any calls?
grand hotel -- people -- coming -- going.  who cares.  nothing ever happens.
any letters?
telegrams?
anyone asked for me?
this gentleman can have my room.
send his bags up to my room.
you're tired. i can see that.
you are ill.
that will not be necessary.
i know -- i know -- when a man's collar is an inch too big for him -- i know he is ill.
i have nothing better to do, mr. kringelein.
the grand hotel.
life! -- mr. kringelein, you are drunk -- good night.
any letters?
life is changing you, mr. kringelein.
no pain, mr. kringelein?
barman -- whiskey -- for you, mr. kringelein?
what do you do in the grand hotel? eat -- sleep -- loaf around -- do business -- flirt a little -- dance a little. a hundred doors to one hall and nobody knows anything about the person next to him. when you leave another takes your room and lies in your bed -- the end.
oh -- there are plenty of women.
well, mr. kringelein, are you getting what you're looking for?
a masculine paradise -- drink, the ladies, dancing.
you must learn as quickly as your time allows -- believe me mr. kringelein, a man who isn't with a woman is a dead man.
i'm always alone -- i have been everything.
i was sent as a military surgeon to south africa. stinking climate. taken prisoner. home on parole not to fight. i was a surgeon in the great war till the end. grenade in the face. carried diphtheria bacilli in the wound until 1920. isolated two years. i've been everything.
come, mr. kringelein.
i'll take the bank -- all right, gentlemen.
out, baron?
gentlemen, this man is ill -- very ill -- if you will leave.
no, the baron will stay.
it will be over in a minute.
try and sleep, kringelein, don't be afraid.
there is no pocketbook here.  on the floor probably.
fourteen thousand marks.  one can travel -- one's happiness might depend on fourteen thousand marks -- don't you think so, baron?
stay where you are.
he must find his money, baron. mr. kringelein should find his pocketbook, baron, shouldn't he?
you've nothing to fear, kringelein
was that mr. kringelein leaving?