"Wismut was founded 25 years ago." "It is a Soviet-German mining company." "A year earlier a new kind of bomb had exploded over Japan." "The flash over Hiroshima was meant to illuminate the American Century." "To protect itself and keep world peace, the USSR had to break the imperialists' atomic bomb monopoly." "The first Soviet nuclear power plants were designed at that time." "Millions of graves between the Volga and the Elbe had not yet been counted." "Hard labor in the Wismut pits turned hatred and distrust into friendship." "Soviet and German communists fought as hard for dignity as for uranium." "In those days, who could have visualized the present?" "And who recalls today how socialism started for us..." "This is how we began, how we became" "SUN SEEKERS" "LONG LIVE OCTOBER 7, 1950" "It hasn't been that long." "The republic was one year old." "Our republic." "But much has happened since." "And the sun seemed distant and cool." "We Wismut workers had received honors in Berlin." "For most of us this was a holiday." "But in this village..." "On this farm..." "For this girl, Lutz..." "You beast!" "You slut!" "Little whore!" "Shut your mouth, for God's sake!" "BROTHERS, TO THE SUN, TO FREEDOM!" "Tons of rubble were in our way." "In Berlin, our Wismut mine, everywhere." "People were looking for a new way and it was a struggle." "A melting pot, seething, taking form." "And you, Lutz?" "Will you learn how to smile on your way?" "Where's "back left"?" "Back there, of course!" "Does Emmi Jahnke live here?" "Unfortunately." "What is it?" "Miss Emmi?" "What?" "I'm Lotte." "Lutz?" "Our foundling?" "You've become a full-grown woman!" "So you want to leave the East Zone." "I thought..." "Couldn't I..." "I wanted to stay with you." "That's asking a lot, honey." "It's not what my invitation said." "I have money." "That won't go far in Berlin." "This is what I want, like you." "I can work." "Better find a country uncle to live with." "Or one to marry." "Men are pigs." "All of them!" "I've know that since I was 14." ""Come sweetie, just lift your skirt. " Always the same." "I'm sick of it!" "Let me stay here." "I'll do whatever you want." "Wash it down." "Of course they're all the same." "Except for the few nice ones." "Imagine Naughty Emmi playing mother!" "Don't stand there like a coatrack." "I'll help you." "Off with this stuff!" "Pick what you like." "They want everything for nothing, the boys." "But love is as rare as a free circus ticket." "If you want it to go smoothly, anyone else who wants in must pass the box office first." "Turn around." "It's all there." "Money in the bank." "That's better." "And tonight we'll go out." "Hi, Uschi." "What's going on here tonight?" "Wismut's spitting money." "Wenzel, attraction!" "Here's an attraction!" "Don't be afraid, buddy." "Jupp König can still do it." "Single-handedly, without a net." "One strong man..." "The old song makes me tremble." "Next drink's on me!" "Jupp?" "Jupp König, the man who lifts lions!" "Who's the strong man here?" "You jerk!" "You'll pay for that." "Jumbo, Jupp!" "Show-off!" "Is it really you, partner?" "Still don't remember?" "Twinkle Baby!" "Waiter, a bottle of champagne!" "Frankfurters for the musicians!" "Band, play "Strong Man" again!" "Another beer, I'm afraid, please." "Still Mr. Nice Guy, my sweet Bolshevik?" "Does the Russian circus pay off?" "What we dig out of these mines!" "Our Wismut is changing the world." "The village fire department!" "Want some, gentlemen?" "I'm radioactive through and through." "Cheers!" "Cheers, atomic muscle man." "And what about you?" "Still chasing your lucky star?" "Still landing in the dirt." "Not with me." "I know, Jupp." "Do you remember how it happened in 1934?" "Jupp König came running into our circus." "With no identification, handcuffed." "The Nazis hard on his heels." "But Emmi displayed her escape artistry." "This old noggin they wanted, but didn't get, won't ever forget this." "It's my turn to help you in a pinch." "I'm glad you're back, strong man." "But no sermonizing." "Mr. Holleck, Berlin is all lit up." "It's all artificial." "Call me Günter." "May I?" "The lady says no." "Emil, give it to the Russian vassal!" "Wismut pig!" "Wismut pig!" "König Brigade over here!" "Wismut will clean up the hall!" "Tell it to the crowd." "To have a look around." "Every circus has one." "One strong man." "One who runs the show." "Who can do it fast or slow." "When push comes to shove you know." "There's one strong man..." "We'll take care of it." "No parents, not stupid, but misguided." "Resisted government aid." "Youth welfare." "Child, you cling to Emmi Jahnke." "Because she fled with you when your mother died in 1945." "But now she's a depraved creature." "Prowling through Berlin under lights we manufacture." "You live like an animal." "Look at me, I'm sending you to the Wismut mines in Felsach." "Locking people up!" "Be a human being!" "Better than prison." "Lots of men." "They're underground in the dark all day." "In the evening they need some sun." "And are we going to shine!" "Lazy dog!" "If you don't fix it by tomorrow, you're fired!" "As Party Secretary I'll meet the conscripts at the station." "No whores in my pit!" "But Comrade Beier..." "Behind the slag heaps!" "Hey, Beier!" "Hi, Weirauch." "This guy from Berlin wants to be in my brigade." "A miner?" "Donbass coal mines." "POW." "From your area." "Right, Josef?" "From Bucharest Banat." "Hello, pit boss!" "I'm Josef Stein." "Repatriated German, like you." "SS, retired." "But forced against my conscience, sir." "I'm a devout Christian." "Beier, listen to me." "Sergei, want a cigarette?" "Stalin's revenge?" "Papyrossi." "SS?" "Not in my pit!" "We vouch for him." "Unit?" "Das Reich Division, he says." "Pit boss, two good comrades say yes." "The man worked in the USSR." "Why not in uranium mines?" "If you say so." "You're in." "By the way, how come you hate the SS more than I do?" "You're German too, after all." "You give orders and I'm responsible." "No, what you say goes." "You drafted me." ""Beier can do it left-handed!"" ""Reconstruct pits, Beier!" "Dig up ore buzzing with electrons!"" "Mine and reconstruct." "You can't do both!" "If anything goes wrong, my head is the one in the noose!" "Working with such rabble." "Rabble?" "And what were you before?" "Stone radiates uranium." "Doesn't uranium radiate?" "You must see." "Is it waterproof?" "One kilo of meat, six liters of vodka!" "We'll wait and see." "Depends on the price here." "Do you know Jupp König?" "Where does he perform?" "I'll find him." "Miner's luck." "Ditto." "Miner's luck." "Miner's luck, Vera." "Active." "We struck ore." "We get the bonus." "At it, Günter!" "You religious?" "And what's that?" "Nauka." "Science." "This device looks for rays." "Sun." "I look for truth." "Eternal sun, you know?" "Good." "My babushka too." "Someone says hello." "Who?" "Buzz in a blouse." ""Twinkle Baby"." "What did I say?" "My circus follows me!" "Bad luck, bandits!" "The ore bonus goes to the second shift." "Finders keepers!" "Did you see another cute hypocrite up there?" "He's coming!" "Move." "Not you." "Something fresh for him." "Get Markscheider in a good mood and we meet our quota." "You sweat when you work!" "Take your pants off!" "Get dressed!" "But I'm hot." "Look, it isn't Markscheider." "So what?" "A man's a man." "Him?" "A man?" "An animal." "See me in my office." "Only the girl's left, pit boss." "You're off." "Lock your door." "Take your clothes off." "The bird cage too!" "What for?" "You asked..." "What do you want?" "Felsach is mine. 4000 people." "Digging resources for millions each day." "Even the Russians take heed as long as I maintain the pace." "If you accommodate me, you can have anything." "Want to sleep with me?" "If I have to." "Smile!" "Are you a whore or aren't you?" "I don't care." "Then you aren't." "Sit down." "What did your father do?" "Don't know." "I don't have one." "The main thing is you know what you are." "Don't you have a man anywhere?" "You won't find anything, comrades." "Nothing there." "Double shift, active ore, twelve hours." "Understand?" "Musik." "Kultura." "Where I grew up, the hungry wolves came right into our village." "And the people..." "The men..." "They all went for your throat." "Dog-eat-dog, that's how it was." "But it's all going to change now, right?" "Do you believe in socialism?" "Do you believe in love?" "No." "I don't either." "So what do you want?" "I want to be left alone." "Good." "We're only free at the top of the heap." "I'll stay there as long as I'm strong." "Bite your way up!" "Anybody can." "You too." "I want out." "Afraid?" "It's possible even with one arm." "And alone." "Leave!" "Rabble." "Really, terrible." "She can't smile." "Very lonely." "I could make her a radiometrist." "Tell your Vera." "Have her train the girl." "It's for you." "Günter Holleck?" "I have nothing, don't you get it?" "Don't even know German, you losers." "Sergei, get me out." "Jupp's waiting." "Thanks." "Comrade Holleck." "Who was in line in front of you?" "Do you know the man?" "No." "Your mouthpiece." "For kultura." "Don't even know Russian." "Losers." "Let's drink to my release!" "Girls' dorm?" "I have work to do." "Not allowed to fraternize?" "Come on!" "My new girl from Berlin is here." "Don't feel like it." "Why not?" "Jupp is celebrating with his circus love." "She helped him run from the Nazis." "He'd be happy." "All right." "Only for a moment." "Jupp König, Master of the Big Top!" "What's he doing?" "Jupp König is going to break ropes tied around his neck and wrists." "I brought your lost miner, comrade." "Goodbye." "This is my former partner." "We found each other again." "Emma has a heart of gold." "Let's drink to it." "Here's to the heart of gold!" "I must go, Comrade König." "How do you like my new date?" "Did you drink to the occasion yet?" "After the dance." "And the sun set into the deep sea." "Downhearted and lonesome was she." "To your health!" "And he put the golden light Back in the sky for her." "No shit." "That's it." "Miss Lutz, would you please dance with me?" "Every circus has one." "One strong man." "One strong man who runs the show." "Who can do it fast or slow." "When push comes to shove you know." "One strong man is prepared to go." "Here's to the Berlin police!" "I apologize." "I'm jealous, very much." "It's beautiful and good when people love each other." "Come." "Come, Günter." "Let's drink to life and love at my place." "Colonel Fedossyev." "The boss of Felsach." "Russian boss." "You are... in Beier's pit?" "Yes." "Why is production falling?" "The boss favors reconstruction." "What's up in Beier's pit?" "Why so many accidents?" "A cursed pit, muddy from before." "Please." "He's ill." "In the wine there is sun." "The sun of the Caucasus." "For Fedossyev, the old man, the sun has set." "All his children died in the war." "He cannot forget." "You're eighteen." "She was eighteen too." "My wife." "Like you." "He's asleep." "Wonderful eyes." "She painted." "She was always looking for light." "No more." "I got there." "They had shot her ten hours earlier." "SS." "Das Reich Division, 3rd Infantry Regiment." "What?" "Come with me to the pit." "Accident in the main shaft on Level 3." "Shake it off, Tkaczyk!" "Two weeks with mother and you'll be back." "Like a shot in the foot?" "Piece of cake." "Miner's luck!" "I signaled at once." "Only Tkaczyk got stuck." "Cigarette break?" "Keep moving, clear the rubble!" "You signal late!" "I wouldn't signal for you." "Break your neck, Beier!" "I'll kill you with one arm, Wenzel." "Wimps!" "Fulfilling the plan, mining, restoring." "I'm losing my men that way." "You think sabotage?" "Sabotage?" "Says Holleck?" "Could be sabotage." "Not this time." "You ordered me here." "Where do you want me?" "You force an SS man on me." "For example." "What do you think?" "Get back!" "What do I think?" "That I'll never get this pit in order." "I think we'll manage." "Good." "Another full wallet!" "Drill carefully!" "Doing okay?" "Do they leave you alone or are you biting your way up?" "Smile!" "Still can't do it." "I'll drive to Aue later, are you busy?" "No." "I'll take you along." "Wait for me after the shift." "Going out with the pit boss himself?" "Guess you're private property now." "No culture!" "Why do you allow that?" "No man dares treat me that way." "Where are men different?" "Where?" "Good men worship you." "And you..." "The pit boss." "What kind of comrade are you?" "It was my duty." "How could you indict Beier?" "Is he an enemy?" "Objectively, his methods aid the enemy." "The accidents..." "I approved of his methods." "And so did you." "But the miners' mood!" "I had to issue a warning." "Why don't you tell him that yourself?" "It's a secret." "From now on it will be different." "I have plans." "Only with me today." "Forget the rest!" "No." "Come, check it out!" "Stop!" "Fedossyev wants to see you." "This is where we live." "That's not true!" "Mr. and Mrs. Holleck." "Get married?" "The day after tomorrow if you want." "Why?" "You didn't like the barbed wire fences." "I want a wife and a home." "And I always got what I wanted." "You can't stay with Emmi and those other broads forever." "Your home is here with me." "Why me?" "How about..." "Because we love each other." "Do we love each other?" "Can't you hear it without a Geiger counter?" "You don't know how to kiss?" "Don't you get it?" "The Party demands higher productivity." "Not as long as Beier is here!" "And not if we reconstruct at the same time!" "What's going on here?" "We don't want to drag our bones to the hospital like Tkaczyk, right?" "No need to be nervous." "One thing at a time." "It's up to us to watch our bones." "Don't blame Sergei and Beier." "We resolve, despite problems..." ""We"?" "It's the Party that resolves." "Weirauch bows to Fedossyev, Beier to the Soviet engineer." "Are you trying to play off the Soviet comrades against us?" "Objective difficulties." "Nothing can be done." "Mining while reconstructing is too dangerous." "So everything will stay the same!" "Socialism can wait and we ask Flick and Krupp back to do it for us!" "Jupp rarely speaks." "When he does, he's dead right." "Excuse me, I'm a new comrade." "It's not Flick and Krupp exploiting us." "I understand." "Instead the uranium goes to Fedossyev and Sergei." "They're fascists?" "Wait a minute!" "That isn't worker logic!" "Who are Sergei and Fedossyev?" "What is the Soviet Union?" "The working class rules there and here." "I'll shove the ABC down your throat!" "The Soviet Union is building communism." "It is helping the whole world in their struggle for peace, obviously." "Soviet power prevents World War lll." "The Soviet comrades help us establish socialism." "Us and them." "Everyone." "The workers' power." "Peace." "All of us need uranium." "We all need energy for power plants." "Here, in Siberia, in China, everywhere." "That's proletarian internationalism." "American A-bombs would have exploded if the Soviets didn't have them too." "That's why we say, Fedossyev and I, uranium every hour." "The colonel has a report on accidents." "The German prosecutor has one too." "The colonel also says you are responsible for work safety." "You could go to prison." "Me to prison?" "I said, reconstruct and stop mining." "We'd extract twice as much later." "You said to keep mining while reconstructing!" "It was your order!" "So I go to prison?" "Him too?" "Your fascism." "Ten million dead." "Twenty million." "You knew nothing?" "Not guilty?" "Soviet Union guilty?" "Beier, a little." "He and I, a little." "Uranium." "Very active." "Soviet Union no more war." "Uranium instead." "For all workers." "For you as well." "He says, we need uranium." "It's very important." "We must continue." "You understand, Beier?" "Uranium every hour." "You accepted the responsibility." "And the power too." "When the situation is critical you must be very careful." "Not reconstruct on the workers' bones." "Does uranium radiate or not?" "Not for you, I guess." "I know you despise me." "Now you have me where you want me." "We trust you." "Thanks." "Because you need me." "My success improves your position." "Drop me and the pit dies." "Whether we love or hate each other, don't be hysterical." "When is reconstruction finished?" "In six months." "Whatever you need, I will do." "Okay?" "Who accused me?" "The report remains here." "Now it's impossible to see who's guilty." "In six months." "From me for your birthday." "?" "And from Günter." "?" "You'll come over later, right?" "I'm not refined enough for your guy?" "Go to hell!" "Jupp, it's urgent." "?" "You're going to Aue." "?" "Send someone else." "The district leader called." "The district leader?" "I'm busy." "Birthday." "Emmi will be 35 again." "Listen, Jupp, they're getting serious." "Comrade Hellert wants you to be Party Secretary." "Then you must drop Emmi anyway." "Says who?" "Comrade Hellert?" "This job is a great responsibility." "Who knows that better than me?" "I can't handle it." "I already told the comrades that you'd do a better job." "But how could I vote for you if your private affairs..." "T ell me, do you know Emmi?" "Have you ever talked with her?" "I know what she was doing in Berlin." "When?" "Why?" "Where do you get the courage for your position, Comrade Weirauch?" "I've been a communist since 1919." "I still don't have the courage to be Party Secretary." "I can see that you're a lousy secretary." "You peel apples before you take a bite." "And you judge people by their peel." "Goodbye." "When do I have to meet Eva in Aue?" "I knew it." "When the Party calls, you're there." "Oh really?" "Let me tell you something, sonny boy." "In the People's Naval Division in 1919 certain people said to me," ""Mate, you're an anarchist. "" ""But you'll be a communist. "" "And now I'm here." "Why did those comrades see what was in me?" "And why don't you ask me what potential I see in Emmi?" "You don't have the insight, Weirauch." "Right, Jupp!" "But you'll change your mind about her." "Or you will begin to think." "That's what the Party in Aue wants." "You as secretary in place of Weirauch." "A strong man to keep Beier in line." "Not interested." "I don't care." "But open your mouth for me in Aue." "For you?" "I was given six months by Fedossyev." "Four are left." "You think you're in for it now?" "Nonsense!" "I want new cables for Level 3." "CITY OF FELSACH MARRIAGE LICENSES" "For the ride to Berlin." "Sister's ill." "The other day it was his aunt." "Pit boss, I know this circus in and out." "You're a damned egoist." "But useful for us." "Tell them to supply the cables or Level 3 will be history." "If anyone wants my head..." "It's better if Weirauch stays secretary." "Birthday makes trouble with Emmi." "Bitterness makes you think straight." "What did you do in there?" "Dealing with local authorities." "Our moral youth!" "When will I be best man?" "Beers for us." "No thanks, brother." "I've been called." "I have to go." "We all have our own calling." "Go on, boy." "Yours is waiting at home." "Save your money, big boy." "You're no longer free." "I'm not free?" "Why am I here in the mines?" "I'm free and I stay free." "Shorty, fill 'er up!" "Nobody is going to tie a miner down." "Right, sweety pie?" "And your tall handsome Russian guy?" "You obey him like a dog his master." "Sergei and I?" "He's a real man." "I like all real men." "And I hate all suckers." "Don't get ideas." "The music stays where the trumpet is." "Under lock and key." "That's how it is, sweetie." "Where are you going?" "We were going to Emmi's." "I'm not going to those whores." "You come from the muck." "You think we're in the muck." "This is the best muck there is." "You can hear uranium crackling." "About us..." "Us Wismut miners." "You know nothing about us." "Lie down." "Are you ordering me around?" "My trumpet!" "A goat." "A wild goat jumping into the sun." "I see." "I bought it for us." "I like it." "I thought that..." "And you're the goat, right?" "No, not for free." "I'll pay, madam." "Wedding banns." "Tell it to the crowd." "To have a look around." "Every circus has one." "One strong man." "One strong man who runs..." "Miners!" "Wismut won't tolerate brothels." "Go on home!" "What am I doing here?" "Riff-raff!" "We have to establish order!" "I have work to do." "First you hire the tarts, then you fire them!" "It creates bad blood among my people." "King Jupp will let you have it!" "The party's over!" "You too?" "You goat!" "I've had it." "I make the decisions here." "Worries enough!" "I'm pit boss." "I'm no lion tamer or father confessor." "Understand?" "You're not going back to Günter?" "Is that final?" "You don't understand, Mr. Beier." "Franz to you." "What happened with Emmi?" "Major trouble, Jesus and Mary!" "What about the cables?" "They want to get rid of her!" "Get her!" "I grabbed mine, we'll get married." "I'm responsible for uranium." "Weirauch is for morals." "Weirauch?" "And the cables?" "Next week." "And Günter?" "Get out!" "Yes, sir!" "Why did you lie?" ""Getting married"." "I need someone." "So do you." "MOTTO OF THE MONTH:" "FOCUS ON PEOPLE" "Okay." "I've known Emmi for ages." "Since you were shitting in diapers." "Comrade, I'm sorry." "What happened in Aue?" "Did you accept?" "Get the cops!" "It's a top-level call." "Not ours." "Do it!" "An old comrade like you with a woman like her!" "As a young Marxist I shouldn't have to tell you that." "She's a stain on your vest." "Always violence." "Sergei, I'm with Weirauch." "Emmi got arrested." "Come on over, König." "I don't love you." "That's good." "You don't love me." "Good." "I'm reliable." "I keep my promises." "Even if it costs me my other arm." "You stand on your own two feet." "You're faithful." "You have much more in you." "You live here, Mr. Beier?" "I told you to call me Franz." "You're alone." "So am I." "My mother lives far away in Romania." "She can't come here, I can't go there." "She didn't love my father." "We were poor." "But when they tried to step on him, she covered his back." "My mother was always fearful." "Unlike Emmi." "Everyone's against me!" "Your Holleck incriminated me." "What about you and the engineer?" "Sergei?" "He's good." "You stand by me, understand?" "Yes." "His wife painted." "I love the girl and I'll get her out!" "I'd give my right arm for her." "Why give your right arm?" "Then she'll dance on the table again." "Poor Günter." "If the lady dances naked, she must leave Felsach." "If she's the wife of Comrade König..." "Please, she can stay." "What?" "At age 50?" "Call the police." "I'll connect you." "Of course." "Let go!" "Let me go!" "I won't let you throw me out!" "Twinkle Baby!" "I wish you a happy birthday!" "Did you bring a dress for me?" "How do I say this?" "They only let you go if you marry me." "Screws loose?" "You have to go to the very bottom in order to bounce up." "If the reconstruction works out..." "My pit..." "The ore will make us free." "Together, Lutz." "A reprimand for Comrade Jupp König." "The district leaders agree to the reprimand." "Well, do you still want him as secretary?" "Well, I don't know, Comrade Hellert." "It's a risk, Eva, but..." "It's not a risk." "If you help him." "He has courage." "But no discipline." "Organized for 30 years." "KPD since 1919." "People's Naval Division." "Dropped out in 1923." "Impossible!" "No dues paid for one year." "And then he's back." "Red Front Fighters League." "Fights fascists at meetings." "Then he's on the road again." "Berlin, Hamburg, unemployed, performed in the circus, went to sea." "Went underground in March 1933." "Escaped prison transport." "Joined the Party." "Too impulsive for underground work." "The Party sends him abroad." "Weirauch, four rolls of cable are here." "Too few again." "You called me, Eva." "Have you thought it over?" "Why?" "I thought you had reconsidered." "I wasn't made for desk work." "Are we?" "How do you judge a comrade?" "Where or how he works for the Party?" "I didn't mean that." "Then don't say it." "Weirauch, that's how I am." "Don't make me hit myself!" "You hit me!" "Impossible!" "You embarrass me." "Why?" "You drink too much." "Me?" "You're too proud of your muscles." "What about your head?" "The Party is growing." "And you?" "What I meant..." "Tell the comrades in the pit." "Miner's luck!" "I'll do whatever the comrades decide." "Jupp!" "Emmi won't have it easy with you." "Kiss the bride, Jupp!" "Two brides, Eva." "Where Beier and I are from, dear Jupp, in the Banat region, no knot was tied without God." "Miss Vera says, we search for rays like for sunlight in stone." "We're all sun seekers." "We search for our sun all our lives." "In the mud, on gray and on black days." "What do we find?" "Friendship and love." "Your young wife, brother pit boss, hears the uranium clicking on her Geiger counter." "It's the sound of a new dawn." "Know it's all worthless if we forget to listen to each other's hearts or seek eternal sun." "My friends, here's a toast to you." "Everybody gets one." "No one must interrupt." "Now hear the blessing of the Lord from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4." ""Two are better than one." "They are rewarded for their toil." "If they fall, one will lift up his fellow." "If two lie together, they are warm." "But how can one be warm alone?" "A man might prevail against one, but two shall withstand him." "I considered all the living under the sun on the side of those who stand together like brothers. "" "Miner's luck!" "Amen!" "How did I manage that?" "Don't be so grumpy!" "I'm expecting a baby." "The other one's the father." "Keep quiet." "If worst comes to worst..." "And now drink!" "I wish you luck, Beier!" "Because your wife deserves it." "Thanks for the honest wish." "You permit me?" "Please." "May I, Lutz?" "I'm remembering our first dance." "So am I." "Why don't you smile?" "Congratulations, Mrs. Beier!" "Here's a dowry from me." "I guess you have everything else." "Come here!" "You rascal!" "?" "Hey, hey!" "Comrades, comrades!" "?" "You bull in a china shop!" "And you, Beier, don't get hysterical." "No cause for excitement!" "We're used to a little fun." "Music!" "Here's to the circus!" "Jupp's wedding continues." "Let's dance!" "Sit down for a moment." "Smile!" "I can't, Franz." "You must learn to." "Like that!" "It's your wedding." "My wedding." "The storm is passing." "You held up fine tonight." "They brought over the table today." "You'll be surprised at your new home." "I'll be home more often now." "If only the pit..." "Level 3, main tunnel." "Reconstruction is going well." "Better than production." "But Vera found ore in Crosscut 30." "It's clicking like mad." "The clicking makes you happy." "Crosscut 30 by the old silver pits?" "Too dangerous to mine there." "And the main tunnel..." "Nothing but mute granite there." "The smart Russian knew it." "Now they blame me." "Vera said..." "What did he say against me?" "Sergei?" "When I came in that time." "He said his wife..." "Another one of those!" "Stein!" "Do you know me from before?" "No, compatriot." "Günter asked me that too." "Too drunk to go in the pit tomorrow!" "Degenerate bunch." "Big shot commander!" "Officer Shithead!" "Quiet." "He has my girl." "That guy!" "Go to bed." "Come with me, brother." "I won't go praying." "God gives us everything." "Ups and downs." "But also plums for the schnapps." "My own house, my own bed." "And a marriage certificate!" "Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy..." "Do you need a Geiger counter?" "To listen to each other's hearts." "Why don't you smile?" "...shot ten hours earlier." "SS." "Das Reich Division, 3rd Infantry Regiment." "?" "Six months." "?" "What were you?" "You're a damned egoist!" "Get me, Beier?" "Uranium every hour." "Then put in the old cables." "I'll take responsibility." "Continue production, you check it!" "What happened?" "Go back to sleep." "It'll be all right." "We're not going into Crosscut 30, Beier!" "We're out of here!" "Good." "I need miners." "Not wimps!" "LEVEL 3 CROSSCUT 30" "Miner's luck!" "Miner's luck!" "We have to move into this gash vein." "Not with my brigade!" "In there?" "And I'm supposed to apologize to him!" "We'll break our necks in the old silver pits." "You want to take revenge." "Calm down, okay." "Hero of Labor." "I guess it wasn't a free ride." "We need the strongest men here." "We never liked each other, Beier." "Despite the double wedding." "I'm the damned egoist, not you." "Drill slowly and carefully." "And you'll hit ore." "Is that all?" "Yes, Comrade Colonel." "Less and less." "Stop!" "Fasten the cable!" "Active." "Is this your territory now too?" "Vera and I discovered it." "So we'll keep running into each other." "Not smart of your husband." "You know nothing, Günter." "But you know everything." "Yes." "Only September is left." "Not much time." "Enough." "We'll mine in the old silver shafts." "The comrades know it's dangerous." "Show him!" "Not too dangerous if Beier is careful." "And if we take safety measures." "I want to see results, not a dangerous experiment." "We'll finish reconstruction in October." "Production will increase immensely." "And then the new machinery." "Comrade Beier." "Your Party Secretary is a smart fellow, right?" "He warned us in his report." "It was Weirauch." "I see." "Those Russians!" "The old man is a devil." "Taking away my pit!" "But I'll show you." "There's nothing you can do but trust." "Trust in me or in some other pit boss." "Trust?" "Four weeks to go." "Dumping Beier?" "No way." "He's the worst slavedriver!" "Beier goes, another one comes." "He's hard on us." "I often feel like kicking his ass." "But I'd go down to Level 10,000 with him any time." "He doesn't connect with the miners." "He's always down there." "And you?" "Comrades!" "Comrades!" "Our Soviet friends sent for him to have him replaced." "And I'll demand the same." "You think you are the Party!" "We all have a say in socialism." "Replacement's here!" "We elected you because Jupp refused." "Jupp, it's your turn!" "Jupp for secretary!" "Now that he's married!" "You're crazy!" "It's not about me." "It's about the pit!" "I'm against Beier." "But we fixed up the pit with him." "And now they drop him!" "Anyway, who gives a shit?" "Jupp has more brains in his toe than you have in your head." "You're up already?" "I was at the market." "You don't look well." "From next week on you have day shift." "It's Weirauch." "Okay, wait for me." "Jupp is secretary." "The cables." "Finally!" "Pick them up." "MOTTO OF THE MONTH:" "FRIENDSHIP" "Enough new cables?" "Yes, but they take forever." "Listen, Jupp." "What is it?" "Nothing." "Electricians' turf." "Five trains and the cables melt!" "Watch out for short circuits." "Miner's luck!" "Miner's luck!" "You wanted to tell me something." "No." "Why don't you trust Sergei?" "He doesn't trust me." "Hates me." "He's not human." "As long as you think they're wolves they'll think you're a wolf." "I'm not a wolf." "But not a sheep either!" "Where are the bits?" "Hidden back there." "Nobody there to steal them." "Brother, lamp broken?" "Krüger!" "Krüger, a saboteur!" "Just like what's written in the Volksstimme." "That's for Bertha!" "And for all the aunts in Berlin!" "Always violence." "Krüger, a wolf with a sheep's head." "You can burn Josef and Günter." "But you can't burn all workers." "Not uranium and not the sun." "That's not going to work!" "Running to me all the time." "You're a married couple." "Beier..." "I can't deceive him." "Miner's luck!" "Give her a piece of your mind!" "What's wrong?" "I have to leave." "I can't stay here." "I'm expecting a baby." "It's not yours." "You have half an hour before your shift starts." "Are you going to Holleck now?" "No." "You can stay here." "We don't love each other." "I didn't know at first." "And then..." "I thought it wouldn't matter." "You wouldn't notice." "You told me you needed someone." "But I..." "It just won't work." "I'm going to lie down." "It's not important who the father is." "Even Fedossyev says that my pit belongs to him." "It'll be my child if we raise it together, Lutz." "Stupid goat." "You already know how to cry." "Maybe you'll learn how to smile too." "Take care!" "CAUTION!" "MECHANICAL AIR DOOR" "What do I think?" "We managed." "I think." "CROSSCUT 30" "Come over here." "A new contact." "Stop!" "Turn it off!" "Finally!" "We're safe now." "CAUTION!" "EXPLOSIVES" "Dispatcher!" "Everyone out!" "We'll blast Crosscut 30 to cut off fire from the main tunnel." "Stein and Holleck in the silver pit?" "Damn it!" "We'll take them with us." "Escape Route 17/8." "Put me through to König!" "Beier!" "Franz!" "We'll get you out." "Don't blast!" "Damn it!" "I'll run things until the rescue crew arrives." "ESCAPE ROUTE 17/8" "Weirauch dead, all others out." "Pit boss and engineer still in there." "It's blocked." "Through the silver pits." "Also caved in." "We're trapped." "Trapped in uranium." "Swallowed like Jonah in the whale's belly." "Jesus and Mary!" "They'll find us." "Crosscut 30 is on fire." "The fire's contained." "Everyone out?" "Anyone hurt?" "Nobody else." "We'll look for the four of them in Escape Route 17/8." "Beier's blast." "It saved the pit." "He put them all in danger and saved most of them." "His responsibility." "And yours." "Yes." "And yours?" "Yes, but I know why I'm here." "Does Beier know?" "Comrade König." "In the beginning only few know." "Everyone must know." "I've seen it." "I was a seaman on a blockade runner." "I saw the sun explode." "In Hiroshima." "Nothing a strong man can do about it." "Against uranium helps only uranium." "Doesn't Beier know?" "Germans still don't know?" "They're not in 17/8." "Check in the silver pits." "Impossible!" "Fire everywhere." "You must!" "I'll go myself." "Wait?" "I don't want to." "I don't want to wait." "You brought us here." "Now get us out, Beier!" "Save your breath." "They'll get us out." "Helplessly we will be trampled between thorns." "Evil does not rise from the dust, and pain not from the earth." "It is man who creates suffering and the sun the fiery heat." "Lord, have mercy!" "Heavy gas." "If they don't find us in half an hour, we'll try to break through." "I want to be left alone." "I want out." "Why did you lie?" ""Getting married"." "I can't stay here." "I'm expecting a baby." "I didn't know what she's like." "I didn't think it mattered." "You just find a woman and..." "It's done with!" "You knew what she's like." "You love her, Comrade Beier." "Once we see daylight again..." "But if I..." "Take care of Lutz." "We'll get out together or not at all." "She's pregnant." "We'll find them." "Definitely." "Stupid goat." "We love each other." "We love each other." "Stay here, comrade." "You have heart problems." "Who gives me orders?" "I do." "As Party Secretary I'm responsible." "I'm communist too." "Therefore no patience." "Patience." "Until Sergei and Beier are dead?" "Patience!" "Why do our children have to perish?" "Can the dead build a just world?" "Uranium must be cordoned off, mined fast and hard." "For socialism." "Patience is required until everyone learns that." "Leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "Only this one time I wanted things to go my way." "I'm not a wolf." "I'm a scoundrel." "A coward." "We can't wait any longer." "We must." "Better to burn than to suffocate." "Saves purgatory flames." "Go quickly!" "We'll carry him." "Try to make it through." "Tell them to hurry!" "A coward." "Beier, a coward!" "Quiet, Beier!" "Your wife is waiting for you." "Sergei is a coward too." "I love Lutz." "I thought..." "My world is so foreign to her." "Sergei, you've been looking for me." "You've always wanted to know..." "Beier!" "The village." "Your wife." "I saw it." "Das Reich Division." "3rd Infantry Regiment." "My battery was in position there." "Repatriated Germans from Romania." "I saw it." "Everything the SS..." "Nobody intervened." "I didn't either." "I was 18." "Wanted out of my village." "Hungry." "Not getting stepped on." ""Repatriates, join the army!"" "I didn't know what that was." "That's me." "I've always known it." "We've been together for long." "What are you saying, Beier?" "We must live." "Brothers!" "I will lead!" "Brothers!" "You'll live with us, Lutz." "You and your child." "It's looking for light, grasping at it." "It's been two years now." "I can't stop thinking about you, Lutz." "And since the child is ours..." "Never mind, Günter." "It's my child and Franz's." "Dear Lutz." "I'm flying back home today." "I know." "You will be happy." "And not alone." "Your child!" "May it smile like you." "Farewell." "Move on, you o." "You will be happy." "And not alone." "Your path is the path we're all going." "It has just begun." "Miner's luck!"