"Come on, little goose, let's walk a little further." "Right... it's not far now." "You see..." "Just the two of us, right?" "There you go, little goose." "There you go." "The things that are happening at the moment in Gdansk..." "Are you injured?" "He should be taken to hospital." "Sir..." "tow your car?" " No, thanks." " My brother in law has a good garage." "A good garage." "Guys, are you out of your minds?" "I've warned you." " Reverend, I'm sorry." " It's not their fault." "Everything's failing." "It's a miracle it did not break." "Hey, boss..." "would you help us?" "Right, little goose, let's go again." "Easy, boss." "Open the flap." "Getting on to evening, when we done." "Where do you live?" "In Bochum." "Bierstraße 84." "No, in Gdansk, I mean." "At a hotel." "What's it called?" " Ah, Hevelius!" " Hevelius." "Great." "So... the car keys and documents." " Excuse me, do you speak German?" " Yes, yes." "I'm looking for the St Mary's Church." "Juice or soda, what you want?" " What are you doing there?" " Looking for something." "Only the dead are there." "Daniel Gralath... the Mayor from the 18th century." " He had 5 wives." " At the same time?" "No... but on his sarcophagus all five are depicted." "Supposedly." "Naked!" "Naked?" "It's said to be in this church." "In the Holy Mother's Church." "You crazy!" "Leave the church." "Please." "I'd like this kind of jacket." "Could I try one on?" "Oh, this one is lined with fur." "What am I supposed to do with it?" " Eat it!" " It's simply out of the question." " How much?" " 5 thousand." "All right." "What have you done?" "!" "My mother had a shopping bag just like that." " So what?" " It's crocheted." "The same way they used to make fishing nets here years ago." "Look, what you've done." " I'll pay for this." "For everything." " No need." "How much is it?" "Go after her and tell her you're sorry!" "Go, go!" "Germans and Poles have always made the best couples." "I don't want you to think a German squashes Polish mushrooms as a rule." "No." "Is just elephant in china shop as a rule." "Let the elephant introduce himself:" "Alexander Reschke." "Aleksandra Piatkowska!" "I accept apology, only because we have the same name." "Could you tell me where I can find the Hundegasse?" "Hundegasse?" "Gdansk hasn't been German for 44 years." " Or have you failed to notice?" " No." "I haven't." "It's probably called Leningasse now." "Oh, that sheriff drove Lenin away, too." "Enjoy your mushrooms." "Thank you." "Wait a moment!" "I'm sorry." "I have to do something else very quickly, then we can look for this street of yours." " What was the name again?" " Hundegasse." "What's keeping you?" "Wait a moment." "What is it?" ""We rest together", probably in God." "It's granite and diabas." "Marble would be stolen." "I thought, it's a German superstition that Poles steal everything." "Mr Alexander Reschke, I come from a barbarian nation." "Is your husband buried here?" "My parents." "May I. Let me take it." "Oh, they were born in Vilnius." "Yes." "And buried in Gdansk." " They never felt at home here." " Pardon?" "Please, be so kind and stop poking in my family tomb." "Come on." "Hey!" "Kick it back!" "Here." "This is Hundegasse." " Ogarna." " Yes." "Not Hundegasse." "Ogarna." "Where were you then?" "I've been waiting for ages!" " I'm here now." " You kept me waiting." "Just three minutes." "Alex." "You little urchin." " Be careful!" " I am!" "What do you think." "Oh, Jesus." " Good day." " Won't you help me?" "No, I have no time." "Hanseatic School, but the face is from Italian Renaissance." " Blah blah blah." " Blah blah blah." "Come with me to Italy and I will prove it to you." "Careful - this one likes falling!" "Are you a fallen angels specialist?" "No, I just restore gilt." "Take your trousers off." "When does your husband come back?" "He won't come back." "He's dead." "Did he drown?" "No, he just died." "A widower meets a widow." "Is that a reason for joy?" "Try these on." "These will be better." "These are my son's." "Where is he?" "He studies in your country, in Cologne." "No." "Look." "Okay." "I know." "It's not good." "Do it again." "Where did you learn to speak German so good?" "I worked a lot in your country." "Really?" "Where?" "Actually, in East Germany." "Polish restorers are good export items and they are cheap." "I never eat mushrooms." "Why did I buy them today?" "Aren't you afraid they're contaminated by the fallout from Chernobyl?" "No." "Bulgarian wine uncontaminates everything." " Decontaminates." " Decontaminates." "Actually, that's what I'm looking for in Gdansk:" "Daniel Gralath." "The mayor of Gdansk from 18th century." "Interesting." "Naked women." "Yes." "The eternal relation of eroticism with death." "What is it with you and death?" "I'm writing a book... about erotic tombstones." "It sure to be a bestseller." "Well..." "let's drink to your horny Mayor." "To Eros and Thanatos." "Our little Polish pathos." ""We shall not abandon the land where our people originated!"" "Unfortunately, the second verse starts:" ""No German shall ever spit in our faces again"." "I don't spit." "Maybe you're not a typical German." "Well, I drink beer and eat sausage." "Alex?" "The soup is getting cold." "The Germans were a great power and had to observe like a lower standing nation and lower standing state dared to abuse us, Germans." "Polish marshall, who abandoned his army is now..." "Enjoy your meal." "German nation will not be divided by this." "Little brat." "It will be growing strong." "Alex..." "We are ruling now!" "Not the Hollweg's generation!" "Today we have a new Germany!" "Enjoy your meal." "After our exile" "I often heard my mother crying at night." "She would come here even barefoot in winter just to see this place." "My parents also wanted to see their house in Vilnius." "And wanted to be buried there." "Are you also Lithuanian?" "No, I'm Polish." "Born in Vilnius, which now is Lituanian." "And I'm a German born in Gdansk, which is Polish now." " To everyone being able to live ...where they were born." "And... to everyone being able to be buried where he wants!" "We should do it right away." "Do what?" "Build a cemetery." "Good." "Make a cemetery where everyone who wants to, can be buried." "German-Polish cemetery." "No, you started the war." "To Polish-German cemetery." "No." "To Polish-Lithuanian-German cemetery." "Cheers." "Oh, my God!" "Will you find the way to the hotel?" "I was born here." "Hey, buddy." "Hand over your purse." " I beg your pardon?" " The purse!" "Money!" "Fast!" "Get lost!" "Bruce Lee?" "Chatterjee." "From Calcutta." "Chatterjee  Chatterjee Inc." "Reschke." "Bochum." "Thank you." "Rickshaws, excellent technology." "Light alloy." "Absolutely non-polluting." "The vehicle of the future!" "A business encompassing the entire world!" " Hotel Hevelius?" " Yes, please." " Can I invite you for a drink?" " No!" "I don't drink alcohol." "Today, millions of demonstrators on rallies in East and West Germany called for the reunification of the two German states." "Their motto is:" ""We are one nation"." "What other drinks do you have?" "Would you like a single coffin nail or a double?" "A single will do." "Cheers!" "We'll be marching on If everything's falling apart," "Cause today Germany is ours, And tomorrow we'll own the world" "Please move aside." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Give me the telephone, please." "Her greatest wish was to be buried in Gdansk." "She'll hardly be granted that privilege." "That was a little too much for one day!" "Enough for today..." "Even the great story of the world has to go to sleep at some point!" "That's how fast it happens." "Bang, bang, and it's all over." "But a fine, quick death, in the end." "Excuse me, I haven't introduced myself:" "Vielbrand, businessman from Braunschweig." "Construction." "I'm exploring the possibility" " Excuse me." " Of turning old trade union holiday camps into vacation apartments." "And you?" "Reschke." "Burial business in the Rhineland." "So, you have a good intuition." "Here is my visit card." "Maybe we can do business together." " Thank you." " Have a nice day." " What brings you here?" " You." "You, madame." "Excuse me." "Aleksandra, our cemetery idea, it was..." " a flash of genius!" " What idea?" "The German-Polish the Polish-Lithuanian-German Cemetery Association." "It was just the alcohol talking." "In my hotel, an old German lady dropped dead while singing patriotic songs." "Her fondest, most ardent wish was to be buried" " in Gdansk soil." " I don't understand." "Thousands of Gdansk-born people are dreaming" " of a grave in Gdansk soil!" " Wait, slowly now." ""Aleksander Eugen Maksymillian Rebeschke"" "It's my name." "Spelled the old way." "No dates." "No date of birth or death." "It's a sign." "What is it supposed to mean?" "It means that we should start looking for property right now." "For our Polish-German-Lithuanian Cemetery of Reconciliation." "You want to smoke here?" "I always forget." "I knew that." "Shit!" "I hate rickshaws." "During war time, Poles had to pedal for Germans." " And now you steal our cars to get even?" " That's a different thing altogether." "Stop!" "This is ideal!" " This is the ideal place!" " This far from the city?" "!" "But the silence!" "Listen, there?" "S only the roar of the sea." "So what now?" "There used to be a hill somewhere here." "The Bischofsberg." "That's right." "As a boy I used to look for brambles here." "A great place." "We'll put inside Hydrochloric acid" "We won't bury bodies, We'll just leave them to dissolve." "Ecological and much cheaper." "Look..." "Someone has put up candles here." "That used to be a cemetery." "My father's parents are buried here..." "I know, I know." "Communists destroyed it." "We met that lady before!" "Her husband is buried here and her three kids." "All four died in the typhoid epidemic of '46." "Alex, this place is becoming more like it was before!" "Catholics, Jews, Protestants, all together." "Amen." "I must apologise to you, Herr Vielbrand," "I was having a little joke..." "I am not a businessman at all." "When it comes to business, I have no sense of humour." "My partner express himself badly." "Professor Reschke is head of the enterprise, and I am ...the heart." " I see." "You are a Polish beginner capitalist." "In Poland right now that's the only kind there is." "And we are starting a Polish-Lithuanian- German Cemetery of Reconciliation." "What?" " We burial..." " Bury." "...bury in native soil?" "Germans from Gdansk in Gdansk." "Lithuanians back in Vilnius." "Very interesting." "We have to get to work right away." "Herr Reschke!" "Go back to Germany and research the possibilities." "And you do the same here." " I'll raise the capital." " My car has been stolen." "Everyone gets something stolen here." "Take the train." "Or the plane." "Time is money." "May I invite you for a drink from the mini-bar?" "Thank you." "Angel waiting." ""Minibar"!" "You must invite the lady for champagne." "By the way, I also handle room service." "I have a big heart." "Yes, I see." "Excuse me." "Maybe I will take a little nightcap." "Excuse me." "Been a long day." "Go to sleep!" "It's been so long since I..." "with a woman in bed..." "No need to worry." "I just want to lie next to you." "If you knew how frightened I am." "I'm sorry." "I forgot my umbrella." "I'm sorry." "Nothing gets lost here." "We have everything under control." " Have a nice day." " Thank you." "What do you think?" "Was it just alcohol talking or we'll succed?" "Everything will work out." "Everything." "And if not... you'll take me to Italy." "I promise." "Come back fast!" "Your horny mayor awaits." "Me, too." "Unbelivable!" "Morning, boss, hello!" "Car ready." "How much do I owe you?" "Let's see." "The rims, they were broken." "My service has added new ones." "For free." "No." "I can't accept that." "Everything's here." "10 million." "Enough." "Enough." "I don't need this, can you do something with it?" "What?" "The coat." "No?" "Do you want it?" "Oh!" "Well, thanks." " Allways at your service." "Bye." " Thank you." "Look." "All clients for us soon!" "Now the whole word is going crazy with joy!" "Cause in everything that happens must be a little drop of insanity." "And I?" "I would go crazy for joy, if I came to be buried with Achim..." "Make hay while the sun shines, you used to say, Achim, and you were right!" "My dear glider!" "I bought a computer." "You force me to do the most absurd things." "At my age, how can I become a businessman and a computer expert?" ""Insanity"... is the watchword of the hour." "But what's the point of this insanity?" "My beloved proffessor!" "What age you are talking about?" "!" "We are beautiful, young and will be free!" "When wall in Berlin is dropped, then everything is possible." ""Your one... and only... gold-restorer?" Grandpa, have you got a girlfriend?" "Don't read other peoples' letters." "I'm going." " And how do I get out of this?" "!" " You just double-click to close it." "All right." "I think you got it now." "Wait!" "How do I copy it into this frame?" "You mean the file?" "I have something for you." "A book on software for beginners." "I lifted it from Dad's shop." " You take it back right away!" " It doesn't bother him!" "Call it an early Christmas present from me." "And I'd like a ghettoblaster." "You can forget it." " Did you paint that?" " Yes." "Extra brilliant!" " That's the city where I was born." "Gdansk." " Cool." "Like... science-fiction." "Unfortunately it was real." "My love!" "We can already assume that thirty thousand people are ready to make a down payment of up to a thousand Marks." "Some of them are already very old, we have to hurry." "My dear proffessor!" "If this number is correct, this is insanity." "Do not forget that one third of the sum is meant for Lithuanians." "All around Poland, large numbers of workers have gone on strike." "In numerous places, the Polish nurses are on strike." "Let the minister cure himself!" ""Perestroika" in Poland is in danger of failing." " The best location for the cemetery." " Wait, wait, one second." "There used to be a German cemetery there." "That's the thing." "That's impossible, comrade!" "I withdrew from your group 19 years ago, comrade." "Then let me re-formulate this:" "That's impossible, Madam." " Who will pay for this?" " What do you mean?" "A reconciliation cemetery will bring us hard currency from Germany." "To whom?" "For a foreign flight we need a special zinc module with a window or without." "This is a vent put by the feet for balancing the pressure." "This model is particularly reasonable." "From Dresden." "The VEB Erdmöbel company." "But these coffins are only good for cremations." "From Germany?" "Lmpossible!" "The term "cement head" would still would still flatter you." " May I, comrade secretary?" " What is it?" "The coat of arms." "At the shipyard, all of them were changed." "At the shipyard, all of them were changed?" "So what are you waiting for?" "As you can see..." "Cement does crumble." " But there are certain limits." " Really?" "And that means?" "We can never sell parts of our Polish homeland to the Germans." "You better make sure that this bird doesn't shit on your head." "So we take them for cremations." " What have you got for normal burials?" " Careful." "The Poles are Super-Catholics!" "Would cremation be permitted at all?" "The ones to be cremated are Protestants!" "But they will be buried in Catholic soil." "Over there they're more Catholic than the Pope!" " Part of Gdansk was once Protestant." " Two experts." " This business plan seems solid." " It is fantastic." "The company "Vielbrand" is investing one million Marks!" "With what methods you achieved that?" "With my charm." "Isn't the idea of a cemetery of reconciliation rather naive?" "An ecumenical project is trendy." "But only in theory." "Karau is my name:" "Member of the Evangelical Lutheran Council." "You may think that a man of God can't be a businessman." " I've never imagined that." " Anyway, I'll give you my address." "The idea does have something." "It is extra brilliant." "Our bank could consider this credit as an investment in the future of Poland." "I might even commit myself to the project personally, but under certain circumstances." "I suggest you become a founder member with a seat on the board, Director." "Vice Director." "What was that?" "Attempted bribery?" "What about your charm?" "I was talking about personal commitment." "Maybe we should talk about the details tonight over dinner?" "And please call me..." "Maniek." "Aleksandra..." "Listen, Maniek!" "I give you my hand, and you want the whole arm right away!" "All right." "I am going to Vilnius first." "And then we'll see." "Our house used to be here..." "What did you say?" "Our house stood here." "Director." "Our idea is that everyone should be able to be whatever he feels he is." "After you die, you don't feel anything at all." "But this used to be Poland." "Lithuania, then the Soviet Union, and now again beloved Lithuania." " Well!" "Nothing stands still." " Director Renkajtis, I am Polish." "Even though I was born here." "My parents lived here." "We used to pray to the Holy Mother of the Gate of Dawn in Polish!" "So what?" "The Holy Mother of the Gate of Dawn is Lithuanian." "Huh!" "?" "She is not Lithuanian!" "Nonsense!" "Give me some change for bread." "Let them wake their country up, and we'll bury our German exiles." "Refugees." "Displaced persons." "Burial applicants." "Agreed." "...the Lord is with you!" "Blessed are you among women," "Have a good look at her." "You might never see her again." "53." "So this is 54." "This is supposed to be a 3-star hotel?" "Turn the lights off!" "May has come..." " Are you expecting anybody?" " No." ""Set a place for the roaming traveller."" "Have you forgotten this Christian custom?" "What an ailing country." "You're holding onto superstitions, instead of sharing with the needy." "A quote from the new Trotskyite manifesto?" "Stop making jabs at me." "And maybe you could stop showing off your atheism." "In the best petty bourgeois tradition, we're spending Christmas arguing." "So Christmas, to you, is a petty bourgeois tradition?" "And what was it to you?" "Those were difficult times." "Different from your leftist rubbish." "Rubbish?" "What about your cemetery?" "Comrade Piatkowska turns into a cemetery capitalist!" "It's a humanitarian notion of reconciliation." "You plan to appease the past by burying German bodies in Polish soil?" " The exiles." " They started the war." "They had to re-locate, as a punishment for their crimes." " They weren't all criminals." " They accepted crime." "If you hate them, why do you study in Germany?" "All the Germans that I know, don't care about these homeland sentiments." "Just like me!" "Thank you." "No, thank you." "Tommy!" "Are you crazy?" "Turn that off!" "Now!" "Cool!" "Real knockout sound!" "It's all right for you!" "Acting like cool Grandpa, while we have to live with that noise!" "To a peaceful Christmas." "To love!" " Great toast!" " To love!" "Granddad's got a girlfriend." "A Polish one." "You've fallen in love with Poland?" "Not with Poland." "With a Polish woman." "And how serious is it?" "We are the founders of a Polish- Lithuanian-German burial association." "We give former refugees the opportunity to be buried in the lands where they were born." "Is that a joke?" "A joke?" "Not at all." "You're involved with those awful "exile associations"" "who want to turn back the clock?" "It's natural to feel patriotic about the place where you were born!" "Maybe it's more a matter of your feelings for this Polish woman?" "Your grandmother would have liked to be buried in Gdansk." "Grandpa, that Polish woman, what's she like in bed?" "The fact that we stand here today means historical justice!" "Nobody can escape its verdict." "We must never forget the crimes of Ger..." "We will never forget how the..." "Never forget..." "Long live the free Polish Gdansk!" "Long live the guarantor of our Western borders, Comrade Stalin!" "Long may he live!" "Long may he live!" "Hail!" "Hail!" "Hail!" "Hail!" "Reschke!" "Why aren't you greeting the Führer?" " I've been waiting!" "Were have you been?" " I'm sorry." "I was stuck in traffic." "Thank God." "I brought your repaired trousers." "What foresight." "But I didn't know what your daughter would like." "That depends on which daughter." "So you have several?" "Two." "Oh, now I know, you have a new hairdo!" "Yes!" "The famous German perspicacity." " Fasten your seatbelt, this is not Poland!" " Yes, I know." "I'm in Germany!" "Where nobody throws cigarette butts out the window and where you wash the water." "We also separate our rubbish now." "How do they do this in these American movies?" "They have bigger cars." " Go away!" " No." "Don't!" "That's a toad!" "It makes prophecies for our future." "Prussian superstition." "Now I can die." "Now I can live." "Is that new?" "Yes." "You like it?" "Yes." "It's romantic." "You've really spotted a gap in the market!" "How much are you going to make from it?" "Why don't you put the standard lamp on, Jo?" "This light's so harsh." "Again 2 Marks went down the drain." "The new bulbs are in the cupboard." " You might make some serious money." " Serious money?" "Papa, you're so naive." "It's a chance to rake in the cash!" "Do you sleep with her?" "It's none of our business!" "I sleep with him." "Will you get married?" "Marriage involves joint ownership of property." "And you're planning a business venture together." "Let's go, darling." " It's high time we did." " Aren't you staying for dinner?" "Rather not." "So good we don't have children together!" "Dad?" "Dad!" "Frau Piatkowska, my business-partner from Gdansk." "Frau Piatkowska, my business-partner from Gdansk." "Welcome." "Shall we say "Danzig", here at least?" "It took a man like Professor Reschke" " to come up with this idea." " The idea occurred to us both!" "We are not dreamers, Professor Reschke, and we certainly aren't revisionists." "Our aim is to gather everybody at the same table and unite them." "I'm afraid smoking is only permitted in the corridor here." "I'm sorry." "No problem." "One must respect each other's little ways." "In every sense." "Frau Piatkowska knows that we Germans even wash water." "What?" "One can't wash water." "Come back inside." "Let's go to the car." "Ladies and gentlemen!" "Father." "Excuse me, Father." "This is a historical moment!" "Against all opposition, we have succeeded." "Despite all those who had doubts, some of whom are here with us." "I welcome you to the inaugural meeting of the Supervisory Board of the German-Polish, no... the Polish-German Cemetery Association..." "We have a very nice balance of nationalities, but you seem to have forgotten that the supervisory board needs an uneven number of members to avoid a stalemate situation?" "Naturally that has occurred to us." "But majority on either side could give impression that one nation dominates." "Nobody would want to suspect us of nationalist tendencies." " This will be a Cemetery of Reconciliation." " O. K, let's vote." " Who is in favourof an unequal number?" " Wait a minute." "We should first vote on how we want to vote." "Openly or with a secret ballot." "This is not a Party Conference." "My esteemed comrade, Aleksandra." "Democracy remains democracy." "You're an expert on democracy!" "Not in Polish!" "Let's get on!" "Who is against an uneven number of members?" "In favour?" "Here we are. 4 against 4." "Stalemate." "To avoid this we have a proposal worthy of King Solomon!" " I'm the uneven one!" " Mrs Erna Brakup." "Neither Polish nor German." "Gdansk-born!" " Gdansk-born means you're German." " Stop blathering." "My backside will remain where it's always been, in Gdansk, forever." "Now, that's..." "So, how much will the lease for the cemetery be?" "484000 Marks per year." " How many graves will there be?" " When it is full," " at least 12,000 graves." " Make it 8,000 graves then, and use the rest for the smaller urn graves." "Altogether, that makes - my backside - 20,000 graves." "At least." "Who votes for including Erna Brackup?" "Yes, we too." "In this welcoming Polish soil we say farewell to our beloved brother Hans-Joachim Sarnofsky, former resident of Krämergasse 8, Gdansk, who was obliged by fate to move to Böblingen..." "Our sister Auguste Koschnick, departed this earth in Peine, born in Nassenhuben, in the Danziger Niederung district, may you rest in the soil of your homeland." "It will soon be much cosier for you, my dear Achim." "Alex!" "Alex, the mourners are watching." "Let them watch." " This is the aperitif to the funeral meal." " A funeral meal in a rickshaw?" "!" "Our first funeral, aren't you glad?" "I will be happy after the first funeral in Lithuania." "At our next meeting we'll have to demand 33% of the share of finances, for you, as the inventor..." "And we'll open a special account for Lithuania." " I know nothing about finances." "Have some." " No." "We'll annihilate the imperialist Colorado beetle, smuggled into our country by American submarines!" "Listen, a toad." "When I was a kid there were lots of them here." " It sings of our happiness." " No, no, no..." "Toad calls are prophecies of doom." "You are like a toad yourself!" "How strange." "At school they used to call me "Toad"." "Reschke!" "You haven't caught a single potato beetle." "This is sabotage of our Colorado beetle mission!" "As a punishment, you will eat the toad." "Alex?" "We better stop it now." " What?" " The cemetery project." "But we only just began!" "The rest will work without us." "She's right." "It won't get any better." " How can you be sure, Erna?" " You're a toad, too!" "This is outrageous!" " It is very unfortunate..." " Unfortunate!" "You insisted on the inscription:" ""What the enemy took from you is now regained in death"." "It's a provocation for Poles." "Are you trying to justify this barbaric behaviour?" "!" "Come on - we'll take Papa back home with us!" "We demand a reimbursement, with interest, and we claim damages!" "Who knows what Father did during the war!" "Maybe he just played the trombone in the army orchestra." "Sure." "All Germans in the war only played in the orchestra or worked as drivers." "Right." "Nice." "Reconciliation Cemetery." "To hell with it!" "If you hit the swamp with a stick, you'll be sprinkled with mud." "There has to be a fence." "A fence?" "With barbed wire, watchtowers" " and machine guns?" " Are you trying to insult us?" "The wall?" "But for German Marks." "The Poles vandalised the graves!" "He's right." "I remember that the capital belongs to the association as a whole." "The wall has to be German." "The Germans love walls." "So they also should pay for wall." "Spoken by a communist and Socialist Party supporter!" "You crypto revanchist!" "One moment." "Maybe we could save money if we really use part of the Berlin Wall?" "Now that's typical." "Please!" "For God's sake, let us find a compromise!" "After all, the Polish side is also suffering moral embarrassment." "Just look at this article in Spiegel magazine!" ""Dubious Polish Business with German Dead."" "Please, let us try to retain some justice." "I don't mean to preach about justice." "But the tombstones simply can't read:" ""Our dear father and grandfather rests in peace in German soil"." "Or: "Exiled and returned, now resting in God and native soil, Elfriede Napf, born Zeidler."" "No way." "Are you trying to impose censorship?" "No." "But your homeland has to remain your homeland." "And that's all." "Nothing more." "So what would you suggest, Erna?" "A standard tombstone and wording for everybody." "Which would read?" ""Native soil can never be lost!" Who's in favour?" "Coffee?" "Tea?" "Perhaps... water?" "Coffee." "What does this little whore do here?" "Her tits are almost falling out of her blouse." "She does roomservice." "Rather a different sort of service." "Who is for a universal inscription?" "What's the confidential information you have for me?" "That you are the most beautiful woman on this steamer." "Maniek!" "That won't get us any further." "Put the key into the ignition and step on the gas!" "I would love to put my key into your ignition." "How poetic." "You are a true poet." "I hope you're not going to get out now." "I apologize." "So tell me, what's up?" "A problem has come up." "About 33% of the company assets has disappeared." "The sum reserved for Lithuania." "You know who's in charge of it." " I've met Marczak." " Whom?" "Marczak... the bank director." "At night?" "You went behind my back!" " Me?" "Behind your back?" " What have you done with the funds for Lithuania?" " That was a commercial matter." " Commercial?" "Just some business." "What business?" "Hiring little whore as waitress?" "Taking Lithuania money and putting in own pocket?" "Is this business?" "!" "Don't be ridiculous." "Just listen to me for a moment." "Get out!" "This is my workroom!" " What's he like in bed, Marczak?" " Definitely better than little whore." "Me and that girl!" "Me and Marczak!" "Just as stupid!" "Aleksandra." "Get out!" "Out!" "Out!" "Should I leave the Lithuania money in the bank to be eaten up by inflation?" "Should I leave the Lithuania money in the bank to be eaten up by inflation?" "How could you do that in secret, without talking to the board?" "The Lithuanians would never consent, you know that." "I did not waste the money." "Come." " Do you know where we are?" " Better than you." " What's the name of this wharf?" " Used to be Lenin's Wharf," "I don't know what it's called today." "But it's our wharf." "Partly." "Oh, Madam!" "In this big world, we continually have oil crises." "Hence no petrol." "Where there's no petrol, there's muscle." "No more cars, just rickshaws!" "And this is our future." "That's an attitude with perspective!" "Our joint enterprise will have clients flocking to it." "Our - what?" "The cemetery corporation owns 30% of the shares of "Chatterjee  Chatterjee"." "We are investing in the Asian dynamic." "Alex, people died here for freedom." "Solidarnosc was born here!" "And you want to turn our history into thriving business!" "A wharf is a factory." "You can't make a living from a monument." "OK." "We defeated the Turks near Vienna, and Communism as well." "So we'll also survive Asian Capitalism!" "No German will ever spit in our faces again." "That's how our capital will grow!" "We could open reconciliation cemeteries in other parts of Poland!" "But why we are investing in Asian rickshaws?" "!" "Because that's how we are saving a Polish wharf from bankruptcy!" "That is your duty as a patriot!" "We should give back to God what has come from God." "My churchis a ruin!" "Nobody cares about it." "Ladies and gentlemen!" "Please be quiet!" "I have a better way to increase our capital than Pakistani rickshaws!" "Think of all the Germans to visit the graves here." "They are forced to stay in shabby hotels." "That's right." "They have to leave again with such heavy hearts." "Exactly." "I request the contract with Mr Chatterjee be cancelled" "Thank you very much." "...and the hidden reserves to be used for establishing some well-appointed rest homes for the families of our deceased." "I like it." "I can even see a sign in my mind's eye:" ""Twilight Days in the Homeland."" "I request a vote." "Who is in favour?" "Against?" "Me... without hesitation!" "Abstentions?" "The majority votes for it." "Thank you." "Great!" "When you come back?" "I don't know." "I have to lot to take care of at university." "Explain why the book isn't finished." "Why I haven't found Gralath's grave." "Alex..." "Forgive me for..." ""No German will..." You know." "Apparently it has to be this way:" "We always spit in your faces, you always steal our cars... we keep on washing water, and you have your endless Polish practices." "That's enough!" "You're supposed to get along and get married!" "Come back, son... come on." "That's right... the two of you!" "Polish woman and German man." "Look, there's a fly in this piece of amber!" "No need to be afraid - it's been there for the last 2 million years." "So, what are you waiting for, my dear sir?" "The man has to buy the engagement ring." "No matter!" "I got it from my Achim." "And now, it belongs to you." "Come on, put it on her finger!" "Well?" "And where are you going after the wedding?" "Maybe... to the cemetery?" "Don't talk about graves now, this is no time for mourning." "So, where are you going after the wedding?" "I will prove to her that it does have an Italian head." "We are going to Italy!" "See Naples and die!" "It's not nice to talk about death." "I have a better idea." "Do you have a frying pan?" "Somebody has drawn a circle around the church." "That was Erna." "What are you doing?" "My mayor." "Isn't he beautiful?" "Gralath's greatest achievement was to plant the trees on the Great Ave." "Where our cemetery is today?" "Yes." "A coincidence, isn't it?" "There are no coincidences." "Would you spend the twilight of your life in your homeland?" "The rest homes of the German-Polish cemetery society, built by Vielbrand  Sons, ensure your return into the most enchanting parts of your homeland!" "I would love to be buried in native soil." "And?" "Bright colours would be even better, so that it's more optimistic." "Funny." "When the old man sinks to the ground we could have" ""The Lord is My Shepherd" in the background." "An excellent idea, Pastor." "You want to turn our Cemetery Association into a tourist enterprise?" "Those are the times we live in." "You can't turn back the clock." "Even a cemetery has to adapt to market forces." "This is globalisation." "Professor wanted to increase our capital by means of Pakistani shares," "Who votes for the spot?" "You will have to wait with the voting!" "Give me a cigarette." " Have you lost your mind?" " I need one." "In the most enchanting Mazurian landscape you can live close to your beloved dead." "Recreation, sport and eternal rest in peace:" "That is Bungagolf." "What is this?" "We have come upon the idea that the notion of reconciliation, can be spread to secular territory." "Pastor, you have a garden hose, where other people have a backbone." "Let's vote on it." "All those in favour?" "Ladies and Gentlemen!" "Let me tell you few more words." "Frau Piatkowska and me are resigning from the Supervisory Board." "We don't want to take part any more in our own enterprise." "The idea of reconciliation cemetery came from love, from hope that people from different origin can come to understanding and not only after death." "But you've turned this idea into business, where there is no place for love nor reconciliation." "I..." "You can kiss my ass." "I won't participate in this business!" "What a pity." "It's sad, but we cannot stop it." "Are you sad?" "No." "Neither am I." "I've gotten used to this place." "So have I." "But I've got you." "And I've got you." "Amen." "Damn flies." "They're shitting and shitting and shitting." "Thank you, Erna." "I don't want to be buried in the reconciliation cemetery." "She doesn't want to be buried in the reconciliation cemetery." "How do you know this?" "I... don't know." "We want to bury our native, a true German woman, where her husband and children already reside." "After unanimous voting she was granted a place at our cemetery." "She doesn't want it!" "What do you mean, she doesn't want it?" "It means she doesn't want it." "She told us before she died, didn't she?" "Absurd." "We're taking her with us." "This is against the law!" "We have purchased this cottage from the local authority." "We shall establish an open-air museum here." "Which means you are trespassing." "What is it supposed to mean?" "You can't do that!" "Satisfied?" " It ends with an 's'?" " Yes." " "Swointse"." " Swointse?" "Swointse..." "Sun." " Eden!" " Eden?" "Eden." "Paradise." " Naleschnick." " Naleschnick." "What's naleschnick?" " Naleschnick..." "Crepe." "Stuffed." " With a 'c' or with a 'k'?" "Well" " Naleschnick." "With a 'k'." "Naleschnik." " Junk." " Junk?" " Madka." " Madka." " "Amore"." " Amore?" "That's a nice place to rest for the two of them." "Let them rest in peace." "Amen."