"HEIMAT 3" " A CHRONICLE OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS" "A SIX-PART FILM B Y EDGAR REITZ" "PART FOUR - EVERYONE IS DOING WELL" "In my heart" "Love awakens" "In the wonderful month of May" "When all the birds are singing" "No luggage?" "I have to tell you something" "What's wrong?" "I have to leave in a few hours" "You should hear how David and I improvise" "The group treats me with such respect" "I always dreamed of this" "Seems to be a fun group" "The programme is brilliant" "First Schumann's Poet's Love and then The Song of the Earth" "It will be a huge success" "Schumann's songs are perfect for a snappy crossover version" "For example, No Grudge" "Does it translate as "Ich grolle nicht"?" "Yes" "We're doing five concerts in America, so it has to be in English" "In English" "I'm looking forward to the stage tomorrow" "My train leaves at 5.:08pm" "Does my voice sound strained?" "Why are you so restless?" "Make yourself at home first" "I am home" "Don't look at me so critically" "I feel bad about it, too" "Don't give me a guilty conscience" "We still have five hours" "Take a look around" "Notice anything?" "It smells strange, maybe?" "I cleaned the house from top to bottom" "I had the curtains cleaned" "flowers in every room" "I changed the bed sheets" "Sounds like criticism" "Didn't we promise never to criticise one another?" "Why did you come, anyway?" "Because I'm at home here, like you" "And I'll be away for eight weeks and I need lots of things" "Underwear, warm clothes for Scandinavia and summer clothes for Spain and America" "Why all this?" "It makes me sad to talk like this" "Lichtblau" "I wasn't mistaken" "You've been so chatty on the phone for weeks" "You told me thousands of ridiculously trivial things as if you had to give me a complete picture of how you live" "How your days were so fulfilling" "How you were so exhausted at night" "Who is he, anyway?" "David or Mike or all?" "please, I'll tell you everything" "OK, then" "The German singer and the successful American jazz man locked together by romantic songs and the blues" "Hermann!" "Boy, oh, boy!" "Hermann, you forgot to put the handbrake on" "What's happened?" "Shall I call a breakdown service?" "What are you doing?" "I'll take care of it, No problem" "Hi, Hermann" "Hi" "I brought someone along" "Here is Galina, I don't have to explain it to you" "Could you help her?" "She's very musically-minded, a natural talent" "I want to help her to study music" "Singing, to be precise" "Hermann, you would be doing me a big favour" "You see, I love her" "So at least listen to her" "Hermann is this a piano score?" "We were at a music shop, These are Russian folk songs" "They had them in stock, Great, isn't it?" "Do me a favour, play this and let her sing" "CIarissa please tell me if she's talented" "Come on, listen to her, Tell her, You're the expert" "Thank you" "Galitshka!" "Hartmut said I should sing" "Yes, excuse me" "It might not be the right time" "You see Galina got divorced today at the local court in Simmern" "They gave her full custody of the boy" "She's had a flat in Wiesbaden for a while now" "I didn't get it for her, Ernst did" "I want her to sing for you, just to give it a go so she doesn't make a big mistake" "I'm glad That you're not lovesick over me" "I'm glad I'm not lovesick over you" "The Earth's burden" "Will never leave us" "I thank you with my heart and soul" "For your secret love" "During the peaceful nights" "Thank you for our dates at sunset" "Thank you for seeing the stars And seeing the sunshine" "It's a pity You're not lovesick over me" "It's a pity I'm not lovesick over you" "Nice, isn't it?" "I can't do anything for her" "So..." "What happens now?" "I have to see this through" "Really?" "You have to see it through?" "This American crossover kitsch" "Is that what you call valuable and cultivated?" "See it through..." "Take a look around this house here things that we've seen through together" "These walls are looking at you and asking you questions" "They belong to us" ""See it through", at your age!" "What are you doing?" "It's better than going into early retirement" "Do you want me to become a failed artist like you?" "You can't stand it when I'm happy in my work!" "Yes, yes" "To the right!" "Mr Simon, it's good that I ran into you" "I've had a package for you for weeks" "The mobile phone for your wife, We had to order it from America" "Silicon Valley, you know?" "It has the new tri-band technology and a long-Iife mode" "Your wife can use it all over the world" "Come with me, Mr Simon, Shall I..." "No" "So I just ran after the bus..." "Wait a second, Moni!" "Mr Simon Moni and I have decided to get married in the near future" "Really?" "And we wanted to ask you if you and your wife would be our witnesses" "Because Tillmann and I got very close at your place" "Moni..." "Yes..." "I think that will be possible" "We met each other without knowing that I would inherit this shop" "That wasn't certain" "She didn't want an electrician" "Now everything fits" "Like a glove" "Have you seen my computer section yet?" "Everything your heart could desire" "Tell me, do you still have that old 386?" "Shall I come round and upgrade it?" "That would be a good idea" "I'll stop by soon then, OK?" "The mobile phone for your wife" "The invoice is inside" "Great, thanks" "And thank you for your order" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Mr Simon!" "Yes!" "Here's the key!" "The phone is next to the door, Dial 1 1 2" "The fire brigade?" "Yes" "They know what to do" "Shouldn't I call my husband?" "No, the fire brigade!" "Look at it!" "My God!" "I'll call my husband!" "No!" "The fire brigade, damn it!" "Hermann!" "CIarissa!" "Is anyone home?" "What are you doing?" "Are you a fireman?" "Do I look like one?" "Where's Hermann?" "He's lying back there" "What happened?" "Hermann!" "Where are you?" "What's happened?" "Hold on, Oh, shit!" "I'll help you" "I can't open it!" "Get something to stop the bleeding, There must be something in the house" "Yes, upstairs in the medicine cabinet" "Like I said!" "Hold on, I'll help you, I'll be right back" "What?" "The letter!" "Here!" "Yilmaz!" "I waited for you as long as I could because you went without the key" "I wanted to say goodbye" "The taxi is waiting outside" "I put the key in our old hiding place" "I hope you found it" "Hermann I know I insulted you, and I hope you can forgive me" "I was on the defensive and so unsure of my feelings" "Sometimes I think we made a mistake" "The lovely house." "Our homeland forevermore" "To never part, To be the centre of each other's lives" "Isn't it naive to be so resolute about it?" "I would understand if you decided to live the life of a nomad again" "It renews your strength" "You see, Nikita?" "Uncle Hartmut will become handsome and young" "Without his wrinkles" "Thank you" "You're welcome" "Without any grey hairs" "Everybody will think he's doing well" "Yes" "And everybody will be happy when he arrives at work" "Do I look handsome, Niko?" "You like me better this way?" "One day I will be a very good beauty therapist" "I will make famous women attractive and men, too" "And they will say, "It's very good that she didn't become a bad singer"" "Very nice" "Did you see my number plate?" "It's number eleven in my collection" "Fifty years of Simon, I've stopped counting" "Come in, you're one of the family" "I would rather not" "Why not?" "I really don't know your family" "I don't know them either, but it still works" "Just look at me" "I'm suing my father" "My siblings are also suing him and my wife" "And she's suing me" "She wants a divorce but she doesn't want to upset my old man" "I don't know if my own child might one day turn against me" "We're all envious and we begrudge one another's achievements but I'm still going to walk into that house and laugh" "Just like that" "That's how it is" "It's what I call a family clan" "I prefer to drive, That's enough for me" "You're right" "Yes, exactly" "We will point the lamp..." "Chief, the banner from Schabbach FC doesn't fit at all" "I would forget the etiquette for the sake of my football club" "Where's the trophy from our victory last year?" "I want to hold it in my hands" "Mr Schwarz it must be right in the centre" "Look, this is the other medal" "Hartmut" "I know where you were" "Shareholders..." "Your look" "The red cheeks" "I was once young myself" "Come here to me and don't get suspicious" "Come and stand on my right side" "Competition stimulates business" "It's a wise old saying" "You're my first-born, the crown prince" "One day you will sit in my chair" "A Simon is always a Simon" "What is it?" "It's a medal, You get one, too" "You deserve it after a two year armistice" "It's a cameo, made in 1 830" "Are you bribing me?" "Peace, just peace" "You know I want a divorce" "In peace" "Dieter, this quarrel has been going on so long" "I'll handle it" "I hope so" "Hartmut, come here" "What's going on?" "Our lawsuits are interfering with one another" "If you don't accept the verdict and you take your case to the Supreme Court in Karlsruhe our case contesting your son's inheritance will be undermined" "The judges will never say we're both right" "Who is the lawyer?" "My case deals with company law, yours with inheritance law" "If we both win, there will be a family feud" "Especially if one of us loses" "OK, we will just have to continue suing one another" "Suing keeps you lively" "Hartmut, come here" "Listen, my boy" "Facts are facts" "It's a fact that Mara is the mother of your son" "And that I bailed you out after the accident is a fact, too" "We can't bring the dead back to life even if we give Lulu a thousand marks a month" "Another fact is Hartmut I just don't want you to lose touch with reality" "That's all" "Incidentally, you can move into my office tomorrow" "Where's the catch?" "Look around you" "These things are your facts" "And as long as you stick to the family rules nobody will protest when you drive to Wiesbaden now and then" "My private life is my own business" "I have nothing against that young Russian, I understand you" "She's so young and obedient, It's quite touching" "Enjoy it" "Where is she?" "Don't be so hypocritical" "I saw the title deed, lt must be a pretty, cosy flat in Wiesbaden" "You bet" "That's it!" "You've been very decent and generous, but enough is enough" "Make up with Mara and stop disgracing us everywhere in Hunsrück and in front of the Russian immigrants" "Can't you leave it to me just once?" "No" "No?" "No!" "We will see" "What shall I say about that?" "Look at that lens that Mr Schwarz is holding" "That was my first innovation" "Isn't that right, Mr Schwarz?" "That's right" "The engineers who examined it said it wouldn't work" "They said it was out of focus and distorted" "But it's still the best lens that's ever been made" "It can photograph every single one of your pores so precisely that it can read your mind" "Pay attention when the photographs are finished and you get to look at them" "Mrs Weirich!" "Where are the boots?" "Let's all get in position" "Come and stand next to me" "THE COMPANY'S FOUNDER WALKED IN THESE BOOTS" "FROM NOVOSIBIRSK TO SCHABBACH IN 1 945" "Mrs Weirich, I want you in the picture" "Do I have to?" "Don't argue!" "As an old faithful employee, you're one of us, Am I right?" "Yes, of course, You're right" "A bit more to the right" "Mr Schwarz, we're ready" "It's very important you don't move" "Very important" "Tom, smile!" "Once more, Mr Schwarz" "With so many people you never know if everybody smiled and looked friendly" "Smile!" "And don't just look friendly, think friendly" "And again, please" "Until all the film is used up" "OK..." "A picture says more than a thousand words" "Hermann, it's Clarissa." "I'm calling from the train" "I'm passing through Göttingen" "I'm sad about how we dealt with each other and I want to speak to you about it" "I'm always so nervous before an opening night" "You know how it is" "Damn!" "This phone is eating all my change" "I'll call you again later" "This is Clarissa" "Mr Simon?" "It's open" "Excuse me, Mr Simon" "I've come to install the new board and to ask about the bill but it seems..." "Can I help you in any way?" "Tillmann I think I've finished" "For goodness' sake!" "Really finished?" "The Unification Symphony finished" "My God!" "The Unification Symphony" "I didn't believe you would finish it" "Six movements" "It should be The Separation Symphony" "But Mr Simon  The Unification Symphony sounds better" "You're right" "There's a little clarinet solo in it" "That's nice" "I've never been so creative" "At the same time I wrote a cycle of thirty-three songs without any trouble at all" "I have this book, It contains Günderrode's poems" "I hear the melodies as if they had been hovering around here for two hundred years and I just needed to write them down" "Everything is silent and empty" "Nothing gives me joy" "Fragrance with no fragrance" "Breeze with no breeze" "My heart" "Is so heavy" "Now you're in this creative phase, we must upgrade your computer" "In future, you can type your notes directly into the computer save them and then send them all over the world" "Anybody who wants your symphony can get it from us, I guarantee it" "Is your order still valid?" "Order?" "I'm going to install the mainboard with the Pentium as well as the new Windows" "Now it's my turn, boss" "Nikita, what are you doing?" "Say good morning to Hartmut" "What are you both doing?" "Oh, no, Stop it" "I was thinking you could put on something nice get in the car with me and drive to Schabbach" "When we get there we will finally do what we want and stand by it" "We will sort things out with your family" "If somebody wants to make trouble, I'll shut them up" "Believe me" "please" "My new life is beginning in this town, Hartmut" "Galina I want to marry you" "OK, but leave me here, please" "BUILT IN 1 7 7 3, FOUNDED B Y PAUL SIMON STIFTUNG" "Hello, you!" "Are you all alone?" "What's the score?" "Three minutes to go, Still 0-0" "Who are we playing?" "Eintracht Bad Kreuznach, They're number one in the local league" "I see, so it's all or nothing?" "Is that right?" "You could put it that way" "Goal!" "Goal!" "Come here!" "Keep going, boys!" "Get another goal!" "Get another goal" "Rudi!" "Hermann!" "I almost didn't recognise you, Come here" "Yes, in there" "Move down a bit" "Everyone who scores a goal today will be made an honorary citizen" "It's been arranged" "Did you know that Schabbach used to have a great team?" "Erich Weckmüller playing right-wing and the Scherer brothers and albert Sulzbacher as goalkeeper" "We made it into the regional league, Remember?" "Keep fighting, boys!" "Brilliant!" "Where does Anton get so much energy?" "Schabbach!" "Schabbach!" "A miracle after his stroke" "You should have seen him run when he cheered the attack on" "It's incredible" "He's four years older than me" "Really?" "Yes" "Oh, well" "It's his passion" "Yes" "How's your foot?" "Getting better" "Don't look at it, then it will heal quicker" "That's my experience in life, Isn't that right, Lena?" "You bet" "Whoever saw that today knows I'm a cut above the rest" "It proves my ancient theory that you can find every kind of talent right here in Hunsrück" "You just have to recognise it and constantly encourage it" "Make them practise hard on every God-given day and plant the thorn of ambition in their flesh" "A few years later you can reap the harvest" "Ninety per cent of the players in my team come from Hunsrück" "And more than half of them are from Schabbach" "I've found a few Russians, too" "Top quality blokes, ambitious" "None of them have received millions the way professional football usually works nowadays" "It was good publicity for you today" "Yes, well, I have to profit from it, too" "Let me tell you about the team we beat today" "Not one of them comes from Bad Kreuznach" "They have all just been bought" "Money, money" "Yes, and they still call it sport" "But you saw how we beat them today" "I remember, after the war how you got all the farm boys together and told them "I'll make you into fine engineers"" "You looked at their fat fingers and said "You will have different fingers"" "Well, quality always succeeds" "That may have been the truth once" "It's still the truth" "I respect your motto but the world isn't turning out like that" "Hermann, you get around a lot" "Tell me, who is "the world"?" "Anton, people like you" "You're kidding me" "Congratulations" "I'm going to see the team, They're celebrating" "Don't be angry, but they need me" "I'll have you driven home, Horst!" "And don't take it to heart" "What?" "Your foot, of course" "Oh, right" "Mr Simon, your cane" "Starting at this moment there are exactly forty thousand hours until the next millennium" "Did you know that?" "One hour for every kilometre of the Earth's circumference" "This is a cosmic moment" "The power of the number four" "A square signifies a standstill but also violence" "A new millennium is a phenomenal thing" "As a child standing on the Volga, I calculated whether that date which is so important to the entire Christian world was something I would experience" "This morning at 4:00am I became ninety-four years old" "Look at me" "Will I live forty thousand more hours?" "What do you think?" "What can happen in the next four years?" "Maybe the end of the world which we have feared since 1 945" "At the moment, everything is calm" "I pray it stays that way" "I love this wide river" "It flows on and on and takes everything with it" "All our filth" "What do you think?" "Do you believe the Rhine will flow in the other direction?" "The river couldn't care less" "Did you feel the earthquake?" "So it's true what I felt" "Yes" "The epicentre was near Dhaun in the Eifel" "It was a very weak quake" "Most people didn't even notice it" ""The Earth is extremely beautiful..." ""...but it isn't safe"" "The Earth is extremely beautiful" "But it isn't safe" "That's how they announce themselves" "Who?" "Who announces themselves?" "CIarissa!" "Yes?" "Hermann, it's me, Mara" "I have some sad news for you" "Anton died last night" "Anton?" "It was his heart" "It's 7:00am" "Gisela is here" "We're taking care of everything" "Heart attack" "Dieter..." "Ernst!" "Are you at home?" "Uncle Ernst?" "Hi, Uncle Ernst" "Hi, Hartmut" "I didn't know you were an early bird" "I have to tell you something" "Did your father send you?" "He's dead" "Say that again" "My father died at 4:00am this morning" "There was nothing wrong with him" "His heart" "None of us could believe it" "But it's true, Your brother is no longer alive" "You were always at odds with him" "And you weren't?" "He has you on his conscience" "Why don't we forget about that?" "What a selfish hiker!" "Five thousand kilometres from Siberia to Schabbach on foot" "It's incredible!" "Anton is an elephant and a headmaster one with clay on his boots and in his brain!" "I wanted to tell you personally" "I didn't want you to read it and blame us for not telling you" "Thank you" "It's good you came" "It looks like his hour has come" "It's never the right time" "You're the boss now, Hartmut, You have to realise that" "It will take time" "You don't have all the time in the world" "But inside inside you, time is ticking away" "It's a time bomb" "Since you were a youngster" "At the moment we're doing well, aren't we, Hartmut?" "Galina!" "Hartmut, Be quiet" "Niko's taking his nap" "Galina!" "Be quiet" "I have to tell you something" "I do, too" "I was accepted at beauty college" "My father is dead" "Your father?" "Yes" "Hartmut" "All I have left is you" "Don't, Niko is awake, Hartmut" "Niko!" "Hermann" "Gisela" "I haven't seen you for ages" "Come in" "Hermann" "Hanni" "We all have to go some time" "Yes, Hanni" "Morning" "My condolences" "Thanks" "My condolences" "Thank you" "Tell me, Gisela..." "He could compose a club hymn for us" "I didn't even know how to tie a tie" "And Marie told me that when they lay down a body..." ""Lay down"!" "You talk like you take free kicks, always hit and miss" "OK, you don't always have to act like a coach" "Marie said that I didn't have to wear black" "I said, "If that's the case..."" "Oh, thank you" "Thank you" "You're welcome" "Cheers" "So suddenly, I saw him just yesterday" "I know, and he was so happy to win the trophy" "But he had heart trouble" "I know" "It is all too late" "I'm afraid that's right" "No, not at the moment" "The family will make a statement later on" "Yes, hold on" "My condolences" "Thanks" "I believe you have misunderstood the word of the gospel when you believe it has to do..." "Hello ...with Hell and eternal damnation" "But that's a threat" "I don't make threats" "I don't mean you personally, I mean the institution you represent" "I've come here to stand by you" "I've always felt threatened by the Church" "Should I make a statement for the press?" "Who decides that?" "I don't know, Hartmut should have been back ages ago" "Did you notice that my father-in-Iaw never went to church all year except perhaps at Christmas, Iike most people" "It's so nice of you to come" "It goes without saying" "The family clan" "Yes" "You travel all over the world, and yet..." "Father is still father" "Sister is still sister" "Uncle is still uncle" "But love isn't still love" "Good morning" "My condolences" "Would you prefer a traditional burial?" "It's our tradition" "I want to be cremated when I die" "Hans, as well, Don't we, Hans?" "Yes" "That's what we prefer" "That's out of the question for me, I don't want fire all around me" "When I imagine, Helga that you're surrounded by flames I can't believe you are talking like this in his presence" "We have to decide, It has to do with all of us" "There are specialists, Gisela" "Have you contacted an undertaker?" "I don't want any worms gnawing away at him" "Have a look in the calendar" "Hold on" "We meet again so soon" "I thought it would be at court" "Dieter, we want him cremated" "Just slow down" "Fire suits his personality, Believe me" "He once told me that his body was a burden to him" "He wanted to be free from it" "Dieter... n o wo r m ss, p easse" "The thought makes me sick" "OK, let's have him cremated" "It's a more modern method" "And aesthetic, isn't it?" "Did he leave a will?" "Dieter, he's your father" "Is it true that you saw him yesterday?" "Yes, on the football pitch" "He told me about it" "We had a nice conversation about you and CIarissa" "He wanted us all to make up" "Really?" "I'll keep you informed" "OK" "Goodbye" "Goodbye" "Pick Undertakers, Hello, my name is Gisela Pick" "My condolences for your loss" "I'm sure you have questions so I've come to discuss the details with you" "Thank you, I'm sure you're expected, Come in" "Thank you" "Come on in, please" "Don't you want to go inside, Horst?" "Ernst!" "Is that you?" "Little Hermann" "So we finally meet again" "Why didn't you stop by?" "Come on, None of that nonsense" "You sit in your house on the Rhine, move in the best circles and you don't let anybody see your Hunsrück hunchback" "We all have it, I know that" "A family is like a big old hunchback you carry around your whole life" "You struggle to stand up straight and to look straight ahead" "You have nice suits tailored for you, but they're always there our Hunsrück hunchbacks" "I never had anything against you" "On the contrary" "I was the only one who thought like you did" "Remember the phrase, "Damn homeland!" "I can't wait to get away!"" "That was your motto, and mine, too" "I've flown over your house lots of times, Have you noticed?" "Of course, it was your way of paying a visit" "So what's your way?" "Anton, the hiker, and his indigenous mob are closer to you" "Aren't I right?" "You've changed too" "You're scared of aging, so you come home full of remorse" "Ernst, didn't anybody tell you?" "What, that he has kicked the bucket?" "Out of the blue" "He just turned seventy" "But at least it's going in turn, First the oldest, then..." "Yes" "What are we going to do?" "Let's go have a drink" "Don't give me that look, We aren't getting any younger" "Here, throw this away and get in" "Come on" "Let's go to my place" "And no excuses, I can tell you don't want to go home" "Leave your car here, We will need the jeep to take the back route" "Here you are" "Everything we believed in..." "Made us sad, Am I right?" "Well?" "Very good" "It smells of loneliness here" "It comes from the antiques I've been living with for forty years" "I'm an international expert on musty smells and farewells" "To tell the truth, it doesn't really suit me" "Remember..." "I started collecting things for want of something to do" "Back then you could earn good money with cultural items because everything was destroyed during the war" "At first, old household items carved doors, furniture, farming equipment and then... paintings" "It's become an addiction" "My life is buried behind that door" "Bolted, barricaded, deep down in the cavern" "Now pay attention" "Open sesame!" "Astonishing, isn't it?" "Come on" "You can't put paintings in a cavern." "I have containers for them" "Stainless steel containers with a constant climate all year round" "Fifty-three per cent humidity and 1 6,5 degrees" "Automatically regulated" "Interesting" "How many paintings do you have in your containers?" "Exactly one thousand and seventy-two without frames" "Only the most valuable ones" "It's no use" "That's how it is with collectors" "You want to have them, not to look at them" "Listen to me, Hermann" "You're my brother" "If you wanted to be partners we could build a museum" "What?" "The Simon Brothers Museum, here on my property" "It would be a dream come true" "A forty-four square metre Schabbach-free zone" "Now look at this" "Here, give me that" "This will be the museum" "This is Goldbach" "My house is about here and this spot we just crossed will be the new bridge" "We're about here, Now for the best bit" "Here this is the big hall" "In that very spot we will build a fantastic concert hall just for you" "The third millennium starts in a few years" "Do you want to be even lonelier?" "We have to set the biggest goals ourselves" "CIarissa has left me" "Really?" "I'm fairly certain" "I always thought you had no problems with the ladies" "Can you see it from there?" "Very good, Rudi" "They want to cremate him" "Who, Anton?" "It would be the first time in Schabbach" "We don't have the facilities if you know what I mean" "We aren't in India, are we?" "All that fat, The thought makes me sick" "Oh, Helmut, there wouldn't be much left" "It would fit into a trophy" "Don't believe that rubbish" "You knew Hännes von Wommert" "Yes" "They cremated him in Mainz after the heart transplant went wrong" "Before they heat up the oven to a thousand degrees they wait until they have ten to fifteen bodies" "They put them all in there at once" "Sorry for saying so, but it's like a concentration camp" "Then they take the ashes and distribute them in urns" "What's left over is secretly taken to lngelheim's dump" "I would like to pay, please" "Maybe we can use the large trophy from the match against Wildbad Kreuth" "It even has a lid" "If we glue it shut, it will stay closed for a hundred years" "That would work" "After all, it's real silver" "I'm all alone here with everything" "He's being taken to Mainz" "To Mainz?" "Why to Mainz?" "Don't worry, Mr Simon, We will take care of everything" "That's what we're here for" "Hello, Hartmut" "Hello" "Do they know?" "They have been informed" "Is everyone here?" "Everyone who is at work now" "Thank you" "Good morning, Forget the chairs" "Come closer" "The people in the back, too" "You know that we are a family business" "That's why I'm here today" "Family, to me, means we have to stick together" "My company in Hahn, which now has three hundred and sixty employees deals with consumer interests" "This company, which was founded by my father deals with professional interests" "It is a model for reliability and top quality standards no matter whether we're dealing with modern mass-produced goods or with conservative brand-name products" "We can only survive in Hunsrück when we respect the laws of the market" "And my father..." "As soon as his will is opened I will meet with the heads of department and the Works Council" "But I guarantee that most of you will keep your jobs" "We can't go on like we have for the past forty years" "I'm enough of a professional to judge that" "Decisions are no longer being made in Schabbach" "It is my aim to lead this company into a new era" "Thank you" "Any questions?" "Mr Simon?" "Yes?" "When is our boss's funeral?" "The family decided that it will take place with just the immediate family" "Thank you for your attention" "You have a visitor waiting in the boss's office" "Thank you" "I know what you've been through, but great things lie ahead" "In any case, you can count on me" "Thank you" "I have my doubts about whether I should sit down in that chair" "A merger between the two companies is important" "Mergers are a big trend now" "The future belongs to big companies" "I have four siblings" "One of them is a lawyer, and he's cunning" "My wife and I divide our property equally" "Mr Böckle, if I have to buy them all out I'll pay for the rest of my life" "I would become the slave of the entire clan" "You forgot about us" "Food and Non-Food can solve that problem" "We are interested in you" "It's the truth" "Sorry, my daughter lives here" "She doesn't seem to be home, I wanted to leave a message" "She lives on the second floor" "Yes, OK" "Lukas?" "Lukas?" "Hello, Lukas" "Lukas!" "What are you doing there?" "I don't know what to do, This is my daughter's flat" "I can hear the child, It's my grandchild" "I'm afraid something has happened to my daughter" "Do you know how I could get into the flat?" "Is there a caretaker or someone else with a key?" "I can help you, but you have to take responsibility" "Is that clear?" "I accept it" "Let me tell you something" "Everything's possible in this building" "Below us are dealers" "They have drugs everywhere" "Noticed any changes in your daughter?" "I can tell when I see them, The way they look" "The colour of their face, all white under the eyes" "And they walk differently, Ever noticed that?" "They stop every few metres" "I know all about it, I don't want to get you all worried" "But don't be surprised if your daughter is lying dead in her flat" "What?" "Yes, a week ago, they carried a young man out of his flat dead for three weeks" "I hardly dare to breathe the air in this stairwell" "Can't you smell it?" "I'm an expert at opening doors" "I did construction work for ten years" "Now I'm unemployed, but I'm doing well" "Yes, we're doing well, You can bet on that" "Lukas, it's OK!" "It's me, Grandpa" "Manfred, good job!" "First time I've seen you do that" "Oh, Lukas, it's me, Come here" "Everything's OK, lt's me, Grandpa" "Look..." "Where is Mummy?" "Here, look, ls she here?" "Let's go into your room, Look, here's your bed" "Were you sleeping?" "I'm sure Mummy will be right back" "Yes" "Know what this is for?" "What's going on here?" "Lulu!" "You're here!" "What are you all doing here?" "What about Lukas?" "Lukas?" "He's asleep" "What do you think you're doing in my flat?" "What would you say if I walked into your flat?" "Lulu, I was worried" "Can't I go out for an hour?" "Lukas was sleeping" "He was screaming his head off" "If you break into a flat, any kid would scream" "Listen here" "I was really worried" "Something terrible could have happened" "Look at it from a positive angle" "You never worried about for me for twenty years" "It's ridiculous" "You never gave a damn since you and Mum separated" "Since I was six years old" "What are you staring at?" "Give me that" "This is used to fill cartridges for the printer" "Did you know that?" "No?" "Shut your mouths and get out!" "I've had it!" "Come on, love" "What's this?" "The lock is broken, Am I supposed to live with an open door?" "Here you are!" "That's the thanks we get for being friendly and helping out" "Don't even mention it" "I don't want to have anything more to do with them" "You can pay for the repairs" "Haven't I always helped you out?" "You stayed with us for months when you were pregnant" "We took you to hospital when the child came" "Now that doesn't count any more" "Can't you ask me why I did it?" "Hello, is that the management?" "There must be something we can count on" "I need a new lock, I'll hold" "I don't want to be called Lulu any more, lt's a tart's name" "From today, my name is Simone, as Mum called me" "Do you know how she is?" "Could you send someone over today?" "Goodbye" "We had a party last night, I turned twenty-eight, sir" "I hoped that was the reason you came" "Go ahead and leave, I'm fine, I have it under control" "What?" "The eviction order" "What eviction order?" "That's why I was gone, I handed in my appeal on time" "Didn't you pay your rent?" "They're making owner-occupied flats" "They want to tear the building down?" "You have no idea what's going on" "You live in a different world, Hermann" "You should have said something, We would have found another flat" "I would have helped you pay the rent" "I don't want you people to think of me in terms of money" "People?" "Which people?" "All of you, Hartmut and your brother, who send money once a month to ease their conscience like they could bring someone back from the dead" "You lump everything together" "Why are you here anyway?" "Everything's going wrong" "What's wrong with your foot?" "Anton is dead" "I wanted to tell you" "Good evening" "Good evening" "Can I take that for you?" "Put it here" "What can I do for you?" "Bring me a beer" "How much is that?" "How about a cosy, private room with some nice company?" "Beer costs the same there" "No, thanks" "Thanks, if you don't want to..." "What's your name?" "My name is..." "Anton" "Let me explain, Anton, I do everything but intercourse" "It's too dangerous nowadays" "I think you understand, because you're educated" "The things I have to explain to those primitive blokes..." "But do they understand?" "They do it without a condom and crawl into bed with Mummy without saying a word" "Come on, Anton, Come on" "That will be two hundred" "Put your coat and your jacket over there" "Make yourself at home" "Don't take off your shoes, It's so unhygienic" "Come on, Anton, Sit on the chair" "Do you like that?" "Go on, grab them" "Now let's see your pride and joy, then" "Just what I thought, You're really special" "You see, Anton, that's how you wake the dead" "Jesus, Anton, You poor sod" "Hermann?" "It's CIarissa" "Sorry, I know it's been a long time since I last called" "I'm still in Berlin" "It was a huge success." "Great reviews, a great audience" "We will be leaving for Spain in two days and then onto our world tour" "I was wondering if you might like to see our last concert tomorrow" "I really feel the need to see you again and talk about the piece" "It's at the Opera House tomorrow night" "I hope to see you soon" "Although you shine In diamond splendour" "No beam falls Into the night of your heart" "I have known this for a long time..." "GUNDERRODE SONGS" "I bear no grudge" "Even when my heart is breaking" "I truly saw you in my dreams" "And saw the night In the room of your heart" "And saw the snake That bites your heart" "I saw , my dear How miserable you are" "I bear no grudge I bear no grudge" "No, no, no" "I don't believe it!" "Mr Simon!" "Incredible!" "You weren't expecting me, were you?" "I can tell" "Good evening" "Nice to see you" "You know, I haven't been to the opera since before the Wall fell" "And when I saw the poster for tonight for Life ls Only a Dream ..." "I thought, "You have to go"" "I know the woman, I wanted to pay my respects" "And the more I think about it, that's how it is" "It's all about that topic" "Everything's only a dream, isn't it?" "It depends" "Mr Simon, no offence, but you seem a little out of sorts, What's wrong?" "She doesn't know I'm here" "What?" "We must let her know" "I know where the party is" "You do?" "Yes" "When it comes to events like this, just ask Gunnar" "How much is that?" "Mr Simon!" "What's taking so long?" "Come on, Mr Simon" "You won't believe who I met, I nearly ran over Mr Simon" "What a surprise" "I..." "What's wrong with him?" "Excuse me, I want Mrs Lichtblau to have this" "Have a seat" "No, thanks" "I'm sorry, Goodbye" "I can tell you a thing or two about women, too" "Now I understand why you looked so gloomy" "Gunnar, stop jabbering all the time" "I can't stand your point of view, your advice and all your opinions!" "I just want to be alone and that's all!" "Taxi!" "Taxi!" "What are you doing?" "I want to leave!" "It's nobody's business!" "The Kempinski, please" "I wept in a dream" "I dreamed you had abandoned me" "I awoke and I wept" "Bitterly for a long while" "I wept in a dream" "I dreamed you were still good to me" "I awoke, and still" "Stream my floods of tears" "Reinhold!" "What are you doing here?" "Maestro!" "Do you know how late it is?" "1 :30pm, Why?" "I don't understand, Did I miss you?" "Where were you, anyway?" "I stood on the Mainz platform at 9:1 2am, like we arranged" "I waited for you and then called you" "I didn't leave and then I realised something must have happened" "The concert in Landau" "How could that happen to me?" "I've never missed a concert before" "Can we make it?" "We have to hurry, A receipt, please" "Hello, Mr Schwarz" "Hello" "What a family portrait" "It's wonderful" "Look at the clarity" "Nobody will ever make such a lens again" "Isn't that little one sweet?" "The vertical lines along the edge, the arch no plunging lines" "That was how our boss was, A relentless perfectionist" "I don't believe it, Everybody's smiling, even the kids" "A perfect family portrait" "Everybody's smiling, Even me" "It will never happen again" "Hello, how are you doing?" "Hi there, Hans" "You're part of the family" "I would rather stay here with you" "Are we late?" "Hello, Hermann" "Nice picture, You said 1 1 :00am on my answering machine" "Or did I misunderstand?" "No, we're waiting for the undertaker" "They're bringing the urn from Mainz" "Yes" "So late?" "Hartmut went to meet them" "A FINAL FAREWELL" "Are you cold?" "Hermann, this is Mr Stolle, a company engineer" "He constructed a gadget to lower the urn" "Hello, Mr Simon" "When the urn is placed on that spot lower the lever slowly and then it goes down slowly" "Want to take a look?" "It would have been nice if someone sang a song" "Pity, CIarissa could have done it" "It would have been nice" "Yes" "Schnüsschen" "Hermann" "You've come?" "When a great man dies..." "To me, your brother was Hunsrück unshakeable and proud, but good-hearted" "Do you know Hans-Peter, my life partner?" "Your life partner?" "It's a silly expression" "This is Hermann, my ex-husband" "Hans-Peter and I were in Landau yesterday" "We almost ended up at your concert" "We were outside" "There were tickets" "But one of her patients called and needed attention" "She becomes suicidal at full moon" "By the time I calmed her..." "Mozart was over" "What a pity" "Do you realise that Hans-Peter is one of your fans?" "He has all your CDs" "It makes me proud to know you" "We had a good time together" "I'm not afraid to say that now" "Have you successfully analysed away all the damage, Dr Psychoanalyst?" "Yes" "You look good" "I feel good" "Very good, in fact" "Your house on the Rhine is a great location" "We see it from the motorway when we go to Cologne to visit Simone on Saturdays" "To see Lulu?" "Every Saturday?" "What's taking her so long?" "She promised to come with the baby" "We want to drive to the spot where Lutz was killed" "The boy should know who his dad was" "Waltraud's a devoted grandma" "Lukas is your grandson too" "As a grandfather, you could make up for what you missed as a father" "Lukas was born at our place" "To tell the truth, I thought there would be a real ceremony" "No pastor, no music" "A bit embarrassing, isn't it?" "What happens now?" "No idea" "We're waiting for the urn" "Perhaps the traffic is piled up on the motorway" "That's why Hartmut can't get through with the hearse" "It's the first urn burial in Schabbach" "You have to admit it saves space and it's hygienic" "But it's not a real funeral, is it?" "Is that you, Hartmut?" "We're waiting, Where are you?" "That's him in front of me, On the B50 motorway, just outside Kirchberg" "I'll show him the way" "We will be right there" "Yes, OK, We'll wait" "He's on the B50" "I tell you, it could happen to any one of us on any day" "Bang!" "Over and out!" "The end!" "I am under no illusions, I invested all my money in shares" "What do shares have to do with it?" "It's great how they keep going up" "Shall I give you a few tips?" "Invest in potash or salt, or KIainwanzlebener's seeds" "Their performance is incredible" "Real winners" "Don't ask me" "Give it to me" "Where should I put it?" "On top of it?" "Or beside it?" "I would say beside it" "No, Hartmut" "First of all, put it on here, on the lift" "Stop!" "Not yet!" "I've got to say something" "Anton, you didn't deserve this" "There never would have been a farce like this while you were still alive" "Where is everybody?" "Your club mates from FC Schabbach" "And your employees?" "Where are the people of Schabbach and Hunsrück?" "People who owe you so much" "Where is the government, who gave you the Order of Merit?" "Where is the music for this solemn occasion that would remind us we all have to die?" "Where's the pastor, who's responsible for the only truth in this bloody world?" "And where are all the other show-offs to whom you could always show what was right and wrong?" "When I look around here at what's left over..." "No!" "You call that a family?" "Nobody knows how to behave" "Now they're sticking you in some little hole where during your life, not even your boots would have fit" "Anton, you know we never saw eye to eye" "From the beginning we never saw eye to eye" "But now that they have cremated you and let you blow away we suddenly do" "That was it" "CIarissa!" "CIarissa?" "CIarissa you're here" "You're back" "I'm ill, Hermann" "I may never sing again" "What are you saying?" "PART FOUR - EVERYONE IS DOING WELL"