The Night of the Generals

0:03:06 > 0:03:07< WOMAN WAILS

0:03:16 > 0:03:18DOOR CLOSES

0:03:20 > 0:03:25FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING

0:03:42 > 0:03:44FOOTSTEPS FADE INTO THE DISTANCE

0:03:48 > 0:03:50DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

0:04:04 > 0:04:06WOMAN SCREAMS

0:04:34 > 0:04:37SHOUTING

0:04:53 > 0:04:55There's some more, over there!

0:05:09 > 0:05:12Back up, around the other way.

0:05:53 > 0:05:55SPEAKS POLISH

0:05:59 > 0:06:01What's the odd smell in this house, inspector?

0:06:01 > 0:06:03The smell of war, Major Grau.

0:06:04 > 0:06:07- Good morning, inspector. - Major.

0:06:07 > 0:06:09I'm sorry to call you at such an ungodly hour.

0:06:19 > 0:06:21Not very nice, I'm afraid.

0:06:21 > 0:06:24The work of an amateur butcher, I should say.

0:06:24 > 0:06:25Why have you called me?

0:06:25 > 0:06:27The dead woman's Polish, isn't she?

0:06:27 > 0:06:30This is not a case for the German authorities.

0:06:30 > 0:06:33Her name was Kupiecka. Maria Kupiecka.

0:06:33 > 0:06:35Kupiecka?

0:06:35 > 0:06:38Oh, yes, she was a prostitute and a good friend to us.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40She was also a German agent.

0:06:40 > 0:06:42Killed by a Polish patriot?

0:06:42 > 0:06:45Providing the Polish patriot was also a sexual degenerate.

0:06:45 > 0:06:48Patriotism has been known to have its vicious side.

0:06:48 > 0:06:52100 knife wounds goes beyond normal patriotic zeal.

0:06:52 > 0:06:54- 100? - That's just my guess, sir.

0:06:54 > 0:06:57It would be impossible to count.

0:06:57 > 0:06:59As you can see, the focus of the murderer's attack

0:06:59 > 0:07:01was on the woman's sexual organs,

0:07:01 > 0:07:04using what appears to have been a large clasp knife...

0:07:04 > 0:07:07Thank you, doctor, there's no need to be vivid.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18SPEAKING IN POLISH

0:07:18 > 0:07:20- Find anything? - No, not yet.

0:07:20 > 0:07:23- Who reported the murder? - A voice on the telephone.

0:07:23 > 0:07:27A man. He heard screams at about 11.10.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29- Identify himself? - No.

0:07:29 > 0:07:31Who lives in this house?

0:07:41 > 0:07:42One of you...

0:07:42 > 0:07:46One of you heard a scream and telephoned the police.

0:07:46 > 0:07:50One of you knows something about the way in which this woman died.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53If that person does not tell us everything he knows,

0:07:53 > 0:07:56we shall assume that her death was political.

0:07:56 > 0:07:59That she was killed by a member of the Polish underground

0:07:59 > 0:08:02and that you are all accomplices.

0:08:03 > 0:08:07In which case, it will be my sad duty

0:08:07 > 0:08:10to turn the whole lot of you over to the Gestapo.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15The man who telephoned the police

0:08:15 > 0:08:17has one minute in which to make himself known.

0:08:17 > 0:08:20I heard the scream.

0:08:20 > 0:08:22This one terrible scream.

0:08:22 > 0:08:26And then, well, I... I hid in the lavatory.

0:08:26 > 0:08:29Then later, perhaps 10 minutes later,

0:08:29 > 0:08:32I telephoned the police. That's all.

0:08:32 > 0:08:35You did not give the police your name.

0:08:35 > 0:08:38That means that there was something you didn't want them to know.

0:08:39 > 0:08:42- What could that something be? - Well, there's a...

0:08:42 > 0:08:44There's this crack in the door to the lavatory.

0:08:44 > 0:08:48And naturally, you put your eye to the crack and you saw...?

0:08:48 > 0:08:51I saw a man coming down the stairs.

0:08:51 > 0:08:56- Describe him, please. - Well, it... It was dark.

0:08:56 > 0:09:00- Describe him, please. - I couldn't see all of him.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02Just the lower part, the trousers.

0:09:05 > 0:09:08Why are you so frightened by what you saw?

0:09:08 > 0:09:11Because it was a uniform, sir.

0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Like yours. - Like mine?

0:09:13 > 0:09:16A German officer? The man's a liar.

0:09:16 > 0:09:19German officers can commit murders like anyone else.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21Is that all you noticed?

0:09:21 > 0:09:24That the trousers were like mine?

0:09:25 > 0:09:28- Exactly like mine? - No.

0:09:28 > 0:09:32Not exactly, sir. No.

0:09:32 > 0:09:33There was a...

0:09:33 > 0:09:36There was a red stripe running down the leg.

0:09:36 > 0:09:39He's lying.

0:09:39 > 0:09:43Are you aware that only German generals wear the red stripe?

0:09:43 > 0:09:47Yes, sir. That's why I was afraid.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49I see.

0:09:49 > 0:09:53- It's impossible. - Nothing is impossible.

0:09:53 > 0:09:56A German general. Well, well.

0:09:56 > 0:09:59I don't think we need to take this testimony too seriously.

0:09:59 > 0:10:02- After all, it was dark on the stairs.- Sir, I swear...

0:10:02 > 0:10:05I swear, I'm telling the truth.

0:10:05 > 0:10:08And I believe you, until there's evidence to the contrary.

0:10:08 > 0:10:12Why would he tell a dangerous lie? I want a complete investigation.

0:10:12 > 0:10:16But what happens if the murderer really is a general?

0:10:16 > 0:10:20What happens? Well, justice is blind, my dear inspector.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23Justice cannot see the red stripe or the gold braid,

0:10:23 > 0:10:27but justice can sometimes hear the cry of a murdered woman.

0:10:27 > 0:10:31If a general is responsible, why, we shall have to hang him.

0:10:34 > 0:10:37Don't worry, Liesowski, the responsibility is mine.

0:10:37 > 0:10:39Good night.

0:10:41 > 0:10:43LIESOWSKI: 'Well, Inspector Morand, you can't blame me

0:10:43 > 0:10:47'for not quite remembering a case that occurred almost a generation ago.'

0:10:47 > 0:10:50But as they say, it's the long arm of the law.

0:10:50 > 0:10:53It's... It's 23 years ago.

0:10:53 > 0:10:56My God, how time passes.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59When I left the police, right after the war

0:10:59 > 0:11:02I managed to keep some of my files.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04Always glad to help a colleague.

0:11:04 > 0:11:07Ah, here we are, inspector.

0:11:07 > 0:11:12"Kupiecka, Maria. Murdered. Unsolved. "

0:11:12 > 0:11:14The suspects were...

0:11:14 > 0:11:18Oh, yes. Yes, now I remember.

0:11:18 > 0:11:21A German general was seen allegedly leaving her room.

0:11:21 > 0:11:23And of all the generals in Warsaw,

0:11:23 > 0:11:26only three had no alibis for the night in question.

0:11:28 > 0:11:30'Here, this is the Lichnowsky Palace.

0:11:30 > 0:11:32'It used to belong to the Polish kings.

0:11:32 > 0:11:35'Then later it became a museum.

0:11:35 > 0:11:38'As you can see, today it's still a museum.

0:11:38 > 0:11:39'During the war,

0:11:39 > 0:11:42'the German headquarters in Warsaw was located here.

0:11:42 > 0:11:45'As I was saying, we were quite thorough, I thought,

0:11:45 > 0:11:47'in the way we eliminated suspects.

0:11:47 > 0:11:49'Had to proceed tactfully, of course.

0:11:49 > 0:11:52'They were generals, after all, and it was war.

0:11:52 > 0:11:53'And Poland was occupied.'

0:11:53 > 0:11:56- SOLDIER: - Ready for inspection, sir.

0:11:56 > 0:11:58'One of them was General von Seidlitz-Gabler,'

0:11:58 > 0:12:00'7th Corps commander.

0:12:00 > 0:12:03'He was a Junker of the old school.

0:12:03 > 0:12:07'He lived like royalty in the palace, with his wife and daughter.

0:12:07 > 0:12:10'The night of the murder, he was not in his quarters.

0:12:10 > 0:12:14'His chief of staff, Major General Klaus Kahlenberge

0:12:14 > 0:12:16'also had no alibi that night.

0:12:16 > 0:12:19'Of all the generals, he was the least disagreeable.

0:12:19 > 0:12:22'An interesting man. No wife, no children.

0:12:23 > 0:12:25- General Gabler, a message. - Yes?

0:12:25 > 0:12:28A message from General Tanz, sir.

0:12:28 > 0:12:30Thank you, Fraulein Neumaier.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36It seems we have failed to keep proper order in the city.

0:12:36 > 0:12:37- You have read it? - Oh, yes.

0:12:37 > 0:12:39And because of our notorious incompetence...

0:12:39 > 0:12:41Incompetence?

0:12:41 > 0:12:44They don't realize that this is a garrison post,

0:12:44 > 0:12:47that I am given only the dregs of the army, the misfits.

0:12:47 > 0:12:50Well, that was General Tanz's word. "Incompetence."

0:12:50 > 0:12:53Not to mention subordinates who shirk responsibility.

0:12:53 > 0:12:57And because of our failure, the Fuehrer has ordered General Tanz to solve the problem of Warsaw.

0:12:57 > 0:12:59- How? - Meticulously.

0:12:59 > 0:13:01In three phases.

0:13:01 > 0:13:04Using the most drastic means, I suppose.

0:13:04 > 0:13:07Drastic?

0:13:07 > 0:13:08Monstrous.

0:13:11 > 0:13:15LIESOWSKI: 'Lieutenant General Tanz commanded the Nibelungen Division.

0:13:15 > 0:13:18'He was the youngest Wehrmacht general.

0:13:18 > 0:13:22'A hero at Leningrad, a pet of Hitler, a remarkable officer.

0:13:22 > 0:13:24'We Poles detested him.

0:13:24 > 0:13:27'He arrived in Warsaw on the day the woman was killed.

0:13:27 > 0:13:31'He, too, was unaccounted for that night.'

0:13:31 > 0:13:34- First roadblock, set up there. - Yes, sir.

0:13:34 > 0:13:37The sniping last night came from a street two blocks away.

0:13:37 > 0:13:39The entire quarter is to be sealed off.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42We shall take a leaf from the fisherman's book.

0:13:42 > 0:13:46First, we'll mark out a wide perimeter, then we'll start combing the outlying streets.

0:13:46 > 0:13:48That should set the fish in motion.

0:13:48 > 0:13:51Of course, they'll try to make off in the opposite direction,

0:13:51 > 0:13:53but we'll have roadblocks there to cut them off.

0:13:53 > 0:13:56By the time we've closed the net,

0:13:56 > 0:13:58we'll have them exactly where we want them.

0:13:58 > 0:14:01With their backs to the ghetto wall.

0:14:05 > 0:14:08Excuse me, general, what about the civilian population?

0:14:08 > 0:14:12The latest estimate, this section of the city contains about 80,000 inhabitants.

0:14:12 > 0:14:16One can hardly talk of a normal civilian population in this place.

0:14:16 > 0:14:19I regard the experience to be gained from this operation

0:14:19 > 0:14:22as absolutely indispensable. Hold it at 20.

0:14:22 > 0:14:24Now, about those flamethrowers, sir,

0:14:24 > 0:14:28to be on the safe side, I've requested three times as many as needed.

0:14:48 > 0:14:50What are you scared of, children?

0:14:55 > 0:14:56I think they're hungry.

0:14:56 > 0:14:58- What food do we have? - Some sandwiches, sir.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00- Bring them to me. - Yes, sir.

0:15:02 > 0:15:05Yes, you're quite right, they do look hungry.

0:15:05 > 0:15:06Poor little devils.

0:15:07 > 0:15:09Your lunch, sir.

0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Open. - Yes, sir.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Filth.

0:15:16 > 0:15:17CHILDREN YELLING

0:15:17 > 0:15:20Your hands.

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Look at those nails.

0:15:21 > 0:15:25Not even Polish children should be given such muck.

0:15:25 > 0:15:26Make a note.

0:15:26 > 0:15:29Food and sweets to be carried at all times for the children.

0:15:29 > 0:15:32It does no harm to win their confidence.

0:15:32 > 0:15:36As for him, he's relieved as my orderly. Home leave cancelled.

0:15:36 > 0:15:40Filthy pig. Last week he offered me an unwashed glass.

0:15:40 > 0:15:43Now he enters my sight looking as though he just exhumed his grandmother with his bare hands.

0:15:43 > 0:15:46Absolute cleanliness, that's what I demand from the people around me.

0:15:46 > 0:15:48- Do I make myself clear? - Yes, sir.

0:15:48 > 0:15:51As for our immediate requirements, see they're fully met.

0:15:51 > 0:15:54Once they are, I shall seal off the district

0:15:54 > 0:15:56and put the inhabitants through a sieve.

0:15:56 > 0:15:58All 80,000?

0:15:59 > 0:16:02General Tanz, forgive me,

0:16:02 > 0:16:05but just as a matter of curiosity,

0:16:05 > 0:16:08what do you feel is the exact purpose of this exercise?

0:16:08 > 0:16:11- You've read the memorandum. - Oh, yes. Yes, I have...

0:16:11 > 0:16:13And what does the memorandum say?

0:16:13 > 0:16:16That phase one is intended to intimidate the population

0:16:16 > 0:16:18to search houses, to find and arrest resistance.

0:16:18 > 0:16:20Then that is the exact purpose of the exercise.

0:16:20 > 0:16:23An excellent plan, by the way. Much like my own when I first came here,

0:16:23 > 0:16:26only I was never given the ultimate authority to implement it.

0:16:26 > 0:16:31But am I to understand that if there is resistance during phase one,

0:16:31 > 0:16:35you would then go to phase two and even to phase three,

0:16:35 > 0:16:37which would mean the destruction of the entire city?

0:16:37 > 0:16:40You are to understand exactly that.

0:16:40 > 0:16:45Well, uh, isn't that somewhat excessive?

0:16:45 > 0:16:47Excessive.

0:16:48 > 0:16:52You will be aware that we are 30 miles from Moscow.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54We are moving ahead on a 5,000-mile front.

0:16:54 > 0:16:56Every available soldier is needed if we are to conquer Russia.

0:16:56 > 0:17:00Yet here in Warsaw, three divisions are rotting,

0:17:00 > 0:17:04because of a few thousand criminal Poles and Jews hiding in slums.

0:17:04 > 0:17:07It is excessive to permit this state of affairs.

0:17:07 > 0:17:09KNOCKING

0:17:09 > 0:17:12- Who is it?- You have my full list of requirements.

0:17:12 > 0:17:15- Eleanore, come in. Come in, my dear. - I hope I'm not disturbing.

0:17:15 > 0:17:17My wife arrived early this morning from Berlin.

0:17:17 > 0:17:19How was Berlin?

0:17:19 > 0:17:20Eager to hear the good news

0:17:20 > 0:17:23that always follows in the wake of a good soldier.

0:17:23 > 0:17:26When I heard you were with my husband, I came straight here.

0:17:26 > 0:17:30I wanted to tell you myself what an inspiration you've been to us all at home.

0:17:30 > 0:17:33- I am flattered, ma'am. - Oh, no, I'm not flattering you.

0:17:33 > 0:17:35I'm honouring you as you deserve.

0:17:35 > 0:17:37If you're not too busy, I shall need your help

0:17:37 > 0:17:40with the arrangements for the soiree tonight.

0:17:40 > 0:17:45- In your honour, General Tanz. - I'll look forward to it, ma'am.

0:17:45 > 0:17:48Oh, incidentally, our daughter, Ulrike, is here in Warsaw.

0:17:48 > 0:17:52- She'll be at the soiree too.- Yes?

0:17:52 > 0:17:54Well, you remember her, don't you?

0:17:54 > 0:17:58In Berlin, at the garden party at General Jodl's house.

0:17:58 > 0:18:01Oh, yes, I do remember her. My compliments, ma'am.

0:18:03 > 0:18:08Sorry. I suppose that was obvious.

0:18:08 > 0:18:09But you know how mothers are.

0:18:09 > 0:18:12Anxious to become mothers-in-law, I should think.

0:18:12 > 0:18:14A splendid officer, no doubt of that.

0:18:14 > 0:18:16Any mother would be proud to see her daughter...

0:18:16 > 0:18:18Married to a war memorial?

0:18:18 > 0:18:21Excuse me, ma'am.

0:18:21 > 0:18:25I shall continue to study General Tanz's plan.

0:18:25 > 0:18:27With sinking heart.

0:18:30 > 0:18:34I detest that man.

0:18:34 > 0:18:37What does he mean, "with sinking heart"?

0:18:40 > 0:18:42Oh, the black book.

0:18:42 > 0:18:44What were you saying, my dear?

0:18:44 > 0:18:47I don't dare say anything when you've got your book out.

0:18:47 > 0:18:49One must protect one's reputation.

0:18:49 > 0:18:51Another mess like the one you've made here in Warsaw

0:18:51 > 0:18:53and you won't have a reputation to protect.

0:18:53 > 0:18:5510.42.

0:18:55 > 0:18:59- What's the date? - The 13th.

0:18:59 > 0:19:02Fortunately, I still have some influence at Supreme Headquarters.

0:19:02 > 0:19:05Indeed you have, for which I am grateful.

0:19:08 > 0:19:12- How nice that you are here at last. - I want to talk to you about Ulrike.

0:19:12 > 0:19:16And I want to talk to you about the soiree tonight.

0:19:16 > 0:19:20I think you should know that this morning Ulrike was extremely rude to me.

0:19:20 > 0:19:22Considering where you are sending her, I'm not surprised.

0:19:22 > 0:19:24KNOCKING

0:19:24 > 0:19:27Excuse me, general, but there is a Major Grau from Intelligence.

0:19:27 > 0:19:29He would like to see you.

0:19:29 > 0:19:32What does he want?

0:19:32 > 0:19:34He said it was personal.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36He's most persistent.

0:19:37 > 0:19:40Tell him, some other time.

0:19:40 > 0:19:42Yes, sir.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46By the way, what did you do to your uniform last night?

0:19:46 > 0:19:48Do? To my uniform?

0:19:48 > 0:19:52Yes, there was a stain on the jacket. A red stain.

0:19:52 > 0:19:54But since you obviously didn't cut yourself shaving,

0:19:54 > 0:19:56it could only have been lipstick.

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Shall I match the colour with the seductive shade Fraulein Neumaier wears?

0:19:59 > 0:20:01Don't be absurd.

0:20:01 > 0:20:04Anyway, the evidence is destroyed. I've sent everything to be cleaned.

0:20:04 > 0:20:07Aren't you glad that I am here now to look after you?

0:20:07 > 0:20:11Of course I am, dear Eleanore.

0:20:11 > 0:20:14We are well-suited, aren't we?

0:20:23 > 0:20:25DOOR SLAMS

0:20:27 > 0:20:29- I wish you'd remember to knock. - Sorry, sir.

0:20:29 > 0:20:33Major Grau of Intelligence just rang from downstairs, sir. He asked to see you.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37- What about? - He wouldn't say, sir.

0:20:38 > 0:20:41- Tell him I'm busy. - I already told him, sir.

0:20:41 > 0:20:43I took the liberty.

0:20:43 > 0:20:44Good.

0:20:48 > 0:20:49Well?

0:20:49 > 0:20:51Apparently, he rang the motor pool this morning.

0:20:51 > 0:20:54Wanted to see the log for last night to see if anyone had used the car.

0:20:54 > 0:20:56I told the officer in charge that no information could be released

0:20:56 > 0:20:58without clearing it first with us.

0:20:58 > 0:21:02Good. Yes, that's very good.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04Thank you, sergeant.

0:21:05 > 0:21:08HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:21:08 > 0:21:10Yes?

0:21:10 > 0:21:14Sir, um, about my cousin Hartmann.

0:21:15 > 0:21:18- Your cousin Hartmann? - Yes, sir.

0:21:18 > 0:21:21You have his record, sir. On your desk, sir.

0:21:23 > 0:21:24Oh, yes.

0:21:24 > 0:21:27He's just out of hospital, sir. He was wounded at Voronezh.

0:21:27 > 0:21:29He's on temporary duty in Warsaw.

0:21:29 > 0:21:32I had hoped that we could make his duty with us permanent.

0:21:32 > 0:21:34And by some extraordinary coincidence,

0:21:34 > 0:21:36he's waiting in your office to see me.

0:21:36 > 0:21:38Yes, sir.

0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Show him in. - Thank you, sir.

0:21:54 > 0:21:55KNOCKING

0:21:55 > 0:21:57Come in.

0:22:02 > 0:22:05Hartmann, Kurt, lance corporal. Reporting as ordered, sir.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08At ease.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10Well, it's a distinguished record, corporal.

0:22:10 > 0:22:12I see from your press clippings,

0:22:12 > 0:22:15Otto is obviously keeping a scrapbook for you.

0:22:15 > 0:22:18I see that you are "the reincarnation of Siegfried,

0:22:18 > 0:22:21a German hero from the golden age."

0:22:21 > 0:22:24Do you feel like Siegfried?

0:22:24 > 0:22:27Well, I'm not at all certain, sir, how Siegfried felt.

0:22:27 > 0:22:30Well, that's a sensible answer. I see they've given you the Iron Cross.

0:22:30 > 0:22:32He killed 40 Russians single-handed, sir.

0:22:32 > 0:22:35Splendid. Well, now, as to your future,

0:22:35 > 0:22:40I imagine that, as a university man, you'd want to become an officer.

0:22:40 > 0:22:42Therefore, I shall be happy to send you to...

0:22:42 > 0:22:44Erm...

0:22:45 > 0:22:48You don't want to go to officers school?

0:22:48 > 0:22:50I should prefer to remain a corporal, sir.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52Actually, general, he doesn't mean that.

0:22:52 > 0:22:54- What he means is... - What do you mean?

0:22:54 > 0:22:57I mean, I don't want to become an officer. That's all, sir.

0:22:57 > 0:23:00I'm shattered.

0:23:00 > 0:23:02My world is toppling.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05What is the point of being a general when corporals prefer to be corporals?

0:23:05 > 0:23:08He's still a bit shaky, after the hospital.

0:23:08 > 0:23:10Yes, apparently.

0:23:10 > 0:23:13Now, your cousin suggested that you join us here at headquarters,

0:23:13 > 0:23:16but I should think you'd be anxious to get back to the fighting.

0:23:18 > 0:23:20- No? - No, sir.

0:23:20 > 0:23:23- General, what he really means is... - Leave us, sergeant.

0:23:30 > 0:23:32I, um...

0:23:32 > 0:23:34I don't seem to understand you, corporal.

0:23:34 > 0:23:37I want to survive, sir. I want to live through the war.

0:23:37 > 0:23:40Well, naturally. We all do.

0:23:40 > 0:23:44- But we are soldiers, we must fight. - Yes, sir. And I have.

0:23:44 > 0:23:45And you don't want to go back.

0:23:45 > 0:23:50Is this the "reincarnation of Siegfried"?

0:23:50 > 0:23:52I'm sorry, sir, but I have a horror of death.

0:23:52 > 0:23:54Even in a good cause?

0:24:02 > 0:24:03Let me see now...

0:24:03 > 0:24:08According to your papers, in civilian life you were

0:24:08 > 0:24:10a student at Dresden?

0:24:10 > 0:24:13Music conservatory, yes, sir. I studied piano.

0:24:13 > 0:24:18Music, piano, yes. Yes.

0:24:18 > 0:24:22Yes. I think I have an assignment for you.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24But one which requires great courage.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26Only a man who has killed...

0:24:26 > 0:24:28How many was it? Let me see.

0:24:28 > 0:24:32Yes, 40 Russians single-handed, would be equal to the task.

0:24:32 > 0:24:34Now, what about Chopin, wasn't he Polish?

0:24:34 > 0:24:36Didn't he write the Polonaises?

0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Can you play them? - Yes, madam.

0:24:39 > 0:24:41You don't sound very enthusiastic.

0:24:41 > 0:24:43Well, madam, they were patriotic pieces,

0:24:43 > 0:24:45celebrating the glory of Poland.

0:24:45 > 0:24:48Well, the glory of Poland isn't precisely what we're here to celebrate.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50No, madam. So I thought that perhaps we might play...

0:24:50 > 0:24:51Wagner.

0:24:51 > 0:24:54I remember the Fuehrer saying to me after a performance of Parsifal,

0:24:54 > 0:24:57"There's no such thing as too much Wagner."

0:24:57 > 0:24:58After Parsifal?

0:24:58 > 0:25:01I must say, it's unusual to find a fighting man

0:25:01 > 0:25:04- who also knows about music. - Thank you, madam.

0:25:04 > 0:25:06Oh, no, don't thank me, wait until I've thanked you.

0:25:06 > 0:25:09And I won't until after the soiree.

0:25:18 > 0:25:21- I dislike being a bore, major. - You never bore me, Engel.

0:25:21 > 0:25:25But I can't help wondering what you're trying to prove.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Just what do you think you're doing? - My job.

0:25:28 > 0:25:30But if you say anything to any of them, he'll know...

0:25:30 > 0:25:32The murderer will know that you're after him.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34That's the point of the exercise.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36- Good evening, sergeant. - Sir.

0:25:41 > 0:25:44But look, sir, why do you care who killed that bitch?

0:25:44 > 0:25:46She's better off dead anyway.

0:25:46 > 0:25:49Have you ever heard of the Eumenides?

0:25:49 > 0:25:51- The what? - Greek mythology.

0:25:51 > 0:25:55A number of disagreeable ladies, sometimes known as the Furies.

0:25:55 > 0:25:58They believe that spilled blood calls out for vengeance.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00That's how justice began.

0:26:00 > 0:26:04Well, we don't want it to end, do we, just because there's a war on?

0:26:05 > 0:26:08Wait for me here. I'm afraid I won't be long.

0:26:16 > 0:26:17Mad.

0:26:28 > 0:26:30- MAN: - Grau.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Colonel Mannheim. - What on Earth are you doing here?

0:26:32 > 0:26:34You must be out of your mind.

0:26:34 > 0:26:37If the generals won't see me, I must come here to see them.

0:26:37 > 0:26:40Well, God help you, Grau. I won't.

0:26:40 > 0:26:43Better have some champagne. You'll need it.

0:26:43 > 0:26:46You may be right, sir.

0:26:54 > 0:26:58General Tanz, to my mind you're a model man in every respect.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00Except one. You've not married.

0:27:00 > 0:27:04- May I ask why not? - No opportunity. Greatly regret it.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06Well, perhaps you've allowed opportunities to slip by.

0:27:06 > 0:27:10My dear, General Tanz is a young man whose life has been spent as a soldier.

0:27:10 > 0:27:13His generation has been denied the pleasures of domesticity.

0:27:13 > 0:27:16We live in a period which makes great demands upon us.

0:27:16 > 0:27:19Consequently, there is little time for what is commonly known as private life.

0:27:19 > 0:27:22- Quite right. Champagne, general? - Water.

0:27:22 > 0:27:25- Water? - A glass of water for General Tanz.

0:27:25 > 0:27:27Ah. Here comes Ulrike.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29- You remember her from Berlin. - Good evening, general.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32She's been with me over a year now, as a soldier.

0:27:32 > 0:27:34- An excellent soldier. - Thank you, Father.

0:27:34 > 0:27:38I must say, I still find it hard to get used to the idea of young girls in the army.

0:27:38 > 0:27:42We're building a new world order, and women should not be exempt from playing their part.

0:27:42 > 0:27:44I knew you would understand, general.

0:27:44 > 0:27:46Ulrike has now decided to become a nurse

0:27:46 > 0:27:50in a military hospital run by an order of nuns in Bavaria.

0:27:50 > 0:27:52We're very proud of our girl.

0:27:52 > 0:27:54Tell me, general, is it true that in the battle of Leningrad

0:27:54 > 0:27:57you used frozen bodies instead of sandbags for your artillery?

0:27:57 > 0:28:00The story is exaggerated.

0:28:00 > 0:28:02Oh, I am sorry.

0:28:02 > 0:28:06Some soldiers lie and rot in the battlefield.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09I thought it most imaginative, putting the dead to work, you might say.

0:28:09 > 0:28:11Nobody rots with me.

0:28:12 > 0:28:14Your water, general.

0:28:14 > 0:28:15Thank you.

0:28:19 > 0:28:22My compliments. I liked the bit about the frozen bodies.

0:28:22 > 0:28:24- Oh, thank you, general. - Be careful.

0:28:24 > 0:28:27Ulrike has a most original way of expressing herself.

0:28:27 > 0:28:30Needless to say, I shall miss not having her with me.

0:28:30 > 0:28:32Then why let her go?

0:28:32 > 0:28:35Come along, general, let's have some supper.

0:28:36 > 0:28:38You'll join us, too, Kahlenberge?

0:28:38 > 0:28:41- Courage. - Is not enough.

0:28:44 > 0:28:47How dare you speak like that to General Tanz?

0:28:47 > 0:28:49It serves you right, Mother, for what you're doing to me.

0:28:49 > 0:28:52Whatever I do is for your own good. I think only of you.

0:28:52 > 0:28:55Only of me? You have changed.

0:28:55 > 0:28:57When did I begin to interest you so much?

0:28:57 > 0:28:59Good evening.

0:28:59 > 0:29:02- You've become vicious. - Yes, it's the war, Mother.

0:29:02 > 0:29:05Well, the nuns will soon improve your manners.

0:29:05 > 0:29:06Suppose I refuse to go?

0:29:06 > 0:29:10You will be ordered to go. I have seen to that already. You have no choice.

0:29:10 > 0:29:13You really are a terrible woman, Mother.

0:29:13 > 0:29:16I suppose we deserve each other.

0:29:16 > 0:29:17Colonel Mannheim!

0:29:17 > 0:29:20Good evening. Yes, I'd love to dance with you.

0:29:22 > 0:29:25In my memoirs, I keep a record of everything.

0:29:25 > 0:29:28Yours will be the place of honour in the Warsaw chapter.

0:29:28 > 0:29:31- GRAU: - General von Seidlitz-Gabler?

0:29:31 > 0:29:34Sir. Oh, yes, you are Major...?

0:29:34 > 0:29:37Grau, Intelligence. Under Colonel Mannheim.

0:29:37 > 0:29:39I tried to see you today.

0:29:39 > 0:29:42In fact, I tried to see each of you, without much success, I'm afraid.

0:29:42 > 0:29:44I'm sorry, major, but general officers are sometimes busy, you know?

0:29:44 > 0:29:46Of course.

0:29:46 > 0:29:47What was it you wanted to see us about?

0:29:47 > 0:29:50Last night, a prostitute was murdered.

0:29:50 > 0:29:53A prostitute? That's an occupational hazard, isn't it?

0:29:54 > 0:29:57When you hear the details, I'm sure you'll agree it's a unique case.

0:29:57 > 0:30:00Unique? You can't be serious.

0:30:00 > 0:30:03We live in an age in which bodies lie around streets like cobblestones.

0:30:03 > 0:30:05What's so unique about this case?

0:30:05 > 0:30:07All right, all right, come to the point, major.

0:30:07 > 0:30:09Last night, a woman was murdered.

0:30:09 > 0:30:12Yes, general, in Bulkowa Street, number 27, fourth-floor apartment,

0:30:12 > 0:30:17Maria Kupiecka, a prostitute, also one of our agents.

0:30:17 > 0:30:20She was stabbed to death most brutally. Cut to pieces, in fact.

0:30:20 > 0:30:24A charming story. But what has that to do with us?

0:30:24 > 0:30:28Preliminary investigation has established that each of you was...

0:30:28 > 0:30:31well, unaccounted for last night.

0:30:31 > 0:30:34To whom should we be accountable, major?

0:30:34 > 0:30:36I fail to see what my...

0:30:36 > 0:30:40What our movements should have to do with you or with this woman's death.

0:30:40 > 0:30:43Well, the murderer was seen leaving the woman's room.

0:30:43 > 0:30:46In that case, you must know who he is.

0:30:46 > 0:30:51Not exactly. The face was not visible, but the uniform was.

0:30:51 > 0:30:54It was the uniform of a German officer.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57In fact, a German general.

0:31:02 > 0:31:04This is a serious charge. I hope you know what you're doing.

0:31:04 > 0:31:06Oh, yes, sir, my duty.

0:31:06 > 0:31:08Then consider your duty done, major. Good night.

0:31:08 > 0:31:11Are you, by any chance, using perfume?

0:31:11 > 0:31:14I occasionally use a strong eau de cologne after shaving.

0:31:14 > 0:31:16Good night, sir.

0:31:16 > 0:31:20I will, of course, want to see each of you tomorrow, if I may, in line of duty.

0:31:20 > 0:31:22It is quite possible we've been misled,

0:31:22 > 0:31:26but we don't want to leave any loose ends dangling, do we?

0:31:26 > 0:31:29Until tomorrow. Good night, generals.

0:31:30 > 0:31:33Astonishing behaviour!

0:31:33 > 0:31:35- Who invited him? - Not I.

0:31:35 > 0:31:38Socially, Major Grau has not been a success.

0:31:38 > 0:31:40I'm sorry, general. I should have had him arrested.

0:31:40 > 0:31:44Why? He was merely doing his duty.

0:31:44 > 0:31:46Yes.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48Well...

0:31:48 > 0:31:51Now, there are some officers I should like to present to you.

0:31:53 > 0:31:55Some sauerbraten, general?

0:32:01 > 0:32:04Make yourself comfortable, inspector.

0:32:04 > 0:32:06This is my third restaurant in Berlin.

0:32:06 > 0:32:10That's if you count the sausage shop I had down by the station right after the war.

0:32:10 > 0:32:12We were really on our arse then.

0:32:12 > 0:32:16Now look, Germany is booming. We made it.

0:32:16 > 0:32:19Well, come along, inspector, do sit down.

0:32:19 > 0:32:21One large Munchen, please.

0:32:21 > 0:32:26Now, then, you asked me about General Kahlenberge.

0:32:26 > 0:32:30Well, I don't suppose there was anyone who knew him better than me.

0:32:31 > 0:32:33Hartmann's doing a good job, isn't he, sir?

0:32:33 > 0:32:36Yes. What?

0:32:36 > 0:32:39Oh, yes! Apparently.

0:32:39 > 0:32:42- OTTO:- 'Of course, inspector, as I said before,

0:32:42 > 0:32:44'I haven't seen Hartmann since the war.

0:32:44 > 0:32:47'Don't want to see him, after what he did.'

0:32:47 > 0:32:52'But I'll say one thing, he had the most extraordinary effect on women.

0:32:52 > 0:32:53'I don't know why.

0:32:53 > 0:32:57'Well, he wasn't what you'd call really handsome.

0:32:57 > 0:32:58'Too skinny.'

0:32:58 > 0:33:02'But whatever it was he had, it worked out all right with women.

0:33:02 > 0:33:05'I think they must have got together almost from the first moment they met.

0:33:05 > 0:33:07'Well, things were like that in the war.

0:33:07 > 0:33:12'I remember once in Paris, meeting this girl in the Metro.

0:33:12 > 0:33:15'Well, anyway, you didn't waste time, not with knowing maybe tomorrow

0:33:15 > 0:33:18'you'd be sent to the fronts or the damned Allies would drop a bomb on you.

0:33:18 > 0:33:21'Oh, worry, I didn't mean that about the Allies.

0:33:21 > 0:33:24'After all, where would we be now without Americans?'

0:33:24 > 0:33:27- Nice. - I'd forgotten how nice.

0:33:27 > 0:33:29Would you say there were no girls in Russia?

0:33:29 > 0:33:33Girls? I was too scared.

0:33:33 > 0:33:35I'm hopeless when I'm scared.

0:33:35 > 0:33:37Well, it's a good thing I don't scare you, isn't it?

0:33:37 > 0:33:42Yes, it's just that this room makes me nervous.

0:33:42 > 0:33:43- Nervous? - Mm.

0:33:43 > 0:33:45Oh, you have no sense of history.

0:33:45 > 0:33:48Do you realize this used to be the bed of the king of Poland.

0:33:48 > 0:33:49- Did it really? - Mm-hm.

0:33:49 > 0:33:51It's like sleeping on the floor.

0:33:51 > 0:33:53It's freezing in here.

0:33:53 > 0:33:56Ah, but the king and the queen never slept. They just made love.

0:33:56 > 0:33:58They were never cold.

0:34:01 > 0:34:03Do you like the war?

0:34:04 > 0:34:06Do I like the war?

0:34:06 > 0:34:08Good God, no. Do you?

0:34:09 > 0:34:14If it weren't for the war, I'd be on the marriage circuit now, living on some army post,

0:34:14 > 0:34:16making conversation with dreary young officers.

0:34:16 > 0:34:19Instead of making love with dreary young corporals.

0:34:19 > 0:34:23Oh, not dreary. Not at all.

0:34:23 > 0:34:26- In fact, the best so far.- Oh?

0:34:26 > 0:34:29- Do you specialize in corporals? - No.

0:34:29 > 0:34:31Only heroes like you.

0:34:31 > 0:34:35Just think, all this bravery in my arms.

0:34:35 > 0:34:37It must be very inspiring.

0:34:41 > 0:34:43What's the matter?

0:34:43 > 0:34:45You know, we mustn't like each other too much.

0:34:45 > 0:34:48Why? Because I'm a corporal and you're a general's daughter?

0:34:48 > 0:34:52No. It's because...

0:34:53 > 0:34:56It's a man, a girl, a war.

0:34:58 > 0:35:01Two boys I knew are already dead in Russia.

0:35:01 > 0:35:03It's funny.

0:35:03 > 0:35:05In the dark, you feel just like them to me.

0:35:05 > 0:35:07And you like this war?

0:35:07 > 0:35:11No. I like this.

0:35:15 > 0:35:17CLOCK CHIMES

0:35:37 > 0:35:39ENGINE BACKFIRES

0:35:39 > 0:35:41No, no!

0:35:41 > 0:35:42What's wrong?

0:35:44 > 0:35:47Nothing. I thought they were firing at me.

0:35:47 > 0:35:50You're shaking like a leaf.

0:35:50 > 0:35:51I'm all right now.

0:35:59 > 0:36:01What's it like having people try to kill you?

0:36:01 > 0:36:04Noisy bastards.

0:36:08 > 0:36:10Good morning.

0:36:10 > 0:36:13Good morning, king of Poland.

0:36:13 > 0:36:15What's it like having people try to kill you?

0:36:15 > 0:36:18- Well, what do you think it's like? - Terrible.

0:36:18 > 0:36:20Yes.

0:36:20 > 0:36:22I'm glad...

0:36:22 > 0:36:25- Well, I'm glad that you're here. - So am I.

0:36:25 > 0:36:27But you'll be going back soon, I suppose?

0:36:27 > 0:36:30Not if I can help it, I won't.

0:36:30 > 0:36:32Can you bear the truth?

0:36:32 > 0:36:33Probably not.

0:36:33 > 0:36:37- I'm a fraud. - Impossible.

0:36:37 > 0:36:41When they opened fire on us at Voronezh, I ran away.

0:36:41 > 0:36:43It's as simple as that.

0:36:43 > 0:36:47Then, I've no idea how, I was hit.

0:36:47 > 0:36:51It was like a door slamming in my head, and I thought I was dead.

0:36:51 > 0:36:53Next thing I remember waking up in the hospital

0:36:53 > 0:36:56and there was this general congratulating me

0:36:56 > 0:36:59on having killed 40 Russians single-handed.

0:36:59 > 0:37:03You see, they were all killed that day, the whole company.

0:37:03 > 0:37:06Everyone was killed except me, and I suppose

0:37:06 > 0:37:09it didn't look too good in dispatches, a whole company being wiped out,

0:37:09 > 0:37:12so they decided to make a hero of the survivor.

0:37:12 > 0:37:14The one who ran away.

0:37:14 > 0:37:18So now what do you think of all that bravery?

0:37:21 > 0:37:24Well, that's a lovely story. I think it's marvellous.

0:37:24 > 0:37:26- Marvellous? - Yes.

0:37:26 > 0:37:29For once, the joke's on them.

0:37:29 > 0:37:33Come, make love to the queen of Poland.

0:37:33 > 0:37:36I must say you are, well, unexpected.

0:37:36 > 0:37:39It's lucky we met.

0:37:39 > 0:37:42What's lucky is right now.

0:37:42 > 0:37:44You know, when this war is over...

0:37:44 > 0:37:46Mm-mm. It will never end.

0:37:50 > 0:37:53Well, what happened?

0:37:53 > 0:37:55Did you see them?

0:37:55 > 0:37:59Generals Gabler and Kahlenberge are in conference and cannot be disturbed.

0:37:59 > 0:38:01I told you they wouldn't see you.

0:38:01 > 0:38:02Where's General Tanz?

0:38:02 > 0:38:06Look, why don't we forget about this? It's not as if we don't have other things to do.

0:38:06 > 0:38:08Where's General Tanz?

0:38:08 > 0:38:11In the old city, conducting a tactical exercise.

0:38:38 > 0:38:39I don't trust him.

0:38:39 > 0:38:41Naturally, in the field, he must use his discretion.

0:38:41 > 0:38:43He has no discretion. He is ruthless.

0:38:43 > 0:38:48Now, now, you exaggerate. He will only go to phase two if phase one should prove to be a failure.

0:38:48 > 0:38:49What is a failure?

0:38:49 > 0:38:51Well, if the Poles, the Jews try to retaliate.

0:38:51 > 0:38:54What constitutes retaliation, a rock thrown at his golden head?

0:38:54 > 0:38:57Is that sufficient warrant for the demolition of the city?

0:38:57 > 0:38:59You always overstate things, Kahlenberge.

0:38:59 > 0:39:01General Tanz is a responsible officer...

0:39:01 > 0:39:02KNOCKING

0:39:02 > 0:39:04Come in.

0:39:05 > 0:39:10Sorry, sir. Colonel Mannheim to see General Kahlenberge, sir.

0:39:10 > 0:39:12We'll discuss this later.

0:39:12 > 0:39:17And don't worry about Tanz. I'll take care of him.

0:39:19 > 0:39:21Colonel Mannheim, sir.

0:39:23 > 0:39:26- You wanted to see me, general. - Yes, yes.

0:39:26 > 0:39:29Yes, I did, colonel. I wanted to see you about...

0:39:31 > 0:39:34Damn it, what was it about?

0:39:34 > 0:39:35Yes.

0:39:35 > 0:39:37Yes, I remember now.

0:39:37 > 0:39:41You have an officer on your staff, a Major Grau.

0:39:41 > 0:39:44Halt! Halt!

0:39:50 > 0:39:53Major Grau to see General Tanz.

0:39:53 > 0:39:54Major Grau?

0:39:54 > 0:39:56Just a minute, sir.

0:39:58 > 0:40:02Get me CP, Colonel Sandauer, urgent.

0:40:02 > 0:40:07Roadblock 4 calling CP. Roadblock 4 calling CP.

0:40:07 > 0:40:09Can you hear me? Over.

0:40:20 > 0:40:22Get your hands up.

0:40:22 > 0:40:24Hands up.

0:40:28 > 0:40:31- SOLDIER 1:- Colonel Sandauer on the line, sergeant.

0:40:31 > 0:40:33Colonel Sandauer, there's a Major Grau here.

0:40:33 > 0:40:37Wants to see the general. My orders were...

0:40:37 > 0:40:42What? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44You may pass, major.

0:40:44 > 0:40:46Stop!

0:40:46 > 0:40:47Go ahead.

0:40:47 > 0:40:51- Well, at least you have one friend. - So it would seem.

0:40:57 > 0:40:58Hands up!

0:40:58 > 0:41:01Keep moving. Keep moving.

0:41:02 > 0:41:06- Have them over here. - Over here. Over here.

0:41:07 > 0:41:09Get back!

0:41:10 > 0:41:12Name?

0:41:12 > 0:41:14First name?

0:41:14 > 0:41:17- Profession? - Halt!

0:41:17 > 0:41:19- Major Grau. - Go ahead, sir.

0:41:29 > 0:41:31Wait for me here.

0:41:31 > 0:41:32'This is Wehrmacht's radio unit

0:41:32 > 0:41:34'assigned to the Reich's general government of Poland.'

0:41:34 > 0:41:37This broadcast is coming to you directly from Warsaw.

0:41:37 > 0:41:41A few yards from where I am, I see General Tanz, the hero of Leningrad.

0:41:41 > 0:41:44'He is conducting manoeuvres in the streets of the city.

0:41:44 > 0:41:49'An entire area is being temporarily evacuated in the interest of public order and safety.'

0:41:49 > 0:41:51Sector one reports phase one successful.

0:41:51 > 0:41:54Sector three, no resistance encountered.

0:41:54 > 0:41:56Thank you, Sandauer.

0:41:56 > 0:41:58- ANNOUNCER:- The soldiers, of course, are dedicated to their commander.

0:41:58 > 0:42:00He is a superb craftsman of war

0:42:00 > 0:42:05and his presence alone inspires men to extraordinary valour.

0:42:05 > 0:42:08The exercise is being carried out with meticulous precision according to plan.

0:42:08 > 0:42:11The population is extremely cooperative and friendly.

0:42:11 > 0:42:13- SANDAUER:- Sector four reports phase one operative.

0:42:13 > 0:42:15Sector two, flamethrowers ready to action.

0:42:15 > 0:42:17Phase one to continue until further orders.

0:42:17 > 0:42:19Yes, sir.

0:42:20 > 0:42:24All sectors, from commanding general, phase one to continue until further orders.

0:42:24 > 0:42:27- Main sector, flamethrowers ready, sir.- Go ahead.

0:42:27 > 0:42:29Forward march.

0:42:34 > 0:42:37General Tanz?

0:42:37 > 0:42:39A few more minutes.

0:42:59 > 0:43:01- SOLDIER 2:- Halt! - SOLDIER 3:- Stop!

0:43:02 > 0:43:03Get him!

0:43:11 > 0:43:13Stop! Fire!

0:43:13 > 0:43:14GUNSHOTS

0:43:32 > 0:43:34- Sandauer! - SANDAUER:- Sir?

0:43:35 > 0:43:38- Stand by for phase two. - Phase two, sir?

0:43:38 > 0:43:41Stand by for phase two.

0:43:41 > 0:43:43Yes, sir.

0:43:43 > 0:43:45Notify all units. Phase one completed.

0:43:45 > 0:43:48- Stand by for phase two. - Yes, sir.

0:43:48 > 0:43:51CP to all sectors, stand by for phase two.

0:43:52 > 0:43:53Phase two!

0:43:55 > 0:43:57Phase two.

0:43:57 > 0:43:58Yes, sir. Phase two.

0:43:59 > 0:44:01Phase two.

0:44:01 > 0:44:03Fire!

0:44:07 > 0:44:09Fire!

0:44:21 > 0:44:23Now the major may put his questions.

0:44:23 > 0:44:25He's gone, sir.

0:44:29 > 0:44:31That maniac is blowing up half the city.

0:44:32 > 0:44:34Let's go.

0:44:43 > 0:44:46Did you say there was no real resistance?

0:44:46 > 0:44:47No, I was there.

0:44:47 > 0:44:50One shot from one sniper, that was all, and he blows up the city!

0:44:50 > 0:44:53Now, now, we're not the generals.

0:44:53 > 0:44:56It is their business, you know, not ours.

0:44:56 > 0:44:59We're here just to keep the papers moving.

0:44:59 > 0:45:01And yours have arrived.

0:45:01 > 0:45:03Congratulations.

0:45:03 > 0:45:04For what?

0:45:04 > 0:45:07You've been promoted to lieutenant colonel.

0:45:07 > 0:45:09Promoted?

0:45:09 > 0:45:11And transferred to Paris as of this date.

0:45:11 > 0:45:15- Lucky fellow. - Transferred, but why?

0:45:15 > 0:45:17Who signed the transfer?

0:45:17 > 0:45:19General Gabler, naturally.

0:45:23 > 0:45:25What are you doing?

0:45:25 > 0:45:27I'm going to find out where the order originated.

0:45:27 > 0:45:31- On whose recommendation here. - Calm down. I've already checked.

0:45:32 > 0:45:36General Kahlenberge. He recommended your transfer.

0:45:36 > 0:45:37Did he indeed?

0:45:37 > 0:45:40You must have made quite an impression last night.

0:45:40 > 0:45:42It would seem so. Thank you, colonel.

0:45:43 > 0:45:45It's just as well, you know.

0:45:45 > 0:45:47That's a matter of opinion.

0:45:47 > 0:45:51Above all, Major Grau, not too much zeal.

0:45:51 > 0:45:55I have a zealous nature, sir. I can't help it.

0:46:01 > 0:46:05Yes, inspector, I was in Warsaw with General Tanz.

0:46:05 > 0:46:07And I resent those cheap journalists

0:46:07 > 0:46:12who try to make him out to be some sort of inhuman monster. He was not.

0:46:12 > 0:46:14SPEAKS SPANISH

0:46:14 > 0:46:17Forgive me, inspector. We hire a lot of foreigners nowadays.

0:46:17 > 0:46:20We can't get Germans any more, not for real work.

0:46:20 > 0:46:25I've seen General Tanz in the field, with the wounded, the dying.

0:46:25 > 0:46:28He was extraordinary.

0:46:28 > 0:46:31Compassionate, gentle.

0:46:31 > 0:46:33Do you know that, after Leningrad,

0:46:33 > 0:46:36Hitler ordered the general not to expose himself to enemy fire.

0:46:36 > 0:46:39Of course, he found this a great hardship.

0:46:39 > 0:46:40He was only happy in battle.

0:46:40 > 0:46:42- KNOCKING - Yes?

0:46:42 > 0:46:45SPEAKS SPANISH

0:46:45 > 0:46:47Ah, gracias. Gracias.

0:46:47 > 0:46:49I'm also learning Spanish.

0:46:49 > 0:46:51Well, soon everything will be automated.

0:46:51 > 0:46:54Except the manager, of course.

0:46:54 > 0:46:58And then, in July 1944, we were transferred to Paris.

0:46:58 > 0:47:01The Allies were in Normandy by then

0:47:01 > 0:47:04and Hitler ordered us to stop them in front of Paris.

0:47:04 > 0:47:08We nearly did too, except that the army was betrayed, as usual.

0:47:08 > 0:47:11But we mustn't talk politics. It's bad for business, isn't it?

0:47:11 > 0:47:13You asked me about Paris.

0:47:14 > 0:47:18'It was a paradise to us, particularly after Russia.

0:47:18 > 0:47:21'I remember that summer as though it were yesterday.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23'The empty streets, the heat, the quiet.

0:47:23 > 0:47:25'Everything cheap.

0:47:25 > 0:47:28'By the way, I was in Paris last summer, and my God, the prices.

0:47:28 > 0:47:32'When they gave me my hotel bill, I couldn't believe it.

0:47:32 > 0:47:35'But in July '44, Paris was still our city.

0:47:35 > 0:47:39'I suppose that's a tactless thing to say, but we did love Paris.

0:47:39 > 0:47:44'In any case, General Tanz and I were due to arrive on July 20th.

0:47:44 > 0:47:48'But at the last moment, the general decided to come a few days early.

0:47:48 > 0:47:52'So I sent a messenger to 7th Corps headquarters at Versailles

0:47:52 > 0:47:55'to say that we would be in Paris on the 17th.

0:47:55 > 0:47:59'I think you know why I'm giving you the exact dates.

0:47:59 > 0:48:03'As it turned out, it was a good thing we arrived when we did.

0:48:03 > 0:48:06'However, there were those who were not at all pleased

0:48:06 > 0:48:09'to learn of our early arrival.'

0:48:09 > 0:48:10Thank you, that will be all.

0:48:10 > 0:48:13- Heil Hitler.- Heil Hitler.

0:48:18 > 0:48:22- Oh, I shall be with General Gabler in the War Room.- Yes, sir.

0:48:25 > 0:48:28What about my pass? Is it all right?

0:48:28 > 0:48:31For God's sake, relax!

0:48:31 > 0:48:35Operation Hartmann, phase one, will begin tomorrow, 18 July, at 0915

0:48:35 > 0:48:38- when the lance corporal reports to the railway station.- With a car.

0:48:38 > 0:48:41With a car duly requisitioned from the motor pool. Phase two,

0:48:41 > 0:48:44the lance corporal will then meet the secret consignment from Berlin.

0:48:44 > 0:48:46- Then?- Then phase three.

0:48:46 > 0:48:50A 24-hour pass for the lance corporal will begin tomorrow at noon.

0:48:50 > 0:48:51- You've got it?- Here.

0:48:51 > 0:48:54A corporal and a general's daughter.

0:48:54 > 0:48:57You know, you really are asking for trouble.

0:48:57 > 0:49:00But it's your funeral, not mine!

0:49:04 > 0:49:07OFFICER: The British second army has been advancing towards the left,

0:49:07 > 0:49:12trying to cut off two of our panzer divisions from our main supply route.

0:49:12 > 0:49:15During the last 48 hours, the enemy has succeeded

0:49:15 > 0:49:18in crossing the Ohm River, here and here.

0:49:18 > 0:49:21However, we were able to stop them here,

0:49:21 > 0:49:23with help from the 12th SS Panzer Division,

0:49:23 > 0:49:26- which is counterattacking at the moment.- Well?

0:49:26 > 0:49:29- Now what do we do? - To be precise, what do YOU do?

0:49:29 > 0:49:32- We. You're in this too. - General Gabler?

0:49:32 > 0:49:36- The field marshal will see you at 4:00.- Thank you, major.

0:49:37 > 0:49:40I admit that it's inconvenient for you.

0:49:40 > 0:49:42It's a good deal more than that. Why?

0:49:42 > 0:49:47Just why is General Tanz arriving three days earlier than was planned?

0:49:47 > 0:49:50- You suspect something odd? - He comes straight from Hitler.

0:49:50 > 0:49:54- Isn't that odd enough? - I want to hear this.

0:49:54 > 0:49:57The American 1st Army occupied the town of Saint-Claude.

0:49:57 > 0:50:02Our troops are withdrawing to new positions south and southeast.

0:50:02 > 0:50:05GRAU: General Gabler, General Kahlenberge.

0:50:05 > 0:50:10I never had the opportunity to thank you for my promotion.

0:50:10 > 0:50:14I'm sorry. Grau, Intelligence, Warsaw 1942.

0:50:14 > 0:50:17Oh, yes, yes. Good to see you again, colonel.

0:50:17 > 0:50:21You once had the vision to transfer me to Paris.

0:50:21 > 0:50:23We do our best to give pleasure, colonel. Good day.

0:50:23 > 0:50:26I understand we're soon to be joined by General Tanz.

0:50:26 > 0:50:29Quite like old times.

0:50:29 > 0:50:32Excuse me. I just wanted to greet you.

0:50:34 > 0:50:35General.

0:50:40 > 0:50:43- Tiresome fellow. - Strange, isn't it?

0:50:43 > 0:50:47Everybody seems to be aware that Tanz is coming here.

0:50:47 > 0:50:48I don't like it.

0:50:48 > 0:50:51- I don't like it at all. - Obviously not.

0:50:51 > 0:50:53It's always disagreeable when the cat gets back

0:50:53 > 0:50:56to find the mice have been playing.

0:50:56 > 0:50:58We could, of course, distract the cat

0:50:58 > 0:51:01by suggesting that he take a few days off to play a little too.

0:51:01 > 0:51:03Particularly after all...

0:51:03 > 0:51:06'After all that you've been through, my dear general,

0:51:06 > 0:51:07'these past few months in Russia,

0:51:07 > 0:51:09'I know it must have been perfect hell for you.'

0:51:09 > 0:51:11I want 4,000 men by the end of the week.

0:51:11 > 0:51:13And you shall have them. Your Colonel Sandauer

0:51:13 > 0:51:15has been working closely with General Kahlenberge.

0:51:15 > 0:51:18We are scraping the sides of the barrel, but you'll have 4,000.

0:51:18 > 0:51:21Meanwhile, why don't you take a few days off?

0:51:21 > 0:51:24Rest a bit, see the sights of Paris. It's your first visit.

0:51:24 > 0:51:27I want only combat troops, no decaying old men or children.

0:51:27 > 0:51:30Yes, sir. We are making good progress, General Kahlenberge and I.

0:51:30 > 0:51:33After all, it may be your last chance to see Paris.

0:51:33 > 0:51:36It may be anyone's last chance. Such a pity.

0:51:36 > 0:51:37A necessity.

0:51:37 > 0:51:40But of course. Of course it's necessary.

0:51:40 > 0:51:42Stern measures, the only thing people respect.

0:51:42 > 0:51:44All I'm suggesting is that you leave everything to us.

0:51:44 > 0:51:47- A commander does not... - And your excellent Colonel Sandauer.

0:51:47 > 0:51:50We've arranged a suite for you at the... Kahlenberge?

0:51:50 > 0:51:52- At your hotel. - At the Excelsior.

0:51:52 > 0:51:56You'll have a car, a driver and whatever else strikes your fancy.

0:51:56 > 0:52:00- One must relax occasionally, general.- I can't afford to.

0:52:00 > 0:52:04You give me no alternative but to compel you to enjoy yourself.

0:52:04 > 0:52:06Must I order you?

0:52:06 > 0:52:10Because if I must, I'm afraid I shall have to.

0:52:10 > 0:52:11Yes, sir.

0:52:11 > 0:52:14Evidently, you are not ready for me.

0:52:14 > 0:52:16Very well.

0:52:16 > 0:52:19I shall devote one day to seeing the city.

0:52:19 > 0:52:21I shall return to headquarters at 0800 hours

0:52:21 > 0:52:23on the morning of the 19th.

0:52:23 > 0:52:26Heil, Hitler.

0:52:26 > 0:52:28- GABLER:- Heil Hitler.

0:52:28 > 0:52:31Well, that wasn't so bad. You now have one day's grace.

0:52:31 > 0:52:33We need two, until the 20th.

0:52:33 > 0:52:35Come and have dinner with me and Eleanore tomorrow.

0:52:35 > 0:52:37- Ulrike's arriving. - This is bad luck.

0:52:37 > 0:52:41- Naturally, she forgot to say which train she'd be on.- I assume...

0:52:41 > 0:52:44- I assume you're with us now. - In spirit, of course, but...

0:52:44 > 0:52:47You'll have to make up your mind. Soon.

0:52:47 > 0:52:52Making up one's mind is one thing, speaking it is another.

0:52:52 > 0:52:54You worry too much.

0:52:56 > 0:53:00Patience is one of the few virtues that I possess.

0:53:01 > 0:53:02At ease.

0:53:02 > 0:53:06Sergeant, get me the military governor's office on the telephone.

0:53:14 > 0:53:16- Corporal?- Sir.

0:53:16 > 0:53:18I have an assignment for you.

0:53:18 > 0:53:20Come in.

0:53:26 > 0:53:29Get me the military governor's office.

0:53:29 > 0:53:31For General Kahlenberge.

0:53:31 > 0:53:33You're to stay with him every minute of the day.

0:53:33 > 0:53:35- 24-hour call, do you understand? - Yes, sir.

0:53:35 > 0:53:38He may want to go out at night.

0:53:38 > 0:53:41Do you know anything which might interest General Tanz?

0:53:41 > 0:53:44Nightclubs or girls, that sort of thing.

0:53:44 > 0:53:45A few, sir.

0:53:45 > 0:53:48But I don't really know what the general's taste is, sir.

0:53:48 > 0:53:51Let us hope that, whatever it is, it is not you, corporal.

0:53:51 > 0:53:56However, if it should be, remember that you're serving the fatherland.

0:53:56 > 0:53:58- I'll try to remember, sir. - Should he ask you

0:53:58 > 0:54:01to take him to his headquarters, you're to telephone me.

0:54:01 > 0:54:03- Either here or at my hotel. - Yes, sir.

0:54:03 > 0:54:06You'll report to Colonel Sandauer for specific instructions.

0:54:08 > 0:54:09Sir?

0:54:09 > 0:54:11What is it, corporal?

0:54:11 > 0:54:14I'm sorry, sir, but I was supposed to have

0:54:14 > 0:54:17- a 24-hour leave starting tomorrow. - That's impossible.

0:54:19 > 0:54:23- Could I have one hour free in the morning, sir?- No.

0:54:23 > 0:54:24Sir.

0:54:27 > 0:54:28- Hartmann?- Sir?

0:54:30 > 0:54:32This is important.

0:54:34 > 0:54:36All right. Now, where were we?

0:54:36 > 0:54:39Oh, yes. Childhood diseases?

0:54:39 > 0:54:41Measles.

0:54:41 > 0:54:44I can't remember. Nothing serious, I think.

0:54:44 > 0:54:45Chickenpox.

0:54:45 > 0:54:47Bed-wetting?

0:54:48 > 0:54:51- No, sir.- Fear of the dark?

0:54:51 > 0:54:53No, not particularly.

0:54:53 > 0:54:55Venereal disease?

0:54:56 > 0:54:59- No, sir.- Good.

0:54:59 > 0:55:02- Now, what about books?- Books?

0:55:02 > 0:55:04- Do you read books? - Yes, sir, I read books.

0:55:04 > 0:55:06What?

0:55:06 > 0:55:08War and Peace.

0:55:08 > 0:55:10Nietzsche, The Decline of the West.

0:55:10 > 0:55:14Books on psychology, pathology?

0:55:14 > 0:55:16No, not much.

0:55:16 > 0:55:18Show me your hands.

0:55:25 > 0:55:26All right.

0:55:26 > 0:55:28Now, you'll have a room assigned to you in the general's hotel.

0:55:28 > 0:55:31He'll want to see the principal sights of Paris.

0:55:31 > 0:55:34You will prepare an itinerary and submit it to me.

0:55:34 > 0:55:39When not in the field, the general goes to bed at 11:45.

0:55:39 > 0:55:41He seldom drinks or smokes,

0:55:41 > 0:55:44so you will probably have an early evening.

0:55:44 > 0:55:50Now, this is my private number, in case you should need me.

0:55:50 > 0:55:51Need you, sir?

0:55:51 > 0:55:55If anything out of the ordinary should happen, ring me immediately.

0:55:55 > 0:55:58- Is that understood?- Yes, sir.

0:55:58 > 0:55:59Good luck.

0:56:02 > 0:56:04Thank you, sir.

0:56:05 > 0:56:11Incidentally, avoid all cemeteries, tombs, any mention of death.

0:56:13 > 0:56:14Yes, sir.

0:56:22 > 0:56:24Sir?

0:56:24 > 0:56:27- Inspector Morand, please. - Third floor, room 158.

0:56:27 > 0:56:30- Who shall I say is here? - Thank you. I can find my own way.

0:56:34 > 0:56:38SPEAKS FRENCH

0:56:42 > 0:56:45Welcome, Colonel Grau, to the spider's web.

0:56:45 > 0:56:47How did you know it was me?

0:56:47 > 0:56:49What other German colonel would enter unannounced?

0:56:49 > 0:56:52Almost any SS colonel would.

0:56:52 > 0:56:54Actually, I saw you reflected in the window.

0:56:54 > 0:56:57Impossible, it's too dirty.

0:56:57 > 0:57:01- I hope you're not allergic to dust. - Old crimes, colonel.

0:57:01 > 0:57:04They generate a good deal of dust.

0:57:05 > 0:57:07Unsolved crimes.

0:57:08 > 0:57:10The dust has settled.

0:57:10 > 0:57:14We can always unsettle it.

0:57:14 > 0:57:17Is that why you came? Do sit down, colonel.

0:57:17 > 0:57:20I must apologise for the heat, but it's nearly August,

0:57:20 > 0:57:22when most Parisians leave Paris.

0:57:22 > 0:57:25Let's hope Germans have the good sense to do the same.

0:57:25 > 0:57:28Saint-Lo fell to the Allies this morning.

0:57:28 > 0:57:30BBC?

0:57:30 > 0:57:32- Coffee?- No, thank you.

0:57:33 > 0:57:37You have dossiers on everyone, don't you?

0:57:37 > 0:57:40- On everyone interesting. - German as well as French?

0:57:40 > 0:57:43At the specific request of German Intelligence,

0:57:43 > 0:57:48we keep an occasional eye on interesting Germans.

0:57:48 > 0:57:50Like me?

0:57:50 > 0:57:54- I have always found you interesting. - Thank you.

0:57:54 > 0:57:56What about German generals?

0:57:57 > 0:58:00Well, what about them?

0:58:00 > 0:58:02Generals are interesting?

0:58:02 > 0:58:05Then, to the degree that they are interesting,

0:58:05 > 0:58:07- we keep an eye on them too.- Good.

0:58:07 > 0:58:11Here are the names of three generals. I want to know everything about them.

0:58:11 > 0:58:13Everything may be too much.

0:58:13 > 0:58:15What specifically are you looking for?

0:58:15 > 0:58:19One of them is a murderer.

0:58:19 > 0:58:21Only one?

0:58:21 > 0:58:24But murder is the occupation of generals.

0:58:24 > 0:58:27Let's say what is admirable on the large scale

0:58:27 > 0:58:29is monstrous on the small.

0:58:30 > 0:58:34Since we must give medals to mass murderers,

0:58:34 > 0:58:38let us try to give justice to the small entrepreneur.

0:58:38 > 0:58:42Nicely put. I shall be glad to help you if I can.

0:58:42 > 0:58:46I realise that nothing is free in this world, even between colleagues.

0:58:46 > 0:58:48Especially between colleagues.

0:58:48 > 0:58:50In exchange for your information,

0:58:50 > 0:58:55I shall arrange for the release from prison of three French resistance.

0:58:55 > 0:58:57Thank you.

0:58:57 > 0:59:01- Have you a favourite suspect? - Not really, no.

0:59:01 > 0:59:03You see, on the night of the murder,

0:59:03 > 0:59:05each general had something to conceal.

0:59:05 > 0:59:08The night of the murder was...?

0:59:08 > 0:59:14December the 12th, 1942, Warsaw. And just as I started my investigation,

0:59:14 > 0:59:16I was transferred to Paris.

0:59:16 > 0:59:18- By the murderer?- Possibly.

0:59:18 > 0:59:21For two years, I've wanted to reopen the case.

0:59:21 > 0:59:25Now I can. As of today, all three are in Paris.

0:59:25 > 0:59:26General Gabler.

0:59:26 > 0:59:29He's partial to the sort of girl who was killed.

0:59:29 > 0:59:34- Oh, a girl. A crime of passion, as we say.- Passion, yes,

0:59:34 > 0:59:37but only in the sense of your distinguished Marquis de Sade.

0:59:37 > 0:59:41Oh, a sex crime, I see. Is that why this case excites you?

0:59:42 > 0:59:45The girl was also a German agent.

0:59:45 > 0:59:48She may have been killed because of something she knew.

0:59:48 > 0:59:51That's why Kahlenberge intrigues me the most.

0:59:51 > 0:59:54He seems to have no private life

0:59:54 > 0:59:56and yet he disappears from time to time.

0:59:56 > 0:59:59No one knows where or why.

0:59:59 > 1:00:00And General Tanz?

1:00:00 > 1:00:02A perfect maniac.

1:00:02 > 1:00:05'I saw him destroy an entire quarter of Warsaw

1:00:05 > 1:00:07'for the sheer pleasure of it.

1:00:07 > 1:00:11'On the Eastern front, he was known as The Butcher.

1:00:11 > 1:00:13'He lost most of his division in Russia.

1:00:13 > 1:00:17'He revels in death. Which is why, in a curious way,

1:00:17 > 1:00:20'I don't think he's the man I'm looking for.

1:00:20 > 1:00:23'Anyone who has the power to destroy a city whenever he chooses

1:00:23 > 1:00:27'does not need such minor sport as killing a girl.

1:00:27 > 1:00:28'I could be wrong, of course.'

1:00:32 > 1:00:34- Hartmann?- Yes.

1:00:34 > 1:00:37I'm Sergeant Kopatski, the general's orderly.

1:00:37 > 1:00:39For the time being, that is.

1:00:39 > 1:00:42I forgot to take his laces out before cleaning his shoes this morning.

1:00:42 > 1:00:45For God's sake, where are your gloves?

1:00:45 > 1:00:47- You'll get finger marks on it. - I haven't got gloves.

1:00:47 > 1:00:49- They never told me.- Take mine.

1:00:51 > 1:00:54These are the general's holiday rations.

1:00:54 > 1:00:58One bottle of cognac, one Thermos of coffee at 40 degrees centigrade,

1:00:58 > 1:01:01- 200 cigarettes. - Does the general drink?

1:01:01 > 1:01:05Like a sponge, only he never shows it.

1:01:05 > 1:01:07Put the briefcase on the back seat.

1:01:07 > 1:01:08On the right side.

1:01:08 > 1:01:11Whenever he leaves the car, clean out the ashtrays.

1:01:11 > 1:01:15He smokes like a chimney. Clean everything in sight.

1:01:15 > 1:01:18Clean everything out of sight, including the engine.

1:01:18 > 1:01:22If you don't, he'll tear your head off.

1:01:22 > 1:01:24It's now one second to 9:00.

1:01:24 > 1:01:26Here he comes.

1:01:31 > 1:01:33I've given him full instructions, sir.

1:01:33 > 1:01:36- Name? - Hartmann, Kurt, lance corporal, sir.

1:01:36 > 1:01:38Show the general your hands.

1:01:45 > 1:01:48Well, don't stand there like a fool. Put your gloves on.

1:01:48 > 1:01:50He seems to know Paris. He's prepared an itinerary

1:01:50 > 1:01:52of the sights of the city. I have endorsed it.

1:01:52 > 1:01:55- I shall see you tomorrow morning at headquarters.- Yes, general.

1:01:55 > 1:01:57Sergeant Kopatski is relieved as my orderly.

1:01:57 > 1:02:00This morning, he smeared polish on my shoelaces.

1:02:00 > 1:02:02- 14 days confined to barracks. - Yes, general.

1:02:24 > 1:02:28We've just passed the Place Vendome, sir.

1:02:28 > 1:02:32The column is 142 feet high and was erected in 1810.

1:02:32 > 1:02:37It's made of bronze from 1200 cannon captured at Austerlitz.

1:02:37 > 1:02:41There's a statue of Napoleon on the top.

1:02:42 > 1:02:45In front of us, sir, the Tuileries Gardens.

1:02:45 > 1:02:49The Tuileries Palace used to be in the middle of the gardens.

1:03:05 > 1:03:08In 1792, at the time of the French Revolution,

1:03:08 > 1:03:11the Paris mob attacked the palace,

1:03:11 > 1:03:14forcing the king and queen to escape.

1:03:19 > 1:03:22It was burnt down in...

1:03:22 > 1:03:24in 1871.

1:03:51 > 1:03:53We are now coming into Place de la Concorde.

1:03:53 > 1:03:56One of the most beautiful squares in Paris.

1:03:59 > 1:04:01It was here, in the middle of the square

1:04:01 > 1:04:05that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...

1:04:06 > 1:04:08..were beheaded during the revolution.

1:04:10 > 1:04:14The guillotine was there, in the centre, where the obelisk is now.

1:04:15 > 1:04:18- Keep your eye on the road, corporal. - Yes, sir.

1:04:22 > 1:04:24TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

1:04:29 > 1:04:30- Fraulein Gabler?- Yes.

1:04:30 > 1:04:34I'm Sergeant Kopke from your father's headquarters.

1:04:34 > 1:04:36How did they know which train I was on?

1:04:36 > 1:04:37They didn't.

1:04:37 > 1:04:40May I?

1:04:40 > 1:04:41You see, I'm Hartmann's cousin.

1:04:41 > 1:04:45We got no secrets, Hartmann and me. More like brothers, really.

1:04:45 > 1:04:48- He's all right, isn't he? - All right? Never better.

1:04:48 > 1:04:52No, it's just at the last moment he was assigned to drive General Tanz.

1:04:52 > 1:04:55Only for today. That's why he couldn't meet you.

1:04:55 > 1:04:57Well, how are things in the fatherland?

1:04:57 > 1:05:00Any cities left after all the bombing?

1:05:00 > 1:05:02A few, yes, here and there.

1:05:02 > 1:05:06There's one good thing about Paris. It's an open city, no bombs.

1:05:06 > 1:05:08I hate bombs.

1:05:08 > 1:05:12This way, Fraulein Gabler. I have a car for you just outside.

1:05:12 > 1:05:14I'll take you to your father's hotel.

1:05:14 > 1:05:16Hartmann's staying there too.

1:05:16 > 1:05:19With General Tanz, just for tonight.

1:05:19 > 1:05:21So I suppose you'll run into him sooner or later,

1:05:21 > 1:05:23in the lobby or something.

1:05:29 > 1:05:33The gallery is shut to the public, sir. But special permission

1:05:33 > 1:05:36has been granted for you to see the paintings.

1:05:36 > 1:05:38Most of them have been confiscated and assembled here

1:05:38 > 1:05:40before being sent to Germany.

1:05:48 > 1:05:50General Tanz. You've been notified.

1:05:50 > 1:05:52Yes, corporal. Here's all the information.

1:06:02 > 1:06:04On your right, sir, paintings by Boucher,

1:06:04 > 1:06:07the 18th-century French master.

1:06:07 > 1:06:09All these paintings have been selected

1:06:09 > 1:06:12for Reichsmarschall Goering.

1:06:18 > 1:06:20What's in there?

1:06:21 > 1:06:24Paintings requisitioned from private collections

1:06:24 > 1:06:26- by the Reichsmarschall. - What kind of paintings?

1:06:26 > 1:06:30Modern, sir, and some impressionists.

1:06:30 > 1:06:31Decadent?

1:06:31 > 1:06:33I suppose so, sir.

1:06:38 > 1:06:40Light.

1:06:48 > 1:06:50Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Divan.

1:06:53 > 1:06:57Renoir, Nude, painted in 1910.

1:06:57 > 1:07:01Gauguin, On the Beach, from his Tahitian period.

1:07:02 > 1:07:04Another Nude by Renoir.

1:07:04 > 1:07:07Soutine, Le Garcon d'etage.

1:07:09 > 1:07:13Degas, The Tub, painted in 1886.

1:07:14 > 1:07:18Van Gogh, Vincent, Self-Portrait.

1:07:18 > 1:07:20Sometimes called Vincent in Flames,

1:07:20 > 1:07:25painted while in an insane asylum during the last years of his life.

1:07:27 > 1:07:31Here, sir, a painting by Cezanne.

1:07:59 > 1:08:02How dare you touch me?

1:08:02 > 1:08:04Excuse me, sir, but...

1:08:04 > 1:08:07Never do that again!

1:08:48 > 1:08:51I thought that General Gabler was going to join us for lunch.

1:08:51 > 1:08:54Nowadays, General Gabler does not eat lunch.

1:08:54 > 1:08:57Really? That could prove injurious to his health.

1:08:57 > 1:08:59Yes. Yes, I've told him.

1:08:59 > 1:09:02However, once...

1:09:02 > 1:09:07Once the exercise is completed, he will join us at every meal.

1:09:07 > 1:09:09He may not be invited then.

1:09:10 > 1:09:13Shall we go to the garden?

1:09:13 > 1:09:17We've had particularly good luck with the roses this season.

1:09:18 > 1:09:21It's a very beautiful place you have here.

1:09:21 > 1:09:24Thank you, general. We have spent two delightful summers here.

1:09:24 > 1:09:26I shall regret leaving it.

1:09:28 > 1:09:32Hitler is now at his headquarters in Rastenburg.

1:09:32 > 1:09:34If all goes well, the day after tomorrow

1:09:34 > 1:09:37at approximately 1:30 in the afternoon,

1:09:37 > 1:09:39he will be dead.

1:09:39 > 1:09:42If I may say so, we HOPE he will be dead.

1:09:42 > 1:09:46Look at that! These damn beetles. They're everywhere.

1:09:46 > 1:09:50Sir, how do we know Hitler won't change his plans at the last minute?

1:09:50 > 1:09:54Twice this month we were ready for him, but he was not ready for us.

1:09:54 > 1:09:58- What if something goes wrong, sir? - You'll all be executed, colonel.

1:09:58 > 1:10:01I imagine the Gestapo have most of our names already.

1:10:01 > 1:10:05- This is our last chance.- This is also our last chance militarily.

1:10:05 > 1:10:09The Allies will be across the Rhine before winter. It is now or never.

1:10:09 > 1:10:12Fortunately, we are not as alone as we once were.

1:10:12 > 1:10:15We have the support of the greatest soldier in Germany.

1:10:15 > 1:10:18- Field Marshal Rommel.- Rommel?

1:10:18 > 1:10:20This will make all the difference to the army.

1:10:20 > 1:10:24- Rommel is getting even more popular than Hitler.- Rommel is even...

1:10:24 > 1:10:26almost a better general.

1:10:26 > 1:10:29It is our plan to make him president of the German Republic.

1:10:29 > 1:10:33'At the moment, Field Marshal Rommel is touring the Western front,

1:10:33 > 1:10:36- 'but when we need him, he will join us here.- '

1:10:36 > 1:10:39Try to hold this position one more day.

1:10:39 > 1:10:43- That is, assuming the reinforcements arrive in time.- Excuse me, sir.

1:10:43 > 1:10:45An urgent dispatch for you.

1:10:45 > 1:10:49The enemy has broken the line in the vicinity of Coutance.

1:10:49 > 1:10:51Do what you can.

1:10:51 > 1:10:53Be careful on the roads, field marshal.

1:10:53 > 1:10:56The enemy has complete command of the air.

1:10:56 > 1:10:58General von Eisenbeck is on his way to Rastenburg

1:10:58 > 1:11:00to report to the Fuehrer.

1:11:00 > 1:11:03Tell the Fuehrer the SS would rather die than fail him.

1:11:03 > 1:11:04I shall tell him, general.

1:11:04 > 1:11:08I'll stop overnight in Livarot. Tomorrow I'll be at headquarters.

1:11:08 > 1:11:12And after that, sir? Where can you be reached?

1:11:12 > 1:11:14Who knows?

1:11:14 > 1:11:17On the 20th, I may be in Paris.

1:11:32 > 1:11:35You shouldn't have mentioned the date.

1:11:35 > 1:11:37The date means nothing. Yet.

1:11:37 > 1:11:40I still think you should wait before you commit yourself.

1:11:40 > 1:11:42I am committed.

1:11:42 > 1:11:45You realise that, if they fail, you'll be shot as a traitor.

1:11:45 > 1:11:47But I am a traitor,

1:11:47 > 1:11:49a traitor to a madman.

1:11:49 > 1:11:54Who is still the supreme commander you once obeyed and admired.

1:11:54 > 1:11:58When a commander goes mad, he forfeits his right to supremacy.

1:11:58 > 1:12:00We have little choice. If we don't remove him now,

1:12:00 > 1:12:03we shall be thought of as traitors to the fatherland.

1:12:03 > 1:12:09If we do remove him now, history may one day call us patriots, heroes.

1:12:09 > 1:12:12No matter what happens, I'm afraid we shall be misjudged.

1:12:12 > 1:12:16You're probably right. But at least I hope you'll be cautious.

1:12:16 > 1:12:19It's too late for caution. The war's lost. We must surrender.

1:12:19 > 1:12:22- But if he survives? - He'll never surrender.

1:12:22 > 1:12:24His kind of madman never does.

1:12:24 > 1:12:27He wants the bodies of every German man, woman and child

1:12:27 > 1:12:32to feed on the funeral pyre on which he himself will eventually die

1:12:32 > 1:12:34in Wagnerian glory.

1:12:34 > 1:12:37I intend to deny him that glory.

1:12:37 > 1:12:39I intend... PLANES APPROACHING

1:12:39 > 1:12:42Enemy planes on our left, field marshal. They've seen us.

1:12:42 > 1:12:44GUNSHOTS

1:12:47 > 1:12:50Take cover! Drive off the road, quick!

1:13:18 > 1:13:20- I'm sorry, madam, I was delayed. - What's happened?

1:13:20 > 1:13:22Field Marshal Rommel has been wounded.

1:13:22 > 1:13:24- Oh, no!- How serious is it?

1:13:24 > 1:13:26He's in coma. They don't think he'll live through the night.

1:13:26 > 1:13:28- This is terrible. - How did it happen?

1:13:28 > 1:13:31Normally. That is to say, his car was strafed by Allied aircraft.

1:13:31 > 1:13:35- In that case, this is the end. - I don't agree.- Are you mad?

1:13:35 > 1:13:36There are other generals.

1:13:36 > 1:13:39Yes, of course. It isn't the end, not by any means.

1:13:39 > 1:13:41But a definite setback, you must admit that.

1:13:41 > 1:13:44Madam, I can't stay. Forgive me. Ulrike, welcome to Paris.

1:13:44 > 1:13:47- It's always good to see the good general.- Good night, general.

1:13:52 > 1:13:54This thing can't work. You don't have Rommel.

1:13:54 > 1:13:57You do have Tanz returning to duty tomorrow.

1:13:57 > 1:14:00- Only a miracle can help you now. - Then help with the miracle.

1:14:00 > 1:14:02Keep Tanz away from headquarters tomorrow.

1:14:02 > 1:14:04I shall do my best, of course.

1:14:04 > 1:14:09But remember, if things do go wrong, you will all need a friend.

1:14:09 > 1:14:12Someone who is uncontaminated.

1:14:12 > 1:14:15That's why I think it best for everybody

1:14:15 > 1:14:17if I appear neutral and bide my time.

1:14:17 > 1:14:20Don't force me to break my neck by jumping the fence,

1:14:20 > 1:14:23when I can stay usefully alive by sitting on it.

1:14:23 > 1:14:25You see what I mean?

1:14:25 > 1:14:28Yes, I see what you mean.

1:14:35 > 1:14:37An adequate restaurant.

1:14:37 > 1:14:39Very clean.

1:14:46 > 1:14:50Shall I drive you back to your hotel, sir?

1:14:50 > 1:14:52Why?

1:14:52 > 1:14:54I thought you might be tired.

1:14:57 > 1:14:58Yes.

1:15:12 > 1:15:16Tell me, corporal, are the sights of Paris confined

1:15:16 > 1:15:19to those which stimulate the intellect and stomach?

1:15:19 > 1:15:22- By no means, sir. - Then we must be thorough.

1:15:22 > 1:15:25You will report to me here in precisely 30 minutes.

1:15:25 > 1:15:27- Oh, and, corporal?- Yes, sir?

1:15:27 > 1:15:29You will wear civilian clothes.

1:15:29 > 1:15:32You will get them from the hall porter.

1:15:43 > 1:15:45MUSIC PLAYING

1:16:09 > 1:16:11Quoi?

1:17:01 > 1:17:04SPEAKS FRENCH

1:17:07 > 1:17:09I am thirsty.

1:17:12 > 1:17:14When a man is silent,

1:17:14 > 1:17:17it's because he's shy or because he has suffered.

1:17:20 > 1:17:24You are too good-looking to need to be shy.

1:17:24 > 1:17:27If you have suffered...

1:17:27 > 1:17:30SPEAKS FRENCH

1:17:30 > 1:17:32I can help you forget your suffering.

1:17:46 > 1:17:48Evidently, you have not suffered enough.

1:17:58 > 1:18:02At 7:30, you are to wake me.

1:18:02 > 1:18:04Bath water, 31 degrees.

1:18:04 > 1:18:07Breakfast to consist of four raw eggs, two slices of toast,

1:18:07 > 1:18:10coffee, one ounce of brandy.

1:18:10 > 1:18:13- Yes, sir.- Good night, corporal.

1:18:38 > 1:18:39Voila.

1:19:16 > 1:19:19- Hello, could I speak to Fraulein...?- Kurt.

1:19:23 > 1:19:26- Remember me? - Yes, the queen of Poland.

1:19:26 > 1:19:29Mm-hm. Back from exile.

1:19:33 > 1:19:35I thought of this so often.

1:19:35 > 1:19:37Is it how you thought it would be?

1:19:40 > 1:19:42PHONE BUZZES

1:19:45 > 1:19:47Hello?

1:19:47 > 1:19:49But, sir, I...

1:19:51 > 1:19:53Yes, sir. Right away, sir.

1:19:53 > 1:19:55- Damn!- General Tanz?

1:19:55 > 1:19:58Colonel Sandauer. He wants me to sleep downstairs in Tanz's suite.

1:19:58 > 1:20:00Don't.

1:20:00 > 1:20:02No, I won't.

1:20:05 > 1:20:08- You're the same.- Am I?

1:20:08 > 1:20:09Mm.

1:20:09 > 1:20:11Except I'm not really the same.

1:20:11 > 1:20:13Why? What's different?

1:20:13 > 1:20:15I don't know exactly.

1:20:16 > 1:20:20You tell me, all right? I think you're the only one who can.

1:20:20 > 1:20:22Yes, I'll tell you.

1:20:30 > 1:20:32You have to go?

1:20:32 > 1:20:35Mm. Or be shot.

1:20:35 > 1:20:37Don't be shot, ever.

1:20:37 > 1:20:40You mustn't worry. I'll see you tomorrow.

1:20:40 > 1:20:43Who knows where we'll be tomorrow.

1:20:43 > 1:20:46I'm sorry. Where do we meet?

1:20:48 > 1:20:52Look, go to this place at 7:00.

1:20:52 > 1:20:56If I'm not there, ask for Raymonde. It's quite safe.

1:20:58 > 1:21:00Can you wait until 7:00?

1:21:00 > 1:21:02No.

1:21:02 > 1:21:04Neither can I.

1:21:04 > 1:21:06Go quickly.

1:21:12 > 1:21:13Kurt.

1:21:15 > 1:21:17We don't have very good luck, do we?

1:21:20 > 1:21:23That's why it's got to get better.

1:21:23 > 1:21:24Good night.

1:21:27 > 1:21:29Good night.

1:21:35 > 1:21:37- KNOCKING TANZ:- Who is it?

1:21:48 > 1:21:51- Corporal Hartmann, sir.- What?

1:21:51 > 1:21:55Colonel Sandauer phoned, sir. He said I was to sleep here.

1:21:57 > 1:21:58Yes.

1:22:46 > 1:22:49- Who is it?- It's me, sir.- Yes?

1:22:49 > 1:22:51With your breakfast, sir.

1:22:51 > 1:22:55- The coffee black, two thirds of a cup, no sugar.- Yes, sir.

1:22:55 > 1:22:59The bath water was 32 degrees, one degree too hot.

1:22:59 > 1:23:01I'm sorry, sir.

1:23:08 > 1:23:10I've put out your uniform, sir.

1:23:15 > 1:23:16Corporal.

1:23:18 > 1:23:20Yes, sir?

1:23:20 > 1:23:22Anything to tell me?

1:23:22 > 1:23:25No, sir. Nothing, sir.

1:23:26 > 1:23:29- All is well, then?- Yes, sir.

1:23:29 > 1:23:34- I insist on absolute frankness, corporal.- Yes, sir.

1:23:34 > 1:23:38- Well?- Well, I hope the general had a good time last night.

1:23:38 > 1:23:41After all, we're in Paris, and the general is on leave.

1:23:41 > 1:23:43- That has nothing to do with you! - No, sir.

1:23:43 > 1:23:46- Your job is to carry out orders, nothing else matters.- Yes, sir.

1:23:47 > 1:23:50What was your profession?

1:23:50 > 1:23:53Music. I studied piano, sir.

1:23:53 > 1:23:58There are some booklets over there. I don't know how they came here.

1:23:58 > 1:24:00Probably the hall porter brought them up for me.

1:24:00 > 1:24:03I should like to see those paintings today.

1:24:03 > 1:24:06I want you to arrange it for me, Hartmann.

1:24:06 > 1:24:08- But, sir, I...- Yes?

1:24:09 > 1:24:13Forgive me, sir, but you did say you were returning to duty this morning.

1:24:13 > 1:24:16- I shall take another day of rest. - Yes, sir.

1:24:16 > 1:24:17The whole business disgusts me,

1:24:17 > 1:24:19but even I must relax once in a while.

1:24:19 > 1:24:22It's like the natural functions.

1:24:22 > 1:24:24Revolting but inevitable.

1:24:25 > 1:24:28Whatever you say, sir.

1:24:31 > 1:24:33You'll be happy to know General Tanz

1:24:33 > 1:24:36- is not returning to duty until tomorrow.- Oh, really?

1:24:36 > 1:24:38Miracles do happen from time to time. KNOCKING

1:24:38 > 1:24:41- Come in. - Excuse me, general, sir.- Yes.

1:24:41 > 1:24:43The office of the military governor just rang, sir.

1:24:43 > 1:24:46- They want you to report to headquarters immediately.- Thank you.

1:24:47 > 1:24:49What is that about?

1:24:49 > 1:24:51Can't you guess?

1:25:04 > 1:25:06What's in there?

1:25:06 > 1:25:08The modern paintings.

1:25:08 > 1:25:11You remember, sir. The ones you wanted to see.

1:25:11 > 1:25:13Decadent art?

1:25:13 > 1:25:15Well, yes, sir.

1:25:29 > 1:25:32Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Divan.

1:25:32 > 1:25:35Renoir, Nude, painted in 1910.

1:25:35 > 1:25:37Gauguin...

1:26:35 > 1:26:37- Colonel Grau?- Yes.

1:26:37 > 1:26:38SPEAKS FRENCH

1:26:50 > 1:26:52Colonel Grau.

1:26:53 > 1:26:56A private room? It's been a long time

1:26:56 > 1:26:59since I've seen indecent luxury in the middle of the day.

1:26:59 > 1:27:01Nothing is too good for us, colonel.

1:27:01 > 1:27:05SPEAKS FRENCH

1:27:05 > 1:27:08We must give the red wine a chance to breathe.

1:27:08 > 1:27:11SPEAKS FRENCH

1:27:15 > 1:27:18Don't worry about the maitre d'hotel. He's one of my men.

1:27:18 > 1:27:21I think the wine waiter's one of ours.

1:27:21 > 1:27:23Let's hope the cook's neutral.

1:27:23 > 1:27:25- A little white wine?- Thank you.

1:27:25 > 1:27:29All we need is two ballet girls to complete the decor.

1:27:29 > 1:27:33Sex and great cuisine do not mix. Either one or the other.

1:27:33 > 1:27:36Today, it is the other. Tomorrow...

1:27:36 > 1:27:38I'll find you the girls.

1:27:38 > 1:27:41Now, what have you found for me?

1:27:41 > 1:27:45- Something extraordinary.- What?

1:27:45 > 1:27:50There will be another murder, and it involves one of your generals.

1:27:51 > 1:27:53- Which one?- Kahlenberge.

1:27:53 > 1:27:55Go on.

1:27:55 > 1:27:57I shouldn't tell you this.

1:27:57 > 1:27:58Why not?

1:27:58 > 1:28:03Because as a Frenchman, I approve, in a way, of what he's doing.

1:28:03 > 1:28:05You approve?

1:28:05 > 1:28:07Of murder?

1:28:07 > 1:28:09Of this murder.

1:28:09 > 1:28:12He is part of a plot to kill Hitler.

1:28:12 > 1:28:15My dear friend, there have been a dozen plots

1:28:15 > 1:28:18- to kill Hitler since the war began. - Not on this scale.

1:28:18 > 1:28:20Half the generals in Paris are involved.

1:28:20 > 1:28:24- I know.- You know? How?

1:28:24 > 1:28:26The same way that I know your code name

1:28:26 > 1:28:28in the French Resistance is "Abelard."

1:28:29 > 1:28:31- More wine?- Please.

1:28:35 > 1:28:37SPEAKS FRENCH

1:28:40 > 1:28:44Mm, admirable. If the plot succeeds, I should be able to confess

1:28:44 > 1:28:47that I've always preferred Burgundy to Rhine wine.

1:28:47 > 1:28:49SPEAKS FRENCH

1:28:49 > 1:28:53Did you find anything else, you know, of a private nature?

1:28:53 > 1:28:55Amazing.

1:28:55 > 1:28:57I tell you about a plot to...

1:28:57 > 1:29:00SPEAKS FRENCH

1:29:01 > 1:29:04I tell you about a plot, and you show no interest.

1:29:04 > 1:29:07But if I can help you solve the murder of a whore,

1:29:07 > 1:29:09you are delighted.

1:29:09 > 1:29:12I've no sense of proportion. It's been pointed out to me before.

1:29:12 > 1:29:15Colonel Grau, if...

1:29:15 > 1:29:18Excuse me.

1:29:18 > 1:29:21If the generals kill Hitler, the war will end.

1:29:21 > 1:29:24You have more faith in them than I do.

1:29:24 > 1:29:26When things were going well,

1:29:26 > 1:29:28the generals enjoyed the war quite as much as Hitler.

1:29:28 > 1:29:32Now that we're losing, they want to save their own skins.

1:29:32 > 1:29:33That's natural, but...

1:29:33 > 1:29:37Inspector, I'm interested in just one general who killed a girl

1:29:37 > 1:29:39and thought, because he was a general,

1:29:39 > 1:29:41he could play God in bed as well as in battle.

1:29:41 > 1:29:45Well, I'm going to demonstrate to him that he is not God.

1:29:46 > 1:29:49And...that you are?

1:29:52 > 1:29:55My madness is on a smaller, more secular scale.

1:29:55 > 1:29:57I simply want to see justice done.

1:29:57 > 1:30:01Now, what have you found for me about the other generals?

1:30:01 > 1:30:03You are astonishing.

1:30:03 > 1:30:06Do you really think so? I always thought we were rather alike.

1:30:06 > 1:30:11Yes, only I am cautious. There is not much to go on.

1:30:11 > 1:30:14Tanz seems to have no human interests.

1:30:14 > 1:30:19Takes to the bottle from time to time. Bit of a voyeur, I should say.

1:30:19 > 1:30:22Gabler is something of a sexual athlete.

1:30:22 > 1:30:25He picks up girls in the Bois de Boulogne,

1:30:25 > 1:30:27but as far as we know, he hasn't tried to kill one.

1:30:27 > 1:30:31Kahlenberge has been too busy with the plot, as I said.

1:30:31 > 1:30:35All relevant details are here.

1:30:35 > 1:30:37Not much to go on.

1:30:37 > 1:30:40But here, the release of your three Frenchmen.

1:30:43 > 1:30:45Thank you.

1:30:45 > 1:30:51Colonel, if I can ever help you in any way...

1:30:51 > 1:30:54- Information? - Of course, but I meant...

1:30:54 > 1:30:58Well, the Allies will be here soon.

1:30:58 > 1:31:01Paris will be French again. You may need help.

1:31:03 > 1:31:06Thank you.

1:31:06 > 1:31:08I appreciate that.

1:31:14 > 1:31:16Oh, come in, general.

1:31:20 > 1:31:23General.

1:31:23 > 1:31:25- Is there any news? - Nothing yet.

1:31:25 > 1:31:28We are expecting some at any moment.

1:31:28 > 1:31:29DOOR OPENS

1:31:29 > 1:31:32The military governor of France.

1:31:35 > 1:31:38I am sorry to call you here at such short notice.

1:31:38 > 1:31:41Some of you are strangers to one another.

1:31:41 > 1:31:43However, consider yourselves introduced.

1:31:43 > 1:31:47We are all in this together, and we must proceed quickly.

1:31:47 > 1:31:49First, then.

1:31:50 > 1:31:54Tomorrow, at approximately 1300 hours, if all goes well,

1:31:54 > 1:31:58we shall receive from Berlin the code word "Valkyrie."

1:31:58 > 1:32:00That one word, Valkyrie, will mean

1:32:00 > 1:32:03that Hitler is dead and that there is a new government.

1:32:03 > 1:32:05We shall then proceed to the arrest

1:32:05 > 1:32:08of every SS and Gestapo officer in the greater Paris area.

1:32:10 > 1:32:15- You, general, will be responsible for the arrest of all SS officers. - Yes, sir.

1:32:15 > 1:32:18What are the orders, sir, in case of resistance?

1:32:18 > 1:32:21In case of resistance, shoot to kill.

1:32:22 > 1:32:24You will also see to the Gestapo.

1:32:25 > 1:32:26- Colonel.- Sir?

1:32:28 > 1:32:31You will take charge of all telephone communications.

1:32:31 > 1:32:33Major.

1:32:33 > 1:32:35You will see to the military radio.

1:32:35 > 1:32:37All news programs will be monitored by us.

1:32:38 > 1:32:40General Kahlenberge,

1:32:40 > 1:32:43you will arrange for the disarming of the Nibelungen Division at Cormet

1:32:43 > 1:32:45and for the arrest of General Tanz.

1:32:49 > 1:32:50Corporal!

1:32:59 > 1:33:02- Yes, sir? - Would you care for a cognac?

1:33:02 > 1:33:05- But I'm on duty, sir. - You may still sit.

1:33:05 > 1:33:07Thank you, sir.

1:33:07 > 1:33:09My bill. Anything you want?

1:33:09 > 1:33:11- I'll take a Vichy water, sir. - Vichy!

1:33:11 > 1:33:15You've been a satisfactory orderly and companion.

1:33:15 > 1:33:17- Thank you, sir.- Except for the bath water this morning.

1:33:17 > 1:33:20I'm sorry, sir.

1:33:20 > 1:33:22Have you telephoned Colonel Sandauer yet?

1:33:22 > 1:33:25No, sir, I haven't.

1:33:26 > 1:33:31Any conclusions you may have drawn from my behavior are false and dangerous.

1:33:36 > 1:33:39Define the term "decadent art."

1:33:41 > 1:33:45Well, sir, it's a matter of interpretation.

1:33:45 > 1:33:48Technically speaking, to be decadent is to be

1:33:48 > 1:33:51weak, diminished in energy, sterile.

1:33:51 > 1:33:55I don't personally think the paintings we saw are decadent.

1:33:55 > 1:34:00But then, I don't really know what decadence is, not officially anyway.

1:34:00 > 1:34:04I do think that, as art, those paintings go deep.

1:34:04 > 1:34:07They tell us things we don't know about ourselves.

1:34:07 > 1:34:11They act as a mirror, I suppose,

1:34:11 > 1:34:13to things we don't normally see reflected.

1:34:13 > 1:34:15Do you have a girl?

1:34:16 > 1:34:19- Yes, sir. - Sit down.

1:34:19 > 1:34:22Do you have a picture of her?

1:34:22 > 1:34:25No, sir.

1:34:25 > 1:34:28This is my first leave for years, Hartmann.

1:34:28 > 1:34:33And I was ordered to take it. Ordered. What do you think of that?

1:34:33 > 1:34:35It must have been an agreeable order, sir.

1:34:35 > 1:34:39Not altogether, Hartmann, but orders are to be obeyed.

1:34:39 > 1:34:42That goes for generals as well as lance corporals.

1:34:42 > 1:34:43Yes, sir.

1:34:43 > 1:34:45Tell me,

1:34:45 > 1:34:49when it comes to the final choice, who is more important,

1:34:49 > 1:34:51you or I?

1:34:51 > 1:34:55A general is more important than a corporal, sir.

1:34:55 > 1:35:01Of course. Never forget that, no matter what happens.

1:35:01 > 1:35:03Give me your wallet, corporal.

1:35:09 > 1:35:11I shall take a short walk.

1:35:19 > 1:35:22You have good taste.

1:35:22 > 1:35:24Pay the bill and leave an adequate tip.

1:35:24 > 1:35:29When I return, I may wish to study further details of Parisian nightlife.

1:35:29 > 1:35:31Yes, sir.

1:35:36 > 1:35:40SPEAKS FRENCH

1:35:40 > 1:35:43- And a large cognac. - SPEAKS FRENCH?

1:35:45 > 1:35:48MUSIC PLAYING

1:36:04 > 1:36:06- Madmoiselle?- Is Raymonde...?

1:36:06 > 1:36:10SPEAKING IN FRENCH

1:36:20 > 1:36:23Excuse me, I'm looking for Monsieur Raymonde.

1:36:23 > 1:36:27Raymonde is a girl's name. To be precise, it's mine.

1:36:27 > 1:36:31I'm sorry, Corporal Hartmann didn't have time to explain.

1:36:31 > 1:36:33- Oh, you must be Ulrike.- Yes.

1:36:33 > 1:36:36He told me about you. Come.

1:36:36 > 1:36:38Sit down.

1:36:38 > 1:36:41Here, that's his table in the corner.

1:36:41 > 1:36:43SPEAKS FRENCH

1:36:46 > 1:36:50I think I should warn you, Germans don't come here very often.

1:36:50 > 1:36:53- Not welcome? - What do you think?

1:36:53 > 1:36:55Yes, not welcome. I'm sorry.

1:36:55 > 1:36:58But Hartmann comes. He's different.

1:36:58 > 1:37:02One day, I shall probably be shot by the Resistance for liking him.

1:37:02 > 1:37:04But people are people.

1:37:04 > 1:37:06Well, you must know him quite well.

1:37:06 > 1:37:09I would have known him well if he hadn't met you first.

1:37:09 > 1:37:12Don't worry, I don't anymore.

1:37:43 > 1:37:49Bonsoir. Well, you've come back, huh?

1:37:50 > 1:37:53Changed your mind, probably?

1:38:02 > 1:38:03Anything you say.

1:38:18 > 1:38:21SINGS IN FRENCH

1:38:43 > 1:38:46MEN SPEAK IN FRENCH IN ALARM

1:38:52 > 1:38:56Papers, please. Quick! Come on!

1:38:56 > 1:38:58That's all we need.

1:38:58 > 1:39:01GUNSHOT

1:39:01 > 1:39:05Stay where you are! All of you! Quick! Over there! Get them!

1:39:05 > 1:39:08All exits to be blocked!

1:39:08 > 1:39:11SOLDIER 1: Halt! Halt!

1:39:11 > 1:39:14Everybody is under arrest. Get them all out of here.

1:39:14 > 1:39:16This place is to be closed until further order.

1:39:16 > 1:39:18SOLDIER 2: Yes, sir.

1:39:18 > 1:39:20Come on.

1:39:20 > 1:39:22Come on, let's go.

1:39:27 > 1:39:29Corporal.

1:39:31 > 1:39:32Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.

1:39:32 > 1:39:36There is a girl inside at the bar, a blond,

1:39:36 > 1:39:38speaking to the barman.

1:39:38 > 1:39:42You will ask her to come with you.

1:39:42 > 1:39:43Yes, sir.

1:39:58 > 1:40:00- Excuse me. - Yes?

1:40:00 > 1:40:03MUSIC OBSCURES SPEECH

1:40:22 > 1:40:28It's been a long time since I've met someone with a chauffeur.

1:40:28 > 1:40:30Well, finally.

1:40:33 > 1:40:35Tell him where you live.

1:40:35 > 1:40:38Rue Leandre, near Sacre Coeur. You know where it is?

1:40:38 > 1:40:39Yes.

1:40:53 > 1:40:55Later.

1:40:55 > 1:40:58Take your time. Whenever you want.

1:41:07 > 1:41:10Over there, the house on the corner, on your left.

1:41:10 > 1:41:12Park on the other side of the street.

1:41:27 > 1:41:31- On which floor do you live? - Second, in the front.

1:41:32 > 1:41:35You know, he's awfully sweet. Can't he come too?

1:41:35 > 1:41:38Three's company, as they say.

1:41:38 > 1:41:42No, I suppose not. Well, I'll go ahead.

1:41:42 > 1:41:45Keep your eye on the window. I may need you.

1:41:45 > 1:41:46Yes, sir.

1:42:21 > 1:42:24All right, Fraulein Gabler, go ahead.

1:42:32 > 1:42:34DOG BARKING

1:42:45 > 1:42:47- TANZ:- Corporal.

1:42:50 > 1:42:52Come up here.

1:43:27 > 1:43:29Yes, sir?

1:43:30 > 1:43:31Come in.

1:43:41 > 1:43:42Look in there.

1:44:04 > 1:44:06Here.

1:44:06 > 1:44:07Drink.

1:44:09 > 1:44:12You are a sensitive young man.

1:44:13 > 1:44:15You're mad.

1:44:15 > 1:44:18On the contrary, I'm in full command of my reason.

1:44:18 > 1:44:20Relaxed, alert, ready for duty.

1:44:20 > 1:44:22Ready to be arrested for murder!

1:44:25 > 1:44:27Are you going to kill me too?

1:44:27 > 1:44:29I hope I shan't have to.

1:44:31 > 1:44:35Today, I asked you who was more important, a general or a corporal,

1:44:35 > 1:44:38and you answered, "general." Of course, I agreed with you.

1:44:38 > 1:44:41But when the general should be hanged for a filthy, bloody murder...

1:44:41 > 1:44:45Then the corporal must hang in his place.

1:44:47 > 1:44:49- But I can prove... - What?

1:44:49 > 1:44:52What can you prove, corporal?

1:44:52 > 1:44:55That you picked her up in a nightclub? Because I didn't.

1:44:58 > 1:45:00Why should anyone think I did it?

1:45:00 > 1:45:03That your fingerprints are on a brandy glass.

1:45:03 > 1:45:05Because mine aren't.

1:45:14 > 1:45:17That your identity disk was found in her room.

1:45:17 > 1:45:19Because mine won't be.

1:45:21 > 1:45:23You must have planned all this from the beginning.

1:45:23 > 1:45:26You're not going to prove anything, corporal.

1:45:26 > 1:45:28You're going to disappear.

1:45:28 > 1:45:30I shall say nothing till tomorrow morning,

1:45:30 > 1:45:32when you fail to report for duty,

1:45:32 > 1:45:35- and are listed as a deserter. - What if I refuse?

1:45:35 > 1:45:37I shall kill you.

1:45:37 > 1:45:40Then I shall tell the police that you stole the car,

1:45:40 > 1:45:43that I followed you, you came here and killed the girl.

1:45:44 > 1:45:46Do you think anyone's gonna believe you?

1:45:46 > 1:45:49Naturally. I'm a general.

1:45:49 > 1:45:54I'm assuming, of course, a dead body like this will attract a certain amount of attention,

1:45:54 > 1:45:59quite unjustifiably, in my view. After all, who was she?

1:45:59 > 1:46:01A whore.

1:46:01 > 1:46:05At the end of her life, she did serve a certain purpose.

1:46:09 > 1:46:12We've spent two interesting and enjoyable days together.

1:46:12 > 1:46:16I don't want to blow your handsome head to pieces.

1:46:16 > 1:46:19Get away from here, Hartmann, as far as possible.

1:46:19 > 1:46:21Go to ground somewhere.

1:46:21 > 1:46:24Here's money, and you can take the car.

1:46:24 > 1:46:28You're in civilian clothes. And you have nearly the whole night ahead of you.

1:46:28 > 1:46:30Now go quickly. Leave Paris.

1:46:30 > 1:46:32Survive.

1:46:34 > 1:46:36Why?

1:46:36 > 1:46:38Why?

1:46:38 > 1:46:40Must you have an explanation?

1:46:40 > 1:46:44It happened, that's all.

1:46:44 > 1:46:45I've no doubt

1:46:45 > 1:46:50there are many reasons, but it was the war that...

1:46:52 > 1:46:56Is your experience of death really so limited?

1:46:56 > 1:47:01Our age has witnessed millions of deaths more terrible than hers.

1:47:01 > 1:47:04They're natural phenomena beyond our control.

1:47:10 > 1:47:13Now, either you make a run for it, or I kill you.

1:47:14 > 1:47:18Are you mad enough to think you'll get away with this?

1:47:18 > 1:47:19I already have.

1:47:20 > 1:47:24You're the one whose life is in jeopardy.

1:47:24 > 1:47:26Go!

1:47:26 > 1:47:27Go!

1:47:39 > 1:47:42PHONE BUZZES

1:47:42 > 1:47:45ELEANORE: Yes? Yes.

1:47:45 > 1:47:48- Who wants to speak to her? - Give me the telephone, Mother.

1:47:48 > 1:47:52I'm sorry. If you won't give me your name, you cannot speak to my daughter.

1:47:52 > 1:47:54You shouldn't have done that, Mother.

1:47:54 > 1:47:56Obviously one of your nightclub acquaintances.

1:47:56 > 1:47:58You should've let me speak to him!

1:47:58 > 1:48:00He'll call back in the morning if he's a gentleman.

1:48:00 > 1:48:03Which I doubt, knowing your habits.

1:48:03 > 1:48:05You've become a savage!

1:48:05 > 1:48:08What else? I'm your daughter.

1:48:08 > 1:48:10So much the worse for me.

1:48:12 > 1:48:14At least I'm alive again.

1:48:26 > 1:48:29TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

1:48:37 > 1:48:39- Oh, Kahlenberge. - Yes.

1:48:39 > 1:48:42- I shall be gone all day. - Gone where?

1:48:42 > 1:48:46To the country. Barbizon. I promised Eleanore. A lovely place.

1:48:46 > 1:48:50There's a splendid restaurant there. You should try it sometime.

1:48:50 > 1:48:53- I won't be back until evening. - By which time, it will all be over.

1:48:53 > 1:48:56One way or another, yes.

1:48:56 > 1:48:58Don't look so glum.

1:48:58 > 1:49:01Anyway, the, um...

1:49:01 > 1:49:03The exercise has already begun, hasn't it?

1:49:03 > 1:49:05Yes.

1:49:05 > 1:49:08About this time, our man should be approaching the third checkpoint

1:49:08 > 1:49:12at Rastenburg. He's carrying a briefcase containing four pounds

1:49:12 > 1:49:15of dynamite and an automatic triggering device.

1:49:15 > 1:49:18Around one o'clock, Hitler will meet with the generals

1:49:18 > 1:49:20and with our man.

1:49:20 > 1:49:24The cement walls of the bunker will intensify the explosion.

1:49:24 > 1:49:27Nobody in that room will survive.

1:49:27 > 1:49:29Ah, Von Stauffenberg.

1:49:29 > 1:49:33- You here for the one o'clock meeting? - Yes, sir. Just arrived from Berlin.

1:49:33 > 1:49:35I was about to report, but...

1:49:35 > 1:49:40Slight change in plan. We're meeting in the hut, at 12.30.

1:49:40 > 1:49:42- Oh, good. - This way.

1:49:42 > 1:49:46Berlin, you lucky devil. This place is like a monastery at Lent.

1:49:46 > 1:49:48It's perfect hell.

1:49:59 > 1:50:01Over there.

1:50:07 > 1:50:09Here.

1:50:09 > 1:50:11It was found in the bedroom.

1:50:11 > 1:50:15"Hartmann, Kurt. Corporal."

1:50:15 > 1:50:20I don't believe it. I mean, it's too obvious, too convenient.

1:50:20 > 1:50:23- What else? - We have found fingerprints...

1:50:23 > 1:50:26on a piece of brandy glass, as well as on the doorknob.

1:50:26 > 1:50:28- We are checking on them. - Who was the woman?

1:50:28 > 1:50:31Monique Demours, professional prostitute.

1:50:31 > 1:50:34Left a bar called Le Paradis at about 11.30

1:50:34 > 1:50:37with a young German in civilian clothes.

1:50:37 > 1:50:39She's been dead since midnight at least...

1:50:39 > 1:50:41Company B.

1:50:41 > 1:50:44Seventh Corps headquarters.

1:50:44 > 1:50:49That's General Gabler's command. I'll phone you later, inspector.

1:50:49 > 1:50:50- Colonel. - Yes?

1:50:52 > 1:50:55Don't go there. Not today, of all days.

1:50:55 > 1:50:58Any day's a good day to catch a murderer.

1:50:58 > 1:51:02- Even doomsday? - Particularly doomsday.

1:51:02 > 1:51:06Our strategic withdrawal from Saint-Lo has made it possible, my Fuehrer,

1:51:06 > 1:51:09for us to drive a wedge into the enemy front right here,

1:51:09 > 1:51:11in the vicinity of Mortain.

1:51:11 > 1:51:14- If we succeed... - It's all right, thank you.

1:51:14 > 1:51:17..We shall be in a position to break through here, to Avranches,

1:51:17 > 1:51:21and to cut off the American 3rd Army from their 1st Army

1:51:21 > 1:51:22and from the British.

1:51:22 > 1:51:25Two of our panzer elite divisions,

1:51:25 > 1:51:26TICKING

1:51:26 > 1:51:27The 12th SS Panzer Divisions,

1:51:27 > 1:51:30and the 21st Panzer Division,

1:51:30 > 1:51:35as well as the 346th Infantry Division are moving west

1:51:35 > 1:51:38to reinforce our positions here.

1:51:38 > 1:51:41As per your orders, my Fuehrer, the 5th Parachute Division...

1:51:41 > 1:51:46I'm expecting a telephone call from Berlin, urgent. Be right back.

1:51:47 > 1:51:51Now, according to dispatches just received from the Eastern front

1:51:51 > 1:51:55our troops had to retreat from their positions.

1:51:55 > 1:51:57The enemy is attacking on the whole front here

1:51:57 > 1:51:59between Lublin and Brest-Litovsk.

1:51:59 > 1:52:04Further south, the Romanian 3rd Army

1:52:04 > 1:52:06is facing 90 enemy infantry divisions.

1:52:06 > 1:52:10As soon as I know anything, I'll call you.

1:52:10 > 1:52:12Yes, of course I will.

1:52:12 > 1:52:15What? It's...

1:52:15 > 1:52:1812.42.

1:52:18 > 1:52:20It's a bit early.

1:52:20 > 1:52:22Right.

1:52:22 > 1:52:24General, last night, there was another murder.

1:52:24 > 1:52:26You and your damn murders.

1:52:26 > 1:52:27Can't you understand there are more important things

1:52:27 > 1:52:30- in the world than murdered whores? - Yes, of course, sir,

1:52:30 > 1:52:32but one of your men, Lance Corporal Hartmann, is missing.

1:52:32 > 1:52:34Do you know anything about him?

1:52:34 > 1:52:36PHONE RINGS

1:52:36 > 1:52:39Yes? Oh, yes, sir.

1:52:39 > 1:52:41No, I've heard nothing, sir.

1:52:41 > 1:52:45Of course. As soon as I hear, I'll call you.

1:52:45 > 1:52:47Thank you, sir.

1:52:47 > 1:52:49I shall be brief, sir, Lance Corporal Hartmann...

1:52:49 > 1:52:50Is missing. Yes, I know.

1:52:50 > 1:52:53He wasn't a wholehearted soldier. I imagine he has deserted.

1:52:53 > 1:52:54What time is it?

1:52:56 > 1:52:59- 12.42, sir. - 12.42.

1:53:00 > 1:53:01Yes.

1:53:03 > 1:53:05Yes.

1:53:05 > 1:53:08- OFFICER:- Here, the enemy is driving With strong forces west of...

1:53:08 > 1:53:13Colonel von Stauffenberg is next. He'll be back in a minute.

1:53:19 > 1:53:23Nobody could live through that. Back to Berlin.

1:53:23 > 1:53:25Quick!

1:53:27 > 1:53:32Rastenburg calling Berlin. Rastenburg calling Berlin.

1:53:34 > 1:53:38I haven't seen Hartmann since I assigned him as driver to General Tanz two days ago.

1:53:38 > 1:53:41- Was he with General Tanz last night? - Yes, of course he was.

1:53:41 > 1:53:43And in fact, it was Tanz who reported his desertion.

1:53:43 > 1:53:45General Tanz.

1:53:45 > 1:53:47PHONE RINGS

1:53:47 > 1:53:51- Kahlenberge! MAN:- 'Valkyrie. Repeat, Valkyrie.'

1:54:00 > 1:54:03I have just received a message.

1:54:03 > 1:54:05Valkyrie. OFFICER: My God.

1:54:05 > 1:54:09It is official, Hitler is dead. There is a new government in Berlin.

1:54:09 > 1:54:12We shall now proceed according to plan.

1:54:12 > 1:54:14You, colonel, will begin the disarming of the Nibelungen Division.

1:54:14 > 1:54:16- Yes, sir. - There may be resistance.

1:54:16 > 1:54:17We're ready.

1:54:17 > 1:54:20- The divisional barracks must be sealed off by 1400 hours.- Yes, sir.

1:54:20 > 1:54:23You, major, will now break communication between divisional headquarters

1:54:23 > 1:54:24- and the outside. - Yes, sir.

1:54:24 > 1:54:29At precisely 14.30 hours, you will arrest General Tanz.

1:54:29 > 1:54:33Here's a warrant for his arrest, signed by the military governor.

1:54:33 > 1:54:35- The charge is treason. - Yes, general.

1:54:35 > 1:54:40- Proceed carefully, General Tanz is... - I know what he is, general.

1:54:40 > 1:54:41Good luck.

1:54:43 > 1:54:45Good luck.

1:54:47 > 1:54:50Headquarters of the Nibelungen Division at Cormet.

1:54:50 > 1:54:52- Yes, sir.- Make it fast.

1:54:52 > 1:54:53Yes, sir.

1:55:00 > 1:55:02Mueller, get Colonel Hinkel on the radio.

1:55:02 > 1:55:05Third and 4th Battalions are to be moved to Cormet.

1:55:05 > 1:55:08- Rendezvous at 13.45 hours. - Yes, sir.

1:55:08 > 1:55:09Come with me.

1:55:14 > 1:55:17- MAN OVER RADIO:- 'Urgent message to all members of the Wehrmacht.

1:55:17 > 1:55:20'The military governor of France has confirmed the death of the Fuehrer at Rastenburg.

1:55:20 > 1:55:25'Officers of the SS are now being detained in the interest of national security.'

1:55:41 > 1:55:42Halt!

1:55:46 > 1:55:49Colonel Grau to see General Tanz. Urgent.

1:55:49 > 1:55:51Your papers, sir.

1:55:56 > 1:55:58Thank you, colonel. Heil Hitler.

1:56:26 > 1:56:28Halt!

1:56:28 > 1:56:31- Your papers, please.- Here.

1:56:31 > 1:56:32Thank you, sir. Go ahead.

1:56:42 > 1:56:45- MAN OVER SPEAKERS:- 'We repeat the message from the office of the military governor of France.

1:56:45 > 1:56:49'Adolf Hitler is dead. Members of his staff are under arrest.

1:56:49 > 1:56:52'The new government at Berlin will shortly make an announcement.

1:56:52 > 1:56:57'Meanwhile, those of us in sector three will carry out our appointed tasks.'

1:56:57 > 1:57:00SANDAUER: Hello. Hello, operator?

1:57:00 > 1:57:02Operator!

1:57:04 > 1:57:06Sergeant, what's happened to the direct line?

1:57:06 > 1:57:08The line's been cut.

1:57:08 > 1:57:09- What? TANZ:- Sandauer!

1:57:09 > 1:57:12- Sir? - Where's my call to Berlin?

1:57:12 > 1:57:14The line has been cut, sir, according to the colonel.

1:57:14 > 1:57:16Then use the radio. Put it through to my office.

1:57:16 > 1:57:20Yes, sir. Sergeant, get me Berlin on the radio and put it through to the general's office.

1:57:23 > 1:57:25- General Tanz.- Yes.

1:57:25 > 1:57:27In Warsaw, two years ago,

1:57:27 > 1:57:31I wanted to question you about the murder of Maria Kupiecka, remember?

1:57:31 > 1:57:34Who cut the telephone wires?

1:57:34 > 1:57:38There's a new government in Berlin, and you're to be arrested

1:57:38 > 1:57:41in exactly 15 minutes for treason.

1:57:45 > 1:57:48But I'm here to arrest you for murder.

1:57:51 > 1:57:52- Sandauer!- Sir?

1:57:52 > 1:57:55- Are we through to Berlin? - Not yet, sir.

1:57:57 > 1:57:58Last night...

1:57:58 > 1:58:01MILITARY MUSIC PLAYS

1:58:06 > 1:58:10Last night, as you know, there was another murder.

1:58:10 > 1:58:14In the Rue Leandre. It was identical to the Warsaw murder.

1:58:14 > 1:58:17Corporal Hartmann, your driver...

1:58:17 > 1:58:20- ANNOUNCER ON RADIO:- 'This is Berlin. We are transmitting the following most important message

1:58:20 > 1:58:22'from the Fuehrer's headquarters at Rastenburg.

1:58:22 > 1:58:26'Today at 12.40 hours, an attempt to assassinate the Fuehrer was made

1:58:26 > 1:58:30'by a group of vicious traitors! The Fuehrer is alive!

1:58:30 > 1:58:33'The assassin's bomb hardly touched him.

1:58:33 > 1:58:36'It wounded, however, a number of members of the Fuehrer's staff.

1:58:36 > 1:58:38- 'The circle of conspirators is...' - Sandauer!

1:58:38 > 1:58:40- Sir?- Switch the broadcast

1:58:40 > 1:58:43- to loudspeakers in the courtyard. - Yes, sir!

1:58:43 > 1:58:46- ANNOUNCER:- '..and above all, nothing in common with Germans.'

1:58:46 > 1:58:47Now, colonel,

1:58:47 > 1:58:51which of us has committed treason?

1:58:51 > 1:58:53I'm not interested in treason, general.

1:58:53 > 1:58:55I'm interested in murder.

1:58:56 > 1:58:59Today, someone attempted to murder the Fuehrer.

1:58:59 > 1:59:02That should be your sole concern at this moment.

1:59:02 > 1:59:08Where were you last night, general, between 11 and two am?

1:59:18 > 1:59:21SOLDIERS CHANTING: Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!

1:59:38 > 1:59:41He came here to arrest me for treason.

1:59:42 > 1:59:44Sergeant!

1:59:45 > 1:59:48- Yes, sir?- Take him away.

1:59:51 > 1:59:54All combat units to proceed immediately to headquarters

1:59:54 > 1:59:57- of the military governor of France. - Yes, sir.

1:59:59 > 2:00:02You are to arrest the entire headquarters staff.

2:00:02 > 2:00:04Yes, general.

2:00:04 > 2:00:07I myself will arrest the governor.

2:00:08 > 2:00:10For treason.

2:01:17 > 2:01:22WOMAN: Good morning. This way, please. This way.

2:01:23 > 2:01:25General Kahlenberge?

2:01:27 > 2:01:30- Yes?- I'm Inspector Morand

2:01:30 > 2:01:32with Interpol.

2:01:32 > 2:01:35- How do you do? - May I come with you, please?

2:01:39 > 2:01:45WOMAN 1 OVER PA: Arriving from Dusseldorf, Lufthansa flight 761, gate number 8.

2:01:45 > 2:01:49I left Paris on July the 20th,

2:01:49 > 2:01:51somewhat hurriedly, as you might imagine,

2:01:51 > 2:01:54and surrendered to the Americans. Porter.

2:01:54 > 2:01:55And General Gabler?

2:01:55 > 2:01:59General Gabler survived, as always. Two cases, both grey.

2:01:59 > 2:02:02- Pan American? - In about five minutes, sir.

2:02:02 > 2:02:05I seem to spend more time waiting for baggage than travelling.

2:02:05 > 2:02:10- I've been on the move a lot this year. - Since May the 12th, to be exact.

2:02:10 > 2:02:12- Yes. - General, the morning of...

2:02:12 > 2:02:15If you don't mind, nowadays I prefer my civilian title.

2:02:15 > 2:02:22The morning of July the 20th, 1944, a Colonel Grau came to see you.

2:02:22 > 2:02:23Colonel Grau?

2:02:23 > 2:02:25Oh, yes! I remember!

2:02:25 > 2:02:28Amazing. It's those murders, isn't it?

2:02:28 > 2:02:32I'll never forget, when the whole world was tumbling about our ears,

2:02:32 > 2:02:35there was Colonel Grau, mad as a hatter, trying to solve his little murders.

2:02:35 > 2:02:40Colonel Grau was my friend. When I was in the French Resistance,

2:02:40 > 2:02:42he was helpful.

2:02:42 > 2:02:45And now you want to solve the murders for him.

2:02:45 > 2:02:48- You are perceptive. - Isn't it a little late in the day?

2:02:48 > 2:02:52Colonel Grau always felt that any day is a good day to catch a murderer.

2:02:52 > 2:02:56The last time I saw him, he was on his way to your headquarters.

2:02:56 > 2:02:59Yes, that's right. He wanted to know about one of my men.

2:02:59 > 2:03:02- A Corporal Hartmann. - Then you do recall the case?

2:03:02 > 2:03:06Yes, vividly. Corporal Hartmann disappeared on the 20th.

2:03:06 > 2:03:10He'd been assigned as General Tanz's driver for two days, and during that...

2:03:10 > 2:03:14- General Tanz's driver? - Yes.

2:03:15 > 2:03:18Your baggage is here. Thank you, general.

2:03:18 > 2:03:22Sorry, Herr Kahlenberge. Thank you very much.

2:03:24 > 2:03:28"Schussnigg, Willi, 48, plasterer, born in Hamburg.

2:03:28 > 2:03:32"Convicted of four separate sexual misdemeanours involving prostitutes.

2:03:32 > 2:03:36"On parole since January 1965."

2:03:37 > 2:03:41On the night of May the 12th, where were you?

2:03:41 > 2:03:44Here, sir, in Hamburg.

2:03:44 > 2:03:46Picture!

2:03:48 > 2:03:49Picture.

2:03:54 > 2:03:56Did you know this girl?

2:03:57 > 2:03:59I say, did you know this girl?

2:03:59 > 2:04:02Yes, sir. That's Erika Mueller.

2:04:02 > 2:04:05Do you know where she is now?

2:04:05 > 2:04:07She's dead, sir.

2:04:07 > 2:04:11I read it in the papers. Last week.

2:04:11 > 2:04:12How did she die?

2:04:12 > 2:04:17Well, they said... The papers said she was found in a hotel room...

2:04:17 > 2:04:20- cut to pieces. - She was killed.

2:04:20 > 2:04:23By a man who picked her up in the Blue Harbour Bar.

2:04:23 > 2:04:26Were you in the Blue Harbour Bar that night?

2:04:26 > 2:04:30- No, sir. I wasn't, sir. - Yes, he was! I saw you!

2:04:30 > 2:04:33You talked to her. You talked to Erika at the bar!

2:04:33 > 2:04:36- Didn't he? - Yes, I saw him too!

2:04:36 > 2:04:37That's a lie!

2:04:37 > 2:04:42- I never spoke to her! - Did you speak to her, yes or no?

2:04:43 > 2:04:47Well, maybe, sir.

2:04:47 > 2:04:50I offered her a drink, but that's all.

2:04:50 > 2:04:53You see, I talk to everybody.

2:04:53 > 2:04:56He's the one who left with her! He killed her! He's the one!

2:04:56 > 2:04:59I didn't go with her! I didn't kill her!

2:04:59 > 2:05:02I didn't! I didn't! I didn't!

2:05:02 > 2:05:05All right. At what time did you...?

2:05:05 > 2:05:11I'm sorry, Inspector Hauser, but I must see you at once. It's urgent.

2:05:12 > 2:05:14- Continue the interrogation. - Yes, sir.

2:05:16 > 2:05:18At what time did you leave the bar?

2:05:18 > 2:05:21I don't know. Between 10, 11.

2:05:21 > 2:05:26The girl's positive that he's the one who left with Erika Mueller.

2:05:26 > 2:05:31He may have left with her, but he didn't kill her.

2:05:31 > 2:05:34You still believe that the man who killed Erika is the same one

2:05:34 > 2:05:37who killed that girl in Paris over 20 years ago?

2:05:37 > 2:05:39And the one in Warsaw too.

2:05:39 > 2:05:41The murderer's signature is unmistakable.

2:05:41 > 2:05:44The state of the bodies, the absence of clues.

2:05:44 > 2:05:46But who was in Hamburg a few days ago,

2:05:46 > 2:05:50who was also in Paris 22 years ago

2:05:50 > 2:05:53and in Warsaw in 1942?

2:05:53 > 2:05:55Maybe...

2:05:55 > 2:05:58- Maybe Corporal Hartmann? - Who no longer exists.

2:05:58 > 2:06:02Or...General Tanz, who does?

2:06:02 > 2:06:06General Tanz? He's in prison, isn't he? A war criminal.

2:06:06 > 2:06:10According to my information, he was in prison until last March,

2:06:10 > 2:06:13when he was released. Could you check on that?

2:06:13 > 2:06:15And if it's true, on his recent movements?

2:06:15 > 2:06:18You understand this is most confidential.

2:06:18 > 2:06:20- Of course.- Now...

2:06:20 > 2:06:23Now we must find Corporal Hartmann.

2:06:23 > 2:06:27That is, if he's still alive. He is the key to what happened.

2:06:27 > 2:06:31But how are you going to find him? You know we've tried everything.

2:06:31 > 2:06:33His parents are dead.

2:06:33 > 2:06:36You saw his cousin Otto, who won't talk about him.

2:06:36 > 2:06:41So who else is there? Who else would know where he is?

2:06:57 > 2:07:00ELEANORE: Inspector Morand?

2:07:01 > 2:07:03What can I do for you?

2:07:03 > 2:07:06Excuse me, madam. I would like to see your daughter.

2:07:06 > 2:07:09My daughter? But why do you want to see my daughter?

2:07:09 > 2:07:12To ask her some questions about someone

2:07:12 > 2:07:14I believe she knew in Paris, during the war.

2:07:14 > 2:07:18- GABLER: - Eleanore.

2:07:20 > 2:07:24- Excuse me. - Chief Inspector Morand from Paris.

2:07:24 > 2:07:26My husband.

2:07:26 > 2:07:28Always happy to meet one of our French allies.

2:07:28 > 2:07:31- Thank you. - He wants to talk to Ulrike.

2:07:31 > 2:07:35You see me at my labours. I'm writing my memoirs.

2:07:35 > 2:07:37They should be most rewarding. General, if...

2:07:37 > 2:07:39You are kind.

2:07:39 > 2:07:43But then, I've always felt that even in war, gentlemen,

2:07:43 > 2:07:47though they may be on opposing sides, still have much in common.

2:07:47 > 2:07:51It was everyone's misfortune that Hitler was not a gentleman.

2:07:51 > 2:07:52Yes.

2:07:52 > 2:07:57Yes, I suppose not. And now... And now, General, I...

2:07:57 > 2:08:00- He wants to talk to Ulrike. - Yes.

2:08:00 > 2:08:03My daughter lives in the country.

2:08:03 > 2:08:05- She never comes here. - No, thank you.

2:08:05 > 2:08:08Young people are so different nowadays, aren't they?

2:08:08 > 2:08:11- Yes. But where does she...? - Not like us.

2:08:11 > 2:08:14Our generation believed in being happy, didn't we?

2:08:14 > 2:08:16Oh, yes, yes. Happy.

2:08:16 > 2:08:21I do wish we could help you, but...well, how can we?

2:08:21 > 2:08:23She's not here.

2:08:24 > 2:08:27So nice to have met you.

2:08:27 > 2:08:29Good day, inspector.

2:08:30 > 2:08:31I'll show you out.

2:08:32 > 2:08:36At present, I'm describing the July plot to kill Hitler.

2:08:36 > 2:08:39So difficult to tell what really happened.

2:08:39 > 2:08:41ELEANORE: Hilda!

2:08:41 > 2:08:44Lately there's been a tendency to make excuses for Hitler,

2:08:44 > 2:08:48which means I shall have to be somewhat cautious.

2:08:48 > 2:08:50We don't want to open old wounds, do we?

2:08:50 > 2:08:52Of course not.

2:08:52 > 2:08:56Particularly now that so many of the war criminals are at liberty.

2:08:56 > 2:08:58Like General Tanz?

2:08:58 > 2:09:00Exactly.

2:09:00 > 2:09:03A 20-year sentence is a bit much for a soldier who simply obeyed orders,

2:09:03 > 2:09:08like the rest of us, but politically, he was inclined to be rather extreme.

2:09:08 > 2:09:10- If you know what I mean. - Yes, I do.

2:09:10 > 2:09:14Fortunately, he seems to be leading a quiet life.

2:09:14 > 2:09:19Oh, quite the contrary. Next week will be the 25th anniversary of the Nibelungen Division.

2:09:19 > 2:09:23Tanz is coming out of retirement to be their guest of honour and spokesman.

2:09:23 > 2:09:27Like our government, I take a most dim view of that.

2:09:27 > 2:09:28This way, please.

2:09:33 > 2:09:38You must have noticed, my daughter and my wife are not on good terms.

2:09:38 > 2:09:41In fact, they haven't spoken to one another since the war.

2:09:41 > 2:09:43That's sad.

2:09:43 > 2:09:46I myself only see my daughter once or twice a year.

2:09:46 > 2:09:50And very briefly at that. She lives on a farm near Munich.

2:09:50 > 2:09:54We meet in a railway station, with her child.

2:09:54 > 2:09:57It's the only way I can get to see my grandson.

2:09:57 > 2:09:59- Your daughter is married? - Yes.

2:09:59 > 2:10:01To a farmer named Luckner.

2:10:01 > 2:10:04She was never the same after the war, poor girl.

2:10:04 > 2:10:07Something happened to her, I don't know what.

2:10:07 > 2:10:10It's hard to help children, isn't it?

2:10:10 > 2:10:12Particularly if one's wife...

2:10:12 > 2:10:16Well, it was impossible after Paris.

2:10:16 > 2:10:20Anyway, that's all I see of her. But why do you wish to see her?

2:10:20 > 2:10:23- MORAND:- In Paris, many years ago, she knew a young man.

2:10:23 > 2:10:26I told you, I haven't seen Hartmann since the war.

2:10:26 > 2:10:29Mrs Luckner, you are the only person who can tell us.

2:10:29 > 2:10:32I don't know if Hartmann is still alive, but if he is,

2:10:32 > 2:10:38for his sake, for everyone's sake, I implore you, help me.

2:10:38 > 2:10:41I'm sorry, I don't know where he is.

2:10:41 > 2:10:44Too bad. Particularly for Hartmann.

2:10:44 > 2:10:46Goodbye, madam.

2:10:50 > 2:10:53Monsieur Morand! Wait a moment.

2:10:53 > 2:10:57HORN HONKS

2:10:58 > 2:11:01MARCHING BAND PLAYING

2:11:18 > 2:11:21It's good to see you here, general. This way, please.

2:12:03 > 2:12:07Officers! Ladies. Quiet, please, quiet.

2:12:07 > 2:12:12Of course, it's only natural for all of us to be happy to see General Tanz.

2:12:12 > 2:12:14Free again!

2:12:21 > 2:12:24And to know that our leader in war

2:12:24 > 2:12:29is with us again on this... on this wonderful occasion!

2:12:35 > 2:12:38Now, let me welcome you all to this reunion.

2:12:38 > 2:12:42An occasion for us all to think back to those extraordinary years,

2:12:42 > 2:12:46when we were young and had a cause to live for!

2:12:46 > 2:12:50And if necessary, to die for!

2:12:50 > 2:12:52APPLAUSE

2:12:59 > 2:13:01Now, before continuing,

2:13:01 > 2:13:05I'm sure you all remember our old marching song.

2:13:06 > 2:13:09MUSIC PLAYS IN DISTANCE

2:13:21 > 2:13:22Excuse me, sir.

2:13:23 > 2:13:27On the night of May the 12th, someone left the Blue Harbour Bar

2:13:27 > 2:13:31in Hamburg with Erika Mueller, a prostitute.

2:13:31 > 2:13:36At 11.45, he took her to the St Pauli Hotel, where he murdered her.

2:13:36 > 2:13:38Identification.

2:13:41 > 2:13:44Inspector Hauser, Hamburg Police.

2:13:44 > 2:13:47While Chief Inspector Morand is with Interpol.

2:13:47 > 2:13:52On the night of December the 12th, 1942, in Warsaw,

2:13:52 > 2:13:56the same man murdered another prostitute, Maria Kupiecka.

2:13:56 > 2:14:01Evidence of his guilt was first assembled by Colonel Grau.

2:14:01 > 2:14:03Does the name ring a bell?

2:14:07 > 2:14:09A remarkable man.

2:14:09 > 2:14:14He was obsessed with a strange craving for absolute justice.

2:14:14 > 2:14:17I am unable to share your enthusiasm.

2:14:17 > 2:14:20- He was a traitor. - Is that why you shot him?

2:14:20 > 2:14:25- You are wasting my time.- On the night of July 19, 1944 in Paris,

2:14:25 > 2:14:29I was involved in the investigation of the murder of a prostitute.

2:14:29 > 2:14:32- In the Rue Leandre. - What has any of this to do with me?

2:14:32 > 2:14:36Warsaw, Paris, Hamburg.

2:14:36 > 2:14:39You were in all three places. Need I say more?

2:14:39 > 2:14:41No, you've said quite enough.

2:14:41 > 2:14:44These are theories, and theories are not evidence.

2:14:44 > 2:14:45I agree with you there.

2:14:45 > 2:14:48Nothing I have said so far is capable of proof.

2:14:48 > 2:14:52- Precisely. - Except that in Paris,

2:14:52 > 2:14:56there was a witness. Bring in Luckner!

2:14:56 > 2:14:59MAN 1: Bring in Luckner! MAN 2: Luckner!

2:15:17 > 2:15:19You should have killed me, general.

2:15:31 > 2:15:36This man will testify at your trial. A public trial.

2:15:37 > 2:15:41I'm sure you know what that means, Tanz.

2:15:41 > 2:15:44I should think that even your most devoted admirers

2:15:44 > 2:15:46will be quite shocked.

2:16:02 > 2:16:04Give me your gun.

2:16:43 > 2:16:4625 years ago, our division was created

2:16:46 > 2:16:50as Thor's hammer, to strike the enemies of the Reich

2:16:50 > 2:16:54and the youngest of Germany's generals was chosen to lead us.

2:16:54 > 2:16:56GUNSHOT

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