Enemies: A Love Story Page #3

well, maybe-maybe

you have changed.

- But I see you haven't changed.

You're still the same.

- No.

- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

- No, I'm not the same.

No, I'm not the same.

I'm dead.

They put nylon stockings on me,

dyed my hair, polished

my fingernails. God help me.

But I'm dead. So I bear

no grudges against anyone.

- Nor am I dependent on anyone.

- No. But with...

I just hope you're not

playing the same tricks

on your wife...

- I am not...

- that you played on me.

I don't know where

you're living, Broder,

but you may stay with us.

Uncle, he has another wife.

There was an eyewitness

who-who said that...

They testified that she...

- You don't have

to run away, Herman.

- I...

I'm not going to trap you

into anything.

- That's what we read

in the newspapers.

- Yeah.

- Why didn't you tell us?

- Well, I didn't want

to trouble you, that's all.

All right,

so it's not so terrible.

You didn't know she

was alive, so you weren't

living illegally with a woman.

And I'm sure that you will,

as soon as possible...

- I'll do... wh-whatever...

- What do you want to do, Herman?

- You want to divorce me?

- No. No.

- Oh, what should I do,

move in with your new wife?

- Uh... no.

Look, I, uh...

I don't know. I...

Look, I-I have to run. I-I... I'm sorry.

I would like to stay.

But it's, uh... I have a pressing

business engagement down at...

I'm late. Uh... I'm-I'm-I'm

writing a book for-for a rabbi.

It's, uh... I-I think

you would be interested in it.

It's, uh, it's very

complicated, and it's, uh...

[Sighs] But I-I-I have to go now.

You'll have to excuse me.

I... I'm sure...

What I'll do, I will call you.

It's, uh... I will...

I will be in touch with you.

[Door Opens]

- [Door Closes]

- Why did he get

into the bathroom?

You were with a relative, huh?

- I didn't even know he was alive.

- What's his name?

Feivl. Feivl Lemberger.

- A Talmudic scholar in his sixties.

- You think I'm an idiot?

I know who it is.

It's that old girlfriend

of yours, Eva Kracover.

- She's been after you since Warsaw.

- Masha, Masha, Masha.

- Masha, great game.

- Thanks, Benny. Two teas, Bernie.

It is Eva. She missed you so badly,

she put a notice in the personals.

You were so afraid I'd see

the name and number, you tore it

out of my mother's paper.

- How do you know that?

- My mother called me,

that's how I know.

But I got another one.

I'm going to call right now

and find out the truth.

- You want to call?

You go ahead, call.

- Yes!

I will give you the nickel.

You call. I'm bored to death

with your ugly accusations.

- All the time, it's the same thing...

- Don't let her push you around.

- I'll call when I feel like it.

- If you have no faith in me...

- then the whole

relationship is senseless.

- It's senseless, all right.

[Man] That's right.

Go on, you tell him.

You have your shiksa

and you have me, but some

b*tch from Europe shows up...

and you leave

to run off to meet her.

A whore like that

probably has syphilis too.

- I haven't seen Eva in years!

- I don't know why

I stay with you.

You're a pathological liar

and a bastard besides!

Russians.

They're hot-blooded.

Masha. Masha.

Tamara, my dead wife,

risen from the grave.

Polished her nails, come to

New York. That's the truth.

You know, Herman, compared

to you, Leon Tortshiner

was an honest man.

And after all this,

I was gonna tell you...

I can take my vacation now.

- Starting when?

- We can leave Sunday morning.

Oh, boy. Listen. I-I don't know.

I don't know, Masha.

This is... This is not a good time

for me. It's a very bad time.

You did it deliberately.

All year you promised

to take me to the country...

- It's still a promise. I will...

- and at the last minute...

- you change your mind!

- What are you hitting me for?

I'll go myself.

I don't need you.

I'll pack a suitcase and go

wherever my eyes lead me.

Don't threaten me. I will take you

to the country. Masha...

[Sighs]

## [Swing]

#A certain maid I know

is so afraid her beau #

#Will never ask her

Will she name the day #

#He calls on her each night

And when she dims the light #

#It's ten to one that

you will hear her say #

#Oh, Joseph, Joseph

Won't you make your mind up #

#Oh, Joseph

Make your mind up #

#It's time I knew

just how I stand with you ##

[Tamara] My uncle keeps nagging

me to come to a decision.

He says you should

divorce the other one.

If not, you should divorce me.

I can't get a Jewish divorce

from Yadwiga. We weren't

married under Jewish law.

Are you at least faithful to her

or do you have six others?

[Mumbling]

Tamara, you know...

You might as well

tell me everything.

It's pointless to hide now.

Ja, ja.

I have a mistress.

I thought so.

What can you talk about

with Yadwiga. Who is she?

She's from over there.

From the camps.

Twenty cents grapes, please.

- Well, I see nothing

has changed with you.

- Ja, ja, ja.

- Thank you.

- This sweetheart of yours...

does she accept

this arrangement?

She has no choice.

Her husband won't divorce her.

She's in love with me.

Are you in love with her?

I can't live without her.

Well, well, well.

To hear such words from you.

Is she beautiful?

Intelligent? Charming?

- All three.

- How do you manage it?

Do you rush

from one to the other?

I do the the best I can.

It's not so easy.

What sort of person

is your mistress?

A little crazy,

but tremendously interesting.

- Children?

- No. And she doesn't want any.

You're lying, Herman.

If a woman loves a man,

she wants to have his child.

She wants to be his wife too.

And not have him run off

with another woman.

- Does she know about me?

- She read the notice in the paper.

She could call here at any time.

What shall I say if she calls?

That I'm your sister?

I told her that you were alive.

She didn't believe me.

Then I told her a cousin

of mine showed up. A...

A man called Feivl Lemberger.

Shall I tell her that

I am Feivl Lemberger?

[Moans]

Go. Go have Sabbath

with your wife.

[Laughing]

[Speaking Hebrew]

[Speaking Hebrew]

- Good Shabbes.

- Good Shabbes.

Was good?

It was good.

- [Sighs]

- Herman!

- You're breaking

God's commandment.

- [Scoffs]

There is no God,

do you hear?

And if there were,

I would defy him.

[Speaking Polish]

[Speaking Polish]

Besides, if there were a God,

he wouldn't care about lighting

the lights on the Sabbath.

Yadzia, tomorrow, I'm...

I must go to Pittsburgh.

It's a long trip.

Have you slept with her yet?

- Who?

- Feivl Lemberger.

[Sighs] Not yet.

Who is she? You might as well

tell me the truth.

I told you the truth.

Tamara's alive. She's here.

Tamara is dead

and rotting in the earth.

Feivl is one of your sweethearts.

I swear on the bones

of my parents.

It isn't my sweetheart.

- Then tell me who she is.

- I told you. I to...

- Who is she?

- It's a relative of mine, huh?

A broken woman who has

lost her children.

- Why did you say

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