Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
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:08:33
I was rather temperamental
when I was young.

:08:37
I made it quite difficult
for my mother...

:08:40
she always had to check me.
:08:44
My father died at the age of 33.
:08:50
I was hardly six.
:08:54
And when I wasn't watched...
:09:01
I could do what I liked.
:09:03
That's how, when I was nine...
:09:08
I fell down the stairs...
:09:13
from the third
to the second floor.

:09:17
I fell on my back,
and my neck...

:09:24
with such force
that a neighbour...

:09:27
thought he had heard shooting.
:09:30
He asked me if I was hurt.
:09:33
I told him I wasn't,
and I asked him...

:09:36
not to tell my mother.
:09:39
I climbed the stairs
on all fours...

:09:43
because I couldn't walk.
:09:46
It really was a terrible blow.
:09:51
I sat down and prayed:
:09:55
Please, make that my mother
won't punish me.

:09:59
From that day,
I always felt pain...


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