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Amorosa (1986)
No, not from the land of cuckoo's!
From a nordic kingdom, from the nobility! We get rooms next to each other. The child is safe with me. Earth tumbles! The abyss will open, and devour us all. We will be thrown into space and down the abyss! It's spinning! I'm so afraid! It's the abyss, I knew it! Into the silencing darkness, I will follow you there. Alone in fragile vessel the sailor on the wide sea. The starry vault over him burns, below him roars terrifyingly his grave. Onward! So is his fate's order. Where is the child? Be with me, my love. I'll handle it. My dear friend Sprengel, if I don't get the child, I'll go mad for real! Give me the child, Sprengel. My work is my child. That's why I need to have it with me, doctor! They speak a different language, my love. My love! Bring the child! You were a big shit, Sprengel! You're not only betraying me with a bunch of whores, you steel my child too! My love! Amore! Amore... amore! This was the story of my life and the revenge on my family. You poor nobility! Who no longer wants me. Who has turned your faces away from me... I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying. You come rushing as if the popes genitalia was on fire! And I've been locked up half the night like any other fool! You use foul play, you bastards! Who can defend oneself against crudeness like yours? Agnes... What are you up to? Agnes, don't touch the child! Agnes, don't touch the child! Agnes, don't touch the child! What have I done? What on earth have I done? I've destroyed everything, Pa. I've destroyed everything. Forgive me, Pa. Forgive me... Can Boo-boo forgive Pa for not being able to protect our child. No! No...! Thank you, Master. Boo-boo was so stupid that Master had to take her to the vet. Forgive me. Boo-boo wants to go home. I have to go home... Even if I had to walk all the way. One can never return. Return to my childhood, to my wonderful and ridiculous childhood. My family, I'll never escape you. I hate those noble surnames ending with stierna, with crona, with skjold! In my body, they constantly turn and fester into a terrible abscess! And still, you want to go home? Sometimes hating, sometimes loving ones country and ones family. Sourpuss, why will you never play with us? No, Adolf, I don't want to play anymore. You square! You're so pale. Breathe some fresh air and give your poor mother a kiss. Poor mother, it will be a terrible day for you. Edvard's parents-in-law will cherish you in no time. He is a factory owner, mummy! A factory owner?! He looks like a tanner! Isn't he fishing after all?! Hand me the fishing rod! No, no way, mother! Hand me the fishing rod! Are you angry, mother? Are you angry too? The food is served. May I escort you, Doll? I might get engaged to you one of these days. I enjoy funerals almost as much as weddings. Cute as ever and immensely vulgar! Please be seated, Countess! May I call you Eva? My name is Felix. What a wonderful engagement between our beloved children! Eva, help yourself. As expected, they cherish you already. Poor, mummy! This is only a small hors d'oeuvre before the salmon and the chateaubriand. Bon apptit, Countess! My salmon...! My beautiful salmon...! How vulgar...! Help yourself, Countess! Agnes will bring discredit on the family again. My sister is rather eccentric, you know. She plays the trumpet, and she kicks football better than I. And she writes a diary and small verses too. A real nuisance... MAY THEY LIVE IN HAPPINESS! I raise my glass to the newly engaged. My beloved, Edvard! Hell of a road to be sinuous! You interest me. Nothing seems to coincide in your personality. Sometimes I seem like a puzzle to myself. It's not very feminine for a woman to play the trumpet... Would you like to take a look at my map? We are traveling all the way to the end of... She wants to become a writer. I think all art is useless. May I also take a look at that map? Thank God! Now it's only three hours left to the next delectation! Thank you. Gerhard! Gerhard...! Wait for me! I'm coming. Gerhard Odenkrantz. Come, let's go swimming. My mother is always criticizing me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can you speak to your mother? One can never understand ones family... Mom is untouched by life. She believes everyone is good. I'm a sceptic. I don't want to be stuck in a narrow circle of acquaintances. I want to live differently! I want to... write after my own mind. Mother, refuses to understand my desire. To her, family is almost a sacred concept. Did you play that game when you were younger? How it feels to kiss a shoulder. Ava... I'd love it if you would become my best friend. I long for someone I can talk to, about real things. Forgive me! I almost proposed to you...! That was odd. But, I'd like it if you became my best friend. Do you promise? Thank you. Did Gerhard kiss you? How does it feel to get kissed by a man? Do you think it feels different? I'm reading a novel about a woman who shivers when... ...a man kisses her neck and... ...shoulders... and her chest. If I close my eyes and imagine that special someone, could I ask you to kiss me, the way a man would have done it? You can never kiss me like that! Did you enjoy it? Yes, it was too enjoyable. Once upon a time there was a woman... ...who entered the world to look for love. Is mother feeling alright? She's calmer now. Doctor Iller gave her an injection. Poor father... I'll note down the expenses... Your notes will probably be more exciting. I write about love. Mother would like to talk with you about that subject. What does mother know about love? What does Agnes know about love? Be careful. So you'll not end up like Aimee... ...who got sent to a mental institution soon after her engagement. It's in the family, Pa. We are allergic to love. It makes us sick. The women anyway. How come, Pa? How come we're afraid of love? Why? Always "why?". Can love make you sick, Pa? Can it? You're living in a fantasy. If I didn't, would I have the strength to live? God, you two look like a loving couple! Dr. Iller, would you like to meet our daughter? It was so long since we last saw you. Agnes has grown up. Whispers: It would be wonderful to sleep with Agnes. You're not writing anything inappropriate, I hope? We want you to make us proud. Don't be worried. It will be a cheerful little girl's book. "Daughter of Colonel Ernst von Krusenstjerna and his wife Eva" "Daughters daughter to Erik Gustaf Geijer... " Maybe it was because of my nobility that my book was accepted. Our well-behaved little daughter... An authoress...! I'll go get Dr. Illers coat. Poor young woman! She has taken on a hard lap. Love can't be forced. It will come by itself. But she didn't yet know. Love... ...tenderness... ...infatuation... ...infatuation... ...eroticism... ...sensuality... ...sensuality. Miss von Krusenstjerna managed just fine with director Molander. Congratulations. It was thanks to Mr. Sprengel. I'm said to have a sharp tongue... I hope for a frank criticism when Mr. Sprengel has finished reading my new book. You're not afraid of my criticism, Miss von Krusenstjerna? I am, but I want it anyway. I admire everything you have written immensely, You may call me Agnes. Being an author is to go to war. It takes courage to have talent. Do you have courage, Agnes? Do Agnes also have courage to go for a ride with me in the swan? I thought it was forbidden to use the props? The forbidden is the most alluring... You must be mad! You're mad! Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world and become boring. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress depends on unreasonable people, said Shaw. David Sprengel agrees. Don't judge me by my outer shell. The best fishing is at the greatest depth. If you won't love me, I'll drown myself. The water is wet this year. Haven't Agnes got a heart? Agnes is cold and heartless. Even the flies has hearts, but not Agnes. There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated, said Dickens. And Agnes agrees. Loving, is life. The rest is nothing. I'm grown up now, father. You must adapt to us. I don't fit in here. We have nothing to say to each other. We hide our thoughts with talk! It may be cruel, but I have to tell the truth. You don't know who I am, and you're not interested in finding out. If you knew what goes on inside me, you would be horrified. You are ill. No, I'm fine! It's you who are ill, mother! You're just standing there half living, half dead! Ask for forgiveness! We who were hoping for you and Gerhard! He probably loathes you. Do I want Him? I Can't get married now. I need to write. Not girlish journals, but real novels. I need to find the truth within me. About love, and eroticism. I want to write about important things. Wild and uninhibited, mother! I need to experience the world alone, and try myself, and the world. Mother...! Forgive me, mother... I need to write... ...in order to sort out my life. A MUSIC BOX IS PLAYING Isn't it amusing? Many thanks! I'll show you how to handle it. I'll manage by myself. I have thought about you all this time. Did you think about me? Maybe you've met someone else who was more intriguing? Well, that's fine. I think I fell in love. But he was so different. I don't know if I love him. He frightens me a little. He claims he loves me. Solemn words... At first you have to like a person, isn't that right? What would Adolf say? If we got engaged? I don't know... if I want... Is it your writing? I have nothing against you writing a little now and then, but... First you'd like to have a family. That responsibility comes first, right? And I don't want people to say "he who is married to the authoress". I want you to be proud of me! Not the other way around? I don't like your tone. Maybe you don't like me... at all? Agnes... You know I like you. We belong together somehow. Adolf was my best friend. We belong to the same circle of acquaintances. What are you up to? Agnes, what are you doing? Calm, calm... I don't want to be kissed! We have so much to discuss. I want to finish my degree. Then we'll get married, and move to Uppsala. Don't go! I won't. I just want to plan our future. The present is more important than the future. Gerhard... Agnes... You are about to kiss... We just got engaged. So, you got engaged... ...I'm... happy for you... of course.. ...and I'd like to... congratulate. But I'd wish that you'd told me so I would have been better prepared. You're supposed to be... my best friend. But Adolf, now we'll become brother-in-laws too, and family. You probably never cared about me. You have only come here for Agnes. Sure, I care about you. You have never even given me a thought! I'm sorry... I never though I'd... ...see you and my sister kiss each other... Well, Agnes, you're rich now. At least our family will be pleased. Agnes, come here. The three of us will stick together. Right? There, there... Fly? No! Yesterday I found a spider in my soup. Boys! Put it under the chair! This tragic turn of the year should maybe have been celebrated calmer! Knut, should give the boys in the trenches a thought! The war is fought not far from our borders! Don't worry, Sweden will remain neutral. Adolf: Wake up. You have to be sociable. Now that you're engaged. I've written a verse in your honor. You're not the only poet in the family. The good wife in agony, sweat and toil. Her beloved husband spoil! Bravo! How elegant! The wife keeps quiet while her husband discusses. She is her husbands wife, his property, his female other half. Anyone who finds a good wife find the way to happiness. Next time, he'll offer her the ring, and Agnes will never break free from us then. So much pain, so many tears in the circle of a ring. Agnes... Agnes, it's almost twelve o'clock. We have to return to the others. Our family wants to raise their glass to the new year. But this year has been so awful Nothing but war and death. Those things has nothing to do with us. Come now, and try to cheer up. Stay with me, and kiss me and say that you love me. Do you? You know I do. You never say it voluntarily. The family means more to you than I. But, you belong to the family. Do you believe in God? I believe in myself. I'm getting tired of this. Let's go. Engaged people can spend time alone, can't they? Not when it's new years eve, as we are celebrating with our parents. Let's go now. You're afraid to be alone with me. Your eyes are so cold! You're acting strange again. Aren't I almost as cute as Ava now? Yes, you are very pretty. don't you think, Gerhard? Good night. Good night, son. You are hurting me, Ava! What cold hands you have! What sharp little nails! Gerhard says he is very tired. He wants to go to bed. SOMEONE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR Who is it? Agnes. Put your hands in the air. A ship comes loaded with peppermints. Beda will teach you how to make them. Since it's Gerhards favorite candy. Here's a bag for you too, sister Maja. You can go now. But promise you'll be back. You're wondering what I'm doing here. It has nothing to do with Gerhard. I thought so. Do you know what love is? Love is the purpose of life! I long for love! I'm afraid of love. You won't find love in this house. I have met someone else. He was so different As from another world. Do you know what love is? The big love? It's a ghost everyone speaks about. But few has seen it. When one is in love everything is so evident. I'm filled with doubt. You have the right to be. Gerhard's eyes are so cold! Don't repeat my mistake. Run before it's too late. It's already to late, Arvida. The household course begins next week. And the napkins need monograms... I'd just trow them at Beda...! You have never been the domestic type... I'm not sure who I am anymore and what I want. The towels needs hemming...! You won't have any use for those anymore. You're not staying. I'm thinking of my family back home. If they want what's best for you, they'll rejoice. Mother will feel dishonored... Everyone will be embarrassed some time. But it will pass. And Gerhard will mostly get his ego hurt, he's so self-conceited. One person will at least be happy. Adolf? Mm... So, it's decided? I have always been an obedient child, Arvida. I've had enough. I wish I was as brave as you. I'll miss you. You're different. My heart aches! Not here. Yes. You are going to the hospital now. But you will become healthy soon. And then I'll see you back at my place. It will end the same way for Agnes as for her cousin who is in a mental institution. It's in our genes. The menstruation arrived late. It matters, the doctor says. Schizophrenia, the doctor says. Agnes becomes more anxious when she writes. She will never become a real author. She isn't strong enough. Agnes recovers abroad, I heard. Isn't it terrible, Adolf, this thing with Viveka? She doesn't want to keep the baby, she believes it will go mad. Yes, and Aimees smallest is partly retarded. Poor Aimee who is in a mental institution. Yes, her nerves was to weak. Hysterical females... Es kostet ja nicht so viel... No...! Noo...! Adolf: Now when she is married, she won't acknowledge us anymore. The mother: Sprengel doesn't believe in the doctor's diagnosis. He says that her hysteria and depressions are a crisis of the soul. It sounds nice, and intellectual. Sprengel will lock her up and force her to write. This is where you'll be writing your masterpieces. When your powers allow. I'll show you what I have in mind. The mother: The books will be expensive. She always get sick when she writes. And suddenly we're good enough for her, since it's Us who pay the bill. Don't get cross with me for my small, yet necessary, modifications. In general, I probably get what you mean, better than anyone else. And I believe that my small, insignificant modifications, becomes a correspondence between us. I feel so close to you, through this. We work all winter so I rarely allow you to answer the phone... ...I turn down all visitors that may worry you, and in spring, we travel to the south. To avoid your family. I'll do anything, to please you, my little Butterbur, cherie. I have had my eyes on this big, magnificent bed while you were sick. There's place for me too when you want, and are able to give me the favor. Otherwise, I can always sleep on the couch in my office. You can walk straight from the bed to your desk. I'll place it below the window. Your little hand can caress just as well as it can handle a pen. I'll love you as no one has ever done before. When I kiss and embrace you, I want to penetrate your soul. In that way, nothing will get ugly, nothing disturbed. Your whole being will confine in me. You become calm, happy. All external conditions will become indifferent in comparison. Don't you agree, my love? We have to be... the one and only for each other. You gave me a new life, Pa. Most people would say I have ruined it. That your husband is arid and pompous. You are ahead of you time It irritates people. His hidden desires tempts him, to translate erotic pieces with atrocious motifs. The doctors are paying... I'm not considered quite normal. No, not with a wife like I... A "filthy individual"... I have the biggest collection of pornography in Sweden. A a derailed genius who hates everything and everybody. Since he lost his ability to write. You are wasting your time on me. Yes. I've transferred my ambitiousness to my wife... ...as a father transfer his ambitions to his kids. You're powerful, a great love. You are the most beautiful feature of my nature. Sprengel is living of her money! Basking in reflected glory. It's a shame! You are talking about an exceptional individual, Mr. Bonnier. You call her hysteric since she won't accept your modifications. She's the most talented woman in Sweden! The fact that your prestigious publishing house can't match her, is outrageous. She exceeded the good taste, you say? One can not write a life portrayal without bringing along some horrors! It's always a pleasure to displease you "elite publishers"... I've been in contact with publishers who wants to publish the books that has been silenced. We'll sue them for breach of contract. I admire the way she describes the degeneration of the bourgeois. How many pages today? With wide margins? Agnes lives in her own solar system, my lord. Birth, death, love, hate. She's completely indifferent to all trends. And if she's forced to take stand in social issues... ...she will believe what the majority believes. She's adjustable. She writes about perverted sexuality... The carnality of Sweden is a greater flaw than our craving for liquor... Eroticism isn't nice, not even normal, it seems. This obsession with sexuality...! I thought you were her friend. You once said that the sexuality is one of the most important aspects... in life. It is the authoress's intent, that the women of her novels wanders through a world of misfortune and decay. It's an image of our modern world, which she would like to change. You'd better leave. I usually drink a glass of sherry with Agnes at this hour. Right now we are pretending that we are in Spain, where she longs to be. A little acting won't hurt, it makes her calmer. Goodbye. Thank you for visiting. It would certainly be delightful to sleep with you. But highly inappropriate in our costuming. I've seen worse things in this house. No talking outside this door. Then maybe the police will show up. You probably know yourself, why Mr. Sprengel can trust me. Did you light the incense? Pull down the sunset? Good! MUSIC Father Pierre... Why are they afraid of my writing, Padre? Unfortunately it's due to our society, perhaps all societies. You have dared the truth, Mrs Sprengel. Call me Agnes. Mrs. Agnes... Those who criticize you is too afraid to tell the truth themselves. They judge me! But what they don't know is that I've already judged myself... They tell me I'm not serious. But maybe I'm serious, after all. My stay at the mental institution has branded me for life. My contract has been broken! I don't write pornographic filth! A lady of your ancestry doesn't even know the meaning of the word. You claim that I'm not decent. Be careful, Padre. I'm losing grip of life. She mustn't be disturbed! She has to sign. It's that damn will! The age of the assassins are here! I'll sue my mother! For forgery! This violates both Sprengel and me! Calm down! To accuse your own mother for something like that... I never want to see her again! I hate her! Don't tell Sprengel. He can never know what they have done to him! Agnes... Agnes? Agnes? Mrs. ran away. To where? She said something about "that damn will"... Forgive me, I'd like to know what was in that will, for the sake of my wife. The case is... If Mrs. Sprengel would die before Mr. Sprengel, Without leaving any children behind, All assets will go to Mrs. Sprengel's siblings and their children. If you outlive your wife, you won't come into possession of the family estate. Mrs. Sprengel wanted to keep this from you. Bring me a glass of wine, mother. But don't poison it with you your vile acid. For my beloved father in the sky... Wants to hear me laugh and cheer! You old hag! No, he couldn't stand you, you twisted his every word. Hired shrew wrote a will for the sake of the money! Like thieves you sent, when the deed was done, to the courthouse, my forged will! You hag! Fucking hag! Well spoken, my friend! My only friend... Off you go to the pawnbroker with my rings so we can drink a toast together! My dear mother gave me this. She hates my books! She says I'm a stigma for the swedish literary scene! Although, the press says I'm the most talented of the new young guard! She thinks my view of life is vicious. But I write for adults. I seek the truth. Even if I need to look for it in hell! Let us toast to ourselves. Who is sane? Who is insane? My husband poured the salt into my novels and made the irony sharp-edged. It was he who wrote all the filth! I guess filth makes books more popular. Do you really believe... it was me who thought of those bloody incest scenes?! My husband distorted it all! Write down what I have said! The truth must be revealed in the papers! My husband wrote 12 pages of perversities in my latest book! Did you write that down? Of course, Mrs. Sprengel. Once I'm dead, all my novels will be published...! Everyone hates me for what I have written. My writing has become too much for me to handle. I started to write to sort out my life. Through myself I wanted to get to know humanity. To be able to depict others. I only had myself to turn to... But am I enough? Wasn't my search sincere? Wasn't I true to myself? Isn't my talent enough? Oh, God, I'm not enough! Your name is Mats. Please Mr... ...give me a cigarette, only one! When my husband arrives, I'll pay for it. Honestly. He hits me when he's drunk. He says: "You hurt the one you love. " He'll go to jail for this, what, if I'll testify? Bittersweet as love... And it all disappears in smoke! Dear, non-existing God, let me sit here all my life. I'll never forget that you gave me a cigarette. Officer. I would have sold my soul for a smoke. I want to leave before my husband arrives. You can't imagine the turmoil that will arise. My husband isn't sober. He will smash the windows. He can beat a woman to pieces. Mrs. wasn't exactly in pieces... Don't you understand metaphorical language? I'm in pieces... ...Even if my limbs are still intact...! I'm ruined... I hate him! I mean, I love him. But he abuses me, Officer! I talk a lot of crap. It's only a temporary delirium. I have been reading too much. Sometimes I'm paranoid, sometimes hysterical. But I'm convinced I have syphilis. He's so tremendously good to me, Officer. I feel like a rascal when I think about what I've done! I've destroyed parts of my life and other people's lives! So, I found you... My heart is pecking so dull, and my pulse is about to stop from anxiety. Boo-boo wants to go home and scratch on papers... ...and scratch on all the furnitures, and bark. Boo-boo can't live without her Master. Let's go home. Be as kind to me as I've been cruel to you. What's on your mind? Terrible things. So terrible that you can't even tell me? Dear David... If I write without consideration of my family, Does that make me a bad person? No, but truth begets hatred! Is revenge a bad thing? No, revenge is human. It will make me feel guilty. Revenge is sweet, too. To hate ones mother, is that a crime, Pa? Mother and daughter is a grateful topic. The mother with the dead eyes... Gerhard with the cold eyes, Adolf with the evil eyes... My father with the fair, tender eyes... Poor nobility. Indigent, paltry, greedy, yet posh! I want to portray a family that sits at the bottom of a burrow. Their only view is a sultry sky. Where did the time go, Pa? I'm still in my nursery. I'll never get out. Well. Perhaps if I write it all down. When I was personal, they said I was sick. Now when my writing is facile they call it "delicate watercolors"! My family will be pleased. My mother sent me these flowers...! But you're not happy, even though my novels are a success. An artist is not an artist unless he gives everything he's got. You will become one of the great, but you must venture. You still have a far way to go! Do I have the strength, Pa? Opposition makes one strong. Adolf was prudish. He couldn't sleep if his toothbrush wasn't dry. A limited world. False, trivial people. Adolf loved to dress up as a girl. My father weighed the sugar, mixed the butter with flour... ...baked bread over the fire in the tile stoves... Drunken butlers in castles and manors... Homosexuality... ...love between a brother and a sister... ...insanity in the family... ...anxiety... This will be your biography. My aunt was a kleptomaniac. My mother hysterical! The story of my life on a few pieces of paper. How cruel! How silly! Take them away. Take them away. Take them away! What is it that you're trying to take away? The others, my family. They torment me. Can't you see that my eyes are my mother's eyes? They haunt me. Enter the land of the irresponsible, my love, even if it's guarded by ghosts. Forget all consideration. The only thing that matters, is yourself. Thanks, Pa. There, there, it's time for your morphine. God, I'm at Langbro now. Or is it Konradsberg? You shouldn't have to end up in an institution. We'll get you a private nurse. Am I manic or depressive? Sane or insane? Tell me! You are sane. It's they who are crazy. Tell my mother, tell the world! That's what I'm doing, Boo-boo. I flew myself tired, Pa. I wanted to blast the blue wall of the horizon. But I never made it, not even to the wall. I'm flying, Pa! I'm flying! So, the Countess refuse to pay directly to us? Where are your "motherly" feelings? I need to keep this from Agnes. She's going through a severe crisis. It's expensive, medications, doctors. Self-absorbed hag! Cunt! Does nurse Klara love herself? I don't contemplate about those things. The sane! A thousand fen fire's are dancing over the earth, and you can't see them. Us, who are insane, knows there are no limits. We dare to acknowledge this tremendous thought. That's why we lose our minds. Mrs. needs her rest. The sane, refuse to understand. Do you ever think about death, nurse Klara? Mrs. Sprengel shouldn't speak about such silly things. Where did the dead go, nurse Klara? They were our friends. They spoke. We could feel them breathing. We put our poor friends, in a grave and forget about them. We walk all over, our dead friends. Meanwhile, the earth is spinning, round, round round. With the burden of the living and the dead. Don't you ever think about these thing? You're too much in your head, Mrs. Sprengel. Are you afraid of death, nurse Klara? I'm terrified. I don't want to die. My choice is between, sickness and health. I choose to get better. I should have used my desire to be sick, for the opposite. "Dear Tor Bonnier. " "I believe 'Poor Nobility" would be a fitting title for my new novel. " I need to write about my family. Otherwise, I'll never escape them. "I assure you that the book will be idyllic, lovable and platonic. " As if I had written it myself... "I have mourned over my books you didn't want to publish". "So much that I became ill. Therefore I'd be grateful if you sent me an advance. " Since you already approved the first chapter. " We're going to Italy. To live in Sweden is like drinking milk, healthy, yet lethal. We're traveling to Rome, Florence, Venice, where you can write and get inspiration. The crow travels abroad, and returns just as black as before. One of these days you'll be the whitest of all birds. They don't understand you at home, but soon... I'll have to die first, Pa. Send me money for 16 sheets, 61 lines per page. Calculated according to my new tariff that my husband negotiated for me. Mother says she doesn't want to see you or your horrid husband anymore. Dr. Iller believes he should be institutionalized. Spregel is making you ill, by the things he's forcing you to write. For heaven's sake, Agnes! Our entire family history is being revealed in your books. You merge multiple persons into one, but we're being recognized. You ridicule us. Now everyone believes we're degenerated, anemic, senile... We require that you'll stop writing about us! You expose us in front of the entire nation. Don't you ever think about us, who wants to live a decent life? Think of our defenseless children. Can you? Now when your audience is so grande, you make a lot of money. It's time to pay your debts, especially to Gerhard. He gave you money for the wedding with your horrid husband! This home is Agnes private area. Get out of here! Petty bourgeois! You'll make Agnes ill again! Don't touch me. The beauty sat in the forest with her hands covering her eyes, she didn't want to see! Take me to the mental institution, Pa, to the section of the violent and psychotic. Let there be trouble! I can't take it anymore! There! There! Pa, has arranged money and tickets. We're going to the valley of olive groves and palm trees. The palm trees... In the language of flowers "palm tree" means laurel wreath. Pa, will restore his little Butterbur, cherie, We're going to prevail in any case, Pa. We'll win, Pa. Yes. My family will never find me here, right? They'll never find me. It would be like looking for a black cow in a burnt forest. It would be wonderful to be rooted in hot soil... ...to be watered by rain... ...and to spread your shimmering leaves towards a burning and tender sun... ...to die with the autumn winds, and to rise again by spring. Why did God create man, with such anxious hearts? He should only have created grass, trees and plants. What a lovely world it would be! Calm... It's only ruminations, which rise with the fatigue after having completed a work. It was about time you got married, Adolf. I'm so happy for you! Adolf will give me grandchildren. Do you hear me, Agnes? Our family will live on through him. What a lovely couple! What a wonderful wedding! What delightful champagne! The bridesmaid's dresses are lovely! You look pale, Agnes. Agnes, hurry up! You'll never escape us, Agnes. We share the same blood. The same blood... ...the same blood! English translation: peyotequeen |
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