"Good God, you've stoled the money." " I need it for tram tickets." " 70 thousand crowns for ticket?" "I need 30 tram tickets." "It's about Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Isn't it?" " I'll kill you." " Please don't..." "Always the team." "Tht damned, miserable football team." "Ow!" "Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Orb¨¢n." "Donyecz." "Biatov." "Nagy ll." "Kelemen." "K?" "vesi, reserve." "Bik¨¢csi." "Szines." "Vallai, the goalkeeper." "Sebesty¨¦n." "Huttinger." "Drugics." "THE TEAM MEANS everything TO MlNARlK." "FOOTBALL OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS" "Csabagy?" "ngye is Csabagy?" "ngye." "Really?" "I thought this was Arsenal." "Now go at it, Ede!" "Of course." "CSABAGY?" "NGYE is NOT ARSENAL." "WHY ARE TOKlCS AND BR¨¹LL lurking AROUND THE GROUNDS?" "WHAT DOES THE WOMAN in THE FUR-COAT WANT?" "COULD it BE possible?" "HOW DOES THE GUN GET ONTO THE POST?" "Now there's nothing to prevent us from getting into the first division." "I've already got a tip." "Starring:" "From the novel of lv¨¢n M¨¢ndy." "Screenplay by Zsuzsa T¨®th." "Music by Zdenk¨® Tam¨¢ssy." "Photography by Elem¨¦r Rag¨¢lyi." "Directed by P¨¢l S¨¢ndor." "Because you need a team!" "You need one!" "AND MlNARlK GOES TO TOWN TO COLLECT THE TEAM." "his POCKETS ARE EMPTY BUT his HEART is FREE AS A bird." "Orb¨¢n!" "MlNARlK is CURSED BY A starving proletarian WOMAN," "BUT HE'S NOT afraid." "Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Sebesty¨¦n!" "Kelemen!" "Vallai!" "Come on!" "Come on, boys!" "Move!" "Out!" "What is war?" "War is the crisis of over-production of bourgeois society." "Fight for new markets." "For the repartition of the world." "So what is in the interest of the bourgeoisie?" "War." "And what is in the interest of the proletarits?" "Peace." "How many kinds of society have there been in the course of class-struggle?" "Five!" "What were they?" "K?" "vesi!" "Up and down!" "Up and down!" "One... two..." "One... two..." " Uncle Drugics!" " Minarik!" "Here's the fresh news!" "Read about the great trial." "The heroes are Hitler and Lunendorff." "The great trial." "The heroes are Hitler and Lunendorff." " The great trial." "The heroes are..." " Hitler and Lunendorff." "Who's Hitler?" "THE GROUNDS" " Hello, Uncle Ede." " Hello, Bik¨¢csi." " Have you been here for long?" " No, I've just come." "Why?" "All right, take the ball!" "Tram ticket!" "Tram ticket!" "Tram ticket!" "Let me tell you that Gyuri Orth used to go by foot for training." "Gyuri Orth didn't live as far as I do." " Sorry." " Ok." "Gyuri Orth is not Gyuri for you!" "Understand!" "Ede Minarik!" "Ede Minarik!" "Lodger of the grounds!" "Ede Minarik!" "Mr. Minarik!" "Mr. Minarik!" " What are we waiting for?" " For the miracle." "You see?" "Please, let's beat them up!" "Beat up te executors?" "Are you out of your mind?" "!" " What then?" " I told you, I would pay up tomorrow." "You're going to sell one of us, aren't you?" " Please don't." " Shup up, for God's sake!" "Ede Minarik, lodger of the grounds!" "Are you here?" "In the name of the state!" "NO MERCY!" "We'll take all the dresses." "Who are you?" "Sebesty¨¦n, centre-forward." " And you?" "What do you play?" " Inside left." "Have you heard of Gabi Obitz?" "Well, he was an expert in faulting." "He just pushed somebody delicately, elegantly..." "And ten minutes later the guy collapsed in the field, didn't he?" "And you?" "Bik¨¢csi." "Outside right." "When the defence kicks the ball forward you intercept it, don't you?" " lrresistibly rush towards the goal." " lrresistibly." " And who are you?" " K?" "vesi." "Reserve." " Vallai, the goalkeeper." " The goalkeeper." "There was a goalkeeper in England, his name was Robinson." "He used to hang his gun onto the goalpost, because he had sworn that if he were happened to let the ball in..." "Then there come a match when it happened." "Somehow he wasn't able to save the goal." "So he put the gun against his temple and bang!" "Since that time they stop in the middle of every match in England." "They have one minute silence in commemoration of Robinson." "THE CUP is FULL!" "Hello, uncle Ede." " Hello Bik¨¢csi." " Bye." "Bye." "MlNARlK didn'T SLEEP A wink THAT night." "NEED MONEY!" "THE kid charlie chaplin'S NEW film" "It's not open." "Lilian Gish." "She's a cry-baby." "Crying, that's all she can do." "A Paramount production." "The first sequences were directed by Ernst Lubitsch" "But later on work was continued by" "George Fitzmaurice, the director of Nuptial Ship." "Nobody knows why..." "They say Lubitsch fell ill." "Nonsense!" "They simply shelved him, that's what happened." "Lubitsch?" "Shelved?" "Maybe they don't even notice you." "Why?" "Who makes a team great?" "Or a goalkeeper?" "Who knows?" "Only money counts nowadays." "A guy was given a dress and a pair of boots in the past..." " They put their soul into it." " Their soul?" " Yes." "They played." "But that's over." "Shall I tell you why?" "The air is fouled." "And what about these chorus-girls?" "They're fed up." "Boredom is written all over their faces." "Swan feathers are rather chicken feathers." "They seem to care for much these things even on film." "Why does a guy take stand in the goal, for God's sake?" "For money." "How long do you want to go on foot?" "P¨¦ter Vallai, goalkeeper of Csabagy?" "ngye!" "For money!" "Money!" "Money!" "Money!" "THE WEALTHY THEATER-OWNER GOT OUT OF BED with LEFT FOOT." " Hello, old fellow!" " Well, Minarik!" "How cheerful you are." "Why is that?" "Cheerful?" "Who is cheerful here?" "They put executors on my heels." "They want to ruin everything." "There are no coincidences." "But I'll not give up!" "Do you understand!" "Never ever!" "I need to get money immediately." "A loan." "That's enough!" "Next time face that shorty and either get your 30 tram tickets or say goodbye to uncle Ede!" "That's all!" "Great artist." "Perhaps the greatest of all." "Take it off!" "Of course Mae Murray is quite different." "Put it up!" "They go mad about her." " Business is business, isn't it?" " Yes." "What are you talking about?" "Business?" "Do you know what's business about?" "Pub, brothel - these are not the same today." "But the cleaner's!" "You can go broke in furs." "Or in gold or vinegar, too." "But you simply can't go broke in cleaning." "Except for Ede Minarik, of course." "Who lives such a lifestyle." "I have to get Csabagy?" "ngye up into the first division by spring." "Csabagy?" "ngye is a split!" "It's nothing!" "Come on!" " What do you need the money for?" " The future of Csabagy?" "ngye..." "You're being sponged, you're being squeezed, Minarik." " But now I have a goalkeeper...!" " The boy is a gold-mine." "Yes." "He thinks that there is no interest for you." " That other teams aren't interested in you." " Shoo!" " That you've made roots in the goal of Csabagy?" "ngye." " Shoo!" "Do you check your weight regularly, for example?" "You've lost weight." "It's loose." "You aren't even here, Minarik." "Tell me, why should I give money to a man, who's not here at all?" "Good bye." "this BOY will MAKE A GREAT SOCCER PLAYER!" "And what's become of the trainers, tell me!" "Pipi Turner, father of all sharkers and touts." "Pipi Turner, who creates teams and destroys them." "When it seemed that a team had every chance to start in the spring season, as a probable winner," "Pipi flicked out the inside right, like a matchstick." "And the team collapsed in no-time." "I'm asking you, in which position this man should be?" "Which great team should have this man as a leader?" "Who called by many as The Cleaner." "And who has to count every penny." "To the eternal shame of the Association." "Dance!" "What's become of Tivadar Kir¨¢ly?" "Tivadar Kir¨¢ly, who made Atlanta great?" "That was a question, Cleaner!" "Who made Atlanta great?" "This is a question." "Who can make a team great?" "You, Pipi!" "You and no one else!" "It wasn't bad either when Pipi got a full-back for Atalanta from Temesv¨¢r." "¨¦li¨¢s!" "And when Pipi set out for overseas..." "He took a great ship and arrived to America!" "Long live Pipi!" "Hurray!" "Hurray!" "confidential" "All right, Cleaner." "I'll have a look at that Huttinger boy." "Although Atalanta doesn't need an inside left." "But I was thinking of Bik¨¢csi." "Our outside right." "Remember?" "You must remember him!" "I've already brought you a concrets defense." "Sicilian defense." "And if I want to sell you now Bik¨¢csi..." "So now only Bik¨¢csi..." "What do you mean "only"?" "Because they send executives on me!" "All kinds of executives." "Money." "Money." "Awful lot of money." "More awful lot of money." "You ought to sell the others." "First you must sell the left win, then the centre and the left wing." "But you'll still have the halfs and backs." "You'll be a free man, Minarik." "That's the secret." "You'll get rid of the team." "Live happily ever after." "God forbid!" "That's impossible." "Listen to him." "The bald prince can read the future!" " No." " Yes." " Yes." " How are you getting on with you wife, Minarik?" "My wife's neck is so soft..." "His wife's neck is so soft..." "But one night I'll press down the pillow on her head until..." "That's good." "The pillow should be pressed down on the head of the whole world." " On everybody." " On everybody." "You're a bad man, Cleaner." "In my heart there are only you and sorrow." "Ede." "AND THE TEAM SAY GOODBYE TO blk¨¢csi" "Dramatic declaration of the inside right." "When he came to know that Bik¨¢csi the outside right had been sold..." "Dramatic declaration of the inside right." " My heart was broken." " Shhh!" "Dear boys!" "Players of Csabagy?" "ngye!" "It doesn't matter." "Believe me, nothing matters." "The only matter is that Csabagy?" "ngye have to get up into the first division." "Nothing can prevent us from getting up into the first division." "I'll bring a new inside right replacing Bik¨¢csi." "It would be hard to replace the speed of Bik¨¢csi, although." "Bu I've got already a tip." "In spring." "The spring season will start soon." "And then..." "And who'll be the next?" " What next?" " The next you'll sell." "There's no next." "No." "There won't be next." "No." "There won't be next." "Because we need a team!" "We need one!" "TOKlCS AND BR¨¹LL!" "IT is said THAT during A training THEY GREETED SOMEONE," "AND HE TURNED GREY ON THE SPOT!" " Good day, Cleaner." " Good day, Cleaner." "We've just step by." "Just like that." "Here's this fur coat, so we thought we'd take it to Minarik." " There's an atmosphere of intimacy." " Like a big family." "The Cleaner is like a father to his team." "Suddenly he says:" "I'll have an afternoon snack with the boys." "Only once in a while." "I invite the boys to tea." "Therefore Csabagy?" "ngye is safe from what happened to BAK." "The leaders were simply tied to the goal posts, and the team scattered in all direction." " Quite." " Quite." "Quite." "WHERE HAVE I SEEN this WOMAN?" "Well, the Nagy brothers!" "The boys trust the Cleaner, of course." "Yes, thanks God, yes." "They trust, yes." "Nagy l. and Nagy ll., like two organ pipes." " The fast Biatov." " Bravo!" "And the Huttinger boy!" "Your shooting needs more practicing." "Is it true that Csabagy?" "ngye wants to sell Huttinger?" "What are you talking about?" " Sebesty¨¦n!" " Orb¨¢n!" " They say the boy is a first-class header." " Who said so?" "Does it matter?" "No." "And there is Vallai, the prodigy!" "Why say so?" "Of course it's him." "P¨¦ter Vallai, the goalkeeper." "They say he moves like a panther." "G¨¦ZA SZlNES said something RUDE." "Stop!" "Boys!" "Stop!" "Don't...!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "My God, stop!" "A glance and I've got it." "An outside right, that's the real one!" "AFTER him!" "OUR FATHER which ART in HEAVEN HALLOWED BY THY NAME." "THY kingdom COME." "THY will BE DONE ON EARTH AS it is in HEAVEN." "give US this DAY OUR daily BREAD AND forgive US OUR TRESSPASSES" "AS WE forgive THEM THAT ARE against US" "AND KEEP US FROM ALL evil NOW AND FOR EVERMORE, AMEN." "And deliver us from devil!" "Haven't you seen a boy here?" "A thin boy?" "Haven't you seen a boy here?" "Haven't you seen a boy here?" "Haven't you seen a boy?" "Haven't you seen a boy here?" "IN THE spring OF 1 924 racist STUDENTS BLEW UP A FERRY-BOAT" "transporting MEMBERS OF A WORKER'S circle ACROSS THE DANUBE." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Sssh!" "Is it true that you were an international player?" " What?" " Soccer player." "Yes, in the past." "In the past." "When the defense kicks the ball forward you'll take it a drive at the goal" " irresisstibly." " I'll drive at the goal!" "The referees." "The referees are meeting over dinner tonight." "Mr. Boronkai!" "Mr. Eigner!" "Mr. Cs¨¢rd¨¢s!" "Mr. Ivancsics!" "Mr. Schissler." "Are you cold?" "I'll introduce you to the referees." "Just by the way." "My new outside right, Mr. Ivancsics." "You'll wait until the referee gives his hand, he must give it first." "If it comes to that." "Mr. Somorjai." "Mr. Somorjai is late tonight." " Good evening, Mr. Somorjai!" " Good evening, Minarik!" " Coming in, Minarik?" " Yes, yes." "Go!" "Go!" "OH, THOSE UNFORGETTABLE revolving DOORS!" "Good evening!" "Mr. Boronkai, Mr. Cs¨¢rd¨¢s!" "Enjoy your meal!" "Good evening." "Ladies..." "Mr. Cs¨¢rd¨¢s, enjoy your meal!" "Good evening." "Once upon a time there was a boy who could have become a great soccer player." "One, two, there.." "One, two, three..." "Come on, Csabagy?" "ngye!" "Down with Municipal Beer!" "One, two, three!" "Down with Municipal Beer!" "You haven't got a team." "There's no team." "What are you talking about?" "!" "Down with Municipal Beer!" "To three!" "One, two, three!" "Down with Municipal Beer!" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine." "What's up?" "We've only nine players and K?" "vesi, of course." "At the moment, Berti." " If you'd put me in picture as your coach..." " Tomorrow, Berti." " And what about the dresses?" " Tomorrow." "Everything for tomorrow." "All right." "Csa-ba-gy?" "n-gye!" "Csa-ba..." "All right, boys!" "Shouldn't we distribute them small paper windmills?" "Last year they got them." "I'll kill you, K?" "vesi!" "We won't have "Proletarians of the world unite" again." " That was long ago." " Yes, it slipped out from your lips." "Only because the Csabagy?" "ngye V¨¦rhalom match was called off." "That was a different Csabagy?" "ngye." "They wanted to kill you." "You were lying in the middle of the field." " They didn't want to kill me." " The supporters did." "You made people come out in vain in the rain" " and there was no match." " Now there will be!" " Do you think so?" " I'm telling you." "And Vallai'll play." "Do you think so?" "Tram ticket!" "Tram ticket!" "If I give him tram money, the others also will have the right to it." "He ought to realize that." " But he doesn't." " So it's no?" "No." "Tomorrow I'll pay for the 30 tram tickets." "Go and tell him!" " I will." " It's a secret." "Secret." "30 tram tickets!" "30 tram tickets!" "See." "It's all because the bourgeosie did not leave and other bond between man and man but the naked interest." "And callous cash payment." "What are you talking about?" "!" "What are you talking about?" "!" "I have to pay it." "I need Vallai." "You don't understand." " What do you want from me?" " I'm also here with you, you see." "And I was here and I will be here, just to let you know." "And it hurts me so." "But I raise my hat to you, uncle Ede." "Pity!" "What a pity!" "What?" "That you have no talent, K?" "vesi." "I was an ace for penalty kick in the old times." " You were terrific." " Let's see this boy!" "We'll see." "AND TOKlCS THE ONCE terrific PENALTY kicker..." "There was a goalkeeper." "They say there was a goalkeep in England." "His name was Robinson." "It was simply impossible to shoot into his goal." "The gun was suspended on the goalpost because he had sworn," " that if once..." " Bang!" "There was once a goalkeeper in England." "A prodigy of a goalkeeper." "You know what?" "As far as I'm concerned, you may go to hell!" "I know what they are after." "What did you bring today for your boyfriend?" "Bread and butter, homemade cake?" "And you?" " Why did you come here?" " Call me lla." "Ila!" "And you came by car." "This isn't your car." "Don't try to tell me it's yours." "Won't you get in?" "Tell me, can you learn a poem by heart?" "I've never been able to learn a single poem." "King Edward, perhaps." "King Edward?" "The Bards of Wales by J¨¢nos Arany." "The one with King Edward." "Oh, is he in it?" "King Edward, King of England was riding his pale horse." "Whether he went, dead silence reigned, the land in muteness lay." "Whether he went, dead silence reigned, the land in muteness lay." " Chatting?" "Chatting?" " Do you know King Edward?" "This girl knows him." "King Edward, King of England, was riding his pale horse..." "The Lady's being talking at lenght." "The lady makes friends easily." "Uncle Ede!" "Uncle Ede!" "The whole town is talking about Csabagy?" "ngye's end." "That the whole team is out." "Don't believe him, son." "Don't believe a word!" "I don't want, Uncle Ede." "I don't." "You stole it?" "Get dressed, boys!" "BUT DELUSlVE happiness didn'T LAST LONG." "People!" "I'm innocent." "What's becom of the Bik¨¢csi-Szines right wing?" "Of the two overtook even Gabi Obitz when in good form?" "Where?" "And Vallai, the goalkeeper?" "Pinch me, my friend!" "Pinch me, come on!" "After so many years Minarik again at the Cairo." "It's very good, I say." "Noodles with cottage cheese, a good cigar, that was good living!" "At dawn when the chairs had been put upside down on the tables." "Remember Pepi T¨®th's noodles?" " By the way, he died, too." " Pepi T¨®th?" " In 1920." "Oh, what a sad occurence." "But why were you not present at Pepi T¨®th's funeral?" "Good evening, Cleaner!" "Good evening, Cleaner!" "Hey, gentlemen and ladies!" "A nice boy has died." "He thought he's last forever." "And that he's achived great things." "Minarik, the fanatic cleaner is dead." "What's become of you, Minarik?" "Stop pastering me, Joli!" " And there was fire in you." " We're too old for that." "Do you know what fire means, Ede?" "You've got your own troubles, I've got mine." "Put this away." "What's this?" "Why should I go about carrying a toy-gun?" "This is not a game, Minarik." " A chandelier girl!" " A chandelier girl!" "And he's betrothed." "Well, my God!" "Who can stop lovers from loving?" "Who has the right to do that?" "They're children." "Two charming, innocent child." "And all we have to do is to take care of them." "The sight must stir even that hollow heart of yours, Minarik." "A chandelier girl." "Ow!" "Minarik, I told you..." "MlNARlK BURRlES his SORROW in WORK." "Good evening." "Mourning paint, please." "They found the body in a Los Angeles hotel." "Sarah Sweet, the flapper." "One week later..." "Remember that, sir." "For a whole week there wasn't a single soul in that large city wandering what had become of Sweet." "And how knows how long she's been..." "The producers did a good job once again." "They cancelled her contract when she the least expected it." "Unexpectedly." "Do you think that kind of thing is done differently there?" "Haven't we had a bit much of Sweet?" "Don't you think the audience would like to see a new face?" "Someone asks like flicking an ash." "The audience, of course..." "Have not the slightest idea that they should like to see a new face, but anyhow she's gone." "They would've given her smaller roles for a while." "The good sister whose brother went astray or a wretched girl watching from a corner, lovers sitting in a caf¨¦." "But Sarah didn't want that." "No." "Cinema meant everything to her." "She staked everything on that one card." "Tomorrow we'll have an important game." "Perhaps they'll show one of her films somewhere." "At a mating¨¦e in one of those small cinemas." "And then the cinema will be closed down, too." "AND THE MOST important DAY HAS COME" "Come on, "Muni Beer!" " Vallai?" " He's coming." "Vallai's coming." "Come on!" "Clever!" "It would be easier if this were 1914." "Cool down, Berti." " Vallai..." " Sssh!" "Vallai is coming." "Coming." "We'll start soon." "Vallai is coming." "Orb¨¢n, Nagy I., Nagy ll.!" "Five minutes until start!" "Five minutes!" "Come on, quickly!" "And of course K?" "vesi." "There's no Vallai." "He's going to ask whether he may stand in the goal." "No!" "Where is the goalkeeper of Csabagy?" "ngye?" "Where is Vallai?" "My beloved ones!" "My beloved ones!" "My beloved ones!" "Waiting for him?" "You can go on waiting." "Have a nice time." "Is everbody here?" "He left a letter to his parents." "Perhaps you can forgive me but at least I've found a girl at whose side..." "Did he went with her." "To Madrid." "With Miss lla Bod¨®." "My beloved ones!" "P¨¦ter Vallai, goalkeeper of Csabagy?" "ngye was called by contract to Madrid." "We deeply regret that!" "But don't worry, my beloved ones!" "Because I've got a contract with a famous Madrid team." "Thanks to the help and generosity of two gentlemen." "Whose names I cannot disclose." "No need!" "We know the two gentlemen very well!" " My beloved ones!" " My beloved ones!" "There was a goalkeeper." "Once upon a time there was a goalkeeper." "His name was Robinson or something." "We're starting, boys!" "THE first SAVE..." "THE SECOND..." "THE third..." "AND THEN MlNARlK quits" "There was once a team..." "THE MONTHS WENT BY BUT EDE MlNARlK WAS NEVER SEEN again" "IN THE neighborhood OF THE SOCCER fields..." "THE hungarian national TEAM WAS disastrously BEATEN 3:0 BY EGYPT AT THE paris olympic GAMES." "AT WESTERN railway station" " BEFORE THE arrival OF THE DEFEATED TEAM..." "AND THEY ATE happily EVER AFTER!"