"Are we all here?" "Well, then follow me, please!" "Children, take care on the stairs!" "A Venetian chandelier - of Bohemian make." "An unknown cavalier in a Spanish collar." "A picture from the seventeenth Century." "Here on the right hand side we see a picture by Peter Brandl:" "The purchase of the woman prisoner." "A seal - northern animal." "Here is the portrait, or the likeness, so-to-speak, of Perchta of Bor tejn, the lady of this castle of Komonice in the fifteenth Century, she lived later in folk-lore legends as the kindly ghost of the castle," "the well-known White Lady of Komonice." "But today of course we know well, - don't you go touching that halberd - my boy, that such apparitions could not have existed, because it contradicts not only scientific knowledge, but also all basic common sense." "So it is just a fairy story, which originated in the bosom of the feudal system as a reflection of the contemporary conditions of society, which we have already mentioned in the dungeon." "Is the castle still haunted, please?" " Are you daft?" "Leave him alone, he's little." "And that's the end of our sight-seeing tour, please leave the slippers at the entrance-door." "Èeskoslovenský fil'mexport presents the fil'm" "The White lady" "Story" "Starring" "Music Recorded by" "Production Designer" "Sound Designer Editing" "Make-up Costumes" "Props" "Camera operator focus puller" "Gaffer props" "Make - up assistant" "Art director assistant editor" "Sound assistant Sound effects" "Special effects photography 1st Assistant director second assistant director" "Script supervisor" "Assistant production manager Production assistants" "Production manager" "Director of photography" "Directed by" "Story selected by Produced by the creative group of" "So they told me at the magistrates' again, that next year and that's what they said two years ago, and they just keep on saying it." "And so finally I have come to you, please excuse me, for disturbing your rest, Lady Perchta, but then I never did ask anything of you yet, except for the water-pipes into the house." "I know they have other things to think of up there, but then, I have to fetch the water from such a distance and that old man won't help me with anything, he just keeps complaining of everything, well he is getting on," "he doesn't really mean it." "He doesn't know, that they..." "... they can't, perhaps, even if they wanted to." "But you, Lady Perchta, you can do just anything." "Have pity on me." "Have pity on me, it's the full moon, you know!" "So that new bridge won't be built again?" " cal'm down, it's in the plan." "I can't cross the river on a piece of paper." "Well there are problems, you know." "There's the County National Committee, there's the road building corporation." "And then, there's no building material, that's what." " But I have to walk round all the time." "Like that White Lady of ours." "This well will be the pride of the village." "The sign of all our endeavour." " Yes and it will also bid the citizens to further effort." " Well, you can bet on that, Sir." "As always and like everything!" " A bit of representation never hurts." "We can't exaggerate in the other direction, now." "Sure thing!" "And it's not a cult at that!" "Andula!" " Well?" "See here, one two, three ryes and a small one for you." "Welcome, comrade." "No, do come here and sit with us!" "This is the new keeper of the castle." "This is the Headmaster." " Pupenec is my name." "You know the secretary." "You have come to a good village." "But be sure not to be afraid to say out loud what you like in this place..." " An interesting castle, very old." "The castle, so what." "The castle." "Just look around here, how the socialistic face of our village is improving." " The meeting is over, isn't it!" "I don't differentiate." "I talk at the meeting just the same as I'd talk at home." "And at home like at the meeting." "Because he's not married." "Chief, the bus drives round that hole in the road right through my garden!" "If I only had your worries!" "Especially that picture is very precious!" "You know, that's what I admire most, how that legend lives in this place." " Although nobody really believes it." "The Lady Perchta?" "Only a few old people." "So what?" "That's all behind us." "But people do visit the picture." " Well that legend did have deep roots here." " Then see those roots are pulled up." "That's right!" "Even a legend can have the characteristics of progress." " Well." "Well in historical connections." "And is it true she walked when the moon was full?" "Well yes, during full moon." "So then I want to see her tonight." "You couldn't show her to us?" "She used to appear when she was specially called, according to the old records the call was recited." "Do shut up about it!" " And is the magic formula still known?" "I thought I would include it in the commentary." "Unfortunately not." "According to the legend it is hidden in the inscription on the picture." "So we can try." "Mr. Pupenec, have you the keys with you?" "Well I've got the keys, but I also have the regulations." "Should anything happen there to anybody..." " You wouldn't do that to us!" "You've got to become one of us, you know." "Sure thing." "And what about taking a little bottle of something there with us." "What a jig that will be." "Go to blazes!" "Here we are entering a new phase of history and they want to go calling out ghosts!" "Line up, double line!" "Direction - the castle." "Aim - calling out the ghosts - action." "I knew he'd go and start off somewhere else." "It is probably a cryptogram." "What's that?" "That's a sort of letter from the crypt, see?" "That doesn't matter." " White lady, most beautiful of all ghosts..." " Look here, don't wake people up!" "On the contrary, people need to be woken up!" "Yes." " With capitalistic..." "But with capitalistic, yes!" "... anachronisms we have finished..." "Now we'll start on the feudal anachronisms!" "Filii lusti Diligentes Et Sapientes give a just judgement," "Let no gifts have any influence over you," "You would be deserving of hoping for much, of all mean and useless slander and courteous jesting let your mind be free" "To your own self esteem all good deeds and think of the good of the community bene valete" "What if it's in those capital letters:" "FDUFDSI" "That's telling us a lot!" "We must certainly expect it to be the intelligentsia again which'll shake." "If she doesn't appear, close up!" "Sure, but what if she does appear?" "Close up!" "We are not going to... with anybody..." "But it really doesn't make any sense!" "Leave off the philosophy - and act!" "Well then." "What about it this way:" "SECIIUDE" " What?" "I particularly like people to ponder over things which are clear to everybody!" "Just a minute!" "I've got it!" " He's found it, there!" "I've found it:" "Fide sed cui fides vide!" "He's got it, he's got it, and it's all nonsense!" "Try and say it out loud, so that she hears you!" "Sure, he should say it out loud!" "Fide sed cui..." "what?" "Fidas." " Fidas!" "I see." " Fidas vide." "It won't work, it won't." "And that's settled all feudalism." "Apparitions were better off in the old days." "The Middle Ages weren't so complicated, so it was all simpler." "Excuse me, what does fidas mean?" "It's the conjunctive of fidere." "It means that we should sort of trust people, but take care who we are trusting." " You mean us, or people?" "Well, let's say it this way:" "Trust, but whom you trust, keep an eye on!" "Cripes!" "It's going to rain." "What of it, if it rains!" " We shall command the wind and the rain..." "Well and did she cook broth for the poor, too?" "No." "That's what's interesting about her." "And what did she do then?" "Well, according to the legend, kind actions." "But that's a wide conception." "We have fulfilled our task - not at all." "Thank you." "Farewell, comrades!" "Now the most pressing task is not to stumble." "Ah, but you don't look at it in the right light, we have fulfilled it!" "Because we have proved that once again we were not in error." "You know that always warms up one's heart so..." "The legends come from the people's souls." "Well, that's it." "That's just it." "As the contemporary records relate, it was a power only partly magic." "That means it could have been a power which violated the laws of nature who believes in ghosts, is sleeping through these times of ours." "We'd sure enlighten such a one!" "Hey, wait!" "What?" "I shall have to leave off." " Sure thing" "And partly she used natural means, well, she behaved as we would." "People always need the feeling of being looked after." "When they don't have it, they make it up." "People need somebody they can complain to." "But nobody needs to complain these days." "You put that nicely, you did!" "Yes, in the past there was lots to complain of." "In the past!" " But it's all..." "It's all nonsense!" "Andula, come here, look, teacher isn't drinking, come and lift up your glass with me!" " No no no, I can not," "I'm teaching tomorrow." "Just a minute, just a minute, just a minute, just a minute." "See here, I'm paying all this, because after all - the intelligentsia we need too!" "Careful, careful, we do, but our own!" "Mister secretary, you are to go home at once," "What's up?" "I don't know, but quick." "You are to go home." "Can I be gay for a while?" "Somebody doesn't know what to do about something again." "Don't go!" "This is from you!" "What a to-do!" "Dammit!" "What will people steal next!" "Goodness gracious, what's happened?" " Nothing, nothing, nothing." "Sleep!" "That's what you say!" "Somebody told you something in the pub." "Then you told somebody something in the pub!" "You went and told somebody he's a parasite again!" "You've been standing up for justice again!" "Don't lie!" "You know what you promised me!" "Annie" " I saw the White Lady!" "Well - lie down and go to sleep!" "She left footprints behind her and then she climbed back into the picture." "And I probably called her out." "You did, Henry dear." "Yes, but I thought that she doesn't exist!" "Of course she doesn't!" "Did anybody else see her?" "I don't think so." " Goodnight then." "But I, you know, I did see her!" "Well then don't tell anybody and it'll be the same as if you hadn't seen her." " But I can't do that!" "Because - because it's the truth!" "The truth again!" "Once it's true that the department-chief steals, then again it's true that inspector is an idiot." "You have to go and get mixed up in everything!" "Who's interested in those truths of yours?" "How many times have we already had to move because of those truths of yours!" " The truth must not be denied!" "In this world the truths mean twenty years prison." "You have no feeling for your family at all!" "Well then, well then, well then, Annie!" "The children never finish one school-year at one place, whatever will become of them?" " At least they won't be ashamed of their father!" "But they won't take them even as apprentices." "I just - I just can't go on!" "All right, I'll deny it then." "You must deny it, dad." "I shall, I shall." "This time, for once." "But it's not honest!" "Old man!" "Old man - water!" "Water, water!" " What's up?" "Isn't it running?" " It is, it's running!" "Well then if it's running, go and get it and don't bother me!" "But it's running here!" " Where, here?" "Here, here!" "A miracle!" " Isn't it!" "Father!" "Father!" "Father!" "A miracle!" "Well well, so early in the morning?" "Father, a water spring!" "You don't say, from a rock?" "No, from the water tap!" "Well then, don't be so excited, that does happen once in a while!" "But Mother, and you are a Christian?" "There is no White Lady!" "There must be, if the waters running." "It wasn't in the evening and now it is." "Oh, queerer things happen without them being a miracle." "Oh no, you can't shake me." "Whilst it was the national committee" "I prayed to..." " Well then the national committee must have put it right." "Do use your common sense, woman!" "Sense..." "And - that they built it during the night?" "Could be, so that nobody says it's favouritism!" "So you think it's them?" " But of course!" "Do be sensible, or people will laugh at you!" "But I thought a mass, or a candle." "It is written:" "What is the Emperors, give to the Emperor, what is God's, to God." "Go and thank the Chief of the Co-operative." "Well then thank you, Father, thank you." "Here is the portrait or the likeness of Perchta of Bor tejn, the lady of the castle of Komonice in the fifteenth Century, she lived later in folk-lore legends as the kindly ghost of the castle." "But today of course we know well that such apparitions could not have existed, because it contradicts not only all scientific knowledge, but also all basic..." "What's that?" "Leave the slippers at the entrance door!" "Look, a pipe wrench!" " Oh, yeah!" "Thank you, thank you ever so." "I'll go and thank the chief too and..." "I know that it's a secret!" "But I thank you ever so!" "Yesterday there was no sign of anything and in the morning see here." "Our good mother, the White Lady of Komonice had mercy on us!" "What's this here?" " Welcome!" "So they know at the magistrate?" " Yes, yes!" "Perhaps it should be broadcast over the loudspeaker." "...and her memory should be honoured." " Yes!" "You know what, you know what," "Oh, leave it to me, will you?" "You just wouldn't believe what a comfort it is for an elderly person to have water right in the house." "Well my feet aren't as good as they were." "Well that's alright, I agree with you, well you know how it is." "We are up to our necks in various projects." "There's the nursery school, this here fountain, that planned bridge..." "Yes, exactly, don't you go thinking I'm a fool, even if I am old." "In your case it's the matter of the public subsidy, the communal service doesn't know what first to start, you can't imagine the trouble it means, laying the pipes, digging it all up, with all the trouble around it," "they just keep flowing everlastingly, the troubles?" "Yes of course I can imagine and now I really see how we are looked after." "That's not to be compared with the old days." " Look here, my woman, careful." "Careful!" "Especially if you want water laid on!" " But I don't want it," "I already have it!" "I would just love to kiss your hand!" "You have the water laid on?" " And you don't know about it?" "Well, I do." "And is it good?" " Yes, good it is, the water comes out of the tap." "And have you talked to the secretary?" " Well, he's a very good man." "Blazes, is that so!" "Well, get on with you, Mother..." " Yes." "It's quite alright." " Yes." "And do not forget that you must be grateful to our common endeavour for your water-tap." " I won't forget, I won't forget and I am grateful." "Well, what did the chief say?" "He's a wonderful man and a modest one." "He's what?" " Modest." "He said, I should be grateful." "Thank you." "Well then old woman Bla ková got the water laid on!" "Yes, she's got the water..." "And fancy me not knowing about it at all!" "What, you didn't know about it?" "Don't say that!" " Well..." "Just a minute." "Then it must have been done by somebody who is undermining the people's confidence in the authorities they voted for." "That's it!" "Wait a minute!" "Or somebody is trying on some pretty-pretty politics and is violating national discipline, to make the people like him!" "Please Sir, in the village square the are some pipes and a pipe wrench missing." "So they all went off for a bit of soup, until the decision comes through, what we're to do." "So now it's clear what material was used!" "Yes, it's clear enough." "But somebody's not going to get away with this." "This will need investigation." " Sure thing and sharp, too!" "And without consideration of the person." "And his status." "And should anybody at all be mixed up in it." "And nail him down nicely." " So that he remembers for next time." "Well, well, well, well." "Good day!" " Good..." "What's up here?" "What's this circus supposed to be?" "This is a sort of Thanksgiving!" "You are a dense old man!" " What?" "Old-fashioned!" " What?" "These are different times!" "Get out, my women, all of you!" "We don't need any ghosts, when we have national committees!" "Well come in, my man, come in." "Excuse us, Mother Bla ková, excuse us!" "Good morning!" " Morning." "Well, Mother, this surely is no good, you can't hide the whole water main, you know!" "But why should I hide it?" " Oh, nothing." "Look here, just you tell us nicely, where you..." "Whom you bribed." " Wait a bit, we'll get there, yet." "You just tell us nicely, where you got those pipes from!" "I" " I never took them!" "Well, that's clear, you wouldn't even have had the strength to carry them." "But who took them?" "Well - well the national committee of course!" "Nonsense!" "Pff!" "Look here, here did you hear that, who told you that?" "But - well the priest told me!" "Ah, you see where the threads lead to!" "Wait a bit, what a bit, don't pull the priest into this business!" "This is a matter of stolen pipes." " Do you think I steal?" "I didn't say that!" "It was put up during the night, here." "The old man saw it, didn't you?" " Yeees." "What do you mean, put up?" "That sounds a bit queer!" "What's queer about it." "Has she got the water laid on?" " She has." " So do your duty!" "But then Sir, to have a water tap isn't punishable, you know." "To have something is always suspicious, always suspicious, especially if we don't know where it's come from." "Wait, one thing at a time:" "Look here, Ma, where did you get this tap for example, which, now I look at it, I see is from the public quota, because here's the number on it..." " Wait, wait, wait, wait, sorry this isn't the way to go about it." "Mrs. Bla ková!" " Well?" "Have you written proof of where you got that tap from?" " No!" " Well." "So we'll just have it all pulled up again." "But..." " Just to teach all the others." "But look here, please..." "I am so happy to have it!" "Such a beautiful tap!" "An unplanned tap, a bad tap!" "But surely, really..." " Besides, comrade, these water pipes have become the object of reactionary revels!" "...Mother of God!" "... and religious raving." "Pull it up, pull it up, is that clear?" " Do you hear that?" " You see, you see!" "Please forgive me for what I have done." "I am an old woman, I let myself be led astray," "I didn't appreciate your goodness." "In a weak moment I believed in the National Committee, but now I'm punished enough for that." "They are saying now, that I stole it, they'll take that water tap away from me again, they'll pull it all up, so do please see to it that they don't lock me up, at least, can't you see how sorry I am!" "Well this odd job will cost you dear." "Wait, wait, don't jump at me." " Which one are you talking about?" " And you are still asking?" " Well, we're human, aren't we." " Say what it's about" " and we can talk it over." " The water main at Mrs. Bla ková's." "Well in that case I must stand up to you." "No odd jobs done here." "Wait, wait, you didn't do it as an odd job?" "I don't know nothing." "Neither as a quickie at somebody's orders?" "They say the White Lady did it." "Well that's enough." "I'm giving orders for you to pull up that water-main." " And mighty quick too!" " Mighty quick, nothing." " Where'll I take the people?" " I don't know." " Louie!" " What is it?" " Will you be finished with that key soon?" " Not today, tomorrow." "So you see how it is." "I am helpless." "Pulling things up is a political necessity." "Render the account same as if you were building." "Well yes, that I would understand better." "But where will I write it down, if it isn't in the plan." "Well then I'll pay for it separately, out of special funds." "Like an odd job!" "Chief!" "Good day!" "Chief, Chief!" "Today five children wanted to join the religion class." "Unbelieveable!" "I think that the cult of the White Lady of Komonice should be fought from the very beginning with all ideological means." "You are right there." "We shall have to pin somebody down right hard." "You see it all in the broader connections." "Well, really, this political move, somebody will be sorry for having tried it." "But also from our standpoint," " Good day!" "I should say the intellectual standpoint, that superstition should be shown up in the broad daylight." "Well yes, that it should." "I would like to prepare a play towards this end." "Yes you mean about the White Lady?" "That piece that was played here in 35 in honour of the memory of Doctor Kramá?" "Comrade chief, I have come to understand many things since then..." " ... so that today I see it..." " Good day." "from quite a different angle." "Alright then, but go carefully, you know!" "So that our people don't start thinking too much." "Over here..." "Well here we are, Ma, take the feather-beds out, there'll be a lot of dust!" "Has a mad dog bitten you or what?" "The water runs out of it and you want to pull it up?" "This is not a matter of water, but of political background." " This is a matter of common sense!" " They will bring down the anger of the White Lady upon the whole village!" "Ma, it's not our fault we are just small people and just do what were told." "Good day!" "Have you already found out," " secretary, who laid down that water?" " No." " Do you happen to know?" " Not me." " I don't know." " The White Lady of course." " Of course it was the White Lady!" " But we know well enough," " in whose interest it is." " Wait, and did you think in whose interest it will be if truth and justice suffer?" "I refuse to have some blinking ghost pulled into this village." " They are offending the White Lady!" " At them!" " No violence, please!" " Get at them!" "Well, if you ask me, I like the play." "It shows the disadvantages of feudalism." "But mainly, chief, this is particularly against idealism, the whole thing." "Yes, that's there alright, that people mustn't, that they must not get used to expecting any good from above." "The belief in supernatural beings promotes passivity in people." "Here." "And it leads people to inactivity." " And it disarms them." " Yes." "Ouch - aren't you Czechs?" "There will of course also be amusing elements in the play." "Yes, yes, but not too much, careful!" "There's trouble!" "The White Lady must be permitted, at once," " while there is still time." " You must be crazy!" "Not me, them." "Do you hear that?" "What's happened?" "Don't they like something or what?" "Well when that water-main was to have been pulled up..." "So you had the water-main pulled up?" "B- b-because of the scandal, so as..." " I thought, well." " That was a mistake." " What shall we do?" " The goat is milking blood!" "Wait!" "Get out of my sight." "Comrades, dear friends!" "Be ashamed of yourself!" "I am glad you have come in such large numbers..." "He'll just talk his head off, we know that!" "...to celebrate another one of our successes," " even if it be only a minor..." " The water-main will not be pulled up!" "...success." "Some time ago we had decided that a water pipe would be laid down to the habitation of citizeness Mrs. Bla kov..." "Why is it being pulled up then?" "... out of public funds, to help an elderly woman who had worked her youth away for capitalism." "Because of the urgency of the matter we settled it without any bureaucratic delays" "and I am glad that you are accepting it with such enthusiasm." "But of course, comrades, it is necessary to speak out the whole truth..." " What's he saying?" " That he's speaking the truth..." "We are not hiding anything from you here." "What a shame!" "What a shame that in this village there are a few individuals with no diligence who want to make use of this act of honour towards a working-woman in order to gain their very doubtful, and let me say right out, their reactionary ends." "And it is mainly their fault that in this matter a rash decision has been made and quite a needless misunderstanding." "And I repeat that the water was laid on by the town." "At my orders and I am sure that we shall all stand up without hesitation against anybody, who would like to misuse this achievement ideologically." "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Although it isn't the truth at all." " What's the matter with you all the time?" " I said, it wasn't true!" "But he knows that too, but he can't say so, can he?" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" " Well, and that's that." " Yes, yes..." " And who's going to pay for it?" " What is it you want paid?" "The installation of the water." "But how's that, you said you didn't do it!" "But the chief just said we did." "I must have been wrong." "I'm only human." "And the secretary hasn't paid for it?" "Well who's to pay for it if it was you what ordered it." "I know for sure that they didn't do it." "Well then well, if they didn't do it, then they can't ask for the money can they," " that's clear." " Alright then" "I'll go and tell those people that we didn't do it." "Just a minute!" "That would be deceiving the public." "You had planned the work, it's done, so what's all the teasing about." "Write up your invoice, you'll get paid and that's that." "And who'll pay the pulling up of the water-main?" " What pulling up?" " Of the water-pipes." "I am not going to have my people wronged." "And who ordered the pulling up to be done?" "Your secretary, of course!" "That's great." "So he can pay for it." "Himself, see?" "Out of his own pocket." "Children!" "You must never tell a lie!" "Never!" "And quiet now!" "I'm going to write!" "Henry, what's that?" " Goodness, you are writing?" " Yes, to the Ministry." " About the White Lady?" " Yes, about the White Lady." " I just can't look on any more." " But Dear God, you promised me, that..." "Look here, I promised to keep quiet, but I refuse to have the truth trampled on." "We'll just have to be moving again, you'll see!" "Master Jan Hus was willing to be burned at the stake for the truth!" "Master Jan Hus didn't feed a family." "I think you shouldn't take it so seriously." "Well look here, if somebody sees the White Lady," " you know, then..." " Why shouldn't he see her?" "Does anybody mind?" "Does he mind?" "People see all sorts of things nowadays!" "But doctor, he will probably not be quite well mentally." "Most people aren't quite healthy." "Especially mentally." "But he is working as a public servant!" "Well there it matters least." " I beg your pardon?" " What's that?" " That's the White Lady." " What a good-looking woman!" " And this is the pipe wrench." " Was that worn at the time?" "No at all, doctor, but he's writing about it here in the letter." " Here." " Hm." "Hm." "Goddammit." "So evidently it is not only a matter of a harmless hallucination, or some delusion of the sight in conjunction with a roused imagination, but the maniacal damaging of a historical painting, that is to say a precious object which was placed" "in the said person's safe keeping, isn't it so." "Wait, wait, let's get some logic into it:" " So first he saw her!" " Yes." "He writes that here." "But he could not have seen her" " of course." " But why not." "Seeing is a subjective impression." "Look here, should you drink two litres of rum, you may even see little green spiders." " And they may do this at you, too." " What shall I do," " can you tell me?" " Stop drinking so much." "The chief means, what shall we do with that employee." " And can't you decide for yourself?" " But look here, the man's crazy!" " And how do you know?" " Well, when he wrote such a letter?" "Yes?" "And how do you know he wrote it?" "Here you are." "The stamp, the official paper, you see they can be misused." "Didn't think of that?" " Well Sir I can't..." " But of course." "It's a bit complicated, isn't it." "Well we shall call somebody who'll take it in hand energetically." " Good day." " Good day." " It's quite clear to me!" " A little miracle in aid of the local rectory." "We'll have the picture repainted," " the chap transferred." " Well if it's that clear to you..." "When you have my experience with political work, you will also not find it difficult to see into people." "And what does Doctor Tome ek say about the matter?" "It is an interesting opinion, but if that Pupenec is balmy..." "But we do not know that as yet." "He's certainly healthy right now." "His mental diseases will start when we pin him down." "No, no!" "We must have a doctor's opinion." "Ask him to come here then!" "Excellent!" "Tell him to bring the painting with him and the castle too, if possible." " Is that what you meant?" " We'll have to look into it" " in any case." " What if the matter is deeper?" "Wait!" "As far as my sphere is concerned, the vision took place at full moon, so it may be a matter of lunatic states," " gentlemen!" " Right." "Have you a piece of paper?" "You have." "Have you a pencil?" "You have." "Sit down and write!" "You will take a trip to Komonice." "Mr. Kudrna and Doctor Boukal will go with you." "You will see to what for them?" " To what?" " You will see to a car for them." "Oh, a car." "I thought..." "Do put it down, please." "You will go there when?" " When?" " You will go there when the moon is full." "When the moon is full you will find out where?" "In the ca - len - dar..." "... dar." "That Andula, she's the very image of the painting," " isn't she?" " Well." "You wait till I put that green tinge on her." "What was that, what was that?" "Wasn't it the ghost of our kind deceased Lady Perchta?" "Help us, good Lady!" "It is I, your Bla ena!" "Run, there's trouble." "They are following us!" "Enters the Lord of the Castle!" "Catch him!" "You will groan on the foul straw of the dungeon of my castle, peasant slave, until you pay what you owe me." "And you won't pay it up because you'll be imprisoned!" "And bring that maiden to my castle tonight!" "It quite appeals to me to dally a little with my subject!" "Oh, for the Love of God!" "And now to crown it all" "I shall be dishonoured." "Who will help me, oh dear, who?" "The moon!" "The moon!" "I cannot, Oh, I cannot help you," "I am but an illusion in the mind of the suffering..." " Under feudal!" " Under feudal wrath!" "Henry, please will you be careful!" "Don't worry, only bad men need be afraid!" "Well and the good ones, they have to be afraid of those bad ones." "Well, go then." "And remember the children." " Come here!" " What?" " Come here!" " Oh yes." "I know!" "They have already come to fetch him!" "We humbly beg you for more gifts:" "For the fence of the chicken to be mended, for the pavement in front of the school to be paved and to have something unpleasant happen to our Mister Secretary." "The White Lady is only a fairy story which helps the suffering live, but real joy - prosperity will come they day the people all join hands." "Excellent!" "Excellent, bravo." "Well, there is talent in it, really, talent!" "I am awfully satisfied with it." "It will really knock people over." "Well, that's not the trouble." "But when I think about it," " one minor point troubles me." " That can be rearranged." "Well, I'll just tell you quite plainly." "I can't get rid of the impression" " that the White Lady..." " Yes." " Yes?" " Yes." " ... shouldn't be there." " But..." "Well no, otherwise it can all stay as it is." "But it's all about the White Lady!" "That's how I understood it too." "All right, but the White Lady, the White Lady, that's just it, it's a bit foreign for our people," " isn't it?" " But that's" " what's stated in the first act." " But who says it?" " The White Lady herself says it." " Well then, there you are, that's just a bit of er, well..." " what's it called..." " Abstractivism?" "Yes." "Alright, perhaps it lies in the make up, too," " perhaps if we cut the beard a bit..." " Look here, I," "I see it plainly." "Things are abstract, when they aren't." "Well and is the White Lady?" "She isn't." " Jesus, but that's..." " So there." "...what the play is about." "Look here, you, head, you, that's true, I get that." "But then I do have my responsibility," "I am under control, you know." "From above." "And there are plenty of abstract things around, wherever we look." "And to air the fact in art, too!" " And so we can't play it?" " That's difficult." "Look here, I'm not forbiding it, see?" "But on the other hand, I can't allow it either." "Is this your rubber stamp?" "Hmm?" "Yes." " And your signature too?" " Yes." "Now this is some mix-up here with that ghost, comrades." "What about the people's opinions?" "Let us say - the presence at church, for example." "Oh, I don't know that." "I haven't been here long and then I'm an agnostic." "And what was your father, if you please?" "A miner." "Look here, comrade," "I in your place, of course, If I saw such a thing," "I'd have the feeling, how to say it, well I'd have the feeling, simply I'd have a feeling." " You have no such feeling?" " I haven't." "And you haven't noticed anything unusual about yourself?" "I think I'm normal." "This sort of thing one should certainly know about oneself for sure." "Well, I can't know for sure." "Doctor, what does it mean, when a person isn't sure if he's normal?" "That he's normal." "Well, I, for example, am quite sure of it." "Yes." "Our patients are, too." "So you just want to leave us to it, doctor?" "Look here, gentlemen, I was called upon to examine the mental state of Mr. Pupenec and I have done that." "There I finish, yours truly." "Do you think I could sleep here somewhere?" "Yes, of course, here in the office for example." "Excellent." "It's cold here, isn't it?" "There's a draft from the walls." "Wait... and how do you explain that vision?" "I leave visions to competent authorities." "First it's permitted, then it's forbidden, well I don't understand anything any more..." "Well yes, that's just the secret of success!" "What a shame!" "Such a nice dress..." " ... and with a train too..." " What secret?" "There are people who begrudge others any glory." " Get it?" " You think that..." "I'm naming nobody." "Only..." "I see behind the scenes." "Oh no, only figuratively speaking." "Tell me, is art a picture of life?" "But of course, of course." "And our Czech art..." "Doubly so, what?" "Listen well, dear head, what if they found out," " that the White Lady does exist?" " No!" "If!" "I said if!" "There are some things I refuse to contemplate." "There I praise you, that's right!" "But if she really sort of existed..." "sort of!" "Swell then all sorts of people would lose face, wouldn't they?" "I think, I should go and see, if the costumes have been put away properly." "And I refuse to take it off, I won't, I won't, I won't." " Let them all see!" " You are right, an artist should never demean himself." "You would so like to play the role, wouldn't you?" " Well and did I play badly, what?" " No, of course you didn't, my dear girl, come." "You know, the chief is..." " Him, I'd like to..." " Wait, wait, wait, you mustn't do that!" "It would be much better to..." "Although that won't do either." "Well what?" "Do tell me!" "No." "I only thought that as you are wearing that pretty dress anyway..., that you could go to the castle now." "That dress does suit you." "It sure does!" "Well and what?" "Well and that you'd walk about the ramparts..." "I see." "And the chief would be furious!" "Well you thought that up beautifully!" " But no." " What - why?" "It's night and I'm afraid." "Oh don't be afraid, ghosts do not exist." "This is no later addition, gentlemen, I assure you!" " Well what is it then?" " It's a pipe wrench!" "Well goodness, a pipe wrench in the fifteenth century." "That's nonsense!" "That'll be some symbol." "It's a pipe wrench, doctor." "Will you leave the finding to me, kindly?" "Yes, Sir." "Why don't we tell the truth?" "We are human after all and we are able to understand all sorts of local political thingummy..." "Lets talk it over in comradely fashion and leave it alone," " what do you say?" " As you please." "Last full moon I saw the Lady Perchta of Bor tejn," " known as the White Lady of Komonice..." " But look here, there never was any Lady Perchta of Bor tejn!" " But it's her portrait!" " Portrait or no portrait, but historically it's a fictitious." "And fiction cannot haunt." " From the stand point of Marx-Leninism..." " Yes I am I just wanted to mention this:" "As we all know, the material reality is primary." "One can only haunt after death, isn't that right." "Who did not exist, couldn't have died." "And who hasn't died cannot haunt." "That's the way it is, you see, that's science." "Filii lusti Diligentes Et Sapientes... f - i - d - e - and -s." " There, that's clearly a cryptogram." " I see." "Allow me, I'll read it out to you this way:" "Fide sed cui fidas vide." " That's some code?" " No, that means:" "Trust, but whom you trust, keep an eye on." "She isn't there!" "What..." "Catch her!" "Interrogate her!" " There, but carefully!" " Courage, get her!" "Follow me!" "Well, cripes!" "A dream hallucination brought on by the environments and the conversation before sleep." "Is anybody here?" "With an unusually concrete sound impression." "Thank Goodness, you are alive?" "Oh yes, but I'm asleep." "I'm not trying to wake you up." "Only I - only I am so terribly frightened." "But naturally." "Because the impression, that I could be afraid I intentionally suppressed and now it is reflected as the product of subconsciousness in the figure of my dream." "Do keep talking!" "I say." "Quite classical symptoms." "The things you think of right away!" "That's me, Tome ek." " Over there!" " There?" "And you won't even ask what I am doing here?" "You cannot explain that." "Basically you are doing everything I imagine in my dream." "Oh no!" "I know well enough what men imagine all the time." "But you should at least be afraid of this costume." "The costume is the materialised illusion formed in the subconscious where the slight knowledge of history, I have, lies." " But it's too tight." " Just a minute - but you are my dream vision..." "Oh, nobodys said it so beautifully before!" "...which can be transformed by intellectual activity." "Well then, now I am imagining what you look like without your costume." "I'm shy." "No, that is only my own atavistic inhibition:" "You aren't wearing anything at all." "You aren't wearing anything at all." "You aren't wearing anything at all." "But you do know how to treat women." "Andula - where are you supposed to be, blazes!" "Andula dear - what are you up to, my goodness?" "I fulfil the wishes of the people who called me." "Pppp please excuse me..." "I bbb beg your pardon, if you please..." "Who are you, good man, and what are you asking for?" "I am the secretary here, if you please." "Of course, my esteemed lady, should it be possible..." "Oh, you needn't, I know already." "In that case, my lady, if you would be so kind," "I could even repay you and... but that must be an error." "Oh forgive me then, I do not know the new manners." "Are you satisfied now?" " Frank, did you see that?" " I did." "What shall we do?" "We must foin jorces - eer join forces." " I am beginning to understand it." " It's a matter of mass suggestion," " isn't it?" " That wouldn't be so bad." " Does it suggest nothing to you?" " No." " The Vatican - nothing?" " I'm telling you that we are surrounded by foreign spies." "We must go get the police at once." "But she stepped out of that picture!" "Oh, they have all the technics." "We must admit that." "But otherwise we are no matchsticks for them." "No no no no." "It was a particularly" " unmaterialistic phenomenon." " Phenomenon!" " And what is this?" " Tooth-marks." "The enemy's tooth-marks." "You mean the White Lady by that?" "They'll ask you themselves." "They..." "Stop!" "Your identity card!" "What is your name?" "Perchta Eusebia Ludmila of Bor tejn and Castle Komonice." "There never was one." "Do you speak English?" "Go in peace, if you want no help from me." "You can't put that bluff over us." "What are you doing here?" "I am doing as much good as I can." "Cripes, that's real Gothic for you!" "Who sent you here?" "I cannot understand your wrath." "Step back, the night is coming to a close, my time is running out." "Just a moment, excuse me please." "What does that pipe wrench mean?" "Watch out!" "Watch out, Doctor!" "Doctor, leave off your untimely jokes." "What a misfortune, what a misfortune!" "This is sabotage!" "I say, he's an employee of the central institution and as such" " he has to move about and talk!" " The cock has not crowed yet." "Do let him go, kind lady, he has children and they are crying!" "Good day to you." "I have..." "You harlot!" "To go tempting a married man!" "Jesus - I didn't know he was married!" "Well, Annie, once again truth was victorious!" "You fornicator!" "Here we are, comrades, with a problem which human knowledge has not comprehended as yet." "It is also very interesting from the historical standpoint." "Should it turn out that Lady Perchta of Bor tejn really did exist..." "But she told you so herself." " Hell, we can't complicate things so." " But that is no real proof." "Personal memories are often strongly subjectively tinted." "What if it causes trouble?" "What if it's poisoned!" "Doctor, a ghost bit me last night, right here!" "Well as far as I know, apparitions do not bite." "Let me see." "But that's the mark" " of a complete set of teeth!" " You see, I didn't make it up." "Unless - wait a minute - a certain type of animated vision exceptionally can even produce certain local changes on the skin." "Like the so-called stigmatas, you know?" "Well for example the blessed Tereza Neuman, but she also had it on her palms." "Otherwise it was a classical case of religious mania." " So I read, so I read." " Jesus Christ," " surely that can't be it in my case." " Well and why not?" "When it busts, we'll have a blessed department-head." "People will get used to it." "You've got a new fence, what?" "Isn't it nice, see." "I don't have to chase the chickens about the forest any longer..." "And overnight it was, what?" "The ghost has more sense than some people do, that's what." "My God!" "I have a bit of problem." "And can't you solve it by yourself," "That is, I'd like to explain it to you..." "Well you shouldn't spend yourself on details, you know, you should rather concentrate on the main aim." "Yes, but some things are rather you know, rather unusual." "Well that's why we sent you there, isn't it?" "Just don't you go falling into moods, please..." "Well this does not concern only me, though..." "There you are, then you must keep your distance politically all the more." "We have to look at it along - complex lines, don't we?" "But I don't know how next to..." "Well thoroughly, thoroughly, yes." "But tactically." "Is that clear?" " Good day!" " Good day to you!" "Good day." "Careful, children, careful, don't damage the pavement." "We must appreciate the fruit of our work..." "eh, eh, the fruit's we have been given." " Everybody knows by now!" " In the end even that shit of headmaster is going to preach it." "That's the last straw." " But the facts..." " Facts can be idiots." "We must start off from what we know." "And we know that apparitions do not exist." "Only that for science these findings far outreach the boundaries of..." "And reach our enemies over the boundary." "Well, really..." "Look here, comrade, you are not a party member, are you?" " No, I am not..." " And is spite of that our working people have given you their confidence." "And you want to disappoint them?" "But I don't want to do that." "It's just that..." " I just don't..." " You think that for us, for our working people it would..." "Be beneficent..." "... be beneficent, this mucking around in fideistic-idealistic and unhealthily mystical thoughts?" "Dear me, no!" "But after all I didn't make it up." "I am only trying to understand the whole thing, you know!" "That standpoint is difficult to defend, my man!" "Well, are you with us or are you against us?" "Perhaps we only made a mistake." "We all tend to make mistakes." "But the main thing is to bring forth the strength to settle these mistakes." " Get me?" " Yes." "Perhaps it would be best to look at the whole affair from a complex" " standpoint, don't you think?" " That's what I would advise." "One must count with mistakes in every impression." "Because the senses are prone to various subjective, tinting impulses." " Well then, what did you see there?" " I think an optical illusion..." "And should I speak for myself," "I feel more and more strongly that I actually saw nothing at all." "Children out with you!" "Sharp!" "Sharp!" "You too!" " Do you think I still cook for you?" " I don't." "I don't think at all." "Henry, it's fifteen years that we have spent together." "You are right there, I'm not saying..." "Do understand, I don't care about your sleeping with that woman..." "Well, then I killed and quartered her..." "But you've lied to me for fifteen years." "The troubles we had weren't because of any truth, but because of those sluts of yours." "Yes and I also tipped ash on the philodendron plant." "And why did you have to chose that knocked-about Andula!" " But Jesus-Christ, it's not true!" " Don't you lie again!" "I saw her!" "Do you think me a fool?" "No, I don't, I don't." "I am a fool." "I hang by the feet in the tower every night, just like a bat." "Let them suspend me, lock me up, throw me out." "Im crazy" " and I'd like you all to leave me alone!" " For God's sake, Henry," " what will become of the children?" " You are right." "Teach them to lie." " And what if that keeper defends himself?" " How can he defend himself?" " By what he saw." " Well if he saw something that doesn't exist, he must be crazy." "He is crazy and belongs" " to a lunatic asylum." " Everybody?" "Rum." "You see I am a drinker." "Look here, comrade, you are rather overworked..." "No at all!" "I have only take leave of my senses." "I saw the White Lady." "We must call an ambulance at once." "We have a lunatic here." " And whom do you mean by that?" " Me!" "I am crazy, I am a lunatic," "I saw what I didn't see, I slept with whom I did not sleep." "I want to go to a lunatic asylum, Jesus-Christ," "I want to get amongst normal lunatics!" "A lunatic asylum's no circus, for anybody who wants to, to get in." "But it's obvious!" "He sees apparitions, he has a mental defect, he says so himself, so that's that." " That's that." " But but but..." "I order you to see to citizen Pupenec's transfer to a lunatic asylum, in the interest of public safety." " Yes, but some things are rather" " I want to go to an asylum." "Listen, and didn't you notice, by any chance, what teeth the ghost had?" "Front and back and middle, doctor." "Well then, as you won't be satisfied otherwise, we'll take you to our place for a few days." " Very pleased." " There now, here it all is," " under the roof." " Now let's have a nice chat about the White Lady of Komonice, because I saw her too." "Soon she'll be managing the whole village!" " And without control!" " Even people need to be led!" " To say nothing of ghosts!" " It needs securing and organising." "And rectifying in the public interest." "It seems to me to be quite simple, you know?" "We must set up a list of requirements." "And that list will be read out to that female." "Yes." "And the fulfilment will then be controlled." "A commission for the control will be set up." "And further demands will be planned..." "Which will then be passed up." "Joe, can you go to the MotoTechna shop for me?" "Yes, Father." "And ask" " if they have those spark plugs yet." " Yes." " Hundred-and-twenty-five." " Yes." "Praised be the name of the Lord!" " Good day!" " For ever and ever." " You are the priest here, comrade?" " That I am, dear son." "Do understand, Father, I have such a problem..." "I am listening to you, dear son." "But it is such a, so to say, touchy business..." "I see!" "Perhaps it would be better" " in the confessional then." " No, no, no, that's not necessary." "You see I come from the Ministry" "Education." "Kudrna is the name." "Ah, pleased to meet you." "Let us go upstairs, and make a cup of coffee." "No no no, that's not necessary." "Please understand." "It's about the White Lady." " I see." " Well and the whole business has such unfortunate developments." "I shall set it right - from the pulpit too." "Couldn't you sprinkle her with holy water?" "So that she stops haunting?" "How is that, you believe in the apparition, comrade?" "Well how come you don't believe in it." "You as a priest are once and for all a public servant..." " There you are right!" " And the state pays you as a spiritual leader." "Therefore it is also your direct responsibility to believe in the existence of the super-natural." "But in the twentieth Century..." "Well, I call on you to do your duty." "You will proceed to the castle, to the painting and there you will carry out all the acts necessary to ascertain the final liquidation of infernal forces!" "Please wait here a moment." "I must go bless some water." " Louie come here!" " What's up?" " Whom have you got here?" " The commission over the White Lady," " man!" " Have they been to the castle?" " They were there all night." " So what?" "Now they've pinned down the keeper." " Blast!" " So they know everything now." " Now we're in the soup." " Wait a sec," " we must think something up." " Well quick, then." " Andula." " What." " Well only Andula can lend a hand here." " How come?" "She'll confess, well, come on!" "But I would like to bring your attention to the fact that blessing doesn't work on white magic." "We have no time now for meditations, with such a task before us." "You must concentrate on it." "In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti." "Amen." "But I have my doubts about the results." "Well and how did she express herself physically?" "Last time she left footprints behind her..." "Yes, but, but you said that she lectured slightly, didn't you?" "Well, lecture, lecture, you see she didn't even... when..." "Doctor, I am Mrs. Pupenec." " His wife and mother of three children." " I am Tome ek." "I know you are in the right for punishing my husband" " for spreading those..." " Well now those fabrications." "It is difficult for me, but I must tell you the truth, be it only because of the children." "You see, he doesn't do it out of any feeling against the government." "He only shields the women which he's for ever bringing in for the night." " Jesus-Christ!" " Jesus-Christ!" "Long live, long live the White Lady of Komonice, the guarantee of co-operation between nations." "Just a minute, just a minute, Mrs. Pupenec here came to say that..." "That my husband brought females to the castle whom he dressed up as the White Lady..." "Forward!" "We greet the innovator!" " Come on!" " It was only a good joke." "Of course." "It's in the interests" " of the whole village..." " What village..." "It's in the interest of the whole republic!" "Don't cry, if you don't own up, all our endeavour goes to the devil!" "Here she is!" "It's her!" " It must be proved!" " Have you been at the castle?" " Have you been at the castle?" " I have!" " Here is the costume!" " To set up" " an atmosphere of trust everywhere!" " Did you sleep with my husband, hussy?" "But that's impossible." "The keeper was with me all night." "I refuse to be insulted like this!" "I spent the night with this gentleman." "Independence in fodder-stores is of primal importance!" "That's what I say!" "With vigour to the silage pits!" "Well do tell them all that I spent the whole night with you!" " For a further increase!" " Dry boots for construction labourers!" "Look here, you are the only sober one here," " is that clear?" " No." "No." "To catch up and out distance!" "A good sty means a healthy calf!" "Forward to further success!" "Well, don't take on so." "Come on, we'll go and sit down in the car, nicely now," " come on, come on!" " Let me go, I'm frightened!" "Oh but come on now, do!" " Help me, damn you!" " She's coming to get me!" "Auch, he kicked me!" " To get in the harvest in time!" " Hello!" " What colour is that wall?" " It's white!" " What colour is that wall?" " Black!" "There now, you see how easy it is!" "Now you!" "Orange with green spots." "That's right too, you'll hold your own." "Good morning comrade Kudrna, but the head is at the moment in..." "Louie, how are you?" "I want to speak with you..." " Yes." " ... quite privately." "Just a minute!" "I am quite well." "Here it's black on white." "Cured." "Joe, we've known each other for years." "We were together..." "We can tell each other everything!" "The White Lady does exist!" "That's fine, fine." " You rest for a few more days" " There's no time for that now." " And everything will be alright." " Joe, look here," "I'm telling you, she does exist!" "That keeper of the castle wrote down the pure truth." "Look here, Louie, if you insist on talking about it," "I must let you know, that I suspected it from the very beginning." " And you saw her, did you?" " I did." "It was terrible - how she walked along that corridor." "Tome ek saw her too." "She even sucked him into the painting." "But that's not important now." "Just between the two of us we can confess even to such facts, which would lead people astray, should they be made public." "Do you realise the consequences that would arise, should the matter get about?" "Here and on the other side?" "That's enough." "I understand." " And what now." " What else do you want?" "Aren't you satisfied with one White Lady of Komonice?" "Louie, surely you must know quite clearly by now, that what exists and what doesn't exist is not important?" "What is important is how to see it correctly, how to evaluate it correctly and how to react to it correctly." "Couldn't something be done about the productivity of the milking cows?" "Yes, yes, yes, but first things first." "First the things that bother us most." "But it's enough for her... it's enough for us just to wink at the cows, like this." "That'll be alright, I've put it down." "Everything will be alright." "And what about improving the TV signal a bit." " She being in the vicinity." " We've got it." "We have - at hand - in the air!" "Look here - were doing the bridge now!" "I'm surprised, old chap." "It was just you who worried us most about having to walk round all the time." "And the dung-water is seeping into our house." " We must do something about that..." " And that water isn't running again." "We have no time for that." "Surely everybody must admit that our decision to build the bridge first is the only right and possible thing." "Sure thing!" "And all together:" "One, two three!" "One, two, three!" " One, two, three!" "One, two, three!" " One, two, three!" "One, two, three!" "We need some nails!" "Are you eating them, man?" "Well, do give them what they need." "One mustn't save on such a project." "It's good." "Bridges are important for the nation!" "This'll be a bridge, oh, beautiful." "Tell the kids to bring some green brushwood from the forest." "Well here at the sides it would need a bit of something." "Something what?" "Well so as one can't see inside." "She doesn't like it, either, when there's somebody mooching at her all the time." "She starts throwing mortar right away." "Well, hang out the jute!" "Well then!" "Put it down here and we'll start with the decorations." "There, Dad, you have a rest now." "It'll be quicker over the bridge." "If only it were soon!" "You'll have to take that barge away towards evening." "It'll be a rush, you know!" "...tomorrow already." "Shouldn't we at least bring in some cement?" "Actually..." "He must have been asleep, the old chap..." "That's a good one!" "That sounds good, doesn't it, chum!" "From our own sources, that is to say without the help of the superior institutions in our town we shall build first a theatre, then an out-look tower and a chicken-farm, that's great, isn't it and then in July a swimming pool with a chute..." " Good morning, comrades!" " Ah, Good morning!" "Well I think that this size print will be enough." "Hold it." "So here it is:" "The bridge over the Komonice, reality tomorrow, second caption:" "The co-operation and endeavour of the people overcame" " the inauspicious inheritance." " Well now, isn't that nice?" "The functionaries of the village face the masses." "That really wasn't necessary." "The condition of success - honest works" "Of course, yes, of course, that's it." "The condition for work - good leadership." "Well, could be, after all it's a fact." "Look here, Louie, do take your feet out of the way." "The red one's have a green stripe." "Don't you go breezing in something else." "And here they come." "Arent you taking it cal'mly." "And I'm telling you, that keeper of the castle will be a nice nut to crack." "People are never the worst problem!" " Dear comrade..." " I know..." "What?" "I know, you've come to threaten me, what?" "Well, well!" "Aren't you vehement!" "And I like that!" "But you don't look round about you enough." "Damn it, isn't that pretty!" "You know, many things have changed here." "But various things are also more complicated." " Look here, Louie, you can't frighten me..." " I don't want to..." "What I saw, that I saw with my own eyes," "I just can't help myself." "I shan't lie." "I have hands to work with, I'll earn enough to feed my children" " elsewhere too." " Well, it would be difficult for you to stay here." "And can I give voluntary notice?" "Surely you are old enough..." "That means loss of trust, then?" "Surely you are old enough to be able to teach the young ones." "We know all about your knowledge, about your love of the truth." "Well and so we thought you could try being an inspector." "Should you like to, that is..." "Take it!" "Careful!" " Ouch!" " What is it?" "My thumbs there!" "Doctor, people have sacrificed much more for great aims!" "The window!" "Yeah!" "And I'll give you one piece of advice:" "Don't lose your confidence in people!" "So they appreciate you after all." "Henry, I I have already stopped believing in you." "Oh, It's not me they're concerned with." "But it'll be better for the children this way." "Well, of course, Annie, many things have changed after all." " That's right." " Daddy, look, a worm!" "You idiot, that's no worm." "That's an Indian python." "Arent you ashamed of yourself, telling such a lie?" "Look here, I'll give her that task with the bridge, what?" " Sure." " And then you'll say the words of that..." " Cryptogram." " Yes." "The master's written them down for me." "Here somewhere..." "And you watch out, at which word it is she creeps out." "Well and then it'll be simple." "Look here, you, - what will that bridge be like?" " What bridge?" " Well the new bridge!" "Well, a bridge, that's all." "Made of stone or what." " However one builds bridges." " Sure, I know that you know it," " but if she know it." " She, she, she..." "She must grow with the tasks we set before her." " That's the same thing like with people." " Alright then." "I thought the decorations, you know." "If there should be statues, or ornaments..." "Damnation, that's serious..." "That's serious." "Exactly, you see a bridge can't be just a bridge." "The bridge must express an idea..." "Well of course, the bridge must educate, it must stimulate, inspire." "Well then, that means a lot of statues!" " That's right." " So I thought just now that..." "Alright, but he'd have to have such a large head and lots of people behind him..." "... but he can't have that hand he'd have to have his hands like this or sort of as if somebody were falling, back, you know." "And a number of sportsmen on the other side..." "That's right." " And a soldier too." " Yes." "And a guardian of the frontier." "Well and at the beginning of the bridge a woman could stand..." " A woman?" " Well no then, well I thought like a symbol, I think..." "Oh, like a symbol, yes, that's alright." " A sort of healthy, earthy beauty." " Yes, I get that, yes..." "And she could be looking into the horizon, like this, as if she sort of saw it all..." " There's nothing there." " But there will be, yes." "In the long term, everything will, yes." "You'll see, in the end everything will..." "But she isn't here!" " The painting!" " Good Jesus in Heaven!" "The lights have gone down at the Castle Komonice," "The White Lady has long since gone to sleep." "She was used to her own schedule..." "Pioneers, pioneers painted children..." "Everything's ready down there." "Damnation!" "Those people are capable of believing anything, just anything!" "Like sheep, like sheep." "Why should somebody build them a bridge just when they feel like it." "Well, no, that'll, that'll have to be postponed somehow." "Oh, the shame of it!" "Come on, well solve it somehow." "We have always managed somehow." " Can I, now?" " No no no no!" "After the speech!" "= The chief!" " Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "We have all met here, in order to evaluate the results of our work." "Look here, it's right to speak the truth and so we must speak it now too." "We have never counted with getting anything free." "Long live the chief!" "Long live the chief!" "Look here, all of you!" "After all everyone of you knows well enough, what it's about." "Today we can have only that what we have made ourselves, with our own hands." "And that's what we do have." "For our diligence - a new bridge!" "For our diligence - a new bridge!" "Long live the new bridge!" "Long live the new bridge!" "Long live the new bridge!" "But there's no bridge here!" "That truth of yours all the time, shut your mouth and swim!" "Our people have managed that well!" "Our people are wise, they know what to believe in." "As the saying goes:" "Trust, but whom you trust, supervise!"