Tomás,
That must've hurt,
Could be from the blast force,
Chronic pain, Suffering,
You only know if you've been to the other side,
Step right up!
Listen to the man who came back from death!
From the very place I will show you how we end up,
Have you ever thought about or have you ever wondered where did your loved ones go
after finishing their earthly life?
Are you plagued by curiosity and fear?
Find out the future of all mortals!
Pay just a few to hear, hear the dark story,
what the man who came back from death
saw in the afterlife!
All of this, I saw it!
I came from death pure,
Together we will go,
We shed light upon the eternal mystery!
Come find out what happens when we all lay to ground,
Post mortem photo,
She's beautiful,
She's in no pain,
She's in peace now, tranquility,
Supposedly there are whole villages that got wiped out
by the Spanish Flu,
In our village, only I got sick, and the little girl,
There are worse ways to go,
That I didn't die?
You call that lucky?
I was levitating in bright light,
my body weightless,
and the air flowed through me,
and even though I wasn't breathing,
And then, the loveliest woman I have ever seen
floating, she lifted me, my soul,
Lights trembled and flickered around us,
like the flames of a thousand candles,
Let's arrange her hands nicely like this,
All pain and hunger were gone!
Everything was there for me,
I myself was the whole world,
And that is perfect,
I was filled with calm and peace,
And were you there alone?
But how could I have been alone in such terrible times,
when there are more dead than there are living?
When the earth is overrun with ghosts and death?
And we're done,
I'll be right back,
What are you doing here?
You take pictures of the dead?
As you can see,
We have dead too,
We who?
In our village,
Will you come?
If you pay me,
Can you take pictures of the dead and the ghosts too?
You can't photograph ghosts,
I'd better go, They're waiting,
Life found me and grabbed my hand
and yanked me out of the chasm!
Oh, final photo of the diseased,
Hmm, Nice souvenir,
Such lovely pictures,
Joska, wouldn't it be nice if,,,
We can't bring all those dead bodies over here,
Can I help you?
How many dead could they have?
That is not why I'm going there,
Sure, you said because of the girl,
But she's just a child,
I never said she wasn't,
If I recall, you're the one who said she was a beauty,
I'm only telling them what you told me to tell them,
And then you added more,
This is what they pay me for, right?
If the story is too plain,
I don't get such a big audience,
- And will you be gone long? - A few days,
I'll catch up with the caravan later this week,
All this such a fuss over a kid,
It was her I saw,
You don't understand anything,
The earth is frozen,
If it hadn't, we'd have buried them a long time ago,
What a disgrace, those poor dead,
unburied for weeks and weeks, ugh! Horrible!
Tibor's poor widow, Jutka, talks nonsense too,
Her husband was in bad health anyway,
What a burden to care for the sick,
You, so what did you say your name was, son?
- Tomás, - Tamas?
Tomás,
Tomás, that's a good name,
We'd say Tamas here,
but Tomás is good too,
Tomás,
Anna, the basket!
Auntie! Auntie!
No, no, never!
Come on!
Get out of here!
The animals are nervous here,
Come on,
There will be a room at Marcsa's,
He needs a room, Can he stay?
Just for a few days,
- In there? - Yes,
I'll warm up the quilt later,
Are you hungry?
Are you hungry, son?
- Yes, I am, - He is,
I heard him too,
Off you go, I'll feed him,
Sit down,
Thank you, ma'am,
- You're not Hungarian, - No,
German?
Yes,
A photographer, I heard,
Yes,
You're not a big talker, huh?
Anna, where are you going?
Can I come with you?
Only if you're not scared of the dead,
It's really nice here in summer,
I can imagine,
Your mother let you out so late?
I don't have a mom, only Auntie,
And your father?
He went to the war,
- The war is long over, - I know,
- You haven't heard from him? - No,
- How old are you? - 20, 10,
Come on!
Uncle Simon,
Aunt Anna, Gyongyike, Uncle Arpi,
Uncle Zoltan, Peter Tulipan,
Anna Tulipan, Marika Tulipan,
Ede Schwartz, Zoltan Schwartz,
Mrs, Janos Beck, Mr, Janos Beck,
Little Feri and I used to smoke here,
- Did I scare you? - Oh, my,
- Who's Little Feri? - A village boy,
He went to the war too,
He and I smoked,
So where did you get the cigarettes?
He stole them from his grandpa,
Have you ever been on a tram?
Yes, Even the one that runs underground,
That doesn't exist,
Believe me, there is,
Let's go, Auntie's waiting,
Marcsa?
Is somebody there?
- Good morning, - Good morning,
There was a noise in the night,
Are you afraid of the dark?
Only if there's something scary,
I closed up the house when my poor sister died,
Well,
this is the house,
- Shall we remove the boards? - No need,
A dark room like this is perfect for me,
It'll be fine,
Well,,,
They had all this nice furniture,
You can sleep here too if you want,
Thank you, but Marcsa,,,
She's the schoolteacher, Did she tell you?
Except there are no kids anymore,
But there will be, you'll see,
And Anna?
Anna? Well, she has no parents,
Auntie takes care of her,
but it's Anna who really cares for Auntie since her stroke,
Anna's a good child,
It'll be nice and warm soon,
Take these, I'll be going,
- I'll let you work, - Thank you,
Imre allowed it,
Yes, I know that,
Thanks,
It is barely frozen,
Was she his sister?
No, we already brought her in last night,
I didn't even notice,
I also wanted to tell you that,,,
Would I be able to,,,
Look this way, please,
You worked magic on my husband,
I never thought I would see him like this again,
- Thank you very much, - You're welcome,
I will let you know when the photos are ready, okay?
I'm gonna frame it,
I'll put it in a lovely frame,
Please lower your hands,
- Like this? - That's fine,
I already saw at the market,
I know what you do,
She looks really nice,
You can hardly tell she's dead,
Auntie said that a few years ago when I was born,
I was dead too,
What do you mean, dead?
My umbilical cord strangled me,
And my Auntie rubbed me until I came back to life,
Do you remember it?
Not how the old man described at the fair,
not like that,
What was that?
I don't know,
May I have a look?
Little girls like you are usually afraid of the dead,
I'm only afraid of ghosts,
I have to go,
Lacika, won't you take it off?
Mother won't let me,
Does she think it'll protect you?
- Are you scared of me? - No way,
Only of ghosts,
I'm no ghost,
Is your goat a little bit bloated?
No! She's having kids,
She'll just fart and that's it,
You will see,
One, two, three,
Klari!
Get water!
She won't come out!
They are there, right?
They are on it, They did it,
What do you want here?
What do you want?
- No! - Anna!
Anna!
It's okay,
It's okay, It's over,
They're gone,
Hey, calm down, sweetie, they're gone now,
Don't worry, I'll take you away from here,
Where would we go?
The ghosts are everywhere!
That's not true, I've never seen something like that,
You shouldn't have come here!
Now they're angry at us too!
This is all our fault, Tomás!
Why would it be our fault?
I don't know, but they've never hurt anyone before, never!
And now everything's changed,
Go away!
- Anna, - You have to go away!
- Go away! - Anna!
Go away!
Then I'm taking you away with me,
I belong here and you don't!
Only you can leave!
Anna!
Anna, wait!
They are everywhere,
You won't say anything?
What should I say?
What's going on?
How long have they been here?
Say something already! You all must be scared,
What do you wanna hear, for God's sake?
The war took almost all the men,
We had to send even the very young ones,
and the Spanish Flu put the remainder in the grave,
and now here we are with the frozen earth
and our unburied dead,
What do you want?
What more should I fear?
Why should I worry? There's nothing left here,
I'm leaving tomorrow,
Good for you,
Just leave this mess behind!
You're just making things worse instead of helping,
Tomás!
Tomás,
Tomás!
Anna?
Tomás!
Anna!
We'll solve it out,
I'm leaving,
Okay, I'll bring you some food,
Thanks,
Aunt Ilus, will you tell us what you saw?
Well, I didn't really see much,
but somebody seemed to run across the roof, I think,
And the dirt fell from the thatch wherever they went,
- Did you hear sounds? - Not then,
I usually hear the sighs, and I feel the cold too,
Then the ladder fell,
even though it had been against the wall for ages,
That's all I know,
Oh, here's Aunt Keresztes,
Right in time,
These two are asking about what have been happening here,
I heard you were here, that's why I came,
- Maybe I can help, - Good morning, For sure,
I don't know much either,
except I was there at the start of winter,
I was there when all this began,
It began there?
I don't know exactly when,
I wouldn't say so, but that's when more of them appeared,
Please tell us more,
And once,,,
Say it,
They were in my house at night,
It grabbed my ankle with its ice-cold hand,
I felt only the bones, there was no flesh on it anymore,
And did it hurt you?
It didn't, it just scared me, love,
It came another time,
I spoke to it, but it didn't answer,
I only smelled it,
and the wall turned moldy by morning,
as if,,,as if it had rotted, pardon the expression,
And then it never came again,
Do you know who it might have been?
You mean, it could have been someone?
I don't know, it might,
Many died around that time,
My husband and two brothers died in the damned war,
Do you think it was one of them, dear?
I truly don't know,
Anyhow, they'd never do anything
like what they did to Klari,
Annie dear, take the young man to see Emi, too,
Thank you,
Did you come back because of me?
I did,
Okay, good,
There's no footprints,
You'd see them in the dust,
Poor Aunt Klari,
We'd better get out of here,
May we come in?
Before the war, I was a servant nearby, in the city,
At the judge's house,
His wife always believed in ghosts and spirits,
There were three of us maids in the house,
Lots of children and relatives, visitors coming and going,
so they needed the help,
That woman used to summon up ghosts,
We just laughed,
People like us don't believe in such things,
Some don't even believe in God!
But one time, the judge fell sick,
They called the priest to him,
And then that woman summoned the spirits with her friends,
and asked them not to take her husband,
And he lived,
Even though we all saw that his life
had been hanging by a thread,
But the ghosts remained in the house,
How do you know they stayed?
They broke the porcelain,
Made a lot of trouble,
They pushed one of the maids down the stairs,
- They were evil, - And then?
They called the priest to cast them out,
They burned sage in every room,
They sprinkled holy water on the ashes,
- Did it work? - It didn't,
Only years later, when the master died, did they leave,
They don't like people talking about such things here,
but I've been hearing them sighing for many months,
I don't know if any of this helps,
You said you heard them, and you hear them now,
Do they say anything?
Can you understand them?
They just whisper and moan,
They are not human sounds,
I see,
Did you talk to Jutka already?
It's chicory,
But better than nothing,
Will you tell us?
Nobody believes me,
and now even I don't know if what really happened that way,
He was in that chair where you're sitting now,
I was down in the cellar,
There was a whistling sound and his head,
it sank into his body and,,,
I just stood here in the doorway, frozen,
not knowing what to do,
And he died,
And everything was wet,
Water ran down the walls,
- May I look around? - Sure,
I have to go and feed the animals anyway,
And thanks again,
for the photograph,
Is anybody here?
If you can hear us, answer!
Who's there?
There's nothing here,
Tibor!
Jutka!
Tibor!
What are you doing?
Tibor!
Jutka!
Tibor!
Jutka!
Help me, Jutka!
Tibor!
Anna, everything okay?
I've lost my mind, right?
I don't think so,
Where do you keep your husband's body?
Poor thing is there, in the barn,
- Who are they? - People from here,
The baker, his daughter, his wife, Aunt Klari, Aunt Joli--
Slow down,
Janos,
Uncle Vince, Mari,
Father Gabor,
little Gergo,
Zolika, and Gabi,
Do you know why they all died?
They died of the Spanish Flu, And them two,
And the priest?
So beautiful,
Spongy chest, gray face, waxy skin,
Suffocation,
How do you know so much?
All I did was work beside the old man,
arranging dead bodies,
Will you teach me too?
Certainly not! It's not for little girls,
I won't be a little girl forever,
But you are certainly now,
Is he the priest?
Yes, Father Gabor,
Do you have a new priest already?
No, we don't,
But everyone's at church anyway every Sunday,
And the others?
Uncle Vince froze to death,
- How? - They don't know,
He was a shepherd he fell asleep,
They're frozen now too, so you can't tell he froze,
- And Tibor? - He's here,
Traces of force trauma,
Clear bruising on the chest, despite the rigor mortis,
You see, Anna? It wasn't your fault,
How do you know?
Because of these bruises,
Why, does everyone have them?
No, only them,
- The soldiers? - No, Anna, look,
Klari has it too, see?
And what causes it?
I had it too,
It's a product of the blast force,
It feels like you get hit everywhere all at once,
- Does it hurt? - It does,
And can you die of it?
So the ones who did it are,,,
Yes, they do it,
The ghosts,
Jesus Christ!
They can move the air, do you understand that?
They can use the air to create a blast force,
We have to find out what they want,
But they don't speak,
At Jutka's it seemed like they were trying to talk to us,
I think they were trying to communicate something,
that's why they were pushing and shoving,
They could have killed us, like Tibor,
But they didn't,
Because they wanted to speak to us,
only we couldn't understand,
That woman also said that she could hear them,
We'll record it with a phonograph,
We will have photographs of them and we will hear their voices,
They're on this one too,
It's like the dead are attracting the ghosts somehow,
My God,
There's so many of them!
Thank you,
Help scatter it around,
- What are you doing? - I'll record their voices,
Do you see this?
This thin panel vibrates from the sound,
the tip scratches the cylinder,
and when I switch this,
the scratches are traced and reveal the vibration,
which is the sound,
We just need to fasten it with something
so it'll start when it needs to,
How's this?
Well, that's just swell,
Wait right there,
What's this?
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
What's that?
Pinhole camera,
There's this tiny hole in it
where the light comes in, here,
and it projects an image onto the inside plate inside,
We will see,
So we have to come back for it before dawn, okay?
I'm cold,
It's terribly cold, isn't it?
Marcsa sent you some wine,
It was you there, right?
Where?
It was you who came back from death back then,
it wasn't the old man,
Yeah,
You seem dead,
The old man said the same,
It must have been a mine or a grenade,
And?
I don't know,
Well, the old man said he pulled me out from the crater,
There was water everywhere,
He saw me among the other dead,
and thought that I might still be live,
That's what Auntie said too,
What?
She said I might still be alive,
She said I was suffocating, I was stuck,
but she pulled me out by force,
Then I didn't cry,
She just rubbed me for a long time to warm my blood,
and then I cried out,
Sometimes she's sorry she forced me back into life,
Auntie thinks it was wrong,
I think it was right,
And you don't remember anything?
What it was like being there,
I remember something,
What the old man said at the fair
about the floating figure?
He heard that from me,
but then he added things to make it more entertaining,
But I remember,
So then I'm not the only reason you came back,
You came back for yourself too,
Because of you, and myself too,
Go, go on, Run!
What are you doing there?
The heat will escape!
Lacika's mother will be angry too, you'll see!
They're here!
Lacika?
Lacika!
It's beneath us,
Anna!
Tomás!
Lacika!
Lacika! Lacika!
Stay close to me, okay?
I'm scared,
Nothing,
There's nothing here,
You will wait here, I will get the camera,
Are you here? Don't leave!
If you can hear us, speak to us!
Please tell us what to do!
What do you want?
Why are you hurting people?
We want to help!
They're gone,
Wait! Don't step on the prints!
There are no prints,
What was that?
Okay, I'll go grab the things, Don't move,
Shall I help?
Go rest, Anna,
- Good morning, - Good morning,
I'd like to bathe,
I just boiled the water,
Thank you,
Set it back,
Play it again,
Hmm,
There's nothing on it,
And this?
Eh, that could be anything,
I'll go develop the pictures,
They're here! They're on it!
I didn't hear you!
On one of the photos,
I'm almost done here,
Tomás! I hear the ghost!
It's spinning too fast, Listen,
I can't hear, What is it?
It's unclear, I don't understand,
Wait, the pic,
Shut it off for a moment!
But this is impossible!
- And this one? - They took this,
See?
They're only around one of the two,
What is this on the boy's forehead?
He got trapped under the ice, at the lake nearby,
When?
I don't know, but Auntie always tells me
not to go on the ice
or I'll end up like the twin who fell through the ice,
And what happened to him?
I guess they pulled him out,
You can only go on the ice with a ladder,
He doesn't talk much since,
And the pinhole camera?
What's this black streak?
I don't know,
And the voices?
Listen, you have to slow it down,
Take me,
Take,
Tomás, take me to the grave,
Tomás!
Do you know something?
The photographer took pictures of all the ghosts in town,
He recorded their voices too,
Are there many?
Yes, there are many, a lot,
Are they our dead?
There are way more than that,
I knew it wasn't our folk,
Our folk wouldn't hurt us,
What do they want?
We don't know,
But Tomás will find out,
- He'll talk to them, - How?
That's all I know,
But that's my house,
Good day,
Aren't you cold, Auntie?
It's blood,
Good morning!
Is there anybody there?
Hello?
Is there anybody home?
Erzsi! Erzsi!
My God,
Oh, my God!
- My God! - I knew you'd bring trouble on us!
May God forgive us, Let's pray,
The stranger made them angry!
All of you, get out of here right now!
What happened?
Enough! Enough!
Get behind us, Satan!
Let the souls depart in peace, my Lord,
Harmful being, be gone!
The Lord will protect us!
Move on to the afterlife!
Show the path for righteous lost souls!
- Deliver us from Satan's evil temptations!
May the devil take you back from where you came!
And give us peace, my Lord!
All souls praise the Lord!
- All souls praise the Lord! - - My God!
- Deliver us from evil! - Sweet Lord!
May the devil take you back from where you came!
All souls praise the Lord!
The Holy Spirit will protect us!
Auntie! Auntie!
Tomás! Take me to the grave!
Tomás!
Take me to the grave!
Auntie!
Auntie! Auntie!
Auntie!
Into the church!
Everybody inside, come on!
Now you are going to join us!
You will give up the ghost!
Anna?
Anna!
Anna, are you here?
Don't open it!
- No! - Let me out!
- Don't let him open the door! No!
- No! - Let him out!
Let me out! Let me go!
Let me go!
No, don't let him leave! No, don't let him out!
Anna! Anna!
Anna!
Tomás!
Auntie!
Annie!
Tomás!
Tomás, Auntie's gonna die,
She's dying!
I gotta get Anna back!
- Anna! - Anna!
Anna!
Look at me, Anna! Anna, look at me!
They will let you go, I promise!
Auntie's dying,
Auntie!
Auntie will pull them to her!
She'll take the ghosts into the afterlife! Of course!
She'll lead them! Understand?
They need the dying!
Like I was, Anna, and the twin!
And the judge too!
They leave with the dying! We must gather all the ghosts here!
But how?
We have to bring the dead here!
The dead attract the ghosts!
All the unburied dead!
Bring all the dead! I'll stay here with Anna,
Tomás, I can't,
We need everybody to help bring the dead here!
You heard him, people! Let's go!
Stop! You've opened the door for the devil!
The evil is with you!
Get out of here!
Quickly! Auntie's barely breathing!
We're gonna die!
Hurry up!
Where are you taking him, huh?
It will help us, you'll see,
- I'm not going in there, - Me neither,
Here!
Go outside,
- There are still dead outside! - Go away!
Tomás!
- Stop right now! - Get me out of here!
Tomás! Don't leave us alone!
Get back! Back!
Anna!
Anna! Anna!
Tomás!
Anna!
Tomás!
What are you doing?
You will take us across!
Help me!
Marcsa, be careful!
Marcsa!
No! Wait,
Tomás!
Don't die!
Get up!
Tomás!
Wake up!
Tomás,
Tomás!
Don't die!
Tomás!
Tomás,
Have you ever been to that village?
Not yet,