Mephisto Page #13

appear in his production of Hamlet.

1064

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45:59,767 -- 01:46:04,101

Hannelore! Was the cast list

for Hamlet posted yet?

1065

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46:04,204 -- 01:46:05,262

Not yet.

1066

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46:06,006 -- 01:46:10,238

Good. Let's wait another two da ys.

Thank you.

1067

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46:16,083 -- 01:46:19,177

I must offer them more

than old comrades.

1068

01:
46:19,453 -- 01:46:24,618

You must cultivate connections.

That's the essence of the system.

1069

01:
46:24,758 -- 01:46:29,218

Let me tell you, yesterda y I went to

the Prussian State Theater...

1070

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46:29,329 -- 01:46:34,323

...it was Fa ust and the name of some

white-faced clown was Mephisto.

1071

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46:34,435 -- 01:46:39,338

What a joke! And Mephisto by some

man called Hfgen, it was terrible!

1072

01:
46:39,440 -- 01:46:43,900

I'd rather go to the Ba varian

People's Theater. Goodbye then.

1073

01:
46:44,745 -- 01:46:47,407

Why am I doing all this?

1074

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46:48,716 -- 01:46:50,206

Beca use I enjo y it.

1075

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46:50,317 -- 01:46:55,755

I must enjo y amateur pla ys and use

actors that are blonde not talented.

1076

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46:55,856 -- 01:46:58,154

Most are totally untalented.

1077

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46:58,325 -- 01:47:02,785

A Frankfurt a udience

appla uded Marquis Posa's...

1078

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47:02,896 -- 01:47:07,060

...'Give us freedom of thought'.

Performance stopped, pla y withdrawn.

1079

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I n Munich, 'The Robbers', withdrawn.

Schiller, our national poet!

1080

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The y want to produce pla ys by

German a uthors. But what a uthors?

1081

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47:17,010 -- 01:47:22,971

Those who ha ven't emigrated

aren't allowed to write, or won't.

1082

01:
47:24,084 -- 01:47:29,021

It's simply impossible to offer

theater worthy of the name.

1083

01:
47:29,189 -- 01:47:36,459

Unless I dig up a couple of old farces.

All Rococco wigs and white faces.

1084

01:
47:39,533 -- 01:47:46,166

The joke is that the regime now sees

Shakespeare as one of our own.

1085

01:
47:46,273 -- 01:47:50,573

Let's do 'As You Like lt',

'Where the Banished Return.'

1086

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47:50,878 -- 01:47:54,871

Show the opponents of dictatorship

that the will for freedom still lives.

1087

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47:54,982 -- 01:47:58,748

I didn't hear that!

I can't possibly ha ve heard that!

1088

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Am I not an incredible villain?

1089

01:
48:09,897 -- 01:48:12,593

Isn't what I'm doing insane?

1090

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"Frst and Niklisch, both on

the staff of your theater...

1091

01:
48:22,309 -- 01:48:27,303

...on grounds of German

racial purity... dismiss them."

1092

01:
48:28,415 -- 01:48:30,406

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

1093

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- Well, how are you?

- Fine.

1094

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- And you?

- Everything all right.

1095

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The stage-hands that are concerned,

Frst and Niklisch...

1096

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48:46,967 -- 01:48:49,299

...are indispensable...

1097

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...and the loss of their services...

1098

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48:56,276 -- 01:49:01,407

...would jeopardize the theater's

work. Date. Heil! Signature.

1099

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Germans!

Don't tolerate Nazi oppression.

1100

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Embassy of the German Reich

1101

01:
50:49,589 -- 01:50:53,582

Did you bring me anything from

Germany? A leather coat, at least?

1102

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50:54,094 -- 01:50:55,527

- Leather coat?

- Yes.

1103

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50:55,629 -- 01:51:01,761

It's the fashion for men. Those who

took me to the frontier had them.

1104

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Your e yes are so dead,

how do the y look?

1105

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- Empty?

- No, dazed.

1106

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Yes, that's how I felt these past da ys.

1107

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You see? You were ne ver like that.

1108

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I've thought a lot about you.

I belie ve I should be grateful.

1109

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Without you, I'd be in a

concentration camp, or already dead.

1110

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If you still like being with me,

then sta y here.

1111

01:
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I'll look after you. You needn't

lea ve the house, not at first.

1112

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51:40,607 -- 01:51:43,599

Then we'll find jobs. You're so gifted.

1113

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- I could ha ve gone to America.

- There you go.

1114

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I think I really was gifted.

1115

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But also a terrible coward.

1116

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51:54,054 -- 01:51:58,582

What do I do elsewhere? Be an e xtra,

a stage-hand, a technician?

1117

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51:59,960 -- 01:52:03,828

Do you think these hands

were made for manual labor?

1118

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I'll pro vide for you.

What else do you want?

1119

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Success.

1120

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Hendrik Hfgen, just imagine...

you'd belong to me.

1121

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Juliette, I ha ve to go now.

1122

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- Shall I see you again?

- I don't know.

1123

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- Can I see you off at the station?

- No, you don't fit into the picture.

1124

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All right, forget the station.

Just do what you want.

1125

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I do.

1126

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That's why I'm here.

1127

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Juliette, don't write anymore.

It's no good.

1128

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There aren't many people in this caf.

1129

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Would you prefer to sit in the sun?

You like that.

1130

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No. Though I ha ven't had

much sunshine lately.

1131

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Ma y I ask you something?

Do you still live alone?

1132

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No, I've got friends. And you?

1133

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Friends... in times like these?

It's difficult.

1134

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How can you still live in Berlin?

What keeps you there?

1135

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Barbara, I live in the theater.

1136

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And that is in Berlin?

1137

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I don't think you can judge

from Paris.

1138

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You're more than an actor now.

You took an oath. You're a manager.

1139

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I didn't take the oath,

I just mo ved my lips.

1140

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Someone has to sa ve our

values for a better world.

1141

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I'm pla ying Hamlet, whether those

in power like Shakespeare or not.

1142

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Shakespeare is their ornament to

pro ve "we're not as bad as you think."

1143

01:
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You can't sta y in Berlin.

1144

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I ha ve a family in Berlin.

You know I'm married to the theater.

1145

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I can help people who are

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