A Difficult Life Page #2

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- Hello? I'm starving already!

- That's not true.

No, no. The Dongo gold?

They found it in Lake Como?

- Very well. I must leave straight away?

- Tell him I'm coming with you.

I'll take Magnozzi with me.

- No? - I know the places,

I was a partisan.

- He knows the area,

he was a partisan. - Sure!

Very well.

- What did he say?

- He said yes.

- When do we leave?

- Immediately.

- I said "immediately".

- Yes.

The Americans in Rome, then.

The director is sending me to the Dongo.

we are here, where tragedies of

war and fascism took place.

The search for the famous treasure

of the Dongo has been futile.

and the journalists are returning

to their quarters.

Get away! It may blow up!

- Get us water!

- Water!

On that mountain there is a flour mill

where I spent a wonderful time

with a woman. A beautiful woman.

See that village? She lives there.

- The one who killed a German with an iron? - Yes.

Over there is her hotel.

- How do we get there?

- With the ferry, takes ten minutes.

- Does she have any sisters?

- One, a little one.

Let's go there, we'll eat, sleep for free

and pass a beautiful evening.

I cannot go to her.

I promised to marry her,

take her to Rome.

Instead one night I ran away

while she was sleeping.

I have never sent her

a single postcard.

Hello? Hotel Leon d' Oro?

Miss Elena?

- You're not her? - You're her mother?

- Her sister. - Give it to me.

Hello, Iris? This is Silvio.

Yes, I'm alive.

- Don't get your mother, get Elena.

- How many years is she?

- She was 13 years. - So now she's

about 15. Let's go there. - No! Shut up!

Hello, Elena?

My love! No, I'm not dead.

I'm a few kilometres from you.

What are you doing, love, are you crying?

It's too emotional for her, she cannot speak.

- How I like that! - If her sister is

too young, she can bring a friend.

Hello, Elena?

Speak, tell me something!

Two cases of beer? What are you saying?

Her mother is there, she doesn't want her to

understand she is talking to me.

- Why I haven't written? Well

- I will explain it all to you later.

- I will explain everything. - We'll be

out late". -Leave me alone!

I wasn't talking to you. I'm not alone here.

Let me speak!

You have no idea what has happened!

I will tell you all about it when we meet.

- We'll be until late.

- Yes!

I never graduated,

I started as a journalist.

I've come from Rome with the purpose of seeing you.

I so much want to see you again, my love.

No, we came by car.

She asks what kind of car.

You will see it afterwards.

I'm coming at once. I'm taking the ferry,

we'll meet at the landing.

- Tell her to bring a friend.

- Ok, I'll tell her!

Elena, do you have a friend?

Bring a friend. I'm here

with a journalist, a colleague.

A very likeable one.

Listen to what I'm saying.

If you don't mind we'll go out with him.

We'll go dancing, have a good time.

- And be out until late.

- Be quiet!

Elena, we'll see each other in a short while.

At the landing.

She said she had married.

She thought I was dead.

- So they're not coming?

- Yes, she's coming.

- Silvio, look at that mountain dweller.

- It's her!

- And the other one?

- Elena!

- The friend.

- I don't know.

Elena!

- You have cut your beard?

- Yes, don't you like it?

It was the only beautiful thing you had.

Now you seem a different person.

Good evening, I'm Simonini, a colleague.

Why are you coming alone?

- Why, with whom should I have come?

- I didn't want him to be single tonight.

- I wanted us to pass this beautiful evening.

- Together.

- I have come only to bring you your stuff. - Well.

- The typewriter,

the washed linen. - She has washed it.

You left it all the flour mill

when you fled.

- I left to do what I had to do.

- Good luck on your career.

I hope never to see you again.

- What did I do?

- You're losing her. A character like her!

- Hold this.

- Go there.

Elena! Wait!

Why did you do that?

Is it true that you married?

Why didn't you wait for me?

Bastard! You can't do like that!

I killed a man to save your life,

we lived together for three months

and then you fled.

I realize I have done wrong.

How many promises you made me,

and how many beautiful words you said to me!

You even wrote me poems!

You said you couldn't live without me,

that I was more necessary to you

than bread and water.

And now you phone me up, two years later,

to pass a beautiful evening!

Here's the beautiful evening!

Elena.

I have been a bastard, but I will not

allow you to marry another man.

- Who will stop me?

- I will.

- It's too late.

- No.

- How beautiful you are! Give me a kiss.

- No.

Let's go to the flour mill, we'll spend

a beautiful night together.

Then, if you want, you can come to Rome with me.

I won't go to the flour mill,

you will leave me there again!

No, I have come here to tell

you how much I love you.

If you really love me,

do you know what to do?

I'm coming with you.

But not to the flour mill, to Rome!

To Rome? When?

At once.

- Will your mother agree with this?

- No. - And then?

I'll flee. Iris!

I told you he would take

me with him to Rome.

- Here is Elena's suitcase.

- Good.

- Tell mother we love each other.

- And your fiance?

- He and his millions can go to hell!

- Yes.

- Bye, lris.

- Bye.

- Good bye, Silvio.

- Bye, lris.

Let's go.

- The boat is leaving!

- One moment, we're coming.

Silvio, quick!

- What are you doing with that suitcase?

- Elena is coming to Rome with me.

- Are you crazy?

- Not, sooner or later I had to do it.

- Are you serious?

- Yes, I have decided and am happy with it.

What does it matter to you?

I'll take it.

Let's go. Elena.

- Bye.

- The car isn't yours?

No, it belongs to the newspaper.

Bow down, duck your head.

Come.

- Welcome!

- Dear Biancona.

Come on, Elena.

Excuse me, my love. Allow me.

Please enter.

Help yourself inside.

Put down the suitcase, make yourself comfortable.

- Where's the kitchen? - There isn't one,

I have always eaten in the trattoria.

Well, do you like it?

Would you rather return to your mother's house?

No.

- Silvio. - Hi, Elena,

wait for me, I coming right away.

- Director, have a look at this title.

- Very good.

- Should we add The king is out? - No,

let the constituents say that.

- Very well. Excuse me, but can you give me

an advance payment? - Another one?

We are two, now.

I know, but you have to think.

I cannot help you anymore.

The trattoria won't give us any more to eat.

Give me just 10,000 liras.

- Our newspaper is not financed

by billionaires. - I know.

We make do with money from laborers.

We should be content.

But some of us cash in 30,000 liras per month.

- There are those who are worth more, and those less.

- Then I am worth the least of all.

No, if things go well,

even you will live better.

Very well, give me 5.000.

I can give you this.

It's a bill of exchange worth 60.000 Liras.

- I can give it to the trattoria.

- Try it.

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