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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:06:47,527 --> 00:06:49,040 Joseph! 2 00:07:12,447 --> 00:07:13,926 Father... 3 00:07:14,967 --> 00:07:16,764 Listen to me... 4 00:08:39,407 --> 00:08:41,875 You're back for real, Joe... 5 00:08:42,687 --> 00:08:44,962 I'm telling you... Me, Georg. 6 00:08:46,327 --> 00:08:49,956 Gustav and I organized the party. 7 00:08:52,247 --> 00:08:55,637 After all, it's only normal that the others trust us. 8 00:08:55,807 --> 00:08:58,924 They hadn't seen you for so long. 9 00:09:01,887 --> 00:09:03,923 You're back, Joe. 10 00:09:04,407 --> 00:09:06,716 You're with us again. 11 00:09:08,287 --> 00:09:10,039 All together. 12 00:09:11,367 --> 00:09:13,244 You're back, Joe. 13 00:09:35,087 --> 00:09:36,998 You've recognized him... 14 00:09:37,927 --> 00:09:41,237 He learned to tap dance just for you, 15 00:09:41,407 --> 00:09:45,161 so that you'd feel at home when you came back. 16 00:09:46,167 --> 00:09:49,876 Gustav and I gave him lessons. 17 00:09:51,407 --> 00:09:53,159 Turn up the music... 18 00:09:53,327 --> 00:09:55,283 Louder, Ben ! 19 00:10:15,407 --> 00:10:16,442 You should be happy. 20 00:10:18,047 --> 00:10:21,244 It's party-time, just like in Berlin. 21 00:10:22,167 --> 00:10:24,635 Even if you only arrived from New York today. 22 00:10:25,407 --> 00:10:29,161 Even if Gustav and I were here a bit before you... 23 00:10:29,607 --> 00:10:33,566 Even if the rest of the family arrived from Berlin long ago. 24 00:10:34,127 --> 00:10:35,560 After all... 25 00:10:35,727 --> 00:10:39,402 1938 and today, it's the same thing. 26 00:10:39,567 --> 00:10:41,125 Leaving and coming home... 27 00:10:41,407 --> 00:10:43,682 It's always party-time. 28 00:12:00,007 --> 00:12:01,486 Why... 29 00:12:01,647 --> 00:12:04,002 Why do you call her Lilli? 30 00:12:04,167 --> 00:12:06,601 Breathe, Joe, breathe. 31 00:12:12,047 --> 00:12:13,526 Why... 32 00:12:15,007 --> 00:12:17,760 Why do you call her Lilli? - That's Lilli. 33 00:12:18,127 --> 00:12:20,516 You talked about her in Berlin. 34 00:12:23,607 --> 00:12:25,996 At the start, they called me Lilli. 35 00:12:33,087 --> 00:12:35,396 But you forgot that. 36 00:12:36,087 --> 00:12:38,123 At the start... What start? 37 00:12:40,847 --> 00:12:43,520 Joe... I've always been called Joe. 38 00:13:19,247 --> 00:13:21,283 You're hurting me! 39 00:13:27,887 --> 00:13:29,878 You're not Lilli. 40 00:13:31,447 --> 00:13:33,642 Lilli wouldn't have been hurt. 41 00:13:34,127 --> 00:13:36,197 She was past being hurt. 42 00:13:37,407 --> 00:13:39,238 It was all over... 43 00:13:39,407 --> 00:13:41,284 30 years ago. 44 00:13:51,607 --> 00:13:54,485 Look me in the eye, Joseph. 45 00:13:57,567 --> 00:14:00,718 You always looked me in the eye. 46 00:14:11,047 --> 00:14:13,277 It's Jacob Falsch... 47 00:14:14,007 --> 00:14:15,838 your father. 48 00:14:16,687 --> 00:14:19,406 You talked a lot about him in Berlin. 49 00:14:20,087 --> 00:14:22,282 He came between us. 50 00:14:23,087 --> 00:14:25,806 It's Jacob Falsch. 51 00:14:26,247 --> 00:14:28,966 Hi, Gustav... the Child has come back! 52 00:14:29,127 --> 00:14:30,640 Try, Joe. 53 00:14:36,567 --> 00:14:38,478 Leave me alone! 54 00:14:41,567 --> 00:14:43,603 Leave me alone! 55 00:14:48,407 --> 00:14:50,841 I'd abandoned all hope of seeing him again... 56 00:14:51,007 --> 00:14:53,646 And now, in his infinite mercy, 57 00:14:54,287 --> 00:14:56,198 the Almighty grants me that joy. 58 00:15:06,847 --> 00:15:09,805 You never met, Lilli and you. 59 00:15:20,687 --> 00:15:22,837 Look me in the eye... 60 00:15:25,167 --> 00:15:26,839 Look at me. 61 00:15:41,167 --> 00:15:43,556 I was scared, Joseph. 62 00:16:23,007 --> 00:16:24,486 Don't cry... 63 00:16:25,727 --> 00:16:27,558 Don't cry any more... 64 00:16:31,567 --> 00:16:33,125 It's over. 65 00:16:35,447 --> 00:16:37,403 Nothing happened... 66 00:16:39,887 --> 00:16:43,721 Nothing's going to happen... ever again. 67 00:16:49,167 --> 00:16:50,998 There was a death... 68 00:16:56,207 --> 00:16:59,483 Her death before she started crying again. 69 00:17:02,487 --> 00:17:04,205 She died, M. Falsch! 70 00:17:15,127 --> 00:17:17,846 At the bottom of Caesar Avenue, 71 00:17:18,567 --> 00:17:21,240 in Charlottenburg park, 72 00:17:22,607 --> 00:17:26,043 I pushed his hand off my stomach. 73 00:17:29,007 --> 00:17:32,079 I urged him to stop looking for me. 74 00:17:34,367 --> 00:17:37,359 He threw himself on me like an animal. 75 00:17:38,607 --> 00:17:40,563 He said nothing. 76 00:17:41,407 --> 00:17:44,240 He touched me like a wild animal. 77 00:17:54,407 --> 00:17:57,444 Rachel... Rachel... Our son has come back. 78 00:17:57,927 --> 00:18:00,964 He looks splendid, in spite of that hatchet face... 79 00:18:01,127 --> 00:18:05,040 He looks like me, I think. His eyes have kept that sparkle. 80 00:18:05,207 --> 00:18:08,643 He's older than I was in Berlin, when we last saw him. 81 00:18:09,887 --> 00:18:13,004 You look perfect. Not a thing out of place. 82 00:18:15,207 --> 00:18:18,199 Our child will notice that, I'm sure. 83 00:18:32,367 --> 00:18:35,564 Don't you think your mother is as beautiful as ever? 84 00:18:36,167 --> 00:18:38,920 Introduce me to the Child, if it's not too much to ask. 85 00:18:39,087 --> 00:18:41,317 Get her away from the Child, Jacob. 86 00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:45,196 I've as much right to Joseph as you and your husband. 87 00:18:45,367 --> 00:18:48,325 It's Mina, remember? Your mother's sister. 88 00:18:48,487 --> 00:18:49,886 You... 89 00:18:50,727 --> 00:18:52,445 It's you... 90 00:18:59,927 --> 00:19:01,997 You're our Joseph. 91 00:19:02,647 --> 00:19:04,638 You remember me? 92 00:19:06,127 --> 00:19:10,962 You were still a child when we last saw you in Berlin in 38. 93 00:19:13,167 --> 00:19:15,283 Aren't you saying anything? 94 00:19:16,407 --> 00:19:18,557 I am Jacob Falsch... 95 00:19:19,407 --> 00:19:21,477 Doctor of medicine. 96 00:19:22,727 --> 00:19:24,604 Your father. 97 00:19:25,447 --> 00:19:27,677 You know what happened, 98 00:19:27,927 --> 00:19:31,966 what happened to us that day after you left Berlin in 1938? 99 00:19:33,887 --> 00:19:35,923 Say something. 100 00:19:37,047 --> 00:19:40,244 We haven't talked to each other for years. 101 00:19:42,327 --> 00:19:43,806 You know... 102 00:19:45,047 --> 00:19:46,605 You know, Joseph, 103 00:19:46,887 --> 00:19:49,799 who we are. - They aren't even bothered enough 104 00:19:49,967 --> 00:19:53,198 to ask if you're back of your own will. - Make her shut up! 105 00:19:53,367 --> 00:19:56,006 The important thing for them is that you're here. 106 00:19:56,167 --> 00:19:58,920 And they think it's normal to have a party. 107 00:20:00,607 --> 00:20:03,041 Even if you had to suffer from your return. 108 00:20:03,367 --> 00:20:06,882 You are always there... you've always been there. 109 00:20:07,047 --> 00:20:10,323 You've always been in my life, always shared my life. 110 00:20:10,607 --> 00:20:12,359 Our life with Jacob and me. 111 00:20:14,207 --> 00:20:16,323 No! Let me go! 112 00:20:22,487 --> 00:20:24,478 Who is that girl? 113 00:20:24,767 --> 00:20:27,600 For you I have never existed. - Leave her... 114 00:20:29,367 --> 00:20:31,323 She won't go away. 115 00:20:33,887 --> 00:20:37,766 It's Georg, the painter in the family. 116 00:20:41,607 --> 00:20:44,405 We set off for New York together, 117 00:20:44,567 --> 00:20:46,444 in 38. 118 00:20:47,647 --> 00:20:49,399 My father. 119 00:20:55,927 --> 00:20:57,838 Jacob Falsch. 120 00:20:59,847 --> 00:21:02,680 Your aunt Mina. She hasn't changed. 121 00:21:02,847 --> 00:21:07,967 Yes, I always laugh and cry without stopping to think about things. 122 00:21:17,407 --> 00:21:19,921 The musician in the family. 123 00:21:20,247 --> 00:21:22,317 The last time we kissed, 124 00:21:22,487 --> 00:21:25,638 it was just after my first concert in Berlin. 125 00:21:25,807 --> 00:21:27,877 Your famous concert. 126 00:21:37,447 --> 00:21:38,960 My mother. 127 00:21:39,527 --> 00:21:40,960 What are you doing here? 128 00:21:42,207 --> 00:21:45,358 You didn't like him, yet here you are! 129 00:21:46,487 --> 00:21:48,921 We don't want you here! 130 00:21:49,167 --> 00:21:51,078 You aren't a Falsch! 131 00:21:51,807 --> 00:21:54,037 Not one of us knows you 132 00:21:54,327 --> 00:21:57,125 nor wants to! - Go back to your music, Ben! 133 00:22:15,647 --> 00:22:17,683 My son is your conscience. 134 00:22:18,807 --> 00:22:21,605 And you, Joseph, she's always been yours. 135 00:22:24,087 --> 00:22:26,157 You're not a couple, 136 00:22:26,807 --> 00:22:30,004 but the conscience of what could have been. 137 00:23:20,287 --> 00:23:22,755 You're a wild animal. 138 00:23:29,487 --> 00:23:31,955 Born of a wild animal. 139 00:23:39,647 --> 00:23:41,365 You're right. 140 00:23:43,007 --> 00:23:44,963 Absolutely right. 141 00:23:48,007 --> 00:23:50,441 I am a wild animal. 142 00:23:51,607 --> 00:23:53,962 Born of a wild animal. 143 00:23:55,207 --> 00:23:57,357 She always said no to you. 144 00:23:58,607 --> 00:24:01,565 You told me she always said no. 145 00:24:12,447 --> 00:24:15,007 Call off the dogs, Georg! 146 00:24:16,527 --> 00:24:18,358 Music! 147 00:24:34,567 --> 00:24:37,639 The Child that I had anointed 148 00:24:38,527 --> 00:24:41,485 slipped away from us like a shadow. 149 00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:45,435 His memory became part of me. 150 00:24:47,007 --> 00:24:49,567 Like his pain, 151 00:24:49,727 --> 00:24:52,799 his success distressed me. 152 00:24:53,607 --> 00:24:56,917 I'd like to see it all end. 153 00:24:57,527 --> 00:25:00,963 Just as I'd like to see life without death. 154 00:25:01,407 --> 00:25:03,318 That's only why 155 00:25:03,887 --> 00:25:06,765 I made some vows for his return. 156 00:25:15,447 --> 00:25:17,244 I summon the whole world 157 00:25:17,527 --> 00:25:20,519 from sunrise to sunset. 158 00:25:22,087 --> 00:25:24,965 I call upon all the Falsch's, 159 00:25:25,447 --> 00:25:30,441 who became part of history more dead than alive. 160 00:25:41,927 --> 00:25:46,637 Your brother Oscar Falsch and his wife Daniela. 161 00:25:47,007 --> 00:25:50,636 The eldest, the best of the bunch. 162 00:25:50,887 --> 00:25:55,358 Talks like a German, prays like a Jew. 163 00:25:55,527 --> 00:25:58,200 Thinks like a jeweller. 164 00:25:58,367 --> 00:26:01,882 He had a shop in Kantstrasse. 165 00:26:15,887 --> 00:26:19,357 Your uncle Ruben and his wife Natalia. 166 00:26:20,087 --> 00:26:21,964 He was in the textile trade. 167 00:26:22,127 --> 00:26:24,925 Made his money from military uniforms and blankets. 168 00:26:25,087 --> 00:26:28,602 They are the real Jews... very German. 169 00:26:56,367 --> 00:26:59,882 Your brother, Gustav Falsch... 170 00:27:01,527 --> 00:27:02,880 And your little sister, 171 00:27:03,367 --> 00:27:05,642 Bela Falsch. 172 00:28:21,607 --> 00:28:25,156 I am Gustav... his brother Gustav. 173 00:28:25,807 --> 00:28:28,367 The comedian Gustav Falsch. 174 00:28:29,207 --> 00:28:31,675 I supported Joe through his romantic disasters, 175 00:28:31,847 --> 00:28:35,237 so I imagined you without even knowing you. 176 00:28:35,407 --> 00:28:37,477 I imagined you naked. 177 00:28:37,647 --> 00:28:43,597 By consoling or helping someone, you end up feeling like them. 178 00:28:43,767 --> 00:28:45,917 It may happen, eh? 179 00:28:46,127 --> 00:28:48,197 Anyway... 180 00:28:48,367 --> 00:28:50,722 I imagined you naked. 181 00:28:50,887 --> 00:28:53,003 I was wrong... 182 00:28:53,167 --> 00:28:54,156 Unforgivable! 183 00:29:13,807 --> 00:29:15,286 Have you seen that? 184 00:29:16,167 --> 00:29:18,556 Lilli's dancing with a black. 185 00:29:18,727 --> 00:29:21,082 You've seen that nigger? 186 00:29:21,247 --> 00:29:23,477 It's you I'm looking at. 187 00:29:24,087 --> 00:29:26,647 Joseph never mentioned having a comedian for a brother. 188 00:29:26,807 --> 00:29:30,516 I became a comedian after we escaped from Berlin. 189 00:29:30,687 --> 00:29:32,882 It was the same for Joseph. 190 00:29:33,367 --> 00:29:36,120 He got interested in medicine later. 191 00:29:36,287 --> 00:29:38,881 He's a doctor ? - Like his father. 192 00:29:39,047 --> 00:29:42,596 He hated it. It was his father's idea, not his. 193 00:29:42,767 --> 00:29:45,918 Man gives to the dying what he refuses to the living. 194 00:29:46,607 --> 00:29:50,202 He became a doctor out of deference to his father. 195 00:29:58,007 --> 00:30:01,795 Your Fraulein has nothing to do with us! 196 00:30:02,007 --> 00:30:04,475 Why should she think differently than her father? 197 00:30:05,127 --> 00:30:07,960 You told me yourself he was a nazi! 198 00:30:17,527 --> 00:30:19,802 Mother is in love with the Child... 199 00:30:20,647 --> 00:30:22,922 and Mina is in love with daddy. 200 00:30:24,607 --> 00:30:26,120 I don't give a damn! 201 00:30:26,287 --> 00:30:28,437 It's evil! 202 00:30:29,487 --> 00:30:32,285 It's their private passions... 203 00:30:33,127 --> 00:30:35,641 that made me paint chamber pots. 204 00:30:38,887 --> 00:30:40,764 Not so loud! 205 00:30:42,647 --> 00:30:45,207 Can't we tell the Child everything? 206 00:30:46,127 --> 00:30:49,278 Now that he's here he can't suffer any more. 207 00:30:49,447 --> 00:30:52,757 You only suffer from past actions. -We'll see about that. 208 00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:56,604 I hate your laugh! 209 00:31:00,887 --> 00:31:04,243 I think your dear aunt will try and wreck the party. 210 00:31:05,767 --> 00:31:08,361 The Child has always been her favourite. 211 00:31:08,527 --> 00:31:10,836 He should settle things with her. 212 00:31:17,967 --> 00:31:21,926 Let Mister Joseph speak! 213 00:31:22,407 --> 00:31:25,160 Let the Child speak! 214 00:31:30,727 --> 00:31:32,718 Speak, Joseph! 215 00:31:33,687 --> 00:31:35,040 Speak! 216 00:31:50,327 --> 00:31:51,840 Speak! 217 00:32:29,127 --> 00:32:31,516 I am Joseph Falsch. 218 00:32:32,247 --> 00:32:36,240 Don't worry, we know who you are. - Your return among us... 219 00:32:37,527 --> 00:32:39,483 is a blessing. 220 00:32:42,487 --> 00:32:47,083 Although the Lord in his mercy prolonged my life, 221 00:32:48,247 --> 00:32:52,399 I never stopped searching for answers. 222 00:32:54,247 --> 00:32:58,160 I've strayed like a dog pining for his master. 223 00:32:59,367 --> 00:33:01,278 On hands and knees, 224 00:33:02,327 --> 00:33:05,285 among the ruins of my memories. 225 00:33:08,887 --> 00:33:11,845 I come from a world of chaos. 226 00:33:14,327 --> 00:33:19,720 From Berlin to New York, I've known the agony of a tightrope walker... 227 00:33:19,887 --> 00:33:22,321 contaminated by chaos. 228 00:33:27,207 --> 00:33:29,767 I'm only here for myself. 229 00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:47,526 The Child became man... 230 00:33:47,847 --> 00:33:50,077 and loved only himself. 231 00:33:51,367 --> 00:33:54,643 He's crapped on the remains of his memories. 232 00:33:55,807 --> 00:33:59,641 You thought you'd be able to identify him through your sorrow. 233 00:33:59,807 --> 00:34:03,243 I have no identity. I'm unrecognisable. 234 00:34:03,407 --> 00:34:06,240 You're celebrating a caricature. 235 00:34:06,407 --> 00:34:10,161 Stop talking rubbish, Joseph! 236 00:34:13,007 --> 00:34:15,805 I've outlived you too long... 237 00:34:17,167 --> 00:34:20,762 for your imagination to find a remedy. 238 00:34:22,447 --> 00:34:24,358 You feel bad about it? 239 00:34:24,847 --> 00:34:26,917 Don't make a fuss. 240 00:34:27,967 --> 00:34:29,366 You're just like a Falsch... 241 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:31,719 A real Falsch! 242 00:34:32,687 --> 00:34:36,123 Even at a distance, you could only be daddy! 243 00:34:36,527 --> 00:34:39,519 But... more up to date. 244 00:34:59,167 --> 00:35:01,476 I'm past it. 245 00:35:03,887 --> 00:35:06,321 The last of the Falsch's. 246 00:35:09,527 --> 00:35:11,836 It was unavoidable... 247 00:35:13,647 --> 00:35:16,445 but I came back at the wrong time. 248 00:35:54,567 --> 00:35:58,480 Without her, you wouldn't be celebrating my return. 249 00:35:58,647 --> 00:36:00,558 I left because of her. 250 00:36:01,007 --> 00:36:04,317 None of you spoke to me about it. You all knew. 251 00:36:04,487 --> 00:36:07,684 I left Berlin because of her. 252 00:36:25,007 --> 00:36:26,884 The day you left... 253 00:36:29,207 --> 00:36:31,767 Our last family Sabbath. 254 00:36:33,847 --> 00:36:36,645 The day of Ben's first concert. 255 00:36:38,687 --> 00:36:40,996 You didn't leave till the end. 256 00:36:41,727 --> 00:36:45,242 Just before the first star faded. 257 00:40:00,887 --> 00:40:03,196 Tell your wife to put out her cigarette. 258 00:40:03,367 --> 00:40:05,119 Tell her yourself. We're doing no harm. 259 00:40:05,287 --> 00:40:06,515 Put it out. 260 00:40:06,687 --> 00:40:09,997 I've got my American visa. - Put out your cigarette! 261 00:40:10,167 --> 00:40:11,839 It's Sabbath, Natalia. 262 00:40:12,007 --> 00:40:15,158 I've got my American visa. - Who gave you the money? 263 00:40:15,327 --> 00:40:18,080 Leave him! He can't stand Berlin any more. 264 00:40:18,247 --> 00:40:20,715 He isn't the first to leave here. - Put out your cigarette, Natalia! 265 00:40:20,887 --> 00:40:23,606 My sister-in-law is making trouble even on the evening of Sabbath. 266 00:40:23,767 --> 00:40:25,758 Before Hitler entered the Chancellery, 267 00:40:25,927 --> 00:40:28,236 you didn't care much about Sabbath. 268 00:40:28,407 --> 00:40:31,285 Gustav and Georg want to go to America with you. 269 00:40:31,447 --> 00:40:32,926 My children are deserting me. 270 00:40:33,087 --> 00:40:35,123 The Nazis want to stop me practising medicine. 271 00:40:35,287 --> 00:40:37,084 But I won't leave here because of that. 272 00:40:37,247 --> 00:40:41,001 They threw Ben out of the Academy of Music. But he won't leave. 273 00:40:41,167 --> 00:40:44,477 They evicted Oscar. But he'll stay too. 274 00:40:44,647 --> 00:40:47,957 Hitler rails against us. But I won't give him the pleasure 275 00:40:48,127 --> 00:40:50,277 of seeing me flee my country! 276 00:41:12,807 --> 00:41:15,241 My last thought was one of hatred. 277 00:41:16,687 --> 00:41:18,678 Against you, Jacob. 278 00:41:21,247 --> 00:41:23,761 Against you, Oscar. 279 00:41:30,127 --> 00:41:32,482 What have you done to us? 280 00:41:34,927 --> 00:41:38,203 What have you done... to Bela? 281 00:41:42,727 --> 00:41:45,082 Why did we stay in Berlin? 282 00:41:46,927 --> 00:41:51,125 Jacob, the Child will tell you your mistakes. 283 00:41:52,607 --> 00:41:55,724 Who of us hasn't made a mistake 284 00:41:56,447 --> 00:42:00,235 which belongs to a time before we were born? 285 00:42:01,567 --> 00:42:05,640 But we have all eternity to make up for it. 286 00:42:06,287 --> 00:42:09,962 You didn't see us crying at death's door. 287 00:42:50,927 --> 00:42:54,283 We are the people you never met. 288 00:42:54,687 --> 00:42:59,602 Georg couldn't capture what we've been through, in his paintings. 289 00:43:00,087 --> 00:43:02,760 And Gustav couldn't imagine it. 290 00:43:02,927 --> 00:43:05,999 Nor the Child get a glimpse of it, not even in his dreams. 291 00:43:06,167 --> 00:43:08,920 Nor Ruben and Natalia, who both fled from Berlin 292 00:43:09,087 --> 00:43:10,884 when it was still time. 293 00:43:12,207 --> 00:43:14,721 Why did we stay in Berlin? 294 00:43:15,847 --> 00:43:20,682 What have you done to us, Jacob? Why did we stay in Berlin? 295 00:43:47,847 --> 00:43:51,157 I kept on at your father for months, in vain. 296 00:43:51,327 --> 00:43:55,366 I kept telling him we had to get out of Berlin. 297 00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:27,605 During all those years in New York, I wanted to understand why. 298 00:44:29,407 --> 00:44:31,398 I looked for the answer. 299 00:44:40,207 --> 00:44:43,085 Why did you lead them to their death... 300 00:44:44,767 --> 00:44:48,521 before they had started to live? - Here's the answer you're looking for. 301 00:44:49,727 --> 00:44:52,560 The Child loved a German girl. 302 00:44:52,727 --> 00:44:54,957 His father loved Germany. 303 00:44:57,887 --> 00:45:00,196 You sinned against the flesh... 304 00:45:02,207 --> 00:45:04,482 He sinned against the spirit. 305 00:45:05,007 --> 00:45:06,122 I suppose dad 306 00:45:06,647 --> 00:45:09,764 and Oscar thought God would be grateful. 307 00:45:10,487 --> 00:45:12,603 And that he would send his angels to help them! 308 00:45:15,407 --> 00:45:17,557 You stayed for love of Germany? 309 00:45:17,807 --> 00:45:19,957 Just say it for once! 310 00:45:20,127 --> 00:45:22,800 Our love of Germany is behind us too. 311 00:45:23,047 --> 00:45:25,242 We're set up, as far as Oscar is concerned. 312 00:45:25,407 --> 00:45:31,721 Even if he has no pride left, he's still full of it. 313 00:45:32,887 --> 00:45:35,082 It's all seen from far... 314 00:45:36,247 --> 00:45:37,919 far away. 315 00:45:38,967 --> 00:45:41,322 It's seen from New York. 316 00:45:42,527 --> 00:45:43,516 Have we suffered 317 00:45:43,807 --> 00:45:46,958 less than the others? You'd think so to hear you talk. 318 00:45:48,127 --> 00:45:51,403 I wouldn't have left my children in that city. 319 00:45:52,327 --> 00:45:54,921 As long as you hide your reasons, 320 00:45:55,087 --> 00:45:57,681 they'll utter words of hatred. 321 00:46:00,487 --> 00:46:04,196 As if death wasn't already behind them. - You said it... 322 00:46:04,487 --> 00:46:06,443 It's behind them... 323 00:46:07,087 --> 00:46:09,123 behind all of us. 324 00:46:11,127 --> 00:46:13,960 At the time, our love of Germany 325 00:46:14,247 --> 00:46:15,726 wasn't behind us, 326 00:46:17,287 --> 00:46:19,881 nor life, nor death. 327 00:46:21,807 --> 00:46:23,923 We were Germans! 328 00:46:26,047 --> 00:46:28,481 We are Germans! 329 00:46:28,807 --> 00:46:29,922 Aren't we, 330 00:46:30,207 --> 00:46:31,481 Joseph? 331 00:46:31,647 --> 00:46:35,117 You're just a fucking Jew who fought against the Germans. 332 00:46:35,287 --> 00:46:38,518 It's seen from New York! You've forgotten! 333 00:46:39,447 --> 00:46:41,597 You ran away before... 334 00:46:41,927 --> 00:46:45,602 There's a huge gap between your end and ours. 335 00:46:46,407 --> 00:46:49,444 Another life! - Calm down. 336 00:46:52,127 --> 00:46:56,040 They had their reasons for leaving. 337 00:46:57,167 --> 00:46:59,761 We had ours for staying. 338 00:47:01,527 --> 00:47:05,918 Gustav left for a career on Broadway. 339 00:47:07,207 --> 00:47:09,163 Georg left because of his painting. 340 00:47:09,447 --> 00:47:11,915 Oh yes, I fled in the name of painting. 341 00:47:12,847 --> 00:47:14,678 I am an artist. 342 00:47:16,287 --> 00:47:17,720 I am a painter. 343 00:47:19,207 --> 00:47:21,641 You became well known... 344 00:47:22,047 --> 00:47:25,244 by painting the hardships of those who stayed behind. 345 00:47:28,287 --> 00:47:30,243 Uncle Ruben left 346 00:47:30,527 --> 00:47:32,882 because of his textile factory. 347 00:47:34,967 --> 00:47:39,040 And Joseph... because of his German girl. 348 00:47:39,887 --> 00:47:40,956 But for her, 349 00:47:41,247 --> 00:47:45,240 he would have stayed. And he knew our fate... 350 00:47:46,247 --> 00:47:49,557 not knowing what to do to avoid staying until the end... 351 00:47:49,847 --> 00:47:51,644 You thought like a Prussian, 352 00:47:51,927 --> 00:47:53,997 that's what made you stay. - I am German. 353 00:47:54,167 --> 00:47:55,316 You're a Prussian. 354 00:47:55,607 --> 00:47:59,395 A little Prussian who won't be easily taken in. 355 00:48:00,527 --> 00:48:02,199 To hear you talk, we were part of the German nation 356 00:48:02,367 --> 00:48:04,881 under threat from international communism. 357 00:48:06,767 --> 00:48:10,077 You're a Prussian! A Prussian through and through! 358 00:48:10,247 --> 00:48:12,442 A fucking Jew in leather shorts! 359 00:48:12,607 --> 00:48:14,837 What did you say?! 360 00:48:15,007 --> 00:48:16,201 Christ! You bastard! 361 00:48:19,007 --> 00:48:21,441 You fall for the slightest provocation! 362 00:48:21,607 --> 00:48:23,837 We were Germans! You've grown old! 363 00:48:24,687 --> 00:48:26,757 You've forgotten! 364 00:48:27,047 --> 00:48:28,799 I hate you! 365 00:48:29,447 --> 00:48:32,359 I hate you for what you've become! 366 00:48:32,527 --> 00:48:36,361 I hate both of you! You and the comedian! 367 00:48:36,527 --> 00:48:39,280 All three! You and the German girl too! 368 00:48:39,447 --> 00:48:42,120 And Natalia! Everyone! 369 00:48:43,407 --> 00:48:45,318 How great... 370 00:48:46,047 --> 00:48:48,720 your party is, indeed! 371 00:48:56,127 --> 00:48:59,437 My attitude... is political... 372 00:49:00,607 --> 00:49:02,086 moral... 373 00:49:02,887 --> 00:49:06,675 I uphold... certain principles... 374 00:49:07,687 --> 00:49:10,804 which I needed to guide me. 375 00:49:10,967 --> 00:49:13,435 Okay, Oscar. Okay! 376 00:49:13,687 --> 00:49:16,281 Yes! To guide me! Principles! 377 00:49:16,567 --> 00:49:20,560 When the thugs of the assault division stole your trinkets, 378 00:49:20,727 --> 00:49:21,955 you thought of us, 379 00:49:22,247 --> 00:49:27,002 in New York. - I'm a German Jew... 380 00:49:28,127 --> 00:49:31,802 A German! We are Germans! 381 00:49:48,567 --> 00:49:51,400 My last thought was one of hate. 382 00:49:53,847 --> 00:49:55,360 Against you, Jacob... 383 00:49:56,447 --> 00:49:58,119 Against Oscar. 384 00:49:59,447 --> 00:50:02,041 Forgive me, Daniela, but your husband... 385 00:50:02,207 --> 00:50:04,323 was Jacob's mouth. 386 00:50:04,967 --> 00:50:07,800 He was his father's eyes and ears. 387 00:50:11,247 --> 00:50:14,444 You found yourself the only job that suited your past. 388 00:50:14,607 --> 00:50:17,440 You exaggerate the past, you embellish it. 389 00:50:18,647 --> 00:50:20,763 Like when you held on to your jewellery! 390 00:50:20,927 --> 00:50:22,724 You hate us! 391 00:50:23,887 --> 00:50:26,765 You have forgotten he is your son. 392 00:50:27,887 --> 00:50:31,562 She's forgotten everything up to our existence. 393 00:50:48,727 --> 00:50:50,638 Speak, Jacob. 394 00:50:51,647 --> 00:50:54,719 Tell the Child everything, now that we're reunited, 395 00:50:54,887 --> 00:50:58,357 and now you're convinced he won't suffer any more. 396 00:51:01,527 --> 00:51:06,237 Jacob, seeing that everyone who suffered is still suffering... 397 00:51:08,687 --> 00:51:11,076 Speak, Joseph... 398 00:51:11,687 --> 00:51:13,564 Tell him his mistake. 399 00:51:24,047 --> 00:51:26,402 Ben, my boy... 400 00:51:26,927 --> 00:51:31,239 At the very end, you looked like something drained of blood... 401 00:51:31,407 --> 00:51:34,399 your eyes and mouth full of snow. 402 00:51:36,087 --> 00:51:38,078 Oscar was proud. 403 00:51:38,247 --> 00:51:41,523 Perhaps he swanked a bit, but it didn't show. 404 00:51:41,727 --> 00:51:44,605 He held up his head, to look taller. 405 00:51:45,367 --> 00:51:51,044 The wolves leapt on Mina and then on Jacob, first. 406 00:51:54,647 --> 00:51:58,356 You remembered only Ben's first concert, 407 00:51:59,087 --> 00:52:02,238 and our last Sabbath as a family. 408 00:52:03,447 --> 00:52:07,156 But the fear of naked people fleeing through the snow, 409 00:52:07,327 --> 00:52:09,522 that you couldn't imagine. 410 00:52:10,447 --> 00:52:14,042 We are those people you never met. 411 00:52:26,327 --> 00:52:28,716 Why did you lead them to their death... 412 00:52:33,207 --> 00:52:35,198 before they had a chance to live? 413 00:52:38,527 --> 00:52:40,882 What have you done to your children? 414 00:52:45,927 --> 00:52:52,116 What possessed you to stay in a place where every single thing 415 00:52:52,287 --> 00:52:54,642 stank of hate for the Jews? 416 00:52:56,727 --> 00:53:02,438 Why this faith... and ridiculous love for Germany? 417 00:53:10,687 --> 00:53:12,757 Tell us, Jacob. 418 00:53:13,447 --> 00:53:16,484 Your sons caught their mother's hate, talk! 419 00:53:16,647 --> 00:53:20,356 If you don't want the Child to doubt you. 420 00:53:30,887 --> 00:53:33,117 What have you done to me? 421 00:53:34,607 --> 00:53:36,757 Why did you deceive me? 422 00:53:38,207 --> 00:53:39,879 I cried in that deserted Berlin, 423 00:53:40,047 --> 00:53:43,323 but I was too cowardly to put my anguish into words, 424 00:53:43,487 --> 00:53:45,682 to explain it with words. 425 00:53:45,847 --> 00:53:48,281 It's easier to close your eyes, 426 00:53:49,687 --> 00:53:53,316 when life slips away without disturbing your habits. 427 00:53:57,927 --> 00:54:01,124 It's not love that makes you cry, 428 00:54:01,287 --> 00:54:03,084 but pride. 429 00:54:04,687 --> 00:54:08,919 You had enough pride alone to last us all for ever! 430 00:54:09,447 --> 00:54:11,199 You dare talk to me about love! 431 00:54:11,487 --> 00:54:13,079 My sister dare... 432 00:54:13,247 --> 00:54:15,807 It's your servant who dare speak to you, Rachel. 433 00:54:15,967 --> 00:54:18,606 I was your servant before becoming your sister. 434 00:54:20,767 --> 00:54:23,201 My lover can talk again! 435 00:54:23,967 --> 00:54:28,324 Blessed be the Lord to whom we owe this marvel! 436 00:54:38,327 --> 00:54:42,445 Your father was busy little Mina's lover. 437 00:54:44,327 --> 00:54:46,716 And Rachel, so sensitive, 438 00:54:46,887 --> 00:54:48,525 was hoping that she wasn't beautiful, 439 00:54:48,807 --> 00:54:51,446 sentimental, or loving. 440 00:54:52,567 --> 00:54:54,239 Everyone knows that servants 441 00:54:54,407 --> 00:54:57,399 aren't supposed to have a heart, or any sex. 442 00:55:02,007 --> 00:55:04,885 I know this is too much for you, Joseph, 443 00:55:05,527 --> 00:55:07,006 and for the two artists. 444 00:55:08,807 --> 00:55:11,162 They must be thinking I've gone too far. 445 00:55:18,647 --> 00:55:20,285 Where was the harm? 446 00:55:24,967 --> 00:55:27,765 You've thrown your youth in my face... 447 00:55:27,927 --> 00:55:29,963 And what about my youth? 448 00:55:31,087 --> 00:55:34,921 My youth which disappeared working for your mother? 449 00:55:35,327 --> 00:55:38,160 I sacrificed it to you without regrets. 450 00:55:39,647 --> 00:55:42,207 And you took it without a thought. 451 00:55:46,127 --> 00:55:47,606 Where's the harm? 452 00:55:51,647 --> 00:55:54,480 When the hurt carries you forward... 453 00:55:55,967 --> 00:55:58,800 when it gives you just enough strength 454 00:55:59,247 --> 00:56:02,956 to enable you to stay alive... Where was the harm? 455 00:56:04,887 --> 00:56:07,117 Since at the end there was the end... 456 00:56:15,847 --> 00:56:18,202 Where was the harm, my angel? 457 00:56:24,647 --> 00:56:27,036 At the very end... 458 00:56:28,287 --> 00:56:30,881 ...l cried to hear you crying. 459 00:56:31,047 --> 00:56:33,607 Otherwise I wouldn't have cried. 460 00:56:34,007 --> 00:56:38,558 Even under threat of death, I had no more strength. 461 00:56:40,167 --> 00:56:43,318 I was crying because you hadn't lived. 462 00:56:44,487 --> 00:56:49,880 I was crying because you were the most innocent of us... 463 00:56:50,687 --> 00:56:54,600 The one who was never tainted by evil. 464 00:56:56,687 --> 00:56:59,963 I cried because there was no name for your cry. 465 00:57:15,847 --> 00:57:19,760 Where is the harm? - You had no fear of being hurt. 466 00:57:19,927 --> 00:57:22,282 I would have liked to be like you, 467 00:57:22,447 --> 00:57:24,642 but I didn't have the time. 468 00:57:26,767 --> 00:57:29,486 These children had no experiences. 469 00:57:34,127 --> 00:57:36,322 Where's the harm, Oscar? 470 00:57:38,887 --> 00:57:42,516 I was exhausted, our last months in Berlin. 471 00:57:43,727 --> 00:57:47,003 Instead of fighting against your love for Germany, 472 00:57:47,167 --> 00:57:48,998 I accepted it. 473 00:57:50,367 --> 00:57:53,598 I waited for the end of the nightmare with you... 474 00:57:55,047 --> 00:57:56,082 You were 475 00:57:56,367 --> 00:57:59,916 the only one who argued that it had some logic. 476 00:58:01,687 --> 00:58:03,757 But what logic? 477 00:58:04,887 --> 00:58:08,163 Even Joseph's little German girl couldn't explain it. 478 00:58:13,207 --> 00:58:15,960 I paid for the tickets to America. 479 00:58:24,247 --> 00:58:26,158 Snap out of it... 480 00:58:29,207 --> 00:58:31,198 Snap out of it. 481 00:58:43,407 --> 00:58:45,841 Does the Child recognize me? 482 00:58:47,927 --> 00:58:50,122 He saved the Child... 483 00:58:53,447 --> 00:58:56,245 and the Child saved his brothers. 484 00:58:57,647 --> 00:59:03,040 Without Mina, it would have been with the three of them 485 00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:05,641 as it has been with us. 486 00:59:22,127 --> 00:59:24,163 I am Jacob... 487 00:59:25,087 --> 00:59:26,645 your father... 488 00:59:28,007 --> 00:59:30,396 who was deported to Poland. 489 00:59:35,447 --> 00:59:40,043 Joseph, my son, has recognized me... 490 00:59:40,767 --> 00:59:42,644 and he still loves me. 491 00:59:45,487 --> 00:59:49,685 Now I've no more regrets about waiting so long to see you. 492 00:59:51,087 --> 00:59:55,877 God has sent you back here to save your life. 493 00:59:59,127 --> 01:00:05,236 God has brought you back to us to ensure that our name lives on... 494 01:00:07,447 --> 01:00:09,563 so that we are not forgotten. 495 01:00:12,767 --> 01:00:14,803 I'm past it. 496 01:00:17,847 --> 01:00:20,361 The last of the Falsch's. 497 01:00:25,127 --> 01:00:27,163 I've kept nothing. 498 01:00:29,247 --> 01:00:32,876 Ask my two brothers. Your brother Ruben and his wife. 499 01:00:33,567 --> 01:00:38,197 I finished my medical studies. It's the only promise I've kept. 500 01:00:40,807 --> 01:00:43,560 I've made everyone suffer. 501 01:00:46,087 --> 01:00:48,521 I only loved myself. 502 01:00:52,767 --> 01:00:54,723 Never to see you again. 503 01:00:56,287 --> 01:00:57,766 Never again! 504 01:00:59,207 --> 01:01:02,438 "Never again" became the motto of my life. 505 01:01:09,287 --> 01:01:12,757 Half my life was wasted, and yet... 506 01:01:13,887 --> 01:01:16,242 I loved life so much... 507 01:01:20,447 --> 01:01:23,007 The war went on inside me... 508 01:01:23,847 --> 01:01:26,122 in my heart, in my head... 509 01:01:33,007 --> 01:01:38,479 You've only recognized your son through what made you feel sorry for him. 510 01:01:41,047 --> 01:01:42,719 Why do you say that? 511 01:01:49,447 --> 01:01:52,598 Apologies to everyone for having survived... 512 01:01:54,367 --> 01:01:58,155 but the Lord forced me to, so that everything be achieved. 513 01:02:12,207 --> 01:02:15,358 Don't go to any trouble, you fake negro! 514 01:02:16,247 --> 01:02:19,045 You don't take any more auditions at your age. 515 01:02:20,527 --> 01:02:24,839 You're out of date with your zigzagging. 516 01:02:26,207 --> 01:02:28,675 It's old-fashioned. - You're the old-fashioned one! 517 01:02:28,847 --> 01:02:30,439 A helpless wreck! 518 01:02:32,007 --> 01:02:34,805 It's party-time, Joe! We're celebrating your return! 519 01:02:41,527 --> 01:02:43,995 Stop trying to be a gloating nigger! 520 01:02:44,287 --> 01:02:48,200 When will you tell them about your flops on Broadway and in Hollywood? 521 01:02:48,367 --> 01:02:50,483 You're totally paranoid. 522 01:03:14,127 --> 01:03:17,836 I've always known that your narcissism would drive you potty. 523 01:03:22,287 --> 01:03:24,755 Our jazz singer! 524 01:03:25,847 --> 01:03:28,202 Our own Al Jolson! 525 01:03:30,487 --> 01:03:32,762 The copy of the copy! 526 01:03:41,687 --> 01:03:43,484 His comic face... 527 01:03:44,887 --> 01:03:49,483 The face which was his fortune in America. 528 01:03:52,527 --> 01:03:54,643 The face... 529 01:03:54,807 --> 01:03:57,765 of a Wehrmacht officer! 530 01:03:58,127 --> 01:03:59,526 Tell them. 531 01:04:01,327 --> 01:04:03,079 But tell them, for Christ's sake! 532 01:04:15,367 --> 01:04:18,837 You look just like a real Nazi, Mister Falsch! 533 01:04:21,527 --> 01:04:24,837 The producers couldn't see him in another role. 534 01:04:25,407 --> 01:04:27,875 It's because he's got the right accent. 535 01:04:28,207 --> 01:04:32,837 Gus has never managed to speak American without an accent. 536 01:04:36,807 --> 01:04:38,843 He had the bearing, a real German! 537 01:04:42,047 --> 01:04:44,766 As real as Oscar could ever seem. 538 01:04:45,247 --> 01:04:48,239 How many films did you play the same role in? 539 01:04:48,967 --> 01:04:50,366 Tell us! 540 01:04:55,967 --> 01:04:58,197 Forty-five films... 541 01:04:58,367 --> 01:05:02,519 And afterwards? Tell them what happened next. 542 01:05:03,287 --> 01:05:04,606 After...? 543 01:05:05,647 --> 01:05:09,879 After you were thrown off the Metro because you were high! 544 01:05:10,687 --> 01:05:12,439 Don't push your luck, my friend! 545 01:05:13,967 --> 01:05:18,085 Don't forget we've spent 30 years together. That's a long time! 546 01:05:19,327 --> 01:05:24,117 Especially since we've never lost sight of each other. 547 01:05:25,527 --> 01:05:29,361 After, you started again from nothing, from the start. 548 01:05:30,007 --> 01:05:35,639 You took up again with the happy negro, paid on receipt. 549 01:05:35,807 --> 01:05:38,446 Don't say I'm changing the facts. 550 01:05:38,687 --> 01:05:41,121 Anyway, no one would believe you. 551 01:05:42,287 --> 01:05:46,121 After, you wanted our help... But... 552 01:05:46,407 --> 01:05:48,967 You never learned to cope with your own problems? 553 01:05:51,567 --> 01:05:55,116 Georg didn't give a fuck to know you were off tap-dancing 554 01:05:55,287 --> 01:05:56,879 in a sleazy night-club! 555 01:05:57,047 --> 01:05:59,607 You could have died of drugs! 556 01:05:59,767 --> 01:06:03,601 Coke wasn't the thing for a famous painter. 557 01:06:04,047 --> 01:06:05,878 He hid his dollars under the bed. 558 01:06:07,767 --> 01:06:10,327 Under the bath, in a sealed plastic bag. 559 01:06:12,887 --> 01:06:17,961 How could he have been interested in your death, when he was preparing his own... 560 01:06:18,647 --> 01:06:22,003 It was his own death that fascinated him. 561 01:06:27,807 --> 01:06:31,482 I saw Gustav again only to identify his body. 562 01:06:33,367 --> 01:06:39,044 As for him, I only found his body afterwards. 563 01:06:39,207 --> 01:06:42,722 After he'd been pulled out of the Hudson river. 564 01:06:42,887 --> 01:06:45,640 You don't respect anything! 565 01:06:47,007 --> 01:06:49,157 I never said anything! 566 01:06:49,327 --> 01:06:51,716 I never confided in anyone! 567 01:07:47,687 --> 01:07:51,043 Money and notoriety came to me too late. 568 01:07:52,687 --> 01:07:54,962 Before, I lived like an animal. 569 01:07:58,327 --> 01:08:02,115 All three of us lived like animals, Joe. 570 01:08:06,167 --> 01:08:08,442 Then, when I was famous, 571 01:08:08,967 --> 01:08:11,037 I had no more enemies. 572 01:08:12,007 --> 01:08:13,884 Everyone loved me. 573 01:08:14,127 --> 01:08:16,118 So many people loved me. 574 01:08:19,407 --> 01:08:21,523 Only death was left. 575 01:08:23,127 --> 01:08:26,278 Their love was so vulgar. 576 01:08:28,647 --> 01:08:30,239 My son... 577 01:08:39,167 --> 01:08:41,078 My entertainers! 578 01:08:44,287 --> 01:08:47,040 Our children... Mina. 579 01:08:50,207 --> 01:08:52,596 But how did it happen? 580 01:08:53,007 --> 01:08:55,043 Why were you so unhappy? 581 01:09:00,327 --> 01:09:03,364 I knew that Georg had killed himself. 582 01:09:03,527 --> 01:09:06,439 I read it in a paper in Berlin. - Berlin? 583 01:09:11,487 --> 01:09:13,921 You went back to Berlin? 584 01:09:25,727 --> 01:09:27,604 When did you go back? 585 01:09:27,767 --> 01:09:31,362 Well... we went back when we had the chance... 586 01:09:31,527 --> 01:09:33,358 after... -After? 587 01:09:33,527 --> 01:09:36,121 It's difficult to explain, Jacob... 588 01:09:37,367 --> 01:09:39,039 After the war. 589 01:09:41,447 --> 01:09:46,316 It would take a lot of words to make you understand. 590 01:09:46,487 --> 01:09:48,842 I would have to create new words. 591 01:09:50,527 --> 01:09:55,237 You came back after the war? -After the end of the war. 592 01:09:55,567 --> 01:09:58,923 After some years in Palestine. 593 01:09:59,407 --> 01:10:01,443 How can I explain it... 594 01:10:02,207 --> 01:10:05,119 We went back to Berlin because... 595 01:10:07,207 --> 01:10:11,837 You were in the promised land... and you left it? 596 01:10:13,607 --> 01:10:15,643 You left Palestine to return to Berlin? 597 01:10:15,807 --> 01:10:18,002 It was too hot in Palestine. 598 01:10:18,407 --> 01:10:20,841 Ruben couldn't stand the heat. 599 01:10:21,207 --> 01:10:23,482 His blood pressure wasn't good. 600 01:10:23,647 --> 01:10:27,481 What's Jerusalem like? -What? Jerusalem? 601 01:10:28,127 --> 01:10:30,322 I lived in Jerusalem. 602 01:10:30,487 --> 01:10:32,955 I've worked there... prayed there. 603 01:10:33,127 --> 01:10:34,845 Like in Berlin. 604 01:10:38,727 --> 01:10:42,197 What happened... to Kantstrasse? 605 01:10:42,407 --> 01:10:44,443 The old houses have been replaced 606 01:10:44,607 --> 01:10:49,886 with new, less attractive ones. But higher, a lot higher. 607 01:10:50,967 --> 01:10:53,003 Berlin is like New York. 608 01:10:53,167 --> 01:10:55,442 Yes, nowadays everywhere's the same. 609 01:10:55,607 --> 01:10:57,962 And Friedrichstrasse? 610 01:10:58,647 --> 01:11:00,842 Just as sad as the torn-down houses. 611 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:02,725 And Kronenstrasse...? 612 01:11:02,887 --> 01:11:05,799 Rebuilt, but without the sparkle. 613 01:11:05,967 --> 01:11:09,118 And "Johnny's Night Club"? 614 01:11:10,327 --> 01:11:11,999 Not a trace. 615 01:11:19,847 --> 01:11:22,805 Do they remember us in Schlosstrasse? 616 01:11:23,967 --> 01:11:26,527 We had some friends there... 617 01:11:27,807 --> 01:11:29,399 Even after 1933. 618 01:11:29,567 --> 01:11:32,718 The house was destroyed in a bombing raid. 619 01:11:32,887 --> 01:11:36,675 We went to see the building they've put up there. 620 01:11:38,647 --> 01:11:41,366 No one remembered us. 621 01:11:42,287 --> 01:11:44,517 Even in the houses nearby. 622 01:11:45,607 --> 01:11:48,485 Nobody's heard a word about the family. 623 01:11:49,527 --> 01:11:52,087 They've forgotten, haven't they? 624 01:11:53,767 --> 01:11:57,043 They forget what they deem convenient to forget. 625 01:11:58,967 --> 01:12:02,403 No one could describe what Ruben went through. 626 01:12:05,367 --> 01:12:08,040 In Berlin, a Jew keeps his mouth shut. 627 01:12:08,567 --> 01:12:13,322 His soul is somewhere else, it's hidden under his feet. 628 01:12:15,447 --> 01:12:19,440 No true German rejoiced with me about the defeat, 629 01:12:19,607 --> 01:12:23,395 about the annihilated, flattened, stripped towns, 630 01:12:23,567 --> 01:12:25,637 about Berlin's humiliation, 631 01:12:25,807 --> 01:12:29,720 about a dead, deserted town... 632 01:12:30,487 --> 01:12:33,126 under the bloom of new lime trees. 633 01:12:34,527 --> 01:12:36,358 No true German... 634 01:12:37,447 --> 01:12:39,199 No young German... 635 01:12:45,047 --> 01:12:47,356 Ruben? - Yes? 636 01:12:48,447 --> 01:12:51,803 They don't remember, but they haven't forgotten. 637 01:12:52,967 --> 01:12:54,685 It's not the same. 638 01:12:55,287 --> 01:12:57,278 They miss us, don't they? 639 01:12:58,047 --> 01:13:00,800 You wouldn't have tolerated to live there, if not. 640 01:13:01,367 --> 01:13:03,927 I even tolerated to die there. 641 01:13:58,447 --> 01:14:00,563 You look so much like him... 642 01:14:05,087 --> 01:14:08,796 Looking at you, I don't know who I am any more. 643 01:14:10,247 --> 01:14:12,317 I died at 17. 644 01:14:13,327 --> 01:14:15,716 Joseph is in New York. 645 01:14:16,807 --> 01:14:20,846 I can't look like him. - I feel like I'm seeing him again... 646 01:14:22,127 --> 01:14:25,961 Like I'm finding him back, as if nothing ever happened... 647 01:14:26,687 --> 01:14:29,679 There are centuries between Joseph and me. 648 01:14:30,327 --> 01:14:32,522 You can't confuse us. 649 01:14:33,247 --> 01:14:35,203 I've lived so little... 650 01:14:43,007 --> 01:14:45,362 I don't want to hurt you. 651 01:14:47,527 --> 01:14:50,041 I love you, Ben. 652 01:15:16,447 --> 01:15:19,041 I cried under the bombs in Berlin. 653 01:15:20,007 --> 01:15:22,999 The chateau at Charlottenburg was burning. 654 01:15:23,807 --> 01:15:26,844 So were the gardens we were walking in. 655 01:15:29,167 --> 01:15:32,523 The fire ran along the two banks of the Spree. 656 01:15:34,287 --> 01:15:36,596 I cried under the bombs. 657 01:15:37,327 --> 01:15:40,842 I cried out against death with all my strength. 658 01:15:48,847 --> 01:15:52,044 Now I rejoice at Berlin's disaster. 659 01:15:52,687 --> 01:15:56,475 I rejoice in death and misfortune. 660 01:16:08,847 --> 01:16:10,405 Did you hear that? 661 01:16:12,167 --> 01:16:13,885 Lilli loves us. 662 01:16:15,487 --> 01:16:17,159 She loves us. 663 01:16:19,087 --> 01:16:21,760 There are not just Jews and Gentiles. 664 01:16:24,327 --> 01:16:27,444 There are the satisfied and the starving. 665 01:16:27,607 --> 01:16:29,837 Did you hear that, father? 666 01:16:30,727 --> 01:16:33,161 He thinks he's Christ! 667 01:16:33,327 --> 01:16:36,399 This is the same Christian bigotry he wrote to me about. 668 01:16:36,567 --> 01:16:39,001 To encourage me to stay alive. 669 01:16:39,167 --> 01:16:40,486 But he didn't believe it. 670 01:16:40,647 --> 01:16:43,480 He didn't love! He didn't pray! 671 01:16:43,927 --> 01:16:47,397 He thought he was indestructible! Didn't you, Joe? 672 01:16:47,567 --> 01:16:51,924 And he still thinks he is indestructible! Immortal! 673 01:17:01,127 --> 01:17:02,560 Father... 674 01:17:04,127 --> 01:17:06,118 Listen to me!48894

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