"Who was Edgar Allen?" "Based on the novel by Peter Rosei" "Screenplay Hans Broczyner" "Director Michael Haneke" "You don't know me anymore." "But I've known you since you were a small child." "Yes?" "That was long ago." "May I offer you something to drink?" "Though I can only give you some water." "Yes, a glass of water perhaps." "The death of your father has us all hit very hard." "Thank you." "Wouldn't you like to sit down?" "Thank you." "I'm very grateful that you saved my travels home." "I'm ill, did you know?" "Oh?" "Nothing serious, but I like it more the way it is." "I mean," "that i could stay here." "Here's... a letter." "An incoherent letter from your father." "We have it..." "DearSon,Icouldeasily accept that you do not answeronmy monthlyallowances of money, as I see in it a sign of avoidance from me." "I'm an old man andhavecapitulated." "Because of that I only ask  thatyouthinkofme now and then." "Have you got the documents for the heritage process with you?" "I would like to say something." "Recently I found a well filled wallet in a toilet." "Could you give it to the rightful owner?" "When you find money, it seems like being in a dream." "Will you return home after your studies?" "Sometime... yes." "Funny that you ask me this now." " Your father doesn't like it." " Yes?" "You'vestudied medicine in the past... or?" "I study history of art now." "My father didn't like me to change subjects..." " You live very humbly." " I live miserably." " I wanted to say..." " Doesn't matter." " You're not a philanthropist." " Sure I am!" "Espressio dopia" "You like it here in Venice." " You speak..." " Thank you" "It was fair that you've come." "Salud!" "Salud." "You're sad." "You're not?" "Cocaine Death in Venice" " An interesting case, isn't it?" " A tasteless title." "Do you think so?" "I knew the Contessa..." "A delicate and slight creature." "They've simply pulled her out into eternity." "They..." "I think she jumped down in a moment of confusion." "According to the investigation you can talk of an assassination." "What's that you're drinking?" "I prefer the colorful drinks." "Strange, but if you mix the most colorful green and red it becomes black." "I don't count on alcohol." "They say, cocaine is the best alcohol." "I have to go." "Pardon me." "Ah, il conto." "Would you pay it for me." "Bring us Grappa, Gino!" "In Germany I only drank beer." "Sometimes I've fears to drink away." "One should be able to swim." "But why?" "Why actually?" "For this reason;" "This adds wings." "No." "I'm not sick." "That's him." "Who?" "There!" "Look!" "Look!" "I don't see anything." "Who's out there?" "Lucio, is that you?" "There's no Lucio here." "I've got money for Lucio." "Go to hell." "Hello..." "What's the matter?" "Are you hurt?" "Well no, you must be wrong." "What's the matter?" "You're bleeding." "You're here too?" "What a coincidence." "The choreography of the coincidence is perfect." "The same as the Signore, Emilio." " May I sit down here?" " Please!" "There you can see I was right." "They're looking for the murderers." "The poor Contessa; she was hanging from the balcony." "...Just imagine that." "Aha, and why?" "Who that moves in the ring of addicts is soon to learn one secret or another." "You're smiling." "Don't you think it could be dangerous to know about certain things?" "No, you must be right." "I don't laugh because of that, I laugh about my ignorance." "Ignorance?" "Yes..." "You know I've been travelling the past few weeks." "I'm not informed about the news in town." "Travelling?" "!" "But I've seen you recently at a church." " Or am I wrong?" " You're wrong." "How easily you can be wrong..." "Have you lived long in Venice?" "Yes, for years." "I came here to retire." "You're not German, are you?" "Also not Italian." "English?" "American." "My mother was German, I'm from Boston." "Since we've gotten more personal;" "my name is Allen." "Edgar Allen." "Edgar Allen?" "You think of Poe, isn't that so?" "My father did so, too." "What do you want?" "Five gram of cocaine." "Put the letter at Sottoportego Fenice Number Four." "What do you want?" "Sottoportego Fenice." "Calle Carre, billiard room, table four" "Was the Contessa's friend killed?" " Hello" " I'm very pleased to see you." "You're working..." "Am I bothering you?" "My hobby-horse." "In the true sense of words." "I'm a horse fanatic." "I love races." "I prefer to bet." "It's very exciting." "I was just about to leave." "Would you like to come along?" "Oh come on." "The café will wait." "On the way I can tell you something about it." "A friend of mine." "German." "I'll place 40.000 on Albert in the third race in Milano." "20.000 on Million Dollar Baby in the third race in Munich" "40.000 on Black Rose in the Parisian fall-race" "But that's too much, Signore!" "You'll ruin yourself." "The American will be winning." "There you have it!" "40.000 on Albert." "Where will all of this end?" "I love placing my bets here." "It's fun." "They only bet small amounts." "There's nearly nothing to win." "But they're waiting for the results." "Ja, how they wait." "How they sit there." "You don't want to." "Have you noted everything?" "Do as you want Mr. Allen:" "I've warned you." "All right, Carlo." "Count it." "Do you bet a lot?" "How one looks at it." "Have you ever tried it?" "No, never." "It's beautiful." "Really." "I think we can go." "Ciao Carlo." "Come on." "Good Luck!" "Good Luck, Mr.Allen!" " BETS " "I want to bet on Albert in Milano: 10.000." "And 5.000 on Million Dollar Baby in Munich." "And another 10.000 –  ...wait a minute on Black Rose in Paris for the fall race." "I'm sorry, mister:" "These horses are not in the race." "But that's impossible." "I'm sorry, mister:" "that's the way it is." "Here, take a look." "Albert is running next week in Neapel." "A horse named Million Dollar Baby is completely new to me." "I'm sure that I'm right." "AndBlackRose - hasn't been running for years." "I'll take your word for it.." "...But I was so sure about these horses." "Sorry, but you know this man, right?" "We've been here recently!" "Not that I remember..." "This is Mr. Allen!" "And you're Carlo!" "That's you, isn't it?" "!" "Yes, I'm Carlo Manin!" "But I don't know this man." "This is a unfortunate story." "You should be more moderate." "No offence!" "Could I be of any assistance?" "I would never play pranks on someone in such a way." "Do you know Edgar Allen Poe's story "Hop-Frog, the dwarf"?" "Who is nearly made insane by his king." ""Hop-Frog", cripple, jester is always forced by the king and his ministers to drink wine." "Though he can't bear it." "And "Hop-Frog" drinks..." "When he is told to think of ball-costumes for the king and his ministers he creates a plan." "at midnight when the festivities are at their climax the huge hall doors open and eight mammoth gorillas enter the room." "They are chained to each other and cause fear amongst the audience" "Of course the king and his ministers are in these costumes created by the jester." "After they arrive in the middle of the hall," ""Hop-Frog" climbs down the chandelier rope and fixes the chains of the gorillas onto a clamp." "The next instant they are tugged in the air and dangle on the rope" "Now "Hop-Frog's" moment has arrived." "With a torch he puts the costumes of his tormentors on fire." "They burn." "The revenge was his." "Then he fled." "Nobody saw him again." "Did Allen want to drive me mad, too?" "It was an accident." "Only a stupid accident." "Are you a foreigner..." "Stranger?" "Are you looking for something?" "Yes, I'm looking for the lecture on Giovanni Morelli." "But that happened three months ago!" "It's good to see you again." "I'm very pleased." "Me too." "Unfortunately there's not much enjoyable." "Everything is like I predicted it." "The decay is starting." "That's why the Marquesa has died." "The best friend of the Contessa." "I know." "I've read the news." "She jumped from the Rialto Bridge, didn't she?" "Yes..." "She was hit by the screws of a loader." "Her face was lacerated, the whole upper body frazzled." "Grand Dame Morphine." "Very atrocious." "Did she jump, or..." "That's the question, if she did it on her own, or..." "Are you frightened?" "You know that I knew the Marquesa." "Very well indeed." "What was it that caused her death?" "The contact to the dealers, I presume." "Probably." "They might have blackmailed her as well as the Contessa." "Yes, probably." "You look tired, Allen." "Anxious nights?" "I always take cocaine in such situations." "It rejuvenates you..." "I know." "Never fear, they're harmless." "Is this the PAN AM bureau?" "Could you connect me to the posting?" "You have the wrong number." "Here is 43865." "Also a big mélange for this signor, Emilio." "You look pale..." "Sick." "Are you ill?" "Or have you been travelling again?" "Imagine what has happened?" "The man in the betting office, this Carlo, because of whom we had a little disagreement." "He was arrested, he was a crook." "Like our contessa, he has dealt with drugs." "Yes." "Haven't you read any newspapers?" "To be honest, I was ill." "I couldn't go out on the streets." "You know, I didn't feel very well." "That sounds horrible." "If you would've told me, I would've been glad to help out." "Although I don't even know where you live." " You live very elegantly." " How do you know?" "Fondamenta del Carbon." "I saw you once from the Vaporetto." "In the past I lived worse." "Campo San Zaccaria in the Arsenale." " You know this place?" " I don't know." "Maybe." "Well, yes." "I've been there once." "In the early morning." "It's not far from the sea." "Yes." "If I couldn't sleep at night I walked down there" "Ja." "Didn't this area depress you?" "Certainly not." "Misery which one doesn't share seems to be refreshing, no?" "Anyway, Venice has got me again." "Why shouldn't we celebrate this?" "I often wanted to invite you and now you know the address." "What time do you prefer?" "Today?" "Tomorrow?" "Or any other day?" "Pardon me." "Do you smoke?" "No, thank you." "I don't smoke." "Today would be perfect." "If it's fine with you." "Its gotten cold..." "Bitterly cold." "We will have snow very soon." "Once, years ago, the Laguna froze up." "That was a spectacle." "Do you want ice?" "You haven't lived here very long?" "A few days." "But I understand nothing of habitation." " I've never learned it." " Thank you." "For me everything is sleeping and staying." "Accomodation." "You live on the street, in the café..." "Your apartment is only a hideout." "A very luxurious hideout indeed." "You have a sharp gaze." "Congratulations." "Your capital must be considerable, I mean..." "It does it." "Capital vanishes, if you don't add anything." "But one does." "Aha, do you work?" "You don't have to care for me." "I'm a business man." "Militantism is foreign for me." "Thereby I remember." "You have money." "I could invite you into this business." "You would be disappointed by me." "I don't suit this." "You should think about it." "What are you talking about?" "Think about it." "Don't hurry." "In a few days we'll talk this over." "What is your so-called business?" "I never convince anybody." "You become my partner or you don't." "Not far away from here... the Marquesa jumped to her death." "Did you know that?" "Yes, it was on a Thursday." "I think so." "Why?" "On Thursdays Carlo went by the contessa." "Pardon me?" "Yes." "They've found the letters of the two." "The noble woman didn't only deal with drugs." "She was also a blackmailer." "And our friend Carlo was also part of it." "Who?" "The man from the betting agency." "He killed himself, too." "Poisoned himself in prison." "Have I mentioned it before?" "I don't know." "No." "I don't think so." "One accounts for something." "One after another." "Who?" "Who does these killings?" "This remains a solid secret." "Perhaps they are the murderers of the contessa, like you believe." "Perhaps they also acted by order of the blackmailers." "It's not clear." "The police are capitulating." "Let's drink." "Let's drink to the marquesa." "Drink to them, who are vanishing." "You're a cynic..." "And you're lying." "I would miff such a confession from others." "But not you." "Strange, isn't it." "You remind me of myself as a young man." "I like you." "You don't have to take me seriously." "I know that I don't have feelings." "I'm only sentimental." "You're amusing me." "If I could do this." "Wouldn't you like to sit down again?" "Because you distrust everything and everyone, you don't even trust in you." "I want to tell you a short story." "Wait a moment." "Drink." "Drink a bit." "It is cold indeed." "Well, the story." "A friend of mine became married." "I didn't like that, because I loved her." "But I accepted it and became friends with her husband." "Everything went fine." "Until the man got anonymous letters:" ""His wife betrayed him"" "I have to add that the man loved the wife a lot." "He asked me what to do." "I told him to check the details in the letters and he did so." "And everything fit." "As mentioned in the letters." "I have to add that a taxi driver was mentioned in the letters as a witness." "He drove the woman to the meeting with her lover." "And the driver attested to it." "Because of that the man left his wife." "She was innocent." "There was wrong evidence against her." "And she was desperate." "I comforted her." "You may now think, I had written these letters and arranged... that she was seen as guilty." "Sure as a friend I knew many details of their life, but I was innocent." "Because of detraction of an unknown I got closer to this woman." "Of course the friend was suspecting me now." "He went to an abbey later on." "You see." "So you can be mistaken." "To the innocents." "I would like to go." "I've drank too much." "Well no, it has been a nice evening." "...Wait, your coat." "What do you wish?" "Ah well, that's OK!" "17:25!" "Thank You!" "You're travelling..." "Why do you think so?" "Shall we go?" "Please tell me:" "was Mr. Allen here today?" "No, I haven't seen him" " Are you sure?" " Yes." "Strange!" "I had an appointment with him."