Marina Page #6

Can't you hear that noise?

- I can't hear anything.

- Why not? My head's going to explode.

Tell them to stop.

Look.

His name is on it, in red letters.

See?

It's spelled incorrectly.

When you come home,

I'll play it for you.

- Let me.

- No. Jos!

My little girl. Come here.

Toto, a man from the mine

is waiting for you inside.

On behalf of the management, I am able

to inform you that your accident...

...has been officially recognised as

an industrial accident.

Our insurance will cover

all the hospital costs.

- It was an industrial...

- Wanda!

An industrial accident.

They're going to pay everything.

- And my dad's leg?

- The doctors say it will be fine.

- But... his hearing problem...

- Is it permanent?

Yes, it may be...

...and seeing as your father cannot work

with that whistling in his ear,...

...we have no choice but to declare him

unfit for work.

Dad can no longer work.

Have they sacked him?

He's worked down the mine

for more than 10 years.

Without a single day off sick.

He's even worked at the weekend.

Tell him.

You too, Wanda. Rocco!

- But the mine will continue to pay him?

- For six months after the accident.

Then it's finished? Even though

the accident happened down the mine?

We're paying for his leg, but...

That whistling in his ear puts your

father's and others' safety at risk.

Besides, we aren't liable

for the whistling.

So who is? Dad isn't.

People can develop hearing problems

due to the wrong anaesthetic being used.

Are you saying

the doctors made a mistake?

This house is the mine's property.

You can stay here

another 6 months, then...

Then you'll throw us out?

- I'm sorry.

- What?

I'm sorry, those are the rules.

Ida, fetch the suitcases

we arrived with.

- Go and get them.

- Are you going to let them do this?

- The mine gives and the mine takes away.

- But it's their fault.

So? Am I supposed to

take them to court?

These are their laws.

They weren't made for people like us.

We'll go back to Italy.

My home is here, Dad.

I've lived here longer than in Italy.

- I will be a foreigner in Calabash.

- Child...

I'm sorry.

I wanted to give you a better life.

In Italy I can open a forge,

or work for someone.

Here I'm just an invalid.

I'll go and work down the mine.

Never.

One or two years.

Ida, go and fetch the suitcases.

I've worked all this time

for nothing.

It was all for nothing,

for nothing...

Hush now.

28,000 francs? Bloody hell.

What am I supposed to do with it?

Just keep it.

Until I can buy it back off you.

Go on, Dad.

We can pay a couple of months rent

with this.

Rocco...

Rocco!

Rocco!

Betty, from the record shop,

desperately needs some new records.

They're all sold out. She went and asked

Somers at Affluence.

Sold out there too.

He's ordered some more.

Somers from the grocer's shop?

- Really?

- Really.

Here you are.

The number you are about to hear...

...is performed by someone

from the same region...

...as Donna Paola di Ruffo Calabash.

Here is Rocco Granada.

Toto, it's our Rocco!

- There you go.

- Give me another one.

I'd like another 500 records,

if that's possible. But Mr Bruno...

5,000 copies, yes, say that's fine.

Hello lad, they want Marina everywhere.

In Holland, France and even New York.

New York?

I don't know how many boxes of candles

you lit but your miracle is happening.

It is 2 a.m.

It is 8 p.m. in New York.

live,

to Carnegie Hall in New York.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm really pleased to be

in New York for the first time.

- Ida, the neighbours, dammit!

- Be quiet and sit down.

Hello, Dad.

One day you told me

everyone needs a dream.

Me being here now

is thanks to you.

It is thanks to you.

Thank you, Dad.

Thank you for everything.

It hasn't all been for nothing.

I love you very much. And have

a great deal of respect for you.

Thank you, Dad.

Bye.

You did it.

Well done.

Rocco Granada swept the world with

Marina. Hundreds of covers were made.

He had a successful career as a singer

and even launched numerous new stars.

Salvatore Granada died in 1989 while

Rocco was on tour in South-America.

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