"Once upon a time, many years ago... a foreign king... came to conquer the land where our ancestors lived." "Alexander, then, who descended from the aeolian, a race of warriors that governed in the mountains around," "created a group of select macedonians that finished the foreigner and freed our land." "Overcoming and liberating nations and tongues... he saw the depths of Asia." "One afternoon... he was sitting, looking at the sun that drowned at a great river... and he got sad." "That night he abandoned his partners and left... alone, in search of the end of the world." "Long live the 20th Century!" "Who goes there?" "Who goes there?" "I come to a stage in the darkness... while the orchestra plays an introduction..." "And suddenly..." "The light." "All the lights are directed at me." "The men shout of excitement... and throw their hats to the air." "Mrs Arthur is a woman... of whom everybody talks, talks, talks forever." "Without newspapers, nothing, no publicity, she has a great collection of lovers." "Everybody wanted to be loved by her..." "Everybody wooed her, but why?" "And not even being so pretty... there was something about her." "Mrs Arthur is a woman... of whom everybody talks, talks, talks forever." "Without newspapers, nothing, no publicity, she has a great collection of lovers." "of whom everybody talks, talks, talks forever." "Her size is quite normal, her eyes small but bright." "her nose pointy, her voice clear, her feet arched and lively." "Allow me to introduce missis and... mister Delers, who wanted so much to meet you." "What is he saying?" "Something in old greek." "He didn't understand what I said!" "Wait, gentlemen..." "Lord Lancaster," "are you leaving so soon?" "Your Excellency, we just entered the 20th Century." "The Byron's dream... was to see the sun rise from the sea... between the pillars of the Poseidon's temple in Sunion... announcing the birth of a new century." "What a unique experience!" "Mr Minister." "Is it true you quitted and join the opposition?" "My wife will be happy." "This night she danced with the king." "What did he say?" "I think he is an admirer of Natalia." "Minister, our company insists in leasing... the coal mine in Mavrovuni for at least 50 years." "After all we have invested too much and now it's neccesary." "Machinery equipment, living accommodation, railway... and half of the neccesary facilities." "Apart form the compensation." "Shall I translate, Madame?" " It's not important!" " Indeed." "Mister Delers and I hope that thing are getting better in Crete." "Our only fear, prime minister, is that the indemnification with option of buying, wins." "The report of the samples of coal has arrived." "The main obstacle is the peasants." "They keep claiming the land beneath Mavrovuni." "We need to hear their offers." "Mr. Milison, thanks for the carriage and the driver." "My god, its raining!" "What do you expect of this new century?" "I am your guide." "This is the temple of Poseidon." "After the victorious battle that the athenians won at Marathon... at Salamina... and the last at Platea in 479 b.C., when they expelled persians from Greece once for all... they didn't forget the gods who had helped them to win," "Athena and Poseidon." "To Athena they dedicated the Parthenon and on Cape Sunion they erected in honor of Poseidon, this doric temple of marble, dominating with its shining, splendid in its whiteness, above the steep rock... splashed by the surgy foam." "Ray of sun." "Oh, the most beautiful ray... never seen between the seven doors!" "You who were born in the golden day... from the last sunrise in which the green ray of Circe struck... stripping him from his shining harness, when riding from Argos." "I, Alexander, chief of the rebels," "I write to his Majesty, the government and the embassador of England." "The lords are safe." "Your gentleness must mediate... so that the land is returned to their original owners." "and grant us an amnesty to me and my men." "And to the rest of the prisoners... that we left in the mountains, since they had robbed us from our rights... and we took it from the landowners and usurers." "I will give freedom to the lord and teachers... so everybody is fine, and no blood falls in vain." "Alexander the Great." "And his name is Alexander!" "Nobody knows where he came from." "They found the boy wandering in the hills... and when they asked his name he answered:" "Alexander!" "And nobody found anything else about him." "Blessed be the bread." "Blessed be the wine." "Blessed be the hay for the horses." "My Alexander the Great, you are the wind." "My Saint George, you are the dragon killer." "Blessed be the silence." "Blessed be the sound." "Blessed be the great word." "My Alexander the Great, you are the sun." "My Saint George, you are the killer!" "Blessed be the sword." "My Alexander the Great, you are the flame." "My Saint George, you are the fire." "Five years in jail, captain." "I've obfuscated." "Message from the government." "The government has decided to pay the neccesary rescue... for the freedom of the captive," "but denies an amnesty... because the Constitution clearly prohibits it." "The sole concern of Her Majesty and her government is that no one of her subjects has the life endangered." "Her Majesty's government maintains no interest... in the fullfilment of the greek constitution, and warns the greek government... that the most serious consequences would arise... if it didn't manage this affair." "We are italian anarchists, the police hunts us." "In the city we have heard of Alexander." "We are also going to town." "Turn back!" "Be calm!" "We welcome you to the community." "We are glad you're back." "You are one of us... and the town is yours too." "But since you've left there's been many changes, you will see." "We're planning to meet tomorrow... to talk about the problems that are now arising... including the kidnapping of foreigners." "Teacher, we are all very happy." "The most important thing... is not to risk the town." "The lords are powerful people." "The field will be covered with soldiers." "Tomorrow, tomorrow we'll talk about that." "Tonight we invite you to celebrate the return." "Captain and company, be welcomed." "Welcome, father." "I am back, woman." "Piero Cori told me about the community experience you are living here." "I met him in Paris." "I saw him again in 93, in a proletarian congress in Genova." "We didn't think alike." "Yes, we know." "The despicable mask has fallen, the man remains, no scepter, free, no limits, equal, no classes, no tribe or nations, no fear, no worship, degree, king of himself!" "It seems like a dream." "Who are you?" "Italian anarchists, the police hunts us." "What do you want?" "We ask you to let us stay here... the time neccesary so that they don't capture us." "We will respect your ideas." "But to stay... you must respect the conditions of the community." "To work in the community workshop... with the cattle or any other task." "To respect the decisions of the popular tribune." "To defend the community in case of neccesity." "To respect the sovereign will plebiscite of the community." "Here there's no private property." "Everything is for everyone." "Men and women have the same rights." "Father..." "Open the door, father." "Open the door, father." "Tell me, handsome young man, truthful and blonde, tell me what's your homeland." "I love the town, the world is my country... and my faith is the freedom of thought." "The houses are of those who inhabit them." "The time is of the philosophers, the time is of the philosophers." "The houses are of those who inhabit them." "The time is of the philosophers, the land of he who plows it." "Goodbye, my little home, goodbye, my dear mother, and father." "The town welcomes you to the party and the community." "My intrepid fist for the commune, like Leonidas, I'll know how to die." "Teacher, the town has changed." "So many years in jail..." "And now that we are back we have nothing." "Everything belongs to the community." "Our things are no longer ours, we beg our women," "we beg our sons, we beg our cattle." "Captain, we're surrounded, the army is everywhere, in the river, in the trees, in the cabins." "Why, captain?" "We had forgotten, we don't need to know the hour." "Nobody determines us." "Down with clocks!" "Message from the captain, Alexander the Great." "The little lord has a cold." "Everybody else is alright, but as time passes, they begin to be afraid... that you decide... to sacrifice them for the homeland... and that stuff." " In the last class..." " Teacher!" "I suggest there's no class for today." "Despite what happened, we must continue like before." "Exactly because of that we shouldn't leave anything on hold." "The sheep were murdered." "I suggest a trial." "But we need the accused." "Who will bring them?" "We think is time now... to give a politic meaning to the kidnapping theme." "We should consider the english political prisoners and judge them." "They are enemies of the town." "We're surrounded since morning." "They have caught us unguarded." "The dead sheep is the least of our problems." "Beginning from now, we won't make any decisions." "We are a majority, teacher." "Angel's sword, listen to the words." "This blade doesn't know the law, your head will befall." "If you don't kill, they will kill you." "Have you lowered your head?" "The blade is merciless.." "Have you doubted?" "I will crush you." "If we decide on violence, we'll all be lost." "Bad for us, bad for them." "The masons say a rock has seven faces." "The cautious is to try with all of them." "I vote for the trial to be celebrated... as if they were present... and the sentence will be executed... when we regain normality." "Us, the elected judges by the community, will gather to sentence Alexander the great and his men... for destruction of public property." "Captain, and the erst, what's our defense?" "I found him trying to enter town in disguise." "He wants to talk to you." "He sends his scribe." "The english ships have blocked Falero bay." "Their cannons are pointing at Athens." "My government has handed a resignation." "Greece could become a laughing stock." "Why doesn't the government accept the amnesty?" "The constitution prohibits it." "Who wrote the constitution?" "The nation." "He who can construct something, can also break it." "My government suggests another solution:" "ask the king forgiveness." "But for this to happen, first we must have a trial." "A formality, to keep the appearances." "Decide then, give up," "I give you my word, submit to a trial and within two weeks you'll be pardoned... and you'll be free." "We won't go back to jail." "Let the judges come here, to the cabins, to carry the trial... so we can see them and hear them." "Then we will wait for the pardon." "When we have the paper signed and sealed... we will free the lords." "I am an unfortunate man!" "Who will hand me from the abyss of this death?" "Is to save the honor of the nation." "So, be it." "The landlords of this region and me, for the benefit of the homeland, we have decided... to absolve you from all you debts... and turn you back... the lands in the plains." "I am trying to understand... if there is someone behind who has helped him flee." "What for?" "Nobody knows." "Nobody speaks." "Everything makes me think of a big trap." "Alexander's politics... is that of a charismatic leader." "He can turn every one of his gestures into something dark." "You promised to respect the collective decisions." "Teacher, the dream is in danger." "Lord, save your people... and bless your inheritance... offering victories to the kings against the barbarians... and guard with the cross of your regime." "Where are you going, father?" "Up, to the monastery." "The government... wishes for everything to end, and to prove its intentions... it will accept your proposals." "We have won!" "Victory!" "Countrymen, keep silence for a while!" "What do you mean to keep silence, president?" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" " Wait, we'll talk about it." " We've always had our lands." "The lands we'll regain are nobody's property... but of the community, like everything else." "Those lands were bought by my grandfather from the turks, with sweat in his forehead." "And my father spent his life working on them." "We said we would go to the school and discuss it." "We are losing our freedom." "The despotism will destroy... the life of this community." "Our revolution is dying." "Its spirit will howl in the desert." "In the obscurity of the century that's ending, in the inhospitable and solemn horizon... the sunrise is threating... the announced day." "Shouts the hate, the starvation and pain... of thousands and thousands of bony faces... and shout with their redemptive explosion... the dinamite." "We are ready at the crossroads, evil specters of the extreme moment, in the lips of the saint man of "anarchy"... we will rise." "For all the victims not revenged... in the din of the epic echo..." "We will return in the barricades... lead for lead." "We will fall in the splendor of glory, we will open a new road for the future, from the blood a new history will be born... of the anarchy." "Stop!" "What a shame, countrymen!" "This is the village of Alexander the Great." "Here he was found as a child by the peasants." "Nobody could approach him, only one young woman succeed it." "She took his hand and he followed her... and she became his mother." "This is the house of Alexander the Great." "In this house he lived with her." "When he grew up, he married her." "She was still young and beautiful." "Her daughter from her first marriage... held the bride's veil." "This is the church... where Alexander the Great married his foster mother." "Here, as he was coming out of the church they shooted him." "But instead of killing him, they killed the bride in her beautiful white wedding dress." "The local people say that... the killers were hired by the landowners... because Alexander was making the peasants rise up." "When Alexander escaped from the prison... the daughter of the dead woman dissapeared with him." "Everybody says that she left for the town to be with him." "The night that Alexander the Great escaped from the prison, she appeared again in the village and opened the house again." "Smile, please!" "Stay still." "Like statues, gentlemen." "In the name of the king." "The trial begins." "Proceed with the trial!" "A moment!" "Accused... of killing, of continous robbery, of kidnapping, etc... in short, of breaking all of the basic articles of the penal code..." "Alexander, of unknown last name, better known as Alexander the Great, together with 29 bandits... whose name I won't read to save time." "The accused are present?" "The accused are present." "Bring in the witness and the victims." "I don't understand!" "Be the most concise posible, we are silent to the bones." "I leave the word to the fiscal man." "Mr President, gentlemen..." "Why, captain?" "We had nothing to win with the killing of the fiscal." "Nor you nor we." "Nobody." "The town is in danger, captain." "Take your men and go." "We will turn in the hostages to the authorities." "If not, whoever sustains him, will experiment the worst." "Why?" "It had to be done." "It had to be done." "He would have spoiled everything." "It had to be done." "I woke with this marble head in my arms, that wears out my elbows," "and I don't know what to do with it." "Fire, countrymen!" "They've burned our sheepfolds." "They've killed our sheeps." "Our goods have vanished!" "They've also poisoned our water!" "What are we waiting for, countrymen?" "What are we waiting for, countrymen?" "The captain orders that you give your weapons and provisions." "Otherwise, he will have to use force." "Wait!" "Turn back!" "The captain wanted to say... that for our own good... and for the benefit of everyone, he's forced... to seize the weapons and the provisions, and to impose a curfew... in the town." "Teacher, it is me, Alexander." "Teacher, I don't understand." "In our last class we talked about history." "Today... we are gonna talk about property and power." "The property is..." "The property is..." "The power is..." "The power is..." "If I talk to you in parables... is because it's less tragic." "You must not speak of the horror... because it is alive," "because it is mute, and advances..." "Too late captain." "They've left." "We've found this cap." "Very well, teacher, that's what we'll do." "Come..." "Sleep, Alexander." "It is hot in there." "Sleep, Alexander." "It is hot in there." "It is unfair." "It is unfair." "I was also with them." "Alexander!" "Alexander!" "You have spoiled everything." "Everything has vanished, the banquet and the flags." "There's nothing left." "It is the will of one man only." "Massimo was right." "You don't understand?" "There's something else, invisible behind all of this." "They've used you, Alexander." "Teacher, it is me, Alexander." "The property is..." "The power is..." "It is me." "It is me." "Chief, it is me!" "Chief, it is me!" "And like that, Alexander... entered in the cities."