THE PLAY OF HAMLET IN THE VILLAGE OF MRDUSHA DONJA
MANAGEMENT 'BUDUCNOST' PEASANT LABOR COOPERATIVE MRDUSHA DONJA
Bukara, are you there?
Bukara!
And then, when Omelia saw that Amlet killed her dad,
she didn't want to let him near her anymore,
to, how would I say...
have fun with her a bit.
And when some time has passed,
she got the itch under her skirt so she changed her mind.
But, now he didn't want.
He said: "Listen to me Omelia!"
"There is the doorkeeper, go fornicate with him, not with me."
But the flourishing girl, as she was,
she didn't want to go to the doorkeeper, comrades,
but she jumped into a swamp and drowned.
It's not Amlet but Hamlet.
It's not Omelia but Ophelia.
Teach, do not interrupt me, dang it. Omlet or Hamlet, same hassle.
The devil with him. First to destroy the poor girl, then leave her.
I wouldn't cry for him, never mind he is a King's son.
Where did you watch that?
In Zagreb Theater, when I went to sell wine.
Comrades from winery took me to the show for working collectives.
That's where I watched it!
What's up Joco? You're gloomy as midnight.
They came for my father.
Where is Bukara?
The devil with him, if anybody had seen him.
Stop being jerks!
I'm doing here a job that requires literacy and brains!
It's not like leading a donkey.
45, 46, 47... - Wait a moment, Machak!
Screw that! I'm going to resign. It's impossible to work here anymore.
What do you want now?
Machak, I'm sure you know all, you work with my father.
Tell me who's charging him and what for?
I know nothing. Leave me alone! I have things to do.
Listen Machak, do not hide anything! If I squeeze you,
Everything you know will come out of your nose! Did you hear me?
Talk! - I know nothing! Go ask Bukara!
Where is Bukara?
- How would I know that? Search for him! - Bukara...
It won't pass this time for him, damn it! He can be manager's secretary all he wants!
Father, Bukara is nowhere to be found.
Say where you hid it so we don't search any further.
I have nothing to say.
If they sent you to search, then search. It's your job anyway.
- All right, we'll see... - There's nothing here.
A fine bird specimen, he knows where to build the nest.
Choose your words or that gun might crack your head!
Careful boy, how you speak with a state authority!
Your Black Friday dawn might come too!
Dismiss, for now. Let's go.
Listen...
Can you tell me who's that bastard that burdened me with all this?
It will be heard.
Pa!
Wait!
Do you know who are you arresting?
Do you know this man shed blood for our cause in 1941!
Where were those who accused him, at that time?
Where were they? - I won't go into that.
Bigger than him made mistakes. Let's go!
You won't, damn you!
Let go now! One thing is the past, another is this, at present.
The innocent will be innocent. The guilty will be guilty.
Merits shouldn't interfere with this. Come on.
Pa, no worries!
I'll dig out the truth and bring it to light!
I swear to everything in the world!
After all that hassle, they stated to jump and scream.
Lastly, they fought each other. Everybody. Male and female.
When I got up to leave, at the stage were lying only dead people.
I tell you, I haven't seen such a fuss in my entire life, my people.
So we will make the play here in the village?
You can make here a theater all you want, it will never be what I've seen.
Come on Mile, conclude something, goddammit!
My wife is waiting for me at home! - Calm down comrades, goddammit!
Culture is not trivial like "Gammer milked a goat".
Those are serious things comrades, indeed.
Before the war, the bourgeoisie didn't care about us, peasants to enlighten us,
but they kept us here in the dark and ignorance, so we were like calfs.
Today comrades... today comrades, our National Authorities
want us to be cultural, to know how to read and write
they introduced here in the village, hygiene, industrialization, electrification,
nationalization, emancipation... and other cultural, enlightened things!
Enough of that crap! Do something, for once,
and not always, "we should do this... we should do that!"
Comrade Machak has the floor!
I think some of the comrades have turned off the course.
Some of them incorrectly suppose
that we don't need cultural and educational activities.
I would criticize said comrades!
Comrades should be pitied! Pitied a lot,
cause culture and education here at us, lately
have dropped down!
Machak stop that claptrap. Ever since you've been admitted to the Party
you're sweet talking. Before that, you cursed God to socialism.
I'll hit you, moderfucker!
- What is it? Whom? - Goddammit, what is this comrades?
Did we come here to listen to ones reactionary fooling around
or to make some conclusions?
I think, comrade Mile, no need to smart talk overmuch.
Do people want the play for the anniversary of the collective? They want!
Then bro, they should prepare it. Amen!
If that doesn't suit the public enemy, the door is over there.
We won't beg anyone, goddamn you!
So you've heard what comrade Principal said.
Literate and cultural people are needed who will dress up and act.
Why do we need anyone, we'll do it by ourselves!
Also, comrade Shimurina could say if that Hamlet suits us or not.
The play will prepare comrade teacher.
He's the most literate among us. - Leave me out. I'm an ill man.
I have a sore liver.
Teach, you avoid social activities too much lately.
You can't shirk on account of liver.
Who asked if anything hurt me when we had to go on bunkers?
All right, fine. I was too personal. I take it back.
You don't think seriously about doing Hamlet?
Let comrade Shimurina tell us if that Hamlet suit our sector or not!
At first, there was a king. Good king. Progressive.
God's gift to working people and the poor.
And that king, my comrades, he had a brother who was a nobody.
People's enemy.
Hamlet was the son of the progressive king.
Strapping fellow. True representative of the working people.
Ok, what's the purpose of this comedy?
Do you know what are you discussing about?
That play was written by Shakespeare, the biggest English writer.
Save the smart talk, comrade teacher.
Do you think we are hollow-headed?
So what if he's from some capitalistic England, you think he is God?
We outfought Fritz, we will that Englishman too.
Comrade President be wise.
Those are complicated roles where the biggest pros can fail.
Look around, who's capable here to show up on stage?
What do you take us for, teacher?
Goddamit, if no one wants, I'll show up.
I'll dress up and show up on stage, if needed.
I would show up there too.
I wanted to say, I would show up there too.
Gee, it's so wonderful about that Omelia and that Amlet.
Count on me, comrades.
So you're here, Bukara.
So you see, I'm here.
Now you'll tell in front of all, what did my pa do
to get arrested by police like some bandit?
Ask that your pa. He'll tell you.
I'm not obligated to render account to you.
I tell you, you're going to say, damn you or you won't leave this room.
Gee, he's threatening me?
Him, a rabbit's poo!
You were in diapers while I beat more fearsome than you.
Last time, I'm asking why you arrested the man you're not worth licking his feet?
What's with you Joco, are you drunk?
I don't have the power of court or police to arrest people.
When you're hands are so clean why don't you talk?
For your pa it's better if I don't talk.
When you're so insolent, I'll talk. Hear it out.
He embezzled collective's money! - Lying dog!
If I'm lying, commission that inspected isn't!
Where did the money disappear? Where is it?
Comrades, this is not the place for such things.
This is the National Front meeting.
Now you see who can lick whose feet. If your pa carried a rifle, so did I.
But I do my job honestly. - Why are you showing off?
Who and what are you? Shit's bro.
You shot maby three times for the whole war, just in the air!
Comrades, lets continue discussing about Hamlet!
I mean, about the play. - Wait a minute. Hear out this too!
I don't know where the collective's money disappeared.
But my pa didn't take them, for sure.
Someone among you snagged them.
I tell you all, I'll search for that bastard. And I'll find him.
And when I find him...
Goddammit...
pinkie won't be left of him.
Now comrades, say what am I guilty for?
The Commission found a shortage, he was treasurer.
To the devil with collective, treasury, management, all together!
One wants best, get dog-tired, in the end must eat shit.
Calm down Mate, for God's sake. Who's listening to a piffle of a crazy man?
No worries comrade Mate, we trust you.
Have you seen him pecking me, a combatant?! If somebody, but a goat's poo!
Leave it comrade Mate, we know who you are. Right, comrades?
- That's right! - We're not here to listen to your fights!
I want to hear what was next with Hamlet!
What was next, we'll hear when the play comes!
The play proposed by comrade Shimurina and comrade Machak, is accepted.
And you comrade teacher,
before the National Front, I assign you the task to find that book
where that Hamlet is... er... inscribed, and you prepare it well.
You can take anyone among us for the play.
With this, the meeting is over.
Ah my Shimurina... if you knew how much I'd burden with Culture,
if you haven't went to sell the wine in Zagreb.
What can I do? They took me and I watched.
Not my fault that culture rubbed off of me.
Joco what's with you, suddenly? Did something happen to you?
I won't! Period.
Why didn't you say right away why you called me here!
Joco, cruel Joco...
You don't care about me at all. You don't love me, Joco.
It's not like that, Andja.
There's not a moment that I don't think about you.
But they've crammed my righteous pa into prison. I can not play...
what do I know... some antics with you.
Joco, please, you know my pa forbids me to meet you before the wedding.
We can meet only in that play.
What will my pa say when he hears I perform with them?
He'll be right to spit my face. - Joco, I beg you like the Mother of God...
for our love.
But it's only for you... just so you know.
You know my stance.
Regardless, I procured the play and typed it out.
Once again I tell you, it's not the play for us.
It's too difficult.
There's still time to pick something else.
This or something else, same hassle.
Teach, we picked Hamlet at the meeting.
Why inseminate the pig again?
Right. Either work properly, or don't even start, Teach.
All right, if you say so.
Comrade Mate, you're the King.
Comrade Mara, you're the queen Gertrude.
Mile, you are Polonius.
Machak, you are Laertes.
And you Shimurina, Horatio.
You two are Hamlet and Ophelia.
Let's see now.
We'll try like this, at random.
For example the scene between the King and Hamlet.
Start, you're the King.
From here.
- What? To read? - Yes.
Move Mara, give me some space.
'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father.
But you must know your father lost a father,
That father lost, lost his...
You don't say!
With great sophistry you hit us here.
Well, what else than lose him!
It would be nice if my father, helpless and old,
sits at the fireplace, and with him his pa and his pa's pa.
I could have two, how high and wide I am.
'Tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd, whose common theme is death of fathersand
who still hath cried, from the first corse till he that died today,
"This must be so."
I don't understand neither black nor white from here.
Look at all this prattle of his...
The dead, nature, reason, death, corpse.
Just continue, comrade Secretary.
Those are only minor difficulties, for now.
In obstinate... stub.. stubborn... stubbornness...
To the devil both him and the one who gave him quill in hands!
That's some fool!
You can't catch his head or tail!
I told you this play is too difficult. We can still replace it, if you want.
You're wrong teach. Nothing is difficult in here.
No other way, you'll have to revise it. Can't stay like this!
Me to revise Shakspear? Are you insane?
So what if he's a writer in some bourgeois England?
I'm your superior here.
Just revise it and you can go smoke backstage.
How to revise it?
Mile, come here.
Let's sing our song.
Oy, lass from my village,
Ooooh-hoy!
Why are you so sad, unhappy?!
Ooooh-hoy!
Teach, isn't this nicer...
how would I say... more intelligent?
Let it go like this too, written by people.
You're insane, indeed. That's a crime.
It's even punishable by law.
Whose law, goddamn you?
Who's in power here, Englishmen or our working people?
Do you call it quits?
What does that matter, what Englishmen, what working people?
I can't do that and I won't!
So, comrade Teach, you won't? Fine.
You don't have to, bro.
We'll find someone else.
But I swear, you won't be around with us, for too long.
We'll tell superior of yours, how you worry about people's education.
That's not education but dumbing down the people!
Besides, why you turn to politics?
After all...
why not.
You'll have what you want.
Comrades...
I want to take cue from comrade Principal's discussion.
I think that Hamlet should be a positive comrade... Manager.
He can't be here a heir to the throne
like, dunno... King Petar used to be.
Comrade Machak speaks well.
That comrade who wrote Hamlet, incorrectly sets it.
King Petar is one, Hamlet is another.
How come now, for King Petar we change the content of Hamlet?
So you agree with things, that English bourgeoisie wrote there?
If that's so, a reactionist doesn't belong among us.
Why you all ganged up against the man?
Why the heck he went to school if now you lecture him?
No one asked you anything, Joco. Don't mess with things you don't understand.
And you're so competent! If so revise the play yourself.
Leave him! - Who are you to call me out?
Who are you to act the smartest here? - If nothing, I'm the oldest among you.
I went to school where you and Teach haven't.
The one from battle. - You haven't even smelled it!
We know how you went to battle. You were recruited bro in '44.
You were Supply Sergeant in the unit. Before that you warmed ass by the stove.
Watch out your words! You're not insulting me but the National Authorities!
All right, I've said I'll do all you want.
Bravo, teacher. That's how I want you. Let's shake hands.
I can see now, you're our man!
Teach, could I stand on the stage and interpret the play to people?
I mean, I've seen that before.
You can Shimurina, you can. All is fine.
Whatever you want is fine.
Mara, wait!
Where to?
Gosh, widow, you're so strong.
You have more meat than the whole collective's butchery.
Why the heck you got aroused like that?
Not in here! Teach could come, what would he say?
Come on, don't pretend now to be a nun.
Oh, my Goddess! I'll crumple you like an accordion!
Pa, why didn't you defend yourself more?
Why were you interrogated for so long?
I already sad all with my life achievements. If nothing can be read out of that
then no point to talk much.
But you could tell me. I even have the right to know.
- Why do you need that? - To find the bastrad.
I'll slay them all like chickens.
You'll make some foolery and get in trouble.
You don't want me to think as well, that you are guilty for something?
Bukara was taking the money from collective's treasury.
Supposedly for purchasing tractors, machinery repairs...
I noted all in tax books.
He signed all. There was documentation for everything.
But all disappeared the day when Commission was supposed to come.
All important documents about the collective.
All the papers... it was all locked in a small wooden chest.
The wooden chest should be found. Understand? Wooden chest!
I will, pa. I swear to all in the world.
They'll get what they deserve.
I don't care just about their punishment.
It hurts me most that the people in the village trust him and not me.
Nothing can be changed about that.
Conversation is over!
It will be changed! I tell you that it will be changed!
COLLECTIVE "BUDUCNOST" MACHINERY REGISTER
Every time you encounter him when you expect him the least.
Wanders like a ghost.
Digging some trouble, bro, just digging and digging.
The man is pressed with worries. That's not insignificant.
And I tell you, he prepares some evil against us
who caught his pa stealing.
If not something worse.
You think he could do something like... in political way?
Not true! Don't believe it pa!
Joco, is not like that, he wouldn't harm anyone!
Come, girl. Let's go inside.
What do you know? You don't watch him through the eyes but through skirt.
You Mile, watch out! Why is he hanging around your Andja?
There are younger girls in the village but he chose her.
He could involve you in his mess. - Ah! Gee, it could happen.
Pa, don't believe him, for God's sake!
Shut up, fool! We'll investigate if it's all true!
If it's like comrade Mate said, what do you need him for, then?
Exactly! That's why I called you. It should be examined what's cooking
and stirring in his head. - It should! But how?
He would've said all if she questioned him in a pro manner.
Oh my... I can't do that pa! I don't know that!
By golly, that's what we'll do!
For the love of God, pa, I don't know to act and pretend!
Dammit Andja, when I order you something
there's no, "I want, I don't want", you know?!
No big deal, girl. You have a good behind as a bait.
But that's not nice.
Joco and I are in love. He will marry me.
Come on, girl. Who's in love these days?
All stuff and nonsense. Suddenly, vanishes like it never existed
Listen to your godfather, Mate.
How would you know if he really loves you?
We are competent to draw conclusions about that.
I'm telling you this for your own good.
Don't, pa!
I beg you like the Mother of God! I'll do all, all but that!
You will, goddamn you, or you won't get to eat!
I'm a fearsome King in my land. Like a hammer strikes my hand!
All beneath me lament, shriek and groan, people, cattle, wood...
- ...and stone. - Right! And stone!
Only Hamlet raised a hue-and-cry, devil take him, hereby.
But I will stay in his way, and give his back a good smack!
Good, good, just pay attention to posture.You're a King after all.
Your turn, comrade Mile.
People, look at Polonius who could eat up the whole ox!
He upraised, right beside the King he's sticking,
for the royal bare ass licking.
Gosh, teacher, kill me but this doesn't suit me!
That's not you, but Polonius. Now, Ophelia's turn.
This is my Ophelia, your Highness Royal, let her be your servant loyal.
Let her serve you, set the tables, clean the house, barns and stables.
This is the wall... this side Hamlet passes by...
The other side, the King and Polonius resort to reactionary method of eavesdropping.
Crouch behind the wall.
Crouch.
Ophelia, sit here.
This way, Hamlet passes by...
and speaks his famous monologue...
To be, or not to be!
You'll have to pay tribute to me for that.
I rewrote that Shakespeare subjectivist dilemma,
and gave it one of our Balkan variants.
Either he'll do it to me, or I'll do it to him!
In the spirit of our tradition, you know...
Come, Joco... Have you learned the lines?
- Bah... I can't, Teacher. - We'll learn together.
Either I did it or I did not,
Neither I know who am I, nor I know where am I.
Either I'll be or I won't,
and the trouble will be double.
In your face I spit you, King for people's rights violating.
Damn you, come here if you dare You'll see bro what's unfair.
My knife will end you when I cut your guts,
no more exploitation or you'll lose your nuts.
Now comes the love scene between Ophelia and Hamlet.
You've spotted her and you say:
Dear Omelia, my pride and joy, you're beloved by any man or boy.
Come on...
Oh Amlet, my heart will crack, I love you to the moon and back.
Oh Omelia, white lamb of mine, To my heart you're dear, my sunshine.
Oh Amlet, my strenght and stronghold, You're my precious heart of gold.
Omelia you're like a fairy tale, Without you I'm a miserable fail.
Oh Amlet, my flower rose, Without you my death is close.
Omelia, run away, don't get caught, To separate us, they now plot.
Oh Amlet, one and only in my heart, Now nobody can take us apart.
Teacher...
... what kind of a girl is that Omelia?
If she loves Amlet, is it fair of her to help the King?
It's not fair, but it is clever. Anyway, she's not the worst one.
Some of them waived their honesty and wisdom to shelter in the safe harbor.
When Omelia asks why have you gone mad, you reply...
Omelia, my dove white In my mind nothing seems right,
My good pa's disappearance is the cause Pa of mine and father-in-law of yours.
Pa, You were a real hero of the nation That led your people to liberation,
Now that you're gone away, Woe to us! We shall pray.
King cheated with no shame for pure lies to proclaim,
'Cause King is of the bitchy ancestry, He is the working people enemy.
Ahoy King with greasy head you'll be punished by the shock brigade.
It is so far away from Shakespeare...
...and yet, close too.
Quickly! He will come here for sure.
Over here!
Joco, aren't you glad that we are alone?
I'm glad.
Joco, tell me please why are you so strange?
I told you, Andja.
I wish they sweep away before my eyes forever.
Joco...
if you don't like it here, let's go. I know some other place...
Leave me alone, Andja! I beg you like God!
You see I'm not myself!
Everything is mixed up. I don't know where my head is.
You alienate from me and you always walk around alone and grim.
Are you blind, Andja?
Can't you see this whoredom around you? See what's going on here!
Joco, let's leave.
We'll talk over there.
The best of all, I'm the biggest whore here. A nobody!
I clown and act for them. Fo God's sake, am I a human been?
Joco, you have no right to be that angry with them. You don't know if your pa
did something or not. - Andja, you said that now and never again.
You don't know half the story. Want me to say who's the real culpit?
- Don't tell me anything! - You need to hear all, now!
- Say nothing, I believe you all! - Exactly why I need to tell you,
so you know why you trust me. - Not now, please.
Andjo, there are documents that show Bukara's guilt. He took the money!
I'll find and disclose the evidence! When I find it Bukara, damn you,
when I show people your dishonesty, I'll crush you like a snake, with a stone!
Oh my, what have I done! I didn't want that, God is my witness!
- Andja, what is it? - Oh my...
- Andja! - Oh my...
Joco calm down, I beg you like Jesus!
You don't know what could happen if you do like that!
They could separate us forever!
Andja! What's with you, Andja?
Don't ask anything, just trust me! Stay away from them, Joco!
You can't be poking the Horned! - Horned? We'll see who's horned!
Joco, you can't help your pa and you'll ruin me.
Andja, what are you doing among these scoundrels?
Go to town! Do not return here any more!
I'll wait patiently.
Mate, as man to man, tell me who took the money?
Young man, we'll see who wins.
My pretty Andja, now just to find out... - I wont! I won't do anything anymore!
You've ruined my happiness! You've made me a spy!
I won't ever again!
- Andja... - I won't!
You are still here?
Seemed to me that you left.
Make yourself comfortable, teacher. What do you need?
I thought I left it here...
Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Pitty. It's completely trampled under foot.
Mate, I asked you who took the money?
Oh, comrade Mate! It's you!
You are very welcome.
I was just about to go to the National Front's meeting.
If you would like a glass of wine, it's mighty good. Would you sit here
on logs for a moment, I get a tripod. - Leave that!
Tell me where is that thing?
What thing?
Why you stare? The thing I told you to hide!
At the place. At the right place, comrade Mate. Don't worry.
Bring it here!
Open it!
EXPENDITURES
TREASURY COLLECTIVE "BUDUCNOST"
FINANCIAL EXPENSES
What do you think, Machak, are there any snakes in this bush?
I don't know, comrade Mate. Haven't seen any.
There are, a lot of them. I can smell them. You must exterminate that.
A child could come here and get killed.
What should I do?
Burn it!
That's what you always do in such occasion.
Comrade Secretary, why?
That's not just the book of expenditures that's...
...let's say, all important for the collective.
I'd say, over there every paper is of the truth.
There are things, my Machak that I see and you don't.
The one that sits higher sees better that the one sitting lower.
Do what I tell you and keep your mouth shut about all this!
Did you hear me?
Pa, I knew you'll be back.
Haven't I told you that the truth must come out?
What's up, pa?
You're free now! It's all over!
I'm released for the lack of evidence.
But Joco, we must not rest till the real thief is found.
The villagers will think I'm released for my achievements.
We are together now, pa. We'll reveal the real scum.
I just want the villagers to trust me again.
What incited those from the theater to send us their costumes?
Can't be the love for literature.
Oh! Comrade Shockits, glad to see you.
Welcome.
I hope it's all over.
Nothing is over, comrade teacher, till the truth comes to light.
Beware, both of you, especially you, Joco.
There are some that you lay too much hope into, but in fact...
... why do I get involved?
Andja is against me?
That's impossible!
Unfortunately, it's true.
I was there by accident,
they listened to all you were telling her. - You're lying to me, teacher!
If there's anyone in this backcountry that I wish well, it is you, be sure of that.
What can you do, that's what people are like.
Joco!
- Polonious, pa of mine, your hand. - What to throw you my son Laertes?
Trump or junk? - Junk, junk.
You highness Claudius, kill it with little Pitch!
- Gertrude, the big one is King. - Throw it, goddamit! Why you keep it?
This isn't worth taking with the King!
- Shut it! - I shut it!
Goddamit, why it had to be in his hands!
Next is the famous mousetrap scene or the test of the King's conscience.
Please go up to the throne. You too, comrade Mara.
No worries, teacher. Just leave it to me.
When I run the play, you can't go wrong!
Let the audience see how royals enjoy while the working people shed sweat.
Come on, Polonius, servant of mine, pour some to your Queen from that demijohn!
Polonius, pa of mine, here is your daughter Omelia, sister of mine,
she'll bring us some ham!
Real nice. You treat yourself like real royals while we get stale bread.
Whatmore, they're comrades managers. What about socialism? Equality?
Listen Shime, isn't it clear that we represent monarchy
and you're the last hole on the flute?
The order, bro is that we are well-fed and you to browse.
Guttle, gulp, fatten like a swine
Put in you, on and under your waistline
On the backs of the oppressed classes
The poor and the huddled masses!
O - ho - hoy!
Cheers!
We can start now with the rebellion. Come on!
Down with the King Claudius and his clique!
Down!
We don't want monarchy in Denmark!
We don't!
Now you...
Down with the Queen Gertrude's tyranny!
Down!
- What are you waiting for? - I forgot, so kill me!
Viva Republic of Denmark under Hamlet's leadership!
Viva!
Now forwards...
Down with the King! Down!
Son of the beaches, goddamn you, come and have a toast with me.
All of you.
I love you like real brothers when you act so good!
Here is medicine! No need to visit a doctor!
Viva Comrade Bukara!
Viva Bukara once again!
What is this, teacher?
A crown, comrade Mara. Kings wear it.
To the devil, that's for me then! On the head?
Yes but only in case when the head exists.
If King Petar saw me, he would've taken me with him to Emigration.
What's this, goddamit? Are these pants or socks?
My goodness, poor me! How to walk in this?
It will entangle with my legs, I'll fall.
See this sword, mother of God! Like horse's ass toothpick!
These short slacks like my Stana's underskirt.
See this wonderwork! Wire jacket! This bro is perfect for the field.
Neither will tear, nor get dirty.
I'm afraid it won't match your head, Mate.
You need a hundred liters barrel rim.
People, brothers, comrades, get out to the village!
Goddamit, let the land burn when we prepare the play! Get out!
Look at me, sweet Jesus!
If by a chance the monarchy is back, the sky would be the limit for me!
- Cheers, comrade Mate! - Follow me, people! I'm the parade leader!
Our comrade Mate is coming!
Make room, people! His majesty, King Claudius is coming!
Make room, people!
Rooster on the roof!
There is room! There is!
There is!
Good day! Good day! Miss kitty alike!
Just look at his legs! Not even Greta Garbo has such legs.
Let's go slowly!
Keep the crown, comrade Mate, for God's sake!
Polonius is over there!
Comrade Claudius, have a drink!
Make room! Come on!
Left, right! One, two! Keep your head up!
Come on people, who's going to piss a little in here,
to treat the King and Queen?
My dear people, why are you standing still?
I want you to jump, dance, sing! I want joy to be heard up to the sky!
Mara screwed a soldier, a soldier...
She got a golden crown.
Mara screwed a soldier, a soldier...
She got a golden crown. - Again!
Mara screwed a soldier, a soldier...
She got a golden crown.
Comrades! Roasted sausages!
We'll act, you'll greet us!
Soldier kissed Mara, kissed, kissed...
never bought her the ring.
Soldier kissed Mara, kissed, kissed...
never bought her the ring. - Again!
Soldier kissed Mara, kissed, kissed...
never bought her the ring.
Wait!
What's up, Joco?
You belong here with us in procession. You're in the play too.
My pa got a subpoena again!
You're ruining him for no guilt of his!
Now you want to make a fool of me?
You'll regret this!
Joco, my pretty boy, what happened to you again?
And you Andja, I have to settle some heavy debts with you.
When one sees you, one would put you in a vase.
But in fact, you're a poison worst of all.
Joco, what are you saying, for God's sake?
Enough of that masquerade!
Take off those rags so people could see the real you!
Let them see you naked, whore! See the spy!
- Goddamn you! - Stop, Mile! Stop!
Stop.
You at least, are a reasonable man.
Can't you see the guy is not himself.
And you Joco, pa is pa, we don't take it amiss what you're saying.
Believe me, we're sorry it turned that way.
We have nothing against your pa.
Calm down now.
Let's toast to each other.
Such things are unforgivable, Joco!
But I'll leave it be, 'cause I see you're not in your right mind.
Your pa made a mistake and he'll get what he deserves.
Wait a bit! We'll see who made a mistake,
and who'll get it, you or him!
Machak, you worked with my pa. You know Bukara was taking the money!
Where did the documents disappear?
- I haven't seen any books. I know nothing. - Admit scum...
Leave me alone.
Joco!
Stop it!
Comrade Mate...
I address you like a human and leader...
like a soldier...
Tell the truth!
If documents disappeared, we, human, remained.
Tell now in front of all!
I'm not scared of punishment or the court.
For books I'll be responsible, I had to look after them better.
But look at these people... they must know the truth!
Who's guilty of what, let him be responsible for that.
Comrade Shockits, props to you and your combat...
but if you made a mistake bro, it's not fair to you put the blame on others.
I know it's hard for you but admit, what it is, it is.
Comrade Mate... those are hard words,
but don't think it will remain on this.
I have other ways to settle debts with you.
I know you have.
When you were able to take collective's money, you could do worse.
Don't think someone's afraid of you.
There are people who take care of that.
To be, or not to be? That is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?
To die, to sleep, No more,
and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
Right, right, right...
... more to the right!
More to the right! Must be in the middle.
I know it's hard for you,
but try to overcome that and be in that play tomorrow.
If you don't play, you could make complications to both you and me.
Have I said that I won't?
But I'll play it my way. What I think is best.
I have nothing against your understanding of the role.
But you have to take into account this play is conducted under certain rules...
...as any other.
If we are against them, someone has to pay for that.
I shit on all your rules, teacher!
I know what to do.
Joco... your private problems are one thing,
other is this play where we all are in, wanting it or not.
I wouldn't say it's all like that, teacher.
Not everyone is in this play.
Bravo!
Viva! Bravo!
And then, comrades...
when this regressive King saw all that happened there...
he said...
Come on! Open!
Open it, boy!
Open it, for God's sake!
Wait, just wait, Amlet, mule's whore!
Now you've stuck ass to the stove...
But you'll pay me, goddamn you!
And then, Omelia's brother, Laertes, came to him.
Over there! Over there!
Listen, comrade Laertes,
that dog's shit, Amlet, ruined your sister so she had gone mad from grief and sorrow.
If I were in your place, goddamit,
I'd squash him with the stone against the wall, like a pancake!
I would, I swear to God.
Now you, comrades! What are you waiting for?
Give Hamlet support!
So, you're here, Hamlet!
Come, just come, you stinking rat!
When I get my hands on you, no medicine will help you!
Why are you showing off, sissy! Turn around and see yourself!
Sparrow's fart would blow you away!
You are telling me that, pork's nuts?
Stand in front of a mirror if you don't know what you're like!
Machak! Now you slap your but to him.
- Here's the image and likeness of you! - Show that your mother, you trash,
to pour some wisdom there, that you don't have.
You'll know you, shit, whose sister you ruined, when you're collecting
your guts on the road! - Don't say! Like I'm scared of you!
Horns to you, chicken piss, to you and those scared of you!
I show him horns, too!
Comrade Laertes and comrade Amlet! I'm the King and I command you:
Enough of that roaring!
When you can't live nicely in peace and harmony,
you'll wrestle here in front of me.
The stronger one will have justice on his side. Come on!
Beware Amlet, they'll trick you! They want to kill you!
Show those dog's dorks the strength of your heroic right hand!
Bravo, Amlet!
Grab the asshole Laertes by the throat! Let his soul leap up to his teeth!
Groan, just groan, King's ass kisser!
It's time for you to feel the people's fist!
Comrades, now the representatives of working people are rising on their feet
and subvert the rotten monarchical order!
Reactionary, we're ousting you, bum, for people's uprising the time has come!
Reactionary, we're ousting you...
Justice won!
Justice must win always, 'cause it's on the side of poor and working people!
Justice! Justice! Justice!
Help!
He's strangling me! He's strangling me for real!
He's strangling me!
I'm not guilty, Joco!
Please don't, Joco!
Go back, all of you!
Let no one approach near me!
If anyone tries anything, he's dead!
- Help! - Listen, Machak,
I'll strangle you like a chicken if you don't say right away
where the expenditure books disappeared! Talk, goddamn you!
I'm not guilty of anything! Bukara burned it all!
A-ha, that's what I wanted to be heard!
My righteous pa suffers.
Here is the one who burned the books!
People, call the police! Let's go to court quickly!
Wait!
What police, what court?
Who can prove that?
Couldn't your pa burn that when he saw inspection coming?
This time you won't get away, Bukara!
Everybody heard! They'll all be witnesses.
What's with you, Joco? Are you insane?
You think these people are fools so they will believe the one you've been strangling?
Let him repeat now!
Machak, did I burn it?
Let him go away from me, then I'll talk!
Never mind him! Just talk, we're here. Don't be afraid.
Well, now... you know... wait a minute...
it all hurts...
People!
People! Shocky threw himself under the train.
We just found him on the railway.
He's dead, I swear to God!
And I'm here... all the time, with you... in this masquerade...
See, comrades, it's all clear now...
Righteous man would never kill himself.
Stop! Can't you see the man lost his mind with grief.
Let someone run to the phone and call the hospital in town.
It's nothing, just scratched me a bit.
I'm not ill!
But I swear on my dead pa's name, it won't remain on this!
Well, comrades, you saw it!
It is not easy to make order in the collective
this large, like this cooperative of ours.
We are humans, there is everything among us,
hatred, and envy, and theft.
Shockits paid it with his head.
But not about that now.
This is the moment to remember his great merits for our cause.
He was a veteran and decorated! Five times decorated.
So comrades I suggest to bury him properly
and observe a minute of silence.
Glory to him!
What's the matter people? Come on?
Shall we dance kolo, brothers?
Come on! Follow me!
Hop, hop, hop... Come on! Come on!
Hop, hop, hop...
What are you waiting for? Come on!
Hop, hop, hopa...
Come on! hop, hop...
The song!
Let's enjoy, brothers dear
send all to hell, make it clear!
Let's enjoy, brothers dear
send all to hell, make it clear!
Shimurina, how it goes that song of yours! Come on!
Glasses, plates, spoons, flagons,
roasted meat and good bites wagons,
fried chicken and lamb's ham,
veal leg, pig's kidney and jam,
pepper, onion, fried liver,
wine from the cellar of St. Peter,
bacon, sausage and heart roasted,
Bring bro, the old brandy boasted,
ham, cheese and pepper bell,
let it be known, we have a revel!
Kick, fling, move, spin... hop, hop, faster, faster, hop...
Kick, fling, move, spin... spin, spin, hopa, faster...
Faster, faster, faster, faster, hop...
Hop, hop, hop, hop
Tresette, briscola, hearts and spades, membership card, young virgin babes,
board of directors, soft beds, long braiding a woman at home, sitting and waiting,
widow's butt, high wages, farts, good cakes and beverages,
peel, wash, fire, hit, soft seat, cigar lit,
greasy chin and a good pie, Serious things are all a lie!
Hop, hop, hop...
Drink, pee, devour, shit, draw, pull, flay, split
turn, screw, fire, cover, Sip, escape, fail, bend over!
Kick it, fire, jump to skies, I love your eyes!
More, more, more, dance, take off your pants, take off your pants!
Hop, hop, faster, faster, hop, hop, hop... Come on!
Hop, hop... Kick it!
Hop, hop...
Come on! Come on!
Borough, district, pork fat, Lamb balls, people's government,
Board, commission, chicken on table, collective's shortfall, calf's navel!
Hop, hop, hop...
Tripods, essays, meetings, writings, Sausages, reports, contracts, ridings,
Mackerel, tractors, brandy flowing, Oxen, horses, sheep growing!
Hop, hop, hop...
Spin, move, get up, crouch,
Hop, hop, hop...
Mackerel, tractors, brandy flowing, oxen, horses, hop...
Spin, move!
Tractors, brandy, essays, meetings, writings, hop...
Collective! Collective! Collective! Collective!
Spin, move!
Hop, hop, hop, hop...
Spin, move! Collective! Essays, meetings!
Faster! Spin yourself! Spin!
Joco! Don't go over there. Better if you don't see...
Come on, go back and we'll arrange all as befits.
The End
Subtitles by Ivona.