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MOROMETII

PART TWO

Ilinca, gimme some flowers!

Shut up, you!

Not long ago, you were watching the sheep

and now you want a garland.

The school master told me to bring a garland.

You'd better stop working and come to church!

It's in hell your soul will rot!

What's hell? Has anyone returned from there?

That's right!

It can't be worse than here.

And what's the soul?

- A steam floating about. - Yes, floating.

What must be in your souls...

- The evil one's reigning there! - He's reigning!

Mother! Tell her to give me some flowers!

- I need them for the garland. - Take some from the garden.

It isn't you who digs this garden...

Since when are you so stingy?

Where might those boys be?

They've taken the horses grazing.

Why haven't they come back?

Go and ask them!

I had arranged with the elder one to repair my attic.

What have you done with those horses?

Can't you hear me?

The guards chased them into the oats field.

To hell with you!

You are good - for - nothings!

To hell with your muzzles and all!

You're a couple of fools.

- Daddy! - What d'ye want?

Gimme your hat to go to the school festivity.

Go away!

Give it to him, he's been moaning since morning.

Here! You've got a head like a barrel.

What're you doing at school?

- Moromete, are you at home? - Where else?

Wipe off those horses!

- Hello! - Have a cigarette!

Come on, I'll stand a plum - brandy!

What's come over you?

Is it the first time I stand a treat?

- What did Aristide say? - To hell with him!

That elections are near...

No one'll get to see the elections!

You mean there'll be no elections?

How can someone rule without being elected?

You know what I did last night?

I rolled cigarettes and I thought.

All the night I was smoking and thinking.

Till I felt I was bursting and I fell asleep.

What did you think of?

I won't tell you because you won't keep mum.

What did you think of?

Two men had come to the pub by a gig.

They was smart but spoke rubbish.

They says the iron - guardists will come to power!

That the parties've brought the country to ruin

and it must be stopped from rolling over.

And Victor, Slobbery's son, will stop it.

- You're talking nonsense. - You're dumb.

The iron - guardists are no joking matter.

How many votes did they get in winter?

"Three she - cats quarrelling one day. Went to the tomcat who was idling away ".

- What's going on there? - A school festivity.

Let's go and see.

"To make equal the parts Biting off he starts"

"He ate till his tummy was full The she - cats were left with the crumbs"

"But they had to abide by his rule"

What a smart tomcat!

First prize for boys: Moromete Niculae!

- Who's son is he? - Moromete's!

Take off your hat!

Poor boy! He can't wear a hat!

Tell the poem!

"The hardworking reapers Sacks under their arms"

That's enough, Niculae.

"Getting..."

"Along"...

"the furrow..."

That's enough, Niculae.

Why won't he let him tell the poem?

What's the matter with you? Tell me!

I got the fever again.

Can you walk?

Come over to the sunny side!

Daddy, I'm getting numb, I'm very cold.

I'll get down!

Come on!

To hell with it all!

You are all getting ill when you shouldn't.

You will never listen to me.

Niculae, wake up! Come!

- Wake up! - Let him sleep a little longer!

Get that food ready!

What d'you think I'm doing?

Get up, we're going reaping.

Nila! Fill that up!

Where are the sickles?

You expect them to clink like bells?

- Let's oil the wheels - I oiled them yesterday.

We got to reap for aunt Maria, too.

. Don't forget the onion

Where is the anvil?

Here it is!

- Mother! - We've left the salt behind.

Come on, faster!

Niculae!

If Bisisica'd been here, you'd've slept more.

Nila, measure those shares!

- Why don't you do it? - I am busy!

- Measure the shares and shut up! - Niculae!

Start over! What the hell! Noon is near!

Go to hell with your muzzle, you.

Do you have a needle? My skirt is torn.

Let me see how it cuts!

I won't reap with this!

Come on, start!

Nila, Manda is asking about you...

Niculae, start reaping!

Why don't you like Manda anymore?

She already has a hope chest.

Victor, lower it down!

Hey, Nila!

Ask the storks to pick up the ears...

- Why are you staring? - You pick'em up!

Come on, father, tie the sheaves!

Why are you shouting? You've scared me!

How hot it is!

I'm gonna move away!

Hey, Voicu!

This sun's gonna melt us.

- Who? - The sun!

Can't you feel it's burning?

To hell with you and your cigarettes, Ilie.

Ilie! The bundles're getting dry,

and all you care about is chatting.

Firica, the horse's got nothing to eat.

Get some grass from the maize field.

The Romanian'll have lots of bread...

Isn't that Birica with Polina?

- Have they made it up with Slobbery? - How should I know?

- Hello! - Hello, Birica!

They'll get into a fight now.

Hello, uncle Tudor!

We've come to reap. Let's reach an understanding.

You think I'll speak to you?

Firica, call Victor here!

Don't go!

Go! Who are you listening to?

Uncle Tudor, let's get to an understanding.

Why are you staring?

. Victor, come quick, father is asking for you!

Let's measure your share!

Birica's?

What's he got to do with our plot?

- Hey, Birica's son! - Let him bark!

What are you doing here? I'll bury you!

You, hitting Victor?

Hasn't she worked for you? Isn't she your daughter?

Stop it, folks!

- So you're hitting me! - Leave him alone Go away!

So folks won't say I've chased the girl away.

We shall see.

Why didn't you let me?

Victor, Birica has blunted your faculties.

- Down! - Leave him alone, he's worked hard,

and he got the first prize at school.

You hold the sickle as if it was a stork.

Come to dinner!

Can't you hear?

Why haven't you heated it?

I thought it was cold.

You neither work nor keep your mouth shut.

How should I know it was hot?

Mother...

- Sleep! - Have you told father?

Yes, I have.

You see I've got a prize without going to school too often.

After 8 years I'll be a school - master.

Why not a priest?

Are you resting or what?

What do you want, Niculae? You wanna go to school? Now? Today?

Have you forgotten me here?

Careful, you've had us covered with dust.

Anton! Move this aside!

Tell mother we're thrashing. She's got to kill a hen.

Run! You hear me?

And give you money to buy some plum - brandy.

Hey, Tugurlan.

- Have a cigarette? - You'll get about 600...

- What? Bushels? - Yes.

No! But there will be about 500...

The Romanian'll eat plenty of bread...

- How many acres have you got from the estate? - Two.

And you give half to Mrs. Marica.

I also get the straws.

Why do you work her land?

- What can I do? - Go elsewhere.

How's that to give her half your work?

Can't you hear I get the straws, too?

- You mean it's more that half... - Yes.

That's different then.

To hell with Mrs. Marica!

Tell me, will the Government come out of power?

Tugurlan! Come with me!

Stan!

What're you gonna do, Stan?

To see if there's less flour.

If it isn't less, I won't do anything.

Udubeasca, 2 sacks.

Ciinaru, 3 sacks.

Why did you beat Ion?

Your brother did.

You've come again?

To call me a thief?

Why did he call you a thief?

Because you steal the folks' flour.

What did you say?

Son - of - a - bitch!

Go away or he'll kill you!

Run away, Tugurlan!

He went to bring help.

Let's weigh the sacks! I'll sue them!

Why should I run away?

- Why are you hitting me? - I'll tell you at the police station.

And you come to the station, too...

Why d'you hit when you don't know what's happened?

I don't know what's it all about?

- You started the fight with Mr. Tache. - He started the fight with me.

Why didn't you come to tell me?

I asked why there was less flour.

And he started hitting me.

Take them to the police station.

Flour missing, you say?

The mayor is a thief?

For everybody he is the mayor, and for you he is a thief.

Yes! For me, he is a thief!

Florica, you've found your match...

Lay your hands on him!

Lay your hands on him!

Why are you setting the gendarmes on me?

Because you are not honest!

You are afraid people'll find out you are a thief...

Come to get your gun.

Gimme the gun!

Gimme the gun!

Tugurlan!

Now I'll see how you get on without a gun...

Tugurlan!

Gimme the gun or you'll be in trouble!

- Hello, Moromete! - What's the matter with you?

Have a cigarette!

Now, it's against me you're bearing a grudge.

If I'd had my way, I'd have just thrashed him.

Aristide has telephoned the prefect.

Come on, they have to get to Rosiori.

It'll pass, believe me!

Good luck to you, Tugurlan!

Father!

Father!

What is it?

I am going to school.

So go!

You'll see I go.

Niculae, come to eat.

Stop laughing at him.

You want some more?

Is that why you've gone there?

Where, father?

Where? To Bucharest.

I meet Scamosu and he says:

"Achim is a big wig in Bucharest".

"Well, maybe he is".

"I was at the Obor market in a pub"

"to have a drink"

"and I saw Achim".

"With him was abroad who used to be a servant":

"He was so dressed up I could hardly recognize him".

"He had a tie..."

"and shoes".

That's it!

What if he had a tie and shoes?

Maybe he found them second - hand...

I didn't say anything, did I?

Ilie!

Ilie!

Can't you hear me?

I'm afraid something will happen to Niculae.

What could happen?

Don't you understand he loves school?

Let him go!

Ilie!

I can't stand it anymore!

I can't sleep any longer.

These dreams are torturing me!

I dreamt Niculae was taken to hospital,

and when I went there

there was a little light at the morgue.

"Oh, God, the boy is dead!" And I woke up.

Two months have passed, he should send the money from Bucharest.

Tell me straight: Yes or no.

Or else I'll sell an acre and get money for school.

What's the matter with you, boy?

- My book... - What about it?

She's taken it so I won't go to school.

I don't give a damn about your books.

Niculae! You hear me?

I'll tell you where it is...

You have no pity for him! He'll get ill again.

Let him! Or you've already seen him a gentleman?

With words, it's easy to send him to school...

Open the gates.

You've got so much hate in you!

If your father were to die, you'd throw us out.

And I brought you up as if you were my own.

Come on, get up!

Move away!

Can't you hear me?

Them here's hidden the book.

What did you do with the boy's book?

Ask Ilinca...

I've seen a book in the dung heap.

Go look for it!

Wipe it with your tongue, ass-hole!

Moromete!

Here!

- What do you want? - Pay the land tax!

Haven't I paid it?

Will you pay or won't you?

You've got five hundred bushels of wheat!

The price is to low now.

If you don't pay up in two hours' time

I'll come to take your cow.

Come on!

Come to Dumitru.

Why do you keep pestering me?

Why don't you pay your taxes?

- Allow me two months more. - I can't.

I am not the state to exempt you from taxes.

It's to the state you've got to pay, not to me.

I haven't! What will you do to me?

I'll take the cow from your yard!

The state doesn't ask you to force me. Wait.

The state has money, not like me.

I have waited enough! It's over!

This year, finances are stricter than ever.

Here's the order! You've got to pay!

Sell and pay up. No more postponing it!

You pretend not to see me?

I have to speak to you.

The tax - collector won't postpone my land - tax.

We had meetings twice.

I thought you and Cocky would come.

Or maybe you listen to Tugurlan and oppose me?

Or did the elections come and you didn't get our votes?

You should have come to the meeting.

The others would have come, too.

This way, the others are gaining ground.

And there'll soon be trouble.

How are you?

I hear you've sold some wheat.

You know why I am asking you.

You won't ask me for the money, will you?

Yes, I will. I need it.

I can't sell the wheat at the present prices.

This is none of my business.

I've sold a little, to send the boy to school.

Dumitru, where are you going?

- To the tax - collector. - Don't. It's in vain.

Let's go home and mind our business.

You think an entire people will stand them to take our food for nothing?

They have either to offer more for the wheat or to reduce the land-tax.

- What about the land - tax? - There is time.

- What if they take my cow? - They won't take it.

They won't do that, because it's dangerous, believe me!

Come on!

I could give you the money. But this is my capital and I need it back quickly.

- When? - In a week's time, at the most.

I'll buy hens and take them to Bucharest.

You shall have it back in a week.

I have those sheep. Achim will bring them.

I'll sell them on Saturday and give you the money on Sunday.

I can't. I need the money.

Can't you hear that on Sun...

You think Achim...

won't bring them back?

You think I am lying to you?

I'll tell you but don't swear at me

if it isn't true. Catanoiu told me...

What?

Your sons agreed to run away from home.

Achim won't return with the sheep.

What? What are you saying?

Maybe Catanoiu is lying.

There are three months since he left.

He hasn't sent me any money.

Not a penny...

Achim, Achim...

Nila, Nila...

Paraschiv, Paraschiv...

I can't believe it that your sons...

My sons...

My sons are sick.

Run away from home? Why?

I let them have complete freedom.

If they had said: "We are running away!"

Why run away? I would have said.

Can't you just walk?

Move away!

Ilinca, come in here both of you.

What's happened, Ilie?

Maybe he didn't manage to get the loan.

We've passed through harder times before.

We'll sell and we'll pay. Get up!

Get out of the house!

Leave him alone!

Tita! Ilinca!

Take those from the next room, too!

Come faster!

Go through the back door!

Moromete! Pay the land - tax!

Moromete! Pay up!

We'll sell and we'll pay. Wait a while.

No more waiting! Pay up!

3,000 plus 2,000... 5,614 lei in all!

But we haven't!

I'll take your stuff!

Open that trunk!

Take wool sack and the cauldron!

No! Not the cauldron!

Anything else but not the cauldron!

It's the money for the boy's school.

Niculae, I won't let you down.

I'll sell a plot and you shall go to school.

Who's knocking like that?

- Open up! It's Paraschiv. - I am not his servant.

Who's there?

Open the door or I'll break it down!

You will, will you? Let's see...

Shut up, father!

Why are you knocking like that?

Why didn't you put on the light?

- Let him light it himself. - Wait till I knock some sense into you.

Gimme clean pants and a shirt.

Couldn't you take your shoes off outside?

The icon! Have you gone crazy?

Has the foolish woman you've been with

Has the foolish woman you've been with smeared your mouth with cow - dung?

You are a young man now.

Dirtier than the socks he's wearing.

Tita, you'll get it in the neck!

I will have my way in the end...

That's how like it!

Where have you been?

Move away!

Tell me where have you been!

Paraschiv! Nila! Get up!

Why? Can't you see it's raining?

- Come on, Nila! - Stay here, ass!

What did you say?

You are waking us up at dawn, after we've been working for you for a lifetime?

Well, Paraschiv...

I think you should get up, we're busy.

But if you are tired, sleep.

He might be tired, poor boy!

He's been toiling all night!

Break, bang, what else are you able to do?

I break! I bang! Is them yours?

Ilinca, call your father!

You think I am scared of him?

What about you, Nila? Happy to be master for once?

We'll go away and you'll stay with your father,

and go to the dogs together!

And where will you go? To some cave?

God won't desert us!

It'll be woe for you!

You've been plaguing me to death, swine!

Let him be! He is so stupid!

- Bring me the sacks from the trunk! - What else do you want?

Leave that trunk alone!

- Calm down! - Leave the trunk alone!

Ilie! Come, these two are killing each other!

Don't touch that stuff.

Come here, may Death strike you!

Leave her alone or you'll kill her.

Ilie! Come here! May...

Ilie, come quick inside.

What is it? What's the matter with you?

Look, Ilie, where we've got.

I told you to put half of the plot on our names,

and make ourselves a hut

and let them stay here.

I was like a mother for them and they want to kill us.

- What's come over you? - Why d'you keep asking?

What's the matter with you, Catrina?

Come on, tell me!

Tell me! Can't you hear me?

Have you gone dumb?

Mother!

They are woman's stuff.

Get them under your trousers or you'll be laughed at.

Paraschiv and Nila, come to the barn.

I'm afraid the roof will collapse.

Let it collapse!

Come on, Nila, the rafters will get broken.

- Stay here! - To hell with the rafters!

What if the barn collapses? Where will you get another?

Can't you hear we ain't coming.

As you like...

Don't tell me I haven't asked you.

Hey, Nila!

Come on, are you ready?

We are not going!

If only they'd told us at the beginning,

We'd have taken our stuff and left.

Now, we've become their laughing - stock.

Shut up! You are crying out of pride.

Come on, Nila, my son! It's cleared up!

Why d'ye keep coming in and going out?

Can't you hear we ain't coming?

Well, Paraschiv, I thought...

Save your breath!

Nila, you are more obedient...

His obedience has suited you.

So you put him to the yoke.

Fool, get your hand into that trunk!

You got no pants...

and the trunk is filled with dainty stuff.

Don't hit me, father!

- Stop hitting me! - Stop hitting him!

Calm down! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Will you do it again?

Will you do it again?

I won't!

You, wretch!

Paraschiv, you, wretch!

And you, too, Nila!

You either do what I say, or if not, go away!

I struggle to keep the land whole.

You stupid blind fool!

And you rush upon me and the others, saying we've stolen your work.

The land which is whole, you, not, there's where your work is.

Didn't we work together and didn't we share all we had?

We all walked bare-footed, you greedy.

Where could I get more to give you?

What do you want me to do?

Go to the highway and rob?

Hello, Moromete!

- How are you? - All right!

How are your children?

All right.

I hear you're sending Niculae to school.

I'm thinking of doing the same with mine.

Will it be expensive?

Trafurica, come here!

They say with a grant, it isn't too expensive.

What do you think?

I don't know.

- Isn't that Moromete? - It's him.

Moromete, you're passing by us without giving us a glance?

Let's have a chat!

You got nothing else to do but chatter?

Get him! Get him!

Take him! Take him!

Faster, someone's coming!

Faster!

Ilie... Dumitru...

Dumitru! How is that possible?

To hell with his faculties and all!

I should have broken his legs then.

How could Victor beat Dumitru?

I've told you there is no joking matter with these iron - guardists.

Dumitru...

May their souls wither up!

Who are you leaving us to, Dumitru?

Get the little one ready! We're leaving!

What're you gonna leave by?

What d'ye mean? By cart!

- Ilie... - What is it?

What's happened?

Paraschiv and Nila...

- What about them? - They've run away.

They've taken the horses with them.

All right! Get the little one ready!

Slobbery! You said you wanted to buy land.

I'll buy your land if you also sell me this plot behind the house.

Bring me the money, I'm in a hurry!

I want to buy a couple of horses to go to town with.

Give it to me!

Take this too, Niculae, sonny.

Come on, sit down!

- Move aside! - Be careful, Niculae!

Niculae!

Niculae! Where are we going, man?

Come on!

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