"Case For A Rookie Hangman" "This film largely resembles the story 'A Journey to Laputa and Balnibarbi'" "Dreamt up in 1720 by Jonathan Swift" "Should Swift be seen to turn over in his grave, may his countrymen forgive me" "Pavel Juracek" "Second Unit Directors" "Script Supervisor" "Assistant Directors" "Second Camera Operator" "Assistant Camera" "Gaffer" "Production Managers" "Assistant Producers" "Assistant Architect" "Set Decorator" "Property Masters" "Key Makeup Artist" "Makeup Artists" "Costume Designer" "Costumers" "Art Designers" "Music Recorded By Film Symphony Orchestra" "Conductor" "Singers" "Voice Effects" "Sound Effects" "Production Designer" "Sound" "Editor" "Music" "Producer" "Cinematographer" "Written And Directed By" "Production Company:" "Barrandov Film Studio" "Production Team" "Dramaturgist" "I. The Road There" "II." "The Balnibarbian Trap Were you ever to arrive in those parts, you'll spot a little chapel near the main road." "A field track branches off there, continuing to the pond." "Then climbing from the dike along an old tree-lined alley to a solitary house." "This landscape, this cheerful country landscape, will remind you of something." "You will remember the well, and walk on, perhaps in the hope of meeting the barefooted girl, whose Christian name, is forever fixed in your memory." "Gentlemen, you cannot imagine, what I'd give to be able to see you moving along there with the certainty, you've finally found the place where you'll learn to stop smoking, and live to the wise old age of a hundred." "For I went that way, gentlemen, and I was just as foolish then, as any one of you." "For instance, I'd no sooner spotted the bicycle, than all my worries left me." "This naivete of mine, had its motive in the memory of the stoop of our house, which I can't imagine without father's bike." "And you know what I thought about next?" "About St. Bernards, gentlemen." "The trap was about to close on me at any moment, and I was occupied with the stupid thought, that for 25 years, I hadn't seen a St. Bernard." "This reflection astounded me." "St. Bernards you see, had died out." "They'd vanished from the world like the Brontosaurus, and none of us, had even noticed it." "Today, I can no longer say why I didn't then turn back, and what led me ever deeper into that bizarre house." "Naturally, I knew I wasn't in the hallway of a grammar school, but in a house built by a madman." "Far from the alley of chestnut trees where my school had stood." "I knew," "I was no longer fifteen, but thirty-five, and Marketa was no longer alive." "'Lemuel, I love you, but tell no-one!" " Marketa'" "But those, who were mocking me like this, remained hidden." "They placed a mug before me, the only one like it in the world." "So I tell you gentlemen: when one day you see a chapel amongst the wild thyme, for God's sake, remember that the road leading here, is one on which everything we no longer believe in, departs from us." "That girl, that drowned girl, looked like Marketa." "She was Marketa." "But she was cold, she was wet." "Pondweed in her hair and the hollows of her eyes." ""Sir," I called to that unknown man." ""Wait, sir!"" ""I'm having a terrible dream and you're the first person I've met in it!"" ""Little boy!"" ""Wait, I'm afraid I'll never wake up!"" "It smelt of sauerkraut and cat's piss, but above there was a last little chink, through which my dream touched the world, and the world, my dream." "However, I went on into the darkness." "Each of us, gentlemen, each of us has his Mrs Miller, whose light shone on us from the outset." "I said," ""Good evening, Mr Miller,"" ""it's me, Lemuel."" ""Lemuel Gulliver,"" ""Lemuel Gulliver, of Long Street."" "But it wasn't Mr Miller." "His name was Vilem Seid." "Three days later, he shot and killed a seventeen year old boy." "All those faces emerging from the dark." "I knew all those faces very well." "But they wouldn't answer to their names, they didn't know or recognise me." "Even though I kept on shouting, "It's me, stop it!"" ""Don't you know I was born amongst you?"" "In the days following, I ran into nearly all of them again." "They'd different names." "They knew nothing at all of Long Street." "Then I heard the sound of crying." "I recognised the voice as my own." "It was I who was crying, somewhere nearby." ""Don't weep," I said quietly." ""It's something that has to happen to you."" ""In a few years, Mrs Miller will be standing in the doorway."" ""So as not to fail to tell you, that you're nearly a man now."" ""Come back," I called to him." ""I want to wake up but don't know how."" "You'll see later, gentlemen, that brat returned, turning me over to the hangman." ""Kajo," I said." ""Your arms grew back again?"" ""Can you see, Kajo?"" ""You have eyes and a nose."" ""I'll wait for you outside, Kajo."" ""We'll have a beer, and I'll tell you who cried the most at your funeral."" "Yes." "Of course I knew that one of the two of us was dead, and the other alive." "But try as I might to remember," "I could not recall, where the difference lay." "Gentlemen, you ever read of people who go to bed in perfect health, and wake up in the morning, mad?" "Have you heard of dreams where even the coolest of reason can burn up?" "If so, you'll understand why I then wished to be chased down and trampled under." "For there are moments when only death can reassure you, that you were alive and well, and awake." ""Juditka," I said to her, "where have you wandered these past two years?"" ""Come home, Juditka, there's shooting here."" "As if that mattered, gentlemen." "In the midst of miraculous events, I was wasting time looking for the truth." "Without even considering which world has less of it." "I picked myself up, ashamed, confused, and stammered," ""Good day, Professor,"" ""I've come to ask about a dream of mine."" ""I dreamt Marketa drowned, because I stole a mug full of money at home."" ""I dreamt I was alone in the world, and I met a hare wearing clothes."" ""And that hare, Professor,"" ""that fully dressed hare, I killed him."" "'I am sorry, sir, but this is not a dream.'" "So I then stammered," ""Forgive me, sir, but in that case, can you explain to me,"" ""where exactly I am?"" "'In Balnibarbi.'" "And that's basically everything I wanted to tell you about those little chapels, besides which, run the roads to our foolish desires, gentlemen." ""Who in fact, am I?" I thought to myself." ""Who am I, and what don't I know about myself?"" ""If someone took the trouble to build this house in my path,"" ""then wait till I got caught in it?"" "III." "The Academy Of Inventors" "I beg your pardon, but I don't know..." "Excuse me, but if you're staying silent for my sake..." "But gentlemen, you must understand that I..." "Hello." "I'm Reum, from the Academy of Inventors." "I've come to get you." "Professor Beiel sent me." "What's this kerchief?" "The items found with a detainee, are in principle, divided into two groups." "The first we designate with the letter 'A', the second with the letter 'Z'." "Each group has as many units as there are items assigned to it." "However, the items in group 'A' are ordered, according to their degree of significance and suspiciousness." "Now then, how would we label... this watch?" "Yes, please." "Since we found neither poison nor a camera inside the watch." "Nor a compass or anything similar which would defy the ordinary, we can assign it a number from 'Z3', to... 'Z7'." "Correct." "Yet there remains a possibility, that even this watch, can defy the ordinary." "Yes, please." "This possibility exists, in the event there are grounds, to suspect the item was stolen, and then we'd assign the watch to group 'A'." "Quite correct, thank you." "You may continue, Mr Kristof." "Yes, Professor." "Please, continue." "It's quite simple." "Give that here!" "Take it away!" "And you go back to your seat!" "You hurt?" "You've decided to remain silent?" "You can answer me with a gesture." "You know what a gesture is?" "A movement, or a grimace, you understand me?" "Tell us Miss, in what circumstances do we conclude, the subject under investigation is displaying obstinate silence?" "Obstinate silence occurs... in subjects..." "who are mentally deficient, even imbecilic." "Yesterday, Professor, it was you who were obstinately silent." "Come here, Miss." "Yesterday was Monday, Mr Gulliver." "You may continue." "What led you to Balnibarbi, Mr Gulliver?" "A hare, Miss." "I ran over a hare." "What hare?" "Can you describe this hare, Mr Gulliver?" "Of course, Miss." "He had corduroy trousers." "A checkered shirt." "Whose watch is this?" "Mine." "When was the last time you spoke with Prince Munodi?" "I don't understand." "Your name?" " Lemuel Gulliver." " Your name is Oskar." "Read it." "'To Oskar the Hare.'" "'For loyal service, Prince Munodi.'" "Now gentlemen, you don't really think I'm a hare?" "'But look ye, people of Balnibarbi,' 'that unto your progeny, this plain truth be preserved.'" "'That the anguish of your humble forebears,' 'it was through which, in the bloody hour of their death,' 'their minds in communality, such force engendered.'" "'That unto the very heavens was the stony city lifted,' 'so that neither arrow nor spittle might harm the king.'" "Since then, Laputa has been hovering over the earth." "Because the will of all our ancestors has overcome the centuries, and holds Laputa up there to this day." "Excuse me, please." "Professor, tell me please:" "who is that girl?" " Miss Gabriela, Mr Gulliver." " Thank you." "It's our national dance, Mr Gulliver." "How dare you?" " Where do you think you are?" " What's happening?" " Forgive me." " It's no use." " My deepest apologies." " Don't be ridiculous, Professor!" "Mr Gulliver." "I took you for a civilised person." "His name is Oskar!" " I truly am very sorry." " Why are you apologising?" "Don't humiliate yourself." "Sir!" "I request you leave my house this instant." "Get up and get out!" "What happened?" "What did I do?" "I've been looking for you all day." "Is it true you know Prince Munodi?" "No, I've never seen him before in my life." "Dominika?" "Dominika?" "What are you laughing at?" "At you." " Because he will beat you to a pulp." " Who will?" "It's good that you were here." "He crawls into bed with his shoes on." "IV." "The Hand Cranked Machine" "Hello." "Ah, hello." "Tell me please, the way to Professor Beiel's?" "I don't know." " And to the Academy of Inventors?" " Don't know." "Can you at least tell me how to get to the station?" "Excuse me sir, but I know nothing at all." " Nothing?" " Absolutely nothing." "You shouldn't have told me this." "You see, all my life I've waited for something to happen to me, that's happened to no-one before." "I look at the tower and wait for it to move." "I come to the station and wait for the train to arrive." "But everything happens somewhere else." "I've nothing to write about." "You know what it'd have meant to me, to have met that hare of yours?" "I'd rather I hadn't met him." "That's because you're a primitive, sir." "Whereas I, you see," "I'm a poet." "Please, sir, pay attention, sir." "I too, see the sun rise in the morning, and set in the evening, and I still regard this as natural." "On the contrary, it was spoken with the emphasis on 'still', not 'natural'." ""I 'still' regard this as natural"." "Or just look at how 'the Sun' is being pronounced this year." "'The Sun' was never pronounced like this, in years before." "Now really gentlemen, the Sun!" "It's not about the Sun at all." "Gabriela!" "I'm not Gabriela." " It's me, what do you want?" " Nothing." "Come on." "Her... her brother's dead." " How do you know?" " I just know it." "Nobody died." " She's crying for the sake of it." " Don't say that, you mustn't say that." "Her little brother died." "He was seven." "Mr Gulliver..." "Never mind." "Why... does the governor want to speak with you?" "The governor?" "I know nothing about it, Professor." "Twenty years ago, the king told an assembly of engineers:" ""If today, every one of our cybernetic machines knows how to compute."" ""Then why in the future, should our sewing machines not compute as well?"" "This thesis, gentlemen, enables us to rank computers alongside:" "the pulley, the lever, and the gear wheel." "How do you eat sausages here, Professor?" "With our hands, Mr Gulliver, our hands." "Just a moment." "'Civilians Fighting'" "'With Army Weapons'" "'With Farm Implements'" "'With Bare Fists'" "'Otherwise Fighting'" "Miss!" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing there?" "Give that here!" "So this is what you call a 'civilian, wailing, cowardly female'?" "Be so kind as to tell me what's cowardly about her?" " I've the impression she's crying." " I can see she's crying!" "She's also wringing her hands, Doctor." "Come here!" "Is it your impression this figure is wringing her hands?" "It seems to me she's more menacing." " Mr Gulliver, my nephew." " Patrick Beiel, pleased to meet you." " This way, please." " Thank you." "They should've realised I wouldn't know your national dances." " It wasn't about that at all." " What do you mean?" "You wouldn't understand." "Is it true you know Prince Munodi?" "The point is no-one should have to think unnecessarily, Mr Gulliver." "Consider how much unnecessary thinking goes on everywhere." "Children have to think, old people, sick people, even people who have no time at all for thinking." "Even those, we assume don't think." "Madmen, notorious drunkards, idiots:" "all of them, without exception, think." "They once brought me a cretin." "He wet himself." "He didn't know how to eat." "He was incapable of human speech, but he was thinking." "I have observed infants, Mr Gulliver, and I can tell you, they all have dreams." "But why am I telling you all this?" "Because you're speaking with the governor." "And he'll undoubtedly ask you about my thinking machine driven by a hand crank." "My thinking apparatus." "The hand crank." "Here's where thoughts are formed." "They asked the capacity." "I said that a healthy man achieves up to ten thousand thoughts a day." "But that was too few for them." "Then somebody had the idea of using animal power, to drive the apparatus." "They want to harness oxen, Mr Gulliver, but I won't let them, tell them that." "I will not have this machine being turned by an ox." "V. The Governor" "This is the Matuse." "You see that colour?" "They say it's dyed in blood, but in fact it comes from iron." "It was a famous river once." "Mr Gulliver." "What do people think about Balnibarbi, where you come from?" "Do they know anything about us?" "I think they know." "I think they're quite fond of you." "I'll wait for you here." "Hello." "I'm Gulliver." "Who are you looking for?" "I am Lemuel Gulliver, Mr Governor." " Thank you." " Don't mention it." "Have a seat." " It rolled away." " Yes." " Want to try?" " No, no actually I..." " Here you are." " Thank you." " A moment." " No, please don't bother." "There you are." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Halt!" "Stop!" "Catch them!" "Halt!" "Stop, you!" "Stop, you!" "Do you really know Prince Munodi?" "Why, no." "Go on." "You see that cloud?" "That's not a cloud." "That's Laputa, Mr Gulliver." "VI." "Guardians Of The Wells" "Vilem," "Mr Gulliver, has still never seen Laputa." "If they find Mr Gulliver, it'll be your fault." "I've told you three times already to keep going." "Go!" "You had a war here?" "No, why?" "Three!" "That's it, stretch your arms out nice and straight." "Up... down, and the arms!" "Stretch your arms out nice and straight." "And hold!" "That's right." "One." "Two." "Down, and up." "The arms!" "Stretch your arms out nice and straight, hold it." "Oh no, not at all." "It's no misfortune for you." "If you were in the town now, you'd see there's a big celebration." "When I was little, I always looked forward to it so much." "Every time, I'd get a new paper lantern, and I was allowed to wear a lovely white dress." "Friends!" "We have every possibility, of gaining control over this extraordinary situation, and biding our time until we can return to our homes." "Let's not be afraid to act." "Friends, let everyone who can, come over here quickly." "It's in your interest." "Those of you who can watch over the well, step forward." "It's urgent." "Let us know of capable men whom you trust." "We must protect our homes." "We must all realise our situation demands from each of us, self-control, and discipline." "There are old people among us, sick people." "There are children too, and we must not forget about them." "The gathering of water needs to be organised." "Friends!" "We must ensure our mothers and children have water." "We must, at any price..." "We have to go somewhere else, gentlemen." "What do you say?" "Laputa covers up the Sun: darkness is everywhere; only the lanterns give light." "People stand on streets, and look up to see if they can spot any little lights." "Sometimes it lasts a few days, at other times, for a whole month." "You talk to someone, and you don't know what kind of eyes he has." "You only hear his voice, and when the voice goes silent, you'll never find that person because... you don't know where he went." "Once when I was fifteen, I followed one voice for three days and three nights." " Whose voice was it?" " I don't know." "Laputa moved then." "The light came, and standing around me were a crowd of people." "All of them were now the same." "All of them." "Close your eyes..." "Close your eyes and listen." "You hear?" "Doesn't he seem different to you now?" "How does he look now, Mr Gulliver?" "He's young, and slim." "Cheerful." "He is just, and wise." "And... how do I look?" "I was lying, don't be angry." "Hey!" "Where you going?" "Where are you going?" "You hear?" "Halt at once!" "Stop, stop, you!" "No, don't shoot!" "VII." "Circus Munodi" "Marketa?" "Marketa!" "I'm not Marketa, sir, you've mistaken me for someone else." "But we spoke together at Professor Beiel's!" "I have never been there." "I saw you on the square, then." "You were crying there this morning." " I haven't cried for three days now." " But I know you, I definitely know you!" "Sir!" "Please wait, sir!" "I've something to tell you!" "I... have... seen Heaven." "I thought... it was a cloud, but it wasn't." "It had... towers, roofs, windows." "It was Heaven, I saw it!" "Birds were flying after it." "You hear how quiet it is?" "There's not one bird left here." "Where you going?" "There's nothing there." "See that tree?" "Well, beyond that tree, there's nothing at all." "Wait!" "What's there?" "A meadow!" "And after the meadow?" "Forest!" "And after the forest?" "A house!" "Welcome." "Mr Gulliver." "Why, look who's our guest." "Welcome, Mr Gulliver." "Hello." "Hello." "Will one pillow be enough for you, Mr Gulliver?" "Where will you go when you don't like it here with us anymore?" "I've brought you a razor." "You want to see?" "It's sharp." "It shaves nicely." "You'll be satisfied." "Pardon me, but I still don't know..." "Are you Prince Munodi?" "No, not I." "Prince Munodi is my son." "Like every year, the traditional parades, featured all units of Balnibarbi's royal army and Laputa's royal guard." "At the close of the festive ceremony, the king decorated the banners of selected units with memorial ribbons." "In the afternoon, King Matous the Great, visited the Academy of Inventors' headquarters in Lagado." " At an impromptu press conference..." " That's our king, Mr Gulliver." "...on domestic and foreign journalists, he said, among other things:" "My great-grandfather Matous, by the force of his will, raised the royal seat... aloft, and so led Europe to the peace of Westphalia." "And... so..." "I too, see the Sun rise in the morning, and set in the evening, and I still regard this as natural." "The following day, at the invitation of the Royal Family, the President of France, General de Gaulle came to the capital city." "This rare guest was met by King Matous the Great before the Laputian court." "Now comes Laputa." "There!" "Another special guest..." "Pay attention here." "Gagarin's coming up." "You know who Gagarin was, Mr Gulliver?" "Gagarin?" "Yes, yes," "Gagarin!" "His name was Gagarin, Yuri." "...together with other foreign guests, accompanied by members of the Academy of Inventors, to Laputa, where he was ceremonially received by the King, who presented him..." "Today, almost no-one knows him anymore, Mr Gulliver." "Mr Gulliver, you may find this hard to believe, but it used to be the same here, as where you come from." " We had a university." " And a stone bridge." "And circuses." "We had everything, Mr Gulliver." "Everything." "I know nothing gentlemen, nothing at all." "Mr Gulliver told us nothing about himself." "VIII." "Balnibarbian Darkness" "Do you smell it?" "That peculiar stench, Mr Gulliver?" "How can it be, I ask you, that as soon as a man, feels too much fear, he'll always begin to... always reek?" "I'm a foreigner!" "I have nothing to do with you!" "I apologise." "I haven't slept for three days, Mr Gulliver." "People are nervous." "It's dark." "Laputa still hasn't moved yet." "Nobody knows, why it came." "Patrick!" "Halt!" "Stop!" "I'm looking for Patrick Beiel." "Is Mr Patrick Beiel here among you?" " They were brought by truck, Prefect." " You talk to them?" "No." "Is it them?" "Turn around." " Is it them, Mr Gulliver?" " Yes, it's them." "This one got a bump, Prefect." "His foot slipped on the stairs." "Do you know this gentleman?" "No." "It's no good." "It's pointless, Emil." "I spoke to the governor." " They already know I'm a foreigner." " That'll be all Mr Gulliver, thank you." "Vilma!" "Wait!" "Patrick!" "What happened?" "You hear me?" "You swine!" "What should I do?" "Where should I go?" "Just tell me what I should do?" "I don't understand anything!" " I'm a foreigner!" " So you ditched them?" "What will they do to them?" "To who?" "What do you want to confess to?" "My name's Oskar." "I think that until we find out why he's confessing, there's no point in asking him whether he wants to confess to anything else." "That's what I think." "Read that back to us, Miss." "Second associate judge:" ""I'm just an ordinary woman."" "First associate judge:" ""Which of us here isn't ordinary?" "What are you going on about?"" "Second associate judge:" ""All my life I've cooked, washed, cleaned, taken care of children."" ""Suddenly they call me, I come, and I'm even supposed to send people to death."" ""Such a thing forces a person to reflect."" ""I just want to say when my child comes home and says:"" ""Mama, I did this, that, and then I see something's not right with the child."" ""Right away I ask myself: why is he confessing when nobody's asking him to?"" ""Like the accused here:"" ""why confess to everything?" "What's behind it all?"" ""I think until we find out why he's confessing,"" ""there's no point in asking him whether he wants to confess to anything else."" ""That's what I think."" "Strike that out." "IX." "The Ceremonial Execution" "Here's one more." "But I don't have any beer left." " This gentleman's a poet." " I can't help it, as nobody told me." "Give my sausage to the orphans, and my beer to the widows." "Here you go, have a drink." "Two." "Four." "Six." "This won't work, gentlemen." "Don't hold it against me, I just can't do it!" " I understand, but..." " You understand nothing, you!" "What's that woman doing here?" "Gentlemen, I won't be treated like this!" " Just a minute, come on." " Well, what?" "There's six of them!" "I'm not blind!" "Six!" "Your poem will be a milestone in the literature of Balnibarbi." "You know what they told me?" "That it's alien to our spirit." "If I may be so bold, what's this poem about?" "About a hare who went around in clothes." "But why is that against the state?" "You ever seen a hare wearing clothes in our country?" "Let's go, let's go..." "Good Lord, toss out that cigarette!" "Let's go!" " What are you doing touching it?" " Calm, calm, gentlemen, calm." "Everything's fine." "The boys will show us some exercises, come on." "Come on." "That's right." "And the Professor will explain it to us again." "I'm through, Prefect, I won't be insulted!" "I've told you ten times already, it's nothing!" "It's just slipping a little, that's all." "'Slipping a little....' 'Slipping a little...'" "What exactly is it that's 'slipping a little'?" "Take it easy, it's nothing." "Everything will work out fine." "The wheel?" "What kind of wheel?" "The retractor wheel!" "What if my hand ends up in there?" "What then?" "Calm, gentlemen, calm." " My advice, sirs..." " Good evening." "...is postpone till tomorrow, and I'll organise a gallows." " My name is Herold." " Wrap it up here, wrap it up." "Toss out that cigarette!" "Let's go..." "Tidy yourselves." " You won't mind if I go first?" " Move, move, no gabbing!" "Move, move, move, move, move!" "Come on now, come on, let's get this over with." "I'll leave you till the end, Miss;" "once I see how it works." "So now, gentlemen, who'll go first?" "How about you?" "You look like a case for a beginner." "No!" "Please, let me!" "All right, all right!" "What are you doing with that cat, man?" "Put it away!" "Come along now." "Friends!" "Long live..." "I shall die, but..." "I die gladly!" "Because..." "Will you be proclaiming some more?" "No, no more." "I don't know who you are, Mr Gulliver, or why you came to us." "I don't wish to ask you about that." "But do you realise, that you could be dead by now?" "Yes, Governor." "You've been invited to Laputa, Mr Gulliver." "His Majesty King Matous is expecting you this very day." "I'm a direct descendant of Melchior the trumpeter." "Fifty years ago, Melchior, my great-grandfather, was taken to Laputa." " He was the last person..." " The last person was Miss Blanka." "Miss Blanka was a slut, Madam." "Mr Gulliver, don't answer if you don't want to, but, please, do you know why they invited you?" "I thought you knew." "And who invited you?" "Do you know who invited you?" "You said it was the king." " Take care." " Thank you." " Farewell." " See you soon." "Come here, come here!" "Pardon me, but did you say, 'see you soon'?" "Do you mean to say, you'll be returning?" "You think I won't return?" "Open up!" "Open up at once!" "Come back!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Is someone there?" "I am." "X. The Flying Island" "Excuse me." "Excuse me, Madam." "Is anyone here?" "Beg your pardon, sir, but you'll have to go back." "I'll accompany you." "One moment, sir." "Could you show me that letter?" "Forgive me, sir, for I keep asking questions." "Have you ever been to..." "Monte Carlo?" "I have." "I will accompany you." "King Matous the Great." "I am Jeronym of Hora, sir." "I'm the regent here." "The Minister of the Privy Seal, and his spouse." "My mother, the Duchess of Hora." "The Minister of Railways." "His spouse." "The Minister of War." "His spouse." " The Minister of Tillage." " We've met already." "The royal wet nurse." "Princess Nika." "It is true, Mr Gulliver, that down in Balnibarbi, speaking is forbidden once a week?" "Yes, every Monday." " Why?" "What's the idea?" " They told me it's to conserve air." "I was only there a couple of days." "It's..." "It's a very interesting country." "It seems to me, nowhere in the world does science have such an influence, as it does right there." "I'd a chance to see a thinking machine driven by a hand crank." "By what?" "By a hand crank." "You see, they're thinking of doing away with electric power." "Professor Beiel told me, their primary concern, was that the results of scientific work, should be understandable to the people." "Is it true, Mr Gulliver, that you've been to Monte Carlo?" "Yes, Madam." "And what about... the Carlton?" "Were you in the Hotel Carlton?" "Hotel Carlton?" "Yes, I was, I was there once." "And what did you do there, Mr Gulliver?" "Perhaps, Mr Gulliver, Monte Carlo has more than one Hotel Carlton." "And perhaps, Mr Gulliver, you were in the other one." "There's only one Carlton everywhere, Minister." "One Carlton, one Savoy, one Ritz." "Our king, Mr Gulliver," "King Matous the Great, lives in Monte Carlo, in the Hotel Carlton." "I was there the year before last, Regent." "The year before last, at the end of May." "But Mr Gulliver, he's been there eleven years now." "Eleven?" "Eleven." "He works as a doorman, Mr Gulliver, at the Hotel Carlton." "I don't know him, Minister." "I never saw him!" "Or perhaps I did see him." "Maybe he opened a door for me at night, I gave him a franc and that was it." "After all, I can't remember every single porter!" "For Christ's sake," "I've nothing to hide from you." "You misunderstand us, Mr Gulliver." "We only wanted to ask how he's getting along." "Forgive me." "I'm a foreigner." "They gave me this, down below." "What should I do with it?" " Good afternoon." " Will you leave or shall I eject you?" "Why no, I was just going anyway." "Will these pillows be enough for you?" "If they want anything from you, don't even think about it." " They ask something of you?" " What concern is it of yours?" "Probably not gotten around to it yet, take care." ""To His Majesty, King Matous the Great"" ""Your loyal servant, the Governor of Lagado"" "There was a hare in my bathroom." "Nika!" " Looking for someone?" " No, I'm not." "We're here now, above Lagado." "Come, try it out." "Sit down." "If you were the king, you could make Laputa move now." "By force of will." "The wind governs us, Mr Gulliver." "For eleven years, we've been flying aimlessly." "Pardon me, but you're not a minister, are you?" "I'm the gardener." "But I knew the Minister well." "I keep wanting to ask you, Mr Gulliver." "What's it like in..." "Monte Carlo, or other places?" "Can someone who's a complete stranger, go there and live normally?" "A minister, for instance, or a groom." "I think anyone can live a normal life there." "A minister, as well as a groom." "And a princess?" "And is it true, Mr Gulliver, that the Academy of Inventors abolished July?" "Oh no, not July." "You're thinking of November." "They abolished it due to flu epidemics." "The king should return." "Forgive me, Mr Gulliver, you're probably now thinking that Nika's not a princess." "But she is a princess." "She really is." "But I know," "I know that she's a princess." "If I could go... down into the world." "Do you think they'd be able to tell I'm from somewhere else?" "Do you think I could live there?" "I don't know, Nika, why not?" "Maybe you could, only you're a princess." "Nobody will notice that." "We won't tell anyone." "What are you thinking about?" "About a little girl who wanted to be a princess." " What happened to her?" " She was lucky." "She drowned." "You know what the clap is, Princess?" "It's an illness I've had three times." "Maybe she didn't drown, Mr Gulliver, maybe you just got scared that time." "Maybe she remained alive." "Maybe... you burst into tears that time because you... suddenly realised that she would never be like you wanted her to be." "Perhaps she's living happily somewhere, without any idea that you drowned her." "Mr Gulliver!" "Your Marketa is exactly like you wanted her to be." "Dead." "Mr Gulliver!" "Did you ever realise, that you'll never be rid of her?" "Mr Gulliver!" "Is it true... that drowned people have... bulging eyes," "and... a swollen belly?" "Nika." "Nika!" "Nika!" "Nika." "Nika!" "Over here, over here!" "Who's there?" " It's me." " What you yelling for?" "I'm not yelling." "This is Prince Munodi, Mr Gulliver." "I spoke with your father." "What's he up to?" "Ever since I lost my telescope," "I haven't seen the old man." "He doesn't like me anyhow." "Those good little people down there, they haven't the slightest idea, that left in Laputa, are only the staff and... myself." "And so they don't find out, I have to drink for the whole government, and the court!" "I won't drink to anything; you of course, can drink to what you like." "To love, perhaps, if you can't think of anything else." "You should take her with you." "What's wrong, Nika?" "Good God, why are you blubbering?" "Please, Nika, go to bed now." "But why?" "I'm afraid I'll get drunk, and I don't want you to see it." "I'll go then." "Shall I accompany you?" "No." "Where are you going?" "Bed." "Really, now!" "I heard a racket." "Well, look who's here." "Good night." " Bye!" " Nika!" "Nika!" "Something troubling you, Mr Gulliver?" "What's this?" "That'll be a costume, I believe, let's see, yes, a costume!" "More specifically, the hussar uniform of..." "Vasil the Hare." "Good God, how I hated hares!" "You know the old man after all, Mr Gulliver." "Well, can you imagine he forced me to perform, with trained hares?" "I don't know if you can possibly imagine, how terribly degrading, and humiliating it is, to be a trainer of hares." "I put up with it till I was sixteen." "As soon as I reached that age," "I opened the cages and chased the lot of them into the woods." "That same day, the old man chased me out." "And what's more, he broke my jaw." "Since I didn't know how to do anything, my choice was to get rich, Mr Gulliver." "I set up a concern in dry biscuits." "If the Academy of Inventors hadn't outlawed crackers," "I could be supplying the whole world today." " Let me tell you something, Dominika." " I'm not Dominika." "You're not Dominika?" "Seriously, you're not Dominika?" "No." "Get out." "Get out." "You hear me?" "I'd like to ask you a favour." "You see, down in Balnibarbi, they don't know that the king... that he's not here." "So if you'll promise us you won't..." "won't tell them..." "He'll come back, Mr Gulliver, he'll surely come back." "If they should ask you anything, tell them you're not allowed to talk about it." " You don't mind?" " No, I don't mind." " You really don't mind?" " Not at all, Regent." "Please give my regards, to Princess Nika." "Tell her that..." "I'll explain to her, Mr Gulliver." "XI." "Balnibarbian Silence" "I thought they'd executed you." "Please, do you know where I might find where I might find Patrick Beiel?" "Emil." "Emil!" "Is that man here for me, Prefect?" "Professor Beiel, the king asked after you." "I am to say that he esteems you highly." "And for you, Professor, I've greetings from Prince Munodi." "The king never signed a decree to stay silent; you're doing it for no reason." "It's your affair, it doesn't concern me." "What do you mean I wasn't there?" "I don't understand." "Why should I explain why no-one's ever returned from there?" "I don't know!" "I, as you see, have returned." "They want nothing from you, Governor, nothing at all." "They haven't a clue what goes on here." "Perhaps..." "Perhaps they know the names of your mountains, rivers, valleys." "At night they can see the lights of your cities, but that's all." "They don't know anyone here, not even you." "They don't even know you, Governor." "You see, I didn't meet with him, Governor." "Your king..." "You king hasn't lived in Laputa for a long time now." "He's in Monte Carlo." "At the Hotel Carlton." "He's the porter there." "Where are we going?" "Unlock it, Governor." "Unlock it, and we'll go upstairs and talk." "Don't just stand there like an idiot!" "I know, Emil, I'll remain silent." "He was drunk, he didn't say anything." "He sent no messages;" "he doesn't give a damn." "What do you want from me?" "I've said everything I know about him." "He's there alone, alone for ten years now, with nothing to do." "Nothing happens there, everything's lost its meaning." "In order to act like nothing's changed, he drinks and drinks, until he's swallowed everything a king would: the whole court, the government." "Forgive me." "Forgive me." "Forgive me!" "XII." "The Road Somewhere Else" "The village idiot answered to the name of Vyskoc, and he took me from the land of Balnibarbi." "Then it happened, I became perplexed again and I turned to the idiot, saying:" ""Listen, Vyskoc, is this watch running backwards or am I just imagining it?"" "But he retorted:" ""Why do you keep making a fuss?"" ""Isn't it enough for you to hear it ticking?"" "The End" "Subtitled By Steyskal For Karagarga Revised By Kosmikino"