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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.12,0:00:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Leopard
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.76,0:00:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 1 The prince and the changing Sicily.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.03,0:00:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every morning begins the same way:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.48,0:00:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sound of prayers, the smell of wax and flowers in the home chapel. My sisters
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.40,0:00:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recite the rosary with devotion, while I, sitting in my seat, think of something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside the Sicilian sun burns the earth as always, but something is different in the air. My
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.28,0:00:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land, so slow to change, now seems to be rushing towards something I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.20,0:00:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The news comes from Palermo, from Naples, from overseas. Garibaldi landed in Sicily. The
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.20,0:00:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,monarchy is faltering, and with it our lives. The servants whisper, the nobles pretend to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.68,0:01:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be calm and in control of the situation, even if they are clearly worried.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.24,0:01:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I feel it: the world as we know it is ending.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.20,0:01:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi, my nephew, looks at me with eyes full of fire. He wants to leave and join those
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.72,0:01:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberators. He says it's right, that it's the future. I smile, but inside I feel a cold bite.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.80,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's young, yes, but not stupid. He understood before me that power is shifting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, Prince Fabrizio of Salina, man of stars and silences, remain still while everything changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.52,0:01:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That night, looking at the sky, I saw a star fall. An omen, perhaps.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.12,0:01:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe just the beginning of the end. But I didn't know it yet. Not entirely.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.32,0:01:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 2 Don Fabrizio and the passing of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.16,0:01:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night without knowing why. I walk slowly through
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.84,0:02:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dark corridors of the villa, I listen to my footsteps on the marble and I think about time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.76,0:02:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time is a silent animal: it walks alongside you and then, without warning, passes you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.48,0:02:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see my youth as if in a foggy mirror:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.48,0:02:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hunts with friends, the travels, the studies. Everything seems so far away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.32,0:02:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now every gesture is slow, every thought heavy. My family still looks at me with respect,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.48,0:02:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I feel like they no longer understand who I am. Maybe I don't know either.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.12,0:02:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live among rituals and habits that never change: lunch at 2:00,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.68,0:02:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the walk in the garden, the evenings in the living room while my wife embroiders in silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.36,0:02:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But outside the world is racing. Cities explode. People want to vote, scream, fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.56,0:02:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we, the nobles, remain closed in our palaces counting the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.92,0:03:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I wonder if all this order serves any purpose, if it isn't
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.84,0:03:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just an elegant way to hide fear. And while the island awakens, I continue to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.40,0:03:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,observe like a tired lion who smells, in the dust, the scent of the approaching enemy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.52,0:03:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 3 Tancredi is the new generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.44,0:03:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi is like the wind: you don't stop him, you don't follow him. You watch him go by and hope he comes back.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.56,0:03:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he told me he wanted to join Garibaldi,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.72,0:03:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I smiled. Not out of joy, but out of respect. He knows where the world is going. I, on the other hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.48,0:03:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am letting it go. “Uncle, if we don't change,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.32,0:03:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'll erase us,” he told me, with those bright eyes and that confident voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.72,0:03:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spoke of homeland, freedom, future. I only saw dust and disorder.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.00,0:04:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I remained silent, because ultimately he is right: everything must change to remain as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.88,0:04:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's our only hope. Tancredi brings with him something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.28,0:04:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have lost: the will to live. He laughs, jokes, falls in love easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.96,0:04:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women love it, men follow it. He is the son of a new world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.52,0:04:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born on the ruins of ours. When he left with the
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.60,0:04:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crooked uniform and the stage sword, I hugged him. I smelled tobacco and youth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.40,0:04:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was scared. Not for him. For me. For what it represents.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.16,0:04:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I sit in my study, looking at his portrait.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.68,0:04:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The silence is profound, and the future - his future - gallops away from me, without turning.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.92,0:04:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 4 The meeting with Angelica.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.20,0:04:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Angelica entered the room, time stopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.48,0:05:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her beauty wasn't just in her features: it was in her gestures, in her confident gaze,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.64,0:05:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the silence she carried with her. Even I, a tired old prince,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.04,0:05:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt a shiver, as if something powerful had entered our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.16,0:05:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi saw it and forgot everything: wars,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.08,0:05:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ideals, future. She was there, in front of him, and one look was enough to know that she would be his.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.08,0:05:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't tell him, but I knew right away. And even though she is the daughter of Don Calogero Sedara,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.92,0:05:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a crude and rich man, I remained silent. Because Angelica is not like him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.76,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fire under the ice. The nobility huddled in their worn silks
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to ignore her, but she shone too brightly. It represented what is coming:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.28,0:05:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an elegant, hungry bourgeoisie, ready to conquer everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.44,0:06:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I watched them talk, laugh, barely touch each other. And I felt a pang inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.96,0:06:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not of jealousy. Of nostalgia.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.36,0:06:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angelica is the future disguised as a dream. And I, who know dreams and their traps,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.16,0:06:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately understood that nothing will ever be the same again. That evening I raised my glass and toasted,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.04,0:06:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without telling anyone that our world was dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.84,0:06:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 5 The ball and the decline of the aristocracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.60,0:06:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hall was full of lights, laughter and perfumes. The fans moved like butterfly wings.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.72,0:06:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The violins played endless waltzes. Palermo wanted to forget the war,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.08,0:06:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tensions, the confusing news arriving from the continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.48,0:06:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't forget. I observe.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.12,0:06:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone was there: nobles dressed in gold, bourgeois in search of glory, officers in shiny uniforms.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.56,0:07:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angelica dominated the room. In his every step there was grace and achievement.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.20,0:07:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi smiled at her, proud. It was his night, their victory.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.92,0:07:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat on the sidelines, like an exiled king. The ladies greeted me, the young men
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.56,0:07:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came to kiss my hand. But it was courtesy, not respect.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.76,0:07:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could hear it in the voices, in the too quick gestures, in the glances that passed by.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.64,0:07:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking among the mirrors and chandeliers, I saw again everything we have been — and everything
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.36,0:07:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will no longer be. The walls laughed at us,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.44,0:07:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at our titles, at our medals. At one point I asked for a glass
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.52,0:07:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of water. Only water, because the wine that evening would have burned too much.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.88,0:07:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I saw it: my reflection. Tired, grey, out of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.20,0:08:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that I was no longer a prince. And maybe I never really was.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.84,0:08:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 6 Marriage and the new reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.88,0:08:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi and Angelica's wedding day was splendid. Yet bitter.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.72,0:08:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sky was clear, the flowers were fresh, the clothes were bright.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.68,0:08:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People applauded, bells rang. Everything was as it should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.80,0:08:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, inside me, something was breaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.76,0:08:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi was radiant, Angelica, in an ivory dress, looked like a queen.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.24,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I knew that it wasn't just a union of love: it was an alliance between the
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,old blood of the Salinas and the new money of the Sedaras. A necessary compromise. An elegant rendering.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.44,0:08:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don Calogero, the bride's father, smiled too much.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.24,0:08:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looked at each guest as if he were counting coins.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.12,0:09:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every word he said was out of place, but no one dared to correct him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.16,0:09:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now he too was part of our world. Or at least that's what he thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.92,0:09:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the ceremony, I watched Tancredi's hands shake Angelica's.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.24,0:09:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young, safe. Mine, hidden
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.40,0:09:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind my back, trembled slightly. Because what I saw was the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.48,0:09:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I didn't belong there. At the table, between toasts and laughter,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.68,0:09:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I raised my glass to the new times, I said. Everyone applauded.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.76,0:09:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I only thought of one thing: we had opened the door to change,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.92,0:09:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and change never asks permission to enter.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.80,0:09:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 7 Loneliness and the end of the prince.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.56,0:09:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The house is quieter now. The children are far away.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.72,0:09:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tancredi lives in Palermo, Angelica organizes receptions and participates in salons.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.40,0:10:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stay here, in the Donnafugata villa, among antique furniture
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.44,0:10:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and habits that no longer serve any purpose. Every morning I walk slowly through the garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.44,0:10:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trees are the same, but I'm not. The body bends, the mind wanders.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.00,0:10:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer have desires, only memories. And every now and then a fixed thought:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.88,0:10:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when will the time come? Politics no longer interests me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.68,0:10:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The new rulers talk a lot, they promise everything. But I don't believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.08,0:10:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing has really changed. Just the faces. The people remain poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.92,0:10:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sicily remains motionless under the sun. The truth is simple: here everything changes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.56,0:10:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to never really change. I spend the afternoons watching the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.40,0:10:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sky turn red like a slow flame. I feel death near, but not with fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.56,0:10:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look at her as one would look at an old friend arriving.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.60,0:11:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One evening, as the sun sank behind the hills, I felt a profound relief.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.00,0:11:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if everything finally made sense. And for the first time I understood that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.92,0:11:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are not masters of our end. But we can at least choose silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.80,0:11:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 8 Everything must change to stay as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.56,0:11:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that I'm no longer here, maybe someone will still talk about me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.48,0:11:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will say I was an honorable man, a cultured prince, a tired dreamer.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.32,0:11:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the truth is another: I just watched time slip through my fingers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.24,0:11:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like hot sand in a hand that no longer holds.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.24,0:11:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I died, life went on. Tancredi became a deputy, then a senator.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.72,0:11:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angelica became a shining figure of the new Sicilian society.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.04,0:11:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have children, parties, photographs. They talk about progress, about modernity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.56,0:12:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, if you look carefully, everything has remained as it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.32,0:12:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The farmers are still poor. Ancient buildings are falling apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.04,0:12:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The powerful change their names, but not their habits. Sicily allows itself to change on the surface, but
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.76,0:12:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside it remains the same: proud, wounded, immobile. One day, many years later, one of my daughters
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.68,0:12:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found my old dog, dead, forgotten in a closed room.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.44,0:12:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one had looked for him anymore. They buried him in silence,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.36,0:12:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a relic of the past. Maybe that really was
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.64,0:12:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the funeral of my world. Now my name is engraved on a cold tombstone.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.64,0:12:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if someone asked me what I learned, I would only answer this:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.20,0:12:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for things to remain as they were, everything must change.