Steppenwolf Page #5

Synopsis: In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humor, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Fred Haines
Production: Independent Film Distributors
 
IMDB:
6.3
R
Year:
1974
107 min
204 Views


I haven't heard your petition

...what's the nature of this foolishness...

where did you get this car?

In this case you won't sleep with Maria!

It is you who creates

your own difficulties.

If you give me money I'll give

it to you back, am I wrong?

It's for Agostino, the fiddler...

he is sick you know!

Why didn't you tell me that at once?

Will you tell me about the car?

I've borrowed it.

From who?

I don't know, it doesn't matter!

God almighty, you are in a

borrowed car already...

I must be very expensive

it looks pretty good.

Listen... this car's got

here 60hps below the...

They can see me, but they never pick me up.

Nevertheless, it doesn't matter for sure...

Good morning!...

Harry get in! ...Hurry up,

hurry up, hurry up, quick!

Oohh-hooo!!!!...

Why Pablo... why this?

Why don't you ever want to

talk about music with me?

Oh, you know more about the subject that I do.

I hardly know about it.

It's all the same for me.

But not all is the same. Nevertheless, no!

...no, it cannot be.

Simply to put Mozart in comparison

with a foxtrot... He is different...

Do you understand?

I don't put anything into any category..

To me what lasts is good.

...Pablo...

Say, Pablo... what do you

expect from life... from music?

You're always asking...!

...one laugh...

...one little laugh...

...a pass time... nothing...

To celebrate parties.

...a connoisseur...

A crowded venue in order

not to get bankrupt.

Now that you are into it.

What do you expect?

Light.

Light is there, deep inside...

But you need to cast your own shadow...

Then you'll see it.

Don't you want to celebrate

an orgy together?

...No, no, thank you.

But, we are all friends...

It's simply that he doesn't want.

Regrettably... he is too morally minded.

Nothing can be done.

But...

it could've been so beautiful...

incredibly beautiful...

...I guess I must sleep a bit...

Suppose the wife of a king turns into...

a lover...

of a revolutionary, a sister of a genius...

Life only allows me to be a

courtesan of a fairly good taste...

But I'm glad I'll never be it.

But... don't you ask for more?

Always.

What?

An eternity.

...Where do you expect to find it?

We are in the road of life.

In the kingdom on the other

side of time and appearances.

The pious call it the kingdom of God, even

though no one knows of it or sees it...

However If we belong to each

other our house could be there.

Ah, Harry, we have to stumble,

through so much dirt and humbug...

before we reach home...

And we have no one to guide us. Our

only guide is our homesickness.

And now I'll say goodbye.

Then, friends and lovers...

will have a night divine...

I'll see you at the party...

Oh what is this, can you

let me through please!

Thank you!

Dance with me!

Please...!

Harry!... what are you disguised of?

A penguin?

Pablo, maybe there's a way you can

help me, have you seen Hermine?...

I have been looking for her everywhere!

I'm a bit desperate.

Here everyone is wearing a mask!

Only you can call her.

You will find her.

You condemn me once again,

will I see you in a while?

No, No, No!...

no, because of your sense of humour!

...not tonight.

Lost your number?

...take my ticket!

TONIGHT AT THE MAGIC THEATRE...

FOR MADMEN ONLY... HERMINE IS IN HELL...

Hey! Dance with me!

Not now! ...I'm bound for hell!

C'mon!...

Maria...

Hermine has called me.

She is in Hell.

Don't worry about it my dear...

Goodbye, Harry...

I will love you... for ever...

Goodbye?

Hermann...

Harry? ...Hermine, Hermann...

Did you call me?

Is this the costume, Hermine, in which you

mean to make me fall in love with you?

You are ready to go through hell...

in order to find.

And... are you coming with me?

You dream with this,

reality is not outside.

You have a longing to forsake this world,

it's about time...

to enter a more suitable reality

for you, a world beyond time.

I cannot give you a world

which no longer exists.

I can give you nothing that has not

already its being within yourself.

I cannot give you anything

more, just a lonely chance.

Harry, I'll help you.

I invite you to a little entertainment.

FOR MADMEN ONLY...

PRICE OF ADMITTANCE YOUR MIND.

Do you understand?...

...your mind.

And now... I'll show you

our little Magic Theatre.

It has as many doors as you might wish...

behind every door there's something waiting for

you exactly the thing you are looking for.

Now you have to give your permission,

You will introduce yourself to it

by means of a trifling suicide.

You feel okay, don't you?

The long awaited conquest of

time and the scape from reality

this was always your desire although

others might not find any meaning to it.

As your wish is related to

personality it could be unique.

It only takes you to behold the reflexion

of this mirror as a sincere vision.

Excellent, Harry...

Excellent, Harry... you will learn

how to laugh like an immortal.

You yearned for this world, for this time,

for yourself, to leave this reality...

The illusion of the Magic Theatre. There

are only mirrors here, never reality...

It's got as many doors...

Pablo... Pablo... Hermine... Hermine...

You know well, you are

hiding in an unreal world...

which is...

a world inside your soul,

the one you are seeking...

a world beyond time.

Said this, my friend, I invite you to this.

The desire, the desire to hold her...

the game of feelings, a union of hands...

gliding eyes which gently smoulder you...

she hides her revealed nudity,

finding two thoughts of

a third place where...

on a lake, in a dark night...

nothing resists you, like a

wave which happens to bestow.

...behind every door...

Kamasutra. Lessons on amatory art.

A Hindu course for beginners.

42 different methods to practice love.

Mu tabor... transformation into

any animal or plant you wish.

Quintessence of art!

Gustav!... how nice to see you again!

Whatever became of you!

A professor on theology,

that's what I became!

However, time has come

to fight these beasts!

What's going on here?

Fighting!...

Finally you are into it, we'll go in our

way to fight the machines!... c'mon!

You always yearned for that,

didn't you Harry or what?

The War Against the Machines!

I'm not listening to you!

All this display of madness leads to chaos

which at the same time threats with anarchy.

Intellectuals must finish

with the incitement...

giving benediction to order, to

work, to property, to culture...

to defend law and justice.

Why do we have to fight

against the machines?

As the last invention of the human

race machines were created so...

humans could become gods, finally

human beings will be free! - Oh!

How do you find this?

Oh, I like it, but... we choose

to go to some other party!

Traitors! Criminals! Finally

it was all for this!

...C'mon quick! ...Get out of here!

...get your hands off me!

Before I go I'd like to say this...

this is not patriotic of you at all!

Do you see this...

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. more…

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