1 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,280 When the child was a child, it walked with its arms swinging. 2 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,000 It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent... 3 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:36,120 and this puddle to be the sea. 4 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,600 When the child was a child, it didn't know it was a child. 5 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,960 Everything was full of life, and all life was one. 6 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,760 When the child was a child, it had no opinion about anything. 7 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,280 It had no habits. 8 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,240 It often sat cross-legged, took off running... 9 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,240 had a cowlick in its hair, and didn't pull a face... 10 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,160 when photographed. 11 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,640 Look. 12 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,720 The consolation of lifting one's head out here in the open... 13 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,760 of seeing the colours enlightened by the sun... 14 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,880 in all men's eyes. 15 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,720 At last mad, no longer alone. 16 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,520 At last mad, at last redeemed. At last mad, at last at peace. 17 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,920 At last an internal light. 18 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:40,040 We're approaching Berlin Tegel, the no-smoking sign has been turned on. 19 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,480 Please stop smoking until you're inside the airport. 20 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,840 There's a little house with two floors and a terrace. 21 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,360 And every day we go bathing. 22 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,560 The man who lives there is called Peter... 23 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,760 Pretty picture. 24 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,080 Nothing good to see on TV. 25 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,080 You stumble over your colours, and are never punctual. 26 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,880 Still the same smell. But dustier. She collected everything. 27 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,600 Stamps, postcards. 28 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:37,520 Even U-Bahn tickets. She never threw anything away. 29 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,160 Mother. My mother. She never was. 30 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,720 My father... My father was my father. 31 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:51,440 She is dead. No tears, no grief. Maybe later. 32 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,080 Dependant on everybody. My sister. I have to get out of here. 33 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,920 She's never loved me. And you also just pretend. 34 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,640 Be glad that they forgot about you. 35 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,840 Want to die immediately, don't want to go on living. 36 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:42,160 My God, what will become of the boy? He's only got music on his mind. 37 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,040 What does he want now? 38 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,480 I already bought him a guitar. Does he wants drums now? 39 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:03,280 I'm slowly getting fed up with it. Won't he ever grow up? 40 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:10,400 No really, I'm getting fed up. I don't want to go on with this. 41 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:17,280 No really, this has to stop some time. I can't help him any more. 42 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,680 No wonder, he only learnt rock 'n' roll. 43 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,680 Maybe he'll get a grip on himself one day. 44 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:44,000 When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions: 45 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,680 Why am I me, and why not you? 46 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,440 Why am I here, and why not there? 47 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,640 When did time begin, and where does space end? 48 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,880 Isn't life under the sun just a dream? 49 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:11,880 Isn't what I see, hear and smell just a mirage of the world before the world? 50 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:17,440 Does evil actually exist, and people who are really evil? 51 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:26,920 How can it be that I, the one I am, wasn't there before I was there... 52 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:34,480 and that some time I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am? 53 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,000 The child needs oxygen. Breathe deep down. 54 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,280 - If I could only suffer in her place. - It hurts. 55 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,520 - It'll be over soon. - It's almost over. 56 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:58,000 Poor little mite, I'm anxious to see you. I wonder what you look like. 57 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:04,080 - You bastard. You bastard. - Women will fuck up your life. 58 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,840 Blackie, I think I got lost. We wanted to go to the cemetery... 59 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:40,800 Well? 60 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:53,360 Sunrise at 7.22 am, sunset at 4.28 pm. Moonrise at 7.04 pm, moonset... 61 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,000 Level of the Havel and the Spree... 62 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:01,760 20 years ago today, a Soviet jet fighter crashed into the lakes at Spandau. 63 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,880 - 50 years ago, there were... - The Olympic Games. 64 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:11,760 200 years ago, the first balloon flew over the city. 65 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,080 - Like the fugitives the other day. - And today... 66 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,600 Lilienthaler Chaussee: A man slows down... 67 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,280 and looks over his shoulder into space. 68 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,640 Someone who wants to put an end to it... 69 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,680 put first-issue stamps on his farewell letters. 70 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,200 A different one on each. 71 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:37,040 Then he spoke English with an American soldier... 72 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,280 for the first time since his schooldays, fluently. 73 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:48,560 Just before dashing his head against the wall, a prisoner said: "Now." 74 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,160 Instead of the station's name, the guard... - 75 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,960 - suddenly shouted: "Tierra del Fuego." - Nice. 76 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,320 An old man was reading the Odyssey to a child... 77 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:04,320 and the young listener stopped blinking his eyes. 78 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,880 And what do you have to tell? 79 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:15,880 A passer-by who, in the rain, folded her umbrella and was drenched. 80 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:23,080 A schoolboy who described to his teacher a fern growing... 81 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,680 and the astounded teacher. 82 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:32,240 A blind woman, who groped her watch, feeling my presence. 83 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,760 It's great to live by the spirit, to testify for eternity... 84 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,480 only what is spiritual in people's minds. 85 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,680 But sometimes I'm fed up with my spiritual existence... 86 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,760 of forever hovering above. 87 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,280 I'd like to feel a weight in me... 88 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,960 to end the infinity, and to tie me to earth. 89 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,000 I'd like at each step, each gust of wind... 90 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,760 to be able to say: "Now, now and now." 91 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,560 No longer: "Forever" and "For eternity". 92 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,400 Sit at the empty place at a card table, be greeted... 93 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:12,680 even by a nod. 94 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,880 Every time we participated, it was a pretence. 95 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,440 Wrestling, allowing a hip to be put out, in pretence... 96 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,880 catching a fish in pretence. 97 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,360 In pretence, sitting at tables drinking and eating in pretence. 98 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,560 Having lambs roasted and wine served in the tents in the desert... 99 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,560 only in pretence. 100 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,240 I don't have to beget a child or plant a tree... 101 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,800 but it would be nice, coming home after a long day... 102 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,760 to feed the cat like Philip Marlowe... 103 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,280 to have a fever, blackened fingers from the newspaper. 104 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,120 To be excited not only by the mind, but by a meal. 105 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,040 By the line of a neck, by an ear. 106 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,160 To lie. 107 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,560 Through one's teeth. 108 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,400 As you're walking, to feel your bones moving along. 109 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:20,760 At last to guess instead of always knowing. 110 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,920 To be able to say: "Ah" and "Oh" and "Hey"... - 111 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,600 - instead of: "yes and amen." - Yes. 112 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,880 To be able to enthuse for evil... 113 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,800 to draw all the demons from the passers-by... 114 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,880 and to chase them out into the world. 115 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,240 To be a savage. 116 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,760 Or to feel how it is to take off your shoes under the table... 117 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,680 and to wriggle your toes, barefoot, like that... 118 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,160 Stay alone. 119 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,880 Let things happen. Keep serious. 120 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,760 We can only be savages in as much as we keep serious. 121 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,880 Do no more than look. Assemble, testify, preserve. 122 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,480 Remain spirit. Keep your distance. Keep your word. 123 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:24,080 Look, a convertible. You don't buy that, you steal it. 124 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,560 - Or it's stolen from you. - Imagine... 125 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,880 - Open the roof, leave the smog behind. - In a pimpmobile. 126 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,280 Tell me, muse, the storyteller... 127 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,400 he who has been thrust to the edge of the world... 128 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:22,480 both an infant and an ancient, and through him reveal Everyman. 129 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:36,520 With time, those who listened to me became my readers. 130 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,320 They no longer sit in a circle, but apart... 131 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,280 and one doesn't know anything about the other. 132 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,360 I'm an old man, with a broken voice... 133 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:59,480 but the story still rises from the depths... 134 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,360 and the slowly opened mouth... 135 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,760 repeats it as clearly as it does powerfully. 136 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:12,440 A liturgy for which no one needs to be initiated... 137 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,880 to the meaning of the words and sentences. 138 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,440 Maybe she doesn't have the money to see another doctor. 139 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,680 4 years since I saw her, she's been sick for 2. 140 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,560 When will you pray with your own words, and not for eternal life? 141 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,080 And then these young girls make eyes at men... 142 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,200 So why am I living? Why am I living? 143 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,720 How will I pay? With my small pension. 144 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,640 You're lost, it can go on for a long time. 145 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,480 Abandoned by parents, betrayed by wife. 146 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,760 Friend in another town, your children only recall your stutter. 147 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,120 You could hit yourself as you look in the mirror. 148 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,920 What's that? What's going on? 149 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,480 I'm still there. If I want it, if I only want it. 150 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,360 I must want it, then I can get out of it again. 151 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,720 I let myself go, I can drag myself out again. 152 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,480 Of course, mother was right. 153 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,440 - Hey, two Marks. - No, it's a beer top. 154 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,680 Nonsense, let's pull it up. 155 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,640 Only 10 Pfennigs. 156 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,680 - "You bet?" was great last night. - It wasn't on last night. 157 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,720 A few days ago, or a month... 158 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,320 I'm all alone, just mad on my own... 159 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,880 three at play, that'll be the day. 160 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,880 - 5 years ago. - And they lived happily ever after. 161 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,000 Marion, not like that. Mon dieu. 162 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:13,600 What is this? With a swing, not with force. 163 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,640 What are you doing? Don't dangle, fly. 164 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,880 - You are an angel. - For heaven's sake. 165 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,760 And for my sake, too. 166 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,040 - I can't fly with these things. - Yes, you can. 167 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:36,000 - It's easier with wings than without. - Not with these chicken feathers. 168 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,840 - What did she say? - These wings bother her. 169 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:51,120 - Marion, just imagine you're a dove. - You bunch of sparrows. 170 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,360 What are you playing at? Sounds like a firemen's ball. 171 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:01,200 That's enough. Concentrate, Marion. 172 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,320 She works hard with those chicken feathers. 173 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,920 - Marion, make an effort. - Make an effort. 174 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,680 Of course, I make an effort. What do you think I'm doing? 175 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,480 I'd have fallen on your heads long ago, if I didn't make an effort. 176 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,360 One moment, please. 177 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:34,440 Hold everything. We can't pay the rent and the electricity. 178 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,000 We're broke. 179 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:43,640 So tomorrow we'll take things down, pull the caravans to winter quarters. 180 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:49,480 The bailiff's been. This is it for the circus this year. 181 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,320 I'm sorry. 182 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,680 It's over. Not even a season. 183 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,880 Once again, no time to bring something to an end. 184 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:03,680 Tonight the last night of my good old number. 185 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,560 And it's a full moon. 186 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,640 And the trapeze artist comes tumbling down... 187 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,960 Tais-toi. Be quiet. 188 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:19,160 I never imagined it like that, the farewell to the circus. 189 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,440 The last evening, no one shows up, you play like fools... 190 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,880 and I fly around the ring like a poor chicken. 191 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:37,880 And then I'm a waitress again. Merde. 192 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,560 Moments like that, like right now... 193 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,360 a beautiful memory in 10 years time. 194 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:53,720 Time will heal everything, but what if time was the illness? 195 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,120 As if sometimes one had to lean over to go on living. 196 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,880 To live... A look is enough. 197 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,720 The circus... I'll miss it. 198 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,160 It's funny. It's the end, and I don't feel a thing. 199 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,040 An angel passes by. 200 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,880 I must stop having a bad conscience. 201 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,480 As if pain had no past. 202 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,720 It always stops when it's only just starting... 203 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,960 to be too good to be true. 204 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:33,640 At last outside, in the city. 205 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,560 Find out who I am, who I have become. 206 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,320 Most of the time, I'm too aware to be sad. 207 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,320 I waited an eternity to hear a loving word. 208 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,680 Then I went abroad. 209 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,880 Someone who'd say: "I love you so much today." 210 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,680 That would be wonderful. 211 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:07,600 I look up and the world appears before my eyes... 212 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,480 and fills my heart. 213 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,440 As a child, I wanted to live on an island. 214 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,440 A woman alone, gloriously alone. 215 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,440 Yes, that's it. 216 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,680 Everything so empty, incompatible. 217 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,680 Emptiness, fear. 218 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,360 La peur, la peur, la peur... 219 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,840 Fear. 220 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,640 Like a small animal, lost in the woods. 221 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,640 Who are you? I don't know any more. 222 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:11,200 But I do know: I will no longer be a trapeze artist. 223 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,480 Must not cry. That's how it is. 224 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,360 It happens, not always as you'd like it. 225 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,680 Emptiness, such emptiness... 226 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,080 What shall I do? 227 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,480 Not think any more. Just be there. 228 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,760 Berlin... Here I'm a stranger, and yet it's all so familiar. 229 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,760 You can't get lost, you always end up at the Wall. 230 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:45,120 I'm waiting for my photo at a machine, and it comes out with another face. 231 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,840 That could be the beginning of a story. 232 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,360 The faces... I'd like to see faces. 233 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,680 Maybe I'll find a job as a waitress. 234 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,880 This evening scares me. 235 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,440 It's silly, fear makes me sick. 236 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,880 Only part of me worries, the other part doesn't believe in it. 237 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:29,040 How should I live? Maybe that's not the question. 238 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,880 How should I think? 239 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:43,280 I know so little. Maybe because I'm always just curious. 240 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,640 Sometimes I think so wrongly... 241 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,880 because I'm thinking as if I was talking to someone else. 242 00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,520 Inside closed eyes, close the eyes again. 243 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,360 Then even the stones come alive. 244 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,680 To be with the colours. 245 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,040 Les couleurs. The colours. 246 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:56,880 Neon lights in the evening sky, the red and yellow S-Bahn. 247 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,240 Longing... longing. 248 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,640 I only need to be ready. 249 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,680 Longing for a wave of love that would stir in me. 250 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:24,880 That's what makes me clumsy, the absence of desire. 251 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,880 Desire to love. 252 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,840 Desire to love. 253 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,360 Don't stare. Have you never seen anyone die? 254 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,680 I stink of gasoline. I can't just... It was all so clear. 255 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,440 The way they're standing there, staring at me. 256 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,880 I should have told her yesterday that I'm sorry... 257 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:52,760 I can't simply... I've still got so much to do... 258 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,680 As I came up the mountain out of the misty valley into the sun... 259 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,360 The fire on the cattle range, the potatoes in the ashes... 260 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,040 the boathouse floating on the lake. 261 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:15,360 The Southern Cross. The Far East. 262 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:22,080 The Great North. The Wild West. 263 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:29,880 The Great Bear Lake. The Tristan de Cunha Island. 264 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:37,680 The Mississippi Delta. Stromboli. 265 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:45,880 The old houses of Charlottenburg. Albert Camus. 266 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:54,480 The morning light. The eyes of the child. 267 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,480 Swimming near the waterfall. 268 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,320 The spots of the first drops of rain. The sun. 269 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,480 The bread and wine. Hopping. 270 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,360 Easter. The veins of the leaves. 271 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:25,760 The blowing grass. The colours of the stones. 272 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,480 The pebbles on the stream's bed. 273 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,200 The white tablecloth outdoors. 274 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,200 The dream of the house in the house. 275 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,400 The dear one asleep in the next room. 276 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:48,280 The peaceful Sunday. The horizon. 277 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,480 The light from the room in the garden. 278 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:58,680 The night flight. Riding a bicycle with no hands. 279 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,760 The beautiful stranger. 280 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,440 My father. 281 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,840 My mother. 282 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,360 My wife. 283 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,920 My child. 284 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,880 The world seems to be sinking into dust, but I recount... 285 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,800 as in the beginning... 286 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,480 in my sing-song voice, which sustains me... 287 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,880 saved by the tale from present troubles... 288 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,840 and protected for the future. 289 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:10,000 Finished with the sweeping over the centuries as in the past. 290 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,760 Now I can think only day by day. 291 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,600 My heroes are no longer the warriors and kings... 292 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:27,480 but the things of peace, one equal to the other. 293 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:34,800 The drying onions equal to the tree trunk crossing the marsh. 294 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:42,920 But no one has so far succeeded in singing an epic of peace. 295 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:48,880 What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure... 296 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:55,120 and that its story is hardly told? 297 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,360 Must I give up now? 298 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,560 If I do give up, then mankind will lose its storyteller. 299 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,760 And once mankind loses its storyteller... 300 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,680 it will also lose its childhood. 301 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:30,240 I cannot find the Potsdamer Platz. 302 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:38,520 Here? This can't be it. 303 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:44,240 Potsdamer Platz, that's where Cafz Josti used to be. 304 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:51,160 In the afternoons, I went there to chat and to drink a coffee... 305 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,200 and to watch the crowd. 306 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,160 Before that I smoked my cigar at Loese and Wolf... 307 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,680 a renowned tobacconist. 308 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,760 Just across from here. 309 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:10,480 This can't be the Potsdamer Platz. 310 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:17,320 And no one whom you can ask. 311 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:26,800 It was a lively place. Tramways, horse-drawn carriages... 312 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:33,600 and two cars: mine and that of the chocolate shop. 313 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:39,320 The Wertheim store was here, too. 314 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:46,080 And then suddenly, the flags appeared. 315 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:48,000 Here... 316 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:54,080 The whole Platz was covered with them. 317 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:59,680 And the people weren't friendly anymore... 318 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,840 and the police wasn't either. 319 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,800 I will not give up... 320 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,960 as long as I haven't found the Potsdamer Platz. 321 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,320 Where are my heroes? Where are you, my children? 322 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,360 Where are my own, the dull-witted... 323 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,480 the original ones? 324 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,320 Name me, muse, the immortal singer... 325 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,040 who, abandoned by his mortal audience... 326 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,680 lost his voice. 327 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,760 He who, from angel of poetry that he was... 328 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:58,320 became the organ grinder ignored or mocked... 329 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,640 outside, on the threshold of no man's land. 330 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:32,040 20 Marks, 40 Marks, 80 Marks. In a week I could have 500. 331 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,400 Off to the south. 332 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,000 What a crazy idea to stand here. Too much traffic. 333 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,080 Idiot, three times he's been this way. 334 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:43,880 I want to get out of here. 335 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,880 If anyone recognises me, I'll be thrown out of secondary school. 336 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,640 I need Klaus, he'd take good care of me. 337 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,760 He was so good, too good. And now he's dead. 338 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,040 Are there still borders? More than ever. 339 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:15,640 Each street has its own border line. 340 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,200 Between each plot there's a no man's land strip... 341 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,960 hidden by a hedge or by a ditch. 342 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,640 Who dares, will fall on booby traps... 343 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,640 or be hit by laser beams. 344 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,360 The trout in the water are really torpedoes. 345 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,480 Every proprietor, or even tenant... 346 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,320 sticks up his nameplate like a coat of arms... 347 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,440 and studies the paper like a world leader. 348 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,320 The German people are divided into as many states as there are individuals. 349 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,040 And these small states are mobile. 350 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,320 Each one takes his own with him... 351 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,200 and demands a toll when another wants to enter. 352 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:05,800 In the form of a fly in amber or a leather bottle. 353 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,680 So much for the border. 354 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:13,680 But one can only enter each state with the right passwords. 355 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:36,880 Today's German soul can only be conquered and governed... 356 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,400 by he who arrives at each small state with the password. 357 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,920 Fortunately, no one is now able to do so. 358 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:51,600 So everyone migrates and raises his own flag all over the world. 359 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,240 Even their children shake their rattles... 360 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,640 and trail their filth around in circles. 361 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,000 The medals reflect the best. 362 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,080 They were elegant, those brothers. 363 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,880 - Could I have light? - But no flame. 364 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,280 - You're welcome. - Thank you. 365 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,840 The only thing I shall miss from the outside... 366 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,120 from the realm of light, will be sparrows. 367 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,960 Money buys happiness. How to live? 368 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,840 The Man in the Golden Helmet is a swindle. 369 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,280 You're not natives, you're all refugees. 370 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,840 You're wet from swimming. 371 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,560 I've been sitting here since this morning... 372 00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:45,560 I'm so cold and bored. 373 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:49,800 Wind in the face, the first snow in the air. 374 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,040 Water in the gutter. 375 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,200 The balcony with the beautiful stranger. 376 00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,040 Real ones. They look like it. They could be real ones. 377 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,320 Some stole food from the dogs in the camps. 378 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:09,080 That would take the grin off your face. Don't be too sure yet. 379 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:13,400 The Frenchman. I met him in the streets. 380 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,160 " Berlin won't be there any more," Constant said. 381 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:24,720 The house was half gone. Some of it still stood. For how long? 382 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,240 Yes, I can still see this woman... 383 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:34,560 who was standing up there in the ruins shaking the duvet. 384 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:39,640 When was that? May... June 1945. 385 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:07,080 Is he good at what he's doing? It seems so. 386 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:28,240 I'd like to see it. Maybe he'll give it to me. 387 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,320 Come, I'll show you something else. 388 00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:05,200 When the child was a child it choked on spinach, peas... 389 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,680 rice pudding and steamed cauliflower... 390 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:13,360 and now eats all of that, and not just because it has to. 391 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:18,400 When the child was a child, it woke up once in a strange bed... 392 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,720 but now time and time again. 393 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:26,320 Many people seemed beautiful then, nowadays it's only the odd one. 394 00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:32,920 It had a precise picture of Paradise, and now can only guess at it. 395 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:38,680 It couldn't imagine nothingness, and today shudders at the idea. 396 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:43,400 When the child was a child, it played with enthusiasm... 397 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:50,640 and now it can only muster it when it concerns its work. 398 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,560 Do you recall our first visit here? 399 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,240 History had not yet begun. 400 00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:52,400 We let mornings and evenings go by, and waited. 401 00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:59,000 It took a long time for the river to find its bed and the stagnant water to flow. 402 00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:05,000 Valley of the primeval river. One day, I still remember... 403 00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:09,600 the glacier melted and the icebergs drifted to the north. 404 00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,880 A tree passed by, still green, with an empty bird's nest. 405 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:19,000 Only the fish had leapt over a myriad of years. 406 00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,560 Then came the moment when the bees drowned. 407 00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:27,240 Some time later, the two stags fought on the bank. 408 00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:33,276 Then the flies and the antlers, like branches, flowing down the river. 409 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,715 All that ever grew again was grass... 410 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:40,271 growing over the bodies of wild cats, wild boar and buffaloes. 411 00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:45,958 One morning, out of the savannah, its forehead smeared with grass... 412 00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:50,238 appeared the biped, our image, so long awaited. 413 00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,630 And its first word was a shout. 414 00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:59,478 Was it "ah" or "oh", or was it merely a groan? 415 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:04,589 We were at last able to laugh, for the first time. 416 01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:10,073 Through this man's shout and that of his followers, we learnt to speak. 417 01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,390 A long story. 418 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,630 Sun, lightning, thunder in the sky... 419 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,315 and below on earth, the firesides, the leaps... 420 01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:21,836 the round dances, the signs, the writing. 421 01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:28,197 Then one broke through the cycle and ran straight ahead. 422 01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:34,959 As long as he ran straight ahead, swerving sometimes perhaps from joy... 423 01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,749 he seemed free, and again we could laugh with him. 424 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:44,438 But then, suddenly, he ran zigzag, and stones flew. 425 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:52,912 With his flight began the history of wars. It is still going on. 426 01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:58,234 But the story of the grass, the sun, the leaps and the shouts... 427 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,834 is still going on, too. 428 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,798 Do you know how one day the road was built here... 429 01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:15,158 which the next day saw the Napoleon retreat... 430 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:19,393 and was paved later on? 431 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:25,556 Today it is covered with grass and sunk in like a Roman road... 432 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,836 with the tank tracks. 433 01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:34,229 But we weren't even spectators. We've always been too few. 434 01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:45,989 - You really want... - To conquer a history for myself. 435 01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:49,277 What my timeless downward look has taught me... 436 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,910 I want to transmute, to sustain a glance... 437 01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:57,278 a short shout, a sour smell. 438 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,956 I've been outside long enough. Absent long enough. 439 01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:07,477 Long enough out of the world. Let me enter the history of the world. 440 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,313 Or just hold an apple in my hand. 441 01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:15,634 Look, those feathers, there on the water, already vanished. 442 01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:22,831 Look, the tyre marks on the asphalt, and now the cigarette butt rolling. 443 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:28,950 The primeval river has dried up, and only today's raindrops still quiver. 444 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,669 Down with the world behind the world. 445 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,912 Only the Roman roads still lead somewhere... 446 01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,834 only the oldest traces lead anywhere. 447 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,389 Where is the top of the pass here? 448 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:08,476 Even the plains, even Berlin, has its hidden passes. 449 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:15,239 And it's only there that my country, the country of the tale, begins. 450 01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,393 Why doesn't everyone see from childhood on... 451 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:23,838 the passes, doors and crevices... 452 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,993 on the ground and above in the sky. 453 01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:35,316 If everyone saw them, there would be history without murder or war. 454 01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,712 This time I'm doing it. Funny I'm so calm. 455 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,873 Why red socks with black shoes? Stupid. 456 01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:47,589 Foggy, cold. Put on a pullover, afraid to be cold. 457 01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:52,151 Very good jacket. A bargain. Just the pocket's torn. 458 01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:53,992 She gave it to me. 459 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:59,314 Pebbles on the roof. Why? So it doesn't fly away? Nonsense. 460 01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:01,757 Once I'd like to fly. 461 01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:06,436 The plane circles over Berlin, one day it'll crash. 462 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:10,798 It's cold. My hands were always warm. A good sign. 463 01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,633 It crackles underfoot. What time is it? 464 01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:19,158 The sun's setting. Logical, the west. Now I know where the west is. 465 01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,471 I always took the U-Bahn to the east to go home... 466 01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,029 bought 10 tickets, saved a Mark. 467 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,237 The sun in my back, on the left the star. 468 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,995 That's good: sun and a star. Her little feet. 469 01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:35,675 Hopping from one foot to the other. She danced so sweetly. 470 01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,193 We were all alone. 471 01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,955 Has she got my letter? I don't want her to read it. 472 01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:45,272 Berlin means nothing to me... Havel? Is that a lake? 473 01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:50,230 Over there Wedding, or what? The East is everywhere really. 474 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:54,393 Strange people, they're shouting. I don't care. 475 01:05:54,560 --> 01:06:00,032 All these thoughts. I'd really rather not think any more. 476 01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:02,156 I'm going, why? 477 01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:34,713 - Leave me alone, you swine. - Mother. Mother. 478 01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:12,032 I'll never make it tonight. No trapeze on full-moon nights. 479 01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:16,193 Not the last time, the very last time. 480 01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:18,954 I should wake up from this dream. 481 01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:23,671 The end of the circus. Fini. 482 01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:28,994 And once again I feel as if night were falling inside of me. 483 01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:33,278 Fear... Fear of death. 484 01:08:33,440 --> 01:08:36,910 Why not death? 485 01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:39,310 The essential at times... 486 01:08:39,480 --> 01:08:45,396 just being beautiful, and nothing more. 487 01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:50,918 To look at oneself in the mirror is to see oneself think. 488 01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:54,072 So what do you think? 489 01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:59,598 I think I still have the right to be afraid, but not to talk about it. 490 01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:04,550 You're not yet blind, the heart is still beating. 491 01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,712 And now you're crying after all. 492 01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:12,317 You'd like to cry like a very sad little girl. 493 01:09:12,480 --> 01:09:15,711 Do you know why you're crying? For whom? 494 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:19,998 Not for me. I don't know for whom. 495 01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,950 I'd like to know. I know nothing. 496 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:31,798 I'm a little bit afraid. It's gone, gone away. It'll come back. 497 01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,791 It doesn't matter. 498 01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:59,909 Just to be able to say, like right now, I'm happy. 499 01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:05,950 I have a story, and I'll go on having one. 500 01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:57,069 There it is again, this feeling of well-being... 501 01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:03,076 as if inside my body a hand was softly tightening. 502 01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:56,190 When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions: 503 01:21:56,360 --> 01:22:00,638 Why am I me, and why not you? 504 01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,351 Why am I here, and why not there? 505 01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:09,798 When did time begin, and where does space end? 506 01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:15,830 Isn't life under the sun just a dream? 507 01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:33,032 - Isn't that Columbo? - Don't think so. 508 01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:37,990 - Not with that moth-eaten coat. - He wouldn't be out here. 509 01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:17,150 - Well? - I'm going to enter the river. 510 01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:21,313 An old human expression that I only understand today. 511 01:26:21,480 --> 01:26:23,311 Now or never, moment of the ford. 512 01:26:23,480 --> 01:26:27,268 But there is no other bank, there is only the river. 513 01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:30,477 Into the ford of time, the ford of death. 514 01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:33,598 We're not yet born, so let's descend. 515 01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:37,116 To look is not to look from on high, but at eye-level. 516 01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:40,431 First, I'll take a bath. 517 01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:44,639 Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber... 518 01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:48,349 who will also massage me down to the fingertips. 519 01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:54,550 Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from the headlines to the horoscope. 520 01:26:54,720 --> 01:27:00,397 On the first day, I'll only be served. For requests, ask the neighbour. 521 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:04,348 If someone stumbles over my legs, he'll apologise. 522 01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,636 If pushed, I'll push back. 523 01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:09,837 The bartender will find me an empty table. 524 01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,913 A car will stop, and the mayor will give me a lift. 525 01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,833 I'll be familiar to everyone, suspect to no one. 526 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:20,072 I won't say a word, will understand every language. 527 01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:25,360 - This will be my first day. - But none of it will be true. 528 01:27:55,320 --> 01:28:01,031 I'll take her in my arms, and she'll take me in her arms. 529 01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:47,279 - I think he's drunk. - Yes. 530 01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:12,193 Let's go. 531 01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:43,233 It's got a taste. 532 01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:48,993 Now I begin to understand. 533 01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:58,154 - Is that red? - Yes. 534 01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:00,390 Did you hurt yourself? 535 01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,949 - Is today a good day? - It's okay. 536 01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:07,312 - And the pipes? - They're yellow. 537 01:30:07,480 --> 01:30:10,438 - Yellow. What about him? - He's grey-blue. 538 01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,558 - Grey-blue. This one? - Purple. 539 01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:15,472 - This one? - Orange. Ochre. 540 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:18,313 - Ochre or orange? - Ochre. 541 01:30:18,480 --> 01:30:21,677 - Yellow, red... this one? - It's green. 542 01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,992 - And what's that over the eye? - That's blue. 543 01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:28,513 Blue. 544 01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:32,077 - Is it very cold? - It'll soon be over. 545 01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,117 I'd love to have a coffee. 546 01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:37,989 - Do you have money? - Yes... no. 547 01:30:42,440 --> 01:30:45,193 I'm glad everything is fine today. 548 01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:56,633 Beautiful. 549 01:31:22,440 --> 01:31:25,238 - Coffee. - With milk and sugar? 550 01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:26,833 Black. 551 01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:15,353 When the child was a child, it lived on apples and bread, that was enough. 552 01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:17,715 And it is still that way. 553 01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:27,600 When the child was a child, berries fell only like berries into its hand. 554 01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,513 And they still do now. 555 01:32:32,440 --> 01:32:38,310 Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw, and they still do now. 556 01:32:38,480 --> 01:32:44,999 Atop each mountain it was longing for a higher mountain. 557 01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:51,156 And in each city it was longing for a bigger city. 558 01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:54,710 And it still does. 559 01:32:57,960 --> 01:33:01,236 Reached in the treetop for the cherries... 560 01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:05,632 as excitedly as it still does today. 561 01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:13,592 Was shy in front of strangers, and it still is. 562 01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:22,719 Waited for the first snow, and still waits that way. 563 01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:37,233 When the child was a child, it threw a stick like a lance into a tree. 564 01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:41,279 And it's still quivering there today. 565 01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:24,990 - How do I get to Akazienstrasse? - Go up Potsdamer to Kleistpark. 566 01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:30,553 Right at Grunewald past Gleditsch, no right turn at Goltzstrasse. 567 01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:33,029 Turn left, and there you are. 568 01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:09,715 This entrance is for the crew. Extras, the other way, please. 569 01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:21,312 - Extra. - That's just what you look like. 570 01:35:21,480 --> 01:35:23,152 They all want autographs. 571 01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:25,553 Lousy cop. 572 01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:57,148 Come on, Marion. Don't worry. It'll be alright. 573 01:37:57,320 --> 01:38:00,835 I'll send you a postcard of the Eiffel Tower. 574 01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:05,676 See you next season. Don't forget the Alekan Circus. 575 01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:10,391 - Bye Archie, see you next year. - Au revoir. 576 01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:11,993 A thousand kisses. 577 01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:17,188 I'll send you a parcel. With some Camembert cheese? 578 01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:20,553 I couldn't say who I am. I don't have the slightest idea. 579 01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:26,397 I am someone with no roots, no story, no country... 580 01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:29,074 and I like it that way. 581 01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:35,679 I am here, I am free. I can imagine anything. It's all possible. 582 01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:41,517 I only have to raise my eyes, and once again I become the world. 583 01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:45,434 Now, in this very place... 584 01:39:45,600 --> 01:39:51,596 a feeling of happiness that I could always have. 585 01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:49,713 - What are you doing? - I'm sitting. 586 01:41:49,880 --> 01:41:52,269 - Are you sad? - No. 587 01:41:52,440 --> 01:41:55,989 - Are you sick? - Yes. 588 01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:58,674 - What's the matter? - A need. 589 01:41:58,840 --> 01:42:01,354 Oh, that's it. 590 01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:05,195 A double knot is the only way to make it hold. 591 01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:13,678 - A need. A need of food perhaps. - Or a need of drink. 592 01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:20,234 She isn't gone, Cassiel. I know it. 593 01:42:20,400 --> 01:42:22,675 I'll find her. 594 01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:27,231 Something will happen, something important, tonight. 595 01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,838 She'll teach me everything. 596 01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:38,431 There are other suns then the one up in the sky, Cassiel. 597 01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:43,071 In the deep of the night, spring will begin today. 598 01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:46,471 Other wings will grow in place of the old ones. 599 01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:50,394 Wings that will at last astound me. 600 01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:40,832 It must finally become serious. 601 01:51:44,440 --> 01:51:49,355 I've often been alone, but I've never lived alone. 602 01:51:53,240 --> 01:51:56,869 When I was with someone I was often happy... 603 01:51:57,040 --> 01:52:00,316 but at the same time it all seemed a coincidence. 604 01:52:00,480 --> 01:52:06,157 These people were my parents, but it could have been others. 605 01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:09,596 Why was the brown-eyed one my brother... 606 01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:14,436 and not the green-eyed boy on the opposite platform? 607 01:52:15,880 --> 01:52:19,270 The taxi driver's daughter was my friend... 608 01:52:19,440 --> 01:52:26,391 but I might as well have put my arm around a horse's neck. 609 01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:31,270 I was with a man, I was in love... 610 01:52:31,440 --> 01:52:34,432 and I might as well have left him there... 611 01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:40,550 and gone off with the stranger we met in the street. 612 01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,838 Look at me, or don't. 613 01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,992 Give me your hand, or don't. 614 01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:56,599 No, don't give me your hand, and look away. 615 01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:05,038 I think tonight is the new moon. 616 01:53:06,480 --> 01:53:08,710 No night more peaceful. 617 01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,430 No bloodshed in all the city. 618 01:53:15,600 --> 01:53:18,239 I've never played with anyone and yet... 619 01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:23,520 I never opened my eyes and thought: Now it's serious. 620 01:53:26,600 --> 01:53:29,717 At last it's becoming serious. 621 01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:35,399 So I've grown older. 622 01:53:37,880 --> 01:53:41,156 Was I the only one who wasn't serious? 623 01:53:42,480 --> 01:53:45,631 Is it our times that are not serious? 624 01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:52,358 I've never been lonely, neither alone, nor with someone else. 625 01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:55,512 But I would have liked to be lonely. 626 01:53:55,680 --> 01:54:00,515 Loneliness means: I am whole at last. 627 01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:06,471 Now I can say it, as tonight I'm lonely at last. 628 01:54:06,640 --> 01:54:10,553 I must put an end to coincidence. 629 01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:17,591 The new moon of decision. 630 01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:22,550 I don't know if there is a destiny, but there is a decision. 631 01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:25,234 Decide. 632 01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:29,234 Now we are the times. 633 01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:35,475 Not only the whole town, the whole world is taking part in our decision. 634 01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:41,351 Now we are more than the two of us. We incarnate something. 635 01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:44,637 We are sitting on the People's Square... 636 01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:50,477 and the whole place is full of people whose dream is the same as ours. 637 01:54:50,640 --> 01:54:54,713 We are deciding everybody's game. 638 01:54:54,880 --> 01:55:02,070 I am ready. Now it's your turn. 639 01:55:02,240 --> 01:55:05,312 You hold the game in your hand. 640 01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:08,836 Now or never. 641 01:55:13,400 --> 01:55:20,078 You need me. You will need me. 642 01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:27,316 There is no greater story than ours, that of man and woman. 643 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:31,439 It will be a story of giants. 644 01:55:31,600 --> 01:55:36,469 Invisible, transposable. 645 01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:40,428 A story of new ancestors. 646 01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:45,477 Look, my eyes. 647 01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:51,712 They are the image of necessity... 648 01:55:51,880 --> 01:55:55,919 of the future of everyone in the place. 649 01:55:58,960 --> 01:56:03,795 Last night I dreamt of a stranger. 650 01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:09,550 Of my man. 651 01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:12,871 Only with him could I be lonely... 652 01:56:13,040 --> 01:56:15,110 open up to him... 653 01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:19,717 wholly open, wholly for him... 654 01:56:19,880 --> 01:56:23,509 welcome him wholly into me... 655 01:56:23,680 --> 01:56:31,473 surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness. 656 01:56:31,640 --> 01:56:34,757 I know... 657 01:56:34,920 --> 01:56:37,388 it's you. 658 01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:05,636 Something happened. 659 01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:13,833 It is still going on. It binds me. 660 01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:20,951 It was true at night, and it's true in the day, even more so now. 661 01:57:21,120 --> 01:57:27,150 Who was who? I was in her and she was around me. 662 01:57:28,960 --> 01:57:33,795 Who in the world can claim that he was ever together with another being? 663 01:57:33,960 --> 01:57:36,997 I am together. 664 01:57:37,160 --> 01:57:44,077 No mortal child was begot, only an immortal common image. 665 01:57:44,240 --> 01:57:48,153 I learned astonishment that night. 666 01:57:48,320 --> 01:57:53,394 She came to take me home, and I found home. 667 01:57:56,880 --> 01:57:59,110 It happened once. 668 01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:05,838 Once, and therefore forever. 669 01:58:08,120 --> 01:58:12,910 The image that we created will be with me when I die. 670 01:58:14,560 --> 01:58:17,677 I will have lived within it. 671 01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:26,112 The amazement about the two of us, amazement about man and woman... 672 01:58:26,280 --> 01:58:29,033 has turned me into a human being. 673 01:58:33,480 --> 01:58:39,476 I know now... 674 01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:41,392 what... 675 01:58:41,560 --> 01:58:47,908 no angel knows. 676 01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:58,600 Name the men, women and children who will look for me... 677 01:58:58,760 --> 01:59:03,515 me, their storyteller, their cantor, their spokesman... 678 01:59:03,680 --> 01:59:11,792 because they need me more than anything in the world. 679 01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:16,394 We have embarked.