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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:01:42,074 --> 00:01:45,719 It is long ago since the Lama first heard the tidings 3 00:01:45,875 --> 00:01:48,275 of sage Baron Humboldt, 4 00:01:48,434 --> 00:01:49,874 who travels the world 5 00:01:50,074 --> 00:01:52,082 and knows all things. 6 00:01:52,274 --> 00:01:53,441 I know nothing. 7 00:01:53,794 --> 00:01:57,002 I've spent my life understanding nature. 8 00:01:57,474 --> 00:02:00,235 I have collected knowledge and travelled the world. 9 00:02:06,674 --> 00:02:07,634 Sorry? 10 00:02:07,994 --> 00:02:10,482 The Master requests you awaken his dog. 11 00:02:12,673 --> 00:02:15,434 Sorry, I don't understand the metaphor. 12 00:02:15,594 --> 00:02:17,034 It's not a metaphor. 13 00:02:17,193 --> 00:02:19,955 The Master's favourite dog died two days ago. 14 00:02:21,314 --> 00:02:22,960 He thinks you most knowledgeable, 15 00:02:23,313 --> 00:02:25,442 and requests you return the animal to life. 16 00:02:29,474 --> 00:02:31,558 That I cannot do. 17 00:02:44,154 --> 00:02:47,197 The Master knows that an initiate may not do this often. 18 00:02:47,632 --> 00:02:50,120 "Initiate"? Is that really what he said? - Yes. 19 00:02:50,273 --> 00:02:54,114 He requests this kindness from you, a clever, travelled man. 20 00:02:54,793 --> 00:02:58,000 He is very attached to the dog. - Yes, but I can't... 21 00:02:58,192 --> 00:03:00,953 It's not within my capabilities to wake someone from the dead. 22 00:03:05,473 --> 00:03:08,037 The Master comprehends what the clever man means. 23 00:03:08,233 --> 00:03:11,113 I don't mean anything. I simply can't do it. 24 00:03:11,432 --> 00:03:13,200 The Lama comprehends that, too. 25 00:03:13,672 --> 00:03:16,073 There is nothing to comprehend. 26 00:03:18,632 --> 00:03:21,032 The Lama comprehends all things. 27 00:03:21,872 --> 00:03:24,240 All things. - All things? -All things. 28 00:03:34,391 --> 00:03:39,357 Alexander von Humboldt was born to the life of a German nobleman: 29 00:03:39,552 --> 00:03:43,361 Castle, family, hunting and church on Sundays. 30 00:03:44,111 --> 00:03:48,312 But he wanted to travel... to measure... to understand. 31 00:03:48,472 --> 00:03:51,593 MEASURING THE WORLD 32 00:03:57,952 --> 00:03:59,796 in the Duchy of Brunswick. 33 00:04:00,351 --> 00:04:02,599 Education had just become compulsory, 34 00:04:02,752 --> 00:04:04,913 and Carl Friedrich Gauss had learned 35 00:04:05,192 --> 00:04:07,232 that it is at times better to be silent. 36 00:04:07,591 --> 00:04:10,078 I'll teach you to bother your master 37 00:04:10,431 --> 00:04:11,959 with stupid questions. 38 00:04:13,231 --> 00:04:14,595 Sit down. 39 00:04:20,431 --> 00:04:23,879 One... Plus two... 40 00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:26,792 plus... 41 00:04:28,071 --> 00:04:29,555 three... 42 00:04:32,950 --> 00:04:34,511 plus... 43 00:04:35,871 --> 00:04:37,431 four... 44 00:04:39,711 --> 00:04:42,831 plus five... 45 00:04:44,870 --> 00:04:46,550 plus... 46 00:04:47,551 --> 00:04:49,111 six... 47 00:04:53,271 --> 00:04:54,558 plus... 48 00:04:57,150 --> 00:04:58,634 seven... 49 00:05:01,590 --> 00:05:04,711 and continuing ever thuswise... 50 00:05:05,790 --> 00:05:09,391 up to one hundred. 51 00:05:10,150 --> 00:05:11,710 And woe betide anyone who disturbs me 52 00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:14,115 before he has the answer! 53 00:06:29,388 --> 00:06:30,796 Yes! 54 00:06:34,269 --> 00:06:35,349 Gauss is giving up? 55 00:06:35,668 --> 00:06:37,948 The boy's mad. He'll be punished. 56 00:06:43,588 --> 00:06:44,668 Where's this from? 57 00:06:46,428 --> 00:06:48,709 That's the point. We were to add together... 58 00:06:49,349 --> 00:06:51,596 all numbers from one to one hundred. 59 00:06:55,348 --> 00:06:56,788 1... 60 00:06:57,268 --> 00:06:58,392 plus 100 61 00:06:58,707 --> 00:07:00,508 is 101. 62 00:07:00,988 --> 00:07:02,787 2 plus 99... 63 00:07:02,948 --> 00:07:04,115 equal 101... 64 00:07:04,347 --> 00:07:07,032 3 plus 98 equal 101. 65 00:07:07,308 --> 00:07:10,713 Always 101. Fifty times 101. 66 00:07:10,868 --> 00:07:12,754 50 times 101 67 00:07:13,347 --> 00:07:15,431 is 5050. 68 00:07:21,947 --> 00:07:23,191 Gauss, get in the corner. 69 00:07:23,348 --> 00:07:24,755 Be quiet. And stay behind. 70 00:07:24,947 --> 00:07:26,987 But... - Talking back? 71 00:07:54,227 --> 00:07:55,591 Alexander? 72 00:07:58,827 --> 00:08:00,190 Alexander! 73 00:08:04,026 --> 00:08:05,586 Alexander... 74 00:08:25,466 --> 00:08:27,507 Alexander... Wilhelm, help your brother. 75 00:08:35,265 --> 00:08:36,629 Alexander. - Wilhelm. 76 00:08:42,186 --> 00:08:43,026 Continue... 77 00:08:43,505 --> 00:08:48,109 1187, 1193... - God sees all things. 78 00:08:48,665 --> 00:08:50,390 You know that. -1201 79 00:08:50,785 --> 00:08:52,193 Yes. 80 00:08:54,185 --> 00:08:55,910 Come here. 81 00:09:03,825 --> 00:09:07,873 On your word of honour... did you do this on your own? 82 00:09:08,546 --> 00:09:13,587 It wasn't difficult, you just add... - The formula of geometric progression. 83 00:09:15,304 --> 00:09:17,225 Higher arithmetic. 84 00:09:18,745 --> 00:09:20,631 Read, mark, learn... 85 00:09:30,865 --> 00:09:33,429 Imagine! Schoolmaster Büttner 86 00:09:33,584 --> 00:09:35,112 was a mathematician of sorts. 87 00:09:35,384 --> 00:09:39,225 He had published several treatises, and one glorious day 88 00:09:39,464 --> 00:09:43,185 Immanuel Kant had deigned to answer one of his letters. 89 00:09:43,823 --> 00:09:46,071 Since diligence and strength had not trumped, 90 00:09:46,304 --> 00:09:48,104 he was a schoolmaster. 91 00:09:49,344 --> 00:09:51,111 My father can't pay for this. 92 00:09:52,705 --> 00:09:55,465 You'll be bringing home other books in days to come, 93 00:09:56,104 --> 00:09:57,512 yet pay for none. 94 00:09:57,703 --> 00:10:01,228 But be warned: one spot, one dog-eared or torn side, 95 00:10:01,744 --> 00:10:05,226 and you'll feel my rod such that God himself would pity you. 96 00:10:06,783 --> 00:10:07,743 Now go! 97 00:10:08,103 --> 00:10:10,504 Here he comes. - I can see him... 98 00:10:10,664 --> 00:10:13,184 Be quiet. - Hey, want to pet her? 99 00:10:14,944 --> 00:10:16,265 No. 100 00:10:17,704 --> 00:10:19,951 How did you work it out, Carl? 101 00:10:20,543 --> 00:10:23,512 It's easy. You just have to take a step back. 102 00:10:23,824 --> 00:10:25,591 Then the sum solves itself. 103 00:10:26,063 --> 00:10:28,551 If I take a step back, things just get smaller. 104 00:10:28,703 --> 00:10:29,903 Well, Johanna... 105 00:10:30,583 --> 00:10:31,543 Come on! 106 00:10:37,943 --> 00:10:40,388 Take that! -Know-it-all. - Let him be! 107 00:10:41,023 --> 00:10:42,506 Stop it! 108 00:10:45,822 --> 00:10:49,063 Alexander was the best student at the Freiberg Mining Academy. 109 00:10:50,463 --> 00:10:53,190 He developed a miner's lamp to examine plant-life 110 00:10:53,343 --> 00:10:55,384 in deep mining galleries. 111 00:10:56,382 --> 00:10:57,910 Whatever scares you, 112 00:10:58,143 --> 00:10:59,387 he said, 113 00:10:59,542 --> 00:11:00,863 you have to measure. 114 00:11:02,063 --> 00:11:05,063 People thought the earth's interior was cold and solid, 115 00:11:05,422 --> 00:11:07,626 with a core of hard stone. 116 00:11:08,262 --> 00:11:11,144 Both churches thought this ordained by God. 117 00:11:11,823 --> 00:11:13,907 Alexander thought it false. 118 00:11:15,182 --> 00:11:18,270 He felt strength within himself and wild curiosity. 119 00:11:19,142 --> 00:11:21,270 But sometimes, he wrote to his brother, 120 00:11:21,422 --> 00:11:23,463 he feared he was going insane. 121 00:11:25,943 --> 00:11:27,623 It was only by luck 122 00:11:27,782 --> 00:11:30,542 that a fellow pupil happened to find him in time. 123 00:11:47,902 --> 00:11:49,069 Come! 124 00:11:57,102 --> 00:11:58,542 What's wrong? 125 00:12:00,301 --> 00:12:01,261 Go on! Bow! 126 00:12:09,582 --> 00:12:10,902 Come along. 127 00:12:11,181 --> 00:12:13,026 What's so bad about Germany? 128 00:12:14,102 --> 00:12:15,389 Nothing, Sir. 129 00:12:15,701 --> 00:12:17,829 But I want to dedicate my life to study. 130 00:12:18,301 --> 00:12:19,829 The peculiar tenacity 131 00:12:19,981 --> 00:12:21,345 of plant life. 132 00:12:21,781 --> 00:12:23,189 All plant life. 133 00:12:23,461 --> 00:12:25,948 I want to understand it, and reveal it to the world. 134 00:12:26,660 --> 00:12:28,460 But then you'll settle down here, 135 00:12:28,621 --> 00:12:31,305 marry a good woman and procreate, right? 136 00:12:32,341 --> 00:12:34,305 One marries if one has nothing better to do. 137 00:12:34,461 --> 00:12:35,628 Alexander! 138 00:12:35,781 --> 00:12:38,781 Everyone says his brother is the future chancellor of Prussia. 139 00:12:38,941 --> 00:12:41,385 Why can't Alexander be more like his brother? 140 00:12:41,541 --> 00:12:44,465 Settle down with one's compatriots? 141 00:12:44,740 --> 00:12:47,108 Nothing could be finer. - Indeed, no. 142 00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:50,904 But don't go overboard with those French girls now! 143 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:52,184 Sir! 144 00:12:52,340 --> 00:12:54,065 His father died young. 145 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:57,144 His upbringing fell to me alone. 146 00:12:57,620 --> 00:13:00,469 Perhaps the traces of a female hand remains. 147 00:13:01,059 --> 00:13:02,303 I was too weak. 148 00:13:02,940 --> 00:13:04,740 But this I'd have you know: 149 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:07,060 If you travel overseas, 150 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:10,465 there'll be no money for you! None. Over my dead body! 151 00:13:19,380 --> 00:13:21,945 He wants to travel the world, too, yes? 152 00:13:23,180 --> 00:13:25,503 Sir, this is the young Carl Gauss. 153 00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:29,063 His talents relate more to the field of mathematics. 154 00:13:30,620 --> 00:13:32,704 Calculate something. 155 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:36,460 Begging your pardon, Sir, 156 00:13:36,619 --> 00:13:38,747 but the young man is no calculating prodigy. 157 00:13:38,899 --> 00:13:40,307 As Sir is doubtless aware, 158 00:13:40,459 --> 00:13:43,264 higher mathematics has nothing to do with arithmetic. 159 00:13:43,619 --> 00:13:46,107 Some of the greatest mathematicians were very bad 160 00:13:46,339 --> 00:13:47,582 at arithmetic. 161 00:14:15,339 --> 00:14:17,106 Did someone speak? 162 00:14:17,698 --> 00:14:19,618 I must beg Sir's pardon. 163 00:14:19,819 --> 00:14:21,826 The young man is of lowly birth. 164 00:14:22,938 --> 00:14:26,779 I am, however, convinced he is capable of great things 165 00:14:26,978 --> 00:14:29,139 that will augment the fame of the fatherland. 166 00:14:29,298 --> 00:14:31,667 Perhaps he will be a second Immanuel Kant. 167 00:14:32,739 --> 00:14:36,219 All we require is a grant from the court. 168 00:14:38,537 --> 00:14:42,226 He shall have it and is to come again when he can do arithmetic. 169 00:14:42,418 --> 00:14:43,826 Bow! 170 00:14:45,577 --> 00:14:47,061 Knowledge, huh! 171 00:14:48,378 --> 00:14:49,982 Right... 172 00:14:50,458 --> 00:14:51,582 Alexander. 173 00:14:51,977 --> 00:14:54,498 Maybe he'll be someone like you. 174 00:15:07,938 --> 00:15:09,857 Company... halt! 175 00:15:12,497 --> 00:15:17,146 Is this your child prodigy, Büttner? - Yes... it's young Mr Gauss. 176 00:15:18,658 --> 00:15:21,745 You know what a number is, boy? 177 00:15:23,177 --> 00:15:25,665 A number is no plaything. 178 00:15:25,977 --> 00:15:30,823 A number is the diameter of the hole between the eyes of a dying soldier. 179 00:15:31,178 --> 00:15:32,901 A number... 180 00:15:33,256 --> 00:15:35,100 is the depth of the hole. 181 00:15:35,657 --> 00:15:38,221 One number describes the angle of entry, 182 00:15:38,657 --> 00:15:41,865 another the echo of, and distance to, enemy canons. 183 00:15:42,097 --> 00:15:43,056 Numbers! 184 00:15:43,416 --> 00:15:46,864 They tell me where the enemy is, and how strong his army... 185 00:15:47,656 --> 00:15:49,380 so that I can act. 186 00:15:50,136 --> 00:15:53,344 So that the comrade, coughing out his last drops of warm blood 187 00:15:53,696 --> 00:15:56,816 on the dusty ground where my boots stand, has not died in vain. 188 00:15:57,376 --> 00:15:58,817 You are a German boy. 189 00:15:59,536 --> 00:16:02,821 And a number is no plaything! 190 00:16:05,857 --> 00:16:07,384 Company... 191 00:16:11,856 --> 00:16:14,301 Mama! 192 00:16:15,656 --> 00:16:18,100 What did the Duke say? - We have the grant. 193 00:16:18,255 --> 00:16:20,219 Yes. - Rubbish. I need him here. 194 00:16:20,816 --> 00:16:22,584 I'm studying... Papa. 195 00:16:24,096 --> 00:16:26,344 Not... to the head! 196 00:16:27,056 --> 00:16:28,900 It belongs to the Duke of Brunswick. 197 00:16:29,256 --> 00:16:30,576 You may not damage it. 198 00:16:31,055 --> 00:16:32,015 Damn! 199 00:16:32,175 --> 00:16:35,897 This place is going to the dogs! They treat folk anyway they like! 200 00:16:36,215 --> 00:16:39,304 They take your son and... - You're going to study, Carl. 201 00:16:39,456 --> 00:16:41,943 You're going to leave us. - Never. 202 00:16:42,455 --> 00:16:43,983 You'll see. 203 00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:46,500 I'll always be with you, 204 00:16:46,655 --> 00:16:48,499 always be in this house. For sure. 205 00:16:48,855 --> 00:16:51,300 Always. - Good, upstairs you go now. 206 00:16:52,135 --> 00:16:54,022 Excuse me, Mr Büttner, - Yes? 207 00:16:55,455 --> 00:16:56,775 Albrecht, go away. 208 00:17:01,816 --> 00:17:03,736 This thing, Carl... and mathe... 209 00:17:04,255 --> 00:17:06,742 mathe-matics, is it going anywhere? 210 00:17:07,494 --> 00:17:08,454 Sorry? 211 00:17:08,895 --> 00:17:10,739 Well, I mean, university. 212 00:17:10,895 --> 00:17:13,657 You have to be smart. ls my Carl up to it? 213 00:17:16,214 --> 00:17:18,659 Mr Büttner, it is most unkind that you mock me. 214 00:17:19,095 --> 00:17:20,819 I'm a simple woman and I'm concerned. 215 00:17:21,175 --> 00:17:23,456 It is not good of you. - No. Excuse me. 216 00:17:24,175 --> 00:17:26,095 Beg your pardon, Mrs Gauss... 217 00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:30,222 but your son shall be one of the world's greatest mathematicians. 218 00:17:30,654 --> 00:17:31,942 I know it. 219 00:17:33,014 --> 00:17:33,974 I know it. 220 00:17:50,014 --> 00:17:52,894 A strong will makes it possible, to reach a goal early. 221 00:17:54,174 --> 00:17:57,262 But it also makes waiting possible. 222 00:18:03,213 --> 00:18:04,337 Alexander! 223 00:18:04,813 --> 00:18:06,854 Wilhelm, to a Frenchman! 224 00:18:07,214 --> 00:18:08,742 You throw my money 225 00:18:09,694 --> 00:18:12,214 into the maul of a Frenchman! 226 00:18:12,613 --> 00:18:14,697 Mouldy shite! 227 00:18:15,293 --> 00:18:17,093 Damn... 228 00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:22,062 dirty shit! Filthy shitty... 229 00:18:23,654 --> 00:18:25,258 it hurts me so. 230 00:18:25,973 --> 00:18:27,337 Wilhelm, be strong. 231 00:18:27,573 --> 00:18:30,933 Foul vile filth! 232 00:18:39,973 --> 00:18:41,893 Sit up straight! 233 00:19:50,331 --> 00:19:53,452 Humboldt invested his whole inheritance in the trip. 234 00:19:53,892 --> 00:19:55,736 And in Aimé Bonpland, 235 00:19:56,291 --> 00:19:58,136 a French doctor and botanist, 236 00:19:58,411 --> 00:20:00,899 he found an ideal travelling companion. 237 00:20:08,931 --> 00:20:09,575 Attention! 238 00:20:10,131 --> 00:20:11,615 Careful! 239 00:20:16,971 --> 00:20:19,132 Hey, can't you secure the cargo? 240 00:20:19,571 --> 00:20:21,851 That is Parisian Time! 241 00:20:22,650 --> 00:20:24,570 Lord! - Mauricio, Alberto, 242 00:20:24,730 --> 00:20:26,618 come here. - Find all the boxes. 243 00:20:27,050 --> 00:20:28,491 Cuidad, las casas. 244 00:20:29,411 --> 00:20:30,819 Gracias. 245 00:20:35,091 --> 00:20:36,738 America! - America! 246 00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:38,578 Aimé, at last! 247 00:20:38,891 --> 00:20:40,811 Far from Germany at last! From... 248 00:20:41,290 --> 00:20:44,095 Prussia, my brother. At last I can breathe. 249 00:20:44,290 --> 00:20:46,057 Far from family. 250 00:20:46,410 --> 00:20:48,691 Unbeatable! - I'll never see my father again! 251 00:20:48,850 --> 00:20:50,410 My brothers! - My mean uncle! 252 00:20:50,571 --> 00:20:52,458 My mother. - My imbecilic sisters. 253 00:20:52,930 --> 00:20:55,211 M. Bonpland, how good to have met you! 254 00:20:55,371 --> 00:20:56,494 Hallelujah! 255 00:21:01,490 --> 00:21:03,694 "To anyone who explores a new continent" 256 00:21:04,050 --> 00:21:05,490 he at once wrote to Wilhelm, 257 00:21:06,010 --> 00:21:09,578 "all things must be important." 258 00:21:10,690 --> 00:21:12,577 What are you writing, Alexander? 259 00:21:13,290 --> 00:21:14,773 A travelogue for my brother. 260 00:21:15,130 --> 00:21:16,614 So he always knows where I am. 261 00:21:19,090 --> 00:21:20,857 I can hardly wait. Allez, Aimé. 262 00:21:21,009 --> 00:21:22,210 Come along. - Good. 263 00:21:23,809 --> 00:21:27,378 The excitement in me is like 10,000 boars! 264 00:21:28,209 --> 00:21:31,810 At last being one with the nature I dreamt of as a child. 265 00:21:32,809 --> 00:21:35,057 And I'm not counting on going back. 266 00:22:13,689 --> 00:22:15,893 What are you thinking about, Carl? 267 00:22:16,889 --> 00:22:18,655 What a number really is. 268 00:22:19,328 --> 00:22:20,407 Is that difficult? 269 00:22:21,088 --> 00:22:24,209 One cloud... plus one cloud... 270 00:22:26,169 --> 00:22:27,817 how many clouds is that? 271 00:22:36,208 --> 00:22:37,616 It wouldn't be two? 272 00:22:38,769 --> 00:22:41,736 It's about... my re-ordering... 273 00:22:43,568 --> 00:22:45,576 all of number theory. 274 00:22:45,968 --> 00:22:47,211 How long will it take? 275 00:22:48,368 --> 00:22:49,973 It's the work of a lifetime. 276 00:22:52,048 --> 00:22:53,455 One year, perhaps. 277 00:22:54,087 --> 00:22:55,615 And then I should be done. 278 00:22:58,967 --> 00:23:01,128 I hope I need longer. 279 00:23:02,768 --> 00:23:04,611 You hope you'll need longer? 280 00:23:07,448 --> 00:23:08,768 You'll need longer! 281 00:23:12,368 --> 00:23:14,376 All I can tell you about numbers 282 00:23:14,528 --> 00:23:17,528 is they're on the banknotes you owe me. 283 00:23:19,207 --> 00:23:21,455 I can't always give you credit! 284 00:23:22,607 --> 00:23:23,687 Gauss! 285 00:23:24,647 --> 00:23:25,694 Gauss! 286 00:23:26,327 --> 00:23:27,734 Gauss! 287 00:23:34,087 --> 00:23:36,487 What is this filth, Gauss? 288 00:23:38,567 --> 00:23:40,214 A heptadecagon. - A what? 289 00:23:42,486 --> 00:23:45,007 A heptadecagon. -"A heptadecagon." 290 00:23:45,807 --> 00:23:49,735 Does our young grant-winner believe it's what he owes his country? 291 00:23:50,047 --> 00:23:52,294 I've solved a 2000-year-old problem... forever. 292 00:23:52,446 --> 00:23:55,774 All your purported intelligence won't be required to comprehend this: 293 00:23:55,926 --> 00:23:57,050 Remember: 294 00:23:57,686 --> 00:23:59,007 One more heptadecagon, 295 00:24:00,367 --> 00:24:04,927 more worthless piss like this, and you'll be paying back your grant! 296 00:24:05,646 --> 00:24:07,926 There'll be no professorship for you, 297 00:24:08,086 --> 00:24:10,847 you won't even be calculating the shit produced here, 298 00:24:11,006 --> 00:24:12,774 and that's plenty of shit. 299 00:24:13,127 --> 00:24:15,570 There'll be no more Gauss-the-mathematician! 300 00:24:18,126 --> 00:24:20,406 I trust you can comprehend that. 301 00:24:56,125 --> 00:24:58,930 46... 302 00:25:01,604 --> 00:25:04,769 147 on one head! 303 00:25:05,085 --> 00:25:06,690 How very interesting. 304 00:25:06,965 --> 00:25:09,410 There's so much to do, and you count lice! 305 00:25:10,205 --> 00:25:11,644 Un piojo! - Sorry? 306 00:25:11,965 --> 00:25:13,645 Un piojo! - What good... 307 00:25:14,165 --> 00:25:17,253 are statistics about head lice? 308 00:25:18,085 --> 00:25:19,929 We'll know when we have them. 309 00:25:20,405 --> 00:25:22,773 Little enigmas are not to be passed over. 310 00:25:23,524 --> 00:25:25,924 All things count when exploring a new continent. 311 00:25:29,204 --> 00:25:32,086 He wanted to discover animals no one had seen, 312 00:25:32,365 --> 00:25:34,373 collect plants no one yet owned. 313 00:25:34,604 --> 00:25:37,289 He wanted to understand the flow of air and water, 314 00:25:37,444 --> 00:25:40,412 to weigh the earth and measure the height of the firmament, 315 00:25:40,844 --> 00:25:43,605 so great, rich, varied and enigmatic 316 00:25:43,925 --> 00:25:45,169 was nature. 317 00:25:51,444 --> 00:25:52,972 Four, five... 318 00:25:57,484 --> 00:25:58,684 Lord! 319 00:26:01,484 --> 00:26:02,608 Where is the donkey? 320 00:26:07,123 --> 00:26:08,728 Gone! - Señor... 321 00:26:09,004 --> 00:26:11,524 On the donkey were two barometers, 322 00:26:11,723 --> 00:26:14,047 a hypsometer and my best theodolite! 323 00:26:14,204 --> 00:26:16,572 Alexander! - This is completely... 324 00:26:17,683 --> 00:26:19,931 mad! It's... loco! 325 00:26:20,524 --> 00:26:22,247 My best theodolite! No! 326 00:26:22,403 --> 00:26:25,808 Find the donkey! I don't care if it takes you three days. 327 00:26:25,963 --> 00:26:27,404 Failure is unacceptable. 328 00:26:27,763 --> 00:26:29,967 Please. Such things happen. 329 00:26:30,124 --> 00:26:32,044 "Such things happen." Merci beaucoup! 330 00:26:32,204 --> 00:26:33,567 Such things are not to happen! 331 00:26:34,002 --> 00:26:36,043 You... go and look for the donkey. 332 00:26:45,802 --> 00:26:48,530 Yield is not the same as size. 333 00:26:48,682 --> 00:26:49,926 That's what counts. 334 00:26:50,523 --> 00:26:53,404 Well I don't know. My Lorinda had huge ones. 335 00:27:02,042 --> 00:27:05,251 If being large doesn't make them high-yielding, 336 00:27:05,562 --> 00:27:08,202 being small certainly doesn't! 337 00:27:08,442 --> 00:27:09,446 This one... 338 00:27:10,322 --> 00:27:11,327 this one... 339 00:27:11,762 --> 00:27:12,929 is the best one... 340 00:27:17,922 --> 00:27:20,082 I take both, right? 341 00:27:20,241 --> 00:27:23,046 Right, but let's go and drink tea now. 342 00:27:35,082 --> 00:27:37,123 Children! Come and drink coffee. 343 00:27:51,802 --> 00:27:54,769 If one gives me none, I'll get it from the other... 344 00:27:54,961 --> 00:27:56,008 Milk! 345 00:28:05,282 --> 00:28:08,129 My God, he's just a child. Remove the chains. 346 00:28:09,441 --> 00:28:11,929 Remove the chains. - Of course, of course. 347 00:28:12,121 --> 00:28:15,569 You just have to buy them. Three gold doubloons. 348 00:28:15,722 --> 00:28:18,121 He's still very young but he's sturdy. 349 00:28:18,601 --> 00:28:21,328 Is that not the man everyone is speaking about? 350 00:28:22,281 --> 00:28:26,122 Don't have him work too much at first, and he'll last longer. 351 00:28:26,841 --> 00:28:29,689 You can examine him first. 352 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,528 Stop, I'm no slave owner... - Alexander... 353 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,809 Just him? 15 gold doubloons for the lot. 354 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,204 14. A special price for my friend, 355 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,765 the slave liberator! The liberator of slaves. 356 00:28:49,321 --> 00:28:51,121 But that's the lowest I can go. 357 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080 You are free! - I get new ware next week. 358 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,280 Sois libres! 359 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,004 Vous étes libre. Tell them they're free. 360 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,360 He wants to know where to go. 361 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,400 They don't know where to go. 362 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,360 Wherever they like. They are free. 363 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,040 I'll buy them all. All. Here's the money. 364 00:29:28,239 --> 00:29:30,520 I'm taking them all. Remove their chains. 365 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:33,327 They can't be released. - All of them! 366 00:29:33,719 --> 00:29:34,679 All. - Calm down. 367 00:29:34,919 --> 00:29:37,123 All of them... remove the chains. 368 00:29:38,598 --> 00:29:40,518 No! - Remove all the chains. 369 00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:43,204 You have offended the name of God... 370 00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:46,320 What? -... and the Spanish crown... 371 00:29:46,479 --> 00:29:50,646 All people were equally born to freedom. - Watch out... 372 00:29:50,798 --> 00:29:53,799 von Humboldt. - You shall hear my name again. 373 00:29:53,999 --> 00:29:55,919 Calm down... - That you shall! 374 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:00,400 They are also free. 375 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:03,882 Slavery is the second greatest evil of our era. 376 00:30:04,278 --> 00:30:05,599 Really? - Yes. 377 00:30:06,198 --> 00:30:07,399 What's the greatest one? 378 00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:10,443 The claim that humans are descended from monkeys. 379 00:31:14,237 --> 00:31:17,642 8 degrees, 33, 36... 380 00:31:20,277 --> 00:31:21,685 Eat. 381 00:31:23,197 --> 00:31:25,041 Eat. 382 00:31:25,677 --> 00:31:28,198 Food. - Eat? 383 00:31:32,397 --> 00:31:33,761 Food. - Here. 384 00:31:41,397 --> 00:31:42,357 Alexander! 385 00:31:44,317 --> 00:31:46,236 Alexander! Help! 386 00:31:46,916 --> 00:31:48,761 Help, Alexander! 387 00:31:54,077 --> 00:31:56,041 Aim well! There's only one shot. 388 00:31:57,157 --> 00:31:58,836 Damn it, Alexander... 389 00:32:00,036 --> 00:32:01,400 shoot! 390 00:32:02,476 --> 00:32:04,800 What the hell! Why won't you help me? 391 00:32:25,996 --> 00:32:28,997 Ducks. No pattern. Random distribution. 392 00:32:29,156 --> 00:32:32,800 But order increases. Why? Oh, look, it's the dog. 393 00:32:34,235 --> 00:32:35,599 He's herding them. 394 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:38,400 The force of order. 395 00:32:43,874 --> 00:32:45,402 Scram! 396 00:32:45,794 --> 00:32:49,319 Get lost! Damn hound! Get lost! 397 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:54,355 Ludwig, get lost. 398 00:32:56,995 --> 00:32:59,515 Thanks. - What are you doing there? 399 00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:04,075 I'm measuring the land. 400 00:33:04,715 --> 00:33:07,278 It's work. Staking out triangles. - Triangles? 401 00:33:08,714 --> 00:33:11,442 It's called triangulation. - Aren't you... 402 00:33:12,315 --> 00:33:14,115 Aren't you that Carl 403 00:33:14,474 --> 00:33:16,515 whose maths got him into higher education? 404 00:33:36,915 --> 00:33:39,763 You don't remember me? - Johanna! 405 00:33:45,033 --> 00:33:47,401 Have you heard of the Prussian baron 406 00:33:48,234 --> 00:33:51,715 who's measuring the New World? Everyone's talking about him. 407 00:33:52,194 --> 00:33:54,638 Measuring is not very demanding. 408 00:33:55,593 --> 00:33:58,474 Any idiot can do it. Even a trained monkey could do it. 409 00:33:59,634 --> 00:34:01,521 It looks tricky to me. 410 00:34:03,954 --> 00:34:07,554 You need only know one side and two angles of a triangle, 411 00:34:08,194 --> 00:34:12,078 then, with this device, you can determine the other sides and angle. 412 00:34:17,153 --> 00:34:20,318 Run up a series of such triangles and you've got the whole plane. 413 00:34:20,593 --> 00:34:22,601 But a landscape is not a plane. 414 00:34:30,793 --> 00:34:32,201 Right? 415 00:34:42,552 --> 00:34:44,157 You're right. 416 00:34:45,593 --> 00:34:50,034 Because a triangle only has a total of... 417 00:34:50,353 --> 00:34:52,916 180 degrees on a flat surface... 418 00:34:54,673 --> 00:34:58,481 That can't be true of a sphere, can it? 419 00:35:02,792 --> 00:35:04,832 Who knows? I didn't have higher education. 420 00:35:07,232 --> 00:35:08,760 You're absolutely right. 421 00:35:09,672 --> 00:35:12,913 Fine, but then... the measurements are wrong. 422 00:35:14,472 --> 00:35:17,712 Yes, slightly, the globe... Are you engaged? 423 00:35:19,072 --> 00:35:20,436 No. 424 00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:28,792 But the errors are accumulative. 425 00:35:30,272 --> 00:35:34,713 To compensate you would have to... after measuring you'd have to... 426 00:35:42,151 --> 00:35:44,235 in a sense shrink them into... 427 00:35:46,271 --> 00:35:47,952 infinitely small units. 428 00:35:49,830 --> 00:35:52,275 A simple differential operation, actually. 429 00:35:52,511 --> 00:35:54,520 But in this form... 430 00:36:00,592 --> 00:36:04,432 No one has yet done it in this form. The simplest things elude one. 431 00:36:30,150 --> 00:36:32,234 Monsieur Bonpland! Are you all right? 432 00:36:32,630 --> 00:36:33,951 Good. 433 00:36:36,910 --> 00:36:38,274 My head. 434 00:36:39,150 --> 00:36:42,991 It has been correctly bandaged. The ache is normal and will fade. 435 00:36:43,590 --> 00:36:45,751 You're a doctor yourself, Aimé Bonpland. 436 00:36:45,991 --> 00:36:47,670 You know this as well as I do. 437 00:36:54,710 --> 00:36:57,995 Alexander, don't you think we have too much cargo? 438 00:36:58,270 --> 00:37:01,554 It's little compared to all that we have to explore and measure. 439 00:37:01,910 --> 00:37:04,550 I meant too much for the boat. 440 00:37:05,150 --> 00:37:08,118 We'll send some items to Europe from the next missionary point. 441 00:37:08,350 --> 00:37:09,878 To Europe? 442 00:37:11,909 --> 00:37:13,634 This is going to Europe? 443 00:37:15,630 --> 00:37:18,314 Put that back down now! - Oh, is it valuable? 444 00:37:18,910 --> 00:37:22,031 That's the Humboldt Monkey. - What? 445 00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:25,109 Simia Humboldt, it's named after me. 446 00:37:29,869 --> 00:37:33,917 Have you named anything after me, too? - Not yet. 447 00:39:10,587 --> 00:39:14,352 What an honour for our mission, Baron. 448 00:39:14,507 --> 00:39:16,591 Your reputation precedes you. 449 00:39:17,708 --> 00:39:19,115 You speak German? 450 00:39:19,786 --> 00:39:22,187 Spanish, German, French, English, 451 00:39:22,347 --> 00:39:24,388 Greek and Aramaic. - You're a Jesuit. 452 00:39:25,147 --> 00:39:29,435 You know that the Jesuits were driven from this land. They are no longer here. 453 00:39:30,146 --> 00:39:32,034 Right. So you're not one? 454 00:39:32,306 --> 00:39:33,594 I didn't say that. 455 00:39:35,387 --> 00:39:38,191 Do you have any requests, Baron. Can we help you? 456 00:39:38,627 --> 00:39:42,150 Yes. I'd like to send cases of samples to Europe. 457 00:39:42,586 --> 00:39:44,506 And I require oarsmen 458 00:39:45,106 --> 00:39:47,190 familiar with the dangerous waterfalls. 459 00:39:47,426 --> 00:39:49,467 Natives who are not afraid to take a risk. 460 00:39:50,027 --> 00:39:51,107 I understand. 461 00:39:51,307 --> 00:39:53,226 We will doubtless find such men. 462 00:39:53,746 --> 00:39:56,354 They have to be volunteers. - Of course. 463 00:39:56,546 --> 00:39:57,625 Volunteers. 464 00:39:58,026 --> 00:39:59,707 But you do know, I hope, 465 00:40:00,146 --> 00:40:03,791 that cannibals dwell beyond the waterfalls. 466 00:40:06,666 --> 00:40:08,707 This is my assistant, Aimé Bonpland. 467 00:40:09,066 --> 00:40:10,549 What? 468 00:40:10,906 --> 00:40:13,514 Alexander, I'm not our assistant. 469 00:40:14,346 --> 00:40:16,071 "Colleague", if you please. 470 00:40:17,226 --> 00:40:18,426 Come along, please. 471 00:40:22,386 --> 00:40:23,826 After you. 472 00:41:22,105 --> 00:41:23,393 Let me see. - Get lost. 473 00:41:23,545 --> 00:41:25,432 I just want a peek. - Get off! 474 00:41:28,304 --> 00:41:30,345 If you'll be seated... - How much? 475 00:41:30,944 --> 00:41:33,072 Bargain rates, 15 pfennigs to pull a tooth. 476 00:41:33,264 --> 00:41:35,872 Ten. - I've a living to make, too, Sir. 12! 477 00:41:46,704 --> 00:41:49,343 By your leave, I have to strap you in. 478 00:41:56,704 --> 00:41:58,067 Careful, careful... 479 00:42:02,263 --> 00:42:04,031 It doesn't look good. 480 00:42:04,223 --> 00:42:05,663 Back right, is it? 481 00:42:06,303 --> 00:42:07,951 It doesn't look good. 482 00:42:12,783 --> 00:42:14,824 Oh God, the pincers! 483 00:42:16,783 --> 00:42:19,031 Won't you at least wash them? 484 00:42:21,143 --> 00:42:22,464 Schnapps washes best. 485 00:42:44,623 --> 00:42:45,790 So... 486 00:42:46,982 --> 00:42:48,270 Does it still hurt? - Yes! 487 00:42:49,463 --> 00:42:50,423 Wrong tooth. 488 00:42:51,783 --> 00:42:52,907 It happens. 489 00:42:53,943 --> 00:42:56,191 It's lucky humans have so many teeth. 490 00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:01,382 Should I shave you, too? 491 00:43:01,782 --> 00:43:03,266 It's five pfennigs more. 492 00:43:05,702 --> 00:43:07,590 Terrible weather we've been having. 493 00:43:14,222 --> 00:43:15,750 Have you heard of that... 494 00:43:16,462 --> 00:43:17,510 Napoleon? 495 00:43:19,503 --> 00:43:21,870 He knew perfectly well that in 200 years 496 00:43:22,181 --> 00:43:23,982 there would be dentists, 497 00:43:24,142 --> 00:43:26,869 and toothless people would be a thing of the past. 498 00:43:27,822 --> 00:43:29,666 And no one would go bald any more. 499 00:43:29,822 --> 00:43:30,989 Almost got it. 500 00:43:31,182 --> 00:43:33,865 Why didn't people think of such things? 501 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:37,145 For them things were self-evident. 502 00:43:38,102 --> 00:43:41,222 Analgesics... How simple it would be. 503 00:43:41,382 --> 00:43:43,586 Just dull the nerve at the right place. 504 00:43:44,341 --> 00:43:46,621 Curare had to be researched properly. 505 00:43:54,381 --> 00:43:56,029 "Dear Brother, 506 00:43:56,182 --> 00:43:58,025 the trip outstrips all expectations, 507 00:43:58,180 --> 00:44:00,100 as does the abundance of discoveries. 508 00:44:00,301 --> 00:44:01,622 Ditto its dangers. 509 00:44:01,821 --> 00:44:04,506 The Orinoco is full of waiting caimans, 510 00:44:04,901 --> 00:44:08,621 their backs like floating logs in the shimmering midday sun. 511 00:44:09,180 --> 00:44:13,021 Only recently I was able to free some slaves. 512 00:44:13,341 --> 00:44:17,029 Happiness and silent gratitude illuminated their faces. 513 00:44:17,301 --> 00:44:18,709 A sight... 514 00:44:19,461 --> 00:44:21,380 hard to forget. 515 00:44:22,940 --> 00:44:24,828 The concept of a new science, 516 00:44:25,060 --> 00:44:27,941 one of physical geography, becomes apparent. 517 00:44:28,141 --> 00:44:31,348 As soon as you receive this, have it announced in the papers: 518 00:44:32,220 --> 00:44:34,740 I think the world will know my name." 519 00:46:00,579 --> 00:46:03,187 M. Bonpland! An electric eel. 520 00:46:03,899 --> 00:46:05,262 What? 521 00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:09,659 What is this in aid of? 522 00:46:09,858 --> 00:46:12,106 An experiment. - An experiment. Good. 523 00:46:12,778 --> 00:46:15,059 What is it to demonstrate? - If we knew that, 524 00:46:15,299 --> 00:46:17,142 it wouldn't be an experiment. 525 00:46:17,298 --> 00:46:18,738 We have seen that such eels 526 00:46:19,138 --> 00:46:20,983 can give off galvanic shocks 527 00:46:21,378 --> 00:46:24,586 that can knock you out or kill you. - So it would seem. 528 00:46:25,618 --> 00:46:27,266 What a strange force 529 00:46:27,457 --> 00:46:29,498 this electricity must be. 530 00:46:29,897 --> 00:46:32,342 We cannot measure it, there are no formulas, 531 00:46:32,938 --> 00:46:34,662 but feel it we can. 532 00:46:37,338 --> 00:46:38,659 Hang it up! 533 00:46:44,498 --> 00:46:46,539 Place two cupping glasses on my back. 534 00:46:48,618 --> 00:46:50,386 Good. 535 00:46:55,058 --> 00:46:57,066 Good. The second. 536 00:47:00,258 --> 00:47:04,185 Good. - Remove them and cut open the blisters. 537 00:47:05,137 --> 00:47:06,425 Cut them open? 538 00:47:25,777 --> 00:47:27,501 Yes. Good. 539 00:47:28,696 --> 00:47:30,137 Now the piece of zinc. 540 00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:32,377 Zinc. 541 00:47:34,456 --> 00:47:38,177 Very good. Now please apply a piece of silver to the other wound. 542 00:47:40,337 --> 00:47:44,778 Aimé, so much knowledge is lost to man because he fears pain, but he who... 543 00:47:52,256 --> 00:47:53,784 Please take a note. 544 00:47:54,296 --> 00:47:55,780 Cucullaris muscle. 545 00:47:56,016 --> 00:47:59,060 Occipital bone. Extension of the dorsal vertebra. 546 00:47:59,257 --> 00:48:01,384 There is definite flow of galvanic energy. 547 00:48:01,856 --> 00:48:03,940 Have you got that? -Indeed. -Good. 548 00:48:04,136 --> 00:48:05,303 Now, quick... 549 00:48:05,536 --> 00:48:07,304 the eel. I have to know... 550 00:48:07,776 --> 00:48:10,503 if its muscles still contain electric energy. 551 00:48:14,255 --> 00:48:15,696 The eel... 552 00:48:18,976 --> 00:48:20,384 Good. Now the silver. 553 00:48:21,056 --> 00:48:22,180 Silver? - Silver! 554 00:48:23,136 --> 00:48:24,302 Silver! 555 00:48:25,095 --> 00:48:28,019 One, two, three... 556 00:48:28,375 --> 00:48:29,663 Carl? 557 00:48:30,735 --> 00:48:32,099 Have you seen? 558 00:48:33,496 --> 00:48:37,336 The baron writes of caimans in the river, 559 00:48:37,615 --> 00:48:40,255 and is searching for the passage between the Orinoco 560 00:48:40,575 --> 00:48:41,939 and the Amazon. 561 00:48:42,415 --> 00:48:44,303 He is quite fearless. 562 00:48:46,055 --> 00:48:47,538 And so handsome. 563 00:48:50,215 --> 00:48:51,743 I've almost finished my book. 564 00:48:55,775 --> 00:48:57,455 And... what's it about? 565 00:49:05,215 --> 00:49:06,863 The number line. 566 00:49:07,415 --> 00:49:08,703 This is zero, 567 00:49:08,895 --> 00:49:11,818 One, two, three, the natural numbers. 568 00:49:12,014 --> 00:49:14,262 The integers, the negative ones, too. 569 00:49:14,415 --> 00:49:17,580 There are fractions, rational numbers, square roots, irrational numbers. 570 00:49:18,174 --> 00:49:20,215 Calculations yield new numbers, 571 00:49:20,495 --> 00:49:22,338 the field must always be extended. 572 00:49:22,694 --> 00:49:24,974 There is no more room here, 573 00:49:25,734 --> 00:49:27,775 but if I include the vertical axis, 574 00:49:29,615 --> 00:49:32,059 a new mathematical space opens. 575 00:49:33,454 --> 00:49:35,134 I name this number i, 576 00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:40,259 that number minus i, and can solve previously irresolvable equations, 577 00:49:40,414 --> 00:49:43,415 can describe the reduction of polynomials and show... 578 00:49:43,734 --> 00:49:46,014 that all polynomials are reducible. 579 00:49:50,773 --> 00:49:53,141 And what use is that? 580 00:49:53,814 --> 00:49:57,337 Electricity can be... Use? It's not a matter of usefulness. 581 00:49:58,093 --> 00:49:59,381 I've almost finished. 582 00:50:00,173 --> 00:50:01,821 Then I will come to you. 583 00:50:27,813 --> 00:50:29,101 Gracias. 584 00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:35,620 Yes... 585 00:50:36,172 --> 00:50:38,660 Thank you... 586 00:51:23,692 --> 00:51:24,936 Aimé Bonpland? 587 00:51:59,371 --> 00:52:01,291 Stop! - Alexander! 588 00:52:07,250 --> 00:52:08,734 One moment... 589 00:52:10,891 --> 00:52:12,855 What is your problem? - My problem? 590 00:52:14,051 --> 00:52:16,691 Yes. - Aimé Bonpland, if you do this again, 591 00:52:17,730 --> 00:52:20,295 I'll no more work with you. 592 00:52:20,731 --> 00:52:22,051 What's wrong about it? 593 00:52:23,331 --> 00:52:26,332 You yourself are a man. - Think of your fiancée. 594 00:52:26,491 --> 00:52:27,898 My fiancée? 595 00:52:29,530 --> 00:52:31,975 I don't have one. - Man is not an animal. 596 00:52:33,010 --> 00:52:35,138 Yet at times he is. - Kant! 597 00:52:35,411 --> 00:52:37,058 Have you read Immanuel Kant? 598 00:52:37,290 --> 00:52:39,613 "Act only according to that maxim which 599 00:52:39,810 --> 00:52:43,258 you can will it become universal law." - Alexander. 600 00:52:43,810 --> 00:52:45,730 I am a Frenchman. - Well? 601 00:52:46,890 --> 00:52:48,854 We don't read foreign books. 602 00:52:50,169 --> 00:52:51,817 One more time, 603 00:52:52,330 --> 00:52:54,970 and you're travelling alone, you hear me? 604 00:52:57,890 --> 00:52:59,658 Well, do you? - I do. 605 00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:01,254 Listen, Alexander. 606 00:53:02,169 --> 00:53:05,094 If anyone has reason to be angry here 607 00:53:05,289 --> 00:53:07,209 it's me. - Not that again! 608 00:53:07,410 --> 00:53:10,291 I had to save the equipment. Had I not reacted quickly, 609 00:53:10,449 --> 00:53:13,297 Parisian Time would have been damaged. You'd have done the same. 610 00:53:14,409 --> 00:53:17,050 You say I wouldn't have helped you 611 00:53:17,249 --> 00:53:19,333 if those two were beating you to death? 612 00:53:19,809 --> 00:53:21,130 Right. 613 00:53:21,289 --> 00:53:24,771 I'd have let him smash your brains out? - Of course. 614 00:53:26,409 --> 00:53:28,089 I expect you're right. 615 00:53:30,689 --> 00:53:34,258 Oh God, Alexander! Why must you be so German? 616 00:53:41,289 --> 00:53:42,773 Work calls. 617 00:53:48,568 --> 00:53:51,689 Usurers! Impertinent usurers! - This is still cheap. 618 00:53:51,849 --> 00:53:53,289 Nonsense. Our discount... 619 00:53:53,489 --> 00:53:56,250 was taken into account. This is excellent meat. 620 00:53:56,609 --> 00:53:57,930 Rubbish. 7, 5. 621 00:53:58,089 --> 00:53:59,975 5. Take P, a positive prime number, 622 00:54:00,288 --> 00:54:03,049 you pig! - Take K, an integer non-divisible by P, 623 00:54:03,408 --> 00:54:06,452 you stingy wreck! Take A, the entirety of all numbers. 624 00:54:06,728 --> 00:54:08,932 Take B, the entirety of all numbers. 625 00:54:09,249 --> 00:54:11,332 Half P plus 1, half P plus 2, 626 00:54:11,808 --> 00:54:13,728 half P plus 3, half P plus 5, 627 00:54:13,888 --> 00:54:15,808 and continuing ever thuswise... 628 00:54:15,968 --> 00:54:19,416 Take the smallest positive results of the products of K, 629 00:54:19,568 --> 00:54:22,612 and the individual digits of A, as specified by P... 630 00:54:31,128 --> 00:54:32,612 Finished! 631 00:54:51,768 --> 00:54:53,688 I'm getting married, Mother. 632 00:54:56,487 --> 00:54:57,687 Why? 633 00:54:58,047 --> 00:55:00,088 Who knows how long you'll be here for me? 634 00:55:01,567 --> 00:55:02,887 I need someone. 635 00:55:04,367 --> 00:55:06,092 Her name is Johanna. 636 00:55:06,568 --> 00:55:09,251 I went to school with her. - That's right. 637 00:55:10,046 --> 00:55:11,530 You cannot be alone. 638 00:55:12,646 --> 00:55:14,251 You need someone. 639 00:55:16,327 --> 00:55:19,252 You'll need to find a post. - That's right. 640 00:55:22,327 --> 00:55:25,011 You'll have to be able to feed a family. 641 00:55:45,246 --> 00:55:46,774 Unbelievable! 642 00:55:48,806 --> 00:55:50,694 Yes! Unbelievable. 643 00:55:52,686 --> 00:55:54,290 What a find. 644 00:55:54,806 --> 00:55:57,054 What are you doing there... Alexander? 645 00:56:00,566 --> 00:56:01,526 Alexander! 646 00:56:06,326 --> 00:56:08,170 We're leaving! Pack up! Now! 647 00:56:08,605 --> 00:56:10,613 What happened? - Aimé... 648 00:56:11,085 --> 00:56:13,693 Come on. Help me. - Yes, but how? 649 00:56:13,846 --> 00:56:15,526 Take a mummy. - Why? 650 00:56:15,966 --> 00:56:18,170 Lord, need I always argue with you? 651 00:56:18,566 --> 00:56:19,886 Take one! 652 00:56:20,685 --> 00:56:22,093 Go on! 653 00:56:25,966 --> 00:56:28,967 Do it! - Help me. -Allez. 654 00:56:29,366 --> 00:56:30,773 You cannot be serious. 655 00:56:31,764 --> 00:56:35,169 Alexander! We're grave robbing from the Indians. 656 00:56:36,325 --> 00:56:37,973 You go too far. 657 00:56:38,565 --> 00:56:39,973 Oh, come along, now! 658 00:56:40,405 --> 00:56:41,933 Aimé, my dear friend, 659 00:56:42,644 --> 00:56:45,645 scientific knowledge is all that counts here. 660 00:56:55,325 --> 00:56:58,533 What's in there? - Various things. 661 00:56:58,924 --> 00:57:01,205 Some things. - Doesn't seem so. 662 00:57:03,005 --> 00:57:04,446 Want to take a look? 663 00:57:08,765 --> 00:57:10,009 A look? 664 00:57:17,404 --> 00:57:18,812 Bonpland? 665 00:57:19,004 --> 00:57:20,008 Come on! 666 00:57:23,484 --> 00:57:25,972 My God, all this superstition, it's unbearable. 667 00:57:26,804 --> 00:57:29,565 How are we to import the Enlightenment? 668 00:57:42,604 --> 00:57:44,012 What is this? 669 00:57:44,763 --> 00:57:46,892 Your oarsmen, the volunteers. 670 00:57:47,044 --> 00:57:48,572 I cannot accept this. 671 00:57:48,764 --> 00:57:50,684 I would advise you to swiftly travel forth. 672 00:57:51,004 --> 00:57:52,051 There's bad blood. 673 00:57:52,283 --> 00:57:55,568 You didn't behave diplomatically. - Stop. 674 00:57:56,123 --> 00:57:59,364 Those two men did no harm. And they are not volunteers. 675 00:57:59,683 --> 00:58:01,288 You never know with these people. 676 00:58:01,444 --> 00:58:04,367 First they volunteer, then they can't be found. 677 00:58:04,803 --> 00:58:06,690 And anyway, they all look so similar. 678 00:58:07,763 --> 00:58:10,327 Take your stones and corpses 679 00:58:10,643 --> 00:58:13,208 and, as you travel, give thought to how... 680 00:58:13,523 --> 00:58:15,442 how easy it is to be humane 681 00:58:15,722 --> 00:58:17,686 if one is in Weimar or Paris. 682 00:58:17,883 --> 00:58:22,008 But if with just a few soldiers, you have to rule over thousands of heathens, 683 00:58:22,403 --> 00:58:26,245 who wouldn't hesitate a moment to chop your head off... 684 00:58:26,562 --> 00:58:30,523 - and why should they hesitate - then everything is slightly more complex. 685 00:58:30,962 --> 00:58:32,643 Why are you here at all? 686 00:58:33,163 --> 00:58:34,603 What is your real plan? 687 00:58:34,803 --> 00:58:37,323 Nobody travels across the whole world 688 00:58:37,483 --> 00:58:40,767 just to measure a piece of land they don't even own. 689 00:58:41,603 --> 00:58:42,727 But... But... 690 00:58:43,082 --> 00:58:46,967 What is it to be: the waterfalls or a journey home... 691 00:58:47,763 --> 00:58:49,846 your exploration, your skeletons, 692 00:58:50,202 --> 00:58:52,810 or the freedom of these people? 693 00:58:54,082 --> 00:58:55,687 So, I have no choice. 694 00:58:56,003 --> 00:58:57,650 I wouldn't say that. 695 00:58:58,162 --> 00:59:00,083 You have ten seconds. 696 00:59:02,322 --> 00:59:03,806 We leave the mummies here. 697 00:59:04,082 --> 00:59:06,046 I told you... - This is no use. 698 00:59:06,522 --> 00:59:08,486 This is by no means acceptable. 699 00:59:08,762 --> 00:59:10,410 I will not tolerate this. 700 00:59:11,042 --> 00:59:13,442 Now three seconds remain. 701 00:59:20,721 --> 00:59:24,126 One... two... three... 702 00:59:24,402 --> 00:59:27,926 four... five... six... 703 00:59:28,242 --> 00:59:31,166 seven... and all that is one snake! 704 00:59:47,721 --> 00:59:49,129 Who do we have here? 705 00:59:52,401 --> 00:59:55,925 Ah... Humboldt Monkey. Ah, Gauss! 706 00:59:56,201 --> 00:59:58,689 You wished to see me? - My book... 707 00:59:59,361 --> 01:00:00,801 Baron. 708 01:00:01,801 --> 01:00:03,568 The first copy. 709 01:00:22,321 --> 01:00:23,487 This is... 710 01:00:33,521 --> 01:00:35,004 fine, Gauss. 711 01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:36,559 Fine. 712 01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,164 We need capable teachers 713 01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,247 for our new university. 714 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,684 Our youth... 715 01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,484 needs teaching. - Baron... 716 01:00:45,639 --> 01:00:47,123 Let's have a look. 717 01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,123 These teeth! 718 01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,088 Come. Want to touch them? 719 01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,600 It is... Such unbelievable teeth! 720 01:01:31,559 --> 01:01:32,966 I brought you something. 721 01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:37,363 Your book. - Yes. 722 01:01:38,879 --> 01:01:46,124 "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, by... Carl Friedrich Gauss". 723 01:01:46,278 --> 01:01:48,198 It's central to mathematical history. 724 01:01:48,759 --> 01:01:50,800 How modest. - Modesty is irrelevant. 725 01:01:50,959 --> 01:01:54,483 It is a key work in mathematical history. No one will deny that. 726 01:01:55,278 --> 01:01:57,558 My life's work is done... 727 01:01:58,758 --> 01:02:01,203 The future is an anticlimax. 728 01:02:02,598 --> 01:02:05,480 And it's me you're sharing this with? - Yes. 729 01:02:11,798 --> 01:02:13,119 Johanna, I... 730 01:02:19,157 --> 01:02:21,525 I can feed a family. It's not hard at all. 731 01:02:21,998 --> 01:02:23,842 I can measure land. 732 01:02:23,998 --> 01:02:27,283 I can discover stars, I can speculate on the stock exchange. 733 01:02:29,358 --> 01:02:32,118 Earning money is easy if you've nothing better to do. 734 01:02:32,278 --> 01:02:35,399 You needn't worry about that. - I don't worry about it. 735 01:02:39,037 --> 01:02:39,998 But? 736 01:02:43,197 --> 01:02:44,845 He's too fine for a proper job! 737 01:02:47,037 --> 01:02:48,521 A book! - Excuse me, Minna. 738 01:03:00,997 --> 01:03:03,758 I doubt that it's possible to be happy beside you. 739 01:03:05,276 --> 01:03:07,317 Have I... - You have too much to do. 740 01:03:08,516 --> 01:03:10,361 A man like you shouldn't marry. 741 01:03:10,717 --> 01:03:15,398 You draw strength and life from the people around you, 742 01:03:15,557 --> 01:03:18,437 like the earth from the sun, or... 743 01:03:19,396 --> 01:03:21,284 the sea from rivers... I... 744 01:03:21,676 --> 01:03:24,241 I am honoured, 745 01:03:25,077 --> 01:03:27,085 and I am moved, and... 746 01:03:27,597 --> 01:03:29,637 perhaps I do love you, but... 747 01:03:29,916 --> 01:03:31,836 I must, nonetheless, refuse. 748 01:03:39,357 --> 01:03:41,397 I expected rejection, 749 01:03:43,756 --> 01:03:46,517 but not with such good justification. 750 01:03:50,717 --> 01:03:52,396 I remain your servant... 751 01:03:53,036 --> 01:03:56,364 Are you going away? - I am travelling to Königsberg. 752 01:03:56,515 --> 01:03:57,879 I must visit someone. 753 01:03:58,356 --> 01:04:00,364 There are two ways to be understood: 754 01:04:00,836 --> 01:04:02,636 One is through true love, 755 01:04:04,475 --> 01:04:06,516 the other through pure reason. 756 01:04:13,516 --> 01:04:15,556 881,451 757 01:04:16,435 --> 01:04:18,880 881,473... 758 01:04:20,275 --> 01:04:22,643 881,477... 759 01:04:23,476 --> 01:04:25,844 881,479... 760 01:04:26,635 --> 01:04:29,275 Are you praying? - Prime numbers. 761 01:04:59,795 --> 01:05:01,562 How far will we go? 762 01:05:01,754 --> 01:05:03,675 The Amazon. - To the Amazon? 763 01:05:04,194 --> 01:05:07,195 There's no way from here to the Amazon, everyone knows that. 764 01:05:07,474 --> 01:05:09,679 There must be a passage. 765 01:05:10,314 --> 01:05:11,755 A natural canal. 766 01:05:15,194 --> 01:05:16,755 The world is a unity. 767 01:05:16,914 --> 01:05:18,922 All currents interact, 768 01:05:19,074 --> 01:05:20,994 all systems are one. 769 01:05:21,915 --> 01:05:24,075 Even if you're right, it's deep in the jungle. 770 01:05:24,234 --> 01:05:26,121 The jungle is only a forest. 771 01:05:29,194 --> 01:05:32,763 Don't breathe so deeply, there are miasma and fever-vapours... 772 01:05:33,194 --> 01:05:36,794 Always complaining, objecting, always the negative energy. 773 01:05:37,114 --> 01:05:40,279 Is a little enthusiasm too much to ask? 774 01:05:44,794 --> 01:05:46,714 The magnetic equator. 775 01:05:47,833 --> 01:05:51,161 As a child, Humboldt had dreamt of this place. 776 01:05:52,794 --> 01:05:55,642 The terrain was detailed on no map. 777 01:05:55,914 --> 01:05:59,874 They could only guess where the water was bringing them. 778 01:06:25,433 --> 01:06:28,838 Might I speak with Professor Kant? - The professor receives no visitors. 779 01:06:29,993 --> 01:06:32,917 Listen, I have come from very, very... 780 01:06:34,592 --> 01:06:37,113 very far away, and must speak to him. 781 01:06:37,913 --> 01:06:40,794 And believe you me, he wants to speak to me, too. 782 01:06:55,433 --> 01:06:56,634 Is that him? 783 01:07:10,392 --> 01:07:13,480 My name is Carl Friedrich Gauss, you may have heard of me. 784 01:07:13,672 --> 01:07:16,073 This is my work, the foundation of number theory. 785 01:07:21,831 --> 01:07:23,599 Professor Kant, I... 786 01:07:26,631 --> 01:07:29,959 Professor Kant, I have never been able to speak to someone as an equal. 787 01:07:30,112 --> 01:07:32,751 Everyone is slower, duller, more stupid... 788 01:07:34,071 --> 01:07:35,719 I didn't ask for this. 789 01:07:35,871 --> 01:07:39,952 I am... very alone... But you must know this feeling. 790 01:07:41,191 --> 01:07:42,752 He explained everything: 791 01:07:43,032 --> 01:07:45,159 His presumption that space buckles; 792 01:07:45,351 --> 01:07:48,352 that parallel lines meet in the infinite; 793 01:07:48,791 --> 01:07:51,072 his suspicion that time is flexible; 794 01:07:51,471 --> 01:07:53,719 that these insights are neither dream nor fantasy, 795 01:07:53,872 --> 01:07:56,752 but calculable matters which, in the future, 796 01:07:56,950 --> 01:07:58,870 will be thought self-evident. 797 01:07:59,151 --> 01:08:00,439 He had never spoken of this. 798 01:08:00,591 --> 01:08:04,432 He knew how swiftly one is ridiculed or called mad, 799 01:08:04,751 --> 01:08:06,115 how dangerous thought is. 800 01:08:06,790 --> 01:08:08,514 Professor, I need your opinion. 801 01:08:10,071 --> 01:08:13,039 I've waited all my life to meet the one person 802 01:08:14,151 --> 01:08:16,759 who can understand me, and to whom I can explain... 803 01:08:17,031 --> 01:08:18,994 all I have discovered. 804 01:08:20,230 --> 01:08:22,914 Wiener! - Sorry? 805 01:08:25,630 --> 01:08:27,671 The servant should buy wieners. 806 01:08:28,910 --> 01:08:30,830 Wieners. And stars. 807 01:08:31,110 --> 01:08:33,074 He should buy them, too. 808 01:08:37,710 --> 01:08:38,954 You see, Sir: 809 01:08:40,071 --> 01:08:43,594 Civility has not quite left me. 810 01:08:45,670 --> 01:08:47,110 This is Immanuel Kant? 811 01:08:48,950 --> 01:08:55,998 The Lord, in His great bounty... 812 01:08:56,989 --> 01:09:02,914 to this day accompanies me... 813 01:09:04,270 --> 01:09:11,679 The Lord, in His great bounty... 814 01:09:12,509 --> 01:09:18,117 to this day sustaineth me... 815 01:09:51,668 --> 01:09:52,628 Carl... 816 01:09:56,548 --> 01:09:58,348 I've thought it over. - What? 817 01:09:58,708 --> 01:10:00,672 I want to marry you. - What, now? 818 01:10:00,908 --> 01:10:02,316 Yes. 819 01:10:03,388 --> 01:10:04,796 Now it's too late. - What? 820 01:10:05,508 --> 01:10:07,036 Curare! 821 01:10:07,428 --> 01:10:09,273 The whole bottle. - But... 822 01:10:09,828 --> 01:10:13,036 But I want to say "I do." - Johanna... 823 01:10:13,508 --> 01:10:15,112 I'm dying. 824 01:10:16,387 --> 01:10:17,871 I drank the whole bottle. 825 01:10:18,028 --> 01:10:19,828 What? - The whole bottle. 826 01:10:20,068 --> 01:10:22,469 Nothing and no one can save me. - Stop. 827 01:10:22,628 --> 01:10:24,592 Johanna... I'm dying. 828 01:10:29,427 --> 01:10:30,387 Carl? 829 01:10:38,907 --> 01:10:40,347 Ejaculate of the Lord! 830 01:10:41,227 --> 01:10:42,591 What shit luck! 831 01:10:44,547 --> 01:10:46,152 Aimé, are you well? 832 01:10:47,468 --> 01:10:50,435 I'm feverous. - I did tell you. 833 01:10:50,987 --> 01:10:53,988 It's the miasma rising from the jungle. 834 01:10:54,467 --> 01:10:56,596 I can feel it, too, but uniform helps. 835 01:10:57,427 --> 01:10:59,271 Uniform? - Yes. 836 01:10:59,548 --> 01:11:02,274 One must be so correct that fever cannot assail one. 837 01:11:02,427 --> 01:11:06,672 Illness is disorder. But, if you refuse to admit disorder... 838 01:11:07,427 --> 01:11:10,712 And this works? - Hitherto, yes. Commendably. 839 01:11:11,747 --> 01:11:13,634 Sometimes I think you're joking, 840 01:11:13,786 --> 01:11:15,795 but then I remember you're Prussian. 841 01:11:19,107 --> 01:11:21,027 A most in just prejudice. 842 01:11:21,307 --> 01:11:23,391 Prussians have splendid humour. 843 01:11:23,586 --> 01:11:27,034 Yes, yes... -indeed. Prussians laugh often. 844 01:11:28,466 --> 01:11:29,427 Yes! 845 01:11:29,747 --> 01:11:32,115 Read Gryphius' splendid comedies, 846 01:11:32,627 --> 01:11:36,315 or the unmatched poetry of Martin Opitz. - Martin Opitz? 847 01:11:36,666 --> 01:11:38,750 Martin Opitz, yes. 848 01:11:39,906 --> 01:11:41,269 Martin Opitz. 849 01:11:47,306 --> 01:11:49,434 The bride! 850 01:11:49,665 --> 01:11:52,033 Gauss, a speech! - No, no, no! 851 01:11:52,186 --> 01:11:54,947 Carl, yes, a speech. - No... no! 852 01:11:55,746 --> 01:11:57,787 Now, Son, don't be coy. - Mama, please. 853 01:11:58,146 --> 01:12:00,709 A speech. Get on with it! 854 01:12:05,306 --> 01:12:07,270 I don't believe in happiness, 855 01:12:09,106 --> 01:12:11,867 I didn't believe I'd find happiness, 856 01:12:13,425 --> 01:12:15,870 and now it's here it looks to me like... 857 01:12:17,186 --> 01:12:18,550 a miscalculation: 858 01:12:18,865 --> 01:12:21,592 Something unintended and soon to be rectified. 859 01:12:25,665 --> 01:12:29,866 Let's hope that won't happen soon. Thanks to you all, enjoy the party. 860 01:12:33,345 --> 01:12:35,865 That was the speech I've always wished for. 861 01:13:03,584 --> 01:13:06,346 Have you ever done this before? - No. 862 01:13:07,505 --> 01:13:08,988 What makes you ask? 863 01:13:57,864 --> 01:13:59,544 I don't believe it! 864 01:14:23,063 --> 01:14:25,508 I've got it. - What? 865 01:14:29,582 --> 01:14:33,030 How to offset errors in planet-trajectory calculation. 866 01:14:34,142 --> 01:14:35,550 I've got it at last. 867 01:14:36,702 --> 01:14:38,263 What... right now? 868 01:14:38,742 --> 01:14:40,226 It'll alter cosmology. 869 01:14:42,102 --> 01:14:44,230 It's all thanks to you. You did it. 870 01:15:11,062 --> 01:15:13,670 You make the sweetest compliments. 871 01:16:25,859 --> 01:16:27,267 Strange, these roast monkeys. 872 01:16:28,460 --> 01:16:31,100 They resemble the limbs of small humans. 873 01:16:31,380 --> 01:16:33,224 It takes an effort of will to eat them. 874 01:16:33,980 --> 01:16:35,421 I can't eat that. 875 01:16:36,381 --> 01:16:39,424 You have to. Our supplies are finished. You have to. 876 01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:43,585 If I eat anything... - Yes? 877 01:16:43,940 --> 01:16:45,304 Oh, nothing. 878 01:16:45,460 --> 01:16:47,380 You know, Alexander, 879 01:16:48,140 --> 01:16:49,907 we are scientists. 880 01:16:50,500 --> 01:16:53,708 Yes. - We want to be realistic. 881 01:16:54,420 --> 01:16:57,901 True. - Everyone knows there's cannibalism here. 882 01:16:59,420 --> 01:17:00,620 So? 883 01:17:01,739 --> 01:17:03,060 Alexander, 884 01:17:04,299 --> 01:17:07,540 the people here regularly eat human flesh. 885 01:17:10,380 --> 01:17:11,700 So? - So? 886 01:17:12,939 --> 01:17:14,259 So... so... 887 01:17:14,419 --> 01:17:16,623 so this looks like human flesh, 888 01:17:16,899 --> 01:17:20,184 and they eat people around her. - Aimé! 889 01:17:20,899 --> 01:17:23,060 What? - We are all exhausted. 890 01:17:24,059 --> 01:17:26,546 You're feverous, so I won't be pedantic. 891 01:17:27,698 --> 01:17:29,259 Sorry? - If you ever, 892 01:17:29,459 --> 01:17:31,740 ever again dare say a Prussian civil servant, 893 01:17:32,059 --> 01:17:35,387 a scion of the Humboldt family, the godson of the Duke of Brunswick, 894 01:17:35,538 --> 01:17:38,059 ate human flesh, Aimé, then... 895 01:17:39,098 --> 01:17:40,779 I'll demand satisfaction. 896 01:17:42,619 --> 01:17:45,468 Unbelievable! - What! 897 01:17:46,458 --> 01:17:47,418 Truly. 898 01:17:48,698 --> 01:17:50,062 Mon Dieu! 899 01:17:52,378 --> 01:17:53,545 Aimé! 900 01:17:53,979 --> 01:17:54,939 Aimé 901 01:17:56,258 --> 01:17:58,506 Come along! Come on. Careful! 902 01:17:59,178 --> 01:18:00,258 Aimé, come on. 903 01:18:02,138 --> 01:18:03,785 Come on, more around. 904 01:18:04,019 --> 01:18:05,819 Just turn a little. Good. 905 01:18:06,378 --> 01:18:08,823 No, no. He stays on the ground. 906 01:18:09,459 --> 01:18:11,826 No, listen, let go of him. Leave him there. 907 01:18:13,338 --> 01:18:15,542 What are you doing? Stop it! 908 01:18:15,898 --> 01:18:17,458 Hey, stop that. Let go of him! 909 01:18:17,738 --> 01:18:21,863 That's my friend. He has a fever. What are you doing? 910 01:19:26,096 --> 01:19:27,701 Alexander! 911 01:19:28,936 --> 01:19:31,663 Aimé! - Alexander, you wouldn't believe it. 912 01:19:32,176 --> 01:19:33,617 Aimé, how are you? 913 01:19:33,776 --> 01:19:37,017 Write down what happened. You have to be my witness. 914 01:19:37,616 --> 01:19:41,021 The things I saw... - The boats, Aimé. We... 915 01:19:41,337 --> 01:19:42,656 have a long way to go. 916 01:19:43,376 --> 01:19:44,696 But the singing! 917 01:19:45,496 --> 01:19:46,620 Did you hear it? 918 01:19:47,416 --> 01:19:49,336 It healed me. 919 01:19:50,616 --> 01:19:52,897 Tra-la-la-la. Singing. 920 01:19:53,216 --> 01:19:55,976 But I know... I know what I saw. 921 01:19:56,135 --> 01:19:58,897 Maybe we're dreaming. Or maybe the jungle is. 922 01:20:00,215 --> 01:20:01,863 You don't understand 923 01:20:02,616 --> 01:20:05,344 what happened to me... - Aimé, we have to survive. 924 01:20:05,735 --> 01:20:07,776 We have to keep all things in order. 925 01:20:08,015 --> 01:20:10,535 No matter what we see. - Unbelievable. 926 01:20:16,416 --> 01:20:18,739 Don't you want to make a note of it 927 01:20:18,895 --> 01:20:20,216 for the sake of science? 928 01:20:20,415 --> 01:20:23,459 For science's sake, Aimé, I shall not. 929 01:20:25,055 --> 01:20:26,179 Now come along. 930 01:20:44,695 --> 01:20:47,980 Given this superiority... it seems virtually hopeless. 931 01:20:49,175 --> 01:20:51,815 The French are vastly superior in number. 932 01:20:53,974 --> 01:20:56,255 Shouldn't we talk to Napoleon? 933 01:20:56,935 --> 01:20:58,976 It's too late. The enemy is here. 934 01:20:59,135 --> 01:21:00,423 Morale is what counts. 935 01:21:00,855 --> 01:21:03,702 One German soldier is worth ten Frenchmen. 936 01:21:06,134 --> 01:21:08,742 58,000 men stand ready to serve you. 937 01:21:09,054 --> 01:21:10,375 That moves me indeed. 938 01:21:11,814 --> 01:21:14,138 So, war is here, then. 939 01:21:15,174 --> 01:21:16,538 War. 940 01:21:18,134 --> 01:21:19,258 Where is my horse? 941 01:21:20,974 --> 01:21:22,218 My Sabre? 942 01:21:26,054 --> 01:21:29,021 On the one side an unwilling commander, 943 01:21:29,454 --> 01:21:30,698 the Duke of Brunswick, 944 01:21:31,214 --> 01:21:32,174 Look! 945 01:21:32,334 --> 01:21:36,143 On the other, the greatest military genius in history, 946 01:21:36,574 --> 01:21:38,418 Napoleon Bonaparte. 947 01:21:39,293 --> 01:21:41,454 The battle was brief. 948 01:21:42,054 --> 01:21:43,974 What's going on? - From the duke! 949 01:21:44,134 --> 01:21:48,215 Infantry, the guard... Going to war for the fatherland! 950 01:21:48,654 --> 01:21:50,214 We will annihilate Napoleon. 951 01:21:50,373 --> 01:21:53,417 And continuing ever thuswise, 952 01:21:53,573 --> 01:21:56,181 until infinity equals zero. 953 01:21:56,334 --> 01:21:57,742 Professor? 954 01:21:58,133 --> 01:21:59,617 I'm leaving. - What? 955 01:22:00,093 --> 01:22:02,974 Our duke fell in battle this morning. - Yes... 956 01:22:03,133 --> 01:22:08,175 I understand nothing of what you teach. It's too hard, no mortal can keep up. 957 01:22:08,814 --> 01:22:11,301 But he can fight and, if need be, die. 958 01:22:11,653 --> 01:22:14,337 I'm marching with the troops. - Vengeance! 959 01:22:14,492 --> 01:22:17,940 Vengeance for the duke! 960 01:22:18,333 --> 01:22:20,297 Revenge! - Victory! 961 01:22:23,373 --> 01:22:25,500 Good. Good. 962 01:22:27,492 --> 01:22:29,172 Professor... 963 01:22:29,493 --> 01:22:32,057 What now? - Your wife... It's begun. 964 01:22:44,293 --> 01:22:45,853 I'm here, I'm here. 965 01:23:16,491 --> 01:23:18,456 Will I die? 966 01:23:19,372 --> 01:23:20,932 Yes. 967 01:23:23,171 --> 01:23:24,611 Don't grieve too long. 968 01:23:24,932 --> 01:23:26,656 One lives, then dies... 969 01:23:27,652 --> 01:23:29,212 It is so. 970 01:23:35,131 --> 01:23:37,095 You must marry again. 971 01:23:38,531 --> 01:23:40,135 You won't manage alone. 972 01:23:42,332 --> 01:23:43,815 Take Minna. 973 01:23:44,291 --> 01:23:45,896 She'll say yes. 974 01:23:49,411 --> 01:23:50,851 Yes. 975 01:24:30,731 --> 01:24:34,658 Come along, Aimé. We're going too slowly. 976 01:24:35,049 --> 01:24:36,610 Fascinating... 977 01:24:46,729 --> 01:24:49,010 Aimé, I have to... Aimé... 978 01:24:50,210 --> 01:24:52,894 Aimé, I have to ask you a question. 979 01:24:53,890 --> 01:24:55,495 Concentrate, now. 980 01:24:56,889 --> 01:24:59,977 The wall here, this thing, it's a wall, right? 981 01:25:16,130 --> 01:25:20,013 Two minutes to simmer. "Considering air pressure, 982 01:25:20,249 --> 01:25:22,017 and temperature..." 983 01:25:25,529 --> 01:25:29,610 Aimé, I can inform you that we are at an altitude of... 984 01:25:30,249 --> 01:25:33,293 18,690 feet. 985 01:25:35,449 --> 01:25:37,894 Hallelujah! - Wonderful. 986 01:25:39,049 --> 01:25:42,409 No man has risen to this height before. 987 01:25:42,608 --> 01:25:44,932 We've ascended Chimborazo. 988 01:25:45,089 --> 01:25:47,413 Yes, Chimborazo! - The world's highest mountain. 989 01:25:48,968 --> 01:25:50,573 Come along! Yes. 990 01:25:54,928 --> 01:25:56,892 But... the summit. 991 01:25:59,968 --> 01:26:03,133 With or without summit, we're the highest of anyone. 992 01:26:04,129 --> 01:26:07,052 One could just claim to have been up there. 993 01:26:07,207 --> 01:26:10,612 Monsieur Bonpland, I'll pretend not to have heard that! 994 01:26:12,608 --> 01:26:15,053 Exploration, Aimé, is motion. 995 01:26:15,288 --> 01:26:18,091 By definition, it is motion that never ceases. 996 01:26:18,248 --> 01:26:19,568 There is no summit. 997 01:26:19,807 --> 01:26:22,175 And thus no reason to reach it. 998 01:26:22,768 --> 01:26:24,568 You see? - Yes, I do. 999 01:26:25,168 --> 01:26:26,935 Voilà. - You are right. 1000 01:26:27,088 --> 01:26:29,771 And we discovered the Orinoco-Amazon Channel. 1001 01:26:29,928 --> 01:26:31,695 Excuse me, what's that? The channel? 1002 01:26:31,848 --> 01:26:34,292 Of course. We were there. - You were feverous. 1003 01:26:35,167 --> 01:26:36,772 Yes, but... - You noticed nothing. 1004 01:26:37,048 --> 01:26:40,048 I dragged you along. Who did it, then? 1005 01:26:40,207 --> 01:26:41,167 Tell me. 1006 01:26:41,527 --> 01:26:43,087 What help were you? - That... 1007 01:26:43,687 --> 01:26:45,215 I'm waiting, Aimé. Well? 1008 01:26:46,528 --> 01:26:50,412 You see? - No man had ever been so high, 1009 01:26:50,888 --> 01:26:54,456 no one knew that lack of oxygen causes delusions. 1010 01:26:57,887 --> 01:26:59,448 Voilà. 1011 01:27:03,367 --> 01:27:05,167 Alexander? 1012 01:27:06,087 --> 01:27:07,495 Alexander? 1013 01:27:14,407 --> 01:27:15,966 Alexander! 1014 01:27:23,527 --> 01:27:25,295 Cher ami, 1015 01:27:26,686 --> 01:27:28,454 Aimé. 1016 01:27:28,886 --> 01:27:30,010 Aimé, 1017 01:27:30,806 --> 01:27:34,211 come on, we have to be down by sunset. - I thought I'd killed you. 1018 01:27:34,886 --> 01:27:36,807 What's that? 1019 01:27:37,807 --> 01:27:39,454 It's hard to hear. 1020 01:27:39,806 --> 01:27:41,967 My ears... the wind... 1021 01:27:43,686 --> 01:27:45,454 What did you say? 1022 01:27:46,766 --> 01:27:48,087 Let's go. - Yes. 1023 01:27:48,326 --> 01:27:51,534 Exploration is motion that never ceases. 1024 01:27:51,685 --> 01:27:53,246 By definition. 1025 01:27:54,086 --> 01:27:55,766 Come along. 1026 01:28:09,326 --> 01:28:11,487 Who were they, he wondered. 1027 01:28:11,646 --> 01:28:13,893 How had they grown so quickly? 1028 01:28:14,485 --> 01:28:16,013 Why did they want so much, 1029 01:28:16,325 --> 01:28:20,526 were so much like him, yet were capable of so little? 1030 01:28:21,485 --> 01:28:22,893 So, Eugen, 1031 01:28:23,046 --> 01:28:27,006 is there more red in your glass than apple juice in Wilhelmine's? 1032 01:28:31,205 --> 01:28:34,774 Look, you lost one spoonful of red, gained one of mixed instead. 1033 01:28:34,925 --> 01:28:36,605 The glass is as full as before. 1034 01:28:38,604 --> 01:28:41,725 Papa, can I have a drink now? - Here I am. 1035 01:28:49,644 --> 01:28:50,933 Something else... 1036 01:28:52,444 --> 01:28:54,364 Mnemonics. You'll like this. 1037 01:28:54,965 --> 01:28:57,966 You can remember a whole deck of cards. It's easy. 1038 01:28:59,204 --> 01:29:03,733 For each number we think of an animal, for each suit an emotion, 1039 01:29:04,124 --> 01:29:05,924 the court cards are actions. 1040 01:29:06,444 --> 01:29:08,364 Then we make all that into a story. 1041 01:29:09,285 --> 01:29:11,968 Shall we try it out? Here we go. 1042 01:29:12,964 --> 01:29:14,372 Five of leaves, 1043 01:29:15,044 --> 01:29:16,845 knave of acorns, 1044 01:29:17,084 --> 01:29:18,568 eight of hearts 1045 01:29:19,324 --> 01:29:20,688 king of bells. 1046 01:29:21,605 --> 01:29:22,651 The... 1047 01:29:24,403 --> 01:29:25,724 rabid rat 1048 01:29:26,323 --> 01:29:29,564 scared the big fat cat 1049 01:29:31,444 --> 01:29:33,364 as she was laying eggs. 1050 01:29:34,283 --> 01:29:35,723 Repeat! 1051 01:29:41,163 --> 01:29:42,931 Did you get it? 1052 01:29:52,283 --> 01:29:55,011 I'm tired. - Goodnight. 1053 01:30:02,363 --> 01:30:07,045 Perhaps parallel lines do meet at the infinite, 1054 01:30:07,684 --> 01:30:10,891 perhaps time is indeed flexible, 1055 01:30:11,602 --> 01:30:14,287 but, above all things, time passes. 1056 01:30:14,683 --> 01:30:17,968 It passes always, passes ever faster, 1057 01:30:18,323 --> 01:30:22,610 and when scarcely any time is left is when time passes fastest of all. 1058 01:30:22,763 --> 01:30:28,012 Over the years, Alexander von Humboldt became the world's most famous explorer, 1059 01:30:28,643 --> 01:30:31,404 and Carl Friedrich Gauss became old. 1060 01:30:35,602 --> 01:30:37,043 Carl? 1061 01:30:37,642 --> 01:30:39,366 Carl, wake up! - No. 1062 01:30:39,602 --> 01:30:41,447 Carl, the coach is waiting. - Get lost! 1063 01:30:41,602 --> 01:30:43,402 Carl, you have to get up. You can't... 1064 01:30:47,402 --> 01:30:48,930 Carl! - Get lost! 1065 01:30:49,122 --> 01:30:51,523 It's me. You have to get up. 1066 01:30:52,123 --> 01:30:54,043 A horse-drawn carriage is waiting. 1067 01:30:54,203 --> 01:30:55,969 With four horses, Carl. Get up. 1068 01:30:56,122 --> 01:30:58,206 Mama, I don't want to. - You have to. 1069 01:30:58,682 --> 01:31:00,930 It's not for long, you'll be back soon. 1070 01:31:01,362 --> 01:31:03,326 Come on, get up. Where is he, then, 1071 01:31:03,602 --> 01:31:05,490 my brave young boy? Well? 1072 01:31:07,362 --> 01:31:10,570 Come on. He's off for a big trip. 1073 01:31:12,242 --> 01:31:13,650 Yes. 1074 01:31:15,402 --> 01:31:17,890 In September, 1828, 1075 01:31:18,361 --> 01:31:20,325 the country's greatest mathematician 1076 01:31:20,521 --> 01:31:22,922 left his hometown for the first time in years, 1077 01:31:23,282 --> 01:31:26,642 so as to attend the German Natural Science Congress in Berlin. 1078 01:31:27,401 --> 01:31:29,562 He of course hadn't wanted to go, 1079 01:31:29,722 --> 01:31:31,969 had refused for months on end, 1080 01:31:32,480 --> 01:31:35,165 but Alexander von Humboldt persisted in his demands 1081 01:31:35,401 --> 01:31:40,443 until, in a weak moment and the hope the day would never come, 1082 01:31:40,881 --> 01:31:42,648 Gauss had finally consented. 1083 01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:10,201 Papa, we're there. 1084 01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:18,248 Professor Gauss? - Er, no... 1085 01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,320 Eugen Gauss... just the son. 1086 01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,081 Eugen! 1087 01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:35,765 Professor Gauss! 1088 01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:38,760 At last. This is a great moment for Germany, 1089 01:32:39,440 --> 01:32:41,119 for science and for myself. 1090 01:32:41,440 --> 01:32:44,528 I meet you at last. - We've met before. 1091 01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:48,441 It is truly... so long have I waited 1092 01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:51,287 to stand, countenance to countenance with you. 1093 01:32:52,839 --> 01:32:57,084 You don't remember? - I... do. 1094 01:32:57,639 --> 01:32:59,559 You don't remember. I knew it. 1095 01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:01,848 And I knew we'd meet again. 1096 01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:03,566 Attention, attention! 1097 01:33:04,599 --> 01:33:05,559 Attention! 1098 01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:12,528 What happens now? What's all this? 1099 01:33:12,759 --> 01:33:16,687 My employee, M. Daguerre, has been working on a device 1100 01:33:16,879 --> 01:33:21,200 that captures the instant on a light-sensitive, silver-iodide surface, 1101 01:33:22,159 --> 01:33:25,128 and creates an image of us both for posterity. 1102 01:33:25,359 --> 01:33:26,679 Please do not move. 1103 01:33:28,398 --> 01:33:30,286 Not at all. 1104 01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:34,644 I want to go home. - One instant. Please don't move. 1105 01:33:38,278 --> 01:33:41,606 How was your journey? - Potholes, rain, cramped coach. 1106 01:33:41,958 --> 01:33:43,683 Do you like Berlin? - Dreadful town. 1107 01:33:43,918 --> 01:33:45,282 Yes. 1108 01:33:50,398 --> 01:33:52,646 How soon will this be over? - Another ten minutes. 1109 01:33:52,798 --> 01:33:55,318 It used to take much longer. I thought at first... 1110 01:33:55,678 --> 01:33:57,926 ...my back... - This is ridiculous! 1111 01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:00,203 Now the instant is lost forever. 1112 01:34:02,078 --> 01:34:04,119 Like all the rest of them. 1113 01:34:04,278 --> 01:34:05,762 Got anything to eat? 1114 01:34:50,516 --> 01:34:52,164 Excuse me. 1115 01:34:52,797 --> 01:34:54,838 Papa, I'm to remind you to take your pills. 1116 01:34:54,997 --> 01:34:57,158 Get lost. - Papa, you said... 1117 01:34:57,397 --> 01:34:59,480 I've no interest in what I said. 1118 01:34:59,756 --> 01:35:03,084 But I... - I may contradict myself, but you shan't. 1119 01:35:04,477 --> 01:35:06,038 What do you look like? 1120 01:35:07,437 --> 01:35:10,524 I'm meeting friends. - How amusing. 1121 01:35:11,396 --> 01:35:13,404 You have friends? - Thousands of them. 1122 01:35:14,077 --> 01:35:16,881 The whole country. And the despot has a thousand enemies. 1123 01:35:17,757 --> 01:35:21,838 Freedom shall be ours, not just a word in a play by Schiller. 1124 01:35:28,276 --> 01:35:30,884 Yes... it's... the animals... 1125 01:35:34,675 --> 01:35:36,280 Yes... 1126 01:35:36,756 --> 01:35:38,797 Family is a great challenge. 1127 01:35:39,116 --> 01:35:40,796 The greatest, perhaps. 1128 01:35:42,036 --> 01:35:44,001 My brother, Wilhelm, 1129 01:35:44,637 --> 01:35:47,844 is known as the teacher of Prussia... 1130 01:35:50,076 --> 01:35:51,800 And as for our congress, 1131 01:35:52,716 --> 01:35:55,477 the king will be there, as shall no less than three ministers, 1132 01:35:55,636 --> 01:35:58,123 all of whom will be glad to make your acquaintance. 1133 01:35:58,275 --> 01:36:01,560 I am not glad. - I'm so glad. 1134 01:36:02,756 --> 01:36:04,917 The coach is waiting. - Receptions... 1135 01:36:05,836 --> 01:36:07,800 projects, talk, plans, 1136 01:36:08,236 --> 01:36:09,960 intrigue, that's not science. 1137 01:36:12,395 --> 01:36:15,156 And what, may I ask, is science? - A man, alone. 1138 01:36:15,555 --> 01:36:18,283 On his desk, before him, a sheet of paper. 1139 01:36:18,476 --> 01:36:22,359 A pencil in his hand, clear skies ahead. If he does not surrender... 1140 01:36:22,674 --> 01:36:24,998 before understanding something, 1141 01:36:25,155 --> 01:36:26,802 that is science. 1142 01:36:27,635 --> 01:36:31,682 And what if the man at the desk leaves it and goes travelling? 1143 01:36:31,955 --> 01:36:36,364 He'll be hiding somewhere. In a hole, a volcano, the mountains, 1144 01:36:36,595 --> 01:36:37,839 the forest. - Jungle! 1145 01:36:38,034 --> 01:36:41,395 The jungle is only a forest. Hiding out is chancing it. 1146 01:36:41,715 --> 01:36:44,279 A pursuit for the mediocre. 1147 01:36:44,595 --> 01:36:49,004 For those suffering boredom. - The man at the desk needs a caring wife 1148 01:36:49,274 --> 01:36:51,959 to cook his meals, warm his feet, and also... 1149 01:36:52,275 --> 01:36:55,439 wondrous and wonderfully educated children 1150 01:36:55,674 --> 01:36:59,199 to clean his equipment, and remind him to take his pills. 1151 01:36:59,395 --> 01:37:02,515 He needs a house to shelter him from the rain, and a priori, above all, 1152 01:37:03,034 --> 01:37:05,599 a hat to stop his ears from hurting. 1153 01:37:05,874 --> 01:37:08,034 Whom are you talking about? - I'm just... 1154 01:37:08,554 --> 01:37:11,194 generalising. - He needs all that and more! 1155 01:37:11,354 --> 01:37:14,322 House, wife, hat... How else should he stand it all? 1156 01:37:14,874 --> 01:37:18,082 Where would you have been without your Frenchman? 1157 01:37:22,353 --> 01:37:23,761 Life is terrible. 1158 01:37:23,954 --> 01:37:25,559 It can be improved. - By whom? 1159 01:37:25,714 --> 01:37:27,275 We can improve it, Mr Gauss. 1160 01:37:30,433 --> 01:37:32,277 I don't care to. 1161 01:37:43,113 --> 01:37:44,838 Five years of preparation, 1162 01:37:45,713 --> 01:37:47,994 and now this. - Excellency... 1163 01:37:48,594 --> 01:37:50,558 If you require... - No, get out! 1164 01:37:55,073 --> 01:37:56,361 Alexander. 1165 01:38:02,153 --> 01:38:03,878 Pleased to meet you. 1166 01:38:24,872 --> 01:38:26,760 The prince of mathematicians. 1167 01:38:30,672 --> 01:38:32,516 Oh yes? Very nice. 1168 01:38:33,432 --> 01:38:35,113 Welcome. - Thank you. 1169 01:38:36,593 --> 01:38:38,480 My grandson also likes maths. 1170 01:38:41,552 --> 01:38:45,154 What is 14 times 16? -221. 1171 01:38:47,473 --> 01:38:50,277 Is he right? - Huh? -Is he right? 1172 01:38:53,752 --> 01:38:55,073 I beg to differ. 1173 01:38:56,112 --> 01:38:58,874 Well, we're establishing a new university, 1174 01:38:59,032 --> 01:39:01,313 with the help of one's venerable brother. 1175 01:39:02,952 --> 01:39:05,516 We'd like to offer you a professorship 1176 01:39:11,792 --> 01:39:14,311 I beg to differ. - What? 1177 01:39:15,631 --> 01:39:17,039 I like it at home. 1178 01:39:28,271 --> 01:39:29,231 Yes... 1179 01:39:29,591 --> 01:39:34,239 Ancient theories! All Paris was laughing about it three years ago. 1180 01:39:34,471 --> 01:39:37,711 No, no, no... - Who does he think he is? 1181 01:39:38,230 --> 01:39:40,150 Prince of mathematicians? The devil take him! 1182 01:39:40,391 --> 01:39:41,875 What arrogance! 1183 01:39:42,031 --> 01:39:44,039 Humboldt's days are over. 1184 01:39:53,070 --> 01:39:56,071 Ah, Mr von Humboldt, we'll remember this. 1185 01:39:57,871 --> 01:40:00,477 Thanks. - We don't find this funny. 1186 01:40:00,990 --> 01:40:05,671 We know about your inclinations, we know about everything. 1187 01:40:06,790 --> 01:40:07,914 And we don't forget. 1188 01:40:23,151 --> 01:40:26,358 Mr Gauss... - Are there no carriages to bring me home? 1189 01:40:26,630 --> 01:40:28,355 Mr Gauss, that was a catastrophe. 1190 01:40:28,510 --> 01:40:31,031 You... insulted the king. - How? 1191 01:40:31,310 --> 01:40:32,718 I even shook his hand. 1192 01:40:35,629 --> 01:40:39,394 Should the king feel honoured? - Why ever not? 1193 01:40:43,310 --> 01:40:45,994 This congress was a one-time opportunity 1194 01:40:46,270 --> 01:40:49,629 to find funds for new projects... - Spare me with your projects! 1195 01:40:49,790 --> 01:40:51,110 Stay where you are! 1196 01:40:53,829 --> 01:40:55,749 Lord, what is going on? 1197 01:40:58,429 --> 01:41:00,557 In you go! - Is that not your son? 1198 01:41:01,589 --> 01:41:03,117 Shut up! Not a word! 1199 01:41:03,469 --> 01:41:05,433 Come along. Come with me. 1200 01:41:05,909 --> 01:41:07,273 Mr Vogt? 1201 01:41:08,389 --> 01:41:10,156 Gendarme Commander Vogt. 1202 01:41:10,629 --> 01:41:12,113 Mr von Humboldt. - My dear Vogt. 1203 01:41:13,548 --> 01:41:16,036 This is an unfortunate thing. 1204 01:41:16,349 --> 01:41:19,437 That carriage contains this gentleman's son. 1205 01:41:19,589 --> 01:41:21,508 My son and his thousand friends. 1206 01:41:21,948 --> 01:41:26,313 Congratulations! - Mr Gauss, the pre-eminent mathematician. 1207 01:41:26,949 --> 01:41:30,790 It is of great importance that you be merciful here. 1208 01:41:31,109 --> 01:41:33,029 Of great importance? - Let him go... 1209 01:41:33,788 --> 01:41:36,036 Please. - This is a serious matter. 1210 01:41:37,669 --> 01:41:40,189 Forced labour at least. 20 years to life. 1211 01:41:41,148 --> 01:41:43,352 Perhaps the death sentence, even. 1212 01:41:44,029 --> 01:41:46,592 It's not that nothing can be done, but... 1213 01:41:47,708 --> 01:41:51,472 it's not easy. - You need only send him home. 1214 01:41:51,988 --> 01:41:53,788 His name has not yet been noted. 1215 01:41:53,949 --> 01:41:57,789 No one will know, and... my gratitude... -... expresses itself how? 1216 01:41:58,547 --> 01:42:00,556 Excuse me? - Your gratitude? 1217 01:42:00,948 --> 01:42:03,513 Excuse me? - Expresses itself how, Mr von Humboldt? 1218 01:42:04,748 --> 01:42:07,433 I don't understand. - Lord! The man wants a bribe. 1219 01:42:07,788 --> 01:42:09,392 Are you mad? - Corrupt! 1220 01:42:09,547 --> 01:42:12,309 The miserable scum-swiller! - I don't have to take this. 1221 01:42:12,628 --> 01:42:14,592 Oh, but you do, faecal friend! 1222 01:42:14,748 --> 01:42:17,312 Crooked, lippy, shitty dwarf, hear the truth! 1223 01:42:17,668 --> 01:42:19,555 Gauss! - I demand satisfaction. My second... 1224 01:42:19,707 --> 01:42:22,512 To hell with him. Think I'd let a corrupt crapper kill me? 1225 01:42:22,667 --> 01:42:25,112 Not another word! Stop, stop at once! 1226 01:42:25,267 --> 01:42:29,589 Dear Mr Vogt, this man is mad, old, confused, not to be taken seriously. 1227 01:42:30,228 --> 01:42:32,191 Not seriously at all, no! 1228 01:42:32,347 --> 01:42:34,551 Please be understanding. 1229 01:42:36,787 --> 01:42:38,271 There are limits, though. 1230 01:42:39,587 --> 01:42:41,312 It's not that easy. 1231 01:42:43,587 --> 01:42:45,868 But a civil servant is also a human. 1232 01:42:47,027 --> 01:42:48,827 Get the old man out of here. 1233 01:42:49,347 --> 01:42:50,711 You see... 1234 01:42:50,867 --> 01:42:52,231 You've bribed him. 1235 01:42:52,827 --> 01:42:54,550 He's corrupt, that Mr Vogt. 1236 01:42:55,147 --> 01:42:57,155 Corrupt! The whole town is. 1237 01:42:57,467 --> 01:43:00,075 Stop that! - Arrest him! 1238 01:43:06,266 --> 01:43:09,387 A shadow is cast across this land. It darkens by the day. 1239 01:43:10,026 --> 01:43:12,514 I shouldn't have come. I knew it. 1240 01:43:13,627 --> 01:43:15,711 All this to do you a favour! 1241 01:43:17,106 --> 01:43:19,026 Excuse me, did you say favour? 1242 01:43:19,186 --> 01:43:20,594 Yes. 1243 01:43:21,026 --> 01:43:23,667 To do me a favour? - A favour, yes. 1244 01:43:23,826 --> 01:43:25,474 A... 1245 01:43:25,746 --> 01:43:28,191 Who do you think you are? A favour! 1246 01:43:28,827 --> 01:43:32,427 You think God outdid himself when he made you? 1247 01:43:33,026 --> 01:43:34,673 Because you don't have to count? 1248 01:43:34,866 --> 01:43:38,675 1+2+3+4... can be done step by step. It just takes a little application. 1249 01:43:38,826 --> 01:43:42,666 You, Mr Gauss, you've never had to apply yourself, 1250 01:43:42,826 --> 01:43:44,266 but others have to fight. 1251 01:43:44,425 --> 01:43:48,234 They don't have your brain, your genius, but they get things done. 1252 01:43:48,386 --> 01:43:50,666 Through diligence, Mr Gauss, and discipline. 1253 01:43:51,586 --> 01:43:54,193 But that just makes you grin, doesn't it? 1254 01:43:55,186 --> 01:43:57,227 Who do you think you are? 1255 01:43:57,585 --> 01:43:59,266 Do you feel disadvantaged, 1256 01:43:59,426 --> 01:44:02,786 feel sorry for yourself because of your poor background? 1257 01:44:03,066 --> 01:44:05,345 We are disadvantaged, Mr Gauss! 1258 01:44:05,825 --> 01:44:10,430 We are disadvantaged. You didn't earn that mind. 1259 01:44:10,585 --> 01:44:11,709 Sign it! 1260 01:44:12,025 --> 01:44:15,234 It's nothing to be proud of. Pride is for those who earned it. 1261 01:44:16,624 --> 01:44:18,469 Don't do me any favours. 1262 01:44:20,065 --> 01:44:23,273 Don't talk to me about God. And I worked harder than you! 1263 01:44:23,905 --> 01:44:25,913 I doubt that. - When I'd had enough, 1264 01:44:26,066 --> 01:44:30,146 couldn't stand it anymore, found it too silly, I took curare. 1265 01:44:30,465 --> 01:44:34,154 And God, of whom you like to speak, saved my life in what was doubtless 1266 01:44:34,305 --> 01:44:36,586 one of His most idiotic miracles. 1267 01:44:37,345 --> 01:44:39,144 I don't know why He did it. 1268 01:44:39,944 --> 01:44:41,712 You don't? - No. 1269 01:44:42,785 --> 01:44:46,145 You can drink all the curare you want. - Sorry? 1270 01:44:46,905 --> 01:44:49,350 It has to be introduced into the bloodstream. 1271 01:44:49,505 --> 01:44:51,272 Then it kills at once. 1272 01:44:52,384 --> 01:44:55,385 Are you certain? - Of course. I discovered it. 1273 01:44:55,744 --> 01:44:59,029 The bottle you emptied was doubtless one I brought back. 1274 01:45:03,424 --> 01:45:05,344 I have to leave the country. 1275 01:45:06,784 --> 01:45:08,552 What? - I have to go far away. 1276 01:45:09,704 --> 01:45:11,232 I can never return. 1277 01:45:46,903 --> 01:45:49,107 We might also have to leave the country. 1278 01:45:49,583 --> 01:45:51,351 You like to travel, anyway. 1279 01:45:52,103 --> 01:45:53,586 I am old. 1280 01:45:53,943 --> 01:45:58,832 Not all that old. You just feel frail from always being in this ghastly town. 1281 01:46:02,102 --> 01:46:04,067 I was invited to Russia. 1282 01:46:04,903 --> 01:46:08,712 The effort and expense involved is great. - Did that ever stop you? 1283 01:46:11,742 --> 01:46:15,147 I could see the great expanses of Asia before I die, 1284 01:46:15,302 --> 01:46:17,506 and measure the magnetic field. 1285 01:46:18,183 --> 01:46:20,627 I'd like to find out if the inside of the earth 1286 01:46:20,823 --> 01:46:23,070 contains one or many magnets. 1287 01:46:26,022 --> 01:46:29,470 The question is wrongly formulated. The vertical component of magnetism 1288 01:46:29,623 --> 01:46:31,947 can be represented as a function of geographic location. 1289 01:46:32,103 --> 01:46:35,703 And the horizontal ones can figure in a power series 1290 01:46:36,062 --> 01:46:37,906 reciprocal to the earth's radius. 1291 01:46:40,302 --> 01:46:42,823 Simple spherical harmonics... no? 1292 01:46:46,541 --> 01:46:48,341 I'll calculate it for you. 1293 01:46:48,741 --> 01:46:50,750 You only need a measuring needle, 1294 01:46:50,901 --> 01:46:52,506 and to send me the results. 1295 01:46:53,262 --> 01:46:54,822 Travel far. 1296 01:46:55,542 --> 01:46:57,430 Travel far. Don't fail. 1297 01:46:58,221 --> 01:47:02,226 Honestly? - There's nothing better than being busy. 1298 01:47:02,861 --> 01:47:04,182 You have five years. 1299 01:47:04,382 --> 01:47:06,029 Approximately. - Sorry? 1300 01:47:06,422 --> 01:47:09,062 Mortality statistics. I work with them now. 1301 01:47:09,262 --> 01:47:12,186 It's well paid. You've got 5, I've got 9, my wife, sadly, 11. 1302 01:47:12,341 --> 01:47:14,906 Unpleasant to think she'll survive me. 1303 01:47:16,222 --> 01:47:19,190 Five years? - Statistically speaking, yes. 1304 01:47:21,781 --> 01:47:23,341 Yes. I'll go to Asia. 1305 01:47:27,021 --> 01:47:29,586 I sometimes wonder which of us travelled more, 1306 01:47:29,741 --> 01:47:31,749 and which stayed more at home. 1307 01:47:33,901 --> 01:47:36,105 But we've nothing to complain of. We're here. 1308 01:47:36,341 --> 01:47:40,062 No cannibal ate you, no imbecile beat me to death. 1309 01:47:41,141 --> 01:47:42,821 And what remains? 1310 01:47:43,422 --> 01:47:44,981 Curiosity. 1311 01:47:45,341 --> 01:47:48,702 Dear friend... Never-ending curiosity. 1312 01:48:17,500 --> 01:48:21,744 Contrary to statistical predictions, Carl Friedrich Gauss died 1313 01:48:21,900 --> 01:48:25,469 four years earlier than Alexander von Humboldt, 1314 01:48:25,620 --> 01:48:30,509 who managed to travel Russia, Siberia and the steppes of Asia. 1315 01:48:32,060 --> 01:48:35,944 One year after Humboldt, on the other side of the world, 1316 01:48:36,099 --> 01:48:38,707 his poor and abandoned colleague, 1317 01:48:39,020 --> 01:48:41,747 Aimé Bonpland, died at the age of 85. 1318 01:48:42,979 --> 01:48:44,419 And what of Eugen? 1319 01:48:46,620 --> 01:48:48,781 I memorised the pack. - Memorised it? 1320 01:48:48,940 --> 01:48:52,509 My father taught me. - What, to memorise the pack? 1321 01:48:52,660 --> 01:48:55,944 He tried to. I never got it, but today it worked. 1322 01:48:58,139 --> 01:48:59,667 We'll do a test. 1323 01:48:59,819 --> 01:49:02,580 One mistake, and you're swimming to America. 1324 01:49:02,859 --> 01:49:04,420 Now come here. 1325 01:49:06,298 --> 01:49:07,739 Give him the cards. 1326 01:49:10,179 --> 01:49:11,543 Eight of clubs. 1327 01:49:16,459 --> 01:49:20,027 Eight stupid rhinos wait for rain in the castle. 1328 01:49:20,379 --> 01:49:21,820 Eight of hearts. 1329 01:49:26,139 --> 01:49:27,263 Is your father proud of you? 1330 01:49:29,138 --> 01:49:30,546 Three of spades. 1331 01:49:32,299 --> 01:49:34,340 America! 1332 01:49:38,739 --> 01:49:41,226 Eugen Gauss never saw his father again. 1333 01:49:42,818 --> 01:49:44,302 He invented nothing, 1334 01:49:44,618 --> 01:49:46,026 discovered nothing, 1335 01:49:46,578 --> 01:49:48,902 and no law of nature bears his name. 1336 01:49:50,458 --> 01:49:51,898 But he lived his own life. 1337 01:49:52,658 --> 01:49:53,782 He got to Missouri, 1338 01:49:54,698 --> 01:49:56,946 founded the First National Bank, 1339 01:49:57,618 --> 01:49:59,342 and had seven children. 1340 01:50:00,305 --> 01:50:06,934 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 96001