"Boycott" "I'm in the habit of dealing with difficulties." "I think it's impossible this time." "Mr. General Manager you're expected in 15 minutes." "I know." "Marietta, I'll fetch you in 10 minutes." "no no no" "I regret ..." "I can't" "no one will dare attack me no one you only call me when you need me for some social function" "but I can't, do you hear!" "I can't and I won't!" "hallo?" "hallo?" "are you still there?" "the lout!" "Get up, you!" "I'm waiting for your suggestions." "May I have this dance?" "that proletarian's son seems to have made an impression on you don't brag about your family so much" "I don't care a bit whose son he is" "your brother has good taste" "such men are needed in our times he's arrived" "I'm coming" " what's the matter?" " the old Haller's here, the great philanthropist" "?" "vivat!" "vivat!" "vivat!" "I thank you for the very kind reception, ladies and gentlemen" "good day, father good day, my boy" " if you please, this way, General Manager - too kind he's a great guy, the old Haller, isn't he still a proletarian that's possible, but he's an able man" "General Manager, allow me, Dr. Kehlmeyer" "Dr. Hermann your son's tutor so delighted" "General Manager ..." "I don't know how to thank you" "Headmaster, you can count on me any time and I think that ... gentlemen" "my final hour has struck good-bye" "I can find the way out myself" "there you see the youth of today this isn't the youth of today youth has always been like this or would you prefer it if that youthful exuberance were lived out in secret?" "in secret, it would be a sin in public, a scandal" "you're again driving up with that old cart of yours" "But that's what I got it for" "I think it's showy if a boy drives to school in an eight-cylinder car they're only six." "come on, get it" "No way!" " you may drive back home then - yessir" "Scandal about General Manager Haller grave accusations - judicial inquest - squandering of millions of public funds for years silence!" "we cannot associate with him any longer but what's he got to do with it?" "read it!" "morning, kids" "Scandal about General Manager Haller" "who put this on my desk?" "I took the liberty you?" "why?" "so that you ["Sie"] may draw your own conclusions what do ... you [Sie] mean by conclusions?" "one's code of honour would tell one that my own code of honour tells me that I mustn't cut off my neighbour's dignity and my code of honour tells me that I mustn't associate with the son of a defrauder" "that's right ... that's right you rotten swine!" "you cannot insult me" " unheard of!" " we'll complain to the Principal - that's right!" "what's going on here?" "Herr Doctor" "I must ask you ..." "Herr Doctor" "I must ask you to protect me against my fellow pupils till it has been established whether the accusations against my father are justified or not" "you want to be protected till the truth has been found out?" "yes, Herr Doctor and if the truth turns out to be unfavourable ... then you would renounce protection?" "of that case   you haven't even thought." "of course you haven't" "it is my wish that even in this worst case my pupils of the Upper First shall behave decently!" "is that clear?" "what do you think you're doing!" "you're placing under a fellow pupil's nose a rag insulting his father!" "this is brutalization!" "even if the son of a convict were sitting among you you are to judge the human being not his father!" "I beg your pardon, Herr Doctor we just wanted to avoid associating with a ... with him." "so this means boycott?" "yes." "but my boys!" "avoid such pathos!" "nothing can be had cheaper than getting drunk on words and nothing is more foolish and nothing is more dangerous than stupidity." "Herr Doctor is there such a thing as honour or isn't there?" "yes, Paal honour exists but each man has his own honour not his father's honour, not his brother's honour each has his own don't you understand?" "no." "what was that?" "if for instance ... if my father ... did something dishonourable" "I wouldn't want to go on living not I." "well, I must say ... that I personally would consider such an act as weakness not fortitude as cowardice not heroism" "still, Paal is right" "Herr Doctor" "I ask for permission to leave the class, I don't feel well" "but tomorrow you'll be well again tomorrow you'll most certainly be well again!" "I wish that all of you ... will never have to suffer the pain ... your fellow pupil is suffering right now." "Berlin Local News The briberies of General Manager Haller" "Berlin Daily News Warrant of arrest" "Defrauder Haller ..." "Defrauder Haller" "do you know it already?" "of course I know it won't you take off your hat when you enter my room?" "the accusations are lies, aren't they?" "they'll hush up the affair which won't be difficult with your father's connections you mean that father somehow ... but he's totally above reproach, don't you thing so you know, a businessman can hardly be above reproach ... of course your father isn't that stupid, he wouldn't do something he might be caught at" "he's guarded himself against any eventuality" "I beg your pardon, you mean ... that he's legally above reproach but morally ... strictly morally speaking is that what you mean?" "Erich your grandfather, the bricklayer from Uelzendorf, is showing through every seam of yours you're so ... so ridiculous some boys from my class, probably all of them, would kill themselves if their father put them to shame" "do you think that's also ridiculous?" "Erich you're not going to kill yourself!" "come in" "someone delivered a letter" "from papa here" "No reason to worry." "They wouldn't dare." "Peter what's the meaning of that?" "who are "they"?" "who wouldn't dare?" "but the law-courts have nobody to fear!" "don't shout!" "nobody can touch him." "what's the meaning of that?" "I cannot tell you in Ancient Greek your father isn't a brick layer, he's a man of the world, a modern human being and if he falls, a lot of men will topple as well and that's out of the question" "so he's a crook?" "one might put it like that and you're saying it just like that?" "but he's your husband!" "my husband ... who am I to him?" "a figure on his chessboard" "and not even the queen he's a stranger to me" "stranger than any man on the street" "actually, I feel sorry for him" "nonsense!" "the class' honour above everything!" "silly phrases weakling!" "braggart!" "fool!" "he's finished for us, and that's final!" "and now let's stop talking about it" " you zero!" " rascal" "second round" "Möller too agrees with me he'll remain on Haller's bench then Möller too will fall under the boycott" "coward bravo, Möller bravo Möller - bravo Möller" "bravo Möller - bravo Möller" "so you want to boycott me too?" "then I'll have to submit to your terror." "didn't you know about his escape plan?" "no." "but I'm used to it he was nothing but my cashier unfortunately, he's now a cashier on the run" "I'll get over it but I feel sorry for my step-son" "I didn't think the poor boy would take the affair so much to heart" "Erich!" "Erich!" "why do you run away from me?" "because I can no longer look another person in the face look at me, Erich" "look at me" "boy my boy" "my father ... but nothing has been proven yet, Erich what's to become of me if it's true?" "even that you'll have to bear" "I couldn't!" "even now, when nothing is proven, everybody is against me everybody, Erich?" "everybody?" "not everybody" "Grete, not you" "not you" "# a colourful bunch of flowers # and golden sunshine # you only need so little # to feel gay and happy # and when you put your hand in mine" "# I don't need anything else from life # for I know that you love me # a colourful bunch of flowers # and golden sunshine # you only need so little # to feel gay and happy # and when you put your hand in mine" "# I don't need anything else from life # for I know that you love me" "the nerve she has to come dancing here tonight and on top of it, with her ... cavalier" "Oh well, the poor woman had to get a substitute that husband of hers hasn't been able to dance for years why?" "you try dancing yourself, with one leg being already in prison" "I can't stand it any longer what is it?" "all that gossiping and staring don't you notice?" "you must have overestimated your nerves" "I advised you against coming here you ... you ..." "I want to get away where?" "I don't know, but I want to get away, as far as possible" "# today I want to leave on a voyage # brighter than the moon and the stars ?" "# charming little girl, you're my dream of happiness # and I give you my hear, keep it well or give it back to me" " we'll do it - we'll do it we'll do it, absolutely" " so it's decided?" " yes" "what's the meaning of this?" "you know that you cannot change the seating order without my permission" "as the class' delegate I am to inform you" "Haller's neighbours belatedly ask for permission to change seats for what reason?" "they don't want to sit next to him for what reason?" "because of his father" "you'll return to your old seats at once!" "Herr Doctor" "I ask for everything to remain like this if you prefer it this way ... very well" "good-bye" "New Press Director von Paal wanted - warrant of arrest" "In connection with the million marks fraud of building contractor Haller, the Public Prosecutor has issued a warrant of arrest against Director von Paal" "Bieder, Kempe and Paal are absent." "come on, come on go outside into the schoolyard the fresh air will do you good" "Möller, here are five marks take a cab and drive over to Paal" " you know the apartment?" " I do take him for a walk, go swimming or ... no, you'd better not do that today take a stroll with him, take him to a pastry shop and tell him this:" "listen carefully tell him:" "The Upper First has come to reason again tell him we think he's an honest and decent person even if he doesn't kill himself tell him he mustn't throw away his life only because he said so a few days ago" "do you understand what I'm saying?" "yessir" "too late!" "you ought to taste such a roast of roebuck at my home and my wife makes a sauce to go with it ... why, Dr. Hermann?" "what's the matter with you, colleague?" "don't you read the newspapers?" "you mean the Paal affair?" "he seems to be involved in Haller's crooked deals why are you so upset about it?" "the young Paal didn't come to school today you know what he announced in class two days ago" "I wouldn't take that seriously, colleague" "I wish you were right good morning morning" "yes yes the good Hermann knows every complex of his pupils" "the latest convenience of our modern times teaching in class, psychoanalysis included" "I wouldn't put it past him" "give some thought in this hour it is a horrible hour" "give some thought about the saying" ""Living is the highest duty"" "a farewell letter by Paal" ""he'll keep his word"" "the police has been notified" "where's Haller?" "where's Haller?" "Krüger and Schneider, run to the schoolyard, look out for him" "you all keep quiet, I ..." "I'll go to the Director" "did you hear anything?" "don't ask me" "Haller!" "Erich!" "what shall we do?" "I ask for leave for my class and myself we want to search for him" "Haller is nowhere to be found what?" "I shouldn't have left him alone" "I read in the newspaper ... my father has been arrested and brought here name?" "Haller what do you want?" "I want to see him." "well ... the examining magistrate will decide about that you'll be notified in writing or by telephone" "where are you?" "in the Treptow Park" "yes please?" "a lemonade no, a beer a pint" "if anything happens to the two, it's all your fault" "Miss yes please?" "another beer" "Erich" "Erich" " Haller" "here you are" "morning, Lehmann morning" "well, what's new?" "nothing special the son of that aristocratic crook Paal ... shot himself." "a beer careful, young man!" "check please" "evening, little one evening well but you're drunk, Herr Erich!" "you ought to be ashamed of yourself what?" "I ought to be ashamed of myself?" "Has there ever been a man more ashamed of himself than I?" "Young Master the police have been asking after you after me?" "I'm innocent!" "I didn't have a clue about it all!" "I swear, I didn't have a clue about it all!" "no no!" "not like that, Herr Erich even a teacher of yours was here he thought you might have ..." "I see so he did think me capable of it after all he left a letter for you" "I'll get it so he did think me capable of it after all" "My dear boy, don't let Paal's example lead you astray." "Your comrades don't think of a boycott anymore." "They returned to the old seats of their own free will." "If you want to see me, I'm at your disposal, outside school hours as well." "Your Werner Hermann" "Dr. Hermann" "I'm ill do you hear" "I'm in bed" "I'm fast asleep yes ... he went to bed he's ill but now he's fast asleep" "thank God, he said sure but what he really thought ... what he really thought ... go to bed, Herr Erich you need rest" "how he must have felt inside!" "he kept his word" "I still can't believe it he kept his word" "I saw him in the park yesterday, and today ... he kept his word still, it takes courage he kept his word" "I don't think I could have done it myself he kept his word what if Haller too ... then we'll be the murderers then we'll be the murderers then we'll be the murderers then we'll be the murderers" "permission to visit the prisoner has been granted this afternoon at 3 o'clock" "court room 18 - hearing at 9 o'clock criminal proceedings vs. Marschalk" "court room 19 - hearing at 8.30 o'clock criminal proceedings vs. Hölla and Sohn" "whom did you come to see?" "my father." "Haller can you identify yourself?" "driver's license room 53" "good day, my boy" "well?" "so?" "shoot, my boy father, but you're not guilty?" "so what but you're not going to be convicted?" "that's possible" "then I'll have to kill myself rubbish!" "if you feel dishonoured, you model of a human being from Uelzendorf then you have all the more reason to stay alive you could prove marvelously that you're a totally different person from your embarrassing progenitor" "couldn't you?" "you were friends with Director von Paal?" "a business associate his son shot himself yes I know" "I'm being kept up to date in here" "what important business have you come to tell me?" "the fact that I want to take my own life isn't important to you?" "that's nonsense of course" "you don't seriously consider such a step but it's true" "I hardly know you you were never really at home" "Why should I die when you go to prison?" "but I can't live any longer!" "because Herbert von Paal died!" "I see!" "I see!" "that's what it's all about!" "then let me give you a good piece of advice, my son you go back to my brother at Uelzendorf he's a brick layer he has no head for business" "I've had to help him out three times already but you two suit each other why don't you move in with him?" "then you two can whimper about me no, my dear" "I have no patience with such a worn-out, stale, spent ..." "Director von Paal gave himself up to the court what?" "he broke down after his son's death didn't you know?" "that idiot gave himself up?" "how touching!" "well I never ... that spineless ... boneless, soft type disgusts me then you don't care whether I ..." "Erich!" "Erich!" "I should never have gotten married should never have had a child" "never never" "please call Dr. Hermann but we can't disturb him again" "I can't stand that uncertainty any longer!" "don't shout" "Grete just went to bed" "I'm telling you ... he still hasn't come home" "what if anything happens to him then it'll be us who drove him to his death" "I warned you but you didn't want to listen to me" "please in here, young sir" "good evening, Herr Doctor" "I couldn't do it" "I wasn't allowed to do it" "Thank God" "I knew you'd find the way to me and I'm grateful to you for it" "you've realized that each man is responsible for himself and it's a good thing too" "and believe me the other one" "the other one wasn't a hero" "good morning, Haller" "The End subtitles: serdar202"