"in her only German film" "Well, well, love!" ""The Four Companions"" "Directed by Carl Froelich" "Screenplay Jochen Huth" "Music by Milde Meissner" "Production Design by Franz Schrödter" "Cinematography by Reimar Kuntze" ""Vocational school for graphic industry"" "The wind has told me a song ..." "Silence, please!" "One moment, listen to me!" "Come on!" "You can pack up later." "5 minutes till the bell rings ..." "Enough for some words." "God Almighty!" "Now the party starts." "Call me later a stupid dog, Miss Franz." "Now I ask for your respect." "I'm still your teacher." "Gosh!" "You're in a hurry!" "Four years sitting on these benches ..." "And now you can't wait to get out." "You really think the world is waiting for you?" "What I meant is ..." "Life is serious   and cheerful is art." "'Earning' you write with capital 'E', because it's so damn hard." "I'm especially speaking to the four young women." "Listen to this!" "My opinion about wrong ambition   of the gentle sex is well known." "Don't look daggers at me, Miss Kruge." "Just prove the opposite!" "What you've learned here, you have to know while sleeping." "But selling your work!" "But how to get on!" "That you still have to learn." "Look around!" "Here I've taught you what art is." "And that it derives from ability." "Look out there, through the window." "That's Berlin." "It's your earnings, your life, your future." "Mr. Kohlund!" "Yes?" " Are you coming to our social evening?" "We'll celebrate in the 'Concordia' today." "The school is invited." "Tonight?" "Almost impossible." "Marianne, he doesn't want to come." "And you were so happy ..." "We have to go to the auditorium." "Miss Kruge!" "Yes, please?" "Well." "I'm leaving Berlin tonight and ..." "You are leaving?" "Really away?" "Yes." "I'll go to Dresden." "For me school is over too." "The only difference, I have a job." "Head of advertising in a cigarette factory." "I'll start tomorrow." "And?" "Let's not beat around the bush!" "We must talk." "I know   good advice." "I'm very hardworking, very ambitious, I pride myself ..." "But   it's just willingness." "It won't lead to anything." "But I have to say something to you." "Now it's possible." "Now   you're no longer my teacher. - Thank God!" "The whole year I was waiting for this hour." "For what hour?" "To get rid of you as pupil." "That I don't commit a disciplinary offense when saying, we like each other." "Because we squabbled with one another." "Look!" "As my wife you're number one." "But as commercial artist you're number 9999 for me." "So?" "To say me that!" "After working and learning for four years." "You know what that is?" "A meanness!" "That's all your work?" " You've guessed it." "Take turns, please!" "The band wants to dance as well." "Who did you immortalize here?" "Our very popular teacher." "Ladies!" "What you're doing is crap!" "Marry me instead." "Fair enough." "He didn't say 'me' for sure." "He didn't say it." "And who is the young woman?" "It's a pity, but she can't be recognized from behind." "Hot sausages!" "Sandwiches!" "Beer!" "And how about a dance?" "So you came!" "Just to say goodbye." "My train is leaving in 30 minutes." "May I?" " Oh ... no ..." "I'm on duty." "Who's without food?" "Who wants more?" "Who doesn't want it, already got it." "Serve yourself!" "Art makes hungry." "You're quite generous." "Käthe makes it in the kitchen." "But this costs a pretty piece of gold." "It's financed by class fund." "8 semesters for every time being late 10 Pfennige - it sums up." "The talents of this girl in organization are farsighted - phenomenal!" "Cheers, Mr. Kohlund!" "Cheers!" "Did you see your portrait, dear colleague?" "Where?" "There!" "You must have been a nice ladykiller." "You talent beast!" "And the miserable being at my feet?" "You're really asking?" "Ladies' choice!" "May I beg you, Mr. Kohlund?" "Me?" "A pleasure." "May I beg you, Mr. Kohlund?" "I'm a late virgin." "Well ..." "Didn't I portray him well, your Don Juan with a cane?" "If you think that's funny ..." "To each his own." "Well ..." "Have a good cry, my dear." "Stop!" "Who's stealing here?" "But Käthchen!" "What are you doing under the table?" "I sweep up the herring salad." "Nonsense!" "Professor, it was so nice!" "The four of us stuck together nicely." "Well, well." "What will become of you?" "It will work out." "Damn, the people are hungry!" "Käthchen, let me do it." "Give me the apron!" "Well, what is it?" ""No entry"" ""No entry"" "The gourmets stick to the kitchen staff." "Didn't you read the sign?" "Yes, I did." "'No entry.' Do you know a man who does not enter just because of it?" "I'm just interested in the backgrounds of so much splendor." "Me too." "And I left my cases here." "I must go." "Already?" " Yes." "Come professor, let's dance!" "But Käthchen, there are so many young men!" "They only want kissing!" "If you knew how much an apron suits you." "Don't you want to give me some sandwiches?" "Just to keep you in good memory." "With cheese or bacon?" "With cheese and bacon." "Would you like sausages as well?" "If it's not too much." "Please!" "Please. - Thanks." "Mustard is over there. - Thanks." "Cooked by yourself?" "Very good!" "How long do you cook sausages?" "Not at all!" "You're just heating it." "You want to talk about cooking?" "Why not?" "It's such an exhilarating female research." "My favorite dish is roast venison with cream sauce." "My God, I'm coming home and in the kitchen my wife   with a cute apron." "It smells very good and she asks:" "What's for lunch   you greedy little pig?" "You're only thinking of eating, don't you?" "Not always." "My buttons have to be fixed ..." "And my socks have holes that big." "But you can't force people to their happiness." "If someone prefers to walk one's legs off ..." "Listen." "They're not really made with love." "Things can always change." "Do you have a piece of paper?" "Here." "I admit, it happens a bit fast ..." "I can't make moonlight either and   if I could warble, I were a blackbird." "But all I blathered is true, girl." "It's true." "Say nothing!" "You can't say 'yes', you don't want to say 'no' ..." "To get my train, I must hurry." "Well ..." "Goodbye!" "My train is leaving at 11:17 o'clock, platform 2." "Anhalter Station." "Give me a cognac!" " Of course." "How much is it?" " 50 Pfennig." "Here you are." "Boarding!" "Boarding, please!" "Stand back!" "Wait a moment!" "Hello, Marianne!" "I only wanted to say ... - Girl, if you knew ..." "Go away!" "Don't you see that I'm talking with a lady?" "You're wrong!" "Marianne!" "Nothing you said is true!" "It doesn't matter!" "Excuse me a moment!" "If you only say 'yes'!" " I don't think so." "I will show you that I can make it all by myself." "Hello, Marianne!" "You forgot to take off the apron!" ""Commercial artist wanted"" ""Looking for commercial artist"" ""Commercial artist"" ""Referring to your application, we ask for your visit."" "I'll give you the contract, on probation." "I'll see how you do it and if it suits our line." "My dear Miss, you have understood, right?" "Figure, line, luster, skin-hugging." "Skin-hugging is most important for me." "Skin-hugging is my motto." "Women have to dream about it and men ..." "I'm sorry that I couldn't offer you more." "But ... - Things can change, right?" "I'm not spoiled and thankful for every bit." "A hard job, my dear God." "If I can be of any assistance ..." "Thanks a lot." "Today I was lucky." "You can't have luck everywhere." "Such a pretty young girl like me, right?" "Everyone says that to me." "Thanks again." "Sorry, no more contracts today." "But Käthe!" "Marianne!" "Marianne, how great to meet you here!" "How long we didn't see each other?" "But little one, how are you?" "What are you doing here?" "Pure chance." "I thought I could get a contract." "And you?" "Did you get it?" "Yes. - Do they pay well?" "That's wonderful, Marianne." "Congratulations." "It's mean." "So very mean." "I took it away from you." "Just you!" "Marianne!" "You're also freelancer?" " Yes." "You too?" " Yes." "It mounts up." "I know that." "To run your feet off." "We have separated. - And that is really mean." "We did stick together so well, all the four years!" "Now you don't even know where the others are." "And Lotte?" "Lotte?" "Lotte is doing fine." "She's got a job in an office   at station Friedrichstraße." "You look really dressy!" "No wonder!" "She's off the hook." "Excuse me, what am I?" "You have a great job!" "Say it again." "What have I?" "Don't tell us that you neither ..." "Me neither?" "Up to here!" "Every day drawing fonts for eight hours?" "No!" "But Lotte!" "Lotte, I think fonts were a strong suit of you?" "But it's just the beginning!" " Thanks for that beginning." "If it goes on like this, I will start tittering." "Do you know what I earn?" "Better, I don't tell." "I wonder what Franziska is doing." "Magnificent!" "Tell us, Franziska, are you happy?" "That's your only concern?" "At the moment, yes." "Well, eagle?" "Of course." "That's nice." "Congratulation." "Deeply moved." "And you?" "When we're speaking about it." "We are mighty fine!" "Oh well." "Of course!" "Congrats from my side." "Thanks." "Do you have more of it?" "Lot's of it." "For choosing." "If you sell them all, you must do fine." "Sure, sweetie, sure." "One for the baker, one for the butcher   two for butter, three for the landlord." "Only the electric company doesn't take paintings." "That's why I'm using petroleum." "So you as well." "Why 'as well'?" "You too?" "Don't use it!" "It breaks." "Well ..." "Why learning for four years?" "If that's all what we've achieved." "Headline:" "Everything you do is crap." "Marry instead!" "I don't think so." "To give in." "Don't you make drafts anymore, Franzi?" "100 a day if necessary, but to walk around for nothing ..." "No!" "Maybe someone of you can help me?" "That's not in my line either." "It's the worst." "And I've snatched a job in front of her nose." "Me, her!" "My, Kruge!" "It doesn't matter." "Important is only that one of us gets the job at all." "One of us?" "One of us?" "One of us!" "Girls!" "I have an idea!" "What's that?" "My expensive drawing paper." "Two Groschen a piece." "And you're smearing it up." "I didn't smear it up." "It's gold." "Pure gold." "A fortune!" "The squaring of the circle?" "That's right." "The squaring of the circle." "The egg of Columbus." "We will start a firm." "For advertising and promotion." "Franzi makes the drafts." "Käthe and Lotte carry them out." "I'll get the contracts." "Done!" "That ..." "That means ..." "We are four." "We belong together." "We four in one circle." "The trade mark of our firm." ""THE FOUR COMPANIONS"" "Just listen to this!" ""We are unrivaled in quality, delivery and price."" ""Give us a chance." "It's your chance!"" "Cheeky, pious and bigheaded." "Write!" ""Aware of the foundation of your firm ..."" ""... you are free to take part in the prize competition of our firm ..."" "" ... which" - well, the usual text." ""Send your drafts to our new office", et cetera ..." ""Personal visits are not desired."" ""You will get further notice."" "And the address?" "Look at this!" "The Four Companions." "Pretty nice idea." "There are firms whose trade mark is the best of it." "Who has signed?" "Signed?" "The four companions." "You write: "Dear Sir."" "Damn thing!" "I was just dreaming that I was meant to get the state prize." "Nonsense, let it ring!" "It will stop by itself." "That's not how it's meant to be." "Come!" "Get up, Lotte!" "It's your turn in the kitchen." "Let me be." "I don't feel well." "Gracious has migraine." "One serve her breakfast to the bed." "You pig!" "My curls!" "So mean ..." "Käthe!" "Käää - the!" "Another shower?" "Isn't she to fall in love with?" "Like a baby." "I'd like to be treated with that much respect." "You're not to fall in love with!" "If you'll ever find a husband and he sees you in the morning:" "Gone he is." "And you?" "Bearable only in the dark!" "Children, don't quarrel!" "Did I dream nicely." "Of him?" "But there is no one." "Even if you don't have one, you can dream of him." "I've dreamed of us." "We've got rich." "Very famous." "Everybody came to us." "We had a big shop at the Kurfürstendamm." "With illuminated letters over the entrance." ""The Four Companions"" "You better make coffee!" "Oh yes, girls, I'm sorry." "It will be ready very soon." "You're so very mean!" "Let me sleep." "There is no work to do anyway." ""The 4 Companions Office for advertising and promotion"" "Coffee is ready." "And we've got mail." "For me?" "From Dresden." "City of your dreams." "That's not for you." "This one is." "Taxes!" "What do they want from me?" "Money, money and more money." "We've got mail?" "Yes, for you." "For me?" "It's addressed to the firm!" "For once you're the firm." "And then it's from Dresden." "From a cigarette factory." "So what?" "Very true." "So what?" "Whoever Mr. Kohlund might be ..." "He does not write us, we don't write him ..." "We've torn him out of our hearts." "If we still dream of him every now and then ..." "My God ..." "What are we dreaming of   it's just incredible." "Let's forget it!" "Do you know what this is?" "A marriage proposal?" "Nonsense!" "The letter is not from Kohlund." "It's our chance!" "A very big chance." "The cigarette factory offers a big contract." "The ad campaign for a new brand." "And we've got it?" "Not now." "Of course not." "But we will get it." "It's an invitation for a big tender." "And we can take part." "Pah!" "That's everything?" "We won't get it for sure." "Are you crazy?" "If we take part then we will get it!" "Matter of honor." "Well   it didn't work out in the beginning   as I thought, but ..." "But now!" "If not now ..." "Well ..." "Children!" "I was waiting for it!" "A big thing." "No small stuff." "Now we will show them!" "What others can do, we can do better." "In four days the drafts must go out." "All our money will go into it." "Excuse me, how shall I pay my taxes?" "That can wait." "They've waited a long time, they can wait longer." "At first is us!" "Company interests before private interests." "Oh Marianne, that would be nice!" "We will get famous, Käthe." "I have promised it." "And we will get rich." "And people will come to us." "And we will have a shop with illuminated letters." ""The Four Companions"" ""TAX OFFICE"" "Good day!" "Just a moment." "I'm working." "Have a seat." "What do you want?" "Me, nothing." "You've sent this." "I don't know how ... - After three days?" "After three days is written here." "But ... - Not six weeks later!" "But I have nothing." "I know that." "We don't believe you." "Doesn't work with me." "Even if you have nothing you must pay taxes!" "Six weeks, unbelievable!" "Citizen taxes." "Be ashamed!" "And from what are you living when you have nothing?" "I'm partner in a firm." "So?" "Why?" "Ah ..." "And the firm is ... - Almost, Mr. senior civil servant, almost." "Six weeks we are waiting for this contract." "I did always say it's waiting forever." "All the money we've put into it." "Not a Pfennig I will ever see again." "Not a Pfennig." "And your personal wealth?" "Gone." "Completely." "38 Mark I had saved." "Gone." "38?" "That was your wealth?" "3 ..." "Excuse me, but what a firm is that?" "Don't ask, Mr. senior civil servant." "It's no firm, it's a catastrophe!" "Rent isn't paid either." "If it goes on like this   then I don't know where to sleep." "But you still have a bed?" "If I had known about the consequences!" "I had never sworn." "Why swearing?" "On our charter." "A charter do you have as well?" "Of course!" "Do you think I can get married without asking the firm for permission?" "Not even falling in love is permitted." "We had to swear on it!" "On circle, square and lead." "Circle, square and ..." "My God!" "That's Freemasonry!" "Conditions like in the Middle Ages!" "A nunnery we are." "But without income." "And I have to pay taxes for that?" "Taxes?" "Yeah ..." "Of course   under these conditions ..." "Isn't that so, Mr. senior civil servant?" "You can't talk of it anymore, right?" "I'm much obliged." "Good bye." "That's unbelievable." "Why don't you leave such a firm?" "Because of the charter!" "Under these circumstances it would be preferable to forget charter and oath ..." "And   to marry." "You say it, Mr. senior civil servant." "You say it!" "Good bye!" ""Currently absent"" "Thank you." "Very kind of you." "Any more fares?" "Ticket please!" "This one has expired." "You have to pay extra." "But I changed the vehicle." "At 5, now is 7 o'clock." "Where do you want to go?" "Potsdammer Straße." "25." "Well, yes, but ..." "I have no money." "Well, then ..." "Next stop off you go, Miss." "You excuse me?" "Ticket please!" "Please!" "Changing." "25." "Please." "Thank you." "Someone left?" "Any more fares?" "Miss?" "Don't be like this!" "Do you want to walk through the rain?" "Leipziger Straße." "Miss, come with me!" "Be so kind." "What?" "Well then." "And your ticket?" "Very good." "Thank you." "It's alright." "I'm sorry." "No problem." "No, no!" "Don't move!" "Or I will never finish it." "What?" "Are you drawing me?" "Show me!" "Because of lack of work   she turned into a pillar of salt for half an hour." "Please, go back!" "She is in love!" "What you are thinking!" "The baby!" "In the middle of autumn." "Probably dreaming of illuminated letters on the Kurfürstendamm." "Come on, look out of the window!" "It gives you that yearning look." "It doesn't work on order!" "I bet there is a man behind it." "Better stop it!" "I'm getting sick from all the problems we already have." "The only real thing!" "If a man would propose to me ... - You would say 'Yes', we know." "Unfortunately nobody dared till now." "Or we had lost your beloved presence." "You can be sure of it." "But Lotte!" "Lotte, we have promised!" "Comb honey!" "It's like in the Middle Ages!" "The man was right." "What man?" "What?" "A man?" "You told a complete stranger about our charter?" "My tax civil servant I can tell that we are broke." "Broke?" "Did you say broke?" "And you're not ashamed?" "That's really low!" "Today Marianne is fighting for our existence   in the cigarette factory." "And you?" "Telling a complete stranger ..." "Peaceful, children!" "For once, a civil servant is no man ..." "I beg you, what does 'no man' mean?" "A very friendly man, a charming man he is." "The first man who understands me." "Well, well." "Ah, I get the picture." "So it's spring in the end?" "Excuse me." "I'm waiting for an hour!" "What is it about?" "The tender." "Two months we are waiting." "I'm sorry." "You'll get a written notice." "But ..." "I can't wait any longer." "But it takes its time!" "Mr. Kohlund is with the management." "Who?" "Do you know Mr. Kohlund?" "No, no." "Only the name." "I thought he is   in Dresden?" "Not any longer." "The ad management is now here." "Won't you tell me your name?" "No." "No   he does not know me." "It would lead nowhere anyway." "Thanks." "What am I here?" "Ad expert or puppet?" "Always the same stuff." "Original new ideas!" "Ideas!" "Something really different." "That's what we need." "And what does it take?" "Just a bit courage." "Nothing else!" "Children, the professor is back!" "Hooray, our Santa Claus!" "Just at the right time!" "Children!" "If you are that happy when I'm here   then things don't look too well." "Names!" "Names!" "Names!" "Be safe!" "Without name then at least connections!" "Am I here to do the same old routine?" "Oh no!" "Either I get this poster through tomorrow or I'll leave." "Anything new?" "A lady wanted to talk to you. - A lady?" "That's the worst kind." "Thinking that feminine charms substitute talent." "But not with me!" "Enough to work on!" "I've found it in the drawing rooms." "You don't say?" "It's brand new!" "And this?" "Where did you steal this?" "Your colleagues threw it away." "Brand new brushes!" "Used, don't you see?" "You pushed it once ..." "Professor, you're an angel!" "What would we do without you?" "Maybe there is a hidden sausage too?" "Lotte!" "Well, we can't fill the stomach with that." "That bad this time?" "Well, Marianne will return with something." "Evening!" "Marianne!" "And?" "Well?" "Well ..." "Bon appétit!" "Who was the bad man who didn't offer a contract?" "The XYZ cigarette factory." "Our last hope." "The XYZ ..." "But there is your teacher, Kohlund ..." "No?" "He was not there?" "What Kohlund?" "I thought he's in Dresden?" "No, now he's here." "You didn't know that?" "No." "We didn't." "And you?" "Me neither." "I'll go to him tomorrow. - No!" "Please don't!" "But why not?" "But that's ..." "Shut up!" "Come, professor." "Marianne!" "Marianne!" "Do you love him very much?" "Tell me, Marianne!" "You can really tell me." "I can understand." "I know how it's to be in love   but you cannot talk about it." "It almost squeezes your heart off." "You know, even if we have sworn ..." "But love, Marianne!" "That's something completely different." "That's much more!" "Well, Käthe." "Is he done with you?" "That must be terrible!" "It has to be the worst ..." "Marianne!" "But, Marianne ..." "Always remember!" "We are there for you." "Well, Käthe." "I did lie to you." "I didn't see him at all." "I've ducked." "Mean and cowardly." "I was ashamed." "Because of him." "That we are suffering." "That he was right." "That I have to beg him now." "I'm so ashamed." "I can't ask him for help." "Everyone else, but not him." "Not him." "Marianne!" "I thought business interest comes before private interest?" "One does not listen when virgins talk about love!" "Yes, thanks." "Goodbye." "The lady from yesterday is waiting again outside." "Damn, always when I want to take a break." "Is the contract signed?" " Yes, it's out." "Well, let her in." "Congrats to her, I'm in the right mood." "And if she has the best connections, the contract is awarded." "And Söllner, 5 minutes, then ..." "Mr. Kohlund is ready." "Good day!" "Good day!" "Have a seat!" "What leads you ..." "Girl!" "Excuse me, Mr. Kohlund, that I came to you." "But I already was here yesterday and ..." "Slowly, slowly ..." "Always one thing after another." "I must believe it at first." "It's too nice to be true." "You are coming to me?" "I came just because ..." "Most important, how are you?" "Hmm?" "Good." "Very good, thank you." "Splendid!" "And you?" "The nose still in the air?" "Let me look at you." "Marianne!" "The little Marianne!" "A bit more slim, but ..." "I beg you ..." "I'm here on business." "Just the old one." "On business and vicious." "Alright, let's talk business." "Do you want a cigarette?" "No." "Thanks." "It's not bothering you, Kasseler, sauerkraut and dumplings?" "No, no." "Not at all." "It's because of the contract." "What contract?" "The contract for the new brand." "Please!" "You have to listen to me at first." "But why?" "It's no use, girl." "The contract has already been awarded." "What is it?" "Bad?" "Well, no." "Not at all." "It doesn't really matter." "I was just thinking ... - What?" "I'll go to Kohlund, right?" "Kohlund has proposed to me, maybe he gives the contract to me." "No!" " That's right." "Because I said 'No' back then?" "Because I won't do business with you as long as I live." "You see, Marianne, I'm the old one too." "Nothing has changed in all that time." "For God's sake." "Already quarreling again." "I didn't came for that." "Yes, I know." "Just for business." "And without success." "What is it?" "Don't you feel well?" "I do." "Splendid." "Marianne!" "Well, I haven't eaten all day long." "Good day!" "No!" "I'm no libertine!" "I want to marry that girl for over a year." "And now I didn't even ask for her address." "She's coming!" "She's seen us!" "Children, open the champagne!" "Miss!" "Miss!" "Take the clothing from the flagpole!" "You can't do that!" "This is a respectable house." "Miss!" "You better pay rent!" "Yes, easily said." "Three cheers!" "Three cheers!" "Three cheers!" "Children, what shall the people think?" "The shirt!" "God, the shirt!" "Marianne!" "A nightgown, just washed." "There is no shame!" "Did you went crazy?" "But Marianne!" "We're joking." "In your honor." "To our first big contract!" "Oh no." "It didn't work out." "You poor soul." "There it is." "Via pneumatic dispatch." "No." "To the office for advertising and promotion." "The four companions." "Dear Mister!" "Because of your drafts we are pleased to offer you ..." "We ask for immediate telephone call." "Stefan Kohlund." "And by oneself." "I didn't have to beg him." "One moment please." "Mr. Kohlund." "The four companions speaking." "Yes, your connected with the management." "That's right, it's female." "Yes, you will be pleased with our work." "Allow us to introduce us personally." "One moment." "Hello, Käthe Winter speaking." "What?" "Who?" "And Lotte Waag?" "One moment." "Another one?" "Almighty God, the fury of talent!" "And now the last one!" "Do it slowly or the stroke hits him!" "Marianne Krug." "That's right, Mr. Kohlund." "As long as you live you will never do business with me, right?" "But me, I'm pleased with it!" "Right, the poster with the four snub noses." "And idiot me didn't notice!" "Accomplished!" "And yesterday ... - That's the past!" "It's over and must never happen again." "We only have to work together." "But we have sworn it." "With dividers, square and lead." "To never fall in love without asking the others for permission." "Yes." "That too." "You're getting so easily weak." "But I swear to you ..." "Forget swearing!" "It's complicated." "You only have to keep it." "I'll never leave you." "Business interest   before private interest!" "We are four!" "That's right!" "Business interest before private interest." "We are four." "Franziska, Lotte!" "We have accomplished it!" "The four snub noses." "I don't have one." "We are known all over town." "We've walked enough!" "Let's have a fine meal!" "Eating off the profits?" "No!" "Into the firm with it!" "Now we really do start." "Children, I want to hug someone!" "Please start!" "I'm pleased and take no money for it." "You'd like that." "Of course!" "It's not in the bag!" "I don't want into the bag." "Crazy chicken!" "Rooster, dear lady, rooster!" "Damn!" "It works properly?" "On the minute!" "Broadcasting time." "This meanness." "Why?" "Why?" "Do you have fun waiting?" "I beg you." "I'm not waiting." "Is that so?" "I don't know." "The time passes so slowly today." "Only a quarter to seven." "Don't check the time permanently." "We must finish this." "I wonder where Franzi is." "You, check what Lotte is doing in there." "Evening." "Excuse me ..." "Martin!" "Can you come out for a moment?" "Martin." "Already?" "Already?" "Funny." "It's a quarter to eight." "A quarter to seven." "No, a quarter to eight." "A quarter to eight?" "What?" "What's the time?" "A quarter to eight?" "Indeed." "I've delayed the clock one hour." "You will see, you beast!" "Martin, you're not meant to come up here." "Excuse me, the rain!" "It's raining?" "I have two tickets for the movies." "Shall I catch death in this weather?" "But Lotte, the contract!" "Business interest, right?" "Don't make me laugh!" "Kohlund only shall see what you are able to." "And we do the work!" "Getting old maids?" "Without me!" "Don't laugh." "Please, don't laugh!" "Marianne, I'm staying." "And cinema?" "But I can't right now." "Don't you see, Martin?" "Well ..." "You're doing this one time to me." "One time, I'm saying." "To let me wait in the rain." "And then ..." "Here's the ticket." "Better think it over." "Strange firm." "Tell me, didn't you see a fine man waiting here?" "What?" "A fine man waiting?" "Do you think I'm the garbage collector?" " Bugger!" ""Senior civil servant A. Hintze"" "Mrs. Petersen!" "It was ringing!" "Of course at the movies!" "It's a misery!" "Please stay away!" "Don't come closer." "Mr. senior civil servant!" "Are you mad with me?" "No." "It's just because ..." "I'm carrying bacilli." "For Heaven's sake, Mr. senior civil servant!" "You caught a cold." "You have to go to bed!" "There is a draught." "To bed, dear Miss?" "Nobody is at home." "At this late hour." "I live alone, you know." "You're not allowed to receive women?" "Allowed?" "Of course." "As much as I want." "But till now it never   was the case." "Thank God!" "There is wine." "Only because of the cold." "Otherwise not a drop!" "All the better!" "Where is the kitchen?" "2nd door on the left." "What do you want?" "Make it hot!" "Take a seat at the oven." "Really worried about me." ""What can be done today don't postpone until tomorrow!"" "How I look   like a libertine." "Flowers!" "Just to run off!" "Franziska also hangs around someplace." "And there the contracts are waiting." "We don't have time for other things!" "Dear God, Marianne!" "Why are you screaming at me?" "Who was the man?" "I've met him in the tram." "You'll go to the movies with him?" "But Marianne, I stayed here!" "If the girls knew that I'm working." "And what I'm working on." "At six they wanted me home." "Painting posters." "Bad conscience?" "No!" "As long as we've suffered, I helped." "But now I have rights too." "Or not?" "You have." "You have to remain faithful to yourself." "If you want to achieve something." "Then cheers, professor!" "Down with it!" "It feels good, doesn't it?" "Phenomenal!" "The cold is gone." "Like in Heaven." "Like in HEAVEN!" "You know what you are?" "You're a warmhearted sister, yes, that's what you are." "A warmhearted   sister." "You're still sorry that we missed the concert?" "Only musically." "Schubert, The Unfinished One." "How wonderful!" "It's like   so unfinished." "Don't you think?" "Yes, it's open to a lot." "Much is unspoken." "Right." "That's right." "I had loved to talk with you about it." "About the "Unfinished One"?" "About the whole life." "About sense and meaning." "I'm now 45 ..." "Bachelor." "And the connection to the "Unfinished One", Mr. senior civil servant?" "Don't say senior civil servant to me!" "Senior civil servant I'm in the tax office." "Here I am human." "Here I am allowed to it." "Apropos tax." "Do I have to pay extra?" "No." "Just the opposite." "Could you imagine ..." "Or are you against   that I'll settle it for you completely?" "But you're doing it right now." "Not only the tax declaration, but   the whole matter!" "Paying." "And everything." "But Mr. senior civil servant!" "You want to pay my taxes?" "If I may ask for it." "Financially there wouldn't be any additional burden." "The bachelor tax would cease." "I'm sorry." "Did I offend you?" "The wine, I don't know myself." "Everything seemed easy." "Oh please ..." "Don't be mad with me, but   but like this I didn't imagine my engagement." "It's also my first time ..." "Do you really love me?" "All the time!" "If you only think that every day is gone forever." "At my age ..." "But you're not that old." "My first name is Alfred." "I know." "I have to learn that as well." "What?" "To say "you"." "You." "Everything is so romantic." "Dear God!" "I've infected you!" "But Alfred!" "That doesn't matter anymore." ""The sky is bleak"" ""and my heart is tired"" ""and no star of hope"" ""is guiding me here"" ""and all I know is"" ""I love you so much"" ""and I long"" ""I long ..."" ""... for you."" ""End"" "Cow!" "You see!" "You and your 'You See!" "'" "You think she has nobody?" "Martin!" "Always when it's getting to be nice." "Always only behind the door." "I'm tired of it." "We are marrying!" "And if you turn upside down, darling!" "Martin!" "That was mean!" "I'm discrete." "Don't tell Krug!" "You can kiss whoever you want." "But he isn't my taste." "Excuse me!" "He's a precision mechanic!" "So?" "And he has his master as well." "Really?" "And then it's not just kissing ... - ... but love!" "I know." "Love in the hallway!" "How romantic!" "Who's there?" "Late, but you're coming." "Where are you roaming around?" "I was in the concert." "And I was at the movies." "Marianne is at the widower's ball." "What?" "She's not here?" "And I'm sitting here?" "Since 10 o'clock." "Without key I can't enter." "Now it's twelve o'clock." "And where have you been?" "With the apes in the zoo." "Not really?" "Children!" "If only nothing has happened to Marianne!" "Good, old Krug." "Children!" "We are really mean." "She has worked and we ..." "I go to bed." ""The 4 Companions Enter without ringing"" "Great." "Without ringing." "What's wrong?" "Crying here?" "I thought you're dancing, painting the world pink." "Don't tell Marianne!" "As you want." "Mr. cigarette manufacturer." "What an important guest!" "My pleasure, great artist!" "I've already heard from professor Lange that ..." "For God's sake!" "Don't tell anybody!" "That's a big secret." "Please, don't tell Marianne." "As you want ..." "What a surprise, Mr. Kohlund!" "Good day!" "And what is your secret?" "Why?" "The one Marianne shall not know about." "Jesus, where do you know from?" "My goodness!" "Your relationship is a true bond of trust." "Right?" "Marianne!" "Oh!" "What's going on?" "I'd like to know what's going on here." "Good morning, boss!" "Of course I'm here just in business matters." "And what is it?" "Nothing." "I just felt a bit of a longing for you." "Unbelievable." "Don't make such a face!" "But I told you not to come here." "That's why I'm here." "I can't believe it." "The coffee!" "Then tell me ..." "Thanks for the friendly invitation." "The coffee is for the girls." "They have to make overtime." "So?" "Then I'm drinking with the staff." "Ohhh!" "Get out, you rake!" "We're changing clothes." "Excuse me!" "I'm just bringing the overtime coffee." "Forget overtime and get lost!" "All the better!" "A very romantic firm." "You will see me more often." "Just make fun of it." "I really like it." "The girls renounce to our benefit." "Coffee, please?" "We work as good here ..." "Milk!" "... as in any other office." "Sugar!" "Don't imagine you're something better." "Two, please!" "I'm your best customer, right?" "Thanks." "I can stir myself." "Well, because we're having breakfast ..." "I drink tea always without." "In the morning two rolls with marmalade." "A warm meal in the evening and a beer." "And a great thermos flask with chocolate for the office." "And four rolls, made with love." "From whom?" "You, my dear!" "Well." "That's my second and very last proposal." "I must say ..." "Your proposals are ... really strange." "Every proposal is strange." "You should make them to us." "I'd prefer to walk in the moonshine and whistle like a blackbird, too." "Shall I beg you on my knees to put my work and life to your feet?" "No." "Must I say that I love you, because you're pigheaded?" "Because you keep up your tail against anything, even love?" "You know what you are?" "A prickly character!" "Indeed." "Cold and without heart." "I am not." "But now you've proved what you're capable of." "Right, Marianne?" "Now you're reasonable." "I didn't do it because of you." "For what else?" "You're just like any other woman." "You want to make me crazy." "How mean you are!" "And whether you're flirting with another man   or with a job, a commitment ..." "You want to make yourself desirable." "That's the whole purpose." "And it's charming with you." "You shouldn't have said this." "As you want!" "Oh no ..." "There are three young girls and I have the responsibility." "Never I would let them down." "Shall they say I had formed 'The 4 Companions'   only because to make myself desirable?" "They believe in me, you know?" "You believe!" "Then ask them!" "I will!" "Franziska!" "Lotte!" "Käthe!" "Without telling me?" "Without telling you." "Strange, right?" "Well   the overtime coffee was delicious   the afternoon not very successful, but informative." "And everything stays the same." "By the way, I like 'The 4 Companions' so far." "Goodbye!" "But one thing I must tell you." "The next proposal must come from you." "Come, let's have a seat!" "Let me show you." "Come, have a seat." "That's the big room with balcony." "The other window points to the Müggelberg." "So we can see the sun come up." "Such a corner room invites luck." "But I have to decide quickly." "1 and 1/2 room apartments are sold like hotcakes." "And here is your kitchen." "View to the rear." "But no dark courtyard, there will be a park." "Almost as pretty as the front." "And there is the little room." "Beside the bathroom with tub and WC." "Käthe!" "When I think of it!" "Give me a kiss!" "We can't marry now, Martin." "What?" "I can't go right now." "It would be mean." "If there wouldn't have been Marianne, I never had made it." "She has carried me and now she needs me." "Martin, I have sworn it!" "Martin!" "Martin, I would also be faithful to you." "What?" "You lump it together?" "But, Martin, it's the same!" "What?" "The same?" "You know what?" "Then I've never understood you." "Then you've never loved me." "No, thanks." "That's the end!" "Dream over!" "Martin!" "I will hang here." "In these holy halls." "I don't believe it." "Professor, I don't believe it." ""Exhibition of contemporary painting"" "And I'm part of it." "Yes!" "Now you're a contemporary artist." "Well." "Now you're happy, right?" "It's all crap what I've painted." "Professor!" "I must start from scratch." "It's no use." "Stage fright?" "My dear!" "There are four weeks left." "And the firm?" "You can serve only one master!" "I'm really scared." "Marianne!" "She won't bite your head off." "If she would only scream!" "I can do that even better." "But, you know." "She quickly looks like a wounded deer." "I melt away like butter." "Despite my temperament." "But she has Lotte and Käthe." "Yes ..." "My God!" "More than hanging her up here, making her immortal, I can't do." "Very true!" "Very true!" "One Moment." "What do you mean with acquaintance?" "I don't know this word when doing business." "For me you're a firm like any other firm." "Delivery within 3 days!" "On the minute this time, please!" "Then tell your staff to do more." "Or the next contract goes to someone else." "That I must take this!" "Me!" "Since weeks nothing works." "Franziska's drafts are for the dog." "And you?" "Smearing beyond the outlines!" "It's a real mess." "Don't scream at me, please." "Don't scream at me." "I can't take it." "But Käthe!" "Käthe, what's wrong?" "Käthe, what's wrong with you?" "I didn't mean it like this." "Oh dear!" "Käthe, customers!" "Customers!" "Help me a bit." "How can I help you?" "Hintze." "Senior civil servant at the tax office." "Of all things ..." "Yes?" "Please come in." "You have to excuse the mess, but ..." "I really didn't have the tax on my mind." "Do you want to have a cigarette?" "Our work on the cover." "Thanks, no." "Is it already bribing an official?" "Oh no!" "I can't offer a cigar." "We're a female firm." "Yes, I know." "But real to the bone. - I have no doubts." "Please, have a seat!" "Here are the books." "Everything is correct." "Up to the last Pfennig." "Thanks, it's not needed." "I'm not here because of a tax matter   but?" "Because ..." "Miss Waag is the cause." "Dear God!" "What did she do?" "Nothing wrong." "But   she has caused something." "And I shall drink what she has brewed?" "One could freak out." "Something with her tax, right?" "No." "Oh no!" "That's completely settled now." "Well ..." "To be precise, I'm not here because of Miss Waag ..." "But   because of ..." "Mrs. Hintze." "I guess   Mrs. Hintze is your wife." "That's what I wanted to say." "What did you want to say?" "That she is my wife." "Yes, Mrs. Hintze." "Of course." "Why not?" "You see." "So you don't object?" "What ... can I object that Mrs. Hintze is your wife?" "That's what I've told Miss Waag." "But she is scared of you." "Wait a moment." "What has Miss Waag to do with your wife?" "I thought   you knew." "What?" "That she's my wife." "Lotte is your wife?" "Yes." "We're just back from the registry office." "Lotte, dear!" " Yes?" "And what did she say?" "Dear Lotte, I think your friend was happier   if a tax matter had brought me here." "That says a lot!" "I'll go to her." "Marianne!" "Coward!" "Please understand, dear Krug!" "It was really the best for me." "For you." "Yes." "That's how it is with love." "But you have no heart for such things." "Let it be!" "As you want." "Then I'll get my things fetched." "Marianne!" "For tomorrow is church wedding planned." "And later a little party." "Are you coming?" "Thanks." "I could go to my own funeral instead." "Jesus, you're scaring me!" "Even you will understand one day!" "You think?" "Of course!" "Käthe ..." "Better?" "What's wrong with you, darling?" "You don't keel over all at once." "Nerves?" "We can't afford them." "Heal, heal soul!" "Where does it hurt?" "Heart?" "Hmm?" "Well ..." "Everything goes by." "It's only half as bad, child." "Marianne!" "Don't be mad, but   I'm getting a child." "Already home?" "For once." "You can scream at me." "But why?" "You're here." "But tell me, Franzi." "Are you happy?" "Oh my!" "Stop that hokum!" "If you want to give me a blast, do so." "I can take a hit." "Is your mouth keeping every feeling away?" "Enviable!" "Tell me!" "What's going on?" "I believe your also pretty hard boiled." "Well, Franzi." "If you knew how happy I am." "To have you." "Here!" "That's me." "Don't look at me like that!" "You deer!" "I won't unpack." "I can't." "And I don't want to." "Jesus!" "I have to work!" "That's my very big chance!" "I've painted a picture." "In four weeks it's in the exhibition." "I'm a temporary artist!" "I can't paint posters anymore!" "Say something!" "At least we disintegrate in anger." "And remember with love." "And then you still have Käthe and Lotte." "Lotte has married." "What?" "Käthe I've thrown out." "But why?" "It doesn't matter anymore." "Don't let me stop you." "You have everything?" "Dumb goat!" "I can't let you alone now." "Doesn't matter." "I've already canceled." "You did what?" "But why?" "I've rented a shop   at the Kurfürstendamm." "It was meant as a surprise." "A nice surprise!" "Hey, master!" "Can you do us a favor?" "What's up?" "We are married." "It doesn't hurt." "This stone here, we'd like to immure there." "As foundation stone." "Up you come!" "Yes!" "Enough mortar - so it can support ..." "You have rented here?" "Of course!" "Yes." "We've got the nicest apartment." "We live up there." "4th floor." "In Heaven?" "Yes." "In Heaven." "We're closing now!" "Yes, I know." "One moment." "Gang, right?" "Disloyal good-for-nothings." "Falls in love, gets engaged, gets married." "And puts the tragedy on the wall too." "But good." "Talented girl, right?" "There are you." "Your nose is prettier." "You are portrayed well." "That's important." "Well   but it's not correct." "It is." "I've never seen you like this." "But?" "Wrong, you know it." "No. - Yes!" "Very wrong." "You've proved it." "Refusing to give up." "I've accepted it." "Don't be afraid of another proposal." "But ..." "I ..." "Psssh ..." "You won't disgrace yourself?" "Stay as you are." "Look at you!" "Head in the neck." "Forehead and something behind, catching eyes   a mouth, aware of what it wants, hands at work ..." "If again a man comes along to take it away then throw him out like me." "Did I   ever   make a declaration of love to you?" "You?" "* subs by Amedee *"