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I'd like to have

the olive grove.

I nursed it for your family.

Plant by plant.

Sebastiano would have approved.

But you must make me

a good price...

...also in consideration

of the other sales.

Do what you want!

The Commissioner

wants to see you.

Again?

We'll take care of him.

Put his gold rings on.

I'm doing it for you.

Sebastiano is my witness.

The window.

For you, Gavino,

I'm doing it...

...with the grove you'll be

a landowner.

Me and your mother are old...

...but you'll profit by it.

In time its worth

will multiply...

...you'll have all

you desire...

...you can't even imagine

how much.

And so our hands

must be united...

...and I must guide them.

Let's dress him.

He was beautiful...

Poor Sebastiano,

he was unlucky.

Though he was rich.

It'll be different for me.

My father said so.

Forgive me, I shouldn't, but...

I keep thinking of what

I shall have...

...thanks to you.

An accordion, one of those

real ones...

...with 85 keys, made of

mother-of-pearl.

I'll be an owner too.

I don't want to get old.

If we have the money,

I'll bathe three times a day...

...and make love often.

Pray for my soul, Sebastiano.

She who makes love often

stays young.

And when you're young

you're happy.

They can't stop me from

being happy.

I don't know what I want.

I want to change names.

They named me after a man...

...grandfather, Ignatius.

I'll call myself Dina.

Or Mina, like the singer...

...and I'll sing like she does.

I'll go to the mainland

and sing. I'll sing...

I want... I want...

I can't think of anything...

...nothing.

I want a lot of things.

Once, Supply and Demand

were evenly balanced...

...with reciprocal profit

for the consumer and producer.

You get me?

But now, with the olive

oil market fluctuating...

...it's very difficult

to make a deal...

...with the Common Market...

You get me?

...and those Mediterranean

countries.

Greece, Spain and Turkey

that produce more...

...and sell for less.

But 10,000 lire a grinding

is fair.

No, with the abolition of

import tariffs...

...prices for

the local product...

...have dropped considerably...

...and each lot has to be...

...contracted separately.

You get me?

My son's an accountant...

...and he explained everything.

We're offering

But 10,000 is the price.

The latest Common Market

provisions...

...have conditioned prices...

...and we've had to act

accordingly.

You're doubting my son?

Go on, tell him

Your offer's too low.

Quiet, you squirt.

You don't like it, beat it.

I know how to look after

our interests.

Maybe the kid wants

to go work...

...with our servants.

No...

Come...

Go get your accordion.

He's good on the accordion.

You can eat too.

There's plenty of stuff

left over here.

Enough to make yourselves

a hot meal.

Our dreams ended

with the frost.

Winter was mild till

the end of January.

So much so,

it felt like spring.

All nature was awakening.

The olive buds...

...deceived by the balmy weather

were blooming ahead of time.

They were sprouting

in the heart of winter.

Then February came...

...and destroyed all.

An arctic cold as never before.

Entire groves wiped out

throughout the region.

And our grove was destroyed

as well.

The milk's frozen.

Let's go to the grove!

It's useless.

It's all dead.

The frost last night

went through to the roots.

The light...

It's black beneath the bark.

The whole trunk

is turning black.

The trees were in bloom.

I'm going back to bed...

...be quiet and let me sleep

till noon.

The jug...

The syrup...

And glasses...

What are you doing?

- It's good.

- You like it, don't you?

Have some.

Makes me cold just to look

at it.

It's like ice cream.

Look at papa...

The sky is clear.

Too late, it's useless.

Where are you, Justice?

Up the ass, that's where!

Aren't you lifting?

He's too weak.

His master only feeds him

bread and salt.

You were weak in that cathouse.

Him in a cathouse?

With what money?

His Uncle Tonino beats him,

doesn't pay him.

Go to make up, he took him

to the city last Christmas.

But once inside the room,

at the crucial moment...

He couldn't make it!

Won't go up?

I wouldn't talk, Mario.

You never even had a woman...

...before you were thirty.

I asked him how it was.

"They're all right," he tells me.

"Except they have no tail."

A tail!

I'm outsmarting all of you.

I'm leaving.

I signed up to go work

in Germany.

What's he doing?

Emigrating...

...join his cousin.

You'll still be serving

a master.

At least he'll call me by name.

What do you mean, how?

I never knew yours. When they

talk about you, they say:

"Signor Peppe's servant,

Peppe's serf."

- So you're leaving?

- And about you they say:

"Signor Efisio's servant...

is milking, is eating...

"...is scratching..."

"...has gone to pasture..."

Not me...

...my master calls me by name.

He's my father.

I'm joining that list.

Me too.

So am I.

Me too.

Anybody else?

Yes, me.

Signor Gavino has spoken.

Write me in.

I can't read or write anything.

I'll add your name.

And come tell my father.

I'll come.

To Germany!

SACRED OAKS OF SARDINIA

FAREWELL...

Hold me...

Hold me up!

The signature is missing.

His father's signature.

- What did my father do?

- He didn't give his consent.

How's that?

He didn't give his consent.

- He said yes.

- But he didn't sign.

- What do you mean?

- Didn't you read the regulations?

I don't know how to.

My father can read.

Gavino Ledda can't emigrate.

You can't leave.

You have to sign a release.

I can't write.

A cross will do.

Idiots!

The assistant bank manager'll

receive you after this, gentleman.

I'll do the talking.

You only have to sign.

But I want you to know

what I'm doing.

I've sold everything.

The flock, the cow,

the olive grove...

...the carts and the dogs.

I kept the vegetable garden

and the goats.

They think I'm done for.

But they can't do in this

little brain.

We're starting anew.

Our savings go in the bank

at 10% interest.

In 7 years with compounded

interest...

I'll double the capital,

then I'll loan to others.

Minimum guarantees, high rates:

...25%.

Ignatia...

...you'll go work as a maid,

You'll mail me the money

and I'll put it to work.

You'll have a dowry

for your wedding...

...if the family will not

have need of it.

You two will go work

as day laborers.

In exchange for your earnings

you'll get room and board.

You're the eldest son.

I've something else in mind

for you.

Our family needs

to be respected.

You wanted to leave home? Go.

As a volunteer.

The army.

Either for an army career...

...or to become

a radio technician.

Yes, he'll go through elementary

school. I promised him.

I'll teach you myself.

You're not stupid.

While we're here doing nothing,

we can practise.

- Thirty.

- Ignoramus.

But don't worry, you'll be

promoted just the same.

Schools have been ordered to

pass shepherds who volunteer...

...even if they're ignorant

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