All language subtitles for Bonhoeffer - Agent Of Grace

(gospel choir singing)
...When the morning comes

When the saints of God

Will be gathering home

We 'll tell. ..
We'll tell the story

Of how we've overcome

We'll understand it
better by and by...

[Frank Fischer] Gentlemen, I
give you Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Professor Niebuhr has a
little surprise for you.

Freshly translated,
hot off the press.

A copy of your
"Discipleship."

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

It's a bribe.

We're hoping we can keep you
so happy and so preoccupied

you won't have time

Here, here.

...We'll understand it
we 'll understand

by and by.--

This is great.

I love this,
ifs wonderful.

You love it, huh?

Ya, it's beautiful.

We'll understand it,
by and by

That's why I
brought you here

By and by-

Your feets too big

Don't like you 'cause
your feets too big

Mmm, I like you 'cause
your feets too big

I hate you 'cause
your feats too big

too big

Yo do do do

Where'd you get 'em

La da da da

Do do do do

Your girl,
she likes you

Says she thinks
you're nice

Says you got what it takes
to take her to paradise

She likes your face
and she loves your rig

Oh, but love ya

Look at 'em,
your feats be big

What do you say

My abet: too bi?

I don't like you 'cause
you say my feets too big

I'm mad at you

'cause your
feets too big

Hate you 'cause you say
that my feets too big

One more time!

Oh, your feets too big

I don't like you 'cause
your feets too big...

[Frank] First Boston,
then D.C., then Chicago.

Or, perhaps, you'd rather go
to sunny California first?

What's on your mind,
Dietrich?

Frank, I have to go home.

To the Nazis.

Are you sure?

Yes.

They'll put you in prison Dietrich,
you know that.

Maybe.

See, if I stayed
I think I'd become a living lie

to everything I believe in.

We wouldn't want
that to happen.

[Dietrich]
...Let's not delude ourselves

that if we take the
loyalty oath to Hitler

it means they'll let
us worship in peace.

The Nuremberg laws are an attack
on Christianity itself.

Adolf Hitler demands nothing
less than total commitment.

He's the elected chancellor.

But more than that, he
considers himself der fuhrer.

And as "the leader," he
craves to be the conscience

of every living German.

But his claim upon us

is a claim
that a Christian

can only accept
from Christ himself.

The Reich's bishop is
rewriting Holy Scripture!

Only those who cry
out for the Jews

have the right to sing
Gregorian chants.

Thank you, Dietrich.

Christ himself was a Jew.

And in the eyes of the Lord,
we are all one!

Eberhard, take Charlotte out.

Come on!

Dr. Bonhoeffer?

Yes.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Until further notice

you're forbidden
to speak in public

to publish your writings
and to teach.

And you're to report to
the Gestapo once a week.

Is that clear?

Good evening.

Be careful.

Gentlemen, it's my
duty to arrest you

if you refuse
to take the oath.

So, let us please
recite it together.

I swear to be true

and obedient...

I swear to be true
and obedient...

To the fuhrer
of the German Reich

Adolf Hitler...

To the fuhrer
of the German Reich

Adolf Hit/er...

To abide by the law
and fulfill my duty...

To abide by the /aw

and fulfill my duty...

So help me God.

So help me God.

That's ridiculous!

People know me.

They know I'm Jewish.

And they still respect me.

The Nazis surely have
other things to do

than go around arresting
every Jew they see.

You're wrong!

Did you read this?

[Gerhard]
That Nazi trash?

It may be, but it tells us what
and how the Nazis are thinking.

"On the outbreak of war,
the Jews will be exterminated

without a trace."

There it is.

Black and white.

That's just propaganda.

They can't.
They won't.

They do and they will.

Hitler's never gone
back on a promise.

I'm afraid your
brother is right.

Even if he is
only a Theologian.

Sabine.

It is too dangerous.

You've got to
leave Germany.

Why?

Afraid to have a Jew
in the family?

The way you were
afraid to speak

at my father's funeral?

You have no choice.

You must leave.
Now.

But where should we go?

This is our home.

Where would I find work?

First, go to Switzerland.

And then to England.

No.

I'm afraid we can't afford
to bury our heads in the sand.

[Dietrich] ...In 1919,
when the British

again curtailed civil liberties

Gandhi organized

his first all-India civil
disobedience campaign.

He called it a "Satyagraha,"
meaning "Truth Force."

since then, Gandhi has
consistently continued

to lead strong movements,
non-violently

against untouchability

for Muslim-Hindu unity,
women's rights, basic education.

Our role models, you see

are not only found
in Christianity...

...I'd like to visit Gandhi
some day, very much.

I'd love to
travel to India

and live with him
and his followers

do as he does,
learn from him--

and try my utmost to--

come on.

In you get.

[Dietrich]
I'm sorry to see you go.

But under the circumstances

I think it's the
best thing to do.

You might lose everything
you've ever loved and wanted

if you stay.

I know.

Well, so long, twin one.

Well, so long, twin two.

I'll miss you.

Please be careful.

The Nazis aren't
your friends either.

I know.

Good luck.

Shh... Good luck.

I'm sorry for that remark
about my father's funeral.

There was no need for it.

No, no, you don't
have to be sorry.

I deserved it.

My bishop asked me not
to speak and I didn't.

But I should have.

Drive safely, Gerhard.

Dietrich?

Ruth!

Oh!

What happened?

The Gestapo.

They closed the place down.

And the boys?
Are they safe?

They were forced
to join the army.

All of them?

No, some were arrested

for refusing.

But you can't stay here.

Come along.

(playing classical m us/'0)

Oh, no!

What are you doing there?

Can you guess what that monstrous
little corporal has done?

We're at war with Poland.

The radio says
we were attacked.

Well, if the radio says
it, it must be true.

What on earth will he do next?

Well, it means that England
and France will...

Yes.

Does that mean father
and Max are fighting?

Unlikely.

They only left
this morning, dear.

Oh, Dietrich, you remember my
granddaughter Maria, don't you?

She took confirmation
lessons with you.

Uh, I think I'd better
go back to Berlin.

I understand.

I'll drive you to
the station, yes?

Oh, you're still here?

May I ask what
you were playing?

Just some Beethoven.

I liked it. Very peaceful.

Some people believe that if
we listened to more Beethoven

the world would be a better
and more peaceful place.

Do you believe that?

Are you going to enlist,
like father and Max?

So many people ask me that.

So, what would you have me do?

Pick up a gun and fight?

I don't think this is
what God wants of me.

There's sure to be
something you can do.

Ya, like what?

Maybe it was a mistake
coming back to Germany.

[Hans]
Dietrich?

Ya ?

You know I left the
justice department.

Yes, I know.

I'm working now

with General Oster and
Admiral Canaris at the Abwehr.

Military intelligence.

Not everyone in the military
wants this war, you know.

No, they're all
pacifists, I suppose?

Oster just leaked
Hitler's invasion plans

to Holland and Belgium.

You shouldn't be
telling me this, Hans.

Why not?

Have you thought about
what you're going to do

when your call-up
papers arrive?

Yes, I've thought about it.

But I don't know
what I'm going to do.

We can get you a certificate

that would make you unavailable
for military service.

A what?
A certificate?

You'd be classified
"indispensable."

What do you mean,
"indispensable?"

The resistance needs a courier--

someone with international contacts

and a valid reason to travel.

Someone who can let the
allies know what we're doing

and negotiate a cease-fire.

Officially, you'd be a theologian

but unofficially--

a spy?

Unpleasant, I know,
for a man of God.

Come on, Hans, wait a minute.

You're asking me to be a spy?

Yes.

I'm a minister.

I'm not a politician.

But that's why the allies
will listen to you.

You're trusted, respected.

That is treason, Hans!

Treason or not, we've got
to get rid of Hitler.

What does "get rid of" mean?

Exactly what it says.

Hitler is the truly
chosen authority.

The people idolize him

even more so now because
of his military success.

But he has perverted
his authority!

Dietrich, we've been
through every scenario:

abide the law, arrest him,
put him on trial.

You know very well
there is no law now.

He has destroyed it.

But murder, Hans?

Murder-- that is what you're
suggesting, isn't it?

He's the murderer, Dietrich.

And he will continue to murder.

I can't, Hans.

I'm sorry, I can't.

Come home with me.

I want to show you something.

[Hans]
Arson.

Forced death.

Murder.

Lies.
Suffering.

Extermination camps.

Ifs all documented here.

The true history
of the Third Reich.

Oh, God.

What do you want me to do?

[Hans]
It's your last chance.

We're giving you papers

that say you're from
military intelligence.

"Operation 7."

[Charlotte]
Operation 7?

You leave by way
of Switzerland.

We'll never work
for the military!

Mrs. Friedenthal,
you won't have to.

That's just your cover story.

You'll be traveling

with Dr. And Mrs. Rosenthal

the day after tomorrow.

Until then, you'll stay here.

How many Jews have you
already moved out?

Several.

And they all agreed

to leave the country
as Abwehr agents?

Yes, they have.

Here are your papers,
Friedenthal, Charlotte.

Weinberg, Meyer...

Captain Ludwig Gehre,
Josef Muller.

We don't have much time.

[Hans]
Fingerhut, Guido.

Goldfarb, Rolf.

The Gestapo.

This was issued
by the Gestapo

Of course it was issued
by the Gestapo.

The Gestapo!

Why don't you talk to her?

Charlotte...

This is your only hope.

Dietrich!

Trust us.

Just trust us.

Us?
You're...?

You're working
for the Abwehr?

No, I'm trying to help.

Help?

Please, trust me.

You don't have
to do anything.

Just tell the world out there
what is happening here.

But why is the
Abwehr doing this?

Maybe we think it'll
cleanse our sullied souls

knowing we helped get at
least one thick-headed,

stubborn Jewish spinster to safety!

[Charlotte]
What good is a handful of Jews

when the rest of us
are being murdered?

We don't have much time.

Let's go!

So many lies, so much deception.

Please, Dietrich

don't win the war
only to lose your soul.

Don't lose your soul.

[Hans]
Dietrich...

I'd like you to
meet my superior

General Hans Oster

and Rudolf Freiherr
von Gersdorff.

[Oster] We're very grateful
to you, Bonhoeffer.

Excuse me, sir, is this
meeting confidential?

I'm meeting a friend here,
I didn't expect...

[Oster]
Your papers.

Thank you.

My father was a
pastor in Dresden.

I remember him saying

"Be only afraid of
the wrath of God."

Are you serious?

I'm "indispensable"
to the war effort?

Our war effort, at any rate.

And we know what we're doing.

All right...

So what do I do now?

Where do I report?

[Hans]
You're off to Sweden

to see an old friend.

[George Bell] So, my son,
you're a soldier now?

[Dietrich] Yes, and
one with a mission.

The people I represent
are earnest and honest.

The resistance is very real.

There are men with
power and influence

who have made careful
plans for a government

after Hitler's assassination.

Assassination?

You speak so freely

of murder?

I know it is sinful,
George, I know

and I've been thinking
about this very often.

But I choose the
lesser of two evils.

I believe it is worse to
be evil than to do evil.

Can Hitler be got rid of?

We tried.

So fa r, unsuccessfully,

but also undetected.

George, it would help us

to have some word
from the allies

that they acknowledge
our existence.

Go on.

Allied demands for an
unconditional surrender

have only strengthened
German resolve.

That makes our task
all the more difficult.

George, many accept
that Hitler must go.

But what happens after that?

Surely you understand that,

as Germans we must
ask that question.

If we were destroyed...

The allies are not
convinced that Germany

can be purged without
military defeat.

After three years of war

very few can distinguish
Germans from Nazis.

However upright

these people you speak
of have made war on us.

Please, please be
careful Dietrich.

The tide is turning.

If your resistance is going
to act, they must act now.

The best of British chemicals.

Abwehr stock.

Watch carefully,
von Gersdorff.

It's primed here,
detonated here.

All right.

[Dietrich]
In your pockets?

Wait a minute. You're going
to ignite them

in your pockets?

But that's suicide.

But I'll take him with me.

Why are you showing
me all this?

Why am I here?

Will God forgive me?

I don't know.

But I do know that we have
a merciful and forgiving God.

Would you bless me?

Well, remember
the words of Jesus.

"Greater love has
no man than this

that a man lay down
his life for his friends."

Hello.

Hello!

Well, you seem
so self-assured

all the way up there.

I never really
learned to ride.

Perhaps, someday.

Halt.

What are you writing?

Just some ideas,
some notes on ethics.

Ethics, ugh!

I know, I know ifs
not very exciting.

Why not, if you've written it?

May I?

Go ahead, if you can
read my writing.

"Being evil is worse
than doing evil."

Is that true?

I think so.

"Better for a lover of
truth to tell a lie

than for a liar to
tell the truth."

You don't mean that.

Yes, I do.

Really?

Really.

"To escape sin may be
the ultimate guilt."

Do you believe that?

Yes, but do you
believe it?

I wouldn't have written
it if I didn't believe it.

You never taught us anything
like this in confirmation class.

I did.

No, you didn't.

I didn't?

No.

We weren't at war then.

By the Way

have you heard from your
father and brother recently?

Yes.

They're on the Russian front.

(clarinet and piano music
playing on phonograph)

My father's.

The smell reminds me of him.

I miss him.

I'm sure he must miss you.

No, no, don't put it out.

Leave your father
here with us.

American music.

I suppose I shouldn't
be listening.

Why not?

America is our enemy.

The Nazis say their
music is degenerate.

The Nazis are really not
qualified to judge degeneracy.

Actually, I thought they were.

Well, ya...

Yes, yes, you're right.

They are.

Now that my father
and brother are gone

there's nobody to dance with.

I never really learned
it properly, but, uh...

[Ruth]
They were both killed in Stalingrad.

She's inconsolable.

To lose both your father
and your brother.

I thought you might help.

Why?

Why?

I wish I had an answer
for you, Maria.

Forgive me, I don't.

[Dietrich] We must learn to take
each day as if it were our last.

We owe it to God
and to ourselves

to believe in the future.

Do you truly believe
in the future?

Yes, Maria, I do.

I truly believe
in the future.

And I should like to share
that future with you.

You're engaged?
Now?

Good God, how old is she?
She's a child.

She's 17.

Seventeen!

For God's sake,
don't tell her anything.

I won't, Hans.

She'll faint with fear.

I can barely look Christel
straight in the eye anymore.

Every time someone
knocks on the door

she dies a little.

We've got to keep our
fingers crossed today.

[Dietrich]
It takes a very special person

to do what von Gersdorff
is doing right now.

(piano playing)

It must be over now.

[Rudiger]
Hello?

Karl, it's for you.

We are being watched?

[Oster] Ah, ifs Manfred
Roeder, military prosecutor.

As soon as our call comes,
I will arrest him.

Or he'll arrest us.

Someone must have talked.

Why else would he be here?

Thank you.

Understood.

It failed.

And von Gersdorff?

I must get back now.

Even if he won't listen.

Dietrich, I want you to
go through your files.

Destroy anything that
shouldn't be there.

Also, I want a letter
from you, dated in 1939

offering your services
to intelligence

long before you were drafted.

It must be clear that
you were in the Abwehr

from the very beginning.

List all the influential foreign
churchmen you can spy on abroad.

You can't be serious, Hans?

Better to name foreigners
they can't hurt

than to let them
catch friends they can!

Dietrich, put
your scruples aside.

And we better do something
about the dossier.

Burn it, there's enough
in there to kill us all.

Christel, we can't.

You've got to!

It's our only proof.

[Hans]
We need it for later.

In the Abwehr headquarters in Zossen

there are some old
archives and records.

That's where I'll hide it.

Roeder, military court.

I have a search warrant.

[Roeder]
Law, music, philosophy.

Well, well, aren't we cultured?

What actually made your husband

move from justice to intelligence?

I'm sure he'll tell
you if you ask him.

[Hans]
What are you doing here?!

What is the meaning of this?!

Let my wife go immediately!

Right now!

No.

Arrest that man.

What's happened, why are
they arresting people?

I wish I knew, mother.

Whatever. Go, Dietrich, now,
you've got travel papers.

And leave Hans and Christel
to explain everything?

I can't.

You must, before they get here.

No, mother, no.

They're here.

[Roeder]
Open up!

We have a warrant for
Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Open up!

Pastor Bonhoeffer does
not need handcuffs.

You're not well, Dr. Bonhoeffer?

He won't use his blanket.

It's damp, dirty and
so old, it stinks.

You will supply Dr. Bonhoeffer

with clean blankets,
as many as he wishes.

I've given permission for your
family to send you books.

You may write to them.

May l...

May I write to my fiancée?

We will see.

Dr. Roeder, I still have not
been informed why I'm here.

Pastor, please.

What kind of statement is that?

I may not have been born

into a cultured family,
such as your own

but I'm not stupid.

What do you think
you're here for?

I'm afraid I haven't
the vaguest idea.

Then let me help you.

You're here to tell the truth,
Dr. Bonhoeffer.

That can't be too difficult
for a man of God, can it?

I have nothing to hide.

Good.

Then let us begin.

"Whosoever resisteth the power,
resisteth the ordinance of God

and they that resist
shall be damned."

Paul to the Romans, XIII.

You quoted that in
your "discipleship."

Is that correct?

Yes.

Are we here to
discuss Theology?

Indeed not.

You're not listening.

I'm not an intellectual,
nor am I religious.

You must make allowances

for my ignorance of Theology.

Am I correct in assuming that
despite what you've written here

you have knowingly put yourself
at the risk of being damned?

Well, you--

you have resisted
the new German order

and advised your seminarians

against taking the oath
of loyalty to the Fuhrer.

I did not resist the state.

I resisted the state's
takeover of the church.

If that is a crime,
it is an old one.

I see...

Well, then, have you
more recent crimes

you would prefer
to share with me?

I've been led to believe
that you're an agent

for the Abwehr

military intelligence,
with special protection.

Why did you withhold this
information at your arrest?

It's not a crime
to be in the Abwehr.

Or are you hiding something?

Speak up.

I'm not authorized to speak
about classified work.

Work?
What work?

Since when is it classified
from the Gestapo?

I thought--

and why you?

What secrets did intelligence
expect a minister to secure?

Hmm?

Tell me, when did you
begin your work

with intelligence?

Late '39, I think.

You think.

Hmm.
Ah, yes, quite right.

You applied in 1939.

At least, that's what it
says here in this letter

to a Hans von Dohnanyi.

We found this on your desk the
afternoon you were arrested.

It looks like the original.

We've been wondering why you have
the original, and not intelligence?

That is, if it was
sent to them at all.

Again, I ask, are you
trying to hide something?

And those trips
you've taken abroad.

Those were rare privileges.

We both know that these
conferences in wartime

are not what they
appear to be.

Every country that
sends an emissary

expects information in return.

That's why you were
permitted to attend, yes?

I always reported to foreign
affairs on my return.

Rubbish!
I've read those reports.

Nothing!

Is there anything
you wish to add?

No?

Doesn't it strike you
as odd, Bonhoeffer

that I am interested
only in the truth

and that you, a minister,

seek by your silence
to evade it?

Hmm.

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?!

[Man]
What do you want?

I want you to know
that you're not alone.

I'm a minister.

Would you like
to pray with me?

[Man] I don't believe in God.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to pray
with my neighbor.

He cries day and night.

Kretschmer?

It won't do any good.

He's going to be
shot any day now.

A young kid, got mixed up
with the wrong people.

And his executioners,
are they the right people?

If he was your son,
wouldn't you want me to help?

If you can hear me,
put your hands on the wall

as if we were touching.

Mine are here, too.

Lord, it's dark in me.

In you, it's day.

I am alone.

But you will stay.

I am afraid.

You never cease.

I am at war.

In you, is peace.

Thought you might
like to know...

The boy from the next cell?

He was very calm.

Surprised everyone.

He was executed this morning.

Thank you for telling me.

Word of advice:
Be careful about being so smart.

People start to believe

you think you're
better than them.

And nobody likes that.

You say your faith is based
on the new and old testaments.

Including the Jewish prophets.

Their descendants are the
enemy of our state.

Yet, you have repeatedly
welcomed them

the Jewish enemy,
into your home.

They've been your friends,
your colleagues, your family.

Your twin sister is
married to a Jew.

I had little contact
with Gerhard Leibholz.

But you were asked to speak
at his father's funeral.

I declined.

Aryan scruples?

I felt it was not appropriate.

No guilt pangs?

Did you or did you not later
help Leibholz to escape?

I did not.

You lie!

He left Germany at a time
when it was not a crime

for Jews to emigrate.

In fact, it was encouraged.

You personally
avoided the call-up.

That is a capital crime.

Dr. Roeder, you forget
that I joined the Abwehr!

Fresh blankets.

Oh, thank you.

Ifs the people you know
that counts, not God.

I think God is aware of that.

You know him personally, do you?

Getting to know him.

But it takes time.

That poem you said to the boy?

Did you write that?

Yes.

Put it on paper.
I'll hand it around, if you like.

Operation 7, the Jews.

We know all about it,
Bonhoeffer.

Why shouldn't you?
There's nothing to hide.

But Jews as German agents?

Why not?

I assumed they had families

people they hoped to protect
by working with intelligence.

What was their mission?

That was classified,
I wasn't informed.

There was no mission!

They had all the
relevant papers.

Military intelligence
cleared it with the Gestapo.

I suppose it amused you to
pull the wool over their eyes.

I don't see how.

The Gestapo knows
everything, don't they?

[Roeder]
How much did they pay you?

I beg your pardon?

The Jews, how much
did they pay you?

How much was in it for you,
for Dohnanyi, for Oster?

I don't understand,
I was paid my expenses.

One of your colleagues
was picked up in Prague

in possession of
illegal U.S. Dollars.

Operation 7 was a
scheme to get money

from wealthy Jews in
England and America.

The Abwehr is corrupt
to the core.

Or don't you believe me?

You're the state's prosecutor,
Dr. Roeder, I must believe you.

So, you've been
racketeering, pastor?

It's not very good
for the soul, is it?

Nor does it go unpunished.

Or have you been duped?

A lamb amongst wolves?

Perhaps that's why
they needed you.

To camouflage their crimes.

Dr. Roeder...

Perhaps you'd like to
tell me what you know

about military intelligence.

I already have.

No, you have not.

You have a visitor.

Sit here.

Sit over there.

Dietrich, I missed you so much.

I've been given visiting rights.

They didn't tell you?

I've moved to Berlin,
to your parent's house.

Your sister Ursula

came last weekend with Rudiger.

They're in very good
health, you know.

And Eberhard and Renate
are married now.

They want you to know
how happy they are.

Eberhard will be
posted to Italy soon.

And Renate is
expecting a child.

And I have to confess
that I've sinned.

I stole your book,
"Creation and Fall. "

I keep it by my bedside now.

I sometimes fall asleep

in the middle of a sentence.

And in the morning,
I wake up

and I can't remember
where I was.

Theology is not the
easiest bedtime reading.

But I don't care.

I feel your presence
in every word.

We are all eagerly
planning the wedding.

Shall I tell you about it?

We've agreed to keep
it as a close family.

Oh, well, it makes it
only about a hundred.

Yes.

And we thought summer
would be the best.

August.

August is beautiful
in our village.

August.

Yes, August.

It's a beautiful month.

And I shall teach
you how to ride.

I should like that.

Our first kiss.

Not very proper of me.

No, no, no, it's me.

I'm not...

[Roeder]
Speak up!

[Maria] I brought
you fresh clothes.

They will give them to you.

I've brought you
something to read.

I hope I've chosen
the right thing.

Rilke, "Duneser Elegien."

Yes, I know what it is.

Thank you.

Now that I know you like Rilke,
I'll read it, too.

After you.

Please read it!

Carefully.

And return it back to
me when I return next.

That's enough.

You must leave.

Kiss me again.

Thank you for
allowing me here.

It won't be long.

Hold me in your heart.

Miss, you must be very
careful when you come here.

People like Dr. Roeder
have no conscience, none.

Please, do what
you can for him.

He's precious.

...s-e-I...

it-- did not...

It makes no sense.

Don't--

Oh, my goodness,
that's backwards.

They don't suspect worst,
only corruption.

Feud between intelligence
and Gestapo.

Deny all.

From Hans.

Love Christel.

Christel!

Thank God, she's safe.

Tell me, what does a girl
like that see in you?

Honestly, Herr Knobloch

I've been asking myself
the same question.

I can't figure you out.

We're not obliged to tell the
truth to everyone who asks.

Only to God.

And to Roeder.

He's got no right
to the truth.

No?

No.

Well, consider this.

If a teacher asks a boy
in front of the whole class

if his father came home drunk
again the night before

is the boy obliged
to answer "yes?"

No.

Exactly.

The teacher is abusing his
power in asking that question.

The honest answer is
for the boy to lie

defending his father.

And lie for all he's worth.

[Maria] I carry your
letter with me everywhere.

If I'm caught on the
bus or in an air raid

or if I'm waiting in
line at the grocer's

I just take it
out and read.

"The way we found each other,
so shortly before my arrest

"are such clear signs
of hominum confusions

dei providentia."

Through man's confusion...

God's provision,
I looked it up.

If I can learn that

you can surely learn
to ride a horse.

Things are moving fast.

High command knows
the war is lost.

Knobloch and I are
working on a plan

to get you out.

Maria, be careful.

For God's sake, please.

I love you so much.

[Dietrich]
What's new?

Oh, God!

Why do I do this?

Why do I feel so guilty
listening to our own radio.

If it was the BBC-- yes!

Anything special?

Someone tried to kill Hitler...

A bomb.

Is he dead?

No, the man has a charmed life.

The Gestapo's taking
the Abwehr to pieces.

And what could happen?

They don't know much yet,
they're only guessing.

But Hans kept a dossier,
for after the war.

He hid it in the
Abwehr archives.

If the Gestapo finds it...

[Paula]
ls Dietrich named?

[Christel]
Yes.

My God!

The S.S. Are going berserk.

The escape is next week.

We have to hurry.

Stauffenberg's dead.

They were all killed,
dozens of them.

I have night duty
next Wednesday.

I put a pair of plumber's
overalls under your mattress.

You'll leave with me.

Klaus.

Rudiger.
Oh, no.

[Paula]
Eberhard.

[Christel]
It gets worse.

How can it?

I found a note from Hans.

He says his only hope is
to be too sick to be tried

a serious illness,
something like diphtheria.

How can you do that?

Get him a culture,
put it amongst his food.

You're going to?

There is no other choice.

[Dietrich]
Who am I?

They often tell me /stepped
from my cell's confinement

calmly, cheerfully, firmly

like a squire from
his country house.

Who am I?

They also tell me

I bore the days of
misfortune equably

smilingly, proudly, like
one accustomed to win.

(explosions,
distant screaming)

[Man] H I e P, please hem!

Am I then really all that
which other men tell of?

Or am I only what I myself

know of myself?

Restless and longing and sick,
like a bird in a cage

struggling for breath

as though hands were
compressing my throat;

yearning for colors,
for flowers

for the voices of birds...

Let those people out!

Thirsting for
words of kindness

for neighborliness.

Or am /both at once
a hypocrite to some

and to myself

a contemptible weakling?

Who am I?

Whoever I am

you know, dear God

I shall always belong to you.

I can't... I can't run.

But you can't stay here.

They'll kill you.

Please, don't do this to me.

Maria, never think
I don't love you.

I love you!

I love you,
you must know that.

I want you, I want life.

But there will be
reprisals if I go.

Hans, Rudiger, Klaus,
my family, yours.

But you don't know that!

The prisoners here need me.

I tell them this is not
an end, but a beginning.

But every one of them
would flee if they could.

[Dietrich]
But they cannot.

They are here.

This is their life now.

And what about me?

What about me?

I need you.

I love you.

Maria, it is here that I
became the man you love.

You lied to me!

All the time you knew!

You'll see where your
God gets you now!

What happened?

They found a dossier
in the Abwehr archives.

You were in it.

You know what this
means don't you?

Yes.

This is what you wanted?

No...

But I'm ready.

What is it?
What happened?

He's being transported.

Where?

Flossenberg, I think.

Dr. Bonhoeffer, we have
a proposition for you...

We're offering you a
chance to save yourself

and your family.

Your foreign contacts have been
communicated to Herr Himmler.

He wondered if you might be
able to help us negotiate.

After reading
the Abwehr files

we have reason to believe that
the allies will listen to you.

I don't understand,
you want me to negotiate

with the allies?

Yes.

For you?

For Germany.

For Germany?

If you wish to save your
friends and your family

I urge you to do this.

I thought you wanted to live.

What will happen to
your lovely Maria?

Hope springs eternal.

Hope.

The last temptation.

The answer is no, Dr. Roeder.

No.

So, is this the end,
a taxi to oblivion?

It's not like any
taxi I've ever seen.

It's a taxi especially designed

to exterminate the
unsuspecting traveler.

You think you're going
to the Ritz for dinner

but then on the way there,
you get gassed in your limousine.

The good thing is that no one
gets stuck with the dinner bill.

[Dietrich] Gentlemen, come
on, for heaven's sake.

Sorry about that, old chap.

I'm Payne Best, British
not-so-secret service.

Hello.

Kokorin, Stalin's best friend.

Kokorin... British humor.

(speaking Russian)

[Rascher]
They are putting in wood.

[Gehre] Fuel, Rascher,
it needs fuel.

But not wood.

They can't use wood.

We will suffocate.

I tell you,
we will suffocate.

So it is an extermination
chamber!

Did I hear right?

Rascher, the eminent
Nazi doctor?

I was hoping to meet you,
but at the war crimes trial.

What put you here
amongst us dregs?

Fallen out of favor with
the party, have you?

Poor sod.

Get in there!

All of you!

We are going to Flossenberg.

I recognize the area.

Have you worked at that
concentration camp yet, Rascher?

I know it.

Oh?

What beastly experiments
did you perform there?

Watching naked men
freezing in the cold?

How long it took them to die?

See what color they turned?

Did you keep notes?

And now the Nazis want to
get rid of you, do they?

Oh, poor boy. Poor boy.

You bastard Nazi!

Should have let
him kill him.

It's all right.

Come on, ifs all right.

Calm down.

I don't understand how
you can protect that man.

Because he believes
in his stupid God.

He thinks he's holy.

You really do believe

in this day and age

in this God forsaken
death trap?

Yes.

In this God forsaken
death trap.

(horn beeping)

[Army Corporal-outside]
Two of your prisoners

have to go to Flossenberg.

Prisoner Muller

step down.

Can you read this name?

I'm with him.

We were in prison together.

Look after them.

[Driver] What about the other
prisoners, where do they go?

[Army Corporal]
That's your problem.

[Driver]
We need an order.

[Army Corporal]
Then give yourself one!

I should have gone.

All in God's time.

You can throw that wood away.

Axle's gone, she's bust.

So, what are we
going to do now?

Don't know, really.

Wait for Christmas
or the Americans...

(explosion)

So close?

The war must be almost over.

We'll put in a good word
for you with the allies.

I need orders.
I need an order.

I need an order!

Are you Sippach?

Yes.

Bade r.

Gestapo.

You're relieved.

(accordion music)

Like everything
else these days

it's very confusing.

Seems to be about
Admiral Canaris.

They found his diaries
and arrested him.

I thought he was one
of Hitler's chums.

Anyway, it seems as if
Hitler is in a royal snit.

Apparently, that was Hitler's
response to Canaris.

(gunshot)

(celebrating and accordion
music continues)

(two gunshots)

[Man] Where the
hell are we going?

[Man]
Who cares?

We'll know when we
run out of petrol.

[Guard] There is no card for
anyone named Bonhoeffer.

No listing of anyone
with that name.

Was he here?

No.

[Kokorin] I think we are
going to be waiting here

until the Americans arrive.

[Best] Since it's Sunday, padre,
how about a word or two?

We're mostly
Pagans and Heathens

but I'm sure no
one would mind.

And at least one Atheist.

[Kokorin]
Don't mind me.

Well that's the
point, Kokorin

I do.

I've been thinking about what
Christ will mean in the future.

We'll need a new form
of Christianity

in a time when the
world has come of age.

I think there's only one purpose
of religion in a modern world

where people must come and
share each other's suffering

and share the suffering of
God in a Godless world.

We'll need more
than just religion

in the former sense.

We need faith and Jesus
Christ at ifs center.

Real Christianity means
sharing each other's pain.

It is not for us

to prophesy the day when men

will once more ask God

that the world be
changed and renewed.

But when that day arrives,
there will be a new language

perhaps quite non-religious,
but liberating and redeeming

as was Jesus' language.

It'll shock people.

It'll shock them
by its power.

It'll be the language
of a new truth

proclaiming God's
peace with men.

[Bader]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer r?

You're to go with this man.

Where are you taking me?

Flossenberg.

(explosions, gunfire and
air raid sirens blaring)

(screaming and yelling)

(crashing)

(explosion s)

(baby crying)

(explosions and
baby crying continues)

[Dietrich] Maria, believe in
the future, no matter what.

Remember, it was courage
that brought us here.

[Guard]
Prisoner, strip!

You tremble, pastor.

Afraid?

I'm cold.

So, this is the end.

No.

Father, give unto
thy servants

that peace which the
world cannot give.