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First time in Czechoslovakia?

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Yes.

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Do you have a reason
for your visit?

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Tourism.

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We were on the same flight,
weren"t we?

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- Were we?
- I"ve ordered a car.

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I can give you a lift
to the city if you want,

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so that no one bothers you.

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Thank you,
that"s very kind of you,

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but I have someone
waiting for me here.

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A pity. Be careful.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Zuckerman,

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I"m Rudolf Bolotka.

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It"s great to meet you, Rudolf.

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Please call me Nathan.

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Welcome to Prague, Nathan.

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Thank you.

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Larry Stern sends
his best regards.

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Thank you!

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How is Larry doing?

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He"s good. He's good.

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How was your flight?

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Long.

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- Hop into my limousine.
- Thank you, sir.

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Nathan, I"ve arranged
your dates with the writers

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for later tonight.

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Thank you.

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What else brings you to Prague?

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Having a well-spent time.

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That"s no problem,

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even in occupied Prague.

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Do you like orgies?

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I would think so.

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To be honest, um,

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I"m interested in the scene
around Jerzy Klenek.

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- Ah, Klenek.
- Yeah.

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Have rumors
of his marvelous parties

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made it to America too?

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I would say so.

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Whoever wants to be someone
in Prague goes there.

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That"s no problem.

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Ever since the Russian invasion,

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the best orgies in Europe
are in Czechoslovakia.

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Less liberty,

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better fucks.

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Call me when you"re ready,
I"ll pick you up,

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but don"t call from the hotel.

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Everything"s bugged.

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There"s a phone booth
over there.

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Here"s some change.

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Okay.

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Bye.

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Hi.

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Change money? Change money?

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Sorry, no thanks.

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- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.

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Welcome to Prague,
Mr. Zuckerman.

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Thank you.

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Why am I always saying
to myself,

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"Do not let yourself
be stopped"?

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Am I really here
to strike a deal with a woman

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who I don"t know?

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Or do I just want
to struggle with myself?

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I appreciate the award,
I really do, it"s just...

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You know, I don"t want to talk
about my books.

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In my opinion, there should be
a 100-year moratorium

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on all literature talk.

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Okay, Nathan Zuckerman, still,
let me ask you a question.

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The, uh, response
to your latest book

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has been tremendous.

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Its, uh, hilarious treatment
of sexual excess

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has offended a lot of people,

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and yet it"s still at the top
of the best seller list.

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What do you say
about this phenomenon?

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Personally,
I"d be more surprised

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if the response were
mild indifference.

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Right.

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Are there any more questions?

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Mr. Zuckerman, uh,

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do you really regard sex
as a battle between man

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and a toothed vagina?

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That is my ludicrous fate:

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to be the opposite
of the man that you say I am.

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Thank you.

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- Joe.
- Thank you, Larry.

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Since the Soviet occupation
in 1968, you"ve been helping

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prohibited writers
in Czechoslovakia.

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Specifically,
how does your work help them?

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Many excellent
Czechoslovakian writers

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have been banned
or forced into exile.

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We try to support them.

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We seek financial aid for them,

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and we want to publish
their work here.

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Thank you.

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Fascinating.

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Uh, Nathan,

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congratulations once again

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and wishing you
much more success.

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Thank you, Larry,
it"s been a pleasure.

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Thank you.

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I"ve heard you're going
to Prague?

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Yeah, I"m gonna meet
a couple writers there.

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I wouldn"t recommend that,
Zuckerman.

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The situation in Czechoslovakia
may be dangerous.

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The regime"s tightening
its grip.

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The Soviets are carrying out
political purges there.

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I want you to meet someone.

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Zdenek.

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This may interest you, Nathan.

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- Hello, Larry.
- This is Eva.

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Zdenek is a Czech writer.

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He used to be well-recognized

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till he fell out
of the regime"s favor.

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Your novel is absolutely one
of the five or six books

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of my life.

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- Zdenek Sisovsky.
- Hi.

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Eva Kalinova.
We both originate from Prague.

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- Very nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

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I"ve been watching
the whole scandalous response

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to your book.

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It interests me
because my own work

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also had a scandalous response
in Czechoslovakia.

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Really?

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And what was the scandal?

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Please, I don"t wish to compare
our two books.

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Yours is a work of genius,
mine is nothing.

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Not quite nothing.

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It got you exiled.

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You"ll have to tell Nathan.

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I gotta go.
I"ll give you a call.

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Thank you very much.

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- Nathan?
- Yeah?

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- Talk to my Czech friend.
- Yeah, thanks, Larry.

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Walk with me?

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Great idea.

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Mr. Zuckerman,
it would be a great honor

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if you had lunch with us.

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I will invite you.

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Taxi.

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Let"s go.

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Eva?

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Thank you.

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Eva is a different case.

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She has only hatred.

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Hatred?

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For what?

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Well, for everyone
who has betrayed you,

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for everyone who has hurt you.

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You hate them,
and you wish they were dead.

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I don"t even think
of them anymore.

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You wish them
to be tortured in hell.

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I have forgotten them
completely.

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I should like to tell you
about Eva Kalinova.

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Eva is Prague"s great
Chekhovian actress.

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No one there will dispute it,
not even the regime.

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- Oh.
- There is no Nina since hers,

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no Irina, no Masha.

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I don"t want this.

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All of the country
has been in love with her.

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Soon she will be acting again.

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To be an actress in America,
you must speak English

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that doesn"t give people
a headache.

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Eva, sit down. Sit down.

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Lots of outstanding actresses
speak English with an accent,

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and they give a headache
to no one.

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You cannot be on stage
and speak English

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that nobody can understand.

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Come on.

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And I do not want to perform
any more plays.

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I had enough of being
an artificial person.

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I"m glad to be finished
with all my successes.

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Brezhnev has given me a chance
to be an ordinary nobody.

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I sell dresses,

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and dresses are needed more
by people

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than stupid, emotional,
Chekhovian actresses.

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You must tell him about
the Vice-Minister of Culture

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and what happened with him
after you left your husband.

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- Please stop it.
- No, no, no, Eva, please.

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Tell me.
Really, I"m interested.

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- Thank you.
- Thank you.

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Well, and Eva is dismissed
from the National Theatre.

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The Vice-Minister
is so pleased with himself

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that he goes around boasting
how he handled Sisovsky"s whore.

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Maybe he believes that when
the news reaches Moscow,

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the Russians will give him
a medal for...

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his cruelty and anti-Semitism.

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Why do you persecute me?

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I do not care to be
an ironical character

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in the Czech story.

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Everything that happens
in Czechoslovakia,

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they say, "Pure Kafka,

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pure Svejk."

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I"m sick of it.

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What do you want to do
at home alone?

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Have a drink, Eva!

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Try to enjoy life
in the free world.

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Okay, I understand,
but Zuckerman is interested.

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Sorry, I must go.

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You"re gonna let her leave?

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Eva.

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Eva, wait, please.

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Just come and sit down.

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Why?

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"Cause I can't let you go
like this.

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Don"t let us draw you
into our stories.

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- Hello?
- Rudolf!

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Hi, it"s Nathan.

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- Hi.
- How are things?

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Everything"s arranged.

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I"ll pick you up
in half an hour, agreed?

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Okay, bye.

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So, this is where
you"ll always find me.

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Ah, it"s very nice.

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No, this way.

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Welcome to my kingdom.

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- What, this is where you work?
- Mm-hmm.

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You, a brilliant
theater director?

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I have worked here as a janitor

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since I was fired
from the theater.

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The menial work is done now
by the writers

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and the teachers
and the construction engineers,

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and the construction is run
by the drunks and the crooks.

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Half a million people
have been fired from their jobs.

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Sisovsky, I didn"t realize

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on top of everything else
that you"re Jewish.

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My father was a Jew,
my mother was not.

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He taught mathematics
and was a writer.

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He wrote hundreds of stories
about Jews,

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only he did not publish
a single one.

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My father didn"t use Yiddish,

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but he wrote his stories
in Yiddish.

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Unique stories
about a long-forgotten world,

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stories about homelessness
and uprootedness.

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My father was killed before
they started transporting Jews

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from mixed marriages.

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Oh, what happened to him?

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Two drunk Nazis
were having a fight.

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He was out on the street
with my older brother,

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the yellow star on his coat,
and out of nowhere,

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one of the Nazis comes up to
them and simply starts firing.

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He shot them both,

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my father and my brother
as well.

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What happened to your mother
and to you?

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My mother hid on a farm,
and there I was born

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two months later.

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- So you never met your father?
- No.

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But his stories are the best
I have ever read.

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I am obsessed
with the great Jewish writer

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that might have been.

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Do you have his stories
with you here in New York?

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No, they are in Prague
with my books,

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and my books in Prague
are with my wife

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who is also in Prague,

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and my wife does not like me
so much anymore.

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I am afraid I will never see
my father"s stories again.

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My mother goes to ask
and my wife shows her

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photographs
of all my mistresses, naked.

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These, too,
I left behind in Prague

260
00:17:55,161 --> 00:17:58,729
with my books, unfortunately.

261
00:17:58,773 --> 00:18:01,123
Do you think she would destroy
the stories?

262
00:18:01,167 --> 00:18:03,473
No, no, she couldn"t do that.

263
00:18:03,517 --> 00:18:06,476
Olga is a writer, too,
she loves literature.

264
00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,435
In Czechoslovakia,
she"s very well known

265
00:18:08,478 --> 00:18:11,481
for her writing,
and for her drinking,

266
00:18:11,525 --> 00:18:14,963
and for showing everybody
her vagina.

267
00:18:16,356 --> 00:18:18,358
You would like Olga.

268
00:18:18,401 --> 00:18:20,273
Okay!

269
00:18:20,316 --> 00:18:23,885
Actually, wait.

270
00:18:24,886 --> 00:18:26,714
This is Olga.

271
00:18:29,978 --> 00:18:34,287
If you were to visit Prague,
and I know you are going to,

272
00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:36,898
and you were to meet my wife,

273
00:18:36,941 --> 00:18:40,162
she would even give you
my father"s stories.

274
00:18:42,033 --> 00:18:44,732
You really think she would?

275
00:18:44,775 --> 00:18:49,389
If she were to fall in love
with you.

276
00:18:49,432 --> 00:18:52,043
Sisovsky, what exactly
are you suggesting here?

277
00:18:52,087 --> 00:18:55,438
If you were to go about it
the right way, of course.

278
00:18:55,482 --> 00:18:56,961
She loves love.

279
00:18:57,005 --> 00:18:59,529
She does anything for love.

280
00:18:59,573 --> 00:19:02,271
And what"s the right way,
in your opinion?

281
00:19:02,315 --> 00:19:06,449
Nathan, a great American writer,

282
00:19:06,493 --> 00:19:08,538
famous, attractive,
American genius

283
00:19:08,582 --> 00:19:10,714
who does not practice
the American innocence

284
00:19:10,758 --> 00:19:12,455
to a shameless degree.

285
00:19:12,499 --> 00:19:16,590
If he were to ask her
for my father"s stories,

286
00:19:16,633 --> 00:19:18,853
Olga would give them to him.

287
00:19:21,638 --> 00:19:24,250
The only thing is not
to lay her too soon.

288
00:19:28,863 --> 00:19:31,866
You can do whatever you want
in Klenek"s.

289
00:19:31,909 --> 00:19:35,217
No drugs, but plenty of whiskey.

290
00:19:35,261 --> 00:19:37,132
You can fuck,

291
00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:39,700
you can look at dirty pictures,

292
00:19:39,743 --> 00:19:42,050
you can look at yourself
in the mirror,

293
00:19:42,093 --> 00:19:44,095
or you can do nothing.

294
00:19:44,139 --> 00:19:46,533
All the best people are there.

295
00:19:46,576 --> 00:19:48,709
Also the worst.

296
00:19:48,752 --> 00:19:51,146
We"re all comrades now.

297
00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:53,104
Come to the orgy, Zuckerman.

298
00:19:53,148 --> 00:19:56,282
You"ll see the final stage
of the revolution.

299
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,068
You just need to be careful

300
00:20:00,111 --> 00:20:02,288
"cause his house
is bugged everywhere.

301
00:20:07,118 --> 00:20:09,120
The secret police.

302
00:20:09,164 --> 00:20:12,689
They are here all the time.

303
00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:30,228
Like at your home.

304
00:20:41,936 --> 00:20:43,633
- Some wine for you.
- Thank you.

305
00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:09,485
Here you can go alone.

306
00:21:09,529 --> 00:21:11,487
Have a good time.

307
00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,798
You may have exaggerated

308
00:21:17,841 --> 00:21:19,887
the depths
of Prague"s depravity.

309
00:21:19,930 --> 00:21:22,324
This... this feels
more like a museum.

310
00:21:22,368 --> 00:21:27,024
Klenek lives in this palazzo,
and he does what he wants.

311
00:21:27,068 --> 00:21:29,505
Why is he so privileged?

312
00:21:32,378 --> 00:21:35,990
He"s the son of a famous
Art Nouveau painter,

313
00:21:36,033 --> 00:21:37,992
and he"s married
a German baroness,

314
00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:42,083
therefore he can travel,
unlike the others.

315
00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:52,049
And he tells them things.

316
00:21:52,093 --> 00:21:53,747
He might be a cop,

317
00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:58,055
but no one tells him anything
because everybody suspects that.

318
00:21:58,099 --> 00:21:59,753
He may well be a double agent.

319
00:22:01,189 --> 00:22:02,930
So what"s the point?

320
00:22:02,973 --> 00:22:05,628
To be a double agent
when everybody knows?

321
00:22:05,672 --> 00:22:07,413
Exactly.

322
00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:38,661
That one,

323
00:22:38,705 --> 00:22:40,968
over there,

324
00:22:41,011 --> 00:22:44,363
he is a terrible
abstract painter.

325
00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:47,931
He made his best painting
the day the Russians invaded us.

326
00:22:47,975 --> 00:22:50,020
He painted over the street signs

327
00:22:50,064 --> 00:22:52,414
so the tanks wouldn"t know
where they were.

328
00:22:54,329 --> 00:22:56,940
He also has
the longest prick in Prague.

329
00:23:05,296 --> 00:23:06,776
Sit down.

330
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:14,741
That one over there.

331
00:23:14,784 --> 00:23:18,179
That is Mr. Vodicka.

332
00:23:18,222 --> 00:23:20,268
He is a very good writer,

333
00:23:20,311 --> 00:23:23,358
an excellent writer,
but everything scares him.

334
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:27,449
If he sees a petition,
he passes out.

335
00:23:27,493 --> 00:23:31,453
If he signs one,
he takes it back immediately

336
00:23:31,497 --> 00:23:34,587
and says to the government
that he"s sorry.

337
00:23:34,630 --> 00:23:36,893
Apologizing
for his confused beliefs,

338
00:23:36,937 --> 00:23:40,636
hoping they will let him write
again about his perversion.

339
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,117
Yeah, will they?

340
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,553
Of course not.

341
00:23:44,597 --> 00:23:47,426
They will tell him to write
a historical novel

342
00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:49,428
about beer in Plzen.

343
00:24:08,969 --> 00:24:11,232
I know who you are.

344
00:24:13,582 --> 00:24:16,672
And you are who?

345
00:24:16,716 --> 00:24:19,022
I don"t know.

346
00:24:19,066 --> 00:24:21,503
I don"t even feel I exist.

347
00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:23,113
Do I exist?

348
00:24:23,157 --> 00:24:26,290
Neither do you, my dear, since
you got fired from the theater.

349
00:24:26,334 --> 00:24:27,683
Right?

350
00:24:29,337 --> 00:24:31,861
This one"s Olga.

351
00:24:31,905 --> 00:24:34,124
She has the best legs in Prague.

352
00:24:35,561 --> 00:24:37,171
She"s showing them to you.

353
00:24:37,214 --> 00:24:38,215
Right.

354
00:24:38,259 --> 00:24:40,522
Otherwise she doesn"t exist.

355
00:24:50,576 --> 00:24:53,013
Mr. Vodicka wants something
from Olga.

356
00:24:57,539 --> 00:24:59,976
Who is Olga?

357
00:25:00,020 --> 00:25:03,284
One of the most famous women
in the country.

358
00:25:03,327 --> 00:25:05,373
Olga wrote our love stories.

359
00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:09,246
She"s Klenek's girlfriend,

360
00:25:09,290 --> 00:25:11,684
and she organizes
all these parties.

361
00:25:11,727 --> 00:25:14,034
Her boyfriend, Klenek,
looks after her.

362
00:25:14,077 --> 00:25:16,123
Why does she need
looking after her?

363
00:25:21,041 --> 00:25:22,564
Olga!

364
00:25:22,608 --> 00:25:24,914
Why do you need looking after?

365
00:25:26,481 --> 00:25:27,700
This is awful.

366
00:25:27,743 --> 00:25:30,137
I hear only stories
about myself tonight,

367
00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:33,096
stories about who I fuck.

368
00:25:33,140 --> 00:25:35,229
I would never fuck such people.

369
00:25:35,272 --> 00:25:39,538
Why do you need
looking after, Olga?

370
00:25:39,581 --> 00:25:41,452
Because I"m shaking

371
00:25:41,496 --> 00:25:44,412
and frightened of everything.

372
00:25:44,455 --> 00:25:47,850
Feel me shaking.

373
00:25:47,894 --> 00:25:49,591
She"s shaking.

374
00:25:49,635 --> 00:25:52,463
I"m frightened of him too.

375
00:25:53,682 --> 00:25:56,032
Well, you don"t act frightened.

376
00:25:56,076 --> 00:25:59,645
Since I"m frightened of
everything, it"s all the same.

377
00:26:01,690 --> 00:26:03,649
If I get into too much trouble,

378
00:26:03,692 --> 00:26:06,173
you will marry me
and take me to America.

379
00:26:06,216 --> 00:26:07,609
Oh.

380
00:26:07,653 --> 00:26:08,828
I will telegram you

381
00:26:08,871 --> 00:26:11,613
and you will come and save me.

382
00:26:11,657 --> 00:26:14,442
Do you know what
Mr. Vodicka wants now?

383
00:26:14,485 --> 00:26:16,618
He has a boy
who has never seen a woman.

384
00:26:16,662 --> 00:26:18,968
He wants me to show it to him.

385
00:26:20,927 --> 00:26:22,755
Why are you in Prague?

386
00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:24,539
Looking for Kafka?

387
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:27,629
The intellectuals
all come here looking for Kafka,

388
00:26:27,673 --> 00:26:29,283
but Kafka is dead.

389
00:26:29,326 --> 00:26:31,981
They should be looking for Olga.

390
00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:35,506
And what would they discover?

391
00:26:40,163 --> 00:26:43,036
Are you planning to make love
to anybody in Prague?

392
00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:44,124
Let me know.

393
00:26:47,127 --> 00:26:49,999
It... there is Kouba.

394
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:54,438
I can"t be in this house
with that Kouba.

395
00:26:54,482 --> 00:26:59,313
Kouba is one
of our great communist heroes.

396
00:26:59,356 --> 00:27:01,707
It"s surprising
he"s still in Prague.

397
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:03,622
- Really?
- Not all our great

398
00:27:03,665 --> 00:27:06,494
communist heroes who were
in Italy with their girlfriends

399
00:27:06,537 --> 00:27:09,410
when the Russians invaded
bothered to return.

400
00:27:09,453 --> 00:27:10,672
Do you know why?

401
00:27:10,716 --> 00:27:14,415
At last they were free
of their terrible wives.

402
00:27:17,374 --> 00:27:19,681
So...

403
00:27:19,725 --> 00:27:22,205
why do you come to Prague?

404
00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:24,860
You"re not looking for Kafka,

405
00:27:24,904 --> 00:27:27,863
and you don"t want to fuck.

406
00:27:27,907 --> 00:27:29,560
Fuck.

407
00:27:29,604 --> 00:27:31,214
I love this word, "fuck."

408
00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:33,260
Why don"t we have
this word, Rudolf?

409
00:27:34,348 --> 00:27:35,392
Teach me.

410
00:27:35,436 --> 00:27:37,612
Teach me how to say "fuck."

411
00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:40,049
- This is a good fucking party.
- Ah.

412
00:27:40,093 --> 00:27:41,703
- I was really fucked.
- Yes.

413
00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:44,184
Wonderful word.
Teach me about "fuck."

414
00:27:44,227 --> 00:27:47,056
Um... shut the fuck up!

415
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,755
Beautiful! Shut the fuck up!

416
00:27:49,798 --> 00:27:50,973
More, more.

417
00:27:51,017 --> 00:27:52,583
Fuck it all, fuck everything!

418
00:27:52,627 --> 00:27:54,629
Yes, yes, fuck it all,
fuck everything,

419
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:56,283
and fuck everybody.

420
00:27:56,326 --> 00:27:58,807
Fuck the world
until it cannot fuck me anymore.

421
00:27:58,851 --> 00:28:00,026
See?

422
00:28:00,069 --> 00:28:03,682
- I learn fast.
- Yeah, real fucking fast.

423
00:28:03,725 --> 00:28:07,598
In America, I would be
a famous writer like you.

424
00:28:09,949 --> 00:28:12,734
He"s afraid to fuck me.

425
00:28:12,778 --> 00:28:15,041
Why is that? Why?

426
00:28:15,084 --> 00:28:17,826
Why do you write this book
about fucking

427
00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:19,523
that makes you so famous

428
00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:21,830
if you"re afraid
to fuck somebody?

429
00:28:23,397 --> 00:28:25,747
You hate fucking everybody
or just me?

430
00:28:25,791 --> 00:28:27,314
Everybody.

431
00:28:27,357 --> 00:28:29,533
He"s a gentleman, Olga.

432
00:28:29,577 --> 00:28:33,146
He doesn"t tell you the truth
because you"re so hopeless.

433
00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:35,104
Why am I hopeless?

434
00:28:35,148 --> 00:28:39,065
Because in America, the girls
don"t talk to him like that.

435
00:28:39,108 --> 00:28:40,806
What do they say in America?

436
00:28:40,849 --> 00:28:43,069
Teach me to be an American girl.

437
00:28:43,112 --> 00:28:46,072
Well, first you would take
your hand off my prick.

438
00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:47,987
Oh, I see.

439
00:28:48,030 --> 00:28:49,118
- Okay.
- Okay.

440
00:28:49,162 --> 00:28:51,120
Now what?

441
00:28:51,164 --> 00:28:52,339
We would talk.

442
00:28:52,382 --> 00:28:54,428
We would try to get
to know each other.

443
00:28:54,471 --> 00:28:55,690
Why?

444
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,083
I don"t understand.

445
00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,216
Talk about what, the Indians?

446
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:03,002
Yes, we would talk at length
about the Indians.

447
00:29:03,045 --> 00:29:05,656
It won"t work
without the Indians?

448
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,441
- No way, right?
- No way.

449
00:29:07,484 --> 00:29:09,791
Okay.

450
00:29:09,835 --> 00:29:12,576
And then I put my hand
on your prick?

451
00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:14,317
That"s right.

452
00:29:14,361 --> 00:29:15,971
And then you fuck me.

453
00:29:16,015 --> 00:29:18,495
That would be the way
we would do it, yes.

454
00:29:18,539 --> 00:29:21,020
America is
a very strange country.

455
00:29:21,063 --> 00:29:22,499
It"s one of them.

456
00:30:02,017 --> 00:30:05,064
But first, I want you
to show me yours.

457
00:30:08,284 --> 00:30:10,504
Olga, why do you want to see it?

458
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:15,074
I don"t, I've seen too many.

459
00:30:15,117 --> 00:30:16,902
Vodicka wants it.

460
00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:21,471
Now I can already see
the dicks at the cop shop

461
00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:23,473
flourishing the photograph
in front of my face

462
00:30:23,517 --> 00:30:24,866
where all the boys meet

463
00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:27,869
and threaten to jail me
for pedophilia

464
00:30:27,913 --> 00:30:29,958
if I don"t cooperate.

465
00:30:30,002 --> 00:30:33,962
Everywhere in this house,
there are cameras.

466
00:30:34,006 --> 00:30:38,880
On the street, someone is
always snapping my picture.

467
00:30:38,924 --> 00:30:42,536
Half the country is employed
spying on the other half.

468
00:30:42,579 --> 00:30:47,889
I am a rotten, degenerate,
negativistic pseudo-artist,

469
00:30:47,933 --> 00:30:49,586
and this will prove it.

470
00:30:49,630 --> 00:30:52,851
This is how they destroy me.

471
00:30:52,894 --> 00:30:54,896
Why do you do it then?

472
00:30:57,159 --> 00:30:59,814
It is too silly not to.

473
00:31:03,774 --> 00:31:05,907
Come on, guys.

474
00:31:05,951 --> 00:31:07,256
Let"s go.

475
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,519
I"ll show it to him.

476
00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:20,748
Are cameras hidden here?

477
00:31:20,791 --> 00:31:23,751
Klenek says only microphones.

478
00:31:23,794 --> 00:31:26,362
Maybe in the bedrooms
for the fucking,

479
00:31:26,406 --> 00:31:29,191
but you go on the floor
and turn off the lights.

480
00:31:29,235 --> 00:31:30,758
Don"t worry.

481
00:31:32,499 --> 00:31:33,979
Don"t be scared.

482
00:31:34,022 --> 00:31:36,982
You wanna fuck,
fuck her on the floor.

483
00:32:49,358 --> 00:32:54,015
All of us are going to drink
ourselves to death here.

484
00:32:54,059 --> 00:32:56,496
You get onto a streetcar
at night

485
00:32:56,539 --> 00:32:59,673
when the great working class
is on its way home,

486
00:32:59,716 --> 00:33:03,024
and the great working class
smells like a brewery.

487
00:33:04,765 --> 00:33:06,941
How do you all live like this?

488
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:09,726
Human adaptability

489
00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:11,772
is a great blessing.

490
00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:38,103
Oh! Where"s Mr. Vodicka?

491
00:33:38,146 --> 00:33:39,713
I have no idea.

492
00:33:39,756 --> 00:33:41,889
I"m afraid you have
to get up, Olga.

493
00:33:41,932 --> 00:33:44,065
- I"m going now.
- I come with you.

494
00:33:44,109 --> 00:33:45,980
You must be patient.

495
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:48,983
Some pretty pussycat of 15
will surely show up.

496
00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:52,073
And she will be worth it.

497
00:33:52,117 --> 00:33:53,944
What are you afraid of?

498
00:33:53,988 --> 00:33:56,251
You can"t have
such a freedom in New York.

499
00:33:56,295 --> 00:33:58,514
But he doesn"t want
a girl of 15.

500
00:33:58,558 --> 00:34:01,126
They are old whores by now.

501
00:34:01,169 --> 00:34:04,085
He wants one who"s 40.

502
00:34:04,129 --> 00:34:05,956
Why do you act like this?

503
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,871
You come all the way
to Czechoslovakia,

504
00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:10,439
you take risks,
and then you act like this.

505
00:34:10,483 --> 00:34:13,007
- I will never see you again.
- Yes, you will.

506
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,139
You"re lying.

507
00:34:14,182 --> 00:34:17,055
You will go back
to those American girls

508
00:34:17,098 --> 00:34:21,450
and talk about the Indians
and fuck them.

509
00:34:21,494 --> 00:34:23,191
Next time,
you will tell me before

510
00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:25,541
and I will study
my Indian tribes.

511
00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:28,109
Olga, Olga, please.

512
00:34:28,153 --> 00:34:29,806
Have lunch with me tomorrow,
okay?

513
00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:31,547
I"ll come,
I"ll get you right here.

514
00:34:31,591 --> 00:34:33,419
But what about tonight?

515
00:34:33,462 --> 00:34:35,464
Why don"t you fuck me now?

516
00:34:38,250 --> 00:34:42,819
An imperialist agent
with no license to fuck.

517
00:34:42,863 --> 00:34:44,908
Why are you leaving me
if you like me?

518
00:34:44,952 --> 00:34:47,476
I don"t understand.

519
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,133
You like me, don"t you?

520
00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:53,787
I do.

521
00:34:53,830 --> 00:34:55,528
That"s not enough.

522
00:34:55,571 --> 00:34:57,007
Leave him alone.

523
00:34:57,051 --> 00:34:59,140
He is a middle-class boy.

524
00:34:59,184 --> 00:35:02,143
But this is
a classless socialist society,

525
00:35:02,187 --> 00:35:03,797
and you take no action.

526
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,278
Your American readers
would be surprised

527
00:35:06,321 --> 00:35:08,758
to see what a respectable
and virtuous man you are.

528
00:35:08,802 --> 00:35:12,849
Yes, yes, I am a quiet
and polite spectator,

529
00:35:12,893 --> 00:35:15,069
and I don"t take my pants off
in public.

530
00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:18,551
All great international figures
come to Prague

531
00:35:18,594 --> 00:35:22,859
to see our oppression,
but none of them will ever fuck.

532
00:35:22,903 --> 00:35:24,165
Why is that?

533
00:35:24,209 --> 00:35:26,428
Neither Sartre
nor Simone de Beauvoir,

534
00:35:26,472 --> 00:35:29,518
neither Heinrich Boll,
Carlos Fuentes.

535
00:35:29,562 --> 00:35:32,521
None!

536
00:35:32,565 --> 00:35:36,003
You all think to sign a petition
will save Czechoslovakia,

537
00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:38,788
but what will save
Czechoslovakia

538
00:35:38,832 --> 00:35:41,139
would be to fuck Olga.

539
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,404
Olga"s drunk.

540
00:35:45,447 --> 00:35:47,014
She"s also crying.

541
00:35:47,057 --> 00:35:48,798
Don"t worry about her.

542
00:35:48,842 --> 00:35:50,322
This is just Olga.

543
00:35:50,365 --> 00:35:51,540
Come on.

544
00:36:06,381 --> 00:36:09,384
Well, I don"t want you

545
00:36:13,127 --> 00:36:16,565
To feel down and out
and all alone

546
00:36:20,134 --> 00:36:22,963
Well, I don"t want you

547
00:36:27,359 --> 00:36:30,405
To feel down and out
and all alone

548
00:36:47,466 --> 00:36:50,033
Well, I don"t want you

549
00:36:58,564 --> 00:37:00,783
Nathan?

550
00:37:00,827 --> 00:37:04,309
The people you wanted to see
are probably expecting us.

551
00:37:04,352 --> 00:37:06,180
We"ll meet them in a beer hall.

552
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:09,792
Wait, wait, everyone will see us
in a beer hall.

553
00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:11,359
You sure?

554
00:37:11,403 --> 00:37:14,536
But the police don"t want
any scandals in the public.

555
00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:17,147
Are you really leaving?

556
00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:24,329
Now they will interrogate me
about you.

557
00:37:24,372 --> 00:37:28,158
For six hours, they will torture
me with questions,

558
00:37:28,202 --> 00:37:31,249
and I can"t even tell them
we fucked.

559
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:39,779
Is that what happens?

560
00:37:39,822 --> 00:37:42,303
Their interrogations
are not to be dramatized.

561
00:37:42,347 --> 00:37:44,000
Of course they"re interested
in you,

562
00:37:44,044 --> 00:37:46,351
but they don"t need you
to accuse people.

563
00:37:46,394 --> 00:37:48,527
Will they interrogate you
about me?

564
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:53,140
If they"ll ask me why you came
to Czechoslovakia,

565
00:37:53,183 --> 00:37:55,185
I"ll tell them in plain terms.

566
00:37:55,229 --> 00:37:56,578
Well, what will you say?

567
00:37:56,622 --> 00:37:59,929
That you came here
for the 15-year-old girls.

568
00:37:59,973 --> 00:38:02,889
"Read his book," I"ll tell them,
"and you"ll understand."

569
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,459
And don"t worry about Olga.

570
00:38:07,502 --> 00:38:09,287
She"ll be all right.

571
00:38:09,330 --> 00:38:11,071
She won"t be alone.

572
00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:13,203
I will not be all right.

573
00:38:13,247 --> 00:38:16,468
I will see you tomorrow
for lunch.

574
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:21,124
Come on.

575
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:33,920
Zuckerman,

576
00:38:33,963 --> 00:38:36,488
marry me and take me away.

577
00:38:36,531 --> 00:38:40,230
If you marry me,
they must let me go.

578
00:38:40,274 --> 00:38:43,756
This is the law,
even they obey it.

579
00:38:43,799 --> 00:38:45,323
You wouldn"t have to fuck me,

580
00:38:45,366 --> 00:38:46,889
you could fuck
the American girls.

581
00:38:46,933 --> 00:38:50,153
You wouldn"t have to love me
or even give me money.

582
00:38:50,197 --> 00:38:53,896
And she would scrub your floors
and iron your beautiful shirts.

583
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:57,813
Yes, yes, yes, I would iron
your shirts all day long.

584
00:38:57,857 --> 00:38:59,815
Yeah, that would be
the first week.

585
00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:01,469
Then would begin the second week

586
00:39:01,513 --> 00:39:04,211
and the excitement
of being Mr. Olga.

587
00:39:04,254 --> 00:39:05,647
That isn"t true.

588
00:39:05,691 --> 00:39:07,040
I would leave him alone.

589
00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:08,476
And then would begin the vodka

590
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:09,999
and then would begin
the adventures.

591
00:39:10,043 --> 00:39:11,958
Not in America, no.

592
00:39:12,001 --> 00:39:17,006
Olga, in America,
you would shoot yourself.

593
00:39:17,050 --> 00:39:19,357
- I would shoot myself here.
- Yeah?

594
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,663
- Yeah.
- With what?

595
00:39:21,707 --> 00:39:23,317
A tank!

596
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:24,362
Tonight.

597
00:39:24,405 --> 00:39:25,928
I will steal a Russian tank

598
00:39:25,972 --> 00:39:29,410
and I will shoot myself
with it tonight.

599
00:39:29,454 --> 00:39:31,456
- Fuck off.
- Should we be letting her walk?

600
00:39:31,499 --> 00:39:32,674
No, no.

601
00:39:32,718 --> 00:39:35,851
Olga always does what she wants.

602
00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:38,941
She was married
to a promising writer,

603
00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:41,422
but one day she found out
he was cheating on her

604
00:39:41,466 --> 00:39:42,728
with a famous actress,

605
00:39:42,771 --> 00:39:46,296
and in her fury,
she called the cops on him.

606
00:40:41,787 --> 00:40:44,137
The problem is that Sisovsky
always carries

607
00:40:44,180 --> 00:40:47,270
a note from a doctor saying
he"s a psychiatric case.

608
00:40:47,314 --> 00:40:49,838
Wait, so the authorities
will leave him alone?

609
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,151
Well, he"s got so-called
legal confirmation

610
00:40:58,194 --> 00:41:00,283
that he"s crazy in the head

611
00:41:00,327 --> 00:41:02,721
so he wouldn"t have to do
his military service.

612
00:41:04,766 --> 00:41:07,029
The police read the note

613
00:41:07,073 --> 00:41:09,075
and take him
to the lunatic asylum,

614
00:41:09,118 --> 00:41:11,512
and he was held there
for a long time

615
00:41:11,556 --> 00:41:12,992
before he was released.

616
00:41:13,035 --> 00:41:14,733
That"s Olga.

617
00:41:36,798 --> 00:41:39,975
Vaculda and Havlicek
are coming at 10,

618
00:41:40,019 --> 00:41:42,543
unless they"re in custody again.

619
00:41:45,590 --> 00:41:47,592
I"m pretty sure
that guy over there

620
00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:50,072
was watching us
outside the hotel.

621
00:41:50,116 --> 00:41:51,813
Oh.

622
00:41:51,857 --> 00:41:55,425
Secret police, probably.

623
00:41:55,469 --> 00:41:56,862
Secret?

624
00:41:56,905 --> 00:41:59,081
There is nothing secret
about it.

625
00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:15,184
, this is Nathan Zuckerman.

626
00:42:15,228 --> 00:42:16,229
- Vaclav.
- Hi.

627
00:42:16,272 --> 00:42:17,491
- Vaclav.
- Great to meet you.

628
00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:19,232
- And Ludvik.
- Pleasure to meet you.

629
00:42:19,275 --> 00:42:21,235
- Nice to meet you.
- Come on, guys, let"s sit down.

630
00:42:21,277 --> 00:42:23,279
Thank you.

631
00:42:24,716 --> 00:42:26,935
It"s a pleasure
to finally meet you in person,

632
00:42:26,979 --> 00:42:28,241
both of you.

633
00:42:28,284 --> 00:42:31,461
Here, where the literary culture
is held hostage,

634
00:42:31,505 --> 00:42:35,596
the art of narration
flourishes by mouth.

635
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,687
In Prague, stories
aren"t simply stories.

636
00:42:39,731 --> 00:42:43,865
Storytelling is the form
their resistance has taken

637
00:42:43,909 --> 00:42:47,739
against the coercion
of the powers-that-be.

638
00:42:47,782 --> 00:42:51,699
So, I, uh, I have your contracts
from the publisher.

639
00:42:51,743 --> 00:42:54,702
- You just need to sign it.
- No.

640
00:42:54,746 --> 00:42:57,966
Don"t give it to me.

641
00:42:58,010 --> 00:43:00,534
Put it on the bench, please.

642
00:43:23,122 --> 00:43:26,908
So, Olga is studying
the Indian tribes right now.

643
00:43:26,952 --> 00:43:29,128
That"s great,
I happen to be an expert

644
00:43:29,171 --> 00:43:32,435
in Indian tribes myself.

645
00:43:32,479 --> 00:43:34,612
I know them as well.

646
00:43:34,655 --> 00:43:35,743
Right.

647
00:43:35,787 --> 00:43:37,658
Let"s write them down.

648
00:43:37,702 --> 00:43:40,792
We don"t want to say
a name twice.

649
00:43:45,274 --> 00:43:48,277
Oh, yeah, yes, I have a pen.

650
00:43:48,321 --> 00:43:50,062
Uh, here.

651
00:43:50,105 --> 00:43:52,107
You start?

652
00:43:52,151 --> 00:43:53,282
Yes, uh...

653
00:43:54,501 --> 00:43:57,504
The Apache.

654
00:43:57,547 --> 00:43:59,114
The Mohicans.

655
00:43:59,158 --> 00:44:00,420
Ah.

656
00:44:00,463 --> 00:44:02,509
The Apalachee.

657
00:44:04,859 --> 00:44:07,122
The West Apalachee.

658
00:44:07,166 --> 00:44:09,342
The East Apalachee.

659
00:44:09,385 --> 00:44:11,692
No, those don"t exist.

660
00:44:11,736 --> 00:44:13,868
There are only the west ones.

661
00:44:13,912 --> 00:44:16,131
So, the, um, Comanche.

662
00:44:16,175 --> 00:44:17,480
The Cherokee.

663
00:44:19,178 --> 00:44:20,440
The Sioux.

664
00:44:20,483 --> 00:44:21,484
Uh-huh.

665
00:44:31,973 --> 00:44:34,802
The Huron people.

666
00:44:34,846 --> 00:44:36,761
The Mohican people.

667
00:44:37,849 --> 00:44:39,067
Zacatecas.

668
00:44:39,111 --> 00:44:41,200
Ooh.

669
00:44:41,243 --> 00:44:42,941
Good one.

670
00:44:42,984 --> 00:44:45,508
Uh, the, uh...

671
00:44:45,552 --> 00:44:47,685
the Hamentashen tribe.

672
00:44:47,728 --> 00:44:49,251
Oh...

673
00:44:49,295 --> 00:44:50,644
I don"t know that one.

674
00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:53,560
Okay, yeah, no,
it"s a Jewish cookie.

675
00:44:54,779 --> 00:44:56,389
It"s delicious, by the way.

676
00:45:04,005 --> 00:45:06,225
Ludvik,

677
00:45:06,268 --> 00:45:10,969
I think you also need
to go to the toilet.

678
00:45:29,727 --> 00:45:31,641
You must listen
to this one, Nathan,

679
00:45:31,685 --> 00:45:33,948
since you love stories so much.

680
00:45:33,992 --> 00:45:36,516
Blecha was
my best childhood friend.

681
00:45:36,559 --> 00:45:40,128
He was always planning to be
a famous poet, playwright.

682
00:45:40,172 --> 00:45:42,478
One night, he got drunk

683
00:45:42,522 --> 00:45:45,786
and admitted
he was spying on me,

684
00:45:45,830 --> 00:45:48,136
but he was a terrible writer.

685
00:45:48,180 --> 00:45:49,790
Even they told him.

686
00:45:49,834 --> 00:45:53,359
When they read his reports,
they made no sense.

687
00:47:02,776 --> 00:47:04,473
And that"s how it went.

688
00:47:04,517 --> 00:47:08,390
Blecha gave me half of his pay
and everything was fine...

689
00:47:08,434 --> 00:47:11,872
until they decided
that he was such a good spy

690
00:47:11,916 --> 00:47:13,874
that they should promote him.

691
00:47:47,038 --> 00:47:49,867
After a long time,
I met him again.

692
00:49:09,990 --> 00:49:11,165
Hello?

693
00:49:11,209 --> 00:49:13,602
This is your wife-to-be,
good morning.

694
00:49:13,646 --> 00:49:16,779
I"m in the lobby,
I"m coming to your room.

695
00:49:16,823 --> 00:49:18,781
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

696
00:49:18,825 --> 00:49:21,349
I"ll come down.

697
00:49:21,393 --> 00:49:24,352
I said lunch, not breakfast.

698
00:49:24,396 --> 00:49:28,095
Why are you scared for me
to visit you when I love you?

699
00:49:30,141 --> 00:49:34,580
It"s not the best idea for you
to be in my room, you know that.

700
00:49:34,623 --> 00:49:36,321
I"m coming up.

701
00:49:36,364 --> 00:49:38,192
You"re gonna get yourself
into trouble.

702
00:49:40,107 --> 00:49:41,717
Not me.

703
00:50:05,698 --> 00:50:08,614
Prudence is not
your strong point.

704
00:50:08,657 --> 00:50:11,399
This I have never heard.

705
00:50:11,443 --> 00:50:13,662
Why do you say this?

706
00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:17,492
Hmm.

707
00:50:24,412 --> 00:50:25,892
You must understand

708
00:50:25,935 --> 00:50:29,200
that I"m not marrying you
for your money.

709
00:50:29,243 --> 00:50:31,332
I"m marrying you
because you tell me

710
00:50:31,376 --> 00:50:32,812
you love me at first sight.

711
00:50:34,466 --> 00:50:36,946
And because at first sight,
I love you.

712
00:50:38,948 --> 00:50:40,515
You haven"t slept.

713
00:50:40,559 --> 00:50:41,995
How can I sleep

714
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,477
when I"m thinking of our future?

715
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,435
Let"s go somewhere
for breakfast.

716
00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:48,479
First...

717
00:50:50,134 --> 00:50:52,179
tell me...

718
00:50:52,223 --> 00:50:54,312
you love me.

719
00:50:54,355 --> 00:50:56,227
I love you.

720
00:50:56,270 --> 00:50:59,534
Is this why you marry me?

721
00:50:59,578 --> 00:51:02,320
For love?

722
00:51:02,363 --> 00:51:04,496
What other reason
could there be?

723
00:51:04,539 --> 00:51:06,802
Sorry for my breath.

724
00:51:06,846 --> 00:51:09,718
Tell me what you love most
about me.

725
00:51:09,762 --> 00:51:11,416
Your sense of reality.

726
00:51:11,459 --> 00:51:14,506
No, you must not love me
for my sense of reality.

727
00:51:14,549 --> 00:51:16,160
You must love me for myself.

728
00:51:17,509 --> 00:51:19,685
Tell me all the reasons
you love me.

729
00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:21,078
Yeah, at breakfast.

730
00:51:21,121 --> 00:51:22,905
No, no, no.

731
00:51:22,949 --> 00:51:24,124
Now.

732
00:51:24,168 --> 00:51:26,822
I cannot marry a man

733
00:51:26,866 --> 00:51:29,086
who I"ve only just met

734
00:51:29,129 --> 00:51:33,960
and risk my... happiness,
my life,

735
00:51:34,003 --> 00:51:37,572
by making... the wrong choice.

736
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:41,315
I must be sure.

737
00:51:44,188 --> 00:51:47,147
"You cannot trust Czech police
to understand anything.

738
00:51:47,191 --> 00:51:51,630
Even in Czech, you must speak
clearly and slow and loud."

739
00:51:51,673 --> 00:51:54,154
They are so stupid.

740
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,853
I love your wit.

741
00:51:58,898 --> 00:52:00,204
My beauty.

742
00:52:00,247 --> 00:52:02,554
- I love your beauty.
- My flesh.

743
00:52:02,597 --> 00:52:04,208
I love your flesh.

744
00:52:05,252 --> 00:52:09,169
You love when we make love.

745
00:52:09,213 --> 00:52:10,736
Indescribably.

746
00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:14,087
Clearly.

747
00:52:14,131 --> 00:52:17,830
What means "indescribably,"
darling?

748
00:52:17,873 --> 00:52:20,180
More than words can say.

749
00:52:20,224 --> 00:52:23,879
It is much better fucking
than with American girls.

750
00:52:23,923 --> 00:52:25,272
It"s the best.

751
00:52:27,492 --> 00:52:28,710
Let"s go.

752
00:52:30,756 --> 00:52:31,974
Breakfast!

753
00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:42,115
Did you fuck anybody yet
in Czechoslovakia?

754
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:44,683
No, Olga, I haven"t,

755
00:52:44,726 --> 00:52:47,860
though a few people here
may yet fuck me.

756
00:52:47,903 --> 00:52:50,341
Do you know why they bug
these big hotels

757
00:52:50,384 --> 00:52:52,691
and always above the bed?

758
00:52:52,734 --> 00:52:53,779
Why?

759
00:52:53,822 --> 00:52:55,955
They listen
to foreigners fucking.

760
00:52:55,998 --> 00:53:00,916
They want to hear how women come
in different languages.

761
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,573
Zuckerman, teach me the words
that American girls say.

762
00:53:16,367 --> 00:53:18,282
- Just a moment.
- Grazie.

763
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:20,458
Good morning, sir.

764
00:53:20,501 --> 00:53:21,502
Excuse me.

765
00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:26,855
Speak English.
I want him to understand.

766
00:53:26,899 --> 00:53:29,554
I want him to hear
this insult in English.

767
00:53:31,817 --> 00:53:34,036
- What"s going on?
- Tell him.

768
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,169
Tell him what you want.

769
00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:39,390
Sir, the lady must show me
her identity card.

770
00:53:39,433 --> 00:53:40,913
It is regulation.

771
00:53:40,956 --> 00:53:42,784
Why is it a regulation?

772
00:53:42,828 --> 00:53:44,569
Tell him.

773
00:53:44,612 --> 00:53:48,007
Foreign guests must register
with a passport.

774
00:53:48,050 --> 00:53:50,488
Czech citizen must show
an identity card

775
00:53:50,531 --> 00:53:51,750
if they visit the room.

776
00:53:51,793 --> 00:53:53,926
Except if the Czech
is a prostitute.

777
00:53:53,969 --> 00:53:56,537
Then she doesn"t have to show
anything but money.

778
00:53:56,581 --> 00:54:00,454
All right, here,
I am a prostitute.

779
00:54:00,498 --> 00:54:01,498
Here.

780
00:54:03,283 --> 00:54:05,154
Here are 50 kroner.

781
00:54:05,198 --> 00:54:06,939
Leave us in peace.

782
00:54:06,982 --> 00:54:08,157
What are you doing?

783
00:54:08,201 --> 00:54:09,333
- Okay.
- Here.

784
00:54:09,376 --> 00:54:11,248
Oh, here is a hundred.

785
00:54:12,510 --> 00:54:15,687
I need an identity card
from madam, please.

786
00:54:16,731 --> 00:54:19,212
You know very well who I am.

787
00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:23,042
I must register your number
of identity card

788
00:54:23,085 --> 00:54:25,523
in my ledger, madam.

789
00:54:25,566 --> 00:54:27,089
Tell me, please,

790
00:54:27,133 --> 00:54:29,048
why do you embarrass me
like that

791
00:54:29,091 --> 00:54:31,355
in front
of my prospective husband?

792
00:54:31,398 --> 00:54:34,836
Why do you try to make me
ashamed of my nationality

793
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,795
in front of the man I love?

794
00:54:36,838 --> 00:54:40,320
Look at him,
look at how he dresses.

795
00:54:40,364 --> 00:54:42,714
Look on his trousers.

796
00:54:42,757 --> 00:54:44,368
He has buttons.

797
00:54:44,411 --> 00:54:46,718
And not a little zipper
like you.

798
00:54:46,761 --> 00:54:50,722
Why do you try to give
such a man second thoughts

799
00:54:50,765 --> 00:54:52,550
about marrying a Czech woman?

800
00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:58,295
I wish only to see
her identity card, sir.

801
00:54:58,338 --> 00:54:59,861
I will return it immediately.

802
00:54:59,905 --> 00:55:01,602
Olga, enough, enough.

803
00:55:01,646 --> 00:55:02,690
Do you see him?

804
00:55:02,734 --> 00:55:04,518
Now he"s disgusted.

805
00:55:04,562 --> 00:55:06,215
Now he"s thinking,

806
00:55:06,259 --> 00:55:10,307
"Where are the fine
old European manners?"

807
00:55:10,350 --> 00:55:14,354
Madam, I will have to ask you
to remain here

808
00:55:14,398 --> 00:55:17,575
while I report you for failing
to show your identity card.

809
00:55:17,618 --> 00:55:20,360
Do that.
Do that.

810
00:55:20,404 --> 00:55:23,232
And I will report you
for your breach of etiquette

811
00:55:23,276 --> 00:55:25,670
toward a lady
in a civilized country.

812
00:55:25,713 --> 00:55:27,802
We will see
which one they put in jail.

813
00:55:27,846 --> 00:55:28,803
Calm down.

814
00:55:28,847 --> 00:55:29,978
Show him the god damn card.

815
00:55:30,022 --> 00:55:30,979
Go.

816
00:55:31,023 --> 00:55:32,633
Call the police, please.

817
00:55:32,677 --> 00:55:34,418
Call the authorities
this minute.

818
00:55:34,461 --> 00:55:38,335
In the meantime, we are going
to have our breakfast.

819
00:55:38,378 --> 00:55:39,727
Come my dear one, my darling.

820
00:55:39,771 --> 00:55:41,512
Come.

821
00:55:41,555 --> 00:55:42,817
- Sir?
- Yes?

822
00:55:42,861 --> 00:55:44,036
There is message for you.

823
00:55:45,167 --> 00:55:47,126
Thank you.

824
00:55:47,169 --> 00:55:48,345
Right.

825
00:55:52,174 --> 00:55:54,089
"Mr. Zuckerman,
I"m a Czech student

826
00:55:54,133 --> 00:55:56,309
with a deep interest
in your writing.

827
00:55:56,353 --> 00:55:58,180
I need to talk to you urgently.

828
00:55:58,224 --> 00:55:59,573
Please leave word at the desk

829
00:55:59,617 --> 00:56:00,792
when I can come.

830
00:56:00,835 --> 00:56:04,012
Yours most respectfully,
Oldrich Hrobek."

831
00:56:16,677 --> 00:56:18,810
No, I don"t like this table.

832
00:56:18,853 --> 00:56:20,420
We will sit here.

833
00:56:20,464 --> 00:56:23,423
I"m sorry, you can sit
over there by the window.

834
00:56:23,467 --> 00:56:25,120
This table is reserved.

835
00:56:25,164 --> 00:56:26,208
For breakfast?

836
00:56:26,252 --> 00:56:27,732
That"s a fucking lie.

837
00:56:27,775 --> 00:56:29,342
This honored guest
from abroad and I

838
00:56:29,386 --> 00:56:32,998
have the right not to sit
where we do not like it.

839
00:56:33,041 --> 00:56:34,608
Bon appétit.

840
00:56:38,264 --> 00:56:39,265
Sorry.

841
00:56:42,094 --> 00:56:43,487
So what now?

842
00:56:43,530 --> 00:56:45,271
Olga, tell me,
what"s coming next.

843
00:56:45,314 --> 00:56:47,839
I want eggs, poached eggs.

844
00:56:47,882 --> 00:56:49,841
If I don"t eat, I will faint.

845
00:56:49,884 --> 00:56:51,558
Tell me, what was wrong
with the first table?

846
00:56:51,582 --> 00:56:52,974
Bugged.

847
00:56:53,018 --> 00:56:54,498
Probably all are bugged.

848
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:56,108
Fuck it, I"m too weak.

849
00:56:56,151 --> 00:56:57,501
Fuck the whole thing.

850
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,896
What happened to you last night?

851
00:57:01,940 --> 00:57:03,158
Call the waiter, please.

852
00:57:03,202 --> 00:57:04,551
I"m going to faint.

853
00:57:05,944 --> 00:57:07,424
I"m feeling sick.

854
00:57:09,687 --> 00:57:12,472
I"m going to the loo to be sick.

855
00:57:30,969 --> 00:57:33,362
Mr. Zuckerman, please.

856
00:57:33,406 --> 00:57:34,514
- Yeah?
- I have tried to reach you

857
00:57:34,538 --> 00:57:35,756
just now in your room.

858
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:37,366
I am Oldrich Hrobek.

859
00:57:37,410 --> 00:57:39,151
You have received my note?

860
00:57:39,194 --> 00:57:40,892
Yes, just a minute ago.

861
00:57:40,935 --> 00:57:42,894
You must not stay in Prague.

862
00:57:42,937 --> 00:57:44,175
If you do not leave immediately,

863
00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:46,245
the authorities will harm you.

864
00:57:47,507 --> 00:57:48,813
What?

865
00:57:48,856 --> 00:57:49,901
Who wants to harm me?

866
00:57:49,944 --> 00:57:51,182
How do you...
How do you know that?

867
00:57:51,206 --> 00:57:52,991
They are building a case.

868
00:57:53,034 --> 00:57:54,949
I studied at Charles University.

869
00:57:54,993 --> 00:57:57,474
They forbade me to write
my thesis about you.

870
00:57:57,517 --> 00:58:00,868
They questioned my professor,
they questioned me.

871
00:58:00,912 --> 00:58:03,610
Building what case?
I just... I just got here.

872
00:58:03,654 --> 00:58:06,439
They told me
you are here for espionage.

873
00:58:07,919 --> 00:58:10,051
What? For espionage?

874
00:58:10,095 --> 00:58:11,923
You must leave today.

875
00:58:11,966 --> 00:58:13,838
I"m an American citizen.

876
00:58:13,881 --> 00:58:15,361
That doesn"t mean anything.

877
00:58:15,404 --> 00:58:17,276
This is what the police
have told me.

878
00:58:17,319 --> 00:58:20,148
Many, many arrests
are going to be made.

879
00:58:20,192 --> 00:58:22,281
- Because of me?
- Including you.

880
00:58:25,153 --> 00:58:27,329
Maybe they"re just
trying to scare you.

881
00:58:27,373 --> 00:58:28,853
Mr. Zuckerman,
there is more.

882
00:58:28,896 --> 00:58:30,289
If you go to the train station,

883
00:58:30,332 --> 00:58:32,073
I"ll meet you in an hour.

884
00:58:32,117 --> 00:58:33,814
It is at the top
on the main street,

885
00:58:33,858 --> 00:58:35,990
just to the left.

886
00:58:36,034 --> 00:58:39,037
Don"t trust anyone.

887
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,299
Are you sure about all this?

888
00:58:40,342 --> 00:58:41,779
It"s an honor to meet you.

889
00:58:41,822 --> 00:58:44,521
I"m sorry I interrupted,
but I am a silly fan.

890
00:58:44,564 --> 00:58:45,739
Goodbye, sir.

891
00:59:23,690 --> 00:59:25,213
What a country.

892
00:59:25,257 --> 00:59:26,998
You cannot even throw up
in the loo

893
00:59:27,041 --> 00:59:30,871
that someone does not write
a report about it.

894
00:59:30,915 --> 00:59:35,180
Okay, I want
to have my breakfast now

895
00:59:35,223 --> 00:59:37,356
with my international writer.

896
00:59:37,399 --> 00:59:38,792
I"m hungry.

897
00:59:38,836 --> 00:59:40,707
Why don"t we go somewhere else?

898
00:59:40,751 --> 00:59:43,754
I want to talk to you
about something serious.

899
00:59:43,797 --> 00:59:45,407
What will you have?

900
00:59:45,451 --> 00:59:47,192
Poached eggs for two, coffee,

901
00:59:47,235 --> 00:59:50,021
and a cigar for the gentleman.

902
00:59:50,064 --> 00:59:52,066
Domestic or Cuban?

903
00:59:52,110 --> 00:59:54,721
Cuban, of course.

904
00:59:54,765 --> 00:59:57,115
Olga, I smoke a cigar
once every decade.

905
00:59:57,158 --> 00:59:59,639
You must here.

906
00:59:59,683 --> 01:00:01,859
I was in the wine bar last night

907
01:00:01,902 --> 01:00:04,470
because you would not
be with me.

908
01:00:04,513 --> 01:00:07,560
After some time,
two men come up to me

909
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:09,736
and start buying me drinks.

910
01:00:09,780 --> 01:00:11,999
We drink and then they say,

911
01:00:12,043 --> 01:00:14,523
"How would you like
to take a ride?"

912
01:00:14,567 --> 01:00:18,397
Not to question me
but just to have a good time.

913
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,355
I thought, "Don" t be afraid.

914
01:00:20,399 --> 01:00:23,358
Don"t show them
that you are afraid."

915
01:00:23,402 --> 01:00:25,622
So I said,
"Let"s go, boys."

916
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:23,375
It slowly dawns on me
that something is wrong here.

917
01:01:23,418 --> 01:01:25,943
They cannot even wait
for me to drink.

918
01:01:37,737 --> 01:01:39,173
One of them takes out his prick

919
01:01:39,217 --> 01:01:41,915
and tries to pull me down on it.

920
01:01:41,959 --> 01:01:45,049
I feel him with my hand
and I say to him,

921
01:01:45,092 --> 01:01:48,095
"But this is technically
impossible with this.

922
01:01:48,139 --> 01:01:50,532
You could never come
with something so soft."

923
01:02:02,936 --> 01:02:04,677
Ah... ah.

924
01:02:14,818 --> 01:02:16,036
Huh?

925
01:02:52,203 --> 01:02:53,465
Thank you.

926
01:02:53,508 --> 01:02:57,686
Probably they got scared
they would be in for it.

927
01:02:57,730 --> 01:03:01,125
If their little instruments
had worked,

928
01:03:01,168 --> 01:03:03,823
it may have turned out badly.

929
01:03:04,868 --> 01:03:07,784
Ah, you"re playing fire, Olga.

930
01:03:12,005 --> 01:03:13,005
Light up.

931
01:03:22,624 --> 01:03:27,194
Why am I smoking
so obediently at 8:30 a.m.?

932
01:03:27,238 --> 01:03:29,240
I don"t feel like smoking
at all.

933
01:03:29,283 --> 01:03:31,503
You must finish
the cigar, Zuckerman.

934
01:03:44,298 --> 01:03:48,085
I will finish the cigar

935
01:03:48,128 --> 01:03:49,477
if you give me the stories

936
01:03:49,521 --> 01:03:52,132
that Sisovsk left behind.

937
01:03:52,176 --> 01:03:54,221
I met your husband in New York.

938
01:03:54,265 --> 01:03:56,441
He asked me to come get
the stories.

939
01:04:02,751 --> 01:04:03,840
What?

940
01:04:04,971 --> 01:04:06,146
What?

941
01:04:08,496 --> 01:04:10,150
That swine.

942
01:04:10,194 --> 01:04:11,475
Look, I didn"t want
to spring this on you

943
01:04:11,499 --> 01:04:13,371
out of the blue, Olga,
but I have been advised

944
01:04:13,414 --> 01:04:15,329
not the hang around
much longer in this country.

945
01:04:15,373 --> 01:04:18,419
Wait, you, uh...

946
01:04:18,463 --> 01:04:20,421
You met that monster
in New York?

947
01:04:21,248 --> 01:04:22,380
Yes.

948
01:04:25,252 --> 01:04:27,515
And his ingénue?

949
01:04:27,559 --> 01:04:29,561
You have met her too?

950
01:04:33,957 --> 01:04:35,523
Did she tell you
how much she suffers

951
01:04:35,567 --> 01:04:39,658
from all the men at her feet?

952
01:04:39,701 --> 01:04:43,618
Did he tell you with her
it"s never boring lovemaking

953
01:04:43,662 --> 01:04:47,361
because she"s fragile
like a virgin?

954
01:04:50,190 --> 01:04:53,280
So, this is why you are here.

955
01:04:53,324 --> 01:04:55,804
Not for Kafka, but for him.

956
01:04:58,982 --> 01:05:02,376
I"m taking those stories
to America.

957
01:05:02,420 --> 01:05:05,727
So he can make money
out of his dead father.

958
01:05:05,771 --> 01:05:08,121
So he can buy jewelry for her.

959
01:05:08,165 --> 01:05:10,558
Now in New York too.

960
01:05:10,602 --> 01:05:12,734
He left us all for that whore.

961
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:15,694
What"s she doing in New York?

962
01:05:15,737 --> 01:05:19,089
Still playing
Nina in The Seagull?

963
01:05:19,132 --> 01:05:21,221
- I wouldn"t think so.
- Why not?

964
01:05:21,265 --> 01:05:24,529
Our leading Czech actress
who ages but never grows up.

965
01:05:24,572 --> 01:05:27,314
Poor little star,
always in tears.

966
01:05:30,578 --> 01:05:34,408
How much did he flatter you
to make you fall for it?

967
01:05:39,413 --> 01:05:41,850
So that"s why you're here.

968
01:05:44,679 --> 01:05:48,335
Because you took pity
on two homeless Czechs.

969
01:05:48,379 --> 01:05:50,555
Take pity on me.

970
01:05:50,598 --> 01:05:54,994
I am at home and it is worse.

971
01:05:55,038 --> 01:05:56,561
I see that.

972
01:05:56,604 --> 01:05:59,912
And you believe
all those stories he tells?

973
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,348
I did.

974
01:06:01,392 --> 01:06:03,481
Only people like you
can believe them.

975
01:06:03,524 --> 01:06:04,786
Let me have those manuscripts.

976
01:06:04,830 --> 01:06:06,150
What good do they do
anybody here?

977
01:06:07,093 --> 01:06:08,573
Olga...

978
01:06:08,616 --> 01:06:11,010
The good of not being there

979
01:06:11,054 --> 01:06:13,970
doing good for him
and this terrible actress.

980
01:06:14,013 --> 01:06:17,408
You cannot even hear her
if you sit 10 rows back.

981
01:06:17,451 --> 01:06:20,150
You can never hear her.

982
01:06:20,193 --> 01:06:22,282
She"s stinking actress
who has ruined Chekhov

983
01:06:22,326 --> 01:06:24,893
for Prague
for last hundred years.

984
01:06:24,937 --> 01:06:29,072
For all her stinkin"
sensitive poses.

985
01:06:29,115 --> 01:06:31,204
And now she will ruin Chekhov
for New York.

986
01:06:33,424 --> 01:06:37,297
So... he wants to live off
of his dead father?

987
01:06:37,341 --> 01:06:38,777
The hell with him.

988
01:06:38,820 --> 01:06:40,822
Let him live off of his actress,

989
01:06:40,866 --> 01:06:43,042
if anybody can even hear her.

990
01:06:44,261 --> 01:06:45,349
Olga!

991
01:06:46,959 --> 01:06:48,178
Olga!

992
01:08:27,233 --> 01:08:30,541
Bolotka told me
half a million people

993
01:08:30,584 --> 01:08:32,717
have been fired from their jobs.

994
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:35,633
I imagine Styron washing glasses

995
01:08:35,676 --> 01:08:38,331
in a Penn Station barroom.

996
01:08:38,375 --> 01:08:41,769
Susan Sontag wrapping buns
at a Broadway bakery.

997
01:08:44,511 --> 01:08:49,777
I look at the filthy floor
and I see myself sweeping it.

998
01:11:33,027 --> 01:11:34,855
I"m sorry I'm late, Rudolf.

999
01:11:34,899 --> 01:11:37,205
Something happened.
I was followed.

1000
01:11:37,249 --> 01:11:40,034
I... I shook him
before I got here.

1001
01:11:40,078 --> 01:11:41,708
I hope I wasn"t wrong
to come here anyway.

1002
01:11:41,732 --> 01:11:43,081
What happened?

1003
01:11:43,124 --> 01:11:45,388
A student came to visit me
at the hotel.

1004
01:11:45,431 --> 01:11:46,867
He gave me this note.

1005
01:11:46,911 --> 01:11:48,086
He was terrified,

1006
01:11:48,129 --> 01:11:50,306
he was whispering
that I was in danger,

1007
01:11:50,349 --> 01:11:54,135
that he and his professor
were questioned by the police.

1008
01:11:54,179 --> 01:11:55,485
And he asked me to meet him.

1009
01:11:55,528 --> 01:11:57,071
It occurred to me
that he might also be a cop,

1010
01:11:57,095 --> 01:11:58,923
but then I saw him
getting arrested

1011
01:11:58,966 --> 01:12:00,141
at the train station.

1012
01:12:01,534 --> 01:12:03,623
They were only frightening him
and his teacher.

1013
01:12:05,059 --> 01:12:08,106
If so, they succeeded

1014
01:12:08,149 --> 01:12:10,195
and they scared
the shit out of me too.

1015
01:12:11,283 --> 01:12:14,155
This is to calm down
and warm up.

1016
01:12:15,374 --> 01:12:16,897
It"s the law of power,

1017
01:12:16,941 --> 01:12:19,422
the spreading
of general distrust.

1018
01:12:19,465 --> 01:12:22,033
The basic techniques
of adjusting people.

1019
01:12:22,076 --> 01:12:24,296
But they cannot touch you.

1020
01:12:27,473 --> 01:12:28,822
Well, if you"re right,

1021
01:12:28,866 --> 01:12:30,084
then by coming to my hotel

1022
01:12:30,128 --> 01:12:32,348
the student made things
much worse for himself

1023
01:12:32,391 --> 01:12:34,524
and for his teacher too.

1024
01:12:34,567 --> 01:12:36,221
I can"t say.

1025
01:12:36,264 --> 01:12:39,050
Both options could be true.

1026
01:12:39,093 --> 01:12:43,054
He could be a provocateur
and his arrest

1027
01:12:43,097 --> 01:12:45,752
maybe just play acting for you.

1028
01:12:45,796 --> 01:12:48,015
Or he can be a naive student.

1029
01:12:50,104 --> 01:12:51,279
Jesus Christ.

1030
01:12:51,323 --> 01:12:52,629
Mm!

1031
01:12:52,672 --> 01:12:55,196
Don"t be tender
about his martyr complex.

1032
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:58,461
They have to let
the boy go anyway.

1033
01:12:58,504 --> 01:13:01,420
You know, of course
the hotel clerk is a cop.

1034
01:13:01,464 --> 01:13:03,683
Everyone is in that hotel.

1035
01:13:03,727 --> 01:13:07,078
But the police
are like literary critics.

1036
01:13:07,121 --> 01:13:10,081
The little they see
they get mostly wrong.

1037
01:13:10,124 --> 01:13:14,346
And our literary criticism
is police criticism.

1038
01:13:16,435 --> 01:13:17,871
So, what...

1039
01:13:17,915 --> 01:13:20,657
So we"re not gonna do anything
about this warning?

1040
01:13:22,223 --> 01:13:23,703
I"m relying on you.

1041
01:13:23,747 --> 01:13:25,705
Rudolf,
when you come to New York,

1042
01:13:25,749 --> 01:13:27,553
I"ll see that you're
not mugged in Central Park

1043
01:13:27,577 --> 01:13:29,796
by going to take a leak
at 3:00 a.m.

1044
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,930
I expect the same consideration
from you here.

1045
01:13:32,973 --> 01:13:34,758
I mean, am I in danger?

1046
01:13:34,801 --> 01:13:36,934
Forget the student, Nathan.

1047
01:13:36,977 --> 01:13:39,371
Anything you want
to see in Prague,

1048
01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:41,373
anything you want to do
in Prague,

1049
01:13:41,417 --> 01:13:43,462
anyone you want to fuck
in Prague,

1050
01:13:43,506 --> 01:13:46,378
you come to me
and I"ll arrange it.

1051
01:13:47,684 --> 01:13:51,688
You know, I hesitate
to say Prague is gay,

1052
01:13:51,731 --> 01:13:56,954
but sometimes these days
could be pretty amusing.

1053
01:14:00,523 --> 01:14:02,916
Do you think you can find out
where I can see Olga tonight?

1054
01:14:04,527 --> 01:14:05,527
Okay.

1055
01:14:24,198 --> 01:14:25,765
Hello, Olga.

1056
01:14:29,682 --> 01:14:31,205
This is my almost fiancé,

1057
01:14:31,249 --> 01:14:33,904
but he can only write about sex.

1058
01:14:33,947 --> 01:14:37,081
He is an American agent
with no license to fuck.

1059
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,565
Olga, can I...
Can I ask you to dance?

1060
01:14:42,608 --> 01:14:44,697
I mean, if your friends
don"t mind.

1061
01:15:28,262 --> 01:15:29,829
If you keep shouting
that I"m an agent,

1062
01:15:29,873 --> 01:15:32,658
I"m gonna wake up
in jail tomorrow.

1063
01:15:32,702 --> 01:15:34,747
If you don"t want
to wake up with me,

1064
01:15:34,791 --> 01:15:36,401
then you wake up in a jail.

1065
01:15:38,751 --> 01:15:43,451
Okay, let"s both stop
playing games, okay?

1066
01:15:43,495 --> 01:15:46,629
Why do you care
about those stories so much?

1067
01:15:46,672 --> 01:15:49,588
Because I"m a foolish American.

1068
01:15:49,632 --> 01:15:52,373
I don"t even know
if the stories are any good.

1069
01:15:53,636 --> 01:15:54,680
So?

1070
01:15:56,377 --> 01:15:58,031
So maybe I just want
to save something

1071
01:15:58,075 --> 01:16:00,599
from the Old World.

1072
01:16:00,643 --> 01:16:01,687
I see.

1073
01:16:01,731 --> 01:16:03,297
You want to be a hero.

1074
01:16:04,690 --> 01:16:07,780
No, I really don"t.

1075
01:16:07,824 --> 01:16:09,652
So you want to succeed?

1076
01:16:11,697 --> 01:16:14,613
Yes, yes, of course I do.

1077
01:16:14,657 --> 01:16:15,701
Succeed then.

1078
01:16:15,745 --> 01:16:16,833
Wait, wait.

1079
01:16:16,876 --> 01:16:18,574
Olga, wait.

1080
01:16:18,617 --> 01:16:19,662
Listen.

1081
01:16:21,228 --> 01:16:23,206
All right, maybe there is
something more to it, okay?

1082
01:16:23,230 --> 01:16:24,449
Maybe I...

1083
01:16:27,321 --> 01:16:30,324
Maybe I feel like I have a debt.

1084
01:16:33,284 --> 01:16:36,853
You have a weak spot
for the persecuted.

1085
01:16:36,896 --> 01:16:38,637
Yes, I do.

1086
01:16:38,681 --> 01:16:41,422
So you have a hang-up

1087
01:16:41,466 --> 01:16:43,599
that you haven"t
suffered enough.

1088
01:16:46,166 --> 01:16:50,344
I"m not the one to nurse you
through your hang-ups.

1089
01:17:01,529 --> 01:17:02,966
All right.

1090
01:17:21,593 --> 01:17:23,551
Prague fascinated me.

1091
01:17:23,595 --> 01:17:25,249
After one day,
it seemed to me a city

1092
01:17:25,292 --> 01:17:27,338
that I"d known all my life.

1093
01:17:27,381 --> 01:17:30,471
This is the city I imagined
during the war"s worst years,

1094
01:17:30,515 --> 01:17:32,822
when as a nine-year-old
Hebrew school student

1095
01:17:32,865 --> 01:17:35,651
I would solicit
for the Jewish National Fund.

1096
01:17:35,694 --> 01:17:40,438
This is the city I imagined
the Jews should acquire one day.

1097
01:17:40,481 --> 01:17:42,570
A city with
soot-blackened bridges,

1098
01:17:42,614 --> 01:17:44,268
shadowy, cramped streets,

1099
01:17:44,311 --> 01:17:48,707
where one would hear
endless stories being told.

1100
01:17:48,751 --> 01:17:53,320
Funny tales and anxious stories
of suffering and flight.

1101
01:17:53,364 --> 01:17:55,671
Stories of fantastic endurance

1102
01:17:55,714 --> 01:17:57,847
and of pitiful collapse.

1103
01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:25,222
I thought you would show up.

1104
01:18:26,658 --> 01:18:27,790
Come in.

1105
01:18:28,834 --> 01:18:30,488
Take off your coat.

1106
01:18:39,236 --> 01:18:41,151
It"s robe day today.

1107
01:18:42,543 --> 01:18:44,720
Do you want to join?

1108
01:18:44,763 --> 01:18:47,244
Uh, thank you but no.

1109
01:18:47,287 --> 01:18:49,420
Uh, I came to see you.

1110
01:18:50,943 --> 01:18:52,031
Come in.

1111
01:19:15,794 --> 01:19:17,970
You"re afraid to marry
an alcoholic.

1112
01:19:19,624 --> 01:19:21,582
I would love you so much
I wouldn"t drink.

1113
01:19:23,410 --> 01:19:27,675
And you"d give me
the stories as your dowry.

1114
01:19:27,719 --> 01:19:28,719
Maybe.

1115
01:19:30,374 --> 01:19:31,941
Where are the stories?

1116
01:19:31,984 --> 01:19:33,551
Oh, I don"t know.

1117
01:19:37,468 --> 01:19:39,731
Sisovsk left them with you.

1118
01:19:39,775 --> 01:19:41,820
And when his mother came
to try to get them,

1119
01:19:41,864 --> 01:19:45,084
you showed her photographs
of his mistresses.

1120
01:19:45,128 --> 01:19:46,869
Oh, poor mother.

1121
01:19:46,912 --> 01:19:49,219
She didn"t like them very much.

1122
01:19:49,262 --> 01:19:51,656
They were pictures
of their cunts.

1123
01:19:51,699 --> 01:19:53,005
Hm.

1124
01:19:53,049 --> 01:19:55,878
Do you think they were
so different from mine?

1125
01:19:55,921 --> 01:19:58,532
Do you think theirs
were prettier?

1126
01:19:59,490 --> 01:20:00,665
Look.

1127
01:20:04,669 --> 01:20:06,802
Theirs were exactly the same.

1128
01:20:10,283 --> 01:20:12,764
You have the stories here.

1129
01:20:12,808 --> 01:20:14,810
Let"s go to the American Embassy

1130
01:20:14,853 --> 01:20:16,550
and get married.

1131
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:19,597
And then you"ll give me
the stories.

1132
01:20:20,859 --> 01:20:21,904
More than likely.

1133
01:20:21,947 --> 01:20:24,341
Mm, I want them now.

1134
01:20:24,384 --> 01:20:25,385
I"m asking you again.

1135
01:20:25,429 --> 01:20:27,910
What are you getting out of it?

1136
01:20:27,953 --> 01:20:31,043
A headache and a look
under your robe.

1137
01:20:31,087 --> 01:20:34,133
So you"re doing it
for idealistic reasons.

1138
01:20:34,177 --> 01:20:36,005
You do it for literature.

1139
01:20:36,048 --> 01:20:37,441
For altruism.

1140
01:20:37,484 --> 01:20:40,357
You are a great American,
great humanitarian.

1141
01:20:43,316 --> 01:20:45,275
I"ll give you $10,000.

1142
01:20:48,539 --> 01:20:49,714
Hm.

1143
01:20:51,629 --> 01:20:53,152
I could use $10,000.

1144
01:20:53,196 --> 01:20:54,806
Mm-hm.

1145
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:58,854
But there is no amount of money
you could give me.

1146
01:21:02,161 --> 01:21:05,121
And you don"t care
about literature.

1147
01:21:05,164 --> 01:21:08,385
I love literature,
but not as much as I love

1148
01:21:08,428 --> 01:21:11,257
to keep these things
from Sisovsk.

1149
01:21:11,301 --> 01:21:13,129
Do you really think
that I"m going to give you

1150
01:21:13,172 --> 01:21:16,306
the stories
so he can keep her in jewels?

1151
01:21:18,047 --> 01:21:19,875
You really think
that in New York

1152
01:21:19,918 --> 01:21:21,267
he"s gonna publish the stories

1153
01:21:21,311 --> 01:21:24,357
under his father"s name?

1154
01:21:24,401 --> 01:21:26,577
- Why shouldn"t he?
- Zuckerman.

1155
01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:29,232
If you would make as great
a sacrifice for literature

1156
01:21:29,275 --> 01:21:31,103
as you expect of me,

1157
01:21:31,147 --> 01:21:33,453
we would be married
20 minutes already.

1158
01:21:45,813 --> 01:21:46,814
Okay.

1159
01:21:47,859 --> 01:21:48,904
$15,000.

1160
01:21:48,947 --> 01:21:51,819
Oh, do you find me
so unattractive?

1161
01:21:57,825 --> 01:21:58,957
Wow.

1162
01:22:05,224 --> 01:22:09,098
You are an impressive
character, Olga.

1163
01:22:12,057 --> 01:22:15,060
In your own way,
you are fighting to live.

1164
01:22:21,371 --> 01:22:23,460
Look, dear one.

1165
01:22:23,503 --> 01:22:25,418
You want a ticket
out of Czechoslovakia.

1166
01:22:25,462 --> 01:22:27,377
Mm.

1167
01:22:27,420 --> 01:22:30,293
Maybe I want you, dear one.

1168
01:22:32,034 --> 01:22:34,166
What if I get someone
to marry you?

1169
01:22:35,863 --> 01:22:38,649
Am I so terrible
that I can only marry

1170
01:22:38,692 --> 01:22:41,521
one of your queer friends?

1171
01:22:41,565 --> 01:22:42,653
Fuck.

1172
01:22:55,057 --> 01:22:57,363
How do I wrest
these stories from you?

1173
01:22:58,756 --> 01:23:02,325
Olga, just... just tell me.

1174
01:23:08,070 --> 01:23:09,897
Is whatever Sisovsk did
so terrible

1175
01:23:09,941 --> 01:23:12,813
that his dead father
must suffer too?

1176
01:23:12,857 --> 01:23:14,467
Oh, believe me.

1177
01:23:14,511 --> 01:23:16,643
When the stories are published
without his name,

1178
01:23:16,687 --> 01:23:18,602
the father will suffer more.

1179
01:23:20,517 --> 01:23:23,041
Okay, suppose
that doesn"t happen.

1180
01:23:23,085 --> 01:23:25,217
Suppose I make that impossible.

1181
01:23:25,261 --> 01:23:27,393
You will outtrick Zdenek?

1182
01:23:27,437 --> 01:23:29,134
I will contact
The New York Times

1183
01:23:29,178 --> 01:23:31,745
and I will tell them
the whole story.

1184
01:23:32,877 --> 01:23:36,750
So that"s what
you get out of it.

1185
01:23:36,794 --> 01:23:39,884
That"s your idealism.

1186
01:23:39,927 --> 01:23:41,494
That marvelous Zuckerman

1187
01:23:41,538 --> 01:23:43,757
brings from behind
the Iron Curtain

1188
01:23:43,801 --> 01:23:46,064
200 unpublished Yiddish stories

1189
01:23:46,108 --> 01:23:48,371
written by a victim
of a Nazi bullet.

1190
01:23:50,068 --> 01:23:53,724
You will be a hero
to all of the free world.

1191
01:23:53,767 --> 01:23:55,595
On top of your
millions of dollars

1192
01:23:55,639 --> 01:23:57,206
and millions of girls,

1193
01:23:57,249 --> 01:24:02,515
you will win the American Prize
for Idealism about Literature.

1194
01:24:02,559 --> 01:24:04,343
And what will happen to me?

1195
01:24:05,475 --> 01:24:06,911
You don"t know.

1196
01:24:06,954 --> 01:24:08,173
I"ll tell you.

1197
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:12,612
I will go to prison
for smuggling a manuscript

1198
01:24:12,656 --> 01:24:14,745
to the West.

1199
01:24:14,788 --> 01:24:17,313
They won"t know that the stories
came through you.

1200
01:24:22,013 --> 01:24:24,189
You get the idealism prize.

1201
01:24:24,233 --> 01:24:25,930
He gets the royalties.

1202
01:24:25,973 --> 01:24:27,584
She gets the jewelry.

1203
01:24:27,627 --> 01:24:30,935
And I get seven years
for the fuckin" sake

1204
01:24:30,978 --> 01:24:32,502
of literature.

1205
01:24:57,962 --> 01:24:59,790
You don"t have to give me money.

1206
01:25:03,663 --> 01:25:06,536
You don"t have to find a queer
to be my husband.

1207
01:25:07,667 --> 01:25:09,147
You don"t even have to fuck me

1208
01:25:09,191 --> 01:25:11,193
if I am such a revolting woman.

1209
01:25:12,237 --> 01:25:13,847
To fuck and to be fucked

1210
01:25:13,891 --> 01:25:16,372
is the only freedom
left in this country.

1211
01:25:28,819 --> 01:25:31,387
He can even print the story
in his own name,

1212
01:25:31,430 --> 01:25:32,953
your friend Sisovsk.

1213
01:25:32,997 --> 01:25:34,041
No.

1214
01:25:34,085 --> 01:25:35,347
I will never let that happen.

1215
01:25:35,391 --> 01:25:38,481
The hell with him,
the hell with everything.

1216
01:25:38,524 --> 01:25:41,658
He will flourish,
thanks to his dead father.

1217
01:25:41,701 --> 01:25:42,659
So will she.

1218
01:25:42,702 --> 01:25:45,488
And in return, I want nothing.

1219
01:25:49,056 --> 01:25:53,278
Only that when he asks,

1220
01:25:53,322 --> 01:25:54,975
"How much
did you have to give her?

1221
01:25:55,019 --> 01:25:57,195
How much money
and how many fucks?"

1222
01:25:58,849 --> 01:26:00,546
Tell him the truth.

1223
01:26:34,798 --> 01:26:36,060
Room 26, please.

1224
01:26:36,103 --> 01:26:37,409
Mr. Zuckerman.

1225
01:26:37,453 --> 01:26:39,368
26.

1226
01:26:39,411 --> 01:26:40,804
- Here you go.
- Thank you.

1227
01:26:40,847 --> 01:26:43,546
- Take care.
- Sir?

1228
01:26:43,589 --> 01:26:45,809
Hello, sir?

1229
01:26:45,852 --> 01:26:47,593
Sir?

1230
01:26:47,637 --> 01:26:48,942
Your coat.

1231
01:26:48,986 --> 01:26:49,943
What?

1232
01:26:52,163 --> 01:26:54,252
Oh, thank you.

1233
01:26:54,296 --> 01:26:56,080
- Goodbye.
- Bye.

1234
01:27:05,394 --> 01:27:06,438
Hey!

1235
01:27:06,482 --> 01:27:08,484
Hey, what is going on?

1236
01:27:08,527 --> 01:27:11,487
You can"t just unlock
the door yourself.

1237
01:27:11,530 --> 01:27:14,751
The gentlemen wish to examine
your belongings, sir.

1238
01:27:14,794 --> 01:27:16,100
Why?

1239
01:27:16,143 --> 01:27:18,494
They say somebody
has mislaid something

1240
01:27:18,537 --> 01:27:20,887
that you may have by mistake.

1241
01:27:28,068 --> 01:27:30,984
Gentlemen, my belongings
are none of your business.

1242
01:27:31,028 --> 01:27:32,682
I am afraid you are wrong.

1243
01:27:32,725 --> 01:27:35,075
That is precisely
their business.

1244
01:27:35,119 --> 01:27:37,687
And you, what"s your business?

1245
01:27:37,730 --> 01:27:41,517
I merely work
at the reception desk.

1246
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:47,174
It is not just intellectuals
who can be sent to the mines.

1247
01:27:47,218 --> 01:27:49,655
I demand to call
the U.S. Embassy.

1248
01:27:49,699 --> 01:27:52,267
You"d better
pack your bags, sir.

1249
01:27:56,706 --> 01:27:58,026
You will be driven
to the airport.

1250
01:28:00,753 --> 01:28:03,408
And put on the next flight
from Prague.

1251
01:28:03,452 --> 01:28:06,324
You are no longer welcome
in Czechoslovakia.

1252
01:28:06,368 --> 01:28:09,327
I want to speak
to the American Ambassador.

1253
01:28:09,371 --> 01:28:10,807
You can"t confiscate
my belongings

1254
01:28:10,850 --> 01:28:13,070
and there are no grounds
to expel me.

1255
01:28:13,113 --> 01:28:14,419
Sir.

1256
01:28:14,463 --> 01:28:16,595
These two gentlemen
have no trouble believing

1257
01:28:16,639 --> 01:28:20,643
that what they do
is right and necessary.

1258
01:28:20,686 --> 01:28:23,863
Brutally necessary.

1259
01:28:23,907 --> 01:28:25,996
I"m afraid
that any sort of delay

1260
01:28:26,039 --> 01:28:27,998
will cause them
to be much less lenient

1261
01:28:28,041 --> 01:28:29,913
than you would like.

1262
01:28:32,611 --> 01:28:34,787
Look.

1263
01:28:34,831 --> 01:28:37,616
That box contains stories
written by somebody

1264
01:28:37,660 --> 01:28:40,184
who"s been dead
for over 30 years.

1265
01:28:40,227 --> 01:28:45,189
It"s fiction from a world
that no longer even exists.

1266
01:28:45,232 --> 01:28:48,148
It is no possible threat
to anyone.

1267
01:28:48,192 --> 01:28:50,107
There is nothing a clerk
in a Prague hotel

1268
01:28:50,150 --> 01:28:54,459
can do for any writer,
living or dead.

1269
01:28:54,503 --> 01:28:56,853
Okay, for the third time,

1270
01:28:56,896 --> 01:28:58,420
I demand to speak
to the Embassy.

1271
01:28:58,463 --> 01:29:02,728
Sir, if you don"t
immediately pack your bags

1272
01:29:02,772 --> 01:29:04,643
and prepare to leave,

1273
01:29:04,687 --> 01:29:06,950
you will be taken to jail.

1274
01:29:08,647 --> 01:29:10,928
Well, how do I know you won"t
just take me to jail anyway?

1275
01:29:15,437 --> 01:29:20,442
I suppose you will have
to trust the gentlemen.

1276
01:29:29,146 --> 01:29:31,670
Ah, Mr. Zuckerman.

1277
01:29:31,714 --> 01:29:33,498
Will you be paying
by cash or check?

1278
01:29:35,195 --> 01:29:36,414
By check.

1279
01:29:40,636 --> 01:29:42,028
I trust everything was all right

1280
01:29:42,072 --> 01:29:45,815
and that your stay with us
was satisfactory.

1281
01:29:47,164 --> 01:29:48,513
Are you fucking kidding me?

1282
01:29:49,993 --> 01:29:51,516
Jesus.

1283
01:30:01,352 --> 01:30:04,616
Hey, hey, that is not necessary.

1284
01:30:04,660 --> 01:30:05,835
Hey.

1285
01:30:05,878 --> 01:30:07,402
What are you doing?

1286
01:30:11,275 --> 01:30:12,537
Hello, my suitcase?

1287
01:30:12,581 --> 01:30:14,931
Are you gonna put my bags
in the car, please?

1288
01:30:27,465 --> 01:30:31,295
Novak, Hiyam Novak.

1289
01:30:36,953 --> 01:30:39,346
Do you know Betty MacDonald?

1290
01:30:39,390 --> 01:30:42,741
Um, I... I don"t.

1291
01:30:42,785 --> 01:30:44,177
You don"t?

1292
01:30:45,570 --> 01:30:46,919
No.

1293
01:30:46,963 --> 01:30:49,487
You don"t know
Miss Betty MacDonald?

1294
01:30:49,531 --> 01:30:51,576
Well, now I"m guilty
of conspiring

1295
01:30:51,620 --> 01:30:53,143
against the Czech people
with somebody

1296
01:30:53,186 --> 01:30:56,407
named Betty MacDonald.

1297
01:30:56,451 --> 01:30:59,671
I"m sorry, I don't...
I don"t know her.

1298
01:30:59,715 --> 01:31:02,848
But she"s the author
of The Egg and I.

1299
01:31:05,068 --> 01:31:06,852
Ah.

1300
01:31:06,896 --> 01:31:10,813
Yes, uh, about, uh,
a farm, wasn"t it?

1301
01:31:10,856 --> 01:31:12,205
Yeah.

1302
01:31:12,249 --> 01:31:14,947
I haven"t read that
since I was a school boy.

1303
01:31:16,079 --> 01:31:18,255
But it is a masterpiece.

1304
01:31:19,735 --> 01:31:21,084
Ah.

1305
01:31:21,127 --> 01:31:22,520
Well, I can"t say
it"s considered

1306
01:31:22,564 --> 01:31:25,567
a masterpiece in America.

1307
01:31:25,610 --> 01:31:30,659
I"d be surprised
if anybody in America under 30

1308
01:31:30,702 --> 01:31:34,532
has even heard of The Egg and I.

1309
01:31:34,576 --> 01:31:37,013
I cannot believe it.

1310
01:31:37,056 --> 01:31:40,320
Well, it"s true.

1311
01:31:40,364 --> 01:31:41,496
It"s, uh...

1312
01:31:43,193 --> 01:31:46,718
Is this the way to the airport?

1313
01:31:46,762 --> 01:31:49,286
There is no paranoia here
about writers.

1314
01:31:49,329 --> 01:31:52,550
I didn"t say that there was.

1315
01:31:52,594 --> 01:31:54,465
I am a writer.

1316
01:31:54,509 --> 01:31:56,423
A successful writer.

1317
01:31:56,467 --> 01:31:58,687
Nobody is paranoid about me.

1318
01:32:00,036 --> 01:32:03,692
Ours is the most literate
country in Europe.

1319
01:32:03,735 --> 01:32:06,259
Our writers are loved.

1320
01:32:06,303 --> 01:32:10,046
The country looks to them
for moral leadership.

1321
01:32:14,050 --> 01:32:15,573
I am the Minister of Culture.

1322
01:32:20,839 --> 01:32:23,320
Well, it"s very kind of you,
Mr. Minister,

1323
01:32:23,363 --> 01:32:27,454
to see me out personally,
but, um...

1324
01:32:29,152 --> 01:32:31,371
This is the road to the airport?

1325
01:32:31,415 --> 01:32:34,287
Frankly, I don"t recognize...

1326
01:32:35,637 --> 01:32:37,769
You should have taken
the time to come see me

1327
01:32:37,813 --> 01:32:39,205
when you first arrived.

1328
01:32:40,729 --> 01:32:44,080
We would understand
that the ordinary Czech citizen

1329
01:32:44,123 --> 01:32:45,690
is nothing like
the sort of people

1330
01:32:45,734 --> 01:32:47,953
you have chosen to meet.

1331
01:32:47,997 --> 01:32:50,303
He does not behave like them

1332
01:32:50,347 --> 01:32:52,392
and he does not admire them.

1333
01:32:52,436 --> 01:32:53,655
Who are they?

1334
01:32:53,698 --> 01:32:55,613
Sexual perverts.

1335
01:32:55,657 --> 01:32:57,789
Alienated neurotics.

1336
01:32:57,833 --> 01:33:00,096
Bitter egomaniacs.

1337
01:33:00,139 --> 01:33:02,185
They seem to you courageous?

1338
01:33:02,228 --> 01:33:03,534
You find it thrilling,

1339
01:33:03,578 --> 01:33:07,190
the price they pay
for their great art?

1340
01:33:08,670 --> 01:33:13,065
At least their blessed Kafka
knew he was a misfit.

1341
01:33:13,109 --> 01:33:16,329
But these people,
incorrigible deviants.

1342
01:33:19,898 --> 01:33:22,074
Do you know what?

1343
01:33:22,118 --> 01:33:25,904
Comrade Brezhnev arranged
for our great reform leader

1344
01:33:25,948 --> 01:33:27,993
Dubcek in "68.

1345
01:33:28,037 --> 01:33:31,170
Brezhnev sent thousands
of troops to Prague

1346
01:33:31,214 --> 01:33:33,390
to bring Dubcek
back to his senses.

1347
01:33:36,611 --> 01:33:37,568
Get out.

1348
01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:38,700
What?

1349
01:33:38,743 --> 01:33:40,136
Hey!

1350
01:33:40,179 --> 01:33:43,095
Hey, get your hands off.

1351
01:33:43,139 --> 01:33:44,444
Wait, wait, wait.

1352
01:33:44,488 --> 01:33:46,708
I have committed no crime.

1353
01:33:46,751 --> 01:33:48,884
You have committed
several crimes,

1354
01:33:48,927 --> 01:33:52,670
each punishable by sentences
of up to 20 years in jail.

1355
01:33:52,714 --> 01:33:54,411
I... I demand right now
that you take me

1356
01:33:54,454 --> 01:33:56,631
to the American Embassy.

1357
01:33:56,674 --> 01:33:59,721
Let me tell you what
Brezhnev told Mr. Dubcek

1358
01:33:59,764 --> 01:34:02,114
that Mr. Bolotka
neglected to say

1359
01:34:02,158 --> 01:34:06,641
while elucidating on the size
of his sexual organ.

1360
01:34:06,684 --> 01:34:08,947
One, he would deport

1361
01:34:08,991 --> 01:34:10,645
our Czechoslovakian
intelligentsia

1362
01:34:10,688 --> 01:34:13,343
en masse to Siberia.

1363
01:34:14,692 --> 01:34:17,739
Two, he would turn
Czechoslovakia

1364
01:34:17,782 --> 01:34:19,871
into a Soviet republic.

1365
01:34:19,915 --> 01:34:21,873
Three, he would make Russian

1366
01:34:21,917 --> 01:34:24,354
the official language
in schools.

1367
01:34:24,397 --> 01:34:27,183
In 20 years,
nobody would even remember

1368
01:34:27,226 --> 01:34:29,011
that such a country
as Czechoslovakia

1369
01:34:29,054 --> 01:34:30,708
had ever existed.

1370
01:34:33,755 --> 01:34:36,627
Those Czechs
who inflamed the anger

1371
01:34:36,671 --> 01:34:39,108
of our mighty neighbor
are not patriots,

1372
01:34:39,151 --> 01:34:41,197
they are the enemy!

1373
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,591
There is nothing praiseworthy
about them.

1374
01:34:44,635 --> 01:34:49,205
Like when your lesbian whore
opened her legs,

1375
01:34:49,248 --> 01:34:52,425
and for an American writer
it represents

1376
01:34:52,469 --> 01:34:55,820
the authentic Czech experience.

1377
01:34:55,864 --> 01:34:59,084
Real heroes distinguish between

1378
01:34:59,128 --> 01:35:01,739
what is possible
in a little country

1379
01:35:01,783 --> 01:35:06,309
and what is just a stupid,
maniacal delusion.

1380
01:35:06,352 --> 01:35:08,398
The true Czech spirit
is represented

1381
01:35:08,441 --> 01:35:10,792
in people who know
how to submit decently

1382
01:35:10,835 --> 01:35:13,751
to their historical misfortune.

1383
01:35:13,795 --> 01:35:16,101
These are the people
to whom we owe

1384
01:35:16,145 --> 01:35:19,104
the survival
of our beloved land.

1385
01:35:19,148 --> 01:35:25,589
Not to alienated, degenerate,
egomaniacal artists.

1386
01:35:30,812 --> 01:35:33,771
Suddenly, you are scared,
Mr. Zuckerman.

1387
01:35:33,815 --> 01:35:35,381
Aren"t you?

1388
01:35:36,643 --> 01:35:37,862
Let"s go.

1389
01:36:18,860 --> 01:36:20,122
Whoa-whoa.

1390
01:36:20,165 --> 01:36:21,906
Whoa. Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa.

1391
01:36:21,950 --> 01:36:23,101
Whoa-whoa-whoa, hey, hey, hey.

1392
01:36:23,125 --> 01:36:25,954
Come on.
Let... let go of me!

1393
01:36:25,997 --> 01:36:27,433
Let me go!

1394
01:36:51,544 --> 01:36:53,895
You have been placed
on Swissair to Geneva.

1395
01:36:55,461 --> 01:36:57,681
And from there to New York.

1396
01:37:06,168 --> 01:37:09,084
A keepsake.

1397
01:37:09,127 --> 01:37:11,521
In case you"re bored
on your flight.

1398
01:37:27,667 --> 01:37:28,930
I was not arrested.

1399
01:37:28,973 --> 01:37:31,541
I will not be tried,
convicted, or jailed.

1400
01:37:31,584 --> 01:37:34,109
Yet it makes you furious
to be thrown out

1401
01:37:34,152 --> 01:37:36,372
once the fear
has begun to subside.

1402
01:37:37,939 --> 01:37:39,592
I wanted to see Kafka"s city,

1403
01:37:39,636 --> 01:37:41,768
and by coincidence
I found something

1404
01:37:41,812 --> 01:37:43,640
more important.

1405
01:37:43,683 --> 01:37:45,685
I can"t stop thinking
about this country

1406
01:37:45,729 --> 01:37:48,819
where there"s no nonsense
about purity and goodness,

1407
01:37:48,863 --> 01:37:50,995
where the division between
the heroic and the perverse

1408
01:37:51,039 --> 01:37:54,042
is not that easy to discern.

1409
01:37:54,085 --> 01:37:55,521
Where every sort of repression

1410
01:37:55,565 --> 01:37:57,523
ferments a parody of freedom

1411
01:37:57,567 --> 01:38:00,091
and the suffering
of their historical misfortune

1412
01:38:00,135 --> 01:38:01,963
engenders in its victims

1413
01:38:02,006 --> 01:38:05,618
these bizarre forms
of human despair.

1414
01:38:07,751 --> 01:38:10,362
I don"t know
if my theatrical friend Olga

1415
01:38:10,406 --> 01:38:12,190
changed her mind
and called the cops

1416
01:38:12,234 --> 01:38:14,976
or if they called for her.

1417
01:38:15,019 --> 01:38:19,502
Worst of all, I"ve lost that
astonishingly real candy box

1418
01:38:19,545 --> 01:38:22,157
stuffed with stories.

1419
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:24,333
Another Jewish writer
who might have been

1420
01:38:24,376 --> 01:38:25,943
is not going to be.

1421
01:38:25,987 --> 01:38:28,685
Another assault upon
a world of significance,

1422
01:38:28,728 --> 01:38:31,644
degenerating into
a personal fiasco.

1423
01:38:31,688 --> 01:38:34,212
And this time,
in a record 48 hours.

1424
01:38:36,736 --> 01:38:38,564
Hi, I"m looking for Eva.

1425
01:38:38,608 --> 01:38:39,565
Eva?

1426
01:38:39,609 --> 01:38:40,915
She is over there.

1427
01:38:40,958 --> 01:38:41,958
Thank you.

1428
01:38:45,093 --> 01:38:47,443
Excuse me,

1429
01:38:49,445 --> 01:38:51,142
Mr. Writer.

1430
01:38:51,186 --> 01:38:53,318
Hello, Eva.

1431
01:38:53,362 --> 01:38:54,798
I tried calling Sisovsk,

1432
01:38:54,841 --> 01:38:56,452
but he"s not answering
his phone.

1433
01:38:56,495 --> 01:38:58,933
Is he in New York?

1434
01:38:58,976 --> 01:39:00,543
I don"t know where he is.

1435
01:39:01,761 --> 01:39:03,546
You don"t know?

1436
01:39:03,589 --> 01:39:07,593
He"s taken the big American road
to success now.

1437
01:39:07,637 --> 01:39:09,117
Is he?

1438
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:11,946
Well, he didn"t
tell me anything.

1439
01:39:15,210 --> 01:39:16,515
I"d really like to talk to him.

1440
01:39:16,559 --> 01:39:20,171
I"ve... I've just returned
from Prague.

1441
01:39:21,042 --> 01:39:22,913
Oh.

1442
01:39:22,957 --> 01:39:24,871
Now you are full of Prague.

1443
01:39:26,482 --> 01:39:28,179
Full of compassion.

1444
01:39:29,964 --> 01:39:31,400
I wasn"t successful.

1445
01:39:33,750 --> 01:39:36,361
You really went there
for those stories?

1446
01:39:36,405 --> 01:39:38,059
Mm-hm.

1447
01:39:38,102 --> 01:39:39,625
Zdenek begged everyone for that,

1448
01:39:39,669 --> 01:39:41,323
but you are the only one
who obliged.

1449
01:39:41,366 --> 01:39:43,455
You are naive.

1450
01:39:44,979 --> 01:39:47,242
So where is he?

1451
01:39:47,285 --> 01:39:48,939
In California.

1452
01:39:48,983 --> 01:39:50,767
In Hollywood.

1453
01:39:50,810 --> 01:39:52,073
Huh.

1454
01:39:52,116 --> 01:39:54,031
Where can I find him there?

1455
01:39:54,075 --> 01:39:56,164
I don"t know, all I know
is that he is gone.

1456
01:39:59,167 --> 01:40:02,518
And you stay here on your own.

1457
01:40:04,085 --> 01:40:06,478
It"s better this way.

1458
01:40:06,522 --> 01:40:08,219
Everybody has what they want.

1459
01:40:08,263 --> 01:40:12,571
Zdenek does, I do,
and so do you.

1460
01:40:12,615 --> 01:40:14,182
Really?

1461
01:40:14,225 --> 01:40:16,140
Do I?

1462
01:40:16,184 --> 01:40:19,578
What you have is much better
than Zdenek"s father's stories.

1463
01:40:20,927 --> 01:40:23,365
Now you have one of your own.

1464
01:40:23,408 --> 01:40:25,497
You have your own adventure
in Prague.

1465
01:40:27,804 --> 01:40:30,763
Tomorrow you will sit
at your beautiful desk,

1466
01:40:30,807 --> 01:40:31,982
you will start making notes,

1467
01:40:32,026 --> 01:40:33,331
and your powerful masterpiece

1468
01:40:33,375 --> 01:40:35,551
will soon appear
on the Best Seller list.

1469
01:40:37,379 --> 01:40:40,077
You have your great book
and I have my dresses.

1470
01:40:44,821 --> 01:40:46,910
Please excuse me,
I have customers.

1471
01:40:49,913 --> 01:40:51,325
Good luck with
your new marvelous story,

1472
01:40:51,349 --> 01:40:52,568
Mr. Zuckerman.

1473
01:41:12,370 --> 01:41:15,547
May I see the gentleman"s
papers, please?

1474
01:41:21,118 --> 01:41:23,990
Ah, yes, Nathan Zuckerman.

1475
01:41:26,428 --> 01:41:28,343
The Zionist agent.

1476
01:41:33,174 --> 01:41:36,090
An honor to have
entertained you here, sir.

1477
01:41:38,483 --> 01:41:42,096
Now back to the little world
around the corner, huh?

1478
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:03,976
Making love, you"re in my mind

1479
01:44:04,020 --> 01:44:08,546
How soon will you be mine

1480
01:44:09,765 --> 01:44:14,465
Come to me, I"ll comfort you

1481
01:44:14,509 --> 01:44:20,036
Please be open tonight

1482
01:44:22,865 --> 01:44:27,783
Flesh and blood is what I give

1483
01:44:27,826 --> 01:44:33,397
You"ll find me unprepared

1484
01:44:33,441 --> 01:44:38,272
There is a bird of prey at night

1485
01:44:38,315 --> 01:44:43,712
Come lie with us in bed

1486
01:44:43,755 --> 01:44:46,889
River of Christ

1487
01:44:46,932 --> 01:44:51,850
I just take what must be mine

1488
01:44:51,894 --> 01:44:56,333
Surrender to our free fall

1489
01:44:56,377 --> 01:45:00,642
We will fly

1490
01:45:00,685 --> 01:45:04,646
Fly

1491
01:45:04,689 --> 01:45:07,518
River of Christ

1492
01:45:07,562 --> 01:45:11,740
What you see is not your fault

1493
01:45:11,783 --> 01:45:13,176
Not your fault

1494
01:45:13,219 --> 01:45:21,219
May this be our last song
when we fall

1495
01:45:42,553 --> 01:45:47,384
Night alone is not to be

1496
01:45:47,428 --> 01:45:52,955
I"ll take your beating heart

1497
01:45:52,998 --> 01:45:57,829
Change it into what will become

1498
01:45:57,873 --> 01:46:03,400
My fear, my flesh and blood

1499
01:46:03,444 --> 01:46:08,231
I"ll take
the bird of prey tonight

1500
01:46:08,274 --> 01:46:13,889
And show it how to fly

1501
01:46:13,932 --> 01:46:16,761
River of Christ

1502
01:46:16,805 --> 01:46:21,940
I"ll just take what must be mine

1503
01:46:21,984 --> 01:46:26,423
Surrender to our free fall

1504
01:46:26,467 --> 01:46:34,467
We will fly

1505
01:46:34,823 --> 01:46:37,695
River of Christ

1506
01:46:37,739 --> 01:46:41,786
What you see is not your fault

1507
01:46:41,830 --> 01:46:43,527
Not your fault

1508
01:46:43,571 --> 01:46:51,571
May this be our last song
when we fall