"Hi Beppie, come in." "Hello, Mr van Keuk." "Hi, Mrs van Keuken." "Before school in the morning I sometimes go past Aunt Miep's." "She stands at the window and waves to me." "I stand on the bridge and then I run away." "Well, my name is Beppie and my last name is Klaassen." "I have eight sisters and their names are" "Brigitte." "Sylvia." "Bernadettte." "Yvonne." "Jopie." "Josta." "And there's Lenie..." "and my mother and father." "We have six rooms." "And I share a room with Josta where Uncle Dick used to live." "Jopie sleeps in a bunk bed with Lenie." "The other three sleep in a double bed." "My mother sleeps downstairs." "Brigitte sleeps downstairs too, in a posh bed in the small front room but she crawls into bed with me." "Otherwise she'd cy all night and stay up late." "Because the light is on in there so she crawls into bed with me." "Brigittte...until she falls asleep and then Mum comes to get her and puts her in her own bed." "1 x 3 = 3 2 x 3 = 6" "3 x 3 = 9 4 x 3 = 12" "5 x 3 = 15" "On my school report I also had a five out of ten." "I had a 5 for conduct." "Yeah... for talking too much." "The report also said if she fails two subjects, Beppie will be held back a year." "No..." "I got held back once." "If I go on to the next year I get a guilder or 1 .50." "Last time I also got a quarter from the neighbour, so I had 1 .75." "I once won an ashtray..." "It cost ten cents." "And a pair of pincers..." "I kept it anyway." "It cost a quarter." "Still pretty cheap!" "My father has a treasure-chest." "A little green box." "Whenever he has some money first he gives my mother some and he puts some in his pocket and the rest he puts in the box." "In summer we go to the swimming pool." "It costs 15 cents, sometimes 20." "When it's cold, it's only 10 cents." "Maybe I'll go to a summer camp, but it costs 29 guilders." "Maybe Mum will let me go, but what about the others?" "It costs too much to send everyone." "2 x 5 = 10 3 x 5 = 15" "4 x 5 = 20 5 x 5 = 25" "6 x 5 = 30" "So then she says- should we knock in the glass?" "She sees a fire extinguisher and she smashes the pane with a stick or a stone and the door flies open." "Her sister says your picture is taken." "Is that true?" "You don't see anything." "4 x 3 = 12 6 x 3 = 24... 18" " Yes!" "8 x 3 = 24" "We saw Crazy Johnny when we were playing cowboys and Indians with my cousins and my sisters..." "We all played cowboys and Indians." "Then Crazy Johnny came along and he saw a woman riding a bike and he jumped on the back." "He belongs in the loony bin!" "We went out with Lenie one night." "She was scared on the street where the bushes are." "She thought there was a man hiding behind the trees." "There wasn't." "The tree was split, the branches were all crooked." "She wanted to go the other way." "I didn't, but she was scared." "Once, she was molested by a man." "Twice!" "Once a man was walking around in his bare body." "I didn't see him but Els's mother said!" "so." "Aunt Ria lives around here in the red-light district." "You see all these women sitting at the window." "I call them eager beavers!" "In the window you see the small room and the bed." "That's where you see them after supper." "No more boys for me." "9 x 3 = 27 10 x 3 = 30" "Boys are nasty!" "As soon as they see another girl they leave you flat." "5 x 1 2 = 60 7 x 12 =..." "84 9 x 12 =... 96... 108." "I don't know if my mother will let me get married." "Caterina Valente's mother wouldn't let her get married." "She was on telly yesterday." "She doesn't have a home." "Her mother told her to sing." "That's why she was on TV." "I watch telly every day." "I slept at Els's house yesterday in a little room upstairs." "A room of our own, a nice little room." "There are two beds shoved together." "I slept in the middle." "I watched TV at night." "Then the Christmas tree came." "Because her brother has a concussion..." " He should stay in bed." "But he got out of bed yesterday." "If he sits up or gets up, he'll have a headache all his life." "But he got up to watch Bonanza." "The father had been shot with a heavy bullet, they said." "But he was still alive..." "And the fat guy Hoss was looking for people who wanted to shoot because the other cowboys wanted to fight." "But nobody wanted to, they didn't feel like it." "They were at the saloon, scared." "And then he finally asked- isn't there anybody?" "And there was one guy, but he couldn't shoot." "He said" " I want to help you, but I can't shoot." "It was rated 'unsuitable for younger viewers'..." "That's what it said but they let us watch anyway!" "A gable, teacher!" "Town walls, teacher!" "No..." "No, teacher!" "Teacher!" "A drawbridge." "Keizersgracht, Prinsengracht Herengracht." "My father is asleep now." "Waiter..." "He's always a waiter." "BARBER" "We play games." "Hide and seek, tag..." "'The phone game'- you have two phones and you can talk to each other." "Cigarette tag..." "For instance I say Caballero and you have to say Caballero or another brand." "If someone wants to tag you, you have to say all kind of brand names." "The other day we saw Santa Claus." "He had cream here for his moustache and also for his beard." "I said- you know what you are?" "A cream puff!" "He said- no presents for you!" "Then I said- forget the presents, you're still full of cream!" "There was another Santa Claus at the next shop." "It was a woman with cream all over too!" "And also a guy pretending to be Santa Claus, wearing a black hat." "Grandpa once came by when I was crying." "Someone was teasing me." "He asked if I wanted some sweets." "Aunt Miep was there too, that's how we met." "Grandpa's hands are shrinking and it hurts." "Only old people get like that they all shrink." "silent night, holy night" "David's son, long awaited" "He who will save millions was born in Bethlehem." " Fine!" "He, Lord of Creashum, encore." "silent night, holy night" "David's son, long awaited those millions of... who will save millions was born in a stable in Bethlehem" "Lord of Creatures" "(encore)" "Encore!" "holy faithful wages of sin" "I can't do it!" "...be grateful for that... silent night, holy night" "Let us pray together." "We close our eyes and fold our hands and thank the Lord for bringing us here." "Thank you Lord, for enabling us to celebrate Christmas." "And now?" " Film." "What are we all going to watch?" " A film!" "Not one film, but..." "Two or five... or six." "Very, very exciting!" "Oh, great!" "Lights out." "Dammit, I can't see." "He walks into something." "Fried egg..." "There's a chicken in it." "First a cartoon and then the main film." "Donald Duck and cowboys, stuff like that, all kinds of things." "Nine Nine Nine..." "a police film." "They show good films." "Popeye and Comedy Capers." "Mr Magoo and Bonanza." "Beverly Hillbillies and Ivanhoe, Rin Tin Tin." "And a lot of commercials Jamin, Ahoy Coca Cola and stuff like that." "The Invisible Man you can't see him at all!" "The door opens by itself." "You don't see his head." "He is completely covered but when he gets changed, you don't see anything at all." "It's just a face and it talks." "The Invisible Man had no shadow and three minutes later there was a bomb." "He was saved just in time, or he would have been dead." "It's fun to watch that." "But I don't want to die!" "Though it has to happen, right?" "You could be dead tomorrow you can have some kind of accident!" "But it hurts, you know." "Then they go to the cemetery and the hearse comes." "Only the soul goes to heaven, the rest rots away." "I heard about it but I don't know what!" "it is." "Your soul goes to heaven, or to Shell, to the gas station!" "Yeah, you get tossed in the fire." "If you have been naughty and bad you go to the Shell if you've been good and haven't done anything, you go to heaven." "They're building a raft." "And God, the Invisible Man is up there!" "I wouldn't like to be in heaven." "All you see is clouds." "You see planes flying by." "You keep floating around." "You go on living in heaven." "Your soul is still alive." "You can't talk any more." "You can be dead like that tomorrow." "Your soul can go to heaven tomorrow." "Pretty awful." "Did you enjoy our Christmas party this afternoon?" "Yeah...of course!" "I thought so too..." " Me too." "And that's why we are so very..." " Glad." "And why did we sing?" "And why do we give each other presents?" "Why?" "Because it's Christmas." "We are all going to sit vey... vey, vey our coats..." "Get lost!" "Lord Jesus, we thank you for bringing us here together today to celebrate your birthday together, Lord Jesus." "And we are so happy, Lord Jesus, that we could do this." "And that's why we say together-." "Thank you, Lord!" " For all the good things." "Thank you, Lord, for being our friend." "Amen." "Once we had to film with Hennie after four o'clock." "Once we had to film with Hennie after four o'clock." "It was getting late..." "five o'clock...five thirty..." "We were walking along and well, then we gave each other a little kiss." "Not where it is light but near the bridge, it's kind of dark there." "He asked me if I wanted to go steady." "He said-. yes or no?" "I said-. yes." "He always says-. good girl." "The other boys all want my girlfriend Maria." "The whole class is crazy about her, except for Hennie." "She always makes such a show of herself, the cow!" "I don't think I'm going to stay with Hennie forever." "Beppie said I was cut out of the film." "Just to tease me." "She didn't want me to be in the film." "When I gave her some yoghurt, she said-." "No bacteria for me." "They all say I have fleas." "My sister says I should say-." "I got those fleas from you." "But I keep forgetting to say it." "My father didn't want the camera at our house." "My mother thought it was too stressy." "The truth is I didn't want it because it's so cluttered." "There are ten of us in the family." "Beppie loves money." "If she can sell you something, she will." "She once got a ring, and then she sold it." "I lived at my mother-in-law's for a couple of years on the third floor." "It was horrible, with all those kids." "Going up and down the stairs..." "They were still vey young." "I was lugging things around all day." "And we didn't have a toilet." "It was horrible." "Then we lived on a boat for six months." "Not vey nice either." "That was because my husband wanted to stay with his mother." "I've always been a motorbike addict." "There wasn't a cop in Amsterdam who didn't know me." "It was a nightmare, the way I used to whizz around the city." "But I was a good driver, I never got a fine!" "They all knew me." "They all stood there grinning." "When I drove around, the cops used to say-." "There goes Stretch!" "I used to have a little moustache." "At the cash register you don't think about anything, just money." "If I saw a nice bend, I'd go round it at 80, 90 km an hour." "My father died when I was eleven and we went to an orphanage." "When I was seventeen I got a live-in housekeeping job." "You want to know if I'm happy?" "I think life is fantastic!" "I know how to have fun in life!" "In the summer I go all over the place with my wife and children." "They're all crazy about me." "Whenever I leave the house or come home they all say- daddy, give me a kiss!" "And I can't leave before I've kissed them all goodbye." "I think it's great." "Really great." "They are crazy about me." "I never have to do a thing at home." "I just give a shout and they say-." "Yes Daddy, we'll do it for you." "People with money look down on you because you have such a big family." "They think you are trash." "I don't agree." "I am totally satisfied." "I really get a kick out of life!"