"HEIMAT 3" " A CHRONICLE OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS" "A SIX-PART FILM B Y EDGAR REITZ" "PART SIX - FAREWELL TO SCHABBACH" "What's going on here?" "Are they your kids?" "SOLAR ECLIPSE GLASSES SOLD OUT" "It's Gunnar, What's he doing here?" "Hello, Gunnar!" "Sorry, I don't think I know you" "Now I've heard it all!" "Look, it's me, Tillmann!" "And there's Moni" "Tillmann!" "Yes" "So the penny has finally dropped" "What's "Schabbach"?" "It's the address of our drama group, Tillmann is our backstage man" "He manages everything, Music, stage, lighting" "Without him nothing would work" "We won the theatre festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen" "We've come from there" "Sorry, but my mind was on something else completely" "What a surprise!" "Gunnar in Munich, at the same time as us" "Are you here for the solar eclipse, too?" "Not exactly, Not really" "I have an urgent appointment here" "Oh, you my homeland My beautiful Hunsrück land" "So many forests" "That are very familiar to me" "The still mountains That I'm so fond of" "Oh, my homeland How beautiful you are" "Like a crescent" "It's like a sun's crescent" "Like a thunderstorm is coming" "Beautiful" "What an amazing sight" "Incredible" "Unbelievable" "Incredible" "From the train I could see the landscape changing" "The changing colours and the strange shadows darted across the fields" "It's good you're here" "The train was late getting into Salzburg but the sky was clear blue" "The cosmos is mercilessly punctual" "DR NEUMAYR" " OPHTHALMOLOGIST" "Here we are, your eye drops" "Hello, I have an appointment here" "Due to the solar eclipse, I have a medical problem" "I have a solar retinopathy" "Do you know what that is?" "If possible, I would prefer to come tomorrow" "Your summons, ID and name" "My name is Brehme, Gunnar Brehme" "Gunnar" "How do I look?" "Well I hope I'm not disturbing you" "I was in Munich, and thought I would call in" "I just wanted to say hello" "How you have grown!" "I hardly recognise you" "You know who I am?" "Yes, of course" "That's our real father" "Are you here for the eclipse?" "Yes" "For other reasons, too" "You're all dressed up, Are you going out?" "Can I go?" "I want to go to the concert" "You're interested in concerts?" "Do you remember Hermann and CIarissa?" "He set Günderrode's poems to music, and she's singing them tonight" "Gunnar, how about tomorrow?" "Tomorrow?" "I'm leaving tomorrow" "Did he say he was coming?" "No, I'm just as surprised as you" "Damn, I bet he doesn't realise he should be leaving" "When is he coming back?" "I'll sort it out" "Gunnar, is everything OK?" "Yes, thanks" "We'll call to say when we'll be home, And hands off my computer" "We're in the phone book" "Call us beforehand and you can stay for longer, But not today" "Thanks, love" "Shall we drop you off somewhere?" "Bye, take care, See you later" "Shit, His suitcase" "What should we do with it?" "Toilet bag, pyjamas Harry Potter" "I'll run after him" "Hello!" "Hello!" "No, I don't believe it, I left my suitcase at your place" "Thanks, That's sweet of you" "I suppose you deserve a reward" "May I invite the young lady to a drink perhaps?" "I can't drink anything alcoholic, I'm not eighteen yet" "That's right" "OK, then I'll order an alcoholic drink and I'll give some to you, OK?" "I want a pina colada" "I would like..." "Gosh..." "A huge menu but no small snacks" "I'm starving" "What are you?" "I'm hungry" "I can make you something" "Can you cook?" " Kaiserschmarrn" "What's that?" "Made from eggs, flour, milk and raisins" "Sort of cut-up pancakes?" "You're a sweetie" "Everything is silent and empty" "Nothing gives me joy" "Fragrance with no fragrance" "Breeze with no breeze" "My heart is so heavy" "You deepest red" "Until death" "My love shall be with you" "Shall never be without it" "Until death" "You glowing red" "It shall be with you" "He's playing the piano now" "Do you remember it?" "Sure, it was always my favourite" "He looked at the sun without any glasses" "His eyes won't stop watering, It's like he's crying" "Do you have a mobile phone?" "A mobile phone?" "If you had one, we could text each other" "What's texting?" "I could send you a text message" "A text message?" "Yes" "You write a little letter on your mobile phone and send it and I get it" "Then I'll buy one" "Good" "Now he's opening his third bottle of wine" "Nadine, you have to drink a glass with your dad" "You're not little any more" "The boys always wanted to get me drunk, but..." "The boys, you have to watch out for the boys" "They're the worst" "Do you have a boyfriend?" "No, not really, What about you?" "Does Mum still bake cream cakes?" "What sort of cakes?" "Cream cakes" "Mum doesn't bake" "This is my room" "It's nice" "I have to tell you something, I'm going to prison" "Cool" "No, I'm serious" "Actually, I should have been there today, but a day here or there..." "Say something" "What do you think of your father being a complete failure?" "What did you do?" "Imagine you've been driving for years" "No accidents, Everything's been fine" "But one drink they will get you then" "They will boss you around" "You know how it is, you drink and drive and the police stop you" "It's a carnival" "At first, they took my licence away and then I was on probation" "There was a car coming at me in the middle of town driving against the traffic and I was forced to cause a severe accident, without a licence" "Even though I'm a good driver they got me" "And it happened in Freising at the Munich beer festival which I had wanted to see for so long" "That's why your dad has to do time here" "Don't worry, I'll be out in a few weeks" "Theoretically in six months, but I'll be out in three, you'll see" "I'll be out in half the time and it wasn't a huge crime after all" "Doesn't your woman say it's wrong?" "Would you like to stay over?" "I would love to" "Thanks, Nadine" "In the guest room" "You have a guest room as well?" "Yes" "They're from Schabbach!" "What are they doing here?" "We wanted to show our loyalty to you" "Hi, Hermann" "Toni, what a surprise" "It was great, CIarissa" "Thank you" "Hermann, I have some sad news for you" "Rudi Molz died, They called our mobile phone" "Frieda, who lives next door, left a message on the voicemail" "The funeral is in two days" "Was he ill?" "No, not really" "Often he said he felt unwell, and by the time the doctor arrived he was already dead" "Unfortunately, that's all we know from Tillmann's mobile phone" "Hello, CIarissa, Hello, Hermann" "That's hard on Lena" "Hermann, could you talk to her?" "I know it would make her feel better" "Tillmann dial Lena's number" "What is it?" "06544 81 1 9" "Is that you, Lena?" "It's Hermann Simon" "I'm in Munich, next to the bus with your people" "You know they're here" "You don't want to talk now" "Lena, we received the news" "I understand it isn't easy to talk" "I just wanted to tell you that we're all thinking of you" "I am, too" "Kind regards from CIarissa, She's standing next to me" "Lena..." "It's great how you do that, Nadine" "I think we should see each other more often, you know" "Not only that, but we should celebrate together" "That's an idea!" "We'll celebrate New Year's Eve together" "All of us, I'll invite you, It will be my goal" "Gunnar will be out by New Year's Eve" "I'll put on a huge party that everybody will talk about" "Nadine, I just want you to be really proud of your dad for once" "What do you say?" "Good" "Of course it's good" "Take care, Bye" "Are you our guest tonight?" "Don't be so polite" "He's our father, after all" "Yes, of course" "May I ask how you found the eclipse?" "Dad!" "OK, Dad" "I..." ""The solar eclipse was the greatest..."" ""...most epoch-making event"" "That was Erich" "Don't say you don't know who Erich was, That can't be true" "Today's youth doesn't even know who Erich Honnecker was" "That is truly the end of East Germany" "Did you enjoy it?" "Yes, it was very good" "We discovered it four years ago" "Three" "We discovered it three years ago" "I always do that, too..." "No" "I can't stop thinking of Lena" "Standing in her draughty hallway, unable to speak into the receiver" "That's true love" "The word "Iove" is a bit embarrassing" "I never heard Gunnar say it" "But when Reinhold says it, I close my eyes and imagine we're in a film" "In any case, Rudi and Lena made it to the end without a big fuss" "You see, we've got to watch out" "Not everyone's made for love" "You are, aren't you?" "I think I heard something" "Give me your key" "Thank you" "Hello?" "Are you still awake?" "Of course" "Nadine, I think it's the other way around" "Hello?" "Crocodile Theophile is a funny reptile" "Crocodile..." "Gunnar!" "Mum!" "No, that's it!" "How was the concert?" "Gunnar..." "Come on, leave him alone, It will get complicated otherwise" "Nadine, Jennifer, time for bed, The show's over, Come on" "What's wrong?" "You know" "Petra, you know, we have two wonderful children" "First, they brought me my case, which I had forgotten" "Then Nadine made me an excellent meal" "And then I gave them both a little history lesson" "May I?" "Thank you" "Mum?" "I didn't put the kids to bed because it's the holidays" "When I think of you I wonder how someone can always behave so badly" "Why?" "I had a magical evening with the kids" "Who knows what I really feel, Petra?" "Who knows?" "Nobody knows what I feel, but Nadine..." "Nadine senses it" "You said you think of me" "Gunnar, please!" "You said so" "I often think of you, Petra" "I think that..." "Petra I should have kept you" "That would have been good I would say" "Morning, sweetheart" "Morning" "Good morning, Gunnar" "Good morning, This is medicine" "How could I forget?" "Your medicine" "I have everything under control" "Why are you all staring at me?" "I didn't sleep a wink all night" "I was thinking about New Year's Eve" "Let's all celebrate together, OK?" "I know who will pay for it" "Good old Gunnar, Sure, money was never my problem" "I want it to start with a bang!" "Where is the ideal place to hold a millennium party?" "The Günderrode House, high above the Rhine, where it all began" "Mr Simon won't mind" "Morning" "Petra, I can't get it to stop" "Reinhold" "I'm going" "I have to buy some of that handmade paper for my forthcoming correspondence" "MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS SEE THE SOLAR ECLIPSE" "Prisoner Brehme reports for the execution of his sentence" "Your ID?" "Yes, ma'am" "I'm only in for six months" "Go on through" "Welcome" "Hello" "Your coat, please" "OK" "Put the bag on the table" "I must search you, Turn around" "It was great in East Germany when you were over the alcohol limit" "Go into the room and undress, You'll get clothing from us" "Yes, it was zero millilitres of alcohol" "Today, some say 1 ,5 millilitres and others say 0,8 millilitres" "They can't agree, How do I know when to stop?" "You probably know the butcher shop in Freising" "Your shirt" "There's a sharp left-hand bend" "When a lorry approaches at night and blinds you there's no way to avoid it and not drive into that shop" "The community..." "It was my misfortune that made the community aware of that danger" "Now that dead-man's curve is a one-way street" "And the butcher renovated his whole shop at my expense" "I paid for a top quality display window and the interior fittings" "Actually, he should have paid me" "For the advertising alone TV cameramen came and documented everything" "Ever since, he's had a poster of me in his shop" "Gunnar has always paid for everything" "But there's no mention of it in the verdict" "They claim that I resisted arrest and tried to avoid a breath test" "Do I look like a troublemaker?" "No" "So..." "Go in" "Gunnar Brehme, I will be a model prisoner" "Hi there, My name is Brehme, Gunnar Brehme" "Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble" "I'll be released on good behaviour for New Year's Eve" "New Year's Eve is in 1 41 days and I've already figured it out" "If I say a friendly phrase like "how are you?" 1 41 times if I'm really kind, I'm sure it will soften the heart of any warden" "I call that sucking up to them and that makes me puke" "Christian crap and psycho shit!" "There are sheep and there are wolves, You have to realise that" "Show them who is boss so they know who they're dealing with" "I have plans for New Year's Eve" "I can make you an offer" "Parties, fireworks, swearing, bashing people in the face" "Lots of fun" "On the West side let's beat up some foreigners, Iike the ones with the headscarves" "Is that why they locked you up?" "Hello" "Hello" "Hello" "The last time" "I didn't think it would be so hard on you since you never returned to live here" "The old stories are packed away in boxes and will follow us" "Will we ever unpack them?" "This flat helped me say to myself, "I have an alternative"" "Our life together began as an experiment and it still is" "One love and two careers" "Still, haven't we done well in ten years?" "It was different for our parents" "In the villages, couples were harnessed to a plough and they pulled it through life" "That's not true, Hermann" "Your father and mother weren't harnessed to a plough" "They were worlds apart" "I have a lonely mother who had to struggle and who got all her love from her only daughter" "You're right" "Together we can move mountains, I felt it last night" "When you sing the songs I wrote for your voice I feel safe" "Since my illness, I know that we're never safe" "Don't worry about the storage, We'll take care of everything" "Hello, Mr Simon" "Hello" "Do you have the keys?" "Of course, here you are" "Is that all of them?" "That's a touchy subject" "My daughter might still have a few" "Hello, Mrs Lichtblau" "Hello" "I'll look into it" "Excuse me" "Yes" "Come on through" "It'll be easier to have a new lock fitted" "Mother..." "How did you get here?" "I ran away, CIarissa" "You ran away from the nursing home?" "She ran away" "Did you have a quarrel?" "Were there any problems?" "Mother, you've come just as we are leaving" "We're going back to the house on the Rhine" "Take me with you, please" "I can't bear it in Wasserburg" "Somebody dies there every day" "Every day they carry somebody out of the house" "Every day!" "What shall we do?" "Mother, five minutes later and we would have been gone" "I know you're really scared" "You think your daughter wants to get rid of you and is ungrateful" "It was your idea to return to Wasserburg" "You sent for brochures and got a place in that home" "You were in raptures about living in a familiar place" "You said you were giving me back a piece of my childhood" "You made me think that was what you wanted" "Don't you think you can trust me?" "What's so awful about the home?" "I won't leave you alone" "This motorway is deadly" "Thousands of lorries from The Netherlands, Belgium, the Ruhr region" "Behind me is the Rhine valley with its industry" "In front and next to me is the holiday traffic" "From the mountains to the sea, from the North Sea to Italy" "To the right is the smog from the Rhine-Main region" "To the left is Saarland" "The Benelux countries, Northern France, Normandy England, where the rain comes from" "And my soul is torn" "I see the familiar Hunsrück mountains" "Familiar names of towns names of families names of roads, forests lonely houses, lookout points" "My sense of locality speaks to me" "It is like a dog who remembers with its nose" "Tales which are now buried" "Names of the dead" "Rudi Molz is a tale of the past" "Hello" "Hello, Mr Simon" "I took this picture just three months ago" "I've been thinking about it for years, Nice, isn't it?" "Very nice" "Let me help you" "Thank you" "Who would have guessed?" "So nice, Mr Molz" "Now he's dead" "Those two trees stand on my old way to school" "I saw them when I rode from Schabbach to Kirchberg station" "There they were, on the right side of the road, in a meadow" "It was exhausting for the farmer to mow round them" "Two linden trees" "I thought eternal love would never die as long as those trees were there" "I had just turned sixteen" "Another one" "Did you have Mr Oertel for Latin, too?" "No, but my brother did" "He told me a lot about him, He knew Ovid by heart" "Philemon and Baucis, too?" "Sure" "That picture reminded me of them" "The two old folks who turn into trees and grow together" "Every time Oertel told us about them, those two trees came to mind during Latin lessons" "We really did struggle when we were young, didn't we, Hermann?" "But young people today just want to have fun" "They listen with their eyes and look with their ears" "But even if you look with your ears or listen with your eyes you don't see the cuckoo that they stuck on Ernst's Niebelung treasure" "The one they stuck on him" "Come on, Rudi" "I know better than you do" "Why would anybody stick a cuckoo on it?" "A question" "Why is the entire Niebelung treasure passing us on its way to Mainz and Frankfurt and then on to Kuwait and Japan?" "The answer is the lnland Revenue" "Yes, the lnland Revenue, in the form of six bailiffs and seven art experts who examined Ernst's estate" "They assessed it and confiscated it" "Yes, you Simons are poor now" "The poorest people in Schabbach" "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" "Amen" "In his life, man is like grass" "He blossoms like a flower in a field" "When the hot desert wind passes over, it is no longer there and the place where it stood has no memory of it" "But the Lord's mercy is eternal for all who honour and respect Him" "Dear Mrs Molz ,Carmen relatives and members of the congregation" "Everyone of us who has been to Molz's Inn recognises this photo which has hung for years on the wall next to the bar" "I remember this picture well" "It shows children and teenagers after playing ball standing on the road to Oberdorf staring intently at the camera" "The deceased Rudi Molz explained the picture to me a few years ago" "One of the children was his wife Marlene, who was called Lena at the age of just seven, blonde, curly-haired and full of confidence" "And the boy who stood next to her smiling proudly as if to say "I'm your friend, I'll protect you"" "That was little Rudi Molz" "He was eleven at the time and later became her devoted husband" "When I saw this picture I realised some marriages are made in heaven" "What was that?" "An explosion?" "Look at this, Over two metres and still no resistance" "Get back!" "Get back!" "That's dangerous!" "Here, where we are standing was the big slate mine" "Hermann, Ernst's Niebelung treasure must be down in that hole" "You have to look into it because your daughter's working there" "Lukas!" "Lukas!" "Natasha!" "Lulu!" "Where are you?" "Help!" "Lukas!" "Watch out!" "Lulu, help!" "Lukas!" "Lukas, go along there and come down!" "Come down, Get into the container!" "Come down from there!" "Let's move. lt's breaking" "No, no!" "It's too dangerous!" "Lulu!" "Lukas" "Where's the remote control?" "Here it is" "Natasha!" "Hold on to Lukas and sit down on the rope as if it were a swing" "Hold on tight, Lukas!" "Hold on to the rope!" "Don't worry!" "Look at me, Lukas!" "Look at me!" "Natasha!" "Lulu!" "Leave the back of the bridge and take away the door so we can go in" "OK" "I'll have them bring a crane and you make sure that both containers are cleaned up and put over there" "OK" "Hello" "Could you get the pumps out of the storage container?" "Set them up by the suction shafts and attach them" "Pumps in the suction shafts, Fine" "OK" "They are running at full power" "We must be careful not to pump the water below ground-water level" "It could lift the concrete basin and carry it away like the Schürmann Building in Bonn was" "Hi, Mr BIeicher" "We admire your work" "Everything's under control" "This is Mr Konrad from Hahn Holding one of the main financiers with us and the state" "Good evening, Mr Konrad" "Evening, Miss Simon" "We have one essential question" "What's happened to the art collection?" "I wasn't able to find that out tonight" "I'm sorry" "We understand" "If we aren't certain the collection is complete and undamaged we have to suspend construction, as you know" "We're expecting cement mixers tomorrow" "The whole day is planned" "I don't believe you understand, I'm speaking of loss limitation" "That means an immediate suspension of work" "You're awake" "We lit the candle, so you would come back safe and sound" "Lukas, you should never light a candle and then fall asleep" "Look, it's a real fire" "If the wind blows and the candle falls, the house could burn down" "You're awake, too" "Promise you'll never do it again, OK?" "Natasha said if we light a candle then nothing will happen to you" "That's superstition" "But you're safe and sound" "It has nothing to do with the candle" "Come on, get into bed" "Time to sleep" "I'll stay here a while" "I'm glad nothing happened to you two my little darlings" "Toni, what's going on there?" "Hi, Lulu" "It's a godsend that the cement mixers from Bendorf happened to be here" "We re-routed them from the building site at six this morning" "Why wasn't I told?" "We arranged it with Hahn Holding, They're paying" "It's damage limitation, but if you ask me, it's liability limitation!" "If we find out that this mess was caused by your excavations, may God have mercy" "Ridiculous!" "That's impossible!" "Sixty-four cubic metres of concrete have disappeared down that hole" "Shit!" "If there's a connection between that hole and the paintings then the collection will encase in concrete like the Chernobyl reactor" "You had better hope you're mistaken!" "What you're doing is insane!" "Stop until I find out what's going on" "Shall we wait till the whole town sinks?" "What a load of shit!" "Do you have cracks in your kitchen or do I?" "The mine shafts were constructed as open shafts with no supports" "The drawing shows the course of the shaft" "Testing, testing, Do you hear me?" "Lulu, you're not thinking of going down there, are you?" "Only I know where the collections and the containers are" "We will stay in touch" "Lulu, can you hear me?" "Yes, Hermann, I can hear you" "We will try to reach the first big cavern" "Everything's covered in mud" "Water is coming from the left." "It's created a new path" "The shaft on the right is blocked." "We will try to get through the water" "Hello" "Hello, Lulu is inside" "It looks like she wants to..." "she wants to dive under the water" "Let's wait for news" "Water has seeped through and created a lake" "There's no problem with the drainage but the ceiling is quite fragile" "We will try to get to the paintings" "Why weren't the paintings taken to a safe place, if they're valuable?" "What do you mean by safe?" "They were safe for forty years" "Why should we have taken them away?" "It's impossible to get to the containers" "The entire mountain seems to have caved in on them" "We have one hope left" "Heading north there is a hollow space" "It could lead to the cavern." "We're going to look at it" "It's me, Henri, Lulu, I want you to come out at once" "We have to discuss the situation, Don't put yourself in danger!" "Lulu, can you hear me?" "Mr Delveau wants to discuss the situation" "There's nothing to discuss." "I've come across wet cement" "It's coming towards me and it's two metres wide" "It's solidifying" "I hope you realise what this means" "The sarcophagus of Schabbach" "The town can be proud" "Over and out" ""Just as a boy, I often look to the ground..." ""...seeking refuge in the 'ollows' from you"" "Not "ollows," "Hollows"" "Hollows" "Another fitting quote from 'ÖIderlin'" "Do you know what's so wonderful about HöIderlin?" "He saw a new beginning in everything and felt enthusiastic" "That's why I love his poems" "Do you know what I feel?" "The museum project was more than just a job to me" "Not only because we met" "It had to do with my family, It was something to be proud of" "I've never been so attached to a project before" "No HöIderlin can help me" "Do you want to marry me?" "It sounds a bit like you want to save me" "Where did you get that idea?" "It just occurred to me" "I'm serious" "I just don't know what to say" "Come on, Lukas, Let's go" "It's a long way to Cologne" "Why can't I stay with Grandpa?" "It isn't a long-term solution, Come on" "What does that mean?" "We live in Cologne, You'll see" "I don't know anybody there" "That's not true" "Your mum has to think everything over" "How long will that take?" "Lukas, I don't know" "I don't know what's right at the moment, I'm at a loss" "Should I look for another job?" "Should we move to another town?" "Should we move to France?" "Or should we both go on holiday, since you haven't started school yet?" "I would rather stay with Grandpa" "Yes, hello, Good" "I wanted to ask if it is possible to order imported Chinese fireworks from you?" "No, money is no problem" "Fifteen thousand?" "Oh, fifty thousand!" "Yes, there's a difference" "I want it to be special, Something people talk about for years" "OK, and can you guarantee that it's delivered by 31 st December?" "I don't want to do it myself, Send the organisers" "OK, for 1 1 0,000, What, for 1 1 0,000 Western marks?" "I'll get back to you through Mr Hyong Fang Be" "OK, I have to go, I'll call you back" "Prisoner Gunnar Brehme reporting for lock-up" "Off you go, Your card, Mr Brehme" "Thank you" "Can I use the fax machine for an hour?" "That's enough!" "You're not at the Grand Hotel!" "How can I manage my funds without one?" "I'm expecting my shares to explode" "Let's call it a day" "But I'm not bear, I'm bull" "Coitus and cash, BIokes like you don't have any other problems" "What about you?" "What's your grand scheme?" "I know how the world works" "As a stock exchange pioneer, I was there from the start" "Thank you" "For example, Telecom shares" "They entered the market at 23,50 marks" "Less than fifteen euros" "And today's closing price in Frankfurt?" "How much?" "7 7,60 euros" "That's five hundred per cent in less than three years" "What will you do with all your dough when your time is up?" "I'm going to have a party" "The better the stock market, the better the party" "I just can't wait" "Money isn't everything in life" "It's the interest that counts" "How much is that?" "A hundred and fifteen marks" "Hello, how was the journey?" "I had completely forgotten how nice the house is" "Come in" "It is quite overwhelming" "And this beautiful view, CIarissa" "You know what this is a house of happiness" "Yes, Hermann..." "Hermann, you'll see I can be very helpful" "In a house like this there's always something to do" "Your laundry, the garden..." "And I was well known for my varied and healthy cuisine" "No spider web has ever escaped me, Isn't that right, CIarissa?" "She hasn't stopped panicking" "There we are" "The room is a lot smaller than in Wasserburg" "It doesn't matter" "I'm blessed to be among the living again" "Mother, I want to be alone with Hermann now" "Let's talk about everything tomorrow" "I'm very happy" "Go on, This room is all I need" "Good evening" "Tillmann" "I saw the taxi drive up and I thought I should talk to you, if I'm not disturbing you" "It's very important" "Yes, come in, What's the matter?" "Did you check your post?" "Yes, I did" "There must have been a letter from Gunnar Brehme in there with a question which concerns me, too" "Good evening" "It's about New Year's Eve" "Gunnar wants to get the old gang together" "A reunion after such a long time" "It's a pity we've all lost track of each other" "It's Gunnar's idea, lt occurred to me as well, but I never..." "Or..." "Didn't he talk to you about it?" "A reunion?" "Here at our house?" "Haven't I mentioned that yet?" "I'm afraid there's no way to stop it" "He's setting everybody in motion" "He wants to put up a marquee and have a power cable laid all the way up here" "Business for small electrical shops is precarious, Mr Simon due to discount shops" "Gunnar's offer was a real godsend" "He asked me to manage all the details outdoor heating, sound, lighting, the band" "I asked Gunnar if he realised what it would cost and the lunatic transferred fifty thousand to my account" "Typical Gunnar" "He's completely crazy" "Money is no object he said" "When Christmas draws near and everybody gets into the spirit shortly before the first snowfall I will apply for a reduced sentence" "I'll write to the magistrate, the public prosecutor and the Minister of Justice" "You have to touch people's hearts" "The letters are in my head already" "Put the speakers next to the steps, behind the marquee" "Tillmann, is everything OK?" "This is our home, welcome!" "Recognise everything?" "What little sweethearts, I have to talk to Moni" "Sound check coming up" "A daughter-in-Iaw, grandchildren and my son's a father" "Hermann, I'm trembling" "Can I have your signature?" "This isn't for me" "Talk to the man in the yellow coat, Tillmann!" "Grandma!" "Have you heard from Gunnar?" "No, not a word" "Moni, give me the mobile phone, We have to call Gunnar" "Let me show you the sound system first" "When you get hold of him, Iet me talk to him" "OK, Lukas, We will do what we said" "I'm celebrating New Year's Eve with Roland in Frankfurt" "You know, he was your father's best friend" "He's very ill now, and I would like to celebrate with him" "Yes" "Are you sad if I go away on the eve of a new millennium or doesn't it matter?" "No, I would rather play the piano with Grandpa" "That's OK, then" "Keep on counting in your head" "One, two..." "Just a minute" "Yes?" "Excuse me, Do you know Gunnar Brehme?" "Yes, but none of us know where he is right now" "Two, one go!" "Good evening" "I told you so" "May I take your coat?" "Of course" "Thank you" "Hold on, I need to get something" "Thank you" "Can I give you this?" "Sure" "Galina" "Mrs Simon" "Hartmut!" "How nice you're here, Mara..." "Hello, CIarissa" "I want to tell you something" "Thank you" "I often imagined how we would meet again and now I don't even know what to say" "Do I look pretty?" "Yes, as always" "What about you?" "I hope you've finally found yourself" "I know everything about you, Really" "Really?" "You live in Hamburg, work in the wine trade with your father-in-Iaw you're often in the USA, aren't you?" "Yes" "How do you know?" "Well, I have my spies" "I thought we would never see Hunsrück again" "A common mistake" "Life is a carousel, Don't you agree?" "There's my husband" "Your new German husband?" "Congratulations" "Hartmut, I'm very happy with him" "Good evening" "Evening" "Christian Beisiegel" "You're Christian Beisiegel?" "Yes" "Hartmut Simon" "We know each other, We've done business" "Winkelmann Wine Distributors" "That's right, Nice to meet you, I have something for you" "How exciting" "Let's say hi to Gunnar first" "Come on" "Gunnar!" "Gunnar!" "Can someone tell me where Gunnar is?" "Gunnar!" "Gunnar!" "Gunnar!" "Gunnar?" "Gunnar!" "Jacques and Torsten, You've really grown" "Come here" "You're really something!" "Tell me, are you married?" "Of course" "How daring!" "How late is it?" "There's no way he will make it now" "We will have to tell everybody" "Gunnar!" "Good evening" "Yes?" "I wanted to give my dad a present" "A letter, Does he work here?" "Maybe, I don't exactly know" "Name?" "Gunnar Brehme" "He's a prisoner, We don't deliver letters at this hour" "But it's just a musical card" "Show me" ""Dear Dad" ""All the best for the next hundred years"" "I'm sending you a love letter" "Now give it back to me" "Or just burn That stupid piece of paper" "I didn't want to go out with you So leave me alone" "Give me the peace and quiet That I need so bad" "I bought myself a few cases of this and I'm happy with the quality" "What are they doing?" "The Bordeaux" "Two idiots!" "Yes..." "That was great" "This is my control panel, sound, lighting" "This is the user surface" "This is to start the fireworks at midnight, Do you recognise it?" "My first computer, a KC85/4, It's written on the back" "VEB Micro-EIectronics, Wilhelm Pieck Mühlhausen" "From your days as a computer hacker" "The Atari 800XL is the equivalent of the C64" "My mother bought it for me from a 'hard-currency shop' in 1 98 7" "It's real vintage" "It was worth a fortune in East Germany" "I sat up every night modifying the software so it wouldn't crash in 2000" "Computers are supposed to crash tonight but these are strong enough" "We have seventeen minutes until the new millennium" "As I can see my siblings, citizens of Schabbach and my relatives I would like to put an end to all the rumours" "At last, I want you to meet my other family" "I'm Kim" "Tamara" "I'm Sandra" "Steffi" "And I'm Jessica" "That's how it is, You've always known, anyway" "Let's start the new century being honest" "All right, Udo?" "It's strange looking at a house you built with your own hands" "Ten marks an hour" "We were kings then" "Yes, the future, an expanded country" "Everything's nice at the beginning" "There's no future with Jana" "The boys are grown up, We had a nice time" "Udo, that sounds terrible" "You and Jana were the best examples of loyalty the only couple to survive when the Wall fell" "Let me talk to you, man to man" "I never knew that I could do it six times a night if you know what I mean" "Now, for the last four and a half months," "I've known it, since I met this beautiful woman" "I've never been so happy" "And you know, Nadja is only twenty-three years old" "Intelligent, beautiful eyes, a mouth her figure..." "And no fear" "This little woman isn't afraid of anything" "She speaks English and Spanish and is learning Chinese" "A dream girl, I'm going to be fifty in six weeks" "Jana suspects something, but she doesn't say anything" "Tillmann, when we leave here in the new year, something must change" "It has to" "I want to start all over again, Tillmann, from scratch" "A divorce?" "Moni would tear me apart" "We have our own little happiness, And that can be fantastic" "My dear friends, Iet me say a few words to you" "Many of you are wondering where the initiator of this party is our dear Gunnar" "I'm sure he did everything possible to be with us tonight" "Nevertheless, he made this wonderful reunion possible" "Seeing you all again makes me recall the years when we first met" "For many of us, not only for our friends from East Germany they were years full of hopes and dreams" "But one day we realised it isn't up to us alone whether we become happy" "I know a thing or two about that" "When I look into your eyes, I feel we have a chance" "There's always another day" "And happiness Maybe we've already found it" "We have to begin the countdown because it's almost midnight" "Ten, nine, eight seven, six, five four, three, two, one" "Cheers" "Gunnar!" "Gunnar!" "2000" "You look different" "Welcome, Tobi" "The beard is gone" "Remember the white horse ran past here the first time we saw the house" "Of course" "And the campfires for St Martin's Day" "Gemma, Arnold, Mother, the twins, Lukas, Lulu" "Nine people are living at our house" "All things considered, the family seems to be the strongest force" "How am I as a grandmother?" "You have to promise me one thing" "Anything you like" "Stay healthy" "I promise" "Look" "Want to hear my predictions for the next century?" "clocks will gradually disappear, because no one wants to be punctual" "Architects will get rid of ninety degree angles" "We will learn to let buildings grow like plants" "Men will become women" "Women will become men" "Just people who have freedom of choice and who learn to do everything at once" "A cure for AIDS" "Will you marry Delveau?" "If I was with him, I could afford everything" "No money problems" "Lukas would attend the best schools in France" "That almost convinced me" "There's something about Delveau, I like him" "He's quite sexy too, But I cast it all to the wind" "I'm stupid, aren't I?" "Every time I almost said yes, it made me sad" "You don't love him, That's enough" "I'm beginning the new millennium with no job, no plans no money and no security" "Look what I learned, Mummy!" "That's amazing" "Where are the others?" "They're still asleep" "PART SIX - FAREWELL TO SCHABBACH"