1 00:01:08,881 --> 00:01:10,721 Together with major contributions... 2 00:01:10,881 --> 00:01:12,161 by many others, present: 3 00:01:17,081 --> 00:01:22,481 A film in 13 parts with an epilogue, based on the novel by Alfred Döblin. 4 00:02:29,401 --> 00:02:31,881 Well, Biberkopf, you got problems? 5 00:02:32,041 --> 00:02:34,201 No, no. I'm just out of beer. 6 00:02:34,361 --> 00:02:35,801 I must get some more. 7 00:02:35,961 --> 00:02:37,481 Ah, yes, the beer. 8 00:02:38,481 --> 00:02:42,401 Do I get my milk now? Or do I have to kick the bucket first? 9 00:02:42,761 --> 00:02:44,001 There she goes again. 10 00:02:44,161 --> 00:02:46,601 All day long: nothing in her head... 11 00:02:46,761 --> 00:02:48,681 but bugging a guy. 12 00:02:49,721 --> 00:02:51,921 She used to be a good woman. 13 00:02:52,081 --> 00:02:53,601 How a person can change. 14 00:02:53,761 --> 00:02:57,441 Nothing in her head but bugging a guy. 15 00:02:58,961 --> 00:03:00,681 Your milk will be ready right away. 16 00:03:09,721 --> 00:03:11,481 Hello, Mrs Greiner. 17 00:03:12,161 --> 00:03:13,761 Hello, Mr Greiner. 18 00:03:15,041 --> 00:03:16,561 I need a fresh supply again. 19 00:03:16,721 --> 00:03:19,641 Hey, Mr Biberkopf! You do get through it quickly. 20 00:03:20,081 --> 00:03:22,121 When you need something, you need it, eh? 21 00:03:22,281 --> 00:03:25,681 Sure... How right you are, Mr Biberkopf. 22 00:03:25,841 --> 00:03:27,361 How right you are. 23 00:03:32,521 --> 00:03:34,921 And you can give me a bottle right now, too. 24 00:03:35,081 --> 00:03:36,641 Just for the hell of it. 25 00:03:36,801 --> 00:03:38,161 Sure. 26 00:03:38,801 --> 00:03:41,801 I'm afraid we're out of schnapps. 27 00:03:41,961 --> 00:03:43,441 We've run dry. 28 00:03:43,601 --> 00:03:46,641 And all old Greiner does is booze and snooze. 29 00:03:47,241 --> 00:03:50,001 What should your husband do if he's out of work? 30 00:03:50,161 --> 00:03:52,561 Most guys just hang around nowadays. 31 00:03:53,281 --> 00:03:55,801 How right you are, Mr Biberkopf. 32 00:03:55,961 --> 00:03:58,001 That's just what I think really. 33 00:04:00,681 --> 00:04:02,681 One thing I don't understand... 34 00:04:03,841 --> 00:04:05,841 is what they live on over there. 35 00:04:06,001 --> 00:04:07,201 Where? 36 00:04:07,721 --> 00:04:09,641 In the shoe store over there. 37 00:04:09,801 --> 00:04:12,681 Four big display windows, everything tip-top, 38 00:04:12,841 --> 00:04:15,961 but I've never seen any customers in there. 39 00:04:16,121 --> 00:04:18,681 And they've employed six girls to serve as well, 40 00:04:18,841 --> 00:04:21,641 when there are any customers to serve. 41 00:04:21,801 --> 00:04:24,281 At 80 marks a head a month. 42 00:04:24,441 --> 00:04:27,041 And maybe when they're old and grey, 43 00:04:27,201 --> 00:04:28,361 they'll earn 100. 44 00:04:29,001 --> 00:04:31,801 The shoe store belongs to old Mrs Grillmann. 45 00:04:31,961 --> 00:04:34,601 In the past, it was all quite normal: 46 00:04:34,761 --> 00:04:37,721 the windows weren't so big, it wasn't so pretentious. 47 00:04:38,081 --> 00:04:41,121 Then she married the manager. 48 00:04:41,281 --> 00:04:44,521 Since then, she's slept in the back, and she's having a bad time. 49 00:04:44,681 --> 00:04:46,401 He's a good-looking guy. 50 00:04:46,561 --> 00:04:48,641 He made the shop what it is, 51 00:04:48,801 --> 00:04:51,161 but he's not yet 40. 52 00:04:51,681 --> 00:04:55,401 And that's the root of the trouble, Mr Biberkopf. 53 00:04:55,561 --> 00:04:58,441 Sometimes he comes home late, and she's lying awake. 54 00:04:58,601 --> 00:05:01,161 She's so annoyed she can't get to sleep. 55 00:05:01,681 --> 00:05:05,321 That's what comes of marrying a guy who's younger than yourself. 56 00:05:06,841 --> 00:05:08,721 - Cheers. - Cheers. 57 00:05:13,561 --> 00:05:17,321 Part 4: A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence 58 00:05:17,641 --> 00:05:19,481 The importance of fats in nutrition. 59 00:05:19,641 --> 00:05:21,601 Fat acts as a covering for bone protuberances... 60 00:05:21,761 --> 00:05:24,721 and protects the tissue beneath against pressure and impact. 61 00:05:24,881 --> 00:05:26,961 That's why emaciated people complain... 62 00:05:27,121 --> 00:05:29,201 of pains in their feet when they walk. 63 00:05:29,361 --> 00:05:30,761 Give us another bottle! 64 00:05:32,281 --> 00:05:33,601 Him as well. 65 00:05:33,761 --> 00:05:35,481 One beer's no cheer! 66 00:05:35,641 --> 00:05:38,481 No. One beer's no cheer. You can't stand on one leg... 67 00:05:38,641 --> 00:05:41,201 Unless one was shot off in the war, 68 00:05:41,361 --> 00:05:43,961 - but that's not natural either, is it? - Well... 69 00:05:47,441 --> 00:05:49,281 ...And next to the lawyer, 70 00:05:49,441 --> 00:05:51,681 there are two fat married couples: 71 00:05:52,081 --> 00:05:54,361 the brother and his wife, 72 00:05:54,521 --> 00:05:58,561 and the sister with her husband. They've got a sick girl. 73 00:05:59,241 --> 00:06:02,641 And next to them lives a young baker with his wife. 74 00:06:03,801 --> 00:06:06,321 She's an opera... an operator. 75 00:06:06,481 --> 00:06:08,881 Yes, an operator at a printer's. 76 00:06:09,161 --> 00:06:12,801 She's got an inflammation of the ovaries. He told me so. 77 00:06:12,961 --> 00:06:14,321 Oh, yeah? 78 00:06:14,681 --> 00:06:17,641 She's got an inflammation of the ovaries. Women... 79 00:06:18,441 --> 00:06:20,521 What do the two of them get out of life? 80 00:06:20,681 --> 00:06:22,921 Well, they've got each other. 81 00:06:23,081 --> 00:06:24,921 And last Sunday, they went... 82 00:06:25,081 --> 00:06:28,361 to a stage show and a movie and sometimes... their club meeting, 83 00:06:28,521 --> 00:06:30,961 and visits to his parents, and... 84 00:06:31,121 --> 00:06:32,521 Is that all? 85 00:06:32,681 --> 00:06:36,321 As if that weren't enough, Mr Biberkopf! 86 00:06:36,481 --> 00:06:39,001 Not to mention fine weather... 87 00:06:39,161 --> 00:06:40,001 and bad weather... 88 00:06:40,161 --> 00:06:41,401 Baloney! 89 00:06:41,561 --> 00:06:45,281 ...standing by the stove, eating breakfast and so on. 90 00:06:45,441 --> 00:06:47,001 What do you have from life, 91 00:06:47,161 --> 00:06:50,201 and all the others, the captains and generals? 92 00:06:50,361 --> 00:06:52,801 What does anybody have from life? 93 00:06:52,961 --> 00:06:54,241 Let's not kid ourselves! 94 00:06:54,881 --> 00:06:57,521 And right above them lives the lawyer, Löwenhund: 95 00:06:57,681 --> 00:06:59,521 a real skinflint. 96 00:06:59,681 --> 00:07:03,481 He's got a cleaning woman who sweeps the lino in his waiting room. 97 00:07:03,641 --> 00:07:05,961 He's too cheap to get a vacuum cleaner. 98 00:07:06,121 --> 00:07:08,041 And the guy's not even married! 99 00:07:08,201 --> 00:07:11,801 The cleaning woman scrubs and cleans. She's terribly skinny, 100 00:07:11,961 --> 00:07:15,041 but really supple for someone who's had two kids. 101 00:07:15,201 --> 00:07:18,321 Yes, Mr Biberkopf, that's stinginess for you! 102 00:07:18,721 --> 00:07:24,361 ...Finally, I refute the assumption made by the district court... 103 00:07:25,441 --> 00:07:30,001 that wild rabbits in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg... 104 00:07:31,601 --> 00:07:34,641 may be regarded as fair game for hunting... 105 00:07:34,881 --> 00:07:38,121 And in the rear block lives a waiter with his wife. 106 00:07:38,401 --> 00:07:41,641 Nicely furnished: a gas chandelier with glass pendants. 107 00:07:42,641 --> 00:07:46,881 He's at home 'til two. He sleeps and plays the zither. 108 00:07:47,961 --> 00:07:51,321 His wife works in a department store... 109 00:07:51,481 --> 00:07:55,361 as a supervisor or something, or so she says. 110 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:57,921 He's been married before, 111 00:07:58,081 --> 00:08:01,601 but his first wife must have cheated on him something terrible. 112 00:08:02,121 --> 00:08:04,881 She always managed to console him... 113 00:08:05,041 --> 00:08:09,121 and make it up, but in the end he left her. 114 00:08:09,721 --> 00:08:11,841 In the divorce proceedings, 115 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:15,481 he was found to be the guilty party because he'd run away. 116 00:08:15,641 --> 00:08:18,601 He couldn't prove she'd cheated on him. 117 00:08:18,841 --> 00:08:22,401 Then he met his present wife who was looking for a man. 118 00:08:22,561 --> 00:08:24,121 You know what I mean? 119 00:08:24,281 --> 00:08:27,601 It's always the same. She's the same type as his first wife, 120 00:08:27,761 --> 00:08:31,281 exactly the same, only a little smarter. 121 00:08:31,441 --> 00:08:33,961 He doesn't notice it when she cheats on him. 122 00:08:34,441 --> 00:08:36,761 ...it was not possible. 123 00:08:38,041 --> 00:08:42,121 I firmly hope to be able to visit you next Wednesday... 124 00:08:42,281 --> 00:08:45,881 and ask you to be patient until then. Sincerely yours... 125 00:08:48,841 --> 00:08:49,841 Dear Mr Tollmann, 126 00:08:51,321 --> 00:08:55,481 Concerning your daughter's case, I have to request further fees... 127 00:08:57,201 --> 00:08:58,841 amounting to 200 marks. 128 00:08:59,001 --> 00:09:00,681 Payment in installments would be acceptable. 129 00:09:03,121 --> 00:09:06,121 And above them, right next to you at Baumann's place, 130 00:09:06,281 --> 00:09:09,281 is where we live. Greiner here... 131 00:09:09,441 --> 00:09:11,681 does the administration as well. 132 00:09:11,881 --> 00:09:15,241 He's okay really. He curbs his drinking, 133 00:09:15,401 --> 00:09:18,121 but sometimes he really lets himself go. 134 00:09:21,481 --> 00:09:25,161 "The security companies guard everything. 135 00:09:32,041 --> 00:09:34,081 They walk around here, 136 00:09:34,721 --> 00:09:36,761 walk through the place, 137 00:09:36,961 --> 00:09:40,321 keep an eye on things, put in clocks, 138 00:09:40,921 --> 00:09:45,601 burglar alarms. Guard duty and security service for greater Berlin, 139 00:09:46,441 --> 00:09:48,561 German Security Service, 140 00:09:48,721 --> 00:09:51,121 Greater Berlin Security Service, 141 00:09:51,281 --> 00:09:53,761 and former Security Division... 142 00:09:53,921 --> 00:09:57,481 of the Proprietors' Association of Berlin Landowners, 143 00:09:57,641 --> 00:10:02,281 United Management, Security Headquarters of the West, 144 00:10:02,561 --> 00:10:04,321 Security Company." 145 00:10:11,001 --> 00:10:15,641 "Sherlock Holmes's collected works... 146 00:10:16,201 --> 00:10:19,041 by Conan Doyle." 147 00:10:19,721 --> 00:10:21,881 "Watching service." 148 00:10:22,041 --> 00:10:26,081 "Washing service, Apollo Laundry Rental, 149 00:10:26,241 --> 00:10:28,801 Adler Laundry for hand-washed garments and underwear, 150 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:33,761 specialists in gentlemen's and ladies' fine underclothes." 151 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:38,281 ...Personal liability for sexually transmitted diseases: 152 00:10:38,441 --> 00:10:41,881 Higher Regional Court, Frankfurt, 1C5. 153 00:10:43,241 --> 00:10:47,081 The moral acceptability of sexual intercourse... 154 00:10:47,241 --> 00:10:50,841 in the case of married men may be subject to less strict criteria. 155 00:10:51,361 --> 00:10:55,041 Legally speaking, however, one has to admit... 156 00:10:55,441 --> 00:10:57,321 that a personal liability does exist, 157 00:10:58,961 --> 00:11:03,521 that extramarital intercourse, as Staub says, 158 00:11:03,681 --> 00:11:05,761 is an extravagance... 159 00:11:05,921 --> 00:11:09,201 which entails certain risks, comma... 160 00:11:09,361 --> 00:11:13,241 and anyone indulging in this extravagance, comma... 161 00:11:13,401 --> 00:11:15,961 has to bear the risks. 162 00:11:17,041 --> 00:11:20,361 In conformity with this ruling, Plank also considers... 163 00:11:20,521 --> 00:11:24,161 an infection resulting from extramarital intercourse... 164 00:11:25,041 --> 00:11:28,881 on the part of a person with obligations... 165 00:11:29,641 --> 00:11:33,641 arising from his terms of employment... 166 00:11:33,801 --> 00:11:36,281 as an act of gross negligence. 167 00:11:45,761 --> 00:11:47,241 Excuse me, lady, but... 168 00:11:47,441 --> 00:11:48,641 Yes? 169 00:11:50,481 --> 00:11:51,641 Well... 170 00:11:53,561 --> 00:11:55,161 It's just that... 171 00:11:56,161 --> 00:11:58,361 I don't know... You see... 172 00:11:59,081 --> 00:12:00,481 You come in here and... 173 00:12:00,641 --> 00:12:02,001 What do you mean? 174 00:12:02,281 --> 00:12:04,321 Is something wrong? 175 00:12:04,521 --> 00:12:05,841 You winked at me, didn't you? 176 00:12:06,241 --> 00:12:07,761 Sure... 177 00:12:08,601 --> 00:12:11,361 I may have winked at you, but... 178 00:12:12,041 --> 00:12:14,201 Does that mean you don't want to? 179 00:12:16,881 --> 00:12:19,041 Oh, great! 180 00:12:19,201 --> 00:12:21,601 First you wink. Then you chicken out. 181 00:12:22,121 --> 00:12:23,561 Oh, what do I care? 182 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:27,081 Limp-dick! 183 00:12:43,161 --> 00:12:44,761 And on the second floor, 184 00:12:44,921 --> 00:12:48,201 there's an old guy. He's 64, 185 00:12:48,481 --> 00:12:51,841 a furniture polisher. He's bald. 186 00:12:52,321 --> 00:12:55,561 His daughter's divorced. She looks after his household. 187 00:12:55,721 --> 00:12:58,041 I see him coming out every morning. 188 00:12:58,201 --> 00:13:01,041 He's got heart trouble. I can see it. 189 00:13:01,641 --> 00:13:04,841 He drinks a shot of liquor here occasionally. 190 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:07,561 He'll have himself put on the sick list soon: 191 00:13:08,321 --> 00:13:11,241 "Coronary sclerosis," he said, 192 00:13:11,401 --> 00:13:15,721 and "myodegeneratiocordis." 193 00:13:16,401 --> 00:13:19,961 I remember the words, even though they're so hard. 194 00:13:20,401 --> 00:13:23,441 He used to be a sculler apparently. But what can he do now? 195 00:13:23,601 --> 00:13:26,041 Read the paper in the evening and light his pipe, 196 00:13:26,201 --> 00:13:29,201 while his daughter gossips in the hall. 197 00:13:29,361 --> 00:13:31,321 She's a real gossip. 198 00:13:32,401 --> 00:13:34,441 It must have been me. 199 00:13:38,721 --> 00:13:42,121 What a guy carries around with him in his stomach. 200 00:13:48,041 --> 00:13:50,001 Cobwebs... 201 00:13:50,841 --> 00:13:52,721 in a gray corner... 202 00:13:53,601 --> 00:13:55,921 can't catch any mice either. 203 00:14:00,521 --> 00:14:02,721 Want to drink water! 204 00:14:06,161 --> 00:14:09,441 Whose business is it what I do? 205 00:14:11,121 --> 00:14:12,961 Whose business is it? 206 00:14:15,161 --> 00:14:18,001 If I want to sleep, then I'll sleep... 207 00:14:18,441 --> 00:14:20,841 'til the day after tomorrow without moving. 208 00:14:22,521 --> 00:14:24,441 And if I feel like lying around... 209 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:28,481 'til the day after tomorrow, then I'll lie around. 210 00:14:30,441 --> 00:14:32,521 Whose business is it? 211 00:14:33,361 --> 00:14:35,521 Whose business is it what I do? 212 00:14:35,681 --> 00:14:36,681 Yeah? 213 00:14:41,561 --> 00:14:44,321 I heard you vomiting last night. 214 00:14:44,561 --> 00:14:47,081 It sounded terrible, 215 00:14:47,241 --> 00:14:51,201 but I thought in the night there was no way I could help you anyway. 216 00:14:51,521 --> 00:14:52,601 So I didn't come. 217 00:14:52,961 --> 00:14:54,441 First of all, 218 00:14:55,081 --> 00:14:58,361 you idiot, what right do you have to say anything to me? 219 00:14:58,521 --> 00:14:59,881 Secondly, 220 00:15:00,121 --> 00:15:03,241 if I choose to stay in this stinking hole from 8 to 12, 221 00:15:03,401 --> 00:15:05,961 whose business is it? 222 00:15:07,041 --> 00:15:09,041 Don't worry about it! 223 00:15:11,321 --> 00:15:13,241 I'll clean it up. 224 00:15:13,401 --> 00:15:16,881 I'm used to that from the war. I was a medical orderly. 225 00:15:17,161 --> 00:15:19,561 I had to clean up worse things than that. 226 00:15:19,841 --> 00:15:21,601 It really doesn't bother me. 227 00:15:29,601 --> 00:15:33,481 Did you lose your heart to nature? 228 00:15:34,401 --> 00:15:36,921 I didn't lose my heart there, 229 00:15:37,961 --> 00:15:39,601 but I felt as if... 230 00:15:40,561 --> 00:15:43,801 a primeval spirit were trying to tear me forth, 231 00:15:43,961 --> 00:15:47,001 when I stood face to face with the Alpine giants, 232 00:15:47,521 --> 00:15:50,361 or lay on the shore of the roaring sea, 233 00:15:50,521 --> 00:15:55,401 for it surged and seethed in my bones. 234 00:15:57,281 --> 00:15:59,481 My heart was in tumult, 235 00:16:01,121 --> 00:16:04,881 yet I lost it neither there... 236 00:16:05,041 --> 00:16:07,281 where the eagle nests, 237 00:16:07,521 --> 00:16:10,321 nor where the miner... 238 00:16:10,481 --> 00:16:13,241 probes in hidden veins... 239 00:16:14,441 --> 00:16:15,921 for ore. 240 00:16:16,121 --> 00:16:17,361 Where then? 241 00:16:18,961 --> 00:16:21,001 Did you lose your heart to sport? 242 00:16:21,161 --> 00:16:23,321 In the roar of the Youth Movement? 243 00:16:23,481 --> 00:16:25,121 In the turmoil of politics? 244 00:16:25,281 --> 00:16:27,241 I didn't lose it there. 245 00:16:28,601 --> 00:16:31,121 So you haven't lost it anywhere? 246 00:16:31,721 --> 00:16:33,641 Are you the type of person... 247 00:16:33,801 --> 00:16:35,961 who doesn't lose his heart anywhere, 248 00:16:37,281 --> 00:16:39,601 but keeps it for himself, 249 00:16:39,761 --> 00:16:42,561 conserves it clinically, 250 00:16:42,721 --> 00:16:44,761 mummifies it? 251 00:16:48,401 --> 00:16:52,121 Is death the end of everything? 252 00:16:52,801 --> 00:16:54,281 "Is belief still possible? 253 00:16:54,441 --> 00:16:56,841 Tuesday: Can people change themselves? 254 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:59,441 Wednesday: Who is righteous in God's eyes?" 255 00:17:16,041 --> 00:17:17,881 Good day, Reverend! 256 00:17:18,041 --> 00:17:21,561 I'm Franz Biberkopf, a worker, a casual laborer. 257 00:17:33,641 --> 00:17:35,961 I was a furniture mover. Now I'm unemployed. 258 00:17:36,121 --> 00:17:37,641 I wanted to ask you something. 259 00:17:37,801 --> 00:17:43,241 How can I stop my stomach pains, heartburn, acid indigestion? 260 00:17:43,721 --> 00:17:46,321 Here it comes again. Noxious bile. 261 00:17:46,481 --> 00:17:48,481 It comes from drinking a lot. 262 00:17:48,641 --> 00:17:52,281 Excuse me for accosting you like this on the street. 263 00:17:52,641 --> 00:17:54,361 Am I keeping you from your work? 264 00:17:54,521 --> 00:17:57,721 But what can I do about this horrible bile? 265 00:17:57,881 --> 00:18:00,681 One Christian has to help another. 266 00:18:00,841 --> 00:18:04,601 You're a good person but I won't go to heaven. And why? 267 00:18:04,761 --> 00:18:08,161 If criminals exist, I can tell you all about them. 268 00:18:08,321 --> 00:18:10,041 Loyal and true, 269 00:18:10,481 --> 00:18:12,321 we swore it to Karl Liebknecht. 270 00:18:12,481 --> 00:18:14,681 We stretch out our hands to Rosa Luxemburg. 271 00:18:14,841 --> 00:18:17,281 I'll go to Paradise when I die, 272 00:18:17,441 --> 00:18:19,761 and they'll bow down before me and say: 273 00:18:19,921 --> 00:18:23,001 "That's Franz Biberkopf, loyal and true, a German, 274 00:18:23,161 --> 00:18:26,121 does odd jobs, loyal and true. 275 00:18:26,281 --> 00:18:29,241 High flies the banner, black, white and red, 276 00:18:29,961 --> 00:18:31,401 but... 277 00:18:31,761 --> 00:18:34,641 he kept it to himself. He didn't turn to crime... 278 00:18:34,801 --> 00:18:37,721 like the others who want to be Germans, 279 00:18:39,841 --> 00:18:42,241 and who cheat their fellow citizens." 280 00:18:47,361 --> 00:18:50,641 If I had a knife, I'd stick it in his gut! 281 00:18:52,361 --> 00:18:55,401 Now it's your turn... to run to the preacher, 282 00:18:56,161 --> 00:18:57,881 my boy. 283 00:18:58,561 --> 00:19:00,281 Boy, oh, boy. 284 00:19:00,561 --> 00:19:04,601 Go ahead, if you think it's fun and you can still croak. 285 00:19:04,801 --> 00:19:06,641 Loyal and true... 286 00:19:06,801 --> 00:19:10,961 I'll not have anything to do with it, Reverend. It's not for me. 287 00:19:11,121 --> 00:19:13,761 Scoundrels don't even belong in prison, 288 00:19:13,921 --> 00:19:15,961 not even in prison! 289 00:19:17,321 --> 00:19:21,801 I've been to prison. I know it inside out. 290 00:19:22,561 --> 00:19:25,561 First-class merchandise. A great opportunity. 291 00:19:25,721 --> 00:19:28,521 There's no two ways about it: 292 00:19:28,801 --> 00:19:31,161 it's no place for scoundrels. 293 00:19:31,321 --> 00:19:33,801 Two times two is four. 294 00:19:33,961 --> 00:19:36,241 Two times two is four. 295 00:19:36,401 --> 00:19:38,561 There's no two ways about it. 296 00:19:39,601 --> 00:19:41,001 Here you see... 297 00:19:41,321 --> 00:19:43,321 Here you see a man... 298 00:19:45,641 --> 00:19:47,441 Excuse me, but I've got... 299 00:19:48,161 --> 00:19:51,401 such stomach pains. 300 00:19:53,921 --> 00:19:57,281 I must control myself. 301 00:19:58,361 --> 00:19:59,721 Water. 302 00:20:01,001 --> 00:20:02,241 Water. 303 00:20:06,321 --> 00:20:07,881 Water. Water. 304 00:20:20,521 --> 00:20:21,521 Here! 305 00:20:22,481 --> 00:20:23,481 Thanks. 306 00:20:23,561 --> 00:20:26,841 You've been lying there like that for three days, 307 00:20:27,321 --> 00:20:30,121 flailing about you and shouting, sobbing and groaning. 308 00:20:30,281 --> 00:20:32,401 If you only knew what came out of you, 309 00:20:32,561 --> 00:20:34,281 all the sweat and wild thoughts. 310 00:20:50,201 --> 00:20:52,481 I've been like this for days? 311 00:20:54,161 --> 00:20:55,601 For days? 312 00:20:55,761 --> 00:20:57,561 Days on end. 313 00:20:59,441 --> 00:21:02,201 I was thinking of having you taken away, 314 00:21:02,361 --> 00:21:04,001 or getting a doctor. 315 00:21:04,441 --> 00:21:06,841 But I've always believed... 316 00:21:07,241 --> 00:21:11,601 it's better to let a guy decide for himself what's good for him. 317 00:21:12,761 --> 00:21:14,641 Yeah, you're right. 318 00:21:16,281 --> 00:21:18,481 For days, eh? 319 00:21:19,281 --> 00:21:21,841 Boy, I must really have been plastered, huh? 320 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:23,361 I don't know. 321 00:21:23,521 --> 00:21:26,881 It wasn't just the alcohol. There was something else, too. 322 00:21:27,121 --> 00:21:29,601 Bullshit! What else? 323 00:21:30,161 --> 00:21:32,361 I just drank too much, that's all. 324 00:21:32,521 --> 00:21:34,441 I simply boozed too much. 325 00:21:34,801 --> 00:21:36,281 I've got to go down... 326 00:21:36,521 --> 00:21:38,721 and mingle with the people in the street, 327 00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:40,761 stretch my legs. 328 00:21:41,161 --> 00:21:43,961 Clop, clop, clop: 329 00:21:44,201 --> 00:21:46,401 one foot in front of the other, 330 00:21:46,561 --> 00:21:48,921 then the other one in front of the first. 331 00:21:49,081 --> 00:21:50,561 That's the answer! 332 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:53,161 Franz Biberkopf, strong as a cobra, 333 00:21:53,321 --> 00:21:56,681 but unsteady in his legs, went to the Jews on Münzstrasse. 334 00:21:57,001 --> 00:22:01,161 The man wants to put his house in order, to sort things out. 335 00:22:01,521 --> 00:22:04,361 Here we go again, Franz Biberkopf! 336 00:22:04,681 --> 00:22:06,601 Cold, but fresh! 337 00:22:09,081 --> 00:22:11,361 Who'd like to stand in a hallway now, 338 00:22:11,521 --> 00:22:14,641 be a street vendor with frozen toes? 339 00:22:14,801 --> 00:22:16,481 Loyal and true! 340 00:22:17,041 --> 00:22:20,001 It's good to be out of the parlor, 341 00:22:22,281 --> 00:22:24,721 not to have to hear the women shrieking. 342 00:22:24,881 --> 00:22:28,121 Here comes Franz Biberkopf, walking down the street! 343 00:22:30,281 --> 00:22:32,641 People do the best they can. 344 00:22:33,441 --> 00:22:35,521 They've got kids at home, 345 00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:37,681 hungry mouths... 346 00:22:38,481 --> 00:22:40,281 gaping like birds' beaks: 347 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:43,561 open up and shut again. 348 00:22:44,041 --> 00:22:45,481 Open... 349 00:22:45,641 --> 00:22:47,161 and shut. 350 00:22:47,881 --> 00:22:49,041 Shut. 351 00:22:49,721 --> 00:22:51,001 Open. 352 00:22:51,361 --> 00:22:53,081 Open, shut. 353 00:22:55,241 --> 00:22:56,961 Excuse me, sir! 354 00:22:57,161 --> 00:22:59,521 I'm very sorry. It's just that... 355 00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:02,761 the roofs might begin to shake, 356 00:23:03,041 --> 00:23:05,601 to swing and shake. They might... 357 00:23:05,761 --> 00:23:10,121 slip down like sand, 358 00:23:11,041 --> 00:23:12,921 like a cap from your head. 359 00:23:14,961 --> 00:23:16,841 Why, they're all... 360 00:23:17,001 --> 00:23:20,281 all aslant, sloping over the roof timbers, 361 00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:24,361 all in a long row. Nothing can happen. 362 00:23:24,521 --> 00:23:28,161 They're nailed down, with strong beams underneath. 363 00:23:28,321 --> 00:23:30,601 And there's roofing felt and tar... 364 00:23:31,041 --> 00:23:34,641 Strong and true stands the watch, 365 00:23:34,801 --> 00:23:38,961 the watch on the Rhine! 366 00:23:40,361 --> 00:23:43,241 Good morning, Franz Biberkopf! 367 00:23:44,601 --> 00:23:46,441 Upright we stand, 368 00:23:47,241 --> 00:23:49,361 chest out, back straight. 369 00:23:49,561 --> 00:23:51,681 We're German citizens. 370 00:23:51,881 --> 00:23:55,241 That's what the prison warden said. Good morning, sir! 371 00:23:57,121 --> 00:24:00,721 The people walk so quietly down the street. 372 00:24:01,961 --> 00:24:04,001 The coachmen unload their goods. 373 00:24:04,721 --> 00:24:07,441 Officials inspect the houses. 374 00:24:08,001 --> 00:24:12,361 There comes a call like thunder's roar, 375 00:24:12,521 --> 00:24:15,481 like clash of swords... 376 00:24:15,841 --> 00:24:19,321 Well, then, we can walk along here, too. 377 00:24:23,761 --> 00:24:27,761 The guy with the brown wool jacket: I know him. 378 00:24:28,481 --> 00:24:31,481 I'm sure I know him. He's got work. 379 00:24:33,201 --> 00:24:37,001 Well, we can do that as well. 380 00:24:37,201 --> 00:24:38,681 Later. 381 00:24:39,481 --> 00:24:42,201 You hold it with your right hand, 382 00:24:42,921 --> 00:24:45,561 pull it up, hold it tight... 383 00:24:47,321 --> 00:24:49,361 then down it comes! 384 00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:50,641 Bang! 385 00:24:51,441 --> 00:24:53,801 That's working people for you. 386 00:24:54,441 --> 00:24:57,481 That's us, the proletariat. 387 00:24:59,961 --> 00:25:01,561 Up the right! 388 00:25:01,721 --> 00:25:03,921 Down the left! Bang! 389 00:25:04,161 --> 00:25:05,361 Up the right! 390 00:25:05,521 --> 00:25:07,921 Down the left. Bang! 391 00:25:09,961 --> 00:25:12,601 Man's fate is like that of the beasts: 392 00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:14,641 just as they die, so does he. 393 00:25:14,801 --> 00:25:17,721 A great white bull is driven into the slaughterhouse. 394 00:25:17,881 --> 00:25:20,841 Open before it: the hall of blood, with sides of meat, 395 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:22,801 with quarters and chopped-up bones. 396 00:25:22,961 --> 00:25:25,121 The great bull has a broad forehead. 397 00:25:25,281 --> 00:25:28,121 With sticks and blows, it's driven to the slaughterer, 398 00:25:28,281 --> 00:25:31,801 who hits it lightly on the hind leg with the flat of the axe. 399 00:25:31,961 --> 00:25:34,601 A drover seizes it around the neck from below. 400 00:25:34,761 --> 00:25:37,601 The animal stops, yields with a strange ease, 401 00:25:37,761 --> 00:25:39,201 as though it consented, 402 00:25:39,361 --> 00:25:42,081 now that it has seen everything and knows... 403 00:25:42,241 --> 00:25:44,721 this is its fate, and there's nothing it can do. 404 00:25:44,881 --> 00:25:47,761 Maybe it thinks the drover's movement is a caress. 405 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:49,241 The man looks so friendly. 406 00:25:49,401 --> 00:25:51,401 It yields to the drover, who pulls it on. 407 00:25:51,561 --> 00:25:54,241 It tilts its head to one side, mouth upward. 408 00:25:54,401 --> 00:25:57,281 The knife plunges into the white bull's throat. 409 00:25:57,441 --> 00:26:00,001 Reddish-black, the blood gushes out over the knife, 410 00:26:00,161 --> 00:26:03,241 over the slaughterer's arm, exultant, hot blood. 411 00:26:03,401 --> 00:26:05,041 The moment of metamorphosis: 412 00:26:05,201 --> 00:26:06,761 from the sun your blood came. 413 00:26:06,921 --> 00:26:08,801 The sun hid itself in your body, 414 00:26:08,961 --> 00:26:12,081 Now it comes forth again. The animal gasps dreadfully, 415 00:26:12,241 --> 00:26:15,681 as if it would suffocate, wheezing and rattling. 416 00:26:15,881 --> 00:26:18,201 When Job had lost everything, 417 00:26:18,681 --> 00:26:20,721 everything a person can lose, 418 00:26:20,881 --> 00:26:22,841 neither more nor less, 419 00:26:23,321 --> 00:26:24,721 he lay in a cabbage patch. 420 00:26:24,881 --> 00:26:29,521 Job, there you lie in a cabbage patch. 421 00:26:29,801 --> 00:26:33,681 Just far enough from the doghouse... 422 00:26:33,841 --> 00:26:35,961 so that the watchdog can't bite you. 423 00:26:36,121 --> 00:26:38,121 You can hear its teeth gnashing. 424 00:26:38,841 --> 00:26:42,001 The dog barks, comes one step nearer. 425 00:26:42,201 --> 00:26:44,921 When you turn around, begin to stand up, 426 00:26:45,081 --> 00:26:48,241 it growls, tears at its chain, leaps forward, 427 00:26:48,401 --> 00:26:51,241 slavering and snapping. 428 00:26:53,401 --> 00:26:54,921 Job, 429 00:26:55,521 --> 00:26:57,361 there is the palace... 430 00:26:58,401 --> 00:27:00,241 and the gardens and the fields... 431 00:27:00,401 --> 00:27:02,481 that once were yours... 432 00:27:05,241 --> 00:27:07,201 And the cabbage patch in which they threw me, 433 00:27:07,361 --> 00:27:09,561 I didn't even know about it... 434 00:27:11,961 --> 00:27:16,361 nor the goats they drive by in the morning, 435 00:27:17,561 --> 00:27:21,281 which pass close to me, 436 00:27:24,401 --> 00:27:26,561 tugging at the grass... 437 00:27:27,441 --> 00:27:29,161 and chewing on it, 438 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,601 stuffing their cheeks full. 439 00:27:31,761 --> 00:27:37,241 All that belonged to me. 440 00:27:41,601 --> 00:27:43,041 Job, 441 00:27:43,201 --> 00:27:45,281 now you've lost everything. 442 00:27:45,521 --> 00:27:48,161 You may crawl into the shed at night. 443 00:27:48,321 --> 00:27:50,721 - Yes. - People are afraid of your sores. 444 00:27:53,921 --> 00:27:56,201 Radiantly you rode through your lands, 445 00:27:56,361 --> 00:27:58,641 and the people thronged around you. 446 00:27:59,401 --> 00:28:01,681 Now, before your nose, there's a wooden fence... 447 00:28:01,841 --> 00:28:04,441 - with snails crawling up it. - Oh, yes. 448 00:28:05,201 --> 00:28:07,601 And you can study the worms: 449 00:28:08,321 --> 00:28:12,121 They are the only creatures who do not fear you. 450 00:28:13,401 --> 00:28:15,321 Your scabby eyes, 451 00:28:15,481 --> 00:28:18,001 you heap of wretchedness, you living morass, 452 00:28:18,161 --> 00:28:20,161 only now and then do you open them. 453 00:28:22,321 --> 00:28:26,161 What torments you most, Job? 454 00:28:26,681 --> 00:28:29,121 The loss of your sons and daughters? 455 00:28:29,481 --> 00:28:31,921 The fact that you possess nothing? 456 00:28:32,081 --> 00:28:33,961 That you're cold at night? 457 00:28:36,201 --> 00:28:39,041 Or is it the sores in your throat, 458 00:28:39,401 --> 00:28:41,481 on your nose? What is it, Job? 459 00:28:43,681 --> 00:28:45,041 Go away! 460 00:28:46,601 --> 00:28:48,801 Open your eyes as wide as you can. 461 00:28:51,561 --> 00:28:54,881 You want to drive me crazy, to take away my thoughts as well. 462 00:28:56,441 --> 00:28:59,761 And if you did open them, would it hurt? 463 00:29:00,241 --> 00:29:01,601 I don't want... 464 00:29:03,601 --> 00:29:06,681 Although your thoughts cause you endless suffering, 465 00:29:06,881 --> 00:29:08,001 you don't want to lose them. 466 00:29:09,241 --> 00:29:12,081 No one need waste prayers on me when I'm dead. 467 00:29:12,241 --> 00:29:14,601 I'm poison for the earth. 468 00:29:15,121 --> 00:29:17,801 When I pass, people have to spit. 469 00:29:22,521 --> 00:29:25,481 You can't open your eyes? 470 00:29:25,641 --> 00:29:27,641 They're glued shut. 471 00:29:28,121 --> 00:29:31,121 You lament because you're lying in a cabbage patch, 472 00:29:31,401 --> 00:29:35,721 and all that's left to you is the doghouse... 473 00:29:35,881 --> 00:29:37,521 and your sickness. 474 00:29:40,321 --> 00:29:41,881 I have no strength left, that's it. 475 00:29:45,241 --> 00:29:47,801 I have no more strength... 476 00:29:49,961 --> 00:29:51,441 to hope. 477 00:29:52,721 --> 00:29:54,481 No desires. 478 00:29:57,401 --> 00:29:59,921 I have no teeth... 479 00:30:00,521 --> 00:30:01,521 anymore. 480 00:30:03,241 --> 00:30:05,241 I've grown soft. 481 00:30:07,361 --> 00:30:08,921 I'm ashamed. 482 00:30:09,081 --> 00:30:11,081 That's the most terrible thing. 483 00:30:12,361 --> 00:30:14,641 It's written on my forehead. 484 00:30:15,281 --> 00:30:17,081 The game is mine. 485 00:30:19,721 --> 00:30:22,481 That's what makes you suffer most, Job. 486 00:30:22,641 --> 00:30:26,001 You don't want to be weak. You'd like to resist 487 00:30:26,161 --> 00:30:28,401 or you'd rather be full of holes, 488 00:30:28,561 --> 00:30:30,521 your brain gone, your thoughts gone, 489 00:30:30,681 --> 00:30:32,881 wholly beast. 490 00:30:33,361 --> 00:30:34,361 Seventy-three... 491 00:30:35,041 --> 00:30:36,721 Forty-seven... 492 00:30:37,681 --> 00:30:39,961 Heal me if you can. 493 00:30:40,321 --> 00:30:43,041 Whether you're God or Satan, 494 00:30:43,201 --> 00:30:46,121 an angel or a man, heal me. 495 00:30:46,281 --> 00:30:48,561 You'll accept healing from anyone? 496 00:30:50,041 --> 00:30:50,761 Heal me. 497 00:30:50,921 --> 00:30:53,521 Maybe my price is high and terrible. 498 00:30:54,121 --> 00:30:55,401 Heal me. 499 00:30:55,961 --> 00:30:59,001 - I am Satan. - Heal me. 500 00:30:59,281 --> 00:31:02,761 And if I am Satan, how will you settle with me? 501 00:31:09,961 --> 00:31:13,281 You don't want to heal me. 502 00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:16,001 No one wants to help me: 503 00:31:16,881 --> 00:31:18,881 neither Satan nor God, 504 00:31:19,161 --> 00:31:21,361 no angel, no man. 505 00:31:21,521 --> 00:31:24,001 - And you yourself? - What about me? 506 00:31:24,161 --> 00:31:26,561 - You don't want to help yourself. - What? 507 00:31:26,721 --> 00:31:29,161 Who can help you if you don't want to help yourself? 508 00:31:29,321 --> 00:31:31,161 No, no, 509 00:31:31,561 --> 00:31:32,801 no, no, no, 510 00:31:32,961 --> 00:31:34,401 no, no... 511 00:31:45,681 --> 00:31:47,201 God and Satan, 512 00:31:47,361 --> 00:31:49,041 the angels and men: 513 00:31:49,241 --> 00:31:50,841 they all want to help you 514 00:31:51,041 --> 00:31:52,481 but you don't want it. 515 00:31:52,641 --> 00:31:54,241 God, because He loves you, 516 00:31:54,401 --> 00:31:56,721 Satan, to possess you later, 517 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:58,521 the angels and men, 518 00:31:58,681 --> 00:32:00,801 because they are God's and Satan's helpers. 519 00:32:00,961 --> 00:32:02,041 But you don't want it. 520 00:32:04,641 --> 00:32:08,481 God and Satan, the angels and men want to help me? 521 00:32:09,641 --> 00:32:11,841 Nobody wants to help me. 522 00:32:26,321 --> 00:32:28,241 Just calm down. 523 00:32:28,401 --> 00:32:30,121 That's right. 524 00:32:30,881 --> 00:32:34,481 You're a good beast. You know it has to happen. 525 00:32:35,681 --> 00:32:37,041 Slaughterhouse, Berlin. 526 00:32:37,201 --> 00:32:39,441 Stockyard, slaughterhouse and market... 527 00:32:39,601 --> 00:32:42,601 form an indivisible economic unit, 528 00:32:42,761 --> 00:32:45,361 with 258 officials, including... 529 00:32:45,521 --> 00:32:47,281 vets, inspectors, branders, 530 00:32:47,441 --> 00:32:48,881 and their assistants, 531 00:32:49,041 --> 00:32:50,721 permanent employees, laborers. 532 00:32:50,881 --> 00:32:53,121 Regulations dating from October 4th, 1900, 533 00:32:53,281 --> 00:32:55,561 general provisions, entry regulations, 534 00:32:55,721 --> 00:32:57,801 fodder supplies, scale of fees: 535 00:32:57,961 --> 00:32:59,761 market, pen and slaughtering fees, 536 00:32:59,921 --> 00:33:01,321 fees for the removal... 537 00:33:01,481 --> 00:33:03,441 of feeding troughs from the pig-market... 538 00:33:05,561 --> 00:33:08,361 Seventeen times three is 51. 539 00:33:08,521 --> 00:33:10,441 Things are getting expensive. 540 00:33:10,601 --> 00:33:12,921 It's becoming harder and harder to calculate... 541 00:33:13,081 --> 00:33:14,801 and tougher to keep up with the competition. 542 00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:20,401 On this day, his first sores healed. 543 00:33:23,081 --> 00:33:25,681 The sun rises and sets. The days grow brighter. 544 00:33:25,841 --> 00:33:28,441 Baby carriages on the streets. February 1928. 545 00:33:28,601 --> 00:33:30,321 Franz Biberkopf continues to drink... 546 00:33:30,481 --> 00:33:33,281 in his loathing of the world, in his discontent. 547 00:33:33,441 --> 00:33:35,641 He drinks all he has, come what may. 548 00:33:35,801 --> 00:33:38,961 He wanted to lead a decent life, but there's so much scum around... 549 00:33:39,121 --> 00:33:41,641 he wants nothing to do with the world anymore. 550 00:33:41,801 --> 00:33:45,081 And even if he's a bum, he'll drink his last penny away. 551 00:33:46,041 --> 00:33:48,961 ...And on the second floor, there's an old guy. 552 00:33:49,121 --> 00:33:51,481 He's 64, a furniture polisher, 553 00:33:51,761 --> 00:33:53,081 with a bald patch. 554 00:33:53,241 --> 00:33:56,281 His daughter's divorced. She looks after his household. 555 00:33:56,441 --> 00:33:59,681 I see him every morning leaving the house. 556 00:33:59,841 --> 00:34:01,961 He's got heart trouble. I can see it. 557 00:34:02,121 --> 00:34:05,161 He drinks a beer here from time to time. 558 00:34:05,761 --> 00:34:08,641 Soon he'll have himself put on the sick list: 559 00:34:09,081 --> 00:34:12,241 "Coronary sclerosis," he said... 560 00:34:12,441 --> 00:34:16,761 and "myodegeneratiocordis." 561 00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:18,961 Hey! I remembered those words, 562 00:34:19,121 --> 00:34:21,161 even though they're hard. 563 00:34:27,321 --> 00:34:28,321 It's me, Franz. 564 00:34:30,601 --> 00:34:32,041 You? 565 00:34:33,521 --> 00:34:35,001 My God. 566 00:34:35,681 --> 00:34:38,281 Turn out the light, please. 567 00:34:38,441 --> 00:34:40,281 Please, please, please, please! 568 00:35:27,921 --> 00:35:31,121 How did you find me... here? 569 00:35:31,801 --> 00:35:34,121 I've known for a long time you were here. 570 00:35:35,321 --> 00:35:37,961 I always knew where you were. 571 00:35:41,401 --> 00:35:44,281 But now I thought... 572 00:35:44,521 --> 00:35:46,401 there's just no end to it! 573 00:35:47,121 --> 00:35:49,401 So I thought I have to help you. 574 00:35:49,561 --> 00:35:51,681 I don't need anyone's help! 575 00:35:52,721 --> 00:35:54,361 I'll help myself. 576 00:35:58,201 --> 00:36:00,041 My God, Franz, you know very well... 577 00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:03,481 You know very well I still love you. 578 00:36:03,801 --> 00:36:05,201 And now... 579 00:36:06,481 --> 00:36:08,761 that Ida's not around anymore, 580 00:36:11,721 --> 00:36:13,721 why don't you come back to me? 581 00:36:14,201 --> 00:36:16,001 Try to get it into your head: 582 00:36:17,721 --> 00:36:21,001 I don't want a woman earning money for me anymore. 583 00:36:21,641 --> 00:36:25,641 I don't want anyone walking the streets for me. 584 00:36:26,201 --> 00:36:28,401 I swore it. Do you understand? 585 00:36:29,641 --> 00:36:31,241 And even if it's full... 586 00:36:31,641 --> 00:36:34,041 even if the world's full of meanness, 587 00:36:34,201 --> 00:36:36,681 full of filth, 588 00:36:38,641 --> 00:36:41,681 I swore to myself, I'm finished with it. 589 00:36:42,761 --> 00:36:44,321 Understand me, 590 00:36:44,561 --> 00:36:45,561 please! 591 00:36:47,801 --> 00:36:49,961 Sure, Franz. I understand. 592 00:36:51,321 --> 00:36:54,401 It's just so you know... I'll always be here for you. 593 00:36:55,361 --> 00:36:57,121 Okay, Eva. 594 00:36:57,841 --> 00:37:00,401 I understand. It's okay. 595 00:37:00,961 --> 00:37:02,601 And I thank you. 596 00:37:03,881 --> 00:37:07,081 But believe me, I must get out of this alone... 597 00:37:07,241 --> 00:37:08,961 or it'll be the end of me. 598 00:37:09,161 --> 00:37:10,961 One or the other. 599 00:37:11,161 --> 00:37:13,001 There's no other way. 600 00:37:17,601 --> 00:37:19,081 Leave me now. 601 00:37:19,241 --> 00:37:20,561 Be a good girl... 602 00:37:20,881 --> 00:37:22,601 and leave me alone. 603 00:37:28,961 --> 00:37:31,881 Should I... leave you some money, maybe... 604 00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:35,801 No, thanks, Eva. I know you mean well, but I... 605 00:37:36,281 --> 00:37:38,921 Even though I could use it, 606 00:37:39,681 --> 00:37:41,521 I can't take anything, I... 607 00:37:42,121 --> 00:37:44,401 I just can't. 608 00:38:55,201 --> 00:38:57,641 That's what people get up to. 609 00:38:57,801 --> 00:38:59,361 All day long... 610 00:38:59,881 --> 00:39:02,001 and at night, too: 611 00:39:02,921 --> 00:39:04,761 up to their crooked tricks. 612 00:39:07,401 --> 00:39:10,521 I should take a flowerpot and pitch it down on them. 613 00:39:12,801 --> 00:39:15,201 What business do those guys have here... 614 00:39:15,361 --> 00:39:17,081 where I live?! 615 00:39:24,201 --> 00:39:25,761 You're from the insurance? 616 00:39:25,921 --> 00:39:27,201 - Bauer's the name. - I'm Münzer. 617 00:39:27,321 --> 00:39:30,921 There's nothing we can do. They've done a clean job. 618 00:39:31,121 --> 00:39:32,761 It's too much, Inspector: 619 00:39:32,921 --> 00:39:36,441 the fifth burglary in the wholesale company in 18 months. 620 00:39:36,601 --> 00:39:37,921 These guys are so brazen: 621 00:39:38,081 --> 00:39:39,881 they tried to break through the wall, 622 00:39:40,041 --> 00:39:41,361 because they found out... 623 00:39:41,521 --> 00:39:43,721 there's an alarm on the door. It's too much! 624 00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:45,921 Well, the walls are damned thin. 625 00:39:46,081 --> 00:39:48,041 The whole building is shaky. 626 00:39:48,201 --> 00:39:51,241 It's like an enormous Easter egg. 627 00:39:52,361 --> 00:39:55,721 And none of you saw or heard anything? 628 00:39:57,041 --> 00:39:59,441 What was that? Did somebody see something? 629 00:40:42,201 --> 00:40:44,041 Well, do something about it! 630 00:40:44,201 --> 00:40:45,881 There's too much of it... 631 00:40:49,081 --> 00:40:51,561 There's nothing we can do. 632 00:40:53,481 --> 00:40:56,121 We should look for fingerprints. 633 00:40:56,481 --> 00:40:57,841 Try, at least. 634 00:40:58,001 --> 00:41:00,161 I've already given instructions. 635 00:41:00,321 --> 00:41:02,481 Very good, Wichmann. 636 00:41:03,761 --> 00:41:06,601 I saw that mob, but I'm not going to rat on them. 637 00:41:06,761 --> 00:41:08,521 But if they come here again... 638 00:41:08,681 --> 00:41:10,201 where I live and sleep, 639 00:41:10,361 --> 00:41:14,281 I'll go down there myself, as sure as my name's Franz Biberkopf. 640 00:41:14,641 --> 00:41:16,041 Did anyone say anything? 641 00:41:16,721 --> 00:41:18,681 I thought somebody said something, too. 642 00:41:19,281 --> 00:41:21,481 - Did you hear anything? - No. 643 00:41:22,921 --> 00:41:24,241 No. 644 00:41:26,361 --> 00:41:27,441 Did you say anything? 645 00:41:27,601 --> 00:41:28,641 No. 646 00:42:16,201 --> 00:42:19,481 Maybe you should have said something to the police. 647 00:42:19,921 --> 00:42:21,281 I don't rat on anyone, 648 00:42:21,601 --> 00:42:22,801 not even on bums like that. 649 00:42:23,281 --> 00:42:25,001 Well, maybe you're right. 650 00:42:34,121 --> 00:42:35,201 Good morning. 651 00:42:35,361 --> 00:42:36,921 Good morning, Baumann. 652 00:42:39,641 --> 00:42:41,201 You know something, Baumann: 653 00:42:42,881 --> 00:42:45,681 I know now what the strangest thing in the world is. 654 00:42:46,161 --> 00:42:47,401 Do you? 655 00:42:48,121 --> 00:42:50,401 People. 656 00:42:51,481 --> 00:42:52,681 That's right. 657 00:42:59,681 --> 00:43:00,681 Good morning. 658 00:43:04,401 --> 00:43:05,401 Good morning. 659 00:43:13,361 --> 00:43:15,481 - Oh, good morning! - I thought I'd drop by... 660 00:43:15,641 --> 00:43:17,041 Come on in! 661 00:43:32,081 --> 00:43:33,081 Well? 662 00:43:33,801 --> 00:43:35,481 Lost your thirst, Biberkopf? 663 00:43:35,721 --> 00:43:37,281 It's like I said: 664 00:43:37,441 --> 00:43:40,241 the strangest thing in the world is people. 665 00:44:03,761 --> 00:44:05,601 No need to be afraid, Mr Biberkopf. 666 00:44:05,761 --> 00:44:08,361 I hear everything that goes on next door: 667 00:44:08,521 --> 00:44:11,041 that the Greiners want to go in with those crooks. 668 00:44:11,241 --> 00:44:13,721 That was their first idea yesterday. 669 00:44:14,241 --> 00:44:17,241 But last night, Greiner changed his mind. 670 00:44:17,801 --> 00:44:20,201 It would be crazy to split it, he said, 671 00:44:20,361 --> 00:44:22,561 absolutely crazy. And why should they? 672 00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:26,001 He managed to persuade her to do it alone with him, 673 00:44:26,161 --> 00:44:29,041 just him and her, today. 674 00:44:31,441 --> 00:44:34,561 - Here, you don't have any left. - Thanks. 675 00:44:35,561 --> 00:44:39,321 But I thought Greiner had made a deal with those guys. 676 00:44:41,681 --> 00:44:44,241 Yeah, but that was last night. 677 00:44:44,441 --> 00:44:46,641 Now he's decided to put one over on them. 678 00:44:48,121 --> 00:44:49,481 I see. 679 00:44:49,641 --> 00:44:51,401 Can they pull it off? 680 00:44:51,561 --> 00:44:53,601 The two of them alone? What do you think? 681 00:44:54,321 --> 00:44:55,881 No way. 682 00:44:56,041 --> 00:44:58,681 They don't even trust each other, 683 00:44:59,161 --> 00:45:02,721 and that makes it easy to put them over a barrel. 684 00:45:03,041 --> 00:45:05,841 She just spilled it all to the kid over there. 685 00:45:06,161 --> 00:45:09,401 I think she's got her eye on him. 686 00:45:22,921 --> 00:45:24,041 Well? 687 00:45:25,161 --> 00:45:26,841 Nothing new. 688 00:45:29,481 --> 00:45:32,121 The Greiners are still downstairs. 689 00:45:47,561 --> 00:45:50,281 Old Greiner will have the surprise of his life... 690 00:45:50,481 --> 00:45:54,601 when the others suddenly turn up. 691 00:45:55,161 --> 00:45:57,121 He'll have to share it with them, then. 692 00:45:59,081 --> 00:46:01,721 "Löser and Wolff, Elbing, Berlin, 693 00:46:01,881 --> 00:46:04,681 top quality for all tastes, 694 00:46:04,841 --> 00:46:06,841 Brazil, Havana, Mexico, 695 00:46:07,801 --> 00:46:10,881 Little Comforter, Lilliput cigars No.8, 696 00:46:11,241 --> 00:46:14,481 25 pfennigs each, Winter Ballad, 697 00:46:14,881 --> 00:46:17,281 pack of 25, 20 pfennigs. 698 00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:21,001 No.10 cigarillos, unsorted, Sumatra wrapper... 699 00:46:21,401 --> 00:46:23,681 at a special price, 700 00:46:23,841 --> 00:46:27,121 in boxes of 100 - 10 pfennigs each..." 701 00:46:28,041 --> 00:46:30,121 I beat everything, 702 00:46:31,361 --> 00:46:33,321 you beat everything, 703 00:46:33,601 --> 00:46:36,041 he beats everything... 704 00:46:37,601 --> 00:46:39,801 "With boxes of 50, 705 00:46:40,921 --> 00:46:44,641 in cartons of 10. Dispatch to all countries of the world, 706 00:46:44,801 --> 00:46:46,721 Bolero: 25 pfennigs. 707 00:46:46,881 --> 00:46:49,321 This innovation gained us many friends. 708 00:46:49,481 --> 00:46:51,521 I beat everything. You fall flat..." 709 00:46:51,681 --> 00:46:53,321 Be quiet for a moment. 710 00:46:54,281 --> 00:46:55,801 I think they're coming. 711 00:47:04,681 --> 00:47:07,041 Old Greiner seems pretty mad, 712 00:47:08,401 --> 00:47:09,801 pretty mad. 713 00:47:10,721 --> 00:47:11,721 What else? 714 00:47:13,321 --> 00:47:15,041 They're squabbling. 715 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,361 Now they're starting to drink. 716 00:47:26,281 --> 00:47:28,361 Now they've made up again. 717 00:47:34,841 --> 00:47:36,281 Funny, 718 00:47:37,241 --> 00:47:40,721 he doesn't think they might have betrayed him. 719 00:47:41,681 --> 00:47:43,321 What does that mean? 720 00:47:44,561 --> 00:47:47,281 No, I'm sure it means something. 721 00:47:48,041 --> 00:47:49,721 I think it must mean... 722 00:47:51,361 --> 00:47:53,921 he loves her more than she loves him. 723 00:47:54,601 --> 00:47:55,761 Yes. 724 00:47:56,601 --> 00:47:57,721 That's it. 725 00:47:58,681 --> 00:48:01,081 You'll be leaving us soon, won't you? 726 00:48:02,321 --> 00:48:03,481 What do you mean? 727 00:48:04,001 --> 00:48:05,241 Oh, just a feeling. 728 00:48:10,281 --> 00:48:11,641 I don't know. 729 00:48:11,921 --> 00:48:13,441 But I do. 730 00:48:13,601 --> 00:48:16,801 You're fit again. You've sweated it all out: 731 00:48:16,961 --> 00:48:18,401 your illness, I mean. 732 00:48:27,001 --> 00:48:28,201 Baumann... 733 00:48:33,561 --> 00:48:35,361 My God, Baumann, wake up! 734 00:48:35,641 --> 00:48:38,041 The cops are outside their door, ringing like mad. 735 00:48:38,201 --> 00:48:39,201 They've just woken up! 736 00:48:40,321 --> 00:48:42,401 I reckon you'll be leaving today. 737 00:48:43,961 --> 00:48:45,921 Makes me sad somehow, 738 00:48:47,041 --> 00:48:48,841 though I don't know why. 739 00:49:10,601 --> 00:49:12,841 Get in the car! It's in your own interest... 740 00:49:13,001 --> 00:49:15,001 to get out of here fast. 741 00:49:28,881 --> 00:49:30,681 What's up, damn it? 742 00:49:30,841 --> 00:49:34,001 - I need the key for my bar in there. - Here's the key. 743 00:49:35,841 --> 00:49:37,241 Now clear off! 744 00:50:03,321 --> 00:50:04,761 Hello? 745 00:50:07,321 --> 00:50:08,881 Anybody here? 746 00:50:09,881 --> 00:50:11,521 He just came in. 747 00:50:11,761 --> 00:50:13,601 He'll be right back, I expect. 748 00:50:14,841 --> 00:50:18,081 You can tell him I brought the crate back! 749 00:50:20,241 --> 00:50:21,441 That's it! Finished! 750 00:50:24,681 --> 00:50:25,881 Well, then... 751 00:50:28,441 --> 00:50:29,681 Well, then... 752 00:50:35,921 --> 00:50:38,081 Take care, Job... 753 00:50:40,081 --> 00:50:41,241 Thanks, 754 00:50:42,321 --> 00:50:43,641 Satan. 755 00:50:47,041 --> 00:50:49,401 Bitterly cold: February. 756 00:50:49,561 --> 00:50:51,201 People wearing overcoats. 757 00:50:51,361 --> 00:50:54,041 Anyone who has a fur wears it. 758 00:50:54,201 --> 00:50:56,121 The women wear thin stockings and freeze, 759 00:50:56,281 --> 00:50:57,721 but it looks good. 760 00:50:57,881 --> 00:51:01,361 Boom, boom! The steam engine pounds on Alexanderplatz. 761 00:51:01,561 --> 00:51:03,241 A lot of people have time... 762 00:51:03,401 --> 00:51:05,121 to watch the pile driver pounding away. 763 00:51:05,561 --> 00:51:08,361 Alexanderplatz is one big construction site. 764 00:51:08,521 --> 00:51:11,281 Where do they get the money? Berlin's a wealthy city, 765 00:51:11,441 --> 00:51:13,161 and we pay our taxes. 766 00:51:13,721 --> 00:51:16,041 The workers turn up early from Reinickendorf, 767 00:51:16,201 --> 00:51:19,401 Neukölln, Weissensee, regardless of the cold or wind. 768 00:51:19,561 --> 00:51:22,841 Coffee pot and sandwiches. We've got to slave away. 769 00:51:23,081 --> 00:51:24,681 Up there are the drones. 770 00:51:24,841 --> 00:51:27,641 They sleep under their eiderdowns and bleed us dry. 771 00:51:27,801 --> 00:51:31,321 Anyone who thinks bread made from subgrade white flour... 772 00:51:31,481 --> 00:51:33,921 can be improved with artificial additives... 773 00:51:34,081 --> 00:51:36,121 is deceiving himself and the consumer. 774 00:51:36,281 --> 00:51:39,921 Nature has its own laws and avenges every abuse. 775 00:51:40,081 --> 00:51:43,761 The impaired health of nearly all civilizations today... 776 00:51:43,921 --> 00:51:47,881 is caused by consuming degraded or artificially refined food. 777 00:51:48,241 --> 00:51:50,681 "Attempts to regulate the sexual life... 778 00:51:50,841 --> 00:51:52,801 of married couples by contract..." 779 00:51:53,241 --> 00:51:56,641 Well, I'll be! Biberkopf! 780 00:51:58,001 --> 00:52:01,961 My God, it's been a long time since we last saw each other. 781 00:52:02,441 --> 00:52:04,441 Yeah, quite some time. 782 00:52:05,961 --> 00:52:07,921 You've been away a long time. 783 00:52:10,121 --> 00:52:11,201 Anything wrong? 784 00:52:11,561 --> 00:52:13,761 No, nothing wrong at all. 785 00:52:17,481 --> 00:52:19,361 I just... 786 00:52:21,521 --> 00:52:24,041 I just needed some peace and quiet, 787 00:52:25,641 --> 00:52:27,721 to be alone for a while. 788 00:52:29,041 --> 00:52:31,361 Sometimes a guy needs that. 789 00:52:33,281 --> 00:52:34,561 At least I do. 790 00:52:40,121 --> 00:52:41,481 Sure, 791 00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:44,641 everyone needs to be alone now and then, 792 00:52:45,321 --> 00:52:47,721 to have time to think things over. 793 00:52:49,841 --> 00:52:51,601 I was thinking... 794 00:52:53,041 --> 00:52:55,401 I'd give the newspapers a try again. 795 00:52:56,601 --> 00:52:58,081 Well, 796 00:52:58,601 --> 00:53:00,961 business is pretty quiet just now. 797 00:53:02,121 --> 00:53:03,121 You know... 798 00:53:03,801 --> 00:53:06,201 I'm 65 years old now. 799 00:53:06,601 --> 00:53:07,801 65, 800 00:53:07,961 --> 00:53:09,641 and suddenly, I had rheumatism... 801 00:53:09,881 --> 00:53:12,281 in my back, from one day to the next. 802 00:53:12,561 --> 00:53:14,041 Yeah, 803 00:53:14,561 --> 00:53:17,961 rheumatism starts when you're 60. 804 00:53:18,761 --> 00:53:20,241 That's right. 805 00:53:20,481 --> 00:53:23,041 The factories are not taking people anymore, either. 806 00:53:28,041 --> 00:53:30,241 Seven months ago, 807 00:53:30,521 --> 00:53:32,561 I had an operation... 808 00:53:32,721 --> 00:53:35,801 out in Lichtenberg, in the Hubertus Hospital. 809 00:53:36,281 --> 00:53:38,201 One ball's gone: 810 00:53:38,561 --> 00:53:41,481 tubercular, they said. 811 00:53:41,641 --> 00:53:43,561 I've lost one ball, 812 00:53:44,041 --> 00:53:46,641 but I've still got the pains, I can tell you. 813 00:53:48,961 --> 00:53:50,401 Well, then... 814 00:53:50,921 --> 00:53:52,921 you'd better be careful. 815 00:53:54,441 --> 00:53:56,841 In the end, it'll be the other one, too. 816 00:53:59,041 --> 00:54:02,321 Train to Alexanderplatz. All aboard! 817 00:54:07,081 --> 00:54:08,601 Yes, yes. 818 00:54:09,801 --> 00:54:12,201 So, now you're 65, 819 00:54:12,601 --> 00:54:14,721 and you've lost one ball, 820 00:54:15,081 --> 00:54:17,281 and you've got rheumatism in your back. 821 00:54:17,441 --> 00:54:19,041 That's life. 822 00:54:20,921 --> 00:54:23,121 You need connections... 823 00:54:23,361 --> 00:54:25,681 Connections are everything 824 00:54:26,321 --> 00:54:29,361 and you need a good location. 825 00:54:30,161 --> 00:54:32,201 When it rains, it's wet. 826 00:54:32,961 --> 00:54:36,921 And it also depends on what's happening in the world. 827 00:54:37,321 --> 00:54:39,441 Sporting events are good, 828 00:54:39,761 --> 00:54:41,521 or a change of government: 829 00:54:41,881 --> 00:54:45,881 when Ebert died, they tore the newspapers from our hands. 830 00:54:47,961 --> 00:54:49,881 Why are you making a face like that? 831 00:54:50,241 --> 00:54:52,761 Nothing's as bad as it seems. 832 00:54:53,481 --> 00:54:56,201 Just imagine, if something fell on your head, 833 00:54:56,921 --> 00:54:59,801 you wouldn't have to worry about anything. 834 00:55:01,601 --> 00:55:02,921 Well, there you are! 835 00:55:07,121 --> 00:55:10,201 "Attack on tenant protection laws. 836 00:55:10,361 --> 00:55:12,801 Zörgiebel pays the penalty: 837 00:55:13,241 --> 00:55:17,601 'There's no place for me in a party that betrays its principles.' 838 00:55:17,761 --> 00:55:21,961 English censorship on Amanullah. News clamp-down on India. 839 00:55:22,441 --> 00:55:25,001 Crisis in the Reichstag. 840 00:55:25,161 --> 00:55:27,401 Talk of March elections. 841 00:55:27,561 --> 00:55:29,761 Struggle in Central Germany continues. 842 00:55:29,921 --> 00:55:32,881 Arbitration committee to be formed." 843 00:55:33,041 --> 00:55:35,961 By the way, your friend Meck: 844 00:55:36,281 --> 00:55:38,601 he's selling clothes and so on... 845 00:55:38,761 --> 00:55:40,841 on Clemensstrasse. 846 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:42,961 He's doing a good trade. 847 00:55:45,601 --> 00:55:46,921 Read all about it! 848 00:55:48,081 --> 00:55:50,321 Deutsches Tageblatt... 849 00:56:14,881 --> 00:56:16,281 Well, I'll be! 850 00:56:17,041 --> 00:56:18,561 - Franz! - Meck! 851 00:56:21,961 --> 00:56:23,481 Franzeken! 852 00:56:23,641 --> 00:56:26,121 You... I could have sworn... 853 00:56:26,281 --> 00:56:28,761 ...that I was up to my old tricks again? 854 00:56:30,801 --> 00:56:31,961 No, way. 855 00:56:32,761 --> 00:56:34,641 That's over and done with. 856 00:56:38,681 --> 00:56:40,561 You've been looking after Lina? 857 00:56:40,721 --> 00:56:41,721 Yeah. 858 00:56:42,681 --> 00:56:45,561 She was all alone, felt lonely. 859 00:56:45,881 --> 00:56:47,161 Are you mad about it? 860 00:56:47,321 --> 00:56:49,401 Bullshit, on the contrary. It's better... 861 00:56:49,561 --> 00:56:52,241 than having her sit around sad and lonely, 862 00:56:52,401 --> 00:56:53,841 just because I've gone away. 863 00:56:54,001 --> 00:56:55,441 Where is she now? 864 00:56:55,961 --> 00:56:57,481 She just left one day. 865 00:56:58,081 --> 00:56:59,721 Yeah, that's how it is: 866 00:57:00,321 --> 00:57:03,561 people meet, get to know each other, 867 00:57:03,961 --> 00:57:06,001 then one day, it's all over. 868 00:57:06,201 --> 00:57:07,801 What are you selling here? 869 00:57:07,961 --> 00:57:10,161 Oh, garments: 870 00:57:10,321 --> 00:57:13,681 dresses, skirts, pants, windbreakers, that sort of thing. 871 00:57:13,841 --> 00:57:15,561 And where do you get the stuff? 872 00:57:16,321 --> 00:57:20,041 Only girls who want support for a kid ask where it came from. 873 00:57:21,361 --> 00:57:24,401 You'll do your deals until you're caught, 874 00:57:24,881 --> 00:57:27,801 and that'll be the end of it, I'm telling you. 875 00:57:28,681 --> 00:57:31,441 End of part 4 876 00:57:32,881 --> 00:57:37,441 Infamy! Carl von Ossietzky condemned.