1 00:01:08,641 --> 00:01:10,561 Together with major contributions... 2 00:01:10,721 --> 00:01:12,081 by many others, present: 3 00:01:16,481 --> 00:01:22,601 A film in 13 parts and an epilogue, based on the novel by Alfred Döblin. 4 00:01:26,881 --> 00:01:28,801 She wants to earn money, and rightly so. 5 00:01:28,961 --> 00:01:30,561 I earn my own money as well. 6 00:01:31,241 --> 00:01:33,801 And if she doesn't like you supporting her, 7 00:01:33,961 --> 00:01:36,241 which you can't properly, with your arm... 8 00:01:36,401 --> 00:01:39,121 She said that right away. She's a great girl. 9 00:01:39,281 --> 00:01:40,921 You can count on her, Franz. 10 00:01:41,081 --> 00:01:43,241 Franz, what's the matter? 11 00:01:47,601 --> 00:01:51,321 It's June now in Berlin, in spite of everything. 12 00:01:51,561 --> 00:01:53,801 The weather remains warm and rainy. 13 00:01:53,961 --> 00:01:56,201 There's a lot going on in the world. 14 00:01:57,161 --> 00:02:00,441 The airship "Italia", with Gen. Nobile on board, has crashed... 15 00:02:00,681 --> 00:02:03,841 and is radioing its position northeast of Spitzbergen, 16 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:06,081 where it's difficult to reach. 17 00:02:06,281 --> 00:02:09,121 Another aircraft had better luck. 18 00:02:09,281 --> 00:02:12,401 It flew non-stop from San Francisco to Australia... 19 00:02:12,561 --> 00:02:15,881 in 77 hours and made a perfect landing there. 20 00:02:16,241 --> 00:02:17,801 The King of Spain... 21 00:02:17,961 --> 00:02:20,081 is quarreling with dictator General Primo. 22 00:02:20,241 --> 00:02:21,521 Let's hope... 23 00:02:21,761 --> 00:02:23,721 the matter will sort itself out. 24 00:02:23,921 --> 00:02:27,081 Pleasantly touched - and at first sight, too: an engagement... 25 00:02:27,321 --> 00:02:28,881 between Baden and Sweden. 26 00:02:29,041 --> 00:02:31,281 A princess from the land of matches... 27 00:02:31,441 --> 00:02:33,721 is all aflame for a prince from Baden. 28 00:02:34,081 --> 00:02:37,241 When one considers how far apart Baden and Sweden are, 29 00:02:37,401 --> 00:02:41,281 it's amazing how a thing like that can happen. 30 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:44,921 Women are my weak point, 31 00:02:45,081 --> 00:02:46,841 a mortal weakness. 32 00:02:47,001 --> 00:02:49,281 When I kiss the first one, I think of the second... 33 00:02:49,441 --> 00:02:51,281 and steal a glance at the third. 34 00:02:51,441 --> 00:02:52,441 Yes, yes. Women... 35 00:02:52,641 --> 00:02:55,121 are a weakness of mine. But what can I do? 36 00:02:55,281 --> 00:02:56,881 I can't help it, and even if... 37 00:02:57,121 --> 00:02:58,441 I go broke with women, 38 00:02:58,601 --> 00:03:01,521 I'll write "sold out" on the door to my heart. 39 00:03:01,961 --> 00:03:04,241 And Charlie Amberg adds, 40 00:03:04,681 --> 00:03:07,881 "I'll tear out an eyelash and stab you with it dead. 41 00:03:08,401 --> 00:03:10,281 Then I'll take my lipstick... 42 00:03:11,201 --> 00:03:12,841 and paint you all red. 43 00:03:13,001 --> 00:03:17,041 And if you're still mean to me, I know what I'll do. 44 00:03:17,641 --> 00:03:21,641 I'll order fried eggs and throw spinach at you. 45 00:03:22,121 --> 00:03:24,321 You, you, you. 46 00:03:24,561 --> 00:03:29,081 I'll order fried eggs and throw spinach at you." 47 00:03:29,921 --> 00:03:33,001 On Monday, the electric street-car system starts running. 48 00:03:33,161 --> 00:03:35,161 The Imperial Railroad Board... 49 00:03:35,321 --> 00:03:37,081 warns of the dangers involved. 50 00:03:37,841 --> 00:03:40,561 "Attention! Caution! Don't board the car! Stand back! 51 00:03:41,561 --> 00:03:43,721 You are committing an offence..." 52 00:03:45,561 --> 00:03:48,441 Franz! Say something, Franz! 53 00:03:48,761 --> 00:03:50,121 Don't you feel well? 54 00:03:53,121 --> 00:03:56,521 No, no. I just felt a little queasy. 55 00:03:56,841 --> 00:03:58,161 You see! 56 00:03:58,321 --> 00:04:01,721 That's exactly what Mieze always says. 57 00:04:02,161 --> 00:04:04,961 You should take it easy, she said, 58 00:04:05,401 --> 00:04:09,601 because of all you've undergone, Franz. 59 00:04:11,721 --> 00:04:16,441 You didn't have an easy time out in Tegel either. 60 00:04:16,721 --> 00:04:21,321 She'd be ashamed to let you slave away for her. 61 00:04:21,881 --> 00:04:24,401 She'd rather go to work for you. 62 00:04:24,961 --> 00:04:27,761 She just didn't dare to tell you about it. 63 00:04:27,921 --> 00:04:29,281 Yeah, yeah. 64 00:04:30,561 --> 00:04:32,561 You have no idea... 65 00:04:33,841 --> 00:04:35,921 how much the girl's stuck on you. 66 00:04:36,841 --> 00:04:38,881 You don't want me. 67 00:04:39,801 --> 00:04:41,761 Or do you want me, Franz? 68 00:04:44,761 --> 00:04:47,361 No, Eva. You're a great chick, 69 00:04:48,081 --> 00:04:50,881 but you've got to stay with Herbert. He needs you. 70 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,161 He's a decent guy. 71 00:04:58,321 --> 00:05:00,401 Okay, now you must go and find Mieze. Come on. 72 00:05:01,401 --> 00:05:04,961 She won't come home if you don't want her anymore. 73 00:05:05,161 --> 00:05:07,201 Okay, okay. It's all right. 74 00:05:08,361 --> 00:05:09,721 It's all right. 75 00:05:11,321 --> 00:05:12,521 Okay, then. 76 00:05:14,881 --> 00:05:18,441 Corner of Jean-Paul and Mosesstrasse by the construction site. 77 00:05:19,401 --> 00:05:21,361 You can't miss it. 78 00:05:30,961 --> 00:05:34,481 Mosesstrasse, by the construction site. 79 00:05:35,361 --> 00:05:36,921 Very quietly, 80 00:05:37,481 --> 00:05:40,881 tenderly, Franz took his leave of Eva. 81 00:09:37,241 --> 00:09:38,881 It's okay. I'm all right, Franz. 82 00:09:48,041 --> 00:09:50,121 Don't cry, Mieze! 83 00:09:50,441 --> 00:09:52,721 Please don't cry. 84 00:10:10,401 --> 00:10:12,401 You know what I'm going to do, Mieze? 85 00:10:13,761 --> 00:10:16,241 Something I should have done long ago. 86 00:10:16,641 --> 00:10:20,041 Today I can do it. Today I'm strong enough. 87 00:10:21,081 --> 00:10:24,241 I'll be back home at eight. 88 00:10:30,841 --> 00:10:31,921 Franz. 89 00:10:45,361 --> 00:10:47,081 What's up, buddy? 90 00:10:49,441 --> 00:10:50,441 No stories today? 91 00:10:52,441 --> 00:10:53,561 What's the use? 92 00:10:53,721 --> 00:10:55,801 You don't listen to me anyway, 93 00:10:55,961 --> 00:10:58,041 let alone come into our establishment... 94 00:10:58,201 --> 00:11:00,921 and take advantage of our special offer. 95 00:11:01,521 --> 00:11:04,521 Just be a good guy and tell me your story again. 96 00:11:04,881 --> 00:11:06,161 Try it on me again. 97 00:11:09,001 --> 00:11:11,161 Okay. What do I care? 98 00:11:12,241 --> 00:11:14,441 By the waters sits the Great Babylon, 99 00:11:14,601 --> 00:11:16,521 mother of whoring and all abominations. 100 00:11:16,681 --> 00:11:20,041 See how she sits on the scarlet beast with her seven heads... 101 00:11:20,201 --> 00:11:21,881 and ten horns. You must see it. 102 00:11:22,041 --> 00:11:24,081 Every step you take is a joy to her. 103 00:11:24,241 --> 00:11:27,001 She's drunk with the blood of saints whom she tears apart. 104 00:11:27,161 --> 00:11:29,241 Behold the horns with which she butts. 105 00:11:29,401 --> 00:11:31,961 From the abyss she comes, and leads to damnation. 106 00:11:32,121 --> 00:11:35,321 Look at her: the pearls, 107 00:11:36,081 --> 00:11:37,561 the scarlet, 108 00:11:37,721 --> 00:11:40,921 the jewels, the teeth, the way she bares them, 109 00:11:41,081 --> 00:11:45,521 her thick, full lips. Blood has flowed over them. 110 00:11:45,761 --> 00:11:48,081 With them she has drunk. 111 00:11:48,281 --> 00:11:50,561 Whore of Babylon. 112 00:11:50,841 --> 00:11:54,641 Golden yellow poisonous eyes, bloated throat. 113 00:11:55,321 --> 00:11:57,681 See how she smiles at you. 114 00:11:59,081 --> 00:12:02,081 Well, are you satisfied now? 115 00:12:03,681 --> 00:12:05,681 It's a nice story, 116 00:12:06,241 --> 00:12:08,001 but I've got one as well. 117 00:12:09,481 --> 00:12:11,521 There's a fly... 118 00:12:13,281 --> 00:12:15,361 that is crawling... 119 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:17,681 and crawling, 120 00:12:18,521 --> 00:12:20,681 and it settles down in a flowerpot. 121 00:12:21,761 --> 00:12:24,081 The sand trickles off it, 122 00:12:25,041 --> 00:12:27,401 but it doesn't mind. 123 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:29,761 It simply shakes it off. 124 00:12:30,921 --> 00:12:33,881 Then it stretches its black head forward... 125 00:12:35,561 --> 00:12:37,601 and crawls out. 126 00:12:41,961 --> 00:12:46,001 You don't like my story, huh? 127 00:12:46,961 --> 00:12:49,961 No, your story's not so bad. 128 00:12:50,801 --> 00:12:52,961 Maybe you could elaborate on it a bit. 129 00:12:53,121 --> 00:12:55,921 That's something you can learn: how to tell stories. 130 00:12:56,321 --> 00:12:59,241 All right. I'll give it a try. 131 00:12:59,601 --> 00:13:03,561 Left, right, left, right, left, right... 132 00:13:03,721 --> 00:13:04,721 All the best! 133 00:13:04,761 --> 00:13:07,361 Just don't imagine you're tired, Franz. 134 00:13:07,921 --> 00:13:10,521 Keep going right past every bar. No boozing. 135 00:13:10,681 --> 00:13:12,441 We'll have to see about that. 136 00:13:12,601 --> 00:13:16,761 Left, right, left, right. "If a bullet comes flying..." 137 00:13:16,921 --> 00:13:19,841 Yeah, we'll have to see about that. 138 00:13:20,241 --> 00:13:22,721 Left, right, left, right. 139 00:13:22,961 --> 00:13:26,961 "When the soldiers come marching through the city side by side, 140 00:13:27,121 --> 00:13:30,641 All the girls throw their doors and casements open wide..." 141 00:13:30,921 --> 00:13:38,401 Part 9: About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few 142 00:13:56,761 --> 00:13:57,801 What... 143 00:13:59,121 --> 00:14:00,561 do you want of me? 144 00:14:03,441 --> 00:14:07,161 What do we have to say to each other? 145 00:14:08,321 --> 00:14:10,201 I'm not so sure myself, Reinhold, 146 00:14:10,361 --> 00:14:12,401 but I guess we'll find out soon. 147 00:14:13,481 --> 00:14:17,281 Some time ago, I lost my arm after it was run over. 148 00:14:18,841 --> 00:14:22,681 I used to be a decent guy. 149 00:14:23,641 --> 00:14:26,961 People would swear an oath to that. But now I'm a pimp. 150 00:14:27,681 --> 00:14:30,161 Maybe we could just discuss... 151 00:14:31,121 --> 00:14:33,041 who's to blame for that. 152 00:14:34,681 --> 00:14:36,281 And put your gun away. 153 00:14:36,441 --> 00:14:38,801 You've nothing to fear from me. 154 00:14:39,681 --> 00:14:41,641 How about letting me in? 155 00:14:43,761 --> 00:14:44,881 All right. 156 00:14:45,841 --> 00:14:48,601 If you really want to, 157 00:14:50,241 --> 00:14:51,321 come in. 158 00:15:05,801 --> 00:15:09,481 I told you to put your gun away. 159 00:15:10,281 --> 00:15:12,521 That would be sheer stupidity, Reinhold. 160 00:15:12,681 --> 00:15:14,921 You'll just make trouble for yourself. 161 00:15:34,321 --> 00:15:36,001 Take a seat, Franz. 162 00:15:47,281 --> 00:15:49,681 Once there were three kings... 163 00:15:50,121 --> 00:15:54,441 who came from the Orient, bearing incense, which they swung... 164 00:15:54,961 --> 00:15:56,281 to and fro. 165 00:15:56,441 --> 00:15:59,281 Why are you staring like that, Franz? 166 00:16:02,721 --> 00:16:03,721 Are you drunk? 167 00:16:05,921 --> 00:16:07,881 No, I'm not drunk, Reinhold. 168 00:16:08,681 --> 00:16:10,681 I just wanted to see you. 169 00:16:18,721 --> 00:16:20,641 What do you intend to do? 170 00:16:25,961 --> 00:16:27,441 Turn the thumbscrews? 171 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:31,401 Blackmail me because of what happened? 172 00:16:35,601 --> 00:16:36,841 All right. 173 00:16:39,561 --> 00:16:41,081 How much do you want? 174 00:16:41,921 --> 00:16:43,961 But you know we're prepared for that. 175 00:16:44,921 --> 00:16:47,641 And we know you're a pimp, too. 176 00:16:50,441 --> 00:16:52,281 Yes, I am a pimp. 177 00:16:57,721 --> 00:17:00,401 What should I do with one arm? 178 00:17:05,121 --> 00:17:08,161 Okay, what do you want? 179 00:17:12,001 --> 00:17:14,041 Nothing at all, Reinhold. 180 00:17:15,801 --> 00:17:17,121 Nothing at all. 181 00:17:36,001 --> 00:17:40,721 By the way, Cilly was here with me again. 182 00:17:41,521 --> 00:17:43,761 Just passing through. 183 00:17:44,721 --> 00:17:46,361 You know, 184 00:17:46,641 --> 00:17:50,001 when I haven't had a girl for a few months, 185 00:17:50,161 --> 00:17:51,961 I can have her again. 186 00:17:52,361 --> 00:17:56,161 A repeat performance is a strange thing, you know. 187 00:17:57,361 --> 00:17:58,481 Cheers. 188 00:18:13,601 --> 00:18:16,321 You've got two hands, Reinhold, 189 00:18:16,721 --> 00:18:19,801 and two arms. I've got only one. 190 00:18:21,641 --> 00:18:25,841 And with your two hands, you threw me out of the car, 191 00:18:26,801 --> 00:18:28,281 Reinhold. 192 00:18:29,801 --> 00:18:32,481 Why? That's life... 193 00:18:34,201 --> 00:18:37,081 I really ought to kill you, 194 00:18:38,361 --> 00:18:43,401 "...all for the sake of the cymbals and the drums." 195 00:18:44,601 --> 00:18:47,201 But that's just what the others think. 196 00:18:48,201 --> 00:18:51,001 I don't want that at all. It's just the others. 197 00:18:52,241 --> 00:18:54,761 That's not what I think at all. 198 00:18:56,961 --> 00:18:59,561 What do I think? 199 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,761 I don't know anything. 200 00:19:05,881 --> 00:19:07,841 I can't do anything. 201 00:19:11,081 --> 00:19:13,441 But I have to, I... 202 00:19:14,761 --> 00:19:16,961 wanted to do something, 203 00:19:17,961 --> 00:19:22,841 "...all for the sake of the cymbals and the drums." 204 00:19:24,241 --> 00:19:26,721 I'm not a man at all, 205 00:19:27,681 --> 00:19:29,601 I'm just chickenshit. 206 00:19:39,041 --> 00:19:40,401 Franz. 207 00:19:43,681 --> 00:19:46,361 Listen. Franz. 208 00:19:50,961 --> 00:19:52,361 I'm sorry. 209 00:19:53,401 --> 00:19:56,881 Sorry, I was somewhere else for a moment. 210 00:20:00,121 --> 00:20:01,721 Forget it. 211 00:20:02,481 --> 00:20:04,041 It doesn't matter. 212 00:20:06,601 --> 00:20:08,721 It's just that... 213 00:20:09,641 --> 00:20:12,481 I'd like to see... 214 00:20:15,401 --> 00:20:19,561 I'd like to see your injury. 215 00:20:43,561 --> 00:20:48,201 It looks rather nasty. 216 00:20:52,601 --> 00:20:54,481 It's a lot better now, you know. 217 00:20:54,761 --> 00:20:56,481 It used to be much worse. 218 00:21:25,361 --> 00:21:28,841 Do you always keep your sleeve in your pocket like that? 219 00:21:30,881 --> 00:21:34,721 Do you stick it in yourself, or is it sewn in? 220 00:21:35,041 --> 00:21:38,161 No, I stick it in like that every time. 221 00:21:42,081 --> 00:21:44,001 With your other hand? 222 00:21:44,361 --> 00:21:46,041 Sometimes this way, sometimes that. 223 00:21:46,481 --> 00:21:50,401 Look, when I've got the jacket on, it's not so easy. 224 00:21:52,401 --> 00:21:54,601 You must be careful... 225 00:21:54,841 --> 00:21:57,321 not to put anything in your right-hand pocket. 226 00:21:57,481 --> 00:22:00,921 It would be easy to pinch it. 227 00:22:01,081 --> 00:22:02,841 Not from me. 228 00:22:06,881 --> 00:22:08,681 Couldn't you buy an artificial arm? 229 00:22:08,841 --> 00:22:12,201 When a guy loses a leg, he puts on a false one. 230 00:22:12,561 --> 00:22:13,601 It'd look better? 231 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:17,081 No, Reinhold. It would just rub. 232 00:22:17,561 --> 00:22:19,401 Well, I'd buy one for myself, 233 00:22:22,401 --> 00:22:25,321 or maybe stuff out the sleeve. 234 00:22:31,201 --> 00:22:33,401 Come on. Let's try it. 235 00:22:33,561 --> 00:22:35,081 What for? 236 00:22:35,241 --> 00:22:38,361 Then you wouldn't run around with a floppy sleeve. 237 00:22:38,881 --> 00:22:40,841 You don't have to see it a mile away! 238 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:42,721 What use is it to me? 239 00:22:42,881 --> 00:22:46,921 Just watch: a few pairs of underpants, undershirts... 240 00:22:47,201 --> 00:22:48,721 You'll see. 241 00:22:48,881 --> 00:22:51,201 Reinhold, what use is it to me? 242 00:22:51,521 --> 00:22:55,041 It won't stay like that. It'll look like a sausage. 243 00:23:17,041 --> 00:23:18,121 No, 244 00:23:19,201 --> 00:23:21,281 that's not right. 245 00:23:21,441 --> 00:23:25,841 You must get a tailor to do it. 246 00:23:27,321 --> 00:23:31,881 It's better like that. You don't have to run around like a cripple. 247 00:23:34,241 --> 00:23:38,921 It'd look as if you had your hand in your pocket. 248 00:23:44,321 --> 00:23:46,681 I can't stand cripples. 249 00:23:48,321 --> 00:23:51,321 A cripple's no good for anything. 250 00:23:56,361 --> 00:23:58,921 When I see a cripple, I always say: 251 00:23:59,081 --> 00:24:01,641 it'd be better to do away with him altogether. 252 00:24:02,601 --> 00:24:04,961 That's more or less what I think, too. 253 00:24:05,121 --> 00:24:08,001 You know, you're right, Reinhold. 254 00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:12,401 A cripple can't do as he wants anymore. 255 00:24:13,001 --> 00:24:16,961 Maybe it'd really be better to do away with him altogether. 256 00:24:17,321 --> 00:24:18,681 That's what I'm saying. 257 00:24:18,841 --> 00:24:21,161 Yes, and you're right, too. 258 00:25:25,321 --> 00:25:29,961 Three lilies, three lilies... 259 00:25:30,361 --> 00:25:34,041 I planted on my grave. 260 00:26:08,161 --> 00:26:13,001 Three lilies, three lilies... 261 00:26:13,401 --> 00:26:16,681 I planted on my grave. 262 00:26:17,921 --> 00:26:22,761 Along he came, a horseman brave, 263 00:26:22,921 --> 00:26:26,801 and plucked them off again. 264 00:26:32,401 --> 00:26:37,241 Three lilies, three lilies... 265 00:26:37,601 --> 00:26:41,281 I planted on my grave. 266 00:26:43,321 --> 00:26:46,641 Along he came, a horseman brave, 267 00:26:46,801 --> 00:26:50,881 and plucked them off again. 268 00:28:47,321 --> 00:28:49,481 I'll tell you one thing, Mieze: 269 00:28:50,441 --> 00:28:52,401 you can do what you like, 270 00:28:53,641 --> 00:28:56,721 but I'll never let you go. 271 00:28:57,641 --> 00:28:58,921 Never! 272 00:29:01,841 --> 00:29:04,241 You don't have to say that, Franz. 273 00:29:08,881 --> 00:29:11,161 I'll never leave you. 274 00:29:16,081 --> 00:29:17,681 Never. 275 00:29:20,161 --> 00:29:21,721 See you this evening, then. 276 00:29:21,881 --> 00:29:23,201 Wait a minute! 277 00:29:23,361 --> 00:29:25,841 I was going out myself. I'll come with you. 278 00:29:27,641 --> 00:29:28,881 Mrs Bast! 279 00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:33,281 Yes, Miss Mieze? 280 00:29:33,641 --> 00:29:36,761 We're going now. Be so good as to close the window later. 281 00:29:37,001 --> 00:29:39,001 - About six or six thirty. Okay? - Sure. 282 00:29:39,161 --> 00:29:40,281 Thanks. 283 00:29:40,841 --> 00:29:42,441 - Bye, Mrs Bast! - Bye! 284 00:29:58,721 --> 00:30:00,001 Hello, Willy! 285 00:30:00,361 --> 00:30:01,921 You're lucky. I was just going out. 286 00:30:02,081 --> 00:30:03,281 Hello, Franz! 287 00:30:04,201 --> 00:30:06,841 Oh, I'm sorry... This is Mieze, 288 00:30:07,521 --> 00:30:08,841 my Mieze. 289 00:30:09,481 --> 00:30:10,801 And this is Willy. 290 00:30:11,041 --> 00:30:14,801 We got to know each other. We've been working together and so on. 291 00:30:15,681 --> 00:30:16,681 Hello. 292 00:30:16,721 --> 00:30:17,841 Hello. 293 00:30:18,761 --> 00:30:21,601 I must be going, Franz. 294 00:30:21,881 --> 00:30:23,681 - See you tonight, darling. - Bye. 295 00:30:28,921 --> 00:30:31,201 Well, what do you say now? Give me a hand. 296 00:30:32,761 --> 00:30:34,041 The chick looks okay. 297 00:30:34,201 --> 00:30:36,401 What do you mean "Okay"? She's an angel. 298 00:30:36,561 --> 00:30:38,081 An angel, I tell you. 299 00:30:38,241 --> 00:30:40,281 Didn't you see how innocent she looks, 300 00:30:40,441 --> 00:30:42,201 - and how sweet? - Sure I saw it. 301 00:30:42,361 --> 00:30:45,601 I was amazed that a working girl could look like that. 302 00:30:46,281 --> 00:30:49,281 She does that because she loves me. 303 00:30:55,801 --> 00:30:58,081 - Hi, Maxie! - Hi, Franz! 304 00:30:58,241 --> 00:30:59,921 Boy, the weather's great! 305 00:31:00,081 --> 00:31:02,241 A beer, double Kümmel, beer with a dash! 306 00:31:02,401 --> 00:31:03,961 Waldmeister or raspberry? 307 00:31:04,121 --> 00:31:06,321 - Waldmeister. - Okay, Waldmeister. 308 00:31:08,641 --> 00:31:09,641 Hello, birdy! 309 00:31:10,601 --> 00:31:13,041 Come on! You can bring the schnapps first. 310 00:31:17,241 --> 00:31:20,721 Franz, Franz, what have they done with you? 311 00:31:21,201 --> 00:31:22,641 What's the problem, Maxie? 312 00:31:22,801 --> 00:31:25,001 Do you want to hold a sermon every time? 313 00:31:25,321 --> 00:31:28,761 It's not a sermon, Franz, just the truth. 314 00:31:28,921 --> 00:31:32,681 Or am I wrong? Didn't you swear to go straight? 315 00:31:33,361 --> 00:31:37,121 "Come with me!" says the man to his son and sets out, 316 00:31:37,481 --> 00:31:40,241 and his son goes with him into the mountains. 317 00:31:40,841 --> 00:31:42,961 "How much further is it, Father?" 318 00:31:43,801 --> 00:31:46,441 "I don't know. Just follow me!" 319 00:31:47,281 --> 00:31:49,881 Uphill, downhill, through valleys they go. 320 00:31:50,121 --> 00:31:51,881 The path is long. 321 00:31:52,041 --> 00:31:53,121 It is midday. 322 00:31:53,961 --> 00:31:55,481 "Here we are. 323 00:31:55,721 --> 00:31:57,481 Look around you, my son. 324 00:31:58,001 --> 00:31:59,761 There stands an altar." 325 00:31:59,921 --> 00:32:01,721 "I'm afraid, Father." 326 00:32:02,121 --> 00:32:04,481 "Why are you afraid, my son?" 327 00:32:05,001 --> 00:32:08,521 "You woke me early, and we set out from home. 328 00:32:08,841 --> 00:32:11,561 We forgot the ram we were going to slaughter." 329 00:32:11,761 --> 00:32:15,001 "Yes, we forgot it." 330 00:32:15,521 --> 00:32:17,281 "I'm afraid, Father." 331 00:32:17,961 --> 00:32:19,761 "I, too, am afraid, my son. 332 00:32:20,081 --> 00:32:23,321 Come closer! Don't be afraid. 333 00:32:23,481 --> 00:32:25,201 We have to do it." 334 00:32:25,921 --> 00:32:28,041 "What do we have to do?" 335 00:32:29,761 --> 00:32:32,681 "Don't be afraid, my son. Do it gladly! 336 00:32:33,121 --> 00:32:35,041 Come closer to me. 337 00:32:35,401 --> 00:32:37,721 I have already removed my coat. 338 00:32:38,041 --> 00:32:40,681 Now I won't bloody my sleeves." 339 00:32:40,841 --> 00:32:43,321 "I'm afraid because you're holding the knife." 340 00:32:44,761 --> 00:32:46,641 "Yes, I am holding the knife. 341 00:32:46,801 --> 00:32:50,201 For I must slaughter you, sacrifice you. 342 00:32:51,441 --> 00:32:52,921 It is God's command. 343 00:32:53,841 --> 00:32:55,761 Submit gladly, my son!" 344 00:32:56,361 --> 00:32:58,721 "I don't want to be slaughtered." 345 00:32:59,361 --> 00:33:01,721 "Don't cry, my son. 346 00:33:01,961 --> 00:33:05,721 If you are not willing, I cannot do it. 347 00:33:06,121 --> 00:33:07,721 Submit gladly to it! 348 00:33:07,881 --> 00:33:09,801 What do you want at home? 349 00:33:10,161 --> 00:33:12,801 God is more than just a home." 350 00:33:14,121 --> 00:33:16,081 "I cannot. 351 00:33:16,321 --> 00:33:17,521 Yes, I can. 352 00:33:17,681 --> 00:33:19,441 No, I cannot." 353 00:33:19,641 --> 00:33:22,241 "Come closer! Look! 354 00:33:22,801 --> 00:33:25,201 I'm holding the knife ready. 355 00:33:25,401 --> 00:33:28,561 Look at it! It's very sharp. 356 00:33:28,721 --> 00:33:31,001 It's ready for your throat." 357 00:33:31,921 --> 00:33:34,201 "Is it to cut my throat?" 358 00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:35,881 "Yes." 359 00:33:36,201 --> 00:33:38,481 "Then the blood will gush out." 360 00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:41,961 "Yes. That is what the Lord commands. 361 00:33:42,441 --> 00:33:43,801 Do you want it?" 362 00:33:44,681 --> 00:33:47,161 "I cannot yet, Father." 363 00:33:49,921 --> 00:33:51,881 "I may not slay you. 364 00:33:52,041 --> 00:33:54,081 If I do it, 365 00:33:55,361 --> 00:33:59,561 it must be as if you did it yourself." 366 00:34:00,641 --> 00:34:02,081 "I, myself?" 367 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:06,721 "Yes, and you mustn't be afraid. 368 00:34:07,281 --> 00:34:09,681 You may not love life, 369 00:34:09,841 --> 00:34:10,841 your own life. 370 00:34:11,881 --> 00:34:14,121 You surrender it for the Lord. 371 00:34:15,201 --> 00:34:16,721 Come closer!" 372 00:34:17,841 --> 00:34:20,161 "The Lord, our God, wishes it?" 373 00:34:21,721 --> 00:34:24,201 "You would not be faint-hearted." 374 00:34:26,401 --> 00:34:28,481 "Put the knife to my throat. 375 00:34:28,841 --> 00:34:31,481 Wait! Let me turn back my collar, 376 00:34:31,641 --> 00:34:33,921 so that my neck is completely free." 377 00:34:35,041 --> 00:34:38,921 "You just have to want it, and so must I. 378 00:34:39,361 --> 00:34:41,561 We shall do it together. 379 00:34:41,801 --> 00:34:43,801 Then the Lord will call. 380 00:34:44,161 --> 00:34:46,041 We shall hear Him call: 381 00:34:46,201 --> 00:34:47,521 Stop it!" 382 00:34:48,641 --> 00:34:49,641 "Yes." 383 00:34:49,961 --> 00:34:51,961 "Come here! Give me your neck!" 384 00:34:53,721 --> 00:34:57,201 "Here! I am not afraid. I do it gladly. 385 00:34:58,081 --> 00:35:00,521 Cleave me apart! I shall not cry out." 386 00:35:00,761 --> 00:35:02,761 And the son leans his head back. 387 00:35:02,921 --> 00:35:04,961 His father moves behind him, 388 00:35:05,121 --> 00:35:08,881 holds his son by the brow, wields the knife in his right hand. 389 00:35:09,041 --> 00:35:10,721 His son wishes it. 390 00:35:10,881 --> 00:35:14,121 The Lord calls out, and both fall prostrate. 391 00:35:15,081 --> 00:35:17,641 What does the voice of the Lord call out? 392 00:35:17,801 --> 00:35:19,241 "Hallelujah! 393 00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:22,401 You are obedient to me. 394 00:35:22,721 --> 00:35:24,081 Hallelujah! 395 00:35:24,321 --> 00:35:27,081 "You shall live! Hallelujah! 396 00:35:27,841 --> 00:35:29,041 Let it be! 397 00:35:29,201 --> 00:35:31,481 Throw the knife into the abyss! 398 00:35:31,641 --> 00:35:33,921 Hallelujah! I am the Lord, whom you obey, 399 00:35:34,081 --> 00:35:37,681 whom alone you must always obey. Hallelujah!" 400 00:35:38,081 --> 00:35:40,201 You used to lead a foul life. 401 00:35:40,361 --> 00:35:41,881 You fell into bad ways. 402 00:35:42,041 --> 00:35:43,721 Then you killed Ida, 403 00:35:43,881 --> 00:35:45,601 and served time for it. 404 00:35:45,841 --> 00:35:47,041 And now? 405 00:35:51,321 --> 00:35:52,321 You see, 406 00:35:52,481 --> 00:35:54,041 you don't even have an answer. 407 00:35:54,201 --> 00:35:56,121 You're back where you were again. 408 00:35:56,281 --> 00:35:58,881 Ida is now Mieze, you've lost an arm, 409 00:35:59,041 --> 00:36:02,521 and you've started drinking again, just as bad as before. 410 00:36:02,681 --> 00:36:06,001 And that means the same thing all over again, 411 00:36:06,161 --> 00:36:08,881 only worse. And then it'll all be over, Franz. 412 00:36:09,281 --> 00:36:11,801 Baloney! Is it my fault? 413 00:36:12,361 --> 00:36:14,881 Was I so keen on becoming a pimp? 414 00:36:15,041 --> 00:36:16,321 Cut the crap! 415 00:36:16,481 --> 00:36:19,361 I did what I could, everything humanly possible. 416 00:36:19,521 --> 00:36:22,241 You saw that, didn't you? 417 00:36:22,481 --> 00:36:25,401 I even lost an arm. Just let somebody say something! 418 00:36:25,561 --> 00:36:27,281 I'm fed up with it. 419 00:36:27,441 --> 00:36:29,481 Didn't I give it my best shot? 420 00:36:29,641 --> 00:36:32,441 Didn't I run around morning, noon and night? 421 00:36:32,761 --> 00:36:35,281 Suddenly I got the message. 422 00:36:36,681 --> 00:36:40,241 Okay, so you're right. What do I care? 423 00:36:41,201 --> 00:36:43,401 So I'm not a decent guy. 424 00:36:43,561 --> 00:36:47,081 I'm a pimp, but I'm not ashamed of it. 425 00:36:48,681 --> 00:36:51,401 And anyway, what are you? 426 00:36:51,921 --> 00:36:53,361 What do you live on? 427 00:36:53,521 --> 00:36:56,041 You live on other people, too, don't you? 428 00:36:56,201 --> 00:36:58,201 Have I ever bled anyone dry? 429 00:36:58,441 --> 00:37:01,481 You know me, Franz. You know me pretty well. 430 00:37:01,641 --> 00:37:05,481 You know I wouldn't talk like this if I didn't like you. 431 00:37:05,761 --> 00:37:07,081 You know that very well. 432 00:37:07,401 --> 00:37:09,401 Yeah, maybe. 433 00:37:15,241 --> 00:37:16,801 It's true, Franz. 434 00:37:16,961 --> 00:37:19,961 One thing I can tell you: you'll end up in jail again, 435 00:37:20,121 --> 00:37:21,961 or with a knife in your gut. 436 00:37:22,121 --> 00:37:24,961 Sure, so I get a knife in my gut. That's okay. 437 00:37:25,121 --> 00:37:26,881 But mark my words, Maxie, 438 00:37:27,041 --> 00:37:29,921 not before the other guy's had a taste of mine. 439 00:37:35,801 --> 00:37:39,161 That's the one thing I don't understand, Franz, 440 00:37:39,601 --> 00:37:42,001 that you keep on doing this to yourself. 441 00:37:42,161 --> 00:37:45,081 The same old story. 442 00:37:45,561 --> 00:37:47,681 Well, I've always come here. 443 00:37:48,281 --> 00:37:49,561 You see. 444 00:37:50,481 --> 00:37:52,961 That's what I mean, you always come here. 445 00:37:53,921 --> 00:37:55,761 It's important not to stick... 446 00:37:55,921 --> 00:37:58,161 with the same old things. Don't you understand? 447 00:37:58,561 --> 00:37:59,681 Okay. That may be true. 448 00:37:59,841 --> 00:38:01,801 But this is my hangout. 449 00:38:01,961 --> 00:38:04,521 It doesn't have to be forever, though. 450 00:38:04,961 --> 00:38:05,961 Yes, but... 451 00:38:06,241 --> 00:38:08,681 No "buts", Franz. 452 00:38:11,401 --> 00:38:13,841 But... I know what: 453 00:38:14,881 --> 00:38:16,521 there's a meeting today, 454 00:38:18,321 --> 00:38:20,281 in about half an hour. 455 00:38:20,761 --> 00:38:24,041 They're talking about these things. We'll go along. 456 00:38:24,481 --> 00:38:26,641 A meeting? In the middle of the afternoon? 457 00:38:26,801 --> 00:38:27,881 Yes. Why not? 458 00:38:28,121 --> 00:38:30,201 With all the unemployed around, 459 00:38:30,841 --> 00:38:33,361 they can hold their meetings in the afternoon. 460 00:38:33,521 --> 00:38:34,681 And the few guys... 461 00:38:35,641 --> 00:38:37,881 who still have jobs, but who want to attend, 462 00:38:38,041 --> 00:38:39,841 will just have to be sick today. 463 00:38:40,641 --> 00:38:42,361 Okay. What do I care? 464 00:38:42,921 --> 00:38:44,641 The German Reich is a republic, 465 00:38:44,801 --> 00:38:46,881 and anyone who doesn't believe it... 466 00:38:47,041 --> 00:38:49,041 will get a bullet in the neck. 467 00:38:49,201 --> 00:38:53,761 All the Reichstag is good for is taking the people for a ride, 468 00:38:53,921 --> 00:38:57,361 and the parties know that best of all. 469 00:38:58,001 --> 00:39:00,721 Just look at the Socialists: 470 00:39:00,881 --> 00:39:02,201 they don't want anything, 471 00:39:02,361 --> 00:39:04,961 they know nothing and are not capable of anything. 472 00:39:05,361 --> 00:39:08,481 They've got the most seats in the Reichstag, 473 00:39:08,641 --> 00:39:12,281 but they don't know what to do with them. 474 00:39:15,441 --> 00:39:18,281 All they do is sit around in club chairs, 475 00:39:18,441 --> 00:39:22,281 smoking cigars and waiting to be made ministers. 476 00:39:33,761 --> 00:39:37,801 That's what the workers gave their votes for... 477 00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:39,481 and their money, too: 478 00:39:39,641 --> 00:39:43,961 so that 50 or 100 men can get fat at their expense. 479 00:39:44,681 --> 00:39:49,401 The Socialists don't seize political power, 480 00:39:50,161 --> 00:39:54,761 political power has seized the Socialists. 481 00:39:59,201 --> 00:40:02,361 That's why we won't touch another ballot. 482 00:40:02,521 --> 00:40:05,361 We won't vote anymore, because on a Sunday like that... 483 00:40:05,521 --> 00:40:09,001 it's healthier to take a spin in the country. And why? 484 00:40:09,641 --> 00:40:13,521 Because the voters are tied down by legalities, 485 00:40:14,161 --> 00:40:17,921 and legalities mean coercion, 486 00:40:18,601 --> 00:40:21,641 the brute force of the ruling classes. 487 00:40:28,641 --> 00:40:30,681 No one is meant to notice... 488 00:40:31,041 --> 00:40:34,601 what the state really is, 489 00:40:35,161 --> 00:40:38,521 not even to see the cracks and crevices... 490 00:40:38,681 --> 00:40:41,561 through which one could peep, 491 00:40:41,761 --> 00:40:44,681 because then even the greatest fool would realize... 492 00:40:45,201 --> 00:40:47,361 that he's just another gullible voter, 493 00:40:47,601 --> 00:40:48,921 one of the common herd. 494 00:40:53,081 --> 00:40:55,121 What an infinite distance... 495 00:40:55,481 --> 00:40:58,641 there is between him and the state, 496 00:40:59,801 --> 00:41:03,281 of which he's meant to believe he's a part. 497 00:41:05,761 --> 00:41:09,841 The bourgeoisie and the Socialists... 498 00:41:10,401 --> 00:41:13,961 and the Communists are happy... 499 00:41:14,841 --> 00:41:16,801 and shout in chorus: 500 00:41:17,801 --> 00:41:20,681 "All blessings come from above, 501 00:41:21,121 --> 00:41:25,281 from the state, from law, from the authorities. 502 00:41:25,681 --> 00:41:29,281 Freedom is anchored in the constitution." 503 00:41:30,921 --> 00:41:34,881 It's quite true that freedom's anchored there, 504 00:41:35,441 --> 00:41:38,521 anchored so firmly it's stuck fast. 505 00:41:39,041 --> 00:41:42,041 You'll soon come to realize, ladies and gentlemen, 506 00:41:42,281 --> 00:41:45,121 just how firmly that freedom is stuck. 507 00:41:49,321 --> 00:41:51,041 But elections are held... 508 00:41:51,281 --> 00:41:52,921 and more elections, and every time... 509 00:41:53,161 --> 00:41:55,321 they say things will certainly get better, 510 00:41:55,761 --> 00:41:57,441 most certainly. 511 00:41:57,641 --> 00:42:00,681 But I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, 512 00:42:00,841 --> 00:42:03,561 just how much better everything will get. 513 00:42:03,721 --> 00:42:07,921 For example, soon the right to strike will be taken from us. 514 00:42:08,081 --> 00:42:12,401 But we have the guillotine of the arbitration councils, 515 00:42:12,561 --> 00:42:16,921 under which we are free to move. 516 00:42:21,721 --> 00:42:24,201 No, ladies and gentlemen, 517 00:42:24,361 --> 00:42:28,441 I tell you, it's all a cycle... 518 00:42:28,601 --> 00:42:33,521 of endless blindness, and nothing will change. 519 00:42:34,361 --> 00:42:37,721 The parliamentary system prolongs... 520 00:42:37,881 --> 00:42:41,041 the misery of the working classes. 521 00:42:46,481 --> 00:42:48,841 Egyptian slaves... 522 00:42:49,721 --> 00:42:52,521 worked without machines for decades... 523 00:42:52,801 --> 00:42:55,441 on a pharaoh's tomb. 524 00:42:56,881 --> 00:42:59,201 European workers... 525 00:42:59,361 --> 00:43:01,641 labor for decades with machines... 526 00:43:01,881 --> 00:43:04,241 to heap up some private fortune. 527 00:43:05,441 --> 00:43:06,681 Progress? 528 00:43:07,081 --> 00:43:09,721 Maybe. But for whom? 529 00:43:10,241 --> 00:43:12,361 Soon I'll be working, 530 00:43:12,521 --> 00:43:15,001 to help Krupp in Essen or Borsig... 531 00:43:15,161 --> 00:43:17,521 earn a thousand marks more a month. 532 00:43:17,961 --> 00:43:21,801 What choice do you have but to work if you want to live? 533 00:43:21,961 --> 00:43:24,841 Just a minute! Stand still a moment! 534 00:43:25,521 --> 00:43:27,921 Tell me, please, what the difference is... 535 00:43:28,081 --> 00:43:30,721 between you and someone from the Social Democrats. 536 00:43:31,961 --> 00:43:35,601 Do you ask that in all seriousness? 537 00:43:35,761 --> 00:43:37,241 Sure I do. 538 00:43:37,401 --> 00:43:40,281 Look, you stand at your lathe... 539 00:43:40,441 --> 00:43:43,121 and take your two bits home with you, 540 00:43:43,281 --> 00:43:45,441 while your corporation... 541 00:43:45,601 --> 00:43:48,681 distributes dividends earned from your work. 542 00:43:50,241 --> 00:43:54,001 European workers slave away with machines... 543 00:43:54,161 --> 00:43:57,121 for decades, heaping up some private fortune. 544 00:43:57,281 --> 00:43:59,641 - Is that true or not? - Yes, okay. 545 00:43:59,841 --> 00:44:01,361 And what do you do? 546 00:44:01,601 --> 00:44:03,121 Come on, Franz, 547 00:44:04,081 --> 00:44:05,761 you tell him. 548 00:44:06,481 --> 00:44:07,721 What the hell! 549 00:44:07,881 --> 00:44:10,401 I'm not interested in political discussions. 550 00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:13,641 This isn't a political discussion. 551 00:44:13,921 --> 00:44:16,001 We're just talking about ourselves. 552 00:44:17,441 --> 00:44:20,361 Out with it. What kind of job do you have? 553 00:44:40,641 --> 00:44:43,521 There is a reaper whose name is Death. 554 00:44:44,761 --> 00:44:47,521 I must weep and wail on the mountains... 555 00:44:47,681 --> 00:44:50,521 and lament in the desert among the herds, 556 00:44:50,881 --> 00:44:54,481 for they are so ravaged that no one ventures there. 557 00:44:54,681 --> 00:44:56,361 Both the birds... 558 00:44:56,681 --> 00:45:00,321 of the heavens and the beasts, all are gone. 559 00:45:00,561 --> 00:45:03,561 Come on! Tell us what work you do. 560 00:45:03,761 --> 00:45:05,841 I get around. 561 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:08,241 I do this and that. 562 00:45:08,561 --> 00:45:10,521 I don't actually work. 563 00:45:11,521 --> 00:45:14,161 I let others work for me. 564 00:45:15,081 --> 00:45:18,401 So you're an entrepreneur with employees. 565 00:45:19,441 --> 00:45:20,841 How many do you have? 566 00:45:21,921 --> 00:45:24,801 And what are you doing here anyway if you're a capitalist? 567 00:45:26,001 --> 00:45:30,121 I want to reduce Jerusalem to rubble and the abode of jackals, 568 00:45:30,321 --> 00:45:32,921 and lay waste the cities of Judah, 569 00:45:33,081 --> 00:45:34,841 so that no one can dwell in them. 570 00:45:40,761 --> 00:45:41,841 That's... 571 00:45:42,361 --> 00:45:43,361 just an excuse. 572 00:45:43,881 --> 00:45:45,001 What do you mean? 573 00:45:46,521 --> 00:45:49,161 Haven't you noticed I've got only one arm? 574 00:45:49,681 --> 00:45:52,441 That's the price I paid for working. 575 00:45:52,601 --> 00:45:56,081 And that's why I don't want to hear anything about honest work. 576 00:45:57,641 --> 00:46:00,081 I still don't understand, buddy, 577 00:46:00,721 --> 00:46:02,721 why you don't work. 578 00:46:04,401 --> 00:46:07,681 If you don't have an honest job, 579 00:46:09,041 --> 00:46:11,161 you must have a dishonest one. 580 00:46:11,681 --> 00:46:14,601 There you are! He's caught on at last. 581 00:46:14,761 --> 00:46:16,441 Come over here, Willy! 582 00:46:17,561 --> 00:46:21,001 That's it, dishonest work. 583 00:46:22,161 --> 00:46:26,801 Your honest work is slavery. You said so yourself just now. 584 00:46:27,801 --> 00:46:31,281 That's what honest work is, and I learned my lesson. 585 00:46:32,521 --> 00:46:34,841 Okay, so you don't work. 586 00:46:36,441 --> 00:46:38,241 But you don't seem to be on welfare either. 587 00:46:38,401 --> 00:46:40,521 No. I'm not on welfare either. 588 00:46:41,041 --> 00:46:42,921 Then I'd just like to ask, 589 00:46:43,601 --> 00:46:46,761 though it's none of my business, 590 00:46:47,081 --> 00:46:49,121 what you're doing here? 591 00:46:51,601 --> 00:46:54,561 I was waiting for that question. 592 00:46:55,761 --> 00:46:59,321 You were talking just now about damned wage slavery, 593 00:47:02,161 --> 00:47:04,721 and saying that we are all outcasts... 594 00:47:04,881 --> 00:47:06,881 with no room to move. 595 00:47:07,041 --> 00:47:10,961 Yes, but you weren't listening properly. 596 00:47:11,921 --> 00:47:15,441 I was talking about refusing to work, 597 00:47:17,041 --> 00:47:19,761 but to do that you've got to have a job first. 598 00:47:22,721 --> 00:47:24,361 And that's what I refuse to do. 599 00:47:24,521 --> 00:47:26,321 That doesn't help us. 600 00:47:27,481 --> 00:47:30,121 You might just as well go to bed. 601 00:47:33,921 --> 00:47:36,441 I was talking about a strike, 602 00:47:37,481 --> 00:47:39,441 a mass strike, 603 00:47:40,561 --> 00:47:42,361 a general strike. 604 00:47:44,441 --> 00:47:48,161 And that's what you call direct action? 605 00:47:48,321 --> 00:47:50,921 It's just talk. Talk and more talk, 606 00:47:51,641 --> 00:47:54,921 yet you go to work and make the capitalists stronger. 607 00:47:55,081 --> 00:47:57,121 - You idiot! - Hey! 608 00:47:57,601 --> 00:47:59,721 You make shells for them, 609 00:47:59,881 --> 00:48:02,201 which they later use to shoot you dead. 610 00:48:02,481 --> 00:48:04,481 And you want to teach me something! 611 00:48:04,681 --> 00:48:06,441 Did you hear that, Willy? 612 00:48:06,601 --> 00:48:08,201 Boy, it bowls you over! 613 00:48:08,361 --> 00:48:12,041 I ask you again what work you do. 614 00:48:12,321 --> 00:48:15,201 And I tell you again: nothing! 615 00:48:15,761 --> 00:48:17,721 Not a lick! 616 00:48:18,801 --> 00:48:20,321 You can all kiss my ass, 617 00:48:20,841 --> 00:48:24,761 because I shouldn't do any work, 618 00:48:24,921 --> 00:48:26,881 according to your theory. 619 00:48:27,041 --> 00:48:29,841 I'm not boosting any capitalists. 620 00:48:30,201 --> 00:48:33,601 And I don't give a damn about your bitching and strikes... 621 00:48:33,761 --> 00:48:38,001 and what you keep going on about, what's supposed to happen some day. 622 00:48:38,721 --> 00:48:40,401 I don't give a damn! 623 00:48:40,801 --> 00:48:44,841 You've got to stand on your own two feet. What I need I do myself. 624 00:48:46,961 --> 00:48:49,241 I'm self-sufficient. 625 00:48:49,401 --> 00:48:51,521 Just try to go it alone! 626 00:48:51,681 --> 00:48:53,921 Alone, you can't do anything. 627 00:48:54,721 --> 00:48:57,161 - We need militant organizations. - What? 628 00:48:57,321 --> 00:48:58,681 We have to set up... 629 00:48:58,841 --> 00:49:01,801 militant organizations. Do you understand? 630 00:49:01,961 --> 00:49:06,201 That's what we have to establish, militant organizations. 631 00:49:10,641 --> 00:49:14,281 I'd like to know what's going on in your head. 632 00:49:14,961 --> 00:49:17,281 I'd really like to know that. 633 00:49:17,441 --> 00:49:20,201 On the one hand, you preach and say... 634 00:49:20,361 --> 00:49:22,521 you're against every system, 635 00:49:23,081 --> 00:49:25,041 against any kind of order... 636 00:49:25,561 --> 00:49:27,841 and all organizations. 637 00:49:28,321 --> 00:49:30,361 On the other hand, 638 00:49:31,521 --> 00:49:36,081 you want to set up militant organizations. 639 00:49:37,601 --> 00:49:41,161 Don't you see there's something wrong in your head? 640 00:49:42,161 --> 00:49:43,921 Can't you see that? 641 00:49:44,081 --> 00:49:46,121 Words are wasted on you. 642 00:49:46,641 --> 00:49:50,361 You can't think straight. You've got a mental block. 643 00:49:51,321 --> 00:49:55,121 You don't know what's important for the proletariat: 644 00:49:55,321 --> 00:49:57,241 solidarity. 645 00:49:57,481 --> 00:49:58,961 That's something you don't know. 646 00:50:21,601 --> 00:50:24,041 Hello! Anybody there? 647 00:50:25,761 --> 00:50:28,121 My God, don't scare me like that! 648 00:50:28,281 --> 00:50:29,681 It's not good for my heart. 649 00:50:29,841 --> 00:50:30,961 I see. 650 00:50:32,401 --> 00:50:33,721 Goes to your heart, does it? 651 00:50:33,881 --> 00:50:35,761 That, too. 652 00:50:36,361 --> 00:50:37,721 Herbert's here. 653 00:50:38,081 --> 00:50:39,441 I see. 654 00:50:39,601 --> 00:50:41,721 May I introduce my friend Willy? 655 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:43,681 This is my sweetest friend, Eva. 656 00:50:43,841 --> 00:50:45,201 Hello. 657 00:50:45,361 --> 00:50:46,561 Hello. 658 00:50:47,321 --> 00:50:48,561 Come on in. 659 00:50:48,721 --> 00:50:50,641 The company expresses its thanks... 660 00:50:50,801 --> 00:50:53,121 and is open to further cooperation. 661 00:50:55,841 --> 00:50:57,601 Who is it, honey? 662 00:50:58,881 --> 00:51:02,961 It sounds like that awful guy Franz Biberkopf. 663 00:51:03,121 --> 00:51:05,121 You heard correctly, General. 664 00:51:05,281 --> 00:51:08,081 Your ears are still the best functioning organ... 665 00:51:08,241 --> 00:51:09,241 you possess. 666 00:51:09,401 --> 00:51:13,361 As an expert, I have to refute that emphatically! 667 00:51:17,601 --> 00:51:19,281 You know best, Madam. 668 00:51:19,441 --> 00:51:22,641 Everyone's entitled to an opinion. 669 00:51:22,801 --> 00:51:24,561 Am I right, or am I right? Hi, Herbert! 670 00:51:24,721 --> 00:51:27,121 Hi, Franz. Haven't seen you in a long time. 671 00:51:27,281 --> 00:51:28,801 Well, if you don't keep in touch... 672 00:51:28,961 --> 00:51:30,561 I was in Breslau for a few days. 673 00:51:30,721 --> 00:51:31,921 I'm too polite to ask... 674 00:51:32,081 --> 00:51:34,321 what business takes a guy to the provinces. 675 00:51:34,481 --> 00:51:35,801 Let's have a drink. 676 00:51:35,961 --> 00:51:38,881 What brings you to this God-forsaken part of town... 677 00:51:39,041 --> 00:51:40,401 in the middle of the day? 678 00:51:40,561 --> 00:51:43,321 There was some meeting just around the corner. 679 00:51:43,481 --> 00:51:44,081 Cheers. 680 00:51:44,241 --> 00:51:46,801 Politics these days. 681 00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:50,001 With the present mess, nobody knows what's up. 682 00:51:50,161 --> 00:51:51,441 Exactly that, Madam. 683 00:51:51,601 --> 00:51:53,041 "Madam", ha! 684 00:51:54,121 --> 00:51:56,521 That's why you have to keep up to date. 685 00:51:56,881 --> 00:51:59,321 Willy may be young, 686 00:51:59,481 --> 00:52:02,721 but he's got opinions and ideas... 687 00:52:02,881 --> 00:52:04,801 we'd never have thought of at his age. 688 00:52:04,961 --> 00:52:07,721 It's true. Young people are much further today. 689 00:52:07,881 --> 00:52:10,041 They take a greater interest in things. 690 00:52:10,201 --> 00:52:11,521 - They think more. - Sure. 691 00:52:11,681 --> 00:52:13,241 They've got more time. 692 00:52:13,401 --> 00:52:16,441 Of course they've got more time, they're unemployed. 693 00:52:16,921 --> 00:52:18,601 We have to use our time somehow, 694 00:52:18,761 --> 00:52:21,881 and thinking is one of the very few things in the world... 695 00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:23,641 that doesn't cost anything. 696 00:52:23,801 --> 00:52:25,281 And have you learned anything? 697 00:52:25,481 --> 00:52:26,761 I have learned something. 698 00:52:26,921 --> 00:52:29,561 I've learned that the existing social order... 699 00:52:29,721 --> 00:52:33,401 is based on the economic, political and social enslavement... 700 00:52:33,561 --> 00:52:35,561 of the working people. 701 00:52:35,721 --> 00:52:39,481 It is expressed in property rights, the monopoly of ownership... 702 00:52:39,641 --> 00:52:42,961 and in the state, the monopoly of power. 703 00:52:43,121 --> 00:52:46,121 Production today is based... 704 00:52:46,281 --> 00:52:52,001 not on satisfying natural human needs, 705 00:52:52,241 --> 00:52:55,041 but on the prospect of making a profit. 706 00:52:55,201 --> 00:52:57,161 All technological progress... 707 00:52:57,321 --> 00:53:01,601 increases the wealth of the propertied classes immeasurably, 708 00:53:01,841 --> 00:53:04,001 in shameless contrast... 709 00:53:04,161 --> 00:53:07,881 to the misery of broad sections of the population. 710 00:53:08,521 --> 00:53:09,521 Cheers. 711 00:53:11,161 --> 00:53:12,761 Did you learn that by heart? 712 00:53:12,921 --> 00:53:13,961 Be honest. 713 00:53:14,121 --> 00:53:15,841 You didn't learn that rubbish by heart? 714 00:53:16,361 --> 00:53:17,641 Yes, I did. 715 00:53:18,641 --> 00:53:20,401 Even so, 716 00:53:20,561 --> 00:53:22,521 the idea's quite simple, really: 717 00:53:22,721 --> 00:53:24,961 namely, that the state, 718 00:53:25,121 --> 00:53:27,321 and that means the police, 719 00:53:27,761 --> 00:53:31,121 does more to help and protect the rights of people... 720 00:53:31,281 --> 00:53:33,881 who already possess a lot anyway. 721 00:53:34,401 --> 00:53:37,841 And the others, those who do the work, 722 00:53:39,521 --> 00:53:42,161 don't even think of, 723 00:53:44,321 --> 00:53:46,041 I don't know, 724 00:53:47,001 --> 00:53:48,481 taking action... 725 00:53:49,241 --> 00:53:50,841 against it all, 726 00:53:51,001 --> 00:53:52,201 or, 727 00:53:53,881 --> 00:53:55,441 or... 728 00:53:55,601 --> 00:53:58,601 demanding their rights... 729 00:53:58,801 --> 00:53:59,881 or whatever. 730 00:54:00,641 --> 00:54:01,681 Cheers. 731 00:54:04,241 --> 00:54:08,001 What you're saying is that there's no order anymore. 732 00:54:08,161 --> 00:54:09,201 That's right. 733 00:54:09,641 --> 00:54:11,401 What hogwash! 734 00:54:12,361 --> 00:54:16,321 It's not possible. What would become of the world without order? 735 00:54:21,001 --> 00:54:22,601 In my opinion, 736 00:54:22,921 --> 00:54:24,681 it has to be like that. 737 00:54:25,441 --> 00:54:27,201 There have to be people... 738 00:54:28,481 --> 00:54:32,441 who make sure you can cross the street in peace. 739 00:54:32,601 --> 00:54:36,641 Bravo! You've learned what you're supposed to think. 740 00:54:37,081 --> 00:54:39,001 But don't kid yourself. 741 00:54:39,161 --> 00:54:42,121 Most people are made fools of, 742 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:44,241 because... 743 00:54:45,561 --> 00:54:49,161 it's somehow not natural... 744 00:54:49,881 --> 00:54:51,601 for there to be limits. 745 00:54:52,561 --> 00:54:58,081 The earth, or whatever, belongs in the first instance to man, 746 00:54:58,401 --> 00:55:00,241 the forests and everything. 747 00:55:00,401 --> 00:55:04,081 Any limitations are artificial. That's why you've learned... 748 00:55:04,401 --> 00:55:07,041 that there has to be some kind of order... 749 00:55:07,201 --> 00:55:08,761 and people to enforce it. 750 00:55:08,921 --> 00:55:11,281 It's perfectly clear, because... 751 00:55:12,401 --> 00:55:14,321 the world, 752 00:55:15,641 --> 00:55:17,081 you see, 753 00:55:18,961 --> 00:55:21,241 everything somehow, 754 00:55:21,721 --> 00:55:25,641 the trees, the animals, and everything that grows, 755 00:55:26,321 --> 00:55:30,441 all that can function only for those... 756 00:55:30,601 --> 00:55:34,041 who want to profit from it... 757 00:55:35,481 --> 00:55:38,921 when it's somehow all divided up, 758 00:55:39,081 --> 00:55:40,801 when somehow... 759 00:55:41,361 --> 00:55:44,121 it's all apportioned. 760 00:55:44,321 --> 00:55:46,801 Then they've got everything better under control, 761 00:55:46,961 --> 00:55:48,881 including the people. 762 00:55:49,041 --> 00:55:52,001 Then they're somehow... 763 00:55:52,161 --> 00:55:56,841 How should I put it? They're more useful, 764 00:55:57,321 --> 00:56:00,961 more useful for those who rule. 765 00:56:02,241 --> 00:56:05,001 Well, I really must be going now. I'm meeting Mieze. 766 00:56:05,161 --> 00:56:08,001 Ask her to be at the Mocca Fix at seven, would you? 767 00:56:08,161 --> 00:56:11,481 - I will. - Willy, let's have another one. 768 00:56:11,641 --> 00:56:13,201 I think it's strange. 769 00:56:13,361 --> 00:56:14,921 What do you think is strange? 770 00:56:15,121 --> 00:56:18,321 That it's possible to talk and think for and against... 771 00:56:18,841 --> 00:56:21,001 the same thing at the same time. 772 00:56:21,161 --> 00:56:22,201 It's really strange. 773 00:56:22,361 --> 00:56:26,201 Yes, well... that's life. 774 00:56:27,241 --> 00:56:31,441 End of part 9