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Two rum and brandy...
and a pack of cigarettes.
- I meant large ones. - Sorry.
Come on, make a move.
May I remind you of the cigarettes?
Sorry, I forgot.
Could you tell us what's so funny?
Nothing. Sorry.
Can you hear that?
What is it?
Some machine?
The lights?
Someone singing?
Who dares to sing here?
Quiet!
We'll blow everything up.
- Lets call the police? - There's no need.
We'll blow them all up.
We'll plant it in their jackets... or in their ears.
We'll stick the dynamite up their noses.
We'll have to stop this somehow, what do you say?
Sure, why complicate things?
We'll blow them up one by one.
We'll do them all in. In a very short time.
How do you know they're still there?
They ran away a long time ago... They have that much sense.
Them? They were servants and they will be servants all their lives.
They sit in the kitchen, *** in the corner and look out the window now and then.
I know them inside out.
What makes you so sure?
I feel there's nobody there, Houses empty, the tiles all stolen.
One or two rats in the mill, all skin and bone...
They just sit on the same dirty stools.
Stuff themselves with potatoes and don't know what happened.
They eye each other suspiciously belch away in the silence,
and wait, because they think they've been cheated.
Slaves that lost their master, but they can't live without pride, dignity and courage.
Yet deep down they feel it doesn't come from them.
For they only like living in their shadow.
- Cut it out, will you. - They follow that shadow like a herd.
For they can't live without splendor and illusion.
Yet don't take them away from them or they'll go mad and destroy the lot.
What they need is a heated room and a steaming paprika stew,
they're happy if at night under the warm quilt they find the neighbor's chubby wife.
- Are you listening at all? - Of course, I am!
- I've been waiting for you. - How did you know we were coming?
- From the conductor. - What conductor?
- Kelemen. - Why? Kelemen is a conductor now?
Yeah. Since last spring. But the coach doesn't run now
So he has got time to roam here and there.
You promised that if I spread the news that you died,
you'd put me in touch with Mrs Schmidt - I always keep my promises.
And you've promised Mrs. Kraner. She has nice *** too.
That'll happen too, Sanyi...
Since you left here nothing's changed.
The schoolmaster's still at home alone...
Mrs. Schmidt with Futaki... You know, with the cripple.
My sister's nuts, she spies on everybody...
Mum beats her, but they still say she'll be nuts all her life.
The Doctor keeps brooding at home...
He sits in his armchair, leaves the lights on day and night
There are times he sleeps in his chair...
His place smells like hell, he smokes his good cigarettes...
drinks his fruit brandy. Ask Mrs Kraner, she gets it for him.
Schmidt and Kraner are bringing the money for the cattle today...
Everyone's been doing that since February, except Mum.
Those *** didn't take her, so they have money now.
The bar owner's sold his good Pannonia
and bought an old *** you have to push to get started.
He uses it to go to town to see his wife once a month,
though now he lives at my sister's as we owe him money...
In the east the sky is clearing as fast as a memory.
At dawn, it leans all red on the shimmering horizon.
Like the morning beggar trudges up the back steps to the church,
the sun rises to givebirth to shade,
so that earth and sky, man and animal emerge from the disturbing and confused unity
in which they became inextricably intertwined.
He saw the fleeing night on the other side,
its terrifying elements in turn diving on the western horizon,
like a desperate, defeated, confused army.
KNOWING SOMETHING
...Futaki... it seems...
...is afraid... of something.
In the early... morning... he was looking...
out... of the window... startled...
Futaki...
is terrified... he's afraid of death.
They'll kick off anyway. You too, Futaki, you'll kick off!
Schmidt... is coming out through... the back door...
and stops... at the top of... the path to the meadow.
Futaki... carefully... slips out of... the house...
Crosses... to the stables... and hides... by the wall.
F. Doesn't move...
He waits... for a moment,
then... he too... dashes... to the door,
knocks, and... quickly enters... after Schmidt.
What a... hustle.
It has... started... to rain...
It won't... stop... till... spring.
It is fascinating to watch...
the erosion caused by water and wind at the edge of the
Ponticum, when the sea on the Great Plain receded.
It looked like a shallow lake, like Lake Balaton does now.
Good morning, Doctor.
Come, Doctor, don't let it go cold.
Take it away from here.
You see, it's raining, we'll soon have snow, too.
My husband says you might talk to the publican.
He has a car, he'd bring you all that stuff.
You mean you won't do it anymore?
I would, of course, but I can't walk to town in this rain.
Besides he could do your shopping for two or three weeks.
The buses only start in spring.
It's all right, Mrs. Kraner, you can go.
Then you'll talk to the publican?
I'll talk to whoever I want to!
- Where shall I put the keys? - Wherever you like.
Goodbye.
K. Has quit...
She can't...
...do it any longer.
Last autumn... she didn't...
mind... the rain...
Nor that...
she had to... walk...
K. Has...
a plan...
She's thinking over... something.
It seems I got pretty drunk.
Today I ran out... of the last drop... of fruit brandy.
It looks like I need...
to leave... the house...
Come on, cut that out.
You hear me? Stop that.
Look after the fire instead, I'm cold.
I'll look after my ***!
I've just looked after it... You're next.
- You hear me? - Alright, alright.
We're going to freeze again.
- How long are we to wait? - How do I know?
Leave me alone.
To hell with the whole thing.
Stop whining. Someone's coming.
Good evening.
Haven't seen you for ages, Doc.
Feel like a nice little screw?
I'd like to warm up a bit if you don't mind.
- Only warm up, Doc? - Yes.
- And what about a good *** like in the old days?
Come on, Doctor. It's doesn't cost much.
For such an old friend.
Could I have a cigarette?
- Right there, at your feet. - Thank you.
- How's business going? - Bad.
We sit here day after day and nothing ever happens...
We're all nerves, sometimes we nearly go at each other.
What's going to become of us, Doc?
That's how one just loses heart in everything.
What do you think we live on?
We have Sanyi and crazy Estike on our hands, and Mum too.
They keep asking, where's the money?
Give it to them.
The money this, the money that,
but who cares?
Anyway, we're leaving from here. We'll move to town.
Cut the crap out. Either go or stay.
It'd make you happy if I cleared off, would it?
Today, when they finally get the money?
They're not coming. They should've arrived ages go.
They'll come. I know them.
When they've got money, they run after their dicks.
You think Kraner admits to the whole amount at home?
There'll be loads of money here today!
- Can I have a cigarette for the road? - Sure.
- Matches? - Take them.
You won't change your mind, Doctor?
No. Good luck.
Good luck to you too.
He hasn't got a lot of time left.
You'd hardly recognize him.
What the hell does he do here in the rain?
He hardly ever leaves the house. Now he comes out in this rain?
Idiot. Didn't you see the bottle?
Goes to pick up his brandy.
He doesn't even have the money to pay Mrs. Kraner.
- Doctor! - What do you want?
- Doctor! - What are you doing? Let me go.
- Leave me, go now, you brat. - Doctor.
Leave me alone, you idiot!
*** hell!
Where're you going now? Wait.
Where're you going?
Stop!
I won't hurt you.
Stop now!
Where're you running?
Wait!
Hello! Hello...
Hue! Avancez!
My heart - he thought again and again.
He longed to lie in a warm room,
sipping hot soup, being taken care of by sweet little nurses,
and then turn towards the wall.
He felt light and easy
and the conductor's scolding words echoed in his ears for a long time:
"You shouldn't have done it, Doctor. You shouldn't have done it..."
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