The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

A FILM BY WIM WENDERS

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY PETER HANDKE

THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK

Stop it! If not, you can go!

Offside!

That was clearly offside!

Even a blind man could see it.

Come on!

You're sleeping on the job!

Do that at home!

He's crazy!

What an idiot!

Can I have this paper?

Sure you can.

What streetcar do I take into town?

There's only one.

Give me a stall seat, please.

With extra leg-room?

Yes.

Has the feature started yet?

Get off your horses!

So you want a room?

First floor, number 15.

You'll have to go up on your own.

The bellhop is off on Sundays.

Off?

Where do I sign in?

You can do it tomorrow.

The room's facing the street, but it's not noisy at night.

The last streetcar passes at about 12.

It's busted. Don't bother.

RED LINE 7000

Good night! - Good night!

Anything you'd like? - No.

Do you have a paper?

A Paper?

I could give you a detective story.

This isn't last night's paper? - No, it's today's.

But it has the soccer results? - Yes, sure.

Press Q4.

Do it yourself.

Any other numbers?

What's so interesting about those dumb pictures?

I might be in one myself.

A former national player leased the place a few years ago.

Then he went to America and joined a non-league team.

A year later nobody ever heard of him again.

He had vanished.

His wife hired a famous American detective agency.

But they didn't find anything either.

All they found out was

that he was last seen living in a trailer

in Tucson, Arizona.

In a trailer?

We once did a tour of the States.

Shall we go somewhere else?

Listen to that music!

We need a schilling.

I put my last one in the jukebox.

It won't work without money.

Hey, that was a quarter!

Do you have a light?

Where can I get a paper? - Try the station.

I'm leaving anyway. I forgot to leave a note.

I'm going to my girlfriend.

We wanted to see a movie.

Okay. - See you.

The Prater, please.

Gimme a dime for the streetcar!

There you go. - Thank you.

Extra leg-room again? - Yeah, leg-room.

I haven't any change, I'm afraid.

Have you got anything bigger?

Do you know this movie?

It's about a gang of counterfeiters.

I once saw a movie where they forged bills

marked 10 dollars on one side and 20 on the other.

Do you know that film?

No. - But you've seen this one?

No, I haven't.

THE TREMOR OF FORGERY

A BAT FLEW OUT FROM HIS HEAD AND HIT THE WALL.

MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT.

Come in!

The shower woke me up.

Sorry.

I'm quite glad I woke up.

I had a stupid dream, one I've often dreamed.

Are there ants in the teapot?

Ants?

Where there ants in your dream?

Each time, I'm wearing a dress made of banknotes.

And when I sit down it crackles loudly.

I like his voice.

Then I look down and realize

it's crackling because it's on fire.

Freddy grabs the extinguisher from the foyer and runs towards me.

It was usually a flame-thrower in my dreams,

but this time it spurted water.

I was so surprised that I woke up.

Then I heard the shower.

Who is this Freddy guy?

Someone I know.

It's Monday. I think I'll do some shopping.

Bring me a paper, would you?

Did the planes wake you up?

I just woke up anyway.

The last plane is the mail plane.

After midnight.

The first Boeing at 6 a.m. leaves for Rio.

To where?

The Pan Am to Rio de Janeiro.

I once had a room looking onto a dead-end street.

I didn't even hear any cars. It sort of unsettled me.

Living in the city, but not hearing a thing.

Yeah, that's not very nice.

But I think that an airport...

My name's Gloria.

What's yours?

Gloria...

I'm a professional goal-keeper.

That explains the bruises.

I thought, maybe you were an ice-hockey player or a boxer.

I'm Joseph Bloch.

I mean, my name's Joseph Bloch.

B-L-O-C-H.

I once went to a soccer match with George.

It was raining.

I almost got hit on the head with a plastic bottle.

It was the day Sharon Tate was murdered.

Afterwards we went to the "Stefanskeller".

I had an Irish coffee.

Is George an Englishman?

No. We just call him that.

The "Stefanskeller" is a restaurant?

A bar, a discotheque.

I met George at the movies.

He complained because

I'd given him a seat behind a pillar.

So I gave him a seat with leg-room.

A guy I know, a defender,

plays in my team,

his name is Stumm...

once scored an own goal.

The ball was deflected off his foot into the far corner

while I was diving the other way.

I was in the right corner, the ball in the left.

I mean the left, as I saw it.

Or maybe it was the right.

Anyway, as far as I can recall, I sat in the wrong corner...

in a puddle.

Did you give poor old Stumm hell?

The defender? No, we'd lost the game anyway.

Want some more tea? - Sure.

Are you a good goalie?

Have you got another job?

That's not a jet!

No, a propeller plane.

Charter flights.

Haven't you done much flying?

Last year we did a friendly tour of South America.

Then we spent a week in the States.

What? Didn't you say something? - Me? No...

It must have been that noise...

This is from Bill, from St. Louis.

I collect postcards.

He once gave me a quarter.

But I put it in a cigarette machine by mistake and it never came out.

In Frankfurt.

Are you going to work today?

To training?

Since you stayed away last night, we thought you wouldn't be back.

It happens often.

300 schillings.

This isn't a doss-house. - Beat it with that light!

How dare you!

The gentleman made a complaint. Can I see your papers?

He knocked the flashlight out of my hand. It could have broken.

You've been around a lot.

The thing with the flashlight... I didn't mean it.

A reflex.

But it's not illegal to sleep in a movie theater.

It'll be a letter, right?

Is that your money?

There's a hole in my pocket.

They're American coins.

Did you lose them?

I was in the States recently.

You have relatives there?

No, I was working.

As a sportsman.

That's why the coins are so dirty.

They were used for the toss-up and fell in the mud.

How do you mean?

Heads or tails, to see who plays against the wind.

Or into the sun.

Last stop! Everybody off, please!

Good evening. Can I still get a room?

Yes, there's one still free.

I'll show you upstairs.