"Starring" "DANCING IN THE RAIN" "Based on a novel by Dominik Smole" "Also starring" "Director of Photography" "Art Director" "Costumes by" "Original Music by" "Production Manager" "Directed by" "Beat it, Magda!" " And if I sleep here?" "Get your things and beat it." "Somebody may come any time." "And if he does, are you afraid?" " Put your clothes on!" "Never again, you know!" " Shut up, you!" "Animal!" "There isn't one." "There isn't a woman for me." "Will I ever find one?" "Nightmare!" "Always the same nightmare!" "Hell!" "And paying dearly for this pigsty, too." "Are you up?" "May I enter?" " Of course, come in!" "I'm always troubling you for water You must be fed up." "And you?" "Insurance slips, what else?" "Nowadays a pensioner must have a little job." "As an extra, so to speak." "Where did I put it?" "See?" "The handle is broken." ", but I think they'll glue it back easily." "Then it will be just like new" "Nice thing." "Did you buy it?" "Where?" " No Guess" "A present?" "From a woman?" "Congratulations!" "And so secretly!" "A lady-killer, indeed." "What are your intentions with Maruša?" "It's been going on for quite a while." "Never mind that." "I can confess to you that I sometimes think if I had serious intentions..." " Excellent!" "Why not?" "Yours is the best age." "Do I know her?" "You do." "It's Magda." "She told me about you." "You know each other well." "Magda..." "Magda?" "Anton, Magda!" "But this is impossible!" "Why not?" "She is the very person." " Are you crazy, Anton?" "She's a common..." " What?" "A whore!" "A common whore." "If I were you, young friend..." " It's true, everybody knows it." "I know such women, they are all alike." "I've seen it with my own eyes." "As if it had happened yesterday." "There was a house in the town..." "I was still a boy and, curious as boys are..." "By the house there was a tree." "Once." "When nobody saw me..." "You were naughty, prematurely inquisitive, like all boys." "I'm leaving." "Some people haven't paid me yet." "Anton, listen, perhaps I was wrong." "Don't shout, somebody may hear..." "Wait!" "I'm coming up." "All tenants eavesdrop." "Everybody knows, you say?" "According to everybody she's a bad woman. , a dangerous woman." "Do you think she'll ruin me?" "I've got a feeling." "If only she did..." "If only I experienced something new..." "Wouldn't it be wonderful if she ruined me?" "If she ruined me..." "How are you, Anton?" " Ah, it's you, Maruša!" "I slept rather badly and I don't feel very well." "Where are you hurrying?" " To a rehearsal at the theatre." "Let me tell you in confidence:" "The play we're rehearsing is old and boring." "How heartily bored we are!" "But what can we do?" " What about Peter?" "Do you see him often?" " To tell you the truth, he's been behaving strangely lately, as if he avoided me." "It must be my imagination, we are getting on fine." "I must hurry now to be in time." "To be ruined or to ruin somebody!" "Such nice fresh meat..." "Not so fast, I've got time." " Yes, sir." "It's my day off No classes." "Will you come to the premiere at the theatre?" "I wonder if they're married." "She died so suddenly." "Careful!" " I'm so sorry." "Excuse me." " No one is safe here." "Isn't that..." "Catch me in you can!" "No, you won't." "That's strange." "Is it possible?" "You'll come, won't you?" " I will, if you behave." "You'll come, won't you?" " I will, if you behave." "Hurry if you want to find a seat." "Peter!" "Peter!" "Peter!" "Won't you sit here?" "A razor, a doll..." "It's very strange." "Well?" "Well. what?" "," "Nothing!" "I can smell you from here." "I had a drink before lunch." "I won't drink any more." "Don't laugh like that." "This is a repulsive and indecent laughter." "Laugh as much as you like, but not so loudly." "This is indecent" "I bet you'll end up as a drunkard." "You haven't a chance in hell." " But you will!" "No!" "You sip so loudly everybody can hear you" "Let them!" "You're boring and sulky." "Come on, swallow it." "Don't take me for..." "You always drink all my wine." "It's much more pleasant if I drink it slowly" "Is it?" "Please, drink very slowly." "Last night I was very bad." "If that prompter told me so, then you know everything." "That boy is head over heels in love." "He always knows what kind of underwear I wear." "He can't see your underwear from the prompter's box." "These knifes could well be a little sharper or the meat softer." " Don't be so rough all the time." "So I stutter You're irritable again." "You'll end as a drunkard!" "Then you'll invite me again." " Don't worry, I won't." "Don't be like that." "I was really bad or I'm ill." "I must be ill." "Indeed, you look pale and emaciated" "It's nothing." "I look pale because of my hair." "All redheads look pale." "We could have another drink, you'd feel better." "We can order some wine." " You'll end up as a drunkard." "Do you want to go somewhere?" "We could go out of town." "Where?" "What will you do out of town?" "You never want to go anywhere." "This afternoon I'll sleep." "This evening, if you insist." "Tomorrow or the day after." " Tonight then." "I'd like to sleep, too, if I didn't live so far." "I'm terribly tired." "I'm your woman and yet I can't sleep in your flat." "Why can't I go there?" " You can't go there." "Why not?" "Is your room shabby?" " Yes, it's shabby." "And people come and go, they walk right trough it." "And these people have never seen a sleeping woman?" "I feel sorry for you, you really look tired." "No wonder Too much work and too little rest." "I'm scuttling from place to place." "Come on, Peter, let's go to your place." "No, it's impossible." "I'll leave you!" "I'll go away." " You can go to the prompter." "I will, just to spite you." " Go ahead I'm going to bed." "All this has exhausted me." "What about me?" " Good-bye." "Will I see you tonight then?" " Yes, of course." "Hello, pal, where to?" " Home." "To make up one's mind?" "Yes, but to stick to a single decision." "We keep talking about him." "He doesn't love you." "It's late." " Stay a little longer." "I can't I'm leaving now." " May I walk with you?" "Yes." "It's evening already." " What of it?" "It's evening." "Let's run" "Why?" "There may be no food left at the restaurant Let's run." "Maruša, wait!" "Maruša!" "Let's run!" "Maruša!" "Redhead!" "Redhead!" "Redhead!" "He said he would come." "Perhaps he is at the bar." "Let's go to the bar, it's too crowded here" "If you like." "Fetch my coat." " Right away." "Is she gone?" " Who is?" "Thank you." "Did you com to sprain my arm?" "Are you crazy?" "No, you're drunk!" " I must speak with you." "About what?" "I know your drunken nonsense." "I must!" "I'm going Good night I've got work to do." "Wait, don't mind him!" "No, I have to" "Let him go and work." "Yes See you tomorrow at the theatre." "Well, what do you want?" " Nothing!" "What should I want?" "We could spend the whole evening together." "I can't be alone." "The day will soon be over and tomorrow you can leave me again." "It's you who's always leaving me, you swine" "No!" "Let's not talk about it." "Let's have a quiet conversation." "Won't you drink?" " I will." "Shall we go?" " Yes." "Let's hurry up to get a seat." "Do you know who I am?" "I dare you to say I'm not." "Do you want your teeth kicked out?" "Where are the footpaths That used to be here?" "Now there's a thicket" "And lavish green grass." "Now there's a thicker" "And lavish green grass." "Who says I didn't do great things?" "If you only knew how much I love you!" "I'd give anything for you." "And only with me would you be truly safe." "Don't you see it?" "Everybody is betraying you, scorning you." "It's only me..." "Only I love you as you are." "Don't sleep." "Stop leaning on me." "Damn light!" "Everything's going to hell." "All because of those bloody matches!" "Here!" "What are you waiting for?" "Leave the door open." "Come on, hurry up." "She's quite repulsive and old." "He's asleep, thank God for that." "Now I'll join her." "Where are you?" "What's happened?" "Silence!" "Be quiet!" "What am I doing here?" "Everything's lost here." "Now home to start at the beginning again." "Quickly, while there's still time." "I'm sorry I can't give you anything, but I won't forget." "The next time I see you..." " Never mind." "I'm going to stay home, forever I'm tired and perhaps a little ill, too." " Are you that redhead?" "Yes, I'm that redhead." " I thought so." "Do you know me?" " Of course I do." "In our village and all the villages in the valley there had been no redhead except you." "And you recognized me?" " Whenever I saw a redhead" "I knew it was you." " You could be wrong." "Oh, no We've seen you in the paper." "There was a full page colour photo." "And below it said:" "A great actress, young and beautiful." "I don't know about that." "It wasn't me but rather some other actress." "No, it was you, believe me." "Are you sure it was me?" "And it said," "A great actress, young and beautiful?" "Of course." "It must be true if the driver knows it I am an actress, see?" "A successful actress with a great future." "I must get off now." "Thank you!" "Thanks!" "Thank you very much!" "Thank you very much, good people!" "Peter..." "Thank you for everything." "Who is it?" "Come in if you want anything." "He's not home." "He left." "Come in!" "Excuse me." "Excuse me, please." "I didn't want to wake you up, but.." "Do come in." "Don't stand in the doorway." "You should keep the window closed All that noise..." "Open windows make one so tired." "It's better this way, one feels much safer." "Sit down, please." "I was curious since I know that my friend has left early." "And then I heard you speaking loudly." "I could say you almost shouted." "I was afraid that there might be something unexpected." "Everything is so strange nowadays." "I was very much afraid." "Strange things may happen to a man." "It wouldn't be for the first time." "I must have dreamed." " Yes, now I know." "The room next to this is yours?" "Yes." "And where are all the others?" "I can't hear anybody." "In the morning there's not a living soul here." "Everybody is at work." "I see." "Rest some more." "You need sleep." "I don't want to sleep any more I can't." "If you really can't sleep," "I'll bring you some tea." "No problem." "Thank you Hot, and no sugar, please." "Thank you." "Tea will revive me!" "Right." "Sometimes a trifle may make things better." "Or worse." "It all depends." " With me it's worse." "I've got so many plans, so much to do" "Plans?" "Yes With one stroke I'm going to change my life." "First a rehearsal at the theatre." "Then I go to my dressmaker." "From the dressmaker to lunch." ", then home to tidy up my room" "From the dressmaker to lunch." ", then home to tidy up my room and learn the text for tomorrow." "I've always been a hard worker." "My own foolishness and certain circumstances have made me lose." "Yes, circumstances" "There are always certain circumstances." "Drink your tea, it'll get cold." " Oh, I can't!" "Don't look." "Close your eyes!" "It's easier if you don't see." "One must drink by gulps, without a break, with eyes closed." "It's much easier that way." "Close your eyes." " I'll try." "Close your eyes." " I'll try." "Strange jokes, a strange fellow." "As if he were a little..." "Quick, to the rehearsal." "Is the rehearsal over?" "What rehearsal?" "Are you crazy?" "The manager wants to see you!" "Now you come to the rehearsal?" " I'm sorry, but lately everything has been exceptional." "I have to settle something that will stay for ever." "I don't care To be brief:" "Dear lady, in this theatre we don't need you any longer." "You know, I..." " We don't need you!" "I really couldn't It was strange." " We don't need you!" "Get it?" "Enough!" "Shut up!" "Who are you to speak like that?" "A nobody, a third-rate comedian, an upstart, a hypocritical hustler!" "Nothing is sacred to you!" "I sacrificed everything for this theatre, everything!" "What is left for me?" "Perhaps a piece of my heart." "My heart." " We don't need you!" "You could live a thousand years and still be unable to give to this theatre a third of what a lowest actor can give to it, or the last extra." "Not as much as I have given though I've given nothing yet." "Nothing and yet everything." "Nothing." "Oh, Maruša, what is happening to you?" "Perhaps it's not that bad." "The sun is still shining." "It's so warm." "To the dressmaker's!" "I want to be pretty." "Pretty, pretty, pretty!" "Pretty, pretty, pretty..." "Girls, quick!" "Hurry up!" "Finished!" "Come and see the young and beautiful Maruša!" "Where are you, Maruša?" "I always have to wait for you." "Where has the sun gone?" "You didn't come to rehearsal." "You never come" "No." "I was late I wanted to come earlier, but I couldn't." "You couldn't?" " No, I couldn't No way." "You never can." "You don't like me." "When I called you you were lost in your dreams." "Don't grill me." "Don't annoy me." "You always say that I can't live like that any longer." "I have to know where I stand." " Don't be angry." "I have to know where I stand." " Don't be angry." "I'm with you and there's nothing to be angry about." "I'm human, too." "Shall I forever prompt others on the stage?" "I've got a heart, too." "Do you think I'm merely a puppet down in that box?" "Don't gesture so much." "People will know you're arguing." "They don't need to hear it all." "Let them hear!" " And don't shout." "Let them hear!" " And don't shout." "I can't be here more then I am, do you understand?" "I know you can't." " What a little fool you are!" "You think it's something important, but it isn't." "Everything's so simple." "Let's go." "I'll help you He's your evil spirit, he doesn't wish you well." "You should break up with him." " He wishes nobody well." "He's heartless, self-centred." " You went with him last night." "Just a little bit" "You must even lie because of him." "I followed you." "I was sleepy and tired, but I followed you as far as that house." "How could you?" " Don't be angry and sad." "Sooner or later it'll be over." "You know that." "Even I suffer if you are angry." "You wander around at night." "You'll get pneumonia again." "My dear boy." "Let's go some place No," "I've got a plan of my own." "First I'll go to my dressmaker's." "I can only accompany you on your errands or when you are waiting for him." " You're such a shy lover." "or when you are waiting for him." " You're such a shy lover." "You may come to my place." "Don't you know where I live?" "May I?" "Of course!" " This afternoon?" "Of course." "But now I have to go to my dressmaker's" "Yes, let's go." "Tell me that you won't go with him any more." "No!" "I made a plan First to the dressmaker's, then lunch, then home I must learn the text for tomorrow's rehearsal." "Why should I?" "I'm through being an actress." "Perhaps I'll start painting." "I'm getting ready to begin with oil" "For some time." "Quite some time I don't have a subject" "I have to go to class." "Keep trying Bye!" "Should I go to another restaurant?" "Let's go some place, Maruša." " No, I must have lunch." "Come along if you want." " No, I never go there." "Don't go there, Redhead." "He's there." "Let's have lunch some place else" "You're being silly." "For years I've been eating there." "Why should I go stop doing so?" "Don't go!" "Of course I will!" "Where else?" "Here we are." "Don't be angry again." "You promised." "I'm so afraid for you." " My dear boy." "Are you coming?" "He'll come to help me." "He'll come and resolve everything." "What will happen when he comes?" "You're such a shy lover!" "You may come to my place." "Don't you know where I live?" "May I?" "Of course" "This afternoon?" "Of course!" "I'm going to see her!" "Oh, it's you." "I've had classes all morning I'm very tired." "Sometimes I wish I had another job." "Something completely different." "Why are you silent?" "Say something." "You think you're accusing me with your silence?" "No one is responsible for other people, nor me for you." "Dreams are nothing but lies." "Let's drop dead if we can't race reality." "It serves us right!" "What do you take yourself for?" "You keep brooding, you are like the Sleeping Beauty with her charmed face and waxen hands Ugly hands, I hate them." "And your face?" "I never liked it." "It's too broad, the eyes too large Bring me some wine." "You know it's true." "Your skin isn't soft, either." "You never wipe off your make-up." "Your skin is ugly, neglected." "You listen and keep silent!" "You're to blame." "How long have I been asking you to let me go!" "I can't go on like that." "Its too complicated, unbearable." "There's no trace of love, there never has been." "Only loathing and pain from the very beginning." "You're getting wrinkled, old and repulsive even as a mistress." "Let's put an end to it and live separately." "You came after all." " Am I too early?" "No, just on time" "You're not expecting anyone, are you?" "No." "It's so nice to be alone, without expecting anyone." "It's so cold and rainy outside." "It's warm and cosy in here." " Will you take off your coat?" "You're late, little prompter." " I wish I'd have come earlier." "Where have you been?" " Nowhere, when I think of it." "You weren't there" "I was, only you were less aware of it, wandering around." " Yes, but now I'm here." "Have you finally settled down forever?" "Forever." "We'll still have to go on, but we'll walk together." "There's s big difference." "It will be almost effortless. , as if we weren't walking at all" "Really?" "We won't even notice it." " Where shall we go?" "You mustn't ask that." "We'll be walking together and that is all that matters." "Nothing else does." "Do you want that?" " Yes, I do." "Maruša the Redhead!" "I'm human, too." "And a man can do anything." "You'll wonder at my deeds." "You won't recognise me." "Nobody will laugh at you." "We'll be together." "From now on you can rely on me, Maruša the Redhead." "Can't you?" " I can." "I can do anything." " Of course you can." "I love you." " I know that." "You don't know how much I love you" "I do." "Everything is going to be different now" "Yes." "We'll go to a far place where the sun shines." "It's always raining here." " Yes, we'll go." "I've always liked your hair." "All my life I've been a bit ashamed of it." "It's right you should like it." "I know now that I've always wanted to be with you." "It's okay." "You're perhaps the only man who really loves me." "You're responsible for this." "You don't care for anybody." "I was in a bad mood when I came Unfair to your face." "I've seen many nicer and many uglier faces." "I was wrong to say you never understood me." "You did, at least you put up with me." "You shouldn't take everything so seriously." "Come on, drink up." "Your skin isn't very nice, but it is still soft and smooth." "Your make-up is spoiling it." "You wipe it off too fast, but only to be with me as soon as possible Drink, Maruša!" "We're torturing each other." "Day after day we invent torments for each other. , and yet we manage to go on." "I dare not look at you, I'm ashamed." "Maruša the Redhead, let's try again, not to begin but to continue." "Everybody can be repulsive." "One must be patient, Maruša the Redhead, one must be reasonable, loyal and tolerant." "Let's continue." "Maruša!" ", There's no better world." "This is the only one." "It's not always rosy, there's more rain than sunshine." "Yet, this world is so beautiful, so real." "Let's hold out, let's continue and be merry in the rain in spite of everything." "You know, there is no better world." "There is just this one and we are living in it You exist," "Maruša the Redhead, and this world exists." "There is something else I have forgotten to tell you:" "Maruša the Redhead, I love you immensely." "What is this?" "When did the lady leave?" " Early, quite early." "She won't be back?" " I don't know, sir." "Did she take all her things?" " Yes sir, she took them all." "Did you see Maruša?" " This morning at home, but not in town" "We were in the restaurant when she suddenly disappeared" "Strange things have been happening." "Is she at the theatre?" "There are no rehearsals in the afternoon." "Still, I'll have a look" "I'll go with you if you don't mind." "I think my time is coming." " Let's hurry!" "Please, stay where you are." "Don't look at me." "Be calm, please." "Don't say anything, don't look at me." "I want to tell you everything, Maruša." "I must go to hospital, illness has caught up with me again." "But I hope to return to you soon." "Maruša dear, you know that I'm no lover and never will be." "Do I not wish you nothing but good?" "Do I not love you?" "Do I not fear for you from the very first day?" "The first woman..." "This wonderful soft hair..." "Maruša the Redhead, I love you so much!" "Let me tell you everything." "I told you she can't be at the theatre Hurry up!" "I saw her!" "Where?" "When?" " With the little prompter." "A lot seems to be different from what you may imagine." "Be quiet!" "No, I won't be quiet!" "You think you alone may steal, nobody may steal from you?" "You're damn wrong!" "Be quiet!" "What kind of a man are you?" "And you?" "You stole the only person I had:" "Magda!" "I saw how you grabbed her and had her like a dog!" "You won't escape me!" "I've been waiting too long!" "Maruša, I have nothing but love, nothing at all." "I love you so much." "I'll come back, I'll return, believe me." "And then you will tell me." "You will think it over before you answer, won't you?" "Won't you?" "Maruša?" "Maruša!" "She used to be so happy!" "But this afternoon when she came from lunch she seemed somewhat strange, sad Something must have happened." "Something bad." "It was this afternoon." "It was raining hard." "Suddenly I saw Maruša." "Why did you light the candle when the moon is shining and our hearts are brightly lit..." "There is no sense in it any longer." "It's all over for me." "What did he say?" "Ugly, plain Are these a woman's hands?" "A broad face, eyes too large, Plain, neglected skin." "Old, repulsive even as a mistress." "What if all this is true?" "I can't say all that with Peter and the theatre didn't happen when it did." "Reality is my enemy!" "I want another reality, my own reality." "Yes, forever." "I won't let them steal my world." "I shall drive across my meadow again." "Where's my suitcase?" "I'm ready." "People admired me there." "They admired me, Maruša the Redhead." "I've got red hair." "Beautiful, long hair." "Like no other woman." "What did the good driver say?" "In all the villages in the valley" "I was the only redhead." "And he should know, travelling from town to town." "It's not true that I'm old and ugly." "That's what evil people say." "He's not evil after all." "And yet he doesn't love me!" "No, no, Maruša!" "You can't get everything at once." "Next time." "Peter will come, too." "Why wouldn't he?" "Together we shall drive away," "Yes, together." "The driver is so kind." "Yes, far away where it isn't dangerous to be a man." "Come on, Maruša, hurry up." "Get up on the cart, you'll be late." "There That's good." "Peter, you'll come, won't you?" "I know I'm old and plain, but you'll come nevertheless, won't you?" "You'll love me and stay with me." "That is all I desire." "All the rest is meaningless." "All the rest is nothing." "Good night, my dearest." "Let peace and quiet that is in my heart flow into yours." "Forgive me, Redhead." "Forgive me." "And now you." "At last." "I can't." "I can't." "THE END"