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Closer to the Moon Page #3
into outer space,
one-way trip.
Wouldn't you go? I would.
Sure you would.
During the war
you were getting us all
wound up about
changing the world.
Now that the world has changed for the
worse, you want to go to another planet.
You're a dreamer, Max.
Well, that is part of my charm.
Yes, lollipop,
that's your charm.
Thank you, sweetheart.
Some charm.
Look where it led us all,
Max's charm!
Okay, the years in
the Resistance were fun.
But what about now?
We're spending New Year's Eve
Hey, watch your language.
Because you taught us
freedom fighters
must be free and now you're
the only one who's married.
And because you're married, and
because of who you're married to
you're the only one
who isn't blacklisted.
You're talking
about Sonia here, right?
Well, I wouldn't envy
him if I were you.
You're right. No wonder he
wants to move to another planet.
That's his revolution.
Let's toast my revolution, huh?
- Your Revolution!
- Revolution.
- The Revolution!
- Revolution!
- Maestro, warm our hearts.
- The Revolution is a whore.
- Everyone agreed?
- Agreed.
Yeah. But the opposite
is also true.
Oh, really?
Did you understand what
the gentleman said?
He said that you are
a revolution.
Not me. My associate maybe.
Are you calling me a revolution?
Hey, hey, hey.
Come here.
You're a little revolution,
you are!
And you screwed us, you b*tch.
We were madly in love with you
ready to give our lives for you
at a moment's notice.
You turned out to be
nothing but a cheap slut.
Now, you're going to see what
- Ooh!
- Ooh!
I knew I'd find you here.
Alice?
Is it really you?
Here's the real event of
1959. Alice has come home!
Rumor was you were partying like
animals and I wanted to see for myself.
Ah-ha! So we're already
the talk of Moscow?
I can't believe it's you!
I know some party hacks that might
accuse the lady of bourgeois elegance.
You, vodka! You, "Kalinka!"
Hey!
Hey, everybody!
Fidel Castro's taken Havana!
Batista's fled!
They just announced it
on the radio!
Victory!
Now, there's something
we didn't predict!
- So, Alice..
- Mm-hmm.
What are you going to do?
Uh, I wonder if I could
become an actress
now that I don't have to speak
Russian anymore.
Good idea. We should
all take acting classes.
You?
Why would you do it?
My dear Alice, Wonderland is
not what it used to be.
Especially for us Yids.
begun a round of spring cleaning
to reinvigorate the Party.
So we should all become actors.
There are plenty of juicy parts
for us Jews to play these days.
Enemies of the state,
aristocrats, speculators.
Why not, big man?
1959, the year we
Alright, you f***ing scumbags,
we're gonna put you in a film.
You're going to give us
a step-by-step rendering
of your criminal actions
as gangsters and traitors
is through with you
we're gonna show the film
across the country.
So that everyone can spit in
your stinking reactionary faces.
These are no ordinary thieves.
You'll be surprised to hear
they were all Party members.
And not recent ones either.
They all joined before the war.
They were active
resistance fighters
that took part in sabotage
missions against the Nazis.
They were heroes then.
After the war they all held important
positions, except the woman
who went to study in
the Soviet Union
and came back with a degree
in political science.
Until the robbery,
the gang leader, Max Radoiu
was head of
criminal investigation
for the
Bucharest Police Department.
Tell me, Rosenthal, how did
like you get into
the police department?
I bribed a doorman.
What a degenerate!
Dumitru Dorneanu was a scientist,
the Romanian representative to the
USSR for the Soviet Space program.
Name and first name.
Prisoner Dorneanu, Dumitru.
Dorneanu, or is it Auerbach?
Tell me, Auerbach, why do you
people always take Romanian names?
Do you really think
you can fool us?
When it's written on your face,
like a sign on a bus. Yid!
Razvan Orodel, born Orvitz,
used to be an important columnist
until his right to a byline was withdrawn,
and he was demoted to a proof-reader.
Pull your trousers down. Now.
Well then, Orvitz, the sign's
not only on your face, is it?
Yorgu Ristea, university
history professor.
Before the robbery,
he had lost his university chair
and was teaching in
a secondary school.
Ah, Feldiman.
I like you, Feldiman,
and here's the proof, eh.
Look how well you done here.
Your belly's as big as my wife's
when she's pregnant!
Oh, who's the happy father?
Tsk tsk.
Oh..
Hmm.
They're all Jews.
Our film should highlight this
aspect with great finesse.
We are not anti-Semitic..
...but we cannot be indifferent
to the threat of Zionism either.
We will have to use innuendo
and I'll be counting on Maestro
Flaviu's experience for this.
- Hmm?
- Oh, yes, yes. Yes, of course, we... we must be subtle.
I want them to look so smug
and glamorous
that the man on the street will
consider them a personal insult.
Madam, will you allow
me this dance?
Now that you're gonna be
in a film, you'll be famous.
I want to tell my friends I
danced with a movie star.
I'm afraid I'd stomp
on your toes.
What's that, sweetheart?
Well, let's see if you
have any talent.
- Do you know any poetry?
- No.
Now, don't tell me you don't
know a single poem.
Everybody knows at least
one poem by heart.
Right, let's see what
poems you know.
I mean, you're all great
f***ing artists, aren't ya?
So get reciting or I'll cut off your
kosher pickled d*cks one by one.
All you f***ing outlaws, have
I made myself clear?
I want to hear a poem! Now!
5,000 pages in those files and
still one question left unanswered.
Why?
Why did they do it?
As the poet says,
"What drove them into battle?"
The Party has driven
us all into battle.
Workers and peasants united at
last, class-struggle sharpens.
We're no longer cattle, we're
communists saying farewell to the past!
Lights out in 2 minutes.
I say we refuse.
What can they do?
Execute us twice?
At least we won't get
humiliated.
Are you thinking about escaping?
No.
If they do decide
to take us outside
the security will be twice
as tight as it is in here.
Let's refuse then.
What do we gain by refusing?
I already told you.
We don't get humiliated.
You're obsessed
with humiliation.
Too bad you don't have
You'd be amazed at
how dignified you look.
You didn't.
Hey!
What is this?
Dignity, humiliation,
escapes, violin strings.
Sunshine, comrades.
Fresh air.
Green grass, girls
in summer dresses.
That's what we're talking about.
Sasha, tell the others
the four of us
are taking a few trips outside,
beginning tomorrow.
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