"Ow." "How awful." "Yeah, I barely swerved out of her way." "Totally wrecked the whole car." "Manu," "can I tell you something... without you flipping out?" "What?" "I forgot about an old gambling debt, the guy showed up yesterday." "I need 2,000 euros fast." "Have you been gambling again?" "No." "Hi, do you have two eggs I can borrow?" "Take them all." "OK, have a nice evening." "Great, now we're out of eggs." "Manu, I gotta pay this debt." "Yeah, but I can't help you;" "I don't have that kind of money." "And the savings account for the apartment?" "That's for the apartment." "I'll pay you back soon." "I was at the unemployment office today, it looks like they have a job for me." "Great, then you'll fix things, just not with my money." "Come in." "Hall." "A large combined living room and bedroom." "Bathroom." " Super, totally new." "An open kitchen area... that merges directly into the winter garden." "800." "It's worth a little more than that." "I'd be willing to buy it." "No, I'll be redeeming it soon." "You in, or you writing love letters?" "No, I'm in." "Hi." "Happy birthday." "Thanks." "You're late, can't you make a habit of being on time?" "You live too far out of town, on Sundays nothing runs." "Even as a kid I used to hate that." "Take off your shoes." "A man from the collection agency was here the other day." "New debts?" "No, probably an old one." "What did you tell him?" "What should I say?" "I don't know where you live, what you do." "Amen." "You look tired." "Mmm, tastes good," "I guess you learn how to cook when you're alone." "I always liked to cook." "Why didn't Manuela come along?" "She had to sub for one of her colleagues." "Anyway I wanted to come alone for a change." "Any particular reason?" "No, I just thought we could talk from father to son." "Do you want to come back to the congregation?" "No, not necessarily." "I wanted to talk to you about my future and my livelihood." "So you do have new gambling debts?" "I just want to invest in my future." "I don't have any money." "Papa, I'd just need 2,000 euros, then I could give up my job and start a new course." "What kind of course?" " Electrotechnology." "Doesn't the unemployment office pay for that?" "You act like you work there." "Forget it, man." "I don't have the money anyway." "I hope at least you can depend on your Father." "Any progress?" "Can you show me something?" "I threw them away." "What do you mean, threw them away?" "Do you know how great it feels... to open your mailbox every day... and find it full of people who don't want you?" "I don't think you're even trying." "Besides, I can't accept every job you give me." "I have to think about my career." "I've got training, I need a job... where I can work my way up, where I can develop my potential." "Give me something like that and I'll start work tomorrow." "Fiala." "Hi." "Sure." "The washing machine comes on Saturday." "Then that's what we'll do." "Thanks." "Bye." "All right," "I'm giving you a list... with 6 potential jobs," "I'd take one of them because this is... your absolute last chance." "Hi, a whiskey straight up please... and do you have coins for the slot machine?" "It takes bills too." "You could have scored there." "Wait, you can score here again." "You mind?" "What are you doing?" " What do you say: if we win, we split it." "All right, let's start." "Hey Elvira, you up for something else?" "What do you have in mind?" " Casino." "You ever been to the casino?" "Yes, briefly, but I didn't bet." "But today you should, you know why?" "You've got a helluva winner's streak." "According to the law of probabilities and with a little intuition... you can determine a number sequence... or a prime number... that can be narrowed down by using dozens..." "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about." "Where do we start?" "Have you seen my notebook, it's got my permanences, my system." "If we're gonna have a system, then this one." "That's not a system, that's suicide." "1 is 0, 2 even, 3 odd, 4 red," "5 black, and 6 Is you sit out a round." "You're the lucky roller." "1 to 35, that's maximum risk." "Chill out, it's just beginner's luck." "Hey, no doubting the system, you hear?" "Interesting tactics." "Yeah, you gotta give everything a try." "What are you doing?" " Breaking the rules." "That's pure stupidity, it won't happen." "Yes," "I knew it." "I'm going to the john, give me the die." "I can't believe it." "You annihilated 7500 euros in 3 games, you idiot." "C'mon, you didn't lose anything." "You know what, you're on your own." "A coffee." "Good morning, gas company, we're here to read the meter." "Morning." "Come in." "The kitchen is back there." "Stinks, doesn't it?" "But it's not from me, look up there." "I see, the stains." "Water stains everywhere." "That doesn't look too good." "4 months ago they renovated the place upstairs... and the water seeped out into the walls." "Where's your heating?" "Here's the radiator." "And the owner refuses to fix it, he does nothing." "Even the health department was here, said it's a health hazard..." "Some people are lonely and you gotta have a cup of coffee with them." "You have your weekly and daily workload, but you make your own schedule." "Oh yeah, some people will offer you money off the record." "That's a criminal offense." "Morning, gas company, I'm here to read the meter." "Well?" "92 units." "Difference due is 470 euros." "200?" "Sorry, no deal." "Do you trust in fate or do you think... everything happens by chance?" "If you are ready to take your life into your own hands..." "Excuse me, I have an appointment with Dr. Kasper." "You mean group therapy?" "Is this your first time?" "Then it's OK, down the hall." "I borrowed money from everyone, and they're all waiting for my severance pay, but I already collected it and spent it on lottery tickets." "What kind?" "The 1 euro ones at the tobacco store." "And what was the direct cause... for coming to us?" "I'm about to retire... and have 170,000 euros in debts." "Why'd you wait so long?" "OK, so you won something at first, but then you kept on going for 15 years?" "You gotta get out sooner." "I never thought we'd run into each other again, like a couple of retirees with prostate problems." "So how are things going with you debt-wise?" "I don't have any debts, I'm here because of my girlfriend." "Didn't you used to work at a bank?" "Still do." "But just as long as..." "I come here regularly." "They really trust me." "And how long have you been clean?" "11 months and... 17 days." "In 2 weeks I get the AA certificate." "Wow, AA certificate." "Hello, gas company, I'm here to read the meter." "My dog's sick, he's got worms," "I went to the doctor to get him antibiotics..." "That's how it is, and what's even worse is... we have to pay to have the garbage incinerated too!" "." "I know how you and me... can outsmart our oppressors." "Hi." "The door was open." "Gas company, I'm here about the heating." "It's Tanja's pad, she'll be right back." "Pull up a chair." "Here." "It's been a while." "Then you'll feel it better." "...a game of dice developed by Mozart, turning every visitor into a composer." "No previous knowledge in music is necessary, just a love for games." "From over 1.5 million possibilities... each beat is rolled by chance." "Using a set of dice you compose... a new piece beat by beat, giving rise to 1.5 billion melodies... determined by chance." "Here we have the living room... with a large kitchen, trees outside the window..." "The kitchen is great, we could put in a bar." "Excellent." "The apartment is surrounded by green, good infrastructure, nearby public transportation, very quiet, low utility costs." "It's a new, recently built complex." "Why's the door open?" " Beats me." "I'm so sick of these strangers always hanging around." "I've been here for days, they come and go." "Who's he?" "The gas man, he's waiting for you." "Shit, why do I always have to do everything?" "What do you want?" "Great." "Shit, why always me?" "Can I help you?" "Where's your co-worker?" "He promised to come himself." "Don't know;" "I don't know him." "Because we had a deal." "Could I have another hit?" "If you ain't got no money, what was the deal, huh?" "Can't you just say we didn't heat the place?" "OK, I'm gonna go back... and read the meter," "and since you're such nice people, we can play a little game." "Games are cool." "What are we playing?" "Dice." "And how?" "You got 6 possibilities, one of them is... the legal one where you pay, and the other 5 you can think up yourselves, but one of them has to hurt, OK?" "5 possibilities." " Taking off your clothes already, huh?" "Yeah right." "Wait, hold on..." "You and your..." "Off me, you sicko." "I say we go see my ex-boyfriend and have him kick his ass." "Na, that's boring." "I say we do it." "I got something." "There's this stock exchange guy in New York... and he gets fed up with his job so he goes out on the street... with a sign that says:" "FREE HUG." "Find anything interesting?" "You're not exactly the kings of frugality." "Here, our suggestions." "A free hug." "Free hug." "Do you need much longer?" " No." "What's your relationship to Kurt Jager?" "Why?" "He's in trouble." "Allow me to introduce myself, Bender from the collection agency." "What kind of trouble?" "Look, once they send me, a loan has passed through quite a few hands... and increased accordingly." "I'm the end of the line." "End of the line?" "How well do you know him?" "Used to know him..." "It's been a while, half a year or so." "The story about Klaus, man..." " Gimme a hit." "No, I got another possibility." "We pay Klaus a visit and throw his bed out the window." "That'll get the lazy bastard up, he just sleeps all day." "My choice is you and me move on alone." "Another possibility would be for you to get out." "How brazen of you." "Why?" "One has to hurt." "Bye bye." "Where'd my die go?" "Shit." "Wasn't I in your apartment?" "Yesterday." "Anyway, now you're here with my girlfriend... in the hospital." "I'd like to talk to you about God." "Yesterday I just happened to read that God doesn't play dice." "But let's be honest, isn't that exactly how it looks?" "What do we have?" "Geriatrosis?" "Toxic corns?" "Or cancer." "Cancer is always good, goes fast, isn't messy, and you can say good-bye to your loved ones." "I bet you're old lady's a nag, or you worked your ass off all your life for your family, or maybe you were just some poor slob stuck in the quicksand..." "It doesn't matter, no one cares if you were a good person, not even God." "It gives you goose bumps, huh?" "I always thought God was spiteful, but now that I know he plays dice, he's OK by me." "Kurt, you're not allowed in here." "Can I have my teeth?" "My grandson..." "He's not your grandson, he's a nurse." "You get your teeth back after surgery." "Kurt, please, I have to work." "Astrid's sick." "Of course, and the only one... who can sub for her is assistant nurse Manu." "Go home." "Good evening, Mr. Kurt." " Hi, Ali." "Kurt." "Please." "I don't understand why." "Didn't I help you with everything?" "OK, hour of truth." "Ask me whatever you want, I can't lie." "This isn't a game." "Are you involved with other women?" "No, no other women." "What do you want from me anyway?" "I don't know." "I don't even know what I want from life... or what life wants from me." "I don't always know what I want either, but you have to know that." "They've got nothing to do with each other." "With me they do." "I have to get back... to work." "We can go on talking tonight." "Look, I'm tying this knot... and you mustn't undo it until you do a good deed." "Franz look, there's something shapeless and slimy on the floor." "I think it's your self-control." "Get lost, you're bothering me." "Wrong," "I want to help you." "It would be a pity... to lose that AA certificate, right?" "You're wasting your time." "I got time." "Hundred-euro bills?" "Thank you." "Wow, this building's beautiful." "This way." "At least I still get to see my kids, but there are fathers in the group... who can't even remember what their kids look like." "Hey Franz, you know you sound like... a guy on one of those talk shows... who made one mistake and can never... get his shit together again." "OK, your head says you want... a family with a dog," "a house and yard, and a neighbor who washes, but your backbone sings a different tune." "What, that I'm a loser?" "That I don't love my kids?" "Do you realize how much self - control this costs me?" "How do you know when to control yourself?" "Maybe you should learn to control the sentimental feelings... you have for your family instead?" "Evening, Ali." "I can't let you in, sorry." " How come?" "That's the way it is." " Why can't I come in?" "I'm sorry." "Why can't I come in, give me one good reason." "I wanna talk to the manager." "I wanna talk to the manager." "The manager is on the way!" "." "Why can't I come in?" "I'm terribly sorry, but someone in your family is worried about you." "Did someone have me barred?" "Don't make trouble." "Who had me barred?" "I wanna know who had me barred." "Red." "Now." "OK red." "Red again." "You won." "Now sit out another round." "Rubbish, you're on a roll." "You sit out when I tell you to sit out." "I'm going to take a piss." "Hello, Franz." "I don't have any money." "Hi Daddy, it's me, Kurt." "Did you have me barred?" "In the casino, where else?" "Did you have me barred in the casino?" "OK, then I know who it was." "No, I'm not gambling again." "Get off my case." "I gotta hang up now." "Bye, don't worry, bye." "What are you doing back already?" "What happened to you?" "What?" "What happened?" "I ran into a swinging door." "Shit, you can't go back in there like that." "No." "Your tie is ruined." " Yeah." "Give me my money." "You'll never get that tie clean again." " I kept on playing." "You kept on playing?" "Did I tell you to keep on playing?" "No, but I..." "And did you win?" "No, the dough's gone." "I lost it." "We were doing so well and then." "What do you mean the dough's gone?" "My dough is gone?" "No, my dough's not gone." "Your dough is gone." "You owe me 1,700." "Is Manu here?" "Did you have me barred?" "Yes, did you think I'd stand by and watch you ruin everything?" "What do you mean, ruin everything, what's the casino got to do with you?" "Kurt, I can help you." "Maybe I don't need that kind of help." "You're like a little child." "And you're like a nurse who wants to play doctor even at home." "I don't understand you." "Maybe I'm just not who you think I am." "I'm thinking the same thing." "That's not my problem." "Then take out a loan." "Karl, a coffee please." "How did your wife put up with you for 10 years?" "It's my business what I do with my money... and you didn't follow the rules." "OK, 2 days." "You better think of something." "Hello, Mr. Jager," "I'm sorry to inform you that your benefits have been revoked... for willfully blowing off your job." "Moreover, based on gas company investigations... you're being prosecuted for bribery." "Good-bye." "Hey Karl, my coffee's cold." "You all alone?" "Maybe." "Maybe?" "Don't you want to go play?" "Games suck." "You think games suck?" "They're boring." "Too bad you think games suck," "I like games." "Dodge ball too?" "No, I'm more of a cards and roulette man." "I think games suck... because afterwards everything's the same as it was before." "Were we too loud again?" "Is Tanja home?" "The gas man." "No, Tanja's not here." "She'll be back this afternoon." "It's already 5." "It's 5 already, then come in." "This isn't a shelter for the homeless." "I didn't like that game after all, you owe me money." "Everyone can just fuck off." "But you liked the game." "We could continue playing." "If you win, I pay your next fix." "I have to find some money first." "What did you just say?" "Sorry, can you repeat that?" "I've got no money." "What do you mean you've got no money?" "Are you crazy?" "What do you..." "Hey, what kind of a psycho are you?" "Chill out, the die has chosen a possibility." "What?" "The die has chosen a possibility." "We must follow those who have assumed leadership." "It's our duty... to obey the instructions given by God... and his organization." "We must tend to the needs of the flock." "Take care of yourselves... and the entire flock, of which the Holy Spirit has designated guardians... to watch over God's congregation... for which he paid dearly with the blood..." "It's been a long time since you joined us." "How are you?" "Yeah, thanks, I'm in a hurry." "Papa." "What a surprise." "The world is full of surprises." "That's good for you too." "Unfortunately not just good ones." "Tanja is pregnant." "By you?" "Son, what have you done?" "But that's not our problem." "Then what is?" "Can you be less cryptic?" "My God, what have I done to deserve this?" "We need the money for an abortion." "Six hundred." "Eight hundred." "And I can't keep the baby because I'm a drug addict." "What are you thinking?" "I can't support that, it's a mortal sin." "You don't have to bugger your son," "PAPA." "My God, it's Satan's brood." "Yeah, see." "Papa, you clean the community hall every weekend, you slave for them every spare minute, they couldn't hope for a better sheep in the fold." "Can we go now?" "Wait 5 minutes, at midnight... the money machine's gonna spit the rest out." "Your father is really taking this hard." "Give me a cigarette." "Time to sin." "God protect me, I have nothing to fear." "Your pop with his Mr. Proper religion is getting on my nerves." "No wonder you ended up so wacked out." "Did I?" "Papa, go ahead, it's after midnight." "Where are we going anyway?" "Where the viscera make love." "1:" "Sex." "When was the last time you had sex?" "Oh shit, that was a stupid question." "Well?" "Yeah." "Your worst lie." "That I told my father I've had a job for a year now." "What's going on?" "Tanja's coming with us." "I thought just you and me." "6:" "Most bitter truth." "Tough one, huh?" "That I'm totally incompetent, in everything." "What are you looking at?" "Is something wrong?" "I have a weird feeling about this." "I'm lady luck." "Now we just have to decide how to get there." "Franz, I don't bite." "By car, of course, we rent a car." "OK, we rent a car." "2 is we take the train." "3 is we hitchhike." "Did you already scope out the casino?" "No, I didn't." "We'll check everything out when we get there." "It's gonna be great." "Yeah, terrific." "I'd like some of those cigarettes please." "These?" "No the other ones." "16 red." "Place your bets please." "Thank you." "Final bets." "No more bets, thank you." "Where did you get the scars?" "Probably from my ex-boyfriend." "For real?" "What's real, what's a dream, take your choice." "Is this real or is it a dream?" "Is this real or is it a dream?" "I don't know." "I'm on a business trip." "Of course I'll come see you again." "Sure." "I know mommy's mad at me because..." "Say hi to your little sister from Papa, OK?" "Kisses." "Me too, kisses." "Silvy, calm down, everything's fine." "I'll straighten everything out, I promise." "It doesn't matter." "Yes, it's gambling money." "I don't want to argue with you, it's rubbish because we..." "Franz, no, we're taking a break." "The die says we sit out, so no casino today." "I didn't find anything." "If you're hungry, you eat everything." "If the die says red, then we eat red." "In this phase we have to follow every detail exactly, or it's no use." "Isn't there some way we could make some money?" "Make money, here?" "How?" "Like in the old days." "What's that?" "It was always right before." "One more time, I can't believe it." "Anyone want to place a bet?" "I can't believe it." "Where'd you pick her up anyway?" "From when I was working for the gas company." "The gas company." "Do you still go to Café 13 sometimes?" "It closed down." "He hanged himself." "You seen Silvia since then?" "Silvy?" " Yeah, chubby little Silvia." "I married her." "What's so funny?" "Man, I could tell you tons of stories about her." "Save your breath, I've heard them all." "Let's have another?" "Hello, closing time." "Where is this man?" "He left an hour ago." "C'mon, get up." "We have to go." "Where's Franz?" "He left an hour ago." "What's that?" "Thanks, sorry." "See if the money's still there." "No." "That asshole." "That lousy bastard." "What an asshole." "Shit." "What do we do now?" "Never ever a good deed again." "What kind of friends do you have anyway?" "He'll get what's coming to him." "So will we." "We can't even pay for our room." "I'm sure he already paid for it, he's not an asshole." "Now you're defending him, how naive are you?" "Stop it." "Kurt, I can't sleep." "I can't sleep." "Let's play another round of dice." "I'm so restless, Kurt." "Come on." "I don't feel like it anymore." "C'mon now, we already started." "Look what I have for you, sweetie, look, I know you like it, look." "Really, I don't feel like it anymore." "C'mon, we can't just..." "You can't just quit, it was a die decision, so we gotta follow it through, right?" "Mr. Die." "Lady Die." "Look what I have for you." "Oooh, you do that good, Tanja." "Tanja, good." "That's how you always do it." "Get it in there." "Makes you gag, doesn't it?" "Stick it in there, deeper." "Yes, faster." "Ah yes, do it to me." "Yes." "Faster, c'mon." "Are you coming yet?" "Yeah, OK, you're done." "C'mon, let's play "hide and seek" and you have to find me." "7, 8, 9, 10..." "And when I come, I'm gonna gobble you up." "28... 29..." "Gotcha!" "You got any more of those?" "What?" "The yellow-and-red ones." "You got any more of the yellow-and-red ones?" "It's my last one." "Let me see." "No, it's mine, it's my last one." "I just want to look at it." "No, you're gonna take it away from me." " I won't take it away from you." "OK, we'll roll to see who gets it." "Stupid, now you made me swallow it." " You're the biggest moron I know." "Hey!" "I didn't want to swallow it." "You just go and take it!" "What an asshole." "I didn't want to." "Antisocial!" "This is fuckin' getting' on my nerves." "You can't just take my stuff away." "Where's the die?" "How should I know where your stupid die is?" "You probably swallowed it too." "It was your last one?" "There's a whole bag." "Your last one, huh?" "There, your last one?" "As if you never told a lie." "Yeah, but that's what I want to change now." "I've told myself a thousand lies in my life." "I don't want that anymore." "I don't want that anymore." "Lies everywhere I look." "Here a lie, there a lie..." "I don't want that anymore." "Fine, then no problem, right?" "What if I roll on that?" "What?" "Whether or not we need each other." "For all eternity or just for a while?" "Might as well play for keeps." "For all eternity." "Ready." "Oh, what a holy moment this is." "Even: we need each other; odd: we don't." "This is..." "I mean what does it mean." "It means everything." "It'd be so cool." "I'm too scared to roll," "I can't open my fingers." "People break up even though they need each other." "I'm getting all emotional here." "Take a deep breath and do it." "What's even and what's odd?" "Even is we need each other; odd is we don't." "What is it?" "It was a 1." "We don't need each other." "What do you want?" "Open up." "I want to go for a walk with you, look at the stars." "You're wasted again." "No." "Bullshit!" "Open up!" "Sorry, the die decided against it." "The die, the die, the die." "I can think of other ways we could make each other miserable." "Asshole." "Open up, Kurt." "I'm out of here." "I'm gonna be gone by the count of 3." "Just letting you know." "3, 2," "1, and I'm gone." "Now I'm back again." "What do we do now?" "1: you find work. 2 is I find work." "3 is we place a bet." "3 is..." "What are you gonna use to bet with?" "Money." "Your t-shirt, this old rag?" "I could turn tricks." "Yeah, that was number 1 already." "3 is we beg money." "4 is..." "We... steal an old lady's purse." "5 is... 5 is we go to a peep show as a couple... as an act." "5 is we go to work in a peep show." "And 6 is..." "We whine at him until he gives us... 10 euros that we can bet with." "What is it?" "6." "Look at me." "Look at me." "There..." "That's better." "Don't get up." "Just stay where you are." "Get in the shower." "Stay there." "It's so cold." "Better?" " It's so cold." "Better?" "Yeah, you gotta breathe." "But it's so cold." "Can I have two more clean ones please?" "Thank you." "Why are you so calm?" "Is that a die decision too?" "I'd like to know what you want... instead of what the die wants." "Who am I?" "OK if I join in?" "Sure, anytime." "Where's the yellow car?" "He just won the pot and drove away." "What?" "I don't believe it."