- Hi! We're home! - Hi there
Hey, my favourite cake!
It smells great! Hello, darling.
Just leave him there, I'll take him with me.
Do you know who called?
- It still hurts, huh? - It's not so bad.
Your Chinese friend's parents!
They invited us to dinner on Sunday. Isn't that nice?
Do we have to go?
I already said yes. I thought you'd be pleased!
That's the ji yu. They're five years old.
- And the striped one, can you see him? - Yeah.
He's the most valuable one of all. He's a real worker. Can you imagine that?
Did you have it flown in special or something?
- Hello there. - Dada, my favourite sister.
She loves the fish.
What a sweet baby.
Cute.
My wife says you handle chopsticks well.
We eat Chinese a lot.
But we've never had such great Peking Duck!
- Do you like Chinese food? - Yeah, sure.
My wife and I were wondering if Danny might like to...
fly to China with Li Wei in August.
Duibuqi! I'm sorry.
My wife has already discussed it with her father on the phone.
My father would be very pleased. He said,
"My grandson's friends are my friends."
They're nice people, the Lis. And so warm.
And inviting Danny to China...
Are you looking forward to it?
What do you mean, looking forward to it?
You can't be serious!
Do you want to deport me or something?
Aren't you interested in new experiences?
Having adventures? If it were me...
Of course.
What am I supposed to do in China? I can't even speak Chinese!
- I don't know anybody there! - Come on, Li Wei's going with you!
And what if I get sick there?!
They have doctors.
Look, you can't hang around Salzburg all summer.
I can keep myself busy. I'm not a baby!
Look, you have two options:
Either you go to China...
Or?
Or you stay with Aunt Annelies!
Hello?
Tell me, where's the stupid island? I can't find it.
Yeah. OK.
All right.
I got it. Thanks. Bye.
Whatever I try to play, it always turns into this.
Always the same... Again and again...
I must get away.
But how?
I have an idea!
Wake up Long Nose, we're in China!
- Goodbye! - Goodbye!
Uncle Yi says you're so big because of the food in Austria.
Look, Adong!
Welcome to Adong.
I'm Cousin Lin-Lin.
Hi, I'm Danny. You can speak German?
Later I study music in Salzburg.
Better to learn German now.
Let him, he's as strong as you are.
- Yeah, but... - No buts.
What's with them?
Well, the Chinese say that foreigners stink.
- But you don't stink that much, he said. - What a good start.
Do you think it's any different for me in Austria?
Come on, has an Austrian ever sniffed at you?
No, but some people call me "slant eyes," Long Nose.
Really? You don't say!
- Ma man chi! - Thank you.
- Hey, Slant Eyes, what does "ma man" mean? - Slowly.
- And "ma man chi" means "eat slowly." - Oh.
What are you doing? Don't you like it?
Sure. But everybody keeps telling me to eat slowly!
But that's just a saying! It really means something like...
- "enjoy your meal"! - You could have told me that sooner!
Wow! Mum packed Mozart for me!
Greetings, Wolferl. Welcome to China!
I brought some more pillows.
Hey, who's that?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. You may call me Wolferl, my pretty.
Like this, you see?
And this is for your hands.
That's right.
Look, this is the theatre.
- When's the next show? - I don't know.
There usually aren't any in summer.
That's the Monkey King, who always conquers everybody...
because he's so clever.
And that's Lady White Bone.
- Did Grandfather Wang make them? - Some of them.
A lot of them are very old. This one for example: Princess Mingmei.
Grandfather Wang saved and restored her.
What do you mean, "saved"?
Years ago the ancient shadow theatre was forbidden.
Men stormed the theatre and threw everything, the backgrounds
- and the puppets into the street. - Into a fire!
Yeah. And that night grandfather secretly...
pulled some of the puppets out of the hot ashes and hid them.
Under here.
Then when the shadow theatre was permitted again,
grandfather took the puppets from their hiding place and fixed them.
- And Lin-Lin's helping him. - Nali nali...
Danny? Can you hear me?
Yes.
I'm calling because I can't find Mozart anywhere.
Do you know...
In what suitcase?
No, I didn't.
Does he have his piano?
Yeah.
Someone must have helped him.
I'll take good care of him. I miss you too. Bye.
Hey, Long Nose!
This is stupid.
Now I know where the Chinese get their silly footwork in soccer.
Thank you.
That's only because you sing so beautifully.
So softly and delicately.
You're not Chinese, are you?
No, I just look like one.
Thanks!
That's enough of that. Yuck.
I'll never know...
how the Chinese can eat this slime for breakfast.
Well, I think the same thing about your cocoa.
I wanted to tell you that Lin-Lin can't swim. Just so you know.
Why can't she swim? She lives right next to the sea.
She fell out of a boat once and almost drowned.
Cousin Fe...
Wedding. Cousin Fe's getting married?
Yeah. We're all going to the wedding! Friday.
And Grandfather Wang's going to put on a show. As a wedding present!
Have you seen Li Wei?
He went to Sanya with my dad.
Because of the boat's motor. You were asleep.
OK. I'm going to the beach.
Grandfather said I should look after you.
You're suppposed to look after me?
Yes. You're a guest and guests have to be looked after.
- And you can't speak Chinese! - At least I can swim!
I'll teach you, OK?
There's nothing to it, you'll see!
Stretch out, your arms too. I'll hold you.
This is what you have to do.
Try it standing up first.
Try it like this.
Not like that, like this!
You're all such jerks!
Lin-Lin...
Why are you mad at me? What did I do?
- Can't we talk about it? - Talk about what? You're a foreigner.
You're tall, you don't have any feelings or understand anything!
And I stink too, you almost forgot that! Stupid brat!
Watch what you're doing!
Picnic?
Yue Han Wu!
Yue Han Wu lends people money and if they can't pay it back,
he takes their houses and sells them to a foreign hotel chain.
Great! We're going to Sir Tang's Secret Palace!
The Honourable Sir Tang came here...
when he wanted peace and quiet. With his favourite wife.
Uh-huh.
This is where the shadow theatre was born.
The favourite wife died suddenly.
Then the emperor was very sad.
One day a...
A magician.
He said he can bring the favourite wife back to life.
The magician took Sir Tang into a dark room and...
And lit an oil lamp and incense.
And slowly the shadow of Sir Tang's favourite wife appeared to him.
And Sir Tang was happy.
Not at all.
Sir Tang became even sadder.
He wrote:
She approached incredibly slowly...
and never arrived.
Do you know where the restroom is?
There and to the left.
Yue Han loanded grandfather money to fix up the shadow theatre.
Don't be stupid.
Grandfather Wang has to make monthly payments, which is hard because...
people would rather go to the movies.
It was the same with our theatre, but most shows are sold out now.
- Why's that? - Because of the tourists,
and then the locals started going again.
Locals...?
We're going on a picnic.
Good food warms the heart.
Sir Tang's favourite wife had golden lotus feet.
There was once a bishop in Salzburg who had a golden nose.
Really! Bishop Dietrichstein.
He had some kind of disease and his nose fell off.
So they made a golden nose for him.
Golden lotus feet were something completely different.
They used to wrap girl's feet very tightly...
so they stayed small. And then the girls were considered beautiful.
Like this.
It hurt a lot. The feet couldn't grow and stayed small.
The smallest were the most beautiful, no bigger than 10 centimetres,
those were golden lotus feet.
But how could they walk with feet like that?
They didn't have to walk.
They were rich and beautiful and had lots of servants.
Everybody get in!
Lin-Lin said she heard that in a dream.
Mozart in China!
Exactly!
That's great! It could be used in the shadow theatre.
Yeah, with him sitting at the side of the screen.
Let's print invitations, just "Mozart in China."
"Mozart in China."
- They're going to help! - Great!
When I'm big, I'll have my eyes made European.
What do you mean?
Like this. Big and beautiful like the Europeans.
I think your eyes are beautiful the way they are!
My words exactly!
Ming Mei, I must leave tomorrow!
I love you more than anything! Please, come with me!
Give me your hand, my love,
Come to a castle with me,
How can you resist?
It's not very far.
You can't live without the shadow theatre? I cannot live without you!
You would be nothing but a lifeless piece of oxhide without the shadow theatre?
You can swim!
Sure! There's nothing to it.
I think he wants to stay here.
But you need him in Salzburg, don't you?
You can bring him when you come to Salzburg.