"COLD SUNDAY" "Watch out!" " Stop, I'm getting out!" " What the fuck?" "I don't want to be with you another second." "Stop!" "Dora, what the hell are you doing?" "Stop!" "Dora!" "Crazy bitch!" "You're going to regret this!" "Stop!" "Step on it!" "What are you looking at, you bitches?" "What the hell are you doing, you moron?" "How're we going to keep warm?" "What are you staring at?" "Something wrong with your car?" "Does this happen to you often?" "What?" "That you've got to run away from your clientele." "That wasn't a client." " I thought that..." " He's sort of like my boss." "I work for him." "I'm not his property!" "He's got no right to act like this!" "Your day may have started out badly, but things could change." "What've you got lined up for this afternoon... and evening?" "It's Sunday." "I'm looking for a..." "female companion." "Out on the highway?" "Not for myself." "For my brother." "It's his name day." "Saint Martin?" "So for his name day you want to buy him a whore?" "I can explain." "My father's birthday and Martin's name day are just two days apart." "So it's a tradition to celebrate them together." "So it's a tradition to celebrate them together." "And because our family has somewhat of a reputation to uphold around here," "all the local big-wigs show up." "My father would be pleased if Martin appeared with a girlfriend..." "With a female companion." "no offence intended, no offence intended, doesn't look like a professional." "I'd like to introduce myself." "My name is Adam." "Teresa." "Nice to meet you." "She, s driving me insane." "When the celebration's over," "you'll get the other half." "Your brother's worth that much to you?" "To be honest, it's not just him but his reputation." "The family's prestige has got to be cultivated in a small town like ours." "Look, that doesn't sound like my problem because I..." "Listen!" "Because I'm not crazy." "It's our problem and we're going to solve it together!" "Aren't you missing something?" "Like your ID card?" "In addition, you forgot..." "What are you going to wear to work tomorrow?" "Work?" "I'm quitting right now." "I never want to see you again!" "So where are we going?" "It used to be a pretty large estate, they called it "The Kulak's"." "Did the Communists take it away from you?" "No, it didn't belong to our family." "Then Martin got the property... well, it's a bit complicated, the inheritance." "Does he live there all by himself?" "He doesn't have anybody?" "He's a bit peculiar." "In what sense?" "From the time he stopped teaching, he's become more and more withdrawn." "And it's not good for him." "He's a teacher?" "He was." "Here, just across the river." "Everybody said he was great..." "Why did he give it up?" "Why did he give it up?" "He had to." "About a year and a half ago..." "no it's already two..." "Hello!" "Hi, I'm trying to get ahold of Cookie." "Did you call her?" "She's not answering." "Your daughter seems to have a problem." "What if something happens again?" "Tell me so it's not too late..." "Everything's under control." " I'll call the police..." " Things are more or less okay." "I'll tell her to call you as soon as I talk to her." " When will you talk to her?" " Bye." "Could you please stop?" "Stay right there!" "I'll be there in a minute!" "What?" "I said, I'm coming!" "Don't move!" "Don't play around with me!" "You're not going to make a fool out of me, you bitch!" "Stop!" "Busy day today, huh?" "It's Sunday." "People are rushing to mass." "Hello." "You need some help?" "No thanks, it's fine." "This is where Martin taught." "My family lives at the other end of town." "We built ourselves a little villa." "The style might not really fit in around here, but it's comfortable to live in." "Why did he have to stop teaching?" "Hi." "Sorry I shortened your break." "Those two in the BMW that just crossed..." "Do you happen to know them?" " I never saw the woman before." " And the man?" "I've taken him across before." "But you don't know who he is?" "But you don't know who he is?" "Thanks." " So why did he give up teaching?" " It's a long story." "Maybe he'd tell you..." "But... if I were you," "I really wouldn't want to go there." "Hey, if you're going to leave me out here in the middle of nowhere... with some stranger, then at least I want to know whether the guy's some sort of a pervert." "I know I'm having a mad day today, but I really don't need this bullshit." "Don't overdramatize the situation, Teresa." "Martin is the nicest person in the world." "He wouldn't hurt a fly!" "So there's no reason to be afraid." "It's a small-town family gathering where you can be the star and even make a little bit of money." "You've got style, you're attractive" "everything's fine." "It'll be catered, and I have..." "Listen, it'll be a pleasant Sunday for sure." "Bad start, happy ending." "In the evening we'll call a taxi for you..." "Where do you live anyway?" "Would you like my number, just in case?" "Just in case of what?" "I don't know... anything... nothing." "Thanks..." "Have a nice trip." " Goodbye." " Thanks." "No signal here or what?" "You've got to put your hand up as high as possible." "I really like you, Teresa." "No woman has made such an impression on me in along time." "I went out to find a gift for my brother and now..." "I'd like to give it to myself." "It was the first time I'd ever been at that spot on the highway." "Okay, the second." "But this kind of thing isn't really for me." "I need something more personal, you understand?" "My marriage works, my wife is wonderful, we have a fine, healthy son but..." "What more could you want after 15 years?" "Our relationship has gone a bit stale." "Our relationship has gone a bit stale." "She doesn't turn you on any more?" "Doesn't attract you?" "She's always the same?" "I don't want to lose her, but with her I feel like something's missing..." "gone forever." "Life's short, Teresa." "Wait here until I explain things to him." "Great, I've got it now." "Thanks." "What are you up to?" "I'm not up to anything, You just come..." "I've already congratulated Dad." "I don't want the whole pack of them gawking at me." "Nobody's going to gawk..." "I know what the family thinks of me." "And it's not just the family." "Everybody forgot about that ages ago." "About what?" "If it's so forgotten, why are you talking about it?" "Life's too short to spend it with an idiot!" "Hello." "Thanks for getting in touch." " You on duty?" " Yes." "I need a little help." "Wait till you see her up close." "She's something like a younger version of Edith." "Sorry." "I know, no going back, just the present." "It'll be great, you'll see." "Dad will be really pleased." "Just imagine how surprised he'll be when you show up with this chick." "Change her outfit a bit." "Maybe a longer dress." "You can find one, can't you?" "I've paid her a king's ransom." "Half up front." "She gets the other half when it's all over." "After what's all over?" "After whatever you want..." "Fuck her brains out... and don't be gentle about it." "Don't tell me you wouldn't enjoy it." "And her name's Teresa." "She's lying." "It's one of those fat-cat license plates:" "6U5 5555." "Scraped my fender parking, so I want to find out who the jerk is." "When didn't I answer your call?" "Oh, you know, the older the deafer." "Why'd you call anyway?" "What?" "My mother-in-law is nuts!" "You know that." "Teresa, this is Martin." "Hello." "It's like dead here." "The silence rings in your ears." "There never was really a lot of noise here." "You're right." "You're right." "This was in your mailbox." "Okay, show up around five." "Looking forward to seeing you." "It's warm inside." "Tea or coffee?" "Coffee." " You there?" " In here." "He called me." "Why didn't he answer before?" "Says he didn't hear it ring." "And?" "Sounded completely normal." "He gave me the license-plate number of some guy who bumped into his car." "He wants his address." " What should I do?" " Call him." "And what should I tell him?" "The address!" "He's your buddy, isn't he?" "And the complaint from his mother-in-law?" "We'll check it out." "Hey, don't eat the whole thing!" "Give it back!" "This driver of ours probably doesn't live in public housing..." "Might be good to drive by there, too." "Wouldn't you like something warmer to wear?" "I fell down." "You're not having any?" "I've got something to take care of." "I won't be away long." "Get yourself warm." "Where's the sugar?" "Nobody uses it here." "I just wanted to find some sugar?" "Not really great." "Have you got it?" "Great!" "Who says the police don't do their job?" "I'll never forget you for this!" "Teacher?" "Is the teacher there?" "He'll be back in a minute." "Don't you want to wait?" "I just brought him some eggs." "I'll leave them here." "Wait!" "Are you interested in the place?" "What do you mean "interested"?" "You want to buy it?" "But you did come to check the place out, didn't you?" "Not really." "Just between us, for that price it's not worth it." "For what price?" "Come on, how much did he say?" "I'll keep it to myself" " I promise." "I really don't want to buy it." "No kidding." "Who'd want to come here anyway?" "My husband made him an offer that should've had him licking his chops." "If you knew the story of this place." "Oh, I could tell you some tales." "Tell me." "You see that orchard back there?" "They call it Cemetery Grove." "They found old Mr.Lisner hanging there... couldn't take it that they'd ruined him." "When my mother was young, she used to clean at the Lisner's." "Well-to-do folks..." "And their son Johann ended up owning the house." "The Communists just about shit their pants, they took everything away from them: fields, cattle, but they couldn't get him out of the house." "How come?" "Some loophole in the property laws." "Then Johann hooked up with this Edith in Prague." "Got married - no kids, but it must have been a decent marriage, except for his boozing." "He drank himself to death, and then she stayed here." "I thought she'd go back to Prague and that we could buy the place, but she got involved with the teacher." "We always wanted this place." "My husband raises nutria, my son keeps bees..." "If a proper farmer run this place..." "Ah, well, it's really damp here... and anyway," "I'm sensitive..." "I feel it." "Almost like it's infested with some horrible germs." "Really not healthy." "Really not healthy." "Especially after what happened to Edith..." "What happened?" "Come on!" "Why'd he have to marry a widow?" "And so much older than him?" "It's not normal." "Like he wanted to inherit the place?" "For some people ordinary sex just doesn't do the trick." "They need certain circumstances to be satisfied." "What sort of circumstances?" "Well, special..." "Teacher?" "No wonder he was kicked out..." "I don't know anything..." "I'll keep my mouth shut." "Edith wasn't a village person." "She was from a different world." "She and the teacher were like a pair of lovebirds, but you just didn't know what to talk about with her." "On the other hand, she didn't deserve to go that way..." "Have you calmed down?" "Try and look at things a little more objectively." "You need me." "There's nothing wrong with that." "Things get bad when you forget that." "Then you behave like a little..." " You looking for someone?" " Hello." "Could you tell me" "Could you tell me whether Antonin Toshovsky lives here?" "Ah, the first party guest!" "Come on in!" "Hello." "I'm looking for Mr. Toshovsky." "Antonin Toshovsky." "Right, that's me." "There must be some misunderstanding." "Anyway, do you by chance own a BMW with the license plate 6U5 5555?" "Yes I do." "My son drives it." "Has something happened?" "Well..." "Fuck!" "Look, this whole thing is a terrible misunderstanding." "The pants!" "I realized that..." "Down with the pants!" "I just thought that..." "That you'd disappear." "Take the pants off!" "Take the pants off!" "I bumped into his car in the parking lot." "I wanted to settle things with him without notifying my insurance company." "That's very unusual these days." "Oh, that's him" "I'll straighten things out with him." "Goodbye!" "I should have told you right at the beginning." "I'm not some..." "I don't sell myself!" "You accepted the money from my brother, didn't you?" "I didn't ask him for it." "You can have the money back." "Shit!" "I left my bag back there!" "Where'd you leave her?" "I don't believe we've been introduced." "Is it against the law to pick up hitchhikers?" "Where is she?" "Or should we talk about it at the police station?" "If I were you, I wouldn't bring the police into this." "Pimping is a crime." "By the way, how much does a girl like that make on an average night?" "What do you mean how much a night?" "Which girl?" "You're talking about my wife." "That's..." "Teresa's your wife?" "What do you mean, Teresa?" "Her name is Dora." "Theodora!" "Can you imagine what it's like to live with a lunatic?" "A psychopath?" "I've already lost all my friends." "They're afraid to visit us because Dora is totally unpredictable." "She seemed completely normal to me." "It's normal when a woman jumps out of her husband's moving car and offers sexual favours to the first guy she can stop?" "That's not the way it happened." "I invited her to a party and promised I'd pay for her time." "She agreed." "If your wife did that, wouldn't you find it weird?" "My wife would never do anything like that." "Because she isn't a psychopath." "She takes care of the family, looks after your old dad, grows wonderful pumpkins so that things are like in some happy-home magazine." "You are getting involved in a purely private matter." "So nice to have met you." "Goodbye." "Wait!" "What?" "I'll show you something purely private!" "Imagine, you go into your bedroom, lie down beside your wife and..." "She did that to you?" "With what?" "Swiss army knife." "Luckily she had enough presence of mind to call an ambulance." "Absolutely unpredictable!" "You never know what's going to happen next." "Is she being treated?" "Psychotic patients usually can't be treated." "Only stabilized." "If you aren't..." "what you say you aren't, how did you end up in Adam's car?" "I waved at him, at the spot where the girls offer their services." "What a coincidence!" "Not for him." "He drove there to buy a present for you." "But he made a mistake." "Adam made a mistake, and you didn't say a word." "Why?" "You need the money?" "Or did you just want to see what it's like?" "You ever have the feeling that you have to do something?" "You just have to." "Regardless of the consequences." "You left the window open!" "I was in a rush." "I was afraid to stay here." "Was she snooping around here again?" "Who?" "How did the eggs get here?" "Some..." "She brought them on a moped." "What'd she tell you?" "Nothing." "I want to know what she said." " That some Kulak hung himself here." " And that frightened you?" "That was 60 years ago." "She didn't say anything about me?" " Just..." " What?" "That you're selling the place." "Nothing else?" "That... you're not normal!" "That you're a pervert!" "A pervert!" "That the school fired you that you married some old hag and God only knows what the two of you were up to." "That the place is full of some horrible germs, with the two of you holed up in this damp grave and...!" "The bitch!" "At home they raise rats..." "Nutria." "Who gives a shit about her goddamn eggs?" " I do." " What?" "I'm hungry." "What's up, Dad?" "Adam knows what he's doing." "Here's the money." "How much did he give you?" "I was worth five thousand for him." "He told me if I was good, I'd get another five." "Good at what?" "He hired me as a female companion for your party." "I was supposed to pretend that I'm your girlfriend, nothing else." "Or did he tell you something else?" "I want to know what he said to you!" "What'd he tell you?" "That he paid you a king's ransom." "And that I can do whatever I want to with you." "That I should fuck your brains out, not be gentle about it." "You just made that up." "He treated me like a gentleman." "He mustn't find me here!" "This can't be happening." "This can't be happening." "Say that I'm not here, that I ran away... anything!" "Wait..." "Well, I couldn't force her to stay." "She wanted to leave so I took her to the bus stop." "At the crossroads up by the cemetery?" "How long ago?" "Right after you left." "She had something else lined up." "...something else lined up?" "Hello, Major." "Don't tell me you think I'm hiding her from you?" "My brother took her to the bus stop." "Yeah, he's here." "He's worried about her." "He says that his wife has some psychological..." "What?" "Do you know where she went?" "To Usti, to Teplice... to Hell." "Quite frankly, I don't care." "That was Dad." "People are starting to show up." "We better get going." "And what about you?" "Maybe I'll come a bit later." "Dad told me to bring the rest of the schnapps." "It's in the barn." "Let's go." "Martin, forget the booze." "I just made that up." "That phone call - that wasn't Dad." "No?" "Who was it?" "The police." "You really aren't hiding her here?" "Why would I lie to you?" "Maybe you've got a reason." "She had one too." "That's what I told you." "First of all, her name isn't Teresa but Theodora, and second, she's not a hooker." "Martin, hold on!" "I don't know how he found me but he showed up at our place," "He won't give up until he finds her." "If you've got her somewhere here..." "Hey, Martin, wait!" "You hear any barking around here?" " No, why?" "The dog that barks doesn't bite." "The opposite's true too." "My brother will lead the way." "It's about time for an explanation, isn't it Theodora?" "Dora's fine... now that we know each other." "Is that what your husband calls you?" "I can't hear you." "What do they call you at home?" "Whose jumper is this?" "It's probably..." "Yes, it's mine." "And the blood on it too?" "Stop discussing this through the door!" "I've got to get out of here." "And that's why you've barricaded yourself in?" "Are you afraid of me or your husband?" "He's not my husband..." "Well, he is... but..." " But what?" " Nothing." "Forget it." "And you forget my sweater." "There's blood on it." "So what?" "I slaughtered a chicken." "A chicken, huh?" "And where is it?" "You want to see it?" "That's pretty high up." "You could break a leg." "Anyway, you're not a prisoner here." "You asked me to hide you from your husband, or whatever he is." "And I did it." "Then you found something you shouldn't have." "And what the hell?" "Were you going through my stuff?" "People today don't have any manners." "If I tell you what you want to know," "If I tell you what you want to know, will you answer a few questions?" "Are we playing truth or dare?" " I've always hated that game." " You can ask the first question." "Okay." "Husband - yes or no?" "Husband yes." "But not mine." "Does he cheat on his wife?" "With you?" "At first he was just my boss..." "Then..." "And then what?" "Truth or dare - it was your idea." "Instead of dictating business letters he started pouring his heart out to me." "That he and his wife can't have children." "That they hadn't had sex for ages." "That he's filing for divorce." "Did you fall in love with him?" "Like crazy." "What?" "Like crazy!" "Your driver's license, please." "Could you tell me what this is all about?" "Major Hosek." "We spoke a few minutes ago." "Did you discuss things with him?" "Of course, but... not everything." "The other guy was behaving very suspiciously." "Three over to one." "Suspect continuing on Route 126 direction Decin." "Has he passed the turn-off to the glassworks?" "Not yet." "Over." "Has your brother got a gun?" "No." "Well... but he never uses it." "It's ancient, he inherited it." "With a license?" "I don't think it even works." "After a year and a half, when he still wasn't divorced, my infatuation started to..." "Cool off?" "I discovered that he'd lied." "Cookie... that is, Jana, his lawfully wedded spouse... is expecting." "Guys are promiscuous pigs, aren't they?" "When I found out, I said... that it was over between us." "Then I realized that I didn't know him at all." "He started showing me what pathological jealousy was." "Was he jealous of you?" "Or of his wife?" "Both of us." "He won't give either of us up." "He'd rather kill us." "Or himself." "Once he stuck a knife in his gut like a raving lunatic." "Another time he beat me so much I ended up in the emergency room." "He abuses Cookie too, he's a psychopath." "That's what he says about you." "That's what everybody says... about somebody." "Can you prove that he's lying and you're not?" "I'm not going to." "My turn." "I've only got two questions." "You want to know whose blood is on the jumper." "You want to know whose blood is on the jumper." "That's my second question." "Why did you stop teaching?" "The motivation was gone." "I didn't enjoy it any more." "Bullshit!" "They fired you!" "Yeah, I forgot..." "Why?" "Something about ethical standards." "A necrophiliac on the teaching staff was deemed to be inappropriate." "The photo just above the table that's Edith." "Your wife?" "When I married her I knew she had cancer." "She'd just finished chemo." "That's not her hair." "She's wearing a wig." "It looked good on her." "It looked really good on her." "If you didn't know, you couldn't recognize a thing." "She was talented." "At what?" "At everything." "At life." "She had megawatts of energy in her." "Planted trees, trained Tolstoy she seemed to be healthy." "For a while it simply stopped." "That's what the beast does sometimes...on purpose... to make you believe you can still enjoy life." "That illusion lasted two years." "One day at the hospital they told me to take her home that they'd done everything they could." "Did she know it?" "She was happy that they'd released her." "It didn't last a month." "I was with her the whole time." "Our last month... together." "She died in the orchard." "I'd carried her outside because it was a beautiful, warm day." "We lay down in the grass," "I took her in my arms, we looked up into the branches." "They say that I was with her there for three days." "And three nights." "It was wonderful." "She told me things that she'd never had time to tell me before." "Then they found us." "They took her away from me." "I didn't want them to." "I could have buried her here in the orchard - why not?" "I wanted her to stay." "But they took her away from me." "Without Edith it's terribly empty here." "We ended up alone, Tolstoy and me." "Every morning he'd run out to the orchard and across the brook stepping on exactly the same stones that Edith had." "the same stones that Edith had." "He looked for her, whining and barking." "Until today." "Which brings us to your second question." "Are you still interested?" "Dora, am I boring you?" "I was hoping you'd come..." "keep your promise." "You promised that you'd never leave me." "Instead you're acting like a whore!" "You're cheating on me!" "Running off like this!" "What did I do?" "Tell me!" "I said that I like you, both of you." "So what's all this scheming behind my back?" "You convinced Cookie to leave me, but you were too late!" "She didn't make it." "What did you do to her?" "Same thing I'm going to do to you." "We know whose fault that is, don't we?" "Your wife's on the phone." "She wants to talk to you..." "You recognize these?" " The gamekeeper's antlers." " Why'd you take aim at these?" " He shot my dog." " It was running loose in the woods." "Why don't you give me the gun?" "How'd you get it anyway?" "It belonged to old Mr. Lisner." "I hear homicide arrested some guy here yesterday stabbed his wife to death." "They arrested him." "But he didn't kill her." "She survived." "There's always something going on around here." "You just attract trouble." "What do you mean trouble?" "You were a good teacher." "You should go back to teaching." "I know." "You shouldn't be living here all alone." "I know." "That couch stinks." "Tolstoy used to sleep on it." "You going somewhere?" "Where?" "You like sugar in your coffee, don't you?" "English subtitles" " Peter Lawson" "Subtitles by Innominabilis"