"You look exactly like your mother." "Only you're a bit more beautiful." "Did you come just because of me?" "No, not only because of you." "I'm the principal of our school and I also teach English." "So I came here for some experience." "I brought you something." "Dad's watch..." "Arnost asked me to give it to you." "Your brother Mira gave it to him shortly before his death and..." "Arnost spent his last days with him in the hospital." "I prefer you talking about yourself." "Do you like it here?" "I don't know yet. lt's the biggest city I've ever been in." "There are so many extremes here." "Still it's one of the greatest cities in the world." "So many cultures, races, religions - all in one pot." "It's like God's laboratory." "I only really stopped feeling homesick here." "Where shall I put it?" "Over there, in the old lady's bedroom." "Hi Honza." "Hi Dana." "I just finished over at the Kleists'." "They're very satisfied, but I don't want to hear about work for at least two or three months." "On top of that my back is starting to hurt again." "You always say that." "Then you take on something else." "Can't I at least complain a bit?" "You like your films so I can like doing interior design." "I can do it here." "I know the language." "Over there, where you are, I'd be completely lost." "Dana, you know it's not about the language." "Let's stop this. I miss you." "I've been missing you for a long time." "You liar." "l'm not lying." "ls anything new?" "Do you remember the merry widow?" "Her daughter is here visiting and it's tempting me to go home." "Let's meet there, Dana." "l don't know..." "What if you get a heart attack from all the impressions?" "lt happens quite often." "Stop it, or it will come true." "To be honest I'm personally scared of visiting." "What worries me more is that if I keep delaying it the people I like most won't be alive." "We'll talk about it later, okay?" "Good bye and take care." "Bye." "is killing a bee like killing a man?" "Whoa!" "Do you want a lift?" "Yes, thank you." "Oh my God, is that really you?" "I never thought you'd be the first one I'd meet here." "Me neither." "Okay, my dear, this is our famous Poutnik!" "l'm a major here." "My name is Starek." "But everybody here calls me Uncle." "But I'm a real uncle for this young priest Fanousek." "He is my nephew, you know." "I don't call him Father... but it doesn't bother him, right Fanousek?" "I didn't believe you'd ever come back." "Neither did I." "How can he stay up there for so long with only a parachute?" "He has a propeller up his butt." "Come on, Uncle." "Mind your own business and don't make the old man quiet." "His name is Svanda." "Everybody here calls him "the air cooled lunatic"." "He's my son in law." "I'm afraid he'll kill himself and the kids will become orphans, but it must be a beautiful view from up there." "How long have you been gone?" "For thirty years, since my mom died." "When did you come back?" "This winter." "You know, my wife died so I came back to where l belong." "I also have a lot to fix here." "I'll leave you alone for now." "I hope we'll have some time to talk." "Hello." "Hi." "You haven't really changed." "Come on. I'm an old granny." "Stop looking at me or I'll blush." "That smells nice!" "Go ahead, have some." "Thank you." "Joska, go get your mother." "Were you really born in here?" "Yes, I was." "Fifteen hours of shooting!" "You didn't bring much with you." "As if you didn't want to stay." "I never take many things with me." "In case I stay longer the rest will follow me." "I'm very happy you're here." "Do you want to see the carriage?" "I'd rather pet the horse." "Let me go!" "I want to go home!" "Let me go!" "I want to go home!" "How is Adam?" "Adam's in Paris now." "He's got friends there." "He said he might come." "Here?" "Yeah." "He wouldn't enjoy it here." "Yes he would." "Macala!" "Do you know why he's running away from me?" "Maybe it's his conscience, but probably envy." "Well look who's just dropped by!" "Welcome." "Hello." "Am I a stranger here?" "Nice to see you." "Are you a local hunter?" "Just an amateur." "Tichoslapek does our finances." "A professional." "I'm sure he'll be very happy." "See how I ended up?" "I can't even make coffee." "Being old sucks and being crippled is useless." "You're doing pretty good, Arnost." "My wife went to buy something." "She's been gone for three hours." "If I died here she would find me stiff as a board." "Let me finish it." "I'm very grateful that you saved the watch. lt means a lot to me." "I got it from your brother Mira when he was still around." "It's your dad's." "I thought it'd make you happy." "He was my best teacher and then my best friend." "I wanted to give it to you myself but tomorrow I might be gone." "So I preferred sending it via Dandelion." "Tell me about yourself." "I'm like an old tree, my roots are here." "You had to cut yours." "I can't imagine living without roots." "I'm like dandelions in the meadow." "When you pick them and put them in a vase they wither." "Hello..." "Nice to see you." "What?" "I don't understand." "You're looking for the school." "You should've said so." "It's over there, on the left." "You're welcome." "Hi girls." "Hi." "Joska, this present is for you." "Wait, don't..." "these cameras are very fragile." "I'll teach you how to use it later, okay?" "It gets dark before I go to bed" "I sit on the bench next to our gate." "I'm looking into the sky Searching for my star" "Are you checking the place you lie down?" "I think we still have time for that, don't we?" "What are you doing here with that flugelhorn?" "Leave the dead in peace!" "The dead have enough peace." "So I've come to play something for them." "So they know we think of them and they aren't lonely even after they die." "Until the day I die I'll be grateful that you weren't scared to take care of Mira until his end." "If he was flexible like others he'd be still here teaching at the university." "He suffered a lot during his last weeks in the hospital." "Four years in the uranium mine were enough to damage every bones in his body." "Well, it's over now." "Mira is in the hands of God and we'll all follow him." "The good ones, the bad ones, the master and the serf." "You talk about death too much, Arnost." "I know. I even annoy myself." "I can't do anything so I at least bug my wife." "You're doing a pretty good job." "Welcome." "What brings you?" "is grandma home?" "She is, but you're trying in vain." "She won't talk to you." "But I have to talk to her one day." "It's not my fault your grandfather died." "It looked completely different back then in 1948, but I'd never let anyone put their hands on Frantisek." "By the way when he got busted I was long gone from the village." "Grandma sees it differently." "You know very well yourself you started it all back then." "Maybe you didn't have my grandfather's imprisoning on your conscience but how many others did you have?" "Come see how our pigs are doing." "One, two!" "I'm going out with my dog." "Someone had to inform on you or brand you." "But who?" "We all know each other here." "Time turns people into informers." "l have to go now." "Thank you, Josef." "Come on, you wouldn't act differently in my shoes." "Wait!" "Hide President Masaryk somewhere." "l will." "You can't carry it like this!" "Let's go across the garden." "I'll give it back to you after the war." "It can't be that bad." "Good night." "You came like a ghost." "We didn't hear you at all." "Are you hungry?" "No, I'm not." "You are the only one I could count on, you won't betray me." "Where will you go?" "You should hide somewhere." "I've been trying to hide for a year." "No one will hide me." "Everyone's afraid." "I don't want to get anybody in trouble either." "I'd like to hide our community list so they don't get them." "I'm an outlaw now and they'll get rid of me anyway, but you have to go on." "The war won't take forever." "People will go back to the things that link them together." "God be with you." "Hang in there." "Thank you, it was good." "You're welcome." "Well Mirek, let's play together." "From that moment we knew we'd never see our father again." "The fascists changed coats." "They joined the communists and their conscience didn't bother them much." "l forgot we have a rehearsal." "What are you rehearsing?" "Svanda the Piper." "Come look, maybe you'll like it." "What are you playing?" "Me?" "Svanda, of course." "Come shorty!" "What will you show us, Mr. Director?" "What should I show?" "I'm the Turk." "I'll be very cruel in a moment but not yet." "It's time for Vocilka to show off." "Come on!" "Music." "Ready?" "Go!" "The world is like a ball lt's really hard to stand lf you don't want to fall Hold on with your hand" "You can stumble Like on a wire lt's a puddle lt's a fire" "Those who are good at taking Won't have trouble standing" "Karel, you got old." "You look pretty bad too." "I know." "Let me introduce him to you:" "This is Karel Rada." "He used to be a great amateur actor." "That's Vocilka, isn't it?" "Of course, it is." "Guys that was my grand part!" "Would you dare to play it today to show the young ones how you used to play?" "Of course." "Rada plays Vocilka." "After forty years." "The world is like a ball lt's really hard to stand lf you don't want to fall Hold with your hand" "You can stumble Like on a wire lt's a puddle lt's a fire" "Those who are good at taking Won't have trouble standing" "You see?" "It's not only the mind, but the feet too!" "l'm glad to see you, Poutnik." "Me too." "I heard you left America to stay in Prague for good." "Yeah, as soon as the communists got out." "You know, America is America but home is home." "Attention, kids!" "Smile for the camera." "Keep your eye on the birdie!" "To live..." "Citizen..." "Home..." "Home, livestock..." "Joska, stand behind Adam." "To hear..." "To shine..." "To swallow." "Beer please." "I like it here." "I wouldn't be able to live anywhere else." "What about you?" "How did you stand all those years in exile?" "It was hard. lt was painful." "Especially the first years in Austria and Germany." "Even though I made several precious friends there." "I didn't stop feeling homesick until I got to America." "That's interesting." "Germany is so close and America is so far." "lt's not about kilometers." "That's right." "My wife didn't get used to living in America." "As you know we live in two different places." "I am there and she is partly with me and partly in Germany." "I know." "People like talking about others." "Excuse me." "Hi!" "You smell nice." "I should have said it to you." "I'm very happy you came right now." "Why right now?" "Because a moment ago I longed to hug you and tell you that I love you." "In that case I'm happy I came right now." "So it's settled." "You will pay me monthly interest every fifth day at the latest." "Of course." "No problem." "We will meet at the notary and you'll sign the credit contract." "Don't forget to take care of the guarantee for the house." "I'll get the money ready as soon as we sign it." "I'm very grateful." "Thank you, my friend." "Hello." "Excuse me, I really need to talk to you." "Did you come to enjoy the scenery?" "You've been living a life of luxury." "You twisted our lives only to get famous." "You let your own brother die alone." "You were helping him when he was dying, right?" "Politics is shit..." "but I was a shit too." "l was worried you wouldn't come." "Come on." "You don't know me very well then." "You've never thought about coming back?" "I don't mean here but in this country." "Maybe during the first years in exile." "Remember drinking yourself into a rage from homesickness?" "You wanted to be creative so badly but you were scared that you could only do it in the place where your roots were." "You ranted and raved at your helplessness." "Back then I realized there is no way back for us." "Why didn't you tell me that?" "Would you understand me?" "It wasn't worth bothering you with that." "You were busy enough not to get lost yourself." "I know I didn't make your life easier." "Do you want to come back?" "Not without you." "Don't try that on me." "With me or without me it's not important." "What's important is if you really mean it seriously." "l have this dream." "Yes?" "We'd buy a little house, a piece of field, a horse..." "And we'd be happy there until we die." "You will never change." "You will always live your life like a movie, but there are no cuts in life like they are in a movie." "I know I'd get tired of that house." "Then you'd want to move on to somewhere else." "You were tempted to go somewhere far away all your life." "Dana!" "Yes?" "Where are you tempted to go?" "You should know." "It's our fate to grow old together." "Have you forgiven me a little?" "Yeah." "You are my home no matter where we are." "What are you photographing?" "lt's for the kids." "When he's old he can show his grandchildren how he started." "That would make a good living." "ls this yours?" "Oh yeah." "My crazy man bought it." "What do you mean?" "People will always eat." "You are right, especially here." "They'll work their fingers to the bone before the money starts." "But I like it." "Let them work while they're still young." "Come watch my chickens grow." "There's something sad about it." "Once they grow up they end up in the frying pan." "That's the way it goes." "I always envied men a bit, some stay little boys forever." "lt seems they are having fun." "That must make you happy." "Can I ask you something?" "Yeah." "How did you feel when you had to leave the country?" "It seemed to be permanent." "Exile can be worse then jail." "What do you mean?" "You lose all your friends at home, only two or three stay." "But we had no choice." "Staying here would mean Honza's end." "The worst thing was leaving my old mother here alone..." "When she died I couldn't even go to her funeral." "l'm sorry, I didn't know that." "You don't need to apologize." "But you are asking me for a reason, right?" "It's that handsome man in front of us. I mean the taller one." "Not at all." "I just thought about it." "Actually that's right." "Since my husband died I haven't met anyone I'd want to be with." "Suddenly I met him, but he comes from the other side of the world." "I can't give you any advice, but from my own experience I knew, that it's better to let it be." "If it's gonna work it's gonna work even if you both live on the opposites sides of the ocean." "If it's gonna suck it will suck no matter what you do." "I guess you're right." "Let's ride." "Okay." "The wheel broke down, everything's messed up..." "Why is Jan taking so long?" "He'll be here any second." "A lot of people are lonely..." "Hello." "Hello Jan. Nice to see you." "Come to the table." "Your place is ready." "I haven't asked but I brought a guest who would like to say hello to you." "God bless you." "God bless you." "Frantisek wouldn't want me to show you the door during lunch." "So go ahead..." "Thank you." "God bless this meal." "Mr. Svanda!" "The farm is on fire!" "The firemen are on their way." "What?" "The farm is on fire." "My God!" "How could that happen?" "Oh my God, how could that happen?" "Adam is asking if it was insured?" "I didn't have money for that." "I was waiting for some profits." "My life is ruined." "Why can't it be the way I want?" "Who do you owe money to?" "The bank?" "I owe Tichoslapek." "I used my house as collateral." "I deprived my family of the roof above their heads." "Wait!" "Mom, come with me." "He wants to kill himself." "He'll do something to himself." "They hunted me for three days They haven't got me yet!" "They will hunt me for three more" "But they won't get me anyway!" "He's crazy!" "But good one!" "Air cooled lunatic." "She stopped speaking from the shock." "She still refuses to talk." "Maruska!" "Maruska!" "What is it, Martin?" "A dog, small hunter, big hunter..." "Sun..." "Red and yellow sun." "Grey blue cloud, blue cloud." "Yeah." "Blue cloud." "One has already flown, and now another one will." "We want to help you." "Honza doesn't want the house to end up in the wrong hands." "You are very nice but alas you can't help us that much" "Tichoslapek wants that house for himself." "We can't really do anything about it at all?" "There is no law that would punish those bastards." "I don't mind that the young ones lost the house." "There is enough room here." "The one who has faith has hope and help too." "I was just worried Svanda would grow bitter." "I believe something good comes out of every bad experience." "Maybe." "Marry me!" "Excuse me?" "Take me as your husband." "Everybody knows the feeling of giving a present to somebody." "The joy we feel while giving a present to somebody is often bigger then the joy we feel when we get the present." "That is why suffering is a test not only for the sufferers" "but also for everybody who can help." "Remember the best prayer is helping a fellow man or a woman in their difficulties." "Honza!" "You fell asleep." "imagined what I had a dream about:" "I bought you a house and reconstructed it completely." "You were to return the next day and I was attacked by five men." "I buried them in the garden in the back." "I knew I couldn't tell you as you wouldn't want to live there, but as soon as you walked in the house I told you everything." "I won't stay here for anything in the world!" "But they aren't alive." "They can't hurt us." "We can't live here with five dead bodies." "Don't worry Jan. You just killed your five deadly sins." "Joska, I want to tell you something." "What do you think about going to America." "Me, you and mom?" "Forever?" "Just for a vacation." "It's a secret..." "You are antsy and jumping around like in your youth." "Look!" "l can't do that anymore." "So we came back." "We came to kick the bucket." "Well, home is home." "Mom!" "Yes?" "How was my father?" "He was a real father." "I just remember him playing the violin for us and playing with me." "If we could have a father again, I'd know about one." "Which one?" "You know who I mean." "Do you love him?" "What about you?" "Are you tired?" "I see." "He needs to pee." "l'll wait here for you." "Give me the key. I know my way." "Are you sure?" "l'm sure." "Wash your hands." "Of course." "He won't get lost." "We'll find him!" "I thought I would never see you again!"