1 00:00:29,797 --> 00:00:32,630 "Berlin, 14 May 2005. 2 00:00:33,597 --> 00:00:36,634 Today I decided to resign from my position 3 00:00:37,317 --> 00:00:40,275 as head of the biotechnology institute. 4 00:00:40,837 --> 00:00:43,874 I'm just wasting my time here. As a scientist, 5 00:00:44,837 --> 00:00:48,193 I have to go back to the origin of my interest, to that... 6 00:00:50,077 --> 00:00:53,308 innermost force, which binds the world together. 7 00:01:03,117 --> 00:01:05,950 Back to the elementary. 8 00:01:07,757 --> 00:01:11,636 I have to resume the research that I interrupted in Ireland... 9 00:01:11,757 --> 00:01:15,113 3 years ago. The artificial reproduction of organisms... 10 00:01:15,757 --> 00:01:18,590 without sexual contact. 11 00:01:20,397 --> 00:01:22,957 Is it desirable... 12 00:01:25,677 --> 00:01:28,908 It is desirable for a scientist to ascertain... 13 00:01:29,357 --> 00:01:32,713 the feasibility. Truth is like an elementary particle. 14 00:01:33,237 --> 00:01:36,195 It can't be split into smaller parts." 15 00:02:10,637 --> 00:02:15,028 You don't need to pass grade school to do the job we're doing here. 16 00:02:16,277 --> 00:02:19,633 Anyone who's on the ball leaves after 2 years, like you. 17 00:02:20,477 --> 00:02:23,435 - Here's to tenured positions! - Cheers! 18 00:02:26,877 --> 00:02:30,233 It's a pity you're leaving. To me you were always like... 19 00:02:30,877 --> 00:02:33,710 a Niels Bohr or a Heisenberg: 20 00:02:33,917 --> 00:02:36,954 A person of exceptional intellectual ability, 21 00:02:37,957 --> 00:02:40,994 someone with a totally unique way of thinking. 22 00:02:42,077 --> 00:02:45,114 Anyway... it'll be a loss for all of us. 23 00:02:47,277 --> 00:02:50,633 Especially for me, I suppose. I always admired you. 24 00:02:53,477 --> 00:02:56,708 So what are your plans now? To go back to Ireland? 25 00:02:58,157 --> 00:03:01,513 I'm not sure yet. I need to think things over first. 26 00:03:01,957 --> 00:03:05,791 Has it anything to do with that work that you never published? 27 00:03:05,917 --> 00:03:09,273 Maybe. That too. It bothers me that I never finished it. 28 00:03:10,077 --> 00:03:12,910 Sure, I understand. You are... 29 00:03:13,117 --> 00:03:16,473 one of those rare people, who have that thirst for knowledge. 30 00:03:17,117 --> 00:03:20,473 I always thought I had it, too. But I never went far enough. 31 00:03:21,117 --> 00:03:24,473 - One must be willing to go very far. - That's exactly right. 32 00:03:24,717 --> 00:03:26,275 Yes! 33 00:03:29,237 --> 00:03:32,070 The thirst for knowledge! 34 00:03:32,477 --> 00:03:35,514 Only a few people have it. But those few... 35 00:03:36,757 --> 00:03:40,636 are the most important power in the world. They keep on researching... 36 00:03:40,757 --> 00:03:44,113 until one day they possess the key to rational knowledge. 37 00:03:46,957 --> 00:03:50,313 Nothing in the history of humanity was ever more important... 38 00:03:51,597 --> 00:03:54,555 than the need for rational knowledge. 39 00:03:55,117 --> 00:03:58,996 Western civilization has sacrificed everything to that need... 40 00:04:00,677 --> 00:04:04,556 Its happiness, its hopes, its religion and ultimately: Its life. 41 00:04:11,797 --> 00:04:14,834 You were the only one who never bored me. 42 00:04:35,077 --> 00:04:38,433 "Dear Mr. Djerzinski. Due to construction of the new B17 road, 43 00:04:39,077 --> 00:04:42,433 your grandmother Wilhelmine's grave must be moved..." 44 00:05:33,037 --> 00:05:35,870 "...in the pleated maze of narrow Old Town alleyways, 45 00:05:36,197 --> 00:05:39,155 where even the eerie has its charms, 46 00:05:40,197 --> 00:05:43,428 I happily give myself up to the game of chance... 47 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:47,508 and gaze as women pass, old and tired of life..." 48 00:05:54,237 --> 00:05:57,593 - Want to tell me your problem, Ben? - Nothing. What problem? 49 00:05:58,517 --> 00:06:01,748 - You think Baudelaire's funny? - No, not at all. 50 00:06:02,077 --> 00:06:05,035 Good. Would someone like to comment? 51 00:06:10,397 --> 00:06:13,230 - Johanna please. - I think... 52 00:06:13,917 --> 00:06:17,273 eroticism was a driving force for Baudelaire's creativity, 53 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:21,874 but that it made him lonely at the same time. 54 00:06:22,597 --> 00:06:25,953 I'd say these lines reveal the classic, tragic core... 55 00:06:26,597 --> 00:06:29,157 of male fate. 56 00:06:30,317 --> 00:06:33,673 Very interesting comments. Would anyone like to add to that? 57 00:06:48,797 --> 00:06:51,630 Did you get my essay? 58 00:06:54,557 --> 00:06:57,390 Mr. Klement? What's the matter? 59 00:07:01,077 --> 00:07:03,910 - Well? Did you? - Did I what? 60 00:07:04,477 --> 00:07:07,037 Read my essay? 61 00:07:16,837 --> 00:07:19,670 - Uh, yes, of course. - Well? 62 00:07:21,197 --> 00:07:24,553 It was very good, exceptional. Really good. Very sensitive. 63 00:07:26,837 --> 00:07:29,874 Have you thought about becoming a writer? 64 00:07:30,397 --> 00:07:33,628 - It never occurred to me. - You've got the talent. 65 00:07:35,797 --> 00:07:38,755 Your essays are really... very good. 66 00:07:41,317 --> 00:07:43,877 - Goodbye. - Bye. 67 00:08:29,397 --> 00:08:32,355 Won't you at least dance with me once? 68 00:08:34,277 --> 00:08:36,029 Come on. 69 00:08:41,637 --> 00:08:44,197 I'll go back then. 70 00:11:23,637 --> 00:11:27,391 "We envy and admire the Negroes for we want to become like them: 71 00:11:27,517 --> 00:11:30,350 Animals with a long cock 72 00:11:31,357 --> 00:11:34,190 and a tiny reptilian brain..." 73 00:11:43,717 --> 00:11:45,469 Come here. 74 00:11:59,677 --> 00:12:03,431 "The Negroes are still in the Stone Age. They can't acquire... 75 00:12:03,557 --> 00:12:06,788 our knowledge, they have no clue about hygiene... 76 00:12:07,277 --> 00:12:10,110 and they also spread AIDS." 77 00:13:01,397 --> 00:13:04,230 You're a true racist, 78 00:13:04,797 --> 00:13:07,834 I can tell. You're full of it. That's good. 79 00:13:10,517 --> 00:13:13,350 Peng, Peng, Peng, Peng, Peng! 80 00:13:13,557 --> 00:13:16,594 The stuff about Negroes is great. It's strong, 81 00:13:18,797 --> 00:13:21,755 crazy, daring. You're talented. 82 00:13:25,317 --> 00:13:28,673 - What about my essay on families? - That's very good too. 83 00:13:31,157 --> 00:13:33,990 You're a reactionary. 84 00:13:34,397 --> 00:13:37,753 All great writers were reactionaries: Benn, Goethe, 85 00:13:38,757 --> 00:13:42,113 Thomas Mann, Dostoyevsky. But one has to fuck too, right? 86 00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:48,315 Sex parties... that's important. 87 00:13:49,837 --> 00:13:53,068 - So what do we do with this? - Well, I thought... 88 00:13:54,237 --> 00:13:57,070 you might publish it. 89 00:13:59,477 --> 00:14:02,435 My good man, what were you thinking? 90 00:14:03,237 --> 00:14:06,593 The Third Reich is history. An article like this... 91 00:14:06,957 --> 00:14:09,994 could get me in real trouble. Do you think... 92 00:14:10,797 --> 00:14:15,029 I haven't got enough trouble as it is? Do you think I can do whatever I like... 93 00:14:15,157 --> 00:14:18,115 just because I work for Rowohlt? 94 00:14:19,117 --> 00:14:21,950 Have you got anything else? 95 00:14:37,237 --> 00:14:39,797 Hey, dear brother! 96 00:14:41,517 --> 00:14:44,475 - How are you? - Right now things suck. 97 00:14:45,797 --> 00:14:49,028 - What's up? - Who cares. How are things with you? 98 00:14:50,117 --> 00:14:52,950 My parakeet died today. 99 00:14:55,117 --> 00:14:58,473 - My sympathy. What did you do? - I threw him in the garbage. 100 00:15:02,437 --> 00:15:05,395 What else could you have done? Say mass? 101 00:15:10,197 --> 00:15:13,234 I recently gave Anne a silver garter belt. 102 00:15:17,597 --> 00:15:20,555 She disappeared into the bedroom. 103 00:15:21,317 --> 00:15:24,275 - I'm ready, darling! - I followed her. 104 00:15:35,677 --> 00:15:38,714 I knew right away it was going to fizzle. 105 00:15:43,637 --> 00:15:46,470 Just no way I could get it up. 106 00:15:47,317 --> 00:15:51,356 She's a lousy cock-sucker, I felt her teeth, and she's got cellulite. 107 00:15:51,477 --> 00:15:54,708 Should I tell her to get rid of her stretch-marks? 108 00:15:55,757 --> 00:15:58,794 Sorry for rattling on. I'm just so tired... 109 00:15:59,757 --> 00:16:02,715 of jerking off. I'll be 40 soon. 110 00:16:05,317 --> 00:16:08,354 Once you start working, every year's the same. 111 00:16:09,317 --> 00:16:12,673 The only events left in your life are the medical kind. 112 00:16:15,557 --> 00:16:18,515 - I'm already dead, pal. Cheers! - Cheers. 113 00:16:57,317 --> 00:16:59,069 That... 114 00:17:00,597 --> 00:17:03,430 was really a very good essay. 115 00:17:07,557 --> 00:17:09,309 Thank you. 116 00:18:40,797 --> 00:18:43,357 I'm going now. 117 00:19:42,357 --> 00:19:45,315 - How much did you give him? - Enough. 118 00:19:51,717 --> 00:19:54,550 You'll be fine in a minute. 119 00:19:55,757 --> 00:19:58,317 I can't go home. 120 00:20:00,197 --> 00:20:03,234 I'll kill myself. I'll really kill myself. 121 00:20:06,517 --> 00:20:09,350 Mr. Klement, calm down, okay? 122 00:20:10,677 --> 00:20:13,635 You can stay here. Listen to me, 123 00:20:14,317 --> 00:20:16,877 you can stay here. 124 00:20:19,877 --> 00:20:22,835 My mother abandoned me when I was 2, 125 00:20:26,637 --> 00:20:29,595 because of all that hippy shit. 126 00:20:30,557 --> 00:20:33,117 My half-brother too. 127 00:20:34,837 --> 00:20:37,874 - She ran off to Poona. - Where did you grow up? 128 00:20:39,877 --> 00:20:42,437 With my grandmother. 129 00:20:43,677 --> 00:20:47,033 - What about your grandfather? - He died just after I arrived, 130 00:20:48,077 --> 00:20:51,035 picking mushrooms in the forest. 131 00:20:54,237 --> 00:20:58,628 When they found him 3 days later, the body had started to decompose. 132 00:21:00,437 --> 00:21:03,474 First a corpse attracts certain flies: Musca, 133 00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:08,553 Curtoneva. When decomposition starts, more turn up, 134 00:21:09,597 --> 00:21:12,828 especially Lucilia and Calliphora. And these... 135 00:21:17,397 --> 00:21:20,434 These mites, named after Italian starlets, 136 00:21:21,237 --> 00:21:24,070 make the cadaver grow more... 137 00:21:26,637 --> 00:21:29,993 and more liquefied. The fermentation and decomposition 138 00:21:30,677 --> 00:21:33,714 - produce butyric acid and ammonia... - Bruno! 139 00:21:35,957 --> 00:21:38,994 - Calm down, okay? - Sorry. But my mother... 140 00:21:39,957 --> 00:21:42,790 didn't even get in touch... 141 00:21:43,957 --> 00:21:46,790 when my grandfather died. 142 00:21:48,197 --> 00:21:51,553 Even though my grandmother called her in Poona several times. 143 00:21:54,877 --> 00:21:57,710 It made her very sad, you see. 144 00:22:02,877 --> 00:22:05,835 I loved my grandmother very much. 145 00:22:07,237 --> 00:22:10,274 How long were you at your grandmother's? 146 00:22:11,077 --> 00:22:14,308 Until I... Until she died. Until I was thirteen. 147 00:22:18,117 --> 00:22:20,950 It happened in the kitchen. 148 00:22:24,117 --> 00:22:26,950 She pulled the handle down. 149 00:22:31,837 --> 00:22:34,874 Fucking boiling hot soup all over her head! 150 00:22:36,957 --> 00:22:39,915 My grandmother was an excellent cook. 151 00:22:40,957 --> 00:22:44,836 She always made me five-course dinners. That day she was making... 152 00:22:46,077 --> 00:22:50,195 stuffed peppers, no... marinated peppers, stuffed zucchinis, rabbit... 153 00:22:50,317 --> 00:22:52,877 with couscous, 154 00:22:54,477 --> 00:22:57,435 followed by nougat with mascarpone. 155 00:22:57,997 --> 00:23:02,388 - And what happened after she died? - They stuck me in boarding school. 156 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:07,950 And what was that like? 157 00:23:09,757 --> 00:23:12,988 - Open your mouth or I'll cut your balls off! - No... 158 00:23:15,437 --> 00:23:18,668 Yes, I understand. And you never saw your mother? 159 00:23:20,477 --> 00:23:23,833 Yes, I did. She came back to Germany from Poona every year. 160 00:23:41,637 --> 00:23:47,553 He picked me up from boarding school and took me to one of those hippy communes. 161 00:23:48,917 --> 00:23:50,669 Hey Baby. 162 00:23:56,757 --> 00:23:59,590 - This is Bruno. - Hey, Bruno. 163 00:24:00,877 --> 00:24:03,914 I'm Jane's lover. I want you to feel free. 164 00:24:06,477 --> 00:24:10,868 Throw off the shackles of civilization. You can do that here. Be free. 165 00:24:11,197 --> 00:24:12,755 Okay? 166 00:24:15,877 --> 00:24:18,710 I knew I'd never be like them. 167 00:24:20,357 --> 00:24:22,917 Beautiful creatures. 168 00:24:24,957 --> 00:24:27,790 I'd never make the grade. 169 00:24:31,837 --> 00:24:35,193 At the end of my vacation I crept into Jane's room. 170 00:25:46,117 --> 00:25:48,950 I jerked off on my mother. 171 00:26:03,877 --> 00:26:07,233 And this fucking cat was watching me the whole time. 172 00:26:14,077 --> 00:26:16,637 But when I came, 173 00:26:18,237 --> 00:26:21,070 it suddenly closed its eyes. 174 00:26:25,917 --> 00:26:28,875 I picked up a stone, went over... 175 00:26:29,797 --> 00:26:32,630 and smashed its fucking skull. 176 00:26:36,757 --> 00:26:39,794 That was the last day of my vacation with mother. 177 00:26:44,157 --> 00:26:47,115 By the way, you have a brother. 178 00:26:48,197 --> 00:26:51,553 - What d'you mean, I have a brother? - Okay, a half-brother. 179 00:26:52,197 --> 00:26:55,234 - And why didn't anyone tell me? - Lighten up. 180 00:26:56,077 --> 00:26:59,114 Want to meet him? He's sort of a math genius. 181 00:27:00,477 --> 00:27:04,356 Come on, let's go see him. He lives nearby with his grandmother. 182 00:27:09,237 --> 00:27:12,070 - Hello Michael! - Hello. 183 00:27:14,117 --> 00:27:17,348 My God, you've grown up. Don't you recognize me? 184 00:27:19,117 --> 00:27:20,869 Of course. 185 00:27:27,517 --> 00:27:30,475 - Do you like the Stones? - Thanks. 186 00:27:35,037 --> 00:27:38,393 This is Bruno. Your half-brother. I thought it's time... 187 00:27:39,037 --> 00:27:42,916 you two should meet. Come on! I would have got you two together... 188 00:27:43,197 --> 00:27:46,155 ages ago, but it was too complicated. 189 00:27:52,997 --> 00:27:54,555 Hi. 190 00:27:59,197 --> 00:28:02,155 I'll let you two get acquainted. 191 00:28:03,197 --> 00:28:06,030 I'll be back in an hour, okay? 192 00:28:06,997 --> 00:28:09,955 Go on! Don't be so uncommunicative! 193 00:28:12,077 --> 00:28:14,910 There's lots to talk about. 194 00:28:15,677 --> 00:28:19,033 Bruno supports the release of all Red Army Faction prisoners. 195 00:28:19,997 --> 00:28:22,557 What about you? 196 00:28:27,077 --> 00:28:28,556 Oh... 197 00:28:28,677 --> 00:28:31,635 well... Make a bit of an effort, okay? 198 00:28:37,557 --> 00:28:40,390 Do you want to come in? 199 00:28:51,237 --> 00:28:54,274 - Looks really complicated. - It's not that bad. 200 00:28:56,397 --> 00:28:59,230 I'm not that good at math. 201 00:29:02,637 --> 00:29:05,674 Huxley's "Brave New World". I just read that. 202 00:29:07,277 --> 00:29:09,837 Really? And? 203 00:29:10,397 --> 00:29:14,072 - Yeah, it was quite okay. - I think it's a really important book. 204 00:29:14,197 --> 00:29:17,030 I'm convinced that our society 205 00:29:17,197 --> 00:29:20,030 is moving towards exactly... 206 00:29:20,957 --> 00:29:24,836 what Huxley describes in his book. Stricter controls on reproduction... 207 00:29:24,957 --> 00:29:28,632 will one day lead to a total separation of procreation and sex, 208 00:29:28,757 --> 00:29:31,794 resulting in artificial human reproduction. 209 00:29:32,757 --> 00:29:36,113 - It says that? - That's exactly what we're striving for, 210 00:29:36,437 --> 00:29:39,270 only so far unsuccessfully. 211 00:29:42,917 --> 00:29:44,669 - Hi. - Hi. 212 00:29:45,917 --> 00:29:48,875 Bruno, my half-brother. Annabelle. 213 00:29:49,677 --> 00:29:53,556 - I didn't know you had a brother. - Neither did I until just now. 214 00:29:54,117 --> 00:29:57,154 - Want to go outside for a while? - We can't. 215 00:30:00,517 --> 00:30:03,475 - Hello! Who are you? - Annabelle. 216 00:30:03,877 --> 00:30:07,233 Your girlfriend? I understand: You haven't been intimate yet. 217 00:30:07,877 --> 00:30:10,835 Don't be ashamed, sex is beautiful: 218 00:30:11,877 --> 00:30:14,835 Treat it naturally, to maximize... 219 00:30:15,877 --> 00:30:20,393 your partner's enjoyment. Well, I must get Bruno back to boarding school... 220 00:30:20,517 --> 00:30:24,396 and be in Frankfurt in 3 hours. My flight to Bombay leaves at 8. 221 00:30:24,557 --> 00:30:27,515 Have you got my new number in Poona? 222 00:30:28,757 --> 00:30:31,590 I'll write it down for you. 223 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:43,228 You can reach me there. So did you two get to know each other a bit? 224 00:30:45,917 --> 00:30:48,477 - Okay. - Okay. 225 00:30:49,077 --> 00:30:52,308 Bye, Annabelle. And don't forget to use the pill. 226 00:30:52,957 --> 00:30:55,915 It's vital to your emancipation. 227 00:31:00,037 --> 00:31:03,393 - And how was your first relationship? - My first relationship? 228 00:31:06,437 --> 00:31:09,395 It was at my grandma's funeral. 229 00:31:10,077 --> 00:31:13,433 - So, sweetie, isn't that nice? - Her name was Annick. 230 00:31:15,717 --> 00:31:18,277 Do you like that? 231 00:31:20,837 --> 00:31:23,795 Bruno, it's been a long session. 232 00:31:24,157 --> 00:31:27,115 I think we should finish for now, okay? 233 00:31:29,197 --> 00:31:32,234 Try to get some rest, and we'll meet again... 234 00:31:33,117 --> 00:31:35,950 - in 3 days. Alright? - Okay. 235 00:31:38,197 --> 00:31:40,757 Please go now. 236 00:31:41,877 --> 00:31:44,710 Thank you, Dr. Scher. 237 00:31:57,037 --> 00:32:01,827 There she is. It's a disgrace... having to rebury her because of a road. 238 00:32:06,157 --> 00:32:08,671 Don't look. 239 00:32:08,797 --> 00:32:11,755 I have to break open the coffin. 240 00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:25,394 I told you not to look! It's always the same. 241 00:32:26,357 --> 00:32:29,713 They always look. A coffin like that can't last 20 years. 242 00:32:57,477 --> 00:33:01,356 The headstone will be moved tomorrow. I'll show you the new grave. 243 00:33:01,477 --> 00:33:05,470 You have to come and sign the register. 244 00:33:39,117 --> 00:33:40,869 Michael! 245 00:33:42,557 --> 00:33:45,515 - Hello, Mrs. Stevens! - What a surprise! 246 00:33:46,317 --> 00:33:48,228 - I was just... - Come in! 247 00:33:48,357 --> 00:33:51,588 - I don't want to disturb you. - Really! Come in! 248 00:33:54,397 --> 00:33:56,957 Well! How nice! 249 00:33:59,677 --> 00:34:02,635 - Just look who's here! - Michael, 250 00:34:04,997 --> 00:34:08,034 - what are you doing here? - Hello, Mr. Stevens. 251 00:34:10,237 --> 00:34:13,274 - You look well. - Thanks. You too. How are you? 252 00:34:14,637 --> 00:34:16,389 The same. 253 00:34:25,277 --> 00:34:28,155 - Hello Michael. - Hello Annabelle. 254 00:34:28,277 --> 00:34:31,633 You'll stay for dinner, won't you? We're having roast pork. 255 00:34:32,397 --> 00:34:35,230 - Sure. - Want a drink? A beer? 256 00:34:35,917 --> 00:34:37,669 Please. 257 00:34:39,837 --> 00:34:41,395 Here. 258 00:34:43,277 --> 00:34:47,156 They were moving my grandmother's grave so I thought I'd stop by. 259 00:34:49,197 --> 00:34:52,234 Come into the kitchen and we can catch up. 260 00:35:03,717 --> 00:35:07,596 It's a coincidence that I'm here. I just came to help my mother. 261 00:35:16,997 --> 00:35:20,353 I've read about you in the papers. You've become famous. 262 00:35:25,397 --> 00:35:28,753 - What do you do? - I live in Berlin too. I'm a librarian. 263 00:35:36,677 --> 00:35:39,510 Are those the same glasses? 264 00:36:06,237 --> 00:36:09,195 Why didn't you answer my letters? 265 00:36:11,557 --> 00:36:14,390 I used to hate you for that. 266 00:36:17,317 --> 00:36:20,673 It was all so long ago, but I still think about it sometimes. 267 00:36:24,997 --> 00:36:27,955 I read them just a few days ago. 268 00:36:28,917 --> 00:36:30,669 Really? 269 00:36:34,877 --> 00:36:37,835 With Grandma. You had just arrived here. 270 00:36:39,677 --> 00:36:42,635 It was before we started to school. 271 00:36:43,797 --> 00:36:47,153 Oh God, look how Bruno was always trying to look cool. 272 00:36:47,797 --> 00:36:50,630 With those awful shoes on. 273 00:37:04,437 --> 00:37:07,270 Why didn't you ever kiss me? 274 00:37:13,797 --> 00:37:16,755 Would you perhaps like to kiss me now? 275 00:37:19,317 --> 00:37:21,877 I think I would. 276 00:37:35,037 --> 00:37:37,995 - Your brother is here. - Michael. 277 00:37:39,197 --> 00:37:40,949 Hi, Bruno. 278 00:37:47,597 --> 00:37:51,476 I'd never have thought Mum would die here in Germany. Why didn't the old slut... 279 00:37:51,597 --> 00:37:54,828 stay in Poona? Apparently she converted to Islam, 280 00:37:55,597 --> 00:37:58,555 inspired by some Sufi mystic shit. 281 00:38:01,877 --> 00:38:05,233 Now she's shacked up with some weirdos in an abandoned house. 282 00:38:08,117 --> 00:38:10,677 Real hippies. 283 00:38:11,877 --> 00:38:15,586 Hard to believe they still exist, yet their numbers are growing. 284 00:38:15,717 --> 00:38:19,073 With all the fucking unemployment, they're thriving. 285 00:38:37,437 --> 00:38:40,270 - Jane is in there. - Thanks. 286 00:39:20,477 --> 00:39:26,074 You want to be cremated? Okay. 287 00:39:28,477 --> 00:39:31,435 You'll be cremated when this is over. 288 00:39:35,277 --> 00:39:38,235 And what's left of you goes in a bag! 289 00:39:41,077 --> 00:39:43,910 I think she got that. 290 00:40:04,757 --> 00:40:08,113 She wanted to stay young, that's all. Didn't want... 291 00:40:08,757 --> 00:40:12,113 her kids reminding her she was from another generation. 292 00:40:12,757 --> 00:40:15,590 What's so bad about that? 293 00:40:40,077 --> 00:40:42,796 Everyone has come, 294 00:40:42,877 --> 00:40:47,507 everyone is here! 295 00:40:48,437 --> 00:40:51,827 When she has heard this song, 296 00:40:52,517 --> 00:40:56,988 she will die, mommy dear! 297 00:40:58,237 --> 00:41:01,627 Everyone has come, 298 00:41:02,357 --> 00:41:05,030 everyone is here! 299 00:41:05,637 --> 00:41:08,788 From Galilee... 300 00:41:09,077 --> 00:41:11,955 and Canada too... 301 00:41:48,797 --> 00:41:51,357 I think she's dead. 302 00:42:39,797 --> 00:42:43,676 - Are you okay at the clinic? - Yeah, it's cool. I have my lithium. 303 00:42:49,117 --> 00:42:53,030 - Should I take you somewhere? - I'm off to Rostock now, to a brothel. 304 00:42:53,157 --> 00:42:56,115 I'll go back to the clinic tomorrow. 305 00:42:56,877 --> 00:42:59,835 There are loads of brothels in Rostock. 306 00:43:00,717 --> 00:43:05,507 I won't be able to get it up because of the fucking lithium, but never mind. 307 00:43:08,597 --> 00:43:11,157 Take care, Bruno. 308 00:43:13,797 --> 00:43:16,357 Take care, old pal. 309 00:43:17,877 --> 00:43:20,437 Help yourself. 310 00:43:26,277 --> 00:43:29,110 It's funny, isn't it? 311 00:43:30,877 --> 00:43:34,233 I always thought you'd be married with kids and all. 312 00:43:34,477 --> 00:43:37,833 It never would've occurred to me you might be alone. 313 00:43:39,797 --> 00:43:42,755 Well, I never had much luck with men. 314 00:43:47,517 --> 00:43:50,873 I slept with dozens of men, but none of them are worth... 315 00:43:51,397 --> 00:43:53,957 remembering. 316 00:43:55,317 --> 00:43:58,150 Does my frankness bother you? 317 00:43:59,357 --> 00:44:02,588 It began with the guy I danced with that evening. 318 00:44:03,357 --> 00:44:06,713 Do you remember? I wasn't remotely in love with him. 319 00:44:10,277 --> 00:44:13,235 But after you left I met him regularly. 320 00:44:15,397 --> 00:44:18,355 It went on for two years: At 19... 321 00:44:19,117 --> 00:44:22,075 I got pregnant and had an abortion. 322 00:44:22,517 --> 00:44:25,350 I never saw the guy again. 323 00:44:26,597 --> 00:44:29,828 He joined a satanic cult somewhere in California. 324 00:44:32,517 --> 00:44:35,748 Two years ago I saw a TV report about snuff films. 325 00:44:36,597 --> 00:44:40,476 They'd just arrested him. He'd been cutting women's limbs off. 326 00:44:42,837 --> 00:44:45,795 Just imagine, if you'd had his child. 327 00:44:49,357 --> 00:44:52,394 Anyway... I've been off men for a while now. 328 00:44:56,077 --> 00:44:59,035 I was tired of being treated... 329 00:45:00,077 --> 00:45:03,114 like some piece of meat. I tried women too, 330 00:45:03,837 --> 00:45:06,795 but that didn't work out either. 331 00:45:07,797 --> 00:45:11,153 So now I spend my evenings here, reading and drinking tea. 332 00:45:15,757 --> 00:45:18,794 Don't worry. I've got used to being alone. 333 00:45:21,277 --> 00:45:25,156 Sometimes I could use a man, it's true. I'm scared at night... 334 00:45:25,277 --> 00:45:28,314 and I can't get to sleep. Tranquillizers... 335 00:45:29,877 --> 00:45:33,108 and sleeping pills sometimes just aren't enough. 336 00:45:42,117 --> 00:45:45,348 I still can't believe we're sitting here together. 337 00:45:50,717 --> 00:45:52,708 Neither can I. 338 00:45:59,877 --> 00:46:02,835 That's at my grandma's, isn't it? 339 00:46:07,917 --> 00:46:11,273 I'm going to show you a secret, but promise you won't laugh. 340 00:46:11,837 --> 00:46:13,589 I promise. 341 00:46:19,477 --> 00:46:22,037 Sit down. Here. 342 00:46:25,677 --> 00:46:28,237 I kept everything. 343 00:46:29,037 --> 00:46:31,870 For years I kept an album. 344 00:46:32,557 --> 00:46:35,515 Every postcard you ever sent me. 345 00:46:36,317 --> 00:46:38,877 Even our school IDs. 346 00:46:48,237 --> 00:46:51,468 "Dear Dr. Sommer, I'm 15 and in love with a boy. 347 00:46:52,557 --> 00:46:56,436 I've known him since I was little. I'm still young but I think... 348 00:46:56,557 --> 00:47:00,436 I want to spend my whole life with him. But I'm a bit worried... 349 00:47:00,557 --> 00:47:03,515 because he won't kiss me. Could he be... 350 00:47:04,557 --> 00:47:07,594 a late-developer? Annabelle S. Winzhofen" 351 00:47:08,237 --> 00:47:11,593 - Did you really write that? - You know what his answer was? 352 00:47:12,237 --> 00:47:15,274 "Dear Annabelle, I don't mean to upset you, 353 00:47:16,237 --> 00:47:19,786 but it's very rare for a childhood friend to become a girl's boyfriend. 354 00:47:19,917 --> 00:47:23,273 He's more likely to become a friend, a loyal friend, 355 00:47:23,917 --> 00:47:26,954 who can help you deal with feelings roused 356 00:47:27,917 --> 00:47:30,875 by your first flirts." Sad, huh? 357 00:47:32,037 --> 00:47:35,393 - What he wrote was dead wrong. - But it came true anyway. 358 00:47:42,317 --> 00:47:45,150 And what about you and women? 359 00:47:47,397 --> 00:47:50,230 - Not so great. - In what way? 360 00:47:54,677 --> 00:47:56,429 Well... 361 00:48:01,677 --> 00:48:04,510 - But you had lovers? - I've... 362 00:48:09,317 --> 00:48:11,069 I've... 363 00:48:13,757 --> 00:48:16,715 You've never ever slept with a woman? 364 00:48:19,637 --> 00:48:21,195 No. 365 00:49:16,677 --> 00:49:19,635 You look like you did back then. 366 00:49:20,637 --> 00:49:23,470 You feel like you did then. 367 00:49:25,637 --> 00:49:28,868 You can't imagine how long I was in love with you. 368 00:49:31,677 --> 00:49:34,635 I think it started when I was 5. 369 00:49:35,277 --> 00:49:38,110 It never really stopped. 370 00:49:53,117 --> 00:49:54,675 Hi... 371 00:50:02,197 --> 00:50:05,234 - You look good. Nice suit. - C&A summer sale. 372 00:50:09,677 --> 00:50:13,033 I thought I'd dress like a civil servant to get laid more. 373 00:50:13,997 --> 00:50:17,228 - Civil servants are more liberal. - So you're... 374 00:50:17,797 --> 00:50:21,153 - working on the curriculum committee? - I have no choice. 375 00:50:26,477 --> 00:50:29,435 - I'm going on vacation first. - Where to? 376 00:50:30,557 --> 00:50:33,913 Some camp. The catalogue says there's a high woman ratio. 377 00:50:35,437 --> 00:50:38,793 Maybe I'll get lucky. It's a kind of nudist camp... 378 00:50:40,837 --> 00:50:43,795 with spiritual courses and stuff. 379 00:50:44,597 --> 00:50:47,555 With my luck they're all ecofreaks. 380 00:50:48,877 --> 00:50:51,835 But at least they aren't so prudish. 381 00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:56,948 - Anyway, something'll come together. - Good luck. 382 00:51:02,437 --> 00:51:04,189 Thanks. 383 00:51:09,477 --> 00:51:12,435 Anne wants a divorce. 384 00:51:15,957 --> 00:51:19,427 She's moved out with the baby. 385 00:51:21,837 --> 00:51:23,395 Shit! 386 00:51:25,477 --> 00:51:28,037 I really wanted... 387 00:51:29,957 --> 00:51:32,915 I really wanted to be a good father. 388 00:51:36,117 --> 00:51:39,189 Shit! Two more shots, please. 389 00:52:04,277 --> 00:52:07,633 - Go away. I'm not interested. - Dad! It's me... Bruno. 390 00:52:08,557 --> 00:52:11,594 - Don't you recognize me? - Of course, Bruno...