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I will be truthful and mention
that before our rigid search...
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...I had the opinion Jewish people
were having shit between their brains.
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Primarily, this is because all I knew
of Jewish people...
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...was that they paid Father
very much currency...
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...in order to make vacations
from America to Ukraine.
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I was of the opinion
that the past is past...
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...and like all that is not now,
it should remain buried...
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...along the side of our memories.
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But this was before the commencement
of our very rigid search.
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Before I encountered the collector...
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...Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Your grandfather wanted you
to have this...
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...for your collection.
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Who is Augustine?
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Grandma?
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Where did you get that hat?
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Alex gave it to me.
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Take it off.
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Why?
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Because I told you to, that's why.
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I think he looks cool.
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Who asked you to speak?
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Did I ask you to speak?
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Did Mama ask you to speak?
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Did Grandfather ask you to speak?
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SHUT UP!
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Don't talk to her like that!
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Papa, I already have one son
walking around Odessa...
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...looking like a raving lunatic.
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I don't need another.
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But Papa...
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My legal name is Alexander Perchov,
but all of my friends dub me Alex...
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...because this is much more flaccid
to utter.
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That is Father retrieving his fist
from the right side of my face.
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Father is a first-rate puncher.
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This is my miniature brother, lgor.
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I am tutoring him to be a man
of this world.
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For an example, I exhibited him
a smutty magazine three days yore.
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Why is it called sixty-nine?
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I explain it to him that this is
because it was invented in the year 1969.
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I know this because my friend Grisha knows
a friend of the nephew of the inventor.
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What did people do before 1969?
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He is a genius, my miniature brother.
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He will be made a VIP
if I have a thing to do with it.
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This is Grandfather. Like my father
and myself, he too is dubbed Alex.
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My grandmother, Anna, died two years
before of a cancer in her brain.
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Precluding this,
Grandfather became very melancholy...
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...and also, he says, blind.
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His most recent employment
was Heritage Tours...
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...a business he started in 1950s...
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...mostly for aiding rich Jewish people
to search for their dead families.
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It is a strange employment
for Grandfather...
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...as there is nothing he hates more than
rich Jewish people or their dead families.
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This is Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
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She is Grandfather's Seeing Eye bitch.
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Father purchased her for him not
because he believes Grandfather is blind...
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...but because a Seeing Eye bitch
is also a good thing...
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...for people who pine for
the opposite of loneliness.
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In truth,
Father did not purchase her at all...
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...but merely retrieved her
from the home for forgetful dogs.
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Because of this,
she is not a real Seeing Eye bitch...
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...and is also mentally deranged.
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Most of all, she relishes when I sing to her
her most beloved song...
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..."Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson.
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But now I must tell you more of myself.
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I am unequivocally tall. I do not know
any women who are taller than me.
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The women who are taller than me
are lesbians...
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...for whom 1969
was a very momentous year.
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For me, America is a first-rate place.
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KANGOL!!
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Most of all, I am beloved
of American movies, muscular cars...
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...and hip-hop music.
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I also dig Negroes.
Most of all, Michael Jackson.
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He is a first-rate dancer, just like me.
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Many girls want to be carnal with me
because I'm such a premium dancer.
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You're taking a Jew
to Lutsk this weekend.
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- I can't, I have plans.
- What plans?
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With Grisha at Club Zephyr.
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Well, now you're taking
a Jew to Lutsk.
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But we have VIP passes.
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Papa, I need you to drive them.
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Go to hell!
I'm not driving anyone.
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Papa,
they are paying $ 1200 American.
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I don't care. I'm retired.
No more dead Jews.
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Papa, you drive him to this place...
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...show him everyone is dead
and you come home.
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It will be so simple.
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He's looking for a woman
who saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
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Trust me,
there is no one there anymore.
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She is from someplace called...
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...Trachimbrod.
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It's near Lutsk.
They said he has a map.
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His name is Jonathan S. Foer.
He is a writer.
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He wants to write a book
about the place.
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Okay, I'll go.
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But Sammy goes too.
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Papa, please,
you know that is impossible.
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She's demented!
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You listen to me.
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I'm supposed to be retired.
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I am not supposed to
be dragging rich Jews...
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...all over the goddamn country.
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I'm blind. BLIND!
Understand?
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My bitch is my eyes.
I'm not going anywhere without her.
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Papa, I'm not saying
that I don't believe you're blind...
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...but the American could have
a problem with this.
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No bitch, no driver.
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We could make a uniform for her...
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...to make her seem more official.
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Are you Jonfen?
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What?
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Jonfen. Are you Jonfen?
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It's Jonathan.
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What?
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My name. It's Jonathan.
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Jonfen.
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Are you my translator?
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Yes, I'm Alexander Perchov.
I'll be your humble translator.
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I implore you to forgive my speaking
of English, Jonfen...
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...as I'm not so premium with it.
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My name is Jonathan.
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This is our driver.
He is an expert at driving.
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- Is he all right?
- What?
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I mean, you know, is he healthy?
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Of course. He's my grandfather.
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Please, do not be distressed.
This is only driver's Seeing Eye bitch.
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Okay, she's deranged, but so, so playful.
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Wait, he's blind?
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No, only he thinks this.
Please, do not be distressed.
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Grandfather!
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Grandfather, I've got Jonfen.
We should go to Lutsk.
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Yes?
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Are you sure he's okay?
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- Grandfather!
- Shut up!
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I'm blind, not deaf.
I heard you the first time!
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What does he say?
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He says, "Okey-dokey, we will go now."
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- Where will the dog be?
- What do you mean?
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I have a phobia.
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A fear.
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I'm distressed by dogs.
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He is afraid of dogs.
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Bullshit,
no one is afraid of dogs.
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Grandfather informs me
this is not possible.
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What?
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Get in the car.
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The bitch and the Jew
will share the back seat.
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It is big enough for both of them.
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No, wait. Wait.
You don't understand.
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I have a very serious, serious problem
with dogs.
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I can't sit in there. You...
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Were you able to manufacture the:
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- What?
- The Z's.
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Were you able to make the:
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- I don't understand.
- Repose.
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Did you repose?
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Yeah, I reposed.
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Good. Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
Is also in repose.
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- Why do you call her that?
- What?
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Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
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Because Sammy Davis Jr.
Was Grandfather's most beloved singer.
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You know, The Candy Man.
The Negro from the Rat Pack.
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- And a Jew.
- What?
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Yeah, he was a Jew.
You didn't know that?
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Grandfather, the Jew says that
Sammy Davis Jr. Is Jewish.
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The bitch?
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Not Jr. Jr., Jr. The singer.
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That's bullshit!
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Grandfather informs me
that this is not possible.
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Of course it is. He converted. He's the most
famous black Jew in America.
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- Please tell me, is the Shaq also the Jew?
- Who?
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- Shaquille O'Neal, the Los Angeles Laker.
- No.
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- And Michael Jackson?
- No, definitely not a Jew.
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Father informs me you are writing a book
about this trip. You are a writer?
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No.
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Then what is this?
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It's a catalog.
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Catalog.
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Catalog.
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I don't know why they told you that.
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I'm not a writer.
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I mean, I write, but I'm more of...
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...a collector, really.
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00:24:13,865 --> 00:24:15,463
And what do you collect?
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Things.
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Family things.
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It is a good career, yes?
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No, it's not a career.
It's just something I do.
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Why?
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I don't know. Why does anybody
do anything? It's just something to do.
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I understand.
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I also enjoy writing...
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...but I truly feel I was born
to be accountant.
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Are we close?
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The Jew wants to know
if we are close.
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Tell him to shut the hell up!
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Grandfather says we're very proximal.
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He says it will not be long
until we get to the superway to Lutsk.
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And from there?
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How long from here to Lutsk?
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Perhaps you would like me
to stop the car...
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...and you two can
fuck yourselves to Lutsk!
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00:25:29,892 --> 00:25:30,991
What did he say?
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Grandfather says you should look out
the window at the premium countryside.
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- Are you hungry?
- Yes.
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00:26:00,463 --> 00:26:03,560
- I just hope they have something I can eat.
- What do you mean?
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I'm a vegetarian.
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You're a what?
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I don't eat meat.
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How can you not eat meat?
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I just don't.
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He says he does not eat meat.
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00:26:18,546 --> 00:26:19,445
What?
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- No meat?
- No meat.
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- Steak?
- No.
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- Chickens?
- No.
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00:26:27,537 --> 00:26:28,836
And what about the sausage?
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00:26:29,136 --> 00:26:31,933
No, no sausage. No meat.
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00:26:33,232 --> 00:26:34,930
He says he does not eat any meat.
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Not even sausage?
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I know.
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00:26:38,027 --> 00:26:40,025
What is wrong with him?
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What is wrong with you?
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Nothing. I just don't eat meat.
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Hello.
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Excuse me,
do you have anything without meat?
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Why?
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Our friend here is American...
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I can see that.
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Yes, of course,
but he does not eat meat.
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What is wrong with him?
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What did she say?
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00:27:11,595 --> 00:27:14,892
She says they do not have anything
without meat.
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Don't they have potatoes or something?
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Potatoes?
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00:27:20,787 --> 00:27:22,385
You only get
potato with the meat.
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The potatoes come only with the meat.
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00:27:25,882 --> 00:27:28,879
But can't I have a potato
on a plate by itself?
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00:27:29,978 --> 00:27:33,674
Please, this American is deranged.
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00:27:33,874 --> 00:27:35,872
Would it be possible to have
a potato without the meat?
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00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:55,197
Welcome to Ukraine.
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00:29:45,149 --> 00:29:48,446
- And these are your family?
- Yeah.
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00:29:52,043 --> 00:29:53,641
My grandmother gave me this.
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00:29:53,941 --> 00:29:57,038
That's my grandfather, Safran.
It was taken during the war.
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00:29:58,436 --> 00:29:59,835
It's you.
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00:30:00,035 --> 00:30:01,334
I've heard that.
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00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:04,031
- And this is Augustine?
- Yeah.
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00:30:04,730 --> 00:30:08,727
My mother said that he never would have
made it to America if it weren't for her.
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00:30:09,026 --> 00:30:10,525
And she's from Trachimbrod?
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00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:12,523
Or somewhere near there.
251
00:30:12,823 --> 00:30:15,021
This is Kolki. My grandmother's shtetl.
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00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,319
"Shtetl"?
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00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:17,618
It's a village.
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00:30:17,918 --> 00:30:21,514
It's Yiddish, it means "village."
It doesn't seem to be far from Trachimbrod.
255
00:30:21,914 --> 00:30:25,011
That's why I was thinking
it might be called Sofiewka now.
256
00:30:27,808 --> 00:30:30,206
Why do you make such a rigid search?
257
00:30:33,503 --> 00:30:36,700
I guess I just wanted to see
where my grandfather grew up...
258
00:30:38,099 --> 00:30:40,796
...where I would be now
if he hadn't come to America.
259
00:30:40,896 --> 00:30:42,994
You would be Ukrainian, like me.
260
00:30:43,194 --> 00:30:46,890
Only not like me, because you would be
a farmer from some unimpressive town...
261
00:30:47,390 --> 00:30:50,986
...and I am from Odessa.
- I see.
262
00:30:52,485 --> 00:30:54,783
And did your grandparents ever return
to Ukraine?
263
00:30:54,983 --> 00:30:58,080
God, no. My grandmother would go crazy
if she knew I was here.
264
00:30:58,379 --> 00:30:59,778
Why?
265
00:31:00,178 --> 00:31:01,476
She didn't think it was safe.
266
00:31:01,576 --> 00:31:05,173
She said that before the war,
Ukraine was just as bad as Berlin.
267
00:31:06,072 --> 00:31:08,470
Jews weren't exactly popular in Ukraine.
268
00:31:08,670 --> 00:31:11,767
When the Nazis invaded, she actually
thought it would be an improvement.
269
00:31:12,466 --> 00:31:13,964
Who told you this?
270
00:31:15,863 --> 00:31:17,161
My grandmother.
271
00:31:17,761 --> 00:31:19,459
Why did she say this?
272
00:31:21,557 --> 00:31:23,455
I don't know. It's just how she felt.
273
00:31:26,752 --> 00:31:27,751
Grandfather...
274
00:31:28,051 --> 00:31:31,348
...he says Ukrainians were
anti-Semitic before the war.
275
00:31:32,147 --> 00:31:33,346
Is it true?
276
00:31:36,343 --> 00:31:37,442
Grandfather?
277
00:31:52,028 --> 00:31:53,327
It's nice.
278
00:31:56,524 --> 00:31:58,422
Really, it's just for sleeping.
279
00:32:07,014 --> 00:32:09,112
- Jonfen?
- Yeah.
280
00:32:11,310 --> 00:32:13,907
You were very proximal
with your grandfather, yes?
281
00:32:18,103 --> 00:32:20,301
Yeah. Why?
282
00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:23,998
Tomorrow we will make a search.
283
00:32:24,397 --> 00:32:25,596
Good night.
284
00:32:25,796 --> 00:32:26,995
Good night.
285
00:32:33,189 --> 00:32:35,387
Make sure to secure the door
when I am gone.
286
00:32:35,587 --> 00:32:37,685
I do not want
to make you petrified person...
287
00:32:38,084 --> 00:32:41,381
...but there are many dangerous people
who want to take things from Americans...
288
00:32:41,681 --> 00:32:43,979
...and also kidnap them. Okay?
289
00:32:44,978 --> 00:32:45,877
Okay.
290
00:32:46,077 --> 00:32:47,176
Good night.
291
00:32:56,767 --> 00:32:58,765
Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
292
00:32:59,464 --> 00:33:00,663
Come on, let's go.
293
00:33:50,515 --> 00:33:53,812
He seems like a good person.
294
00:33:54,811 --> 00:33:56,310
Yes, he does.
295
00:33:57,609 --> 00:34:00,606
We should try to help him.
296
00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:02,204
How?
297
00:34:04,302 --> 00:34:07,299
We should try to find her.
298
00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:08,898
Who?
299
00:34:10,896 --> 00:34:12,195
Augustine.
300
00:36:03,489 --> 00:36:05,986
- What is it?
- Soviets.
301
00:36:06,985 --> 00:36:08,484
What happened?
302
00:36:10,282 --> 00:36:11,681
Independence.
303
00:36:28,265 --> 00:36:29,364
Look.
304
00:36:45,149 --> 00:36:46,548
We are looking for Trachimbrod.
305
00:36:47,147 --> 00:36:48,446
Do you know it?
306
00:36:48,646 --> 00:36:50,344
You heard of Trachimbrod?
307
00:36:51,743 --> 00:36:53,641
Never heard of it!
308
00:36:53,841 --> 00:36:55,139
Come here, please!
309
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:56,338
Come here!
310
00:37:01,533 --> 00:37:03,232
It's a small village...
311
00:37:03,532 --> 00:37:04,730
...Trachimbrod.
312
00:37:04,930 --> 00:37:08,327
Mention the other names to him.
Perhaps one will sound informal.
313
00:37:08,627 --> 00:37:11,224
Kovel', Kivertsy, Sokirentsy.
314
00:37:11,524 --> 00:37:13,222
Maybe Kolki?
315
00:37:14,022 --> 00:37:14,921
Yes, yes.
316
00:37:15,021 --> 00:37:16,619
Could you direct us to them?
317
00:37:16,919 --> 00:37:19,117
Of course.
They are not so far.
318
00:37:19,117 --> 00:37:20,815
Go north on the superway.
319
00:37:21,914 --> 00:37:22,913
Keep going north...
320
00:37:23,612 --> 00:37:25,610
...until you see wheat fields...
321
00:37:26,709 --> 00:37:30,506
...then head east
through the farmlands.
322
00:37:30,806 --> 00:37:32,004
Thank you.
323
00:37:32,404 --> 00:37:34,202
Here. Thank you.
324
00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:38,099
- What is he doing?
- What is he doing?
325
00:37:38,398 --> 00:37:40,197
- What are you doing?
- For helping us.
326
00:37:40,496 --> 00:37:41,895
- What?
- I read in my guidebook...
327
00:37:42,095 --> 00:37:44,193
...you can't find
Marlboro cigarettes here...
328
00:37:44,293 --> 00:37:46,391
...so you should take them everywhere
as tips.
329
00:37:46,590 --> 00:37:48,189
He doesn't eat meat.
330
00:37:51,486 --> 00:37:52,884
Thank you.
331
00:38:00,078 --> 00:38:01,177
What is "tips"?
332
00:38:01,376 --> 00:38:04,873
Tips are something you give someone
in exchange for help.
333
00:38:05,273 --> 00:38:08,270
You are informed you will be paying
for this trip with currency, yes?
334
00:38:08,570 --> 00:38:12,666
No, not like that. Tips are for small things,
like directions or the valet.
335
00:38:12,965 --> 00:38:15,363
- Valet?
- You know, the guy who parks your car.
336
00:38:15,963 --> 00:38:17,661
Why do you not park your own car?
337
00:38:37,942 --> 00:38:41,338
How much currency would
a first-rate accountant receive in America?
338
00:38:42,237 --> 00:38:45,534
I don't know.
A lot, probably, if he or she is good.
339
00:38:45,734 --> 00:38:47,033
She?
340
00:38:47,133 --> 00:38:48,232
Or he.
341
00:38:49,431 --> 00:38:50,929
Are there Negro accountants?
342
00:38:52,827 --> 00:38:55,525
Yes, there are African-American
accountants...
343
00:38:55,625 --> 00:38:59,121
...but you don't want to use that word.
- And homosexual accountants?
344
00:38:59,621 --> 00:39:02,718
There are homosexual everythings.
There are homosexual garbage men.
345
00:39:05,615 --> 00:39:08,812
And how much currency would
Negro homosexual accountant receive?
346
00:39:09,112 --> 00:39:10,511
You shouldn't use that word.
347
00:39:10,810 --> 00:39:12,209
- Which word?
- The N-word.
348
00:39:12,509 --> 00:39:15,206
- It's not the N-word, but...
- Negro?
349
00:39:15,806 --> 00:39:17,104
Yeah, that one.
350
00:39:17,404 --> 00:39:19,902
But I dig them all the way.
They are premium people.
351
00:39:20,701 --> 00:39:23,298
It's that word, though.
You're not supposed to use that word.
352
00:39:24,397 --> 00:39:25,896
What is wrong with the Negroes?
353
00:39:34,288 --> 00:39:37,884
- Are you carnal very often?
- What?
354
00:39:38,184 --> 00:39:40,982
With American girls, you make sex often?
355
00:39:41,281 --> 00:39:43,479
Not really. Do you?
356
00:39:44,978 --> 00:39:47,475
I inquired headmost. Do you?
357
00:39:48,774 --> 00:39:50,073
Not really.
358
00:39:50,373 --> 00:39:52,471
What do you intend by "not really"?
359
00:39:53,969 --> 00:39:56,667
I'm not a priest,
but I'm not John Holmes, either.
360
00:39:56,966 --> 00:39:59,864
I've heard of this John Holmes.
With a premium penis.
361
00:40:00,863 --> 00:40:02,561
Yeah, that's the one.
362
00:40:02,661 --> 00:40:05,158
In the Ukraine,
everybody has a penis like that.
363
00:40:05,658 --> 00:40:07,556
What about the women?
364
00:40:09,354 --> 00:40:10,753
You make a joke, no?
365
00:40:11,652 --> 00:40:12,651
Yeah.
366
00:40:25,839 --> 00:40:27,837
Come, Zlata, come.
367
00:40:54,911 --> 00:40:56,709
Do you have any chewing gum?
368
00:41:08,598 --> 00:41:10,896
Do you know where Trachimbrod is?
369
00:41:11,395 --> 00:41:13,294
What's in Trachimbrod?
370
00:41:13,493 --> 00:41:15,491
Nothing, it's just a place
we are trying to find.
371
00:41:16,191 --> 00:41:19,088
If there's nothing there,
why are you trying to find it?
372
00:41:19,987 --> 00:41:22,485
Why do you ask stupid questions?
373
00:42:22,827 --> 00:42:24,126
Where are we?
374
00:42:24,326 --> 00:42:25,924
I don't know.
375
00:42:27,123 --> 00:42:29,021
Ask the Jew.
376
00:42:30,620 --> 00:42:32,518
- Where are we?
- I'm not sure.
377
00:42:32,618 --> 00:42:34,017
He doesn't know.
378
00:42:34,117 --> 00:42:37,114
What do you mean, he doesn't know?
We're driving! How can he not know!
379
00:42:38,213 --> 00:42:40,910
- What do you mean, you don't know?
- None of the roads have names.
380
00:42:41,210 --> 00:42:43,008
I thought you were a certified guide.
381
00:42:43,308 --> 00:42:45,106
Grandfather is certified.
382
00:42:45,905 --> 00:42:48,103
- Please, you're making this impossible.
- Shut up!
383
00:42:48,403 --> 00:42:50,301
This is pointless!
We don't know where we are.
384
00:42:50,501 --> 00:42:52,399
"Shut up" means shut up!
385
00:42:52,699 --> 00:42:54,197
Grandfather, we should stop.
386
00:42:56,196 --> 00:42:58,094
What are you doing?
387
00:42:59,892 --> 00:43:02,490
Maybe we should stop and ask someone.
388
00:43:17,875 --> 00:43:19,573
Go and ask them.
389
00:43:20,173 --> 00:43:22,570
Leave the Jew here.
390
00:43:23,769 --> 00:43:25,468
I'm not a moron, you know.
391
00:43:28,165 --> 00:43:29,864
I know what that word means.
392
00:43:29,864 --> 00:43:31,162
What word?
393
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,658
It's Russian for "Jew," isn't it?
394
00:43:49,145 --> 00:43:51,143
Wait! I'm coming too.
395
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,038
- What are you doing?
- I'm coming with you.
396
00:43:57,437 --> 00:44:00,734
- You should not do this.
- Why not? I can help.
397
00:44:01,134 --> 00:44:03,432
You cannot help. You cannot even speak.
398
00:44:03,731 --> 00:44:05,929
It is bad enough that I am from Odessa.
399
00:44:06,429 --> 00:44:08,726
I won't speak.
I promise, I won't say a word.
400
00:44:31,904 --> 00:44:34,102
Excuse me, could you tell me,
do you know where Trachimbrod is?
401
00:44:34,602 --> 00:44:35,801
Never heard of it.
402
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:37,699
Thank you.
403
00:44:38,998 --> 00:44:41,196
Wait! What are you doing?
404
00:44:41,495 --> 00:44:42,994
They do not know.
405
00:44:43,294 --> 00:44:46,291
What about Sofiewka?
Did you ask them about Sofiewka?
406
00:45:06,372 --> 00:45:08,969
I'm sorry, I forgot,
it's also called Sofiewka.
407
00:45:09,369 --> 00:45:12,266
What do you want?
I told you I never heard of it!
408
00:45:12,765 --> 00:45:14,064
What's your problem, huh?
409
00:45:15,063 --> 00:45:16,462
Maybe you've seen this woman?
410
00:45:16,762 --> 00:45:18,060
What are you doing?
411
00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:21,058
We are trying to find
the town of Trachimbrod.
412
00:45:21,257 --> 00:45:23,455
I told you, we don't know.
413
00:45:24,354 --> 00:45:26,952
Do you want a Marlboro cigarette?
414
00:45:30,349 --> 00:45:31,747
Get lost! Go back to Kiev!
415
00:45:32,047 --> 00:45:34,245
I'm not from Kiev,
I'm from Odessa.
416
00:45:34,345 --> 00:45:36,243
Then go back to Odessa!
417
00:45:42,637 --> 00:45:44,835
- What did they say?
- Nothing.
418
00:45:45,035 --> 00:45:46,134
They said nothing.
419
00:45:46,334 --> 00:45:49,730
Hey, Odessa! You forgot your dog!
420
00:45:53,527 --> 00:45:55,924
Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., come here!
421
00:46:09,412 --> 00:46:10,311
Hey! Don't do that!
422
00:46:10,510 --> 00:46:11,809
Why were you speaking English?
423
00:46:12,109 --> 00:46:14,607
I commanded you not to speak!
You understanded me, yes?
424
00:46:14,806 --> 00:46:16,105
- Yes.
- Then why did you speak?
425
00:46:16,305 --> 00:46:17,903
- I don't know.
- Now they all think...
426
00:46:18,203 --> 00:46:20,001
...l'm stupid American tourist, like you!
427
00:46:20,201 --> 00:46:22,000
- I'm sorry.
- Why do you not listen?
428
00:46:22,199 --> 00:46:23,898
This is not your country!
429
00:46:25,796 --> 00:46:27,195
You little piece of shit!
430
00:46:27,494 --> 00:46:29,193
Don't you put your
filthy hands on her!
431
00:46:29,293 --> 00:46:31,690
If you ever hit her again...
432
00:46:31,990 --> 00:46:34,787
...I swear to God,
I'll cut your hands off!
433
00:46:35,487 --> 00:46:37,485
Do you understand,
you piece of shit?
434
00:48:50,358 --> 00:48:51,757
Grandfather?
435
00:51:03,132 --> 00:51:04,331
Grandfather?
436
00:51:05,629 --> 00:51:07,328
What are you doing?
437
00:51:09,626 --> 00:51:11,424
We're out of gas.
438
00:51:46,091 --> 00:51:47,489
Jonfen?
439
00:51:47,489 --> 00:51:48,688
Yeah?
440
00:51:48,988 --> 00:51:51,186
Do you think my grandfather is...?
441
00:51:52,085 --> 00:51:53,184
What?
442
00:51:54,882 --> 00:51:56,281
Distressed?
443
00:52:00,177 --> 00:52:01,476
What do you mean?
444
00:52:04,074 --> 00:52:06,671
What do you mean, what do I mean?
I do not mean anything.
445
00:52:09,668 --> 00:52:12,765
If I meant to say something else,
I would say something else.
446
00:52:21,357 --> 00:52:23,455
Something is not right.
447
00:52:24,254 --> 00:52:26,452
It is as if he's dreaming all of the time...
448
00:52:28,051 --> 00:52:30,249
...even when he is not in repose.
449
00:52:39,740 --> 00:52:41,238
Why don't you ask him.
450
00:52:42,537 --> 00:52:45,534
No. That is impossible.
451
00:55:23,584 --> 00:55:25,082
You found gas?
452
00:55:35,472 --> 00:55:38,370
Alex, get up, it's time to go.
453
00:55:44,464 --> 00:55:45,962
What time is it?
454
00:55:50,158 --> 00:55:52,057
He found gas.
455
00:56:25,025 --> 00:56:26,624
It's beautiful.
456
00:56:28,622 --> 00:56:34,017
Tell him this is the most fertile
land in Eastern Europe.
457
00:56:35,116 --> 00:56:36,814
Grandfather wishes me to tell you...
458
00:56:37,114 --> 00:56:40,111
...that this is the most premium land
for farming.
459
00:56:40,810 --> 00:56:42,309
It's so green.
460
00:56:42,708 --> 00:56:47,204
Before the war, this was
the most beautiful place in the world.
461
00:56:49,901 --> 00:56:51,700
You were here before the war?
462
00:56:55,796 --> 00:56:57,494
Tell him about Odessa.
463
00:57:00,891 --> 00:57:06,286
Tell him that the sand on the beaches
is more soft than a woman's hair...
464
00:57:08,184 --> 00:57:12,180
...and that Odessa is the perfect place...
465
00:57:13,279 --> 00:57:16,976
...to fall in love and start a family.
466
00:57:52,042 --> 00:57:52,941
There.
467
00:57:56,538 --> 00:57:58,336
Ask there.
468
00:59:20,458 --> 00:59:21,957
I'm sorry to bother you.
469
00:59:22,556 --> 00:59:25,253
How could anything bother me
on such a day?
470
00:59:31,947 --> 00:59:33,346
Where are you from?
471
00:59:36,343 --> 00:59:37,342
Odessa.
472
00:59:37,841 --> 00:59:39,740
I have never been to Odessa.
473
00:59:40,039 --> 00:59:41,738
You should go there.
474
00:59:44,835 --> 00:59:47,432
Have you ever heard of a town
called Trachimbrod?
475
00:59:51,129 --> 00:59:53,327
I was told that
I should ask here.
476
00:59:55,325 --> 00:59:58,022
Please, I don't want to trouble you...
477
00:59:58,722 --> 01:00:00,320
...but have you heard of Trachimbrod?
478
01:00:06,015 --> 01:00:08,013
I am sorry I bothered you.
479
01:00:27,095 --> 01:00:29,692
Have you ever seen
anyone in this photograph?
480
01:00:32,489 --> 01:00:34,987
Have you ever seen
anyone in this photograph?
481
01:00:44,778 --> 01:00:47,575
Have you ever seen
anyone in this photograph?
482
01:01:00,263 --> 01:01:02,561
I have been waiting so long.
483
01:01:04,159 --> 01:01:06,357
We are searching for Trachimbrod.
484
01:01:08,455 --> 01:01:10,154
You are here.
485
01:01:11,153 --> 01:01:12,751
I am it.
486
01:01:24,740 --> 01:01:27,137
Weddings and Other Celebrations
487
01:01:27,437 --> 01:01:29,335
Silver, Pinwheels, Perfume
488
01:01:29,435 --> 01:01:31,233
Journals, Sketchbooks, Underwear
489
01:01:31,533 --> 01:01:33,331
Death of the First Born
490
01:01:33,531 --> 01:01:35,230
Wooden Toys
491
01:01:35,429 --> 01:01:37,228
Figurines, Spectacles
492
01:01:37,428 --> 01:01:39,126
Menorah
493
01:01:39,426 --> 01:01:41,024
Dust
494
01:01:50,415 --> 01:01:52,313
Are you hungry?
495
01:01:58,607 --> 01:02:00,506
I can cook you something.
496
01:02:01,105 --> 01:02:03,503
Please don't make any effort.
497
01:02:04,202 --> 01:02:07,299
It is nothing, but I must tell you...
498
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:08,997
...I don't have any meat.
499
01:02:11,195 --> 01:02:12,394
What?
500
01:02:12,694 --> 01:02:14,792
Thank you, but we are not hungry.
501
01:02:15,891 --> 01:02:18,488
It has been so long since
I have had any visitors.
502
01:02:18,688 --> 01:02:20,087
Do you live alone here?
503
01:02:22,485 --> 01:02:23,783
You have someone?
504
01:02:25,582 --> 01:02:27,280
I have all of them.
505
01:02:28,879 --> 01:02:29,977
What did she say?
506
01:02:30,177 --> 01:02:31,876
I'm not so sure.
507
01:02:32,175 --> 01:02:33,174
What are they?
508
01:02:34,773 --> 01:02:36,172
They are Trachimbrod.
509
01:02:37,171 --> 01:02:38,969
She says they are Trachimbrod.
510
01:03:12,537 --> 01:03:13,936
In Case
511
01:03:14,235 --> 01:03:17,632
This is my sister's wedding ring.
512
01:03:18,531 --> 01:03:19,830
'Tis a wedding ring.
513
01:03:20,130 --> 01:03:23,027
She hid it in a jar
and put it in the ground.
514
01:03:23,227 --> 01:03:25,325
I knew this
because she told me.
515
01:03:25,525 --> 01:03:27,423
Many people did this.
516
01:03:27,722 --> 01:03:30,320
The ground by the river is still
filled with precious things:
517
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,317
Rings, money, pictures,
Jewish things.
518
01:03:34,016 --> 01:03:36,914
I was only able to find a few of them...
519
01:03:37,613 --> 01:03:39,711
...but they fill the earth.
520
01:03:40,510 --> 01:03:42,009
She's also a collector.
521
01:03:43,408 --> 01:03:45,106
Does she remember my grandfather?
522
01:03:45,605 --> 01:03:47,004
Do you remember his grandfather?
523
01:03:47,803 --> 01:03:49,602
Who is his grandfather?
524
01:03:52,099 --> 01:03:54,097
The man in the photo.
525
01:03:54,996 --> 01:03:56,095
Safran.
526
01:03:56,695 --> 01:03:57,794
Yes.
527
01:04:20,672 --> 01:04:22,171
Safran.
528
01:04:27,865 --> 01:04:29,763
My family, they...
529
01:04:30,463 --> 01:04:31,961
In case I...
530
01:04:34,659 --> 01:04:36,857
My family wanted you to have this.
531
01:04:39,354 --> 01:04:41,053
For everything that you did.
532
01:04:44,949 --> 01:04:46,248
What is this?
533
01:04:46,547 --> 01:04:49,245
Money.
For what you have done for them.
534
01:04:49,345 --> 01:04:50,943
What have I done for them?
535
01:04:51,243 --> 01:04:52,542
Safran was his grandfather.
536
01:04:53,641 --> 01:04:54,939
No.
537
01:04:55,139 --> 01:04:57,237
He means Augustine.
538
01:05:12,922 --> 01:05:16,519
That is Augustine, that is Mama,
that is me.
539
01:05:18,217 --> 01:05:21,114
This is Safran, Augustine and me.
540
01:05:21,714 --> 01:05:25,410
Mama was so fond of Safran,
he was so polite.
541
01:05:26,210 --> 01:05:28,008
He would tell her she was pretty...
542
01:05:28,208 --> 01:05:30,705
...when in truth
she was not so pretty.
543
01:05:31,405 --> 01:05:35,800
I was older, so Mama thought
he should marry me instead.
544
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,298
But he was in love.
545
01:05:38,498 --> 01:05:41,695
She says your grandfather
was in love with Augustine.
546
01:05:41,895 --> 01:05:44,592
They were married on her name day.
547
01:05:46,191 --> 01:05:48,488
When we were kids,
my sister, Safran and I...
548
01:05:48,788 --> 01:05:51,985
...played kissing games
behind the trees.
549
01:05:53,284 --> 01:05:55,881
I can still remember
how I felt.
550
01:05:56,381 --> 01:05:58,279
It was a little like flying.
551
01:05:58,978 --> 01:06:00,577
Tell him.
552
01:06:01,576 --> 01:06:03,474
She remembers kissing
your grandfather...
553
01:06:04,173 --> 01:06:05,872
...and she flew a little.
554
01:06:07,370 --> 01:06:09,369
What is your name?
555
01:06:23,255 --> 01:06:24,854
This is Baruch...
556
01:06:26,252 --> 01:06:28,151
...in front of the library.
557
01:06:28,950 --> 01:06:31,248
He used to sit there
all day long.
558
01:06:31,647 --> 01:06:34,445
He took out more books
than anyone in the shtetl...
559
01:06:34,944 --> 01:06:36,243
...and he could not even read!
560
01:06:37,242 --> 01:06:39,939
He said
he liked to think about the books...
561
01:06:40,239 --> 01:06:42,237
...think about them
without reading them.
562
01:06:42,837 --> 01:06:45,134
He would always walk around
with a book under his arm.
563
01:06:46,034 --> 01:06:48,032
"Nonsense!"
Mama would say.
564
01:06:49,930 --> 01:06:52,827
They said he was insane.
565
01:06:54,825 --> 01:06:57,223
We had this in common.
566
01:06:58,622 --> 01:06:59,920
Leave us.
567
01:07:04,916 --> 01:07:06,814
Leave us alone.
568
01:07:36,186 --> 01:07:41,181
Jonfen, what you said at the hotel
about Ukrainians before the war...
569
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:42,879
Yeah?
570
01:07:45,177 --> 01:07:47,975
Do you think it's possible
that my grandfather, he...
571
01:08:11,452 --> 01:08:13,151
Your shirt's inside out.
572
01:08:13,450 --> 01:08:14,549
What?
573
01:08:16,048 --> 01:08:17,546
Your shirt, it's inside out.
574
01:08:18,146 --> 01:08:21,243
What does it mean, "inside out"?
575
01:08:21,643 --> 01:08:24,640
Nothing, it's just that the inside
of your shirt is on the outside...
576
01:08:24,939 --> 01:08:26,838
...and the outside is on...
577
01:08:30,134 --> 01:08:31,433
Forget it.
578
01:09:21,585 --> 01:09:23,284
Why do you do this?
579
01:09:26,181 --> 01:09:28,379
Maybe sometimes I'm afraid I'll forget.
580
01:09:41,466 --> 01:09:44,963
Jonfen, I want you to know,
my grandfather...
581
01:09:47,261 --> 01:09:48,959
...he's a good person.
582
01:10:02,047 --> 01:10:03,446
We're going.
583
01:10:04,844 --> 01:10:06,742
We're going to Trachimbrod.
584
01:10:08,441 --> 01:10:09,939
To the river.
585
01:10:10,838 --> 01:10:13,036
She's agreed to take us there.
586
01:10:27,523 --> 01:10:28,921
What's the matter?
587
01:10:31,119 --> 01:10:33,317
I have never been in one of those.
588
01:10:34,216 --> 01:10:36,314
She's never been in a car before.
589
01:10:37,313 --> 01:10:40,111
Well, tell her they're safe now.
She shouldn't be scared.
590
01:10:41,709 --> 01:10:44,906
Please, don't be scared.
Cars are totally safe now.
591
01:10:45,206 --> 01:10:47,504
They even have air bags,
crumple zones.
592
01:10:48,503 --> 01:10:50,301
Maybe not this one...
593
01:10:50,501 --> 01:10:51,999
...but most!
594
01:10:57,394 --> 01:10:58,393
Sammy, sit.
595
01:11:01,091 --> 01:11:03,988
Please, you have nothing to fear.
596
01:11:07,285 --> 01:11:08,583
I cannot.
597
01:12:12,223 --> 01:12:13,622
This is it.
598
01:12:14,121 --> 01:12:15,919
What is this?
599
01:12:16,719 --> 01:12:18,517
This is Trachimbrod.
600
01:12:20,315 --> 01:12:21,914
We are here.
601
01:12:39,797 --> 01:12:44,392
This monument stands in memory
of the 1024 Trachimbroders...
602
01:12:46,390 --> 01:12:50,986
...killed at the hands of German fascism
on March 18, 1942.
603
01:12:57,979 --> 01:13:01,376
This is all that is left.
They destroyed everything.
604
01:13:02,875 --> 01:13:06,471
Only a few were able to get out
before they came.
605
01:13:08,070 --> 01:13:10,168
You were lucky to survive.
606
01:13:17,261 --> 01:13:19,359
They put us in lines.
607
01:13:19,858 --> 01:13:21,457
Made lists.
608
01:13:22,256 --> 01:13:24,354
It was all very logical.
609
01:13:25,053 --> 01:13:26,352
They burned the synagogue.
610
01:13:26,652 --> 01:13:27,551
What is she saying?
611
01:13:27,751 --> 01:13:29,150
That was the first thing they did.
612
01:13:29,349 --> 01:13:30,548
They burned the synagogue.
613
01:13:30,648 --> 01:13:33,845
Then they unrolled a Torah on the ground
and told the men to spit on it.
614
01:13:34,145 --> 01:13:37,542
They unrolled something on the ground
and told them to spit on it.
615
01:13:37,941 --> 01:13:43,136
My father would make us kiss
any book that touched the ground.
616
01:13:44,335 --> 01:13:49,430
Cooking books. Books for children,
plays, even journals...
617
01:13:51,129 --> 01:13:52,427
...and this was our Torah...
618
01:13:52,627 --> 01:13:53,826
It was their Torah.
619
01:13:53,926 --> 01:13:55,924
...that had been in our synagogue...
620
01:13:56,224 --> 01:14:00,620
...since the first rabbi brought it here
300 years before.
621
01:14:03,017 --> 01:14:05,615
First was Yosef.
622
01:14:05,915 --> 01:14:07,313
First man was Yosef.
623
01:14:08,512 --> 01:14:10,410
He was a shoemaker.
624
01:14:12,009 --> 01:14:15,306
They held a gun to his daughter's head...
625
01:14:15,605 --> 01:14:17,404
...and commanded him to spit.
626
01:14:18,203 --> 01:14:20,301
And told him to spit on the Torah.
627
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,798
He spit. They all spit.
628
01:14:23,997 --> 01:14:27,994
And tore and kicked and whatever else
they were told to do.
629
01:14:29,192 --> 01:14:30,591
Except...
630
01:14:32,190 --> 01:14:33,788
...my father.
631
01:14:35,486 --> 01:14:37,185
They all spit.
632
01:14:38,084 --> 01:14:39,782
Except her father.
633
01:14:41,581 --> 01:14:42,879
And then...
634
01:14:44,977 --> 01:14:46,576
...my sister.
635
01:14:46,776 --> 01:14:47,875
Augustine.
636
01:14:48,174 --> 01:14:50,172
She was pregnant.
637
01:14:51,871 --> 01:14:53,269
She was pregnant.
638
01:14:55,367 --> 01:14:58,764
They put the gun
to her pregnant belly.
639
01:14:59,364 --> 01:15:04,359
They said they would kill the baby
inside her if my father did not spit.
640
01:15:05,857 --> 01:15:07,556
He could not.
641
01:15:10,053 --> 01:15:11,452
He would not spit.
642
01:15:13,051 --> 01:15:15,049
Her father would not spit.
643
01:15:18,246 --> 01:15:20,244
He did not spit.
644
01:21:11,509 --> 01:21:13,108
I made one for you.
645
01:21:20,601 --> 01:21:22,599
They're from the riverbank.
646
01:21:25,796 --> 01:21:27,594
The Brod.
647
01:21:39,183 --> 01:21:40,681
Trachimbrod.
648
01:21:58,464 --> 01:22:00,463
And where was his grandfather?
649
01:22:01,561 --> 01:22:04,858
Safran was gone before they came.
650
01:22:05,258 --> 01:22:07,156
He was gone before they came.
651
01:22:07,456 --> 01:22:08,655
Where?
652
01:22:08,954 --> 01:22:10,853
He left for America...
653
01:22:11,052 --> 01:22:14,349
...to find a home for
Augustine and the baby...
654
01:22:15,848 --> 01:22:18,346
...one week before they came.
655
01:22:18,945 --> 01:22:23,541
He went to America to find a place
for them, and she was killed a week later.
656
01:22:27,437 --> 01:22:30,034
Please tell her there's something
I want to give her.
657
01:22:34,330 --> 01:22:36,029
I think it was her sister's.
658
01:22:41,823 --> 01:22:43,422
Yes, it was.
659
01:22:48,317 --> 01:22:50,015
One moment, please.
660
01:23:04,202 --> 01:23:05,401
For you.
661
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:07,299
I can't.
662
01:23:07,698 --> 01:23:09,697
He says he cannot.
663
01:23:09,896 --> 01:23:11,695
But he must...
664
01:23:11,994 --> 01:23:13,992
...he is a collector.
665
01:23:14,292 --> 01:23:17,189
She says you must take it.
You're the collector.
666
01:23:20,786 --> 01:23:22,185
In Case
667
01:23:27,380 --> 01:23:31,076
I didn't understand why my sister
hid her wedding ring in a jar...
668
01:23:31,376 --> 01:23:34,273
...and why she said to me,
"In case."
669
01:23:34,473 --> 01:23:36,271
In case what?
670
01:23:36,871 --> 01:23:38,269
In case she was killed.
671
01:23:38,569 --> 01:23:41,167
Yes, and then what?
Why did she bury it?
672
01:23:41,267 --> 01:23:42,365
I do not know.
673
01:23:43,165 --> 01:23:44,763
Ask him.
674
01:23:45,562 --> 01:23:48,260
She wants to know why Augustine
buried her wedding ring...
675
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:50,558
...when she thought she would be killed.
676
01:23:52,556 --> 01:23:55,253
So there'd be proof that she existed?
677
01:23:56,052 --> 01:23:56,952
To remember her.
678
01:23:57,151 --> 01:23:59,849
No. I don't think so.
679
01:24:00,348 --> 01:24:01,747
In case...
680
01:24:02,546 --> 01:24:05,943
In case someone should
come searching one day.
681
01:24:06,443 --> 01:24:08,041
So they would have
something to find.
682
01:24:09,140 --> 01:24:12,037
No, it does not exist for you.
683
01:24:13,536 --> 01:24:15,434
You exist for it.
684
01:24:15,634 --> 01:24:17,932
You have come because it exists.
685
01:24:18,231 --> 01:24:20,929
She says the ring
is not here because of us.
686
01:24:21,328 --> 01:24:23,626
We are here because of the ring.
687
01:24:38,512 --> 01:24:40,110
Alex, tell her...
688
01:24:46,704 --> 01:24:47,903
Thank you.
689
01:25:03,588 --> 01:25:05,686
May I ask you a question?
690
01:25:06,585 --> 01:25:08,384
Yes, of course.
691
01:25:09,582 --> 01:25:11,580
Is the war over?
692
01:25:23,070 --> 01:25:24,168
Yes.
693
01:25:25,467 --> 01:25:26,966
It is over.
694
01:28:29,991 --> 01:28:31,190
Grandfather?
695
01:30:10,995 --> 01:30:13,893
Look, there's something
I want you to have.
696
01:30:22,884 --> 01:30:24,782
It was my grandfather's.
697
01:30:58,750 --> 01:31:00,448
It was nice knowing you, Sammy.
698
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:32,817
Jonathan!
699
01:31:54,397 --> 01:31:57,893
I have reflected many times
upon our rigid search.
700
01:31:59,292 --> 01:32:00,991
It has shown me...
701
01:32:01,390 --> 01:32:05,686
...that everything is illuminated
in the light of the past.
702
01:32:06,585 --> 01:32:09,283
It is always along the side of us...
703
01:32:10,881 --> 01:32:13,878
...on the inside, looking out.
704
01:32:14,677 --> 01:32:17,775
Like you say, inside out.
705
01:32:24,568 --> 01:32:29,463
Jonfen, in this way, I will always be
along the side of your life.
706
01:32:30,762 --> 01:32:34,059
And you will always be along
the side of mine.
707
01:32:36,357 --> 01:32:40,053
Our families will be with us,
and our families' families.
708
01:32:40,853 --> 01:32:42,751
Your grandfather.
709
01:32:43,150 --> 01:32:48,245
And perhaps, in some way,
my grandfather as well.
710
01:32:56,538 --> 01:33:00,933
It is possible I will never know why
Grandfather did this to himself.
711
01:33:04,630 --> 01:33:07,327
Perhaps he wished to bury his life...
712
01:33:07,827 --> 01:33:10,225
...along the side of his past.
713
01:33:11,923 --> 01:33:13,921
But I must tell you, Jonfen...
714
01:33:14,121 --> 01:33:18,617
...in this moment, he seemed,
as if for the first time in his life...
715
01:33:20,115 --> 01:33:22,413
...contented to be where he was.
716
01:33:28,407 --> 01:33:31,304
Jonfen, I am sending you this...
717
01:33:32,004 --> 01:33:35,001
...because we have shared something
to exist for.
718
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:40,096
And, of course,
in case anyone comes searching.
