1964_Der geteilte Himmel Subtitles

00:00:22,614 --> 00:00:26,The city breathed heavier than usual
that summer.

00:00:26,723 --> 00:00:29,Its breath of thick smoke

00:00:29,476 --> 00:00:32,poured out of a hundred factory chimneys
into the clear sky.

00:00:32,509 --> 00:00:37,We suddenly found this sky incongruous
and difficult to bear.

00:00:37,936 --> 00:00:40,The air weighed heavy upon us.

00:00:40,489 --> 00:00:41,And the damned water,

00:00:41,846 --> 00:00:45,which had stunk of chemicals
for as long as we could remember,

00:00:45,597 --> 00:00:47,tasted bitter for us.

00:00:47,472 --> 00:00:49,But the earth still bore us

00:00:49,347 --> 00:00:52,and would continue to bear us
for as long as it existed.

00:00:52,779 --> 00:00:54,So we returned
to our humdrum work,

00:00:54,973 --> 00:00:57,which we had briefly abandoned.

00:00:57,367 --> 00:00:59,THE DIVIDED HEAVEN

00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,Who would have thought
it would all be so important to us?

00:01:02,235 --> 00:01:03,We wallowed in excess,

00:01:04,070 --> 00:01:08,as if this strange substance called life
existed in limitless abundance,

00:01:08,499 --> 00:01:10,as if it would never come to an end.

00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,You're in good health. Nervous exhaustion.
Can you explain it?

00:02:57,587 --> 00:03:00,Her studies must have gotten
too much for her.

00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:03,- A man?
- No, I'd know about that.

00:03:06,844 --> 00:03:09,She has no secrets from me.

00:03:36,610 --> 00:03:39,And now for the last dance.

00:03:44,470 --> 00:03:47,- Could you love someone like me?
- Yes.

00:03:48,899 --> 00:03:51,So began their story.

00:03:52,171 --> 00:03:54,A banal story, you might say.

00:03:56,042 --> 00:03:58,By the way, it's all behind her now.

00:03:59,752 --> 00:04:02,Two years of her life lie behind her.

00:04:03,224 --> 00:04:05,The brown-haired maiden!

00:04:07,493 --> 00:04:10,Wearing a brown fur cap,
like in a Russian novel.

00:04:15,553 --> 00:04:19,It's as I imagined it: Us staring at
bathtubs and watering cans in the cold,

00:04:20,021 --> 00:04:22,not knowing what to do next.

00:04:23,214 --> 00:04:24,What do you mean?

00:04:25,369 --> 00:04:28,We just let the novel continue.

00:04:28,122 --> 00:04:30,- For example?
- For example,

00:04:31,433 --> 00:04:33,the heroine now says to the hero:

00:04:35,383 --> 00:04:38,"Come and meet my folks,
who need to meet you

00:04:38,136 --> 00:04:41,so they can invite you
to Christmas dinner.”

00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,Enough plot for one day?

00:04:47,952 --> 00:04:49,Enough...

00:04:50,466 --> 00:04:51,More than enough.

00:04:59,244 --> 00:05:01,Here's to your doctoral exams.

00:05:05,109 --> 00:05:08,- Let's hope everything goes well.
- To your parents!

00:05:08,301 --> 00:05:09,Thank you.

00:05:12,651 --> 00:05:16,Last night I dreamt
we were celebrating Christmas at home.

00:05:17,518 --> 00:05:20,My father raised his glass
and drank to my health, and then,

00:05:21,189 --> 00:05:22,in the dream, of course,

00:05:23,264 --> 00:05:25,I threw all the crockery at the wall.

00:05:26,216 --> 00:05:27,Must you shock people like that?

00:05:28,490 --> 00:05:30,Why are they shocked?

00:05:31,483 --> 00:05:35,- Your father...
- My father is a German man.

00:05:35,194 --> 00:05:39,By losing an eye in World War I
he avoided World War II. He still says:

00:05:39,583 --> 00:05:43,- "Sacrifice an eye and stay alive."
- You're being unfair.

00:05:44,171 --> 00:05:47,Why won't they admit
we all grew up without parents?

00:06:01,049 --> 00:06:02,Warm,

00:06:02,765 --> 00:06:04,soft and brown.

00:06:08,391 --> 00:06:10,Look at me.

00:06:12,382 --> 00:06:13,Like this?

00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:15,Like that.

00:06:30,735 --> 00:06:34,I'm not the first woman you've liked,
** I?

00:06:39,753 --> 00:06:42,- Have you had many?
- Several.

00:06:46,177 --> 00:06:49,I'm getting used to
all kinds of things with you.

00:06:49,169 --> 00:06:53,Promise me one thing: Don't try to accept
all kinds of things from me.

00:06:57,469 --> 00:07:00,What could you possibly do to me?

00:07:02,137 --> 00:07:03,How many altogether?

00:07:04,611 --> 00:07:06,20 student teachers recruited.

00:07:07,005 --> 00:07:10,- Not bad for that district, 20.
- 19, Mr. Schwarzenbach.

00:07:12,272 --> 00:07:13,20.

00:07:21,768 --> 00:07:24,TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE

00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:27,- I can't do it.
- Yes, you can.

00:07:28,112 --> 00:07:30,- And you know you can.
- I'm afraid.

00:07:36,372 --> 00:07:37,It can happen:

00:07:38,167 --> 00:07:42,You can be catapulted from the edge
of the world into its center.

00:07:42,676 --> 00:07:47,All of a sudden, everything is possible:
every fairytale miracle, every great deed.

00:07:51,973 --> 00:07:56,Even today, a girl comes to the big city
for the first time in her life.

00:07:56,721 --> 00:07:59,Thousands of strange faces every minute.

00:07:59,833 --> 00:08:02,Here,
no one paid attention to anyone else.

00:08:02,746 --> 00:08:05,How easy it was to get lost here.

00:08:06,776 --> 00:08:09,Is there any room left
for your own experience?

00:08:12,282 --> 00:08:16,Living coffin, dining coffin,
bed coffin and kitchen coffin.

00:08:17,269 --> 00:08:19,- This way.
- But why?

00:08:20,462 --> 00:08:24,Because for as long as I can remember
there's been no life here.

00:08:24,332 --> 00:08:28,Have no fear, brown-haired maiden, I'll
show you where we'll really be living.

00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:36,At any rate, for as long as you insist on
boring me with copybooks, private pupils

00:08:36,861 --> 00:08:39,and whining parents.

00:08:41,370 --> 00:08:44,You won't stick it out.
You don't know life.

00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:21,I suppose I'll have to see to it
that we have flowers.

00:09:22,108 --> 00:09:23,You're good.

00:09:25,221 --> 00:09:27,You're as good as a girl can be.

00:09:28,851 --> 00:09:32,And I'll make you the finest salads
in the evenings.

00:09:32,961 --> 00:09:34,And in winter

00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:37,we'll toast bread on the stove.

00:09:37,709 --> 00:09:38,Yes,

00:09:39,545 --> 00:09:40,that's how it should be.

00:10:14,777 --> 00:10:16,Listen.

00:10:17,689 --> 00:10:18,If you...

00:10:20,004 --> 00:10:22,hadn't danced that last dance with me...

00:10:25,948 --> 00:10:29,If you'd kept quiet
when I wanted to go inside...

00:10:30,258 --> 00:10:32,It doesn't bear thinking about.

00:10:35,565 --> 00:10:37,But I'd planned everything in advance.

00:10:54,638 --> 00:10:58,- I was scared stiff!
- No one could tell. - They could!

00:10:58,148 --> 00:11:02,- I was OK with you. History's always been my favorite subject.
- Wait a sec.

00:11:13,829 --> 00:11:16,I used to sit back there in the corner.

00:11:16,663 --> 00:11:20,I told them that history
was my favorite subject, too.

00:11:20,173 --> 00:11:23,Later I taught a bit of everything,
history least of all.

00:11:26,278 --> 00:11:29,- What will you do till the semester starts?
- Work at the railroad car factory.

00:11:42,638 --> 00:11:45,It smells of malt coffee.
It's a westerly wind.

00:11:46,189 --> 00:11:48,It's going to rain. Let's go.

00:11:53,450 --> 00:11:54,My way to school.

00:11:59,076 --> 00:12:00,And around the corner there...

00:12:07,695 --> 00:12:09,The river.

00:12:12,324 --> 00:12:13,How it's changed.

00:12:37,820 --> 00:12:40,You're really going
to the factory tomorrow?

00:12:40,294 --> 00:12:43,- Do you have to?
- I promised.

00:12:43,964 --> 00:12:47,- If you think it's worth your while...
- I don't know.

00:12:47,835 --> 00:12:49,I'll give it a go.

00:13:22,269 --> 00:13:24,ERMISCH BRIGADE

00:13:24,983 --> 00:13:26,THE FAMOUS BRIGADE

00:13:46,688 --> 00:13:48,She can go with you two.

00:13:48,683 --> 00:13:50,Brilliant, Ermisch.

00:13:54,030 --> 00:13:56,One's too young for her,
the other too old.

00:13:59,376 --> 00:14:01,Enjoy your meal, everyone.

00:14:12,863 --> 00:14:17,Girls used to prepare for marriage
at boarding school.

00:14:17,571 --> 00:14:20,Now they put them in the factory,
with a bunch of men,

00:14:21,681 --> 00:14:23,That was then, Elfriede.

00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:26,Miss Rita is a modern person.

00:14:26,469 --> 00:14:28,Things have changed.

00:14:29,023 --> 00:14:31,Aren't you off duty, Ulrich?

00:14:32,693 --> 00:14:36,You've taken off your Party badge.

00:14:53,122 --> 00:14:56,It looks easy,
but it's difficult to learn.

00:14:56,993 --> 00:14:59,Watch where you're going, you morons!

00:15:01,781 --> 00:15:05,We've never built...