At the end of 1600, in the kingdom of Naples,
under the Spanish domination.
The sun is shining, the cicadas are singing, the hens lay eggs every day
and the fields give abundant wheat.
An ideal country, truly a beautiful dream, if...
Leave it! Holy Virgin!
Don't cry, Saint Gennaro wanted so, to discount their sins.
- Walk! - Move!
What did he do?
He had to pay the rain tax.
There was no rain this year.
- But the tax is always there. - Jesus!
Good morning.
- But what does it say? - Wait.
- But what is it? - Another tax.
- What is it? - Governor's order.
- This morning it wasn't there. - Today there is. Pay. One coin.
Here. I wish that with this money the Governor gets what I hope.
- And that is? - Roses and flowers, Excellency.
- Roses and flowers. - A coin for the toll,
one for the transport, two for the wife, two for the rain...
- Instead of wheat, we plant taxes. - And you're telling me?
Stop! Stop!
- Hey! - What is it?
- Can't you read? - A little, but I understand.
- Get in line. - One moment.
Let's see...
Green, tolls.
To you.
Can you read?
"By our order, miller Luca is granted..."
- You are Luca, the miller! - Yeah, it seems.
- Excuse me. - You're welcome.
- Have a nice walk. - You too!
- Hi, Luca. - How are you?
Blessed are these mules, they drink wherever they want.
- You have to make do. - It's not easy.
My advice is to pay. You have to pay the baron.
- Wait. - But how do we do it?
- But who is he? - It takes a little bit of cleverness.
Excellency!
But who is it? Luca! How are you?
Forgive me if I disturbed you but the mules were very thirsty.
No problem.
- And how is your wife? - Fine. Carmela, wake up.
- There she is! I didn't see her. - Good morning. How are you?
- Fine, thank you. - Are you coming to the mill today?
If you want me there...
The Governor has sent us a kid as big as a calf.
The green of your of your vegetable gardens.
There will be that too! Chicory and tomatoes as sweet as sugar.
Perfect for your light wine. What did I say?
- Why? - Because that lawyer's wine
is finished. - Do you water the vineyard with it?
What? A barrel this big.
- You will drink our wine. - Our bad wine?
- We don't allow that. - Actually...
- We don't allow it. - We don't.
Then you were kind once and now...
What an invitation would be, if you bring so much stuff?
- So... - No, if you say then...
His Excellency is sorry, here you have to accept.
- And we accept. - Of course.
You can refuse only once. Thank His Excellency.
- Thank you, Your Excellency. - You are welcome.
Excellency, one more time the barrel, to spare on the travel,
instead of like this, make it bigger. - All right.
- Goodbye! - See you at the mill!
- Lawyer, what are we doing here? - One moment, I'll be right there.
Carmela, the lawyer has fallen in love with you.
Really? Everyone is in love with me.
- All but one. - And who is this madman?
- You! - Me? You guessed it, Carmela.
- And why? - Because you're ugly!
Salvatore, Luca is coming with his shameless wife.
Just watch, today I'll count the sacks.
- In the name of the king, stop! - I almost run you over.
When I say "In the name of the king", you must stop!
I stop, but what's new? I always pass.
Not today, I'm counting bags. Don't you agree?
But why do you want to waste time? There are 20 sacks.
And for 20 I have the exemption. Here it is.
If it's 20, you don't have anything to worry about, right?
Now let's see.
- Don't worry about it. - Yeah, the lady doesn't worry.
She knows how to fix it, a little word to the Governor...
- What do you want to say? - Stay calm, I'll handle it.
Salvatore, it is useless to count, there are a few more bags.
- Let's help each other. - I have nothing to share with you.
Take down the bags, I'll seize them and report you.
He says there are 20, now we'll have a laugh.
20...
And who tells me that it's all flour? I verify.
What are you doing? It's flour! Are you Italian or Spanish?
I am German, Spanish, French... I'm from the country of those in charge.
You have the greed of servility.
I want to see you in jail!
- I hope that my wish is granted! - What?
Your cousin must choke on his job as tax collector!
- That's why! - You want to take our job from us
and give it to your wife's relatives. - My cousin is a respectable man.
- Take it easy. Let me explain. - What? You should be ashamed!
You will not succeed not even flirting with everybody!
You're angry because you're ugly!
Better ugly for one than beautiful for fifty!
- Witch! - Slut!
- Who? - Have you gone mad?
Let go of me!
- Damn you! - Here, take it!
Knock it off!
- Help me! Can't you see them? - Shameless!
- What's going on? - Do you see this?
- What are you doing? - Here!
Outrage! Assunta!
- Hold still! - Assunta!
- I'll fix this! - Stay still!
This is outrage! You'll end up in jail!
- Now calm down! - All right, I'll stay calm!
- All right? - Where are you going?
Go away! Slut!
Salvatore...
If you weren't a woman...
Come here, you ugly witch!
- Take... - Here!
- What's going on? - No passing.
The bishop is here!
- Carmela! - Keep your mouth shut!
Leave her alone, the bishop is here!
You don't know anything, understand? I'll talk!
Clean yourself up.
Luca, is that you? And you too, Carmela?
- But what happened to you? - Eminence, she insulted me.
Who insulted you, how bold-faced!
Let others speak as well, everyone has the right to defend themselves.
You speak, Luca.
This woman has made some low insinuations
on my wife's honor and on those who govern us in the grace of the Lord.
- But we... - Enough! Enough!
His Excellency believes there is goat vice.
- Goats have nothing to do with it. - I was translating the Latin text.
The goat here stands for the culprit, understood?
Forgive him, he is a poor man, he's not bad after all.
This is precisely our mission.
Go, my children, and return to your work.
- Thank you, Excellency. - Thank you.
And you now repent of what you have done.
Beauty for its own sake is not a sin.
Envy, on the other hand, is.
Remember what I tell you in your prayers.
But those guys wanted my husband to lose his job.
- So be it. - So be it?
How? So be it?
All because you want to make a tax collector of your stupid cousin.
- And I will succeed. - Beware that too much is too much.
- Bravo! - Thank you.
Listening to you is a delight to the soul.
Like a mermaid.
When I said to my nephew that he'd listen to an heavenly voice,
he didn't want to believe it.... - You were right.
- You won, uncle. - You're too polite, thank you.
If you come to Naples, you could sing at court.
No, Carmela is fine here.
She has learned to sing while riding donkeys.
- If you take her away... - No, she sang better than Circe.
You are too good, Excellency.
She has very good qualities, but they do her more harm than good.
- Harm? - Coming from envy and backbiting.
I am not pleased with what happened this morning.
I do not worry for me, but for the gentlemen who often honor me....
Such an insult strikes you before me.
- Isn't that right, Carmela? - Sure.
- That's an abject slander. - Yes.
But we will continue to come here as regularly as before.
After all these foolish rumors, we will come here more often.
Sure!
Luca and I are so accustomed to your visits.
- You always do us so much honor. - It's time for my prayer.
- Already leaving? - Yes, my child.
It's time, although I would stay here so happily.
We should do like Joshua, stop the sun.
Don Gennaro, I have a little something for you.
Mr. Governor, one last drink. Pasqualino, bring the wine.
This wine is from the vineyard of Mr. Lawyer.
Gennarino, give me the wine. Nicola, get the glasses.
- Why does he eat chicken? - Because he doesn't like lamb.
Yes? You can eat whatever you want at home and not here.
- It will become poison. - To you and your kind.
In my race there are neither spies nor pimps.
- What did you say? Repeat. - There are no spies or pimps.
It bothers you that Concettina married me.
It was only a marriage of interest.
She preferred a handsome man to an unhappy one,
a house to a mill, the secretary of the Governor to a servant.
Give me this.
Even Concettina must become poison to you.
- Here, this is for you. - Thank you, daughter.
Your soul is white like a dove.
You never forget my poor venial sins. The throat.
W all have a few little sins.
- Here's the wine. - Here, lawyer.
Tonight it's your turn to be our cupbearer.
- My pleasure, Carmela. - Thank you.
- To your health, Carmela. - Gardunia!
- Excellency. - Horse.
Horse, quick!
- I swear to you. - Is it the same thing I'm thinking?
- I hope so. - Then it's done.
- Then it is done. - Luca, it's done!
- What? - We will grind his wheat!
- Thank you! - You are an angel.
And angels get kissed.
What is His Excellency doing?
- Didn't you have a good time? - These meetings are too crowded.
- I'm sorry. - Me too.
- I have so many things to say. - Me too, Excellency.
- Say it all. - For that tax collector's job.
- I already taken care of it. - Will my cousin be a tax collector?
It's not the moment and it's not just up to me.
- And to who? - To you.
- To me? - Yes. Think about it.
But I always think about it.
The wind has come up, I'm going to pick up the laundry. Good evening.
- Good evening everyone. - Good evening.
Too much honor to kiss the hand of my wife, she is not used to it.
- She touches garlic and onion. - Shall we all go to the village?
- The laundry. - No, I have urgent business.
- Good evening, gentlemen. - Excellency.
- Reverend Fathers, good evening. - Good evening, Excellency.
Excellency!
Excellency, what are you doing here?
Mrs. Carmela...
Mrs. Carmela, excuse me, but I can't stand it anymore.
- I am worse than Tantalus. - Who is he?
He was a wretched soul like me.
He was hungry, he saw so much beautiful food and couldn't eat it.
He was thirsty, he saw water running at his feet,
water as crystal clear as your eyes, and he could not drink it.
- I am Tantalus, I am thirsty! - And drink, Excellency!
Don't laugh!
When you laugh, I feel myself burning in here.
Let go of me.
I can't, it's been a long time that I dream of this moment.
- You are so beautiful. - You said that to so many women!
To all the beautiful women, but no one like you.
- What's wrong with you tonight? - I saw you for a thousand evenings
and I always came home alone. I make your cousin tax collector
and I make your husband king of Spain, if I can!
- Alright. - What did I say?
- You must feel the same passion. - Yes.
I love you, I feel crazy, Carmela.
There's Luca, my husband! Let me go, Excellency!
Excuse me, Excellency.
- Excellency! - You?
I'll have you hanged! Help me out of here.
- Imbecile! I'll have you hanged. - Why? What have I done?
I saw Mrs. Carmela running away.
- She thought you were her husband. - So she ran away because of that.
A woman who fears her husband has the lover in her heart.
- Do you think so? - Excellency, she loves you.
She loves me.
Excellency, with women you need a little patience.
- I have it. - It takes a little bit of cunning.
I have it.
And maybe some strength as well.
But how dare you give me this advice? Come on, help me up.
- She is very beautiful. - Especially the legs.
- Nicoletto! - I just wanted to ascertain, uncle,
express an opinion, without any complacency.
Look, there's Mr. Governor.
- Good evening. - Good evening, Excellency.
- Where will he stopped? - You know very well.
- You mean that Mrs. Carmela... - No, not Mrs. Carmela,
but the Governor is cooked more than his lamb.
- It was exquisite. - A punishment from God.
He chased after every woman and finally found one who resists him.
Good evening, reverend fathers. I'll go home from here.
- Good evening, Baron. - Good evening.
I don't want to be malicious, but even the Baron...
- In love with Mrs. Carmela? - That's old news...
Dear Nicoletto, you are young.
The devil uses many clothes to hide, especially those of women.
- Not those of Mrs. Carmela. - You can tell.
You talk too much, Don Luca.
It's all copper!
Look how beautiful it is! Come!
Mom, I want to see the witch, take us down.
Alright, let's go.
- They always want to be right. - Today children are in charge.
- Nanny, have the carriage ready. - Yes, Excellency.
- I too want to see the witch. - Where are you going?
I'm taking the kids to see the fair.
You want to mix with the people during a popular party
like an ordinary woman. - I'd like to ask you to come.
It would not hurt you to know your subjects better.
Madam, I know them well enough.
People are like the bottom of the well and we are the authority, the sky.
But what do you know of the poor people?
Madam, I have 6 last names.
Villa Medina, leading the Spanish people to the Crusades.
Sandez.
Who died to bring freedom in Spain.
Suarez de Figueroa, who got hanged in Mexico for the people.
- By the people, you mean. - It's the same, always the people.
- But if it amuses you, go. - Thank you, Teofilo.
- Good morning, Mr. Father. - Good morning.
Come!
Sibyl, are you in prophetic sleep?
I am in the prophetic sleep.
Then guess this young man who has the pains of love.
Here I have the devil from hell!
- 3 coins. - Why?
- For the fair. - I don't pay taxes!
- Silence! - Today is the feast of the saint.
Silence or I'll make you leave.
But it will end! I paid!
All your life, you women will be kissed by men.
You will smell like a field of roses, like a mimosa tree.
- Feel how good it is. - Yes, it's good.
- Hey, how much is it? - 5 coins.
- But it's too much. - It's too much.
- Take it, Concettina. I'll pay. - Pasquale!
- You used to call me Pasqualino. - Yes, Pasqualino.
What were you saying?
You left me for that cop,
but I always think of you, day and night.
- What about you? - Me too, always.
- Even the night, Concettina? - At night too.
My beautiful Concettina!
Gardunia!
- Gardunia. - Even at night, huh?
I told you not to go out! Come home now!
- Sir, this is mine. - Go! Come home now!
- Hello, Pasquale. - Wine! Hi.
- What's wrong with you? - Nothing.
- Death to Saladin! - Death!
His wife was more splendid than a shining star,
but she was in love with the son of a doctor.
And her own husband, whose portrait is here,
surprises red handed the wife and the seducer.
And the man who got offended had a very human feeling,
and right on that couch her head cut off.
Did you see that?
Inside his own roof,
he put her under the bed
and then he laid down.
There was a big trial
and he got a big lesson
because he was condemned and got hung up.
And if you see well, he who sings does not deceive you,
and with the rope on his neck,
here he hangs.
Go, collect!
And of the short story
the end is
this one.
- What if I did the same thing? - You? Come on!
- Are you so sure? - What kind of talk is this?
You are in love with me.
- You think so. - I do.
- You're not jealous? - No, I'm not jealous.
You be careful.
- Go ahead. - I haven't sold anything, I can't.
- Then pay me in kind. - All right.
- Here, Excellency. - But these are rotten.
- But you make a cowardice! - Shut up.
Down with the shack!
- Get out of my way! - Do you understand?
Let's go have a drink.
Damn!
- What is it, Carmela? - Nothing.
- What shall we do? - I want to go on the swing.
- Are you crazy? You are married. - So what?
- Your legs may be seen, no? - Are they ugly?
- Never mind. - Have you become jealous?
Me, jealous?
- Listen, Carmela. - Go.
Look at that!
- Hi, Luca. - Hi.
Carmela, come down!
Mrs. Carmela! Excellency!
- Excellency, come. - What is it?
- Mrs. Carmela is on the swing. - Mrs. Carmela on the swing?
Yes.
Quick, give me the telescope.
How beautiful, what legs!
Gardunia, for that woman I don't sleep anymore, I don't eat anymore.
- If I get sick? - Let's hope not.
If I can't have her, I'll have you hanged.
No, we will do everything.
- I'll have you hanged. - No!
How brazen!
How beautiful she is!
How beautiful is she? Stupid, walk home!
Get off!
- Get off! - No!
Why do you want to interrupt this beautiful show!
- Cheers to these beautiful legs! - What did you say? She's my wife.
Sorry, and congratulations.
- It's over! Come down! - What are you doing? Continue!
Continue! I'll pay for everyone! Let them do.
I want to enjoy this paradise until tonight!
Push, come on it's all paid for!
Music!
Pay them! Music!
Carmela! I order you to come down!
Courage! Death to the tax collectors!
- Keep still! - What's going on, Gardunia?
Stop!
Shoot!
Go! To the palace!
Come in, it is more prudent.
A Governor in these circumstances stays in place!
- Pasquale, the revolution! - The revolution!
- But I'm Ciccillo! - Ciccillo, excuse me!
Down with the tax collectors!
Here it is! This is the end you had to do, in jail!
He goes to jail!
- Stop! - Go home, I'll be right back!
Bring him up!
Keep the mules.
Love, who knows what they'll do to you.
- Nothing, in half an hour I'm out! - Hurry up!
I'll talk to the Governor, take the mules home and lock yourself in!
- No, I'm not exaggerating. - You are always ready to have pity.
I saw those poor people beaten up with the rifles
and dragged to jail. - Why are they rebelling?
What do women have to do with the problems of the State?
Problems of the state? This is about humanity.
People suffer persecuted and suffocated by taxes.
Wait a minute, the taxes are needed to pay the soldiers
who quell the outrage of the people caused by the new taxes.
- Is that clear? - You are truly without mercy.
Mercy! They always want to be pitied.
They shout and cry so that we will pity them
but I don't fall for it!
Teofilo, what you have done today is very serious.
- I don't know who advised you. - I don't get advice from anyone!
- Know that! - You put a new tax
on the day of the patron saint, and I am sure
that His Majesty, the King of Spain, would not approve this.
What? What do you mean by that?
That His Majesty could also take away the authority he has given you.
Baron.
A good advice from you, I will let His Catholic Majesty know.
I will take your land back. Dolores, what do you think I should do?
Free them, return them to their homes and their families.
All is calm, Excellency.
My wife, with her ideas....
Everybody out!
After they have rebelled.
Strength is needed, strength!
Again. Do you hear them? But I'll have them all hanged!
He's wounded! Blood is coming out!
- His Excellency is wounded. - Here the Governor is killed!
No, calm down, this is not blood, it's ink from the inkwell.
Excellency, freeing the arrested is the wisest thing to do.
- You too? - Yes. When the sea is stormy,
the captain throws the oil and then he sails calmly.
- Don't you think so, Baron? - Of course, Excellency.
- What shall we do, Excellency? - One moment, it is I who decide.
- Have you decided, Excellency? - Let's free them all.
Yes, all of them. Minus one, Luca the miller.
Why?
Agreed? I will make them free.
Don't worry, when I talk to the Governor,
I'll get you all out. - Save your breath, Luca.
The Governor only helps who does him certain favors.
I will tell him that you will be calmer.
This is a favor, isn't it?
The Governor is just a man, as long as you know how to take him.
I would know how to take him, not what you mean.
It doesn't take riots
to get anything done. It takes cunning.
- Call it cunning. - Why, what do you call it?
Carmela. That's what I call it!
My wife helps me, so what? She doesn't do anything dishonest.
It's nice to go around without paying taxes.
Forget it, you pay the tax too.
- Watch your mouth. - He said it well.
I prefer to know that the Governor is at the palace and not in my house.
The Governor enters my house with the utmost respect.
- The Governor and I are like this. - Do you stand above or below?
I'm not above or below. You are below and you'll stay there.
You have to know how to get by
and not to die in jail it takes guys like me.
- The captain! - I wonder what he wants.
By order of the king's majesty, may God be watching,
all those who were arrested today during the riot,
by an act of clemency of His Excellency the Governor,
are released and therefore they can leave.
- I knew that. - Sorry, we owe this to you
more than to the King of Spain. - To both of you.
- Bye, Luca, many thanks. - Goodbye.
Thank you, Excellency.
- Captain, goodbye and thank you. - One moment, Luca.
- I want to offer you some wine. - No, too much honor.
- I am honored, please. - What about this riot?
- All done. - I'm really pleased.
- You're welcome. - After you.
No, you are my guest, please.
- I do not want to disturb. - But no, it's duty.
- Duty... - Yes, I do it with pleasure,
but it's a duty.
Thank you.
- To the Governor's health. - Cheers.
- Very good. Again. - Thank you.
- To the Governor's health. - Cheers.
- Good indeed. - I have to go now.
- No, please sit down. - No, I have to...
Now I'll let you taste a delicious bread.
Not the bread, I have to go, I'm busy.
It will be for another time.
- What is going on? - I'm sorry, dear Luca,
but you can't get out of here.
- What did you say? - Governor's order.
The Governor? Captain, have you gone crazy?
No, Luca, it is a precise order.
I must keep you here as a guest until tomorrow morning at dawn.
Until dawn? And why?
I follow orders, I'm a military man.
I am a civilian. Why do I have to stay here tonight?
It's only one night, a few hours. Sleep in that bed, in my room.
I have to go, I can't leave Carmela at the mill alone.
- Well... - What does that mean?
I meant to say: let's drink on it.
No, you said "well" in a different way.
- I can't say "well?" - Not when you mention my wife!
- Not even "bah"! - Luca!
Are you crazy? One can't say "bah" or "well"?
What do you think when you say "bah" or "well" ?
- I don't think of anything. - No, you think of something!
If you really have to know, I think about what you are thinking about.
Come on, don't be discouraged.
I've been there myself.
How do you think I became captain?
The misfortune is that she ran away with another one,
if not, at this hour who knows what kind of a career I would have had.
She was beautiful.
Almost like your wife.
But you know what I used to do then? I used to get drunk.
And the next morning, it was all over.
Come on, drink! Drink!
- Drink! Let's drink together! - Yes! Let's drink on it!
- Yes! That's how I like you! - To your health!
You'll like me a lot when I'm drunk!
And here's to your wife's health.
Come on, Captain!
- You stay and guard the horses. - Yes.
- Eyes open. - Yes.
- Why here from the little bridge? - From here you get behind the mill.
- So what? - You can enter the house
without being seen by anyone. - Ah, yeah!
- So I'm going? - Yes, go.
- But are you sure that... - What?
- That the miller... - Is in jail.
- Go, don't be afraid. - Fear, me?
- How dare you? - Excuse me, Excellency.
Gardunia!
- Help! - Excellency!
- I can't swim! - Excellency!
- Hurray to Spain! - Excellency, swim!
Gardunia! Help!
Mrs. Carmela, run! His Excellency is drowning!
Pasqualino, there are people outside. Wake up, I'm scared!
- Concettina... - Still drunk!
Concettina!
Mrs. Carmela! His Excellency is drowning!
Gardunia! Help! I can't make it!
- I can't do it anymore! - What's happened?
Do something, save His Excellency who is drowning.
- I'm going down. - Hang on here.
- Carmela! - Hang on to this pole.
Attach yourselves to this pole.
- Pull up. - Up, Excellency.
- How much water I took! - I was so scared!
- How much I drank! - It's nothing.
- How much I drank! - Come on.
Courage, Excellency, it's nothing.
Come on, sit here, Excellency.
Do something! His Excellency must be dried!
Come on!
Excellency...
- What happened? - A horrible ambush.
Diabolical, infernal, had to be many.
I defended myself, but I slipped and fell into the water.
- I didn't see anybody. - But you'll see the gallows
when I'll have you hanged.
Some wine, Excellency?
- I can't, I drank too much. - How wet you are.
- Carmela, beautiful... - What are you doing here?
- Where is Luca? - My head!
- Calm down. - What have you done to Luca?
Don't get angry, I came here for this.
- So he's still in jail? - Unfortunately.
- I know you released everybody. - But not him, right, Gardunia?
He can't get out.
He can not get out.
- But Luca didn't do anything! - I know he didn't do anything.
- But then, Excellency... - Nothing... He did, and how!
- Right, Gardunia? What did he do? - The report is clear.
- It speaks clearly. - The charges are many.
- Many. - First, provocation.
- Second? - Aggression.
- Third? - Incitement to revolt.
- Fourth? - Insubordination.
Fifth?
Resistance to the guards of the King of Spain.
- Sixth? - Sixth...
- Excellency, there is nothing else. - Nothing else?
- He will be sent to court. - To court.
No, Excellency, not to court! Please, no!
- To court. He will be hanged. - Hanged? No!
Oh, God!
He must have a lesson, poor son.
Help! The devil!
The devil!
- Do it for me! - For you? You know I care for you.
I have told you a thousand times, everything, if you want it.
- I have come to save him. - Thank you, Excellency.
Gardunia, the papers.
Here is the paper that states
that your cousin is a tax collector.
But who cares? Save Luca!
Luca. I thought about this too.
Here is the release order for your husband.
- Thank you, Excellency. - Carmela, Carmela...
This stays here for now.
Excellency, but you are trembling, you should go to bed immediately.
- Excuse me. Why? - To bed?
You should put something warm on your chest, you should sweat.
Yeah, that's right! I'm cold, Mrs. Carmela.
All right, if you want, you can go to my room.
Right this way.
Come.
Did you see that? I told you, I know women well.
They need an excuse to salve their conscience.
- Go on, and be good. - How dare you?
- Excellency! - What is it?
- You have forgotten this. - Bravo.
- Nothing broke? - No. You watch the house.
- Patrol it! - Don't worry.
Carmela, we are alone.
Excellency, the bed is ready.
- The nightgown. - The gown.
You don't want to stay with wet clothes on.
And these are the socks, your feet will be cold.
Beautiful. We'll put this one down here.
- Is this your husband's? - Yes.
Now I am Luca, but I'm also the Governor.
- Excellency. - No, call me Teofilo.
- Yes, of course. - Your Teofilo.
- But your hands are frozen. - Yes, I'm frozen with emotion.
It's the first time I feel so agitated in front of a beautiful woman.
- I feel like a child. - But you are trembling.
- Don't worry. - Of course, Excellency.
- Teofilo. - Yes, now go to bed.
- I will make you hot wine. - Sure, good.
- Yes. - But be quick.
I'll be right back.
Finally!
- How hot it is in here. - Yes.
You'll see, with this all your troubles will end.
You are my only trouble.
- Tell me it will pass. - How can I tell? I don't know.
You know, you don't want to tell me because you are bad.
- No. - Tell me, am I going to heal?
- I think so, Excellency. - Excellency.
- Yeah, sorry. Te... - Teo.
- Teo. I can't, I'm embarrassed. - Witcher!
- Good. - A little more.
- What if I get dizzy afterwards? - And isn't that nice?
Beautiful! Beautiful!
- Get some too. - No, my head spins on its own!
- Is your head spinning? Beautiful! - Must be from your perfume.
The perfume? Do you like it? Smell it.
It's balsamic vapor, for the evils of love.
No, what are you doing?
- Give me a kiss. - No!
- Why? - Excuse me.
You have to understand me... You are too aggressive.
I am a military man.
- I'm going to go close the door. - Yes.
I want to show you that I love you.
It was my grandmother's, a Ferrer from Catalonia.
- What? - Look.
- Is it for me? - Yes, it's for you, take it.
Excuse me.
What have you done? Pearls, rubies, diamonds....
- But I don't deserve so much. - You deserve it.
You deserve the treasure of the Spanish Crown!
But I'm a poor peasant girl.
You are a queen. You're the most beautiful woman in the world.
- What are you doing? - I've always wanted a gold jewel.
I have never seen something so beautiful.
I'll give you many, all the jewels of my ancestors.
Of Ramirez, of Fernandez, of Mendoza, of Ferrer.
I'll give you one a day.
Tell me something, Carmela.
- How beautiful it is! - Think about me a little bit.
Yes, you are right.
- Are you leaving? - Do you want me to stay like this?
Ah, good!
Excuse me.
Beautiful!
- Pasqualino! Wake up! - Who is it?
Gardunia. Help me tie him up.
- What do you want to do? - I know what I need to do.
Hat and cape are for me.
The other one.
The other one, Carmela.
Carmela! The other one!
Here it is.
And now turn around and wait.
Yes!
I get it, you want to make yourself even more beautiful.
I'm going to kill him.
"By order of the Governor you've been hired as a tax collector..."
Assassins!
And if you see well, he who sings does not deceive you,
and with the rope on his neck,
here he hangs.
Here. For the kick you gave me.
Here! Because you took Concettina away from me.
Here! This is for all the poison in my body!
- The Governor! - But no, I'm Luca!
Put his clothes on, here's his cape and hat.
- What happened? - Hurry up!
- Here I am ready. - Soon!
- What will we do? - Walk!
- There is a Governor's order. - Wait a moment.
- Guard! - What is it?
I need to talk to the captain, Governor's order.
Come.
Slowly.
This way.
Wait.
Mr. Captain! Mr. Captain!
- Open up! - Who is it? What time is it?
- Midnight. - Go to hell!
- But it is Governor's order. - Governor.
Governor...
Governor at this time.
- What's up? - I have this order.
Mrs. Carmela. Close the door.
Governor's order. Release my husband.
I wasn't expecting you at this time and so early.
- Don't joke, free Luca. - Right away.
With the Governor's order... He's here.
- Here? Luca. - He's locked in here.
It will be hard to wake him up, we got drunk talking about you.
- Open up, quick. - Here, I'll leave you two alone.
Oh my God, he escaped! Captain! Captain!
- What's up? - Luca has run away!
- Where? - Through the window!
- Oh my God! - If he finds him, he'll kill him!
- Who? - The Governor!
- No! Guards, sound the alarm! - Let's make it quick!
Saddle the horses! On horseback! On horseback!
Carmela, what are you doing? I'm waiting for you.
His Excellency the Governor!
Close.
Good evening, Excellency.
But you are not the Governor...
No kidding, this is not the time to play hide and seek.
My head.
Carmela!
Excellency!
It's a long time that you haven't come to see me.
I thought you had forgotten me.
Excellency!
- How did you get in? - I loved you too much
and I took a chance. - What about Gardunia?
I put him to sleep with the chickens. All for you, my Concettina.
For the love I have for you, my little Concettina!
My God!
Stop, Mrs. Carmela! Come!
Gardunia, help! Where are you? I'll have you hanged!
Your Excellency.
Here I am!
- He killed him! - Stop, Mrs. Carmela! Let's go!
I've killed him. Gardunia, I killed him.
- Yes, Excellency, I'm dead. - You?
Was it you, Gardunia?
- Gardunia, are you dead? - Excellency...
Are you dead?
- Excellency... - How dare you?
Silence. You, there.
- You two, there. - The guards!
They're going to arrest us!
- You're the Governor! - Oh, yes, I'm the Governor.
Light that candle. Stop, Carmela!
Who's there. The miller and his boy!
- The murderers! Arrest them! - No! Luca!
Stop, Mrs. Carmela! Arrest them!
Let go of him! Luca! Luca, what have you done?
His Excellency!
I am the Governor!
- Your Excellency. - I am the Governor.
Then he did it, he killed my husband! Murderer!
Me?
- Murderer! - Come here, hold the widow.
- Murderer! - Mrs. Carmela, stay still.
Let go of her.
Carmela, what's going on?
- Where is the body? - Which one?
- The miller's. - I didn't see the miller.
Gardunia, cut me a lemon peel.
- Why? - My eye hurts, lemon is good.
It's good for you. It heals.
I want to go home, give me the clothes.
Excellency, the clothes are gone.
- My clothes? Who took them? - Look for the clothes now!
- My clothes! - But there's a note here.
- What does it say? - "The Governor's wife is beautiful."
- Yes, she's beautiful. - She's beautiful.
All right. But what does my wife have to do with this?
But who dares to make such appreciations?
- Luca wrote this! - Luca? Why?
- To take revenge. - Of what?
Luca, what did you do?
What did Luca do?
Well?
Why?
- How dare you? - It's not me, it's Luca.
Guards! Quick, to the palace!
- To the palace! - To the palace!
- Let's go!
- Quick! - To the palace!
- On the saddle! - Quickly! On the saddle!
- Good night, Madam. - Good night.
But why are you standing there?
Answer.
Drunk.
Where have you been?
Teofilo! What is wrong with you?
Please!
How many years have passed since you were like this!
Dear, dear...
Teofilo... Your mustache?
- I am not Teofilo! - Who are you?
I am Luca the miller, the one who has a beautiful wife!
- Your husband is with my wife! - He is not!
I surprised them and I didn't kill them because...
Because I wanted to take better revenge and I couldn't!
I couldn't!
Nanny!
But I'll wait for him here, or rather, we'll wait together!
I want revenge, it's in my right!
Wake everyone up and get them over here!
Yes! The whole building here!
To you the reins.
- There is no guard here! - The Governor has arrived.
Get the door open, knock.
- Get the door open! - Right away!
- I am the captain! - Open up!
- Open up!
- Open up, it's the Governor! - Open up!
- Open now, I am the Governor!
Get this open!
- Who is it? - The nurse!
Nanny! Open up, it's me!
- Me who? - I am the Governor!
- What?
- Teofilo has been in bed for a hour. - Luca, I'm here, I'm Carmela!
Nanny!
Don't you recognize me? Yet you nursed me!
The Governor has returned.
I saw it with my own eyes
going to sleep with his wife.
- Cheater! He's a cheater! - Unfaithful!
Enough! What scandal is this?
The Governor's wife is making a scandal!
Captain, arrest that woman and take her upstairs!
- Governor's order! - Yes, I want to see your faces!
Take me anywhere you want, I want to see your face!
I want to see you too! I'm the Governor!
Gardunia, kill, bribe, assault, but this door must open!
It's cold in this damn city!
Let go of me, captain!
Finally I have the pleasure of seeing the face
of one of these shameless women!
- Mrs. Carmela! - Do you like my husband?
Me? Are you crazy?
Your own guilt makes you imagine such things.
It is my own guilt... Let go of me, captain!
You are not worthy to have a husband like yours.
- Nanny, send him in. - At once, Excellency.
I had him arrested because he was like a madman and wanted revenge.
- But what do you want? - Come on!
- Shut up, you shameless! - Here is your husband.
He came into my room.
Perhaps he could take his revenge,
but he didn't want to for you, because he loves you,
even though you are not worthy of it.
Luca, it's not true, I swear I...
Don't swear, save what little of clean soul you have.
- I didn't do anything! - Shut up, you slut!
You learned the part well.
If I may, I would like to clear up a misunderstanding.
Carmela is a flower of purity and virtue.
What do you know, you used to go and get drunk.
No, Mrs. Carmela came to me with release order.
Exactly! The wedding present! I'd rather stay in jail.
- Please believe me. - To you? I saw her.
She was with the Governor. I saw you through the keyhole.
- Through the keyhole? - Yeah!
- But then it wasn't Gardunia. - Gardunia wasn't there.
- Then it was you in his clothes. - What about this?
I was behind you, I was coming out and I saw you come in.
- You were walking on your tiptoes. - Yes.
- And you bumped into a glass. - Yes.
Then I ran away with a release order.
- But then... - I was desperate.
I wanted to free you and run away, far away from this city.
- My beautiful Carmela. - Luca.
- How many bad thoughts... - Luca.
- My love. - If you knew tonight...
- Thank goodness! - Release him.
- Now. - Luca.
- Carmela, my beautiful! - Luca.
- Let's go. - Luca.
Excuse me. We are poor people, that's our only fault.
Sometimes we make mistakes, but I never thought it'd end up like this.
- And with such shame. - Forgive us.
- Do you forgive us? - You are forgiven.
- Thank you, Excellency. - One moment, Luca.
You were very clever to enter the palace.
So skillful that you fooled me too.
- Now you must help me. - Yes.
- You must do what I tell you. - I will do whatever you want.
Nanny, listen to me carefully.
- What shall we do? - I don't know, Excellency.
What are you doing here?
- Sergeant, what are you doing here? - We are looking.
What? Come and look at this!
- Here, who is this? - Well...
- What? - It's the Governor!
- Doesn't he look like the Governor? - He looks like him.
- Yes. - And they wonder why I hang them!
- How many men are in here? - Where?
Valets, cooks, soldiers, waiters...
In the building?
- 47. - Set up 47 gallows, I'll hang them.
- Yes. - In fact 48, even the nurse.
Also the nurse.
- You may enter. - It's about time!
We can come in, huh?
Stand up! Stand up!
- Why? - I'm the Governor!
- He's the Governor! - I'm the Governor!
His Excellency the Governor!
What's going on?
- What do these peasants want? - Get off that ladder
or I'll have you hanged! - Don't insult my husband like that.
One more word and I'll give the order to arrest you.
But I am Teofilo, Dolores. Don't you recognize me?
Yes, I recognize you now, you are Luca the miller.
- What miller? - Don't raise your voice!
- What did they do to you? - What did they do to me?
I ask you. What have you done of my honor tonight, madam?
- Arrest the mystifier! - What are you saying, Luca?
The Governor of the city, the king's envoy,
does not go around at this hour and dressed like that!
But I...
But you are a fool.
You say you are the Governor, call my wife Dolores...
What are you doing in the palace at night?
- But it's my house. - Yes, it's your house too.
- It's my house. - Of course, because you're a citizen.
The Governor's palace is of all the people.
- Speak. - I should say that!
I understand, you have come to protest against me.
- Right! - Right.
I couldn't sleep thinking about today's riot.
Too many impositions, too many abuses, too many unjust taxes.
And the people rebelled.
I made a mistake. I shouldn't have put the tax on rain and marriage.
Rain makes the wheat grow which is used to pay taxes.
- And without kids, who pays taxes? - Yes, nobody. Right, Gardunia?
Do you see how simple everything is, dear Luca? I want to confess to you.
You can't govern a people without knowing them.
Brains are for governing, not for other people's women.
- Enough! - I apologize to my wife
who has had to endure so much. - Enough!
I don't allow you anymore!
Yeah, that's enough.
You are also right, Excellency.
- What are you doing? - Excuse me, madam.
The fault is not only of those who govern us,
but also of those who believe they can take without giving.
There are a lot of people better than me.
People in pain.
But they're not being smart.
Come on, Carmela.
Go away everybody.
Madam, what have you done of my honor tonight?
- Tell me! - Take back your clothes
and try to be worthy of it.
It's been a year and we're celebrating, as always,
the patron saint.
What beautiful things! Come on!
Forgive me, Dolores.
Have you heard how the people are cheering me?
- You must be very happy about that. - I sure am.
What, Teofilo?
I have done everything you wanted.
I followed your advice.
I took away the unfair taxes, removed all favoritism,
away every arrogance and every injustice.
- You have done well. - I had Gardunia hanged.
- You did wrong. - No, he should have seen it coming.
Every day I told him I was going to have him hanged.
I had to do it, it was a matter of honor.
Dolores, one year ago you promised me
in front of the Virgin of the Pillar
that today you'd tell me the truth. - I remember, Teofilo.
Dolores, tell me,
that night, here in the palace, what happened?
- Do you really want to know? - Yes.
- I can tell you everything? - Yes, Dolores.
- Will you be strong? - Yes.
Tonight, the Virgin of the Pillar,
during my prayer,
told me to tell you the whole truth only next year,
at the feast of the patron saint.
Come on!
Come on, guys!
- What are you doing? - Concettina is very happy.
- I gave her a nice gift yesterday. - You're getting a little weak.
Love is like spring, it tires you out.
- Is this how you help me? - What a scent!
- Pasqualino bought it for me. - It's good, but now help me.
Luca, look who's here!
- Good morning, Luca. - Good morning.
- Here we are. - Hold the horse.
- How much is it this time? - 5 coins.
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
- And 5 for the grind. - Really?
- Goodbye, Luca. - Bye.
Laugh, laugh.
What's up?
Paying taxes is quite a hassle.
Right!
If you want, let's put the arbor back up and invite all our friends.
The lawyer, the baron, the Governor...
No, no, no! It's better to pay taxes.
But then you really love me.
- You don't? Why? - Because you're ugly, Carmela!