I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969) - full transcript

I AM AN ELEPHANT, MADAME

BASED ON THE NOVEL "DIE UNBERATENEN"
BY THOMAS VALENTIN

Stop!

Ilse, how is this flower called?

Gropius Anaemicus Tuma

How does the proof function?

MATHEMATICS

Or else: what do we want to proof?
MATHEMATICS

Or else: what do we want to proof?

That the ... Koch!

mean value property



to a common group of ... Huje!

functions

in each ... Petri!

interval

belongs. Yes, of course.

Albeit here ... Ulrike!

an exception

exists.

The sine is also... Hübner!

yes, the proof that

No, it is ... Rull!

parallel.

Parallel.

Parallel.



To the ... Haverkamp!

X-axis.

And Rull's sentence is applied when ... Adler!

a particular case differentiable interval

followed by ... Adler. Adler!

Y = f(x)

Silence!
Yes, Y = f(x) hold the property f(a) =

= ... Karstens!

= f(b) in the interval's center at least holds one position xi for which f'(xi) = 0 is.

BREMEN

GERMANY

Yes, Gisela,
would you explain it to us?

Annoyed that I chose her.

F'(xi) = f(b) - f(a) / ...

Well?

/ B - A

True!
That's what you chalked up, Gisela.

How can it be developed further?
No Idea, not?

We're living in a society, dear Gisela,
in which in fact also ladies

have to program a computer one beautiful day.

Homework: Exercise 1 to 4 with a variant of the proof.

After the death of King Pompilius the People elect,

motioned by the interim King in the moor, Tullus Hostilius‎ as their new King.

Continue!

Whose exquisite renown over the animal kingdom and

Stotte can do this alone!

and his great war deeds distinguished him and he made the

CLASS TEACHER
and his great war deeds distinguished him and he made the

CLASS TEACHER

Yes?

Emergency fixture of the government – Statistics about the career choices.

Does this have to be now?
Yes, Dr.

Well. Alright, state succinctly what you want to do after school.

Adler?

Export/Import.
Eve Banana!

Na na na na!

Gisela Becker?
Translator

Karstens?
Law

Haverkamp?
Medicine

Heidekamp?
City council

Hübner?
Music, at the flugelhorn: Horst Hübner.

Huje?
Zoology. What do you want to be?

Koch?
Dramatics

Korawalski?
Clochard

Korawalski!
Well then banker.

Ulrike Mom?
I'm not sure, perhaps biology.

Petri?
Computers

Rull?
I don't know.

You once wanted to become a teacher.

Got born, got holidays and died.

Satemin?

Refuse answer.
What?

I don't concur that we declare our career choice.

What is it?

First it needs to be explained what its purpose will be.

Its purpose?
The authorities need it.

For which purpose?
Go on!

Nobody can force us to support these kind of methods.

Disregarding that also our class teacher should have an interest

when we support him in his ambition to dismantle the administrative categories

who retain him and who we suffer from.

Bad grammar!

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

BILLA'S FATHER

BILLA

Once upon a time there was a weirdo

Once upon a time there was a weirdo

who wanted to paint his room every second day

who wanted to paint his room every second day

for the reason that his grandmother loved to smell of fresh paint.

for the reason that his grandmother loved to smell of fresh paint.

Or else she was sad,

Or else she was sad,

screamed miserably

screamed miserably

and lost her teeth.

and lost her teeth.

However at times he was too tired

However at times he was too tired

or he was ill.

or he was ill.

Fuck Germany!

Fuck Germany!

If the 11. class could ...
Müller Frank switch to the 12. instead.

Why divided loyalties? It is about exhibiting an impeccable

and it can't be based on the fact that I'm public servant within an apparatus

which I can not accept.

Loyalty towards whom? The school or the boys?

There must be something wrong when one is offered these alternatives.

There is a possibility to travel to London for 86 Mark.

Korawalski had a black eye and no homework this morning.

Did nothing change with him?

At most deteriorated.

And in six weeks are the final exams.

There are no rules to the game anymore.

From experience: a mass protest driven by notorious objectives will either

be absorbed by the Establishment or will take a party choice seat in an official and therefore harmless opposition.

Their republic of councils will also just be another new Establishment.

I have never heard something more fascistic.

The reality of this generation is to have under your guidance, Ladies and Gentlemen,

too less schools,
too few teachers,

not enough emotional address,
insufficient humour.

A lack of affection.

And it is of course foolish when they come now and claim

to have no money for the tram.

Cause the money is there obviously.

If they would be prepared to purchase one Bee Gees album less per month.

Our top-tier Germanist.

Though I suspect
the youth is focussing on money

cause this is the only language you, Ladies and Gentlemen, understand.

Afternoon dad.
Na!

At twelve?

Hm.
Where is the car?

Oh, at the garage, a mark. Bloody insurance.

Five past twelve!

The fifth class was canceled.

I see.
Ill.

Oh, who who who.
Who is sick?

It's anyway boring.

What does he have?

Bubonic plague.

Which class?

Fatzke, our top-tier Germanist. German.
Which class?

Fatzke, our top-tier Germanist. German.

Is he often missing?

No, do I know?

It's a infamy shortly before the exams. Is he often sick?

Morning.

I brought you along some sample of what I recently referred to as a renaissance of Anglo-American pop,

ENGLISCH
I brought you along some sample of what I recently referred to as a renaissance of Anglo-American pop,

I brought you along some sample of what I recently referred to as a renaissance of Anglo-American pop,

especially where the lyrics are concerned,
especially where the lyrics are concerned.

Precision and originality.

Besides The Bees, The Beatles, The Who, The Masters of Invention, The Small Faces,

I should like to draw your attention to

Donovan!

Correct.

Writing on the wall ...

WEIGHTED AND DEEMED TOO LIGHT

I've seen a movie yesterday.
You've seen the Warhol yesterday?

Peter!

Peter!

He's taking a picture of a sleeping girl for 8 hours. Nothing happens, fantastic movie.

Among others.

The pupil of the 10th year aren't allowed to leave the schoolyard due to the 11-point program.

I must not go to the bakery during the break.

Cause if I go it has many downsides.

I could be run over.

I could strain my ankle when falling down the bakery stairs.

I could be kidnapped and be sent to Turkey.

And I could be killed like Robert Kennedy.

Besides I'd have less money and I'd beef up from all the cake.

And then I would have to sneak back to the schoolyard not to be seen.

Then I always get nervous and agitated because I'm doing an unfortunate act.

Conclusion: the 11-point program teacher-student panel is very right

not to allow 10th-year pupils to go on the street.

For we're still so callow and not trained by teachers in the dangers of going to the bakery.

I can't leave my job, would be desertion.

THE PRINCIPLE DR. HARTMANN DISCUSSES HIS PROBLEMS WITH HIS BROTHER

The situation has never been as precarious as now, never.

Imagine Nemels would be my successor

and sadly it looks like it.

His progressiveness would butcher the whole school.

Then I'll choose Violat as his substitute.

People who're always on the tail of popular trends following the latest.

He'd butcher my whole school.

That means 20 years of my lifetime,

my life.

Looks like a friendly cow from behind.

Maths isn't really your hobby.

Na, but hopefully you know how to scoop coal.

How does the gradient behave currently, Rull?

Swell!

About most teacher one only knows that one can't go to them.

And when one knows when where it's possible cause he's likable

then I doesn't do it either.
Don't know either why one should do it.

For she's a jolly good fellow, for she's a jolly good fellow!

and so say all of us!

Happy birthday to you, ...

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Gisela,

happy birthday to you!

ENGAGED

BILD: Riots in four cities (Only riot and baton)

I have a request.

We'd like to discuss last week's protest with you.

Yes, of course we need to grapple with it.

I suggest: next double lesson, Wednesday.

If the topic is still interesting for you by then.
Bild makes stupid!

But we don't want to disappoint Koch.

So Koch, start.

Educational terror!
Shut up!

You haven't prepared yourself, Ladies and Gentlemen and now try to hide it.

I once more want to point out that the whole class expects you to discuss with us, Dr. Nemels.

And I'm grateful for your cue, Satemin.

The factual resumé. August Strindberg was born 1849 ...

in Stockholm.

He experienced a mentally and materially difficult childhood.

After graduating he briefly studied medicine, philosophy, natural science,

was a tutor, tried acting

and by 20 had already discovered his artistic talent for literature.

At first he lived in Sweden while his first marriage with Siri von Essen.

SCHWEDEN
At first he lived in Sweden while his first marriage with Siri von Essen.

At first he lived in Sweden while his first marriage with Siri von Essen.

SIRI VAN ESSEN
At first he lived in Sweden while his first marriage with Siri von Essen.

At first he lived in Sweden while his first marriage with Siri von Essen.

More than with other artists his biography is inseparable from his work.

The reason his works have so-called eternity value is due to the poets genius.

A proof is not needed for this claim, which surely is no pretense.

The reading of his books makes them superfluous.

His inner biography in keywords.

Strindberg was born son to a father from a well off middle-class family,

his mother however was a maid, servant et cetera before her marriage.

Strindberg felt through these conditions as through his family's poverty

a deep sentiment of insult.

He in fact felt drawn to socially higher status

but derided and thrown to the gutter due to his mothers descent.

From early on he showed an exaggerated, medically described as almost pathological sense of self-worth

and thus a strong urge to self-analysis.

Dear suitors!

A building plan on the North Sea island Sylt requires vivid advertising.

The company Gebhardt salutes you with a self-made promotion song.

I'm dreaming of Westerland

this beautiful town near the North Sea beach.

Where you buy a house from Gebhardts hands

the very first hands.

If only I could have such a noble house

also in Wennigstedt and

live in this modern luxury

without no any worries.

Are you interested?
Please be cavalierly, you can write us.

And everybody knows it here, the price is low at Gebhardt.

Phone
Bremen 447271

I'm dreaming of Westerland

this beautiful town near the North Sea beach.

It creates you an own world

with just a bit inmates' money.

Gebhardt Estates. Good afternoon.

Good afternoon,

you are still building on the island Sylt?

Yes, single family homes with four rooms,

kitchen, bathroom, two WCs, developable attic, terrace and garden.

These Thermopen glasses, are they actually much more expensive?

Please sign here.
Where?

First the husband.

I believe Strindberg deserves ones attention.

Strindberg accomplished tragedies of lasting significance for posterity.

His creative aptitude which rose out of the inferno of an unmistakable schizophrenia

permitted him with the methods of self-scrutiny to re-create himself and his world on stage

where many of his dramas became ideals of an epoch.

In a few year we'll have only have half of todays teachers

but twice the amount of pupils. We need more graduate students!

E.g. 6,8% of pupils of the birth year 1980 will do the A-levels in Germany

I've read at Menge.

In Scandinavia it's 22%, in France 19% down to us.

Yes that will be something we're facing.

BERLIN 1968

Rohwedder comes from Berlin.
BERLIN 1968

Rohwedder comes from Berlin.

ROHWEDDER

And you consider Gisela to be bourgeois.

What do you mean, bourgeois?

Engaged and so on.

But you complain constantly that Jochen does so eccentric things.

That's completely different, they all find her bourgeois.

Kids listen. I just fucked Billa!

Mr Violat, I just fucked Billa.

Was a virgin, so sucked. But it'll get better.

Better luck next time!

Particularly the last third of the 19th century can be called the age of imperialism

even if precursor were discernible much earlier like England's industrial revolution and its outcome.

CIVICS
even if precursor were discernible much earlier like England's industrial revolution and its outcome.

even if precursor were discernible much earlier like England's industrial revolution and its outcome.

HO-CHI-MINH

Stop it!

Though as said prosperity

Though as said prosperity only begins after
after which war, Koch?

After the Franco-Prussian War.

And Hübner?

1771.

The after the war following years are called Gründerjahre in Germany.

But a honest notion of the impact of imperialism is more likely to get

when realising that already at that time

the flags of the old European nations began to fly all over.

An effect of the surplus production of manufactured goods and humans.

People emigrated,

goods couldn't sell on the domestic markets anymore. Thus new markets were opened overseas:

Asia, Africa.

And obtained suppliers for the insatiable demand of raw materials.

You've constantly mention Europe, what about the United States?

Later, Satemin. We're talking now about the 19th century.

You'll have enough time for questions, Satemin.

Good Morning Mr Rull.

Good Morning Dr. Müller-Frank.

Sleep well?

Not fully. But I didn't want to miss your lesson.

Can I continue?
Yes, please.

I gorge your fish, madame.

Another time, I'll drive you to Travemünde.

I think that's stupid. You?

Nay.

Peter, there are shrimps left. That is your bag.

You have goose bumps, Gisela.

Super.

I have no mouth, madame.

Drum bin ich auch gesund.

Did you leave the ball in the car?
The dog would have broken it on the beach.

When it's raining the revolution will take place in the saloon.

Peter, shall I get you a Fanta?

I'd like one.

What?

I'm an elephant, madame.

Somebody wants to join?

I'm an elephant-a, madame.

And no ...
Can you finally stop that nonsense!

Beautiful here, not?

Actually it's weather for cinema today.

I'd like to go.

Cute, the little one.

Please, they're getting younger and younger.

It's gonna embarrassing when you're 90.

I am a Sickophant, madame. I find that blatant, madame.

I'd like to leave not too late if fine with you.
I have to visit Rohwedder shortly.

Is he in Bremen?

In a sense quite nice being 40.

One finally know what they want
and they know that one can provide it.

Question is if one wants to provide it,

if one can provide it, i'd say.

You're entering a room,

You see a girl, make out and you know it's working out.

Make out with the one over there.

Not my type.

Lame excuse.

Miss, can I have two bockwurst, please.

A mummy, nothing for us.

I bet she's called Eva.
Ask her.

Too blond for me.

Lame excuse, you only say it cause you don't dare to.

Just ask her.
Please go ahead. Nah, I'll do.

Hello, what is your name?

I'd ask louder so she can hear it.

Are you joining tomorrow?

Hegel: The state is the reality of the ethical idea.

Nietzsche: The state is organised immorality.
The one who commands decide who has to obey.

Hitler: The state is a means to the end for the race advancement.

One can substantiate this with a quote by Kikero.

Cicero!

True, it occurred to me as well at home.
I've only forgotten it.

Can somebody translate this?

Korawalski?

Sleeps.

Babara Voss, also not.

The interest of the state are to be identical with the interest of the People.

Rull, you shall sit comfortably.

But there is always the danger breaking your neck.

And then, what happens to me?

Also können wir weitermachen?

Perhaps somebody can complete Cicero's sentence.

Karsten.
Now, what do we need a continuation of the sentence for?

Be quiet!

First in latin and then it'll be translated to german.

Und jetzt übersetzen sie diesen Satz noch einmal für Korawalski.
And now repeat the sentence once more for Korawalski.

But slowly.
I've understood everything, Dr. Falk-Fliege.

Good!
Then we can continue.

Who know another analogy to Cicero's sentence?

I think we have to establish once that in our society the decisions of the community of interests

depend on the group that has the funds.

Na na na, that is really to vague.

The state is after all dependent on the people who control the economy

and the state is just an economic model, nothing else.

Now the discussion is deteriorating into very general questions.

Now it is getting .... realistic ...,
Cripes!

Korawalski.

I notice a similarity Cicero's to the Soviet Union.

Man, just go over there!

The Soviet Union, by creating a single political party,
one in which the People together...

My I ask you to stop! May I? Quiet!

Quiet!

May I ask you to please return to Cicero.

What else did you notice with Kartens analogy?

Shit, I notice!

What.

It's fucking embarrassing to compare Hitler and Cicero. Fucking embarrassing.

Man, who has earplugs?

Such people default, I'm not interested in them.

I mean there weren't any rules of the game at Auschwitz either.

Yes, back then I was a young general practitioner at the Red-Cross hospital

and believe that one had to tell the truth to the patients.

And there I've told a young lady that she had cancer.

Yes, that was the worst thing I've done during my lifetime.

Grützi together.
We're playing Dostojewski's glass 'Der Idiot'.

Mr Satimin is currently here.

My mother, Mr Satimin and me are invited for dinner at my sister-in-law.

Mrs Schniede, the wife of trade union boss Alfred Schniede sits next to me.

Dr. Nemels, the deputy vice-chancellor is here with his wife.

Dr. Hartmann, next to Mr Satimin, is also here.

He originally wanted to bring his brother but he is ill.
Such a bugger.

Everybody now as to admit what is the worst thing one did in his life.

Now it's your turn, Mrs Dr

Yes,

I remember how I met my husband, at the ball Paradox.

Oh I see, Cafe Keese.

I sat there with my girlfriend, we actually only went out of curiosity.

And then I saw Günter

who also sat there with a friend and nearly died laughing

cause the Ladies had to ask the men for a dance.

My girlfriend wanted to bet immediately that I'd never ask the young guy

to laughed hysterically, to dance with me.

I also had no desire

in a sense, but I asked anyway and made the bet.

Günter got bright red, he was terribly embarrassed.

But while dancing together I noticed immediately

that he'd fallen in love with me.

But please. What is so bad about it?

That she told the story, not lovey?

Dr Hartmann

If it has to be.

Alright.

Site of crime is also Hamburg. I sat in the tram,

must have been in '42.

Then there was still vacation from Russia.

I sat there with some friends, also officers.

We all sat there and then I suddenly saw this old woman

with a yellow star,

the first time even if my brother doesn't believe me until today.

A very old woman.

Anyway, we sat there

and she stood.

And I wanted to stand up and offer her my place.

And then I realised that my fellow officers not at all think about standing up,

cause well, then I didn't stand up either.

Günter.

Yes,

I was in the first school year. And my class theater summoned my mother to visit.

If I remember rightly I were only in school for 3 months.

And he told her:

Do you know, Mrs Dr. Your son, he's killing me.

My mother smiled and didn't understand a word.

But the class theater sticked to it.

Nah, your offspring sits in the lessons, in his corner and laughs himself to death about me.

What was entirely true.

End.

What.
Not valid!

That is completely harmless, Nemels.

Hm, I'm not sure about it.

The question is if guilt is only what we consider guilt as per the code of law

also also bewusstes antisoziales, also kriminelles Verhalten.
or as a deliberate antisocial and therefore criminal behaviour.

or

of the notion of guilt has to be understood as an existential problem.

Or not to complicate the question,

as a primal instinct that the socialised human identifies as antisocial and punishes.

Then you have to ask yourself earnestly if the guilt of a five-year old child

isn't to be considered the same as the one of Eichmann.

Or let's say Johnson.

Or whatever fashionable political references come into consideration.

Tell me Satemin, does your son seriously believe all the nonsense he spreads out there?

Hoffentlich.

Consequently the criteria for conduct can't be violence but has to be: Violence what for?

Furthermore it can't be just violence per se but the notion of violence has to be differentiated.

Again 18, again ... 18 ... my instructions. End

as the violence of the law enforcement agencies.

With water cannons and physical destruction

With the first sign of state violence we disperse, it is new and different.

The nation woke up out from their criminal indifference and must not fall asleep again.

It's part of the strategy. But the tactic demands from us to act as if.

Today is about a directed action, it is about

that the verdict of both summary trials against the pupils Fink and Mar will be reversed.

Again, don't let yourself be provoked.

Did you see that?

Well, if they want to make out on their own.

First around the Roland. Pass it on!

Around the Roland. Pass it on!

Around the Roland. Pass it on!

Chief Cold Coffee. Many courage.

So do you join? Yes or no?

Throw that crap away!

Then will travel.

Alright, but no violence and together.

No violence
Alright, but no violence and together.

No violence

The next thing that happened was that I was arrested by the police and taken by car to police headquarters.

I was treated fairly decently.

But I was left to cool my heels for three hours.

Very good. To cool my heels. Very idiomatic.

To be precise it means: meine Fersen kühlen

Means waiting.

A police officer searched me from head to toe

and I was asked to sign a document to acknowledge my responsibility for my actions.

Wait a second Jochen, say it once more in German.

The case is too important to just let it be philology.

So you've signed a document?

Yes and my father came and picked me up.

That is to say he's is Trapper.