"M U S I C ln mountain valleys blossoms the flower that gives us love lt glitters and shines in morning darkness like the crack of dawn ln mountain valleys, the fragrance of honey smells sweeter than grass" "Herds of sheep cuddling on slopes, songs resounding in homes ln mountain valleys people never lock their doors" "Their hearts are pure and gentle like streams of creeks..." "CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Late 1970s" "All civilian members of the auxiliary border guards should come to the National Committee." " Shall I help you, sir?" " Leave ma alone." "And don't call me sir." "Do not." "That's not fit for this country." "Come here if you want to give me a hand." "But be careful, I've got something for you." "Take it out..." " Well, play." " l can't..." "When you can play the clarinet then you can play the saxophone too." "That's my neighbor Rudo, disregard him, he screws my wife." "An unhappy person... no musical ear." "Gimme 500 crowns and take it." "500 crowns, gimme!" "I am Martin Junec, I'm the best jazzman in these boonies." "You're the biggest jackass I know!" "Who's there?" "May I come in?" "You're already in, so why are you asking?" "To be polite." "Mária's pregnant." "I'm her husband, so I surely do know." "You're too loud." "My old woman doesn't like it." "Specially the moaning." "But Marfa dreams about snakes and then she screams in her sleep." "Don't pull my leg!" "I still can tell a nightmare from good sex." "Deeper with that spade!" "Stop yelling, or I'll stick it up your ass!" "Son-of-a-bitch." "Some sons don't turn out right." "What is it?" "I made a sort of schedule for you." "For this quarter." "Understand?" "These days here the ones that are not circled, that's before the full moon, then you can do it, then the old woman sleeps like a log." "But be careful!" "These circles here, that's the full moon." "Then she doesn't sleep, she's nervous." "She hears everything." " Then you take a break!" " l'm supposed to follow this?" "Why do you have that stupid hat?" "Just because." "Okay, I'm not saying anything used to have one myself too." "There's freedom on our street." "Full moon... got it?" "Nothing." "Rub it on me." "I have to be careful not to get stretch marks on my skin." "You have something in your palms like ultrasound, like those heelers." "I can feel my body vibrating." "Can you feel it too?" "Tonight its full moon; that makes it even more powerful, they say." "You just named it." "What's this?" "Why is it in the bed?" " What's up?" " Nothing." " Go to bed, mum!" " Don't call me mum!" " Mária, why were you screaming?" " l thought I had a snake in my bed." "Why do you scare her with such nasty things?" "I don't want to see that instrument around here." "I don't feel like singing so you won't blow that horn here!" "Got it?" "Mária, if you needed something..." " Martin, stop it." " Buffoon." "See him?" "Stop!" "Show me your id!" "See, here you look like a human being." "So, you either pay a 200-crown fine or get a haircut." " l didn't do anything." " All right, come." " Hold on, that's against the law." " What's against the law?" "You're against the law." "But that won't last long!" "What's in it for you in that playing?" "Nothing, I swear on my soul." "Don't speak about the soul." "People are bastards." "The only real thing we have is the rank." " What rank do you have?" " Private." "I used to be Captain." "Understand, Captain!" "But they degraded me." "They said it was a theft." "But I didn't steel, I only signed papers and each month the sergeant nicked two tanks of gas." "He stole enough to build a house." "And I got nothing." "Marfa called, you should call her back." " She's jealous, right?" " Good, women should be jealous." "Women should be kept alert all the time!" "Listen, how do you spell that..." "that jazz?" "Why do you wanna know?" "I have to write reports about the young man." "So I'll write about his playing in the workplace." "Put there he likes only American music." "So he'll wait a little until he gets that apartment." "They kicked my ass for nothing too!" "I have a bottle of booze." "Shall I open it?" " Shall we sit around?" " Shall we think about the world?" "That's needed." "I should send him to see a doctor, he's not normal." "Stop picking on him." "You were a mess yesterday, again." " Let us live." " You should watch your mouth." "You don't live or what?" "Let us live!" "Shall we go lie in a grave?" "Or what?" "!" "Shut up!" "Martin, come inside, have coffee with us!" "One day I will smash his head and then I'll hang myself." " And who's gonna dig?" " Our Mária." "At least she gets to exercise her abdominals before the childbirth." " You have a night shift?" " l do." "And will they give you that apartment?" "If they will - they will, if they won't - they won't." "To kill him wouldn't be enough." "Here they write that in Prague they put some musicians in jail." " Prague is a jungle." " l've seen that first hand." "I was there at two sporting gatherings." "They got four years?" "These days it's not worth it to be a musician." "I would sentence them to twice as many!" "Why?" "You'll play some hard beats and they put you in jail." " What can one do here then!" " Well, young men... you should get interested in cosmonautics." "Also here comrades write that 'a new horizon - cosmonautics is opening up to the youth!" "'" "And I'm asking you, young people, are you ready?" " That's supposed to be us?" " No doubts about you, asshole, I would shoot you out to the space right away." "But can you navigate by the stars?" " l'm completely disoriented." " And it's so simple." "You find the Big Dipper and you'll take the distance between its rear stars and extend it four times." "You'll find the North Star, that's the North, then the East is on your right and the West on your left." "It's strange but that's the way it is." "The Universe is quite simple in its essence." "There's no Universe, only Heaven." "And stars are the souls of unborn babies." "Amen Maria." "I think we discussed all we wanted to discuss today." "We're going to a wedding on Sunday." "Your cousin is getting married!" "What shall I wear?" "I have nothing to put on." "Look!" "You hear me?" "I have nothing to put on!" "All right." "You'll find something to wear." "Something, something..." "what something." " Shall I wear this?" " That one's nice." "To a wedding?" "Marfa, it is as nice as when we bought it together." "Never. I'd look like a wretch in it." "All right, so we won't go when you have nothing to wear." "I knew you would start with that." "You'd rather sit around all day and play and don't tell me you wouldn't." "Marfa, to tell you the truth, I wouldn't!" "Wait, does that mean you would?" "Come here, come." "What's up with you?" "You weren't this way!" "I'm a night bus." "Get on!" "I'll give you a ride to any place." "What's in that case?" " A saxophone." " Play something." "So play!" "Don't be shy." "Thanks..." "Play!" "If they asked you, you were playing the "Song of Labor"." "Honor work!" "What are you doing here this late?" "Gimme your id!" "You work at the water tower?" "As what?" " As an oiler." " An oiler?" "An oiler. I oil machines." " What were you playing?" " The Song of Labor." "Okay." "Be careful, oiler." "This is the state border." "What will Austrians think about us?" "That this is some kind of a circus?" "This was the last time!" "Honor labor, assholes!" " You've got guts!" " And you play nicely." "Okay... bye, oiler!" "That can't be true." "The Song of Labor?" "is he nuts?" "!" " He's playing the American anthem." " Are you nuts too?" "I can tell one from the other, can't I?" " But they are sort of alike." " l'm telling you." "Come in and do no harm." "Don't drink!" "Stop pushing me." "What have I done?" "Why are you so grumpy?" "You should drink when you're offered." " You know I don't drink." " You needn't drink much, just a little or else they'll feel offended." " l don't like it." " Well, get over it." " lt's our family." " All right, I'll have a sip." "And stop making such long face." "I'm so nervous." "At least pretend you like it." " What are you doing?" " l'm peeing." "Marfa, you're nuts!" "This is how I like you when you're nuts a bit." "Why?" "Life's nicer when it's normal." "Stop, gees, those hands of yours." "I'll start vibrating again." "Stop it and come inside!" "So much coffee, that'll kill him," " he's already had thirteen." " He's not superstitious." "He must come round." " What are you doing?" "!" " l want a woman..." "You shouldn't drink!" "Where are you going?" "I want a woman!" "Come here!" "Yes... a woman... I'll show you a woman!" "Careful, guys!" "Never seen anything like this." "So, now we can drink to the health of the newly weds." "At least drink to our baby." "I'd rather play to him." "And to you!" "Oh, Maria, pray for us" "You were visited by Lord's Angel" "Pure Virgin you'll conceive the Messiah" "He shall free the people from Devil's hands." "Did you like it?" "What were you playing?" "That was great." "That was an old hit." "You're really good." "I'll find you." " Do you know him?" " l do, but he's not from here." "Good morning." "Sorry, I've been waiting here for more than an hour." "Were we supposed to meet?" "Look what I have." " Gees, what is it?" " That's automatic drums." "This replaces a person, see?" "It saves money." "I have a proposal for you." "We'll start a band." "So, what do you think?" "Finally, you'd get something out of that playing." "You really want this?" "We'll make as much as six - seven hundreds at dances!" "And even more at weddings." "Your husband is a real talent, madam!" "Can I talk to him in private, please?" "Thank you very much." "There are other things at stake here." "You want to rot here?" "At your in-laws?" "Music is music... capish?" "!" "You can get out whenever you want, side income, free food, and as many chicks as you want!" "Simply, free as a bird!" "Father is digging;" "go give him a hand..." " Me?" " l can't." "Gotta go." " l have the afternoon shift." " Listen, at that tower, do you have some young lab assistants?" " Marfa..." " What?" "!" "They walk around in while gowns and they have nothing underneath." " Marfa, are you nuts?" " No underpants?" " Marfa!" " Swear!" " Swear they aren't there!" " l swear." " What's wrong with her?" " Get a grip on yourself!" "Look at you!" "You'd need to change a haircut." "These days, sideburns are in." "I don't know why Mária is attracted to him." " Such newcomer." " Don't worry about that." "You should finally find a woman." "And stop drinking!" " Women don't want me, so I drink." " Stop boozing and they'll want you." "Yesterday I was sober all day, and what?" "Nothing!" "So what, oiler." "Going to the shift also on a Sunday?" "Honor labor, comrade!" "Listen, oiler, I'm passing by the tower." "Get on!" "Are you listening?" "is that jazz?" "Isn't he sick?" "No, he's making fun of us." " Water tower, I'm listening." " Can I talk to Martin?" "All right, I'll call him." "Martin, a phone call for you!" " Hello!" "Martin?" " He's not here." "He just left with one young lab assistant, went to the shower, I guess, to hump," "but I don't mind." "I'll call him." "Junec, come to the phone." " Marfa?" " So you are humping?" "!" "But, no..." "Marfa." "I'm not humping!" "I swear." "You're just making it worse with this jealousy." "Who called?" "Why is that little clover growing by the creek?" "Why my darling lover never comes to me?" "Dear comrades, hunters, our dear wives and mothers." "Now I open drawing of the raffle." "We have valuable prizes!" " Aren't you a singer, by any chance?" " l'm not, why?" " You have an interesting voice." " Really?" "You're making fun of me?" "I'm a musician, not a comedian." "Would you like a drink?" " We need a singer..." " Really?" "Seriously!" "I'll give you the number of Martin Junec, you give him a call and he'll try out your voice." " Really?" " Really!" "And now I'd test your sense of rhythm." "And now:" "let music, dance and singing start again!" "Go to sleep." "Martin, sleep!" "What, honey, what would you like?" "Look how much work I have here." "I'd need to work only morning shifts." "Good you're here..." "let me see." "I'm knitting for my husband." " Would that be possible?" " And why so suddenly?" "You wanted to work shifts to make money." "Don't need it anymore?" "I go play at dances." "I make more there." "Well... that'll be good." "Some small water facility would be just fine." "You know what?" "We may have something like that." " But you'll be there alone." " Yes." "Martin, don't be crazy!" "God knows who will come as your replacement!" " Some writer wants to hide here." " You can't see into a writer's head!" "You'll say something and you'll appear in his book." "Martin..." "Shit!" "That's normal." "You'll get used to it." "Who's that?" "You're gaping, huh?" "That's Anca Prepichová." "What do you know about her?" "Not much..." "She dropped out of school." "She's nuts." "She makes parachutes for the army." "Now I'll get him." "Don't move and don't talk." "We should talk." "Or else he'll get it we're lurking to catch him." " The mole is a swine!" " l'm telling you to shut up!" "We should let him live." "If he wants to dig, so be it." "Why must he dig right here?" "Why isn't he digging at the neighbors'?" "That's a nicer garden." "He doesn't give a shit about beauty, he's blind as a bat!" "But he's got good hearing." "He came here to listen to my music." "Say it again and I'll hit you over the head with a hoe!" "Screw it!" "Hruskovic called..." "you have a rehearsal." "Turn on the auxiliary pump!" "I'm turning it on!" "lncrease the pressure!" "I'm increasing the pressure!" "Send a report to the Central Committee." "You can screw me!" "I'm some Bucicová." "Milada." "I'm Junec." "Martin." "I was looking for you everywhere." "But this isn't a music agency, is it?" " Nope, this is a water tower." " l see." "What do you need?" "You need a singer." "So I came here for tryouts." "Hruskovic sent me." "I see... so come." "You know music notes?" " Partly." " What's that?" "Some I do and some I don't." "Depends." "I'll play you some tunes and you'll repeat them." "Well, try the same tone." "Okay?" "Once more!" "I need to start myself up." "Will you have a drop of brandy too?" "Shall we try it again?" "Wrong again." "You're having a bad day." "And it's small wonder!" "I start the shift at six." "I work at a warehouse." "I carry boxes with vegetables." "Cabbage, potatoes and so... I handle more than 3 tons a day!" "I'm twenty two, I don't wanna die there like some bitch." " l wanna sing!" " But you ain't good enough." "I know what you're after!" "So don't waste time with singing, okay?" "Okay." "I'm late already." "What are you doing there?" "Beating my meat." "What else can one do in this fucking state?" "I'm Martin Junec, I'm an oiler." "And I fuck the whole world." "What are you staring at, oiler?" "What, wanna touch them?" "Martin!" "You have a son!" "You have a son!" "Marfa gave birth to a son!" "Don't stand there like a prick!" "Don't know where the North is?" "They called from the hospital!" "Marfa just gave birth to your son!" "Your mother wants to call him Samko." "And I want to call him..." "Jimi!" "After Hendrix." "Get up, cowards!" "There is freedom on this street!" "Hungarian bands!" "Lokomotiv GT, Illes, Omega, that's freedom!" "It's late, quarter to two." "Are you nuts, or what?" "If I wanted to know what time it is I'd call the phone service!" "Get lost!" "Mária will sleep in the small room now." "Next to our bedroom." "She'll have peace and quiet there." "Also to nurse the baby when little Samko wakes up at night." " l'll help her out." " l'd be able to take care of that." "You're not able to take care even of yourself." "I almost forgot." "Hruskovic is waiting for you in the kitchen." "Shall I send him in?" "So, this is how you ended up!" "They put you in solitary confinement." " Well..." " l'll give you some advice." "Don't let them make a jackass out of yourself!" " What do you have there?" " You'll see!" "That's something, right?" "I have that on loan from the TV." "From the TV?" " And what for?" " What, what for?" "Just take it easy, man." "These days you can't play unless you pass a qualification exam." "So, we also have to go before the committee." " ln this?" " So what?" "I'll look like a total jackass." "You won't be able to stand ten minutes of shame?" "We'll play, they'll evaluate us, we'll get the paper." "Finito." "This is good..." "We'll compose something ideological. I have a great idea." "A guy is fleeing across the borders and the border patrol gets him." "And they shoot him dead like a dog!" "You can't take it so emotionally." "Where is he going, why is he fleeing?" "In principle he's a moron to be running away... ain't he?" "I'm not gonna do this." "I'd rather die." "Eternal Lenin, Eternal Kremlin Eternal Moscow, come to us lt's about principles" "So come our star People remember" "Who for money bullshit wrote" "People remember Who shamelessly lied in their face" "The fate of this Earth is spinning its wheels" "Proletarians of all countries unite" "All right, guys." " Do you know notes?" " Partly, depends which ones." " Both come here..." " Just dare to open your mouth again!" "Combo Murydane." "is that English?" "It's an acronym." "MU - music, RY - rythm, DANE - dance." "It sounds like that American wind that swept through Cuba." "You know that Cuba is the island of freedom." "Huricane!" "Murydane!" "Excuse me, but it really irritates me!" "Me to!" "I feel like throwing up!" "We'll change it." "No problem." "To Harmony or something like that." "And do you have some soviet songs in you repertoire?" "Of course, The Red Platoon and Moscow Evenings." "Not enough!" "You need more." "We'll add some." "What do you think, which art is the most important?" "The most important art... has always... been music." " No, film." " Film." "Film is the most important art." "Also comrade Lenin used to say so." " But I accept that music too." " Thank you." "Fine with me." "All right then, I think you passed." "Hold on, hold on." "We'll mail you the exam certificate." "And your degree of qualification." "Well, you got the second degree." "It that all right?" " Well..." " What?" " Now, the second half of money." " l see..." "And that Hruskovic from the Central Committee" " is some relation of yours?" " That's my uncle." "Really?" "Then I can arrange for you to play in some nice bar." "That'd be so kind of you." "What do you want in return?" "We'll talk about it later." "And you can call me anytime." "My name is engineer Prokopec." "Thank you." " What's up?" " Jump." "That worked last time." " ls he really your uncle?" " Are you crazy?" "I have no uncle." "Higher, guys, higher." "What's all that hurry?" "How long are we gonna stand here?" "We want to get out." "Golden times of door handles." "This was the last time you made me look like a jackass." " Where is Martin?" "is he playing?" " l sent him to buy bananas." "Bananas?" "Now?" "is it Christmas?" " Did you buy them?" " They didn't have any." " How come they didn't?" " They simply didn't." "All they got was three bags of red beets." " What's that in the bag?" " l bought last ones... I sent you to get bananas!" "Stuff these down your own throat!" "He's totally incapable!" "I don't know what he has in mind if not his family?" "Stop picking on him." "He cares, see, he even nicked some corncobs for the baby." "Nicked?" "If he'd nicked them I wouldn't say a word." "He bought them!" "Why would he buy them?" "He normally stole them." "He bought them." "That's the way he is." "Worthless dumbass." "From a battered-down church ln a box with a piece of soap I brought home an angel, they broke his wings..." "Martin, come home." " What's up?" " Nothing." "Just come home." "I can't play there, so I'm playing here." " You see I'm not drinking." " That's the problem." "If you were drinking I would know you're not with some..." "Marfa!" "Come home!" " Do I have to?" " You only have to die." "May I?" "You may what?" "Don't ask, you'll see." "How are you?" "Not bad." "And how are you doing?" "Come here, it's warmer up here." "Hungarian is fucking hard." "Playing's not a problem, but that language... impossible." " So cancel it." " l can't, they are expecting us." " What are you singing?" " Don't know, it's in Hungarian." "See, he doesn't understand." "Just like I said." "Wait, wait..." "How much more of this do you know?" " All this. I know it by heart." " All this?" "You can sing all this?" " That's you'll go with us." " And where?" "A purely Hungarian village." "Keep that in mind!" "How do you want to do that?" "Locomotiv GT, Illes, Omega..." " Don't worry!" " But that's really hard rock!" "An electric guitar will do, and he plays a guitar." "So what, are you in?" " But you'll find me a woman." " Consider it done!" "Well, I don't know." "Don't worry." "We'll fool the Hungarians with some Czech bigbeat!" "Play some rumble so he'll go to sleep." "My darling, give me more" "Give me more of your love I don't want nothing else" "But to stroke your hair..." "That was enough, now play some Hungarian songs as we agreed." "What language is that?" "I'll show you what Hungarian big beat is!" "I'm telling you never again to come to a Hungarian wedding!" "This is for overall detoxication." "And good for nerves." "And how is little Samko?" "He's fine." "Don't come close to him, be so kind." "You play in all sorts of bars, he might catch some plague from you." "Yuk, this is distastefully bitter, mum!" "Don't call me mum." "What?" "Give this to Samko." "I bought it for him." "I will teach him to swim in the summer." "Don't you dare!" "Such little baby, you want to drown him?" "If it wasn't for the baby I would kick you out long ago." "Watch out, mum!" "Dasha, smile to me my dear Dasha" "Be a little sweeter, throw away your sadness" "Smiley at me - l'll be glad" "Dasha darling leave it to me I really love you..." "Well guys, I think we're mature enough to be professionals!" " How do you mean that?" " As you hear it." "You mean I wouldn't have to go to work?" " You said it." " Good." "Let's go for it!" "I'll buy a better synthesizer." "When I kick it off even Varga can go to hell!" "See, when you stop playing he starts screaming." " When you're playing he's sleeping." " The baby's got it." "I am Martin Junec, my Newyorkers love me" "and I love Anca Prepichová." "Good morning, comrade Prokopec!" "This is Hruskovic." "I'm calling again about that agreement we have... would there be anything for us..." "Wow, bar Moscow?" "Where is it?" "He offers three thousand for one night." "Screw all Moscow. I'm not playing." "I wanna play jazz." "You take it?" "Good." "Comrade Prokopec, we take it." "Yes." "Thanks." "Bye." "You didn't hear me?" "I'm done with music!" " Hi, oiler!" " Would you introduce me to miss?" "This is Hruskovic from the band." "And this is my..." "acquaintance Anca Prepichová." " Hruskovic." " Nice to meet you." " l didn't understand, Pre...what?" " Prepichová..." " Prepichová?" "Of course." " Yes, Anca Prepichová." "I heard that soldiers at the base call you the Prick." "They do." "They have nicknames for everything." "Listen, Prepichová... I bet that you don't have underpants under that dress." "Maybe I do maybe I don't." "Check it out." " You've got guts." " Have a look." " l'm gonna check the water pumps." " Just go." " Why are you acting this way?" " How?" "Imagine it was my brother-in-law." "Why are you so uptight?" " What do you feel?" " Anca, you're such bitch!" "I heard you don't wanna play anymore." "I don't." "That's a pity." "You have nimble fingers." "Play something..." " l wanted to tell you that..." " Don't worry, I won't tell Marfa." "Who else should stick together if not us, musicians?" "Professionals!" "So, do we take that Moscow?" "I'm drawing a rose when I am all by myself I will keep the rose but tear up the paper I'm drawing a rose staring into the silence" "You are so beautiful it takes my breath away..." "Will you take me..." "We already have a singer." "I mean, will you give me a ride home, it's so cold outside." "and I'm pregnant..." "Ivan... Ivan!" " l feel like having a drink." " l'm thirsty too." " Let's go to the attic." " lt's cold in there." "Doesn't matter." "We'll have a drink... resolve things!" "This is how I'd briefly evaluate our situation..." "We're in a good shape." "I'd like to know where those rats we're playing for get their money." "Don't worry." "We'll make money too." "We just need to find our way." "Sure, we'll swim across the Danube and flee to Sweden." "We'll get shitfaced there and make a snowman!" "You're laughing but he's not far from the truth." "What would you say about Switzerland?" "What... you mean we could go to Switzerland?" "Little Samko woke me up." "I'll sit with you." " That would be possible?" " Sure." "We have to rehearse something for the local commies." "Something political." "Some kind of a cantata." "To earn bonus points." "That will get us abroad." "If you don't mind I'll feed him." "Each cantata needs its grand theme!" "Something like: "Let's build a dam against... whatever!"" ""Let's build a dam against the world capital!"" " Screw the whole cantata, what..." " Finally a good idea!" "I have a great idea." "How about joining the Party?" "Listen, young lady, didn't I teach you some time back?" " l can leave if I'm disturbing you." " Sit, sit, Anca the Prick." "Wanna chip in?" "We are creating a political cantata." " What can she know about cantatas?" " Me?" "is it this?" "In the distance Endless Universe, beneath it our Changing World." "There is only one immortal man, it is comrade Lenin." "Happy life of our people..." "Happy life in a happy country..." "Our song through the world is roaring." "lmperialists are angry!" "That's what the right cantata should look like!" "Comrade Lenin..." "It is comrade Lenin..." " Comrade Lenin is not..." " l heard nothing!" "It is Lenin..." "It is llja..." "lljitch..." "Lenin..." "My dear, forget about false determinism." "There's no God's predestination, that would defy the principle of free will he granted to us." "We are responsible for our deeds, but can you freely choose between good and evil?" "Nothing can be predicted." ""Hell is other people!"" " Where do you know all this from?" " l don't know." "Good morning." "Just to let you know I'm not mad at you." "I'm gonna wake up Hruskovic." "He brought you home and fell asleep in the kitchen." "When we're here alone..." "can I... something?" "You can do anything, Mária." "Does Martin have a mistress?" "You know, we guys always stick together." "I guess I'm not enough for him." "But, Marfa, don't feel sorry for yourself." "You're a good woman." " You have a body of a model." " Stop it!" "You can believe me, I've made out with many women." "Come here. I'll check you out." "Purely as an expert." "Come here, don't be afraid." "Oh, this is great..." "Just great." "This body doesn't deserve a skirt chaser like Martin, trust me!" "I knew it." "Let us sing you our song about a hero biggest of all" "This song we're proudly carrying To the mausoleum of comrade Lenin" "So, let us all listen to the cantata about lljitch" "Who opened up a new horizon with his grand deeds" "To fight famine and want in tsarist Russia" "Proletarians raised their heads" "And there he stood in the forefront in the forefront of the crowds" "Aurora that guards the Neva" "Fires on the Winter Palace" "And capitalists are trembling" "Fearful of workers' anger" "Happy is the proletarian" "Joyfully building communism" "Capitalists are running away" "You too should join the ways of Leninism" "Hunger, famine and want" "None of us ever again wants" "Therefore let us proudly carry" "Great Lenin's bequest in our hearts" "Satiated, clad in nice cloths We're building our happy present" "Healthy, living in nice houses We're thinking only about future" "Happy life of our children Happy life in a happy country..." "Our song through the world is flying lmperialists are very angry!" ""Their moral-political profile is of the highest degree."" "It took much time until I beat this out of them." "Does it mean we don't need to grease the wheels?" "Sure we do." "As we agreed, each of us equally." "And how about you?" "You don't wanna go to Switzerland?" "The Swiss irritate me because they yodel." "You've fallen in love, right, oiler?" "If you pull out I'll have to have a word with Marfa!" "Martin, come here to help me." "Here's the key to the chalet I told you about." "Go for a fuck." "Clear your mind." "You'll see things in a better light." "Chop, chop, take it." "And you wouldn't wanna live with me?" "Are you insane?" "I've heard many things but nobody so far came up with this kind of bullshit." "It's fucking cold." "I'm looking forward to the summer." " To that sea of ours." " What sea?" "We don't have a sea!" "I mean that dam in the east." "I've got a union vacation voucher." " You're in the unions?" " Yes." "All of us who sew parachutes for the army are there." "Nobody there gives a damn that I'm nuts." "But I've never walked this far for a fuck." "Anca, you don't have a clue what you mean to me." "What?" "Are you waiting long?" "I'm sorry." "You were right." "I called him at work." "And he claimed he had a night shift." "Don't fret over him." "He doesn't deserve it." "What do you feel?" "Vanilla?" "You know, to me quality is a priority." "Were you crying?" "Mária... that's such nice name." "It's really cold." "Are your parents sleeping?" "They aren't home." "Won't you invite me inside?" "Come in!" "It's almost certain." "You're almost there." "Here it is." "A list of bars." "All of them in Switzerland." "Basel, Locarno, Zurich." "I have a business proposal for you." "Oh, no, no." "That's enough." "I already got some." "Thanks." " l'll give you three thousands." " And what do you want for it?" "I want you to thwart this Switzerland business!" "What are you playing at?" "Do you want to get me fired?" " l don't." " So what do you want?" "Get us something in the east." "In the east?" "What in the east?" "Where in the east?" "In the east." "Where that dam is..." "What dam?" "What's there in the east... a dam." " Zemplínska Sírava?" " Yes." "You wanna go there?" "I always wanted to see it." "Since I was a kid." "Nobody wants to go there." "It's in the boonies." "What is it about that money?" "Tell Hruskovic that Switzerland is booked out and all that's left is the east." "Oh God, you know what I'm risking?" "His uncle is on the Central Committee." "Oh God..." "Write from time to time." "And you could show up once a month." "I'll see. lt depends on how busy we gonna be." "Good." "Don't show yourself to him." "The less of you he sees the sooner he'll get used to your absence." "He's shitfaced." "A cannon ball wouldn't wake him." "Tell me, what profile do we need to get to the West?" "I've been profiling my whole life and I don't even have a passport any more." "One can play anywhere." "This is some band!" "One is wasted and the other's nuts." "Who have I teamed up with?" "Cheers." "Keep an eye on him, they drink awfully lot in the east." "Today bright sun is shining on us its rays warming up the flower of peace" "Do join us!" "The happy youth is calling" "Where the youth is strong The new world shall arise..." " So where?" " Straight ahead." "To the left, to the East." "To hell." "This is no Geneva Lake, this is no Switzerland." " You're from that band?" " From the band..." "What?" "The season hasn't started yet, it's empty here." "But tomorrow the first batch is arriving." "Some tailors." " Where are they staying?" " Here, in bungalows." " Nice, ain't they..." " What places are we playing at?" "Stop by in my office." "I'll give you keys to your rooms." "You'll play every Saturday evening on the big stage and during the week you'll play for Soviet soldiers." "And what about chicks, are there any?" "There will be." "Mostly East Germans." "Warm beer is better than a cold German women." "What's up?" "What do you want?" "I'm looking for Anca Prepichová." "Anca, you've got a visitor at the gate!" "is that you, oiler?" " Come out, let's take a walk." " Wait. I'll put something on." "Let me introduce you." "This is..." "Japanese..." " What's your real name?" " Japanese." "Are you that oiler?" "Anca has mentioned you." "Hi." "I'm Bee." "Not like that bzzz, but like a Bee." "Do you know the difference between a pioneer's scarf and a bulldozer?" "Well, you ate his cock." " But he is... just like Anca said." " Why are you so?" "So uptight..." "like that statue of that saint..." " Crispin." " Crispin." " Let's go." "See ya." " See ya." "Aren't you glad I'm here?" "I am but one can't see that one me." "Do you know what I had to do to get here?" "I am glad." "I still can't see it." "I can't help it. I experience things and no emotion comes out of me." "Like now I would bite you in the ear." "And can you tell?" "You can't." "What's up?" "Shall we have sex here?" " Anca, you're nuts." " You don't have to remind me." "I even jotted it down in my passport." "So what?" "Do you want?" "What did you come here for?" "Holes in his pockets His eye on stalks" "All by himself" "The life never applauds him" "He cheekily stares girls at their legs..." "Listen, oiler, isn't that your acquaintance from the water tower?" "Are they having a get-together here?" " Anca, come, let's go for a walk." " What for?" "You'd better play." "That's what you're here for." " Anca's here with us!" " What?" "Have you already picked up your teeth with your broken arms?" "Do you know the Dead Sea?" "You better watch out!" "And you know all that blood is in the Red Sea?" "And you know that the Black Sea mourns that Dead?" "I'm changing the physiognomy of the Earth" " and you call me by my first name?" " You call him by his first name?" "What's up, little goalie, did you catch it all?" "What?" "Don't come close to her or I'll rip you belly open with scissors." "What are you doing?" "May I guess?" "This trip into this hole, have you arranged it?" "Don't guess." "Leave it." "We could've lived like kings." "You know how much money I've lost?" "So kill me!" "I tell you something..." "wanna hear it?" "I slept with that Marfa of yours." "I did..." "See ya, oiler." "What are you doing here?" "What's up?" "Lie down." "You have good gorillas." "Japanese..." "Bee..." "They're fun." "I gave them those names." "We, who sew parachutes, we are like a family." "You know, to sleep with somebody that's great fun to me." "And we gotta have fun, right?" "I guess." "Go to my room, Žofré is sleeping there." "He really needs a woman." "You'll have so much..." "fun with him." "Good. ls there a shower there?" "See, this is how I like you... not when you all tied up like that saint Crispin." "Girls, you made our heads spin around" "Girls, you are like fragile porcelain" "From puddles to mud holes" "Leading us by the nose, girls... I like you, man." "Comrades, let's have a break!" "You're playing beautifully." "Almost like in America." "And I like it here in your country." "Everything's beautiful here, people are nice, girls are pretty." "Have some, don't be afraid." "That's the "duri", you call it the weed." "Have some... I'm..." "Junec!"