Ursul

The Dignity! Buy The Dignity!

Buy the newspaper now!

F***!

Romania, 1990 - A few months

after the fall of the Ceausescu regime

They turned the lights off again!

It's off again, and the cage is open.

Give me the flashlight.

Got a flashlight'?

Take it and help me.

Turn on the damn light!

They're nuts!

They didn't pay the electricity bill.

F***ing idiots...

Have you found them?

There's one there!

Panduru! Stoian!

They're never there

when you need them.

Careful, guys!

Check this.

Two plates are already broken.

I told you to buy plastic plates.

How can they turn off the light

during the main rehearsal?

Has anybody seen Cecilia?

Where is Panduru?

He said he'd get the money.

Akiro, bring the light here

so we can clean up.

Go and lift the tarpaulin

to let the light in.

THE BEAR:

A film by DAN CHISU

Hello miss Cici.

I don't know, that's his job.

As long as we get our salaries!

I've had it!

He can sell whatever he wants.

His mother and father, for all I care.

As long as he pays us

like he promised.

- He said he'd finish the construction site...

- He's doing the best he can.

He's running, struggling...

He can't do everything himself.

- He said we were going to go on tour...

- Cut the bullshit.

He should have started

after the premiere.

After we do the show properly.

Not in the tent, in the heat.

That's all I've been hearing

since he got here.

I told you, one of us

should be manager.

What was wrong with Mr. Marinescu?

Why wasn't he good enough?

What if he used to be party secretary?

During his time, we got paid.

Did you know that?

If the tour works out,

everything's solved.

Here, Martin, have some! Here!

Come on, don't give up!

I'll bring you blackberries,

the kind you love!

Come on, Martin!

What's that, Cecilia? Bread?

Don't you know he doesn't like it'?

Bread and honey.

I know better. He ate it yesterday.

Here! Here!

Careful! The beast is still a beast.

He might bite you, ma'am.

Come on... I have known him

for 20 years, since Aurel took him in.

He took him and left me.

That's why he's alone.

But now, Martin is leaving him, too...

Mr. Stoian, you're not good with animals.

You're new in the circus.

Don't start again, Cecilia, alright?

Remember how he made you disappear

in that box and you were gone for three days?

You should have married me back then.

I was as pretty as a flower, Mr. Stoian.

A flower, my foot.

A week with me, a week with him.

He should have sawed you in half

in that box, that would have taught you.

Why are you laughing?

Thank you...

And now, juggling with fire.

Meeting in Panduru's office!

He found money for our salaries.

Didn't I tell you he was going

to pay our salaries?

Meeting at Panduru!

Meeting at Panduru! Let's go!

We found money.

Come on!

We found money for the salaries.

Let's go!

No kidding!

For real.

Listen up! Meeting at Panduru's.

He found money for our salaries.

Where from?

Wait a second. Listen.

Watch out for that snake.

Hello, everyone!

Hello, Mr. Panduru.

I gathered them all.

We'll go into your office.

No, no! We'll stay here,

there's more room.

Go call the administrative people too.

Get some chairs, some benches...

Come on!

Can I squeeze in here?

Grab a bench, man.

Or are you afraid your muscles will fall off?

Quiet! Hello! People!

People! May I?

Quiet, please.

People, I think I solved the problem,

I have the answer

we've all been waiting for.

I did my best and

I think I succeeded...

Please, take the snake away,

I get sick just to see it.

Thank you.

- So, where were we?

- The snake.

Nowadays, it's very difficult

to get money.

As you know, we're redecorating...

In a few days, we start our national tour...

Cut the crap and get to the point!

We heard this last week

and the week before.

- This is not the revolution.

- Mr. Ciacanica, please.

- Just say what you have to say already!

- Go ahead, say it!

Brothers, I managed to get money

for the salaries!

And this time is for real.

You'll pay us all you owe us?

Bullshit! He can't even pay

the electricity bill!

The power is down in the entire neighborhood.

Not just here.

The entire neighborhood, my ass.

- Who's keeping this guy in the circus, I wonder!

- The party...Ceausescu...Romania...

People, people!

The bear

What do you call him? Martin.

I found somebody willing to buy him.

Buy him? What, are we selling the bear now?

To whom?

The bear has been ill for months.

We all love him.

But perhaps he can do

one last thing for us.

Listen to him. How's that?

We sell him and we get

our salaries.

I love him too, and I'm sorry too...

But I found a crazy German

who wants to pay us 50,000 marks

to have a bear trophy.

How's that?

Brothers, do you know what

50,000 marks mean for this poor circus?

I barely managed to persuade the guy,

now you...?

Wait a minute. We're shooting him?

We sell him so he can kill him?

Are you insane?

What do you mean, shoot him?

No, we don't shoot him.

We just sell him.

The rest... they'll take care of it.

He will.

Who do we sell him to?

We've stooped to selling the bear now?

- Nobody is shooting the bear.

- We're not gypsies, to sell our bear!

People, this bear is dying.

What the f***!

We should put him

out of his misery ourselves!

We can kill two birds with one stone.

We help him out of his misery and we...

Mr. Panduru, please allow me.

Ladies, gentlemen, you know very well

that Romania is renowned for its bears.

Go away!

What a jerk! Unbelievable!

50,000 marks is good money.

How much is 50,000 marks in lei?

- Will it hurt him?

- He won't feel a thing. I promise.

50,000 marks it's a lot of money.

A villa, two Mercedes...

I know a guy in Germany

who will get you ten cars for the money.

I thought you were supposed to get money,

not start selling the circus.

I knew you were no good.

You want to sell my bear, the one I went

to Moscow and Monte Carlo with?

Soon you'll be selling my plates, too!

We won't sell our bear.

We won't sell our bear!

We won't sell our bear!

Hey!

Since we can't agree on this,

and we don't...

We'll make this decision together,

democratically, right'?

A secret ballot.

Then we do whatever the vote says.

Don't worry, it'll be alright!

They're just afraid to say out loud

that they want the money.

With a secret ballot, no one

will know who voted for what.

This is serious. I told the Fritz.

You said they'd be happy to hear this.

Well, I've been through worse than this.

Let's see them vote.

Don't you hear their stomachs growling?

I'm not interested in your problems here.

I need the bear.

Bring an urn, something to vote in.

Come on, the elections were a month ago.

Forget about the urn,

nobody wants to vote for the sale.

Marcelino, why aren't you doing anything?

Ladies and gentlemen,

we don't need an urn.

We'll collect the votes in my top hat.

Mr. Panduru, don't you want to sell this too?

We'd make good money.

Come on, comrades!

I got everybody here.

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