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Damnit! Where's the key?
***!
Take this one!
Ah, I know! I'd be lost without you.
- See you tonight. - Stop!
Even though you're in a hurry...
- For that we got to take the time! - At least!
And now go! My creative genius.
- Hey! - Show them what you've got!
Tanja!
What's wrong with you? You look terrible.
Hey Tanja, what's wrong?
Take this, it will do you good.
You make tea for me.
Why don't you say that you have always warned me?
Maybe I'll do that... when you're gonna tell me what happened.
- Ansgar and I... - No!
I did!
And now it's your turn. Now...
...now tell me, that I was completely stupid that I slept with him again.
Come on, Marlene! Usually, you speak your mind openly, so tell me, that this is the deathblow to my marriage, that it's me who did it and...
...that it was crazy...
...to trust an egomaniacal ***... instead of putting confidence in my husband.
Just say something!
Come here!
- No! - Yes, come here!
Marlene...
I don't want to loose Sebastian, I...
I don't know who I am... without him.
Mrs. von Lahnstein the agency already called twice, because of the photographer for the show, they want to know if...
Tanja!
Ansgar, not now!
Only a lot of boring juristic stuff but there's one thing that might interest you to know:
With this contract you're gonna transfer your shares of LCL to me. All of them!
Yes, you have been betrayed by your husband!
- He can't do this! - Yeah, I was surprised myself.
LCL, that is me!
Oh I remember, I have heard all this before...
What was her name? Clarissa! Exactly!
Well, we both know that all this moaning and groaning didn't help her.
Come on, Tanja! Look on it as a game...
...that I'm used to win.
What will happen if I don't sign this?
Then you will go to jail... because of fiscal evasion.
Tanja, do you have a minute?
I finished the elaboration of the sketches.
I have no more interest in it.
My precious one!
I love you! Never forget, okay?!
I'm sorry!
- You have to iron out all this today, okay? - I will need the whole day to do this...and when I have to iron out something for Juri too, then...
Then you will do this tomorrow. Juri doesn't care, so he has to wait.
- But Juri usually wants something at such short notice... - Then he has to learn that this is not our way of working.
I mean, Juri can't expect that everybody will jump up rapidly, only because he's getting a short creative attack.
This guy comes and goes as he wishes and wants to be congratulated on being a great genius. As if it were a special sign of creativity to cause havoc and not to care about arrangements!
Maybe he didn't need things like discipline and team spirit yet, but at a company like LCL you can expect a little bit of professionalism, am I right?
I'd love to learn from you discipline, babe!
Ups!
Everything's fine?
- Are you under pressure? - Nope. Everything's going fine!
Good. We don't want that you will get a sudden creative attack.
- Why didn't you say anything? - I did! - Ouch!
- Did you rework the sketches? - I didn't have the time, yet.
Kim, hurry up! When Tanja returns our new concept has to be clear!
- She usually wants to see a lot of new designs then. - Anyway, where is Tanja?
Yeah, where is she? First Mrs. von Anstetten disappeared all of a sudden, now Mrs. von Lahnstein. Do we have a black hole, somewhere?
Well, I suppose that Tanja von Lahnstein is on a business trip. In her absence everything will remain as usual.
Everybody is gonna do their job, not at one time or another, but now!
- So, you don't know when she will return and where she is? - No! But I hope she will return soon!
As if I haven't got to enough work already! I can't do her job as well!
Mrs. Rotfeld! To what do we owe the honour of this visit?
Actually I wanted to talk to Tanja von Lahnstein. But obviously she isn't here.
Well, then YOU have to decide this!
- I don't know...Can't it wait? - No, it can't!
I'm gonna make a very profitable offer to LCL!
Well?
How could a shooting look like?
- That's a bit complicated at the moment. Maybe we should wait till Tanja... - I need a vision, tonight, at the latest.
- Tonight?! - I can tell by your reaction that Tanja is absent.
If you have a problem, tell me immediately! Then I'm gonna call another company.
- No problem at all! - And if so, it's not mine!
Yes, you're right.
If, if, if.... Rebecca, what do you want from me?
I can't do this all alone! That's impossible! Tanja would have managed the Lotti Rotfeld matter....
- I think we should employ an external marketing agency to do it! - What? Till tonight?
It's gonna be Christmas till they get an idea of the subject matter.
- Okay, then I will cancel Lotti! - No, you won't! Unless, you want to look for a new job!
Listen! I'm not familiar with all these fashion journals but one thing is sure: Lotti Rotfeld's journal is the Bible of fashion world!
- A photo series in her journal is priceless promotion. - Yes! That's why we should present her a very convincing vision! I'm not a PR professional.
I have enough work with my own designs. I'm unable to cope with both things.
- Okay. What's Juri's opinion? - How should I know!
- Wait a minute! Have you just said that you didn't talk to Juri, yet? - No!
Then do it, please! You both will be able to manage this, or am I wrong?
It's not that simple, Ansgar! This is not only about a few photos.
It's about a story, you know, a feeling, it has to be new, exciting and different. And most of all it has to express the new spirit of LCL.
Shall I ask Juri?
Listen, Rebecca! You can choose now: either you both will manage this together or I will charge Juri with it, alone!
He won't make such a fuss! So, what do you prefer?
- Okay, I will ask him! - Great! That's what I prefer too, cause I have an appointment now, beyond of this kindergarten.
- What's the problem? - Tanja is absent and LCL just reinvented itself, but nobody really knows what that means.
Has it to mean something?
Lotti Rotfeld wants to have the new LCL! That means she wants us!
Where's the fridge?
That means, you're thinking we should set a common strategy.
- That's exactly what I mean. - Ok, I'm sure you already have a lot of ideas.
No! Most recently, things have changed here, and it's no longer all about my ideas but ours.
- Hmmm. - What? Nothing more?
What does the PR department say?
That's the problem. Somehow, Tanja was our PR department. At least, she set the direction where everybody had to go.
That means, now you want to develop an idea that would be Tanja's, actually, if she were here and had an idea.
Yeah, basically. But Ansgar wants you to provide new input, so that the new LCL is not gonna look like the old one. Do I speak chinese, actually?
What's that gonna be good for?
The question is, what do these two dresses have in common? When we get the answer, maybe we will also get to know the framework for the shooting.
- No! - Why no?
Not what they have in common, the question is, what's the difference? That's what we have to develop.
- Aha, and what's the goal? - The solution.
I'm sorry, I have say it again: Even though we and our dresses don't match, both will be labeled with LCL.
And Mrs. Rotfeld expects us that we will present something that's gonna be completely rounded.
- Why? - What?
- Did she say that? - No, but it's obvious.
Plus, I no longer want to spend my time with your destructive ***...philosophy.
Okay, that means you need me not at all.
- Where are you going? - I will get sloshed!
- And the shooting? - I'm sure you will manage it with your notions of harmony.
- You can't leave now! - Sure, I can.
I'm the destructive guy.
Dana?
Dana?
- Hello? - Dana?
Then I'll try to call her on the mobile phone, even though I don't want to tell her on the phone, actually.
If you want I will call her.
Yeah, maybe that's better. It will be easier for her when her sister is gonna tell her the news.
Yeah, but to be honest, actually, I have no idea how...
If you came here to tell me news about the stud farm, I already know it!
- Why? What happened? - This is not about the stud farm?
What's it about?
What next?
- Did you give the list with change requests to the sewer? - I did.
- And what's with the offer for the fake fur? - I will do it, immediately. - Fine!
Yeah, that already looks good, one color shade lighter, please.
What about the appointment with the fabric supplier? Could you postpone it?
- Yes, I could defer it to next week. - Very well!
The photo series, that's mega cool!
Yeah, but I still have to provide the perfect idea where it's gonna take place.
- How about a factory building? - Very inventive.
If Juri meaningfully contributed to it, at least... This is not just about my designs.
- Where is he? - He has gone into the nearest pub.
Tanja couldn't have chosen a better point in time to disappear and to leave me quite alone in this chaos.
Tanja von... Rebecca von Lahnstein
A short while ago they called from Nassau.
The disaster alert for the affected area has been ended, officially.
And what does that mean exactly?
That means the search has been ended, officially.
Besides....besides, a list with names of the victims has been released.
- But Ludwig and Hagen are still missing? - Yes. - Yes.
But the authorities have no more hope that the two of them will be found alive.
But they can't stop searching for them! What if...they shipwrecked on a desert island. They need help! We can't give up them for lost!
- Dana! - No! We can't do this! Leave me alone!
- Did you check Tanja's appointments? - Yes, I could postpone most of them but I can't figure out what that means: "message", tomorrow at 12.
Let me see!
Yeah, it means massage. Can you postpone it?
Mrs. Rotfeld! You surely want to know if we made any progress with the planning for the shooting.
Yes! It is going great! You will be more than happy with the result!
I'd rather tell you the details when we will have finished the elaboration.
In two hours?!...No, no, it's convenient! See you later!
- So, you've got an idea?! - No.
- But you just said... - Yes. Listen! I'm trapped!
At Ansgar's command I have to combine my work and Juri's, conceptually.
But as this seems to be impossible, now I'm gonna do what Tanja would do!
Yeah...and what would Tanja do?
She would say what she's saying, usually:
"LCL, that's timeless elegance, grace, upper class, luxury! Traditional style - without nonsense! Shhhh!"
And...Juri, does he agree?
Do you see this Juri anywhere?
- Nope. - Yeah, so I can't show any consideration towards him.
We have decided to concentrate on the things that represent LCL: elegance, luxury, tradition!
That's why we have chosen a location that's gonna provide a perfect frame for the shooting.
- If I'm not mistaken, it's castle Königsbrunn. - Yes, exactly!
You want to make the shooting at your home?
Königsbrunn would also have the advantage, that we gonna have no problem to get permission.
- That's too conventional, not to say totally boring! - Exactly!
But we gonna change it.
And how?
With a clash of civilizations.
The question is, who combats whom?
Principles!
Rebecca's principle of classical beauty, elegance, conservative style against mine: the refracted, diffused style, the anarchy.
Doesn't that sound highly theoretical?
Think of the castle! The castle, that's the "Fortress Europe".
My models are the "human garbage", they gonna attack on the Fortress.
- The will plunder the castle. - Yeah, but they gonna have to face great resistance of my models.
- Of course. - And it is still not clear who's gonna win.
No! It's gonna be a long, vicious struggle!
Haute Couture has always been the difference between upper class and lower classes.
Yeah, but the aristocracy died a long time ago. But those up in the castle didn't realize it, yet.
The borders disappeared, walls will crumble...also at LCL.
Do you think Tanja von Lahnstein is gonna share that opinion?
- That's...hmmm... - When Tanja von Lahnstein hired me she knew that a huge change is gonna happen!
But she wouldn't be Tanja von Lahnstein, if she wanted to hide this change.
Quite the opposite! She's gonna take that change in order to develop new aesthetics at LCL.
- Yeah, this is not about pretending harmony. Juri's idea... - Our idea...
...is that tradition is gonna be under permanent attack.
- Tradition of creating beauty. - Yes, that we upheld at LCL, yet, we're still upholding it and the castle is a symbol of this.
And the most traditional thing you gonna find in this old, rusty german castle...
...is gonna be a knight's armour.
The knight's armour is gonna be the Holy Grail. Your models will fight against mine, the Vandals, they gonna defend this knight's armour to their last breath.
In principle it's gonna be a fight against modern era.
- Yeah, and we gonna photograph this. - It's a provocation.
Your readers have to decide... which side are they gonna support?!
Well? What do you think?
I will think about it!
Now that our dream could come true, everybody is giving up.
Do you want the stud farm to get renovated, nevertheless?
The stud farm is no longer in our possession.
But...maybe...
...maybe the loan is gonna help in some other way.
Loan? Which loan?
No, listen! Nobody is expecting that you gonna acept a financial burden of several hundreds of thousand Euros.
Contracted purchase price includes the racing stable without any further obligations.
No! It can only be a mistake, I'm gonna settle the matter.
Listen! I have a vested interest in making this deal as quickly as possible. So, don't worry! You will hear from me, okay?! Thanks.
What kind of an idiot accommodates a dead person with money?
Dana, the money is not your own!
- You can't do with it whatever you want! - Why not?
Cause this loan is ring-fenced! You can't spend this money on something else.
And besides, how would you pay it back?
- I'll worry about it when the time has come. - You would be in debt for the rest of your life!
Yes! Well, so what! Do I have any choice? Shall I abandon Hagen to his fate?!
I can rescue Hagen! And that's exactly what I'm going to do! I'll take this money and save my husband!
>english subtitles by Novemberstern