"HEIMAT 3" " A CHRONICLE OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS" "A SIX-PART FILM B Y EDGAR REITZ" "PART FIVE - THE HEIRS" "That's the Cessna 21 0" "If you used to fly the 1 7 2, you'll be amazed at what it can do" "Retractable wheels, Nice" "Constructed in 1 965, but only 970 flight hours" "It has everything" "Leather seats, ADF, GPS, King avionics, the whole lot" "How many flight hours?" "Nine hundred and seventy" "And the cells?" "Eighteen hundred" "Does it already have ADF navigation?" "Of course" "Where did you learn about that?" "I want to be a pilot" "What's your name?" "Matko Misic" "Are you the son of Anca, who used to clean for me?" "I don't know" "Where's your mother now?" "Somewhere in Livno" "That's where the war is" "That must be somewhere between Bosnia and Croatia" "Have you heard from her?" "No" "You said there's still air in it, What do you mean?" "Can I fly with you?" "I don't own it yet, I have to do a test flight first" "Is that all right?" "Yes, it's all right" "I bet I'm in Schabbach before you" "Do you know my runway?" "Certainly, First to get there is the winner" "Want a race?" "Yes" "Let's go" "All right then" "Wow!" "It climbs two thousand feet a minute" "I can really feel the 285 horsepower" "Incredible, I can see the boy on his moped below me" "He's really taking it seriously" "Congratulations, You're the winner" "Next time I'm going with you" "I promise" "Let me show you something" "Here" "This is how I started, I made it when I was your age" "Terrific" "It's yours, A prize for winning" "Thanks a lot" "Ready?" "Yes!" "Catch it, catch it" "Lukas" "Lukas, you're really fast, Do you want to do it again?" "Again?" "Do it again, And then we'll go and see CIarissa" "What do you say to that?" "Bye-bye" "Careful" "See you tonight" "See you later" "Will you help me?" "Lukas, come with me" "Lukas, what have you brought me?" "Oh, how nice!" "A big flower" "Cannas are already in bloom" "I've completely lost my sense of time" "The weeks fly by" "It's shop bought, isn't it?" "From Wallauer's tree by the road" "My mother also had a tree with apples that ripened in August" "During the summer holidays, the first fresh apples came from our own tree" "They were always a bit pale" "Tell me, is something wrong?" "I feel worse and worse" "I'm here with you" "Hermann, you shouldn't just think about me" "You should start doing concerts again" "Yes, as soon as you're out of here" "When I'm alone, I keep thinking about what you're missing because of me" "Just accept it" "I love you" "Put the bed down again" "Careful, Lukas, CIarissa has just had an operation" "Lukas, come here, Come with me" "It's nice to see you all here" "The mayor of Simmern, Mr Faust..." "He's coming!" "Cover your ears" "Regional Prime Minister" "Hello, Mr Simon" "I'm glad you've come" "May I introduce my niece, Lulu Simone Simon?" "Hello" "She's the site manager" "Professor Delveau from France" "Nice to have you here" "Hello, everybody" "The Wine Queen would like to say hello, too" "Regional Prime Minister here's a glass of sparkling wine from Oberwesel" "It's a Riesling from the romantic Middle Rhine region" "A hearty "Cheers" to you" "Thank you very much, Cheers" "The knights of old knew by heart" "That wine helps to appreciate art" "Wonderful" "As you see the major part of our museum is located inside the slate mountain" "The mountain should keep its secret" "The roofs of the outside structures will be covered with plants" "That symbolises my understanding of man and nature" "A blossoming garden on top, In front, stainless steel and glass" "Horizontal surfaces are divine, vertical surfaces are human" "It is a simple concept showing the ties of art and nature" "Thanks for presenting this project which is a joint project, if I may say so" "Mr Simon, Regional President, District Administrator Mr Mayor, ladies and gentlemen" "Dr Götte and I are very pleased to have met you here today and to share the opportunity to give the starting signal..." "The starting signal!" "Our cue!" "Thank you for everything you have initiated" "We should appreciate the fact that over five decades someone has collected six thousand works of art not for commercial or private interests but as a treasure for sharing with others" "Mr Simon, in that way you are quite different to those who won't even give the public a glimpse of their collections" "Therefore, I believe that it is more than justified that the European Union supports this project and regional authorities also help to make this model a reality" "Of course, the Rhineland-Palatinate government will play its part, too" "Can I ask you to leave the car alone?" "As you see, we have mirrored the landscape in our ground plan and we are integrating the caverns of the old slate mine in our plans" "And so, we are creating a concert hall at the same time" ""Full of spiritual water about this land..."" "That is how HöIderlin once described Germany" "And... "The mountains of Germany - the mountains of the Muses"" ""The mountains of the Muses"?" "I like that, but we haven't seen any of them in Hunsrück" "Yes, people have been dying here for three thousand years and the Muses have sat around on lots of mountains, but not here" "Generations have left nothing behind" "No songs, no palaces, no paintings and in particular, no thoughts" "When they die, they are buried and they join all the others who have worked all their lives and are now silent underground" "Would you like one, too?" "This is Herr Hermanns from the bank you all know, the Deutsche Bank" "What's wrong?" "This modest man hiding at the back..." "Toothache ...came all the way from New York" "His name is Edwards" "Everyone interested in art knows his name" "He examined my collection so the bank, the regional government, the EU Commission and all of you can know what we're talking about" "You see, things can change in Schabbach once the world takes notice of you" "By the way, the Ernst Simon Museum won't cost the community a penny" "You only have to create parking space and widen the roads" "You must admit, Toni, that's the least you can do" "Pompous ass!" "The application goes out on Monday" "For the planning permission, the council should meet and..." "We'll see about that, It's not decided yet" "The Regional Prime Minister agrees..." "Do you have time?" "Yes" "No problems with little Lukas?" "My dad is looking after him" "And now we have a chance to have a chat about it all, Matko" "No reception here?" "I keep thinking the battery is dead" "But it must be the rocks here, Nothing gets through" "Wait a second" "Wretched thing" "A Horch" "Manufactured in 1 938" "With eight cylinders and a five-Iitre in-Iine engine" "What a car!" "It's not bad" "How fast is it?" "Do you want to earn a few marks?" "Are you driving it in the rally?" "Yes, a rally without Simon Lenses is like a fish without a bike" "I tell you, this year I will win" "Victory for Schabbach!" "Listen, ride to Pullig Car Dealers in Oberwesel and ask for Mr Dietl" "Have him bring a 69 fan belt and a twelve-volt battery as fast as possible" "It's for the rally, for Hartmut Simon, All right?" "Can you remember that?" "Repeat it" "It must be the alternator" "You have to leave that to me" "Of course it's the alternator" "I am pleased that so many of you have come here to experience our wine market and to celebrate with us" "But before we begin our programme, featuring the grand parade, our charming Wine Queen, Jessica the First, will welcome you" "On behalf of the Oberwesel Tourist Board and the Winegrowers' Association I open the 1 997 Wine Festival in the beautiful town of Oberwesel with a hearty "Cheers"" "2,000 YEARS OBERWESEL WINE" "Hello, Do you remember me?" "Yes, I remember you" "Hey, what are you doing here?" "Push off!" "Keep going" "Listen, miss, You can't ruin the rally for me" "I just do what the boss tells me" "Yes, and then he disappears" "Why can't he look me in the eyes, if he doesn't trust me?" "He lets his employees do the dirty work, What a coward" "And on Saturday of all days, when every decent bank is closed" "Your company hasn't paid its bills for over six months, Mr Simon" "We're not the only ones" "Everywhere - in Simmern, in Mainz, in Trier" "We're all waiting for the Simon Company to become solvent again" "Rumours, nothing but rumours which will continue if you stop me being at the rally" "He's actually started building it without planning permission" "He's so sure of himself" "But I swear that arrogant bloke is making a mistake" "Our petition will go direct to the minister" "The computer, the printer and all the programs must work today" "All right" "UNDER CONSTRUCTION - ERNST SIMON MUSEUM" "SITE MANAGER - LULU SIMONE SIMON" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Hello, Miss Simon, Nice to see you, This will interest you" ""Danger of cave collapse when museum is built," No, no" "Hello, The environmentalists can be rough with their arguments" "I don't know what they want" "People have been living here on a powder keg for fifty years with the army and destructive weapons" "Perhaps the new danger is tourism intensive, aggressive tourism making natural beauty here a commodity" "But our museum won't do that" "How stupid, "Nature as a commodity"" "And you support this nonsense, Father?" "I just want you to sit down together to talk and listen to each other" "Have a nice day" "Toni, she's here!" "She's brought the application" "Oh, the planning application, Many people want to see it" "A receipt, please" "But we know each other" "This is a formal application to the council, I need a receipt" "EIfi, bring a pen, please" "But the real problems are yet to come" "Do you mean this?" "Rubbish, The council has nothing to do with religion or environmentalists" "Let me be honest with you, Ernst was too sure of himself" "For years, he flew over town and looked down at us as if we were a bunch of Negroes" "Here's the pen" "People get angry and envious" "Now he wants to impress us with the Regional Prime Minister and VIPs" "Bye" "Bye" ""Citizens of Schabbach, don't let the Simon clan take you for a ride" ""Their planned museum is an outrageous profit-making venture..." ""...to feed the Simons' greed" ""It will destroy our peace and quiet and God's environment"" "Hilde" "I've come to see Matko" "You've chosen the right day" "He isn't feeling at all well" "Look at the poor boy, He's got a bad toothache" "Hello, Matko, Let me have a look" "A molar, Completely infected" "Open your mouth" "The doctor said in three more days he would have blood poisoning" "Have you tried ice?" "No, we haven't" "Ice is best for infections" "I think I have some" "Open wide" "Open your mouth, I want to see what it looks like" "You wouldn't believe how he looked this morning" "Come here" "All swollen" "Oh, here we go again" "Maybe I'll get a gold tooth" "A gold tooth!" "Go to bed and dream about a gold tooth" "Things will look different after a good night's sleep" "Goodnight" "It really does him good when somebody calls in to see him" "Here he is with his girlfriend" "And at the seaside" "Those were good times" "I like this one best, With Matko when he was little" "Pretty" "Anca was a pretty girl in those days when she cleaned my house" "When was it?" "Must have been in 1 983" "She has more kids over there" "One's her own and one's adopted Ruza, a girl, in the middle of all that misery" "It's strange" "The people who really can't afford it have loads of kids while someone like me..." "Matko" "So, this is where you hide" "Where did you get her?" "From the runway" "What?" "Maybe she got hit by the Cessna's landing gear" "What do you mean?" "Her leg is broken" "She keeps hopping around and can't fly any more" "Good bird" "You'll soon be able to fly again" "Here we are, That is Mr Meise's caravan" "Very conspiratorial" "Hello, Mr Simon, Welcome to Meise and Specht" "I hope it's discreet enough here" "Yes" "Come in" "Look around, This is my detective's office on wheels" "You should know right away that I don't have a gun" "The cases we deal with are similar to yours and we don't need guns for them" "So, you want to know if you're a father" "I'll be quite frank" "Of course" "I've been around a lot and I've had lots of love affairs with women but I've never really settled down" "There were some women who really wanted to have a family with me" "But it was my fault" "I would just touch down for a moment and take off again" "That was my motto" "But now I can't get rid of the feeling that maybe one time or another when I touched down I left my traces" "So, here are my flight logbooks and my calendars since 1 944" "They are not complete, but it's everything that I could find" "And here we have..." "The times when you touched down" "Yes" "The ones whose names I remembered and some addresses" "I would like to know if my seed took root in the garden of lust" "The difficult cases are further back" "Oh, yes" "Where I only remember the first name or can't really recall the situation" "Ah, yes" "You know recently I've had to put up with a lot of disappointments" "I want a new direction" "If, in some far-off corner of the world there's a son or a daughter..." "You see, I want to gain some time, And what's the best way to do that?" "With offspring who continue where you left off" "Exactly" "What did you say?" "Since 1 944?" "Like a huge haystack" "Yes, with or without a needle?" "MAINZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL" "Hello, Mum." "Today is the big day" "Sorry you can't be with us" "We couldn't postpone it again because of the bureaucracy" "I hope you get this tape in a few days and that you feel better" "On behalf of everyone here, get well soon..." "Arnold!" "Come on!" "The bells have already started ringing" "My name is Gemma Lichtblau" "We met last March at MIT..." "Mrs Lichtblau?" "Are you all right?" "Mrs Lichtblau?" "Dr Busch!" "Mrs Lichtblau has collapsed" "Mrs Lichtblau" "I need to check her blood pressure" "Clarissa, it's me, your mother" "It's wonderful here" "I got sick after all" "Chemotherapy is a terrible thing, but today was the last treatment" "Daddy" "So now you can fly again" "It looks like she doesn't want to fly yet" "Maybe it's too soon" "flying is like that, Sometimes you don't feel like it" "You would rather hide away in some hole or stay at home" "She isn't ready" "Sometimes I wish I had a son" "A boy like you, who's interested in flying" "Come, I'll show you my collection" "This is the key, Matko to this super special lock from America" "No gangster will ever open it not even with a welding torch or with dynamite" "A serious offender invented it in Sing Sing" "Those people know their business" "Open, sesame!" "Wow" "Inside is my secret treasure chest, Come on, quickly" "I can't show you everything but I'll show you my favourite picture" "Wow" "Mr Edwards spent three weeks in here examining my entire collection" "Picture by picture" "He even slept in here" "This is The Gypsy Boy  by Otto Müller" "He must have been your age when he painted it" "Now he's a really old man, That is, if he's still alive" "But in this picture he will never get any older" "He won't die either" "Because it's such a beautiful picture, you know?" "Beautiful" "You're back?" "You don't want to fly any more?" "You did your best" "We'll try again tomorrow" "I wash my hands of it!" "...seventeen sorb trees twenty-one sycamores, thirty aspens an extremely rare elm" "altogether, 22 7 specimens fifty-six lime trees in bloom..." "Come on, Lulu, we can't let this ignorant mob get us down" "Are these the copies?" "Trees are God's creations, too" "Listen, I have three photocopies here" "This is an offer from the city of Recklinghausen to integrate my museum in the Ruhr Festival" "This other one is an offer from the health resort Schlangenbad" "They are broke, and they want to use my collection to recover" "But the most interesting is an offer my architect received from France" "Instead of building it on my land in Goldbach we could build it in a nature reserve in Provence" "Of course, generously supported by the French Minister for Culture" "Here you are, You can see for yourselves" "The original offers can be reviewed at my place" "He's bluffing, He's bluffing" "Ernst, is this a threat?" "No, I just want you to consider this at your council meeting" "Think - in ten, twenty or a hundred years' time we will have all rotted away" "A museum catalogue in Recklinghausen or Arles will say "We owe this collection to the fact that a town in Hunsrück..." ""...where the donator was born, rejected the museum"" "I swear, your great-grandchildren will be ashamed" "Ernst, act this way and you have no chance" "You may speak your mind, but not like that!" "Everything's been said, The rest is your business" "Come on, Lulu" "It's funny that we newcomers have to defend country life" "What man-made structure Iasts the longest?" "What outlives us all?" "Not buildings" "Foundations, perhaps?" "Castles, temples, graves?" "Certainly not museums" "Totally wrong" "Pathways endure the longest" "What we see from up here the railway lines, roads..." "They follow the footprints of thousands of generations wandering over the land, back and forth for all eternity" "You're right" "No matter where you fly, people on foot were already there" "You'll never catch up with them" "It's nice, isn't it?" "How beautifully your hair is growing" "THE SIMON CLAN DID THEIR BEST" "NOW SCHABBACH MUST DO THE REST" "It should be over soon, It's been an hour" "They are starting?" "OK, let's go over, Right, then..." "Let's go" "Today is decision day for Schabbach" "It is difficult for outsiders to understand that a rural community would forgo an attraction that falls into their lap free of charge" "Yet one must realise that Simon is a prominent name in this region" "The Simon clan has influenced life in this community for three generations sometimes negatively, as shown by the hopeless struggle of the Simon Lens Company to survive" "It almost seems like the people here are trying to shake off the influence of a powerful family" "What's the story?" "Have they decided?" "Will the museum be built?" "What have the council decided?" "What's the latest?" "Will it be built?" "Will it be built at last?" "Rejected" "That's Schabbach for you" "The Lord God can use the space for a beer garden now" "Ernst..." "Ernst..." "Stop!" "I want to come, too" "No, Matko, Not this time" "I'm flying to France to look for a new house" "I'll be gone for three days, maybe even longer" "So, not today" "Next time, definitely" "Come on, I've got to go" "Is the meeting over?" "Yes, Rejected" "What about Lukas?" "He's asleep" "Any idea what he's up to?" "No" "The law of inheritance follows a direct line" "But since Ernst doesn't have any kids his parents, Paul and Maria inherit fifty per cent each" "But since they're dead, Paul's share goes via Anton to his offspring, to us five siblings" "Maria's fifty per cent is divided so that twenty-five per cent goes to Hermann and the five of us get five per cent each via Anton" "All in all, Hartmut, Gisela, myself Marlies and Helga inherit fifteen per cent each" "And Hermann and Lulu, and so on inherit twenty-five per cent of Ernst's fortune" "It's quite simple, isn't it?" "Do you know who that is?" "No" ""D" - that's Düsseldorf" "Go in and straight up the stairs" "The boss is not here" "Mrs Weihrich, these are certified accountants and their assistants" "So that you know - they are here at my request and have a job to do" "You don't have an appointment, I can't allow it" "Paragraph 1 4 of the loan contract allows Food and Non-Food Company to have the books examined by certified accountants at any time" "The contract mentions no appointments" "You're aware that the entire loan must be paid back by next month" "We must make sure that capital doesn't disappear" "Do you think we are thieves?" "You should watch your tongue!" "You do your job and I'll do mine" "please get to work" "I've been watching you since you started coming here" "We really want immaterial goods patents, licences, contracts, usufructuary rights and so on" "If you gave us the documents, we wouldn't have to look for them" "Hello, Mrs Weihrich... yes, Hartmut, it's for you" "Yes?" "What?" "Böckle?" "What, in my office?" "I'm on my way" "Smoking is not permitted here" "First you mess around with my wife, then you ruin me!" "Get out of here" "Are you out of your mind?" "Get out of here!" "Get out of my life!" "You have fifteen million marks, my boy" "Five million would be my salvation, so I could pay the bill of exchange" "Help me, You're my child" "Hartmut" "I'm sorry" "I would help if there were some way to get at his money" "What a lie" "You and the old man had it all worked out so I would be skipped over in the line of succession" "Who cares if I'm ruined?" "Everything for your child" "Why is he "my child"?" "He's our child" "Why didn't you marry my dad?" "You both thought I was useless" "although he was cremated three years ago he's still haunting me" "Ernst's trick was to have the state and sponsors pay for the building" "He didn't want to sell paintings to pay for the construction" "Right" "If we don't build the museum now, we'll be losing twenty million marks" "That's a good argument" "What Ernst wanted could be realised in the French nature reserve with the help of the architect Delveau" "But it wouldn't have the personal connection we have with Schabbach" "We're in trouble, We need your help" "When it comes to money, you have your piggy bank" "It's true" "Listen, I don't have any time for stupid jokes" "Mara and I have considered every possibility" "There's no other solution, We have to sell the paintings" "I need my share of Ernst's estate within three weeks" "At least an assurance" "You must understand" "It's my last hope..." "the company's last hope" "I would say that's your problem" "We have just found some good reasons to build the museum and to keep the paintings" "Take back what you said about him being a piggy bank, Dieter" "He's a child, an innocent child!" "Start whining if you like" "I'm not finished with you" "Yes?" "Hermann, it's for you" "It has nothing to do with you" "Mara, Hartmut, go back in the house, I'll be back soon" "Whenever I see you, something goes wrong for me" "My name's Simon, You called?" "You're busy and you want to know what a complete stranger has to say" "Isn't that right?" ""My dear boy" ""Give this letter to my friend, Maria Prodic..." ""...at Stumm's flower Shop in Simmern" ""You'll get fourteen red carnations" ""Lay them on Ernst Simon's grave for me, Leave her this letter" ""You don't need to pay, Your mother"" "flowers on Ernst's grave, That's very nice, So?" "Take a good look at that boy" "The one with the moped waiting for the ferry" "His name is Mate but your brother affectionately called him Matko" "His mother's been living in Bosnia for years" "Don't ask me why she's living in a terrible place like that" "So, that's the result of my investigation" "But a strange inner voice told me to keep an eye on the boy because your brother was very close to him" "I know the boy, too, What about him?" "You see, the lady at the flower shop, Maria Prodic gave me this letter" "And I paid for the flowers, you see" "After that, I cautiously followed the boy" "So far it's simple, isn't it?" "But now comes the tricky question, Mr Simon" "Why fourteen carnations?" "Why not ten?" "Or twelve?" "Or twenty?" "Why not a normal number?" "Why fourteen?" "Can you tell me what you want without beating around the bush?" "I know, people like us are always quick to come to conclusions" "It's our job to stick our noses in other people's business" "But I look for people's heirs on behalf of the deceased" "What?" "On behalf of Ernst?" "Posthumously, to be precise" "While your family are concerned with the deceased's estate you should realise that there are others..." "The fairest of maidens reposing" "So wondrously up there" "Her golden treasure disclosing" "She combs her golden hair" "The boy turned fourteen today, One carnation for every year" "You're not suggesting that the boy is my brother's son?" "You finally understand me, It's one of life's many stories" "You see what I mean?" "You're an inheritance investigator?" "Forgive me for forgetting to introduce myself" "Meise and Specht, Detective Agency, Frankfurt am Main" "Tell me, what does an investigator like you earn?" "As your brother is no longer alive, I can't charge my normal fee" "But if I can prove that the boy is his rightful son and only heir..." "Come on, tell me how much" "Well, around fifteen per cent" "Depending on the inheritance" "Yes, that's all" "Hello, may I introduce myself?" "Meise, of Meise and Specht, Frankfurt am Main" "That doesn't ring a bell" "You must be Auntie Hilde" "Am I right?" "Well, yes" "Then you should be the first to know that Matko is a very lucky devil" "How's that?" "I'll explain it to you" "Come inside, You can tell me there" "Good" "Oh, it's Anca" "She looks pretty there" "I suppose" "Could I borrow it?" "If you must" "But I would like to have it back" "Of course" "The chair you're about to sit on, Mr Meise is where Ernst always used to sit" "On that very chair" "Oh, really?" "Now if I had been Mr Simon I would have fallen in love with Anca" "I would definitely have fallen in love with her" "And then I'd be the father of that nice boy" "Oh, I don't understand" "Yes, without a doubt" "And I would look after you just like your dead father is doing" "I've so much anger in me, Hermann, it's like a wound" "I could strangle him" "What?" "Hartmut?" "He has disgraced us with bankruptcy" "A bankruptcy in the family!" "Father would turn in his grave" "Oh, Gisela, the days of Simon Lenses were over" "Don't give me that rubbish, He proved himself to be incompetent" "If a person like him goes broke, then he deserves to" "For that reason alone, we should support the museum" "It would be terrible if Hartmut wasted Uncle Ernst's life's work, too" "In any case, none of us realised who Ernst really was" "Right" "But it's impossible that a kid like Matko from Vivoc or wherever had anything to do with him" "Ernst flew to lots of places" "But not Bosnian mountain villages, The kid was born there" "Damn it!" "Listen to me, Hermann" "I was on the phone all afternoon, I asked the authorities" "That's just what I was afraid of" "We're starting to hate him, That worries me" "He can't understand it, anyway" "I offered to buy the car for 1 2,500 marks, but he won't sell" "He's really desperate" "And he wants to make us flog off an exceptional art collection so he can maintain a lifestyle with exorbitant vintage cars" "It's a joke" "Right" "Hermann" "We will build that museum" "You bet" "Just a moment" "Bye, Hermann" "Bye, Take care" "Hey, Hermann, Let's not call it "The Ernst Simon Museum"" "Let's call it "The Simon Museum"" "Then we'll all be seen in a favourable light" "And then we'll be rid of the disgrace" "Right, Gisela?" "We'll bring that Meise into line, too, I promise" "I know the probate judge, a reasonable man" "He won't pay any attention to a snoop like that, Don't worry" "Bye" "But that's not what I'm worried about" "Good evening, good evening" "Good evening" "Good evening" "Do you have anything non-alcoholic?" "Yes" "Beer or schnapps?" " Schnapps?" "Yes, first a beer" "Good evening" "Good evening" "Do you know that man at the bar?" "No" "Lena, when everything goes down the drain, the rats move in" "We've met before" "No, that was a different place" "Anyway, it was nice of you to help me" "What do you think?" "Can we fit your moped in the boot?" "No, it's too dirty" "We can put a blanket underneath" "Wait a second, We'll manage it" "You'll see" "No problem" "You see?" "Everything will be all right" "Impressive, isn't it?" "Matko, the two of us belong together" "And we won't let anybody tell us what to do" "Right..." "Do you understand?" "We're related" "As thick as thieves" "Are you ready?" "Do you know why a person has ears?" "To hear with, for example, when the car misfires" "No, to see with" "Without ears, his cap would slip over his eyes, like this" "This is brilliant" "If we'd had an accident and were both dead lots of people would be glad" "Bad luck for them, eh?" "Matko" "I'm broke" "Does it show?" "I might become a millionaire" "My car's being sold at auction tomorrow" "How much for?" "Who cares?" "It's still mine today" "Tomorrow I'm done for" "Tomorrow doesn't matter" "Say it again" "Tomorrow doesn't matter" "Again" "Tomorrow doesn't matter" "Tomorrow doesn't matter" "I remember how they took away Maria's last cow" "That's all in the past, It will never happen again" "Today is the end of an era" "Hartmut" "I thought you would come around to say farewell" "What did you expect?" "For me to stand at the door, waving goodbye when you go?" "You look terrible" "Come on, Get in" "Where are we going?" "As the temporary proprietor, I will have the entire grounds fenced in as is suitable for this property" "Here, here, here, there and over there" "That means you want to seal off my office?" "Yes, I do" "Do you have the key?" "No, Dr Kuhn, We still haven't found the key to the cave" "We had experts here to drill open the lock with a powerful drill but they only wore down their bits" "They refused to blow it open because no one knew how much the dynamite would damage the pictures" "I know" "Then you know the door is made of titanium alloyed with steel" "The locks are invincible because they have an electronic code that no one knows" "Yes" "Dr Kuhn, why did you ask me, then?" "Hello, Mrs Sulzbacher" "Hello" "Do you remember me?" "No" "I'm Dieter Simon" "I haven't seen you for ages" "This is Dr Kuhn" "Hello" "Mrs Sulzbacher, we need absolute proof" "They have to do a blood test" "It will be good for everyone to pursue this further" "I could order the test to be carried out" "But I must ask you, do you want the boy to be taken by the police and forcibly tested?" "No" "The whole town would start gossiping, It's better if we do it" "Doesn't the boy have to see a doctor anyway?" "For a check-up?" "Maybe for toothache, but otherwise..." "We could make up an excuse" "Do you think he would go with you?" "Now he's gone" "Matko, Matko, Matko..." "Get off me" "Milk face!" "Spoilt brat!" "Stupid little kid!" "Hey, stop that!" "That's enough!" "Get back!" "Come on, Matko, You, move out of the way" "Out you come" "Lukas, this way, Come on" "You deepest red" "Until death" "My love shall be with you" "Shall never be without it" "Until death" "You glowing red" "It shall be with you" "Time stands still here" "I don't know if it's Sunday or spring or winter" "That's what it is like to get better" "You can't watch it" "I think it's up there." "Quiet!" "Don't wake the old bag" "Quiet." "I heard something" "Do you have the stones?" "We'll get him" "Hey, Matko, we're going to bash you" "We're going to get you, Matko" "You millionaire bastard!" "What was that?" "Matko!" "Matko!" "No" "Oh, no" "Open, sesame!" "I have stood behind that counter for forty-eight years watching how attitudes of people here have changed" "Hitler - for him, then suddenly against" "The Yanks - against them, then suddenly for them then suddenly against them again" "The Russians - against them then suddenly for them" "I'm fed up with it!" "We just go with the times" "What else?" "Simon Museum - for, then against, then for" "Listen, Toni, Schabbach should be ashamed" "Don't be a moraliser, Rudi, Right?" "Exactly" "For example, the death of Ernst" "He would still be alive if you hadn't kissed Eva's arse by rejecting the building permit" "She hasn't shown her face here since, And she knows why" "Lena, since then, we have thought about it" "The vote would go differently now" "Absolutely" "If only it wasn't too late" "Guard post to police headquarters - suspicious person observed" "Stop!" "He's trying to get away" "Stop moving" "Get the key out" "We know you have it" "Here it is" "I'll call Dr Kuhn, I bet he'll be surprised" "Now, get lost" "The little bastard thought he could trick us" "But you made a big mistake" "Mr Millionaire" "What nationality is he?" "Maybe we should check" "We should watch him" "Or send him back to where he came from" "That lot just scrounge from us" "Matko, what are you doing here?" "Wait a minute, I'm Ernst's brother" "Do you remember?" "I don't want to inherit anything" "Have you run away?" "I'm not going back to Schabbach ever again" "I know what you mean" "When I was your age I wanted to leave Schabbach and not come back" "You can come to my house, Nothing will happen to you there" "Honest" "What about my moped?" "We'll leave it here" "If somebody's looking for you, they'll get the wrong idea" "Come on, get in" "I'll be right back" "Terrific" "It has twelve cylinders" "Who is this, then?" "Mr Simon, I never thought you would bring the boy with you" "What a coincidence, Hello, Matko, Look, I'm back" "You've forgotten me, right?" "I'm glad to see you" "Especially with Mr Simon" "Have you made friends with your famous uncle?" "How did you know we would be here?" "Actually, I didn't know" "But now I've finally run into a member of your large family I have to tell you what I've found out" "I picked up something in the Balkans" "So, Matko, do you think I found your mother or not?" "Guess" "I don't know" "Then look" "That isn't my mother" "Listen, Matko, my son" "Don't say things like that, You are my child" "I gave birth to you" "I don't want to" "Consider how much time has passed" "Five years at his age is a very long time, And then the war" "My mother, she's..." "Well, she's different" "Matko, she was different, You were nine at the time, right?" "Everything will work out" "Anca has given me power of attorney, and I'll do whatever is necessary" "After all, I'm defending the rights of the weak" "Don't play the Good Samaritan, It makes me sick" "Raising people's hopes!" "I want to tell you one thing" "In case you haven't noticed, I'm not on your side" "We don't want to bother you any longer" "Come on, Matko, We're leaving" "You've grown so much," "please, Matko, this is for you, this is for me," "I say Ernst Simon is your father" "Anca is absolutely certain, What more do you want?" "The boy will stay with me for now, He trusts me" "I don't want to let him down" "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Or should I explain it again?" "I understand you very well, Mr Simon" "I don't know what you're hoping to gain by this, Mr Simon" "But I don't think you're totally kosher" "Matko, I'll see you," "So, come on" "You'll see, lt's better this way" "At last, you and Hermann can be together... alone" "Lukas and I must work out where our home is" "Lukas, will you visit me?" "Yes" "I love you so much" "Hermann and you..." "You're right for each other" "I think so, I've always wanted to tell you that" "Come on, Let's go" "Don't worry, I'll do it" "Come on, Matko" "Let's do it" "We're having the standard tests done including DNA, SLS and PCR" "That way we'll achieve 99,99 per cent accuracy as the mother is also here" "Right, Doctor?" "Yes" "If this test is positive, you and especially the boy will have all of Hunsrück against you" "Everybody will hate him" "Was it very bad?" "Mr Meise, I pray to God we are spared that trouble" "I've submitted an application for the boy's certificate of inheritance" "My company has the complete power of attorney for the mother" "Where has he gone?" "You really believe he's at our house waiting for you?" "That's what we arranged anyway, I hope you don't mind" "No, of course not" "So much greed... all of them" "It will take a long time for him to find peace" "The main thing is, you're back home" "Come with me, please" "This is Mr Pohl, our police psychologist" "Meise from a detective agency in Frankfurt am Main" "Are you the mother?" "Yes, she is, She speaks German" "Matko" "Matko, what are you doing there?" "Don't talk from down here" "Come on, We've been waiting for you" "Matko, my son, Matko" "Stay calm, lt will be all right, We'll do it together" "The boy's over there on the cliff" "Come on" "Come on" "Hold me, please" "She's scared of heights, She couldn't look out of the plane" "Fine, I'll try it alone" "Keep calm, Calm down" "It's OK" "Matko" "Your mother is here" "She isn't as brave as you, She won't even come this far" "But she's a few metres behind, and she's worried" "Come on" "Give me your hand, I'll take you to her" "You can calm her down" "Not you, The mother has to talk to her son, lt's the only way" "Come on, we can do it, We'll do it together" "Anca, you have to lie down" "Look, just like me" "Like this" "Nothing can go wrong" "It will be all right, Come on" "Very good, Very good" "Talk to him" "Matko, my son, what are you doing?" "Matko, why are you doing this to me?" "It's my grave you're digging, why are you doing this?" "Come back home, stop this, come home" "The results of the blood test proved that Matko Misic was not the son of Ernst Simon" "PART FIVE" " THE HEIRS"