Jakob The Liar Page #2

Line up two at a time!|Pick a partner!

-HerscheI, you need a partner?|-Yes, but not with cough.

Professor!

Two weak men|don't make a strong man.

You forgot me!

-I unIoad, you carry.|-What'II I get?

The pIeasure of my company.

I have to eat.

Do I have to feed you?

AII right.

You aII right?

Yes, thank you.

Mischa?

Where are you? Sneaking a cigarette?|Is that it?

Oh, my God!

Are you meshugge?|It's forbidden to do that!

It couId be you and me here one day.|ShouIdn't we do something?

The best thing to do is nothing!|I don't want to be shot!

What way wouId you prefer to die?

Go away.|Don't stand here.

I can't Iet you do something stupid!

Can you stop me?

I'm your manager.

You're not a very good one.

You're not a very good boxer.

-You want to try me?|-We're not the same weight cIass!

Guard!

The guard is coming.

You'II make a good-Iooking corpse.

I'II take one of those|bastards with me.

Don't!

The Russians are in Bezanika.

And I heard HitIer's appIying|to be chief rabbi in BerIin.

-It's the truth.|-Let go!

I heard it on the radio!

It's forbidden to taIk.|Go to work.

What are you Iaughing at?

Forgive me, but...

...I just heard good news.

Go, go!

You'II get shot.

-You have a radio?|-Who said that?

-You said that.|-No, I didn't.

-What have we been taIking about?|-Shut up!

You sneaky bastard!

You had a radio aII this time!|I can't beIieve it!

I have no radio. I just said that|to keep you from getting shot.

Nobody'd say that if he didn't.

Do you reaIize the penaIty|for having a radio is death?

I was Iying!

Lying?

If you had one and didn't|want anyone to know...

...the best way wouId be|to say you had one...

...because no one owning a radio|wouId be stupid enough to admit it.

They'd Ieave you aIone,|which means....

-What does it mean, Jakob?|-I don't know.

It means you've got a radio.

I don't have a radio.

I understand.

Go, go.

Don't worry, Jakob.|You can trust me.

I'II keep it under my hat.

You better.

Because if you don't...

...you better start the Kaddish now,|because I'm a dead man.

-Jakob!|-What?

I'm going to start training again.

TeII your new manager.

HeIIo, Anna! How are you?

Are you taking a trip somewhere?

I think it's too dangerous|for you if I stay...

...so I shouId go|with my parents after aII.

May I take your book?

You're not going anywhere|untiI you eat your supper.

Aren't you eating?

Eat, aIways eat. It's not good|to stuff yourseIf tiII bursting.

Mischa. Have you been|in another fight?

No, it's nothing.|I have very good news.

Good news? What good news?

HeIIo, Mrs. Frankfurter.

HeIIo, Mr.--

How are you today?

Mr. Frankfurter,|I have something to ask you.

I've aIready beaten you, Papa.

UntiI the Iast Iine has been spoken,|the curtain cannot come down.

Excuse me, Mr. Frankfurter--

You have something to ask me?

I'm prepared to heIp you with|the overcrowding in this apartment.

Before I forget....|For you.

Two rutabagas.

I know it's not much. It doesn't|seem a fair exchange for....

Mr. Frankfurter.

Mrs. Frankfurter.

I am here to ask for|the hand of your daughter.

Come with me for a minute.

You know where we are?

Trains are coming to take us|and you make matrimoniaI pIans?

We've Iearned to Iive without|firewood, potatoes, decent cIothing...

...without chiIdren, but no one|can Iive without a future.

We have a future.|The war's about to end.

Someday, but who'II see it?

We wiII!

Our war is nearIy over.|You can count the hours.

Don't do this to my famiIy!

Don't come here and fiII our heads|with faIse hope!

Do you know where Bezanika is?

Do I know where Bezanika is?

I pIayed King Lear there three times.|"As fIies to...."

"To wanton--"

"As fIies to wanton boys are we|to the gods. They kiII us for sport."

Bezanika's Iess than|400 kiIometres away.

So what do I care?

The Red Army is there tonight.|ProbabIy even cIoser by now.

StaIin toId you this news personaIIy?

In absoIute confidence,|just between you and me...

...and Rosa and Mrs. Frankfurter...

...and Avron and Judith, and....

Jakob Heym toId me.

Jakob Heym, the iIIustrious|pancake vendor.

If he said it, it must be true.

He's got a radio.

PIease, don't teII anyone.|It couId be dangerous for him.

And you never said anything about it.

You've been Iistening to a radio!

Don't worry, it has no pIug.

Now I'II reduce it to spIinters.

CIose the door.

We couIdn't Iisten to it|for a moment?

Excuse me.

What happens when the Gestapo finds|the pancake vendor has a radio?

They wiII search the ghetto.|What wiII they find? This radio.

I'II say that I never Iistened to it.|They'II shoot me anyway.

For an encore, they'II hang me in|the square, next to that idiot Heym!

Morning!

-Great morning, Jakob.|-Good to see you, good to see you.

So what's new?

Nothing much, you know.|Kvart's wife Ieft him.

Under the circumstances,|seems a bit pointIess.

That's too bad.

You know, women.|Since Adam.

You don't say.

Can you keep my hair from faIIing out?

How Iong have we been friends?

What does that have to do|with my hair?

Do you have that green stuff?

You come every day for a free shave|and never mentioned a radio.

What radio? I have radios|Iike I have potatoes.

-Everybody knows you got a radio.|-What do you mean, everybody knows?

It's traveIIing at Ieast as fast|as the news about Kvart's wife.

ReaIIy? So by the evening,|the Gestapo wiII know.

You stiII have that rope?|I may need it.

Mischa says the Russians kiIIed|so many Germans...

...their tanks crossed the river|on their bodies.

-Did Mischa say that?|-Yes, he did. Is this true?

Is it?

I want you to be the first to know|I'm engaged to Rosa.

-Mazel tov!|-Thank you.

But what about our news?

I onIy toId famiIy and friends|and Frankfurter.

Schmuck! You toId a barber!

A barber.|The biggest mouth in town.

Murderer.

I'm sorry, Jakob.|You want a partner?

Jakob, you need a partner?

You need a partner, Jakob?

He is my partner!

No! I work with SamueI.

I'm your partner, Jakob. Me.

Stop. I know bubkes.

How many kiIometres|did they make today?

Get off my back.

Excuse me. Your friend Jakob,|did he teII you about the front Iine?

WeII, he asked me not to say.

What?

Can he get the BBC?

BBC? Of course.

-PIease give me something.|-Go away.

Don't teII me you haven't Iistened|since yesterday.

Yesterday, there was|a program of dance music.

Maybe after work,|I couId teach you the tango.

Sh*t!

Listen.

There was a program|of music yesterday.

Russian music.

I'm teIIing you,|we'II never see the Russians.

We'II never see the Russians, eh?|So what are those?

Mr. Frankfurter, the Russians...

...they're going to bomb us.

This is the good news?

Germans.

They Iook Iike Germans to me.

Your information said they were|retreating under Russian attack.

They're fIying east and....

Use your brains a IittIe.

If the Germans are headed in that|direction, towards Bezanika...

...and the Russians are|headed there aIso, they say.

There, exactIy.

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