1 00:00:42,577 --> 00:00:45,780 As his mother's womb yet held the growing Baal 2 00:00:46,281 --> 00:00:49,350 The sky above was vast and still and pale 3 00:00:49,918 --> 00:00:53,021 Young and bare and immensely wondrous 4 00:00:53,521 --> 00:00:57,125 Just how Baal loved it when Baal came to us 5 00:01:01,296 --> 00:01:04,232 Through Baal's lust and pain the sky remained there 6 00:01:04,933 --> 00:01:08,236 Even when Baal slumbered blissfully unaware 7 00:01:08,737 --> 00:01:11,773 At night a violet sky, a drunken Baal 8 00:01:12,407 --> 00:01:16,010 Baal's dawn is holy, the sky apricotpale 9 00:01:19,848 --> 00:01:22,383 Amid the shameful swarm of sinners 10 00:01:23,752 --> 00:01:27,122 Baal lay naked and wallowed unconcerned 11 00:01:27,655 --> 00:01:30,125 Just the sky, oh never-ending sky 12 00:01:31,126 --> 00:01:34,229 Majestically covered his nakedness 13 00:01:38,967 --> 00:01:41,970 At the bloated vultures Baal squints up 14 00:01:42,670 --> 00:01:46,040 They circle above to see when Baal will die 15 00:01:46,441 --> 00:01:50,044 Sometimes Baal plays dead, vultures land to eat 16 00:01:50,445 --> 00:01:54,482 Baal dines in silence on vulture meat 17 00:01:57,685 --> 00:02:00,255 Beneath gloomy stars in this vale of tears 18 00:02:01,456 --> 00:02:04,425 Baal grazes broad fields and smacks his lips 19 00:02:05,293 --> 00:02:08,363 Once the fields are bare Baal skips with a song 20 00:02:09,097 --> 00:02:12,267 Into the eternal woods to get some sleep 21 00:02:16,771 --> 00:02:20,041 And when the dark womb drags Baal down inside 22 00:02:20,408 --> 00:02:23,678 What is the world to Baal then? Baal is full 23 00:02:24,245 --> 00:02:27,282 Baal has so much sky in his eye 24 00:02:27,682 --> 00:02:31,186 That when he dies he still will have enough 25 00:02:35,423 --> 00:02:38,693 When the dark, earthy womb held the rotting Baal 26 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:42,664 The sky above was yet vast and still and pale 27 00:02:43,097 --> 00:02:46,267 Young and bare and utterly sublime 28 00:02:46,734 --> 00:02:50,738 Just how Baal loved it in Baal's time 29 00:03:13,494 --> 00:03:15,864 You must publish your poetry. 30 00:03:16,197 --> 00:03:20,034 Herr Mech is a regular Maecenas. You can leave that garret. 31 00:03:20,168 --> 00:03:24,772 I have entire forests of cinnamon trees floating down Brazil's rivers, 32 00:03:24,906 --> 00:03:27,041 but I'll publish your poetry too. 33 00:03:27,342 --> 00:03:30,745 - You live in a garret? . - 64 Sewer Street. 34 00:03:31,079 --> 00:03:33,581 I'm not fat enough for poetry. 35 00:03:34,115 --> 00:03:36,985 I'll write a piece on you. You have manuscripts? . 36 00:03:37,118 --> 00:03:39,320 I have the backing of the press. 37 00:03:39,454 --> 00:03:42,290 Ladies and gentlemen, I admit I was shocked 38 00:03:42,423 --> 00:03:46,594 to find a man like him in such modest circumstances. 39 00:03:46,861 --> 00:03:49,931 As you know, I discovered our dear poet 40 00:03:50,064 --> 00:03:53,534 working as a simple clerk in my office. 41 00:03:54,302 --> 00:03:59,540 I won't hesitate to say that it's a disgrace for our city 42 00:03:59,807 --> 00:04:03,778 that such luminaries should be working for a daily wage. 43 00:04:03,912 --> 00:04:06,080 Congratulations, Herr Mech. 44 00:04:06,214 --> 00:04:08,683 Your salon will be known 45 00:04:08,816 --> 00:04:12,754 as the cradle of this genius's worldwide fame. 46 00:04:12,921 --> 00:04:15,023 To your health, Herr Baal. 47 00:04:21,062 --> 00:04:24,899 How do you achieve such naïveté? . It's positively Homeric. 48 00:04:25,033 --> 00:04:28,336 I consider Homer to be one or several literate compilers 49 00:04:28,469 --> 00:04:31,506 who took delight in the naïveté of folk epics. 50 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:35,476 - More eel, please. - But your asset is great immodesty. 51 00:04:36,110 --> 00:04:39,113 Baal sings his lyrics to truckers... 52 00:04:40,081 --> 00:04:42,317 in a tavern by the river. 53 00:04:45,753 --> 00:04:47,055 More champagne. 54 00:04:52,026 --> 00:04:55,930 You must travel. The Abyssinian highlands would suit you. 55 00:04:56,898 --> 00:05:00,368 Then those highlands should come to me. 56 00:05:00,501 --> 00:05:05,206 why? A person with your zest . for life needs no reality. 57 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,475 Your poems moved me deeply. 58 00:05:07,608 --> 00:05:09,911 Truckers pay for what they like. 59 00:05:10,044 --> 00:05:14,615 I’ll publish your poetry and let my cinnamon trees float away, or both. 60 00:05:14,749 --> 00:05:16,851 You shouldn't drink so much. 61 00:05:17,618 --> 00:05:19,654 I have no shirts. 62 00:05:20,054 --> 00:05:21,689 I could use some white shirts. 63 00:05:22,457 --> 00:05:24,625 You're not interested in being published? . 64 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,298 But they have to be soft. Ladies' blouses, perhaps. 65 00:05:40,608 --> 00:05:43,411 You write wonderful poems, Herr Baal. 66 00:05:43,611 --> 00:05:45,813 They show such sensitivity. 67 00:05:47,482 --> 00:05:49,650 Don't drink so much, Herr Baal. 68 00:05:50,318 --> 00:05:54,756 Floating cinnamon trees? . Butchered forests huh? ,. 69 00:05:54,956 --> 00:05:57,325 I didn't mean to - 70 00:05:57,458 --> 00:06:00,461 Publication doesn't seem to interest you. 71 00:06:00,595 --> 00:06:02,864 - You trade in animals too. - You object?. 72 00:06:02,997 --> 00:06:06,734 - What's my poetry to you? - I meant to do you a favor. 73 00:06:06,868 --> 00:06:09,604 will you peel me an apple Emilie? ,. 74 00:06:09,937 --> 00:06:12,774 He's scared of being sucked dry. 75 00:06:13,241 --> 00:06:16,110 How might I serve you? . 76 00:06:20,214 --> 00:06:23,351 Do you always wear wide sleeves Emilie? ,. 77 00:06:52,013 --> 00:06:54,048 You must stop drinking that wine. 78 00:06:54,282 --> 00:06:57,752 How about a bath? Shall I have a bed made up? . 79 00:06:57,885 --> 00:07:00,922 Haven't you forgotten something? . - Go easy on the alcohol. 80 00:07:01,055 --> 00:07:04,592 The shirts are floating away. The poetry's already floated off. 81 00:07:04,725 --> 00:07:07,061 why monopolies? . Go to bed, Mech. 82 00:07:07,195 --> 00:07:09,297 I like all God's creatures, 83 00:07:09,430 --> 00:07:11,933 but one can't do business with this animal. 84 00:07:12,066 --> 00:07:14,302 Come, Emilie. Come, gentlemen. 85 00:07:14,769 --> 00:07:16,771 There are limits even for genius. 86 00:07:18,573 --> 00:07:21,042 Your poetry has a vicious streak. 87 00:07:21,175 --> 00:07:25,179 what's the gentleman's name? Piller! . Send me some old newspapers. 88 00:07:25,313 --> 00:07:29,083 You mean nothing to me. You mean nothing to literature. 89 00:07:36,591 --> 00:07:39,994 Is there something eIse you want from him Frau Mech? ,. 90 00:07:40,161 --> 00:07:44,365 I don't know. Someone should look after him. 91 00:07:47,201 --> 00:07:50,471 - You should be ashamed! - You should be ashamed. 92 00:07:50,605 --> 00:07:53,741 I can't help it if I'm pickled from your wine. 93 00:07:53,875 --> 00:07:57,845 Must I swallow your twaddle just so I can fill my belly?. 94 00:08:01,449 --> 00:08:04,252 when you lie sprawled in the grass at night, 95 00:08:04,385 --> 00:08:08,556 you feel in your bones that the Earth is round and we're flying... 96 00:08:08,689 --> 00:08:12,527 and that there are animals on this star eating up its plants. 97 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:14,829 It's one of the smaller stars. 98 00:08:14,996 --> 00:08:17,398 - You know about astronomy? . - No. 99 00:08:18,232 --> 00:08:21,536 My sweetheart is the most innocent woman alive, 100 00:08:21,669 --> 00:08:26,207 but once, in a dream, I saw her ravished by a juniper tree. 101 00:08:26,541 --> 00:08:29,744 Her pale body was stretched out on the juniper, 102 00:08:29,877 --> 00:08:32,146 its gnarled branches embracing her. 103 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,515 I haven't been able to sleep since. 104 00:08:34,649 --> 00:08:38,553 - Have you ever seen her pale body? . - No, she's innocent. Even her knees. 105 00:08:38,686 --> 00:08:41,122 There are degrees of innocence, don't you think? . 106 00:08:41,255 --> 00:08:44,458 Still, when I hold her for a moment at night, 107 00:08:44,592 --> 00:08:46,627 she trembles like a leaf. 108 00:08:46,761 --> 00:08:48,829 I don't dare. She's only 17. 109 00:08:48,963 --> 00:08:51,732 - Did she enjoy love in your dream?. - Yes. 110 00:08:51,866 --> 00:08:56,404 Love is like biting into an orange so the juice squirts through your teeth. 111 00:08:56,537 --> 00:08:59,607 It's like letting your bare arm float in a pond 112 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:01,642 with weeds between your fingers. 113 00:09:01,776 --> 00:09:04,545 Limbs as loose as plants in the wind. 114 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,082 The force of the collision is like flying into a gale. 115 00:09:08,216 --> 00:09:11,352 Her body tumbles over you like cool pebbles. 116 00:09:11,485 --> 00:09:13,854 But enough of this aria. 117 00:09:14,355 --> 00:09:16,824 So you think I should do it? . 118 00:09:17,124 --> 00:09:20,261 I think you should steer clear, Johannes. 119 00:09:23,364 --> 00:09:25,766 Orge said to me... 120 00:09:26,901 --> 00:09:29,337 the dearest place for him on Earth 121 00:09:29,470 --> 00:09:32,240 is not the grass by his parents' graves. 122 00:09:32,373 --> 00:09:35,176 It's not a confessional box, nor a whore's bed, 123 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:38,846 nor a woman's lap, all soft, white, warm, and fat. 124 00:09:44,385 --> 00:09:48,122 Orge said to me the dearest place on Earth 125 00:09:48,256 --> 00:09:50,524 for him was always the latrine. 126 00:09:50,658 --> 00:09:52,893 A place where one is content 127 00:09:53,027 --> 00:09:56,063 with stars above and dung below. 128 00:09:56,964 --> 00:09:59,800 A place of humility where you realize 129 00:09:59,934 --> 00:10:03,771 that you're just a man who can't hold on to anything. 130 00:10:03,904 --> 00:10:06,641 There you realize what you are indeed - 131 00:10:06,774 --> 00:10:10,077 just a guy sitting on a latrine to feed. 132 00:10:11,479 --> 00:10:13,414 Bravo! 133 00:10:16,617 --> 00:10:19,453 He made that up all by himself. 134 00:10:20,254 --> 00:10:22,456 You're really something, Herr Baal. 135 00:10:22,723 --> 00:10:25,793 - wish I had brains like that. - Don't get carried away. 136 00:10:25,926 --> 00:10:29,463 Brains come with a backside and all the rest. Cheers! 137 00:10:32,566 --> 00:10:34,468 This is Johanna. 138 00:10:35,703 --> 00:10:37,204 Hello. 139 00:10:37,338 --> 00:10:39,273 Johannes read me your poems. 140 00:10:39,407 --> 00:10:42,510 - How old are you? - Seventeen in June. 141 00:10:42,777 --> 00:10:46,113 I’m jealous. Johannes raves about you. 142 00:10:46,247 --> 00:10:48,783 You're in love with your Johannes. 143 00:10:49,650 --> 00:10:52,253 It's spring. I’m waiting for Emilie. 144 00:10:52,453 --> 00:10:54,689 Loving is better than mere pleasure. 145 00:10:54,822 --> 00:10:59,327 You may touch the hearts of men, but how do you succeed with women? . 146 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,362 That can be learned. 147 00:11:03,397 --> 00:11:05,066 Here she comes. 148 00:11:07,101 --> 00:11:09,270 He threw me out of his white pad, 149 00:11:09,403 --> 00:11:13,741 but his wife ran after me. Now I can't get rid of her. 150 00:11:22,083 --> 00:11:24,652 why did you have me come here? . 151 00:11:24,885 --> 00:11:28,723 with all these lowlifes! Is this how your taste runs? . 152 00:11:28,956 --> 00:11:32,727 Luise! A gin for the lady. 153 00:11:33,027 --> 00:11:36,597 - You mean to make a fool of me? . - No. Drink. 154 00:11:36,731 --> 00:11:38,566 we're all human. 155 00:11:39,133 --> 00:11:41,936 - You're not! - what do you know? . 156 00:11:45,239 --> 00:11:49,110 Damn but you're soft today, like a plum. 157 00:11:49,910 --> 00:11:53,214 - You're so vulgar! - Shout it out, darling. 158 00:11:54,382 --> 00:11:57,418 Maybe we should go down to the river, Johannes. 159 00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:59,553 Nothing doing. Stay here. 160 00:12:00,221 --> 00:12:03,157 The sky is violet, especially when you're drunk. 161 00:12:03,290 --> 00:12:05,626 whereas beds are white... at first. 162 00:12:05,860 --> 00:12:09,196 That's where love is, between heaven and earth. 163 00:12:09,330 --> 00:12:11,399 why are you such cowards? . 164 00:12:12,099 --> 00:12:14,902 You've drunk too much again. Now you're babbling. 165 00:12:15,503 --> 00:12:19,774 And with that damnable, wonderful babble... 166 00:12:20,207 --> 00:12:22,510 he lures you to his sty. 167 00:12:22,643 --> 00:12:25,379 The sky is sometimes yellow too, 168 00:12:25,646 --> 00:12:28,048 with birds of prey in it. 169 00:12:28,482 --> 00:12:30,518 You must all get drunk! 170 00:12:31,952 --> 00:12:34,889 who's kicking my shin? . Is that you Luise? ,. 171 00:12:35,322 --> 00:12:37,591 Ah, it was you, Emilie. 172 00:12:37,725 --> 00:12:40,027 well, no matter. Drink up. 173 00:12:41,328 --> 00:12:43,764 I don't know what's wrong with you today. 174 00:12:43,898 --> 00:12:46,901 Maybe I shouldn't have come. - Just realizing that now? . 175 00:12:47,034 --> 00:12:49,437 Might as well stay now. 176 00:12:54,008 --> 00:12:56,477 You shouldn't do this, Herr Baal. 177 00:12:57,578 --> 00:13:01,849 You have a good heart, Johanna. You won't betray your man, eh? 178 00:13:02,216 --> 00:13:05,119 want to come with us? . We'll leave together. 179 00:13:05,419 --> 00:13:07,354 I feel so ashamed now. 180 00:13:08,856 --> 00:13:11,392 I understand. It doesn't matter. 181 00:13:12,259 --> 00:13:14,295 Don't look at me like that. 182 00:13:15,095 --> 00:13:17,031 You're still so young. 183 00:13:18,165 --> 00:13:23,070 You don't know anything yet. - what a farce! "Sisters in Hades." 184 00:13:23,204 --> 00:13:26,106 He's been drinking. He'll regret it tomorrow. 185 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,842 Cheers, Emmi. 186 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:32,413 At least drink, if you can't do anything else. Drink! 187 00:13:36,116 --> 00:13:37,818 That's it. 188 00:13:38,219 --> 00:13:41,388 That'll light a fire in you. 189 00:13:43,524 --> 00:13:46,694 If you only knew. He's always like this. 190 00:13:47,862 --> 00:13:49,763 And I love him. 191 00:13:49,897 --> 00:13:52,366 - Orgauer! - what do you want? . 192 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,970 A woman's being mistreated here and wants love. 193 00:13:56,437 --> 00:13:58,172 Give her a kiss. 194 00:13:58,439 --> 00:14:00,941 Go on! 195 00:14:01,509 --> 00:14:03,444 Yes, do. 196 00:14:04,445 --> 00:14:06,714 You're a bastard, Herr Baal. 197 00:14:08,048 --> 00:14:09,984 Are you cold Emmi? ,. 198 00:14:10,684 --> 00:14:12,353 You love me? . 199 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:15,856 He's shy, Emmi. You kiss him. 200 00:14:17,191 --> 00:14:21,729 If you make me look bad now, it's all over. 201 00:14:22,530 --> 00:14:24,031 One... 202 00:14:24,331 --> 00:14:25,933 two... 203 00:14:30,738 --> 00:14:33,674 She deserves a spanking! 204 00:14:37,545 --> 00:14:39,380 You should be ashamed! 205 00:14:39,513 --> 00:14:42,683 why are your knees shaking, Johanna? . 206 00:14:43,284 --> 00:14:46,554 Did you feel that? Did it get under your skin? . 207 00:14:46,687 --> 00:14:48,622 That was a circus! 208 00:14:48,756 --> 00:14:51,959 You have to lure the beast out into the sun! 209 00:14:52,092 --> 00:14:53,827 My bill! 210 00:14:53,961 --> 00:14:56,797 Out into the daylight with love. 211 00:14:57,364 --> 00:15:00,668 Someone exposed their white bum here today. 212 00:15:00,801 --> 00:15:02,436 Good-bye, Herr Circus! 213 00:15:04,138 --> 00:15:05,773 Baal, stop it. 214 00:15:08,943 --> 00:15:12,346 Come with me, brother, to the hard, dusty roads, 215 00:15:12,613 --> 00:15:16,617 where the evening air turns violet and the dive bars are full of drunks. 216 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:20,020 The women you've stuffed fall into black rivers. 217 00:15:20,154 --> 00:15:22,790 To the cathedrals with little white women. 218 00:15:22,923 --> 00:15:25,125 You'll say "May one breathe here?" ,. 219 00:15:25,259 --> 00:15:28,095 To the cowsheds where one sleeps among beasts. 220 00:15:28,228 --> 00:15:30,631 They're gloomy, full of the mooing of cows. 221 00:15:30,764 --> 00:15:33,500 To the forests where axes ring out above 222 00:15:33,634 --> 00:15:36,270 and one forgets the light of the sky. 223 00:15:36,403 --> 00:15:38,372 God has forgotten you. 224 00:15:38,872 --> 00:15:41,408 You still remember how the sky looks? . 225 00:15:44,311 --> 00:15:46,513 Luise, an anchor! 226 00:15:46,647 --> 00:15:48,916 Don't let me go with him! Help me! 227 00:15:49,116 --> 00:15:53,320 Come, brother. Dance and music and drinking. 228 00:15:53,687 --> 00:15:55,589 The rain soaking you... 229 00:15:55,723 --> 00:15:57,558 the sun scorching you... 230 00:15:57,825 --> 00:15:59,627 darkness... 231 00:16:00,494 --> 00:16:02,329 and light. 232 00:16:02,830 --> 00:16:06,100 - Dear God! - Remember your art and be strong. 233 00:16:06,233 --> 00:16:08,235 Shame on you! - Come, brother Baal. 234 00:16:08,369 --> 00:16:11,472 Like two white doves we'll fly blissfully into the blue. 235 00:16:11,605 --> 00:16:15,109 Rivers in the light of dawn, windswept graveyards, 236 00:16:15,242 --> 00:16:18,579 the smell of endless fields before they're mown. 237 00:16:19,346 --> 00:16:23,817 - Be strong, Herr Baal. - Don't do it. It's not worth it. 238 00:16:23,951 --> 00:16:27,488 Not yet. There's another way. They won't come along, brother. 239 00:16:28,122 --> 00:16:30,824 Then go to hell with your fat heart. 240 00:16:32,626 --> 00:16:36,630 - Can't you postpone it? . - No You coming or not? .. 241 00:16:48,342 --> 00:16:50,744 You won this time, Herr Baal. 242 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:55,249 You can relax now, Emmi. 243 00:16:56,550 --> 00:16:58,285 It's over now. 244 00:17:02,456 --> 00:17:04,258 what have I done? . 245 00:17:06,827 --> 00:17:09,663 I’m wicked. - You'd better wash. 246 00:17:11,598 --> 00:17:14,034 I still don't know how it happened. 247 00:17:14,168 --> 00:17:16,503 It's all Johannes's fault. 248 00:17:16,637 --> 00:17:18,939 He brought you here and then split 249 00:17:19,073 --> 00:17:22,076 when he realized why your knees were shaking. 250 00:17:22,743 --> 00:17:26,747 - What if he came back? - Here comes the literary bit. 251 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,583 Dawn on Mount Ararat... 252 00:17:32,186 --> 00:17:35,622 - Should I get up? . - ...after the flood. 253 00:17:35,789 --> 00:17:37,491 Stay where you are. 254 00:17:37,925 --> 00:17:39,927 won't you open the window? . 255 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:41,962 I love that smell. 256 00:17:43,097 --> 00:17:46,767 How about another helping? . what's gone is gone. 257 00:17:47,234 --> 00:17:49,603 You can be so vile. 258 00:17:50,404 --> 00:17:53,707 white and cleansed by the flood, 259 00:17:53,841 --> 00:17:59,446 Baal lets his thoughts soar like doves over the dark waters. 260 00:18:02,783 --> 00:18:04,485 where's my blouse? . 261 00:18:05,419 --> 00:18:09,423 I can't - - Here what can't you do my love? .,. 262 00:18:10,257 --> 00:18:11,759 Go home. 263 00:18:14,294 --> 00:18:16,396 She's a wild little thing. 264 00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:19,933 I feel every bone in my body. 265 00:18:20,467 --> 00:18:22,102 Give me a kiss. 266 00:18:29,576 --> 00:18:31,111 Say something. 267 00:18:33,714 --> 00:18:35,382 Do you still love me? . 268 00:18:37,084 --> 00:18:38,652 Say it. 269 00:18:41,488 --> 00:18:43,323 Can't you say it? . 270 00:18:43,957 --> 00:18:46,126 I’m fed up to the teeth! 271 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:50,464 Then what was last night about... 272 00:18:50,597 --> 00:18:52,166 and just now?. 273 00:18:53,033 --> 00:18:54,334 Did you wash up? . 274 00:18:54,735 --> 00:18:58,572 No practical sense at all. Did you get nothing out of it? . 275 00:18:58,705 --> 00:19:00,507 Go home. 276 00:19:05,579 --> 00:19:08,382 Tell Johannes I took you home yesterday 277 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:10,818 and that I puke bile on him. 278 00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:13,053 It rained. 279 00:19:15,889 --> 00:19:17,558 Johannes... 280 00:19:41,114 --> 00:19:44,084 If a woman gives all, so says Baal 281 00:19:44,852 --> 00:19:47,855 Let her go, for she has no more 282 00:19:48,455 --> 00:19:51,658 Men, fear not women They are trivial 283 00:19:52,059 --> 00:19:55,662 But children frighten even Baal 284 00:20:08,675 --> 00:20:12,412 Drinking makes the evening sky 285 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:17,484 very dark, sometimes violet. 286 00:20:19,853 --> 00:20:25,893 Then your body in a shirt to rip... 287 00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:29,863 You said we should come by again. 288 00:20:29,997 --> 00:20:33,300 ...in a broad white bed. 289 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:35,535 Here we are, Herr Baal. 290 00:20:35,669 --> 00:20:39,172 Now the doves come fluttering in pairs. Get undressed! 291 00:20:39,773 --> 00:20:42,476 Mother heard us on the stairs last week. 292 00:20:42,609 --> 00:20:45,045 It was already dusk. 293 00:20:45,178 --> 00:20:49,283 - One day I’ll be stuck with you. - I’d rather drown myself. 294 00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:51,985 - I feel ashamed. - It's not the first time... 295 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,056 - It's so light. It's high noon. - ...nor the second. 296 00:20:56,189 --> 00:20:58,225 - You undress too. - I will. 297 00:20:58,358 --> 00:21:00,560 when you're ready, come over here. 298 00:21:00,694 --> 00:21:02,829 It will be dark, all right. 299 00:21:03,230 --> 00:21:06,266 - You go first today. - I went first last time. 300 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,903 - No, I did. - You'll both come together. 301 00:21:18,578 --> 00:21:20,147 we're ready. 302 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,083 It's so bright in here. - Is it warm outside? 303 00:21:23,216 --> 00:21:26,186 - It's only April. - But the sun's warm today. 304 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,755 Did you enjoy it last time?. 305 00:21:30,624 --> 00:21:34,061 A girl drowned herself in the river. Johanna Reiher. 306 00:21:34,227 --> 00:21:37,364 In the Laach. I wouldn't go near it. The current's too strong. 307 00:21:37,497 --> 00:21:39,800 Drowned herself? . Anyone know why? . 308 00:21:39,933 --> 00:21:42,269 There are rumors going around. 309 00:21:42,402 --> 00:21:46,273 - She stayed out all night. - She didn't go home the next day? . 310 00:21:46,406 --> 00:21:48,875 No. They still haven't found her body. 311 00:21:49,009 --> 00:21:50,477 Still floating... 312 00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:53,347 - what's wrong, sister?. - Probably just a chill. 313 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,649 I’m too lazy today. Go home. 314 00:21:55,782 --> 00:21:58,919 You can't do that to her, Herr Baal. 315 00:21:59,653 --> 00:22:01,688 - Someone's knocking. - It's Mother. 316 00:22:01,822 --> 00:22:03,490 Don't open it! 317 00:22:03,623 --> 00:22:05,459 I’m scared. 318 00:22:06,293 --> 00:22:07,995 Here's your blouse. 319 00:22:08,228 --> 00:22:12,199 Don't open yet. Bolt the door, for God's sake. 320 00:22:18,105 --> 00:22:19,806 well, well. 321 00:22:22,175 --> 00:22:24,177 I thought as much. 322 00:22:26,546 --> 00:22:28,648 Two at a time now. 323 00:22:29,850 --> 00:22:34,087 Aren't you ashamed? Two in his fishpond at once? . 324 00:22:35,622 --> 00:22:39,960 From dawn till dusk till dawn again, his bed never gets cold. 325 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,330 well, now I’ll have my say. 326 00:22:44,031 --> 00:22:46,533 My attic isn't a brothel. 327 00:22:59,446 --> 00:23:02,082 Who nailed these tree corpses to the wall? . 328 00:23:02,215 --> 00:23:05,285 The pale ivory air around the tree corpses. 329 00:23:05,419 --> 00:23:08,055 It's Corpus Christi! - The bells ring as the trees die. 330 00:23:08,422 --> 00:23:10,690 The bells lift my spirits. 331 00:23:22,002 --> 00:23:24,271 Don't the trees depress you? . 332 00:23:24,504 --> 00:23:27,074 Ha! Tree cadavers! 333 00:23:27,207 --> 00:23:29,376 women's bodies are no better. 334 00:23:29,910 --> 00:23:32,712 what do women's bodies have to do with processions? . 335 00:23:32,846 --> 00:23:34,781 They're both obscene. 336 00:23:35,949 --> 00:23:38,418 You don't love anyone. 337 00:23:38,552 --> 00:23:41,321 I love the white body of Christ. 338 00:23:46,226 --> 00:23:48,662 I put poems to paper, 339 00:23:48,795 --> 00:23:51,865 but these days they get hung up in lavatories. 340 00:23:51,998 --> 00:23:54,968 To serve my lord Jesus. 341 00:23:55,102 --> 00:23:57,637 I see the white body of Jesus. 342 00:24:00,574 --> 00:24:03,477 Jesus loved sinners. - Like me. 343 00:24:03,677 --> 00:24:06,847 Know the story about Jesus and the dead dog? . 344 00:24:06,980 --> 00:24:11,017 Everyone said, "It stinks! Call the police! It's unbearable!" 345 00:24:11,151 --> 00:24:14,554 But he said, "It has beautiful white teeth." 346 00:24:17,991 --> 00:24:20,127 Maybe I’ll become Catholic. 347 00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:22,162 He didn't. 348 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:26,066 But nailing women's bodies to the wall - I wouldn't do that. 349 00:24:26,199 --> 00:24:28,101 Nail them to the wall? . 350 00:24:28,235 --> 00:24:31,771 They never floated down the river. They were slaughtered. 351 00:24:32,372 --> 00:24:35,208 For the white body of Jesus. 352 00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:40,647 You have too much religion or too much gin in you. 353 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:43,450 So you won't stand up for your ideals 354 00:24:43,583 --> 00:24:45,452 or join the procession?. 355 00:24:45,585 --> 00:24:47,954 You love plants and do nothing for them! 356 00:24:48,088 --> 00:24:50,857 I’m going down to the river to wash. 357 00:24:52,392 --> 00:24:54,928 I don't care about corpses. 358 00:24:55,195 --> 00:24:57,831 I have gin in my blood. 359 00:24:59,032 --> 00:25:03,837 I can't stand these damned dead trees! 360 00:25:04,371 --> 00:25:07,007 with lots of gin inside you... 361 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,143 maybe you could bear it. 362 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:25,258 For four days now I’ve been covering this paper with red summer... 363 00:25:25,392 --> 00:25:28,195 pale, wild, and voracious... 364 00:25:29,129 --> 00:25:32,065 and wrestling with the gin bottle. 365 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,436 There have been defeats... 366 00:25:37,137 --> 00:25:40,807 but the bodies are starting to fall back to the walls 367 00:25:40,941 --> 00:25:43,443 and flee into the Egyptian darkness. 368 00:25:44,010 --> 00:25:48,648 I nail them to the walls, but I have to stop drinking. 369 00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:57,424 Gin is my rod and my staff... 370 00:25:58,525 --> 00:26:01,027 but now my hands are shaking... 371 00:26:01,928 --> 00:26:04,998 as if the bodies were still inside them. 372 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:10,737 I’m a lover without a beloved. 373 00:26:14,274 --> 00:26:15,942 I’m succumbing. 374 00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:30,290 I have to move out, but first I'll get myself a woman. 375 00:26:30,423 --> 00:26:32,692 Moving out alone is sad. 376 00:26:33,026 --> 00:26:35,729 Anyone with a face like a woman. 377 00:27:32,852 --> 00:27:34,821 This is my studio. 378 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:39,492 what are you doing here? . 379 00:27:40,126 --> 00:27:43,063 - I just wanted - - You wanted, did you?. 380 00:27:43,730 --> 00:27:48,568 There you stand, a tombstone for my late Johanna. 381 00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:51,638 Johanna's corpse from another world. 382 00:27:51,871 --> 00:27:54,240 Get out right now. 383 00:27:54,374 --> 00:27:56,109 You've got some nerve! 384 00:27:56,476 --> 00:27:58,345 It's spring anyway. 385 00:28:02,248 --> 00:28:04,651 what did that young man do to you? . 386 00:28:05,719 --> 00:28:07,320 Let me go. 387 00:28:07,587 --> 00:28:10,223 Turn right at the first floor. 388 00:28:10,857 --> 00:28:12,192 They'll find me. 389 00:28:12,592 --> 00:28:15,729 A man followed us when you suddenly approached me. 390 00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:17,864 No one will find you here. 391 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,836 Out there you said you were a photographer. 392 00:28:22,969 --> 00:28:25,071 That's what I said out there. 393 00:28:25,939 --> 00:28:30,310 Then I’m going. I was on my way to the theater to play Judith. 394 00:28:30,443 --> 00:28:32,212 You can go any time. 395 00:28:32,579 --> 00:28:35,281 You accosted me on the street. 396 00:28:35,415 --> 00:28:37,484 It's spring right? ,. 397 00:28:43,356 --> 00:28:45,825 I must have something white... 398 00:28:46,426 --> 00:28:48,661 in this damned hole. 399 00:28:50,463 --> 00:28:52,132 A cloud. 400 00:28:55,802 --> 00:28:59,806 A thousand people are waiting. They'll fire me if I don't show. 401 00:29:00,073 --> 00:29:01,841 I’m not stopping you. 402 00:29:02,075 --> 00:29:04,077 I don't know you. 403 00:29:04,778 --> 00:29:09,249 What do you want with me? - If you have to ask, you can leave. 404 00:29:09,382 --> 00:29:11,384 I don't know why I'm still here. 405 00:29:11,518 --> 00:29:13,052 I can tell you. 406 00:29:18,324 --> 00:29:20,226 Should I stay? . 407 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,495 You have to play Judith. 408 00:29:23,763 --> 00:29:27,367 - I feel so weak. - I know why. 409 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,135 It's April. 410 00:29:30,236 --> 00:29:33,406 It's getting dark, and you smell me. 411 00:29:34,407 --> 00:29:36,910 That's how it is with animals. 412 00:29:37,377 --> 00:29:39,979 Now you belong to the wind, white cloud. 413 00:29:40,113 --> 00:29:41,514 Let me go. 414 00:29:41,648 --> 00:29:43,283 My name is Baal. 415 00:29:43,616 --> 00:29:45,151 Let me go. 416 00:29:48,721 --> 00:29:50,757 You must comfort me. 417 00:29:51,558 --> 00:29:53,726 The winter left me weak. 418 00:29:53,993 --> 00:29:56,429 But you look like a woman. 419 00:29:59,833 --> 00:30:01,701 You're so ugly. 420 00:30:02,836 --> 00:30:05,772 So ugly that it's frightening. 421 00:30:07,574 --> 00:30:09,108 But then... 422 00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:16,416 that doesn't matter. 423 00:30:22,288 --> 00:30:25,725 - Are your knees steady? . - Do you even know my name? . 424 00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:29,963 It's Sophie Barger. 425 00:30:30,096 --> 00:30:32,098 You have to forget that. 426 00:30:32,765 --> 00:30:34,667 - No! - How old are you? . 427 00:30:34,801 --> 00:30:38,037 - Twenty-four in June. - How many men have you had? . 428 00:30:38,371 --> 00:30:40,940 So you've got that over with. Come! 429 00:30:41,508 --> 00:30:45,879 In this wooden attic cascades of bodies have lain, 430 00:30:46,112 --> 00:30:48,248 but now I want a face. 431 00:30:48,381 --> 00:30:51,885 At night we'll go out and lie beneath the bushes. 432 00:30:53,152 --> 00:30:55,655 You're a woman. I’ve become unclean. 433 00:30:55,788 --> 00:30:58,091 You must love me for a while. 434 00:30:58,892 --> 00:31:02,161 That's how you are. I’m fond of you. 435 00:31:02,295 --> 00:31:05,498 The sky's above us now, and we're all alone. 436 00:31:06,466 --> 00:31:09,402 - But you must lie still. - Like a child. 437 00:31:10,036 --> 00:31:12,672 Do you have family? . - My mother. 438 00:31:12,805 --> 00:31:14,340 Is she old? . 439 00:31:14,474 --> 00:31:16,042 She's 70. 440 00:31:16,175 --> 00:31:18,611 Then she's accustomed to evil. 441 00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:23,917 what if I’m swallowed up by the earth? 442 00:31:24,484 --> 00:31:29,022 Or dragged into a cave never to return? ,. - Never? 443 00:31:29,756 --> 00:31:32,058 The air in here is like milk. 444 00:31:32,191 --> 00:31:35,194 The river willows are wet and disheveled from rain. 445 00:31:35,328 --> 00:31:37,597 You must have pale thighs. 446 00:31:44,504 --> 00:31:48,908 - They knocked the lamp over again. - Only pigs ever come here. 447 00:31:49,108 --> 00:31:51,210 There's a postcard for you. 448 00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,046 Marseille... 449 00:31:53,179 --> 00:31:56,149 Ekart wants me to come to the Black Forest. 450 00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:58,251 where's my ration of gin? . 451 00:31:58,384 --> 00:32:01,988 Mjurk says no more gin before the show. Sorry. 452 00:32:02,121 --> 00:32:03,990 Clear out, Lupu. 453 00:32:04,123 --> 00:32:07,894 I must have my gin, Mjurk, or there's no poetry. 454 00:32:08,027 --> 00:32:11,164 Don't drink so much. You won't be able to sing. 455 00:32:11,297 --> 00:32:13,600 what else do I sing for? . 456 00:32:13,733 --> 00:32:18,371 Apart from the stripper, you're the star of the show. 457 00:32:18,504 --> 00:32:20,573 I discovered you myself. 458 00:32:20,707 --> 00:32:24,644 Never was such a tender soul buried in such a hunk of fat. 459 00:32:24,777 --> 00:32:27,647 It's the hunk of fat that brings success, not the poetry. 460 00:32:40,426 --> 00:32:42,395 Your gin habit is ruining me. 461 00:32:42,528 --> 00:32:47,100 I’m tired of haggling every night for the gin I’m owed by contract. 462 00:32:51,471 --> 00:32:53,706 The police are on my side. 463 00:32:53,973 --> 00:32:55,842 You're on. 464 00:32:57,010 --> 00:32:58,578 I’m done for the night. 465 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:03,349 You don't go onstage half naked here. 466 00:33:05,318 --> 00:33:09,455 He's only working for the woman he lives with. He's a genius. 467 00:33:10,590 --> 00:33:13,960 My heart is pure, and I am small, and now I must amuse you all. 468 00:33:15,328 --> 00:33:18,131 He's telling them. Now he's showing them. 469 00:33:18,464 --> 00:33:20,967 He's throwing it in their faces. 470 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:24,203 Thank God someone's finally calling a spade a spade. 471 00:33:24,337 --> 00:33:27,740 They want thrills, but no one admits it. 472 00:33:27,874 --> 00:33:31,377 The wind blows through the rooms, and the baby eats blue prunes. 473 00:33:31,511 --> 00:33:36,783 Its white body, soft like fleece, helps it pass the time in peace. 474 00:33:36,983 --> 00:33:38,918 I’ll have your hide. 475 00:33:39,052 --> 00:33:41,254 You'll sing as stated in your contract, 476 00:33:41,387 --> 00:33:43,222 or I’ll call the police. 477 00:33:50,563 --> 00:33:52,365 where are you going? . 478 00:33:56,769 --> 00:33:58,337 Get out here! 479 00:33:58,671 --> 00:34:01,140 Is your star attraction in the can? . 480 00:34:01,274 --> 00:34:03,443 I forbid you to lock yourself in! 481 00:34:03,576 --> 00:34:05,678 Not while I’m paying you! 482 00:34:06,112 --> 00:34:08,114 I have it in writing! 483 00:34:10,216 --> 00:34:13,252 The window's open. The vulture has flown. 484 00:34:13,386 --> 00:34:16,823 No gin, no poetry. - I’m calling the police. 485 00:34:18,825 --> 00:34:22,462 The rain has stopped. The grass must still be wet. 486 00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:25,932 But the leaves around us didn't let the water through. 487 00:34:26,065 --> 00:34:28,167 The roots are still dry. 488 00:34:29,535 --> 00:34:32,605 why can't a man sleep with a plant? . 489 00:34:38,578 --> 00:34:39,712 Listen. 490 00:34:40,113 --> 00:34:43,549 The wind whooshing through the dark, wet foliage. 491 00:34:50,223 --> 00:34:52,592 Hear the rain dripping through the leaves? 492 00:34:52,725 --> 00:34:55,094 I feel a drop on my neck. 493 00:34:58,464 --> 00:35:00,366 Leave me alone, Baal. 494 00:35:00,767 --> 00:35:05,037 Love rips off a man's clothes and buries him naked in leaves 495 00:35:05,171 --> 00:35:07,406 once he's seen the sky. 496 00:35:13,012 --> 00:35:16,682 I’d like to hide inside you, because I’m naked. 497 00:35:16,916 --> 00:35:19,418 I’m drunk and you're staggering. 498 00:35:20,253 --> 00:35:25,091 The sky's black, we swing with love in our bellies, and the sky's black. 499 00:35:25,224 --> 00:35:27,059 I love you. 500 00:35:35,701 --> 00:35:38,538 My mother's weeping over my dead body. 501 00:35:38,671 --> 00:35:41,040 She thinks I’ve drowned myself. 502 00:35:42,942 --> 00:35:45,011 How many weeks has it been? . 503 00:35:45,678 --> 00:35:47,847 It wasn't even May yet. 504 00:35:48,314 --> 00:35:50,550 Maybe three weeks. 505 00:35:50,683 --> 00:35:54,220 "Maybe three weeks," said the beloved amid the tree roots, 506 00:35:54,353 --> 00:35:58,090 when it had been 30 years and she was half rotted. 507 00:36:03,996 --> 00:36:07,233 It's good to lie here like plunder... 508 00:36:08,267 --> 00:36:10,770 with the sky up above... 509 00:36:11,304 --> 00:36:13,439 and never be alone again. 510 00:36:16,309 --> 00:36:18,711 I’ll take your dress off again. 511 00:36:27,687 --> 00:36:30,022 You know we're out of money? . 512 00:37:14,267 --> 00:37:16,202 It was an oak. 513 00:37:16,802 --> 00:37:18,738 He didn't die at once. 514 00:37:18,938 --> 00:37:20,539 He suffered. 515 00:37:21,374 --> 00:37:25,912 Just this morning he said the weather was getting better. 516 00:37:26,545 --> 00:37:30,816 This is how he liked it: green with a touch of rain. 517 00:37:31,317 --> 00:37:33,986 He was a good fellow, Teddy was. 518 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,157 He had a little shop somewhere back in his prime. 519 00:37:38,925 --> 00:37:41,627 Baal's not walking straight, boys. 520 00:37:43,029 --> 00:37:45,498 Leave him alone. The elephant's hammered. 521 00:38:02,448 --> 00:38:04,817 what are you doing with Teddy, elephant? . 522 00:38:04,951 --> 00:38:08,187 He has his peace, and we have our turmoil. 523 00:38:08,387 --> 00:38:10,323 Both are good. 524 00:38:11,924 --> 00:38:14,994 The sky is black. The trees are trembling. 525 00:38:15,394 --> 00:38:18,864 Somewhere clouds are billowing. That's the picture. 526 00:38:19,699 --> 00:38:22,969 we can eat. After we sleep, we wake up. 527 00:38:23,302 --> 00:38:25,237 Not him. Us. 528 00:38:25,504 --> 00:38:26,939 It's doubly good. 529 00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:30,743 - what's the sky like? . - The sky is black. 530 00:38:30,876 --> 00:38:35,047 He's weak in the head. It always the wrong people who get it. 531 00:38:35,181 --> 00:38:38,617 That's marvelous, my friend. You're right. 532 00:38:38,751 --> 00:38:42,455 Couldn't happen to Baal. He's never around when work's going on. 533 00:38:42,588 --> 00:38:44,724 But Teddy was a hard worker. 534 00:38:44,857 --> 00:38:48,561 Teddy was generous. Teddy was good-natured. 535 00:38:48,961 --> 00:38:51,797 One thing remains: Teddy was. 536 00:38:52,898 --> 00:38:54,734 I wonder where he is now. 537 00:38:54,967 --> 00:38:57,870 He's right here. He doesn't stink yet. 538 00:38:58,270 --> 00:39:02,108 Has anyone made a speech? . Isn't that the thing to do? . 539 00:39:02,241 --> 00:39:03,509 - I did. - when? . 540 00:39:03,843 --> 00:39:06,746 Earlier, before you guys started prattling. 541 00:39:07,113 --> 00:39:10,216 It started, "Teddy has his peace." 542 00:39:10,649 --> 00:39:13,252 You only notice things when they're over. 543 00:39:13,386 --> 00:39:14,653 Moron. 544 00:39:14,787 --> 00:39:18,124 - Let's get his gin. - Teddy's gin at Teddy's wake. 545 00:39:18,257 --> 00:39:20,259 Cheap and fitting. 546 00:39:22,962 --> 00:39:26,265 Your body wasn't so bad, my poor Teddy. 547 00:39:26,432 --> 00:39:28,501 Even now it's not. 548 00:39:28,768 --> 00:39:32,505 Just a bit damaged on one side. 549 00:39:34,273 --> 00:39:36,175 And your legs. 550 00:39:36,976 --> 00:39:39,712 It'd have been no more women for you. 551 00:39:39,845 --> 00:39:43,282 You can't put something like that on top of a woman. 552 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,189 But all in all... 553 00:39:50,423 --> 00:39:53,459 there was more life to be lived in that body 554 00:39:53,592 --> 00:39:56,662 if you'd put your mind to it, my boy. 555 00:40:02,168 --> 00:40:06,072 But you were too damned noble of soul. 556 00:40:07,606 --> 00:40:09,842 The building was defective, 557 00:40:10,176 --> 00:40:13,145 and rats abandon a sinking ship. 558 00:40:24,623 --> 00:40:27,126 Elephant, you're in trouble now. 559 00:40:27,259 --> 00:40:29,628 where's the brandy from under Teddy's bed? . 560 00:40:29,762 --> 00:40:32,164 where were you when we were helping him? . 561 00:40:32,298 --> 00:40:35,701 - where were you you swine? ,. - He wasn't even dead yet. 562 00:40:35,835 --> 00:40:38,304 You have no proof, my friends. 563 00:40:38,437 --> 00:40:41,173 where's the brandy? . Did it evaporate? 564 00:40:41,307 --> 00:40:42,942 This is serious. 565 00:40:43,075 --> 00:40:45,377 Stand up! 566 00:40:46,579 --> 00:40:50,749 walk four paces and then tell us you're not drunk. 567 00:40:51,350 --> 00:40:55,020 You're rotten through and through, you swine! 568 00:40:59,692 --> 00:41:04,063 A man died in the eternal woods as a storm roared all around him 569 00:41:04,463 --> 00:41:08,834 Died like a beast in talons of roots, looking up at the treetops 570 00:41:08,968 --> 00:41:12,004 Where above the woods the storm raged unabated 571 00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:18,777 People stood all around and tried to calm him 572 00:41:19,111 --> 00:41:21,647 "We'll carry you home, friend" 573 00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:25,384 But he kicked and spat and said, "Yeah? Where?" 574 00:41:25,684 --> 00:41:28,087 For he had no home or land 575 00:41:31,957 --> 00:41:36,262 "How many teeth have you left? And how's the rest of you? 576 00:41:36,395 --> 00:41:38,931 Try to die quietly with a bit less fuss 577 00:41:39,064 --> 00:41:41,033 We already ate your horse last night 578 00:41:41,233 --> 00:41:43,903 Why this to-do about going to hell?" 579 00:41:47,206 --> 00:41:49,675 And the woods resounded around him and them 580 00:41:49,808 --> 00:41:53,946 They watched as he clung to a tree and heard him shriek 581 00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:57,616 It horrified them and their clenched fists trembled 582 00:41:57,950 --> 00:42:00,186 For he was a man like them 583 00:42:04,190 --> 00:42:06,292 "You're foul and useless, a mangy beast 584 00:42:06,559 --> 00:42:09,328 Just pus and grime, you ragged heap 585 00:42:09,461 --> 00:42:12,865 You're breathing up our air in your greed, " they said 586 00:42:12,998 --> 00:42:14,934 And he, the festering sore, said... 587 00:42:15,067 --> 00:42:17,870 "I want to live and take in your sun 588 00:42:18,003 --> 00:42:20,206 And ride in the light like you" 589 00:42:21,774 --> 00:42:24,810 Yes, the sheer weight of life's excess 590 00:42:25,211 --> 00:42:28,714 Pressed his rotting carcass into the earth 591 00:42:29,014 --> 00:42:32,218 At dawn he fell down dead in the dark grass 592 00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:35,454 Disgusted, they buried him cold with hate 593 00:42:35,588 --> 00:42:38,190 In the deepest undergrowth 594 00:42:52,938 --> 00:42:56,108 If the winter doesn't end soon, I give up. 595 00:42:56,875 --> 00:43:00,512 - You still haven't chopped your wood. - I’m hungry! 596 00:43:01,247 --> 00:43:05,150 - You should have helped the woodcutters. - It was too cold. 597 00:43:05,284 --> 00:43:08,387 I can't work with those people. 598 00:43:09,221 --> 00:43:13,025 - Then you must be calm. - Busy with your mass I suppose? ,. 599 00:43:13,158 --> 00:43:15,561 Forget my mass. Think of your woman. 600 00:43:15,694 --> 00:43:19,932 She runs after us like a madwoman, a millstone around my neck. 601 00:43:20,332 --> 00:43:23,869 - You're sinking deeper and deeper. - I’m too heavy. 602 00:43:27,206 --> 00:43:31,310 - I suppose you don't plan on croaking. - I'll fight it to the end. 603 00:43:31,577 --> 00:43:35,481 I want to live even without skin. I'll withdraw into my toes. 604 00:43:35,614 --> 00:43:38,651 I’ll swallow death and know nothing. 605 00:43:39,852 --> 00:43:42,354 You've gotten fat while we've been lying here. 606 00:43:42,488 --> 00:43:45,858 My shirt has gotten bigger. The dirtier, the bigger. 607 00:43:45,991 --> 00:43:49,328 It could hold another person, but no one fat. 608 00:43:49,461 --> 00:43:53,032 why are you just sitting around, you bag of bones? 609 00:44:00,306 --> 00:44:03,142 I have a kind of sky in my skull, 610 00:44:03,275 --> 00:44:05,577 very green and vast. 611 00:44:06,578 --> 00:44:09,848 Thoughts drift through like wispy clouds 612 00:44:09,982 --> 00:44:11,850 in no particular direction. 613 00:44:11,984 --> 00:44:15,721 It's the D.T.'s. They get you in the end. 614 00:44:17,323 --> 00:44:20,993 when the D.T.'s come on, I feel it in my face. 615 00:44:21,126 --> 00:44:24,663 There's room on your face for the wind. It's concave. 616 00:44:26,932 --> 00:44:29,301 I’m getting more and more mathematical. 617 00:44:29,435 --> 00:44:33,972 No one knows your history. why do you never talk about yourself? . 618 00:44:35,140 --> 00:44:37,176 I’ll never have a history. 619 00:44:38,177 --> 00:44:41,747 Who's that outside? - You have good ears. 620 00:44:42,414 --> 00:44:47,152 - You're hiding something inside. - Is that you, Sophie? 621 00:44:47,586 --> 00:44:49,722 Now what do you want? . 622 00:44:51,957 --> 00:44:54,059 Can I come in now Baal? ,. 623 00:45:12,911 --> 00:45:17,249 My knees are giving out. Why are you running? 624 00:45:17,383 --> 00:45:20,486 Because you're hanging around my neck like a millstone. 625 00:45:20,619 --> 00:45:23,288 why treat her like this? . You got her pregnant. 626 00:45:23,422 --> 00:45:26,658 - I wanted it. - And now I'm stuck with her. 627 00:45:26,792 --> 00:45:29,261 You're being a beast. Sit down. 628 00:45:32,197 --> 00:45:33,799 Let him go. 629 00:45:33,932 --> 00:45:37,436 If you throw her in the street, I’m staying with her. 630 00:45:40,205 --> 00:45:42,040 She won't stay with you. 631 00:45:42,741 --> 00:45:45,577 But you'd leave me for her. Just like you. 632 00:45:45,811 --> 00:45:48,147 You took my place in bed twice. 633 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,250 You took my women even though I loved them. 634 00:45:51,383 --> 00:45:53,719 Because you loved them. 635 00:45:53,986 --> 00:45:58,190 Twice I defiled corpses to keep you pure. I need that. 636 00:45:58,424 --> 00:46:01,160 God knows I took no pleasure in it. 637 00:46:02,094 --> 00:46:05,297 And still you love this obvious brute. 638 00:46:12,037 --> 00:46:14,106 I can't help it, Ekart. 639 00:46:16,375 --> 00:46:18,343 I love his corpse. 640 00:46:18,510 --> 00:46:20,412 I love his fists. 641 00:46:22,681 --> 00:46:25,184 I can't help it. 642 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,357 Don't tell me what you two did while I was doing time. 643 00:46:32,558 --> 00:46:37,262 we stood outside the white prison wall and looked up at your window. 644 00:46:37,496 --> 00:46:40,399 - You were together! - Beat me for it. 645 00:46:40,532 --> 00:46:43,936 - You threw her at me! - I didn't love you then. 646 00:46:44,069 --> 00:46:46,939 - I don't have your thick skin. - I love you for that. 647 00:46:47,072 --> 00:46:50,776 At least keep your mouth shut about it when she's around. 648 00:46:50,909 --> 00:46:54,179 Tell her to get lost. She's turning into a bitch. 649 00:46:54,313 --> 00:46:57,216 She washes her dirty laundry in your tears. 650 00:46:57,382 --> 00:47:00,486 Can't you see how she runs naked between us? . 651 00:47:00,619 --> 00:47:05,157 I have the patience of a lamb, but I can't change what I am. 652 00:47:12,064 --> 00:47:14,032 Go home to your mother. 653 00:47:14,333 --> 00:47:17,369 - I can't. - She can't, Ekart. 654 00:47:27,112 --> 00:47:29,348 Beat me if you like. 655 00:47:29,481 --> 00:47:33,952 I won't tell you to slow down again. I didn't mean it. 656 00:47:34,853 --> 00:47:39,658 Let me come as long as I can walk. Then I'll lie down in the bushes. 657 00:47:39,791 --> 00:47:41,793 Don't drive me off. 658 00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:44,630 Throw your fat body in the river. 659 00:47:44,897 --> 00:47:48,567 You wanted me to spit you out. - You'd leave me lying here? 660 00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:53,338 You're not even sure. You're a child to talk like that. 661 00:47:53,472 --> 00:47:55,307 I’m sick to death of you! 662 00:47:55,707 --> 00:47:57,509 Not tonight! 663 00:48:06,051 --> 00:48:08,053 I’m scared to be alone. 664 00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:11,590 I’m afraid of the dark. 665 00:48:12,190 --> 00:48:14,259 No one will bother you in your condition. 666 00:48:14,860 --> 00:48:18,030 Couldn't you two stay with me tonight? . 667 00:48:18,163 --> 00:48:21,199 Go to the bargemen. It's midsummer night. They'll be drunk. 668 00:48:21,333 --> 00:48:22,834 Just 15 minutes. 669 00:48:23,135 --> 00:48:24,703 Come on, Ekart. 670 00:48:40,352 --> 00:48:43,422 - where am I to go? . - To the theater. 671 00:48:43,755 --> 00:48:45,324 Or to heaven. 672 00:48:45,457 --> 00:48:48,527 - with my child? . - Bury it! 673 00:48:50,896 --> 00:48:54,600 I pray you never have cause to remember you said that 674 00:48:54,733 --> 00:48:57,135 under the beautiful sky that you love. 675 00:48:58,470 --> 00:49:01,039 I pray with all my heart. 676 00:49:02,107 --> 00:49:05,210 I’ll stay with you and take you to your mother's 677 00:49:05,344 --> 00:49:07,980 if you say you'll stop loving that animal. 678 00:49:08,113 --> 00:49:09,781 She loves me. 679 00:49:10,048 --> 00:49:11,817 I love that animal. 680 00:49:12,317 --> 00:49:15,287 Are you still here you brute? ,. 681 00:49:29,468 --> 00:49:32,037 You're pressed against me. Can you smell me? . 682 00:49:33,205 --> 00:49:36,875 I’ve got you. There's more than the closeness of women. 683 00:49:39,111 --> 00:49:42,280 You can see stars above the bushes, Ekart. 684 00:49:42,414 --> 00:49:44,316 I can't strike this animal. 685 00:49:44,783 --> 00:49:48,220 It's getting dark. we need a place for the night. 686 00:49:49,788 --> 00:49:52,491 In the woods there are hollows with no wind. 687 00:49:52,658 --> 00:49:55,894 Come. I’ll tell you about the animals. 688 00:50:14,746 --> 00:50:18,316 Through dive, cathedral, and hospital 689 00:50:18,583 --> 00:50:22,154 Baal wanders coolly on and learns to let go 690 00:50:22,287 --> 00:50:25,824 Baal may be weary, my boys, but he doesn't fall far 691 00:50:25,957 --> 00:50:29,194 Baal drags his sky with him down below 692 00:50:48,046 --> 00:50:51,016 The water's warm. we lie in the sand like crabs... 693 00:50:52,150 --> 00:50:55,554 with the bushes and the white clouds in the sky. 694 00:50:55,821 --> 00:50:59,191 Ekart, I love you. 695 00:50:59,825 --> 00:51:01,793 I’m too comfortable here. 696 00:51:05,530 --> 00:51:07,833 Did you see the clouds earlier? . 697 00:51:08,533 --> 00:51:10,569 Yes, they're shameless. 698 00:51:19,344 --> 00:51:21,480 A woman passed by earlier. 699 00:51:22,013 --> 00:51:24,382 I don't care for women anymore. 700 00:51:39,331 --> 00:51:42,100 Since the sky turned green and pregnant... 701 00:51:43,301 --> 00:51:46,404 it's been July air, wind, shirt untucked. 702 00:51:46,805 --> 00:51:49,207 My pants are chafing my bare thighs. 703 00:51:50,175 --> 00:51:52,444 My skull's inflated by the wind, 704 00:51:52,577 --> 00:51:56,214 and the smell of the fields hangs in the hair of my armpits. 705 00:51:56,348 --> 00:51:59,484 The air trembles as if drunk on brandy. 706 00:51:59,751 --> 00:52:02,754 why run from the plum trees like an elephant? . 707 00:52:02,888 --> 00:52:05,223 Put your paw on my skull. 708 00:52:05,690 --> 00:52:10,095 It swells with every heartbeat, then collapses again like a balloon. 709 00:52:10,228 --> 00:52:13,398 Feel it? . You don't understand my soul! 710 00:52:13,532 --> 00:52:15,634 why don't we lie in the water? . 711 00:52:15,767 --> 00:52:20,005 My soul is the moaning of cornfields bending in the wind... 712 00:52:20,972 --> 00:52:25,143 and the gleam in the eyes of two insects about to devour each other. 713 00:52:25,277 --> 00:52:28,346 - If only I’d eaten, you visionary. - what am I? . 714 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,117 A mad July boy with immortal innards, 715 00:52:32,417 --> 00:52:35,220 a dumpling that will leave grease stains on the sky. 716 00:52:35,353 --> 00:52:38,456 Mere words. But it doesn't matter. 717 00:52:59,678 --> 00:53:01,246 Ekart. 718 00:53:13,091 --> 00:53:15,093 wake up. I’ve got it. 719 00:53:16,928 --> 00:53:18,530 Got what? . 720 00:53:21,099 --> 00:53:23,501 Talking in your sleep again? . 721 00:53:23,702 --> 00:53:25,403 Listen to this. 722 00:53:31,309 --> 00:53:35,647 "when she drowned and floated down from stream to great rivers, 723 00:53:35,914 --> 00:53:41,720 the opal sky shone wondrously as if to appease her corpse. 724 00:53:42,354 --> 00:53:47,325 Seaweed and algae clung to her, slowly adding to her weight. 725 00:53:47,993 --> 00:53:50,962 The fish swam coolly between her legs. 726 00:53:51,096 --> 00:53:55,066 Flora and fauna hampered her final voyage. 727 00:53:55,934 --> 00:53:58,436 At dusk the sky turned dark as smoke, 728 00:53:58,570 --> 00:54:02,374 and the stars held the light suspended in the night sky. 729 00:54:02,507 --> 00:54:07,946 But at dawn it grew light, so she too still had both day and night. 730 00:54:08,246 --> 00:54:11,049 when her pale body had decayed in the water, 731 00:54:11,182 --> 00:54:15,520 God bit by bit forgot her. 732 00:54:15,887 --> 00:54:20,425 First her face, then her hands, then last of all her hair. 733 00:54:20,692 --> 00:54:23,929 Then she became more carrion among the other carrion." 734 00:54:24,062 --> 00:54:26,264 Is her ghost haunting you already? . 735 00:54:26,765 --> 00:54:28,767 It's not as wicked as you. 736 00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:33,405 But my sleep is gone now, and the wind pipes again through the willows. 737 00:54:33,538 --> 00:54:37,275 All that's left once again is the white breast of philosophy, 738 00:54:37,409 --> 00:54:40,745 darkness and wetness right up to our blessed end, 739 00:54:40,879 --> 00:54:44,082 and even for old women just their second sight. 740 00:54:46,318 --> 00:54:50,689 In this wind you don't need liquor to get drunk. 741 00:54:52,724 --> 00:54:55,327 I see the world in a mellow light. 742 00:54:55,460 --> 00:54:58,730 It's the excrement of the Lord God. 743 00:54:59,898 --> 00:55:03,101 God who distinguished himself once and for all 744 00:55:03,234 --> 00:55:06,371 by joining urethra and sex organ?. 745 00:55:07,939 --> 00:55:10,208 It's all so beautiful. 746 00:55:18,516 --> 00:55:23,188 The willows are like rotten tooth stumps in the black mouth of the sky. 747 00:55:32,097 --> 00:55:34,399 I’ll start on my mass soon. 748 00:55:34,833 --> 00:55:36,835 Is the quartet finished? . 749 00:55:36,968 --> 00:55:39,537 where would I have found the time? . 750 00:55:41,106 --> 00:55:43,942 It's that pale redhead 751 00:55:44,309 --> 00:55:46,344 that you drag around. 752 00:55:48,413 --> 00:55:52,550 She brings her soft, white body to the willows at noon. 753 00:55:52,684 --> 00:55:57,155 The branches droop like hair, and we fuck like squirrels. 754 00:55:57,989 --> 00:56:00,125 Is she better-looking than me? . 755 00:56:28,186 --> 00:56:31,489 I’ll just satisfy her, the white dove. 756 00:56:32,323 --> 00:56:35,760 There'll be nothing but skin left when he gets here. 757 00:56:35,894 --> 00:56:38,463 I’m sick of his love affairs. 758 00:56:39,230 --> 00:56:42,100 Be still, my soul. 759 00:56:47,072 --> 00:56:48,840 where's your friend? . 760 00:56:51,643 --> 00:56:54,112 writing a mass in E-flat minor. 761 00:56:57,949 --> 00:57:00,018 Tell him I came by. 762 00:57:00,151 --> 00:57:03,955 He's so transparent he's defiled himself. He's relapsing into zoology. 763 00:57:04,522 --> 00:57:06,057 Sit down. 764 00:57:06,391 --> 00:57:08,159 I prefer to stand. 765 00:57:09,727 --> 00:57:12,797 He's been eating too many eggs recently. 766 00:57:14,365 --> 00:57:17,068 - I love him. - what do I care? . 767 00:57:20,605 --> 00:57:23,575 Don't touch me. You're too dirty. 768 00:57:26,244 --> 00:57:28,113 This is your neck. 769 00:57:29,948 --> 00:57:32,417 You know how they kill doves? . 770 00:57:32,717 --> 00:57:34,786 Or wild ducks in the woods? . 771 00:57:36,688 --> 00:57:39,424 Jesus Christ, leave me alone! 772 00:57:39,924 --> 00:57:42,927 With your weak knees? You're already falling over. 773 00:57:43,061 --> 00:57:45,563 You want to be laid in the willows. 774 00:57:45,697 --> 00:57:49,033 A man's a man. Most are alike in this regard. 775 00:57:51,503 --> 00:57:52,904 Please! 776 00:57:53,605 --> 00:57:55,373 Leave me alone! 777 00:57:55,507 --> 00:57:57,742 You shameless quail! 778 00:57:59,043 --> 00:58:02,580 Come on. A rescue by a desperate man. 779 00:58:29,207 --> 00:58:31,709 we need a drink. Got any money? . 780 00:58:31,843 --> 00:58:36,548 No. Look at the maple in the wind. 781 00:58:37,215 --> 00:58:38,816 It's trembling. 782 00:58:39,150 --> 00:58:41,553 where's the girl you dragged around the bars? . 783 00:58:42,020 --> 00:58:44,489 Turn into a fish and look for her. 784 00:58:46,724 --> 00:58:48,993 You eat too much. You'll burst. 785 00:58:49,561 --> 00:58:51,496 I’d like to hear the pop. 786 00:58:52,130 --> 00:58:56,501 You ever look in the water when it's deep and black with no fish? ,. 787 00:58:56,634 --> 00:58:59,871 watch you don't fall in. You're so heavy. 788 00:59:00,004 --> 00:59:04,342 I’ll watch out for someone else. I wrote a song want to hear it? .. 789 00:59:05,677 --> 00:59:08,646 - You haven't had a woman in ages. - So? . 790 00:59:08,947 --> 00:59:11,182 Just thinking. Say no. 791 00:59:20,959 --> 00:59:23,528 - Is this the hospital tavern? . - Yes. 792 00:59:23,928 --> 00:59:27,632 There are no free beds, and I’m ill. - we brought champagne. 793 00:59:27,765 --> 00:59:29,367 Come in! 794 00:59:32,170 --> 00:59:35,373 Anyone who knows champagne will fit in here. 795 00:59:35,506 --> 00:59:38,676 There are some mighty fine people here today. 796 00:59:40,845 --> 00:59:46,751 I know where you got this, but I won't give you away. 797 00:59:47,051 --> 00:59:49,887 Come Ekart Got any glasses? ,.. 798 00:59:50,021 --> 00:59:52,023 Cups, my good sir. 799 00:59:54,692 --> 00:59:57,095 I need a cup of my own. 800 01:00:05,703 --> 01:00:08,106 Are you allowed to have champagne? . 801 01:00:09,307 --> 01:00:11,476 what are you sick with? . 802 01:00:13,044 --> 01:00:15,647 Pleurisy. It's nothing. 803 01:00:15,780 --> 01:00:17,582 A little mucous congestion. 804 01:00:17,715 --> 01:00:19,417 Nothing serious. 805 01:00:19,684 --> 01:00:21,219 And you? . 806 01:00:21,352 --> 01:00:23,488 Stomach ulcer. Harmless. 807 01:00:23,655 --> 01:00:27,292 - I trust you have some affliction too? . - I'm insane. 808 01:00:28,359 --> 01:00:31,095 Cheers. Now we've been introduced. 809 01:00:35,166 --> 01:00:37,068 I’m healthy. 810 01:00:39,771 --> 01:00:43,508 I knew a man once who thought he was healthy. 811 01:00:44,175 --> 01:00:48,579 He came from the forest and returned there one day to ponder something. 812 01:00:48,713 --> 01:00:51,783 He found the forest very strange, completely unfamiliar. 813 01:00:52,317 --> 01:00:55,586 One evening at dusk, when he no longer felt so alone, 814 01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,656 he walked in the great stillness among the trees 815 01:00:58,790 --> 01:01:00,825 and stopped beneath one of them. 816 01:01:01,326 --> 01:01:03,394 It was the monkey in him. 817 01:01:03,528 --> 01:01:05,430 Yes, perhaps. 818 01:01:05,630 --> 01:01:10,335 He leaned against the tree and felt the life in it, or thought he did. 819 01:01:10,468 --> 01:01:13,037 "You're taller than me, and you stand firm, 820 01:01:13,171 --> 01:01:16,207 and you know the depths of the earth that holds you up. 821 01:01:16,341 --> 01:01:18,276 I can move and run, 822 01:01:18,409 --> 01:01:21,112 but I don't reach deep down, and nothing holds me up." 823 01:01:21,546 --> 01:01:24,649 - what did the tree say? . - The wind blew. 824 01:01:24,782 --> 01:01:28,553 A shudder ran through the tree, which the man felt. 825 01:01:28,686 --> 01:01:32,457 He threw himself to the ground, clutched the wild, hard roots, 826 01:01:32,590 --> 01:01:34,359 and wept bitterly. 827 01:01:34,492 --> 01:01:36,561 Did he regain his health? . 828 01:01:36,894 --> 01:01:39,163 No, but death came more easily. 829 01:01:39,464 --> 01:01:41,366 I don't understand. 830 01:01:42,333 --> 01:01:45,770 No one understands anything, but some things you just feel. 831 01:01:46,337 --> 01:01:49,374 Stories you understand were just told badly. 832 01:01:52,410 --> 01:01:53,978 You believe in God? . 833 01:01:54,112 --> 01:01:57,715 I’ve always believed in myself, but one can turn atheist. 834 01:02:00,785 --> 01:02:02,787 Now I’m feeling happy. 835 01:02:03,054 --> 01:02:04,422 God! 836 01:02:04,856 --> 01:02:07,291 Champagne! Love! 837 01:02:08,593 --> 01:02:11,028 wind and rain! 838 01:02:19,437 --> 01:02:22,106 Let me go! Your breath stinks! 839 01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,609 As if you don't have syphilis! 840 01:02:24,742 --> 01:02:27,645 Watch it! I’m slowly getting drunk. 841 01:02:29,814 --> 01:02:32,984 He used to be better-looking. That's how he got her. 842 01:02:33,117 --> 01:02:36,421 And your intellectual superiority? . Your spiritual supremacy? . 843 01:02:36,554 --> 01:02:39,690 She wasn't like that before. She was entirely unspoiled. 844 01:02:39,824 --> 01:02:42,894 - And what did you do? . - I felt ashamed. 845 01:02:47,465 --> 01:02:49,634 Listen! The wind. 846 01:02:50,835 --> 01:02:53,938 It's asking God for peace. 847 01:02:55,473 --> 01:02:59,677 Lullaby baby, safe from the storm 848 01:03:00,244 --> 01:03:05,216 Here we are sheltered and drunk and warm 849 01:03:05,349 --> 01:03:07,785 That's past now, Ekart. 850 01:03:08,453 --> 01:03:10,721 Yes, and it was beautiful. 851 01:03:10,988 --> 01:03:14,025 - what? . - He's forgotten. 852 01:03:14,425 --> 01:03:17,328 "Past" - what a strange word. 853 01:03:18,129 --> 01:03:20,832 The best of all is nothingness. 854 01:03:20,965 --> 01:03:23,501 Here comes Gougou's aria! 855 01:03:24,936 --> 01:03:27,605 The sack of maggots sings! 856 01:03:28,406 --> 01:03:31,476 It's like shimmering air one sunny summer evening. 857 01:03:31,809 --> 01:03:34,612 But it's not shimmering. There's nothing at all. 858 01:03:34,745 --> 01:03:36,347 You simply stop. 859 01:03:36,481 --> 01:03:39,784 wind blows, you don't get cold. Rain falls, you don't get wet. 860 01:03:39,917 --> 01:03:42,787 Jokes are told, you don't laugh. You rot. 861 01:03:43,254 --> 01:03:46,724 No need to wait. General strike. 862 01:03:46,924 --> 01:03:49,126 That's the paradise of hell. 863 01:03:49,260 --> 01:03:50,828 Yes, it is paradise. 864 01:03:50,962 --> 01:03:54,232 No wish is unfulfilled. There are no more wishes. 865 01:03:54,365 --> 01:03:56,534 All habits are abandoned, even wishing. 866 01:03:57,034 --> 01:04:00,271 That's how you become free. - What happens in the end? 867 01:04:00,438 --> 01:04:02,373 Nothing at all. 868 01:04:02,507 --> 01:04:05,176 There is no end. Nothingness lasts forever. 869 01:04:07,178 --> 01:04:10,348 Come, Ekart! we've fallen in with murderers. 870 01:04:10,481 --> 01:04:14,852 The vermin multiply, decay is upon us. The maggots sing and show off! 871 01:04:14,986 --> 01:04:17,722 This again. Is it just from the drinking?. 872 01:04:17,855 --> 01:04:20,892 My guts are hanging out. It's a mud bath. 873 01:04:21,025 --> 01:04:22,527 Sit down. 874 01:04:24,161 --> 01:04:27,098 Get drunk and warm yourself. 875 01:04:42,613 --> 01:04:45,483 Your aria always tickles me so... 876 01:04:45,750 --> 01:04:47,652 little Gougou. 877 01:04:50,354 --> 01:04:54,158 Itsy-bitsy Maja. 878 01:04:57,361 --> 01:04:59,330 I have a soul too. 879 01:04:59,931 --> 01:05:03,267 You've corrupted my soul. You corrupt everything. 880 01:05:04,435 --> 01:05:07,104 And I’ll start on my mass. 881 01:05:07,338 --> 01:05:09,073 I love you. 882 01:05:09,674 --> 01:05:11,242 Cheers. 883 01:05:17,148 --> 01:05:19,717 I’m not going any further with you. 884 01:05:36,467 --> 01:05:38,736 Hands off, you swine. 885 01:05:39,070 --> 01:05:41,906 - what's it to you? . - Hold your tongue, you wretch. 886 01:05:42,039 --> 01:05:44,041 Madman! You're raving. 887 01:05:44,175 --> 01:05:47,445 It's all a swindle! He's not sick. 888 01:05:47,578 --> 01:05:49,513 It's all a swindle. 889 01:05:50,281 --> 01:05:52,450 And you've got cancer. 890 01:05:55,386 --> 01:05:57,421 I’ve got cancer? . 891 01:06:00,291 --> 01:06:02,927 I didn't say anything. 892 01:06:03,060 --> 01:06:04,962 Leave her alone. 893 01:06:08,399 --> 01:06:11,969 - Why is it crying? - what do you want? . 894 01:06:12,169 --> 01:06:13,904 why are you crying? . 895 01:06:14,038 --> 01:06:18,042 Never seen it before? . Or do you always cry? . 896 01:06:19,810 --> 01:06:22,279 Your poor little feet. 897 01:06:22,413 --> 01:06:23,781 Stop that! 898 01:06:24,248 --> 01:06:25,716 You pig! 899 01:06:25,850 --> 01:06:28,452 He's peeking under the baby's shirt! 900 01:06:28,586 --> 01:06:30,221 You swine. 901 01:06:30,354 --> 01:06:33,224 You don't know anymore what's human. 902 01:06:33,457 --> 01:06:36,727 Come, Ekart. we'll wash ourselves clean in the river! 903 01:06:38,763 --> 01:06:42,466 This man Baal weighs upon me. He's not light enough anymore. 904 01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,602 I’m an objective person. 905 01:06:45,102 --> 01:06:47,138 with just a piece of chalk 906 01:06:47,271 --> 01:06:51,342 you could easily map the course of his life on a wall. 907 01:06:52,209 --> 01:06:53,744 Nevertheless... 908 01:06:54,812 --> 01:06:57,381 I don't want to witness 909 01:06:57,515 --> 01:07:01,385 the fits of debility to be expected before his demise. 910 01:07:01,786 --> 01:07:03,754 I’m not a vengeful man. 911 01:07:04,121 --> 01:07:07,358 You know, I’d feel something was really wrong 912 01:07:07,491 --> 01:07:10,961 if he didn't somehow go down in flames. 913 01:07:13,330 --> 01:07:15,599 His mother died yesterday. 914 01:07:15,933 --> 01:07:20,204 He's running around gathering money for the funeral. He'll bring it here. 915 01:07:20,337 --> 01:07:22,606 Then we can pay for the drinks. 916 01:07:22,907 --> 01:07:25,076 The owner here is a decent man. 917 01:07:25,209 --> 01:07:28,145 He'll give us credit to toast a dead mother. 918 01:07:28,279 --> 01:07:32,650 - The wind's gone out of his sails. - You put up with a lot from him. 919 01:07:32,783 --> 01:07:35,186 You can't spit in his face. He buckles. 920 01:07:35,319 --> 01:07:37,855 Does that bother you? . 921 01:07:38,322 --> 01:07:42,193 I tell you, it's a shame. He's a piece of world history. 922 01:07:42,326 --> 01:07:44,428 He's more and more disgusting. 923 01:07:44,562 --> 01:07:46,630 Don't say that. 924 01:07:46,764 --> 01:07:50,568 I love him. I never resent him, because I love him. 925 01:07:50,801 --> 01:07:53,971 - He only does what he must. - Because he's so lazy. 926 01:07:54,205 --> 01:07:56,140 Here he comes. watch it. 927 01:07:56,273 --> 01:07:57,942 Is that you? . 928 01:07:58,142 --> 01:07:59,477 Baal? . 929 01:08:02,313 --> 01:08:04,982 what a miserable dump this place is now! 930 01:08:05,116 --> 01:08:06,917 Nothing's changed here. 931 01:08:07,051 --> 01:08:09,854 But it seems you've gotten more refined. 932 01:08:11,989 --> 01:08:15,893 - Is that you, Sophie? - It's pleasant here. Beer! 933 01:08:19,029 --> 01:08:21,632 I have to drink a lot. 934 01:08:21,999 --> 01:08:25,936 Granted, you still make your way to hell along a path of razors, 935 01:08:26,070 --> 01:08:30,775 but it's as if your knees turn springy and give way gently. 936 01:08:31,442 --> 01:08:34,645 I never had such peculiar ideas 937 01:08:34,779 --> 01:08:37,648 when I still had a good, bourgeois life. 938 01:08:37,782 --> 01:08:40,818 It's only now that I have fits of genius. 939 01:08:47,758 --> 01:08:50,594 I want to be back in the woods at dawn. 940 01:08:54,932 --> 01:08:58,636 The light between the tree trunks is the color of lemons. 941 01:09:01,305 --> 01:09:04,341 I want to go back to the woods. 942 01:09:05,109 --> 01:09:08,279 You have such simplicity of heart. 943 01:09:08,679 --> 01:09:11,215 Bring Johannes a drink. 944 01:09:13,250 --> 01:09:17,788 At night I sometimes dream such fearful things... but only at night. 945 01:09:17,922 --> 01:09:20,090 It's very pleasant here now. 946 01:09:21,225 --> 01:09:24,562 There are still lovely trees by the hundreds 947 01:09:24,728 --> 01:09:27,498 Inviting and shady and high 948 01:09:27,798 --> 01:09:31,101 You can hang yourself from the branches 949 01:09:31,402 --> 01:09:35,873 Or under a tree you can lie 950 01:09:36,307 --> 01:09:39,276 where was it that everything felt like this before? . 951 01:09:39,844 --> 01:09:42,813 Things felt exactly like this once before. 952 01:09:43,848 --> 01:09:46,984 when Johanna Reiher was here. 953 01:09:47,117 --> 01:09:50,955 She's still floating out there. No one ever found her. 954 01:09:51,555 --> 01:09:54,058 Sometimes I get the feeling 955 01:09:54,258 --> 01:09:57,361 she's floating down my throat in all the booze. 956 01:09:57,494 --> 01:10:01,799 A tiny corpse, half rotten, though she was already 17. 957 01:10:02,132 --> 01:10:05,035 Now there are rats and weeds in her green hair. 958 01:10:05,169 --> 01:10:07,171 Sort of suits her, actually. 959 01:10:07,304 --> 01:10:11,508 A bit swollen and pale, filled with stinking, jet-black ooze. 960 01:10:12,176 --> 01:10:15,579 She was always so clean. That's why she drowned and started stinking. 961 01:10:15,713 --> 01:10:17,514 what is flesh? . 962 01:10:17,948 --> 01:10:20,184 It disintegrates like spirit. 963 01:10:22,319 --> 01:10:25,122 Gentlemen, I’m completely drunk. 964 01:10:27,591 --> 01:10:29,660 Two times two is four. 965 01:10:31,128 --> 01:10:33,130 So I’m not drunk. 966 01:10:33,764 --> 01:10:36,834 But I have inklings of a higher world. 967 01:10:37,034 --> 01:10:40,537 Bow down and be humble. Cast off the old Adam. 968 01:10:40,671 --> 01:10:44,408 I haven't hit bottom so long as I still have inklings, 969 01:10:44,541 --> 01:10:48,045 and I can still work out that two times two - 970 01:10:49,079 --> 01:10:51,115 what is "two"? . 971 01:10:51,248 --> 01:10:53,450 what a funny word. 972 01:10:55,085 --> 01:10:56,887 I’m going to sing! 973 01:10:58,589 --> 01:11:02,927 Sick from the sun, eaten raw by the rain 974 01:11:03,527 --> 01:11:06,730 Stolen laurels in his tousled hair 975 01:11:06,931 --> 01:11:11,402 He forgot his youth but not his youthful dreams 976 01:11:12,069 --> 01:11:14,972 He forgot the roof but never the sky up above 977 01:11:15,105 --> 01:11:19,109 That's a good song. Just my style - romantic. 978 01:11:26,951 --> 01:11:28,953 what are you doing here? . 979 01:11:29,253 --> 01:11:32,957 They order a lot of beer. Sometimes cognac too. 980 01:11:33,390 --> 01:11:36,727 Most want beer. Cognac, not as many. 981 01:11:38,095 --> 01:11:40,531 Baal, keep singing. 982 01:11:41,498 --> 01:11:44,935 You who were cast out of heaven and hell 983 01:11:45,069 --> 01:11:48,138 You murderers who've suffered so much 984 01:11:48,672 --> 01:11:52,042 Why didn't you stay in your mothers' wombs 985 01:11:52,309 --> 01:11:55,913 Where it was still and one slept and one was 986 01:11:56,046 --> 01:11:58,048 I can't find my glass. 987 01:11:58,182 --> 01:12:00,250 The table's wobbling. 988 01:12:00,384 --> 01:12:02,786 Turn the lights on! 989 01:12:02,987 --> 01:12:06,056 - Can you see Baal? ,. - No. I don't want to. 990 01:12:06,890 --> 01:12:09,159 The darkness is beautiful. 991 01:12:10,294 --> 01:12:12,363 Are you my friend Ekart? ,. 992 01:12:12,496 --> 01:12:14,631 Yes, but keep singing. 993 01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:21,038 Waltzing through hells and flogged through paradises 994 01:12:21,438 --> 01:12:24,842 Calm and grinning with ever-changing face 995 01:12:25,242 --> 01:12:28,779 He dreams now and then of a small meadow 996 01:12:29,646 --> 01:12:33,550 With blue sky above and nothing more 997 01:12:33,851 --> 01:12:37,454 - Take me along. I hardly eat a thing. - Let there be light! 998 01:12:38,722 --> 01:12:40,257 You're blinding me. 999 01:12:49,299 --> 01:12:51,735 what's the matter? It's nothing .. 1000 01:12:52,136 --> 01:12:53,871 This is ridiculous. 1001 01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:57,374 You can't be jealous of her! 1002 01:12:59,276 --> 01:13:01,745 why shouldn't I have a woman? . 1003 01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,549 Aren't I your lover? . 1004 01:13:05,682 --> 01:13:09,019 - He has a knife! - He's killing him! 1005 01:13:10,087 --> 01:13:12,556 For God's sake, let him go! 1006 01:14:27,531 --> 01:14:31,568 we're completely free, with no obligations. 1007 01:14:32,536 --> 01:14:36,607 we can sleep in the hay, or outdoors, or not at all. 1008 01:14:37,107 --> 01:14:40,010 we can take a stroll. We can sing. 1009 01:14:40,277 --> 01:14:42,346 Our dreams lie ahead. 1010 01:14:42,679 --> 01:14:45,315 we can relax about life... 1011 01:14:46,083 --> 01:14:50,454 which is just a better way of saying we can croak. 1012 01:14:51,355 --> 01:14:53,023 The police. 1013 01:14:54,658 --> 01:14:57,161 Murderers are always looking over their shoulders. 1014 01:15:10,607 --> 01:15:15,145 Pale wind in black trees, like Lupu's wet hair. 1015 01:15:15,979 --> 01:15:19,683 The moon will rise at 11:00. Then it'll be light enough. 1016 01:15:19,816 --> 01:15:22,219 This is a small woods. 1017 01:15:22,686 --> 01:15:25,155 I’ll push on to bigger ones. 1018 01:15:31,328 --> 01:15:35,332 I can forge ahead now that I'm on my own again. 1019 01:15:35,999 --> 01:15:40,737 I have to bear north, on the ribbed side of the leaves. 1020 01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,642 I have to leave this little matter behind. 1021 01:15:46,210 --> 01:15:47,611 Onward... 1022 01:15:50,614 --> 01:15:53,550 Beneath gloomy stars in this vale of tears 1023 01:15:54,351 --> 01:15:57,588 Baal grazes broad fields and smacks his lips 1024 01:15:58,121 --> 01:16:01,258 Once the fields are bare Baal skips with a song 1025 01:16:01,992 --> 01:16:05,162 Into the eternal woods to get some sleep 1026 01:16:11,134 --> 01:16:13,370 what are you thinking about? . 1027 01:16:14,104 --> 01:16:18,842 I’ve always wanted to know what a man thinks about 1028 01:16:19,176 --> 01:16:21,278 at the moment of death. 1029 01:16:23,113 --> 01:16:26,049 I think I'm listening to the rain. 1030 01:16:27,084 --> 01:16:28,619 what? . 1031 01:16:28,752 --> 01:16:33,657 You're dying, and you say you're listening to the rain? . 1032 01:16:34,791 --> 01:16:37,761 All this is because... 1033 01:16:37,961 --> 01:16:42,299 you wouldn't look the situation straight in the eye. 1034 01:16:44,001 --> 01:16:47,504 You're on your last legs. Even a child can see that. 1035 01:16:49,873 --> 01:16:53,877 who's looking after you? . You have anyone? . 1036 01:16:54,378 --> 01:16:59,082 You see? Grit your teeth! . You got any teeth left? . 1037 01:17:00,417 --> 01:17:02,686 Sometimes billionaires die 1038 01:17:02,819 --> 01:17:06,123 who could have gone on really living it up. 1039 01:17:06,256 --> 01:17:09,059 But you don't even have ID. 1040 01:17:10,594 --> 01:17:13,497 Try to be more detached about it. 1041 01:17:13,664 --> 01:17:16,900 Tell yourself it's just a rat dying. 1042 01:17:18,235 --> 01:17:21,705 Don't kick up a fuss. You have no teeth left. 1043 01:17:25,676 --> 01:17:27,210 He drank like a fish. 1044 01:17:28,312 --> 01:17:32,516 But something about that pale lump makes you think of yourself. 1045 01:17:32,683 --> 01:17:35,085 He didn't come into the world like that. 1046 01:17:46,930 --> 01:17:50,701 - what time is it? . - 11:00 You leaving? .. 1047 01:17:51,168 --> 01:17:52,836 Soon. 1048 01:17:53,570 --> 01:17:56,173 Are the roads bad? . - It's raining. 1049 01:17:56,773 --> 01:17:59,376 Time to go. Come on. 1050 01:18:00,711 --> 01:18:05,248 Everything will be soaked. Another excuse for him to do nothing. 1051 01:18:07,718 --> 01:18:11,054 You gonna bite the dust incognito? . 1052 01:18:11,221 --> 01:18:14,358 Go on and die. - Good-bye. 1053 01:18:15,092 --> 01:18:17,661 See what you can do about the stench. 1054 01:18:17,794 --> 01:18:20,530 we work till noon and then we eat. 1055 01:18:20,664 --> 01:18:22,799 Couldn't you stay a bit longer? . 1056 01:18:24,234 --> 01:18:26,169 Just 30 minutes. 1057 01:18:26,303 --> 01:18:28,572 Croak on your own! 1058 01:18:28,939 --> 01:18:30,507 Let's go. 1059 01:18:34,678 --> 01:18:38,048 - You won't want to die alone either! - Old woman! 1060 01:18:38,181 --> 01:18:40,183 Something to remember me by. 1061 01:18:43,453 --> 01:18:44,955 Just 20 minutes! 1062 01:18:52,763 --> 01:18:55,432 - The sky... - wipe the spit away. 1063 01:18:55,599 --> 01:18:58,068 - Where? - On my forehead. 1064 01:19:04,975 --> 01:19:08,178 - why are you laughing? . - It tastes good. 1065 01:19:09,679 --> 01:19:12,949 You're done for. Good-bye. 1066 01:19:14,117 --> 01:19:15,419 Thank you. 1067 01:19:15,552 --> 01:19:18,355 Can I do anything? .... No, I have to work. 1068 01:19:18,488 --> 01:19:20,657 Jesus! Corpses! 1069 01:19:21,124 --> 01:19:23,994 Hey! Come closer. 1070 01:19:29,533 --> 01:19:31,134 It was very beautiful. 1071 01:19:31,268 --> 01:19:33,870 - what you madman? ,. - Everything. 1072 01:19:35,172 --> 01:19:36,973 A connoisseur! 1073 01:19:40,043 --> 01:19:41,912 - Hey! - Yeah? . 1074 01:19:42,345 --> 01:19:44,514 - You going? . - To work. 1075 01:19:44,648 --> 01:19:47,417 - Where? - what do you care? . 1076 01:19:48,118 --> 01:19:51,054 - What time is it? - Quarter past 11:00. 1077 01:19:55,959 --> 01:19:57,694 He's gone to the devil. 1078 01:20:00,797 --> 01:20:04,367 One, two, three, four... 1079 01:20:08,071 --> 01:20:09,973 It doesn't help. 1080 01:20:11,475 --> 01:20:12,943 Mama... 1081 01:20:14,211 --> 01:20:18,582 A man died in the eternal woods as a storm roared all around him 1082 01:20:18,982 --> 01:20:23,353 Died like a beast in talons of roots, looking up at the treetops 1083 01:20:23,487 --> 01:20:26,523 Where above the woods the storm raged unabated 1084 01:20:29,259 --> 01:20:33,296 People stood all around and tried to calm him 1085 01:20:33,630 --> 01:20:36,166 "We'll carry you home, friend" 1086 01:20:36,299 --> 01:20:39,903 But he kicked and spat and said, "Yeah? Where?" 1087 01:20:40,203 --> 01:20:42,606 For he had no home or land 1088 01:20:46,476 --> 01:20:50,780 "How many teeth have you left? And how's the rest of you? 1089 01:20:50,914 --> 01:20:53,450 Try to die quietly with a bit less fuss 1090 01:20:53,583 --> 01:20:55,552 We already ate your horse last night 1091 01:20:55,752 --> 01:20:58,421 Why this to-do about going to hell?" 1092 01:21:01,725 --> 01:21:03,927 And the woods resounded around him and them 1093 01:21:04,261 --> 01:21:08,465 They watched as he clung to a tree and heard him shriek 1094 01:21:08,598 --> 01:21:12,135 It horrified them and their clenched fists trembled 1095 01:21:12,469 --> 01:21:14,704 For he was a man like them 1096 01:21:18,708 --> 01:21:20,977 "You're foul and useless, a mangy beast 1097 01:21:21,111 --> 01:21:23,847 Just pus and grime, you ragged heap 1098 01:21:23,980 --> 01:21:27,384 You're breathing up our air in your greed, " they said 1099 01:21:27,517 --> 01:21:29,452 And he, the festering sore, said... 1100 01:21:29,586 --> 01:21:32,389 "I want to live and take in your sun 1101 01:21:32,522 --> 01:21:34,724 And ride in the light like you" 1102 01:21:36,293 --> 01:21:39,329 Yes, the sheer weight of life's excess 1103 01:21:39,729 --> 01:21:43,233 Pressed his rotting carcass into the earth 1104 01:21:43,533 --> 01:21:46,736 At dawn he fell down dead in the dark grass 1105 01:21:46,937 --> 01:21:49,973 Disgusted, they buried him cold with hate 1106 01:21:50,106 --> 01:21:52,709 In the deepest undergrowth 1107 01:22:18,368 --> 01:22:21,638 When the dark, earthy womb held the rotting Baal 1108 01:22:22,205 --> 01:22:25,609 The sky above was yet vast and still and pale 1109 01:22:26,042 --> 01:22:29,212 Young and bare and utterly sublime 1110 01:22:29,579 --> 01:22:33,550 Just how Baal loved it in Baal's time 1111 01:22:38,321 --> 01:22:40,390 He kicked the bucket! 1112 01:22:40,890 --> 01:22:42,492 Dead. 1113 01:22:42,959 --> 01:22:46,262 That's really something... 1114 01:22:46,830 --> 01:22:48,965 dying like that today. 1115 01:22:49,099 --> 01:22:50,266 Hats off!