by admin » Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:31 am
PART 2 OF 2
[Elisabeth] You can't cook now. I need my peace.
I need the money now.
I must have the assurance that you're a decent person.
Money, understand? Money.
[Jorgos] Ah, understand.
[Elisabeth] I'll write you a receipt later. Okay?
Out you go.
Nothing doing.
***
[Paul] And then he raped her. At the playground.
[Erich] Gunda?
He ain't got no taste.
[Paul] I tell you. He threw her to the ground and raped her.
The others aren't safe either, I tell you.
***
[Helga] There, in the playground, he raped her.
[Marie] Gunda?
[Helga] As I told you.
[Marie] I don't believe it.
He always looks you straight in the eye.
[Helga] Are you sweet on him?
[Marie] I'd never be sweet on him.
You can tell how a person is from the way he looks at you.
***
[Peter] The whole neighborhood is talking about us. It's not good.
[Elisabeth] People talk whether you do anything or not.
[Peter] Do we have to have someone like that in the house?
[Elisabeth] I prefer him to everyone else.
[Peter] If you think so.
***
[Rosy] What do you want here?
[Peter] There's a Greek living in our place.
[Rosy] So I heard.
[Peter] Yes.
I have some money with me ...
[Rosy] Good. Put it on the table.
Stop it. Get out.
It ain't worth the money.
***
[Paul] What do you mean by "something else"?
[Erich] Vending machines maybe.
[Paul] There's no money in that.
[Erich] Something else, then.
[Paul] Whatever you do, there are problems involved.
***
[Peter] [Baaaaaa!]
***
[Erich] Have you seen Marie?
[Helga] She doesn't feel well.
Her head.
[Erich] She should hold her head under the faucet.
[Paul] You've heard about the Greek?
***
[Rosy] Elisabeth's guy was just here with me.
What an ape he is.
[Marie] What do you mean?
[Rosy] I'll show you.
That's how he went for me.
[Marie] I'd report it to the police. It's not right.
[Rosy] The same thing happened to Gunda with the Greek.
They're a load of riffraff down there.
[Marie] I don't believe it of him.
He has such an honest look.
[Rosy] Where there's smoke there's fire.
***
[Helga] If you don't stop your stupid talk, I'm going.
[Paul] Go then, you silly cow.
[Erich] Stop it.
[Paul] Do you have to stand up for her?
Stubborn, that's what she is.
And that's bad.
[Erich] You have to allow time for it to sink in.
[Paul] Kiss my ass.
***
[Peter] [Slaps Elisabeth]
***
[Helga] Actually, I don't think it's right.
After all, I'm engaged.
[Erich] The main thing is it's fun.
[Helga] But Paul's your friend.
[Erich] Friends don't count where a woman's involved.
[Helga] You're hurting me.
[Erich] There's no love without pain.
***
[Marie] And? Did he ask after me?
[Paul] Yes.
[Marie] Oh, well.
[Paul] How are things?
[Rosy] I'm surviving.
[Paul] Things are fine with me, too.
[Marie] Okay, then I'll be going.
[Rosy] Take care.
[Paul] Bye.
[Marie] Bye.
[Rosy] Do you have money with you?
[Paul] I'll have some tomorrow.
[Rosy] Without money, you can go again.
***
[Franz] Where are you from in Greece?
What city?
[Jorgos] Piraeus.
[Franz] And there's no work there?
[Jorgos] Work, yes. But no money.
[Franz] How come?
If you work, you earn money ...
Everywhere.
[Jorgos] Money, yes. But not much money.
[Franz] You wife?
[Jorgos] Wife and kids.
[Franz] You married?
[Jorgos] Wife and kids.
[Franz] How many kids?
[Jorgos] Two.
***
[Helga] It's strange.
[Gunda] But it doesn't surprise me.
[Helga] I don't know.
But you have to be careful.
[Gunda] Yes, you're right.
***
[Marie] I feel love, like when they sing their songs.
[Jorgos] Love good.
[Marie] Everyone's talking about you and Elisabeth.
[Jorgos] Elisabeth nothing.
[Marie] I'd like to be the only one you go with.
A girl needs that.
[Jorgos] Eyes like stars.
[Marie] Eyes like stars.
That's lovely.
[Jorgos] That's lovely.
[Marie] Others lovely, too?
[Jorgos] No understand.
[Marie] In Greece? Girls lovely?
[Jorgos] Greece very lovely.
Much sun and sea.
You come to Greece.
[Marie] Honestly, you'd take me with you?
[Jorgos] Much love.
[Marie] I'm fond of you, too.
I can feel it. It really hurts.
***
[Elisabeth] Did you spread the rumor I'm running after him?
That takes the cake.
[Peter] I didn't say a word.
I swear it.
I'd never say anything about you. I just couldn't.
[Elisabeth] There's never been such malicious talk as this.
[Peter] I could never talk like that about you.
My love would prevent it.
[Elisabeth] Okay.
Then be quiet now.
[Peter] I'm still better than him.
[Elisabeth] With your hands.
***
[Paul] I tell you, now he's screwing with your Marie.
[Erich] She can go take a running jump with that stupid look of hers.
[Paul] Helga's pregnant.
[Erich] You're kidding.
[Paul] I tell you. Three months gone.
[Erich] Were you careless?
[Paul] She couldn't have no kids the doctor told her.
Now I'm in the shit.
When she told me, I could have killed her.
'Cause she's always so cocky, Helga is.
[Erich] Punch her in the belly, or throw her in the Isar,
and the baby will go.
***
[Franz] Where he comes from they have Communists.
[Rosy] In Greece?
[Franz] I read it in the paper.
A lot of Communists.
[Rosy] Yeah?
[Franz] It's true.
Greece is full of Communists.
***
[Gunda] Rosy knows about it from Franz, and she told me.
[Helga] You wouldn't believe it possible.
[Gunda] That's right.
You get involved in things without knowing how.
'Cause the Communists are a real threat.
***
[Erich] He's a Communist, and it ought to be forbidden.
[Paul] Everything fits.
[Erich] It ought to be forbidden.
[Paul] He dares to come here, and he's one of them.
[Erich] It ought to be forbidden. Something must be done.
***
[Helga] You're going with a guy who's married and has kids.
[Marie] If you say so.
[Gunda] I'd be ashamed. You know what sort of guy he is.
[Marie] Well? What sort of guy is he?
[Gunda] A criminal, that's what he is. Everyone knows that.
[Marie] He ain't a criminal for me.
[Helga] Because you're a little slut.
[Marie] Who I choose to give my love to is my business.
[Gunda] Because he's a swine and gives it to you hard?
[Marie] 'Cause he wasn't interested in you.
[Gunda] Wasn't interested? He threw me to the ground.
[Marie] In your dreams, maybe. You're not his type at all.
[Helga] If he has any special type.
He's just happy to get it in you.
[Marie] You think you're something better?
[Helga] To me, you're nothing but a slut.
***
[Erich] He just sits there without a thought in his head.
[Paul] He ought to be castrated.
[Erich] And he feels happy here.
[Paul] We'll soon change that.
[Erich] That would be a laugh. Just cut it off.
Then he'd wonder how to screw.
That's all he has in his head.
[Paul] Except that he stinks like a pig.
[Erich] Peter said he never washes.
[Paul] Because where he comes from they don't wash.
[Erich] If we had a gun, we could really make him hop.
[Paul] Can you imagine how he'd jump?
[Erich] But castration's better.
He'd think about that longer.
[Paul] Then we'd lay it in gasoline ...
and give it to Marie for her birthday.
[Erich] That would be a scream.
[Paul] What does Elisabeth say about him going with Marie now?
[Erich] She cried, because he was right for her.
[Paul] I can imagine.
The guy's a swine, and that's all.
***
[Rosy] The producer said I have a face like Marie Versini.
And if he can fit it in, he'll give me a screen test.
[Gunda] You need training for that.
We all have a face.
[Rosy] Yeah, look at yours.
[Gunda] Just like yours.
[Rosy] I don't want to destroy your illusions.
[Gunda] Do you think you're something better?
Hogwash. You're not at all.
If anything's an illusion, it's your producer.
[Rosy] I'll appear on television.
And you'll see me and you'll be green with envy.
***
[Marie] Don't let the others bother you.
They talk a lot, but it's harmless.
They always have to be together, that's why.
You're nice. I like you.
I know you can't talk.
That's what I like best.
***
[Woman with a convertible] Can I sit closer to you?
***
[Erich] I could have beaten him to a pulp,
the way he just sat there with his foreign mug.
[Helga] Elisabeth's guy has left.
[Peter] Left?
No, he keeps turning up.
[Helga] That's what I heard.
***
[Rosy] It won't work out between us.
I'm different from the others.
[Franz] Everyone needs a bit of love.
[Rosy] But nothing common.
It must be something special.
***
[Woman with a convertible] I have my car outside.
We could take a drive in the country.
[Peter] You're something special. One can see that immediately.
[Woman with a convertible] A woman
No different from the others.
[Peter] No.
The way you're dressed.
And a car.
That's quite something.
***
[Marie] When you hold a girl, it's lovely.
[Jorgos] Lovely.
[Marie] Yes.
A love that's different from all others.
[Jorgos] Different from all others.
[Marie] I'm very fond of you.
***
[Gunda] She has a producer, she said.
Because her face is like Marie Versini's.
[Erich] She's nuts if you ask me.
She's not at peace with herself.
[Paul] That business with the money is true as well.
[Helga] How do you know?
[Paul] I have an eye for that sort of thing.
***
[Woman with a convertible] I don't live in cities, you know.
I drive a car.
And I take what I want.
I like men who are losing their hair.
You understand?
On the highway ...
Life.
You get to know people.
You find out what you like best.
When you're driving ...
all kinds of thoughts go through your mind.
And I like dirty thoughts.
It's like making love in a hotel with white walls.
And you can wash your hands if you want.
And usually I want to.
***
[Elisabeth] Hi.
[Paul, Erich and Franz] All the nigger sluts, they've got rubber tuts.
But the likes of us ain't got nothing at all.
[Elisabeth] You wouldn't mean me?
[Peter] Don't start anything with them.
[Elisabeth] Can they do what they like?
[Helga] You can do what you like, though?
Because you're man-crazy.
[Gunda] We're not available for just anyone.
[Elisabeth] Anyone's better than no one.
If I looked like you, I'd be ashamed of myself.
[Gunda] You let a foreign laborer in your home because you're so attractive?
[Elisabeth] Is that any concern of yours?
And he's not a foreign laborer, he's a guest worker.
[Helga] In your bed there's not much difference.
[Elisabeth] My bed is my business. Keep your nose out of it.
Come on.
[Helga] If I had a Communist in my place, I'd keep my mouth shut.
***
[Peter] If everyone's talking about it, there must be something to it.
[Elisabeth] No one understands a thing.
[Peter] What's happened has happened.
[Elisabeth] And what has happened?
[Peter] You had something going with him.
***
[Marie] I'm so fond of you.
But I sense something.
[Jorgos] Sense something?
[Marie] They're planning something brutal.
[Jorgos] No understand.
[Marie] Suddenly they all go "bam-bam"
[Jorgos] No bam-bam.
[Marie] Because you're so nice.
Will you still take me to Greece?
[Jorgos] Go together to Greece.
[Marie] And your wife?
[Jorgos] No understand.
[Marie] Yorgos's wife?
[Yorgos] Yorgos no understand.
[Marie] Because it really takes ahold of me.
***
[Klaus] Good?
Were those your friends last time?
[Paul] Yes, from school and from the neighborhood.
They're fine.
[Klaus] Really?
If you say so.
***
[Rosy] In five weeks, I'll get my first part.
The pictures they took of me were good.
[Helga] What do they pay?
[Rosy] No idea.
We'll talk about that later.
[Helga] Then it'll be in all the papers?
[Rosy] That's right.
It costs a lot of money: the photos and so on.
[Helga] Did you have to pay?
[Rosy] It's for my career.
[Helga] You must know.
[Rosy] You're only young once.
Later, you don't have a chance.
Not when you're older.
***
[Gunda] What about marriage?
Don't you want to get married?
[Franz] I don't know.
[Gunda] A marriage is something fine.
A regular life is not to be sneezed at.
[Franz] You never know what the future will bring.
***
[Erich] He threw her in the water.
[Rosy] Why?
[Erich] Because of the baby. To get rid of it.
[Rosy] And?
[Erich] It didn't get rid of it.
But they say it had a shock.
[Rosy] And Paul?
[Erich] He begged her forgiveness.
Now they want to get married.
[Rosy] I wouldn't like to get into a situation like that.
[Erich] And what about love?
[Rosy] Not for me. It makes you old.
***
[Marie] He wanted to kill it.
[Gunda] Apparently it was an accident.
[Marie] Rosy's making a movie.
[Gunda] You can imagine what that'll be like.
She had to pay for everything herself ...
the photographer, everything.
[Marie] Because that's normal.
[Gunda] How do we know what's normal?
***
[Erich] Satisfied with your foreigner?
[Marie] More than with you.
[Erich] Because you're nothing but a slut.
[Marie] You didn't seem to mind before.
[Erich] How anyone can stoop so low morally ...
[Gunda] Why do you two always have to fight?
[Erich] What's he got that I haven't?
[Marie] That's my business.
[Erich] You deserve a good hiding for that tongue of yours.
[Gunda] You shouldn't speak like that. It upsets everyone.
[Marie] I'll talk the way I like.
***
[Klaus] I'll pick you up again on Friday.
[Paul] Okay.
[Klaus] Was there something else?
Oh, sorry.
I almost forgot.
[Paul] Thanks.
***
[Paul] Has someone put your nose out of joint?
[Erich] I'm just mad, that's all.
[Franz] Look who's coming here.
[Paul] Yes, look who's coming here. Fancy that.
[Peter] Our Greek. Couldn't be better.
[Erich] The filthy pig.
What are you doing here?
Do you think anyone can walk around here?
[Paul] Why are you so quiet?
[Jorgos] No understand.
[Erich] You understand me, you Commie.
Want a fight, huh? Come on then.
[Paul, Erich, Franz, Peter] [Beat Jorgos up]
***
[Gunda] It had to happen. He was walking around as if he belonged here.
[Helga] And he looks you up and down like something at the market.
[Gunda] He must go.
[Helga] Yes.
We need a bit of order here.
***
[Rosy] And you took part?
[Franz] Sure.
[Rosy] And now he's going away?
[Franz] No idea.
I'd go, I'm sure.
***
[Paul] Revenge is only right and proper.
[Erich] That's right.
[Helga] Did he get up on his own?
[Erich] I don't know.
I left.
[Paul] We couldn't care less either.
[Erich] That's right.
[Paul] He'll go away now for sure.
[Erich] For sure.
[Helga] Because it isn't nice anymore.
[Paul] We belong here and no one else.
***
[Elisabeth] You didn't have to take part.
That wasn't necessary.
[Peter] It just came over me.
I don't know how.
[Elisabeth] If you hadn't done anything to help, okay ...
But taking part.
[Peter] I didn't want to take part.
I don't know how it all came about.
[Elisabeth] You're crazy.
[Peter] Okay, then I'm crazy.
***
[Yorgos] Yorgos no understand.
[Marie] I like you. I'll never leave you.
[Yorgos] No understand: bam-bam.
[Marie] It's over now. Be nice.
[Yorgos] Everything, bam-bam.
[Marie] Put your arm around me. Come on.
[Yorgos] All make bam-bam against me.
[Marie] Give me a kiss. That'd be nice.
[Yorgos] Greece nice.
Germany much cold.
[Marie] Kiss me. I want you to.
***
[Gunda] How is he now, the Greek?
[Erich] Is he clearing off?
[Peter] No.
Elisabeth wants him to stay.
[Helga] But that's stupid. Anyone can see what's better.
[Peter] She says it's better if he stays.
because she can ask for more rent from him.
You can do that with foreigners,
because they're stupid and don't know any better.
[Helga] What does she charge for the room?
[Peter] 150 marks.
That's how it is.
[Paul] Not bad.
[Peter] That's how you do it with them.
They help increase production, and the money stays in the country.
[Erich] That's the idea.
[Paul] That's right.
[Peter] And it's for Germany.
[Helga] Elisabeth has a head for business. I always said that.
[Gunda] 150 marks for a room like that.
[Paul] You must have the brains to think of it.
***
[Gunda] She's had a miscarriage. But they still want to marry.
[Rosy] I wouldn't like that myself: a miscarriage and marriage.
[Gunda] And what if nothing comes of your career?
[Rosy] Maybe ...
because of my age ...
No, that's not for me.
***
[Elisabeth] If we divide up your room,
we can get another one in there and earn more money.
It's big enough, after all.
[Peter] If you think so.
I've gotten used to him. Another one won't matter.
[Elisabeth] I'll call the builder 'round on Monday and get an estimate.
I want to know how much it'll all cost.
***
[Erich] And then I'll go to the army. It's better than working ...
and having ideas that never come to anything, and nothing changes.
[Paul] I'll have to go soon, too.
[Erich] I'd like to be posted on a submarine.
That's something different from service on land.
[Paul] You have to go where they send you.
[Erich] It doesn't really matter where they send you.
***
[Marie] In summer, he's taking me to Greece.
[Helga] What about his wife?
[Marie] That doesn't matter. Everything's different in Greece.
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