I'm no longer the stranger among you.
No one is a stranger among the Feacians.
Our people prosper, and the city has its future.
We are not boasting over anyone.
Whoever comes, if gods the wish for him to stay, we treat him..
..as an equal, as one who wants to live in peace.
I tell you as my own brother Odysseus: stay, be like us.
I'm a stranger who always wish to settle: Among Eolus for one month,..
..among Kirka for one year... - Kirka? Who's Kirka *Circe*?
Kirka is a woman magician with a sweet voice, the sister of Aetes *Kolhis king*,..
..born from Sun and Persea, daughter of the Ocean.
But when we reached that island, *Aiaia prob. Ponzo near Naples*,..
..we failed to understand its secret. And hoped to return with my company.
*sounds of drums,flaut and pipes*
After being so many days at sea, we scorched on the sun and a salty wind..
..and a green wall which encompassed the shore promised a lot,..
..a shade, a hunt for fresh meat and cold water.
But looking at the forest made me wonder: what's hiding behind the trees?
The next morning I made a decision:
..I split us up into 2 squads: one which is lead by me,..
..the other by Eurilochus. One will explore the island,..
..the other will guard the ship.
Who'll decide which squad to go where?
Lotting, that's best.
I won' impose you my will.
We suffered too much because of my visit to Eolus.
I can't be firm to go personally, and I hope that luck will choose me.
Eurilochus, let the gods decide. Lets pray to them.
Black stays, white leaves.
Nevertheless I am sorry for not going with you.
Eurilochus squad departed. It was the first time he goes alone.
We waited. The twilight came and than the night falls.
At dawn my friends hadn't returned..
..so I prepared to follow their tracks.
Odysseus!
That's Eurilochus, and alone,..
..and he couldn't take a breath so exited he was.
His heart almost break.
- Where are our friends? - Horror, Odysseus!
- Go on! What happened? Speak! - I don't know! I don't know...
...forest become wierd -- - How do you mean wierd? -It was...
...terrible! Horrible! - Take it easy! Where are our comrades?
Every day seems longer, and fate more hostile.
Indeed, fate has played again and your people suffered.
I tried to save them but didn't know how!
- That wasn't an accusation Odysseus. - I suppose.
The leafs became more rare, and the trees looked less like in autumn ..
..and we heared animal voices, without seeing them.
Suddenly, among the trees we found a ruined wall,..
..which seemed like remnant of some ancient and strange building.
We entered it, but the sounds multiplied even more..
.. and in all directions like they are echoing eachother.
The others sat tired on the ground, and I left..
..and I heared some terrible grunts. When I returned I saw my friends..
..packed up one to another like animals.
Yes, it was them, but transformed into pigs!
Terrified I stared at them, and I heared some music,..
..and than a woman appears and comes near the pigs..
..touched them and laughed.
-And you? - I run. I jumped over the wall..
..and found my way back to here.
- Show me that way. - Stop! Where are you going?
- Where were you and your squad. - Run from here, I beg you,..
..run! - If you are afraid, I'll go alone!
And stop trembling, stop it!
I felt an overwhelming desire to go.
- And you weren't scared? - No, the challenge to discover the unknown was stronger.
As hard it was to me I wished to try again.
My life had no other choice than put it at risk again.
The nature on the island was attractive, and my steps were..
..guided by the song of that woman.
My impatient grew, so I forced myself to be cautious.
Where are you going alone, to on unknown place?
You know that your friends were transformed into dirty animals..
..by one woman and you are hasting to liberate them.
Are you sure same fate will not fall upon you?
I think no one but me can save them.
Who are you? I find you on the road and you know my name?
I won't like to tell you my name in this forest, because here lives Kirka..
..and her house is in any tree, all around, in any branch.
She would transform you as any other man that comes to her,..
..but she can't. Then she'll remember,..
..that what I already told her, that the traveler with the name Odysseus..
..will arrive and bring her all..
..the goddess didn't know:
..thoughts, pain and lust for man..
..because that's her destiny. Turn around!
Do you see that flower? Pick it up, C'mon pick it up
You can't?
Look, its easy. Eat and the spell will be broken. *plant "Moly"-thus holly Moly*
Now I'll tell you what to do:
When Kirka falls on her knees, powerless to harm you,..
..then draw your sword, with the intention killing her.
You'll scare her and she will offer you her bed.
You won't refuse her because you want to save your friends,..
..but be careful Odysseus, you may change into a man..
..who isn't a man *ie soft,sleazy*, and the plants can't save you from that.
Where are you going? Who are you?
Hermes thus vanished among the trees,..
..the messenger from the gods who presented himself as a boy with a golden stick.
- So did he tell you his name? - I knew that it was him.
My heart beats stronger when thinking about Kirka..
..and her magic with which she'll try to seduce me.
*bird song*
*strange music*
What are you looking for?
- Home. - Yours? Who knows, maybe its here in the forest.
Look around. How many searched for her and found it.
- What are you doing here? - Waiting... Waiting for someone, forever.
Then tell me his name.
You'll wait less.
Maybe I know him, because I travel from afar..
..and know many men. I can speak with him..
..if you tell me his name. - You are clever stranger.
But why do you care anyway? Lit that fire, please.
Go through there. The road leads to a house there. Jump!
- To jump to the other side? - Isn't that what are you looking for?
Penelope!
*Birds and crows*
Come, sit there.
You'll be very happy if you drink this.
About what are you thinking then?
About that plant with the bitter fruits that should protect me..
..if Hermes didn't lie.
Now you'll painlessly transform into animal.
But I start to feel pain. It becomes unbearable.
I felt as if fire was burning in my chest, as two forces that collide in me.
C'mon, go to the pigsty!
Then, at Kirkas face I saw defeat.
First curiosity, than fear.
What Hermes told me, came to fullfilment.
Now, it was Kirka's turn to suffer.
She screamed, twisted ,it was terrible, but as Hermes tell..
..I get the urge to kill her.
I barely restrained because I saw the woman again.
I was saved. She realised I had greater power than her.
You are Odysseus. It was foretold to me. Odysseus will come from Troy.
His mind won't be deceived.
Why don't you kill me?
Because of my comrades. I want them back.
Your..comrades? - Yes, those you have transformed into animals.
Return them to human shape.
- Why? - Because they are people.
-I don't understand. -If I tell you that I'm responsible for them,..
..will you understand? - Not yet Odysseus. I don't know what unites people..
..but I know what you want, and I'll listen to you.
I entered Kirka's magical world.
I didn't understand it, but I went to release my friends..
..not knowing that I'll loose them.
I only felt how unreal everything is.
*grunt*
These are your friends.
That's how they look, but they are unaware of us.
This is their true nature, and they don't need you.
Look good at them. You can change them back to a human appearance,..
..but think twice before you decide.
I want them as men!
They look as they have awoken from a long dream..
..or got born again, scarred and unawared.
Did they look as before?
Yes, but with strange glows in their eyes.
Something unknown set between us.
Because of Kirka? Because of the power you were given?
Its human to be afraid of the unknown. Didn't you convince them?
Maybe it was wrong not to immediately speak with them friendly.
I barely could speak. Just as them, I was astonished and restless.
Something unknown set between us for the first time.
I tried to get close to them. But they run.
Odysseus!
She was very attractive.
And you abandoned your friends..
..and wished to return because of that woman?
No, I can't tell I have abandoned them.
They meanwhile fled through the forest,..
..and returned to the boat. I found them on the shore,..
..and wished to return them with me, but Eurilochus intervened..
..and convinced them to stop me. They almost imprisoned me.
Maybe you wished to throw us again in the pigsty?
You are already becoming a servant of that woman.
Remember the Cyclops perhaps? There also your madness had driven us!
Than he draw his sword, and even if Euriloch was my cousin,..
..I threatened that I'll cut his head off.
But they were scared already and delusioned..
..that hardly anything would happen.
They didn't see me a whole year till I was with Kirka.
- A whole year? Are you sure? - Sure. No. Time flow..
..isn't perceivable in Kirka's habitat, but outside..
..on the shores where my shipmates lived, the days, the months,..
..and the seasons pass.
Your friend toiled for that what I would give them for free.
Look at their lives. Simple savages.
They toil together and still have a poor harvest.
And for me, in this forest, wine is as abundant as my heart wish..
..to be without need for picking, pressing, rain or sun.
See how everything is prepared? This cabin for example.
Even the garden.
It's not because of ingratitude that my men don't want..
.. to live here. They are common people, accomodated to that and in fear for us.
No,it isn't their fear which separated them from us,..
..but some of your thoughts. Isn't it?
Do I have thoughts you don't know?
C'mon.
Odysseus! Odysseus!
Speak, what do you want? What do you want to tell me? Speak Eurilochus.
You forgot Ithaca Odysseus.
You promised to return us all home, and you forgot your promise.
- Watch your mouth! - You are not king of Ithaca anymore.
You are not a king, You are not even a man of Ithaca.
- Odysseus! Odysseus!! - Where are you?
It was a nasty dream which leaves pain in my heart..
..but I understood that the day of return had come.
Urge for the fatherland ressurected in me.
That means to gather my comrades again.
Now I should gathered strenght -- - ...to leave Kirka?
- To tell them the truth. - That you are close to her?
I couldn't do anything without her. That was her magic.
And even to leave I needed her help.
I'm going to my queen.
I know I can't love myself and you don't love me either. That's my destiny.
Only those astrayed and those desperate for return,..
..the gods send to me. No one loves me.
No one loves the unknown. They only want to forget everything,..
..to be drawn into their peace, bound like animals..
..around me, waiting for a peaceful death.
That's why I don't expect anything from men. I never used force..
..to have them stay with me. Go if you want!
I didn't press you then, I won't do it now.
When I told you to jump over the fire, you jumped.
I didn't force you. So why are you asking me now to let you go..
..when you know I can't bind you? Why are you asking me?
*owl hoot*
Remember what I said, when you wanted to return..
..your friends into men? You risked your life.
I know, but we can't escape fate: our homeland,..
..the land of our fathers,that's also what the gods put in our hearts.
But you know I can't protect you there?
And you Odysseus, away from this place you won't have powers?
Powers that return your friends to people.
I told her again I wanted to go, and she didn't respond surprised..
..nor grieved, but why she insisted to warn me..
..about the destiny of my shipmates?
She tried to protect me from inssufferable hardships.
That I understood.
Odysseus, when you arrived on this island,..
..did you know whom you'll find? - No.
And when you searched for my home, and found me in the forest,..
..did you only look for your friends? You alone got here.
Why? Did you think you could save their lives?
Or did you wish that only men..
..look at the secrets of heaven?
You crossed the line Odysseus. Its too late to return.
All what's left is to cross the step of the abyss.
- What abyss? - Hades.
The path you choose to return home, leads over..
..the other side of the ocean, where dead dwells.
Only there you'll find what you searched for so desperately.
And now behold, you enter the realm of dead.
*According to Homer,Odysseus and crew sailed one day to west. Od.11.*
*dark music*
It's a great honor for a mortal to visit that realm.
Odysseus, tell us in detail about your extraordinary experience.
Your privilage is also ours. We'll be very grateful.
Your homeland isn't so distant any more.
In Erebus everything is infinetely distant,because memories fade away. *Erebus: dark, gloomy place through which the dead passed on their way to Hades*
It was a spirit assembly: the maidens of sad faces,..
..and elders and warriors fallen in battle.
I followed Kirkas advice: "You'll sacrifice a black lamb..
..and its blood will flow for the blind prophet Tiresias *blood=life strenght*.
And pursuing the other spirits, speak: the gods of Hades:
..the gods of Hades,.." - the gods of Hades,..
- And you, the dead,.. - And you, the dead,..
..who dwell in this hopeless place,..
..if I ever return to Ithaca, I swear..
..to sacrifice a fat calf as offering.
And to Tiresias black wool ram.
*dispersed voices*
Give us blood.
Get back. Don't come near. Don't test my pity.
I must speak only with Tiresias.
- Give me to drink... that blood. - Mother, Mother, what are you doing here?
Oh son of Laertes, many turning and cunning, *gk. polytropon and metis..*..
..*..main Odysseus character* ..why have you, misfortuned, left the sunlight?
Why did you come into this house without joy?
To ask you Tiresias, and to know my destiny.
Put away your sword and give me to drink blood if you want to know the truth.
You want to know the day of your return,..
..return which the god will make bitter.
You want to escape the wrath of Poseidon..
..because you've blinded his son, and mocked him severely.
How much I'll suffer because of that? Tell me one thing:
..shall I ever return to my homeland? Return to Ithaca? - you'll return, yes,..
..but you'll endure many more misfortunes.
You'll come late and with difficulties, and you'll loose all your friends.
On a ship which isn't yours. And in your home you'll find people who..
..bully your wife Penelope.
-You'll avenge them. - Only on that day I shall see Ithaca?
Not even than you'll stop, but on the first occasion..
..you'll abandon your island, and sail till you come..
..among men who don't know about sailing, and don't salt their food.
They'll look at you in awe.
Than, stick oar into the ground..
..and make a sacrifice to Poseidon.
Than you'll return home..
..and find your rest. Death will come gently on you,..
..when oldness overcomes you. People around you will live happily.
That's your destiny. I told you the truth.
- No! - Go Odysseus, leave this dark place,..
..this ultimate place. Forget us, the dead.
I've heared your truth, but let me see my mother now.
If she is here,let me hear her for the last time.
I can't allow you, nor forbid you: I'm no more, I'm gone.
*music in background*
Go son on daylight, You must save..
..your dear.
I see your presence Agamemnon, glorious Atrides, tell me:
..what fate befell on you? Are you drawn?
Did some evil happen? Or you are killed by the enemy?
My queen, Klitemnestra, set my death.
As bull I've fallen, smitten by the sword of her lover. *Aegistus*.
[Narrator: Ah, there wasn't such evil bitch..]
[..ever but this one who conceived crime in heart.]
[Terrible crime she plotted planning death to a lawful husband.]
[What shameful and monstruous act she committed..]
[..to ashame every future wifes, even decent ones.]
Listen carefully to my advice:
When you come to your homeland, you disembark in secrecy!
Don't trust no one, not your best friend, not even your wife.
Good bye Agamemnon.
After me, no one should be loyal to his dear.
One speak, others do, if you don't want to die young.
When I went to war, I left Penelope as a young woman.
*Tiresias:* "In your home you'll find people bullying your wife."
Achilles!
No more Achilles. He died on the plains of Troy.
Till you were alive, we worship you as a god,..
..now I see that you are the lord among the dead,..
..so don't be sad for Achilles being dead.
Don't comfort me.
I would rather be a slave in a poor man's house,..
..but alive on earth, than ruler among the dead.
Guard your precious life Odysseus. That's your best treasure and property.
*Mother:* Go immediately with the sunlight my son, you must save..
your dear.
Mother, my dear mother, I see you for the last time.
I didn't know how to save you. Forgive me.
My offspring, how did you get here? It is terrible here to watch you alive.
When you die, is there anyone close to your eyes?
Did you receive a proper funeral?
I'm dead, and nothing else matters. I've fulfilled my destiny.
But when you ask me,..
..to long for you, I take my own life.
And my father?
Your father has grown old from waithing for you.
He doesnt come to town, but dwells among the servants.
As a savage,he sleeps near the fire in the winter..
..and on a pile of leaves in summertime.
Where the night falls, there he is sighing for you.
My mother, let me hug you. Let me touch you.
You can't my son, that's the law of the death.
My veins don't hold flesh any more, fire devours them mercilessly,..
.. and the soul as a tender dream evaporates. *Kremation is postmycenean custom*
*Acheans burried their dead* But you return with the sunlight!
Hug me!
Ah, mother!
[Narrator: 3 times you've tried .]
[Your heart wished for a hug.]
[3 times as the shadow or a dream she slips through the arms.]
[The unstoppable pain is deeper and deeper.]
Odysseus, Odysseus.
Elpenor!
Yes, it's me, the most misfortuned among your friends.
But I left you alive on Kirka island!
Son of Laertes, don't leave me unburried.
Give me a proper burial before you abandon Kirkas island.
Bury me with my armor. Make a grave on the seashore..
..and stick my oar into the ground.
Now you have one friend less Odysseus.
*bird song*
- What happened to Elpenor? - It just now happened. He was up there,..
..singing and slipped. Maybe he was drunk.
We heared moans. We called for you but you weren't there.
He's dead. Where were you Odysseus, all these months?
The shadows buries shadows.
Elpenor, most innocent among us.
I don't believe anymore there is a salvation for anyone.
It's time for you to return Odysseus.
No! Not without my friends. I'll fight for them to death.
But you can still save them, think about that.
Is it true what you are saying, because Tiresias told me: "You'll return..
..alone, without friends"?
You are already alone Odysseus, since you returned from the house of Hades.
You are a man with two deaths.
This is what Tiresias wished to tell you: don't expect..
..that your crew obeys to you as before.
Elpenor! Elpenor! Elpenor!
Prepare for your journey Odysseus.
I'll show you that even that brings me pain.
*Odysseus:* Saying this Kirka goes into her cabin.
From her lips she foretold me a prophecy.
I'll tell you all what will happen to you on your journey..
..so that you and your shipmates know that there is a path of salvation.
First, you'll come to the Sirens, who atracts everyone..
..who gets near to them. you'll see the rock, but you won't hear the sea,..
..and you'll understand that you came to a terrible place.
Don't get close, because there are only bones..
..of those who heared the Sirens song.
Will you be able to resist the temptation?
Where to will you direct your ship's prow?
Then avoid the wandering rocks *Plankte* taking direction to Big Dipper *north*.
*Planktes-prob. Stromboli*
Only one man, Jason *argonaut*, navigated them for avoiding doom..
..because he was loved by the goddess *Hera*. You may not even try to see them!
That will be your second temptation. And third you'll have on the island..
..Trinakia *Sicily*: There you'll see black pasturing cattle.
Don't kill them. They are the Sun cattle *of the god Helios*.
But you'll be hungry and devoid of hope.
Than you'll sucumb, on the last temptation.
*In this film,important part with passage of Scilla and Charibdes was omitted*
*Choosing between two evils is preserved in English as 'rock and hard place*
*Odysseus chooses the lesser evil, Scilla, beast with six dog heads, who..*
*..devoured six sailors, instead of Charybdes, the giant whirpool which would destroy the whole ship*
*It was believed that both monsters lived in the strait of Messina.*
*Because of his detailed descriptions, Strabo considered Homer as the father of Geography*
I have nothing to say to you any more Odysseus. The moment of departure has arrived.
Euriloch, Filetor, Heraclio, come and listen.
As soon as we set sail, the temptations will wait for us.
If you want to listen to me, you'll all die and no one will be saved.
- Why are you threathening us Odysseus? - I don't threaten,..
..that's the prophecy of Tiresias. That's what I take with me from Hades.
It isn't enough you've traveled all the seas...
but you've also returned from the dead! Why are you mocking us?
We still mourn Elpenor who just went to the underworld --
No mortal ever returned from Hades.
- Maybe you think you are a god? - You must believe me!
All right. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe Kirkas words!
- Kirka? - Who's Kirka?
- Don't you remember anything? - Remember what?
Nothing? Not even how she transformed you into pigs,and I return you to humans?
And what did she give us to eat? Acorn? *laughter*
We are all tired Odysseus, tired of your stories.
Like this journey that never ends.
*Kirka*: "You are alone Odysseus, because you know what they don't."
"I'll evaporate from the memory of your friends..
..and memory about this island. But everything you know...
..and they don't, that I can't erase."
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