" Surname?" " Emmanouil." " First name?" " Dimitrios." "Date of birth?" "10th of July, 1938." " Where?" " In Thessaloniki." " Height?" " 1.76 m." "Face shape?" "Oval." " Eye colour?" " Brown." "Father's name?" "Father's name?" "Ioannis." "Mother's name?" "Iphigenia." "Occupation?" "English teacher." " Residence?" " Athens." "Mr. Emmanouil." "It's your turn." "Let him in." "What bad luck is this today?" "How do you do?" "Did you draw a card?" "Did you discard any card?" "I won the match!" "That was it." "Come in." " A scotch?" " No, no..." " Then a little bit of coffee?" " Sure, thanks." "Elpida!" "A coffee!" "The gentleman is Varvara's teacher." " Of piano?" " No, of English." "To loosen her tongue." "Come, I'll call your student." "Over here, please." "This is Varvara's brother." "Come in, please." "Barbara!" "Your teacher's waiting in the study." "Received!" "Over!" "Elpida!" "Bring the coffee to the study." "You'll teach Varvara English in a fortnight's time." "A fortnight?" "Find what she knows." "She may know a bit." "But she's going to learn the most from you." "Just for the basic communication..." "Just a little." "She doesn't need to read Shakespeare." " Emmanouil." "Pleased to meet you." " When do we start?" "She's a bit unruly and rebellious." "But don't take it so hard." "Did you explain everything to this man?" "They're starting as of tomorrow." "Great!" "An advance will give you motivation." "Dimitrios Emmanouil." "A fortnight!" "Well, tomorrow at ten." "My father is a little rude but don't mind him." "Rena is in fact the boss around here." " Who's Rena?" " His wife." " Tomorrow..." " Tomorrow." "Good bye." "Where are you going to?" "I'll take you there." "Alle... wege... führen..." "(All roads lead) nach..." "Deutschland..." "(to Germany)" "Arbeit... ist... gottes... segen..." "(Work is god's blessing)" "I am going to be a good worker." "I must learn the language of the place." "I will speak better English... when I arrive in Australia." " May I come in?" " Just a moment!" "I just want the newspaper." "I've already read it." "Keep it." " How's the young girl?" " Good night!" "They sleep so soundly that you can shout as loud as you want!" "English people..." "Do not... shake..." "hands... as much as..." "some other... people... do." "When... two friends..." "meet... they... do not..." "embrace." "They just say... hello." " Hey, did the lesson go well?" " Just fine." "I said, did the lesson go well?" "It sucked!" "Hey, will you come to dinner together?" "I believe they are an older family than the Snovs." "I remember when we cruised with him last year." "He was so well-mannered." "This set of glasses sucks." "We must replace it." "A drachma and a half!" "Incredible!" "So well-mannered..." "This chap is a goody-goody..." "I know the sort very well." "Any time soon, he'll grab the stick and start to beat." "To use aviation fuel... you do need an airplane engine..." "Now that I'm thinking of it, he was looking at Varvara..." "Always at Varvara..." "A drachma and a half the daily wage... multiplied by three thousand wages multiplied by three hundred days..." "What does it equal to?" "A good beginning makes a good ending!" "Not to mention that he'd need to replace all sparking plugs!" "The poor fellow wanted to talk to her but mademoiselle had been distracted." "One million, three hundred and fifty thousand." "...possibly even the fuel pump." "A tough nut to crack for her English!" "... to say nothing of social security cost..." "You'll sure take a little scotch." " Don't say no to me!" " I never drink." "Does your father allow you to smoke in his presence?" "But you're not my father." " You're much younger and much..." " Put it out right away, please." "Okay, okay!" "Don't do like that." "'No smoking'!" "Why didn't you go ahead with your English lessons?" "It was the turn of piano and dance." "They'll now put on me some English paint and marry me to someone." "Are they marrying you to an Englishman?" "Good morning, Miss Varvara." "My child Varvara, please go to the sitting room." "I have a job to do." "How are you, Mr. Emmanouil?" "Fine, thanks." "To the sitting room..." "Sit there." "Ah... that's where you're hiding." "Country... of Western Europe... with a socialist Government..." "Six letters." "Ispania!" "(Spain)" "It doesn't fit..." "Agglia." "(England)" "Are you sure?" "He discovered... penicillin." "Penicillin is a plant." " No one discovered it." " Fleming!" "Great." "Varvara, honey, go to the living room." "There it'll be more quiet." "Telis left." "Mr. Emmanouil, forward march!" "Ah, Mr. Emmanouil, the parade is tomorrow." "Would you like to watch it from my balcony?" "Decide without me!" "You know my opinion." "No, no..." "I'm not behind times at all!" "Let them strike if they want." "I..." "I..." "let me speak!" "I gave one drachma more!" "A whole drachma!" "A drachma costing me a million!" "This is way too much for them!" "All right!" "Make the proposal and call me to tell me the result." "How far are they from the sea?" "800 metres." "What's going on with the shipping market?" "It goes up and goes down." "It goes up and goes down." "How much salt?" "Shall I put pepper too?" "We can't handle both takeover bids." "Either we take the plots of land or the ship." "The ship!" "Come on, calm down my darling." "Don't you want to tell me what's wrong with you?" "Lately, you're so strange." "Your thought is away when I talk to you." "When one person loves, belongs to the other, body and soul." "My dowry!" "Would you like us to stay here or move to the lounge where we'll be more... safe." "It's much wiser to stay where we are." "He who knows and knows he knows he's wise." "Follow him!" "He who knows and knows not he knows he's asleep." "Wake him!" "He who knows not and knows not he knows not he's a fool." "Avoid him!" "He who knows not and... knows... he knows not he's a child." "He's..." "What are you going to do with it?" "Hang it on your room's wall?" "I'll deliver it to your father as soon as he comes through that door." "For God's sake no!" "Don't do this!" "And take my soul, my life, my voice, my breath!" "Miss Varvara, what's this posture?" "If anyone could see us!" "'Miss Varvara!" "'" "Plain Varvara is my name!" "Varvara!" "I can imagine what you're thinking of me." "Thou are a goat!" "You're a girl..." "somewhat spunky... a bit careless... a girl we call spoiled." "But when you grow up a little and learn more about the world perhaps your way of thinking will become more mature and..." "What do you think of my hands?" " What are you staring at?" " Your lips." "The lower lip shows force of will and passion... but the upper one..." "Back to our lesson, please!" "Well really, what are your political beliefs?" " What?" " Whatever party you vote for..." "What one puts in the ballot, it's a secret!" "It's not proper to ask such things." "Please forgive me for being so indiscreet." "Let us be friends again." "I'll tell what you are (study, bathroom, bedroom) from the paper you read..." "(hallway, piano room, living room)" "Give me back the newspaper!" "At once!" "You always stay so far away from me." "Come closer." "Come closer." "I'm not going to eat you." "Get out my home immediately!" "But... this is my home." "Is anything wrong?" "Were you talking to me?" "Good night!" "Professor, please excuse me." "I'll be away for a few moments." "But, pretty soon, I'll be back." "Your student." "To hell with you!" "Why stay here and listen to you and not go back to Egypt!" "I'm sick of always seeing you in an awful hurry as if you had something important to do." "Oh!" "Get off my back!" "It was our Michael on the phone, half an hour ago." "Ready to go!" "My answer to the oral contraception is simply no." "Peter Piper... picked a peck of pickled... peppers!" "Differences of age and sex have no longer any social validity for the working class." "All are instruments of labour... more or less expensive to use according to their age..." "When sitting, try to look elegant and dignified." "Don't stray away too much the one leg from the other." "It looks coarse and inelegant." "It isn't nice to cross your legs too high either no matter how pretty your legs are." "It may seem relaxing to have your legs crossed however this posture completely lacks refinement." "Legs extending equally and stuck together is the proper way to accomplish a sophisticated inviting call." "One night..." "I..." "General Popov" "Natalia Ivanovna, Countess Novsky were playing stud..." "Suddenly... bam!" "Boom!" "Bam-boom!" "'Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça ?" "' (What on earth is that?" ")" "Ce sont les bolcheviks!" "(It's the Bolsheviks!" ")" "I pick up cats, I pick up jewels..." "I pick up children" "Moscow!" "Ah!" "Moscow!" "...sex..." "Well, you don't look after yourself at all." "'Hello Mr. Brown." "How do you do?" "'" "Fine!" "Do me now the favour and go somewhere else." "Let me finish a job and then come back." "There you go again!" "Let me see your progress." "Are we still at the first lesson?" "It's too hard." "That's why we can't advance." "Now you're compelled to advance." "Mr. Emmanouil, you should be a little more strict because we haven't much time left." "We've progressed significantly in pronunciation and speaking." "I believe this is what interests you more." "Where you come from, Mr. Emmanouil?" "From Thessaloniki." "Does your father live?" "No." "Just my mother lives in Thessaloniki." " I'm going now, I'm going!" " Stay!" "You won't bother us at all." "Varvara..." "has the opposite opinion." "Listen to this piece." "It's his last record." "One night, I..." "General Popov..." "Natalia Ivanovna, Countess Novsky... were playing stud..." "Suddenly... bam... boom...." "Bam... boom..." "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça ?" "Ce sont les bolcheviks..." "I pick up cats, I pick up jewels..." "I pick up children..." "Odessa!" "Telis..." "don't peek at my cards." "If you don't intend to do any lessons, say it and I quit!" "No, no!" "Ah, Constantinople!" "(Istanbul)" "I... open big pastry shop (in broken Greek)" "Natalia Ivanovna..." "General Popov..." "Countess Novsky..." "That's how it started in Egypt, too!" "The next thing was to set hotels in fire." "We could not even trust our servants!" " How old are you?" " Eighteen." "You're the same age as this watch." "A gift from my mother when I started high school..." "Hasn't it ever been broken since?" "Watches are durable." "They are!" "Who's there?" "Mr. Emmanouil, the lady asks if the lesson's finished because she's in need of you." " That's right, it's finished." "If you do this again, I won't be very nice!" "You don't give any damn for my position or yours." "Not that your age is an excuse!" "Others in your age were risking their lives and many even lost them." "And they didn't do that for people irresponsible and frivolous like..." " Like me." "Don't get angry with me!" "I promise to be a good girl, to set an example!" " Where are you going?" " I'm leaving." "But you're the fifth!" "Come on!" "No more lessons!" "I understand." "He fired me." "Don't you know anything other than English?" "... And other than playing cards?" "Listen, Miss Varvara." "Well, I do know something about cards and many other things..." "Let's now open that book to finish those 20 lessons for which I'm admittedly paid dearly and then we got all the time for chit-chat." "There won't be any more." "He's coming." "Who's coming?" "The one you all train me for." "London-Athens-Khartoum." "He is in a hurry to pick up his patrimony." " When?" " Tonight!" "So quickly!" "We didn't have time to do anything at all." "We?" "Of course not!" "It was others' turn." "You see..." "Ladies come first." "What do you exactly mean by that?" "Look me straight in the eyes, professor!" "Since I become so strong on English..." "Rena wants you to furbish her English too." "She assembles a group of ladies." "Mind you, you're going to have work all season!" "Soon, she will..." "clear my room too." "I guess you'll move here." "No dust, neither noise nor anything at all get in here." "From the balcony you'll watch the demonstrations." "You'll sleep all day." "Next year, you'll watch TV." "All right, I'll invite him to talk and we'll see." "Bye, now!" "Hang it up 'cause I'm busy." "You can speak to him right now." "Well, dad..." "This man is too tall." " Mr. Emmanouil, is that you?" " Yes, it's me." "Listen, Mr. Emmanouil." "Would you mind guiding our guest from London around?" "You're the suitable man for this job." "Varvara will come by to pick you up by car." "Tell him all about the sites he'll visit for he is an educated man that holds a great interest in sightseeing." "We got just a quarter available." "And from here you can see the Hilton Hotel." "[The Football Pools]" ""A Fist Full of Dollars"" ""Lottery:" "Promises Everything"" ""Real estate." "Deferred payment."" ""Greeks, you own Greece, Unite and Fight."" ""Nudist Cruise" "Plays for second week."" "Five million drachmas." "The Parthenon!" "But... move a bit over here." "Just a bit." "National Broadcasting Corporation..." "Madam Irene!" "Two bottles of whisky to the balcony." "How're things?" " Good evening." " Hello." "How are you?" "A little present for your name day." " Poetry." " How nice!" "What's this?" "I didn't know they teach English literature in our university." "And you are so young!" "Are you happy with your job?" "Have you got any free time?" "Don't bother!" "I'll bring you something." "This drachma is yours." "Gentlemen, let's go see the sunrise from Acropolis." "Come." "Alt!" "The hard lump on the pine could be a spying eye" "And the needles of the spruces could be lances" "Enemy lurks behind any anemone" "Alt!" "Death!" "Here, the ear no wind can hear." "Can't hear the heart of the earth" "Alt!" "Death!" "The hours have machine-guns in the seconds." "At first minutes, hand grenades" "In the half way, a bomb at the breast" "Exactly." "Charge!" "Alt!" "Death!" "How to cross this desperate meadow?" "All forgot their mothers and even you that held your heart in your palms." "The sun has disappeared." "The skulls of those killed in battle swing over the mules' back." "They have their own time." "They have other hours." "The reflections of the cross play on the frozen neck." "The cross." "The frozen nails." "The file of missing objects." "The file!" "Alt!" "Death!" "Here, the moon shows its teeth to any sigh." "Alt!" "Death!" "We have become a desperate show of occupations." "On our breast an army of dead has camped." "In the valleys with the vigilant people the hours howl inconsolably." "Jackals devour their laugh." "Snakes suck the blood of the trees." "Predators eat the flesh of Earth." "Earth breathes hard and protests" "The trees break like our courage." "Alt!" "Death!" "You shouldn't have come." "Now that I have become a spinning desperate figure." "You shouldn't have come." "I bind my patience in the sun." "I walk on hands." "I scream to the fathomless night." "I pick up my verses my eyes." "You shouldn't have come." "Alt Death" "Hello." "She's not here." "Everyone's away." "Nobody's here." "Who's speaking, please?" "The liberals came..." "The liberals gone..." "The conservatives came..." "Kondylis' coup d'etat took place..." "The Movement of '35, the 4th of August dictatorship..." "The British came..." "The British gone, the Germans came..." "The Germans gone, the British came back..." "The British gone, the Americans came... the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Japanese..." " Over there I have..." " Oh, thank you very much." "Some other time soon." " Barbarian!" " Barbara!" "Thessaloniki..." "Thessaloniki..." "Thessaloniki..." "Thessaloniki..." "I came to tell you... nothing important..." "Just that... it's a shame it had to be like this... against our will." "I won't ever forget you and what I feel for you deep inside me." " Speak louder!" " It's a shame it had to be like this!" "I feel nothing for you." "I'm not in love, I don't want to see you again!" "Good bye!" "Dimitris!" "Dimitris!" "Dimitris, I don't believe a word of what you say." "You just have regrets and try to put things right." "Of course I bear no malice..." "No, no!" "Don't interrupt me!" "All of you, prematurely aged young men, have learned how to speak eloquently." "Great words, full of promises." "Where are the great deeds, sir?" "What has become of your dreams of youth?" "Where's the courage you meant to show?" "The decisions you made?" "Or have you also been tricked by the full-page ads?" "A good little post, a salary exceeding expectations, an office near a sunlit window..." "The phone in the fingers..." ""Oh!" "Good morning, Mr. Executive!"" ""How did you spend your time last Sunday?"" ""It's too hot again, today!"" ""This year we had many more tourists than we had last year."" "Where will you go on holiday next summer?" "Would you come in for a drink?" "What's your opinion on the situation?" "Lower your voice or they'll hear us."