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The Schmidts, Halicses, Kraners, come on!

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Futaki, Mr. Headmaster,
please wait a minute.

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What's the matter, you're not coming?

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Is there a pub here?

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- We could have a drink.
- No.

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Schmidt and family, you're going to Elek.

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I've written everything down,
who to contact and where.

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There you'll get work and a place to live.

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And what work is there?

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It's a butcher's.

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Plenty to do!

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You can serve the customers.

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Now the Kraners.

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You ask for Istvan Kalmar in Keresztur.
Listen carefully, it's not written down.

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There's a street before the church.
On the right.

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You go down that street until you see the
Ladies fashion sign. That's Kalmar's house.

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Tell him

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D�nci has sent you, he may have
forgotten my real name.

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He has a room for laundry at the back
where you'll stay.

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- Is that clear?
- Yes. D�nci.

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A street after the church
and there's a sign...

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Right.
You, Halics...

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You go to the presbytery of Postelek.

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- Ask for Gyivicsan, the parish priest.
- Gyivicsan...

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There's plenty of church wine there.

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And you can clean the church

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and do the cooking for the three of you.

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Here's a thousand forints per head

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if anything comes up.

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But don't waste a penny.

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And don't forget what you're supposed to do.

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I think all's clear. We'd like to thank you
for what you've done for us.

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You don't have to say thank you.

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I'm only the servant of a great cause.

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So remember what you have to do.

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And take good care,
you know we worry for you...

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Take care of yourselves.

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Listen,

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you sit up there...

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and we'll take you to the Streber.

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We'll pick you up in an hour
and we'll talk everything over.

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Okay.

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Futaki.

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Don't worry about me.
I know where I'm going.

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I could find a job as a watchman.

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You'd be better off doing something else.

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What?
No way to come to terms with you today?

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Come to Steigerwald's by eight
and we'll talk it over there.

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All right, I'll do it your way.
Here...

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A thousand forints.

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Buy yourself some lunch at least.

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Futaki is the biggest sucker I've ever met.

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What did he think?
That he'd reached the promised land?

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What did the poor devil expect?

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JUST TROUBLE AND WORK

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Leave out the part about eternity.

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"Though I don't believe it's
right to put such things down in writing,

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hovever, as a token of my willingness,

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I am following your instructions.

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It has never escaped my attention that you
encouraged me to be open in all circumstances.

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No doubts can be had on my peoples' skills.

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I hope I could convince you
of this yesterday.

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It is important to repeat because other
conclusions could be drawn from this plan.

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I will be the only one to keep in touch
with my people.

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Anything else would lead
to complete failure" etc, etc...

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- I think it's alright.
- Then we leave it at that.

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Mrs Schmidt...

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Type it in.

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Instead of a stupid female with big tits
you write... mentally immature person, who

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mostly emphasizes her female character.

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And what about "bloody whore"?

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Could be a "lady of easy virtue"
or a "woman of low morals".

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We'd better write a "woman selling her body
without any qualms".

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Okay.

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- Finished?
- Yeah.

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"She went to bed with anyone and everyone,
and if she didn't that was only by accident."

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She's a paragon of conjugal infidelity.

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Finished?

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Instead of "a stench created by the mixing of
cheap Cologne with some putrid smell"...

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"She attempts to relieve her unpleasant
body odour in an unusual way."

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"Mrs Kraner..." Write it.

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"A loud-mouthed gossip"
should be replaced with...

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"indiscreet transmittor of rumours".

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- And instead of "a fat sow"?
- Leave that in.

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- We shouldn't.
- Then put "big".

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- "Overweight".
- Okay.

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- Can we leave Mrs Halics?
- Sure.

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And what about "wrinkled worm,
filled with alcohol"?

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"Elderly alcoholic, short of stature".

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"Clumsy clown.
Dull inertia, blind stumbling around..."

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- We could leave that out.
- Okay.

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Let's go on.

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Schmidt.

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What's the meaning of "a cross of crude
insensitiveness and insignificant emptiness,

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in an abyss of uncontrollable darkness."?

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"Hopeless stupidity, inarticulate moaning,
desperate existence,

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crippled paralysing worry..."

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OK, write this:

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"His dwarfed understanding and

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his submissive attitude to...

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authority...

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make him specially suited...

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to accomplish the activity in question...

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to a high level."

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The headmaster.

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He must have been out of his mind here.
Listen to this:

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"If someone who's about to drown himself were

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to hesitate at the last moment
whether to jump or not from the bridge,

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I advise him to remember the headmaster,

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and he will realize there's only one option:

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- To jump."
- Go on.

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"He's like a withered cucumber.
In mental ability he remains below Schmidt,

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a definite achievement."

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Let's put "appearance:
Worn down, no abilities".

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- How did the two come together?
- That's what he wrote.

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"His cowardice he compensates
with narcissism and conceit.

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He tends to be rather sentimental and maudlin
as often is the case with onanic guys."

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Then..."weak and sentimental,
perverse personality, sexually immature."

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Okay, write that.

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As for Kraner, he's a "sloppy brute
reminding of a buffalo..."

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Strongly-built, worked as a smith."

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"A strongly built smith?"

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"A stupid ass with dull eyes."
Go on.

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"The only dangereous one is Futaki,
but not too much.

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A rebel but more of a coward.

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He could go far.
But he can't get rid of his obsessions.

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He amuses me. He's the one
I can surely count on.

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- So?
- Leave it.

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No. Write.

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"Dangerous but can be of use.

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Cleverer than the others. Lame."

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- Is that all?
- Yeah.

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Then sign his name. Irimias.

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Okay.

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- Is it still raining?
- Yes.

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They shook hands outside the gate

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- How are you leaving?
- Bus.

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Okay. Bye then, said the head clerk.

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Nice day we had, eh?
The other added.

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Yeah, bloody good.

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They shook hands again and parted.

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At home, as they came in,
both were asked the same question:

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"Difficult day, dear?"

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To which, shuddering and exhausted,

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they could only say, Nothing
much, the usual, my dear.

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THE CIRCLE CLOSES

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During the thirteen days...

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I spent in hospital...

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Mrs Kraner...

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didn't misbehave...

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again...

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Everything is exactly as...

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I left it.

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Neither of them dares...

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leave the house.

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They must be...

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lying on their beds, snoring...

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or staring at the ceiling.

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They haven't a clue...

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that it is this idle...

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passivity...

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that leaves them...

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at the mercy of...

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what they fear most.

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A cosmic revolution.

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My hearing...

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is getting worse.

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The Turks are coming!
The Turks are coming!

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The Turks are coming!
The Turks are coming!

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I must be crazy!

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I thought the bells rumbling in the sky

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were tolling the knell.

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One morning...
at the end of October...

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not long before...

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the first drops...

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of the insufferably long...

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autumn rains...

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fell...

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on the parched...

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cracked ground...

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on the western side of the farm...

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so that...

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the stinking bog...

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makes the tracks...

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impassable...

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until the first frosts...

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and it cuts off the town too...

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Futaki was woken...

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by the sound of bells.

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The closest church was...

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eight kilometers to the South-West...

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on the old Hochmeiss field...

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a solitary chapel...

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But not only was no bell there...

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the church tower had collapsed...

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during the war...

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Directed by B�la Tarr

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From the novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
and texts by M. Vig, P. Dobai and B. Mihok

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Script by Laszlo Krasznahorkai and B�la Tarr

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Editor and assistant director: Agnes Hranitzky

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Visual concept: B�la Tarr

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Camera: Gabor Medvigy

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Art Consultant: Gyula Pauer

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Music: Mihaly Vig

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Sound: Gy�rgy Kovacs

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Cast:

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Voice of Peter Berling: Ferenc Kallai

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Narrator: Mihaly Raday

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Assistants to the director:

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Costumes:

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Settings:

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Stage managers:

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Cameraman:

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Steadycam operator:

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Gaffers:

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Dolly grip:

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Technicians:

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Sound engineer:

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Recording engineer:

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Other crew members:

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Subtitles: Clavis Films - Viktoria Sovak

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Translation: Mok�p, Catherine Fay

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Produced by:

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Production crew:

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Co-produced by:
Magyar Televizio and T�l�vision Suisse Romande,

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Supported by: Magyar Mozgok�p Alapitvany,
Filmf�rderung Berlin, and EURIMAGES Foundation

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With special thanks to Aerocaritas,
The Town Council and people of Baja
for their unstinting help

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Processed at: Magyar Filmlaboratorium Budapest
and Geyer Werke GmbH. Berlin

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Colorist: Andras Bederna

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1991 - 1994