"THESE ARE STORIES OF PEOPLE" "ROOTED IN THE SOIL THEY CAME FROM." "THEY CANNOT BE REPLANTED, THEY WOULD PERISH" "SLOVAK FILM presents" "PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD" "Story and screen-play by:" "Script editor:" "Photographs by M. Martincek" "Music by:" "PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD" "From the lives of those mentioned below:" "General film producer:" "Photographs:" "Narrated by:" "Edited by:" "Sound:" "Production manager:" "Camera:" "Production:" "A young girl went to get some water Walking through a green garden" "She found a golden thread and began To weave a maidenhead garland" "A young man came up to her and said:" ""What have you got your garland for?"" "I live in the shed here." "Over fifty years by now." "In 1914 I got tuberculosis." "I was thirty at that time." "My husband got killed in the war." "They said only fresh air and goats milk would save me." "The kids used to sleep in the house and me in the shed, summer or winter." "Three times a day into a bowl" "I got only warm milk and fresh air." "I sowed and planted myself, mowed, carried stuff around and coughed blood." "I kept the diseases away from the kids." "That's the way I was scraping with death." "I got round her, didn't I?" "Oh, shit, these fences." "But they won't hide with fences the world from me." "What are you carrying When you ask for opening When you ask for opening" "Give her pitch to drink To get her use with us to be To get her use with us to be" "She drank the first glass And by flame burned And by flame burned" "Put me in the movie the way it will seem funny." "People are interested in what is funny." "These are those photos." "Should I read?" "I was photographed on May 23rd, 1970, sitting worried to death in a larder." "I was 70 years and 83 days old." "That's it." "If I don't drink I'll fall sick." "Me and my wife don't get along very well together." "Since my head was hit she's never wanted to see me." "She locked me out, I had to open with a latch - key." "And she went to me with an axe, when I stopped giving her money." "I refused:" "She turned me on." "So I went into the larder." "And now she's wandering around the world." "Stop that thing!" "I have to take care alone of myself." "Do the laundry, darn socks, cook..." "I've got a heartache and aching limbs," "So I help myself with own medicine." "Cherry or apple wine... until I hold off the disease." "I just held it off." "I can even go for a dancing ball." "It did the job instead of an injection." "Wait a minute." "It's gotta be oiled." "What are the people like?" "Some of them want to live only for themselves." "And life is a joy." "On the flat mountain It's a great place for plough" "For that swain That four horses has" "For that swain That four horses has" "They call me Adam..." "Human..." "I ran together from blood." "I got different blood." "That's what they say about me:" "He had to open his own house with a latch-key." "I worked even underground, 3700 feet." "In tunnels, on railroads, in forests." "So I have lived through one hundred years." "You, in the city, will get hard and dried up on asphalt." "Your heart is made of concrete." "I live on a proud bunk." "One morning a woman is standing by my bunk." "How did she get in?" "Suddenly she disappeared." "That's all I can tell." "Maybe she came to get me." "Sure she did." "I'm sleeping and a woman is on top of me." "I'm reaching for her in a dream, bang!" "Oh, it's Manda." "I never got married." "And sometimes even a woman is right." "Sometimes even a woman is right." "Good water." "There are even bachelors in the world." "It had to be that way, and it was." "What horses I had!" "And I spared them." "I carried sacks uphill on my back." "I can barely walk now." "She knows me, dear Manda." "Very weak..." "One stumbles at all sorts of places, falls ill." "Often I can't see, there's darkness in front of my eyes." "I'll die this year, too." "I can feel it." "Life is life." "A farmer went out to sow his seeds." "Some of the seeds fell along the path and the birds came and ate them up." "And some of them fell on rocky places and sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow there." "But when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered." "And other seeds fell among thorn which choked them." "Still some seeds fell on good soil and produced good crop." "He fell!" "Did he walk with his hands in pockets?" "Poor man." "I was a strong guy and now I've had it." "He went this way and fell." "Are they all broken?" "He fell, that's all." "What?" "He fell with them." "I went this way and collapsed." "How much do you sell them for?" "Thirty?" "And are they now gonna be for twenty?" "Are they no good?" "They're good." "And they say they're no good." "They're cracked, I'm telling you!" "What's that?" "They're cracked." "I'll take them home." "Gimme ten." "What's that?" "Ten for one crown twenty." "I won't." "There's a lot of eggs in the store, isn't there?" "And they're also fresh." "Then go and buy 'em there." "Why should I fear death?" "To leave this world and fear entering the good one?" "God, oh God, help us." "I feel like yawning all the time." "God, oh God..." "God will wipe every tear from their eyes, there will be no more death, or mourning or crying or pain," "for the old order of things has passed away." "I'm still alive!" "In the deep valley Badly thunder was" "And to my swain Fossilized feather" "You are not mine And I am not your" "When I lay down with you My good will" "I love people." "And where are they?" "So what?" "We depend on one another." "They do harm to their lives." "And they don't know how to rest." ""You are very welcome!"" "Naked I came into the world and naked I will leave it." "My parents were in the fields when I was about to be born." "My dad ran for help." "I fell out onto a spread apron." "Thus I was born." "What is it?" "I know nothing." "What is the most important thing in life?" "I can't tell you anything else." "And what's that you got?" "Old age?" "What's that?" "What is of greatest value in life?" "I dunno." "I dunno." "What is of value?" "I wasn't taught that." "I've forgotten." "I got headache, I can't tell you anymore." "My ears are ringing and I can't see well." "What has in life?" "Good health." "In life?" "Good health, in the first place, rest..." "What do I know?" "I'm undereducated." "I didn't go to school a lot." "When I was young, I was better." "Well?" "I can't find the right words." "How should I tell you?" "Well, what's man's purpose in the world?" "One can't even answer it." "There sure was a reason why a man was born." "Not for no purpose." "Tell us, what's valuable in life?" "Valuable in life?" "What else but man." "Only man." "You gotta manage." "A farm wagon blast on me." "Two and half tons were on my legs." "I wish they made a movie of what I've done." "Twenty five years I been on my knees." "I tended horses, reaped, quarried stone, carried mortar and build a house sitting." "No man has ever touched the ground so much." "One bricklayer says:" "He won't build it." "He's finished." "A man puts up with more than an animal." "Someone discovers the earth, someone the sky." "Even the Earth is a star." "We're flying and revolving." "Around the Sun." "And other stars and planets do too." "Why couldn't there be life on them?" "I had three kids with my wife." "They built a house together and I was thrown out of it." "I hit the mountains." "The first man was in space that day." "Gagarin was the best astronaut at that time." "The Earth joined the universe." "I fell for it then." "First stage burns on the Earth." "Then the second and third." "A space rocket may have up to 40000 components." "Only disadvantage is that they cannot use it two times." "Von Braun promised to make a rocket for multiple use." "Billions of crowns will be saved... actually American dollars." "At the second cosmic speed the ship breaks free of the earth and moon's gravity." "It can't descend on the moon, they use a lunar module for that." "Moon gravity is lower." "A one hundred twenty pound man would weigh only twenty." "25000 applied for the Moon trip." "They will pay by the pound." "The lightest the least." "They would not accept me without a spacesuit." "Three astronauts flew to the Moon." "Two separated themselves from the ship in the module." "They came down and the ship flew on." "They took rock samples." "They took rock samples." "Now I work for another farmer." "I have a girlfriend, she sells newspapers." "But we're just friends." "I didn't even know how to chat with a girl." "Once I came up to some girls and one of them said:" "What a pity it's Tony!" "I don't know why she said that." "There are so many stars you can't count them." "The remotest one is called Sanopus." "I had a dream, I was praying to the Virgin Mary." "She nodded her head at me." "Everyone who's got a soul, is a human." "God created everyone for something else." "Mary Magdalene." "Evil spirits come out of her." "You should've come when I was in bloom." "When my teeth were like cloves of garlic." "And I cared for my kids like the flowers." "Here I walk alone and cry." "Why do people get married?" "The world would perish." "People are needed." "There used to be fourteen of us." "Everyone grown up and left." "Well, if I'm alone, I'm alone." "No use to put it into your head." "I sob my heart out and I laugh." "It's O.K. As it is." "Everyone should be pander." "This is my sister." "Before dying people give a sign." "A picture falls off the wall or the clock stops." "Here we've got mother." "Or they've got a nightmare." "Dreaming they walk through mud, or on dirt." "Or something goes bang." "There I've got a child." "I remember." "So much till I'm crying." "I met this one after he'd been buried for a year." "He always said "Hi" and now - nothing." "Line up!" "Good morning." "Shake hands first, then the morning will be good." "How old are you." "One hundred." "I was born as a blue eyed Blondie." "I'm a widower, can speak foreign languages." "Slovak, Russian, Polish, German," "Hungarian, English and Turkish." "Let's go to sleep." "Bye." "Have you got pig-meal?" "This forest is mine." "When I went to war in 1909 we were planting potatoes here." "I can even talk Gypsy." "I'm a man of the world." "They killed queen Elisabeth while we were in Bosnia." "She was good." "She cut the service down to five years." "She even gave us dinners, before then nothing." "I had lotta money." "And the war was in 1914." "First marching battalion in Trencin." "There they showed us how to kill." "Haut ab!" "Now they say "attention"." "Don't look!" "Do you think it's nice in Paradise?" "There's too many people." "If a cow dies, people will suffer." "That's terrible." "My paradise is to graze sheep." "That is a good day." "Good night." "So much for my life in this world." "Can't believe myself I'm so old." "And I remember everything." "Even the time of child-birth and washing..." "Even the name of Franz Joseph, emperor and king, whose name is told on the mountains, come down to me, your command, your will be done..." "Sheep's and muttons I am crying for you" "When I since childhood Learned with you" "When I since childhood Learned with you" "I didn't chase girls a lot." "I dreamed of having seven girlfriends in my belly." "I woke up and sheep were going to heaven." "I wanted to marry one girl." "I say:" "I will marry you." "And that was it." "What a wise donkey." "How I've been hungry in my life." "Sometimes I didn't have bread for a week." "Move them on, Zorka!" "Not money." "Just life." "Whoever's got some, wants more." "Who's got nothing, got a grand time." "Very often I get really drunk." "Everything by nature's law." "It's bad when it is too dry." "It started raining." "I had a drink." "Sheep's, my sheep's" "Clink, twang In-between maples" "Clink, twang In-between maples" "What has been sown must become ripe." "Old seed remains in the soil." "I'm in favor of scrutinizing politics." "Threes are like men who keep on being born again." "Leaves are like children." "They fall off and strike roots." "That is the eternity." "I even talk with them." "I'm always here." "I enjoy this air." "And I went home." "I met the Reaper." "Five minutes we were silently looking at each other." "Then he went away." "He walked half an inch above ground." "He had new boots on and didn't make any noise." "Oh, tell me, dear son, I wanna be told if you will care for me when I'm old?" "I will, oh sure, until I get married then I will pay you back, dear mother, don't be worried." "You will sit by the stove weeping and I, dear mother , at the table eating." "This double bass is still alive." "It's older than me." "It' s married two hundred people, maybe more." "We were different kind of guys." "When we measured our..." "How big was yours?" "I've forgotten." "I didn't know which one to lie with." "My sweetheart Felt on bench asleep" "When I woke her up She kissed me three times" "She didn't really have to torture me long." "You loved it, didn't you?" "She was beautiful." "Blind on one eye, couldn't see with the other." "Well, you're right." "It's all over now." "She's retired." "Or they sang already a funeral song to her." "Oh jolliness, I'm sayin' When I'm gonna stop enjoying' you?" "Then I'm gonna stop enjoying' you?" "When you wear me down" "I'll have no more of you Of our happiness" "When our white bones In the grave lie will" "Did you know how to ask for it in French?" "I knew it just like the Lord's Prayer." "That was nothing." "But let me tell you people there are spoiled." "She wanted me to play with her boobs." "I couldn't, she'd have trapped me..." "I'm sending regards to France and offspring's I left there." "They will understand this." "So many girlfriends that I've had!" "What is valuable?" "Life is." "Life, sure." "Life." "In life?" "Sadness." "I don't know anything else." "If I thought about it, I would find out." "Why is man in the world?" "I enjoy life even at eighty." "I don't know anything else." "I'm satisfied with everything." "I been to all sorts of countries," "I'm satisfied in any of them." "As long as I'm healthy." "Wait a minute, I'll think it over." "Music, singing, dancing... that was my happiness." "Joyousness." "Just joyousness." "What is most important?" "To work honestly, keep away from bad-thinks and respect people." "Respect God." "I don't know what's gonna be next." "The rich , the poor, the stupid and the wise, everyone must go ten feet under." "What else can we do in the world?" "I've told you... children." "Children and work." "What's valuable in life?" "Work." "Just kindness and love would be the best." "But they are scarce now." "A man without love..." "Gives no good to people or anything else..." "Love is above everything." "With what a girl I felt in love As beautiful like a picture" "The painters painted her whole night To give her eyes so nice black" "The painters painted her whole day To give her tight love to me" "They had a good life together... on three legs." "Then she had to go to the hospital." "I'm alone like a scarecrow." "I was left with the cat and cigarettes only." "Birds and souls return to where they were happy." "I wish she could come back!" "Where's the key?" "If I quit working I'd die." "How will I go to the Unknown How will I lay next to her" "I will uncover the blanket and lay next to her She will kiss me and I will kiss her" "He got up in the morning, sent for water, made a meal." "He ate and drank and sang a song." "He's got even a hen here." "When he was ill the hen walked round the bed." "Now put corn in here." "Shaved on Sunday, looking to the mirror..." "Forest, dark forest, where is my wife?" "Birds and souls will return..."