"The time when our country will reach zero point, then all the gods of our race will rise." "This very moment when the darkness covers all, will arrive with the light of dawn." "The Swastika is going to spread all over the world..." "CRYSTAL NIGHTS" "Our great Fuhrer will arrive... during the hours of the greatest darkness." "You must be ready for this..." "Nothing is born from nothing and nothing gets lost." "Whatever exists re-exists again throughout time." "He's going to be someone like you Isabella..." "He will possess the Gift..." "He's going to be born in the day of your wedding and through him you will reach the destination... for which you've been born." "Welcome, Isabella... to the worship of our God." "With a fa la la and a ra ra ra... our turn has come." "I am amazed, Mrs. Lambrou." "All your predictions have come true." "There was an order by the king." "Thank you, Minister." "Come again..." "in precisely 22 day." "I want to tell you something which may aound ridiculous." "You have the gratitude of the nation!" "Mama!" "Don't go to the window!" "If you go to the window..." "you will die." "Stop!" "You must stop!" "Please... please..." "I am sorry, my little girl..." "I am sorry, baby..." "I didn't want to..." "The army can only be opposed to bourgeois democracy... which favours capitalism." "For the army is a class without property." "A class of proletarians!" "Could it be that you are becoming attracted to communism?" "But alas, with communism... the defense of the poor goes hand in hand with the abolishment of morality." "I am not a communist, because I am Greek." "The world is polarized around two ideologies." "Internationalism and Nationalism." "Internationalism is a fabrication of the Jews... who have no homeland." "As much he rich Jews, who wish to dominate the world with" "Jewish capital... as the communist Jews." "It is common knowledge that, both the great capitalists, and the great communists, throughout the world are Jews." "Our objective is to avoid a civil war." "But it is not certain that Metaxas will accept." "The role of dictator is a thankless one, and he does not have the attributes of a Hitler." "He is the only one who remains alive." "But do you really believe that, the communists could lead us to civil war?" "A force that is represented by only fifteen delegates?" "Communists brought down Spain with fifteen delegates." "Of course, General Franco will win in the end." "But at what cost!" "Excuse me, gentlemen." "What do you think of love?" "Love is the most beautiful thing of all." ""A kiss given by the angels to the stars."" ""Love unconquered in the fight"" "Love, Isabella, is imagination, in the service of our repressed instincts." "That is, while we still have imagination and instincts." "Your daughter Karin, in full possession of her faculties, will play something for us on the piano." "That is no more to us then a simple topic of conversation." "If the joyous years of love have gone." "The pain of love still remain." "Down with Army Rule!" "Is it possible that it is you whom my God promised to me?" "You, even if you are his own negation?" "Then, God is but two halves... which only together make..." "One." "I do not fear you, for the devil is my friend." "No, your bare feet do not scare me." "The iceman!" "I will get the ice myself." "The ice melting, Madam." "Tomorrow at five, can you?" "I want to talk to you." "Will you come?" "I will come, Madam." "Sometimes I'd give anything to know what you're thinking." "I love you still, Isabella." "I said that love doesn't exist." "If only you knew the meaning of affection." "Like the affection I feel for you." "Love is an illusion." "Only affection can protect us." "Because it is greater than love, Isabella." "Unimaginably greater." "It can be tireless." " So, you are a Jew, Albert?" " A Jew." "Does it matter?" "I am German." "The earth speaks within us," "hears two vioces and is torn between them." "Jews have many fatherlands." "Where do you live?" "A little further down, in the Jewish quarter." "You, Jews... believe you are God's chosen people?" "People with a special mission." "We believe the same thing." "That we are the chosen people wih a special mission." "Perhaps we are both chosen, who knows?" "What beautiful eyes you have!" "You are beautiful, too, Madam." "Very beautiful." "How old are you?" "Eighteen." "I mean I hope to get my diploma in September." "And what will you be when you grow up?" "A merchant, Madam." "A textile merchant, together with my father." "What's mother doing there with the ice-vendor?" "He's not an ice-vendor." "What is he, then?" "An angel..." "A wicked angel." "There are wicked angels, too?" "I want to teach you all I know." "One cannot give to him who will not take." " Are they witches?" " Yes, and I'm a witch, too." "Yes, and I am a witch too." "Are you joking?" "No more than the painting." "Is she your mother?" "She looks very much like you." "No, it is me twenty years ago." "I am forty years old." "Why did you call me here?" "In my country they do not like Jews." "Yes, I know." "In your country some fanatics attack Jewish stores at night, and smash them up." "And the police protect those extremists." "And they call that Crystal Nights." "Very poetic." "Crystal Nights." "A Jew ruined my father." "I assure you it wasn't me, Madam." "If you are so interested in Jews... come and meet some." "There's a wedding next Sunday." "A friend of mine is getting married." "We Jews marry very young." "Why did you call me here?" "So you would invite me to the wedding." "This is Athens Radio." "Here is the news." "Your suitcase is ready, Christos." "During bloody clashes incited by the communists, nine persons were killed and dozens wounded." "The Thessaloniki Police Commissioner... has ordered the police to withdraw, and has assigned the army to maintain law and order." "What is love?" "Dreaming... shame..." "hunger..." "The German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler stressed that Germany and Italy are the only European countries armed against the Bolsheviks." "What is happening in Spain, he said... could happen anytime, anywhere." "Short hair suits you." "It is amazing." "You are the same age as my mother." "Why is it amazing?" "Because, you do not look at all like my mother." "You are the most beautiful woman here." "Even the birde must be envious." ""Tanit..." An offering for the groom's father." "Does your God require sacrifices too?" "For the time being, yes." "Because all this will change when the Messiah comes." "I thought of a black rooster." "Why?" "Because I thought of it." "You hear my throughts." "And I hear yours." "From the very first moment, my beloved." "As if we were all alone, in here, suddenly." "Just you and me." "In the whole world." "It is my father." "Do you know what he is reciting?" ""The Song of Songs."" ""Behold thou art fair, my love."" ""Behold thou art fair."" ""As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."" ""I sat down under His shadow with great delight."" ""And His fruit was sweet to my taste."" "In whatever language you hear, I understand." ""The king hath brought me into his chambers."" ""And his banner over me was love."" ""How much better is thy love than wine!" "Drink, O beloved."" ""Set me as a seal upon thine heart"" ""As a seal upon thine arm."" ""For love is as strong as death."" ""Jealousy is cruel as the grave."" "Flesh and blood?" "Again?" "No, just blessed wine from our vineyards." "I feel dizzy." "As if I've left my body and you were inside me." "We shall hold no secrets from each other." "As transparent as crystal." "No lies between us." "As if I were inside you." "You are like silk." "Like night and silk." "All my life I have lived for you to appear." "Even... for just one time." "I am afraid." "But my desire is greater than fear." "All that I have learnt was to teach to you." "All that I have seen was to describe to you." "I feel as if my body would die of sadness, far from yours." ""As the lily among the thorns."" "You are the only one like me." "Remember!" "The men must not dance with the women." "For heaven's sake!" "This is 1936." "Zaki!" "Take your wife and start the dancing." "I am not thinking any more." "It is enough for me to look at you." "You face is the whole world." "I no linger have a body." "Only you are not stranger to me on this earth." "It is like death." "It is like death." "I love you." "No one else but you..." "Nothing else but you." "I love you." "I love you." "I love you." "The hussars have come... and taken everything." "Sleep child, sleep." "Your father guards you, little lamb, your mother..." "And man... and woman." "Infinity." "I am frightened." "I am not frightened any more." "I do not want you to hear my thoughts." "I feel... unarmed." "I do not like it that you are so much older than me." "That I cannot look with you... towards the future." "There is no future, my love." "The future is only death." "We are all alone." "In a city that, in a little while will no longer exist." "And not even the ruins will remain." "Injustice!" "Revenge!" "What sadness weighs you down," "heavy and unbearable?" "He is not only cute..." "The lad can also dance beautifully." "Who has wronged you?" "What dream has deceived you?" "Everyone outside!" "The tavern is closing." "Tell me, baby." "Do you still suckle at your mother's breast?" "Will you come again?" "What is the matter with you?" "You and I are one." "Who is God and who is the Devil?" "You and I are one." "Who is God and who is the Devil?" "You and I... are... omnipotent." "Together... we are omnipotent." "Arise, Greek Youth!" "And get it in your heads!" "You can only live like Greeks, within your race, and only there will you find... the reason for your existence." "You must know that we are decided." "We will crush every obstacle." "We will stamp out all resistance." "Hello, Karin!" "Good evening." "And now I know." "I, the witch, will never escape your magic." "Never will I see what you really are: not a star... but a child... who could be my child," "if he was not my likeness." "We speak in the name of eighty million people." "Their rights." "That is the question." "We do not speak as a party or a movement." "Because, who am I?" "I am nothing, people of Germany!" "I am merely He who expresses who represents your rights." "And we do not speak of my person." "Yet, I am not one of those who lower their flag." "This I have never learnt." "Hitler must be a magician, isn't he, Colonel?" "When was it that they did not have enough to eat in Germany?" "And now..." "The day I met my wife, the shops did not open." "There were no goods." "Can you imagine?" "Do you know what my wife tells me?" "The swastika, she says, symbolizes reincarnation." "The voyage from one life to another life." "I am ashamed." "I am in love with my wife." "What do you expect from a child?" "Everything." "You can kill him just with your thoughts." "Your will can paralyze his." "But love will not be born out of a will that's paralyzed." "Love is power." "And your power is crushing him." "I have come." "You did not come, Albert." "I brought you." "I have come." "I do not love you enough to want you like this." "Albert, look at me!" "With your look of old, please..." "A corpse!" "A vegetable!" "And this is the work of my love." "Can the corpse of God exist?" "Come on, my heart." "Mother will take care of you." "You will see." "Tomorrow you will not even remember." "Sleep, child, sleep." "Your father guards you, little lamb." "Your mother rocks you like a sapling in the breeze." "So that a thousand dreams come to you." "Pray, child, pray." "Tomorrow the enemy comes." "Tomorrow the evil hour comes, that devours small children." "Do not be afraid, my baby." "I will not take you for a stroll in the pram." "I love you too much to do something like that." "The hussars have come and taken everything." "They broke the windows." "Rise then, Greek Youth!" "Throw far away from you the foul books, with which they poison your soul." "They teach you immorality and cowardice," "all that Gods of the race will be resurrected." ""For love is as strong as death..."" ""Jealousy is a cruel as the grave."" ""Set me as a seal upon thine heart."" ""Why did you come?" "Do not go!"" "Your people are still waiting for the Messiah." "For us the Messiah has come... and will come again." "Nothing is born of nothing." "What exists will exist again." "I love you." "With a fa la la and a ra ra ra," "our turn has come." "You are the flower of flowers, the leaf of the lemon tree." "You were the one born... together with the sun." "With a fa la la and a ra ra ra, our turn has come..." "We are convinced that the Reich will gain the final victory." "We hope that after this unfortunate war, relations between Greece and Germany... will become closer for the benefit of our country," "which owes so much to Germany." "I do not say this will be for the benefit of Germany, because I am convinced that the future of Germany... will be great and glorious, anyhow." "The Fuhrer will also give the Greek people... the possibility of participating in the New Order." "(General Tsolakoglou surrenders the city of Athens.)" "Mr. Pepo!" "..." "Rebecca!" "She died in sorrow for not having seen you." "Her last words were about you:" ""Wait for Albert!"" "We do not dare go out in the street." "Others say we should go and register." "We did not know what to do." "We were waiting for you." "They reported you as 'missing'." "We didn't know you were alive." "Now we must change houses." "We must hide." "Do not count on me as your husband any more, Rebecca." "You will go your way and I will go mine." "As soon as the war is over, we will get a divorce." "What did I do to you?" "Why do you hate me?" "I don't love you." "That's what you did to me." "Isn't that enough?" "And I feel you sticking to me like dirt on my skin... like fleas... like my Judaism..." "Don't talk that way, Albert." "Not tonight!" "Have some respect for your mother!" "I am suffocating in here." "I'm going out." "Not tonight, Albert." "It's not right." "And it's late." "You'll run into patrol and they'll kill you!" "So much the better!" "That will spare you the stigma... of being divorced woman." "I cannot bear to even look at her... with those eyes of hers..." "like a dog that's been beaten..." "You are my family." "Without you..." "I wouldn't have come back at all!" "It was from her that we had news of you." "She made everything up but we believed it." ""No, he is not dead..." "But he is very tired..."" "For a week now she has refused to sleep." ""Uncle Albert will come and I want to be awake."" "I came back just for you." "Do you believe me?" "I believe you." "They've asked me for a list of the members of the Community." "As a rabbi I cannot say I do not know." "They say they need it to distribute matzoh for Passover." "All those who prefer to hide should change houses quickly!" "It is a trap." "We must hide!" "Our neighbours protect us." "We even have a hide-out..." "Until when?" "They've already caught a thousand, and taken them to the concentration camp." "At Thessaloniki they shipped them all off to Germany." "It may be better in Germany..." "We young people must join the resistance in the mountains!" "Those people talk about Greek glories of the past!" "Even the communists!" "What have we to do with their past glories?" "It was the Jews who invented socialism, because we are not tied to a single country... because we know that money rules... and money has no fatherland." "[Judeo Espaniol] Barouch ata Adonai..." "We do not even have the right to die." "You will be safer in Berlin..." "Near grandfather and grandmother, you will lack for nothing." "And besides, here you would have to hate the Germans... and that would not be right... since you are half German." "Do not worry about me." "In a little while I will be happy near your mother." "I did my duty as best I could, but it seems..." "I was on the wrong track." "I cannot live as a traitor to my country... and a collaborator with its conquerors..." "Not like that!" "Like this!" "Uncle Albert..." "Why aren't you my Papa?" "Because Papas do not choose their children." "I have chosen you!" "And I have chosen you!" "When I grow up we'll get married." "Who'll win this loaf of bread?" "One million, ladies and gentlemen!" "Come on!" "Who'll win this loaf of bread with one million only?" "In a little while we'll draw the lucky number!" "Two more lottery tickets before the draw!" "Anyone else for the loaf of bread?" "Two more lottery tickets before the draw for this loaf, and it's your's!" "Here!" "We're drawing the lucky number, gentlemen!" "Who'll draw the lucky number?" "Number 54!" " Number 54!" " It's me!" "It's me!" "...And you were a brave little woman, a soldier's wife... who was seeing her beloved off." "Brave little woman, the soldier's wife..." "Wait, we'll be back soon." "Brave little woman, the soldier's wife... you're my happiness." "Brave little woman, the soldier's wife..." "I know that you think of me, that you're faithful to me, just as I'm faithful to you," "sending you greetings from the battlefield..." "This war will end with our victory... and we'll come back to our small town as winners." "On that day music will play..." "The red flag will wave and you will both cry and laugh..." "It will be our greatest moment of joy." "There will be, of course, no medal for you... but in all the world, like the brightest star... your heart of gold, your woman's heart, will shine." "Brave little woman, the soldier's wife..." "[Judeo Espaniol] Barouch ata Adonai..." "[Judeo Espaniol] Elohenou melech haolam..." "[Judeo Espaniol] Hamotsi lechem min ha'retz." "This, too, is yours!" "Why are they afraid to go out in the street?" "It's not written on their faces that they're Jewish." "But we are not afraid, right Uncle Albert?" "No, we are not afraid." "Now we'll play hide-and-seek." "You count and I'll hide." "Count to ten!" "I'm off." "One..." "Two..." "Three..." "Four..." "Five..." "Six..." "Seven..." "Eight..." "Nine..." "Ten!" "Not there, Anna!" "Please!" "No one lives here, unlce Albert!" "And I want to show you something." "Come on!" "This is the devil... and..." "You have his eyes." "Do you like it?" "Do not be afraid, Uncle Albert!" "I won't be long." "Wait for me!" "Where the devils are they?" "I'll burn everything down to the ground." "The neighbours are hiding them." "I'll burn them all like rats!" "It was you who wanred them!" "Admit it, you bastard!" "You Greeks are all the same." "Where have all the people who live here gone?" "I don't know..." "about their business..." "I know where the Jews have gone." "They are in there!" "They are all in there!" "Our victory will end this war..." "On that day music will play..." "But in all the world, like the brightest star..." "Your heart of gould, your woman's heart, will shine." "Brave little woman, the soldier's wife..." "Wake up so we can play, Uncle Albert!" "We'll play by ourselves now, just you and me..." "And when I grow up, we'll get married." "Happy New Year, dear listeners!" "We wish you heatlh and happiness... even if you don't win an apartment in the lottery or at cards tonight." "Don't forget: unlucky at cards, lucky in love!" "And whoever does not win an apartment in the lottery, will earn the money to buy it some other way." "So as not to keep you in suspense any longer, let us begin broadcasting the winning lottery numbers:" "Number 41282... wins the apartment at 233 Aharnon Street." "What would Mr. Albert need the lootery for?" "He's brought that huge house." "Aren't you afraid of ghosts, Mr. Albert?" "Two people committed suicide in that house." "I say he's asking for it." "If there are any apparitions that look like you." "Why don't you go in and dance with the other young people?" "I like it better out here." "Tell me, is it true you turned 30 Jews in to the Gestapo, who were caught like rats in a trap?" "And how come Albert was the only one to escape?" "They've told it to me so many times," "I've come to believe it myself." "She doesn't remember..." "she has amnesia." "At least that's what she says." "If I only knew how vile and pretty people are, so much so that they could hate a child who uknowningly opened a door." "If I had it to do again, I swear I would." "I would do it knowningly." "We are left alone with your shadow at our sides." "Sometimes I feel as if she were the child, born to you and me." "A strange child..." "Sometimes her devotion frightens me." "She takes after you." "Where does this go, Mr. Albert?" "Leave everything right here." "Just put them anywhere." "We'll move them later on." "It's a very large house, Mr. Albert." "What will two people do with it?" "Never mind about that." "They may rent out a room or two." "The girl will be getting married soon, you'll tell me." "You'll find some nice girl yourself, Mr. Albert." "The house will fill up." "It will fill up in no time at all." "It's a very good investment, Mr. Albert had made." "I know." "In ten years he'll exchange it for three luxury apartments." "A great opportunity, Mr. Albert." "Congratulations!" "A nice boy for me... a nice girl for you..." "and the house is chock full." "Congratulation, Mr. Albert, wonderful exchange." "If they only knew that we came to this mausoleum... so we could be closer to the ghost." "Congratulations, Uncle Albert!" "Five people tried to go over the Berlin Wall last night." "Three were arrested and one was killed." "Only one East German managed to escape from the red paradise." "You took me for a God and I became one." "Now I am no longer even a human being." "All these years of living under the yoke..." "Haven't you had your fill of revenge?" "Tell me, "The king hath brought me to his chambers."" "What king?" "It doesn't matter." "Repeat it the way heard it." ""The king hath brought me to his chambers."" ""The king hath brought me to his chambers."" ""How much better is thy love than wine."" ""How much better is thy love than wine."" "Quiet or we'll wake up my daughter." "She's sleeping here." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "I summon the spirit of Isabella." "I am one human being - and I am two human beings." "Birth hurts..." "Are you worth it?" "Could it be because I carry you inside me, that I cannot find you?" "What does it matter?" "At my side you become a God." "And I... only through you, can I transcend dimensions." "Destruction..." "Transmutation..." "And a new Universe." "That's what love is." "Anything I do to win your love is legitimate." "In countless lives if needed." "Mine..." "And yours." "Birth hurts..." "I cannot find her." "She is not here." "It is as if..." "she was not dead." ""The king hath brought me to his chambers."" ""How much better is thy love than wine."" "Isabella?" "My brain is crumbling, Isabella!" "Only you are not a stranger to me, in this world." "In countless lives if needed." "Mine... and yours..." "It is like death." ""For love is as strong as death."" ""Jealousy is as cruel as the grave."" "In countless lives." "In countless lives, if needed." "Mine... and... yours..." "They are American." "I was in Korea." "I had gone to fight the yellow peril." "Our boys who went to Korea, to fight for ideals," "have drowned the yellows in blood, to teach them what freedom means." "American." "Another hydrogen bomb test was carried out in the Nevada desert yesterday." "President Eisenhower stated that the hydrogen bomb is an important step towards avoiding Third World War." "Delicious!" "We don't have this dish in Larissa." "What did you say it's called?" "Soufli!" "Absolutely delicious!" "You must give me the recipe." "It isn't necessary." "Anna will be staying with us." "You see?" "I still can't believe it." "The truth is that after so many years... it never dawned on me that Albert would propose." "And quite rightly so, I told myself." "To start a family he needs a younger wife." "Congratulations, Mrs. Victoria!" "The best of luck for your wedding, Uncle Albert!" "I will tell you of an experiment, I read about." "With rats." "It's very amusing." "They put food inside a cage and locked the rat out." "The rat gnawed at the bars." "Got inside the cage... ate the food..." "And never came out again." "Your daughter is so lovely, Albert dear!" "I am ashamed." "My God, I am ashamed." "You are not Isabella, Anna!" "I don't know what game Isabella is playing on me, when she talks to me through you." "You cannot be." "I cannot stand the faces of your girls." "Creaseless!" "They have nothing to say." "Desire becomes faceless, obscene." "They desire to dirty, to smudge that blank paper arouses in you." "Where are the small wrinkles underneath the eyes?" "Your body is hard." "It doesn't soften at one's touch." "It was different with here." "What a poem, a painting arouses in you, emerging from the poem or the painting itself... ans speaking only to you." "Love is war, Anna!" "And I cannot fight with you." "Already the victory?" "A victory without joy?" "You're very young, little Anna." "So young and defenseless... so very much mine..." "This woman is a stranger to me." "I do not care about her." "I can lead a normal life with her." "Forget about her." "With you, it would have been hell, little Anna." "You, I could not forget..." "It's Isabella I shall always be searching for." "Forever." "I'll be searching for her and you'll be wasting away." "And I..." "How could I forget about you?" "It may be madness, delirium." "A fabrication of the mind." "What's the world without delirium?" "A mass of life." "Blind." "That perpetuates itself by devouring its own flesh." "An enormous slug crawling along." "My God!" "Could all these things have happened?" "So they could happen again in exactly the same way?" "My little Anna!" "My little girl!" "Remember how we used to play together?" "How I'd tuck you into your bed and tell you stories?" "No one can live, Uncle Albert, when one remembers... one's own birth." "Birth hurts." "And I remember." "I remember trying to play all alone in that empty house." "And waiting for you." "A whole lifetime of waiting... for Albert... who wants to lead a normal life." "I remember... opening a door and betraying... frightened, hunted people... because Isabella... wanted to be left alone with Albert... who wants to lead a normal life!" "Poor, Uncle Albert!" "Isabella!" "The world was made so I could search for you." "So I could hope to find you again." "To see myself once again through your eyes." "And fell like a God!" "You don't know how much I've missed that... my love!" "No that dog's look... in the eyes of women in love... but... the eyes of a goddess... who recognizes an equal in you." "You and I are one, Albert!" "One..." "Rat... that never comes out of its cage." "They're gone!" "I want him to die." "I want him to die!" "To die!" "My God, I want him to die!" "To die!" "You can kill him just with the force of your thought." "You can paralyze him." "But love will not be born of a will that is paralyzed." "Love is power." "You have fulfilled your destiny, Anna-Isabella." "You have the experience of two lives in such a young body." "You should be humbly thankful for your good fortune." "I loved you to death, Albert!" "Beyond death!" "And now I hate you to death." "You'll die, Albert!" "Yes, I recognize you, isn't that what you want?" "Isabella..." "Demon of my life." "Is it only as a ghost that you want me?" "As a shadow in your mind?" "You want my universe to be you." "You want me to exist only for you." "No matter how you humble yourself, I'll never submit to you." "I'll fight, Isabella." "I'll fight!" "Crystal Nights, Albert!" ""So is my love among the daughters."" ""I sat down under its shadow with great delight."" ""And its fruit was sweet to my taste."" "Yes, Isabella, I know." "We people are still waiting for the Messiah." "Nothing is born of nothing, Albert!" "Only that which exists, will exist again." "Nothing is born without pain." "You may not be worth it..." "a miserable little merchant, a semi-alcoholic a womanizer, who confuses his dreams with reality." "Yet, at my side, you become a God!" "And I... only through you do I transcend dimensions." "Night of the broken glass!" "My name is Marianna." "And I was born in Athens, in 1983." "Before that I was called Anna." "And even before that, Isabella." "Up to now I lived with Albert..." "Beyond time." "Where there are no sexes, races and ages." "Then I wanted to be born again." "Because even a love that leads you to death... it too, in its turn, will die..." "Copyright C 1991 Tonia Marketaki/GFC" "Translated by Elly Petrides and nanastaso@SMz" "Subtitles: mitbrille Karagarga@2014"