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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,383 Hmm... 2 00:02:31,917 --> 00:02:34,118 A counterfeit coin is never wasted. 3 00:02:34,238 --> 00:02:36,662 This proverb is wise like all proverbs are 4 00:02:36,782 --> 00:02:38,933 and true like the very same counterfeit sovereign 5 00:02:39,053 --> 00:02:40,700 that yesterday noon passed to my hands. 6 00:02:40,939 --> 00:02:43,728 Now, how that happened, and even at noon time... 7 00:02:43,848 --> 00:02:46,700 Eh... it's a little painful indeed 8 00:02:46,820 --> 00:02:49,755 to confess my stupidity and short-sightedness... 9 00:02:49,875 --> 00:02:52,974 And how short-sighted I am... Good heavens! 10 00:02:53,332 --> 00:02:55,525 But I imagine that the counterfeiters 11 00:02:55,645 --> 00:02:57,967 who have to make a living as well, in a manner of speaking, 12 00:02:58,087 --> 00:03:00,664 surely they don't design the products of their craftsmanship 13 00:03:00,784 --> 00:03:04,509 for people with keen eyesight and exceptional intelligence. 14 00:03:05,178 --> 00:03:08,241 Moreover, like all deceivers, 15 00:03:08,361 --> 00:03:11,083 my counterfeit sovereign has got a flawless appearance. 16 00:03:11,449 --> 00:03:13,984 And this is my only excuse 17 00:03:14,364 --> 00:03:16,589 and at the same time my only hope 18 00:03:16,899 --> 00:03:19,243 that it won't be difficult for me to find 19 00:03:19,363 --> 00:03:21,110 someone even more short-sighted in turn 20 00:03:21,230 --> 00:03:24,096 and less clever than me to pass it on. 21 00:03:28,114 --> 00:03:29,951 What the...! 22 00:03:41,353 --> 00:03:42,916 Yet unfortunately... 23 00:03:43,036 --> 00:03:45,550 until that felicitous moment comes 24 00:03:45,828 --> 00:03:48,969 when I manage to dispose of its dubious burden 25 00:03:49,652 --> 00:03:52,849 it'll always keep lying deep in my pocket 26 00:03:52,969 --> 00:03:55,257 telling me its story... 27 00:03:55,377 --> 00:03:56,947 A story strange... 28 00:03:57,285 --> 00:04:00,080 sometimes sombre, sometimes buoyant 29 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,911 and, now and then, dramatic... 30 00:04:03,083 --> 00:04:05,759 Let's hear it from the beginning. 31 00:04:11,927 --> 00:04:16,476 Don't expect any sensational and adventurous crime story 32 00:04:16,596 --> 00:04:19,490 with gangsters, bank robberies 33 00:04:19,610 --> 00:04:22,128 gunshots and bizarre mysteries... 34 00:04:22,423 --> 00:04:24,585 In Greece, what a shame, 35 00:04:24,705 --> 00:04:28,793 to crime writers' regret, there aren't such things. 36 00:04:28,913 --> 00:04:31,425 The artist that became con artist was named Anargyros. 37 00:04:32,145 --> 00:04:35,610 Anargyros was a simple little man, an 'old school' type. 38 00:04:35,730 --> 00:04:37,518 'Antica casa' as they say. 39 00:04:37,638 --> 00:04:40,603 Like his borsalino hat that was his favourite 40 00:04:40,723 --> 00:04:43,532 and was a symbol of his very own dignity. 41 00:04:43,652 --> 00:04:46,072 - Good morning! - Good morning, Mr Anargyros. 42 00:04:46,192 --> 00:04:49,367 - Did you sleep well last night? - Why ask? Did I snore? 43 00:04:49,487 --> 00:04:51,289 Did I snore again, Mrs Dimitra? 44 00:04:51,409 --> 00:04:54,627 Good people snore when they have a clear conscience. 45 00:04:54,747 --> 00:04:57,267 I see... I snored again like a freight train. 46 00:04:57,387 --> 00:04:59,781 - A little flower? - Thanks. Goodbye! 47 00:04:59,901 --> 00:05:02,225 Have a nice day! Take care! May Holy Mother bless you! 48 00:05:06,356 --> 00:05:09,327 That's how amiable Anargyros woke up each morning 49 00:05:09,447 --> 00:05:11,849 leaving his small bachelor room at 7.30 50 00:05:11,969 --> 00:05:15,632 relaxed and cheerful on the way to open his workshop... 51 00:05:15,752 --> 00:05:18,530 This engraver had a lifelong dream 52 00:05:18,650 --> 00:05:22,783 to engrave a silver church iconostasis, God willing... 53 00:05:22,903 --> 00:05:25,804 because Anargyros was a good Christian. 54 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:28,241 Every morning he would make the sign of the cross 55 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:30,365 in front of Hagioi Anargyroi Church, 56 00:05:30,485 --> 00:05:32,618 his patron Saints who have got his name 57 00:05:32,738 --> 00:05:36,688 and give his regular alms to the beggar down the corner 58 00:05:36,808 --> 00:05:39,230 who, after so many years, would recognize him by the way he walks 59 00:05:39,350 --> 00:05:42,938 and start in advance all his pleas and thanksgivings. 60 00:05:45,691 --> 00:05:49,783 At 8 a.m. sharp, Anargyros would arrive at the busy central market 61 00:05:49,903 --> 00:05:53,457 where his little shop was located, deep within a shopping arcade. 62 00:05:53,577 --> 00:05:57,323 ANARGYROS LOUBARDOPOULOS Engraver 63 00:05:57,675 --> 00:05:59,023 Good morning, Mr Anargyros. 64 00:05:59,143 --> 00:06:00,875 - Good morning. - A little coffee? 65 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:03,743 We've said 'coffee and smoking cut!' 66 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:05,721 A coffee won't hurt you. 67 00:06:14,089 --> 00:06:15,469 Ho! 68 00:06:16,694 --> 00:06:19,820 Maybe the shop was too small but Anargyros was a great talent. 69 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:24,130 Seals, signs, miniatures, engravings on rings, on watches... 70 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:26,925 and a whole lot of other jobs engravers do... 71 00:06:27,376 --> 00:06:30,179 Blame it on his let's say foolish honesty 72 00:06:30,299 --> 00:06:33,207 that made him working like a dog for twenty years 73 00:06:33,327 --> 00:06:35,640 under the green tin lampshade 74 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,229 in that sunless and depressive shop of the arcade. 75 00:06:51,752 --> 00:06:53,104 Morning! 76 00:06:53,555 --> 00:06:57,344 - Oh! Welcome Mr Papadopoulos! - No Papadopoulos. 77 00:06:57,464 --> 00:06:58,500 Pap! That's right! 78 00:06:58,620 --> 00:07:00,133 - Pap! - I'm sorry. 79 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:02,227 I just forgot you who migrated to America 80 00:07:02,347 --> 00:07:04,184 have your surnames shortened. 81 00:07:04,604 --> 00:07:08,203 Here you are, Mr Pap! Your watch is ready. 82 00:07:08,323 --> 00:07:10,209 It is a terrible thing, Mr Anargyros 83 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:13,491 to come back from America after so many years 84 00:07:13,611 --> 00:07:15,561 and instead of my father in his village 85 00:07:15,681 --> 00:07:17,357 I found only his watch... 86 00:07:17,477 --> 00:07:20,420 Thankfully, you did find at least the watch. 87 00:07:20,540 --> 00:07:21,673 Here it is. 88 00:07:21,793 --> 00:07:24,568 See how pretty the monogram I engraved looks. 89 00:07:24,688 --> 00:07:27,110 Do you like it? DP. 90 00:07:29,258 --> 00:07:31,068 My late father! 91 00:07:31,188 --> 00:07:33,663 Ah! Poor old Pap! 92 00:07:33,783 --> 00:07:34,888 Pardon me. 93 00:07:35,008 --> 00:07:37,600 That one was whole Papadopoulos! 94 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,684 - No Pap. He'd never gone to America. - Okay, Mr Anargyros. 95 00:07:41,927 --> 00:07:42,871 Well... 96 00:07:42,991 --> 00:07:45,631 there are not even in New York City 97 00:07:45,751 --> 00:07:47,638 such artists like you! 98 00:07:47,758 --> 00:07:50,190 You're wasting yourself here in Greece. 99 00:07:50,310 --> 00:07:51,612 It's absolutely true that I'm wasting myself. 100 00:07:51,732 --> 00:07:54,288 If you were to come to New York City... 101 00:07:54,408 --> 00:07:57,582 I know. From Loubardopoulos I would have become Loub. 102 00:07:57,702 --> 00:08:01,537 Yes but you could have made lots of dollars 103 00:08:01,657 --> 00:08:03,652 Dollars! Dollars! 104 00:08:03,772 --> 00:08:06,330 Well, how much was our deal? 105 00:08:06,450 --> 00:08:08,849 One hundred thousand. But you'll give only sixty. 106 00:08:08,969 --> 00:08:10,246 Sixty? Why? 107 00:08:10,366 --> 00:08:13,088 I put less gold than I calculated. 108 00:08:14,431 --> 00:08:18,498 So there are still honest people in Greece! 109 00:08:18,618 --> 00:08:20,681 Eh! It wouldn't feel right to fool you. 110 00:08:20,801 --> 00:08:22,027 - My compliments! - How could I? 111 00:08:22,147 --> 00:08:24,372 My compliments, Mr Anargyros! 112 00:08:24,647 --> 00:08:28,956 - Well, we said, sixty thousand. - That's right. 113 00:08:29,076 --> 00:08:31,703 That means two dollars... 114 00:08:33,361 --> 00:08:34,882 Take ten! 115 00:08:35,002 --> 00:08:38,178 - Ten? - Goodbye and see you soon. 116 00:08:38,298 --> 00:08:39,629 Ten? 117 00:08:41,889 --> 00:08:43,952 Have a nice trip, Mr Pap! 118 00:08:44,072 --> 00:08:45,382 Pap! 119 00:08:50,251 --> 00:08:52,885 So, thanks to his honest work, Anargyros managed, 120 00:08:53,005 --> 00:08:54,645 scrimping on everything all the time, 121 00:08:54,765 --> 00:08:56,966 to hoard some savings for old age. 122 00:08:57,086 --> 00:08:59,654 His neighbour was Mr Miltiades, the broker. 123 00:08:59,774 --> 00:09:02,187 Now and then, he would sell him a 'little' gold sovereign. 124 00:09:02,307 --> 00:09:05,910 A time came when his sovereigns added up to one hundred. 125 00:09:06,193 --> 00:09:08,995 That was his hundredth one. 126 00:09:14,348 --> 00:09:17,884 Then Satan appeared disguised as Dinos, 127 00:09:18,004 --> 00:09:21,912 a diabolical employee who was working at that brokerage firm 128 00:09:22,032 --> 00:09:25,708 and heard about the one hundred gold sovereigns. 129 00:09:40,351 --> 00:09:43,139 - So you own 100 sovereigns, Anargyros? - 100... 130 00:09:43,259 --> 00:09:45,058 And all those years you've never spent a single one? 131 00:09:45,178 --> 00:09:45,974 Not a single one... 132 00:09:46,094 --> 00:09:48,002 I'm here to make a proposal to you. 133 00:09:48,122 --> 00:09:50,992 About what? My 100 sovereigns? Nah, nah... 134 00:09:51,112 --> 00:09:53,247 No, no, no... 135 00:09:53,367 --> 00:09:55,726 Uh-uh! I don't like your face. 136 00:09:55,846 --> 00:09:56,803 No, no... 137 00:09:56,923 --> 00:09:59,642 Come on Anargyros, don't you want to make those one hundred one thousand? 138 00:09:59,762 --> 00:10:02,022 - Sovereigns? - Right, sovereigns, one thousand! 139 00:10:02,142 --> 00:10:04,708 - And even two, even three! - Have you lost your mind, Dinos? 140 00:10:04,828 --> 00:10:05,887 Do I look crazy to you? 141 00:10:06,007 --> 00:10:07,750 No but you do look nutty as a fruitcake. 142 00:10:07,870 --> 00:10:08,816 Tell me Anargyros, 143 00:10:08,936 --> 00:10:11,151 who made the sovereigns for the New Year's cakes last year? 144 00:10:11,271 --> 00:10:12,975 - The fake ones? - That's right. 145 00:10:13,095 --> 00:10:15,088 - The ads for the sweet-shop? - Yes, those ones. 146 00:10:15,208 --> 00:10:17,320 Those hands that work wonders, Anargyros! 147 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,334 And since those hands can made the fake ones look so perfect 148 00:10:20,454 --> 00:10:22,630 why couldn't then make... 149 00:10:23,091 --> 00:10:25,514 ...real ones, Anargyros? - What are you up to, Dinos? 150 00:10:25,634 --> 00:10:28,871 - Making counterfeit ones! - Counterfeit? 151 00:10:28,991 --> 00:10:33,162 With little gold outside and any metal inside... 152 00:10:33,282 --> 00:10:35,527 You're going to make them and I'm going to put them in circulation. 153 00:10:35,647 --> 00:10:38,573 I haven't slept a wink one single night with this plan. 154 00:10:38,693 --> 00:10:40,448 It's been on my mind for a whole year. 155 00:10:40,568 --> 00:10:43,754 but I dared not tell you without the capital required. 156 00:10:44,106 --> 00:10:47,592 We'll get rich, Anargyros, we'll strike gold, what do you say? 157 00:10:47,712 --> 00:10:49,768 Let... let me be. 158 00:10:49,888 --> 00:10:52,543 I was right in not liking your face from the very beginning! 159 00:10:52,663 --> 00:10:54,670 Nah-nah... 160 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,588 So you're a big rascal! 161 00:10:57,708 --> 00:10:59,300 Nah-nah... 162 00:11:00,925 --> 00:11:03,995 And Mr Miltiadis has given you a job in his firm? 163 00:11:04,115 --> 00:11:05,971 What a disaster fell on him! 164 00:11:06,091 --> 00:11:09,480 Let me tell him what kind of lot his employee is. 165 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,024 Don't talk nonsense, Anargyros! We'll get rich! 166 00:11:13,144 --> 00:11:14,636 What do you say, eh? 167 00:11:14,756 --> 00:11:16,746 - All right, we'll talk again. - There's nothing to say. 168 00:11:16,866 --> 00:11:20,174 Out! Get out of my workshop! Get out of here! 169 00:11:20,294 --> 00:11:22,427 We'll talk again, Anargyros! 170 00:11:25,275 --> 00:11:28,345 I'll come by the little tavern where you eat. 171 00:11:31,962 --> 00:11:34,906 Get thee behind me Satan! 172 00:11:36,990 --> 00:11:39,511 Don't be an idiot, Anargyros! 173 00:11:39,631 --> 00:11:41,813 As long as the earth exists, 174 00:11:41,933 --> 00:11:46,652 millions of men sweat from dawn to dusk just for one reason. 175 00:11:46,772 --> 00:11:49,743 To make some money, Anargyros! 176 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,961 But you don't need to sweat for money 177 00:11:53,081 --> 00:11:54,904 when you can make it yourself. 178 00:11:55,024 --> 00:11:56,122 Don't you understand? 179 00:11:56,242 --> 00:11:58,644 You can make gold sovereigns with your own hands! 180 00:11:59,358 --> 00:12:02,464 These hands that work wonders, Anargyros... 181 00:12:02,584 --> 00:12:04,608 Let me... let me be, Dinos! 182 00:12:04,728 --> 00:12:07,094 Don't bugger me about! For Christ's sake! 183 00:12:07,214 --> 00:12:09,900 I've no wish to see these hands that work wonders as you say 184 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:12,591 like this... in handcuffs. 185 00:12:12,897 --> 00:12:14,685 Get thee behind me Satan! 186 00:12:14,805 --> 00:12:16,943 Drop these silly hesitations, Anargyros! 187 00:12:17,063 --> 00:12:18,562 - What does honesty mean anyway? - Lord have mercy on us! 188 00:12:18,682 --> 00:12:21,164 Honesty means having a clear conscience, my mate Dinos! 189 00:12:21,284 --> 00:12:23,430 Going home at night, lying down to bed, 190 00:12:23,550 --> 00:12:25,370 getting a deep sound sleep 191 00:12:25,490 --> 00:12:28,286 and snoring like a freight train. That's what honesty means 192 00:12:28,406 --> 00:12:30,610 ...to sleep tranquilly. - With a clear conscience! 193 00:12:30,744 --> 00:12:32,483 - That's right, sir! - Yes Anargyros 194 00:12:32,603 --> 00:12:33,815 but when you have money, 195 00:12:33,935 --> 00:12:36,226 you can leave your conscience sleep alone 196 00:12:36,346 --> 00:12:38,755 while you sleep with the best mistress. 197 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:40,733 - Eh? - What 'eh', poor Anargyros? 198 00:12:40,853 --> 00:12:43,123 Don't women mean anything to you? 199 00:12:43,243 --> 00:12:45,577 Those elegant, stupendous, 200 00:12:45,697 --> 00:12:48,242 those scandalising women getting around in Athens? 201 00:12:48,575 --> 00:12:50,187 Ah... women! 202 00:12:50,307 --> 00:12:51,913 Ah, ah... 203 00:12:55,152 --> 00:12:56,265 Oh! 204 00:12:56,589 --> 00:12:59,772 Uh-oh! Get thee behind me Satan! 205 00:12:59,892 --> 00:13:02,730 Yet Satan didn't get any behind but moved forward 206 00:13:02,850 --> 00:13:05,418 putting in action the most effective and biggest means. 207 00:13:05,538 --> 00:13:08,167 Hold it a moment! What's this all about? 208 00:13:08,287 --> 00:13:10,949 Where are you dragging me to? To Psychiko? To wilderness? 209 00:13:11,069 --> 00:13:13,530 Stop complaining, Anargyros! We're there! That's the house. 210 00:13:13,650 --> 00:13:16,238 Bah! Bah! No, I won't get in! 211 00:13:16,358 --> 00:13:18,164 What are you afraid of? Are they going to eat you? 212 00:13:18,284 --> 00:13:22,121 You'll only make the acquaintance of a very charming and nice lady. 213 00:13:22,241 --> 00:13:24,867 Hagioi Anargyroi, my namesake saints, help me! 214 00:13:24,987 --> 00:13:27,289 That Beelzebub has stuck to me like a leech! 215 00:13:27,409 --> 00:13:30,011 Beelzebub's tricks are as old as Adam and Eve 216 00:13:30,131 --> 00:13:31,870 when he lured Adam in committing sin. 217 00:13:31,990 --> 00:13:34,408 It has been falsely rumoured that the dirty business was done by the serpent. 218 00:13:34,528 --> 00:13:36,370 Eve was the instrument of Satan. 219 00:13:36,490 --> 00:13:39,287 Dinos has explained the plan in every detail, Mr Anargyros. 220 00:13:39,407 --> 00:13:43,526 I accept with pleasure to afford my basement for this job. 221 00:13:45,212 --> 00:13:47,120 Your basement is nice, 222 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:48,958 everything about you is nice, you're nice, 223 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:50,416 still I don't approve of that. 224 00:13:50,536 --> 00:13:53,096 Don't be afraid, Anargyros? What's there to fear? 225 00:13:53,490 --> 00:13:55,279 Nobody's going to discover us here. 226 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:59,800 Ms Fifi lives all alone here since she got her divorce. 227 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,597 She hasn't even got any domestic service! Understand? 228 00:14:01,717 --> 00:14:04,210 I do but it's you who doesn't realize what you're asking me to do. 229 00:14:04,330 --> 00:14:06,935 From artist to become a con artist! 230 00:14:07,055 --> 00:14:10,167 Who? Me, an honest man! An honest artist! 231 00:14:12,499 --> 00:14:14,456 Always the same over again! 232 00:14:14,576 --> 00:14:16,738 Oh Anargyros! Always the same over again. 233 00:14:16,858 --> 00:14:18,791 I've had enough with you. Enough! 234 00:14:18,911 --> 00:14:20,403 Don't press the poor man, Dinos, 235 00:14:20,523 --> 00:14:22,460 since you can see it's not a matter of fear for him. 236 00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:25,688 It's a question of moral principle! 237 00:14:26,711 --> 00:14:28,341 Moral principle! 238 00:14:28,461 --> 00:14:30,559 Bravo, Ms Fifi. Rightly said. 239 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:33,376 Listen to her. Tell him about! Tell him. 240 00:14:33,496 --> 00:14:36,109 This matter is over. Let's not talk about it any more. 241 00:14:38,201 --> 00:14:39,278 It's a pity. 242 00:14:39,398 --> 00:14:41,250 Let's talk about something else, then. 243 00:14:41,507 --> 00:14:42,916 What else, dear Ms Fifi? 244 00:14:43,183 --> 00:14:46,239 - Sorry to inconvenience you like this. - But not at all! 245 00:14:46,359 --> 00:14:49,162 This is your single visit at my place. I won't let you leave like this. 246 00:14:49,282 --> 00:14:50,464 Please be seated. 247 00:14:50,788 --> 00:14:52,563 Be seated, Mr Anargyros. 248 00:14:56,083 --> 00:14:59,112 - I am! - Great. 249 00:15:00,569 --> 00:15:03,484 - Take a seat, Anargyros. - I did. 250 00:15:04,962 --> 00:15:08,286 - You're so daft, Anargyros! So daft! - Please Dinos, 251 00:15:08,406 --> 00:15:10,582 we just said this talk is... 252 00:15:13,797 --> 00:15:15,494 Don't insist, Dinos. 253 00:15:15,783 --> 00:15:18,444 We're going to have a drink, to have a small talk. 254 00:15:18,564 --> 00:15:20,670 There are so many other interesting things in life 255 00:15:20,790 --> 00:15:23,603 - Don't you agree? - I do. It's Dinos who doesn't. 256 00:15:23,723 --> 00:15:24,969 Here you are, Dinos. 257 00:15:25,205 --> 00:15:28,149 And we're going to have a great evening. 258 00:15:28,494 --> 00:15:30,818 So there were many more great evenings, 259 00:15:30,938 --> 00:15:32,110 more delightful even, 260 00:15:32,230 --> 00:15:33,888 with more interesting subjects of discussi�n 261 00:15:34,008 --> 00:15:36,989 with laughter, a sip of whisky and increasing intimacy. 262 00:15:37,109 --> 00:15:41,683 And little by little Anargyros was being ripened like a fruit ready to drop... 263 00:15:49,014 --> 00:15:51,504 He had become a regular at Psychiko's mansi�n. 264 00:15:51,624 --> 00:15:53,978 For a month now, every afternoon, he longed for the moment when 265 00:15:54,098 --> 00:15:56,276 he could take the way up there from Athens, together with Dinos 266 00:15:56,396 --> 00:15:59,070 to fall ahead time into Fifi's embrace. 267 00:15:59,394 --> 00:16:01,699 Well, there... it was impossible to tear himself away. 268 00:16:10,464 --> 00:16:11,471 He couldn't help it! 269 00:16:11,591 --> 00:16:14,776 Love started burning in his meek heart like a wild fire 270 00:16:14,896 --> 00:16:18,857 and Ms Fifi was spinning masterfully a spider's web around him 271 00:16:19,289 --> 00:16:21,956 according to the preconceived Satan's plan. 272 00:16:22,076 --> 00:16:24,787 Listen to me, Fifi. Today Anargyros will come up alone. 273 00:16:24,907 --> 00:16:26,734 I told him I got a job and I'll join you later. 274 00:16:26,854 --> 00:16:29,464 All right, sweetheart. Come as late as possible. 275 00:16:29,584 --> 00:16:33,186 Yes but... there's no reason to 'encourage' him too much, okay? 276 00:16:33,306 --> 00:16:36,119 Are you jealous, darling, of this moronic man of naught? 277 00:16:36,239 --> 00:16:38,312 Asking me If I am jealous? Even of my own shadow! 278 00:16:38,432 --> 00:16:41,561 But tell me... are you sure he can make us those gold sovereigns? 279 00:16:41,681 --> 00:16:43,521 He's a talent, my dear! He's amazing! 280 00:16:43,641 --> 00:16:45,386 Fine then, you don't need to worry. 281 00:16:45,506 --> 00:16:47,836 He's such an idiot that I'll get him round 282 00:16:47,956 --> 00:16:50,926 without letting him lay a finger on me. 283 00:16:52,477 --> 00:16:54,087 All right, darling. Good luck! 284 00:16:54,207 --> 00:16:56,706 And remember... not a finger, okay? 285 00:17:18,488 --> 00:17:20,216 How pretty your flowers are, Mr Anargyros. 286 00:17:20,336 --> 00:17:21,981 How pretty your little house, dear Fifi! 287 00:17:22,101 --> 00:17:24,293 - Pretty but sadly... - Sadly? 288 00:17:24,548 --> 00:17:27,144 - Why 'sadly'? - Because next Spring 289 00:17:27,264 --> 00:17:29,622 I'll have to give it away according to divorce decree... 290 00:17:29,742 --> 00:17:31,925 - Is it your husband's? - Yes, it is. 291 00:17:32,045 --> 00:17:34,527 Furniture, paintings, curios... everything! 292 00:17:34,647 --> 00:17:37,584 - Even the curios? - Those ones, too! 293 00:17:37,704 --> 00:17:40,563 Spring will find me down-and-out. 294 00:17:40,683 --> 00:17:41,456 It doesn't matter. 295 00:17:41,576 --> 00:17:43,767 - All that happened thanks to Dinos. - Dinos? 296 00:17:43,887 --> 00:17:45,611 Yes, he made me divorce my husband. 297 00:17:46,278 --> 00:17:48,182 I'll tell you my troubles sometime. 298 00:17:48,491 --> 00:17:51,171 Was it Dinos that made you divorce your husband? 299 00:17:51,291 --> 00:17:53,469 That's right. Divorce my husband! 300 00:17:53,589 --> 00:17:55,689 who was a real gentleman, 301 00:17:55,809 --> 00:17:58,614 good-natured, well-to-do... never mind. 302 00:17:58,941 --> 00:18:00,502 I fell victim to him. 303 00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:03,197 His beautiful words succeeded at luring me away. 304 00:18:03,356 --> 00:18:04,939 As regards words, Dinos... 305 00:18:05,059 --> 00:18:07,329 You're telling me! He's a real pro in fooling you with words. 306 00:18:07,449 --> 00:18:10,577 The guy talks so much rubbish! Bleh! Bleh! 307 00:18:10,697 --> 00:18:12,500 That how I was taken in, Mr Anargyros! 308 00:18:12,620 --> 00:18:14,855 In the end... I became his mistress. 309 00:18:14,975 --> 00:18:17,980 - Human weakness, Mr Anargyros. - Human weakness, dear Ms Fifi. 310 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,203 One day... you see... 311 00:18:20,323 --> 00:18:22,444 - My husband caught us... - He caught you out! 312 00:18:22,564 --> 00:18:24,827 - That's human too, madam. - In the act... 313 00:18:24,947 --> 00:18:27,553 It serves me right, now. I deserve the punishment. 314 00:18:27,673 --> 00:18:30,562 How can I live in poverty? It's unthinkable! 315 00:18:30,682 --> 00:18:33,004 In the very end I'll become one of those women... 316 00:18:33,124 --> 00:18:35,985 - A... - Holy Virgin, don't say it! 317 00:18:36,105 --> 00:18:38,199 - Don't say such a thing! - A... typist! 318 00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:40,515 Don't tell me these things! What a disaster! 319 00:18:40,635 --> 00:18:44,033 - Or... a manicurist! - Uh-oh, that'd be quite a comedown! 320 00:18:44,153 --> 00:18:46,697 - I think I'll kill myself in the end! - No! No! 321 00:18:46,817 --> 00:18:49,392 No such things! No such things, Holy Mother! 322 00:18:49,650 --> 00:18:53,327 Oops! No such things! I don't want such things! 323 00:18:55,983 --> 00:18:59,203 Why crying now, Ms Fifi? Why this mood? 324 00:18:59,323 --> 00:19:01,770 Please tell me something for consolation. 325 00:19:01,890 --> 00:19:05,014 Struggle for a living is a good thing, madam! 326 00:19:05,134 --> 00:19:07,485 Struggle for a living is the most beautiful thing in life! 327 00:19:07,605 --> 00:19:09,699 - Struggle for a living? - Certainly! 328 00:19:09,819 --> 00:19:11,776 - Struggle for a living? - Certainly. 329 00:19:11,896 --> 00:19:14,045 You dare tell me this, Mr Anargyros? 330 00:19:14,165 --> 00:19:15,829 If it's true what Dinos said, 331 00:19:15,949 --> 00:19:17,779 in order to save no more than 100 sovereigns... 332 00:19:17,899 --> 00:19:19,682 which for me are not enough... 333 00:19:19,802 --> 00:19:21,223 for a year's perfumes and flowers. 334 00:19:21,343 --> 00:19:24,184 One hundred sovereigns for perfumes and flowers! 335 00:19:24,304 --> 00:19:27,406 Exactly! These one hundred sovereigns for which 336 00:19:27,526 --> 00:19:29,132 you've spent your whole life 337 00:19:29,252 --> 00:19:31,373 giving up everything! - Everything. 338 00:19:31,493 --> 00:19:34,482 Every delight in your life, women... love... 339 00:19:34,602 --> 00:19:36,269 Even coffee! 340 00:19:36,389 --> 00:19:38,499 And you try to tell how good struggle for a living is... 341 00:19:38,619 --> 00:19:39,889 What else is to say, Ms Fifi? 342 00:19:40,009 --> 00:19:41,644 Poor me! What more can I do? 343 00:19:41,764 --> 00:19:44,076 Haven't I had cravings? 344 00:19:44,196 --> 00:19:47,370 Trips... luxuries... women... 345 00:19:47,490 --> 00:19:49,237 love... coffee! 346 00:19:49,357 --> 00:19:51,299 Then come to my rescue, Mr Anargyros! 347 00:19:51,419 --> 00:19:53,087 Rescue me from struggling for a living, 348 00:19:53,207 --> 00:19:56,221 from degradation, from eviction from suicide! 349 00:19:56,341 --> 00:19:57,831 Save me, keep me to yourself! 350 00:19:57,951 --> 00:20:00,293 And I'll be yours, your slave! 351 00:20:00,413 --> 00:20:02,842 How could I keep you to myself on my lousy 100 sovereigns? 352 00:20:02,962 --> 00:20:04,928 - Not these... the other ones! - Which ones? 353 00:20:05,048 --> 00:20:06,397 - The counterfeit! - The counterfeit? 354 00:20:06,517 --> 00:20:10,065 Yes, make me sovereigns, Mr Anargyros, many sovereigns, do it for my sake! 355 00:20:10,185 --> 00:20:12,279 - But to dishonour myself? - Yes, to dishonour yourself 356 00:20:12,399 --> 00:20:15,228 - Wouldn't my eyes deserve it? - God, they make me feel dizzy. 357 00:20:15,348 --> 00:20:18,281 - We'll travel together. - Together! 358 00:20:18,401 --> 00:20:20,998 Together to Venice! To Paris! 359 00:20:21,118 --> 00:20:23,387 To Venezuela! To Congo! To Thessaloniki! 360 00:20:23,507 --> 00:20:25,165 We'll stay at the grandest hotels! 361 00:20:25,285 --> 00:20:26,454 - Together! - Together! 362 00:20:26,574 --> 00:20:28,170 We'll dance at the most famous cabarets! 363 00:20:28,290 --> 00:20:29,291 - Together! - Together! 364 00:20:29,411 --> 00:20:31,216 - But I don't know how to dance! - You don't know? 365 00:20:31,336 --> 00:20:32,626 I'm going to teach you! 366 00:20:32,746 --> 00:20:34,285 - Let's do it! - Follow me, then! 367 00:20:46,803 --> 00:20:49,080 You're going to enjoy now what you've missed in your life. 368 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,030 - Now! - Now! 369 00:20:51,150 --> 00:20:54,509 Dance is a tight grip, an erotic mood... 370 00:20:54,750 --> 00:20:56,367 - Like this. - Like this. 371 00:21:32,746 --> 00:21:34,817 That's how Dinos lead me astray. 372 00:21:34,937 --> 00:21:36,761 It's not my own fault, Mr Anargyros. 373 00:21:36,881 --> 00:21:38,959 - I'm so easily lead astray! - I see. 374 00:21:43,681 --> 00:21:45,621 - It's Dinos! - Dammit Dinos! 375 00:21:45,741 --> 00:21:48,611 You're spoiling it! Did you have to ring the bell now? 376 00:21:48,731 --> 00:21:50,915 - Don't move. - I'm not going anywhere. 377 00:21:58,892 --> 00:22:01,573 - Mr Anargyros has gone. - Is he gone? When? 378 00:22:01,693 --> 00:22:03,303 - Just a few minutes ago! - Where is he headed? 379 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,199 This way! Hurry up to catch him at the bus stop! 380 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:07,388 This way? I'm running fast! 381 00:22:11,997 --> 00:22:13,132 Is he running? 382 00:22:14,524 --> 00:22:16,500 - He is. - Let him run! 383 00:22:16,901 --> 00:22:17,948 And now... 384 00:22:18,068 --> 00:22:20,532 Let's get on with our chat, Mr Anargyros. 385 00:22:20,652 --> 00:22:24,078 - Where had we stopped? - We had stopped right here... 386 00:22:30,031 --> 00:22:32,683 Take me into your arms, Mr Anargyros! 387 00:22:35,350 --> 00:22:38,272 - Take me into your arms! - Why not? 388 00:22:38,612 --> 00:22:39,676 Why not! 389 00:22:45,579 --> 00:22:47,718 Let us move our camera away from the scene 390 00:22:47,838 --> 00:22:50,055 so it will not be rated as unsuitable for the underage 391 00:22:50,175 --> 00:22:54,065 although nowadays the underage know a lot more than we do. 392 00:22:54,185 --> 00:22:57,522 Let's go the round of the room then. Let's show vases... flowers... 393 00:22:57,642 --> 00:22:59,727 statuettes... paintings etc 394 00:22:59,847 --> 00:23:02,499 as foreign films do in similar scenes... 395 00:23:02,619 --> 00:23:06,088 Although our scene is rather didactic because it is showing... 396 00:23:06,208 --> 00:23:08,438 'showing' in a manner of speaking, anyway, is teaching us 397 00:23:08,558 --> 00:23:11,830 how easily a simple fellow like Anargyros can be lead astray 398 00:23:11,950 --> 00:23:15,064 and how a woman can even trick Satan himself. 399 00:23:16,149 --> 00:23:18,617 How come you've taken such decisi�n all of a sudden, Anargyros? 400 00:23:18,737 --> 00:23:21,436 Don't ask how! What matters is that I've made up my mind. 401 00:23:21,556 --> 00:23:24,220 And since I have, nothing can hold me back! 402 00:23:24,340 --> 00:23:26,541 We must make sovereigns, lots of sovereigns! 403 00:23:26,661 --> 00:23:28,980 5000, 10,000, 20,000! 404 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,664 Good Lord! What are you trying to do? 405 00:23:31,914 --> 00:23:34,921 Just tell me, did Ms Fifi talk you into this? 406 00:23:35,162 --> 00:23:37,715 Eh... she had her small finger in the pie... 407 00:23:41,617 --> 00:23:43,319 Her finger? What do you mean by that? 408 00:23:43,439 --> 00:23:46,525 Skip the questions if you please. Give me time to think. 409 00:23:46,645 --> 00:23:50,591 My hands, that work wonders as you say, are not enough... 410 00:23:50,711 --> 00:23:52,993 We need tools... equipment... 411 00:23:53,113 --> 00:23:54,153 which are far too expensive! 412 00:23:54,273 --> 00:23:55,274 But... 413 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,454 I hope my 100 sovereigns will be enough. 414 00:23:59,574 --> 00:24:00,845 I just hope... 415 00:24:04,806 --> 00:24:06,700 And so, the one hundred sovereigns of Anargyros 416 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:09,246 began to fly away one by one at a lightning speed 417 00:24:09,366 --> 00:24:11,742 so as the basement in Psychico's mansi�n was transformed 418 00:24:11,862 --> 00:24:13,476 into a perfect counterfeiter's laboratory... 419 00:24:13,596 --> 00:24:15,902 A laboratory bench... 5 sovereigns 420 00:24:16,508 --> 00:24:18,423 A punch press... 12 sovereigns. 421 00:24:18,983 --> 00:24:21,706 A metalworking lathe... 27 sovereigns. 422 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:24,344 A forge hearth... 6 sovereigns. 423 00:24:24,588 --> 00:24:26,971 Precisi�n balance scales... 9 sovereigns. 424 00:24:27,091 --> 00:24:31,765 And many more gadgets we usually see in criminological museums... 425 00:24:31,885 --> 00:24:33,509 The total sum: 100 sovereigns. 426 00:24:33,629 --> 00:24:35,296 That wretch Anargyros paid them all. 427 00:24:35,416 --> 00:24:37,963 He spent all his nest egg for Fifi's sake 428 00:24:38,083 --> 00:24:42,251 who went down to the basement to admire the laboratory and her victim... 429 00:24:43,433 --> 00:24:47,320 Thus, an effort started in which Anargyros invested all his capital... 430 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:48,894 all his craftsmanship... 431 00:24:49,014 --> 00:24:50,256 all his love... 432 00:24:50,376 --> 00:24:53,082 A hard effort that started with the hard metals... 433 00:24:53,394 --> 00:24:55,757 First, he needed to make the moulds... 434 00:25:02,387 --> 00:25:04,997 After that, he carved the patterns... 435 00:25:05,117 --> 00:25:08,014 There, Anargyros put all his talent... 436 00:25:15,146 --> 00:25:18,374 All his talent! And Fifi put hers... 437 00:25:18,494 --> 00:25:20,927 Then Anargyros weighted the metals with precisi�n... 438 00:25:21,047 --> 00:25:22,806 he calculated the carats correctly... 439 00:25:22,926 --> 00:25:24,341 he stoked up the fire of his hearths... 440 00:25:24,461 --> 00:25:25,547 Move a bit, Ms Fifi! 441 00:25:25,667 --> 00:25:27,975 and to cut the long story short, he finished all his 442 00:25:28,095 --> 00:25:30,042 odd and peculiar alchemies 443 00:25:30,162 --> 00:25:32,843 and the great moment came... 444 00:25:42,601 --> 00:25:43,998 The great moment... 445 00:25:44,118 --> 00:25:45,764 Truly great. 446 00:25:45,884 --> 00:25:49,850 When after so much hard work, so much anguish, so many torments, 447 00:25:49,970 --> 00:25:52,293 the first sovereign came out at last... 448 00:25:52,413 --> 00:25:56,167 A sovereign perfectly round, brand-new and glittering... 449 00:25:56,287 --> 00:25:58,571 A single counterfeit sovereign that alas... 450 00:25:58,691 --> 00:26:01,961 cost one hundred real ones! 451 00:26:07,962 --> 00:26:10,274 What's wrong with us? Did the cat eat our tongue? 452 00:26:10,394 --> 00:26:12,278 Good Lord! This is a sovereign! 453 00:26:12,586 --> 00:26:14,968 We are rich! We are rich! 454 00:26:15,394 --> 00:26:18,514 We are... rich, we are rich! 455 00:26:20,578 --> 00:26:23,330 We are rich! We are rich! 456 00:26:23,450 --> 00:26:25,656 Calm down, Anargyros. 457 00:26:25,926 --> 00:26:28,281 It's not the right time to lose you, Anargyros! 458 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,763 May I touch it? 459 00:26:33,954 --> 00:26:37,060 It's perfect! No difference from the real ones! 460 00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:38,974 Anargyros... 461 00:26:39,094 --> 00:26:41,755 - Have you got any real for comparison? - Not one. 462 00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:45,102 - Do you know how much this one cost? - Yes, yes. 100 gold ones. 463 00:26:45,222 --> 00:26:46,240 No! 464 00:26:46,594 --> 00:26:48,197 A 20-year sentence! 465 00:26:53,775 --> 00:26:56,843 It certainly looks perfect to us because it's our creature. 466 00:26:56,963 --> 00:26:58,025 Our own child! 467 00:26:58,145 --> 00:27:01,817 I say we must run a test to see if the others can also be tricked. 468 00:27:01,937 --> 00:27:04,998 You do it, you're the one working for a brokerage firm. 469 00:27:05,118 --> 00:27:08,238 No, no... that'd made me look suspicious, it's my job! 470 00:27:08,358 --> 00:27:10,859 - Well, then? - You do it, Anargyros. 471 00:27:11,208 --> 00:27:12,222 Me? 472 00:27:13,641 --> 00:27:15,655 - You, Anargyros! - I will! 473 00:27:15,775 --> 00:27:18,159 I'd stake my head on it! That much sure I am! 474 00:27:20,018 --> 00:27:21,678 - Let's go, Dinos! - Not together! 475 00:27:21,798 --> 00:27:24,089 - I'll be watching from a distance. - And I'll be waiting here. 476 00:27:24,209 --> 00:27:25,564 - All right, do as you like. - Where are you up to like this? 477 00:27:25,684 --> 00:27:27,550 - Take off these clothes! - Sure... how I could... 478 00:27:27,670 --> 00:27:30,415 How could I go out like this? Take them off, silly me! 479 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:33,382 - Come on! - My... my coat... 480 00:27:33,502 --> 00:27:36,892 We are rich, we are rich, kids! 481 00:27:37,012 --> 00:27:39,374 - We are rich, we are... - Don't forget the sovereign! 482 00:27:39,494 --> 00:27:41,303 - Courage, Anargyros! - Courage! 483 00:27:41,423 --> 00:27:43,384 We are rich, we are rich, kids! 484 00:27:43,504 --> 00:27:45,771 This sovereign, sir, is counterfeit! 485 00:27:46,137 --> 00:27:48,449 - Counterfeit? - Listen to this... 486 00:27:48,697 --> 00:27:52,045 The real ones make ding, ding, ding. 487 00:27:52,286 --> 00:27:54,981 - So it's the sound after all. - Quite so, sir. 488 00:27:56,172 --> 00:27:58,073 - Ding, ding... - That's right. 489 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:07,686 - Why do you look so pale? - Me? 490 00:28:07,806 --> 00:28:09,437 The gold sovereign is pale. 491 00:28:09,557 --> 00:28:13,554 - The sovereign is counterfeit. - Counterfeit? 492 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,998 - Counterfeit? - Yes, counterfeit. 493 00:28:27,250 --> 00:28:28,301 It's counterfeit! (provincial accent) 494 00:28:28,421 --> 00:28:30,332 Do you really say they gave me a counterfeit sovereign? 495 00:28:30,452 --> 00:28:33,991 'They gave you'? What's this all? You're trembling like a leaf! 496 00:28:34,873 --> 00:28:36,491 - Am I? - Yes, you are! 497 00:28:36,888 --> 00:28:39,738 Hey... I remember you from somewhere... 498 00:28:39,858 --> 00:28:42,022 Isn't it you who's got a shop in an arcade? 499 00:28:42,142 --> 00:28:43,848 Isn't it you who made me this ring? 500 00:28:43,968 --> 00:28:46,359 Gold is your job... and now you try to fool me? 501 00:28:46,479 --> 00:28:47,580 What do you want me to do now? 502 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:48,894 To call the police? 503 00:28:49,014 --> 00:28:51,415 Eh? The police? Get out of my sight. 504 00:28:51,535 --> 00:28:55,030 Get out of my sight, you cheat! You cheat! 505 00:28:55,150 --> 00:28:57,026 Anargyros got into cold sweat 506 00:28:57,146 --> 00:28:59,445 and started feeling his knees knocking together 507 00:28:59,565 --> 00:29:01,749 right at the moment he heard the word 'police.' 508 00:29:08,153 --> 00:29:09,940 In the meanwhile, Dinos vanished 509 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:13,614 and Anargyros rushed to broker's office to bring him the bad tidings. 510 00:29:13,734 --> 00:29:15,695 But there, he came in view of a spectacle 511 00:29:15,815 --> 00:29:18,562 that made him fifteen years older in a moment... 512 00:29:19,107 --> 00:29:21,342 The police might have kept him under close surveillance 513 00:29:21,462 --> 00:29:23,078 since he started buying all those tools... 514 00:29:23,198 --> 00:29:26,918 because it was Dinos that was taking Anargyros' sovereigns to go buy them. 515 00:29:29,952 --> 00:29:33,698 This one might be the detective who was watching them, 516 00:29:33,981 --> 00:29:37,115 the one with the grey costume and grey fedora hat. 517 00:29:37,453 --> 00:29:38,988 That tall one! 518 00:29:49,066 --> 00:29:50,640 Anargyros! 519 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,017 There was someone here asking for you three times. 520 00:29:53,137 --> 00:29:54,839 How did he look that 'someone'? 521 00:29:55,356 --> 00:29:56,938 - It was a tall one! - A tall one? 522 00:29:57,058 --> 00:29:59,505 - Grey fedora hat, grey costume? - Exactly. 523 00:29:59,801 --> 00:30:01,714 But what's going on? Cause that seemed strange to me, too. 524 00:30:01,834 --> 00:30:04,125 I'll explain to you sometime. I'll explain to you. 525 00:30:04,245 --> 00:30:06,409 Well, tell me. Did he asked you anything? 526 00:30:06,529 --> 00:30:07,941 - Of course he did. - What? 527 00:30:08,061 --> 00:30:09,362 - Where's your home. - My goodness! 528 00:30:09,482 --> 00:30:11,058 - And did you tell him, Zafiris? - I did. 529 00:30:11,178 --> 00:30:12,369 My goodness, Zafiris! 530 00:30:12,489 --> 00:30:14,705 My goodness, you cut me to the quick, Zafiris! 531 00:30:14,825 --> 00:30:16,053 My goodness! 532 00:30:16,521 --> 00:30:17,556 My goodness! 533 00:30:17,676 --> 00:30:20,743 - What happened, Anargyros? - My goodness! We got our fingers burnt! 534 00:30:20,863 --> 00:30:23,169 - What's wrong, Anargyros? - The police fell on us. 535 00:30:23,289 --> 00:30:25,711 They've arrested Dinos! A pretty pair of handcuffs! 536 00:30:25,831 --> 00:30:27,141 My god! Let me sit down. 537 00:30:27,261 --> 00:30:30,832 - How? When did it happen? - They had us under surveillance. 538 00:30:30,952 --> 00:30:33,188 They found out about us! It was a guy so tall as the cliffs. 539 00:30:33,308 --> 00:30:34,971 Grey fedora hat, grey costume. 540 00:30:35,091 --> 00:30:37,042 Now he's going to arrest me and then arrest you. 541 00:30:37,162 --> 00:30:40,173 You'll see in what fenced 'greenhouse' they'll shut us both. 542 00:30:40,293 --> 00:30:42,294 Anargyros, save me! Save me! 543 00:30:42,414 --> 00:30:44,691 Every man for himself! 544 00:30:44,811 --> 00:30:48,470 The evidence, the evidence of the crime! We must hide the evidence! 545 00:30:48,590 --> 00:30:52,105 - Run to the basement! At once! - Just a moment, Anargyros! 546 00:31:07,437 --> 00:31:11,028 Don't abandon me, Anargyros! It was for your own sake! 547 00:31:11,148 --> 00:31:14,305 - Dammit! It doesn't open. - It was for your own sake! 548 00:31:14,425 --> 00:31:16,631 - For your love, Anargyros! - Bleah! 549 00:31:16,751 --> 00:31:20,677 - What a stink, my god! - I'm fainting... 550 00:31:20,797 --> 00:31:23,578 Well, you've been asking for flowers, 551 00:31:23,698 --> 00:31:25,932 one hundred sovereigns for perfumes and flowers, eh? 552 00:31:26,052 --> 00:31:28,687 Look at my one hundred sovereigns for perfumes and flowers now! 553 00:31:28,807 --> 00:31:30,942 One mould... 5 sovereigns! 554 00:31:31,062 --> 00:31:33,056 Another one... ten sovereigns! 555 00:31:33,176 --> 00:31:36,598 Everything is... sovereigns! Sovereigns! Everything! 556 00:31:36,718 --> 00:31:39,785 This is sovereigns and that is sovereigns, everything! 557 00:31:39,905 --> 00:31:42,083 Stand up! Why are you sitting? 558 00:31:42,203 --> 00:31:43,828 Grab the table from your side! 559 00:31:49,151 --> 00:31:50,804 It's too heavy to lift! 560 00:31:50,924 --> 00:31:53,634 - Dammit! It can't be lifted! - Don't give me up right now! 561 00:31:53,754 --> 00:31:56,463 - I love you, Anargyros, I love you! - Don't say! 562 00:31:56,583 --> 00:31:58,869 I don't give a damn about your love! 563 00:31:58,989 --> 00:32:01,272 You better lend me a hand of help, my kidney hurts! 564 00:32:01,392 --> 00:32:03,675 - Grab it! - I will, Anargyros. I will! 565 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,790 - And now? - Give me the hammer! 566 00:32:17,910 --> 00:32:21,759 Quick! The partnership is dissolved! 567 00:32:43,055 --> 00:32:45,628 - And now? - And now... 568 00:32:45,941 --> 00:32:49,112 If you hear the bell ringing, it will be the police... 569 00:32:49,403 --> 00:32:51,337 Open it and throw yourself in! 570 00:32:52,630 --> 00:32:55,915 What a stink! What a stink! 571 00:33:14,856 --> 00:33:15,921 What can I say to you? 572 00:33:16,041 --> 00:33:18,656 Mr Anargyros hasn't showed up for several days. There he is! 573 00:33:18,776 --> 00:33:21,232 Mr Anargyros! They're looking for you. 574 00:34:15,974 --> 00:34:18,854 Poor Anargyros, he was now done for. 575 00:34:18,974 --> 00:34:21,619 He couldn't anymore find shelter anywhere. 576 00:34:22,603 --> 00:34:24,842 Anywhere... apart from the church. 577 00:34:25,122 --> 00:34:28,331 (Anargyroi: Christian practitioners canonized 578 00:34:28,451 --> 00:34:31,283 because they didn't accept payment for their services) 579 00:34:37,436 --> 00:34:40,507 Dear Saints Anargyroi who have my name, please forgive me! 580 00:34:40,877 --> 00:34:43,024 I listened to the Devil and I let myself fall into temptation. 581 00:34:43,144 --> 00:34:46,024 I'm a weak human being... I couldn't help it. 582 00:34:46,319 --> 00:34:49,731 It was a luckless hour, as they say. Did I harm anyone? I did not. 583 00:34:49,851 --> 00:34:51,636 Only myself. 584 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:55,215 They're gone! My 100 sovereigns are gone! 585 00:34:55,335 --> 00:34:57,973 It serves me right. It serves me right. 586 00:34:58,093 --> 00:35:00,988 But I've regretted it! I've bitterly regretted it! 587 00:35:01,792 --> 00:35:05,176 Beg your pardon? What did you say? 588 00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:07,255 There's nothing you can say. 589 00:35:07,375 --> 00:35:09,534 I deserve my lot. 590 00:35:09,968 --> 00:35:11,775 I must go now. 591 00:35:12,289 --> 00:35:13,289 I must... 592 00:35:25,730 --> 00:35:28,846 - Time to arrest me. - Of course I will! 593 00:35:28,966 --> 00:35:31,969 It's been three days I'm looking for you since I came from America. 594 00:35:32,089 --> 00:35:34,669 - My name is George Fil. - Filippides? 595 00:35:34,789 --> 00:35:36,400 No! Filippopoulos! 596 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,220 And Papadopoulos sent me to you. 597 00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:39,958 - That is Pap? - Yes, Pap. 598 00:35:40,078 --> 00:35:41,891 - And in what way Pap sent you to me? - With a recommendation! 599 00:35:42,011 --> 00:35:43,314 - With a recommendation? - Yes. 600 00:35:43,434 --> 00:35:44,915 Because he said to me that you are the best 601 00:35:45,035 --> 00:35:47,147 and most honest artisan in Greece. 602 00:35:47,267 --> 00:35:50,596 Am I the best and most honest in Greece? 603 00:35:51,036 --> 00:35:53,908 - Was it Pap who said that? - Yes! 604 00:35:54,028 --> 00:35:57,693 Well, Mr Anargyros, I want to build a church in my village 605 00:35:57,813 --> 00:36:01,176 and I want the iconostasis all made of silver! 606 00:36:01,296 --> 00:36:02,260 - All? - Yes! 607 00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:04,257 But I want you to make the engravings. 608 00:36:04,377 --> 00:36:06,337 All made of silver? Me? 609 00:36:06,457 --> 00:36:09,631 My Saints Anargyroi! You've made your miracle! 610 00:36:10,057 --> 00:36:13,327 And what were you looking for at Miltiades' office yesterday? 611 00:36:13,447 --> 00:36:16,654 Ah! I went there to change dollars! 612 00:36:16,774 --> 00:36:18,868 Well, there I fell upon a swindler arrested by the police. 613 00:36:18,988 --> 00:36:22,407 - Someone making counterfeit sovereigns? - Oh no! He was a thief! 614 00:36:22,527 --> 00:36:24,628 He had stolen money from his boss so he was arrested. 615 00:36:24,748 --> 00:36:26,553 So he had not been making counterfeit sovereigns... 616 00:36:26,673 --> 00:36:28,529 - No! No! - Because rumour has it... 617 00:36:28,649 --> 00:36:30,512 No, brother, no! 618 00:36:30,632 --> 00:36:34,464 Are you joking? What do you know about that? 619 00:36:34,584 --> 00:36:36,561 How can such a thing happen in Greece? 620 00:36:36,681 --> 00:36:37,775 Say that again! 621 00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:39,850 How can such a thing happen in Greece? 622 00:36:41,044 --> 00:36:42,153 Say that again! 623 00:36:50,809 --> 00:36:55,146 Well that's how Anargyros recovered his peaceful sleep and snoring. 624 00:36:55,266 --> 00:36:58,266 From con-artist he became artist again 625 00:36:58,543 --> 00:37:01,728 and he restarted his old honest life... 626 00:37:06,837 --> 00:37:09,191 Perhaps only on his face 627 00:37:09,311 --> 00:37:12,979 one could discern a faint trace of melancholy 628 00:37:13,099 --> 00:37:16,018 that 'something' that remains in the heart as a feeling of bitterness 629 00:37:16,138 --> 00:37:18,776 when love comes our way and deceives us. 630 00:37:19,511 --> 00:37:21,615 Every one of us has been let down by a woman, 631 00:37:21,735 --> 00:37:23,322 by a love affair 632 00:37:23,442 --> 00:37:27,392 by a love we took it for real and came out 'counterfeit' in the end... 633 00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:29,872 Counterfeit? 634 00:37:30,263 --> 00:37:32,915 True, he still had the counterfeit sovereign on him. 635 00:37:33,491 --> 00:37:34,894 The last piece of evidence. 636 00:37:35,014 --> 00:37:36,791 Anargyros wondered what to do with it. 637 00:37:36,911 --> 00:37:38,272 He felt sorry for it. 638 00:37:38,392 --> 00:37:41,022 It was his masterpiece that couldn't pass anywhere. 639 00:37:41,142 --> 00:37:45,563 So, he decided to give it to the beggar who was a blind man after all. 640 00:37:45,826 --> 00:37:47,464 But just a few steps away 641 00:37:47,584 --> 00:37:50,238 he heard even the blind man shout... 642 00:37:50,494 --> 00:37:52,115 Hey, Mister! 643 00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:54,027 This one is counterfeit! 644 00:37:59,911 --> 00:38:03,025 The blind beggar down the corner was by no means blind. 645 00:38:03,145 --> 00:38:05,801 He was simply a professional beggar. 646 00:38:06,444 --> 00:38:10,701 Sightless! Pity the poor sightless man! 647 00:38:15,087 --> 00:38:17,756 Under his sorrowful and grave black glasses 648 00:38:17,876 --> 00:38:20,085 he was hiding an exceptionally sharp sight 649 00:38:20,205 --> 00:38:23,675 Woe betide him if the warm-hearted 650 00:38:23,795 --> 00:38:25,872 policeman of the neighbourhood ever discovered him. 651 00:38:25,992 --> 00:38:29,203 who was feeling sorry for him and let him solicit charity... 652 00:38:29,626 --> 00:38:33,368 I hear them but I can't see them! 653 00:38:33,488 --> 00:38:36,530 Here again? Didn't we say that begging is forbidden? 654 00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:39,429 - Who is it, my dear child? - It's me, the policeman. 655 00:38:39,549 --> 00:38:43,432 - Do you want me to lock you up? - If you can bear the thought... 656 00:38:43,552 --> 00:38:47,318 I don't have my eyes! I live in darkness! 657 00:38:47,438 --> 00:38:51,149 - All right! All right! Stop beefing! - Sightless! 658 00:38:55,127 --> 00:38:56,152 Well, let's see 659 00:38:56,272 --> 00:38:59,070 how long I can turn a blind eye to this... 660 00:39:00,352 --> 00:39:02,480 There you are, this is from me. 661 00:39:03,366 --> 00:39:05,095 Thank you, my dear child. 662 00:39:05,215 --> 00:39:09,159 May God take days out of my life to adorn with stripes your uniform... 663 00:39:09,756 --> 00:39:12,499 Sightless! 664 00:39:17,456 --> 00:39:20,527 God bless your soul! 665 00:39:21,891 --> 00:39:24,191 A stunner, you are! 666 00:39:24,884 --> 00:39:26,870 Long live my pasha! 667 00:39:27,919 --> 00:39:30,495 It stands to reason that such a blind man would get angry 668 00:39:30,615 --> 00:39:33,190 with the counterfeit sovereign thrown into his hat... 669 00:39:33,310 --> 00:39:35,755 Imagine! Counterfeit! For God's sake! 670 00:39:35,875 --> 00:39:37,675 What did they take him for? A blind? 671 00:39:44,394 --> 00:39:46,923 So, the counterfeit sovereign became his nightmare. 672 00:39:47,043 --> 00:39:49,994 He had forsaken his nice corner of sure income 673 00:39:50,114 --> 00:39:52,932 to wander all over Athens with his white stick 674 00:39:53,052 --> 00:39:55,609 trying to find some place to cash it in. 675 00:39:59,098 --> 00:40:02,226 Could you please change this sovereign, Miss? 676 00:40:02,346 --> 00:40:04,483 First, I'm not a Miss. 677 00:40:04,869 --> 00:40:09,448 And second, this is so much a sovereign as much I am a Miss. 678 00:40:09,917 --> 00:40:11,945 - Then what is it? - Counterfeit! 679 00:40:12,065 --> 00:40:14,282 How could I know since I can't see, my young man? 680 00:40:14,402 --> 00:40:16,445 Sightless! 681 00:40:18,869 --> 00:40:21,761 - Where did you find that? - It was sent by God. 682 00:40:21,881 --> 00:40:23,482 God doesn't make them counterfeit. 683 00:40:23,602 --> 00:40:25,233 Move on to the neighbourhood further down. 684 00:40:25,353 --> 00:40:29,269 - Where's my fault, my belle? - Mind you, I'm in no way your belle! 685 00:40:29,389 --> 00:40:33,673 Calm down, how could I know since I can't see? Sightless! 686 00:40:35,229 --> 00:40:36,371 Sorry! 687 00:40:36,491 --> 00:40:39,443 Sightless! Have mercy on the sightless! 688 00:40:39,563 --> 00:40:42,075 Sightless! Sightless! 689 00:40:42,195 --> 00:40:45,163 - Sightless! - Cool it, we can hear you! 690 00:40:45,283 --> 00:40:46,930 Dear colleague, just a moment! 691 00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:48,973 - Please. - Here, here. 692 00:40:51,930 --> 00:40:55,116 How about buying a sovereign? Because I'm a seller! 693 00:40:55,236 --> 00:40:58,644 - Sure! Where is it? - Here. 694 00:41:04,488 --> 00:41:07,816 - This is a fake. - You are a fake! 695 00:41:07,936 --> 00:41:10,416 Phoney! 696 00:41:10,536 --> 00:41:12,326 Sightless! 697 00:41:13,545 --> 00:41:17,382 This is how he used up all the day until he was overtaken by night... 698 00:41:17,502 --> 00:41:21,280 Night certainly is the right time to pass a counterfeit coin... 699 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,139 unless it is lit up. 700 00:41:23,259 --> 00:41:26,301 And our blind man cursed many times all those who 701 00:41:26,421 --> 00:41:29,349 sought to turn Athens into a modern capital 702 00:41:29,469 --> 00:41:33,459 with neon lights, fluorescent lamps and electric advertising signs... 703 00:41:33,712 --> 00:41:36,798 He'd been everywhere seeking to cash in the sovereign 704 00:41:36,918 --> 00:41:41,172 but he wandered alone through the busy streets in vain. 705 00:41:41,292 --> 00:41:43,989 Some people made fun of him, some got him wrong, 706 00:41:44,109 --> 00:41:47,249 some even sympathized with him but no one changed it for him. 707 00:41:47,369 --> 00:41:50,163 When he lost all hope of palming it off 708 00:41:50,283 --> 00:41:52,897 he came back shattered and with nerves on edge 709 00:41:53,017 --> 00:41:55,445 to his usual corner of sure income 710 00:41:55,565 --> 00:41:59,635 where, to his great surprise, found that his post was occupied 711 00:41:59,755 --> 00:42:02,384 by an other streetwalking professional... 712 00:42:05,027 --> 00:42:07,498 Handsome? Have you got a light? 713 00:42:07,618 --> 00:42:11,384 Bah, why so shy? Mummy's boy! 714 00:42:20,256 --> 00:42:22,636 Sightless! 715 00:42:22,756 --> 00:42:25,927 Pity the poor sightless man! 716 00:42:26,047 --> 00:42:27,731 God have mercy on you, poor wretch, 717 00:42:27,851 --> 00:42:29,765 'cause if you expect my mercy you'll wait for nothing. 718 00:42:29,885 --> 00:42:33,594 - I haven't even made the first sale... - The first sale? 719 00:42:33,714 --> 00:42:37,390 Why, madam? What sort of job is that of yours? 720 00:42:37,675 --> 00:42:41,475 Do you feel like blabbering? The things you hear! 721 00:42:41,595 --> 00:42:43,645 I sell saint biographies... 722 00:42:44,503 --> 00:42:45,745 Get out of here! 723 00:42:45,865 --> 00:42:47,664 Oh, I see! 724 00:42:47,784 --> 00:42:49,935 You're one of those who get dressed on credit 725 00:42:50,055 --> 00:42:51,898 and get undressed in cash... 726 00:42:52,018 --> 00:42:54,086 Why, are you annoyed with me? 727 00:42:54,206 --> 00:42:57,760 Are you from Vice Squad or a Christian Orthodox following the old calendar? 728 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,805 - Nonsense! - I'm the owner of this post! 729 00:43:00,925 --> 00:43:03,262 So shove off! 730 00:43:04,723 --> 00:43:06,438 Oh, my bones! 731 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,119 Hey, what are you doing there? 732 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,890 Why did you install yourself there like a fakir? 733 00:43:10,010 --> 00:43:12,685 I inform you that this my post from time immemorial! 734 00:43:12,805 --> 00:43:14,409 Pick up your merchandise and get lost! 735 00:43:14,529 --> 00:43:18,620 Don't say! Why not take your blind eyes and move further down the street? 736 00:43:18,740 --> 00:43:20,734 I told you once and I tell you twice, this corner is mine! 737 00:43:20,854 --> 00:43:23,806 So it is yours, huh? Where did you get that corner of yours? 738 00:43:23,926 --> 00:43:25,964 Did you purchase it from Petraki Monastery? 739 00:43:26,084 --> 00:43:28,244 No, I inherited it from my grandad! 740 00:43:28,364 --> 00:43:30,472 This post... Steps! Shut up! 741 00:43:30,592 --> 00:43:33,767 Sightless! Pity the poor sightless man! 742 00:43:33,887 --> 00:43:36,115 Handsome young man, have you got a light? 743 00:43:36,389 --> 00:43:39,604 - Go back to your mum! - Move it from here, Madam! 744 00:43:39,724 --> 00:43:41,428 You're chasing my clients away! 745 00:43:41,548 --> 00:43:43,548 - Why not you move? - Is that so? You stay out of spite? 746 00:43:43,668 --> 00:43:47,047 Streets are public property and everyone's free to pursue a professi�n! 747 00:43:47,167 --> 00:43:49,080 Get lost or I'll show you the way with my crook-staff! 748 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,885 Why? Are we going to play blind man's buff? 749 00:43:52,005 --> 00:43:54,517 How could you see where to hit me, you that you're blind as a bat? 750 00:43:54,637 --> 00:43:56,694 - I'll smash your head against the wall! - Unless you can see... 751 00:43:57,423 --> 00:43:59,663 Sightless! 752 00:44:00,437 --> 00:44:02,623 Poor me, I can't help it. 753 00:44:03,516 --> 00:44:06,330 Better to keep my anger at bay. 754 00:44:17,252 --> 00:44:19,266 Oh! I dropped a stitch. 755 00:44:21,166 --> 00:44:23,437 Oh! Now I need a new pair... 756 00:44:38,621 --> 00:44:40,150 I dropped another stitch! 757 00:44:41,378 --> 00:44:43,607 A huge hole that was! 758 00:44:44,478 --> 00:44:45,767 You, stone blind, you can see! 759 00:44:45,887 --> 00:44:47,664 Who is so blind as he that wilfully will not see! 760 00:44:47,784 --> 00:44:50,155 Are you not ashamed of cheating and pretending to be blind? 761 00:44:50,275 --> 00:44:52,501 Are you not ashamed to be a cocotte? 762 00:44:52,621 --> 00:44:55,606 - Shove off, you tramp! - Shut your trap, slu... 763 00:44:55,769 --> 00:44:59,049 I have to precipitately interrupt the unmentionable by name insults 764 00:44:59,169 --> 00:45:00,738 shouted on either side. 765 00:45:00,858 --> 00:45:04,104 The cocotte flared up because the beggar called her a cocotte. 766 00:45:04,224 --> 00:45:07,949 The beggar flared up because the cocotte called him a beggar. 767 00:45:08,264 --> 00:45:12,221 Thus, war was declared between these two professionals of the street 768 00:45:12,341 --> 00:45:14,135 that went on the following nights 769 00:45:14,255 --> 00:45:15,617 A true war! 770 00:45:15,737 --> 00:45:18,431 Until they ruined one another's jobs. 771 00:45:18,551 --> 00:45:21,298 When a passerby came nearer to the cocotte 772 00:45:21,418 --> 00:45:24,922 the beggar started wailing and spoiled any erotic mood 773 00:45:25,042 --> 00:45:28,160 and when a Christian paused for a moment near the beggar 774 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,113 the cocotte was all smiles 775 00:45:30,233 --> 00:45:33,456 that stemmed any desire for charitable deeds. 776 00:45:33,727 --> 00:45:35,256 Sightless! 777 00:45:35,376 --> 00:45:38,456 Pity the poor sightless man! 778 00:45:38,756 --> 00:45:41,374 Have you got a light, handsome young man? 779 00:45:41,494 --> 00:45:45,451 I hear them but I can't see them, poor me! 780 00:45:45,571 --> 00:45:48,868 - Or you don't have a light... - Of course I do! 781 00:45:49,939 --> 00:45:53,661 Sightless, I said! I haven't got my eyes! 782 00:45:55,129 --> 00:45:58,093 How about going to my room to have this fag at our leisure? 783 00:45:58,213 --> 00:45:59,244 Why not? 784 00:45:59,364 --> 00:46:02,828 You are Christians and should guard against sin! 785 00:46:02,948 --> 00:46:04,945 Come and I'll make you coffee. 786 00:46:05,065 --> 00:46:09,516 - From sin, I said. - A curse on you, lousy tramp! 787 00:46:09,636 --> 00:46:12,890 Bugger off or I let everybody know what sort of blind you are! 788 00:46:13,010 --> 00:46:16,430 Try it and I'll tip the policeman off what sort of honest woman you are. 789 00:46:16,550 --> 00:46:19,124 But as soon as the policeman learns that your sight is better than his... 790 00:46:19,244 --> 00:46:20,808 Shut up, you jinx! Speak of the devil, he's coming! 791 00:46:20,928 --> 00:46:22,597 - Who's coming? - The policeman! 792 00:46:25,250 --> 00:46:28,214 Be careful!... Sightless! 793 00:46:28,334 --> 00:46:30,757 Pity the poor sightless man! 794 00:46:30,877 --> 00:46:32,716 Unload the money, shell off! 795 00:46:32,836 --> 00:46:36,555 I don't have my eyes, I live in darkness! 796 00:46:36,675 --> 00:46:38,755 Here, take this, my poor man. 797 00:46:38,875 --> 00:46:40,901 You'll be damned if you don't give it back. 798 00:46:41,021 --> 00:46:43,453 - Take this one-thousand note. - Strike me blind If 799 00:46:43,573 --> 00:46:45,172 you ever see this again... Thank you, kind lady! 800 00:46:45,292 --> 00:46:49,414 God will remember your sins no more! God bless you! 801 00:46:49,534 --> 00:46:51,529 - Good evening! - Good evening! 802 00:46:51,649 --> 00:46:54,172 - Who's there, dear child? - It's me, the policeman. 803 00:46:54,292 --> 00:46:56,724 - Ah! Welcome. - Tell me... 804 00:46:56,844 --> 00:46:59,346 what sort of person is the woman that gave you alms? 805 00:46:59,466 --> 00:47:01,763 I've just been seeing her lately hanging about here. 806 00:47:01,883 --> 00:47:05,291 How could I know, Mr Policeman, since I can't see? 807 00:47:05,411 --> 00:47:08,730 - Sightless! - All right, all right! There... 808 00:47:08,850 --> 00:47:12,827 ...take this from me too - Thank you, kind sir! 809 00:47:12,947 --> 00:47:16,667 May God take days out of my life to adorn with stripes your uniform... 810 00:47:16,921 --> 00:47:18,953 Sightless! 811 00:47:19,227 --> 00:47:21,645 Yet, he would sacrifice one of his eyes 812 00:47:21,765 --> 00:47:24,281 to see her caught by the policeman and to be left in peace. 813 00:47:24,401 --> 00:47:28,165 He hated her that much! At least as much as she hated him. 814 00:47:28,285 --> 00:47:30,917 But none of them dared turn the other in 815 00:47:31,037 --> 00:47:34,403 because the well-known old saying can be applied to this case: 816 00:47:34,523 --> 00:47:37,552 'One thief will not rob another.' 817 00:47:38,859 --> 00:47:42,290 The blind man was not only wasting his nights because of the cocotte 818 00:47:42,410 --> 00:47:45,556 but he kept also wasting his days carrying on his persistent endeavour 819 00:47:45,676 --> 00:47:47,911 to change that cursed sovereign by all means possible. 820 00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:50,067 There was no place left to go... He went to barber-shops... 821 00:47:50,187 --> 00:47:52,474 haberdasheries... carpenters' workshops... 822 00:47:52,594 --> 00:47:54,869 He offered it to two hundred persons at least, 823 00:47:54,989 --> 00:47:57,846 belonging to all categories, classes and professions. 824 00:47:57,966 --> 00:48:00,878 Everywhere, always the same stereotyped answer... 825 00:48:01,664 --> 00:48:02,906 Counterfeit! 826 00:48:03,026 --> 00:48:04,178 It's impossible! 827 00:48:04,298 --> 00:48:07,992 There should be at least one idiot among two-hundred who could be deceived. 828 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,820 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pthu 829 00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:15,477 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, pthu, 11 830 00:48:15,597 --> 00:48:18,130 12, 13, 14, 15, pthu 831 00:48:18,250 --> 00:48:20,372 - But this is counterfeit! - Pthuuu! 832 00:48:21,871 --> 00:48:22,958 It can't be helped! 833 00:48:23,078 --> 00:48:25,512 It was his fate not to for once and for all 834 00:48:25,632 --> 00:48:28,139 get rid of either the sovereign or the cocotte... 835 00:48:28,259 --> 00:48:30,310 But... just a minute... 836 00:48:30,430 --> 00:48:34,441 why didn't this cross his mind before? To give the sovereign to the cocotte... 837 00:48:34,561 --> 00:48:36,790 This brilliant idea came to him as a sudden inspiration... 838 00:48:36,910 --> 00:48:40,447 Only a cocotte wouldn't care to examine carefully a coin 839 00:48:40,567 --> 00:48:44,193 and it would be late when she might discover it, 840 00:48:44,313 --> 00:48:45,537 too late! 841 00:48:45,794 --> 00:48:48,958 Besides, this would be like taking a not so disagreeable revenge, 842 00:48:49,078 --> 00:48:50,917 combining business with pleasure... 843 00:48:51,037 --> 00:48:52,047 Hey, what are you looking at? 844 00:48:52,167 --> 00:48:55,247 - What the hell are you looking at? - Why, is it forbidden? 845 00:48:55,367 --> 00:48:56,746 I'm a human being after all! 846 00:48:56,866 --> 00:48:59,005 Every now and then... 'I have to stretch out my stockings', 847 00:48:59,125 --> 00:49:00,405 'I have to pull up my socks,' 848 00:49:00,525 --> 00:49:02,765 'I dropped a stitch here,' 'I dropped a stitch there...' 849 00:49:02,885 --> 00:49:04,247 The temptation is strong... 850 00:49:04,367 --> 00:49:06,894 We're young, we got eyes and we can see you! 851 00:49:07,014 --> 00:49:09,315 Sightless! 852 00:49:09,815 --> 00:49:13,501 - Handsome young man? - Go back to your mummy too... 853 00:49:13,621 --> 00:49:15,901 - No joy, eh? - Silly! 854 00:49:19,147 --> 00:49:21,220 Well, where did we stop at? 855 00:49:21,340 --> 00:49:24,697 Screw you, lousy beggar, you dare give me the glad eye! 856 00:49:24,817 --> 00:49:27,674 Why? Don't you fancy us, Madame de Boubadour? 857 00:49:27,794 --> 00:49:29,183 Look at your face! 858 00:49:29,303 --> 00:49:31,855 Look at your dog face seeking romance? 859 00:49:31,975 --> 00:49:36,029 Attagirl! Keep speaking to me so smoothly. 860 00:49:36,165 --> 00:49:38,746 Who spoke of romance, Ms 'Crowded Avenue'? 861 00:49:38,866 --> 00:49:40,747 What are you speaking of, then? 862 00:49:40,867 --> 00:49:42,024 Money. 863 00:49:42,898 --> 00:49:44,533 Better gather your chicken feed 864 00:49:44,653 --> 00:49:47,240 and go buy yourself an aspirin to soothe away dizziness. 865 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:48,999 Chicken feed, eh? 866 00:49:49,851 --> 00:49:53,616 Poor girl! If you only knew how much I make all day long while you... 867 00:49:53,736 --> 00:49:56,455 Get off my back, mangy beggar! I'm not in your high spirits tonight. 868 00:49:56,575 --> 00:50:00,604 Slack business, eh? Nobody shows up at this late hour... 869 00:50:00,989 --> 00:50:03,775 Now then... it's time to learn how much I make a day. 870 00:50:03,895 --> 00:50:06,025 About a gold sovereign. 871 00:50:07,489 --> 00:50:09,746 - Do you know the old saying? - What old saying? 872 00:50:09,866 --> 00:50:12,548 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. 873 00:50:12,668 --> 00:50:15,134 Forget the horses and look at the sovereign. 874 00:50:15,558 --> 00:50:19,623 - What? Bring it over here. - No way. Keep a safe distance. 875 00:50:19,743 --> 00:50:21,643 - Where did you steal it from? - Me? 876 00:50:21,763 --> 00:50:23,616 Thanks to my honest labour. 877 00:50:23,736 --> 00:50:26,707 I invest my savings in gold... 878 00:50:27,286 --> 00:50:30,317 That means... you're speaking seriously? 879 00:50:30,437 --> 00:50:31,989 Ah! We changed our mind? 880 00:50:32,109 --> 00:50:35,556 - Am I good-looking now? - You're hot! 881 00:50:35,676 --> 00:50:37,400 You'll give me the change from the sovereign? 882 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,090 What change? Where to find it? 883 00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:43,472 Never mind... I owe you. Future payments are due to you. 884 00:50:43,592 --> 00:50:48,046 - Will you make me a coffee? - A whole cauldron to swim in. 885 00:50:48,662 --> 00:50:50,254 - Sightless! - Not now silly... 886 00:50:50,374 --> 00:50:52,620 Let's go now before that policeman comes 887 00:50:52,740 --> 00:50:55,847 cause he's hounding me lately. - That's because you're a sucker. 888 00:50:55,967 --> 00:50:58,408 I've even talked him into giving me alms... 889 00:50:58,528 --> 00:51:02,670 We can't all be as smart as you are, my little bird... 890 00:51:02,790 --> 00:51:06,116 There! I've become a little bird! 891 00:51:06,236 --> 00:51:09,787 Come on and I'll give you some birdseed... 892 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,086 Be quiet, so we won't wake the people upstairs. 893 00:51:26,206 --> 00:51:29,871 - Where's your room? - Into the yard, down to the basement. 894 00:51:45,739 --> 00:51:49,668 - Oh! A dragon's snoring. - No, it's my landlady. 895 00:51:50,139 --> 00:51:54,325 - Don't hurry so much. - I'm in a hurry, take my word for that. 896 00:51:54,575 --> 00:51:57,975 Prostitution... Let's not judge too harshly. 897 00:51:58,246 --> 00:52:02,331 It has its place in society too ever since society was made. 898 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:03,849 How many unloved, 899 00:52:03,969 --> 00:52:05,946 how many handicapped, how many underprivileged 900 00:52:06,066 --> 00:52:10,010 have been looking for love in the paid illusi�n of a flesh without soul 901 00:52:10,130 --> 00:52:13,484 thirsty for a few moments of human tenderness... 902 00:52:14,055 --> 00:52:17,776 How many unable to be loved have paid for this false warmth 903 00:52:17,896 --> 00:52:22,043 against this dubious scenery which is always the same everywhere, 904 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,786 in all corners of the worid... 905 00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:28,093 A cheap room, a double bed... 906 00:52:28,450 --> 00:52:31,479 A kitschy lampshade, usually red... 907 00:52:31,778 --> 00:52:33,107 and a little of imagination... 908 00:52:33,227 --> 00:52:36,138 The work of imagination is what most matters, after all. 909 00:52:36,424 --> 00:52:40,538 As Diogenes said "All women are the same, when the candle goes out." 910 00:52:40,658 --> 00:52:43,867 As regards paying... the matter is not so important. 911 00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:47,762 Men always pay, beyond prostitution as well. 912 00:52:47,882 --> 00:52:50,061 The baker, the butcher... 913 00:52:50,181 --> 00:52:53,189 the jeweller, the power company, the rent... 914 00:52:53,309 --> 00:52:56,785 Cocottes are in this regard more sincere and more affordable... 915 00:52:56,905 --> 00:52:59,804 They demand a fixed price... 916 00:53:29,958 --> 00:53:32,971 I reckon you won't be going without leaving the sovereign with me. 917 00:53:33,091 --> 00:53:34,113 What? 918 00:53:34,958 --> 00:53:37,811 It's all right! Let me put on my clothes, we got plenty of time... 919 00:53:37,931 --> 00:53:39,545 What plenty of time? Dawn has broken. 920 00:53:39,665 --> 00:53:43,843 Be nice and leave as soon as possible to let me sleep a little more... 921 00:53:45,169 --> 00:53:48,083 Oh, I'm so sleepy! 922 00:53:56,443 --> 00:53:59,500 You're a fine girl, you know. 923 00:54:00,285 --> 00:54:03,449 - What's your name? - Maria. 924 00:54:03,569 --> 00:54:05,339 How strange life is! 925 00:54:05,459 --> 00:54:08,050 We hated each other so much, till yesterday. 926 00:54:08,170 --> 00:54:09,936 Still, today... How can I put it? 927 00:54:10,056 --> 00:54:13,187 I regret treating you so nastily from the very first time I met you. 928 00:54:13,307 --> 00:54:15,993 Let bygones be bygones. We've called a truce. 929 00:54:16,113 --> 00:54:19,203 Come on, hand over the sovereign and you'll be okay. 930 00:54:19,323 --> 00:54:21,003 All about money, eh? 931 00:54:21,377 --> 00:54:24,492 I wish I had a whole lot of money... 932 00:54:24,612 --> 00:54:27,477 First of all, I wouldn't be that rotten cheat I am. 933 00:54:27,597 --> 00:54:29,258 Now you'd be right to ask why I had to act the blind... 934 00:54:29,378 --> 00:54:31,954 Firstly, out of laziness, secondly, I had another thought. 935 00:54:32,074 --> 00:54:35,437 Cannot one million of idiots in Athens help a smart one make a living? 936 00:54:35,557 --> 00:54:38,285 As for you... I'd make you swim in gold. 937 00:54:38,405 --> 00:54:40,545 I'd give you anything your heart desires 938 00:54:40,665 --> 00:54:41,914 I really mean it. 939 00:54:42,528 --> 00:54:46,128 Tell me Maria, what would you do if you had a lot of money? 940 00:54:47,342 --> 00:54:50,413 I'd sleep all alone. 941 00:54:51,036 --> 00:54:52,905 You're right. 942 00:54:53,371 --> 00:54:55,368 Let's give you the sovereign to get it over with. 943 00:54:55,488 --> 00:54:57,185 Life's that cruel. 944 00:55:06,053 --> 00:55:08,000 - Where's the sovereign? - I have holes in my pocket. 945 00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:09,542 You think it dropped off somewhere in here? 946 00:55:09,662 --> 00:55:12,267 I'm turning my clothes into rags, you see, for professional reasons. 947 00:55:12,387 --> 00:55:14,988 It must have slipped off me in the street. 948 00:55:15,531 --> 00:55:17,874 Don't search for it in vain, Maria... 949 00:55:17,994 --> 00:55:20,288 It seems I wasn't meant to cheat you. 950 00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,901 To cheat me? What are you trying to say? 951 00:55:23,021 --> 00:55:26,559 Whether taking it or not it would be just the same. 952 00:55:26,762 --> 00:55:28,036 Why? 953 00:55:28,968 --> 00:55:31,683 - It was counterfeit. - Counterfeit? 954 00:55:31,939 --> 00:55:33,582 So you tried to fool me! 955 00:55:33,702 --> 00:55:36,031 So I slept with you for free, bastard! 956 00:55:36,151 --> 00:55:38,534 - You, shameless dirty beggar! - Watch you tongue! 957 00:55:38,654 --> 00:55:40,798 Calling me a dirty beggar! Are you any better? 958 00:55:40,918 --> 00:55:42,350 What am I? I'm just a decent cocotte! 959 00:55:42,470 --> 00:55:43,999 - What wrong have I done to you? - What wrong? 960 00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:46,017 You and your whim to take my spot! 961 00:55:46,137 --> 00:55:48,348 It was a big thing to move a little further down the street! 962 00:55:48,468 --> 00:55:50,197 - You slag! - How dare you? 963 00:55:50,317 --> 00:55:52,850 I'll smash your head in! Dirty beggar! 964 00:55:53,704 --> 00:55:56,478 You're going to kill me! Stop it, bitch! 965 00:55:59,585 --> 00:56:02,436 A slag! This is what you are! 966 00:56:02,556 --> 00:56:04,670 God help you, if I open my mouth 967 00:56:04,790 --> 00:56:06,313 and the policeman finds it out. 968 00:56:06,433 --> 00:56:08,471 He'll pick you up and lock you up. 969 00:56:08,591 --> 00:56:10,680 And you, that he turns a blind eye to you, you dirty beggar, 970 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,945 you lousy cheat, what's he going to do with you 971 00:56:13,065 --> 00:56:15,476 when he finds out you see better than him? 972 00:56:15,596 --> 00:56:16,964 There, take this! 973 00:56:17,084 --> 00:56:19,421 They're going to kill one another. Why don't you do anything, Mr Policeman? 974 00:56:19,541 --> 00:56:21,031 I'm examining the situation, madam. 975 00:56:21,151 --> 00:56:22,535 - Where's the door? - Over there. 976 00:56:22,655 --> 00:56:25,252 Let's hope that we'll get rid of that immoral woman. 977 00:56:25,372 --> 00:56:26,463 Dirty beggar! 978 00:56:26,583 --> 00:56:28,648 Scoundrel, to call me a slut! 979 00:56:28,768 --> 00:56:31,905 I'll scratch your eyes out! For real! Scoundrel! 980 00:56:32,025 --> 00:56:34,137 Hands off, bitch! My glasses, my tools of work! 981 00:56:35,976 --> 00:56:38,605 - Who's there? - Police! Open the door! 982 00:56:40,762 --> 00:56:43,348 Open the door, I said! In the name of the law! 983 00:56:43,468 --> 00:56:46,100 All right! We're not scared of you! 984 00:56:46,220 --> 00:56:48,074 I'm no stranger to adversity! 985 00:56:49,259 --> 00:56:50,257 There... 986 00:56:51,681 --> 00:56:53,753 Bright and early... 987 00:56:53,873 --> 00:56:57,374 - So this is the job you do. - What job did you think I do? 988 00:56:57,609 --> 00:57:00,377 To hold the candles at Holy Week processi�n? 989 00:57:00,497 --> 00:57:02,097 Come on! Let's go the police station. 990 00:57:02,217 --> 00:57:03,625 - All right, don't shout! - Put something on you. 991 00:57:03,745 --> 00:57:06,042 Thank you for caring about me so I won't catch a cold. 992 00:57:06,162 --> 00:57:08,171 - Be quick! - All right. 993 00:57:09,809 --> 00:57:12,573 As for you, Mr Blind, that I was even giving you alms... 994 00:57:12,693 --> 00:57:16,012 The eye of justice sees everything. (in ancient Greek, Menander's dictum) 995 00:57:16,132 --> 00:57:18,047 Sightless! 996 00:57:18,167 --> 00:57:20,419 You dare try to make fun of me, eh? 997 00:57:20,697 --> 00:57:22,081 Come on! Get moving! 998 00:57:22,201 --> 00:57:24,267 Why are you in such a hurry, poor soul? 999 00:57:24,387 --> 00:57:26,110 Get moving! 1000 00:57:26,230 --> 00:57:29,019 - Get moving, I said! - Sightless! 1001 00:57:29,139 --> 00:57:31,019 Don't 'sightless' me and move on! 1002 00:57:31,139 --> 00:57:33,593 So the dark corner was deserted... 1003 00:57:33,713 --> 00:57:36,254 An endless rain started falling monotonously 1004 00:57:36,374 --> 00:57:38,517 but there's no reason to feel melancholy 1005 00:57:38,637 --> 00:57:40,834 Rain is not always melancholic... 1006 00:57:40,954 --> 00:57:44,044 Sometimes, it is needed to wash the dirt away from the pavement. 1007 00:57:44,164 --> 00:57:47,844 Neither the cocotte nor the blind beggar showed up again. 1008 00:57:47,964 --> 00:57:51,429 Only the sovereign, that dropped from the hole of the pocket, was left there. 1009 00:57:51,549 --> 00:57:53,782 Only to be found a while later by someone else 1010 00:57:53,902 --> 00:57:55,994 because as we said in the beginning 1011 00:57:56,114 --> 00:57:59,591 a counterfeit coin is never wasted. 1012 00:58:15,756 --> 00:58:17,640 The story I'm going to tell you 1013 00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:21,330 begins a long time ago in a poor neighbourhood 1014 00:58:21,450 --> 00:58:24,534 deep within a back yard that was buzzing like a beehive 1015 00:58:24,654 --> 00:58:28,594 with cheer and children's games. 1016 00:58:30,623 --> 00:58:33,656 In that picturesque scene of poverty, 1017 00:58:33,776 --> 00:58:36,844 there was a little girl, little Fani 1018 00:58:36,964 --> 00:58:39,427 who was living happily. 1019 00:58:45,185 --> 00:58:46,437 Little Fani! 1020 00:58:46,557 --> 00:58:48,160 What are you doing there, my little girl? 1021 00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:49,941 Shoo! Go away! Go! 1022 00:58:50,061 --> 00:58:51,610 Feeding kitties again? 1023 00:58:51,730 --> 00:58:55,480 - But the cat is hungry, mummy! - Yes but she can't have your bread! 1024 00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,648 Poor father does not work all day to feed alley cats! 1025 00:58:58,768 --> 00:59:00,960 - Eh, my little doll? - Yes, mummy. 1026 00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,517 That's a good girl! Now, you have it! 1027 00:59:07,942 --> 00:59:10,881 - Little Fani! - The doll! The doll! 1028 00:59:11,170 --> 00:59:12,785 Eep! What do I get first? 1029 00:59:12,905 --> 00:59:14,162 A little kiss. 1030 00:59:14,282 --> 00:59:16,507 Ah, my little �ngel! Ah, my little doll! 1031 00:59:16,627 --> 00:59:18,747 Now take yours. 1032 00:59:20,592 --> 00:59:22,541 Mummy! Mummy! 1033 00:59:22,661 --> 00:59:26,308 Back then, little Fani was carefree with her mummy and her dad 1034 00:59:26,428 --> 00:59:29,571 and all were living together happily in the small room of the yard. 1035 00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:31,686 Father was a hand-to-mouth whitewasher. 1036 00:59:31,806 --> 00:59:34,754 He was working hard with his brushes and his whitewash 1037 00:59:34,874 --> 00:59:36,564 but with the little money he made 1038 00:59:36,684 --> 00:59:38,412 the tiny room lacked nothing 1039 00:59:38,532 --> 00:59:40,006 and got its monthly paint refresh 1040 00:59:40,126 --> 00:59:44,846 shining like a pure white picture of family happiness. 1041 00:59:45,133 --> 00:59:48,557 The whitewasher wanted to be that pure in his life too. 1042 00:59:48,677 --> 00:59:50,843 He despised being in anyone's debt, 1043 00:59:50,963 --> 00:59:53,707 and if sometimes there was an unpaid bill 1044 00:59:53,827 --> 00:59:56,504 he had his whitewash brush at hand to write-off the debt... 1045 00:59:56,624 --> 00:59:58,074 Hey, Mr Panagiotis! 1046 00:59:58,826 --> 01:00:00,595 I have a debt to your shop. 1047 01:00:00,715 --> 01:00:02,621 Shall I whitewash it and get even? 1048 01:00:02,856 --> 01:00:06,565 - Are you out of work again, Anastasis? - Crisis! Crisis, Mr Panagiotis! 1049 01:00:06,685 --> 01:00:08,463 Fill our bottle with olive-oil too 1050 01:00:08,583 --> 01:00:11,983 and you'll get a first-class whitewashing for nothing! 1051 01:00:12,103 --> 01:00:14,822 All right, I'll do it for you sake. Fani, give me that bottle! 1052 01:00:16,970 --> 01:00:20,167 Anastasis' brush was joyfully erasing the debts. 1053 01:00:20,287 --> 01:00:23,179 So, employing this strategy, the conscientious hard-working man 1054 01:00:23,299 --> 01:00:25,128 he was, more or less, making ends meet. 1055 01:00:29,500 --> 01:00:31,283 Nobody ever said no to him. 1056 01:00:31,531 --> 01:00:34,003 Whitewashing for almost nothing 1057 01:00:34,123 --> 01:00:36,999 was really appreciated by all tidy shopkeepers. 1058 01:00:37,119 --> 01:00:40,729 So the whitewash brush made wonders in all times of difficulty 1059 01:00:40,849 --> 01:00:42,921 and did justice to Anastasis 1060 01:00:43,041 --> 01:00:44,727 even at the corner shop 1061 01:00:44,847 --> 01:00:47,852 where Fani, his little �ngel, got her caramels from. 1062 01:00:49,893 --> 01:00:54,962 So, Anastasis had made it to whitewash all neighbourhood's shops in a row. 1063 01:00:59,315 --> 01:01:01,630 However, there was one and only man that 1064 01:01:01,750 --> 01:01:04,776 couldn't be trifled with whitewashing and remained dark and dismal. 1065 01:01:04,896 --> 01:01:07,436 His landlord, Mr Mavrides (Mr Black)... 1066 01:01:07,556 --> 01:01:09,006 I'm in no need of whitewashing! 1067 01:01:09,126 --> 01:01:11,176 I don't want it. I want the rent, the money! 1068 01:01:11,296 --> 01:01:12,308 What a nerve! 1069 01:01:12,428 --> 01:01:14,164 To turn me into a construction site for paying me off! 1070 01:01:14,284 --> 01:01:16,699 But, Mr Mavrides, you own the whole block 1071 01:01:16,819 --> 01:01:20,028 and you haven't had your house painted since the First Worid War! 1072 01:01:20,148 --> 01:01:22,824 That's how I like it! Right! From the First Worid War! 1073 01:01:22,944 --> 01:01:25,305 It's my right! It's my house! I can set it on fire if I like to! 1074 01:01:25,425 --> 01:01:27,330 All right, Mr Mavrides! Don't get upset! 1075 01:01:27,450 --> 01:01:28,493 You'll have a stroke! 1076 01:01:28,613 --> 01:01:30,504 Help yourself to one of those, you jinx! 1077 01:01:30,624 --> 01:01:33,600 - The same thing every first of month! - I've got no money, Mr Mavrides! 1078 01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,385 - How can I find it? - By hook or by crook! 1079 01:01:35,505 --> 01:01:36,744 Get the money by tomorrow, 1080 01:01:36,864 --> 01:01:39,868 or I'll summon you and have you evicted! 1081 01:01:40,976 --> 01:01:43,316 You won't have my head, I'll have yours! 1082 01:01:43,603 --> 01:01:45,574 - The rent, Miss Maria. - I have it ready for you. 1083 01:01:45,694 --> 01:01:46,897 Please, come in. 1084 01:01:48,010 --> 01:01:49,966 The old miser! 1085 01:01:50,086 --> 01:01:53,164 For 30 lousy drachmas you'll end up homeless! 1086 01:01:53,284 --> 01:01:54,872 I'm sure of that. 1087 01:01:54,992 --> 01:01:56,733 The other day he took Pantelis to court. 1088 01:01:56,853 --> 01:02:00,386 His furniture was taken outside, in the street, Anastasis! 1089 01:02:00,506 --> 01:02:02,484 - In the street! - The rascal! 1090 01:02:02,604 --> 01:02:05,719 Spoiled my appetite! Damned old stiff! 1091 01:02:05,839 --> 01:02:08,019 He has neither children nor pets, no one to inherit his fortune. 1092 01:02:08,139 --> 01:02:10,344 Will he take all that money to the grave? 1093 01:02:10,464 --> 01:02:13,475 He also makes loans with interest! He sucks people's blood! 1094 01:02:13,595 --> 01:02:15,591 By God, Mr Anastasis! 1095 01:02:15,711 --> 01:02:17,990 - He sucks people's blood! - I know! 1096 01:02:18,110 --> 01:02:20,111 He can even kill for a drachma! 1097 01:02:20,231 --> 01:02:23,192 Come, my Fani! Eat up now! 1098 01:02:23,445 --> 01:02:26,541 - No more, mummy! - Eat up, my sweet, please! 1099 01:02:26,661 --> 01:02:30,382 Eat it or I'll call Mr Mavrides and he'll eat it and you along, too! 1100 01:02:30,502 --> 01:02:34,490 Does he really kill people and drink their blood, dad? 1101 01:02:34,610 --> 01:02:35,544 Sure he does! 1102 01:02:35,664 --> 01:02:38,982 He makes a mouthful of children who don't eat up! 1103 01:02:39,102 --> 01:02:40,337 Haap! 1104 01:02:41,515 --> 01:02:43,584 Come now, eat! Eat! He's gone! 1105 01:02:43,704 --> 01:02:45,524 Eat or he'll suck you all in! 1106 01:02:45,644 --> 01:02:49,962 So, Mr Mavrides became Fani's bogeyman or nigger (sic!) 1107 01:02:50,222 --> 01:02:54,929 or whatever stupidity grownups traumatize children's souls with. 1108 01:02:55,049 --> 01:02:58,039 Every night she had a horrible nightmare: 1109 01:02:58,351 --> 01:03:00,948 You won't have my head, I'll have yours! 1110 01:03:01,068 --> 01:03:03,333 The rent! I want the rent! 1111 01:03:03,453 --> 01:03:05,546 You won't have my head, I'll have yours! 1112 01:03:11,321 --> 01:03:13,989 - What is it my child? - Mr Mavrides! 1113 01:03:14,109 --> 01:03:16,244 Calm down, now! It was only a dream! 1114 01:03:16,364 --> 01:03:18,472 Mr Mavrides! 1115 01:03:18,592 --> 01:03:21,009 In other words, Fani was so scared of him 1116 01:03:21,129 --> 01:03:24,699 that she imagined Mr Mavrides not as human anymore 1117 01:03:24,819 --> 01:03:28,700 but as a fairytale dragon killing people and sucking blood. 1118 01:03:29,049 --> 01:03:32,652 Well well well now! Who's this nice little girl? 1119 01:03:36,167 --> 01:03:37,894 Good heavens! 1120 01:03:44,027 --> 01:03:46,867 - What's this smell? - Our meal, Vasilis dear! It's ready. 1121 01:03:46,987 --> 01:03:48,220 I know that. 1122 01:03:48,340 --> 01:03:50,547 But what's the menu? Smells like meat. 1123 01:03:50,667 --> 01:03:52,407 - It is meat, dear. - Why? 1124 01:03:52,527 --> 01:03:54,181 We had meat the day before yesterday. Again? 1125 01:03:54,301 --> 01:03:57,905 It's not the end of the worid, Vasilis dear! 1126 01:03:58,025 --> 01:04:01,165 I thought of making your favourite roast beef. 1127 01:04:01,285 --> 01:04:03,558 It's not my favourite! How can that be? 1128 01:04:03,678 --> 01:04:06,906 At 42 drachmas a pound! How can it be my favourite? 1129 01:04:07,634 --> 01:04:09,760 Just think of it! 42 a pound! 1130 01:04:11,210 --> 01:04:12,801 - How much did you get? - A pound. 1131 01:04:12,921 --> 01:04:15,410 - A pound? Why? - How much should I get? 1132 01:04:15,438 --> 01:04:17,372 300 drams would suit us fine! There's only two of us! 1133 01:04:17,492 --> 01:04:20,232 But we have a visitor today, did you forget? 1134 01:04:20,721 --> 01:04:22,317 Your nephew, Kostas. 1135 01:04:22,437 --> 01:04:24,237 That phoney lawyer? How about that? 1136 01:04:24,357 --> 01:04:25,764 Does he have meat at home daily 1137 01:04:25,884 --> 01:04:27,995 always fishing for clients, this good-for-nothing? 1138 01:04:28,115 --> 01:04:29,535 He's family, Vasilis dear! 1139 01:04:29,655 --> 01:04:32,943 You never pay him for his services to you as a solicitor. 1140 01:04:33,063 --> 01:04:34,685 Pity me if I had to pay my nephews! 1141 01:04:34,805 --> 01:04:36,312 Why spend money over Kostas? 1142 01:04:36,432 --> 01:04:38,740 Meat! Just think of that! 42 a pound! 1143 01:04:38,860 --> 01:04:40,904 No more, Vasilis dear! That's enough! 1144 01:04:41,024 --> 01:04:44,258 Stop it! I can't stand it anymore! 1145 01:04:44,378 --> 01:04:46,975 Now, wait a minute, woman. What's with you? 1146 01:04:47,095 --> 01:04:50,043 What's with me, Vasilis dear? I can't stand hearing you anymore! 1147 01:04:50,163 --> 01:04:52,767 Why meat, how much for meat... 1148 01:04:52,887 --> 01:04:55,506 Why take this, why choose that... 1149 01:04:55,626 --> 01:04:59,008 I can't stand it. Too much simmering for me all these years! 1150 01:04:59,128 --> 01:05:01,862 Come now, Evanthia, stop crying. 1151 01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:06,978 No, let me! All these years I've had this need to speak out! 1152 01:05:07,098 --> 01:05:11,482 Or did we ever have a child to inherit us? 1153 01:05:11,802 --> 01:05:15,112 You didn't even give me that, out of thrift! 1154 01:05:15,232 --> 01:05:18,565 You big penny-pincher� 1155 01:05:18,846 --> 01:05:20,315 Come on, woman. 1156 01:05:20,435 --> 01:05:23,553 Why grudge me? Do I not love you? 1157 01:05:23,853 --> 01:05:25,573 Did I ever flirt around? 1158 01:05:25,693 --> 01:05:28,205 No, Vasilis. You are a good man. 1159 01:05:28,325 --> 01:05:31,451 Good but... money�. 1160 01:05:31,571 --> 01:05:35,421 If not for this handicap of yours, we'd be so happy. 1161 01:05:35,541 --> 01:05:39,062 What's with all our fortune, and owning the whole block 1162 01:05:39,182 --> 01:05:41,081 and all the rents we collect? 1163 01:05:41,416 --> 01:05:43,666 Look in the yard! 1164 01:05:43,937 --> 01:05:45,992 The whitewasher and his wife are richer, 1165 01:05:46,112 --> 01:05:49,257 without a dime but with their girl, 1166 01:05:49,377 --> 01:05:51,027 their little �ngel! 1167 01:06:04,011 --> 01:06:07,764 She really looks like an �ngel, a pretty little girl! 1168 01:06:07,884 --> 01:06:10,152 I really feel like stroking her head when I meet her 1169 01:06:10,272 --> 01:06:11,676 But she always starts shrieking! 1170 01:06:11,796 --> 01:06:13,847 Why, Vasilis dear? What's she got against you? 1171 01:06:13,967 --> 01:06:15,050 I wish I knew! 1172 01:06:15,488 --> 01:06:18,613 - Your nephew, Kostas! - Okay, let him in. 1173 01:06:23,702 --> 01:06:26,145 Hello, Kostas! Welcome, dear boy! 1174 01:06:26,265 --> 01:06:27,626 Good morning, auntie! 1175 01:06:29,567 --> 01:06:30,730 I'll be right back! 1176 01:06:30,850 --> 01:06:32,608 - Good morning, uncle! - Welcome, dear Kostas. 1177 01:06:32,728 --> 01:06:34,148 How are you, uncle? 1178 01:06:34,268 --> 01:06:37,379 Can you smell it? Nice and roasted meat! 1179 01:06:38,070 --> 01:06:39,705 Come, have a seat! 1180 01:06:39,825 --> 01:06:42,416 Rent controls! Why rent controls? 1181 01:06:42,536 --> 01:06:44,640 It's a public necessity, uncle! A housing shortage issue! 1182 01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:46,659 So much for a lawyer to speak like that! 1183 01:06:46,779 --> 01:06:49,069 Three dimes for a rent, 42 drachmas a pound for meat! 1184 01:06:49,189 --> 01:06:52,085 Merchants raise flannel prices, shoemakers revel in theirs! 1185 01:06:52,399 --> 01:06:55,679 Public necessity indeed! Then not only rent controls 1186 01:06:55,799 --> 01:06:59,298 but also 'meat controls', 'flannel controls' and 'shoe controls'! 1187 01:06:59,418 --> 01:07:01,302 - Have another orange! - Thanks. 1188 01:07:03,378 --> 01:07:06,977 Now... for evictions... 1189 01:07:07,219 --> 01:07:11,200 Two are next in line: A greengrocer and a whitewasher. 1190 01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:14,085 - What? Are you having them evicted? - Since they don't pay� 1191 01:07:14,205 --> 01:07:16,815 No, Vasilis dear. It's a sin! They're poor people. 1192 01:07:16,935 --> 01:07:19,538 Hold it, woman! They are staying for free by the damned rent control! 1193 01:07:19,658 --> 01:07:22,331 - Should I treat them to it? - Don't be cruel, Vasilis dear! 1194 01:07:22,451 --> 01:07:26,250 No court yet. Ask them once again! 1195 01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,703 Please, do it for the little girl! 1196 01:07:29,945 --> 01:07:32,142 Don't I deserve a favour, then? 1197 01:07:32,401 --> 01:07:34,696 Well, all right! For your sake. 1198 01:07:35,395 --> 01:07:37,678 Don't proceed evicting them. 1199 01:07:37,798 --> 01:07:40,099 - I'll try once more. - All right, uncle. 1200 01:07:43,123 --> 01:07:44,700 Come on, kitty! 1201 01:07:44,820 --> 01:07:48,873 Now, that mum and dad are out I'll feed you a plentiful of bread! 1202 01:07:49,401 --> 01:07:51,933 Eat it now! Why don't you? 1203 01:07:52,357 --> 01:07:54,359 You're a bad kitty, you know that? 1204 01:07:54,729 --> 01:07:57,540 Eat up or I'll call Mr Mavrides 1205 01:07:57,660 --> 01:08:00,079 and he'll have it and eat you along, too! 1206 01:08:00,199 --> 01:08:01,957 Good morning, Mr Mavrides! 1207 01:08:02,077 --> 01:08:04,528 You still owe me some stamp duty, Miss Maria, don't forget that. 1208 01:08:11,654 --> 01:08:15,021 Come on, kitty, eat it! 1209 01:08:18,984 --> 01:08:21,537 Well well well, they left you all alone here? 1210 01:08:21,657 --> 01:08:23,316 Anybody else here? 1211 01:08:23,436 --> 01:08:26,447 Shush, don't shriek! 1212 01:08:27,816 --> 01:08:31,067 Why start shouting whenever you see me, honey? 1213 01:08:31,824 --> 01:08:33,308 Are you playing here with the kitty? 1214 01:08:38,469 --> 01:08:40,138 Good Heavens! 1215 01:08:40,258 --> 01:08:43,591 Hey, lass, why hide under the bed? 1216 01:08:45,893 --> 01:08:48,307 Come out, honey, I won't eat you! 1217 01:08:48,427 --> 01:08:50,355 You're lying, you'll eat me! 1218 01:08:50,475 --> 01:08:53,107 What's that talk, now? Why, sweetie? 1219 01:08:53,227 --> 01:08:56,692 - Anyone told you that I eat people? - Yes, and you suck their blood, too. 1220 01:08:57,056 --> 01:09:01,362 - Who says I do? - Mum and dad, and everyone else. 1221 01:09:01,482 --> 01:09:03,252 Nobody loves you in this yard 1222 01:09:03,372 --> 01:09:05,834 because every month you come asking for the rent. 1223 01:09:05,954 --> 01:09:06,975 Really? 1224 01:09:08,711 --> 01:09:11,693 - Is that why you don't love me, too? - Yes. 1225 01:09:11,813 --> 01:09:15,160 - Because I'm afraid you'll eat me! - Don't worry, I won't. 1226 01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:18,373 I'm very fond of you. Is this your dolly? 1227 01:09:18,493 --> 01:09:21,836 This is it. Dad gave it to me and I gave him a kiss. 1228 01:09:21,956 --> 01:09:24,771 What about me? If I let go off the rent, would you give me a kiss? 1229 01:09:24,891 --> 01:09:26,107 - No. - Why? 1230 01:09:26,227 --> 01:09:28,652 Because you'd never let go off the rent. 1231 01:09:28,772 --> 01:09:30,896 - You're a miser! - A miser? 1232 01:09:31,016 --> 01:09:32,423 Is that what your parents call me? 1233 01:09:32,543 --> 01:09:35,781 Yes and my dad says that you're a damned old stiff 1234 01:09:35,901 --> 01:09:38,398 who will die and take your money to the grave! 1235 01:09:38,518 --> 01:09:39,819 Your dad should bite his tongue, all right! 1236 01:09:39,939 --> 01:09:42,158 You won't have my head, I'll have yours! 1237 01:09:42,278 --> 01:09:43,983 Don't eat me, Mr Mavrides! 1238 01:09:44,103 --> 01:09:46,687 Help! He's eating me! 1239 01:09:46,807 --> 01:09:48,440 - Fani! - Mummy! 1240 01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:50,677 - What's going on, sweetie? - Is that so, madam? 1241 01:09:50,797 --> 01:09:52,979 I'm a miser who'll take his money to the grave? 1242 01:09:53,099 --> 01:09:56,104 - Who says such things Mr Mavrides? - You, your husband and the whole yard! 1243 01:09:56,224 --> 01:09:57,541 - This child told me. - Did she now? 1244 01:09:57,661 --> 01:09:59,453 A child and a moron always speak the truth! 1245 01:09:59,573 --> 01:10:02,093 - No, Mr Ma� - What's all this fuss about? 1246 01:10:02,695 --> 01:10:05,235 Hold your horses, Mr Mavrides, 1247 01:10:05,355 --> 01:10:07,297 harassing my wife and child! 1248 01:10:07,417 --> 01:10:09,076 Daddy, daddy! 1249 01:10:09,196 --> 01:10:12,272 He's here to eat us all and suck our blood! 1250 01:10:12,392 --> 01:10:14,736 - Hush, baby! - There you have it! 1251 01:10:14,856 --> 01:10:17,386 Are you not ashamed, you rascal, to frighten your child saying 1252 01:10:17,506 --> 01:10:19,834 I eat men and suck their blood? - Why? Are these lies? 1253 01:10:19,954 --> 01:10:21,622 You could kill for a drachma! 1254 01:10:21,742 --> 01:10:23,292 Because I demand my rents, eh? 1255 01:10:23,412 --> 01:10:26,036 I shouldn't have listened to my wife 1256 01:10:26,156 --> 01:10:28,385 and I should have taken you to court! 1257 01:10:28,505 --> 01:10:30,970 How charitable of you! Your lousy rent! 1258 01:10:31,090 --> 01:10:32,686 All right then, take us to court! 1259 01:10:32,806 --> 01:10:35,032 Pity we have no money to throw it to your face! 1260 01:10:35,152 --> 01:10:37,419 - See you tomorrow, in court then! - As you wish, old stiff! 1261 01:10:37,539 --> 01:10:38,680 - You rascal! - You miser! 1262 01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:40,220 - You tramp! - You grabber! 1263 01:10:40,340 --> 01:10:42,931 Quiet! This is a court, not a yard! 1264 01:10:43,051 --> 01:10:45,470 Yes, Your Honour! I came here for justice! 1265 01:10:45,590 --> 01:10:46,596 Quiet! 1266 01:10:46,716 --> 01:10:48,908 To throw me out for 30 lousy drachmas, Your Honour! 1267 01:10:49,028 --> 01:10:50,961 Quiet or I'll lock you up both! 1268 01:10:51,081 --> 01:10:52,332 - Please, uncle! - You mind yours! 1269 01:10:52,452 --> 01:10:53,724 Anastasis, stay put! 1270 01:10:53,844 --> 01:10:56,590 If you don't pay what's due, I cannot help you. 1271 01:10:56,710 --> 01:10:59,461 But I don't have it, Your Honour! We don't have it, Your Honour! 1272 01:10:59,581 --> 01:11:03,017 The only I can do is to set a deadline for the end of the month. 1273 01:11:03,137 --> 01:11:04,894 - Thank you, Your Honour! - Let's go, Kostas! 1274 01:11:05,014 --> 01:11:06,456 You're good-for-nothing! You never said a word! 1275 01:11:06,576 --> 01:11:07,928 I want my money by the end of the month! 1276 01:11:08,048 --> 01:11:09,492 I'll work and pay you off! 1277 01:11:09,612 --> 01:11:10,623 Quiet! 1278 01:11:10,743 --> 01:11:12,299 You see him, fighting over 30 lousy drachmas, Your Honour? 1279 01:11:12,419 --> 01:11:14,939 Will the miser take it to the grave with him? 1280 01:11:25,460 --> 01:11:28,071 Who died, dear? You don't know, lady? 1281 01:11:28,191 --> 01:11:30,482 - No. - The one in the coffin! 1282 01:11:30,602 --> 01:11:32,723 Get lost, you little brats! 1283 01:11:33,434 --> 01:11:37,452 Unfortunately, the one in the coffin was Anastasis... 1284 01:11:37,572 --> 01:11:39,265 In this rotten worid of ours, 1285 01:11:39,385 --> 01:11:41,653 most of the time the wrong things happen. 1286 01:11:41,773 --> 01:11:45,287 So instead of the old miser taking his money to the grave 1287 01:11:45,407 --> 01:11:47,759 the poor whitewasher passed away first. 1288 01:11:47,879 --> 01:11:50,198 'The Lord works in mysterious ways.' 1289 01:11:50,318 --> 01:11:52,441 Shortly after starting work in a construction site, 1290 01:11:52,561 --> 01:11:55,010 he slipped and fell in a pit, 1291 01:11:55,130 --> 01:11:59,757 a horrible end for a lifelong hard labourer. 1292 01:11:59,877 --> 01:12:02,299 So, little Fani became an orphan. 1293 01:12:02,419 --> 01:12:04,336 She and mother cried their hearts out 1294 01:12:04,456 --> 01:12:06,076 and their life abruptly changed course. 1295 01:12:06,196 --> 01:12:08,758 Their small white room suddenly turned black, 1296 01:12:08,878 --> 01:12:11,302 and mother started washing clothes for a living 1297 01:12:11,422 --> 01:12:15,681 and ended up sick with a high fever. 1298 01:12:20,931 --> 01:12:22,843 Hush, now! 1299 01:12:35,902 --> 01:12:39,238 Little Fani, like an �ngel with her wings cut off, 1300 01:12:39,358 --> 01:12:42,100 took on the streets with a little flower basket in hand 1301 01:12:42,220 --> 01:12:44,911 She stole the flowers from the cemetery every morning 1302 01:12:45,031 --> 01:12:47,157 from the graves lying next to her father's... 1303 01:12:47,277 --> 01:12:50,065 Have a small bunch from the orphan! 1304 01:12:50,948 --> 01:12:53,186 'Have a small bunch from the orphan!' 1305 01:12:53,586 --> 01:12:55,683 People simply passed by, indifferent. 1306 01:12:55,803 --> 01:12:58,980 Fani thought of going back to the neighbourhood, 1307 01:12:59,100 --> 01:13:02,602 to the shopkeepers who knew her and would sympathize. 1308 01:13:02,722 --> 01:13:04,500 But no gain! 1309 01:13:05,499 --> 01:13:06,749 Neither the grocer... 1310 01:13:06,869 --> 01:13:08,181 nor the butcher... 1311 01:13:08,301 --> 01:13:11,484 no one bought even one flower. 1312 01:13:11,604 --> 01:13:14,987 Then she started realizing how cruel society is 1313 01:13:15,230 --> 01:13:17,208 at her only nine years of age. 1314 01:13:17,328 --> 01:13:20,761 She tried coffee-shops, parks, big avenues 1315 01:13:20,881 --> 01:13:24,910 kindly offering her flowers to strangers 1316 01:13:25,181 --> 01:13:28,178 Have a little bunch from the orphan! 1317 01:13:28,841 --> 01:13:30,838 Some bought... 1318 01:13:31,159 --> 01:13:33,527 Some didn't... 1319 01:13:34,119 --> 01:13:37,364 Autumn passed and winter came. 1320 01:13:41,021 --> 01:13:44,988 And Fani exhausted from fatigue, cold and hunger 1321 01:13:45,108 --> 01:13:48,651 every night returned to sick mother's bedside 1322 01:13:48,771 --> 01:13:51,407 and counted her miserable income... 1323 01:13:51,527 --> 01:13:54,980 - Were you cold, baby? - I sold flowers today, mummy. 1324 01:13:55,343 --> 01:13:57,116 Ah, honey... 1325 01:13:57,236 --> 01:13:58,254 There... 1326 01:13:58,374 --> 01:14:00,729 Get half a pound of bread 1327 01:14:00,849 --> 01:14:02,380 and 100 drams of olives. 1328 01:14:02,500 --> 01:14:03,921 Okay, my little �ngel? 1329 01:14:04,041 --> 01:14:05,961 - Yes, mummy. - Good girl! 1330 01:14:06,081 --> 01:14:08,768 Also drop in at Mrs Mary's flat 1331 01:14:08,888 --> 01:14:12,121 and tell her I'll go and wash her clothes tomorrow. 1332 01:14:12,241 --> 01:14:15,814 Are you crazy, Sofia, to get up and start washing again with a fever? 1333 01:14:15,934 --> 01:14:18,289 Don't you worry, we are here for you. 1334 01:14:20,113 --> 01:14:23,024 - I brought you some soup. - Thanks, Mrs Polykseni. 1335 01:14:23,144 --> 01:14:26,288 And some meat for little Fani. Little Fani? 1336 01:14:26,408 --> 01:14:28,132 - Thank you. - Poor darling! 1337 01:14:31,155 --> 01:14:33,709 How come I got such a nasty cold, Polykseni! 1338 01:14:33,829 --> 01:14:36,714 - It'll go! Have you got a fever? - I have. 1339 01:14:36,834 --> 01:14:38,261 Oh, yes you have. 1340 01:14:38,381 --> 01:14:40,201 Now have some soup. 1341 01:14:55,014 --> 01:14:57,177 I have to get up and wash clothes 1342 01:14:57,297 --> 01:14:59,709 �cause I have to pay the miser's rents! 1343 01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:01,433 Was the greengrocer evicted finally? 1344 01:15:01,553 --> 01:15:03,962 The greengrocer was summoned and paid his debt. 1345 01:15:04,082 --> 01:15:05,509 He did, eh? How will I pay? 1346 01:15:05,629 --> 01:15:08,239 - What day is it today? - The 18th of December. 1347 01:15:08,359 --> 01:15:09,365 Oh, my God! 1348 01:15:09,485 --> 01:15:12,712 Almost the 1st of the month, and he'll also want the January rent. 1349 01:15:12,832 --> 01:15:15,098 1st of the month! Why not say New Year's Day? 1350 01:15:15,218 --> 01:15:18,051 A hopeless New Year's Day, dear Mrs Polykseni! 1351 01:15:22,077 --> 01:15:23,438 Hush, now! 1352 01:15:25,151 --> 01:15:27,305 Don't cry, mummy! 1353 01:15:29,629 --> 01:15:31,341 I don't want you to! 1354 01:15:31,812 --> 01:15:35,106 I'm not crying, �ngel. I'm not. 1355 01:15:35,808 --> 01:15:37,446 Your dinner, Fani! 1356 01:15:38,872 --> 01:15:41,354 - Wait, kitty! - The darned cat! 1357 01:15:41,474 --> 01:15:43,951 I have no more meat left for you, dolly! 1358 01:15:48,034 --> 01:15:50,904 (New Year's Eve traditional carols) 1359 01:15:59,265 --> 01:16:03,610 What a great New Year's Day with all rents left unpaid! 1360 01:16:04,731 --> 01:16:06,713 Black New Year's Day! 1361 01:16:06,833 --> 01:16:11,391 - What is it again, Vasilis dear? - New Year's Day is the worst for me. 1362 01:16:11,511 --> 01:16:14,165 How can I ask for the rent on such a day? 1363 01:16:14,403 --> 01:16:17,775 - What are you scribbling there? - What else? Issuing rent receipts. 1364 01:16:17,895 --> 01:16:20,978 For the love of Christ, dealing with rents... 1365 01:16:22,264 --> 01:16:24,256 the day before New Year's Day? 1366 01:16:24,376 --> 01:16:27,301 The day of Saint Vasileios? Your name day? 1367 01:16:27,586 --> 01:16:30,669 My name day all right! That's another thrill! 1368 01:16:30,789 --> 01:16:34,731 All relatives will come over for the pie with the golden coin in it. 1369 01:16:34,851 --> 01:16:38,589 You see, there has to be a golden coin so I get some name day wishes. 1370 01:16:38,855 --> 01:16:42,603 Whereas they really wish me to bite the dust and inherit my money! 1371 01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:44,853 Stop nagging, Vasilis dear, and give me some money 1372 01:16:44,973 --> 01:16:46,962 for shopping 'cause we don't have much time left. 1373 01:16:47,082 --> 01:16:49,422 What? You will go shopping? 1374 01:16:49,542 --> 01:16:52,014 You are capable of emptying a shop alone! 1375 01:16:52,134 --> 01:16:55,339 - All right, you go then! - I will, then! 1376 01:16:55,667 --> 01:16:57,294 I will, woman. 1377 01:16:58,226 --> 01:17:01,046 'Saint Vasileios is coming from Kaesaria.' (carol verse) 1378 01:17:01,166 --> 01:17:03,832 He should have stayed there and save us the trouble! 1379 01:17:38,971 --> 01:17:42,845 'Saint Vasileios is coming from Kaesaria' carrying gifts 1380 01:17:42,965 --> 01:17:46,348 and offering joy to all children of the earth. 1381 01:17:47,305 --> 01:17:49,941 All but little Fani... 1382 01:17:50,315 --> 01:17:53,609 She remembered her dad when he brought her the doll 1383 01:17:53,729 --> 01:17:55,257 and received a kiss. 1384 01:17:55,698 --> 01:17:57,724 Those were happy times! 1385 01:17:58,095 --> 01:18:00,064 They seemed so distant now 1386 01:18:00,184 --> 01:18:05,449 although only three months had passed from the death of her beloved father. 1387 01:18:12,474 --> 01:18:17,297 Tragic irony of fate had Fani find the sovereign in the street. 1388 01:18:17,417 --> 01:18:20,406 At first she thought it was a button 1389 01:18:20,526 --> 01:18:24,425 but when she saw it glimmering, she became curious and kept it. 1390 01:18:24,545 --> 01:18:26,751 I found this in the street, mummy. 1391 01:18:28,623 --> 01:18:30,307 It's a... sovereign. 1392 01:18:30,590 --> 01:18:32,360 A gold sovereign! 1393 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,727 God's mercy upon us, Fani! We're saved! 1394 01:18:36,169 --> 01:18:38,389 We'll pay off the miser 1395 01:18:38,509 --> 01:18:41,928 and have the rest for New Year's Day, my baby! 1396 01:18:42,048 --> 01:18:45,343 Now, go change it at the grocer's, Mr Panagiotis, okay? 1397 01:18:45,463 --> 01:18:47,986 - Right away, mum. - But be very careful, honey! 1398 01:18:48,106 --> 01:18:50,668 Be careful! Don't let them cheat you! Keep your eyes open! 1399 01:18:52,327 --> 01:18:54,724 - Where did you get it? - In the street. 1400 01:18:54,844 --> 01:18:57,201 It's no good, child, it's counterfeit. 1401 01:18:57,321 --> 01:18:59,778 Counterfeit? What's 'counterfeit'? 1402 01:18:59,898 --> 01:19:01,484 - How much do you owe? - 40 drachmas. 1403 01:19:01,604 --> 01:19:04,943 If it were genuine, you wouldn't have found it in the street, child! 1404 01:19:05,063 --> 01:19:07,254 Real sovereigns are not found in streets. 1405 01:19:08,177 --> 01:19:10,496 She tried them all. The baker, the greengrocer... 1406 01:19:10,616 --> 01:19:12,921 even the corner shop who sold her sweets. 1407 01:19:13,041 --> 01:19:14,947 It's of no value, Fani! 1408 01:19:15,642 --> 01:19:17,902 Why don't you give it to me for the shop window 1409 01:19:18,971 --> 01:19:21,027 and I'll give you a caramel for it? 1410 01:19:21,147 --> 01:19:23,410 Fani recalled her mother's words: 1411 01:19:23,530 --> 01:19:25,346 'Don't let them cheat you!' 1412 01:19:25,466 --> 01:19:27,142 They all wanted to cheat her. 1413 01:19:27,262 --> 01:19:30,383 Embittered as she was, she started back to her small room. 1414 01:19:30,503 --> 01:19:33,566 While the miser was walking on New Year's Eve, 1415 01:19:33,686 --> 01:19:34,888 how was it possible! 1416 01:19:35,008 --> 01:19:37,664 With a pound in her hands? 1417 01:19:38,127 --> 01:19:39,727 Little Fani! 1418 01:19:42,980 --> 01:19:44,878 Why are you in tears, honey? 1419 01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:47,056 I hope you won't start shrieking again? 1420 01:19:47,176 --> 01:19:49,228 - No... - Not afraid of me anymore, eh? 1421 01:19:49,348 --> 01:19:51,497 Not anymore, I'm a grownup now. 1422 01:19:51,617 --> 01:19:53,623 Good for you, dolly! Now, tell me 1423 01:19:53,743 --> 01:19:56,768 - Why are you in tears? - I found a sovereign in the street. 1424 01:19:56,888 --> 01:19:58,488 - A sovereign? - Yes. 1425 01:19:58,608 --> 01:20:00,716 Mother sent me out to change it 1426 01:20:00,836 --> 01:20:03,128 so as to pay off your rents. - And you lost it? 1427 01:20:03,248 --> 01:20:05,864 - No, I didn't. - A sovereign. 1428 01:20:05,984 --> 01:20:07,178 Let me see! 1429 01:20:08,295 --> 01:20:10,658 Why didn't you come straight to me? I'd change it for you, child! 1430 01:20:10,778 --> 01:20:12,864 What a great luck on New Year's day! 1431 01:20:14,335 --> 01:20:16,414 What's 'counterfeit', Mr Mavrides? 1432 01:20:16,534 --> 01:20:19,183 - Counterfeit? - Yes. No one would change it for me. 1433 01:20:19,303 --> 01:20:20,829 They said it's counterfeit. 1434 01:20:26,851 --> 01:20:28,549 Let me check it in the light spot. 1435 01:20:30,181 --> 01:20:30,873 Ha! 1436 01:20:31,930 --> 01:20:32,943 Counterfeit! 1437 01:20:33,755 --> 01:20:37,193 Mr Kostas wanted me to exchange it for a caramel. 1438 01:20:37,313 --> 01:20:40,461 Mother said we'll have a New Year's Day with this one 1439 01:20:40,863 --> 01:20:43,203 but now we'll be left with no food. 1440 01:20:45,493 --> 01:20:47,940 - No one would change it, eh? - No one. 1441 01:20:50,636 --> 01:20:52,934 Your mum is still sick in bed? 1442 01:20:53,975 --> 01:20:55,573 Yes, she is. 1443 01:21:01,887 --> 01:21:02,900 All right. 1444 01:21:03,884 --> 01:21:05,183 I'll change it for you. 1445 01:21:23,631 --> 01:21:26,556 Is a sovereign worth all this money? 1446 01:21:29,151 --> 01:21:31,546 Keep the rents out of this. 1447 01:21:35,501 --> 01:21:38,726 If I let go off the rents, would you give me a kiss? 1448 01:21:39,189 --> 01:21:40,801 I would. 1449 01:21:42,198 --> 01:21:45,195 Give it, then! What are you waiting for? 1450 01:21:49,113 --> 01:21:51,468 Since my daddy died, 1451 01:21:51,588 --> 01:21:54,493 no one gave me anything apart from you. 1452 01:21:54,925 --> 01:21:57,165 No one loves me anymore, 1453 01:21:57,285 --> 01:22:00,048 nor do they give anything for free. 1454 01:22:00,471 --> 01:22:03,738 the greengrocer, the grocer, the butcher... 1455 01:22:04,309 --> 01:22:07,430 Nobody buys flowers from me either! 1456 01:22:07,550 --> 01:22:08,921 Are you selling flowers then? 1457 01:22:09,041 --> 01:22:12,773 I pick them up in the cemetery, from rich people's graves 1458 01:22:12,893 --> 01:22:16,310 that are near the grave of my poor dad. 1459 01:22:18,090 --> 01:22:20,808 You won't have to again, Fani. 1460 01:22:21,649 --> 01:22:24,004 I'd like to be your dad from now on. 1461 01:22:24,388 --> 01:22:26,570 You will want for nothing anymore. 1462 01:22:26,872 --> 01:22:28,369 My little daughter! 1463 01:22:29,967 --> 01:22:32,093 Would you like it if I called you that? 1464 01:22:32,849 --> 01:22:35,689 If I took up the place of your daddy in your heart? 1465 01:22:36,045 --> 01:22:37,372 How's that, honey? 1466 01:22:38,029 --> 01:22:39,327 Do you want me to? 1467 01:22:40,766 --> 01:22:43,306 Bah, I'm in tears... 1468 01:22:46,243 --> 01:22:47,382 There... 1469 01:22:48,869 --> 01:22:50,581 Now, run to mummy 1470 01:22:50,848 --> 01:22:52,630 and give her this piece of meat to cook. 1471 01:22:52,750 --> 01:22:53,876 Come back here! 1472 01:22:55,617 --> 01:22:57,658 Here's some spaghetti, too. 1473 01:22:58,556 --> 01:22:59,930 Take this, too. 1474 01:23:03,806 --> 01:23:05,902 Take this and this... 1475 01:23:10,710 --> 01:23:12,836 Now run along, Fani. 1476 01:23:13,207 --> 01:23:15,761 Shall I tell her you gave me all these things? 1477 01:23:16,061 --> 01:23:18,408 No, it was Saint Vasilis! 1478 01:23:18,965 --> 01:23:21,462 He who carries gifts for children 1479 01:23:21,582 --> 01:23:23,313 every New Year's Eve. 1480 01:23:34,557 --> 01:23:37,723 Vasilis, still here? Haven't you gone shopping yet? 1481 01:23:39,250 --> 01:23:40,948 No, I was just about to. 1482 01:23:41,068 --> 01:23:44,587 Wait! I also need the golden coin for the pie! 1483 01:23:45,003 --> 01:23:47,370 Does it really have to be a golden one? 1484 01:23:47,490 --> 01:23:49,938 But you know, Vasilis dear, there's no other way! 1485 01:23:50,058 --> 01:23:51,536 It's the custom for the year's good luck! 1486 01:23:51,656 --> 01:23:55,193 That's how we got it from our fathers and grandfathers. 1487 01:23:55,313 --> 01:23:58,280 All right, no shouting! So, you want a golden coin? 1488 01:23:59,100 --> 01:24:01,069 There you have your golden coin! 1489 01:24:01,589 --> 01:24:04,015 Happy New Year, dear Vasilis! 1490 01:24:04,415 --> 01:24:06,469 Happy New Year! 1491 01:24:41,918 --> 01:24:45,200 I guess there's no better New Year's gift 1492 01:24:45,320 --> 01:24:47,434 than the customary golden coin in New Year's cake. 1493 01:24:47,554 --> 01:24:49,680 unless the golden coin is counterfeit� 1494 01:24:50,378 --> 01:24:52,702 This time the sovereign was found by two persons at the same time 1495 01:24:52,822 --> 01:24:56,850 because the knife hit the coin right between two pieces of the cake, 1496 01:24:56,970 --> 01:24:59,795 Aliki's piece and Pavlos' piece� 1497 01:24:59,915 --> 01:25:02,075 This was considered a great sign of good luck 1498 01:25:02,195 --> 01:25:05,228 for a couple of newlyweds in love like Pavlos and Aliki were. 1499 01:25:05,348 --> 01:25:08,271 And the new year started full of dreams and hope 1500 01:25:08,391 --> 01:25:11,848 in their humble penthouse love nest. 1501 01:25:11,968 --> 01:25:15,321 This sovereign is all our fortune... 1502 01:25:15,869 --> 01:25:16,896 Indeed! 1503 01:25:17,695 --> 01:25:21,765 - We have nothing else besides that. - What about our love, Pavlos? 1504 01:25:22,849 --> 01:25:25,417 - Say 'no regrets'! - Regrets about what? 1505 01:25:25,674 --> 01:25:26,972 That we eloped. 1506 01:25:29,739 --> 01:25:31,408 Aliki, I'm poor. 1507 01:25:31,528 --> 01:25:34,346 I could never provide anything up to your former life. 1508 01:25:34,466 --> 01:25:35,497 Why poor? 1509 01:25:35,617 --> 01:25:37,383 You're forgetting this. Our sovereign! 1510 01:25:37,503 --> 01:25:39,196 Say we'll never give it away. 1511 01:25:39,316 --> 01:25:41,701 We'll always keep it, as a token of our love. 1512 01:25:41,821 --> 01:25:44,656 I swear, my love! We'll never ever spend it. 1513 01:25:44,776 --> 01:25:46,740 Our pretty little sovereign? 1514 01:25:47,249 --> 01:25:49,054 So, what's there to eat today? 1515 01:25:49,572 --> 01:25:50,599 No idea! 1516 01:25:50,719 --> 01:25:52,311 As my legal spouse 1517 01:25:52,431 --> 01:25:54,364 you're now responsible for that! 1518 01:25:54,484 --> 01:25:55,526 Agreed? 1519 01:25:55,646 --> 01:25:57,622 Yes, of course... 1520 01:25:57,742 --> 01:26:00,648 but when we eloped the other day I hadn't in mind that we need to eat. 1521 01:26:00,768 --> 01:26:02,385 We were lucky enough yesterday! 1522 01:26:02,505 --> 01:26:05,256 We went to wish that stingy uncle of yours a happy name day 1523 01:26:05,376 --> 01:26:07,967 and he kept us for dinner. - And we also won the sovereign... 1524 01:26:08,087 --> 01:26:10,912 - Any other uncles for today? - Let me see... 1525 01:26:11,032 --> 01:26:13,652 - Well, I've got a very distant one... - How distant? 1526 01:26:13,772 --> 01:26:16,252 Oh... he's living in Kalavryta 1527 01:26:18,290 --> 01:26:20,294 Darling... Let's spend it then! 1528 01:26:20,414 --> 01:26:23,917 Oh no! We swore never to. Give it to me. 1529 01:26:24,037 --> 01:26:26,352 Yesterday I saw a savings pot over there. 1530 01:26:27,313 --> 01:26:29,089 There it is! 1531 01:26:30,954 --> 01:26:33,803 Where did you ever find this really? What sort of savings pot is this? 1532 01:26:33,923 --> 01:26:35,500 - It's a model. - What model? 1533 01:26:35,620 --> 01:26:38,932 - I once sketched a bank ad... - An ad? 1534 01:26:39,052 --> 01:26:41,581 You know, a hand dropping a coin in the pot 1535 01:26:41,701 --> 01:26:44,207 and it is written below �Save your money inside�! 1536 01:26:44,327 --> 01:26:45,839 - Did you get paid for that? - I did! 1537 01:26:45,959 --> 01:26:47,252 - No kidding? - Of course. 1538 01:26:47,372 --> 01:26:49,638 I spent it all but I still have the pot. 1539 01:26:49,758 --> 01:26:51,122 Don't worry, Pavlos! 1540 01:26:51,242 --> 01:26:53,218 I believe one day you'll be famous. 1541 01:26:53,624 --> 01:26:55,557 Your paintings will sell like hot cakes! 1542 01:26:55,950 --> 01:26:57,452 And I'll be your wife. 1543 01:26:57,572 --> 01:26:59,473 The famous artist's wife... 1544 01:27:01,381 --> 01:27:02,913 I love you, Pavlos! 1545 01:27:03,590 --> 01:27:04,836 I love you! 1546 01:27:05,698 --> 01:27:07,041 Just a moment! 1547 01:27:07,875 --> 01:27:09,994 Say that once again. 1548 01:27:10,114 --> 01:27:11,884 I love you! 1549 01:27:12,260 --> 01:27:14,784 Come, come here. Sit up there quick. 1550 01:27:15,443 --> 01:27:16,846 What's wrong with you? 1551 01:27:18,669 --> 01:27:20,745 - Come, say it. - I love you! 1552 01:27:21,017 --> 01:27:22,592 Don't move an inch! 1553 01:27:23,193 --> 01:27:24,482 That's it! 1554 01:27:24,868 --> 01:27:27,231 This 'something' I've been searching all my life! 1555 01:27:29,085 --> 01:27:30,251 The subject! 1556 01:27:30,371 --> 01:27:32,480 This will be the greatest painting of my life. 1557 01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:34,012 I love you. 1558 01:27:34,132 --> 01:27:35,836 A woman's expressi�n saying 'I love you.' 1559 01:27:35,956 --> 01:27:38,136 - I love you. - Don't move, sweet Aliki! 1560 01:27:40,875 --> 01:27:44,297 That's how Da Vinci painted Gioconda! 1561 01:27:44,541 --> 01:27:47,992 He was in love with Mona Lisa but didn't know if she felt the same. 1562 01:27:48,112 --> 01:27:51,221 And this expressi�n... this enigma... 1563 01:27:51,341 --> 01:27:54,620 he didn't know whether it was tenderness or irony. 1564 01:27:54,740 --> 01:27:58,173 That's what he painted. That's what Gioconda's smile is. 1565 01:27:58,293 --> 01:28:01,658 The uncertainty! But I won't paint uncertainty. 1566 01:28:01,778 --> 01:28:03,577 I'll paint certainty. 1567 01:28:03,697 --> 01:28:05,711 I'll paint 'I love you'. 1568 01:28:05,831 --> 01:28:07,214 I love you! 1569 01:28:08,344 --> 01:28:10,002 I love you, too! 1570 01:28:21,989 --> 01:28:25,512 So, Pavlos worked on the portrait struck by inspiration and passi�n. 1571 01:28:25,751 --> 01:28:28,925 No other model in the worid could give him 1572 01:28:29,045 --> 01:28:33,692 the true expressi�n of the subject he wanted to paint but Aliki. 1573 01:28:33,812 --> 01:28:36,246 - Tired, my love? - No, Pavlos. 1574 01:28:36,366 --> 01:28:38,323 A bit to the right, please? You lost your posture. 1575 01:28:38,443 --> 01:28:40,642 - Is that better? - There! 1576 01:28:40,762 --> 01:28:42,811 And, above all, don't lose your expressi�n. 1577 01:28:42,931 --> 01:28:43,942 'I love you!' 1578 01:28:44,062 --> 01:28:45,208 I love you. 1579 01:28:48,057 --> 01:28:51,360 Same thing took place every day and the portrait was held back� 1580 01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:53,928 Poor Pavlos was so much in love 1581 01:28:54,193 --> 01:28:57,072 and Aliki was so sweet every time she said 'I love you' 1582 01:28:57,192 --> 01:29:00,149 that painting stopped and love took over� 1583 01:29:00,435 --> 01:29:02,913 Great endless love, 1584 01:29:03,033 --> 01:29:05,440 which poets, the silliest of people, 1585 01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:07,667 believe is fed only on kisses and vows 1586 01:29:07,787 --> 01:29:09,534 and it is located in the heart� 1587 01:29:11,896 --> 01:29:14,815 A human body also has a stomach, 1588 01:29:14,935 --> 01:29:17,492 unfortunately an organ with urgent needs, 1589 01:29:17,612 --> 01:29:19,374 even for lovers... 1590 01:29:19,494 --> 01:29:22,293 Grocers, butchers, greengrocers 1591 01:29:22,413 --> 01:29:24,275 are not necessarily of poetic nature. 1592 01:29:25,664 --> 01:29:28,257 They refused any more credit when they found out 1593 01:29:28,377 --> 01:29:30,533 poor painter's deeply rich father-in-law 1594 01:29:30,653 --> 01:29:32,935 couldn't bear the sight of his daughter 1595 01:29:33,055 --> 01:29:36,496 since she run away from home without his consent. 1596 01:29:41,952 --> 01:29:45,632 The only one poetically inclined was the tavern owner 1597 01:29:45,752 --> 01:29:48,368 whose dream was to see his tavern walls 1598 01:29:48,488 --> 01:29:52,120 decorated with Plaka alleyways and a huge moon painting� 1599 01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,326 He particularly insisted on the moon. 1600 01:29:54,446 --> 01:29:57,195 It definitely had to be yellow. 1601 01:29:57,315 --> 01:29:59,144 Yellow! Yellow like kefalotyri cheese! 1602 01:29:59,264 --> 01:30:02,252 But moon isn't yellow, old Yannis. The moon is rather silver! 1603 01:30:02,372 --> 01:30:04,123 No, it's yellow, my dear. 1604 01:30:04,243 --> 01:30:05,469 - Do you know why? - Why? 1605 01:30:05,589 --> 01:30:07,048 From too many nightouts! 1606 01:30:07,168 --> 01:30:09,788 Whatever our old Yannis wishes! Yellow it is! 1607 01:30:09,908 --> 01:30:11,779 And I'll stick to our agreement. 1608 01:30:11,899 --> 01:30:14,577 You'll have free lunch and dinner for a month. 1609 01:30:14,849 --> 01:30:16,030 Cheers! 1610 01:30:27,788 --> 01:30:32,771 So, old Yannis' yellow moon became the young lovers' honeymoon... 1611 01:30:33,368 --> 01:30:36,576 A long month of immense hardship 1612 01:30:36,902 --> 01:30:40,782 referred to as 'bohemian life' in romantic novels� 1613 01:31:12,370 --> 01:31:14,095 'Bohemian life...' 1614 01:31:15,312 --> 01:31:18,606 The rich girl that followed the poor artist to the penthouse� 1615 01:31:18,726 --> 01:31:23,378 lived this bohemian life with the purest romantic will 1616 01:31:23,650 --> 01:31:25,399 looking through the prism of love� 1617 01:31:25,519 --> 01:31:26,860 I love you! 1618 01:31:26,980 --> 01:31:28,078 A genuine 'I love you' 1619 01:31:28,198 --> 01:31:29,610 without any lies... 1620 01:31:29,730 --> 01:31:31,171 without any inhibitions... 1621 01:31:31,291 --> 01:31:33,024 without any doubts... 1622 01:31:33,144 --> 01:31:37,176 but also without any new shoes, to replace her sole pair. 1623 01:31:37,296 --> 01:31:40,513 A thing Aliki didn't consider at the night of kidnapping, 1624 01:31:40,633 --> 01:31:44,904 leaving behind 32 pairs of shoes in the closet of her room. 1625 01:31:45,024 --> 01:31:47,141 That's more shoes than the shop window exhibited. 1626 01:31:47,261 --> 01:31:48,292 I love you. 1627 01:31:48,412 --> 01:31:51,310 'I love you!' without a marble bathtub with running hot water� 1628 01:31:51,430 --> 01:31:54,670 but with a tin can of water half-boiled on a shabby primus stove 1629 01:31:54,790 --> 01:31:56,620 shivering in freezing winter� 1630 01:31:56,740 --> 01:31:57,967 I love you! 1631 01:31:58,087 --> 01:32:00,699 'I love you!' with piles of debts 1632 01:32:00,819 --> 01:32:03,354 and unpaid bills likewise. 1633 01:32:04,076 --> 01:32:07,198 Then, one day the unfeeling companies cut off water supply... 1634 01:32:08,229 --> 01:32:11,050 Besides water, they cut off the gas... 1635 01:32:11,610 --> 01:32:15,496 and, as if that wasn't bad enough, they cut off the power in the end... 1636 01:32:19,239 --> 01:32:22,924 For the first time Aliki seriously thought about that 'I love you,' 1637 01:32:23,426 --> 01:32:26,852 that 'I love you!' that started flickering like a candle flame� 1638 01:32:27,139 --> 01:32:29,398 that 'I love you' that started freezing little by little 1639 01:32:29,518 --> 01:32:32,622 every time she had to pose for the portrait. 1640 01:32:32,742 --> 01:32:34,268 I love you! 1641 01:32:34,725 --> 01:32:37,606 No, Aliki. This isn't the expressi�n. You spoiled it. 1642 01:32:37,893 --> 01:32:40,424 You must hold the same expressi�n and the same posture! 1643 01:32:40,544 --> 01:32:41,663 I love you... 1644 01:32:41,783 --> 01:32:44,688 No, darling, for God's sake. That's not it. 1645 01:32:45,084 --> 01:32:48,346 How can I work without your assistance? 1646 01:32:48,798 --> 01:32:52,611 Come on darling, try once more. Try find the right expressi�n. 1647 01:32:52,890 --> 01:32:54,267 'I love you!' 1648 01:32:54,387 --> 01:32:56,001 'I love you!' 1649 01:33:04,554 --> 01:33:05,801 Aliki! 1650 01:33:06,331 --> 01:33:08,860 What's wrong, darling? 1651 01:33:09,118 --> 01:33:12,387 - Have I made you so unhappy? - No, Pavlos... 1652 01:33:12,745 --> 01:33:15,111 It's nothing. I'll be all right. 1653 01:33:15,575 --> 01:33:17,640 I don't know... 1654 01:33:17,760 --> 01:33:19,876 why tears come to my eyes. 1655 01:33:19,996 --> 01:33:22,113 But I do know why. 1656 01:33:22,233 --> 01:33:24,737 Our life is not easy at all. 1657 01:33:25,104 --> 01:33:28,000 Come, come! 1658 01:33:30,738 --> 01:33:33,491 I love you, Pavlos! I love you, please believe me! 1659 01:33:33,611 --> 01:33:36,960 I love you, too, that's why I can't stand seeing you suffer. 1660 01:33:37,593 --> 01:33:39,624 Come on, that's enough. Come! 1661 01:33:39,744 --> 01:33:43,358 Let's go out and have fun. Wait and see where I'll take you to! 1662 01:33:45,735 --> 01:33:48,406 Time to smash you, my pretty pot! 1663 01:33:48,526 --> 01:33:50,152 No Pavlos, no! 1664 01:33:50,272 --> 01:33:53,259 Is it because we swore never to spend the sovereign? 1665 01:33:53,379 --> 01:33:54,749 This is nonsense! 1666 01:33:54,869 --> 01:33:58,090 - When my wife is starving... - It's no use, Pavlos. 1667 01:33:58,379 --> 01:34:01,698 Soon your wife will be starving again and you will, too. 1668 01:34:01,818 --> 01:34:03,346 What are you trying to say? 1669 01:34:05,275 --> 01:34:06,517 I mean... 1670 01:34:06,953 --> 01:34:08,688 that instead of painting me 1671 01:34:08,808 --> 01:34:10,981 why not finish old Yannis' tavern? 1672 01:34:11,101 --> 01:34:13,777 Making these silly yellow moons on all the walls? 1673 01:34:13,897 --> 01:34:15,631 He likes them and he is paying for them. 1674 01:34:15,751 --> 01:34:16,962 Of course he is! 1675 01:34:17,082 --> 01:34:21,286 Even more if I brush the doors and windows with leftover paint. 1676 01:34:21,406 --> 01:34:23,610 I'm no house painter, Aliki. I'm an artist! 1677 01:34:23,730 --> 01:34:26,607 So, don't paint doors and windows, Pavlos. 1678 01:34:26,727 --> 01:34:29,806 Plenty of other jobs can earn you money. 1679 01:34:29,926 --> 01:34:32,820 You said about that ad sketch of this pot, didn't you? 1680 01:34:32,940 --> 01:34:35,415 I don't feel like drawing any pots or moons. 1681 01:34:35,535 --> 01:34:36,802 I'm no tradesman, I'm an artist! 1682 01:34:36,922 --> 01:34:39,339 But that's no reason for starving to death. 1683 01:34:39,698 --> 01:34:41,232 I don't care about myself, Pavlos. 1684 01:34:41,533 --> 01:34:43,655 I care about you, you've grown so much thinner lately. 1685 01:34:43,956 --> 01:34:45,633 What will become of you? 1686 01:34:45,991 --> 01:34:49,489 What the use of fame if you get sick and I lose you? 1687 01:34:49,609 --> 01:34:51,555 I don't work for fame, Aliki. 1688 01:34:51,675 --> 01:34:54,299 I do paintings because I just feel the need to. 1689 01:34:55,537 --> 01:34:58,290 Perhaps, I shouldn't have dragged you into this. 1690 01:34:58,711 --> 01:35:00,928 An artist should never get married. 1691 01:35:01,048 --> 01:35:02,324 You don't love me, Pavlos! 1692 01:35:03,342 --> 01:35:05,521 No, Aliki. Of course I do. 1693 01:35:08,517 --> 01:35:11,313 - Where are you going? - I wish I knew where... 1694 01:36:24,798 --> 01:36:26,389 Well done! 1695 01:36:27,479 --> 01:36:29,682 I'm finished, old Yiannis. Everything painted. 1696 01:36:29,802 --> 01:36:31,309 Tables, windows, all done. 1697 01:36:31,429 --> 01:36:34,791 - Anything else? - All's well. Paying time! 1698 01:36:34,911 --> 01:36:37,205 Come on, hurry up! 1699 01:36:37,325 --> 01:36:40,207 Let's see... 1, 2, 3... 1700 01:36:40,327 --> 01:36:42,848 ...4, 5 - Thank you very much. 1701 01:36:42,968 --> 01:36:44,955 - Goodbye! - Hey, come back! 1702 01:36:45,075 --> 01:36:47,050 Don't forget your cloths. 1703 01:36:47,351 --> 01:36:50,058 - Cheerio! - Take care! 1704 01:37:07,773 --> 01:37:09,120 Aliki! 1705 01:37:11,407 --> 01:37:12,468 Aliki! 1706 01:37:12,588 --> 01:37:13,672 Aliki! 1707 01:37:13,792 --> 01:37:14,895 Aliki! 1708 01:37:15,015 --> 01:37:16,994 Aliki!... 1709 01:37:42,740 --> 01:37:44,475 I'm going back to father. 1710 01:37:44,977 --> 01:37:47,314 I don't want to be in your way. 1711 01:37:47,744 --> 01:37:50,109 An artist should never get married. 1712 01:37:50,926 --> 01:37:53,478 Forgive me for leaving 'I love you' unfinished. 1713 01:38:17,716 --> 01:38:19,565 Leaving 'I love you' unfinished� 1714 01:38:49,528 --> 01:38:51,176 I love you! 1715 01:38:57,797 --> 01:38:58,958 I love you, too. 1716 01:39:42,868 --> 01:39:45,229 Aliki returned to her father's, 1717 01:39:45,349 --> 01:39:48,703 giving no explanation for her break up with Pavlos. 1718 01:39:49,005 --> 01:39:51,557 This was a page finished, 1719 01:39:51,822 --> 01:39:53,557 a strictly private affair. 1720 01:39:53,677 --> 01:39:57,427 Her father opened his arms and never asked about anything too 1721 01:39:57,547 --> 01:39:59,975 and the divorce proceedings was simply a lawyers' thing 1722 01:40:00,095 --> 01:40:02,366 finished within a few months time. 1723 01:40:08,409 --> 01:40:12,638 In the summer, Aliki joined her father in their mansi�n 1724 01:40:12,758 --> 01:40:15,548 and found the pace of her old life again... 1725 01:40:16,096 --> 01:40:18,045 Her marble bathtub... 1726 01:40:18,165 --> 01:40:20,343 her trusted nanny... 1727 01:40:21,089 --> 01:40:24,171 her lush wardrobe and all this great luxury 1728 01:40:24,291 --> 01:40:26,696 she missed for this short period time 1729 01:40:26,816 --> 01:40:29,250 while in the artist's shabby penthouse... 1730 01:40:29,611 --> 01:40:31,546 What she didn't recover though... 1731 01:40:31,833 --> 01:40:33,683 was her smile... 1732 01:40:33,803 --> 01:40:36,101 Has father come back from the factory? 1733 01:40:36,221 --> 01:40:38,410 Yes, half an hour ago. 1734 01:40:38,530 --> 01:40:40,635 He's in the garden with Mr Dimitris. 1735 01:40:40,755 --> 01:40:43,387 That's why all that fuss about wearing my white dress? 1736 01:40:46,150 --> 01:40:48,788 I brought you up from the age of 5, Aliki, 1737 01:40:49,030 --> 01:40:51,465 since your mother passed away� 1738 01:40:51,809 --> 01:40:53,945 so I consider you as my own child. 1739 01:40:54,519 --> 01:40:56,956 You can't spend your whole life like this! 1740 01:40:57,221 --> 01:40:59,802 It's time you answered Mr Dimitris' proposal. 1741 01:40:59,922 --> 01:41:02,146 He's a good and earnest young man 1742 01:41:02,266 --> 01:41:05,248 that will help you forget soon. - I have nothing to forget! 1743 01:41:05,585 --> 01:41:07,816 Please, Mrs Katerina, drop this conversation. 1744 01:41:07,936 --> 01:41:10,373 All right, my baby. I'll drop it. 1745 01:41:12,681 --> 01:41:15,147 The Bank will give you credit. You can be sure of that. 1746 01:41:15,575 --> 01:41:17,226 The manager himself told me. 1747 01:41:17,346 --> 01:41:19,075 They all hold you in great esteem. 1748 01:41:19,195 --> 01:41:21,053 If I manage to import the new machines, 1749 01:41:21,173 --> 01:41:22,604 I won't need anyone's help. 1750 01:41:22,724 --> 01:41:24,500 I'll push production on three shifts 1751 01:41:24,620 --> 01:41:25,773 and flood the market with merchandise. 1752 01:41:25,893 --> 01:41:28,044 - When are you leaving? - I'm ready to go. 1753 01:41:28,164 --> 01:41:30,277 - Where to? - Paris, London, Rome... 1754 01:41:30,397 --> 01:41:31,736 A month trip at the most. 1755 01:41:31,856 --> 01:41:33,287 Ah! There comes Aliki! 1756 01:41:43,839 --> 01:41:46,167 - Hello, Aliki. - How are you, Dimitris? 1757 01:41:46,287 --> 01:41:49,378 - You're wanted on the phone, sir. - Coming. 1758 01:41:49,498 --> 01:41:51,887 Excuse me. You can go on with your chat. 1759 01:41:52,007 --> 01:41:54,657 I have some more calls to make before lunch. 1760 01:41:59,939 --> 01:42:03,250 Your poor father does his best to leave us two alone. 1761 01:42:11,591 --> 01:42:14,085 Shouldn't we make him happy, Aliki? 1762 01:42:14,205 --> 01:42:18,315 We could make him so happy, living with him in this house. 1763 01:42:18,435 --> 01:42:21,321 - Why insist Dimitris? - Because I love you, Aliki. 1764 01:42:21,441 --> 01:42:23,586 I've always loved you, ever since you were a little girl. 1765 01:42:23,706 --> 01:42:26,541 And because I always believed the day of marrying you would arrive. 1766 01:42:26,661 --> 01:42:28,353 I love you, too, Dimitris. 1767 01:42:28,473 --> 01:42:31,022 But as an old childhood friend. 1768 01:42:31,668 --> 01:42:33,761 Shall I prove it? There... 1769 01:42:34,399 --> 01:42:37,460 You see? I can even kiss you. 1770 01:42:37,580 --> 01:42:40,069 Like kissing an older brother, if I had one. 1771 01:42:41,182 --> 01:42:43,793 An older brother or a childhood friend 1772 01:42:43,913 --> 01:42:46,809 who solved your math problems when you were at school. 1773 01:42:46,929 --> 01:42:48,164 Remember? 1774 01:42:48,284 --> 01:42:50,372 I'm not a schoolgirl anymore, Dimitris! 1775 01:42:50,707 --> 01:42:53,202 Still you have a major problem to solve. 1776 01:42:53,322 --> 01:42:55,740 I could help you with it even right now. 1777 01:42:55,860 --> 01:42:57,782 No problem is troubling me. 1778 01:42:58,298 --> 01:43:00,620 No, Aliki, it's obvious in your face. 1779 01:43:00,740 --> 01:43:03,802 In this melancholy cute face I've been studying for three months now 1780 01:43:03,922 --> 01:43:06,370 no matter how hard you try not to reveal your secret. 1781 01:43:06,490 --> 01:43:08,962 - You're still in love with the artist. - No more of that talk, Dimitris! 1782 01:43:09,082 --> 01:43:10,325 Let me finish... 1783 01:43:10,445 --> 01:43:11,841 You still love him. 1784 01:43:11,961 --> 01:43:13,843 You're worried that you lack the strength 1785 01:43:13,963 --> 01:43:15,688 not to run back to him. 1786 01:43:15,808 --> 01:43:18,105 That's why you have to make a bold step, 1787 01:43:18,225 --> 01:43:20,275 to react and secure yourself. 1788 01:43:21,486 --> 01:43:23,171 Marry me, Aliki. 1789 01:43:23,461 --> 01:43:26,303 So there are men who can settle for a thing like that? 1790 01:43:27,227 --> 01:43:31,127 It's the worst kind of love. The desperate kind, Aliki. 1791 01:43:32,596 --> 01:43:35,177 I could accept anything so as to have you. 1792 01:43:35,671 --> 01:43:37,450 After that, you'll be my wife. 1793 01:43:37,570 --> 01:43:41,197 I know my wife will be honest in her decisi�n for a new life. 1794 01:43:41,713 --> 01:43:44,186 A whole new life, ahead of us. 1795 01:43:45,003 --> 01:43:46,896 Let me think about it, Dimitris. 1796 01:43:47,713 --> 01:43:50,114 On one condition, though. 1797 01:43:50,358 --> 01:43:54,229 We'll never talk about the part of my life I spent with someone else. 1798 01:43:55,433 --> 01:43:57,282 This is something not belonging to you. 1799 01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:14,227 Aliki and Dimitris got married 1800 01:44:14,347 --> 01:44:17,041 and the newlyweds left immediately for their honeymoon 1801 01:44:17,161 --> 01:44:20,754 the schedule of which was combined with Dimitris' business transactions. 1802 01:44:20,874 --> 01:44:23,268 For ten days in Paris, Aliki bought dresses 1803 01:44:23,388 --> 01:44:25,711 hats and loads of other pretty things. 1804 01:44:25,831 --> 01:44:29,274 For ten days in London, she picked up some gorgeous furs. 1805 01:44:30,149 --> 01:44:32,906 And the last ten days in Rome, Dimitris, after finishing business, 1806 01:44:33,026 --> 01:44:35,948 bought her a most elegant and most expensive bracelet. 1807 01:44:48,009 --> 01:44:51,966 So honeymoon came to an end, and Aliki returned to Athens 1808 01:44:52,086 --> 01:44:53,916 sadder than she was before leaving. 1809 01:44:54,036 --> 01:44:55,599 She inadvertently 1810 01:44:55,719 --> 01:44:59,312 remembered another happier honeymoon she spent with Pavlos 1811 01:44:59,432 --> 01:45:02,311 in a humble neighbourhood tavern. 1812 01:45:03,243 --> 01:45:05,639 Where would you like to go tonight, my love? 1813 01:45:05,759 --> 01:45:07,938 - Do you know what I feel nostalgic for? - What? 1814 01:45:08,058 --> 01:45:10,490 Something nowhere to be found around Europe. 1815 01:45:10,763 --> 01:45:12,741 A small Athenian tavern. 1816 01:45:12,985 --> 01:45:15,673 Shall we dine at a Plaka tavern tonight? 1817 01:45:15,793 --> 01:45:17,883 That's a splendid idea, Aliki! 1818 01:45:18,003 --> 01:45:21,209 I'm so glad you show initiative for a change. 1819 01:45:21,329 --> 01:45:23,068 To Plaka, Yannis! 1820 01:45:23,188 --> 01:45:26,486 What's more, I know a very nice, detached little tavern 1821 01:45:26,606 --> 01:45:28,022 I'm sure you'll enjoy. 1822 01:45:42,199 --> 01:45:45,746 - Welcome! Any preference? - This table... 1823 01:45:53,293 --> 01:45:56,132 It's a nice little tavern! You were right, Aliki. 1824 01:45:56,878 --> 01:45:59,286 - What will you serve us? - Old Yiannis will take your order. 1825 01:45:59,406 --> 01:46:01,508 I hope the cuisine is good, too. 1826 01:46:02,534 --> 01:46:04,211 - Oh, Dimitris! - What is it, dear? 1827 01:46:04,331 --> 01:46:06,804 My bracelet! I must have dropped it in the car. 1828 01:46:06,924 --> 01:46:07,934 Your bracelet? 1829 01:46:08,054 --> 01:46:10,204 - Will you, please, have a look? - Right away. 1830 01:46:24,470 --> 01:46:27,553 - Good evening, dear Aliki! - How are you, old Yannis? 1831 01:46:27,673 --> 01:46:30,501 Thank God, I'm all right. You? 1832 01:46:30,621 --> 01:46:32,494 So am I. 1833 01:46:32,614 --> 01:46:34,270 How's Pavlos? 1834 01:46:34,390 --> 01:46:36,074 A good question! He's been very sad 1835 01:46:36,194 --> 01:46:37,662 ever since your breakup. 1836 01:46:37,782 --> 01:46:39,716 At first he used to come here every night 1837 01:46:39,836 --> 01:46:41,936 and sit alone and miserable at this very table. 1838 01:46:42,056 --> 01:46:44,513 Every night! Getting drunk... 1839 01:46:44,633 --> 01:46:45,821 Don't you see him anymore? 1840 01:46:45,941 --> 01:46:48,562 - What's his life like nowadays? - He lives in poverty. 1841 01:46:49,196 --> 01:46:51,599 I pleaded he painted more moons on my walls to no avail... 1842 01:46:51,719 --> 01:46:52,896 Let it go! 1843 01:46:53,016 --> 01:46:55,443 He has this fixation with painting in the penthouse. 1844 01:46:55,563 --> 01:46:57,981 - Day and night! - So, he works? 1845 01:46:58,101 --> 01:47:01,375 Yes but what's the point? Who buys paintings these days? 1846 01:47:01,748 --> 01:47:04,107 - Perhaps someone now at the exhibition. - What exhibition? 1847 01:47:04,227 --> 01:47:05,961 He is exhibiting his work at a gallery for a week now. 1848 01:47:06,081 --> 01:47:08,214 It's in the papers, didn't you know? 1849 01:47:08,707 --> 01:47:10,471 No, I didn't. 1850 01:47:10,901 --> 01:47:13,137 I'll go buy a framed picture for the tavern 1851 01:47:13,257 --> 01:47:15,059 to aid the poor guy, 1852 01:47:15,179 --> 01:47:17,157 cause... he's in dire straits! 1853 01:47:17,716 --> 01:47:19,408 I can tell you that he's starving. 1854 01:47:19,528 --> 01:47:21,837 No other way of helping him, 1855 01:47:22,081 --> 01:47:24,597 proud as he is, you know him, Aliki. 1856 01:47:25,313 --> 01:47:26,920 Yes, I know. 1857 01:47:33,147 --> 01:47:36,079 I looked thoroughly, Aliki. No bracelet. 1858 01:47:36,199 --> 01:47:37,584 I'm sorry. 1859 01:47:37,776 --> 01:47:39,835 Now I remember I wasn't wearing it tonight. 1860 01:47:39,955 --> 01:47:42,914 - What will you have? - Two glasses of wine to start with. 1861 01:47:43,034 --> 01:47:44,702 Yes, sir. 1862 01:47:45,217 --> 01:47:48,170 - A cigarette please, Dimitris? - With pleasure. 1863 01:47:57,662 --> 01:47:59,038 What's bothering you, Aliki? 1864 01:48:00,277 --> 01:48:02,700 Nothing, nothing... 1865 01:48:03,249 --> 01:48:06,074 We had an agreement before our marriage, Aliki. 1866 01:48:06,346 --> 01:48:09,257 I was never to talk to you about something not belonging to me. 1867 01:48:09,730 --> 01:48:13,199 - Tonight we'll make an exception. - What do you mean, Dimitris? 1868 01:48:13,908 --> 01:48:16,675 Looks like the painter is having considerable success... 1869 01:48:16,795 --> 01:48:18,701 There's a rave review in the paper 1870 01:48:18,821 --> 01:48:21,176 about his first exhibition, going on for a week now. 1871 01:48:21,296 --> 01:48:23,121 Yes, I know... 1872 01:48:23,480 --> 01:48:24,985 Yes, I read it myself accidentally 1873 01:48:25,257 --> 01:48:28,469 I can't see the connection with our agreement. 1874 01:48:28,589 --> 01:48:32,863 Besides the review, the paper has a photo of a portrait 1875 01:48:32,983 --> 01:48:34,862 titled 'I love you.' 1876 01:48:35,478 --> 01:48:38,259 A portrait with your face in it. 1877 01:48:38,868 --> 01:48:42,875 I'm not sure if the artist has the right of exposing you. 1878 01:48:43,793 --> 01:48:46,804 - Jealous, as always, Dimitris. - Terribly. 1879 01:48:46,924 --> 01:48:49,119 And I think as a husband I am entitled 1880 01:48:49,239 --> 01:48:51,541 to demand that he withdraws the portrait from the exhibition. 1881 01:48:52,501 --> 01:48:54,179 That would be thoughtless. 1882 01:48:54,437 --> 01:48:58,379 If it bothers you so much, you can withdraw it by other means. 1883 01:48:58,967 --> 01:49:00,632 Buy it! 1884 01:49:00,752 --> 01:49:03,763 You're right. Simpler that way. 1885 01:49:04,085 --> 01:49:05,783 We'll go to the exhibition tomorrow. 1886 01:49:06,031 --> 01:49:07,033 Together! 1887 01:49:07,411 --> 01:49:10,135 I'd look totally ridiculous alone. 1888 01:49:10,644 --> 01:49:12,092 As you wish. 1889 01:49:25,282 --> 01:49:27,160 There it is. 1890 01:49:40,700 --> 01:49:43,338 Not as good as the model, for sure. 1891 01:49:43,625 --> 01:49:45,532 You're much more beautiful, Aliki. 1892 01:49:53,285 --> 01:49:55,780 No 27. 1893 01:49:57,744 --> 01:49:59,249 'I love you!' 1894 01:49:59,871 --> 01:50:03,169 That's strange. It's the only one without a price. 1895 01:50:03,742 --> 01:50:05,952 There must be someone here to ask about the price. 1896 01:50:06,072 --> 01:50:07,728 It's not for sale, sir! 1897 01:50:14,635 --> 01:50:18,477 Perhaps the model was sold once, but this one, no. 1898 01:50:19,209 --> 01:50:21,058 This is absolutely mine. 1899 01:50:30,492 --> 01:50:34,248 - So, that was the painter? - Yes, that was him. 1900 01:50:37,132 --> 01:50:39,010 Let's go, Dimitris! 1901 01:50:40,530 --> 01:50:43,508 Now, you shouldn't imagine that after this incident 1902 01:50:43,628 --> 01:50:46,594 any novel-like tragic incident occurred. 1903 01:50:46,895 --> 01:50:49,189 Life has even more tragic finales. 1904 01:50:49,309 --> 01:50:51,117 Time crushes everything. 1905 01:50:51,237 --> 01:50:54,768 The years went by fast. It is, alas, inevitable. 1906 01:50:54,888 --> 01:50:57,245 Aliki submitted to the conventional life 1907 01:50:57,365 --> 01:50:59,513 most rich married couples share. 1908 01:50:59,633 --> 01:51:01,120 where wealth is gradually taken for granted 1909 01:51:01,240 --> 01:51:03,020 finally becoming an indifferent thing. 1910 01:51:03,140 --> 01:51:04,703 She also became a good mother 1911 01:51:04,823 --> 01:51:07,878 giving birth to a son looking exactly like his father. 1912 01:51:07,998 --> 01:51:11,050 So people considered her marriage as happy 1913 01:51:11,170 --> 01:51:15,208 like with all logical marriages not based on passionate love. 1914 01:51:19,239 --> 01:51:22,938 Passionate love remained in her heart� 1915 01:51:23,268 --> 01:51:26,795 No calendar ever managed to erase it. 1916 01:51:27,339 --> 01:51:29,513 She never again met Pavlos 1917 01:51:29,633 --> 01:51:33,140 who developed into an acclaimed and famous artist� 1918 01:51:33,799 --> 01:51:35,722 Pavlos became what he always wanted to be. 1919 01:51:35,842 --> 01:51:38,317 A true artist, a 'bohemian.' 1920 01:51:38,437 --> 01:51:40,340 Free from any engagement that would force him 1921 01:51:40,460 --> 01:51:43,311 to make compromises in his life and art. 1922 01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:47,404 Aliki always followed his steps from afar 1923 01:51:47,524 --> 01:51:50,068 reading with pride and secret joy about him 1924 01:51:50,188 --> 01:51:52,635 in the papers which mentioned his name again and again. 1925 01:51:53,370 --> 01:51:56,096 Would Pavlos have remained a true artist 1926 01:51:56,368 --> 01:52:00,022 had he taken over a family burden on his shoulders? 1927 01:52:00,264 --> 01:52:02,071 Or would his talent have been buried 1928 01:52:02,191 --> 01:52:05,757 in some graphic design studio sketching commercial ads? 1929 01:52:05,877 --> 01:52:07,873 Pavlos remained a true artist, 1930 01:52:07,993 --> 01:52:11,862 a bohemian, who never cared about being broke, 1931 01:52:12,650 --> 01:52:14,972 and being broke was his permanent condition. 1932 01:52:15,092 --> 01:52:18,872 since great artists' works become priceless 1933 01:52:18,992 --> 01:52:21,663 usually only after their death� 1934 01:52:22,144 --> 01:52:24,082 Such was the case when he remembered 1935 01:52:24,202 --> 01:52:26,078 his forgotten gold sovereign in the pot, 1936 01:52:26,370 --> 01:52:28,287 the sovereign that had united him and Aliki 1937 01:52:28,407 --> 01:52:29,892 once upon a New Year's Day... 1938 01:52:30,012 --> 01:52:32,549 How many memories it brought back! 1939 01:52:33,352 --> 01:52:34,886 And the sovereign? 1940 01:52:35,215 --> 01:52:37,008 The sovereign was still there. 1941 01:52:37,128 --> 01:52:40,988 No use keeping it any more, though. 1942 01:52:51,494 --> 01:52:52,976 Hello! 1943 01:52:53,096 --> 01:52:55,700 Can you please change this sovereign for me? 1944 01:52:58,983 --> 01:53:02,157 - It's counterfeit, unfortunately. - Counterfeit? 1945 01:53:05,288 --> 01:53:06,344 All right then� 1946 01:53:06,464 --> 01:53:08,801 Counterfeit? He couldn't help it. 1947 01:53:08,921 --> 01:53:11,596 He would be just penniless for yet another day� 1948 01:53:11,716 --> 01:53:14,750 He couldn't care less as long as he could enjoy the autumn sunshine� 1949 01:53:14,870 --> 01:53:19,302 and head to Zappeion Park to browse around a new painting exhibition� 1950 01:53:29,630 --> 01:53:30,918 Pavlos! 1951 01:53:31,038 --> 01:53:32,419 Aliki! 1952 01:53:33,695 --> 01:53:35,422 How are you, Pavlos? 1953 01:53:36,010 --> 01:53:37,716 Long time, no see. 1954 01:53:38,476 --> 01:53:40,239 Yes, it's been too long. 1955 01:53:40,359 --> 01:53:42,490 We never happened to meet. 1956 01:53:43,940 --> 01:53:45,777 Is it too late for me now, 7 years later, 1957 01:53:45,897 --> 01:53:48,141 to apologize for what I said to you in that gallery? 1958 01:53:48,700 --> 01:53:50,205 Your first exhibition. 1959 01:53:50,563 --> 01:53:52,886 I feel terribly guilty for the things I said. 1960 01:53:53,896 --> 01:53:56,412 Well... when I saw you with�. 1961 01:53:56,532 --> 01:53:58,456 He was my husband. 1962 01:53:58,576 --> 01:53:59,631 Yes, I know. 1963 01:54:00,974 --> 01:54:03,426 You must have hated me that day. 1964 01:54:04,085 --> 01:54:07,311 I didn't hate you, Pavlos. How could I? 1965 01:54:08,013 --> 01:54:10,092 I didn't hold a grudge against you either. 1966 01:54:10,665 --> 01:54:13,289 I could never hold a grudge against you. 1967 01:54:14,565 --> 01:54:18,098 - How's life? Are you happy? - I am. 1968 01:54:18,629 --> 01:54:20,822 Happy that you became a famous artist. 1969 01:54:21,496 --> 01:54:23,374 What you always wanted... 1970 01:54:23,761 --> 01:54:25,734 and what you truly deserved to be. 1971 01:54:25,854 --> 01:54:27,704 Yet, I often wondered 1972 01:54:27,824 --> 01:54:30,045 if this is worth of being alone in life. 1973 01:54:30,165 --> 01:54:32,037 'Artists should never get married,' eh? 1974 01:54:32,157 --> 01:54:33,361 Remember? 1975 01:54:33,676 --> 01:54:35,239 I always do. 1976 01:54:36,148 --> 01:54:38,270 Everything was so beautiful then, 1977 01:54:38,390 --> 01:54:42,112 the penthouse... the hole in the blanket! 1978 01:54:42,380 --> 01:54:44,846 The pot with our one and only sovereign! 1979 01:54:45,312 --> 01:54:48,165 I broke the pot and the sovereign was counterfeit. 1980 01:54:49,354 --> 01:54:50,788 Counterfeit? 1981 01:54:52,154 --> 01:54:54,463 The sovereign we swore on our love never to spend was� 1982 01:54:54,583 --> 01:54:55,609 counterfeit! 1983 01:54:57,182 --> 01:54:59,977 But our love was real, Pavlos. 1984 01:55:02,070 --> 01:55:04,887 And my portrait? what became of my portrait? 1985 01:55:05,934 --> 01:55:08,299 It's the only thing I have from you, Aliki. 1986 01:55:08,844 --> 01:55:11,051 I never sold this portrait. 1987 01:55:11,746 --> 01:55:14,298 It's always been in the penthouse, over my bed. 1988 01:55:15,323 --> 01:55:18,692 When I feel lonely... disheartened... 1989 01:55:19,946 --> 01:55:23,178 I talk to that portrait as if it was alive and listening. 1990 01:55:23,879 --> 01:55:26,525 I tell her... my dreams, 1991 01:55:26,940 --> 01:55:28,828 my worries, my bitter sorrows... 1992 01:55:30,437 --> 01:55:32,131 Whatever I say... 1993 01:55:32,518 --> 01:55:34,170 she'll always answer� 1994 01:55:34,290 --> 01:55:36,129 I love you! 1995 01:55:38,494 --> 01:55:40,322 I love you, too! 1996 01:55:43,826 --> 01:55:46,972 We lost track of time, Pavlos. I'm late. 1997 01:55:47,344 --> 01:55:49,604 My husband and child are expecting me. 1998 01:55:49,840 --> 01:55:52,987 I'm sorry. Nobody is expecting me. 1999 01:55:53,694 --> 01:55:57,027 - Goodbye, Pavlos. - Goodbye, Aliki. 2000 01:56:31,057 --> 01:56:35,420 That was 'I love you!' all about. It didn't end and it never will� 2001 01:56:36,049 --> 01:56:37,851 A great love 2002 01:56:37,971 --> 01:56:40,433 starting with a counterfeit sovereign 2003 01:56:40,704 --> 01:56:42,621 useless any more� 2004 01:56:47,038 --> 01:56:50,513 False, however, is not only the counterfeit sovereign in the story. 2005 01:56:50,771 --> 01:56:53,905 False as a whole is money. 163281