1 00:00:18,010 --> 00:00:22,270 I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND 2 00:01:30,170 --> 00:01:35,170 Correctional Facility Prague 3 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:57,450 I was sentenced to 15 years, 4 00:01:57,490 --> 00:02:02,700 but because of the amnesty I only served 14 years, 9 months. 5 00:02:17,340 --> 00:02:21,550 It was always my luck 6 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:25,680 to run into bad luck 7 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:37,030 My whole life, I aspired solely to becoming a millionaire. 8 00:02:37,150 --> 00:02:40,280 But before that I wanted nothing more 9 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,450 than to peddle frankfurters at the train station. 10 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:50,580 I'm hungry 11 00:03:03,140 --> 00:03:06,180 Forget the coins, just give me back the bills! 12 00:03:20,950 --> 00:03:24,030 And I sold those frankfurters so well 13 00:03:24,950 --> 00:03:27,240 that I was determined to become a millionaire. 14 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,370 Then I'd buy a small hotel and marry a rich bride 15 00:03:32,250 --> 00:03:35,340 and when my wife and I put our money together 16 00:03:35,460 --> 00:03:38,630 I'd be respected like the other hoteliers. 17 00:03:38,710 --> 00:03:44,890 Everyone would recognize me as a rich man as a millionaire. 18 00:03:47,970 --> 00:03:50,980 I was even able to cry at the station. 19 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:53,190 And because I was small, perfectly piccolo, 20 00:03:53,270 --> 00:03:58,530 They let me have the money because they took me for an orphan. 21 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:07,700 So I started having money of my own. 22 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:11,960 Within a month I had a couple hundred, then even 1000 crowns. 23 00:04:26,470 --> 00:04:29,680 And I discovered what motivates people 24 00:04:29,770 --> 00:04:32,850 and what they're willing to do for a few coins: 25 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:39,020 They'll bend over, kneel down, even crawl on all fours. 26 00:05:06,090 --> 00:05:09,300 I used to daydream about scooping up fistfuls of coins 27 00:05:09,430 --> 00:05:12,350 and scattering them like a shower of seed. 28 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:16,560 I saw almost no one could resist collecting those coppers, 29 00:05:16,690 --> 00:05:21,690 how they'd jostle each other and butt heads to snatch them up, 30 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:27,160 coins they all thought were theirs and theirs alone. 31 00:05:35,330 --> 00:05:37,580 But that was long ago. 32 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:41,550 After they released me, they said 33 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:44,670 I could find whatever work I pleased 34 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,840 on the condition that it be near the border. 35 00:06:02,610 --> 00:06:05,690 They sent me to be a roadman faraway in the mountains 36 00:06:06,530 --> 00:06:09,910 where resettled Germans had abandoned their cottages 37 00:06:11,950 --> 00:06:15,000 They even gave me the key to one of them. 38 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,890 And the unbelievable, which was becoming reality, did not desert me. 39 00:06:38,020 --> 00:06:40,980 I knew that another person 40 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:45,150 would have fled from here as from a place of ill fortune. 41 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,530 But I rejoiced to see such devastation 42 00:06:51,410 --> 00:06:55,790 I knew that I would like it here, that this would be my new home. 43 00:06:57,830 --> 00:07:02,920 I considered it a good omen that the key fit a former pub 44 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 because I started out in a pub 45 00:07:06,090 --> 00:07:10,260 and I had worked in the hotel trade my whole life. 46 00:07:24,770 --> 00:07:27,030 I was small, from a small village, 47 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,030 and here it felt like the big world. 48 00:07:31,110 --> 00:07:35,330 A select society came: The notary and the stationmaster, 49 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,540 the veterinarian, the music school master, the industrialists... 50 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:45,710 They could sip beer all afternoon discussing, for example, 51 00:07:45,790 --> 00:07:49,880 a poplar that stood outside town by a bridge 30 years ago 52 00:07:50,010 --> 00:07:53,970 One would say that there had been no bridge, only a poplar. 53 00:07:54,050 --> 00:07:57,220 Another said the bridge was just a plank and a handrail. 54 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:03,310 They shouted and cursed. But it was all just pretend. 55 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,610 They only shouted so as to enjoy the beer all the morel 56 00:08:14,950 --> 00:08:20,000 Do you think I should move my bishop to G7? 57 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,170 Move your knight to C5 and you'll win. 58 00:08:24,250 --> 00:08:26,380 Mr. Dite, mind your own business! 59 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:32,760 Hold on there... That shrimp is right. Checkmate! 60 00:08:47,230 --> 00:08:50,480 Another time they argued about the best beer in Bohemia. 61 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,610 One said Protivin, another Vodnany, another Nymburk, 62 00:08:55,700 --> 00:09:00,660 - and another said... - Pilsner is known the world over! 63 00:09:00,790 --> 00:09:04,040 And although they shouted they all liked each other. 64 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:10,090 They only shouted as a way of killing time 65 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:17,390 And I was amazed at how rich people can enjoy themselves all afternoon. 66 00:09:32,190 --> 00:09:38,410 Except from the lungs, I'd like every main course you have. 67 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,580 Bring one after another until I say to stop. 68 00:09:45,750 --> 00:09:52,840 Then bring four mineral waters and a pound of salami to my room. 69 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,090 Thus I came to know Mr. Walden. 70 00:09:55,970 --> 00:10:00,180 He liked me most probably because he was as small as I. 71 00:10:02,180 --> 00:10:04,470 I Represent Van Berkel and Co. 72 00:10:05,390 --> 00:10:08,600 The largest firm in the world is the Catholic Church 73 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,730 They deal in something no one has ever seen or touched: 74 00:10:13,860 --> 00:10:16,990 Namely that which we call God. 75 00:10:17,860 --> 00:10:21,030 The second largest, Van Berkel, makes scales 76 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:26,210 that weigh accurately whether at the equator or the North Pole 77 00:10:26,330 --> 00:10:30,540 We also make al kinds of meat and salami sheers. 78 00:10:31,420 --> 00:10:34,760 Observe the charm of this instrument... 79 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:22,640 Ever seen anything more beautiful? 80 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,770 It took me a week to earn everything you see on the carpet. 81 00:11:28,850 --> 00:11:33,940 I sold ten scales and seven meat and salami sheers 82 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,410 I buy, I sell, I know what to buy and where to sell. 83 00:11:44,530 --> 00:11:46,620 That's al there is to it. 84 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:52,790 I saw you selling frankfurters at the station. 85 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,000 I've also seen what you do with your loose change. 86 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,130 But you have to know how to throw your change away 87 00:12:02,220 --> 00:12:06,310 so that it comes back as banknotes. 88 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:15,770 Hang in there! You're small and from small people. 89 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:20,990 You're going places. Remember, it's in your blood. 90 00:12:21,110 --> 00:12:26,120 Money can lay the world at your feet! 91 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:42,800 Remember, my boy, if you succeed, 92 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,140 life can be beautiful, so beautiful! 93 00:12:53,310 --> 00:12:55,480 An image of myself had come to me. 94 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,610 I would lay out all the money I earned just like that 95 00:13:00,730 --> 00:13:05,860 On the floor, I would arrange an image of my abilities, my power. 96 00:13:16,380 --> 00:13:20,420 But now the only thing I 'arrange' is the gravel 97 00:13:20,550 --> 00:13:24,720 I myself have crushed to lay a road with. 98 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,970 More and more I conflate maintaining this road with maintaining my life, 99 00:13:31,810 --> 00:13:35,060 a life which, in hindsight, seems as if it happened to someone else, 100 00:13:35,980 --> 00:13:40,270 a life which seems like a novel written by another. 101 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:55,790 Welcome! Did they send you here as punishment too? 102 00:13:55,910 --> 00:13:57,920 Punishment? 103 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,210 - Nobody's here for just no reason. - No? 104 00:14:05,260 --> 00:14:07,300 My name is Marcela. 105 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:16,810 I apprenticed at the chocolate factory in Orionka. 106 00:14:17,810 --> 00:14:21,940 My name is Dite. I'm supposed to lay gravel on this road. 107 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:28,200 We're here to find trees with melodies in them. Music. 108 00:14:39,630 --> 00:14:43,840 Spruce trees like this are scarce. Music has been preserved in it. 109 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,930 We'll take this tree to an instrument factory, 110 00:14:48,010 --> 00:14:54,220 and it'll be cut up into planks and thin boards, 111 00:14:54,350 --> 00:15:01,520 then made into violins and cellos, string instruments of music. 112 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:07,780 - I m here being punished too. - Punished? 113 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:10,030 Because like to... dance. 114 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:15,040 Mankind is a progeny evil, stupid and criminal 115 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,160 That man is here for some reason too, right? 116 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,250 I'd say he was university educated. 117 00:15:20,370 --> 00:15:23,540 He taught French literature and esthetics 118 00:15:24,550 --> 00:15:27,760 - How did you know? - By his fingers. 119 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,800 And your eyes tell me that you like the male species. 120 00:15:35,970 --> 00:15:42,150 I like to dance, and to go with whoever I please. 121 00:15:43,230 --> 00:15:46,440 I knew right off that she was from reform school, 122 00:15:47,570 --> 00:15:50,700 or was one of those girls who stands by Prague's Powder Tower. 123 00:16:13,390 --> 00:16:16,640 And I longed to slowly undress her. 124 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,850 If not in fact then at least with my eyes. 125 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,020 I actually surprised 126 00:16:27,150 --> 00:16:31,150 and I found it a good sign that that young redhead 127 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,360 had awoken desire in me after all those years. 128 00:16:41,790 --> 00:16:48,880 You're a trainee so remember: You see and hear nothing. Repeat! 129 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,090 I see nothing, I hear nothing. 130 00:16:53,260 --> 00:16:59,390 Remember this too: You must see and hear everything. Repeat! 131 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,520 I must see and hear everything. 132 00:17:20,370 --> 00:17:24,500 Come on in, miss. Hurry or you'll get wet. Come! 133 00:17:27,670 --> 00:17:29,710 Please, have a seat. 134 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,890 Like a toddy? Here... 135 00:17:38,010 --> 00:17:40,060 Go ahead. 136 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,890 Ah, it stopped raining. 137 00:18:23,810 --> 00:18:26,980 - Thank you. Oh, no, that's alright. 138 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,450 That's the new girl from Paradise. 139 00:18:39,450 --> 00:18:40,660 Her name is Jaruska. 140 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:47,790 The veterinarian was seen Thursday at Paradise. 141 00:18:48,830 --> 00:18:52,040 Oh yes it is! And he took a room with Helena! 142 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,130 And, gents, it was Wednesday not Thursday! 143 00:18:56,220 --> 00:19:01,390 But not Helena, It was long-legged Vlasticka. 144 00:19:01,510 --> 00:19:04,600 Long-legged Vlasticka, the one with... 145 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,650 So I began to hear nothing and yet hear everything, 146 00:19:09,850 --> 00:19:13,820 to see everything and yet see nothing. 147 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:20,070 And now I only wanted to hear and see everything at Paradise. 148 00:19:30,710 --> 00:19:33,840 What would you like, junior? 149 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:43,530 It was quite different from what I'd been used to alone. 150 00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:48,910 It was so forbiddingly beautiful that I wished for nothing else. 151 00:20:51,910 --> 00:20:55,130 I looked at the world differently from then on. 152 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,490 I'm up a creek again, aren't I, Mr. Dite? 153 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:34,450 Not at all. Just move your queen... 154 00:23:45,050 --> 00:23:47,210 Raspberry grenadine! 155 00:23:53,430 --> 00:23:56,560 - What about my queen? - Right away... 156 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:10,030 Look what you've done, you shrimp! Is this how you wait tables? 157 00:24:10,110 --> 00:24:14,280 How dare you! I won't listen to such slander. 158 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,450 - He ruined your dress. - What business is it of yours? 159 00:24:19,330 --> 00:24:22,620 - I'll have to pay for it. - I want nothing from you. 160 00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:26,630 Watch this... 161 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,400 For the check. 162 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,610 Come to Paradise tonight. 163 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:54,820 I bought a beautiful bouquet of wild poppies. 164 00:25:12,510 --> 00:25:15,680 The scent of raspberry trailed behind her. 165 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,720 She stepped out in that silk dress full of peonies, 166 00:25:18,930 --> 00:25:23,060 and bees hovered around her like a Turkish honey store. 167 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,570 But I knew I had to leave. 168 00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:39,700 An apprentice waiter cannot take the liberties 169 00:25:39,790 --> 00:25:43,870 a respectable citizen only enjoys in private. 170 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,170 But there was some luck in this misfortune. 171 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:55,300 I was hired at Hotel Tichota. 172 00:25:55,470 --> 00:26:00,470 The hotelier, Mr. Tichota, hired me at the request of my guardian angel: 173 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,640 Van Berkel's sales representative, Mr. Walden. 174 00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:19,370 The hotel was like in a fairy tale. It reminded me of sleeping Beauty. 175 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:45,480 I couldn't really imagine how I'd ended up here, 176 00:26:46,390 --> 00:26:51,690 or who it was built for, or if it was possible to live like this. 177 00:26:53,860 --> 00:26:57,950 The hotel was set up like an orchestrion: 178 00:26:58,030 --> 00:27:03,080 Someone would suddenly put a coin in it and it would begin to play. 179 00:28:44,220 --> 00:28:48,350 - Need a railcar of Hungarian hogs? - Lord! 180 00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:50,640 - How about two? - What are you feeding me? 181 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,730 - A whole trainload? - Yuck! 182 00:28:55,810 --> 00:28:56,730 Okay, then. 183 00:30:04,550 --> 00:30:08,720 I determined to save up so that chambermaid would be mine. 184 00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:47,260 I never saw happier men than those rich industrialists. 185 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:53,470 Like all rich people they were as playful and merry as puppies. 186 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,770 We have winter pleasures in the middle of summer. 187 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:04,110 Here, I discovered that those who said 188 00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:10,200 "work is ennobling" were the same men who drank all night 189 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,410 and ate with lovely young ladies seated at their knees. 190 00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:33,060 I've come up in the world. Stop! I like looking at it. 191 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:39,350 - A pound of salami to finish up? - No, leave that for the poor. 192 00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:47,820 I used to think rich people were cursed, 193 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:54,990 and that only garrets, sour soup and potatoes can bring people joy. 194 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:02,330 But our guests had invented that drivel about cottages being cozy. 195 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:06,630 They didn't care how much they spent, and they felt just fine. 196 00:32:09,630 --> 00:32:12,850 - Good evening. - What are you feeding me? 197 00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:18,060 - Is everything alright? - You scoundrels want me to die. 198 00:32:19,180 --> 00:32:22,190 I guess I neglected my cancer. 199 00:32:24,310 --> 00:32:28,360 My liver is gone and I no doubt have renal gravel. 200 00:32:28,490 --> 00:32:33,570 Entire streets of apartment houses are bought and sold at this hotel. 201 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:35,700 I mustn't overeat. 202 00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:39,910 Even castles have been sold, and a chateau or two. 203 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 I have a crankshaft factory to sell. 204 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,170 Factories are bought and sold here, hunting grounds, 205 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:51,340 agents have negotiated envelope shipments for all over Europe. 206 00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:56,510 A half-billion-crown loan was negotiated here for the Balkans. 207 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,810 I wont go under two million. Excuse me... 208 00:33:00,890 --> 00:33:04,860 two trainloads of munitions were sold. 209 00:33:04,940 --> 00:33:09,230 And all accompanied by champagne, oysters and young ladies. 210 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,540 A girl is fancied after seven, she dazzles as you dine. 211 00:33:19,620 --> 00:33:23,670 Then she promises you heaven but when will she incline? 212 00:33:24,710 --> 00:33:28,920 A man thinks. Why do I wait? A promise is forever. 213 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:34,130 Miss, how about a private date? The sooner we go the better. 214 00:33:34,260 --> 00:33:39,260 Not just yet, in a while, 215 00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:43,390 after the lights go out in the bar. 216 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:50,940 Not just yet, in a while let's close down another bar. 217 00:33:53,030 --> 00:34:01,160 Not just yet, in a while when were alone together. 218 00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:06,500 A vow she makes then kisses takes, 219 00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:11,550 but not yet, in a while. 220 00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:26,270 My bill! 221 00:36:27,140 --> 00:36:31,350 The general deigned to eat, drink, and break the following: 222 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,480 Three bottles of champagne, 66 crowns; 223 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:41,910 then he ordered one roast goose; and two dozen oysters, 39 crowns; 224 00:36:42,780 --> 00:36:48,160 three bottles of 1923 Beaujolais, two turtle soups, 32 and 20 crowns; 225 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,120 a dozen snails, 14 crowns; 226 00:36:51,210 --> 00:36:56,340 the general trampled one Moser cut glass bowl, 169 crowns; 227 00:36:56,420 --> 00:37:01,720 two pike au vin blanc, 36 crowns; one broken water pitcher, 12 crowns; 228 00:37:02,590 --> 00:37:06,890 two creams of asparagus, 16 crowns; one flag stand, 57 crowns; 229 00:37:07,010 --> 00:37:15,230 one Japanese porcelain service came in harm's way, 1,327 crowns; 230 00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:21,400 one 1918 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 161 crowns. 231 00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:26,780 And later the general ordered and ate a whole roast cock, 20... 232 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:28,740 Enough? 233 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,210 Enough. 234 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,370 Once again I knew I had to leave. 235 00:38:08,450 --> 00:38:12,540 I had to go elsewhere in order to learn everything I needed to know. 236 00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:17,630 For when I would be a millionaire and would have my own grand hotel. 237 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,970 Once again Mr. Walden recommended me and I was lucky enough 238 00:38:25,050 --> 00:38:28,100 To be hired by Mr. Brandejs, hotelier and millionaire 239 00:38:28,220 --> 00:38:31,220 owner of Prague's most beautiful hotel. 240 00:38:56,460 --> 00:39:01,460 Hotel Paris was so beautiful that I almost swooned. 241 00:39:01,550 --> 00:39:05,720 My luck held, and I was placed where I could learn the most 242 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,850 under the tutelage of the maitre d', Mr. Skrivanek. 243 00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:21,400 I noted that one waiter at this gorgeous hotel 244 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:27,530 liked to pinch off a bite when he thought no one was looking. 245 00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:32,780 For some reason he didn't seem to like me. 246 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,130 Move it, shrimp! 247 00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:19,830 - You even speak Chinese? - That was Korean. 248 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,920 - Une table. - Un table... 249 00:40:28,010 --> 00:40:31,340 - Une table, you cow! - Un table, you cow. 250 00:40:39,430 --> 00:40:41,770 Silly goose, I'm going to take my belt to your behind. 251 00:40:42,730 --> 00:40:45,770 - Une table. - Finally! 252 00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:48,030 Une chaire... 253 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,330 She's an idiot. Une chaire! 254 00:40:58,410 --> 00:41:03,500 A 'chair' is for bending over. 255 00:41:21,140 --> 00:41:23,270 - Putain. - Putain... 256 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,560 Of course you know that one. 257 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,570 - Aujourd'hui... - What? 258 00:41:49,380 --> 00:41:53,680 Well, we have mutton heads, calf brains, 259 00:41:54,550 --> 00:41:57,850 and there's nothing in our heads but jelly. 260 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,810 Wow, you idiot, how do you know? 261 00:42:01,930 --> 00:42:05,060 I have a medal from the Emperor of Ethiopia. 262 00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:41,640 That patron will have goulash or tripe soup. 263 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,900 That patron will have toasted bread with no garlic. 264 00:42:56,070 --> 00:43:00,330 Tea and toast, no garlic! Learn to recognize a bilious diner. 265 00:43:00,410 --> 00:43:04,410 Look at him; his liver is probably shot too. 266 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,540 Sir, how do you know everything? 267 00:43:07,670 --> 00:43:11,800 - How do you know? - I served the King of England! 268 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:19,010 The king? Oh, my lord! You served the King of England? 269 00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:24,660 Who was that? 270 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,850 She must be from Paris. 271 00:44:48,730 --> 00:44:51,810 That's a certain Julinka from east Prague. 272 00:44:51,900 --> 00:44:54,060 How can you tell? 273 00:44:56,020 --> 00:44:58,280 You served the King of England... 274 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:23,300 Mr. Brandejs liked that waiter. He thought him a credit to the place. 275 00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:28,350 His ability to carry so many dishes was nearly an acrobatic feat. 276 00:46:39,420 --> 00:46:44,420 I still didn't understand. But everyone in the trade said 277 00:46:44,510 --> 00:46:49,720 that it had happened to them the result would have been the same 278 00:46:49,810 --> 00:46:53,810 because a front waiter has only one point of honor. 279 00:46:59,150 --> 00:47:02,360 And I was promoted to front waiter 280 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:06,490 under the tutelage of the maitre d', Mr. Skrivanek. 281 00:47:33,430 --> 00:47:37,600 I inherited other duties from my predecessor as well. 282 00:52:46,290 --> 00:52:48,460 What was it like with the Ethiopian Emperor? 283 00:52:49,460 --> 00:52:53,630 - You don't believe me? - Should I? 284 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,930 Invite me to dinner and tell me all about it. 285 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:34,380 Man is indestructible. He just transforms, metamorphoses. 286 00:53:35,250 --> 00:53:37,460 Every person contains enough phosphorus 287 00:53:38,380 --> 00:53:44,600 to make ten boxes of matches and enough iron to forge a nail 288 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,770 to hang himself on... Good evening. 289 00:53:48,970 --> 00:53:54,020 Man is indestructible both mentally and physically. 290 00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:57,150 A person also contains enough water 291 00:53:57,230 --> 00:54:04,410 to make ten liters of tripe soup. I'm hungry! 292 00:54:08,830 --> 00:54:11,000 I can't eat this. 293 00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,000 I guess I neglected my cancer and I've got an ulcer. 294 00:54:14,830 --> 00:54:19,050 My liver is gone and I no doubt have renal gravel. 295 00:54:19,170 --> 00:54:23,220 I've got a good heart and lungs, good legs... 296 00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:27,390 The doctor says he's never seen such a 60-year-old. 297 00:54:27,470 --> 00:54:29,640 I could live to be ninety. 298 00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:35,940 Isn't that a shame? Who did I offend? Why must I live so... 299 00:54:42,190 --> 00:54:47,160 Sorry, but we don't have a mirror. 300 00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:58,710 Is it true that mankind is a progeny evil, stupid and criminals? 301 00:54:59,710 --> 00:55:00,960 Worse than that. 302 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,180 All philosophers and prophets exclude Jesus Christ. 303 00:55:07,050 --> 00:55:10,350 They're nothing more than a pack of scoundrels, 304 00:55:11,220 --> 00:55:15,310 villains, bastards, and murders. 305 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,520 Mankind would be better off without them. 306 00:55:22,730 --> 00:55:26,950 - We in the 20th century... - What was it like with the emperor? 307 00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:32,080 It's true: I have a medal from the Emperor of Ethiopia. 308 00:55:37,290 --> 00:55:40,460 We in the 20th century are inclined 309 00:55:40,540 --> 00:55:46,590 to see the glory in ourselves and the shame in others. 310 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:52,850 That's how the mess got started. And in that unimaginable chaos... 311 00:55:57,270 --> 00:56:00,360 It really is a medal from the Emperor of Ethiopia. 312 00:56:01,270 --> 00:56:05,490 I was lucky enough that the most illustrious of honors 313 00:56:06,650 --> 00:56:10,660 took place at Hotel Paris. 314 00:56:14,790 --> 00:56:17,000 That distinguished African guest chose our hotel 315 00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:21,130 to host a gala banquet for the government and diplomatic corps. 316 00:56:21,250 --> 00:56:24,380 His cooks brought a live camel to the hotel. 317 00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:28,510 It was unambiguously bleating, "No, no!" ...to not slit its throat 318 00:56:29,510 --> 00:56:33,720 But its throat was slit kosher style and blood, filled the hotel yard. 319 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,890 Then those Ethiopian cooks boned the whole camel, 320 00:56:39,770 --> 00:56:43,070 made a huge fire, and roasted it. 321 00:56:44,110 --> 00:56:48,200 They had to antelopes quickly skinned and roasted. 322 00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,410 Then they put stuffed, half roasted turkeys into the antelopes. 323 00:56:52,490 --> 00:56:55,660 The filled the empty spaces with hundreds of hardboiled eggs, 324 00:56:56,540 --> 00:56:59,620 and put the turkey-stuffed antelopes into the camel. 325 00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:04,000 The turkeys were stuffed with fish, and everything was packed with eggs. 326 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:10,260 Hey kept sprinkling everything with special spices while drinking beer. 327 00:57:12,140 --> 00:57:17,390 When the table was laid, the Emperor and various Ethiopian potentates 328 00:57:17,470 --> 00:57:21,560 arrived with our prime minister and other officials. 329 00:57:21,650 --> 00:57:25,770 And then that African specialty was sumptuously served, 330 00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:29,900 a small token from the emperor of Ethiopia. 331 01:00:00,100 --> 01:00:03,350 The emperor was satisfied. It had been arranged that 332 01:00:04,220 --> 01:00:08,400 the oldest and most respected of the wait staff, Mr. Skrivanek, 333 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:12,570 would be decorated for the excellent banquet. 334 01:00:45,930 --> 01:00:48,140 Once again I knew I couldn't stay long. 335 01:00:49,020 --> 01:00:54,230 No one would forgive the fact that I alone had receive that medal. 336 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,000 Good evening 337 01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,330 Get a move on, dammit! 338 01:02:31,330 --> 01:02:34,540 I'm going to take my belt to your behind! 339 01:03:23,550 --> 01:03:26,510 I knew that the girl from the chocolate factory, 340 01:03:26,590 --> 01:03:31,770 who was being punished because she liked to sleep around, 341 01:03:31,850 --> 01:03:34,940 would not be happy. 342 01:03:35,810 --> 01:03:39,060 Instead, her life would be sadly beautiful. 343 01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:44,280 Life with her would be anguish and fulfillment in one. 344 01:04:04,010 --> 01:04:08,180 And it came to me that she didn't care who used to live here 345 01:04:08,260 --> 01:04:11,430 that it was indifferent to her history of those who'd had to leave. 346 01:04:11,510 --> 01:04:14,560 They'd lived here for centuries, 347 01:04:15,430 --> 01:04:19,770 but I knew nothing about them, people I now clean up after. 348 01:04:25,940 --> 01:04:31,120 This is the final territorial claim that I must raise here, 349 01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:35,410 but it is a claim that I will bring to a satisfactory end. 350 01:04:38,420 --> 01:04:40,580 The history of the problem: 351 01:04:40,670 --> 01:04:45,710 In 1918, under the heading of the right 352 01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:51,140 to national self-determination, several insane so-called statesmen 353 01:04:51,970 --> 01:04:54,140 reshaped Central Europe. 354 01:04:54,180 --> 01:04:58,270 It is to them that Czechoslovakia owes its existence. 355 01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:07,610 That state is founded on the lie that a Czechoslovak nation exists. 356 01:05:07,650 --> 01:05:09,860 The father of that lie is Benes. 357 01:05:14,910 --> 01:05:17,160 I began to pay more attention to myself. 358 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,250 I dressed nicely in my free time 359 01:05:21,170 --> 01:05:26,590 and started wearing lifts so I'd be a bit taller. 360 01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:43,270 Soon after Hitler's speech, the Sudetenland was occupied. 361 01:05:44,310 --> 01:05:48,280 Victorious German students walked down Prague's streets. 362 01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:53,530 In revenge, Czechs stole the white socks right off their feet. 363 01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:06,170 And I saw how all Czechs were unfair to the Germans, 364 01:06:07,050 --> 01:06:11,380 and I was ashamed I'd been a member of the Sokol gym club. 365 01:06:22,690 --> 01:06:26,860 Czech hooligans roughly tore the knee socks off a young woman. 366 01:06:26,980 --> 01:06:33,070 In Czech I shouted, "Czechs, yuck! What are you doing, you rabble?" 367 01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,370 I shouted until they let us go. 368 01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:40,540 They carried off her sock like a white scalp, a white trophy. 369 01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:54,180 The girl wheezed out: "Take it you Bolshevik scum." 370 01:06:55,050 --> 01:06:58,310 "To disgrace a German teacher from Cheb like this!" 371 01:07:17,030 --> 01:07:20,160 Prague is a beautiful Reich city. 372 01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:26,290 And it is every German's inalienable right to walk the streets. 373 01:07:27,420 --> 01:07:31,710 I was so incensed that I wanted to rip my Sokol membership card. 374 01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:33,760 But I couldn't find it. 375 01:07:59,740 --> 01:08:02,910 A day will come when the Fuhrer will liberate 376 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:07,120 every German from the bohemian Forest to the Carpathians. 377 01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,640 Why is it so deserted here? 378 01:08:24,890 --> 01:08:27,850 This was a German village. 379 01:08:28,980 --> 01:08:32,020 Germans and Czechs lived side by side for centuries. 380 01:08:32,980 --> 01:08:36,200 Hitler came and the Czechs had to leave. 381 01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:42,410 Then the Germans lost the war and had to leave. 382 01:08:43,660 --> 01:08:46,790 They were resettled. 383 01:08:47,660 --> 01:08:51,750 I understood why the political leaders were resettled: 384 01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:58,090 They were brutal, full of a pride that was their ultimate undoing. 385 01:08:58,260 --> 01:09:02,390 What I didn't understand was why the workers had to leave, 386 01:09:03,260 --> 01:09:05,390 hands that have yet to be replaced. 387 01:09:07,480 --> 01:09:13,820 - Were you in the war? - No. We Czechs don't fight wars. 388 01:09:15,940 --> 01:09:22,030 The Munich Pact, which decreed that all territory inhabited by 389 01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:25,330 a German majority goes to the Reich, has led to accelerating 390 01:09:26,250 --> 01:09:30,420 the German army's occupation of the Czech border regions. 391 01:09:30,580 --> 01:09:34,630 The government, deliberating on the hard international situation 392 01:09:34,710 --> 01:09:38,720 and forced by circumstances coming out of the Munich diktat, 393 01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:43,970 could do nothing other than bow its hitherto proud Czechoslovak head 394 01:09:44,100 --> 01:09:47,020 to unprecedented pressure. 395 01:09:50,310 --> 01:09:54,440 The Czech inhabitants have been enabled to move to the interior 396 01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,570 where they are seeking new homes. 397 01:09:56,650 --> 01:10:00,700 It is up to us and our solidarity if they find them 398 01:10:00,820 --> 01:10:05,780 and if they are able to find work under these new circumstances. 399 01:10:06,950 --> 01:10:10,160 In territory now occupied by German inhabitants, 400 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:15,340 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler receives an enthusiastic welcome. 401 01:10:28,970 --> 01:10:31,940 In his Berlin address, the Reichschancellor 402 01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:37,230 assured world powers that he has no further territorial claims. 403 01:10:46,490 --> 01:10:49,790 Master max Svabinsky works on designing a new stamp. 404 01:10:50,830 --> 01:10:55,830 It's issue was made necessary by changes in the state apparatus. 405 01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:00,170 Engraver Bedrich Heinz executes Svabinsky's original, 406 01:11:00,260 --> 01:11:04,300 and other specialists ready the stamp for printing. 407 01:11:16,940 --> 01:11:23,030 Soon the stamp will delight postal customers everywhere, 408 01:11:23,110 --> 01:11:28,330 as well as collectors and admirers of Master Svabinsky as well. 409 01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:00,570 Here's your handkerchief back. 410 01:12:03,610 --> 01:12:04,820 My name is Lise. 411 01:12:05,820 --> 01:12:10,080 - And I'm Dite. - Dite? That means 'child'. 412 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:14,080 My name is Dite. Jan Dite. 413 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:18,420 My birthplace is so small that I saw coal for the first time last year. 414 01:12:19,420 --> 01:12:21,420 I'm from Cheb. 415 01:12:21,550 --> 01:12:25,550 I teach physical education and I'm a regional swimming champ. 416 01:12:26,630 --> 01:12:33,060 I'm maitre d' at Prague's most beautiful hotel: Hotel Paris. 417 01:12:34,020 --> 01:12:40,270 Maitre d'? Not quite yet, but soon. 418 01:12:53,740 --> 01:13:00,000 Except for the lungs, you'd like every main course we have! 419 01:13:00,130 --> 01:13:06,340 Just mineral water, please. Know anyone who sells stamps? 420 01:13:06,420 --> 01:13:09,470 - Das Menu, bitte - Excuse me? 421 01:13:09,550 --> 01:13:13,470 - Das Menu. - Sorry, I don't understand. 422 01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:18,940 - Die Speisekarte. - Sorry, I don't understand. 423 01:13:23,070 --> 01:13:27,110 War is coming everything will drop in value except stamps 424 01:13:27,190 --> 01:13:29,280 They are easy to hide and transport. 425 01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:32,410 I sold everything and I'm buying stamps! 426 01:13:53,300 --> 01:13:59,480 Stamps! Stamps! Not gold or jewels. Currency or securities? Impossible! 427 01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,610 War is coming, everything will drop in value except stamps. 428 01:14:03,770 --> 01:14:10,900 These damn Czechs are vermin, scum, slaves, pigs... 429 01:14:23,540 --> 01:14:26,460 Maitre d' Skrivanek taught me 430 01:14:26,590 --> 01:14:30,800 that I must recognize where each patron is from 431 01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:36,930 and be able to differentiate Czechs from Germans, French from Poles... 432 01:14:37,010 --> 01:14:42,310 he said I must learn to know what a customer is likely to order. 433 01:14:43,310 --> 01:14:47,480 I must be able to guess how much money a customer has on him 434 01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:52,570 and thus how much he'll spend, or should spend. 435 01:14:52,650 --> 01:14:56,700 And I must also know who hasn't been served yet, 436 01:14:56,830 --> 01:15:02,960 and who'd like the check so they won't have to snap their fingers. 437 01:15:08,380 --> 01:15:12,510 I saw that she was as small as I, and beautiful. 438 01:15:12,590 --> 01:15:16,600 And I noticed that she looked at me the same way. 439 01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:21,850 She looked at my hair, as light as straw, at my sheep's blue eyes. 440 01:15:21,980 --> 01:15:25,940 And I knew that I had to protect her against all Czechs 441 01:15:26,020 --> 01:15:29,190 who would harm this little Sudeten girl. 442 01:15:29,270 --> 01:15:33,200 She told me I had the most beautiful blond hair in the world 443 01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,530 and I told her that when I became the maitre d' of Hotel Paris, 444 01:15:37,410 --> 01:15:40,660 I'd save up for a hotel of own and I'd be the hotelier. 445 01:15:42,620 --> 01:15:46,920 With such a medal we could open a hotel in the Sudeten Mountains 446 01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:49,920 or in the Bohemian Paradise. 447 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,090 We'd call it the Order of the Ethiopian Empire Hotel. 448 01:16:04,730 --> 01:16:08,770 I care for you. You were so brave. 449 01:16:08,900 --> 01:16:14,990 To protect my German honor against the Czech rabble but... 450 01:16:16,030 --> 01:16:18,280 I'm not German. 451 01:16:26,460 --> 01:16:29,710 Lise lectured me about the importance of pure blood, 452 01:16:30,590 --> 01:16:32,710 and that races should not mix. 453 01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,880 She said race isn't determined by language but by blood, 454 01:16:35,970 --> 01:16:39,090 and that mixing blood would harm the superior race, 455 01:16:40,010 --> 01:16:44,350 that mating with an inferior race would dilute its cultish power... 456 01:16:45,230 --> 01:16:48,440 But I didn't know how - nor did I want - to listen. 457 01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:52,520 Eventually, Lise asked me to check my genealogy 458 01:16:52,650 --> 01:16:56,740 because I must have some German ancestors. 459 01:16:56,820 --> 01:17:01,950 I said that my granddad's name on his grave was written Johann Ditie, 460 01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:04,950 and that he'd been a lord s groom. 461 01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:08,170 I was ashamed he'd been a horse groom, 462 01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:13,300 but in her eyes I grew more than if I'd been a Czech count. 463 01:17:18,550 --> 01:17:20,840 This customer will have tea with bread and butter. 464 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:25,020 This customer will have Prague ham and pickles, 465 01:17:25,890 --> 01:17:28,060 and a glass or Pilsner. 466 01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:41,660 - A Pilsner and Prague ham! - And a pickle on the side! 467 01:17:45,620 --> 01:17:47,910 I bet you I know where this young lady is from. 468 01:18:46,310 --> 01:18:50,350 You cannot expect anything better from such Czech rabble! 469 01:18:50,430 --> 01:18:52,350 Mr. Dite! 470 01:18:53,650 --> 01:18:56,690 You are not a good Czech; you are discharged. 471 01:18:56,770 --> 01:19:00,690 And I will see to it that no one in Prague hires you. 472 01:19:11,330 --> 01:19:17,420 Prague is a beautiful Reich city. A day will come when the Fuhrer 473 01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:24,760 will liberate every German from the Bohemian Forest to the Carpathians. 474 01:21:00,650 --> 01:21:03,940 She told me that Reich Germans long for Slavic blood. 475 01:21:03,940 --> 01:21:09,200 That they nave been trying for thousands of years to marry it. 476 01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:18,420 (President of the occupied lands:) Czech People, 477 01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:24,630 at the eleventh hour I resolved, with the agreement of the government, 478 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:31,890 to seek an audience with Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler. 479 01:21:33,140 --> 01:21:38,230 After a long talk with the Reichschancellor 480 01:21:38,350 --> 01:21:42,360 and after ascertaining the state of affairs. 481 01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:45,570 I have decided to announce 482 01:21:45,690 --> 01:21:50,860 that I am surrendering the fate of the Czech nation and state 483 01:21:51,780 --> 01:21:55,950 Into the hands of the leader of the German nation. 484 01:21:56,040 --> 01:22:00,170 In return for this show of trust I received a promise 485 01:22:00,250 --> 01:22:04,460 that our nation would be guaranteed independence 486 01:22:05,340 --> 01:22:08,550 and our right to develop our national life. 487 01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:34,970 Well, It didn't help in the least that you served the King of England. 488 01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,450 - What is it? - A mirror. 489 01:24:36,490 --> 01:24:40,830 The villagers gave me lots of them. They were glad to see them go. 490 01:24:41,700 --> 01:24:45,000 They say that Germans appear when they look into them. 491 01:24:45,870 --> 01:24:47,960 - Do you believe that? - No. 492 01:24:50,170 --> 01:24:54,210 Seeing myself is quite enough. 493 01:24:56,300 --> 01:24:59,550 The Nuremberg Laws stated that as a citizen of another nation. 494 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:05,640 In order to marry Lise Rapanek I had to be examined 495 01:25:05,770 --> 01:25:10,980 to see if I were fit to impregnate Arian German blood. 496 01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:22,330 And now young man, like in your youth... 497 01:25:48,390 --> 01:25:50,600 Vile Traitors Justly Executed! 498 01:26:38,690 --> 01:26:40,650 Nothing yet? 499 01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:25,530 Those beads of my semen were labeled excellent: 500 01:27:26,450 --> 01:27:29,700 Fit to impregnate an Arial vagina in a dignified manner. 501 01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:32,790 And the officer for the protection of German Blood and Honor 502 01:27:33,750 --> 01:27:38,050 found nothing against my marrying Arian German blood. 503 01:27:43,260 --> 01:27:47,300 I had a wonderful feeling from being able to attend a celebration 504 01:27:47,430 --> 01:27:51,600 with young people just as fair haired as I. 505 01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:56,730 And though I couldn't speak proper German, I felt like a German. 506 01:27:56,810 --> 01:27:58,900 Lise explained, to everyone 507 01:27:59,820 --> 01:28:03,990 that I had defended her German honor against the Czech rabble, 508 01:28:04,070 --> 01:28:10,290 and I tried to get used to the role of a tolerated Arian-Bohemian, 509 01:28:10,370 --> 01:28:13,370 but I didn't let on. 510 01:28:13,460 --> 01:28:17,540 I knew that any of the officers could woo Lise, 511 01:28:17,670 --> 01:28:21,710 but I was always the only one who enchanted her. 512 01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:22,920 Because I know the necessity 513 01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:27,010 of love and play and playfulness behind closed doors. 514 01:28:27,090 --> 01:28:32,180 This I understood When I garnished Jaruska's tummy with daisies 515 01:28:32,270 --> 01:28:36,440 and the tummies of Vanda, Julinka, and others with any suitable thing. 516 01:29:04,550 --> 01:29:09,760 - Maitre d' sir, they're... - I know. 517 01:29:43,050 --> 01:29:45,260 As a member of the German army, 518 01:29:45,340 --> 01:29:49,380 Lise got me a job at an unexpected place: 519 01:29:51,390 --> 01:29:55,720 Hotel Tichota. But it was no longer called Tichota. 520 01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:25,960 This is a selective human breeding center 521 01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:31,050 where future mothers carry the new citizens of Europe in their wombs. 522 01:30:44,650 --> 01:30:49,990 Here is where we cross the pure blood of German girls and soldiers. 523 01:30:59,330 --> 01:31:01,330 The doctor explained 524 01:31:01,460 --> 01:31:06,550 that German soldiers come here as studs or purebred boars 525 01:31:06,630 --> 01:31:10,720 to scientifically impregnate German females with German semen. 526 01:31:16,930 --> 01:31:19,100 I was to attend to the girls 527 01:31:20,020 --> 01:31:23,350 so they'd be properly prepared for intercourse. 528 01:31:31,490 --> 01:31:34,780 I imagined things would proceed just like when we got 529 01:31:35,660 --> 01:31:38,950 the cow and bull together or the nanny-goat and the village billy. 530 01:33:11,630 --> 01:33:17,930 I may conceive a new being tonight the founder of a new Europe. 531 01:35:08,500 --> 01:35:13,750 Roused by the blitzkrieg's success Lise decided to go to the front. 532 01:35:14,710 --> 01:35:17,710 She volunteered to go because we had yet 533 01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:20,880 to present the Fuhrer with a new German. 534 01:35:20,970 --> 01:35:23,180 She parted from me. 535 01:35:24,050 --> 01:35:29,430 Proud that she would belong to the finest army in the world 536 01:35:30,390 --> 01:35:34,650 Suddenly I was sad she was leaving, sad that she might never return. 537 01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:40,860 I loved her, that little teacher from Cheb who was as small as I. 538 01:35:42,820 --> 01:35:47,990 All the women that had come into my life had been taller. 539 01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:52,160 Lise was the only one I could look straight in the eye. 540 01:35:52,250 --> 01:35:55,460 And only now did it dawn on me that there was a war somewhere 541 01:35:56,380 --> 01:35:59,510 and that my wife was leaving me for that war. 542 01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:26,010 My neighbors abandoned me to find other musical trees elsewhere. 543 01:37:30,220 --> 01:37:33,520 I longed for someone to be here with me 544 01:37:56,210 --> 01:38:02,500 I looked at myself and I saw a stranger from that perspective. 545 01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:07,840 A person starts to talk to himself, 546 01:38:07,930 --> 01:38:11,890 lets memory present images of the past. 547 01:38:11,970 --> 01:38:15,060 But then he starts to address himself, 548 01:38:15,180 --> 01:38:18,270 ask questions and interrogate himself, 549 01:38:18,350 --> 01:38:23,320 bring charges against himself like a prosecutor, defend himself. 550 01:38:40,210 --> 01:38:44,250 While people at home suffered I served German girls 551 01:38:44,380 --> 01:38:47,300 to whom soldiers and Waffen SS 552 01:38:47,380 --> 01:38:51,550 were admitted nightly under scientific supervision. 553 01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:55,760 These women considered me a servant despite of my tuxedo. 554 01:38:55,890 --> 01:39:01,060 I was a side table in front of whom they felt no embarrassment. 555 01:39:01,940 --> 01:39:06,280 They were careful to let no man see them but I could freely watch 556 01:39:07,150 --> 01:39:12,360 while they stood naked, talking toweling dry fuzzy golden bellies, 557 01:39:12,450 --> 01:39:18,620 cautiously and meticulously wiping crotches as if I weren't there. 558 01:39:23,830 --> 01:39:27,050 In my free time I wrote long letter to Lise. 559 01:39:27,170 --> 01:39:31,180 After Warsaw was taken I had an address for her there, 560 01:39:31,260 --> 01:39:33,430 then I sent letters to Paris. 561 01:39:34,300 --> 01:39:37,390 Lise wrote me from Kiev and Smolensk. 562 01:39:37,470 --> 01:39:40,560 Finally sad letters came from east Prussia. 563 01:39:43,850 --> 01:39:48,860 The German's victorious advance became a victorious retreat. 564 01:39:48,940 --> 01:39:54,070 And Lise came home because she got no more pleasure from the fighting. 565 01:40:32,780 --> 01:40:35,860 She did not however return empty-handed. 566 01:41:06,020 --> 01:41:09,310 I found these stamps in Warsaw and other places 567 01:41:09,310 --> 01:41:13,360 While inspecting the houses of deported Jews. 568 01:41:15,610 --> 01:41:18,620 According to the Zumstein catalogue, 569 01:41:18,660 --> 01:41:21,660 just these four stamps alone make us millionaires. 570 01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,000 Deported Jews? 571 01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:34,130 Sure. Who knows where they are now? 572 01:41:35,300 --> 01:41:42,510 We'll buy a hotel after the war. A big hotel! 573 01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:45,770 These stamps will bring such a price 574 01:41:46,770 --> 01:41:55,030 that we'll be able to buy a hotel anywhere. Hotel Ditie. 575 01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:03,580 With just this you could buy the Hotel Ritz in Paris. 576 01:42:15,960 --> 01:42:21,140 The war went on and they stopped breeding people for a new Europe. 577 01:42:21,260 --> 01:42:26,350 It made way for those who were still alive and might again hold a weapon. 578 01:42:26,430 --> 01:42:31,480 They might even be made ready to go to war lacking an arm or a leg. 579 01:42:53,500 --> 01:42:56,710 And I saw that the Germans had lost the war. 580 01:42:57,590 --> 01:43:00,720 Their faces betrayed how things stood on the battlefield. 581 01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:04,010 Looking at them I could tell it would soon be over. 582 01:43:04,890 --> 01:43:09,180 And I looked forward to buying a hotel with Lise. 583 01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:19,570 I look at myself, and the more I look the more alarmed I become. 584 01:43:19,650 --> 01:43:25,740 I am alarmed as if I were a stranger whom I accuse and fail to defend. 585 01:43:26,910 --> 01:43:30,080 I look at myself and I am sickened by what I see. 586 01:46:43,020 --> 01:46:46,940 The unbelievable became reality. 587 01:46:47,030 --> 01:46:50,240 My goal had been to buy a hotel and become a millionaire, 588 01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:54,410 and I bought a hotel and became a millionaire. 589 01:46:59,500 --> 01:47:01,670 After the war I sold the stamps 590 01:47:01,750 --> 01:47:05,840 Lise had found in the homes of deported Jews. 591 01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:11,140 Mr. Tichota never returned and I had enough money 592 01:47:12,140 --> 01:47:16,220 to buy this hotel and open it for millionaires. 593 01:47:19,350 --> 01:47:21,600 And when I no longer knew how to spend my money, 594 01:47:22,480 --> 01:47:24,610 I bought securities and foreign currency. 595 01:47:24,730 --> 01:47:30,860 Mr. Walden had made a carpet of cash but I used mine as wallpaper. 596 01:47:30,950 --> 01:47:34,030 Every guest would see the extend of my fortune. 597 01:47:34,120 --> 01:47:38,250 Millionaires would gawk and envy me. 598 01:47:43,460 --> 01:47:46,550 But three years later millionaires disappeared. 599 01:47:47,460 --> 01:47:49,720 The triumphant February putsch had come. 600 01:48:09,440 --> 01:48:14,570 - So none of this is mine anymore? - No, it isn't. 601 01:48:14,740 --> 01:48:17,870 Like I said, the People's Committee is confiscating this hotel; 602 01:48:18,910 --> 01:48:23,120 all of your property rights have been transferred to the people. 603 01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:29,130 - Even this chair isn't mine? - No. 604 01:48:29,380 --> 01:48:33,340 Not even the expensive furnishings I bought? 605 01:48:33,430 --> 01:48:37,640 Not even the food in the fridge? 606 01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:42,850 All of it belongs to the people it belongs to all of us. 607 01:48:43,850 --> 01:48:47,900 For now you'll be the manager. 608 01:48:49,020 --> 01:48:53,150 We're through with exploitative capitalists, 609 01:48:53,240 --> 01:48:57,370 and we're locking up all the millionaires. 610 01:49:00,450 --> 01:49:04,750 Hey, hold on, I'm a millionaire too. 611 01:49:07,840 --> 01:49:11,090 - Not anymore. - But I am! 612 01:49:13,010 --> 01:49:16,180 Look at the millions I have in the bank. 613 01:49:19,220 --> 01:49:22,560 - How much do you have? - Fifteen million. 614 01:49:25,600 --> 01:49:29,730 Then you'll do 15 years. 615 01:49:39,070 --> 01:49:42,330 I concluded that the money from the stamps wasn't lucky. 616 01:49:45,370 --> 01:49:48,540 And I was actually glad it turned out this way. 617 01:49:49,460 --> 01:49:54,760 Because even though in jail, I'd be where I'd always wanted to be. 618 01:49:56,800 --> 01:50:00,970 I'd be among millionaires. I'd be one of them. 619 01:51:43,160 --> 01:51:47,290 A person becomes most human, often against his own will, 620 01:51:47,370 --> 01:51:53,630 when he begin to founder, when he is derailed or deprived of order. 621 01:52:37,420 --> 01:52:39,460 I'm hungry. 622 01:52:47,930 --> 01:52:52,060 And there's the change back from your hundred. 623 01:53:13,870 --> 01:53:17,210 The beer's good here. This is where I'll be coming.