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claim the very same thing.

And they're such big hypocrites,

they think it's true.

l have never hurt anyone.

To be able to say that,

you've taken criminals out of prison

and put communists in their place?

Listen to me, comrades.

Fascists don't spring up someday

like mushrooms, all in one night.

No. Fascists are

the padrone's offspring.

lnventions of the padrone.

And with these fascists,

they began earning more and more.

So much that they had

to put their fortunes to use,

and that's how war was invented.

For we were sent

to Africa, Russia, Greece,

Albania, and Spain.

But did they pay?

No, we're the ones that paid!

The proletariat,

the peasant, the workers!

You paid for it!

He pays now! He pays now!

Do you hear that, Alfredo Berlinghieri?

You hear the voice of the people?

We, the ignorant hicks

who die of starvation,

will set an example here

in this miserable a**hole of the world.

We sentence you to death.

We condemn you

and the past condemns you.

That's it, comrades.

No more padrone.

The padrone is a dead man.

l'm very tired. May l sit down?

l'm very tired.

lf l understand it right,

we're looking at a dead person.

Yes, he thinks he's alive,

and for us the man's dead.

He doesn't exist anymore.

The man's alive. His body's on fire.

Usually, the dead grow cold.

Olmo, you learned

how to speak better than a peasant.

Here.

But you should explain with simple talk.

That educated talk can play tricks.

The padrone is dead

but Alfredo Berlinghieri is alive.

And we mustn't kill him.

But why not?

Because he's the living proof

that the padrone's dead.

And now let's vote.

Who agrees, raise your hands.

Comrades, the partisans!

The partisans are coming.

Partisans.

Comrades, the partisans.

The partisans are here.

Hey, comrades.

Silence. Silence, please.

Come over here, everybody!

l have an important

communication to make.

Everybody, come over here!

-Hey, let me look at it!

-Give it to me! Give it to me!

-An American gun!

-Give it to me. Let's see.

We have come here in the name

of the Committee of National Liberation.

We represent the Christian democrats,

we represent the liberals,

we represent the socialists,

we represent the communists

and the action party.

This Committee

for the Liberation of ltaly...

-Sit down.

-...has assumed power temporarily,

for the purpose of maintaining

law and order in the country.

And so, dear friends,

l ask you to adhere

to the decision of the

National Committee for Liberation

and turn your arms over to us.

-No!

-Those are the orders!

Comrades, victory is

like when you're drunk.

-No!

-Yes!

When you drink,

you say what you feel in your heart.

-lt's a trap, Olmo.

-Everything seems to be new for you.

No, it's the old story.

l'm not going to fall for it.

The moment of truth arrives and it

demands that everyone must get sober,

and put your head and heart

under the faucet and stop drinking.

-They're double-crossing us.

-Yes.

But, please, all right...

Those guns belong to us!

lt's all bullshit!

Why give them the guns?

They belong to us all.

Tomorrow they'll call it utopia.

That's fine!

But remember, if there's

evidence to persuade us

that the padrone's still there,

we must say no anyway.

Because we know, we saw, all of us.

We know the truth. The padrone's dead!

Hey, boy, didn't you hear the orders?

No! Give it back to me! lt's my gun!

Give it back! lt's mine! lt's mine!

Give it back! lt's mine!

Give it back to me!

The padrone's alive.

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