Evening Bells (Večernja zvona)

EVENING BELLS

Did you have your Holy Communion? It was tasty.

St Mary's Congregation in Osijek, 1926.

You're a young man already!

You're growing up to be a real man. And the devil grows in him too.

Mother Leonia, today's the first time that the Communion went on smoothly.

Have a seat, Tomislav.

We received you here as an orphan with no parents.

We entrust you now to your brother, a good man of faith

who will take care of you from now on.

We taught you humility, and he'll teach you charity.

Make sure you don't disappoint us.

Mother Leonia, he's an Antichrist! He spitted out the host!

On your knees!

On your knees!

You'll say twenty rosaries.

Dear Mr. Stjepan, this child will always be a nuisance.

Sister Leonia, only God knows what's in store for us.

But he doesn't speak about it.

Jesus be praised!

THE STORY OF TOMISLAV K.

Come on...

Here.

Go now and wait for the reply.

Directed by Lordan Zafranović.

Hold it! Hands up!

I'm the master here.

All of this is mine.

And you? Who are you? What do you want?

I came to ask for your daughter's hand. Rosa's?!

Rosa! Rosa!

Come, your bridegroom's here!

Why didn't Stjepan come?

You could refuse him. And you won't refuse me.

Well, have a seat. Only if you say yes.

Even if I don't.

You still can have some cake.

So be it!

She's yours! Take her away!

Tell Stjepan I love him. What about me?

I love you too.

Do you like fried chicken? I do.

Then make some for dinner! We'll come to celebrate the engagement!

Rosa agreed to marry you!

Jurica, drop the broom! Get the reed pipe!

A year later.

Get lost, evil charm,

out of the head

to the chest...

From the chest

to the belly...

From the belly to the hips...

From the hips to the feet.

Set Rosa free and let her pregnant be!

Drop it!

You idiot...

Twelve years later.

- Tomislav! - Dimitrije!

- Dimitrije! - Tomislav, jump!

- Dimitrije! - Do you remember us?

- Let's sing one! - You start!

No, you start, you sing better!

How could you leave us for so long?

We're not at the end of the world!

What about dinner? -Chicken! But who'll kill one now?

Poor grandpa!

So, what are your plans now?

I'll go to Munich to study an archive for a study I'm preparing.

What's there in Munich that you can't find here?

Plague in Herzegovina in the 19th century.

Plague in Herzegovina and you're going to Munich?

Either I don't understand or you're lying.

He knows best what to do.

But how will you support yourself?

Without your help, no way.

Do you hear him, Rosa?

We don't have any children anyway.

You're everything to us.

But I won't pay for your political beliefs.

I'm surprised you're not in jail.

You were a candidate, even in high school!

So you wouldn't think we let ourselves go.

But you're beautiful, even in rags.

You're still in love? Yes, we are.

We'd like to have children, but what can we do...

We're still young!

You'll understand this book better than anyone.

Lenin...

- You underlined all this? - What?

The voice of a lonely man never reached all people...

Listen to this.

History will not forgive hesitation of today's revolutionaries.

By taking power today, we're doing it not against the Soviets,

but for them. Hesitation in action equals death.

Quotations speak most of the man who chose them.

What's with your brother?

Can't you win him over for our cause?

That's not easy.

Make sure he doesn't turn against us.

Look who's there!

Didn't you give up on our homeland?

How come you're alone? Where are all the girls?

How are you? What's going on?

I read your articles.

I see that you publish in the Archeological Journal.

What have you read?

Something like Spirit Of the Dead in Herzegovina

or Roman Ruins , I can't remember.

And what did you think?

My specialty is literature, not archeology.

I just don't understand

what you mean by Marxist approach to archeology .

I don't get it. Isn't there only one approach, the scientific one?

I'm all for complete revision of everything, including science.

If archeology is only your cover for Marxism,

you'll neither be a Marxist nor an archeologist.

You can't study Marxism like archeology.

It's the revolution. And revolution is life.

It's you, me, Dimitrije,

those girls waiting for us... Where?

On the barricades!

I heard that you said at the Zagreb University student meeting,

For the King, never,

For the country, always!

You heard right. Who told you?

People always talk about you.

Why did you say that? Not to be like you.

Don't lie.

I know why.

Tell me.

Because you're a communist.

What kind of communism are you trying to support?

Look, I'm a romantic guy.

I like Russian girls. I can't wait to get to know them better.

Stop jerking around.

Munich, 1939.

The girl's so very cute,

With her skirt too short,

With her blouse so tight,

To make her breast come right.

That's the path leading to my heart.

You won't find the road.

Too hard...

And with him, she'll always be safe.

Dreaming of his kissing sweet...

I bet you've got Jewish blood!

How would you know?

My flair, Miss.

I have a nose for Jews.

Well, in my case, it tricked you.

Meira, those youngsters can't sing!

I'll teach them.

Well, boys, you're in mourning?

Join us in our sorrow, Miss.

Move.

Would you like to have a seat?

Your company bores me.

So what do you suggest?

That you take me home.

Well, fuck it.

She speaks Croatian.

Deal?

And who are you?

The devil.

And what does this devil like? You.

- And poetry? - You.

- Music? - I like you.

Do you like anything else? You and graveyards.

I like excavations.

Roman rings,

jewellery...

You're an archeologist? Correct.

Well...

Here's a requiem for your graveyards.

Listen...

I'll go now.

No.

- I'll go. - No! -I will. -No!

I'm telling you...

I said you're staying here.

I have to go. I've got assignments.

What assignments? Important ones.

I hate solitude...

You're staying?

Yes.

How beautiful you are!

Asleep?

You see that I'm not. So, how was it?

I met a cute little bundle at the Foreigners' Club.

She studies Germanics.

And?

She's divine. A bit politically narrow-minded though...

- But perfect tits. - Cheers.

Screw politics when there's a woman around.

Isn't it right?

So what's her name? Meira Matšek.

Matšek Meira! Is she from Zagreb? Yes.

I was her teacher at school.

She went to your school? No, tennis school.

Let me introduce you. This is Juan.