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one of Germans to the west...

Are they anarchists?

Not so far as I know.

Well, then, they have deeds,

right?

But we don't give a sh*t ?

Well... then we'll have to...

put an enclosure around our land.

otherwise...

comrades, no walls !

no enclosures !

no restrictions on freedom !

Oh, exiles of Italy

we're off on our adventure

no regrets, no fear...

the walls...

with walls...

Our fatherland is the whole world,

...comes competition,

egoism...

envy...

hate...

the Turks are coming !

Ah, f*** off !

see, the earth's axis

leans to the side.

but the sun's axis doesn't.

Get it?

the earth spins around the sun.

so the side that's closer to the

sun is going to be warmer

since it's hit straight on by the rays;

the further side,

is hit less, by oblique rays.

if the earth is on this side,

it's the opposite:

it'll be warmer

up north, where Italy is,

and cooler in the south, in Brazil.

This is April right now, and in ltaly

it's warmer; it's spring over there.

and in spring...

do leaves fall in spring ?

they do around here : this is April,

but it's autumn here,

and in July, it's winter...

April is autumn,

July is winter...

...so what about December?

Is it summer then?

Bravo ! You get it, you understand !

want to rest a bit?

I'm telling you for the last time:

By the end of the week,

we ought to be done!

You're exaggerating! the earth

doesn't stop spinning, ever!

shut up. he's right!

what do you know about it?

you're no farmer.

no, but what a farmer

knows from experience,

we can learn by studying.

agriculture is a science too!

everyone can have their own method:

all I know,

is that the earth doesn't give

anything without you sweating over it.

let's get going!

we've been around for more than

a century and still...

we haven't managed to get a roof

over our heads!

our calloused hands still burn

out in the heat of the sun!

look at that!

you'll only last a year that way!

get off!

you've got nothing in your belly?

the farm!

leave him the hell alone !

it's obvious he's dead !

we're all dead!

and I have to do everything around here!

he's not used to it! we don't have

the soil in our blood like you do.

No, Alfredo, don't say that!

comrade farmer,

here, each is master of his own acts,

the only master there is.

it's more than 100 years old.

yeah, we just cut it.

we can make four stools

out of it.

So, we'll make a mark here,

saw it, fit it, and it should hold.

it'll never hold!

what do you mean?

explain yourself!

none of us are professionals,

we can't explain !

I'll show you.

First, we have to build a frame

and support it on wood

and in the middle,

we put transverse trusses.

why didn't you say so sooner

instead of playing farmer..?

''If Rossi wants to do his

little experiment

let him not draw away

revolutionaries!

Let him go off to Brazil,

while the social problem demands

an urgent, global solution,

and go have his little

dilettante's experiment...

Dilettante ? no way!

...which was so dear to

the precursors of socialism.

the revolutionaries

will remain at their post !

at the very moment when the

sicilian workers are getting together,

when the railwaymen are organizing,

Rossi's group has chosen to

desert the front!''

Are we really deserters, then?

They haven't understood a thing!

Traitors?

- Cowards?

- Cowards!?

Who was it that resisted the

king's soldiers with pitchforks?

Cowards ? yeah, and all our fights

during the strikes, against militarism

and colonialism?

and you, Giovanni ?

your time in prison ?

we ought to go back home, huh?

as you wish...

but me and Olimpia are staying !

hey, no one decides for me!

but yes, I'm staying.

what they've written here is false...

they haven't understood

what we're aiming at here,

and perhaps we have not

managed to explain ourselves

as well as we could.

once we're all set up here,

I'll go back to Italy,

and try to convince them.

What, you're going to leave us here?

- If Giovanni goes...

- We'll make do without him !

Nature has given all people

the same rights on this earth.

we're fighting a hard war

against the thieves and oppressors

which will know no peace

as long as man dominates man!

our fiercest enemies

are our exploiters!

Hurry up! get to work!

what, you're in a rush now?

Man, it sure is beautiful!

Go easy on it!

It's us... can we come in?

how's it going?

the fever's down.

I know that one

there're two of them in Tullio.

I don't remember that one.

we learned it yesterday...

it's the seventh letter...

Luigi ! right?

shall we go on?

but.. tell me...

are you ...in love?

does it concern you ?

Me ? Naw, imagine that...

Listen, Tullio,

do you love freedom ?

sure I do, who doesn't?

-but are you free ?

-sure I am!

not every day of my life...

Me, I want to be free

every single day of my life.

-understand?

-i understand, i do.

you don't want to get married.

is that it?

well, no!

have any kids?

a wife?

do you miss your family?

my god...

well, it depends...

yes and no...

you see, the family isn't everything!

we say that, and then one fine day...

some anarchist!

it's fine to learn to read,

but you've got to learn to think!

Well, what do you really want?

what do I want?

I just want to do what I please!

with you, for example.

your morals...

you forget them when it suits you.

huh! laugh, laugh...

good bye, comrades, good bye

good bye wives, sisters, mothers...

this society of thieves

has exiled us,

buried on the seashore

we are banished but strong...

we're off to the island

but we're not ashamed

because this ordeal

is consecrated by the future

but one day we will return,

stronger than ever,

and we'll have no peace

until the rights

of each and every worker

are fully respected.

Some people think people should

consume only what they produce

so as to stimulate production.

others think, and this, to me,

is real social justice,

that each should consume

according to his needs,

depending on what the

social resources are.''

Let me see that.

Even when it's Rossi saying it,

it's still nothing but theories !

- But we need theories!

- Sure, but which?

Me, I've learned one thing from books...

Forget it ! they've probably just

lost a pig or something.

this is the only phrase I've learned

from books, and it's good enough for me:

"By his very nature,

the learned man tends to intellectual

and moral perversion.

His vices are as follows:

Exaggerating his knowledge,

and scorning those who do not

have his knowledge.

Give him power,

and he will become the most

hateful of tyrants."

Yeah... so who said that bullshit?

Bakunin!

Look what they've done!

They've wrecked everything.

The enclosure couldn't hold.

I should have taken care of it myself!

was it poorly made?

who was in charge of it?

forget about it!

what difference does it make?

what difference?

How about the corn I planted with

my own hands?!

Yeah, what of it? Did it belong to you?

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