All language subtitles for Youll.Never.Walk.Alone.2017

Here in England

no other club would sing this song.

Now there is this anthem,

a message, easily understood,

which unites people.

Here. Mahalia Jackson.

Carousel.

Where are the singles?

Where are they?
- The 45s are on your left.

Right in front of you.

Hey! What an entry.

Welcome to Vienna.

Nice that it worked out.

You're a devil, you are ...
- Keep away from her!

Liliom, I'll get Hollinger
to give you such a beating

that you'll hear the angels sing.

It wouldn't be the first time.
- Get out of here, you're discharged.

But Mr. Liliom ...
- Shut up!

Are you sorry for him?

Are you?
- Yes, a little.

Why are you looking at him
in that funny way?

Nothing. Except I'm sorry
he lost his job.

It was because of us.
Because he's

fallen in love with you.
- He hasn't.

Oh, yes, he is in love with you.

Ferenc Molnar was
the greatest author of his era

and I think he wrote more
than 60 plays.

They weren't just slapped out.
He was celebrated.

Everybody knew him,
a superstar.

"Liliom" is a cultural asset,
like "Faust"� for the Germans.

Liliom belongs here

and you must love it
and Liliom ...

is theirs.

But Liliom is a cruel figure,
not at all likeable.

But he's not from here,
he comes from Budapest.

In the first 8 minutes everyone
loses their job. - Right.

Two servant girls sit in the Prater.
One of them, Julie,

meets Liliom, he gets fired,
she gets fired.

He starts beating her up
during her pregnancy.

This subject is not very nice.
At that time, I was told,

Ferenc Molnar beat up
his women quite badly.

Writing about it was
a kind of absolution for him.

That's how the play ends.

"Someone may beat you
and not hurt you at all."

That's how it ends
and you think "whoa".

I almost said the BVB
is older than the song.

But we've learned a short while ago

that Liliom was written in 1909
by Ferenc Molnar.

This can't be a coincidence.
BVB 09, 1909 - a magic circle.

Come in.
- Hello, Jan.

Hi, Joachim.
Welcome on the hallowed ground.

Let me enter slowly.
I've never been here before.

History surrounds you.
- Yes, a historical venue.

Probably one of the most historical
venues in Northrhine-Westphalia

or the German football world.

Where am I?
- This is

the hall of mirrors.

In this room, on this ground,
Franz Jacobi and 17 of his friends

founded the BVB over a 100 years ago.
Here in this room.

And I've got the honour to live here,
which is cool. - It's yours?

This is my realm, it's mine.
Well ...

Whoa, it gives me goosebumps.

And it's

the original floor,
those thick timber floor boards.

I won't kneel down like Karol Woytila
and kiss the floor

but the thought crossed my mind.

Fantastic.
- This was the hall of mirrors.

It was the big ball room
of the restaurant "Zum Wildsch�tz"

which was located
on the ground floor.

This was the room for events

like weddings.

Here's where they got together
on 19 December 1909

and decided to set up
a football club.

That'd be a good idea.

It was the young men's association
of the congregation

who had problems with
the chaplain of the

Holy Trinity church

and they set up the club
because they wanted to play football.

At the time this was frowned upon
in the German Reich.

Gymnastics was what you did.

Unlike the English

who played football,
chaplain Hubert Dewald

went along with the view of doctors

and teachers in secondary schools

who called it "football oafishness"
or "island monkey sport".

He dreamt up

quite a lot of tricks to lead
the young Catholics back

to a virtuous life.
It was said

that he had the goal posts
on the White Field sawn off.

It was him then!

The boys met here and said,
we must leave the church.

We need our own football club.

Then they noticed that
they didn't have a name.

So then Franz Jacobi said,
"Borussia Dortmund� sounds great.

His father worked in Dortmund
in the Borussia brewery.

So they decided

to call the club Borussia Dortmund.
I think it wasn't a bad idea.

"Borussia" is Latin for Prussia.

But it had nothing to do
with the fatherland.

The boys took the name
after the brewery.

I like that.

In Dortmund it was named after

the beer. It had nothing to do
with patriotism. - Great.

Chaplain Dewald

tried to intervene
and storm this room.

Franz Jacobi pushed him
down the stairs.

The one I just climbed up?
- The very one you climbed up.

Chaplain Dewald

fell down backwards.

Franz Jacobi once said,
"I didn't hit him.

The chaplain ran into my fist.�

Who said, "He mustn't run
where I do a sliding tackle"?

It was Neven Subotic.

Subotic said it.

The church chronicle says,

"From that moment

the football fever
infected the boys."

At that time, the BVB only
happened at Borsigplatz.

All 18 founders lived within
5 minutes walking distance.

Before the BVB was forcefully
resettled by the Nazis

to the "Rote Erde" stadium

because this was known as
the red Borsigplatz.

The Nazis never got a foot
in Borsigplatz.

The White Field was razed

and the BVB was forced to resettle
in the supposedly rich south

and to the Rote Erde stadium.

I have a pack of cards in my pocket.

It doesn't hurt.

That's me as Julie.

Ferenc Molnar

sat here every day
and watched the rehearsals.

He knew how the actors had to play

and how the audience would react.

His story started here.

Here he learned about the theatre.
In this venue.

It's one of the most extraordinary
plays of Molnar

where humour

and the strength of drama
have an equal place.

And male characteristics are shown

which create an antagonism in a man.

Liliom wants to spend his life

with the servant girl

and with Mrs. Muskat

he wants to live his devilish,
sexual, erotic desires

which men fantasise about.

And we forgive Liliom because

he's aware of it and doesn't deny it.

Can there be such a traditional
perception that people ignore this?

His abuse of women?

That they prefer to see the rascal
who is forgiven everything?

Yes, of course, exactly.

But I think the play
is widely misunderstood.

The performance tradition
was different.

Josef Meinrad,

Hans Albers were great
and wonderful actors.

So was Paul H�rbiger,
popular and likeable

and who was completely miscast
in this character.

But they played him like this,

with a little cheeky, winking eye.

It was always

brushed aside that it's about a man
who beats his pregnant wife

and then he comes back after 16 years
in a rose-tinted purgatory.

A lovely idea to be sitting in a
rose-tinted purgatory, isn't it?

He comes back after 16 years
and the first thing he does

is to give his child, his daughter
a good beating. I mean ...

Please, Miss. I must do something
very nice and fine for myself.

Get out!

Please, Miss.
- Now!

I think it's the Prater or yer,

or the carousel pusher.

The desire for the romanticism
of this fair

is a big part of it.
The wife-beating

is easily forgotten when you think
of this play, do you get me?

It was transposed to Vienna

and it became such a success

because it played in the Prater.

Just look at the films of the 50s.
What did we Germans do?

Or we Austrians? In the 50s?
How quickly did we forget

and people happily sang
about white lilac

while frolicking across the Prater.

Can you live in this spirit

without following the rituals?
- No,

originally the rituals
aren't important in Judaism.

There are no rituals in the Bible,

ho synagogues.
My grandfather never went

into a temple.

Also today there are Jewish authors,

lots of them,

and very good comedy writers.

It was always the advantage

of being Jewish

that we have a sense of humour.
Even in the Bible there is ...

Humour is important for the oppressed.

Mahalia Jackson.

I'm curious.
I've never listened to it.

Let's get back

to the death scene.

What's her last sentence again?
Isn't is something about sleep?

"Sleep, my Liliom, sleep.�
Exactly.

"Julie, my girl, I'm leaving,"
he says.

He gets up again and says, "Julie,
my girl, look, there's Liliom".

That's nice. "Look, there's Liliom".

"Sleep, my Liliom."

At that point I left
for my next performance.

That's all I ever heard.
- I mention it

because it's written on his tombstone.
- Molnar's?

We visited his grave in New York.

It's quite a simple tombstone
with his name.

The dates.
And written at the bottom this quote.

That's crazy.

SLEEP PEACEFULLY NOW, LILIOM ...

You came here with
a sense of belonging

and I understood this very early on
when I came here with my father.

You were Westfalia Herne.

You came here as often as possible,
met your friends.

Becoming more independent creates
a spatial distance from the club

but the communication

with my father about what was
happening here

was the permanent umbilical cord
to the club, to the town.

So today is

a very emotional day for me.

At the time my father worked
three shifts below ground.

That's not how we hope to live
with our children, that you ...

spend as much time
as possible together.

During the week
he simply wasn't there.

From early childhood this ritual,
the walk to the stadium,

was our time together.

When it became more and more important
to discuss things -

long hair, puberty, failure at school
and all these issues -

these few hours of just the two of us
were brilliant for this.

When I was so small the sport itself
wasn't really important.

Spending time with my father
was important.

We stood over there, on the left
behind the goal.

By the wavebreakers.

Probably the second in the centre.

The Rote Erde stadium was built

and in the 30s Schalke played
in this stadium.

The BVB came much later.

The BVB was always a local club
from Borsigplatz. - I see.

Can you remember your first visits
at the stadium?

Very well, indeed.

I think I was 6 years old at the time

and the A team played against
the Romanian national team.

My father wanted to show me the best
player ever, Marcel Raducanu.

That's why I went to the stadium
for the very first time with my father.

A few months later he fled Romania

and became a player
for Borussia Dortmund.

I was once asked if
for a certain period of time I'd like

to enter the skin of another man.

I said, I'd love to spend a few years
as Keith Richard

and 11 seconds as Lars Ricken.

Molter. Ricken.

Ricken. Now chip.

Yes!!!

Five seconds on the field,
five seconds.

Lars Ricken.

Mostly the fans tell me their story.

One was on the toilet,
another fetched a beer.

One tells me off
for having aimed for the goal.

Three seconds later they were all
heaped on him and were happy.

There is a story from Friedensplatz:
I shoot the goal,

a man and a woman who don't know
each other, embrace in celebration,

they get to know and love each other,
marry, have a child

and the child is called Lars.
So ... Therefore ...

Was there a club anthem at the time?

The first song that could be defined
as a club anthem is by Heinrich Unger,

one of the founders. At the front
in France he rewrote the soldier song

"Argonnerwald um Mitternacht" for his
football club. We know the line

"But one thing remains
Borussia Dortmund always prevails".

This song is sung today

on many stands but the original
is from Dortmund.

From one of the founders who during
the war thought about his club

and wrote the first anthem for his
football club, Borussia Dortmund.

It is still part
of the official club anthem,

"We stand together, firm and loyal".

Yes, cellos, come in.
Come in.

Thomas, I remember we first met

in Dortmund at the last match
of J�rgen Klopp as their coach.

We're in front of this box
and to our left

a choir of 27,000 sings
"You'll never walk alone�.

How did you like this choir?

It was fantastic.

It's almost the original version

and we have many football fans
in our choir and orchestra.

They're not all fans
of Borussia Dortmund.

I have to admit there are fans
of Bayern Munich too.

But there are fans of Barcelona,
Madrid, Arsenal London, Liverpool.

The whole lot.
- St. Pauli?

And St. Pauli.

As you know, our ensemble is made up
of musicians from 25 countries.

Some of them really sang it
in the stand.

So we said, let's do it all of us
and here.

Let's do it just ...

A little higher. From the start.

The one big ritual which is understood
worldwide is football.

And the other ritual

understood worldwide is music.

Music doesn't need lyrics
or comprehensible words.

I notice this as a conductor
when I work in Asia

or in Africa or Latin America.

When I worked there people don't speak
German or English.

Quite often they don't.
But music

makes us find a common language.

That's where music and football
have a lot in common.

We had the pleasure

to play against Liverpool
in the Europa League.

And when we played in Dortmund,
all the fans

sang the song.

Those from Dortmund.
Then the Liverpudlians.

You could notice ... these were
two different cups of tea.

The Liverpool fans sang
with much more verve.

It was almost like defiance, as if
you had to keep making a point.

Of course the English fans
sing it so much better.

They are much more sure of it.
They know the lyrics, the notes.

It has to do with a very different
sing-along tradition in England.

It's remarkable that in England
they sing entire long songs.

Not like fan songs in Germany.

When I was young a fan song consisted
of "Referee, telephone�.

You could memorise this.

A German fan couldn't memorise
much more than this.

It's great that in England they sing
a song from beginning to end.

The people know the lyrics,
they understand them.

That was a nice version.

We'll do this as an encore
instead of Haydn.

It was a stroke of genius
by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

No doubt about it.

Although they probably never gave it
a moment's thought

what they were composing, or did they?
- You

mustn't sit down and ...
It wouldn't work.

I think it has never worked in art
that an artist said,

I'll create something of
international standing.

For such a stroke of genius

it takes something else, that the
composer can't be planning for.

It can come from above, from the
side-lines or even from history.

I think it's nice and appropriate

that in the arts this kind of success
can't be planned.

Or else you'd have the formula
for gold.

I read the lyrics carefully.
It's even about

the song of a lark.

You'd never think of it.

At the end of the day

this is the world of the football mob.

And all the fans sing about
a singing lark.

It'd never occur to you to compose
anything like this.

You'd be the perfect link

between the musical which we know
from America,

Carousel, the origin of
"You'll never walk alone�.

You sing "You'll never walk alone".

A problem with musicals
is the popcorn eating audience.

Take the Queen Rock Musical.
They sit there

and this is the tentative version.

That's why I joined a rock band
to avoid this happening.

A beer can may be flying,
you may soil your clothes.

There's pushing and shoving.

Musicals are consumed sitting down.
So that's not my scene.

For many years "You'll never walk
alone" is our last song.

The fans know that this is it.

And every time we play it,

I quietly doff my cap

to Liverpool, to Anfield Road.
I play it for myself.

I'm grateful that the band
has stuck with it for so long.

Grumpy but tolerating it

until it has been accepted by our fans
and is part of the ritual now.

I appreciate that the song
transcends football

and that the song means something
to everybody.

It's philosophical.
- Right.

And therefore the Liverpool fans
can accept it graciously

that it's sung in Dortmund.

I think there's anyway a special
connection with Dortmund.

They've known each other
for many years.

Both regions have experienced
a lot of hardship. And poverty.

Life used to be better there.

The Ruhr area used to be well off
and prosperous.

And the experience of an entire
industry dying and people

losing their jobs also happened
in Liverpool.

It was a wealthy port city.

At some point the harbour
lost its importance.

The important trade routes
passed Liverpool by.

To deal with this mass unemployment,

this deprivation,
shapes these cities,

these regions. It's the same
for Glasgow, for Liverpool.

And for the Ruhr area.
That creates this vibe

and I think people in those areas
were forced

to make their lives fun,
despite their sad realities.

So they have a very different kind
of solidarity between them.

That's why they make jokes.

Every cab driver here jokes.
They make their lives fun.

A song can grow with the experiences

of a club. Especially when
they are defeated.

And a football history can't just be
positive all the time.

A club only becomes a proper club

after having lived through
bitter disappointments

and having been through hell and back.

You don't refer to the semi finals
against Dortmund?

No, that was just a sports event.
It was a crazy match.

We love this song in Dortmund
but everyone who was there said,

to hear it here and especially after
this match was a difficult test.

I don't want to compare,

out of respect for my other club.
But nothing could compare

to the last half hour.

I felt that we were unstoppable
after a certain moment.

I didn't know we'd score a fourth goal
but we turned the match.

You can play 3-3,
the match was relatively good

and Dortmund deserved to move on.
The fourth goal

was a stroke of luck.
But how the match evolved

due to this atmosphere
is 100 percent true.

A joint wake-up call is
when you remember,

"Right, even if they lag behind
at 31,

we're the ones who'll never walk
alone. So let's go."

It's a message, easily understood.

And properly sung and experienced
it makes all the difference.

Is Klopp a working class hero?
- He's definitely a Liverpool hero.

He strikes the right chord and used
the right quotes from the start.

Mourinho in London, the special one.
And then he arrives and just says,

"I'm the normal one." And that's it.

That someone would say,

"Jos� Mourinho is the special one,
so who are you?"

I didn't expect that

and was totally unprepared for it.
It was a happy coincidence,

like so many in my life so far
which have helped me.

I think I immediately earned my salary

because the jersey "The Normal One"
sold like sliced bread.

It still sells well and so I did
the club a big favour.

He's a clever guy
and quickly got the vibe of the city.

He can laugh about himself.

That's a requirement.

Also his clear statement against
"The Sun", whatever his reasons.

Here in Liverpool they've boycotted
this newspaper for 20 years.

Nobody reads it. It's not sold here.
You can't get it here.

If you arrive at Liverpool airport
with it, you'd better throw it away.

Just imagine a place in Germany
where for 25 years

you couldn't buy the "Bild" newspaper.
Impossible.

But here they really see it through.

Two years ago at Christmas
"The Sun� tried nationwide

to deliver a free edition
to all households.

As an advertising campaign.

The postmen in Liverpool
refused to distribute it.

It was hotly debated whether
they should be sacked.

It worked out alright.

Even the postman wouldn't put
"The Sun� through the letterboxes.

That's unique.

If a disaster happens all people
tend to be shocked.

Especially if it happened in our town
or we know the people.

You're momentarily involved
but you forget quickly.

It was completely different here.

For 25 years it wasn't forgotten.
But not by saying,

"You all have to mourn."� It was about
judging the whole affair properly.

Normally two, three years later
you say, "Forget it.

We know it's not as the police

and the newspaper described it
but we let go.�

But they didn't let go.

And it's not that I expect

that these matters are always
dealt with like this.

Because it's not possible. But here
it was because of the people.

It's not just about their own pain

but it's about the other person
who also matters.

It's a very serious story
and it brought people together.

When justice was finally dispensed
it was a big day

for the city of Liverpool
and the Everton fans.

Also for the people of Everton.
Truth had to be spoken

and if there is to be justice
you have to fight for it.

They did it very nicely
by not caving in.

If someone said, "Let go" they said,
"No. We want the memory of those

who were and are important to us

to be seen in the right light and
not as it was described then."

This says a lot about this city.

There he is.

We let him run here for a while
and then he'll come back home again.

To me this is a church
as for you probably

the stadium in Dortmund.

This is my congregation.

And therefore "You'll never walk alone"
is always a good moment.

I'm from Skye in the North West
of Scotland.

The fourth most famous island
in the world.

I'm from Boness on the east coast.
I've been living here for 35 years

and have two season tickets
for the south stand.

I'm from Herne.

Great. Enjoy.

So ...
- The best sausage in Dortmund.

What did you pay for the appearance?

Nothing.

You know the match day ritual.
Are you on the south stand?

Always on the south stand but

normally I'm very busy on match day.

Usually I go to the block only

when they play "You'll never walk alone"
and then it's only

black and yellow.

"You'll never walk alone"

calls you to your seat.
- It calls me

but in fact I think it's a pity
that the song

has such a prominence,
because it's a universal football song.

On match day
I'm in black-yellow mode

and don't need anything universal
or to honour football philosophy,

I just want black-yellow to win,
never mind how.

To me this song is very much linked to
Liverpool FC. - That's what's special

about the song.
It doesn't denigrate the opponent.

Exactly, and that's why I
don't want it on match day.

On match day I'm in the mode
and that's we against them.

The others are bad, I want to win.

My little ritual is

I go in before "You'll never walk alone�
since I want to hear it.

But this is the case for many people.

They say that
when they hear this song

now it's high time
to get into the stadium.

For some matches which require
more concentration time

I give myself more time.

Nobby, this sausage is ...

I love it too.
- I can only confirm

what this young man said.

I prefer the same routes,
for years I've been meeting

the same people.

When we won
I put the same trousers on.

I've been doing this for years.

I think you have to be a little
superstitious in football.

It's nice.

Before the last match
I drank 9 beers.

Today I have to do it again
because we won.

Because we won, yes.

Is this the last big ritual
in our society where you meet

in a gigantic stadium
here in Dortmund,

singing together, walking almost

in a procession from the north
of Dortmund to the south?

I'm a fan of the BVB

and a season ticket holder
for 25 years.

And I find it fascinating

that there are these rituals.

The procession to the stadium,
which is a church term.

Sometimes I'd wish my church
could do the same.

To approach people in a way

that they understand our rituals
because in football

we understand them.

Here in Dortmund, Norbert Dickel
calls out the player's first name

and the 80,000 fans
then call out his surname.

It's also a kind of anthem,

not dissimilar to a holy litany.

Number 38: Roman.
- B�rki!

Number 6: Sven.

Bender.

Number 11: Marco.

Reus.

Can I only light a candle for
something or also against something?

If anything for.

We don't light candles for a victory
but for fairness or peace.

For a football match to be a sign
of dialogue between people.

But I'm thinking about
the points too.

You're allowed to.

In 1996,

Matthias Kartner from Pur Harmony,

a Dortmund band,
came to me

and he said,

"I've recorded a song which would
be good for our stadium."

So I listened to it.

My personal opinion is

that it was more appropriate
for a stadium than the original

because it had more basses
and more rhythm.

At the beginning of 1996

we were approached by a fan club.

They said, a proper anthem,

something nice and solemn

would be a fine thing and
if we could write something.

I asked what they had in mind.

In Liverpool they've got something.
"You'll never walk alone".

We have arranged it,

completely rearranged it,
added a few more modern sounds.

I then sang it in one go.

A male voice "when you walk"
and made it happen.

We invited all the fan clubs we knew
to our rehearsal room.

We put 15 beer crates there
and then they belted it out.

We recorded it several times

so that the sound
got richer and richer.

It's 20 years now, for 20 years

the whole stadium sings it.

It grew bigger and bigger
and more people sing along.

This is very special
and I'm proud about it.

What is it all about?

I think it's the only song

which unites all football fans in
the world and creates solidarity.

Everybody can sing this song.

An anthem very much glues together.
Even the national anthems do.

I like it when the national players
sing it with fervour.

And there is this anthem which
is repeated but never boring

because it's up-to-date.

And it connects people
in this very moment.

Everyone thinks the same
and if you think for only 5 minutes a day

"You'll never walk alone" it feels
like you're properly charged up.

If you'll never walk alone
I'll also never walk alone.

The song was very significant
when we played against Mainz

and a BVB fan died during the match.

It was a very crazy atmosphere.

It was deadly silent and we wondered

why have they stopped singing?

Why have they stopped
supporting the team?

Early on

I had noticed that 2 people
needed resuscitation.

And I knew that a man had died.

The news spread.

We have WLAN at the stadium
and so it spread like wildfire.

Within 15 minutes,
everybody in the stadium knew

a man has died, one of us.

And it is fitting to say that there
was dead silence in the stadium.

And at some point they started
to sing "You'll never walk alone"

and this was of course the highlight

of this sad day.

When the team came ... The team
didn't know what had happened.

All BVB fans raised their scarves
and sang "You'll never walk alone"".

That was a moment
which gave you goosebumps.

It'll definitely become part of the
Borussia Dortmund fan history.

The lyrics are strange
for a football anthem,

aren't they?
- That's right. Nevertheless ...

it's the football anthem.

It's got nothing to do with football.
- Who cares?

Does it matter in the end?

In 2017 the fans of Liverpool FC and
Borussia Dortmund were awarded the FIFA Fan Award

for their community singing at the
Europa League match on 14th of April 2016: