"DAYS TO REMEMBER" "In a few minutes we will arrive at Tivat airport." "Tired?" " I'm okay." "How long were you at the station?" " Till two." "Did you sign the New York contract?" " Yes, I even agreed a 500 increase." "How long can you keep up your hectic life?" "All you need is a system that functions well." "Is everything set up for today?" "Yes." "What happened to the sheep?" "My sheep stepped on a mine from world war II." "Kaput." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Sound." " Rolling." "Camera!" " Rolling." "Scene one, take one." "This is the monument to the citizens of Lesna..." "This is the monument to the citizens of Lesna who died... who died fighting for freedom." "In Virpazar on July 13, 1941 the struggle for..." "The struggle for..." "In Virpazar..." "It was a spontaneous rebellion by these peace-loving people who had previously fought the Turks." "Was the rebellion only in Virpazar or did it spread?" "I told you the children..." " Cut!" "I told you the children just got back from Germany one week ago." "Repeat:" "The resistance spread throughout Montenegro." "Their first major victory was on July 16, 1941 in Koscele, near Rijeka Crnojevica." "Okay?" "Good." "One more time." "Sound." " Rolling." "Camera!" "Where are we?" "We are here, near Titograd." " Podgorica." "Podgorica..." "That place doesn't exist anymore." "That was during the war." "Today it is called Titograd." "Cut." "This image is no good." "It's much too rigid." "Not again." "Then find a good image!" "Come on, sound." " Rolling." "Camera!" " Rolling." "Fourteen, four, the second." "Are you glad to be back in Yugoslavia?" "Yes, we're very happy." ""Back?" I was born in Germany." "But you're Yugoslavian?" " He can't even speak our language." "I want to go back home." "Everyone's stupid here." "Where's your home?" " Where my father lives." "In Stuttgart." "Jerk from Stuttgart!" "You're the Jerk." " Cut!" "Germans." "Compatriots." "Germans." "Yes, thank you." "Hartmut will bring the footage to Berlin so Paula can work on it." "What?" "I can hardly hear you." "No, I can't postpone New York." "That's impossible." "One day in Berlin is enough." "I'll fly on the next day." "What?" "I've already taken care of that." "The apartment is empty except for my bags." "Listen, can you do me a favor?" "A favor!" "Please send a telex to the New York office." "I'll be there in four days." "On June 14th, okay?" "Isn't the boss coming?" " She's staying for a few more days." "Without Hartmut?" " Shut up." "Well..." "Have a good trip." "Thanks." " Bye." "All the best for New York." "We'll meet again sometime." "Good bye, Ms Gutmann." "Telephone!" "Mrs Jovanovic!" "If you need anything..." "Thanks." "It was great working with you." "Ciao, Katharina." " Ciao, Hartmut." "Is her name Gutmann or Jovanovic?" " Both." "Come on or we'll miss our plane." "I can't find it." "Feldmann." "Spelled with an F." "I've showed you everything I have." "A lot of it has disappeared." "Try the main office in Belgrade." "They might have something." "Goodbye, Mr Feldmann." "Where are you going?" " To Lake Skaddar." "How did you know I'm German?" "Want a ride?" "I'm going that way too." "Thanks, but I want to take the bus." "To see more of the land." "Good idea." "See you." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "You would've been quicker in your car." "Of course." "I want to really experience this country." "And that takes time." " Really?" "Do you know these poems by Njegos?" "The Homer of Montenegro." "You have to read them." "Yes, Yugoslavia..." "A country full of contradictions." "For the west, it's the East." "And for the East, it's the west." "Now we're about here." "In the region around Rijeka Crnojevica." "And while we're on the subject..." "A lot of people were killed in this region." "First by the Italians, then by the Germans." "1941, 1942, 1943, 1944." "The partisans were..." " watch out!" "A pothole is coming up." "Now he's going to curse." "And now he'll honk his horn." "Okay, here's where I get out." "I was born here." "Come on!" "Good morning, Aunt Gordana." "Is that you, Katharina?" "Danica!" "Danica!" "Run over to Martha's!" "Tell her Katharina is here." "How great." "Welcome." " Thanks." "Aunt Martha will be so happy." "A couple of days ago she had this dream." "Nikola, please drive to the bus stop." "I had trouble with the car there." "I'll take care of it." "How's your music?" "Bring my suitcase from the car." "Katharina!" "I've been accepted at the academy." "Fantastic!" "Mama, no one has died." "There's no reason to cry." "This is..." " Your fiancé?" "Peter Feldmann from Berlin." " Nice to meet you." "The pleasure's mine." "This is my mother." "My name is Martha." "Please come." "Come." "Please come in." "Uncle Savo, put me down!" " You're too skinny." "I'm not a child anymore!" "What do you eat there?" "You should eat some cornbread and bacon." "Right, sister?" "German?" "Hello." "Peter Feldmann." "I see it right away." "You're German." "Why?" "Do I look like it?" "You're not from us." "I see that right away." "I'm Savo." "TELEVISION'S DARLING OF THE MONTH." "Understand?" " No understand." "Peter, come." "I'll show you Katharina's house." "You're also too skinny." "This is the living room." "With television and music." "The bedroom is upstairs." "Katharina, do you want a double or two single beds?" "Aunt Ljubica!" "Are you Viktoria?" "Here are the keys." "Everything's working." "You probably flooded the engine." "Women and cars." " Nonsense." "You're a good girl." "Your father would've been proud." "She sends money every month." "I started building this house for her with it." "Okay, they are Aunt Gordana and Aunt Ljubica." "They are my poor husband's sisters." "That terrible Savo is my brother." "He doesn't need to know all that." "He has to know it." "Gordana, take care of him." "I'll be right back." "Tell me..." "Do you have a family?" "Family?" "Yes, it's a big family." "No, you." "Do you have a family?" "My family?" "Judith." "Her name is Judith." "Eight years old." "Wife?" "My wife is gone." "Danica, please get some water." " I'll do it." "No, Danica will go." " I'll do it." "Come on, let's go." "BORN IN 1919 IN DODOSE." "DIED IN 1983 IN MUELHEIM, RUHR, WEST GERMANY." "All the Yugoslavian foreign workers collected money." "To send the body back here." "By plane, understand?" "He only flew in a plane once." "As a corpse." "Did Katharina's father die in Germany?" "Yes." "Work." "Work." "And then gone." "A war comrade." "Understand?" "When will you get married?" "Oh well, you can also be happy without being married." "A pity he's not Yugoslavian." "Your new German friend is handsome." "What does he do for a living?" "I bet he earns good money." "Olga's husband brought three kids into their marriage." "And this one has a daughter." " That's not good." "Why not?" "Then Katharina only has to have a son." "I thought you were a fast woman from the TV." "I am." " Yes?" "A really fast one." "Please do me a favor." "Drive to Titograd to the post office and send this telegram to Berlin." "Here's the address." "One moment... what's today's date?" " The ninth." "The ninth." " So then... on the fourteenth." "But who shot the hostages?" "Officers or soldiers?" "All of them." "Do you remember the name of the unit?" "That was a long time ago." "Uncle Savo, let me have him for a while." "You'll have him your whole life." "What did he say?" " Let's go." "What's this?" "Such a young man." "The war is over." "You should go to the seaside with Katharina." "It's beautiful." "The sea, the moon, music." "Forget the moon and music." "I have something to do here." "Sit down." "You love your country, right?" "Yes, I love my country." "I love it." "But German insulin is very good." "Good German insulin." "Grenades destroyed my stomach." "Drink nothing, eat nothing." "Katharina brings insulin." "I drink, I eat." "Maybe you won the war in the end." "You love Katharina?" "Her mother says you're going to marry." "The house is being built for Katharina." "I helped with it." "Stop, Dusan." "That's enough." "Come on, let's sing a song." "Go back to sleep, mother." "I'll be right back." "Yes, Peter." "Three days and three nights in the woods with two comrades." "On the other side... 100 Germans." "Last week it was two days and ten Germans." "Leave the man alone." "Nikola, wake up!" "Let's go." "Come, I'll show you where the soldiers were." "Come on." "Do you have a boyfriend, Danica?" "I'm learning to sew, to cook, to smile and to wait." "I should stay a virgin until the man of my life comes along." "It's still like that?" "But I want to go to Germany." "Like you." "Don't do that." "Dusan..." "You're not coming back." "What are you talking about?" "I know it." "You won't come back." "Why didn't you come back after your father's death?" "Why?" "I've lost you." "I don't have you anymore." "Mother, please go back to sleep." "Why did I do all that?" "For whom?" "Shit!" "You're so thin." "I traveled to Berlin for your sake." "I know." "German." "You want to come back, but can't any more." "You're a stranger here now." "You will always be unhappy." "Life can be so easy." "You don't say." "Shall your children be German?" "Never be with your mother?" "Never hear Njegos in your language?" "Stop, Dusan." "Don't start that again." "I cried when you left." "You were ten then." "I'm not ten anymore." "You're a fine German lady now, eh?" ""Television's darling of the month."" "Do you feel better now?" "Tell Nikola to take the car to Dubrovnik tomorrow." "How do you say, "It was nice"?" "Bilo je ljepo." "Come on." "Come on, Peter." "Will you come back?" "I don't understand why you live in Germany." "Because I'm German." " You're Yugoslavian." "Yes, that too." "Which is home:" "Germany or Yugoslavia?" "I don't need all that!" "I was ten when I left and that was more than 20 years ago." "Homeland." "That's fiction." "It's the longing for a childhood you can't return to." "Where do you want to grow old?" " I don't have to worry about that now." "Why?" "Do I look that old?" "If you know where you want..." " I don't want to get old at all." "And if I do get old, it'll be where I am then." "Maybe in New York." "New York?" "Why are you in Yugoslavia?" "My name is Peter Feldmann." "I called recently." "Did you find something?" "I'm the son... what?" "One moment." "You talk to him." "I don't understand." "Yes?" "Okay." "One moment." "They don't know where to send you the information." "Should I say Hotel Milocer?" " Yes." "Listen." "Send it to Hotel Milocer." "Yes, Peter Feldmann." "You should see yourself." "And you?" "Look how tiny my village seems from up here." "Can you translate that for me?" "July, 13, 1941." "Fight fascism." "Freedom for the people." "Do you have a thing for monuments?" "I want to understand." "By standing there?" "Okay..." "If that's what you like." "That looks like an M." " Yes." "The engineer who built this road loved a woman called Milena." "It's true." "He could've made the road straighter." "But he loved her so much he did it like that." "No one knew why." "Really." "The workers building the road rebelled." "But he insisted." "In the end, he stood up here with her, and she looked down..." "And he... we get out at the next stop." "Why did we come here?" "You wanted to see where the Nazis were." "What's this place called?" " Andrejevica." "He wasn't here." " What?" "Nothing." "In the summer of 1944 German troops gathered 400 women, children and elderly from the neighboring villages and shot them as hostages." "And what now?" "Nothing." "I feel nothing." "I could stay here for 100 years and I still wouldn't understand." "Because you don't see anything?" "What is there for you to see?" "That was more than 40 years ago." "I want to understand it." "I could show you another place where you can even see bones." "I'm hungry." "I'm leaving." "Are you coming?" "Look, Ulrich." "I want that." " Dobar dan." "Molim..." "Melon." "We don't sell melons." "The lady bought the melon from a street vendor." "You speak German." "You can have cevapcici if you'd like." " Not cevapcici again!" "No, thank you." "Maybe some other time." "The dead." "Dead people." "Dead faces." " What?" "They're all dead." "I also prefer watermelon to always eating cevapcici." ""Not cevapcici again, Ulrich!"" " Hey!" "In a foreign country all Germans hate the Germans." "Am I a typical German to you?" "No, it's just typical that you ask." "Ask what?" "Germans always want to know what other peoples think of them." "I also want to know." "That explains the memorials." "That strange map." "My father..." "He always lied to me." "He said he never did anything bad." "But whenever I asked him about the war, he got angry." "Shortly after his death I found these photos." "Lieutenant in the infantry." "In the army unit E." "Under the command of the war criminal Alexander von Löhr." "And?" " I have to know what happened." "What do you think happened?" "He was a soldier." "What if you found out your father may have been a murderer?" "I don't live in just any country." "I live in Germany." "Everything remains:" "The meetings of old SS-men..." "Can't he turn down his radio?" "Not a day goes by without..." "Hey!" "Please turn down your radio." "Do you know the difference between Jews and Turks?" "The Jews have it over with." "My daughter brings back jokes like that from school." "Turn down the radio, okay?" "You turn down radio." "Thanks." "What was I saying?" ""You turn down radio."" "That bus goes to the coast." "That one to the mountains." "That's why I'm in Yugoslavia." " Listen, I've got 48 hours." "I have a proposal." "I know a great hotel by the sea." " What are you saying?" "You have 48 hours?" "I have a different proposal." "We stay together." "But without your countdown." "No plans, no pressure." "That's easy for you to say." "Okay." "But without your army map." "No memorials." "Just us, okay?" "You're so quiet." "I need time." "Otherwise I don't know where I have been at the end of a journey." "I don't understand you." "Good." "What kind of man are you?" "Sugar." "You are sugar, sugar sweet." "What's that?" " A hint." "Sugar." "Sugar, sugar white." "Sugar." "Sugar and I'm all right." "Jingle composer." "Advertising?" " I wrote music for advertising." "A BM driver." " I sold it." "Oh really?" "Now you're on foot on the way to self-discovery?" "Looking for your sweet little ego in Yugoslavia?" "Are you married?" "Oh yeah, divorced." "Separated." "To have time to think it over, right?" "And next year you'll be in your penthouse and she'll serve you a Campari on the terrace." "Look, there's a nice hotel I know." "Should we go there?" "Come on, it's hot." "Everything's sticky." "I need a bath." "I have to make a phone call." "A phone call?" "Come on." "Come on." "Let's go." "Come on." "Haven't you made your call yet?" "You're so fast." "The hotel is over there." "And here's the bus we're going to take." "I don't like you." " I don't like you either." "Then we fit well together." " Yes." "Please get off here." "Last stop." "Where in the world are we?" " Can you hear the wind blowing?" "You're a real meschugge German Grail-quester." "Look, an inn." "Try your luck." "I'm sure they don't speak German." " Try it anyway." "Good evening." " Good evening." "Are you German?" "German?" "Dutch." " Dutch." "Holland." " Pardon." "Oh, you want to eat." "Of course you can." " Thanks." "You're welcome." "Rijeka Crnojevica." "Yes, that's here." "That's the name of this place." "Is this here?" "The Death Citadel." "Have one." "I couldn't live like you without a goal or a plan." "Maybe my life isn't without a goal." "Without a goal or a plan." "Do you have to plan everything in advance to enjoy it?" "We're talking about you." "I think somewhere along the way I lost my orientation." "And you're looking for it now?" "What's your goal?" "New York." "Is your husband going with you?" "Oh, that." "That was a long time ago." "I just wear it." "Sometime it's practical." "I'd never have thought you were married." "Neither would I." "It was over after three years." "He was disappointed that the exotic Yugoslavian suddenly became a normal German woman." "A normal German woman?" "You?" "In any case, the husband is gone." "The German passport stayed." "It didn't work out." "And you?" "After ten years of marriage" "Marie didn't want to live with a dropout." "What remained is my daughter Judith." "She lives with Marie, but I get to see her often." "Excuse me." "Two rooms?" " The gentleman asked for them." "Two rooms?" "Good night." "Shit!" "What an idiot." "Did you see a young German here?" "Good day." "Come here." "Sit down." "Look, this is how I do it." "And now like this." "And then I bind it together." "Hasn't he come by yet?" "Did he fly away from you?" "Are you the German lady?" "I was born in Duisburg." " Hello." "You husband is up there." "With old Ivo." "Up there by the Death Citadel." " What?" "Come with me." "I'll take you up there." "Please try to answer." "Was the partisan camp here?" "Shooting and all dead." "Please." "Everyone dead." "Where you here too?" "Did Germans shoot hostages here?" "Yes, killed all." "Listen." "This is very important for me." "Do you know this man?" "Do you know him?" "Can you recognize this man?" "He wasn't here." "He wasn't here." " You're German?" "Please say he wasn't." "Extra super." "Come on." "He wasn't a murderer." "Come on, you promised." "Are you crazy?" "There are plenty of German mines here." "Didn't you see the signs?" "Extra super." "Up there in the Death Citadel the Nazis killed all the men of the village." "1943." "It used to be a partisan camp." "The old man is the only survivor." "He was lying under the corpses for one day." "And now..." " watch the road!" "I didn't want to come and I end up here anyway." "I understand you." "But life goes on and people have other problems today." "You can't be blamed for what your father did." "Besides you don't even know what he did." "We're the children of our parents." "We're what our parents were." "No." "Not me." "I am what I made of myself." "Really?" "And what did you make of yourself?" "A perfectly functioning machine." "You disavow everything." "No weaknesses, no doubts, no pain." "You're always on the run." "And you?" "We're here together and all you can think about is the war." "You're basking in self-pity." "You're actually doing quite well." "You're living comfortably with your obsession with the past." "I have to get through this." "All right, then do it fast." "We're running out of time." "It's ridiculous." "Radioactive clouds are everywhere, contaminating everything and you're poking around in world war II!" "How do you know we won't all be dead soon?" "We have to live now." "Live, live!" "What kind of life do you mean?" "A life with closed eyes?" "Your kind of power show?" "Life, come hell or high water?" "You're so sensitive." " It's no good!" "You're looking for real feelings?" "Do you know what you are?" "An egoist!" "You're closed up." "You're living in a shell." "I'm starting to love you, and you're closed up." "You have no room for a woman." "You don't need me." "What do you want from me?" "I have to go to Dubrovnik now." "And to Berlin tomorrow." "Goodbye." "You can't get rid of me so easily." " You're crazy." "A letter for you, Mr Feldmann." "Thank you." " You're welcome." "I'm in love with you." "I want to stay with you." "Couldn't you call off New York and stay in Berlin?" "Would you like me to?" "It's up to you." "All you need is to say, "Stay."" "Would you stay if I asked you to?" "Yes." "I'll go to New York with you." "Say that again." "I'll go to New York with you." "Really?" "We missed our plane to Berlin." "That's the first time in my life that I missed an appointment." "I'll never leave you alone again." "Don't you want to open this?" "It's Serbo-Croatian." "What does it say?" "In reference to your request we regret that we can only send you a copy of the map." "The original is in our museum." "The map indicates the movements of the army unit E of the German Wehrmacht." "What else?" "That the worst reprisals against civilians took place in Rijeka Crenojevica." "It's good we'll be flying to New York soon." "I have to record a program now." "Don't leave." " I have to." "I promised." "Come with me to Rijeka Crnojevica." "What?" "Why?" "You said yourself..." "I can't." "I have to go to the studio." "I have to try to get a line to Berlin." "I have to go there." "You don't have to do anything." "Let it be." "Okay?" " Yes." "I hope it's no problem for you." "Not at all." "We're waiting for a line to Berlin anyway." "Everything will be fine." "This one." "You're young." "Extra prima." "The war is old." "Look." "What are you doing?" "No, not there!" "Not there!" "We shouldn't act as if the past were a closed chapter." "Only when the migrant workers feel at home in Germany, will the remnants of the Nazi times be overcome." "We will only understand our present times if we constantly confront our past." "This report..." "My God, what's the matter?" "What is it?" "What's the matter?" " Wait a second." "I'll tell you." "The line to Berlin will be cut off... wait, wait." "Just a second." "I don't care, I don't have to pay for it."