,217 --> 00:23:44,780 Then you come here. "I'm Widow Queck who hasn't paid the rent". 192 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:50,726 We could have se veral more lamp posts in the a uditorium... 193 00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:55,766 ... so people feel they're really in their filthy street. 194 00:23:55,867 --> 00:24:01,737 We'll have posters, recent political slogans, all jumbled up. 195 00:24:02,007 --> 00:24:07,843 At the back, a grocer's shop, with nothing to sell, of course. 196 00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:12,280 Everything in the hall must e xpress what we talk about. 197 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:17,752 Two policemen can patrol the rows and stare at the a udience. 198 00:24:17,856 --> 00:24:23,294 An end to passive watching, actors and public isolated from each other. 199 00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:29,391 The public must play an active part. The days of the peepshow are over. 200 00:24:29,501 --> 00:24:33,028 The actor is only one element of the performance... 201 00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:35,072 ... not it's focal point. 202 00:24:35,173 --> 00:24:41,339 The hall, lights, walls, mo vements, sounds, all must blend into a whole. 203 00:24:41,446 --> 00:24:47,078 Only then shall we have real theater. The workers need total theater. 204 00:24:47,185 --> 00:24:50,712 One that shocks and arouses. 205 00:24:50,922 --> 00:24:57,885 I am the widow Queck, who cannot pay the rent. I work for the baker. 206 00:24:58,029 --> 00:25:01,430 It's the only way I can feed my se ven hungry children. 207 00:25:01,533 --> 00:25:04,468 The half-hour has to be paid for. 208 00:25:04,569 --> 00:25:07,561 We've been waiting half an hour. 209 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,573 Here reigns logic and hunger. 210 00:25:11,142 --> 00:25:15,670 I already owe you 31 marks and 25 pfennigs. 211 00:25:15,847 --> 00:25:19,715 I've had nothing these past few days. 212 00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:22,777 Silly goose! 213 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:26,813 Sabotaging our work! Do you think I don't know why? 214 00:25:26,925 --> 00:25:32,090 Miklas or one of his damn party friends has put you up to it! 215 00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:35,826 - What do you want from me? - Why don't you prompt her?! 216 00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:42,864 Ne ver mind! Re volutionary Theatre can't be staged with provincial hams. 217 00:25:42,974 --> 00:25:46,603 With amateurs, you can't create any sort of theatre. 218 00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:50,147 Even re volutions need professionals! 219 00:25:53,318 --> 00:25:58,585 I'll buy you a drink to celebrate. Re volutionary Theater is a big flop. 220 00:25:58,690 --> 00:26:01,591 You're beside yourself with joy. 221 00:26:06,798 --> 00:26:07,822 Hello. 222 00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:10,133 Two stiff ones, Hansemann. 223 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:18,304 How about another rebellious evening? 224 00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:24,146 I'd like to invite you to dinner. 225 00:26:24,916 --> 00:26:26,042 What, me? 226 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,785 - Good morning. - Morning. 227 00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:33,685 You're still half asleep. 228 00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:35,588 I'm awake. 229 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:42,700 I've even phoned our grocer, he's a bit impatient over our large bill. 230 00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:48,338 I'm sorry. I don't present a picture of early morning freshness. 231 00:26:49,307 --> 00:26:55,337 If I, too, went riding every morning I'd probably look more attractive. 232 00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:59,814 But in our circles, such noble sport is not customary. 233 00:26:59,918 --> 00:27:03,376 The offended husband, as in Moli�re. 234 00:27:03,488 --> 00:27:05,251 Oh, be quiet. 235 00:27:06,157 --> 00:27:12,255 It's not customary to sit all night at a Nazi thug's table. 236 00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:16,423 - Miklas is not a thug. - All Nazis are thugs. 237 00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:22,572 You must a void their company. Their dirt rubs off on you. 238 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:29,409 But you can't understand. It's your family's well known liberalism. 239 00:27:29,514 --> 00:27:35,612 No political beliefs, just curiosity. Ideologies are psychological quirks. 240 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:39,984 I feel sorry for Miklas. He gets small parts and earns very little. 241 00:27:40,091 --> 00:27:45,757 You all treat him very badly. He's at a loss, that's why he's with them. 242 00:27:46,698 --> 00:27:49,895 So much understanding for that lousy brat. 243 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:53,459 How do you think they'd treat us if they came to power? 244 00:27:54,606 --> 00:27:55,732 God forbid. 245 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:01,574 And yet you sit and chat with him. It's you bourgeois tolerance. 246 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,274 This understanding of one's enemy. 247 00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:09,251 I'm sure you could even excuse Fascist terrorism. 248 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:13,484 Your liberalism might even get used to dictatorship. 249 00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:15,219 No, thank you. 250 00:28:15,627 --> 00:28:17,458 May I remark... 251 00:28:17,562 --> 00:28:22,022 ... it's common practice to eat an egg from its shell and with salt. 252 00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:26,263 I know, in the Bruckner household you eat it from a glass... 253 00:28:26,371 --> 00:28:29,363 ...with six spices, and that's very original... 254 00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:35,106 ... but no need to make fun of those unaccustomed to such originality. 255 00:28:49,627 --> 00:28:53,324 - Who's juvenile lead in Halberstadt? - Herbert Boltz. 256 00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:55,796 Where's Ms. T�rkheim-Gawernitz now? 257 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:57,094 In Heidelberg. 258 00:28:57,202 --> 00:28:59,670 - And Hannelore K�hn. - Mannheim. 259 00:28:59,838 --> 00:29:02,671 - And who's Othello there? - Max Kra use. 260 00:29:02,774 --> 00:29:04,969 - And lago? - Johannes Fiedler. 261 00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:07,942 - And Desdemona in Leipzig? - K�the M�ttel. 262 00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:09,775 Who's the ing�nue in Jena? 263 00:29:09,881 --> 00:29:12,645 A stupid cow called Lotte Lindenthal. 264 00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:17,044 Why is Lotte Lindenthal a stupid cow? 265 00:29:17,322 --> 00:29:19,256 I don't know, but she is. 266 00:29:19,357 --> 00:29:22,258 I know why you insult her. 267 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,921 She's the friend of a National Socialist leader. 268 00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:32,198 I'm only moderately interested in the names and titles of her lovers. 269 00:29:32,737 --> 00:29:36,036 Must be quite a long list... 270 00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:37,904 Watch your tongue, H�fgen! 271 00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:46,508 You won't insult a lady beca use she's in the Nazi German worker's party... 272 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:50,016 ... and the friend of a German hero. 273 00:29:50,688 --> 00:29:52,713 You won't stand for it? 274 00:29:54,392 --> 00:29:55,723 My, my... 275 00:29:57,328 --> 00:29:59,592 Stop it, you're drunk. 276 00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:04,761 I'm not. On the contrary. 277 00:30:05,069 --> 00:30:08,664 Apparently I'm the only one here with a spark of honor left. 278 00:30:08,773 --> 00:30:12,834 Nobody in this Jew-ridden business cares if a lady is insulted. 279 00:30:14,579 --> 00:30:15,876 Let me! 280 00:30:18,082 --> 00:30:19,071 No! 281 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:22,416 Go awa y! 282 00:30:25,123 --> 00:30:28,320 I'll gladly believe you're not drunk. 283 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,560 You won't make that an ex cuse, then. 284 00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:35,633 As for this Jew-ridden business you're in... 285 00:30:35,733 --> 00:30:38,099 ...you won't suffer it much longer. 286 00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:41,135 That I promise you. 287 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,270 Perhaps you're right. 288 00:30:45,076 --> 00:30:48,637 I agree, the fellow's beha vior was intolerable... 289 00:30:48,746 --> 00:30:52,944 ... but I can't just fire a poor, sick man like that. 290 00:30:53,084 --> 00:30:55,609 Sick? He's not sick at all. 291 00:30:55,854 --> 00:31:01,656 Why this indecision and compromise? It's just like our go vernment parties. 292 00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:04,252 Ex cuse me, Barbara. 293 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:08,355 We must show this murderous pack it can't get away with it. 294 00:31:08,466 --> 00:31:11,867 I beg you, don't insist that he be sacked on the spot. 295 00:31:11,970 --> 00:31:16,964 It's punishment enough that he won't be hired for ne xt season. 296 00:31:17,108 --> 00:31:21,306 He has no idea what he said last night, he just went wild. 297 00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:23,004 I'm amazed, Otto. 298 00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:29,346 I'm really amazed that you, of all people, should say that. 299 00:31:29,454 --> 00:31:32,981 I don't want him made a martyr. 300 00:31:33,224 --> 00:31:37,217 - In the political situation... - Ex cuse me if I interrupt. 301 00:31:37,328 --> 00:31:43,062 This conversation is quite pointless. The case is simple. 302 00:31:43,167 --> 00:31:47,900 Either Miklas leaves the theater... 303 00:31:48,506 --> 00:31:50,440 ... or I do. 304 00:31:50,541 --> 00:31:52,441 That's nonsense. 305 00:31:52,543 --> 00:31:57,242 Higher, higher! 306 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:49,993 Higher, higher! 307 00:32:53,137 --> 00:32:56,504 Enough! This isn't a funeral march! 308 00:32:57,608 --> 00:32:58,939 Again. 309 00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:03,007 Lights! 310 00:33:40,985 --> 00:33:42,316 Sorry, to interrupt. 311 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:45,685 Dr. Kroge asks you to approve the ne xt poster. 312 00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:48,486 I must take it to the printer. 313 00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:56,491 Can't I get my name spelled correctly even in this theatre? 314 00:33:56,968 --> 00:34:00,199 My name is not Henrik, but Hendrik! 315 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:04,601 Hendrik H�fgen. 316 00:34:05,009 --> 00:34:07,637 One day they'll all have to mark my name. 317 00:34:10,848 --> 00:34:14,511 Try to understand, doctor. I can't and won't tie myself down. 318 00:34:14,619 --> 00:34:18,988 It's a great strain to stay under contract. 319 00:34:19,090 --> 00:34:20,990 I must be free. Free. 320 00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:25,454 I can't be a provincial matinee idol. 321 00:34:25,663 --> 00:34:28,291 No, no, I don't want to be that. 322 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:31,334 You want to leave Hamburg for good? 323 00:34:31,436 --> 00:34:33,597 I don't know yet. 324 00:34:38,609 --> 00:34:44,172 The Professor invited me to a Berlin guest appearance. One ne ver knows. 325 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:47,248 By the way, Dora Martin will be my partner. 326 00:34:47,552 --> 00:34:51,283 Good. Then accept the offer. 327 00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:54,313 Thank you. 328 00:34:57,595 --> 00:34:58,755 Berlin. 329 00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:06,257 Thank you, ladies. Till tomorrow. 330 00:36:06,364 --> 00:36:07,763 Goodbye. 331 00:36:13,070 --> 00:36:15,436 So you are H�fgen. 332 00:36:16,674 --> 00:36:18,767 You have friends here. 333 00:36:18,876 --> 00:36:23,074 Some of them, who understand theater, recommended you to me. 334 00:36:23,214 --> 00:36:30,279 Your father-in-law, too, when we met at the ministry. 335 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:35,221 And Dora Martin, as well. 336 00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:47,527 In real life I may seem a bit nondescript, but not, I hope on stage. 337 00:36:47,972 --> 00:36:53,968 My father-in-law once aptly described my ability to transform myself. 338 00:36:55,613 --> 00:37:00,915 Well, we'll give you a try. 339 00:37:04,388 --> 00:37:09,758 Don't expect too much. I'm not offering anything big. 340 00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:16,026 You are probably used to a reasonable income in Hamburg. 341 00:37:16,133 --> 00:37:20,900 Here you'll have less. Have you expensive tastes? 342 00:37:22,106 --> 00:37:26,770 Money doesn't interest me. My needs are modest. 343 00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:32,209 All I need every day is a clean shirt and a drop of cologne. 344 00:37:33,184 --> 00:37:37,086 Discuss the details with Miss Bernhardt. 345 00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:41,056 Please give my regards to your father-in-law. 346 00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:45,322 - Hendrik H�fgen. - Oh, yes. Bernhardt. 347 00:37:45,796 --> 00:37:47,457 Here's your contract. 348 00:37:47,665 --> 00:37:48,723 Thank you. 349 00:37:50,201 --> 00:37:51,828 - May I? - Please. 350 00:37:58,009 --> 00:38:02,207 700 marks a month, less tax. You agree to play as cast. 351 00:38:13,157 --> 00:38:16,183 Please give these flowers... 352 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:21,159 ... and this card to Ms. Martin, will you? 353 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:25,530 THANKS! 354 00:38:44,388 --> 00:38:46,618 Well, Hendrik H�fgen. 355 00:38:48,359 --> 00:38:50,520 Now you're a beginner again. 356 00:38:51,962 --> 00:38:55,693 Hamburg's fame, routine and security all lie behind you. 357 00:38:57,435 --> 00:39:01,235 Now you must summon up all your strength. 358 00:39:07,978 --> 00:39:13,439 And we'll work off that blubber. 359 00:40:42,173 --> 00:40:45,939 - Who is that? - Dora Martin's Hamburg actor lover. 360 00:40:46,043 --> 00:40:49,774 - No, Miss Bernhardt's. - You're misinformed, dear. 361 00:40:50,347 --> 00:40:55,080 So glad you were able to come, despite all your work. 362 00:40:55,519 --> 00:40:58,147 May I introduce some of your admirers? 363 00:40:58,289 --> 00:41:03,625 Mr. Da vidson of the London Times. C�ser von Muck, Mr. M�ller-Andre�. 364 00:41:17,508 --> 00:41:23,879 Mind you aren't influenced by the pre vailing culture Bolshe vism. 365 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:25,573 What do you mean? 366 00:41:25,950 --> 00:41:31,354 German culture can only be renewed if it returns to its national roots... 367 00:41:31,455 --> 00:41:33,889 ...to its essence of blood and soil. 368 00:41:33,991 --> 00:41:40,021 Russian ra vings or French farces are alien to the spirit the nation needs. 369 00:42:00,618 --> 00:42:02,449 Have you met Mr. H�fgen? 370 00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:06,887 Berlin's new star, according to tomorrow's London Times. 371 00:42:06,991 --> 00:42:09,983 I've seen you on stage. You danced, didn't you? 372 00:42:10,094 --> 00:42:14,758 Yes, I like dancing. I had a good teacher. 373 00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:17,728 I'd like to model your head. 374 00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:27,166 No necktie and no gold we've got We're just a very shabby lot 375 00:42:27,578 --> 00:42:31,105 At which the bourgeois spits 376 00:42:31,582 --> 00:42:35,678 The bourgeois with polished boots And medals on morning suits 377 00:42:35,786 --> 00:42:40,917 And every morning he ablutes for church, or for the Ritz 378 00:42:42,893 --> 00:42:48,456 Where does the bourgeois get it all? His guns his celebration ball? 379 00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:51,395 He steals it where he can 380 00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:55,929 He makes it hard for us to rob Takes it all, the greedy slob 381 00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,943 Exploits the poor and wrecks the job of every working man 382 00:43:02,646 --> 00:43:09,279 Oh, if so wealthy I could be, Commit like him grand larceny 383 00:43:09,386 --> 00:43:12,219 All honored since my birth 384 00:43:12,489 --> 00:43:18,394 If then I met someone I knew, You filthy lot, I'd spit at you 385 00:43:18,495 --> 00:43:24,365 That's all you dogs are worth! 386 00:43:30,507 --> 00:43:33,533 Get the Jews out of here! 387 00:43:47,224 --> 00:43:49,055 They are completely drunk. 388 00:43:51,161 --> 00:43:55,791 Now one of the most famous State Theater actors, Hendrik H�fgen. 389 00:43:59,336 --> 00:44:04,797 Forget State Theater and fame. I am your comrade Hendrik H�fgen. 390 00:44:08,045 --> 00:44:14,507 What does the proletariat want? That nobody should rule! 391 00:44:14,852 --> 00:44:21,155 What does the proletariat want? That nobody should rule! 392 00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:26,796 Nobody shall give orders Nobody shall be a sla ve 393 00:44:26,997 --> 00:44:31,934 Freedom, equality for all souls 394 00:44:32,736 --> 00:44:35,204 I'll dictate. Headline: 395 00:44:35,706 --> 00:44:41,941 Actor H�fgen wins Berlin workers' hearts overnight. 396 00:44:42,579 --> 00:44:43,841 New paragraph. 397 00:44:45,115 --> 00:44:47,276 - Hendrik? - Hello. 398 00:44:48,619 --> 00:44:54,785 I bought this picture at the antique dealer. You don't mind? 399 00:44:54,925 --> 00:44:56,620 Why should I mind? 400 00:44:56,827 --> 00:44:59,921 You can admire it while I go and change. 401 00:45:35,399 --> 00:45:40,860 I love you, Barbara. Not only your father and grandmother. 402 00:45:41,038 --> 00:45:43,939 I love you... I, Hendrik H�fgen. 403 00:45:59,256 --> 00:46:02,453 Welcome to my home, dear Sebastian. 404 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,558 The theater awaits me. 405 00:46:05,662 --> 00:46:10,258 Up! 406 00:47:18,468 --> 00:47:19,366 Up! 407 00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:21,262 Two! 408 00:47:21,939 --> 00:47:23,031 Three! 409 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,732 Four! 410 00:47:25,275 --> 00:47:26,333 Five! 411 00:47:26,510 --> 00:47:27,534 Six! 412 00:47:27,778 --> 00:47:31,805 F�hrer! We are our people's strength! 413 00:47:31,915 --> 00:47:34,679 We shall create a new world! 414 00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:37,650 - What's your father's job? - Road digger! 415 00:47:37,788 --> 00:47:39,722 - And your father's? - Farmer! 416 00:47:39,823 --> 00:47:43,122 - And yours? - Teacher. He educates us! 417 00:47:43,227 --> 00:47:46,822 - And your father? - Baker. He bakes our bread! 418 00:47:46,930 --> 00:47:49,558 Mine's a miller. He grinds our grain! 419 00:47:49,666 --> 00:47:51,725 A doctor. He makes us healthy! 420 00:47:51,835 --> 00:47:53,894 Brickla yer. He builds our houses! 421 00:47:54,004 --> 00:47:55,835 - Conductor! - Electrician! 422 00:47:55,939 --> 00:48:00,205 We are the sons of one people, we all have the same goal! 423 00:48:00,310 --> 00:48:03,143 Unity and strength! We follow the F�hrer! 424 00:48:03,247 --> 00:48:10,415 No. That's not convincing enough. Say it like this... 425 00:48:10,554 --> 00:48:13,421 - Again... one, two, three. - Unity and strength! 426 00:48:13,523 --> 00:48:16,856 - Again... one, two, three. - Unity and strength! 427 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,018 Again! 428 00:48:18,128 --> 00:48:20,062 Unity and strength! 429 00:48:20,163 --> 00:48:23,132 - Louder! Again! - Unity and strength! 430 00:48:23,333 --> 00:48:24,630 We follow the F�hrer! 431 00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:30,196 Blood is a very special juice... 432 00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:38,143 ... let us in depths of sensuousness assuage our burning passions. 433 00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:41,581 No bounds and goals are set for you. 434 00:48:41,685 --> 00:48:45,485 You find your pleasure. A fleeing treasure. 435 00:48:45,622 --> 00:48:51,583 May you enjoy the prize you get. Help yourself and don't be coy. 436 00:48:51,695 --> 00:48:54,255 But listen, it's not a question of joy. 437 00:48:54,364 --> 00:48:57,822 To knowledge I'm devoted, most painful gratification. 438 00:48:57,935 --> 00:49:00,870 Most hateful love, mostve xing stimulation. 439 00:49:00,971 --> 00:49:07,570 Believe me, who countless years on this hard nourishment has fed. 440 00:49:07,678 --> 00:49:13,878 That from cradle to the gra ve, no human can digest so stale a bread. 441 00:49:14,051 --> 00:49:18,317 Believe me, worlds celestial and infernal... 442 00:49:18,422 --> 00:49:21,255 ...for one divinity were made. 443 00:49:21,358 --> 00:49:24,486 He exists in eternal light. 444 00:49:24,594 --> 00:49:29,896 But us, into the darkness, has conve yed there's day and night alone. 445 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,262 Yet I want that! 446 00:49:32,402 --> 00:49:36,668 That's well worth hearing. But there's one thing I fear. 447 00:49:36,773 --> 00:49:39,640 For time is short, but art is long. 448 00:49:39,743 --> 00:49:44,476 If I thought you sought more teaching, cultivate a poet fond of preaching. 449 00:49:44,648 --> 00:49:46,741 Let his thoughts wander. 450 00:49:46,850 --> 00:49:50,411 And every noble quality upon your brow let him bestow... 451 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,182 ...the lion's courage, the buck's swiftness. 452 00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:56,418 The Italian's fiery blood, the north's enduring pluck. 453 00:49:56,526 --> 00:50:00,656 He'll teach you the secret vile of magnanimity steeped in guile. 454 00:50:00,797 --> 00:50:05,666 May his youthful drives unco ver to make of you an ardent lover. 455 00:50:06,770 --> 00:50:14,108 I'd like to meet a scholar of such fame to Microcosm I'd change his name. 456 00:50:14,644 --> 00:50:20,412 So what am I, if it's not possible the paragon of humanity to attain... 457 00:50:20,517 --> 00:50:22,542 ...towards all my senses strain? 458 00:50:22,652 --> 00:50:27,089 You're in the end just what you are. 459 00:50:27,724 --> 00:50:31,160 Put on the wigs of a million curls. 460 00:50:31,661 --> 00:50:35,859 Put your feet in ele vating socks. 461 00:50:36,733 --> 00:50:41,170 You'll stay fore ver what you are! 462 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,193 Bra vo! 463 00:51:11,568 --> 00:51:14,560 Wonderful! You were fantastic, Hendrik. 464 00:51:14,671 --> 00:51:18,334 You were born to play Mephisto. 465 00:51:18,442 --> 00:51:22,003 You say that with a touch of malice, Dora. 466 00:51:22,112 --> 00:51:25,172 Not true, I don't detest people for what they are. 467 00:51:25,282 --> 00:51:29,378 - Anyway, thank you for coming. - Let's skip the cliches. 468 00:51:29,619 --> 00:51:33,077 - What's your ne xt project? - I'm learning English. 469 00:51:33,190 --> 00:51:35,055 English? Why? 470 00:51:35,158 --> 00:51:39,185 - I'll be working in America. - But why? 471 00:51:39,396 --> 00:51:42,695 Here the curtain's descending. Ha ven't you noticed? 472 00:51:42,799 --> 00:51:49,068 You're at the top here, hit after hit. Thousands adore you. So why go? 473 00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:53,131 Thousands! Soon they'll be ra ving about others. 474 00:51:54,578 --> 00:51:58,981 There'll always be theater, no matter what happens in Germany. 475 00:51:59,282 --> 00:52:02,809 No matter what happens in Germany? You really mean that? 476 00:52:04,988 --> 00:52:10,085 Well, all the best. I'm leaving in a few days. 477 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:13,619 In a few days? 478 00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:16,255 I don't want to wait till it's too late. 479 00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:19,434 But you'll always do well, Hendrik... 480 00:52:19,669 --> 00:52:22,467 ... no matter what happens in Germany. 481 00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:33,244 It's open. 482 00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:41,716 Mephisto, I ne ver lock the door. Need neither bolts nor life insurance. 483 00:52:41,858 --> 00:52:45,988 - I bet you've taken one out. - I need no life insurance. 484 00:52:46,096 --> 00:52:49,361 Sit down, sir, in my new home. 485 00:52:49,633 --> 00:52:52,761 You could have gotten me a nicer flat. 486 00:52:54,404 --> 00:52:57,567 - Have you registered with the police? - Yes, sir. 487 00:52:57,674 --> 00:53:00,438 What did the landlord say? 488 00:53:00,544 --> 00:53:04,742 Nothing. He was drunk, humming a song... 489 00:53:04,848 --> 00:53:07,373 No neckties, no gold we've got... 490 00:53:07,484 --> 00:53:11,250 He gave me the key and I mo ved in. 491 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,360 I've been longing to see you. 492 00:53:20,497 --> 00:53:25,560 - And how's your wife? - She's with her father, thank God. 493 00:53:26,169 --> 00:53:30,572 The y're worried about the Republic. 494 00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:43,983 In Hamburg, the foreigners were also very worried about Germany... 495 00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:48,681 ... about German culture, whose Number-One-Parrot you are. 496 00:53:48,792 --> 00:53:53,593 As if a peril threatened it. What are the Jews planning against Germany? 497 00:53:53,697 --> 00:53:56,131 Even the whores wonder... 498 00:53:56,233 --> 00:54:00,397 ... and they don't care about the pant color as long as it has a fly. 499 00:54:00,937 --> 00:54:04,338 Barbara understands politics, doesn't she? 500 00:54:04,741 --> 00:54:06,800 Is she keeping an eye on you? 501 00:54:07,777 --> 00:54:12,680 No. Mostly her opinions are the opposite of mine. 502 00:54:12,816 --> 00:54:17,014 - Have you told her so? - No. What point would there be? 503 00:54:17,487 --> 00:54:20,081 Words don't say everything. 504 00:54:22,425 --> 00:54:27,522 I'd like very much to sleep with you. 505 00:54:27,797 --> 00:54:30,129 Shall I make up the bed? 506 00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:31,990 Yes! 507 00:54:35,305 --> 00:54:38,240 Hendrik! Hendrik! 508 00:54:40,810 --> 00:54:43,745 Hendrik, wake up! Didn't you here? 509 00:54:44,347 --> 00:54:46,110 You're here already? 510 00:54:46,249 --> 00:54:48,774 I came on the early train, beca use of you. 511 00:54:48,885 --> 00:54:52,286 - What's the matter? - When did you go to bed? 512 00:54:52,555 --> 00:54:56,184 I'm tired. I was tossing all night. Why? 513 00:54:56,293 --> 00:55:00,161 The Nazis have won the elections. You know who became Chancellor? 514 00:55:00,263 --> 00:55:01,321 No. 515 00:55:06,703 --> 00:55:08,034 Do you hear that? 516 00:55:09,339 --> 00:55:11,034 Do you hear that? 517 00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:19,115 That Bohemian corporal has become Chancellor? 518 00:55:19,215 --> 00:55:20,580 Here, read it. 519 00:55:20,750 --> 00:55:25,016 I thought there was nothing to fear from the Nazis. 520 00:55:26,790 --> 00:55:30,055 Remember that business with Miklas? 521 00:55:32,462 --> 00:55:37,900 That could have unpleasant consequences. What do we do now? 522 00:55:39,936 --> 00:55:44,396 Keep a clear head and don't panic. 523 00:55:45,475 --> 00:55:50,435 So, the Austrian clown has become Reichs-Chancellor. 524 00:55:51,815 --> 00:55:56,878 But there still is the opposition, no? Communists and Social Democrats. 525 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,456 The y'll make sure he doesn't get too big for his boots. 526 00:56:01,758 --> 00:56:05,489 Perhaps there'll even be armed resistance. 527 00:56:07,764 --> 00:56:14,226 And even if the Nazis stay in power, why should it concern me? 528 00:56:14,337 --> 00:56:15,861 I'm from the Rhineland. 529 00:56:15,972 --> 00:56:20,170 So are my parents. What can happen to us? 530 00:56:20,310 --> 00:56:23,711 On top of that, I'm an actor. No? 531 00:56:24,647 --> 00:56:30,449 I go to the theater, play my parts, then go back home. That's all. 532 00:56:30,553 --> 00:56:33,989 Some people are leaving a country... 533 00:56:34,090 --> 00:56:37,958 ...where a career in the arts is now impossible. 534 00:56:38,561 --> 00:56:42,657 People will think you don't care about anything be yond the limelight? 535 00:56:42,766 --> 00:56:47,601 There were elections in a democratic state. One party won, that's all. 536 00:56:47,704 --> 00:56:52,664 I've ne ver been interested in politics, so why now? 537 00:56:52,809 --> 00:56:55,937 Don't you realize what's happening here? 538 00:56:56,713 --> 00:57:03,846 Don't answer it. I'm not here, I'm sick. Say what you want. 539 00:57:06,623 --> 00:57:10,992 Is that any solution? To lock yourself in, to hide, not be at home? 540 00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:16,691 Is that all you can think of, instead of taking a definite stand? 541 00:57:16,833 --> 00:57:21,463 Definite... this is my answer! Hamlet! Shakespeare! 542 00:57:21,571 --> 00:57:25,530 Either we take a stand or go, if our freedom is in danger. 543 00:57:25,642 --> 00:57:29,703 This is the only form of freedom for me, for an actor. 544 00:57:29,913 --> 00:57:33,474 You can't hide behind Shakespeare, on the stage. 545 00:57:33,583 --> 00:57:38,987 Barbara, I'm an actor. An actor in Germany at all times. 546 00:57:39,122 --> 00:57:42,057 You can go away. Your father is a famous writer. 547 00:57:42,158 --> 00:57:45,753 You can design sets anywhere, or buy antiques. 548 00:57:45,862 --> 00:57:48,797 But I need the German language! 549 00:57:48,898 --> 00:57:53,062 I need the motherland, don't you see? 550 00:58:11,888 --> 00:58:13,651 - Who's there? - Otto. 551 00:58:13,756 --> 00:58:15,314 - Who? - Otto. 552 00:58:17,427 --> 00:58:20,225 - I must talk to you. - You want some coffee? 553 00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:21,991 - No, thanks. - Tea? 554 00:58:22,098 --> 00:58:27,195 Act with us again. It's the only reply we can give to these events. 555 00:58:27,303 --> 00:58:31,296 An appearance by all of us, a common front. 556 00:58:31,407 --> 00:58:33,807 So we don't lose our future. 557 00:58:33,910 --> 00:58:39,041 You just want to divide the a udience? We must work out our tactics. 558 00:58:39,148 --> 00:58:41,742 Tactics will force us to our knees. 559 00:58:41,851 --> 00:58:44,843 We must fight this crushing demagogy. 560 00:58:44,954 --> 00:58:51,985 It's our job to tell the hesitators: Now is the time to resist dictatorship! 561 00:58:52,095 --> 00:58:54,063 Otto, in the first place, we're actors... 562 00:58:54,163 --> 00:58:57,291 No, not a protest on the street. I'm talking about the stage. 563 00:58:57,500 --> 00:59:00,230 Still, I think we should wait a few days. 564 00:59:00,370 --> 00:59:02,895 We must do something immediately. Tonight. 565 00:59:05,608 --> 00:59:09,738 Otto, I'd rather sta y with the reserves. 566 00:59:17,754 --> 00:59:20,917 Thank God I've no performance today. 567 00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:31,291 GERMAN REICHS-MAI L 568 00:59:38,675 --> 00:59:42,202 Film contract, locations in Budapest... 569 00:59:43,379 --> 00:59:47,941 ... leading role. Production Manager Altenburger. 570 00:59:54,824 --> 00:59:58,817 She really is a bea uty. She's sitting by the side altar. 571 00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:02,921 Cut! Very good! The second one. 572 01:00:03,533 --> 01:00:10,063 Now the scene where they follow her to the Fishermen's Bastion. 573 01:00:21,017 --> 01:00:22,484 What's going on? 574 01:00:22,652 --> 01:00:24,347 What's going on? 575 01:00:24,687 --> 01:00:26,587 Are we done for toda y? Can we go? 576 01:00:26,689 --> 01:00:29,658 - The Reichstag was burned down. - What? 577 01:00:29,792 --> 01:00:33,922 They say the communists set fire to it. 578 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,770 Your wife wants you to join her in Paris. 579 01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:53,177 She didn't dare phone you. Don't go back to Berlin. I'm mo ving to Vienna. 580 01:00:53,349 --> 01:00:58,309 Many of your Berlin friends have vanished lately. Otto Ulrichs is one. 581 01:00:58,621 --> 01:01:03,183 We must be prepared for anything. I fear we'll ne ver be able to return. 582 01:01:03,426 --> 01:01:09,763 The Nazis have blacklists. Your wife and you are on them. 583 01:01:09,999 --> 01:01:14,902 Please, ne ver go back to Berlin. Hendrik, promise me that. 584 01:01:16,172 --> 01:01:17,264 Please! 585 01:01:38,795 --> 01:01:41,320 Cheers, and many thanks! 586 01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,893 Cheers! 587 01:01:46,469 --> 01:01:49,199 To the most bea utiful actress in E urope! 588 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,664 When are you going home? 589 01:02:20,369 --> 01:02:23,338 I'll stay a few more days in Budapest. 590 01:02:23,439 --> 01:02:27,637 Then I'm going to see about a contract in Vienna. 591 01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:30,176 I understand you, Hendrik. 592 01:02:31,114 --> 01:02:36,450 I'll tell you now, I'm not going back to Germany, either. 593 01:02:36,552 --> 01:02:39,020 I signed you for this part... 594 01:02:39,122 --> 01:02:43,718 ... so you, too, could slip away, if you want to. 595 01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:48,757 The film studio gave me your address in Budapest. 596 01:02:48,865 --> 01:02:52,130 I hope my letter reaches you. I'm in Berlin now. 597 01:02:52,235 --> 01:02:54,635 I've landed a part in a comedy. 598 01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:58,764 During the shoot I met the actress Lotte Lindenthal. 599 01:02:59,008 --> 01:03:04,036 She's friendly with a National Socialist who's very powerful now. 600 01:03:04,147 --> 01:03:09,779 She's wonderful. She ne ver fla unts what great influence she has. 601 01:03:09,886 --> 01:03:16,223 I told her you were abroad and didn't dare return, for certain reasons. 602 01:03:16,325 --> 01:03:18,156 What's the man afraid of? 603 01:03:18,261 --> 01:03:22,925 She said you were an eminent artist and saw Mephisto se veral times. 604 01:03:23,032 --> 01:03:29,028 "We need such actors", she said, and she promised to speak to her friend. 605 01:03:29,138 --> 01:03:34,508 This morning she said: "No matter what silly things H�fgen has done... 606 01:03:34,610 --> 01:03:38,444 ...when it's an eminent actor, people are tolerant". 607 01:03:38,548 --> 01:03:44,316 Her friend has promised that nothing will happen to you if you return. 608 01:03:44,420 --> 01:03:48,720 Hendrik, Berlin awaits you. You have nothing to fear. 609 01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:53,489 No one can replace you. Those who rule our lives... 610 01:03:53,596 --> 01:03:59,398 ... know that the theater is a shelter for me and people like me... 611 01:03:59,502 --> 01:04:03,268 ... in which we all feel safe and have nothing to fear. 612 01:04:03,406 --> 01:04:07,536 It would be that for you, too. Theater is a mission. 613 01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:11,238 In true friendship, yours, Angelika Siebert. 614 01:05:05,701 --> 01:05:06,668 Name? 615 01:05:06,769 --> 01:05:08,737 - Hendrik H�fgen. - Profession? 616 01:05:09,772 --> 01:05:10,761 Actor. 617 01:05:10,873 --> 01:05:11,862 Where? 618 01:05:12,308 --> 01:05:14,299 At the State Theater in Berlin. 619 01:05:24,687 --> 01:05:26,985 - Is something wrong? - No, no. 620 01:05:28,190 --> 01:05:29,248 Thank you. 621 01:05:32,628 --> 01:05:33,822 Thank you. 622 01:05:38,668 --> 01:05:42,365 I don't know if you'll feel at home again here. 623 01:05:43,606 --> 01:05:49,135 The spirit is different from that you were accustomed to. 624 01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,314 Cultural Bolshe vism is over. 625 01:05:55,851 --> 01:06:00,982 There will no longer be a chance to appear in your friend's plays... 626 01:06:01,424 --> 01:06:07,226 ... or those popular French farces. We perform German art now. 627 01:06:07,663 --> 01:06:14,227 Frankly, I saw no great reason to recall you from abroad. 628 01:06:15,037 --> 01:06:22,569 But Lotte Lindenthal wants you as her partner in her comedy debut here. 629 01:06:23,179 --> 01:06:26,171 I didn't want to displease her. 630 01:06:27,350 --> 01:06:35,052 The role of elegant friend and seducer shouldn't ca use you any difficulty. 631 01:06:36,692 --> 01:06:38,319 I'm so cold. 632 01:06:39,428 --> 01:06:41,293 I'll warm you up. 633 01:06:41,797 --> 01:06:45,164 Your room isn't heated in this dreadful weather? 634 01:06:45,534 --> 01:06:49,937 Is this how you anticipated my visit? Very nice of you! 635 01:06:50,573 --> 01:06:53,371 There's a warm room over there. Come. 636 01:06:53,476 --> 01:06:56,172 No, I'm in a great hurry today. 637 01:06:56,312 --> 01:06:57,836 It would warm us up. 638 01:06:57,947 --> 01:07:00,541 No, there's no point in this cold flat. 639 01:07:00,649 --> 01:07:03,618 My new maid doesn't know her duties yet. 640 01:07:03,719 --> 01:07:06,984 You should have told her your visitor needed warmth. 641 01:07:07,089 --> 01:07:09,557 But I've only just returned home. 642 01:07:09,692 --> 01:07:13,321 You should have returned earlier. 643 01:07:13,429 --> 01:07:16,660 I'm someone you must wait for, impatiently. 644 01:07:16,766 --> 01:07:21,169 If I want to meet someone in passing, I have my husband. And besides... 645 01:07:21,270 --> 01:07:26,139 Where did you get this new maid? She's far too pretty. 646 01:07:29,512 --> 01:07:31,673 It's an honor to act with you. 647 01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:35,581 It's so nice to hear a warm voice again. 648 01:07:35,684 --> 01:07:39,211 I'm happy to hear you say that, I know you're no flatterer. 649 01:07:39,321 --> 01:07:44,281 Me, a flatterer? I'm notorious for telling people the truth. 650 01:07:44,393 --> 01:07:46,725 I like honest people. 651 01:07:58,140 --> 01:08:04,375 If she turns, everything will be fine. If she wa ves, I've scored a triumph. 652 01:08:05,881 --> 01:08:11,148 After the Reichstag fire, I had to leave Hamburg. 653 01:08:11,253 --> 01:08:13,915 Bonetti wears a uniform now. 654 01:08:14,223 --> 01:08:17,124 He threw me out of the canteen. 655 01:08:17,326 --> 01:08:20,386 "We've got you now, B�ck!" he said. 656 01:08:20,696 --> 01:08:24,826 They almost beat me up, my landlady threw me out. 657 01:08:24,934 --> 01:08:26,731 I had to leave Hamburg. 658 01:08:26,836 --> 01:08:29,066 Are you upset that I've come? 659 01:08:29,171 --> 01:08:34,199 When I heard you were in Berlin, I found new hope... 660 01:08:34,310 --> 01:08:38,542 ... and I just came. Are you angry with me? 661 01:08:38,781 --> 01:08:40,874 I'm not angry with you. 662 01:08:42,618 --> 01:08:48,955 Live here till things settle down, but don't tell anyone. 663 01:08:49,058 --> 01:08:52,653 Just simply disappear without a word. 664 01:08:53,896 --> 01:08:59,300 If I were in your position, I might well commit suicide. 665 01:09:00,336 --> 01:09:07,572 I'll buy you a radio, so you'll know what's happening outside. 666 01:09:08,744 --> 01:09:11,645 I've got nobody else in the world but you. 667 01:09:11,747 --> 01:09:15,342 - Is Budapest bea utiful? - I don't know... 668 01:09:15,951 --> 01:09:18,044 Yes, quite nice. 669 01:09:18,354 --> 01:09:21,255 I could have gone there. Barbara wasn't with you. 670 01:09:21,357 --> 01:09:24,019 They wouldn't have let you cross the border. 671 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:29,757 I'm a German citizen, too. My father was pure German. Why can't I go out? 672 01:09:29,865 --> 01:09:34,928 If you can't understand why, we'll both be in trouble. 673 01:09:35,971 --> 01:09:39,304 - You're horrible. - You're an idiot! 674 01:09:39,441 --> 01:09:42,706 Go to hell you... you actor! 675 01:10:09,405 --> 01:10:14,274 Dear Lotte, may I ask a great fa vor? I have to play Mephisto. 676 01:10:15,244 --> 01:10:16,905 I'll see what I can do. 677 01:10:17,179 --> 01:10:21,309 I look forward to seeing you again as Mephisto. 678 01:10:21,417 --> 01:10:26,354 It's thanks to me you're pla ying Mephisto again. 679 01:10:26,622 --> 01:10:32,618 Certain ministerial circles feared you might re vive your old Fa ust spirit. 680 01:10:32,728 --> 01:10:37,290 The spirit of cultural Bolshe vism, as it was called. 681 01:10:37,433 --> 01:10:42,370 Well, I succeeded in o vercoming those fears. 682 01:10:42,871 --> 01:10:46,500 C�sar, thank you, thank you very much. 683 01:10:50,813 --> 01:10:52,781 THANK YOU! 684 01:10:52,915 --> 01:10:55,315 Please give these flowers... 685 01:10:56,252 --> 01:10:57,981 ...to Miss Lindenthal. 686 01:11:00,289 --> 01:11:02,723 - Good morning! - Good morning. 687 01:11:04,727 --> 01:11:06,251 Morning, Mr. H�fgen. 688 01:11:06,462 --> 01:11:10,228 Mr. Miklas! Are you still around? 689 01:11:10,332 --> 01:11:12,664 - Morning. - Fine. 690 01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:23,169 I've only been here a short space, I come with a humility to this place... 691 01:11:24,079 --> 01:11:29,676 ...to find a teacher of vocation who's held by all in veneration. 692 01:11:29,785 --> 01:11:33,482 How pleasant is your courtesy! A man like many more you see. 693 01:11:33,589 --> 01:11:35,716 Have you looked around? 694 01:11:37,259 --> 01:11:38,920 Take me as your student. 695 01:11:39,028 --> 01:11:42,054 I come with courage and my youth. 696 01:11:42,164 --> 01:11:46,157 I want to study with all my heart. 697 01:11:46,268 --> 01:11:48,498 You've come to the right place. 698 01:11:48,604 --> 01:11:50,435 I feel like going home I fear. 699 01:11:50,539 --> 01:11:54,031 In that great hall I won't like it at all. 700 01:11:54,343 --> 01:11:58,245 You see no grass, you see no tree. 701 01:11:58,347 --> 01:12:04,308 And in the classes we are ta ught I lose my hearing, sight and thought. 702 01:12:04,553 --> 01:12:06,521 It all depends on habit. 703 01:12:06,622 --> 01:12:10,524 Seeing the breast, a child might accept the gift unwillingly. 704 01:12:10,626 --> 01:12:12,423 But soon it sucks in delight. 705 01:12:12,528 --> 01:12:16,965 So will you, on wisdom's breast, enjoy it daily with more zest. 706 01:12:17,833 --> 01:12:20,825 Around her neck I'll cling with pleasure... 707 01:12:20,936 --> 01:12:25,066 ... but tell me how can I find this treasure? 708 01:12:25,274 --> 01:12:29,677 When you continue on your way, which faculty will make your da y? 709 01:12:29,812 --> 01:12:31,837 Is this where the cut comes? 710 01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:35,412 The art of medicine is not hard, you know. 711 01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:38,077 You study the world, big and small. 712 01:12:38,187 --> 01:12:41,714 And in the end you let them go when God demands it. 713 01:12:41,824 --> 01:12:44,486 You'll try in vain to learn all science. 714 01:12:44,593 --> 01:12:47,653 Each man just learns what he can. 715 01:12:47,796 --> 01:12:51,960 But he who grasps every chance he is the worthy man. 716 01:12:52,067 --> 01:12:57,437 You are still of pleasing build with self-confidence at last instilled... 717 01:12:57,573 --> 01:13:01,100 ... others will have confidence in you. 718 01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:04,475 Especially learn the women to enthrall. 719 01:13:04,580 --> 01:13:08,277 Eternal moans, a thousand ills. 720 01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:12,081 There's just one place to cure them. 721 01:13:12,187 --> 01:13:18,422 If you've honor to some degree one may allow some shared intimacy. 722 01:13:18,761 --> 01:13:25,860 A title helps to make her certain your art ex ceeds that of your peers. 723 01:13:25,968 --> 01:13:30,371 And may grant you a glimpse of which another schemes for many years. 724 01:13:30,472 --> 01:13:33,464 Her pulse you must learn to feel. 725 01:13:33,575 --> 01:13:37,978 And burning looks you then must steal. 726 01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:46,044 Her slender hips are then embraced to see how tightly she is laced. 727 01:13:46,688 --> 01:13:50,351 That's what I could care for. 728 01:13:51,493 --> 01:13:56,897 Gray, my friend is all theory. And green the golden tree of life. 729 01:13:58,400 --> 01:13:59,924 That's the way. 730 01:14:22,391 --> 01:14:26,487 I greet the learned gentleman! You made me to sweat profusely. 731 01:14:26,595 --> 01:14:29,189 - What is your name? - The question's odd... 732 01:14:29,298 --> 01:14:31,960 ...for someone who idle talk despises. 733 01:14:32,067 --> 01:14:36,060 Who, far remo ved from worldly show seeks only academic prizes. 734 01:14:36,872 --> 01:14:40,968 With you, one knows your game generally by your very name. 735 01:14:41,076 --> 01:14:45,672 It's evident, Sire if one's called a liar. 736 01:14:46,348 --> 01:14:47,337 Who are you? 737 01:14:47,449 --> 01:14:49,679 I'm a part of that force... 738 01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:53,515 ...that always cra ves evil and always creates good. 739 01:14:53,622 --> 01:14:55,146 What is this riddle? 740 01:14:55,257 --> 01:14:57,248 I'm the spirit who negates. 741 01:14:57,359 --> 01:15:01,728 And rightly so, for all creation is worthy of annihilation. 742 01:15:01,830 --> 01:15:04,492 So it were better, nothing were created. 743 01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:09,663 And so everything you've stated is sin, destruction, devilment. 744 01:15:09,805 --> 01:15:12,296 Remains my actual element. 745 01:15:14,009 --> 01:15:17,410 Good evening. The Prime Minister invites you to his box. 746 01:15:19,314 --> 01:15:20,303 Yes. 747 01:15:31,827 --> 01:15:33,818 It's all going like clockwork. 748 01:15:48,977 --> 01:15:52,970 May I introduce you to my distinguished colleague? 749 01:15:53,415 --> 01:15:55,315 Ah, our Mephistoles. 750 01:16:09,998 --> 01:16:11,431 Congratulations. 751 01:16:13,068 --> 01:16:16,902 That mask is perfect, it's evil itself. It's sacred evil. 752 01:16:17,773 --> 01:16:23,575 Yet, your eyes are so kind, your handshake so soft. It's strange... 753 01:16:24,313 --> 01:16:31,378 ... it seems the secret of acting is to portray strength, yet one is weak. 754 01:16:35,557 --> 01:16:41,393 I imagine you've prepared for this role for a long time. 755 01:16:41,697 --> 01:16:43,892 All my life, Prime Minister. 756 01:16:44,566 --> 01:16:49,594 That's the only way. That is the secret of greatness. 757 01:17:24,740 --> 01:17:26,071 Break a leg. 758 01:17:27,209 --> 01:17:29,677 Carry on the good work, Mephistoles. 759 01:17:42,758 --> 01:17:44,123 H�fgen residence. 760 01:17:44,793 --> 01:17:45,919 Lotte Lindenthal. 761 01:17:49,431 --> 01:17:50,329 H�fgen. 762 01:17:50,432 --> 01:17:51,694 - Hendrik? - Yes. 763 01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,997 Will you come to us after tonight's performance? 764 01:17:55,170 --> 01:17:57,468 There'll be just a few friends here. 765 01:17:57,572 --> 01:18:01,474 With pleasure. Thank you very much. 766 01:18:03,412 --> 01:18:10,318 B�ck! Just a few friends will be there. 767 01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:18,383 Am I not an incredible villain? 768 01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,854 Why a villain? You're just successful, Mr. H�fgen. 769 01:18:22,097 --> 01:18:27,160 To the renewal of German culture. Long live the actors. 770 01:18:34,776 --> 01:18:39,008 Our theater has many elements that have nothing to do with Germany. 771 01:18:39,181 --> 01:18:43,777 We must set up a customs control of the mind for culture smugglers... 772 01:18:44,586 --> 01:18:50,218 ...to stop foreign elements poisoning German literature and theater. 773 01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:55,163 This can't be left entirely to our frontier guards. 774 01:18:55,430 --> 01:18:59,560 Everyone must cooperate in this control. 775 01:18:59,901 --> 01:19:02,062 - Am I understood? - Yes, General. 776 01:19:03,505 --> 01:19:05,769 There are many who don't understand. 777 01:19:06,942 --> 01:19:09,809 Look at this painting, my Mephisto. 778 01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:13,271 A masterpiece of German romanticism. 779 01:19:15,650 --> 01:19:21,179 Where did I find it? At an art dealer with an foreign accent. 780 01:19:21,289 --> 01:19:24,725 I had it restored. No, no... 781 01:19:25,727 --> 01:19:29,823 ...the future of painting doesn't belong to the Liebermanns. 782 01:19:30,265 --> 01:19:32,563 Your Mephisto occupies my mind. 783 01:19:32,868 --> 01:19:37,100 You've brought him alive. He's a hell of a guy. 784 01:19:38,106 --> 01:19:41,041 Isn't there a little of him in all of us? 785 01:19:41,977 --> 01:19:46,778 I mean, isn't there a bit of Mephisto in every German? 786 01:19:47,249 --> 01:19:52,346 Wouldn't our enemies love it if we had nothing but the soul of Fa ust? 787 01:19:52,487 --> 01:19:58,016 No, Mephisto is also a German national hero. 788 01:19:58,126 --> 01:20:00,720 It's just something we mustn't tell people. 789 01:20:02,597 --> 01:20:04,360 I must go now. 790 01:20:04,566 --> 01:20:09,435 Come to my office at 10:30, the day after tomorrow. 791 01:20:09,538 --> 01:20:13,338 Some foreign journalists want to know many things. 792 01:20:13,475 --> 01:20:18,105 Above all, what 'Germany' means today, and the German culture. 793 01:20:18,213 --> 01:20:24,118 I'll tell them. You can elaborate on what I say about theater, for example. 794 01:20:24,352 --> 01:20:29,085 Painting, architecture, sculpture, plenty to write about. 795 01:20:29,324 --> 01:20:32,350 I want them to be informed by experts. 796 01:20:36,331 --> 01:20:40,392 Tell me, why do you have such a limp handshake? 797 01:21:49,037 --> 01:21:54,737 So, we meet again. How time flies! You were wonderful as Mephisto. 798 01:21:54,843 --> 01:21:58,973 Now you act him more forcefully. But I liked the other one, too. 799 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:03,744 I sensed it in the seed of what can now be unfolded to the full. 800 01:22:03,852 --> 01:22:07,413 I also liked you in the play with Lotte Lindenthal. 801 01:22:07,522 --> 01:22:11,686 The ideal actress to portra y the ideal German woman. 802 01:22:11,793 --> 01:22:18,426 What are we doing here? Why is he wasting his time with foreigners? 803 01:22:19,067 --> 01:22:25,802 He said they're interested in German culture. The y'll ask a few questions. 804 01:22:25,907 --> 01:22:28,637 - I see. You spoke to him? - Yes. 805 01:22:28,743 --> 01:22:31,871 How are you? Nice to meet you again. 806 01:22:31,980 --> 01:22:35,916 The Prime Minister sent for me. I hope this doesn't last too long. 807 01:22:36,017 --> 01:22:40,784 Always problems with the old statues. Shall we tear them down or not? 808 01:22:40,889 --> 01:22:44,290 As if that were important for our future. 809 01:22:44,659 --> 01:22:47,127 I'd like to sculpt a bust of you, H�fgen. 810 01:22:47,295 --> 01:22:52,426 What sort of man are you? Your own face differs amazingly from Mephisto. 811 01:22:52,534 --> 01:22:55,526 In private life, you look rather shy. 812 01:22:55,637 --> 01:22:59,767 I'll do a bust of you, but in clay or in bronze? 813 01:22:59,874 --> 01:23:03,173 - What is your face made of? - Perhaps a mixture. 814 01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:09,047 I very much enjo yed your Mephisto. I only had eyes for you. 815 01:23:09,150 --> 01:23:11,345 I'm preparing an exhibition. 816 01:23:11,453 --> 01:23:16,152 The General wants a pre view. Try to come. Here's my number. 817 01:23:17,158 --> 01:23:21,595 If you have time, give me a ring and come to my studio. 818 01:23:21,763 --> 01:23:25,324 You can relax while I model you. How strange your face is. 819 01:23:25,433 --> 01:23:28,266 A German face yet it changes every moment. 820 01:23:28,370 --> 01:23:31,862 That's acting. The rest is humility and hard work. 821 01:23:33,675 --> 01:23:38,977 I've disco vered your secret. It's the surprise effect, right? 822 01:23:40,348 --> 01:23:42,179 The une xpected. 823 01:23:43,785 --> 01:23:48,222 I've been watching the way you appear on stage. Always different. 824 01:23:50,658 --> 01:23:52,785 Sometimes quick, erratic. 825 01:23:52,894 --> 01:23:56,591 Then slow, suddenly, when the a udience is lulled. 826 01:23:57,265 --> 01:24:00,166 But always surprising and unpredictable. 827 01:24:01,403 --> 01:24:05,305 Thus you create the feeling of something original... 828 01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:10,072 ... even if the spectator knows your lines by heart. 829 01:24:10,578 --> 01:24:15,675 And your glib tongue, your deliberate pa uses, your precise emphasis. 830 01:24:17,819 --> 01:24:19,753 I think I'm learning from you. 831 01:24:21,022 --> 01:24:24,321 It's important to be unpredictable. 832 01:24:24,426 --> 01:24:30,058 Spectators needn't know what my ne xt step is or where I'm going. 833 01:24:30,198 --> 01:24:33,895 - The y're not prepared, it's a shock. - Exactly. 834 01:24:34,102 --> 01:24:39,130 Yet it was only a change of pace, or a slightly longer pa use. 835 01:24:39,274 --> 01:24:43,040 In the theater it's the others who make the king a king. 836 01:24:43,144 --> 01:24:49,845 Building the role is all important; pianissimo alternating with fortissimo. 837 01:24:49,951 --> 01:24:54,479 Naturally, you need a certain flair, artistic talent... 838 01:24:54,589 --> 01:24:57,956 ... and as I usually say, a high degree of culture. 839 01:24:58,093 --> 01:25:01,085 When I hear the word culture, I reach for my re volver. 840 01:25:01,196 --> 01:25:07,465 Bourgeois nonsense! Bolshe viks preach it to win over school teachers. 841 01:25:07,569 --> 01:25:10,003 To say nothing of artists. Isn't that so? 842 01:25:11,206 --> 01:25:15,074 I wasn't untouched by Bolshe vik trends, either. 843 01:25:15,410 --> 01:25:19,437 And I must admit that for a while I flirted with the left. 844 01:25:21,049 --> 01:25:25,281 Well, anyone can get involved in some folly. 845 01:25:26,321 --> 01:25:29,779 Those were troubled times. Let's have a drink. 846 01:25:38,399 --> 01:25:43,962 General, other deserving artists committed the follies I did. 847 01:25:44,072 --> 01:25:49,510 I don't forget those pa ying for sins for which I've been generously pardoned. 848 01:25:50,245 --> 01:25:55,205 I'm pleading for a certain person, for a friend. 849 01:25:55,850 --> 01:26:00,446 I guarantee he's reformed. I'm pleading for Otto Ulrichs. 850 01:26:02,323 --> 01:26:05,486 Otto Ulrichs? Who's he? 851 01:26:05,593 --> 01:26:08,721 He ran the communist cabaret, 'The Storm-Bird'. 852 01:26:10,398 --> 01:26:16,030 Well... he must be a pretty bad fellow. 853 01:26:16,137 --> 01:26:18,503 No, he's not bad. 854 01:26:18,606 --> 01:26:23,100 A bit rash, I admit. A bit thoughtless, but not bad. 855 01:26:23,344 --> 01:26:28,304 If anything, he's too decent. Once he gives his word, he keeps it. 856 01:26:46,434 --> 01:26:49,096 I'm back at the State Theater. 857 01:26:50,205 --> 01:26:53,868 The funny thing is, I simply can't believe it. 858 01:26:55,276 --> 01:27:00,714 Just as I can't belie ve I'm here with you by the window. 859 01:27:01,449 --> 01:27:04,384 I know it's reality, but I don't feel it. 860 01:27:28,343 --> 01:27:31,335 - Great. - Magnificent, really. 861 01:27:31,446 --> 01:27:33,209 A German work of art. 862 01:27:33,314 --> 01:27:36,841 Not every German artist is capable of such work. 863 01:27:37,719 --> 01:27:40,187 It is a courageous work. 864 01:27:47,629 --> 01:27:49,256 Come, Mephisto. 865 01:27:51,566 --> 01:27:53,124 You sign, too. 866 01:28:00,775 --> 01:28:04,336 What did I prophesy? The exhibition is a success. 867 01:28:23,398 --> 01:28:26,390 You rascal, so you make secret visits here. 868 01:28:29,137 --> 01:28:34,234 If I may add something personal, it is a courageous work. 869 01:28:34,342 --> 01:28:37,607 Courageous, beca use it captures our time... 870 01:28:37,745 --> 01:28:42,978 ...the bea uty of strength without bourgeois snobbery. 871 01:28:43,117 --> 01:28:45,813 Contrasting the degenerate taste... 872 01:28:46,187 --> 01:28:48,655 ... of the loud-mouths of culture. 873 01:28:48,756 --> 01:28:55,662 We see muscles and clear-cut features mankind wants to see. 874 01:28:55,797 --> 01:28:58,698 Strong and bea utiful in his strength. 875 01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:02,761 Warrior-like and victorious in his struggle. 876 01:29:10,845 --> 01:29:14,281 Hello Hendrik. That was a wonderful speech. 877 01:29:15,616 --> 01:29:18,676 - You know each other? - Very well. 878 01:29:19,220 --> 01:29:21,188 You're in Berlin? Since when? 879 01:29:21,289 --> 01:29:24,725 I'm here beca use I want to dine with you. 880 01:29:24,826 --> 01:29:28,091 I haven't seen you for so long. 881 01:29:28,196 --> 01:29:30,096 So where will we go? 882 01:29:31,132 --> 01:29:35,034 Your choice. How's Hamburg? Surviving without me? 883 01:29:35,770 --> 01:29:39,467 I'm in Berlin to have dinner with you. Hamburg is history. 884 01:29:39,574 --> 01:29:44,102 You're out of touch. Kroge's in Switzerland. He just vanished. 885 01:29:44,212 --> 01:29:47,978 Didn't even tell his girl. Simply went. 886 01:29:49,183 --> 01:29:50,912 Kroge is a traitor. 887 01:29:57,792 --> 01:29:59,987 Why must you appear with them? 888 01:30:00,094 --> 01:30:01,891 Beca use they asked me to. 889 01:30:01,996 --> 01:30:04,897 They ask others, too. You needn't go. 890 01:30:04,999 --> 01:30:11,700 You can't refuse, none of us can. If anyone says they do, they're lying. 891 01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:16,308 Besides, the General's a nice chap and he knows a lot about the theater. 892 01:30:16,411 --> 01:30:19,209 He's not so closed minded as most others. 893 01:30:19,313 --> 01:30:25,013 A well beha ved boy who wants to enjoy the rewards for good beha vior. 894 01:30:25,119 --> 01:30:28,316 - Yes, I like to be well beha ved. - Beca use you're afraid. 895 01:30:30,958 --> 01:30:34,086 - I like it. - Then you should. 896 01:30:34,195 --> 01:30:38,723 It will be difficult to stay with me and maintain good beha vior. 897 01:30:43,337 --> 01:30:45,931 Damned black woman, right? 898 01:30:46,307 --> 01:30:49,834 I can't help being different from what's allowed here. 899 01:30:49,944 --> 01:30:54,210 People can spit in my face in the street. 900 01:30:54,315 --> 01:30:57,216 Only I can't do anything about it. 901 01:30:57,318 --> 01:31:01,778 My nose, my hair remain the same e ven if I want something else. 902 01:31:01,889 --> 01:31:06,519 Yet, I'm German, a German Negro. German is my mother tongue. 903 01:31:06,627 --> 01:31:09,892 What am I supposed to do? Where should I go? 904 01:31:10,031 --> 01:31:13,694 I don't know. I don't even know what will become of me. 905 01:31:14,602 --> 01:31:16,695 You think only of yourself. 906 01:31:16,871 --> 01:31:20,500 And like an idiot, I dreamt of us ha ving a child. 907 01:31:20,641 --> 01:31:22,006 That's all we need. 908 01:31:22,243 --> 01:31:28,705 Is the child to be to blame, for she might ruin her father's career? 909 01:31:28,816 --> 01:31:30,647 That's enough now! 910 01:31:31,385 --> 01:31:34,946 - That's enough of that now! - Now it is enough? 911 01:31:35,256 --> 01:31:41,752 I can see why your wife couldn't stand living with you. 912 01:31:44,065 --> 01:31:48,161 Here... I pinched a photo of you once. Look at it! 913 01:31:48,803 --> 01:31:50,498 Do you recognize yourself? 914 01:31:50,638 --> 01:31:52,538 I must speak to you. 915 01:31:53,007 --> 01:31:55,805 To tell me what you've said behind my back? 916 01:31:55,910 --> 01:31:57,605 I don't know what you mean. 917 01:31:57,712 --> 01:32:01,375 H�fgen would bury his mother alive. Didn't you say that? 918 01:32:01,482 --> 01:32:04,349 I won't dispute that I dislike you. 919 01:32:04,886 --> 01:32:08,014 - What do you want? - I want you to sign this. 920 01:32:08,122 --> 01:32:10,454 My signature? What for? 921 01:32:10,658 --> 01:32:14,355 You want a raise? Or do you collect signatures... 922 01:32:14,462 --> 01:32:18,523 ... beca use theater safety regulations are a bit unsafe? 923 01:32:18,799 --> 01:32:25,728 From a moral standpoint much seems unsafe. And I don't mean the theater. 924 01:32:27,575 --> 01:32:29,509 What do you protest against? 925 01:32:29,610 --> 01:32:33,102 Against a leadership that disregards our rights. 926 01:32:34,482 --> 01:32:38,213 But you were in the Nazi party, back when you were in Hamburg. 927 01:32:38,319 --> 01:32:39,911 I'm leaving the party. 928 01:32:41,822 --> 01:32:43,380 That's your business. 929 01:32:43,758 --> 01:32:48,161 I'd like to ask you to read our protest and sign it. 930 01:32:49,797 --> 01:32:55,201 Regardless of my opinion, you are today's leading German actor. 931 01:32:56,671 --> 01:32:59,731 Let me say that I won't even read this thing. 932 01:33:01,075 --> 01:33:05,307 Be careful not to get yourself and others into real trouble. 933 01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:07,773 Miklas, you can go to hell. 934 01:33:13,354 --> 01:33:16,255 I won't let a dirty pig like you provoke me. 935 01:33:34,075 --> 01:33:35,099 Dear God. 936 01:33:38,145 --> 01:33:40,739 Congratulations, my dear H�fgen. 937 01:33:41,349 --> 01:33:45,911 You put it precisely. Some elements must go to the devil. 938 01:33:46,020 --> 01:33:49,478 If you were a soldier, I'd promote you. I'm very pleased. 939 01:33:50,925 --> 01:33:54,520 By the way, you needn't be afraid. 940 01:33:54,629 --> 01:34:01,330 For the fun of it, I checked your horoscope. It's ex cellent. 941 01:34:02,069 --> 01:34:05,004 - Best of luck, H�fgen. - Thank you. 942 01:34:11,679 --> 01:34:13,010 Did something happen? 943 01:34:18,419 --> 01:34:19,784 Good morning. 944 01:34:43,110 --> 01:34:44,600 Get walking! 945 01:35:22,850 --> 01:35:28,755 The management regrets that Hans Miklas has died in a car accident. 946 01:35:32,426 --> 01:35:34,291 How awful, such a young fellow. 947 01:35:36,764 --> 01:35:40,825 But, frankly, there was something disquieting about him... 948 01:35:40,901 --> 01:35:42,528 ... don't you think? 949 01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:47,270 Disquieting... 950 01:36:00,888 --> 01:36:03,482 That was no car accident. 951 01:36:07,695 --> 01:36:10,892 He must have come to you, too, with that protest. 952 01:36:10,998 --> 01:36:15,594 Are you insane? How can you talk such nonsense? 953 01:36:16,270 --> 01:36:19,603 Why shouldn't it have been a car accident? 954 01:36:20,007 --> 01:36:23,773 The go vernment would stage a car accident... 955 01:36:23,878 --> 01:36:26,472 ... all for some unknown actor? 956 01:36:27,782 --> 01:36:30,444 We're not in some tenth-rate melodrama. 957 01:36:31,285 --> 01:36:34,812 People shouldn't cross roads in heavy traffic. 958 01:36:42,596 --> 01:36:47,829 I've great plans for you. We're alone. You can refuse and remain an actor. 959 01:36:48,602 --> 01:36:52,561 But then you can't do as much for our ca use as you could. 960 01:36:54,441 --> 01:36:58,241 Your speech was good. I realized you're not only an actor. 961 01:36:59,547 --> 01:37:05,543 You put the essence into words. Write your own biography, Hendrik. 962 01:37:06,420 --> 01:37:11,323 Submit it to me, as soon as possible. H�fgen... 963 01:37:12,159 --> 01:37:16,596 ...you will manage the Prussian State Theater. Your task is easy: 964 01:37:16,697 --> 01:37:22,499 A full house and a wildly enthusiastic, a udience for you. 965 01:37:23,170 --> 01:37:24,262 Do you understand? 966 01:37:26,106 --> 01:37:31,567 No need to enlarge upon those matters in Hamburg. 967 01:37:32,713 --> 01:37:37,412 Nor need we mention the Re volutionary Theater. 968 01:37:37,518 --> 01:37:40,316 Just mention some of your roles there. 969 01:37:46,594 --> 01:37:50,530 What did you really imagine in Hamburg? 970 01:37:52,333 --> 01:37:54,665 How could you have conceived... 971 01:37:55,903 --> 01:38:02,274 ... promoting Russian Bolshe vism? You, a German. I ncredible! 972 01:38:03,510 --> 01:38:06,343 - Where is your wife now? - In Paris, I belie ve. 973 01:38:06,447 --> 01:38:10,975 No, she's in Amsterdam, working against her Motherland. 974 01:38:11,085 --> 01:38:13,349 The y're publishing a newspaper. 975 01:38:16,690 --> 01:38:19,090 You don't correspond with her? 976 01:38:19,593 --> 01:38:22,756 We have no contact at all. 977 01:38:23,130 --> 01:38:26,691 You'll get a divorce easily. I'll see to that. 978 01:38:28,235 --> 01:38:31,033 German citizens who have left Germany... 979 01:38:31,205 --> 01:38:35,608 ... couldn't wipe us out, so they signed their own death sentence. 980 01:38:35,843 --> 01:38:39,210 Where weakness perishes, humanity becomes healthy. 981 01:38:39,346 --> 01:38:42,474 Politics, like theater, is a fight. 982 01:38:42,783 --> 01:38:46,913 Just as every rebuild is the start of a new war. 983 01:38:49,390 --> 01:38:51,824 But we're not talking about this now. 984 01:38:53,460 --> 01:38:59,524 Hamburg... "In a harbor town by the river..." 985 01:39:01,335 --> 01:39:06,204 Lots of foreigners, night clubs, bars. I understand you perfectly. 986 01:39:08,108 --> 01:39:12,977 But in the Reich's capital? No offense, we're men, but... 987 01:39:13,147 --> 01:39:18,813 What's this Hamburg souvenir doing here? Juliette Martens. 988 01:39:20,454 --> 01:39:22,479 Is she kept by you? 989 01:39:27,294 --> 01:39:30,889 You once, rightfully, said... 990 01:39:31,265 --> 01:39:34,860 ... Professor Bruckner was not a man of the future. 991 01:39:35,536 --> 01:39:39,233 And, even more rightly, you parted from his da ughter. 992 01:39:40,140 --> 01:39:44,338 If you have such a good instinct for a healthy, clean attitude... 993 01:39:44,979 --> 01:39:47,846 ...what's this Negro-woman doing in Berlin? 994 01:39:50,751 --> 01:39:52,150 Mephisto... 995 01:39:54,355 --> 01:39:59,622 ... it defies racial purity. Don't even keep her picture at home. 996 01:39:59,927 --> 01:40:00,916 General... 997 01:40:01,028 --> 01:40:02,893 Wait, I haven't finished. 998 01:40:04,365 --> 01:40:08,028 I hope you completely understood me. 999 01:40:11,305 --> 01:40:12,772 - Yes. - So? 1000 01:40:14,208 --> 01:40:17,541 - She's not to come to any harm. - Leave that to me. 1001 01:40:19,079 --> 01:40:22,310 I'd like to request, Prime Minister... 1002 01:40:22,416 --> 01:40:26,079 ...that she'd be allowed to leave Germany unharmed. 1003 01:40:26,186 --> 01:40:33,115 Agreed. She'll be taken to the frontier and good-bye. That's what we'll do. 1004 01:40:33,694 --> 01:40:39,030 And you'll hold a press conference, giving information about the theater. 1005 01:40:39,199 --> 01:40:42,168 The repertoire, plans and your performances. 1006 01:40:42,503 --> 01:40:48,066 In October there'll be a big cultural e vent in our Paris embassy. 1007 01:40:48,175 --> 01:40:50,507 I'd like you to attend it. 1008 01:40:58,018 --> 01:41:01,647 B�ck. I bet they know about him, too. 1009 01:41:02,022 --> 01:41:06,425 B�ck, B�ck, my note-book. 1010 01:41:08,762 --> 01:41:10,229 B�ck stays. 1011 01:41:12,966 --> 01:41:15,799 - Here it is. - Give it to me. 1012 01:41:18,072 --> 01:41:22,236 I have to call friends. I urgently need a friend. 1013 01:41:22,810 --> 01:41:27,372 - Find me a friend. - But you've so many friends. 1014 01:41:29,450 --> 01:41:30,644 Friends... 1015 01:41:42,963 --> 01:41:47,332 Call Miss Nicoletta von Niebuhr. Find the number and call her. 1016 01:41:56,543 --> 01:41:58,511 Shall I make coffee, or tea? 1017 01:41:58,645 --> 01:42:01,614 Shall I become manager? Yes or no? 1018 01:42:02,716 --> 01:42:06,345 Can I? May I? Must I? 1019 01:42:07,054 --> 01:42:10,512 Is it my duty? Can I make myself useful? 1020 01:42:10,624 --> 01:42:14,458 I mean, can I help anyone? And if so, should I? 1021 01:42:15,596 --> 01:42:19,259 Or shall I look at it as a new role? 1022 01:42:19,433 --> 01:42:21,526 Or shall I emigrate to America? 1023 01:42:21,635 --> 01:42:24,900 I can earn as much in films as Dora Martin. 1024 01:42:25,539 --> 01:42:29,498 If I accept such an office of this go vernment, then... 1025 01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:34,980 Do I want to, at all? 1026 01:42:36,783 --> 01:42:38,580 They need me. 1027 01:42:40,020 --> 01:42:42,215 I was about to emigrate... 1028 01:42:42,322 --> 01:42:46,850 ... and the Prussian Minister asks me to rescue his theater. 1029 01:42:46,994 --> 01:42:49,929 Tomorrow morning I must give him an answer. 1030 01:42:51,198 --> 01:42:55,897 Hea ven evidently has great plans for me. 1031 01:42:56,069 --> 01:42:57,468 Then you've won. 1032 01:42:59,973 --> 01:43:01,702 Would you help me? 1033 01:43:03,343 --> 01:43:05,641 I'd be proud of you. 1034 01:43:08,782 --> 01:43:11,307 Yes, I'll help you Hendrik. 1035 01:43:25,966 --> 01:43:28,059 If only one could live fore ver. 1036 01:43:38,045 --> 01:43:42,539 Here's your passport for France. You have five minutes to pack. 1037 01:43:42,716 --> 01:43:44,115 Yes, but why? 1038 01:43:44,218 --> 01:43:46,482 We're waiting. Hurry up. 1039 01:43:57,497 --> 01:44:00,432 You needn't thank me for this raise. 1040 01:44:00,534 --> 01:44:04,061 I made it a condition for taking over this job. 1041 01:44:04,238 --> 01:44:06,035 Everything's co vered with dust. 1042 01:44:06,607 --> 01:44:12,443 If you don't clean the dressing rooms as well as all the others... 1043 01:44:13,046 --> 01:44:16,447 ...you may have to look for another job. 1044 01:44:16,817 --> 01:44:22,187 I hope we'll get along. If you have any problems, come to me. 1045 01:44:22,289 --> 01:44:25,986 I would like to treat you all to coffee. 1046 01:44:27,995 --> 01:44:32,193 Allow me to give you the money. I'm sorry I can't come with you. 1047 01:44:32,366 --> 01:44:35,062 Joachim would like to speak to you. 1048 01:44:35,168 --> 01:44:36,430 Wait, Hannelore! 1049 01:44:37,204 --> 01:44:39,035 Wait, Hannelore! 1050 01:44:44,378 --> 01:44:47,108 So, now he can enter. 1051 01:44:47,347 --> 01:44:54,116 Please consider decent roles for me. You're not like the other managers. 1052 01:44:54,221 --> 01:44:57,281 You're an actor yourself. You understand. 1053 01:44:58,392 --> 01:45:01,418 I must act as if he's sa ying something important. 1054 01:45:03,163 --> 01:45:07,463 When you talk to actors, you must put them at ease. That goes for me, too. 1055 01:45:07,634 --> 01:45:14,335 No, I don't like Premieres. All night one has to wear a big, frozen smile. 1056 01:45:14,441 --> 01:45:16,807 I hate that. 1057 01:45:18,879 --> 01:45:23,316 You think it's a good costume? I don't! I think it's terrible! 1058 01:45:24,184 --> 01:45:26,846 Good morning, Mr. Kappelm�ller. How are you? 1059 01:45:26,953 --> 01:45:29,046 - Good. - How's the family? 1060 01:45:29,156 --> 01:45:32,956 So your da ughter graduated as a hairdresser. Ma ybe we can use her. 1061 01:45:33,860 --> 01:45:35,191 Good morning. 1062 01:45:37,197 --> 01:45:43,102 Ha ven't you noticed? New suit, new shoes, new manager, no? Well. 1063 01:45:43,470 --> 01:45:48,737 ... ex-Bolshe vik H�fgen, manager of the Prussian State Theater... 1064 01:45:48,842 --> 01:45:53,541 ... is letting his former comrade appear in his production of Hamlet. 1065 01:45:59,419 --> 01:46:03,753 Hannelore! Was the cast list for Hamlet posted yet? 1066 01:46:03,857 --> 01:46:04,915 Not yet. 1067 01:46:05,659 --> 01:46:09,891 Good. Let's wait another two days. Thank you. 1068 01:46:15,736 --> 01:46:18,830 I must offer them more than old comrades. 1069 01:46:19,106 --> 01:46:24,271 You must cultivate connections. That's the essence of the system. 1070 01:46:24,411 --> 01:46:28,871 Let me tell you, yesterday I went to the Prussian State Theater... 1071 01:46:28,982 --> 01:46:33,976 ... it was Fa ust and the name of some white-faced clown was Mephisto. 1072 01:46:34,087 --> 01:46:38,990 What a joke! And Mephisto by some man called H�fgen, it was terrible! 1073 01:46:39,092 --> 01:46:43,552 I'd rather go to the Ba varian People's Theater. Goodbye then. 1074 01:46:44,398 --> 01:46:47,060 Why am I doing all this? 1075 01:46:48,368 --> 01:46:49,858 Beca use I enjoy it. 1076 01:46:49,970 --> 01:46:55,408 I must enjoy amateur plays and use actors that are blonde not talented. 1077 01:46:55,509 --> 01:46:57,807 Most are totally untalented. 1078 01:46:57,978 --> 01:47:02,438 A Frankfurt a udience appla uded Marquis Posa's... 1079 01:47:02,549 --> 01:47:06,713 ... 'Give us freedom of thought'. Performance stopped, play withdrawn. 1080 01:47:06,820 --> 01:47:11,553 In Munich, 'The Robbers', withdrawn. Schiller, our national poet! 1081 01:47:11,658 --> 01:47:16,527 They want to produce plays by German a uthors. But what a uthors? 1082 01:47:16,663 --> 01:47:22,624 Those who haven't emigrated aren't allowed to write, or won't. 1083 01:47:23,737 --> 01:47:28,674 It's simply impossible to offer theater worthy of the name. 1084 01:47:28,842 --> 01:47:36,112 Unless I dig up a couple of old farces. All Rococco wigs and white faces. 1085 01:47:39,186 --> 01:47:45,819 The joke is that the regime now sees Shakespeare as one of our own. 1086 01:47:45,926 --> 01:47:50,226 Let's do 'As You Like lt', 'Where the Banished Return.' 1087 01:47:50,530 --> 01:47:54,523 Show the opponents of dictatorship that the will for freedom still lives. 1088 01:47:54,634 --> 01:47:58,400 I didn't hear that! I can't possibly have heard that! 1089 01:48:05,445 --> 01:48:07,743 Am I not an incredible villain? 1090 01:48:09,549 --> 01:48:12,245 Isn't what I'm doing insane? 1091 01:48:18,124 --> 01:48:21,651 "F�rst and Niklisch, both on the staff of your theater... 1092 01:48:21,962 --> 01:48:26,956 ... on grounds of German racial purity... dismiss them." 1093 01:48:28,068 --> 01:48:30,059 - Good morning. - Good morning. 1094 01:48:31,171 --> 01:48:34,732 - Well, how are you? - Fine. 1095 01:48:37,611 --> 01:48:41,604 - And you? - Everything all right. 1096 01:48:41,982 --> 01:48:45,748 The stage-hands that are concerned, F�rst and Niklisch... 1097 01:48:46,620 --> 01:48:48,952 ... are indispensable... 1098 01:48:51,725 --> 01:48:55,320 ... and the loss of their services... 1099 01:48:55,929 --> 01:49:01,060 ...would jeopardize the theater's work. Date. Heil! Signature. 1100 01:49:06,239 --> 01:49:09,333 Germans! Don't tolerate Nazi oppression. 1101 01:50:22,916 --> 01:50:25,111 Embassy of the German Reich 1102 01:50:49,242 --> 01:50:53,235 Did you bring me anything from Germany? A leather coat, at least? 1103 01:50:53,747 --> 01:50:55,180 - Leather coat? - Yes. 1104 01:50:55,281 --> 01:51:01,413 It's the fashion for men. Those who took me to the frontier had them. 1105 01:51:06,793 --> 01:51:10,923 Your eyes are so dead, how do they look? 1106 01:51:11,531 --> 01:51:14,329 - Empty? - No, dazed. 1107 01:51:14,434 --> 01:51:16,925 Yes, that's how I felt these past days. 1108 01:51:17,037 --> 01:51:19,733 You see? You were ne ver like that. 1109 01:51:21,274 --> 01:51:25,404 I've thought a lot about you. I believe I should be grateful. 1110 01:51:26,079 --> 01:51:30,072 Without you, I'd be in a concentration camp, or already dead. 1111 01:51:32,018 --> 01:51:36,250 If you still like being with me, then stay here. 1112 01:51:36,489 --> 01:51:40,152 I'll look after you. You needn't leave the house, not at first. 1113 01:51:40,260 --> 01:51:43,252 Then we'll find jobs. You're so gifted. 1114 01:51:44,030 --> 01:51:47,124 - I could have gone to America. - There you go. 1115 01:51:47,734 --> 01:51:50,828 I think I really was gifted. 1116 01:51:51,071 --> 01:51:53,062 But also a terrible coward. 1117 01:51:53,707 --> 01:51:58,235 What do I do elsewhere? Be an extra, a stage-hand, a technician? 1118 01:51:59,612 --> 01:52:03,480 Do you think these hands were made for manual labor? 1119 01:52:03,850 --> 01:52:06,842 I'll provide for you. What else do you want? 1120 01:52:07,887 --> 01:52:09,081 Success. 1121 01:52:09,189 --> 01:52:13,523 Hendrik H�fgen, just imagine... you'd belong to me. 1122 01:52:16,062 --> 01:52:19,361 Juliette, I have to go now. 1123 01:52:21,534 --> 01:52:24,628 - Shall I see you again? - I don't know. 1124 01:52:24,738 --> 01:52:30,005 - Can I see you off at the station? - No, you don't fit into the picture. 1125 01:52:32,979 --> 01:52:36,642 All right, forget the station. Just do what you want. 1126 01:52:37,317 --> 01:52:38,784 I do. 1127 01:52:40,754 --> 01:52:42,244 That's why I'm here. 1128 01:52:45,125 --> 01:52:49,221 Juliette, don't write anymore. It's no good. 1129 01:53:33,373 --> 01:53:35,807 There aren't many people in this caf�. 1130 01:53:38,645 --> 01:53:41,705 Would you prefer to sit in the sun? You like that. 1131 01:53:41,815 --> 01:53:45,444 No. Though I haven't had much sunshine lately. 1132 01:53:48,755 --> 01:53:52,247 May I ask you something? Do you still live alone? 1133 01:53:52,826 --> 01:53:55,420 No, I've got friends. And you? 1134 01:53:56,162 --> 01:54:00,189 Friends... in times like these? It's difficult. 1135 01:54:01,501 --> 01:54:05,801 How can you still live in Berlin? What keeps you there? 1136 01:54:05,905 --> 01:54:08,305 Barbara, I live in the theater. 1137 01:54:08,474 --> 01:54:10,339 And that is in Berlin? 1138 01:54:10,476 --> 01:54:14,310 I don't think you can judge from Paris. 1139 01:54:18,251 --> 01:54:22,813 You're more than an actor now. You took an oath. You're a manager. 1140 01:54:23,056 --> 01:54:26,025 I didn't take the oath, I just mo ved my lips. 1141 01:54:26,125 --> 01:54:29,526 Someone has to save our values for a better world. 1142 01:54:29,662 --> 01:54:35,658 I'm playing Hamlet, whether those in power like Shakespeare or not. 1143 01:54:36,002 --> 01:54:42,464 Shakespeare is their ornament to prove "we're not as bad as you think". 1144 01:54:42,575 --> 01:54:44,304 You can't stay in Berlin. 1145 01:54:44,444 --> 01:54:49,006 I have a family in Berlin. You know I'm married to the theater. 1146 01:54:49,382 --> 01:54:52,249 I can help people who are ha ving a hard time. 1147 01:54:52,352 --> 01:54:55,719 If I leave, nothing better will replace me. 1148 01:54:56,289 --> 01:54:57,347 Words! 1149 01:54:58,358 --> 01:55:00,622 It's always the same with you. 1150 01:55:00,727 --> 01:55:04,026 Your method of self-deception is still intact. 1151 01:55:04,831 --> 01:55:10,770 Don't you see? Whoe ver you save, it's only a gesture to your friends. 1152 01:55:11,104 --> 01:55:15,632 You're in a show-case, legalizing these people will be attached to you. 1153 01:55:15,775 --> 01:55:19,541 We can't choose when and where we're born. 1154 01:55:19,846 --> 01:55:21,837 An entire people can't emigrate. 1155 01:55:21,948 --> 01:55:27,181 As an actor I'm obliged to live in my country, to observe and portray it. 1156 01:55:27,287 --> 01:55:31,485 And I can tell you, there are decent people among them. 1157 01:55:31,858 --> 01:55:38,923 I hate coffee shop intellectuals and I hate such resistance-fighters, too. 1158 01:55:39,032 --> 01:55:44,937 The really valuable, such as theater and art can rise above everything. 1159 01:55:45,371 --> 01:55:46,998 That's my conviction. 1160 01:55:47,173 --> 01:55:49,607 Why did you want to meet me? 1161 01:55:50,176 --> 01:55:53,703 Well, I don't really know why. 1162 01:55:57,450 --> 01:55:59,975 It might even be dangerous for you. 1163 01:56:03,556 --> 01:56:07,083 Tell me, Barbara, did you ever... 1164 01:56:08,661 --> 01:56:10,253 ... really love me? 1165 01:56:13,232 --> 01:56:19,569 Why did I come here toda y? If you'd been listening, you wouldn't ask that. 1166 01:56:21,274 --> 01:56:24,801 If you don't accept what's happening in Germany... 1167 01:56:24,911 --> 01:56:26,845 ...why do you still live there? 1168 01:56:26,980 --> 01:56:29,414 What does freedom mean for you? 1169 01:56:29,682 --> 01:56:34,176 Do you need it to live? Or do you just need to be successful and loved? 1170 01:56:34,454 --> 01:56:37,787 I'm satisfied with success. It means many love me. 1171 01:56:37,890 --> 01:56:40,688 And the fury of the envious does me good. 1172 01:56:41,127 --> 01:56:45,723 Don't make me responsible for the impotence of your friends. 1173 01:56:45,865 --> 01:56:48,891 - Mr. H�fgen. - Mr. Da vidson, this is a surprise. 1174 01:57:04,350 --> 01:57:06,978 The check, please. 1175 01:57:08,121 --> 01:57:09,679 Have I come too early? 1176 01:57:10,890 --> 01:57:12,255 Farewell, Barbara. 1177 01:57:15,028 --> 01:57:16,393 May I pa y? 1178 01:57:34,881 --> 01:57:36,610 What could I do here? 1179 01:57:49,095 --> 01:57:50,460 Freedom... 1180 01:57:52,065 --> 01:57:53,259 What for? 1181 01:59:14,480 --> 01:59:16,072 Oberon and Titania. 1182 01:59:21,687 --> 01:59:23,154 Congratulations! 1183 01:59:24,657 --> 01:59:31,256 I greet our wonderful and truly tantalizing German bride and groom. 1184 01:59:31,364 --> 01:59:34,959 Two young, yet mature people... 1185 01:59:35,067 --> 01:59:39,527 ... of purest race and noblest blood, who have enchanted us... 1186 01:59:39,639 --> 01:59:44,542 ... and who serve our new society! 1187 01:59:51,217 --> 01:59:54,084 - Thank you. - All the best. 1188 02:00:01,561 --> 02:00:04,359 General, nice of you to come. 1189 02:00:04,797 --> 02:00:09,131 They can say what they want. For me, the world is Grunewald. 1190 02:00:13,406 --> 02:00:18,742 I'll remain a German artist and patriot, no matter who may rule my land. 1191 02:00:18,878 --> 02:00:22,473 Grunewald is my fa vorite place... 1192 02:00:22,582 --> 02:00:25,813 ... and what other country brews such good beer? 1193 02:00:25,918 --> 02:00:28,512 C�sar, nice to see you. 1194 02:00:31,290 --> 02:00:36,250 You can hold your rehearsals in this villa. 1195 02:00:37,830 --> 02:00:42,392 We're very proud of the wa y you spoke in Paris. 1196 02:00:42,501 --> 02:00:47,803 The way you simply answered all the questions... 1197 02:00:48,407 --> 02:00:53,140 ... and said quite frankly and honestly what it's like here. 1198 02:02:04,250 --> 02:02:06,184 Carry on dancing. 1199 02:02:07,820 --> 02:02:08,844 Good evening. 1200 02:02:10,790 --> 02:02:14,851 Now, that's a surprise! I won't say no to that. 1201 02:02:26,138 --> 02:02:29,198 - Congratulations, my Mephisto. - Thank you. 1202 02:02:29,308 --> 02:02:34,905 Now, as old Admiral Tirpitz said: "Target sighted! Full speed ahead!" 1203 02:02:35,014 --> 02:02:38,211 I'm looking forward to your Hamlet, my Mephisto. 1204 02:02:39,585 --> 02:02:44,545 Your interview in Paris made a good impression on all of us. 1205 02:02:46,892 --> 02:02:51,261 Congratulations! And lots of healthy German boys! 1206 02:02:51,630 --> 02:02:52,619 Thank you. 1207 02:02:56,168 --> 02:02:57,192 Madam? 1208 02:03:01,774 --> 02:03:02,866 Bea utiful. 1209 02:03:09,515 --> 02:03:13,349 Yes, very much to my taste. 1210 02:03:27,333 --> 02:03:28,732 Very lovely. 1211 02:03:31,303 --> 02:03:32,770 Thank you, Madam. 1212 02:03:36,075 --> 02:03:37,099 Cheers! 1213 02:03:40,513 --> 02:03:43,004 We have no working hours, just work. 1214 02:03:43,983 --> 02:03:45,974 I'm sorry, I must go now. 1215 02:03:51,090 --> 02:03:54,685 Be happy together... Hamlet. 1216 02:06:01,320 --> 02:06:07,054 Lately I've been wondering whether we actually deserve all this. 1217 02:06:07,793 --> 02:06:11,524 If I'm forced to answer, then I must say "Yes." 1218 02:06:11,630 --> 02:06:16,067 If not we, who represent individuality and art... 1219 02:06:16,635 --> 02:06:21,629 ...who else should, can and must rise above all that happens in the world? 1220 02:06:21,740 --> 02:06:26,074 That's why we're an example and encouragement to others. 1221 02:06:26,245 --> 02:06:28,941 No matter how filthy the world is... 1222 02:06:29,048 --> 02:06:34,418 ...true art always remains pure and true, doesn't it? 1223 02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:36,750 I'm married to the theater. 1224 02:06:37,823 --> 02:06:38,983 And so are you. 1225 02:06:39,992 --> 02:06:45,453 I can't contact Otto Ulrichs. I sent a messenger to his flat... 1226 02:06:45,564 --> 02:06:52,436 ... but he was told that two men took Ulrichs away two days ago. 1227 02:07:05,284 --> 02:07:09,778 Call the Prime Minister and connect me with him. 1228 02:07:11,323 --> 02:07:15,760 If he's not there, ask for an appointment as soon as possible. 1229 02:07:18,063 --> 02:07:19,690 - Hello? - Give it to me. 1230 02:07:21,233 --> 02:07:22,393 H�fgen. 1231 02:07:23,902 --> 02:07:27,929 - Hello. - Do come in. 1232 02:07:39,985 --> 02:07:42,476 - Hello. - Do come in. 1233 02:07:48,594 --> 02:07:50,562 Well, what's going on? 1234 02:07:51,697 --> 02:07:55,224 Recently you helped me, on behalf of a colleague. 1235 02:07:56,969 --> 02:07:59,096 Now I have to ask again for help. 1236 02:08:00,639 --> 02:08:01,936 The thing is... 1237 02:08:03,075 --> 02:08:10,174 ... a few days ago, Otto Ulrichs was taken from his apartment. 1238 02:08:11,817 --> 02:08:15,378 - Is this why you've come? - Yes, Ex cellency. 1239 02:08:15,754 --> 02:08:21,249 I'm fed up with you, H�fgen. These matters are outside your jurisdiction. 1240 02:08:21,860 --> 02:08:24,693 Keep your nose out of this affair. 1241 02:08:25,164 --> 02:08:28,361 I'll give you some good advice: Stop meddling. 1242 02:08:28,467 --> 02:08:31,800 You'd do better minding your own business... 1243 02:08:31,904 --> 02:08:36,807 ... so you won't get crushed like a bug! Think you matter? 1244 02:08:38,077 --> 02:08:40,136 Ulrichs was involved in dirty work. 1245 02:08:40,245 --> 02:08:44,909 My State Theater manager ought not show such interest in a traitor. 1246 02:08:45,517 --> 02:08:46,541 Now go. 1247 02:08:47,052 --> 02:08:48,485 I told you to go. 1248 02:08:49,455 --> 02:08:51,582 Get out, actor! 1249 02:09:36,468 --> 02:09:40,666 I know how much I and the theater owe to the General. 1250 02:09:40,773 --> 02:09:44,539 I also know that to a great e xtent we owe it to you. 1251 02:09:44,710 --> 02:09:49,147 Dear Lotte, that's why I ask you to intervene for Ulrichs. 1252 02:09:49,248 --> 02:09:53,548 - I'm so worried. - Worried? But he's dead. 1253 02:09:54,052 --> 02:09:58,580 Didn't you know? As far as I know, he committed suicide. 1254 02:10:01,660 --> 02:10:02,888 Suicide. 1255 02:10:05,764 --> 02:10:09,791 He knew the risks he ran. I think he's more to be envied. 1256 02:10:52,211 --> 02:10:57,706 The Prince of Denmark renounces rank, youth and love. 1257 02:10:57,850 --> 02:10:59,977 He is the savior of the North. 1258 02:11:00,085 --> 02:11:06,046 The lonely knight with lofty ideals, the ideal of purity of blood and race. 1259 02:11:06,158 --> 02:11:10,686 Hamlet is a complex character, too. A great and simple man. 1260 02:11:10,796 --> 02:11:15,563 Despite repeating myself so soon: He is a man of the North. 1261 02:11:15,767 --> 02:11:21,205 He kills. And in his self-destructing battle... 1262 02:11:22,741 --> 02:11:24,800 ... he shows us the way to the future. 1263 02:11:24,910 --> 02:11:29,472 He commands us to lead a pure life. That is his bequest to us today. 1264 02:11:29,581 --> 02:11:34,848 He is not weak, yet actors have often portra yed him as neurotic... 1265 02:11:34,953 --> 02:11:39,981 ... a pathological re volutionary, thus as a decadent type. 1266 02:11:40,092 --> 02:11:42,390 Hamlet is a hard man. 1267 02:11:42,494 --> 02:11:48,262 You will see him as an energetic, resolute hero. 1268 02:11:48,467 --> 02:11:54,497 He is also a hazard for the Germans. We constantly analyze too much. 1269 02:11:54,606 --> 02:11:57,700 For the hour demands actions, not only thoughts. 1270 02:11:57,809 --> 02:12:00,243 Least of all corruptive reflection. 1271 02:12:00,679 --> 02:12:06,015 Hamlet is the tragic conflict between action and inaction. 1272 02:12:06,218 --> 02:12:10,211 Between hesitating, thinking and doing. 1273 02:12:11,089 --> 02:12:15,287 And we, the bearers of German culture... 1274 02:12:15,494 --> 02:12:17,962 ... know what to make of that. 1275 02:12:18,297 --> 02:12:20,527 Hamlet is a populist drama. 1276 02:12:20,632 --> 02:12:24,432 Neither religious, aristocratic, nor bourgeois... 1277 02:12:24,536 --> 02:12:26,936 ... but a work like the Greek tragedies. 1278 02:12:27,039 --> 02:12:31,976 So we'll abolish the barrier between a udience and actor. 1279 02:12:32,477 --> 02:12:36,538 Space, light, mo vements, sounds are everything... 1280 02:12:36,648 --> 02:12:41,551 ... and even the spectators merge into one great, common effect. 1281 02:12:41,920 --> 02:12:44,650 We must bring about total theater. 1282 02:12:45,057 --> 02:12:49,289 A theater that shocks and mobilizes. 1283 02:13:57,562 --> 02:14:01,521 It cost 60,000 marks to decorate the theater for tonight... 1284 02:14:01,633 --> 02:14:04,534 ... and five days loss of takings. 1285 02:14:04,636 --> 02:14:08,732 A nice birthday party. And we have to participate in this circus. 1286 02:14:08,840 --> 02:14:10,831 - Good evening. - Good evening. 1287 02:14:59,491 --> 02:15:02,983 The only place you will find a party like this is in Berlin. 1288 02:15:21,813 --> 02:15:25,044 Dearest Bella, we haven't met in ages. 1289 02:15:25,150 --> 02:15:27,744 Are you well? Not homesick? 1290 02:15:27,853 --> 02:15:32,950 I'm sure you're fantastically well and your great son is flourishing. 1291 02:15:42,400 --> 02:15:45,699 Dear H�fgen, how are you? How is the party going? 1292 02:15:45,937 --> 02:15:47,632 People seem to enjoy it. 1293 02:15:47,739 --> 02:15:52,233 Your Hamlet was magnificent. The boss was quite taken. 1294 02:15:52,344 --> 02:15:59,944 After the premiere he spoke only of you and the theater. 1295 02:16:00,085 --> 02:16:03,680 Success is strange. Sometimes you have it, sometimes not. 1296 02:16:03,788 --> 02:16:09,749 No, dear H�fgen, you give people something, you create. 1297 02:16:12,197 --> 02:16:13,357 Here they come. 1298 02:17:44,322 --> 02:17:47,758 - How are you, Mephisto? - Very well, Your Ex cellency. 1299 02:17:49,127 --> 02:17:52,528 I haven't told you, how wonderful your Hamlet was. 1300 02:17:52,631 --> 02:17:55,566 I'm very glad. Allow me to say a few words. 1301 02:17:56,768 --> 02:18:02,536 Mr. Prime Minister, Madam, ladies and gentlemen. 1302 02:18:03,341 --> 02:18:10,611 We are proud to be able to celebrate this day with you in this theater. 1303 02:18:10,849 --> 02:18:12,578 Since I have the honor... 1304 02:18:12,717 --> 02:18:15,584 ... of greeting you on behalf of everyone present... 1305 02:18:15,687 --> 02:18:19,817 ... I salute the statesman and soldier... 1306 02:18:19,924 --> 02:18:23,416 ...friend and generous patron of the arts. 1307 02:18:24,796 --> 02:18:28,391 We admire him as our role model, love him as our friend... 1308 02:18:28,533 --> 02:18:30,228 ... obey him as our master... 1309 02:18:30,368 --> 02:18:34,532 ...for without patrons, art is a bird with broken wings. 1310 02:18:34,773 --> 02:18:38,504 As the poet says: "May the gods protect you... 1311 02:18:38,610 --> 02:18:41,704 ... and may the heart of Rome beat for your aims". 1312 02:18:49,587 --> 02:18:54,854 The Prime Minister wishes to speak to you outside, in his car. 1313 02:18:55,427 --> 02:18:56,689 You alone. 1314 02:19:00,665 --> 02:19:03,600 Nicoletta will take you home. I won't be long. 1315 02:20:00,225 --> 02:20:03,854 Well, Mephisto, what power is looking down on you here. 1316 02:20:04,262 --> 02:20:05,991 Do you feel it? 1317 02:20:06,831 --> 02:20:12,633 This is theater! Look at this arena. It's almost ready. Wonderful, isn't it? 1318 02:20:13,405 --> 02:20:16,067 This is where I'd stage a performance. 1319 02:20:16,941 --> 02:20:21,139 Don't blink, Hendrik, look history in the eye. What an echo. 1320 02:20:23,715 --> 02:20:26,081 Hendrik H�fgen! 1321 02:20:29,421 --> 02:20:34,085 We shall rule Europe and the world. A thousand-year empire. 1322 02:20:34,426 --> 02:20:37,224 Hendrik H�fgen! 1323 02:20:46,337 --> 02:20:48,897 Go! Get going! 1324 02:20:52,677 --> 02:20:53,871 I nto the middle! 1325 02:21:12,297 --> 02:21:15,061 Well, how do you enjoy this limelight? 1326 02:21:16,568 --> 02:21:18,729 This is the real light, isn't it? 1327 02:21:53,071 --> 02:21:56,268 What do they want of me? After all... 1328 02:21:57,075 --> 02:21:59,236 ... I'm only an actor. 1329 02:22:00,305 --> 02:22:06,929 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from OpenSubtitles.org 111263

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