"They discovered that Dostoevsky's grandson was living in Petersburg." "He is a tram driver." "They invite him to Germany for literary conference because for them he's a symbol of the Russian literature." "He doesn't know anything about the old man and he can't speak any foreign languages." "The only German words he knows are "Mercedes Benz"." "So he goes there because he thinks he'll get a new Mercedes for lecturing at the conference." " Does he lecture there?" " No." "He just keeps repeating:" "Mercedes Benz." "It's a great movie about how Russia and the West will never understand each other." " When was it made?" " In the nineties." "Producers" "Supported by" "A film by Petr Zelenka and his friends" "Well, I don't know." "The Poles are organizing it." "At some factory," " a foundry evidently." " In Nowa Huta." "In Nowa Huta, Ivan says." "Ivan Trojan." "Sure thing." "It'll be an alternative festival." " Great, Poland!" " A little out of the way." "I like Poland." "I have Polish friends." "I'm glad to get out of Prague." " Are you shooting?" " It's done." "Music" "Costumes Set Design" "Sound Editing" "Production Managers" " Director of Photography" " It'll work today." "Today my mouth is very elastic." "Based on the novel by Theatrical adaptation by" "Written and Directed by" "THE KARAMAZOVS" "Okay, guys, this is Kasia." "Production manager for the event." "She's going to take care of you." "Should I speak English or Polish?" "Speak what you want." "Actors don't understand any language." "Speak Polish." "Okay, so my name is Kasia and I'm the production manager here at..." " I don't understand her." " David!" "At all." "I got that part." "Hi, I am Ivan." "God, that burns." "I didn't deserve that, Ivan." " Do you understand her?" " No." " She's into you." " Come on." " A woman knows." "A woman like you knows?" "Of course." " Is it still operating?" " Yes, it's owned by Mr. Mittal." "He owns the steel mill in Vitkovice also." " Hi, Lukas." "He's one of the richest people in the world." "No, but talk fast." "I'm in Poland." "What?" "But we already had the wrap party." "That's just great." " This is like an army locker." " How depressing; it's terrible." "Check this out." " Beaver." " Don't see that much anymore." "Good old beaver." "Well, does everyone have a spot?" "I'm not changing in here." "It's filthy." "It is pretty bad." "Let's not act like little girls on a field trip." " I like it here." " Of course you do." "See?" "Why does it have to be 3.000?" "Can't we make it 2.000?" " Why?" " I can't pronounce it." "Don't act in Czech theater if you can't speak Czech." "I'm sorry it's so uncomfortable here." " Are there showers?" " Yes." "Next door." "Man, I'm screwed." "I have to be in Prague tonight." "When tonight?" " Tonight tonight!" " A performance?" "No." "A night shoot." "I completely forgot about it." " Well, you better get going." " I know." " Wait a minute, really?" " Really." "What are you going to do?" " Cancel it then." " I can't!" "The theater's got priority." " Have you ever cancelled a shoot?" " No." "I haven't managed to make a movie yet managed to make a movie manage, manage a movie..." " Is there hot water?" " There should be." "You know actors." "They're always in the shower." "They sweat a lot." "Did you know that actors sweat more than normal people?" "No one knows why." "Walesa had a speech there in 1980." " Walesa, right." " He doesn't know who Walesa is." " I do, but you said it wrong." " No, Walesa." "Let's do the whole thing without stopping." "The Poles want to see it." " What Poles?" " The Poles." "Kasia, the festival." "So even if I leave, for whatever reason, just keep on going." " Where would you go?" " That's my business." "We need to time it so we'll know how long it is." "This is where you'll act it out;" "the audience is there." "You can also be here." "You can use the whole space." "David, I'm relying on you." "The pub in Mokroye will be back there but only after the break." "Is that clear?" "Yeah?" "Walk around a bit." "Can I say something?" "Ladies and gentlemen, you happen to be in a building which isn't in the best shape." "Therefore, we insist that you strictly follow our occupational safety code." "We cannot accept responsibility for persons who do not wear safety helmets." "We're going to act in helmets?" " My God." " What?" "A maintenance man's son fell and hurt his spine." "Which maintenance man?" "That one..." "What about the hot water?" "Does it work or not?" "Let the proceedings against Dimitri Karamazov begin." "He is accused of murdering his father Fyodor Karamazov." "Patricide is the most terrible crime known to mankind and if we do not punish it, it will bring down our entire society." "There are times when people love crime." "Everyone says it's terrible but everyone likes it." "We must be impartial." "Partial only to law, justice and truth." "We must be fully aware of the responsibility that rests upon us." "I am guilty of drunkenness, profligacy, indolence and a bad life." "I wanted to start living a proper life once and for all, but at that moment fate struck me down." "But of the death of the old man, the death of my enemy, I am not guilty." "Dimitri Karamazov is a rogue but not a murderer." "Dimitri Fyodorovich, I am afraid of you." "Recently you told me:" ""I'll grind you up in a mortar. "" " He didn't mean it!" " Yes, he did!" "We must not act proud toward those either below or above us;" "we must not harbor feelings of hate even against those who slander, disparage, and malign us." "I am an atheist and I wrote an article which said that people should abandon their faith in immortality and in God." "As soon as all humanity renounces God, morality will come to an end, just as geological epochs come to an end, and people will seek happiness here on earth." "And everything will be allowed." "Ivan, you must never adopt the ideas you write about." "I am not guilty of my father's death." "Daddy simply wanted a bit of scandal." "That's what he wanted." "What fine children I have!" "My dear little ones - don't you now that patricide is the worst of sins?" "Everyone always blames me!" "I am supposed to have stolen my children's money!" "But there are courts for such things." "Let them prove it!" "I started out without a kopeck and was worth 100.000 rubles when they murdered me." "And like an idiot I thought daddy was amassing property for me!" "You had entirely exaggerated ideas about my property." "And anyway I'm still your dad even if you all did murder me." "You never took care of us, dad." "None of us." "But I still forgive you." "Not me." "We grew up in filth, in poverty." "Strangers raised us." " Dear little ones..." " Drop the charade!" "You're educated, Ivan." "And I'm a comedian from birth." "A fool!" "But still I believe!" "Only recently have I come to doubt, murderers!" "God will condemn such a person." "My three sons, Dimitri, Alyosha, and Ivan." " And me?" " You shut up!" "Your only rightful possession is your name:" "Smerdyakov!" "I only managed to marry twice." "You, Dimitri, are from my first marriage." "You are the oldest and the worst." "But still, I loved your mother so much, even though she beat me, ran away from me, and died of typhoid on me." " I don't remember my mother." " I remember mine." "I remember the slanting rays of sun when she knelt before the icon." "She was 16 when I wed her." "She was a little angry with me when I organized my parties." " Orgies!" " My dear children!" " You're a pig, not a father." " Dimitri..." "That's rich coming from you!" "What have you managed, darlings?" "They expelled me from military academy for dueling." " I graduated." " Natural science!" "Big deal!" "I entered a monastery." " And I..." " You shut up!" "You studied cooking." "On my money." "You should kiss my hand..." "and my foot." "I was the cause of it all!" "It was all my fault!" "I won't rut Dr. Drdova from otorhinolaryngology..." "I'll rut Dr. Konrad Lenrt from theatrology..." "I won't rut Dr. Drdova from otorhinolaryngology..." "I'll rut Dr. Konrad Lenrt from theatrology..." "Did llyushechka bite your finger?" "I'm sorry." "Alyosha, come here." "Sit." "Why is your finger bandaged?" "Anything happen?" "A schoolboy bit me." "In your position you shouldn't fool around with schoolboys." "Oh, father, it's not like that." "I heard, Alyoshka, about a monastery in an eastern province where they keep women." "About thirty of them." ""Monastery women" they call them." "It is interesting, but the horrid "Russian-ness" is disgusting." "Imagine, they still have no Frenchwomen." "Yet they could." "They've got the money." "Sorry." "Jerk!" "You're a jerk!" "But I know." "You're honorable, abstemious." "That's what I like about you." "But then suddenly a person gets a taste for schoolboys." "That's absolute nonsense, father." "The boy bit me because Dimitri is my brother who publicly disgraced his father." "llyushechka took revenge on me." "I'm still sorry for you." "That you joined the monks." "But that's not so bad because at least someone is properly praying for us sinners." "The devils won't forget about me." "When I die they'll get some hooks and drag me down to hell." "But then I ask myself: where do they get the hooks?" "And what kind?" "Iron?" "And where were they made?" "Have they got their own steelworks?" "Oh please, they don't have hooks!" "Really?" "When you find out for certain let me know." "But right now I've got a question to ask:" "Alyosha, is it true that somewhere in the Lives of the Saints they write about one saint who was tortured for his faith, and when they later beheaded him he apparently rose, picked up his head, and "joyously kissed it. "" "And now let me ask you, Alyosha:" "With what?" " With what?" " Shut up!" " What did he kiss it with?" " Shut up!" "With what?" ""He walked a long time with his head in his hands, joyously kissing it. "" " Now, is it true or not?" " How'd he kiss it?" "Shut up!" " That's absolute nonsense!" " I thought it was." " It's nonsense." "Shut up and crawl back to your hole!" "You literally make everything you touch dirty, father!" "What must I do to attain eternal life?" "Stop drinking, be mild of speech, don't indulge in bodily appetites, stop worshipping money." "And, mainly, stop lying." "He who lies cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him." "And he ceases to have any respect at all for himself or others." "You're right." "Indeed, I have lied my whole life, every day, every hour." "Dad, I'd like to ask you to end this terrible feud with Dimitri." "Absolutely." "Ivan!" "Alyosha, Ivan, you are my dearest blood, but I demand justice against that one." " I just want my rightful share." " You get nothing!" "All the bad deeds you managed in such a short time, you rogue." "Please!" "Stop this ridiculous comedy!" "Comedy, eh?" "Fine, then let me say this." "Ivan, Alyosha." "Dimitri won the heart of the noble..." " Katerina..." "I know." "The daughter of his former commander." "And now he has no shame in going to the local seductress, Grushenka." "And he needs money for that." "And Grushenka won't have you." "And you'd like to open her up with daddy's golden egg." "Don't you dare smear Grushenka in front of me!" "Dimitri!" "What if I curse you?" "What then?" "You're an unabashed hypocrite!" "You're after Grushenka yourself!" "Like that, eh?" "To your father?" "How then do you act toward strangers?" "You beat your Captain Snegiryov." "But you sent Captain Snegiryov to Grushenka as your agent to have her assume my debts and to sue me and have me locked up if I requested an audit." "She told me so." "Dimitri Fyodorovich, if you weren't my son," "I'd challenge you to a duel, pistols... at three paces." " Blindfolded!" " Blindfolded?" " Blindfolded!" " Blindfolded!" "Lying again;" "aren't you ashamed to lie!" "A duel!" "A duel!" "Clown." "I'm eating alone." "I'd lose my appetite with you around." "It would cost me 200.000." "That's really bad for you." "So you won't let me off?" "Of course not." "We just got here and now you want to go?" " What about tomorrow's performance?" " I'd be here." "How, for Christ's sake?" "It's eight hours by car!" "Take your costume and go rehearse." "Hey, take it easy." "It's a rehearsal." "Take your pants and rehearse." "Don't test me." "Sure thing." "Go rehearse." "Yeah, they're rehearsing without you." "Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov at your service." "Former staff captain of the Russian infantry, slapped on the street by your brother" "Dimitri Fyodorovich Karamazov." "But still a staff captain." "I came because of your unfortunate meeting with my brother Dimitri." " What's wrong with your finger?" " Your son bit me." " llyushechka bit your finger?" " Yes." "You already know that." "I'll thrash him!" "I'll thrash him this instant!" "I don't want you to punish him!" "I think he's ill." "Did you really think I would thrash him?" "I am sorry, sir, about your finger." "Would you rather I slice off four fingers for your satisfaction?" "I'll do it right now." "With this knife!" "I promise my brother will come and ask your forgiveness." "He slapped me like I was a little boy and llyushechka was there." "His illness comes from this shame." " My brother will apologize." " And kneel on peas?" "I swear that my brother will express to you his deepest and sincerest regret and even kneel on peas!" "I'll see to it." "Aha, so it's only a plan now;" "it must be arranged." "If anything happens to the boy, I'll kill." "I'll kill myself, him, you;" "I'll kill someone." "I'm not joking, Mr. Karamazov." "Alyosha, I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." "You must apologize to Captain Snegiryov." "To hell with Captain Snegiryov!" "I'm torn between two women." "Katerina is virtuous, proud, intelligent, educated but took no interest in me." "Then her father embezzled 4.500 rubles and a trial was pending." "I had the money at the time." "So I wrote to Katerina, saying I'd give her the money if she'd come get it herself." "You said you'd give me the money if I came for it myself." "Here I am." "I felt the baseness inside of me fighting with my ailing integrity." "My first thought was Karamazovian:" "Money?" "What money?" "You can't just take the cash and go!" "Money doesn't grow on trees!" "I confess that I looked at her with loathing for several moments, and that's just a small step from insane love." "I let her wait a long time, then I gave her the money and bowed low." "She curtsied, fell at my feet, touched her forehead to the ground, and ran off." "When her father died, everything miraculously changed." "An aunt made her sole heir, left her a dowry of 80.000." "She left me a dowry of 80.000." "Then the money came by mail." "4.500 rubles." "And a letter." "I love you madly even though I know you don't love me." "My only wish is that you become my husband." "Don't be alarmed, I won't get in your way." "I'll be your property, your carpet to walk on." "I want to love you forever and protect you from yourself." "Out of gratitude, Katerina decided to sacrifice her life to me." "Solemnly swear, Dimitri, that you will reform!" " I swear." " But you didn't reform." " No way." " Instead, you sought out Grushenka." "At first, to beat her." "I heard that father gave her my debts so she could sue me and have me locked up if I requested an audit." "And then I fell in love with her, the same as father did." "I'll marry you if you insist but you have to promise me that you won't beat me and I can do as I please." " You want to marry such a woman?" " Immediately if she wants it." "And if a lover of hers comes over I'll hide in the next room." " That's enough, Dimitri!" " Enough?" "The worst is about to come!" "I'd like to ask if you could mail 2.000 to my sister in Moscow... 3.000." "3.000 to my sister in Moscow." " Is that the original 4.000?" " No." "Completely different." "I already mailed it." "I just don't have the receipt." "But it's not true." "I didn't send the money." "On the contrary." "Grushenka and I drank it up in Mokroye." " You drank it all?" " Not all." "I still have 1.500, in a pouch around my neck." "But I urgently need the rest so that can return it to Katerina." "Alyosha, go to our father." "But Dimitri, father won't give it to you." "He put money in an envelope and wrote on it:" ""For my angel, Grushenka, when she comes to me. "" "Since then he waits." "And I watch." " And what if Grushenka comes today?" " I'll burst in and stop it all." " And if..." " And if... then I'll kill." " Kill?" "Whom?" " Whom?" "Him, the old man." "I won't kill her." "There's a flight from Krakow at 4:15, arriving at 5:05 in Vienna." "So if you're waiting for me at 5:00 in Vienna we can make it;" "I can be in Prague by 8:00." "We can." "Three hours is enough." "Fine, I'll drive." "Great, thanks." "I'm counting on you." "Bye." "What's going on?" "Here!" "Terrible villainy is brewing here." "I can still stop it but I won't." "Don't pray for me, I'm not worth it." "Farewell!" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "We agreed you were staying." "Pavel will fill in for me." "You're such an irresponsible bastard." "I'm a bastard?" "What about you?" "You're a pervert." "Look at yourself." "I'm calling the police." "Yeah?" "Got your ID with you?" "You've gone too far!" "That's what Kusturica did to the Gypsies when he shot Underground." " Do you still have fits?" " Even more often than before." "Okay, then show me." "An epileptic fit." "An epileptic fit, as we all know, comes in three phases." "In the first phase the body trembles mildly." " In the second phase the shaking..." " Your tongue!" "The tongue comes in during the third and final phase, but for your amusement I'll include it in the second phase." "Fooey!" "Boo!" "And that's how it goes until I lose consciousness, and then it's a long time before I awake." "But I know I can rely on you." "Ivan, Alyosha, come on in, sit down." "How about some cognac." "Not you, you're not allowed." "You're fasting." "Smerdyakov, go to the cabinet;" "the liquor's on the top right shelf." "As soon as you pour it, get lost..." "Get going, stinko!" " Dad..." " What?" "I came to ask you if you could lend Dimitri the 3.000 he needs so badly." "Alyosha, would you like a father's blessing?" "Alyosha..." "Guess what?" "I'll make the sign of the cross over you and it's done." "That reject doesn't like you." "Actually, he doesn't like anyone." "When he was small he amused himself by hanging cats and burying them." "He did it solemnly: he wore a sheet, pretended to wave a censer... that's your department." "And sang all the while: "Maria... "" " Fyodor Pavlovich..." " Silence!" "Fyodor Pavlovich, give me some advice." "What should I do if I were captured by the infidels and they wanted me to curse God's name." "I think I'd have the right to act according to my reason and curse God." "And in time I could redeem my cowardice with good deeds." "Ivan." "This idiot is saying everything because of you." "He wants you to like him because he sees himself in you." "Go on, Ivan, praise him." "If God rejects me the moment I betray him then I'll cease to be a Christian and won't be lying to my torturers because God will have turned away from me." "So Ivan..." "Tell me, is there God or isn't there?" " What are you laughing at?" " There is no God." " Alyosha, does God exist?" " He does." "And what about immortality, Ivan?" "Does immortality exist?" " Even a little bit of immortality!" " Not even a little." "So there's nothing." "Or is there something after all?" " No, absolutely nothing." " Nothing..." " Alyosha, does immortality exist?" " Yes, immortality exists." " Is there God and immortality?" " Immortality is in God." "Most likely, Ivan here is right." "Just think of the energy wasted over the ages on this useless belief." "But, Ivan..." "I ask you for the last time seriously." "Is there God or isn't there?" "For the last time I tell you there is no God." " Then who's laughing at man?" " Probably the Devil." "And is there the Devil?" " There is no Devil either." " And is there some cognac left?" "I have to take the cognac from you." "Dad, come lie down." "You're upset." "Ivan, you promised to go to Cheremoshen to sell the land." "I'll go tomorrow." "You won't go because you don't want to." "Your evil soul wants to spy on me here." "You're my son and you scorn me in my own home." "What are you staring at?" "You're drunk and insolent!" "Alyosha's eyes are always shining." "Alyosha, don't love Ivan!" " Dad, don't be so offensive." " My head hurts." "Ivan, wait..." "Go to Cheremoshen." "I'll follow you and point out a girl there." "She runs barefoot, not like your Katerina, but don't be afraid of barefoot girls; they're absolute pearls!" "No woman is ever too ugly for me, that's my creed." "We noblemen must surprise ugly women by falling in love with them." "I always surprised your mother that way." "And you know you're so similar to her." "She always smiled ever so slightly, but when she started her "Ya, ya"" "it was a clear sign that a fit was coming on." "She was always having those fits, either that or praying." "She didn't want to let me near her." "But then I thought:" "Just wait, Sophia!" "I'll drive that goddamn mysticism out of you, you bitch!" "You see this icon?" "The icon..." "And she just kept on with her "Ya, ya. "" "You consider this miraculous but just watch me spit on it and we'll see if anything happens." "Nothing will happen, I tell you." "Nothing happened!" "Nothing happened!" "What happened, Alyosha?" "Smerdyakov, water!" "That's just what his mother did." "It seems to me that his mother was my mother too." "Forgive me, Ivan." "I don't think I've ever had such a lapse." "And since we're telling family secrets, do you know that Smerdyakov here is of my semen?" "Of your seed." "I slummed a bit with his mother, Stinking Lizaveta, a poor cripple." "I met her with some friends on the way home from the pub... and we made a bet." "Can you guess who won, boys?" "Smerdyakov, my son!" "Ivan..." "Kiss your brother." "What?" "You didn't know?" "Well, you do now." "You're brothers." " That psycho of yours took my ID." " He's not my psycho." " Aha." "Since when?" " Since today." "He's a psycho." "Marry me." "I've already decided." "I'll never abandon your brother." "I may go to another city but I will look after him my whole life." "And when he eventually grows tired of Grushenka he will find in me a sister and a friend." "In me he will find God, and then he'll be able to pray." " Are you angry with me?" " I suppose you're right." "But promise me, Ivan, that you will never leave me." "Unfortunately, I must." "I leave for Moscow tomorrow." " For Moscow?" "Tomorrow?" " Happy?" "You are so dear to me, Ivan." "Maybe I don't actually love Dimitri, but you." "Do you believe me?" "You've never loved me." "You keep me near only to take revenge on me for the abuse you suffer from my brother." "I could never master you but I will master Dimitri one day." "You will love him as long as he despises and abuses you." "When he stops, your love will vanish and you will reject him." "I shouldn't say it but..." "I'm going far away and we'll never see one another again." "Farewell." "I won't give you my hand." "You hurt me too consciously for me to forgive you." "Perhaps later, but not now." "Did Dimitri tell you he wants to kill our father?" "Once he said that he could kill him in a moment of passion." " God forbid!" " Why?" "One serpent devours another and they both deserve it." "Ivan, you must be so unhappy." " Do you like children, Alyosha?" " Yes." "And have you ever noticed how many people enjoy torturing children?" "Let me tell you about a father and mother." "Respectable, educated people, high social position." "They started to loathe their little five-year-old girl." "They beat and kicked and lashed her and didn't even know why." "She was bruised head to foot." "Then they got even classier." "They locked her in the toilet in freezing winter, apparently because she didn't say when she needed to go." "And they smeared her whole face with excrement and forced her to eat it." "And they continued till they tortured her to death." "And I ask:" "Why is such senseless villainy allowed?" "Because man would not otherwise recognize good from evil?" "Adults may have to suffer for the Kingdom of Heaven, but why children?" "Why are you testing me?" "Because I can't understand why the world is as it is." "Suffering exists but no one's guilty because all will be forgiven." "But why must children suffer?" "I know that on Judgment Day everything in heaven and earth will connect and cry out:" ""You are just, God. "" "And that little girl will wash her dirty face and will forgive the parents who tortured her to death." "But I don't want that." "She mustn't forgive them." "Therefore, I reject the Kingdom of Heaven." "Not that I don't recognize God, Alyosha," "I'd just respectfully like to give Him back my admission ticket." " But, Ivan, you can't live like that." " There is a power" " that exceeds everything." " What power?" " The power of Karamazovian baseness." " That everything is allowed?" "It is and will be." "I will never reject that." "And that's why you'll reject me." "You're finally here, Alyosha." "Yes, I came." "Actually, he sent me." "How's Dimitri doing?" "He said he'll never set foot here again." "It's a very good play." "Thank you." " You speak Polish?" " I'm from Ostrava." "Come, let me show you something." "These are the hooks." "This is hell." " Do you know why Nowa Huta was built?" "No." "Nowa Huta was supposed to be a place without God." "It was under Stalin." "Krakow was the intellectual center of Poland." "Stalin tried to destroy it, building Europe's biggest steelworks here." "The workers were to overrun the intellectuals." "But it happened the other way around." "The workers rose up and succeeded in getting a church built right on the grounds." "Our pope sanctified it." "We went to mass right after work." " And today it all belongs to some Indian, right?" "Yes." "We survived the Germans, the Russians." "We'll survive this Indian." "In 1973, my mother was in India, at the embassy." "Terrible poverty and stench everywhere." "Indian women threw their children under diplomatic cars." "When it worked, and the driver ran over the child, the mother went to the embassy and was awarded damages that she then used to feed her ten other kids." " Sometimes they even threw infants." " Why are you telling me this?" "Do you think I could do something like that to my kid?" " No, I don't." " Maybe I could." "What do you think?" "Would God forgive me?" "Hello..." " What?" " I've been looking for you." "I'm afraid." "Dimitri has twice threatened to kill me." "He said recently:" ""I'll grind you up in a mortar. "" "He's always following me." "At times I think I'll kill myself out of fear." "The old man screams, "Why hasn't Grushenka come yet?"" "As if it's my fault." "And your brother shouts:" ""Stinko, if you pimp her I'll kill you first. "" "But I'm mainly afraid they'll consider me an accomplice if he does something crazy to his father." " Why would that happen?" " I told him about the signals." "What signals?" "The old man ordered me to watch for Grushenka." "If she came I was supposed to knock." "And if Dimitri came I was to knock in a different way." " Dimitri now knows the signals." " You told him?" "How could you?" "Out of fear." "He also knows father has an envelope ready with 3.000 and the words: "For my angel, Grushenka, when she comes to me. "" "That's nonsense." "Dimitri won't steal any money." "But he really needs it." "Father claims he'll cut you all out of his will but if he died now you'd each get 40.000 in cash." "There's no will." "Dimitri knows that, too." "Why do you want me to leave then?" "God knows what would happen." " Well, that's why." " What is why?" "I value your education because I am educated as well." "I listened attentively when you said everything was allowed." "So as an educated person might I ask you again:" "Is there God?" "You already heard once that there isn't." "Don't vex me." "In that case, if I were you I'd drop everything and get out of here." "I'm leaving for Moscow tomorrow." " That's the best thing you could do." " You really are an idiot." "It's a pleasure to talk to an educated man." "Don't worry, Alyosha!" "Today I'm afraid of Dimitri." "Why today?" "I'm waiting for some important news and Dimitri can't know about it." "As soon as I get this news..." "I'll jump up and fly." "Fly?" "Where?" "An officer is coming to get me, a Pole." "My first love." " What about Dimitri?" " He knows nothing." "He'd kill me." "But I'm about to embark on a new life." "Give Dimitri my best and may he not remember me badly." "And tell him that I loved him a whole hour." "May he remember that hour for the rest of his life." "Grushenka, is it you?" "I have a gift for you." "Wait." "Look!" "I have a gift for you!" "Where are you, my little one?" "Grushenka!" "Alyosha..." "Have you seen Grushenka?" "I can't find her." " She left." " Where?" "To Mokroye." "To meet a Pole." " I'm going after her." " What are you going to do?" "I'll drink with them, then come morning, I'll shoot myself." " I won't stand in anybody's way." " Dimitri..." "I'd stop you if I were strong enough." "I'm off!" "When a pretty girl dumps you Just laugh about it, brother" "With friends drink wine And smash a Bolshevik in the face" "'Cause comes a time those fuckers will stand" "At full attention right before us" "And our hands won't shake like aspen leaves" "While we beat those Russian mugs to a pulp" "When we're the officers We'll drink vodka by the bucket" "Kiss virgins, love married women..." "Stop that noise!" " Trifon Borisovich." " Dimitri Fyodorovich." " Where is she?" "Who?" " Grushenka." "Somewhere here." " Who's she with?" " A Pole." " Is she enjoying herself, laughing?" " Not much." "Any Gypsies here?" "The police forced them out." "But there are still some Jews." "Here's 200; go get them." "I'd wake the whole village for this kind of money." "Go, round up some girls, bring champagne, cognac, sandwiches, everything!" "Dimitri!" "Go your own way and don't worry about me." "I won't try to stop you." "Are you crying, Dimitri?" "You've no reason!" " Are you happy?" " It's so boring here." " Where'd you get so much money?" " How does he speak to you?" " Ms. Agrippina." "But I'm Agrafena." "He can't even remember my name." " If the princess allows..." " If the princess allows..." "Let him go back where he came from." "I'm so stupid... for suffering these five years." "He used to be an eagle... but now he's just a plucked goose." "Dimitri, get rid of him." "Sir, a word..." " What can I do for you?" " You'll get money." "3.000 to go where you want." "But leave now, this instant." " Understand, sir?" " I do, sir!" " Ms. Agrippina..." " My name is Agrafena!" "You can't have forgotten during those five years!" "Ms. Agrippina, I came to forget about the past and forgive you." " You want to forgive me?" " Yes, I'm magnanimous." "You, sir, heard I have money and came to get married!" "Madam Agrippina, I am a nobleman not scum!" "But I see that you've changed." "There's not an ounce of shame in you." "If you want to come with me, let's go." "If not, farewell!" "So farewell, then!" "Whore!" "And I loved him for five years, Dimitri!" "I was 17." "Now it feels like I'm covered in slop." "I curse those five years!" "Dimitri..." "Do you love me?" "Do you really love me?" "What's wrong?" "Be happy!" "After all, I'm finally happy too!" "Can you forgive me, Dimitri?" "If I were God I'd forgive everyone." "I'm an animal but I want to pray." "We're terrible but it's so good in this world." "I love you." "I will love you everywhere, even in Siberia." "Why Siberia?" "Did you steal your lady's money?" "Give it back and take from me everything." "What's mine is yours." "Hear that?" "It seems like we're riding in a sleigh to Siberia." "Bells are ringing." "I'm dozing and holding you close." "And the snow is sparkling." "It's so beautiful at night." "It seems like I'm someplace other than on earth." "Dimitri Karamazov!" "You have been accused of the murder of your father, Fyodor Karamazov, which was committed this evening." "I'm innocent!" "I am not guilty of my father's death!" "I wanted to kill him, true, but I didn't!" "I struck the servant Gregory who brought me up." "I'm sorry for that." "Don't worry about Gregory." "He'll survive." " Praise the Lord." " David." "What?" "230!" "That guy saw me." "He's a witness!" "Pavel, cut it out." " What's going on?" " A tragedy." "Come on, we don't know what happened." "You don't know what happened?" "He's got a kid in the hospital and suddenly he gets a call." " You're inventing things." " But he was crying." "He could be crying for another reason, right?" " Yeah?" "Like what?" " Maybe his car got stolen." "That's what a man looks like when his car is stolen?" "Technically speaking it has nothing to do with us." "But we're here performing at his workplace, get it?" "Please, just stop shouting." "He can hear everything." "So now you're respectful?" "You who spat on the Pope." "Why did you give it to me, you idiot?" "It was his picture." "He's crying because you spat on it." "You and your jokes." "Totally tasteless, you ham." ""Actor Ivan Trojan Spits on Pope"" "You're through here." "You've acted your last in Poland." "What's going on?" "I've been waiting there like an idiot." "If you ask me, it's unethical to keep rehearsing." "Sure, because you need to leave for your shoot." " Is that what you think?" " Is it true or isn't it?" "So why don't you act it all yourself?" " They love you here in Poland." " Don't be a jerk." "I'm a jerk?" "You're arranging a pick-up from Vienna." " Thanks a lot, Martin." " What?" "I didn't say anything." " Hey, everyone knows." " See?" "So you think I'm happy that some kid fell and hurt himself?" "No, but it benefits you." " I guess I don't really know you." " I guess not." " I guess YOU DON'T." " Shut up." "I think we ought to stop and finish rehearsing someplace else." "No, let's continue." "Let's go." "Everyone in costume." ""Court exhibits," blah, blah, blah." "What kind of festival is this anyway?" "Shall we rehearse "Syracuse"?" "What about your son?" "Is he recovering?" "He hasn't left his bed for two weeks." "He's so weak he can't move without my help." "I'm so afraid for him." "Sometimes I run out into the hall to cry so that llyushechka can't hear me." "The doctor said we should go to Syracuse: a favorable climate... otherwise be prepared for anything!" "But where will I get the money?" "My brother's fiancee is sending you 200 rubles as an expression of apology." "There are 200 rubles in this envelope." "Accept it, please." "Alyosha!" "With your permission," "I'd like to now demonstrate a little magic, a little hocus-pocus." "Damn your money!" "To hell with it!" "What would I tell my boy if I were to accept money for our dishonor?" "What are you doing?" "That's my ID." "I wanted to apologize for what happened." "It's very good what you are doing." "Please continue." "Keep on performing." "Sure." "No problem." "Let's continue rehearsing. "Court exhibits"..." "Court exhibits:" "old Karamazov's bloodied robe;" "the pestle which the court believes to be Dimitri's murder weapon;" "an envelope with Karamazov's writing" " I quote:" ""For my angel, Grushenka, when she comes to me. "" "And finally, a pink ribbon." "Karamazov lies here dead." "Patricide is the most terrible crime known to society." "The accused will speak!" "I am guilty of drunkenness, profligacy, indolence, and a bad life." "But I am not guilty of the death of my father, my enemy." "I wanted to kill him, yes, that's true, but I didn't." "Explain to the court the reasons that led you to such hatred." " Was it jealousy?" " Of course, but not only that..." " Money disputes?" " Certainly." "That too." " Over the 3.000?" " Much more." "But I badly needed that 3.000." "Come now, stop looking at each other!" "I know very well what I'm saying will be used against me but I'm speaking to you as a sincere and open person." "I tried to live properly my entire life but always ended up acting like a pig." "Like all of you." " Do you feel regret?" " No." "I'm only sorry that I hated him so much." "But for pity's sake, gentlemen, who did it if I didn't?" " He was murdered in his bedroom." "His skull was caved in." "Horrible." " Why did you need the 3.000?" " To pay a debt." " To whom?" "I won't say." "It was a debt of honor." " A debt of honor?" " Yes." "Excellent, a debt of honor." "What were you doing the evening of the crime?" "I hurried to Grushenka's." "I knew she had a meeting with my father." "They had worked out a secret signal for it, which the servant Smerdyakov told me." "Witness, did you reveal the secret signals to Dimitri?" " Yes, I did." " Why?" " Because I was afraid." " Afraid of whom?" " Both of them." "Father and son and..." " Go on, please." "Grushenka wasn't home, so I hurried back to my father's place." "It was evening and I assumed that Grushenka would already be there." "Wait a moment." "You ran home to see if Grushenka was with your father?" "Yes." "I ran home." "I wanted to know if Grushenka was with my father." "The windows were lighted." "I jumped the fence." "My heart was pounding." "I kept imagining what was going on inside." "I couldn't wait any longer so I tapped the signal on the window." "I ducked into the shadows, and my father spoke in his sweet voice:" ""Grushenka..." "Is it you, my little one?"" "I could tell that he was agitated and out of breath, and I realized he was there all alone, because he was agitated and out of breath." "And my father continued in that sweet voice:" ""Grushenka, come to me..." "I have a present for you!"" " Excellent." "He meant the envelope with the 3.000?" "Probably." "I stood there, hating him, fearing that disgust would overpower me." "But God above had his eye on me." "I ran off." "Someone stood in my way." "I hit him." "He shouted." " What did he shout?" " He shouted "Patricide"!" " Patricide?" " Patricide!" "What did you strike the servant Gregory with?" "A pestle." "And I left it lying there." "I was a mess, covered in blood." "I thought I had killed him." "I then covered his head with a handkerchief." "Perhaps." "This way." "Alyosha, do you believe that I did it?" " Dimitri, what are you saying?" " Tell me straight." "Don't lie." " Not for a second did I believe it." " Thank you." "You redeemed me." " Hey, he's really watching." " Who?" "That guy." "If my kid died I wouldn't watch a play." "You don't know that." " Or it's one of our director's tricks." "Cuma's trick?" "How?" "That guy's an actor and he gave him money to pull a fast one on us." "Aren't you getting carried away?" "Don't you remember rehearsing for The Idiot and Cuma pretended his mother died so he could get the most out of us?" "That's true." "You speak Polish." "Go ask him who he is." "Go ask him yourself." "Thanks a lot." "Is it true that Jews kidnap and kill children at Easter?" "I have this book." "I read that this one Jew first cut the fingers off a four-year-old boy's hands and then crucified him on a wall." "He nailed him there." "In court he testified that the boy died quickly." "After four hours." "That's supposed to be quick." "He said that the boy groaned and groaned and that he watched him with pleasure." " That's really lovely!" " Really lovely..." "Except for the fact that we cut that scene." "Sometimes I feel like I'm the one who crucified him." "Cut it out..." " Are you drunk?" " I'm not." "I have a performance." " They're acting for me." " Are you nuts?" "Open your eyes!" " Do you realize what happened?" " I have to go back." "I have to return." "Ma'am, the performance." "Come." "It's about to start." "It's the last one." "Very short but good." "Come along, please." "Ladies and gentlemen, today we have with us in our studio the great writer and famed artist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky." "Mr. Fyodor Mikhailovich, how is it possible that such a small man managed such a huge output in such a short time?" "There's a little trick to it." "Always before I start writing I start rocking." "I rock slowly for about half an hour." "And then I have an epileptic fit." "And can you tell us, or perhaps even demonstrate, what such an epileptic fit looks like?" "It's a simple matter." "Like I said, I start rocking." "A half hour, three hours, five hours." "And then as you can clearly see my ears start trembling." "See that?" "They're trembling." "I rock like this and I act like nothing's up... but my ears know what's going on and they tremble." "And then my right arm starts to tremble." "My ears and my right arm." "And I tell myself:" "It's coming, it's coming." "Then suddenly my head kind of snaps forward." "And then I start trembling all over and I am rocking into the bargain." "That's it." "That's an epileptic fit." "And then I even start flying a little." "I'm rising, I'm rising..." "And I fly horizontally, and then vertically." "And then I fall back down." "And then I sit down and write something like The Brothers Karamazov." " Do you love Dimitri?" " No." "Why do you ask?" "To know if your wishes are like his." "You think I wanted to kill my father?" "No, you wouldn't be able to." "You wanted someone else to do it." "And I chose Dimitri." "Is that what you think?" "At first I thought you figured on him." "But when you left, it was like you said to me:" ""Kill him, I won't stop you. "" "How dare you?" "The only reason I don't strangle you now is so I can have you brought to court." " But I'd have to tell everything..." " Tell what?" " Your eyes are yellow." "Go home." " Forget my health and answer." "There's no evidence against you." "I won't testify against you." "Go home..." "Spill it!" "Tell it all, stinko!" "Well then, you killed him." "Murderer." "Murderer, murderer..." "I knew you were insane." "But you killed the old man." "It's obvious." "I just helped you." "As your servant I carried it out." "What are you talking about?" "Carried it out?" "You killed him?" "You really didn't know?" "And you think I longed for my father's death?" "Certainly you longed for it and you silently gave me... instructions." " You're just testing me." " Look here." "Here's the 3.000." "Is it really possible you didn't know about it till now?" " So you killed him all by yourself!" " Not by myself." "Under your guidance." "Dimitri is completely innocent." "What exactly happened?" " You left..." " And you pretended to have a fit..." "Yes, a bad one." "I waited for Dimitri to come." "I knew his jealousy would get to him." " And if he didn't come?" " Then it wouldn't have happened." "I was curious if he'd kill father." "Quickly, what happened?" "I heard father's voice;" "I went to the window and he said:" ""He was here." "He killed Gregory. "" "And I said:" ""Grushenka is here." "She's here. "" "He didn't open the door." "So I used Grushenka's secret signal to knock." "He got horny, went to the window, leaned out." "I smashed an iron paperweight down onto his head." "He didn't even cry out, he just slumped." "So I smashed it down a second time... a third." "With the third blow I felt his skull cave in." "Suddenly he was covered in blood." "So I checked to see if blood had splattered on me." "Then I hid the money in the garden." "You're not stupid." "You're actually much more clever than I thought." " I'm an educated man." " Surely the devil had to help you." "But I'll tell everything." "In court I'll confirm everything you say." "But you have to confess too." "We'll confess together." "Confess all you like." "I'll deny everything and say that you're just sorry for your brother, that you're inventing things about me because you've always considered me vermin and not a beautiful person." " After all, you have no proof!" " Give me the money!" "I used to think I might start a new life." "But I no longer want to!" "Have you suddenly turned to God?" "No, I have not." "So why are you giving the money to me?" "Why do you wonder at everything?" "Isn't everything allowed?" "You really aren't a simpleton!" "You just thought so because you're arrogant." "You're the most similar to our father." "You have the same soul." "Show me the money again." "What do you want now?" "Not a thing." "llyushechka is dead." "There is no God!" "There is no God, I say!" "Stop, Captain!" "A strong individual must not give up." "Stop, please, stop!" "Karamazov, is it really true that on Judgment Day we'll all rise from the dead and we'll all see each other again?" "Yes, we'll rise, and we'll see each other, and merrily and joyfully recount everything that has happened." " For certain?" " For certain..." "Hi." "Hi." "Why aren't you watching?" "We're performing it for you." "I'm going right back." " Or maybe you're not a spectator." " I beg your pardon?" "You know Cuma, right?" "Our director." " You've worked with him before, right?" " Director?" "Sorry, but you're not acting right." " Did your child die?" " Child..." "You understand?" "Your child died." "If my child died..." "I wouldn't be watching some clowns from Prague playing at theater." "Theater?" "That's all I wanted to say." "But it's stupid!" "I know I make you angry." "It's humiliating when such an educated man like you is visited by such an ordinary devil." "You won't drive me to the asylum." "Believing in God is so old fashioned!" "But a devil?" "One can believe in a devil!" "You want me to believe that you exist but I won't." "My ideal is to go to church and there, with a sincere heart, light a candle for God." "Well, then:" "is there God or isn't there?" "Are you asking seriously?" "I don't know." "I've lost touch." "So you don't believe either anymore?" "Without me there'd be too much reason on earth and nothing much would be happening." "What is there to life..." "but suffering?" "Not for a second have I believed that you existed." " But actually I'd like to." " There, you've admitted it." "At least once in a while I succeed in doing a good deed." "So you're actually working to save my soul?" "As soon as you truly renounce God everything will be different." "Morality will come to an end, just as geological epochs come to an end and people will seek happiness here on earth." "Using his will and reason, man will triumph over nature, will understand that he is mortal, that there's no hope of resurrection and he'll accept death and accept it gladly." "He'll be like God and everything will be allowed." "And as soon as man is God all laws will lose their validity." "Everything will be allowed." "Yes, you're right." "But balancing between belief and disbelief is absolute torment for a man with a conscience." "In such a case it'd be better to hang oneself and get it over." "Wait, but what if I believe?" " Hear me?" "What if..." " Ivan!" "What are you doing?" "Stop!" "He's got a cigarette." "He was smoking." "He put it out on his tongue." "His tongue!" "Look!" "He's got a cigarette!" "He doesn't." "It's good that you're here, Alyosha." "He's afraid of you." "Why are you here?" "Smerdyakov..." "hanged himself an hour ago." "Let the proceedings against Dimitri Karamazov begin." "He is accused of murdering his father Fyodor Karamazov." "Alyosha Karamazov, did your brother Dimitri ever tell you he intended to kill your father?" " Never directly." " And indirectly?" "He once spoke of the hatred he bore towards our father and said he could perhaps even kill him in a moment of fury." "Did you believe him?" "I'm afraid to say it, but I did." "At the same time I believed that the heart within him would protect him in a moment of danger." "The witness Smerdyakov left the following note:" ""I am taking my life of my own free will and desire and I don't want anyone else to be blamed for it." "Pavel Fyodorovich Karamazov-Smerdyakov. "" "He served the devil!" "The devil took him!" "Dimitri Karamazov, when we apprehended you at the inn you cried out about some wicked deed you had on your conscience." "What did you mean?" "That only concerns me and Katerina." "Katerina Ivanovna." "I gave him 3.000 to send to my sister in Moscow." "I knew he would keep it since he needed it so badly." "Was that the debt of honor you mentioned?" "Were you ashamed you spent this money on another woman?" " Yes." "The origin of the 3.000 is thus cleared up." "Agrafena Alexandrovna." "It's all my fault." "I mocked both of them, father and son." "It all happened because of me." "Perhaps." " Are you better?" " Don't worry, Your Honour." "I am healthy and I can reveal many things of interest to you." "Do you have some special information?" "This." "This is the alleged money for which my father was murdered." "It should be there in that envelope." " How did you get it?" " Smerdyakov gave it to me." "He killed my father." "Not my brother." "He killed my father and I put him up to it." "Don't believe him!" "He's sick!" "Tell me, who doesn't wish the death of their father?" " Have you gone mad?" " I am as sane as any of you." "My father was murdered and you all act like it was terrible." " You're liars!" " He has a high fever!" "He's raving!" "I am not delirious." "I am simply a murderer and you can hardly expect great eloquence from a murderer." "Can you prove what you claim?" "No, I cannot." "Smerdyakov can't speak from hell, and you're only interested in court exhibits, and they don't exist." " Nevertheless, I do have a witness." " Who?" "Well, Your Honour, the witness has a tail." "That's against regulations." "He's just a miserable, good-for-nothing devil." "So arrest me!" "I'm the murderer!" "I have something to say!" "Now!" "He killed his father!" "He did it!" "He wrote me:" ""Fateful Katya, I'll find the money and return your 3.000." "Farewell, my love." "It's over." "If I can't borrow the money" "I'll go to my father, crush his skull, and take the 3.000 from him." "That old dog has stashed it in an envelope tied with a pink ribbon. "" "I got this letter just before the murder." " He hated me because of her." " You bitch!" " What do you say about the letter?" " It's mine." "I wrote it drunk." "Katerina, even in hatred I loved you, but you didn't love me." "Why didn't you bring forth such an important document earlier?" "I wanted to protect him." "Although he despised me since the time I bowed to him." "He sees baseness in everything, thinks that everyone is like him." "And he only wanted to marry me because my aunt left me money." " Katerina!" " You beast!" "I tried to overcome him with my measureless love and forgive him but he understood nothing." "Ivan became sick precisely because he wanted to save his brother." "Now I want the truth to come out and I can't keep this letter silent!" "A weighty document has been placed before the court, and the accused doesn't dispute he wrote it." "That he wrote it drunk changes nothing." "He only wrote down what he pondered sober." "It's all my fault!" "Send me to Siberia!" "I repeat:" "Dimitri Karamazov hated his father and was jealous of him." "He killed his father while the servant Gregory was sleeping and Smerdyakov was having a bad epileptic fit." "No one else was around." "The letter which was introduced into evidence is clear proof of his intention to murder." "Patricide is the most terrible crime known to mankind and if we do not punish it, it will bring down our entire society." "I hope that we will not forget mercy." "We must be able to forgive and not retaliate in kind." "That's religion speaking." "We might as well offer a stipend for parricides and set them up as examples for the youth." "The accused may have a word." "What else should I say?" "I feel the hand of fate and the hour of fate." "Such is the end of one who's gone astray." "I say once again, as if in the confessional:" "I am not guilty of my father's death." "I did not kill him." "I have wanted to be better my whole life but have lived like an animal." "I am of sound mind but my soul is heavy." "Please, spare me." "I will do better." "Don't take away my faith in life, in justice." "We must be impartial." "Partial only to law, justice, and truth." "We must be fully aware of the responsibility that lies upon us." "The court has reached its decision:" "guilty, guilty, guilty!" "That means 20 years in the mines." "20 years." "If they flog me I'll hold my ground and they'll shoot me." "I'd stand everything for Grushenka, except flogging, but they won't let her come with me anyway." "I should kill myself." "Ivan is jealous that I love Dimitri and now he wanted to make such a sacrifice!" "I shall look after him, and when he gets better he'll also leave me for another woman, like Dimitri did." "Then I'll kill myself." "Help yourselves." "We have pancakes..." "Plenty of bliny, vodka as well." "And thus we say goodbye, ladies and gentlemen." "Let's agree, on this tragic day, the day of the burial of llyushechka, a boy who stood alone against the whole world for his father's honor, we'll never forget him or each other no matter what happens in life." "Maybe we will become bad people." "Maybe we will not manage to avoid bad deeds." "We will laugh at human grief and scorn others." "But no matter how bad we become," "I will hold you all in my heart and I ask that you hold me in yours." "Don't worry that we eat such simple food." "There's even something good in that." "My friends, every hour, every moment, thousands of people are abandoning life in this world." "How many are parting in solitude, in great suffering?" "Life is no longer for them and there is no time." "They may even want to sacrifice for others but it is no longer possible because that life which could be sacrificed for love is gone..." " ... and the chasm between life..." " I brought you a signed DVD." " What?" " I'd sign it too but I wasn't in it." "Let a prayer rise, my friends, so that they may rest easy." "Amen, amen..." "In the end, Dostoevsky's grandson actually used his fee from the literary conference to buy a Mercedes." "But the 40-year-old vehicle didn't survive the journey back to Russia, falling apart on the highways of Poland." "The actors of Prague's Dejvice Theater still perform the play The Brothers Karamazov to this day."