- Are you scared? - No, I am not scared.
The international train nr.290
is leaving for Germany at 11 p.m.
The train is leaving from track 1.
You're here again!
But why do you come here every night?
I saw him in my dreams last night.
He looked taller than the other times.
Let's go!
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
Sleep.
When are we going to leave?
Just sleep.
Won't you tell me our story?
Another time?
In the beginning there was Chaos...
...and then the light was made...
...and the light was separated from the darkness...
...and the earth from the sea...
...and then the rivers, the lakes and the mountains were formed...
and then...
the flowers, and the trees...
...the animals, the birds...
Mum's here!
You'll never end this story,
we're always interrupted.
Seagull!
Hi Seagull!
It's going to rain,
my wings will get wet.
I'm leaving!
Where are you going?
To Germany.
You're going to Germany every day...
Alexandro, it's getting late!
Bye!
What's Germany like?
The international train nr. 290
is leaving for Germany
from track 1 in three minutes.
Let's go!
We made it!
Dear father,
We're writing you because we want to come and see you.
We've never seen you and we need you.
We speak of you all the time.
Mom will get sad with our departure...
but don't think that it will stop us. And then,
she wouldn't understand.
We don't know what you're like...
Alexandro says many things.
He sees you in his dreams.
We need you so bad.
And sometimes, when I'm going home from school
I hear footsteps behind me:
your footsteps.
And when I turn around and look
nobody's there.
And so I feel very lonely.
We don't want to be a burden to you:
only meet you, then leave.
If you answer to us,
do it with the sound of the train:
"ta-tan, ta-tan...
ta-tan, ta-tan...
I am here... I'm waiting for you...
...ta-tan, ta-tan... "
Tickets, please.
Hey! Your tickets!
Do you have the tickets?
I don't know, do what you can but do something!
Sit down.
Where are you from?
Hello?
Line 290.
Number 47, train nr. 290.
Yes, yes, yes...
At least tell me where you're going...
Are you deaf and dumb?
The hell with it! I'm not a policeman.
We're going to our uncle.
You're finally speaking...
That's very good.
So?
What are you doing here?
Is that Alexandro?
What happened?
They were on an international train. They said that were coming to see you.
They're problematic children, they didn't want to speak.
I see. Come on, tell me what's going on.
Alright then, if you no longer need me...
Wait a minute.
Look...
...I can't make myself responsible for them...
That's none of my business.
But aren't you their uncle?
Yes, I am their mother's brother,
but we haven't spoken to each other for years.
I can't make myself responsible,
My sister is to blame for this.
Why did she tell them that their father's in Germany...
What father? What Germany?
The kids are the children of chance.
There is no father and no Germany.
It's all a lie.
And why'd she lie?
Not to tell the kids they have no father.
And here is the result!
But why Germany?
I wish I knew...
...maybe so they have something to dream of.
Look, I can't get involved.
Call their mother.
You're lying! You're lying!
Our father is in Germany!
You're lying! Our father is in Germany!
You're lying!
Wait here.
It's snowing!
He tied up the rope.
Dear father,
how could we wait for so long?
Illusions are like leaves carried away by the wind.
What a strange world!
Suitcases... deserted stations...
words and expressions we don't understand...
and we get scared at night.
But we're happy.
We carry on.
He's dying.
He's dead.
Hi.
What are you doing in the middle of nowhere?
The city is very far.
The bus is empty!
I don't eat children...
You didn't tell me where you're going.
Far.
Alright. I'll take you to the city.
Those are theatrical suits
and that one is mine.
What do you do?
I make people laugh
...and cry.
Do you know how hard it is?
What play is it?
My own.
Seven blows on the stage,
then three,
then the curtain is raised.
From inside, the accordionist plays the introduction
and then I come out.
"On that day, at dawn, Venus reigned..."
What's Venus?
Venus? It's the morning star, the star of the dawn.
It sets a little before the sun rises.
Let her rest. It looks like you walked a lot.
Do you want me to show you something? Come.
Do you like it?
Is it yours?
Look, they're coming.
What happened?
There are no theatres. Do something.
Orestes...
We couldn't find a theatre.
Do something.
Okay, I'll go to town.
We'll meet back here, okay?
Have you heard that?
They're sad.
The times have changed.
Everything has changed.
Yet they, careless of the passing of time, stubborn,
keep travelling all over Greece, giving the same play all the time.
I have to work.
Let her sleep!
I'll be right back.
Is your name Orestes?
A sandwich, please.
Have you got the money?
No, but I am hungry.
Alright, but if you want to eat you need the money.
When I'm hungry, I pay for food too.
Yes, but I don't have any money and I am hungry.
I see.
Okay, look... if you want to earn your own food
pick up the bottles from all the tables.
Work a little then you'll eat. Okay?
All of them?
Hurry up.
Hey, hey! What's going on here?
Seagull! Seagull!
Seagull!
Where were you?
He passed by and he didn't see me.
Where have you been all this time?
Look, I earned this snack. I worked.
You're strange kids, you know?
It looks as if you don't care for the passing of time.
Yet I know you're in a hurry to leave.
It's as if you weren't anywhere
and yet you're going somewhere.
You know where you're going, don't you?
You are strange.
Me?
I'm a snail slipping down a sheer hole.
I don't know where I'm going.
Once I thought I knew.
Where am I going?
All I know is I'll start military service in a few days.
What's that?
I can't see anything.
Look carefully.
Still nothing.
Can't you see it?
Beyond the marks, beyond them,
far away...
can't you see a tree?
No.
Me neither. I was joking.
- Can I have it please? - It's yours.
Where are we?
Good morning!
...in the meanwhile, the Turks occupied the Afion Karajisad...
...it was in August of 1922...
...when the Germans left, in the autumn of 1944...
...the fall of the front began...
...soon the British took charge...
...many of our soldiers died...
...it was the first in Europe...
The demonstrations were enthusiastic...
because people believed in...
Ich kamarad!
Come here girl, I want to comb you.
I used to be as pretty as you, you know...
...and the Fascists, once friends of the Germans, were set free
and went back to fight for the British.
We felt betrayed.
They called us in for a demonstration...
They caught me at the end of '47.
...when the Germans left, in the autumn of 1944...
...soon the British took charge...
...The first union government was made...
The demonstrations were enthusiastic...
because people believed in...
I always forget the beginning.
I'll show you the obstacles,
the facts, the sounds, the parties,
the intervention of the ships from the angry sea,
and the speakers, and my verse, and the voices...
The factories...
October 1917,
December 1944...
and I'll follow you in my rags,
as the French Revolution gave me birth,
as Spain, my mother, gave me birth.
I'll follow you, dark plotter.
Come.
The work in five acts that we're showing you tonight,
is the idyllic and immortal drama by Spiridon Spresadis,
"Golfo, the young shepherdess"
with a selected cast of important actors, old and new.
The tragic love of Golfo
will speak to the deepest of your hearts and to all...
Sorry guys, but it's not going to happen.
They want the theatre for a ballet and they'll pay a lot of money.
I'm very, we've worked together for many years, but...
What could I do? These are hard times...
I know I put you in trouble, but...
Orestes, take me to the town.
There are other people besides this gentleman.
Last night I saw him in my dreams again.
I can't go ahead!
- Where are you going? - North.
Come.
Get in.
Two dishes.
Some wine, gorgeous.
Are you going far North?
Why?
Here it is.
Are you new?
What do you think?
Why? Where are you going?
North.
North, North... North where?
Here I am again.
What a flower...
Hey mate...
that garden has an owner.
She has got such gladioluses...
Watch out...
I have to do something.
Oooopa!
Take the food.
I'm going to rest a little.
Come here.
Come here, I said!
Voula!
Dear father,
You're so far away!
Alexandro says that in his dream you were so close...
he could have touched you just stretching his hand.
We keep travelling,
everything goes by so quickly:
the cities,
the people.
But sometimes we feel so tired
that we forget you
and we don't know if we're going onwards
or backwards.
Then we get lost.
Alexandro grew older:
he became serious,
he gets dressed by himself,
he says things you wouldn't expect.
In the last few days I've been very sick,
I was shaken by the fever...
Now I feel better,
but... Germany is so far away!
Yesterday I thought of giving up..
What's the use of going ahead?
We'll never arrive.
But Alexandro got angry,
his desire to see you is very strong,
and he said I was betraying him.
I felt ashamed.
Do you miss mum?
We both write you the same things...
and we remain silent in front of each other
watching the same world,
the same light and darkness...
...and you.
That's it! I recognize it!
We were on the train,
then the train stopped...
...the police got on,
We ran here, and we found more police...
...and we escaped from them.
We made it!
Hurray!
Didn't I say you're strange kids?
And now... hold tightly! Let's go!
- Are you from here? - No.
I wish it never finished!
- What? - This!
If it was summer we would take a bath...
If it was summer...
I am thirsty. Come on.
A beer and two orange sodas.
Where are we going then?
Where? To Salonicco, don't you remember?
Didn't I tell you that night
that I had to leave the company for the military service?
And you, where are you going then?
Okay, none of my business, I won't ask. I know I shouldn't ask.
You only let me to understand you have to catch a train.
Shall we dance?
I can't dance.
I'll teach you.
Leave her alone.
Today she's found out something great.
We have to leave her alone.
...track 4, from Athens, Larissa, Katerini.
The international train nr. 290 to Germany...
Here ends our journey. Mine.
Not yet!
What? Aren't you leaving?
Not yet.
Won't you catch that train?
Not yet... Not tonight...
Then you have to come with me,
where I'm going.
What have you done to me? You've made me lose my head...
Shall we go?
What are you doing?
Are you crazy?
Are you selling the suits?
Who decided it?
Where's the old man?
He isn't well... Can you understand? He doesn't want to stay.
Here they are.
One day I opened my mouth...
and that same day the waterfalls overflowed
and spread up to the patio.
I don't like funerals.
Good-bye.
Good-bye!
If I screamed...
who would listen to me
in the army of the angels?
Do you like it?
How much?
How much can you pay?
My heart is bleeding right now...
Agreed.
Have you got a cigarette?
I'll give it to you tomorrow. Tonight I need it.
In the theatre, this is called "epilogue"
Let me get you something.
Didn't you say a soda?
Why is it taking so long?
Stay here.
Did he fall asleep?
What's wrong?
Nothing.
Get some rest, I'll be right back.
You forgot your bag.
You'll miss the train!
I didn't want it to end this way!
The hell with it! I don't care about the rest!
I didn't want it to end this way!
We said I'd take you to the train!
I didn't want it to end this way!
So it's the first time, my little lonely one...
My little lonely one... so it's the first time...
Your heart beats so fast,
It's the first time, my little lonely one...
Your legs are shaking...
...you feel like you want to die.
How much for a ticket to the frontier?
I don't want them to make us get off again.
What's the frontier?
No, it cannot happen again...
What time does the last train leave?
Will you give me 385 drammas?
What's your name?
I know I'll regret it!
Attention please. The passengers going to Germany...
...should get their passports ready for the custom check.
I repeat: the passengers going to Germany...
...should get their passports ready for the custom check.
On the other side of the river...
...there's Germany!
A boat!
- Are you scared? - No.
Halt!
Wake up, it's dawning.
We're in Germany.
I am scared.
Don't be scared. I'll tell you our story.
In the beginning there was Chaos.
In the beginning there was Chaos,
and then the light was made.
# Translated and adapted by lyliakar #