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+IRIMIAS GIVES A SPEECH
+
+I am in a state of deep emotion,
+
+you can imagine, I am confused.
+
+I am bewildered and shocked.
+
+Yet I must pull myself together.
+
+Though right now all I can say is that
+
+I share in this broken-hearted
+
+mother's misery
+
+in a mother's never-ending
+
+mourning and sorrow
+
+is the grief of losing the one
+
+who is dearest to our hearts.
+
+This tragic event weighs
+
+us all down with sadness.
+
+I don't think there's anyone
+
+who would disagree with me.
+
+And now the hardest thing is
+
+with our teeth clenched, to get
+
+our minds over the heartbreak,
+
+to defy our tears when our voices fail us.
+
+For, and I would like to
+
+call your attention to this:
+
+Before the police start investigating,
+
+nothing can be more important for us
+
+than to reconstruct
+
+the shocking events,
+
+which led to the terrible
+
+death of an innocent child.
+
+You'd better expect the
+
+inspectors from town
+
+to come and make us responsible
+
+for this terrible event.
+
+Yes, my friends, they're going to ask us.
+
+For, to be quite honest,
+
+with a little caution, care and attention
+
+we could have prevented it.
+
+Just imagine this vulnerable creature
+
+wandering all night long
+
+in the pouring rain,
+
+at the mercy of the first passer-by,
+
+of the first tramp, of anybody.
+
+She was whipped by the wind, she
+
+fell an easy prey to the elements,
+
+and she must have been around here.
+
+She may have looked in
+
+through this window and seen
+
+that you were all drunk and dancing around.
+
+Don't get me wrong, I don't mean
+
+to accuse anyone personally,
+
+I am not accusing the mother,
+
+who is never going to forgive
+
+herself for getting up too late
+
+in the morning of that awful day
+
+I am not accusing the victim's brother
+
+nor other members of the family.
+
+I am not accusing anyone.
+
+But let me ask you the question:
+
+Aren't we all guilty?
+
+You will, of course,
+
+answer we are innocent.
+
+But then, what do we call this poor child?
+
+The victim of the innocent? The martyr
+
+to the pure? The prey of the blameless?
+
+No, she's the only innocent one.
+
+I spent the night turning in
+
+my bed till I realized that
+
+not only we do not know how the tragic
+
+event happened, but we have no knowledge
+
+whatsoever of what happened exactly.
+
+I am quite convinced that
+
+this tragedy was to happen.
+
+Now you seem to suspect that.
+
+It is not enough, however, to suspect
+
+something... things are to be understood.
+
+And said with no delay.
+
+You didn't dare mention it to each other,
+
+but deep down, you knew before coming here
+
+that the farm was doomed.
+
+From now on, you'll have to
+
+let your fate slowly unfold.
+
+You are slouching around in this decay,
+
+far away from everything that means life.
+
+Your plans come to nothing, your
+
+dreams, still blind, are shattered.
+
+You expect some miracle
+
+which will never come.
+
+But what kind of fate
+
+are you the victims of?
+
+Is it the crumbling plaster...
+
+the roofs without tiles...
+
+the crumbling walls,
+
+the sour taste our friend
+
+Futaki keeps talking about?
+
+Isn't it the shattered prospects,
+
+the broken dreams,
+
+that bends our knees that wears us numb?
+
+I'm speaking harshly but let us be honest.
+
+If you felt the farm was ruled by misfortune
+
+why didn't you try to do something about it?
+
+You thought a bird in the hand
+
+is worth two in the bush.
+
+But this is a coward's way, it is disgraceful
+
+and careless and it has serious consequences.
+
+This is called impotence, sinful impotence.
+
+This is weakness, sinful weakness.
+
+This is cowardice, sinful cowardice.
+
+Because, and keep that in your minds -
+
+it's not just to others we can do
+
+unforgivable things but also to ourselves.
+
+And this, my friends, is even more serious.
+
+Yes, if I think about it,
+
+all kinds of sins are
+
+sins against ourselves.
+
+But, you know, my friends,
+
+if I think back and see you lying
+
+half dead on the chairs and tables,
+
+on top of each other, dribbling, exhausted,
+
+my heart sinks and I cannot judge you for
+
+I will never be able to forget this.
+
+From your panting, snoring and groaning
+
+I heard your cry for help
+
+which I have to answer.
+
+We know each other well.
+
+I have been keeping my eyes
+
+wide open for decades,
+
+I bitterly observe that under the
+
+thick veil of trickery and deception,
+
+nothing has changed. Misery
+
+has remained misery.
+
+The two extra spoonfuls of food we can have
+
+only makes the air thinner
+
+in front of our mouths.
+
+But I realized what I have
+
+done so far is nothing.
+
+A much deeper solution is needed.
+
+So, using the opportunity,
+
+I decided to get some people together
+
+and set up a model farm which
+
+will ensure a stable living...
+
+and bind this tiny group of
+
+the dispossessed together.
+
+I am creating an island
+
+where no one is powerless, where everyone
+
+will live in peace and will feel safe.
+
+That is why I left for the estate in Almas.
+
+The main building is in good condition,
+
+the contract is a simple matter.
+
+There's one problem...
+
+no use to try and keep it a secret, money.
+
+Without a penny the thing is dead.
+
+Capital is needed for production
+
+but this is a bit complicated,
+
+there's no point in going into details.
+
+And you'll understand that the
+
+circumstances of our meeting
+
+made me feel uncertain, whether
+
+you would be able to do it.
+
+Whether you would be able to part from
+
+your little money, the
+
+result of hard work and
+
+much difficulty, to realize a sudden plan.
+
+Think about it...
+
+Do not decide straightaway.
+
+But if fate decides that from now
+
+on we stay together, inseparable:
+
+Do remember the price that has been paid.
+
+Do not forget the child...
+
+who may have had to perish
+
+to make our star rise.
+
+Who knows, my friends?
+
+If it is so...
+
+life is very hard upon us.
+
+PERSPECTIVE FROM FRONT
+
+I told you she shouldn't have
+
+been taken from the institution.
+
+I don't know why you brought her out.
+
+Friends,
+
+words fail me now that I
+
+let you go your own way.
+
+It's hard to describe the way I feel.
+
+For what could I say
+
+of your enthusiasm, your generosity,
+
+for the sake of our common prosperity?
+
+Of that precious treasure
+
+I have been given,
+
+your confidence.
+
+What else could I say but
+
+that all this gives me courage
+
+and lays a responsability on me
+
+which I would like to accept
+
+to the best of my ability.
+
+Your enthusiasm and confidence makes
+
+me confident and enthusiastic.
+
+I'm thinking of the future we'll share.
+
+Goodbye, my friends.
+
+See you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
+
+At the estate in Almas.
+
+Go ahead and think of the future.
+
+From now on you are free.
+
+And you were screwed, you mean shitbag!
+
+Go fuck yourselves! Ungrateful pigs!
+
+Fuck off!
+
+Fuck off! Fuck off!
+
+Fuck off!
+
+You see? The stuck up person you were.
+
+- Keep your mouth shut, okay?
+
+- There you are.
+
+Stop crowing and go to hell. Just go home.
+
+- Up and down.
+
+- Go home, will you?
+
+I've been saying you
+
+have to behave properly.
+
+Now you're through. You can close down.
+
+Go home, will you?
+
+Leave me alone.
+
+My husband was the same,
+
+didn't know what's right.
+
+Then where did he end up?
+
+On a rope in the loft.
+
+Stop bugging me. Bug yourself.
+
+Go get your daughters or
+
+they might go with them.
+
+They'll never. They're locked up now.
+
+- Come on, pay for your drinks and go.
+
+- They won't leave me like Estike did.
+
+- Go home now.
+
+- When them from the farm leave, they'll go and dig the ground.
+
+Go home. Go.
+
+Go.
+
+Now, come on, go.
+
+- You've finished it?
+
+- Won't leave it for the gypsies.
+
+"The wind is blowing the clouds,
+
+behind the sky is burning,
+
+Give me your little hand, my darling,
+
+God knows if I'll ever see you again
+
+Whether I'll close my arms around you,
+
+whether I'll kiss you, my darling?
+
+God only knows the day the
+
+battalion is leaving.
+
+Whether I'll close my arms..."
+
+"You're lovely, you're fair, Hungary..."
+
+Folks. We forgot the doctor.
+
+Never mind the doctor.
+
+He would certainly have come but
+
+I didn't mention it to him.
+
+Come on, he couldn't even carry himself.
+
+But he's going to starve now.
+
+He can't even come to an
+
+arrangement with the publican.
+
+Then let him starve to death.
+
+If you miss him so much, go back for him.
+
+I haven't seen him for months.
+
+There's no need to cry over him.
+
+He's fine, gets pissed every
+
+day, then goes off to snore.
+
+I wouldn't mind feeling his
+
+mother's share in my pocket.
+
+Are we all here? No one's lagging behind?
+
+We've done it!
+
+We have done it, no matter what.
+
+Now you're well prepared for this new life.
+
+Come on, Lajos, there
+
+will be lots more of it.
+
+How could those poor fellows heat all this?
+
+Didn't I tell you? We
+
+should never lose heart,
+
+we have to have trust until
+
+we breathe our last.
+
+Otherwise what would become of us?
+
+Tell me, what?
+
+I can imagine.
+
+You've seen the out-buildings,
+
+there's about five of them.
+
+I bet the workshops are going to be there?
+
+Workshops? What workshops?
+
+Please be quiet. My husband's asleep.
+
+He is used to silence.
+
+All right, all right. We're just talking.
+
+I think it'll be the other way round:
+
+We'll get the outbuildings to live in
+
+and the workshops will be here.
+
+Won't you keep quiet? No
+
+one can get any rest here.
+
+Who was that?
+
+Leave me alone. It wasn't me.
+
+Nobody?
+
+Look,
+
+I'll agree to anything you
+
+like, just keep quiet.
+
+Listen,
+
+if everyone works hard, I say one month.
+
+We have great prospects for the future.
+
+Tomorrow we'll find out what
+
+Irimias is planning to do.
+
+By tomorrow.
+
+Halics was pursued by a
+
+hunchback with a glass eye.
+
+And after all sorts of
+
+trials he ran into the river
+
+but he started to lose heart,
+
+every time he came up for air
+
+the little man hit his
+
+head with a long stick.
+
+And each time he shouted
+
+"Now you'll pay for it."
+
+The headmaster persuaded a
+
+man wearing an old suit
+
+to go with him to a place he knew.
+
+The man agreed, like
+
+someone who can't say no.
+
+He could hardly control himself and
+
+when they turned into a deserted park,
+
+he even pushed him to reach a
+
+bench surrounded by bushes.
+
+He made the man lie down and he jumped
+
+on him, kissed him on the neck,
+
+but in seconds some doctors appeared
+
+on the walk dressed in white,
+
+embarrassed, he waved that
+
+he was going but he started
+
+to blame the confused little man, by
+
+then, he seemed to hate his guts.
+
+The ground trembled under Schmidt's feet.
+
+As if he was walking on the moors.
+
+He climbed up into a tree,
+
+but he felt that it had
+
+started to sink too.
+
+He was lying on the bed and tried
+
+to get the nightgown off his wife.
+
+But she started to yell, he jumped
+
+after her, the nightgown was torn.
+
+She laughed, and the nipples on her enormous
+
+breasts were like two beautiful roses.
+
+Mrs Halics was washing Mrs Schmidt's back,
+
+the rosary on the rim of the tub
+
+slipped into the water like a snake.
+
+Mrs Schmidt said she had enough, her
+
+skin was burning from the scrubbing
+
+but Mrs Halics pushed her back into the
+
+bath and went on scrubbing her back,
+
+she said she was afraid that Mrs
+
+Schmidt wouldn't be satisfied.
+
+Mrs Kraner heard a noise from outside
+
+but she didn't know what it could be.
+
+She put on a fur coat and
+
+left for the engine-shed.
+
+She had almost reached the road
+
+when she had a bad feeling.
+
+She turned and saw that
+
+their house was on fire.
+
+"The chopped wood. Christ, I left the chopped
+
+wood out," - she screamed and ran back.
+
+Kraner was sitting at the table, as
+
+if nothing happened, quietly eating.
+
+"Joska, are you crazy?
+
+The house is on fire!"
+
+But Kraner didn't move.
+
+Mrs Schmidt was a bird, flying
+
+over the clouds, happily.
+
+She saw that someone down
+
+there was waving at her.
+
+She came down a bit and
+
+heard Schmidt shouting
+
+"Why didn't you cook anything, you bitch!
+
+Come down here."
+
+But she flew over him and
+
+twittered: Tomorrow.
+
+You won't starve till then.
+
+She felt the warmth of the sun on her back,
+
+she came down a bit.
+
+She wanted to snatch a bug.
+
+Futaki's shoulders were
+
+beaten with an iron bar.
+
+He couldn't move, he was tied to a tree.
+
+He stretched out and felt the rope loosen.
+
+He looked at his shoulders
+
+and saw a long wound.
+
+He turned his head, he
+
+couldn't stand seeing it.
+
+He was sitting on an excavator, the
+
+grab was scooping out some earth.
+
+A man came up to him and said
+
+"Hurry up, I won't give you any
+
+more petrol whatever you say.
+
+But it was no use scooping for the earth kept
+
+falling back. He tried again but failed.
+
+Then he cried...
+
+He was sitting at the window of
+
+the engine-shed and didn't know
+
+whether it was daybreak or
+
+evening, it just had no end.
+
+He was sitting, not
+
+knowing the time of day,
+
+nothing had changed outside, morning
+
+didn't come, night didn't fall,
+
+day was beginning to break or
+
+night was beginning to fall.
+
+GO TO HEAVEN? HAVE NIGHTMARES?
+
+Friends. Words fail me,
+
+now that I let you go your own way.
+
+It's hard to describe the way I feel.
+
+For what can I say
+
+of your enthusiasm, your generosity
+
+for the sake of our common prosperity.
+
+That precious treasure you
+
+gave me, your confidence.
+
+What else could I say but that all this gives
+
+me courage, lays great responsibility on me,
+
+which I would like to accept
+
+and do the best I can.
+
+And that your enthusiasm and confidence
+
+makes me confident and enthusiastic.
+
+I'm thinking of the future we'll share.
+
+Goodbye, friends.
+
+See you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
+
+At the estate in Almas.
+
+Go now and think of the future we'll share.
+
+From now on you are free.
+
+And yet you were screwed,
+
+you mean bold shitbag!
+
+Fuck off! You ungrateful pigs!
+
+Go fuck yourselves! Fuck off!
+
+I'm shit scared, master,
+
+how do we get out of this?
+
+I'd be surprised if you weren't shitting
+
+in your pants. Do you want some paper?
+
+This is no fucking joke,
+
+it's bloody serious.
+
+I wouldn't say I'm bursting with laughter.
+
+Stop it, will you?
+
+Would you be surprised if
+
+I said our time has come?
+
+What the hell are you getting at?
+
+Listen to old Petrina this time.
+
+Look, let's take the first
+
+train and get away from here.
+
+We're going to get in big trouble
+
+if they realize what's going on.
+
+Shut up.
+
+Don't you see that we're partisans in
+
+this hopeless fight for human dignity?
+
+Petrina, our time has come.
+
+Our time has come... You keep
+
+saying this, our time has come.
+
+Our time will never come!
+
+I had faith and confidence...
+
+And here we are.
+
+The web - don't you understand?
+
+Irimias's nationwide cobweb.
+
+Is it getting clear?
+
+Where something stirs...
+
+Let's go on.
+
+You've never seen fog before or what?
+
+The horses got away from
+
+the slaughterhouse again.
+
+Who do you support?
+
+Myself.
+
+What about you, then?
+
+Fine.
+
+You haven't changed a bit.
+
+What about you?
+
+- Still the same.
+
+- I thought...
+
+Two rum and brandy and a glass of wine.
+
+Here you are.
+
+Listen, drink this up then you go see
+
+Payer and tell him I'm waiting here.
+
+Steigerwald.
+
+What is it now?
+
+We're staying here for tonight
+
+but I'd need the car tomorrow.
+
+But then I want the money before you go.
+
+All right.
+
+- And three bean soups.
+
+- Okay.
+
+With ham.
+
+I'm going to dictate.
+
+Dear Captain,
+
+Eternity
+
+lasts forever
+
+because it doesn't compare
+
+to the ephemeral,
+
+the changeable,
+
+the temporary.
+
+The intensity of light penetrating darkness
+
+seems to weaken.
+
+...seems to weaken...
+
+There is lack of continuity,
+
+interruptions,
+
+holes...
+
+then finally the black nothingness.
+
+Then there are myriads of stars so
+
+distant, impossible to reach...
+
+with a tiny spark in the middle... the Ego.
+
+...A tiny spark...
+
+Our deeds can be rewarded or punished
+
+in eternity, and only there,
+
+...punished...
+
+because everything has a place,
+
+a place far away from reality,
+
+where it has its place,
+
+where it has always been,
+
+...where it has been...
+
+where it is going to be,
+
+where it is now.
+
+The only authentic place.
+
+I hope I didn't wake you.
+
+You didn't disturb my dream
+
+and I hope you never will.
+
+- My collaborators.
+
+- My name's Petrina.
+
+- Horgos.
+
+Very nice young man.
+
+He can have a nice career.
+
+Would you get me something now that...
+
+You got me out of bed?
+
+What would you like?
+
+Don't ask me what I'd
+
+like, they don't have it.
+
+Get me a glass of plum brandy.
+
+Sanyi.
+
+Mr. Gundealer...
+
+Sports guns...
+
+I don't love this job, you know that.
+
+We'd better call me Payer.
+
+Mr. Payer... I asked you to
+
+come here so late because soon
+
+I will need rather a lot of explosive.
+
+I'm going to think about it.
+
+And decide as I see best.
+
+And I hope you will do
+
+your best to succeed.
+
+It's not entirely up to me.
+
+But I need to know
+
+whether you can give more emphasis to this
+
+excellent plan with a so called good start?
+
+Certainly.
+
+You are a gentleman...
+
+Mr. Irimias.
+
+Let me ask you something.
+
+This something new which is waiting for
+
+us after realizing your excellent plan...
+
+- Well...
+
+- Don't take me for a savior.
+
+Regard me as a researcher who investigates
+
+why everything is as terrible as it is.
+
+Would you like to have dinner with us?
+
+No, thank you.
+
+Well then, we'll discuss
+
+the details another time?
+
+I'll see you at the weekend.
+
+Well, gentlemen...
+
+Sleep well...
+
+Look... 25 years ago I could sleep
+
+five and a half hours in a row.
+
+Since then I've been turning
+
+in my bed, half-asleep.
+
+Thank you all the same.
+
+Our Father
+
+who art in heaven,
+
+Hollowed be thy name.
+
+Thy kingdom come,
+
+Thy will be done.
+
+On earth
+
+As it is in heaven,
+
+...Give us peace and bread too...
+
+...Power...
+
+Amen...
+
+PERSPECTIVE FROM REAR
+
+I don't understand Irimias.
+
+He was one of us. And
+
+now, he's like a lord.
+
+You simply can't make out what he wants...
+
+All the nonsense he said...
+
+Bent knees and cries for help!
+
+Then threatening with the child...
+
+The way he spoke yesterday, I
+
+was beginning to believe it.
+
+Why the hell did he stir the shit up?
+
+If I'd known he wanted the same as
+
+us, I'd have saved him the trouble.
+
+It's crazy to say that it was my fault.
+
+I had nothing to do with that little idiot.
+
+Even her name drove me up the wall.
+
+Estike, what's that? Is that a name?
+
+She's eaten a lot of rat
+
+poison and that's it.
+
+Perhaps it was better for the poor thing.
+
+But what's the whole thing to do with me?
+
+He lured us here, to this rundown dump.
+
+And we acted like sheep.
+
+Meanwhile he slipped away!
+
+God knows where he's drinking on our money!
+
+A whole year's pay!
+
+And I'm flat broke again!
+
+Still, if he's back in a minute,
+
+are you going to shout at him?
+
+- You're the one to say that?
+
+- Stop it for a minute!
+
+Whose fault is it that I was robbed?
+
+Who said that it would be all right?!
+
+Who said that "Irimias and Petrina..."?
+
+You fucker!
+
+Give it back to me or I'll beat you up!
+
+Give me my money back!
+
+Give me back, you prick!
+
+Let's give him two minutes and see
+
+what he's got to say for himself!
+
+- Are the two minutes up now?
+
+- Listen people.
+
+What's this all about? That's
+
+not the way... Use your heads!
+
+Shut up!
+
+Here he is. Your savior's here!
+
+Do you really think it's my fault?
+
+Give me my money back. You hear me?
+
+Give it back!
+
+I can't believe my eyes! What
+
+do you think you're doing?
+
+Get lost!
+
+It's none of your business! Don't
+
+you stick your nose in it!
+
+Get away from here! I won't say it again!
+
+What's going on here?
+
+I want to know what's going on!
+
+We thought you wouldn't come.
+
+You said you'd be here by 6 in the morning.
+
+I do my best to help you.
+
+I've had no sleep for three days,
+
+I walked hours in the pouring rain,
+
+I run from office to office
+
+to overcome the obstacles...
+
+and you behave like piglets
+
+when their dinner is late...
+
+What happened to you?
+
+- My nose is bleeding.
+
+- I can see that. But why?
+
+I never expected that from you.
+
+From you neither.
+
+And we've just started.
+
+What's it going to be like later on?
+
+Are you gonna stab each other?
+
+Sad.
+
+Very sad.
+
+I'm willing to forget it one more time
+
+provided such a thing won't ever happen again.
+
+OK, let's get down to it.
+
+There is something important
+
+I have to tell you.
+
+We must postpone our plans
+
+related to the farm for a while.
+
+Because some people would not appreciate
+
+the creation of an enterprise
+
+on such shady bases.
+
+Their primary objection is
+
+the fact that the farm, being almost
+
+totally isolated and a long way from town,
+
+could hardly be kept under control.
+
+Therefore
+
+in the present situation, the only
+
+way to succeed in our plan is
+
+to scatter around the county for a while.
+
+Until...
+
+these gentlemen get so confused
+
+that we can come back here
+
+and start working on it.
+
+From now on you are special people.
+
+For you are helping in a
+
+matter in which loyalty,
+
+devotion and prudence are
+
+absolutely necessary.
+
+Our goals are significant
+
+beyond themselves.
+
+Scattering is just a tactic,
+
+you may not be in touch with each other for
+
+the moment but I will keep in touch with you.
+
+In the meantime, do not believe that we are
+
+going to remain passively in the background
+
+and wait for things to get
+
+better by themselves.
+
+What you have to do is
+
+to listen to people around you.
+
+Views, stories, events which are
+
+connected to the matter.
+
+Every one of you will need
+
+to acquire the ability
+
+to distinguish between the
+
+good and the bad signs.
+
+In other words, between right and wrong.
+
+And how are we going to
+
+live in the meantime?
+
+Don't worry. Don't worry.
+
+Everything is prepared,
+
+everything is organized.
+
+You will all have work to do.
+
+And at the beginning you'll get enough money
+
+for the basics from our common capital.
+
+But let us not waste our time
+
+asking unnecessary questions.
+
+We are late anyway.
+
+We have to start right now, my friends.
+
+Go pack your things. Hurry up!
+
+Take your things and go.
+
+Take the big things first.
+
+Come on, move!
+
+Kraner, what's the matter with you?
+
+Wait, let's stop all this!
+
+Give us our money back!
+
+You hear me?! Give the money back!
+
+The money?
+
+Is that what you want?
+
+Here, here's your money. Do what
+
+you want to do with it. Good luck.
+
+A year's hard work.
+
+Joska, give the money back.
+
+No. Just split it between you.
+
+Perhaps it's better.
+
+I can see right now that you
+
+have no honor or perseverance.
+
+Good to know from the start
+
+whom I can count on.
+
+Your husband may be right, Mrs Kraner.
+
+I cannot realize my plans with you.
+
+I need people who are at least able
+
+to look after their own interests.
+
+I've got to go now.
+
+Wait!
+
+And...
+
+the farm will be working?
+
+I don't know. Anyway I don't think
+
+you're interested in the any longer.
+
+Give him the money.
+
+I didn't mean that.
+
+Now, take the money.
+
+This rain, you know, and the long journey...
+
+And the cold at night... Don't be mad at us.
+
+I don't care but
+
+the fact is that you gave up
+
+the first time problems arose.
+
+Yet the whole thing is based
+
+on trust and perseverance.
+
+Take the money now!
+
+We trust you. Take it.
+
+I don't feel like wasting
+
+time with your dramas!
+
+I'am very disappointed in you...
+
+however I'll get over it...
+
+I'm going to try and forget
+
+this disgraceful event.
+
+Mind how you sit there it takes two
+
+hours even in this racing car.
+
+Button your coats.
+
+Put on your hoods and hats.
+
+And just turn your backs...
+
+to the bright future, or this bloody
+
+rain will get all over your faces.
+
+The Schmidts, Halicses, Kraners, come on!
+
+Futaki, Mr. Headmaster,
+
+please wait a minute.
+
+What's the matter, you're not coming?
+
+Is there a pub here?
+
+- We could have a drink.
+
+- No.
+
+Schmidt and family, you're going to Elek.
+
+I've written everything down,
+
+who to contact and where.
+
+There you'll get work and a place to live.
+
+And what work is there?
+
+It's a butcher's.
+
+Plenty to do!
+
+You can serve the customers.
+
+Now the Kraners.
+
+You ask for Istvan Kalmar in Keresztur.
+
+Listen carefully, it's not written down.
+
+There's a street before the church.
+
+On the right.
+
+You go down that street until you see the
+
+Ladies fashion sign. That's Kalmar's house.
+
+Tell him
+
+D鰊ci has sent you, he may
+
+have forgotten my real name.
+
+He has a room for laundry at
+
+the back where you'll stay.
+
+- Is that clear?
+
+- Yes. D鰊ci.
+
+A street after the church
+
+and there's a sign...
+
+Right. You, Halics...
+
+You go to the presbytery of Postelek.
+
+- Ask for Gyivicsan, the parish priest.
+
+- Gyivicsan...
+
+There's plenty of church wine there.
+
+And you can clean the church
+
+and do the cooking for the three of you.
+
+Here's a thousand forints per head
+
+if anything comes up.
+
+But don't waste a penny.
+
+And don't forget what
+
+you're supposed to do.
+
+I think all's clear. We'd like to thank
+
+you for what you've done for us.
+
+You don't have to say thank you.
+
+I'm only the servant of a great cause.
+
+So remember what you have to do.
+
+And take good care, you
+
+know we worry for you...
+
+Take care of yourselves.
+
+Listen,
+
+you sit up there...
+
+and we'll take you to the Streber.
+
+We'll pick you up in an hour and
+
+we'll talk everything over.
+
+Okay.
+
+Futaki.
+
+Don't worry about me. I
+
+know where I'm going.
+
+I could find a job as a watchman.
+
+You'd be better off doing something else.
+
+What? No way to come to
+
+terms with you today?
+
+Come to Steigerwald's by eight
+
+and we'll talk it over there.
+
+All right, I'll do it your way. Here...
+
+A thousand forints.
+
+Buy yourself some lunch at least.
+
+Futaki is the biggest sucker I've ever met.
+
+What did he think? That he'd
+
+reached the promised land?
+
+What did the poor devil expect?
+
+JUST TROUBLE AND WORK
+
+Leave out the part about eternity.
+
+"Though I don't believe it's right
+
+to put such things down in writing,
+
+hovever, as a token of my willingness,
+
+I am following your instructions.
+
+It has never escaped my attention that you
+
+encouraged me to be open in all circumstances.
+
+No doubts can be had on my peoples' skills.
+
+I hope I could convince
+
+you of this yesterday.
+
+It is important to repeat because other
+
+conclusions could be drawn from this plan.
+
+I will be the only one to
+
+keep in touch with my people.
+
+Anything else would lead to
+
+complete failure" etc, etc...
+
+- I think it's alright.
+
+- Then we leave it at that.
+
+Mrs Schmidt...
+
+Type it in.
+
+Instead of a stupid female with big tits
+
+you write... mentally immature person, who
+
+mostly emphasizes her female character.
+
+And what about "bloody whore"?
+
+Could be a "lady of easy virtue"
+
+or a "woman of low morals".
+
+We'd better write a "woman selling
+
+her body without any qualms".
+
+Okay.
+
+- Finished?
+
+- Yeah.
+
+"She went to bed with anyone and everyone, and
+
+if she didn't that was only by accident."
+
+She's a paragon of conjugal infidelity.
+
+Finished?
+
+Instead of "a stench created by the mixing
+
+of cheap Cologne with some putrid smell"...
+
+"She attempts to relieve her unpleasant
+
+body odour in an unusual way."
+
+"Mrs Kraner..." Write it.
+
+"A loud-mouthed gossip"
+
+should be replaced with...
+
+"indiscreet transmittor of rumours".
+
+- And instead of "a fat sow"?
+
+- Leave that in.
+
+- We shouldn't.
+
+- Then put "big".
+
+- "Overweight".
+
+- Okay.
+
+- Can we leave Mrs Halics?
+
+- Sure.
+
+And what about "wrinkled
+
+worm, filled with alcohol"?
+
+"Elderly alcoholic, short of stature".
+
+"Clumsy clown. Dull inertia,
+
+blind stumbling around..."
+
+- We could leave that out.
+
+- Okay.
+
+Let's go on.
+
+Schmidt.
+
+What's the meaning of "a cross of crude
+
+insensitiveness and insignificant emptiness,
+
+in an abyss of uncontrollable darkness."?
+
+"Hopeless stupidity, inarticulate
+
+moaning, desperate existence,
+
+crippled paralysing worry..."
+
+OK, write this:
+
+"His dwarfed understanding and
+
+his submissive attitude to...
+
+authority...
+
+make him specially suited...
+
+to accomplish the activity in question...
+
+to a high level."
+
+The headmaster.
+
+He must have been out of his mind here.
+
+Listen to this:
+
+"If someone who's about
+
+to drown himself were
+
+to hesitate at the last moment whether
+
+to jump or not from the bridge,
+
+I advise him to remember the headmaster,
+
+and he will realize
+
+there's only one option:
+
+- To jump."
+
+- Go on.
+
+"He's like a withered cucumber. In
+
+mental ability he remains below Schmidt,
+
+a definite achievement."
+
+Let's put "appearance:
+
+Worn down, no abilities".
+
+- How did the two come together?
+
+- That's what he wrote.
+
+"His cowardice he compensates
+
+with narcissism and conceit.
+
+He tends to be rather sentimental and maudlin
+
+as often is the case with onanic guys."
+
+Then... "weak and sentimental, perverse
+
+personality, sexually immature."
+
+Okay, write that.
+
+As for Kraner, he's a "sloppy
+
+brute reminding of a buffalo..."
+
+Strongly-built, worked as a smith."
+
+"A strongly built smith?"
+
+"A stupid ass with dull eyes." Go on.
+
+"The only dangereous one is
+
+Futaki, but not too much.
+
+A rebel but more of a coward.
+
+He could go far. But he can't
+
+get rid of his obsessions.
+
+He amuses me. He's the one
+
+I can surely count on.
+
+- So?
+
+- Leave it.
+
+No. Write.
+
+"Dangerous but can be of use.
+
+Cleverer than the others. Lame."
+
+- Is that all?
+
+- Yeah.
+
+Then sign his name. Irimias.
+
+Okay.
+
+- Is it still raining?
+
+- Yes.
+
+They shook hands outside the gate
+
+- How are you leaving?
+
+- Bus.
+
+Okay. Bye then, said the head clerk.
+
+Nice day we had, eh? The other added.
+
+Yeah, bloody good.
+
+They shook hands again and parted.
+
+At home, as they came in, both
+
+were asked the same question:
+
+"Difficult day, dear?"
+
+To which, shuddering and exhausted,
+
+they could only say, Nothing
+
+much, the usual, my dear.
+
+THE CIRCLE CLOSES
+
+During the thirteen days...
+
+I spent in hospital...
+
+Mrs Kraner...
+
+didn't misbehave...
+
+again...
+
+Everything is exactly as...
+
+I left it.
+
+Neither of them dares...
+
+leave the house.
+
+They must be...
+
+lying on their beds, snoring...
+
+or staring at the ceiling.
+
+They haven't a clue...
+
+that it is this idle...
+
+passivity...
+
+that leaves them...
+
+at the mercy of...
+
+what they fear most.
+
+A cosmic revolution.
+
+My hearing...
+
+is getting worse.
+
+The Turks are coming! The Turks are coming!
+
+The Turks are coming! The Turks are coming!
+
+I must be crazy!
+
+I thought the bells rumbling in the sky
+
+were tolling the knell.
+
+One morning... at the end of October...
+
+not long before...
+
+the first drops...
+
+of the insufferably long...
+
+autumn rains...
+
+fell...
+
+on the parched...
+
+cracked ground...
+
+on the western side of the farm...
+
+so that...
+
+the stinking bog...
+
+makes the tracks...
+
+impassable...
+
+until the first frosts...
+
+and it cuts off the town too...
+
+Futaki was woken...
+
+by the sound of bells.
+
+The closest church was...
+
+eight kilometers to the South-West...
+
+on the old Hochmeiss field...
+
+a solitary chapel...
+
+But not only was no bell there...
+
+the church tower had collapsed...
+
+during the war...