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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:46,064 --> 00:01:49,864 It is long ago since the Lama first heard the tidings 2 00:01:50,027 --> 00:01:52,530 of sage Baron Humboldt, 3 00:01:52,696 --> 00:01:54,198 who travels the world 4 00:01:54,406 --> 00:01:56,500 and knows all things. 5 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:57,917 I know nothing. 6 00:01:58,285 --> 00:02:01,630 I've spent my life understanding nature. 7 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:05,001 I have collected knowledge and travelled the world. 8 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:12,716 Sorry? 9 00:02:13,091 --> 00:02:15,685 The Master requests you awaken his dog. 10 00:02:17,971 --> 00:02:20,850 Sorry, I don't understand the metaphor. 11 00:02:21,016 --> 00:02:22,518 It's not a metaphor. 12 00:02:22,684 --> 00:02:25,563 The Master's favourite dog died two days ago. 13 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:28,698 He thinks you most knowledgeable, 14 00:02:29,066 --> 00:02:31,285 and requests you return the animal to life. 15 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:37,662 That I cannot do. 16 00:02:50,796 --> 00:02:53,970 The Master knows that an initiate may not do this often. 17 00:02:54,424 --> 00:02:57,018 "Initiate"? Is that really what he said? - Yes. 18 00:02:57,177 --> 00:03:01,182 He requests this kindness from you, a clever, travelled man. 19 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:05,235 He is very attached to the dog. - Yes, but I can't... 20 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:08,314 It's not within my capabilities to wake someone from the dead. 21 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:15,700 The Master comprehends what the clever man means. 22 00:03:15,904 --> 00:03:18,908 I don't mean anything. I simply can't do it. 23 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:21,084 The Lama comprehends that, too. 24 00:03:21,576 --> 00:03:24,079 There is nothing to comprehend. 25 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:29,251 The Lama comprehends all things. 26 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:32,596 All things. - All things? -All things. 27 00:03:43,181 --> 00:03:48,358 Alexander von Humboldt was born to the life of a German nobleman: 28 00:03:48,562 --> 00:03:52,533 Castle, family, hunting and church on Sundays. 29 00:03:53,316 --> 00:03:57,696 But he wanted to travel... to measure... to understand. 30 00:03:57,863 --> 00:04:01,117 MEASURING THE WORLD 31 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:07,373 1785 32 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,671 in the Duchy of Brunswick. 33 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:12,594 Education had just become compulsory, 34 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:15,006 and Carl Friedrich Gauss had learned 35 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:17,425 that it is at times better to be silent. 36 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:20,393 I'll teach you to bother your master 37 00:04:20,761 --> 00:04:22,354 with stupid questions. 38 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,102 Sit down. 39 00:04:31,188 --> 00:04:34,783 One... Plus two... 40 00:04:36,193 --> 00:04:37,820 plus... 41 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:40,701 three... 42 00:04:44,242 --> 00:04:45,869 plus... 43 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:48,914 four... 44 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:54,545 plus five... 45 00:04:56,671 --> 00:04:58,423 plus... 46 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:01,093 six... 47 00:05:05,430 --> 00:05:06,773 plus... 48 00:05:09,476 --> 00:05:11,023 seven... 49 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:17,359 and continuing ever thuswise... 50 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:22,240 up to one hundred. 51 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:24,658 And woe betide anyone who disturbs me 52 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:27,165 before he has the answer! 53 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:47,123 Yes! 54 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:51,870 Gauss is giving up? 55 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:54,581 The boy's mad. He'll be punished. 56 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:01,588 Where's this from? 57 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:05,801 That's the point. We were to add together... 58 00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:08,812 all numbers from one to one hundred. 59 00:07:12,724 --> 00:07:14,226 1... 60 00:07:14,726 --> 00:07:15,898 plus 100 61 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:18,104 is 101. 62 00:07:18,605 --> 00:07:20,482 2 plus 99... 63 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:21,866 equal 101... 64 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,907 3 plus 98 equal 101. 65 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:28,745 Always 101. Fifty times 101. 66 00:07:28,907 --> 00:07:30,875 50 times 101 67 00:07:31,493 --> 00:07:33,666 is 5050. 68 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:41,757 Gauss, get in the corner. 69 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,388 Be quiet. And stay behind. 70 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:45,716 But... - Talking back? 71 00:08:14,119 --> 00:08:15,541 Alexander? 72 00:08:18,915 --> 00:08:20,337 Alexander! 73 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:25,964 Alexander... 74 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:48,821 Alexander... Wilhelm, help your brother. 75 00:08:56,911 --> 00:08:58,333 Alexander. - Wilhelm. 76 00:09:04,127 --> 00:09:05,003 Continue... 77 00:09:05,503 --> 00:09:10,304 1187, 1193... - God sees all things. 78 00:09:10,884 --> 00:09:12,682 You know that. -1201 79 00:09:13,094 --> 00:09:14,562 Yes. 80 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:18,437 Come here. 81 00:09:26,691 --> 00:09:30,912 On your word of honour... did you do this on your own? 82 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:36,870 It wasn't difficult, you just add... - The formula of geometric progression. 83 00:09:38,661 --> 00:09:40,663 Higher arithmetic. 84 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:44,216 Read, mark, learn... 85 00:09:54,886 --> 00:09:57,560 Imagine! Schoolmaster Büttner 86 00:09:57,722 --> 00:09:59,315 was a mathematician of sorts. 87 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:03,604 He had published several treatises, and one glorious day 88 00:10:03,853 --> 00:10:07,733 Immanuel Kant had deigned to answer one of his letters. 89 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:10,743 Since diligence and strength had not trumped, 90 00:10:10,985 --> 00:10:12,862 he was a schoolmaster. 91 00:10:14,155 --> 00:10:15,998 My father can't pay for this. 92 00:10:17,659 --> 00:10:20,538 You'll be bringing home other books in days to come, 93 00:10:21,204 --> 00:10:22,672 yet pay for none. 94 00:10:22,872 --> 00:10:26,547 But be warned: one spot, one dog-eared or torn side, 95 00:10:27,085 --> 00:10:30,715 and you'll feel my rod such that God himself would pity you. 96 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:33,341 Now go! 97 00:10:33,716 --> 00:10:36,219 Here he comes. - I can see him... 98 00:10:36,386 --> 00:10:39,014 Be quiet. - Hey, want to pet her? 99 00:10:40,849 --> 00:10:42,226 No. 100 00:10:43,726 --> 00:10:46,070 How did you work it out, Carl? 101 00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:49,783 It's easy. You just have to take a step back. 102 00:10:50,108 --> 00:10:51,951 Then the sum solves itself. 103 00:10:52,443 --> 00:10:55,037 If I take a step back, things just get smaller. 104 00:10:55,196 --> 00:10:56,448 Well, Johanna... 105 00:10:57,157 --> 00:10:58,158 Come on! 106 00:11:04,831 --> 00:11:07,380 Take that! -Know-it-all. - Let him be! 107 00:11:08,042 --> 00:11:09,589 Stop it! 108 00:11:13,047 --> 00:11:16,426 Alexander was the best student at the Freiberg Mining Academy. 109 00:11:17,886 --> 00:11:20,730 He developed a miner's lamp to examine plant-life 110 00:11:20,889 --> 00:11:23,017 in deep mining galleries. 111 00:11:24,058 --> 00:11:25,651 Whatever scares you, 112 00:11:25,894 --> 00:11:27,191 he said, 113 00:11:27,353 --> 00:11:28,730 you have to measure. 114 00:11:29,981 --> 00:11:33,110 People thought the earth's interior was cold and solid, 115 00:11:33,484 --> 00:11:35,782 with a core of hard stone. 116 00:11:36,446 --> 00:11:39,450 Both churches thought this ordained by God. 117 00:11:40,158 --> 00:11:42,331 Alexander thought it false. 118 00:11:43,661 --> 00:11:46,881 He felt strength within himself and wild curiosity. 119 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:50,009 But sometimes, he wrote to his brother, 120 00:11:50,168 --> 00:11:52,296 he feared he was going insane. 121 00:11:54,881 --> 00:11:56,633 It was only by luck 122 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,678 that a fellow pupil happened to find him in time. 123 00:12:17,779 --> 00:12:18,996 Come! 124 00:12:27,372 --> 00:12:28,874 What's wrong? 125 00:12:30,708 --> 00:12:31,709 Go on! Bow! 126 00:12:40,385 --> 00:12:41,762 Come along. 127 00:12:42,053 --> 00:12:43,976 What's so bad about Germany? 128 00:12:45,098 --> 00:12:46,441 Nothing, Sir. 129 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,985 But I want to dedicate my life to study. 130 00:12:49,477 --> 00:12:51,070 The peculiar tenacity 131 00:12:51,229 --> 00:12:52,651 of plant life. 132 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:54,574 All plant life. 133 00:12:54,857 --> 00:12:57,451 I want to understand it, and reveal it to the world. 134 00:12:58,194 --> 00:13:00,071 But then you'll settle down here, 135 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:03,037 marry a good woman and procreate, right? 136 00:13:04,117 --> 00:13:06,165 One marries if one has nothing better to do. 137 00:13:06,327 --> 00:13:07,544 Alexander! 138 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:10,833 Everyone says his brother is the future chancellor of Prussia. 139 00:13:10,999 --> 00:13:13,548 Why can't Alexander be more like his brother? 140 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:16,759 Settle down with one's compatriots? 141 00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:19,515 Nothing could be finer. - Indeed, no. 142 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:23,474 But don't go overboard with those French girls now! 143 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:24,808 Sir! 144 00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:26,769 His father died young. 145 00:13:26,931 --> 00:13:29,980 His upbringing fell to me alone. 146 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:33,446 Perhaps the traces of a female hand remains. 147 00:13:34,063 --> 00:13:35,360 I was too weak. 148 00:13:36,024 --> 00:13:37,901 But this I'd have you know: 149 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:40,320 If you travel overseas, 150 00:13:40,570 --> 00:13:43,870 there'll be no money for you! None. Over my dead body! 151 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:55,840 He wants to travel the world, too, yes? 152 00:13:57,128 --> 00:13:59,551 Sir, this is the young Carl Gauss. 153 00:14:00,214 --> 00:14:03,263 His talents relate more to the field of mathematics. 154 00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:07,059 Calculate something. 155 00:14:09,599 --> 00:14:10,976 Begging your pardon, Sir, 156 00:14:11,142 --> 00:14:13,361 but the young man is no calculating prodigy. 157 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:14,987 As Sir is doubtless aware, 158 00:14:15,146 --> 00:14:18,070 higher mathematics has nothing to do with arithmetic. 159 00:14:18,441 --> 00:14:21,035 Some of the greatest mathematicians were very bad 160 00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:22,574 at arithmetic. 161 00:14:51,516 --> 00:14:53,359 Did someone speak? 162 00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,978 I must beg Sir's pardon. 163 00:14:56,187 --> 00:14:58,281 The young man is of lowly birth. 164 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,445 I am, however, convinced he is capable of great things 165 00:15:03,653 --> 00:15:05,906 that will augment the fame of the fatherland. 166 00:15:06,072 --> 00:15:08,541 Perhaps he will be a second Immanuel Kant. 167 00:15:09,659 --> 00:15:13,289 All we require is a grant from the court. 168 00:15:15,706 --> 00:15:19,552 He shall have it and is to come again when he can do arithmetic. 169 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:21,220 Bow! 170 00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:24,594 Knowledge, huh! 171 00:15:25,967 --> 00:15:27,640 Right... 172 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:29,308 Alexander. 173 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,348 Maybe he'll be someone like you. 174 00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:48,364 Company... halt! 175 00:15:51,117 --> 00:15:55,964 Is this your child prodigy, Büttner? - Yes... it's young Mr Gauss. 176 00:15:57,540 --> 00:16:00,760 You know what a number is, boy? 177 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:04,847 A number is no plaything. 178 00:16:05,173 --> 00:16:10,225 A number is the diameter of the hole between the eyes of a dying soldier. 179 00:16:10,595 --> 00:16:12,393 A number... 180 00:16:12,763 --> 00:16:14,686 is the depth of the hole. 181 00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,940 One number describes the angle of entry, 182 00:16:18,394 --> 00:16:21,739 another the echo of, and distance to, enemy canons. 183 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:22,982 Numbers! 184 00:16:23,357 --> 00:16:26,952 They tell me where the enemy is, and how strong his army... 185 00:16:27,778 --> 00:16:29,576 so that I can act. 186 00:16:30,364 --> 00:16:33,709 So that the comrade, coughing out his last drops of warm blood 187 00:16:34,076 --> 00:16:37,330 on the dusty ground where my boots stand, has not died in vain. 188 00:16:37,914 --> 00:16:39,416 You are a German boy. 189 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:43,591 And a number is no plaything! 190 00:16:46,756 --> 00:16:48,349 Company... 191 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,561 Mama! 192 00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:59,523 What did the Duke say? - We have the grant. 193 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:01,733 Yes. - Rubbish. I need him here. 194 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:04,198 I'm studying... Papa. 195 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:08,119 Not... to the head! 196 00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:10,784 It belongs to the Duke of Brunswick. 197 00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:12,532 You may not damage it. 198 00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:14,033 Damn! 199 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,080 This place is going to the dogs! They treat folk anyway they like! 200 00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:21,632 They take your son and... - You're going to study, Carl. 201 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:24,385 You're going to leave us. - Never. 202 00:17:24,919 --> 00:17:26,512 You'll see. 203 00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,136 I'll always be with you, 204 00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:31,221 always be in this house. For sure. 205 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:34,141 Always. - Good, upstairs you go now. 206 00:17:35,012 --> 00:17:36,980 Excuse me, Mr Büttner, - Yes? 207 00:17:38,474 --> 00:17:39,851 Albrecht, go away. 208 00:17:45,106 --> 00:17:47,108 This thing, Carl... and mathe... 209 00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:50,244 mathe-matics, is it going anywhere? 210 00:17:51,028 --> 00:17:52,029 Sorry? 211 00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:54,411 Well, I mean, university. 212 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:57,453 You have to be smart. ls my Carl up to it? 213 00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:02,670 Mr Büttner, it is most unkind that you mock me. 214 00:18:03,124 --> 00:18:04,922 I'm a simple woman and I'm concerned. 215 00:18:05,293 --> 00:18:07,671 It is not good of you. - No. Excuse me. 216 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:10,423 Beg your pardon, Mrs Gauss... 217 00:18:10,631 --> 00:18:14,727 but your son shall be one of the world's greatest mathematicians. 218 00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:16,520 I know it. 219 00:18:17,638 --> 00:18:18,639 I know it. 220 00:18:35,364 --> 00:18:38,368 A strong will makes it possible, to reach a goal early. 221 00:18:39,702 --> 00:18:42,922 But it also makes waiting possible. 222 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:50,300 Alexander! 223 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:52,924 Wilhelm, to a Frenchman! 224 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:54,892 You throw my money 225 00:18:55,885 --> 00:18:58,513 into the maul of a Frenchman! 226 00:18:58,929 --> 00:19:01,102 Mouldy shite! 227 00:19:01,724 --> 00:19:03,601 Damn... 228 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:08,781 dirty shit! Filthy shitty... 229 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:12,114 it hurts me so. 230 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:14,282 Wilhelm, be strong. 231 00:19:14,528 --> 00:19:18,032 Foul vile filth! 232 00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:29,460 Sit up straight! 233 00:20:40,823 --> 00:20:44,077 Humboldt invested his whole inheritance in the trip. 234 00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:46,458 And in Aimé Bonpland, 235 00:20:47,037 --> 00:20:48,960 a French doctor and botanist, 236 00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:51,842 he found an ideal travelling companion. 237 00:21:00,217 --> 00:21:00,888 Attention! 238 00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,016 Careful! 239 00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:10,854 Hey, can't you secure the cargo? 240 00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:13,690 That is Parisian Time! 241 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:16,525 Lord! - Mauricio, Alberto, 242 00:21:16,692 --> 00:21:18,660 come here. - Find all the boxes. 243 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:20,613 Cuidad, las casas. 244 00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:23,040 Gracias. 245 00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,213 America! - America! 246 00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:31,131 Aimé, at last! 247 00:21:31,457 --> 00:21:33,459 Far from Germany at last! From... 248 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:36,883 Prussia, my brother. At last I can breathe. 249 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:38,930 Far from family. 250 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,676 Unbeatable! - I'll never see my father again! 251 00:21:41,842 --> 00:21:43,469 My brothers! - My mean uncle! 252 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,604 My mother. - My imbecilic sisters. 253 00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:48,474 M. Bonpland, how good to have met you! 254 00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:49,813 Hallelujah! 255 00:21:55,022 --> 00:21:57,320 "To anyone who explores a new continent" 256 00:21:57,691 --> 00:21:59,193 he at once wrote to Wilhelm, 257 00:21:59,735 --> 00:22:03,456 "all things must be important." 258 00:22:04,615 --> 00:22:06,583 What are you writing, Alexander? 259 00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:08,873 A travelogue for my brother. 260 00:22:09,245 --> 00:22:10,792 So he always knows where I am. 261 00:22:13,374 --> 00:22:15,217 I can hardly wait. Allez, Aimé. 262 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:16,628 Come along. - Good. 263 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:22,016 The excitement in me is like 10,000 boars! 264 00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:26,638 At last being one with the nature I dreamt of as a child. 265 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,024 And I'm not counting on going back. 266 00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:12,604 What are you thinking about, Carl? 267 00:23:13,642 --> 00:23:15,485 What a number really is. 268 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:17,312 Is that difficult? 269 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:21,276 One cloud... plus one cloud... 270 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,037 how many clouds is that? 271 00:23:33,787 --> 00:23:35,255 It wouldn't be two? 272 00:23:36,457 --> 00:23:39,552 It's about... my re-ordering... 273 00:23:41,462 --> 00:23:43,556 all of number theory. 274 00:23:43,964 --> 00:23:45,261 How long will it take? 275 00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:48,140 It's the work of a lifetime. 276 00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:51,772 One year, perhaps. 277 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,024 And then I should be done. 278 00:23:57,519 --> 00:23:59,772 I hope I need longer. 279 00:24:01,482 --> 00:24:03,405 You hope you'll need longer? 280 00:24:06,362 --> 00:24:07,739 You'll need longer! 281 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,586 All I can tell you about numbers 282 00:24:13,744 --> 00:24:16,873 is they're on the banknotes you owe me. 283 00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:20,968 I can't always give you credit! 284 00:24:22,169 --> 00:24:23,295 Gauss! 285 00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,388 Gauss! 286 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:27,516 Gauss! 287 00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:36,642 What is this filth, Gauss? 288 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:40,529 A heptadecagon. - A what? 289 00:24:42,898 --> 00:24:45,526 A heptadecagon. -"A heptadecagon." 290 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:50,456 Does our young grant-winner believe it's what he owes his country? 291 00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:53,125 I've solved a 2000-year-old problem... forever. 292 00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:56,753 All your purported intelligence won't be required to comprehend this: 293 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:58,084 Remember: 294 00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:00,124 One more heptadecagon, 295 00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:06,298 more worthless piss like this, and you'll be paying back your grant! 296 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:09,425 There'll be no professorship for you, 297 00:25:09,591 --> 00:25:12,470 you won't even be calculating the shit produced here, 298 00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:14,479 and that's plenty of shit. 299 00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:17,396 There'll be no more Gauss-the-mathematician! 300 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:22,438 I trust you can comprehend that. 301 00:25:59,683 --> 00:26:02,607 46... 302 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:08,697 147 on one head! 303 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:10,699 How very interesting. 304 00:26:10,986 --> 00:26:13,535 There's so much to do, and you count lice! 305 00:26:14,364 --> 00:26:15,866 Un piojo! - Sorry? 306 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,952 Un piojo! - What good... 307 00:26:18,494 --> 00:26:21,714 are statistics about head lice? 308 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,504 We'll know when we have them. 309 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,469 Little enigmas are not to be passed over. 310 00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:30,756 All things count when exploring a new continent. 311 00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:37,180 He wanted to discover animals no one had seen, 312 00:26:37,471 --> 00:26:39,565 collect plants no one yet owned. 313 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:42,606 He wanted to understand the flow of air and water, 314 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:45,863 to weigh the earth and measure the height of the firmament, 315 00:26:46,313 --> 00:26:49,192 so great, rich, varied and enigmatic 316 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:50,822 was nature. 317 00:26:57,366 --> 00:26:58,959 Four, five... 318 00:27:03,664 --> 00:27:04,916 Lord! 319 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:09,007 Where is the donkey? 320 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:15,388 Gone! - Señor... 321 00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:18,304 On the donkey were two barometers, 322 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:20,935 a hypsometer and my best theodolite! 323 00:27:21,098 --> 00:27:23,567 Alexander! - This is completely... 324 00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:27,070 mad! It's... loco! 325 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:29,486 My best theodolite! No! 326 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:33,198 Find the donkey! I don't care if it takes you three days. 327 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,862 Failure is unacceptable. 328 00:27:35,237 --> 00:27:37,535 Please. Such things happen. 329 00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:39,700 "Such things happen." Merci beaucoup! 330 00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:41,289 Such things are not to happen! 331 00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:43,871 You... go and look for the donkey. 332 00:27:54,047 --> 00:27:56,891 Yield is not the same as size. 333 00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:58,347 That's what counts. 334 00:27:58,969 --> 00:28:01,973 Well I don't know. My Lorinda had huge ones. 335 00:28:10,981 --> 00:28:14,326 If being large doesn't make them high-yielding, 336 00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:17,404 being small certainly doesn't! 337 00:28:17,654 --> 00:28:18,701 This one... 338 00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:20,662 this one... 339 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:22,333 is the best one... 340 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,792 I take both, right? 341 00:28:29,958 --> 00:28:32,882 Right, but let's go and drink tea now. 342 00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:47,560 Children! Come and drink coffee. 343 00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:05,961 If one gives me none, I'll get it from the other... 344 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:07,253 Milk! 345 00:29:16,922 --> 00:29:19,892 My God, he's just a child. Remove the chains. 346 00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:23,854 Remove the chains. - Of course, of course. 347 00:29:24,054 --> 00:29:27,649 You just have to buy them. Three gold doubloons. 348 00:29:27,808 --> 00:29:30,311 He's still very young but he's sturdy. 349 00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:33,655 Is that not the man everyone is speaking about? 350 00:29:34,648 --> 00:29:38,653 Don't have him work too much at first, and he'll last longer. 351 00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:42,373 You can examine him first. 352 00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:45,333 Stop, I'm no slave owner... - Alexander... 353 00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:50,839 Just him? 15 gold doubloons for the lot. 354 00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:56,465 14. A special price for my friend, 355 00:29:57,045 --> 00:30:01,221 the slave liberator! The liberator of slaves. 356 00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:04,720 But that's the lowest I can go. 357 00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:11,977 You are free! - I get new ware next week. 358 00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:14,271 Sois libres! 359 00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:18,154 Vous étes libre. Tell them they're free. 360 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,782 He wants to know where to go. 361 00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:32,123 They don't know where to go. 362 00:30:35,417 --> 00:30:37,294 Wherever they like. They are free. 363 00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:43,217 I'll buy them all. All. Here's the money. 364 00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:45,803 I'm taking them all. Remove their chains. 365 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:48,730 They can't be released. - All of them! 366 00:30:49,139 --> 00:30:50,140 All. - Calm down. 367 00:30:50,390 --> 00:30:52,688 All of them... remove the chains. 368 00:30:54,227 --> 00:30:56,229 No! - Remove all the chains. 369 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,029 You have offended the name of God... 370 00:30:59,399 --> 00:31:02,278 What? -... and the Spanish crown... 371 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:06,790 All people were equally born to freedom. - Watch out... 372 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:10,077 von Humboldt. - You shall hear my name again. 373 00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,287 Calm down... - That you shall! 374 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:16,959 They are also free. 375 00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:20,591 Slavery is the second greatest evil of our era. 376 00:31:21,004 --> 00:31:22,381 Really? - Yes. 377 00:31:23,006 --> 00:31:24,258 What's the greatest one? 378 00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:27,432 The claim that humans are descended from monkeys. 379 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:37,502 8 degrees, 33, 36... 380 00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:41,718 Eat. 381 00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:45,218 Eat. 382 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:48,509 Food. - Eat? 383 00:32:52,888 --> 00:32:54,310 Food. - Here. 384 00:33:02,272 --> 00:33:03,273 Alexander! 385 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,319 Alexander! Help! 386 00:33:08,028 --> 00:33:09,951 Help, Alexander! 387 00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:17,542 Aim well! There's only one shot. 388 00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:20,457 Damn it, Alexander... 389 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,130 shoot! 390 00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:26,675 What the hell! Why won't you help me? 391 00:33:48,777 --> 00:33:51,906 Ducks. No pattern. Random distribution. 392 00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:55,872 But order increases. Why? Oh, look, it's the dog. 393 00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:58,791 He's herding them. 394 00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:01,711 The force of order. 395 00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,013 Scram! 396 00:34:09,422 --> 00:34:13,097 Get lost! Damn hound! Get lost! 397 00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:18,348 Ludwig, get lost. 398 00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:23,729 Thanks. - What are you doing there? 399 00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:28,483 I'm measuring the land. 400 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:31,824 It's work. Staking out triangles. - Triangles? 401 00:34:33,321 --> 00:34:36,165 It's called triangulation. - Aren't you... 402 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,952 Aren't you that Carl 403 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:41,455 whose maths got him into higher education? 404 00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:05,696 You don't remember me? - Johanna! 405 00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:13,661 Have you heard of the Prussian baron 406 00:35:14,529 --> 00:35:18,159 who's measuring the New World? Everyone's talking about him. 407 00:35:18,658 --> 00:35:21,207 Measuring is not very demanding. 408 00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:25,207 Any idiot can do it. Even a trained monkey could do it. 409 00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:28,384 It looks tricky to me. 410 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,675 You need only know one side and two angles of a triangle, 411 00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:39,392 then, with this device, you can determine the other sides and angle. 412 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,984 Run up a series of such triangles and you've got the whole plane. 413 00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:50,365 But a landscape is not a plane. 414 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,375 Right? 415 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:12,842 You're right. 416 00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:18,970 Because a triangle only has a total of... 417 00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:21,976 180 degrees on a flat surface... 418 00:36:23,807 --> 00:36:27,778 That can't be true of a sphere, can it? 419 00:36:32,273 --> 00:36:34,401 Who knows? I didn't have higher education. 420 00:36:36,903 --> 00:36:38,496 You're absolutely right. 421 00:36:39,447 --> 00:36:42,826 Fine, but then... the measurements are wrong. 422 00:36:44,452 --> 00:36:47,831 Yes, slightly, the globe... Are you engaged? 423 00:36:49,249 --> 00:36:50,671 No. 424 00:36:57,507 --> 00:36:59,384 But the errors are accumulative. 425 00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:05,558 To compensate you would have to... after measuring you'd have to... 426 00:37:13,314 --> 00:37:15,487 in a sense shrink them into... 427 00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:19,362 infinitely small units. 428 00:37:21,322 --> 00:37:23,871 A simple differential operation, actually. 429 00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:26,211 But in this form... 430 00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:36,547 No one has yet done it in this form. The simplest things elude one. 431 00:38:03,364 --> 00:38:05,537 Monsieur Bonpland! Are you all right? 432 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:07,327 Good. 433 00:38:10,413 --> 00:38:11,835 My head. 434 00:38:12,749 --> 00:38:16,754 It has been correctly bandaged. The ache is normal and will fade. 435 00:38:17,378 --> 00:38:19,631 You're a doctor yourself, Aimé Bonpland. 436 00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:21,633 You know this as well as I do. 437 00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:32,398 Alexander, don't you think we have too much cargo? 438 00:38:32,685 --> 00:38:36,110 It's little compared to all that we have to explore and measure. 439 00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:39,234 I meant too much for the boat. 440 00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:42,954 We'll send some items to Europe from the next missionary point. 441 00:38:43,196 --> 00:38:44,789 To Europe? 442 00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:48,706 This is going to Europe? 443 00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:53,586 Put that back down now! - Oh, is it valuable? 444 00:38:54,207 --> 00:38:57,461 That's the Humboldt Monkey. - What? 445 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:00,672 Simia Humboldt, it's named after me. 446 00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:09,856 Have you named anything after me, too? - Not yet. 447 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:54,582 What an honour for our mission, Baron. 448 00:40:54,744 --> 00:40:56,917 Your reputation precedes you. 449 00:40:58,081 --> 00:40:59,549 You speak German? 450 00:41:00,249 --> 00:41:02,752 Spanish, German, French, English, 451 00:41:02,919 --> 00:41:05,047 Greek and Aramaic. - You're a Jesuit. 452 00:41:05,838 --> 00:41:10,309 You know that the Jesuits were driven from this land. They are no longer here. 453 00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,020 Right. So you're not one? 454 00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:14,647 I didn't say that. 455 00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:19,440 Do you have any requests, Baron. Can we help you? 456 00:41:19,894 --> 00:41:23,569 Yes. I'd like to send cases of samples to Europe. 457 00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:26,025 And I require oarsmen 458 00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:28,824 familiar with the dangerous waterfalls. 459 00:41:29,070 --> 00:41:31,198 Natives who are not afraid to take a risk. 460 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:32,907 I understand. 461 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:35,118 We will doubtless find such men. 462 00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:38,379 They have to be volunteers. - Of course. 463 00:41:38,579 --> 00:41:39,705 Volunteers. 464 00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:41,875 But you do know, I hope, 465 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:46,133 that cannibals dwell beyond the waterfalls. 466 00:41:49,132 --> 00:41:51,260 This is my assistant, Aimé Bonpland. 467 00:41:51,634 --> 00:41:53,181 What? 468 00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:56,272 Alexander, I'm not our assistant. 469 00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:58,938 "Colleague", if you please. 470 00:42:00,143 --> 00:42:01,395 Come along, please. 471 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,025 After you. 472 00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:09,137 Let me see. - Get lost. 473 00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:11,263 I just want a peek. - Get off! 474 00:43:14,258 --> 00:43:16,386 If you'll be seated... - How much? 475 00:43:17,011 --> 00:43:19,230 Bargain rates, 15 pfennigs to pull a tooth. 476 00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:22,149 Ten. - I've a living to make, too, Sir. 12! 477 00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:36,197 By your leave, I have to strap you in. 478 00:43:43,871 --> 00:43:45,293 Careful, careful... 479 00:43:49,669 --> 00:43:51,512 It doesn't look good. 480 00:43:51,712 --> 00:43:53,214 Back right, is it? 481 00:43:53,881 --> 00:43:55,599 It doesn't look good. 482 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,766 Oh God, the pincers! 483 00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:07,153 Won't you at least wash them? 484 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:10,732 Schnapps washes best. 485 00:44:33,838 --> 00:44:35,055 So... 486 00:44:36,299 --> 00:44:37,642 Does it still hurt? - Yes! 487 00:44:38,885 --> 00:44:39,886 Wrong tooth. 488 00:44:41,304 --> 00:44:42,476 It happens. 489 00:44:43,556 --> 00:44:45,900 It's lucky humans have so many teeth. 490 00:44:49,562 --> 00:44:51,314 Should I shave you, too? 491 00:44:51,731 --> 00:44:53,278 It's five pfennigs more. 492 00:44:55,818 --> 00:44:57,786 Terrible weather we've been having. 493 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,295 Have you heard of that... 494 00:45:07,038 --> 00:45:08,130 Napoleon? 495 00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:12,677 He knew perfectly well that in 200 years 496 00:45:13,002 --> 00:45:14,879 there would be dentists, 497 00:45:15,046 --> 00:45:17,890 and toothless people would be a thing of the past. 498 00:45:18,883 --> 00:45:20,806 And no one would go bald any more. 499 00:45:20,968 --> 00:45:22,185 Almost got it. 500 00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:25,185 Why didn't people think of such things? 501 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:28,605 For them things were self-evident. 502 00:45:29,602 --> 00:45:32,856 Analgesics... How simple it would be. 503 00:45:33,022 --> 00:45:35,320 Just dull the nerve at the right place. 504 00:45:36,108 --> 00:45:38,486 Curare had to be researched properly. 505 00:45:46,577 --> 00:45:48,295 "Dear Brother, 506 00:45:48,454 --> 00:45:50,377 the trip outstrips all expectations, 507 00:45:50,539 --> 00:45:52,541 as does the abundance of discoveries. 508 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:54,127 Ditto its dangers. 509 00:45:54,335 --> 00:45:57,134 The Orinoco is full of waiting caimans, 510 00:45:57,546 --> 00:46:01,426 their backs like floating logs in the shimmering midday sun. 511 00:46:02,009 --> 00:46:06,014 Only recently I was able to free some slaves. 512 00:46:06,347 --> 00:46:10,193 Happiness and silent gratitude illuminated their faces. 513 00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:11,944 A sight... 514 00:46:12,728 --> 00:46:14,730 hard to forget. 515 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:18,325 The concept of a new science, 516 00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:21,571 one of physical geography, becomes apparent. 517 00:46:21,779 --> 00:46:25,124 As soon as you receive this, have it announced in the papers: 518 00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:28,661 I think the world will know my name." 519 00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:00,886 M. Bonpland! An electric eel. 520 00:48:01,629 --> 00:48:03,051 What? 521 00:48:06,008 --> 00:48:07,635 What is this in aid of? 522 00:48:07,843 --> 00:48:10,187 An experiment. - An experiment. Good. 523 00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:13,266 What is it to demonstrate? - If we knew that, 524 00:48:13,516 --> 00:48:15,439 it wouldn't be an experiment. 525 00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:17,103 We have seen that such eels 526 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,443 can give off galvanic shocks 527 00:48:19,855 --> 00:48:23,200 that can knock you out or kill you. - So it would seem. 528 00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:25,994 What a strange force 529 00:48:26,195 --> 00:48:28,323 this electricity must be. 530 00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:31,288 We cannot measure it, there are no formulas, 531 00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:33,707 but feel it we can. 532 00:48:36,497 --> 00:48:37,874 Hang it up! 533 00:48:43,963 --> 00:48:46,091 Place two cupping glasses on my back. 534 00:48:48,259 --> 00:48:50,102 Good. 535 00:48:54,974 --> 00:48:57,068 Good. The second. 536 00:49:00,396 --> 00:49:04,492 Good. - Remove them and cut open the blisters. 537 00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:06,827 Cut them open? 538 00:49:27,006 --> 00:49:28,804 Yes. Good. 539 00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:31,552 Now the piece of zinc. 540 00:49:32,511 --> 00:49:33,888 Zinc. 541 00:49:36,056 --> 00:49:39,936 Very good. Now please apply a piece of silver to the other wound. 542 00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,819 Aimé, so much knowledge is lost to man because he fears pain, but he who... 543 00:49:54,617 --> 00:49:56,210 Please take a note. 544 00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:58,291 Cucullaris muscle. 545 00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:01,711 Occipital bone. Extension of the dorsal vertebra. 546 00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:04,135 There is definite flow of galvanic energy. 547 00:50:04,627 --> 00:50:06,800 Have you got that? -Indeed. -Good. 548 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:08,221 Now, quick... 549 00:50:08,464 --> 00:50:10,307 the eel. I have to know... 550 00:50:10,799 --> 00:50:13,643 if its muscles still contain electric energy. 551 00:50:17,556 --> 00:50:19,058 The eel... 552 00:50:22,478 --> 00:50:23,946 Good. Now the silver. 553 00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:25,819 Silver? - Silver! 554 00:50:26,815 --> 00:50:28,032 Silver! 555 00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:31,908 One, two, three... 556 00:50:32,279 --> 00:50:33,622 Carl? 557 00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:36,162 Have you seen? 558 00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:41,623 The baron writes of caimans in the river, 559 00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:44,667 and is searching for the passage between the Orinoco 560 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,422 and the Amazon. 561 00:50:46,919 --> 00:50:48,887 He is quite fearless. 562 00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:52,261 And so handsome. 563 00:50:55,052 --> 00:50:56,645 I've almost finished my book. 564 00:51:00,849 --> 00:51:02,601 And... what's it about? 565 00:51:10,693 --> 00:51:12,411 The number line. 566 00:51:12,987 --> 00:51:14,330 This is zero, 567 00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:17,579 One, two, three, the natural numbers. 568 00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:20,127 The integers, the negative ones, too. 569 00:51:20,286 --> 00:51:23,586 There are fractions, rational numbers, square roots, irrational numbers. 570 00:51:24,206 --> 00:51:26,334 Calculations yield new numbers, 571 00:51:26,625 --> 00:51:28,548 the field must always be extended. 572 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:31,297 There is no more room here, 573 00:51:32,089 --> 00:51:34,217 but if I include the vertical axis, 574 00:51:36,135 --> 00:51:38,684 a new mathematical space opens. 575 00:51:40,139 --> 00:51:41,891 I name this number i, 576 00:51:43,809 --> 00:51:47,234 that number minus i, and can solve previously irresolvable equations, 577 00:51:47,396 --> 00:51:50,525 can describe the reduction of polynomials and show... 578 00:51:50,858 --> 00:51:53,236 that all polynomials are reducible. 579 00:51:58,198 --> 00:52:00,667 And what use is that? 580 00:52:01,368 --> 00:52:05,043 Electricity can be... Use? It's not a matter of usefulness. 581 00:52:05,831 --> 00:52:07,174 I've almost finished. 582 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,718 Then I will come to you. 583 00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:38,163 Gracias. 584 00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:44,961 Yes... 585 00:52:45,537 --> 00:52:48,131 Thank you... 586 00:53:35,087 --> 00:53:36,384 Aimé Bonpland? 587 00:54:12,291 --> 00:54:14,293 Stop! - Alexander! 588 00:54:20,507 --> 00:54:22,054 One moment... 589 00:54:24,303 --> 00:54:26,351 What is your problem? - My problem? 590 00:54:27,598 --> 00:54:30,351 Yes. - Aimé Bonpland, if you do this again, 591 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:34,109 I'll no more work with you. 592 00:54:34,563 --> 00:54:35,940 What's wrong about it? 593 00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:40,403 You yourself are a man. - Think of your fiancée. 594 00:54:40,569 --> 00:54:42,037 My fiancée? 595 00:54:43,739 --> 00:54:46,288 I don't have one. - Man is not an animal. 596 00:54:47,367 --> 00:54:49,586 Yet at times he is. - Kant! 597 00:54:49,870 --> 00:54:51,588 Have you read Immanuel Kant? 598 00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:54,253 "Act only according to that maxim which 599 00:54:54,458 --> 00:54:58,053 you can will it become universal law." - Alexander. 600 00:54:58,629 --> 00:55:00,631 I am a Frenchman. - Well? 601 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,888 We don't read foreign books. 602 00:55:05,260 --> 00:55:06,978 One more time, 603 00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:10,266 and you're travelling alone, you hear me? 604 00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:15,153 Well, do you? - I do. 605 00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:16,818 Listen, Alexander. 606 00:55:17,773 --> 00:55:20,822 If anyone has reason to be angry here 607 00:55:21,026 --> 00:55:23,028 it's me. - Not that again! 608 00:55:23,237 --> 00:55:26,241 I had to save the equipment. Had I not reacted quickly, 609 00:55:26,406 --> 00:55:29,376 Parisian Time would have been damaged. You'd have done the same. 610 00:55:30,536 --> 00:55:33,289 You say I wouldn't have helped you 611 00:55:33,497 --> 00:55:35,670 if those two were beating you to death? 612 00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:37,543 Right. 613 00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:41,339 I'd have let him smash your brains out? - Of course. 614 00:55:43,048 --> 00:55:44,800 I expect you're right. 615 00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:51,232 Oh God, Alexander! Why must you be so German? 616 00:55:58,564 --> 00:56:00,111 Work calls. 617 00:56:06,154 --> 00:56:09,408 Usurers! Impertinent usurers! - This is still cheap. 618 00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:11,077 Nonsense. Our discount... 619 00:56:11,285 --> 00:56:14,164 was taken into account. This is excellent meat. 620 00:56:14,538 --> 00:56:15,915 Rubbish. 7, 5. 621 00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:18,049 5. Take P, a positive prime number, 622 00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:21,254 you pig! - Take K, an integer non-divisible by P, 623 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:24,802 you stingy wreck! Take A, the entirety of all numbers. 624 00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:27,388 Take B, the entirety of all numbers. 625 00:56:27,718 --> 00:56:29,891 Half P plus 1, half P plus 2, 626 00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:32,389 half P plus 3, half P plus 5, 627 00:56:32,556 --> 00:56:34,558 and continuing ever thuswise... 628 00:56:34,725 --> 00:56:38,320 Take the smallest positive results of the products of K, 629 00:56:38,478 --> 00:56:41,652 and the individual digits of A, as specified by P... 630 00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:52,079 Finished! 631 00:57:12,054 --> 00:57:14,056 I'm getting married, Mother. 632 00:57:16,975 --> 00:57:18,227 Why? 633 00:57:18,602 --> 00:57:20,730 Who knows how long you'll be here for me? 634 00:57:22,272 --> 00:57:23,649 I need someone. 635 00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:26,990 Her name is Johanna. 636 00:57:27,486 --> 00:57:30,285 I went to school with her. - That's right. 637 00:57:31,114 --> 00:57:32,661 You cannot be alone. 638 00:57:33,825 --> 00:57:35,498 You need someone. 639 00:57:37,663 --> 00:57:40,712 You'll need to find a post. - That's right. 640 00:57:43,919 --> 00:57:46,718 You'll have to be able to feed a family. 641 00:58:07,818 --> 00:58:09,411 Unbelievable! 642 00:58:11,530 --> 00:58:13,498 Yes! Unbelievable. 643 00:58:15,575 --> 00:58:17,248 What a find. 644 00:58:17,786 --> 00:58:20,130 What are you doing there... Alexander? 645 00:58:23,792 --> 00:58:24,793 Alexander! 646 00:58:29,798 --> 00:58:31,721 We're leaving! Pack up! Now! 647 00:58:32,175 --> 00:58:34,269 What happened? - Aimé... 648 00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:37,480 Come on. Help me. - Yes, but how? 649 00:58:37,639 --> 00:58:39,391 Take a mummy. - Why? 650 00:58:39,850 --> 00:58:42,148 Lord, need I always argue with you? 651 00:58:42,561 --> 00:58:43,938 Take one! 652 00:58:44,771 --> 00:58:46,239 Go on! 653 00:58:50,277 --> 00:58:53,406 Do it! - Help me. -Allez. 654 00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:55,290 You cannot be serious. 655 00:58:56,324 --> 00:58:59,874 Alexander! We're grave robbing from the Indians. 656 00:59:01,079 --> 00:59:02,797 You go too far. 657 00:59:03,415 --> 00:59:04,883 Oh, come along, now! 658 00:59:05,333 --> 00:59:06,926 Aimé, my dear friend, 659 00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:10,798 scientific knowledge is all that counts here. 660 00:59:20,891 --> 00:59:24,236 What's in there? - Various things. 661 00:59:24,644 --> 00:59:27,022 Some things. - Doesn't seem so. 662 00:59:28,899 --> 00:59:30,401 Want to take a look? 663 00:59:34,905 --> 00:59:36,202 A look? 664 00:59:43,914 --> 00:59:45,382 Bonpland? 665 00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:46,629 Come on! 666 00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:52,847 My God, all this superstition, it's unbearable. 667 00:59:53,715 --> 00:59:56,594 How are we to import the Enlightenment? 668 01:00:10,190 --> 01:00:11,658 What is this? 669 01:00:12,442 --> 01:00:14,661 Your oarsmen, the volunteers. 670 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:16,413 I cannot accept this. 671 01:00:16,613 --> 01:00:18,615 I would advise you to swiftly travel forth. 672 01:00:18,949 --> 01:00:20,041 There's bad blood. 673 01:00:20,283 --> 01:00:23,708 You didn't behave diplomatically. - Stop. 674 01:00:24,287 --> 01:00:27,666 Those two men did no harm. And they are not volunteers. 675 01:00:27,999 --> 01:00:29,672 You never know with these people. 676 01:00:29,835 --> 01:00:32,884 First they volunteer, then they can't be found. 677 01:00:33,338 --> 01:00:35,306 And anyway, they all look so similar. 678 01:00:36,424 --> 01:00:39,098 Take your stones and corpses 679 01:00:39,427 --> 01:00:42,101 and, as you travel, give thought to how... 680 01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:44,432 how easy it is to be humane 681 01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:46,772 if one is in Weimar or Paris. 682 01:00:46,977 --> 01:00:51,278 But if with just a few soldiers, you have to rule over thousands of heathens, 683 01:00:51,690 --> 01:00:55,695 who wouldn't hesitate a moment to chop your head off... 684 01:00:56,027 --> 01:01:00,157 - and why should they hesitate - then everything is slightly more complex. 685 01:01:00,615 --> 01:01:02,367 Why are you here at all? 686 01:01:02,909 --> 01:01:04,411 What is your real plan? 687 01:01:04,619 --> 01:01:07,247 Nobody travels across the whole world 688 01:01:07,414 --> 01:01:10,839 just to measure a piece of land they don't even own. 689 01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:12,882 But... But... 690 01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:17,303 What is it to be: the waterfalls or a journey home... 691 01:01:18,133 --> 01:01:20,306 your exploration, your skeletons, 692 01:01:20,677 --> 01:01:23,396 or the freedom of these people? 693 01:01:24,723 --> 01:01:26,396 So, I have no choice. 694 01:01:26,725 --> 01:01:28,443 I wouldn't say that. 695 01:01:28,977 --> 01:01:30,979 You have ten seconds. 696 01:01:33,315 --> 01:01:34,862 We leave the mummies here. 697 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:37,198 I told you... - This is no use. 698 01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:39,742 This is by no means acceptable. 699 01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:41,748 I will not tolerate this. 700 01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:44,910 Now three seconds remain. 701 01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:56,050 One... two... three... 702 01:01:56,338 --> 01:02:00,013 four... five... six... 703 01:02:00,342 --> 01:02:03,391 seven... and all that is one snake! 704 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:22,122 Who do we have here? 705 01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:29,208 Ah... Humboldt Monkey. Ah, Gauss! 706 01:02:29,496 --> 01:02:32,090 You wished to see me? - My book... 707 01:02:32,791 --> 01:02:34,293 Baron. 708 01:02:35,335 --> 01:02:37,178 The first copy. 709 01:02:56,731 --> 01:02:57,948 This is... 710 01:03:08,410 --> 01:03:09,957 fine, Gauss. 711 01:03:10,578 --> 01:03:11,579 Fine. 712 01:03:11,830 --> 01:03:13,252 We need capable teachers 713 01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:15,424 for our new university. 714 01:03:15,917 --> 01:03:17,965 Our youth... 715 01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:20,884 needs teaching. - Baron... 716 01:03:21,047 --> 01:03:22,594 Let's have a look. 717 01:03:25,218 --> 01:03:26,765 These teeth! 718 01:03:28,013 --> 01:03:29,856 Come. Want to touch them? 719 01:03:30,932 --> 01:03:34,562 It is... Such unbelievable teeth! 720 01:04:08,928 --> 01:04:10,396 I brought you something. 721 01:04:13,058 --> 01:04:14,981 Your book. - Yes. 722 01:04:16,561 --> 01:04:24,116 "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, by... Carl Friedrich Gauss". 723 01:04:24,277 --> 01:04:26,279 It's central to mathematical history. 724 01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:28,991 How modest. - Modesty is irrelevant. 725 01:04:29,157 --> 01:04:32,832 It is a key work in mathematical history. No one will deny that. 726 01:04:33,661 --> 01:04:36,039 My life's work is done... 727 01:04:37,290 --> 01:04:39,839 The future is an anticlimax. 728 01:04:41,294 --> 01:04:44,298 And it's me you're sharing this with? - Yes. 729 01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:52,264 Johanna, I... 730 01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:01,030 I can feed a family. It's not hard at all. 731 01:05:01,523 --> 01:05:03,446 I can measure land. 732 01:05:03,608 --> 01:05:07,033 I can discover stars, I can speculate on the stock exchange. 733 01:05:09,197 --> 01:05:12,076 Earning money is easy if you've nothing better to do. 734 01:05:12,242 --> 01:05:15,496 You needn't worry about that. - I don't worry about it. 735 01:05:19,290 --> 01:05:20,291 But? 736 01:05:23,628 --> 01:05:25,346 He's too fine for a proper job! 737 01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:29,179 A book! - Excuse me, Minna. 738 01:05:42,188 --> 01:05:45,067 I doubt that it's possible to be happy beside you. 739 01:05:46,651 --> 01:05:48,779 Have I... - You have too much to do. 740 01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:51,952 A man like you shouldn't marry. 741 01:05:52,323 --> 01:05:57,204 You draw strength and life from the people around you, 742 01:05:57,370 --> 01:06:00,374 like the earth from the sun, or... 743 01:06:01,374 --> 01:06:03,342 the sea from rivers... I... 744 01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:06,425 I am honoured, 745 01:06:07,297 --> 01:06:09,391 and I am moved, and... 746 01:06:09,924 --> 01:06:12,052 perhaps I do love you, but... 747 01:06:12,343 --> 01:06:14,345 I must, nonetheless, refuse. 748 01:06:22,187 --> 01:06:24,315 I expected rejection, 749 01:06:26,774 --> 01:06:29,653 but not with such good justification. 750 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,784 I remain your servant... 751 01:06:36,451 --> 01:06:39,921 Are you going away? - I am travelling to Königsberg. 752 01:06:40,079 --> 01:06:41,501 I must visit someone. 753 01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:44,092 There are two ways to be understood: 754 01:06:44,584 --> 01:06:46,461 One is through true love, 755 01:06:48,379 --> 01:06:50,507 the other through pure reason. 756 01:06:57,805 --> 01:06:59,933 881,451 757 01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:03,399 881,473... 758 01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:07,323 881,477... 759 01:07:08,191 --> 01:07:10,660 881,479... 760 01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:14,239 Are you praying? - Prime numbers. 761 01:07:46,062 --> 01:07:47,905 How far will we go? 762 01:07:48,106 --> 01:07:50,108 The Amazon. - To the Amazon? 763 01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:53,779 There's no way from here to the Amazon, everyone knows that. 764 01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:56,368 There must be a passage. 765 01:07:57,031 --> 01:07:58,533 A natural canal. 766 01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:03,747 The world is a unity. 767 01:08:03,913 --> 01:08:06,007 All currents interact, 768 01:08:06,165 --> 01:08:08,167 all systems are one. 769 01:08:09,127 --> 01:08:11,380 Even if you're right, it's deep in the jungle. 770 01:08:11,546 --> 01:08:13,514 The jungle is only a forest. 771 01:08:16,718 --> 01:08:20,439 Don't breathe so deeply, there are miasma and fever-vapours... 772 01:08:20,888 --> 01:08:24,643 Always complaining, objecting, always the negative energy. 773 01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:28,276 Is a little enthusiasm too much to ask? 774 01:08:32,984 --> 01:08:34,986 The magnetic equator. 775 01:08:36,154 --> 01:08:39,624 As a child, Humboldt had dreamt of this place. 776 01:08:41,326 --> 01:08:44,296 The terrain was detailed on no map. 777 01:08:44,579 --> 01:08:48,709 They could only guess where the water was bringing them. 778 01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,910 Might I speak with Professor Kant? - The professor receives no visitors. 779 01:09:20,114 --> 01:09:23,163 Listen, I have come from very, very... 780 01:09:24,911 --> 01:09:27,539 very far away, and must speak to him. 781 01:09:28,373 --> 01:09:31,377 And believe you me, he wants to speak to me, too. 782 01:09:46,641 --> 01:09:47,893 Is that him? 783 01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:05,460 My name is Carl Friedrich Gauss, you may have heard of me. 784 01:10:05,660 --> 01:10:08,163 This is my work, the foundation of number theory. 785 01:10:14,168 --> 01:10:16,011 Professor Kant, I... 786 01:10:19,173 --> 01:10:22,643 Professor Kant, I have never been able to speak to someone as an equal. 787 01:10:22,802 --> 01:10:25,555 Everyone is slower, duller, more stupid... 788 01:10:26,931 --> 01:10:28,649 I didn't ask for this. 789 01:10:28,808 --> 01:10:33,063 I am... very alone... But you must know this feeling. 790 01:10:34,355 --> 01:10:35,982 He explained everything: 791 01:10:36,274 --> 01:10:38,493 His presumption that space buckles; 792 01:10:38,693 --> 01:10:41,822 that parallel lines meet in the infinite; 793 01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,658 his suspicion that time is flexible; 794 01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:47,418 that these insights are neither dream nor fantasy, 795 01:10:47,577 --> 01:10:50,581 but calculable matters which, in the future, 796 01:10:50,788 --> 01:10:52,790 will be thought self-evident. 797 01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:54,425 He had never spoken of this. 798 01:10:54,584 --> 01:10:58,589 He knew how swiftly one is ridiculed or called mad, 799 01:10:58,921 --> 01:11:00,343 how dangerous thought is. 800 01:11:01,048 --> 01:11:02,846 Professor, I need your opinion. 801 01:11:04,469 --> 01:11:07,564 I've waited all my life to meet the one person 802 01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:11,442 who can understand me, and to whom I can explain... 803 01:11:11,726 --> 01:11:13,774 all I have discovered. 804 01:11:15,062 --> 01:11:17,861 Wiener! - Sorry? 805 01:11:20,693 --> 01:11:22,821 The servant should buy wieners. 806 01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:26,115 Wieners. And stars. 807 01:11:26,407 --> 01:11:28,455 He should buy them, too. 808 01:11:33,289 --> 01:11:34,586 You see, Sir: 809 01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:39,425 Civility has not quite left me. 810 01:11:41,589 --> 01:11:43,091 This is Immanuel Kant? 811 01:11:45,009 --> 01:11:52,359 The Lord, in His great bounty... 812 01:11:53,392 --> 01:11:59,570 to this day accompanies me... 813 01:12:00,983 --> 01:12:08,709 The Lord, in His great bounty... 814 01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:15,423 to this day sustaineth me... 815 01:12:50,408 --> 01:12:51,409 Carl... 816 01:12:55,496 --> 01:12:57,373 I've thought it over. - What? 817 01:12:57,748 --> 01:12:59,796 I want to marry you. - What, now? 818 01:13:00,042 --> 01:13:01,510 Yes. 819 01:13:02,628 --> 01:13:04,096 Now it's too late. - What? 820 01:13:04,839 --> 01:13:06,432 Curare! 821 01:13:06,841 --> 01:13:08,764 The whole bottle. - But... 822 01:13:09,343 --> 01:13:12,688 But I want to say "I do." - Johanna... 823 01:13:13,180 --> 01:13:14,853 I'm dying. 824 01:13:16,183 --> 01:13:17,730 I drank the whole bottle. 825 01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:19,771 What? - The whole bottle. 826 01:13:20,021 --> 01:13:22,524 Nothing and no one can save me. - Stop. 827 01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,738 Johanna... I'm dying. 828 01:13:29,780 --> 01:13:30,781 Carl? 829 01:13:39,665 --> 01:13:41,167 Ejaculate of the Lord! 830 01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:43,506 What shit luck! 831 01:13:45,546 --> 01:13:47,219 Aimé, are you well? 832 01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:51,686 I'm feverous. - I did tell you. 833 01:13:52,261 --> 01:13:55,390 It's the miasma rising from the jungle. 834 01:13:55,890 --> 01:13:58,109 I can feel it, too, but uniform helps. 835 01:13:58,976 --> 01:14:00,899 Uniform? - Yes. 836 01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:04,031 One must be so correct that fever cannot assail one. 837 01:14:04,190 --> 01:14:08,616 Illness is disorder. But, if you refuse to admit disorder... 838 01:14:09,403 --> 01:14:12,828 And this works? - Hitherto, yes. Commendably. 839 01:14:13,908 --> 01:14:15,876 Sometimes I think you're joking, 840 01:14:16,035 --> 01:14:18,129 but then I remember you're Prussian. 841 01:14:21,582 --> 01:14:23,584 A most in just prejudice. 842 01:14:23,876 --> 01:14:26,049 Prussians have splendid humour. 843 01:14:26,253 --> 01:14:29,848 Yes, yes... -indeed. Prussians laugh often. 844 01:14:31,342 --> 01:14:32,343 Yes! 845 01:14:32,677 --> 01:14:35,146 Read Gryphius' splendid comedies, 846 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:39,526 or the unmatched poetry of Martin Opitz. - Martin Opitz? 847 01:14:39,892 --> 01:14:42,065 Martin Opitz, yes. 848 01:14:43,270 --> 01:14:44,692 Martin Opitz. 849 01:14:50,987 --> 01:14:53,206 The bride! 850 01:14:53,447 --> 01:14:55,916 Gauss, a speech! - No, no, no! 851 01:14:56,075 --> 01:14:58,954 Carl, yes, a speech. - No... no! 852 01:14:59,787 --> 01:15:01,915 Now, Son, don't be coy. - Mama, please. 853 01:15:02,289 --> 01:15:04,963 A speech. Get on with it! 854 01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:11,803 I don't believe in happiness, 855 01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:16,597 I didn't believe I'd find happiness, 856 01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:20,771 and now it's here it looks to me like... 857 01:15:22,143 --> 01:15:23,565 a miscalculation: 858 01:15:23,894 --> 01:15:26,738 Something unintended and soon to be rectified. 859 01:15:30,985 --> 01:15:35,365 Let's hope that won't happen soon. Thanks to you all, enjoy the party. 860 01:15:38,993 --> 01:15:41,621 That was the speech I've always wished for. 861 01:16:10,524 --> 01:16:13,403 Have you ever done this before? - No. 862 01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:16,159 What makes you ask? 863 01:17:07,123 --> 01:17:08,875 I don't believe it! 864 01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:35,948 I've got it. - What? 865 01:17:40,197 --> 01:17:43,792 How to offset errors in planet-trajectory calculation. 866 01:17:44,952 --> 01:17:46,420 I've got it at last. 867 01:17:47,621 --> 01:17:49,248 What... right now? 868 01:17:49,748 --> 01:17:51,295 It'll alter cosmology. 869 01:17:53,252 --> 01:17:55,471 It's all thanks to you. You did it. 870 01:18:23,449 --> 01:18:26,168 You make the sweetest compliments. 871 01:19:41,443 --> 01:19:42,911 Strange, these roast monkeys. 872 01:19:44,154 --> 01:19:46,907 They resemble the limbs of small humans. 873 01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:49,122 It takes an effort of will to eat them. 874 01:19:49,910 --> 01:19:51,412 I can't eat that. 875 01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:55,587 You have to. Our supplies are finished. You have to. 876 01:19:57,001 --> 01:19:59,925 If I eat anything... - Yes? 877 01:20:00,296 --> 01:20:01,718 Oh, nothing. 878 01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:03,882 You know, Alexander, 879 01:20:04,675 --> 01:20:06,518 we are scientists. 880 01:20:07,136 --> 01:20:10,481 Yes. - We want to be realistic. 881 01:20:11,223 --> 01:20:14,853 True. - Everyone knows there's cannibalism here. 882 01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:17,689 So? 883 01:20:18,856 --> 01:20:20,233 Alexander, 884 01:20:21,525 --> 01:20:24,904 the people here regularly eat human flesh. 885 01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:29,242 So? - So? 886 01:20:30,534 --> 01:20:31,911 So... so... 887 01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:34,375 so this looks like human flesh, 888 01:20:34,663 --> 01:20:38,088 and they eat people around her. - Aimé! 889 01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:41,087 What? - We are all exhausted. 890 01:20:42,129 --> 01:20:44,723 You're feverous, so I won't be pedantic. 891 01:20:45,924 --> 01:20:47,551 Sorry? - If you ever, 892 01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,138 ever again dare say a Prussian civil servant, 893 01:20:50,471 --> 01:20:53,941 a scion of the Humboldt family, the godson of the Duke of Brunswick, 894 01:20:54,099 --> 01:20:56,727 ate human flesh, Aimé, then... 895 01:20:57,811 --> 01:20:59,563 I'll demand satisfaction. 896 01:21:01,482 --> 01:21:04,452 Unbelievable! - What! 897 01:21:05,486 --> 01:21:06,487 Truly. 898 01:21:07,821 --> 01:21:09,243 Mon Dieu! 899 01:21:11,658 --> 01:21:12,875 Aimé! 900 01:21:13,327 --> 01:21:14,328 Aimé 901 01:21:15,704 --> 01:21:18,048 Come along! Come on. Careful! 902 01:21:18,749 --> 01:21:19,875 Aimé, come on. 903 01:21:21,835 --> 01:21:23,553 Come on, more around. 904 01:21:23,796 --> 01:21:25,673 Just turn a little. Good. 905 01:21:26,256 --> 01:21:28,805 No, no. He stays on the ground. 906 01:21:29,468 --> 01:21:31,937 No, listen, let go of him. Leave him there. 907 01:21:33,514 --> 01:21:35,812 What are you doing? Stop it! 908 01:21:36,183 --> 01:21:37,810 Hey, stop that. Let go of him! 909 01:21:38,102 --> 01:21:42,403 That's my friend. He has a fever. What are you doing? 910 01:22:49,381 --> 01:22:51,054 Alexander! 911 01:22:52,342 --> 01:22:55,186 Aimé! - Alexander, you wouldn't believe it. 912 01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:57,223 Aimé, how are you? 913 01:22:57,389 --> 01:23:00,768 Write down what happened. You have to be my witness. 914 01:23:01,393 --> 01:23:04,943 The things I saw... - The boats, Aimé. We... 915 01:23:05,272 --> 01:23:06,649 have a long way to go. 916 01:23:07,399 --> 01:23:08,776 But the singing! 917 01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:10,782 Did you hear it? 918 01:23:11,612 --> 01:23:13,614 It healed me. 919 01:23:14,948 --> 01:23:17,326 Tra-la-la-la. Singing. 920 01:23:17,659 --> 01:23:20,538 But I know... I know what I saw. 921 01:23:20,704 --> 01:23:23,583 Maybe we're dreaming. Or maybe the jungle is. 922 01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:26,676 You don't understand 923 01:23:27,461 --> 01:23:30,305 what happened to me... - Aimé, we have to survive. 924 01:23:30,714 --> 01:23:32,842 We have to keep all things in order. 925 01:23:33,091 --> 01:23:35,719 No matter what we see. - Unbelievable. 926 01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:44,273 Don't you want to make a note of it 927 01:23:44,436 --> 01:23:45,813 for the sake of science? 928 01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:49,195 For science's sake, Aimé, I shall not. 929 01:23:50,859 --> 01:23:52,031 Now come along. 930 01:24:11,338 --> 01:24:14,763 Given this superiority... it seems virtually hopeless. 931 01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:18,762 The French are vastly superior in number. 932 01:24:21,014 --> 01:24:23,392 Shouldn't we talk to Napoleon? 933 01:24:24,101 --> 01:24:26,229 It's too late. The enemy is here. 934 01:24:26,395 --> 01:24:27,738 Morale is what counts. 935 01:24:28,188 --> 01:24:31,158 One German soldier is worth ten Frenchmen. 936 01:24:33,694 --> 01:24:36,413 58,000 men stand ready to serve you. 937 01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:38,115 That moves me indeed. 938 01:24:39,616 --> 01:24:42,039 So, war is here, then. 939 01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,542 War. 940 01:24:46,206 --> 01:24:47,378 Where is my horse? 941 01:24:49,167 --> 01:24:50,464 My Sabre? 942 01:24:54,464 --> 01:24:57,559 On the one side an unwilling commander, 943 01:24:58,010 --> 01:24:59,307 the Duke of Brunswick, 944 01:24:59,845 --> 01:25:00,846 Look! 945 01:25:01,013 --> 01:25:04,984 On the other, the greatest military genius in history, 946 01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:07,357 Napoleon Bonaparte. 947 01:25:08,270 --> 01:25:10,523 The battle was brief. 948 01:25:11,148 --> 01:25:13,150 What's going on? - From the duke! 949 01:25:13,317 --> 01:25:17,572 Infantry, the guard... Going to war for the fatherland! 950 01:25:18,030 --> 01:25:19,657 We will annihilate Napoleon. 951 01:25:19,823 --> 01:25:22,997 And continuing ever thuswise, 952 01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:25,879 until infinity equals zero. 953 01:25:26,038 --> 01:25:27,506 Professor? 954 01:25:27,914 --> 01:25:29,461 I'm leaving. - What? 955 01:25:29,958 --> 01:25:32,962 Our duke fell in battle this morning. - Yes... 956 01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:38,385 I understand nothing of what you teach. It's too hard, no mortal can keep up. 957 01:25:39,051 --> 01:25:41,645 But he can fight and, if need be, die. 958 01:25:42,012 --> 01:25:44,811 I'm marching with the troops. - Vengeance! 959 01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:48,568 Vengeance for the duke! 960 01:25:48,977 --> 01:25:51,025 Revenge! - Victory! 961 01:25:54,232 --> 01:25:56,451 Good. Good. 962 01:25:58,528 --> 01:26:00,280 Professor... 963 01:26:00,614 --> 01:26:03,288 What now? - Your wife... It's begun. 964 01:26:16,046 --> 01:26:17,673 I'm here, I'm here. 965 01:26:49,621 --> 01:26:51,669 Will I die? 966 01:26:52,624 --> 01:26:54,251 Yes. 967 01:26:56,586 --> 01:26:58,088 Don't grieve too long. 968 01:26:58,422 --> 01:27:00,220 One lives, then dies... 969 01:27:01,258 --> 01:27:02,885 It is so. 970 01:27:09,057 --> 01:27:11,105 You must marry again. 971 01:27:12,602 --> 01:27:14,275 You won't manage alone. 972 01:27:16,565 --> 01:27:18,112 Take Minna. 973 01:27:18,608 --> 01:27:20,281 She'll say yes. 974 01:27:23,947 --> 01:27:25,449 Yes. 975 01:28:07,032 --> 01:28:11,128 Come along, Aimé. We're going too slowly. 976 01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:13,163 Fascinating... 977 01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:26,093 Aimé, I have to... Aimé... 978 01:28:27,344 --> 01:28:30,143 Aimé, I have to ask you a question. 979 01:28:31,181 --> 01:28:32,854 Concentrate, now. 980 01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:37,529 The wall here, this thing, it's a wall, right? 981 01:28:54,371 --> 01:28:58,421 Two minutes to simmer. "Considering air pressure, 982 01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:00,510 and temperature..." 983 01:29:04,172 --> 01:29:08,427 Aimé, I can inform you that we are at an altitude of... 984 01:29:09,094 --> 01:29:12,268 18,690 feet. 985 01:29:14,516 --> 01:29:17,065 Hallelujah! - Wonderful. 986 01:29:18,270 --> 01:29:21,774 No man has risen to this height before. 987 01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:24,405 We've ascended Chimborazo. 988 01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,991 Yes, Chimborazo! - The world's highest mountain. 989 01:29:28,613 --> 01:29:30,286 Come along! Yes. 990 01:29:34,828 --> 01:29:36,876 But... the summit. 991 01:29:40,083 --> 01:29:43,383 With or without summit, we're the highest of anyone. 992 01:29:44,421 --> 01:29:47,470 One could just claim to have been up there. 993 01:29:47,632 --> 01:29:51,182 Monsieur Bonpland, I'll pretend not to have heard that! 994 01:29:53,263 --> 01:29:55,812 Exploration, Aimé, is motion. 995 01:29:56,057 --> 01:29:58,981 By definition, it is motion that never ceases. 996 01:29:59,144 --> 01:30:00,521 There is no summit. 997 01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:03,239 And thus no reason to reach it. 998 01:30:03,857 --> 01:30:05,734 You see? - Yes, I do. 999 01:30:06,359 --> 01:30:08,202 Voilà. - You are right. 1000 01:30:08,361 --> 01:30:11,160 And we discovered the Orinoco-Amazon Channel. 1001 01:30:11,323 --> 01:30:13,166 Excuse me, what's that? The channel? 1002 01:30:13,325 --> 01:30:15,874 Of course. We were there. - You were feverous. 1003 01:30:16,786 --> 01:30:18,459 Yes, but... - You noticed nothing. 1004 01:30:18,747 --> 01:30:21,876 I dragged you along. Who did it, then? 1005 01:30:22,042 --> 01:30:23,043 Tell me. 1006 01:30:23,418 --> 01:30:25,045 What help were you? - That... 1007 01:30:25,670 --> 01:30:27,263 I'm waiting, Aimé. Well? 1008 01:30:28,632 --> 01:30:32,682 You see? - No man had ever been so high, 1009 01:30:33,178 --> 01:30:36,899 no one knew that lack of oxygen causes delusions. 1010 01:30:40,477 --> 01:30:42,104 Voilà. 1011 01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:48,068 Alexander? 1012 01:30:49,027 --> 01:30:50,495 Alexander? 1013 01:30:57,702 --> 01:30:59,329 Alexander! 1014 01:31:07,212 --> 01:31:09,055 Cher ami, 1015 01:31:10,507 --> 01:31:12,350 Aimé. 1016 01:31:12,801 --> 01:31:13,973 Aimé, 1017 01:31:14,803 --> 01:31:18,353 come on, we have to be down by sunset. - I thought I'd killed you. 1018 01:31:19,057 --> 01:31:21,059 What's that? 1019 01:31:22,102 --> 01:31:23,820 It's hard to hear. 1020 01:31:24,187 --> 01:31:26,440 My ears... the wind... 1021 01:31:28,233 --> 01:31:30,076 What did you say? 1022 01:31:31,444 --> 01:31:32,821 Let's go. - Yes. 1023 01:31:33,071 --> 01:31:36,416 Exploration is motion that never ceases. 1024 01:31:36,574 --> 01:31:38,201 By definition. 1025 01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,829 Come along. 1026 01:31:54,968 --> 01:31:57,221 Who were they, he wondered. 1027 01:31:57,387 --> 01:31:59,731 How had they grown so quickly? 1028 01:32:00,348 --> 01:32:01,941 Why did they want so much, 1029 01:32:02,267 --> 01:32:06,647 were so much like him, yet were capable of so little? 1030 01:32:07,647 --> 01:32:09,115 So, Eugen, 1031 01:32:09,274 --> 01:32:13,404 is there more red in your glass than apple juice in Wilhelmine's? 1032 01:32:17,782 --> 01:32:21,503 Look, you lost one spoonful of red, gained one of mixed instead. 1033 01:32:21,661 --> 01:32:23,413 The glass is as full as before. 1034 01:32:25,498 --> 01:32:28,752 Papa, can I have a drink now? - Here I am. 1035 01:32:37,010 --> 01:32:38,353 Something else... 1036 01:32:39,929 --> 01:32:41,931 Mnemonics. You'll like this. 1037 01:32:42,557 --> 01:32:45,686 You can remember a whole deck of cards. It's easy. 1038 01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:51,700 For each number we think of an animal, for each suit an emotion, 1039 01:32:52,108 --> 01:32:53,985 the court cards are actions. 1040 01:32:54,527 --> 01:32:56,529 Then we make all that into a story. 1041 01:32:57,489 --> 01:33:00,288 Shall we try it out? Here we go. 1042 01:33:01,326 --> 01:33:02,794 Five of leaves, 1043 01:33:03,495 --> 01:33:05,372 knave of acorns, 1044 01:33:05,622 --> 01:33:07,169 eight of hearts 1045 01:33:07,957 --> 01:33:09,379 king of bells. 1046 01:33:10,335 --> 01:33:11,427 The... 1047 01:33:13,254 --> 01:33:14,631 rabid rat 1048 01:33:15,256 --> 01:33:18,635 scared the big fat cat 1049 01:33:20,595 --> 01:33:22,597 as she was laying eggs. 1050 01:33:23,556 --> 01:33:25,058 Repeat! 1051 01:33:30,730 --> 01:33:32,573 Did you get it? 1052 01:33:42,325 --> 01:33:45,169 I'm tired. - Goodnight. 1053 01:33:52,836 --> 01:33:57,717 Perhaps parallel lines do meet at the infinite, 1054 01:33:58,383 --> 01:34:01,728 perhaps time is indeed flexible, 1055 01:34:02,470 --> 01:34:05,269 but, above all things, time passes. 1056 01:34:05,682 --> 01:34:09,107 It passes always, passes ever faster, 1057 01:34:09,477 --> 01:34:13,948 and when scarcely any time is left is when time passes fastest of all. 1058 01:34:14,107 --> 01:34:19,580 Over the years, Alexander von Humboldt became the world's most famous explorer, 1059 01:34:20,238 --> 01:34:23,117 and Carl Friedrich Gauss became old. 1060 01:34:27,495 --> 01:34:28,997 Carl? 1061 01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:31,420 Carl, wake up! - No. 1062 01:34:31,666 --> 01:34:33,589 Carl, the coach is waiting. - Get lost! 1063 01:34:33,751 --> 01:34:35,628 Carl, you have to get up. You can't... 1064 01:34:39,799 --> 01:34:41,392 Carl! - Get lost! 1065 01:34:41,593 --> 01:34:44,096 It's me. You have to get up. 1066 01:34:44,721 --> 01:34:46,723 A horse-drawn carriage is waiting. 1067 01:34:46,890 --> 01:34:48,733 With four horses, Carl. Get up. 1068 01:34:48,892 --> 01:34:51,065 Mama, I don't want to. - You have to. 1069 01:34:51,561 --> 01:34:53,905 It's not for long, you'll be back soon. 1070 01:34:54,355 --> 01:34:56,403 Come on, get up. Where is he, then, 1071 01:34:56,691 --> 01:34:58,659 my brave young boy? Well? 1072 01:35:00,612 --> 01:35:03,957 Come on. He's off for a big trip. 1073 01:35:05,700 --> 01:35:07,168 Yes. 1074 01:35:08,995 --> 01:35:11,589 In September, 1828, 1075 01:35:12,081 --> 01:35:14,129 the country's greatest mathematician 1076 01:35:14,334 --> 01:35:16,837 left his hometown for the first time in years, 1077 01:35:17,212 --> 01:35:20,716 so as to attend the German Natural Science Congress in Berlin. 1078 01:35:21,507 --> 01:35:23,760 He of course hadn't wanted to go, 1079 01:35:23,927 --> 01:35:26,271 had refused for months on end, 1080 01:35:26,804 --> 01:35:29,603 but Alexander von Humboldt persisted in his demands 1081 01:35:29,849 --> 01:35:35,106 until, in a weak moment and the hope the day would never come, 1082 01:35:35,563 --> 01:35:37,406 Gauss had finally consented. 1083 01:36:04,509 --> 01:36:06,136 Papa, we're there. 1084 01:36:12,433 --> 01:36:14,527 Professor Gauss? - Er, no... 1085 01:36:14,686 --> 01:36:16,688 Eugen Gauss... just the son. 1086 01:36:21,317 --> 01:36:22,694 Eugen! 1087 01:36:30,994 --> 01:36:32,792 Professor Gauss! 1088 01:36:33,162 --> 01:36:35,915 At last. This is a great moment for Germany, 1089 01:36:36,624 --> 01:36:38,376 for science and for myself. 1090 01:36:38,710 --> 01:36:41,930 I meet you at last. - We've met before. 1091 01:36:42,130 --> 01:36:46,010 It is truly... so long have I waited 1092 01:36:46,259 --> 01:36:48,978 to stand, countenance to countenance with you. 1093 01:36:50,596 --> 01:36:55,022 You don't remember? - I... do. 1094 01:36:55,601 --> 01:36:57,603 You don't remember. I knew it. 1095 01:36:58,021 --> 01:36:59,989 And I knew we'd meet again. 1096 01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:01,782 Attention, attention! 1097 01:37:02,859 --> 01:37:03,860 Attention! 1098 01:37:09,032 --> 01:37:11,126 What happens now? What's all this? 1099 01:37:11,367 --> 01:37:15,463 My employee, M. Daguerre, has been working on a device 1100 01:37:15,663 --> 01:37:20,169 that captures the instant on a light-sensitive, silver-iodide surface, 1101 01:37:21,169 --> 01:37:24,264 and creates an image of us both for posterity. 1102 01:37:24,505 --> 01:37:25,882 Please do not move. 1103 01:37:27,675 --> 01:37:29,643 Not at all. 1104 01:37:30,887 --> 01:37:34,187 I want to go home. - One instant. Please don't move. 1105 01:37:37,977 --> 01:37:41,447 How was your journey? - Potholes, rain, cramped coach. 1106 01:37:41,814 --> 01:37:43,612 Do you like Berlin? - Dreadful town. 1107 01:37:43,858 --> 01:37:45,280 Yes. 1108 01:37:50,615 --> 01:37:52,959 How soon will this be over? - Another ten minutes. 1109 01:37:53,117 --> 01:37:55,745 It used to take much longer. I thought at first... 1110 01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:58,464 ...my back... - This is ridiculous! 1111 01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:00,838 Now the instant is lost forever. 1112 01:38:02,794 --> 01:38:04,922 Like all the rest of them. 1113 01:38:05,088 --> 01:38:06,635 Got anything to eat? 1114 01:38:53,302 --> 01:38:55,020 Excuse me. 1115 01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,808 Papa, I'm to remind you to take your pills. 1116 01:38:57,974 --> 01:39:00,227 Get lost. - Papa, you said... 1117 01:39:00,476 --> 01:39:02,649 I've no interest in what I said. 1118 01:39:02,937 --> 01:39:06,407 But I... - I may contradict myself, but you shan't. 1119 01:39:07,859 --> 01:39:09,486 What do you look like? 1120 01:39:10,945 --> 01:39:14,165 I'm meeting friends. - How amusing. 1121 01:39:15,074 --> 01:39:17,168 You have friends? - Thousands of them. 1122 01:39:17,869 --> 01:39:20,793 The whole country. And the despot has a thousand enemies. 1123 01:39:21,706 --> 01:39:25,961 Freedom shall be ours, not just a word in a play by Schiller. 1124 01:39:32,675 --> 01:39:35,394 Yes... it's... the animals... 1125 01:39:39,348 --> 01:39:41,021 Yes... 1126 01:39:41,517 --> 01:39:43,645 Family is a great challenge. 1127 01:39:43,978 --> 01:39:45,730 The greatest, perhaps. 1128 01:39:47,023 --> 01:39:49,071 My brother, Wilhelm, 1129 01:39:49,734 --> 01:39:53,079 is known as the teacher of Prussia... 1130 01:39:55,406 --> 01:39:57,204 And as for our congress, 1131 01:39:58,159 --> 01:40:01,038 the king will be there, as shall no less than three ministers, 1132 01:40:01,204 --> 01:40:03,798 all of whom will be glad to make your acquaintance. 1133 01:40:03,956 --> 01:40:07,381 I am not glad. - I'm so glad. 1134 01:40:08,628 --> 01:40:10,881 The coach is waiting. - Receptions... 1135 01:40:11,839 --> 01:40:13,887 projects, talk, plans, 1136 01:40:14,342 --> 01:40:16,140 intrigue, that's not science. 1137 01:40:18,679 --> 01:40:21,558 And what, may I ask, is science? - A man, alone. 1138 01:40:21,974 --> 01:40:24,818 On his desk, before him, a sheet of paper. 1139 01:40:25,019 --> 01:40:29,069 A pencil in his hand, clear skies ahead. If he does not surrender... 1140 01:40:29,398 --> 01:40:31,821 before understanding something, 1141 01:40:31,984 --> 01:40:33,702 that is science. 1142 01:40:34,570 --> 01:40:38,791 And what if the man at the desk leaves it and goes travelling? 1143 01:40:39,075 --> 01:40:43,672 He'll be hiding somewhere. In a hole, a volcano, the mountains, 1144 01:40:43,913 --> 01:40:45,210 the forest. - Jungle! 1145 01:40:45,414 --> 01:40:48,918 The jungle is only a forest. Hiding out is chancing it. 1146 01:40:49,252 --> 01:40:51,926 A pursuit for the mediocre. 1147 01:40:52,255 --> 01:40:56,852 For those suffering boredom. - The man at the desk needs a caring wife 1148 01:40:57,134 --> 01:40:59,933 to cook his meals, warm his feet, and also... 1149 01:41:00,263 --> 01:41:03,563 wondrous and wonderfully educated children 1150 01:41:03,808 --> 01:41:07,483 to clean his equipment, and remind him to take his pills. 1151 01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,941 He needs a house to shelter him from the rain, and a priori, above all, 1152 01:41:11,482 --> 01:41:14,156 a hat to stop his ears from hurting. 1153 01:41:14,443 --> 01:41:16,696 Whom are you talking about? - I'm just... 1154 01:41:17,238 --> 01:41:19,991 generalising. - He needs all that and more! 1155 01:41:20,157 --> 01:41:23,252 House, wife, hat... How else should he stand it all? 1156 01:41:23,828 --> 01:41:27,173 Where would you have been without your Frenchman? 1157 01:41:31,627 --> 01:41:33,095 Life is terrible. 1158 01:41:33,296 --> 01:41:34,969 It can be improved. - By whom? 1159 01:41:35,131 --> 01:41:36,758 We can improve it, Mr Gauss. 1160 01:41:40,052 --> 01:41:41,975 I don't care to. 1161 01:41:53,274 --> 01:41:55,072 Five years of preparation, 1162 01:41:55,985 --> 01:41:58,363 and now this. - Excellency... 1163 01:41:58,988 --> 01:42:01,036 If you require... - No, get out! 1164 01:42:05,745 --> 01:42:07,088 Alexander. 1165 01:42:13,127 --> 01:42:14,925 Pleased to meet you. 1166 01:42:36,817 --> 01:42:38,785 The prince of mathematicians. 1167 01:42:42,865 --> 01:42:44,788 Oh yes? Very nice. 1168 01:42:45,743 --> 01:42:47,495 Welcome. - Thank you. 1169 01:42:49,038 --> 01:42:51,006 My grandson also likes maths. 1170 01:42:54,210 --> 01:42:57,965 What is 14 times 16? -221. 1171 01:43:00,383 --> 01:43:03,307 Is he right? - Huh? -Is he right? 1172 01:43:06,931 --> 01:43:08,308 I beg to differ. 1173 01:43:09,392 --> 01:43:12,271 Well, we're establishing a new university, 1174 01:43:12,436 --> 01:43:14,814 with the help of one's venerable brother. 1175 01:43:16,524 --> 01:43:19,198 We'd like to offer you a professorship 1176 01:43:25,741 --> 01:43:28,369 I beg to differ. - What? 1177 01:43:29,745 --> 01:43:31,213 I like it at home. 1178 01:43:42,925 --> 01:43:43,926 Yes... 1179 01:43:44,301 --> 01:43:49,148 Ancient theories! All Paris was laughing about it three years ago. 1180 01:43:49,390 --> 01:43:52,769 No, no, no... - Who does he think he is? 1181 01:43:53,310 --> 01:43:55,312 Prince of mathematicians? The devil take him! 1182 01:43:55,563 --> 01:43:57,110 What arrogance! 1183 01:43:57,273 --> 01:43:59,367 Humboldt's days are over. 1184 01:44:08,784 --> 01:44:11,913 Ah, Mr von Humboldt, we'll remember this. 1185 01:44:13,789 --> 01:44:16,508 Thanks. - We don't find this funny. 1186 01:44:17,042 --> 01:44:21,923 We know about your inclinations, we know about everything. 1187 01:44:23,090 --> 01:44:24,262 And we don't forget. 1188 01:44:40,149 --> 01:44:43,494 Mr Gauss... - Are there no carriages to bring me home? 1189 01:44:43,778 --> 01:44:45,576 Mr Gauss, that was a catastrophe. 1190 01:44:45,738 --> 01:44:48,366 You... insulted the king. - How? 1191 01:44:48,657 --> 01:44:50,125 I even shook his hand. 1192 01:44:53,162 --> 01:44:57,087 Should the king feel honoured? - Why ever not? 1193 01:45:01,170 --> 01:45:03,969 This congress was a one-time opportunity 1194 01:45:04,256 --> 01:45:07,760 to find funds for new projects... - Spare me with your projects! 1195 01:45:07,927 --> 01:45:09,304 Stay where you are! 1196 01:45:12,139 --> 01:45:14,141 Lord, what is going on? 1197 01:45:16,936 --> 01:45:19,155 In you go! - Is that not your son? 1198 01:45:20,231 --> 01:45:21,824 Shut up! Not a word! 1199 01:45:22,191 --> 01:45:24,239 Come along. Come with me. 1200 01:45:24,735 --> 01:45:26,157 Mr Vogt? 1201 01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:29,164 Gendarme Commander Vogt. 1202 01:45:29,657 --> 01:45:31,204 Mr von Humboldt. - My dear Vogt. 1203 01:45:32,701 --> 01:45:35,295 This is an unfortunate thing. 1204 01:45:35,621 --> 01:45:38,841 That carriage contains this gentleman's son. 1205 01:45:38,999 --> 01:45:41,001 My son and his thousand friends. 1206 01:45:41,460 --> 01:45:46,011 Congratulations! - Mr Gauss, the pre-eminent mathematician. 1207 01:45:46,674 --> 01:45:50,679 It is of great importance that you be merciful here. 1208 01:45:51,011 --> 01:45:53,013 Of great importance? - Let him go... 1209 01:45:53,806 --> 01:45:56,150 Please. - This is a serious matter. 1210 01:45:57,852 --> 01:46:00,480 Forced labour at least. 20 years to life. 1211 01:46:01,480 --> 01:46:03,778 Perhaps the death sentence, even. 1212 01:46:04,483 --> 01:46:07,157 It's not that nothing can be done, but... 1213 01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:12,245 it's not easy. - You need only send him home. 1214 01:46:12,783 --> 01:46:14,660 His name has not yet been noted. 1215 01:46:14,827 --> 01:46:18,832 No one will know, and... my gratitude... -... expresses itself how? 1216 01:46:19,623 --> 01:46:21,717 Excuse me? - Your gratitude? 1217 01:46:22,126 --> 01:46:24,800 Excuse me? - Expresses itself how, Mr von Humboldt? 1218 01:46:26,088 --> 01:46:28,887 I don't understand. - Lord! The man wants a bribe. 1219 01:46:29,258 --> 01:46:30,931 Are you mad? - Corrupt! 1220 01:46:31,093 --> 01:46:33,972 The miserable scum-swiller! - I don't have to take this. 1221 01:46:34,305 --> 01:46:36,353 Oh, but you do, faecal friend! 1222 01:46:36,515 --> 01:46:39,189 Crooked, lippy, shitty dwarf, hear the truth! 1223 01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:41,528 Gauss! - I demand satisfaction. My second... 1224 01:46:41,687 --> 01:46:44,611 To hell with him. Think I'd let a corrupt crapper kill me? 1225 01:46:44,773 --> 01:46:47,322 Not another word! Stop, stop at once! 1226 01:46:47,484 --> 01:46:51,990 Dear Mr Vogt, this man is mad, old, confused, not to be taken seriously. 1227 01:46:52,656 --> 01:46:54,704 Not seriously at all, no! 1228 01:46:54,867 --> 01:46:57,165 Please be understanding. 1229 01:46:59,496 --> 01:47:01,043 There are limits, though. 1230 01:47:02,416 --> 01:47:04,214 It's not that easy. 1231 01:47:06,587 --> 01:47:08,965 But a civil servant is also a human. 1232 01:47:10,174 --> 01:47:12,051 Get the old man out of here. 1233 01:47:12,593 --> 01:47:14,015 You see... 1234 01:47:14,178 --> 01:47:15,600 You've bribed him. 1235 01:47:16,221 --> 01:47:18,019 He's corrupt, that Mr Vogt. 1236 01:47:18,641 --> 01:47:20,735 Corrupt! The whole town is. 1237 01:47:21,060 --> 01:47:23,779 Stop that! - Arrest him! 1238 01:47:30,235 --> 01:47:33,489 A shadow is cast across this land. It darkens by the day. 1239 01:47:34,156 --> 01:47:36,750 I shouldn't have come. I knew it. 1240 01:47:37,910 --> 01:47:40,083 All this to do you a favour! 1241 01:47:41,538 --> 01:47:43,540 Excuse me, did you say favour? 1242 01:47:43,707 --> 01:47:45,175 Yes. 1243 01:47:45,626 --> 01:47:48,379 To do me a favour? - A favour, yes. 1244 01:47:48,545 --> 01:47:50,263 A... 1245 01:47:50,547 --> 01:47:53,096 Who do you think you are? A favour! 1246 01:47:53,759 --> 01:47:57,514 You think God outdid himself when he made you? 1247 01:47:58,138 --> 01:47:59,856 Because you don't have to count? 1248 01:48:00,057 --> 01:48:04,028 1+2+3+4... can be done step by step. It just takes a little application. 1249 01:48:04,186 --> 01:48:08,191 You, Mr Gauss, you've never had to apply yourself, 1250 01:48:08,357 --> 01:48:09,859 but others have to fight. 1251 01:48:10,025 --> 01:48:13,996 They don't have your brain, your genius, but they get things done. 1252 01:48:14,154 --> 01:48:16,532 Through diligence, Mr Gauss, and discipline. 1253 01:48:17,491 --> 01:48:20,210 But that just makes you grin, doesn't it? 1254 01:48:21,245 --> 01:48:23,373 Who do you think you are? 1255 01:48:23,747 --> 01:48:25,499 Do you feel disadvantaged, 1256 01:48:25,666 --> 01:48:29,170 feel sorry for yourself because of your poor background? 1257 01:48:29,461 --> 01:48:31,839 We are disadvantaged, Mr Gauss! 1258 01:48:32,339 --> 01:48:37,140 We are disadvantaged. You didn't earn that mind. 1259 01:48:37,302 --> 01:48:38,474 Sign it! 1260 01:48:38,804 --> 01:48:42,149 It's nothing to be proud of. Pride is for those who earned it. 1261 01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,523 Don't do me any favours. 1262 01:48:47,187 --> 01:48:50,532 Don't talk to me about God. And I worked harder than you! 1263 01:48:51,191 --> 01:48:53,285 I doubt that. - When I'd had enough, 1264 01:48:53,444 --> 01:48:57,699 couldn't stand it anymore, found it too silly, I took curare. 1265 01:48:58,032 --> 01:49:01,878 And God, of whom you like to speak, saved my life in what was doubtless 1266 01:49:02,036 --> 01:49:04,414 one of His most idiotic miracles. 1267 01:49:05,205 --> 01:49:07,082 I don't know why He did it. 1268 01:49:07,916 --> 01:49:09,759 You don't? - No. 1269 01:49:10,878 --> 01:49:14,382 You can drink all the curare you want. - Sorry? 1270 01:49:15,174 --> 01:49:17,723 It has to be introduced into the bloodstream. 1271 01:49:17,885 --> 01:49:19,728 Then it kills at once. 1272 01:49:20,888 --> 01:49:24,017 Are you certain? - Of course. I discovered it. 1273 01:49:24,391 --> 01:49:27,816 The bottle you emptied was doubtless one I brought back. 1274 01:49:32,399 --> 01:49:34,401 I have to leave the country. 1275 01:49:35,903 --> 01:49:37,746 What? - I have to go far away. 1276 01:49:38,947 --> 01:49:40,540 I can never return. 1277 01:50:17,736 --> 01:50:20,034 We might also have to leave the country. 1278 01:50:20,531 --> 01:50:22,374 You like to travel, anyway. 1279 01:50:23,158 --> 01:50:24,705 I am old. 1280 01:50:25,077 --> 01:50:30,174 Not all that old. You just feel frail from always being in this ghastly town. 1281 01:50:33,585 --> 01:50:35,633 I was invited to Russia. 1282 01:50:36,505 --> 01:50:40,476 The effort and expense involved is great. - Did that ever stop you? 1283 01:50:43,637 --> 01:50:47,187 I could see the great expanses of Asia before I die, 1284 01:50:47,349 --> 01:50:49,647 and measure the magnetic field. 1285 01:50:50,352 --> 01:50:52,901 I'd like to find out if the inside of the earth 1286 01:50:53,105 --> 01:50:55,449 contains one or many magnets. 1287 01:50:58,527 --> 01:51:02,122 The question is wrongly formulated. The vertical component of magnetism 1288 01:51:02,281 --> 01:51:04,704 can be represented as a function of geographic location. 1289 01:51:04,867 --> 01:51:08,622 And the horizontal ones can figure in a power series 1290 01:51:08,996 --> 01:51:10,919 reciprocal to the earth's radius. 1291 01:51:13,417 --> 01:51:16,045 Simple spherical harmonics... no? 1292 01:51:19,923 --> 01:51:21,800 I'll calculate it for you. 1293 01:51:22,217 --> 01:51:24,311 You only need a measuring needle, 1294 01:51:24,469 --> 01:51:26,142 and to send me the results. 1295 01:51:26,930 --> 01:51:28,557 Travel far. 1296 01:51:29,308 --> 01:51:31,276 Travel far. Don't fail. 1297 01:51:32,102 --> 01:51:36,278 Honestly? - There's nothing better than being busy. 1298 01:51:36,940 --> 01:51:38,317 You have five years. 1299 01:51:38,525 --> 01:51:40,243 Approximately. - Sorry? 1300 01:51:40,652 --> 01:51:43,405 Mortality statistics. I work with them now. 1301 01:51:43,614 --> 01:51:46,663 It's well paid. You've got 5, I've got 9, my wife, sadly, 11. 1302 01:51:46,825 --> 01:51:49,499 Unpleasant to think she'll survive me. 1303 01:51:50,871 --> 01:51:53,966 Five years? - Statistically speaking, yes. 1304 01:51:56,668 --> 01:51:58,295 Yes. I'll go to Asia. 1305 01:52:02,132 --> 01:52:04,806 I sometimes wonder which of us travelled more, 1306 01:52:04,968 --> 01:52:07,062 and which stayed more at home. 1307 01:52:09,306 --> 01:52:11,604 But we've nothing to complain of. We're here. 1308 01:52:11,850 --> 01:52:15,730 No cannibal ate you, no imbecile beat me to death. 1309 01:52:16,855 --> 01:52:18,607 And what remains? 1310 01:52:19,233 --> 01:52:20,860 Curiosity. 1311 01:52:21,235 --> 01:52:24,739 Dear friend... Never-ending curiosity. 1312 01:52:54,768 --> 01:52:59,194 Contrary to statistical predictions, Carl Friedrich Gauss died 1313 01:52:59,356 --> 01:53:03,077 four years earlier than Alexander von Humboldt, 1314 01:53:03,235 --> 01:53:08,332 who managed to travel Russia, Siberia and the steppes of Asia. 1315 01:53:09,950 --> 01:53:14,000 One year after Humboldt, on the other side of the world, 1316 01:53:14,162 --> 01:53:16,881 his poor and abandoned colleague, 1317 01:53:17,207 --> 01:53:20,051 Aimé Bonpland, died at the age of 85. 1318 01:53:21,336 --> 01:53:22,838 And what of Eugen? 1319 01:53:25,132 --> 01:53:27,385 I memorised the pack. - Memorised it? 1320 01:53:27,551 --> 01:53:31,272 My father taught me. - What, to memorise the pack? 1321 01:53:31,430 --> 01:53:34,855 He tried to. I never got it, but today it worked. 1322 01:53:37,144 --> 01:53:38,737 We'll do a test. 1323 01:53:38,895 --> 01:53:41,774 One mistake, and you're swimming to America. 1324 01:53:42,065 --> 01:53:43,692 Now come here. 1325 01:53:45,652 --> 01:53:47,154 Give him the cards. 1326 01:53:49,698 --> 01:53:51,120 Eight of clubs. 1327 01:53:56,246 --> 01:53:59,967 Eight stupid rhinos wait for rain in the castle. 1328 01:54:00,334 --> 01:54:01,836 Eight of hearts. 1329 01:54:06,340 --> 01:54:07,512 Is your father proud of you? 1330 01:54:09,468 --> 01:54:10,936 Three of spades. 1331 01:54:12,763 --> 01:54:14,891 America! 1332 01:54:19,478 --> 01:54:22,072 Eugen Gauss never saw his father again. 1333 01:54:23,732 --> 01:54:25,279 He invented nothing, 1334 01:54:25,609 --> 01:54:27,077 discovered nothing, 1335 01:54:27,652 --> 01:54:30,075 and no law of nature bears his name. 1336 01:54:31,698 --> 01:54:33,200 But he lived his own life. 1337 01:54:33,992 --> 01:54:35,164 He got to Missouri, 1338 01:54:36,119 --> 01:54:38,463 founded the First National Bank, 1339 01:54:39,164 --> 01:54:40,962 and had seven children. 89908