"Father is a cobbler." "I work for him and he's under Brunswick's command." "I will return to the Castle soon." "Klamm isn't waiting for a message, just the opposite, my coming will irritate him." "He'll see me, get up, and leave the office without receiving me." "When I carry messages, they are from me." "Good." "Could you also take a letter tomorrow?" "To Klamm personally?" "And bring his response, right away, tomorrow, early morning, eh?" "I will do my best." "That's what I always do." "Here's the message:" "The surveyor K. is aking for an audience with Mr. Klamm." "He is forced to do it because intermediaries failed to deliver it." "As a proof: he didn't do any surveying work and boss' recent message fills him with shame." "The only solution is to grant me an interview." "I will wait for your decision impatiently." "The surveyor K. is aking for an audience with Mr. Klamm." "He is forced to do it because intermediaries..." "Hush!" "Let K. sleep!" "Don't disturb him!" "It's cold here." "It was hot, dear, but this big place..." "It's not appropriate at all." "Gym equipment the only decoration." " Isn't there any wood?" " In the shed outside." "The teacher has the key:" "to heat it for classes." "Where is the shed?" "I'll put back the wood, dear." "What's with you?" "You can, of course, sleep in the class but I don't want to teach class in your room!" "Done with sleeping?" "Factotum's family is sleeping in!" "Bravo!" "Aren't you ashamed?" "In front of the children!" "Who dared take the wood?" "It was me, Mr. Teacher." "How could we heat the classroom otherwise?" "I didn't dare ask for a key in the middle of the nght." "My finace was with the Gentlemen." "He scolded me when he saw that." "Who forced the door open?" "Our master." "I did it, with an axe." "It was very easy, without asking for any help." "But later, when my fiance returned, and went to see the damages, to repair them if necessary, the assistants followed him, and they saw what happened at that door, and so they say..." "But these are children..." "Who broke down the door?" "Therefore, you either lied, or carelessly accused the factotum?" "Go look for a cane." "They said the truth." "A band of liars!" "Therefore only factotum is left." "This gentleman so easily accuses others of his own wrongdoings." "Well, since Frieda sacrificed for me and the assistants, it has to be straightened out." "You are dismissed." "Leave now!" "I'm not moving from here." "The Mayor engaged me, only he can dismiss me." "Are you disobeying?" "Get out of here!" "Come!" "Take all your things!" "Trust me, this is not going to last." "Get out of here!" "Out!" "You are dismissed!" "Frieda!" "Do you want me there?" "No." "I don't think you can do anything." "You were at the inn." "I should have left you there." "Yes, my dear." "You should have left me over there." "For my sake, you suffered this tyrant of a teacher, you accepted that pathetic post, and I did nothing in return." "I can't stand living here anymore." "If you want to keep me, we have to go somewhere, to French Midi region, to Spain." "I am here to stay." "You have to stay too, this is your country." "You just miss Klamm." "Me miss Klamm?" "Just the opposite, I had enough, more than enough." "I want to leave to escape him." "I miss you, not him." "Let's leave together." "Look at them." "They are stretching their hands towards you, not towards me." "Did you see?" "Didn't you notice how, at the inn they stayed in a room, to closely watch over us?" "How tonight one of them took my place next to you?" "How they accused you to chase you away and stay alone with me?" "Haven't you noticed any of that?" "But they always wanted to follow me and not stay with you." "Pure hypocrisy!" "Didn't you understand?" "Why would they chase you if not for that?" "They are freezing!" "Don't you pity them?" " You are watching them!" " But yes!" "I see how ugly they are." "But they do not disgust me." "You think I miss Klamm:" "their shiny, naive eyes have the look of Klamm." " Do you want them back?" " No!" "No, I want to be with you." "Protect me, hold me close." "K. hugged Frieda and kissed her on the neck." "She quivered and, while assistants were knocking on the door, they slipped to the ground, taking their clothes off, breathless, anxious, each wanting to hide in the other as if their desire to enjoy was stolen by someone else." "What do you want?" "The class is next door." "I've come." "So, what?" "Can I help you?" "Help me?" "He wants to help us!" "Who are you anyways?" "Hans Brunswick." "My father is the cobbler," "Madeleine Street." "Ah, good." "He threw you out when you spoke with my mother." "At Lasemann's." "How do you know that?" "I was there." "The woman with the baby, was that your mother?" "Is she at the Castle?" "Were you at the Castle?" "How would you help me then?" "To do what?" "The teacher scolded you because it was not right." "Scolding is in his nature, but it's none of my concern, I am not a student anymore." "However, thank-you for your intention." "Against him, I don't need any assistance." "Go back, you'll get in trouble." "I also want to help you for another reason." "And if I can't, my mother could." "And it will be all right then." "My father does it, when he has problems." "Your mother appears tired." "She is weak, she tires." "Maybe I could help her." "I know about ailments." "Sometimes I am more successfull than doctors." "I'd be glad to see her, for a little chat." "That won't be possible at all." "We have to be careful with her." "She goes out very rarely." "At Lasemann's, that was an exception." "You barely spoke with her and she had to stay in bed for several days." "Father forbade visits." "Could I talk to him?" "To open his eyes?" "No." "My father doesn't like you." "He might treat you like a teacher." "You could speak with my mother the day after tomorrow." "In the evenening, my father will go to the Inn." "He has to meet someone." "I'll come for you, if she agrees." "She talked about you, but I do not know..." "This would be a brief discussion." "Don't come looking for me." "I'll wait hidden close to your house and you will give me a signal." "This conversation with Hans gave K. a new hope, vague and unfounded of course, but so vivid he almost lost Barnabas from view." "But that didn't happen." "Because of Frieda, K. hesitated all day to go to Barnabas'." "And later he was not in the mood." "He'd get started for a moment, but then stop on the threshold." "He will not be late." "It's the surveyor." "I can not wait." "Olga is chopping wood in the courtyard." "I'm off, my fiancée is waiting for me." " Which fiancee?" " Frieda." "I don't know her." "Does Olga know?" "She saw me with Frieda." "She doesn't know anything." "She won't be happy, because she loves you." "That is not possible." "You must be wrong." "I'm not wrong." "I also know that you've come for Olga." "Why pretend to be bringing messages from Barnabas!" "That's not how..." "Then Olga returned, with an armful of firewood, her cheeks red from the cold." "She saluted K. with ease and immediately asked about Frieda." "How is Frieda?" "K. threw a glance to Amalia who did not think much of it." "Annoyed, K. started talking about Frieda, forgetting that he wanted to leave." "To conclude, he even invited the two sisters to pay him a visit in return." "Thank you, we will be glad to come." "If you want." "I said that without thinking." "Seeing the enmity between Frieda and this house, and even if I don't understand it at all," "I withdraw my invitation." "This is not an enmity, but the harping of pigs." "Go find your fiancee!" "You seem to be in a hurry!" "Shouldn't risk coming!" "I said that as a joke, by pure wickedness." "What about her?" "Did Frieda say anything about us?" "Just some allusions." " Not even the innkeeper?" " No, nothing." "So?" "So?" "Once, a senior official," "Sortini, invited Amalia to a village party and summoned her to the Gentlemen's Inn with a disgusting letter." "Amalia read the letter ripped it and threw it to the messenger's face." " And ...?" " Nothing." "That's all." "Amalia did not go to the inn." "So?" "Nothing to accuse or punish her for!" "Not in a real trial, but in other ways." "What we are offered by this story of a letter, friends and relations as enemies." "Without hesitation." "Good friends turn very quickly." "Customers pick up the shoes they left for repair." "My father blocked out some lines in the book of records." "Debts: paid." "All without any discussion." "Brunswick, then employed at our place, left to put himself at his disposal." "At first, father tried to reverse the opinion, then tried bribing the officials." "All our money was spent." "Father got sick." "You see what shape he's in." "For two years now, I go twice a week to Inn's stables." "That's how I earn for myself and feed my family." "And I was thus able to introduce Barnabas to the Castle." "And thanks to you he had his first mission." "Thanks to me?" "Yes." "The letter you received was his first job." "And a first good sign in three years." "You played a comedy with me." "Barnabas was a skilled messanger, you..." "Someone knocked on the door." "Olga opened." "The late visitor spoke in a low voice." "Olga replied in the same way." "He wanted to enter at all cost." "Olga had trouble stopping him." "It was one of your assistants." "Frieda is looking for you." "I thought it was better to send him back." "Is there another way out?" "By the courtyard, and the garden next to it." "You have to climb the fence." "Won't you wait for Barnabas?" "Sleep here, it is late." "Who are you looking for?" "You." "Why are you alone?" "Arthur left your service and logded a complaint against you at the Castle." "And you?" "I could stay." "He cancelled for both of us." "The court will set us free." "You are here to do something!" "No: to reassure Frieda." "She suffered a lot when you left her for Barnabas' sisters." "Not because you left her, but because you betrayed her." "Now it is all back to normal." "She's at her counter, and I'm a waiter at the Inn." "That's for Frieda's good." "You have no idea how much she sacrificed for you." "She is so good that she's still wondering whether you really went to Barnabas'." "So I came to put the doubts to rest." "And you didn't need to make this detour:" "I know the way." "Mr. Surveyor!" "I did it." "Did what?" "Gave my message to Klamm?" "No, not that." "I tried, it was impossible." "But I succeeded at something else." "Erlanger, one of Klamm's secretaries, told me:" ""I'm off to the Gentleman's Inn," ""the Surveyor could stop to see me."" ""But right away."" ""I have some appointments, I'll leave again at 5 o'clock."" ""Tell to the Surveyor that I have a lot"" ""to tell him."" "Where is Jeremias going?" "To get to Erlanger before me." "Frieda is missing you, why did you mess it up?" "I miss her just as much, we feel the same." "For secretary Erlanger, it's for Gerstäcker and K. Are they here?" "I work here." "Ah, the Surveyor, loath of questions but quick to reply!" "With me, it had to be simple." "You think about you." "I reply to non official questions." "What else to think about here?" "He's sleeping." "Wait." "I'll ring to wake him up." "Provided that he doesn't have to return to the Castle and is not in a hurry..." "Suddenly, at the of the hall, K. saw Frieda." "She looked at him as if she did not know him." "She carried a platter of empty dishes." "He ran over to her, took her by the shoulders as if to resume possession, and asked her harmless questions while watching her in the eyes." "But she was emotionless, playing absent-mindedly with her platter, and then she said:" "What do you want from me?" "Go back to ..." "You know what I want to say." "You were seen leaving their place." "I believed that you worked at the counter." "She looked at him surprised, and caressed his cheek as if to engrain it in her memory." "I am back at the bar, they need me there very much." "Pepi asked to be spared from the shame of being taken off the counter so quickly." "Therefore, she was given a 24 h reprieve." "You left the bar for me, and just before our marriage, you are going back?" "There will be no marriage." "Because of infidelity?" "You don't know that word." "I didn't believe my boss." "She told me:" ""Listen to me, he is not like us,"" ""you better listen."" "I understood it this morning, with the pupil." "Your kind words were only meant to win his confidence, to succeed in your goal." "To get to his mother." "Your careful words betrayed your only concern:" "your selfish interests." "You cheated this woman in advance." "You hoped to reach the Castle." "His mother is the dishwasher there." "It was similar with me." "Similarly, you hung out at Barnabas', knowing how shameful that was for me, and hoping to profit from it;" "you spent the night there." "If you go there, you are not fit for anyone." "Let's not talk about it anymore!" "As for a reason:" "you know why I went there." "And I wanted that boy's mother to help us with her connections at the Castle." "Who did I do that for?" "For us!" "For our benefit!" "You said yourself you couldn't take it anymore." "While Frieda thought about something else for a while," "K. asked her for something to eat, because he hadn't had anything since noon." "Glad about the distraction," "Frieda bussied herself." "She did not go to the kitchen, but through the other door." "In an instant K. had a plate of cold cuts and a bottle of wine." "But those had to be leftovers, just quickly rearranged to cover it up." "Is this from the kitchen?" "No, from my room." "I have a room down below." "You should have taken me there." "I'll go sit there." "I'll bring you a chair." "I don't want to go down and I don't want a chair." "Well, yes, he is down there." "What did you expect?" "In the end, it's all your fault." "If you didn't chase them, if you didn't run elsewhere, we would have had our peace at the school." "Would Jeremias, while in your service, have dared seduce me?" "If you believe that, you don't know how things work here." "When in service, he's afraid of the slightest gesture." "When not in service, nothing scares him." "He came, he took me." "He is my childhood friend." "You left me, I did not resist." "I was closed at school." "He broke the window and took me away." "If your fidelity is like my assistant's loyalty, you better stop now." "Everything is OK, we can say goodbye now." "If I am still hesitating, it's because I still have some reason to doubt what you told me." "You do not like him." "You see, every couple has weak points, and so do we." "We come from very different worlds and over time, our lives took a new path, we didn't feel sure, everything was too new." "I am not talking about me, deep down, I was very satisfied since the moment I set my eyes on you, and to get used to be satisfied is not difficult." "Why didn't we emigrate on the very first evening?" "We could have been somewhere safe, never part again, your hand in mine!" "I need to be close to you." "Without your closeness, I am lost." "Frieda!" "Ah, Mr. Surveyor..." "Excuse me for interrupting." "But I'm not well at all, excuse me." "I think I have a fever." "Bloody school garden!" "I will sure remember it." "I wouldn't want to disturb you." "Come to our room and finish talking to Frieda." "People get used to one another, and when they are separating, they have a lot of things to say." "He's feverish and delirious." "He doesn't know what he's saying." "Don't come in, please" "This is my and Jeremias's room or rather it's my room," "I'm not allowing you to enter." "I would never go back with you." "I'm terrified at the very idea." "I guess you aren't coming, Mr. Surveyor?" "The door was low, lower than the others." "Not just Jeremias, Frieda had to bend herself too." "Inside, it was warm and clean." "There was a murmur, and the door closed again." "K. noticed the silence that reigned in the corridor." "The Sirs managed to fall asleep." "K. was so tired that he daydreamed about entering one of the rooms himself." "Many of them had to be empty." "He could sleep in a nice bed." "He wanted to find Erlanger." "But with the inkeeper and Gerstäcker hidden, he couldn't find him." "Who is there?" "I am the Surveyor." " Do you known Friedrich?" " No." "He knows you." "I am his secretary: my name is Bürgel." "Pardon, I confused your door with another one." "I have been summoned to Mr. Erlanger." "Shame!" "You did not hit the wrong door:" "you were mislead!" "Once awake I can't get back to sleep." "And where do you want to go?" "It is 4 o'clock." "You will wake everyone up." "Getting up starts at 5 o'clock." "Then you will be able to go to your meeting." "Let go of the door and take a seat somewhere." "The place is cramped, you better sit on the edge of the bed." "You are very silent, Mr. Surveyor." "I am very tired." "Everyone is tired here." "If I fall asleep, make no noise, and do not open." "Don't you worry, I won't fall asleep." "Sleep, sleep, Mr. Secretary." "Allow me to take a short nap too." "No, no, I can't fall asleep on command." "I'd rather doze off while talking." "A bureaucratic habit, no doubt!" "OK, this surveyor business?" "I am not pushing .." "It is astonishing." "You are a surveyor without working as such." "I am willing to pursue this matter." "Can't you put up with it?" "I can." "K. laughs, as at the moment he's not suffering at all." ""If I could lie down,"" "he thought, "I'd answer to all."" "At first, the obstacles seemed insurmountable." "Then opportunities appear when, with a word, a look, a sign of confidence, one could achieve more, than by an entire life of efforts." "K. felt that these words should worry him, but he had an aversion to things that worry him." "Imagine someone presenting himself without being announced by one of the secretaries." "That's something unlikely or, better yet, practically impossible." "You might be astonished that this is the case." "You are not familiar with our world." "It is all the same to you a flawless organization..." "K. observed, smiling." "He understood perfectly." "He won't be anxious, he was convinced he'll fall asleep any moment." "The organizatoin wouldn't know how to designate a competent Secretary for every matter." "Certainly, from outside, to constituents, it appears that secretaries are competent." "But, the most competent is not necessarily assigned to this case." "An organization makes decisions based on its current needs." "Mr. Surveyor, you are suggesting a possibility that, for whatever reason, someone could, in the middle of the night, surprise a secretary that have certain responsbilities in the matter." "Do you think that this is impossible?" "You are right, that can't happen." "But let's say one night" "(can't be sure of anything!" ")" "that happens nevertheless." "The constituent is seated there." "Just his mute presence alone may prompt you to get involved with his destitute life." "If you allow that to happen, you are not an official anymore." "In such a situation, very quickly, it becomes impossible to deny a request." "K. fell asleep." "It wasn't a true sleep, he could almost hear Bürgel better than before, when he was tired, and his conscience was clear." "...desperate, disarmed, you tend to the request, knowing that once decided you won't be able to say no, even if it is against the rules!" "This is what's the worst in this matter." "The constituent doesn't suspect anything." "It thinks that it was purely by chance that, tired and disappointed, he stumbled upon a wrong door." "He's there, unsuspecting, all busy," "(if he can care at all) with his error or just by his fatigue." "Could one remain there?" "Can not." "In a moment of euphoria, you explain it all to him." "You show him how, if he wants, Mr. Surveyor, he could get anything, provided he says what he wants." "But once this is done," "Mr. Surveyor, once important things are done, the rest is just modesty and waiting." "Is the Surveyor there?" "Yes." "He's come at last." "This is Erlanger." "Go quickly, he's impatient." "Go already!" "You can't wake yourself up." "If you delay, Erlanger will come." "Let's avoid that!" "Go already!" "Where are you!" "This is what it's about:" "Sometime ago, certain Frieda was at the bar." "I do not know her." "Sometimes she served beer to Klamm." "Seems another girl replaced her." "Of course, it's an insignificant change." "But, the least change can bother Klamm in his work." "So, this Frieda has to get behind the bar right now." "Maybe her return will bother him too." "Let's get her back." "I hear you live with her." "Let's make sure that she returns." "Without any obligation," "I add that this trifle could serve your interests." "Stop sleeping!" "Gerstecker is looking for you." "Why?" "It's night." "It's evening again." "You slept the whole day." "Frieda came too." "She does not like you anymore?" "She's very bitter." "Thank you." "What do you see in her?" "She's skinny, too young, with sparse hair." "The first time I saw her with messy hair, it was pitiful!" "Is it becuase of Klamm?" "She knows people, she's not what she seems to be, because no one ever takes a closer look at her." "Her affair with Klamm..." "If you do not believe me, check for yourself, go see Klamm and ask him." "How vile!" "My misfortune is your fault." "But I don't want the same to you." "What misfortune?" "You took her away." "For that, I liked you as I never did anyone." "The boss didn't have anyone, so he thought of me." "I was not qualified to do the rooms." "Note that working here is like working in a mine." "Never a kind word, never any peace, nothing but abuse." "What's good about being a man is that you don't have to do the disgusting housework" "Then, a chance!" "My roommates helped me." "It was an honor that a girl from their group went to the bar." "I could have become an advantage for them." "They sewed me a dress." "But Frieda didn't waste any time." "She watches the inn from the school." "She complains to be confined by you, she bad-mouths me, announces her return and arranges to have Klamm kicked out of the bar to make it look like it is because of me." "What imagination, Pepi!" "The truth is that you are not made for this job." "Your clothes and your hairstyle are very pretty for your friends, but here, they make everyone laugh." "Your suspicions are revealing:" "the bar is a place just like another." "For you, this is paradise, so you come up with your little plot, you feel persecuted, you cling to those that could help you, you try to woo them, but you bother them, you tire them," "because they come to the inn to have some peace, and not to listen to someone else's problems." "You like Frieda and you defend her." "Yes, you can mock me." "But what can you do?" "Frieda's left you." "You have no work, nor bed." "Come to our place." "My girlfriends will please you." "They'll spoil you." "You will help us." "No one will know you are there." "No strings attached." "You will not be confined to the room." "When the spring comes, if you find another place to stay, or if you don't like our place anymore, you will be free to leave." "We will give you light tasks." "Will you come?" "Please, come to us!" "When will the spring come?" "The spring?" "Around here, the winter..." "You finally woke up!" "Come, follow me." "Where to?" "Come, I said!" "I must go to the school." "But come!" "Forget about that factotum post." "At my place, you will have all that you need." "I waited for you all day long." "My mother is wondering where I am." "I need help with the horses!" "If you want to be paid, I will pay you!" "I don't know anything about horses!" "It doesn't matter!" "You need no training!" "I know why you want me to come." "You think I can put in a word for you with Erlanger." "What else would you want me do to for you!" "The sky will not thunder for that!" "No, it doesn't smell like a storm!" "The only light at Gerstäcker's cottage came from the hearth and the remains of a candle." "Nevertheless someone read a book." "It was Gerstäcker's mother." "Stretching out her trembling hand to K." "she drew him close to her and spoke with difficulty." "It was difficult to understand." "She said..." "AT THIS POINT THE MANUSCRIPT ENDS" "THE CASTLE BY KAFKA subtitles by quequetz"