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Mephisto Page #10
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- Year:
- 1981
- 144 min
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806
01:
22:36,365 -- 01:22:41,132Alwa ys problems with the old statues.
Shall we tear them down or not?
807
01:
22:41,236 -- 01:22:44,637As if that were important
for our future.
808
01:
22:45,007 -- 01:22:47,475I'd like to sculpt
a bust of you, Hfgen.
809
01:
22:47,643 -- 01:22:52,774What sort of man are you? Your own
face differs amazingly from Mephisto.
810
01:
22:52,881 -- 01:22:55,873I n private life, you look rather shy.
811
01:
22:55,984 -- 01:23:00,114I'll do a bust of you,
but in cla y or in bronze?
812
01:
23:00,222 -- 01:23:03,521- What is your face made of?
- Perhaps a mixture.
813
01:
23:04,092 -- 01:23:09,394I very much enjo yed your Mephisto.
I only had e yes for you.
814
01:
23:09,498 -- 01:23:11,693I'm preparing an e xhibition.
815
01:
23:11,800 -- 01:23:16,499Try to come. Here's my number.
816
01:
23:17,506 -- 01:23:21,943If you ha ve time, give me a ring
and come to my studio.
817
01:
23:22,110 -- 01:23:25,671You can relax while I model you.
How strange your face is.
818
01:
23:25,781 -- 01:23:28,614A German face yet it
changes e very moment.
819
01:
23:28,717 -- 01:23:32,209That's acting.
The rest is humility and hard work.
820
01:
23:34,022 -- 01:23:39,324It's the surprise effect, right?
821
01:
23:40,696 -- 01:23:42,527The une xpected.
822
01:
23:44,132 -- 01:23:48,569I've been watching the wa y you
appear on stage. Alwa ys different.
823
01:
23:51,006 -- 01:23:53,133Sometimes quick, erratic.
824
01:
23:53,241 -- 01:23:56,938Then slow, suddenly,
when the a udience is lulled.
825
01:
23:57,612 -- 01:24:00,513But alwa ys surprising
and unpredictable.
826
01:
24:01,750 -- 01:24:05,652Thus you create the feeling
of something original...
827
01:
24:06,188 -- 01:24:10,420...e ven if the spectator
knows your lines by heart.
828
01:
24:10,926 -- 01:24:16,023And your glib tongue, your deliberate
pa uses, your precise emphasis.
829
01:
24:18,166 -- 01:24:20,100I think I'm learning from you.
830
01:
24:21,370 -- 01:24:24,669It's important to be unpredictable.
831
01:
24:24,773 -- 01:24:30,405Spectators needn't know what
my ne xt step is or where I'm going.
832
01:
24:30,545 -- 01:24:34,242- The y're not prepared, it's a shock.
- Exactly.
833
01:
24:34,449 -- 01:24:39,477Yet it was only a change of pace,
834
01:
24:39,621 -- 01:24:43,387I n the theater it's the others
who make the king a king.
835
01:
24:43,492 -- 01:24:50,193Building the role is all important;
pianissimo alternating with fortissimo.
836
01:
24:50,298 -- 01:24:54,826Naturally, you need a
certain flair, artistic talent...
837
01:
24:54,936 -- 01:24:58,303...and as I usually sa y,
a high degree of culture.
838
01:
24:58,440 -- 01:25:01,432When I hear the word culture,
I reach for my re volver.
839
01:
25:01,543 -- 01:25:07,812Bourgeois nonsense! Bolshe viks
preach it to win o ver school teachers.
840
01:
25:07,916 -- 01:25:10,350To sa y nothing of artists.
Isn't that so?
841
01:
25:11,553 -- 01:25:15,421I wasn't untouched by
Bolshe vik trends, either.
842
01:
25:15,757 -- 01:25:19,784And I must admit that for a while
I flirted with the left.
843
01:
25:21,396 -- 01:25:25,628Well, anyone can get
involved in some folly.
844
01:
25:26,668 -- 01:25:30,126Those were troubled times.
Let's ha ve a drink.
845
01:
25:38,747 -- 01:25:44,310General, other deserving artists
committed the follies I did.
846
01:
25:44,419 -- 01:25:49,857I don't forget those pa ying for sins for
which I've been generously pardoned.
847
01:
25:50,592 -- 01:25:55,552I'm pleading for a certain person,
for a friend.
848
01:
25:56,198 -- 01:26:00,794I guarantee he's reformed.
I'm pleading for Otto Ulrichs.
849
01:
26:02,671 -- 01:26:05,834Otto Ulrichs? Who's he?
850
01:
26:05,941 -- 01:26:09,069He ran the communist cabaret,
'The Storm-Bird'.
851
01:
26:10,745 -- 01:26:16,377Well... he must be
a pretty bad fellow.
852
01:
26:16,485 -- 01:26:18,851No, he's not bad.
853
01:
26:18,954 -- 01:26:23,448A bit rash, I admit.
A bit thoughtless, but not bad.
854
01:
26:23,692 -- 01:26:28,652If anything, he's too decent.
Once he gives his word, he keeps it.
855
01:
26:46,781 -- 01:26:49,443I'm back at the State Theater.
856
01:
26:50,552 -- 01:26:54,215857
01:
26:55,624 -- 01:27:01,062Just as I can't belie ve
I'm here with you by the window.
858
01:
27:01,796 -- 01:27:04,731I know it's reality, but I don't feel it.
859
01:
27:28,690 -- 01:27:31,682- Great.
- Magnificent, really.
860
01:
27:31,793 -- 01:27:33,556A German work of art.
861
01:
27:33,662 -- 01:27:37,189capable of such work.
862
01:
27:38,066 -- 01:27:40,534It is a courageous work.
863
01:
27:47,976 -- 01:27:49,603Come, Mephisto.
864
01:
27:51,913 -- 01:27:53,471You sign, too.
865
01:
28:01,122 -- 01:28:04,683What did I prophesy?
The e xhibition is a success.
866
01:
28:23,745 -- 01:28:26,737You rascal, so you make
secret visits here.
867
01:
28:29,484 -- 01:28:34,581If I ma y add something personal,
it is a courageous work.
868
01:
28:34,689 -- 01:28:37,954Courageous,
beca use it captures our time...
869
01:
28:38,093 -- 01:28:43,326...the bea uty of strength
without bourgeois snobbery.
870
01:
28:43,465 -- 01:28:46,161Contrasting the degenerate taste...
871
01:
28:46,534 -- 01:28:49,002...of the loud-mouths of culture.
872
01:
28:49,104 -- 01:28:56,010We see muscles and clear-cut
features mankind wants to see.
873
01:
28:56,144 -- 01:28:59,045Strong and bea utiful in his strength.
874
01:
28:59,547 -- 01:29:03,108Warrior-like and victorious
in his struggle.
875
01:
29:11,192 -- 01:29:14,628Hello Hendrik.
That was a wonderful speech.
876
01:
29:15,964 -- 01:29:19,024- You know each other?
- Very well.
877
01:
29:19,567 -- 01:29:21,535You're in Berlin? Since when?
878
01:
29:21,636 -- 01:29:25,072I'm here beca use
I want to dine with you.
879
01:
29:25,173 -- 01:29:28,438I ha ven't seen you for so long.
880
01:
29:28,543 -- 01:29:30,443So where will we go?
881
01:
29:31,479 -- 01:29:35,381Your choice. How's Hamburg?
Surviving without me?
882
01:
29:36,117 -- 01:29:39,814I'm in Berlin to ha ve dinner with you.
Hamburg is history.
883
01:
29:39,921 -- 01:29:44,449You're out of touch. Kroge's in
Switzerland. He just vanished.
884
01:
29:44,559 -- 01:29:48,325Didn't e ven tell his girl. Simply went.
885
01:
29:49,531 -- 01:29:51,260Kroge is a traitor.
886
01:
29:58,139 -- 01:30:00,334Why must you appear with them?
887
01:
30:00,442 -- 01:30:02,239Beca use the y asked me to.
888
01:
30:02,343 -- 01:30:05,244The y ask others, too. You needn't go.
889
01:
30:05,346 -- 01:30:12,047You can't refuse, none of us can.
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