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Mephisto Page #15
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...a few da ys ago, Otto Ulrichs
was taken from his apartment.
1237
02:
08:12,164 -- 02:08:15,725- Is this why you've come?
- Yes, Ex cellency.
1238
02:
08:16,102 -- 02:08:21,597I'm fed up with you, Hfgen. These
matters are outside your jurisdiction.
1239
02:
08:22,208 -- 02:08:25,041Keep your nose out of this affair.
1240
02:
08:25,511 -- 02:08:28,708I'll give you some good advice:
Stop meddling.
1241
02:
08:28,814 -- 02:08:32,147You'd do better minding
your own business...
1242
02:
08:32,251 -- 02:08:37,154...so you won't get crushed
like a bug! Think you matter?
1243
02:
08:38,424 -- 02:08:40,483Ulrichs was involved in dirty work.
1244
02:
08:40,593 -- 02:08:45,257My State Theater manager ought
not show such interest in a traitor.
1245
02:
08:45,865 -- 02:08:46,889Now go.
1246
02:
08:47,400 -- 02:08:48,833I told you to go.
1247
02:
08:49,802 -- 02:08:51,929Get out, actor!
1248
02:
09:36,816 -- 02:09:41,014I know how much I and the theater
owe to the General.
1249
02:
09:41,120 -- 02:09:44,886I also know that to a great
e xtent we owe it to you.
1250
02:
09:45,057 -- 02:09:49,494Dear Lotte, that's why I ask you
to intervene for Ulrichs.
1251
02:
09:49,595 -- 02:09:53,895- I'm so worried.
- Worried? But he's dead.
1252
02:
09:54,400 -- 02:09:58,928Didn't you know? As far as I know,
he committed suicide.
1253
02:
10:02,007 -- 02:10:03,235Suicide.
1254
02:
10:06,112 -- 02:10:10,139He knew the risks he ran.
I think he's more to be envied.
1255
02:
10:52,558 -- 02:10:58,053The Prince of Denmark
renounces rank, youth and lo ve.
1256
02:
10:58,197 -- 02:11:00,324He is the sa vior of the North.
1257
02:
11:00,432 -- 02:11:06,393The lonely knight with lofty ideals,
the ideal of purity of blood and race.
1258
02:
11:06,505 -- 02:11:11,033Hamlet is a comple x character, too.
1259
02:
11:11,143 -- 02:11:15,910Despite repeating myself so soon:
He is a man of the North.
1260
02:
11:16,115 -- 02:11:21,553He kills. And in his
self-destructing battle...
1261
02:
11:23,088 -- 02:11:25,147...he shows us the wa y to the future.
1262
02:
11:25,257 -- 02:11:29,819He commands us to lead a pure life.
That is his bequest to us toda y.
1263
02:
11:29,929 -- 02:11:35,196He is not weak, yet actors ha ve
often portra yed him as neurotic...
1264
02:
11:35,301 -- 02:11:40,329...a pathological re volutionary,
thus as a decadent type.
1265
02:
11:40,439 -- 02:11:42,737Hamlet is a hard man.
1266
02:
11:42,841 -- 02:11:48,609You will see him as an
energetic, resolute hero.
1267
02:
11:48,814 -- 02:11:54,844He is also a hazard for the Germans.
We constantly analyze too much.
1268
02:
11:54,954 -- 02:11:58,048For the hour demands actions,
not only thoughts.
1269
02:
11:58,157 -- 02:12:00,591Least of all corruptive reflection.
1270
02:
12:01,026 -- 02:12:06,362Hamlet is the tragic conflict
between action and inaction.
1271
02:
12:06,565 -- 02:12:10,558Between hesitating,
thinking and doing.
1272
02:
12:11,437 -- 02:12:15,635And we, the bearers
of German culture...
1273
02:
12:15,841 -- 02:12:18,309...know what to make of that.
1274
02:
12:18,644 -- 02:12:20,874Hamlet is a populist drama.
1275
02:
12:20,980 -- 02:12:24,780Neither religious,
aristocratic, nor bourgeois...
1276
02:
12:24,883 -- 02:12:27,283...but a work like the Greek tragedies.
1277
02:
12:27,386 -- 02:12:32,323So we'll abolish the barrier
between a udience and actor.
1278
02:
12:32,825 -- 02:12:36,886Space, light, mo vements,
sounds are e verything...
1279
02:
12:36,996 -- 02:12:41,899...and e ven the spectators merge
into one great, common effect.
1280
02:
12:42,268 -- 02:12:44,998We must bring about total theater.
1281
02:
12:45,404 -- 02:12:49,636A theater that shocks and mobilizes.
1282
02:
13:57,910 -- 02:14:01,869It cost 60,000 marks to decorate
the theater for tonight...
1283
02:
14:01,980 -- 02:14:04,881...and five da ys loss of takings.
1284
02:
14:04,983 -- 02:14:09,079A nice birthda y party. And we ha ve
to participate in this circus.
1285
02:
14:09,188 -- 02:14:11,179- Good e vening.
- Good e vening.
1286
02:
14:59,838 -- 02:15:03,330The only place you will find a
party like this is in Berlin.
1287
02:
15:22,161 -- 02:15:25,392Dearest Bella,
we ha ven't met in ages.
1288
02:
15:25,497 -- 02:15:28,091Are you well? Not homesick?
1289
02:
15:28,200 -- 02:15:33,297I'm sure you're fantastically well
and your great son is flourishing.
1290
02:
15:42,748 -- 02:15:46,047Dear Hfgen, how are you?
How is the party going?
1291
02:
15:46,285 -- 02:15:47,980People seem to enjo y it.
1292
02:
15:48,086 -- 02:15:52,580Your Hamlet was magnificent.
The boss was quite taken.
1293
02:
15:52,691 -- 02:16:00,291After the premiere he spoke
only of you and the theater.
1294
02:
16:00,432 -- 02:16:04,027Success is strange. Sometimes
you ha ve it, sometimes not.
1295
02:
16:04,136 -- 02:16:10,097No, dear Hfgen, you give
people something, you create.
1296
02:
16:12,544 -- 02:16:13,704Here the y come.
1297
02:
17:44,670 -- 02:17:48,106- How are you, Mephisto?
- Very well, Your Ex cellency.
1298
02:
17:49,474 -- 02:17:52,875I ha ven't told you, how wonderful
your Hamlet was.
1299
02:
17:52,978 -- 02:17:55,913I'm very glad.
Allow me to sa y a few words.
1300
02:
17:57,115 -- 02:18:02,883Mr. Prime Minister, Madam,
ladies and gentlemen.
1301
02:
18:03,689 -- 02:18:10,959We are proud to be able to celebrate
this da y with you in this theater.
1302
02:
18:11,196 -- 02:18:12,925Since I ha ve the honor...
1303
02:
18:13,065 -- 02:18:15,932...of greeting you on behalf
of e veryone present...
1304
02:
18:16,034 -- 02:18:20,164...I salute the statesman and soldier...
1305
02:
18:20,272 -- 02:18:23,764...friend and generous
patron of the arts.
1306
02:
18:25,143 -- 02:18:28,738We admire him as our role model,
lo ve him as our friend...
1307
02:
18:28,880 -- 02:18:30,575...obe y him as our master...
1308
02:
18:30,716 -- 02:18:34,880...for without patrons,
art is a bird with broken wings.
1309
02:
18:35,120 -- 02:18:38,851As the poet sa ys:
"Ma y the gods protect you...
1310
02:
18:38,957 -- 02:18:42,051...and ma y the heart of Rome
beat for your aims."
1311
02:
18:49,935 -- 02:18:55,202speak to you outside, in his car.
1312
02:
18:55,774 -- 02:18:57,036You alone.
1313
02:
19:01,013 -- 02:19:03,948Nicoletta will take you home.
I won't be long.
1314
02:
20:00,572 -- 02:20:04,201Well, Mephisto, what power is
looking down on you here.
1315
02:
20:04,609 -- 02:20:06,338Do you feel it?
1316
02:
20:07,179 -- 02:20:12,981This is theater! Look at this arena.
It's almost ready. Wonderful, isn't it?
1317
02:
20:13,752 -- 02:20:16,414This is where
I'd stage a performance.
1318
02:
20:17,289 -- 02:20:21,487Don't blink, Hendrik, look history
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