Wald (2023)

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"W O O D L A N D"

I'll be fine.

Please, don't worry.

I call you when I get there, ok?

Ciao.

I can charge my phone

at the Gasthaus in the Village.

You will freeze without a heater.

There is enough firewood,

don't worry.

I just have a strange feeling to know

that you are out there all by yourself.

George.

Gigi, please...

Just for a few days, ok?

-I love you.

-I love you too.

Sleep well.

Good night.

Run!

Hello, Gerti!

What do you want?

I wanted to ask if I can buy

some vegetables from you.

We're not a supermarket.

But maybe you can spare something

from your garden? Potatoes? I'll pay.

Gerti!

-Come here!

-I'm coming, father.

Shall I help you?

Better help yourself.

Come on, mom, we're going to get a wash

now and then have a little lie down.

Hi there.

You left your phone the day

before yesterday.

-Thanks.

-Coffee?

The menu, please.

-You don't have anything vegetarian?

-Yes, rice and peas.

I'll have a small goulash.

Julia, one goulash!

Hey, if you're selling Hermann's forest,

I'd be interested.

Thanks,

but I'm not selling anything.

Around here you look people in the face

when you talk to them.

Give me a schnapps.

What are you doing here anyway?

I'd like to eat in peace.

Don't you think everyone knows

how you earn your money?

Bad-mouthing us farmers. But, of course,

you never get your own hands dirty!

We don't need anyone causing

trouble around here!

You'd better get lost again fast.

My grandparents would never have

sold you the forest.

But you didn't show up

at their funeral, did you?

But now I'm here.

She always knows best, right?

Thanks for the goulash.

I don't need to put up with that.

Come on. Get in.

You don't have electricity

in the house.

And the roof can't be

sound anymore.

Why did you stay in this dump,

anyway?

I took over the sawmill

from my father.

But you never wanted that.

And how are you?

Fine. Everything's great.

-Why are you here?

-Why does everyone ask me that?

You haven't spent three days

here in the last twenty years.

You can drop me here.

-Hello!

-Yes. Hello.

Get off my land!

I don't want you snooping around. Do you

understand? Stay away from my house!

-Why are you so angry?

-Because people like you always win.

-People like me?

-Just leave me alone.

To you, my friends!

You all look fantastic.

Look, Gerti! Marian made it!

Journalist of the Year.

Bravo!

Bravo!

All right, but don't complain later

if you look like a chicken.

Oh, have more new ones hatched?

Yes, I'll bring you one later.

Hi.

Are you looking for something?

I'm looking for my wife.

-Who is your wife?

-Marian. Marian Malin.

She's not with me.

-Sorry?

-She's not here. Goodbye.

Come in.

Is this you?

Yes.

And who... I think I saw her today;

she's your neighbor, right?

-What's her name?

-Gerti.

Gerti Peneder.

And who is he?

Franz.

Franz.

A childhood sweetheart?

Everyone was in love with Franz.

He had a moped.

He always wanted to emigrate

to South America.

-Did he?

-No!

-Where did you learn that?

-Grandmother.

-Grandmother?

-Grandmother.

Very nice.

I got breakfast.

Enough for a huge family.

I am hungry.

Eggs?

Orange?

It's pretty nice around here.

I mean, if we make some small changes

like putting down this old house,

and put up a new one

with big windows,

it could be a fantastic

weekend cottage for us.

You could work from here.

I am not going back, George,

not today.

It has nothing to do with you.

The fact that you are not coming home

with me has nothing to do with me?

-I am sorry.

-No.

I know it's difficult for you...

but who is going to help you

all alone in this old hut?

You need professional support.

And people who love you.

Please.

Please let me be there for you.

Come home.

Please.

George, thinking about the future

is overwhelming me.

Thinking about the past

makes me sad;

the only place I want to be

at the moment is here.

-I know this must be confusing for you.

-Yes, it is.

What does that mean, for us?

I don't know.

-I'll leave you the car.

-I don't need the car.

-Marian.

-I'm sure.

Don't.

Call me if you need me.

I love you.

I love you.

3 kilos of flour, long-life milk, oil,

margarine, eggs, instant coffee.

I sealed the vegetables

in a separate bag.

And I packed four dumplings for you,

and yesterday's rolls.

Thanks. What do I owe you?

21 Euro 60.

Let's have a schnapps, on me.

I'd be scared all by myself up there.

There's nobody there. Except me.

So what's the story with you

and Franz?

Why?

He always asks if I know

how you're doing.

And what do you tell him?

That he should ask you himself.

But you shouldn't play games with him.

He can't take a joke.

He's always been that way!

Thanks for the shopping.

-See you.

-Bye now.

Sorry.

Come on, let her go.

Thanks.

Give my best to your mom.

You staying a while now?

Like to eat with us?

Mom would be very happy.

How is Tilda?

I think I saw her drive away earlier.

Mom, that was my car.

Tilda and Hermann aren't there anymore.

Dont talk nonsense!

Where else would they be?

You have such beautiful hair clips,

Frau Peneder.

Oh yes, really something special.

-Must be from Paris.

-Yes.

Bring me the schnapps.

It's too early for schnapps, father.

Do you like a coffee?

Yes, sure.

-Shall I help you?

-No, I'll do it.

-Bring the schnapps, I say.

-Have you finished, mom?

Go and get it, you b*tch!

I haven't smoked

in such a long time.

It gives you a nice high.

Aren't you afraid your father will do

something to your mom

when you're not home?

He wouldn't touch mom.

She's like a saint to him.

Did you know I wanted

to emigrate with Franz?

But after father's accident...

We'd have had to give up

the farm if I had left.

Why don't you put your father

in a retirement home?

That's not how it works.

Family still means something to us.

You can't have a woman living

alone in a house. Without family.

Without a father who's treated

you like dirt all your life.

-You don't understand.

-Yes.

I don't understand.

The old man's beaten you

as long as I've known you.

I didn't choose this life for myself.

Bye now.

Bye now.

Sir Lancelot.

No monster in the world can defeat us

and our weapons.

Go in now. Your mom must

have finished work by now.

I have to be getting home too.

You won't be going just yet!

Give us a round, Toni!

Come on, talk to me a bit; I mean,

you're not usually at a loss for words.

You know,

your mother was a hot babe;

your grandmother had a lot to handle

because of her.

Leave my mother out of this.

Or what? You'll stab me in the stomach

with your ballpoint pen?

You think I'll let you keep me quiet?

You'd better look after your bankrupt

pig farm instead.

-You just shut your mouth.

-Or what? You'll punch me in the face?

Shut your mouth!

Or do you only do that at home

to your wife?!

You're a wh*re just like your mother!

Get up! Get up!

Let me out!

You always have to pick a fight

with everyone.

Open up!

Open up.

You didn't waste any time

making new friends.

If you can't count on the old

ones anymore...

I don't drink schnapps

when I'm driving.

I don't have anything else.

A glass of water.

Or a coffee would do.

If you want to stay, adapt.

Like everyone else.

-Or what?

-Pack your things and leave.

Says who?

I'm saying this.

So now you decide who's allowed to stay

in the village and who isn't?

Why do you defend Phribauer

and not me?

Because I don't even know

who you are anymore.

You never showed up again

after your mother died.

When my grandmother reported

the old Phribauer,

it was your father who made sure

everything stayed the same as it was.

You've obviously followed

in his footsteps.

Who are you to judge us?

You know nothing about me.

I won't be chased away. Not by anyone.

You understand?!

Now you listen to me carefully.

You know your way around your world,

but you are now in mine.

And in my world there are rules.

You pay for what you get.

You keep your word.

You don't let the family down.

You live the life your mother gave you,

as best you can.

If you can't carry on any longer,

you go up to the attic and hang yourself.

Your father hanged himself

because otherwise he'd have gone

to prison for corruption.

He was no hero.

He was a coward!

Idiot.

You driving into the village today?

Yes, I'll be there in a minute.

You can drop me at the cemetery.

Is that Franz's boy?

Yes. He brought Manuel up all by himself

after Traudl died in an accident.

I didn't know.

I mean, that Franz was married to Traudl.

There's lots you don't know about us.

I'm sorry I went away

without you back then.

One, two, three,

who catches the buck...

I wish that I could tell you...

How much I like you,

why I can't think of anything but you.

I feel I've been bewitched

and thrown in jail

and it's all your fault.

Words aren't enough to say it.

I'm afraid you won't believe me.

It's as though somebody warned me;

this fairytale isn't going

to have a happy ending.

I'm just about to go crazy,

for fear of losing you...

Thanks a lot!

What are you really hiding from up there?

You show up after all these years.

Never got in touch. Never asked how I was.

I was so angry when my mom died.

You didn't even say goodbye

after her funeral.

-I thought you and Franz...

-Me and Franz?!

We just got together because you

were gone. But it was never the same.

We were best friends.

Don't you remember that?

I have to get home now.

I have to get home.

-See you tomorrow.

-See you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.

When I close my eyes,

I can smell my childhood.

The excitement about every new day...

and my grandmother's redcurrant tart.

I smell the forest...

and the damp moss

and the summer meadow in August.

I also smell the fear...

that my mother will not come

home from hospital.

That fear snatched the ground

from under my feet when I was 16.

And suddenly...

the fear was back again.

Marian?

Hi there.

She's sick.

What do you want from her?

There was an anonymous call.

The house isn't safe, and she has

to get out in the next six weeks.

You're going to fix this.

-Nobody can be offended all their life.

-I'm not offended.

But I am.

I am sorry nothing came of us two.

I only missed sex with you.

I was never in love with you.

Traudl was a much better

match for you anyway.

Now off you go.

I have to check on mom

and feed the chickens.

I'll look in later, ok?

You need anything?

We're selling the field.

I know what I'm doing.

You know nothing.

I don't want the g*n

in my house any longer.

Gerti?

Gerti?!

Where's Gerti?

Frau Peneder, where's Gerti?

Are you hurt?

He fired the g*n at me.

It's over.

It's over.

I have to get some air.

I'll walk you home.

Come on.

-Do you have children?

-No.

You didn't want any?

It's such a huge responsibility,

bringing a little person into this world.

I didn't want to be a father, either.

I don't want my child to...

I was afraid that...

My child...

would feel as alone as I used to...

at my father's side.

And now he's there.

Manuel.

Today you'll have a schnapps

with me.

Maybe even two.

The blood won't come out completely.

I've been to Yemen and Sudan.

I've written about environmental

disasters around the world.

And now I can't bring myself

to go to the supermarket.

Although I wasn't even injured

that evening.

We were eating.

There were so many people out

and about in the city.

From one second to the next.

The girl was dead immediately.

We just walked home that evening.

Except for a few scratches

and a bruise, there was nothing.

I was fine.

But the next day everything

was different.

Suddenly I couldn't get into a lift.

I panicked in the subway.

What I like best is being alone.

In the woods.

Do you remember...

when we went camping in the forest?

For a week.

And you were the only one

who wasn't afraid.

Though I'd never have admitted it

at the time.

You were always...

the bravest of us all.

But that doesn't mean

you can't be afraid too.

Oh, Franz.

People died there. And I... I...

Yes, you... you survived.

What do you want?

I don't know any more what I want.

Then stay right here.

All alone.

You see?

I'm going to lease out the farm.

Mama wants to go to the retirement home.

More people to talk to, she says.

Where are you going to live?

You once asked me

what makes me happy.

I still don't have an answer to that.

-Coffee with milk, please.

-Would you like anything to eat?

I'm waiting for someone.