- I don't want to go back home. - Swear.
Swear you'll never become a fat and coarse master.
I swear!
Now swear you'll love me forever and never marry me. Swear!
I swear I'll marry you forever!
Swindler!
- Give me your hand! - Never!
- Quiet please. - What's the matter, Ottavio?
- I'm doing a delicate job. - What is it?
Artistic photography!
But who are they? What are they doing?
- We're sylvan gods. - And we're hungry!
Now that you know about my secret love for... photography...
We can keep a secret.
Armed Carabinieri and Royal Guards along the railway.
Are you leaving me alone? Can't I come too?
Come on!
He clearly told him:
Either the prefect minds his own business or in Naples the hell will break loose!
Where's our photographer going?
I'll be right there.
What's this masquerade?
We're building Italy here, and a uniform makes a trade easier.
Put it there.
Thanks.
- Are we leaving? - Yes, as soon as we're ready.
- And where are we going? - To Taormina.
Taormina? It's an obsession.
- Why there? - Because it's in the south.
Away from those boors in uniform.
With this thing we can go even farther.
- South. - That's cocaine!
Cocaine? I want to try it too.
- But why are you... - Shhhh.
Beginners first.
This way.
- What a mess! - What a waste, you meant!
Hey! Leave some for us, you greedy ass!
Hey, what's happening?
- I feel nothing. - You have to wait a little.
It's your first time...
I feel nothing, but my nose is numb.
I feel nothing.
Nothing, I feel nothing.
Where are you going?
- It's taking effect. - I feel nothing.
So, what are we going to do?
What are we going to do now?
- I know! Let's take some pictures! - Good idea!
Who's that?
- Telegram! - Just a moment.
I'm coming!
I feel nothing!
Hey! I'm the best dancer here!
It's for you.
You must leave at once, Alfredo. Your father is dying.
Ready?
Done.
- What are you doing? - Nothing.
What's that fur coat?
What are you doing in my father's study?
And with his gun too?
Now it's mine.
You can keep it. He doesn't need it anymore.
How did he die?
In the stable.
He said...
My legs are weak, as if I were dreaming.
He didn't suffer.
In the stable... Looks like a family habit.
You've been away six months. There are things you don't know.
Send Attila away, there's still time.
Fire him now.
- It's no use. - Listen to me, kick him out!
It'll make an impression on everybody.
You don't know how much Italy has changed.
Here all's changed too. Even me, and you!
- So what? - So what?
You're in charge now, goddamit! You're the master!
- Your master then. - Olmo!
Olmo, they're back. Run away!
Olmo.
Take it away, it's yours.
What kind of thief would you be, otherwise?
- Is the child yours? - Yes, it's a girl.
Where's Anita?
She died. In childbirth.
Send away Attila. Listen to me.
I prayed for you to come in time. You're the only one I have left now.
I have to tell you many things.
Would you mind waiting outside?
Mom, I've got something to tell you. Have a seat.
I've got something to tell everyone. Have a seat please.
So,
I have something to tell everyone.
I don't know if I should say it,
maybe I should wait, maybe this isn't the right moment.
I made a decision,
and
I'm about to get married.
This isn't the right moment for a joke.
Why are you in a haste?
Is she pregnant?
- What's her name? - Ada.
Ada.
Is she of a good family?
- Is she chic? Tell me she is. - She's half-French.
Has she travelled? Has she been abroad?
Is she pretty? Healthy?
We'll give a party that everyone will envy.
- When? - As soon as possible.
Long live the married couple!
Brave young man, full of faith,
who are about to start a new life,
may you have lots of lively children from your faithful wife,
and may your noble race continue in the light of God.
May this light always guide all of your children.
She's pretty. Too pretty for a wife.
She can never be a wife, she looks like a lover!
A lover my foot!
- She's cold in bed, I tell you. - Regina!
It won't even last a year.
Alfredo!
She's so beautiful.
You're a bastard.
I hate you. I despise you.
I should have been in your place.
May I?
A souvenir.
May I?
Wait.
Here's my place. You're as pretty as a bride.
I put my bet on Attila.
Come on Attila!
My bride!
Attila's gloves are beautiful. I want them too dad.
Also the bat?
Mr. Alfredo, the Black Shirts drink to you and your pretty wife.
Get off the table!
Send them away. I can't stand them!
They're still the same old people, they only changed their shirts' colour.
That's the problem, you can't tell the difference.
It's like with relatives, you invite them to weddings,
then you don't see them for 10 years.
A hundred years, promise me!
A thousand years, I promise.
- Are they all from the same family? - Yes, the D'Alcos.
There were twice as many before the war.
Who's that pretty lady near the fire?
She's Rosina, Olmo's mother.
Where's Olmo? I haven't seen him all day.
And where's Ottavio? I'll never forgive him!
Dear friends we have!
Sure, go.
- Rosina, would you like my confetti? - Yes, thank you Madam.
I've known him since he was this tall. It was long ago!
- Long live the married couple! - Hurray!
We stopped at an inn at dawn and we met those from Ferrara.
- We had bright eyes. What a day! - Heroic!
I thought you'd faint. To us!
People asked us where we were going and we said: "to Rome"!
I'll tell you only once. Stay away from Ada.
You fear I could damage her?
Do you think she'll resist long here,
among the pigs, the shit and the D'Alcos?
Attila?
Close the door.
Close it.
In this house the employees
don't hug family members on the table.
If you two can't help it,
go and do it outside the house.
- Is that clear? - Yes.
You were waiting for it.
You were only waiting to become the master.
You were dying for it.
I'm not done yet.
I know you look impressive in that uniform,
but my wife doesn't want Black Shirts in the house.
Well, women...
Come on Alfredo... Attila might not be educated
but you can trust him. He's your watchdog.
Where was this dog when my father's drawers were robbed?
What? No...
Where's his gun now?
It must have been a Communist. They don't even respect the dead.
But don't worry, your wife's wish will be granted.
And the gun will be back to its place soon.
You're here to keep Regina away from my wife.
Why don't you kick me out?
I want you all here.
You're part of my inheritance.
Dog! Dog! Dog!
This house is so beautiful that...
Attila look, I'm arm wrestling.
Is it true you win all the time?
I liked it here. If I think of all the years we spent here,
of all the memories...
Regina, it's understood then.
We'll move into town, they have a right to be alone.
And you tell me just like that?
I won't move from here.
- Look who's here! - Ottavio!
I'm late. I hope you like it.
Is that my wedding gift?
I love you! Thanks!
- Its name's Cocaine. - Cocaine?
Alfredo, do you like it?
Thanks, it's beautiful.
- It's name's Cocaine. - Is it?
Help me ride it.
- Oh, the stirrup. - Careful. One, two...
Come and see!
- So elegant... - It's a wonder!
Come here, coward.
- Now make me come, here! - You don't know what awaits you...
It's my house too, I'm part of his inheritance!
Did you know that the gentry have special places to masturbate?
Alfredo and I used to come here.
You're an idiot, I felt pity on you!
You let him insult you, you were like a dog at his master's heel.
I'm his watchdog.
Then bark, bite! But don't let him treat me that way!
He can't treat me that way. What kind of man are you?
Who are you?
Never bite the hand that feeds you, as long as you need food.
You don't understand. Alfredo is rotten.
Alfredo is your cousin.
What a whore. Just married and already running away.
Regina, I love you.
Insults and humiliation make me strong.
They make me strong. Italy is my only master.
I serve only her, that's why we marched on Rome.
The rich exploit and sack us.
The more they eat, the more rotten they get.
We get the leftovers, but they make us strong.
Alfredo Berlinghieri,
you
and all the other parasites
will pay dearly for the Fascist revolution.
You'll pay for it!
Everybody will!
Rich and poor,
noblemen and peasants, they'll pay with money, land,
cows, cheese, blood and shit!
Do you really love me?
Do you?
Will you always love me? Attila!
I brought your gloves.
Regina, I'll love you forever.
- Your gloves. - My gloves.
Here's the best man.
Have you ever played "the married couple"?
Let's play it!
Stop! Stay still!
You'll rip my net, it's expensive!
- Set me free, what are you waiting for? - How can I, if you keep moving?
Here you are.
Hurry up.
"Hurry up"?
- Be patient. - What's this net doing here?
It's a trap for brides.
- Do you catch many of them? - You're the first.
- First and last. - Help me down.
Careful.
- Is all this land ours? - All yours.
I'll do fine here. I thought I'd hate the country.
- I like the smell of earth. - That's dried shit!
- What's this? - Don't!
My birds are in there. What are you doing?
Help me please.
- They were all at the wedding but you. - But me.
Alfredo considers you as a friend.
I know, but we're different.
- Maybe you're not friends anymore. - Maybe.
Maybe you're enemies now.
Patrizio!
- What did you eat? - Various kinds of cold meats.
- "Culatello", pumpkin "tortellini"... - What else?
Sturgeon from the river Po.
- Have you seen my kid? - I haven't.
When I catch him I'll spank him. Patrizio!
Patrizio!
Patrizio.
You won't tell anyone, will you?
Certain things must be kept secret. Understand?
You'd like to leave, right?
Patrizio!
He isn't here.
Patrizio!
He's so cute.
I don't feel like it now. I'll come to see him tomorrow.
Alfredo!
Thanks for coming!
Patrizio!
Was your hunting good?
- I caught a few birds. - Did you?
Patrizio!
- Do you like my wife? - She's beautiful on that horse.
Where's my father's gun?
I hid it.
Be careful, if you don't use it it'll get rusty.
- Have you searched the hen house? - Yes. We're going to the stable.
- It's a purebred. - It's better than a Bugatti.
In there!
- What? - In there!
What did they do! What did they do!
What have they done! What have they done!
He had no time to escape. He must still be around.
Up there! Up there!
Where were you?
That's him, I know him! He'd kill all of us if he could!
I know who you are! A Communist!
D'Alcň Olmo!
Don't move!
I accuse you of the murder of this boy!
Kill him! Coward! Murderer!
Murderer!
Olmo!
They'll kill him!
He's innocent, he was with me!
Keep hitting and kill people. One day you'll be killed too!
I know who killed the kid.
It was me.
Murderer!
It was an accident.
Attila, enough!
Enough you too.
- Take him to the Carabinieri. - It wasn't me!
I didn't do it, I wouldn't hurt a fly!
I'm crazy, I only said that because it wasn't fair of you!
He went to steal food!
Ladies and gentlemen, the party's over.
It's raining and it's getting dark.
Why did you let them hit Olmo?
Look what they did to the child.
- I told you he was with me. - I know.
You're getting worse than them.
Ottavio please don't leave!
I'm sorry Ada, but I'll never come back here.
Nooo!
Come on, pull!
Turn it around.
Daddy! Daddy!
He's so good, just a single stroke!
Very few can kill as well as my dad!
Watch out, Olmo, Attila said we don't have to hire you.
He said you became a pork-butcher
so you can preach subversion.
How can someone ask us not to give a job to a man?
More water!
Water!
Come on!
You're Olmo.
I know you.
They set me free because they had no proof.
And you came back?
I walk and walk and walk. I never stop.
- Why did you have to mix in that day? - I saw you on the ground.
They were hitting you hard.
Many years in prison for nothing?
A prison or a hayloft or a tree... I'm homeless.
I live everywhere, wherever.
# When we sang "Red Flag" we earned 30 cents per hour.
# Now that we sing "Oh Youth" we're too weak to stand up.
# Hey Benito, you cleared me up,
# you lowered my wage therefore shut up!
Hey Benito...
Enough with this song!
# you lowered my wage... #
If the Fascist hear us they'll arrest us all.
I didn't kill the boy.
And neither did you. It was a Black Shirt.
Who?
I saw him hide the body in the cave.
Who was it? Tell me!
Black Shirts look all alike!
I walk and walk and walk. I never stop.
But where is Socialism?
You enter the seminary like roosters and get out as capons.
Carline, tell them we're cunnings.
Priests maintain you, but after 3 or 4 years they kick you in the ass
- so long live Lenin! - Lenin? Look at us all!
We have no more common house, or membership card or papers!
Here's the paper! It proves there are many comrades!
They wrote and printed it risking to be arrested.
Many others already read it. Learn it by heart!
When it's all worn out you'll have to tell the others
- what was in it. - I can learn it by heart, yes.
But how can we go on without the League?
Without someone to guide us?
We're isolated. If we protest we'll get arrested.
We can't go on without the Party.
The Party? That's an excuse! You're the Party, and you know it.
Eugenia, Enzo, Armando,
and the Zalis on the other side of the river.
And the family of Guercio down the carriage road.
The Party is wherever there's someone who works!
It's in the prisons where thousand comrades lie.
That's where the Party is. Tell him, Eugenia!
# When we sang "Red Flag" we earned 30 cents per hour.
# Now that we sing "Oh Youth" we're too weak to stand up.
"A hundred workers were arrested at the red factory.
"135 at the mines of Monfalcone."
Anita? Where's my daughter? Anita!
Olmo? The mistress called her for the lesson.
- Which mistress? - Signora Ada.
"...Workers on strike joined the demonstration in the village.
"The mayor was assaulted and hit.
"Two lorries full of Carabinieri were sent there
"and two people died in the fight."
How can you go back to your wife now?
- I want a return match. - Come on, Ferrari.
You already lost your stable with the animals.
You want to end like the mayor of Mantova?
He was full of honour but lacked money,
so he gambled away his wife.
Long live Italy!
Oops... Forgive me.
Mr. Alfredo, Mr. Pioppi would like to speak with you.
Shall I let him in?
I told you before not to get in with dirty shoes.
Mr. Pioppi.
Everybody knows Mr. Pioppi. Signora...
He's the only honest man left here. Leave us alone please.
Don't worry, we'll have a return match so you'll lose the whole estate.
But if that makes you happy...
You're lucky you can still have fun.
We can't make it. Land grew poor.
Your father and I were friends, he always told me:
"If you can't manage yourself you'll end up in ruin."
- But he used to help us. - Help us?
He made us mortgage everything. We have no more land.
I didn't want to come here. She insisted.
We used to like each other once. I'm so embarrassed...
- How much do you need? - I knew you'd understand!
You're better than your father.
- Do you have anything left to mortgage? - The house.
Olmo.
- The villa? - Yes, the villa.
- You don't have to come here. - Out of the way!
- You don't get it, do you? - Out of my way!
Don't get close to the Berlinghieri and don't push me!
- Someone will teach you a lesson... - Get away!
Away I said!
You'll come to a bad end, comrade! Who do you think you are?
It's time for me to show you you're worth nothing.
- Get away! - What's going on?
His shoes are dirty.
What do you want?
I'm a subversive, a peasant, a thief, a murderer
- and I want my daughter back! - Attila!
- "Under the..." - Reed.
"Reed. Under the plum my house is a Palace."
Good.
- Anita let's go. - We haven't finished.
I don't want you to come here, and you know.
She has to learn how to read and write, doesn't she?
Come.
What do you want to do?
Play the mother?
He's right. Have you become a missionary?
Who asked you to do that?
- I love that child. - I don't give a damn!
This is not the right place for her.
You shouldn't care for other people's children.
Alright, I'll care for my children then!
Jesus! You should care for me!
November is the cruellest month.
That bitch!
That fucking bitch!
Give me the key!
- The key! - If you want to get drunk, go to a tavern.
We're respectable people, don't you know?
- Give me that key! - I'll stick it up your ass!
Silly me...
How stupid of me, why shouldn't you drink?
You can drink, you're the mistress.
You're the mistress so you can drink what you want.
Help me, why don't you?
- You don't want it? - Not anymore.
I baptize you: ugly sow.
Ada!
Hello.
Go to sleep, little brat.
Ada.
Goodnight honey. Sleep well.
Signora, would you like some wine?
Yes, why not?
- A little wine every now and then is good. - More than a little even.
It's nice here.
What's nice?
Anita who goes to bed, the smell of the soup,
the fact you're well together,
and you mother sleeping near the fire.
If you like it so much come and live here. I'll place a bed for you behind there.
Have you seen the court's door?
- The master came and locked us every night. - Did he?
I remember there was a big key...
Peasants were locked up.
Same as in prison.
We could sing, dance, have children and die,
but we couldn't get out.
We were shut up like beasts till dawn.
- Then? - Then...
the master would send a servant to open the door.
It wasn't in the Middle Ages, it wasn't too long ago.
- I see. - I was a child and my granny was alive.
Once Alfredo could get in and stayed with us all night.
Now the doors are open,
but he doesn't get in anymore.
What do you think about Alfredo?
Masters are enemies and we must destroy them.
Alfredo is the master.
- What about me? - You're the mistress.
No, I'm the wife of the master.
Don't you think Anita's mother would have wanted her to study?
- Olmo. - Rosina, we awoke you...
- Olmo, I had a bad dream. You must leave. - Yes mom.
I was on a mountain with your granny Leo.
He showed me the years to come.
One was limp, another was blind and another was beheaded.
Olmo, run away with Anita. Everything's going to ruin here.
- My God! - Did you hear?
It's there, I can see him. I see him every night.
He came to spy us.
Go away! Leave us alone!
Do something!
Is he there?
Sure.
It's a cat!
For you, it's as if nothing happened,
while I still see him all covered with blood. I hate that!
I hate that, I'm scared.
I've had enough!
Don't get mad, I've had enough too.
Whenever we feel like doing it we must hide like thieves
in the attic.
Things could change if you wanted. You're in command in this house.
Alfredo is weak and Ada is drunk all the time.
You hold all the keys, don't you?
No, I want my own house, like a real mistress.
- I know one. - What is it?
The Villa of the Pioppis. Its mortgage will expiry in a little.
Imagine us in the living-room,
in silk dressing-gowns,
listening to the radio,
while a servant pours us two glasses of Marsala wine...
Marsala my ass.
I want champagne.
Stop!
Stella, dear, what happened? Why are you running?
My husband and his brother Angelino were caught!
Who caught them?
The guards. They're taking them away.
The guards? Wait!
You all come with me!
Olmo, put it away, leave it be!
You'll get us in trouble. Hide that gun!
Have you gone crazy?
Prison!
Yes, prison.
Prison.
- Olmo, what are you doing? - Prison!
Olmo get back!
Stella wait.
Martino! Zelindo!
Stella!
Be strong comrades, we'll get you out!
Shut up! You'll make things worse!
Martino! Zelindo!
Quiet, quiet.
There's hundreds, thousands of us!
All the prisons in Italy aren't enough!
What do you want to do? You're alone!
Stella stop!
The Party won't abandon you!
I know, but chains hurt!
- May the Lord be praised. - May the Lord always be praised.
Since my husband died I've been deeply in debt,
yet I've always offered money for the Sacred Wounds of Jesus,
then I don't have the money to pay off the mortgage.
But if I must choose between the mortgage and the Wounds, I choose the Wounds.
- But they started acting wicked. - It's in your imagination.
Blaming others is a sin.
You don't believe me?
What do you call this, then?
- Look! - Put it away! Even alive cats disgust me!
He used to sleep with me. They hate me, that's why they killed him.
They want me to suffer, then take everything away from me.
- Here's the car. - At last!
Here you are.
- Wait, come in! - No, it's late, we'll stay at home.
- Don't eat too much! - Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas all.
Hello.
- See you later for the bingo? - Yes. Before midnight.
Hurray...
- Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas all.
- Merry Christmas. - I've looked for you all day!
I can't drink at home because the liqueurs are locked up.
I can't drink at the café because you had me banned.
- So I go to the inns. - I'll have you confined in an asylum.
Here I can drink and I can also fall under the table,
as nobody knows me here.
Get up, you're disgusting me.
Your face is swollen from the alcohol and you stink. Get up!
Up!
Do you find me disgusting too?
Is my... face... swollen?
Do I stink?
Do you need help, signora?
Mind your own business, idiot!
I know why you don't want me to drink.
Because when I drink I find the courage to tell you the truth.
You are different, you've changed.
You're surrounded by arrogant and vulgar people.
Ignoble servants and murderers!
And you're even worse than them.
Come here and have a drink with us. My husband wants to meet you.
Let' go, it's late.
Let's go. Leave it be.
Don't be a fool. Let's go.
Just a moment!
Wait a moment!
- You can't refuse a drink. - Let us go signora, please.
- Go where? - To wash ourselves.
- Why? - It's Christmas.
Please don't! You already look beautiful!
Would you give me your hat?
- You really want it? - Yes, so I'll remember you.
We're sorry signora. Sorry.
What do you want? What should I do?
- We're about to close. - Yes, thanks.
I'll take your coat.
Coal! Coal for sale!
Charcoal.
You like to play with everyone, you like everyone don't you, slut?
- Even Olmo. - Olmo? What an imagination!
Did I imagine that I saw you two in his house and you looked at each other?
I even smell him on you at times.
Idiot, Olmo would never do the wife of a Fascist!
A Fascist? I'm not a Fascist!
If you say it again I'll kill you! And I'll also kill you if I see you again with him.
Why don't you just say we can't have sex anymore?
Fighting, huh? It means you're in love..
- How are you? - Well.
- Do you know her? - I think so.
Sit down.
- Lily? - Yes.
This is Ada.
You still remember my name.
- You're not from here, are you? - No.
You look like a lady.
- But you're a lady, aren't you? - She's my wife.
You know, after that day I never had another attack.
Who knows what went on in my mind.
Then I met a good man, I liked him.
When mom died we got married, he was a good worker.
We took a house in the suburbs. I still live there.
- What happened to him? - One day he disappeared without a trace.
But even if he's with another woman, I'm happy.
I've also learnt a profession and I'm doing fine.
Children are the only thing I miss.
I've never known if it was my fault or his.
My cake! I almost forgot it.
Stay with us for dinner, they're all nice people.
And where can you go at this hour? It'll do you good to be in company.
Alfredo, I want a child.
Go, go to your Mass!
- Many wishes Oreste. Happy Christmas! - Happy Christmas.
I'm going to pray for you.