THE MASTER OF THE WORLD
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Warning! Warning! We live in the Machine Age!
Engines, tractors, compressors.
The whole world is shaking under the roaring breath of technology.
In my opinion, technological progress is inevitable.
And nothing must stop him. Immobilism equals regression, which God forbid!
We must progress.
To avoid danger is cowardice.
What fantastic ideas. If I imagine the future as you conceive it...
it takes my breath away.
Only the evidences determine my conclusions.
And technology is obvious.
I heard, doctor, that you were going to produce robots in your factory?
It looks like a fairy tale. The kind that starts with "Once upon a time...".
But the motto of our work is: "He is... and he will be..."
- You are an engineer, Baumann, right? - Yes, a mining engineer.
So it is easy for you to conceive the technical development.
Heller Corporation builds machines capable of liberating us
from all physical work, we miserable humans.
They are real robots. Kinds of machine-men.
I hope that among your machine-men
there will be one who will replace us to write the postcards.
Do not be fooled, writing postcards is not mechanical.
It is so, however. What a pity.
Do not you fear, doctor,
that such a boom of machines does not sound the death knell of humanity?
No. Just take the problem right.
All should benefit from the benefits that technology can bring. All!
Coal mine
Annie, here you are. Come towards me. You look beautiful.
Disheveled. And dirty as a pig.
Listening. If you continue like this, you will not stay long a white horse.
Your own grandmother will not recognize you anymore.
Engineer Baumann, good luck. Back from your trip? Excellent.
Hello! What happened to you?
He has something in the eye. He was looking too hard while working.
He did it on purpose.
He hopes to have a look of embers if he has a piece of coal in his eye.
Go. Take off your dirty paws.
He sent me a postcard from an airplane. Stop crying!
How was it up there, sir?
Fantastic, a real paradise, guys. No smell or dust, only fresh air.
Impossible.
Such a thing exists therefore. Why did not bring it back? We need it here.
And?
Let's go. Thank you sir. The coal we found is yours.
Very good. Where is Schuhmacher?
Hi, Schuhmacher, old firewood owl. You seem more scary than ever.
You will ruin your complexion here below.
Thank God, you're back, sir. What solemnity! What is going on?
I just wanted to inform you. The tunnel 6... Something is wrong.
A heavy air. What is it? A risk of firedamp? Tell me.
The tunnel collapsed.
Go for it! Hurry! Hurry!
Back, sir. It's useless. It's total chaos down there.
Put the gas masks on, quickly!
We must move forward to block the well. Go!
The firedamp is spreading.
Help! Help!
Come down! Come down!
This way! This way!
I already thought, sir... I thought...
I would not come back at all, Josef. You look fit.
Wilma!
Erich, you're back. I missed you.
Excuse me, I have not stopped thinking about you.
You? Really? Really?
Before you start complaining, I have something for you.
What?
I do not know, that lucky goddess you've always wanted to have...
Wait a second.
Why is there not a directory for the pockets?
Or something close?
I put it... I put it here.
Okay. She's there.
Broken.
Do not take it to heart, Erich. We're going to fix the luck.
I neglected you, did not I?
You have been away for six months.
Almost as long as the duration of our marriage.
Six months.
But, darling, what could I have done? Courses, interviews,
press conferences, invitations from universities, the Senate, the President...
then negotiations with scientists, businessmen
and the bankers. They took me out, martyred...
I'm sure. You do not want to know more.
But let's not talk about it anymore. Now, I'm staying with you.
How long?
Today Tomorrow... Maybe all week.
Oh, Erich, I'm just glad you're here.
Really?
Come, please, come. Take a seat! A tablecloth, an egg...
Hello, hello, here the Heller factories.
Chief Engineer Wolter wants to talk to Mr. Heller.
Hello, hello, here the Heller factories.
- Excuse me. - Of course.
Here Heller, what's going on?
Forgive me for disturbing you upon your return.
It's good, Wolter, no need to apologize. What's the matter?
It's urgent, sir. The problem with Professor Wolf.
I read that in your last report.
It seemed weird. He ordered that his lab be walled up.
Yes, and it has been reinforced with metal plates.
Nobody knows what's going on inside.
But we can hear many detonations.
The detonations are not abnormal.
15 minutes ago, there were so many
that I thought the factory was going to explode.
All right, I'm coming.
Do not get mad, I have to go to the factory.
Stay here, Erich. Honey, it's my duty.
Always those stupid machines.
And this Wolf, it may sound stupid, but I can not feel it.
Alright Alright. I lacked authority with him.
He is an irresponsible fanatic. I'll take care of him.
Erich, be careful.
Do not worry, I'll be back in an hour.
Heller factories.
I repeated it to you ten times already.
When our doctor Heller comes in, you say one in a natural way...
- Hello. - Hello. Hello.
Dear sir, on behalf of the whole team,
and moved by the emotion that I feel, I want...
I want to be moved by you, uh, very moved...
A real fuss!
Dear Fischer, smoke one after this shock.
Really stirred...
Go back to your seats, please.
My dear Wolter, how's your little girl?
Very good, thank you, sir. Yesterday she tore up...
part of my wife's cookbook. And you will not believe it.
Only pages with recipes that I do not like.
What a fantastic little girl! I brought him a doll.
This is the last outing in America.
It's really extraordinary. She will be thrilled.
Is Professor Wolf in his lab?
Yes, sir, he's been there for 3 months.
I'll take it out. Let's go.
Hello sir. How are you?
- Very well thank you. - Perfect.
- Hello. - Hello.
Quick. Call him. Yes sir.
Now you can hear it, sir.
At least half a million volts, again.
Why does not he answer?
I do not know. Call him until he has a headache.
Here Professor Wolf. What is it?
It's Heller. I have to talk to you. Open right away.
As you wish, but come alone.
This is to avoid any risk of spying.
Professor? Where are you?
Come closer, sir.
Stop this nonsense, turn on the light.
But what the hell are you doing here, Professor?
The reports I have had are strangest.
Can you explain them?
I do not understand you, sir.
I did not sleep, but I worked.
How do you find that?
What is it?
A little surprise for you, a great robot. Inspired by our idea.
The improvement in productivity is a hundredfold.
Good surprise! Effectively. A wonderful boy.
My friend, protector of the factory, defender and fighter... All you want.
Wolf, I explicitly forbid you to use
factory resources for gadgets.
Gadgets? It's insulting, sir.
It's not a gadget, it's serious, damn serious.
The robot is a battleship...
the forerunner of an army that will conquer the world if we give the signal.
Stop your stupidities.
I build machines to produce, not to destroy, understood?
That's what we need to strive for, our worker robots...
who are supposed to free humanity from dangerous, unhealthy or idiotic work.
Ideals, sir, ideals.
Yes, ideals, but reasonable and accessible ideals.
What you do, professor, is madness and I forbid this madness.
This thing will be scrapped.
And if I refuse to do it?
So you will leave the factory tomorrow.
I am the master here. I am the only one to give orders.
Of course, here you are the master,
and if it's your will that will go to scrap.
What a pity, really what a pity.
So much zeal and work wasted on this thing.
And in the end... Head the scrap pile. What a pity!
Would not you like to look at it more closely
before we cast him, Dr. Heller?
It might interest you too.
Admire his power. It only asks to apply.
Bah... A battleship, just a shell and it's over.
But nobody is able to fire this shell.
Look at these two gigantic fists.
They are used to launch my laser beams over a range of several kilometers.
They destroy everything that stands before me.
But do not be afraid, sir. I am still unable to do it.
I can not throw the rays straight and grouped.
I do not control them yet.
Can you help me, Dr. Heller? Give me some advice.
Yes, I can. Evacuate this thing from the factory... today.
No!
Turn it off!
Horrible!
I warned him, but he did not listen to me.
He wanted to realize the experience in person.
What does it mean?
- An accident. - What?
How? How?
Great ideas require victims.
But Karl, you're still cheating. The doctor will see that you have temperature.
But that does not bother you, of course. You'll be coming out of the hospital soon.
But what about me? I can stay here to tame the bacteria.
You do not stop complaining. Are you crazy?
I do not understand you. It's great here. Light, air and care.
You can believe me: These last six weeks, you took a baby's complexion.
- Really, where? - On your face.
Beautiful baby with this thing.
I do not know what will happen to me.
I would look stupid in the mine.
But Karl, everything will change.
Did not you hear about robots?
No, I only know the joke of the sailor who swallowed a compass.
Ah ah, no, Karl, robots are not a joke.
They are currently under construction.
And, listen well, in the future we will no longer risk our lives in the mine.
They will use the robots in dangerous places.
Yeah, they'll do our job.
Hey, look, they move like that.
That's the control device.
I go to the mine.
Stopped. I am there.
I find coal.
And now I withdraw it. Fool of coal.
I leave the mine... and I approach the consumer.
There, my boy, you must take your medicine now. Approach.
Approach! You wanted to cut it. Drink it! Right now!
It tastes like ink. It's healthy and it makes you look good. What?
What did you say?
Ah, Mr. Baumann, you're in shape again.
Yes sir. Hello, teacher. Hello.
Is there anything else I can do?
All that remains to be done now is salt, water and sun.
Exhale still strongly, so that the poison comes out of the lungs.
Okay, it's promised.
You are entering the recovery phase.
Girls, our beach chair is waiting for us.
Hi, the beach attendant is here!
Stop! Stop!
This is our beach chair. We booked it.
The nine is my favorite figure.
Mine too, apparently.
Well, do not be bored.
Ladies, I'm giving up. The beach chair is yours.
My name is Werner Baumann.
Bruni, Elfriede... - Nice to meet you. Else... Lotte. - Absolutely delighted.
Yes, it's life, Joseph. One tree dies, then another arrives.
Everything grows and thrives.
Yes Yes.
It bothers me that Madam withdraws from the world.
Why do I try to beautify the garden if it does not come over?
Effectively. Yes Yes.
Werner, give me the ball! No, Werner, to me. Werner, no to me.
Now we'll see who will catch the ball.
Do not do that, Baumann, If you come in, you'll have to pay the window.
Silence now.
Now he enters the house.
Yes.
Hello. There is someone?
Excuse me.
I did not know, I thought a servant...
My name is Baumann. Engineer Werner Baumann.
With regard to the window... I am deeply sorry.
What to do now?
In the future, you should limit yourself to table tennis?
- You are right. - Thank you. - You're welcome.
Dr. Heller!
Excuse me madam.
Did you know my husband?
Oh, yes, once he told me his ideas.
They were so grand and beautiful.
I felt connected to him.
I adored him for his genuine sense of humanity.
Not very nice of Werner to be away for so long.
Maybe he puts the glass himself.
No, the reason is different. According to the servant, Werner is with Madame.
- So what? I will not wait anymore. - I am leaving. - Me too.
You must have faith, ma'am.
Faith in itself and in his work.
Dr. Heller's faith was strong.
His idea will survive him.
And people will suffer as they have always suffered.
No, not like that.
If people's work is dangerous... For example in our mine...
If it was possible... to use machines down in the threatened tunnels,
in order to bring the miners back to their underground traps,
that would be synonymous with progress, redemption.
It would put an end to the endless sufferings of this world.
So we build robots. What is really a robot?
It's a machine.
It looks different from others, otherwise it's nothing new.
Each machine is already a robot. So?
- Do you see this machine? - Yes.
Another robot working for us.
In fact, you are right, Mr. Chief Engineer.
The only thing missing is that such a thing uses a metal brain.
Thing we are two to regret.
Which would not make much sense. Oh, excuse me, Mr. Chief Engineer.
If I say that, it's because I never go out.
So for example I can play cards with him on Sunday?
Playing with you does not need a brain, just that metal head.
Metal... Tsss... Tsss...
It's for you ma'am. That's good, Konrad.
Is engineer Baumann going to sit in his previous place, or here?
It does not matter.
I ask because I once again had the chess game that had been interrupted.
But what did you do? Everything is false.
Thus, both players are in check. So, well, so...
Bring refreshments, please, Joseph.
That's done, ma'am.
I even got the cigarettes that engineer Baumann prefers.
It's... It's...
A telegram, madam.
Mrs. Heller... was urgently called by the mine management...
Must leave immediately...
Hope to continue the game later... Werner Baumann.
I think I have explained the technical part sufficiently now.
Heller plant hopes to prove the importance of improvements
brought by this invention and help the miners hard hit.
Our machines can even be used in wells filled with gas.
Carbon monoxide, water leaks or smoke can do nothing to them.
Mining disasters will only be a memory.
If there is gas, the tunnel is immured and the loss is reduced to a few robots.
If you press the button, a new metal work goes down...
And... The case is closed. Grandiose!
Can I believe, advise, that our proposals meet your expectations?
Yes, gentlemen, I understand everything. Everything is excellent.
Coal mine.
The mine is closed due to the conversion to robotic mode.
Hello, Karl, how are you? Werner, are you back?
Yes. That's wonderful. Now the robots arrive and you leave the mud.
And you find that wonderful? And what will happen to us?
We can turn our thumbs and stay out of work.
Yes, yes, my boy. It's a little different from what you expected.
Storken. Hello. Good luck.
Becker. Good luck, Mr. Engineer.
Well, I...
I'm just waiting for a moment. What do you want to know? - No idea.
Hello, Mr. Engineer. Hello.
Neumeier Inspector of the mine.
Come in!
- Good, hello, Baumann. - Thank you.
As you have arrived, we can start right away.
Inspector, I... have just seen our miners gathered outside.
Yes, yes, of course, there is a lot of anger and nothing we can do.
Yes... now let's move on to the next task...
One moment, please, Inspector.
You have made redundancies.
Many people are without work.
So what? - Inspector, these people do not want to stay idle.
They want to work. They really want to work.
I am sorry. The coal mine no longer provides jobs.
So you have to find new tasks for these people.
Work that machines can not provide.
How does this affect me? It's not my business.
But that does not concern you any more, Mr. Baumann.
Take care of the technical part. You are here for that.
Leave the rest to the administration. Thank you.
I would like to speak immediately to Councilor Ehrenberg.
Councilor Ehrenberg? You can not talk to him, he's in conference.
So go get it out. How dare you?
I am capable of everything for the well-being of my fellow workers.
The problem should just be addressed in the right way.
All should benefit from the benefits that technology can bring. All!
Good luck guys! What is it? What is the problem?
Yes, but... He goes home.
Gentlemen, I have told you everything you need to know. - Yes, but...
And for other countries? Yes, sir, we are in negotiations with Tokyo.
Go! Go!
Yes, yes, of course, also with Rome. Also with Rome.
Of course, yes, robots. Of course, they can also dive to the bottom of the sea.
And control of robots?
I can not say anything about it. It's a manufacturing secret.
And what does Professor Wolf do?
It is forbidden to speak to Professor Wolf. Whatever the reason.
Excuse me, gentlemen, do me a favor. Excuse me, important dispatches...
Yes, as for the amount of your pension, we have reached an agreement.
Yes, our only condition is that you have nothing more to do
than to assign your property rights from the Heller factory to Professor Wolf.
You can understand my hesitation. This is an important decision for me.
This is the plant my husband built.
I suppose, as a woman, you are not interested in machines.
Indeed. - Can I? - Mrs.
There you go.
Yes. Madam, engineer Baumann is here. He wants to see you urgently.
Oh, I apologize for a moment, gentlemen.
You are here for the chess game. Yes, ma'am, I'm here for a party.
It is linked to the solution of a problem on which the happiness of many depends.
Oh, my god, what a solemnity! Yes, this solution is in your hands.
In my hands? Yes, because you own the Heller factory.
Strange that you are talking about it now.
What is going on? She does not want to?
A little interruption, Professor. It has no importance.
We will succeed.
Perfect, ma'am.
Gentlemen, it's useless for you to stay. I examined the case.
The Heller factory remains in my possession.
But madam, it's impossible.
Consider the benefits, ma'am. And the problems, on the other hand.
The continual agitation.
And the tension that imposes.
Also a simple signature frees you. Really. You act as you please.
But, gentlemen... Madam, I beg you...
Baumann engineer. Nice to meet you.
Messieurs, you have heard Madame's decision.
Yes, sorry... Baumann? We spoke frankly to madame for the contract.
Yes please! - What? Gentlemen, the conversation is over.
May I escort you to the door? Yes, but...
We had been negotiating for so long with Madame, if we found another agreement.
No! No! No! It's useless! So please!
Goodbye!
Thank you.
Baumann engineer! Yes, please?
Here Professor Wolf. Thank you for coming to see me immediately! I want to talk to you.
Very good, Professor, I am at your disposal.
Excellent, it looks good. Yes, but should you talk to Professor Wolf?
Of course. This is a great opportunity to inform him.
I will be back by four o'clock at the latest.
We will then finish our chess game, will not we?
Gladly, I would be delighted.
Fischer! Engineer Baumann wants to see me. Make sure you bring it right away!
Yes, Professor! Quick! Quick!
Professor, the engineer Baumann is waiting. Please.
Get closer!
The automatic door opening works perfectly.
I'm really excited to meet you, professor.
I have heard so much about you. Your technical knowledge impresses me.
Make it short. My time is limited.
Well!
Professor, your invention has perverse effects!
The Ehrenberg mine has dismissed its employees. All the labor is unemployed.
The Heller factory is responsible for it.
It does not concern you.
You're wrong, Professor.
I am here as a representative of the owner of the Heller factory.
Really?
The Heller factory has blindly surrendered its robots.
A great invention is used for bad purposes.
It is owned by ruthless speculators.
You are wrong, Mr. Baumann!
Do you know what these points are on the world map? These are all our robots.
Our robots. They will be used around the world.
But robots are not for sale.
We only lend them. We rent them dearly.
But we do not surrender them blindly.
They work, work, work. I will conquer the world thanks to them.
But I do not understand you.
Do not you have a thought for all the workers you put out of work?
We have to take care of these people.
Otherwise, there will be uprisings, Professor, revolts.
Revolts, peuh! This is our war machine...
it will protect us from the populace.
And if that's not enough, I'll build an entire army.
Dr. Heller will never have consented to such madness.
What do you know about Dr. Heller?
I know Dr. Heller's ideas well... Certainly!
He wanted to create utility robots, each of which would benefit from the work.
These are fantasies.
Fantasies? One day, the robots will be responsible for all the dangerous tasks.
This earned time will be used to realize higher ideals.
Ideas? Only words! - No! It must become a reality if life makes sense.
Idle chatter. That's why you discouraged Mrs. Heller from signing the contract.
Yes, that's the reason, and I'll do more.
You will not cause further damage here.
I'll make sure you lose your job, Professor.
Open the door, please!
Stay here until you have recovered your calm!
Four hours.
Hello?
The Heller factory!
Here Mrs. Heller. I want to talk to Professor Wolf.
Just a moment, please, ma'am.
What is going on? What is going on?
The laboratory is not responding.
Josef! Josef!
My car, fast!
Heller factory.
Professor, Mrs. Heller is here. She wants to see you immediately.
Who is here? Mrs. Heller? Yes.
You probably came for the signature.
Yes, yes, because of the contract.
Well, I will open!
Madam, I will not leave you alone, I will accompany you.
Wolter, stay outside!
Please, stay! Otherwise it will not open.
Mrs.
Do not enter! Let him out.
May I, ma'am?
You're welcome.
So you changed your mind, madam?
I can only congratulate you on your decision.
Would you be kind enough to sign?
Where is Mr. Baumann?
I will tell you.
I'll even take you to him, but first I have to ask you to sign.
Can I count on you?
Absolutely!
Devil!
No!
What is it?
I do not know. I...
What happened?
It was...
I grabbed him.
Suddenly, I received an electric shock, then...
What you do is insane.
You are a criminal!
Get out!
You will not stay another minute in this factory.
I have to go?
From here?
Me?
All my life I worked...
like an animal... as the humblest worker...
I did not allow myself anything.
I only worked...
to go back and work again, day and night.
And do you know why?
For that!
For an objective. For a huge success...
to be the master of the world...
And now that I'm starting to reach power...
Go away!
Never! Never! Never!
Werner!
Help!
Stop it, Wolf!
I agree on everything.
Turn off your machine!
And let us go!
Wonderful! Okay!
Go back! Out of my way! You are only embarrassing! Step aside!
Cellar / Transformer test.
Vilma!
Cellar test.
Get out! Get out! Backward! Right here! Backward!
Backward!
Right here! They are here.
Leave, guys. Go!
Warning! Warning! Listen to the following announcement:
Engineer Baumann took control of the famous Heller factory.
Many people are interested in his new methods.
Only robots have been exploiting the Ehrenberg mine since today.
Hello?
Is Chief Engineer Wolter still down there?
Yes, yes... Machine 27 does not work.
Yes, it's okay.
Chief Engineer. Yes? Machine 27 does not work.
Oh no. I'll take care of it.
Which tunnel?
Three zero.
We'll settle that immediately.
Hi 27! Well, Paulie, what's going on?
Well, it will not matter?
Let's see!
You probably had an attack?
Ah!
Calm! Calm! Calm! Soft! Soft! Soft!
Takes smaller portions.
There you go! It is very good!
Well, advise.
You are happy now, no?
Satisfied?
It's a little too much.
But, Advisor, the Heller factory sells its robots at a very low price.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I know.
But there is an embarrassing condition.
Every society that wants to have our robots must fulfill this condition.
Well, perfect.
I think your condition is a bit inhumane.
On the contrary, a company that buys our robots wants to fire people.
Now, we force this company to give a share of the profit to the unemployed.
With this money, these people find compensation.
Well, Councilor, what is this condition of inhuman?
Maybe you are right.
Thank you!
You know, I have a little yacht.
Next week, I'm going to sail. It does not tell you anything to come?
Counselor, I do not like to blunder.
Do not want to take a look at what your people are preparing?
Why not... Come on, okay.
Hi, Becker. - Hello, Mr. Engineer. What a job since the last time!
It's nothing! And our marinated cabbage, a marvel! And here, double portion!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Oh, Rita!
Luppe! Hello, Mr. Engineer.
It is obvious that you are minor.
I also noticed that.
Mr. Baumann, do you recognize the horse?
Oh yes. This is our Hans.
Yes, our old horse from the well.
He's going to have cheeks like a cherub, I'm sure.
Eggs - poultry - honey - for sale.
Hello, Karl!
Your honeymine is superb!
That is true. But do you know what would be better, Werner?
If the chickens made honey and the bees laid eggs.
I think so too, my friend!
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