The year is 1750. Europe is in a ravaged state following a plague. Victor Moritz and Rufolf de Sevre are gamblers, frequenters of elegant casinos and fashionable brothels. Rudolf is a young aristocrat, charming and charismatic. His degenerate behavior has an animal intensity. Victor, though leading the life of libertine, remains to one side. He is a man of a refined taste despite his low birth and buys his noble title thanks to his gambling skills. Victor and Rudolf have been inseparable friends for years. Then two young, beautiful and innocent people - a brother and sister - enter their life...
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00:00:00Dear Victor, the news of the tragedy has taken long to reach me, but I am heartened by reports that you will soon be free.
00:00:13I've often wondered if I wrote to you what your response would be.
00:00:18I hope you still think well of your Teresa and will reply as soon as you can.
00:00:23I've heard accounts of your life over the years.
00:00:39I want to keep on playing.
00:00:45Keep on playing?
00:00:48That's impossible. You have no money.
00:00:51I don't know how, but you are cheating.
00:00:56I want to keep on playing.
00:00:59All right.
00:01:03I'll give you a chance. What's at stake?
00:01:08I'll give you a promissory note for any amount.
00:01:11No, I don't take promissory notes, especially from a stranger.
00:01:17This is Marquis Frederick Holmes.
00:01:21Count Victor Moritz.
00:01:27Let's play for a head, Marquis.
00:01:30A head?
00:01:32Yes. More precisely, your head.
00:01:36What do you say?
00:01:38The rules are simple.
00:01:40We each pull one card from the deck.
00:01:43The higher one wins.
00:01:45If I win this card, you will win everything I have in this bag.
00:01:49If, however, I win, I'll shoot you.
00:01:55I'll do it, as a matter of fact, with pleasure.
00:02:07What's your decision, Marquis?
00:02:1115,000 against your head.
00:02:15I gather the sum is not too low,
00:02:19considering that the wig on your drunken skull is of an inferior quality.
00:02:26Sir, you are a son of a bitch.
00:02:33You drop first.
00:02:51You have lost.
00:03:05All right, I have another idea.
00:03:11You shoot yourself.
00:03:13No, no, please.
00:03:14Look, I got money, I give you everything.
00:03:16Please, don't.
00:03:19Get up, Holmes. People are watching you.
00:03:22Your Honor.
00:03:24Kill him. Kill him.
00:03:35It was a blank. I wanted to teach you a lesson.
00:03:40And one more thing.
00:03:42You were right, Marquis Holmes.
00:03:45Indeed, I was cheating.
00:03:56Please wait for me.
00:03:59Please take me with you, Count Moritz.
00:04:03But dear lady, we shall be honored.
00:04:19I'll get you, Moritz. I'll get you.
00:04:23I follow you to hell, Moritz.
00:04:48Holmes, watch out!
00:05:08Stop! Stop!
00:05:28What's going on here?
00:05:35What's going on here?
00:05:37This road is closed by order of the governor.
00:05:41This is now a place of cremation.
00:05:44We're burning the plague victims here.
00:05:47It's better for you to avoid this area.
00:05:52Get on there. Go on.
00:06:21I can't see.
00:06:31I can't see.
00:06:36I can't see.
00:07:05Vietka.
00:07:08They've arrived. Get up.
00:07:10Master Rudolph and Count Moritz are in the palace.
00:07:13Get up.
00:07:15Martin.
00:07:17What are you doing here?
00:07:23I'll show you something.
00:07:52I'll show you something.
00:08:21I'll show you something.
00:08:28Do you see him?
00:08:30The one dressed in black.
00:08:33That's our master.
00:08:36Count Victor Moritz.
00:08:41The one who won you in the card game.
00:08:43He's a great card player.
00:09:10Vietka.
00:09:14What happened?
00:09:33Today is your holy day.
00:09:35We're going riding.
00:09:38Riding?
00:09:39What holiday?
00:09:41You've gone mad.
00:09:43I'm not really fit.
00:09:45I'm dying of thirst.
00:09:47You there.
00:09:48Bring us more champagne.
00:09:50Can't you see he's dying of thirst?
00:10:49I'm dying of thirst.
00:11:18Take him to the bedroom.
00:11:34Follow me.
00:11:43Put him down on the bed.
00:11:58Victor.
00:12:05Can you hear me?
00:12:20Master Baron, sir.
00:12:27The Count, sir, we found him lying next to the old oak trees by the cemetery.
00:12:33Get a doctor.
00:12:34Go.
00:12:42We must wait.
00:12:43Wait and see.
00:12:45Have hope.
00:12:47He needs a lot of liquid and cold compresses on his head.
00:12:51Keep him out of the sun.
00:12:53When will he awaken?
00:12:54I don't know.
00:12:56Brain concussion.
00:13:00Can't tell with head injuries.
00:13:12Everything's in God's hands.
00:13:16Have hope.
00:13:30Wake up, Victor.
00:13:35The golden calf is waiting to be sacrificed.
00:13:40It's waiting for you at Lend-Off's.
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00:17:25You're going to Lendorf's?
00:17:26Isn't this it?
00:17:27In a sense.
00:17:32Earl Lendorf is opening a club.
00:17:38Are you a player?
00:17:53Do you gamble?
00:18:03Yes.
00:18:06I need the money.
00:18:11Gambling, Master Theodore, is a very dangerous pastime.
00:18:30It should fit you like a second skin.
00:19:00Truth.
00:19:30Cornelia!
00:19:45We are waiting for you.
00:19:51Pink is your color indeed.
00:20:14Please eat carefully.
00:20:16Soup is very hot. Don't want to scorch your lips.
00:20:24Oh, the soup is wonderful. The spices are just right.
00:20:28Marcel is an excellent cook. I brought him from France.
00:20:32I'm an enthusiast of French culture.
00:20:36I studied art in Paris years ago.
00:20:41They have a superb science department at the Sorbonne here.
00:20:44It must be a beautiful, fascinating city. Why haven't we ever been to Paris, Theodore?
00:20:49Tell me, dear Baroness, is Paris really as beautiful as they say it is?
00:20:53Far more beautiful.
00:20:56So you're interested in science?
00:21:00Oh yes, Theo is an inventor.
00:21:02Cornelia!
00:21:04No, no, no, no, no. It's very interesting. Do tell me more about it.
00:21:08Nothing to tell. I have merely tried to deal with certain phenomena in the optical field.
00:21:14You are too humble, Theodore.
00:21:17Here comes our main course.
00:21:20Pheasant and walnut sauce.
00:21:23A work of art.
00:21:25Marcel's supreme masterpiece, not to mention his onion soup in French.
00:21:30Sauté.
00:21:34Beautiful bird.
00:21:36Undeniably beautiful in life.
00:21:43But now in death, it is perfection.
00:21:48Sometimes I think true beauty exists only in dissolution.
00:21:55So we should abandon our fear and rush towards...
00:22:01Breast to thigh.
00:22:04Breast, please.
00:22:08Thigh.
00:22:17That man in the bedroom at the end of the corridor, is he dying?
00:22:25I got lost earlier.
00:22:28A sick man is lying there.
00:22:34That's Victor, my friend.
00:22:37Count Victor Moritz.
00:22:40Fell off his horse.
00:22:43Riding accident.
00:23:05So beautiful here.
00:23:08So romantic.
00:23:11But also sad, somehow.
00:23:14We are in paradise.
00:23:17My paradise.
00:23:19It's called Arcadia.
00:23:22It's a paradise.
00:23:25It's a paradise.
00:23:28It's a paradise.
00:23:32It's called Arcadia.
00:23:34A temple was brought from Italy.
00:23:36And that hermitage up there, from around the Rhine.
00:23:40Do you like it here, Cornelia?
00:23:45Theo, you're a scientist.
00:23:47Is it true swans mate for life?
00:23:50Yes, swans as well as wolves.
00:23:53What an incredibly boring existence they must lead.
00:24:02My tiny kingdom.
00:24:05Three lands.
00:24:07Colpace, Trocaia and Toglia.
00:24:10Yeah, yeah.
00:24:12Where I go to find peace, after my wars.
00:24:16Three lands.
00:24:18Colpace, Trocaia and Toglia.
00:24:21Yeah, yeah.
00:24:23Where I go to find peace, after my wars.
00:24:47And what's in there? What's that?
00:24:50Passion fruit grows in there.
00:24:52May I go in?
00:24:54Please.
00:25:16Please.
00:25:47It had to be a costly undertaking.
00:25:49I imagine it swallowed up a fortune.
00:25:52A whim.
00:25:53A whim? Italy, the Rhine?
00:25:56An extravagant whim.
00:25:58Yeah, extremely difficult to maintain.
00:26:01Humidity, bad climate.
00:26:04Yet, in all this decay,
00:26:09I find beauty.
00:26:13I shall show you something.
00:26:16Unique.
00:26:18Come with me.
00:26:24This one I brought from Greece.
00:26:26It, as you may have guessed, is a phallic statue.
00:26:29Come closer.
00:26:33You there, be careful with that stone!
00:26:36It's delicate.
00:26:38An ancient symbol of fertility and strength.
00:26:41A cult much revered by the Greeks.
00:26:44Hello, here I am. I have grapes for you.
00:27:11THE PHALLIC STATUE
00:27:42Whom are you watching, Rudolf?
00:27:47Victor.
00:27:50You're up!
00:27:55You're up, sweet God in heaven!
00:28:03How do you feel?
00:28:05Much better.
00:28:07I have some ripe fruit to show you.
00:28:37THE PHALLIC STATUE
00:29:07THE PHALLIC STATUE
00:29:37THE PHALLIC STATUE
00:29:57Theodore, come join us.
00:29:59Let's all dance.
00:30:01There doesn't dance. There is a genius and geniuses don't dance.
00:30:06Didn't you know about it, Baron?
00:30:08No, I didn't.
00:30:10I'm not joking, really.
00:30:12No, no, I believe you.
00:30:15Theodore doesn't dance.
00:30:17That's not what I meant.
00:30:19Oh, Arite!
00:30:22He is a genius!
00:30:26Yes, he is.
00:30:28Theodore is a scholar, a great inventor.
00:30:31Well, what is this marvelous invention?
00:30:34I'm a great admirer of invention.
00:30:36You're making fun of me.
00:30:38No, no, not at all.
00:30:40I want to know more about your invention. What is it?
00:30:43Cornelia.
00:30:45You shouldn't make such a secret of it. Your work deserves recognition.
00:30:48Cornelia, I beg you.
00:30:50Theo wants to stop time.
00:30:52Cornelia!
00:30:54Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.
00:30:58Easy.
00:31:00I'm just playing.
00:31:03It's only a game.
00:31:05You'd better cool off.
00:31:09I have an idea.
00:31:21Rudy.
00:31:25Cheating our guests.
00:31:28But Count Moritz,
00:31:30I have lost, and I play by the rules.
00:31:33But you haven't lost.
00:31:47Oh, Victor, you haven't lost your touch.
00:31:49You must test it in Lennox.
00:31:51You've taken this game far enough.
00:31:54Why don't you put these children to bed?
00:31:59Thank you.
00:32:04I promise you I will.
00:32:13Let go of me.
00:32:15What are you doing?
00:32:17I want to stay here.
00:32:19Calm down and get in.
00:32:21You're jealous. You're jealous of the Baron.
00:32:23Don't be pathetic, Cornelia.
00:32:25His looks, his charm, his money,
00:32:27the fact that he's an artist.
00:32:29You and your God-save-me invention.
00:32:31It's you who's pathetic and the poverty which surrounds us
00:32:33because of that stupid machine.
00:32:35Stop it, Cornelia, I beg you.
00:32:36No, I won't.
00:32:39You're jealous because he likes me.
00:32:41A man like him noticed the woman in me and wanted to take me to bed.
00:32:56What are you laughing at?
00:32:59Nothing. Not a thing.
00:33:01Except that he slept with me, too.
00:33:05Get in!
00:33:10What are you waiting for? Go!
00:33:25Arthur.
00:33:36Arthur.
00:33:48According to my initial calculations,
00:33:50in order for us to pay off our current debts,
00:33:53we need at least 80,000-85,000.
00:33:56And that does not include the help.
00:33:58The servants haven't been paid in four months now.
00:34:24Here you are at last!
00:34:27I've looked everywhere for you. I must have spent an hour.
00:34:31What are you doing here?
00:34:33I don't know. I just... I don't know, Rudy.
00:34:36But I do.
00:34:38We're going to Lendors to get the passos.
00:34:41Trick their asses around.
00:34:46Victor.
00:34:48Arthur's warned us that our financial situation
00:34:51is desperate.
00:34:53I'm not up to it. I'm exhausted.
00:34:56What is it now?
00:34:59I dreamt of Teresa.
00:35:03Teresa belongs to the past, Victor.
00:35:08The past.
00:35:12Please pull yourself together.
00:35:14Lendorf is opening its club.
00:35:16Big fish from all over Europe will be there.
00:35:18You understand? Big fish.
00:35:20Big games.
00:35:22High stakes.
00:35:26Happens once in a decade.
00:35:29This thing will finally be rich.
00:35:34Truly noble.
00:35:37We should hire a gardener.
00:35:40I'd like to put this place in order.
00:35:44Gardener! Teresa! Stop rambling!
00:35:47Money is what we need, Victor. We need money.
00:35:50Would you... Would you please listen to me?
00:35:53We have debts. We have lots of debts.
00:36:00I feel old, Rudy.
00:36:04Oh, this?
00:36:06You talk nonsense.
00:36:08You wander around cemeteries.
00:36:13Perhaps indeed you are getting old.
00:36:18Get drunk!
00:36:20Or take beer!
00:36:22Or whatever.
00:36:24All right, but this is the last time.
00:36:28I don't know.
00:36:47Oh, no!
00:37:17Forgive me!
00:37:38Please forgive me!
00:37:47Please forgive me!
00:38:03Can you feel the excitement in the air?
00:38:05It's saturated with wealth.
00:38:07The smell of women and sin.
00:38:11What a magnificent place.
00:38:18Thank you.
00:38:37Seventeen red.
00:38:40What is it?
00:38:45I have no money, but I'd like to stake my house.
00:38:48That's all I have. Here are the papers.
00:38:54I think, young man, you are in over your head.
00:38:57Go home.
00:38:58I'm not your man, sir.
00:39:00You have no authority to order me around.
00:39:03All right.
00:39:06Sign this.
00:39:10I'll issue a hundred thousand against your bet.
00:39:21This game is not the best form of investment.
00:39:24Please reconsider.
00:39:26Please excuse my saying so, but the matter is none of your business.
00:39:31Let us begin, then.
00:39:51Congratulations.
00:39:53Let us play on.
00:39:56I beg your pardon?
00:39:58I beg your pardon?
00:40:00I said let us play.
00:40:02But you have won.
00:40:04And so I say play.
00:40:25I'm not finished yet.
00:40:29Now, now, young man.
00:40:31Three hundred thousand is a lot of money.
00:40:34Quite a fortune, I'd say.
00:40:36We are playing on.
00:40:38I refuse to play you.
00:40:40Victor!
00:40:45Play the game.
00:40:58Play the game.
00:41:29Please.
00:41:48Attorney!
00:41:54Not everything is lost.
00:41:56Yet.
00:42:00I'm certain it will give you another chance.
00:42:03Won't you, Victor?
00:42:07I don't have anything left now.
00:42:09Oh, that's not true.
00:42:11One can always bet on something.
00:42:14What do you have in mind?
00:42:18Would you accept a bet?
00:42:21For your head.
00:42:23For instance.
00:42:27I don't understand.
00:42:29Oh, it's quite simple.
00:42:31This bet requires courage and nerves of steel.
00:42:34And I know you don't lack for courage.
00:42:36Besides, you like to gamble, don't you?
00:42:38Let me explain to you what it's all about.
00:42:40We each draw only one card.
00:42:41The higher card wins.
00:42:42That's all.
00:42:43That's all?
00:42:45And if your card wins,
00:42:48And if your card wins,
00:42:50this entire fortune is yours, Mr. Grant.
00:42:53Just think.
00:42:55There's nearly two million there.
00:42:57And if I lose?
00:42:59Then what?
00:43:00Then the Count
00:43:02will shoot you
00:43:04with his pistol
00:43:06in the head.
00:43:07You must be joking.
00:43:11No.
00:43:12This is a joke.
00:43:15If you'll excuse me, gentlemen,
00:43:17I'm not in the mood.
00:43:19Am I joking, Victor?
00:43:22No, you're not.
00:43:28All right.
00:43:30I accept your bet.
00:43:44Let's get out of here.
00:44:10What do you want?
00:44:13What?
00:44:17Oh, my God.
00:44:23Let it be.
00:44:25This is senseless.
00:44:27Finish the game!
00:44:29Get out of here, young man.
00:44:30How?
00:44:31I'm invalidating this bet.
00:44:33You have no right.
00:44:34Finish the game!
00:44:36This show is over.
00:44:37Don't you understand?
00:44:40Please, the conditions of the bet must be kept.
00:44:42You are humiliating me.
00:44:44This is a matter of honor now.
00:44:47This is a farce, my boy.
00:44:50The pistol is not loaded.
00:44:53Come on, shoot!
00:45:01Finish
00:45:03for me.
00:45:10Oh, my God.
00:45:21Rudy.
00:45:25Why?
00:45:39Why?
00:46:09Why?
00:46:39Why?
00:46:41Why?
00:47:08Your Lordship, sir.
00:47:10It's good to see you.
00:47:12Please take me home, Martin.
00:47:40Arthur.
00:48:04Sir Arthur died Wednesday.
00:48:07Arthur?
00:48:10What happened?
00:48:12He choked on a fishbone at dinner.
00:48:18They said he suffered.
00:48:21It's sad, isn't it, sir?
00:48:30Let's stop at the stables, Martin.
00:48:35As you wish, sir.
00:48:40Martin.
00:49:11And that girl of yours?
00:49:14What was her name?
00:49:16Vietka.
00:49:17Vietka. Where is she?
00:49:19She left with the cook.
00:49:25Your Lordship, he remembers Marcel.
00:49:30And yourself?
00:49:36Master Rudolph.
00:49:38Master Rudolph
00:49:41stole the furniture
00:49:43and took your horse poison.
00:49:47I don't know how everybody left.
00:49:52Things...
00:49:55Things changed over the years.
00:50:00But you stayed.
00:50:05Where would I have gone, Your Lordship?
00:50:08I don't know.
00:50:26Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
00:50:30Amen.
00:50:38My deepest sympathy.
00:50:40Count Moritz.
00:50:42So, you're back.
00:50:46Come to my carriage, where we may talk.
00:51:08Come.
00:51:18You want to know about the baron, Rudy?
00:51:20Arthur was never able to find his whereabouts.
00:51:23However, before he left, the baron gave papers to Arthur
00:51:26to give to you upon your return.
00:51:29You may pick them up at my home,
00:51:31at your convenience.
00:51:33They include the deed to that unfortunate Grantholme's villa.
00:51:37Please call on me, and I will give them to you
00:51:39along with your estate management books.
00:51:42Good afternoon, dear Count.
00:51:44Come on.
00:52:06Brrr, brrr, brrr.
00:52:15We're here, sir.
00:52:36Come on.
00:52:57Are you gentlemen looking for someone?
00:53:00Who are you gentlemen?
00:53:03My name is Moritz.
00:53:06And according to these papers,
00:53:10this estate belongs to me.
00:53:14Count Victor Moritz.
00:53:17Finally, I have been waiting for you.
00:53:21It wasn't even loaded.
00:53:25My name is Dorian, D. Dorian.
00:53:29I am a scientist.
00:53:31I mean, I used to be Mr. Grantholme's assistant.
00:53:34Welcome, welcome, dear Count.
00:53:38Do sit down, feel at home.
00:53:41Maybe you'd like some tea.
00:53:43I have some freshly brewed poppy tea of my own invention,
00:53:46and it's a wonderful refreshment to take after a long journey.
00:53:49You gentlemen have come from afar, am I right?
00:53:53Mr...
00:53:54Dorian.
00:53:55Or Didi, if you wish.
00:53:57Mr. Grantholme used to call me that.
00:53:59Mr. Dorian,
00:54:02are you aware that it is I who had shot Theodore Grantholme?
00:54:11I was expecting it.
00:54:12I knew it would happen eventually,
00:54:14so I'm glad that you did it and not some vagabond.
00:54:18Very original thinking, indeed.
00:54:24You see, my dear Count,
00:54:26Theodore Grantholme was a complex boy.
00:54:28How can I explain?
00:54:29He was not a happy chap,
00:54:31and yet he was an extraordinarily talented person.
00:54:47I think I broke a tooth.
00:54:51The vapors of mercury ruined my teeth.
00:54:55The invention we worked on together had no equal,
00:54:58but he did not appreciate his genius and the greatness of that invention.
00:55:03He was wasting his talent.
00:55:05He drank a lot.
00:55:08And that girl he was with,
00:55:11do you remember her?
00:55:13Do I remember Cornelia?
00:55:18Do I remember her?
00:55:21She was nature's jewel.
00:55:24Cornelia was his twin sister.
00:55:26He was very attached to her.
00:55:28She was everything to him.
00:55:30Mother, sister, perhaps even...
00:55:34After his death, she disappeared.
00:55:36Vanished.
00:55:37No sign of her anywhere.
00:55:39I haven't seen her since.
00:55:48So,
00:55:50some tea?
00:55:53I'll see to the horses and bags.
00:55:57Grantholme gave the impression of a desperate man.
00:56:01It seemed like he needed money desperately.
00:56:04That's right. Our work demanded great sums of money.
00:56:08The raw materials needed for the invention are expensive.
00:56:11Silver, mercury, chemicals,
00:56:13and we constantly needed more supplies.
00:56:15The money Theodore was receiving from his inheritance had run out.
00:56:19I understand, but...
00:56:20Yes.
00:56:21You see,
00:56:23Theo and Cornelia were raised by monks.
00:56:25Right after they were born, they were taken to a monastery.
00:56:28Father Superior brought them up
00:56:30and gave them his name.
00:56:32Grantholme.
00:56:33After he died,
00:56:35this noble woman appeared and began funding our invention.
00:56:39She used to come here occasionally, a beautiful woman.
00:56:42She said she was interested in the invention,
00:56:45but I'm an old man, Cal.
00:56:47She was more interested in them.
00:56:49Why?
00:56:51There was never enough money,
00:56:54so
00:56:56Theodore decided to try gambling.
00:56:59Once in a while, he'd even win.
00:57:03Thanks to these onions,
00:57:08those potatoes and my poppy tea,
00:57:10I have managed to live through five years here.
00:57:13And what about this invention?
00:57:16Dear Count,
00:57:17we have invented a machine with which you can stop time.
00:57:24Or rather, you can fix permanently
00:57:28part of it.
00:57:30Conserve it.
00:57:33Stop life's volatility and make permanent its lack.
00:57:37What do you say to that?
00:57:40I'm afraid I can't imagine what you're talking about.
00:57:44Come with me.
00:57:45I'll show you something.
00:57:51This was our kingdom
00:57:54and this machine was our baby.
00:57:57What is this?
00:58:02Using this machine,
00:58:04you can fix
00:58:07a given moment
00:58:10of time.
00:58:14I
00:58:20still don't understand.
00:58:29On these shelves, my dear Count,
00:58:33the past is being stored.
00:58:36The time that has already passed.
00:58:39All of a bygone existence.
00:58:43Let me show you something.
00:59:13What?
00:59:21What happened?
00:59:22What sort of trick is this?
00:59:24There you go.
00:59:26Therein lies the problem.
00:59:28This plate has now wasted away for good.
00:59:33And that's where our work has stopped.
00:59:36We were never able to successfully solve the problem of fixing the picture.
00:59:41It needs to be researched further.
00:59:47She was his favorite model.
00:59:51We have hundreds of her pictures here.
00:59:53It would be a shame to lose those.
00:59:56Fantastic.
00:59:58Unbelievable.
01:00:00Beautiful body.
01:00:05I need funds.
01:00:08Who knows?
01:00:09With the help of God and your money.
01:00:15What's happening to me?
01:00:18I feel dizzy.
01:00:29Victor,
01:00:31the girl I was is gone.
01:00:35But I've never forgotten you.
01:00:39I think that you now need my help.
01:00:42And I need yours.
01:00:45I am alone now and my fondest hope
01:00:49is to see you soon.
01:00:52Teresa.
01:01:10Come on, shoot!
01:01:19Sir?
01:01:24There's a man here to see you.
01:01:27Who is he?
01:01:30I don't know.
01:01:33He sounds German.
01:01:36He sounds German.
01:01:40Tell him to come back tomorrow.
01:01:44It's about Master Rudolph, sir.
01:01:53Show him in.
01:02:05Thank you.
01:02:12Count Victor Moritz.
01:02:19In person.
01:02:22With whom do I have the pleasure?
01:02:24Knopf.
01:02:26My name won't tell you anything.
01:02:28My name is Knopf
01:02:29and I've come on behalf of a man
01:02:31who would like to remain anonymous.
01:02:35Anonymous.
01:02:37Do you mind if I warm up a bit by the fire?
01:02:43I am frozen to the bone.
01:02:47Dreadful weather we have had today.
01:02:51Would I be spoiling my welcome
01:02:53if I asked for a drink?
01:02:56No, serve yourself, please.
01:03:01Just drink from the carafe.
01:03:05Get down to business, Knopf.
01:03:07Well,
01:03:09you see, Count Moritz,
01:03:11the man
01:03:14who sent me here
01:03:17knows a lot about some Baron de Sevres
01:03:21and he suspects
01:03:23that this matter might interest you.
01:03:26Maybe.
01:03:27Yes.
01:03:29Continue.
01:03:32That's all.
01:03:33That's all.
01:03:35If you want to find out anything else,
01:03:38please come to a meeting.
01:03:40Come tomorrow.
01:03:45The Devil's Castle.
01:03:47Do you know the place?
01:03:48Yes.
01:03:50He'll be waiting for you there.
01:03:54I don't know Baron de Sevres,
01:03:57but it appears to me that my...
01:04:04employer, for some reason,
01:04:07does not like that man.
01:04:10So...
01:04:15One more thing.
01:04:18Do come alone.
01:04:20My employer likes discretion.
01:04:24Well,
01:04:25so
01:04:27my fondest regards,
01:04:29Your Lordship.
01:04:34Yes, you can take it with you.
01:04:41Good night, Knopf.
01:05:03Good night.
01:05:18Sir.
01:05:22We can't get through from here.
01:05:23We're going to have to walk from here, sir.
01:05:29Fine.
01:05:31Wait here, Martin.
01:05:33Yes, sir.
01:05:59Welcome,
01:06:00Count Morris.
01:06:03I've drunk it all.
01:06:05And I must say,
01:06:06your grab has come in handy.
01:06:10Nights are cold
01:06:11this time of year.
01:06:13And by God,
01:06:15that liquor of yours
01:06:18was first class, too.
01:06:20Welcome.
01:06:24Where is the man I am to meet?
01:06:26Wait.
01:06:33Patience.
01:06:35Patience, Count Morris.
01:06:38He'll be here any moment now.
01:06:45How did you get here?
01:06:48The road from the north is impossible to pass.
01:06:52I came here on foot.
01:06:57It's a spooky place, isn't it?
01:07:01Quite peculiar.
01:07:07Did you know this palace has never been lived in?
01:07:11Did you know that?
01:07:13No?
01:07:15Well,
01:07:16shortly after it was buried,
01:07:18it burned down.
01:07:20Neighborhood people said that the devil burned it down
01:07:24and it stuck.
01:07:26Devil's Castle.
01:07:30It was to be the most spectacular residence
01:07:33in this part of the country.
01:07:36It's full of wild cats now,
01:07:39scabby pigeons,
01:07:42rats,
01:07:43all kinds of foul things.
01:07:47Only sometimes
01:07:50somebody comes here
01:07:52to hang himself
01:07:54or to rape
01:07:56or to make love.
01:08:03This well
01:08:04is full of human bones.
01:08:13Peasant girls come here to give birth to their bastards
01:08:16and leave them for the rats
01:08:19and wild cats to devour.
01:08:22Indeed, a very peculiar place.
01:08:25Knob!
01:08:30Am I boring you?
01:08:34You don't like my story?
01:08:41That employer of yours, where is he?
01:08:46Over there.
01:08:52Good work, Mr. Knob!
01:08:56Thank you, Marquis.
01:08:58Six years I have been waiting for this.
01:09:05Hey, remember me, huh?
01:09:11I was worried about you, Moritz.
01:09:14I thought you were dead.
01:09:16I thought you were dead.
01:09:18I thought you were dead.
01:09:20I was worried about you, Moritz.
01:09:22All these years I was praying for you,
01:09:25begging the Lord so he would not let you
01:09:28be chewed up by rats in the prison.
01:09:30And the Lord heard my prayer.
01:09:35Mr. Knob did his job well,
01:09:38as I knew he would.
01:09:41What do you want?
01:09:43What do you want? I don't know you.
01:09:46Surely you, and you know me only too well.
01:09:50But that does not matter anymore.
01:09:54Because this is our last meeting,
01:09:57Count Moritz.
01:09:59Dammit, who are you?
01:10:01My name is Holmes, remember?
01:10:07Marquis Frederick Holmes.
01:10:11Now, come on, take a good look at me.
01:10:14Look at me well.
01:10:16For now, I'm going to hear you beg for your life.
01:10:22Now come on, beg you son of a bitch.
01:10:45Give me the gun, Knob.
01:10:47I want to finish him.
01:10:50The gun, Knob.
01:10:52He's finished, Marquis.
01:10:54You won't need the gun, Holmes.
01:10:57There is some other business we must finish first.
01:11:00What business?
01:11:03I owe you an explanation.
01:11:05You think I work for you.
01:11:08But I don't.
01:11:10I work for a man named Lund.
01:11:14Known to you by the name of Baron Rudolf the Serf.
01:11:17The Serf?
01:11:18Yes, it was he who conceived this whole masquerade.
01:11:24You only served as a tool.
01:11:29Nice job, Mr. Holmes.
01:11:34Son of a bitch.
01:11:36I hope you can understand.
01:11:39You've become a danger to the Baron.
01:11:42And I must kill you.
01:11:46Are you afraid, Marquis?
01:11:48You're not going to do it, huh?
01:11:50Why not?
01:11:53Look, I...
01:11:54Would you want money? I got plenty of it.
01:11:56Look, here.
01:11:57I'm very sorry, Holmes.
01:12:00But it wouldn't be enough.
01:12:02Besides, you understand nothing.
01:12:13No!
01:12:28And Knuff?
01:12:31What about him?
01:12:34He killed them both.
01:12:43Then he rode off on his horse.
01:12:47Luckily, not checking to see if your lordship was dead.
01:12:52Knuff.
01:12:55No.
01:12:58It is the Serf who is pulling the strings.
01:13:43It seems these people are very dangerous.
01:14:01Wouldn't it be better to forget the whole thing, dear Count?
01:14:06And get busy with the invention?
01:14:09Get busy with the invention?
01:14:13Forsake revenge.
01:14:18You must be out of your mind, Dorian.
01:14:23Devote yourself to the cause.
01:14:40Come on!
01:14:42Come on!
01:14:44Come on!
01:14:46Come on!
01:14:48Come on!
01:14:50Come on!
01:14:52Come on!
01:14:54Come on!
01:14:56Come on!
01:14:58Come on!
01:15:00Come on!
01:15:02Come on!
01:15:04Come on!
01:15:06Come on!
01:15:08Come on!
01:15:10Come on!
01:15:12Come on!
01:15:14Come on!
01:15:16Come on!
01:15:18Come on!
01:15:20Come on!
01:15:22Come on!
01:15:24Come on!
01:15:26Come on!
01:15:28Come on!
01:15:40Come on!
01:15:42Come on!
01:15:44Come on!
01:15:46Come on!
01:16:09No!
01:16:14No!
01:16:39I found you.
01:16:44Me.
01:16:59Baron!
01:17:04Baron!
01:17:09I've got bad news, Baron.
01:17:14Moritz?
01:17:18Yes, Baron.
01:17:21Enough!
01:17:23You enjoy killing.
01:17:28And why?
01:17:30For money.
01:17:35Pity.
01:17:44Pity.
01:18:14What's that?
01:18:19This?
01:18:21A telescope.
01:18:23And what's a telescope?
01:18:25Looking through it, you can see everything closer.
01:18:27Would you like to try?
01:18:29Yes.
01:18:39Come quick, Rudy!
01:18:41Rudy! I want to play!
01:18:51Your name is Rudy?
01:18:53Uh-huh. This is fun.
01:18:57Is that your sister?
01:18:59Uh-huh.
01:19:00And what's your sister's name?
01:19:03Victoria.
01:19:06These children are mine, Count Moritz.
01:19:11It is you.
01:19:13Cornelia.
01:19:18Come with me.
01:19:20We might be seen here.
01:19:21The palace is guarded and you're expected. Come.
01:19:36We'll be safe here.
01:19:39This is the place in which I worship and no one else comes here.
01:19:45Do sit down, dear Count.
01:19:54So you married Rudolph.
01:20:00Are you surprised by that, Count Moritz?
01:20:04After everything that transpired following Theo's death, I was completely alone.
01:20:10I had nothing.
01:20:12He had everything.
01:20:16The whole fortune he would want to lend to us.
01:20:19So when he insisted I marry him, I had no choice but to accept.
01:20:24Cornelia, are you aware that Rudolph cheated?
01:20:29That it really was he who killed your brother?
01:20:33After we were married, he told me the truth.
01:20:38No.
01:20:41I didn't mourn Theo.
01:20:44I was exhilarated.
01:20:47After all, I thought Rudolph had done this to get me.
01:20:53Cornelia...
01:20:54I loved Theo very much.
01:20:57But I felt relieved.
01:21:01I felt free.
01:21:05The absurdity of our life had ended.
01:21:11I loved my life.
01:21:16I stayed on, even after Rudy told me he had murdered a young girl while studying in Paris.
01:21:24He used to tell me many things.
01:21:28About you.
01:21:30Your riotous life together.
01:21:33Your friendship.
01:21:34Our friendship.
01:21:37You may not believe me when I tell you that Rudy still has a deep affection for you.
01:21:42Indeed.
01:21:44Out of his deep affection for me, he hired that bandit Knopf to kill me.
01:21:50Fear.
01:21:52Fear.
01:21:55He did that fearing your revenge.
01:22:00Since his sickness, he fears everything.
01:22:07So many people are dying.
01:22:13Death is everywhere.
01:22:22Death.
01:22:28Tell me.
01:22:31Do you still love Rudolph?
01:22:46No.
01:22:49I have never loved him.
01:22:52I was fascinated by him.
01:22:55Yes.
01:22:57Mesmerized by him.
01:23:02But I have never loved him.
01:23:05No.
01:23:12Try to understand.
01:23:15I beg you, count words.
01:23:18Let us stay as we are.
01:23:22You must leave us in peace.
01:23:26Mommy!
01:23:28Mommy!
01:23:43On top of that you can add the stables.
01:23:46Arcadia.
01:23:48Five thousand acres of land.
01:23:51And about three hundred tenants.
01:24:06Do sit down, gentlemen.
01:24:14I don't intend to haggle. I'm in a hurry.
01:24:17One hundred thousand for everything and tomorrow I shall vacate the palace.
01:24:21One hundred thousand?
01:24:24In gold.
01:24:47Good.
01:25:01Teresa.
01:25:05I have not forgotten you.
01:25:16Why?
01:25:19Why didn't you come for me?
01:25:23Why didn't you insist?
01:25:29How did you know I would take you back?
01:25:34That I still loved you.
01:25:37Never stopped loving you.
01:25:40I didn't know.
01:25:42The gambler's instinct, I guess.
01:25:44Only instinct?
01:25:46Not only.
01:25:47I got your letter.
01:25:50Why didn't you answer me?
01:25:55There was unfinished business.
01:25:58It took me time.
01:26:02Tell me about that.
01:26:05Tell me.
01:26:07Tell me what it was.
01:26:08Why?
01:26:10You tell me about you.
01:26:14Nothing to tell.
01:26:16Really.
01:26:26When my parents separated us and took me away,
01:26:30a loveless merit was forced upon me.
01:26:33My husband lived abroad.
01:26:36After much traveling, first to Africa at his side,
01:26:39returning then to nurse my mother at the end.
01:26:43Due to my husband's business, I've been away again these past five years.
01:26:48After he died and I returned,
01:26:50I heard about what happened to you and your friend, to Seth.
01:27:13Martin?
01:27:18Martin?
01:27:20What's the matter?
01:27:31What brings you here, Martin?
01:27:34Master Dorian, sir.
01:27:37Dorian? What's happened?
01:27:39Master Dorian has locked himself up in his lab
01:27:42and for several days now I haven't heard a thing.
01:27:46I'm afraid.
01:27:47Have you tried to break in?
01:27:49Master Dorian has forbade me to enter.
01:27:51He has blocked the door from the inside.
01:27:53There's no way to get in.
01:27:56He's screaming all these terrible things,
01:27:58all these blasphemous things about God.
01:28:10IDIOT!
01:28:24Take him out of here, Martin.
01:28:39IDIOT!
01:29:09IDIOT!
01:29:10IDIOT!
01:29:11IDIOT!
01:29:38Teresa.
01:29:42Teresa.
01:29:55Teresa.
01:29:59Yes,
01:30:01they were my children.
01:30:06And
01:30:09I was.
01:30:11Your father?
01:30:13Yes.
01:30:17Why,
01:30:19Teresa?
01:30:23Why didn't you tell me God?
01:30:28I was 16.
01:30:30My mother told me my babies were stillborn.
01:30:34I didn't know Victor until I came home from Africa.
01:30:38Mother told me as she died
01:30:41that my children were alive
01:30:44and I found them
01:30:46and befriended them.
01:30:49But suddenly
01:30:50it was too late.
01:30:53I never told them and Theo was dead.
01:31:00I tried to reach you.
01:31:04I wrote to you.
01:31:08And when you returned
01:31:11to spare you
01:31:13I kept silent.
01:31:21Help me.
01:31:27Help me.
01:31:32Forgive me.
01:31:33I know I have failed you.
01:31:35If I had only spoken
01:31:37I would have reached you sooner.
01:31:39In my absence I had no way of preventing it.
01:31:41Theo, a victim.
01:31:43Cornelia,
01:31:45a prisoner of her unfortunate marriage.
01:31:48I did not have the strength to set things right.
01:32:07Help me.
01:32:37Good evening, Mr. Knopf.
01:32:43Dessert, where is he?
01:32:46He is not here.
01:32:47Where?
01:32:48I don't know.
01:32:51Tell me where the Baron is.
01:32:54Lendoffs.
01:32:55Lendoffs.
01:32:57And the children?
01:32:59Cornelia?
01:33:00The Baroness died.
01:33:02They all left.
01:33:03Ran away.
01:33:05The plague, you know.
01:33:08Cornelia's dead.
01:33:11The Baron left the palace.
01:33:13He blazed at Lendoffs.
01:33:17The children.
01:33:18Rudy and Victoria.
01:33:20Count Moritz.
01:33:21Tell me where are the children, Mr. Knopf?
01:33:25In the blue bedroom.
01:33:28Count Moritz,
01:33:30please
01:33:32don't kill me.
01:33:33No.
01:33:35Please.
01:33:37No.
01:33:40No.
01:33:50My head!
01:33:55No.
01:33:56Please.
01:33:58No, Moritz.
01:34:02Moritz.
01:34:03No.
01:34:06No.
01:34:23What's all this about?
01:34:25Good Lord.
01:34:27Mr. Knopf!
01:34:28Mr. Knopf won't hear you.
01:34:31Take me to the children.
01:34:33No.
01:34:35Who are you, gentlemen?
01:34:37Please, take me to the children.
01:34:39No.
01:34:45Tell.
01:34:49Gentlemen,
01:34:50what are you doing?
01:34:53What are you going to do with the children?
01:34:56Take the children home, Martin.
01:34:59And give them to the Countess.
01:35:01Victoria and Rudy.
01:35:12What are you going to do with the children?
01:35:26Take good care of them.
01:35:32Aren't you coming with us, Your Lordship?
01:35:36No.
01:35:37I still have something to do.
01:35:40Go now.
01:35:45Go home.
01:36:01Go.
01:36:32No.
01:36:35No.
01:37:02What can I do for you?
01:37:07Nothing.
01:37:09I'm looking for someone else.
01:37:12I'm sorry.
01:37:17Sorry.
01:37:28Yes, sir.
01:37:30I'm looking for someone.
01:37:33Baron Maximilian Lundt.
01:37:35Have you ever heard of him?
01:37:37You're speaking of Baron de Silva, am I right?
01:37:41Yes.
01:37:43What business do you have with the Baron, sir?
01:37:46Just...
01:37:47take me to him.
01:37:49And your name, sir?
01:37:57Wait.
01:37:59My name is Count Victor Moritz.
01:38:04Moritz.
01:38:07This way, sir.
01:38:29Do you hear it?
01:38:31He spends all day playing his spinet.
01:38:35The same melody over and over again.
01:38:39For hours.
01:38:41Hmm?
01:38:42Is that...
01:38:44a very peculiar man?
01:38:48Yes, sir.
01:38:50He's a very peculiar man.
01:38:53He's a very peculiar man.
01:38:56He's a very peculiar man.
01:38:59Go, Moritz.
01:39:01You'll wait here.
01:39:29I...
01:39:30I...
01:39:32I...
01:39:34I...
01:39:36I...
01:39:39I...
01:39:41I...
01:39:43I...
01:39:59I...
01:40:09Yes.
01:40:15Victor.
01:40:18I have been waiting for you for a long time.
01:40:23The acoustics.
01:40:26Phenomenal.
01:40:29Listen.
01:40:34I...
01:40:37Can you hear it?
01:40:43It's like listening to the past.
01:40:47It was good, wasn't it?
01:40:52For a time, yes.
01:41:00You still love me, Victor.
01:41:15Did you know...
01:41:17they were my children?
01:41:22What does it matter now?
01:41:25Rudy.
01:41:27Why?
01:41:30Who knows?
01:41:42Who knows?
01:41:47Are you ready to die, Rudy?
01:41:53I am dying.
01:41:56Thank you, Rudy.
01:42:00Let's play the game, Desev.
01:42:06Let's play the last time.
01:42:10The rules are simple.
01:42:13We each have one shot.
01:42:17This time, both pistols are loaded.
01:42:29Ready?
01:42:59Shoot.
01:43:29Oh.
01:43:30Oh.
01:43:31Oh.
01:43:39Come on.
01:43:40Come on.
01:43:49It's alright.
01:43:51This way.
01:43:56Yes.
01:43:59Watch them.
01:44:00Watch them.
01:44:03Look at them.
01:44:04There he is.
01:44:05Yes.
01:44:06There he is.
01:44:07Rudy.
01:44:13Oh.
01:44:14Oh, Rudy.
01:44:18Awesome.
01:44:24Whoop.
01:44:29Come on.
01:44:32Oh.