Sunshine Page #8

during tomorrow's Cabinet meeting.

You're a national hero, Junior.

Happy?

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[Footsteps Passing]

[Footsteps Continue]

[Man]

Mr. Sors?

Your swordsmanship

is also a work of art.

- Thank you.

- I'm Laszlo Molnar,

President of the Pen and Saber Club

of Boston, Massachusetts.

- Ah, yes.

- I left Hungary after the war.

Would you have any interest

in living in America?

We could arrange American

citizenship for you.

- I would never leave Hungary.

- And why is that?

My family, my club is there.

I fence for the national team.

- Are you an army officer?

- No.

Why do you fence for

the officers of a dictatorship?

- What do you mean?

- You make a good impression...

for a dictatorship that

hangs innocent people.

In a way, you commit

the same crimes they do...

whenever you bring glory

to their bloody regime.

Are you saying that I fence for

a regime and not for my country?

Excuse me, sir.

You don't live in Hungary, I do.

Things have become

quite civilized...

- in the past few years.

- "Quite civilized"?

Mr. Sors,

listen to yourself.

Hungary courts disaster

by blindly following Germany.

Take this warning

as a gift from me...

in return for your splendid

Olympic victory.

Leave the country

before it's too late.

[Footsteps Departing]

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[Adam Over Microphone] Your

Excellency, ladies and gentlemen...

and citizens

of our beloved country,

this victory reflects pride

in a country we dearly love.

[Crowd Applauding,

Cheering]

- [Applause, Cheering Continue]

- Every member of this team...

was guided

by a deep patriotic feeling.

We fought for the glory

of our magnificent motherland...

to show the world

that our nation lives...

and will live... forever!

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- [Applause, Cheering]

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- Try to take some rest, Junior.

You'll need to rebuild

your strength for what's ahead.

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Adam.

Open it

when you're alone, please.

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Congratulations,

my darling hero husband.

- Are you happy?

- Happy? Am I happy? Are you happy?

- I am very, very happy.

- [Chuckling] Good.

[Both Laughing]

Ivan, my hero.

[Chuckling]

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[Greta's Voice] I prayed for you

while I pressed this flower.

It worked. You won.

See? You do need me.

If I'm in your life,

you'll always win.

When I listen

to Adam's speeches about...

"a patriotic spirit

guiding his saber,"

- I often...

- Are you being sarcastic?

No.

It's just that sometimes

what you say is... a bit much.

- Is it a crime to love your country?

- Then why are you talking...

- about moving to America?

- It's only talk.

All I've said is that the Americans

have invited me, that's all.

- Just be proud of me.

- We're all proud of you, Junior.

Aren't you proud

of your brother-in-law, Greta?

- Couldn't be prouder.

- [Hannah] You, Mother?

- Of course I am, darling.

- Are you proud of your brother?

- Astonishingly proud.

- So am I, "astonishingly proud."

See, we're all proud of you.

[Ringing Doorbell]

[Door Opens]

Coming in?

- Where's my brother?

- At the summerhouse.

We're alone. I wanted us

to celebrate your victory alone.

You don't want to hear me, do you?

It won't happen.

I won't betray my wife

or my brother.

We've already betrayed them

with every thought that we've had.

Whenever your brother

touches me, I think of you.

- Do you have a mistress?

- [Scoffs] Are you mad?

- Don't lie to me!

- How dare you call me a liar!

You're ready to lie to your husband,

so you expect me to lie to my wife,

my brother,

you want to ruin my family?

You'll be lying to me soon enough.

What's all this honorable behavior?

It's only coming out of fear.

- I'm not afraid of anything.

- Yes, you are. You're a hypocrite.

I'm ready to run away with you,

Adam, anywhere you say.

I thought you were a free spirit.

I was wrong.

You wouldn't know how to love me.

You only love yourself.

Don't walk away from me.

Come here.

Why do you love me,

Greta?

Because when you found out

you were really left-handed,

you let yourself

be left-handed.

That was a miracle.

Fine. So I'll wait

for the next miracle.

You don't expect a miracle

from Istvan?

No.

- Poor Istvan.

- Don't feel sorry for Istvan.

Istvan's

a deeply satisfied man.

He'll never change anything

about his life ever.

- Stop it, Greta.

- It's how I feel, Adam.

You want me to go home now and say,

"How was your day, darling,"

and slip into bed next to him and

carry on having an affair with you?

- I won't do that. I really can't.

- Nor could I.

Fine. Run along home and tell Hannah

a horrible thing's happened...

- so both of you can hate me.

- I'm not gonna tell anything.

I certainly don't hate you.

So what do you want?

Me to leave my husband,

you to stay with your wife?

Neither of us

leaves anyone?

Yeah. I suppose.

[Softly]

Go to hell.

[Adam Reading] "My family

and I leave for Algiers tonight.

"The Algerian Fencing has been courting me for some time,

"and I've decided

to accept their offer.

My very best to you,

as ever, Margittay."

He wrote to me as well.

- Imagine how astonished I was.

- He's a traitor, sir.

It's not that simple.

The baron's wife is Jewish,

so his children are considered Jews.

He's a traitor, sir.

Anti-Semitism is the creed of

resentful and unsuccessful people.

It's a shared madness,

which the baron couldn't accept.

But we have.

The worst thing about anti-Semitism

is it's a philosophy of philistines.

It's in bad taste. I don't know how

much longer I can go along with it.

[Radio Announcer] Clause four

of the law passed this afternoon...

limits Jewish involvement

in public and economic circles.

Insofar as the new law

is concerned,

a person is deemed Jewish if

he is or has at least one parent...

or has at least

two grandparents...

who are, at the effective date

of the legislation,

members

of a Jewish congregation.

Or who have been, before the

effective date of the present law,

members of any Jewish

religious community.

As well as and in addition to

the herein described,

all progeny born after the effective

date will be treated as Jews.

For now,

the new law will not apply...

to those who were decorated

with a silver...

or gold medal for gallantry

in the war of 1914 to 1918.

Your poor father

would have been exempt.

Those whose fathers were decorated

with the gold medal for gallantry...

or at least twice

with the silver medal,

- as well as any who participated...

- Then we're exempt as well.

In the national movement against

the 1918 and 1919 revolutions...

if he risked his life

or suffered loss of liberty...

as a result

of such activities...

as well as spouses and children

of these people.

Mother's exempt.

[Announcer] Further, those who

are active or retired priests...

- [Softly] Monsters.

- Or ministers of Christian faith...

and those who, under the auspices

of the Olympic Committee...

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