"Once, in ancient times, or maybe even earlier, in a small principality between mountains and lakes, the arrival of winter was being celebrated." "Andrei Mironov Tatyana Aksyuta Lev Durov" "In an Alexander Mitta film" "A Tale of Wanderings" "Composer – Alfred Schnittke" "Smells delicious." "Know why?" "Because cooking in that ox is a ram, and in the ram a turkey, and in the turkey a duck, and in the duck a quail." "And in the quail a mouse, and in the mouse a roach." "No, silly!" "I'm telling you the truth." "OK, let's get out of here, let's go, our sack is completely empty." "Look, I have baked, a remarkable cake" "You've never seen a cake like this!" "I baked it for the Duke's children, I'm carrying it to the palace." "Let's have a look at what we got." "Look how much there is!" "And almost all of it untouched." "That's for the mice." "But this is for us." "This is also for the mice." "But that's also for us." "There was Burgundy wine in here." "We'll pour water in, and our water will taste of wine and burgundy, yeah?" "And this...is a very necessary thing." "And it'll come in handy, when we're really old, yeah?" "Me and you will sit in our armchairs and stare at each other." " Martha, are we poor?" " Nothing of the sort!" "These are all gifts, and on Christmas everyone gets gifts." "I don't want leftovers, I want real presents." "Well, Santa Claus will come and give you a real present" " But Santa Claus doesn't visit orphans." " Why not?" "Of course he does!" "Remember, last year you left your boot by the fireplace" "And in the morning you found a little glass marble inside" "Oh I know, you put it there yourself." " No, you're wrong." " We're poor, poor!" "But we could be richer than everyone, we could have as much gold as we wanted!" "Quiet, don't talk aloud about that." "Don't even dare think about it, Or you'll get such a spanking." "Let me be sick, at least you'll be rich and have food to eat." "Silly boy." "You could die from it, look how weak you are." "Martha, I love you so much." "I love you too." "Nevermind, May, we'll get by." "As long as we can survive the winter, it'll be easier after that." "All that counts is that we're together." "Don't sleep, May, you'll freeze." "Look at the fireplace, Santa will climb down soon." " No he won't." " He will." "And here I am!" "Hello children, you weren't expecting me?" "Shut your eyes, open your mouth... and in a moment I'll give you a pie." "Soon, soon." "May!" "May!" "Martha!" "Stop!" "Let go, let go!" "Martha!" "Save me, I'm scared!" "You've a visit from a kind friend/ he brings you toys, candy and crackers!" "May, where are you?" "She's alive!" "I thought I'd found a frozen corpse, I wanted to dissect her like a frog!" "Girl, wake up!" "Wake up!" "Where...stop!" "Stop!" "Stop, I'm not evil, I'm not mad." "I'm a healer, I study the dead to help the living." "Why I'm a healer, don't you understand?" "Stop!" "Who do you think you are, hey, that I should have to beg." "You know how many like you freeze on the road?" "!" "Where are you going, you'll get lost." "You'll fall in a brook, stumble into a wolf den, you'll perish." "Don't be afraid, I won't eat you." "Quite the opposite;" "I'll feed you." "What's your name?" " Martha." " There you go." "Mine's Orlando." "And what were you doing in the woods?" " Looking for my brother." " Why, is he lost?" " They stole him – Who?" " That's a secret." "And where are you going?" "I don't know" "That's on the way." "I also don't know where I'm going." "There's a clearing ahead." "We'll stay the night there." "Alright, I'll tell you my secret." " Only you won't tell anyone?" " I won't." "May possesses a wonderful power;" "he can find treasure." " He senses when there's gold nearby." " So why were you living in poverty?" "I didn't let him look." "Gold causes him cramps, his head aches, his whole body hurts." "I pitied him." "Yes, whoever stole him will become rich." "But the gold will cause them neither pains nor cramps." "Now we're rich." "All...all treasures are mine!" "All the world's gold...mine!" "Your brother has a remarkable talent." "But what joy has it brought him?" "Me too, for that matter." "I've made great discoveries." "Future generations will revere me like Aristotle." "On the blanket that warms us, are drawn..." "You're asleep?" "Cold, my child?" "Hang in there." "Soon I'll take you and we'll go to warm land, far away." "We'll have lots and lots of gold." "I'll buy you a castle." "A magnificent castle on a big green hill." "How many times have I, poor tramp, walked past and thought..." "There'll come a day when that castle will be mine!" "Onwards, Brutus!" "Wolves." "Don't snivel." "Rejoice that you weren't eaten." "We'll have to go by foot." "It's warmed up a bit." "Let's try move the carriage." "Well, help." "Help, Martha." "Off we go." "Never mind, we'll cope without horses." "At the bottom we'll find your brother." "Onwards, Martha!" "Not bad, eh?" "Life is a big river, the wise man will never fight the waves." "He swims with the current, because he knows the current won't take him astray." "Look!" "We've rolled into summer." "The world is full of wonders." "Careful!" "What have I done!" "I'm a fool!" ""A universal language"..." "All's lost." ""Five methods for immortality" ...washed away." ""Winter dresses, heated with the warmth of bodily gasses"...what?" ""The healing of malignant tumours inside the human body"" "I won't remember..." "You're worrying about nonsense, but you've sunk all the goods." " Why in these scraps lies the future of mankind – Ok, ok." "These are ideas, that..." "Oh, to hell with you." "Let's run, my child, quickly, catch me if you can." "Brutus, mark where we've been." "Hurry after me!" "You're not unwell?" "No?" "What a shame..." "Mark it, Brutus!" " Let's go, let's go, onwards!" " Let me go, I don't feel well." "What?" "Your head hurts?" "Bones ache?" "Gold!" "Brutus, dig here!" "Who was I until today?" "A tramp and a thief." "Enough, I've had enough of eating others' scraps and sleeping on thatch." "Angels, look at me from the skies!" "Tomorrow the whole world will be mine!" "Martha, sis, save me!" " Dig, dig!" "– Here, I've found a coin." " There, see!" "Dig further." " Faster, faster!" " There's nothing here but rock." "Forced us to dig all night, only to find a single coin the size of a nail!" "Little rotten scoundrel!" " What is it you're doing?" " We're drying the bog." " Been here long?" "– All our lives!" "And before us our father dried it, and before him our grandfather." "Tell me please, have two men with a small boy passed here?" "One bearded and the other bandy-legged?" "That's them." "And where did they go?" "To the warm lake, where everyone goes." "The rich lands." "Quick, Orlando, we'll catch them." " Don't go!" "– You'll vanish!" " It's forbidden!" "– You won't return!" "What's the problem, why's it forbidden?" " Forbidden!" "– Forbidden!" " Yes, but why?" " There's a dragon – What dragon?" "!" " Wait, wait." "What dragon?" "Frightening." "Bloodthirsty." "Breathes fire Only it's been bogged here." "Crawled up to the warm lake And got stuck in the bog." "Past the lake are rich lands, but the only path is along the dragon's back." "And for all the knights that went to fight the dragon, not one returned." "But me and my brother don't tempt fate." "When we finish drying the bog, then we'll walk to the lake on dry land." "Well, did you hear that?" "A real dragon." "A certain death." "And what about May?" "The dragon will it you!" "It ate the others, what makes you special?" "But if May's there, I can't forsake him." "So stubborn..." "Have you ever seen anything like this?" " So, you won't go?" " Me?" "No." " Won't go?" "You won't go with me?" " No, I won't go." " Then I'll go alone!" " Go, go, right into its jaws." "Go!" " I will" " Go, go, go!" "As if there was no life before you." "I had a wonderful life!" "I had thousands of important ideas, and I should waste time with you?" "No, I don't want to." "And still, you'll come with me." "I'm scared!" "Me?" "With you?" "Never, I'm going the other way!" "So go, go, wimp, go!" "What are you waiting for, go!" "Well?" "I'm waiting... for you to come to your senses, you foolish girl." "No, we have to save him!" "Well, maybe it's all a myth, maybe there's not really a dragon." " Where's the dragon then?" " Look, there's its tail." "Well, are you going?" "What, are you scared?" "Well, are you?" "It's obvious you're scared." "Of course I'm scared!" "We're walking on a dragon." "It's a live dragon, and we're walking on its back." "Bienvenidos!" "Won't you rest up in our idyllic town?" "Taste peace, comfort." "Thank you, we won't decline." "We love guests." "It's a paradise here." "The dragon's warm, breathes fire." "So we don't sow or toil, the soil does it all." "Want pineapples?" "Turnips?" "We have it all What would you like?" "But they said it was savage." "For all the knights that went, not one returned." "Obviously none returned!" "They stay here." "I'm a knight myself, also wanted to fight the dragon." "But no armour would fit you." "I've put on a bit." "Never mind, come spring I'll fast, slim down, get into armour and fight!" "For my lady!" "You see, I've brought a lady along." " This, is my Dulcineya" " Hello." "Son mis muchachos." "Born here." "Come in, help yourselves." " With pleasure." " No, we'll go." " Where to?" " We're in a hurry. – What hurry?" " Why did you have to decline?" " Because they were disgusting." "I thought they were quite likeable." "They live contentedly." "Man should be satisfied." "Especially a philosopher." "Hungry philosophers are all evil." "A philosopher wishing to do good for humanity needs to have a full belly." "Fools, what are you doing, this is barbaric!" "It must be in pain." "Let him suffer." "We're drilling for fire." "It's a fire-breathing dragon." "Which means, there's fire inside." "When we extract fire, there'll be light, something to cook and fry on." "This isn't just for fun." "Our Prometheuses!" "We aren't afraid of the dragon!" "We'll defeat the dragon!" "We aren't afraid of the dragon!" "We aren't afraid of the dragon!" "Our Herculeses, victorious!" "And you are?" "The local Don Quixote." "Martha!" "Maybe we could make this a small stop after all?" " We'll eat, rest before the journey." " We need to hurry." "What sort of person doesn't let a man eat." "Martha." "If you want to go, go." "But I'm sick of it." "Sick of starving, sick of humiliating myself scrounging for bread." "I'm a scholar." "I've a thousand important thoughts than need thinking." "A thousand important things, that I, because of you, haven't finished." "But here... in peace and satiety, I'll bring everything to an end." "If you want to go, go." "Why are you standing there?" "Go, go!" "But I'm staying." "Eat as much as you please." "Going somewhere?" "The path ends here." "I need to pass, I'm looking for my brother." "No, no, you can't do that." "No-one leaves here." " Why if you tell everyone about us, they'll want to come, right?" "– Right." "But there's not room for everyone." " Go on, go." " Don't even think about it." "You'll build a house." "You'll break off one dragon's scale For a wall, another for the roof." " Hold her!" " Don't touch me!" "Behind you are those that wanted to leave." "They went no further than the cemetary." " Let go!" " Hold her!" "She bites!" "Where are you...?" "Stop!" "Catch the traitor!" "Martha, run!" " Let go, let go!" " Got her!" "Hold on, Martha!" "Oh, it hurts, it hurts, animals!" "Hooray!" "We found the vein of fire!" "I can see them, running to the lake, And May's there." " We'll get out." "What do to!" " Look, they're getting into a boat." " We'll catch them." "There!" "I see them!" "They're so close, if not for your gluttony we'd already..." "We'll catch them." "Look at them." "They think they'll catch us." "The boat's full of water, we'll sink." "I'll throw out the kid." "Take your paws off him!" "Swine!" "Throw yourself off, but leave the kid to me." "Look, my child, look!" "That's what you must become;" "ruthless and brutal." "So that everyone will fear you." "Everyone!" "Martha!" "Martha!" "We'll never catch them now, never!" "They're tormenting him, I'll kill them!" "Don't say that." "When you murder, you kill twice." "Murder also kills the human in you." "Traitor." "Ready to forget everything for a choice bit of meat." "Traitor." "I'm not listening to you." "Traitor." " People can have different opinions." " Traitor." " And you're a dumb creature." " And you're a traitor." "I saved you, and in fact, almost saved your brother." " Traitor." " Such an ungrateful creature." "I watch her like a nanny, have dropped all my things." "From the time I met you, not once have I eaten properly." "You're a traitor." "Every day I risk my hide, and this is my reward." "We'll go in here." "I want to sit, eat, drink wine and speak to some intelligent folk." "But we're looking for my brother." "Again with your brother." "My god." "She goes on like a parrot, "looking for my brother"." "Maybe they went into this tavern." "We should ask, find out." "Let's go." "Not them again." "A pair of damned sleuths." "How do we get rid of him?" "Need to deliver him, to the authorities." "Why are you so despondent?" "You don't laugh or dance or play with dolls." "I used to play, once." "Once." "What are you, a hundred years old?" "Noble gentlemen!" "And you, lovely creatures." "Receive a weary traveller, who longs for cheerful company." "Well, are we going to sit and watch?" "Hey, knave, where'd you come from?" "Yes, I'm speaking to you!" "Get out of here, while you're still in one piece." "He bothers our girls and thinks that he'll get away with it." "Of course I'm not as wealthy as you, but..." "Get lost!" "Before you stands a world-renowned doctor, poet and philosopher." "Why look who's graced us." "Hypocrites, Ovid and Aristotle, all in one." "Well, allow us to embrace you!" "I think, that such mockery does not befit such an esteemed..." "What are you doing?" "!" "Let go of me!" "Let me go!" "I had no ill intent, I just came to eat and rest!" "What, do you think that the poet's only weapon is his language?" "That the strength of the philosopher is in his thoughts?" "You're mistaken!" "That a doctor only mends bones, and doesn't break them?" " Orlando, careful!" "Grab him!" "Calm down, let's resolve this, I wish no-one harm." "Dolts, fools, look at who you're hitting!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" " Hit him!" " Go on." " Take this!" " So far I'm taking it." "Hey, towns-people, you're getting beaten by out-of-towners!" "Take that!" "And that's for you!" "Pardon me." "Orlando!" "Martha!" "Hold on." "Out of the way!" "Martha, we won!" "Why are you fighting amongst your- selves, grab that stranger, that tramp!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "We've got you now." "I didn't start the fight, and plus there were far more of them." " It's not about the fight. – The ham?" "I don't know how it got there..." "We have orders to hold you for defiling graves and crypts" "For the spreading of disease amongst people and livestock." "And for a deal made with enemies of the kingdom, planning to... overthrow the rightful rule of God with the dark rule of the devil." "What's the rush?" "Let's postpone the trial." "We can't, Duke's orders." "What do you mean orders, I'm like a fried boar, can't even sit down." " And who's being tried?" " I have no idea." "Eh, I could go for some lunch and then to bed." "My nose is still bleeding, can't stop it, but if it's Duke's orders..." " And who's this then?" "– Don't know" " Why's he here?" " Get him out!" "This isn't a tavern!" " Your honour that's the defendant." "He's the defendant?" "Why that changes everything!" " So that's who the defendant is." " We need to do our duty." "Justice before all else." " Let's read what's he's charged with." " It's got a bit of everything." " Deals with enemies..." " Deals with enemies..." " Spread disease..." " Disease, he spread..." " Defiling... – Defiling!" " Scheming... – Scheming!" "A dangerous criminal." "Defendant, stand." "You're before a court stern but fair." "Here's your counsel, here's the prosecutor, and I'm the judge." "I hope, that you won't waste our time and will admit your guilt at once." "What?" "!" "But he's not guilty!" "He's studied the dead to heal the living, he's a healer!" "Good, we have a witness that confirms the sacrilege, the defilement." " Why do you lie, I didn't say that!" " Quiet down girl." "I can explain everything." "Yes, I dissected corpses, studied anatomy and made a great discovery." "Help me Martha." "You'll soon be convinced." "I researched human organs, and when I looked inside man" "I discovered, that each person is a whole world unto himself." "Inside him flow rivers, streams, full of life-giving liquid." "That which we call the heart and lungs are continents, islands in a vast ocean." "And in this world dwell, I propose, thousands of tiny beings." "Living in harmony with one another." "And when I understood this, I made another discovery." "I, you, these guards, this girl... we are all tiny beings, living in one singular living organism, named the Earth!" "Rivers...are veins through which flows blue blood." "Europe, Asia, Africa, continents..." "are the heart, the lungs." "Clouds...exhalation from breathing." "And so my conclusion is that..." "Since States are but parts of a singular living organism" "They must live in peace." "Who has ever seen the right lung fight with the left?" "Or the liver trying to capture part of the spleen?" "People will learn of my discovery, and the world will be rid of wars, and a golden age will be upon us." "...put marjoram and cloves here and more pepper." "The tongue on a separate plate with a saffron sauce." "Speckle with hare lard." "Braise the duck in red wine, but the snipe in white, don't mix them up." "And tell the innkeeper to pour us the wine from the cask marked with two X's." "We won't be long, tell him to heat it up." "Are you finished your babbling?" "OK." "Now let me speak." "For all these crimes, the aggregate sentence is..." "Death eight times over." "No, no, no!" "I object." "Eight times!" "I object categorically." "He's innocent thrice:" "Firstly as a foreigner, secondly and thirdly..." "Why argue?" "Eight times guilty, Three times innocent." "Let's take three from eight and we'll hang him five times." "See, I've already saved your life thrice, the judge is in a good mood." "By the way..." "Today's a festival – The Duke's birthday and tomorrow's the young wine festival." "You're entitled to another two pardons." "Five minus two equals three." "You'll only be hanged three times." "Shouldn't we hang the girl and the innkeeper with him?" "No, not the innkeeper, he's preparing our lunch." "And not the girl either, we're not savages." "This compassionate court decrees that instead of three hangings he is to be immured in the tower." "Let him starve to death." "Does that sentence accord with three hangings?" "Of course!" "First he'll climb up the walls." "Then he will eat rats, and finally the rats will eat him." "Wait, wait." "Remember why you're depriving me of my life." "For a couple of bruises?" "For a bloody nose?" "Why not?" "Men like us are given power over men like you." "Therefore my bloody nose is dear indeed." "Certainly dearer than your life." "Let him go!" "Let him go!" "He's innocent!" "Orlando, they're joking!" "Let him go!" "Don't be angry with us, bratez." "We're only subordinates." "You know how it is..." "Today it's you in this damned tower, tomorrow, maybe, it's us." "Why wait for tomorrow?" "Climb in now, and I'll happily finish your work for you." "Don't grieve about me." "Animals...what are they doing..." "It's not worth getting angry about bad people." "Do you know why God created them?" "So that we can look at them and try to be completely unlike them." "Orlando!" " I want to be with you!" " You've gone mad!" " No, no!" " Stop!" "Get out of here!" "Stop!" "Should we take it apart?" "Don't just stand there, close up those lunatics." "Close them up, the more the merrier." "Don't touch me!" "Let me go!" "No, you're going to listen to me!" "Bricklayers, wait!" "She's leaving, wait!" "Wait!" "Scoundrels, bastards!" "What are you doing?" "She's a child, just take out a single stone, I beg you!" "Killers!" "Killers." "Animals!" "Scoundrels." "Animals!" "Don't cry..." "You lunatic, don't you understand you've signed your own death warrant?" "We'll be eaten by rats." "Is that what you wanted?" "No." "There's two of us now." "Together, we'll find an exit." "The exit...has been sealed." "We've got no hope." "Orlando, get up, think of something." "What for?" "Dying must be done without fuss." "There is no escape." " Martha, sister!" " Only grief from this kid." "How long can we wander like this?" "We should throw him to the devil and do something worthwhile." "We have a trade: robbery by night, but instead we starve and freeze." "Shut up, you blockhead." "I'll go and find a crust of bread, a gulp of milk." "Stay here." " Want to see a hedgehog?" " No." "In the woods there lives a hedgehog." "A small...prickly...hedgehog." "Let's take a look." "I don't want to, I'm scared." "I'm so sick of you." "No, I won't kill you, I won't have that hanging over me." "But I don't want to see you again." " Get me out of here!" "I feel ill here!" " I'm off." "But you'll stay behind." "Brutus, friend, let's get out of here, it's bad here." "Carry me to another spot." "Or kill me!" "Uh-huh!" "Here's what I've found for my bird, here's what I've found..." " And where's the kid?" " Ran away." " What do you mean?" " He was of no use to us anyway." "I'll kill you!" "Tell me!" "Tell me where the kid is!" "Don't, master." "He's somewhere here, crying in the woods, I heard him." "That's a fox baying." "There you are!" "So there you are, my child!" "Here, I'll free you." "You're ill?" "Here?" "Right here, on this very spot?" "Drink, you poor thing." "But just don't die." "Or I'll drown myself." "Throw myself into the abyss." "Hang myself on the first tree." "Just hold on!" "Brutus, dig!" "Dig there!" "Again with the digging." "What idiot would bury his treasure here." "See, I told you." "And now for our dream." "For our castle." "And on the way we search for gold." "Gold!" "Re-bury it and remember the spot." "Orlando!" "Orlando, there's light!" "There's steps!" "Maybe they lead up to freedom, you hear?" "Get up, get up already!" "Stop lying there like a corpse." "My god." "See, that's us." "The same as us." "Also looking for freedom." "Convinced?" "Orlando, there's May!" " How'd you figure that it's him?" " I can see him!" "May!" "Martha, where are you?" "Don't forget about me!" "It was you, you that are to blame!" "Why did I get mixed up with you!" "May was so close, and now..." "I must save him, understand?" "!" "Why did I get up mixed with you!" "And why did you go into the tavern, bothering those wenches and brawling!" "Martha, calm down." "No matter how bad your brother has it, he has it better than us." "He's alive." "He's free." "Oh, how wise!" "You said that you know everything, so think of something." "Don't stand there, think of something." "You don't even want to think!" "I've already thought of it." "We won't die like this." "We'll shut our eyes, and jump down." "But we'll be crushed." "Naturally." "We're not flying foxes, not birds, we don't have..." "Hold on." "You've given me an idea." ""Iron mole for mining ore"...no." ""Sourcing gold from cow's..." ...no, that's not it at all." ""Spinning of wheels"...no." ""Man-made bat capable of carrying a man"" "Move, move you armless thing." "Look where you're standing!" "Hold that, you eyeless bat!" "Martha, there's lots to do!" " What will it be?" " Just wait, you'll see." "Hey, you!" "What are you doing up there?" "Quit your damned sorcery!" "Won't hold us both." " You'll fly yourself." " No, I won't!" "I'll be crushed." "You'll fly alone, I said!" " Don't be afraid, it won't hold two." " No, I won't go!" "I'm scared!" "Stand here!" "Disobedient girl!" "They're below, breaking the wall, coming here." "You'll die, I want to save you." " I won't without you!" "I'm scared!" " Tighten your grip!" "Tighter!" "Don't cry silly, what do you want?" "Want us to crash together?" "OK then, I won't leave you, we'll fly together." "We're flying!" "Martha!" "I'm flying!" "I'm scared!" "Never have I felt myself so powerful." "And so free." "Look how wonderful the Earth is." " What a festive country!" " All that activity, all those fires." "Your brother's surely here." " I'm scared!" " Hold on tight!" "Hold on, we're landing." "Martha!" "Martha!" "We're saved." "We're whole." "And we're in a festive place." "The worst would be to be late to the celebrations." "I think that we deserve a piece of pie and a glass of wine." "Strange festivities." "I'm getting shivers from these so-called festivities." "They're praying." "Let's wait." "It'll be a long wait, I'm afraid..." "They're dead." "We won't go into the city." "There's a plague's there." "But what if my brother's here?" "I'm going anyway." "Stubborn!" "What, would you try to save a drowning man if you couldn't swim?" "I would." "I'd extend a stick, pull down a branch, throw a rope." "There's always a way to help." "Always." "Give me alms, kind people!" "Help a homeless woman." "Mummy, look how poor that beggar is." "Can I give her a coin?" "No." "Don't extend your hand, never extend your hand." "That's the only way to survive." "Why did you extend your hand?" "Don't do it again." "Mummy, I'm shivering all over, I've fallen ill." "I'm sick!" "Girl!" "Girl!" " Help me!" " Let's go, Martha." "Help me get up." "Up there." "Help a cripple." "Stop!" " Girl, help me." " What's your cane for?" "Get out of here, you wretch." "Or will you roam until you've poisoned them all?" "I've realised who you really are." "I recognized you immediately." "Aren't you the healer, who I've long searched for, eh?" "Me?" " No. – No?" " That's not me." "Not you?" "That means, we're both wrong, eh?" "Or not?" "Go, live." "See you" "This is easy to fix." "Let's fly away." "Your brother's not here, convinced now?" "Hear that?" "Someone's crying in the woods." "That's the wind." "No, I hear it." "It's a child crying." "I don't hear anything." "Over there." " Stay here." " Mister, over here, mister!" "Save us!" "How did you get here?" "Poor things." "We're not sick." "Our family's dead." "They burnt our house, and we ran into the woods to hide." "Come on, I'll take off these rags, we'll get rid of them." "We'll make a fire." "Come on, take off these vile, rotten rags." "Here, give me your legs." "Take them off, we'll throw this out." "Poor things, literally shivering from the cold." "Wait, I'll think of something." "We'll find some sort of clothes for you." "Some sort of coat..." "Some sort of dress..." " We'll work it out." " What?" "We'll cover your legs, warm ourselves up." "How could you?" "!" "How dare you?" "!" "Why that was an innovation!" "I'll never be able to repeat it." "We'll never fly out of here!" "But they were cold." "They're just two little worms, two maggots!" "But that...all my discoveries..." "My gift to humanity." "Your ignorance has set science back." "We had flown on these wings..." "We were like angels." "Like angels." "And now we have to be human." "Orlando." "Orlando, I love you very much." "I don't even know, what I'd do without you." "I'd probably die." "From grief and loneliness." "And I would have endured neither these misfortunes, nor this journey." "I've also fallen in love with you." "Then again, I probably wouldn't die if you weren't around..." "But I'd have a far duller life." "Tell me, only honestly." "When I find May, will you leave us?" "Me?" "Leave you?" "Never." "You're like family to me now." "We'll wander together." "I'll teach May to juggle, to walk a tightrope." "And you'll cook us soup and wash our shirts." "We'll take these little critters along with us as well." "The more the merrier." "Oh, there's four of them now." "It's time to take care of them." "Oh, what company." "May I warm myself by your fire?" "Please." "Everyone's welcome." "That lady came to our house." "And then mum and dad died." "It's very nice here." "I think, madam, that you won't like our humble spot." "I will!" "In your shoes I'd stay here for eternity." "You have scarlet spots on your neck." "Maybe that's the plague?" "There are kids here..." "But I love kids." "I'll give you a kiss." "Stop!" "Go away!" "Go away, witch!" "I'll burn you!" "Where is she?" "Go." "Go away." "Go." "Go, or I'll burn you!" "I'll burn you!" "Don't come near!" " Did that lady really ride on a rat?" " Yes!" "The air is clean!" "We're very glad because... we've driven away the plague." "Don't come near me, the old witch must have touched me after all" "Martha." "Make sure that the coins don't melt." "When they're scorched, dig them out, they'll come in handy." "Wrap all my papers in the blanket and bury them." "One day people will find and read them." "I criticised you." "But now I think maybe... all my great discoveries are worthless." "Don't say that!" "You're the smartest man in the world." "You're the best." "I don't know." "I don't know." "But please save these notes." " Let history decide." " No, don't talk that way." " You'll never die." " Strange." "My whole body burns, my eyes see only darkness, but my head is clearer than ever." "You'll definitely find your brother." "Be his rock, support him." "Fate has given him talent, and you strength." "Love such as yours is a great strength." "Maybe even greater than any talent." "Martha..." "People!" "The plague has disappeared." "Open your windows!" "The plague is gone, the air is clean!" "The plague is gone!" "Someone has driven it away!" "The plague is gone, rejoice!" "Granny, our granny!" "You're alive!" "My darling grandsons!" "goodness me, how happy I am to see you!" "Thank you, darling." "Stay with us." "I can't." "I have to go." " Take this for luck." " Thank you." " Maybe you'll stay, anyway?" " No." "I must find my brother." " Thanks again." " Goodbye." "Ten years, ten winters" "I tread along this Earth" "Following some uncertain track" "Across rocks and snow." "Ten years, ten winters" "Ten springs have passed me by" "And I have yet to find out" "What happened to my darling little brother." "Tell me please, who lives in that castle over there?" "A young prince." "He's a bad man, unreasonable." "And his loyal servant rules everything here." "Listen to my advice, girl, you better get out of here." "This is a wicked place." "Hunters!" "Hunters!" "Save yourself!" "Run away!" "Run, if you aren't tired of living!" "And there's our mark." "Well, prince, shall we begin?" "We'll hunt the pauper with dogs, as usual?" "Let's do it." "Well, prince, should we unleash the dogs or nail her?" "As you wish." "What sort of hunt is this, she's laying there like a corpse." "Unleash the dogs." "Martha!" "May!" "Martha!" "She searched the whole world for me, and finally found me!" "Music!" "Musicians, louder!" "Haven't I lashed you enough?" "Play louder!" "I'm so happy that you've found me!" "I didn't find you." "I found someone entirely different." "What have they done to you, May..." "He's missed you." "Terribly." "It's a good thing, that you've dropped by." "I didn't "drop by"." "I was searching for him." "Well, good." "You've found him." "Now we can be together." "As one family." "No." "No, I won't stay here." "And this isn't the place for May either." "Hey, it's too dark!" "I can't see my sister!" "Sis, let's dance!" "Look how well he is." "A real prince." "He's completely happy." "And now you've come to rob him of his happiness." "And mine." "Haven't you got enough gold?" "You're bathing in it." "You don't need May." "Foolish girl." "I love him, like my own son." "Gold, when there's so much of it, no longer excites me, sadly." "I have it all." "Only I've understood, that I've gained just one thing." "Him." "My son." "He is...my hope." "He will accomplish what I couldn't." "My soul will live on through him, when I die." "What sort of person have you raised?" "He's a scoundrel!" "Shameless, mean, ruthless." "That's right." "Because he shares my spirit." "As for you, you need to get away from us." "I'll give you as much gold as you can carry away." " We must rid ourselves of her." " Should I strangle her?" "Oh no." "The boy would Never forgive us." "No, no, he'll kill her himself." "We'll lock her in the tower." "He'll help her escape, by giving her a rope ladder." "The ladder, unfortunately, will snap." "And below a man will await her." "With a dagger." "My child, May is like a son to me." "More than a son." "And you – his sister." "That means, you're my daughter." "Give me a kiss." "Go on!" "Kiss your father." "Let me go!" "You worthless bitch!" "Lock her in the tower!" "Get her out of my sight!" "He's a wicked scoundrel." "An old bastard." "Let her out right now, you hear me?" "I command it!" "Oh, my heart." "My old, sick heart." "You're breaking it, May." "She's a stranger." "She is disgusted by this place and by you, my son." "I order you to let her out!" "She's worthless." "She' a cheeky, wicked little girl." "She's my sister!" "You hear me, you old bastard, my own sister!" "She's your enemy!" "If only you'd heard, what she said about you, I couldn't stand it!" " Immediately order her release!" " There's no greater enemy than her." "May, you're breaking my heart, my old, sick heart." "I don't want to live anymore." "Orlando, Orlando, what am I to do..." "Martha!" "It's me, May." "Don't cry." "Martha, sis, don't be upset, I'll save you." "You'll need to run away." "Run away?" "For good?" "For good?" "No, everything changes." "You searched for me and found me, and now it's my turn to find you." "You were alone, I have many servants to help me." "May, what have they done to you." "You were so kind, such a lovely boy." "What have they done to you..." "We were starving back then, and that was good?" "And now, when I've got it all thanks to my talent, that's bad?" "This castle – it's stuffed with gold like a honeycomb with honey." "And it no longer makes me ill, my head doesn't ache, I'm used to it." "And I'm even better at sensing gold." "I not only sense it, I attract it." "Watch." "Goodness, what are you boasting about, May?" "You could have made so many people happy." "And instead you're helping to rob them." "You've become your own Gorgon, they could use you to scare kids!" "I'd rather die here." "Because of me, Orlando died." "He was a genius, he could fly!" "And he died, because he searched for you, a worthless brat." "They call you a prince." " You're no prince, you're just an errand-boy for bandits." " Shut up!" "No, you're worse, you're a hound, running down game for them." "No, even worse – you're a pig, who digs out their truffles." "Don't speak like that, you hear!" "You're nothing, you're just a doll, dressed up in velvet." "No, you're wrong." "I'm more powerful than everyone!" " More than anyone in the world!" " Be quiet, May, and go away." "I don't want anything anymore." "I want to die." "Then why should I live?" "All my life, I was afraid, I suffered." "And waited for you to find me." "And now I don't need anything." "Let it all go to hell." "I'm not afraid of anyone." "Now you'll see." "All the gold that's hidden here," "I'll bring it out into the light." "I'll clean out their hiding-places." "You think it's gold around us?" "It's blood, dirt!" "Let it all fall." "I pity no-one." "It's my fault." "I'm as bad as them." "May, you'll die!" "Too late, now it can't be stopped." "All of you have blood on your hands." "Let it sink into the ground, it's a prison, I suffer here." "I'm already dead as it is!" "My soul has burnt and hardened." "Strange." "I don't sense gold, and it doesn't obey me." "My talent is gone." " And you regret it?" " No." "It's like I've rid myself of an illness." "Martha, where are you going?" "I'll be going." "If you only knew what kind of man died because of you." "It would have been better if I hadn't found you." "I will always be thinking about what you were, and what you've become." "But I was thinking we could fly home." "Fly?" "You know, it's strange." "I've had a vision, as if we're flying on these self-made wings or sails..." "Blue?" "Blue." "How did you know?" "Orlando?" "What is it, darling?" "Tell me something else about these wings." "I don't know how to explain it." "But I saw it so clearly...that I would draw it, if I could draw." " You can draw!" " No, I can't." " You can. – No." " Just try." "THE END"