Masks

Establish contact.

I love you.

Has this been a real experience for you?

Or have you just recited your text?

I'm sorry.

I... I love you!

Did you believe her?

Give her an impulse.

Oh please... No.

I'll try it again.

I love you. I... I love you!

I love...!

I love you! I love you!

I love you!

O thou pure sunlight...

...and thou air, earth's canopy...

How often have ye heard the strains of my lament...

...when dark night falls!

And my wretched couch...

She hasn't read the play.

How often I bewail my hapless sire...

To whom deadly Ares gave not Of his gifts in a strange land!

But my mother...

But my mother and her mate Aegisthus...

...as woodmen fell an oak...

...cleft his head with murderous axe!

Thank you.

We can't accept all candidates.

We have definite standards and tasks.

Some are lucky, some are not.

Of course you can attend our next audition.

Don't be too discouraged. I liked what you did.

But I'm not the only one to decide.

I'm sorry.

I'm a collector of these.

Look, I don't know if this might interest you...

...but I recently visited a performance in this small private school in Britz.

It was pretty good.

Mateusz Gdula?

Is this a Russian name?

Polish!

They are kind of crazy, these guys from Poland.

Maybe it's something like Grotowski.

Thank you.

Good luck.

In the School Theatre Stella Already Plays the Leading Part

I was so good, so emotional.

One of the examiners was really blown away by my performance.

But he wasn't the only one to decide.

They said they would have taken me, if there hadn't been so many candidates.

Okay.

What do you mean with "Okay"?

Well, I just mean "Okay"!

You are the best actress in the whole wide world.

Do you still have some schnapps?

Lots of it?

Late Summer Dream Drama School Mateusz Gdula

They even have a bus stop.

So you don't have to wait for me.

But I love waiting for you.

Florian, I appreciate what you are try...

Are you crazy?!

Is everything all right?

Good luck.

OFFICE CLOSED

Barbie alert!

Looking for a hairdresser?

Where is the entrance examination?

First you have to register.

Second door on the left.

Okay. Thank you.

I love the smell of fear.

Can't be mine.

If they have taken you, the entrance examination can't be that hard.

I'm performing "Elektra" by Sophocles.

All right.

Please begin.

O thou pure sunlight...

And thou air, earth's canopy...

How often I bewail my hapless sire...

To whom... To whom...

Sorry, can I start again?

Go ahead.

O thou pure sunlight...

...and thou air, earth's canopy.

How often I bewail my hapless sire...

To whom deadly Ares gave not of his gifts in a strange land!

But my mother...

But my mother and her mate Aegisthus...

...as woodmen fell an oak cleft his head with murderous axe!

Thank you.

I can't find anything in your vitae about the situation of your family.

What about your parents?

My father left us when I was a child.

And my mother became ill.

Did your mother support you?

She loved it when I acted for her.

She even let me dance in front of her friends.

What are you planning to do if your acting career fails?

What do you mean?

What is your plan B?

What will you become then? Pop star?

Hotel heiress? Pit babe?

I'll become a whore and then we'll meet again!

I'm sorry.

Wait!

Come back.

Don't be sorry for losing your temper.

It was the actual quality of your performance.

We saw something genuine of you. Behind this beautiful mask.

Mateusz Gdula, the man who founded this school...

...said that the actor's dancing on the edge of the knife...

The uncertainty...

That is the experience an actor should make while being on stage.

That is the goal.

Do you think you could achieve it?

Or will you continue to excuse yourself for the anger inside you?

Florian? It's me.

Yes! Yes!

Open the champagne.

What has happened at that school?

Nothing!

It looks pretty ugly for being "nothing".

Leave me alone. You're not my mother.

Britt, in this school...

...did someone...

Tomorrow I'll talk to a friend.

He's a lawyer.

Whatever they did to you...

I'll make it public.

Lydia?

Can I sleep in your bed tonight?

Please, I don't want to be alone.

I'll make some tea first, okay?

Lydia?

Lydia?

Lydia?

Please! Go away! Go away!

Go away! Go away!

Leave me alone! Please!

I won't tell anybody! Please!

Please go away!

Please! Go away!

Go away! Go away!

Stop it! Go away!

No! No!

I love you.

Daniel, do you believe her?

And do you know why he didn't believe you, Stella?

Because you only have eyes for yourself.

You just watch yourself. You just listen to yourself.

So there is no more room for your partner.

But if you want to succeed here...

...we must be able to see behind your freckles.

Can I practice with her?

I will certainly get her attention.

Congratulations. If Dr. Braun can't stand you, you've won the lottery.

He is not really into women.

Even if they are blonde as you.

Just don't let them screw with your head. Everything else is a piece of cake.

Nice to meet you. Paris.

Thanks. Nice to meet you too...

Welcome to the shark tank.

Come on, it's getting boring.

This is the dark area of the school.

The Rat School.

Here he practiced his filthy habits.

You can not imagine how filthy.

What are you talking about?

What do you think?

This was the part of the building where Mateusz Gdula teached...

...until the mid 70s.

Then this accident happened. And the school had to move.

Since that time nobody uses this wing anymore.

It is in a ruinous state now.

Is Gdula still alive?

He committed suicide in 1973.

I... I've seen somebody behind the window.

You must be wrong.

Nobody is allowed to enter the building.

It is extremely dangerous.

Well, thank you.

That's it.

Keith Johnstone said that we enter into a state of trance while wearing a mask.

For that moment we are possessed by it.

Chaplin didn't know anything about the tramp character...

...before dressing up like one.

The glued on beard took possession of him.

Suddenly, he knew the character. Now he felt the feelings of the tramp.

Thought his thoughts.

So...

Who is next?

Stella?

Choose one.

Let the mask guide you. Whatever happens is the right thing.

She looks less stupid now.

Okay. Take it off.

I'm sorry. I couldn't feel anything.

You didn't let it happen.

Maybe we need a stronger mask.