"The story you're about to see with such a strange beginning," "your son's or daughter's it might be - with or without the family knowing." "Your boy or girl it could have been, not only on a hop brigade," "and if it makes you think again, why- the film'll make itself paid." "We are all much of a muchness, you, me, her and him," "and it would be quite senseless to try and make a difference... to try and make a difference..." "Filmexport Home Video presents" "A hop!" "..." "GREEN GOLD" "Idea" "Screenplay" "Acting:" "Music" "Orchestras:" "Singing:" "Scene-designer:" "Costume design:" "Makeup:" "Sound Editor" "Editor" "Assistant director:" "Assistant cameraman:" "Associate producer representative:" "Art director:" "Chief costumer:" "Script:" "Further co-operating:" "A hop!" "..." "Choreography:" "Production Manager" "Director of Photography" "Directed by" "Yet another day gone by!" "Gone by yet another day!" "Hurray!" "Our one and only thought is:" "Hops are our green gold!" "All that we think about is:" "More hops for our export!" "Blether!" "Never fear, never fear, we're doing it for beer, for beer never fear, for beer, every Czech the call will hear." "So young people, Mums and Pops, come with us to pick the hops, hops are the bond that binds the nation, hops are the best of our cash craps!" "Stop blathering!" "We're blathering, yes, we're blathering a lot of tommy-rot, but, citizens, remember, we also work a lot." "From the Tatras to Cheb, lot every Dad feel proud, when he lifts his glass of good cheer, that was me picked the hops for his" "Me!" "Me!" "Me!" "Our one and only thought is:" "Hops are out green gold!" "All we think about is:" "More hops for our export!" "No extra helpings for hooligans!" "Look, Hanka!" "Good evening." "Just a little soup, please." "Where did this drop from?" "I'm here to manifest." "I think even if we work, we can sit down decently to table." "Hanka, you are a misery?" "I'm sorry, Hanka!" "Sorry!" "Let the lads be, they're Czechs, are they not?" "Comrades, dear." "They're solving something, let them solve it!" "Don't go braking up the discussion!" "Whatever a dogmatist may say, it's always unhealthily biasse," "only free interchange of views can hope to make matters better." "Can hope to make matters better." "What's going on here?" "I somehow slipped, Miss." "I gave him one on the jaw and he knows why!" "Fighting like turkey-cooks!" "Hanka, go and change and come to supper like the rest!" "And all of you - dismiss!" "You're a devil for work not bad after a whole day hop-picking!" " So what?" "I know you'd want something." "First into the river with me, what?" "I feel like jumping in my cloth today." "What's happened to you?" "I collided with somebody's fist." "Boys will be boys!" "I'm tired of these talks, Filip." "I know you are, too." "But I must care for tens of you." "If everyone was like you, I would go into retirement in forty." "Look at me when I'm speaking to you." "If you only saw yourself!" " You don't see me either." "Cut out the wisecracks!" "Why aren't in the water, folks?" "Well, boys, shake hands!" "A problem child, make anybody crazy!" "And it was you, was it?" "It's all right, Miss, I've shorts on!" "You were late last night, Honza..." "Take care on the road!" "And pass my greetings to your Auntie!" " From me, too!" "Thank you, I will." "We could do with forty like them, Miss." "Let him be now and let him better go into the water." "Cold water wouldn't move it." "I don't doctor the soups, my dear." "And don't you mind any more." "They're all as black as your boot." "Thrilled they don't need to wash!" "Hang it up and it'll be like new." "It only needs rinsing it in time." "Three days I kept it up." "And now come to supper like the rest." "Why can't one be decent?" "Anežka!" "Switch on the light, my hands are wet." "I told you, like new!" "And don't wring it - it's drip-dry." "I wanted them to be furious - and they were." "Mum, he love's her." "Who?" "Whom?" "The one that socked the other one." "Oh yes, I saw all right." "Get along with you!" "Go with Hana and bring back the coat." "Come on, I'll let you try on my stilettos!" "There's not much I don't know about them." "Sometimes I feel, as if I knew them since they were babies..." "I can even think like them." "Only with this rebel I'm flummoxed." "I know Filip that I shouldn't say that in front of you..." "What did you pick these for?" "They keep gnats off when they're dried." "Can I go now?" " Wait a minute..." "As long as he's with them, it's all right." "I don't understand your scientific methods, but my Dad had a simple method - and no problems." "Always alone, never with the others." "Always puzzling over something - No Filip, I want you to hear it!" "But to come and confide in his teacher, this he won't do..." "For instance:" "Does God exist?" "Of course not." " And how d'you know?" "It's quite clear." "Didn't they tell you at school?" "Oh yes-at school..." "I" " I'll be going." "It's quicker this way, good night." " Good night." "And what's this with Honza, Filip?" "Jealous of him or what?" " Of him?" "Work and you'll have the best marks, too." "At the hops, too - you can be as good as he is." "I simply can't stand him, that's all." "Filip!" " Good night." "Filip!" "How it suite you!" "What chic!" "From Tuzex?" "Or straight from Paris?" "In the west, they wear nothing else." "Take this back to your Mum - it's not suitable here." "Where to goodness..." "And he loves her, if you want know!" "Dear child..." "Who loves her?" " The one that socked the other one." "Filip?" "Not likely!" "This charm's not just for the first best!" "What eyes of grey he came for her." "In a car of at least" "And with these eyes of his tells to girl mesmerized..." "Tells her:" "Hoppity hop, hoppity hop, we'll go off to Brandeis, to Brandeis " "I work in that fair town, as manager of Pramen." "Of course, and why not?" "My charm, I can say is not everyday." "And seek though you may, both far and near, you won't find my match." "Or he'll come sailing on a white boat." "Stop at the pier throw her a rope." "And she'll take the measure of her valor." "The engine roars, and off she sails, off she sails, to Police, to Police, to Police nad Metují." "Maybe they'll need her there at the post office or elsewhere." "Of course, what d'you suppose?" "Am I not one of those people like to call beauties?" "Who else has a better right to know what true love is?" "Or else he'll come just on a push-bike, and still I'll say to him!" "Come in, young man " "I was expecting you." "Coffee's on the table." "That's what she'll say, that'll be the way- with the right one." "On foot she'll go," "Hoppity hop, hoppity hop, all the way to Jericho, to anywhere he wants to go, to Ostrava or Brno, all the way there and back." " Anežka, how often..." "Oh, pardon!" "Are we at a hops-brigade or where?" "!" "Anežka, you've no business here away home!" "Excuse me, which way to civic?" "You've taken the wrong turning." "Back to the main road and then to Žatec." "I see, thank you, madam." "Good night." "Must have taken a fancy to you." "Life is a roundabout, how often it turns with you, and more often than not you've idea what it's about." "You take your seat, don't know to what station, and no conductor can tell you what?" "Will be your destination." "It's no use to try and give us good advice, why you're here, your honors, you know no more than I." "Back so soon?" " She bored me." "And have you found him?" "I don't know how it was but..." "In short he gave you the slip again." "Pity you're such a dud lot." "Solving something are they?" "It's so perfectly simple, if you are clever enough, grown, ups today are children and children grown-ups." "The wise are not too wise the clever not too clever," "In short we re at a fair maybe packing up tomorrow." "Jump onto life's whirligig, or your seat will take another, lot the dump ones turn the wheel and the smart ones ride at leisure." "It's o'clock, boys." "Lights out and silence!" "You're standing on my hand!" "Jesus, be quiet!" "Stop it, girls!" "I'll call Jana Ámosa to come and sleep here herself!" "Let me get my beauty sleep, will you?" "Anybody here?" "No." "Hanka, it is possible?" "Hi, Hanka." "Come in, do come in!" "Wait, I'll put on the light." "I'll be blown!" "Gee!" "Wonderful, what?" "Oh, excuse me being like this." "I'll make a cup of tea, right?" "What will you have to it?" "Chocolate biscuits or a tatranka?" "And the fridge?" "Living here like a lord, you..." "It's not so bad, I'll admit." "This was some kind of hammock." "It needed only a pair of skilful hands ...which I do have, of course, do I not, and here you have it!" "This was the toughest job." "It was originally standing in the corri- dor and when you are alone to do this..." "But with brawn and brains - you get results!" "This is my pride, despite innate modesty." "It's not, of course, a University Library- but it s something..." "Masaryk, Marx, Lenin, Seneca, Schopenhauer..." "And the harmonium there." " What - the harmonium?" "And 20 girls below - living under feudal conditions?" "Falling over one another's necks?" "No, we won't stand for it!" "Button up your neck - ladies are coming!" "Please, Hanka, don't go yet " "I've something I must say to you." "Just a minute, or I'll never say it." "Hanka, I" " I love you." "Oh, that's different." "Go ahead!" "Well, sit down, here maybe." "Surely, some head teacher used to sit he- re maybe just Karel Václav Rais himself." "Not feeling cold?" "Here I lie, night after night... and can't get to sleep for thinking of you and I've such a strange feeling... that I'm being sieved through the hammock - like flour..." "I feel so small when I think of you." "Nice!" " And now, imagine, you suddenly appear and say Ahoy!" "What?" " Nothing." "Just keep on rocking me." "And when you came in and said Hallo!" "Hey, is anybody in?" "I felt as if the Virgin herself..." "Mary..." "Yes!" "I'm so glad I can tell you." "I don't mind how much I suffer..." "Hanka, look, bring your rugs and be here with me!" "Just be here, Hanka..." "Hanka..." "Hanka..." "Do you hear Hanka..." "Life is a church all white where I play on the organ," "on its keys I spell out the name of my maiden." "Life is a house all white, with a garden round about it," "life is unique because you have come into it." "For God's sake, are we at a midnight mass?" "Hanka, you don't hear it?" "May all the bells in the world ring out, sing out, ding dong!" "Loud and strong!" "For us alone." "Only for me and only for her." "The cheek of him!" " What a nerve!" "The extra meters." " The misery!" "Hold me up!" " He's an individualist!" "Make him pay the penalty!" "And severely!" "At once and terribly!" "Lynch him!" "Tar and feather him!" "No!" "Put him on trial first." "What is the quality that from the beginning of time makes of man a human being?" "Community!" "And a contratio: what is it that from the beginning of time has the community made of man?" "A human being!" "Is it not unbelievable of what a creature is capable?" "It's unbelievable!" "And a contratio:" "Is a creature capable of behaving in a way so unbelievable?" "Yes, he is able!" "You still persist in error, but these heresies I've got over." "I'd rather live in a barrel as the Diogenes!" "Exemplary punishment he deserves who turns his back on the masses." "That's tight - clear as daylight." "If he longs for a tub - let him have it!" " No, I won't!" "Round cask, where the lynx is drinking..." "Are you crazy?" "People are asleep!" "What's the face?" "Sorry." "Why did nobody say anything?" "Good life, girls, nothing's happened!" " Why so bashful?" "We were young once, too!" "Sleep, well." " If you only knew how silly you are!" "You really are silly, girls!" "Just look at me now..." "Not that I wouldn't like to - but like this?" "I don't know what she sees in you - but change quickly and don't chill her." "You're crying?" "Don't cry." "They're plenty here long past it!" "Shut up please." "And as for these cackling geese..." "And if you worry that we'll give you away,..." "Look, I'll throw something at you!" "...don't." "Hanka, tell me..." "Leave me alone." " Wait, tell me, how ...how is it?" "With Filip?" "He's terribly wild!" "Gee!" "I've had you in mind for ages." "Didn't you notice?" "No." "Only a girl can't be first..." "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "With you!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "When two love each other, winter's like summer." "Winter s like summer." "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" " With you!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "When two are able to share the same table." "To share the same table." "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "How to explain it, Miss?" "If they all worked like these two - the hops would be picked by Saturday!" "What the devil's the reason?" "I don't know, whether I can disclose it to you, Comrade Chairman!" "I'm afraid if I told you why- you mightn't be so tolerant as I." "You said yourself you were no pedagogue." "Listen to how it goes on!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "When tired out with work" "I share the same bed." "What?" "Oh, the same bed," "With you!" "With you!" "That's how it is, Chairman." "They live together like two doves." "And their radiating and happiness shows positive results in the hop-field!" "Hops are our green gold, but deliveries are lagging." "I've just discovered, how to stimulate you!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "When over each young couple happiness spans its bow, they'll be able to do double what they didn't before!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "One!" "Two!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "When two love each other, winter's like summer, winter's like summer." "With me!" "Quick, come and help me - so the children can move in." "Beneath a thatched roof" "I spent my young days, beneath the old roof may love flourish always." "They're young after all!" "Never fear experiments!" "Of our thatched cottage roof so fond have I grown." "Tell her not to cling so, folk." "At last we're alone!" "They are alone at last." "Who to the thatched cottage would not gladly return?" "Beneath its roof my Dad hung the last sheaf of corn." "Nearest and dearest," "Mother and Daddy, we'll repay your love with interest..." "Mummy, I don't like it here." "It's in a good cause." "Everybody's singing, sing, too!" "For a while of discomfort!" "Wait, you'll see tomorrow!" "Mr. Editor!" "You'll now see the result of our action!" "Our one and only thought is:" "hops are our hard currency, and what is why we think this is the place we ought to be." "Let's up and away to the hop fields, so that our busy hands may change into bushels" "enthusiastic high target plans." "What you see is youth - not hooligans or beatniks," "youth it's treat to see especially in the hop-fields!" "We're not for boys and girls that are all mixed up and crazy, we like youth shows élan never falters or grows weary." "We've wired for the parents!" "You must film that, too." "You're very good, Mr..." " Otík's my name." "Nice of you Otík to be so patient with our Mánicka." "And mainly, children, be a credit to us." "Hops, after all, are hard currency!" "Well, be good friends." "Yes we will, mum!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "The day is lovely!" "When two love each other, winter's like summer." "Winter's like summer." "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "With you!" "How much?" " Average." "Awfully stuffy..." "If it's going to rain again for another three days, I'm gonna shoot myself." "Get moving, lad, get moving." "You're 17, aren't you?" "Me, I'm over two thousand." "As old as Plato and 17 on top." "Ah, that's why you've done only ten." "Your number?" " Eighteen." "Today I want to pass the 20 mark." "He's a lad knows." "It is the workers pay for his studies." "If you do 20, I'll take you to catch crabs tonight." "Of course, if you aren't going to your aunt." "Hmm... probably not She's got a bit of cold - doesn't want me to catch it." "So it's fixed!" "Some of your wards, Miss, deserve a worker's box on the ear!" "You again, Filip?" "I only praised Honza- honor bright!" "Masaryk, Marx and Seneca, comrade teacher- do they go together?" "Where did you get that idea?" "It only just occurred to me." "Like to come and have a chat?" "Not interested." " Oh, yes." "Of course." "You're a couple of squares." "Sorry we've no more seats - After all, it won't take long." "You thought I wanted to scrap?" "Could one of you put back the chain?" "A nice aunt." "Not everybody so lucky..." "Mind your own business." "You'll have enough to do - you're moving out today." "Really, funny I don't know about it." "You had bad luck last night." "But we'd have found you anyhow." "And it's too much comfort for one." "It's unlikely Hanka will come again..." "Look, you leave Hanka out of this." "Stop that!" "Have you spilt it to him?" "Yes, but he's not keen." "We'll come at nine." "You can go." "One day I'll bash your dial for you!" "The black soul of a beetle can only match its equal." "True love is much too noble for a hooligan to know." "If you want to know what love is you must ask a proper lad." "Please, stop it!" " Ask Filip, he will tell you what true love signifies." "Shut up, I tell you." "Control yourself, Filip," "Filip, you must really be crazy." "I'll send you home and there'll be peace." "There won't be peace!" "Never and nowhere!" "Who wrote that?" " Honza, don't rile him!" "And what you need is a tranquilizer." "Can I take my supper here?" "Of course." "Do sit down." "I wanted to apologize for last night." "You couldn't help it." "The girls are a lot of..." "It's really pretty rotten of them." "Look, I'll go and tell them straight..." "No use." "So this morning." "Well, I brought my mattress up here." "D'you mind?" "Gee, sure I don't!" "Nobody could be happier in all Žatec..." "You won't convince the anyhow." "I'm not ashamed for what I don't do, this way at least I get my sleep." "Good boys are to be found everywhere." "Of good boys there are always enough." "Good boys will be left with only their eyes to cry." "I love good boys." "We call:" "Boys, you must never slacken!" "Good boys are the best ladder, when you are climbing higher." "By whom?" "By what?" "By, with and from, good boys no dangers threaten." "I know my grammar." "Dad put me through my paces." "It was he, who taught me to decline all cases." "Smart boys take what is theirs by right, of smart boys we never have enough." "To whom?" "To what?" "To smart boys belongs the Good Life." "You're serious?" "Sorry for the embarrassing situation." "I do apologize for the dress yesterday." "I underestimated you - both." "Let's go?" " How come?" "You're not normal?" "Excuse him." "He's anything but a gentleman." "You make a gesture and I have to snore below the double bar." "Come on, we are leaving!" "You're terrific!" "You're the greatest psychologist of all time!" "Wouldn't you go for a breather?" "All right, come on then." " Yourself." "I'd like to wash." "Oh, I see, of course." "Stupid of me." "I'm off, now." "Only one thing, Hanka:" "Nobody has ever seen so happy a brigade-worker!" "Not even in the TV news." "Hold it!" "Lower!" "See the rascal?" "What's wrong with you?" "Manon is all I haven't known till now..." "Manon is my first and last sin." "Not to know Manon, to be from love outcast." "Manon is a butterfly, a bee," "Manon is a rose scenting a room," "Manon is everything that will never lose its bloom." "Manon is my reason that has taken leave of me," "Manon is everything that will never lose its bloom." "Manon is my reason that has taken leave of me," "Manon is my reason that has taken leave of me," "Manon is a child with flaxan hair, Manon is as an angel fair," "Manon is my first and last love." "Manon, oh, Manon, Manon of Arras," "Manon is mine - for such beauty to die is highest bliss." "Manon, oh, Manon, Manon of Arras," "Manon is mine - for such beauty to die is highest bliss." "Hmm..." "Manon is a butterfly, a bee," "Manon is a rose scenting a room," "Come here." "You know her?" "Who?" " This - this Manon." "Yes, small and stout." "Dad's on the railways." "He tries to make out he's in love!" "Show-off!" "Good evening, dear colleague!" "Good evening." "Having a look round?" " No." "The evening is so marvelous that I just don't feel like going to bed!" "Don't be crazy, there's somebody outside!" "Who's there?" "Anybody here?" "Filip!" "What's that you have?" " Nothing." "It's not mine, really!" "Good night." "If I were you, I'd take no notice." "The fright will be enough." "Oh, thanks a lot." " You're lucky." "When I'm happy- I can't bear to see others unhappy." "Here you are." "Don't hide your love, proudly declare it!" "D'you know who wrote that?" " No." "Why me!" "This minute!" "Don't hide your love, proudly declare it!" "Love if you've somebody." "Pay head to nobody." "Love and be loved, now's the time for it!" "Hanka, it was the best I could find." "Why, what's this?" "And they lived together- like brother and sister." "I know." "I'm no Apollón." " That's true." "But I think..." " Please, be silent - and don't look." "You're just an ordinary viper!" "Extra-ordinary!" " That only makes it worse." "Still I wish you good night." "Night." "Night." "And still I think - relatively- quite a lot of you." "A fool like me can't expect much." "And that's just it..." "This story conceals many a BUT, like everything around us," "virtuous mothers, give us a chance before you quite condemn us." "We ask the fathers present here to put off the discussion," "and swallow as they've often done their BUT to somewhat later," "an error that has got abroad first requires corrections:" "We are not either serial-made or standardized production." "Or standardized production..." "It's getting past a joke." " Not really!" "It's a fact." "Everybody's..." " Look, control yourself now." "Everybody saw us flitting - and now we're quite impossible." "Hop-picking like mad and..." " And you're getting a cake." "I can't stand it any longer," "The way he goes to get flowers for her and then..." "You're not doing anything about it?" "Something's coming, don't worry." "You can take it boys, it's goulash today." "Fine." "My favorite." "And that'll be all right, Honza- my husband will have a word with your teacher." "Then, you're invited, Ma." "What an idea." "Ah, nothing but twist." "I'm past that." "What's the idea?" " A party and the cake." "Didn't I tell you something was cooking?" "A district official been here?" "No, why?" "You're looking so pleased." "You'd be, too." "Things are disappearing from my office." " Nonsense." "What nonsense?" "If I want to sit down - and my chair's gone?" "If I want to know the time - and the clock's not there?" "You're joking." " Joking." "Read that!" "I confirm that I borrowed for a short time:" "one wicker chair, one lamp, one tin of white enamel paint, one clock with stag." " Yes, the one we got at our wedding" " with those antlers." "Hmmm, and no signature." "Hmm." "Really." "And not a word about the flowery curtain I had around the sink in the office" "Not a word about that!" " It's hanging over there." "I washed it yesterday." "I'm going to iron it now!" "Mum!" "It's not there!" "There was just this piece of paper saying it's been borrowed!" "Really!" "The wise will forgive a lot." "Save many, whose mind is not in full health, but whose illness is not incurable." "He will follow the wise keepers, who don't cultivate only trees growing straight and high." "he builds supports also for those, which got bended, to help them straighten." "Have you seen the cake?" "The one Honza and the boys got?" "Look, I'm reading to you here from Seneca and..." "Oh, sorry, sorry." " Hm..." "Some are pruned, so that they wouldn't suppress growth..." "What?" "So that they wouldn't suppress growth!" "Hm..." "Yes... that's right." "Others, he will manure because of poor languishing soil." "The wise sees, how to cultivate which character, how to correct flaws." "Is he in the Party?" " Who?" "That Seneca." "Good grief, he died in 40 BC!" "Wow!" "He really stuck his neck out, didn't he!" "And there will be a party!" "Do you have anything decent to wear?" "Hanka, how can you think of dancing when I'm reading you stuff like this?" "Here:" "He will follow the wise keepers, who don't cultivate only trees growing straight and high." "It's amazing!" "Or this:" "Each creature has a different voice." "He might have been living today!" "Just look what's going on today." "Where is the wise husbandman?" "You, probably." "Up in the attic." "I'm just an ordinary girl, Filip - why say all this to me?" "If you think it's right, say it so that everybody can hear." "And now get up." "Stand up, so I can measure this." "It's - it's for me?" " No." "For John O'Groats." "Stand upright." "I strain my eyes so he'll be warm, when we go walking on Petrín." "Together?" "No." "With Jack Sprat." "Could I have stuck it out otherwise?" "No." "Don t do that again." "Not here!" "You might think it's silly, and just because of Jana Amos." "Yes, I have." " What?" "A suit - grey, single-breasted." "And a white shirt, too." "Put on, boys, your party suits, shave, brush your hair and shine your boots." "Smooth skin and a careless mien are evidence of your elegance." "The latest hair-style we must try, no matter what the weather, and, headless of a brother's snile, raise our beehive three stories high." "Wax your moustaches, trim your hair and beard, put on your tuxedos for the dance tonight." "If doubt should come upon you, steal a glance into the glass, the sight will soon assure you you're a right bonny lass." "You're a right bonny lass!" "The great moment is at hand." "How lovely is the world to look upon?" "When boys put on their gala girls cannot lag behind." "Offer your manly arm each one to his lady, and lead her with manly charm to the festive polonaise." "To the festive polonaise!" "Curtain!" "Basket!" "Ladies and gentlemen!" "You are my guests." "Quite unexpected." "May I look after you as host?" "It's a bit mine evening." "You're welcome." "Shall we sit down?" "Bar or long horse?" "A pity to live beside a real personality and not know it." "One word would have been enough - instead of tripping me up!" "Another word and I'll out off the offending limb!" "So impetuous!" "Hanka, you're absolutely it!" "For me you're a real cadre." "Tell me, what d'you see in him?" "His great plus is - that he's utterly different from you." "But you'll go farther." "I'm building." "The more you build in public, the less people interfere in you private life." "Older and cleverer folk know that." "Why shouldn't I?" "20 measures a day gets me a cake." "Every one more opens the door to life!" "...says Dad?" "D'you tell everyone that?" "No, you're the first." "Quite a compliment." "Hanka, let's go!" "Let's go." "I'm so glad, Honza." "Once I rather fancied you." "The good - to honest face!" "You've no idea how I thank my stars." "Our prayer is, our prayer is!" "Bossa nova, bossa nova." "Let's repeat the two words:" "bossa nova, bossa nova." "Let's pray again and again." "Bossa nova, bossa nova." "This prayer will take you far, get you what you want, moped or car." "And although Charles the Fourth was a feudal emperor, he introduced wine into Bohemia and not beer." "Bossa nova, bossa nova." "I'm so happy." "And I was almost afraid to come." "This prayer will restore you to health, that's better than wisdom or wealth," "and although John Amos Comenius has a Brother of Unity, we'll have none of him, comrades, in our community." "That's how you worked it out?" "D'you think he'll go flower-picking tonight?" "Is your comrade teacher here?" "Yes, she's over there." " Yes please!" "Sorry to disturb, but I must." "Go on." "I've already visited other brigades." "It's the first time I've had such brigaders." "But it's the first time things are missing." "We've never missed anything in class." "I've a whole list." "First the lamp from the combine." "I thought a co-operator had borrowed it." "well, such things do happen in the village." "Then things from my office:" "clock with deer and antlers - - work of art!" "curtain on a rod, - it was worth good three hundred!" "One wicker armchair that was standing by the window." "All with a note saying they were only borrowed." "If it hadn't been a brigade - I'd have thought somebody was furnishing." "Does anybody here know anything?" "We have no thief among us." "I guarantee for the whole class - with my whole earnings here!" "Bravo Honza!" "All right." "So I'll ask somewhere else." "I only hope you're not wrong." "What's sating him?" "What's wrong with the boy." "Why are his eyes aflame?" "Why does he look so strange?" "A rhino has a thick skin, a pity he's not with it akis." "Only a rhinoceros could bear such a burden of high-powered emotion without bad effects." "Passion devours him like a candle the flame." "Shall he die young, unsung, it would be a great shame." "Three words on his tombstone when with him 'tis Amen." "Just:" "He loved her." "He loved her." "Engraved with his name." "What then?" "You look very silly." "At least I look what I am - which is more than some do." "You promised to bash in my dial." "Only now I haven't time or the mood." "Manon is a butterfly," "Manon is a bee..." "Manon is a rose thrown..." "Don't be crazy, what's the idea?" "Time will reveal." "Mainly we know, what you're going to do." "You'll sit here and keep quiet - till we come back." "I won't keep quiet," "I'll roar!" "It won't help you." "So farewell - and goodbye!" "You'll have to let me go then - and I'll go and tell..." " You won't." "Jana Amos would take a fit - if she knew what went on in the attic." "Jesus, nothing happened there..." "You see, this is how all obnoxious individualists end!" "Part of you dowry?" "I can't remember anybody inviting you!" "No?" "Still, seeing I am here..." "I'll scream!" "I bet you won't." "Where's Filip?" "What have you done with him?" "In the game preserve, with his toes turned up!" "Don't worry, we'll untie him again." "Just give me what you give him." "I can't bear you!" "If you touch me, I'll be sick!" "If he comes to any harm, you'll pay for it!" "How was it, tell me?" "How was what?" "We wanted to pick up some know-how." "Made himself nice and cozy here, hasn't he?" "What have you done to her?" "Nothing, don't be crazy, Filip." "You're a new, historically still undefined type!" "You honest-faced rat!" "So come on!" "Come on!" "I've learnt more from you - than from the whole of Seneca." "It's you - your kind - we must fight!" "And I will start it!" "Filip!" "When I sock you one, you won't get up again!" "Really, it wasn't because of you " "I'd do anything for you - but this was a matter of principle - a kind of flash of comprehension something in my head lit up..." "Wait!" "Wait..." " ..." "I saw in my head..." "Wait a moment!" " ...that they are..." "D'you know, sometimes you look almost nice." "Wait, Hanka, you mustn't!" "Not when we're here like this - because, you understand... you know there are times, when all boys are alike." "So if you wish me to stay here, pull - pull yourself together!" "You're the queerest boy I've ever met." "I'll take anything from you." "Even another chapter of Seneca." "So take it and read!" "Seneca!" "I've written a poem for you." "Or rather, thought it out." "D'you want to hear it?" "It's still not - it's still in the rough." "Life is a house all white, with a garden round about it," "Life is unique because you have come into it." "You understand, as..., that you are HERE!" " No, not that way, not just you!" " that I am here with you e..." "generally e... because to..." "I continue!" "Life is a snow-white house, which we keep on building." "Life is unique, life is better than you can imagine." "Look, I mean something like this:" "If life were complete, finished - that would be the end of everything." "You must understand that, Hanka." "It grows out of marble, what better task is there than to carry it block by block up on one's shoulder?" "Yes, comrade teacher, the poet wished to say, that life's not too bad." "Yes, maybe - that, too!" "I think I won't shut an eye tonight." "In that case I'll make coffee." "I'll go and put it on myself." "What's this?" "Who are you shouting at?" "But... here..." "If you want to know the time, ask Filip." "I must be crazy." "If you want to know..." "What is it donkey?" "Where's Filip's bed?" " Up on the attic, donkey." "That'll be exactly bath temperature." "I've never been so well looked after, since I was seven weeks." " I wish I'd been there." "You can be today." "And hurry, it s late." "This was the happiest week of my life." "How come - was?" "I'm going back down there." "Where?" " To the gymnasium." "Tonight!" "Why?" "Because..." "Because I'm so happy!" "Because I'm happy- crazily happy!" "Because I'll be even happier there." "I'll lie there with the boys, and they'll turn ever and snore, and smell of sweat," "and I won't be able to sleep, and I'll imagine" "I'm here with you, and think of the things I'll do, if ever I got the chance." "I'm so glad, you can't see me, because I'm near to tears." "And I'll go back to the girls - and be terribly sweet to Božena." "I'll let her come under my blanket" "I'll whisper to her how it really was." "And she'll say we were crazy not to stay." "But you'll explain it to her." "You'll explain the inexplicable." "Hanka, for the first time I fell right - and I thank you for it, Hanka." "I want to walk with you - all my life!" "No, till we buy a motorbike." "Look light installed!" "Gee!" "Boy!" "You won't get lost!" "This here now:" "If you want to know the time, ask Filip." "I'll return it," "I promise, I'll return it!" "tomorrow, word of honor!" "All right." "Look, the curtain!" "Don't go there!" " Filip!" "Filip, who's here with you?" "Leave now!" "Go away, or I'll kill myself!" "Go!" "Let's go!" "Hurry, Hanka, Come out for Jesus!" "they'll be back any minute!" "Come out, come on, don't be shy, Hanka..." "I tell you, I am afraid." " No, no." "Don't worry miss." "The roof's not so steep." "There is scaffolding beside the building." "It's better if only he gets into trouble." "Hanka, don't be afraid." "Nobody'll split on you, not the boys." "He would have done it!" "He would have killed himself!" "Rat, rat, rat, rat!" "Nobody can say that I didn't at least try to understand you." "I didn't agree with you, but I respected you." "But today I can at last tell you, I thought, and now I apologize to them for it, that you were even better than the others." "And that's what you get!" " Don't be rude!" "What's so difficult to understand?" "Nothing... really nothing happened there- really!" " Nothing that concerns you!" "What you thought happened is what two people can do at home or any time in the park." "He will say that he was playing basketball and she that she was playing the piano." "I...." "Filip, please...." " Let me speak!" "Fourteen days, I swear, fourteen whole days," "I once kissed her hand and she just gave me a kiss." "It's difficult for me to talk about it, but..." "I am worried about her." "So expel me, but please, I ask you, stop looking for her, she's innocent!" "She's so innocent that people like you just have no idea!" "Filip!" " I'm sorry, I...." "Look, I was young too once and I know how to forgive." "But what you have just said to your teacher... only am ingrate would say." "Come." "I didn't mean to..." "I..." "I'm just miserable." "It's terrible!" "Look, there's always one in every class." "The worst would be if he was telling the truth." "Don't be naive." "I'm telling you - you don't have the right." "To lock him up like a murderer." "Where could he go, the poor devil." "And anyway, it's not at all clear whether he is so rotten!" "What?" "What do mean 'clear'?" "What do you think I did at his age when I had a girl in the hay?" "Look, don't shout at me or you'll wake Anežka!" "If you think she's asleep you don't know a thing about kids." "You haven't been smacked for a while?" " I'm sorry for them..." "What do you mean - them?" "Get to bed, tuck yourself in and go to sleep!" "I am waiting for you, professor." "I wanted to..." " Leave me alone, everybody!" "If your eyes cried an ocean of bitterness, you'll still help nobody, life just goes on." "Hanka!" "Hanka!" "Are you there?" "Can you hear me?" "I can hear you, Filip, just read... read aloud!" "It's always too soon for tears, they are only for cowards." "Idle tears don't move mountains, life just goes on." "Love will heal you, your ointment is the knowledge that dirt can never defile a clean conscience." "If your eyes cried an ocean of bitterness..." "Hanka!" "Hanka!" "They'll come for me in the morning..." "I know..." "Did you really think I would leave you alone in this?" "Woe be to you and three times woe, woe be to him who his own way will go." "Sitting in judgment are judges severe, knowing no mercy in the court." "Sitting in judgment are judges severe, who never were in distress." "Who if ever themselves were in a spot, have all about it soon forgot." "It's on the interests of society to separate the wheat from the chaff." "You caused trouble and anxiety, so it's plain as a pikestaff." "so it's plain as a pikestaff." "You can believe me, Filip - I didn't shut an eye last night." "Because I know how great was my responsibility." "But I also knew I can't dodge it." "You are on the threshold of life - you've no right to deform it." "You should grow up into adult people not to cynics willing to belittle and desecrate everything, that makes man human." "It may sound pathetic, but that's how I fell about it." "I must propose you be expelled." "I must do it!" "Though I'd much rather believe what you said." "I make one concession " "I shall not seek out the girl." "Your punishment will be warning enough for her." "Sit down somewhere, Hanka- this is too serious a matter." "Now I can tell you, comrade teacher:" "Till yesterday you gravely wronged us." "Today you have the right to judge us." "Silence!" "Do you know what awaits you?" "Expulsion, shame and contempt." "I accept it, but not the shame or contempt." "Chairman, I'd be glad, if you'd see them onto the morning bus." "You're sorry for them, Honza?" "They fully deserve it." "Not sorry." "I envy him horribly." "Be it agreeable to you or not the true-to-life content of our plot," "There's no doubt it's not advisable to seek for life a time-table." "Let all who remain young in heart be guided by the principle:" "Not to overestimate time-tables and, of course, also scoundrels." "So when young man meets a girl upon the railway line," "may they together make the grade and together reach journey's end." "And together reach journey's end."