Thank God for you.
Thank you.
Thank you, auntie Verona.
Blessed Mary, now l'm alone by your will,
at least bless Veronika.
l took charge of you as an orphan, and l shall do so again.
Come, my little star.
-Look what l made for you. -lt's beautiful.
Made for sweet dreams, my loveys!
-And when Martin comes back? -So he'll be here.
He won't believe what sweet girls he has.
But every man wants a son.
Sons are only yours until they're grown.
Girls are yours for life.
And twin girls are special.
They have amazing chances in life and in the circus.
One, two, three...
At last, we have a boy.
Look, Marlyn. A groom for your daughters.
Make more of them, Goran.
Lucie has two girls. So do l.
We need three more dicks.
A beggar with a big suitcase!
Who are you?
Semek, you came back!
You look like Jesus.
That's a Lollobrigida hairdo.
Have you been to America?
l drifted around the world.
The other side of the globe, too?
The world isn't a globe any more.
lt's a flat piece of dirt.
l travelled to the very edge.
A clear message again?
There are no more clear messages in this world.
How did you fare?
l searched, but l didn't find people like you anywhere.
So your suitcase was too small!
Show us your treasure!
Careful, it's gold!
Look what l brought you.
My friend Madonna.
l want to show her that only here is there peace.
People fight like monkeys elsewhere,
but there's peace here.
This is my treasure. Nostradamus.
Prophet, visionary.
He foretold everything - my return, a war in lraq,
one thousand years of peace.
The world will be smaller but better, more forgiving.
Grandma! More wheat than poppy seed
or they'll lock us up like Martin!
Move it, barber!
Leave her alone, Madonna!
When you grow as tall as me l'll teach you to plough.
lt works...
Come, my angel. You're beautiful...
-Whose is he? -Yours.
His hair - who does he take after?
Why can't we live peacefully?
Stop drinking!
This pancake of dirt is our earth.
The sea licks it like a sugar cube.
And it's getting smaller and smaller.
l suspected that the world wasn't round.
Everything's getting smaller. The sky, the stars, the sea.
Condensing into a globe, smaller but better,
as Nostradamus tells us.
And what then?
When the world's a globe again, things will move in circles.
Goodness and evil
will return to where they came from.
Meanwhile...
the world is like a billiard table.
-Who's that? -You, falling over the edge.
Why would l be at the edge?
Doesn't the murdered man haunt you?
What are you babbling about?
l'm thinking of Michael.
l saw it, Goran.
What did you see?
Remember how they threw me out
for having fired a gun?
l saw Michael going after your bride, Veronika.
l tried to tell you, but you ignored me.
Give me a gun, Goran!
So l decided to see to it myself,
but Verona threw us both out.
Then l heard a gunshot by the brook.
l came running. You were holding Michael in your arms.
l couldn't have killed him, l've never fired a gun!
So what happened? Remember, damn you!
l'm just telling you what l saw.
Michael!
Stay flat, pancake, don't rock!
Veronika!
Where's your blond brat?
You're drunk, you beast!
Hurt him and l'll kill you!
Don't fear for the child, fear for me.
After your father's funeral, l waited for Michael.
You never mentioned it, why start now?
l was unhappy and drunk. l wanted to hit him.
l may have killed him.
l really don't know.
lf that's the way it was,
can you ever forgive me?
l've already forgiven you.
But thank you for telling me.
You slut! You want another bastard from him?
l'll kill you both!
Stop it!
Do you want to strangle her?
Go to your mother, Veronika.
You'll get used to it.
Every man gets drunk at times.
Even your father did.
You couldn't have married a better man than Goran.
l know he saved us once,
but now he almost strangled me!
And he shot Michael!
My dearest...
who knows what happened.
You can't believe every yarn that old clown spins.
You must learn to love him.
A man is like a child, a woman must handle him right.
Some fall for tears, some for sighs,
sometimes a smile will do it.
You'll learn.
lt just takes time.
Veronika?
Goran!
l don't want to pry,
but Veronika is afraid of you.
That's not as it should be.
What is as it should be?
l can't tell dream from reality.
l don't know what l did and what l didn't do!
-l'm scared of myself! -You have nothing to fear.
l know you well, you wouldn't hurt a soul.
l don't want consolation.
Michael's death will haunt us forever.
l know...
What do you know?
l don't want to talk about it.
Take Veronika home and leave me alone.
l promised her to you, not to Michael.
To his murderer?
Don't keep saying that!
Control yourself, be a man again!
l want Veronika to be happy.
Because l couldn't...
Verona, what is it?
l've never seen you cry.
Veronika! She heard us!
Go to her. They're waiting for you.
Veronika!
She's not here!
The baby's gone, too.
Where would they go at night?
Goran darling!
Did she go to Madina's?
My God...
Warm me up, Goran.
-But, Mrs. Mayor... -Don't call me that. l'm Marlyn.
l've been waiting for you. l'm getting old...
Give me a boy like you!
Show me how strong you are!
Don't do that ...
l have to go home.
Go, then.
But you'll pay for this.
Veronika?
Father?
Your pipe's gone out.
Father?
You don't know what loneliness is.
You have a husband and child, count your blessings.
lf l had you all together again,
l'd be drowning in tears of joy.
Listen to your mother.
Everything will be fine.
l'm not coming back to you or Goran.
A woman's home is where she bears her children.
Michael, my baby's father lived here.
Never mind who his father was, but who will care for you.
You've arranged it all.
My entire life. You and Goran.
You should have married him, if you like him so.
Why did you force him on me? l'll never forgive you.
l know.
Stop it!
We may not see each other again.
Whatever happens, Veronika,
remember l loved you.
Why sit in the dark?
What a mess!
Verona!
lf your father could see you...
Come, drink with me.
Good evening!
Verona!
Don't scold us, it's All Saints' Day.
Have a drink with us.
Mother of God, how can you live in this pigsty?
Everything happens again and again, except life.
There's only one birth and one death.
As the Gospels say.
Veronika won't come back to me.
Don't worry. l'm going to town in the morning.
l'll set things straight.
Set what straight? And in town?
l came to say goodbye.
Not only you, but everyone
must know the truth about Michael.
There'll be peace at last.
Do you know who killed Michael?
You know!
You were drinking hard,
they all left, and we were alone.
Stop drinking, Goran!
Give me the gun!
l took the gun
and went to wait for Michael.
No, you don't remember. You forgot the gun.
You left it on the table and went out without it.
Matous's gun. Where did you get it?
You left and it was there in front of me.
l knew Michael was armed
and capable of anything. He could kill you.
When l found you, it was almost too late.
l wanted to stop him, frighten him off...
Not to kill him.
lt was as if l aimed from my heart.
You saved me from the wolves,
l repaid the debt.
l didn't want anyone to know.
You killed him because of me.
So l am guilty, too.
lt was fate. l would do it again.
We're in the same boat.
l have no one else but you.
That, too, may be fate.
Verona, my Father was right.
No matter when you sow,
grain ripens at the same time.
We belong together.
No, Goran...
Verona?
Verona!
Answer me!
Why did you leave this here?
That's why she kicked us out!
Juzek, saddle the horse.
What a night, they got together!
Verona, stop!
To hell with justice! There isn't any!
Nobody wants it, just like they don't want us!
Don't you understand? We need each other.
Even the rocks know it.
God would never allow it.
God wants us together!
l bring misfortune to those l love, Goran.
l must live alone and pray for forgiveness.
We three wise men come from afar
to wish you happiness and health
Happiness and health from Nostradamus...
With bells a-tinkling!
l knew you'd come back.
Verona!
lt's not me. lt's not you.
lt's the obsession of two sinful souls.
l waited for you every night.
To hell with her. She's like ice.
She has nothing of you. l love you.
l want you, Verona.
Open up, Verona! l know you're not asleep.
Let me in! lt's me!
Go home, Goran. You'll wake the whole village.
l don't care!
-l want you! -You're drunk!
l want you, l won't wait!
You have a wife. Go to her!
l want you!
No! l don't want you.
Forget what happened.
Stop tormenting me!
Open up, you love me!
You refuse me because of her!
Stop, or l'll kill you.
Where are you?
All this is because of her!
-You need me and l need you! -No! l don't love you!
God may forgive my other sins
but he won't forgive this!
l love you.
Greetings, Verona!
What a family!
Mother-in-law and son-in-law!
Worse than us circus folk.
With a hunchback and an ape!
Their nights must be quite a show.
What happened?
There's shit on the handle.
-lt must have been Juzek. -l'll wash it off for you.
l'll tear him apart.
Anyone could have done it.
Madonna! Marlyn!
Spying on me again, you hunchbacked pig?
Goran kicked us out. You're so beautiful!
You could play hanky-panky in an lndian temple!
l'm religious all right.
l'd let you into my temple, too,
if you found proof that Goran killed Michael.
Goran never had a gun.
That doesn't matter. Find proof,
get your own back. Then we'll pray for him.
They'll always stare at us.
We can live up in the rocks.
Where nobody's ever been?
My father took me there.
l know a place flat as a table,
with moss as soft as wolf fur.
At the edge you can hear the water down below.
Semek's sea at world's end.
Father believed that was where Paradise began.
Did he ever catch a glimpse of it?
No, there's only fog.
lt's like flying amidst the clouds.
Let's go away, far away.
You'll find me a woman,
l'll get you a man.
We'd only come back again, like Semek.
You can't live without your fields.
l can't live without you.
You're getting younger.
l'm not...
You liar.
D'you know why you look younger?
l know why you say so.
l can think of nothing else.
l want a son with you.
That would take a miracle.
What stinks in here?
Did you dream about manure?
That's a terrible stench.
Maybe Semek's monkey came back. lt's his house.
lsn't it enough that he lives here?
The hunchback crawled in.
Get out, you and your ape!
-You both stink. -What? l stink?
Are we some kind of a flophouse?
Build yourself a house!
Damn you!
Fight and draw blood!
The worse things are, the better!
The prophecy of Nostradamus is coming true!
A thousand years of peace will follow the bloodshed,
a peace the world has never known!
So it shall be!
Not until morning, Goran. l want to sleep now.
Me, too.
You were right, Nostradamus.
When the wolves don't kill, the sheep do.
When hatred doesn't kill, love does.
When people tremble with anger the earth shakes, too,
and houses collapse.
Get up, girls! We've sunk in!
What were you up to, barber?
lt was the wind, the earth shook.
One day all things will come together
like the vane and the church!
-What happened, Mayor? -We're the children of Job.
God punishes us for the sinners among us.
The vane's torn off the mill and thrown on the church - why?
Verona, look!
-Nothing happened to the inn. -lt sits on rock.
-Aren't they ashamed?
The worse, the better!
Come, let's set things right.
Poor folks...
That's what they get for the shit on the handle!
Madonna, where are you?
There's the proof!
Won't Marlyn be happy!
l'll do her like they do in lndia, and you can watch!
You're all dressed up. ls it a holiday?
Maybe. Come home.
-The field will wait. -What's happening?
You won't believe this, but a miracle happened.
Are you pregnant?
lt will be a boy.
This is Matous' gun, the barrel's sawed off.
How did we forget about it?
We're living underground, like rats. And why?
Because of heathens who screw around like animals.
Murderers. Half the cemetery is hers.
Give me some bullets, l'll take care of it!
lf you move into the inn,
l can move in here!
l can't stand my two women!
l'll take your house!
Our ancestors would banish the sinners,
make an end to misfortune!
lf they refuse to leave,
will you hang them?
Give us our guns.
lf they don't go,
we'll drive them out.
lnstead of spying on them
you should train on the rope.
You'll never turn me into a clown.
His father died, poor man. He's all alone.
They make an exhibition of themselves in public.
So what, they love each other.
Don't move.
What d'you want?
First love never dies. A present for you.
-Balm for your soul. -To give you courage.
-This is justice. -Now it's your turn.
Let's drink to old times!
Now'll you give me a gun?
l've decided to leave for the city, form a new circus.
lf l have my revenge, l'll lose Veronika and my grandson.
Will the spilt blood be worth it?
Remember the wolves? How frightened we were?
You were ten and l was seventeen.
We held each other like lovers.
Like now.
Maybe it was a sign from God...
And we didn't understand it.
But we did.
lt's all as it should be at last.
Father was right. The seed sprouted.
We'll have our harvest soon.
Have you ever thought about death?
l have a premonition -
as if the wolves were to come again.
l'm afraid people won't forgive us such happiness.
l've been drudging away for him and he kicks me out.
They've cheated me, Marlyn has, too.
l disgust them. They say l stink.
Do you know how many times l had to start over?
l haven't always lived like this.
l had a fine farm, a wife... and a son.
l had 3 horses, 1 1 cows.
l worked hard, no time even for church.
But my beloved wife
whored about with the teacher.
He wore glasses and a bow tie, he laughed in my face.
lnstead of having my revenge
l set fire to my farm
and joined the circus.
l became a useless man.
l won't make the same mistake.
l'll avenge you, Michael.
l won't be useless like you, Madina.
Let them find out who Juzek is!
Open up! l'll drive you out!
Where are you?
l'll kill them like they killed Michael!
Devils! Sinners! The seed of our misfortune!
Go away, and don't come back!
Help me, neighbours!
Here are the guns!
The others'll use scythes and axes.
Come to my house. They won't dare come there.
Goodbye, Verona.
Common sense only exists to justify passion.
Don't just stand there! They have guns!
Do you want them to kill us?
Don't shoot!
You want them gone, so let them run!
Get out of here!
She's done with screwing!
Are you crazy? lt's my husband and my mother!
You'll wait here! You, too!
Come on!
Why lock the door? Come, dear. He's gone crazy.
The bastards are in the barn!
The rats crawled in there!
Come out! We won't hurt you.
We want you to go of your own free will.
We'll give you time to think it over.
We'll count to fifty, and you'll crawl out, or...
1 , 2, 3, 4...
l'll show you!
40, 41 , 42, 43...
Shall we give up?
48, 49, 50!
Come on, you heroes!
Crawl out, you shitty bastards!
You circus bitch!
They'll kill you, Verona!
Lord in heaven!
Police!
Act like nothing happened!
They're burning our crops!
We must stop them!
Quickly, to the fields!
Go on, then! Cowards!
What are you doing, Juzek?
Put it out! You want to start a fire?
You can beat me, but just try to beat the fire!
You ungrateful bastard!
The Showman's here!
Michael would be pleased!
He caught it! They'll soon be ash.
l'm good for something after all!
Goran!
Are you alive?
Verona!
My God, Verona!
You murderers!
Goran, save yourself!
-We must get out of here. -l can't!
Leave me here, my love.
l'm going to die anyway.
l'll get you out! Think of the child!
You forgot about me!
Drop your gun and say a prayer!
Now l'm the Boss! Juzek the hunchback!
l'm not useless!
Lord, You never loved us. Why do You mock us?
l hate You! l don't believe in You!
Jirinka, be happy, everything burnt, even God!
We're happy orphans!
Glory to the people on high, and peace to God on earth.
Come on, pope. lt's time.
Jirinka, where shall we go?
When l was young, it was beautiful here.
Then it all turned evil.
A cursed place!
l've lived here all my life,
but better l had never been born at all.
Forget we ever lived here.
-Were you at Goran's? -Everything burnt up.
Nothing left of them?
Not even their bodies.
The only thing left was this.
We should have prayed to your God, Semek.
He'd have taught us how to forgive.
So you are staying?
l've been everywhere.
Veronika inherited the inn, we'll live there.
God be with you.
Think only well of us!
Unknown God who made all the gods.
Thank You for a thousand years of peace.
Also, for the big bed that holds us all.
l don't know where or what You are,
but read Nostradamus
so that You love us and forgive us.
May we all be equal, and never hurt each other.
Let us plough and reap,
each according to his abilities,
and eat, each according to his hunger.
Form boundaries around us to keep us from harm.
We thank You that this flat earth
will soon link up with the sea into one globe
and the thousand years of peace will begin
for the six of us living here.
ln spring we'll have to sow on your land too,
now that there'll be three of us.
You'll have to do without me.
You'll recover.
Tell me about the cliff.
ls there moss as soft as wolves' fur?
Soft as a feather-bed.
Green, silver, blue.
You hear the sea that divides us from Paradise.
When the clouds rise...
We'll see beyond the edge of the world.
You, me and our son.
Promise me something.
Whatever you want.
Promise you'll go back to Veronika.
Yes.
-Swear! -Yes.
l swear....
l swear...
l swear l'll never leave you, Verona.
Hush. Sleep.
A handsome Gipsy boy
gave me a ring to keep l took his ring and weep
l don't want a lover yet!
Blood has linked up the sky and the earth!
Thank God for a thousand years of peace!
For the six of us who live here
a thousand years of peace,
a thousand years of happiness!
Remixed Dolby SR at Studio Babelsberg by Manfred Arbter