1 00:01:08,641 --> 00:01:10,481 Together with major contributions... 2 00:01:10,641 --> 00:01:12,001 by many others, present: 3 00:01:16,481 --> 00:01:22,601 A film in 13 parts with an epilogue, based on the novel by Alfred Döblin. 4 00:01:27,121 --> 00:01:30,961 Dearest little nightingale, 5 00:01:31,401 --> 00:01:35,641 Summer greets from hill and dale... 6 00:01:45,481 --> 00:01:47,201 Her face is destroyed, 7 00:01:47,361 --> 00:01:50,281 her teeth are destroyed, her eyes are destroyed, 8 00:01:50,441 --> 00:01:53,161 her mouth, lips, tongue, and throat, 9 00:01:53,321 --> 00:01:55,641 her body, her legs, her womb. 10 00:01:56,721 --> 00:02:00,161 I am yours. You should comfort me. 11 00:02:00,681 --> 00:02:02,041 I'm not feeling well. 12 00:02:02,441 --> 00:02:05,441 Come on. We're nearly home. 13 00:02:06,281 --> 00:02:07,921 I am yours. 14 00:02:46,401 --> 00:02:49,801 The trees sway, the wind begins to blow. 15 00:02:54,641 --> 00:02:56,241 The night goes on. 16 00:02:57,361 --> 00:03:00,641 Her body destroyed, her eyes, her tongue, her mouth... 17 00:03:00,841 --> 00:03:03,601 Come on. We're nearly home. 18 00:03:04,001 --> 00:03:05,241 I am yours. 19 00:04:16,921 --> 00:04:19,201 A tree groans, standing by the wayside. 20 00:04:24,561 --> 00:04:26,161 It is the storm. 21 00:04:26,361 --> 00:04:28,761 It comes with drums and fifes. 22 00:04:28,921 --> 00:04:31,121 Now it's up above the forest. 23 00:04:31,881 --> 00:04:35,041 Now it descends. When it howls, it's down below. 24 00:05:01,961 --> 00:05:06,361 Part 13: The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret 25 00:05:07,921 --> 00:05:10,241 The whimpering comes from the bushes. 26 00:05:10,961 --> 00:05:13,441 It's as if something were being scratched. 27 00:05:13,601 --> 00:05:17,481 It howls like a caged dog. It whines and whimpers. 28 00:05:17,841 --> 00:05:19,681 Listen how it whimpers! 29 00:05:20,161 --> 00:05:23,681 Someone must have kicked it with his heel. 30 00:05:24,641 --> 00:05:27,001 Now it's stopping again. 31 00:05:34,321 --> 00:05:35,561 Eva? 32 00:05:35,721 --> 00:05:38,801 Why are you sitting here all alone, Franz? 33 00:05:41,601 --> 00:05:44,041 Mieze has walked out on me. 34 00:05:44,241 --> 00:05:46,721 You could have called me or dropped by. 35 00:05:46,881 --> 00:05:50,641 If Mrs Bast hadn't called me, I wouldn't have known anything. 36 00:05:54,561 --> 00:05:56,521 I'm so ashamed, Eva. 37 00:05:57,041 --> 00:06:00,241 Don't worry, Franz. Mieze will be back. She's fond of you. 38 00:06:00,401 --> 00:06:02,401 She won't leave you. 39 00:06:02,561 --> 00:06:04,601 I'm a good judge of people. 40 00:06:05,161 --> 00:06:06,641 I know. 41 00:06:07,441 --> 00:06:09,161 I know all that. 42 00:06:10,041 --> 00:06:12,001 Do you think I'm worried? 43 00:06:14,761 --> 00:06:16,961 I know very well she'll come back. 44 00:06:17,121 --> 00:06:18,241 There you are. 45 00:06:18,441 --> 00:06:20,161 The girl's got a reason. 46 00:06:20,321 --> 00:06:23,881 Maybe she ran into an old friend, or went for a spin. 47 00:06:24,121 --> 00:06:27,921 I've known her much longer than you have. 48 00:06:28,081 --> 00:06:31,441 She does things like that, gets some bee in her bonnet. 49 00:06:32,161 --> 00:06:33,201 Maybe. 50 00:06:34,281 --> 00:06:36,281 But it's still strange. 51 00:06:36,801 --> 00:06:38,081 I don't know. 52 00:06:39,201 --> 00:06:41,161 She loves you, Franz. 53 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:50,241 Franz. 54 00:06:51,481 --> 00:06:52,721 Look. 55 00:06:54,481 --> 00:06:56,481 Look at my tummy. 56 00:06:57,761 --> 00:06:59,521 Don't you want to feel it? 57 00:07:02,881 --> 00:07:04,161 How come? 58 00:07:05,241 --> 00:07:06,081 What's up? 59 00:07:06,241 --> 00:07:10,121 It's from you, Franz. You know, something small. 60 00:07:10,361 --> 00:07:12,961 That's what Mieze wanted. 61 00:07:14,241 --> 00:07:15,361 That's right. 62 00:07:16,201 --> 00:07:17,761 Mieze... 63 00:07:18,281 --> 00:07:19,961 wanted it. 64 00:07:20,521 --> 00:07:22,041 My God, Eva. 65 00:07:23,041 --> 00:07:24,441 Eva! 66 00:07:25,041 --> 00:07:27,481 Eva, it's not possible! 67 00:07:27,641 --> 00:07:29,801 Just wait, Franz, till she comes back: 68 00:07:29,961 --> 00:07:33,481 boy, will she make a face! You can't imagine it. 69 00:07:39,561 --> 00:07:41,721 You see: now you're all upset. 70 00:07:41,881 --> 00:07:43,721 Why are you so upset? 71 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:48,881 It's driving me crazy. 72 00:07:50,001 --> 00:07:52,241 I just don't understand the girl. 73 00:07:52,401 --> 00:07:54,441 So now I have to comfort you. 74 00:07:56,241 --> 00:07:58,761 No, no. It's just my nerves. 75 00:07:59,081 --> 00:08:01,241 Maybe it's because of the baby. 76 00:08:01,401 --> 00:08:03,521 Hey. Just stop crying, Eva! 77 00:08:03,681 --> 00:08:06,761 When Mieze comes back, she'll make such a fuss about it. 78 00:08:06,921 --> 00:08:10,081 Franz, what should we do? 79 00:08:10,841 --> 00:08:13,441 It's not like her at all. 80 00:08:13,961 --> 00:08:15,961 First you say it's nothing: 81 00:08:16,121 --> 00:08:18,361 she's gone for a spin with someone. 82 00:08:18,521 --> 00:08:20,801 Then you say it's not like her! 83 00:08:20,961 --> 00:08:23,561 I just don't know either! 84 00:08:27,801 --> 00:08:29,441 Can I... again? 85 00:08:29,881 --> 00:08:31,041 What? 86 00:08:31,841 --> 00:08:33,561 Listen to the baby. 87 00:08:33,721 --> 00:08:35,321 Come on, then. 88 00:08:35,881 --> 00:08:37,881 Although you can't hear anything yet. 89 00:08:38,041 --> 00:08:39,081 Yes, I can hear it. 90 00:08:39,241 --> 00:08:42,961 The storm returns. 91 00:08:43,121 --> 00:08:46,921 It is night. The forest is quiet, one tree next to another, 92 00:08:47,081 --> 00:08:48,921 grown tall together in peace. 93 00:08:49,081 --> 00:08:51,161 Now they stand together like a herd. 94 00:08:51,321 --> 00:08:55,041 When they stand so close, the storm can't reach them so easily. 95 00:08:55,201 --> 00:08:58,001 Only the weak and outer ones succumb. 96 00:08:58,161 --> 00:09:01,321 I'm not giving up the child. I'm keeping it, 97 00:09:01,481 --> 00:09:04,241 even if Herbert throws a fit. 98 00:09:05,041 --> 00:09:07,801 Why? Has Herbert said anything? 99 00:09:07,961 --> 00:09:10,121 No. He thinks it's his. 100 00:09:10,281 --> 00:09:12,041 But I'm keeping it. 101 00:09:26,441 --> 00:09:28,001 And I'll be the godfather. 102 00:09:28,201 --> 00:09:30,401 You're in a good mood, Franz. 103 00:09:30,561 --> 00:09:32,121 Quite simply because... 104 00:09:32,321 --> 00:09:34,001 nobody gets to me so easily. 105 00:09:34,161 --> 00:09:36,361 Cheer up, Eva! 106 00:09:36,561 --> 00:09:38,601 I know my Mieze after all. 107 00:09:38,761 --> 00:09:41,601 She won't run under a bus. It'll all work out. 108 00:09:41,761 --> 00:09:44,201 I guess you're right. Bye. 109 00:09:44,681 --> 00:09:46,321 Hey. What's up? 110 00:09:46,481 --> 00:09:48,001 No kiss today? 111 00:09:49,601 --> 00:09:51,081 You're so cheerful, Franz. 112 00:09:51,241 --> 00:09:54,641 We have legs, we have teeth, we have eyes, we have arms: 113 00:09:54,801 --> 00:09:57,681 just let someone come and try to bite us or bite Franz! 114 00:09:57,841 --> 00:09:59,441 Just let someone come! 115 00:09:59,601 --> 00:10:02,641 He's got two arms, two legs, he's got muscles. 116 00:10:02,801 --> 00:10:04,641 He'll beat everything to a pulp. 117 00:10:04,801 --> 00:10:07,921 Just let someone get to know Franz! He's no pushover. 118 00:10:08,201 --> 00:10:11,441 What we've been through, what we still have to go through, 119 00:10:11,601 --> 00:10:13,201 just let someone emulate that! 120 00:10:13,361 --> 00:10:16,601 We'll drink to it, two drinks, nine drinks. 121 00:10:16,761 --> 00:10:19,441 We have no legs, we have no teeth, 122 00:10:19,641 --> 00:10:22,281 we have no eyes, we have no arms. 123 00:10:22,961 --> 00:10:25,961 Anyone can come along and bite Franz. 124 00:10:26,321 --> 00:10:29,361 He's a pushover. He can't defend himself. 125 00:10:30,401 --> 00:10:32,601 All he can do is drink. 126 00:10:38,201 --> 00:10:41,561 All the wind does is puff out its chest. 127 00:10:41,721 --> 00:10:43,921 Just watch: it takes a breath, 128 00:10:44,081 --> 00:10:47,201 then blows it out: whooh, whooah, whoo-whooh. 129 00:10:47,721 --> 00:10:50,001 Then it inhales and exhales again. 130 00:10:53,481 --> 00:10:56,721 Each breath is as strong as a mountain. 131 00:10:56,881 --> 00:10:59,321 Blowing out. 132 00:10:59,481 --> 00:11:02,361 The mountain is rolled up and rolled out again. 133 00:11:02,521 --> 00:11:03,841 The wind exhales... 134 00:11:07,121 --> 00:11:09,241 backward and forward. 135 00:11:25,561 --> 00:11:27,881 Mieze's been gone three weeks now, 136 00:11:28,641 --> 00:11:30,401 but there's nothing I can do. 137 00:11:31,081 --> 00:11:33,561 I just can't tell anyone. 138 00:11:34,001 --> 00:11:37,241 Eva knows, Meck knows, and Mrs Bast knows. 139 00:11:38,041 --> 00:11:40,281 But I just can't tell anyone. 140 00:11:41,161 --> 00:11:43,001 What else should I do? 141 00:11:43,761 --> 00:11:45,041 Inform the cops? 142 00:11:45,761 --> 00:11:47,801 They'd just laugh at me. 143 00:11:50,561 --> 00:11:52,721 It is night. The sun has gone down. 144 00:11:52,881 --> 00:11:55,121 It starts again. There it is. 145 00:11:55,281 --> 00:11:58,121 Now it's down below, up above, and all around, 146 00:11:58,281 --> 00:12:00,881 an amber light in the sky, and night again. 147 00:12:01,041 --> 00:12:02,881 Amber light, night. 148 00:12:03,041 --> 00:12:05,521 The whimpering and whistling grow stronger. 149 00:12:10,241 --> 00:12:11,881 Those at the edge... 150 00:12:12,041 --> 00:12:14,241 know what they're in for. 151 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:15,401 They whimper. 152 00:12:15,801 --> 00:12:17,361 The grasses... 153 00:12:17,841 --> 00:12:21,521 can bend, can wave, 154 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:23,841 but what can the thick trees do? 155 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:26,481 Suddenly, the wind stops blowing. 156 00:12:26,641 --> 00:12:28,281 It has given up, 157 00:12:28,441 --> 00:12:30,241 stopped doing it. 158 00:12:30,761 --> 00:12:32,841 Still they whine before it. 159 00:12:33,001 --> 00:12:34,681 What will it do now? 160 00:12:40,401 --> 00:12:42,481 Go ahead! Hide yourself, Mieze! 161 00:12:43,041 --> 00:12:44,601 I'll find you. 162 00:12:47,041 --> 00:12:49,281 You can't hide yourself that well. 163 00:13:07,601 --> 00:13:11,481 Some day I'll be able to row as well as I could when I had both arms. 164 00:13:12,161 --> 00:13:13,961 I'll do it just for you, Mieze, 165 00:13:14,121 --> 00:13:17,161 because you deserve a whole man, not just half, 166 00:13:18,361 --> 00:13:20,801 and because I want you to be proud of me, 167 00:13:21,041 --> 00:13:23,001 and because I love you. 168 00:13:38,121 --> 00:13:41,001 No need to keep me in suspense any longer. 169 00:13:42,841 --> 00:13:44,361 You can come now. 170 00:13:49,081 --> 00:13:51,201 Or would you rather I came? 171 00:13:54,761 --> 00:13:55,841 No? 172 00:14:02,401 --> 00:14:03,681 My God, 173 00:14:06,681 --> 00:14:08,481 then you should come. 174 00:14:13,881 --> 00:14:16,361 Breath is a weight, a sphere... 175 00:14:16,521 --> 00:14:18,961 that pushes and drives against the forest. 176 00:14:19,121 --> 00:14:22,641 And when the forest stands on the hills like a herd of animals, 177 00:14:22,801 --> 00:14:25,641 the wind runs around the herd and roars through it. 178 00:14:28,081 --> 00:14:29,081 Hello. 179 00:14:29,161 --> 00:14:31,121 Breath is a weight, 180 00:14:31,441 --> 00:14:32,561 a sphere... 181 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:35,601 that thrusts and drives against the forest. 182 00:14:37,481 --> 00:14:40,481 When the forest stands on the hills like a herd of animals, 183 00:14:40,641 --> 00:14:43,881 the wind runs around the herd and roars through it. 184 00:14:44,441 --> 00:14:46,201 Haven't seen each other in ages. 185 00:14:46,361 --> 00:14:47,681 That's right. 186 00:14:49,121 --> 00:14:50,721 Come on in. 187 00:14:57,801 --> 00:14:59,521 I've been away. 188 00:15:00,401 --> 00:15:02,721 I met a girl with a lot of loot. 189 00:15:02,881 --> 00:15:04,281 She invited me. 190 00:15:05,121 --> 00:15:07,761 Well, you could've sent a postcard. 191 00:15:09,041 --> 00:15:11,241 I'm not so great at writing cards. 192 00:15:11,801 --> 00:15:13,481 And anyway, I always forget. 193 00:15:13,641 --> 00:15:17,601 Usually I can't think of anyone I should write to. 194 00:15:18,841 --> 00:15:21,001 Okay. It was just a joke. 195 00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:25,281 There's a dispute going on in there with Pums about... 196 00:15:26,001 --> 00:15:27,521 all sorts of things. 197 00:15:28,321 --> 00:15:31,241 You'll vote for us, won't you? 198 00:15:32,641 --> 00:15:34,281 Sure, if you say so. 199 00:15:35,121 --> 00:15:37,281 You've given it more thought than I have. 200 00:15:37,441 --> 00:15:40,561 Yeah, it's better if you vote for us, 201 00:15:40,721 --> 00:15:41,881 definitely better. 202 00:15:42,721 --> 00:15:46,481 If you want to knock down a house, you can't do it with your bare hands. 203 00:15:46,641 --> 00:15:50,121 You have to use a battering ram or bury dynamite beneath it. 204 00:15:51,241 --> 00:15:52,241 hello. 205 00:15:53,961 --> 00:15:54,961 hello. 206 00:15:55,001 --> 00:15:57,401 You don't have the faintest idea about it. 207 00:15:57,561 --> 00:15:59,681 The important thing first of all... 208 00:15:59,841 --> 00:16:01,521 is to study the market, 209 00:16:01,681 --> 00:16:04,281 to find buyers, and to understand... 210 00:16:04,441 --> 00:16:06,121 that when clothing doesn't sell, 211 00:16:06,281 --> 00:16:08,761 you have to switch to furs or something else. 212 00:16:08,921 --> 00:16:10,761 What is there to study? 213 00:16:10,921 --> 00:16:13,721 That's right. It can't be so hard to figure that out. 214 00:16:13,881 --> 00:16:16,961 If clothing doesn't go, you have to switch to something else. 215 00:16:17,121 --> 00:16:18,161 Really, 216 00:16:18,761 --> 00:16:20,641 it can't be that difficult. 217 00:16:21,401 --> 00:16:22,561 All right, 218 00:16:22,721 --> 00:16:25,281 I know what you think. 219 00:16:25,481 --> 00:16:28,401 You think everything can be done in no time at all. 220 00:16:28,561 --> 00:16:30,961 The problem, however, is to understand... 221 00:16:31,121 --> 00:16:33,201 that the economy's in a bad way, 222 00:16:33,481 --> 00:16:36,201 and to decide the right time to change. 223 00:16:36,521 --> 00:16:39,121 The fact that such decisions are the crucial thing... 224 00:16:39,281 --> 00:16:41,841 is something you don't grasp - none of you. 225 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,361 - Not one of you. - That's right. 226 00:16:43,641 --> 00:16:46,481 And who takes care of the competition? 227 00:16:46,641 --> 00:16:49,641 Basically you don't have to worry about the competition. 228 00:16:49,801 --> 00:16:51,841 Really you don't. 229 00:16:52,001 --> 00:16:54,201 Sure there are competitors... 230 00:16:54,361 --> 00:16:57,401 in this trade as in any other. 231 00:16:57,561 --> 00:16:59,681 But what do we care about them? 232 00:16:59,841 --> 00:17:02,921 They're no problem for us at all. 233 00:17:03,081 --> 00:17:06,961 Okay. So the competition is no problem. If you say so. 234 00:17:07,201 --> 00:17:10,681 The problem is keeping up to date, though, 235 00:17:10,921 --> 00:17:12,641 and having the latest equipment... 236 00:17:12,801 --> 00:17:15,681 and knowing what opportunities exist. 237 00:17:15,841 --> 00:17:18,881 That's what counts, and someone has to take care of that. 238 00:17:19,041 --> 00:17:22,321 That's right. Someone who knows the ropes. 239 00:17:22,481 --> 00:17:26,761 And one thing I can tell you guys: without Pums you're finished. 240 00:17:26,921 --> 00:17:29,641 He does all that for you. He reads the newspapers... 241 00:17:29,801 --> 00:17:32,921 and takes care of all the shit you know nothing about. 242 00:17:33,201 --> 00:17:35,881 If you don't want to use the latest methods... 243 00:17:36,041 --> 00:17:39,601 and take advantage of the opportunities the outfit offers, 244 00:17:39,761 --> 00:17:41,241 you understand, 245 00:17:41,481 --> 00:17:44,721 then sure, you don't need to work in a team of six or eight. 246 00:17:44,881 --> 00:17:48,681 Then it'd be more logical for everyone to pinch his own stuff... 247 00:17:48,841 --> 00:17:50,081 and try his own luck. 248 00:17:50,241 --> 00:17:51,401 Exactly! 249 00:17:53,041 --> 00:17:56,241 You've put it in a nutshell, Pums. 250 00:17:57,281 --> 00:18:01,001 Under these circumstances, it makes more sense... 251 00:18:01,161 --> 00:18:03,201 for everyone to work on his own, 252 00:18:03,361 --> 00:18:05,961 instead of all for one. 253 00:18:07,641 --> 00:18:08,961 Do you understand? 254 00:18:10,521 --> 00:18:12,161 What Reinhold says is true. 255 00:18:12,321 --> 00:18:14,441 Why should we all work for one guy? 256 00:18:15,041 --> 00:18:17,121 On the other hand, in my opinion, 257 00:18:17,601 --> 00:18:19,761 a genuine collaboration... 258 00:18:20,161 --> 00:18:23,561 would be the finest thing of all. 259 00:18:23,721 --> 00:18:26,321 We're all in favor of working together, 260 00:18:26,481 --> 00:18:28,121 otherwise we wouldn't be here. 261 00:18:28,281 --> 00:18:32,241 But why work in an outfit, where one guy has more rights, 262 00:18:32,401 --> 00:18:35,321 and the others have no way of controlling things? 263 00:18:35,801 --> 00:18:38,521 That's the least one should have: 264 00:18:38,761 --> 00:18:41,161 a little trust in such a group. 265 00:18:41,321 --> 00:18:43,521 That's an absolute must. 266 00:18:43,961 --> 00:18:46,801 Of course, if you don't trust me, okay... 267 00:18:46,961 --> 00:18:48,401 Just a minute. 268 00:18:48,721 --> 00:18:52,401 If cooperation between people is based on a system... 269 00:18:52,561 --> 00:18:55,201 in which everyone has to trust one guy, 270 00:18:55,361 --> 00:18:58,321 then a lot of people are dependent on that guy... 271 00:18:58,801 --> 00:18:59,801 and at his mercy. 272 00:18:59,961 --> 00:19:01,841 That's baloney! 273 00:19:02,481 --> 00:19:06,441 We all know that just stealing things won't fill our bellies. 274 00:19:06,601 --> 00:19:09,081 You swipe the stuff, and you've got the goods. 275 00:19:09,241 --> 00:19:10,641 But turn them into cash! 276 00:19:10,801 --> 00:19:14,081 Then you need connections, and Pums has them, 277 00:19:14,241 --> 00:19:16,041 unlike the rest of us. 278 00:19:16,201 --> 00:19:18,041 Absolutely right! 279 00:19:18,361 --> 00:19:21,321 All the robbery in the world is nothing nowadays. 280 00:19:21,481 --> 00:19:25,241 It takes more than crowbars and blowtorches. 281 00:19:26,201 --> 00:19:28,281 You need to be a businessman today. 282 00:19:28,441 --> 00:19:29,481 Right. 283 00:19:29,801 --> 00:19:32,081 You need to be a businessman today. 284 00:19:33,001 --> 00:19:37,321 That's why you're a silent partner in so many small businesses. 285 00:19:38,081 --> 00:19:41,041 In fur stores, for instance, 286 00:19:41,721 --> 00:19:43,401 and many others. 287 00:19:44,761 --> 00:19:46,721 And that's the reason... 288 00:19:46,881 --> 00:19:49,321 why we always have to steal goods... 289 00:19:49,481 --> 00:19:52,521 and never go for money, right? 290 00:19:53,001 --> 00:19:57,721 Because Pums can trade the goods with his own shops. 291 00:19:58,121 --> 00:19:59,401 Right? 292 00:19:59,561 --> 00:20:01,441 That's sheer baloney. 293 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,841 Goods are simply not as dangerous as money. 294 00:20:05,801 --> 00:20:08,801 Do you think you'd still be running around free... 295 00:20:08,961 --> 00:20:11,441 if you'd gone for money instead of goods? 296 00:20:12,201 --> 00:20:13,881 Do you really believe that? 297 00:20:14,121 --> 00:20:16,561 The whole concept is wrong. 298 00:20:16,721 --> 00:20:19,281 Goods have to be altered before being sold. 299 00:20:19,441 --> 00:20:21,441 They go through 5 or 6 pairs of hands. 300 00:20:21,601 --> 00:20:24,761 That's more dangerous than straight money. 301 00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:26,801 That's right. 302 00:20:27,121 --> 00:20:32,361 And why do you think Pums is the only one among us... 303 00:20:32,641 --> 00:20:36,481 to have feathered his nest for the winter? 304 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:40,081 I don't know what you want, 305 00:20:40,321 --> 00:20:42,961 but if you think I'm cheating you... 306 00:20:43,281 --> 00:20:46,841 Okay, if you want, one of you can always be around... 307 00:20:47,201 --> 00:20:48,681 to check up on me. 308 00:20:49,721 --> 00:20:52,441 We don't want to be in an outfit, 309 00:20:52,601 --> 00:20:55,521 where one guy has to check on another. 310 00:20:56,161 --> 00:20:58,881 We want equal rights. 311 00:20:59,321 --> 00:21:01,841 Fine, but with equal obligations. 312 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:03,521 And shared responsibility. 313 00:21:03,681 --> 00:21:05,801 Yes, that's it: responsibility. 314 00:21:05,961 --> 00:21:09,361 You want equal rights, and maybe equal obligations, 315 00:21:09,521 --> 00:21:11,441 but never equal responsibility. 316 00:21:11,601 --> 00:21:13,081 You're afraid of that. 317 00:21:13,241 --> 00:21:14,521 If you say so. 318 00:21:14,681 --> 00:21:18,561 I, for my part, have a plan. 319 00:21:20,601 --> 00:21:22,121 So you've got a plan. 320 00:21:22,281 --> 00:21:23,841 What kind of plan? 321 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:25,881 What kind of plan could he have? 322 00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:28,201 Come on, Rudi! Out with it! 323 00:21:28,361 --> 00:21:30,921 Out with this plan of yours! 324 00:21:31,361 --> 00:21:32,681 Go on. 325 00:21:32,921 --> 00:21:36,201 Tell them about it. 326 00:21:36,481 --> 00:21:40,641 Well, there's this bandage factory on Stralauer Strasse... 327 00:21:40,801 --> 00:21:43,601 in a backyard, with a safe in a private office, 328 00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:45,761 with a very big sum of money in it. 329 00:21:45,921 --> 00:21:49,241 Since the building's in a backyard, there's no danger at all. 330 00:21:49,401 --> 00:21:52,961 What's more, the safe's pretty ancient. 331 00:21:53,161 --> 00:21:55,841 And there's money in it, cash. 332 00:21:56,721 --> 00:21:58,361 Not tomatoes or pants... 333 00:21:58,521 --> 00:22:01,121 or some ridiculous fur coats. 334 00:22:01,321 --> 00:22:03,001 That's the important thing: 335 00:22:03,161 --> 00:22:05,641 money for once, not goods. 336 00:22:05,801 --> 00:22:08,961 With money, it's impossible to cheat. 337 00:22:09,121 --> 00:22:12,321 You can split up money six ways, five ways, or nine. 338 00:22:12,481 --> 00:22:15,761 Money can be divided up precisely. 339 00:22:15,921 --> 00:22:18,001 Well, all I can say is: I'm against it. 340 00:22:18,161 --> 00:22:20,441 Yes, and I think the whole idea is idiotic. 341 00:22:21,201 --> 00:22:24,281 How do you know if Rudi has figured everything out right? 342 00:22:24,921 --> 00:22:27,361 I mean really calculated everything. 343 00:22:28,041 --> 00:22:29,681 How do you know? 344 00:22:29,841 --> 00:22:32,681 We know because we helped him do it. 345 00:22:33,521 --> 00:22:35,521 But I think the matter's very simple. 346 00:22:35,681 --> 00:22:37,681 If you're against it, 347 00:22:37,841 --> 00:22:39,921 let's take a vote, huh? 348 00:22:40,281 --> 00:22:41,641 Take a vote? 349 00:22:43,081 --> 00:22:46,201 I haven't heard such baloney in a long time. 350 00:22:46,361 --> 00:22:50,161 But okay, for all I care. Let's take a vote. 351 00:22:50,321 --> 00:22:52,641 Why should we? 352 00:22:52,801 --> 00:22:55,481 Give them their chance. 353 00:22:55,641 --> 00:22:57,841 Very well, gentlemen, all those in favor... 354 00:22:58,001 --> 00:23:01,321 of doing this job Rudi has thought up, raise their hands. 355 00:23:03,961 --> 00:23:05,841 Well, I reckon... 356 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:10,801 with Franz's vote we're in the majority, aren't we? 357 00:23:11,201 --> 00:23:14,361 Now it goes... 358 00:23:14,881 --> 00:23:17,961 without drums and without fifes. 359 00:23:18,321 --> 00:23:21,561 The trees sway to right and left. 360 00:23:23,721 --> 00:23:25,841 But they can't keep in time. 361 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:27,721 When the trees sway to the left, 362 00:23:27,881 --> 00:23:30,961 It goes over to the left-hand side. 363 00:23:31,361 --> 00:23:34,361 They snap, clap, flap, 364 00:23:34,521 --> 00:23:37,321 crack, burst, pelt down. 365 00:23:43,841 --> 00:23:45,201 Let me try. 366 00:23:45,641 --> 00:23:47,761 You need to know what you're doing. 367 00:23:48,281 --> 00:23:50,361 I still want to try. 368 00:23:50,641 --> 00:23:52,441 And I say, it's no use. 369 00:23:53,241 --> 00:23:55,481 It's really no use. 370 00:23:55,761 --> 00:23:57,441 You have to know how it works. 371 00:24:09,521 --> 00:24:10,881 You have to stop! 372 00:24:11,041 --> 00:24:13,081 The guard will be back any minute now. 373 00:24:13,241 --> 00:24:15,081 Come on! Let's get out of here! 374 00:24:15,961 --> 00:24:17,641 You're such a damned idiot! 375 00:24:17,801 --> 00:24:19,361 I've never seen such an idiot. 376 00:24:19,521 --> 00:24:21,761 That was our only chance, 377 00:24:21,921 --> 00:24:24,481 and you've ruined everything. 378 00:24:24,681 --> 00:24:28,081 You've handed him all the trump cards, every single one! 379 00:24:28,241 --> 00:24:31,441 You've screwed up everything, you fool! 380 00:24:31,601 --> 00:24:32,601 Idiot! 381 00:24:32,681 --> 00:24:34,441 Goes the storm. 382 00:24:34,601 --> 00:24:37,921 You must go left... 383 00:24:38,481 --> 00:24:40,961 Go back! It's all over. It's past. 384 00:24:41,361 --> 00:24:43,801 You have to wait for the right moment. 385 00:24:44,241 --> 00:24:46,481 Here it comes again. 386 00:24:46,681 --> 00:24:47,801 Watch out! 387 00:24:50,561 --> 00:24:52,121 Those are bombs. 388 00:24:52,281 --> 00:24:54,121 It wants to tear down the forest. 389 00:24:54,441 --> 00:24:56,441 It wants to crush the entire forest. 390 00:25:05,241 --> 00:25:06,361 You idiot! 391 00:25:36,401 --> 00:25:38,881 As I've always said, 392 00:25:39,041 --> 00:25:40,881 goods are better. 393 00:25:41,121 --> 00:25:44,161 For everything else, you have to be a specialist, Meck. 394 00:25:44,321 --> 00:25:45,841 You idiot! 395 00:25:46,281 --> 00:25:49,001 You know very well that could happen to anybody. 396 00:25:49,201 --> 00:25:52,841 Maybe, but it didn't have to happen today. 397 00:25:53,321 --> 00:25:56,401 Today or tomorrow, goods are better. 398 00:25:56,921 --> 00:25:59,441 The trees roar and sway. 399 00:25:59,601 --> 00:26:02,121 It patters. They break. It sputters. 400 00:26:02,281 --> 00:26:04,361 Life is at stake. 401 00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:07,281 The sun has gone. 402 00:26:07,641 --> 00:26:08,721 Falling weights. 403 00:26:08,881 --> 00:26:11,121 Night. 404 00:26:11,281 --> 00:26:14,761 I am yours. Come! We'll soon be there. I am yours. 405 00:26:18,801 --> 00:26:20,041 Quick! Go in there! 406 00:26:25,161 --> 00:26:26,321 Mrs Bast! 407 00:26:26,641 --> 00:26:27,681 Yes? 408 00:26:29,121 --> 00:26:30,561 Were you asleep? 409 00:26:30,921 --> 00:26:31,921 Yes. 410 00:26:32,761 --> 00:26:34,041 I'm sorry. 411 00:26:34,241 --> 00:26:37,041 Would you happen to have any bandages, 412 00:26:37,921 --> 00:26:40,361 and a salve? Or powder would be better. 413 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:43,361 A friend of mine's burned himself. 414 00:26:43,721 --> 00:26:46,081 Just a minute. I'll have to look. 415 00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:49,041 What time is it? 416 00:26:49,121 --> 00:26:50,601 No idea. Three or four. 417 00:26:50,761 --> 00:26:52,921 You've got nerve! 418 00:26:53,241 --> 00:26:55,601 I've got something in the box there. 419 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:14,681 I drink a little... 420 00:27:16,601 --> 00:27:18,681 and my woman's already screaming. 421 00:27:29,761 --> 00:27:31,761 Or it's New Year's Eve, 422 00:27:34,041 --> 00:27:35,921 and I come home, 423 00:27:37,001 --> 00:27:38,401 and she's not there. 424 00:27:40,201 --> 00:27:41,441 She... 425 00:27:43,401 --> 00:27:46,001 doesn't come home until seven o'clock. 426 00:27:47,481 --> 00:27:49,921 She's slept with another guy. 427 00:27:51,161 --> 00:27:53,081 She's cheated on me. 428 00:28:00,321 --> 00:28:02,641 I've given up my business, 429 00:28:05,761 --> 00:28:07,641 and haven't got a wife anymore. 430 00:28:12,921 --> 00:28:14,601 And Franz... 431 00:28:15,401 --> 00:28:17,081 with Mieze... 432 00:28:19,241 --> 00:28:21,201 Reinhold's a swine. 433 00:28:25,401 --> 00:28:28,761 That's okay, Mrs Bast. You go back to bed! 434 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:33,241 Come here, Meck. 435 00:28:36,281 --> 00:28:37,761 Sit down over here. 436 00:28:43,201 --> 00:28:44,401 Give me your hand. 437 00:28:48,481 --> 00:28:51,921 Sure, it hurts a bit, but you must have expected that. 438 00:28:55,881 --> 00:28:58,121 - Is that better? - Yes. 439 00:28:59,561 --> 00:29:01,241 It's idiotic... 440 00:29:02,601 --> 00:29:04,761 that this had to happen today. 441 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:08,921 You can't choose your defeats. 442 00:29:10,601 --> 00:29:12,001 So they say, 443 00:29:12,801 --> 00:29:16,201 and it's probably true, but that doesn't say anything really. 444 00:29:16,361 --> 00:29:19,161 No, no. I have to do that on my own. 445 00:29:20,841 --> 00:29:23,201 Bandaging like that, you know, 446 00:29:24,281 --> 00:29:27,161 calls for sensitivity from the person applying it, 447 00:29:28,121 --> 00:29:31,321 and from the one who feels it. 448 00:29:33,961 --> 00:29:36,961 Sometimes, I notice while I'm speaking that... 449 00:29:37,161 --> 00:29:40,001 what I'm saying is a load of baloney, but... 450 00:29:41,401 --> 00:29:45,001 I like to say it anyway. 451 00:29:49,801 --> 00:29:52,161 - Franz. - Yes? 452 00:29:53,641 --> 00:29:56,121 I should have told you something long ago. 453 00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:58,681 Oh, yes? What's that? 454 00:30:00,121 --> 00:30:01,681 About Reinhold, 455 00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:04,281 Franz, 456 00:30:06,641 --> 00:30:10,321 Reinhold's a bad guy. 457 00:30:12,041 --> 00:30:15,281 Meck, if there's one thing I can't stand, 458 00:30:15,441 --> 00:30:18,081 it's people knocking Reinhold. 459 00:30:19,361 --> 00:30:22,001 He's a good guy at heart, 460 00:30:24,441 --> 00:30:26,521 even if none of you can see it. 461 00:30:26,921 --> 00:30:28,521 You're blind, Franz, 462 00:30:28,681 --> 00:30:29,921 in both eyes. 463 00:30:32,161 --> 00:30:34,921 Okay, Meck, let's not talk about it anymore. 464 00:30:35,641 --> 00:30:38,881 There's nobody I can talk to about it. 465 00:30:39,881 --> 00:30:41,721 Hardly to myself either. 466 00:30:42,121 --> 00:30:44,761 In his innermost heart, there are two he loves. 467 00:30:44,921 --> 00:30:47,041 One is his Mieze, the other is Reinhold. 468 00:30:47,201 --> 00:30:48,641 I'm going now. 469 00:31:06,121 --> 00:31:08,241 I haven't told you everything... 470 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:11,641 that I wanted to and ought to tell you. 471 00:31:13,921 --> 00:31:16,961 I hope you'll be able to forgive me for it some day. 472 00:32:24,721 --> 00:32:25,921 Do you know how late it is? 473 00:32:26,081 --> 00:32:27,961 Yes. Will you give me another one? 474 00:32:28,121 --> 00:32:31,561 Okay, but make it quick. I need some sleep, too. 475 00:32:32,241 --> 00:32:33,601 What's up with your hand? 476 00:32:33,761 --> 00:32:35,761 Nothing. I burned it. 477 00:32:35,921 --> 00:32:37,561 I see. You burned it. 478 00:32:38,521 --> 00:32:39,521 Max, 479 00:32:39,841 --> 00:32:43,521 you know about things that aren't quite lawful. 480 00:32:43,681 --> 00:32:45,641 I wanted to ask you something. 481 00:32:46,481 --> 00:32:49,441 That depends. I'm not a lawyer, 482 00:32:49,601 --> 00:32:52,161 but maybe I can help you. 483 00:32:57,201 --> 00:32:59,321 I just wanted to know... 484 00:32:59,641 --> 00:33:01,721 what the situation is if you... 485 00:33:02,121 --> 00:33:03,881 help bury a corpse? 486 00:33:04,041 --> 00:33:06,801 Bury a corpse? What does that mean? 487 00:33:07,841 --> 00:33:09,961 Well, when you find someone who's dead, 488 00:33:10,121 --> 00:33:12,041 and you bury him. 489 00:33:12,201 --> 00:33:13,281 Is it a corpse... 490 00:33:13,441 --> 00:33:16,681 you wanted to hide, shot by the police or something? 491 00:33:17,961 --> 00:33:19,361 Whatever. 492 00:33:20,481 --> 00:33:23,921 The main thing is you didn't kill the person yourself, 493 00:33:24,721 --> 00:33:27,081 but you don't want the body to be found. 494 00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:29,801 Can you be held responsible then? 495 00:33:30,041 --> 00:33:33,281 Well, it depends if you knew the dead person, 496 00:33:33,441 --> 00:33:36,921 if you had some advantage in burying him. 497 00:33:37,161 --> 00:33:38,481 An advantage. 498 00:33:40,121 --> 00:33:42,641 I didn't have any advantage in it. 499 00:33:42,921 --> 00:33:44,521 It was done in friendship. 500 00:33:46,121 --> 00:33:47,881 I just helped. 501 00:33:48,281 --> 00:33:51,121 Someone's lying there, dead, and... 502 00:33:53,801 --> 00:33:57,041 I thought it'd be better if the body wasn't found. 503 00:33:57,881 --> 00:33:59,961 You mean found by the police? 504 00:34:02,281 --> 00:34:05,841 That's just unlawfully concealing evidence, I'd say. 505 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:09,841 But it also depends on how the person died. 506 00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:12,321 I don't know. I wasn't there. 507 00:34:13,321 --> 00:34:15,561 Just doing things for other people. 508 00:34:15,721 --> 00:34:19,281 I'm not an accessory. I knew nothing about it. 509 00:34:20,721 --> 00:34:22,401 It's lying there, 510 00:34:22,881 --> 00:34:24,241 dead. 511 00:34:26,401 --> 00:34:30,081 Then suddenly it's: "Give me a hand! We're going to bury it." 512 00:34:30,961 --> 00:34:32,561 Who said that to you? 513 00:34:34,321 --> 00:34:35,801 Who said it? 514 00:34:38,601 --> 00:34:40,361 Who said that to me? 515 00:34:42,561 --> 00:34:44,081 Somebody. 516 00:34:48,961 --> 00:34:51,721 I just want to know where I stand. 517 00:34:52,601 --> 00:34:55,921 Have I committed a crime in helping bury it? 518 00:34:56,081 --> 00:34:58,761 Not the way you describe it, 519 00:34:58,921 --> 00:35:00,281 not really, 520 00:35:00,441 --> 00:35:02,561 or at least nothing very serious, 521 00:35:02,721 --> 00:35:04,561 if you weren't involved... 522 00:35:04,721 --> 00:35:07,241 or didn't have a vested interest in it. 523 00:35:07,801 --> 00:35:09,521 But why, I ask, 524 00:35:09,681 --> 00:35:11,561 did you help do it? 525 00:35:11,841 --> 00:35:14,201 I just lent a hand... 526 00:35:14,521 --> 00:35:15,961 out of friendship. 527 00:35:17,001 --> 00:35:18,761 I didn't help do it. 528 00:35:25,121 --> 00:35:27,081 But that doesn't matter. 529 00:35:27,761 --> 00:35:30,121 I had nothing to do with it. 530 00:35:30,481 --> 00:35:32,881 I didn't stand to gain from it either. 531 00:35:38,441 --> 00:35:39,441 Around the world, 532 00:35:39,561 --> 00:35:40,841 somewhere in the world, 533 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:42,201 around the world, 534 00:35:42,361 --> 00:35:44,561 in absolute calm and peace. 535 00:35:44,721 --> 00:35:47,161 With some people you can do what you like: 536 00:35:47,321 --> 00:35:49,441 they always land on their feet. 537 00:35:49,601 --> 00:35:52,121 There are people like that. 538 00:36:08,841 --> 00:36:10,761 What was she wearing? 539 00:36:12,721 --> 00:36:16,121 A dark skirt and a pink blouse. 540 00:36:17,761 --> 00:36:18,881 Silk? 541 00:36:20,161 --> 00:36:22,001 Maybe it was silk. 542 00:36:23,361 --> 00:36:25,081 But it was pale pink. 543 00:36:27,401 --> 00:36:28,521 Anything else? 544 00:36:30,561 --> 00:36:33,361 She always wore something in her hair, 545 00:36:34,281 --> 00:36:36,161 something like a bow. 546 00:36:36,441 --> 00:36:37,761 A bow? 547 00:36:37,921 --> 00:36:39,361 Inspector! 548 00:36:40,441 --> 00:36:42,081 Just a moment. 549 00:36:49,121 --> 00:36:51,241 We've found this ribbon. 550 00:36:51,841 --> 00:36:53,681 Over there, where the soil's dug up. 551 00:36:53,841 --> 00:36:56,561 By that tree trunk lying on the ground. 552 00:37:02,481 --> 00:37:04,001 Was it a bow like this? 553 00:37:11,041 --> 00:37:12,281 That'll be all, officer. 554 00:37:12,641 --> 00:37:13,641 Yes, sir. 555 00:37:21,001 --> 00:37:22,441 All right, 556 00:37:22,801 --> 00:37:25,401 so when you arrived, the girl was already dead? 557 00:37:29,601 --> 00:37:31,681 How do you want to prove it? 558 00:37:31,841 --> 00:37:32,881 How come? 559 00:37:33,041 --> 00:37:34,241 Well, 560 00:37:34,401 --> 00:37:37,481 when your Reinhold says... 561 00:37:38,641 --> 00:37:40,681 you killed her, 562 00:37:41,081 --> 00:37:43,521 or that you helped... 563 00:37:44,521 --> 00:37:46,441 I helped carry her. 564 00:37:48,081 --> 00:37:49,641 Why should I kill the girl? 565 00:37:49,801 --> 00:37:52,401 For the same reason he killed her, 566 00:37:52,561 --> 00:37:54,921 or allegedly did. 567 00:37:57,921 --> 00:37:59,521 But I wasn't even with her. 568 00:37:59,681 --> 00:38:01,681 You were in the afternoon. 569 00:38:02,841 --> 00:38:04,201 But not afterwards. 570 00:38:05,801 --> 00:38:07,601 She was still alive then. 571 00:38:08,481 --> 00:38:11,241 That's a shaky alibi. 572 00:38:52,481 --> 00:38:54,721 Where were you in the evening... 573 00:38:54,881 --> 00:38:56,321 and during the night... 574 00:38:56,481 --> 00:38:59,001 after this business with Reinhold? 575 00:39:02,081 --> 00:39:03,601 I was out of town. 576 00:39:03,961 --> 00:39:05,121 Out of town. 577 00:39:06,801 --> 00:39:10,281 He gave me his passport, and I beat it, 578 00:39:11,201 --> 00:39:14,361 so that I'd have an alibi if it came to light. 579 00:39:15,121 --> 00:39:16,481 Strange. 580 00:39:17,401 --> 00:39:19,641 And why do you report it now? 581 00:39:20,721 --> 00:39:23,361 Were you such good friends with him back then? 582 00:39:24,081 --> 00:39:25,561 No, I wasn't, 583 00:39:27,681 --> 00:39:29,081 but Franz was. 584 00:39:29,241 --> 00:39:31,481 Ah, they seem to have found something. 585 00:39:32,001 --> 00:39:35,241 She was the daughter of a streetcar conductor from Bernau. 586 00:39:35,401 --> 00:39:37,961 Her mother ran out on her husband. 587 00:39:38,121 --> 00:39:40,001 Sometimes the girl went to Berlin. 588 00:39:40,161 --> 00:39:42,521 A few times, she went with a guy to a hotel. 589 00:39:42,681 --> 00:39:45,201 Then it was too late, she didn't dare go home. 590 00:39:45,361 --> 00:39:49,201 She stayed in Berlin, where she met Eva. 591 00:39:49,521 --> 00:39:51,561 Finally she found a regular partner, 592 00:39:51,721 --> 00:39:55,681 a strong, one-armed guy, whom Mieze immediately liked, 593 00:39:55,961 --> 00:39:58,441 and she stayed true to him to the end. 594 00:39:58,601 --> 00:40:02,201 It was a terrible end, a sad end that Mieze met. 595 00:40:02,361 --> 00:40:03,521 Why? 596 00:40:03,761 --> 00:40:05,641 What had she done wrong? 597 00:40:05,801 --> 00:40:09,241 Drawn into the maelstrom of Berlin, she certainly wasn't innocent, 598 00:40:09,401 --> 00:40:13,081 but she cared for the guy who was her partner like a child... 599 00:40:13,241 --> 00:40:14,921 with a tender, unquenchable love. 600 00:40:16,001 --> 00:40:19,641 She was destroyed because she happened to stand next to that man. 601 00:40:19,841 --> 00:40:21,121 That's life. 602 00:40:21,281 --> 00:40:22,561 It's hard to imagine. 603 00:40:22,721 --> 00:40:25,201 She went to Freienwalde to protect her friend, 604 00:40:25,361 --> 00:40:29,041 and there she was strangled and done away with. 605 00:40:29,201 --> 00:40:30,721 That's life. 606 00:40:30,881 --> 00:40:33,681 And I turned and saw the injustice of everything... 607 00:40:33,841 --> 00:40:36,001 that took place beneath the sun. 608 00:40:37,201 --> 00:40:40,201 How much Job suffered before he had experienced everything. 609 00:40:40,361 --> 00:40:42,881 Job rent his clothes, he bit his own hands. 610 00:40:43,041 --> 00:40:46,401 He tore his hair, heaped earth upon himself. 611 00:40:46,561 --> 00:40:48,481 But not enough: 612 00:40:48,641 --> 00:40:50,241 Job was stricken with sores... 613 00:40:50,401 --> 00:40:52,721 from the soles of his feet to his thighs. 614 00:40:52,881 --> 00:40:55,521 He sat in the sand, and pus flowed from him. 615 00:40:55,681 --> 00:40:58,361 He took a shard and scraped himself. 616 00:41:07,521 --> 00:41:08,521 Come in. 617 00:41:10,521 --> 00:41:13,521 Miss Eva is here, Mr Biberkopf. 618 00:41:17,801 --> 00:41:18,841 Eva? 619 00:41:21,161 --> 00:41:22,681 Hello, Eva! 620 00:41:24,521 --> 00:41:27,361 Well, my girl, what's up? 621 00:41:29,721 --> 00:41:31,321 Something's up. 622 00:41:32,361 --> 00:41:34,841 Whenever you're like that, something's up. 623 00:41:37,081 --> 00:41:38,641 Has something happened? 624 00:41:39,441 --> 00:41:42,401 - Nothing bad, is it? - Leave me alone. 625 00:41:45,601 --> 00:41:48,561 Okay, Eva. Would you mind telling me what's wrong? 626 00:41:48,841 --> 00:41:50,001 Come inside. 627 00:41:53,401 --> 00:41:55,121 Is something up with Herbert? 628 00:41:56,041 --> 00:41:57,441 Did he smack you one? 629 00:41:57,601 --> 00:41:59,081 I'm not coming in. 630 00:41:59,241 --> 00:42:01,641 I'm not coming in. I'm not. 631 00:42:08,681 --> 00:42:10,761 What's the matter with her? 632 00:42:13,921 --> 00:42:16,201 I haven't done anything. 633 00:42:32,041 --> 00:42:34,321 You dumb women! 634 00:42:34,681 --> 00:42:37,281 Stop making a fuss! 635 00:42:37,521 --> 00:42:39,361 You think I'm some poor ape anyway, 636 00:42:39,521 --> 00:42:41,001 who belongs to you. 637 00:42:41,441 --> 00:42:43,841 I'm so sorry, Miss Eva, 638 00:42:44,041 --> 00:42:46,561 so very sorry - for you, of course... 639 00:42:46,721 --> 00:42:48,561 and for Mieze. 640 00:42:49,121 --> 00:42:52,201 But it's worst of all for Franz, isn't it? 641 00:42:58,201 --> 00:42:59,881 Hey, that's me! 642 00:43:01,881 --> 00:43:03,641 That's me... 643 00:43:03,881 --> 00:43:05,561 and Reinhold. 644 00:43:06,961 --> 00:43:10,201 "Prostitute murdered in Freienwalde. 645 00:43:10,481 --> 00:43:12,721 Emilie Karsunke from Berlin..." 646 00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:18,041 "Emilie Karsunke from Berlin." 647 00:43:21,561 --> 00:43:23,041 What's all this? 648 00:43:27,081 --> 00:43:29,121 What does it mean? 649 00:43:37,321 --> 00:43:38,521 Murder. 650 00:43:44,041 --> 00:43:45,361 Mieze? 651 00:43:47,681 --> 00:43:49,841 My picture in the paper... 652 00:43:50,801 --> 00:43:52,241 My picture. 653 00:43:54,721 --> 00:43:56,881 Me and Reinhold... 654 00:43:58,481 --> 00:43:59,801 and murder. 655 00:44:02,041 --> 00:44:05,041 "Emilie Karsunke from Berlin." 656 00:44:06,801 --> 00:44:07,961 Me... 657 00:44:08,401 --> 00:44:09,841 and Reinhold... 658 00:44:10,681 --> 00:44:12,081 and murder. 659 00:44:14,481 --> 00:44:18,041 "Emilie Karsunke from Bernau in Freienwalde..." 660 00:44:20,801 --> 00:44:23,321 How did she wind up in Freienwalde? 661 00:44:25,961 --> 00:44:27,241 Me... 662 00:44:28,521 --> 00:44:30,081 and Reinhold. 663 00:44:38,121 --> 00:44:41,481 Well, Franz, what do you say now? 664 00:44:44,721 --> 00:44:46,681 "Murder near Freienwalde. 665 00:44:48,441 --> 00:44:51,281 Emilie Karsunke from Bernau, 666 00:44:51,841 --> 00:44:55,041 born June 13th, 1904." 667 00:45:02,321 --> 00:45:04,041 She's dead?! 668 00:45:04,521 --> 00:45:06,481 That's why we couldn't find her. 669 00:45:06,641 --> 00:45:09,201 And why is your picture in the paper? 670 00:45:09,361 --> 00:45:11,881 I don't know. For God's sake! 671 00:45:12,081 --> 00:45:13,881 What is all this? 672 00:45:14,441 --> 00:45:17,241 I don't know how it got in the paper either! 673 00:45:17,401 --> 00:45:19,121 It's strange. 674 00:45:23,681 --> 00:45:26,321 What happened? 675 00:45:33,521 --> 00:45:35,121 She's dead. 676 00:45:36,961 --> 00:45:39,121 Something must have happened to her. 677 00:45:41,481 --> 00:45:43,481 Now we know: 678 00:45:44,801 --> 00:45:47,121 she didn't leave me. 679 00:45:47,881 --> 00:45:49,761 Someone killed her. 680 00:45:50,361 --> 00:45:51,641 Eva! 681 00:45:52,721 --> 00:45:55,481 Our Mieze - someone's killed her. 682 00:45:59,321 --> 00:46:00,961 My Mieze. 683 00:46:22,801 --> 00:46:25,721 Eva, have you read it? 684 00:46:26,801 --> 00:46:29,321 Someone killed her... Mieze. 685 00:46:29,881 --> 00:46:33,121 Someone killed Mieze, our Mieze. 686 00:46:33,321 --> 00:46:36,721 She didn't run away. She didn't leave me. 687 00:46:38,401 --> 00:46:40,401 Something happened to her. 688 00:46:40,601 --> 00:46:42,601 She didn't run out on me! 689 00:46:42,761 --> 00:46:46,401 In the terrible tragedy in Prague, 21 bodies have been recovered. 690 00:46:46,561 --> 00:46:48,761 Some 150 people lie buried in the ruins. 691 00:46:48,921 --> 00:46:52,081 Only a few minutes before, this heap of rubble... 692 00:46:52,241 --> 00:46:54,241 had been a new seven-storey building. 693 00:46:54,401 --> 00:46:57,801 Now many people lie dead or seriously injured beneath it. 694 00:46:58,281 --> 00:47:00,521 The entire reinforced concrete structure, 695 00:47:00,681 --> 00:47:02,321 weighing 880 tons, 696 00:47:02,481 --> 00:47:05,121 collapsed into the two stories below ground. 697 00:47:05,321 --> 00:47:07,881 When a policeman heard the structure cracking, 698 00:47:08,041 --> 00:47:10,121 he warned passing pedestrians. 699 00:47:10,281 --> 00:47:14,081 With great aplomb, he leapt onto an approaching streetcar... 700 00:47:14,241 --> 00:47:16,121 and pulled the brake himself. 701 00:47:16,641 --> 00:47:19,201 Heavy storms are raging over the Atlantic. 702 00:47:19,841 --> 00:47:22,161 Bergmann has been put on trial: 703 00:47:22,321 --> 00:47:25,641 an economic parasite, unscrupulous, a public enemy. 704 00:47:26,841 --> 00:47:30,521 The Graf Zeppelin arrives over Berlin with poor visibility. 705 00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:35,121 The airship leaves Friedrichshafen at 2:17 a.m. beneath a starlit sky. 706 00:47:35,441 --> 00:47:39,241 To avoid bad weather over central Germany, 707 00:47:39,401 --> 00:47:42,841 the airship follows a route over Stuttgart, Darmstadt, 708 00:47:43,001 --> 00:47:45,201 Frankfurt am Main, Giessen, Kassel, 709 00:47:45,361 --> 00:47:48,481 and Rathenow. At 8:35 a.m. it is over Nauen, 710 00:47:48,721 --> 00:47:51,001 at 8:45 over Staaken. 711 00:47:51,161 --> 00:47:54,361 Shortly before nine, the Zeppelin appeared over the city. 712 00:47:54,521 --> 00:47:55,921 In spite of rainy weather, 713 00:47:56,081 --> 00:47:57,681 onlookers crowded the rooftops, 714 00:47:58,201 --> 00:48:00,521 cheering the airship on its way... 715 00:48:00,681 --> 00:48:04,721 as it made a curve over the east and north of the city. 716 00:48:04,881 --> 00:48:08,321 At 9:45 a.m. the first mooring rope was dropped in Staaken. 717 00:48:24,241 --> 00:48:26,121 What are you laughing about? 718 00:48:26,281 --> 00:48:28,361 I asked you why you're laughing. 719 00:48:28,521 --> 00:48:31,121 What is there to laugh about?! 720 00:48:31,361 --> 00:48:32,881 Tell me! 721 00:48:36,081 --> 00:48:37,601 Why am I laughing? 722 00:48:39,721 --> 00:48:42,201 Do you really want to know why I'm laughing? 723 00:48:43,081 --> 00:48:45,761 Just ask yourself why I'm laughing. 724 00:48:46,441 --> 00:48:47,961 Why am I laughing? 725 00:48:48,561 --> 00:48:50,161 Because Mieze's dead, 726 00:48:50,481 --> 00:48:52,601 and because she didn't run out on me. 727 00:48:52,761 --> 00:48:54,841 And because somebody killed her, 728 00:48:55,041 --> 00:48:57,681 and because Mieze didn't run out on me. 729 00:48:57,841 --> 00:48:59,201 Do you understand? 730 00:48:59,481 --> 00:49:01,881 No, Franz. I don't understand. 731 00:49:02,041 --> 00:49:03,081 No... 732 00:49:08,241 --> 00:49:09,921 There is a reaper, 733 00:49:10,601 --> 00:49:12,281 whose name is Death, 734 00:49:14,441 --> 00:49:16,481 And he arrives... 735 00:49:17,241 --> 00:49:19,801 on hatchets and knives, 736 00:49:21,201 --> 00:49:23,801 blowing a little flute. 737 00:49:25,721 --> 00:49:28,601 Then he opens wide his jaws, 738 00:49:29,641 --> 00:49:32,241 and he takes out his trumpet. 739 00:49:34,321 --> 00:49:37,321 Will he blow the trumpet? 740 00:49:39,401 --> 00:49:41,561 Will he beat the drum? 741 00:49:46,481 --> 00:49:49,841 Will the terrible black battering ram come? 742 00:49:54,281 --> 00:49:55,841 Ever so softly... 743 00:50:10,401 --> 00:50:12,001 No! 744 00:50:48,961 --> 00:50:51,361 I lay under the car. 745 00:50:53,001 --> 00:50:54,521 It was just like now. 746 00:51:00,561 --> 00:51:03,081 There was a mill and a quarry 747 00:51:05,641 --> 00:51:08,321 and it was pouring down on me incessantly. 748 00:51:10,561 --> 00:51:12,441 I pull myself together, 749 00:51:14,361 --> 00:51:17,561 but no matter what I do, it's no use. 750 00:51:19,281 --> 00:51:21,321 It wants to put an end to me. 751 00:51:23,641 --> 00:51:26,561 Even if I were an iron girder, 752 00:51:27,881 --> 00:51:30,041 it would want to smash me. 753 00:51:33,881 --> 00:51:35,921 Yes, something's going to happen. 754 00:51:36,681 --> 00:51:38,441 What's going to happen? 755 00:51:45,321 --> 00:51:48,641 Watch out, Franz. They're after you. 756 00:51:49,721 --> 00:51:52,161 Anything new? 757 00:51:53,521 --> 00:51:54,681 Herbert. 758 00:51:59,521 --> 00:52:01,681 Herbert, did you read it? 759 00:52:02,841 --> 00:52:05,401 I'm supposed to have killed Mieze. 760 00:52:05,961 --> 00:52:07,081 Me? 761 00:52:08,681 --> 00:52:12,401 I may have given her a good hiding, but... 762 00:52:13,401 --> 00:52:15,321 they think that because I... 763 00:52:16,281 --> 00:52:18,641 because I did Ida in... 764 00:52:30,121 --> 00:52:31,841 Look at me, Eva. 765 00:52:32,601 --> 00:52:34,161 Is something wrong with me? 766 00:52:36,201 --> 00:52:38,201 Hey, look at me. 767 00:52:38,961 --> 00:52:40,961 Is there something wrong with me? 768 00:52:42,601 --> 00:52:43,601 No. 769 00:52:43,761 --> 00:52:47,321 Just look at me and say if there's something wrong with me! 770 00:52:47,641 --> 00:52:50,561 - No. - There must be! 771 00:53:14,241 --> 00:53:15,441 What should I do? 772 00:53:28,761 --> 00:53:32,401 Meck was out in Freienwalde as well. 773 00:53:33,361 --> 00:53:35,761 They dragged Mieze out there. 774 00:53:37,681 --> 00:53:39,641 Then Reinhold... 775 00:53:40,481 --> 00:53:42,281 did it with brute force. 776 00:53:42,441 --> 00:53:44,801 Why should Reinhold have done it? 777 00:53:45,681 --> 00:53:47,721 He threw me under the car. 778 00:53:49,561 --> 00:53:51,441 You might as well know now: 779 00:53:52,641 --> 00:53:55,201 it was Reinhold. 780 00:53:56,601 --> 00:54:00,561 But it doesn't matter. I'm not mad at him because of it. 781 00:54:02,481 --> 00:54:04,641 But when I learn something like that... 782 00:54:07,481 --> 00:54:09,721 and a guy has to learn things... 783 00:54:11,361 --> 00:54:14,041 If he doesn't learn, he'll never know anything. 784 00:54:16,841 --> 00:54:19,161 You run around like an idiot... 785 00:54:19,321 --> 00:54:21,401 with no knowledge of the world. 786 00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:25,001 I'm not mad at him. 787 00:54:26,801 --> 00:54:29,001 He wanted to put me in my place. 788 00:54:29,681 --> 00:54:32,201 He thought he had me in his pocket, 789 00:54:33,441 --> 00:54:35,761 but I wasn't in his pocket. 790 00:54:35,921 --> 00:54:39,281 He didn't have me in his pocket, and he saw that. 791 00:54:41,641 --> 00:54:44,441 That's why he took Mieze away from me... 792 00:54:46,161 --> 00:54:48,481 and did that to her. 793 00:54:50,681 --> 00:54:52,001 But... 794 00:54:53,761 --> 00:54:55,281 it wasn't... 795 00:54:57,361 --> 00:55:00,001 it wasn't Mieze's fault. 796 00:55:03,281 --> 00:55:05,081 Why? 797 00:55:07,481 --> 00:55:09,441 Why, oh, why? 798 00:55:10,201 --> 00:55:12,241 All because... 799 00:55:12,401 --> 00:55:16,441 "All because of some hullabaloo, some hullabaloo. 800 00:55:16,601 --> 00:55:21,121 All because of some hullabaloo." 801 00:55:23,321 --> 00:55:26,081 But that doesn't worry me. 802 00:55:28,401 --> 00:55:31,761 It doesn't worry me at all now. 803 00:55:31,961 --> 00:55:33,721 Why didn't you tell Mieze about it? 804 00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:38,121 It's not my fault. 805 00:55:38,841 --> 00:55:41,081 There's nothing you can do about it. 806 00:55:41,641 --> 00:55:45,201 He could have shot me down when I was at his place. 807 00:55:46,041 --> 00:55:47,841 I tell you, though, 808 00:55:48,361 --> 00:55:50,521 there's nothing you can do about it. 809 00:55:51,881 --> 00:55:54,721 If only you'd said something, 810 00:55:55,361 --> 00:55:57,681 Mieze would be alive today. 811 00:55:57,841 --> 00:56:01,001 She'd be alive today if you had said just one word, 812 00:56:01,161 --> 00:56:02,881 and that other jerk... 813 00:56:03,681 --> 00:56:06,601 would be running around with his head under his arm. 814 00:56:08,641 --> 00:56:11,201 It's not my fault. 815 00:56:12,921 --> 00:56:15,401 You can never tell what a guy will do. 816 00:56:16,281 --> 00:56:18,881 Who knows what he's doing now? 817 00:56:20,041 --> 00:56:22,041 You never find out things like that. 818 00:56:22,201 --> 00:56:24,561 You bet I'll find out! Just wait! 819 00:56:24,721 --> 00:56:27,881 Don't go near him, Herbert. I'm afraid, too. 820 00:56:28,041 --> 00:56:31,561 I'll take care. I just have to find out where he's holed up, 821 00:56:32,281 --> 00:56:35,201 and half an hour later, the cops will have him. 822 00:56:37,081 --> 00:56:39,241 Hands off him, Herbert. 823 00:56:40,121 --> 00:56:41,801 He's not yours. 824 00:56:43,241 --> 00:56:44,841 He belongs to me, 825 00:56:47,721 --> 00:56:48,721 to me. 826 00:56:53,801 --> 00:56:57,721 End of part 13 827 00:58:06,201 --> 00:58:09,081 Franz Biberkopf has reached the end of his mortal path. 828 00:58:09,241 --> 00:58:11,001 The time has come to break him. 829 00:58:11,161 --> 00:58:12,361 The man is finished.