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are possible!

Speak out!

They won 5 million and,

if they win this game, it's 7!

- They made it!

- Drinks for all!

- Who pays?

- Peppino!

We can drink for 7 million!

- Why are you screaming?

- Don't shout!

Otherwise taxes will take

everything away from him.

Do you want to bet that they really won?

Let's go to the villa.

Scopa!

Scopa!

Scopa!

Scopa!

Take it Anto' - count.

- Why should I count?

denari...

It's all for us, cards too.

- Have we won?

Yes. Collect, come on.

Yes. I am sorry madam,

but it's another 2 million.

Tonight you are very lucky,

I am really glad.

Thanks. I pile it here,

I don't even count it.

Anto'... look, it's 7 million.

- Let me touch them.

That's not bad;

feel the weight.

It's like a kilogram of potatoes!

Antonia?

I feel like eating some spaghetti

the way you make it.

- Yes, madam.

- Then we'll play some more.

I'll make them at once,

a plate of penne with garlic, oil

and chilli, as you like it.

- Peppino, help her.

- One moment.

Peppi', come here, give me a hand.

Where? In the kitchen?

I am going?!

Anto'...

Anto', are we leaving all the money here?

Don't you trust them?

No, it's just it's 7 million...

So what; to her it's nothing.

To her,

but to me it's a mountain!

Shut up!

Shut up, she is looking at us.

Peppi', I can't believe those

What did I tell you, Anto'?

Trust me.

Now the flat is coming.

No? Add some anchovies,

I like it a lot.

Shall I add a chilli as well?

Yes dear, yes.

Hell!

I'm furious, you hear?

I'm furious!

You... You cannot imagine

how much I hate her.

When she loses, she becomes the

most wicked woman in the world,

because since she was a little girl,

she is used to winning

and a defeat makes her furious.

But she will have to come

to terms with losing,

she has 20 million income per day...

You don't know her.

The thought of losing 1,000 lire

makes her crazy with hunger.

Then if we win 200 million,

what's she going to do?

I have been employed by her for 37 years

and she has never given me a salary.

Why didn't you resign?

It's a long story.

You would need the hand

of a big novelist to tell it.

Were you lovers?

Please excuse me for this outburst.

She was young and beautiful,

when we met in Miami,

I made her a portrait.

I was a painter with a great future.

For her I...

gave up my art and I've spent all

my life loving her.

And now here I am.

I have become her chauffeur,

her servant,

it is true; I hate her!

But... I can't live without her.

When I hear a love story,

I always feel like crying.

So?

Thanks.

Thanks a lot.

- George, it's nothing, keep up.

- Thanks.

Friends...

in the name of this...

immense love,

that I've been holding in my heart

for 40 years, I ask you...

a small... favour...

- Tell us, tell us, George.

Let her win.

Will I bollocks...

We've played for 8 years

to take some money away from her,

she has always won,

for once we win!

I am sorry but I can't!

Peppino is right.

Madam has had an attack,

she lost consciousness.

- It's better to put her to bed at once.

- Yes.

- Poor madam.

- George, what do we do, do we leave?

- Go, go, OK.

- Let's go...

There she is...

Good night and thank you. Let's go!

Take it.

God, how nice they are.

- Count them up.

- 2, 4, 6... 7!

- Put them in the bag.

- I haven't got it!

I brought you this one,

it could be useful.

- Put them here, down!

- Slowly so they don't get ruined.

This is for you.

- Thank you, don't forget about me.

- No. Who could forget you!

- Could I, mister?

- No problem, ciao.

- Let's go?

- Yes, yes, coming.

What's this revolution?

Peppino and Antonia

have won 7 billion!

- Yes, 7 billion...

- Priest, that's 70 million.

Let me through,

let me see this money.

- Let Don Roberto through.

- Yes, so he can do the multiplication...

- Drink, drink...

- Whatever one may say...

money has always

its own mysterious charm.

What do you know...

money is always money.

- Calm down... gently.

- She is feeling sick!

Let her touch the money,

so that she recovers.

Yeah, let her touch it, come on.

Enough now - you make it dirty,

they don't take it at the bank any more.

Money is also the ruin of the world!

No, priest, he who has it can enjoy it!

Calm, calm!

Winning 7 million,

one thinks it looks like a mountain,

it's a heap instead.

- Money from the old lady...

- Hey, now this is mine!

Boys, are you happy that

we have won all this money?

- For me, it's too little.

- For me too.

You dirty ones, you foul ones,

what more do you want?

In a single night we gained

an apartment.

Because I can't play, otherwise...

...We could have won 200 million!

The game is not over yet,

it'll continue tomorrow night.

No, tonight... I was unbeatable,

the more I played, the more I won,

I had it all in my hands!

If the oldie had kept it up, I could

have taken half a billion!

- Peppi'!

- I say half a billion! What?

- They want you on the phone!

- I'm not available for anybody.

It's the oldie!

- Peppi' run! Don't let her wait.

- What does she want?

- The oldie has been resuscitated!

- Put them in the bank!

Yes, I know it. Guard, stay close

to me and keep the gun at hand,

I have got money.

- Anto'... Let's go!

- Let me do it!

Guys, no jokes please,

I'm armed and can shoot!

Don't breathe down on him.

God, maybe she died...

Yes, hello?

Hello? Quiet please!

Hello?

Yes, it's me, Peppino,

tell me Pasquali'.

Let me talk to her.

Good evening madam,

sorry, tell me.

Here, it's confusing.

The oldie is feeling better

and wants to keep playing.

What do you want to do, Peppi'?

I don't know. What should I do?

She got offended, she thinks we run

away and, if we don't go back to play,

tomorrow she's going to catch a plane

and never come back.

But this is the big chance

you were waiting for!

I know, I was waiting for it but...

hey, the money!

They robbed me of the money!

- It's here!

Hey, don't make any tricks,

I could die!

Professor... We've got 7 million here,

what should we do?

I'll tell you!

Grab me a chair.

Listen Peppino...

In front of such a spontaneous

people's gathering,

I want to ask you an important question.

Yes Professor, help us as

we are ignorant, right?

That's right. 8 years ago,

when you began this long game,

you perhaps established a fighting plan,

an objective to aim for...

Answer!

What? I, no!

Aaah... You accepted to play

this long game,

undertook this tremendous fight

that had us all involved,

in dramatic anguish, for years,

and now you tell me that you did not

know what your final objective was?!

Sorry but... what objective?

What is an objective?

It's a "quantum"!

Calm down... he's going to explain it.

The quantum is the quantity of money,

that is of power, we want to

pull off from the old lady!

I say, do we want to be content

with so little?! I don't know...

The objective is 100 million,

or do we want to take all from her...

and share the money among us?

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