Wald (2023) Movie Script

"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 bitch!
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 whore 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 gun
in my house any longer.
Gerti?
Gerti?!
Where's Gerti?
Frau Peneder, where's Gerti?
Are you hurt?
He fired the gun 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.