"SWAN-SONG" "There are five numbers at the lottery." " When it will be drawn?" " Next Friday." "It's too late." "MUSIC BY:" "DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:" "DRAMATISED BY:" "STARRING:" "Sir, think it over and buy the kit." "Out of question." "We lost weight." "Hey, my friend, here is some potatoes but they can't get off." "Let's take these bags." " What kind of potatoes do you have?" " "Ella"." "I'm sorry, we work only with "Gulbaba"." " Good morning!" " Good morning!" "And your child?" "He's growing?" "DIRECTED BY:" "Tambourine!" "Come over here!" "What do you want?" "Where have you been all this time?" "Tell me what day it is tomorrow." "Wait..." "Sunday." "Sunday." "Which Sunday?" " Sunday." " My biflhday." "Really?" "Did you hear it?" "I didn't knew that you were born." "I thought your father dug you with the other vegetables." "We'll booze tomorrow in the "Kotyogo" pub." ""All the girls of the world are waiting for me"" ""The sky is blue, the summer is mine."" " Can you manage to come?" " You have no ear but I can manage." "Plenty to eat and drink." "We are three with my colleagues." "Tambourine, God bless you!" "I have got a caflload of chickens, help me to unload it quickly." "Chicken?" "200." "You rogue!" "Then let's make it 250." "Hello, look out there!" " Good morning!" " I wish you good health." "Thanks for your confidence, we'll bring the rest." "Help me too, my friend." " A new face in the arena." " I've got a few chickens." " 300." " But you haven't seen them!" "You don't know the boss, that's why it is 300." " For the strangers it's 400." " That is all!" " All right, I'll come down, let's make it 300." " Only 300!" "300, my God!" "What are you waiting for?" "It's noon." "Come on!" "Hurry up!" "Look out there!" "Hurry UP!" " My profound respect!" " I wish you good health!" " We finished." " Well, thank you." " More fifty." " It was 250, wasn't it?" " 300." " 300?" "Did I say 300?" "I only said it was noon already." "Damn you, bilk!" "Be polite!" "Dear madam, please give my best wishes to your family, spend the money on them." "Murderers!" "Murderers!" "Police!" "Policeman!" "Sir, 400!" "450:" "500, dear sir, 500!" "Market inspector!" " Pali!" " Hello, my dear friend." "You completely disappeared, mate." "We worked together at the bus company." "Are you still working there?" "I'm married." "My wife is a villager girl." " Collective farm?" " Co-operative." "That's a collective farm." "Do you remember Juli?" " Juli?" " She became conductor on No. 33 when she came up to Budapest." "I woke up to find that she had taken me to her village." "I bought it for her." "This is fashionable." "I drove the No. 15 and then No.7." "Then the No. 91." "The "Rézsadomb"." "They were very good lines." " And now?" " Now he's working." " He's a roustabout." " That's fine." "Have you got time?" "We have some strawberries." " Strawberries?" " Yes." " Pineapple strawberries?" " Of course!" " We'll do that for him." " For nothing?" "For nothing." "I respect memories." "Take it, sir." "Come on!" "Is that the Gelléfl Mountain on your jalopy?" "We would sell it too if we were allowed to do so." "Gentlemen, these people are material, we shouldn't do it for nothing." "He's a friend." "Head and pocket are two different things." " At least you should take us home." " All right." "You'll see 3 unloading anists at work." "Come on!" "Here you are." "Do you see who we are?" "The next, please." "I thank you very much." "Could I see your papers?" "Another one may come." "It's OK, so far." " Hey, sir!" " What's it?" "Would you like to buy a rocking chair?" " Whose is it?" " It's mine." " I found it." " You found it?" " Buy it." "It's comfoflable." " It's a fine piece." "Jump up, mates!" " You sit here." " I'll show you the way." "Sit here!" " Here?" " Yes." "L'll Iaze a bit." "You'll Iaze?" " It's impossible." " Why?" "You went to jail to pay for what you did." "Yes, I did." "It's impossible." "The driving licence..." "To hell with this piece of paper." "What are you waiting for?" "You won't forget it, will you?" "No." "Not that." "Why don't you ask for the licence?" " They refused." " Why?" "It was not mentioned in the court" "It doesn't matter." "There was more than that." "I had nothing." "Neither money, no food." " I went in for unloading wagons." " What do you mean?" "Hot-goods from the railway." "Six months." "I spoiled everyihing." "Look at this!" "You are living at a nice place." "We would invite you to a drink but we have no time." "What are you staring at?" "He has his bed and food here." "We are glad to meet you." ""Hallelujah!" "Praise the Lord."" "That is for Christmas, not for the Eve of Easter." "We celebrate the resurrection with what we have." "He's quite right." "The good intention is the most important." "Excuse me, madam, the creche is a Christmas custom." "Excuse me." "We hold fast to our faith ant this is the main thing." "There can be differences of opinion on minor points." "He's quite right." ""Hallelujah!" "Praise the Lord!"" "They go very slowly." "Foflunately they don't sit down." "He's always nervous when he's hungry." "Don be nervous, Gébor!" " I'm not nervous." " Look, comrade Csordés." "They go slowly if they want to." "They sit down if they want to." "It's not a matter oftraffic regulation." "Its higher politics." " Get up, old boy, get up!" " Cream is with what I'm fed up." "Here are the soldiers." "The police, you mean?" "So quickly?" "It's impossible." "We bring the good news." "Do you hear, old man, the angel calls." "It's not my business." "White flakes are felling down in the dark ofthe night," "People are singing when they hear the good news - nobody is coming." "Keep an eye on the woman, she has the money." ""The Angel has come down from the Heaven to see you, shepherds..."" ""Shepherds, shepherds..."" ""Go to Betlehem quickly to see Him, to see Him..."" "Bacon and sausages would be good for the shepherds" "If you have a bottle of wine, that's what shepherds like..." "You played very well." "Let's drink!" "We try to do our best, comrade Kollér." " It's beautiful..." " This is a good wine..." "Cheers." "Our stomachs need more not less, The Kollérs are whom God should bless." "It's good that it rhymes." "Who are these people inside?" "Who are these people inside?" "Co-operative farmers." " And this little boy?" " The son ofthe chairman." "What kind of bed has he?" "These are village people." "Throwback folk." "They do have beds, in the villages." "They have but not too many." "You are woflh the money." "If little Jesus has become Santa Claus, he might become a co-operative farmer." "Sing us something else!" "Considering my great success..." "In the night of the white winter someone is coming, they are two." ""The Angel has come down from Heaven..."" "Excuse us, comrade Kollér we are to leave, we have to see some other people." "Good bye, good bye..." " You left the empty pouch, I hope?" " Of course." "Poor Tambourine!" "Be careful!" ""My little child come to the meadow"" ""Where the tractors are making music."" ""Look at the new star in the sky"" ""And the dawn brings welcome news..."" ""Come with us, rejoin us..."" " "Good friend you are..."" " Where is the creche?" "You've come at the wrong moment, dear Sergeant." "We are preparing for May Day." "You dir1y thief, where is my money?" "Mrs Banyik, dear Mrs Banyik, you shouldn't speak to us like this." " You rough!" " I protest." "There were 600 forints in her purse." " Here I am." "Search me." " You stole it with the creche box." "You put the box on anything and it sticks to the bottom." "I lick it as if it were a stamp." "That's a good idea." " I haven't got a creche box." " Don't believe him, sergeant." "You seem to put some sin on our shoulders." "Tell me what it looked like." "Like a chest!" "Sergeant, do you remember mine, don't you, when I used to have one." "A spectacular piece of work." "Do you remember the colour, the lamps..." " I want my money!" " Look, Mrs Banyik." "You should remember, for the sake ofthe investigation." "You know, that's imponant." "She said it was a chest." "It wasn't a chest, it was a box." " Can I ask something?" " Go ahead." "Did you see a head on the chest?" "Idid." "Look, here is the head." "We bought this for the Easter holiday." "We took turns to carry it home." "I think we've finished, sergeant." " Mrs Banyik, are you ready to withdraw your opinion, that I'm a rogue?" " No!" "So I denounce you for defamation." "Handcuff them!" "Arrest them!" "I need more evidence, I'm afraid." "Really?" "I'll go then to the Chief Inspector." "L'll teach a lesson these rascals." "Where is the creche?" "I walked on the street at Christmas, and suddenly the boxjumped out of my hand, and a lorry smashed it into pieces." "Smashed?" "Since then I have been materialist." "I believe in the lorry but not in God." "Can't he say good bye, this one?" "Not until he has left." "You will give up this son ofthing and you go to work or else you'll be caught." "What do you mean?" "I'm a free man." "You say that we are living in a free country, don't you?" "And what freedom is?" "I can do what I want." "But the Constitution also says that you have to work." "I didn't vote for the Constitution." "At the 1949 election I was in the transit prison, in 1953 in the Marké prison." "In 1958 I was in the transit prison again, and in 1963 I had diphteria." "But the Constitution is in force." "Does it apply to me too?" "YOU ran over 8 man." "He was drunk." "He fell down." "Why did they sentence me?" "Because you survived." "You can't expect the judge to send a dead in prison." "The 3 years have passed." "At least they could say something." "Not until you have a job." "A driver's job or nothing." "Don't you understand?" " And you?" " I'm an adult." "He's still a child." "He bounces for a time, then he'll settle down as a citizen." "They need workers at the building company." "What's the number of the building company?" " At the Building Company No.37." " That's fine." "Write it down." "If we find a dupe, we'll tell him." "It's up to you." "I only know that it's much easier to make a prisoner of you than a honest man." "That's a wisecrack, write it down." "Isn't there anybody who misses you?" "My father, the Fiume postmaster was a drinker." "The alcohol he had drunk went up in flames." "The fire brigade rushed to spot," "Mother had collapsed." "Since then I haven't heard anyihing about them." "Damn it!" "It has been stolen." "It must have been the Doc." "What can I do for you, gentlemen?" "Shut up!" "You can't talk to me like that." "Shut up, doctor!" "This is aggression!" "Ciao." "Like the "Dolce Vita..." "Turn your backs, kids!" "Couldn't you find a better place?" "The doctor promised me a bath in the fountain." "But it turned out to be a barrel." "Well, wrap yourself up." "It's my fault." "I have tolerated you here too long." "Six hundred." "It's OK." "There is no honesty in these common people nowadays." "Kollérs offthe list." "Are you looking for something?" "Are you Tambourine?" " Do you know me?" " I've heard lots of good things about you." "What's your name?" "Olga?" "Janka?" "Rézsi?" "Rézsi?" "!" "Mara." "Mara?" "I ought to have known." "But if you like the free boys, why don't you choose a real one?" "It's enough!" "Dear doctor, I'm talking to a lady." "Sit down, please." " It's a nice day, isn't it?" " Yes, it is." "I don't understand why you took up with such a ruffian?" "I don't like to make predictions but this fellow will end up on the gallows." "And you with a knife in your back." "You're nervous." "That's your greatest fault." "Dear Mara, I'm ready to raise your standard of living." "Take your bag and come over to our place." "Mara will stay here." "You have no right to take her away." "A creche... a woman." "It's a fair bargain." "You stole from me and I can't forgive it." "Good bye, darling." "That's life, my dear doctor." "Please, turn your back, will you?" "Please." "Damn it!" "Doc is coming." "Don't let him in!" "We'll talkto him." "Slip out ofthe window." "What have you done with her?" "You held her down..." "My God, you are animals." "Your invitation card, please." "She's not such a stupid girl." "She's not cheap either." "300 forints." "300 for me?" "Do you realise how much I've spent on her?" "Leave her to me." " We are her sponsors." " You have no right." "Neither "de jure", nor "de facto"." "If you don't want her, please go home." "If you need her, you have to pay." "250." "300." " OK." " Cashier." "I warn you that I'll look the door." "You can do that, for your money." "Walk softly, maybe that she's slumbering." "Ma chérie!" "Ma chérie!" "He's looking for her." "He's saying: "Ma chérie!"" "Ma chérie!" "She's hiding." "Have you got a cellar?" "Have we got a cellar?" "We have a small one." "The trap door is under the table." "Small one, under the table." "Csoki!" "You crazy dog, where are you running?" "Stop!" " Catch it!" " You mean the dog?" " Of course the dog." " What for?" " For 20 forints, you fool." " For 20?" "!" "Take care ofthe pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves." "Csoki, my dear little dog!" "Csoki, you'll get a sugarcube, come here." "Csoki, you little devil!" "If you run away again I'll beat you." "Thank you very much." "It always runs away, it's a puppy." "You have to take care ofthe puppy." "20 forints." " 20 forints?" " 20 forints!" "Where did I see such a thing?" "I've got it." "Jean Gabin." "A French film." "They caught the dogs and sold them." " But that was only a movie." " You owe me 20 forints." "Here you are." "Thank you very much." "Come on, Csoki." " Here you are." " No thanks." "It's yours." "You've earned it." " Look at that." " Congratulations." " A nice creature." " The dog is not bad either." "So you deceived me." "She doesn't like your mug." "A woman's soul is inexplicable." "They reject some men, even ifthey would pay." "You are untidy." "The 300 forints." "Dear doctor, the creche was much more valuable." "You are very sure about yourself." "It will come to a bad end." "I don't think so." "I told you: there is only one gang here." "The mine." "Is this a threat or a proposal?" "A threatening proposal." "Let me see the colour of your eyes." "Ore)'" "Who would have thought?" "He has grey eyes." "You're a weak character." "And weak are eaten up by the strong." "Also sprach Zarathustra." "What did you say?" " Have you heard about Nietzsche?" " I don't speak French." "You cheat, steal, smuggle and stab." " You're a dirty little creature." " I had a great network of patients." "Rich and interesting women, a surgery with 3 rooms, an assistant, a blond one." "Marianne, the lance!" "The forceps, Marianne!" "You sound like a liar." "It's interesting." "What's your job?" "I could go to sing." "Every night." "I could have a flat to make my head content." ""L've never eaten bread thrown to me by someone else"" "I've been my own lord, my own servant."" "You are Yves Montand, aren't you?" "He sat beside me in a small pub on Champs-Elysees." "We drank Calvados." "Have you ever been to Paris?" "No." "I'm here because I like to be here." ""I didn't know, I didn't care what was going on in the world"" ""l excluded the worry by slamming the door."" ""When I slammed my door I had a look at the sky."" ""l've never needed the bread from another hand."" ""Never!"" "When I had nothing to eat, I made as though I felt like starving." "Because..." "But you don't understand." "Come in, please." "You see?" "This is the Villa Negra." "Don't scary, you will live here happily." "Villa Negra?" "You've got imagination, old chap." "And you have good taste, there is a few valuable pieces." "Oh, the princess, Soraya." "She looks like Marianne." "But she was a bit more plump." "She didn't received so much from me as the princess from the Shah." "Do you know what she received?" "A marvellous palace of black marble." "At the seaside, on the white rocks." "With 77 steps leading up to it." "She lives there alone." "Do you know what the press wrote about her?" ""Where has your smile gone, Soraya?"" "Don't you offer me anyihing to drink?" "I'm not the Shah of Persia, however I know good manners." " Help yourself." " Oh lala!" "Please tell me where shall I sleep." "I prefer the lower bed." " I'm peculiar about it." " In the corner." " And where will be my bed?" " Up in the gallery." "The gallery..." "Well..." "It's a great day." "We've increased in number." " Good morning." " Hello." "Good morning, Captain." "Oh, good morning, captain." "What a punctual man you are." "Happy a man must be to have such a fine son." "It's not so lucky." "I've got something for you." " It's for you two, Mrs Nagy." " Thank you so much." " You always take the trouble to bring such presents." " It's nothing." " How is he?" " Very well." "He sleeps well, thanks God." " Here is the rent." " Thank you." " Here you are, my boy." " I'm repofling present, father." "I thought that perhaps your ship was lost." "I was on the sea." " Did you see a sword-fish?" " There were sword-fishes as big as that." "There were dolphins too." "They followed the ship in big groups." "We caught some of them." "Have you had lunch?" "I have troubles with my stomach." " Dinner is ready." " You're lucky." "You're young." " You have a good position." " Yes, I'm a captain." "Dinner is ready, sit down, dear father." "Are you fine?" " Have you brought all this from there?" " It would have gone bad." "I've come back from the sea." "Help yourself, father." "There is so many things..." "I've no reason to complain." "I'm quite well off." "I have a beautiful villa." "It's called Villa Negra." " What does it mean:" "Villa Negra?" " For me it means everyihing." "It's a wonderful villa on the coast, on a rock." "It would be better in Cinkota." "This is on the coast." "In front of it there is the sea, behind it there are eucalyptus trees." "73 steps lead to the villa, they are made of black marble." "When you open the door it makes music." "I got it from an Arab countess." "Once I sang at her place." "And I played the violin." "She invited me." "She fell in love with music." "She moved into another villa, because she has several other ones on another sea." "She's living now alone in this villa, but she's unable to smile." "She's rich!" "The Arab papers wrote: "Where has your smile gone, Marianne?"" "You haven't brought apples?" "Apples?" "I forgot..." " I brought lemons." " Three lemons." "I forgot." "Mr President." "Your bath." "How warm is it?" "40 Celsius per maximus." " Some cold water please." " Yes, sir!" "Good morning." "Look, Tambourine." "We've got to talk seriously." "I have so many problems because of you." "What are you doing here?" "I've moved over here." " Why?" " Is it prohibited?" "That's the right of the citizens violated only at the time of the personality cult." "He stafls a new life on my side." " A new life?" "Here?" " Yes." " You?" "On his side?" " Yes." " I want to talk to you." " All right, come in, othenmise you'll get a sunstroke." "At once, a good coffee." " Yes, a good coffee." " The best!" "Take seat, please, sergeant." "You're a funny man." "You don't believe that people can improve." " I believe, in principle." " Something on which we agree." " How many sugarcubes?" " I'm on duty." "How did you ever get into the Gellert Hotel?" "You see?" "I just wanted to tell you how much I believe in the People's Front, and you come with this." "Am I a thief?" "How many sugarcubes?" "So you also believe that people can change?" "Of course I do." "Yesterday we sang together." "You can't imagine to what extent common singing refines the soul." "He was so moved, we could hardly comfofl him." "I found the pieces ofthe creche." "They were among the remains of your place." "It's surprising." "Really surprising." "We must never deny the truth." " The doctor stole the creche." " When was it?" " A long time ago." " I asked you." "A long time ago." "Last time you spoke about a lorry running over it." "' Me?" ". DO you deny it?" "I must have been drunk." "Don't be angry with me." "What do you know about it?" "He stole it." "A long time ago." "But he regretted it." "He regretted." "He came here and wept." "We could hardly comfofl him." "You know, he's conscious and you must not suppress it." " So they beat you up." " That's pure slander." "When I was a beginner it took me a week to discover your atrocities." "Now it takes only a day." "Be careful, I'll catch you." "Dear sergeant, this is not good like this," "I'd have listened to you." "We wanted to join the building workers." " But why?" " In such a distrustful atmosphere..." "It's impossible." "Did you really want to join them?" "Now it's all the same." "If you've really made up your mind you should speak to comrade Laték." " Let me alone..." " Do you understand?" "Speak to Laték." " He really thinks that we should go there." " Of course we'll go!" "Sorry, I've come here to clamber up, not to come down." " It's out ofthe question." " You have to earn some money." "Hurry up, we'll go there." "I'm sorry but my hands will become rough." "I'm a man oftheories, I won't do any kind of manual labour." "Come on, hurry up!" "What is this barred door?" "Dear doctor, this area is not very safe." "I'm afraid of burglars." "You are the lads looking for work, aren't you?" "What's your profession?" "We can do anyihing." "This is a universal brigade." " Why are you jobless?" " We work in the market hall, but we had enough." "We have to take pad in the great constructions." "If one doesn't work, he shouldn't eat." "Aren't you Tambourine?" " You have a big chance." " Una grande aflista." "You can stem at once pilling up the bricks." "With these fine fingers of mine?" "I can throw away my tambourine." "Then what else can I give you to do?" "Anyihing except bricks." "Will moflar mixing do?" "That white mixture?" "No, not that..." "Anything..." " Comrade Laték?" " It's me." " Good morning." "I come from the site No. 14." "I have to take 500 tiles." " If we have any." " You must have some." "This Téth will never learn to sign correctly." "Ha can't speak correctly either." "Once I'll make me so angry that I'll throw all his shits into his face." "Don't disturb us, you see that we are discussing work." "I'm also working." "So, what kind ofjob?" "We can also sing." "There is Vadai, he'll give you the tiles." "Let's come back to the guarding job." "Comrade Laték, listen to me." "Are you ready to level the ground?" " It's not skilled labour." " Can you lay bricks?" "Let me have your workbooks then and go up to the job." "You need a workbook or a skilled worker?" "Don't bugger my about." "When you were allowed to speak like that to a working man." " L'll repofl to your boss." " Let's do it." " You can go to the minister himself." " A despotic director." " The song of the Villa Negra." " Let's hear it." ""The Villa Negra isn't a convent, it isn't a shining night-club."" ""If a tough boy knocks at the door, he finds shelter in that quiet house."" ""Once a fat man came, sitting in a luxury car, he offered money for the house."" ""His money left and he was surprised at what he received."" ""The Villa Negra isn't a convent, it isn't a shining night-club."" ""If a tough boy knocks at the door, he finds shelter in that quiet house."" ""A fur coat hung itself on me, I got sticky"" ""The cop came, but I had seen him."" ""I said: coat, you disappear, and I was like an innocent man."" ""The Villa Negra isn't a convent, it isn't a shining night-club."" ""If a tough boy knocks at the door, he finds shelter in that quiet house."" ""Life's beautiful, but I shall live as long as the Villa stands."" ""Nice girl, come to us, you'll warm up there."" ""And your dreams will return."" "Long live Tambourine!" "Tambourine really feels good here." "Three pints for the guests." ""The sky is blue, the summer is mine"" ""I don't want to buy a family house, There's no family waiting for me."" ""I don't care profit and loss." "I'm hanging around like fruit on the tree."" ""l'm wandering, I'm singing, I've a happy life, Foflune smiles on me."" ""I have no bank account, neither a villa, nor a Skoda."" ""I put my money on the cards and the Jolly Joker is a good friend of mine."" ""The others bring their money in bag, they collect it like ants."" ""If I'm in need, my luck provides me with all kind of goods."" ""The whole world is waiting for me."" ""The sky is blue, the summer is mine."" ""I don't want to buy a family house, there's no family waiting for me."" ""I don't care profit and loss, I'm hanging around like fruit on the three"" ""l'm wandering, I'm singing, I've a happy life, Foflune smiles on me."" "Good evening!" "Good evening!" "Are you a singer?" "A singer too." "What else?" "Tell me!" "A dog hunter." "You were in better mood when you were singing." "I was watching you." "These are strange things." "By time you've laugh, your good mood is gone." "You express yourself very well." "The only trouble is the external appearance." "That's very easy to improve." "Student, let's have a drink!" "No." "Why do they call you "Student"?" "This is quite simple." "This is romantic." "Are you studying literature?" "It's a pity." "I thought we might be colleagues." "Are you going to be a teacher... or a chemist?" "I read Hungarian language and history." "My first year." "Nothing romantic, only what is practical." "So you study at a high school, do you?" "Are you an actor?" "A singer?" "I'm at the very beginning." " I thought so." " What did you think?" "What I was interested in." "Are you really living in that hut?" " Yes, I do these days." " Impossible." "Why?" "It's really interesting." "Of course, you aflists, you are strange people." "We have a bohemian life." "The old man and the other with glasses are remarkable chaps." "It's an experience to watch them." "I had a class-mate who wanted to become an actor." "Once he followed a lame man during a whole day." "He was always crying:" ""The ice is in flames!"" ""The ice is in flames..."" "That's good." "Do you often play in theatres?" " No." " Don't tell me, I know the truth." "You are a dummy in the National Theatre and in Madéch." "My I have a request?" "But I can't offer a fee." "I'm organising a programme in the new Culture Hall." "It's so beautiful!" "And if you would make a guest performance..." "Don't you want to do it?" "Do you always do like this?" " Are you a saint perhaps?" " Not at all." "I'm not willing to perform without a fee." "If you change your mind, we live in building No.14." "Csordés." " Hello." " Hello." " I've been waiting for you." " For me?" "I was thinking about your case." "Would you like to coming to work with us?" "To hoe potatoes?" "We need a good driver." "Do you want to toflure me?" "It's not possible." "Motors are all for you." "It's a pain to see how these clumsy men destroy the expensive lorries." "Look, Géza, I know you want good for me but..." "Thanks." " Good bye." " Bye." "What are you buggering about?" "You don't think I'll eat caviar without a toast?" ""Toast"?" "What is it?" "Toasted bred, my friend." "Once I was almost put out of the Vittorio Emanuele Hotel in Nizza," "I ate caviar without toast." "This Mara or Marianne, it would be good to have her now." "Mara is past and so is Marianne." "Mara reminded me of something." "She was like a bookmark." "Here you are at last." "What's the matter?" "Sit down and let's have your meal." "I'm not hungry." " Is there any problem?" " Ifthey get wind of that tile-business..." " Are you in a flap?" " That doesn't concern you." "I was the one who risked his neck." "What did you say?" "Well, carry on!" "500 tiles." "From a state store." "This isn't a joke." "I was caught once before." "If you've no imagination, work in the markethall and break your back." "If you want to live like a fool, let's do it." "It's up to you." " That's not true!" " What's not true?" "That it is up to me." "I do what you order me to do." "At the bus company the boss ordered." "The warders ordered in the prison." "And here you tell me what to do." "What do you want?" "I scrubbed the filth off you." "Off you go!" "Get out of here!" "You're afraid." "Damn you!" "You've very tough fists." "Here it is, sir." "You can leave." "Here you are." "You fool." "You should disappear till evening." "Here you are, 200." "He must have a pressing business." "Here you are." "I can never make head or tails of you." "Tambourine, come here!" "What's the matter?" "This..." "What is this?" "They're creeping after us." "They're unable to get rid oftheir obsession to construct something." "Ballad of good advise" "Cast dice or cheat while playing cards," "Sell bull on the marketplace, mint fals coins and you'll burn at stake," "Or you'll be tor1ured in another way if other sins are ascribed to you," "You may rob people, you chaser of travellers." "Where does all the profit go..." "It goes for dives and women." " So this is it." " Ballade de bonne doctrine." "And you should do something extraordinary, really big." "Yes, this is your job, this big thing." " Yes, something great..." " Some unusual thing..." "You've got really good ideas." "But you have to know what you expect me to do." "The same as the kids." ""The crane is flying high above." "The sky is high."" ""Her soft, beautiful voice still resounds in my head."" ""The crane is flying, you shouldn't cry, it's moving on."" ""You shouldn't give a sigh, don't forget it, don't follow it." ""Although its nest has been damaged, it's awaited..."" ""...by a wasted land, Our migrant love..."" ""...will come back."" ""Altough his nest has been damaged, it's awaited..."" ""...by a wasted land"" ""Our migrant love will come back."" "This is a pan ofthe big roughhouse." "I think you've a special talent." "Yes, I've got an extraordinary talent." "I can catch a dog." " It was a good trick." " Yes, it was." "You can't imagine how good it was." "I found it very funny." "I shouldn't have come here." "If you don't want to perform, it's not compulsory." "The kids will be very sorry." "How small is the Villa Negra from here." "You don't like it?" "Look, you could be quite a recent boy if you..." "Quite a decent boy?" "I hate decent boys." "They are living their boring life when they are eager for some adventure." " That's a decent boy." " Fine." "You know very well human nature." "Yes, I know very well human nature." "Do you know so well your friends too?" "My friends?" "I had a friend..." "I don't know why I tell you that..." "His mother was dead." "His father bred Angora rabbits, 200 ofthem." "The yard was crowded with the rabbits and they lived in a remote place." "His father didn't touch the rabbits." "He had to take care ofthem." "At dawn before school." "In the afternoon too." "He couldn't leave this damned yard." "And when he stopped for a moment, his father boxed his ears." "All the fences should be broken." "Are you sure that you know so well this friend of yours?" " Hey, mister!" " Hello, little one." "How are you?" "I keep body and soul together." "Would you buy a nice lamp?" "I don't want to sell it to whoever." " How much is it?" " 20 forints." "It's a bargain." " Where did you get it from?" " I found it." "It's different." "So here is your 20 forints." " Thank you, good bye!" " Look what I've got here." "A fine piece." "Early Renaissance." " This is a really nice piece." " Beautiful." "Hello, we've got some time." "Give us some work." " You've got the cheek to come here?" "!" " Is there any problem?" "He has the courage to come here." "The sergeant confiscated the tiles and they took them away." "Tiles are unavailable in the whole country." "But you managed to get some." "Take care or I'll beat you." "Stop this or I'll loose my temper." "Who told you to help me?" "Go to the hell!" "You too, put that down." "We are doing this for nothing." "Todor, I understand your anger, but now I have no money." "You see?" "You should have stafled with that." "So help me God, I'll pay it." "You'll wait, won't you?" "I'll wait but not till the end ofthe world." "You know me, Tédor." "Closed for reconstruction." "Are they completely fool?" "They close when business is doing well and they open when it isn't." "We've come here for listen to you." "It's said that it's a rare spectacle." " I brought him here to listen to you." " He told me wonderful things about you." "I decided to spend my money and it's closed now." "To the hell with them." "We could go to our place." "That's a great place." "There is food and drink." "And Tambourine." "La bellissima musica." "Gentlemen, you are welcome in the Villa Negra." "Finally, my sweet head, I thought you'll be late." "We've found a splendid place, the Villa Negra." "May I introduce my fiancee, Méria?" " Méria." " I kiss your hand." "Tambourine." " My friends." " Ma chérie." "You can call me Doctor." "Let's go!" " Come on, sweet head!" " Go on!" "And now sing the "The whole world is waiting for me"." "Did I tell that long live socialism?" "I used to tinker in a dir1y little place, then car impofl stafled and we won." "These stupid drivers..." "They buy the car, then the oil spoil the plug and it's finished." "Dear Doctor, I'm a happy man." "I adore you." "Sing something else, Not a sad song." " I prefer twist!" " Twist in my house?" "Yes, we want twist!" " That's stupid!" " Because you can't play it." "You are backwarded, my boss." ""L feel somewhere it picks come on, mate with a twist."" ""Quickly play some good twist, magnificent is the flea twist."" ""Twist, twist, twist."" "You're dancing charleston, my mate?" "I learned it from Josephine Baker in 1931, on the Place Pigalle." "So I'm an old fool, am I?" "I can do it." "Who said that I can't?" "Your protégés." "It's closing time!" "You wake up everybody." "Go home!" " It's a private area." " It's so early." "My Doxa watch!" "And my money!" "I'll give you as much as you..." "My purse!" "My purse!" "Did you rob my guests?" "' Stop!" "' Oh! "W God!" "Hey, Tambourine!" "Tambourine, old chap!" "Where are you, old chap?" "You ruined me." "Here you are." "The watch and the purse." "You see, sergeant, if you get into a bad company..." "We don't like razor, doctor." "Take him!" "Who said that I can't twist?" "Good morning!" "Sorry, I'm looking for the Csorés family." "I'm wandering about for a half an hour, but I didn't find them." "Lili, the guest is arrived, you can lay the table." " Do you know each other?" " We met 2 minutes ago." " We've chatted quite a lot..." "Csordés." " Tarnai." "This is our Villa Negra." "Wash your hands quickly because the fishsoup will get cold soon." "I wasn't sure you would come." "You invited me, so I had to come." "I'm happy that you're here." "Come on quickly, it gets cold." " Good morning!" " Good morning!" "You've never eaten such a good fishsoup." "Tell me please, why are you kidding." " Who caught the fish?" " You did." " Who cooked the fishsoup?" " You did." "And who will wash up?" "You will." "Let's have a drink, dear boy." "I didn't want to cook fishsoup, my daughter forced me to." "She said you were a special guest." "I didn't say so." "I didn't say anyihing like that." "I tell you, these women forced me to catch a good sized fish early in the morning." "It was a really good catch." "Four catfishes, and a pike big like this." "Daddy!" "All right, big like that." "Dear neighbour, come on, sit down here!" "Join us, othenmise it will get cold!" "Thank you, I've already had lunch." "I'll get some water." "Our neighbour." "Please join us, have some beer." "This is our guest." " Rezsé Dérdés." " Béla Tarnai." "It's good to be here." "No problems, no troubles." "All the bad things are left behind in Pest." "Dash it, I wish I had some drinking water." "Once I called a well digger." "He asked for the advance and disappeared." "I haven't seen him anymore." "Of course, it would seem that it's easy to dump a lie on me." "It's written on my face." "Isn't it?" "This boy is from Tambourine's gang, near the building estate." "I thought I wouldn't say a word." "We must help people." "It's not an easy matter." " Damn it!" " We must understand him." "Some unconscious motive drove him here." " Some desire to break free." " I think you're right." " You stay here or I'll break your neck." " Don't horn in my business." "You always told me to use my own brain." "That I shouldn't abandon what I believe, isn't this true?" "Lili!" "Wait!" " Did you tell her that?" " I did..." "Student!" "Student!" " Student?" " What do you want?" "Do you think that by running away you can solve anyihing?" "We don't know each other, do you understand?" "It's over." "I want to know the truth." "I only told you that I..." "I didn't tell you, you believed it." "It's ridiculous, that I'm na aflist." "You just thought that, didn't you?" "Yes, I did." "You knew everyihing about me." "More or less." " You knew that the policeman will be here." " Yes, I did." "And now I also know that things do not happen just like I imagine them." "I imagined something about you." "I'm sorry for that." "I shouldn't have invited you." "It's true that I like to sing." "This isn't a lie." "It's also true that I like the Villa Negra." "And the way of life of Tambourine, I find it divine." "But with you today I was happy for two minutes." "What can I do now?" "Tell me what can I do?" "Wonderful." "Like a lavatory." " Wallet!" " What?" "The police." " You are Wallet, aren't you?" " Of course, he is." "I didn't ask you." "I'm Jézsef Kélnai." "L'll interrogate you." " Your father's name?" " Imre Kélnai." " I didn't do anyihing." " It would be too bad." " Don't be afraid, my friend." " You only accompany me, sit down." " Your mother's name?" " Méria Pozsér." "Date and place of biflh?" "Pélhéza, 1936." "So far it's all right." "Tell me now: will you become a decent man or not." " Well..." " Give me a straight answer." "Will you or not?" " I will." " So, keep to this." "That's a judicial notice." "You come to the Headquaflers." "There you'll receive a provisional licence." "And if you'll be a decent man..." "But that's the Country Headquar1ers'business." " You see, my friend, there is no reason to be afraid." " You only accompany me." "So, you have to keep to it." " Good bye." " Good bye." ""The whole world is waiting for me."" ""The sky is blue, the summer is mine."" ""I don't want a house, there is no family waiting for me."" "Switch off the radio!" " What's the matter?" " What would be?" "When I'll die, that will be a problem." "But not mine." "That rotten kid, that bastard!" "I scrapped the dirt of him, and let him live here." "I wanted to educate him and he's walking now with that girl." " The one with the dog?" " They are toddling." "But don't be afraid." "I don't let him spit in my face." "Have you seen the poster at the door ofthe Cultural Hall?" ""Evening performance." "Special guest:" "Béla Tarnai"" " Is he going away from here?" " What's this?" "A judicial notice?" "Damn it!" "What did you do?" "Try to think!" "It may be the tile business." "Yes, of course." "No, it can't be." "Who could snitch?" "The doc?" "But why would he?" "That would do harm to him as well." "Dear boy, isn't there anyihing that you did before?" "You can tell it to me." "There's no problem." "You made a mistake." "It can happen to anyone." "We are all humans." "Don't be afraid, I'll talk to Dérdés." "He's a good fellow." "Tambourine!" "I'm going to visit you, to be precise, Wallet." "Or I had better say Jézsef Kélnai." "Sergeant, I just wanted to talk to you but... something happened." "Sergeant..." "I beg you, not to take Wallet." "You're afraid, aren't you?" "I could have taken away the whole company." "Ifthere's no other solution, I'll take all responsibility." " For what." " For anyihing you want." " For the tiles as well?" " We were looking for job, we have witnesses." " You are really fool." " Please, sergeant..." "And you're very well dressed." " Did you perform somewhere?" " Sergeant, please..." "I beg you not to take away Wallet." "Every1hing's all right." "He won't take you away." "I won't take you, not me." "But this booklet." ""A lorry or nothing."" " That's what you said." " What's this?" "My driving license." "That's why you received a judicial notice." " I was an old fool!" " Sorry..." "I wanted to tell you, but I didn't have the courage." " You are a liar!" " Hit me, call me a rogue!" "I liked you, but now take your bag and leave this place." "I didn't bring here anyihing." "And I'wont take anyihing away." " Thank you." " Are you still here?" "They've gone." "Don't be afraid, we'll get along well without him." "I also have to leave tonight." ""Special guest:" "Béla Tarnai"" "Yes." "Come with me to the dress reherseal." "Do you think that you can use me as you like?" "From today you don't go anywhere." "You go where I tell you to go." "Let me out!" "I promise that I'll come back." "Old boy, I have to go!" " Did you find him?" " He's nowhere." "I was waiting in front of the Cultural Hall, I looked in the bar..." "Please help, Daddy." "We have to find him." "You deserve to be locked up like a child." "Last time you asked me to not to intervene in your business." "So, shall I intervene or not?" " Please, Daddy!" " All right." " Now I'll settle this matter definitively." " Be careful!" "Pull it!" "Let me do that!" "Toller, tell the others that we'll soon be there." "What are you doing here?" "Did you lock up this boy?" "That's my own business." "Don't be fool." "You have no right to lock up somebody." "What do you want to do with this boy?" "We are not on such a good terms that you can speak to me like this." "He had enough ofthe prison at home." "What did you give him in exchange?" "I gave him food when others refused to do so." " I gave him clothes, teached him." " What did you teach?" "Vagrancy?" "It's no use mockering the vagrant, Mr Foreman." "No one chops wood on my back." "I'm superior to the man whose body and soul are for sale." "That anyone can buy like the old clothes at the flea market." "Why don't you answer that?" " Once I also was a vagrant." " It must have been an excursion." " I wandered about for 2 years." " Just for fun." "You were bored, you wanted some amusement." "I know that." "I had no choice." "I had no job and no one wanted to employ me." "I was sleeping in a hut." "There were no houses here, only huts." "The policeman didn't come here for a friendly chat, but for hit us." "The amusement is what you are doing here." "I'm the master in my own den." "You can delude yourself." "But you should tell the boy that nothing is genuine here." "Neither Villa Negra, nor your misery, nor your revolt." "You're just an ordinary pitting." "Let him go!" "I let him, miss." "Here you are." "Tambourine, old friend, where have you been?" " You've had too much again." " What do you call "too much"?" "You can't take drink any more, after all the years go by." "I also feel that I'm no longer twenty." "I can't take drink?" "I'll have a new gang and I'll break into bits this whole..." "That's enough." "I could have caught you a long time ago." " There's at least 5 years prison on your bill." " Three." " How do you know that?" " I read the Criminal Code." "Three and half years, at the most." "I spoke to a restaurant manager." " Are you listening to me?" " Yes." "They'll write on the shop-window:" ""Tambourine sings here"" "And it will also undergo reconstruction and I'll have to go away." "Out of question." "You're a good singer." "If I think about what you could have became..." " A violinist." " What?" " I tell you, a violinist." " I believe you." "And why didn't you become a violinist?" " Because my father, the Fiume postmaster..." " He was really?" "Wanted me to become a warrant officer." "Somebody entitled to a pension." "I wasn't sixteen when he broke my violin on my head." "Isn't that strange?" "A broken violin and, with it a broken life..." " The whole..." " I'm sorry old boy." "Look, Tambourine, here's an address." "Have a look at this." "A nice, little place, not too far from here." "No!" "You have to leave, because this hut will be destroyed tomorrow." "No, I won't let them." "There will be a new block of flats, nine stores, you have to leave." "I don't leave." "You'd better make a museum in the Villa Negra." "I'll be the bad example." "Ladies and Gentlemen, you can see here Tambourine, the past." "Is there anyone here?" "Is there anybody here?" "Good morning, old boy, open the door, please." "Look, we'll take away the whole haunt." "Come along, old boy." " I don't go." " What do you like in this hutch?" "You should be happy to get away." " You can only find a better place." " We help you to remove your things." " It's not mine." " Whose are they then?" "Someone else's." "He's gone." "That's the same." "We have to remove them." "Where has the old boy gone?" "Where are you?" "Sir, won't you buy a glass fish?" "The price is reasonable: 20 forints." "I'm not going to buy anyihing, my boy." "That's a pity." "THE END"