CHRIST BETWEEN THE MURATORS
Let me in!
Your place is not here anymore.
There's no slut here. Come back to her!
Please...
- Go away. - Finish it.
We do not...
Pope'?
- Paulie... - It's daddy!
Happy Birthday to You...
- Happy Birthday to You! - Happy Birthday to You!
Happy birthday dear daddy...
Happy Birthday to You!
We tried to wait for you on your feet, but you were so late!
I gave you a radio as a birthday present, I'm going to get it!
Go away, Jeremiah...
Pope'!
- Yes'? - Let me in!
What happened?
Your hand...
I should have cut it.
I hate Annunziata...
Oh, poor Jeremiah...
You are beautiful...
The hands of Annunziata are rough...
He worked. He had children. Is old.
But he has no more years than you.
What right do you have to be beautiful?
I took care of myself.
Men want beautiful women.
Kathleen...
Yes'?
Where is the beauty that was once in my life?
Why did I get to this point?
How did it happen?
You always wanted a little more. Why do not you take life as a game?
- I want life as it comes. - What do you want?
Once I knew it.
I thought I knew.
It was something that happened...
I arrived a moment in my life when I wanted something...
For the first time in my life...
I knew I really wanted something...
I was busy in a job...
The biggest one I've ever seen.
It was not only the biggest...
it was also the coldest I had ever done.
Cold, cold...
I can no longer distinguish between hands and bricks.
These are the bricks! Come on, uncle, under work.
- Too cold... - Come on, Luigi, come on!
My fingers are cracked by the cold. It exhaustes me, this frost!
Repair yourself behind the wall!
Lay the bricks with your tongue if your hands are too cold, this is work!
And it's hot! At a dollar and twenty-five an hour.
It is not worth it.
Melee all! At least they took this damn mud away!
Cursed the day I laid my first brick.
Penetrate and tear off your muscles.
Did you warm up?
Yes'. Beautiful warm.
As long as we finish the job, eh?
It's the shortcut to the sky.
One dollar and twenty-five an hour.
You would not do the same on the ground...
Jeremiah, listen: It was an accident.
Of course, my friend, we know that.
My place is not here.
I'm not cut to do the laborer.
- My place is on the ground. - Yes, in fact you were about to finish it.
Forty floors...
Forty or ten makes no difference.
The best thing to do...
it's that you forget it and go back to work right away.
And how do I do this...
It's not that I'm afraid...
It's all this is not for me.
Of course, friend.
I quit.
You know, it's the smartest thing he could do in his life.
Maybe...
And at least he knows that for a construction worker it's easier to go down than up.
Will you be clever too?
I had the chance to get out of this tour once...
but who likes to be an alcohol smuggler?
- He went near us. - Yes'.
More than ever.
- Luigi. - Yes'?
How long will it be before we completely forget about ourselves?
In my case, two days.
In your...
A week.
Nobody would cry?
Nobody.
And to you?
Nobody.
In practice, none.
Come on, let's eat.
- Hi, Jimmy. - Hey there'.
Hi, Margherita.
Poor little mother.
This crazy woman came here alone, and with a baby, with this cold!
On a day like this, a man needs warm food.
What about this here?
- Is he one we have not seen yet? - Yes, this is quite new here.
- Eye with those dirty hands. - He will become a mason too.
Not this here. He will become a great American builder.
And I will help him make money.
Here's something better than money.
Do you keep it for a moment, Giovanna?
Giulio!
This food makes me forget good manners.
Throw this American crap and enjoy some real Italian cuisine.
Are you sure it's enough?
If you had an Italian girl you would never ask for something like that.
How long have you been in an Italian house?
When he cooks an Italian, there is so much food to feed Garibaldi's army.
I forgot to tell you that the child put another tooth.
Another tooth? Let me see!
Luigi.
Why did not you ever get married?
Because'?
Because I was as crazy as you.
I just wanted to have fun.
Arrived 'this shoemaker who wanted my own girlfriend...
Filomena married him, and I came to America.
Was she beautiful?
Is it mandatory that all women are beautiful?
- Well, it's not a disadvantage. - He had other qualities.
Now he has ten children.
Her husband does not earn a dollar and fifty an hour.
He does not earn even fifty cents.
But...
sits at the head of a table...
with ten children eating spaghetti...
and Filomena who serves them.
I did this last year when I was there.
See for yourself.
Who are you?
This is Annunziata, the biggest one, if I saw her...
He takes care of the whole house alone.
He takes care of all the children...
when the parents are at work.
What do you have?
Nothing, I...
I just realized that Annunziata must now have the same age...
of Filomena, when I courted her.
Eh... they are sad things.
You can not see faces like this around here.
I was just like you.
Storielle... it was all I wanted, stories, never love.
I think I should have married one of my stories.
Oh, Jeremiah...
if only you had your tender age...
Jeremiah...
What do you have? You stared at me all evening.
I was thinking.
At what?
To us.
- So soon, Jeremiah? - You are happy?
I enjoy it, do not you?
Do not you want anything else?
Yes, but I'm not hard to please.
I'll take what I have now.
Listen, what do you worry?
I do not want this to go on like this.
Oh...
Look...
I want more'.
I want to build a life, a life that grows.
A family, a home.
I want to get married.
You mean you decided so, on your feet?
To marry you?
As I understood it...
people need to fall madly in love.
Would you marry me?
Answer me.
If I had another job...
Do not you think I would be able to keep my family?
What kind of life?
Let's take a look at your friends, especially those with family.
Why, what's wrong with it?
What's wrong with it? How do they live?
If they work a week a month I'm in seventh heaven.
I could get you a steady job at the store, a respectable job.
You would have decent clothes...
I do not want a respectable job at the shop, I'm a construction worker!
- I'm a builder. - Can not you change?
Why get tired, Jeremiah?
We are in 1921.
Everything is happy, in a completely new world.
- These are so wonderful times. - Kathleen.
Do you want to marry me?
Jeremiah!
No. I've seen too many to fall for.
What's the matter with you men, anyway?
Do not you understand when you're lucky?
I have to go.
Things are as they are.
Luigi.
I would like to see that picture again.
I want to marry Annunziata.
Excuse me... Excuse me...
Jeremiah! Jeremiah!
They are separating sheep from goats.
Sheep and goats?
Immigration is deciding who can enter and who must go back.
Maybe they will not let her in.
Why should not they? He has a husband waiting for her.
He paid her a deposit.
I'm going to see what they say.
- What are you, are you sick? - No, no...
If you're empty now, what will you do at the wedding?
It's hot!
The heat will be the least of your problems!
Luigi.
I have to talk to you. Come.
Excuse me.
Luigi.
He has to go back.
- What do you say? - I can not marry her!
- Remember that I have guaranteed for you! - Forgive me, Luigi, I did a terrible thing!
What have you done?
I lied to her.
- Do you have a hidden wife? - No, no, Luigi, here...
In the letter in which he said he would come...
he put a condition.
He said...
This part is not important now...
Oh, here.
Please do not consider me blatant, but there is one thing I need to ask you.
Here in the Abruzzi, however poor we were, we have always had our home.
I could not live under the roof of a stranger: There would be no happiness for me.
So if...
now you can not give me a house, it does not matter...
how small, I'll wait for you as long as you can.
Well...
I... told her to have a house.
- Did you tell her you got it? - I could not wait!
- It's done, I'll pay for the return trip... - Are you crazy?
Hey, Jeremiah!
They are coming, come!
You must tell him.
Now?
How would you feel? It would scare you!
Yes, yes'...
He would think he had happened among the villans.
All right.
Give it a moment to recover.
But listen...
Tell her you will give her a home.
That you will work to give it to him.
- And tell him right away! - I'll do it, Luigi, I'll do it.
Excuse me...
- Jeremiah! - Eh?
Jeremiah is waiting for you here.
It'll be fine.
Jeremiah.
It'll be fine.
The bride arrives...
Great is the gift...
Holding at his side.
Before you eat it!
I declare my love for this little naked angel...
lying in its roasted beauty...
before these eyes of mine.
Because'...
love is hungry.
And he wants to consume.
Without money, you're poor...
Without food, you're hungry...
Without wine, you are sober...
Without laughter, you're sad...
Without love, you're nothing...
Nothing at all...
Not a man, not a mouse...
Not a woman, not a bride...
Nothing nothing...
Nothing at all.
Without love you are nothing...
Anything...
Nothing at all.
With money you can buy food.
Become fat.
Buy wine.
To get drunk and be happy.
But you can not buy love.
Without love you are nothing, nothing at all.
Not a man, not a mouse...
Not a woman, not a bride...
Nothing nothing...
Nothing at all.
Without love you are nothing, nothing...
Nothing at all!
To the newlyweds!
Warning!
Farmers.
I have something to say.
This is a real marriage.
For the woman who was placed to the right of the bride and groom...
in the place of honor.
Myself.
The midwife!
To the offspring!
The bride!
I did not know what I would find when I arrived here.
Now I know.
I'm...
among my people.
Abbuffiamoci.
Jeremiah.
It's all evening I want to talk to you.
I have plans for myself, and I want you to know that I keep you in mind.
I do not forget friends.
- I appreciate it. - I'm leaving and I'll take you with me.
One day we could become great businessmen!
- But no! - With ironed clothes!
I'm fine, I'm a worker, I do not like the stretched stuff.
It will be fine, we will be a good team.
- I'm watching you. - Jeremiah!
It's here! The House!
A moment...
In business, Jeremiah has a wooden head.
We feel the conditions.
A thousand dollars for the house.
- A thousand dollars! - It's a good house, I can make it good.
Ok.
Twenty-five dollars in cash now.
As soon as I get $ 750 cash, he can move.
Balance: $ 250 in weekly 5-dollar installments.
Signed: Jaroslav.
But...
You promised me I could have the house for the three honeymoon days.
- What good is a house for three days... - But you promised!
PS: Rent the house for the three honeymoon days.
- Signed: Jaroslav. - Approved?
- $ 750 and moved? - $ 750 and moved.
Approved.
Luigi.
Go, have fun!
I have not told him yet.
Of the House.
What do I have to do?
Have not you told him yet?
What are you waiting for?
Tell him!
What should I say? What words should I use?
Just tell her that... that you...
You can not.
Not the first wedding night.
There's only one moment so in all of life.
It must be enjoyed to the fullest.
Let it have its three honeymoon days.
Let their memory be... like a jewel.
That will adorn it for the rest of his life.
It's what I thought too.
Jeremiah.
Take me home now, Jeremiah.
Yes, it's now.
Come all! He guaranteed it!
How do they call this place where we are going?
- Paradise. - No.
- I mean, other people. - Oh, them.
They call it... Brooklyn.
- Are you sure this is the place? - Sure! This is the house!
Tuesday at noon?
Tuesday at noon.
You were right, Jeremiah.
It's an old house.
His bones creak and has rheumatism.
But we will make it young again.
We'll make it beautiful.
Why are you crying?
I'm in my house.
In all these years I dreamed of this moment.
But something told me...
"It will never happen to you, Annunziata".
Every day, on the ship, I kept saying...
"Maybe he does not love me".
"Maybe I will not love him".
"Perhaps the ship will sink".
"Maybe I'll get sick" and they will send me back ".
"Maybe he will change his mind".
Is not it wonderful, Jeremiah?
None of those things happened.
And here we are, in our house.
And I am happy.
Are you as happy as you are?
Yes'.
And the honeymoon...
It will be pure happiness.
It is an old superstition.
If you want your house to be lucky, you have to spread it with salt.
Especially in the corners.
Not that he believes it, but...
How much is salt?
If you want, you can laugh at me...
I have no desire to laugh at you, Annunziata.
Then I will hang up the pictures of St. Joseph at the door.
Are not you sorry for leaving Italy?
You are Italy, Jeremiah.
You are the family, Annunziata.
You are the love.
- You need some wine. - The sun is my wine.
I never drink before sunset.
I mean, never before today.
Also, a glass of wine makes me shine.
Me too.
And besides, we have so many things to talk about.
And there the soil is good for tomatoes.
And I want to repair the stairs.
And you have to paint the entrance, and the living room...
And I want them blue.
Blue...
The two drunks.
The world is spinning!
Of all the spaghetti ever created, these are the biggest!
No, wait, wait! Do not eat them.
- I forgot the cheese. - Do not worry about the cheese!
"Do not worry about cheese"? What are we, cannibals?
I'm going to get the cheese.
But before...
give me a kiss.
If in the future...
someone will want to know what the real happiness is...
tell him to come to Jeremiah's house.
In Brooklyn.
I think you'd better kiss me again...
How my head has become confused in the last three days!
Three days...
Have it been three days?
Annunziata!
Stupid...
Annunziata, forgive me, but I did not have enough money...
Annunziata, look at me...
I could not wait.
I wanted to tell you, but...
but me and Luigi, we thought that...
Announced, listen to me, I've already paid $ 25, and I've got 200 in the bank.
As soon as we get $ 750, Jaroslav will let us transfer.
I'm early?
Madam, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
$ 500, you move.
Annunziata, did you hear? 500 dollars and we move!
Annunziata...
I'm going to wash the dishes.
And to put in order.
We must leave the house clean.
- Hi, Jeremiah! - Hello!
- See you again! - Welcome home!
Let me in, let me in!
No, go away!
Just a moment.
There's a nice morning sun.
Do you want to spread the salt?
No.
I hang the picture of St. Joseph at the door.
It's not the external door.
Jeremiah.
You will never lie to me again.
Never.
For no reason.
We will never lie to each other.
Whatever is in our hearts...
we'll say it.
Yes, Annunziata.
I promise you we'll have a home.
I will work like two men, we will spare every penny.
We only need another $ 275.
- $ 275? - Yes, but I earn a dollar and 50 an hour.
I work 8 hours a day, and if I have a week, I get a good $ 66!
66 dollars!
- So in a short time... - No, no, wait, Annunziata...
The truth is'...
Even when things are going well, I...
I work only one week in three.
Even so, one in three make 22 a week!
Yes, but then there's the rent, the food, the clothes...
What are they doing...?
At least... 19 a week.
We will make them become 15.
- No we can not. - I'll eat less!
No.
All right.
We will do... 16.
It is not possible!
- 17! - I tell you that...
I will not need more.
- All right, 17. - So there will be 5 for the bank.
5 per week. To get to 275 they do...
- Fifty five! - Five!
Oh yes, Jeremiah...
It's only 55 weeks.
They will not be many.
With the help of God...
they will not be many.
I'll tell you exactly what I told the boss.
I told him "do not worry about your money and this deadline"...
"take this task"...
"I work with these men, I know them!"
"and I can promise you something:."
"Even if it means working harder and faster, we'll finish this job in time."
We work hard and fast all the time, Murdin...
You wonder why you work harder and faster.
Listen, I was a cementist too.
You will not believe that he asks you to go fast just for fun, right?
I thought of you too. Listen.
For the man laying more bricks, and better...
there will be a $ 100 bonus.
One hundred verdons.
Do you think it's a good thing, Murdin?
Of course, are not you?
I mean, we'll all work more hard, but only one will benefit.
Yes, but 100 verdicts...
Yes, but every man here thinks he's the lucky one.
Remember, only one can win.
- What do we earn for extra work? - Thing?
Listen, friends, listen.
There are 100 verdones waiting for one of you.
100 verdons you'll never know how else to make them.
What do you want from me, who goes to the boss to tell him to take another team?
Tell me, do not you want to do?
Ok, so let's go.
Jeremiah.
We must not stand against each other.
If we do not do it, it will do it somebody else. I need that money.
We all need money.
- There's another way, Jeremiah. - As?
We five can work together...
so that one of us will win.
And divide the money by five?
- But it's only 20 dollars! - Jeremiah!
We have always been... like five branches of a bundle.
All right.
But whoever wins must have more than the others.
I imagine you believe that you are the one who will win.
Yes, there's a chance.
I can lay bricks better than anyone in the state...
in the country...
in the whole cylindrical universe!
How do you call yourself a bricklayer, if you...
Calm.
We have already started.
Against each other.
We work together, we share equally.
Agree?
Agree.
They understood.
You'll work a little bit more, so we can all have the prize.
I got it.
Alarm clock, alarm clock, alarm clock! Alarm clock, these are money!
Everyone must work, not just one! Come on, try to touch me!
Wait a minute!
Are you arguing like women? Look!
I'm already ahead of you.
The winner is'...
Jeremiah.
A job well done requires a celebration!
I'm going to drink, who's coming?
- I! - I already feel the taste of wine!
What's better on a Saturday afternoon with an extra in your pocket?
Twenty extra dollars.
I? No, no, I'm going home.
- No! - Come!
I remember when Jeremiah was a man, not just a husband!
I remember when he was hungry for women, and he was not so terrified!
I remember when the grape told him something.
Hey! Here we go! We drink to his memory.
- To Jeremiah! - To Jeremiah!
To the memory... of Jeremiah.
Hey, Jeremiah, listen!
If you do not come with us, you will regret it.
But even if you come with us, you will regret it.
So come with us and regret it like the rest of us!
Watch me!
It will dry on the way home!
Can you only talk about this?
- Is there anything better? - Anything!
Ah, the female!
For how much trouble you bring, nothing better than human males has been invented!
Think about how...
how sweetens the soul of a man...
And how to delight a man's blood...
It's much better when it's yours in marriage.
- Hello guys. - Hi Kathleen.
Friend Giulio.
- Friend Luigi. - I feel we are very superfluous.
- So we're leaving. - And me too.
- So, Severina? - Exactly, Severina...
Had...
You did the double game with me, Jeremiah.
I?
You did what you said.
Did not you think I really meant it?
No, inside me no.
It's the last time I trust you of a feeling "inside of me".
How is married life?
Beautiful.
It was worth it?
Yes'.
Did you find someone?
You will not believe it.
It really is a piece of bread.
And of cheese.
He does not bring me flowers.
It brings me cheese.
What are you doing with flowers?
- You are happy? - Never more than that.
It's not true, I'm... alone.
- I'm sorry. - Wait, do not go... not yet...
I've moved. You do not even know where I live.
- Is not that better? - No.
I want you to know where I am, just in case...
In the case of that, Kathleen?
Oh, I do not know.
It's just that sometimes I wake up...
thinking, "Jeremiah does not even know where I am".
Take it, it will make me feel better.
All right.
- Good night. - Night.
Annunziata!
- Announced! - Wait up! Do not come!
Jeremiah...
- But I'm your husband! - Oh, please, no!
Why did you shout?
- I have something to tell you. - Thing?
That I love you.
- Is it something to shout? - Yes'.
- You're drunk. - Yes'.
No.
- What a crazy man I married. - You married me for my money.
Did not you know that I'm rich? Wait up...
- $ 20 bonus. - 20 dollars!
To be the biggest bricklayer in the world!
20 dollars!
I know, we're taking more time than expected.
It does not matter.
Wine?
Why not? It's an opportunity.
But it will cost 2 dollars and 50!
- What's the difference? - What difference?
In all these months you've worked a whole week just once.
I do not care if we go slow.
But what if something happens?
I do the best I know and work as hard as I can.
It's not like spending money on me or women.
Jeremiah...
- Soon we will be like other marriages. - Well...
So... what did you expect?
Between a man and a woman?
There will always be some disagreement.
I should have stopped at the tavern with the others.
Why did not you do it?
I was sorry you were here, alone.
Did the others also feel sorry for their wives?
Some wives are more beautiful than others.
I'm not beautiful.
What are they looking for...
these men who are not sorry for their wives?
Some men...
they can not find a jewel, and are satisfied with 10-cent imitations.
Announced, listen.
From now on, what happens...
Saturday night we will forget all thoughts.
We'll keep it aside, just for us.
We will also forget that we are husband and wife.
Saturday night...
when my husband...
it will make me fall in love with him...
every time like the first time.
I'll take the earth out from under you, I'll turn your head!
And I will do it without wine.
Saturday night.
- And see... - Come on, come on, come on...
- A nice jack for you. - Just what I needed.
Luigi has a gift. He always knows what I need.
- He gets all of them. - No way.
Misfortune is a faceless god.
Yes'! Four Queens.
Four queens!
Liar! Hypocritical! Minds with three queens in hand!
And instead I have four queens! Everyone standing!
- Why does it take so long? - Go home and find out.
He's afraid he'll jump out of a job and I'll let him slip away.
A job?
While at this moment his new boss punches the table...
looking for his stupid father.
Annunziata is like a tiger!
"I'll do what needs to be done without your help," he said.
"You stay out".
He talks like that because he's the first and he does not know how he is.
- Believe me, he needs you. - Go Go!
If you get out of a job, I'll call you first.
- Promised? - Promised!
Salt to the devil!
Water to the flames of hell!
Salt to the devil...
Water to the flames of hell...
Salt to...
Shhh!
What happens? How are you?
Someone did the evil eye!
We must drive the devil away.
Annunziata...
Why are you here?
I thought maybe you'd have been better...
Back to the union hall...
A job!
Mala Fortuna... Strange...
It all started in the best way...
- I'm calling a doctor. - No!
25 dollars!
I will not have a doctor.
I will not get it!
It's already enough...
The child will be born in a house not his...
But he... will grow...
in his home...
No doctor.
We need to do things.
- Which things? - Go to the kitchen...
torn seven eyelashes from the right eye, you are from the left...
boil in salt water, and scatter them in the corners of the room.
- I'm calling a doctor. - No!
One two Three...
four five...
It's a boy!
- How is she? - She's fine, but she's exhausted.
Scalcia and swings, small.
Sing your splendid work.
Sing and live, live and sing!
I have a child.
I have a child!
And how will you call him?
We'll call him...
Paul.
It's a female!
I have a daughter!
It's a boy!
We have another child.
It's a boy!
I have three children!
- Give your hat, dad. - I'll take the shirt.
Watch me! Watch me! I'm a construction worker!
- A mason... how's the baby? - Look at the baby.
Just a few weeks.
Even if we had the $ 500...
we should still pay 5 dollars a week.
We will not have to pay the rent.
Jeremiah, it will be done.
And we'll have our Saturday night again.
And wine.
Just a few weeks.
I have some work.
Half day, for one man.
- Half a day, for a single man? - What the hell...
There are no more bricks? We have no hands anymore? Why do not we build?
You did not hear? There's Depression.
Decide between you who will take the job.
Jeremiah, I wanted to talk to you. Will you be home tonight?
I'm always at home.
I'll make a jump.
Half day for a single man.
- Wall Street collapsed. - No wall built by me has collapsed.
The careers of the builders are over.
The soul of a nation contradicts itself.
Half day, for one man.
At Giulio's house the air became hungry.
The wombs, sores.
At Giulio's house, the hearts of the children have become...
swollen bladders.
At Jeremiah's house...
the dream is dying.
There's worse than hunger.
Money was put aside for the house.
Money raised from my food and my comfort.
Now we are eating our dream.
We are childless.
I only have my woman.
His blood is sick.
He desperately needs food and warmth.
I have to worry only about my hunger and my cold.
There is not much to worry about in the case of Luigi.
He has enough in the bank to keep going for a while.
What is there to say?
There's just to say that at Giulio's house there is more 'hunger and cold than in those of all.
It must be said that Murdin must decide; He is the foreman.
Do you think he will choose you because you are the fastest?
No.
The work goes to Giulio.
Thank you.
Heaven has forgotten us.
Mom? What are you thinking about?
What are you thinking about?
I was praying... and look!
Guys! The snow!
- Money! - Money! Money!
Hey.
Where am I?
And what is this smell?
Spaghetti! With real meat sauce!
Spaghetti?
Oh, no, I have to be in the wrong house. Forgive me...
No, no, you're in the right house.
Who are you?
- I'm Annina. - Ah, Annina!
- And who is the beautiful lady? - Do not be stupid, it's mom!
You! I remember seeing you somewhere...
- Come on, let's eat... - Come on, let's eat!
Oh, look look look, smell, smell...
And wait to see what else I have.
Wine!
Giulio's wife brought him.
I do not know why'.
It's good.
There's wine for everyone tonight.
John, Annina...
John...
- Annina... - The beautiful lady...
And for me.
- To us! Hooray! - Hurray! Hooray!
It is Murdin. I let him in.
I'd like to talk to you.
Come on.
Ate?
- Thanks, too much trouble, thanks. - No, no, sit down.
Perhaps after listening to what I came to tell you...
maybe you will not want me to eat with you.
You are welcome to our table. Sit.
Is it for the house?
Yes'.
But we can talk later.
We have no secrets for my children.
They know what's good and bad.
It's the house.
I can not do otherwise.
I have to sell the house.
Selling the house?!
All my money is gone!
I told women of charity: "the government must help me...
because I'm old and hungry ".
But the charity woman says: "no Jaroslav, you have home...
You sell the house, the government can not help you until you sell it."
- What can a poor man do? - But you can not.
- Announced... - No! He can not'!
This is our thing. We worked for her. We loved her.
I'll give you some money.
I'll give you $ 100.
There are only 125 left!
- It does not matter! - Announced!
It's my house!
The house you promised me.
It will be mine!
I can not accept, madam.
Take them, Jaroslav.
Take them.
He will not sell the house.
I will not sell the house.
Even if I'm dying of hunger.
Sit down.
Will there be spaghetti with meat sauce even tomorrow?
- If it will snow... - Will it snow?
Paul went to check.
Who will tell him?
- Mrs. Olson's radio man. - Dad did not know?
No. Only the radio man knows.
Someone knocks.
I'm going.
A moment.
Oh, Murdin, come in.
- We save on electricity. - Sure.
- Now I turn it on. - No, that's okay.
- All right. Sit down. - Thank you.
I have the chance to have a contract.
And how?
I made an offer.
What makes you believe that you will win the contract?
My offer will be the lowest.
- Was the race not secret? - Not for me.
- Did you offer less than this amount? - Turn the page.
This is my offer.
It's impossible.
Do you mean that you can not do it?
- You think you can? - We need to cut some costs.
It seems they have already been cut.
The props, for example...
The props are for the safety of men!
The wood is not strong enough.
You know that the safety rules are about three times...
more severe than it really is necessary.
Good luck, Murdin. You will need it.
I want you to join me in this venture.
As a foreman.
No.
- We can work together... - No!
- I do not understand why you're so hot... - At least I want to sleep at night!
Well...
Pope'...
- Yes'... - On the radio they said no more snow.
All right, Paulie.
Well, the spaghetti sauce is good even without meat.
Go to mom.
We live in difficult times, Jeremiah.
Think about it.
All right, Murdin, I'll think about it.
Tomorrow will rain'.
There is no need to save on electricity.
I... I have a job with Murdin.
Well, this is the job to do.
A job! It took a miracle these days.
It's not big?
Hey Jeremiah, how did you do it?
Yes'.
Well, it went like this.
I... I went to Murdin, and I told him...
"Your kids want to work, and this is your moment."
"If you find a job, they'll do it."
Hunger has given our men four arms and two backs.
Everyone will work like two men, without rest.
- From sunrise to sunset. - Jeremiah...
I would like to say something...
My... my nose is famous.
There's something about this job... a smell... that does not come back to my nose.
- And who asked you to smell it? - I say nothing, Jeremiah, it's just...
it's not just a construction job, it's a demolition.
Throw down entire walls.
This work is not safe.
What do you want, an American golden guarantee seal?
Sure... go sell the apples, that's for sure.
- Freezing in the corner is safe. - Sitting at home is safe.
Not with his wife.
Starving, the most safe in the world, zero risks.
I do not often ask questions, but when I do, I want an answer.
What do you want to know?
I want to know how Murdin got the job.
Did you cut on security to win the contract?
Here's what I want to know.
- Listen, Giulio... - I answer.
Idiot.
With Jeremiah as a foreman...
since he has carefully studied the projects...
He did it?
I saw the projects.
It's enough for me. Come on guys, they're waiting for us, let's go!
What a fool I am.
Even if I knew the world would fall on me, I would have to go anyway.
Jeremiah...
What's wrong?
What do you mean?
We will not talk to each other anymore.
We talk to each other all the time.
Only with the lips.
- You imagine it. - No.
You always talked to me about your work.
Who was jealous and who was satisfied.
You should have understood by now that all jobs are the same.
You know what I'm asking...
but yet...
you do not answer.
Why, Jeremiah?
There's nothing to say.
What do you think, to be beating the carpet?
- I can not go faster. - Why not?
- I'm scared. - You accepted the job!
Floors and walls are made of paper.
You knew what the job was like. If you can not make it, I'll take another.
Here we go!
And this calls it work fast?
Yes, I call it fast.
We have promised.
We promised to finish the job quickly.
You are not working with me!
You know, my father wanted me to be a barber.
Which barber works like that?
You still have a chance to become a barber!
Giulio, you're a lucky man.
Here it is.
Giulio, Margherita's pizzas would bring any man to the wedding.
What did you think?
The chief does not eat with his men.
What is a delegation?
Jeremiah...
We came to talk to you.
We have always been like...
five branches in a bundle.
We know well...
that this work is not good.
- And that's why we wanted... - I do not want to hear any more complaints.
This job is as good as any other.
For every job there are hundreds of hungry men on the street.
Did I tie you with ropes? This is a free country.
Do you think that work is too dangerous? Leave him.
So we...
we wanted to ask you if you would come tonight from Gennaro...
like old times.
And with a bottle of wine for...
wash away this...
bad situation that has been created between you and us.
Luigi, the siren!
Jeremiah, as far as I try, my soul...
It is lost in the gentle hills of the Abruzzi.
Luigi, get up!
- Jeremiah... - I said get up!
Do not talk to me like that! We are friends.
Until this job ends, I have no friends.
Jeremiah...
There's nothing in the world that's worth all of this.
- Go to work, Luigi! - Jeremiah, look...
If I am forced, I will replace you too.
We need more props.
This work is like a house made of straws.
Just a bit 'of wind and everything collapses.
Come on, Jeremiah, relax, everything is going well.
We can not do it.
Do the boys complain?
- No but... - Look, we did not chained them.
At any moment, whoever wants can leave.
- Any time. - But...
How can hungry men resign?
Ah, cut it short, it's just a job like the others.
There's nothing to worry about.
Stop worrying, and continue with work.
- Who is it'? - Luigi.
Call an ambulance.
Luigi...
What can I do for you, Luigi?
Jeremiah!
What are you, Jeremiah?
Anything.
You're not drunk...
I have to go.
- Come to Gennaro, let's talk for a moment. - No.
- Are you in trouble, Jeremiah? - I'm OK.
Annina!
It is a torment!
They have no space to play, they are becoming savages.
Good for a moment... Enough!
Yes'!
Good!
Here we go.
Come on, kids, let's go.
Luigi.
Dead?
No. Crippled.
- I think I'll go for a walk. - Yes, Jeremiah.
Why do not you go to the tavern?
It will relax you.
There is another union meeting today.
Not today!
Because'? What is today?
Anything.
I thought you'd stay home tonight.
It's been so long...
Since we all ate together.
Will you be home for dinner?
- Yes, I'll try. - Please.
The children.
They have not seen you for long.
I'll be home.
Mom? I'm hungry.
I would not forget my birthday.
It will come'.
You heard mom, she's at a union meeting.
He can not be at the meeting for so long.
Oh, it will come.
Well, it's enough.
Oh, please, mom, just a few minutes.
I struggled a lot to build that radio.
Let's eat.
It just happened that I was...
what Murdin addressed.
It could have been any of the others.
They would have done the same things I did.
You believe me, do not you, Kathleen?
I believed it every time you told me.
Why are you looking at me like that?
I was sorry for the wine...
It's a very good wine, but you did not even notice it.
For how you're using it, the more wine cheap would have been the same thing.
Yes, it's quality.
The worst is, that does not seem to help you at all.
I know very well how wine is felt.
It must have cost a lot.
Because'?
I thought it would make you happy.
It's your birthday.
Birthday?
- You remembered him. - Yes, I remembered it.
I have to go home.
But you can not in this state!
Let me in!
Come back to her.
- Do not say it anymore. - We do not want you...
"Happy birthday dear dad, happy birthday to you".
It's a puzzle, right?
What does it mean?
- Oh, I do not know. - It must mean something.
Maybe it's because I'm bad...
that I am being punished.
It would be understandable.
But then why are Annunziata and the children punished?
And why was Luigi falling?
Poor Jeremiah...
Something happened to his little ordained world...
where everything is good or bad.
What's in your world?
Neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.
Only the strong and the weak.
But I feel strong!
Strong enough to live for yourself?
To get you from life what you can offer?
What are you trying to tell me, Kathleen?
I would escape with you, Jeremiah, now.
To escape?
Run away?
Escape from my work, my friends...
from my family, where's the strength in that?
And Jeremiah? And he? He has no right...
a little peace? Of happiness'?
We could be happy, Jeremiah.
No, a man does not live just for himself.
There must be something more.
What more'?
Kathleen.
Once I asked you to marry me.
You were strong, you refused, you wanted freedom.
- Was not it enough? - Yes, yes it was.
Is it enough now?
You see...
There's something more, Kathleen.
Yes'. I suppose so.
Ours was a strange love.
All loves are strange.
Maybe one day, while you're walking with your wife...
we will meet.
How old is your son Paul?
Nine.
Nine...
Annunziata...
Announced, I did not hit you...
but the house, work, fear...
bitterness in my heart.
I should have told you, I should have told the men.
You should have told me.
Who will be well, now?
We'll finish soon.
I will speak to men.
We'll be careful. From now on we will work together.
Announced, we must never go further.
I should not have...
let me grow old.
I love you.
This...
This is a good Friday.
How it is, I'll clean up.
I was wrong. I lied to you about security measures.
This job is really a house made of straws.
You have all risked your life on my word.
I do not want this weight on my conscience anymore.
No...
Do you mean that this work was dangerous?
But beyond that, there was something between us...
from man to man, to which I have wronged.
And especially for this I ask you for forgiveness.
Pardon?
Easy to find kind words. It is even easier to spend them.
No, Giovanni.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm ready to consider it...
- thing of the past. - So do I.
I did everything I had to do. I do not know what other words to use.
You're the worst boss we've ever had, you know, right?
As they say in my province...
"There is no tyrant who was not a slave".
But my generosity It is well known.
I have a heart as big as the dome of St. Peter's!
What are you doing there?
Do not you have a match for an old friend?
Wait a minute.
We have to put more props before other walls collapse.
If we are united...
there will be no more risk.
I think it would be better...
John! Take three men and put reinforcements on the third floor.
And spread the word.
From now, the priority It's security.
Forget about speed.
- Ok. - Well, let's get back to work.
Lights! Prepare the cement mixers.
I believe that today we will start the pouring of concrete.
- The tower of Pisa fell there, it would not yield. - Good.
The men removed the debris from the floor above.
Probably there are no more real dangers anyway.
My son Paul built me a radio.
- All by yourself, think! - A radio?
An electric car like magic...
from which music and Christian voices come from.
Who knows, maybe we have a new Marconi.
Eh, maybe!
I think I'm going to check if the reinforcements are sufficient.
Giulio!
- Stay away, eh? - Ok.
- Eye! - Giulio...
We have increased the reinforcements below.
Let's try a piece of wall.
Now I can start breathing again.
Sure. But not sure enough.
We need more reinforcements.
Jeremiah, I do not need a golden seal of quality.
I'll finish right away.
Your feet are safe, but not your head.
Do as I say. Put more upstairs reinforcements.
- Hey, Jeremiah! - Eh?
We are ready to cast!
All right, go ahead!
- Everything is ready! - Wait a minute.
- Better check those cables up there first. - All right.
Where does that laugh come from, and why?
I felt it inside...
- What do we have to laugh, then? - Just nothing!
Jeremiah! What are you doing now?
According to my old American cipollone, 10 minutes are left at two o'clock.
- In a little 'let's go... - No, in an hour.
- And then, home. - Jeremiah!
- Watch out for the casting! - Ok, start!
All right, yes, yes!
Hey, Luciano, we're pouring.
Laborer! What do you think about now?
As soon as we finish at 3, step from Mulberry Street and I buy the biggest eel!
- I prefer seafood, with shell. - Especially the oysters, which is watering!
Hey Jeremiah, what time is it?
Five minutes at 2.
Help!
Save me! I am being buried alive!
I can be saved! Save me!
In a few seconds I will be buried...
If only I could breathe they would reach me!
Help! Help!
Ah! If only I could bite me in the air...
- I must! - I can not breathe!
I can not die like this!
This can not be my exit!
Air! I need air!
Save me!
Annunziata! My children!
My children...
Annunziata! Forgive me!
I tried!
I can not!
I can not leave them!
I can not!
It only did that that told him to do.
He was a good man.
Is there anything else he wants to add?
What does it mean?
He asks if there's anything else he wants to tell him about the incident.
What else is there to say?
No, nothing else to add.
Please come back with your family.
What are they talking about now?
They are arguing about how much could be paid.
How will they calculate it?
They will determine how much her husband would earn for the rest of his life.
How much he would have earned...
Is this the value of a man's life?
Who can tell him his value?
Could I tell him that?
It was my life...
What do you have here?
You, men...
with your clean faces and your soft hands...
What do you have, what can I repay?
With what...
with what can you repay me for my Jeremiah?
My beautiful Jeremiah.
What do you have...
within these walls, or your hearts...
to be able to offer and to be able to say with decency...
"This is for Jeremiah"?
What can you offer these children?
What do you know about love...
and of the dream...
and of the house?
How can you judge the life of this man?
How can you help?
You have arrived too late.
Too late.
Case closed.
Annunziata.
Annunziata!
They came to trial.
What did they judge?
They have judged in the way men judge in this world of men.
It's 1,000 dollars.
There will be monthly payments for children.
In any case, you will not go hungry.
What do you think, Annunziata?
I think in the end...
Jeremiah bought it, a house.
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