JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

- adapted by Radu Dinulescu after Jules Verne

Characters:
Storyteller (old Axel)
Young Axel
Professor Lindenbrock
Young Grauben
Hans
Italian
O incinta pentru monolog 4 34 se aprinde lumina
POVESTITORUL: Allow me to introduce myself! My name is Axel Lidenbrock and I'm
going to tell you about an amazing adventure that I lived a few years ago. My
uncle, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, put me in charge to keep the logbook of a
fabulous expedition. Here, I have my daily notes, as many as I could chronicle
and then save, in the spur of the events.
5 07 intra si se stinge in spate lumina
My uncle, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, lived in the most beautiful district of
Hamburg. He was an authentic scholar holding the chair of Mineralogy at the
university and I, in my dual capacity as nephew and orphan, I had become the
laboratory assistant for his experiments, for some time.
4 06 (4 34) pana la 5 35
SCENA 1
(biroul profesorului Lindenbrock)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel! Follow me, Axel! Something extraordinary happens!
(profesorul ine n mn o carte)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: This book...It's a priceless gem I discovered this morning while
poking around the antique shops! It dates back more than seven centuries!
AXEL: Is it in German?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: This is the definitely original work! Watch and admire these
strange characters!
(deodat un pergament nclit de pete, alunec dintre pagini i cade pe jos)
AXEL: But what is it?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Theyre runes the forms are absolutely identical to those in the
manuscript! But what can it all mean?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: (privind cu lupa) Definitely this is a cryptogram ... This writing is
two centuries later!
(pe ecran se formeaz un dans al semnelor i literelor privite cu lupa)
(profesorul cerceteaz cartea cu lupa, pe ecran apar caracterele cu numele
lui Arne Saknussemm)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Arne Saknussemm! A scholar ... a celebrated alchemist of the
sixteenth century! I shall have the secret of this document and will neither eat
nor sleep until I have discovered it! Nor will you, Axel!
AXEL: Nooo!

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: First of all, we must find out the language of this cipher! Seventynine are consonants and fifty-three vowels. This ratio is specific to southern
languages. It is therefore a language of the South.
AXEL: All right but what language is it?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: This Saknussemm was an educated man. He must naturally have
chosen the Latin! Axel, sit down and write! Im going to dictate the letter in
our alphabet corresponding to each of the Icelandic characters. Well see what
that gives! B [bi:], Z [zd], E [i:], H [ait], O [o], J [dei], I [ai]...
(pe ecran semnele si literele se aliniaz cnd pe orizontal cnd pe vertical)
POVESTITORUL: This work began to catch me, too, in a strange way. My head has been
heated, watching the sheet on which I had written the one hundred and thirtytwo letters, which seemed to be flying around me. I was having a sort of
hallucination; I was suffocating; I needed some fresh air. Absent-mindedly I
fanned myself using the piece of paper, with the back and the front passing
alternately before my eyes. Imagine my surprise when I thought I caught sight
of perfectly intelligible words during a quick turn of the sheet, just as the other
side came into view: Latin words like craterem and terrestre!
AXEL: Uncle! I have the key of the cipher! Look! Read!
PROF. LINDENBROCK: But it doesnt make sense!
AXEL: No sense when you begin at the beginning but from the last letter back to the
first...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Oh, clever old Saknussemm, so you wrote your message
backwards!
Go down into the crater of Sneffels Yocul,
Which the shadow of Scartaris caresses,
Before the calends of July,
Oh, audacious traveller and you will reach the centre of the Earth.
I did it! Arne Saknussemm
(pe ecran apare textul n latin)
In Sneffels Yoculis craterem kem delibat
Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,
Audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.
Kod feci. Arne Saknussemm
PROF. LIDENBROCK: So, what time is it?
AXEL: Three oclock!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Good Lord! How quickly time goes on! We eat something and
then you can pack my trunk ...and yours, too!
AXEL: Packing off?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We are do up our bags, Axel! We are going to leave for a journey!
AXEL: Noooo!!
SCENA 2
(n biroul su unchiul pregtete materiale)
POVESTITORUL: Going on a journey to the centre of the Earth! What a crazy idea! Next
day I thought that only scientific arguments would have stopped my uncle at
such an escapade! I went into his office. He has already been preparing for the
great scientific adventure!
AXEL: Uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel, you were of great assistance to me. Where would I have
ended up without you? I will never forget that, my boy, and you will have your
fair share of the fame we are going to achieve!
AXEL: Allow me first to exhaust all possible objections concerning the document!

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: You are no longer my nephew but my colleague. Pray proceed!
AXEL: I have to mention that nothing can demonstrate us the authenticity of this
document!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What? And the book we discovered it in? Is it a mystification, too?
AXEL: All right, I accept that this Saknussemm wrote the message, but does it necessarily
follow that he actually carried out the journey?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: That is what we are going to find out!
AXEL: Well, I will ask you what Yocul, Snaefells and Scartaris mean, since I have never
even heard of them!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Thats easy. This is the map of Iceland. Do you see this island?
(pe ecranul central apare o hart uria)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It consists only of volcanoes and notice that they all bear the name
Yocul; this means glacier in Icelandic. And here it is the mountain of
Sneffels, one of the most remarkable on the island and definitely the most
famous in the whole world, if its crater leads to the centre of the globe!
AXEL: But this crater is obviously blocked up with lava and scorching rocks and so...!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: That Sneffels is an extinct crater for over 500 years!
AXEL: I doubt whether our scholar went down there himself, whether he carried out the
journey to the centre of the Earth and came back, whether he even undertook it.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: And the reason?!
AXEL: It is well known that the temperature increase by approximately one degree
centigrade for twenty metres you go below the surface of the globe! Now assuming
that this ratio remains constant, the temperature at the centre will be over two
hundred thousand degrees!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: So, Axel, you are afraid of melting! It is that science is eminently
perfectible First of all, it must be kept quiet, do you hear? In our world there
is a great number who, if they knew the content of this document would like to
arrive before us in the center of the Earth!
AXEL: Do you really think?
POVESTITORUL: Thus it was ended that memorable discussion from which hard I felt
quite myself! I was dealing with the speculations of a lunatic, or scientific
statements of a great genius? Should I do up my luggage or should not?
SCENA 3
(seara, o strad n Hamburg)
POVESTITORUL: I decided to walk a little in the street and, soon I caught sight of my
little Grauben walking nimbly back, from the centre.
GRAUBEN: Axel! Oh, so you came to meet me you cant deny it!
AXEL: Yes, darling Grauben!
GRAUBEN: What's wrong, you're not quite yourself?
AXEL: Wrong, Grauben? All is absurd...unwiseness!
GRAUBEN: Axel! A man should try to prove himself by some great adventure...
something remarkable! Go ahead! Itll be a wonderful journey!
AXEL: Well see if you talk this way tomorrow!
GRAUBEN: Tomorrow, dear Axel, Ill be the same as today!
Se taie de la 11 50 la 12 46
POVESTITORUL: Oh, women, girls, feminine hearts, impossible to understand! She
wanted me to do it, although she loved me! I spent an awful night... I
dreamed only abysses! I felt like falling into the bottomless depth of
holes...

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SCENA 4
(biroul profesorului Lindenbrock)se adauga 60 secunde
POVESTITORUL: Next day at dawn my uncle was ready. His office was full of ropes,
torches, drums, iron hooks, pickaxes ... weapons, physical instruments
and electrical appliances, boxes of all kinds. Ten people wouldn't have
been able to carry them!
AXEL: So, were leaving!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, my poor boy! Tomorrow, crack of dawn! Have you packed
your trunk?
AXEL: Yes... Yeah!! But Im just wondering what all the hurry is?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: If we waited until 22 June, we would arrive too late to see the
shadow of Scartaris playing along the crater of Sneffels!
(PROF. LIDENBROCK iese, rmne Axel i Grauben)
GRAUBEN: So, darling Axel, I see youre in better form and have calmed down during
the night!
AXEL: Calmed down?
GRAUBEN: Axel, your uncle is a staunch scholar, a man of great courage and you should
always remember that you have his blood in your veins. When you come back,
Axel, you will be a man, in his great force!
AXEL: Grauben...
GRAUBEN: Go, dear Axel, go... you are leaving a fiancee but you will come back to a
wife! (Grauben l srut i iese n fug.)
POVESTITORUL: Her words have spirited me!
(Axel lein)
POVESTITORUL: Ultimately ...something like!
I've left myself to chance ... it was useless to struggle with it!
13 08 pana la 13 30 pe muzica
POVESTITORUL: A few hours later, we had already embarked for the Elleonora. At
midnight the moorings were cast off and the steamer moved rapidly over the dark
waters of the Baltic Sea.
se sare peste port valkiria de la 13 31 la 14 08
SCENA 5
(pe ecran apar imagini din Copenhaga)
POVESTITORUL: In Copenhagen, I took a childish pleasure in exploring the town. My
uncle noticed nothing of those enchanted sites; instead a high bell tower had
caught the professors eye, starting from the platform, an outside staircase
worked its way round the spire, with its spirals in the open air.
se taie de la 15 26 pana la sfarsit
(imagine cu clopotnia)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Up we go!
AXEL: But what if we get giddy?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: All the more reason: we have to get used to it!
Usa se deschide dupa 10 secunde ( 15 56 se deschide usa)
(cei doi n vrful clopotniei)
AXEL: I'll never can climb!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: You are not a coward, are you? Start climbing!
Se taie de la 16 31 pana la 17 06
AXEL: If I close my eyes ... feeling space-sickness because of height!

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have to reach the top!
AXEL: My legs begin to give way!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Look and look properly! It seems that everything is rotating
tremendously in the space! You should learn precipices, you need to take
lessons in equilibrium at height!
AXEL: Oh, God!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well do the same tomorrow!
AXEL: Oh, God!
POVESTITORUL: In fact we practised this dizzy-making exercise each day for five days
and, whether I liked or not, I made noticeable progress in the art of
conteamplation from high places!
Tine pana la 17.55 se taie pana la final scena
SCENA 6
(pe goeleta Valkyriei, cea)
POVESTITORUL: Our precious luggage was stowed on board of Valkyria, the Danish
schooner leaving for Reykjavik. After ten days, Valkyria dropped anchor in
Faxa Bay, beside Reykjavik itself. A clear sky allowed us to see in the horizon a
high mountain with two points on top, a double cone covered with perpetual
snows.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Look! Sneffels!
AXEL: Great!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, Axel, things are working out. We are over the worst!
AXEL: What do you mean, the worst?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I mean its downhill all the way!
AXEL: In that sense, youre right; but having gone down, wont we eventually have to
come back up?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Oh, that will not present a problem! What is interesting in this
country of Iceland is below the ground not above!
Se prelungeste la final cu 7 secunde
SCENA 7
(holul unui hotel la Reykjavik)
POVESTITORUL: After a brief walk along the seafront of Reykjavik, I returned to the
hotel. My uncle was speaking with a robustly built young man, tall and
clearly of unusual strength.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Dear Axel, he is Hans Bjelke, a skilled hunter who perfectly
speaks Danish!
AXEL: Glad to meet you!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I got along with Hans to lead us along the coast, about 700 km.
Hes perfect! He can hardly realise the brilliant part he is going to play!
AXEL: So, hes coming with us...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: ...to the centre of the Earth!
AXEL: And when were leaving?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Tomorrow, crack of dawn!
AXEL: Tomorrow?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Tomorrow!
(Axel lein)
POVESTITORUL: There were still few hours left! Everything was ready. We carried with
us: a centigrade thermometer up to 150 degrees, a manometer, a chronometer,
two compasses, a night-glass, two Ruhmkorff lamps, two rifles and two
revolvers, two ice-picks, two pickaxes, a ladder made of silk, three hundred

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metres long, one axe, one hammer, a dozen iron wedges and pitons, several
long knotted ropes, three alpenstocks, boots and the provisions: six months
supply of dried meat and biscuits, juniper, too! Also, we had a portable medical
kit containing: blunt-bladed scissors, splints for fractures, a strip of holland
material, bandages and compresses, surgical spirit, ammonia, iodine and other
medicines! My uncle was careful not to forget a leather belt which contained
an adequate supply of money in gold, silver and paper form.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: With such clothing, shoes and equipment, there is no reason we
shouldnt go far!
AXEL: ... and whatever route fortune gives, we shall follow, Virgiliu!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well done, Axel!
SCENA 8
( peisaj straniu, parial nzpezit)
POVESTITORUL: We had worked our way round the great Golf Faxa then we could see
the two white peaks of Sneffels! We were working our way round the huge base
of the volcano and soon, we were out in open country, if that term can be used
for a huge waste-ground of discarded volcanic material.
AXEL: Uncle, we are going to climb Sneffels. Fine. Were going to have a look at its
crater. Good. Others have done it and lived to tell the tale! We are going to ferret
among the bowels of the Earth but what proves that an eruption is not in
preparation?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Sneffels has been silent for six hundred years!
AXEL: It might speak again one day!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I have therefore questioned the local inhabitants and Hans; I have
surveyed the ground and I can assure you, Axel, that there will not be an
eruption very soon!
AXEL: Really?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Listen carefully! When an eruption is on the way, the steam
increases considerably but then disappears completely. Certainly, we have
nothing to fear from the fury of the volcano before long!
POVESTITORUL: We began to move up the slopes of Sneffels. The route was becoming
more and more difficult. The ground was climbing and soon, a keen frost and a
strong wind surrounded us.
(Vntul bate puternic, pietre minuscule se prvlesc peste cei 3)
POVESTITORUL: Finally, at eleven at night, very much in darkness, we reached the
summit of Snefells. Before going to shelter inside the crater, I caught sight the
pale glimpse of the North Star for the last time!

SCENA 9
(interiorul craterului)
POVESTITORUL: In the morning we woke up half-frozen by a glacial temperature but in
the rays of a fine sun. All around I saw valleys, ravines and countless glaciers.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We are at the summit of Sneffels, with its twin peaks. Hans, tell us
what the Icelanders call the one bearing us this instant?
HANS: Scartaris!
AXEL: Scartaris?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: To the crater!
AXEL: Uncle, to climb down into a blunderbuss when it may be loaded and could go off
at the least shock, youve got to be crazy!

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel, too late... there is no going back!
SCENA 9 A
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel, Axel! Come here, down here! Look!
(pe ecranul central apare o stnc cu inscripia)
AXEL: Arne Sakunssemm!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Can you have any doubt now?
AXEL: I am crushed by the evidence!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have only to keep waiting for the calends of July!
POVESTITORUL: The following days, a grey sky, cloudy and heavy, lowered over the
summit of the cone! Without the sun really was like sinking while coming into
harbour! On the twenty-sixth still nothing; rain mixed with snow fell down.
The sky was still covered the following day. But on the twenty-eight of June,
a miracle! The sun poured its abundant rays down into the crater! At the
middle of the day, it came and gently kissed the edge of the middle chimney!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It is there! There it is! Forward... to the centre of the globe!
HANS: Forut!
AXEL: Forut?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Forward!
POVESTITORUL: It was thirteen minutes past one! The real journey began!
GENERIC CA DE FILM
SCENA 10
(Gura craterului)
POVESTITORUL: The descent began in the following order: Hans, my uncle, myself.
After ten hours ne aflam deja la aproape un km n burta pmntului.
HANS: Halt!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We are there!
AXEL: Where?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: At the bottom of the vertical chimney!
AXEL: And there is no way out!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, there is! I can just see a sort of corridor at an angle towards
the right. We will have a look tomorrow. Lets eat and then, we can sleep.
(las bagajele din spate i se pregtesc de somn)
POVESTITORUL: I fell into a deep sleep.
24 05 incepe cadrul
At eight in the morning, a ray of daylight came and woke us up scattering
everywhere like a shower of sparks.
AXEL: Its magnificent! It is as if the spirits of the underground are lighting up their
palace to welcome their guests from the Earth!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Have a look at the thermometer!
AXEL: Fifteen degrees! In other words, an increase of only nine degrees! We know that
the temperature increases by one degree for a depth of fourty metres; so, we are at
three hundred and sixty metres deep!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Wrong! We are three thousand metres below sea level!
AXEL: Are we really?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes or else figures are no longer figures!
24 07 se aprinde lumina si ei merg.
POVESTITORUL: At six a.m. the following day, the journey began again and continued
quietly until twelve oclock, the precise moment when we were in the middle of

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an intersection with two paths heading forward. The slope of the new gallery
was very gentle. We walked all day long and, surprisingly, the tunnel began to
climb half of the second day!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, Axel?
AXEL: Well, Im totally exhausted!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What, after strolling along such an easy route?!
AXEL: Easy, perhaps, but most certainly tiring!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: But all we have to do is descend!
AXEL: Climb, with respect! Definitely!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It might be the wrong way, but we won't confirm the error until
we reach the end of the gallery!
AXEL: Youre right to follow such a course of action, uncle! I would support it if we
werent in a greater danger!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Of what?
AXEL: Of the shortage of water!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, we will ration it, Axel!
340 350
POVESTITORUL: Rationing was indeed necessary! The route was climbing, sometimes it
even seemed to be going down... Magnificent marble specimens covered the
walls. At six p.m, a wall appeared right in front of us. We had reached the end
of a cul-de-sac (a dead end)!
350
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well so much the better! At least we know we are not on
Saknussemms route. We have three days to get back to the point where the
two tunnels split!
AXEL: Yes, if we are strong enough!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: And why should we not be?
AXEL: Because tomorrow there will be no water left at all!
360
POVESTITORUL: The following day we left very early. Finally, on the seventh of July,
dragging ourselves along on our hands and knees, half-dead, we reached the
point where the two tunnels split! I lay there, a lifeless mass, stretched out on
the lava floor; I fell into a deep faint!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Poor child! Look, the last drops of water! Drink!
AXEL: Thank you, uncle! We have to turn round and follow the path back to Snefells!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Go back?
AXEL: Yes, go back, without wasting a moment!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: No, Axel, no! Go if you want! Hans will go with you! Leave me
alone!
AXEL: Abandon you?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Hear me out, Axel! While you were lying there without moving, I
explored the other gallery. It forces its way directly into the bowels of the
Earth. We should meet abundant springs! I am asking for only one more day!
If at the end of that time I have not encountered the water we need, I swear to
you that we will return to the surface of the Earth!
AXEL: All right! Let it be as you wish aand may God reward your superhuman energy!
Let us go! You have only a few hours left in which to tempt fate!
SCENA 11 370 apa
(cei 3 ptrund n cea de-a doua grot)
POVESTITORUL: We set off again, this time down the other tunnel! At eight p.m. still
had not found water and we were seven kilometres underground!

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POVESTITORUL: We all fell to the ground. We fell asleep instantly. Suddenly, as in a
dream, I thought I heard a noise... I thought I could see Hans slipping away
with the lamp in his hand...
AXEL: Hans is leaving us... Hans, Hans!
(din adncul galeriei apru Hans se apropie de prof)
HANS: Vatten! Vatten!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Water? Where? Hvar?
AXEL: Water, water! Saved!
(Hans ia un trncop i lovete peretele de granit)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Worthy man! What would we do without him?
(o coloan de ap nete din perete)
AXEL: Oh, God! Water at hundred degrees!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It will soon cool down!
AXEL: But its full of iron!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Excellent for the stomach!
AXEL: Lets fill the water bottle and flasks, we must not let the water be lost!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Why bother? I do not imagine this source will ever dry up! And
the water flow will follow us all the time...
AXEL: Good idea! With this stream as companion, there is no reason for our projects not
to succeed!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: You are getting there, my boy!
Se taie 30 secunde cascada de apa
SCENA 12 390 si 390.2
POVESTITORUL: We started off again at eight a.m. on Thursday! The granite corridor,
twisting and turning in sinuous paths, produced unexpected corners, taking on
complexity of a maze. On July eighteen, we arrived at a sort of grotto, of
considerable size.
AXEL: Uncle where are we now?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: By my calculations we are somewhere under the open sea!
AXEL: So, the ocean stretches above our heads!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have covered about 425 miles and we are 80 kilometers deep!
AXEL: Allow me to do only a simple calculation!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Go on, my boy, feel free!
AXEL: The radius of the Earth is about 6 000 km!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: As you say!
AXEL: And we achieved sixty km in about twenty days?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: In twenty days!
AXEL: If we continue in this way, we will therefore take five years to get down!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Where Arne Saknussemm succeeded, we will also succeed! Now,
consult the manometer; what does it indicate?
AXEL: A considerable pressure!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Good! You can see that by going down gradually, by slowly getting
used the density of the atmosphere, we have not had any problems at all!
AXEL: None at all, apart from a few earaches!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Theoretically the objects no longer have any weight at the centre
of the globe!
AXEL: How will we carry on then?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, we will just have to put stones in our pockets!
SCENA 13
interiorul povestitorului intotdeauna cu putin travling ca sa se poata pregati papusa

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POVESTITORUL: For the two weeks that followed our last conversation, I can only find
in my memory a single event of an extreme seriousness. On August seven, our
successive descents had brought us to a depth of ninety km examining the
granite strata; suddenly, turning round, I noticed that I was alone.
400 prelungit!!
AXEL: Great! Ive walked too quickly, or else Hans and my uncle have stopped on the
way! Haaans! Uncleee! (ecou foarte puternic) Its best to join up with them again!
Haaans! Uncleee!! Should I go back?!... Should I wait for them here?! Haaans!
All I have to do is go back up to my faithful stream! God, the stream is no longer
flowing at my feet!! Im lost! Oh, uncle... if I knew what to do! I should go up
until I reach the stream! Go up, clearly, continue on up! Uncleee! Heeelp!
POVESTITORUL: I started fleeing, rushing at random through the dark, going down,
calling, shouting, screaming, soon bruised on the rock projections, falling and
getting up! After several hours I fell like an inert mass along the wall of gallery
and I lost all awareness of existence. How long this state of unconsciousness
had lasted, I cannot say. A loud noise like long rolling thunder struck my ear!
AXEL: Uncleee! Its a hallucination? Help! It seems to hear voices! Its an acoustic effect!
Uncleee! Heeelp!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axeeeeel! Where are you, my boy?
AXEL: Lost, in the most complete darkness!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: And your lamp?
AXEL: Out!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: And the stream?
AXEL: Lost!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel, do not despair! It is already something to be able to hear
each other!
AXEL: Yes, uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: First of all we must find out how apart we are! I pronounce your
name and start the chronometer! You immediately answer and I'll stop it. All right?
AXEL: Very good!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Ready?
AXEL: Yes!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axeeeel!
AXEL: Yes, uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Twelve seconds! Sound therefore takes six seconds to arrive. We
are two km away!
AXEL: But up or down?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Down! Off you go like a good fellow, off you go!
Trebuie lungit cu 55 secunde intra si povestitor monolog
POVESTITORUL: These were the last words I heard. I was running on a slope becoming
steeper, clashing out of the corners of gallery. My head struck a sharp rock and
I lost consciousness. When I came to, my uncle and Hans were watching me
looking for any sign of life.
420 trezirea
AXEL: Uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Hes alive, hes alive!
AXEL: Yes!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: My boy, you are saved!
AXEL: I have all my limbs intact?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Certainly!
AXEL: And my head?

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: Exactly where it ought to be!
AXEL: We havent returned to the surface of the Earth, have we?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Most certainly not!
AXEL: Then I must be mad for I can see the light of day, I can hear the wind blowing and
the sea breaking! Uncle, will you please explain?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: You shall see and you will realise; tomorrow we shall sail!
AXEL: Sail?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Tomorrow, Axel, tomorrow!
AXEL: The sea!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, The Lindenbrock Sea! I like to believe that no other navigator
will contest the honour of having discovered it and the right to
name it with my own name!
AXEL: Undoubtedly! But how can you explain the existence of such an excavations?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Do you feel strong enough for a little walk?
AXEL: Yes, certainly, nothing would give me greater pleasure!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well then, take my arm, Axel, and well follow the meandres of the
shoreline!
SCENA 14 425 lungit
POVESTITORUL: Four hundred paces away, beyond a high promontory, appeared a tall
thick dense forest. It consisted of trees of medium hight saped like
regular sunshades.
AXEL: What a strange forest!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It is just a forest of mushrooms!
AXEL: Astonishing, magnificenr, splendid!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: You are right there, my boy... it is a hothouse! But you could add
that it may be a menagerie, too!
AXEL: A menagerie?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Without a doubt! Look at the bones scattered on the ground!
AXEL: Yes, the bones of prehistoric animals! And this, what can it be?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Here is the lower jawbone of a mastodont!
AXEL: But if prehistoric animals lived in the subterranean regions, who is to say that one
of those monsters is not still wandering around in the middle of these dark forests?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Nobody, my boy... nobody! Just as no one can tell us how long
would this ocean be!
AXEL: Would we ever be able to sight the shores on the other side?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have no time to lose and will set sail tomorrow! Were going to
embark on a good solid raft!
AXEL: A raft?!
450 pe pluta
POVESTITORUL: On the other side of the promontory, Hans had built a three metres
long wooden raft. On August thirteen, at six in the morning, everything
was ready.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Hit the road, run before the wind!
POVESTITORUL: At midday, Hans ties a hook to the end of a line and he baits it with a
small piece of meat and cast into the sea.
460 prinderea pestelui pe Loop
PROF. LIDENBROCK: A fish! It belongs to a family which has been extinct for centuries!
This fish displays a peculiarity! It is blind!
AXEL: Indeed... not only blind but absolutely without organs of sight!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: This sea contains a lot of fish and I do not think we've got the
greatest! I hope to be ashore and safe soon!

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AXEL: You seem impatient, uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: With a good reason!
AXEL: And yet we are advancing at a rate...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It is not our speed that is too small, but the sea that is too big!
AXEL: But since we have been following the route indicated by Saknussemm...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: That is the question! Have we been following the route? Did
Saknussemm ever encounter this stretch of water? Did he cross it?
AXEL: In any case, we cant regret coming this far. The spectacle is magnificent and...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Seeing is not the question! I set myself an objective and I mean to
attain it!
Trebuie marit cu 10 secunde
POVESTITORUL: Sunday, August sixteen, nothing new! My uncle tries sounding several
times. He ties one of our heaviest picks to the end of a rope and allows it to run
deep. No bottom. When the pick has finally been dragged on board...
Urmatoarea mare cu 6 secunde
HANS: Tnder!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Teeth?
AXEL: Teeth?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What animal can have such teeth to break through metal?
AXEL: This sea is populated by monsters! Should we prepare the weapons?
HANS: Ha!
AXEL: Eh, what is it? Have we hit?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel... prepare the weapons!
AXEL: But its a colossal porpoise!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes and over there is a sea lizzard of a most unusual size!
AXEL: And further on a prodigious crocodile! Look at its huge jaws!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We are surrounded by monsters!
AXEL: Look! They make a rush at each other!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: These animals attack one another with indescribable fury!
AXEL: Could we escape the rage of the victor?
480 batalia monstrilor
POVESTITORUL: One hour, two hours pass... The struggle continues unabated! We
remain motionless, ready to fire! Suddenly the animals dissapear, hollowing
out a veritable maelstrom in the open sea. Several minutes go by... the
plesiosaurus surges out, mortally wounded. Its death throes were at their end
and it remained an inert mass on the waters...
SCENA 15 500 si 510
POVESTITORUL: Wednesday August nineteen Fortunately the wind, blowing with
force, has allowed us to flee the scene of the struggle. Thursday August twenty
at about twelve oclock a very distant sound is heard! It is like a continuous
roar!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Far off is some rock or the shore against which the sea is
breaking!
AXEL: And if the roaring come from a cataract?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I dont believe it!
AXEL: We are going to precipitate into the abyss of the waters?

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: It's a phenomenon due to the wind!
(profesorul rcat pe catarg se uit cu binoclul)
AXEL: What can you see, uncle?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: A tremendous column of water rising above the waves to a great
height!
AXEL: Another sea monster?
HANS: Holme!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: An island!
AXEL: But what about the water column?
HANS: Geyser!
AXEL: What gorgeous colors! What a rainbow!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Let's go to the shore!
AXEL: Be careful! The water is boiling! Sounds like a furnace! We'd better go ahead!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: All right! We'll see this place at some other time!
AXEL: Uncle... allow me to call this place... Axel Island!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: So be it!
SCENA 16
POVESTITORUL: Friday 21 August. The wind has freshened and quickly take us away
from Axel Island! The atmosphere is gradually loaded with water vapour, the
clouds are loweringperceptibly... a stormy drama is going to be enacted.
AXEL: It looks as though we are going to have some bad weather! Let's bring down the
mast; that would be the sensible thing to do!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: At Hell, no! Let the storm carry us...none but finally see the shore,
even if we break into thousands of pieces!
AXEL: The sail, the sail! It should be brought down!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: No!
HANS: Nej!
AXEL: Where are we going? What happens?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Hold on, my boy!
20 secunde
POVESTITORUL: Monday 24 August The terrible storm never ends; we are broken
with fatigue... 15 secunde
A disc of fire appears on the edge of the raft; the mast and the sail are carried off
in a single movement flying to the sky with a huge force! A smell of nitrous gas
fills the air; we choke on it... Tuesday 25 August The storm is still continuing! A
new noise can be heard! Like the sea breaking on rocks! toata secventa cu bula
SCENA 17 540 si 545 Loop
(pe o plaj)
POVESTITORUL: Wednesday 26 August A magnificent day! Hans pulled me from the
waves and carried me out on the burning sand of a beach. When I woke
up side by side with my uncle, every trace of the storm had disappeared.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, my lad! Did you sleep soundly?
AXEL: I'm still dead tired!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Im sure you will be completely all right!
AXEL: You appear very gay this morning, uncle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Delighted, my boy, delighted!
AXEL: Delighted?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have arrived!
AXEL: At the end of our expedition?

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PROF. LIDENBROCK: At the edge of that sea! Now we are back on the shore and we
could again descent!
AXEL: Uncle how are we going to get back?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: In the simpliest way possible... Once we have reached the centre of
our spheroid, either we shall find a new path to climb up to the surface!
AXEL: Then we will have to think about repairing the raft!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Obviously!
AXEL: What about the instruments?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: All in a good state!
AXEL: Our firearms?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well, we will simply have to give up hunting!
AXEL: And what about the food?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Hans has saved most of them! We have for four months!
AXEL: Four months?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We have time to reach the centre of the Earth and come back.
Youd better check the compass!
AXEL: But whats the matter?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What?
AXEL: The needle marks north where we expect south!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: During the tempest, there had been a sudden change of wind, one
we had not noticed!
AXEL: Therefore we went backwards?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Fate plays me such tricks! The elements are conspiring against
me. Air, fire and water are combining to stop me getting through. Well, they
are going to see what my will-power can do. I shall not retreat a tenth of an
inch. We shall see who wins: man or Nature!
SCENA 18 560 565 Loop si 570 mai tarziu
POVESTITORUL: We had been following the shores of the sea for about 2 km, when the
ground changed appearance! Suddenly, we were advancing on a huge plain of
bones, like an immense cemetery, stretched out in several km!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Axel! Its a human head!
AXEL: A human head?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, my boy! Gentlemen, dear friends and collegues, I have the
pleasure of introducing to you a man from the Quaternary Era! Look, his
skeleton is here! Yes, we find ourselves face to faces with a fossil man
contemporary with the mastodons whose bones fill this auditorium! I cannot
then question the authenticity of his ancient origin!
AXEL: Well done! Uncle, nobody will be able to contradict you! Hey, but what meets the
eye there? It seems to be a whole herd of mastodons!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Come on! Forward, forward!
AXEL: No, no way! We are unarmed!
570 imaginea cu mamutul
PROF. LIDENBROC: Look over there! It seems to me I can see a living creature-a being
like us- a man!
AXEL: Its an ape!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Its a human being, my boy... the guardian of the herd of
mastodons !
AXEL: He must be more than four metres tall! Uncle, run for it!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Too late! Stop!
(cei doi se ascund, prin scen trece ncet uriaul)
8 secunde in plus

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SCENA 19 15 secunde povestitor peste imagine
POVESTITORUL: Now that years have gone by since this strange, this supernatural
event, I cannot understand what it might to be! Our senses must have been
mistaken! No race of men couldnt live in those deep caverns of the globe ,
oblivious of the inhabitants of the surface, not communicating with them in
any way! Its insane, deeply insane!
POVESTITORUL: By working our way along the coast, another strage thing happened!
AXEL: Look!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What is it?
AXEL: There!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Its a rust-covered dagger... Its of Spanish manufacture from the
sixteenth century!
AXEL: But it couldnt have just arrived on its own! Somebody must have got here before
us!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, a man! The man who used this knife to engrave his name ...
His aim was once more to mark the route to the centre of the Earth!
AXEL: Lets see if we can find it!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Lets see!
(Cei doi caut)
AXEL: A, S!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Arne Saknussemm once again! Thank you. Oh, marvellous! This
is the way!
AXEL: Forward! Let's go forward!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Lets first go and find Hans, then bring the raft over here, study
the cave and prepare the ladders!
Se prelungeste cu 6 secunde
Din nou camera povestitorului
POVESTITORUL: Hans had prepared everything for the immediate departure! I was
engulfed in a state of ecstasy that I could not explain to me! The mouth
of the gallery was less over a metre. We came into it without any
difficulty. We were following an almost horizontal path when our way
forward was blocked by an enormous obstruction.
AXEL: Blasted rock! Its an insuperable obstacle!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It looks like it!
AXEL: But what about Arne Saknussemm? Was he stopped by a stone door? If we cant
beat it, we dont deserve to get to the centre of the Earth! Lets mine the obstacle
and blow it up!!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Blow it up?
AXEL: Uncle, well get through!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well get through!
25 secunde o imagine
POVESTITORUL: Thursday, 27 August, was an important one in our underground
journey! Every time that I think about it, terror makes my heart beat faster. At
six in the morning we were up to use the explosives to force a way through the
granite crust.
15 secunde

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AXEL: Uncle, I request the honour of lighting the fuse!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: All right, my boy! Are you ready?
AXEL: Im ready!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Well fire away, my lad!
(Axel aprinde fitilul. Toi se ascund pe plut )
AXEL: Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... Take that, oh, granite mountains!
24 secunde
SCENA 20 640 cu caderea cu tot.
POVESTITORUL: What happened next? The shapes of the rocks suddenly changed
before my eyes... and they swung away like curtains. I glimpsed an
unfathomable void hollowed out from the very shore... The sea had become
nothing but one immense wave; light had given way to the most utter darkness.
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Oh, God, we face our end! Heelp!
AXEL: Uncle... Maybe we could escape the fury of the torrent and we succeed to go
further ...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Do you think well die?
AXEL: A chance in a thousand, and it's worth hoping it!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We are drowning!
650 se opreste si porneste din nou
(pluta coboar mai lent)
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Something is changing and I do not understand what is it!
AXEL: Uncle... I feel that ...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What do you mean?
AXEL: Were going up!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Going up?
AXEL: Were actually climbing very fast!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Let's hope it's not a stuffy chimney and we wont be crushed to
death by the pressure. We are in a desperate situation!
AXEL: There is no situation without solution!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: If we arent drowned or torn to pieces, theres still the chance we
might be burned alive!
AXEL: Are we moving towards a fiery furnance?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Who knows?
AXEL: Its an earthquake... no doubts!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: No! I am expecting something better than that!
AXEL: What do you mean?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Im hoping for an eruption, Axel! An eruption is the best thing
that could have happened to us!
AXEL: The best thing? Have you gone quite mad?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes, for it is the only chance we have of getting back to the surface
of the Earth!
AXEL: Uncle!
(se opresc pentru o clip)
AXEL: Whats happening?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: An intermission!
AXEL: Is the eruption stopping?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I sincerely hope not!
AXEL: We are shot upwards again!
SCENA 21 680 si 681

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POVESTITORUL: When I opened my eyes again, we were lying on the slope of a
mountain, baked by the heat of the sun, which was scorching us with its rays!
AXEL: Where are we? In Iceland?
HANS: Nej!
AXEL: Then where?!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: There doesn't seem to be a volcano in Iceland! It has not snowcovered peaks!
AXEL: Where can we be, oh, where?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: And the compass?
AXEL: If we listened to what it said, we would think wed headed the North Pole!
(un om se apropie)
AXEL: Look! An inhabitant of this blessed country!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: What is the name of this mountain? Clear! We are not in
Germany!
AXEL: Where we are?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Come si noma questa isola?
LOCUITORUL: Stromboli!
AXEL: Italia! Stromboli!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Yes! We are exactly at the foot of Etna!
AXEL: Oh, what a journey! We had gone in by one volcano and out by another!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: The best thing would be to look for some new clothes and have a
delighteful meal, in the port of Stromboli!
AXEL: Uncle, but what do we say how we have arrived on the island?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: We accordingly resigned ourselves to being mere victims of
shipwreck!
AXEL: Victims of shipwreck!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: It is less glamorous but safer! Thus, with their superstitious
mentality... the Italians would certainly think us devils thrown up by the fires
of Hell!
SCENA 22
Din nou camera povestitorului
POVESTITORUL: This is the end of a tale which many people, however determined to be
surprised at nothing, will refuse to believe! The Stromboli fishermen received
us with kindness due to those who have undergone shipwreck. They provided
food and clothing! On Friday 4 September, we boarded on a ship and on 7
September, we landed in Marseilles, where we said goodbye to Hans, who was
suffering from homesickness for Iceland!
685 si 685 Loop
HANS: Farval!
AXEL: Adio, Hans, adio!
PROF. LIDENBROCK: Farewell, our friend, our savior!
690 si 695 prelungit
POVESTITORUL: You can imagine professors homecoming produced a sensation in
Hamburg. He became a great man very quick and there was a public meeting
where the professor told the story of our expedition! I think it's superfluous to
describe Grubens joy to see me again!
AXEL: Gruben!
GRUBEN: Axel!
AXEL: You missed me so much!

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GRUBEN: Now that youre a hero, Axel, you will never need to leave me again!
Putin mai lunga 4 secunde
Din nou camera povestitorului
POVESTITORUL: Lidenbrocks theory that contradicted the scientific doctrines of fire
in the centre had made the tour of the world. As for myself... I personally
cannot accept it! Despite what I have seen, I believe, and always will, in heat at
the centre. But I admit that circumstances which are still not properly
explained can sometimes modify this law under the effect of certain natural
phenomena! For my part, soon I will have been the happiest of men the
happiest of men for my pretty Gruben, giving up her position as ward,
accepted to be my wife. In the midst of wedding, my uncle pulled me aside and
took off from his pocket the much-discussed compass!
Din nou 695 prelungit
PROF. LIDENBROCK: My boy,... this compass...
AXEL: We-ell?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: The needle points south instead of north!
AXEL: I know! During the storm on the sea...
PROF. LIDENBROCK: See, the poles are reversed!
AXEL: Reversed?
PROF. LIDENBROCK: I have discovered the phenomenon that had made it possible to
happen!
AXEL: Explain yourself clearly!
PROF.LIDENBROCK: During the storm on the Lidenbrocks Sea, the fireball magnetised
the iron on the raft and so quite simply, disorientated our
compass!
AXEL: So it was all a trick done by electricity!
Sa mai treaca o data bula de gaz!
(lumina se ntrerupe, muzic mar nupial)

THE END

Bucharest, August 2015

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