1 00:59:27,463 --> 00:59:33,379 Then the flies and the antlers, like branches, flowing down the river. 2 00:59:33,543 --> 00:59:35,818 All that ever grew again was grass... 3 00:59:35,983 --> 00:59:40,374 growing over the bodies of wild cats, wild boar and buffaloes. 4 00:59:40,543 --> 00:59:46,061 One morning, out of the savannah, its forehead smeared with grass... 5 00:59:46,223 --> 00:59:50,341 appeared the biped, our image, so long awaited. 6 00:59:50,503 --> 00:59:52,733 And its first word was a shout. 7 00:59:52,903 --> 00:59:59,581 Was it "ah" or "oh", or was it merely a groan? 8 00:59:59,743 --> 01:00:04,692 We were at last able to laugh, for the first time. 9 01:00:04,863 --> 01:00:10,176 Through this man's shout and that of his followers, we learnt to speak. 10 01:00:10,343 --> 01:00:12,493 A long story. 11 01:00:12,663 --> 01:00:14,733 Sun, lightning, thunder in the sky... 12 01:00:14,903 --> 01:00:18,418 and below on earth, the firesides, the leaps... 13 01:00:18,583 --> 01:00:21,939 the round dances, the signs, the writing. 14 01:00:23,943 --> 01:00:28,300 Then one broke through the cycle and ran straight ahead. 15 01:00:28,463 --> 01:00:35,062 As long as he ran straight ahead, swerving sometimes perhaps from joy... 16 01:00:35,223 --> 01:00:38,852 he seemed free, and again we could laugh with him. 17 01:00:39,023 --> 01:00:44,541 But then, suddenly, he ran zigzag, and stones flew. 18 01:00:47,383 --> 01:00:53,015 With his flight began the history of wars. It is still going on. 19 01:00:53,183 --> 01:00:58,337 But the story of the grass, the sun, the leaps and the shouts... 20 01:00:58,503 --> 01:01:00,937 is still going on, too. 21 01:01:06,783 --> 01:01:10,901 Do you know how one day the road was built here... 22 01:01:11,063 --> 01:01:15,261 which the next day saw the Napoleon retreat... 23 01:01:15,423 --> 01:01:19,496 and was paved later on? 24 01:01:19,663 --> 01:01:25,659 Today it is covered with grass and sunk in like a Roman road... 25 01:01:25,823 --> 01:01:27,939 with the tank tracks. 26 01:01:29,383 --> 01:01:34,332 But we weren't even spectators. We've always been too few. 27 01:01:39,903 --> 01:01:46,092 You really want... -To conquer a history for myself. 28 01:01:46,263 --> 01:01:49,380 What my timeless downward look has taught me... 29 01:01:49,543 --> 01:01:53,013 I want to transmute, to sustain a glance... 30 01:01:53,183 --> 01:01:57,381 a short shout, a sour smell. 31 01:01:58,383 --> 01:02:03,059 I've been outside long enough. Absent long enough. 32 01:02:03,223 --> 01:02:07,580 Long enough out of the world. Let me enter the history of the world. 33 01:02:07,743 --> 01:02:10,416 Or just hold an apple in my hand. 34 01:02:10,583 --> 01:02:15,737 Look, those feathers, there on the water, already vanished. 35 01:02:15,903 --> 01:02:22,934 Look, the tyre marks on the asphalt, and now the cigarette butt rolling. 36 01:02:23,103 --> 01:02:29,053 The primeval river has dried up, and only today's raindrops still quiver. 37 01:02:29,223 --> 01:02:32,772 Down with the world behind the world. 38 01:03:52,943 --> 01:03:56,015 Only the Roman roads still lead somewhere... 39 01:03:56,183 --> 01:03:59,937 only the oldest traces lead anywhere. 40 01:04:00,103 --> 01:04:02,492 Where is the top of the pass here? 41 01:04:02,663 --> 01:04:08,579 Even the plains, even Berlin, has its hidden passes. 42 01:04:08,743 --> 01:04:15,342 And it's only there that my country, the country of the tale, begins. 43 01:04:15,503 --> 01:04:19,496 Why doesn't everyone see from childhood on... 44 01:04:19,663 --> 01:04:23,941 the passes, doors and crevices... 45 01:04:24,103 --> 01:04:28,096 on the ground and above in the sky. 46 01:04:28,263 --> 01:04:35,419 If everyone saw them, there would be history without murder or war. 47 01:04:35,583 --> 01:04:39,815 This time I'm doing it. Funny I'm so calm. 48 01:04:39,983 --> 01:04:43,976 Why red socks with black shoes? Stupid. 49 01:04:44,143 --> 01:04:47,692 Foggy, cold. Put on a pullover, afraid to be cold. 50 01:04:47,863 --> 01:04:52,254 Very good jacket. A bargain. Just the pocket's torn. 51 01:04:52,423 --> 01:04:54,095 She gave it to me. 52 01:04:54,263 --> 01:04:59,417 Pebbles on the roof. Why? So it doesn't fly away? Nonsense. 53 01:04:59,983 --> 01:05:01,860 Once I'd like to fly. 54 01:05:02,023 --> 01:05:06,539 The plane circles over Berlin, one day it'll crash. 55 01:05:06,703 --> 01:05:10,901 It's cold. My hands were always warm. A good sign. 56 01:05:11,063 --> 01:05:13,736 It crackles underfoot. What time is it? 57 01:05:13,903 --> 01:05:19,261 The sun's setting. Logical, the west. Now I know where the west is. 58 01:05:19,423 --> 01:05:22,574 I always took the U-Bahn to the east to go home... 59 01:05:22,743 --> 01:05:25,132 bought 10 tickets, saved a Mark. 60 01:05:25,303 --> 01:05:28,340 The sun in my back, on the left the star. 61 01:05:28,503 --> 01:05:32,098 That's good: sun and a star. Her little feet. 62 01:05:32,263 --> 01:05:35,778 Hopping from one foot to the other. She danced so sweetly. 63 01:05:35,943 --> 01:05:37,296 We were all alone. 64 01:05:37,463 --> 01:05:41,058 Has she got my letter? I don't want her to read it. 65 01:05:41,223 --> 01:05:45,375 Berlin means nothing to me... Havel? ls that a lake? 66 01:05:45,543 --> 01:05:50,333 Over there Wedding, or what? The East is everywhere really. 67 01:05:50,503 --> 01:05:54,496 Strange people, they're shouting. I don't care. 68 01:05:54,663 --> 01:06:00,135 All these thoughts. I'd really rather not think any more. 69 01:06:00,303 --> 01:06:02,259 I'm going, why? 70 01:07:28,263 --> 01:07:34,816 Leave me alone, you swine. -Mother. Mother. 71 01:08:06,663 --> 01:08:12,135 I'll never make it tonight. No trapeze on full-moon nights. 72 01:08:12,303 --> 01:08:16,296 Not the last time, the very last time. 73 01:08:16,463 --> 01:08:19,057 I should wake up from this dream. 74 01:08:19,223 --> 01:08:23,774 The end of the circus. Fini. 75 01:08:23,943 --> 01:08:29,097 And once again I feel as if night were falling inside of me. 76 01:08:29,263 --> 01:08:33,381 Fear... Fear of death. 77 01:08:33,543 --> 01:08:37,013 Why not death? 78 01:08:37,183 --> 01:08:39,413 The essential at times... 79 01:08:39,583 --> 01:08:45,499 just being beautiful, and nothing more. 80 01:08:45,663 --> 01:08:51,021 To look at oneself in the mirror is to see oneself think. 81 01:08:51,183 --> 01:08:54,175 So what do you think? 82 01:08:54,343 --> 01:08:59,701 I think I still have the right to be afraid, but not to talk about it. 83 01:08:59,863 --> 01:09:04,653 You're not yet blind, the heart is still beating. 84 01:09:04,823 --> 01:09:07,815 And now you're crying after all. 85 01:09:07,983 --> 01:09:12,420 You'd like to cry like a very sad little girl. 86 01:09:12,583 --> 01:09:15,814 Do you know why you're crying? For whom? 87 01:09:15,983 --> 01:09:20,101 Not for me. I don't know for whom. 88 01:09:20,263 --> 01:09:25,053 I'd like to know. I know nothing. 89 01:09:25,223 --> 01:09:31,901 I'm a little bit afraid. It's gone, gone away. It'll come back. 90 01:09:32,063 --> 01:09:33,894 It doesn't matter. 91 01:15:53,823 --> 01:16:00,012 Just to be able to say, like right now, I'm happy. 92 01:16:00,183 --> 01:16:06,053 I have a story, and I'll go on having one. 93 00:04:19,125 --> 00:04:22,834 There it is again, this feeling of well-being... 94 00:04:23,005 --> 00:04:28,841 as if inside my body a hand was softly tightening. 95 00:05:14,605 --> 00:05:21,955 When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions: 96 00:05:22,125 --> 00:05:26,403 Why am I me, and why not you? 97 00:05:26,565 --> 00:05:31,116 Why am I here, and why not there? 98 00:05:31,285 --> 00:05:35,563 When did time begin, and where does space end? 99 00:05:35,725 --> 00:05:41,595 lsn't life under the sun just a dream? 100 00:06:55,885 --> 00:06:58,797 lsn't that Columbo? -Don't think so. 101 00:06:58,965 --> 00:07:03,755 Not with that moth-eaten coat. -He wouldn't be out here. 102 00:09:39,445 --> 00:09:42,915 Well? -I'm going to enter the river. 103 00:09:43,085 --> 00:09:47,078 An old human expression that I only understand today. 104 00:09:47,245 --> 00:09:49,076 Now or never, moment of the ford. 105 00:09:49,245 --> 00:09:53,033 But there is no other bank, there is only the river. 106 00:09:53,205 --> 00:09:56,242 lnto the ford of time, the ford of death. 107 00:09:56,405 --> 00:09:59,363 We're not yet born, so let's descend. 108 00:09:59,525 --> 00:10:02,881 To look is not to look from on high, but at eye-level. 109 00:10:03,045 --> 00:10:06,196 First, I'll take a bath. 110 00:10:06,365 --> 00:10:10,404 Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber... 111 00:10:10,565 --> 00:10:14,114 who will also massage me down to the fingertips. 112 00:10:14,285 --> 00:10:20,315 Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from the headlines to the horoscope. 113 00:10:20,485 --> 00:10:26,162 On the first day, I'll only be served. For requests, ask the neighbour. 114 00:10:26,325 --> 00:10:30,113 If someone stumbles over my legs, he'll apologise. 115 00:10:30,285 --> 00:10:32,401 If pushed, I'll push back. 116 00:10:32,565 --> 00:10:35,602 The bartender will find me an empty table. 117 00:10:35,765 --> 00:10:39,678 A car will stop, and the mayor will give me a lift. 118 00:10:39,845 --> 00:10:42,598 I'll be familiar to everyone, suspect to no one. 119 00:10:42,765 --> 00:10:45,837 I won't say a word, will understand every language. 120 00:10:46,005 --> 00:10:51,125 This will be my first day. -But none of it will be true. 121 00:11:21,085 --> 00:11:26,796 I'll take her in my arms, and she'll take me in her arms. 122 00:12:10,405 --> 00:12:13,044 I think he's drunk. -Yes. 123 00:12:36,605 --> 00:12:37,958 Let's go. 124 00:13:07,565 --> 00:13:08,998 It's got a taste. 125 00:13:12,005 --> 00:13:14,758 Now I begin to understand. 126 00:13:21,485 --> 00:13:23,919 ls that red? -Yes. 127 00:13:24,085 --> 00:13:26,155 Did you hurt yourself? 128 00:13:26,325 --> 00:13:28,714 ls today a good day? -It's okay. 129 00:13:30,165 --> 00:13:33,077 And the pipes? -They're yellow. 130 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:36,203 Yellow. What about him? -He's grey-blue. 131 00:13:36,365 --> 00:13:39,323 Grey-blue. This one? -Purple. 132 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:41,237 This one? -Orange. Ochre. 133 00:13:41,405 --> 00:13:44,078 Ochre or orange? -Ochre. 134 00:13:44,245 --> 00:13:47,442 Yellow, red... this one? -It's green. 135 00:13:47,605 --> 00:13:51,757 And what's that over the eye? -That's blue. 136 00:13:52,925 --> 00:13:54,278 Blue. 137 00:13:54,805 --> 00:13:57,842 ls it very cold? -It'll soon be over. 138 00:13:58,005 --> 00:13:59,882 I'd love to have a coffee. 139 00:14:00,045 --> 00:14:03,754 Do you have money? -Yes... no. 140 00:14:08,205 --> 00:14:10,958 I'm glad everything is fine today. 141 00:14:21,045 --> 00:14:22,398 Beautiful. 142 00:14:48,205 --> 00:14:51,003 Coffee. -With milk and sugar? 143 00:14:51,165 --> 00:14:52,598 Black. 144 00:15:33,165 --> 00:15:41,118 When the child was a child, it lived on apples and bread, that was enough. 145 00:15:41,285 --> 00:15:43,480 And it is still that way. 146 00:15:45,685 --> 00:15:53,365 When the child was a child, berries fell only like berries into its hand. 147 00:15:53,525 --> 00:15:56,278 And they still do now. 148 00:15:58,205 --> 00:16:04,075 Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw, and they still do now. 149 00:16:04,245 --> 00:16:10,764 Atop each mountain it was longing for a higher mountain. 150 00:16:10,925 --> 00:16:16,921 And in each city it was longing for a bigger city. 151 00:16:17,085 --> 00:16:20,475 And it still does. 152 00:16:23,725 --> 00:16:27,001 Reached in the treetop for the cherries... 153 00:16:27,165 --> 00:16:31,397 as excitedly as it still does today. 154 00:16:33,805 --> 00:16:39,357 Was shy in front of strangers, and it still is. 155 00:16:41,885 --> 00:16:48,484 Waited for the first snow, and still waits that way. 156 00:16:55,045 --> 00:17:02,998 When the child was a child, it threw a stick like a lance into a tree. 157 00:17:03,165 --> 00:17:07,044 And it's still quivering there today. 158 00:17:45,965 --> 00:17:50,755 How do I get to Akazienstrasse? -Go up Potsdamer to Kleistpark. 159 00:17:50,925 --> 00:17:56,318 Right at Grunewald past Gleditsch, no right turn at Goltzstrasse. 160 00:17:56,485 --> 00:17:58,794 Turn left, and there you are. 161 00:18:30,645 --> 00:18:35,480 This entrance is for the crew. Extras, the other way, please. 162 00:18:44,085 --> 00:18:47,077 Extra. -That's just what you look like. 163 00:18:47,245 --> 00:18:48,917 They all want autographs. 164 00:18:49,965 --> 00:18:51,318 Lousy cop. 165 00:21:19,125 --> 00:21:22,913 Come on, Marion. Don't worry. It'll be alright. 166 00:21:23,085 --> 00:21:26,600 I'll send you a postcard of the Eiffel Tower. 167 00:21:26,765 --> 00:21:31,441 See you next season. Don't forget the Alekan Circus. 168 00:21:31,605 --> 00:21:36,156 Bye Archie, see you next year. -Au revoir. 169 00:21:36,325 --> 00:21:37,758 A thousand kisses. 170 00:21:37,925 --> 00:21:42,953 I'll send you a parcel. With some Camembert cheese? 171 00:22:41,085 --> 00:22:46,318 I couldn't say who I am. I don't have the slightest idea. 172 00:22:46,485 --> 00:22:52,162 I am someone with no roots, no story, no country... 173 00:22:52,325 --> 00:22:54,839 and I like it that way. 174 00:22:55,005 --> 00:23:01,444 I am here, I am free. I can imagine anything. It's all possible. 175 00:23:01,605 --> 00:23:07,282 I only have to raise my eyes, and once again I become the world. 176 00:23:07,445 --> 00:23:11,199 Now, in this very place... 177 00:23:11,365 --> 00:23:17,361 a feeling of happiness that I could always have. 178 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:15,478 What are you doing? -I'm sitting. 179 00:25:15,645 --> 00:25:18,034 Are you sad? -No. 180 00:25:18,205 --> 00:25:21,754 Are you sick? -Yes. 181 00:25:21,925 --> 00:25:24,439 What's the matter? -A need. 182 00:25:24,605 --> 00:25:27,119 Oh, that's it. 183 00:25:27,285 --> 00:25:30,960 A double knot is the only way to make it hold. 184 00:25:35,165 --> 00:25:39,443 A need. A need of food perhaps. -Or a need of drink. 185 00:25:42,165 --> 00:25:45,999 She isn't gone, Cassiel. I know it. 186 00:25:46,165 --> 00:25:48,440 I'll find her. 187 00:25:48,605 --> 00:25:52,996 Something will happen, something important, tonight. 188 00:25:55,725 --> 00:25:58,603 She'll teach me everything. 189 00:25:59,645 --> 00:26:04,196 There are other suns then the one up in the sky, Cassiel. 190 00:26:04,365 --> 00:26:08,836 ln the deep of the night, spring will begin today. 191 00:26:09,005 --> 00:26:12,236 Other wings will grow in place of the old ones. 192 00:26:12,405 --> 00:26:16,159 Wings that will at last astound me. 193 00:35:03,525 --> 00:35:06,597 It must finally become serious. 194 00:35:10,205 --> 00:35:15,120 I've often been alone, but I've never lived alone. 195 00:35:19,005 --> 00:35:22,634 When I was with someone I was often happy... 196 00:35:22,805 --> 00:35:26,081 but at the same time it all seemed a coincidence. 197 00:35:26,245 --> 00:35:31,922 These people were my parents, but it could have been others. 198 00:35:32,085 --> 00:35:35,361 Why was the brown-eyed one my brother... 199 00:35:35,525 --> 00:35:40,201 and not the green-eyed boy on the opposite platform? 200 00:35:41,645 --> 00:35:45,035 The taxi driver's daughter was my friend... 201 00:35:45,205 --> 00:35:52,156 but I might as well have put my arm around a horse's neck. 202 00:35:52,325 --> 00:35:57,035 I was with a man, I was in love... 203 00:35:57,205 --> 00:36:00,197 and I might as well have left him there... 204 00:36:00,365 --> 00:36:06,315 and gone off with the stranger we met in the street. 205 00:36:09,645 --> 00:36:12,603 Look at me, or don't. 206 00:36:12,765 --> 00:36:15,757 Give me your hand, or don't. 207 00:36:17,165 --> 00:36:22,364 No, don't give me your hand, and look away. 208 00:36:27,925 --> 00:36:30,803 I think tonight is the new moon. 209 00:36:32,245 --> 00:36:34,475 No night more peaceful. 210 00:36:37,725 --> 00:36:41,195 No bloodshed in all the city. 211 00:36:41,365 --> 00:36:44,004 I've never played with anyone and yet... 212 00:36:44,165 --> 00:36:49,285 I never opened my eyes and thought: Now it's serious. 213 00:36:52,365 --> 00:36:55,482 At last it's becoming serious. 214 00:36:58,525 --> 00:37:01,164 So I've grown older. 215 00:37:03,645 --> 00:37:06,921 Was I the only one who wasn't serious? 216 00:37:08,245 --> 00:37:11,396 ls it our times that are not serious? 217 00:37:12,685 --> 00:37:18,123 I've never been lonely, neither alone, nor with someone else. 218 00:37:18,285 --> 00:37:21,277 But I would have liked to be lonely. 219 00:37:21,445 --> 00:37:26,280 Loneliness means: I am whole at last. 220 00:37:26,445 --> 00:37:32,236 Now I can say it, as tonight I'm lonely at last. 221 00:37:32,405 --> 00:37:36,318 I must put an end to coincidence. 222 00:37:40,125 --> 00:37:43,356 The new moon of decision. 223 00:37:43,525 --> 00:37:48,315 I don't know if there is a destiny, but there is a decision. 224 00:37:48,485 --> 00:37:50,999 Decide. 225 00:37:51,165 --> 00:37:54,999 Now we are the times. 226 00:37:55,165 --> 00:38:01,240 Not only the whole town, the whole world is taking part in our decision. 227 00:38:01,405 --> 00:38:07,116 Now we are more than the two of us. We incarnate something. 228 00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:10,402 We are sitting on the People's Square... 229 00:38:10,565 --> 00:38:16,242 and the whole place is full of people whose dream is the same as ours. 230 00:38:16,405 --> 00:38:20,478 We are deciding everybody's game. 231 00:38:20,645 --> 00:38:27,835 I am ready. Now it's your turn. 232 00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:31,077 You hold the game in your hand. 233 00:38:31,245 --> 00:38:34,601 Now or never. 234 00:38:39,165 --> 00:38:45,843 You need me. You will need me. 235 00:38:46,005 --> 00:38:53,081 There is no greater story than ours, that of man and woman. 236 00:38:53,245 --> 00:38:57,204 It will be a story of giants. 237 00:38:57,365 --> 00:39:02,234 lnvisible, transposable. 238 00:39:02,405 --> 00:39:06,193 A story of new ancestors. 239 00:39:08,205 --> 00:39:11,242 Look, my eyes. 240 00:39:13,165 --> 00:39:17,477 They are the image of necessity... 241 00:39:17,645 --> 00:39:21,684 of the future of everyone in the place. 242 00:39:24,725 --> 00:39:29,560 Last night I dreamt of a stranger. 243 00:39:33,085 --> 00:39:35,315 Of my man. 244 00:39:35,485 --> 00:39:38,636 Only with him could I be lonely... 245 00:39:38,805 --> 00:39:40,875 open up to him... 246 00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:45,482 wholly open, wholly for him... 247 00:39:45,645 --> 00:39:49,274 welcome him wholly into me... 248 00:39:49,445 --> 00:39:57,238 surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness. 249 00:39:57,405 --> 00:40:00,522 I know... 250 00:40:00,685 --> 00:40:03,153 it's you. 251 00:40:29,445 --> 00:40:31,401 Something happened. 252 00:40:33,125 --> 00:40:39,598 It is still going on. It binds me. 253 00:40:39,765 --> 00:40:46,716 It was true at night, and it's true in the day, even more so now. 254 00:40:46,885 --> 00:40:52,915 Who was who? I was in her and she was around me. 255 00:40:54,725 --> 00:40:59,560 Who in the world can claim that he was ever together with another being? 256 00:40:59,725 --> 00:41:02,762 I am together. 257 00:41:02,925 --> 00:41:09,842 No mortal child was begot, only an immortal common image. 258 00:41:10,005 --> 00:41:13,918 I learned astonishment that night. 259 00:41:14,085 --> 00:41:19,159 She came to take me home, and I found home. 260 00:41:22,645 --> 00:41:24,875 It happened once. 261 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:31,603 Once, and therefore forever. 262 00:41:33,885 --> 00:41:38,675 The image that we created will be with me when I die. 263 00:41:40,325 --> 00:41:43,442 I will have lived within it. 264 00:41:45,085 --> 00:41:51,877 The amazement about the two of us, amazement about man and woman... 265 00:41:52,045 --> 00:41:54,798 has turned me into a human being. 266 00:41:59,245 --> 00:42:05,241 I know now... 267 00:42:05,405 --> 00:42:07,157 what... 268 00:42:07,325 --> 00:42:13,673 no angel knows. 269 00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:24,365 Name the men, women and children who will look for me... 270 00:42:24,525 --> 00:42:29,280 me, their storyteller, their cantor, their spokesman... 271 00:42:29,445 --> 00:42:37,557 because they need me more than anything in the world. 272 00:42:38,405 --> 00:42:42,159 We have embarked.