1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,061 Do not slam the front door. 2 00:00:04,261 --> 00:00:06,735 Keep clean. 3 00:00:07,258 --> 00:00:11,347 Stop smoking in the stairwell, how many times do I have to tell you? 4 00:00:12,547 --> 00:00:14,059 You've got range hoods. 5 00:00:14,296 --> 00:00:20,059 Does anybody know what must be done in case of fire? Rules are rules and they are important. 6 00:00:21,999 --> 00:00:30,088 When I enter the tower block... I have to feel that this is my home. Did I do anything for it? This is how you should think. 7 00:00:33,972 --> 00:00:39,768 I found two frames in the basement, I wiped the dust with a thin cloth until they were golden again. 8 00:00:40,426 --> 00:00:50,221 And I fitted in each of them a landscape: Sovata, Govora, the next ones are Bâlea Lac, Transfăgărășan and so on. 9 00:00:51,125 --> 00:00:55,089 Maybe... some of you got to see them in the stairwell. 10 00:00:55,189 --> 00:00:58,620 Ok, nowadays people are travelling. 11 00:00:59,122 --> 00:01:02,693 I can also put some landscapes from Italy, Spain, Greece. 12 00:01:02,893 --> 00:01:04,651 But I'm out of frames. 13 00:01:06,127 --> 00:01:12,519 If it happens that some of you have some frames in the basement and you don't need them anymore, please give them to me. 14 00:01:12,521 --> 00:01:19,937 Who wants can also donate flowers: ficus, aloe, dracaena – these are the most resistant ones. 15 00:01:22,162 --> 00:01:27,780 Please, please keep the silence hours. 16 00:01:28,050 --> 00:01:33,484 Do you know what Mr Matei told me on the day he passed me over his caretaker position? 17 00:01:33,918 --> 00:01:38,720 Keep silence and clean. 18 00:01:40,765 --> 00:01:43,570 Don't tell me that Mr Matei didn't love children. 19 00:01:44,099 --> 00:01:50,280 All his life he wanted to have a kid – a boy, which would have been named Iliuță and he would have told him: 20 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,810 Iliuță, go see, did I close the front door? 21 00:01:55,010 --> 00:01:57,100 Or better, let me go check. 22 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:02,815 Iliuță, is it just me or is the faucet running? 23 00:02:03,015 --> 00:02:04,394 Is it running or not? 24 00:02:04,594 --> 00:02:06,189 Or better, I'll go and see. 25 00:02:06,828 --> 00:02:12,380 Iliuță, won't you go and check with ma'am Rodica to see if she got any canned fish? 26 00:02:12,490 --> 00:02:15,160 But only if they’re from Tulcea, the ones with tomato sauce. 27 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:19,030 Or better, I'll go and check. 28 00:02:20,130 --> 00:02:25,960 I like children too... I love children but silence is silence. 29 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:36,870 Another situation: someone's ringing the intercom – I don't know him, I don't open. 30 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,835 Early in the morning, knocking on the front door. 31 00:02:43,035 --> 00:02:44,231 - Who's there? I ask. 32 00:02:44,431 --> 00:02:45,431 - The Gasman. 33 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,451 I open – a small guy in coverall with an enourmous bag of tools in his arms. 34 00:02:50,476 --> 00:02:53,944 He enters uninvited and stops in the middle of the kitchen. 35 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,086 He was spitting sunflower seeds with an astonishing speed. 36 00:02:57,407 --> 00:03:01,450 I lend him an ashtray, - Thanks, but I don't smoke. Why didn't you scrape the pipe? 37 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,450 - Because... because I didn't know... 38 00:03:06,850 --> 00:03:08,350 - You know now. 39 00:03:08,450 --> 00:03:10,750 - Until tomorow should be scraped, do you understand? 40 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,890 He turns around and leave same as he entered. 41 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:17,049 Next day same thing – knocking on the front door. 42 00:03:17,249 --> 00:03:18,057 - Who's this? I ask. 43 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,785 - The Gasman. 44 00:03:21,017 --> 00:03:22,575 - Well, what was I saying yesterday? 45 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:24,034 I show him the pipe. 46 00:03:24,234 --> 00:03:26,646 - Boss, this isn't the one that needed scraping. 47 00:03:26,651 --> 00:03:29,860 - This is the central heating pipe the other one is the gas pipe. 48 00:03:31,464 --> 00:03:33,108 Third day same story. 49 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:34,768 Seven o'clock. 50 00:03:35,565 --> 00:03:41,557 Good morning, knocking on the front door, I open it – it wasn't the short one, it was another one. 51 00:03:41,757 --> 00:03:45,700 I show him the pipe, he doesn't even look at it. 52 00:03:46,209 --> 00:03:47,519 I insist. 53 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,310 - Your workmate made me scrape the pipe. 54 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:53,450 - How was this workmate of mine looking like? 55 00:03:52,710 --> 00:03:56,125 - Well... he was short, brown hair... 56 00:03:56,270 --> 00:04:00,720 - Eh, the scraping thing it was an older stipulation but we forgot to tell Shortie. 57 00:04:03,260 --> 00:04:07,320 Winter is coming, someone has to shovel the snow. 58 00:04:07,455 --> 00:04:11,240 I can't hire a special man to do this job, from where am I supposed to pay him? 59 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,140 From the floating capital. Everything has to be payed out of the floating capital. 60 00:04:15,206 --> 00:04:17,440 But nobody wants to contribute to it. 61 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:25,620 How long does the winter takes? December, January, February – somehow around 90 days. Ok, let's make it one hundred, one hundred and twenty. 62 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:27,850 How many apartments do we have in our building? 63 00:04:28,825 --> 00:04:32,000 How many? Exactly one hundred and twenty. 64 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:38,800 This means that every apartment should clean up the snow in the backyard one day, only one day in the entire season. 65 00:04:38,802 --> 00:04:40,300 Do you think this is too much? 66 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:44,450 But if they don't want to do it... I can't force them to. 67 00:04:44,650 --> 00:04:48,925 Let the caretaker shovel it like a fool, clearly he has nothing better to do. 68 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,260 When Mr Matei died I couldn't cry. 69 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:58,200 I... I went back in the building's backyard. 70 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,335 There is where I last saw him sitting in an armchair in the sun. 71 00:05:03,210 --> 00:05:06,700 He was cutting his nails with a chinese nail clipper which I bought him from a train. 72 00:05:07,056 --> 00:05:11,350 - Stop worrying about me, he told me when I gave it to him. 73 00:05:16,150 --> 00:05:22,250 Sift the flour and add sour cream, fresh butter and a pinch of salt. 74 00:05:22,450 --> 00:05:30,000 Stir it until the the dough forms a ball, then cover it with a towel and let it cool for a few hours. 75 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:38,020 Remove the pits from one kilo of sour cherries, sprinkle some powdered sugar, the sugar must be very carefully sifted. 76 00:05:38,220 --> 00:05:47,900 After an hour drain the juice from the cherries and spread them equally on the puff pastry sheet, which was brushed with some butter and covered with breadcrumbs. 77 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:54,400 Continue just like a cheese strudel. Bake it for about an hour at low heat. 78 00:05:57,675 --> 00:06:00,640 I know that in life you must build your dream step by step. 79 00:06:00,740 --> 00:06:03,725 If it doesn't pour it dribbles, if it doesn't dribble it slips. 80 00:06:03,925 --> 00:06:09,380 But three metal door mats in two weeks? It seems too much to me... I don't know. 81 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:14,830 We have to find a solution but I'm telling you again: I'm not touching the floating capital! 82 00:06:17,057 --> 00:06:20,130 - I will weld the entrance door mat, says mister Vasi. 83 00:06:20,330 --> 00:06:24,650 - Really? And how is the janitor supposed to clean the mud under the grate? 84 00:06:25,330 --> 00:06:25,859 - I'll attach some hinges! 85 00:06:27,550 --> 00:06:29,850 I keep looking at this tower block. 86 00:06:30,050 --> 00:06:36,490 Looks like the Titanic docked in the middle of the boulevard, the biggest cruise block in the world. 87 00:06:38,182 --> 00:06:43,708 - Good morning, dear inhabitants and welcome abroad the "Libelula" cruise ship. 88 00:06:44,270 --> 00:06:46,300 It's the captain himself speaking. 89 00:06:47,190 --> 00:06:54,405 The floating capital is at normal, the weather is beautiful, the pavement is smooth, the wind is softly blowing from south-east. 90 00:06:54,941 --> 00:06:58,619 At the embarcation each one of you, sirs and madams, will receive a card. 91 00:06:58,844 --> 00:07:04,765 The card will help you pay all your bills: Water, gas, telephone and cable. 92 00:07:06,045 --> 00:07:08,865 You can also enjoy our offers. 93 00:07:09,231 --> 00:07:15,600 At the ground floor, the local lottery, open 24hr, you can try any combination. 94 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:21,042 Everything is free, just don't forget to always keep the card with you. 95 00:07:21,678 --> 00:07:23,847 After Casino a movie will do. 96 00:07:23,857 --> 00:07:27,600 Dacia theather had just reopened. 97 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,400 Pădurenca from Ekklesia is screening. 98 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,000 The ladies will get a natural fur coat at the entrance. 99 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:43,100 Bonus points, accesories sale, birthday benefits, the fastest dial-up connection while you navigate. 100 00:07:43,350 --> 00:07:46,255 Navigate with the fastest speed. 101 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,790 Here on the corner before the market it was a pharmacy. 102 00:07:53,900 --> 00:07:59,309 And before the pharmachy a... a chinese restaurant. 103 00:08:00,666 --> 00:08:09,365 One Sunday miss Rodica invited her lover back then to spend an asian afternoon at the ground floor. 104 00:08:09,565 --> 00:08:14,500 Spring rolls, shrimps and Peking duck. 105 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:24,790 The restaurant was surrounded by tinted windows – this means from the inside you could clearly see the boulevard, but from the street you couldn't see anything inside. 106 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,655 Miss Rodica was just about to stick her fork into a slice of duck. 107 00:08:31,580 --> 00:08:36,130 Meanwhile, in front of their table, but outside, in the street, mister Toth stops. 108 00:08:37,020 --> 00:08:41,234 He notice the mirror-like window, he pulls out from the pocket an aluminum 109 00:08:41,259 --> 00:08:45,079 comb he kept since he served the army and starts to brush his hair. 110 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:51,700 If the window wasn't there, the dandruff would have landed on miss's Rodica's duck. 111 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,110 Too bad, it was cooked just like in China. 112 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:58,920 I turned mister Matei's apartment into a museum: 113 00:09:00,550 --> 00:09:05,520 Dinner sets in the cabinet, cups for serving the tea – Made in China. 114 00:09:05,530 --> 00:09:08,100 Porcelain glasses with quality label. 115 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:13,543 A flask with the national flag with the words "good luck" on it... Like luck could be otherwise. 116 00:09:15,850 --> 00:09:21,780 Flying pidgeons trinkets, a girl with a bucket, deers, thugs, peeing angels. 117 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:27,850 Glass fishes, two armchairs, a wardrobe, a coffee table, TV, metal rods, three rows of curtains. 118 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:32,950 Cisnădie rugs wrapped in plastic foil, a robot made of empty cigarette packs. 119 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:38,300 A collection of pens stored in an empty german beer bottle with its bottom cut. 120 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:48,112 the administrative map of the world, a local football team poster, a calendar with pictures of the Alps, a chinese pen with gold nib, a doll manufactured at Arădeanca. 121 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,675 A tram pass, plastic bags with cigarettes and race car logos. 122 00:09:52,875 --> 00:09:59,900 Checkbooks with savings for a Dacia 1300, methylene blue, mercury thermometer, mothballs. 123 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,800 Books: Neamul Şoimăreştilor, Cireşarii, Shogun, The Most Beloved of Earthlings. 124 00:10:04,825 --> 00:10:09,314 Trei culori cunosc pe lume – lyrics by Ciprian Porumbescu. 125 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:13,115 The coloured plastic foil in front of a black-and-white TV. 126 00:10:13,450 --> 00:10:16,115 My house is a song with great harmonies. 127 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:27,225 Carpaţi without filter, Naţionale, Bucegi, Snagov, Cişmigiu, Record, Top, Cheia soap, Urzica shampoo, Cristal toothpaste. 128 00:10:27,590 --> 00:10:32,359 Săniuţa vodka, Mamaia bitter, Azuga beer, brown bottle with a bear on it, 129 00:10:32,384 --> 00:10:36,939 Borsec sparkling water, rum chocolate, Eugenia biscuits. 130 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:44,700 The Romanian seaside – instant photos, big coloured photos, twenty-five cents one piece, ready by tomorrow. 131 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,455 Snapshots taken while the censoring boards were meeting at Perla's lounge. 132 00:10:50,550 --> 00:10:58,090 Pruning shears, glasses, a waistcoat, a beret and a pair of gloves. 133 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:05,600 Pour the cold milk over the flour. 134 00:11:05,610 --> 00:11:10,135 Add the sugar and the vanilla. Put the mixture on heat, stirring continuously. 135 00:11:10,250 --> 00:11:12,600 When you bring it just to the boil, add the butter. 136 00:11:12,605 --> 00:11:17,810 After it has chilled a bit, add the yolks and then the whipped egg whites. 137 00:11:17,910 --> 00:11:23,980 Lightly stir. Pour the mixture into a buttered, heatproof dish. 138 00:11:24,020 --> 00:11:29,365 Smooth top with a knife. Continue just like a chocolate souffle. 139 00:11:30,290 --> 00:11:35,282 After half an hour, coat with powdered sugar and serve immediately. 140 00:11:39,614 --> 00:11:43,680 "Libelula" was projected by the architect Miloș Cristea. 141 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:49,390 The tower block was part of a building complex that started at Podgoria and ended at the Theater. 142 00:11:49,405 --> 00:11:57,305 It was conceived as an oasis of tranquility: spacious apartments with balconies, terraces... 143 00:11:57,935 --> 00:12:02,120 The exterior of the building was covered with white mosaic in order to catch the light. 144 00:12:03,850 --> 00:12:09,315 - Hey, mate... terraces, balconies, light... 145 00:12:09,450 --> 00:12:13,500 - Where do you think you are? The working-class is going to heaven?! 146 00:12:15,792 --> 00:12:19,402 Inside cement boxes the human being loses his sense of property. 147 00:12:19,427 --> 00:12:26,424 He becomes apathetic, humble, easy to manipulate, submissive to the cause... 148 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,815 Such a shame... I don't know... 149 00:12:34,015 --> 00:12:38,190 Nowadays you don't have anyone to talk to. 150 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,075 TV in the kitchen, TV in the living room, TV in the bedroom. 151 00:12:43,060 --> 00:12:45,758 Luckily, on the rooftop, really high... 152 00:12:46,550 --> 00:12:50,690 Dear inhabitants, pay attention please, the pool is opening! 153 00:12:51,175 --> 00:13:01,470 In the middle of it – a marble statue, full-sized Mr Matei resting on the back of a sleepy lion. 154 00:13:01,670 --> 00:13:05,185 One hand on its mane, the other hand on the bookkeeping record. 155 00:13:06,365 --> 00:13:09,415 A green balloon rises above our heads. 156 00:13:10,550 --> 00:13:13,035 - It's my nephew's, says Mr Vasi. 157 00:13:13,550 --> 00:13:19,300 - Anyone got some helium? I'm gonna go make him another one 'cause if he starts crying he'll ruin all the mood. 158 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:25,140 Dear passengers, the cruise block "Libelula" raises its anchor. 159 00:13:25,985 --> 00:13:36,142 Perla is the next stop. Followed by Pontoane, Port Arthur, Alfa and so on.