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In our Federal Republic, citizenship only applies to parents.

His father comes to Pireaus as a tourist every year.

German father, German child.

The best would be for us to end the slave trade.

The market is full anyway.

I'm ready to pay double just so I can to print this money.

Money is the only product whose demand increases

the more crises, lack of productivity and inflation spread.

What it costs doesn't matter.

We pray for the best conditions even if we lose at first.

But these new governments are a risk for difficult businesses

because they are always on the verge of dictatorship

and they seem disconnected to all economic logic.

They'd go back to bartering if a news agency suddenly reported

that their mint was in no position

to carry out such a complicated printing process.

All our branches require a 20% raise next year.

We've already been asked for a statement three times.

Write that we all started with 40 Marks

and the following 20 years

have shown who's come further and who's remained behind.

I don't understand the fuss they're making.

As if they didn't know that every kingdom is based on theft.

And because of this I will steal more

and give no more handouts.

Don't forget one thing:

if the police catch you on the street,

there's a week in jail, then you're sent out of Germany.

You can only take walks on the weekend.

Who do the customers pay?

I come once a week and get our percent.

You have to say everything you owe.

As long as they're sightseeing, they won't be inspected.

Only after we send women into the streets

will they wonder who smuggled them in.

Sure, but we must stay in the background.

There are enough chances to stay out of sight.

Who can tell me about some work?

Our clients are mostly hard workers

since you have to be careful.

You have to act like you are coming for them at full speed.

If their skirt is over their head,

guys can grope down there, but that's your chance.

Our African partners' loss could break our neck financially.

We should consider the best way to turn a bankruptcy into cash.

What's going on with you?

Not much this time.

Two may be suitable for the wraparound bar,

we can send the others ahead to the hostel.

The country is cold, the country is gray

The country is no longer white and blue.

The country is sick, anyone can see

the country is no longer so beautiful to live in

The country is being ruined and sold,

Who has done this?

But I feel I'm living a little but a little is still not enough.

I want to live and there's nothing like living

and there's more to it!

This country belongs to us,

we must tell them since they've probably forgotten it long ago.

Do you mean someone could portray

our scientific studies as underground work?

Not at all.

They only serve to increase knowledge.

Put the sofa here and undress as usual.

You know, Ivonne, you really must look after yourself.

Everything I've achieved here

was only possible through much work, self-discipline and lots of hardship.

The system we're living in is the most productive in history.

But it contains a dangerous contradiction:

hard-won success always tempts people to think about recreation.

More amusement products are produced

and people only chase after entertainment.

Never forget the value of hard work.

It alone can guarantee permanent profits.

Ivonne, mommy must go away for a little while.

Look, you've really grown up recently!

You should never forget my advice about how to acquire property.

When I'm no longer here, everything belongs to you.

Who would guess that this is a maid?

This the wife of a gardener and the third a cook?

It all only happens because there is everlasting value here,

we know that thousands working hours have gone into it

and we have the feeling of ruling hundreds of workers.

You know, never forget:

surround yourself with gold, jewels and rich people,

always behave like them

and you will live your 70 years in peace.

Ma'am, one moment, please.

I don't have anymore time now.

Please, go away and don't forget to put the jewelry in the safe.

You can forget the blackmailer. He didn't resist.

We only stretch the rope if a bicyclist comes.

All the bigwigs are on a fitness trip now.

We'll let limos through. Those are workers or farmers.

Don't let him see our faces!

How's the reaction?

The worker tolerated it well.

But the state official screamed and winced.

If we give the worker a sensitivity level of 100,

the official reacts with 145.

Be careful.

We have to find and destroy every document I've signed.

Our debts are so great. Only the Lord can help us.

This is interesting!

A clever man took bread and water over for a few days

and become immensely popular.

On the right because he could tolerate leftist torture methods

and on the left because he slurped soup in the dark with them for a few days.

That's a brilliant idea!

It has to look chaotic here.

As if an entire brigade of anarchists had attacked.

You! Come here!

I'll send our specialists over later so everything looks professional.

Pull it tighter so it looks real.

Look, wait here 2 or 3 hours

then start screaming until you're found.

If they ask you, always tell them the same story:

two guys attacked us, dragged us here,

forced me to take out all the cash, sign the checks,

and get the list of our foreign clients' numbers...

Then say you think we're completely ruined.

I've been hurt.

And finally they've left this embassy.

Here, written in my blood...

Head back.

Last time they were weighed,

workers plus two stones equaled one state official.

One week later, we get the same results through the same diet.

An addicted, disoriented guy!

The entire time, he begs for alcohol and tobacco.

Mechanisms of moderation don't seem to work for him.

This means the official expelled many more re-usable substances.

The worker's body processed everything.

Next week, we'll only give them salted herring.

To see who screams out of thirst first.

I heard a famous business woman can be seen in the city.

With a purse full of money and jewelry.

She uses public transportation and is often alone.

Hello?

Have you still not been found?

No, but I'm afraid to call the police.

If they send the swat team, they may shoot immediately.

I'm sure you'll be found soon.

But I still don't have anyone to abduct me.

It seems the right ones are already behind bars.

In the circumstances, we need to find someone we can bribe or some rookie.

What do you do with so much money?

For example, I give half my pension away for my cat

so she isn't hungry when I'm dead.

What are you babbling about?

How late is it, please?

11:30.

Hands up!

You can really be happy you belong to the oppressed.

Only those who have suffered for generations

have the chance to come to power someday.

Be careful!

The newspapers will turn every scratch into a wound.

You could even describe her behavior as collaborative.

I hope you brought her unscathed.

She has no charisma, as the magazines always reported.

I think you're simplifying things terribly.

Empty your purse

A ring.

Eyeliner.

A checkbook.

Another checkbook.

500, 600...

700, 800, 900, 1000 Marks!

This is just another trick.

If you trick someone in your sordid affairs,

if your business partner struggles in your web of deceit,

do you feel satisfied?

She's somehow peculiar.

Someone who really is rich never carries so much money on them.

Only the poor need money in their pockets

that they are constantly feeling when they go to a cafe or tavern.

Dear people, entire states and continents live off fraud and extortion.

We're just small fish.

Personally, I feel an indescribable delight for every thousand caught.

Like a kid on Christmas morning.

We can't determine where it's hidden.

We may need to pull out one after the other.

I can only agree to this if my share is increased.

I've already compromised myself so much in this dubious surgery

that I can barely still get out.

I wouldn't be surprised

if the bosses have already emptied all the accounts.

They were already talking about bankruptcy months ago.

We could start our own business.

We finally know the decision about the practices.

Not inside!

Today small and medium companies have no more chances.

True profits can only be obtained by exploiting developing countries

or monopolizing the global market.

If we still had colonies to slowly suck dry,

that would be something...

Don't talk nonsense!

Today entire colonies of foreign workers

are being introduced into industrial nations.

Right. Foreign workers also get smaller wages

and need less investments

for cultural institutions, old-age pensions and apartments.

If they become old, sick and unnecessary,

they are dropped from the economy like weights from a balloon.

Did you know official holidays and school vacations

are always a big house cleaning for the government?

During the mass migration,

trinkets, old rags and other trash flow south.

Recycling stimulates the economy!

And mountains of money that are sent home

help the government there buy weapons and luxury items again.

In fact, everything is like it was

when black chiefs sold their subjects for a pair of colored glass pearls.

It's broken.

The upper wisdom tooth and rotten to boot.

Don't be scared, but I have to cut it out,

like you remove a cancer from society.

Only violence helps here too.

You have no idea what possibilities our society gives you to spit on it.

What do these small differences in property mean

compared to the freedom to spit on everything or say anything you want?

Any of these dumb sayings in countries whose squalor you blame on us

would cost you a pair of broken knees and a few inches of skin.

Stop! If she's so smart, she should show what she knows again.

You should thank God you were born in a society

where power has already been properly distributed.

Meanwhile, everyone knows revolutions and other changes of government,

spectacular mass movements,

bring ever more perfect methods of violence

for the intimidation of their comrades.

Over time, methods have only been improved.

Rather than dungeons there are modern asylums,

rather than hot oil, hotheads just get a few thousand volts.

Ayse Semra Eker, arrested April 18, 1972:

They loosened the wire around my fingers and attached it to my ear.

Immediately they gave me a strong dose of electricity.

My entire body and head shook horribly.

My front teeth broke.

At the same time, my torturer put a mirror in front of me, saying:

"Look what's happening to your beautiful green eyes!"

Then I fainted.

You could declare this democracy a rotten parliament

but you don't need to go to the black market

to buy nylon shirts or pearl underwear.

What do you want?

It's easy for powerful industrial nations to rule their subjects.

They simply increase the sales tax

and then they have a large circulation of goods

so money flows quickly into the state coffer.

With this large amount of capital,

it's easy for the state to keep citizens excited or afraid.

Magically, new highways, stadiums, and police stations emerge.

Any normal person looks crazy protesting such perfect authority.

I'm so hot!

And the poor states?

Their rulers have no chance to wrap their citizens around their fingers.

Naked power rules there.

Damn, we’ve overstepped the limits of her power!

What do we do now?

Dissolve ourselves immediately.

I'll take the employees as hostages as a precaution.

I was expecting you to scream more.

But people today are ready to endure more. Just to get money and power.

It's clear in the code that only bosses can withdraw money.

Yeah, it's the same situation as with King Haile Selassie!

The nation didn't get his millions either.

The bankers are now demanding he appear even though he's long dead.

How could I have suspected that she had such a weak heart.

She seemed so healthy...

Shit!

We could hide all of our earlier activities.

Once they find the bodies, we're all done for.

With so many traces, they'll find us in two days.

The best would be to take the next plane and beat it.

That won't work. I have to finish our work.

If I publish all the facts, nothing will stay the same.

These are all pipe dreams. Make your fertilizer alone!

Now you can report your lost papers to the police.

Get up!

Out!

Come on!

I'm not getting up without coffee.

Out, I said!

It doesn't make sense to toil like this...

It's still a hundred times better than pre-trial detention.

Stay with me until we've started a new group.

Come on! Time is money!

Shovel more! Careful...with every gram...

The fertilizer is expensive...

First we need to shovel the manure

and then walk around it carefully. This is too much for me!

Get away from my farm!

Petit bourgeois!

Goddamn! Take a look out yourself...

Eating and drinking is all you can do.

You need to grab everything singlehandedly.

I maintain one needs more courage and energy to build a machine like this

and to sell their products too, the way you do with their junk.

We need courage and fantasy to build skyscrapers,

buy oil fields and clear jungles. Fantasy and money!

These are entirely clear things.

The history of every mass popular movement tells us

that good underground fighters quickly become state officials, judges,

state attorneys, bankers, etc.

The difference between communists and capitalists

is found not in intelligence or a thirst for power,

only in property.

I told you to stay out of the country for at least three months.

But these idiots burned my passport.

Now we're all up to our necks in shit!

You have to stay hidden in any case.

Let me think about it. Maybe I can arrange something.

Maybe I can arrange for a corpse that looks like you to be found.

But it won't be easy...

Cut a lock of hair.

Another cheap trick!

Another beautiful fingerprint.

We must mutilate the corpse so the opposite can't be proved about us.

One day, you’ll still be spoken of with respect.

He weighs 80 kilos.

Be careful he doesn't notice that you're coming on my orders.

Imagine something so he'll believe we'll suffer the same fate.

Spring is soon, we won't need to warm each other anymore.

Why do you always chew styrofoam? Cretin!

I'm used to gum.

Just a moment...

Come in!

Here's the delivery.

You can put the gear next to the bed.

I'm poor too you pigs!

Let go of me!

Get him some more water.

You goons! You could have at least found a clean sack!

Hello!?

Help!

Careful!

Where are you taking me?

Shit! This dog is slick. This is dangerous for you.

They have nothing to say either. I'm looking for a new job.

That was a terrible nightmare for me.

The water under the bridge is pretty shallow.

You need to stop idealizing the poor. It just makes you dumber.

Today is my birthday and I want a present.

We know you can go twenty days without eating and not get hurt.

I already found someone to bring us something to eat and drink.

Asshole!

12 Marks per head and nose!

Shit! with us, kids under blankets. And that's fashionable here.

Damn - crabs!

But if we shave ourselves entirely, we'll stand out even more.

Any of the families who have found me work here will hide us.

I still have them in my hands at least.

Hello!

Hello! Do Turks live upstairs?

Yeah, Turks live here.

This is poppyseed. Kids sleep better with it.

Say, who's the strongest here?

I have an assignment for him, a good job, well-paid.

But he must be strong.

Stronger than the masked people at my place.

Are they to be employed?

What would it cost to take both?

You have to ask that yourself.

I'll be sad if I see my sons.

So much unused strength!

More than a 100kg of strong muscles,

but everyday they turn small screws on an assembly line in a foreign land.

Always silent, politely saying "God bless you"

No one notices that this God is not our God.

You see the old man in the back with the mustache?

I know him. He has a lot of money.

We should try using him.

If this goes any further, I'll soon be kissing Allah's feet.

Looks like I need to get my hands dirty

to get out of this mess.

Need a small house...

A lonely, small house?

We'll find one.

Too many are already drunk on wine,

and your bodies have stunk for some time.

And then comes the day, I'll be there,

And they will prevail and I will be there.

If you are alone with him,

take off everything but your black stockings.

In 39 he'd already had his first heart attack,

when Marlene was having her premiere in Crystal.

And if that doesn’t help, should I take everything off?

No use...

He's had sex his entire life in a wheel chair.

The best is if you tell him that nationalization is being prepared.

Khrushchev, Johnson, Ulbricht: all died when they lost power.

I am ready for love from head to toe

And this is my world, and nothing else at all

But if you could lift your legs higher

and play with the umbrella... Yes wonderful!

I heard the socialists pushed nationalization through.

Come here! Bring the tools!

We've eliminated everything that could harm us.

All traces are wiped out.

And your name hasn't made headlines in months.

The time has come to surface again.

We'll hang the thing on the big bell.

I need at least two weeks to come into the open again.

That's out of the question, it has to be done now!

I'll take you to the next TV station just as you are.

You'll complain, scream, whine, it has to become theater.

Isn't everything clearly damned?

You must never forget, only our truth matters to viewers.

What happened isn't interesting.

What's important is what and how we describe it.

Our version becomes the only valid one after the broadcast.

You must give the impression of a person humbled to injustice.

A woman who has always fought for humanistic ideals

and against destruction and decay.

Don't worry. I’ll say what really happened

and every honest person will immediately be on my side.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!

In light of current events, we break from our usual program

to show an interview Mrs. Judith Angst

who was abducted a few weeks ago.

Mrs. Angst has managed to free herself today

from her abductors and came right to the studio.

Good evening, Mrs. Angst!

First, how does it feel

after all these days of uncertainty, distress and humiliation,

to be free and safe again?

I always thought our society believed in struggling

against destructive elements.

Even in the worst situations, I never let go of this belief.

Personal discontent has always led these people to self-destructive actions.

Mrs. Angst, you got to know the villains on location.

How do you assess their strengths and weaknesses?

The viewers surely know

these enemies of society receive much foreign support.

Personally, they feel uncertain and miserable.

Their entire ideology exists on distrust, fear and destruction.

Did you ever have feel the public's support?

Today, people are more indifferent than ever.

We watch injustice with open eyes,

the violation of basic rights and democratic freedoms,

the pillars of our society.

I'd like my case to be a warning,

especially for those who are still suffering under anti-democratic behavior.

I'd like to always be remembered.

As someone protesting against general lethargy.

More light!

Jesus!

More light!

The country is cold, the country is gray

The country is no longer white and blue.

The country is sick, anyone can see

the country is no longer beautiful to live in

The country is being ruined and sold,

Who has done this?

I see the dead walking with empty eyes and cold hands.

I see dead fish in the water and I'm not used to it.

I see yellow, gray, poisonous smoke

I see smoke at night when I'm dreaming.

I hear dead flowers crying and in me everything tightens.

I feel invisible, like in a prison,

where you are slowly being destroyed, piece by piece.

I don't know what things are like this for.

I don't know if you notice anything.