1
00:01:54,572 --> 00:01:58,493
<i>Sometimes I admit to
myself that it's possible</i>

2
00:01:58,493 --> 00:02:01,454
<i>I will never be able
to finish my life's work.</i>

3
00:02:05,583 --> 00:02:07,460
<i>My one and only book.</i>

4
00:02:09,837 --> 00:02:12,840
<i>And that in the end,
without her...</i>

5
00:02:19,305 --> 00:02:22,142
<i>...there will be nothing.</i>

6
00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:23,852
<i>And I will die alone.</i>

7
00:02:40,952 --> 00:02:42,537
<i>What are you doing here,
Coane Dominic?</i>

8
00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:48,376
I have a migraine.

9
00:02:48,376 --> 00:02:50,003
I thought a walk might help.

10
00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:52,798
But in your pajamas
on Christmas Eve?

11
00:02:52,798 --> 00:02:54,341
Don't catch cold. Look.

12
00:02:57,094 --> 00:02:59,513
At the first opportunity,
I'll...

13
00:03:02,349 --> 00:03:04,518
What do you do
at the first opportunity?

14
00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:10,023
At the first
opportunity, I have to-- I have--

15
00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:11,859
It's in the drawer.

16
00:03:11,859 --> 00:03:14,903
I-- I have saved--
I saved it for--

17
00:03:14,903 --> 00:03:18,824
At the first opportunity,
I will open the blue envelope.

18
00:03:20,576 --> 00:03:24,496
Not here in Piatra Neamt
where everyone knows me,

19
00:03:24,496 --> 00:03:25,664
but somewhere far away.

20
00:03:30,377 --> 00:03:32,504
Bucharest perhaps.

21
00:03:32,504 --> 00:03:33,547
At Easter.

22
00:04:59,467 --> 00:05:00,760
<i>Universul.</i>

23
00:05:02,095 --> 00:05:03,555
<i>Universul.</i>

24
00:05:12,314 --> 00:05:17,778
<i>Special Easter
edition. Universul.</i>

25
00:05:17,778 --> 00:05:20,405
War clouds over Romania.

26
00:05:21,573 --> 00:05:22,908
Oh, it's pouring.

27
00:05:35,087 --> 00:05:37,089
<i>Universul.</i>

28
00:05:50,060 --> 00:05:51,812
He was struck by lightning.

29
00:05:51,812 --> 00:05:52,855
Call an ambulance.

30
00:05:54,690 --> 00:05:57,526
Call for some help.

31
00:05:57,526 --> 00:06:00,070
Look, who knows
what sins he has committed

32
00:06:00,070 --> 00:06:01,781
that God would strike him
on Easter.

33
00:06:01,781 --> 00:06:07,203
They say whoever dies during
Easter goes straight to heaven.

34
00:06:14,210 --> 00:06:15,711
<i>Dominic.</i>

35
00:06:21,884 --> 00:06:24,262
Oh...

36
00:06:24,262 --> 00:06:27,723
<i>I will wish you.
You know what I mean. I mean...</i>

37
00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,729
<i>I will love you
until the day I die.</i>

38
00:06:44,073 --> 00:06:47,952
The eye seems intact,

39
00:06:47,952 --> 00:06:52,248
but I don't know
if he is blind or not.

40
00:06:52,248 --> 00:06:54,918
I don't even know
if he's conscious,

41
00:06:54,918 --> 00:07:01,091
if he hears or
if he understands what he hears.

42
00:07:01,091 --> 00:07:06,513
If you understand what I say,
squeeze my finger.

43
00:07:19,025 --> 00:07:21,528
I'm Dr. Roman Stanciulescu.

44
00:07:21,528 --> 00:07:23,947
I'm here to help you.

45
00:07:27,075 --> 00:07:28,660
Good.

46
00:07:28,660 --> 00:07:31,121
We wish to find out
your age.

47
00:07:31,121 --> 00:07:35,375
For every 10 years,
squeeze my finger once.

48
00:07:39,963 --> 00:07:40,797
Ten.

49
00:07:43,884 --> 00:07:45,677
Twenty.
Twenty.

50
00:07:47,221 --> 00:07:48,472
Thirty.

51
00:07:51,308 --> 00:07:52,768
Forty.
Forty.

52
00:07:54,311 --> 00:07:55,521
Fifty.
Fifty.

53
00:07:57,481 --> 00:07:59,274
Sixty.
Sixty.

54
00:08:01,986 --> 00:08:04,280
Seventy.
Seventy.

55
00:08:06,156 --> 00:08:07,324
Seventy years old.

56
00:08:09,034 --> 00:08:13,038
Seventy. I would
have thought less.

57
00:08:13,038 --> 00:08:17,835
Well, in this larval state,

58
00:08:17,835 --> 00:08:19,628
it's hard to estimate.

59
00:08:35,186 --> 00:08:37,813
<i>I've never
met anyone like you.</i>

60
00:08:37,813 --> 00:08:41,234
<i>You want to know
absolutely everything.</i>

61
00:08:41,234 --> 00:08:43,736
Laura, try to imagine

62
00:08:43,736 --> 00:08:46,531
conceiving a passion
for something,

63
00:08:46,531 --> 00:08:49,033
having one desire,
dedicating your life to it

64
00:08:49,033 --> 00:08:50,701
and then failing.

65
00:08:50,701 --> 00:08:51,869
I am 26.

66
00:08:51,869 --> 00:08:53,579
I have no accomplishments,

67
00:08:53,579 --> 00:08:55,873
I've made no discoveries.

68
00:08:55,873 --> 00:08:57,500
I'm a failure.

69
00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,419
Do you have a wife?

70
00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,422
No.
- No.

71
00:09:02,422 --> 00:09:03,965
Nephew?

72
00:09:06,968 --> 00:09:08,970
Yes.
- Nephew.

73
00:09:08,970 --> 00:09:10,388
Nephew.
- Do you want us

74
00:09:10,388 --> 00:09:13,349
to inform your nephew
about your condition?

75
00:09:13,349 --> 00:09:15,435
No.

76
00:09:15,435 --> 00:09:19,606
Let us know the first letter
of your name. Continue.

77
00:09:19,606 --> 00:09:21,941
I am going to say
the alphabet.

78
00:09:21,941 --> 00:09:28,531
A, B, C, D...

79
00:09:28,531 --> 00:09:30,283
D.
- D.

80
00:09:30,283 --> 00:09:34,246
He doesn't live
in Bucharest.

81
00:09:34,246 --> 00:09:38,416
He has only one relative,
a distant one,

82
00:09:38,416 --> 00:09:41,169
and he has no wife.

83
00:09:41,169 --> 00:09:42,337
Thank you.

84
00:09:45,882 --> 00:09:49,553
He'll accept any test,

85
00:09:49,553 --> 00:09:52,681
no matter how dangerous
or painful,

86
00:09:52,681 --> 00:09:56,351
to verify whether
the optic nerve was damaged.

87
00:09:59,563 --> 00:10:00,856
That's interesting.

88
00:10:14,244 --> 00:10:16,372
How old did you say he was?

89
00:10:16,372 --> 00:10:17,790
Seventy.

90
00:10:17,790 --> 00:10:19,541
He's hiding his age.

91
00:10:19,541 --> 00:10:22,503
He's a young man
in the prime of his life.

92
00:10:27,132 --> 00:10:29,969
I didn't come here...

93
00:10:29,969 --> 00:10:32,638
I came here for an education.
- Come.

94
00:10:32,638 --> 00:10:34,849
What did you think
about the lecture?

95
00:10:34,849 --> 00:10:36,725
Professor Matei
is getting senile.

96
00:10:36,725 --> 00:10:39,478
He told us the same thing
three or four times.

97
00:10:39,478 --> 00:10:41,897
I didn't
notice. I was asleep.

98
00:10:41,897 --> 00:10:43,691
Let's go get
something to eat.

99
00:10:46,819 --> 00:10:48,362
<i>Is it true?</i>

100
00:10:51,699 --> 00:10:54,493
<i>Failure, success.</i>

101
00:10:54,493 --> 00:10:56,495
<i>Such extremes, Dominic.</i>

102
00:10:56,495 --> 00:10:58,915
You yourself taught me
about Chandrakirti.

103
00:10:58,915 --> 00:11:02,376
The concept of tetralemma logic,
the four possibilities.

104
00:11:02,376 --> 00:11:05,671
What you say is so,
or it is not so,

105
00:11:05,671 --> 00:11:08,299
it's also so
and not so combined, heh,

106
00:11:08,299 --> 00:11:11,052
or it's neither so
nor not so combined.

107
00:11:11,052 --> 00:11:12,512
<i>You know,</i>

108
00:11:12,512 --> 00:11:13,846
<i>I've never told you this,</i>

109
00:11:13,846 --> 00:11:16,140
<i>but Dr. Chavannes' lecture
in Paris...</i>

110
00:11:16,140 --> 00:11:17,308
I waited to see him.

111
00:11:17,308 --> 00:11:21,437
I was hoping that he would
accept me as a student.

112
00:11:21,437 --> 00:11:25,608
And he told me that if I didn't
master Chinese, Sanskrit,

113
00:11:25,608 --> 00:11:29,362
Tibetan and Japanese,

114
00:11:29,362 --> 00:11:32,282
I would never become
a great Orientalist.

115
00:11:32,282 --> 00:11:33,533
But didn't you tell him

116
00:11:33,533 --> 00:11:35,535
you wanted to study
only the Chinese language?

117
00:11:35,535 --> 00:11:36,870
I did.

118
00:11:36,870 --> 00:11:39,247
<i>I told him that
I'd been studying Chinese</i>

119
00:11:39,247 --> 00:11:40,707
<i>for six months,
six hours a day.</i>

120
00:11:40,707 --> 00:11:42,542
<i>He stepped up
to the blackboard.</i>

121
00:11:42,542 --> 00:11:45,170
<i>He wrote
some 20 characters on it,</i>

122
00:11:45,170 --> 00:11:46,546
<i>and he asked me
to pronounce them</i>

123
00:11:46,546 --> 00:11:49,674
<i>one by one
and then translate the passage.</i>

124
00:11:49,674 --> 00:11:52,552
<i>In order to master Chinese,</i>

125
00:11:52,552 --> 00:11:55,680
<i>one must have
the memory of Mandarin.</i>

126
00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,768
<i>Photographic memory.</i>

127
00:11:59,768 --> 00:12:01,728
<i>A memory of a Mandarin.</i>

128
00:12:04,856 --> 00:12:07,734
I remember hearing
about another case,

129
00:12:07,734 --> 00:12:09,903
a priest hit by lightning.

130
00:12:09,903 --> 00:12:11,863
Burned over his whole body

131
00:12:11,863 --> 00:12:14,324
and would survive
many years afterwards.

132
00:12:14,324 --> 00:12:16,577
True, he was left
blind and mute,

133
00:12:16,577 --> 00:12:18,453
as our man is also probably.

134
00:12:18,453 --> 00:12:22,124
Don't talk so loud.
Maybe he can hear you.

135
00:12:22,124 --> 00:12:24,126
I want him to hear me.

136
00:12:24,126 --> 00:12:27,588
Let's see how he'll react.
Maybe he isn't mute at all.

137
00:12:27,588 --> 00:12:29,256
No!

138
00:12:29,256 --> 00:12:34,595
Not mute! Not mute!

139
00:12:34,595 --> 00:12:37,139
Try to pronounce any word,
anything.

140
00:12:40,309 --> 00:12:45,439
Blue envelope.

141
00:12:45,439 --> 00:12:47,650
Blue envelope.

142
00:12:47,650 --> 00:12:48,859
Envelope...

143
00:12:51,445 --> 00:12:53,656
The teeth,
they're barely holding.

144
00:12:53,656 --> 00:12:56,325
Call the dentist right now
and see if the x-rays are ready.

145
00:13:04,792 --> 00:13:06,002
What's next?

146
00:13:06,002 --> 00:13:08,754
"Romania may be forced
to negotiate with Hitler."

147
00:13:08,754 --> 00:13:11,591
France is abandoning us
to the Nazis.

148
00:13:11,591 --> 00:13:13,885
He is right.

149
00:13:13,885 --> 00:13:15,469
His x-rays have come in.

150
00:13:15,469 --> 00:13:17,430
You really should
take a look at them.

151
00:13:17,430 --> 00:13:22,894
The roots are healthy, but they
are being pushed up by new ones.

152
00:13:26,814 --> 00:13:29,359
So we feel you're out
of danger.

153
00:13:31,986 --> 00:13:34,656
Only now do you begin
to become an interesting case.

154
00:13:34,656 --> 00:13:37,075
You understand why,
don't you?

155
00:13:37,075 --> 00:13:38,910
The way the lightning
struck you,

156
00:13:38,910 --> 00:13:41,246
you had to have been killed
on the spot,

157
00:13:41,246 --> 00:13:45,250
or else to have died
of asphyxiation.

158
00:13:45,250 --> 00:13:48,795
At best you'd
be left paralyzed,

159
00:13:51,256 --> 00:13:53,633
mute or blind.

160
00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,391
You are lucky,
I'll give you that.

161
00:14:04,269 --> 00:14:05,729
Yes.

162
00:14:05,729 --> 00:14:09,065
We had ordered a set of dentures
to allow you to eat

163
00:14:09,065 --> 00:14:12,694
and above all,
to speak normally.

164
00:14:12,694 --> 00:14:15,947
But the x-rays show
that, uh,

165
00:14:15,947 --> 00:14:21,328
a new set of teeth
are ready to appear.

166
00:14:21,328 --> 00:14:23,413
It's impossible.

167
00:14:23,413 --> 00:14:26,500
Yes. It's simply impossible.

168
00:14:28,210 --> 00:14:31,004
And yet the x-rays are clear.

169
00:14:33,048 --> 00:14:34,716
You are getting new teeth.

170
00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,222
This is no longer a case
of a living dead man,

171
00:14:40,222 --> 00:14:42,015
but of something else.

172
00:14:42,015 --> 00:14:45,394
What, exactly,

173
00:14:45,394 --> 00:14:47,229
we still don't know.

174
00:14:47,229 --> 00:14:50,649
Your recovery is amazing.

175
00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:57,281
I don't want to tire you out.

176
00:14:57,281 --> 00:14:59,700
Get some rest.
I'll be back tomorrow.

177
00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:09,126
News stories
and feature articles

178
00:15:09,126 --> 00:15:12,171
are starting to appear
in different papers,

179
00:15:12,171 --> 00:15:15,341
the majority of them absurd,
ridiculous.

180
00:15:18,677 --> 00:15:20,304
What are you doing?

181
00:15:30,106 --> 00:15:31,524
New teeth!

182
00:15:33,359 --> 00:15:38,197
But you must help us
understand this.

183
00:15:38,197 --> 00:15:41,409
We have to know more about you,
who you are,

184
00:15:41,409 --> 00:15:42,702
what your profession is.

185
00:15:42,702 --> 00:15:45,455
What's your real age?

186
00:15:45,455 --> 00:15:48,124
Please cooperate
a little more.

187
00:15:50,543 --> 00:15:53,004
Were you so stubborn
when you were young?

188
00:15:55,965 --> 00:15:57,759
Always.

189
00:15:57,759 --> 00:16:00,511
<i>What is this you
insist on writing, young man?</i>

190
00:16:00,511 --> 00:16:05,475
Well, I've almost finished
with antiquity, the Middle Ages.

191
00:16:05,475 --> 00:16:09,813
But the most exciting part,
the origins.

192
00:16:09,813 --> 00:16:11,815
The origins of language, of--

193
00:16:11,815 --> 00:16:13,691
But when will
you finish it, Dominic?

194
00:16:13,691 --> 00:16:16,194
He needs 10 lifetimes
to do it all.

195
00:16:16,194 --> 00:16:19,030
The origins of
language, human consciousness,

196
00:16:19,030 --> 00:16:20,907
even the idea
of time itself.

197
00:16:20,907 --> 00:16:23,702
This would call for years
of research.

198
00:16:23,702 --> 00:16:26,288
And what with the inexperience
of our provincial...

199
00:16:26,288 --> 00:16:28,415
...librarians.

200
00:16:28,415 --> 00:16:30,876
I'm terribly sorry,
professor.

201
00:16:32,502 --> 00:16:36,798
I have an appointment.
I really must run.

202
00:16:39,050 --> 00:16:42,763
He's brilliant. Brilliant. But--

203
00:16:44,848 --> 00:16:48,977
Laura, I'm so sorry.
I completely forgot.

204
00:16:48,977 --> 00:16:50,687
We have to talk,
Dominic.

205
00:16:50,687 --> 00:16:52,314
It's very important
for both of us,

206
00:16:52,314 --> 00:16:54,524
and I can't hide it
any longer.

207
00:16:54,524 --> 00:16:56,193
Of course.

208
00:16:56,193 --> 00:16:58,695
It's snowing. Should we go
to the Café Select?

209
00:16:58,695 --> 00:17:03,158
No. And please don't interrupt.
It's not what you think.

210
00:17:13,043 --> 00:17:16,505
I feel that you aren't mine,

211
00:17:16,505 --> 00:17:18,716
that you are never here with me.

212
00:17:18,716 --> 00:17:21,969
That you--
That you live in another time.

213
00:17:24,430 --> 00:17:26,307
I'm not thinking
of your research,

214
00:17:26,307 --> 00:17:29,185
which in spite of what
you believe, does interest me.

215
00:17:29,185 --> 00:17:31,353
I wanted to help you
with that.

216
00:17:31,353 --> 00:17:34,607
But you keep yourself shut away
in an alien world,

217
00:17:34,607 --> 00:17:36,067
one I can't enter.

218
00:17:38,402 --> 00:17:41,197
So for my sake and for yours,

219
00:17:41,197 --> 00:17:44,116
we should break
our engagement and separate.

220
00:17:44,116 --> 00:17:45,701
No.

221
00:17:45,701 --> 00:17:46,744
Laura, no.

222
00:17:46,744 --> 00:17:49,538
We are still young.

223
00:17:49,538 --> 00:17:51,707
We both love life.

224
00:17:54,919 --> 00:17:57,505
You will have more time
for your research.

225
00:17:59,882 --> 00:18:00,800
You'll see later.

226
00:18:36,461 --> 00:18:37,921
Tell the professor
what he wants to know.

227
00:18:40,215 --> 00:18:42,384
Tell him you need
a new identity.

228
00:18:50,392 --> 00:18:53,103
All right, you can go.
I'll be here all afternoon.

229
00:19:02,654 --> 00:19:04,656
I understand
that you are willing

230
00:19:04,656 --> 00:19:06,575
to speak to me candidly.

231
00:19:09,328 --> 00:19:11,622
You don't have to make
a great effort.

232
00:19:11,622 --> 00:19:15,000
The words you cannot pronounce,
you can write.

233
00:19:21,757 --> 00:19:22,966
My name...

234
00:19:24,843 --> 00:19:26,970
is Dominic Matei.

235
00:19:29,598 --> 00:19:32,851
On January the 8th...

236
00:19:32,851 --> 00:19:35,479
I reached the age of 70.

237
00:19:35,479 --> 00:19:37,690
I am a teacher
in Piatra Neamt.

238
00:19:37,690 --> 00:19:42,319
I live on Strada Episcopiei
at Number 18.

239
00:19:42,319 --> 00:19:44,154
It is my house.

240
00:19:45,865 --> 00:19:49,160
It contains a library of...

241
00:19:50,369 --> 00:19:54,165
some 8,000 volumes...

242
00:19:57,668 --> 00:20:00,129
which I have willed
to the lycée.

243
00:20:05,384 --> 00:20:08,179
You're 70 years old?

244
00:20:13,851 --> 00:20:14,936
Extraordinary.

245
00:20:17,021 --> 00:20:18,481
If...

246
00:20:18,481 --> 00:20:21,484
If you require further proof,
I can tell you the...

247
00:20:21,484 --> 00:20:25,279
titles of the books
on my desk or any other...

248
00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:29,242
There's an album
of photographs somewhere?

249
00:20:29,242 --> 00:20:33,580
More precisely, with pictures
of you when you were young?

250
00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:37,125
And some, uh, clothing?

251
00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:40,503
I implore you
to be very, very discreet.

252
00:20:40,503 --> 00:20:42,380
Agents from the Secret Service,

253
00:20:42,380 --> 00:20:44,591
they'll never believe
I'm past 70

254
00:20:44,591 --> 00:20:49,220
and therefore they'll never
believe I am who I say I am.

255
00:20:49,220 --> 00:20:52,265
Of course.
We'll be very careful.

256
00:20:52,265 --> 00:20:55,435
Anything can happen
if you're interrogated by them.

257
00:20:55,435 --> 00:20:57,228
I won't let that happen.

258
00:20:57,228 --> 00:20:59,272
It's true, though,

259
00:20:59,272 --> 00:21:01,650
these are difficult times
in Romania.

260
00:21:04,986 --> 00:21:05,946
In truth...

261
00:21:10,075 --> 00:21:12,327
I came here with the intention
of committing suicide.

262
00:21:14,246 --> 00:21:17,916
I had saved an envelope
with enough strychnine in it

263
00:21:17,916 --> 00:21:19,793
to end my empty life.

264
00:21:20,794 --> 00:21:23,839
Please...

265
00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:26,049
could you find me
a fictitious identity?

266
00:21:27,926 --> 00:21:30,220
That's not a problem.

267
00:21:30,220 --> 00:21:34,933
When your beard comes off,
you'll look like a man of 35,

268
00:21:34,933 --> 00:21:38,520
or, um, 40, at most.

269
00:21:47,988 --> 00:21:48,947
Don't worry.

270
00:21:57,790 --> 00:22:00,960
You're handsome
without the beard, you know?

271
00:22:05,047 --> 00:22:06,423
I have your jacket.

272
00:22:13,597 --> 00:22:18,019
If you like, you can take me
to the movies sometime.

273
00:22:24,275 --> 00:22:26,777
The sleeves are
too short.

274
00:22:26,777 --> 00:22:28,029
And the tie is no good.

275
00:22:28,029 --> 00:22:30,114
They look like
an old man's clothes.

276
00:22:46,547 --> 00:22:47,966
Go with him.

277
00:22:55,890 --> 00:22:57,308
I've seen that car before.

278
00:22:58,852 --> 00:23:00,061
Last night in my dream.

279
00:23:01,771 --> 00:23:04,858
Some people might say
that's a bad omen.

280
00:23:04,858 --> 00:23:06,568
I'm not superstitious.

281
00:23:08,278 --> 00:23:09,571
They're waiting for us.

282
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:48,569
Professor.

283
00:23:55,409 --> 00:23:56,952
Welcome. Thank you, doctor.

284
00:24:03,333 --> 00:24:05,044
There's wild roses
somewhere.

285
00:24:12,635 --> 00:24:16,096
I want you to note down
all that passes through your mind.

286
00:24:19,475 --> 00:24:22,561
All the books you've read,
all the languages you know,

287
00:24:22,561 --> 00:24:26,607
everything, all the memories,
no matter how insignificant.

288
00:24:26,607 --> 00:24:28,442
If you aren't in the mood
to write,

289
00:24:28,442 --> 00:24:30,486
or if you have
too much to say,

290
00:24:30,486 --> 00:24:31,612
use this device.

291
00:24:37,535 --> 00:24:40,496
German, I'm sorry to say.

292
00:24:41,998 --> 00:24:42,915
A wire recorder.

293
00:24:49,714 --> 00:24:50,506
How do I operate this?

294
00:24:56,888 --> 00:24:58,848
<i>How do I operate this?</i>

295
00:25:37,137 --> 00:25:38,555
My memory...

296
00:25:42,392 --> 00:25:43,894
My memory is unbelievable.

297
00:26:22,933 --> 00:26:25,144
I have a surprise for you.

298
00:26:25,144 --> 00:26:27,062
Soon you'll receive
all the things

299
00:26:27,062 --> 00:26:30,065
from your home
in Piatra Neamt:

300
00:26:30,065 --> 00:26:32,735
your reference books,
dictionaries,

301
00:26:32,735 --> 00:26:34,320
personal belongings.

302
00:26:39,783 --> 00:26:40,826
Ah.

303
00:26:43,037 --> 00:26:45,331
The watch she gave me.

304
00:26:45,331 --> 00:26:49,126
I've brought
your family album.

305
00:26:49,126 --> 00:26:52,880
The one with your pictures
from lycée and the university.

306
00:26:58,511 --> 00:27:00,263
What are you thinking?

307
00:27:02,473 --> 00:27:05,268
What kind of memories?

308
00:27:10,273 --> 00:27:12,900
What kind of associations?

309
00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:31,836
When I look
at that photograph,

310
00:27:34,756 --> 00:27:37,801
I sense the heat

311
00:27:37,801 --> 00:27:39,844
of that morning.

312
00:27:49,896 --> 00:27:52,148
The fragrance of the oleander.

313
00:27:56,611 --> 00:27:58,655
Laura's scent.

314
00:27:59,906 --> 00:28:01,241
Soap...

315
00:28:01,241 --> 00:28:04,703
on her skin.

316
00:28:04,703 --> 00:28:06,705
It's unforgettable.

317
00:28:20,510 --> 00:28:23,430
She married someone else,
you know.

318
00:28:25,057 --> 00:28:28,477
And a year later
she died in childbirth.

319
00:28:36,485 --> 00:28:37,861
It was awful.

320
00:28:37,861 --> 00:28:42,616
It's a kind of hypermnesia
with lateral effects.

321
00:28:44,201 --> 00:28:46,203
It's...

322
00:28:46,203 --> 00:28:47,955
too much,

323
00:28:49,248 --> 00:28:49,832
and it's useless.

324
00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:53,085
It seems useless

325
00:28:53,085 --> 00:28:57,256
because we don't know yet
what to do with it,

326
00:28:57,256 --> 00:29:00,509
with this fantastic

327
00:29:00,509 --> 00:29:02,970
recovery of memory.

328
00:29:04,346 --> 00:29:05,473
It's useless.

329
00:29:05,473 --> 00:29:06,932
Soon it will be learned

330
00:29:06,932 --> 00:29:08,267
that someone,

331
00:29:08,267 --> 00:29:11,937
an old man of unknown origin,
was struck by lightning

332
00:29:11,937 --> 00:29:13,105
and after 10 weeks

333
00:29:13,105 --> 00:29:16,442
appeared perfectly healthy
and young again.

334
00:29:20,905 --> 00:29:24,742
Let's hope the rest
will not be found out.

335
00:29:50,643 --> 00:29:54,355
The anterior-posterior
diameter, 19 centimeters.

336
00:29:58,693 --> 00:30:01,905
The height of the face,
12 centimeters.

337
00:30:10,830 --> 00:30:13,166
And the length of
the nose, 6 centimeters.

338
00:30:13,166 --> 00:30:18,338
The sexual
organs look like those of a man of 40.

339
00:30:18,338 --> 00:30:20,423
They are fully functional.

340
00:30:20,423 --> 00:30:23,718
My opinion: the patient
is clinically youthful.

341
00:30:27,848 --> 00:30:29,933
I warned you there would be

342
00:30:29,933 --> 00:30:32,853
a sort of international
consultation.

343
00:30:32,853 --> 00:30:34,021
They had to see firsthand.

344
00:30:34,021 --> 00:30:35,522
They couldn't believe
the reports

345
00:30:35,522 --> 00:30:38,275
<i>I published
in La Presse Médicale.</i>

346
00:30:38,275 --> 00:30:41,528
Well, I wasn't expecting
such questions.

347
00:30:41,528 --> 00:30:44,239
Especially since I was still
in the hospital and had no way

348
00:30:44,239 --> 00:30:48,744
of confirming or ruling out
sexual possibilities.

349
00:30:48,744 --> 00:30:50,913
Excuse me.

350
00:30:50,913 --> 00:30:55,250
In your notebooks,
you speak of erotic dreams.

351
00:30:55,250 --> 00:30:57,544
Are you sure they were dreams?

352
00:30:59,254 --> 00:31:01,632
I don't know.

353
00:31:01,632 --> 00:31:05,219
But if I've confused erotic
dreams with real experiences,

354
00:31:05,219 --> 00:31:07,388
my life is far more interesting
than I'd imagined.

355
00:31:07,388 --> 00:31:08,389
Good,

356
00:31:08,389 --> 00:31:11,141
we value this information.

357
00:31:11,141 --> 00:31:12,393
Thank you.

358
00:31:15,187 --> 00:31:18,232
But in the case
of the young lady in Room 6,

359
00:31:18,232 --> 00:31:20,985
my friend,

360
00:31:20,985 --> 00:31:25,239
that woman was imposed on us
by the Secret Service.

361
00:31:29,577 --> 00:31:32,747
What young lady in Room 6?

362
00:32:05,446 --> 00:32:07,323
Have we met
somewhere before?

363
00:32:10,326 --> 00:32:11,911
Of course we've met before.

364
00:32:13,997 --> 00:32:15,915
Several times, in fact.

365
00:32:20,044 --> 00:32:22,422
I am impressed.
You are very discreet.

366
00:32:24,132 --> 00:32:25,383
Where?

367
00:32:26,426 --> 00:32:28,386
And when?

368
00:32:29,804 --> 00:32:32,891
Most recently,
last night in Room 6.

369
00:32:36,353 --> 00:32:38,396
Your room is next door.

370
00:34:31,386 --> 00:34:33,388
Open up!

371
00:34:35,014 --> 00:34:36,850
Second floor is clear.

372
00:34:47,277 --> 00:34:49,446
Sir...
- Over here.

373
00:34:49,446 --> 00:34:51,823
Over here or there?
- Hey, get out of the car.

374
00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:54,242
Hey, you, stop
the car. Stop the car.

375
00:35:49,548 --> 00:35:51,800
Don't worry.

376
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,261
It had to happen
like this,

377
00:35:54,261 --> 00:35:56,806
for you to be confused
with others,

378
00:35:56,806 --> 00:36:01,060
for people to think you can't
distinguish dream from reality.

379
00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:03,270
Who is taking care of me?

380
00:36:03,270 --> 00:36:06,732
Did you think all you've gone
through is due to chance?

381
00:36:06,732 --> 00:36:08,609
Who is watching over me?

382
00:36:08,609 --> 00:36:11,862
It doesn't matter now.
You'll find out later.

383
00:36:11,862 --> 00:36:14,532
Besides, you've guessed
some of it already.

384
00:36:14,532 --> 00:36:17,285
Otherwise, why haven't you
told the professor

385
00:36:17,285 --> 00:36:21,247
about...
certain dreams like this?

386
00:36:21,247 --> 00:36:22,582
Stop.

387
00:36:22,582 --> 00:36:26,753
If you know
someone else exists,

388
00:36:26,753 --> 00:36:30,006
why have you never
referred to it?

389
00:36:30,006 --> 00:36:31,466
I must not think,
I must not think,

390
00:36:31,466 --> 00:36:33,384
I must not think
of anything.

391
00:36:33,384 --> 00:36:36,220
I must not think,
I must not think of anything.

392
00:36:36,220 --> 00:36:39,182
<i>I must not think,
I must not think of anything.</i>

393
00:36:39,182 --> 00:36:41,100
<i>I must not think,
I must not think...</i>

394
00:36:58,076 --> 00:36:59,577
<i>Yes.</i>

395
00:36:59,577 --> 00:37:05,250
You learn more quickly,
more profoundly, in sleep.

396
00:37:05,250 --> 00:37:07,711
You told the professor
that in sleep

397
00:37:07,711 --> 00:37:10,338
you continued your studies
of the daytime.

398
00:37:10,338 --> 00:37:15,260
Little by little, you discovered
you'd mastered Chinese,

399
00:37:15,260 --> 00:37:19,598
just as later, you discovered
you'd mastered other languages.

400
00:37:22,434 --> 00:37:25,145
I'm beginning to understand
what's happening to me.

401
00:37:25,145 --> 00:37:26,480
Yes.

402
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,648
Good.

403
00:37:30,859 --> 00:37:33,862
The enormous concentration

404
00:37:33,862 --> 00:37:38,492
of electricity that exploded
directly above me

405
00:37:39,785 --> 00:37:42,496
regenerated me and...

406
00:37:44,331 --> 00:37:47,876
amplified fabulously
all my mental faculties.

407
00:37:47,876 --> 00:37:52,297
But this electrical discharge
also made possible

408
00:37:52,297 --> 00:37:56,010
the emergence of a new
personality, a sort of...

409
00:37:57,302 --> 00:37:58,387
double.

410
00:37:58,387 --> 00:38:00,347
Yes.

411
00:38:01,807 --> 00:38:03,809
The formula of the double

412
00:38:03,809 --> 00:38:07,479
is...correct and useful.

413
00:38:07,479 --> 00:38:10,316
But don't be in a hurry
to tell the professor.

414
00:38:45,143 --> 00:38:47,854
So, what I can say?

415
00:38:47,854 --> 00:38:49,021
A man was about to

416
00:38:49,021 --> 00:38:51,357
cross the street.

417
00:38:51,357 --> 00:38:54,360
He was 70 or 80 years old.

418
00:39:03,369 --> 00:39:05,580
The young lady
in Room 6

419
00:39:05,580 --> 00:39:08,541
disappeared
two days ago.

420
00:39:18,051 --> 00:39:21,805
Your companion of a night,
or several.

421
00:39:21,805 --> 00:39:24,975
I'm afraid it was several.

422
00:39:24,975 --> 00:39:27,394
Do you love me?

423
00:39:29,020 --> 00:39:33,275
Yes, more than I could
have imagined.

424
00:39:34,693 --> 00:39:38,655
Tell me how you desire me,
how you long for me.

425
00:39:38,655 --> 00:39:43,034
You are my dream
and my goddess.

426
00:39:43,034 --> 00:39:45,620
She recorded all your conversations

427
00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:48,081
and transmitted them
to the Gestapo.

428
00:39:48,081 --> 00:39:50,167
And when she asked you
questions

429
00:39:50,167 --> 00:39:52,961
<i>in Russian, Polish
or German,</i>

430
00:39:52,961 --> 00:39:56,673
<i>you replied without difficulty
in all those languages.</i>

431
00:39:59,092 --> 00:40:03,972
It's probable that after
listening to the recordings,

432
00:40:03,972 --> 00:40:09,144
someone high up in the Reich
decided to kidnap you.

433
00:40:10,437 --> 00:40:12,773
Kidnap me?

434
00:40:12,773 --> 00:40:13,816
You have become

435
00:40:13,816 --> 00:40:16,694
the most valuable human specimen

436
00:40:16,694 --> 00:40:20,614
existing today
on the face of the earth.

437
00:40:20,614 --> 00:40:23,033
Come, have your chicken.

438
00:40:25,286 --> 00:40:27,621
All the medical schools
in the world

439
00:40:27,621 --> 00:40:29,957
would like to study you.

440
00:40:29,957 --> 00:40:32,960
As a sort of guinea pig.
- Professor.

441
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,838
We are doing all we can
to prevent that.

442
00:40:35,838 --> 00:40:37,798
Professor, ahem,

443
00:40:37,798 --> 00:40:39,383
in your office,
you must come.

444
00:40:39,383 --> 00:40:41,469
Please, professor,
immediately.

445
00:40:50,394 --> 00:40:54,565
We are disturbed over your level
of cooperation, Herr Professor.

446
00:40:54,565 --> 00:40:57,568
As you see, your government
has instructed you

447
00:40:57,568 --> 00:40:59,195
to relinquish
the patient

448
00:40:59,195 --> 00:41:02,240
and all relevant files
to our custody.

449
00:41:07,870 --> 00:41:12,834
I'm sorry, I cannot
comply with this one.

450
00:41:12,834 --> 00:41:15,336
"Cannot comply"?

451
00:41:15,336 --> 00:41:18,006
I will not turn over
the patient himself.

452
00:41:18,006 --> 00:41:19,507
As his doctor,

453
00:41:19,507 --> 00:41:23,761
his condition won't allow
transfer at this time.

454
00:41:29,934 --> 00:41:33,021
I'll return
with a German doctor.

455
00:41:46,952 --> 00:41:48,203
Good.

456
00:41:48,203 --> 00:41:50,664
You're behaving as you should

457
00:41:50,664 --> 00:41:54,084
in order to create
the necessary confusion.

458
00:41:55,961 --> 00:41:58,505
The double.

459
00:41:58,505 --> 00:42:02,050
He always answers the questions
I'm ready to ask.

460
00:42:02,050 --> 00:42:03,844
Like a true
guardian angel.

461
00:42:03,844 --> 00:42:08,181
Now that's a correct
and useful formula.

462
00:42:08,181 --> 00:42:09,850
Are there others?

463
00:42:09,850 --> 00:42:11,435
Many.

464
00:42:11,435 --> 00:42:13,395
For example?

465
00:42:13,395 --> 00:42:18,483
Along with angels and guardian
angels, there are powers:

466
00:42:18,483 --> 00:42:20,569
Archangels,

467
00:42:20,569 --> 00:42:23,530
seraphim, cherubim.

468
00:42:23,530 --> 00:42:27,409
Intermediary beings
par excellence.

469
00:42:27,409 --> 00:42:29,203
Intermediary
between consciousness

470
00:42:29,203 --> 00:42:32,122
and unconsciousness?

471
00:42:32,122 --> 00:42:33,582
Well, of course.

472
00:42:35,084 --> 00:42:37,753
But also between
nature and man,

473
00:42:37,753 --> 00:42:40,673
man and the divine,

474
00:42:40,673 --> 00:42:44,760
reason and Eros.

475
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,388
Feminine and masculine,

476
00:42:47,388 --> 00:42:49,557
darkness and light,

477
00:42:49,557 --> 00:42:51,434
matter and spirit.

478
00:42:54,603 --> 00:42:57,481
So it's come back
to my old passion again:

479
00:42:58,941 --> 00:43:02,278
philosophy of religion.

480
00:43:02,278 --> 00:43:04,905
Yes,

481
00:43:04,905 --> 00:43:07,325
for you it will always
come back to that.

482
00:43:09,952 --> 00:43:12,455
But I can't believe
in the objective reality

483
00:43:12,455 --> 00:43:15,374
of the person
with whom I'm conversing. I--

484
00:43:16,793 --> 00:43:20,588
I can only think of him
as my double.

485
00:43:20,588 --> 00:43:23,299
Well, in a sense,

486
00:43:23,299 --> 00:43:25,551
that's what he is, but...

487
00:43:27,303 --> 00:43:31,140
that doesn't mean
he doesn't exist

488
00:43:31,140 --> 00:43:33,851
in an objective way
independently.

489
00:43:33,851 --> 00:43:35,895
Oh, I'd like to be convinced,
but--

490
00:43:35,895 --> 00:43:40,817
In metaphysical controversies,
empirical proofs

491
00:43:40,817 --> 00:43:43,361
lose their value, but...

492
00:43:47,991 --> 00:43:51,244
wouldn't you enjoy receiving

493
00:43:51,244 --> 00:43:54,414
a few fresh roses

494
00:43:54,414 --> 00:43:56,207
picked from the garden?

495
00:43:56,207 --> 00:43:58,501
I've always liked roses.

496
00:43:58,501 --> 00:44:00,837
Well, where would you like me
to put them?

497
00:44:02,839 --> 00:44:05,842
Not in the vase,
at any rate.

498
00:44:08,261 --> 00:44:11,348
One right here

499
00:44:11,348 --> 00:44:12,891
in my hand...

500
00:44:15,143 --> 00:44:18,647
as I'm holding it now, open.

501
00:44:28,198 --> 00:44:30,284
And another on my knee?

502
00:44:36,874 --> 00:44:38,792
The third rose.

503
00:44:38,792 --> 00:44:41,503
Where do you want me
to put the third rose?

504
00:44:43,046 --> 00:44:44,840
Let's see.

505
00:44:48,218 --> 00:44:51,472
Things are more serious
than we thought.

506
00:44:51,472 --> 00:44:55,976
We know now why the Gestapo
will try anything,

507
00:44:55,976 --> 00:44:58,354
anything, in order to get
their hands on you.

508
00:45:00,439 --> 00:45:01,607
Why?

509
00:45:01,607 --> 00:45:05,027
Among the intimates
of Goebbels,

510
00:45:05,027 --> 00:45:08,072
there is an enigmatic
and ambiguous person,

511
00:45:08,072 --> 00:45:11,075
a certain Dr. Josef Rudolf.

512
00:45:15,329 --> 00:45:18,916
<i>Dr. Rudolf believes that
electrocution by a current</i>

513
00:45:18,916 --> 00:45:20,918
<i>of at least a million volts</i>

514
00:45:20,918 --> 00:45:23,254
<i>could produce
a radical mutation</i>

515
00:45:23,254 --> 00:45:25,256
<i>of the human species.</i>

516
00:45:28,384 --> 00:45:29,760
<i>Word of these experiments</i>

517
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,763
<i>has reached the ear
of Adolf Hitler,</i>

518
00:45:32,763 --> 00:45:36,434
<i>who has become personally
interested in your case.</i>

519
00:45:41,939 --> 00:45:44,734
Attention!
The experiment begins!

520
00:46:07,966 --> 00:46:12,470
They want
us to lend you to them

521
00:46:12,470 --> 00:46:15,015
for a period of time.

522
00:46:15,015 --> 00:46:17,475
God help me.

523
00:46:17,475 --> 00:46:18,393
Time, Dominic,

524
00:46:19,978 --> 00:46:23,023
we are running out of time.

525
00:46:33,116 --> 00:46:35,786
Austrian-Swiss
border. Passport control.

526
00:46:35,786 --> 00:46:39,748
Please disembark
with all luggage.

527
00:47:23,667 --> 00:47:26,420
An order has just come in
from Vienna

528
00:47:26,420 --> 00:47:30,925
that certain nationals
will be detained.

529
00:47:30,925 --> 00:47:34,345
But why? I have
a valid passport and visa.

530
00:47:34,345 --> 00:47:35,805
Please take a step back.

531
00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:05,001
Go on!

532
00:48:05,001 --> 00:48:08,921
My cooperation with the Nazis
is only symbolic.

533
00:48:08,921 --> 00:48:09,589
Go ahead.

534
00:48:11,883 --> 00:48:13,092
Thank you.

535
00:48:46,459 --> 00:48:47,669
<i>Geneva.</i>

536
00:48:47,669 --> 00:48:50,964
<i>1941, May the 7th.</i>

537
00:48:50,964 --> 00:48:53,800
<i>Dominic Matei, dictation.</i>

538
00:49:01,058 --> 00:49:03,894
The documents in the Geneva
safety-deposit box

539
00:49:03,894 --> 00:49:07,189
summarize my life,
which was profoundly changed

540
00:49:07,189 --> 00:49:09,274
in the spring of 1938,

541
00:49:09,274 --> 00:49:11,527
in front of the Gara de Nord
railway station

542
00:49:11,527 --> 00:49:12,861
in Bucharest.

543
00:49:12,861 --> 00:49:14,363
My first experiences

544
00:49:14,363 --> 00:49:18,283
were described and analyzed
by Professor Roman Stanciulescu,

545
00:49:18,283 --> 00:49:22,079
in reports which were
confiscated by the Nazis.

546
00:49:27,001 --> 00:49:29,503
<i>The war rages around me.</i>

547
00:49:29,503 --> 00:49:32,339
<i>I am a fugitive
in neutral Switzerland,</i>

548
00:49:32,339 --> 00:49:33,799
<i>encircled by the Axis powers.</i>

549
00:49:39,722 --> 00:49:43,100
<i>My Romanian homeland has
made a pact with the devil,</i>

550
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:44,935
<i>Adolf Hitler,</i>

551
00:49:44,935 --> 00:49:47,396
<i>and may soon be under siege.</i>

552
00:49:51,275 --> 00:49:53,194
<i>I've lost contact
with my dear friend,</i>

553
00:49:53,194 --> 00:49:54,862
<i>Professor Stanciulescu,</i>

554
00:49:54,862 --> 00:49:56,072
<i>which could mean
that he's been killed.</i>

555
00:50:06,249 --> 00:50:07,750
<i>I live in fear,</i>

556
00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:10,294
<i>dreading what awaits
in the alleyways.</i>

557
00:50:10,294 --> 00:50:12,547
<i>Eluding capture by my wits,</i>

558
00:50:12,547 --> 00:50:15,049
<i>moving from hotel
to rooming house,</i>

559
00:50:15,049 --> 00:50:17,009
<i>always working on my book.</i>

560
00:50:19,762 --> 00:50:22,306
<i>November the 30th, 1941.</i>

561
00:50:22,306 --> 00:50:27,061
<i>Zurich. Dominic Matei.</i>

562
00:50:27,061 --> 00:50:28,605
<i>I have explained
in portfolio B</i>

563
00:50:28,605 --> 00:50:30,565
<i>how I instinctually
found the talent</i>

564
00:50:30,565 --> 00:50:33,276
<i>to preserve myself.</i>

565
00:50:33,276 --> 00:50:35,236
<i>Living like a secret agent,</i>

566
00:50:35,236 --> 00:50:38,698
<i>I discovered abilities
to forge documents,</i>

567
00:50:38,698 --> 00:50:41,493
<i>change addresses
and prepare disguises.</i>

568
00:50:48,124 --> 00:50:51,586
<i>Shortly before he disappeared,
Professor Stanciulescu</i>

569
00:50:51,586 --> 00:50:54,339
<i>arranged a bank account
for me in Geneva</i>

570
00:50:54,339 --> 00:50:56,258
<i>under the name
of William Pedersen.</i>

571
00:50:58,009 --> 00:51:00,554
<i>Now, without him,
these funds will be depleted.</i>

572
00:51:00,554 --> 00:51:02,806
Oh, good morning,
Mr. Pedersen.

573
00:51:02,806 --> 00:51:05,517
<i>And I will have
to find other means.</i>

574
00:51:07,936 --> 00:51:11,356
<i>February the 20th, 1942.</i>

575
00:51:11,356 --> 00:51:13,191
<i>Bern.</i>

576
00:51:13,191 --> 00:51:17,112
<i>I must face the undeniable
and chilling truth,</i>

577
00:51:17,112 --> 00:51:18,655
<i>that I am a mutant.</i>

578
00:51:18,655 --> 00:51:22,117
<i>Like a character
in a science-fiction novel,</i>

579
00:51:22,117 --> 00:51:25,412
<i>I am a strange superman
of the future.</i>

580
00:51:27,122 --> 00:51:32,002
<i>I have access to knowledge
unavailable to mankind.</i>

581
00:51:32,002 --> 00:51:34,963
<i>Powers I don't fully
understand.</i>

582
00:51:39,968 --> 00:51:44,223
<i>Despite this, I try to behave
as an ordinary intellectual,</i>

583
00:51:44,223 --> 00:51:46,433
<i>working to complete my book,</i>

584
00:51:46,433 --> 00:51:48,644
<i>documenting the origin
of language</i>

585
00:51:48,644 --> 00:51:50,813
<i>and human consciousness.</i>

586
00:51:50,813 --> 00:51:54,817
<i>I began to realize that
with any text I had before me,</i>

587
00:51:54,817 --> 00:51:56,986
<i>if I wanted to know
the content,</i>

588
00:51:56,986 --> 00:52:00,489
<i>I simply...knew it.</i>

589
00:52:05,369 --> 00:52:09,081
<i>Lake Campione.
October the 23rd, 1942.</i>

590
00:52:13,085 --> 00:52:16,422
<i>I found I could augment
my income.</i>

591
00:52:16,422 --> 00:52:19,967
<i>Winning just enough
not to arouse suspicion.</i>

592
00:52:19,967 --> 00:52:22,637
No more bets.

593
00:52:22,637 --> 00:52:26,182
<i>Nothing is as it seems,
I am the proof of that.</i>

594
00:52:26,182 --> 00:52:27,725
We've got a winner.

595
00:52:27,725 --> 00:52:29,268
Dominic Matei?

596
00:52:29,268 --> 00:52:31,646
Dominic Matei.

597
00:52:31,646 --> 00:52:34,065
<i>I trust no one.</i>

598
00:52:35,525 --> 00:52:37,110
Look at these.

599
00:52:37,110 --> 00:52:39,362
See? These were taken
at the clinic

600
00:52:39,362 --> 00:52:42,240
of Dr. Stanciulescu...

601
00:52:42,240 --> 00:52:45,535
in 1938.

602
00:52:45,535 --> 00:52:49,622
And to think, 10 months ago,
on January 8th,

603
00:52:49,622 --> 00:52:50,999
you turned 74 years old.

604
00:52:53,126 --> 00:52:54,210
Eleven again.

605
00:52:54,210 --> 00:52:55,628
You're trying
to look older too.

606
00:52:55,628 --> 00:52:57,589
Those glasses aren't
even prescription.

607
00:53:00,759 --> 00:53:04,137
I still don't-- Thank you.
I still don't know

608
00:53:04,137 --> 00:53:06,056
with whom I have the pleasure
to be speaking.

609
00:53:06,056 --> 00:53:08,183
Ted Jones, Jr.

610
00:53:08,183 --> 00:53:11,227
<i>I'm a correspondent
for LIFE magazine.</i>

611
00:53:11,227 --> 00:53:13,480
Listen.

612
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,524
Switzerland is entirely
surrounded by the Axis powers.

613
00:53:16,524 --> 00:53:19,569
I'm cashing out.
Thank you.

614
00:53:19,569 --> 00:53:22,030
I'm on special assignment
for the United States.

615
00:53:22,030 --> 00:53:25,033
I really think you're
confusing me with someone else.

616
00:53:25,033 --> 00:53:27,744
We can protect your identity,
completely.

617
00:53:27,744 --> 00:53:30,580
I have a very powerful
organization behind me.

618
00:53:30,580 --> 00:53:33,750
I know I can be
of some service to you.

619
00:53:33,750 --> 00:53:35,919
We can pay you, or we can make

620
00:53:35,919 --> 00:53:38,171
some arrangements for you,
anything that might help you.

621
00:53:45,929 --> 00:53:47,514
You know,
your English is perfect,

622
00:53:47,514 --> 00:53:49,766
but you're not saying anything.

623
00:53:53,854 --> 00:53:56,231
I'm afraid I must remain
neutral in all of this.

624
00:53:56,231 --> 00:53:57,608
Now, if you'll excuse me.

625
00:53:59,276 --> 00:54:02,071
<i>If someone were to tell me
that there exist among us</i>

626
00:54:02,071 --> 00:54:06,909
<i>authentic magicians, saints,
bodhisattvas,</i>

627
00:54:06,909 --> 00:54:10,120
<i>or anyone endowed
with miraculous powers,</i>

628
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:11,580
<i>I would believe them.</i>

629
00:54:11,580 --> 00:54:15,459
In a certain sense,
what you say is true.

630
00:54:15,459 --> 00:54:17,503
But you've attained
the freedom to accept

631
00:54:17,503 --> 00:54:18,963
or reject
these new conditions

632
00:54:18,963 --> 00:54:23,801
to use them to finish
your life's work, or not.

633
00:54:23,801 --> 00:54:25,970
Have you decided?

634
00:54:27,930 --> 00:54:30,850
To use them for good

635
00:54:30,850 --> 00:54:32,435
or for evil.

636
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,895
<i>Have you decided?</i>

637
00:54:55,333 --> 00:54:56,751
<i>Despite my precautions,</i>

638
00:54:56,751 --> 00:54:58,544
<i>I was afraid
I would inadvertently</i>

639
00:54:58,544 --> 00:55:01,381
<i>give myself away
conversing with professors</i>

640
00:55:01,381 --> 00:55:03,549
<i>and colleagues
at the university.</i>

641
00:55:03,549 --> 00:55:06,844
<i>I knew more than any of them
and understood things</i>

642
00:55:06,844 --> 00:55:09,013
<i>they never even
suspected existed.</i>

643
00:55:25,321 --> 00:55:26,698
I know you're
a good friend

644
00:55:26,698 --> 00:55:28,616
of the Romanian
Professor Stanciulescu.

645
00:55:28,616 --> 00:55:33,246
I'm very sorry. I heard he died
in a plane crash, an accident.

646
00:55:33,246 --> 00:55:37,209
But we can talk about this
when my friend gets here.

647
00:55:37,209 --> 00:55:39,169
I told him to come at 9:00.

648
00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:41,087
Your friend?

649
00:55:41,087 --> 00:55:43,548
Dr. Monroe.

650
00:55:43,548 --> 00:55:46,676
The director of an important
gerontology foundation.

651
00:55:48,512 --> 00:55:52,182
He's Swiss, like me.

652
00:55:55,102 --> 00:55:56,645
Like you.

653
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,112
You know,
I do have a name.

654
00:56:06,321 --> 00:56:08,699
Would you like to know it?

655
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:20,878
Be careful.

656
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:26,342
He knows who you are.

657
00:56:26,342 --> 00:56:29,970
Hello, I'm Dr. Monroe.

658
00:56:29,970 --> 00:56:31,639
Head of the foundation
investigating

659
00:56:31,639 --> 00:56:33,140
the materials
of Professor Stanciulescu.

660
00:56:36,811 --> 00:56:39,522
I'm afraid I have no idea
to what you're referring.

661
00:56:39,522 --> 00:56:41,899
The belief that youth and life

662
00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:44,068
can be prolonged in any way
other than by the purely

663
00:56:44,068 --> 00:56:45,403
biochemical ones.

664
00:56:45,403 --> 00:56:46,362
You do know
what I'm referring to?

665
00:56:48,406 --> 00:56:49,740
No, I'm sorry.

666
00:56:49,740 --> 00:56:52,785
Methods proposed
by that Nazi, Dr. Rudolf.

667
00:56:52,785 --> 00:56:58,124
Electrocution by means
of a million or more volts.

668
00:56:58,124 --> 00:56:59,667
Insane.

669
00:56:59,667 --> 00:57:02,920
Fortunately, I believe
that method was never tried.

670
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,798
But our informants said
that Professor Stanciulescu

671
00:57:05,798 --> 00:57:09,135
had worked with a somewhat
analogous case of rejuvenation

672
00:57:09,135 --> 00:57:11,053
induced by a bolt
of lightning.

673
00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:17,226
We know who you are,
Mr. Dominic Matei.

674
00:57:19,062 --> 00:57:21,940
Now, I have a prior engagement,
I really must run.

675
00:57:21,940 --> 00:57:24,067
I'm terribly sorry.
- I know.

676
00:57:24,067 --> 00:57:27,070
Perhaps we could have dinner.
Later tonight?

677
00:57:48,216 --> 00:57:50,844
Mr. Matei?

678
00:57:50,844 --> 00:57:52,929
What do we do with time?

679
00:57:57,184 --> 00:57:59,478
That question,
"what do we do with time"

680
00:57:59,478 --> 00:58:05,150
expresses the supreme ambiguity
of the human condition.

681
00:58:05,150 --> 00:58:07,986
I have no idea
what you're talking about.

682
00:58:07,986 --> 00:58:10,947
An opportunity has been
given to us.

683
00:58:12,866 --> 00:58:14,868
We, the human race.

684
00:58:16,578 --> 00:58:17,788
"We"?

685
00:58:19,873 --> 00:58:20,666
No.

686
00:58:31,510 --> 00:58:34,596
You and I both know
what is coming:

687
00:58:34,596 --> 00:58:37,349
atomic warfare,
cataclysmic destruction.

688
00:58:37,349 --> 00:58:39,560
But unlike the others,

689
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,023
I'm trying to find a meaning
to this impending catastrophe.

690
00:58:44,023 --> 00:58:46,233
Think of me as the last
European optimist.

691
00:58:46,233 --> 00:58:48,819
This can be our life's work.

692
00:58:48,819 --> 00:58:50,321
Please.

693
00:58:53,949 --> 00:58:57,828
There are a few of us who since
1938 have known that you exist.

694
00:58:59,914 --> 00:59:02,041
The fact that you appeared
all of a sudden

695
00:59:02,041 --> 00:59:04,251
means that you have
a special mission

696
00:59:04,251 --> 00:59:07,546
and that you possess means
of knowledge much superior

697
00:59:07,546 --> 00:59:09,423
to those available to us.

698
00:59:09,423 --> 00:59:10,800
You are gravely mistaken.

699
00:59:13,761 --> 00:59:17,932
What is indispensable
to a truly human existence?

700
00:59:17,932 --> 00:59:19,809
For instance,

701
00:59:19,809 --> 00:59:25,565
the Occidental artistic
treasury, music and poetry,

702
00:59:25,565 --> 00:59:28,818
but also a part
of classic philosophy,

703
00:59:28,818 --> 00:59:33,698
and above all, science.

704
00:59:33,698 --> 00:59:35,700
Post-historic man
will be allergic to science

705
00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:37,285
for at least
one or two centuries.

706
00:59:37,285 --> 00:59:41,539
No, always science.

707
00:59:41,539 --> 00:59:44,250
Science above all.
Dominic.

708
00:59:44,250 --> 00:59:45,793
I'm surprised at you.

709
00:59:45,793 --> 00:59:48,171
Dominic, don't believe
anything he says.

710
00:59:48,171 --> 00:59:49,172
Shut up!

711
00:59:49,172 --> 00:59:51,299
I will tell him the truth.

712
00:59:51,299 --> 00:59:53,635
Come, Dominic,
join me in this work.

713
00:59:53,635 --> 00:59:55,470
He is Dr. Josef Rudolf,

714
00:59:55,470 --> 00:59:57,430
Hitler's most
dedicated scientist.

715
00:59:59,808 --> 01:00:01,351
Adolf Hitler?

716
01:00:05,230 --> 01:00:07,315
If you actually knew him...

717
01:00:09,150 --> 01:00:11,861
If you had ever been with him,
in his presence...

718
01:00:13,613 --> 01:00:15,323
If I could describe it to you...

719
01:00:17,325 --> 01:00:19,619
Well, uh,

720
01:00:19,619 --> 01:00:20,954
you will meet him soon enough.

721
01:00:27,335 --> 01:00:29,421
No! The Gestapo
had Stanciulescu killed

722
01:00:29,421 --> 01:00:30,672
and Rudolf was the one--
Traitor!

723
01:00:35,344 --> 01:00:37,846
You have no choice
in the matter.

724
01:00:37,846 --> 01:00:39,389
Dominic.

725
01:00:39,389 --> 01:00:44,686
You were
the honey in my dreams.

726
01:00:44,686 --> 01:00:47,356
Forgive me. Please, forgive me.

727
01:00:51,276 --> 01:00:53,862
It's true what he says.

728
01:00:55,489 --> 01:00:57,282
You really have no choice
in the matter.

729
01:02:12,066 --> 01:02:16,529
Geneva 1955, 20th of August,

730
01:02:16,529 --> 01:02:19,032
about 10:31 a.m.
Dominic Matei.

731
01:02:19,032 --> 01:02:22,952
<i>I've decided to stop
making notes in English</i>

732
01:02:22,952 --> 01:02:25,080
<i>and instead to use
an artificial language</i>

733
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:26,790
<i>of my own invention.</i>

734
01:02:26,790 --> 01:02:31,461
Now I can
describe paradoxical situations

735
01:02:31,461 --> 01:02:35,131
impossible to express
in any existing language.

736
01:02:35,131 --> 01:02:37,425
This will permit me
to reveal facts

737
01:02:37,425 --> 01:02:40,846
I have not dared
to confess in writing.

738
01:02:40,846 --> 01:02:43,348
This language will
only be deciphered

739
01:02:43,348 --> 01:02:46,643
by means
of a perfected computer.

740
01:02:46,643 --> 01:02:50,063
So my testimony is addressed
to the future,

741
01:02:50,063 --> 01:02:53,066
let us say in the year 2010.

742
01:02:53,066 --> 01:02:54,860
But to whom?

743
01:02:54,860 --> 01:02:57,446
The coming nuclear wars

744
01:02:57,446 --> 01:03:00,157
will destroy many civilizations.

745
01:03:00,157 --> 01:03:03,368
Undoubtedly, this will unleash

746
01:03:03,368 --> 01:03:09,208
a wave of deep pessimism,
historically unprecedented.

747
01:03:09,208 --> 01:03:12,002
A general despondency.

748
01:03:12,002 --> 01:03:15,339
My testimony,
deciphered in the future,

749
01:03:15,339 --> 01:03:18,175
could counter the despair

750
01:03:18,175 --> 01:03:21,011
because it shows
the potential of humanity:

751
01:03:21,011 --> 01:03:22,930
<i>a species superior
to Homo sapiens,</i>

752
01:03:22,930 --> 01:03:26,559
<i>born in a far-off future.</i>

753
01:03:26,559 --> 01:03:29,353
<i>This depends
on the preservation</i>

754
01:03:29,353 --> 01:03:32,773
<i>of the material
in the safe-deposit box.</i>

755
01:03:32,773 --> 01:03:36,527
<i>I don't know how
this will be assured.</i>

756
01:03:40,573 --> 01:03:43,743
<i>But I do not
doubt that the material</i>

757
01:03:43,743 --> 01:03:47,121
<i>will be preserved.</i>

758
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:52,543
<i>Otherwise,</i>

759
01:03:52,543 --> 01:03:54,128
<i>my life would have
no meaning.</i>

760
01:04:05,389 --> 01:04:06,557
Hello!

761
01:04:08,726 --> 01:04:10,353
Excuse me,

762
01:04:10,353 --> 01:04:12,397
what's the best way
up to the top?

763
01:04:21,072 --> 01:04:22,490
Is it Laura?

764
01:04:22,490 --> 01:04:25,118
She's afraid of curvy roads.

765
01:04:25,118 --> 01:04:27,287
I really don't think
you should go on.

766
01:04:27,287 --> 01:04:28,913
There's a storm coming in.

767
01:04:28,913 --> 01:04:34,002
We're used to mountain storms.
And anyway, we can't wait.

768
01:04:34,002 --> 01:04:35,420
It is.

769
01:04:39,883 --> 01:04:42,302
Our vacation will
be over in a few days.

770
01:04:42,302 --> 01:04:43,303
Maybe I can help.

771
01:04:47,515 --> 01:04:48,642
That's it.

772
01:04:50,810 --> 01:04:52,145
That's it.

773
01:04:53,605 --> 01:04:57,275
I'm Veronica.
What's your name?

774
01:04:57,275 --> 01:04:58,401
Dominic.

775
01:04:58,401 --> 01:05:00,695
With her,
you use your real name.

776
01:05:04,282 --> 01:05:04,866
Thank you.

777
01:05:12,541 --> 01:05:13,959
Be careful.

778
01:05:13,959 --> 01:05:15,419
Goodbye, Dominic.

779
01:05:18,380 --> 01:05:20,632
<i>I can only guess what happened.</i>

780
01:05:20,632 --> 01:05:22,551
<i>When the big storm broke out,</i>

781
01:05:22,551 --> 01:05:23,844
they were probably
on the road

782
01:05:23,844 --> 01:05:25,471
that runs under
the mountain wall,

783
01:05:25,471 --> 01:05:27,681
where most
of the lightning struck.

784
01:05:27,681 --> 01:05:30,142
I'm afraid they could have
been buried in a rockslide

785
01:05:30,142 --> 01:05:33,187
or a close strike of lightning
can cause a heart attack.

786
01:05:36,148 --> 01:05:37,149
Your name?

787
01:05:37,149 --> 01:05:39,401
Martin Audricourt.

788
01:05:42,613 --> 01:05:43,113
Passport, please.

789
01:05:50,663 --> 01:05:53,833
You know, I can always
go in a taxi by myself.

790
01:05:55,709 --> 01:05:58,295
If I need help, I'll call
from the first service station.

791
01:06:09,515 --> 01:06:12,685
I don't think they could
have had time to reach the shelter.

792
01:06:12,685 --> 01:06:14,854
They could have taken refuge

793
01:06:14,854 --> 01:06:17,190
in one of the crevices
in the wall.

794
01:06:19,567 --> 01:06:21,152
Oh, there's their car.

795
01:06:24,530 --> 01:06:26,074
There's a woman
over here.

796
01:06:40,547 --> 01:06:41,965
She's dead.

797
01:06:51,391 --> 01:06:55,437
<i>Om, shanti</i>

798
01:06:55,437 --> 01:06:57,731
<i>Shanti</i>

799
01:06:59,065 --> 01:07:00,400
Veronica?

800
01:07:01,401 --> 01:07:04,321
What happened?
Are you all right?

801
01:07:09,242 --> 01:07:09,826
Sanskrit.

802
01:07:12,621 --> 01:07:14,080
How can it be?

803
01:07:50,784 --> 01:07:53,787
She's had a shock.
She's suffering from amnesia.

804
01:07:53,787 --> 01:07:56,248
What language is that?
What is she speaking?

805
01:07:56,248 --> 01:07:59,960
It's an Indian language,
I think.

806
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:05,966
Her papers identify her
as Veronica Buehler, age 25.

807
01:08:05,966 --> 01:08:07,551
Occupation: school teacher.

808
01:08:07,551 --> 01:08:10,304
Living in Liestal,
Canton Bâle-Campagne.

809
01:08:10,304 --> 01:08:12,139
Excuse me.
- Please.

810
01:08:12,139 --> 01:08:14,642
You're the only one
who can calm her

811
01:08:14,642 --> 01:08:17,520
and speak her language,
Mr...?

812
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:18,896
Audricourt.

813
01:08:18,896 --> 01:08:20,398
I'm a student of linguistics.

814
01:08:38,583 --> 01:08:41,002
Greetings.

815
01:08:41,002 --> 01:08:43,504
Greetings.

816
01:08:44,672 --> 01:08:46,966
What is your name?

817
01:08:51,638 --> 01:08:55,892
It is a pleasure
to make your acquaintance.

818
01:08:59,062 --> 01:09:01,731
My name is Rupini.

819
01:09:05,026 --> 01:09:06,069
Thank you.

820
01:09:11,908 --> 01:09:13,368
Good morning.

821
01:09:16,663 --> 01:09:18,873
What can you tell us,
Mr. Audricourt?

822
01:09:31,553 --> 01:09:33,722
The young woman believes

823
01:09:33,722 --> 01:09:36,057
she is living
in northeastern India

824
01:09:36,057 --> 01:09:37,017
14 centuries ago.

825
01:09:39,102 --> 01:09:40,645
She feels
that she has spent

826
01:09:40,645 --> 01:09:45,025
several months
in a cave meditating.

827
01:09:46,944 --> 01:09:49,571
Now, this is where she was
when a big storm broke out

828
01:09:49,571 --> 01:09:53,492
and she saw lightning strike
above her on the mountain.

829
01:09:53,492 --> 01:09:58,580
Many large rocks were dislodged,
blocking the mouth of the cave.

830
01:10:01,458 --> 01:10:02,584
Is that all?

831
01:10:02,584 --> 01:10:05,546
She asserts her name
is Rupini,

832
01:10:07,423 --> 01:10:10,092
daughter of Nagabhatta,

833
01:10:10,092 --> 01:10:14,054
descended from one of the first
families to convert to Buddhism.

834
01:10:15,931 --> 01:10:22,188
She became a disciple
of the philosopher Chandrakirti,

835
01:10:22,188 --> 01:10:27,193
which is why she was in the cave
copying down his works.

836
01:10:27,193 --> 01:10:28,736
I see.

837
01:10:30,821 --> 01:10:33,824
Would you mind if I discuss this
a moment with my colleagues?

838
01:10:35,785 --> 01:10:36,327
Not at all.

839
01:10:55,304 --> 01:10:58,099
We will invite
some doctors from, uh,

840
01:10:58,099 --> 01:11:01,060
Zurich, Basel and Geneva
to come to see her.

841
01:11:02,562 --> 01:11:03,980
I...

842
01:11:03,980 --> 01:11:06,315
If I might make a suggestion?

843
01:11:06,315 --> 01:11:07,984
Yes.

844
01:11:07,984 --> 01:11:10,987
Perhaps some experts from
the Oriental Institute in Rome

845
01:11:10,987 --> 01:11:12,488
might be necessary.

846
01:11:12,488 --> 01:11:15,867
Necessary for what?

847
01:11:15,867 --> 01:11:19,662
Well, to confirm
if what she's saying is fact.

848
01:11:20,830 --> 01:11:22,457
Fact?

849
01:11:22,457 --> 01:11:23,541
Exactly.

850
01:11:32,634 --> 01:11:35,011
I present to
you Professor Giuseppe Tucci

851
01:11:35,011 --> 01:11:36,638
from the Oriental Institute
in Rome.

852
01:11:36,638 --> 01:11:38,473
I am Blasi, his assistant.

853
01:11:41,351 --> 01:11:43,812
Professor
Tucci, it's an honor.

854
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,866
Before we begin,
who wrote the telegram

855
01:11:55,866 --> 01:11:57,701
that included
some of the particulars?

856
01:11:57,701 --> 01:11:59,870
I did, professor.

857
01:11:59,870 --> 01:12:01,371
You're a Sanskritist?

858
01:12:01,371 --> 01:12:04,041
Not exactly. Excuse me.

859
01:12:04,041 --> 01:12:06,376
Uh, but I have an interest
in Oriental studies.

860
01:12:06,376 --> 01:12:09,171
I came only because
of your report.

861
01:12:09,171 --> 01:12:10,547
Thank you.

862
01:12:10,547 --> 01:12:12,966
You did well.

863
01:12:20,265 --> 01:12:22,434
Well-being, your ladyship.

864
01:12:22,434 --> 01:12:23,602
Well-being, your ladyship.

865
01:12:25,938 --> 01:12:28,315
Welcome to both of you.

866
01:12:30,776 --> 01:12:33,362
Where am I?

867
01:12:33,362 --> 01:12:37,324
Why doesn't anybody
understand me?

868
01:12:39,869 --> 01:12:47,626
As in dreams, the mind presents
the appearance of duality.

869
01:12:47,626 --> 01:12:50,629
We've had some of her
remarks translated into English.

870
01:12:52,590 --> 01:12:56,927
The young woman's knowledge
of Madhyamika philosophy

871
01:12:56,927 --> 01:13:00,389
and her master, Chandrakirti,
is convincing.

872
01:13:01,891 --> 01:13:04,352
The discussion only became
delicate whenever Rupini

873
01:13:04,352 --> 01:13:09,941
asked what had happened to her,
where she was

874
01:13:09,941 --> 01:13:11,984
and why no one understood her.

875
01:13:11,984 --> 01:13:13,945
What did you tell her,
professor?

876
01:13:13,945 --> 01:13:16,114
I always
begin by reminding of maya.

877
01:13:16,114 --> 01:13:18,282
The cosmic illusion.

878
01:13:18,282 --> 01:13:20,785
The great witch.

879
01:13:20,785 --> 01:13:22,995
Actually it's
not a dream, I told her,

880
01:13:22,995 --> 01:13:24,163
but it takes part

881
01:13:24,163 --> 01:13:26,749
in the illusory nature
of dreaming,

882
01:13:26,749 --> 01:13:32,005
because it is the future,
therefore, of time.

883
01:13:32,005 --> 01:13:35,967
Now, time is
par excellence unreal.

884
01:13:35,967 --> 01:13:38,178
I don't believe
I convinced her.

885
01:13:38,178 --> 01:13:39,387
But fortunately, she's, uh,

886
01:13:39,387 --> 01:13:41,306
enthusiastic about logic
and dialectics,

887
01:13:41,306 --> 01:13:43,308
and that's mainly
what we discussed.

888
01:13:43,308 --> 01:13:44,768
Uh, professor,

889
01:13:44,768 --> 01:13:48,563
could all this possibly be...?

890
01:13:48,563 --> 01:13:51,149
How shall I say?

891
01:13:51,149 --> 01:13:52,651
Fact?

892
01:13:52,651 --> 01:13:54,736
"Fact"?

893
01:13:56,988 --> 01:13:58,490
Mmm.

894
01:13:58,490 --> 01:14:00,367
I would suggest
a journey to India,

895
01:14:00,367 --> 01:14:03,119
more precisely to the province
of Uttar Pradesh,

896
01:14:03,119 --> 01:14:07,290
to the caves where Rupini
claims to have meditated.

897
01:14:07,290 --> 01:14:10,627
I should think
the Oriental Institute of Rome,

898
01:14:10,627 --> 01:14:14,464
of which I am president,
would sponsor the expedition.

899
01:14:14,464 --> 01:14:15,549
And, young man,

900
01:14:15,549 --> 01:14:18,343
I think you should
accompany us to India.

901
01:14:18,343 --> 01:14:20,095
I'd be delighted,
professor.

902
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:24,308
It's been understood she will
be put into a deep sleep

903
01:14:24,308 --> 01:14:25,601
before leaving the clinic

904
01:14:25,601 --> 01:14:27,185
and will continue
to sleep

905
01:14:27,185 --> 01:14:30,105
until we reach the vicinity
of the caves.

906
01:15:14,734 --> 01:15:16,319
Start rolling. Rolling!

907
01:15:16,319 --> 01:15:17,611
Tucci! Tucci, look here!

908
01:15:55,817 --> 01:15:58,153
We are very close
to the frontier of Nepal.

909
01:15:58,153 --> 01:16:00,447
According to Rupini's account,

910
01:16:00,447 --> 01:16:02,907
this is where we'll find the
cave where she would meditate.

911
01:16:27,641 --> 01:16:30,393
We are very fortunate in having
a pandit from Gorakhpur

912
01:16:30,393 --> 01:16:32,771
familiar with
the Madhyamika philosophy.

913
01:16:32,771 --> 01:16:34,648
He'll be at her side
when she awakens.

914
01:16:46,660 --> 01:16:48,245
Everyone,
hide themselves.

915
01:17:05,095 --> 01:17:07,473
No form,

916
01:17:07,473 --> 01:17:10,100
no feeling,

917
01:17:10,100 --> 01:17:11,352
no thought,

918
01:17:11,352 --> 01:17:13,938
no choice,

919
01:17:15,648 --> 01:17:17,441
no consciousness.

920
01:17:22,363 --> 01:17:24,865
Gone, gone,

921
01:17:24,865 --> 01:17:27,576
gone beyond,
completely gone.

922
01:17:28,869 --> 01:17:30,913
Enlightenment.

923
01:17:30,913 --> 01:17:32,248
So be it.

924
01:17:33,290 --> 01:17:34,333
Welcome.

925
01:17:45,636 --> 01:17:49,390
Why did it take you so long?

926
01:17:49,390 --> 01:17:51,893
I was already here.

927
01:18:18,586 --> 01:18:22,590
I know this place.

928
01:18:43,278 --> 01:18:45,280
Stay back. Hide yourself.

929
01:18:52,871 --> 01:18:54,331
Over here!

930
01:19:14,435 --> 01:19:15,769
Ah!

931
01:19:17,855 --> 01:19:19,398
Oh, God.

932
01:19:19,398 --> 01:19:20,441
Are you all right?

933
01:19:30,618 --> 01:19:32,453
Just be still. Lay still.

934
01:19:33,787 --> 01:19:35,164
Just rest.

935
01:19:35,164 --> 01:19:36,499
Veronica.

936
01:19:38,125 --> 01:19:40,044
She recognized it.

937
01:19:40,044 --> 01:19:42,505
This is the cave!

938
01:19:42,505 --> 01:19:44,006
But the entrance is blocked.

939
01:21:02,919 --> 01:21:06,923
I don't think
you'll be needing me for a while.

940
01:21:31,323 --> 01:21:33,075
She is awake,

941
01:21:33,075 --> 01:21:35,285
but she has not
opened her eyes.

942
01:21:43,085 --> 01:21:44,712
Greetings.

943
01:21:49,258 --> 01:21:52,720
How are you feeling, Rupini?

944
01:21:59,518 --> 01:22:03,647
Didn't we--? Didn't
we ask directions of you today?

945
01:22:06,567 --> 01:22:08,486
<i>My name is Veronica Buehler,</i>

946
01:22:08,486 --> 01:22:11,155
<i>and I speak three languages:</i>

947
01:22:11,155 --> 01:22:13,741
<i>German, French and English.</i>

948
01:22:13,741 --> 01:22:16,911
<i>Have you ever tried to
learn any Oriental language?</i>

949
01:22:16,911 --> 01:22:18,079
<i>Never.</i>

950
01:22:18,079 --> 01:22:20,540
<i>Or have you ever read anything</i>

951
01:22:20,540 --> 01:22:22,500
<i>about India
or Indian culture?</i>

952
01:22:22,500 --> 01:22:24,335
<i>Some popular books.</i>

953
01:22:24,335 --> 01:22:25,503
<i>Like?</i>

954
01:22:25,503 --> 01:22:28,423
<i>Heh. Rudyard Kipling,
I think?</i>

955
01:22:28,423 --> 01:22:29,715
The Jungle Book.

956
01:22:29,715 --> 01:22:31,300
<i>Have you ever heard</i>

957
01:22:31,300 --> 01:22:33,636
<i>the name Rupini?</i>

958
01:22:33,636 --> 01:22:35,346
<i>No.</i>

959
01:22:35,346 --> 01:22:37,390
<i>In an earlier existence,</i>

960
01:22:37,390 --> 01:22:40,059
<i>Veronica Buehler
had been Rupini.</i>

961
01:22:40,059 --> 01:22:44,355
<i>I would say, for the vast
majority of the Orientalists,</i>

962
01:22:44,355 --> 01:22:49,694
<i>a clear example of
the transmigration of the soul.</i>

963
01:22:49,694 --> 01:22:51,863
<i>And, young man, your opinion?</i>

964
01:22:51,863 --> 01:22:54,157
<i>As a neophyte Orientalist,</i>

965
01:22:54,157 --> 01:22:56,534
<i>I can only cite some classical
Indian conceptions,</i>

966
01:22:56,534 --> 01:22:59,829
<i>from Upanishads
to Gautama Buddha.</i>

967
01:22:59,829 --> 01:23:02,832
<i>Excuse me. It is
precisely in the Upanishads</i>

968
01:23:02,832 --> 01:23:05,960
<i>in the Brhadaranyaka
and Chandogya Upanishads</i>

969
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:09,297
<i>that one can find this belief
for the first time.</i>

970
01:23:09,297 --> 01:23:11,174
<i>This is karma, isn't it?</i>

971
01:23:11,174 --> 01:23:13,134
But it's hard for me to believe

972
01:23:13,134 --> 01:23:14,761
that I ever existed before.

973
01:23:14,761 --> 01:23:16,721
How did you say?

974
01:23:16,721 --> 01:23:18,348
Metempsychosis.

975
01:23:18,348 --> 01:23:20,809
Metempsychosis.
- Mm-hm.

976
01:23:20,809 --> 01:23:22,769
That absolutely
doesn't make sense to me.

977
01:23:25,063 --> 01:23:26,565
Maybe...

978
01:23:26,565 --> 01:23:28,150
What?

979
01:23:28,150 --> 01:23:31,069
Maybe I was possessed
by an evil spirit.

980
01:23:31,069 --> 01:23:33,071
Well...

981
01:23:33,071 --> 01:23:34,698
They never leave us alone.

982
01:23:34,698 --> 01:23:37,618
It's all so confusing.

983
01:23:37,618 --> 01:23:39,745
I'm afraid
I'm going crazy.

984
01:23:50,214 --> 01:23:53,050
Hello, Miss Veronica,
just an interview.

985
01:23:53,050 --> 01:23:55,427
That's enough. Let's go.

986
01:23:55,427 --> 01:23:56,720
Taxi!

987
01:24:01,517 --> 01:24:03,268
Just drive, drive anywhere.

988
01:24:39,805 --> 01:24:43,267
I-- I think
we should get away. I...

989
01:24:44,977 --> 01:24:47,897
I think we should go somewhere.
We should be alone.

990
01:24:47,897 --> 01:24:49,690
We should go to, uh,
somewhere beautiful,

991
01:24:49,690 --> 01:24:50,566
a Mediterranean island.

992
01:24:52,819 --> 01:24:55,822
Dominic, that would make me
very, very happy.

993
01:25:46,498 --> 01:25:49,167
Look, that bird.

994
01:25:49,167 --> 01:25:51,586
What kind of birds
do they have in Malta?

995
01:25:51,586 --> 01:25:53,213
That's a Maltese falcon.

996
01:26:12,900 --> 01:26:14,610
Welcome.

997
01:26:14,610 --> 01:26:16,862
Thank you.

998
01:26:22,952 --> 01:26:24,703
No, that's fine.
Thank you.

999
01:26:24,703 --> 01:26:26,080
Thank you.

1000
01:26:32,169 --> 01:26:33,671
Thanks very much.

1001
01:26:37,633 --> 01:26:39,427
Finally alone.

1002
01:26:45,266 --> 01:26:48,019
Dominic,
it's beautiful here.

1003
01:26:48,019 --> 01:26:49,437
Yes, it is.

1004
01:26:59,655 --> 01:27:02,575
When I first opened my eyes
and saw you...

1005
01:27:06,079 --> 01:27:09,290
I confess I was thinking,

1006
01:27:09,290 --> 01:27:13,961
if I were three
or four years older and...

1007
01:27:17,131 --> 01:27:18,967
if he were
to ask me to marry him...

1008
01:27:23,304 --> 01:27:24,973
I would say yes.

1009
01:27:36,818 --> 01:27:38,028
Veronica.

1010
01:27:53,793 --> 01:27:55,545
My love.

1011
01:27:55,545 --> 01:27:57,672
Is it true?

1012
01:28:06,848 --> 01:28:08,141
Yes.

1013
01:28:17,693 --> 01:28:19,528
I've always loved you.

1014
01:28:48,432 --> 01:28:49,099
Veronica?

1015
01:29:36,814 --> 01:29:37,857
Do you understand it?

1016
01:29:40,026 --> 01:29:42,153
I don't know this language.

1017
01:29:44,239 --> 01:29:48,034
Ancient... Beyond...

1018
01:29:48,034 --> 01:29:49,536
Why else did you have
to know her?

1019
01:30:48,679 --> 01:30:49,888
Veronica?

1020
01:30:54,893 --> 01:30:55,894
Veronica...

1021
01:31:12,161 --> 01:31:13,287
It's all right.

1022
01:31:13,287 --> 01:31:15,372
That's all right.
It's all right.

1023
01:31:15,372 --> 01:31:18,042
I've got you.
I've got you.

1024
01:31:18,042 --> 01:31:20,336
I've got you, darling.

1025
01:31:20,336 --> 01:31:23,089
I've got you, Laura.

1026
01:31:23,089 --> 01:31:26,050
It's all right.

1027
01:31:26,050 --> 01:31:27,927
I've got you.

1028
01:31:27,927 --> 01:31:30,930
I've got you, darling.
I've got you, Laura.

1029
01:31:34,433 --> 01:31:36,853
I love you, darling.

1030
01:31:36,853 --> 01:31:38,437
I love you.

1031
01:32:43,337 --> 01:32:45,130
Was that Rupini's voice?

1032
01:32:45,130 --> 01:32:47,466
Mm-hm. Yes.

1033
01:32:47,466 --> 01:32:49,635
She's moving back in time

1034
01:32:49,635 --> 01:32:53,347
from Sanskrit
to earlier languages.

1035
01:32:53,347 --> 01:32:54,765
That was Egyptian.

1036
01:33:00,979 --> 01:33:03,690
Perhaps you'll take us back
to a time before history.

1037
01:33:05,901 --> 01:33:08,028
The origins of language,

1038
01:33:08,028 --> 01:33:11,740
which is where I've always
wanted to go, but I never could.

1039
01:33:11,740 --> 01:33:14,326
But it's helping me
finish my work.

1040
01:33:14,326 --> 01:33:15,244
Good.

1041
01:33:16,912 --> 01:33:19,206
Good. I want to help you.

1042
01:33:19,206 --> 01:33:19,999
You know, I'm...

1043
01:33:22,418 --> 01:33:26,130
I'm 88 years old, really.

1044
01:33:31,594 --> 01:33:34,555
If I added up all the years
Rupini lived,

1045
01:33:34,555 --> 01:33:35,431
I'd be older than you.

1046
01:33:37,475 --> 01:33:38,225
Well, then let's go dancing.

1047
01:34:10,300 --> 01:34:11,301
Thank you.

1048
01:34:30,737 --> 01:34:32,238
I don't think
we'll be recognized,

1049
01:34:32,238 --> 01:34:34,741
even with our pictures
in all those magazines.

1050
01:34:34,741 --> 01:34:38,828
Well, our pictures
are still appearing.

1051
01:34:38,828 --> 01:34:39,955
Let me see.

1052
01:34:59,057 --> 01:35:00,016
What's the matter?

1053
01:35:07,941 --> 01:35:10,861
I feel tired all the time,

1054
01:35:10,861 --> 01:35:13,989
and I don't understand why.

1055
01:35:13,989 --> 01:35:18,744
Something is happening
inside me. I can feel it.

1056
01:35:18,744 --> 01:35:20,287
And she's right.

1057
01:35:20,287 --> 01:35:23,248
The paramediumistic ecstasies
have exhausted her.

1058
01:35:29,421 --> 01:35:30,923
Champagne?

1059
01:37:08,647 --> 01:37:09,981
Veronica?

1060
01:37:18,281 --> 01:37:19,908
Veronica!

1061
01:37:40,179 --> 01:37:43,599
No! Veronica, don't!

1062
01:37:45,601 --> 01:37:47,061
Veronica!

1063
01:37:48,270 --> 01:37:48,979
I was so worried!

1064
01:37:51,065 --> 01:37:52,483
What is it?

1065
01:37:52,483 --> 01:37:54,360
It was a dream.

1066
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:57,446
A bad dream.

1067
01:37:57,446 --> 01:37:59,907
What was--? What was it?

1068
01:38:02,451 --> 01:38:05,746
I was somewhere beside a river,
and someone,

1069
01:38:05,746 --> 01:38:08,040
a stranger with a head
like a dog,

1070
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:09,708
was coming toward me.

1071
01:38:09,708 --> 01:38:12,461
And in his hand, he--
He had...

1072
01:38:14,964 --> 01:38:16,674
Explain it to me!

1073
01:38:16,674 --> 01:38:19,468
I want to know
what Rupini knows.

1074
01:38:19,468 --> 01:38:23,139
She knows things
that we don't understand yet.

1075
01:38:23,139 --> 01:38:25,099
No. Let me--

1076
01:38:25,099 --> 01:38:27,310
No, no!

1077
01:38:27,310 --> 01:38:28,686
Don't ever leave me.

1078
01:38:28,686 --> 01:38:29,979
I'll never leave you.

1079
01:38:29,979 --> 01:38:32,106
Don't ever leave me.
I'll never leave you.

1080
01:38:32,106 --> 01:38:34,567
Don't ever leave me.

1081
01:38:34,567 --> 01:38:35,651
I'll never leave you.

1082
01:39:21,698 --> 01:39:23,450
Veronica.

1083
01:39:31,625 --> 01:39:35,462
The stranger in your dream
was probably Shiva.

1084
01:39:38,382 --> 01:39:40,926
And in his hand, a skull.

1085
01:39:43,053 --> 01:39:47,766
For Shiva is both creator
and destroyer combined.

1086
01:40:42,655 --> 01:40:43,656
Dominic?

1087
01:40:43,656 --> 01:40:45,157
There's someone
who looks like you

1088
01:40:45,157 --> 01:40:47,285
spying on us.

1089
01:40:47,285 --> 01:40:48,578
I didn't notice anyone.

1090
01:40:48,578 --> 01:40:50,288
By the gate.

1091
01:40:50,288 --> 01:40:51,330
Come and look.

1092
01:41:01,674 --> 01:41:02,550
There's no one there.

1093
01:41:11,809 --> 01:41:13,770
Maybe I was mistaken.

1094
01:41:16,231 --> 01:41:19,234
You've been in the sun too long.
Let's go inside.

1095
01:41:42,174 --> 01:41:46,011
<i>I'm 88 years old, really.</i>

1096
01:42:32,349 --> 01:42:34,977
She's in a
hyper-suggestive state.

1097
01:42:36,770 --> 01:42:37,980
Tell her you love her.

1098
01:42:40,316 --> 01:42:41,775
Tell her that you've
always loved her.

1099
01:42:45,279 --> 01:42:46,697
I love you.

1100
01:42:49,325 --> 01:42:51,243
I've always loved you.

1101
01:43:03,548 --> 01:43:04,757
That's Sumerian.

1102
01:43:14,684 --> 01:43:16,185
No, it's Babylonian.

1103
01:43:31,993 --> 01:43:34,621
<i>After Egyptian and Babylonian,</i>

1104
01:43:34,621 --> 01:43:37,415
there followed probably
a sample of proto-Elamite

1105
01:43:37,415 --> 01:43:39,751
and one of Sumerian.

1106
01:43:39,751 --> 01:43:43,129
She is descending
deeper and deeper

1107
01:43:43,129 --> 01:43:44,464
into the past.

1108
01:43:44,464 --> 01:43:46,758
But how far back will she go?

1109
01:43:46,758 --> 01:43:49,970
Your life's work will
finally have what was missing.

1110
01:43:52,430 --> 01:43:54,474
<i>Every night for two weeks,</i>

1111
01:43:54,474 --> 01:43:58,019
<i>Veronica went
further back in time.</i>

1112
01:43:58,019 --> 01:43:59,813
<i>Through unknown languages...</i>

1113
01:44:04,484 --> 01:44:06,403
<i>unwritten history.</i>

1114
01:44:17,497 --> 01:44:19,875
<i>Getting closer...</i>

1115
01:44:19,875 --> 01:44:21,418
<i>and closer...</i>

1116
01:44:21,418 --> 01:44:25,756
to the inarticulate moment...

1117
01:44:25,756 --> 01:44:27,466
of the beginning.

1118
01:44:37,684 --> 01:44:40,104
<i>But at what cost?</i>

1119
01:44:42,398 --> 01:44:43,691
<i>Madam is not suffering</i>

1120
01:44:43,691 --> 01:44:45,776
from anything,
anything at all.

1121
01:44:45,776 --> 01:44:47,069
Are you sure, doctor?

1122
01:44:47,069 --> 01:44:50,030
Yes. I've prescribed
a series of shots

1123
01:44:50,030 --> 01:44:52,700
with vitamins and minerals.

1124
01:44:52,700 --> 01:44:54,702
Perhaps it's...

1125
01:44:54,702 --> 01:44:57,371
the nervous condition

1126
01:44:57,371 --> 01:44:59,874
that precedes menopause

1127
01:44:59,874 --> 01:45:02,251
in certain women.

1128
01:45:02,251 --> 01:45:05,880
Well, just how old do you
take her to be, doctor?

1129
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:08,174
Late 40s, more or less.

1130
01:45:09,842 --> 01:45:10,926
She's 25.

1131
01:45:31,489 --> 01:45:32,573
Where have all
the mirrors gone?

1132
01:45:40,999 --> 01:45:42,875
Bring one to me.

1133
01:45:44,544 --> 01:45:46,838
Veronica, you're not well.

1134
01:45:48,131 --> 01:45:50,800
Bring a mirror to me,
Dominic, please.

1135
01:45:54,304 --> 01:45:55,096
Maybe that one.

1136
01:47:15,636 --> 01:47:19,682
I should have understood this
from the beginning.

1137
01:47:19,682 --> 01:47:21,183
One more regression,

1138
01:47:21,183 --> 01:47:23,352
she'll reach
the protolanguage.

1139
01:47:23,352 --> 01:47:25,604
Your life's work
will be complete.

1140
01:47:28,149 --> 01:47:29,608
You know I'm right.

1141
01:47:48,669 --> 01:47:49,712
Dominic?

1142
01:47:52,632 --> 01:47:53,925
Dominic?

1143
01:48:01,057 --> 01:48:02,350
Look.

1144
01:48:08,565 --> 01:48:10,149
Come sit with me.

1145
01:48:13,278 --> 01:48:13,987
Come sit with me.

1146
01:48:20,410 --> 01:48:21,703
Veronica.

1147
01:48:21,703 --> 01:48:23,663
Veronica, I'm to blame for this.
No, it's me.

1148
01:48:23,663 --> 01:48:25,665
Listen to me. Listen to me
and don't interrupt.

1149
01:48:25,665 --> 01:48:28,251
Please, listen.

1150
01:48:28,251 --> 01:48:29,377
Listen to me.

1151
01:48:30,670 --> 01:48:32,088
If I continue to live with you,

1152
01:48:32,088 --> 01:48:33,757
by autumn
you will have perished.

1153
01:48:33,757 --> 01:48:35,300
I can't tell you more.

1154
01:48:35,300 --> 01:48:37,719
But I assure you,

1155
01:48:37,719 --> 01:48:40,680
in reality, you haven't aged.

1156
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:42,349
The moment I disappear
from your life,

1157
01:48:42,349 --> 01:48:44,184
your youth and your beauty
will return.

1158
01:48:44,184 --> 01:48:48,271
Don't leave me, Dominic.
Please, don't leave me.

1159
01:48:48,271 --> 01:48:50,440
I was doomed to lose everything
that I love.

1160
01:48:50,440 --> 01:48:53,026
But I'd rather lose you young
and beautiful, the way you were,

1161
01:48:53,026 --> 01:48:57,155
the way you will be again
without me,

1162
01:48:57,155 --> 01:48:58,824
than to watch you perish
in my arms.

1163
01:48:58,824 --> 01:49:02,786
You promised me
you would never leave me.

1164
01:49:02,786 --> 01:49:07,166
I am going to leave you.

1165
01:49:07,166 --> 01:49:11,170
If you leave me,
I will die without you.

1166
01:49:11,170 --> 01:49:12,629
If in a few months,

1167
01:49:12,629 --> 01:49:15,632
you don't find yourself
as you were last autumn,

1168
01:49:15,632 --> 01:49:16,884
I'll come back.

1169
01:49:16,884 --> 01:49:19,553
The minute I receive
your telegram, I'll come back.

1170
01:49:19,553 --> 01:49:22,056
Three or four months,
just wait--

1171
01:49:27,645 --> 01:49:28,562
Somewhere...

1172
01:49:31,315 --> 01:49:33,067
far away from me.

1173
01:49:37,154 --> 01:49:40,366
Don't leave me.
Please. Please.

1174
01:50:13,524 --> 01:50:15,693
Dominic.

1175
01:50:15,693 --> 01:50:16,611
Dominic.

1176
01:50:39,259 --> 01:50:40,677
<i>The 3:10 train</i>

1177
01:50:40,677 --> 01:50:43,722
<i>from Bucuresti to Iasi
will depart in five minutes.</i>

1178
01:50:46,558 --> 01:50:48,393
<i>The 3:10 train
from Bucuresti to Iasi</i>

1179
01:50:48,393 --> 01:50:50,061
<i>will depart in five minutes.</i>

1180
01:51:07,746 --> 01:51:08,747
Good evening.

1181
01:51:11,041 --> 01:51:12,084
Audricourt.

1182
01:51:12,084 --> 01:51:13,752
Sign here, please.

1183
01:51:13,752 --> 01:51:15,087
Thank you.

1184
01:51:18,757 --> 01:51:20,801
On the second floor, Room 19.

1185
01:51:20,801 --> 01:51:21,802
Thank you.

1186
01:51:21,802 --> 01:51:23,178
By the way,

1187
01:51:23,178 --> 01:51:25,139
do you know if the Café Select
still exists?

1188
01:51:25,139 --> 01:51:27,599
How could it not exist?
It's an historic monument.

1189
01:51:27,599 --> 01:51:29,184
Of course.

1190
01:51:29,184 --> 01:51:32,813
Have you heard
of Professor Dominic Matei?

1191
01:51:32,813 --> 01:51:34,440
You know,
I was born here.

1192
01:51:34,440 --> 01:51:37,234
Then you know that
he frequented Café Select

1193
01:51:37,234 --> 01:51:40,821
the whole time he was
professor here in Piatra Neamt.

1194
01:51:40,821 --> 01:51:41,822
That's right.

1195
01:51:41,822 --> 01:51:43,908
Here's your key.

1196
01:51:44,909 --> 01:51:46,619
Nineteen?

1197
01:51:46,619 --> 01:51:47,703
The second floor.

1198
01:51:47,703 --> 01:51:48,829
All right.

1199
01:51:50,623 --> 01:51:52,291
Welcome home.

1200
01:51:59,507 --> 01:52:01,133
Café Select.

1201
01:52:40,632 --> 01:52:41,507
<i>Maman.</i>

1202
01:52:42,884 --> 01:52:44,844
<i>Maman.</i>

1203
01:52:45,845 --> 01:52:46,596
<i>Maman.</i>

1204
01:52:47,764 --> 01:52:50,391
<i>Maman.</i>

1205
01:53:16,251 --> 01:53:18,712
"Good and
evil lose their meaning,

1206
01:53:18,712 --> 01:53:20,464
"and in the absolute

1207
01:53:20,464 --> 01:53:24,301
being coincides
with nonbeing."

1208
01:53:24,301 --> 01:53:25,677
Yes, but what no one dares
to say

1209
01:53:25,677 --> 01:53:27,763
is that in the horizon
of these philosophies,

1210
01:53:27,763 --> 01:53:28,889
atomic wars must be,

1211
01:53:28,889 --> 01:53:30,390
if not justified,
at least accepted.

1212
01:53:30,390 --> 01:53:32,059
No, I reject that.

1213
01:53:32,059 --> 01:53:34,561
True meaning of nuclear
catastrophe can only be this:

1214
01:53:34,561 --> 01:53:36,730
The mutation
of the human species,

1215
01:53:36,730 --> 01:53:38,232
and the arrival
of the new man.

1216
01:53:38,232 --> 01:53:39,358
Yes, but atomic wars

1217
01:53:39,358 --> 01:53:42,694
will destroy populations,
civilizations.

1218
01:53:42,694 --> 01:53:45,280
That is the price to be paid.

1219
01:53:45,280 --> 01:53:47,407
How can you even say that?

1220
01:53:47,407 --> 01:53:50,077
The resulting electromagnetic
pulse will create

1221
01:53:50,077 --> 01:53:52,329
an unlimited potential
for post-historic man.

1222
01:53:52,329 --> 01:53:54,081
Yes, but it could go
the other way

1223
01:53:54,081 --> 01:53:55,958
and provoke a regression
in the species.

1224
01:53:55,958 --> 01:53:58,210
All that matters is knowledge

1225
01:53:58,210 --> 01:54:00,129
and the perfection
of the human being.

1226
01:54:00,129 --> 01:54:03,716
So you're saying that the end
justifies the means?

1227
01:54:03,716 --> 01:54:06,427
There is no other way.

1228
01:54:06,427 --> 01:54:08,721
Just as there was no other way
for Veronica, just aging

1229
01:54:08,721 --> 01:54:10,264
and suffering and then death.

1230
01:54:10,264 --> 01:54:12,266
There was no other way.

1231
01:54:12,266 --> 01:54:14,393
That's why you've never
finished your book,

1232
01:54:14,393 --> 01:54:16,395
why you'll always be a failure.

1233
01:54:16,395 --> 01:54:17,271
No.

1234
01:54:20,649 --> 01:54:22,693
Dominic, what have you done?

1235
01:54:24,236 --> 01:54:25,321
Oh, Dominic.

1236
01:54:25,321 --> 01:54:28,324
Save me.
Save me, Dominic.

1237
01:54:30,701 --> 01:54:32,453
Dominic, what have you done?

1238
01:54:32,453 --> 01:54:33,788
What have you done?

1239
01:56:08,050 --> 01:56:10,094
And the third rose?

1240
01:56:15,933 --> 01:56:18,560
Where shall
I put the third rose?

1241
01:56:22,064 --> 01:56:24,149
Oh, where shall I put it?

1242
01:57:49,986 --> 01:57:51,571
Dominic?

1243
01:57:54,783 --> 01:57:56,076
Dominic Matei?

1244
01:57:58,912 --> 01:58:02,541
<i>Cuconul Dominic Matei?</i>

1245
01:58:05,544 --> 01:58:07,546
Is it you?

1246
01:58:12,509 --> 01:58:14,344
Praise God,

1247
01:58:14,344 --> 01:58:16,680
you've returned.

1248
01:58:16,680 --> 01:58:19,808
Dr. Neculache, look.
He's back.

1249
01:58:22,019 --> 01:58:25,564
<i>Cuconul Dominic is here.</i>

1250
01:58:25,564 --> 01:58:26,815
<i>In other words,</i>

1251
01:58:26,815 --> 01:58:29,068
<i>the story begins
all over again.</i>

1252
01:58:29,068 --> 01:58:30,986
Old friend.

1253
01:58:30,986 --> 01:58:32,363
Dominic?

1254
01:58:32,363 --> 01:58:34,073
Look, it's you.
- I'm dreaming.

1255
01:58:34,073 --> 01:58:35,783
I am dreaming.

1256
01:58:35,783 --> 01:58:37,076
When I wake up,

1257
01:58:37,076 --> 01:58:40,996
it will seem like
I've just begun to dream indeed.

1258
01:58:40,996 --> 01:58:42,540
It's like, uh,

1259
01:58:42,540 --> 01:58:46,710
the story of Chuang-tzu
and the butterfly.

1260
01:58:46,710 --> 01:58:49,213
The story of Chuang-tzu
and the butterfly?

1261
01:58:49,213 --> 01:58:50,005
Yes.

1262
01:58:52,258 --> 01:58:56,303
A king who was dreaming
that he was a butterfly

1263
01:58:56,303 --> 01:58:58,556
that dreamed he was a king,

1264
01:58:58,556 --> 01:59:00,391
who was dreaming
he was a butterfly.

1265
01:59:00,391 --> 01:59:03,185
I know very well
that I'm--

1266
01:59:03,185 --> 01:59:04,437
I'm dreaming,

1267
01:59:04,437 --> 01:59:07,523
and in a minute or two
I will wake up.

1268
01:59:07,523 --> 01:59:10,193
<i>You are awake, Cucoane Dominic,</i>

1269
01:59:10,193 --> 01:59:11,736
but you are tired.

1270
01:59:11,736 --> 01:59:14,572
In fact, you look very tired.

1271
01:59:14,572 --> 01:59:15,573
All right.

1272
01:59:15,573 --> 01:59:19,327
Between December the 20th, 1938,

1273
01:59:19,327 --> 01:59:21,412
and this evening,
many things have happened.

1274
01:59:21,412 --> 01:59:24,332
<i>That is when it is happening,
Cucoane Dominic.</i>

1275
01:59:24,332 --> 01:59:27,001
This is December 20th, 1938.

1276
01:59:27,001 --> 01:59:29,253
I don't dare tell you

1277
01:59:29,253 --> 01:59:31,255
what year we are
really living in,

1278
01:59:31,255 --> 01:59:34,384
we who are outside this dream.

1279
01:59:34,384 --> 01:59:37,679
I know that if I were to make
the effort, I would wake up.

1280
01:59:37,679 --> 01:59:40,056
<i>You are not dreaming,
Coane Dominic.</i>

1281
01:59:40,056 --> 01:59:42,350
You're here with us,
your friends.

1282
01:59:42,350 --> 01:59:44,519
You're at the Café Select.

1283
01:59:44,519 --> 01:59:47,188
This is what we imagined
would happen.

1284
01:59:47,188 --> 01:59:49,858
<i>When Conul Dominic
comes to his senses,</i>

1285
01:59:49,858 --> 01:59:53,611
when he recovers,
you'll see.

1286
01:59:53,611 --> 01:59:56,031
He'll go straight
to the Café Select.

1287
01:59:57,532 --> 01:59:58,908
But if I'm not dreaming,

1288
01:59:58,908 --> 02:00:01,953
then you'd know about...

1289
02:00:01,953 --> 02:00:04,122
Hiroshima.

1290
02:00:04,122 --> 02:00:06,458
Of the hydrogen bomb,

1291
02:00:06,458 --> 02:00:07,751
of Neil Armstrong,

1292
02:00:07,751 --> 02:00:11,505
the astronaut who landed

1293
02:00:11,505 --> 02:00:13,006
and walked on the moon...

1294
02:00:14,091 --> 02:00:15,217
...last summer in July.

1295
02:00:17,052 --> 02:00:18,553
Dominic!

1296
02:00:20,013 --> 02:00:22,182
Dominic, it's true.

1297
02:00:22,182 --> 02:00:25,394
You've come back.

1298
02:00:25,394 --> 02:00:27,479
Welcome.

1299
02:00:37,614 --> 02:00:39,199
You look good.

1300
02:00:39,199 --> 02:00:42,411
Welcome, old friend.

1301
02:00:42,411 --> 02:00:46,498
It's like that story of, uh,
the Chinese philosopher,

1302
02:00:46,498 --> 02:00:48,792
you know, the one
I've told you about many times.

1303
02:00:48,792 --> 02:00:50,377
Which Chinese philosopher?

1304
02:00:50,377 --> 02:00:53,964
The name escapes me now.

1305
02:00:53,964 --> 02:00:55,674
The one with the butterfly.

1306
02:00:59,303 --> 02:01:01,222
Well, it's too long to repeat.

1307
02:01:01,222 --> 02:01:03,974
I'll call for a sleigh
to take you home.

1308
02:01:03,974 --> 02:01:05,559
I don't need a sleigh.

1309
02:01:07,520 --> 02:01:09,063
I'm going on foot.

1310
02:01:12,691 --> 02:01:16,404
The next time
the problem arises,

1311
02:01:16,404 --> 02:01:17,446
I shall know how to answer.

1312
02:01:20,324 --> 02:01:22,618
What problem, dear Dominic?

1313
02:01:28,499 --> 02:01:31,586
The problem which worries
all of us.

1314
02:01:35,882 --> 02:01:37,884
Dominic?

1315
02:01:37,884 --> 02:01:39,719
Is it your teeth?

1316
02:01:39,719 --> 02:01:41,679
Is it your teeth? Dominic?

1317
02:01:58,905 --> 02:02:01,115
Should I lock up
the door?

1318
02:02:01,115 --> 02:02:03,576
The guest in Room 19
hasn't come back yet.

1319
02:02:03,576 --> 02:02:05,245
He went to the Café Select.

1320
02:02:05,245 --> 02:02:06,496
I'll call.

1321
02:02:09,582 --> 02:02:12,002
Yes, he came here.

1322
02:02:12,002 --> 02:02:14,004
He went into the backroom.

1323
02:02:14,004 --> 02:02:15,714
Uh, no one was there,

1324
02:02:15,714 --> 02:02:17,465
so he stayed only
a few minutes

1325
02:02:17,465 --> 02:02:19,843
and left without
saying good night.

1326
02:02:19,843 --> 02:02:22,470
He was, uh, holding
his hand to his mouth.

1327
02:03:36,671 --> 02:03:38,339
<i>And the third?</i>

1328
02:03:40,758 --> 02:03:42,343
<i>Where do you want me to put</i>

1329
02:03:42,343 --> 02:03:45,012
<i>the third rose?</i>

1330
02:04:32,519 --> 02:04:33,520