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♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving

in the... ♪

Patricia.

♪ That I'll be leaving in the

fairest of the season ♪

♪ Should I stay or should I go ♪

So, I have a patient that is

coming in five minutes.

I can ask him to come back

later, please.

♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving in the

fairest of the season ♪

♪ Leaving... In the... ♪

This song, it's stuck

in my head, and it's so loud.

They're going to try and keep

her alive after all.

Markos?

I have to tell Sara

to get out of there.

She's the only girl

I actually give a damn about.

If I leave without her they may

pick her next.

Or Olga

I should warn Olga, too.

Olga's already figured out

things.

She saw how they groomed me.

There's more in that building

than what you can see.

They've been underground

since the war.

And you think

they can hear you now?

At the beginning they gave me things.

Perfect balance, perfect sleep.

Talking with our minds.

But they took my hair.

They took my urine. They took my

eyes!

Now she can see me.

♪ 'Cause I'll be leaving in the

fairest of the season ♪

♪ I'll be leaving... ♪

Mother Markos.

Oh, she wants

to get inside of me.

I can feel her.

Oh, I thought I wanted it.

I let it happen.

If they find out I was here they

won't hesitate.

Morning, pastor.

- You're Miss Tanner.

- Yes, come in.

Nah?

I tried to call you at your hotel this

morning to ask you if you could reschedule.

- Why?

- Company business. It's not a good time just today.

But here you are.

And six, and seven, and eight..

Elbows up. And one...

Come in, Susie.

Miss Millius and Miss Mandel are

the company's apetitas.

And Viva Blanc? I was told she

would be here.

Oh dear, you have no

formal training or references.

Your insistence to audition happened

to catch Madame Blanc on a good day.

But you really shouldn't be here

at all.

Do you understand? Yeah? Good.

I prefer dancing without music.

Danke shoen.

You can keep time

in your head, yes?

Hypnos. Here we have the line between

the elbows. Face forward. Perfect.

And morphos. Here, not so close

to the face.

More like you're holding

a bird or something.

- ..or something.

- They did it when we were in morning rehearsal.

They just put her things in

shipping boxes.

You don't think she had to go

underground, do you?

I don't care what happened. I

just wanted a call.

I'm really worried.

Fraulein Bannion. Kommen Sie.

I've just spoken with Madame

Blanc.

Well done, Miss Bannion.

I imagine you will need to return home to settle

things and make arrangements for moving to Berlin.

No, no, I can start right now.

Good!

This is Miss Boutaher, our

technical director.

Guten tag.

And this is Miss Vendegast, she

acts as house mother.

...for our dancers

who reside here.

Where do you come from?

Ohio.

We operate as sort of a cooperative, as

we cannot pay our dancers a lot of money.

We offer dormatory style homes,

rent free.

You don't charge anything at

all?

Not a mark.

In this company we fully understand the

importance of a woman's financial autonomy.

Normally we would be full at this time

of year, but we have had a room open.

Yeah. Patricia's.

Do you know Patricia?

Mmm...

No, I heard some girls talking

about her in the hall.

Now that you're one of us, I won't be coy. Patricia

has just left the company under sad circumstances.

We think she won't be back, so

there's room if you want.

We'll send you one of our girls

to help you with your luggage.

After lunch? It's alright for

you?

Yes! It's all... yes. It's

perfect.

- Hello, hi, I'm sorry I'm late. It's the rain.

- Hi.

Whenever it rains, everyone jumps in a

cab and like an idiot I just let ours go.

Hi, I'm Sara, and we're going to have

to take our chances on the street.

Do you have an umbrella?

Oh, when you weren't here by 6, I had

to take the room for another night.

God, Susie, I'm sorry, everything

was a mess at the company today.

Why are you smiling?

I'm sorry, um, when you said Berlin a

second ago you said everyone in Berlin

and I just thought, that includes

me now, I live in Berlin.

Yes, congrats. I heard you were

a sensation today.

Have you called your

family yet, to tell them?

Miss Blanc came

into my audition.

- But she left right after.

- She's incredible.

The way she transmits her work, her energy. When it

shines on you it's addictive is the word for it.

She's tough. She kept the

company alive through the war.

When the right just wanted women to shut off

their minds and keep their uteruses open.

There was Blanc.

Thank you.

What? Was that French?

It's a bomb! I can smell it.

There's a bank that way.

Don't you know what's happening

here?

The hijackers are negotiating the

release of the prisoners tonight.

The RAF. Baader Meinhoff.

They kidnapped an executive,

during war, the Nazi SS

an officer, and now he run's the

German employer's association.

You don't get how awful that is,

do you?

I'm sorry.

I'm just worried about my

friend.

Danke shoen.

Bedrooms are on the second

floor.

Why don't you try speaking to

me like you love me? Hm?

For a change?

This is my room. And here... is

yours!

We're neighbors

You can knock on the wall if you

ever need anything.

- Good morning. Good morning.

- Hello. - Good morning.

How's your knee? Okay?

Thank you.

We have some happier company

business today, we have a new dancer.

This is Susie Bannion, who is

joining us from America.

I was privileged to witness her audition

yesterday, we are very lucky to have her.

Would you like

to say something, Susie?

Um, I don't know.

Hello

I feel like I'm not even here

yet, I don't know.

You join in whenever you feel ready, but

there's no rush. Welcome to our little family.

- I'm Susie.

- Hi.

Alright, so for today's rehearsal, I want to

pick up exactly where we left off with Volk.

I've spoken with Olga, and she's

going to dance Patricia's part.

And, Sara, I'd like you to dance

Olga's part.

Is everyone happy with that? Ok,

good.

No, no no, music off please! One

moment.

Ok, so, and one and two and three.

You pull it from the ground, alright?

Gravity, remember. And everyone

from here, please? And Tanner

One and two and three. And one and two

and three

- This is shit. Such shit.

- Ok.

Ok, why don't we all break for

ten minutes.

- You can't even be bothered to respect your lies

- Miss Ivanova!

No no no no no. It's ok.

Let's face this.

Patricia is gone, Olga. We don't know where. If she's

gone into hiding, she wouldn't have told us, would she?

- She was have told someone.

- We know she had dealings with people who were interested in targets.

- We know there was another bomb in Kreuzberg last night.

- She wouldn't do that.

Shhshhshh. She wanted to live her beliefs.

Who doesn't admire that?

There's so much to change in the world. If she wants to live

in a cellar filling bottles with petrol, that's her choice.

And who won't be heartbroken if

she's shot by police.

You manipulate everything.

- She didn't trust you because

you are hypocrites!

- Will you take Olga

to her room, please, Tanner?

No, Miss Tanner!

Call Olga a cab. She's had

enough.

And is going to pack her things and

get the fuck out of this box of rabies.

I'm sorry about that.

It's a hot thing we do.

Ok, so, who will dance the

protagonist?

- Sonja?

- I can't. Not yet.

Caroline?

Very well. We'll manage. I suggest

that we all take it from the top.

I'll dance.

I know it. It's in the

documentary.

I-I've seen it a hundred times

at the library.

Sweetheart, we rehearsed this

piece

for ten months

before we performed it.

- I've seen it in person too.

- First do it alone, then.

We don't want to put the others

at risk.

The last thing we need

is someone to get kicked

in the ribs.

All right?

Ok, stop. Stop, stop.

Alright. Clear your head. I want you

to start over. Have you stretched?

This is no joke.

Olga.

Come over here! Come.

Come to me.

Remember you start on one with the music, and if you

feel ill at any time, just stop. You start here.

And...

Louder!

Bravo. Bravo, Susie.

It'll pass.

You're not the first dancer who

lost the room.

I'm not usually dizzy.

An occasional collapse is a

vocational hazard I'm afraid.

I... I didn't... I

didn't collapse.

You're on the floor and that's

not where the dance ends.

I was trying not to throw up

in your studio.

Susie, it's fine.

It was wonderful.

Sara, could you take her to her

room please?

You can rest

for the rest of the day.

- How unlikely.

- OK, come on girls. Let's go.

And one, and two, and three.

And...

No, Susie. We have to study

America.

I said no.

Susanna.

You don't look better.

Or are you this pale

all the time?

I will leave you.

Good night.

The Amish split from the

Mennonites in the 17th century.

They were worried the Mennonites

were becoming too liberal.

"They", not "we"?

You've left religious thinking

behind you then?

Are you not comfortable talking

about these things?

I don't know why we are.

It's difficult not to be curious

about you.

In two days you've auditioned,

been accepted and danced a lead.

How did your journey towards us

begin?

I went to New York, to the

Martha Graham Center.

I saw you there three times.

I went once by bus and I

hitchhiked the other two.

That's risky.

Were you punished?

Yeah.

But I felt I had to see you.

What did it feel today to dance Volk

in front of the one who made it?

I know that's a vain question.

Let me ask you another.

When you were dancing

what did it feel like

inside you, inside your body?

It felt like what I think it

must feel like to fuck.

You mean to fuck a man.

No, I...

was thinking of an animal.

You looked...

I'm going to ask Caroline to

work on your jumps with you.

Yours are nowhere near good

enough yet.

We'll have to build you up.

So that I can dance the

protagonist when you perform it.

I need to see you dance at this

level time and time again.

I can do it.

Olga made Volk seem like such

heavy lifting.

She never understood the heart

of Vol.

She lacked conviction.

I'm relieved she's gone.

Thank you for your help

with that.

Madame Blanc wants me to dance

the protagonist in Volk.

I didn't think it was going to

be like this.

She's so kind.

That's wonderful.

Are you all right?

I'm fine. I was just...

I was just thinking about what Olga

said in rehearsal... about Patricia.

What do you mean?

She was active

in some political groups.

No one knows where she is

really, if she's all right.

Was it true... what Olga said?

Yes.

Patricia didn't trust

the matrons.

And I never understood why.

If I asked you for a favor

tomorrow would you do it?

Yes.

We might get caught.

Okay.

Mother. Mother.

Susanna.

- Guten Morgen.

Guten Morgen.

Okay, well, let's meet soon.

Yeah, right across from...

Yeah, no, I'm ready. I'm

almost out the door.

- I'll see you soon.

- Marketa.

- Marketa, come on.

- I'll see you soon.

Come on.

Come, come, come.

Are you sure no one's coming?

Oh, I'm sure. Don't worry.

Nobody comes here

during the weekend.

Patricia's isn't here.

Try looking for Olga's.

Olga...

She's not here.

I just need a number.

For her parents.

Or someone who can tell me for

sure she is or isn't in Berlin.

How odd.

1961.

1955.

1949.

It's bizarre.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.

There's nothing. Come on.

Sit down.

This morning we turn our instincts inward. Miss Milius,

Miss Mandel, can you close the mirrors please?

Miss Marks, no music.

I want to start work on a new

piece, a piece about rebirths.

The inevitable pull that they exert,

and our efforts to escape them.

We learn it now, but Susie, you

will improvise freely at its heart.

I'm interested

in your instincts here.

The piece will be called Wieder

Offnen, Open Again.

Allez.

One, two, three, four,

one, two, three, four...

One.

Did something happen?

- Hmm?

- To you, during it?

No.

Did you... did you...

Did you feel something there?

Someone?

Or just something.

What made you say that?

I don't know.

Am I confusing you?

No, it's, um...

It's odd... It's the...

The sort of thing Patricia would

say. Bizarre.

Come on.

Let's get changed or Sonia will

leave without us.

I've got a dress you can wear.

Double caposhi.

Susie!

Oh, Susie!

Is it true?

I know who I am!

It's all right. It's OK.

Is she all right?

It's just a nightmare.

Markos company special.

I'm surprised it took this long.

Hey, let me know

if she needs a Valium.

She's right. I dreamt of

hairballs and toilets

for three weeks before I got

a decent night of sleep here.

Move over.

I've only ever slept in bed with

my sister.

We're sisters now.

Herr Klemperer?

And one, and two, and three,

and one, and two, and three...

Do you want to do the jumps?

OK

And one, and two, and three,

and one, and two, and three

No, elbows higher.

All right, one moment.

Susie, part of the jump is muscle,

and that will develop as you condition

but you seem to have an aversion

to them and I don't quite see why.

Are you so happy to be stuck to the earth?

There's a yield before the push which I

don't think you're quite understanding.

Caroline. Could you come and do

a series for us, please?

Thank you.

And now you.

What I really want is to be on

the floor right now anyway.

Well, of course. That's because you're mistaking

physical weakness with artistic preference.

And because you're tired.

At this point, the jumps are opposing

the pull of the structure but...

It's soon for that,

don't you think?

The floor work is-is keeping

the other dancers pushed down...

So this-this could echo that.

...on-on a slightly higher

point of elevation.

If I stay close to the ground now, and go

straight into the jumps where you have them later

Then that's more to the point.

The resistance is more emphatic.

Right?

I don't know how aware you are

of what times we lived through

here 40 years ago.

Out of which

this piece was made.

We learned a great cost through those

years, the value of the balance of things.

Every arrow that flies

feels the pull of the earth.

But we must aim upwards.

We need to get you in the air.

Leave her, leave her, leave her!

I heard it. I hope...

I'm looking for a dancer

from your company.

Who are you looking for?

You are Sara.

Yes. May I help you?

I am a friend from Patricia.

I don't know what to make of

any of this.

I know the kind of thing she was involved with, but I can't

see how any of this woud be happening inside the company.

Well, she describes something like a revolutionary

organization and a crisis of leadership.

With Markos very ill...

I live there. I have friends there.

I don't see any evidence of this at all.

No one has ever approached me or any

of the other girls as far as I know.

Well, read this.

What is this?

This is Patricia's diary.

Mother Markos, mother Meinhof

The dance rehearsal,

polital action

these two areas in Patricia's

life were of equal importance.

This is how transformation

happens.

How delusion is made.

Delusions are lies

that tell the truth.

- This says "witches."

- Mmm.

Maybe Patricia's fantasies

about witches

they are her way of processing

some other form of intrigue.

The company's a family. There's

a lot of love there.

Love and manipulations, they share houses

very often. They're frequent bedfellows.

Sorry, I don't see this.

Eat.

Only...

maybe the police,

they missed something.

Our Patricia, she did spoke of

whole hidden areas of the building.

Actual rooms that are secret.

I don't want to be

disrespectful. I don't.

- But you're asking me and I'm telling you.

- Oh, please.

It's a dance company. We're not

talking about anything else.

Sara. Please, only look closer.

Thank you for caring for

Patricia

but I hope

you don't come again.

- Good night.

Sara, hurry up.

I'm tired. I need the bathroom.

- Good night, Doll.

- Good night.

She hasn't come back yet?

Maybe she's seeing somebody.

Part of the issue always is not being

able to see your body in the space.

One angle in one mirror or

on film is not enough.

Movement is never mute. It is a

language.

It's a series of energetic shapes written

in the air like words forming sentences.

Like poems.

Like prayers.

Spells?

When you jump it's not the height but

the space beneath you that matters.

Every leap into the air

must be a coup de foudre.

- I don't understand.

- A strike of lightning.

A bolt of love, in fact.

That's beautiful.

There are two things that dance can

never be again: beautiful and cheerful.

Today we need to break the nose

of every beautiful thing.

And if you are going to be a

dancer you must learn French.

When you dance the dance of another, you

make yourself in the image of its creator.

You empty yourself so that her

work can live within you.

Do you understand?

Yeah.

You're in a company now. You have to find your right place.

You have to decide what you want to be for this company.

Is it the head? The spine?

The sex? The heart?

The hands.

I want to be this

company's hands.

Higher... Higher... Higher...

Higher... Higher! Higher!

Higher.

Higher! Higher!

Higher!

Higher. Higher! Higher!

Higher! Higher! Higher!

Sometimes I only need

to be told twice.

55, 56, 57, 58, 59-

60, 61, 62, 63.

65, 64, 63, 62.

23, 22, 21.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

Two, one.

Patricia wrote about three mothers, lost

in time, predating all Christian invention.

Pre-god, pre-devil. Mother

Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum

and Mother Suspiriorum.

Darkness, Tears and Sighs.

I saw images of that last night in

porcelain and these very fine things.

You can tell they have money.

Patricia said that Markos claims

to be one of the three.

But there is disent amongst them. She

wrote about Markosites and Blancites.

An internal division.

Madame Blanc's

involved in this?

Do they believe they're witches?

You can give someone your

delusion, Sara.

That's religion.

That was the Reich.

The Reich had these things.

Insignia. Esoteric ritual.

These mothers, yeah, they could be codenames for founding

members with metaphoric histories, I don't know.

But I do know you're living with

dangerous people.

Patricia could still be in-

...in there.

They could be holding her

in the building.

Well, I can not promise that your searches will

come back to inspect a cabinet full of porcelain

after all that has happened.

But we can try.

And in the meantime you must take care

of yourself. Perhaps you should leave.

You have somewhere you can go?

I'll figure it out.

And I think you should

put this back.

Or better still,

you leave it here.

Not good for them

to know that you have it.

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the

elders of the church, and let them pray over him

anointing him with oil

in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer of faith shall

save him that is sick.

And the Lord shall raise him up.

And if he has committed sins-

My daughter.

...they shall be forgiven him.

My last one.

She's my sin... She's what I

smear on the world.

You're making some kind

of deal with them.

I don't know what you're

talking about.

How can you know what they're

going to ask you in return?

Sara, whatever you have in your

mind, nothing is wrong.

You just haven't

seen the bill yet.

Nothing's wrong.

What's the matter with you?

Huh?

You don't be so afraid about the

white, Susie.

They need to see you

from the very back row.

Where is Sara?

She came early in the morning

did her makeup and left.

Girls, Vier Minuten!

Four minutes!

Vier Minuten!

Sara. Sara.

Patricia. Patricia.

Patricia, I knew it! Sorry it

took me so long. I'm so sorry.

- What did they do to you?

- They would come here every day.

It's all over now.

I'll get you out.

The performance is starting upstairs.

Everyone will be looking the other way.

Get up. Get up.

Patricia!

Patricia, get up!

Get up.

Sara!

Markos! Markos! Markos! Markos!

Marketa, where is Sara?

Sara!

- I don't know.

- Is she upstairs?

No. I looked.

Just dance

as if she's with you.

Sara!

Go.

No.

Sara, lie still.

- No!

- Sara.

Please!

No! No!

I'm sorry I went off book.

This can't happen

again. You're only just starting to understand, Susie.

We brought Sara back upstairs to try

to complete the performance in time.

- But then you derailed it.

- Did I hurt those people?

Not this time.

They saw her dance.

That's all.

It's all a mess, isn't it?

The one out there...

The one in here.

The one that's coming.

Why is everyone

so ready to think

the worst is over?

I could

explain everything to you.

I think it would be wrong,

though.

One, two, three, four...

Herr Doktor.

I'm ready, Madame.

You look afraid.

She's afraid for you.

There will be nothing of

you left inside.

Only space... for me.

I came here for this.

You've all waited long enough.

It is happening.

It is happening!

You come here.

Hmm?

You must have no doubts, Susie. If you do, I can take

you back. I can take all of this from your head.

You can forget everything.

I want this to be pure.

We all know what you want.

This isn't for vanity.

This isn't

art!

There's something wrong here. Can you not feel

it? This isn't right. We have to stop this now.

We've been on two sides of this

for too long now.

If you accept me

you must put down

the woman who bore you.

Think of that false mother now.

Reject her.

Expel her.

You have the only mother you need here.

Death to any other mother. Say it.

Death to any other mother.

Who are you?

For whom were you anointed,

which of the three mothers?

Mother death.

Mother Suspiriorum.

I am she.

Markos.

Markos!

Markos.

Death to any other mother.

Markos.

Markos!

♪ Unmade ♪

♪ I swear

that there's nothing ♪

♪ I swear there's nothing... ♪

I am the mother.

- What do you ask?

- To die.

Mother, we're so tired.

- What do you ask?

- To die.

I want to die.

Sweet girl.

What do you ask?

Tired.

♪ Come under my wings ♪

- ♪ Under my wings. ♪

- Yes.

Dance. Dance. Keep dancing.

It's beautiful.

Good. Good.

My god, what a night.

I definitely drank

too much wine.

Guten Morgen.

Good morning.

I regret what my daughters

did to you.

I wasn't in a position

to prevent it.

I believe you deserve

to know the truth.

Your wife did try to make it

south

to Teplice.

She was apprehended by border

guards

in the woods

just outside of Glashütte.

She was then taken

to Theresienstadt camp.

She lived there for 20 days.

On the 11th of November, 1943

the commandant of the camp,

a man named Burger...

ordered all 40,000

detained there

stand outside in the cold

for a census.

Hours and hours passed.

Some hundreds died of exposure.

Your wife had two women

with her as she died.

Women she had befriended

who made her feel

that she was not alone.

Her final thoughts were of her birthday when

you took her to a concert as a surprise.

Chopin and Brahms.

It was the first time

you held her hand.

She was cold when she died.

But she wasn't afraid.

She was thinking only of you.

Of Anke Meier...

...of Patricia Hingle...

...of Sara Simms...

...of Susanna Bannion...

of all the women

of your undoing...

...every memory will vanish.

They will melt away in the sun

and be gone.

Herr Doctor.

- Ja?

- Ja.

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