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If it's any help, I can tell you

that I'm not happy

with the way this talk is going.

Thomas, I know it wasn't easy

losing your father.

With all due respect, Mr. Stoller...

- Max. Call me Max.

With all due respect, Mr. Stoller,

we're not friends, and my life

is none of your business.

This generation's mixed up.

They're ashamed of the past

and scared of the future.

They feel threatened by everything.

Growing up these times

is evidently not easy.

Growing up any time isn't easy.

What happened to Thomas's father?

I only know, it's not talked about,

that he drank himself to death.

We were all at his funeral.

His father was some kind of war hero.

In the east, on the eastern front,

I mean.

What angers Thomas is that nobody

remembers war heroes anymore.

It's not nice to admit it,

but neither do I.

Thank you.

Are you sure you don't

want me to wait for you?

It could be difficult

to get a taxi here.

You don't know

your way around.

As you wish, boss.

He's a policeman...

What do you want?

Are your parents in?

Nobody here.

Just a moment...

My mother not home.

At work.

Sema? Who is it?

May I come in?

Leave it open, please.

Here are all the papers.

Wait, please, wait.

I bring them...

We have the work-visa.

I'm Deniz Uner.

Everything is signed...

- Mama, he doesn't speak German.

Who is he?

Why did you let him in?

He's the one they were filming

here yesterday.

I told him you weren't home.

Ask him what he wants.

In what language?

Tell your mother that I just want

to see the apartment, that's all.

I speak English. A little.

In Turkey I worked in hotel.

So I give you landlord address,

you must talk with him.

No, no, lady, you can relax,

I just want to see the apartment.

I used to live here a long time ago.

Lucky man,

got out of here...

Sema, quiet!

Sorry... I'm sorry.

It was so much bigger.

Apartment was cut.

My husband...

He disappeared.

We come here to look for him.

"Stoller Furniture"

Is clean.

How long since you was here?

39 years.

39 years...

She told you he disappear

and you believe her?

It's a lie.

What's the truth?

He doesn't love us.

Me especially.

He never loved me...

Like everybody...

Can we go, boss?

You have reached

the Stoller family.

Please leave a message

and we'll get back to you.

Hi, call me...

Good morning.

- Good morning...

Good morning Mr. Stoller,

sorry we're late...

You smoke too much, my friend.

Not good for the blood pressure.

- Thank you.

Doctor, may I talk to you?

As a friend.

- Please.

Good morning...

Do you know where I can hire

an investigator?

An investigator?

- Yes.

Are you in trouble?

- No, no, it's...

for somebody I would like to help.

I want to talk to you.

Who owns that konditorei?

- Who?

I don't understand.

- I want to help you.

Help? How?

I want to hire an investigator.

- Why?

To find your husband.

But why you want to help us?

You shouldn't look a gift horse

in the mouth.

What do you want in return?

Want?

There's nothing here that I want

or that I need.

Forget that I was here.

This was a mistake.

Goodbye.

OK... I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Please, come in.

But I don't have to look

in your mouth, right?

And then, without warning,

the letters stopped coming.

We never heard from him anymore.

Everyone I tried to talk to

did not know where he was.

You like it sweet?

- Yes.

I had to come here,

look for him.

That was more than

one years ago.

I went to police,

I talked to his friends,

at his work...

Nothing.

Thank you.

- Nothing...

Your daughter is convinced

that your husband ran away.

Her imagination works overtime.

Children don't imagine things

like that without a good reason.

She's not easy child.

She never was.

I wasn't an easy child either.

I'm sorry, but I don't really

understand connection.

This is delicious.

What is it about the coffee

in this country

that it doesn't taste like coffee?

It's like black water.

- Yes.

"Where there is no good coffee

"nothing's good."

I'm only here

for one years and a half

but I miss Istanbul very much.

Well...

If only for this,

it was worth helping you.

I'll stay in touch.

Berta.

You wanted to know the name

of konditorei owner,

is Berta.

Yes. Thank you.

Do you want me to check

anything else?

I would be happy to help you.

Really.

Why? Does it look like I need help?

Yes.

Tell me, what do you do for a living?

I clean toilets in restaurant.

For a moment I thought you were

a psychologist or something.

I'm sorry, that was out of line.

It's not working

because you insist on zone defense.

I'm talking

about individual balls here.

One on one, man to man.

How many times do I have to tell you?

Sh*t, what does he want?

If you've got something to say,

then just say it.

I don't think the problem is

with the way we play.

So what in your opinion, captain,

is the problem?

I think you're trying to force

a style onto us

that's maybe suitable someplace else.

Boys, basketball

is a universal language.

It is a creative and instinctual game.

You've got that.

But you're scared.

When you stop being scared

you'll understand it.

Got it? Get it?

Hanns!

But... but how do we?

"But"...but what?

Afraid of the dark?

You should be able to play,

even in the dark.

Feel and listen.

Listen to the rhythm of the ball.

Feel it. Feel yourself.

Feel your enemy.

Feel him, smell him.

Touch him.

Respect and suspect.

Always respect and suspect him.

Ready, boys?

Move aside. Come on.

Watch out, idiot!

Thomas, I'll give you a ride home.

Come on, Thomas, you'll catch a cold.

Come on.

Over my career I've seen

hundreds of players

and only a handful

had your talent.

Man man man...

We made him (Beckenbauer) a Kaiser

and he goes to America.

People don't care about where

they come from anymore,

only about where they're going.

Would you turn it down, please?

Beckenbauer refused to comment...

You can fight with me, Thomas,

you can fight with me.

But let me be that point that you

can lean on so that you can fly.

I promise you, you'll be

in a completely new place.

What if I don't want

to be in a new place?

What if I'm happy just where I am?

Why are you so intent

on screwing up your career?

Why are you so intent on changing us?

Why are you here at all?

Stop here.

Stop.

I'm sure your father would have wanted

to see you succeed, Thomas.

My father didn't want to see anything.

Why do you say that?

If they had given him 1%,

just 1% of what Germany is spending

on apologizing to the whole world,

he still would be here.

- Crimes must be paid for, Thomas.

He was no criminal.

He was a soldier, a simple soldier

who fought and bled for this country

that forgot him

but remembered you.

Let's go.

Yes, sir.

Cheers!

Is that a 1926 Harwood automatic?

I never met anyone

who could identify it.

I've never met anyone wearing it.

Not since my father.

He used to collect old watches.

It was an addiction.

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