1964_Der geteilte Himmel Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:22,614 --> 00:00:26,293 The city breathed heavier than usual that summer. 2 00:00:26,723 --> 00:00:29,300 Its breath of thick smoke 3 00:00:29,476 --> 00:00:32,486 poured out of a hundred factory chimneys into the clear sky. 4 00:00:32,509 --> 00:00:37,327 We suddenly found this sky incongruous and difficult to bear. 5 00:00:37,936 --> 00:00:40,429 The air weighed heavy upon us. 6 00:00:40,489 --> 00:00:41,651 And the damned water, 7 00:00:41,846 --> 00:00:45,574 which had stunk of chemicals for as long as we could remember, 8 00:00:45,597 --> 00:00:47,070 tasted bitter for us. 9 00:00:47,472 --> 00:00:49,210 But the earth still bore us 10 00:00:49,347 --> 00:00:52,235 and would continue to bear us for as long as it existed. 11 00:00:52,779 --> 00:00:54,864 So we returned to our humdrum work, 12 00:00:54,973 --> 00:00:57,154 which we had briefly abandoned. 13 00:00:57,367 --> 00:00:59,776 THE DIVIDED HEAVEN 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,212 Who would have thought it would all be so important to us? 15 00:01:02,235 --> 00:01:03,938 We wallowed in excess, 16 00:01:04,070 --> 00:01:08,012 as if this strange substance called life existed in limitless abundance, 17 00:01:08,499 --> 00:01:10,908 as if it would never come to an end. 18 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,579 You're in good health. Nervous exhaustion. Can you explain it? 19 00:02:57,587 --> 00:03:00,391 Her studies must have gotten too much for her. 20 00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:03,168 - A man? - No, I'd know about that. 21 00:03:06,844 --> 00:03:09,158 She has no secrets from me. 22 00:03:36,610 --> 00:03:39,882 And now for the last dance. 23 00:03:44,470 --> 00:03:47,394 - Could you love someone like me? - Yes. 24 00:03:48,899 --> 00:03:51,080 So began their story. 25 00:03:52,171 --> 00:03:54,088 A banal story, you might say. 26 00:03:56,042 --> 00:03:58,391 By the way, it's all behind her now. 27 00:03:59,752 --> 00:04:02,940 Two years of her life lie behind her. 28 00:04:03,224 --> 00:04:05,058 The brown-haired maiden! 29 00:04:07,493 --> 00:04:10,945 Wearing a brown fur cap, like in a Russian novel. 30 00:04:15,553 --> 00:04:19,998 It's as I imagined it: Us staring at bathtubs and watering cans in the cold, 31 00:04:20,021 --> 00:04:22,071 not knowing what to do next. 32 00:04:23,214 --> 00:04:24,520 What do you mean? 33 00:04:25,369 --> 00:04:28,077 We just let the novel continue. 34 00:04:28,122 --> 00:04:30,926 - For example? - For example, 35 00:04:31,433 --> 00:04:33,962 the heroine now says to the hero: 36 00:04:35,383 --> 00:04:38,091 "Come and meet my folks, who need to meet you 37 00:04:38,136 --> 00:04:41,324 so they can invite you to Christmas dinner.” 38 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,394 Enough plot for one day? 39 00:04:47,952 --> 00:04:49,175 Enough... 40 00:04:50,466 --> 00:04:51,939 More than enough. 41 00:04:59,244 --> 00:05:01,161 Here's to your doctoral exams. 42 00:05:05,109 --> 00:05:08,082 - Let's hope everything goes well. - To your parents! 43 00:05:08,301 --> 00:05:09,607 Thank you. 44 00:05:12,651 --> 00:05:16,414 Last night I dreamt we were celebrating Christmas at home. 45 00:05:17,518 --> 00:05:20,670 My father raised his glass and drank to my health, and then, 46 00:05:21,189 --> 00:05:22,723 in the dream, of course, 47 00:05:23,264 --> 00:05:25,529 I threw all the crockery at the wall. 48 00:05:26,216 --> 00:05:27,954 Must you shock people like that? 49 00:05:28,490 --> 00:05:30,144 Why are they shocked? 50 00:05:31,483 --> 00:05:35,171 - Your father... - My father is a German man. 51 00:05:35,194 --> 00:05:39,533 By losing an eye in World War I he avoided World War II. He still says: 52 00:05:39,583 --> 00:05:43,036 - "Sacrifice an eye and stay alive." - You're being unfair. 53 00:05:44,171 --> 00:05:47,539 Why won't they admit we all grew up without parents? 54 00:06:01,049 --> 00:06:02,176 Warm, 55 00:06:02,765 --> 00:06:04,335 soft and brown. 56 00:06:08,391 --> 00:06:10,441 Look at me. 57 00:06:12,382 --> 00:06:13,604 Like this? 58 00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:15,544 Like that. 59 00:06:30,735 --> 00:06:34,582 I'm not the first woman you've liked, ** I? 60 00:06:39,753 --> 00:06:42,594 - Have you had many? - Several. 61 00:06:46,177 --> 00:06:49,146 I'm getting used to all kinds of things with you. 62 00:06:49,169 --> 00:06:53,891 Promise me one thing: Don't try to accept all kinds of things from me. 63 00:06:57,469 --> 00:07:00,310 What could you possibly do to me? 64 00:07:02,137 --> 00:07:03,671 How many altogether? 65 00:07:04,611 --> 00:07:06,924 20 student teachers recruited. 66 00:07:07,005 --> 00:07:10,540 - Not bad for that district, 20. - 19, Mr. Schwarzenbach. 67 00:07:12,272 --> 00:07:13,434 20. 68 00:07:21,768 --> 00:07:24,033 TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE 69 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:27,548 - I can't do it. - Yes, you can. 70 00:07:28,112 --> 00:07:30,606 - And you know you can. - I'm afraid. 71 00:07:36,372 --> 00:07:37,678 It can happen: 72 00:07:38,167 --> 00:07:42,374 You can be catapulted from the edge of the world into its center. 73 00:07:42,676 --> 00:07:47,924 All of a sudden, everything is possible: every fairytale miracle, every great deed. 74 00:07:51,973 --> 00:07:56,348 Even today, a girl comes to the big city for the first time in her life. 75 00:07:56,721 --> 00:07:59,130 Thousands of strange faces every minute. 76 00:07:59,833 --> 00:08:02,362 Here, no one paid attention to anyone else. 77 00:08:02,746 --> 00:08:05,851 How easy it was to get lost here. 78 00:08:06,776 --> 00:08:09,580 Is there any room left for your own experience? 79 00:08:12,282 --> 00:08:16,837 Living coffin, dining coffin, bed coffin and kitchen coffin. 80 00:08:17,269 --> 00:08:19,235 - This way. - But why? 81 00:08:20,462 --> 00:08:24,309 Because for as long as I can remember there's been no life here. 82 00:08:24,332 --> 00:08:28,395 Have no fear, brown-haired maiden, I'll show you where we'll really be living. 83 00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:36,154 At any rate, for as long as you insist on boring me with copybooks, private pupils 84 00:08:36,861 --> 00:08:39,271 and whining parents. 85 00:08:41,370 --> 00:08:44,258 You won't stick it out. You don't know life. 86 00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:21,023 I suppose I'll have to see to it that we have flowers. 87 00:09:22,108 --> 00:09:23,415 You're good. 88 00:09:25,221 --> 00:09:27,570 You're as good as a girl can be. 89 00:09:28,851 --> 00:09:32,303 And I'll make you the finest salads in the evenings. 90 00:09:32,961 --> 00:09:34,123 And in winter 91 00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:37,609 we'll toast bread on the stove. 92 00:09:37,709 --> 00:09:38,871 Yes, 93 00:09:39,545 --> 00:09:40,935 that's how it should be. 94 00:10:14,777 --> 00:10:16,000 Listen. 95 00:10:17,689 --> 00:10:18,912 If you... 96 00:10:20,004 --> 00:10:22,845 hadn't danced that last dance with me... 97 00:10:25,948 --> 00:10:29,017 If you'd kept quiet when I wanted to go inside... 98 00:10:30,258 --> 00:10:32,404 It doesn't bear thinking about. 99 00:10:35,565 --> 00:10:37,794 But I'd planned everything in advance. 100 00:10:54,638 --> 00:10:58,125 - I was scared stiff! - No one could tell. - They could! 101 00:10:58,148 --> 00:11:02,259 - I was OK with you. History's always been my favorite subject. - Wait a sec. 102 00:11:13,829 --> 00:11:16,238 I used to sit back there in the corner. 103 00:11:16,663 --> 00:11:20,150 I told them that history was my favorite subject, too. 104 00:11:20,173 --> 00:11:23,241 Later I taught a bit of everything, history least of all. 105 00:11:26,278 --> 00:11:29,646 - What will you do till the semester starts? - Work at the railroad car factory. 106 00:11:42,638 --> 00:11:45,706 It smells of malt coffee. It's a westerly wind. 107 00:11:46,189 --> 00:11:48,106 It's going to rain. Let's go. 108 00:11:53,450 --> 00:11:54,924 My way to school. 109 00:11:59,076 --> 00:12:00,993 And around the corner there... 110 00:12:07,695 --> 00:12:09,612 The river. 111 00:12:12,324 --> 00:12:13,798 How it's changed. 112 00:12:37,820 --> 00:12:40,229 You're really going to the factory tomorrow? 113 00:12:40,294 --> 00:12:43,662 - Do you have to? - I promised. 114 00:12:43,964 --> 00:12:47,116 - If you think it's worth your while... - I don't know. 115 00:12:47,835 --> 00:12:49,273 I'll give it a go. 116 00:13:22,269 --> 00:13:24,067 ERMISCH BRIGADE 117 00:13:24,983 --> 00:13:26,864 THE FAMOUS BRIGADE 118 00:13:46,688 --> 00:13:48,522 She can go with you two. 119 00:13:48,683 --> 00:13:50,157 Brilliant, Ermisch. 120 00:13:54,030 --> 00:13:56,918 One's too young for her, the other too old. 121 00:13:59,376 --> 00:14:01,342 Enjoy your meal, everyone. 122 00:14:12,863 --> 00:14:17,202 Girls used to prepare for marriage at boarding school. 123 00:14:17,571 --> 00:14:20,902 Now they put them in the factory, with a bunch of men, 124 00:14:21,681 --> 00:14:23,647 That was then, Elfriede. 125 00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:26,125 Miss Rita is a modern person. 126 00:14:26,469 --> 00:14:28,171 Things have changed. 127 00:14:29,023 --> 00:14:31,468 Aren't you off duty, Ulrich? 128 00:14:32,693 --> 00:14:36,192 You've taken off your Party badge. 129 00:14:53,122 --> 00:14:56,310 It looks easy, but it's difficult to learn. 130 00:14:56,993 --> 00:14:59,306 Watch where you're going, you morons! 131 00:15:01,781 --> 00:15:05,053 We've never built...