-
Two o'clock, then.
-
I wonder what the birds think of us.
-
- Birds can't think.
- They go south every winter.
-
That's very intelligent.
-
That's instinct, Jorunn.
Only humans can think.
-
How cool to be a bird and
soar and see us from above.
-
Do you know how big outer space is?
-
Infinite. It's infinite, Jorunn.
-
Nobody knows how big it is.
There's so much we'll never know.
-
Soon you can buy a disc
and connect it to your brain
-
and double your knowledge.
The brain is like a computer.
-
Birds and computers can't think.
Only people know that they exist.
-
Just think about it,
a chip straight into your head.
-
- See you.
- I'll be over tonight.
-
Bring some candles.
-
Who are you?
-
May the love reach you today
-
That warms every beat of my heart
-
Show me your soul
through signs in the glass
-
Take me away to a place of reason
-
Show yourself, show yourself...
-
- You're moving the glass!
- Open up to the unknown.
-
- You have to believe in magic.
- And you have to believe in reality.
-
Turn the lights on.
-
Why is Jorgen wearing
sunglasses indoors?
-
Georg asked for you today.
He wants to go to the movies.
-
Look!
-
- Do you believe in...
- ghosts?
-
Were you scared?
-
Would like to go to the movies?
-
Did you write that letter?
The one that said, who are you?
-
- What are you talking about?
- Someone sent you a letter?
-
Who?
-
No, no, no...
-
Sophie, I've found...
-
Hi, Mother.
-
How did it go?
-
- I found the book at last.
- Nice... What is it?
-
The 1932 edition.
My first Latin thesaurus.
-
The one I inherited...
-
Do you think birds can think?
-
Perhaps...
-
The boatswain's got a new tattoo.
-
What does it say...?
His handwriting is so tiny.
-
- What does it say?
- Terribly...
-
It's terribly hot here.
-
Qarg is just a harbor
in a sea of sand. I miss you a lot.
-
I'll call you. A big hug from Ivar.
-
Qarg...
-
Qarg! That's where he is, Sophie.
Just think about it.
-
Father always writes
to you, never to me.
-
- He writes to us both.
- But he signs the letters Ivar.
-
That's his name.
-
Who are you, exactly?
-
I don't know... I'm me.
-
But who are you?
Or for that matter, who am I?
-
I'm your mother and you are Sophie.
-
I've got it!
The song I've been looking for.
-
I dreamed Jacobsen tried to
kill me for not writing my essay.
-
- Was that for today?
- Forgotten your homework?
-
- What am I going to do?
- You're frightened.
-
Camilla, my disc.
-
- I thought it was for tomorrow.
- Relax, it's okay.
-
Syntax...
-
It's all about correct syntax.
-
For once, let me read some essays
-
that show that we've all been
in this classroom together.
-
Georg!
-
Was it you? Who are you?
-
What are you talking about?
-
No essay?
-
Jacobsen will kill you.
-
Where were we...?
-
In our galaxy!
-
Where else...?
-
Or, more precisely,
in our solar system.
-
Once it was a mystery what
the dark side of the moon looked like.
-
Discussing the matter
wouldn't give you an answer.
-
It was left to your imagination.
-
There were several myths...
-
- Who are you, Jorunn?
- I'm me. Who else would I be?
-
Was that all the letter said?
Didn't it say anything else?
-
- Who wrote it?
- I don't know.
-
Have you thought about it?
-
- About what?
- Who you are.
-
Will you be over
for Mystery tonight?
-
I thought you looked familiar!
-
You could say hello to your father.
-
Yes, I'm on my way now.
-
I need the car.
-
Now...? I'm not through
polishing it yet, dear.
-
Jorunn, dinner's in the microwave.
-
I have to keep the car...
-
Tell your mother she'll get a 20%
discount if she buys a bed this week.
-
Be careful with the clutch.
-
Where does the world come from?
-
Who are you?
Where does the world come from?
-
Who are you?
Where does the world...?
-
Where's the iron?
-
Mother, is it all right
if Jorunn sees Mystery here tonight?
-
- Who are you?
- Your mother. Britt Amundsen.
-
- Where does the world come from?
- What kind of question is that?
-
I just wondered.
-
It was probably created from
an explosion of gas and rock.
-
Look it up in an encyclopedia.
-
Do you think he did it?
-
Maybe...
-
Who are you?
-
I'm Sophie Amundsen.
-
You are me and I'm you.
-
- Sophie, are you finished?
- Soon.
-
I'll be late. Open up!
-
I'll open up when I've found out
where the world comes from.
-
You'll be fourteen
in a couple of days.
-
Fifteen, mother. Fifteen.
-
Don't forget to turn off
the stove and remember your keys.
-
- Who are you?
- The messenger.
-
See you.
-
Sophie!
-
- Did you see him?
- Who?
-
Another letter?
-
Hello...! Do you remember me?
Jorunn, your neighbor.
-
- He's written a letter to me.
- Who?
-
Who are you?
-
The guy who wrote Who are you?
-
Dear Sophie,
what is most important in life?
-
If we ask a starving person,
he will answer 'food'.
-
Someone who is cold,
will say 'warmth'.
-
Even if all needs are satisfied,
man needs something more.
-
Philosophers say that we have
a need to know who we are
-
and why we exist.
-
The best approach to philosophy
is to ask philosophical questions.
-
Who am I? Where does
the world come from?
-
You won't find the answers to these
questions in 'Secrets of Spiritism'.
-
Sophie, come on.
-
In general, people don't pay
attention to the philosophers.
-
They are too lazy.
-
They don't see that philosophers
set out on a dangerous journey.
-
Will you join me, Sophie?
Yours sincerely, Alberto Knox.
-
Alberto Knox...?
-
We have talked about syntax...
-
Georg...
-
Will read, What would
that be in past tense?
-
Come on!
-
I must say that your essay
was brief. Don't you agree?
-
Very brief or totally nonexistent.
-
Why are you here, Jorunn?
-
Or maybe you're not here at all.
-
But with Sophie,
it's a completely different matter.
-
- Have you seen the light, Sophie?
- I haven't written an essay.
-
- It's not...
- Bring your book.
-
May I have your attention, please.
-
Sophie Amundsen
The Mythic Conception of the World.
-
The floor is yours.
-
Since the dawn of time
mankind has created myths
-
to explain the world.
-
There are mythical explanations
to many philosophical questions.
-
Why the world is
as it is and, not the least
-
where the world comes from.
-
Before Christianity
we thought that the God Thor
-
traveled across the heavens
in a cart drawn by a pair of goats.
-
And with his hammer
he created thunder and lightning.
-
Thor was in many ways
the Batman of the Viking Age.
-
The thunder often brought rain,
which was vital for the farmers.
-
Thor is a mythical explanation
for natural changes.
-
When there was a drought,
people needed an explanation.
-
Could it be that trolls
had stolen Thor's hammer...?
-
In this way myths explained
things people didn't understand.
-
Nice essay.
-
- That was bad!
- I didn't write the essay.
-
Who wrote it then?
Did you write it in your sleep?
-
No!
-
Have you heard about automatic writing?
-
You write as if you are in a trance.
As if someone took hold of you.
-
Do you swear
that you didn't write that essay?
-
Strange...
-
Dear Sophie, you won't find
any answers here. Alberto Knox.
-
No, no, no...!
-
This car is from 1964.
You can't find that paint anymore!
-
- Hello, dear!
- Mrs Amundsen...
-
Call me Britt, we are neighbors.
Have you taken a day off?
-
- How's your wife?
- She's sunbathing.
-
Nice shirt, by the way.
-
What have you got there?
-
- A secret letter?
- It's from a friend.
-
It's about time
now that you'll be fourteen.
-
- Fifteen, mother.
- Fifteen...
-
How would you like
to celebrate your birthday?
-
We could be in the garden
and put lanterns in the trees.
-
And we can invite your friend.
-
Dear Hilde...
-
Sophie...?
-
Happy fifteenth birthday.
-
As you can see I would like
to give you a gift that lasts.
-
Excuse me for sending
this postcard to Sophie.
-
It was easier that way.
Best wishes, Dad.
-
Hilde Maller Knag...?
-
That's right, Hilde Maller Knag.
-
I see. Thanks anyway.
-
Knag... Knox.
-
Sophie! Can you hear me?
-
Get rid of the dog!
You know that I'm afraid of dogs!
-
Hurry! You know I hate dogs!
-
- A dog...?
- Be careful.
-
It doesn't have a collar.
I'm convinced it's a filthy stray!
-
Be careful.
-
- It's gone now, Mother.
- Are you sure?
-
- How did it get in here?
- I don't know.
-
- It jumped out of the window.
- From the second floor?
-
Since I was a little girl...
-
Have I told you about when
I was attacked by a Labrador?
-
- What are you doing?
- Your hair looks nice.
-
You should always wear it like that.
-
It's the first compliment
I've had since Ivar went away.
-
He's called Dad.
-
I thought that we should...
-
talk a bit about boys.
-
- Anything you want to know?
- No, I know everything.
-
The guy sending you cards,
who is he?
-
- The phone's ringing.
- It's the washing-machine.
-
What a smell!
Are you making toast?
-
False alarm for once.
Your friend, what's he like?
-
I don't even know who I am.
-
- You are Sophie Amundsen!
- And who is that?
-
My name is Sophie
and I'm nearly fifteen.
-
But I must be more
than a body and a name.
-
Don't you ever wonder
who you really are?
-
- Or where we're coming from?
- Of course I do.
-
The machine isn't done yet!
-
Honestly, I never think about it.
-
I am who I am, and I come
from Granny and Grandpa.
-
- It can't be as simple as that.
- Not everything is supernatural.
-
I have a lot to do tomorrow.
Let's go to bed early.
-
- I think I'll go to bed right away.
- Right away...?
-
Don't you feel well?
-
- Isn't that your father's shirt?
- It so nice to wear.
-
And it smells a bit of him.
-
It's like he's here
when I'm wearing it.
-
- Good night, dear.
- Good night, Mother.
-
Do you know what?
This belonged to Granny's mother.
-
It's over a hundred years old.
-
Remember to turn off the stove.
-
Is the tape rolling?
-
One, two...
-
Sophie, welcome to Athens.
-
As you probably know by now,
I'm Alberto Knox.
-
What are we saying?
-
Kalimera Efharisto!
-
We bring you the sun!
Just follow me.
-
We have just visited the virgin...
-
See you at Ole-Johan's.
-
No, Sophie. I think
we'll do it my way instead.
-
See the temple?
That's where the market was.
-
Acropolis. Athens is not
just the cradle of Europe.
-
It's also the cradle of philosophy!
This very spot may be
-
a spot where Socrates stood
with his young disciple Plato.
-
Or, in the words of Plato...
-
Just imagine! 2,400 years ago
they may have been here
-
discussing where
the world comes from.
-
Turn off the video.
Your mother's coming!
-
Hello...?
-
Sophie?
-
So it was just you, Shere Khan?
You gave me a scare.
-
That was close.
-
Sophie, travel with me...
-
We'll travel in time!
-
Athens, 399 BC.
The trial of Socrates.
-
Here they come, Socrates.
And the prosecutors.
-
People are entering the court where
Meletus will read the accusation.
-
Let's go inside.
-
Socrates is accused of
introducing new divinities
-
and corrupting the young.
-
Now Socrates is going
to defend himself.
-
For many years Socrates
has been irritating people
-
by asking a number
of critical questions.
-
He has attracted many disciples and
some people think it's gone too far.
-
Plato is standing over there!
-
Plato will mean a lot
to the history of philosophy.
-
He's no coward. What a man!
-
- Alberto...?
- What do you want? Oh, I'm sorry.
-
Socrates would like people
to think for themselves.
-
If they think about
the consequences of their statements
-
they'll have to judge themselves.
He's so smart, so brave!
-
Now he's excusing himself
for not being eloquent.
-
He will talk simply and directly,
as he does in the market.
-
People have slandered
Socrates for many years
-
and he's more afraid of the gossip
than all the trials in the world.
-
This classic Greek!
I'm not getting it all.
-
Socrates says,
-
I went to a man
people considered wise.
-
And I thought to myself,
I'm even wiser than him.
-
Neither of us knows more than
the other, but he thinks he does
-
even though he doesn't.
-
I don't know more than him,
and I'm aware of the fact.
-
Therefore, I'm
somewhat wiser than him.
-
Do you follow?
-
The jury will now decide
the fate of Socrates...
-
Possibly the greatest
thinker of all times.
-
Sophie, this is terrible!
-
They want to sentence him to death.
-
Just because he wanted to
help people think correctly.
-
Now he says that he deserves
to be entertained by the state...
-
with a dinner in
his honor at the City Hall.
-
To kill me would do
greater harm to Athens
-
than it would to me.
-
Alberto Knox...
-
in ancient Athens.
-
Right now, I'm standing outside
Socrates' prison cell.
-
Hang on...
-
Socrates says that Plato
must carry on the tradition.
-
They can kill Socrates
-
but they can't kill off
all critical thought.
-
It's better to suffer wrongly,
than act wrongly.
-
He who acts wrongly,
does damage to himself.
-
He shows that
his soul lacks clarity.
-
The cup of poison!
Socrates must drain the cup.
-
The greatest thinker of all times...
-
It's not hard to escape death.
-
Every soldier knows that.
You just run away.
-
It's much harder
to escape wickedness.
-
It runs faster than we do.
-
No...!
-
Alberto Knox
in ancient Athens.
-
Socrates has now been dead for
a couple of years and we meet Plato.
-
The heir of Socrates.
-
Do you see the shadow?
-
Plato said that all things
in nature are mere shadows
-
of the eternal ideas.
-
But a lot of people
are content with false shadows.
-
They're like cave people.
-
They see the shadows on the wall
-
but don't ask themselves
what created the shadows.
-
They don't dare leave the cave
to discover the sun, or the truth.
-
That is Plato's famous
simile of the cave.
-
Sophie...?
-
Sophie Amundsen, confidential.
-
Mother, no!
-
What's this?
-
On this sailing trip you can
spend four days in Athens.
-
And you need four days
in the cradle of Europe.
-
You need to se it all.
-
Do you find this exciting?
-
Here on Acropolis
it's hot and it's cheap.
-
- What does it mean?
- We must see the false shadows.
-
- False shadows...?
- Yes, on TV.
-
We have to find insight.
-
Insight...?
-
Last night the tape was completely
different from this morning.
-
It was about Socrates and Plato...
-
And what about the syntax, Sophie?
-
The syntax? Good.
-
Dear Sophie,
do you want to know more?
-
As your philosophy teacher,
I ask you
-
to hand a sugar cube in
a pink envelope to my messenger.
-
He will be at your gate
in the morning.
-
Yours sincerely,
Alberto Knox.
-
- Hi, Johnsen!
- Christmas cards in the summer?
-
Hi, Sophie!
-
Not at all like Gudbrandsdalen,
Roses from Vestlandet.
-
Hi, Sophie!
Where's my daughter today?
-
She's has to take care of herself.
-
- Why is she so wild?
- Maybe she's trying to find herself.
-
The meaning of life.
-
Looking for something in particular?
You're going to write love letters!
-
You've got a flat tire.
-
- Are you writing love letters?
- Not to you, anyway.
-
There was no flat tire.
-
Have you got any more
books on rose painting?
-
Vibeke, have we got any
more books on rose painting?
-
Tough essay...
-
Myths and stuff.
-
- What are you doing?
- I'm studying philosophy.
-
Hello...?
-
Is anybody here?
-
Plato.
-
Immanuel Kant.
-
Hilde Maller Knag.
-
Hilde Maller Knag...?
-
- Where have you been?
- In the woods.
-
- With your friend?
- No.
-
I couldn't sleep, so I went for
a walk in the woods, and got lost.
-
- I found a cabin by the lake.
- It's been abandoned for years.
-
I saw a girl in the cottage.
-
In a mirror. She looked like me.
I put my hand through the mirror!
-
I know what it's like at your age.
-
There was a girl in the mirror,
and the mirror was electrified.
-
You've got the same
hairline as Aunt Astrid.
-
When I was your age, I thought
people could read my mind.
-
So I tried not to think
about anything in particular.
-
- Are you like that?
- Yes.
-
You take after me.
-
- Maybe a bit after Ivar, too.
- Dad!
-
Dad Amundsen.
-
Have I told you about
when Ivar and I were in France?
-
We met a little man in a street
corner who talked and talked.
-
I tried to figure out what language
he spoke, and thought it was Latin.
-
- I tried to listen to him...
- I'll take a nap.
-
- Have I told you this before?
- Yes.
-
Dear Sophie,
are you interested in art?
-
- Art...?
- Art and philosophy are linked.
-
Take a trip to 8 Syrinvejen.
You have nothing to fear.
-
There's a reason for everything.
Yours sincerely, Alberto Knox.
-
Sophie, that mysterious
dog is here again.
-
- Where are you going?
- Out.
-
I'm going to look at art.
-
Art...?
-
But I thought that we could
do something together.
-
I hope Ivar will be home soon.
-
A young girl
is visiting a sculptor.
-
The sculptor is leaning over
a large block of marble.
-
What are you looking for,
asks the girl.
-
Just wait and see,
says the sculptor.
-
A few weeks later
the girl is back
-
and the sculptor has formed
a human body out of the marble.
-
How did you know that
it was hidden in there?
-
There was a Greek philosopher
by the name of Aristotle.
-
He was a student
at the Academy of Plato's.
-
Alberto...?
-
Hello...?
-
Do you remember Plato?
-
The man with the shadows.
The simile of the cave.
-
Exactly.
-
And just like
sculpture inside the marble
-
Aristotle meant that
all things in nature
-
have the potential
to assume a certain form.
-
Aristotle divided the world
into different substances
-
Dead things...
-
and living things...
-
Why do you hide?
-
Plants, animals
and human beings...
-
Different substances...
-
Think about the flowers. First
they're buds, and then they wither.
-
Animals can feel hunger
and thirst, but only man can...
-
- Philosophize...?
- That's right!
-
Think, reflect on things...
-
That's what makes
you human, Sophie.
-
You philosophize.
-
- How can you see that?
- I see what the stone contains.
-
The stone contains a beautiful
woman and her name is... Sophie.
-
Did you see her in the stone?
Did you see me in the stone?
-
- Can anybody see things that way?
- Yes, if they want to.
-
The artist dedicates his life
to that which is not yet real
-
but that dwells inside the matter.
-
- And the philosopher?
- He's the artist's brother.
-
- Or sister.
- Yes.
-
Alberto...? Where are you?
-
Okay, Shere Khan.
Aristotelian order.
-
The stone on the table
is the simplest form.
-
Then we have the plant,
then you, and on top we have me.
-
Jorunn called and asked
if you felt like coming over.
-
You do remember Jorunn...?
And I'm your mother.
-
And what do you contain...?
The world's smallest sculpture?
-
You know Aristotle...
-
He meant that all things in
nature have a potential possibility
-
to assume a certain form.
-
Sorry, but I don't know Latin.
-
The difference between a stone,
a plant, an animal, and man is...
-
Just a moment, Liss.
-
- Have you seen the hairdryer?
- Ask Johnsen.
-
Jorgen called. You're supposed
to meet him at a quarter past.
-
I'm back...
-
Have you decided to meet
them without asking me?
-
I've said it five times,
Sophie. You're nuts.
-
Take an unforgettable journey,
a journey in time and space.
-
Alberto!
-
Are you tired of everyday stress?
-
Follow me on a journey
through the history of philosophy.
-
Yes, you heard correctly.
Through the history of philosophy.
-
A world full of surprises,
exciting thoughts and ideas.
-
Order today.
Our number is 9000...
-
Quick, hand me a pen!
-
See you.
-
Excuse me...
-
- Excuse me.
- Where are you going?
-
- Alberto?
- Hi, Sophie!
-
- How did you like the artist?
- It was you!
-
- How do you do it?
- Do what?
-
Everything. The tape from Athens,
the essay, the mirror...?
-
You've got to be patient.
You'll understand it, eventually.
-
It works.
-
- Is the dog yours?
- Well...
-
In a way.
-
It spies on me.
-
Let's say that it
keeps an eye on you.
-
After Socrates, Plato and
Aristotle, a new era in history starts.
-
- Where are you?
- Don't think about that now.
-
Where were we...?
The Greek language and culture
-
came to dominate the world for
600 years, the Hellenistic Age.
-
Just a sec. Hang on.
-
Come here...
-
Sophie, have you
heard about the Cynics?
-
- The Cynics...?
- Watch the film.
-
Hello...? Alberto?
-
Keep quiet!
-
You can't be
standing there laughing.
-
Sophie...?
-
Where are you going?
-
Hi, Mother!
-
- How was the film?
- It was informative, different.
-
- What was it about?
- Two funny cynics.
-
- Do you find cynics funny?
- Yeah, they don't need much.
-
A staff, a shirt, a barrel...
They don't need any money.
-
- They're satisfied with sunshine.
- Philosophy again?
-
Evolveris, that's Latin and
it means, you're evolving.
-
Paragraph 67 A, comparative...
-
Mother...? What are you going
to do with all that Latin?
-
What I'm going to do with it...?
-
I'm going to...
-
This is Alberto Knox'
answering machine.
-
If you want to speak to
the philosopher, press 1.
-
If you want to leave
a message, press 2
-
and speak after the tune...
-
Marianne, I've got
to have it tomorrow.
-
Why were you laughing?
Yesterday, at the cinema.
-
You were thrown out.
What were you laughing at?
-
The movie.
-
No one else laughed,
it was a tragic film.
-
He died in the war.
-
- And what about the pen?
- It was for a phone number.
-
To Alfredo...?
-
Do you know where he lives?
-
She never cleans up her mess!
-
- Have you been at his place?
- I can show it to you.
-
Do you dare?
-
- Are you scared?
- Why should I be scared?
-
It's pretty gloomy.
-
In what way?
-
- Sophie, let's turn back.
- Are you worried?
-
- You've got such wide eyes!
- What...?
-
Sophie, can't we...?
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Hello...? Nobody's here.
-
Come on.
-
- Does he live here?
- It's a magic mirror.
-
- Mirror, mirror on the wall...
- Don't play games, Jorunn!
-
There's someone on the other side!
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- Postcards!
- Don't touch them!
-
Hilde Maller Knag,
c/o Alberto Knox.
-
- Isn't he the one that...?
- Hilde Maller Knag!
-
Dear Hilde, I'm looking forward
to coming home to Lillesand.
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I'll arrive at Kjevik
Midsummer Eve.
-
We can celebrate your birthday,
even if it's a bit late.
-
Love, Dad.
-
One day you'll meet a girl
by the name of Sophie.
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And like you
she'll get the wings of thought.
-
He's writing about you, Sophie!
-
There is someone in the mirror.
-
- What did you say?
- There is someone in the mirror.
-
Jorunn...?
-
- Jorunn!
- Yes, what do you want?
-
- I'll take it!
- Don't touch it!
-
- It's Sophie.
- It's me, I got your message.
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The time has come.
-
We are going to meet.
-
We have to start working together.
-
- That's all I can say right now.
- What's wrong with the mirror?
-
He's driving me nuts.
-
- What do you mean? Who?
- I can't tell you.
-
I won't come, if you don't tell me.
-
The Major... I think
the philosophers will open our eyes.
-
Meet me at the church
at four o'clock in the morning, alone.
-
Alberto...?
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God morning. I'm out.
Have breakfast without me.
-
Did you like it?
One of my best tricks.
-
Now it's time for the Middle Ages!
-
This church was built a little later,
but that doesn't matter.
-
Isn't it fantastic?
-
Do the Middle Ages
start at four o'clock?
-
Assume that Christ was born
at midnight. One o'clock is 100 AD.
-
Two o'clock... are you listening?
-
- Two o'clock is 200 AD.
- Three o'clock is 300 AD.
-
And so on...
-
So the Middle Ages started 400 AD?
-
And lasted for a thousand years.
-
But just before four o'clock
the Roman Empire was split in two.
-
- And a few minutes later...
- Who's the Major?
-
At a quarter to five...
-
Who is he?
-
- Let's say I've got an assignment.
- From the Major.
-
Do you know her?
-
We were born on the same date
and we look like each other.
-
- You've got to be patient.
- How could she be in the mirror?
-
- The mirror...? At the cabin?
- Yes.
-
I could put my hand
straight through the mirror.
-
I didn't know that.
-
Beware of that mirror.
-
Salve.
-
At eight o'clock
the long schoolday begins.
-
Scusa me, frater.
-
Sophie, knowledge is power.
-
At first, only the monasteries
are allowed to have schools.
-
At ten, the first cathedral
school opens, and at twelve o'clock
-
we have the university.
-
Nice meeting you, Sophie.
Now that's something to celebrate!
-
Chateau de Ciecle, what a wine!
-
- How is it possible?
- Imagination, Sophie!
-
- I don't have much imagination.
- Maybe it's not you.
-
The Major...?
-
Not an unusual sight...
-
In the Middle Ages, one child out
of three dies before it's a year old.
-
But many make it
and become important men.
-
Am I the first woman
who is interested in philosophy?
-
No, you're not!
Hildegard von Bingen, 1098 to 1179.
-
Hildegard grew up at a monastery,
and from early on...
-
Could we have some peace here?
-
- Who are you talking to?
- The Major.
-
Do you know what Sophie means?
-
It means wisdom.
My job is to make you wise.
-
Do you think it's possible?
-
Has Hildegard anything
to do with Hilde?
-
From an early age Hildegard
felt that God talked to her.
-
After a while she was considered
one of God's chosen people.
-
Popes and emperors consulted her.
-
And she was one of the greatest
composers of Gregorian music.
-
She saw music and art as
an expression of the divine.
-
The divine?
-
Man's way of asking
forgiveness for his sins.
-
In the 13th century, there was
a man called Thomas Aquinas.
-
He held that God showed himself
both in the Bible and in Reason.
-
But what about
the essay and the mirror?
-
- The bell tolls.
- And Hilde...?
-
- There is no Hilde!
- But I saw her in the mirror!
-
You've got to trust me. Do you?
-
Alberto!
-
About 150 years later
the plague strikes Europe.
-
The Black Death!
-
Alberto!
-
The first one was Sigurd.
-
The little boy
who was so nice and sweet.
-
The very image of his father.
-
He too died.
-
And then Magnus, the strong boy.
-
No faith, and no hope.
-
Just the eyes that
broke your heart in half.
-
He is no more.
-
The Black Death...
-
You too are going to die, Sophie.
-
We're all going to die!
-
Let me give you a kiss...
-
Sophie...?
-
- Where were you?
- In the Middle Ages.
-
In the Middle Ages...?
-
Does anyone know
when the Middle Ages occurred?
-
Jorgen, at what point
in time did they occur?
-
- Jorunn?
- The Middle Ages...?
-
When were they?
-
Georg, then?
-
About the same time
as the Viking Era.
-
Four hundred to fourteen.
-
- What was that?
- 400 to 1400 AD.
-
You don't say.
-
- Who lived in the Middle Ages?
- Thomas Aquinas...
-
and Hildegard von Bingen.
-
Hildegard von Bingen.
-
Gosh...!
-
- What did she do?
- Music.
-
She was chosen by God
and gave the Pope advice.
-
- What's that got to do with music?
- She composed Gregorian music.
-
She felt that man's divine
quality showed itself in music.
-
And in all art.
-
Indeed...
-
Let's see...
-
Divine...?
-
Have you called the fire department?
-
Why do things always go wrong?
We'll have to eat something light.
-
- Where do you think he is now?
- On the seven seas.
-
- How's your friend, Albert?
- Yesterday we went to a lecture.
-
A lecture...?
-
So you went to a lecture...?
What was it about?
-
- Sophie...?
- It was about the Middle Ages.
-
And that knowledge is power.
-
I would like to meet Albert.
He seems very interesting.
-
Dad called.
-
- Where did he call from?
- The boat.
-
He was disappointed
you weren't at home.
-
He's so nice, the main character.
Don't you think so, Sophie?
-
Yes...
-
Turn off the stove, the light...
-
Aren't you going to bed?
-
Do you miss Dad?
-
Me, too.
-
About your birthday. We could
have a party on Midsummer Eve.
-
We could have a garden party,
and you can invite your friend.
-
Mother, do you know
what Sophie means?
-
Sophie means...
-
No.
-
It means wisdom.
-
- Bona nochtem.
- Bona nochtem, my dear.
-
H. M. K...
-
Hilde Maller Knag!
-
Hilde...?
-
Hilde...?
-
Where are you?
