Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

202 00:39:23,709 --> 00:39:28,041 I have placed the children in the care of the chief of the fire brigade. 203 00:39:28,209 --> 00:39:29,874 There is no need to worry. 204 00:39:30,042 --> 00:39:32,833 Look, there are only minor burns to my left side. 205 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,416 You go to the children. Forget about me. 206 00:39:36,584 --> 00:39:41,041 Yes, I forgive you for you know not what you do. 207 00:39:41,209 --> 00:39:45,208 I forgive you, Your Highness, for you know not what you do. 208 00:40:08,709 --> 00:40:12,291 Wake up, wake up, Duchess! There's a fire in the nursery! 209 00:40:12,459 --> 00:40:14,541 (Music quickens and intensifies) 210 00:40:15,625 --> 00:40:18,124 (Music drowns out speech) 211 00:40:23,750 --> 00:40:25,833 (Discordant notes) 212 00:40:30,625 --> 00:40:32,708 (Music stops abruptly) 213 00:41:13,209 --> 00:41:15,291 (Crickets chirrup) 214 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:31,958 Kraus? 215 00:42:32,125 --> 00:42:35,499 He behaves as if he plans staying here for another century. 216 00:42:37,375 --> 00:42:39,791 'Wait for it' is engraved on his skull. 217 00:42:39,959 --> 00:42:41,958 (Laughs) 218 00:42:43,042 --> 00:42:45,041 (Von Gunten laughs inside) 219 00:42:52,209 --> 00:42:54,291 (Laughs) 220 00:42:57,584 --> 00:42:59,166 (Stops laughing abruptly) 221 00:42:59,334 --> 00:43:01,916 How are you, Jakob? Are you all right? Have you settled in? 222 00:43:02,084 --> 00:43:04,541 Of course, Fräulein. Thank you. 223 00:43:04,709 --> 00:43:06,666 And you get on with the other students? 224 00:43:06,834 --> 00:43:09,541 VON GUNTEN: I respect them all without exception. 225 00:43:09,709 --> 00:43:11,833 And yet you quarrel with Kraus, no? 226 00:43:12,709 --> 00:43:14,333 Listen to me, Jakob. 227 00:43:15,042 --> 00:43:17,124 God gives a Kraus to this world 228 00:43:17,959 --> 00:43:22,374 in order to entrust it with a deep and insoluble riddle. 229 00:43:23,125 --> 00:43:26,916 This riddle will never be understood because there isn't a single person alive... 230 00:43:28,125 --> 00:43:33,708 ..who will guess that there is some delicate meaning... 231 00:43:34,834 --> 00:43:36,874 ..behind this name, this... 232 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,124 ..monosyllabic, inconspicuous Kraus. 233 00:43:43,375 --> 00:43:47,416 No-one will ever be grateful to Kraus, nor is gratitude necessary. 234 00:43:48,750 --> 00:43:52,166 Kraus will never go to ruin because there will always be great 235 00:43:52,334 --> 00:43:54,499 and loveless difficulties confronting him. 236 00:43:57,084 --> 00:43:59,041 I think that I... 237 00:44:01,084 --> 00:44:04,791 I am perhaps the only person who realises what we have in Kraus. 238 00:44:15,417 --> 00:44:17,499 Or have had in him. 239 00:44:40,750 --> 00:44:42,833 (Wind chimes tinkle) 240 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,916 (Singing) 241 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,083 Slaap soet. 242 00:46:17,417 --> 00:46:20,666 VON GUNTEN: (Thinks) The way they live here with us students... 243 00:46:35,292 --> 00:46:37,708 Are these the inner chambers? 244 00:46:41,125 --> 00:46:43,166 Will I ever reach them? 245 00:47:26,125 --> 00:47:28,124 (Woman mutters) 246 00:47:34,334 --> 00:47:36,374 VON GUNTEN: (Thinks) Nameless... 247 00:47:37,417 --> 00:47:39,333 ..monosyllabic... 248 00:47:40,375 --> 00:47:42,374 ..inconspicuous... 249 00:47:44,292 --> 00:47:46,249 ..Kraus. 250 00:47:52,542 --> 00:47:55,833 Tell me, don't you find life here... 251 00:47:57,334 --> 00:47:58,666 ..sterile? 252 00:48:01,417 --> 00:48:03,249 Sterile, huh? 253 00:48:14,667 --> 00:48:16,166 My mind is dying. 254 00:48:18,959 --> 00:48:20,708 Forgive me for speaking so... 255 00:48:22,375 --> 00:48:24,249 ..intimately... 256 00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:26,916 ..for being so weak. 257 00:48:30,417 --> 00:48:32,666 You are probably secretly laughing at me. 258 00:48:33,209 --> 00:48:34,749 But watch out! 259 00:48:35,792 --> 00:48:37,291 See that wall? 260 00:48:37,459 --> 00:48:41,916 I could throw you against it so hard, you would never see or hear anything again. 261 00:48:47,292 --> 00:48:49,374 But don't be afraid. 262 00:48:54,042 --> 00:48:56,374 I couldn't hurt you. 263 00:49:00,084 --> 00:49:02,166 It's so nice to talk with you. 264 00:49:05,750 --> 00:49:07,583 Like we are almost related. 265 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,499 The way you speak... 266 00:49:10,667 --> 00:49:12,666 your gestures... 267 00:49:14,167 --> 00:49:15,833 ..your mouth... 268 00:49:19,042 --> 00:49:20,999 ..everything. 269 00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:30,749 It's delightful to behave in that... rather weak sort of way with you. 270 00:49:33,417 --> 00:49:35,541 Just think... 271 00:49:35,709 --> 00:49:37,333 me... 272 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:39,291 your master... 273 00:49:43,292 --> 00:49:44,999 ..confessing to you. 274 00:49