"HOMUNCULUS from Robert Reinert's dramatic poem" "PROLOGUE" "Artistic direction:" "Otto Rippert Photography:" "Carl Hoffmann" "...and so, my illustrious colleagues, all my research and that of my friend Hansen to chemically create this artificial human being has failed miserably." "Nature has its intangible limits." "Life and Death are its inviolable secrets." "No, professor - cries Hansen - still I am fired by this faith, and I will never, I repeat, never give in!" "The science laboratory for Hansen's research." "Rodin is his trusted aide." "A blessed event at Ortmann's house." "Not of science, but of love:" "the smile of a baby in the cradle." "The tenacity of Hansen has born fruit." "A heartbeat, a cry:" "A Homunculus is born!" "The announcement for Ortmann." "And his baby, that day, was suddenly taken sick." "Hansen, who is invited to London for a conference on that great discovery that has so excited the world, entrusts the new born to the wise care of Professor Ortmann." "Fate!" "The child of love, dies, whilst that of science lives!" "A criminal thought." "At night, like a thief..." "Ah, disaster, disaster!" "The little one is dead." "Ortmann confides his secret to his friend Steffens." "Ah, how fleeting is my triumph!" "My dreams have crumbled... with the rapid decay of this little form which clings to life no more." "Twenty-five years later." "To all, Homunculus is the son of the late Professor Ortmann." "And in school, Homunculus, without faith follows the lessons of Professor Hansen." "In life..." "Men talk of love, But what is love?" "Twenty five years ago, on this very spot, I created a Homunculus." "But the little one died almost immediately." "His death was perhaps a blessing." "Homunculus, outwardly perfect, but without love, deprived of all human feeling, would have gone through life as a terrible scourge of hate and destruction!" "Me too, I am also like Homunculus, without love, to hate, to destroy!" "Why am I so?" "In the tempest of his anguished doubt..." "I have treated and regarded you as my son, but you are not." "The secret of your birth, exactly described, lies in a box I have consigned to my good friend Steffens." "He will remove the seal to the document 25 years after my death and not before." "Ortmann." "I want to know it all!" "All!" "All!" "The horror!" "..." "Homunculus..." "This living monster, it is I!" "How I hate that man who gave me birth, from his mixtures and stills!" "From Hansen." "The revealing document..." "You, you, Homunculus?" "You, son of my brain?" "You're alive..." "Alive!" "Let me touch you, you are my work!" "I hate you." "Stand aside!" "Could you give me a soul?" "Could you give me tears?" "Could you give me a cry, so that I could cry "Mamma, Mamma"?" "HOMUNCULUS Part One" "A stray dog." "Even you poor dog, wandering alone?" "But you fear me not." "Breathe your warm breath on my hand." "Will you be my companion and friend?" "Illiana, the daughter of Prince Desagra." "What's wrong pilgrim?" "Why so sad?" "How can I help you?" "Not for me, but for my poor dog." "If you stroke him, I will be grateful." "Prince Desagra, paralyzed for many years." "They have told me of a strange figure that roams outside the gates of the sacred city." "If it is the Homunculus, of whom all the world talks with horror, crush him without mercy." "Crossing valleys and mountains, Rodin follows the footsteps of Homunculus, but never finds him." "Disconsolate, the doctors can do nothing to save their Prince." "My father is dying." "One day, you gave me a kind word." "I will heal him, lead me to him." "Arise!" "I command you!" "His willpower, created by science, has been able to perform this miracle." "You have saved my life." "Ask of me what you will." "I can make you rich and happy." "I ask for nothing." "It is enough that one day you will not turn against me..." "Farewell..." "End of Part One" "HOMUNCULUS Part Two" "He possesses the infernal book." "From these old pages he derives his superhuman power." "Love sings in vain in the heart of Illiana." "The Prince has sent me." "He wants to talk to you." "The people accuse you of witchcraft." "They want to know who you are." "Explain!" "What do you care who I am?" "Here I do good things." "What more do you want?" "It's the Homunculus!" "It's the Homunculus!" "Read!" "Read!" "Search again, search..." "Thieves!" "..." "My book!" "..." "Return to me my book!" "..." "Death to the Homunculus!" "..." "Death!" "One more step and I'll throw this book down." "Rodin." "Kill Homunculus!" "Kill the man who spreads terror throughout the world!" "Illiana's heart." "Come..." "I will save you!" "Among the ruins of the old Moorish castle." "Are you here Rodin?" "What do you want?" "Why do you seek me?" "Are you too with my enemies?" "I seek you because I love you, because in part, you are my work and I admire you." "We are discovered!" "Flee!" "Kill him!" "Kill him!" "What do you want, murderers?" "Poor beast, you have paid for your devotion, with your life." "You will remain forever in my memory." "And Rodin still by his side, tragic shadow of a gloomy fate." "Just one drop of this liquid could destroy a thousand lives at once." "Awful flame, you are mine!" "You will obey me!" "That day..." "The look of this man is fixed in my soul like the cold blade of a knife." "They talk of love..." "Ah, I would give all, all, including my revenge, for a single word that would let me feel love." "I ask for the grace and compassion, for the alms of that word I know not." "Flee from me, but you are still mine!" "I have decided, come!" "My gaze seeks you, come!" "..." "Your love will be for me a supreme attempt at renewal!" "His mouth as cold as death knows not how to kiss." "Many days later." "You have abandoned your home and your Enrico has killed himself!" "Leave this fatal man and return to us." "We are old and infirm." "Autumn leaves are falling, hearts too." "Your mother has died of a broken heart." "I am left alone in the old house." "I am cursed!" "Cursed!" "Weeping!" "Is this the sorrow that brings tears?" "She loves me because she knows not who I am." "But I want more." "I want to be loved for who I am!" "The time has come to know the truth." "The cot where I was born was a chemical laboratory." "I owe my life to the whims of a scientist." "I was the terrible product of mixtures and stills." "I Homunculus!" "The spell is broken." "Leave me." "You revolt me." "My hatred, indestructible, eternal!" "Only you are mine!" "Ah, my father, I am your daughter, look at me!" "I have returned to weep with you, to ask your forgiveness!" "Flower!" "Neither you nor I were born of man." "Who would dare to curse you for it?" "You have extinguished in me the last flicker of hope!" "And I for you have lost all!" "Again the darkness." "End of Episode One" "Second Episode AGAINST THE WORLD" "For his exceptional leadership qualities," "Homunculus has become the head of the corporation which represents the strength of the country." "Fredland, friend of the people." "Poor harvests and the arrogance of the ruling classes has caused widespread discontent." "The people's delegates come to seek justice." "Our path is marked by an indisputable right." "Any violence on your part will be met by our violence." "Go!" "The double game of Homunculus." "For his own diabolical ends Homunculus sows the most evil confusion amongst men." "Don't let yourselves be fooled." "The corporation and its heads are your worst enemies." "With both gesture and word Homunculus rouses the masses, who don't recognize him in his disguise." "The other face of Homunculus." "Great is the alarm in the assembly." "His inflexible will asserts itself." "Awful flames, you are my work." "Destroy!" "In the pages of the old book, he can write his words of triumph.." "Since that night, Xenia, fascinated, follows him like a dog." "Leaden is the sky." "What do you want, woman?" "Why do you follow me?" "I am your shadow because I love you." "I adore you for your strength." "I know who you are..." "You are Homunculus!" "You have violated my secret and you must die!" "For you I would die happy!" "The crowd is in a delirium of terrible passion." "Death to the traitors!" "..." "Death!" "..." "Save yourself!" "..." "Flee!" "..." "They are searching for you!" "..." "Is it me you seek, madmen?" "Take me you fools, I am yours!" "Saved!" "Only you, hated creature, were devoted to me because I was Homunculus." "Come..." "Amidst the collapsing ruins of the old world you will arise and you will be my Queen!" "End of Act One" "HOMUNCULUS Epilogue" "How many years have passed!" "..." "Book!" "Book!" "Even your pages have grown silent!" "Memories arise amidst the flames." "All of the past in a handful of ashes!" "Where will he go?" "..." "What will he do?" "Why do I shake so?" "It is you that I fear!" "I am afraid!" "A final gesture, one last cry, and the man without love, created by a machine, plunges back into his nothingness." "Behind these ruins, emerges the dawn of a new life." "Subtitles:" "Corvusalbus"