Mephisto Page #12

We ha ve no contact at all.

976

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38:23,477 -- 01:38:27,038

You'll get a divorce easily.

I'll see to that.

977

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38:28,583 -- 01:38:31,381

German citizens

who ha ve left Germany...

978

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38:31,552 -- 01:38:35,955

...couldn't wipe us out, so the y

signed their own death sentence.

979

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38:36,190 -- 01:38:39,557

Where weakness perishes,

humanity becomes healthy.

980

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38:39,694 -- 01:38:42,822

Politics, like theater, is a fight.

981

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38:43,130 -- 01:38:47,260

Just as e very rebuild

is the start of a new war.

982

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38:49,737 -- 01:38:52,171

But we're not talking about this now.

983

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38:53,808 -- 01:38:59,872

Hamburg...

"I n a harbor town by the river..."

984

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39:01,682 -- 01:39:06,551

Lots of foreigners, night clubs, bars.

I understand you perfectly.

985

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39:08,456 -- 01:39:13,325

But in the Reich's capital?

No offense, we're men, but...

986

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39:13,494 -- 01:39:19,160

What's this Hamburg souvenir

doing here? Juliette Martens.

987

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39:20,801 -- 01:39:22,826

Is she kept by you?

988

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39:27,642 -- 01:39:31,237

You once, rightfully, said...

989

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39:31,612 -- 01:39:35,207

...Professor Bruckner was

not a man of the future.

990

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39:35,883 -- 01:39:39,580

And, e ven more rightly,

you parted from his da ughter.

991

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39:40,488 -- 01:39:44,686

If you ha ve such a good instinct

for a healthy, clean attitude...

992

01:
39:45,326 -- 01:39:48,193

...what's this Negro-woman

doing in Berlin?

993

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39:51,098 -- 01:39:52,497

Mephisto...

994

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39:54,702 -- 01:39:59,969

...it defies racial purity.

Don't e ven keep her picture at home.

995

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40:00,274 -- 01:40:01,263

General...

996

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40:01,375 -- 01:40:03,240

Wait, I ha ven't finished.

997

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40:04,712 -- 01:40:08,375

I hope you completely

understood me.

998

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40:11,652 -- 01:40:13,119

- Yes.

- So?

999

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40:14,555 -- 01:40:17,888

- She's not to come to any harm.

- Lea ve that to me.

1000

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40:19,427 -- 01:40:22,658

I'd like to request, Prime Minister...

1001

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40:22,763 -- 01:40:26,426

...that she'd be allowed

to lea ve Germany unharmed.

1002

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40:26,534 -- 01:40:33,463

Agreed. She'll be taken to the frontier

and good-bye. That's what we'll do.

1003

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40:34,041 -- 01:40:39,377

And you'll hold a press conference,

giving information about the theater.

1004

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40:39,547 -- 01:40:42,516

The repertoire, plans

and your performances.

1005

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40:42,850 -- 01:40:48,413

I n October there'll be a big cultural

e vent in our Paris embassy.

1006

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40:48,522 -- 01:40:50,854

I'd like you to attend it.

1007

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40:58,366 -- 01:41:01,995

Bck. I bet the y know about him, too.

1008

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Bck, Bck, my note-book.

1009

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Bck sta ys.

1010

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41:13,314 -- 01:41:16,147

- Here it is.

- Give it to me.

1011

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41:18,419 -- 01:41:22,583

I ha ve to call friends.

I urgently need a friend.

1012

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- Find me a friend.

- But you've so many friends.

1013

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41:29,797 -- 01:41:30,991

Friends...

1014

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41:43,310 -- 01:41:47,679

Call Miss Nicoletta von Niebuhr.

Find the number and call her.

1015

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Shall I make coffee, or tea?

1016

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41:58,993 -- 01:42:01,962

Shall I become manager? Yes or no?

1017

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Can I? Ma y I? Must I?

1018

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Is it my duty?

Can I make myself useful?

1019

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42:10,971 -- 01:42:14,805

I mean, can I help anyone?

And if so, should I?

1020

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42:15,943 -- 01:42:19,606

Or shall I look at it as a new role?

1021

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42:19,780 -- 01:42:21,873

Or shall I emigrate to America?

1022

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42:21,982 -- 01:42:25,247

I can earn as much in films

as Dora Martin.

1023

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42:25,886 -- 01:42:29,845

If I accept such an office

of this go vernment, then...

1024

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42:33,427 -- 01:42:35,327

Do I want to, at all?

1025

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42:37,131 -- 01:42:38,928

The y need me.

1026

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42:40,367 -- 01:42:42,562

I was about to emigrate...

1027

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42:42,670 -- 01:42:47,198

...and the Prussian Minister

asks me to rescue his theater.

1028

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42:47,341 -- 01:42:50,276

Tomorrow morning I must

give him an answer.

1029

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42:51,545 -- 01:42:56,244

Hea ven e vidently has

great plans for me.

1030

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42:56,417 -- 01:42:57,816

Then you've won.

1031

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Would you help me?

1032

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I'd be proud of you.

1033

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Yes, I'll help you Hendrik.

1034

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43:26,313 -- 01:43:28,406

If only one could live fore ver.

1035

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43:38,392 -- 01:43:42,886

Here's your passport for France.

You ha ve five minutes to pack.

1036

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43:43,063 -- 01:43:44,462

Yes, but why?

1037

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43:44,565 -- 01:43:46,829

We're waiting. Hurry up.

1038

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You needn't thank me for this raise.

1039

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I made it a condition for

taking o ver this job.

1040

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Everything's co vered with dust.

1041

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If you don't clean the dressing rooms

as well as all the others...

1042

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44:13,394 -- 01:44:16,795

...you ma y ha ve to look

for another job.

1043

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44:17,164 -- 01:44:22,534

I hope we'll get along. If you ha ve

any problems, come to me.

1044

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44:22,636 -- 01:44:26,333

I would like to treat you all to coffee.

1045

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44:28,342 -- 01:44:32,540

Allow me to give you the mone y.

I'm sorry I can't come with you.

1046

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Joachim would like to speak to you.

1047

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44:35,516 -- 01:44:36,778

Wait, Hannelore!

1048

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44:37,551 -- 01:44:39,382

Wait, Hannelore!

1049

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44:44,725 -- 01:44:47,455

So, now he can enter.

1050

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44:47,695 -- 01:44:54,464

Please consider decent roles for me.

You're not like the other managers.

1051

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44:54,568 -- 01:44:57,628

You're an actor yourself.

You understand.

1052

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I must act as if he's

sa ying something important.

1053

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When you talk to actors, you must put

them at ease. That goes for me, too.

1054

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No, I don't like Premieres. All night

one has to wear a big, frozen smile.

1055

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I hate that.

1056

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45:19,226 -- 01:45:23,663

You think it's a good costume?

I don't! I think it's terrible!

1057

01:
45:24,531 -- 01:45:27,193

Good morning, Mr. Kappelmller.

How are you?

1058

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45:27,301 -- 01:45:29,394

- Good.

- How's the family?

1059

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45:29,503 -- 01:45:33,303

So your da ughter graduated as

a hairdresser. Ma ybe we can use her.

1060

01:
45:34,208 -- 01:45:35,539

Good morning.

1061

01:
45:37,544 -- 01:45:43,449

Ha ven't you noticed? New suit,

new shoes, new manager, no? Well.

1062

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...e x-Bolshe vik Hfgen, manager of

the Prussian State Theater...

1063

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...is letting his former comrade

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