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00:00Well, those specialists.
00:03Oh.
00:04You've been?
00:06Mm.
00:07Yes.
00:07Yes.
00:08And?
00:09What do they know?
00:11Time.
00:11It's a matter of time, they say.
00:13You haven't mentioned, or to anyone?
00:16No.
00:16What do you mean, time?
00:18Just a few years.
00:20It will be gradual.
00:23But in the end, the loss of hearing will be total.
00:27That's what they say.
00:28All of them?
00:30It's due to the condition of my abdomen, they say, that I cannot hear.
00:33So I have medicines, oils, greases, disgusting things.
00:37Also, they've advised me to move into the country to rest my powers of hearing as much as possible.
00:42I have been considering a move for some time.
00:44Out of Vienna?
00:45Into the country.
00:46Away from all this.
00:47To work.
00:49I don't know whether I shall go yet.
00:51I'm considering.
00:54It's quite unreal, you know.
00:57How many years?
00:58Four.
01:00Five, perhaps.
01:01Certainly by the time I'm 35.
01:07Do you think?
01:08Could we...
01:09What?
01:10Turn that thing off!
01:12Turn that thing off!
01:12Well, how are they asleep?
01:25I very much doubt it.
01:26Really, Ludwig.
01:27And you look so guilty!
01:29He's...
01:29Are you going to have to say goodbye, Franz?
01:31In a minute.
01:31What?
01:32I'm joining my regiment.
01:35You're...
01:35Re-joining my regiment.
01:36I leave tonight for Eichstadt.
01:38There's a huge offensive plan on the northern front.
01:40You'd heard that Mainz fell yesterday.
01:42We must defend the existing order, whatever its shortcomings, because that is better than
01:48anarchy, and anarchy is what Bonaparte is producing.
01:50No!
01:50Yes!
01:51His Italian campaign is a...
01:52The Italian campaign has shown the man to be a political genius.
01:55We already knew he was a military one.
01:57All these rotten states he's conquered.
02:00Subservient to the empire.
02:01Simply drained of their wealth to subsidize the nobility of Vienna, who never went near them.
02:06He's turned them into new republics, self-governing.
02:09Every man a free citizen with responsibility.
02:12Not the poor, ignorant wretches they were before.
02:16He's new man, Franz, creating a new world in our lifetime, where men can speak openly and
02:22freely, and breathe, and hold up their heads.
02:25Dear God, what world do you live in?
02:26This one!
02:29One of the children calling out.
02:32Anyhow...
02:33Ludwig!
02:33No!
02:35I have to play at Lishnoff's Kiss tonight.
02:38We shall be there.
02:40Respect my views.
02:43You will come and see the children again.
02:45I regret.
02:47I am moving into the country.
02:51There is work that must be done.
02:54While the...
02:56While...
02:57Let me...