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(In German)

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(Choral singing)

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(Woman inhales)

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WOMAN: Stil.

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Wiegend.

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(In Afrikaans)

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(Choral singing continues)

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(In Afrikaans)

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(Shirt collar creaks)

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I wish to enrol.

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MAN: To enrol? Certainly?

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This way... if you please.

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(Hands clap)

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Keine Bewegung, bitte.

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(Leather of shoes creaks)

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(Knock on door)

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MAN: Moment, bitte.

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(Knock on door)

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(Whispers)

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(Continues whispering)

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Außergewöhnlich...

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MAN: Sir? Herr Benjamenta?

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I'm here to enrol.

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(Continues whispering)

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(Clears throat)

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These are students I have hammered into Europe.

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Bitte, setzen.

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Asseyez-vous!

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So... Name. Date of birth.

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It's on the concession.

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Und so weiter, und so weiter.

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Etc, etc...

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...etc, etc.

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Das ist?

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Ah...

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Von Gunten.

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Eintausend, zweitausend, dreitausend, viertausend,

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fünftausend.

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Jakob.

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A few other details, Herr von Gunten.

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Wollen doch mal sehen.

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Ja.

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Ganz gute Reaktion.

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I have sought entrance to
the Institute Benjamenta as a student...

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...in order to acquire the necessary knowledge
for being a servant...

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...as I have no high hopes of life.

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I hope - no I am quite certain - that I am fit.

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I...

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Glitschig.

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I hope I am quite certain that in some measure
I am fit to be of service to someone in this life.

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To someone in this life.

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Jakob von Gunten wishes to affirm that he...

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Drei, vier, fünf, sechs.

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...wishes to affirm that it is a matter
of indifference to him what he is ordered to

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Sechs, sieben, acht, neun...

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...as his modesty knows no bounds.

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Zwölf.

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Ja... ein kapitaler Zwölfender.

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Ugh. Agh.

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It's good your hair is short.

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There's an epidemic of tics...

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...in the forest here.

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You can put aside any idea
of preferential treatment.

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You're all one size here.

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(Grunts)

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You can go now, von Gunten.

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The class of life has already started.

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Don't I get a receipt?

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Go! Raus!

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Kapitaler Zwölfender.

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Flammenartige...

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I refer you to your manuals, the chapter headed...

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- (Knock on door)
<i>-.. The Divine Duty of Servants.</i>

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(Coughs)

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Danke.

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Jakob von Gunten.

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Gut.

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Herr Jakob, these are your fellow students.

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Kraus.

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Auclair. Barcelonnette.

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Fridolin. Fisoloebede.

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Schilinski. Nyepertatikva.

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Jorgenson. Aarhus.

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Hebling. Fnetenberbel.

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Pepino. D'Agrigento.

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Inigo. Euskadikoa.

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One.

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(All talk at once)
Service is a beautiful, gold flower, full of...

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(Thinks) <i>We have to learn the rules by heart.</i>

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<i>There is but one lesson here...</i>

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<i>...endlessly repeated...</i>

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<i>...over and over again.</i>

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<i>One will learn very little here.</i>

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<i>And none of us will amount to much.</i>

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<i>Later in life, we shall all be something
very small and subordinate.</i>

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ALL:..are his ears at the word of command,

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and folded and pressed at all times are his lips.

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Except to say, 'Yes, sir, at once, sir. Of course, sir.'

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Next page.

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Herr Jakob, will you please join us next time?

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Three.

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ALL: The satisfaction of his master
shall be the servant's heaven.

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ALL: The woeful opposite
is his annihilating hell.

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(Creaking)

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(Fork pings)

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(Thinks) <i>Can't. Can't. Can't eat this. It's impossible.</i>

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<i>I won't. I won't.</i>

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(Knock on door)

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I won't stand up until you promise me
a decent room to sleep in.

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Fräulein Benjamenta, I beg of you.

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You... You won't ever, never, never, never,
have to complain about my behaviour again.

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Is that so?

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I shall never have to complain?

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Such a fuss about where to lay your head.

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Hm.

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Go up.

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Is this more to your liking?

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Well, it's small...

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and the window scarcely merits the name.

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There are no curtains,
but don't be angry, Fräulein, I like it.

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Even if the sun never gets a look in.

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I like it.

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Thank you.

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Well...

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Well, now my comrades are sure to feel offended.

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And now be quiet, Herr Jakob.

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Class commences at eight. Kraus will collect you.

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Good night.

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I shall never let myself be rescued...

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...nor shall I ever rescue anybody.

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Why can't there be a light in the light,
instead of just in the dark?

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(Sniffs)

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Perhaps I shall never put out roots and branches.

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(Exhales)

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(Chuckles) One day, some fragrance
will issue from my being and I will flower.

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I will bow my head, and my arms and legs will sag.

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Everything will wither and fade...

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...and I will be dead.

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Not really dead.

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Only in a certain sort of way.

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Dead.

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Then I will go on dying for perhaps another 60 years.

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(Chuckles)

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Instead of older, I grew younger.

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Whoever thinks this possible will be happy
for the rest of his life.

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Once great snowflakes fell in the castle courtyard.

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To live on here until the winter only.

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Then when it begins to snow...

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Oh...

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It can snow upon us so gently...

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so intensely...

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...in such an immense...

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...silence.

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Neither beginning nor end,
everything in a grey-white snowing...

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...no more sky, no more air.

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No more streets.

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Rule the world.

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(Creaking and thudding)

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(Thinks) <i>Sometimes more life lies hidden
in the opening of a door</i>

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<i>than in a question.</i>

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<i>Past and future circle about us -</i>

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<i>now we know more...</i>

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<i>...now we know less.</i>

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(Stair creaks)

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To the deer forests.

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(Creaking and banging)

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(Footsteps approach)

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<i>And what was the institute before it was the institute?</i>

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(Footsteps recede)

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(Animalistic grunting)

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(Snuffles)

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(Grunting)

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<i>Is life sketching a more subtle sketch than I?</i>

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(Gunshot)

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(Clicking of chalk on blackboard)

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<i>Here they find the things Fräulein Benjamenta
teaches us...</i>

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<i>...worth knowing.</i>

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<i>It isn't much</i>

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<i>and we are always revising.</i>

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<i>But perhaps there is some hidden meaning
to all these nothings.</i>

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<i>We grasp a thing and it is as if it possessed us.</i>

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<i>Not we possess it, but it us.</i>

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<i>(Rattling)</i>

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<i>(Rattling stops)</i>

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(Hand clap)

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Sir, I have rescued the cat
from the tall tree in the garden.

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Sir, I have rescued the cat
from the tall tree in the garden.

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Be careful, Viscount, the steeple, it is wobbling!

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Agh!

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Be careful, Viscount, the church steeple, it is wobbling.

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Agh!

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- (Hand clap)
- Be careful...

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Your Highness, don't eat the schnitzel. It's...

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Agh!

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(Melancholy music)

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(Music masks speech)

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The institute is no place for your vile fantasies,
Duchess.

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Please remove your hand from my knee.

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Wake up, wake up, Duchess!

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There's a fire in the nursery!

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Wake up!

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Wake up, wake up, Duchess!
There's a fire in the nursery!

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I have placed the children in the care
of the chief of the fire brigade.

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There is no need to worry.

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Look, there are only minor burns to my left side.

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You go to the children. Forget about me.

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Yes, I forgive you for you know not what you do.

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I forgive you, Your Highness,
for you know not what you do.

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Wake up, wake up, Duchess!
There's a fire in the nursery!

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(Music quickens and intensifies)

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(Music drowns out speech)

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(Discordant notes)

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(Music stops abruptly)

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(Crickets chirrup)

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Kraus?

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He behaves as if he plans staying here
for another century.

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'Wait for it' is engraved on his skull.

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(Laughs)

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(Von Gunten laughs inside)

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(Laughs)

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(Stops laughing abruptly)

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How are you, Jakob? Are you all right? Have you settled in?

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Of course, Fräulein. Thank you.

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And you get on with the other students?

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VON GUNTEN: I respect them all without exception.

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And yet you quarrel with Kraus, no?

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Listen to me, Jakob.

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God gives a Kraus to this world

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in order to entrust it with a deep and insoluble riddle.

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This riddle will never be understood
because there isn't a single person alive...

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...who will guess that there is some delicate meaning...

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...behind this name, this...

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...monosyllabic, inconspicuous Kraus.

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No-one will ever be grateful to Kraus,
nor is gratitude necessary.

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Kraus will never go to ruin
because there will always be great

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and loveless difficulties confronting him.

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I think that I...

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I am perhaps the only person
who realises what we have in Kraus.

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Or have had in him.

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(Wind chimes tinkle)

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(Singing)

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Slaap soet.

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VON GUNTEN: (Thinks) <i>The way they live here with us students...</i>

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<i>Are these the inner chambers?</i>

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<i>Will I ever reach them?</i>

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(Woman mutters)

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VON GUNTEN: (Thinks) <i>Nameless...</i>

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<i>...monosyllabic...</i>

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<i>...inconspicuous...</i>

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<i>...Kraus.</i>

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Tell me, don't you find life here...

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...sterile?

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Sterile, huh?

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My mind is dying.

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Forgive me for speaking so...

258
00:48:22,379 --> 00:48:24,254
...intimately...

259
00:48:25,254 --> 00:48:26,921
...for being so weak.

260
00:48:30,421 --> 00:48:32,671
You are probably secretly laughing at me.

261
00:48:33,212 --> 00:48:34,754
But watch out!

262
00:48:35,796 --> 00:48:37,296
See that wall?

263
00:48:37,462 --> 00:48:41,921
I could throw you against it so hard,
you would never see or hear anything again.

264
00:48:47,296 --> 00:48:49,379
But don't be afraid.

265
00:48:54,046 --> 00:48:56,379
I couldn't hurt you.

266
00:49:00,087 --> 00:49:02,171
It's so nice to talk with you.

267
00:49:05,754 --> 00:49:07,587
Like we are almost related.

268
00:49:09,004 --> 00:49:10,504
The way you speak...

269
00:49:10,671 --> 00:49:12,671
your gestures...

270
00:49:14,171 --> 00:49:15,837
...your mouth...

271
00:49:19,046 --> 00:49:21,004
...everything.

272
00:49:22,046 --> 00:49:30,754
It's delightful to behave in that...
rather weak sort of way with you.

273
00:49:33,421 --> 00:49:35,546
Just think...

274
00:49:35,712 --> 00:49:37,337
me...

275
00:49:37,504 --> 00:49:39,296
your master...

276
00:49:43,296 --> 00:49:45,004
...confessing to you.

277
00:49:47,921 --> 00:49:50,629
My pathetic little worm...

278
00:49:51,796 --> 00:49:54,504
...whom I could utterly crush...

279
00:49:54,671 --> 00:49:56,379
if I chose to.

280
00:50:02,171 --> 00:50:04,171
Give me your hand.

281
00:50:13,379 --> 00:50:15,004
Good.

282
00:50:20,921 --> 00:50:22,796
I have to tell you...

283
00:50:22,962 --> 00:50:24,796
you've gained my respect...

284
00:50:26,337 --> 00:50:28,254
...and now...

285
00:50:30,546 --> 00:50:32,421
...I have a request.

286
00:50:34,337 --> 00:50:36,171
Would you...?

287
00:50:42,421 --> 00:50:44,129
Will you be my confidante?

288
00:50:48,421 --> 00:50:52,421
Someone to share all of my secrets.

289
00:50:57,004 --> 00:51:00,379
I'm asking you... Jakob.

290
00:51:09,587 --> 00:51:11,712
But you may have time to think it over.

291
00:51:16,379 --> 00:51:18,254
Please. Go.

292
00:51:18,671 --> 00:51:20,171
Go now, Jakob.

293
00:51:56,754 --> 00:51:58,421
(Rumble of tram)

294
00:52:59,254 --> 00:53:01,421
(Footsteps)

295
00:53:55,337 --> 00:53:57,087
FRAULEIN BENJAMENTA: It's time.

296
00:53:57,962 --> 00:53:59,962
Kwart oor drie.

297
00:54:33,587 --> 00:54:35,671
(Slow footsteps)

298
00:54:42,296 --> 00:54:44,337
JAKOB: <i>The same thing.</i>

299
00:54:46,087 --> 00:54:48,171
<i>Over and over again.</i>

300
00:54:55,671 --> 00:54:58,504
HERR BENJAMENTA: Glaub mir, Lisa. Wirklich.

301
00:54:58,671 --> 00:55:01,837
The moment I clapped my eyes on this figure,

302
00:55:02,004 --> 00:55:04,421
I realised it was Jesus...

303
00:55:05,171 --> 00:55:08,504
...as large as life, standing in front of me.

304
00:55:08,671 --> 00:55:11,421
So... he wasn't dead.

305
00:55:12,796 --> 00:55:14,962
He was right there before me in the snow...

306
00:55:16,004 --> 00:55:19,046
...tenderly...beckoning to me.

307
00:55:20,046 --> 00:55:27,171
And with his celestial but shy eyes all aglow,

308
00:55:27,337 --> 00:55:29,587
full of wondrous...

309
00:55:30,837 --> 00:55:32,921
...terrible light.

310
00:55:33,879 --> 00:55:37,046
I threw my entire being into the apparition.

311
00:55:37,212 --> 00:55:42,379
And I asked myself, 'What's Jesus up to,
here, on the edge of the city?

312
00:55:43,337 --> 00:55:46,796
Is there really anything for him to do in this world,

313
00:55:48,421 --> 00:55:51,337
to concern himself with?

314
00:55:51,921 --> 00:55:56,754
And if yes, what would be the most likely way
he'd choose to...

315
00:55:58,171 --> 00:56:00,254
...make himself known to us?'

316
00:56:02,212 --> 00:56:03,796
And what do you think...

317
00:56:09,712 --> 00:56:11,629
(Creaking)

318
00:56:22,337 --> 00:56:26,129
And a nice, big zero for you.

319
00:56:35,671 --> 00:56:37,587
(Creaking)

320
00:56:39,546 --> 00:56:41,462
Look.

321
00:56:43,171 --> 00:56:45,212
The sun.

322
00:56:46,046 --> 00:56:48,087
Our plant.

323
00:56:49,546 --> 00:56:51,629
How beautiful!

324
00:56:52,504 --> 00:56:54,587
Johannes, it's 1:15.

325
00:56:55,337 --> 00:56:57,879
It always strikes our planet at this time.

326
00:57:00,296 --> 00:57:03,629
- Plant, I said.
- Yes, planet.

327
00:57:12,379 --> 00:57:15,254
LISA: Why are there no longer any real seasons here?

328
00:57:19,296 --> 00:57:21,379
(Johannes whistling softly)

329
00:57:36,379 --> 00:57:38,629
Johannes, we never speak any more.

330
00:57:44,962 --> 00:57:47,046
Lisa...

331
00:57:49,337 --> 00:57:50,921
People...

332
00:57:51,087 --> 00:57:54,587
who know each other as well as we do...

333
00:57:57,421 --> 00:57:59,671
...don't need to make small talk.

334
00:58:28,712 --> 00:58:30,879
LISA: Who know each other as well as we do?

335
00:58:34,421 --> 00:58:37,171
Brother and sister, I mean.

336
00:58:47,671 --> 00:58:49,754
LISA: Snow White...

337
00:58:50,837 --> 00:58:52,921
...waiting for life to stir her.

338
00:58:55,379 --> 00:58:57,462
Lisa...

339
00:59:03,879 --> 00:59:05,254
Lisa?

340
00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:12,837
Dead.

341
00:59:13,004 --> 00:59:15,879
To be nothing more than dead and smiling.

342
00:59:20,046 --> 00:59:22,462
How I hurt beneath this sun.

343
00:59:26,421 --> 00:59:29,546
I, who have never known the hot gusts of life.

344
00:59:35,504 --> 00:59:38,087
JOHANNES: Lisa...

345
00:59:41,629 --> 00:59:43,712
Lisa...

346
01:01:53,796 --> 01:01:55,546
Lisa...

347
01:02:25,796 --> 01:02:27,962
JAKOB: <i>I hadn't heard the Fräulein come in.</i>

348
01:02:30,837 --> 01:02:33,504
<i>She laid her hand on my shoulder,</i>

349
01:02:33,671 --> 01:02:36,046
<i>as if she were weary</i>

350
01:02:36,212 --> 01:02:38,296
<i>and needed support.</i>

351
01:02:40,296 --> 01:02:43,671
<i>I almost felt as though I belonged to her then.</i>

352
01:02:45,004 --> 01:02:47,087
Come with me, Jakob.

353
01:02:48,754 --> 01:02:50,837
I want to show you something.

354
01:03:56,629 --> 01:03:59,337
Oh, how beautiful it is here, Jakob.

355
01:04:03,087 --> 01:04:05,171
If only you could see it.

356
01:04:09,337 --> 01:04:11,421
But you mustn't.

357
01:04:13,379 --> 01:04:15,462
That is not for you.

358
01:04:20,212 --> 01:04:22,254
But you may feel.

359
01:04:37,337 --> 01:04:39,421
The ice, Jakob.

360
01:04:40,962 --> 01:04:43,379
How it waits.

361
01:04:43,546 --> 01:04:45,796
How patiently it waits and grows.

362
01:04:49,837 --> 01:04:51,921
Kiss it, Jakob.

363
01:04:54,421 --> 01:04:56,171
Kiss the ice.

364
01:04:57,212 --> 01:05:00,671
It is I, your teacher, Lisa Benjamenta,
who asks you.

365
01:05:03,629 --> 01:05:05,712
Don't let it steal your breath away!

366
01:05:11,337 --> 01:05:13,421
That taste is your blood.

367
01:05:19,046 --> 01:05:20,921
Come away.

368
01:05:24,504 --> 01:05:27,129
There is warmth, Jakob.

369
01:05:27,296 --> 01:05:29,379
You can find warmth.

370
01:05:30,921 --> 01:05:33,337
Look for it, Jakob.

371
01:05:33,504 --> 01:05:35,587
Look for it.

372
01:06:08,171 --> 01:06:11,212
LISA: Is your heart on fire? Yes.

373
01:06:11,379 --> 01:06:13,462
It burns.

374
01:06:15,962 --> 01:06:18,046
It burns.

375
01:06:20,629 --> 01:06:22,837
But can it hold back the ice?

376
01:06:24,296 --> 01:06:27,421
It's still there, Jakob. The ice.

377
01:06:29,712 --> 01:06:31,754
It's still waiting.

378
01:06:32,254 --> 01:06:34,962
I can't feel you, Jakob!

379
01:06:35,129 --> 01:06:37,004
I can't feel you.

380
01:06:47,254 --> 01:06:50,921
JAKOB: <i>Suddenly, I was back, sitting at my desk.</i>

381
01:06:52,962 --> 01:06:56,629
<i>Fräulein Benjamenta was still standing behind me.</i>

382
01:06:58,671 --> 01:07:00,754
<i>She stroked my cheeks.</i>

383
01:07:01,796 --> 01:07:04,837
<i>But it was as if she were comforting herself,</i>

384
01:07:05,671 --> 01:07:07,754
<i>not me.</i>

385
01:07:10,962 --> 01:07:12,421
<i>Am I living in a fairy tale?</i>

386
01:07:18,087 --> 01:07:20,879
(Whispers) <i>Am I living in a fairy tale?</i>

387
01:07:55,879 --> 01:07:58,254
LISA: Yours, so shyly.

388
01:07:59,587 --> 01:08:01,546
So shyly.

389
01:08:04,212 --> 01:08:06,087
Yours...

390
01:08:06,254 --> 01:08:10,379
My young saplings... sap...

391
01:08:11,837 --> 01:08:13,962
If only...

392
01:08:14,129 --> 01:08:16,587
I could be with...

393
01:08:17,379 --> 01:08:19,254
...my dwarves.

394
01:08:24,212 --> 01:08:27,004
My young saplings.

395
01:08:28,754 --> 01:08:31,212
Saplings.

396
01:08:34,962 --> 01:08:37,004
If only I could be with... saplings...

397
01:08:38,921 --> 01:08:41,712
Paying attention... you're not...

398
01:08:42,754 --> 01:08:45,129
Saplings... pay attention...

399
01:08:46,796 --> 01:08:49,212
My young saplings.

400
01:08:50,254 --> 01:08:52,046
Saplings.

401
01:10:01,879 --> 01:10:03,962
(Creaking)

402
01:10:16,504 --> 01:10:19,337
(Ragged breathing)

403
01:10:31,046 --> 01:10:33,129
My young saplings...

404
01:10:35,671 --> 01:10:37,962
You're not paying attention.

405
01:10:41,171 --> 01:10:43,462
I refer you to your manual.

406
01:10:45,337 --> 01:10:48,504
The chapter headed <i>The Divine Duty of Servants.</i>

407
01:10:51,129 --> 01:10:53,671
The section entitled...

408
01:10:53,837 --> 01:10:56,754
<i>Snares and Temptations...</i>

409
01:11:01,212 --> 01:11:03,296
...which is...

410
01:11:07,379 --> 01:11:09,462
Can you hear me?

411
01:11:12,296 --> 01:11:14,504
...which is...

412
01:11:14,671 --> 01:11:16,754
Repeat after me.

413
01:11:20,712 --> 01:11:23,671
Sobering, succinct...

414
01:11:25,087 --> 01:11:27,171
...salutary advice...

415
01:11:29,629 --> 01:11:34,129
...for those about to commit the sin
of thinking themselves above their station.

416
01:11:34,296 --> 01:11:36,171
(Wordless chanting)

417
01:11:36,921 --> 01:11:39,004
This phenomenon is known as...

418
01:11:42,337 --> 01:11:44,421
Pepino!

419
01:11:46,671 --> 01:11:48,754
Hebling...

420
01:11:50,629 --> 01:11:52,712
Inigo...

421
01:11:54,712 --> 01:11:56,796
Inigo...

422
01:12:01,504 --> 01:12:04,462
Inigo! Inigo!

423
01:12:06,254 --> 01:12:08,337
Inigo!

424
01:12:09,421 --> 01:12:11,504
Inigo!

425
01:12:13,546 --> 01:12:15,629
This phenomenon is known as...

426
01:12:22,879 --> 01:12:25,296
(Chanting intensifies)

427
01:13:06,546 --> 01:13:08,546
(Sobs)

428
01:13:13,754 --> 01:13:15,837
(Chanting stops)

429
01:13:47,337 --> 01:13:49,421
(Creaking)

430
01:14:43,796 --> 01:14:45,962
JAKOB: <i>How everything is changing here.</i>

431
01:14:53,754 --> 01:14:57,046
<i>No new students are enrolling at the institute.</i>

432
01:14:58,296 --> 01:15:00,796
<i>Everything has become so...</i>

433
01:15:01,962 --> 01:15:03,587
<i>...fragile.</i>

434
01:15:05,671 --> 01:15:11,587
<i>Often the Fräulein stares out of the window,
as if she were already living somewhere else.</i>

435
01:15:14,712 --> 01:15:16,796
<i>Yet the lessons continue.</i>

436
01:15:17,712 --> 01:15:24,254
<i>We're still caught in the grip of the rules
and indulge in monotonous repetitions.</i>

437
01:15:28,254 --> 01:15:30,337
(Repetitive percussion)

438
01:18:01,462 --> 01:18:03,546
(Tapping)

439
01:18:11,587 --> 01:18:14,796
JAKOB: <i>I've finally been inside the inner chambers...</i>

440
01:18:16,671 --> 01:18:18,754
<i>...and I have to say...</i>

441
01:18:19,671 --> 01:18:21,754
<i>...they don't exist.</i>

442
01:18:24,379 --> 01:18:28,504
<i>Instead of a mystery, there's only a goldfish.</i>

443
01:18:30,671 --> 01:18:33,671
<i>And Kraus has taught me
how to clean out its bowl...</i>

444
01:18:35,337 --> 01:18:37,421
<i>...change its water...</i>

445
01:18:38,462 --> 01:18:40,546
<i>...and feed it.</i>

446
01:19:41,712 --> 01:19:45,004
<i>Fräulein Lisa said something very strange to me.</i>

447
01:19:46,796 --> 01:19:48,587
<i>'Jakob, ' she said...</i>

448
01:19:49,504 --> 01:19:50,879
Jakob...

449
01:19:54,254 --> 01:19:56,337
This must be for your ears only.

450
01:20:01,462 --> 01:20:03,546
Something is gnawing at me.

451
01:20:12,129 --> 01:20:14,087
Like this.

452
01:20:14,254 --> 01:20:16,337
See how I am breathing on you?

453
01:20:25,046 --> 01:20:29,462
(Softly) That is how he's breathing his cold breath on me...

454
01:20:31,754 --> 01:20:33,796
...from behind.

455
01:20:38,129 --> 01:20:40,212
I'm sinking...

456
01:20:43,962 --> 01:20:46,129
My breath is being crushed from me.

457
01:20:51,962 --> 01:20:54,046
I am dying from...

458
01:20:56,296 --> 01:20:58,546
...those who could have seen and held me.

459
01:21:00,421 --> 01:21:02,587
I'm dying from...

460
01:21:04,587 --> 01:21:07,712
...the emptiness of cautious and clever people.

461
01:21:34,546 --> 01:21:36,629
Enough.

462
01:21:38,087 --> 01:21:40,212
Now you must forget about all of this.

463
01:21:43,504 --> 01:21:45,587
No-one must know.

464
01:21:49,546 --> 01:21:51,629
Especially not my brother.

465
01:22:18,546 --> 01:22:21,546
JAKOB: <i>To be allowed to obey her...</i>

466
01:22:24,462 --> 01:22:27,587
<i>As long as I obey her, she will live.</i>

467
01:22:50,546 --> 01:22:54,254
JOHANNES: <i>Whatever is forbidden lives...</i>

468
01:22:55,296 --> 01:22:57,837
<i>...a hundred times over.</i>

469
01:23:02,379 --> 01:23:04,462
(Knock at door)

470
01:23:13,129 --> 01:23:14,921
JAKOB: Herr Benjamenta...

471
01:23:16,712 --> 01:23:18,796
Jakob von Gunten here.

472
01:23:21,046 --> 01:23:23,129
You summoned me?

473
01:23:49,337 --> 01:23:51,087
(Reads)

474
01:23:55,296 --> 01:23:57,712
...or something very...

475
01:23:58,046 --> 01:23:59,837
delicate.

476
01:24:02,587 --> 01:24:04,337
(Chuckles)

477
01:24:04,504 --> 01:24:06,587
You see, Jakob...

478
01:24:06,754 --> 01:24:08,837
how I know the words by heart?

479
01:24:10,004 --> 01:24:12,087
Because...

480
01:24:12,879 --> 01:24:15,379
it is my heart that speaks them.

481
01:24:18,171 --> 01:24:20,254
Jakob...

482
01:24:22,171 --> 01:24:24,462
Couldn't we...

483
01:24:24,629 --> 01:24:26,712
Could we try, you and I...

484
01:24:28,087 --> 01:24:30,171
The low and the mighty.

485
01:24:31,046 --> 01:24:34,171
Could we just try to stand up to life together?

486
01:24:36,379 --> 01:24:38,462
Shoulder to shoulder.

487
01:24:40,546 --> 01:24:42,296
Side by side.

488
01:24:43,587 --> 01:24:46,296
But Herr Benjamenta...

489
01:24:48,337 --> 01:24:51,046
You are my principal.

490
01:24:51,212 --> 01:24:55,087
(Chuckles) This place is finished. Don't you understand?

491
01:24:56,129 --> 01:25:00,087
I'm not accepting any more students. You were the last one.

492
01:25:00,254 --> 01:25:02,421
(Both chuckle)

493
01:25:07,712 --> 01:25:09,379
You thought...

494
01:25:13,087 --> 01:25:17,254
...the...Institut Benjamenta...

495
01:25:19,087 --> 01:25:21,962
...was one of those places here today...

496
01:25:22,129 --> 01:25:24,212
and gone tomorrow?

497
01:25:29,379 --> 01:25:31,046
It's you.

498
01:25:34,254 --> 01:25:36,337
You are the one.

499
01:25:38,712 --> 01:25:41,837
It's... all happened since you came.

500
01:25:46,421 --> 01:25:48,421
Who are you?

501
01:25:48,587 --> 01:25:50,671
Oh, Jesus...

502
01:25:51,587 --> 01:25:53,671
(Gasps)

503
01:26:40,879 --> 01:26:42,962
Goodbye, Jakob.

504
01:26:51,254 --> 01:26:53,337
Kiss me, Jakob.

505
01:26:55,462 --> 01:26:57,546
Just once.

506
01:27:04,212 --> 01:27:06,296
Be soft.

507
01:27:17,837 --> 01:27:19,921
(Breathing raggedly) Shhh-shhh.

508
01:27:20,921 --> 01:27:23,421
Enough.

509
01:27:23,587 --> 01:27:25,671
No despair.

510
01:27:36,712 --> 01:27:39,421
Everything is good just the way it is.

511
01:27:44,796 --> 01:27:46,879
It's beautiful, isn't it...

512
01:27:49,087 --> 01:27:50,921
...not to want anything any more?

513
01:28:08,712 --> 01:28:10,671
(Door opens)

514
01:28:21,504 --> 01:28:26,421
JAKOB: <i>From now on, it can only be evening in this world.</i>

515
01:28:28,712 --> 01:28:30,629
<i>And all about me.</i>

516
01:28:30,796 --> 01:28:32,212
(Rattling)

517
01:28:48,421 --> 01:28:50,504
(Tram rattles by in distance)

518
01:29:15,962 --> 01:29:17,212
(Gasps)

519
01:29:22,462 --> 01:29:24,546
(Rumble of tram)

520
01:29:31,212 --> 01:29:33,296
(Chuckles)

521
01:29:34,254 --> 01:29:36,087
(Laughs hysterically)

522
01:29:41,087 --> 01:29:44,504
Imagine me... coming for you.

523
01:29:49,796 --> 01:29:51,546
Surely...

524
01:29:51,712 --> 01:29:54,129
the King is dead.

525
01:29:54,296 --> 01:29:56,379
Twice over.

526
01:29:57,587 --> 01:29:59,004
Jakob...

527
01:30:00,796 --> 01:30:05,796
Jakob, I'm so... lonely.

528
01:30:05,962 --> 01:30:08,129
(Knock at door)

529
01:30:08,296 --> 01:30:10,379
Herr Benjamenta...

530
01:30:15,587 --> 01:30:17,379
Herr Benjamenta...

531
01:30:58,921 --> 01:31:03,587
Sleep. Rest sweetly, dear Fräulein.

532
01:31:05,087 --> 01:31:08,171
JAKOB: <i>The Fräulein lay there lifeless,</i>

533
01:31:08,337 --> 01:31:10,421
<i>just as she told me she would.</i>

534
01:31:12,379 --> 01:31:16,796
<i>Her eyes were still open. Not very wide...</i>

535
01:31:17,837 --> 01:31:19,921
<i>...but as if she was still smiling.</i>

536
01:31:23,879 --> 01:31:28,712
<i>And it seemed to me that she must live for eternity...</i>

537
01:31:29,921 --> 01:31:34,296
<i>...only to be for eternity no living being.</i>

538
01:31:35,379 --> 01:31:40,129
The sound of thy voice shall live on.

539
01:32:40,004 --> 01:32:44,504
JAKOB: <i>We withdrew, leaving the brother with the sister.</i>

540
01:32:45,462 --> 01:32:48,212
<i>The Principal with the Principaless.</i>

541
01:32:50,254 --> 01:32:53,879
<i>The lonely man with the lonely woman.</i>

542
01:32:56,171 --> 01:33:00,712
<i>The living person with the dead one.</i>

543
01:33:06,837 --> 01:33:08,921
(Mournful singing)

544
01:33:36,546 --> 01:33:39,379
LISA: <i>I shall surely go on living,</i>

545
01:33:39,546 --> 01:33:41,629
<i>but what will become of you?</i>

546
01:35:52,129 --> 01:35:56,046
(Chattering voices)

547
01:36:03,754 --> 01:36:05,837
Do something.

548
01:37:22,546 --> 01:37:26,754
JOHANNES: Look behind the curtain... Jakob.

549
01:37:28,462 --> 01:37:30,546
<i>(Johannes chuckling)</i>

550
01:37:33,087 --> 01:37:35,171
<i>Look behind the curtain.</i>

551
01:37:37,254 --> 01:37:40,337
<i>She maybe hiding here.</i>

552
01:37:40,504 --> 01:37:42,587
<i>(Chuckles)</i>

553
01:37:46,087 --> 01:37:47,837
(Banging and rattling)

554
01:38:00,629 --> 01:38:02,462
Once...

555
01:38:03,421 --> 01:38:06,462
...I was crowned with success.

556
01:38:08,962 --> 01:38:11,004
The world smiled on me.

557
01:38:12,796 --> 01:38:14,879
But I hated the world.

558
01:38:16,337 --> 01:38:18,421
Hated existing.

559
01:38:21,379 --> 01:38:26,046
Hated those I taught to take orders.

560
01:38:28,587 --> 01:38:32,421
Hated myself for loving to give orders.

561
01:38:34,629 --> 01:38:36,087
Everything.

562
01:38:37,046 --> 01:38:39,129
I hated it all.

563
01:38:41,712 --> 01:38:43,754
But no longer.

564
01:38:45,171 --> 01:38:47,046
Now...

565
01:38:48,004 --> 01:38:50,087
...that I'm not a king...

566
01:38:51,504 --> 01:38:53,421
Now...

567
01:38:54,171 --> 01:38:56,254
...I want to live.

568
01:38:57,921 --> 01:39:00,504
I'm hungry for life!

569
01:39:06,796 --> 01:39:08,587
Jakob...

570
01:39:08,754 --> 01:39:12,046
Everyone has gone. Even Kraus.

571
01:39:12,212 --> 01:39:14,296
(Chuckles)

572
01:39:14,462 --> 01:39:16,587
I've pronounced the institute dead.

573
01:39:18,379 --> 01:39:20,087
We are free.

574
01:39:23,212 --> 01:39:24,546
Jakob...

575
01:39:27,087 --> 01:39:29,171
Jakob...

576
01:39:30,212 --> 01:39:32,296
Come with me.

577
01:39:33,379 --> 01:39:35,462
Follow me...

578
01:39:36,462 --> 01:39:38,546
...out of this world...

579
01:39:40,129 --> 01:39:42,212
...for ever.

580
01:39:44,671 --> 01:39:48,754
JAKOB: <i>And it will snow upon us so intensely...</i>

581
01:39:50,837 --> 01:39:54,629
<i>...in such immense silence.</i>

582
01:39:56,879 --> 01:39:58,962
<i>Neither beginning nor end.</i>

583
01:40:01,129 --> 01:40:06,421
<i>Everything in a grey, white... snowing.</i>

584
01:40:08,337 --> 01:40:11,004
<i>No more sky.</i>

585
01:40:11,171 --> 01:40:13,254
<i>No more air.</i>

586
01:41:20,337 --> 01:41:24,504
(In German)

587
01:41:26,504 --> 01:41:29,754
(In Spanish)

588
01:41:31,712 --> 01:41:34,254
(In Spanish)

589
01:41:34,921 --> 01:41:38,379
(In Spanish)

590
01:41:39,546 --> 01:41:42,629
(In Afrikaans)

591
01:41:43,671 --> 01:41:46,962
(In Afrikaans)

592
01:41:48,587 --> 01:41:54,462
<i>In us the sound of thy voice shall live on.</i>

593
01:41:58,671 --> 01:42:01,879
(In Afrikaans)

594
01:42:03,171 --> 01:42:07,462
(In Afrikaans)

595
01:42:08,629 --> 01:42:10,546
(Trumpet)

596
01:43:36,879 --> 01:43:39,004
(Cricket chirping)