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Attention!

Attention! To all celestial bodies! An approaching sirtaki

will slam your way with east-west turbulence

followed by a south-north rush...

That was good.

You may turn out a good player.

Like you?

Well, not quite...

Dear Lord!

You didn't know they'd run away?

In one house, at one table and still you didn't know...

Well, they just didn't know...

Now you take me to your workshop.

Don't you want? Then I'll take you there.

A massive production line no doubt about it!

So it goes to market, true?

Add what your son-in-law wrote about you

and your talks against the authorities

plus assisting emigration and there's prison looking at you

Quite a handful of years

Cuff him!

Hanging at the cafe I learned a thing or two about backgammon

But my favourite claptrap was: "Backgammon on the head!"

Dane!

(Italy)

Just put the address.

They'll guess it's from us and know we are well.

Two words at least... - You write anything,

the only people who will get the card will be the militia.

Just the address in your handwriting.

(Bulgaria)

Stoyan?

Yes, Yana - How much money is that?

Enough to go to Trieste and buy the kid an ice-cream.

Dad, buy me this car! - We've got no money now

Please, can I have it... - I told you, we're broke.

Where is the child?

Sasho!

Sasho!

Vassil, find the child! Sasho!

Sasho!

Sashe, take it easy!

You were dreaming. It's me Easy now...

Don't worry You were just dreaming.

Nothing to worry about.

Sasho!

Where have you been, my boy?

I want home!

The car will take usto Grandma and Grandpa

Do you want me to show you something?

My Grandpa taught me that if ever I want to tell him anything

I just have to whisper to a cloud and it will tell him what I said

Just look...

Grandma, Grandpa, do you hear me? I have a new friend.

Her name is Martha.

Mum and Dad are well I eat spaghetti all day

I miss you so much but I never cry

because dad told me to behave like a man

They are alive

Thank you, Lord! They are alive!

Do you hear, Dane? They are alive!

Can you tell me, little white cloud

where you're coming from

Didn't you see my father's yard

didn't you hear my mother say:

"What does my darling child do

sharing his bread with strangers?

Go tell her, little white cloud

you've seen me here safe and sound...

Come on, cheers! - Cheers!

What are you up to? - Taking my medicines.

What medicines?

Anti-depressants

Co-enzyme, for immunity - Let me see them

And this is...

What was it?

For breathing of the brain...

Good for your brain. Oh.

How could you? Where do I...

Your brain will breathe with this now! Guaranteed

You are crazy!

Switzerland - 3 million lire Austria - 2, France - 3 million

What's he saying?

His tariffs for border crossings

How much to Germany? - Two million

Why Germany, Vasko? USA for me where the skyscrapers are

I have a brother there in Chicago he has a house on Lake Michigan

He's well respected over there

He'll send me an invitation any moment now! And then...

living in America.

Come on, it's you...

You are too much in a hurry to be beaten. Easy now

True it's beating only a player or a donkey will understand

Go on!

Beat it!! That's it!

You are the real top player!

Two million is a lot of money Too fucking much...

Money's no problem for you

How do you mean? How do I find two million?

Now, there's this dump kind of a bar

Across from the railway station They play all kinds of games

even backgammon for money - I don't play for money.

Then you just rot here

For you.

We have a garage, too!

Amazing view! - Fantastic it is!

Good for you we conquered the summits.

You made it

You made another point!

Slow down

I can't...

Brake!

Go slow!

I can't, the brakes aren't working! - Brake or we'll crash!

I can't. Jump!

Grandpa?

Grandpa?

Where are you? - Why all the shouting?

I am here!

Move move!

Don't "avanti" me! You motherfucker!

I'm not eating your... - What are you doing?

Somebody explain to me what's going on here!

Commandant, sir!

What's your problem?

Honorable captain Sforza! I'll explain.

We are fugitives from a dictatorship.

We are not criminals We have rights!

You keep us for years making us prisoners

We don't want our children to grow up here

People forget their professions!

Enough is enough! - We won't tolerate this any longer

We all know you receive 10 dollars a day per person

Our money! And you keep them

That's why you keep us here year after year!

I came here three years ago!

For me it's two... Give us our documents!

On strike! On strike!

Quiet!

We want shorter procedures better food, language lessons

A democratic country will never tolerate anarchy and chaos

I'm in power to send you back where you came from

We don't need bullies and scum

Leave the canteen at once!

Miserable basterds! You will rot here!

You owe me eight times the bet!

One more game?

Enough for today

Anyone for a game?

How much do you bet?

A hundred thousand.

It's nothing

64 times the initial bet

Alright, go!

Easy, Sashe!

We'll meet again, trust me!

The world is small You'll visit me in Chicago!

Yana, cheer up!

Sashe, listen to mum and dad but... don't overdo it!

Thank you so much! - God be with you!

We'll stay here overnight

Go back! Go back to the girl!

Introduce yourself, ask whereshe comes from! Go...

That was just a dance - Just a dance! Nonsense

The way she looked at you! Go back!

Well, I thought... - Don't think, act!

Alive and kicking! But doing what...

Go now or I'll drag you there!

I am Alex. Hi Maria.

Where you from?

I am form Germany.

And you?

I am from Hungary.

But I live in Germany

I'm off to the beach. You coming? - Sure

I don't remember anything before the crash

I can read and write, use a phone

but I don't know the people in my phone book

and I am trying to collect my memories...

What do you do?

I study ballet and teach in a salsa club

I saw you yesterday so sad and nice

I needed you to hold me...

Where are you heading now? - To Bulgaria. I was born there

We ride a tandem bike my Grandpa and me

What? You are a sight for sore eyes!

And I'm going back to Germany

It's not so bad I can't remember the past

You might as well be my first woman

Perhaps I am...

Your first and only one

And what's her name? - Maria

Bravo!

Now you made it to Paradise point the best of all!

There are two more left!

Stop there!

I was here years ago with my parents

I just want to look around

What's your name? - Alexander Georgiev

My dad was Vassil, my mum - Yana

Sashe, is that you?

I am Ivo the Chicago Don't you remember?

Look here! Tricked again!

That's two up for me

Chicago

How are your mum and dad?

They died - Don't say it!

Stoyan also died Do you remember Uncle Stoyan?

Who spoke many languages? After you left he fell seriously ill

and in six months he was gone

God rest his soul your parents' too

God rest their souls

What about you?

I never got the invitation from my brother

I tried his phones and waited...

It's clear he didn't want me He may be dead too

How do you mean - dead?

Do you think people in America don't die?

They do, like flies! Don't you watch TV?

You're sat there eating your burger having a drink

and someone in a bad mood comes in with a gun like that

and starts shooting left and right!

America is a hopeless case

I just stayed here at the camp

As a guard

I remembered the crash!

There were the three of us

Like in the past

Dad had not been living with us for the past 15 years

Mum raised me alone

Mum was ashamed from herself from her broken family

She was crying a lot...

A couple of months ago Dad just came back

They made up and decided to take a trip to Bulgaria

I said to your father years ago: "Destiny is the dice in your hand

And what happens after that depends on your luck and skill."

It's your throw, master!

Good morning- Good morning, Sashe

Where's Grandad? - On the early train to Bulgaria

He left you the backgammon box

FOR NEW BULGARIA!

Sashko!

Sashko! Sashko!

My sweetie-pie!

Sashko, my grandson.

Welcome, Sashe!

He's grown bigger than us!

Backgammon's played by those who can,

Backgammon's played by those who can't, too

One, two, three, four, five, six, six, five, four, three, two, one...

We'll see if he's Grandpa's son! - Beware, or you shall weep!

If you want to give up now is the time

No, I don't give up!

Don't give up? Ok come on.

The winner is the one who first take two games back to back!

If by sunset there's no winner, you'll throw the dice.

Whoever throws the highest number will be the king of Backgammon!

Let's see who throws first!

Tea time!

No one won two games in a row all day long

It was late. The king was to be named with a throw of the dice.

Just one throw each

the highest number to win

I had thrown a six and seven

An unseen miracle!

I have reached the king's point! The last one.

I was cured

What a feat!

The name of the new king is Sasho!

I could start dreaming again,

playing, losing, winning...

Being... Now and forever

Because as my Grandpa used to say:

The World is big and salvation lurks around the corner.

(Germany)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

One, two, three... that's it

One, two, three...

One, two, three... turn your head

One, two, three... what is it Catherina

One, two, three...