"EVENING BELLS" "Did you have your Holy Communion?" "It was tasty." "St Mary's Congregation in Osijek, 1926" "You're a young man already!" "You're growing up to be a real man." "And the devil grows in him too." "Mother Leonia, today's the first time that the Communion went on smoothly." "Have a seat, Tomislav." "We received you here as an orphan with no parents." "We entrust you now to your brother, a good man of faith who will take care of you from now on." "We taught you humility, and he'll teach you charity." "Make sure you don't disappoint us." "Mother Leonia, he's an Antichrist!" "He spitted out the host!" "On your knees!" "On your knees!" "You'll say twenty rosaries." "Dear Mr. Stjepan, this child will always be a nuisance." "Sister Leonia, only God knows what's in store for us." "But he doesn't speak about it." "Jesus be praised!" "THE STORY OF TOMISLAV K." "Come on..." "Here." "Go now and wait for the reply." "Directed by Lordan Zafranović" "Hold it!" "Hands up!" "I'm the master here." "All of this is mine." "And you?" "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "I came to ask for your daughter's hand." "Rosa's?" "!" "Rosa!" "Rosa!" "Come, your bridegroom's here!" "Why didn't Stjepan come?" "You could refuse him." "And you won't refuse me." "Well, have a seat." "Only if you say yes." "Even if I don't." "You still can have some cake." "So be it!" "She's yours!" "Take her away!" "Tell Stjepan I love him." "What about me?" "I love you too." "Do you like fried chicken?" "I do." "Then make some for dinner!" "We'll come to celebrate the engagement!" "Rosa agreed to marry you!" "Jurica, drop the broom!" "Get the reed pipe!" "A year later" "Get lost, evil charm, out of the head" "to the chest..." "From the chest to the belly..." "From the belly to the hips..." "From the hips to the feet." "Set Rosa free and let her pregnant be!" "Drop it!" "You idiot..." "Twelve years later" "Tomislav!" "Dimitrije!" "Dimitrije!" "Tomislav, jump!" "Dimitrije!" "Do you remember us?" "Let's sing one!" "You start!" "No, you start, you sing better!" "How could you leave us for so long?" "We're not at the end of the world!" "What about dinner?" "Chicken!" "But who'll kill one now?" "Poor grandpa!" "So, what are your plans now?" "I'll go to Munich to study an archive for a study I'm preparing." "What's there in Munich that you can't find here?" "Plague in Herzegovina in the 19th century." "Plague in Herzegovina and you're going to Munich?" "Either I don't understand or you're lying." "He knows best what to do." "But how will you support yourself?" "Without your help, no way." "Do you hear him, Rosa?" "We don't have any children anyway." "You're everything to us." "But I won't pay for your political beliefs." "I'm surprised you're not in jail." "You were a candidate, even in high school!" "So you wouldn't think we let ourselves go." "But you're beautiful, even in rags." "You're still in love?" "Yes, we are." "We'd like to have children, but what can we do..." "We're still young!" "You'll understand this book better than anyone." "Lenin..." "You underlined all this?" "What?" "The voice of a lonely man never reached all people..." "Listen to this." "History will not forgive hesitation of today's revolutionaries." "By taking power today, we're doing it not against the Soviets, but for them." "Hesitation in action equals death." "Quotations speak most of the man who chose them." "What's with your brother?" "Can't you win him over for our cause?" "That's not easy." "Make sure he doesn't turn against us." "Look who's there!" "Didn't you give up on our homeland?" "How come you're alone?" "Where are all the girls?" "How are you?" "What's going on?" "I read your articles." "I see that you publish in the Archeological Journal." "What have you read?" "Something like Spirit Of the Dead in Herzegovina or Roman Ruins, I can't remember." "And what did you think?" "My specialty is literature, not archeology." "I just don't understand what you mean by Marxist approach to archeology." "I don't get it." "Isn't there only one approach, the scientific one?" "I'm all for complete revision of everything, including science." "If archeology is only your cover for Marxism, you'll neither be a Marxist nor an archeologist." "You can't study Marxism like archeology." "It's the revolution." "And revolution is life." "It's you, me, Dimitrije, those girls waiting for us..." "Where?" "On the barricades!" "I heard that you said at the Zagreb University student meeting," "For the King, never," "For the country, always!" "You heard right." "Who told you?" "People always talk about you." "Why did you say that?" "Not to be like you." "Don't lie." "I know why." "Tell me." "Because you're a communist." "What kind of communism are you trying to support?" "Look, I'm a romantic guy." "I like Russian girls." "I can't wait to get to know them better." "Stop jerking around." "Munich, 1939" "The girl's so very cute," "With her skirt too short," "With her blouse so tight," "To make her breast come right" "That's the path leading to my heart" "You won't find the road" "Too hard..." "And with him, she'll always be safe" "Dreaming of his kissing sweet..." "I bet you've got Jewish blood!" "How would you know?" "My flair, Miss." "I have a nose for Jews." "Well, in my case, it tricked you." "Meira, those youngsters can't sing!" "I'll teach them." "Well, boys, you're in mourning?" "Join us in our sorrow, Miss." "Move." "Would you like to have a seat?" "Your company bores me." "So what do you suggest?" "That you take me home." "Well, fuck it." "She speaks Croatian." "Deal?" "And who are you?" "The devil." "And what does this devil like?" "You." "And poetry?" "You." "Music?" "I like you." "Do you like anything else?" "You and graveyards." "I like excavations." "Roman rings, jewellery..." "You're an archeologist?" "Correct." "Well..." "Here's a requiem for your graveyards." "Listen..." "I'll go now." "No." "I'll go." "No!" "I will." "No!" "I'm telling you..." "I said you're staying here." "I have to go." "I've got assignments." "What assignments?" "Important ones." "I hate solitude..." "You're staying?" "Yes." "How beautiful you are!" "Asleep?" "You see that I'm not." "So, how was it?" "I met a cute little bundle at the Foreigners' Club." "She studies Germanics." "And?" "She's divine." "A bit politically narrow-minded though..." "But perfect tits." "Cheers." "Screw politics when there's a woman around." "Isn't it right?" "So what's her name?" "Meira Matšek." "Matšek Meira!" "Is she from Zagreb?" "Yes." "I was her teacher at school." "She went to your school?" "No, tennis school." "Let me introduce you." "This is Juan." "I call him Jovan." "He was a cook in the International Brigade." "In the wolves' gorge" "There's a source oozing" "With blood of the Spaniards" "Who died for their country." "Unhappy mothers cry bitter tears" "Seeing their sons" "Leaving for the war" "Sevilla is no more Sevilla" "Sevilla is a slaughterhouse." "Where the Spaniards go" "To die like sheep..." "It's been four months since I came back from Spain." "It flew by." "Returning to Zagreb scares me." "You'll change your name." "I haven't used it for a long time." "I've already forgotten it." "You must stay in Munich." "I've got a good reason to stay now." "But I don't feel like staying." "How many people have we smuggled so far?" "With Juan, 18." "Listen, Matko," "I'm not a man for contacts." "I'm more into action." "The time's not right yet." "We must wait." "Croats always say that." "That we have to wait." "What the fuck should we wait for?" "The war's looming near." "I wish I could go back home now." "It must be paradise there." "Herzegovina." "Nice, gentle country." "With the road to the world." "A friar wrote, pretty valleys with cypresses and fig, a region for traveling and renewal of spiritual forces." "When I think about all this, about my life path, it seems to be the only possible path." "I even felt my personal Spanish defeat like a ray of hope." "Are you asleep?" "I'm listening to you." "Go on, sleep." "Zagreb, 1940" "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Did you know all girls from my school were in love with him?" "Don't mention it in front of him, you'll make him jealous!" "I could be jealous only of one girl." "He recited poetry to me." "What did he say?" "I can't remember." "But I do." "It was like this," "You're the woman I love, whoever you may be..." "As far as I know you, you say those verses when you're in bed!" "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Kruno, hello!" "You know, when I first saw you," "I knew you'd snatch Meira from us." "How did you know?" "I was irresistible." "My instinct for jealousy told you that." "I'm giving you my most precious." "My daughter." "And what are you bringing here?" "Some ruins from my homeland." "What?" "A couple of jugs..." "Old rings." "She doesn't need it." "She has valuable jewellery." "But Roman weapons?" "And a skull, for you." "Look, I don't need your skull." "I've got my own." "As I can see, you're a proletarian, bringing nothing to this home." "What about my erotic intelligence, sir?" "Meira is satisfied with what I've got." "May all this fall down!" "Dad, I'm angry with you." "I'm sorry, dear." "That's how it seemed to me." "Still, I wish you all the luck." "My friend, Colonel." "Mr. Slavko Kvaternik!" "Where are the newlyweds, our hopes for the future?" "My congratulations to the newlyweds." "To this honorable Croat and to our little Meira." "What can I tell you on this occasion..." "But the Biblical message..." "Be fruitful and multiply..." "And fuck!" "Your Excellency!" "Fuck, fuck..." "April 6, 1941 (The day Germany attacked Yugoslavia)" "You're good!" "You surprised me." "I haven't played in a long time." "This is Lucy, my friend from Germany." "He's a professional seducer." "Hitler attacked Belgrade this morning." "This news hasn't reached us yet." "Do you think it's good, boys?" "Then it's good!" "We'll go and take a shower." "Can we watch?" "It would be exciting." "Several months later" "The Ustasha are committing heinous crimes in Herzegovina, but the insurrection has stopped." "Matko, I want to go there and organize insurrection." "The Italians are arming people against the communists." "Do you care about Meira Matšek?" "I do." "I believe you, she's wonderful." "And I know she cares about you." "It's better for us if you stay with her." "Her father is a big shot in the Independent State of Croatia." "He's a member of the Ustasha Headquarters." "How can I live in such a house?" "That's exactly why you're staying." "Leave it now." "We'll have guests." "Take it." "Tell me, can we have a drink here?" "What would you like?" "A brandy." "Well..." "What's the road like away from here?" "That's the old road." "Any bends?" "It was built during the old Austrian times." "Listen, are there any pits around?" "Or chasms?" "As far as I know, no." "We're carrying some goods." "Perishables." "It's hot in here, man." "It's summertime." "Yeah, it is." "But it's scorching heat." "Tell me..." "Are there any communists here?" "No, no." "Any rebels here?" "I mean, I wouldn't want to get robbed." "No." "It's safe here." "Give us another drink." "Brother, get me some wire." "That's it, man." "They can't escape now." "The Ustasha slaughter while our Assembly waits." "How could you let them take power?" "A foolish friar on one hand and your brother Milutin on the other." "Milutin's popular here." "He's an intellectual and what am I?" "Intellectuals are evil." "All over the world and here in the backwoods." "Fickle, rash, they don't respect the law, only force." "Only communism can make them responsible!" "I don't like them." "But you're an intellectual too." "That's why I'm saying." "I know them intimately." "The times are too brutal, hard, they smell of blood." "And they wait and negotiate with the enemy!" "Yes, with the Italians." "I shudder at the thought of courtesy with the enemy." "Why should we be considerate if our idea is good and just?" "I'm sorry that your brother is on the verge of treason." "He won't betray me, we're on two sides anyway." "He'll betray what's called the moral principle of the people." "There's no use in scolding him." "See if you can persuade him." "He's a moderate." "He can't stand brutality." "A moderate?" "In this slaughterhouse?" "He's dangerous." "If we impose ourselves with brutality, we'll have time to atone for it." "Our cause will survive every sin." "If only I had another two like you." "But I don't even have you." "Huh?" "It's better if I don't go to the meeting today." "The idea of an armed insurrection will emerge among you spontaneously." "If it doesn't work, we'll see what we'll do." "I think the meeting will vote against the insurrection." "And the communists will be silent?" "Listen, you'll call them to arms." "Win over those who are hesitant, force those who refuse, and act brutally against those who are opposed!" "Get rid of them, if necessary." "How can I get rid of someone who's popular here?" "He knows more than the others and he's my brother." "With the gun!" "How are you?" "How do you feel?" "I'm thirsty." "Wait a moment..." "I want to take my temperature." "Why are you here?" "I'm leaving tonight." "Agitators are already coming here." "Hinterland agents, as they're called here." "They're instigating rebellion, to fight against the Italians." "But Italians are quiet in the cities, they're not bothering us." "They're even helping us." "Do you know why they're instigating rebellion?" "Because they're fighting for Bolshevik cause and power." "With Russians nobody ever gained freedom so why would we?" "Those who plowed with them, tilled with their asses!" "I suggest peace with the Italians!" "With the Ustasha, truce for now." "And when the time comes, revenge." "On blood and knife!" "I'd rather plow with Russians and till with my ass than make peace with Italians and the Ustasha!" "We refuse the freedom that the communists are offering." "We must keep in line with those who have the best chance to win." "Hear hear!" "What if that's the Red Army?" "Then we'll take weapons in our hands and win or die." "Take it now." "You're already dressed to greet them?" "Or you've appointed yourself commander?" "I didn't appoint myself." "So who chose you then?" "The situation did." "Or if you want, the history." "Because we've decided to fight, to follow Stalin and the Red Army!" "This is treason!" "Stjepan's still not back?" "No." "The town's sealed off." "He'll be back tomorrow with the medicine." "You're soaking wet." "Zagreb, late August, 1941" "You'll suffocate here." "Why don't you open the window?" "Maybe the music from the Ustasha garrison bothers you?" "What's wrong with you?" "Why are you so upset?" "How long are we going to wait here?" "And for whom?" "Come on, calm down." "That's my concern now." "Let me warn you, comrade Čubar." "I can't stay long at one place." "I'll contact Matko myself." "Matko joined the Partisans." "You're telling me this now?" "OK, Čubar, what am I here, your prisoner?" "You think I'll wait for your mercy?" "I'll join the Partisans and fight!" "I advise you not to do anything on your own." "It's never wise." "The Party takes offense on people like that." "Let me tell you..." "You've already got a strike once." "Think about it." "What have I done wrong?" "You know too well that you've caused a fratricide in your homeland." "Listen, Čubar, I organized the people's uprising there by Party's order." "OK." "Believe it if you want." "Just so you know..." "You have to stay here." "And avoid life of debauchery." "I haven't gone out for days." "The Ustasha police is after me, you said it yourself." "You're on good terms with them." "You're a part of their den." "I can't imagine how a communist can fall in love with a bourgeois slut." "She's my wife." "As ordered by us." "But you fell for her." "So communists can't make love?" "You know, Čubar," "Lenin also said that communism was no ascetism and restraint, but love life too!" "May comrade Lenin forgive me, but I don't agree with him." "Because I'm an ascetic and I believe that love life blunts the revolutionary ardor!" "Where are you going?" "I'll find the solution for my situation myself." "As you wish." "You're making it easier on me." "But be careful, you'll end up being alone." "I'm already alone." "Croatia in pictures and words" "The Army Commander Slavko Kvaternik and other dignitaries of our State along with representatives from allied armies," "Poglavnik has taken charge of the 1st Ustasha Croatian Home Guard regiment." "Look at you!" "I'll beat you up!" "Kruno!" "So, what do you think?" "What, you're worried at this great moment of Croatian history?" "No, I'm thrilled." "Tears fill my eyes!" "As a sign of recognition for efforts in building Croatian air force, a general from the Great German Reich presented the Croatian army leader Slavko Kvaternik with an airplane." "Look at him." "Do you remember him?" "The army leader from your wedding." "By God, it's a great honor today!" "You're alone?" "Yes, Meira's busy." "What's up with you?" "Where have you been?" "Look, a little drummer boy." "Now that the big drums of war are thundering, that's not much." "This year's summer heat forced the inhabitants of Zagreb to flock to the banks of Sava river." "Here are some scenes of people spending a hot day in Zagreb." "Tomislav!" "How come you remembered me, huh?" "Are you lonely?" "Or your friends abandoned you?" "You know best what you're doing." "You have a life of your own." "But you see, I thought I knew you better." "OK, if that's how you wanted it." "Undo me." "Leave them on." "Easy, it hurts!" "May I?" "What?" "You didn't expect me?" "Not really." "Not here anyway." "Do you need something from me?" "Nothing." "Just to have lunch together." "Where shall we go?" "I know a joint nearby..." "My friends play there." "You have a car!" "?" "You're not a State musician now, are you?" "The boys are from your orchestra?" "Not enough elbow room, huh?" "You'll start singing soon!" "You followed me with sympathy." "Well, you're one of our favorite communists!" "How come you're here?" "You came to your father?" "Is anything wrong?" "Mom sent you cakes." "I was lucky with your Mom." "And with me?" "With you too." "There was some anger and misunderstandings, but it's all over now." "Dad, if you love me, you'll get Tomislav out of jail." "We handed him over to Gestapo." "As far as I'm concerned, they can shoot him like a dog." "And you won't do a thing?" "No, dear child." "There's nothing we can do now." "Then I'll do it myself." "Von Karsthoff is my friend." "Von Karsthoff?" "The one who calls you La Chatte?" "That high German officer is in love with you!" "You shouldn't miss such a chance." "And I won't miss it..." "To save Tomislav!" "My poor child." "You still love him!" "It's me, Meira." "I haven't lost my memory yet." "The guard is watching us through a peephole." "If he feels like it, he'll open fire." "Look at those holes in the wall." "They're there from yesterday." "He fired through a peephole." "When I asked him why, as I wasn't sentenced to death yet, he said, didn't you ask for a wake up call?" "How do I look as a convict?" "Great, huh?" "You look great, Tomislav Burbonski." "I got them to transfer you to a camp in Germany." "Does it matter which camp I'll be killed in?" "Our love began in Germany..." "And it'll continue there." "You're rescued." "Germany, Freiburg, 1943" "Let go of me." "Liberated territory, Herzegovina, 1944" "This war's over too." "The troubles ended." "There's no news of Tomislav." "God, I hope he's alive." "Many have died." "Has the boy eaten?" "Yes." "Little Tomislav is full up." "He seems upset." "I thought I heard someone knocking." "Did you hear anything?" "No, I didn't." "Rosa?" "I didn't expect you." "Dimitrije!" "You heard that I came back?" "Are you badly wounded?" "Yes." "I was transferred from the hospital in Bari." "I wanted to be here for the liberation." "How's Stjepan?" "He's alive." "Is he still the same?" "Yes." "Any news of Tomislav?" "I hoped you'd know more." "Tomislav..." "I don't know." "He wasn't there where I fought." "We know he was taken to a camp and that's all." "If I only knew he was alive." "If he's alive, we'll be happy he was there." "If he died for his ideals, we'll be happy all the same." "Staying alive isn't such a good luck." "Tell me if something happened to him." "There's no man that nothing happened to him." "Remember that." "Now be quiet." "At this hour, I listen to evening bells." "Zagreb, 1945" "Tomislav!" "Burbonski!" "Matko!" "I'm happy to see you." "If you're back, the war's over." "What is it?" "I was only joking." "Listen, I was only joking." "You haven't become a softy, have you?" "If I only knew what I've become!" "I'm sorry." "You've changed." "Yes." "You've changed too." "Are you married?" "No." "I have no private life anymore." "Have a seat." "Is it stuffy for you here?" "You know, I was afraid of this encounter." "And I looked forward to it." "I looked forward to it too." "Look, Tomislav," "I'll tell you something." "For me, the was goes on here." "There's a lot of things we have to clear up." "With no mercy." "Maybe you want to join us?" "Provided you're still a communist." "Are you?" "I'm nothing." "Von Karsthoff." "He did something for you." "OK, OK..." "What happened to him?" "He managed to escape." "But he was caught and sentenced in the first wave of court-martials." "And?" "He was shot." "Isn't all of this you?" "Isn't this a part of your biography too?" "We were waiting for you." "I was waiting for you too, Matko." "Anyway, you know what happened to me." "I know a thing or two." "I worked as a servant at a farm in Germany." "At Lucy's." "She was shot by the Allies." "Lucy saved my life in Germany." "What about Meira?" "She's in jail." "She saved your life too." "Someone always saves you." "Following the decree of the general amnesty from August 3, she'll be probably set free." "Now we'll just forget about all this." "As well as things that are hard to forget." "People talked a lot about you here." "The comrades were very tough." "But I'm tough too." "What have I done, Matko?" "Let's forget the past." "We're starting anew now." "The Party has shown trust in you again." "It makes me happy." "Tomislav Burbonski." "You remember that cook Jovan I brought from Spain?" "He was blown to pieces by a bomb at Milin Klade on June 9, 1943 at 11 AM." "About a hundred airplanes were attacking us." "Oddly enough, his guitar remained in one piece." "In the wolves' gorge" "There's a source oozing" "With blood of the Spaniards" "Who died for their country." "Sevilla is no more Sevilla" "Sevilla is a slaughterhouse." "Where the Spaniards go" "To die like sheep." "Unhappy mothers cry bitter tears" "Seeing their sons" "Leaving for the war..." "Meira!" "Meira!" "Her hair was cut before the arrest." "Not even whores are treated like this." "Let him in." "I cut my hair myself." "I arrested myself." "You're punishing yourself for your relationship with Karsthoff?" "Yes." "Was was this relationship?" "A love affair." "Matko, can you leave us alone?" "I waited for you in Germany for three years, Meira Matšek." "Tomislav?" "It's all right, Matko." "A small family scuffle." "Have you been proven guilty?" "Yes." "Do you feel guilty yourself?" "Yes." "What did you do during the war?" "I went to the Officers' Club." "As a member of the Liquidation team." "You're lying!" "I worked on mass extermination, sending people off to camps." "I'm a founder of the foundation for racial heritage." "You're lying!" "And I was baptized." "I got a nickname, La Chatte." "According to SS ceremony, the baptism was performed at the consecration hall." "Without an altar, but with a cloth with swastikas." "A black flag hanging on the wall with SS motto." "No, you didn't..." "An armed SS officer holding a flag with a motto:" "Germany, wake up!" "You don't think like that!" "I have no opinion of my own!" "I'm not a human being." "I'm just a part of a criminal file." "Meira..." "Don't ever come back again!" "I don't need anybody!" "Let go of me!" "Meira!" "Matko!" "Let go of me, Matko!" "Meira!" "My dear Tomislav," "This is the umpteenth time that I'm writing you a letter, but you don't write back or my letters are returned with the stamp unknown." "Lucy doesn't write back either." "But I keep getting letters from your homeland." "Rosa and Stjepan ask for any news about you." "They're concerned about your life." "Here's one good news in these sad times:" "They had a son and named him after you." "Fate denied us such happiness." "My dear, you know how humiliating it is to kneel in front of a German officer Von Karsthoff, only to save your life in Germany, hoping to realize what I had promised you in the name of our love." "They found out about our marriage and forced me to renounce you." "Ustasha authorities found out about my mother's Jewish origin and that was the final blow to the family." "Meira committed suicide." "Am I really a damned man?" "It'd be better if you went away... and settled somewhere." "But where to hell?" "Maybe home." "Return to your childhood." "That'd be the death of me." "I'm on the ropes." "Tomislav, you must." "Go to the people who believed in you." "You have friends there." "You're not alone!" "They know I'm alive." "That's enough." "Come on..." "Cheer up!" "I can send you to the Soviet Union." "To do what?" "For a year or two..." "Specialize in your field." "Your wounds will heal in the meantime." "Tomislav, there are some things we have to forget." "Sometimes we have to forget about ourselves too." "Herzegovina, 1948" "Shop No. 1, alimentaries" "You have to join the collective, boss!" "Times are different now." "Everything belongs to the people, people's power, people's assets!" "You're ordered to leave as you are, taking only what's in your hands." "As I can see, you have a broom in your hands." "Go out with it." "You can ride it, if you want." "What are you looking at?" "Move!" "Not this way!" "Through the back door." "What's up, Kuzma?" "Tomislav's back from the Soviet Union." "He's in Belgrade." "How come?" "He wrote that he'd stay for another year." "They all came back." "Tomislav said he'd be coming here soon." "You spoke with him?" "He called and talked with Dimitrije." "You can expect him soon." "Did he say when?" "No one knows." "They're being questioned and checked-up on." "Something's cooking and you should know what, Kuzma." "Even if I knew, I couldn't tell you." "But I can tell you this much..." "We've been ordered not to mention Stalin again." "So it must be serious." "I didn't say anything." "All my life I was scared for him." "I have a bad feeling about this." "Take care." "And come back together." "Tell him his brother's waiting here." "Where's your father?" "He's sleeping." "Do you know who came to see you?" "Well, whom do I see?" "Whom do I see..." "Where's Rosa?" "Oh, how sorry she will be!" "You've just missed here." "I sent her to Belgrade." "We were worried about you." "Come here, stand up, let me see you!" "Tomislav!" "Go and give your uncle a kiss." "Come here." "Are you happy now?" "How couldn't I be?" "After so many years of marriage, when many others lose hope, we had our son, thank God." "Brother..." "We never had time to talk properly." "And why should we?" "Let me see you..." "Come on..." "Hello, comrade Tomislav!" "Would you like to have a brandy?" "People's brandy!" "Hey, Kuzma!" "It's a brutal punishment, Dimitrije." "Devil's or God's, I don't know, but it's brutal." "I wasn't punished, Tomislav." "Many have died for the same convictions I was spared for." "I don't recognize cripples unless they're messed up in their heads." "Where did you get lost?" "Or you hid when it was the worst?" "Every one of us had an assignment." "So how are things here?" "Well..." "This backward area is always in conflict, not politically, don't get me wrong, but by the very nature of things." "The world that stands still is always in conflict with the progressive one." "But we have to make the 5-year plan here too." "We won the war with machine-guns and heavy artillery, but for the rebuilding, a gun will do." "I never part from it." "Do you remember?" "You gave it to me." "Tomislav!" "I offered you a drink and you ignored me." "Well, Đurica, you never change." "Regimes do, but Đurica always stays a servant." "Managing a State Shop is not a servant's job." "It was taken away from Stjepan." "It's no good." "What?" "You should treat people easily and cautiously." "Cheers." "Hesitation in action equals death." "Didn't comrade Lenin say so?" "Huh, Tomislav?" "I'm a servant of the people." "Of the people!" "It's not what you think." "It's something else." "Something else!" "I don't know what to do with him." "Should we leave him hanging or throw him out?" "At some places they take him down, while at others they keep him up." "Let's not rush things or prosecute people those who put him up there." "In politics, you never know." "I'd turn him to the wall for now." "How about it?" "If Tomislav says so, turn him over." "Is it OK this way?" "The Cominform Resolution found you in Moscow?" "Did they try to get you to stay there?" "There were some attempts." "Did anybody stay?" "Some did." "There are always those who are weak and unsure." "Here too, some people who were neither here nor there come to me every day and ask whose side I'm on." "Do you know what I tell them?" "With a communist, you always know whose side he's on!" "Let them figure it out." "So, you're into politics..." "And you were there." "What's this now?" "What do you think about it?" "Even if I wasn't there, I know what Stalin wants." "He wants us to obey only him." "So that he can replace whomever he wants and appoint whom he wants." "He's the boss!" "Can he achieve that by force?" "Well, he can." "They're stronger." "Then again, there's only one Stalin." "Hello?" "See, I don't think so." "There's only one God." "And not even that, if you don't believe in him." "Well, so long." "Rosa had no time to fix you a room so lay down here." "We'll sleep together." "I talked to her on the phone." "We can expect her tomorrow." "There are many here who don't like you." "I know, I know." "But I'm not trying to change them." "They also ask me where I was and what I did." "I could also object to them." "For instance?" "Why did they have to remove the church bell?" "Let the church object to that." "Future generations will mock us for it, Tomislav." "But we're the ones who'll make them." "They won't dare say a word." "You should object less and help the people's power more." "I'd hate to see you ranked among the enemies of the regime." "What about those cooperatives?" "Listen, I'm tired." "We'll talk about everything tomorrow." "Where have you been?" "Good night." "I've made smoked ham." "We'll have some for breakfast." "Come on, get up!" "You're under arrest!" "What's going on?" "Are you crazy?" "Go back." "Come on..." "And don't be a fool." "Do what we say." "And don't say good-bye to anybody." "Nobody cares about you anyway." "You're drunk." "You smell of brandy." "You'll see later who's drunk." "Just Russian books!" "Evidence." "Go fuck your mother!" "You're drunk!" "Come on, move, Tomislav." "Turn the lights off!" "What?" "You're scared shitless?" "Move!" "Get in, you traitor!" "Tomislav!" "Listen to me on parting." "There'll be more shocks and crises in the Party, but nothing will help those who are expelled." "So be careful." "Don't join anyone's ranks." "And don't spit in the well you drank from." "I'm not against Soviet communism." "Over there." "But we don't need it over here." "Our own is good enough for us." "Even if it wasn't, it holds power." "When I hear that there's only one Stalin," "I don't get it." "It has to be proved." "So you prove it." "There." "It's all beyond us!" "There's nothing we can do." "You always resign!" "The things aren't always as they seem." "Come on, calm down." "See, you're tired." "I'm fine." "I'm OK." "Let's take the train." "We must find him." "You've got fever!" "Nobody wants to see a miserable woman." "Least of all, a prisoner." "My mouth is dry." "Does anybody have a sip of water?" "This will be your cozy room." "You'll explain everything there!" "Is this my bunk?" "Take it, who's stopping you?" "We know each other!" "We know each other well, Čubar." "You left me once..." "Forget about it." "Now we're together again." "This is the right place for a communist." "We'll continue our underground activity." "What underground activity?" "Čubar doesn't give up." "You'll fight for what?" "For the International movement." "For what this Party has abandoned." "For the world proletariat." "If you're up for it, put it there." "You declared yourself in favor of Stalin?" "That's the only right path!" "We're not on the same path, Čubar." "Young man's no fool." "And he's not a hard-ass!" "Cut the crap!" "We'll tear your balls off first!" "Why are you busting my balls with politics?" "I'm resting here." "Any news about Tomislav?" "I'll know tomorrow." "I have a meeting at the Ministry." "Why are you banging on the door?" "What do you want now?" "Something's not clear to you?" "It's all clear." "Fuck you." "Why bang?" "There's nothing you can do." "Why are you pacing the cell?" "You're getting on my nerves!" "They beat you up?" "They did you good." "Cut the crap!" "Who touched my bench?" "It wasn't this way!" "So what if it wasn't?" "It's not wise to touch my bench." "I have my order and my habits." "And you, boy, you went through my things again, didn't you?" "I know it was you!" "I know it!" "Leave the man alone." "I don't want anybody to talk to me!" "You're all the same." "Kulaks and petty thieves." "And those who are nowhere." "Like you." "Listen, we've know each other for a long time, you can say anything to me, but not that." "You sold out!" "You'd lick it all just to be set free." "I'm leaving, tomorrow." "And you'll die like a traitor." "Yes..." "I'll order coffee and cigarettes." "Have a seat." "Comrade..." "Have a seat." "History can sometimes be brutal to those who created it." "But also to the innocent ones." "You said it well." "Sometimes history isn't a teacher, but a bitch." "You intend to tell me bad news?" "Tomislav died today." "It was an accident." "And that unfortunate arrest and all..." "So someone's to blame." "We'll investigate." "We fixed everything for him to go as a consul to Romania." "How can I believe you with all this...?" "I understand your suspicions." "I'd understand your anger too." "His fate is my misfortune too." "We were close friends." "I had my objections, but..." "I loved him sincerely." "I'd like to bury him in the family vault." "Good news." "It was all a mistake." "Why didn't he come?" "He left." "As a consul." "To America?" "Yes." "Get well now." "Look how beautiful everything is around you." "Like in heaven."