"My parents are already on the table." "They should be worried." "Giovanna, haven't you ever thought that your parents might as well be worried and not punctually bother us with their punctuality?" " It's how they are." " Worse for them." "So, why don't we get married?" "Two people in love are married." "Come on, move." " And now that you're becoming an assessor..." " Right, I'll become rich." " You know that an assessor earns 68.000 lyres per month." " Money is a pretence." "It's a reality." "This is yours." " Won't Vittorio come?" " No, Camillo didn't invite him, he doesn't want any public." " Hello." " Hello." " Ja'" "Ja'!" " Ja'" "Ja'!" "Ja'" "Ja'!" "Certainly, the necessity of a daily political presence combined with an intellectual prematurity which fairly require an above- average performance from us, has diverted our attention from a problem that will become worse as long as we continue to postpone it:" "the sexual problem." "By complete sexual intercourse I mean a 'coito non interruptus' in horizontal position, with the full stretch of the body, as well as active and conscious participation of the two partakers." "Am I dreaming or awake?" "We have excluded 'a priori' the possibility to experiment with a prostitute." "Firstly, because we'd have to act uncovered, in a public place, the bourgeois laws could defame our movement." "Don't disturb!" "Secondly, because we'd risk to contract venereal diseases that could weaken our already exiguous ranks." " Toad, if you aren't attentive I won't continue." " It'd be better." "One absolutely confidential friend knows a girl, Giuliana, with an amateur availability, as he says, inexhaustible." "During the embrace, she appears to be plunged in such a total hypno-ecstasy, that her partner could be replaced without being noticed by her." "What better training for us?" "She's a workers' daughter, gentle and reserved." "Of course the bourgeois girl would be preferable, to rape in her, above all, the class she belongs to." "But since such girl can never get into an hypnotic state and when she slips off her panties she does it for viewing reasons, we have to work our fingers to the bone with the aforementioned Giuliana." "On the other hand, if she's of proletarian extraction, she's already a potential bourgeois." "Let us not forget that, as the president Mao says:" "The peasant class is the only revolutionary class." "Enough!" "We're not playing at all!" " He'll come back." " You could have let him speak." " It's a high-level matter." " Who gives a damn!" " And also written fine." "Moreover, before making such a proposal you have to be informed if the people listening have the same problems as you." "My God, my God." "Why have you forsaken me?" " Professor, two persons are waiting for you." " Don't wake me up." " Don't deliver the knock-out blow." "Maybe they want Elena." " No, exactly You." " You don't recall their names." "Are they comrades?" "Have they got umbrellas?" " No." " Do you think it's convenient to meet them wearing the bathrobe?" " No." "Ask Elena if she's waiting for anyone." "Meanwhile I'll put on socks and pants." " Shall I prepare you a beaten egg?" " Why, are we in a hurry today?" " Who is it?" " With permission." " Who is it?" " Your brother asks if you're waiting for anyone." " And you wake me up for this?" " He told me to ask you." " And you still believe all his bullshit?" "Tell me, are you nuts?" "I've got a low blood pressure, I can't wake up so abruptly!" "One tells me one thing, the other tells me another..." " Wake up, stand up!" " I told you that my home was a better place." "You've told me a lot of things." "If you had done at least half of them!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Go!" "My salvation will be your salvation, my power..." "Giuliana, you shall break my shackles, my soul will flow like a river in which you could quench your thirst." "Away!" " What do you want?" " Can I have a wash?" " No, go away, they'll see you." "Careful!" " Hello." " Ettore Bonsotti." " It's a pleasure." " Alfiere Bernardi." " Excuse the unsuitable time." " Please." "Let's take a seat in my room." " Please." " Thank you." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello, Giovanna." " Thanks." "How are you, Giovanna?" "I'm fine." " I see, how come?" "I'll run for the socialists in the administrative elections." "They have assured me the assessorship at the Public Education." " Shall I accept?" " Well..." " There's mail for you." " Thanks." " Could you give me a spoon?" " When will you go back to college?" " Tomorrow." "You'll have to take me there." "Sorry, I'm daydreaming." "I'm cold." "If you want it, I can get another one." "Let the meal be frugal to the rich." "Every cookhouse to have its gifts." "And the treasure, refused in the pomp of superb banquets, friendly to flow on the humble's roof, to feed him, the poor one, and may he happier be today." "Hello, Vittorio." "Sorry, we fell asleep..." " Come on, hurry up before Camillo comes." " Have patience..." " Enjoy your meal." " Thanks." "Couldn't you go to a hotel?" "Camillo could have a shock." "Why spend money if we have a home and nobody forbids us?" " I'll forbid you." " You don't count." "Elena, you're cunning but you don't get that one could even be a Marxist at 17, but still he expects from his sister that she doesn't get banged." "Everyone knows it, the world may turn upside down, but the sister remains untouchable." "Be careful at what you say." " In flight!" " Careful at the plates." " Any news?" " Why?" "What sort of?" " This morning..." " Go on with the call." " I'm done." " Could you get my photo album, please?" " Hello?" " Carlo, the Quantity surveyor is here." " Shall you tell him or shall I?" " Odd or even?" " Even." "Bim, bum, bam!" "Excuse me." " Hello?" " Good afternoon, I'd like to speak to accountant Carini." " Speak, it's me." " Ah, it's You?" "Good afternoon." "I'm professor Gordini." "I have something to say." "You should know about the candidacy that your party offered to me." "Since I'm not familiar with the active politics," "I'd ask to have a small staff or at least an assistant..." "A sort of manager who knows how to organize my electoral campaign." "The Quantity surveyor Bonsotti mentioned your name to me." " Would you mind if you recall me after half an hour?" " Yes." "It's ok." " Goodbye." " Thanks." "Goodbye." "Give it to me." " Wait, I'll help you." " That one at the bottom." "Thanks." " Are you happy if I become an assessor?" " Neither happy, nor sad." "What's with you, Giovanna?" "I didn't say anything that could insult you!" "Or did I?" "Did I bother you?" "Giovanna, don't cry!" "Don't cry!" "If I could forget for a moment this restraint of mine..." "This is a madhouse." "Nobody cares in Milan, as long as they have us as nurses!" " A financier can't afford everything." " Yes..." "Why did you call me?" "I told you that I don't want to be there." "First of all, when I give orders to you, you should obey." "Alright?" " What do you want?" " What do I want?" "!" "I'm taking two bottles." "I'll take them, don't worry." "What is it?" "Is it a secret?" "I'm at my home." " Leave me alone, don't bother me." " So, what is it?" "And who's he?" "Listen, we'll talk later, forget it." "Go, go." " I withdraw." " Come on, step in." " Is she asleep?" "Miss." "Giuliana..." "Listen, after you, of course, can I go, too?" "But..." "I don't know." "Ask Camillo." "The act that I'm about to carry out it's not an abuse." "It could look to you as violence towards an unconscious minor, but she'll also benefit from the benefits that I'll get." "The right cause that you're supporting with your good disposal, in the future will promote the class you belong to, helping you to gain conscience of your own exploitation, through me, that will help you gain conscience." "I could do it even 'cause You're helping me to gain conscience." "Do you understand?" "Rather, am I clear?" "The circle closes." "Someone's here." "Wait." "Carlo, turn off the light, please!" " Sorry, come over there." " Where are you taking me?" " Come, come." " I don't want to stay here." " We can't, they saw me." " Stay, please!" " But it's humiliating." " Who gives a damn!" " Who's he?" " A comrade from the province." "In short, are we in trouble here?" "Tell your friend that I'm not afraid of him." " Bye." " Bye." "Don't be angry, cause I am, already." "Quiet, quiet." "I'll take the dog out for a walk, but come back soon, it's cold." " Listen, don't push it, it's new." " Another slave of consumption." " It's running in!" " We'll get it out." " Be careful." "What are you doing?" "Leave it." "Give here!" "Damn, it's not yours!" "Where shall I take you?" "To the left." "To the right." " Be careful, you can't pass through." " Are you teaching me?" "What's this smell of paint?" "Guys, I don't want trouble." "You should have told me and I'd leave the car to you." " Are you scared?" " No, but I want know where are we going." "I'm not your driver." "Stop in front of the Socialist Party." " Did he stop?" " He went away." " Can I go?" " No, just a moment." "Keep the motor on." " What should I wait for?" "Come and see what good services your little owner does for us!" "I'm leaving!" "Someone's coming." " Guys, there's a night guard, what shall we do?" " Let's stay calm." " It's forbidden to write over these walls." " Ah, really?" "Strange." " Write whenever you wish, but not here." "Why?" "Cause the Socialist Party is subscribed to the surveillance service." " You can write over those walls, I don't care, but not over this one." " Interesting." "If you don't want me to denounce you, cancel what you've already written." " With what, with the tongue?" " I don't care with what." " He doesn't care." " Show me your papers." " If you don't stop it, I'll show you something else." " Follow me to the police station." " Will you intervene?" " In underpants?" " Do you like being a servant?" " Come to the police station and be witty there." " Nice." "Vittorio, our candidate." " Listen, they're kids, better reconcile." " Vittorio, we won't reconcile." " I can't, I don't do mulcts." " Fine, take it, come on." " No, please." " By paying we admit of being wrong." " Shut up!" "He can get scared and not take it." " Take it, come on." " I don't want to." " Don't make me laugh, take it." " No." "No." "Let's go to the police station." " But you already took it." "And this senile is supposed to be better than me?" "!" " You took it in your hand." "It's like you accepted it." " I didn't take it." "It doesn't matter." "For the law matters that You took it." "I have three witnesses here that can give evidence in my favor." " I didn't take it." " Go on, take it." "I'll double it." "Here, take it." "Do you understand that this money is yours?" " I don't want it!" " You don't but it's in your pocket." "How come you don't want it if you took it twice in your hand and once in your pocket?" " He took it!" " Vittorio, control yourself." " Someone's in the section." " Let's go." " Throw it, it's the proof of the crime." "But we didn't kill anyone!" "Toad, don't sit on the dog." "Vittorio is graduated and I'm an accountant." "That's why." "The list should have increased in tone, a professor was missing, a "Dott."." "Let's go, come on, it's late." "So I lost the candidacy and assessorship to a capitalist who will serve to tranquillize the little-bourgeois electorate." "Help me." " A reason more to leave." " Don't start these conversations again!" "Go!" "Go!" "You go!" "If you haven't understood it yet, I like living in this dirty city." "I want to stay here, where I've had less than necessary for years." "I want more than the necessary." "The more I suffer, the more I raise my claims." " You don't need to tell me that." " I guess I do." "We were playing until now." "As if love was something that could do without our daily life, our work, our owners, our miserable class." "A false joy, a false enthusiasm." "I want to jump on the horseback, I don't want to hold the stirrups anymore." " In short, you'll accept to work for Vittorio Gordini." " For now." "You talk and talk, but when you need to say 'no'..." "Don't worry for me, Giovanna, I know what I want." "Excuse me professor, can I consult the syntax?" " Yes, sure." " What do you want?" " Excuse me professor, can I consult the syntax?" " No." " But you let the Romanelli consult it." " Right, and then?" " But..." " Go, go to your place." " Perfect." " No, more than perfect." "He doesn't understand a thing." "I won't be substituted by the beadle, 'cause I believe you're responsible." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." "Let's make him a surprise." "Ucci, ucci, I hear smell of Christian-ucci." " Will we stay here?" "Let's leave." " Shut up now." " I'm going." " Santa Barbara." " Ora pro nobis." "It always ends like this." "Good afternoon." "Gordini, I'm waiting for you." " Are you alone?" " No, with Vittorio." " Where's he?" " At the secretary." " Gordini, are you ready?" " Rightaway, father." " I'll go." "We should teach a lesson to Vittorio within this week." " What's to accuse?" " I accuse You, since you're asking me." "No, what are you accusing me of?" "I accuse you for not accusing You and I excuse for this accuse." "I accuse you for not being able to accuse you." "You don't seem to be disposed for the sacrament." "I'd be disposed to be disposable if I disposed a good disposition." "But since I'm ill disposed of being disposable," "I don't have any disponibility of good disposition." "Gordini, your brother's here." " Hello, how are you?" " Rot." " Behave yourself." "Father, I have to substitute Ricciardi at father Comotti." " Fine." " I'll go with him." "Who told you to come?" " You want to confess?" " No, no." " Take your hands out of your pockets." "I'll wait you in the music hall." "I don't want to listen to the usual scolding." "Play, play ping pong, it makes you cunning." " Good afternoon, father." " Gordini!" " What's to eat?" " Soup with broth and chicken." " What?" " Soup with broth and chicken." "I'll prepare it now." "Is it true that your brother has joined the socialists?" " Very true." " Do you need money?" " You believe you can fix everything with money." " Do you need it or not?" " Of course, and I want it 'cause they're mine, too." " Who denies it?" "Stop it with this attitude!" " Are you raising your voice?" "I can understand your disappointment for my political choice." "You had already made a choice which you betrayed for a dish of lentils!" "No, Camillo, this is a big misunderstanding." "My adherence to your group was particular, affectionate, familiar, paternal, I'd dare say." " We aren't need in of father Vittorio." " I didn't mean that." "I've always been a moderate progressivist." " Laic, yes..." "A radical." " So?" "Aren't you ashamed?" "Taking part in a socialist list perfectly fits my ideas." " Aren't you eating anything else?" " No, I don't feel like it." "Father, Maria's poults are here." " Do, re..." " Good evening, father." " Good evening, father." " Good evening." " Good evening, father." " Good evening, father." " Good evening." "Now let's sing "Radiant with love's smile"." "Behave." "Leave me alone." "Radiant with love's smile in the first of April..." "The things you believe in, in which I also believe, will never become true." "To believe that something is right, but not believing that it could become true, means not believing that it's right." "Therefore I don't believe it." "I need to do something soon, something in group, since I wasn't able to do anything alone." "The roses on her face..." "The thorns hidden in the heart!" "The thorns hidden in the heart!" "Alright, I might not believe in what I'm doing, it's funny... but I continue doing it, therefore I believe it." "Come ancient love... burn my muscles, ungrateful!" "Come and slash my heart, tyrant idolater." "Come and slash my heart, so that I die... of love..." "All things old and older." "And yet here I am, wanting a bit of authority without damaging the principles of freedom and democracy." "So that I die... die of love!" "Gordini!" "You see, Gordini?" "I counted it." "It's less than yesterday." " Good night, kids." " Good evening." " Come here, Renato." "You were out of tune." "Bye, Giovannino." " It's of rhubarb." "Disgusting." " Exchange it, stupid." " Will you give me a cigarette?" " A kick in the ass." "Good night." "Bye, Fedele." "Bye, Leo." "She's my sister." "She looks after the patrimony." "We've got 3 estates." " She's pretty." " But she'll remain nubile, she's afraid people might marry her for the money." "Obviously I hope there'll be an array of forces." " I'd not want anyone to throw stones at me." " It never happened." "Anyhow, there'll be a group of cops in town." "They should know that we're going!" "Here we are." " Aren't you coming down?" " There's nobody." "Where's the stage?" "And the cops?" "Maybe You gave too much importance to it." "Mr. accountant, I'm Gasparino, the son of Robiola." "Robiola is the secretary here." " What do you want?" " My father has to finish sowing, then he comes." "We can't wait, we have two other meetings before twelve o'clock." " A joke." " Forgive them, they're ignorants." "What ignorance?" "!" "It's about not keeping the word!" "There's a contempt here towards the commitments they made." "The party's representent isn't here, neither the stage nor the public." " In truth..." " The guilts are revealing now." "Usually the speaker here holds the microphone and talks." "The meeting takes place, but it's not what brings the votes." " But it's worthless without the public." " Begin, the public will arrive." "I'll begin when at least fifty people are gathered here." " Should they gather around the stones?" " Don't teach me the way of life!" "I'm not the kamikaze of the party and I don't want to be ridiculous." " Be ridiculous?" "Mostly, they'll ignore you." " What are you talking about?" "Uffa." "Come with me, move." " Be careful, will you?" " You be careful, you always bump into me." "What's he doing with that table?" " Will you sing a song for us?" " Keep wide, go home or at school." "Yeah, at school now!" " Soaps?" " No, thanks." " Three soaps, 100 lyres." " No, not interested." " I beg you my friend." " Don't insist." " Hey, it's a bargain." "Leave me alone." "On this square, now will speak comrade, professor Vittorio Gordini of the Socialist Unified Party." " So?" " Is that all?" "But there are just four cats." " Let's finish it, professor." "Let's go, come on." " Damn it!" " So, admit that you're shitting in your pants." " But..." "Come here." "Come!" "Come here!" " Soaps?" " I won't allow you to insult and give orders to me." " I said it to encourage you." " I've got the courage." " Show us." " Turn around, professor, we're here." " He's looking at the view." " Hello!" "Hello!" " Away, damn it!" "On this square, now will speak comrade, professor Vittorio Gordini of the Socialist Unified Party." "Hurrah!" "In the outline of the economic plan that was programmed and..." " Good morning, countess." " Good morning." " Good morning." "Now the professor Vittorio Gordini will speak, candidate at the elections for the renewal of the Town Council." " Please, professor." " Stupid." " Better being brief." "Look, he's starting!" " Sheet in the wind!" " Thanks!" " Come on!" " Come here." " Come on, come on!" "Since when you beat the children?" "I'll take care of it now!" " That kid deserved worse." " Socialist my ass!" "What are you doing here?" "Beating the children?" "I'll smash your face." "Mrs. countess, they're beating your brother." "What's happening?" "They're serious!" "Are you nuts?" "!" " How rude!" " I'll close by key." " Where's the telephone?" " Here." " Where did I land!" "Damn you!" " Vittorio." " Come here!" " Anything to drink?" " Yes, whatever you like." "Of course I'm coming!" " We'll pay your salary!" " I'm not afraid of you!" " Stop it!" " The usual Stalinists that provoke us." " We know you!" "Let's smash his car!" " Just a nuisance." "Bye." " I can't bare these things." " Stay calm, professor!" " How can I?" "!" " Are You professor's sister?" " Yes." " Carini." "You want anything?" " If it wasn't for You..." " Your brother is not experienced." "Then, he's so nervous..." "Accountant?" "Accountant!" "If I knew I had to suffer this way for the assessorship..." "Accountant!" " They're wrecking my car." " It's a trick for making you go out." "I can't look at it being wrecked for nothing." "A car, after being repaired, it's not new anymore." " It's a stupid idea!" " I'm not a coward, I have to fight!" " Bastards!" "I'll have you arrested." " I'll show you the bastard!" "Go away, professor!" "Go away!" "Run!" "I told you that we needed the cops!" "Giovanna, what are you doing at this hour?" "Propaganda stuff for your brother." "Charge these over-time hours to the party, not me." " Do you want a cup of chamomile?" " Thanks." "Giovanna!" "Giovanna!" "Will you open?" "I forgot the keys." " Who is it?" " It's the professor." " Still up?" " Yes." " Allow me introduce accountant Carini." " Hello." " Hello." " You already knew each-other?" " Yes." " Surprising!" " Can you give me the overcoat?" " I'll do it." " Make yourself at home, accountant." " Hello." " Hello." " You already know the accountant." " Good evening." " Take a seat." "Do you want a cup of chamomile?" " I don't." " You, accountant?" " With pleasure." " Giovanna, You serve." " How did it end?" " They took records, but nothing is going to happen." "The only nuisance is the car." "It will need around fifty." " Anyway, that's how it went." "Patience." " Thanks." " Giovanna, after you finish, will you prepare me a bath?" " Yes." "I know it's not under you competence, I could remind you..." " Why remind if you make her do it everytime?" " It doesn't have to do with it." "I'll put the bathrobe." "Accountant, shall we prepare it for you, too?" " With pleasure, but I'd not want to disturb you." " Leisurely." "If you allow me, I'll have a look around." " You can leave the saucer." " Ah, yes." " This house is so beautiful." " You like it?" " Are you enchanted?" " What is it, a shoe?" " Yes." "It's a shoe donated to the family by a Pope." "Too much time and money should have been needed to set these things together." "Giovanna, take the plate to the kitchen." "And help yourself." " Is this the Pope of the shoe?" " No, he's another Pope." " All ancestors?" " Yes." "Giovanna, you're working too much." "Did you take note of the over-time hours?" " Don't worry." "You may go, the bathtub should be full." " Yes, I'm going." "Giovanna, if you could see how we fighted this morning." "Life has to be violent." "Dangerous, is the right word." "You can't see it with bare eyes, but I'm full of punches and slaps." "I'm stiff." "Stop for a moment.. hitting it." "Giovanna, give me your hand." "I'll kiss it." "Don't withdraw it." "It's not that you don't have the freedom or right, but, Giovanna, can I lay down my head on your shoulder?" "Professor, if you don't hurry the bathroom will be flooded." "Giovanna, couldn't you come to scratch my back?" " I know that it's not under your competence..." " Go, professor." "I'm going." "Giovanna!" "Giovanna, stop hitting the typewriter!" "Giovanna, stop it!" "Stop it!" "Do you know what my sister and the accountant do?" "They're kissing!" "They're kissing endlessly!" "Why couldn't we do it, too?" "Tell me what you want and I'll give it to you." "Do you want this book?" "Ten books?" "The library?" "Do you want this barometer?" "Attention, not on loan, but as a gift!" "Do you want this ancient inkstand?" "What do you want?" "Tell me what!" "You want money?" "I'll give you." "I could fire you, you know?" "I'm going to kneel down in front of you." "I'll kiss your shoes." "Go away, clown!" "Clown at me?" "How you dare?" " Giovanna should have prepared the bath." " Go, I'll wait for you in the room." "I'll be quick." "Sleep, o sun, under the black vault..." "Sleep, o sun..." "there in the green..." " Who is it?" " Open up!" " What happened?" "Open up!" "Open up!" " I will, give me time to do it." " Open up." "What's happening?" "What is it?" "If a misfortune happened tell me straightaway, don't make me sigh for it." "What is it?" "Did you change your mind?" "What's so funny?" "What is it?" "Giovanna?" "Giovanna?" " The accountant is here." "What do we do?" " Are you afraid of getting compromised?" " Not at all!" " Giovanna?" " Giovanna, where are you?" "Where's the bathroom?" " It's me, accountant." " Giovanna, button up, hide yourself." " Where, in the dumping?" "Don't humiliate me in front of the accountant." "What do you want, accountant?" " I can't find the bathroom." "If you could show me..." " It's at the mezzanine." " I'll show him." " Are you nuts?" " It's better if I ask Giovanna." " Only that I can't find her." " I'm here." " Giovanna, don't go, please." "I'll lead the way." " Listen..." " Don't you dare again." "And don't stare at me like a stupid." " Is it the first time you're seeing me?" " Look, you're the one who's wrong." "You don't get that you can't do what comforts you." "You've got nothing, you should live of your work." "If you act like an easygoing girl, no one will marry you." "Why, aren't you marrying me?" " Wake up!" " What time is it?" " Five o'clock." " You have to go, I don't want anybody to see you." " Ah, yes." " Will we meet tomorrow?" " Anyway you'll come here, or not?" " Yes." " Ok." "So, see you." "Now go and be quiet." " Well?" "Do you feel like going back home alone?" " Yes, of course." "Keep in mind, absolutely confidential." "Sorry, but I think it was decided by a common agreement." " You free, me free." "But this doesn't mean that..." " I got it." " Giovanna, sst..." "Keep it in mind." "Be quiet." " Bye." "Free way." "..which arises by the exigency of breaking that 20-year long immobility that the two traditional blocks, Christian Democracy and communists, have imposed to our society, from government to opposition." " Good morning." " Good morning." "A telegram." "Sign here." "Thanks." "..which as the statutory laws recently sanction..." "There's a telegram." "Thanks." "It will be a telegram by the national secretary." "Dear congressmen, after 3 minutes a time-bomb will blow up the department and all you!" "Away!" "Out!" " It's a priestly joke." " Who could come up with such thing?" "Come here..." "Come on!" "Forwards!" "Come on!" "To the left!" "Come on, to the left." "Fine." "Halt!" "Halt!" " Answer it, quick!" " It's a trick." "If we answer, they'll block our phoneline." " It's already blocked if it rings." " It'll stop ringing." " No answer." "Give up?" " It's impossible that nobody's there." "Did you mistake the number?" " It must be my wife." " What wife?" " I'm sure." " Better wait." " Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" " Give it to me!" "Gordini, but doesn't the Sacristy ever answer to you?" " Let's go over there, there's a window." " Hello?" " Call the police!" " We did." " What is it?" " A bomb." " Father, You do something." " What do you want him to do?" " What happened?" " A bomb!" " Why are you shouting?" " Bell-ringer!" " What did you do?" " Father, father!" " Anyone wounded?" " Let's go over there." " Come on, don't push!" " To the window!" " Let's go to the cappuccino!" " What cappuccino?" " Tell them to not be foolish." " Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "But I don't see you!" " My son, the situation is not clear to me." " Be brief, father." " Time is running out." " Go!" " Son..." " Leave me!" "I haven't understood the situation yet, but I ask you to talk." " If you have the gift of the word..." " Let him speak." "There's a big confusion of souls in here, too much misery." " Are you speaking?" " Yes." " A voice." "God enlightened him." " Where's the bomb?" "We heard you, you know?" " Quiet!" " Do you know that it's forbidden to call from the college?" "Do you?" " Yes, father." " Damn it, you and your slutty mother." " Give here!" "What are you saying?" "The mother is not guilty, mother is a lily!" "A lily!" "It must have been an interurban call, of course." "And if I hadn't detected you, you'd not inform the secretary." "If he thinks he can work this out..." " Who were you calling at?" " At home." "All at home." "Let's see." " I'm Vittorio." " It's your brother." "Is it you or not?" "At least tell it to me, your brother." "When will it explode?" "I'm at the accountant's, am I safe here?" " Do I have time to speak?" " Yes." "Come on." "The point is that the bombs shouldn't be put in here." "The communists are your true enemies," " Can I go on?" " Yes." "That is, the opposition that doesn't wish to do opposition anymore." "Is there still time?" "It's like having set the bomb under the Altar of the Country." " A wrong place." " Chitchat." " Don't prolong it." "Tell me where did you set it." "We're already dead, it's useless dying again." "Blow up a communist cell." "So you will represent the only dangerous opposition." "It's in the bath." "Let's go over there." "I absolve you from your sins..." "I can't stand here!" " Marina and Lauretta Malvezzi." " It's ok." " How many?" " 232." " Not bad, huh?" "Go on." " Fine." " Dear aunts, how are you?" " Hello, Vittorino." "Dear kid!" "How good!" "So, here I am." "At your disposal." "Today we passed by the Curia and talked to His Excellency." " A farce!" " Vittorio, surrender." "We can't vote for you." " We can't." " A pretty good farce." "However, dear aunts, you can't be one day pro and the other con." "If you say yes, I count on your vote, too." "If you don't vote for me then, you hit me at the back!" "Get it or not?" "I can't stay after you." "Say yes or no, and let's end it!" " We already said it." " You don't know child, nobody told it to you." "What's got to do with Giacosa?" "That the journey is much longer than you think." " That before reaching the coveted end..." " Aunt!" "..you'll have lacerated hands and a gory face." " You still go on?" " You should bare abuse and insult." " And today it's called aurora..." " And tomorrow sunset." " Annetta, pour me a glass of wine.." " Thank you, dear." " What's with you?" "Are you crying?" " She also wants that you free her." "What?" "What?" "I swear to God, if you don't vote for me, I'll fire you." "What's up?" "Did you make her go crazy?" "Other than freedom!" " I'll kick you out!" " You don't have any compassion!" "What compassion of Egypt!" "Hey no, just kidding." "Don't be scared, I've never fired anybody." "Go." "God, how tiring!" " Good evening to all." " Hello, Elena." " Hello." " Vittorio, hurry with the eating, you have to dress." " No, I'll come like this." "You'll put the smoking otherwise you go to the gallery." " Did you persuade them?" " Not at all!" "I should frighten, blackmail them." "Loosing your votes bothers me.." "You hold my mother's last name!" "Do you get it that I'll be the one sitting where you would elect me?" "Me, with the same blood as yours, and 35 years on my shoulders." "Me, not the party, not the idea!" "There aren't parties or ideas anymore!" "Annetta, what are you waiting for to bring the second dish?" "Just have a look at the Pope..." "he's even more leftist than us!" " Poor son..." " You didn't understand..." " Enough, Vittorio." " Sure." "I'm throwing pearls to the pigs here." " Thanks." " Ask help from Giovanna." " No, Giovanna must not serve." " She's a secretary, not a waitress!" " But she has always done it." " It's an abuse." " Speak, speak, you've got a mouth." " We could help you." "No, you just have to vote for me." "I'll go change." "I'm not hungry anymore." " Want some?" " Yes." " Giovanna is a secretary, not a waitress." "Do you want me to help you?" " I've already had enough of it." " Why don't we rent the stage?" "The city is full of peasants that are hoping for it." "So we can earn something." " You'd be the first to disagree." " Sst!" "Vittorino..." "I'm pregnant." "Of Carlo?" "Right at this time, then, with all the stuff I've got to do!" "It's so inopportune!" "And I'm alone." "Will you help me find a solution?" "But..." "I wouldn't know what to do." "Never happened such a thing to me." "Just make some phone calls and you'll find the right person." " Carlo will think about it, if it was him." " But he doesn't want to, he's cunning." "And I told it to him." "He changed subject, speaks of dangers, postpones..." "But he's wrong if he thinks that he can entangle me." "What a pander of an accountant!" "Making the calculations on the other's shoulders!" "You can count on me, but don't let me take the initiative." "What a nice discourse!" "I have to arrange by myself as always!" " Avoid the city." " I'll take whatever I may find." " Will you eat more?" " No, no." " Listen, I have to talk to you." " Fine." "Come and sit." " You want?" " No, thanks." "It happens..." "I'm talking frank and round." "We got over with it and we can be like friends." "Elena is pregnant and wants to abort, but I'm contrary to this." "Let me explain." "You look after Elena all day." "You answer the phonecalls, take the mail, arrange the meetings..." "So, I'm asking you to guard her, in order to know what's in her mind." "Basically, you don't care at all for Elena?" "Tell me truth, nothing's going to change." "Think what you wish, but I like Elena." "But if she wasn't that rich, maybe I'd impassible to her." "Sure, I like her with all her money, but I like her." "I like her as she is." "It's not that I love her money and not her." "I love both things." "No, it's not even the right phrase." "Will you give me a hand?" "It's implicit that you'll get paid for this sort of service." "That's exactly what I was going to say." "You know that I sleep with Vittorio, but he fears I might get pregnant." "Of course he does everything to avoid it." "In short, to speak frankly:" "if you want to marry Elena 'cause she's expecting a child," "I also want to marry Vittorio." "That's why you should to help me to have a child." "It looks like a game to me!" "We'll screw it up this way!" " Why you and not me?" " The idea was mine." " You shouldn't have told me." "Let's say you're not in mood today, shall we continue tomorrow?" "Why, shouldn't I guard Elena tomorrow?" "Take it." "Come on, what's with you?" "Come on, get dressed, it must be them." "Come on, be quick." "If I don't get dressed all you plan..." "Our plan." "You'd be able to smash my head for this sort of jokes." " Anyway, it won't help you to get us together." " Who wants you?" "!" " The light is on." " Giovanna and Carlo should be working." "Since you're into politics all our bills have doubled!" "Close the jalousie." "It's closed here!" "The officers of the Navy declared that the disaster has been caused..." " Hello!" " How come the door was closed?" " I don't think so." " It was." "No!" " How come so early?" " What a boredom!" "Give me the newspaper." " So, the door?" " It was closed." " The lock was like charmed." " I'm going." "Are you coming?" " I'm coming." " Good night." " Good night." "Good night." "Are we going to bed, too?" " Hello?" " Give here." "Hello?" " Go away." " I'm leaving the coffee cup." " I said go away." "What time is it now?" "Sit down, Giovanna, make yourself comfortable." " You help yourself too, of course." " Thank you." "Vittorio, come here!" " Elena is getting out of God's grace." " Yes." "I guess we're close." " Did you look at her agenda?" " Yes, there's nothing particular." "Accountant, I'll change the coat and we go." "The rifles are in the car." "Meanwhile take it out of the garage." "I'll call you from the shooting or you call if she sends you out." " She let me free." " Anyway, stay home as much as possible." " Fine." "Bye." "Ja'!" "Ja'" "Ja'!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" "Come, professor." " Hello, is professor Valla there?" " The professor is making a visit." "Tell him that it's Miss Gordini here." " You shouldn't call during the visit time." " I know, but I'm not feeling fine." " Can I come earlier?" " I can't before 6 o'clock." " Take a sedative." "Goodbye." "It's been there for over 30 years and nobody ever cared of it until the incident of that lunatic happened." " Instead of shooting at the birds, he shot at the hunter." " Yes." "Certain communist journals exaggerated this thing." "The animal protection society intervened, photos of dead birds, charges of barbarism..." "The partners are worried and look for someone who offers warranty." "Right." " Hello?" "It's for You." " Thank you." " Hello?" " She's going to professor Valla." "The address..." " Tell it to me." " Professor Francesco Valla, Verdi street 14." " Alright." "Thanks." " I'm going." " Shall I find you at home?" " Yes." "Bye." "Mr. Count, there's no need that I write it on the electoral program." " Excuse me, be back soon." " Where are you going?" " Allow me." " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" " Ready?" " Ready." "Pull!" "Hello aunt, what did you bring to me?" "I brought you candies." "Listen, you should get a good treatment in here." "I tipped the doorkeeper, and also the nurse..." " Good morning." " Good morning." "I'm sorry to bother you, but it's a about something of a certain importance." " Hello, Gordini." " Hello." " He's a chinese." " A Chinese?" "What are you saying?" "He's a European, of Arian race!" " Well..." "Who knows!" " What do they teach you at school?" " He's a Chinese communist." " A communist?" "!" "In this college?" "But this is unheard-of!" "If it's true, I'll speak to the chancellor." "Deep in me, I couldn't find reasons why she wasn't a virgin." " We resolve nothing if you behave like this." " Yes, you're right." "Are we going?" " What about the permission?" " If we waited for the permission..." " Yes." "After you." "What are you doing here?" "Eh?" "Why?" "Shouldn't I prevent my sister from being totally ruined?" " Cause you are getting ruined!" " I'm not getting ruined, I'm being saved." "Listen Camillo, I don't have the time to explain it now!" "Go away!" "Away!" " Who sent you?" " The accountant Carini." "He's the father, stupid." "He want me to keep the child for imposing me to marry him." " Wake up, idiot!" " What's wrong?" " It's a good repairment to save the face." " Save what?" "The accountant is attached to this house and everything inside it." "He has all the rights to be rich, but not at my expense." "So?" "What did she tell you?" "How did it go?" " Was it you?" " No!" " It was you." " No!" " Was it you?" " No!" " Hello." " Carlo, you came back to us, at last." "How are you?" " It was you!" " No." "It was you!" "Come on, come." " What are you going to do?" " God will tell me." " Didn't he tell you yet?" " You're early." " That is you should revise after half an hour." " Who is it?" " I came to pick up the young lady." " Revise after half an hour." " What?" " Revise..." "Just a moment!" "Where are you going?" "Professor!" " What's up?" "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing." "Put the shackles away." " You already did it, didn't you?" "Tell me, are you deaf?" " No, not yet!" "Careful what you say." "Your appearance, father, was like my Damascus to me." " We thank God." " I want to confess." " Me too." " Won't you confess?" " I've got nothing to loose." "Your forgiveness has pleased me, and I'd like to show my eternal gratitude with an offer for your parish." "Look, Elena is waking up." "I'm leaving, I'll talk to her later." " Meanwhile, you try to calm her down." " And you pray for her." " Of course." " Professor, I have something to say to you." " Tell me." "Careful with what you are doing." "I don't believe your bullshit." "I'm not interested in your professional future." "But whatever happens to Elena, I'll put you under charge." "Even if you had nothing to do with it." " Give me back the money I gave you." " I don't have it." " Write a cheque, then." " What do we do?" " Whatever the priest tells us." " I want to be paid." " First?" " First places, yes." " Can you keep these two rifles" " Yes." " Thanks." "Here." " Thanks." " Please." "I want to see their faces when reading that my thirst raised more and more instead of being quenched." " Ehi, do you have hazelnuts?" " Yes." " Give me a pack." "..without ever being satisfied by the embrace." " Thanks." " Well written, or not?" "Enough." "You're worse than them." "What do you want?" " How much do you ask to wreck this..." " How much?" "It has no price." "I have to give up money and success for you." "Listen?" "Listen!" "Listen!" "A pack of hazelnuts." "Ahi, ahi, ahi!" "It makes me think that my novel will have many, and you know that I'm conceited." "So, how many?" "Cesare Ceccarini, Piero Zion..." "Carla Marzari..." " Did she kill herself?" " Yes, to spite you." "Giorgio Francolo, Annibale Lucci, Giuseppe Frattoio..." "It's Vittorio." " Good evening." " Good evening." " What are you doing?" " Counting the preferences." " Did you see Elena by chance?" " We didn't." " Hasn't she left a note?" "Hasn't she called?" " No." " Can we have dinner?" " Yes, it's ready." " But I'm not hungry." "Will you keep me company?" " With pleasure." "Let me do it, thanks." "When counting the preferences, you need to include the two... the three of us." " Did you remind it?" " Yes, sure." " I guess it's legal that I vote for myself." " Everyone does that." "Sit on my place, I won't eat." "Get them ready for Giovanna." "Here's Elena place, if she comes back." " Did You read the newspapers of the evening?" " Just a quick look." " Did you find disgraces?" "Scandals?" " Not new ones." " Hello?" "Is it you?" " You got screwed, stupid!" " He's drunk." " Completely!" "And now... what do I do now?" "Why didn't you call?" " Listen, I did call you." " It's not true, you didn't." "The professor begs me to not ruin him, the priest wants to redeem me..." "I'm fed up with it, all this 'cause you're a fool, impotent and useless!" " Chase away those two before I come home, or you'll be in trouble." " Yes." " Sit down." " Where are the car keys?" " On the writing-desk." "I want to remind you, accountant, that you have to ask permission to use things belonging to others." "It's the basic education." "You're taking advantage of your owner's liberality." "You had told me that I could use it whenever I needed." "Yes, but now I withdraw this permission." "Did I pledge in a written form?" "Moreover, everyone here has the entry key." "Use the bell!" "So You have to return the keys within the morning!" "I'd advice you to put the padlock on the telephone, too." "Your humor is inapposite." "And let me suggest you accountant, that a man with a minimal dignity wouldn't go on eating in my plate, like You do." "Would you like to fire me?" "Or not this." "'Cause you wouldn't know what to do." "Everything you say or do shows your diploma." "I dismiss you from this job." "And don't worry, you'll get the testimonial." "Giovanna, I admit that I'm very attached to you." "Unfortunately, some big difficulties came out suddenly." "It's useless talking about." "Even if we wanted to, we couldn't maintain just a labor relation anymore." "I think that the best thing for us is to part ways." "You'll have a decent liquidation." "More consistent than Carlo's." "You could always count on this house when you'll need help, or anything else." "More than this!" "..." " Tell it if it's not right." "Seems right to me." " It's right, I don't argue it." "But this conversation would hold if you had done it some weeks ago." " Why?" " Cause I fear I'm pregnant." " You fear or you are?" " I am." " So, will you marry me or not?" " If you get rid of the child..." "I'm marrying you only 'cause of the child." "I can't get rid of him." " You can still do it." " No, too many people know that I'm pregnant." "You had to say that earlier, an escape to Switzerland and everything would be alright." "I should have thought about that." "What do you care if the child is yours or his?" "You'll never care after him, I assure you." "We live in city with 50.000 inhabitants." "People note right away when the son is not like his father." "It's the first thing to look at." " If you want, I can marry you after he's born." " Yes, I got it, goodbye." "Vittorio!" "Vittorio!" "Whore!" " Come out!" " What is it?" "Stand up!" " Are you nuts?" " Obey." " Just a moment, let me take the bathrobe." " Do it quick!" " Walk!" "Get out of here." " You're really nuts!" "There's the owner zone and the service zone in this house." "Don't mix them up anymore." " Where are we going?" " Is it this how you chased them away?" "I'll settle you down." "You first." "We have to do something immediately." "Fine." "Can't we talk tomorrow?" "During the day, those two are around, so we can't talk." "And I'm not sleepy right now." " Well, I am." " I don't care." " This are my preferences." " Leave them for now." "This is for you." "Listen, don't take her to bed anymore." "Isn't one enough?" " If you don't do it, I'll chase her away." " Ok, but give me some time." "There's no time!" "There's no time!" "I didn't wake up you for this." "We need to make an inventory of everything in the house." "Are you crazy?" "It's a very boring and endless job!" " They could do it." " I want to do it for them, stupid!" ""Danger..." "to bury the dead"." "Stop it with the ball." ""Treatment of the drowned"." ""The council of Pistoia"." "Ten volumes." "'History of China"." ""The hopes of Italy"." " "Chemistry for women"." " Give here." "Marco Tullio Cicerone." ""Opera omnia ad usum delphini"." "One, two, three, four." "The Victorious." "Year 1937." " Ehi, asleep?" " Let me rest a bit." "Stay down!" "Stay there, you nuisance." "Quite like talking to a dog." "Here's the champ." "See?" "Look." " Don't get too tired, professor." " Go, I'll catch you up." " Good morning." " Good morning, accountant." "Don't fuss, calm down." "Learn to play on your own." "What do you want?" "No, no, no, it won't work with me, you know?" "I'm not Camillo or Vittorio." "Your way of doing leaves me completely indifferent." "I'll make you go away." "I won't be blackmailed by a dog." "Take it." "Break your neck." " Good morning, Mr. Count." " Good morning." " You made a great effort, eh ?" " Everything should go down here." "I feel in shape." "I took all the possible precautions to not put her in this situation." "Ok, the examinations prove her right." "Anyway, she wants to keep the child." "I feel affection towards Giovanna, but I'm surrendered." "Get it?" "I'm becoming a public person." "It's not time for marriage." "Why should you get married?" "Who obliges you?" "Giovanna is an adult, the law doesn't protect her anymore." " If you let me handle it, I'll fix everything" " No, for the love of God!" "Coming back to the marriage..." "if this blessed girl has to get married, there should be someone, other than me, ready to marry her." "You, accountant, who have a big practical sense, think about it..." "Just words." " Accountant..." "Rather, let's talk in you." " Thanks." " My pleasure." "For instance, you could be an excellent husband for Giovanna." "Don't feel insulted." "In the end, you're both accountants, you both love your work, with the same problems..." "I learned that there had been a short relation between you two, a student thing." " Yes, but..." " So I think that with some good will, we could come to an agreement." "It's obvious that if you'd accept, as well as my unconditioned protection, you'd have some nice millions and I could pass the assessorship to you." " It's late." " What?" "Why?" "Even if you wanted to, the assessorship would pass to an elected counselor." " Marry Giovanna." "Everyone would be lucky to marry her." " Even you." "But it's different for me." "Anyway, I'm already in a relation." "But..." "Are you deluding yourself that Elena will marry you?" "She confirmed it to me exactly this morning." "So why did you let me talk then?" " It will go fine." " I'll have a look." " There are enough people." " Yes." " Strange, it's full." "There'll be 300, 400 persons." "So, are we going?" " I'm announcing then." "Stay calm." " Yes." " Good luck." "The comrade, professor Vittorio Gordini." "Thanks." "Friends and comrades, we're in the eve of the administrative elections for the renewal of the Provincial and Town Council." "Therefore a contest that concerns us personally." "It's something ours, where conflicts like the Chino-Soviet, Chino-American, or French-American, Arab–Israeli, temporarily become secondary problems." "Because our local problems become the real protagonists." "The unemployment and the municipalization of the drugstores." "The construction of new hospitals for us, of gardens for the children, the resolution of our building crisis." "The citizens must be concerned to know who will be the people proposed for these duties, to feel guaranteed." "I'm saying this 'cause my candidacy has been in target of the local press." "The right-wing accuses me for betraying my class of origin and the extreme left for betraying the class that I wish to represent." "This situation enforces me to deny the accusations made to me during the last months." "The most frequent is that I changed party for every changing of seasons." "Without having carried out political activity," "I've been a sympathizer of the Christian Democracy, the Communist Party, the Republican Party and the Socialist Party." "Despite the incautious but brief communist interval interrupted for the tragic doings in Hungary," "I've been through all the four parties of the middle-left." "This casual political disponibility, common to many other Italians, is not a sign of moral imprudence, but a guaranty that the middle-left is not a political alliance just for emergency but a forthcoming alliance that had to happen for certain." "These four parties that compose it, even when they expressed divergent political courses, de facto they were destined to converge with each other." "Each of the four, completes and is completed by the other three." "What is rejected by one, is welcomed by the others and vice versa." "At least in one of the four, there's room for the catholic and for the laic, for the poor and the poor," "I mean, for the young and the old, for the poor and the rich." "So I think this four folded alliance represents Italy decently." "It represents the majority of the Italian people." "My denigrators, have made mocking appreciations regarding my forthcoming marriage." "They hoped that I'd be ashamed and turn back into their ranks." "Instead they obtained the contrary." "I'm amongst the few dreamers who believe that a man can change, that he could be different from how he's been brought up." "In a provincial city, marriage is often considered as a business affair." "What better act than this marriage can prove that my hands are clean?" "I'm marrying a socialist." "Yes!" "And I'm proud of it." "I'm marrying a socialist proletarian." "One of you." "Isn't this the proof that I'm on the people's side and that I'm a democrat?" "Put the music on!" " I'll have to get the anti-tetanus!" " Don't go away, Vittorio!"