0:00:04 > 0:00:11THIS FILM CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Dr Halder? Reichsleiter Bouhler is waiting.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34- You don't know what this is about, do you?- What?
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Well...the letter I received.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42It was marked Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration...
0:01:42 > 0:01:45..of Severe Hereditary Ailments. That's correct.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48I have no idea what that could have to do with me.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Are you suggesting there's been a mistake?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Heil Hitler.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Dr Halder.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Have we caught you at a bad time? - Yes...
0:02:36 > 0:02:40No! I did have to shuffle a few tutorials, but...
0:02:41 > 0:02:45It's not every day one is summoned to the Chancellery of the Fuhrer.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Indeed. Sit.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00As chairman of the Party Censorship Committee,
0:03:00 > 0:03:04it's my job to keep a vigilant eye on modern literature,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07to ensure that it embodies the proper spirit
0:03:07 > 0:03:09of National Socialism.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14I've asked you here to... clarify your views
0:03:14 > 0:03:17on a matter of personal concern to the Fuhrer.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Your novel.
0:03:24 > 0:03:30It raises controversial questions on the theme of the right to life.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Some of your conclusions are quite revolutionary.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- Are they? - I take it the views expressed here
0:03:36 > 0:03:38are ones that you yourself hold.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43It's been some years since I wrote it.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Of course, it's...a work of fiction.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48- Give it back, give it back! - Lotte!
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- It's Erich's homework. - But I know the answer! It's easy.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Give it back to him!
0:03:56 > 0:03:58You're an angel for cooking again.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Hmm... Yes, I know I am.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Are you sure you don't mind?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06No.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08CHILDREN CONTINUE TO ARGUE
0:04:08 > 0:04:11When I get going, I can't seem to stop.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13It's fine.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17WOMAN SHOUTS FRETFULLY
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- God! Lotte, come here. - John!
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Stir this slowly. All right? That's my girl.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30- CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC - Johnny!- Coming, Mother!
0:04:31 > 0:04:34- KNOCK AT DOOR - There's someone at the door!
0:04:34 > 0:04:37PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Theodor!
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Didn't you hear me knocking? - Yes!
0:04:45 > 0:04:47A mathematician! Just the fellow we need. Helen!
0:04:47 > 0:04:51- Your father's here. - Not you I wanted to see.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- Now, John...John! - Erich!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Help has arrived.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Now, John! I have told you this before.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03You have to shake yourself out of this apathy.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07I have just come from the rector... What are you making?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- Er, some kind of...vegetable... - Goulash!
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Yes.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18There are changes coming at the university.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Promotion will automatically go to Party members.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- If you're not careful, you'll be out of a job.- John!
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Yes, Mother! Mind the onions.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Coming!
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- I'm here! I'm here! - Where were you?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Oh, don't let them take me, Johnnie!
0:05:39 > 0:05:43It's Theodor. You remember? Helen's father.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46I was sorry to hear you'd been back at the sanatorium.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Helen, can you please come up? Do you need to go again?
0:05:50 > 0:05:54- I couldn't hold it. - Oh, Mother!
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Dans une langue nous savons, nous avons substitue
0:05:57 > 0:06:00a l'opacite des sons la transparence des idees.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Transparency of ideas.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Relativity of perception.
0:06:06 > 0:06:11Music and faith, memory and guilt...
0:06:12 > 0:06:16The most potent memories are those we recapture involuntarily -
0:06:16 > 0:06:20a chance sound, a tap of a spoon... (MAKES JUG CHIME) ..against a plate,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23as he waits there in the library.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Suddenly happiness floods through him.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32He is transported back in time to a train stopped in the countryside.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36He is watching the sun light up a little row of trees in the distance.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40SHOUTING A railwayman is tapping a wheel with his hammer,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43and it is an echo of this precise sound...
0:06:44 > 0:06:47SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM OUTSIDE
0:06:55 > 0:06:57ALL SHOUT
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Lovely(!) Better leave it there for today.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Go on! Have a look!
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Off you go.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15Ah, Professor Mandelstam. We really should do something about this,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17go to the rector.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22Please, John, I don't think that's a good idea -
0:07:22 > 0:07:26for either of us. In fact, I'm afraid I must go further.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28As head of department,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32it is up to me to ensure that the works of the proscribed authors
0:07:32 > 0:07:36are removed, not only from the library
0:07:36 > 0:07:39but also...from your curriculum.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42Which authors did you have in mind?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Proust, for a start.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Because he's French?
0:07:47 > 0:07:51John, please! Don't be obtuse!
0:07:51 > 0:07:54What if I refuse to comply? HE SIGHS
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Then...I would have no option
0:07:58 > 0:08:00but to dismiss you.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Shit!
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- Yes? - I saw your light was on.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41I was just coming out of the library. I need your advice.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44I'm Anne Hartman. I come to your lectures.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Yes, I've noticed you. But you're not on my course.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Probably wondering who I was. Or maybe you weren't.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56I'm supposed to be doing history, but I don't know why.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59I can't see what it has to do with anything -
0:08:59 > 0:09:03sitting in some lecture theatre listening to some boring old...
0:09:03 > 0:09:06That's not what I mean. Your lectures...
0:09:06 > 0:09:09That's why I'm here. You make them all come alive.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15I heard what you said to Mandelstam. I wish more people would stand up
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- for what they believe in. - What do you believe in?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21That's just it. I know what I like. I know what's good.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24I can feel it passionately. But when it comes to ideas,
0:09:24 > 0:09:28- they just don't seem real. - Maybe that's why you're here.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32At university, I mean. To try and connect that passion.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36- Did it work for you? - I hope so!
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Yes.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40I think so.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42This is what I believe in.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- Books? - SHE LAUGHS
0:09:47 > 0:09:51It does make me sound rather fusty, doesn't it?
0:09:52 > 0:09:57Perhaps you're right. What do a load of old books have to do with life?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Who knows? It might be liberating just to chuck them all out,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03make a fresh start.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06And here I am, writing another one.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Adding to the pile.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14What's it about? Your novel?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16HE CHUCKLES
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- A man who kills his wife. - Oh!
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Because he loves her, you understand.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- She's incurably ill. - How awful!
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Yes. I know. Whoever's going to want to read something so depressing?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36How awful about the poor woman, I mean.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Of course people will want to read it. It sounds so romantic.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41To kill for love!
0:10:46 > 0:10:50# I crop by the Neckar
0:10:50 > 0:10:52# I crop by the Rhine
0:10:52 > 0:10:55# Now I have a sweetheart
0:10:55 > 0:10:58# And now I have none
0:10:58 > 0:11:02# What use is cropping if none is mine? #
0:11:02 > 0:11:03I love this song.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06The problem is that I am imagining it.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Really? - HE LAUGHS
0:11:09 > 0:11:13- It's not funny, Maurice. - How long has this been going on?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Dunno.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- A few months. - Three months? Six months?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24I don't know!
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- Could it be the end of January? - Thereabouts, I suppose.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Why? Is there a connection to...
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Well, we put the country in the hands of a lunatic.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Taking refuge in fantasy might be a rational response
0:11:37 > 0:11:42- to an irrational world. - But why singing?- I don't know.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45No idea?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Why not?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50To be honest, John, I'm all out of ideas.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53I've been cooped up here all day
0:11:53 > 0:11:56listening to the twisted sexual fantasies
0:11:56 > 0:11:59of the most unattractive Hausfraus you'd ever wish to meet.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03- HE RINGS THE BELL - I'm desperate for a cold beer,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07and a nice shallow conversation I don't have to read anything into.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11The point is, Maurice, I'm her teacher.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14It's a position of trust, like yours with your patients.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- Ah!- Or, should I say, most doctors with their patients.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21That's not the point. The point is, have you fucked her?
0:12:21 > 0:12:25The question isn't whether or not I've...slept with Anne,
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- which I haven't... - Oh, for Christ's sake!
0:12:27 > 0:12:30The question is why I've started hearing Mahler.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34- Interesting you should choose a Jew. - What gave you that idea?
0:12:34 > 0:12:38She's as Aryan as they come. Not that I don't find Jewish women attractive.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Mahler was Jewish. - He converted.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- Still makes him Jewish. - The thing is...
0:12:43 > 0:12:47Do me a favour! Don't drag me into your neurosis.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50I get it. You're terribly troubled, you hear music.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Some of us in the real world have plenty to worry about ourselves.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57You never seem to worry about anything.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Much. - Don't I?
0:13:02 > 0:13:05As a study in pathological narcissism,
0:13:05 > 0:13:08the man's quite fascinating. Trouble is...
0:13:08 > 0:13:12instead of strapping him to a couch and frying his fucking brains out,
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- everyone's taking him so literally. - Give it time, Maurice.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Hitler's a joke.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24He'll never last.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Would it surprise you to learn that the Fuhrer himself...
0:13:29 > 0:13:32had examined your book?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- The Fuhrer? - Mm-hm.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40I'd like you to read this.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47One of our tasks here is to process the huge volume of letters
0:13:47 > 0:13:50addressed to our leader by ordinary citizens.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54They give, as you can see, an unrivalled insight
0:13:54 > 0:13:58into the spirit of renewal alive in our country today.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04It's very...affecting.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Isn't it? The Fuhrer has received several such letters
0:14:08 > 0:14:11from the relatives of...unfortunates
0:14:11 > 0:14:16with incurable handicaps, requesting his special permission
0:14:16 > 0:14:18to ease their suffering.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Which is where you come in.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- Me? - We need a paper from you, Halder,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30arguing along the same lines as you do in your novel.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34The case for an enlightened approach to mercy death
0:14:34 > 0:14:37on the grounds of humanity.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42- That's why you asked me here? - Why else?
0:14:46 > 0:14:48I'm hardly an expert.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55My mother has been chronically ill - tuberculosis...
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Yes. Well, the Fuhrer himself said it was written from the heart.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Dr Goebbels was also very impressed.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06He said it might make an excellent basis for a motion picture!
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Oh... HE LAUGHS
0:15:08 > 0:15:12As for myself, I was very impressed by the humanity of your writing.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Thank you.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21So...that's really all you want from me? A paper?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25You will, of course, be very well paid for your work.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28But your participation would be, for me,
0:15:28 > 0:15:31a guarantee that the question of humanity
0:15:31 > 0:15:34remains central to our whole approach.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Ah, yes.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38I...
0:15:38 > 0:15:42- I could perhaps draft something out by next week.- Excellent!
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Just one more thing. Before inviting you here,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48we did examine your record very thoroughly.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Front-line service in 1918.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56Your work at the university... Everything more or less in order.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Except for one oversight.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01You never joined the Party.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05I... I-I... I did discuss it on several occasions
0:16:05 > 0:16:08with my father-in-law, Dr Brunau,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11a prominent member i-i-in our district.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14But, at the time...
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Well, I've already mentioned my mother's illness, and...
0:16:18 > 0:16:21well, my life was...
0:16:21 > 0:16:24a little, er...complicated.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33KNOCK AT THE DOOR
0:16:39 > 0:16:42I feel such an idiot. I needed to talk to you,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44but you'd already left, so I came here.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48- And then the tram took forever... - Give me your wet things.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51And I turn up uninvited, at this hour...
0:16:51 > 0:16:54You probably didn't know I had your address.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I walked up and down the road, trying to decide what to do, and...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Well, now that you're here, do sit down.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Oh!
0:17:07 > 0:17:09I'm sorry.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11There you are.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14I'm sorry it's such a disaster.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16And, er...
0:17:16 > 0:17:18we'd get a maid...
0:17:18 > 0:17:22if we could afford one.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24I'll just dry these here.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Maybe if that book of mine ever gets published.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34Would you like something to warm you up? There's some sherry around here.
0:17:34 > 0:17:40It's somewhere, unless my father-in-law's polished it off.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- I'm afraid we only have brandy. - Yes, please.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58(My wife's gone to bed.)
0:18:01 > 0:18:05That's not to say it's late. She likes to go to bed early,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07catch up on her reading.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Too much? - Mm-mm.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Mmm!
0:18:23 > 0:18:26I've been thinking about finding something to believe in.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32And...have you?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- Found something? - Yes.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I think I have.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Well?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42It hasn't solved my problem.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Problem? With history? - People!
0:18:45 > 0:18:48That's what I realised. People are what matter.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52They're so much more fascinating than ideas.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57Well, y-y-you... You could think of...changing course
0:18:57 > 0:19:01- to something more vocational. - I want to be with you.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Um...
0:19:07 > 0:19:10I wish all my students were so...
0:19:11 > 0:19:13..appreciative.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- You couldn't get it up?! - Ssh! Maurice!
0:19:31 > 0:19:36- What, not at all? Not even a twitch? - Not...entirely.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38HE LAUGHS
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Maurice... Maurice!
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Look... Well, you'd had a lot to drink, right?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48You were under a lot of pressure.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53- I was a bit...overwhelmed. - Well, there you go.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57It's a long time since I'd done anything so...
0:19:59 > 0:20:01..impulsive.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- And there was Helen... - Oh, yes. Lovely Helen.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10How is she?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Are you going to sleep? I wanted to play something.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22I... I was just on my way up.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24A WOMAN COUGHS
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- It's another one of my students. - Oh.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Soaking wet, poor thing.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Can't very well go home on a night like this.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I've made up a bed.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Oh. Will he be warm enough?
0:20:46 > 0:20:49She. I gave her a blanket, so...
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Um... Who... Who'll make breakfast?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I'll make breakfast.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Are you all right?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I've had some brandy.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Come here.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14What is it, John?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Your father.
0:21:24 > 0:21:29He's told me I'll never get anywhere unless I join the Party.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33- SHE LAUGHS - Normally my father saying something
0:21:33 > 0:21:36would make you do exactly the opposite.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41What if he's right?
0:21:41 > 0:21:45I hate to see you agonise like this, John.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Have a little faith in yourself.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Do the right thing.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59You always do.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Do I?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Look,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13I can't deny it. I do find myself attracted to you.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18But in my circumstances as a lecturer,
0:22:18 > 0:22:20a married man,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24I simply can't. CHILDREN CHEER IN DISTANCE
0:22:25 > 0:22:28- What was that? - Must be the start of the parade.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32- What parade? - Isn't that why we're here?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35No! This was the most discreet spot I could think of.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39- And they have to have another one of their bloody rallies!- Let's watch.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42No. I really can't stand that sort of thing.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46- I'd rather slip away before we get caught up in it.- Oh, come on!
0:22:46 > 0:22:51- What if someone sees us? - We'll say we bumped into each other.
0:22:51 > 0:22:56- Why would we even be here? - To see what all the fuss is about!
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Oh, everyone looks so happy.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02- Anything that makes people happy can't be bad, can it?- Well, I...
0:23:02 > 0:23:06find some of it offensive - the ideas behind it. Or the lack of them.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10But feel this energy! All it needs is a few good people
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- to channel it the right way. - Do you really believe that?
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Yes! Burning all those books, of course, it's shocking,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21but you said yourself, wouldn't it be liberating
0:23:21 > 0:23:23to chuck them all out, make a fresh start?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25- SHE LAUGHS - Come on!
0:23:25 > 0:23:29There's a considerable difference between talking about something
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- and doing it.- Men like you shouldn't be shut up in studies.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37They should be out helping build a better country for our children.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- SHE LAUGHS - Come on. Please. Please?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44All right. Just for a bit.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47I did give serious thought to joining the Party,
0:23:47 > 0:23:52but somehow I just couldn't... quite see myself marching around
0:23:52 > 0:23:54and waving banners.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02What I mean is...
0:24:02 > 0:24:03I...
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Perhaps you're right.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09A man of your talents would be wasted in the rank and file.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Sturmbannfuhrer Drobisch? Bouhler here.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18There's someone I'd like you to meet.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21It's not every day we get a call from the chancellery!
0:24:21 > 0:24:24I don't work there, you understand. I'm just an academic.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29Don't be ridiculous. You served with the 24th Brandenburg!
0:24:29 > 0:24:33I never saw much action, I'm afraid. I was only called up in 1918.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Ah, just in time for the last big push!
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Great times!
0:24:38 > 0:24:41- Hope you're hungry. - No. Yes.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Well, the Kaiser, as you know, had his elite regiment,
0:24:44 > 0:24:48the Imperial Guard. Well, now we have the Schutzstaffel.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Oh. The Fuhrer's bodyguard?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Well, it's rather more than that.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57I'm not suggesting you have to run around on a running board
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- with a revolver. - HE LAUGHS
0:24:59 > 0:25:04No. We're interested in recruiting the better type of person...
0:25:05 > 0:25:08..the specialists in their field, such as yourself.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12Well, I... I wouldn't exactly call myself a specialist.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17That's what I like about you. No showing off, no bragging,
0:25:17 > 0:25:21just a quiet determination. Exactly the type we're looking for.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25I...I'm flattered by your high opinion of me.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28My worry is that, with my work at the university,
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- I might not be able to contribute... - The last thing we want
0:25:32 > 0:25:35is for you to be distracted from your valuable work
0:25:35 > 0:25:38shaping the minds of our next generation.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41No! Your position would be an honorary one.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45The greatest minds in the land with us in spirit.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Helen?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Something rather extraordinary has happened.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57It's all because of the book, would you believe?
0:25:57 > 0:26:00SHE CONTINUES TO PLAY They really seem to love it,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03for some unknown reason.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Helen? SHE CONTINUES TO PLAY
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- I'm trying to tell you something. - Sorry?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- What did you say? - (MOTHER)- John!
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- SHE CONTINUES TO PLAY - Is that you, John?
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Yes!
0:26:20 > 0:26:23GENTLE CLASSICAL FLUTE MUSIC
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Come back to bed.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17DOORBELL RINGS
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Maurice?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31There you are! I was beginning to think
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- she was playing a practical joke on me.- Who?
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Helen, sending me here. What's this all about?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41I needed somewhere I could work in peace.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Who is it? - Ssh!
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Sorry. I'm a bit distracted.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51All right, come on. You've got time for a quick drink.
0:27:51 > 0:27:56- I've had a lot of cancellations. - I'm afraid I really can't.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- There's always time for one. - I can't, Maurice.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- You're not coming down? - No!
0:28:01 > 0:28:05- Well, let me in for a minute. - No! I mean...
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I'm... I'm working.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Jesus!
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- You all right? - Why shouldn't I be?
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Well, you're here, and Helen's...
0:28:19 > 0:28:22..more than usually abstract, shall we say.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24A couch is free.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28You know I can't afford you.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32But you can afford the rent on a bachelor flat.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35That depends if I ever get to finish this paper I'm writing.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37All right.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40I know when I'm not wanted.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Maurice...
0:28:45 > 0:28:49We'll get together when things have calmed down a little, I promise.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51Don't do me any favours!
0:28:53 > 0:28:57- I'd like you to meet Anne. - Delighted, Frau Professor.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Oh, no - we're not, Anne and I...
0:29:00 > 0:29:04- What a wonderful place for a party! - Freddie!
0:29:04 > 0:29:09John here is working on a secret assignment for the chancellery.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13A brief paper that... had to be drafted.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17- I teach at the university. - Then you must know Theodor.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20Of course.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23Once it would have given me great satisfaction
0:29:23 > 0:29:26to see you at a gathering such as this.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29But accepting your duties as a National Socialist
0:29:29 > 0:29:32is no excuse for shirking them as a husband!
0:29:32 > 0:29:37I worry for the Movement, when it embraces men of such moral weak...
0:29:37 > 0:29:41I should explain. Dr Brunau is my father-in-law.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44- My wife and I are separated. - You abandoned Helen
0:29:44 > 0:29:47- for this whore?!- There's no need to bring Anne into it.
0:29:47 > 0:29:51The fault is mine. If you'll excuse us...
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Anne?
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Why should we leave? You're not the one who's drunk!
0:29:59 > 0:30:02- Bastard! - Where do you think you're going?
0:30:02 > 0:30:06Elizabeth, take care of Anne. I need to have a quiet word with John.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10- You don't have any children, do you? - Not yet.- You're much too young.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13If I have to listen to one more mother gushing
0:30:13 > 0:30:17about the orienteering prize the little horse won at camp...
0:30:17 > 0:30:20- SHE LAUGHS - I don't know about you. I could do with a drink.
0:30:20 > 0:30:25Don't apologise. If you're in with us, the old rules no longer apply.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Himmler.
0:30:29 > 0:30:33Might look like a bank manager, but you've got to give him one thing.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Very advanced views on sex!
0:30:35 > 0:30:40He wants us to go out and knock up girls left, right and centre
0:30:40 > 0:30:43so that they can donate a child to the Fuhrer!
0:30:43 > 0:30:47Well, it's our patriotic duty, for God's sake!
0:30:47 > 0:30:50As long as it's the right sort of girl, that is.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Not that you've got any problems on that score.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57She looks like a bloody Rhine maiden.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00- She does. - Doesn't she?
0:31:02 > 0:31:05- Really, Mother... - I'm unpacking!
0:31:05 > 0:31:08- No! - It's not time to unpack.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11- We haven't left yet. - But we've only just arrived!
0:31:11 > 0:31:14No, Mother. You woke up here this morning, remember?
0:31:14 > 0:31:17You've been here a long time.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21- Now...you're going home. - The house is on fire.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23The house isn't...
0:31:23 > 0:31:26HE SNIFFS Oh, my God!
0:31:27 > 0:31:29Go on!
0:31:29 > 0:31:33OIL CRACKLES What are you doing?!
0:31:33 > 0:31:35I'm going to fry the onions.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39- Do you have to do it this minute? - I want to do it while you're here,
0:31:39 > 0:31:41so you can put me right!
0:31:41 > 0:31:44There was a time I wouldn't have felt it so much,
0:31:44 > 0:31:47you saying that you loved somebody else!
0:31:47 > 0:31:50But a few weeks ago, I started falling in love with you
0:31:50 > 0:31:53all over again. It was as if you'd suddenly come alive.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Yes. That's how it felt.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02I spoke to Father. Did he make an awful scene?
0:32:02 > 0:32:04I had it coming.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07I can't bear the idea of him thinking badly of you!
0:32:07 > 0:32:11- He has every reason to. - He doesn't know what I'm like,
0:32:11 > 0:32:14- what you've had to put up with! - Helen! Don't... Please,
0:32:14 > 0:32:18- don't be nice to me. - I'm not being nice to you.
0:32:20 > 0:32:24THUDDING MOTHER SCREAMS
0:32:25 > 0:32:28- Oh! - Mother! What happened?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31I was trying to come down the stairs. Ow!
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Are you all right? SHE LAUGHS
0:32:33 > 0:32:36Yes! Oh...
0:32:45 > 0:32:49- Couldn't you have waited for me? - I can't wait around all day.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52That piano is driving me mad.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54SHE MOANS
0:32:54 > 0:32:57- Wait, Mother. Wait! - Come on, come on.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59Come on.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02- Come on. - Are you sure you're all right?- Yes.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05You scared me. SHE LAUGHS
0:33:05 > 0:33:07- We're on our way. - At last!
0:33:07 > 0:33:10You're really leaving?
0:33:11 > 0:33:15- Helen, please...- Chat, chat, chat. What have you got to talk about?
0:33:15 > 0:33:18- You said you were finished with her. - Stop it!
0:33:18 > 0:33:21If I ask you one more time, please stay,
0:33:21 > 0:33:24would it make any difference?
0:33:24 > 0:33:27I'll come back tomorrow. We'll talk then, I promise.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31- If I don't get Mother to the car... - He won't come back.
0:33:31 > 0:33:35- Please, stay out of it! - If you'd been a proper wife to him,
0:33:35 > 0:33:38- this wouldn't have...- How dare you? She's a wonderful wife,
0:33:38 > 0:33:42- in ways you'll never understand. - So why are you leaving?!
0:33:42 > 0:33:45I need to go to the toilet.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47Bloody hell!
0:33:50 > 0:33:52Good idea, Mother.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Before we get going.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00What is this place?
0:34:00 > 0:34:02You said you were thirsty.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05A glass of water to take my pills!
0:34:05 > 0:34:08I'm sure they serve water.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Here we are.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Er...glass of beer for me.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27And for you, Mother?
0:34:27 > 0:34:30Mother?
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Water.
0:34:32 > 0:34:37We've sat down. At least have a cup of coffee, a little cake.
0:34:37 > 0:34:42Remember what the doctor said. Got to build yourself up.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49Beer and water, please.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51That's all.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00Lovely here, isn't it?
0:35:03 > 0:35:06Give me all of them.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10- Put me out of my misery. - Don't talk like that.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13Why not? There's nothing left for me but pain.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Doctors say your lungs are clear. That's why we're going home.
0:35:19 > 0:35:24You just want us out of the way - me and the children.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28They're at camp. Anne and I will have them for the weekends.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31It's all arranged.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34Of course you don't want me in your love nest.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37I've told you a hundred times, Mother.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Come and live with us if that's what you want.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44You expect me to live under the same roof as your whore?
0:35:46 > 0:35:49No. Not if you don't want to.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54We can find you an apartment nearby.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01I've got my own house, thank you very much.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09SHE COUGHS
0:36:12 > 0:36:15I always thought this would make a nice bedroom.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23You won't have to worry about the stairs.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Thank you.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Thank you for all you've done.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Don't say that.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35Perhaps I don't say it enough.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43I can come as often as you like. I've spoken to Frau Troller.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46She'll be in every day to make you lunch.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Always a good boy, Johnnie!
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Such a good boy!
0:37:11 > 0:37:14LAUGHTER AND SHOUTING
0:37:22 > 0:37:25THEY CHATTER AND LAUGH
0:37:27 > 0:37:30- What are you talking about? - Reliving our glory days,
0:37:30 > 0:37:33- dodging bullets! - When were you dodging bullets?
0:37:33 > 0:37:36In the war. We were in the army together.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40- When? - About 20 years ago now.
0:37:40 > 0:37:44- You'd have been - what, three? Four? - I didn't know you'd been a soldier.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48- Johnnie!- Just for a while. - Should've seen him in a uniform.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51- Very sexy.- Stop it. - Very popular with the ladies.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55- Maurice!- I'm going to get changed. - Well, we can hold towels up,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58if you like...
0:38:06 > 0:38:09So, how is domestic bliss with the student?
0:38:10 > 0:38:14Anne. Can we call her Anne, please?
0:38:14 > 0:38:17She's not my student any more.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Very upright of you to wait until she graduated
0:38:21 > 0:38:25before doing the dirty. I wouldn't have restrained myself so long.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28- Oh, you approve! - Yeah, right.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31She obviously has a terrible father-figure complex.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34- Are we jealous?- Absolutely.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37- Think she needs a good psychoanalyst?- No!
0:38:37 > 0:38:39You're not getting anywhere near her.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43Don't take this the wrong way, but, um...
0:38:43 > 0:38:46I didn't think you had it in you.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Neither did I.
0:38:50 > 0:38:55So what happened? What made you...seize the day?
0:38:56 > 0:38:58Dunno. Just...
0:38:58 > 0:39:01I have a spring in my step lately.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04I suppose the promotion didn't do any harm.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07- I mean, I'm just happy. - What promotion?
0:39:09 > 0:39:11Didn't I... Oh.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15- It's nothing. - No, no, no. Come on, come on.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17You can tell Uncle Maurice.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23They've made me head of department.
0:39:23 > 0:39:27- That is fantastic! Congratulations! - Yeah.
0:39:27 > 0:39:32Thought you said they wouldn't promote you, unless you...
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Oh, fuck.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40- Not you, too, Johnnie. - Well, it's just...
0:39:44 > 0:39:48Tell me it was pure self-interest. That I can understand.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Please don't tell me you agree with them.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55It doesn't matter if I agree with them! They're in power.
0:39:55 > 0:39:59At least I'm doing something. If we want to change anything,
0:39:59 > 0:40:01steer them, we can't sit on the sidelines.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04"We"? Who the fuck is "we"?
0:40:04 > 0:40:08I won't be steering anyone. I don't actually get a vote any more.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11I'm not a citizen. Actually, legally,
0:40:11 > 0:40:15I'm not a full human being, so I'm stuck on the sidelines.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18- HE LAUGHS BITTERLY - What are you going to do?
0:40:18 > 0:40:22- Give them a list of edifying fucking books to read?!- Look...
0:40:22 > 0:40:26if you're so pessimistic, why don't you go abroad for a year or two
0:40:26 > 0:40:28until things settle down?
0:40:28 > 0:40:31There are many countries where you could practise.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33You've no ties here.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36No ties?
0:40:36 > 0:40:38I was born here.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42I fought for this fucking country. I'm as German as you.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44How dare you?!
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Why should I leave? That's exactly what those bastards want.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Sorry. YOU bastards.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00Maurice!
0:41:02 > 0:41:05Here's something to help you sleep, my love.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14It tastes so bitter, my darling.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17Take my hand.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21I love you.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23I love you, too...
0:41:23 > 0:41:26Cut!
0:41:29 > 0:41:32- Bravo! - THEY ALL APPLAUD
0:41:39 > 0:41:44Without your vision, none of us would be standing here, Professor.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48Or...do you prefer Hauptsturmfuhrer?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51"Professor" is fine, Reichsminister.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55So much of what we make here is fluff,
0:41:55 > 0:41:59pretty daydreams for the masses. I should know. I vet every script.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02But Halder here really has a message for us.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09You're very kind. Allow me to present my wife, Anne.
0:42:10 > 0:42:13Truly the picture of Aryan motherhood.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15- My compliments. - Thank you.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19We must find another outlet for your talents, Halder.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26CREW SINGS SUBJECTIVELY TO HALDER IN CRACKLY-RECORD-STYLE VOICE
0:42:26 > 0:42:30# Those two bluest eyes of my dear love
0:42:30 > 0:42:34# They now have sent me away
0:42:34 > 0:42:37# Into the world...
0:42:39 > 0:42:41- Darling! - HE LAUGHS SHAKILY
0:42:41 > 0:42:46- That was beautiful! - What are you talking about?
0:42:48 > 0:42:52- Come on. - Didn't... Didn't you...- No.
0:42:52 > 0:42:53The song!
0:42:57 > 0:43:01I always knew you were brilliant, but to hear such praise
0:43:01 > 0:43:04- from the Reichsminister himself... - I can't believe I shook his hand.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07I'm so proud of you.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13- Please take my wife home. - Where are you going?
0:43:13 > 0:43:16- I promised I'd drop in on Helen. - Now?!
0:43:16 > 0:43:19Just for a moment. Erich's having trouble at school.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22- John, you're not going to see... - No!
0:43:22 > 0:43:25No. Look, I've got to go.
0:43:25 > 0:43:26Please!
0:43:26 > 0:43:29Anne...
0:43:42 > 0:43:45BELL DOESN'T RING
0:44:03 > 0:44:05You... You got my note?
0:44:12 > 0:44:15- You shouldn't have gone to all this trouble.- It's no trouble.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Sit down. An old favourite.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21Ah!
0:44:23 > 0:44:26Amy's night off, is it?
0:44:27 > 0:44:31- Amy's long gone, I'm afraid. - Oh.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39- If it's money you need... - It wasn't that.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43Please! Tuck in.
0:44:56 > 0:45:01- So, what was it with Amy? - I can't employ Aryans under 45.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Of course. Yes.
0:45:05 > 0:45:09Don't worry. I didn't get you here to harangue you. There's no point.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14Some of the petty stuff... is almost funny.
0:45:14 > 0:45:18It's so ridiculous. They just took my typewriter.
0:45:19 > 0:45:23I don't know how they expect me to manage. You know my handwriting.
0:45:23 > 0:45:27Totally illegible, even for a doctor.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30It's been a long time.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33I didn't think you'd come.
0:45:34 > 0:45:38If I'd known you were making dinner, I might have reconsidered.
0:45:38 > 0:45:42- Sorry. Fucking awful, isn't it? - No, no, no...- No, don't.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44I'll get rid of it.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Don't know what I'm doing.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51- DOG BARKS - But...
0:45:51 > 0:45:54there is something you won't be able to resist.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56Here it is.
0:45:58 > 0:46:02- Epstein's?- Is there any other cheesecake in the world?
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Pass your plate.
0:46:10 > 0:46:14A little bit of plum brandy... to wash it down.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36Enjoy.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45- Good? - Mmm.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Heaven.
0:46:56 > 0:47:01- What do you want? - I need exit papers.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08Trust me. You don't have to leave the country.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10It was your suggestion.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15If you've made up your mind to do it, there are proper channels -
0:47:15 > 0:47:18They'll strip me of everything I have.
0:47:18 > 0:47:22Do you know how much they'll let me take out of the country? Do you?
0:47:22 > 0:47:26Have you any idea? Ten marks!
0:47:27 > 0:47:31Ten marks to show for everything I've ever worked for.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36Now, if you pulled a few strings...
0:47:36 > 0:47:39It's a bit...different now.
0:47:39 > 0:47:43- If I could, I would. - You are in the fucking SS!
0:47:43 > 0:47:45For fuck's sake!
0:47:51 > 0:47:55It's purely an honorary rank. They like to have a few academics around
0:47:55 > 0:47:59- to give a veneer of sophistication. - Well, put it like that,
0:47:59 > 0:48:04I'm a purely honorary fucking Jew! Try telling that to your comrades!
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Jesus, you're fucking incredible!
0:48:10 > 0:48:13- This is hard for me, you know. - Yes.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17I can put up with any of the shit I get thrown at me daily,
0:48:17 > 0:48:19any of the inhumanity, but this...
0:48:19 > 0:48:23This is very hard to take. Do you understand,
0:48:23 > 0:48:25Johnnie?
0:48:26 > 0:48:28I am...
0:48:29 > 0:48:31..begging you now.
0:48:33 > 0:48:37- You've every right to ask. - Oh, don't be so fucking reasonable!
0:48:39 > 0:48:42I can't bear to listen to any more of your rationalisations.
0:48:42 > 0:48:47Just...get me a ticket to Paris.
0:48:47 > 0:48:51- It's not quite that simple. - You think it's simple for me?
0:48:58 > 0:49:01I'll pay whatever it costs.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05- Keep your money, Maurice. - Allow me...
0:49:05 > 0:49:07just a shred...
0:49:07 > 0:49:09of dignity,
0:49:09 > 0:49:12please.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32You can put the ring back on now if you like.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Hey, you! John Halder!
0:50:01 > 0:50:04Johnnie? What the hell are you doing here?
0:50:04 > 0:50:08You know Johnnie Halder. He's our top man at the university.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12This is typical of him. Such humility! Just queues up
0:50:12 > 0:50:16with the rank and file. But, really, this is taking it too far.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18- Stand aside. - No!- Stand aside.
0:50:18 > 0:50:19- It's all right.- Back!
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Hauptsturmfuhrer Halder is travelling
0:50:22 > 0:50:25on urgent business with the Reich. Give him a ticket
0:50:25 > 0:50:28- and I will sign for it, first class. - I don't mind paying.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Come on, old man! We all do it. You're part of the elite.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35You don't have to pay like everyone else. Where to?
0:50:38 > 0:50:40- (Paris, please.) - Excuse me?
0:50:40 > 0:50:46Is it possible to buy a ticket to Paris, leaving tomorrow?
0:50:46 > 0:50:50Well, I'd have to see the appropriate exit papers.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53You've seen the warrant. That should suffice.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56As I said, a single to Paris, please.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58You're not planning to return?
0:50:59 > 0:51:02- No. No... Yes. - (LAUGHS) You had me there!
0:51:02 > 0:51:06That's another thing I love about this fellow - his sense of humour.
0:51:06 > 0:51:11Yes. Er, a return. Return to Paris, please.
0:51:11 > 0:51:15- I can pay cash. - You joke, about deserting the Reich?
0:51:15 > 0:51:19Johnnie... Johnnie, this isn't clever.
0:51:21 > 0:51:25No. No, I meant...Brandenburg.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28Return to Brandenburg, please.
0:51:28 > 0:51:30What takes you there?
0:51:35 > 0:51:37My mother.
0:51:50 > 0:51:52Mother?
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Frau Troller?
0:51:59 > 0:52:02Mother? It's me, John.
0:52:06 > 0:52:10SHE COUGHS How long have you been like this?
0:52:10 > 0:52:12SHE COUGHS Where's Frau Troller?
0:52:12 > 0:52:15- SHE MOANS AND GASPS - Holiday.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19On holiday?! For God's sake, Mother, why didn't you tell us?
0:52:19 > 0:52:22SHE COUGHS Oh, bloody hell!
0:52:22 > 0:52:24You don't want me any more!
0:52:24 > 0:52:28Don't say that.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30SHE WHIMPERS There you are.
0:52:31 > 0:52:36- Let me come back to you and Helen. - I'm not with Helen any more.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40- When did this happen? - Six months ago, Mother.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43You know that.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46- No! Don't go! - You need to drink something.
0:52:46 > 0:52:51- You're going to put me in a home. - I'm not going to put you in a home,
0:52:51 > 0:52:54I promise. SHE COUGHS AND MOANS
0:53:02 > 0:53:05- You need to see a doctor. - No! I just need my pills.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11Let me go, if you want me to get them for you.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13SHE COUGHS
0:53:18 > 0:53:21I'll fetch you some water.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28Damn...
0:53:40 > 0:53:43I'll see about that light in the kitchen...
0:53:44 > 0:53:47Mother!
0:53:47 > 0:53:49SHE WHIMPERS
0:53:49 > 0:53:51No!
0:53:51 > 0:53:53SHE WAILS No, Mother, no!
0:53:53 > 0:53:56SHE SCREAMS
0:54:00 > 0:54:02No!
0:54:02 > 0:54:05SHE SOBS AND HOWLS
0:54:10 > 0:54:13Maurice! Please!
0:54:18 > 0:54:20Please, take it.
0:54:30 > 0:54:33- I'm sorry. - You look like shit, you know.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37You really look terrible.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41Mother tried to kill herself.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48- Is she OK? - Hmm... Luckily I was there,
0:54:48 > 0:54:52and it was my fault. I shouldn't have left the pills in her reach.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55If you were there, she didn't really mean it.
0:54:55 > 0:54:59Hmm... You don't know what she's been through.
0:54:59 > 0:55:03Memory gone, dignity gone... Everything...gone.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06She can hardly breathe.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09At least she isn't Jewish.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15No!
0:55:16 > 0:55:19It's... It's all right.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21It's all right.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38You missed a bit.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01There you go. This was for you.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10Thank you.
0:56:22 > 0:56:26Where are you going to get proper Jewish cheesecake
0:56:26 > 0:56:30when you've locked up all the Jews? Unless you exempt Epstein's.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41I can't stand them in there.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44Go in every day, give them my money...
0:56:44 > 0:56:49Don't get a hello, a thank you...nothing.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Fucking Jews, eh?
0:56:56 > 0:57:00No-one's talking about locking anybody up.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07We probably met him, you know.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10When we were at Ypres.
0:57:10 > 0:57:14October of that year, 16th Bavarian were in the line next to us.
0:57:14 > 0:57:17He'd be running dispatches back and forth.
0:57:21 > 0:57:25We may have sent him on an errand. HE CHUCKLES
0:57:26 > 0:57:28"Hoi, you! Lance Corporal!"
0:57:28 > 0:57:32"Yes, you, short-arse. Get over here."
0:57:32 > 0:57:35HE CHUCKLES And he'd have saluted you.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Imagine!
0:57:37 > 0:57:41- HE LAUGHS - So, that's it - you're not getting me a ticket.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48- I can't! I tried. - Mm-hm.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52You'll be all right. You're a war veteran.
0:57:52 > 0:57:55That doesn't help any more.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02- Look, I... - It's OK.
0:58:02 > 0:58:05I'm a Jew. You're a Nazi.
0:58:05 > 0:58:07End of story.
0:58:28 > 0:58:30CHURCH BELL TOLLS
0:58:31 > 0:58:36I don't think Mother appreciated what you did for her.
0:58:36 > 0:58:39Well, I wasn't a very good nurse.
0:58:41 > 0:58:44Sometimes I used to play mazurkas all afternoon
0:58:44 > 0:58:47just so that I couldn't hear her yelling.
0:58:47 > 0:58:49THEY LAUGH
0:58:55 > 0:58:59I don't know why I put her through it, now that she's gone.
0:59:05 > 0:59:09- What good did it do? - What are you saying, John?
0:59:10 > 0:59:13I made her suffer until the end.
0:59:15 > 0:59:19- Why? - Because you're her son.
0:59:19 > 0:59:22Because... Because that's too much to ask of a son.
0:59:23 > 0:59:26Of a husband, perhaps.
0:59:26 > 0:59:28I'm sorry.
0:59:28 > 0:59:32No, I'm fine. You don't need to worry about me.
0:59:34 > 0:59:36- Busy giving piano lessons. - Are you?
0:59:36 > 0:59:39Mm. Everybody wants to learn classical music again,
0:59:39 > 0:59:43for some reason. I even learned to cook.
0:59:43 > 0:59:46Yes. The children told me.
0:59:46 > 0:59:50I don't know what, but they eat it all up.
0:59:50 > 0:59:53No, no. They say it's quite good.
0:59:57 > 1:00:00They tell me all your news, too.
1:00:00 > 1:00:02They're very proud of you.
1:00:09 > 1:00:12I let them down.
1:00:12 > 1:00:14No, you didn't!
1:00:14 > 1:00:18No. Perhaps they don't always allow themselves to show it,
1:00:18 > 1:00:21but they are proud of what you're doing.
1:00:23 > 1:00:25We all are.
1:00:49 > 1:00:54We'll start off with a tour. You can get an idea of our facilities here.
1:00:56 > 1:00:59I read your paper, by the way.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03- What do you think of it? - A competent grasp
1:01:03 > 1:01:05of the ethical issues.
1:01:05 > 1:01:09I'd assumed that the inspector would be a medical man,
1:01:09 > 1:01:12but your field is literature.
1:01:13 > 1:01:17The Reich Committee approached me after they chanced upon
1:01:17 > 1:01:20- a book I'd written. - A work of fiction, was it?
1:01:20 > 1:01:23A novel, yes.
1:01:25 > 1:01:29On the strength of it, I was invited to draft the paper you've read,
1:01:29 > 1:01:32- which led in due course to my current role.- Which is...?
1:01:32 > 1:01:35WOMAN WAILS AND SOBS
1:01:35 > 1:01:38Not so much an inspector. More of a...
1:01:38 > 1:01:40consultant.
1:01:41 > 1:01:44Consultant?
1:01:45 > 1:01:50A consultant in...humanity, I suppose you could say.
1:01:52 > 1:01:55Well, you do have to ask yourself, what sort of life is this.
1:01:59 > 1:02:02Don't you?
1:02:08 > 1:02:12- Liz and I finally had some tests. - We hardly needed to redecorate,
1:02:12 > 1:02:15- did we, darling? - No.
1:02:15 > 1:02:18The house goes with the job.
1:02:18 > 1:02:21- Where did you get this furniture? - It was here.
1:02:21 > 1:02:25Poor Mandelstam left in such a hurry, hardly took a thing.
1:02:25 > 1:02:28Come and see the bathroom. It's bigger than our old flat.
1:02:35 > 1:02:37Cheers.
1:02:37 > 1:02:39Please.
1:02:43 > 1:02:45THE GIRLS GIGGLE Tests?
1:02:47 > 1:02:49Do you want to hear the verdict?
1:02:50 > 1:02:52Well, the verdict is...
1:02:54 > 1:02:56..we can't have kids.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00Freddie, I'm sorry.
1:03:00 > 1:03:03They keep on at me in headquarters.
1:03:03 > 1:03:06"When are you going to start breeding?"
1:03:06 > 1:03:09"A perfect Nordic pair like you and Liz."
1:03:10 > 1:03:13They're obsessed with fucking breeding.
1:03:13 > 1:03:17This way we'll be stuck as sturmbannfuhrer forever.
1:03:17 > 1:03:20THE GIRLS LAUGH
1:03:21 > 1:03:25I mean, that's not why we want kids of course,
1:03:25 > 1:03:27- but it doesn't make things any easier.- No.
1:03:28 > 1:03:31I had to go to Lizzy's uncle's doctors
1:03:31 > 1:03:34in case they tracked my records.
1:03:34 > 1:03:37Well, maybe that doctor is wrong.
1:03:38 > 1:03:40I haven't slept for weeks.
1:03:40 > 1:03:45I lie awake all night, I imagine all sorts of crazy things.
1:03:49 > 1:03:53Well, we all imagine things.
1:03:55 > 1:03:57With me, it's music.
1:03:57 > 1:04:00I can just be sitting there talking to someone...
1:04:00 > 1:04:02CAR ENGINE HUMS
1:04:09 > 1:04:11Excuse me.
1:04:14 > 1:04:16Heil Hitler. Urgent communication.
1:04:16 > 1:04:18The sturmbannfuhrer Drobisch.
1:04:18 > 1:04:20Pity.
1:04:22 > 1:04:25You are to report to headquarters immediately, sir.
1:04:38 > 1:04:41If you were desperate for your wife to have a kid,
1:04:41 > 1:04:43would you get someone?
1:04:43 > 1:04:46You know, like that right there?
1:04:48 > 1:04:51Wh-What is it? What's happened?
1:04:52 > 1:04:54The Jews have shot Vom Rath.
1:04:57 > 1:04:59Who on earth is Vom Rath?
1:04:59 > 1:05:02Some third fucking secretary in the Paris embassy,
1:05:02 > 1:05:04got a bullet in his abdomen. Poor sod.
1:05:04 > 1:05:07Well, he's ruined my evening.
1:05:07 > 1:05:10- Why? - Well, put it this way,
1:05:10 > 1:05:13if Vom Rath dies, I wouldn't want to be a Jew tomorrow night.
1:05:13 > 1:05:17I'd better go and make my apologies.
1:05:17 > 1:05:20Shit. I haven't had duck for ages.
1:05:25 > 1:05:27Duty calls.
1:05:27 > 1:05:30I must tear myself away from the most delightful of hostesses.
1:05:30 > 1:05:34- Oh, Freddie.- Just smell that duck. This is torture.
1:05:34 > 1:05:37No peace for the wicked.
1:05:37 > 1:05:41Is it all right if I leave Liz here with you?
1:05:41 > 1:05:44- Of course.- You didn't say where you were going, Freddie.
1:05:44 > 1:05:47Well I've got to burn down a few synagogues. I could be all night.
1:05:47 > 1:05:51- You said we'd stopped all that stuff with the Jews.- Yes, yes.
1:05:51 > 1:05:54- That's what I thought.- You're not really going to burn down synagogues
1:05:54 > 1:05:58- are you, darling?- No. No, first thing is a briefing
1:05:58 > 1:06:00to organise a spontaneous demonstration
1:06:00 > 1:06:03of popular indignation for tomorrow night.
1:06:07 > 1:06:09Cheerio.
1:06:32 > 1:06:34He can take care of himself. You know he can.
1:06:34 > 1:06:40It's just that...poor Freddie, he hasn't been sleeping.
1:06:52 > 1:06:54FLY BUZZES
1:07:06 > 1:07:09I just realised, I... I've left something at work.
1:07:11 > 1:07:13Papers I need
1:07:13 > 1:07:17for my lecture tomorrow. I'm so sorry.
1:07:29 > 1:07:31Heil Hitler.
1:07:31 > 1:07:34Return to Paris, please.
1:07:34 > 1:07:37I'll need to see some exit papers.
1:07:38 > 1:07:41I'm sorry, I have to follow procedures.
1:07:44 > 1:07:47- Your name, please. - Beckermeyer.
1:07:47 > 1:07:50Tell me, Beckermeyer, do you enjoy working on the railways?
1:07:50 > 1:07:53Yes, sir.
1:07:53 > 1:07:57And would you like to further your career in transportation?
1:07:58 > 1:08:01Say, digging autobahns?
1:08:03 > 1:08:06One return ticket to Paris coming up, sir.
1:08:16 > 1:08:18Maurice.
1:08:31 > 1:08:36"Come back tomorrow."
1:08:43 > 1:08:45PHONE RINGS
1:08:45 > 1:08:48Thank you, thank you. Hello?
1:08:50 > 1:08:53Halder speaking.
1:08:55 > 1:08:58Understood.
1:08:58 > 1:09:02- What is it? - Vom Rath died.- Who?
1:09:02 > 1:09:04- Secretary at the Paris embassy. - Did you know him?
1:09:04 > 1:09:08What? I've been ordered to report for duty tonight.
1:09:08 > 1:09:12- I thought your rank was honorary. - All reserves have been mobilised.
1:09:24 > 1:09:26Never seen you like this.
1:09:26 > 1:09:28I know. Forgive me.
1:09:28 > 1:09:31I just... I don't know what to do.
1:09:31 > 1:09:33I know what you're thinking.
1:09:33 > 1:09:35You're a man of letters,
1:09:35 > 1:09:37you shouldn't be out there patrolling the streets.
1:09:37 > 1:09:40I never thought it would come to this.
1:09:40 > 1:09:42Course you didn't.
1:09:42 > 1:09:46Think about it, what exactly are you going to be doing tonight?
1:09:46 > 1:09:48- Yes. - Keep the peace.
1:09:48 > 1:09:50Stop the mob from getting out of control.
1:09:50 > 1:09:53- Is that really all it is? - Yes.
1:09:53 > 1:09:56You're not going to be in any danger.
1:09:56 > 1:09:59It's not me I'm worried about. I'm thinking about Maurice.
1:09:59 > 1:10:02- I promised him it would be all right. - Not your fault, John.
1:10:02 > 1:10:05- Any Jew with any sense left years ago.- Exactly.
1:10:06 > 1:10:10I should have helped him while there was time.
1:10:10 > 1:10:12He can take care of himself.
1:10:12 > 1:10:14He hasn't got a family.
1:10:14 > 1:10:17But you risk everything we have for him?
1:10:24 > 1:10:27- He may come here when I'm gone. - John.
1:10:33 > 1:10:35- If he does, give him these. - What have you done?
1:10:35 > 1:10:39- You must - You have to do this for me!- No!- You all right?
1:10:39 > 1:10:43- Did I hurt you? - Look at yourself.
1:10:47 > 1:10:49Just look at yourself.
1:11:08 > 1:11:11Anne.
1:11:29 > 1:11:31SHOUTING
1:11:31 > 1:11:33GLASS SMASHES
1:11:55 > 1:11:58BANGING ON DOOR Maurice.
1:12:11 > 1:12:13BANGING
1:12:29 > 1:12:32Wait! Maurice.
1:12:40 > 1:12:44- Gluckstein! Is there a Maurice Gluckstein?- Don't worry, sir.
1:12:44 > 1:12:46None of them will slip through the net.
1:12:46 > 1:12:49- I have orders to bring him in. - What did you say the name was?
1:12:49 > 1:12:52- Gluckstein. - Do we have a Gluckstein?
1:12:52 > 1:12:55Gluckstein!
1:12:57 > 1:13:01I am Gluckstein.
1:13:03 > 1:13:05That him?
1:13:08 > 1:13:11Yes.
1:13:17 > 1:13:19OK, move them out.
1:13:19 > 1:13:23MUSIC PLAYS
1:13:45 > 1:13:48CAR HORN BEEPS LOUDLY
1:14:12 > 1:14:16Anne? Has he been here?
1:14:16 > 1:14:19Who?
1:14:19 > 1:14:23- Maurice. - No.
1:14:23 > 1:14:26No. Come to bed.
1:14:32 > 1:14:35There is a reference here to your friendship with a Gluckstein.
1:14:35 > 1:14:37Maurice Israel Gluckstein.
1:14:37 > 1:14:42Mainly a professional relationship, as my doctor.
1:14:42 > 1:14:45A psychoanalyst, it says here.
1:14:45 > 1:14:47Yes.
1:14:47 > 1:14:51According to my records, you continued to associate with him
1:14:51 > 1:14:53after he was prohibited from practising.
1:14:53 > 1:14:56Did I?
1:14:58 > 1:15:00This would have been 1938.
1:15:02 > 1:15:05He did approach me.
1:15:05 > 1:15:08Now I remember.
1:15:08 > 1:15:12To ask for my help in leaving the country.
1:15:12 > 1:15:15I, of course, referred him to the proper authorities.
1:15:15 > 1:15:18You've written on the Jewish question.
1:15:18 > 1:15:22- My field is literature.- I mean from a racial point of view.
1:15:22 > 1:15:24We have reports on your lectures.
1:15:24 > 1:15:28Your work at the university is valued by the leadership
1:15:28 > 1:15:31but in times of war you understand
1:15:31 > 1:15:33we all have to give that little extra.
1:15:33 > 1:15:38- Of course.- We're currently engaged in a major resettlement programme
1:15:38 > 1:15:41- in the east. - Resettlement.
1:15:41 > 1:15:45- Of the Jews?- Among others. Transports are under way.
1:15:45 > 1:15:49We need to ensure that reception facilities are fully operational.
1:15:49 > 1:15:52We need reports we can trust.
1:15:52 > 1:15:54When would you like me to start?
1:15:54 > 1:15:57With immediate effect.
1:16:02 > 1:16:04Was there something else?
1:16:04 > 1:16:08This...resettlement.
1:16:10 > 1:16:12Obviously it's a colossal undertaking.
1:16:12 > 1:16:14I was just wondering,
1:16:14 > 1:16:18is it still possible to keep accurate records?
1:16:20 > 1:16:23I'm rather proud of this. I had a special punch card
1:16:23 > 1:16:26and sorting system designed. State of the art.
1:16:26 > 1:16:29Everything is there. Cross indexed.
1:16:37 > 1:16:41Very impressive.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44Can you find anybody?
1:16:46 > 1:16:48Might we try a little exercise?
1:16:48 > 1:16:50By all means.
1:16:50 > 1:16:53Say that doctor you mentioned.
1:16:53 > 1:16:55Now, Gluckstein?
1:16:55 > 1:16:59Would your records be able to tell us where he ended up, for instance?
1:16:59 > 1:17:04- We need to check a record. - Yes, sir?
1:17:06 > 1:17:09Gluckstein.
1:17:09 > 1:17:12Forename's Maurice Israel.
1:17:17 > 1:17:21- Year of birth? - 1899.
1:17:23 > 1:17:26Or thereabouts.
1:17:26 > 1:17:31Well, wish I could see the outcome of our little experiment
1:17:31 > 1:17:34but you wouldn't believe the paperwork that ends up on my desk.
1:17:34 > 1:17:36- Good luck. - Thank you, sir.
1:17:49 > 1:17:52"Gluckstein, M.I."
1:17:52 > 1:17:55"Evacuated to Silesia."
1:17:55 > 1:17:57Does it say when he was picked up?
1:18:12 > 1:18:15Thank you.
1:18:28 > 1:18:29Aren't you going to say goodbye?
1:18:32 > 1:18:35- I knew what you did. - What are you talking about?
1:18:35 > 1:18:37- He came to the house that night. - Who?
1:18:39 > 1:18:42You turned him in.
1:18:42 > 1:18:45How can you think that?
1:18:48 > 1:18:51One thing you can say for the Gestapo,
1:18:51 > 1:18:54they keep extremely thorough records.
1:18:54 > 1:18:57Drive on.
1:18:57 > 1:19:00John. John, please!
1:19:00 > 1:19:02Please!
1:19:17 > 1:19:20CREAKING
1:19:50 > 1:19:53Heil Hitler!
1:19:53 > 1:19:56- Heil Hitler. - Sturmfuhrer Halder.
1:19:56 > 1:19:59I prefer Professor.
1:19:59 > 1:20:04- Step this way, Professor. - Thank you.
1:20:04 > 1:20:07I trust you'll find everything in order.
1:20:07 > 1:20:10Fuhrer Eichmann will be pleased to hear it.
1:20:10 > 1:20:15In fact, he asked me to carry out a little experiment.
1:20:15 > 1:20:20To check that his records office is fully operational.
1:20:20 > 1:20:24He wanted to see if it was possible to locate a particular individual.
1:20:24 > 1:20:27Fascinating exercise, I'm sure you'll agree.
1:20:27 > 1:20:31The name selected at random is...
1:20:31 > 1:20:36Gluckstein. Maurice Gluckstein.
1:20:36 > 1:20:40Our records show that he should be here somewhere.
1:20:40 > 1:20:44I'm sorry to disappoint you, Professor, but at any given time
1:20:44 > 1:20:46we've got up to 30,000 items here
1:20:46 > 1:20:48and the turnover is considerable.
1:20:48 > 1:20:51Moreover, on arrival, each item is allocated a number
1:20:51 > 1:20:54which becomes its sole means of identification.
1:20:54 > 1:20:57So all we have to do is find Gluckstein's number.
1:20:57 > 1:21:00- In theory, yes. - But?
1:21:00 > 1:21:03Let me put it this way, Professor.
1:21:03 > 1:21:07I'm sure from head office, everything looks neat and tidy,
1:21:07 > 1:21:10- but out here - - Can you find this man or not?
1:21:10 > 1:21:13Frankly, not a chance in hell.
1:21:13 > 1:21:16Nine out of ten are processed on arrival.
1:21:16 > 1:21:18No-one's here for more than a month or two.
1:21:21 > 1:21:23I see.
1:21:32 > 1:21:35Stop!
1:21:47 > 1:21:50Move!
1:22:00 > 1:22:02FAINT MUSIC PLAYS
1:23:04 > 1:23:06GUNSHOT
1:23:47 > 1:23:49DOG BARKING
1:23:49 > 1:23:51GUNSHOT
1:23:51 > 1:23:53SCREAMING AND CHATTER
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