The Poll Diaries Page #4

Synopsis: In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Chris Kraus
Production: Piffl Medien GmbH
  11 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
2010
129 min
18 Views


Do you understand that?

Yes!

Ebbo, don't!

- It is my right!

- Stop it!

It is my right!

Nothing changes!

You are not planning to kill me.

You don't hate me.

Don't hate me.

I am going to gag you. When they

find you, you say it was a hold-up.

- You're leaving?

- Yes.

You promised you'd

only leave tomorrow.

Don't cry!

You will suffocate if you cry!

Stop it!

Stop it!

- Will you take me with you?

- What?

- I could look after you!

- What?

I can cook and sew!

I wouldn't ever complain!

Take me with you!

I would go everywhere you go,

no matter where it is!

I have nobody left.

I am alone.

I can't take you with me, Oda.

You are not twenty.

You are not even fifteen.

You are not from this country

and you are not a nurse.

And you are a little miss.

Definitely you're not alone.

Take me with you!

They are all gone tomorrow.

All the soldiers, all of them will be gone.

You can leave tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Leave tomorrow!

Come, Oda!

Thanks for not betraying me.

I would never betray you.

Right! This is how it's done!

Beautiful.

Right, children! We're ready! So I want

to hear "clementine" in a moment, OK?

We're at war!

We are at war.

Do you know what this means, darling? War.

Yes, Aunt Milla.

Everything will change.

You're very pale.

I'm not feeling well.

Can I go back home?

It's only one.

We'll nick another one on the way.

Nick?

Steal, rob, nick!

- You are a child, Oda!

- I'm not a child!

Who would have thought that

we Germans would be shooting at Germans?

No, who would have thought that?

As always?

Not anymore.

Nothing is as always.

I mean between us.

There is nothing between us anymore.

What happened to your eye?

What did he do to you, the professor?

Nothing.

Stay away from me.

What is this? It is a disgrace.

Or is this one of your

experiments, professor?

I beg your forgiveness.

A mistake! We will

fetch another barrel.

What kind of behaviour is this?

- What's it got to do with me?

- Silence! Fetch a new barrel, you idiot!

Quickly!

Not "quickly"!

There will be no more "quickly"!

There will be

no more German spoken here anymore.

That's the enemy's language.

Understand?

Of course.

Let's go.

Come on, get going!

Play on! Come on everyone, play on!

- Have we got everything?

- Yes.

Good.

Chloroform.

Who is this man?

What do you know about him?

Why was he in the saw mill?

I helped him.

Yes?

Helped him!

We have to shoot him.

What?

We have to shoot him!

If we don't shoot him, somebody else will.

And if that's a Russian,

he'll have to shoot you too.

And shoot me. Shoot all the others.

So I can't imagine you helped him.

Surely you didn't help a "Maessaja"?

Surely you didn't help an anarchist?

Why?

Why did you do this?

She's a nurse.

She likes to help.

The swine!

The swine speaks German!

- Swine!

- Stop it!

Stop!

Get my things out of there!

My things!

Leave now!

- Why?

- Go!

Why should I leave?

Do you want to watch?

Do you want to see this?

I'm saving your family.

I'm saving you. Understand?

Go!

Go!

You hid a "Maessaja"!

That's what I'll say.

You hid a "Maessaja"!

Not me! You!

I will run out

and scream that you hid an anarchist!

I will if you hurt him!

I will say that!

I will say all that

and I will swear.

And nobody will believe you!

You're just a little caretaker

who loves Estonians and hates my father!

And who sleeps with my father's crazy wife!

I will destroy your life!

I swear to God!

Are you in there?

Are you in there, Mr. Mechmershausen?

You are in there!

Go away!

Did you do this?

Did you burn down my laboratory?

Go away!

We'll be in soon!

- I'm going to fetch the Russians!

- No, don't!

No, nobody is allowed in!

Who did you shoot at?

Who did you shoot at?

- At a leg.

- At which leg?

It doesn't matter which leg!

A leg is a leg!

There are loads of legs out there!

And they all want to come in!

I can help.

- Help?

- Maybe.

What do you mean?

Have you got another gun?

Untie him.

My dear Ebbo, we need to talk.

I am injured.

Millalu.

I know that this may not

be the right moment.

But we have to talk about our future.

What about our future?

It is over.

Let her go!

She is a child!

- Damn it, she is a child!

- No.

She isn't a child.

She is...

She is...

She is Napoleon!

No!

Come away!

Oda, he did it for you!

He did it for you!

He did it for you!

Oda, he did it only for you!

Only for you!

When we go out there...

Do you hear me?

When we go out there,

you say that he threatened us.

Do you hear me? Oda!

Do you hear me?

They are gone!

They are gone!

They are gone! They are all gone!

To the front.

All to the front.

Oh remember!

Death is like a seed so rare

hidden in you and your daily toiling,

like hazelnut and

bright apple star,

as velvet plum enfolds it

until morning.

Oh remember, there's

no escape route,

it lives in you as in

the sweet fruit.

When I was still a child,

my father taught me that

the world is a place,

from which I will simply

disappear one day.

Nothing will remain of me.

None of my feelings

will outlive me.

It will be

as if I never existed at all.

Dearest Oda!

For the first time I now see

what it's like when you sleep.

Wake up and write a poem for me.

I am looking forward to all your books.

I'm sure you'll have a wonderful life.

I'm always with you.

Schnapps.

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