"My life started on 15 September 1975." "Somewhere in the Balkans where Europe ends but never starts." "This is my mother - gentle and kind." "Lives in her own world of books and music." "Hesitant and beautiful as the Gobelins she sews." "My father - never still in a hurry not to miss something." "Making plans, looking for new paths to follow." "Grandma in feverish search of sugar for my birth." "Addicted to pastries she was convinced the world spun on a lump of sugar." "Got sugar today?" "Grandma Sladka (pastry) Was her nickname." "Sugar in today?" " Not yet." "But the world is big and she knew that sugar cane grew far away." "What's in today?" " Sugar, Cuban sugar!" "Hey, comrade, come back!" " Stand in the line!" "Keep order!" "Aren't you ashamed, comrade?" "The Café - the secret capital of backgammon!" "That day my Grandpa fought a fierce battle." "The winner would be the new King of Backgammon." "They call my Grandpa Bai Dan." "Dan - short for Yordan, and 'Bai'out of respect for his special touch with the dice." "Not everyone can throw!" "Bai Dan - master dice-thrower!" "Playing since early morning - the outcome was near." "And that's when I popped out." "The Boys." "Double six." " Great!" "The new King of Backgammon is called Bai Dan!" "This is a candy sponge a baklava, a butter roll." "Sladke, where's the sugar from?" " Fidel Castro sent it from Cuba." "The world is big and salvation lurks around the corner." "To my grandson Alexander!" "Cheers!" "That's where my story begins." "The story of Alexander Georgiev, Sashko for short." "The world is big and everyone calls you what they like." "(Germany)" "THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER" "Hello, yes" "Yes." "Ok, ok," "The children..." "They had an accident." "Sashko is alive, in hospital." "Yana and Vasko..." "Hi." "How do you feel?" "Do you understand my question?" "What's your name?" "I don't know." "(Germany)" "(X ray room)" "Good morning." "Can I help you?" " Good morning." "I'm looking for my grandson Alexander Georgiev." "Room 17, down the corridor." "Thank you." "It's me, Sashe." "I just came..." "Grandpa's boy." "How are you?" "I'm your Grandpa, from Bulgaria." "Don't you recognize me?" "Are you all right?" "Tell me you are!" "I don't know if..." "Please, I..." "I don't know you..." "Sashe, Sashe..." "Have a good look," "It's me, your Grandpa!" "I came from home Remember?" "I taught you to play backgammon." "You remember the song?" "Backgammon's played by those who can," "Backgammon's played by those who can't, too." "What's going on?" "Tell the gentleman to leave I don't know him." "Please, leave the room at once." "Sashe..." "Backgammon's played by those who can," "Backgammon's played by those who can't, too." "Play on bravely, have no fear at the worst you get beaten up." "One, two, three, four, five, six six, five, four, three, two, one" "One, two, three, four, five, six, six five, four, three, two, double six." "Can I throw the dice, Grandpa?" "Attention all!" "Pejo, give a drink to everyone Drinks are on me today." "My grandson asked for the dice!" "To the young master Make way for youth." "Come on, Master!" "Word of honour:" "We don't play for money, only for honour." "You promise?" " I promise." "Take the dice!" "You should believe the dice." "Think of two numbers!" "A six and a one." "Now throw it." "Bravo!" "Sorry, I had to warn you he wouldn't recognise you." "I'll talk to him, prepare him for..." " Doc, how is he?" "Is he going to be alright?" "Fortunately there's no serious physical damage." "He has retroactive amnesia" " Amnesia?" "Yes." "He can't remember anything before the accident." "He doesn't even know that his parents are dead." "This news might hurt him even more." "(Alexander Georgiev)" "Sashe, your Grandpa!" "Give it to me!" "Give it to him!" "Don't torture the kid..." "Happy birthday, Sashko!" " Thank you." "And play so much you break the box." "Thank you, Grandpa." "Now you have gone over the top!" "And a photo..." "Say Cheese Cheese!" "Blow the candles." "Excellent, my boy!" "Alexander Georgiev." "Please leave a message after the tone." "Mr Georgiev, it's Vitechek from the translation agency about the instructions on vacuum cleaner PX 510." "You promised to finish it last week, Please call." "I brought you some photos." "Who are these people?" " Your mother and father." "Grandma Sladka." "This here is you and that's me." "Your mum and dad." "I don't remember them." "This was your birthday." "You were seven." "Don't you remember?" "Really?" " I just don't." "They are all strangers I don't remember anyone." "Mum, dad... not myself That's enough!" "You'll remember, Sashe I'm sure you will!" "I found that backgammon set I made for you at your place last night." "You've entered my place?" "How?" "Not quite legally..." "Not quite..." "You just intrude like that..." "Nice, superb..." "So you are my Grandpa from Bulgaria after all!" "Nice touch!" "But it's time to go." "Just leave I don't remember you!" "Sashe..." "I don't remember you!" "The man can't hit the board Needs a basin to hold his dice!" "With the people's militia here don't make an ass of me." "Comrade militiaman, why this warm Lenin look at me?" "You hang here all the time should know how to play." "Let's play a game" "But you won't, because if you don't play, you don't lose." "But we all play here." "If you just watch you'll get hit by a board on the head." "He's leaving" "Vasko, the Personnel department called for you!" "Well, Georgiev..." "Too bad, Georgiev too bad indeed!" "Why?" "What's up?" " Strange things" "You served in a missile regiment" "Once you quarrelled and beat up the officer on duty." "That's what it says here." "Six months in the cooler expulsion from the Comsomol." "Discharged in 1971, entrance exams at the Machine Institute but you forgot to mention the expulsion from the Comsomol." "False references from the Army here's a copy." "The comrades overlooked it you entered and graduated." "But one day everything sees the light of day." "What shall I do with you?" "You are a gifted lad..." "You have a kid Let it grow up safe and healthy." "It's human to err." "You're young there's a life to be lived." "What do you want from me?" "Your father-in-law they call him Bai Dan..." "He was a cyclist won the Bulgaria Tour in 54" "Gets a scholarships, studies 2 years in GDR." "During the Hungarian Uprising organizes student protests." "Repatriated to Bulgaria what does he do?" "Blows up Stalin's monument with dynamite." "Sentenced to death." "Pardoned." "15 years in prison and still he hasn't learned sense." "He is such a big mouth - talking against the authorities." "No way!" "Only backgammon is in his head." "Only backgammon..." "We won't bother him for selling backgammon boards, for now..." "His workshop in the cellar..." " What do you want from me?" "All his anti-authority blabbering you put clearly in writing." "All backgammon players' too And your colleagues, in case..." "You bring all the reports to me." "Sign this declaration!" "Let me think about it." "Think, but don't be long bad things may happen..." "And if I do not sign it?" " Bad, too bad for you." "Cancellation of your diploma dismissal, your wife too..." "Prison sentence for forgery..." "Won't that be enough?" "There's more..." "If you don't want to talk, let's play a game." "I don't care for such games." "Come on, just one game" " I'm short on luck," "Backgammon has nothing to do with luck," "I taught you to play years ago." "You see, you have not forgotten." "Snake eyes" " That's not so good." "It's OK." "There's no bad dice just bad players." "Depends how you play it" "You have to move your checkers to bear them off and try to block the opponent's checkers." "Just by closing the points by two checkers." "Here - snake eyes the smallest dice but a big throw." "Blocking the Bosporus here and the Dardanelles there, so the enemy is stranded at Black Sea and can't move." "Yeah!" "That's double six" "The highest throw" "But you could lose on that too the way my bar point is blocked." "But there's always a next throw." "Comrades we lost a great friend of Bulgaria." "The secretary general of CPSU the Comrade Leonid Brezhnev." "Suggest to send a mourning telegram to the Soviet Embassy." "The friendship of our countries is eternal," "Soviet Union and People's Republic of Bulgaria." "CPSU" " BCP!" "CPSU" " BCP!" "Vasko?" "You're dripping wet!" "You want something to warm up?" " Yes." "Shall we have a game of backgammon?" "You want to tell me something?" "You're blocking my game I can't continue." "Look around there's always an opening." "Whatever I throw is useless" "If the situation looks hopeless, just change your tactics" " How?" "You take a risk, make your move and hope for the best." "We have to emigrate!" "What?" " To the West, to Germany." "I am serious, we'll do it this summer." "Just like going to the seaside" "But how..." " I have to leave!" "What about Sashko?" " He's coming with us." "He'll have a better future there" "Do you understand?" " You know what you're saying?" "I am not going anywhere!" "(Mum:" "Yana Dad:" "Vasko)" "Too bad." "But one never knows..." "I hope the boy will recover." "I was aware he wasn't around but knew nothing of his misfortune." "Another cup of tea?" "Do you know his friends?" " No, he was always alone." "What about a girlfriend?" " Never saw one." "He is confused." "Been watching him for three weeks now - keeping to his bed as if waiting for Doomsday..." "I'll take this walking stick for a couple of days." "You're welcome." "Thank you, good neighbour." "Stop this damned thing!" "It's time for the news!" "I'll show you news!" "Get up!" "Are you nuts?" "You have to move, boy!" "Not glued to the box!" "It's just brainwashing!" "Don't make me take out the bed." "Get up!" "You are insane!" " Come on, get up!" "Right!" "Finally!" "This boy can jump!" "More, can you go on?" " Just let go!" "I'll take you out of this room." "It hurts, stop it!" "Don't try to run my life!" "You call this a life?" "Among cardboard boxes for vacuum cleaners?" "Translating manuals Lying here..." "And grumbling like an old woman." "You need a change, boy!" "There's nothing better than the change." "Coward!" "Stop it!" "I promise to keep hitting you until you come with me." "This is the news!" "I am coming" " Get the backgammon set!" "See what you did!" "Now we go to gammon - double game" "Gammon!" "You beat me again" " It's up to you only" "Me only?" "Dice is just chance" " Chance?" " Yes" "Where is that chance?" "You' ve got the dice in your hand, don't you?" "What flick and spin you give them what angle..." "You need a double If you are to beat me" "Bravo, master." "First victory" "We'll celebrate you're re covering." "If you say so..." " Let me show you something" "Backgammon has six points" "Here they are The King's point and the Paradise' point are the most important." "The points are closed one by one Today you made the first." "You have five more to do." "And when you're done you'll be ready - you'll remember everything" "I am a little scared" "How come?" "Scared that I won't recognise mum and dad" "when they come" "Just as I didn't recognise you." "Now tell me who they are and who I am." "You are Alexander." "It is a rare luck to be christened Alexander" "You renounced Satan?" "I did!" " You embraced Christ?" "I did!" " Do you believe in Him?" "I do!" "What name shall we announce?" "Alexander" "God's servant Alexander is baptised in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit." "I wish my self in the New Year me you and Sashko to start a new life - in the West." "Free, rich and happy!" "Shall we?" "Shall we?" " Yes, sure." "Dear compatriots, Happy 1983!" "Now, Happy New Year!" "Cheers!" "Blackbird young sweetly sang in a forest with a twang." "Stamped his foot in a boot splintered up a root." "Walked about till very late" "many flies he caught and ate..." "How dare you!" "This is a hospital!" "How irresponsible!" "Out!" "Who are you threatening?" "Sashe, Sashe, these bums won't cure you" "They don't care about you" "And they lie to you all the time" " What about?" "Look..." "Look here..." "Your mum and dad will never come." "How do you mean - never?" "They are dead." "They died in the accident." "You were together." "This is not true!" " It is, it is very true, my lad." "They are not coming." "But you can bring them back in your memory when we go where I came from," "where you came from." "I will help you." "Out, leave!" "Immediately!" "Sashe, Just pull yourself together and leave!" "Leave the Gobelins." "I'll buy you real paintings over there." "No room for my things but you take that box!" "That box is a gift for Sashko from your father." "You take trash!" "If it's not tied to you escaping it's trash to you." "My escaping?" "It's all for us" "Leave it to you and we'll just rot in this dump." "You lived in a dump before marrying me, didn't you?" "Is there anything about me you care for?" "Is there?" "Keep it down, your parents will hear us" "So what?" "I am fed up with this!" "To hide, to lie to them..." "God knows when I'll see them again." "I'm not going!" "You're not?" " I'm not going!" "Go or stay, you know best!" "Sashe, come here." "It's alright..." "It's alright." "For cranberries a kiddy wandered out Two baskets he did fill and sung aloud" "But entered too deep in the wood the day grew dark as did his mood" "The kid did cry and tried to call his mother but who could hear him..." "Let me see!" " That's the kid." "It was dark in the forest no light, no bird." "Will the kid be scared or stop?" "No, for mum is waiting home." "Suddenly a gleam of hope appears a white path through his tears." "The friendly path invited him:" " Do step on me, you will be home." "An hour you'll have to walk my promise is not idle talk," "The child started running fast the path did also run with him." "And finally the good white path did take him home to mum." "And do take care, Vasko." "Have a nice trip" "Yana." "Sashe, come say good-bye to Grandma and Grandpa" "Sashe, if you want to tell me something very important, just tell it to a white cloud floating in the sky, it'll come and tell me" " Like sending a letter?" "Right And how do you throw the dice?" "I think of a number throw it and win!" "Excellent, master!" "Be good, my sweetie-pie!" "(The tomb of Vasko  yana)" "Mum and dad, God rest their souls." "God rest their souls." "What's this for?" " We'll travel with it" "Can't we take a bus, a plane?" "Who rides a bike today?" " This is not a bike but tandem" "Give me your luggage." "Alexander Georgiev are you ready to go?" "No." "We haven't got helmets Is it permitted..." "It is." "I asked the Pope He said: "Yes!" Come on..." "Is that a new trick?" "I won't doall the hard work," "I'm doing the steering That's more important" "You have no idea where you want to go." "I'm the brain, you're the muscle!" " Watch the road or we'll crash!" "What's our destination?" "Turkey" "India, China" "The Silk Road" "Why hang this flower pot up front?" "It's a present for your Grandma To plant in her garden" "I have to pee" " Right now?" "Go, quickly!" "This is the border It's Italy on the other side" "Come on!" "Now!" "Vasko, our things..." " No!" "Don't!" "Go!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Just go!" "(Temporary Shelter)" "Come on, sign it!" "The Commandant asks you to sign." "What is this?" "Declaration to accept the rules at the camp voluntarily" "But it's all in Italian..." "I'm sorry but you have to sign it" "This is East Europe side Over there are the Arabs" "These are Czechs." "The other rooms are for Rumanians and Hungarians." "Don't worry it'll be OK Let me explain" "You applied for political asylum But it's ruled out in Italy" "You have to apply for another country and it takes time" "It's a limited choice:" "Australia South Africa Argentina" "For the States you need an invitation and a guarantee." "That's the situation." "Cheer up!" "It's done." "Thank you, Chicago Come, I'll introduce you." "Nice to meet you I'm Ivo the Chicago." "Welcome." "Thank you." "Yana and Sasho" "Sasho, is this a smudge?" "Got it!" "One up for me!" "We are on a spaghetti diet morning evening noon and all weekdays - spaghetti But come a holiday surprise!" "Spaghetti again!" "That's the situation!" "I like spaghetti especially spaghetti Bolognese" "Yes, Bolognese, from Bologna!" "I quite enjoyed it at first" "Both Bolognese, Milanese but they all end up Shitnese" "You'll get fed up eventually" " Sure, after a month's diet" "It's been three years for me!" "You serious?" " Yes, sure, three years." "I am only in my ninth month..." "My sister and me - it's almost two years now" "We're just for a short stay" "Everybody says that but it'll stretch to three-four years." "I am leaving!" "Where?" "I am leaving." "Let me go!" "Stop" " Let me go!" "Wait!" " Take me back home!" "You hear?" "I hate you!" "Today we'll talk about fantasy" " What?" "Fantasy?" "!" "Yes, the elixir of every game" "Tell me, what make's this car?" " A bone-shaker." "A Brand new limousine!" " Is that so?" "Well, true!" "And who's inside?" " How should I know?" "Use your imagination" " A depressed man." "Why is he so blue?" " He has a big credit to pay back," "And a fat wife throwing his money out the window instead ofjumping out herself." "Your vision is improving!" "Next car?" "A pretty woman behind the wheel the radio blasting..." "What's on the radio?" " How should I know?" "Try to remember!" " I can't." "Use your imagination!" "Some babble..." "I don't know..." "Coughing, sneezing..." "Interview with a pop singer some crazy old bitch..." "Shouldn't you be dead by now?" ""Oh, yes." "Thank you..."" "Full of spite, but good!" "You're getting on my nerves" " Go on with the radio." "Stop, it's stupid!" " Go on with the radio." "All right." "Radio..." "Dear listeners this is Radio Balkan..." "Sure!" "Good morning!" " Good morning with Traffic news" "Traffic jam on Rout A22" "An urgent message from Grandma:" ""Water my flower and eat well."" "We won't forget, Grandma Sladka?" "!" "The weather:" "Heavy snow and strong winds." "Attention..." "Attention!" "Attention!" "To all celestial bodies!" "An approaching sirtaki will slam your way with east-west turbulence followed by a south-north rush..." "That was good." "You may turn out a good player." "Like you?" "Well, not quite..." "Dear Lord!" "You didn't know they'd run away?" "In one house, at one table and still you didn't know..." "Well, they just didn't know..." "Now you take me to your workshop." "Don't you want?" "Then I'll take you there." "A massive production line no doubt about it!" "So it goes to market, true?" "Add what your son-in-law wrote about you and your talks against the authorities" "plus assisting emigration and there's prison looking at you" "Quite a handful of years" "Cuff him!" "Hanging at the cafe I learned a thing or two about backgammon" "But my favourite claptrap was:" ""Backgammon on the head!"" "Dane!" "(Italy)" "Just put the address." "They'll guess it's from us and know we are well." "Two words at least..." " You write anything, the only people who will get the card will be the militia." "Just the address in your handwriting." "(Bulgaria)" "Stoyan?" "Yes, Yana" " How much money is that?" "Enough to go to Trieste and buy the kid an ice-cream." "Dad, buy me this car!" " We've got no money now" "Please, can I have it..." " I told you, we're broke." "Where is the child?" "Sasho!" "Sasho!" "Vassil, find the child!" "Sasho!" "Sasho!" "Sashe, take it easy!" "You were dreaming." "It's me Easy now..." "Don't worry You were just dreaming." "Nothing to worry about." "Sasho!" "Where have you been, my boy?" "I want home!" "The car will take usto Grandma and Grandpa" "Do you want me to show you something?" "My Grandpa taught me that if ever I want to tell him anything" "I just have to whisper to a cloud and it will tell him what I said" "Just look..." "Grandma, Grandpa, do you hear me?" "I have a new friend." "Her name is Martha." "Mum and Dad are well I eat spaghetti all day" "I miss you so much but I never cry because dad told me to behave like a man" "They are alive" "Thank you, Lord!" "They are alive!" "Do you hear, Dane?" "They are alive!" "Can you tell me, little white cloud where you're coming from" "Didn't you see my father's yard didn't you hear my mother say:" ""What does my darling child do sharing his bread with strangers?" "Go tell her, little white cloud you've seen me here safe and sound..." "Come on, cheers!" " Cheers!" "What are you up to?" " Taking my medicines." "What medicines?" "Anti-depressants" "Co-enzyme, for immunity" " Let me see them" "And this is..." "What was it?" "For breathing of the brain..." "Good for your brain." "Oh." "How could you?" "Where do I..." "Your brain will breathe with this now!" "Guaranteed" "You are crazy!" "Switzerland - 3 million lire Austria - 2, France - 3 million" "What's he saying?" "His tariffs for border crossings" "How much to Germany?" " Two million" "Why Germany, Vasko?" "USA for me where the skyscrapers are" "I have a brother there in Chicago he has a house on Lake Michigan" "He's well respected over there" "He'll send me an invitation any moment now!" "And then... living in America." "Come on, it's you..." "You are too much in a hurry to be beaten." "Easy now" "True it's beating only a player or a donkey will understand" "Go on!" "Beat it!" "That's it!" "You are the real top player!" "Two million is a lot of money Too fucking much..." "Money's no problem for you" "How do you mean?" "How do I find two million?" "Now, there's this dump kind of a bar" "Across from the railway station They play all kinds of games even backgammon for money" " I don't play for money." "Then you just rot here" "For you." "We have a garage, too!" "Amazing view!" " Fantastic it is!" "Good for you we conquered the summits." "You made it" "You made another point!" "Slow down" "I can't..." "Brake!" "Go slow!" "I can't, the brakes aren't working!" " Brake or we'll crash!" "I can't." "Jump!" "Grandpa?" "Grandpa?" "Where are you?" " Why all the shouting?" "I am here!" "Move move!" "Don't "avanti" me!" "You motherfucker!" "I'm not eating your..." " What are you doing?" "Somebody explain to me what's going on here!" "Commandant, sir!" "What's your problem?" "Honorable captain Sforza!" "I'll explain." "We are fugitives from a dictatorship." "We are not criminals We have rights!" "You keep us for years making us prisoners" "We don't want our children to grow up here" "People forget their professions!" "Enough is enough!" " We won't tolerate this any longer" "We all know you receive 10 dollars a day per person" "Our money!" "And you keep them" "That's why you keep us here year after year!" "I came here three years ago!" "For me it's two..." "Give us our documents!" "On strike!" "On strike!" "Quiet!" "We want shorter procedures better food, language lessons" "A democratic country will never tolerate anarchy and chaos" "I'm in power to send you back where you came from" "We don't need bullies and scum" "Leave the canteen at once!" "Miserable basterds!" "You will rot here!" "You owe me eight times the bet!" "One more game?" "Enough for today" "Anyone for a game?" "How much do you bet?" "A hundred thousand." "It's nothing" "64 times the initial bet" "Alright, go!" "Easy, Sashe!" "We'll meet again, trust me!" "The world is small You'll visit me in Chicago!" "Yana, cheer up!" "Sashe, listen to mum and dad but... don't overdo it!" "Thank you so much!" " God be with you!" "We'll stay here overnight" "Go back!" "Go back to the girl!" "Introduce yourself, ask whereshe comes from!" "Go..." "That was just a dance" " Just a dance!" "Nonsense" "The way she looked at you!" "Go back!" "Well, I thought..." " Don't think, act!" "Alive and kicking!" "But doing what..." "Go now or I'll drag you there!" "I am Alex." "Hi Maria." "Where you from?" "I am form Germany." "And you?" "I am from Hungary." "But I live in Germany" "I'm off to the beach." "You coming?" " Sure" "I don't remember anything before the crash" "I can read and write, use a phone but I don't know the people in my phone book" "and I am trying to collect my memories..." "What do you do?" "I study ballet and teach in a salsa club" "I saw you yesterday so sad and nice" "I needed you to hold me..." "Where are you heading now?" " To Bulgaria." "I was born there" "We ride a tandem bike my Grandpa and me" "What?" "You are a sight for sore eyes!" "And I'm going back to Germany" "It's not so bad I can't remember the past" "You might as well be my first woman" "Perhaps I am..." "Your first and only one" "And what's her name?" " Maria" "Bravo!" "Now you made it to Paradise point the best of all!" "There are two more left!" "Stop there!" "I was here years ago with my parents" "I just want to look around" "What's your name?" " Alexander Georgiev" "My dad was Vassil, my mum" " Yana" "Sashe, is that you?" "I am Ivo the Chicago Don't you remember?" "Look here!" "Tricked again!" "That's two up for me" "Chicago" "How are your mum and dad?" "They died" " Don't say it!" "Stoyan also died Do you remember Uncle Stoyan?" "Who spoke many languages?" "After you left he fell seriously ill and in six months he was gone" "God rest his soul your parents' too" "God rest their souls" "What about you?" "I never got the invitation from my brother" "I tried his phones and waited..." "It's clear he didn't want me He may be dead too" "How do you mean - dead?" "Do you think people in America don't die?" "They do, like flies!" "Don't you watch TV?" "You're sat there eating your burger having a drink and someone in a bad mood comes in with a gun like that and starts shooting left and right!" "America is a hopeless case" "I just stayed here at the camp" "As a guard" "I remembered the crash!" "There were the three of us" "Like in the past" "Dad had not been living with us for the past 15 years" "Mum raised me alone" "Mum was ashamed from herself from her broken family" "She was crying a lot..." "A couple of months ago Dad just came back" "They made up and decided to take a trip to Bulgaria" "I said to your father years ago:" ""Destiny is the dice in your hand" "And what happens after that depends on your luck and skill."" "It's your throw, master!" "Good morning" " Good morning, Sashe" "Where's Grandad?" " On the early train to Bulgaria" "He left you the backgammon box" "FOR NEW BULGARIA!" "Sashko!" "Sashko!" "Sashko!" "My sweetie-pie!" "Sashko, my grandson." "Welcome, Sashe!" "He's grown bigger than us!" "Backgammon's played by those who can," "Backgammon's played by those who can't, too" "One, two, three, four, five, six, six, five, four, three, two, one..." "We'll see if he's Grandpa's son!" " Beware, or you shall weep!" "If you want to give up now is the time" "No, I don't give up!" "Don't give up?" "Ok come on." "The winner is the one who first take two games back to back!" "If by sunset there's no winner, you'll throw the dice." "Whoever throws the highest number will be the king of Backgammon!" "Let's see who throws first!" "Tea time!" "No one won two games in a row all day long" "It was late." "The king was to be named with a throw of the dice." "Just one throw each the highest number to win" "I had thrown a six and seven" "An unseen miracle!" "I have reached the king's point!" "The last one." "I was cured" "What a feat!" "The name of the new king is Sasho!" "I could start dreaming again, playing, losing, winning..." "Being..." "Now and forever" "Because as my Grandpa used to say:" "The World is big and salvation lurks around the corner." "(Germany)" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven." "One, two, three... that's it" "One, two, three..." "One, two, three... turn your head" "One, two, three... what is it Catherina" "One, two, three..."