The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Cuidado with this one. Oh, no.

With this one, be very, very, very careful.

Very careful, huh?

Put everything in the plane.

We're flying home first thing in the morning.

Woman: Oh, he can't go on! Aah! He's going to fall!

Man: Oh, no, no, not unless the sky should fall.

Hey, Papa, hey!

Here.

There.

There's new life, Miguel, in the blood of my grandson, huh?

That, too, is the way it should be, huh?

You know, I sometimes think

that you must talk privately with him.

"Give me grandsons," you say, "to carry on!"

When does Heinrich get back?

He's back-- this morning.

I knew it!

I could tell by the way you act tonight.

But why are you not with him?

Why didn't you fly back to see him today, huh?

Oh, of course. Of course, Madariaga.

You would have missed the dancing tonight, eh?

Ha! Ha! Ha!

And there's a world of time to see Heinrich.

He's back for good now,

away from this new Germany,

these bad things happening over there.

He was studying medicine.

Oh, yes. Medicine, true.

But to live there in times like these--

He was studying!

Oh, I know. I think he would study very hard...

Well, just like Julio did, hey?

Of course, Julio--

they make him an engineer, a painter,

and look at him.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Europe cannot change the strain of Argentine bulls.

No. They are part of their grandfather.

Miguel...

Miguel, you talk too much,

and life was made for dancing.

Come on.

A- Again? Oh, no.

I don't think the body can--

Aw, to hell with the body!

If we die, we die dancing!

All: Hey!

Yes?

Oh, Julio. How was the hunting trip?

Oh, successful, very successful.

Perhaps you can tell me

why you didn't get back from Miguel's last night.

We waited for you.

Ah, yes.

Well, I tell you, I just couldn't take the responsibility, father.

You know, never have I seen such weather.

Of course, for myself, I would have been perfectly willing to take the risk,

but-- well, then, there was the old one, you know.

I have an emotional nature. I am touched.

Well, thank you for being so understanding, father.

However, your uncle Karl has a nature more systematic.

He checked on the flying weather,

and he found it was perfect.

He didn't.

He did.

Woman: Julio?

Julio, did you get it?

Get what?

You didn't get it.

Let me see!

Wait a minute here.

There you go.

You know, I pulled that out myself.

Oh, you darling!

Ooh, you need a bath.

Yeah.

Papa, look.

What is it?

It's a boar's tooth. It's supposed to have marvelous magic powers.

It will take more than a boar's tooth, I'm afraid,

to keep peace at dinner tonight--

The formal dinner for Heinrich

we should have had last night.

What's all the fuss about?

Let Heinrich be pompous if he wants to.

Let him go on about the glories of Deutschland.

I shall simply rise majestically from my seat and sing the Marseillaise.

Woman: Chi-Chi, that is precisely

what you will not do.

Hello, darling.

Hello, mother.

You don't know what it was like

in this house during the first war,

but your father and I do.

Nothing must happen to divide the family,

for your grandfather's sake if nothing else.

Does that mean we have to--

It means that we shall not provoke

or be provoked.

If necessary,

we shall hold our tongues and sit quietly

as members of the inferior French race.

You may be French, father, but I was born two doors down the hall.

I am an Argentine who, as my sister says, now needs a bath.

An Argentine, yes?

Remember that tonight.

Restrain your grandfather.

There is no one here who has influence on him but you.

You will try to restrain him, won't you?

It's important.

Yes, father.

Now, then, I will caution each of you

to remain silent unless spoken to.

There will be no argument at the dinner table,

absolutely no argument.

Is that understood?

Gustav?

Yes, father.

Franz?

Yes, father.

Woman: What can be keeping them, Karl?

Isn't it enough that they humiliated Heinrich yesterday?

Karl: Please, my dear, now.

Man: I thought we agreed to forget about last night, mother.

I certainly have.

You have a kind and generous heart, Heinrich.

That is to be commended,

but the fact still remains.

Grandfather, shouting: Where is he, then, huh?

Where is my grandson?

Heinrich? Ah, Heinrich!

Oh, my boy!

Heinrich: Grandfather.

You've come back to us.

Yes, sir.

Back to the pampas, to the rich, dark soil of Argentina, hmm?

You can take all that Europe and put it in the past. Ha! Ha!

I don't say it wasn't good for you to... to study in Germany,

but that's all over now.

It's cold in here.

Now, then, Heinrich, where's the medals?

Where are they?

I was afraid they might get spotted during the soup course.

Grandfather: Good. Good. They haven't changed you.

No, not even those maniacs in Germany.

No, no.

There it's always war, war...

always war.

Eh, Marcelo?

War.

Yep. it hasn't changed over there since...

since it was written for us by Saint John in the testament.

Look at them, how they dance tonight.

Just as in the apocalypse.

conquest...

war...

pestilence...

death.

And the power was given unto them

to kill with a sword and with hunger

and with the beasts of the earth.

Mother of cows, is there no wine in this house, huh?

Angel, cannot this family have a toast on such an occasion?

To...

to Heinrich, who has come back to us...

to my Julio, never to leave...

to Chi-Chi, who gets bigger every day where she should...

to Gustav and Franz...

to my beloved daughters Luisa and Elena...

and to their faithful-- I am certain-- husbands Karl and Marcelo.

To the family.

Grandfather: Careful, careful!

No, no, no. Serve the guest of honor.

Heinrich!

Now, then...

where does Heinrich start his practice? Buenos Aires?

Oh, we haven't discussed that yet.

Grandfather: What do you mean,

you haven't discussed it?

Well, we...

Let Heinrich speak for himself.

Heinrich: I may not practise anywhere for a while.

Ah.

Have you found something more important?

Mother of cows, grandfather,

does he have to answer you?

A man studies hard for 6 long years,

he just doesn't leap right into work, huh, does he?

What is more important, Heinrich?

Julio: He's only human, grandfather.

He has a need now for things like dancing and music

and... well, you know, other things.

Grandfather: That's strange.

Everyone wishes to speak for Heinrich

but Heinrich himself.

Heinrich: It's only that Julio can put it

so much better than my humble efforts.

Ah.