Schmutz Page #2

Synopsis: Josef Schmutz is a custodian clerk given the task of guarding an outdated industrial plant.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Paulus Manker
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
1987
100 min
55 Views


You can't just simply elevate

people and destroy them!

Give me your service weapon.

No.

Please...

Please, sir. Please understand.

Listen to me for one moment.

You could make the client

a totally new offer.

If you want, I will forgo

part of my salary.

Then you would only have to pay half

a salary for two people.

The result would be a new calculation of

personnel costs, and would surely

be attractive for the client.

- Shut your mouth, you idiot!

You are fired.

Just be happy that I don't have

you put into a mental hospital.

Oh yes, I almost forgot.

Your vacation pay. Pick up

your severance tomorrow.

And then I never want

to see you again.

Goodbye.

SCHEDULED AISLE B

SCHEDULED AISLE R

Hello?

Speaking. Security Zone 12. Schmutz.

Yes, hello.

Yes.

I haven't yet, no. No. It's

all still at the old place.

I understand.

It has rectified itself.

That's right.

Okay.

Alone? Not at all. For God's sake,

that doesn't matter.

That's why I'm here.

Yes.

Will do. Of course!

No, you don't have to. You

can rely on me.

As usual. Naturally.

Very well. Goodbye for now.

Thank you.

Yes. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Hello.

LOCKED:

Isn't that a nice doll!

What's your name?

- I'm not telling.

What are you doing?

- I'm playing.

What are you playing?

Throwing stones.

But that's not a nice game.

- Oh yes.

But you're breaking the windows.

- So what?

But they don't belong to you.

Do they belong to you?

No.

Well then.

What do you mean?

Are you crazy?!

Are you crazy?!

What do you want here?

You are on our property. There

will be consequences.

- For sure! The question is for whom!

- Schmutz, Josef Schmutz.

Security company. And

who are you?

Qualified engineer Siegenthaler,

magistrate 54, ballistics and geosophy.

And this is Mr. Ruedesheimer, my

assistant and co-worker.

And this is the consent of the owner and

the instructions of the public authority.

Here, if you can read, is the counter-

signature of your security firm.

And now you can take a hike.

The security contract was nullified three

weeks ago, and the area has been released.

It is being dynamited.

Have you been sleeping

the whole time?

Three weeks, Sleeping Beauty.

I'm sorry, you're not in error.

The official security contract

was indeed cancelled,

but at the behest of the insurance company,

I was parked here as personal security.

As you see, the buildings are unsafe.

Kids or homeless people could stray here.

That's why.

As I see it, the counter-signature

is from the day before yesterday.

In the past two days, I have failed

to stay in contact with headquarters.

That's why I wasn't prepared for your

arrival, and I'm sorry. Again, I'm sorry.

You're not the brightest, are you? You

could have been a little more aware.

What have you been

doing the whole time? Huh?

It was a mistake. But we will be checking

the matter. Is there a telephone here?

Unfortunately not. Only off the

property. Can I be of any other help?

You help us? The boss knows his

way around here, eh?

But certainly. -We're only doing test

blasts today to determine the consistency

of the buildings. He can show us

what everything looks like.

Spare us a heap of work.

- Gladly. What shall I show you?

- Mr. Ruedesheimer will tell you.

- Certainly.

You can show him the strongest walls.

The city walls, which support everything.

Then you come back, and we'll go

make a phone call, OK?

OK?

OK.

Give it to me. I'll do it.

Ruedesheimer!

Ruedesheimer!

Ruedesheimer!

Ruedesheimer!

Ruedesheimer!

Ruedesheimer!

Yes, this is the chief demolition

expert. I have a question.

St. Michael.

Whoever you are.

St. Gabriel, whoever you are.

St. Raphael, whoever you are.

You holy archangels,

plead for me.

St. Michael

St. Gabriel!

St. Raphael!

You holy archangels,

plead for me.

St. Raphael

St. Gabriel

Gabriel!

Raphael!

Angels!

Where are you?

Who knows, whether the spirit of the

person rises, and the breath of the

creature goes underneath the earth?

Because it is all made of dust,

and returns to dust.

Therefore I say that nothing is better

than that a person is happy in his work.

Because that is his part.

After all, who wants to bring him to the

point that he sees what happens after him?

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Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon and Amour. more…

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