Day 110: Our Street on the Big Screen
At the bins of their block of flats in Braunschweig, Bernd Wiechmann (A) talks to his neighbour Ingo Tacke (B) about the film that was shot in their street last summer.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a German word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native German, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
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A
Morgen, Herr Tacke. Haben Sie sich etwa auch diesen Film angetan, der letzten Sommer in unserer Straße gedreht wurde?
Morning, Mr Tacke. Did you put yourself through that film as well, the one they shot in our street last summer?
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B
Sogar am Premierenabend, und ich fand ihn ziemlich gelungen. Ihnen hat er wohl nicht gefallen?
I even went on the opening night, and I thought it was rather good. I take it you didn't like it?
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A
Gefallen? Grauer Himmel, Nieselregen und ausgerechnet unsere Mülltonnen in Großaufnahme: das ganze Klischee von der tristen Provinz.
Like it? Grey skies, drizzle and, of all things, our bins in close-up: the whole cliché of the dreary provinces.
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B
Das ist eben die Bildsprache, der Film handelt von Einsamkeit. Der Nieselregen kam übrigens aus einer Regenmaschine, bei dreißig Grad.
That's just the visual style: the film's about loneliness. The drizzle came out of a rain machine, by the way, in thirty-degree heat.
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A
Einsamkeit hin oder her, unsere Straße hätte ruhig freundlicher gezeigt werden können. Das muss auch mal gesagt werden.
Loneliness or not, they could easily have shown our street in a friendlier light. Somebody has to say it.
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B
Immerhin sieht man den Bäcker an der Ecke, und das Café kommt sogar in einer ganzen Szene vor.
At least you see the baker's on the corner, and the café even gets a whole scene.
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A
Die Szene mit dem Mann, der fünf Minuten lang Zeitung liest? Die hätte man sich sparen können.
The one with the man reading a newspaper for five minutes? They could have done without that.
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B
Tja, der Zeitungsleser war ich, als Statist für 100 Euro am Tag. Ich musste dieselbe Seite bestimmt vierzigmal umblättern.
Well, the man with the newspaper was me, as an extra at 100 euros a day. I must have turned the same page forty times.
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A
Oh, dann nehme ich das mit der Szene natürlich zurück. Unsere Mülltonnen hätten trotzdem nicht in Großaufnahme gezeigt werden müssen.
Oh, then of course I take back what I said about the scene. Our bins still needn't have been shown in close-up.
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