Lowenthal! You're snoring!
That's what my wife says.
Why are they doing this to you?
I lived with a man who controlled the lives of 5000 people.
I mean controlled.
I didn't want to, but I became entangled with those people's lives.
I came to know that every piece of food I ate...
...every piece of clothing I had...
...was coming out of their lives.
One day, I entered one of their houses.
I'll never forget it.
The woman who lived there...
...saw the shock in my eyes at the way they lived.
And she said, "Pardon me."
I said, "Pardon you for what?"
So she said, "Pardon me for my house...
...pardon me for the way it looks...
...pardon me for everything."
And then she said, "But, of course, you must understand that...
...most of this place is a garbage dump...
...and I'm just a piece of garbage."
I began by hiding agitators in the chapel of the house...
...and I ended by helping them get arms.
You don't say anything.
I don't know what to say.
I haven't met many people in my life...
...who have committed themselves to anything.
You never talk about yourself.
There's not very much to tell.
I came from a Hamburg worker's family...
...I worked hard to become a doctor.
- I tried to be a man, I got this. - It is formidable.
It's idiotic. Marked for life like cattle.
Are you married?
Children?
Two sons.
Are you happy?
Who is happy?
Why isn't she here with you now?
There was no reason in dragging her halfway across the world with me.
What about you? Are you married?
- Three times. - What happened?
Never found the right one.
Maybe I was waiting for someone like you, someone I could teach the waltz.
I'm sure.
Just think. Isn't it wonderful?
Two strangers on a ship.
We will never meet again. And we can talk.
We can talk like friends. Or even lovers.
We can talk like two people who meet on the other side of the grave.
Keep talking.
Do you have any feeling for me?
No, of course not.
Of course not.
It's funny.
You know what I thought you might be?
I thought you might be the innocent, romantic love...
...I should have had in my girlhood.
Of course, nobody ever loved me innocently.
And how I would have laughed at him if he had.
I never could hit a curve ball on the outside corner.
I beg your pardon?
I never could hit a curve ball on the outside corner.
That's very interesting. What does it mean?
You wouldn't know if I told you.
All right, I'll tell you.
You're at bat, see? At bat.
Bat! Bat!
Okay, now you're at bat. The pitcher, he's out there.
Now he's winding up, and he turns her loose and--
Just as it gets to you, it dips down and away.
And that is a curve ball on the outside corner.
I could never hit that pitch with a paddle.
I see.
No, you don't see. You don't see at all.
You don't know what it's like to be out there...
...crowd's yelling for you to deliver.
And they start talking. The pitchers, they talk.
"He can't hit a curve ball on the outside corner."
And from then on out, that's all you see...
...is curve balls on the outside corner.
So you've had your big chance.
And you have muffed it.
I can still hear my old man yelling at me from the stands...
...even though he wasn't there.
"Big wheel. You are a bum!
You are a bum, just like me."
I think you're being a bit harsh on yourself, Herr Tenny.
A bum.
You know, I travel a lot.
My folks give me some money. Not much, but some.
They are more comfortable when I'm not around.
You know what I find? I find the most amusing things about people...
...are their guilts that they drum up for themselves.
For instance, I estimate that there must be at least...
...873 million people in the world who don't even know...
...what a curve ball on the outside corner is.
So I think it a bit excessive for you to think that you have...
...muffed your whole life just because you couldn't hit it...
...paddle or no paddle.
Do you understand what I mean, Herr Tenny?
No.
You know what I think?
- No. - I think...
...that you are a sawed-off intellectual.
Bottoms up, shorty.
The purser, from whom I learn what little I know about this ship...
...has informed me that you were seen leaving La Condesa's cabin...
...at a highly unrespectable hour.
No comment, Willie? I think that's one of the reasons I like you.
You don't have my vulgarity.
I wonder if it's really true that life is as stupid and meaningless...
...as it seems to be on this ship.
The Lutzes and their daughter, the Huttens and their dog.
And gross little Rieber, who thinks of himself as the wave of the future.
I suppose a great case could be made for my own foolishness.
Will your wife be there to meet you at Bremerhaven?
She's a wonderful woman.
We've been polite to each other for a good many years.
Well, your sons will be glad to see you.
We hardly know each other anymore.
What will you do, go back to your practice?
I'm the kind of doctor I hate. The hack general practitioner.
What would you have liked to have been?
- A good doctor. - Don't you think you are?
Fair to middling.
What do you think happens to a woman like La Condesa...
...when she's deported under such circumstances?
How long are you going to keep me a penniless beggar?
Do I have to ask you for change to go to the barber?
- Remember the agreement, Johann? - The agreement.
You are to receive everything after my death.
Your mother was so pleased for you.
She was so pleased for your opportunity.
My mother was pleased for a chance for money for herself.
How can you keep me a penniless beggar? How can you do that?
- Don't you have a heart at all? - I have a heart. That's why I can do it.
What would you do with the money, Johann?
I have seen you watch that gypsy dancer's buttocks...
...as she walks on the deck.
I will not nourish your lust.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
I have been trying to persuade Mrs. Treadwell...
...to have some breakfast.
There's nothing like it, you know. Especially the morning after.
At home, we always used to have it English-style:
Kidneys, sausages, kippers, things like that.
How elegant.
Well, I think I'll look in on the bar before dinner.
What a hard-trying race they are.
English-style for breakfast, French-style for dinner.
And every now and again, a comfortable lapse back...
...to sauerbraten, sauerkraut and beer.
He seems very attentive, I'll say that for him.
Did you ever see such a collection of bores?
The attentive Lt. Huebner, the happily-married man Herr Freytag.
And here comes the ape.
Morning.
How's the painting?
I haven't been able to do much onboard, but...
...here's something I've been doodling with.
You can see I'm in love.
Of course. Everybody on this ship is in love.
Love me whether or not I love you. Love me whether I am fit to love.
Love me whether I am able to love. Even if there is no such thing as love.
Love me.
Where've you been?
I've been talking to that Mrs. Treadwell.
She's so bitter. She frightens me sometimes.
Well, what do you think?
It's interesting.
I think it's good.
Well, of course it's good. You couldn't do anything that wouldn't be good.
- It's wonderful. - But?
Does it have to be the same thing all the time?
Just what do you mean?
You know, the exploitation of the masses.
Well, it's true, isn't it?
Well, it's just that-- No matter how well these things are done...
...they always turn out to be posters after all, don't they?
You hate my work, don't you, Jenny?
I think it's good.
- Here he comes. Now, watch. - What is it?
I told the steward. Just watch.
- If you will come this way, sir. - I'm going to have lunch.
Yes. Another table has been arranged for you.
- Arranged? Who arranged it? - Right over here, sir.
Now he will see how we feel.
Dr. Schumann, they have placed Herr Freytag at another table.
Herr Rieber, you are a real anti-Semite. I don't know any Jews.
I don't know anything about them at all.
I'm not an anti-Semite. How can you say that? I'm very fond of the Arabs.
I lived among them for a while and found them to be very good people.
You have not said a word, Dr. Schumann.
- What do you think about...? - Excuse me.
Doctor has heart trouble.
Do you suppose we should send to inquire after him?
Schumann.
Is that not a Jewish name?
My wife is Jewish.
I told that American woman.
- She must have told them. - Come, have some wine.
It's Niersteiner Domtal.
Why be upset? The company is much better at this table, I can assure you.
When Glocken isn't smoking one of his foul-smelling cigars.
I don't mind not being seated at the captain's table.
Perhaps because I was never invited in the first place.
Those pious hypocrites.
- Why do you take it? - I have been taking it for a long time.
Oh, yes, he has. He has 2000 years of suffering behind him.
Well, I'm not going to take it.
A little patience. A little understanding. The world's getting better all the time.
As my Aunt Rebecca used to say--
I don't give a damn what your Aunt Rebecca used to say.
Do you think any of you are any better Germans than I am?
Do you?
Yes. Yes, I have a Jewish wife.
She's Jewish. Let me tell you about her.
She'd never hurt anyone in her life.
Anyone.
You-- You good, middling people.
You aren't fit to be in the same world as her.
I saw some of you in the chapel this morning. You kneel there and pray.
You pretend that you are good people.
Good people?
You can't even exist without your prejudices.
And the worst thing about you is...
...that you don't even recognize what you are.
You--
Sometimes I think, in spite of how much you understand...
...it's enough already.
What's going on?
They moved Herr Freytag from the captain's table...
...because his wife is Jewish.
And it's my fault.
I had to tell that dreadful Brunhilda to stop her from chattering on so.
So stupid of me. He's such a nice man.
I'd no idea this was going to happen.
- You're not gonna cry, are you? - Of course not.
I never cry.
What do they got against the Jews?
Back home, we don't have anything against the Jews.
Hell, I never even saw a Jew till I was 15.
Maybe you were too busy lynching Negroes to take time out for the Jews.
Why don't you ring for the steward? He might give you something.
I have been ringing! Ringing! Ringing! Ringing!
A fellow gave these pills to me in Tangiers.
He had a theory that seasickness has something to do with the eardrums.
You know, Lowenthal?
Yes?
You are really not such a bad fellow.
You think so?
These statements that I make, you mustn't take them personally.
No, of course not.
It is the march of history. History is beyond us, Lowenthal.
Feel better?
- A little. - Good.
The thing I can't understand is, why you want to go back to Germany.
I would not want to be where I was not wanted.
Why don't you go back to your own country?
Germany is my country. My father was born in Germany.
And my grandfather was born in Germany.
As a matter of fact, where are you from? I can't place your accent.
You speak German like no one I have ever heard.
The last 20 years of my life were spent in Germany.
Austria?
Near the border.
That's what I thought.
You know it is a historical fact that the Jews are the basis of our misfortunes.
- Of course. - You agree?
Of course. The Jews and the bicycle riders.
Bicycle riders? Why the bicycle riders?
Why the Jews?
- Hey, what's going on? - Man overboard!
Man overboard!
Hey, man overboard!
- Get her out of here! - Take her to our cabin, please.
Turn him over.
Can you understand it?
A man jumps from a moving ship at night, in the middle of the ocean.
And is drowned to save the life of a dog.
Yes, I can understand.
Who was he?
He was a woodcarver. He carved little animals with his pocketknife.
Come in, please.
Doctor, what can we do?
Well, you're doing all that can be done.
- How did it happen? - Yeah. How did it happen?
- He was thrown overboard. - Who would do such a thing?
But look at him. He knows that someone tried to drown him!
- His heart is broken. - Doctor!
You are not leaving?
Perhaps we could get him some broth. Some hot broth.
Yes. You can give him some broth. It won't do any harm.
Is that all?
Yes, that's all.
The man who saved him is dead.
Did he say a man is dead?
I know how you feel.
No. You don't. You're like the others.
You thought the captain was justified in taking his knife away, right?
You were the one who felt sorry for the captain. That was you, wasn't it?
Why can't we be honest with each other?
I don't know.
- Maybe we're afraid to be. - Well, let's try.
Maybe we'd better try.
David.
You say I hate your painting. Well, I do.
Oh, God help me, but I do. I don't know why.
You've said it. Maybe it's because I'm not very good at it myself.
Or maybe it's because it means so much to you...
...more than anything, more than even me.
That's being honest, isn't it?
Yes, that's honest.
Well, I'll tell you something that's even more sad.
I can't be what you want me to be.
And I know you need someone just to be there...
...to deny herself for you.
David, I wish I could be like that, but I can't.
- I just can't. - Jenny, I know you can.
Well, it means leaving me with nothing.
You know? Nothing.
Jenny, do you know what I need? I need something very simple.
I need a woman. But that's so difficult for you, isn't it?
You're so full of competition.
Do you know how empty and frustrating it is...
...to reach out for something and then you find it isn't there?
To feel that someone is with you.
David, don't you think that I am?
Don't you think that I am in spite of myself?
- Haven't I tried everything? - Yes, you have tried.
You've split a gut.
It's so hard for you. I know. It's so hard for both of us.
All right, you say my work is the most important thing in my life. It is.
But that's the way I am. I can't help it.
And whoever shares my life is going to have to put up with that.
She's going to have to live a life for me.
Jenny, I know this sounds selfish, but it's true.
We're not gonna go on together, are we?
Are we?
David?
Come in.
I would have come to you.
Well, they said you weren't feeling well.
I'm just tired, that's all.
- Were you sleeping? - No.
Don't you know it's very unhealthy to sleep with your clothes on?
- Where are they? - What?
- Where are they? - What are you looking for?
Stop rifling through my things.
Here they are. Put them on.
Come on. Put them on.
And I'll read to you until you sleep.
Some pretty risqu¨¦ literature you've got here.
Natural Resistance and Clinical Medicine.
Researches on Rheumatism.
Diseases... .
I don't know why I'm so tired.
Why, yes, of course. Well, that's the way it is sometimes.
The woodcarver died.
Yes, I know.
I have been unable to accept death. Never.
No matter how many times I've seen it.
I always feel as though I'm responsible.
Now...
...let's see what we've got here.
"The dissolute Lady Chatterley sat waiting for the gardener to enter.
He entered, stopping for a moment, sensing someone in the room.
His muscles sinewy in the moonlight.
She spoke his name softly. The gardener went over to her.
He kissed Lady Chatterley...
...with a kiss such as she had never been given before.
Her arms were waiting for him, both resisting and demanding.
'Jonathan,' she said, 'Jonathan, darling, you are violating me."'
Where did you get that?
You're so strange.
Sometimes you're so bitter. Then you're soft and warm, like a child.
I'm just a woman.
Lie back.
There's three days to Tenerife.
I know.
What will your treatment be like for you there? Do you know?
Will you be imprisoned?
It will be some kind of an imprisonment, I imagine.
But you mustn't think of me sleeping on a stone floor...
...and living on bread and water.
This is not my style.
Now I'm going to read to you from this book exactly the way it's written.
If this doesn't put you to sleep, nothing ever will.
"The liver is a large, glandular organ...
...irregularly shaped and of reddish-brown color."
Come on.
- Please come with me to the table. - No. I've done enough.
You just have to take it from here on by yourself.
- Are you sure I look all right? - You look lovely.
Now, go on.
Good evening.
Hello.
Waiter.
I would like one bottle of champagne, please.
Would you like to join me?
Why not? What are we celebrating?
Quarrel?
It's over.
I'm sorry.
Will you excuse me? I have to go to the bridge.
Do you want to dance?
No.
No, not this time.
Thank you.
I think I'm going to go to my cabin...
...because for me, a little German music goes a long way.
Don't be embarrassed.
Nobody is watching.
Will I see you later?
Later.
Herr Freytag?
Herr Freytag!
I want to tell you how sorry I am.
I wanted to tell you that with all my heart.
Heart?
You have no hearts. Any of you.
I'm sorry. I've no right to be rude to you.
I have no right to be rude to anybody.
You must be very much in love with your wife to stand up for her that way.
My wife and I are separated.
Yes.
Yes!
I... .
I thought I could face what we had to go through after we were married.
I couldn't.
I wasn't ready to give up my position because of my employer's prejudices.
My family talked to me about it.
My friends.
My dear friends.
So I panicked.
Panicked!
I asked my firm to transfer me to Mexico.
You'll never believe what I did.
I wrote a letter.
"Dear Marianne:
We can't go on together."
I've imagined her face a thousand times when she got the letter.
That face has followed me everywhere.
Now I'm going back.
I don't even know where she is.
But I've got to find her.
Plead with her to understand.
To forgive me.
If she cares for you, she'll understand.
Don't you see?
Even if she does, I know I'll never forget.
I wrote that letter.
Listen to that music, Glocken.
Now try to tell me you don't react to that music.
Schmaltz.
Tell me, Glocken, now honestly.
When you hear that music wherever you are...
...don't you have a special feeling about being a German?
I'll tell you now, honestly. When I hear that music wherever I am...
...I have a special feeling about being a dwarf.
I remember being thousands of miles from home in a theater in New York.
They put on a picture of the funeral of the Kaiserin Viktoria.
That good woman. How much she meant to all of us.
You are German, aren't you?
You are the most German person I have ever met.
I want to show you something.
I take it out every once in a while and look at it when I want to feel good.
Why, the Order of the Iron Cross!
Second class.
And a war hero, besides.
You may be the biggest fool on this whole boat.
Why do you say that?
Where have you been during this voyage?
Do you think this boat is a cross section of the German people?
No!
You don't know the average German the way I know him.
The people that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach...
...are not to be sneezed at.
50% of the people who produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach...
...voted for Rieber's party last week. - Forty-four percent.
You are blind! You're absolutely blind!
You can't see what's going on in front of your own face.
What do you mean?
You mean this business about the Jews? You don't understand us.
The German Jew is something special.
We are Germans first and Jews second.
We have done so much for Germany. Germany has done so much for us.
A little patience. A little goodwill. It works itself out.
Listen, there are nearly a million Jews in Germany.
What are they going to do? Kill all of us?
Karl, if you will excuse me, I want to dance with a most charming lady.
Might I have the honor of this dance?
- Give me some money or I will kill you. - Are you out of your mind?
- I will kill you. - Johann! That's God's judgment.
I don't want to hear that anymore.
Don't you think I know how you've treated me?
Don't you think I know how you've cheated me?
Where is it? Where's the money?
Top drawer.
Come in.
I have money.
Come here.
Come on.
Put out my cigarette.
Tell me...
...am I your very first girl?
You are shaking. There is nothing to be afraid of.
No.
The first time... .
The first time is very important.
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
- I'm just teaching the lady flamenco. - Keep your hands off her, you pimp.
Big hero.
I'm sorry.
I don't believe you're quite sober, Mrs. Treadwell.
What could give you that impression?
God. He stalks them like a mountain lion.
Did you see the makeup on those girls?
- Do men really find that attractive? - Some apparently do.
I would think that men would like to know...
...what they were kissing.
I would like to know what it is like to kiss you.
I have been looking at you, thinking about you for a long time.
You never notice me. Why not?
Now you will not kiss me? Why not?
Do you want me to say I love you?
I never knew what people meant by that.
Don't say it. I can't bear the sound of it.
Then why did you lead me on during the trip?
You never considered my feelings at all, did you?
No.
And I'm sorry for that.
Mrs. Treadwell, I'm only a third-grade officer on a second-rate ship.
But it gives me an opportunity to observe people.
I've seen women like you.
Forty-six-year-old women who are still coquettes.
They travel on boats often. Always searching for something.
Do you know where that searching ends?
In a nightclub with a paid escort who tells you the lies you must hear.
You are a most mundane, ordinary man.
How extraordinary that a man like you should say things like this to me.
Probably true.
I think this evening's festivities have come to an end.
- I shall see you to your door. - It's quite unnecessary.
I'll find my own way.
- Darling? - Yeah.
I didn't know there was a Frau Rieber.
What do you mean, a Frau Rieber?
The purser told me you sent a cable to Frankfurt addressed to Frau Rieber.
I did not mention it, because I could not bear the humiliation.
It is the tragedy of my life. She will not let me go.
I must go on supporting her and the three children.
There are three children?
They have no understanding of me. I've no understanding of them.
They hang on. They hang on. They suck the life's blood out of me.
They will not let go. They will not let go.
I am a vital, passionate man.
I need love. I must have love.
Say you understand. You must understand.
I understand.
Now, look, I bought you a bottle of champagne.
A pack of them Sultana cigarettes and two margaritas.
When are we gonna get together?
You have been drinking too much. I think I will go now.
- Tonight. - Not tonight. Tonight I am tired.
Tonight.
Very well. Just let go of my arm.
Hey. What's your cabin number?
Number 14.
I thought you weren't bothering with that cheapskate.
I have planned something interesting for that cheapskate.
I gave him the cabin of that snotty American bitch, Mrs. Treadwell.
I think you are mad.
I made some inquiries. They would let me stay on the island.
I would be able to take care of her.
I understand your feeling, her helplessness.
- But to give up everything. - What would I be giving up?
- Your life!
My life. My life is obligations.
Obligation to nothing that's real to me.
This woman over there in the cabin, she's real to me.
It sounds strange. But she's the only real thing that has happened to me.
You have heard of shipboard romances, haven't you?
She's sold you a bill of goods, and you've fallen for it.
I can see it if you can't. She wants her precious needle.
- She doesn't want you. - This may be true.
If this is true... .
When I had my heart attack, there was a dream I had.
You can talk about death. I've seen it many times as a doctor.
But you never know what it's like until it almost happens to you.
I dreamed I had already died.
I dreamed I was in a box. The sweat broke out all over my body.
I wanted to cry out, "I can't be dead, I haven't lived!"
Who has?
Do you think this woman is the answer, Willie?
A woman like this. All she's been through.
She has seen everything. There are no surprises left for her.
Even if it's love, Willie, I hope we can deny the myth that love lasts.
You are not young, Mrs. Treadwell.
You have not been young for years.
Behind those old eyes, you hide a 16-year-old heart.
Poor fool.
Is that what men really find attractive?
Well.
Baby... .
You just haven't managed to grow up.
Mrs. Treadwell of Murray Hill, Virginia.
Now!
You can paint your toenails green.
You know how it ends, don't you?
Alone.
Sitting in a caf¨¦...
...with a paid escort.
Let me go.
Mrs. Treadwell.
Excuse me. That greaser told me Cabin 14. Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Get out!
I'm sorry, I truly am sorry. I didn't know it--
- Pig! - Hey, what the hell?
Go on. Get out. Get out. Get out!
Get out!
- You were sleeping. - I know.
You cried out again.
Did I?
What is it?
It's nothing.
- It had to be something. - It was ridiculous.
Tell me.
Promise you won't laugh.
I won't laugh.
It's something I saw the time I went to Taxco. A flash passing on the bus.
It was a man and a woman. A crowd had gathered.
They were staggering and swaying. I thought they were dancing.
The man had his hand raised and there was a long knife in it.
The woman's breast and stomach were pierced.
The blood was so thick her skirt was sticking to her legs.
She was beating him with a stone.
I'll never forget the look on their faces.
It wasn't all hatred.
It was like there was some great bond between them in that hatred.
And then they struck again.
I always dream about it in some grotesque variation.
Tonight I was one of the watchers, as if I were at a play.
Then something happened.
- What happened? - The features changed.
And?
David, the faces were yours and mine.
Good evening, doctor.
Night, doctor.
Thank you for bringing us home, capit¨¢n.
The cuisine and the accommodations were superb.
They've come for me?
For me, the voyage is over.
I have here an order...
...for something that will help you. Any doctor will accept it.
Oh, Willie.
You try so hard.
My darling. My love.
For once, let's kiss in broad daylight.
Bye.
I think we ought to be able to reach Bremerhaven by Thursday morning.
Willie, you're drinking up my best cognac.
Not that I mind, but that isn't the thing you should be doing, is it?
You shouldn't be doing this.
I know you're still thinking about her. She'll be all right.
By now, I'll guarantee she's found someone to help her.
A woman like that always finds someone.
Shut up!
Willie.
That's a hell of a way to waste good brandy, Willie.
When I think of the things I've seen on this ship... .
The stupid cruelties. The vanities.
We talk about values? There's no values.
The dung we base our lives on.
She looked into the garbage dump. She did something about it.
We are the intelligent, civilized people who carry out orders we are given.
No matter what they may be.
Our biggest mission in life is to avoid being fools.
And we wind up being the biggest fools of all.
Why didn't I go?
Come in.
Herr doctor, Frau Lutz wants to see you.
Her daughter Elsa is not feeling well.
I'm coming.
To hell with them, Willie. You rest here.
You don't look well. You should see the way you look.
That is exactly what I mean.
- Good evening. - Good evening.
- You called me? - Doctor, can you give Elsa a purge?
Take two of those before you retire.
Doctor, aren't you going to take her temperature?
I think he's been drinking.
I can just hear you saying, "What has all this to do with us?"
Nothing.