All language subtitles for Watch.On.The.Rhine.1943.WEB-DL.1080p.DD2.0.h.264.eng

So the moment has come.

This time, it is
of the utmost importance.

Please do not talk.
Please do not seem nervous.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

Papa told you it is good manners
to speak the language of the
country you visit.

Therefore, speak in English.

I said, whenever we have
crossed a border...

...I so fix my feet
from one country to the other.

I have found it to be of good
luck.

- And so I advise all of you--
- Yes.

You are one of the many people
who are so pleased with what
they say...

...that the 10th time they have
said it, it is as fresh to them
as the first.

Spare us.

I can't believe it, darling.

I give you orders to believe it.

And now you are in your own
land, Sara.

And that is good.

Your face is most happy, Sara.

And most pretty.

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]

Are you comfortable?

Oh, yes, Mama. This is
most luxurious.

I am surprised.
The United States of America...

...is a sun-lighted, dusty
country with vegetation of no
great height and--

You are ready to write
a book about it?

SARA:
This part of it is, Bodo.

But this part of the country
is strange to me too.

Perhaps all of it will be
strange to me.

It's been 17 years.

Carterville, next stop.
Carterville.

There are, I think, others here
who are not Americans.

You do not know that people from
the utmost different parts of
the world...

...have found refuge
in the United States of America?

We know that.

[WHISPERING]
I did not imagine
houses in America...

...to be as those I have
seen from this train.

Do you think the house
of Mama's mother is one such?

[WHISPERING]
I do not know.

Is it that you have been
accustomed to palaces?

I do not complain. I only ask.
I live where Mama and Papa take us.

But it is only natural I have
curiosity for our relatives.

Joseph.

- Morning.
- Good morning, madame.

-Everybody down?
-No. Nobody down. I'll get your tea.

Breakfast is at 9:00 in this house,
and will be until the day after I die.

- Ring the bell.
- But it ain't 9:00 yet, Miss
Fanny. It's 8:30.

Well, put the clocks up to 9
and ring the bell.

JOSEPH: Mr. David told me not
to ring it anymore.

He say it got too mean a ring,
that bell. It disturbs folks.

That's what it was put there
for. I like to disturb folks.

Yes'm.

I couldn't sleep.

I kept thinking of Sara coming
home.

But you slept well, Anise. You were
asleep before I could dismantle myself.

I woke several times
during the night.

Did you? Then you were careful
not to stop snoring.

Now that Sara and her family are
coming, we must get around to
moving your room.

Jenny's daughter is still
going with that actor.

An actor. Fashions in sin
change.

In my day, it was Englishmen.

Oh, my mail looks dull.
Anything in anybody else's mail?

The usual advertisements for Mr.
David.

For the Count and Countess de
Brancovis...

...nothing but what seems to be
an invitation to a lower-class
embassy tea.

And some letters asking for
bills to get paid.

That's every morning. In the
weeks Marthe and her husband
have been visiting us...

...they seem to have
run up many bills.

Yes, I told you that.

Why do you suppose anybody would
give charge accounts to Romanian
nobility?

Perhaps because they are the
guests of Madame Joshua Farrelly.

Perhaps.

How does David's flirtation
with Marthe get on?

Anything happen?

Happen? I don't know
what you mean.

You know very well what I mean.

Oh, that. Oh, no.
I don't think that.

I must--

- Joseph.
- Yes'm.

[BELL CLANGING]

Little birds, I don't blame you.

Joseph, stop that.

It ain't me, Mr. David. I don't
like any noise. Miss Fanny told me.

- She didn't tell you to hang yourself.
- JOSEPH: I ain't hung.

- MARTHE: Good morning, David.
- Good morning, Marthe.

I'm going to have a chicken house
fixed up as a playroom for my mother.

I will hang it with bells and
she can go into her second
childhood in the proper privacy.

[CHUCKLES]

She'll only make us have
breakfast there.

FANNY:
David. Come to breakfast.

Shall we go down together?

Couldn't you ask your admirer
if it would be possible...

...to have a breakfast a little
later than 9:00?

I don't mind that as much as
having to eat it on the terrace.

Any morning it's not
positively snowing.

Anything Madame Fanny's
long-dead husband did...

...she thinks God intended
everybody else to do.

It's unfortunate that early
American liberals were such a
hardy people.

Breakfast promptly at 9,
outdoors. Dinner promptly at 8.

I won't be in tonight to dinner.
Does that please you?

- You might have it with David.
- I might.

With whom are you dining?

Oh, you will not bump into me.
I'll be at the German Embassy.

Teck, I've asked you--

You slept well. It doesn't seem
to matter to you...

...that your sister whom you
haven't seen is coming home.

But they aren't coming today,
Mama.

I lay awake most of the night
thinking of Sara and of your father.

Wondering what
he would have thought...

...coming home
with her husband and children.

Three grandchildren.
He'd have liked that.

- I hope I shall.
- You will.

Anything in my mail, Anise?

- Advertisements only.
- Thanks.

You and Mama save me
a lot of time reading.

I cannot speak for Madame Fanny,
but I have never opened a letter
in my life.

You don't have to.
For you, they fly open.

It's true. You're a snooper,
Anise.

It shows an interest in life.

- Bonjour, Mademoiselle Anise.
- ANISE: Bonjour, madame.

Oh, there you are. Don't people
ever get out of bed in Romania?

-Good morning.
-Not if they can help it. But,
my apologies.

- [BELL RINGS]
- JOSEPH: Here I am,
Miss Fanny.

Has science a name

for women who enjoy noise?

Fanny's excited.

You're excited too.

A few more days
and your Sara will be home.

I am excited.
And I'm afraid too.

-Why?
-I don't know. It's been so many
years.

-Afraid she won't like me
anymore, I guess.
-Oh, but she will.

Of course.

I remember Sara.

Mama brought me one day
when your father

was stationed in Paris.

I was about 6 and Sara was about
15, and you were--

You were a pretty little girl.

Do you really remember me?
You never told me.

- I wanted you to remember me,
but I--
- FANNY: Well.

Monsieur Chabeuf the upholsterer
says, not a pincushion...

...not even so much as,
could he reupholster in two
days.

In the matter of four chairs,
a chaise longue, and two--

Oh, nonsense.
Your Monsieur Chabeuf is lazy.

Is he on the phone?

- Everybody's lazy. Except me.
- Indeed.

Madame Fanny has energy.
I find it most attractive.

Perhaps because you're not
related to it. But it works
wonders.

What sort of man
is the husband of your sister?

I've never met him.
My mother did once, in Munich.

The day Sara met him, I think.

I remember Mama telling me about
it. It was rather a scandal,
wasn't it?

The Farrelly daughter marrying a
German who was poor and unknown.

Oh, Mama wouldn't have minded
that.

If only they'd come home and
allowed her to arrange their
lives for them.

But Sara didn't want it that way
and that made Mama angry.

But all was forgiven a long time
ago. And now that they are
coming home--

They're fortunate to be able
to get out of Germany.

Oh, they've been out of Germany
since the early '30s.

Oh? Where have they been living?

They've moved around
a great deal since.

Sara's letters come from
all kinds of places...

...Switzerland, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, France.

Kurt is an engineer.
But I'm not sure--

Well, you'll have a house
full of refugees soon. Us and
the--

Are you a refugee?

I'm not sure I know
what you're a refugee from.

From Europe.

From what Europe?

- Just Europe.
- FANNY: David. David!

This is one of Mama's
screaming days.

I'm going to the office before
she finds any more errands for
me to do.

I've got to ask Penfield
about the best school for
12-year-old girls.

Ask Walton about
a school for boys.

Buy boys' books, buy girl's
books, buy bicycles...

...three puppies....

From what Europe?

I'm not sure what
we're refugees from either.

Aren't you?

A great many mistaken people
seem to have given you a great
many charge accounts.

It'd be nice to be able
to pay bills again.

Do not act as though
I refuse to pay them.

I did not sleep well last night.
I was worried.

We have $85
in American Express checks.

-That is all we have, Marthe.
-Maybe something will turn up.
It's due.

David?

- Money does not worry you?
- It worries me very much.

But I just lie still now and
hope. I'm glad to be here.

We've come to the end of a road.
It's been true for a long time.

Things will have to go
one way or the other.

Maybe they'll go well
for a change.

I have not come
to the end of any road.

No? I admire you.

Perhaps because you think the
road will lead you back to
Europe again?

You can't give up that dream,
can you, Teck?

That you can get back
into their good graces again?

That they'll let you come back
and play? You ought to stay away
from them.

- You have political convictions?
- I don't know what I have.

But I've never liked Nazis
and you should have had enough
of them.

They seem to have
had enough of you.

They're smarter than you are
and it's time you let them
alone.

I think you're trying
to say something to me.

What is it?

That you ought not to be seen
at the German Embassy.

And that it's insane to go on
playing poker there with only
$85 left.

Suppose you lose this time? I
don't think they'd like your not
being able to pay up.

-I shall try not to lose.
-But suppose you do and you
can't pay?

Everyone in Washington
will know it in an hour.

And we'll be out of here.

I think I want to be out of
here.

I find that I do not like
the picture of you and our host.

There's no picture, as you put
it, to like or dislike.

Not yet, eh?

I am glad to hear that.

Marthe, you understand
that I'm not really a fool?

You understand it's unwise
to calculate me that way?

Yes, I understand that.

And I understand that I'm
getting tired, just plain tired.

The whole thing is too much for
me.

I've always wanted to ask you,
since you play on so many
sides...

...why we don't come out any
better.

I've always wanted to ask you
how it happened.

I'm tired, see?
And I just want to sit down.

Just sit down in a chair and
stay.

You have thus arranged it,
with David?

I have arranged nothing.

But you are trying, eh?

I think not.

I would not like that.

I would not like that at all.

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]

BODO:
I like to talk to foreigners.

It is not polite to speak of
people in a country you are
visiting as foreigners.

Thank you. Thank you.

It was swell of you to take him
off our hands a while.

That little Joe. He knows when
he's with nice people.

- May I borrow him again?
- Yes.

He's a fine baby.

- And you have fine children.
- Thank you.

- May I come with you?
- Yes.

BODO: You are Italian?
- Italian, yes, but American.

Do you know a Tullio Tipaldi
who fought in Spain with Papa?

- No.
- You ought to.

He was a soldier
of much excellence in Spain.

So was Papa. Papa was brave, he
was calm, he was expert, he was
resourceful--

My biographer.
And as accurate as most of them.

- You are German?
- Yes.

-What side do you fight on in
Spain?
-I beg your pardon.

Be still, Papa says.

I fought with the
army of the Republic.

I am not a Nazi or a fascist.

I'm a big fool. I beg your
pardon.

Don't-- Forgive me, please.

I might have known which side
a man like you would be on.

It used to make me feel good...
...that Italians and Germans

went to fight against the
fascists in Spain.

Kind of showed people
that all Germans and Italians
weren't--

- Are you just come from Europe?
- Yes.

What's happening over there?
I can't make any sense out of
what I read.

Nobody seems to be doing
anything, and no fighting, I
mean.

It will come soon now, I think.

But ain't there some chance the
German people themselves will
kick Hitler out?

You read about men
in underground organizations.

- Is that just talk?
KURT: No.

It is not talk.

These men, in what you call
underground organizations...

...work most hard and in great
danger.

But--

Well, it looks bad to me.

It is not all black.

Take my word.

There are men in your country
and in mine who fight on.

I know.

- I have friends among them.
- What do you do?

- I mean, what's your trade?
- I?

I fight against fascism.

That is my trade.

[VACUUM BUZZING]

Try it there, Horace.

- It won't fit in there,
Miss Fanny.
- Nonsense. Try it.

No, that's awful.
It looks like a dentist's
waiting room.

Take it out of there.

MELLIE:
Fanny. Really.

I've been sitting here
waiting for an hour

to drive you to Washington.

All you're doing
is messing up this lovely room.

Joseph. Joseph.

- Yes'm?
- Find a place to put that sofa.

Put it back where it's been
doing all right for 15 years.

And you'd better get back
to your gardening.

There will be children.
My grandchildren.

They will climb on furniture.
I always did.

My grandchildren
will be healthy children...

...so don't use any of your
dainty, sleazy materials.

- This isn't Mrs. Sewell's
- house. I had no children.

Therefore, it's impossible
for me to have grandchildren.

If I'd had a daughter,
I'd have named her Emmeline Lou.

Well, everything
turns out for the best.

Have you got that list?

We're going into Washington.

[MUMBLING]

Very well.

You'll never have time
to get all that.

I've got to have a fitting
on my evening dresses.

I never understand why you need
so many evening dresses, Mellie.

Do you lead a secret life
at your age?

[SCOFFS]

MELLIE:
Oh, hello, Marthe.

Hello, Mrs. Sewell.

I think Marthe is a very pretty
girl, don't you, Fanny?

What? Oh, all the Randolphs
were good-looking.

No matter what else
they weren't.

I reckon men find her
most attractive.

Don't you think so, Fanny? Don't
you think she is most attractive
to men?

I'm sure I don't know.
I'm not a man.

Of course, Jennie Randolph
wanted her to marry nobility.

It was a brilliant wedding.
Remember, Fanny, in Paris?

Now, doesn't it seem strange
that she's back here?

And the circle is completed, as
they say, right in your house
and--

What circle? What are you
talking about?

Candy. I'll buy messy candy.

That's what my grandchildren
would like. Messy candy.

If you'd had grandchildren,
Mellie, heaven forbid...

...they'd have been children who
never ate between meals, who
were sickly.

All your family were sickly.
I think you've made up a good
deal of it.

Licorice. That's what I'll buy.

MELLIE: Really, Fanny, you've
wasted all afternoon for me.

Now it's too late
to try on my dresses.

Oh, do be careful of the candy,
Mellie. Close up the box.

Acting like a 6-year-old
over Sara's homecoming.

It might be better if you spent
your time worrying a little
about David.

It isn't that I believe
everything that Cora says, but
she says everybody is talking.

Especially after he took her
to the colonel's dinner party.
People said--

What are you chattering about?
You must get new upper teeth,
Mellie.

Nobody can understand a word
you say anymore.

- You used to have lovely teeth.
- You can't understand me.

You can't even understand that
all Washington's talking about
your son...

...and the Countess de
Brancovis. Everybody says it's
serious too.

Not just, you know.

If it was just, you know,
people would gossip a little and
then stop.

What is "just you know"? Mellie,
you're old enough to say what
you mean.

Let me off at the next block.
I promised to fetch David.

Take these things home for me,
darling, and thanks for the car.

Do be careful of the packages,
Mellie. Don't let them bump
around.

And be very careful when you
take them out and give them to
Joseph himself.

Bye-bye, dear.

- Hello, Miss Drake.
- Hello, Mrs. Farrelly.

FANNY:
Come. Take me home.

I don't like that picture
of your father.

It's not big enough.
Get a bigger one.

Goodness, my Joshua was
handsome.

Wasn't he?

CYRUS:
--upon the warranties--

FANNY: Hello, Cyrus.
Hello, Miss Hall.

Fanny.

Cyrus, my German son-in-law
is coming tomorrow.

He's an engineer.

The government or somebody
must have use for engineers.

Find him something really good,
Cyrus. How's Marjorie?

Looking her age, Fanny,
which you never do. It's
remarkable.

Not very remarkable.
I was a great beauty. You
remember, Cyrus.

We always remember. When Joshua
snapped you up, I was
heartbroken.

All of Washington was
heartbroken. Most of it.
Anyway....

Goodbye, Cyrus. And thanks for
arranging the fine job for my
son-in-law.

Fanny, what kind of
engineer is he?

What kind? Any kind.
What does Cyrus mean?

There are kinds of engineers.

Civil, mining, electrical.
He used to work for Dornier.

- I guess that would make him--
- He's all kinds of an engineer,
I'm sure.

Goodbye, Cyrus.
Bring Marjorie for dinner.

But not soon.
In about five or six years.

[GIGGLING]

How much longer do you think the
de Brancovises are going to be
with us?

I don't know.

Now that Sara, Kurt and the
children are coming,

even our house might be crowded.

I feel sorry for Marthe.

I suppose, after all, her mother
was my good friend,

and Teck rather amuses me.

Plays good cribbage
and tells jokes.

But that's not enough for
a lifetime guest.

And they've been here six weeks.

Have they borrowed
much money from you?

- None.
- Don't bite me. I didn't know.

I hope you haven't
been urging them to stay.

You invited them, Mama.
They're your guests.

Oh, they were mine. But that was
before you became enamored of
Marthe.

She was such as pretty young
girl.

-I think she's still pretty.
-Naturally, or you wouldn't be
so ardent.

I don't know why I say that.
You were ardent with that Carter
girl.

And you couldn't
have thought her pretty.

She had a nice disposition.

Why not? Who would have
spoiled her?

Oh, look here, David. What is
going on between you and Marthe?

I don't like that
question, Mama.

Nothing is going on.

I like her very much.
I hope she likes me.

I can assure you she does.
So can all of Washington.

There's a great deal of gossip
about both of you.

- Gossip?
- Oh, nothing serious.

Most of it is rather amusing.

There is nothing
to gossip about.

That's never stopped
anybody from gossiping.

You and Marthe haven't been very
good at hiding whatever there is
to hide.

You know, I wonder
whether it has reached Teck.

- Now, look here, Mama--
- I only wanted to say, David...

...that I have a feeling that he
isn't really a very good-natured
man.

Underneath the manners
and the calmness...

...I have a feeling
he isn't good-natured at all.

Enchanting evening.
Good night, admiral.

Good night, madame.

A most pleasant good night, sir.

Good night, sir.

- Good night, admiral.
- Good night, sir.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

WOMAN 1: It's been a great
pleasure to have been here. Good
night.

GENERAL:
Thank you. Good night.

MAN 1: I hope your stay,
Your Excellency, will be long.

GENERAL: Thank you.
Good night, sir.

MAN 1: Good night.

I do not think I envy you,
Dr. Klauber.

Envy me? Of course not.

Perhaps publishing a pro-Nazi
paper in the United States...

...isn't the best of all
occupations.

There may be no future in it,
but it pays.

- PHILI: Good night.
- I'll be expecting you on
Wednesday.

PHILI:
Yes.

- Good night.
- Good night, baron.

- Glad to have seen you again.
- Good night.

[MAN 2 SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

- Good night.
- WOMAN 2: Good night.

Well, that should be enough
of the handshaking.

Are we ready?

PHILI:
How many of them come here?

Our Herr Hitler violates their
morality in the morning...

...but by the evening, they've
recovered and they're here to
dinner at the embassy.

And so it's gone in most places
in the world for over seven
years.

One might almost suspect their
morality.

KLAUBER: That would be
cynical.

I daresay.

Good evening, Blecher.

Herr Blecher, here first,
as usual.

How was the tea party?

It was a distinguished
gathering.

A tribute to the diplomacy
of the fatherland.

Don't put this in your paper...

...but His Excellency
acts the host

as if he were on a beer
party in a cellar.

He's a dull man.

Ribbentrop did not send him
here to amuse people.

Then he's doing very well.

In my paper, he is all things to
all men.

Tomorrow we will have a little
talk about your paper. You and
I.

Gladly. The cost of everything
rises. Paper, ink, wages.

That is not what we will talk
about.

It is generally supposed, Mr.
Chandler...

...that these little talks of
Blecher's are most instructive
and unpleasant.

Baron von Ramme,
too much may be generally
supposed.

A threat, Butcher Boy?

Butcher Boy. That is funny, yes.

We Nazis are always funny.

And we have a funny leader
with a funny mustache.

His name used to be
Schicklgruber and he was a
paperhanger.

That too is funny. Yes.

And so we have divided the world
into two parts.

Those like you who want to work
for us or with us.

And those others who lie awake
trembling and hating us because
they are afraid of us.

Tell me, is not that also funny?

No, I wouldn't threaten you,
Phili.

You could not be handled that
way.

With all your duties,
you still had time to make a
study of me.

- You are not complicated.
- No?

No. Aristocrat.
Bred to government service.

Contemptuous of us and our
methods, but chiefly because we
are not gentlemen.

Would be satisfied enough
doing the same things...

...or worse,
under some stupid Hohenzollern.

Got too cynical to be really
dangerous, Baron von Ramme.

Bravo.

You make me ashamed
of being so simple.

Do Klauber for us.

Money. That is all.
Nothing else.

He becomes too expensive.
But he will remedy that before
it is too late.

- One makes a living.
PHILI: And Mr. Chandler?

A man who wishes to sell us
quantities of oil...

...he has by some means
come into control of.

Later and always, he will
have other things to sell.

They always do.

- Now, look here. I...
- And Oberdorff?

Oberdorff, I do not know. I have
tried. A pale lump of a man.

He sits. He observes. He says
nothing. He writes no letters.
He gets none.

Perhaps he is of the secret
police. Perhaps he is even
writing a book.

I do not give up.
But I do not know.

His credentials are of the best.

We must see more of one another.

You've stumped Blecher.
Your credentials are of the
best.

Perhaps he's a member
of the underground anti-Nazi
movement.

[KLAUBER CHUCKLES]

That should be very amusing.

Perhaps he is even Max Freidank.

No, Oberdorff's not Max
Freidank. I know Freidank.

You know the legendary hero
of the underground movement?

No legend. We were
in school together.

Yes. And you and he met by
accident on a street in Prague
in 1936.

He had with him
a man called Gotter.

Oberdorff, I admire you
more and more.

I feel slighted, Herr Blecher.
You haven't spoken of me.

Because it has not been
necessary to consider you,
Count de Brancovis.

One knows, of course, the
routine things.

Romanian, former diplomat.
A gambler.

Like Phil, an aristocrat
who would rather be with his own
class.

But the career goes
a little wrong.

I do not know how or why,
but I make the guess.

I also make the guess that you,
like Mr. Chandler, are a man who
sells things.

But I would guess also that at
the moment, you are a man who
has nothing to sell.

- I'll call on you when I have.
- Good.

That's why I'm here.

TECK: Another stack of blues,
please. BLECHER: All right.

Your deal.

[BELL CLANGING]

Sara. Sara.

Been such a long, long time.
I got to thinking it would never
happen.

David. David, darling.
Isn't it strange to see each
other?

Where is everybody?

That's Mama.

She's expected you every minute,

though she knew
when you were coming.

Now that the time's here,
she's off someplace else.

I'll find her.

I've always known you must have
grown up in a lovely house like
this.

Sit down.

Be comfortable.

Is it allowed?

Yes, it is allowed.

The door of the home was not
locked. We just came in.

You find it curious to believe
there are people who live...

...and do not need to watch,
eh, Joshua?

It is strange. But it must be
good, I think.

Yes.

Isn't it a lovely house?

I'd almost forgotten.

That was my father...

...when he was the famous
Joshua Farrelly.

We were very proud of him.

Almost 18 years.

You were born here, Mama?

Upstairs.

David and I used to have
our own garden across the pond.

I like a garden.

I've always hoped that some day
we'd have a home of our own and
settle down and--

[SIGHS]

I'm talking so foolish.

Sentimental.

At my age.

Gardens and homes.

- I haven't wanted anything.
- Now stop that, Sara.

This is a fine room,
fine place to be.

Everything is so pleasant
and full of comfort.

That will be a good piano
on which to play again.

And it is all so clean.
I like that.

You must enjoy your house, Sara.

You shall not be a baby.

You shall not be afraid
that you will hurt me...

...because I have not given you
a house like this.

- Yes?
- Yes, of course.

It's strange, that's all. We've
never been together in a place
like this.

Oh, but that does not mean
and should not mean...

...that we do not remember
how to enjoy what comes our way.

We are on a holiday.

ANISE:
Miss Sara.

Miss Sara.

SARA:
Anise.

I would have known you.
Yes, I would. I would have.

You look the same.

I think you look the same.
Just the way I've always
remembered.

This is the Anise
I've told you so much about.

She was here long before I was
born.

How do you do, sir?
How do you do? How do you do?

Thank you.
We are in good health.

Madame Fanny will have a fit.
Where is she?

- You are French, Madame Anise?
- ANISE: Yes. From the Bas-Rhin.

Sara's husband, that is nice.
That is nice.

Yes, your accent is from the
north. That is fine country.

We were in hiding there once.

ANISE: Hiding. You were in
hiding?

FANNY: Sara.

Hello, Mama.

Sara. Sara, darling. You're
here.

You're really here.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome to your house.

- You're not young, Sara.
- No, Mama.

- I'm 38.
- Thirty-eight. Of course.

You look more like your father
now. That's good. The years have
helped you.

Welcome to this house, sir.

Thank you, madame.

You're a good-looking man for a
German.

I like a good-looking man.
I always have.

And I like a good-looking woman.
I always have.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

Yes, I am your grandmother.

Also, I speak German,
so don't talk about me.

I speak languages well.

But there's no longer
anyone to speak with.

Anise has half
forgotten her French and--

Oh, it's good to have you home.
I keep chattering away--

JOSHUA:
Now you have us, madame.

We speak ignorantly but fluently
in German, French, Italian,
Spanish--

And sometimes boastfully
in English.

There is never
a need of boasting.

If we are to fight
for the good of all men...

...it is to be accepted
that we must be among the most
advanced.

My goodness. Are these your
children or are they dressed-up
midgets?

These are my children, Mama.

This, Babette. This, Joshua.
This is Bodo.

You were named for your
grandfather. You bear a great
name.

Two great names.
My last name is Muller.

Yes.

You look a little
like your grandfather.

And so do you. You're a
nice-looking girl. That's good.

You look like nobody.

Yes, I am not beautiful.

Well, Sara, well. Three
children. You've done well.

You too, sir, of course.

- But you don't look well.
- Oh, it is only that I am a
little tired.

- In a short while, I will be all
right. I--

FANNY: You look more
than tired.

- We must take good care of you.
- Thank you. Thank you.

That was my Joshua.

We were very much in love.

Hard to believe of people
nowadays, isn't it?

No. Kurt and I love each other.

But there are ways and ways of
loving.

- How dare you, Mama.
- Ladies. Ladies.

I was almost mad then.

I don't think I've been mad
since I last saw you.

We must not get angry.

Anger is protest and should only
be used for the good of one's
fellow men.

That is correct, Papa?

If you grow up to talk like that

and stay as ugly as you are...

...you're going to have one of
those careers

on the lecture platform.

[JOSHUA LAUGHING]

It is a great pleasure
to hear Grandma speak with you.

I think I shall wash you.

Wash us? Do people
wash each other?

No. But the washing is a good
idea. Run along now and change
your clothes.

Come.

SARA: And then we'll all
have a fine, big lunch again.

FANNY:
Again?

Don't you usually have a good
lunch?

No, madame, only sometimes.

We do all right usually.

It's good to be here.

I want to see everything.

My old room, and the lake and--

- Haven't I fine children?
- Very fine.

You're lucky. I wish I had them.

How could you? All the women you
like are too drafty,

if you know what I mean.

[CHUCKLING]

None of them could have
children.

Which, as God in his wisdom,
would have it.

Mama hasn't changed.
That's good too.

- I hope you'll like me.
- I hope so.

I have fine plans.

I'm having the wing done over
for you, walls taken out--

Oh, that's very kind of you,
Mama, but we won't make any
plans for a while.

A good long vacation for Kurt
and--

A vacation? You're staying, of
course.

David is seeing schools for the
children.

Cyrus Penfield has promised
to find an engineering post for
Kurt.

But I have not worked as an
engineer since many years,
madame.

Haven't you?
Well, didn't you work for
Dornier?

Yes...

...but before '33.

You must have worked in other
places. Many other places.

Every letter of Sara's seemed
to have a new postmark.

KURT:
Well, we moved most often.

You gave up engineering?

Gave it up?

Well, one could say it that way.

What do you do?

- Mama, we--
- KURT: It is very difficult to
explain.

- If you'd rather not--
- No, I'm trying to find out
something.

- May I ask it right out?
- Let me help you, madame.

You wish to know
whether not being an engineer...

...buys adequate lunches for my
family.

It does not.

I have no wish to make a mystery
of what I've been doing.

It is only that it is awkward
to place it neatly.

It sounds so big. And it is so
small.

I am an anti-fascist.

And to answer your question,
that does not pay well.

But we are all anti-fascists.

Yes, but Kurt works at it.

What kind of work?

Any kind. Anywhere.

- I will stop asking questions.
- Yes, Mama, that would be
sensible.

Darling, don't be angry.
We've been worried about you,
naturally.

We knew so little except that
you were having a hard time.

SARA: I didn't have a hard time.
We never--

KURT: Do not lie for me,
Sara, please.

I'm not lying.

I didn't have a hard time
the way they mean. Not ever.

For almost 12 years,
Kurt went to work every
morning...

...and came home to me every
night and we lived modestly and
happily.

As happily as people could in a
starved Germany that was going
to pieces.

Sara, please.

- I do not like you to be angry.
- Well, I--

Let me try to find a way
to tell it with quickness. Yes.

I was born in a town called
F rth.

And we have a holiday in this
town. We call it Kirchweih.

It was a gay holiday with games,
music and hot white sausage to
eat with the wine.

When I grow up, I move away to
school, to work, get married.

But I always come back for
Kirchweih. For me, it is the
great day of the year.

After the war, the First World
War, that day begins to change.

The sausage begins
to be made of bad stuffs.

Country people come in without
shoes. Children are too sick.

It is bad for my people, those
years. But always, I have hope.

In the festival of August 1931,
more than a year before the Nazi
storm...

...I find out that hope by
itself is not enough.

On that day, I see 27 men
murdered in a Nazi street fight.

I cannot longer just look on.

My time has come to do more.

I say with the great Luther:

"I must make my stand.
I can do nothing else.

God help me. Amen."

We had seen the evil coming
every day, more and more.

But that festival
was the symbol of the end.

It hit Kurt hard.

It doesn't pay in money
to fight for what we believe in.

But I wanted it
the way Kurt wanted it.

I always will.

Kurt is not very well.

There aren't many parts of
Europe anymore where-- Where he
could rest.

You've always said
you wanted us.

So Kurt brought us home.

If you don't want us, we will
understand.

DAVID:
We want you very much.

Forever, or however long
you want.

I'm old and made of dry cork
and bad-mannered. Forgive me.

Oh, be still, Mama.
We're all being foolish.

I only want to be
foolishly happy.

- Is our old garden still there?
- No.

But we've made the pond larger
and put blackberries on the
island.

Oh, let's go.

Go on.

You're a kind woman, madame.

That's what she's always said.

I have disrespectful children.

[KURT CHUCKLES]

My children are together again.
That makes me feel good.

Come now, you shall
have a rest before lunch.

I shall send you up a sherry
and some biscuits.

And perhaps an eggnog too.

I'm a great believer in eggnogs

if they have enough liquor in
them.

- How do you do?
- This is the Count de
Brancovis.

He and his wife are staying for
a while. My son-in-law, Kurt
Muller.

KURT:
How do you do?

Would it be impertinent
for one European

to make welcome another?

- Thank you, sir.
- Have we met before, Mr. Muller?

Did you live in Paris?
I was in the legation there and
I thought--

No, we have not met before.

If it is possible to believe,
I am the exile who is not
famous.

Strange. I have a feeling--

It is interesting. I have always
had a good ear for the accents
of your country.

But yours is most difficult to
place. Is it South German or--?

My accent is difficult to place,
Count de Brancovis...

...because I speak other
languages.

- Yours would be Romanian?
- Goodness. Is it as bad as that?

My grandchildren are charming.
You shall see them.

- Your grandchildren have to be
charming.
- Of course.

Papa, this is the house of great
wonders.

Each has his bed.
Each has his bathroom.

The arrangement of it,
that is splendorous.

You're a fancy talker, Bodo.

Oh, yes. In many languages.

Please do correct me when I am
wrong.

Papa, the plumbing is such
as you have never seen.

Here, each implement
is placed on the floor.

And all are simultaneous
in the same room.

You will therefore see
that being placed solidly on the
floor...

...allows of no rats, rodents or
crawlers, and is most sanitary.

Papa likes to know
how each thing is put together.

And he is so fond of being
clean.

I am a hero to my children.
It bores everybody but me.

Yes, it is a fine bathroom.
Better than in Brussels, eh?

Well, trapping the mice there
was most interesting.

Goodness. And now you must have
your rest before lunch.

I hear they've arrived.
Have you met them?

What has David told you
about Herr Muller?

What has David told me?
Nothing more than he's told you.

-What is there to tell?
-I do not know, but I would like
to.

David said they'd been in
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Poland,
France and Switzerland.

These are all countries that
Germany has either threatened or
gone into.

It is the German practice to
send into such countries men to
prepare the way.

I had thought Herr Muller...

...might be such a man.

I do not think so now.

- What are you doing?
- Wondering why luggage is
unlocked.

And a shabby briefcase
is so carefully locked.

You're very curious about
Mr. Muller.

I'm curious about a daughter
of the Farrellys...

...who marries a German
who has bullet scars...

...and broken bones in his
hands.

Is he any business of yours?

- Why, anything might be my
business now.
- Yes, unfortunately.

Well, you sound very bitter
about me, Marthe.

Are you in love with David?

- What kind of talk is this?
- Answer me.

I like him.

Yes, and he likes you.

Please find out from him
about Herr Muller.

I will certainly do no such
thing.

Ask your friends at the embassy.
They always know their
nationals.

Yes. But I do not like to ask
questions without knowing the
value of the answers.

Teck, leave these people alone.

They've evidently had a tough
enough time. I won't let you
interfere.

Won't let me interfere?

You are in love with David.
Do not make any plans, Marthe.

You will go with me
when I am ready to go.

On Saturday, Madame Fanny and I
arrived at Savitt's.

Before that I have taken
all the measurements in secret.

First, Madame Fanny has
delivered a most sharp
ultimatum...

...that all must be finished in
a week.

Savitt's?
What must be finished in a week?

Clothes for all of you. In an
amount you have not previously
considered.

Dresses, suits, summer clothes,
stockings.

All must be done with the hand
sewing.

How nice. How very,
very nice of Mama.

What is so nice of Mama?

You are to say nothing.
I gave my word.

Everything is nice of Mama.
Mama is a great darling.

Certainly. We've been in the
attic looking over some old
books.

You know, I find that Joshua
is an educated boy.

Your father would have
liked that.

Goodness.
You are a handsome woman, Sara.

- Where did the dress come from?
- From me. I make it.

Remember when I was a little
girl and you taught me to sew?

That came in handy years later.

Often when Kurt-- When Kurt was
away for a long while...

...I made dresses and earned
enough to pay the rent and
food...

...and send the children to
school.

FANNY:
You sewed for a living?

Really, were these things
necessary? Why couldn't you have
written to us?

Mama, you've asked me that 20
times in the four days we've
been here.

I think it is only that Grandma
feels sorry for us.

Grandma has not seen
much of the world.

She does not understand that a
great many work hard in order
that they eat.

Now, don't you start giving me
lectures. I get enough from
Bodo. Come along.

Psst.

[WHISPERING]
Ask Herr Muller to come up here.

- Why?
- Why? Why?

Because he is a man in love
with his wife

and because his wife
looks most beautiful.

You are getting so old
you no longer understand...

...the matters of delicacy
between the men and the women.

[LAUGHS]

Me?

I had forgotten.

Liebe, Sara. You are
beautiful.

How many years have I kept you
from looking like that?

It makes you have tears.
It also makes me have tears.

If you say that,
I'll tear it off.

No. No.

Then I do not say it.

I do not think it.

I only think with pride
how beautiful is my Sara.

Anise has put me together with
pins. I'm a porcupine.

If you had not married me
so many years ago...

...would you have married me
today?

I'm so tired, so shabby.
And you are so....

I would have married you
any day in my life.

With Mama, what you need is not
to be afraid of making a fool of
yourself.

Anything she doesn't like,
she makes seem silly.

Yes. And it's worked
for a good many years.

She thinks of me only
as a monument to Papa.

And a not-very-well-made
monument at that.

Yes. And since you're worth a
good deal on your own, do what
you want.

Marthe's a nice girl, I think.

Kurt thinks so too,
and Kurt's smart about people.

You are very much
in love with Kurt.

Oh, yes. I've been
a happy woman.

David, Kurt's a sick man.
Sicker than he knows.

The wound he got in Spain
never healed right.

And then about six months ago
over there-- Oh, he's better.

Even the week here has
done him good.

But he'll never be able to go
back and do the kind of work--

You know, darling...

...I don't think I understand
what kind of work he was doing.

SARA:
Come along, Babbie.

How long has Marthe
been married to the count?

I don't know.
When she was very young.

You know, the Count de Brancovis
scares me a little.

Scares you?

You and Mama,
most people here, I guess...

...you don't know what it is
to be frightened.

Unfortunately, I think you'll
have to learn.

Uncle David, I have invited
the Countess Marthe...

...to join our sightseeing trip.
I hope you find it agreeable.

Very, very agreeable.

- You're a nice girl, Babbie.
- Thank you, Mama.

To look down at such a great
height makes even me dizzy.

Where is our house?

Uh....

See beyond the city?

Yes.

Where the road bends away
from the river,

through the trees?

- Yes.
- Back of that.

JOSEPH: But, Miss Fanny, you
know I've always been a good
silver cleaner.

-You're getting out of practice.
-I have given it careful
thought.

Miss Sara is better-looking.
Don't you think so, Joseph?

Don't you think Miss Sara
is better-looking than Miss
Fanny?

You call that good cleaning?

That silver has lasted for 200
years and it's going to last for
200 more.

Not the way you treat it, Miss
Fanny. Why, sometimes you
scratch it.

I watch you at the table
and I say to myself:

"There's Miss Fanny,
doing it to that knife again."

I was using a knife and fork
before you arrived to show me
how.

You told me the next time you
screamed at me to remind you to
ask my pardon.

- FANNY: You call that screaming?
- Yes'm.

All right.

I ask your pardon.

Now clean that silver.

It's very warm in Washington
today.

You'll forgive us.
We are dining in town tonight.

- I will forgive you.
- You seen Marthe?

She went on the sightseeing trip
with the children.

- And David.
- Oh.

Well, I daresay she'll be back

in plenty of time to dress for
dinner.

I hope so.

Baron von Ramme, please.

Phili? How are you?

The other night in the poker
game, you mentioned a man called
Freidank.

Wasn't that his name?

Yes. Max Freidank. I think you
said you went to school with
him.

What does he look like?

That is not my department.
That I have not as yet reached.

Blecher, the bloody Butcher Boy,
is perhaps your man.

If you're up to what I think,
you're wasting your time.

Max Freidank, more dead than
alive from wounds...

...was arrested in Frankfurt
a few days ago.

- What?
- PHILI: It's in the papers
this afternoon.

You've come a long way,
haven't you, Teck?

Hello. I--

Hello.

Home again.

Shall I wait for you, Sara?

SARA:
No. Go along downstairs.

I find I'm becoming very vain.

It takes me a long time
to get dressed.

Each night now, I wait for you
to tell me if I look nice.

Herr Muller, all day a
discussion has been raging.

You shall settle it.

Who is the better-looking,
Miss Sara or Madame Fanny?

Many years away, of course.

FANNY: I don't consider him an
impartial judge.

Both are of a great beauty.

I am not a man
who walks himself into trouble.

No. I should not think you were.

[KURT PLAYING PIANO]

Mellie Sewell called this
afternoon.

With more gossip?

Mrs. Sewell brings Mama
all the news of Washington.

She gets it all wrong,
but that doesn't worry either
Mama or her.

Mama fixes it.
"Wits it up," Papa used to say.

Certainly, I sharpen it.
Mellie has no sense of humor.

- Twenty-five.
- Did you know the old
Baron von Ramme?

Yes. He was stationed in Paris
when I was there.

- FANNY: I forget that you were
a diplomat.
- It's just as well.

Something insane
about a Romanian diplomat.

Pure insane. Twenty-eight
with a pair.

Well, I could have married
old Baron von Ramme.

Any American, not crippled,
whose father had money.

He was crazy about me.
Most men were in those days.

Later, when he was ambassador
and had married the rich,
hideous Calloway girl...

...someone asked if I didn't
regret not marrying him.

I said, "I regret it every day
and I'm happy about it every
night."

You understand what I mean?

Styles in wit change so.

- DAVID: We understood.
- TECK: Go.

[WHISPERING]
The briefcase has been opened.

[SARA PLAYING PIANO]

There's no money missing,
but the case has been examined.

The gun was put back
in a different place.

TECK:
Seventeen for goal.

FANNY: Oh, as I was saying,
Mellie Sewell told me...

...that you were playing
in a gambling game...

...at the German Embassy
with the young Phili von
Ramme...

...and Sam Chandler, who is a
relative of mine and who's
always been a scandal.

Nazis and Sam Chandler
must make an unpleasant game.

I do not gamble to be amused.

Oh, really? Then we'll
certainly stop.

I owe you $8 and 50 cents.

Herr Muller,
the young Baron von Ramme...

...was your government
military attaché in Spain.

My government attaché?

He was the German
government attaché in Spain.

I know his name, of course.

But he was not attached to the
side on which I fought.

TECK:
I thought you might have known
him.

We do not know Nazis,
Count de Brancovis.

No? I should have known that.

You are people who have lived
close to the borders of Germany.

You, therefore, must have had
hopes that National Socialism...

...would be overthrown
on every tomorrow.

We have not given up that hope.

- Have you?
- I never had it.

Then it must be most difficult
for you to sleep.

What is that you're playing?

It was a German soldier's song.
They sang it as they straggled
back in '18.

I remember hearing it in Berlin.

-Were you there then,
Herr Muller?
-I was not in Berlin.

-But you were in the war,
of course.
-Yes, I was in the war.

You didn't think then you'd live
to see another war.

Many of us were afraid we would.

All of us haven't been so
isolated as you seem to have
been in this house.

What are the words?

This is what you heard
in 1918 in Berlin.

[SINGING IN GERMAN]

[SINGING]
* We come home, we come home *

* Some of us are gone
Some of us are lost *

* But we are friends
Our blood is on the earth
together *

* Someday, someday we shall
meet again *

* Farewell *

And then at quarter to 6 in the
morning on November 7th, 1936...

...18 years later, 500 of us
Germans were walking through the
Madrid streets...

...on our way to fight the
fascist swine along the
Manzanares River.

We felt good that morning.

You know how it is to feel
you're good when it is needed to
be good?

So we had the need of new words
to say that to ourselves.

I translate, of course,
with awkwardness, you
understand?

[SINGING]
* And so we have met again *

* The blood did not
Have time to dry *

* And we lived to
Stand and fight again *

* This time we
Fight for people *

* This time we'll keep
Their hands away *

* Those who sell
The blood of other men *

* This time they
Keep their hands away *

* For us to stand,
For us to fight *

* This time, no farewell,
No farewell *

Well, we did not win.

It would have been a
different world if we had.

Herr Muller, it does
not seem natural to me...

...that you should settle
yourself into this quiet,
country life.

Perhaps.

When did you leave
the diplomatic service, Count?

In 1931.

After the Budapest oil deal?

[CHUCKLES]

That must have been a thing
of high comedy, that conference.

Fritz Thyssen, who made the
money available for Hitler, was
buying oil.

Everybody was trying to guess
whether this talk of National
Socialism...

...was just a smart blind of
Thyssen's or whether his rivals
were--

It is too bad.

- You guessed an inch off, eh?
- More than that.

- And Nazis have good memories?
- Most uncomfortable memories.

You seem to know more about me
than I do about you.

And yet, I still have a feeling
that I've seen you or heard
about you.

And that feeling has been so
insistent that I make guesses.

But bad guesses.

I thought you might be
Max Freidank.

Freidank is a great hero
to my people.

- You do me too much honor.
- Yes.

I found that out.

This is in today's
Washington papers.

"Zurich, Switzerland:
Zurich papers reprinted today...

...a dispatch from the Berliner
Tageblatt on the capture of
Colonel Max Freidank.

Freidank is said to be the chief
of the anti-Nazi underground
movement.

The son of the famous General
Freidank, he was a World War
officer...

...and a distinguished physicist
before the advent of Hitler."

That is bad news for you,
Mrs. Muller?

I'm most sorry.

He was a friend of yours?

He was a friend
to all decent Germans.

A friend to all decent people,
Count de Brancovis.

Well, it's what often happens to
heroes, unfortunately.

Marthe must be ready by now.

We will be back early,
Herr Muller.

I do not like long dinner
parties.

Your hands are shaking.

My hands were broken.
They are bad when I have fear.

Fear for Freidank, you mean?

I am a man who has
many kinds of fears.

I do not think
you would understand that.

No. I do not think
I have ever been very
frightened.

That is bad. It is sometimes
the road to trouble.

I daresay. Good night.

Kurt. Kurt.

It may not be true.

I am going to use the phone in
your study for a long-distance
call, please.

- What is it, darling? What--?
- What is this all about, Sara?

I don't know all of it yet.

I do know that he broke open
Kurt's briefcase.

And he saw what we carry
with us.

And he knows about Freidank...

...which probably means
he's guessing about Kurt.

What do you mean, what you carry
with you and guessing about
Kurt?

- I--
- Kurt works in an illegal
organization.

He has for seven years.

We're carrying with us $23,000
dollars.

It's been collected here and in
Mexico...

...from the pennies and nickels
of poor people who don't like
fascism...

...and who believe in the work
we do.

It was to be picked up and taken
back by the first man going.

Max and Kurt.

They loved each other.

They were in the war together.
And they were in Spain together.

Once in Spain,
Max made a medal from a ring.

"I make you a medal because
you're a fine soldier," he said.

And once, six months ago...

...Max rescued Kurt from the
Gestapo on a train and Kurt was
badly hurt.

Max carried him on his back
for seven miles across the
border.

But they caught him in the end.

If Max was caught...

...nobody's got much
of a chance anymore.

Nobody.

But wasn't it careless to have
$23,000 lying around to be seen?

No, it wasn't careless. We've
carried money that way for
years.

There didn't seem to be any
safer place than my house.

It was careless of you and David
to have a man like that in this
house.

- Yes. It was very careless.
- But how could we know?

The world has changed, Mama.

And some of the people in it
are dangerous.

It's time you knew that.

It is true.

But he is not dead.

Hans and Ernst
were taken with him.

Max is not an easy man to kill.

But most of his face
and one arm....

It is not nice when it comes.

Well, Sara....

- No.
- It must be yes.

But Max knows you're not well
enough. He sent you here.

But now I am more well
than he is.

When?

I think tonight, Sara, darling.

But I do not know.

It will depend on
the Count de Brancovis.

What will depend upon the count?

Did he steal the money?

He's not a man who steals.

It will come another way.

But why are you afraid of him?

You're in this country now.
There's nothing he can do.

We will see.

We will wait and we will see.

Kurt's not going to be
in this country.

He's going back to get them out.

Is that right, Kurt?

Is that right?

Yes, darling. I must try.

They were taken to Sonnenberg
and guards can be bribed there.

It has been done once before
at Sonnenberg.

I will try for it that way.

Of course you must go back.

I guess I was trying to think
it wouldn't come.

Kurt's got to go back.

He's got to go home.

It's hard enough to get back...

...but if they knew
he was coming....

They want Kurt bad.

All right, Kurt.

You'll do it.
You'll get them out.

Kurt will do it.
You'll see.

Don't be afraid, darling.
You'll get back.

You'll get Max out all right.

And then you'll do his work,
won't you?

And you'll do a good job.

The way you've always done.

Don't be afraid, darling.

You'll get home.

Yes, you will.
You'll get home.

[SARA CRYING]

What is it, Mama?

You will be told later.

Don't worry now.

Will you go in to dinner,
please?

We'll come in a minute.

Marthe...

...much has been going wrong.
With us and between us.

But suppose-- Suppose we could
go back to Europe again.

And with a little money.

Do you think we might pick up
again what we've lost?

What we've lost?

I don't think there was ever
very much to lose.

And I left nothing in Europe
that I'd want to go back to.

You have other plans?
If so, you're wasting your time.

I will tell you what to do.

We are leaving the Farrelly
house. You and I.

You understand?

Anything going wrong back there?

- Drop me at the German Embassy.
- Like a hot potato, boss.

Now, go on to dinner.
I'll pick you up later.

Well, how did you manage
in the game the other night?

Count de Brancovis,
in this room I work.

That is commendable.

Your people caught Max Freidank.

Are there any others close
to Freidank perhaps that you
want?

BLECHER:
We want them all.

If I should know where one or
more of such men could be
found...

...what would that information
be worth to your government?

It would depend on who they were
or where they were.

In the United States,
they would be worth very little.

- Nothing.
- Nothing at all?

What are we to do here?

Have them assassinated
in an alley?

Kidnap them?

Follow them for months, hoping
we'll know when they go back to
Germany?

Here are the lists.

With such men as these,
that is not easy.

But show us where we can put our
hands on one of them on The
Fatherland...

...or in any of the countries
where we have influence, that is
another matter.

You could name your own price,
in reason.

We might also manage
a visa for you.

I'm sure you are homesick
for shabby palaces and gaudy
cafés...

...and the rest of the decaying
things that represent Europe to
you.

Blecher, we do not like
each other.

But that will not stand in the
way of our doing business.

Would you stop that pacing
about?

Please.

And tomorrow,
because it's Babbie's
birthday...

...I shall go and buy
presents for everybody.

We always do that here.

It started because I didn't like
not getting presents

on other people's birthdays.

And we'll have music
in the evening.

Yes. Yes, we'll have
a fine time.

- You think you fool us.
- What?

Something has gone wrong.

Always Mama and Papa look like
that when it happens so.

You must not be nervous
for our sake, Grandma.

We will do whatever it is
Mama and Papa will ask of us.

Yes, you-- You always have.

Now, would you go upstairs?

Later I will come and say
good night.

- Good night.
- Good night.

You're going away again,
aren't you, Papa?

Yes.

You must let me come along.

I will help in-- In small ways.

I will learn. You will teach me.

I am not as yet a man...

...and it would not be of such
importance if anything happened
to me.

I will give you some rules now.

Please remember them, Joshua.

And never to disobey them.

Our forces are small.

Therefore, we must risk no more
men in any enterprise...

...than it is needed
to carry it out.

Always in our work, a man will
wish to go with you.

That is wrong.

We are not here to show
that we are brave...

...and not to be modest,
either, and say:

"I am not important.
Let me take the risk."

He takes the risk
who is entitled to it.

Soon you will be a man.

Never have I doubted
that for you.

Also...

...this will be what a man
should most do.

I'm right?

Of course, Papa.

You are young.

You are smart.
You are strong.

You are a fine
investment for our work...

...when the time comes.

In the meantime,
I give you orders.

You think...

...you've trained yourself
in mind and body.

Your day is not so distant.

If it should come and I
have not as yet returned....

It is not wise, perhaps,
to speak so far in the future...

...but the world goes bad...

...and who knows
how long that will last.

Therefore, with delicacy and
care, I wish you also to prepare
Bodo...

...when his time too shall come.

God help us.

Go upstairs now.

Say nothing to the others.

I will come later.

FANNY: Does Kurt intend
to bribe his friends out of
prison?

- Is that what he said?
- Yes.

FANNY: It's all very
strange to me.

I thought things were
so well run that--

What wonderful work
fascists have done...

...in convincing people
they are men from legends.

They've done very well
for themselves, unfortunately.

But not by themselves.

We don't like to remember, do
we, that they came in on the
shoulders...

...of some of the most
powerful men in the world.

That makes us feel guilty
so we prefer to believe...

...that they're mysterious men
from the planets.

Well, they aren't.

They're smart and they're
sick...

...and they're cruel.

But, given men who know
what they fight for, and will
fight hard--

Yes.

Given men who know
what they fight for.

I will console you.

A year ago last month,
3:00 in the morning...

...Freidank and I,
with two elderly pistols...

...raided the home of the
Gestapo chief in Konstanz.

We got what we wanted,
and the following morning...

...Freidank was eating his
breakfast three blocks away...

...and I was over
the Swiss border.

FANNY:
You are brave men.

I do not tell you the story
to prove that we are
remarkable...

...but to prove that
they are not.

Would you like a drink?

You look--
You look very tired.

It is waiting...

...waiting that is bad for me.

FANNY: But I really don't
understand what you're waiting
for.

Now, I mean.

I think the Count de Brancovis
will try tonight to find out who
I am.

I wait now to see
if he has so found me out.

Beyond that, I myself,
do not understand.

But there's nothing he can do.

Waiting.

Once, in Spain...

...I waited two days
for the fascist planes

to exhaust themselves.

I say finally to myself,
if I must reach up with my naked
hands...

...I will stop them.

It is such waiting for which I
am not fit.

You will not think that
when the time comes.

- It will go.
- Of a certainty.

But must it always be
your hands?

For each man, his own hands.
He has to sleep with them.

That's right. I guess it's the
way we should all feel.

But-- But you have a family.

Isn't there somebody else
who hasn't a wife and children?

Each could find his own excuse.

Some have bullet holes, some
have fear of the camps and many
are getting older.

Each could find a reason.
Many find it.

And my children are not the only
children in the world, even to
me.

That's noble of you,
of course, but--

One means always in English
to insult with that word, noble?

- Of course not.
- It is not noble.

It is only the way I must live.

FANNY:
But I was thinking of Sara.

I want it this way, Mama.
The way Kurt wants it.

You wanted a good life
for your children.

We want it for ours too.

This is Kurt's way
of trying to get it for them.

Good evening.

There's something bad happening,
isn't there?

I have been to the German
Embassy tonight, Herr Muller.

Yes. That's where
I thought you would go.

I don't know what this is all
about, but I'm guessing, because
I know Teck.

I have nothing to do with any of
it. And I have nothing to do
with Teck anymore.

If you do not mean what you're
saying, change your mind.

You are talking most unwisely.

You are trying to frighten me.
But you're not going to anymore.

I'm not going away with you
and I'm never going away with
you.

- Shall we talk about this
- alone? You can't make me stay
with you.

You can't make stay now
that I'm not frightened anymore.

- No, perhaps not.
- Then there's nothing
to talk about.

You're in love with him?

You never can understand
anything that hasn't got tricks
to it.

I don't like you, Teck.
I never have.

We will not leave here together
and we will not meet again.

Not now.

Good night.

Well....

A great many things have been
said in the past few minutes.

David, am I to understand--?

You are to understand
anything you like.

Without Marthe,
I shall be a very lonely man.

Already, I'm a very poor one.

Before I go tonight,
I should like to have $10,000.

- You, blackmailing with your
wife, you--
- KURT: No, David.

The Count de Brancovis is not
bargaining with you or Marthe.

He is talking to me.

Is that correct?

Good.

I see that you understand.

I got from the embassy
a list and descriptions...

...without, of course,
saying why I wanted them.

But if I have to take any more
of that, I shall go immediately
back to them.

You will not again be
interrupted.

Very well. There were
many names on the list.

And among the descriptions is
this, of a man we shall call
Gotter...

...because that is the name
he has most often used.

"Age, 40 to 45. About 6 feet.
One hundred and seventy pounds.

Many descriptions.
All of them unreliable.

Married to a foreign woman,
either English or American.

Three children.

Has used the names of Gotter,
Thomas Bodmor, Karl Francis.

Thought to have left Germany in
1933 and to have joined the
notorious Max Freidank.

Known to have crossed border in
1934, February, May, June,
October.

And again, with Freidank in
1935...

...and in August, October,
November, 1936."

An active man, this Gotter.

Yes. Very.

It would've been impossible for
a magician to have crossed that
often.

Really? Well, to go on.

"In 1934, outlaw radio station
announcing itself as Radio
European begins to operate.

Gotter was known to have crossed
border before and after three of
the broadcasts.

Gotter believed to have then
appeared in Spain with Madrid
government army.

Known to have lived in France
the first months of 1938.

Again, crossed border
sometime during week...

...when Hitler's Hamburg radio
speech was interrupted off the
air."

That was a daring deed, Herr
Muller.

I remember it well. It amused
me.

- It was not done for that
reason. -No?

"Early in 1939, an informer in
Konstanz reported Gotter's
arrival with Freidank...

...carrying money
exchanged in Paris and Brussels.

Following day,
home of Konstanz Gestapo
chief...

...was raided by two men
who took spy list and escaped."

Herr Muller, that job took
two good men.

Even you admire them.

TECK:
Even I.

Now, I think you are Gotter,
Thomas Bodmor, Karl--

Please do not describe me
to myself again.

I think that because Freidank
has been taken, you'll be
traveling home.

If I am wrong, and you will not
be going back, the German
Embassy will--

KURT:
I am going back.

I will start tonight.

So. You tell me free of charge.

Well, I will tell you
free of charge...

...that I do not believe
they've forced information out
of Freidank.

Thank you.

But I was sure they would not.
I know all three most well.

They will be able to stand up
under-- Under whatever is given
them.

Yes. There is a deep sickness
in the German character.

A love of death, a love of pain.

- Spare us your moral judgments.
- Yes, they're sickening.

-Get on with your dirty
business.
-Fanny and David are Americans.

They do not understand
our world.

And if they are fortunate,
they never will.

All fascists are not of one
mind, one stripe.

There are those who give the
orders...

...and there those who take
them.

They came late.

Some of them were, up to a
point, fastidious men.

For these,
we may someday have pity.

They are lost men.

Their spoils are small.
Their days gone. Yes?

You have the
understanding heart.

- Someday, it will get
in your way.
- KURT: I will watch it.

We are both men in trouble,
Herr Muller.

The world, perhaps ungratefully,
seems to like your kind even
less than it does mine.

Now let us do business.

You will not get back
if I inform the embassy
that you are going.

- They will see that you are
killed before.
- You are wrong.

I will not be killed
before I get there.

I will get back.

There are men they would like
to have besides me.

I would be allowed
to walk directly to them.

Until they had all the names
and all the addresses.

Romanians would pick me up
ahead of time.

Germans would not.

-Still the national pride?
-And why not, for that which is
good?

I haven't felt what I feel now.
Whatever you are and however you
became it...

...the picture of a man
selling other men's lives--

Is very ugly, Madame Fanny.
I do not do it without some
shame.

And I must therefore
sink my shame in large money.

You have over $20,000
in your briefcase.

Yes. You are an
expert with locks.

For $10,000 you can go back
to wherever you go.

No one will know that you go,
I will give you my wishes.

- What?
- No.

That money will go back
with me as it is.

It was not given to me to save
my life and I shall not so use
it.

It is to save the lives
and further the work of more
than I.

And it is important to me
to carry on that work.

And, Count de Brancovis...

...the first morning when we
arrived in this country,

my children were hungry.

That is because we were not able
to buy sufficient breakfast for
them.

If I wouldn't touch that money
for them, I wouldn't for you.

It goes back with me as it is.

And if it does not get back,
it is because I will not get
back.

TECK: I do not think you will
get back.

You're a brave one, Herr Muller,
but you will not get back.

I will send you a postal card
and tell you all about my
bravery.

Is it true that if this swine
talks, you and the others--?

SARA:
Will be caught and killed.

If they're lucky enough
to be killed quickly.

All right. We'll give him the
money.

Let's give it to him
and get him out of here.

Do you want him to go back?

Yes, I do.

DAVID:
All right.

You're a good girl, Sara.

If we give you the money, what's
to keep you from selling to the
embassy?

I do not like your thinking
I'd do that.

Look, I'm sick of what you'd
like or wouldn't like.

We'll get this over
without fancy talk from you.

I can't take much more
of you at any cost.

But it is your anger
which delays us.

I suggest that you give me
a small amount of cash now...

...and the rest in a check
dated a month from now.

In a month, Muller should be
home, let you know that he is
safe...

...and that I have kept my
bargain. We are taking chances
on each other, of course.

But I suppose one always does
on a deal of such delicacy as
ours.

- DAVID: Is a month all right?
- What?

I do not know.

Two months. How do you want the
check, how do you want the cash?

One month. That I will not
discuss.

One month. Please decide now.

All right. How do you want it?

Seventy-five hundred in a check,
2500 in cash.

Leave your address.
I'll send the money.

Address? I have no address.
And I wish it now.

I haven't that much cash
in the house.

I have 15 or 1600
in the sitting-room safe.

Very well, that will do.
Make the rest in a check.

Get it, Mama.

The new world has left the room.

I feel less discomfort with you.

We are Europeans,
born to trouble and
understanding it.

- My wife is not European.
- Almost.

They are young. The world has
gone well for most of them.

For us, the three of us...

...we're like peasants
watching the big frost: work,
trouble, ruin.

But no need to call curses at
the frost.

There it is. There it will be
again. Always for us.

You mean my husband and I do not
have angry words for you.

It goes deeper than that
with us.

We know how many
there are of you.

They don't, yet.

My mother and brother feel
shocked that you're in their
house.

We have seen you
in so many houses.

I do not say that you want
to understand me, Mrs. Muller.

I say only that you do.

Yes, you are not
difficult to understand.

- Whiskey?
- No, thank you.

Brandy?

Thank you, I will.

You, too, wish to go back
to Europe, huh?

Yes.

But they do not
much want you there.

I do not think the embassy
would pay you in money...

...for a description of a man
who has a month to travel.

But I think they would
pay you in a visa.

And I think you want a visa
almost as much as you want
money.

I conclude that you will try for
the money here and for the visa
from the embassy.

I cannot get anywhere near
Germany in a month and you know
that.

I've been bored with
this talk of paying you money.

If they are willing to try you
in this fantasy, I am not.

Unlike you, I am not a gambler,
I do not take chances.

Get up, please.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

I wish nobody to come outside.

Hello?

What time is your next plane?

To--

To south.

To El Paso or Brownsville.

Yes.

- Where is he, upstairs?
- They went out. Outside.

- They went outside?
- No, David. Don't go out.

Yes?

Oh, that's all right.

No, the ticket will be
picked up at the airport.

Uh....

Ritter.

R-I-T-T-E-R.

From Chicago. Yes.

Sara, what is this?
What's happening?

No.

Don't interfere now.

Either of you.

I know when I'm a loser.
I give my word.

Your word. What guarantees, what
bonds could hold such a man as
you?

No substance to you. Nothing
that could be held to anything.

You are not even a coward.

If I try to frighten you into
silence, by tomorrow,

you'd have forgotten your fear.

You are a fool.

You play with men's lives
to have money to live in
worthlessness.

You and all your shabby kind.

Tonight, before you come home,
I pray for you.

I pray that you will have done
nothing. That I will not have to
touch you.

I do not like to kill this way.

- TECK: Listen to me, I--
- I have seen many men die.

I give you advice.
It is easier without words.

They will not now do you good.

You will be better without them.

[GUNSHOT]

I think it's all over now.

There's nothing
you can do about it.

It's the way it had to be.

He's going away now.

I don't think he'll
ever come back anymore.

Never. Never, never.

I don't like to be
alone at night.

I guess everybody in the world
has got a time they don't like.

Me, it's right before
I go to sleep.

And now it's
going to be for always.

All the rest of my life.

I've told them.

I've made you a reservation
on a midnight plane to
Brownsville.

In the name of Ritter.

Liebe, Sara.

It is hard for you.

- I am sorry.
- Hard? I don't know.

I don't....

Before I come in...

...I stand and think.

I say I will make Fanny
and David understand.

I say, "How can I?"

Does one understand a killing?

No.

So in the end,
what is there to say?

Then do not try to explain,
I say.

I do what must be done.

I have long sickened the words

when I see the men
who live by them.

I've stopped a man's life.

I sit here and listen to him.

I want only for you to believe
that I pray it will not have to
be...

...and then I know
I will have to kill him.

I know if I do not,
it is only that I pamper
myself...

...risk the lives of others
as well as my own.

So I want you from the room.
I know what I must do.

All right.

Do I now pretend sorrow?

Do I now pretend
it is not I who acts thus? No.

I do it. I have done it before.

And I will do it again.

And I will always keep my
hope...

...that we may make a world
in which all man can die in bed.

I have great hate for the
violent.

They are the sick of the world.

Maybe I am sick now too.

Oh, stop it, Kurt.
That isn't true.

It's late. You have
to go soon.

Yes.

Now I am going to take your car.

I will take him with me.

After that, it is up to you.

Two ways: You can let me go
and keep silent.

I believe I can hide him
in the car.

At the end of two days,
if they have not been found...

...you call your police, tell
them as much of the truth it is
safe for you to say.

I will have left the country,
there'll be no doubt who did the
killing.

If you will give me those two
days...

...I believe I will be far
enough away from here.

And if the car is found before
then, I will still try to move
with speed.

I do not think for the world
you will be in bad trouble.

Inside yourselves...

...that is for you to decide.

You may take the other way.

I'm going to say goodbye
to my children now.

That will give you time
to call the police.

I will still leave,
but I will not get home.

Papa wrote it years ago.

Papa said the only men on Earth
worth their time on Earth...

...were the men
who would fight for other men.

Papa said...

...we have struggled through
from darkness.

But man moves forward
with each day...

...and each hour to
a better, freer life.

That desire to go forward...

...that willingness
to fight for it...

...cannot be put in a man.
But when it is there....

Please let him go back.

Of course, darling.
He'll have his two days.

We'll take care of things here.

It's a fine thing to have you
for a daughter, Sara.

I would like to
have been like you.

We have said many goodbyes
to each other, huh?

Well, we will now
have to say another one.

But this time,
I will leave you with good
people...

...to whom you, I believe,
also will be good.

Would you allow me to give away
my share in you until I get
back?

- If you would like it.
- Good.

Then, to Mama, her share.

My share to Fanny and David.

It is all and it is
the most I have to give.

There.

I've made a will.

But now we will not joke.

I have something to say
and it is important to me to say
it.

You are talking to us
as if we were children.

Am I, Babbie?

I wish you were children.

I wish I could say to you, love
your mother, do not eat too many
sweets...

...clean your teeth.

I cannot say these things to
you.

You are not children.
I took your childhood all away
from you.

We have had a most enjoyable
life, Papa.

You are a gallant little liar.
And I thank you for it.

I have done
something bad tonight.

- You could not do a bad thing.
- BABETTE: You could not.

Now, let us get straight
together.

The four of us.

Do you remember
when we read Les Miserables?

You remember that we talked
about it afterwards...

...and Bodo got candy
on Mama's bed?

I remember.

Well...

...the man in the book
stole bread.

"The world is out of shape,"
he said, "when there are hungry
men."

And until it gets in shape,
men will steal and lie...

...and kill.

But for whatever reason it's
done, and whoever does it...

...you understand it,
it is all bad.

I want you to remember that.

Whoever does it, it's bad.

But you will live to see the day
when it will not have to be.

All over the world,
in every place, every town...

...there are men who are going
to make sure it will not have to
be.

They want what I want.

A childhood for every child.
For my children,

and I for theirs.

Think of that.

It will make you happy.

In every town, every village,

every mud hut in the world...

...there is always a man
who loves children...

...and who will fight
to make a good world for them.

Goodbye now.

Wait for me.

I shall try to
come back for you.

Or you shall come to me.

The boat will come in, and it
will be a fine and a safe land.

And I will be waiting
on the dock for you.

And there will be the three
of you and Mama, Fanny and
David.

And I will have ordered
an extra big dinner...

...and we will show them
what our country can be like.

Of course, Papa.
That is the way it will be.

Of course.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

Do it well.

- Good night, baby.
- Good night, Papa.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

- Good night, son.
- Good night, Papa.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

You go with our blessing.

We will take care of things
here.

David and I would like to give
you this money to use for your
friends.

A thank you is too small. I--

Goodbye.

Good luck.

Men who wish to live
have the best chance to live.

I wish to live.

I wish to live with you.

Seventeen years.

It is as much for me today.

I have loved just once,
and for all my life.

Come back for me, darling.

If you can.

I will try.

Goodbye to you all.

JOSHUA:
Bodo cries. Babette looks very
queer.

I think you should come, Mama.

Bodo talks so fancy.

We forget sometimes
he is a baby.

[ENGINE REVS]

Well...

...we've been shaken out
of the magnolias.

Yes. So we have.

Yes.

Well, tomorrow
will be a hard day.

But we'll have Babbie's birthday
dinner and we'll have music
afterwards.

I think you'd better go up to
Marthe now. In the end, she will
have to know.

Be as careful as you can.

Well, I think I'll go up
and talk to Anise.

I like Anise best
when I don't feel well.

Mama?

We're going to be
in for trouble.

- You understand that?
- I understand it very well.

We will manage. I'm not
put together with flour paste.

And neither are you,
I'm happy to learn.

Maybe we'll get a letter soon.

You can't tell.

After all, it isn't
so easy to send word.

There have been
long times before.

Don't you think so, Joshua?

Don't you think, maybe?

Maybe.

But you can't find
Papa on a map.

JOSHUA:
No?

Are you using the map
for your lessons?

No.

What do you mean, no?

What are you doing
with that map?

Answer me, Joshua.

I-- I was thinking
about ways to get home.

What are you talking about?

In five months,
I will have a birthday.

If by then we have not yet had
word from Papa, I shall be
going, Mama.

You have known it
and I have known it.

But we have not wanted
to speak of it.

What kind of talk is that?
You will not go.

You're only a child.
I will not let you.

Do you hear me, Joshua?

I will not let you.

I do not believe that.
I believe that you will let me
go.

I believe that when my time will
come, you will want me to go.

I believe too,
and I'll say it now...

...that you will tell Bodo
the things he needs to know...

...and if the world
stays bad so long...

...you will send him after me
when his time comes.

You are a brave lady, Mama.

And that is the way
you will want things to be.

Thank you, son.

That was a nice thing to say.

I'm not brave.

It isn't like that at all.

When the time comes...

...when it comes...

...I will do my best.