"THE POWER OF EMOTION" "This child does not have long to live." "TREACHERY!" "So Hagen slays the child." "THE CHILD!" "Kriemhild has slain King Gunther." "Now Kriemhild slays Hagen." "People soon realized what he had achieved on these journeys to secure jobs." "Since he saw the great potential of East-West co-operation, he was a dedicated advocate of this policy, because he knew that every step to greater co-operation is a step to securing peace." "Accept me..." "Accept me in your ranks, that I do not die a common death." "I do not wish to die in vain." "Yet gladly will I sacrifice myself for the fatherland," "bleed my heart's blood for the fatherland." "The heralds bring tidings of victory:" "The battle is won!" "Rejoice, oh fatherland, and do not count the dead." "Not one too many has fallen for you." "Hölderlin." "Beautiful." "Yes..." "But people don't notice that they've forgotten the most important thing until the train leaves." "...caught him." "The English won't catch our lieutenant." "Herr Kammersänger, you are famous for your passionate expression in Act I." "It has been written that there is a spark of hope on your face." "when, as a reasonable person, know the terrible ending in Act V?" "I don't know that in Act I." " But you've played the role 84 times!" "Yes, it's a very successful piece." "Then you ought to know the awful ending." " I do." "But not in Act I." "But you're not stupid!" "I wouldn't tolerate such a slur!" "Then you know from past performances that at 8:10 pm in Act I, what is going to happen at 10:30 pm in Act V." " So what?" "Then why do you have "a spark of hope on your face?"" "Because in Act I, I can't know Act V." "You mean this opera could end differently?" " Of course." "But it doesn't." "Not in 84 times." "Yes, it's a very successful piece." "Thus 84 performances." "But it doesn't have a happy ending." "You have something against success?" "No." "But Act V doesn't have a happy ending." "But it could!" "The time always comes to say adieu,  even for those in love." "The time always comes to say adieu,  because no love is ever true." "Don't promise me you'll be forever mine,  no love can last for ever." "The time always comes to say adieu,  even for those who love." "People who can't bear something go on tolerating it for a long time." "Then they suddenly break out,  unexpectedly and brutally." "Please be careful with that rifle." "Like this?" " Yes, like that..." "Did she turn it like that?" " Yes, she took it out of the cupboard." "The muzzle was facing the cupboard, then she turned it along its own axis, toward her husband." "Please be careful." "Put it down." "But what the woman wanted to express has a certain logic." "The transformation of a capable combat officer, accustomed to war and women, into a silent alcoholic who only opens up to his daughter, and not verbally, is a kind of impersonal power." "It's something like a shot." "I have this shooting pain in my back." " I have one in my side." "What do you do about it?" " I use a cat skin..." "Thank you." "You see, there is a certain logic..." "THE SHOT" "Why did you open the screen door, take the rifle out of the cupboard and turn it around if you didn't know how to use it?" " I wanted to shoot." "That takes two things: a gun and the instructions for its use." "I didn't have them." "Then why did you take the rifle out?" " I wanted to fire a shot." "We're going round in circles." "Who did you want to shoot at?" "I didn't know." " Did you want to fire into the air?" " That depended." "On what?" " On what my husband said." " Did he say anything?" "He was too drunk." " You saw that?" " Of course." "You turned the rifle around its axis?" " I can't remember." "You must have, because at first it was pointed toward the wall unit." "It was then pointed at your thigh." "So I must have turned it." " Why did you aim the rifle at yourself?" "I don't remember." "What was the purpose?" " Certainly not to shoot myself in the leg." "Then what?" " I wanted to fire a shot." " So your husband would answer?" " Yes." "But he was too drunk." " I saw that." " Then why the shot?" " I don't know." "But you wanted to fire?" " Yes." "That was your purpose when you took the rifle out." "That was when I had the idea." "A shot had to be fired." "You turned it again and aimed at your husband's chest." "What was the purpose?" "I had none." "My leg hurt." "What did you want to achieve by aiming at your husband?" "The pain to stop." " What pain?" " In my leg." "Not of all the years?" " Don't know." " You still wanted to shoot?" "My purpose was accomplished." "I didn't want to shoot anymore." "Are you sure about that?" " No." "Then what led to the shot?" " I wanted to shoot." " You said that." "I said that." "When you shot yourself, did you feel the pain immediately?" " Not at all." "Are you sure?" " Yes." "Then why did you aim the rifle at your husband?" "It was the right direction." "I 'd been holding it the wrong way." "How did you react when, after returning from the USA, you discovered that your husband raped your daughter?" " Technically, it wasn't rape." "But he touched her, although he didn't ejaculate." "He did the next night." " That's not mentioned in the files." "How did you react?" " Not at all." " Why?" " I had no one to talk to." "You didn't ask your husband?" " I tried." " His reply?" " Nothing." "What about your daughter?" " She doesn't talk to me." "Not at all." "Were you shocked or enraged by your daughter's rape?" " No." "What was your emotional reaction?" " It's hard to say." "I'm not jealous." "But it is a terrible thing!" " Why?" "Your husband raped his own daughter!" "With her consent." "They're very close." "What were you if you weren't shocked or jealous?" "Envious." " You loved your husband?" " I love him, and my daughter too." "So your deed had no connection to the incidents between your daughter and your husband?" "No." "And my shot was not a deed." "What was it?" " A shot." "A shot that hits a person's chest is not a deed?" " No." "An incident." "Perhaps a lapse?" " What do you mean?" "What I'm getting at is this:" "Because of your daughter's rape, the years of drunkenness on the part of your husband, whom you loved however, you reacted to the act of incest with envy." "You blew a fuse, so to speak." "My fuses were okay." "You had to open the screen door, turn a rifle around..." "You shot yourself, turned the rifle around again, and shot your husband as if you had aimed." "An enormous number of deeds, a surplus of facts." "And now you're saying that this chain of events, even if we assume the shot in your own leg was not premeditated, though precisely there you claim you had some intention, was not a deed, not an act," "whereas, on the other hand, you claim that your fuses were okay." "I find this confusing." "So do I, when you put it like that." "So what's wrong with your statement?" " Nothing's wrong." "You wanted to fire a first shot in order to say something." "But you don't know what." "What would enrage any normal person and would be a motive for confusion, namely the rape, did not enrage you." "You claim one does not kill out of envy." "Then why did it happen?" "It would be to your advantage to be confused at the time of the crime instead of now." "I don't deny that it happened." " You can't very well do that." "It was not a rape, but a love affair in unusual circumstances." "And I would like to testify again that I would never kill for personal reasons, especially not my husband." "What do you mean "testify again"?" "You've never testified to that effect." "Then I will now." "THE CONFUSION OF EMOTIONS" "He went down to the river that day." "To say farewell." "To his house, to his garden." "It was the day that Babylon fell..." "The aftermath of that event is still with us." "Babylon was destroyed because people built too high." "The result: the confusion of tongues." "Half-time of the emotions." "One can't even surrender anymore." "Surprised me too..." "Burning... burning... burning... burning." "You see, it's hard to set fire to intact buildings." "The roofs have to go first, then openings have to be blasted, preferably into the 1st or 2nd storeys." "Otherwise, there's no firestorm." "My brother is an air force doctor." "It's like treating an extensive wound." "You can't heal a scab-covered wound." "I compare it to a scabbed historical city." "The scab must be removed, the wound reopened, then we treat it with ointment and gauze." "If a white flag had been raised on the spire of St. Martin's by 11 o'clock, the bomber squadron would have turned back." "It's said a woman tried to bring a flag sewn from 4 sheets to the tower." "That's nonsense." "By then, the bombers could no longer be reached from the command post." "But what is true about the story?" " Nothing." "Did you have any idea what the attack was to accomplish?" "As I already said, only vaguely." "You're a cynic!" "But not a liar." "What good would it do you if I expressed my sympathies now?" "None at all!" "The fourth hour after midnight." "Most people in the world die at this hour." "But the dead are not resting in peace." "They are unsettled,  uncertain whether things will proceed justly upon their resurrection." "If those who have been wound the worst and consequently arrive at the last judgment too late,  then find out that the proceedings are over,  then such final injustice would be reason enough for the graves to open now." "I was ill-advised in my desperation." "But I am even more ill-advised by my understanding." "I feel cold." "He said, "I love you." And then he said something wrong." "IN HER FINAL HOUR..." "The time always comes to say adieu,  even for those who love." "The time always comes to say adieu because no love is ever true." "Don't promise me you'll be forever mine,  no love can last for ever." "Her lover has dumped her." "She doesn't want to live anymore." "A salesman after a long business day." "He would be open for a little fun." "A motorist has observed the events." "The salesman's behavior strikes him as peculiar." "The witness notifies the police of the incident." "Frank from 86/2!" "Send an ambulance to Bieg forest." "It's an emergency!" "Saved by the guilt of another." "To make things worse for the rescuer,  the judge is just crazy about rapists." "A sentence of less than 5 years is out of the question." "I ask you in all seriousness:" "Your feelings were not violated by the defendant who is at the same time your rescuer and your assailant?" "I am under oath." "At the time, I had no feelings whatsoever." "I was unconscious." "So I must declare my neutrality." " What does that mean?" "That my lover's callousness and cunning hits me harder than the defendant's behavior which I didn't even notice." "This is impossible." " I'm not sure about that." "Objects are the opposite of emotions." "This lamp was turned on before a holiday and then forgotten." "It has been on for six weeks now." "In 1918, he returned home from the front." "He found his wife in bed with another man." "Off with the covers!" "Come on!" "He sought clarity." "He had his rifle." "Pain is personal property." "He who has too much property becomes like an object." "This bomb lay buried in the ground for 38 years." "The brass fuse is still intact." "All emotions believe in a happy ending." "One can't say that Erwin handled her like a repairman." "Still, she often wished that he would handle her as carefully as some valuable object." "I found this bolt." "But my big mistake was..." "I have to correct myself:" "It's always clockwise." "But you need a lot of feeling." "It can't be too loose, there has to be tension." "Not too much tension, though, otherwise it will either shear off, or, if the nut isn't tight enough, it will loosen." "And if the nut is gone the screw will fall out as well." "Then the damage is already done." "Once, in the middle of the 19th century,  all the valuable objects of the world assembled in London." "All commodities worldwide sent their representatives:" "the Siemens telegraph,  steel goods from Solingen," "a British iron stove." "A chaise longue with a cardboard wash unit." "A Krupp cannon,  not for sale at that time." "These are the ancestors of all modern consumer goods." "The building was designed by the Duke of Devonshire's gardener," "Mr Paxton." "He made his design in the form of a greenhouse." "The trees in the park did not have to be felled, they fit inside the house." "The men who built the Crystal Palace." "It was destroyed by fire in 1937, four years after the Reichstag fire." "Since then,  objects have no parliament." "Another project is begun in the 19th century: a power plant of emotions,  the Opera house." "THE POWER PLANT OF EMOTIONS" "Something went wrong in the early stage of the project." "THE POWER CABLES..." "The power cables are in a catastrophic state." "Something has to be done." "One refers to 'burning'passions,  not to 'cool' ones." "The Bridge of Chaos." "The holy couple, protected or spied upon by the dark angel." "We fly forward, somehow,  because emotions cannot forget." "The duke goes into the room to seduce Gilda." "And now it turns out that Rigoletto is the father of this girl." "We didn't know that." "That turns out to be the case and we are sent away." "She comes back and tells her father what has happened." "And he sends us away." "So now the plans for revenge are developed which lead to the mix-up that it is not the duke who is killed but Rigoletto's daughter." "Where does Gilda come from?" "She comes out of this door here, where it's fairly dark." "That's very difficult." "The moment the door opens, the spotlights are turned on." "And at that point we have to help, so Gilda doesn't come on too slowly." "We only have a minute at the most." " What do you do then?" "I grab Gilda and rip off the cape from around her neck." "And I open her jacket so that the blood can be seen on stage later." "Gilda, the daughter of Rigoletto the dwarf,  has fallen in love with her seducer." "The father hires a murderer who stabs the daughter,  sticks her into a sack,  and returns her to the father." "In all operas dealing with redemption,  a woman is sacrificed in Act V." "Frau Bärlamm's feelings are of a positive nature." "She is an optimist." "I'd like to point out some nuances of my offer." " Please do." "Without overselling myself, I'd like to mention the following advantages." "Yes?" "Good teeth." "My nose could be surgically altered according to taste." "Nose can be altered..." " Experience of life." "Experience of life..." " A woman of some means." "Some means..." "Yes?" "You will notice that I have no wrinkles on my face." "An offer based on the market prices." "...market prices." "But we ought to avoid actions of fraudulent nature at all costs." "What do you mean by that?" "The misrepresentation of facts to induce an erroneous idea which leads to the disposition of property and thus to property damage." "And that intentionally." "Do you see one wrinkle on my face?" "Not one, madam." "Emotions are heavier in unhappy stories." "THE STORY-LINE" "A significant event in 'Tannhäuser' is the change in stage decoration between Act I and II." "A Christian castle is erected in a pagan landscape in under 20 minutes." "Because of the abrupt historical process, there is no happy ending." "The police chief is dead." "The opera 'Aida' tells of great peoples,  the Egyptians and the Ethiopians,  who waged war for over 100 years." "The opera cannot report these bloody events directly." "This catastrophe must first be transformed into an "almost-could-have- had-a-happy-ending."" "So the war between two nations is told in terms of a 3-person drama." "Aida, an Ethiopian princess held in slavery by the Egyptians," "loves Radames,  the Egyptian general who,  in turn, is loved by Amneris,  the daughter of the Pharaoh." "However, Aida's father is a prisoner." "Because the opera is in reality about war,  there can be no happy ending for the lovers in Act V." "Are you saying you don't love me?" "How much should I love you?" "Exactly as much as I love you." "Not a little more?" "No more and no less." "What if it's less?" "Then you have to pay out change." "How do I do that?" "By loving me that much more than the amount you love me less than I do." "Frau Bärlamm has observed that nobody ever has the right change." "Hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling." "Frau Gerti, I'll sum it up again:" "There's no way, emotionally, you can split up with your boyfriend, Karl, and yet there's no way you can stay with him." "I have to make the decision." " What kind of decision is it?" "It has to be a clear one." "But you can't stay with him, and you can't split up with him?" "Both are out of the question." "So what's your decision?" "It has to be a clear one." "I have you and you have me, there's nothing else we need." "A little joy, a little pain, together, life's a breeze." "I am young and you are young, the world is at our feet." "You get whatever you want when you stick together." "As of today my life has a new coat of paint..." "Frau Bärlamm,  a marriage broker for decades,  a knotting expert, so to speak,  spends a small part of her time establishing bonds." "She spends most of her time smoothing out the problems of clients she has brought together." "Every person,  says Frau Bärlamm, has all emotions." "If everybody had only one,  the art of knotting would be easier." "She has hired detectives to find out the causes of this worldwide discord." "Radames, the Egyptian general,  now a traitor against his own will,  is buried alive." "To his surprise, he finds his beloved Aida already there in the dungeon." ""To the Pharaoh!"" "What the opera conceals:" "The people, as we know, do not tolerate lovers being buried alive." "So they free Radames and Aida just in time." "As soon as the lovers were freed it became obvious that they were interested in nothing but their own love." "People were disappointed." ""Stone them!"" ""Stone them!"" "So once more, despite the intervention of the people," "Act Vhas no happy ending." "Operas are so cruel due to public demand." "LIGHTING" "MOVEMENT" "THE FACADE" "SUCCESS" "THE REICH" "Third company present!" " First platoon present!" "Second platoon present." " Thank you." "Attention!" "Company present!" " Thank you." "Right shoulder arms!" "Columns right march!" "THE OPERA HOUSE FIRE" "Fire Chief Schönecke had plenty of time." "The firestorm will have reached the Opera House in about an hour." "Since childhood,  Schönecke had always wondered what was hidden inside the Grail in the opera 'Parsifal'." "He takes the opportunity to satisfy his curiosity." "The fireman knows that there is no way of stopping the fire." "Everything is going to be all right." "Farewell, Christel." "Good luck, Your Majesty!" "'The Makropulos Case',  an opera in three acts." "The Emperor wants to live forever." "He orders a potion from his alchemist." "The potion works,  but the Emperor is suspicious." "The alchemist must try out the potion on his daughter first." "In the meantime,  Emperor and alchemist have died." "The daughter became an opera singer,  and has been living in Prague for 300 years." "All her emotions are 300 years old." "In other words,  they have witnessed 28 wars." "Yes..." "How shall we do this?" " The wall's in the way." "If I can't see, then at least..." "Yes, thanks." "These are short flashes into the past of a woman who is condemned to live for 300 years on this earth." "There are so many related things, so many interrelated threads, that I find it impossible to recognize all of the connections." "She is related to Gregor." "She was married to another Gregor many, many generations ago... if I am not mistaken." "It's incredibly complicated." "We have already plotted family trees experimentally, and have thus achieved a degree of clarity." "That, however, is not the essential thing." "The essence of this piece, what it wants to show, is the reappearance, the unfulfilled longing which is always present in humanity." "To go on living..." "To go on living at any cost, not to walk away and have everything continue as usual." "Here then, this dream is clothed in a fantastic story..." "The dream of eternal life, at least of limited eternal life, if there is such an expression." "Love for sale." "BOUGHT FOR HER OWN SAKE" "Monday morning, time to start work." "Betty is in trouble." "She returns to find her pursuer already sitting there." "Inspector Mürke." "You can't mess with me here." " You think we're dumb?" "No, I don't." " You had a different wig last year." "You didn't want to help the police." "Why should we believe what you say?" "You can't pin anything on me." " I could feel insulted now." "I'd rather die than not be frank." " Why say 'die'?" "We only want to know if you saw anything." " No." "I was asleep." "A gang of thugs has learned that Betty has no master." "After three weeks of unpaid resistance work," "Betty has convinced her owners they would be better off putting her on the market." "Schleich, a specialist in burglaries, is interested." "He can afford Betty." "Betty is grateful." "She feels like some luxurious creature." "It is the first time anyone has bought her for her own sake." "Now she can finally put her skills to proper use." "Schleich, a burglar specialising in furs." "A professional." "His work consists in finding the right opportunities." "Her new home." "Betty's professional secrets." "1: tenderness." "2: know-how." "3: no special feeling." "But a lot of feeling is required to combine all three." "A CRIME..." "Schmidt comes from a good family." "He lacks objectivity." "Mäxchen, a business woman." "Schmidt lives off her salary." "Miss Bärbel, please." " Yes?" "What about this bill?" " It's still unpaid." "It's urgent." "We have to take care of it today." "See to it later." "And the order for the skirts?" " It's taken care of." " Okay, thanks." "When she first met Schmidt,  she wasn't crazy about him." "Now she can't let go of him." "Schmidt won't allow himself to be tied down." "His thoughts are focused on Brazil." "He wants to make it to the top." "Leisure time is full of demons." "The four of them meet often." "Ante Alevic, manager of a hotel in Yugoslavia, has arrived in town." "Western consumer goods!" ""Nothing is more useful than water." "But one can seldom use it for purposes of trade." "A diamond has no intrinsic value but can be used in trade for many other goods."" "Adam Smith: 'The Wealth of Nations'." "London, 1776, page 39." "He's supposed to buy a dishwasher in Brussels." "He has brought diamonds to sell on the black market." "Schmidt doesn't know how to sell the diamonds,  but he wants the commission." "They're worthless because you've got to give them back." "That's weak." " You can't let go of them." "I'm not an expert." "But they're big rocks." " You can't wait too long." "No, this has to be a fast job." " Give them back." "I can't go on living like this, without any class, without any style." "They take him to their best friends' apartment." "He awaits the equivalent value of his diamonds in Western currency." "Out of here!" "They take the 4:45 train to Barcelona." "UNDOING OF A CRIME" "BY MEANS OF COOPERATION" "Betty cannot believe that this is to be Schleich's downfall." "Alevic is lying in the study." "So what?" " He's dead." "What?" " He's dead." "Heart attack?" "Struck on the head with a metal object." " Are you crazy?" "Stay calm." "You have to let it sink in first." "Why are you being so calm?" "Now it's gone." "But it was just there." "One should never believe in a murder." "Jacques Borel, 143:12." "Legrand, 16:50." "Carrefour, 65:12." "Compagnie Banquière, 10:209." "Club Méditerranée, 10:89." "Source Perrier, 8:12." "They were later of the opinion that by reading they had kept the damaged brain active and alive." "If one moves a bright object in front of a four-week-old child's face,  its eyes follow it,  although the head remains stationary." "An intelligent expression appears on the face." "Active staring..." "The client can be moved." " Who said so?" "The doctor." "The have punched holes in the bottom of the crate." "They smuggle the formerly dead man across three borders." "MEANWHILE, IN BARCELONA..." "Schmidt and Mäxchen in their hide-out in Barcelona." "They believe in the success of what they have done." "I should have slapped you for what you said 20 minutes ago." "But that would have been noisy." "We have to be quiet." "That's why I didn't." "Be quiet!" " Be quiet!" "Be quiet!" "Mäxchen's dreams have come true." "They now live together in close inescapable confines,  in a room of 7 by 12 feet." "What is a stronger bond than marriage?" "A murder, when both know what the other has done." "Can I see your passport, please?" "Six weeks of hard work." "Unpaid." "They've grown closer now." "Their technique will improve with time." "Subtitles Alexander Zuckrow" "Film und Video Untertitelung Gerhard Lehmann AG"