You have a bath-house in here? We do.
Low rank clerks love to steam bath with chambermaids, and Frieda did so when she was a chambermaid.
Frieda? What did you imagine? That she's not like the rest?
Earlier there was a spyhole. It got closed after Frieda left. What do you need it for?
Frieda forgot one thing there, I'd like to see if it's in there.
What thing? Klamm's present.
If to know for sure that there's nobody there you could go in
and have a look, but it's impossible to know for sure. Klamm is sitting there often.
He's not there.
Is that for sure? He's right about to leave, sleigh is in the yard.
That will be long.
What will be long?
Until you will leave.
Do you want brandy?
I do.
Open the door, there's couple of bottles there.
Mister land surveyor!
Let's go with me.
I am waiting for someone here.
Let's go.
I can miss him out that way. Here or there, you will miss him out in any case.
I'll better wait for him here.
Unharness it!
Mister land surveyor! Finally.
So, Klamm has left?
Sure, you stopped watching him and he left.
Well then...let's get started.
I am Momus, Klamm's village secretary. I'd like to hear answers to certain questions of interest to us.
Is village secretary high post?
Mister Momus is representative is mister Klamm in the village. He receives ??? from the village meant for mister Klamm.
Mister Momus holds very important post.
Nice. I congratulate you. But now it's time for me to go home.
Sure, duty of school caretaker is calling you, but will have to sit here a minute, just two or three questions.
I'm in no mood [for this]. In the name of Klamm I demand!
If I answer your questions, will I be able to see Klamm?
No, there's no connection here.
Goodnight.
He's leaving!
We will not dare to leave!
Schwarzer, I know you are not castellan's son.
You won't be interrogated now? No. I refused.
What? Is that important? Yes.
Do you think I refused in vain? Yes.
What do you want? Frieda was worried you didn't come long and asked to meet you.
Perhaps, you had lost your way. Mister land surveyor!
Barnabas! Do you come to me?
To you! I have a letter for you from Klamm.
Land surveying duties performed by you so far have my full consent.
Also, work of your assistants is praiseworthy. Continue your efforts...don't worry, everything is under control, Klamm.
That's nonsense. I haven't performed any land surveying duties.
I will deliver it. And I will deliver previous message, too, I memorized everything. Examine me!
Haven't you been in the castle yet?
No, I was busy with Brunsvick's musical wheels. What damn wheels?
Klamm, who waits for news from me, is sitting in the castle whole day but you are busy with your stinking wheels!
Get out of here!
Don't be angry with me. Well, alright. Can you deliver message tomorrow morning and get the answer?
Sure, master. So, here it goes:
Land surveyor asks for personal admittance and accepts any conditions beforehand.
He has to do this because there are no land surveying duties going on.
Village elder and secretary Momus is to blame for this. Tell about us!
Land surveyor will do all in his power not to bother mister superion without real need
and is really anxios to receive the answer. Repeat!
Land surveyor asks for personal admittance and... Attaboy!
Can I do something for you? Sisters ???, especially Olga. ??? letter from the castle.
Perhaps, she could deliver the message tomorrow? No, she...won't be admitted to registry.
Alright. I'll come by tomorrow but you get the answer first.
OK? I'll be in the school. Greetings to your sisters.
How was it?
What?
Why it's so cold in here?
It was warm here, but the room is very big and we have run out of wood. How come?
Schoolmaster locked the shed and says stoking must be performed during lessons not during night.
Not during nights?
Hey you!
Come here!
Find an axe!
Enough!
What are you doing!
Frieda!
Have you steam bathed with clerks?
I have. That was part of my duty.
Is coquettish behaviour towards my assistans also part of your duty?
But darling! Is it possible to pay attention to such small matters? Small matters?
When two spies are watching me - that's small matters? Perhaps, spies are deliberately sent from the castle to bother
and observe me all the time - you call that small matters?
How are you conducting yourself, Frieda?
You are madam, you haven't called them to order even once.
I am led to thoughts that you are on their side and you play the same hand.
Shush, shush...
Good day, mister land surveyor! Hello.
Who dared to break open the shed?
I did that, mister schoolmaster. It was necessary to stoke school in the morning and door had to be opened.
I didn't venture to wake you in the middle of the night. And my fiance already rebuked me.
Who did break open the shed?
This mister.
Our assistans have mixed eveyrting up. I forced the door open with an axe when the assistants were not there.
But when they came they saw my fiance trying to fix the door and they concluded...
So you lied to me?
In that case I will lash you now.
Don't!
They told the truth.
So, mister caretaker did this?
[He] who calmly waches how others are punished for his actions.
If my assistants were lashed a little, I had no objections.
Well...
Of course, you are fired so get out right away with all your stuff.
I don't even think to. Mister elder gave me this post
and I will accept discharge only from him.
Wonderful.
Yes...it wasn't smart to refuse the interrogation.
Get out!
You're fired!
And so that I wouldn't see your damn mugs [anymore]!
I fired them.
Master, let us in. We won't do that anymore.
Let us in! Master!
How could you!
How could you betray me? For the sake of those bastards!
Are they dearer to you than I am?
Forgive me. Forgive me, please.
Let's go away from here; where there is no castle, no Klamm, no assistants, just you and me.
Where to? Where to? What for?
I've come here to stay long. I...
Barnabas!
What do you want? I thought perhaps I could help you.
Help? How? I don't know.
Another helper!
Come here.
What's your name? Hans.
What do you want to be, Hans? I want to be like mister land surveyor.
[become a] land surveyor? No.
Caretaker? No. I want to be LIKE mister land surveyor.
What is your father doing? Wheels for music boxes.
His wheels are the best in the neighborhood. Wheels my father made is used in all music boxes, even in the castle.
So you are Brunsvick?
Was it you whom I saw by the window? Yes.
Also, I was at the canteen yesterday with my father and saw you refusing the interrogation.
How is madam Brunsvick?
Good. She has asked about you two times already.
Listen, Hans, you wanted to help me, didn't you? But you're still little and can't help me
but your mom can. I know. When father's in trouble he always asks mother and she goes to the castle.
I need to see your mom very much.
No. My mom must not be disturbed. And father will never allow you.
But we will do it the way he will never know. But that's not fair!
Why? We won't be doing anything bad. You will just say your mom I want to talk with her.
And then you will tell me when your dad's not at home.
As a reward I will teach you to fight with sticks. Really?
Yes. And I will give you glass button. Want it? I do.
Well, run, I will be waiting for you in the evening. Just don't say anything to your dad.
Have you got sticks? I will make them.
What's your mom's name?
Milena Brunsvick.
Well, I'm going...having a walk.
You won't be going to them?
To them? No, what for? Barnabas is bound to come. I'll just walk, have some air.
Has Barnabas returned?
Lie down, mom. That's land surveyor.
Has Barnabas returned? Not yet. Have a seat.
Olga will come out now. She's in the bathing closet.
You know...I...have to run... fiancee is waiting for me at the school.
Oh so!
Hello, mister land surveyor.We thought you wouldn't come. Come through.
Land surveyor is in hurry, he must go to his fiancee.
Yes, you know, fiancee is waiting for me.
I just came to see if Barnabas has returned. You'd better come by sometime.
Thank you. We will definitely visit you tomorrow.
You know...it was a rash invitation and I must withdraw it
because there is some hostility between you and Fieda.
Hostility? There is no hostility. Simply, Amalia refuset do be Vallabne's mistress.
Vallabne?
Vallabne. That's very important clerk from the castle, more infliential than Klamm.
Haven't Frieda told you?
No. It happened three years ago when Frieda was transferred to the canteen.
Our father was one of the most prominent men in the village, he was making wheels for the music boxes for the castle
and Brunsvick was a worker of his.
We, his daughters, were very visible and didn't pay attention to the likes of Frieda.
And mrs. inkeeper was very fond with our friendship.
Once she gave Amalia ruby beads which fitted her well.
Look, these ones.
Vallabne never stayed in the village but that day he saw Amalia through carriage window.
Next day courier came with a letter addressed to girl with ruby beads.
Letter was written in dirty expressions. It demanded Amalia to go immediately to room number five at Gentlemen's Inn
to perform various obscenities with him.
Amalia ripped up the letter and threw it in courier's face.
Barmaid Frieda got to know this right away and spread these news throughout the village.
And she pointedly put Amalia in bad light. Why?
Because of wickedness. She had the same story with Klamm, only it ended differently.
Don't dare to talk like that about my fiancee! She loved Klamm.
Forgive me, I didn't want to offend madam Frieda, forgive me.
Is that all? No.
Brunsvick came the next day and told he was opening his workshop. He began receiving all orders. Father stopped working completely.
He non-stop wrote letters to castle asking for meeting with Vallabne but all in vain.
Soon we settled in this home and Brunsvick - in ours.
So, this is Brunsvick's house.
[People] began to despise us and call us barnabas's wantons.
Since then we and our brother are trying to regain respect towards our family.
Yesterday Brunsvick told he could help us.
I always knew his wife had good connections in the castle.
Barnabas?
That's not Barnabas, they've come after you.
In the name of Klamm!
Mister Momus...
Barnabas? It's not Barnabas, it's your assistant.
Tell him I'm not here.
Is here another door?
That door leads to the yard but you'll have to crawl over the fence.
What are you hunting here?
You.
Who are you?
Jeremiah. Your former assistant.
Why former? We are not in your service anymore. I am working at inn now.
And Arthur? He has taken offence from you.
You don't understand jokes.
What have you to do with this? I'm fulfilling Frieda's whish. She has left you and now she's in torment.
What if she was wrong and you didn't go to barnabas's bitches? I didn't go to them, I just came to ask if Barnabas had returned.
Alrigh, I saw everything.
You shouldn't have crawled over the fence.
Listen, Jeremiah, we are not master and servant anymore. ?????
Let's talk. I don't think so. Frieda is waiting for me.
Perhaps, on the way. Mister land surveyor!
Mister land surveyor, I succeeded! Barnabas!
You delivered message to Klamm?
No, I didn't do that, but I talked to Erlanger. Who's that?
That's Klamm's assistant. He ordered to tell you that you must go immediately to room number five in Gentlemen's Inn.
He wants to talk to you and inform you about something important.
What?
I am land surveyor! I must see Erlanger in room number five! [Wait until you're] called.
Gerstacker!
Oh, you're still here. I came ???
Land surveyor!
Is Erlanger important person? Yes, no everything can get solved for you.
Only in vain you reject interrogations all the time.
That's hot water bath. It is reccomended for very important misters from the castle.
We have to wait.
Hello.
??? to eight.
Eight.
Frieda!
Frieda, finally I found you.
I was not easy to do in such labyrinths...
Why did you leave your wantons? You should go to them. You have better time with them.
I though you were already at the canteen.
Yes, ????
The innkeeper himself asked me to return, only Pepi asked to let her work today.
How good everything has turned out. But why did you decide to return just before the wedding?
There will be no wedding.
You..
always disgraced me with your connections with those bitches.
I haven't eaten today.
Haven't you got something, by any chance?
I loved you.
Frieda! You're not allowed here.
It means you don't believe me, your fiance,
but wicked slander of his assistant who is deliberately...
Why "slander"? I told the truth.
Eat, eat...don't be shy.
That's my dinner.
But I will gladly give it to former master.
Land surveyor! Land surveyor!
You should've showed up long ago. Lie down.
??? to five.
Lie down!
Let's get started.
Some Frieda who sometimes brought Klamm beer worked in this canteen not so long ago.
Some inconveniece derived from her departure.
According to completely credible evidence, land surveyor, that is, you,
are living with this person now. You must ensure her immediate return to the canteen.
From my side, I will do too much by saying
it will be quite an advantage to subsequent carrer of land surveyor.
That's all. You can go.
Mister Erlanger, there has been a mistake.
Mister Klamm has been incorrectly informed. There is no land surveying... What concerns land surveying works -
usual routine through the messenger.
??? to five.
You are to blame for all of this, mister land surveyor.
Because of you Frieda is returning to the canteen, and I have been thrown out just as yourself.
Although, I have my little room but you have nowhere to go.
You don't believe me? When elder heard about you not letting Momus in he dismissed you from school caretaker post.
That is how - dismissed? Just so. I heard it myself.
Mister land surveyor...
Well? Is mom at home?
Mister land surveyor, you can't go there!
Madam Brunsvick...
Milena...I love you. I love you from the first moment I saw you, I was spellbound by your unusual beauty,
???? as if from the castle. I guessed at once that you came from there. I paint, I even dreamed about becoming a painter my whole life...
For the sake of you, I left duties of land surveyor and took school caretaker's post.
Don't reject me. I will leave everything behind, I will have my own way...
We will live in the castle, here's is Klamm's writing... It's not for you to live here, among...
Well? Let's get started?
So, are you ready to answer couple simple questions?
Wonderful.
Then question numer one.
How do you think: what is this?
A hare?
Good.
But this?
A whistle.
Well, well...
And this?
A [little] ring.
We can finish on this.
Perhaps, you will ask more questions?
It wasn't a little ring?
Oh, land surveyor...
It's good that I have found you.
Brunsvick.
I'm pleased.
But we have already met.
Let's go out of here.
Let's be frank. I know why are you here.
You came to see my wife.
You love her.
I do.
As a man, I understand you.
I'm offering you an honest deal.
You will become Brunsvick, I - land surveyor.
What?
You will become Brunsvick, husband of Milena Brunsvick, father of Hans, one of richest people on the village,
but I - poor, lonely land surveyor.
Well?
How is this?
Very simple. We just need to get permission from mister Vallabne.
Vallabne? Sure. Let's go?
Where to?
To Vallabne.
To the castle? Yes. So, you agree?
I do.
That is not the castle.
How? That is a real castle. Mister Vallabne built it especially for hunting.
Hey!
Who are you? Mister Vallabne, I am Amalia, the same girl with ruby bead you fell in love with three years ago
when you saw me through carriage window.
All these years I was looking forward to see you to tell you that I agree to all the things you asked for in that letter.
You have mixed up something, but you will be present at dinner.
Hey!
And who are you?
Me? I am Brunsvick.
He doesn't know you. He doesn't know me yet he knows my wife, Milena Brunsvick.
It's possible, but he doesn't remember.
What do you want? I'd like to become land surveyor.
But land surveyor? Does he agree? Sure! We have talked everything over.
Well...
Mister Vallabne congratulates you. Thank you.
Hey! Let me in!
Let me in!
Who is there? That's Brunsvick.
Let me in! What does he want?
I don't know.
Let me in! Let him in. Miser Vallabne wants to look at him through the little window.
Well?
Where is he? Where is he!
Mister Vallabne, you're being deceived.
Mister Klamm, he's my superior, here's... He is deceived.
There is not land surveying works going on. I'm not even hired as land surveyor.
And village elder is plotting...he [Klamm] is deceived and you, too, are being deceived.
This girl, who was here, told she was Amalia. She is not Amalia, she is Olga. I know her.
She's just taken other woman's beads.
And Brunsvick is lying. He told I agreed to be Brunsvick, but I didn't agree. I am land surveyor.
I was summoned to the castle to be land surveyor and I demand, do you hear, I deamnd...
I want to have what's rightfully mine! I don't accept... Mister Brunsvick!
I am Brunsvick?
Let it be. He's long gone.
Who's gone? Vallabne has gone?
Where has he gone?
Hunting. How come?
Just so.
Mister Brunsvick. What brunsvick am I? I am land surveyor!
It's all over. Now I am land surveyor.
Arthur, you? Tell him I am land surveyor. You were my assistant.
Those were great days when I served as land surveyor's assistant.
I am land surveyor.
Barnabas!
Barnabas, where are you going? I have a letter for mister land surveyor.
That's me!
We're moving in with you tomorrow. My sister has become mistress of mister Vallabne.
What do you want?
I'm here to see Frieda. She's attending Klamm.
Brunsvick?
Half night I was looking for you.
Brunsvick!?
Milena, it's me.
It's you?
I was waiting for you.
I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time, but...
I couldn't make up my mind.
In short words - I'm in love with land surveyor.
Milena...
it's me, Milena.
Please, don't. It has been settled. He loves me.
I hope you will take care of father.
And put on a coat or you'll catch cold.
Will you finish soon?
Just a moment.
Barnabas, read this passage one more time.
...taking in account professional diligence, today mister land surveyor is allowed
to listen to any (including brought with himself) music...
Did you make the sticks?
Sticks?
You promised to teach me to fight with sticks. Do you remember?
And you promised to give me glass button.
Who? Me?