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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:29,405 --> 00:00:34,827 THE EARTH WILL TREMBLE 2 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:40,458 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 1948 3 00:00:44,462 --> 00:00:47,089 Starring SICILIAN FISHERMEN 4 00:02:05,626 --> 00:02:08,546 "The events in this film take place in Italy... 5 00:02:08,671 --> 00:02:12,049 Sicily, to be more precise... 6 00:02:12,174 --> 00:02:16,303 in the town of Acitrezza, not far from Catania, on the Ionian Sea. 7 00:02:16,428 --> 00:02:20,015 It's the same age-old story of man's exploitation of man. 8 00:02:20,057 --> 00:02:23,936 These are the houses, streets, boats and people of Acitrezza. 9 00:02:24,061 --> 00:02:27,439 All the actors were chosen from among the townspeople: 10 00:02:27,523 --> 00:02:31,193 fishermen, farm laborers, bricklayers, and fish merchants. 11 00:02:31,277 --> 00:02:35,447 They speak in their dialect to express their suffering and hope... 12 00:02:35,531 --> 00:02:39,451 for in Sicily, Italian is not the language spoken by the poor." 13 00:02:48,669 --> 00:02:51,547 It's been four days. 14 00:02:51,589 --> 00:02:54,842 The boats are full! 15 00:02:56,177 --> 00:02:59,722 The sea's been generous this time! 16 00:03:00,181 --> 00:03:02,558 Drop the sail! 17 00:03:13,110 --> 00:03:16,864 Drop the sail! 18 00:03:18,616 --> 00:03:23,454 As always, the first to begin their day in Trezza... 19 00:03:23,871 --> 00:03:25,623 are the fish merchants... 20 00:03:25,998 --> 00:03:27,750 who, even before sunrise... 21 00:03:27,875 --> 00:03:31,253 are on the shore awaiting the return of the fishing boats. 22 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:42,723 Because, just like every night... 23 00:03:43,140 --> 00:03:45,392 the boats go out to sea... 24 00:03:45,517 --> 00:03:48,479 and return at dawn with their small catch. 25 00:03:48,646 --> 00:03:51,774 When there's fish to be caught, one can make a living in Trezza. 26 00:03:51,899 --> 00:03:54,109 From grandfather to father to son... 27 00:03:54,235 --> 00:03:56,528 that's how it's always been. 28 00:03:59,782 --> 00:04:03,160 What are you gonna do? 29 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:07,289 Look at all this mackerel! 30 00:04:07,373 --> 00:04:11,252 It's been a good catch. 31 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,356 A house like so many others... 32 00:04:32,398 --> 00:04:34,650 built of old stones... 33 00:04:35,276 --> 00:04:40,030 with walls as old as the fishermen's trade. 34 00:04:44,368 --> 00:04:46,787 At this early hour... 35 00:04:47,037 --> 00:04:49,123 the house awakens. 36 00:04:51,375 --> 00:04:54,420 It's the house of the Valastros. 37 00:04:55,546 --> 00:04:58,007 Lucia, hurry. Get the bread! 38 00:04:58,299 --> 00:05:00,676 As soon as I'm finished. 39 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:06,932 Lia! 40 00:05:11,562 --> 00:05:14,148 Lia, come sprinkle the floor. 41 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,531 That way. 42 00:05:28,912 --> 00:05:30,664 Now this way. 43 00:05:30,789 --> 00:05:34,585 While they work, the women think of their men... 44 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:36,712 returning from the sea... 45 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:40,591 because the family has always had a boat at sea... 46 00:05:40,716 --> 00:05:43,302 since the days of the first Valastro. 47 00:05:43,719 --> 00:05:45,971 They think of Grandfather and their brothers... 48 00:05:46,055 --> 00:05:47,473 and of their father too... 49 00:05:47,598 --> 00:05:50,684 who on one such morning never returned from sea. 50 00:05:50,976 --> 00:05:52,561 What are you looking at? 51 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:56,565 Our brothers. I always think of them out there... 52 00:05:56,607 --> 00:05:59,068 just like I thought of Father... 53 00:05:59,109 --> 00:06:01,487 the day he didn't return. 54 00:06:02,988 --> 00:06:05,074 They'll be back soon. 55 00:06:06,992 --> 00:06:11,330 Lucia, fix your hair. I'll help you put your scarf on. 56 00:06:14,833 --> 00:06:18,462 Remember the picture we took once in Catania? 57 00:06:19,129 --> 00:06:21,256 Seems like it was just yesterday. 58 00:06:21,382 --> 00:06:24,635 look at 'Ntoni in his sailor's uniform. 59 00:06:25,135 --> 00:06:29,264 There's Cola, and Vanni wearing his first long pants. 60 00:06:29,723 --> 00:06:32,476 Alfio and Grandfather. 61 00:06:33,268 --> 00:06:35,521 They're all at sea now. 62 00:06:36,021 --> 00:06:39,233 The bitter sea! 63 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:44,405 Cola, where's Grandfather? 64 00:06:44,488 --> 00:06:48,117 Back at the house. What are you two doing? 65 00:06:48,409 --> 00:06:50,536 Be careful! 66 00:06:51,787 --> 00:06:55,624 Finish unloading. I'll run home. 67 00:06:58,794 --> 00:07:02,381 Lowering the sails, pulling the boats ashore... 68 00:07:02,506 --> 00:07:07,052 rolling up the nets, pulling in the oars, unloading the fish. 69 00:07:07,177 --> 00:07:10,556 It's been four backbreaking days at sea. 70 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:14,435 The tired fishermen want to sell their catch quickly... 71 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,065 for whatever pittance they'll get from the wholesalers and boat owners... 72 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:24,319 and rush home to their families. 73 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:33,078 Careful, the nets got all ripped. 74 00:07:53,974 --> 00:07:56,477 Easy with the barrels, now! 75 00:07:58,103 --> 00:08:00,939 How many barrels of anchovies? 76 00:08:05,611 --> 00:08:08,238 "The bitter sea" in Lucia's words... 77 00:08:08,363 --> 00:08:10,365 and bitter as well is work... 78 00:08:10,491 --> 00:08:12,743 whose profits go to the fish merchants. 79 00:08:12,868 --> 00:08:14,870 There are the day laborers to pay... 80 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:19,583 and the daily cost of mending nets and repairing damage to the boats. 81 00:08:20,751 --> 00:08:23,504 The fishermen bear all these expenses... 82 00:08:23,629 --> 00:08:27,090 while the wholesalers enrich themselves without effort... 83 00:08:27,132 --> 00:08:32,012 buying for nothing the fish that took such sweat to bring in. 84 00:08:33,931 --> 00:08:37,518 Macaroni, bring the big needle from the basket in the boat. 85 00:08:37,809 --> 00:08:41,813 Macaroni, bring it all. Everything's torn and needs mending. 86 00:08:41,939 --> 00:08:43,649 Bring some water too. 87 00:08:43,774 --> 00:08:46,693 How many things can I bring? I've only got two hands! 88 00:08:46,818 --> 00:08:49,780 See? That's the result of too much familiarity! 89 00:08:49,821 --> 00:08:51,406 Did you hear his attitude? 90 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:53,534 I told you not to give the kid too much rope! 91 00:08:53,659 --> 00:08:57,079 Everything's ripped today. This will take a month! 92 00:08:57,204 --> 00:08:58,830 No. A week, maybe. 93 00:08:58,956 --> 00:09:01,083 What a terrible night. Our nets are torn too. 94 00:09:01,208 --> 00:09:03,961 And you think the bosses care? 95 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:07,214 We're like donkeys, only good for hard work! 96 00:09:07,339 --> 00:09:10,551 They hardly even look at our catch. 97 00:09:10,676 --> 00:09:14,721 We should sell the fish in Catania ourselves... 98 00:09:14,846 --> 00:09:16,723 instead of fattening them! 99 00:09:16,848 --> 00:09:21,103 Did you hear them arguing while we unloaded this morning? 100 00:09:21,228 --> 00:09:23,730 They were arguing over us. 101 00:09:23,855 --> 00:09:26,984 Don't fool yourself. They weren't arguing over us... 102 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:29,361 but against us! 103 00:09:29,486 --> 00:09:33,699 They're always in league against us! 104 00:09:33,824 --> 00:09:35,701 We're the ones who can't seem to agree! 105 00:09:35,826 --> 00:09:39,621 It's each man for himself, selling his soul for a penny! 106 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,583 Things shouldn't be like that. 107 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:46,128 - Forty, fifty... - I'll give you fifty-five! 108 00:09:52,134 --> 00:09:54,386 Four hundred. 109 00:10:40,641 --> 00:10:43,894 This is the worst mackerel I've seen in years! 110 00:10:59,076 --> 00:11:02,412 I'll be lucky if I can sell it. The canneries in Catania are complaining. 111 00:11:13,215 --> 00:11:16,468 Hey, careful with the scales! They're off balance. You're robbing me! 112 00:11:18,095 --> 00:11:21,723 Watch your mouth, by Judas, if you care to do business with me! 113 00:11:23,684 --> 00:11:28,480 That's the most I can give you. City ladies don't like octopus! 114 00:11:39,616 --> 00:11:42,744 Fifty for everything. Take it or leave it! 115 00:12:02,264 --> 00:12:04,266 Tangerines, sweet as sugar! 116 00:12:12,774 --> 00:12:16,403 - How much? - Twenty lire a kilo. 117 00:12:16,611 --> 00:12:20,615 Too much. What's your best price? 118 00:12:20,657 --> 00:12:24,745 - Twenty lire. - Too much! 119 00:12:24,870 --> 00:12:26,246 Tangerines! 120 00:12:26,371 --> 00:12:28,790 No, that's too much. 121 00:12:29,624 --> 00:12:32,544 Hello, 'Ntoni. Hello, Cola. 122 00:12:32,669 --> 00:12:35,881 - Lucia, what are you buying? - Oh, nothing. 123 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:41,762 We didn't buy anything. 124 00:12:41,803 --> 00:12:44,806 Here. Give me the change. Sure, she never buys anything! 125 00:12:51,938 --> 00:12:53,690 Lucia, come help me. 126 00:12:53,774 --> 00:12:56,193 I'll be right there, Mara. I bought some tangerines. 127 00:12:57,319 --> 00:12:59,696 - Are the men back? - Yes, Mother. 128 00:12:59,821 --> 00:13:02,199 - Bless me, Mama - Blessings always. 129 00:13:02,407 --> 00:13:03,950 - No, she's in bed. - Bless me, Mama. 130 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,166 Don't, Alfio. Wait for Mama. 131 00:13:11,416 --> 00:13:13,460 I couldn't find the bailer. 132 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:17,422 - Why tell me? Look again. - We probably lost it. 133 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:36,483 After twelve hours of back-breaking work... 134 00:13:36,942 --> 00:13:41,863 they return with not even enough to keep them from starving. 135 00:13:42,823 --> 00:13:46,952 Yet when they pulled in their nets... 136 00:13:47,202 --> 00:13:48,995 they were full. 137 00:13:50,247 --> 00:13:53,959 The thought of never earning enough to feed so many mouths... 138 00:13:54,751 --> 00:13:56,878 causes them endless anguish... 139 00:13:57,128 --> 00:14:00,882 and poisons even their few hours of rest. 140 00:14:01,007 --> 00:14:03,718 Grandpa, what did we earn today? 1 5,500 lire? 141 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,763 We had 22 pounds of large mackerel... 142 00:14:06,888 --> 00:14:09,516 and got 7,7 50 lire. 143 00:14:09,641 --> 00:14:11,351 Always the same old story. 144 00:14:11,393 --> 00:14:14,521 We work all night, and they benefit. 145 00:14:14,771 --> 00:14:19,025 It's always been like this, as long as I can remember. 146 00:14:19,150 --> 00:14:21,027 It can't go on like this. 147 00:14:22,779 --> 00:14:25,282 Lucia, bring me some water to wash up. 148 00:14:25,907 --> 00:14:29,995 I say it can't go on! I've told you over and over! 149 00:14:31,413 --> 00:14:33,039 Cola, what's up with 'Ntoni? 150 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:38,003 Ever since he did military service on the mainland... 151 00:14:38,128 --> 00:14:40,380 he can't stand injustice. 152 00:14:41,756 --> 00:14:44,384 He doesn't see things the way we do anymore. 153 00:14:44,509 --> 00:14:46,678 He thinks differently. 154 00:14:47,053 --> 00:14:49,055 Isn't that right, 'Ntoni? 155 00:14:49,180 --> 00:14:52,684 For 7 0 years I've thought the same way and things have gone all right. 156 00:14:55,186 --> 00:14:57,772 'Ntoni should listen to his elders. 157 00:14:57,898 --> 00:14:59,691 Like the old saying says... 158 00:14:59,816 --> 00:15:02,152 "the strength of youth and the wisdom of age." 159 00:15:02,277 --> 00:15:04,195 Don't get cross, Grandfather. 160 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:06,323 Here's the water, 'Ntoni. 161 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,327 Come and wash up, Vanni. 162 00:15:18,209 --> 00:15:20,295 Come on, get up. 163 00:15:26,718 --> 00:15:29,346 'Ntoni, you shouldn't upset Grandpa. 164 00:15:29,930 --> 00:15:32,724 Poor Grandpa... he can only think the old way. 165 00:15:35,477 --> 00:15:39,689 My faithless love 166 00:15:41,441 --> 00:15:46,237 You never became a holy nun 167 00:15:46,571 --> 00:15:49,950 Thinking of that girl in the Via Ferretta? 168 00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:55,372 A fish is born for him who catches it! 169 00:16:22,524 --> 00:16:25,276 - Grandpa, I'm going out. - What about your share? 170 00:16:25,402 --> 00:16:27,278 Give it to my mother. 171 00:16:29,656 --> 00:16:32,742 - We've lost the bailer. - You lose everything. 172 00:16:32,909 --> 00:16:35,245 'Ntoni's going out for more fish. 173 00:16:35,370 --> 00:16:37,163 Didn't we catch enough? 174 00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:39,749 Come here, let's divide this up. 175 00:16:39,791 --> 00:16:42,043 There are 7,7 50 lire. 176 00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:45,255 Divided by 1 5, that's 500 lire each. 177 00:16:45,380 --> 00:16:47,757 - What about me? - Here's 250 for you. 178 00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,927 - I'll take mine and 'Ntoni's. - And I'll take mine. 179 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:57,308 If there's any relief, a moment's happiness... 180 00:16:57,559 --> 00:16:59,436 it's the thought of one's girl... 181 00:16:59,561 --> 00:17:03,440 and for her, one can even do without sleep. 182 00:17:04,399 --> 00:17:08,361 Because a man is made to be caught by a girl... 183 00:17:08,611 --> 00:17:13,158 just as the fish of the sea are made for those who catch them. 184 00:17:13,742 --> 00:17:15,368 Nedda! 185 00:17:17,412 --> 00:17:20,915 Wish I were a rabbit to get attention like that! 186 00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:22,667 Rabbits deserve it... 187 00:17:22,792 --> 00:17:26,504 because they aren't as mischievous as men! 188 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:29,007 Not me, Nedda. 189 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:31,926 You know I love you very much. 190 00:17:33,178 --> 00:17:35,138 Yes, I know. 191 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:37,557 So you've told me many times. 192 00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:40,185 But don't worry. 193 00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:43,813 When the time comes, I'll find my own husband. 194 00:17:47,442 --> 00:17:50,028 You're really a very special girl... 195 00:17:50,195 --> 00:17:53,948 and I know your family wants you to marry a rich man. 196 00:17:54,699 --> 00:17:57,285 Rich or poor, I'm the one he has to please! 197 00:18:04,959 --> 00:18:06,711 But remember one thing: 198 00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:09,964 A rich man may be poor tomorrow. 199 00:18:17,097 --> 00:18:19,974 Whereas a poor man with something up here... 200 00:18:20,308 --> 00:18:22,560 may be rich tomorrow! 201 00:18:25,105 --> 00:18:28,108 Then let's talk about it tomorrow. 202 00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:33,822 Tomorrow is always full of promise... 203 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:36,950 and hope springs eternal. 204 00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:39,119 But in Acitrezza... 205 00:18:39,244 --> 00:18:42,497 tomorrow is usually not much different from yesterday... 206 00:18:42,872 --> 00:18:45,125 or from days to come. 207 00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,380 Keeping busy, eh? 208 00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:53,633 Naturally, with all the pretty girls around here! 209 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:56,761 Even the sergeant of the Carabinieri, the village's top authority... 210 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:00,640 whiles the time away watching the girls pass by. 211 00:19:08,398 --> 00:19:10,400 - Good day, Sergeant. - Good day, Donna Giovanna. 212 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:14,279 Of course, Don Salvatore's life is different from the others'. 213 00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:16,865 He's an employee of the state... 214 00:19:16,990 --> 00:19:21,035 and in Acitrezza he finds lots of time on his hands. 215 00:19:38,011 --> 00:19:41,306 A sip of wine, a loaf of bread and a salted herring... 216 00:19:42,432 --> 00:19:45,185 which their work earned them yesterday... 217 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:48,563 will sustain their return to sea tonight... 218 00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:53,318 to earn tomorrow's wine, bread and herring. 219 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:07,207 You, Pasquale. We'll get it now. 220 00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:09,959 Even if the heart is heavy... 221 00:20:10,084 --> 00:20:12,212 they must return to sea. 222 00:20:12,295 --> 00:20:14,297 Theirs is a slavery without escape. 223 00:20:14,464 --> 00:20:16,299 - Ready? - Let's go. 224 00:20:19,302 --> 00:20:20,929 Bless me, Mother. 225 00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:25,600 - Bye, Lucia. - Bye, 'Ntoni. 226 00:20:45,328 --> 00:20:48,957 We haven't spoken to each other yet 227 00:20:49,374 --> 00:20:54,087 But we've eyed each other in the crowd 228 00:20:55,505 --> 00:20:59,509 It was awful, knowing 229 00:20:59,634 --> 00:21:03,388 That I will never hold her tight 230 00:21:05,723 --> 00:21:09,894 Her father Salvatore thought 231 00:21:10,144 --> 00:21:14,274 I wasn't good enough for her 232 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:20,280 She fell sick, the doctor came 233 00:21:20,405 --> 00:21:24,534 First the mother, then the daughter 234 00:21:26,411 --> 00:21:30,665 Ah, my girl, she was so lovely 235 00:21:31,249 --> 00:21:36,379 When she laughed I burned with love 236 00:21:37,672 --> 00:21:41,676 Thoughts of her filled my mind 237 00:21:42,135 --> 00:21:46,431 Even after I left home 238 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:52,020 To go in search of fortune 239 00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:57,400 I always knew she wanted me 240 00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:03,698 But how could I win her hand 241 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:08,703 I knew that she desired me 242 00:22:10,163 --> 00:22:14,792 She would tell me just be patient 243 00:22:15,043 --> 00:22:19,422 When you give your heart away 244 00:22:21,424 --> 00:22:25,345 That's when suffering begins 245 00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:29,098 All in the name of love 246 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:31,559 Hello, Nicola. 247 00:22:32,226 --> 00:22:33,978 Good evening, Mara. 248 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,695 Jano's in high spirits, isn't he? 249 00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:44,322 He's always singing. 250 00:22:45,615 --> 00:22:47,742 He's just a kid... 251 00:22:50,328 --> 00:22:51,996 so he's happy. 252 00:22:52,121 --> 00:22:53,998 What about you? 253 00:22:54,123 --> 00:22:57,585 Aren't you happy, Nicola? 254 00:22:57,627 --> 00:23:00,088 For me to be happy, Mara... 255 00:23:03,966 --> 00:23:05,510 would take a lot of things. 256 00:23:05,593 --> 00:23:08,846 - Like what? - I can't tell you. 257 00:23:16,270 --> 00:23:18,022 Tomorrow I go to Catania. 258 00:23:18,231 --> 00:23:19,774 Why are you going? 259 00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:21,234 To get cement. 260 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,529 He's going to Catania to find a wife. 261 00:23:30,284 --> 00:23:32,620 Is that so, Nicola? 262 00:23:35,873 --> 00:23:39,794 When I'm ready, I won't need to go to Catania to get married. 263 00:23:48,428 --> 00:23:51,055 look how the basil has grown. 264 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:53,182 I just planted it last week. 265 00:23:53,266 --> 00:23:55,560 You have good hands, Mara. 266 00:23:55,935 --> 00:24:00,314 Nicola, you still gabbing? Where are the tiles? 267 00:24:00,398 --> 00:24:02,400 It's getting late. I want to go home. 268 00:24:02,442 --> 00:24:04,819 I'm coming, Jano. 269 00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:09,031 - So, then. - Good-bye, Nicola. 270 00:24:31,179 --> 00:24:34,849 At dusk, the boats put out to sea, this time with lamps. 271 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:38,561 They round Capo dei Mulini, where schools of fish are plentiful. 272 00:25:16,015 --> 00:25:19,352 Slow down! Watch where you're going! 273 00:25:24,398 --> 00:25:27,777 We'll catch God's bounty tonight! 274 00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:34,033 Turn on the lamp! 275 00:25:34,242 --> 00:25:37,787 Back and forth the lighted boats go over the black sea... 276 00:25:37,912 --> 00:25:41,791 searching for fish, who are attracted by the lights. 277 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,794 From boat to boat the voices ring out... 278 00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:49,048 with calls, warnings and signals. 279 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,513 The nets are dropped and then hauled back up... 280 00:25:56,305 --> 00:25:58,683 swarming with silvery fish. 281 00:25:59,684 --> 00:26:04,063 Through the long night the strenuous work goes on. 282 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:07,567 Up and down go the nets... 283 00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:10,278 up and down... 284 00:26:10,695 --> 00:26:14,907 until dawn breaks over the hills. 285 00:26:44,812 --> 00:26:46,689 It takes a lot of fish... 286 00:26:46,731 --> 00:26:50,109 for the pittance the wholesalers will give them. 287 00:26:50,693 --> 00:26:53,237 Maybe the old men allow themselves to be exploited. 288 00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:55,990 If the younger men did the selling on the dock... 289 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:58,618 maybe things would be different. 290 00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:08,502 - 'Ntoni - What is it? Eh? 291 00:27:08,628 --> 00:27:10,338 Did you hear? They called. 292 00:27:10,463 --> 00:27:13,007 I know why he's surly tonight. 293 00:27:13,132 --> 00:27:16,218 He'd rather fish for girls! 294 00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:18,763 What is it, eh? 295 00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:21,515 All I know... 296 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:25,019 is he doesn't like work. 297 00:27:25,353 --> 00:27:28,230 That's it: 'Ntoni himself should try it... 298 00:27:28,272 --> 00:27:30,149 with his younger brothers and friends. 299 00:27:30,399 --> 00:27:33,110 Stand up to the wholesalers, set the prices. 300 00:27:33,152 --> 00:27:35,738 See if they can put an end to their exploitation. 301 00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:38,991 The idea seethes in 'Ntoni's head. 302 00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:41,786 Save your energy. 303 00:27:42,411 --> 00:27:45,665 The sea's a miser tonight and the night's black... 304 00:27:46,248 --> 00:27:49,627 and there's far too many of us for what little fish there are. 305 00:27:50,252 --> 00:27:54,632 The sea of Trezza would have to be as big as all Catania. 306 00:27:54,924 --> 00:27:59,178 Now that we need it, the sea's holding back. 307 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:03,683 This is the sea God gave us. It'll have to do. 308 00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:09,563 Yes, Grandpa, God gave us this bit of sea and these rocks... 309 00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:13,526 and these boats that can't go out very far. 310 00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:17,571 But, Grandpa, God didn't invent those connivers... 311 00:28:17,697 --> 00:28:20,950 who take advantage of us fishermen. 312 00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:25,663 Giovanni, hold this. 313 00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:29,458 Grandpa means that when things don't go right... 314 00:28:29,583 --> 00:28:31,836 it's useless to blame others. 315 00:28:33,337 --> 00:28:37,842 But, Grandpa, you have too much faith in people. 316 00:28:38,050 --> 00:28:41,595 You think others are as honest as you are. 317 00:28:41,679 --> 00:28:44,807 That's it! We don't care if they're honest with the others. 318 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:48,102 I can't stand such shameless greed! 319 00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:50,312 They're getting rich off our backs! 320 00:28:50,479 --> 00:28:52,606 That's how things are: 321 00:28:52,732 --> 00:28:55,234 The wholesalers set the prices and that's all there is to it. 322 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:57,945 Only up to a point, Uncle Peppino! 323 00:28:58,070 --> 00:29:01,365 Until you old fellows are the ones selling the fish... 324 00:29:01,615 --> 00:29:05,202 they will always take advantage of you. 325 00:29:05,369 --> 00:29:08,247 - Am I right? - Don't say such things, Bandiera! 326 00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:10,750 You're too good, that's what! 327 00:29:12,126 --> 00:29:14,962 Be quiet. 328 00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:18,883 You talk and talk, always blaming us old folks. 329 00:29:19,842 --> 00:29:24,138 You go to the dock. Let's see what you can do! 330 00:29:24,346 --> 00:29:27,349 Uncle Peppino, don't be offended. 331 00:29:27,641 --> 00:29:29,852 The energy that young people have... 332 00:29:29,894 --> 00:29:33,647 makes them want to point out injustice, like St. Thomas did. 333 00:29:34,398 --> 00:29:38,402 So, with Grandpa's permission, we'll go to the dock in the morning. 334 00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:41,113 I've never seen anything like it: 335 00:29:41,363 --> 00:29:44,408 Youngsters doing what their elders should do. 336 00:29:44,742 --> 00:29:46,911 Go, then, but watch your back... 337 00:29:47,036 --> 00:29:49,538 because the wholesalers always come out on top. 338 00:29:49,663 --> 00:29:53,167 To have that satisfaction for once! 339 00:29:53,501 --> 00:29:56,003 Eh, Uncle Vanni? What do you say? 340 00:29:56,253 --> 00:30:00,674 - It's all right with me. - And with us too! 341 00:30:00,925 --> 00:30:02,760 For once, everybody agrees! 342 00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:05,054 Count me in too! 343 00:30:15,272 --> 00:30:19,068 And so at dawn the boats return to Trezza. 344 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:25,449 But this time it's the young men who will deal with the wholesalers. 345 00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:29,829 Sails down, all the way! 346 00:31:08,868 --> 00:31:11,829 Macaroni, check how much fish I have on the scales. 347 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:19,837 Is this your merchandise? 348 00:31:20,004 --> 00:31:22,464 - Six kilos. - Five kilos. 349 00:31:22,506 --> 00:31:24,842 Why five? All right, five kilos. 350 00:31:24,967 --> 00:31:27,511 How much? It's five kilos. 351 00:31:27,636 --> 00:31:30,014 400 lire, 41 0... 352 00:31:30,139 --> 00:31:32,766 41 5. 353 00:31:33,392 --> 00:31:36,020 The market was the same as always. 354 00:31:36,228 --> 00:31:39,148 The wholesalers conspired to keep the prices down. 355 00:31:39,273 --> 00:31:42,902 You couldn't get a lira more. The prices were fixed. 356 00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:54,663 "You can learn to live with injustice" is a proverb of the poor. 357 00:31:54,788 --> 00:31:57,917 Everything falls on the backs of the poor. 358 00:32:02,922 --> 00:32:06,050 But this time the young men watch closely... 359 00:32:06,175 --> 00:32:08,886 determined not to be taken. 360 00:32:11,138 --> 00:32:14,016 A thousand lire a kilo. 361 00:32:32,326 --> 00:32:36,413 420 lire... 425... 362 00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:43,420 425 lire... 363 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,597 Lorenzo, stop selling! 364 00:33:00,562 --> 00:33:02,481 Fellows, listen! 365 00:33:03,232 --> 00:33:05,693 My scales! My scales! 366 00:33:10,864 --> 00:33:13,117 What are we waiting for? 367 00:33:13,367 --> 00:33:16,078 look what I do with these Judas scales! 368 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,871 Into the sea! 369 00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:26,755 Following 'Ntoni's defiant gesture... 370 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,259 other fishermen as well throw the merchants' scales into the sea. 371 00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:33,637 A brawl breaks out between fishermen and wholesalers. 372 00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:22,102 - Don Salvatore! Sergeant! - What is it? 373 00:34:22,352 --> 00:34:27,566 Hurry to the dock! They're throwing the fish back into the sea! 374 00:34:30,194 --> 00:34:32,988 Come, Sergeant, hurry. I'm going with you. 375 00:34:39,828 --> 00:34:42,581 The sergeant and his deputy run to the dock. 376 00:34:42,706 --> 00:34:45,959 As one would expect, 'Ntoni and his comrades... 377 00:34:46,085 --> 00:34:49,004 are arrested and taken to jail in Catania. 378 00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:18,617 Since the arrest of 'Ntoni and the others... 379 00:35:18,659 --> 00:35:21,662 Raimondo, Lorenzo and the rest have had to swallow their anger. 380 00:35:22,621 --> 00:35:25,290 The villagers are worried about their fishermen... 381 00:35:25,415 --> 00:35:28,627 while the wholesalers are worried about their business. 382 00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:31,505 Their earnings have been cut in half. 383 00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:34,508 Only the good-for-nothings are left to work. 384 00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:40,389 All the best young men have been arrested... 385 00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:43,308 along with 'Ntoni. 386 00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:51,066 Since then, the whole town has gone communist! 387 00:35:52,568 --> 00:35:54,903 You're right, Raimondo. 388 00:35:56,822 --> 00:35:58,782 All this is not in our best interest. 389 00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:03,829 We can't go on like this! We have to pardon 'Ntoni. 390 00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:07,207 I agree. What do you think, Pandolla? 391 00:36:08,917 --> 00:36:11,044 No, Raimondo. 392 00:36:11,712 --> 00:36:16,425 That damned 'Ntoni must be taught a lesson! 393 00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:20,095 - Calm down, Nino. - Even if it means no business for us. 394 00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:23,348 Calm down, Nino. You're right, of course... 395 00:36:23,473 --> 00:36:28,103 but I'm the oldest here, and wiser than the rest of you. 396 00:36:29,062 --> 00:36:32,065 What good is 'Ntoni to us in jail? 397 00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:34,109 Once he's out of jail... 398 00:36:34,234 --> 00:36:37,863 he'll fish again and we'll be back in business, understand? 399 00:36:37,988 --> 00:36:39,448 Is he serious? 400 00:36:39,489 --> 00:36:42,117 That's enough! Raimondo's the oldest. 401 00:36:42,492 --> 00:36:44,995 We must do as he says. 402 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:46,830 Right. 403 00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:50,459 Take the co-op's van to Catania... 404 00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:52,502 and take this letter to the police commissioner. 405 00:36:52,628 --> 00:36:55,214 It says that we withdraw our complaint... 406 00:36:55,339 --> 00:36:58,217 and that they should let them out. 407 00:36:58,258 --> 00:37:00,093 Then bring 'Ntoni and the rest back with you. 408 00:37:00,219 --> 00:37:02,387 I'll go right away. 409 00:37:02,971 --> 00:37:05,891 - Can I take Michele along? - Sure, go ahead. 410 00:37:06,016 --> 00:37:08,518 - I don't agree with this, Raimondo! - Calm down, Nino. 411 00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:10,520 You may be right... 412 00:37:10,771 --> 00:37:13,982 but there's no other way out. 413 00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:16,777 Raimondo is always right! 414 00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:23,742 Then the king's son... 415 00:37:24,034 --> 00:37:27,162 handsome as the sun... 416 00:37:27,913 --> 00:37:30,290 rode for one year... 417 00:37:30,666 --> 00:37:32,292 one month... 418 00:37:33,877 --> 00:37:35,671 and one day... 419 00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:39,174 on a handsome white horse... 420 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:45,806 until he arrived at an enchanted fountain... 421 00:37:45,931 --> 00:37:50,394 flowing with milk and honey. 422 00:37:51,436 --> 00:37:55,148 Dismounting from his horse to drink... 423 00:37:56,149 --> 00:37:58,402 what did he find? 424 00:37:59,069 --> 00:38:00,821 My thimble! 425 00:38:01,029 --> 00:38:04,449 The fairies had taken it there! 426 00:38:05,158 --> 00:38:08,704 When the king's son saw my thimble... 427 00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:12,165 he fell in love with me! 428 00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:15,210 On and on he goes... 429 00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:18,714 until he finally arrives... 430 00:38:19,548 --> 00:38:22,843 in Trezza... to find me... 431 00:38:23,093 --> 00:38:24,970 and marry me. 432 00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:30,350 He sweeps me up on his white horse... 433 00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:33,353 and carries me off... 434 00:38:33,603 --> 00:38:37,232 far, far away! 435 00:38:38,358 --> 00:38:39,860 May I? 436 00:38:39,943 --> 00:38:43,447 Miss Lucia, excuse me for taking the liberty... 437 00:38:43,864 --> 00:38:47,868 but I heard that 'Ntoni was just released from jail in Catania. 438 00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:50,203 I wanted to be the first... 439 00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:53,749 to give you the good news. 440 00:38:53,999 --> 00:38:56,501 Is he coming straight home? 441 00:38:56,626 --> 00:38:59,254 Right away. Happy now? 442 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,591 I'm going to run and tell Mother! 443 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:09,014 Good-bye, Don Salvatore. 444 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:12,601 - And thanks. - Just doing my job, Miss Lucia. 445 00:39:28,784 --> 00:39:32,162 'Ntoni and his comrades receive a hero's welcome... 446 00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,874 from the town folk upon their return from jail. 447 00:40:02,442 --> 00:40:04,194 Let's go, Michele. 448 00:40:05,195 --> 00:40:10,575 One fine day 449 00:40:11,535 --> 00:40:16,331 To my sweet love 450 00:40:17,207 --> 00:40:22,587 A rose I gave 451 00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:26,091 Though everyone welcomed 'Ntoni home with great joy... 452 00:40:26,216 --> 00:40:28,969 yet inside he was brooding. 453 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:31,972 He thought, "If the wholesalers withdrew their charges... 454 00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:35,559 it means they can't do without us fishermen. 455 00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:40,981 Why, then, shouldn't the fishermen try to do without the wholesalers?" 456 00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:44,234 These are the thoughts in 'Ntoni's mind... 457 00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:48,447 and he feels he has to make his family understand. 458 00:40:48,572 --> 00:40:51,575 They have to find a way to be free and start working on their own. 459 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,827 I don't want any. 460 00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:57,122 - Eat, 'Ntoni. - I don't want any. 461 00:40:59,833 --> 00:41:01,960 - 'Ntoni, you have to eat. - I don't want any. 462 00:41:02,461 --> 00:41:04,379 What good is not eating? 463 00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:08,258 It's not about eating or not eating. 464 00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:16,391 - It's something else. - What is it, 'Ntoni? 465 00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:21,897 They put us in jail because the law says we committed a crime. 466 00:41:23,356 --> 00:41:26,902 But when it suits them, the law doesn't matter... 467 00:41:27,027 --> 00:41:28,653 and they let us out. 468 00:41:28,778 --> 00:41:32,032 Don't you see what that means? I'll tell you. 469 00:41:37,245 --> 00:41:40,290 It means they need us! 470 00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:44,127 But why should anyone need us? 471 00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:49,925 We're nothing but beasts of burden... 472 00:41:51,426 --> 00:41:53,428 like Jano's donkey. 473 00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:57,390 You know who needs us? 474 00:41:58,934 --> 00:42:02,145 The fish... so we can haul them out! 475 00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:05,023 The wholesalers need us, that's who! 476 00:42:05,065 --> 00:42:07,817 So why should we knuckle under? 477 00:42:08,068 --> 00:42:10,695 Let's let them fend for themselves... 478 00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:14,574 and see how they manage without our help! 479 00:42:15,325 --> 00:42:18,161 "Change old for new, you will rue." 480 00:42:18,286 --> 00:42:21,706 Grandpa, your nice proverbs don't work anymore. 481 00:42:22,082 --> 00:42:26,211 I'm not crazy. I've thought this thing out. 482 00:42:26,795 --> 00:42:29,172 I mean no harm. 483 00:42:29,214 --> 00:42:32,842 We weren't born just to lead a miserable life... 484 00:42:32,968 --> 00:42:35,428 with no hope of anything better... 485 00:42:35,804 --> 00:42:38,974 but to be masters of our own lives! 486 00:42:39,099 --> 00:42:43,103 Your father always worked hard and never complained. 487 00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:46,731 That's right, and he drowned at sea... 488 00:42:46,856 --> 00:42:49,109 still working, never complaining. 489 00:42:49,234 --> 00:42:53,071 What thanks did he get after working so hard for others? 490 00:42:54,364 --> 00:42:56,116 Who thinks of him anymore... 491 00:42:56,241 --> 00:43:01,580 or of all the rest who drowned at sea while working for others? Who? 492 00:43:02,706 --> 00:43:04,874 'Ntoni is right. 493 00:43:07,127 --> 00:43:10,755 He's thinking along the right lines. 494 00:43:11,006 --> 00:43:13,258 If we worked for ourselves... 495 00:43:13,383 --> 00:43:16,511 it would be for our family, not theirs... 496 00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:18,388 for our mother and sisters. 497 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,769 Don't think Father didn't understand these things. 498 00:43:25,645 --> 00:43:27,856 He would have agreed with 'Ntoni. 499 00:43:28,273 --> 00:43:32,152 He didn't want his sons to be beasts of burden. 500 00:43:32,277 --> 00:43:34,237 You see? It's clear! 501 00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:36,489 We have to unite against these bloodsuckers! 502 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:37,991 Tell me what to do, 'Ntoni. 503 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:41,286 I want to free us from these thieving rogues. 504 00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,289 We'll work for ourselves! Be on our own! 505 00:43:44,414 --> 00:43:48,168 Our women will help us salt the fish... our fish! 506 00:43:48,293 --> 00:43:50,253 Then we'll sell it in Catania! 507 00:43:50,378 --> 00:43:53,256 We'd need to buy our own boat. Where would we get the money? 508 00:43:53,381 --> 00:43:55,300 We have the house. 509 00:43:59,012 --> 00:44:00,764 You want to sell our house? 510 00:44:00,889 --> 00:44:05,018 Not sell... just mortgage it to get cash, buy a boat and be on our own. 511 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:10,023 Little by little, we'll pay off the mortgage with the money we'll earn. 512 00:44:11,191 --> 00:44:14,194 I'm for it if everyone else is. 513 00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:17,030 As long as we all agree... 514 00:44:17,697 --> 00:44:19,324 and Mother agrees too. 515 00:44:19,574 --> 00:44:22,661 Where will they find the money to strike out on their own? 516 00:44:22,786 --> 00:44:25,455 It's true, the house can be mortgaged... no need to sell it. 517 00:44:25,580 --> 00:44:26,831 But Cola is right: 518 00:44:26,956 --> 00:44:29,668 They all have to stick together. 519 00:44:46,309 --> 00:44:49,479 - Playing cards, eh? - For a bottle of wine. 520 00:44:49,604 --> 00:44:52,232 Bet you didn't get wine like this in prison, eh, Bandiera? 521 00:44:52,357 --> 00:44:55,360 Why bother playing? He always wins. 522 00:44:55,485 --> 00:44:57,987 - Deal the cards. - If only I had some good cards... 523 00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:04,953 Bandiera, there's our "friend." 524 00:45:06,246 --> 00:45:08,373 Hello, Lorenzo! 525 00:45:09,457 --> 00:45:12,627 What a friend! If it weren't for him, we'd still be in jail. 526 00:45:12,752 --> 00:45:15,213 Fellows, I have something to say... 527 00:45:15,338 --> 00:45:19,134 though our friend there may not like it. 528 00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:27,892 I'm the friend of everyone and no one... 529 00:45:28,852 --> 00:45:31,396 just as long as nobody crosses me. 530 00:45:41,990 --> 00:45:44,159 Is this a concert? 531 00:45:58,173 --> 00:46:00,049 It's no use. 532 00:46:00,550 --> 00:46:02,927 Some "friends" never change... 533 00:46:03,261 --> 00:46:05,138 while others get even worse. 534 00:46:05,180 --> 00:46:07,015 Don't worry, Lorenzo. 535 00:46:07,056 --> 00:46:11,060 We'll put them in their place, eh, Raimondo? 536 00:46:16,441 --> 00:46:19,194 Said the worm to the stone... 537 00:46:19,277 --> 00:46:21,946 "I'll bore a hole through you yet." 538 00:46:23,198 --> 00:46:25,074 look, they're coming out. 539 00:46:25,325 --> 00:46:29,537 - Where are they going? - To the beach, to sober up. 540 00:46:29,662 --> 00:46:31,706 They really are drunk. 541 00:46:31,831 --> 00:46:35,835 Some gratitude for the men who got them out of jail! 542 00:46:36,836 --> 00:46:40,298 That 'Ntoni! After all we did for him! 543 00:46:40,465 --> 00:46:42,425 But why is Lorenzo complaining? 544 00:46:42,550 --> 00:46:44,427 Didn't he hear Raimondo? 545 00:46:44,469 --> 00:46:46,554 They're the bosses. 546 00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:54,479 It's just a matter of time. 547 00:46:57,732 --> 00:46:59,943 As the worm said to the stone... 548 00:47:00,068 --> 00:47:02,195 "I'll bore a hole through you yet." 549 00:47:06,491 --> 00:47:10,745 Meanwhile, 'Ntoni has convinced his family to mortgage the house for cash... 550 00:47:10,870 --> 00:47:13,373 and now explains to his friends... 551 00:47:13,498 --> 00:47:17,460 how they too can work on their own like the Valastros... 552 00:47:17,752 --> 00:47:20,880 to throw off their yoke. 553 00:47:21,589 --> 00:47:26,261 Listen to me, fellows. This is what I've been thinking. 554 00:47:26,386 --> 00:47:29,639 For years, maybe centuries... 555 00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:32,392 our eyes have been closed... 556 00:47:32,517 --> 00:47:34,727 and our fathers' and grandfathers' before us... 557 00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:37,522 so that we can no longer see clearly. 558 00:47:38,857 --> 00:47:41,985 You know what happened a few days ago. 559 00:47:42,151 --> 00:47:45,613 Why let yourselves be squeezed by Lorenzo and company? 560 00:47:45,738 --> 00:47:48,491 They profit while risking nothing of their own. 561 00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:51,286 We take all the risks! 562 00:47:51,411 --> 00:47:53,997 We risk our boats and our gear... 563 00:47:54,122 --> 00:47:56,374 and our very lives! 564 00:47:56,749 --> 00:48:01,504 At best we're guaranteeing a future of hopeless misery for ourselves! 565 00:48:02,505 --> 00:48:06,259 I know you must think about it... 566 00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,177 just as I do... 567 00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:11,139 until you end up all confused... 568 00:48:12,557 --> 00:48:15,560 like fish churning in a basket, looking for a way out. 569 00:48:15,685 --> 00:48:17,896 They you give up, just like the fish. 570 00:48:18,271 --> 00:48:21,274 But it's got to stop! 571 00:48:21,316 --> 00:48:24,569 Sure they'll threaten us, but who's afraid? 572 00:48:24,652 --> 00:48:26,654 Only cowards! 573 00:48:26,779 --> 00:48:30,575 We mustn't be afraid of them. 574 00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:35,079 Other fishermen will follow us when we show them the way... 575 00:48:35,163 --> 00:48:37,040 and they'll thank us! 576 00:48:39,584 --> 00:48:42,795 - Lucia, bring me a pair of clean socks. - Give me a second. 577 00:48:42,921 --> 00:48:45,465 - My tie. - Look in the top drawer. 578 00:48:47,467 --> 00:48:50,470 - Are these mine? - No, yours are on the table. 579 00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:54,057 - Hey, this one is mine. - Help me, Mara. 580 00:48:57,602 --> 00:49:00,355 Ready? The bus leaves in 1 5 minutes. 581 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,566 We're ready. I'll just fix Cola's tie. 582 00:49:05,860 --> 00:49:09,489 - My shawl, Mara. - Here it is, Mother. 583 00:49:14,744 --> 00:49:16,871 Put your jacket on. 584 00:49:16,996 --> 00:49:19,707 Shut her up or I'll go crazy! 585 00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:21,501 All this commotion is frightening her. 586 00:49:21,751 --> 00:49:24,712 Quick or we'll miss the bus! 587 00:49:24,963 --> 00:49:28,466 We have to be in Via Ospedaliera at 1 1:00. 588 00:49:28,508 --> 00:49:30,134 Lucia, give me the baby. 589 00:49:30,259 --> 00:49:33,596 - 'Ntoni, the bus is coming. - Right away, Uncle. 590 00:49:34,389 --> 00:49:37,517 - We're coming. - Let's go. 591 00:49:38,017 --> 00:49:39,727 Come on, Grandpa. 592 00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:41,896 'Ntoni, Grandpa's in a daze! 593 00:49:42,021 --> 00:49:44,273 Let's go, Grandpa. 594 00:49:44,399 --> 00:49:46,985 Go. I'll take care of it. 595 00:49:50,363 --> 00:49:53,408 - Let's go! - Come here. 596 00:49:56,869 --> 00:49:59,163 I'll get the door. 597 00:50:17,682 --> 00:50:21,060 The Valastros are off to Catania to mortgage their house for cash. 598 00:50:21,185 --> 00:50:26,149 It's their only property, their only hope for winning a better future. 599 00:50:29,027 --> 00:50:30,820 The bus is here. 600 00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:32,697 Hurry, hurry! 601 00:50:32,822 --> 00:50:35,158 Good-bye! 602 00:50:49,047 --> 00:50:50,840 But no one else follows them... 603 00:50:50,923 --> 00:50:53,593 because everything is a threat when you live in poverty. 604 00:50:53,718 --> 00:50:55,928 It never occurs to you that things could change... 605 00:50:56,054 --> 00:50:58,598 and the worst is always yet to come. 606 00:51:01,350 --> 00:51:03,186 A month later, the mortgage is arranged... 607 00:51:03,311 --> 00:51:06,731 and 'Ntoni returns to Trezza, feeling like he owns the world. 608 00:51:06,939 --> 00:51:09,692 With money in the bank, he plans out the future. 609 00:51:09,817 --> 00:51:13,613 He can even think of taking a wife, now that they work on their own. 610 00:51:15,698 --> 00:51:17,116 Bless me, Grandpa. 611 00:51:17,950 --> 00:51:20,953 'Ntoni's back! 612 00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:24,624 I'm back, Mama. I just came from the bank. 613 00:51:24,749 --> 00:51:27,627 It was the craziest thing... 614 00:51:27,710 --> 00:51:31,506 but I got the money, and now we're all set! 615 00:51:33,883 --> 00:51:36,385 - Back already? - Yes, everything is all set. 616 00:51:36,511 --> 00:51:39,722 - Now we can buy our own boat. - Did you put the money in the bank? 617 00:51:39,847 --> 00:51:41,724 Yes, here's the bankbook. 618 00:51:42,767 --> 00:51:47,480 No more working for others. All the money we earn is ours! 619 00:51:47,772 --> 00:51:51,651 Little by little, we'll pay off our debts, and one day I'll get married. 620 00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:54,403 - You want to get married, 'Ntoni? - Yes, I do, Cola! 621 00:51:54,529 --> 00:51:56,656 Don't you have your eye on some girl? 622 00:51:56,781 --> 00:52:00,409 - No, I don't. - Well, I do! 623 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:02,870 Back from Catania? 624 00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:04,872 Yes, I'm back from Catania! 625 00:52:04,997 --> 00:52:07,375 Should we call you "boss" now? 626 00:52:07,542 --> 00:52:11,754 With God's will and hard work, now we'll get ahead. 627 00:52:14,048 --> 00:52:18,010 My faithless love 628 00:52:18,302 --> 00:52:22,682 I'll die without you 629 00:52:31,399 --> 00:52:33,776 I'll die without you 630 00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:35,444 He who's happy sings! 631 00:52:35,570 --> 00:52:39,323 I'm happy because from now on I'll work for myself. 632 00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:44,704 'Ntoni, the world is a staircase: Some go up, others go down. 633 00:52:44,787 --> 00:52:48,207 - Are you spitting at me? - Because you're being malicious! 634 00:52:48,332 --> 00:52:49,792 Blockhead! 635 00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:52,086 This stubborn mule's got delusions of grandeur now. 636 00:52:52,837 --> 00:52:54,964 Be careful. Neighbors are like roof tiles: 637 00:52:55,089 --> 00:52:57,425 Water flows from one to another. 638 00:52:57,592 --> 00:53:00,052 If things go well, I look after my friends. 639 00:53:00,803 --> 00:53:04,056 Are you mocking me too, Uncle? 640 00:53:09,478 --> 00:53:12,231 Hey, Maria, have you seen 'Ntoni? 641 00:53:12,356 --> 00:53:16,319 He can't stop singing and laughing and spitting at people. 642 00:53:16,444 --> 00:53:18,738 He's become conceited. 643 00:53:30,374 --> 00:53:32,710 Let's show Raimondo and his cronies what we can do. 644 00:53:33,085 --> 00:53:35,880 Let's go. Pull! 645 00:53:37,131 --> 00:53:40,092 This is a memorable day for the Valastros. 646 00:53:42,220 --> 00:53:45,097 Today they fish for themselves for the first time. 647 00:53:46,140 --> 00:53:47,767 Stronger on this side. 648 00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:50,102 Stronger on this side. 649 00:53:50,144 --> 00:53:52,104 Let's get the sail up. 650 00:54:32,770 --> 00:54:34,814 'Ntoni. 651 00:54:36,649 --> 00:54:38,818 What did you catch? 652 00:54:38,943 --> 00:54:40,945 Anchovies! A boatload! 653 00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:43,197 Where? 654 00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:45,533 A long way out! 655 00:54:45,825 --> 00:54:48,077 How deep? 656 00:54:48,327 --> 00:54:49,829 Forty. 657 00:54:49,954 --> 00:54:51,956 What about the other boats? 658 00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:55,209 Another one has a boatload too! 659 00:54:55,668 --> 00:54:58,421 What depth were you at? 660 00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:01,465 About forty meters. 661 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,094 During the night, far out at sea... 662 00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:08,848 they'd made an unprecedented catch of anchovies. 663 00:55:10,975 --> 00:55:12,977 Hey, kid! 664 00:55:13,227 --> 00:55:16,063 Hold on to this. Take it! 665 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,860 Providence had smiled on 'Ntoni in the dark. 666 00:55:22,737 --> 00:55:24,739 Where do we put these? 667 00:55:25,698 --> 00:55:27,867 Here, take these poles. 668 00:55:27,992 --> 00:55:31,120 Take them. 669 00:55:44,258 --> 00:55:47,887 Don't do that! We haven't caught anchovies in a year! 670 00:55:48,012 --> 00:55:50,639 We've got to salt them. 671 00:55:51,015 --> 00:55:53,768 Now that they're bosses, here comes their first expense: 672 00:55:53,893 --> 00:55:56,354 salt for the anchovies. 673 00:55:56,479 --> 00:55:59,148 But it promises abundance for tomorrow. 674 00:55:59,398 --> 00:56:00,900 Thirty kilos. 675 00:56:01,025 --> 00:56:03,027 27 0 and 30... 676 00:56:03,152 --> 00:56:05,488 makes exactly 300 kilos. 677 00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:07,406 At 1 0 lire... 678 00:56:10,034 --> 00:56:12,161 that makes 3,000 lire, right? 679 00:56:13,371 --> 00:56:14,789 Right, Uncle Toto. 680 00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:20,419 One... 681 00:56:20,753 --> 00:56:23,047 two and three. 682 00:56:23,172 --> 00:56:25,049 Fifty kilos of salt for bringing. 683 00:56:25,174 --> 00:56:27,385 - Put it in the cart. - Will do. 684 00:56:30,513 --> 00:56:32,264 Let's go, Lia. 685 00:56:37,061 --> 00:56:41,065 Children, will you help me push the cart? I can't manage on my own. 686 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,911 Good luck! Have a good salting! 687 00:57:08,217 --> 00:57:10,719 Although Sicily produces salt... 688 00:57:10,845 --> 00:57:14,306 the state monopoly sells it at exorbitant prices. 689 00:57:14,432 --> 00:57:17,226 Still, the Valastros need it to salt the anchovies... 690 00:57:17,351 --> 00:57:20,729 hoping to sell them in winter at a handsome price in Catania. 691 00:58:09,653 --> 00:58:12,156 You bought the salt? Good luck! 692 00:58:12,281 --> 00:58:13,782 Thank you. 693 00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:20,164 Thank God you came along, Nicola. I couldn't manage anymore! 694 00:58:27,296 --> 00:58:30,382 - It's so hot. - Rest for a minute. 695 00:58:30,508 --> 00:58:33,886 I can't. They're waiting for the salt. 696 00:58:35,679 --> 00:58:39,767 This is the fifth load I've hauled this morning! 697 00:58:39,808 --> 00:58:43,145 - When do you begin salting? - One of these evenings. 698 00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:46,941 'Ntoni caught so many anchovies that we have to start salting soon. 699 00:58:47,066 --> 00:58:49,443 You'd better. 700 00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,073 Otherwise they'll go bad. 701 00:58:54,907 --> 00:58:57,201 If we're lucky... 702 00:58:57,576 --> 00:59:01,705 we'll sell the whole batch and pay off the bank. 703 00:59:03,666 --> 00:59:06,710 That debt sticks in our throat like a bone. 704 00:59:13,092 --> 00:59:17,596 - Will you help me push the cart? - Of course, Mara. 705 00:59:17,846 --> 00:59:20,808 I won't need you now. 706 00:59:20,849 --> 00:59:22,851 Come here and take this money. 707 00:59:22,977 --> 00:59:25,312 Buy yourselves something. 708 00:59:34,989 --> 00:59:36,991 We're all busy at home now. 709 00:59:37,074 --> 00:59:39,994 There's cloth to weave and nets to make. 710 00:59:41,495 --> 00:59:44,748 Now that you're a boat-owner's daughter and rich... 711 00:59:44,873 --> 00:59:46,875 you'll soon get married. 712 00:59:47,126 --> 00:59:49,128 God will decide that. 713 00:59:50,462 --> 00:59:53,632 In the meantime, I don't even think about it. 714 00:59:53,757 --> 00:59:56,385 How wonderful it must be to be rich. 715 00:59:56,468 --> 01:00:00,097 To marry whoever you like, live wherever you like. 716 01:00:03,225 --> 01:00:05,769 Well, here we are. You'd better be going. 717 01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:08,147 The other masons must be waiting for you. 718 01:00:08,272 --> 01:00:10,399 Thanks, Nicola. 719 01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:13,986 My brothers are up by now. 720 01:00:14,111 --> 01:00:16,655 They'll help me with the sacks. 721 01:00:18,032 --> 01:00:20,659 So long, Mara, and good luck... 722 01:00:21,535 --> 01:00:23,537 with all my heart. 723 01:00:26,624 --> 01:00:29,126 While many are attracted by riches... 724 01:00:29,376 --> 01:00:32,171 others are frightened off. 725 01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:36,425 It was with a heavy heart that Nicola wished Mara well... 726 01:00:36,508 --> 01:00:39,053 for he's well aware how these things work. 727 01:00:39,303 --> 01:00:42,181 He's too poor for a Valastro girl now... 728 01:00:42,264 --> 01:00:44,558 and the poor know their place. 729 01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:48,062 Vanni, Alfio, come help me! The salt's here! 730 01:00:48,437 --> 01:00:51,440 Getting ready for a good salting, eh? 731 01:00:51,565 --> 01:00:53,525 The fifth cartful! 732 01:00:54,068 --> 01:00:56,445 - Mara, here, let me take it. - Yes, give me a hand. 733 01:01:05,704 --> 01:01:07,581 Have you decided yet, Nedda? 734 01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:09,917 I don't know yet. 735 01:01:10,084 --> 01:01:12,544 Nedda! 736 01:01:13,337 --> 01:01:17,091 - What's keeping you? - I'm coming, Mother! 737 01:01:17,675 --> 01:01:19,551 Let's go. 738 01:01:20,469 --> 01:01:23,222 Well, Nedda? Is it yes or no? 739 01:01:23,430 --> 01:01:26,684 We'll go to Cannizzaro on Sunday... 740 01:01:26,809 --> 01:01:28,560 and take a nice stroll. 741 01:01:28,811 --> 01:01:30,729 I don't know yet. 742 01:01:30,854 --> 01:01:32,481 Come on, Nedda. 743 01:01:32,606 --> 01:01:34,858 We'll have a pleasant day. 744 01:01:37,236 --> 01:01:39,238 I don't know yet. 745 01:01:48,372 --> 01:01:50,833 If Nedda's playing hard to get... 746 01:01:50,874 --> 01:01:53,502 it's nothing but flirting. 747 01:01:53,627 --> 01:01:55,754 Because in Trezza, even matters of the heart... 748 01:01:55,879 --> 01:01:58,757 are linked to one's work and financial success. 749 01:02:00,509 --> 01:02:03,887 - Here's another one, Grandpa. - That makes 25. 750 01:02:05,973 --> 01:02:08,892 - This means money for the winter. - A lot! 751 01:02:10,978 --> 01:02:13,731 They'll bring good luck. 752 01:02:13,856 --> 01:02:16,608 Uncle Nunzio is treating us to a concert. 753 01:02:19,528 --> 01:02:21,155 Let's go, fellows. 754 01:02:25,033 --> 01:02:28,996 There are more anchovies where those came from. 755 01:02:32,166 --> 01:02:34,793 Try and guess this one: 756 01:02:35,043 --> 01:02:38,297 It's long, and in winter you put it away. 757 01:02:38,422 --> 01:02:40,299 A broom handle! 758 01:02:44,803 --> 01:02:49,641 Let's go, boys! 759 01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:51,435 Greetings, Sergeant. 760 01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:56,899 I never saw so much salted fish! 761 01:02:57,441 --> 01:02:59,067 Isn't that the truth! 762 01:02:59,151 --> 01:03:01,820 There are more anchovies than Carabinieri! 763 01:03:03,405 --> 01:03:07,785 And the anchovies are luckier than us too... 764 01:03:07,910 --> 01:03:10,078 being handled by pretty girls. 765 01:03:12,206 --> 01:03:14,958 Watch those compliments, Sergeant... 766 01:03:15,209 --> 01:03:17,836 or you'll give these women ideas! 767 01:03:33,101 --> 01:03:34,978 Try this one: 768 01:03:35,229 --> 01:03:37,856 "I cut off the head, I cut off the tail... 769 01:03:38,065 --> 01:03:40,192 and you've got a princess instead." 770 01:03:40,317 --> 01:03:43,070 I'll tell you what it is! A prickly pear! 771 01:04:01,505 --> 01:04:04,716 Good night, all. Good fishing! 772 01:04:10,764 --> 01:04:12,391 Nice music, eh? 773 01:04:12,724 --> 01:04:15,227 It's by Vincenzo Bellini. 774 01:04:15,894 --> 01:04:19,481 "The Swan of Catania." Good night, Uncle Nunzio. 775 01:04:40,168 --> 01:04:43,297 'Ntoni and his sweetheart hurry toward the beach... 776 01:04:43,422 --> 01:04:47,259 to spend a few delicious moments away from curious eyes. 777 01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:03,692 Come on, Nedda. 778 01:05:13,285 --> 01:05:15,078 Nedda, wait! 779 01:05:20,542 --> 01:05:22,336 Nedda! 780 01:05:32,304 --> 01:05:34,056 Nedda! 781 01:05:39,561 --> 01:05:41,480 Careful or you'll fall in the sea! 782 01:05:45,442 --> 01:05:47,611 Nedda, wait! 783 01:05:48,820 --> 01:05:51,239 Nedda, wait! 784 01:07:05,689 --> 01:07:08,650 What does your heart tell you, 'Ntoni? 785 01:07:10,569 --> 01:07:13,071 Now you've got everything you ever wanted. 786 01:07:13,822 --> 01:07:17,409 Everything you ever dreamed of is within reach. 787 01:08:04,748 --> 01:08:07,250 Nasty day today. Too much wind! 788 01:08:07,334 --> 01:08:09,211 It's the devil's wind! 789 01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:11,713 Even if the sea is menacing... 790 01:08:11,838 --> 01:08:14,091 the boat must risk it. 791 01:08:14,716 --> 01:08:16,843 With so many expenses... 792 01:08:16,968 --> 01:08:20,097 the day laborers to pay and so many mouths to feed at home... 793 01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:23,350 'Ntoni can't afford to lose a day. 794 01:08:50,377 --> 01:08:52,754 - Hold the rigging steady, boy! - Right away, Grandpa. 795 01:08:59,261 --> 01:09:04,266 If there's a wind in the gulf, turn back. You hear me, 'Ntoni? 796 01:09:07,644 --> 01:09:12,983 The gulf wind is like a gale. You can wait for better weather. 797 01:09:16,236 --> 01:09:20,282 But he who has a family can't sleep whenever he wishes... 798 01:09:21,158 --> 01:09:24,870 and so 'Ntoni and his brothers and grandfather... 799 01:09:25,620 --> 01:09:27,998 entrust themselves to luck. 800 01:10:36,942 --> 01:10:40,237 When the bell sounds the alarm in Trezza... 801 01:10:40,862 --> 01:10:45,116 hearts sink among those who have men at sea. 802 01:10:53,124 --> 01:10:56,962 The tolling of the bell is a storm warning. 803 01:11:07,973 --> 01:11:11,142 Each seeks help from her neighbor... 804 01:11:11,268 --> 01:11:15,772 and they beg for God's mercy for the wretches who are in danger. 805 01:11:33,748 --> 01:11:36,376 Bandiera! 806 01:11:36,501 --> 01:11:39,004 Open up. It's me, Mara! 807 01:11:41,673 --> 01:11:44,384 - What is it, Mara? - Help me, please! 808 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,556 Please, calm down. 809 01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,562 Here, sit down. 810 01:11:55,687 --> 01:11:57,564 Angelina, Mara's here. 811 01:11:57,647 --> 01:12:01,151 I waited on the jetty all night. 812 01:12:01,192 --> 01:12:03,653 Someone has to go find them. 813 01:12:03,695 --> 01:12:06,448 They're in terrible danger! 814 01:12:06,573 --> 01:12:10,076 Mother of God! I warned them not to go out! 815 01:12:10,201 --> 01:12:14,080 How am I supposed to find them? Can't you see how bad this storm is? 816 01:12:14,205 --> 01:12:16,207 Bandiera, you have to go! 817 01:12:16,333 --> 01:12:20,795 I can't tell my mother no one's going to look for them. 818 01:12:24,090 --> 01:12:26,593 In her anguish she's become... 819 01:12:26,718 --> 01:12:29,346 like a corpse, staring into space. 820 01:12:33,975 --> 01:12:36,561 Courage, Mara. 821 01:12:37,103 --> 01:12:39,064 We'll see what we can do. 822 01:15:13,593 --> 01:15:17,764 Good weather or bad, neither one lasts forever. 823 01:15:18,515 --> 01:15:22,727 Could this calm sea be the same one that swept 'Ntoni's boat so far out? 824 01:15:24,145 --> 01:15:26,773 And so one day, rounding Capo dei Mulini... 825 01:15:26,898 --> 01:15:28,900 the Valastros' boat returns... 826 01:15:29,025 --> 01:15:31,611 which by now everyone had almost forgotten. 827 01:15:32,028 --> 01:15:35,156 Bandiera found them drifting somewhere... 828 01:15:35,532 --> 01:15:38,117 and is now towing them back in. 829 01:15:48,294 --> 01:15:50,421 Bastiano! 830 01:15:50,797 --> 01:15:54,551 Bandiera's boat is back, with 'Ntoni's in tow! 831 01:16:03,393 --> 01:16:05,311 Tell me, who is it? 832 01:16:39,470 --> 01:16:41,347 So this is how they return: 833 01:16:41,472 --> 01:16:44,851 'Ntoni, Cola, Grandfather and Vanni. 834 01:16:46,102 --> 01:16:50,565 They lost everything: the nets, the mast, the oars, the sail. 835 01:16:51,316 --> 01:16:55,111 The boat, its side split open, barely stays afloat. 836 01:16:57,322 --> 01:16:59,741 It wasn't enough that their fellow man was their enemy. 837 01:16:59,991 --> 01:17:02,493 Nature was there too... 838 01:17:02,577 --> 01:17:06,122 and in a single night wiped them out utterly. 839 01:17:14,714 --> 01:17:17,759 The wholesalers will now have their revenge. 840 01:17:17,884 --> 01:17:21,971 'Ntoni will pay dearly for his rebellion. 841 01:17:55,046 --> 01:17:57,173 You brought this disaster on yourself! 842 01:17:57,298 --> 01:18:00,176 See what you've done by being so stubborn? 843 01:18:00,885 --> 01:18:03,137 You'll never be a wholesaler, wretch! 844 01:18:04,180 --> 01:18:06,891 Now you'll pay for your mistake! 845 01:18:11,396 --> 01:18:14,440 One should listen to his elders. 846 01:18:33,459 --> 01:18:35,461 Courage, 'Ntoni. 847 01:18:36,212 --> 01:18:39,090 What a miserable trade a fisherman has! 848 01:18:41,342 --> 01:18:44,053 It's not the end of the world, 'Ntoni. 849 01:18:49,100 --> 01:18:51,602 Let's go home. Mother's waiting. 850 01:19:07,744 --> 01:19:11,456 'Ntoni's back. look! 851 01:19:27,847 --> 01:19:29,849 My son! My son! 852 01:19:38,524 --> 01:19:40,485 My son! 853 01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:43,863 We're back, Mama. Take heart. 854 01:19:51,788 --> 01:19:53,790 Will you be quiet? 855 01:19:54,624 --> 01:19:56,667 Leave us in peace! 856 01:20:00,004 --> 01:20:02,173 Leave us in peace. 857 01:20:02,298 --> 01:20:05,426 I'm a miserable wretch with rotten luck... 858 01:20:05,551 --> 01:20:07,637 doomed to struggle against fate to feed my family! 859 01:20:07,762 --> 01:20:09,305 Don't take it so hard. 860 01:20:09,764 --> 01:20:12,433 There must be an end to our bad luck! 861 01:20:15,937 --> 01:20:18,397 Quiet. Grandpa will hear you. 862 01:20:18,564 --> 01:20:20,274 Bring me some water to shave. 863 01:20:20,316 --> 01:20:22,568 Right away, 'Ntoni. 864 01:20:29,951 --> 01:20:32,787 Bring the bottle. 865 01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,084 Cola! 866 01:20:39,669 --> 01:20:41,838 Now we have to think about paying our debts. 867 01:20:41,963 --> 01:20:44,215 Mother has prepared lunch. Let's go in and eat, Grandpa. 868 01:20:49,053 --> 01:20:53,850 Grandfather stares before him with lifeless eyes. 869 01:20:54,976 --> 01:20:58,604 "Now we have to think about paying our debts, "he said. 870 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,610 Meanwhile, 'Ntoni and his brothers, the young men of the family... 871 01:21:05,486 --> 01:21:08,614 haven't yet fully grasped... 872 01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:11,075 the extent of their misfortune. 873 01:21:12,827 --> 01:21:15,621 But 'Ntoni still has Nedda's love. 874 01:21:16,831 --> 01:21:18,499 Nedda will stand by him. 875 01:21:18,624 --> 01:21:21,377 Open up, Nedda. It's 'Ntoni! 876 01:21:26,132 --> 01:21:28,759 Nedda, open up! 877 01:21:28,885 --> 01:21:31,095 Can you hear me, Nedda? 878 01:21:37,143 --> 01:21:39,729 Open up, Nedda. It's 'Ntoni! 879 01:21:54,285 --> 01:21:57,121 Nedda! Isn't anybody home? 880 01:22:37,161 --> 01:22:40,414 How's it going, 'Ntoni? 881 01:22:41,165 --> 01:22:44,585 'Ntoni wanders sadly to the beach. 882 01:22:44,669 --> 01:22:47,964 His boat is at the caulker's, but they have no money for repairs... 883 01:22:48,089 --> 01:22:51,550 and so he must look for work. 884 01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:07,733 - Any work for us? - We've got a full crew. 885 01:23:07,858 --> 01:23:10,444 If it was you alone... 886 01:23:12,238 --> 01:23:14,115 Sorry. 887 01:23:16,867 --> 01:23:20,204 That's all right, Uncle Angelo. 888 01:23:30,756 --> 01:23:32,967 Now that they've lost everything... 889 01:23:33,009 --> 01:23:36,137 'Ntoni must find a job somewhere... 890 01:23:37,763 --> 01:23:41,142 even if it's hard to work on someone else's boat... 891 01:23:41,225 --> 01:23:43,644 when he once had his own. 892 01:23:46,147 --> 01:23:48,774 But even this is denied him. 893 01:23:48,899 --> 01:23:51,402 No one has any work for him. 894 01:23:51,527 --> 01:23:55,656 Now not even a dog welcomes him in Trezza. 895 01:24:18,804 --> 01:24:21,807 - Greetings, Signor Viola. - 'Ntoni, how are you? 896 01:24:21,932 --> 01:24:23,684 Got any work for me? 897 01:24:23,809 --> 01:24:26,062 Are you a mechanic? 898 01:24:26,187 --> 01:24:28,689 What mechanic? I'm a fisherman! 899 01:24:28,814 --> 01:24:31,817 Then I'm sorry. I can't help you. 900 01:24:33,319 --> 01:24:36,072 I suppose you can't. Good-bye, Signor Viola. 901 01:24:42,078 --> 01:24:45,706 The wholesalers' boycott is on. No one will hire 'Ntoni and his folk. 902 01:25:49,603 --> 01:25:53,023 Lucia, there's Don Salvatore. Don't let him see us! 903 01:25:58,654 --> 01:26:01,240 Greetings, Miss Lucia. 904 01:26:01,365 --> 01:26:04,034 Mind if I chat a minute? 905 01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,495 If I were alone I'd mind... 906 01:26:06,620 --> 01:26:10,291 but since Mara's here, I guess it's all right. 907 01:26:10,499 --> 01:26:12,376 Mara's here too? 908 01:26:13,794 --> 01:26:17,131 Hello, Mara. Sorry, I didn't see you. 909 01:26:19,550 --> 01:26:21,677 Greetings, Don Salvatore. 910 01:26:21,802 --> 01:26:25,055 You know, this village is full of gossips. 911 01:26:25,306 --> 01:26:28,893 If they happen to see you at our window... 912 01:26:31,187 --> 01:26:33,564 I don't say it on my account. 913 01:26:34,440 --> 01:26:36,692 I'm thinking of Lucia. 914 01:26:37,693 --> 01:26:39,904 She's so young. 915 01:26:40,029 --> 01:26:42,573 A girl has to be happy, Miss Lucia. 916 01:26:42,698 --> 01:26:46,327 The gossips are jealous of you... 917 01:26:46,577 --> 01:26:48,662 and your good looks. 918 01:26:48,704 --> 01:26:51,832 If you were ugly, no one would say a word. 919 01:26:51,916 --> 01:26:55,419 Don't you ever think of getting married? 920 01:26:56,045 --> 01:26:58,214 Well, until now... 921 01:26:58,339 --> 01:26:59,840 I haven't. 922 01:27:01,842 --> 01:27:04,803 Well, you should. But don't get married in Trezza. 923 01:27:05,596 --> 01:27:08,933 You're a city girl. You don't fit in here. 924 01:27:09,308 --> 01:27:12,102 You should wear fine clothes... 925 01:27:12,228 --> 01:27:14,188 not those old rags. 926 01:27:14,730 --> 01:27:18,192 See what I've brought you. 927 01:27:18,859 --> 01:27:22,488 A pretty silk scarf, as if made just for you! 928 01:27:22,613 --> 01:27:26,367 Please, I can't accept it, even if you kill me! 929 01:27:26,492 --> 01:27:28,369 At least have a look at it. 930 01:27:28,953 --> 01:27:31,121 Don't be offended, Don Salvatore. 931 01:27:31,247 --> 01:27:35,000 We're poor now. Such fine things aren't for us. 932 01:27:35,376 --> 01:27:37,836 I'm not upset... 933 01:27:37,962 --> 01:27:40,714 but I don't deserve this. 934 01:27:47,012 --> 01:27:49,515 It's too beautiful for me! 935 01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:53,018 Lots of girls not even as pretty as you have one. 936 01:27:53,143 --> 01:27:56,146 Because they're rich... we're not. 937 01:27:56,272 --> 01:27:58,023 I didn't mean that. 938 01:27:58,148 --> 01:28:01,026 Even if you don't want it, I won't take offense. 939 01:28:01,777 --> 01:28:05,155 I like you anyway. All of you. 940 01:28:07,241 --> 01:28:10,494 Don Salvatore will always be your friend. 941 01:28:10,619 --> 01:28:12,121 Remember that. 942 01:28:12,246 --> 01:28:14,790 No matter what happens. 943 01:28:18,043 --> 01:28:21,547 Good-bye, Miss Lucia, Miss Mara. 944 01:28:23,257 --> 01:28:25,384 Good-bye, Don Salvatore. 945 01:28:25,926 --> 01:28:27,636 Thank you. 946 01:28:39,648 --> 01:28:43,152 Don Salvatore really is a friend. 947 01:29:08,093 --> 01:29:10,095 That was a nice scarf. 948 01:29:23,567 --> 01:29:26,487 I like silk scarfs... 949 01:29:28,447 --> 01:29:30,491 and earrings... 950 01:29:31,742 --> 01:29:34,078 and necklaces. 951 01:29:43,504 --> 01:29:48,842 Their last riches, the 30 barrels, now had to be sold. 952 01:29:49,134 --> 01:29:51,720 But to whom, if not the wholesalers? 953 01:29:51,887 --> 01:29:54,223 These are the anchovies. We have 30 barrels. 954 01:29:54,348 --> 01:29:56,392 All the same quality? 955 01:29:56,517 --> 01:29:59,853 Yes, they were all salted at the same time. 956 01:29:59,978 --> 01:30:01,980 I'd like to see for myself. 957 01:30:02,147 --> 01:30:04,775 Right. Then we'll agree on a price. 958 01:30:18,789 --> 01:30:20,916 Is this your stuff, 'Ntoni? 959 01:30:21,250 --> 01:30:23,752 Don't you see it's no good? 960 01:30:24,420 --> 01:30:27,923 Tiny, shriveled up, clotted with too much salt... 961 01:30:28,257 --> 01:30:29,925 and rust, even. 962 01:30:33,011 --> 01:30:35,055 They're too dry too. 963 01:30:36,181 --> 01:30:38,559 Lorenzo, look at this. 964 01:30:52,197 --> 01:30:54,074 Only fit for cats! 965 01:30:54,783 --> 01:30:57,828 Are you joking? The stuff's all good! 966 01:30:58,203 --> 01:31:00,205 You want it for nothing, don't you? 967 01:31:00,330 --> 01:31:02,958 Forget it. I'm not being taken! 968 01:31:03,083 --> 01:31:04,793 Hello, everyone! 969 01:31:05,919 --> 01:31:08,714 I brought the truck. I'm ready when you are. 970 01:31:08,839 --> 01:31:11,925 You can take it back. No use waiting. 971 01:31:12,050 --> 01:31:14,845 Doesn't look like there's gonna be a deal. 972 01:31:15,095 --> 01:31:19,683 We know our business, and we know what's good and what isn't. 973 01:31:20,225 --> 01:31:22,561 We worked hard for these 30 barrels. 974 01:31:22,603 --> 01:31:25,105 You think we found them on the street? 975 01:31:26,482 --> 01:31:28,942 Everybody leans on a low wall... 976 01:31:28,984 --> 01:31:32,362 so put your weight somewhere else. You're not pressing us down! 977 01:31:32,488 --> 01:31:35,073 That stuff's no good to us. 978 01:31:36,325 --> 01:31:38,494 We know our business too. 979 01:31:38,869 --> 01:31:40,829 Let's go. 980 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,712 Let them go, Cola. They only came to suck our blood. 981 01:31:49,713 --> 01:31:52,466 You Judas swine! We know your business. 982 01:31:52,591 --> 01:31:55,219 It's taking advantage of people. 983 01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:57,262 Now you're showing your true face... 984 01:31:57,387 --> 01:31:59,264 the face of greed! 985 01:31:59,389 --> 01:32:01,391 Are you saying we're thieves? 986 01:32:01,767 --> 01:32:04,853 Over and over we offered to buy your barrels. 987 01:32:04,978 --> 01:32:07,397 You wouldn't sell. 988 01:32:07,523 --> 01:32:10,400 You were saving it up for winter. 989 01:32:13,403 --> 01:32:16,406 So if you want to sell now, sell... 990 01:32:16,657 --> 01:32:20,035 and if you don't, throw them back in the sea! 991 01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:27,292 We'll give you 80 lire. 992 01:32:27,417 --> 01:32:30,170 Parasites! Sharks! Crooks! Get out! 993 01:32:37,636 --> 01:32:40,806 I'd rather throw it back in the ocean! 994 01:32:42,558 --> 01:32:45,310 Suit yourselves. 995 01:33:02,828 --> 01:33:06,164 'Ntoni, Cola, I'm sorry to see you treated that way. 996 01:33:06,582 --> 01:33:10,335 Every wind is bad for a sinking ship. 997 01:33:42,075 --> 01:33:45,495 But when the ache of hunger is in your throat... 998 01:33:45,996 --> 01:33:48,498 you'll settle for anything. 999 01:33:48,582 --> 01:33:51,627 You give in, even if you're plundered in the process. 1000 01:33:52,127 --> 01:33:56,757 "I'll bore a hole through you yet," said the worm to the stone. 1001 01:35:43,947 --> 01:35:48,076 Rough weather, boys. Feels like the sirocco. 1002 01:35:49,119 --> 01:35:51,496 We can't go out to sea. 1003 01:35:51,580 --> 01:35:53,957 It could last a week, eh? 1004 01:35:54,583 --> 01:35:57,127 Anything's possible... even that. 1005 01:35:59,004 --> 01:36:01,631 We worked so hard. Now we can afford to rest up a while. 1006 01:36:01,757 --> 01:36:03,467 Without work you can't afford to eat. 1007 01:36:03,508 --> 01:36:06,386 You can't even afford to smoke. 1008 01:36:06,470 --> 01:36:08,388 Cigarette? 1009 01:36:08,638 --> 01:36:11,892 - Thanks. One for my friend too? - Go right ahead. 1010 01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:17,647 These are good cigarettes. 1011 01:36:18,482 --> 01:36:20,776 American. Lucky Strikes. 1012 01:36:31,787 --> 01:36:34,790 - We never get these around here. - You like them? 1013 01:36:35,791 --> 01:36:38,168 Then listen to me. 1014 01:36:51,890 --> 01:36:56,436 - Hey, let me have a puff. - Just a minute. 1015 01:37:09,407 --> 01:37:11,201 Now it's your turn. 1016 01:37:12,035 --> 01:37:13,328 Cola! 1017 01:37:16,832 --> 01:37:18,792 Hello, Santo. 1018 01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:21,795 Give me a light. 1019 01:37:23,213 --> 01:37:26,466 This is Cola, the one I was telling you about. 1020 01:37:26,591 --> 01:37:28,468 'Ntoni Valastro's brother. 1021 01:37:29,177 --> 01:37:30,971 He's out of work. 1022 01:37:31,096 --> 01:37:34,224 Is that right? You're out of work? 1023 01:37:36,476 --> 01:37:38,353 Yes, that's right. 1024 01:37:40,105 --> 01:37:41,690 What's it to you? 1025 01:37:41,815 --> 01:37:44,568 I'm interested because... 1026 01:37:45,485 --> 01:37:47,737 I can help you. 1027 01:37:48,572 --> 01:37:50,740 Have a cigarette. 1028 01:37:58,623 --> 01:38:00,250 Santo, who's that? 1029 01:38:00,500 --> 01:38:02,002 I don't know. 1030 01:38:02,127 --> 01:38:05,755 An American, I think, with lots of cigarettes. 1031 01:38:06,590 --> 01:38:10,135 - You know the guy? - Let's see what he's got to offer. 1032 01:38:10,719 --> 01:38:15,015 Who indeed was this stranger, and what did he want here? 1033 01:38:16,391 --> 01:38:18,268 What is he offering young men like Cola... 1034 01:38:18,393 --> 01:38:20,770 men at the end of their rope... 1035 01:38:20,896 --> 01:38:23,356 doomed to die of hunger... 1036 01:38:23,481 --> 01:38:25,400 shackled like dogs on a chain? 1037 01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:15,450 Cola looks at the pack of cigarettes. What has he got to lose? 1038 01:39:15,951 --> 01:39:18,828 What could be worse than this misery? 1039 01:39:19,579 --> 01:39:23,333 As a smuggler, at least he could help his family. 1040 01:40:46,791 --> 01:40:49,127 Cola, what are you doing in my sea chest? 1041 01:40:56,301 --> 01:40:59,429 Did you find work? You took my knapsack. 1042 01:41:01,056 --> 01:41:02,640 What work? 1043 01:41:03,808 --> 01:41:05,810 Work, my eye! 1044 01:41:11,191 --> 01:41:12,942 Doing what? 1045 01:41:26,206 --> 01:41:28,708 Nothing was happening today, of course. 1046 01:41:33,088 --> 01:41:36,091 The excuse today was bad weather. 1047 01:41:41,471 --> 01:41:44,724 Bad weather or good, there's always some excuse. 1048 01:41:46,101 --> 01:41:50,355 I can't stand being reduced to nothing but misery. 1049 01:41:53,066 --> 01:41:56,945 You realize we've been looking for work for a month? 1050 01:41:58,696 --> 01:42:01,991 We haven't earned one cent. 1051 01:42:02,826 --> 01:42:05,453 What's left for us? Stealing? 1052 01:42:05,870 --> 01:42:08,998 Every door is shut in our faces. 1053 01:42:09,457 --> 01:42:14,254 Meanwhile, we all starve: the family, you, me. 1054 01:42:14,379 --> 01:42:17,382 What good did selling our anchovies do us? 1055 01:42:17,882 --> 01:42:20,135 We sweated blood for those barrels! 1056 01:42:20,218 --> 01:42:24,097 They were to be the start of our fortune. 1057 01:42:24,514 --> 01:42:26,975 But instead they only kept us... 1058 01:42:27,142 --> 01:42:29,519 from sinking for a short while. 1059 01:42:29,644 --> 01:42:32,897 Now the devil's got us where he wants us... 1060 01:42:33,022 --> 01:42:34,899 and there's no hope. 1061 01:42:52,417 --> 01:42:56,171 We should have thrown them back into the sea... 1062 01:42:56,296 --> 01:42:59,132 before giving them to those swine. 1063 01:42:59,674 --> 01:43:03,136 I get sick thinking of how crooked they are! 1064 01:43:12,020 --> 01:43:13,688 It's getting dark. 1065 01:43:18,026 --> 01:43:19,819 You know what? 1066 01:43:20,069 --> 01:43:22,322 I'm fed up with living here. 1067 01:43:47,847 --> 01:43:49,933 I can't believe... 1068 01:43:50,058 --> 01:43:54,312 that people in other parts of the world are as mean as in Trezza. 1069 01:43:55,939 --> 01:43:58,441 I'm tired of living here. 1070 01:44:01,236 --> 01:44:03,696 You shouldn't talk like that. 1071 01:44:08,201 --> 01:44:10,870 We were born in Trezza... 1072 01:44:13,957 --> 01:44:15,875 and we must die in Trezza. 1073 01:44:20,129 --> 01:44:22,006 Even if it means we suffer. 1074 01:44:26,386 --> 01:44:28,763 Maybe you're right, 'Ntoni. 1075 01:44:28,888 --> 01:44:30,890 You know the world. 1076 01:44:32,517 --> 01:44:35,520 Taranto, Bari. 1077 01:44:37,522 --> 01:44:39,899 You've even been in Spezia. 1078 01:44:43,152 --> 01:44:46,155 It's a big world outside this village. 1079 01:44:48,658 --> 01:44:51,494 If there's a way of making our fortune... 1080 01:44:53,663 --> 01:44:56,291 I want to help you... 1081 01:44:56,416 --> 01:44:58,543 and our family. 1082 01:45:01,254 --> 01:45:05,049 The sea is the same all over the world. 1083 01:45:05,675 --> 01:45:08,052 Outside our harbor are strong currents and disaster. 1084 01:45:08,177 --> 01:45:10,179 You've seen that. 1085 01:45:27,822 --> 01:45:30,825 Keep this in mind, Cola: 1086 01:45:32,577 --> 01:45:34,704 Our struggle is here! 1087 01:45:46,341 --> 01:45:48,718 "Keep this in mind, Cola: 1088 01:45:48,843 --> 01:45:50,970 Our struggle is here!" 1089 01:45:51,095 --> 01:45:53,431 This is what 'Ntoni tells his brother. 1090 01:45:53,723 --> 01:45:57,185 If you're born in Trezza, you stay in Trezza. 1091 01:45:57,727 --> 01:45:59,812 It stopped raining. 1092 01:46:05,109 --> 01:46:09,989 I do want to help you, 'Ntoni. 1093 01:46:11,616 --> 01:46:14,869 But one thought torments Cola. 1094 01:46:15,119 --> 01:46:17,246 He yearns to set out to make his fortune... 1095 01:46:17,372 --> 01:46:20,750 in some enchanted city like on the picture postcards... 1096 01:46:21,084 --> 01:46:23,127 where a man could get rich and help his family. 1097 01:46:26,964 --> 01:46:29,342 - Hi, Cola. - Hi. 1098 01:46:36,391 --> 01:46:39,227 Cola, I'm going to bed. 1099 01:46:39,894 --> 01:46:42,980 How can you go to bed all wet like that? 1100 01:46:43,022 --> 01:46:44,524 - Vanni! - What? 1101 01:46:44,649 --> 01:46:47,652 - Bring me a towel. - Wait, I'm doing something. 1102 01:46:51,114 --> 01:46:53,533 How did you get so soaked? 1103 01:46:54,784 --> 01:46:57,912 - Where were you? - At the castle. 1104 01:46:57,995 --> 01:47:01,666 It's really cold. Were you playing there? 1105 01:47:09,799 --> 01:47:12,176 You're so wet! 1106 01:47:17,140 --> 01:47:19,434 You're hungry, aren't you? 1107 01:47:23,271 --> 01:47:25,440 Here's the towel. 1108 01:47:32,947 --> 01:47:36,534 I got work in Cannizzaro today, picking oranges. 1109 01:47:38,035 --> 01:47:40,079 I earned 3 50 lire. 1110 01:47:41,330 --> 01:47:43,082 I was lucky, eh? 1111 01:47:43,207 --> 01:47:45,585 No job on the boats, eh? 1112 01:47:45,710 --> 01:47:47,795 That's right. 1113 01:47:48,337 --> 01:47:50,840 They've ganged up on us. No work at all. 1114 01:47:51,716 --> 01:47:53,843 Don Gentili took me on because he was short of people. 1115 01:47:53,968 --> 01:47:56,095 Put the money away. 1116 01:47:57,472 --> 01:48:01,726 3 50 and 200 from yesterday, plus the 400 we saved... 1117 01:48:04,187 --> 01:48:07,732 Give it to me. I'll put it in the drawer. 1118 01:48:13,362 --> 01:48:15,448 Blessings, Grandpa. 1119 01:48:17,116 --> 01:48:21,120 Why don't we put the money in the drawer? That way you can't lose it. 1120 01:48:21,954 --> 01:48:24,707 It's risky keeping money on you. 1121 01:48:24,999 --> 01:48:28,878 It's terrible to lose money you've worked so hard for. 1122 01:50:00,469 --> 01:50:02,430 Cola! 1123 01:51:13,250 --> 01:51:15,169 Valastro! 1124 01:51:15,419 --> 01:51:17,672 'Ntoni Valastro! 1125 01:51:19,924 --> 01:51:22,259 Isn't anyone home here? 1126 01:51:22,677 --> 01:51:25,304 Yes, they're home. Knock harder. 1127 01:51:25,429 --> 01:51:27,556 They're hiding inside. 1128 01:51:47,159 --> 01:51:48,953 Good day. 1129 01:51:49,078 --> 01:51:52,415 Are you the heirs of Sebastiano Valastro? 1130 01:51:53,958 --> 01:51:56,585 We're here to foreclose on your mortgage and seize the house. 1131 01:51:57,336 --> 01:52:00,297 We're from the Fidani Bank in Catania, the bank that gave you the loan. 1132 01:52:00,798 --> 01:52:03,342 Engineer, show them the foreclosure order. 1133 01:52:05,469 --> 01:52:09,432 Here it is, signed by the judge. It authorizes us to take possession. 1134 01:52:10,349 --> 01:52:13,227 Start checking the building. 1135 01:52:13,853 --> 01:52:16,939 Check the strength of the load-bearing walls... 1136 01:52:17,064 --> 01:52:20,985 and take a precise measurement of the square footage. 1137 01:52:37,501 --> 01:52:40,212 'Ntoni! 'Ntoni! 1138 01:52:40,713 --> 01:52:42,131 What is it? 1139 01:52:42,256 --> 01:52:46,719 Concetta says the bankers from Catania have brought the bailiff. 1140 01:52:46,844 --> 01:52:49,138 - Where? - At your house. 1141 01:52:56,270 --> 01:52:58,522 This is a load-bearing wall. 1142 01:53:02,526 --> 01:53:06,280 This one is too, but it's in bad condition. 1143 01:53:10,659 --> 01:53:13,370 No brick support, only stone. 1144 01:53:20,753 --> 01:53:22,922 This wall is weak. 1145 01:53:24,673 --> 01:53:26,884 It won't last long. 1146 01:53:27,635 --> 01:53:31,430 The furniture's worthless. 1147 01:53:47,822 --> 01:53:50,533 The paint is peeling, the ceiling needs repair. 1148 01:53:50,574 --> 01:53:54,078 The whole place needs replastering. 1149 01:53:54,203 --> 01:53:56,789 Shall we examine the other rooms? 1150 01:54:09,468 --> 01:54:13,097 Tomorrow morning at 4:00 at the place I told you. 1151 01:54:13,597 --> 01:54:15,349 All right. We'll be there. 1152 01:54:19,436 --> 01:54:22,356 Right, Nino? Let's go. 1153 01:54:26,235 --> 01:54:29,613 - I'm taking a cigarette. - Coming, Cola? 1154 01:54:29,738 --> 01:54:31,365 In a minute. 1155 01:54:31,490 --> 01:54:33,868 See you tomorrow. 1156 01:54:37,079 --> 01:54:40,124 Did you get that? Let me explain. 1157 01:54:41,834 --> 01:54:44,962 - What about some billiards? - Right away. 1158 01:54:48,632 --> 01:54:51,385 This is Guarnaccia lane... 1159 01:54:51,510 --> 01:54:53,888 and this is the main road. 1160 01:54:54,763 --> 01:54:57,349 This is Bastianello lane... 1161 01:54:58,267 --> 01:55:00,728 and this is your house. 1162 01:55:02,479 --> 01:55:07,902 This is the path you take to get to the boat. 1163 01:55:36,889 --> 01:55:38,682 Good-bye, Mother. 1164 01:55:39,016 --> 01:55:41,060 Good-bye, Grandpa. 1165 01:55:41,185 --> 01:55:44,063 Good-bye, 'Ntoni. Good-bye to you all. 1166 01:55:44,688 --> 01:55:46,565 I'm leaving. 1167 01:55:46,941 --> 01:55:49,151 Please forgive me for what I'm going to do. 1168 01:55:50,152 --> 01:55:52,029 I'll be back soon... 1169 01:55:52,446 --> 01:55:54,949 and we'll be a happy family once again. 1170 01:57:05,102 --> 01:57:07,146 Got half a cigarette? 1171 01:57:07,229 --> 01:57:09,732 Boys, is everybody here? 1172 01:57:09,898 --> 01:57:11,775 Let's go! 1173 01:58:24,598 --> 01:58:26,600 Cola's gone. 1174 01:58:55,712 --> 01:58:57,464 They've come to take him. 1175 01:58:58,715 --> 01:59:02,136 For those down on their luck, when trouble starts... 1176 01:59:02,636 --> 01:59:05,139 there's no stopping it. 1177 01:59:08,225 --> 01:59:11,770 They're taking him away, poor old man, to Santa Marta. 1178 01:59:11,895 --> 01:59:13,897 Grandfather became ill... 1179 01:59:14,606 --> 01:59:16,900 and they're taking him to Catania... 1180 01:59:17,025 --> 01:59:19,027 to the Santa Marta Hospital. 1181 01:59:29,413 --> 01:59:31,874 They're taking him away. 1182 02:00:12,581 --> 02:00:14,082 Grandpa! 1183 02:01:35,789 --> 02:01:39,751 Weak, vain Lucia has been seduced by Don Salvatore. 1184 02:01:41,795 --> 02:01:45,424 Stealthily, she hurries back home hiding a necklace, her lover's gift. 1185 02:02:17,331 --> 02:02:19,833 Nights find 'Ntoni in the taverns... 1186 02:02:19,958 --> 02:02:22,586 carousing with the riffraff of the town. 1187 02:02:26,465 --> 02:02:30,302 It's a way for him to forget his misfortune and chase away sadness. 1188 02:02:30,469 --> 02:02:33,180 At least he needn't feel ashamed in their company. 1189 02:02:33,305 --> 02:02:36,350 There are no recriminations, no talk of work. 1190 02:03:00,749 --> 02:03:03,835 Don Salvatore, after his tryst with Lucia, strolls in the night... 1191 02:03:03,960 --> 02:03:07,005 whistling softly, proud of his conquest. 1192 02:03:39,871 --> 02:03:41,748 Quiet! 1193 02:04:07,399 --> 02:04:12,195 If you're drunk, it's best to steer clear of the sergeant... 1194 02:04:12,946 --> 02:04:17,159 though it's unusual for him to be out at this hour. 1195 02:04:23,915 --> 02:04:28,336 He must have gotten lucky with a girl. 1196 02:04:39,055 --> 02:04:41,725 Go on playing. He's far away by now! 1197 02:06:09,938 --> 02:06:13,316 Lucia hopes to sneak in the house unnoticed... 1198 02:06:13,441 --> 02:06:16,945 but Mara, who is up worrying and waiting for 'Ntoni, sees her. 1199 02:06:39,593 --> 02:06:42,596 - Where have you been? - 'Ntoni will hear you. 1200 02:06:42,721 --> 02:06:46,099 'Ntoni's not here. He's not back yet. 1201 02:06:46,683 --> 02:06:49,227 He goes out every night... 1202 02:06:49,352 --> 02:06:51,605 while I sit and wait for him. 1203 02:06:51,730 --> 02:06:54,357 Were you waiting for me too? 1204 02:06:54,482 --> 02:06:58,862 If our mother knew, she'd die of heartbreak. 1205 02:07:00,614 --> 02:07:03,199 With all the sorrows she's had! 1206 02:07:03,992 --> 02:07:05,744 What did I do? 1207 02:07:05,869 --> 02:07:08,204 I haven't done anything wrong. 1208 02:07:08,747 --> 02:07:11,708 So go ahead and tell her! 1209 02:07:14,502 --> 02:07:18,089 I do what I please, and no one can say a word. 1210 02:07:25,096 --> 02:07:26,765 Who cares anyway? 1211 02:07:26,890 --> 02:07:28,642 locked up here like some kind of treasure! 1212 02:07:28,767 --> 02:07:31,269 Some treasure... nobody'll marry us! 1213 02:07:31,978 --> 02:07:34,230 Don't say that, Lucia. 1214 02:07:34,522 --> 02:07:39,110 We may be poor now, but we must still guard our honor. 1215 02:07:40,403 --> 02:07:43,281 And we have to work to help 'Ntoni. 1216 02:07:43,365 --> 02:07:46,159 'Ntoni, sure! He brought us to this! 1217 02:07:46,284 --> 02:07:49,162 He's given our house away! And what's he doing about it? 1218 02:07:49,287 --> 02:07:52,165 Carousing at night with his drunken bums! 1219 02:07:56,044 --> 02:07:58,129 Cola's run away. 1220 02:07:58,546 --> 02:08:00,423 Grandpa's in the hospital. 1221 02:08:02,175 --> 02:08:04,260 You want to know something? 1222 02:08:04,386 --> 02:08:08,807 better keep an eye on 'Ntoni or he'll do something foolish! 1223 02:08:08,890 --> 02:08:11,810 Who told you that? Don Salvatore, right? 1224 02:08:11,935 --> 02:08:14,521 - What's this? - Nothing! It's mine. 1225 02:08:14,562 --> 02:08:16,314 Yours, is it? 1226 02:08:18,817 --> 02:08:20,318 Shame on you! 1227 02:08:20,443 --> 02:08:23,571 - Let me go! - Shame on you! 1228 02:08:53,476 --> 02:08:56,730 Who in Trezza would marry her now? 1229 02:08:57,188 --> 02:08:59,065 Lucia Valastro... 1230 02:08:59,607 --> 02:09:01,693 whose name is on the lips of everyone in town... 1231 02:09:01,818 --> 02:09:04,237 because of Don Salvatore. 1232 02:09:08,700 --> 02:09:10,618 One by one... 1233 02:09:10,702 --> 02:09:14,456 the tree's branches wither and fall. 1234 02:09:33,016 --> 02:09:35,518 - Greetings, 'Ntoni. - Greetings. 1235 02:09:39,147 --> 02:09:41,775 Haven't seen you around. How are you? 1236 02:09:41,983 --> 02:09:43,902 All right. 1237 02:09:45,862 --> 02:09:48,490 You don't come down to the quay anymore? 1238 02:09:49,866 --> 02:09:51,910 Too bad you're not fishing anymore. 1239 02:09:52,118 --> 02:09:55,789 You're a good fisherman, but you'll forget how if you stay at home. 1240 02:09:55,914 --> 02:10:00,418 I've got lots of boats going out every night. 1241 02:10:00,543 --> 02:10:04,506 - We'd rather starve to death! - So you refuse? 1242 02:10:05,048 --> 02:10:09,677 Even after you see where your arrogance got you? 1243 02:10:09,803 --> 02:10:12,931 That's my business! Leave me alone! 1244 02:10:16,184 --> 02:10:21,064 Is it your new friends that make you so sure of yourself? 1245 02:10:21,189 --> 02:10:24,400 What's that supposed to mean? 1246 02:10:25,026 --> 02:10:26,569 I don't know... 1247 02:10:26,694 --> 02:10:31,282 but word is out that 'Ntoni Valastro has become a shiftless bum... 1248 02:10:31,449 --> 02:10:33,701 frequenting dives... 1249 02:10:33,827 --> 02:10:35,954 oblivious to what's going on at home. 1250 02:10:36,079 --> 02:10:37,705 You louse! 1251 02:10:37,831 --> 02:10:42,293 If we're poor, it's because of you and others like you. 1252 02:10:42,418 --> 02:10:44,420 Now get out! 1253 02:10:49,801 --> 02:10:51,845 Mother of God! They're killing each other! 1254 02:11:15,493 --> 02:11:18,329 Get out of my house! 1255 02:11:22,959 --> 02:11:26,379 'Ntoni, you almost killed him! 1256 02:11:28,131 --> 02:11:30,008 I'll be back! 1257 02:11:34,637 --> 02:11:36,723 God is punishing you for your arrogance! 1258 02:11:36,764 --> 02:11:39,642 You're the worst family in Trezza! 1259 02:12:23,061 --> 02:12:25,396 'Ntoni, the eviction notice came. 1260 02:12:28,900 --> 02:12:31,069 "You are hereby notified... 1261 02:12:31,194 --> 02:12:35,698 of the foreclosure on your mortgage due to non-payment. 1262 02:12:36,282 --> 02:12:42,205 The premises must be evacuated within ten days of this notice." 1263 02:13:03,851 --> 02:13:07,605 let's put the sheets in the chest too, Mother. 1264 02:13:32,588 --> 02:13:35,466 Mother, I'm going out for a minute. 1265 02:13:35,842 --> 02:13:37,635 I'll be right back. 1266 02:13:38,469 --> 02:13:40,722 Hurry back, Mara. 1267 02:14:09,667 --> 02:14:12,253 - Is that you, Mara? - I came to say good-bye. 1268 02:14:12,295 --> 02:14:15,298 I'm glad you thought of me. 1269 02:14:17,425 --> 02:14:20,261 Is it true you're leaving tonight? 1270 02:14:26,517 --> 02:14:29,687 The bank has taken our house. We must leave. 1271 02:14:34,650 --> 02:14:36,694 Good-bye, then. 1272 02:14:38,946 --> 02:14:42,325 From now on, your window will be closed... 1273 02:14:42,784 --> 02:14:44,786 and so will my heart. 1274 02:14:49,290 --> 02:14:51,334 It's God's will, Nicola. 1275 02:14:51,584 --> 02:14:53,336 It's God's will, Mara. 1276 02:14:54,587 --> 02:14:59,467 We talk to each other and write to each other 1277 02:14:59,842 --> 02:15:04,097 I've become engaged 1278 02:15:06,099 --> 02:15:13,481 To the blacksmith's daughter 1279 02:15:14,941 --> 02:15:19,695 I've given her my heart kissing her in the dark 1280 02:15:19,987 --> 02:15:24,742 Her father didn't want me 1281 02:15:26,369 --> 02:15:34,377 But she smiled at me from afar 1282 02:15:44,262 --> 02:15:48,266 When you've finished this wall... 1283 02:15:48,766 --> 02:15:50,643 where will you work next? 1284 02:15:51,018 --> 02:15:53,020 Wherever there's work. 1285 02:15:53,229 --> 02:15:57,024 With winter coming on, there's little to do. 1286 02:15:57,275 --> 02:16:00,236 I may go to Catania or Siracusa. 1287 02:16:01,154 --> 02:16:04,282 Well, I'll say good-bye now. Mother is waiting. 1288 02:16:05,783 --> 02:16:08,411 Nicola, remember when you said... 1289 02:16:08,536 --> 02:16:10,788 that now that we were rich... 1290 02:16:10,913 --> 02:16:14,041 you were too poor to marry me? 1291 02:16:17,503 --> 02:16:19,881 See how rich we've become? 1292 02:16:19,922 --> 02:16:23,176 We don't even own our four bare walls... 1293 02:16:24,177 --> 02:16:26,387 or a tile off the roof of our house. 1294 02:16:26,804 --> 02:16:29,182 I don't care, Mara. 1295 02:16:30,433 --> 02:16:33,686 If I could do what my heart tells me... 1296 02:16:34,020 --> 02:16:36,272 I know what I'd do. 1297 02:16:39,692 --> 02:16:42,486 Now things have changed. 1298 02:16:43,196 --> 02:16:45,990 I can no longer hope to marry. 1299 02:16:50,369 --> 02:16:52,121 It's God's will. 1300 02:16:53,497 --> 02:16:56,500 You're from a better family than me. 1301 02:16:56,584 --> 02:16:59,086 You're from a family of owners. 1302 02:16:59,879 --> 02:17:02,381 But now that you have nothing... 1303 02:17:02,882 --> 02:17:05,593 with my strong back and hard work... 1304 02:17:05,885 --> 02:17:08,387 you'd never lack for bread. 1305 02:17:09,222 --> 02:17:11,390 Forgive me, Mara... 1306 02:17:12,475 --> 02:17:14,644 for saying such things. 1307 02:17:24,237 --> 02:17:26,739 When you come back to town... 1308 02:17:26,906 --> 02:17:30,284 come by the house we're moving to. 1309 02:17:37,667 --> 02:17:39,543 Good-bye, Nicola. 1310 02:17:49,887 --> 02:17:52,306 I have to go. 1311 02:18:09,073 --> 02:18:11,826 Is this to go in the trunk? 1312 02:19:03,377 --> 02:19:06,714 Now they must leave their house... 1313 02:19:08,132 --> 02:19:11,886 in which so many Valastros were born and died. 1314 02:19:13,763 --> 02:19:16,015 They must turn their back on those walls... 1315 02:19:16,474 --> 02:19:21,395 and on those stones worn smooth by their daily steps. 1316 02:19:41,999 --> 02:19:44,168 Let's go, Mother. 1317 02:22:06,560 --> 02:22:12,024 On behalf of everyone, I would like to thank our noble baroness... 1318 02:22:21,575 --> 02:22:24,203 who kindly accepted our invitation... 1319 02:22:24,328 --> 02:22:27,540 to the christening of our new boats. 1320 02:22:28,207 --> 02:22:32,920 These boats will provide work for ten crews. 1321 02:22:45,099 --> 02:22:48,727 Here in Acitrezza... 1322 02:22:49,228 --> 02:22:53,983 we're good, hard workers. 1323 02:23:04,326 --> 02:23:08,622 Except for someone who's been touched in the head... 1324 02:23:08,747 --> 02:23:11,625 and wants to go his own way. 1325 02:23:16,839 --> 02:23:20,718 Long live our chief! 1326 02:23:26,140 --> 02:23:30,519 Our thanks to the people of Acitrezza... 1327 02:23:30,603 --> 02:23:33,731 for helping to christen our new boats. 1328 02:25:40,023 --> 02:25:44,361 Now the Valastros have nothing left but their tears. 1329 02:25:45,654 --> 02:25:50,409 One day 'Ntoni goes down to the caulker's to see his old boat. 1330 02:25:51,785 --> 02:25:55,748 Hello, 'Ntoni. 1331 02:26:33,786 --> 02:26:35,454 There she was... 1332 02:26:35,579 --> 02:26:38,832 with her proud planks whose knots he knew so well. 1333 02:26:51,720 --> 02:26:54,348 There's where Cola used to sit, and Grandpa... 1334 02:26:54,973 --> 02:26:58,977 and Vanni, and even little Alfio, the boat boy. 1335 02:27:01,104 --> 02:27:04,608 Just like their house, their boat had now passed... 1336 02:27:04,733 --> 02:27:07,361 into the hands of strangers. 1337 02:27:11,073 --> 02:27:14,743 - What do you want? - This is your boat, isn't it? 1338 02:27:15,994 --> 02:27:17,871 We're fixing it up for you. 1339 02:27:17,955 --> 02:27:20,332 That's nice, but... 1340 02:27:20,457 --> 02:27:23,877 I don't have the money to pay for it. You know that, don't you? 1341 02:27:24,711 --> 02:27:27,506 I know. Everyone says you're poor. 1342 02:27:37,140 --> 02:27:40,352 They don't like you in the village. 1343 02:27:41,395 --> 02:27:43,480 I know. 1344 02:27:46,233 --> 02:27:49,278 I'd help you if I could. 1345 02:27:49,403 --> 02:27:52,906 How could you help me? 1346 02:27:53,532 --> 02:27:57,411 Those who could help me are envious of each other. 1347 02:27:58,120 --> 02:28:02,541 They don't understand that what I did was for all their sakes... 1348 02:28:02,749 --> 02:28:04,668 not just for mine alone... 1349 02:28:04,793 --> 02:28:07,546 so now they've abandoned me. 1350 02:28:07,671 --> 02:28:11,550 Some are after my flesh, others are after my bones. 1351 02:28:23,020 --> 02:28:25,522 This boat belonged to my family... 1352 02:28:25,564 --> 02:28:27,691 but now she's in bad shape. 1353 02:28:27,816 --> 02:28:31,028 They say it's my own fault. 1354 02:28:31,069 --> 02:28:34,031 But one day they'll see I was right... 1355 02:28:34,448 --> 02:28:39,328 and that the day I lost it all will become a good thing for everyone. 1356 02:28:42,331 --> 02:28:44,917 We have to learn to care for each other... 1357 02:28:45,042 --> 02:28:47,461 and unite for our common good. 1358 02:28:47,586 --> 02:28:51,089 Only then can we go forward. 1359 02:28:58,597 --> 02:29:01,600 "I'd help you if I could." 1360 02:29:04,102 --> 02:29:07,481 Those were the first kind words 'Ntoni had heard in a long time. 1361 02:29:08,440 --> 02:29:10,067 But no one can help him... 1362 02:29:10,192 --> 02:29:14,696 to care for each other and unites for the common good. 1363 02:29:14,863 --> 02:29:18,492 Until then, 'Ntoni must find in himself the courage to start over. 1364 02:29:19,868 --> 02:29:21,495 'Ntoni! 1365 02:29:23,121 --> 02:29:26,124 Come see your boat again soon! 1366 02:30:32,190 --> 02:30:34,443 Were you going to sell this? 1367 02:30:39,573 --> 02:30:41,533 Wait. 1368 02:32:22,134 --> 02:32:24,302 Alfio, come here! 1369 02:32:29,933 --> 02:32:32,018 Stop looking at that. 1370 02:32:32,144 --> 02:32:34,437 It'll only make you hungrier. 1371 02:33:48,011 --> 02:33:51,848 Well, look who's here! Old starvation-face! 1372 02:33:52,140 --> 02:33:56,019 Hunger drives the wolf from his lair, eh? 1373 02:33:56,269 --> 02:33:58,730 Let him pass! 1374 02:34:01,733 --> 02:34:04,486 Move back, all the way back! 1375 02:34:04,611 --> 02:34:07,155 'Ntoni, my boy, come in! 1376 02:34:07,280 --> 02:34:09,658 look who's here! 1377 02:34:11,409 --> 02:34:14,412 The lost lamb has returned to the fold! 1378 02:34:14,746 --> 02:34:18,792 'Ntoni! The one who wanted to drag everyone else down with him. 1379 02:34:23,255 --> 02:34:26,299 You see now that your ideas don't work? 1380 02:34:26,800 --> 02:34:29,678 I'm putting together crews for four fleets. 1381 02:34:29,928 --> 02:34:32,180 There's a place for you. 1382 02:34:33,181 --> 02:34:35,183 Want to sign on? 1383 02:34:35,684 --> 02:34:38,186 Yes, I do. 1384 02:34:38,645 --> 02:34:41,439 Just you, or your brothers too? 1385 02:34:44,901 --> 02:34:49,698 With my brothers Vanni and Alfio as my helpers. 1386 02:34:54,452 --> 02:34:58,665 look at the mother hen with all her chicks! 1387 02:34:59,708 --> 02:35:02,544 Come on, I'll take the whole flock! 1388 02:35:08,216 --> 02:35:10,552 We know. 1389 02:35:20,478 --> 02:35:24,607 Lorenzo, assign them to Menicuccio's boat. 1390 02:35:26,109 --> 02:35:28,236 Will that be all right, 'Ntoni? 1391 02:35:29,112 --> 02:35:31,448 Menicuccio's got a good crew. 1392 02:35:31,573 --> 02:35:33,450 Go ahead and sign up. 1393 02:35:34,576 --> 02:35:37,495 'Ntoni, didn't you once tell me... 1394 02:35:37,871 --> 02:35:43,126 that you'd rather starve to death than work for us again? 1395 02:35:53,470 --> 02:35:55,013 Where do I sign? 1396 02:35:55,138 --> 02:35:57,515 Here. And sign for your brothers too. 1397 02:35:59,100 --> 02:36:01,644 - You'll get full pay. - What about my brothers? 1398 02:36:01,770 --> 02:36:04,606 The crews are full. I can't change them now. 1399 02:36:05,774 --> 02:36:09,027 Vanni gets half pay. Little Alfio gets quarter pay as a boat boy. 1400 02:36:10,403 --> 02:36:12,155 All right? 1401 02:36:29,672 --> 02:36:33,301 Uncle Giovanni, you'll work the oars in Rosso's crew at full pay. 1402 02:36:33,426 --> 02:36:37,055 - Fore or aft? - If you don't like it, see Raimondo. 1403 02:36:41,684 --> 02:36:46,189 Why can't I sit aft, like I used to? It's not right! 1404 02:36:46,523 --> 02:36:49,901 Thank God we're taking you at all! 1405 02:36:50,193 --> 02:36:54,572 If you're gonna start complaining, you can buy your own boat too! 1406 02:36:55,824 --> 02:37:00,078 Here's another starving man coming to be rescued! 1407 02:37:04,457 --> 02:37:07,961 Carmelo, you only come to us when you're starving, eh? 1408 02:37:08,086 --> 02:37:11,172 Here's some bread. Eat, my friend! 1409 02:37:12,966 --> 02:37:15,844 We're really very easy to get along with! 1410 02:37:16,302 --> 02:37:18,096 You'll go with Pappalardo's crew. 1411 02:37:18,471 --> 02:37:22,308 We just want to give everyone a chance to earn his daily bread. 1412 02:37:22,350 --> 02:37:25,228 Right, Raimondo? We want to help everyone! 1413 02:37:28,231 --> 02:37:30,316 Next! 1414 02:37:33,987 --> 02:37:35,989 - Bless me, Mother. - Blessings. 1415 02:37:47,584 --> 02:37:49,461 - Bless me, Mother. - Blessings. 1416 02:37:50,086 --> 02:37:52,005 Take this, 'Ntoni. 1417 02:38:03,892 --> 02:38:05,727 Sister... 1418 02:38:07,770 --> 02:38:10,523 it's good weather for anchovies. 1419 02:38:21,784 --> 02:38:23,870 - Bless me, Mother. - Blessings. 1420 02:38:32,128 --> 02:38:35,298 So the Valastros start over again... 1421 02:38:35,548 --> 02:38:37,884 and return to the sea. 1422 02:38:39,260 --> 02:38:43,681 Bitter is the sea, and it's at sea that a sailor dies. 1423 02:40:00,383 --> 02:40:05,847 THE END 100264