"A FILM BY CURZIO MALAPARTE" "THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST" "STORY, SCRIPT, AND DIALOGUE BY CURZIO MALAPARTE" "Look at this town, it's part of Tuscany," "One of the oldest and most civilized parts of Italy and the world," "There's Siena, and Pienza and Montepulciano too," "I can't describe them since I'm just a manual laborer, and I'm not from here, I'm from Lombardy, but I've been an electrician in the Mt, Amiata mines for years:" "That mountain over there covered in clouds," "I know this town and its inhabitants," "They are hardworking, honest, peaceful people," "The foreign and civil wars sewed pain and ruin," "People are tired of violence and blood:" "They want to work in peace," "Many of the young folk who left for the war 10 years ago, died in Africa, Greece, and Russia," "Many returned defeated, humiliated, disappointed," "But still today, someone who was thought dead suddenly reappears and knocks on their front door," "Like those two men you'll see walking on the mountain," "They're returning from a Russian prison camp," "They fought and suffered for their nation, but are not ashamed because they're good Italians, one can be a good Italian without being "posh"," "One of them discovered his brother was betrayed and executed by the Germans, he plans on returning to avenge him," "Poor thing, he still believes in do-it-yourself justice," "He doesn't realize the innocent always suffer the most," "Everyone fears his return," "Nobody wants to hear about hate and vendettas," "What torments these men most isn't the memory of war and slavery, but the anxiety of this new world, this unknown world that awaits them, a world of freedom, justice, and peace," "Sure thing!" "A world of freedom, justice, and peace!" "Look, an American!" "Another American!" "He's American too, they're all Americans." "The Americans came all the way here to die." "All young men!" "He was 22 years old, this one was 25." "Look, he's French!" "He's Polish!" "Bruno, this one is British." "They came from all over the world to fight for us." "Good man, are there any Italian graves?" "Plenty in Africa and Russia." "Many died in prison camps." "I mean are there any around here?" "There are plenty in the woods over there." "We buried about a hundred of them in a mass grave." "Death by firing squad." "War is an ugly thing!" " Where were you?" " In a Russian camp." "Isn't that Bruno, son of the cripple?" " Yes." " It's him!" " Does he know his brother was killed?" " Yes." "Lots of young men died here too." " War's an ugly thing!" " It's not our fault." "It's your fault, it's everybody's fault." "Is it this mule's fault?" "Let's go!" "It's easy to blame others, it's our fault, it's everybody's fault." "You're right, it's our fault, it's everybody's fault." "There was nothing we could do, Bruno." "Plus, we didn't know it was our fault back then." "When we found out it was too late." "We're almost there." "After that bend we'll see the bell tower." "We're here." "We're home!" "We're home!" "I had lost all hope of returning." "Why are we coming home?" "Stop it!" "I wish I could've been here too, to defend our homes, to have been buried down there..." "Instead of those foreigners." "But we were far away." "Caged up like animals!" "I just can't believe we're going home." "Wash your face, Andrea." "Your wife won't recognize you if you go home looking like that." "My son won't recognize me either." "He was born two months after I left." "Andrea!" "You're back!" "Andrea, what are you doing?" "Come here." "Bruno, you're back!" "Don't cry!" "Let's go home." "Bruno, see you after dinner!" "Tell us all about it!" "What's wrong?" "Leave it alone!" "Go!" "One!" "Two for you." "Mother!" "Mother!" "Where's Maria?" " Where's Maria?" " She went to get dressed." "When we heard that you had returned we got scared." "Scared?" "Why?" "I don't know, we just got scared." "Go see your father, he's upstairs." "Dad." "Bruno!" "You've returned, finally!" "You're all I have left." "Why weren't you here?" "Perhaps they wouldn't have killed your brother if you'd been here to defend him." "It's not your fault." "You also suffered, perhaps more than we did." "I will never forgive." "Neither will I, never!" "But I want to forget." "It's easier to forgive than to forget." "Your brother is dead, like many other men." "That's that." "Don't try to investigate, don't ask anybody questions." "Not even your mother." "I won't ask my mother anything, but I will ask you!" "Not even the dead want to hear about blood and tears anymore." "Now go." "Go to your mother." "You weren't here." "It involves us, not you." "He's dead, that's the end of it." "Maria!" "Bruno!" "What did he say?" "That he died, like many others." "That they killed him like a dog." "And that it does not involve me." "No!" "They didn't kill him like a dog!" "They killed him like a man!" "Giulio said: "Bye mother", like he did every morning before leaving for work." "Isn't that so, Maria?" "Yes, he said: "Bye mother"." "He stood there against the wall." "I saw him die." "He wasn't afraid." "Isn't that so, Maria?" "He wasn't afraid." "It's not my fault, there was nothing we could do." "We poor women were left all alone..." "I know, mother." "It's not your fault." "GIULIO BALDI 1927-1944 EXECUTED" "Unrest amongst farm hands from the Po Valley..." " Good evening, boys." " Hi, how are you?" " You've returned too?" " We've been waiting for you." "Have you seen Mario?" "You only come to see us now?" "I'm so happy to see you, they thought you were dead." "What's wrong?" "Are you upset with me?" "Come have a drink." "Thanks, Giovanni." "But I'm not up for it tonight." "Maybe next time." "Good night." "Poor guy!" "He was better off not returning." "Who won, the Chinese?" "What do you care if the Chinese or Americans won!" " Good evening." " Good evening." "PLOWS TILL THE LAND BUT COWS DEFEND IT" "NO ATOMIC BOMB IN KOREA!" "Mother!" "Why aren't you in bed?" "You didn't have to wait up for me." "I've been waiting here for you for many years." "Go to bed, you're tired." "No, I'm not." "I hoped to eat with you on your first night home." "I even set the table." "I haven't set the table in years." "Take a seat." "I made you some soup." "Have something warm before going to bed." "I'll do it." "I want to serve you tonight." "There..." "Is it too hot?" "Afraid you'll burn your tongue?" "Blow on the spoon." "Like that." "You're beautiful, mother." "You're younger now than when I left." "You're making me blush, I'm an old woman now." "A very young old woman." "A young girl with a few tiny wrinkles around her eyes." " Because of me..." " Why do you say that?" "Don't cry." "Have a glass of wine with me, it's good for you." "Wine makes my head spin." "It's fun to feel your head spin, drink mother." " It'll upset me." " No, it won't." "Wine helps you forget." "You'll forget all the suffering you've endured." "As of tonight, we'll no longer suffer." "We'll be happy." "Forget..." "My head is spinning." "Go to bed, you must be tired." "Wine helps you sleep." "We must wake up early to go to the sanctuary." "It's the feast of the Madonna." "Tomorrow is the Madonna's feast, but today is your feast." "Drink." "I made a vow:" "I'd take you to thank the Madonna as soon as you returned." "And you returned on her feast day!" "The Madonna has been good to us during these years." "She wasn't good to poor Giulio." "Don't say that!" "No, Bruno!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Why do you want me to drink?" "You want me to get drunk so I'll tell you who it was?" "No, Bruno!" "No!" "Poor mother." "You must have suffered so much to believe I'd be capable of such a thing." "Forgive me." "For a moment I was afraid that you..." "I'm not afraid of you anymore." "Look." "I was stupid..." "I thought you wanted me to drink so I would tell you everything." "Yet that name is on the tip of my tongue." "If I were to drink more, I might tell you." "I don't want to know anything from you." "Go to bed." "No, leave me here." "Let me say my prayers." "Take the lamp," "I don't need it to pray." "Good night." "Good night." "Bruno!" "Bruno!" "Bruno!" "For many years I called out for you every night with my eyes closed." "Bruno!" "Bruno!" "When I'd open my eyes, I'd see you in the mirror, like a ghost." "Look in the mirror." "It's you!" "It's really you!" "Maria!" "Do you remember what you said to me before leaving?" "I held you in my arms and said: "Wait for me"." "It was the first time you held me in your arms." "Until that day, until that moment, I lived in this house as a poor orphan who'd been taken in out of pity." "A poor servant." "That day, when you held me in your arms, when you said you loved me," "my whole life changed." "I've returned." "You can no longer love me." "I'm not the same girl I was before." "Why didn't you wait for me?" "When we got word that you had died out there, those were horrible days." "They were taking all the young men far away." "Your brother fled to the mountains with the others." "Giulio..." "Occasionally, your brother would come back to town." "At night, to hug his mother." "On the night that Agnese's son was killed..." "Giulio hid in here." "In my room." "He stayed with me all night." "That's what happened, Bruno." "Giulio..." "It was as if I'd given myself to you." "I cared for him because it was the only way to be yours." "Was he here with you on the night they came for him?" "We suddenly heard footsteps." "Giulio thought it was his comrades." "When he jumped out of bed, it was too late." "Somebody betrayed him." "Who was it?" "I don't know." "I came back for one reason:" "To discover who it was." "I don't know!" "You know." "Yes, I do know." "Who was it?" "I will never tell you." "You will bless your people, our dear Lady," "Look, mother!" "Who is this man, grandpa?" "Yes, it's grandpa." "Come along." "Amen." "Why don't you take Communion too?" " I don't feel up to it, Father." " Why not?" "I don't feel worthy right now." "Perhaps in a few days." "Perhaps it'll be too late." "I will pray for you, my son." "You should've seen his face!" "Bruno!" "You're finally back." "Shake my hand!" "Make room for him." "I knew you'd returned, I was expecting you." "I was certain you'd come visit me this morning." " You came back too!" " Listen..." "I replied: "The poor people are right to occupy the land. "" "You should've seen his face!" " What do you think?" " What you're saying is right." "Darn misery!" "That's what this wretched war has given us!" "We're the ones who chased out the Germans!" "Not the rich, so the land is ours." "Right?" "Well, you can't blame the rich..." "I wouldn't believe in a Christ who sides with the rich." "I wouldn't believe in a Christ who only sides with the poor." "I would!" "Christ wasn't a Count's son." "He was a carpenter, and He promised the Earth to the poor." "If He promised it to paupers, then it's ours." "Italy's full of paupers!" "So it is!" "I'd rather buy land than take it from the wealthy." "Buy it?" "So did our boys die for nothing?" "Bruno, if you had died in the war, would you have wanted to die for nothing?" "Our soldiers died while doing their duty." "Do you call that dying for nothing?" "What was their sacrifice for?" "War is an ugly thing!" "Yes, war is an ugly thing." "But what's even uglier is a war people use as a pretext to not do their duty." "That is why we soldiers come home hungry for justice." "Taking land from the wealthy is justice too." "That's justice too." "But our soldiers died for something else." "I mean... if we're spared from becoming a nation of rascals, it's because our comrades died for us." "Are you saying their sacrifice saved us?" "What do you think, Mastro Antonio?" "Mastro Antonio!" "Bruno!" "What do you think about this?" "I'm just an ignorant man." "A manual laborer, like many others," "But I think that if someone doesn't do it for them, men are not able to save themselves." "Some idea!" "So the hardship we endured isn't enough to save us?" "We're not saved by the hardships we endured for ourselves but for the hardships we endured for others." "So all of our hardships were pointless?" "They only cause hate amongst us, even worse than before." "In order to save themselves, men need to sacrifice an innocent." "Where would you find a Christian willing to be crucified today?" "People don't want to suffer for others." "Men are forbidden from imitating Christ's sacrifice." "Forbidden..." "That's why the world's in bad shape!" "Our freedom is an ugly thing, and so is justice..." " Forbidden..." " Yes!" "Forbidden!" "As long as you suffer for yourself, your poverty, your wife's your children's, as long as you lose heart and surrender, it's okay." "You're a good father and citizen." "But as soon as you suffer for others, for the poverty of other's children, for other's humiliation, then you're a dangerous man, an enemy of society." "That's what you become, an enemy of society!" "What are you doing here?" "Get ready for the procession." "Take these things to those who need them." "It's for the poor in the hospital and the miners who haven't worked in 6 months." "Take care, Mastro Pietro." "Bye, Bruno!" "Boys!" "What is this?" "I'll show you!" "Leave that Madonna alone, you louses!" "Pick up the candles!" "Go get ready for the procession!" "Off with the masks, you vagabonds!" "They say the Madonna is a virgin, so how did she have a son?" "She had a son, she can't be a virgin." "How can you not believe in a miracle you see before your eyes 100 times a day?" "What miracle?" "Doesn't sun shine through glass without breaking it?" "What are you doing, Bruno?" "Why are you looking at your hand?" "Let me see." "Come on!" "It's not stained with blood yet." "What are you thinking about?" "Blood is a horrible thing." "You disgust me, I pity you." "Leave that cross alone, you scoundrels!" "I'll reckon with you after the procession." "I'll reckon with you too." "Go away, you rascals!" "Why didn't you come see me last night?" "I waited all night for you." "Mastro Antonio, apart from my mother, you're the only person I respect." "I was afraid I'd offend you by coming." "You're right, I felt somewhat offended when I saw you come in with that bitter face." "But I was so glad to see you!" "You know that apart from your mother," "I'm the only person in the world who can help you." "I know." "And you are the only person who can help me." "Come to the procession." "The man you're looking for isn't here." "These are all good people." "People will do anything to avoid going to work!" "Good morning, Nella." "Welcome back." "I recognized you last night." "That's all right." "I'm glad you've returned." "I didn't want to recognize anybody." "You must have suffered during these years." "I can see it in your eyes." " My eyes are like yours." " No." "Your eyes are not mean." "Here you go!" "Stop it, you pigs!" "Aim for the heart if you're real men!" "Stand there and you'll see where I aim!" "If you aim at the "Coca-cola" I'll give you a kiss!" "All right, who's next?" "No, I'm next." " Wait your turn." " Let him go first." "You're right, sorry." "It's your turn." "Here, my good man." "The crucifix game is beginning, let's leave." "Come forward, if you're brave enough!" "Afraid of the cross?" "You rascals!" "Come forward, cowards!" "Rascals!" "You're Christians and you're afraid of the cross?" "Come on!" "Who wants to be crucified to save the world?" "Afraid, aren't you?" "Cowards!" "You, little lamb!" "Come here and be crucified!" "Afraid?" "You think it's easy to be Christian?" "Making the sign of the cross isn't enough." "Come on, little lamb!" "Brothers, hand me the nails and hammer." "Cowards!" "You've had your fill of making sacrifices for others!" "You suffered and fought!" "You were killed for freedom!" "And you think that's enough?" "You will lose your freedom!" "You'll all be ruined!" "You'll become slaves again!" "Come forward, cowards!" "Be nailed to this cross if you want to save this damn world!" "Come forward!" "He can save this damn world." "That's just what we need to be saved from hellhounds like you." "A dog!" "A dog!" "Cowards!" "We want to work, not die on the cross!" "Down with hunger and poverty!" "Why can't we still be kids?" "We could be together like this, without being afraid." "What are you afraid of, Nella?" "When we were kids, I wasn't afraid of you." "You pulled my hair and hit me, but you didn't scare me." "Remember when you threw that rock at me?" "You still have a scar." "But now I feel like I'm doing something wrong." "The fact that I'm here with you, alone, makes me want to cry." "I feel like I'm betraying the child I was, before you left." "Remember that night by the river, while we waited for the moon?" "I was crying and shouting, you wanted to throw me in the river." " It wasn't true." " I wonder..." "Maybe it was true." "Maybe I wanted you to throw me in the river." "Look, the moon will be out soon." "A new moon." "I've always loved you." "You were reserved and sad." "You were proud, you always ran from me." "You never wanted to dance with me, remember?" "Today is the first time you danced with me." "You were just a child back then." "A child?" "I was 15!" "But you didn't know how to look at me." "You never made me blush when you looked at me." "Perhaps if you hadn't left we would've fallen in love." "But the war came and spoiled everything." "We're not the same people we used to be." "But we're alive." "Alive..." "Alive." "I'd prefer to be dead." "You have no idea." "You were far away." "You don't know what the war did to us." "To those of us who were left home." "I know what the war did to me." "For many, the war was a benefit." "But for us..." "War hates the poor, it enjoys humiliating us." " Making us murderers." " Or wretches." "You don't know the price we paid for freedom and the nation." "I didn't know anything, until yesterday." "We were caged in like animals." "Today I've begun to understand." "One dreams of many things, only to return home and not be able to find a job." "Freedom alone cannot save men." "What happened here, why is everyone so disheartened and sad?" "Not even freedom was able to make us free men..." "Happy men." "They even gave me a medal." "The newspapers called me a heroine." "A heroine..." "Or rather, a wretch!" "If I told you I gave myself to the Germans?" "That I had a child with a German?" "It's true." "Every night we'd go to the mountain and take food to the boys." "Only women were left in the town." "One night they caught us in the woods." "Maria was with us too." "The others went ahead." "I stayed behind to hold back the Germans, to lead them astray." "It was simply a way to save the lives of our boys." "After that time, I always had to do it." "I didn't want Maria to do it." "I didn't have anyone who loved me..." "Plus..." "I had already been through it." "There are many women who are wealthy and happy, who are called "madam"." "They would sleep with Germans for pleasure." "Now they say they did it for the nation, for freedom." "Not me, I didn't do it for the nation or for freedom." "I prostituted myself to save the lives of others." "No, Bruno." "It's cold!" "It's already autumn." "It's the first rainstorm this year." "The rain doused the festivities." "It stopped raining already." "Look, the new moon." "Make a wish, quick." "I'd like to die, now." " Good evening, Nella." " Good evening." "Let's go, Bruno." "It's late." "Come on, Maria." "Come with us, Nella." "Mastro Antonio!" "Mastro Antonio?" "Who is it?" " It's me, Maria." " Maria." "Be right down." " Good morning." " Morning." "Nina, are there more glasses?" " Has he returned?" " No." "We searched everywhere for him." "Nella even went to the mines to see if he was there." "I'm afraid for him." "Don't be afraid for him." "No one will tell him who did it." "They're all good people who care for him but... they wouldn't compromise themselves." " You must trust me." " You're the only person I trust." "Go home then." "Don't abandon me!" "Don't abandon him." "Don't worry." "I will never abandon him." "Bruno!" "Where have you been?" "It's been three days!" "I don't know, I was just wandering." "Why don't you come work with me?" "Maybe tomorrow, I don't feel up to it now." "Go back to work, you can't carry on like this." "You're right, I can't carry on like this." "Come to the grape harvest feast." "Your friends will be there, you know they care for you." "I don't know anything." "Plus, there's no harvest for me." "My mother's vineyard was destroyed." "You can fix her vineyard, we'll help you." " Don't despair." " I'm not afraid of poverty." "I know that, but I'll help you." "No one can help me." "I will help you." "I'm the only one who can help you." "All right." "When I'm in need of help I will come to you." "You say that mockingly, but that's all right." "When you need me," "I will come find you." "Bruno!" "Come here." "I'm so happy you've returned." "It's like seeing my son." "Let me look at you." "He would be your age now." "You were there with him when he died." "Right?" "Yes." "He didn't want you to abandon him, he was crying." "He begged you to take him away." "Right?" "Yes." "You couldn't take him away, I know." "He was fatally wounded." "And the Russians were advancing." "There were only a few men, right?" "Yes." "Did he beg you to finish him off?" "Yes." "He was crying, wasn't he?" "He called for me." "He called for his mother." "He begged you to shoot him, right?" "To not leave him alive for the Russians?" "Yes." "Did he die without suffering?" "Yes." "Where did you shoot him?" "Did you shoot him in the head?" "Here?" "Yes." "Will you accompany me to the festivities?" "Yes." "Let me put on a shawl, I'll be right back." "I'm ready." "I didn't take long." "Let's go." "When they see you with me, they'll know you're a good boy." "Hello, Assunta." "We haven't seen you in a while." "Hello, Assunta." "Hello, Assunta." "How are you, Assunta?" " Assunta!" " Assunta, going to the festivities?" "Brother!" "Bless these girls' legs!" "No need to bless them!" "These legs are already blessed by God!" "Poor Bruno, the man you're looking for isn't amongst us." "Bruno!" "Bruno!" "Bruno!" "Come with me, don't let anyone see you." "Follow me from a distance." "I have something to tell you." "Close the door." "Did anyone see you?" "No, Mastro Antonio." "No one must know you came here tonight." "Sit down." "Are you sure no one saw you?" "What are you afraid of?" "I'm afraid for you, not for me." "No one must suspect that you..." "Wait, let me dim the lamp." "Want something to eat?" "I have bread and cheese." "No, thank you." "Want some water or milk?" "Let me look at you." "How you've changed!" "When you left you were a man with a boy's eyes." "You were a young, strong, righteous man." "Now what are you, dear Bruno?" "What have we all become?" "I read in the newspapers that we've become free men." "Free men?" "We freed our nation." "Our nation, and then?" "The newspapers also say we live in an era of justice." "Do you believe in justice?" "Yes." "Justice..." "Hate, vendetta, hypocrisy." "That is justice." "And judges?" "They're men who judge other men." "Now they judge in the name of freedom, before they judged in the name of tyranny." "And you believe in justice?" "You want to judge?" "You want to judge another man, another..." " A man like you." " He's not a man like me!" "He is a man like you!" "He's a traitor." "But what are you?" "I can see the crime in your eyes." "I see that ugly thing in your eyes which you call justice, your justice." "But in all these years we've done nothing but create our own justice, take it into our own hands." "And now we're all disgusted by this ugly thing called justice, our justice." "The only pure thing is the blood one man sheds for another." "Blood..." "For whatever it's worth, blood!" "Blood is an ugly thing too." "You did not see what I saw there, in the prison camps." "I saw prisoners devour the corpses of their comrades." "It's not our fault... we're forced to do our own justice." "One more corpse." "That's your justice!" "A corpse." "That's what you need to be satiated." "A punished culprit." "One more." " And then?" " One less coward in the world." "And one more murderer!" "One less coward, one more murderer." "And the score is settled." "Do you know what a murderer is?" "Have you ever seen the hands of a man who killed another man?" "Look at my hands." "Look closely!" "These are the hands of a murderer." " You, Mastro Antonio?" " Yes, me!" "Me." "They consider me a saint." "They call me to sick-beds and death-beds, they come to me for hope and faith in the human soul." "They think I'm incapable of hurting." "Don't touch my hands." "Many years have gone by..." "I was young like you." "I'd left home, I'd gone far away to look for work in America, in Australia." "It was hard work, we were treated like slaves." "One night a guard, a sort of slave driver, beat me." "I waited for him at night with a blade in my pocket." "That gush of blood on my hands..." "Go away!" "Have mercy on me!" "Go away!" "Bruno!" "Don't leave me alone!" "I've kept this anguish inside for 20 years." "I didn't let other men judge me." "I tried to atone by doing good deeds, by sacrificing myself for others." "I've helped with poverty, hunger, the desperation of men." "Everything I earn from my job, I give to the poor." "I live off the charity of poor people." "A holy man." "A killer, who pays for his crime by helping those who suffer." "Now you know what I am." "A murderer." "This is what you will be too." "For your entire life, unless I can save you." "You cannot help me." "What you did, you did for justice." "And your 20 years of suffering do not scare me." "Why don't you understand me?" "There is no justice in killing." "Or in judging killers." "Or in burying the dead." "Justice is only found in sacrifice." "I'm just a poor, ignorant manual laborer." "But there are certain things only the poor can understand:" "Suffering for others." "Paying for others." "Bruno, if a man offered his life for others, men would be free from hate and violence." "All those who sacrificed themselves in this war, who were innocent, did they sacrifice themselves in vain?" "But they were innocent!" "Innocent!" "A man who can say:" ""I too am guilty." "All your sins and crimes are on my conscience and I'm ready to pay for you. "" "That man could save all men." "You have nothing to pay for, you've already paid." "You are a righteous man." "No, Bruno." "No, I'm nothing but a rascal myself." "I gave in to evil." "A hundred, a thousand times like all the others during these damn years." "I too, am responsible for all the atrocities that stained these years of pain and sacrifice." "I'm like all the others." "A wretch." "An ugly thing." "I am too." "Bruno." "Bruno!" "I was the one who betrayed your brother!" "How could you think it was me?" " Why have you mislead me?" " Bruno!" "To save you." "You granted me the death I dreamt of my whole life." "It's not your fault." "I misled you, but you are innocent!" "Lay me out on my table." "They'll think I killed myself." "They all think I'm crazy." "One day, you will know the name of..." "But... you'll no longer be able to hurt him." "I paid for him too." "What have you done?" "You killed Pinin?" "No, mother." "I didn't kill Pinin." "But now I know it was him." "And you told me." "Maria, the knife!" "Give me the knife!" "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Pinin!" "Let's go." "Nella!" "Nella!" " What happened?" " What is it, Maria?" " My God!" " What happened?" "Maria!" "Speak to me, it's me, Nella!" "He's going to kill your brother, Pinin!" "Pinin!" "Pinin!" "Everybody!" "They're going to kill each other!" " Where are they?" " Over there." "No, not with a knife!" "Here." "It's already loaded." "Hurry!" "Make it quick!" "I've been waiting for years for you." "I knew you'd come back to kill me." "I haven't lived since you returned, so just kill me!" "Why did you do it?" "I don't know, I was out of my mind, we all were in those years." "Maybe I was jealous of Maria." "I have no idea." "We were all out of our minds, I didn't realize how bad it was." "Why did you do it?" "I don't know, he was a comrade." "Giulio was like a brother, we were both Partisans, we lived in danger, I saved him in the mine conflict." "Just kill me, I betrayed him!" "Kill me, kill me!" "Don't hit me, kill me." "He paid for him too." "Shoot!" "Shoot!" " Shoot!" " He paid for him too." "Shoot!" "Shoot, you coward!" "Shoot!" "Bruno!" "No, mother." "I didn't hurt him." "I'd already forgiven him." "I've already forgiven you too." "If I were to tell you those blood stains on my hands..." "I've already forgiven you." "If I were to tell you, it was the blood of an innocent man..." "I've already forgiven you." " The blood of an innocent man!" " I've already forgiven you." "You are innocent too." "I didn't want an innocent man's blood." "I didn't want an innocent man to pay for others." "We poor mothers also pay for others, every single day." "For all those who make us suffer, who make you poor boys suffer." "Help me, mother." "My hands are stained with blood." "Only tears can wash blood away." "No." "Tears are not enough to wash blood away." "Leave!" "Go away!" "Leave me alone!" "Go!" "I am supposed to pay, not you!" "Go away, leave me alone!" "Why the innocent?" "Why?" "Why them?" "Why does the world need the blood of an innocent to save itself?" "Why do men need to push innocent men to kill other innocent men in order to save themselves?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why do the innocent always pay for others?" "No more blood of the innocent!" "Enough!" "Cowards!" "Why do you need the blood of innocents to save yourselves?" "Why is it that freedom and justice must be born from the blood of innocents?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Subtitles:" "Laser S. Film s. r.I." " Rome"