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You never catch me walk up, no one win.

I'm so fast, I'm invisible.

You may be faster than a cheater, little

brother. But I can see you play this

game, and I will eat you for dinner.

Don't you think you can't see me. Let's

pass this by.

I told Water I was invisible. But I

don't think he believes me. Yeah, he's

right. I mean, I can see you standing

here. Will the grass stain on your knee

later?I just hurry, mother. I need your

nervous spare.

Lucky enough for you,

strawberries can make a boy disappear

completely. Really?

Hmm Special powers. From strawberry

invisibility. again. This

one really works. Tell mother. Yeah,

it takes a minute to work. Yeah, it takes

a minute.

Hi, Papa. Hello, dude.

Walter?Yes?Haven't given up yet.

Never. Exactly.

You will never catch that one.

You can't hide forever.

Gotcha!

You think?

Hi, Walter.

is this?

No talking.

There was a bridge here. I swear to you,

sir.

Bridges don't like bombs. This means

another 50 miles just to find a way

across.

Why are we stopping in the middle of hell?

They need to throw us over the ravine. I

don't know. That's it. There

used to be a bridge here. They are

taking us somewhere, awaiting orders.

As long as we are on this bus, we are

safe. Safe?

What is safe?

We need some more. Now.

Ohh Let us know.

It's not goodbye, Walter.

You have everything in your suitcase?Yes,

mother, including the extra

toothbrushes you had in my socks. So now

I have three. You can give one to a

soldier whose mother's not so attentive.

It's the right thing at the right time.

And you will come home a hero to

a country that will always be grateful.

Well, I think things might actually be

quieter on the front, huh

Kiss me. Don't be sad.

Susanna...

I'll be now.

You

better stock up on strawberries, little

brother, because I will be home before

you know where to hide.

Let us watch his favourite song. Don't

stop, sweetheart.

I love that song. Why did you stop?I'll

never play it again. Of course you will.

Yeah!

No one listened to Walter's song. No

one cared. Everyone

cares. They're just

swept up in their thoughts with Walter.

I don't know what to do, Marla.

Want to ask me if he

didn't come home from the war?

He said, Tell little brother that I

underlined all the good parts.

You won't need to strawberry, Mama. Yes.

Yes,

you did, my love.

Nearly 100 years,

a century

of excellence in learning

in the service of Unitas,

Veritas,

characters.

100 years.

This lecture's been going on about 100

years. In 1836,

the founders of Union were deeply

impressed by the demands of the world

upon the church, and forged a new vision

for theological education right here

in New York City. Mr. Bonhoeffer,

I'm certain that the German theologians

that sent their star pupil from Berlin

would not want him squandering his time

on small jokes and idle chatter.

Forgive me, Professor.

Inflicting that level of boredom should

absolutely get a man fired. If that

lectures got a man fired at you here, the

seminary would have been empty a long

time ago. I've been here a few weeks

and I feel like I could teach most of

these classes. That's what happens when

you study the word so closely, you forget

there's a God behind them. Then

what brought you here all the way from

Alabama?I didn't come for you, but the

city wish it resides.

New York City.

You know, Dean, not every church has a

steeple.

What is this?This

is jazz. I've

played piano since I was a child, but I

feel like I said I've never heard music.

If

you can play it, come on.

If you had me

or afraid

is always equal.

And you have to get

along with angel

friends.

Just remember this

world how

fates

That's why Pinocchio is the greatest

fiction character ever created. Excuse

me, Mr. Bean. Yes. Mama said this is

supposed to be Sunday school. Oh, this is

Sunday school, just more school on

Sunday, and every day is a day to learn.

I already know what that story means.

Don't lie, or your nose will go like a

snake made out of wood. Not a snake made

out of wood. The lesson is, if you want

to be a real boy, it's a lot harder than

being a puppet. Henry's exactly right.

It's difficult to be a real boy, to tell

the truth, to love,

to have compassion for others. That's

what makes you fully human, but if you

live by love,And you don't want to

lie. You want to be real.

And your strings...

get cut. And you don't get a snake made

out of wood as a nose either. Yes,

that's a side benefit.

We sneaking out early to go hear the

choir again?

Let the church

say amen.

Amen. Green ones have been

coming. And I still can't believe

church can be like this. I take it that

you don't have churches like us in Berlin

Oh not in Berlin or Paris on all of

Europe ohh

God asked us to attend a party to

partake in fellowship love

and sometimes love can be laughed

So where

were you when you first met the Lord man

I don't understand. I'll tell you where I

was. I was playing craps in the alley

in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, losing

money like I could print it at home.

By midnight, I was down 100, and only my

fast feet were gonna save me from the

back end of a jail. So,

I ran. But I found myself not more

than 30 yards from a

Baptist revival tent.

you know who's waiting for me inside?

The Lord. He was in

every lit-up face of the gospel

singers. He was in the salty words of

that traveling preacher. He

was in the sweet loving hands of that

grandmother that led me to my seat.

But it was also in the broken souls of

every liar, cheat, and sinner in that

blessed tent. Because

Jesus

was with his people.

Just like you promised. And

Dietrich, he filled that place so as

to tear at the very seams of that

tent. And he filled me

up to overflow it ever since.

I want that.

Well, it's simple, son.

Taste.

And see that the Lord is good. I know

He's good. But do you know how good?

HmmA man can waste a whole lifetime

saying God is good and

never asking Him to show the fullness

of His glory. Hallelujah.

But hallelujah ain't gonna do all the

work now. And there is so much more work

to be done. That's right. Did you see

that black flag hanging from the building?

Yes. That's what Thomas Shipp, innocent

man, lynched. Three days ago in

Meredith, Indiana.

We may be freeing our souls, but there's

another freedom that we seek, a

God-given freedom.

that man has deigned to take away.

I am so

sorry. We don't need you to be sorry,

Dee. We need you to tell the world.

Yeah, son, you think we invited you just

to show you the good places to eat?

We should take him to South Carolina.

Stevie still wants to hang out with us.

How about South 110th Street?He actually

don't know he a Negro hemp. That's

a brilliant idea. Frank, why don't you

take him on a road trip?

How far do you think we should go?I think

to be safe, let's say, DC.

You can see Lincoln's statue and the

white man's statutes. See which one

speaks louder.

Gotcha again. Olly, olly, oxen, great.

Who's Gossing with the garner?

I know a friend is not as alien as you

predicted. You haven't asked for anything

yet.

Go book a room, pay for it, come get me

after.

Good evening. Um, a room, just for a

night. Probably two dollars.

Two dollars, something. Seems fair.

Let's go see how for now.

No rooms to let. Good night.

Kind sir. My friend just booked a room.

He paid a good $2 and he invited me in.

Oh, whoa, sir, who in hell would

want to be friends with a tar baby like

you?He's my friend. I

have a key.

Sir, by the cross on the wall, I can see

that you're my brother to Christ, as my

friend Frankie is too. surely

our love of the Lord unites us.

I paid for this room, and Frank and I, we

are going to stay in this garage.

How dare you animals

interrupt my quiet evening with

your violence. The

next one comes from the other end

of this gun.

Hey, hey, slow down there. Huge... Were

you rushing to me?I should have told him

that I was off his walk...

I mean, she's hit her. Hold on now,

Dietrich. How many main ads do I have to

save you from?There's always an in at the

end of the search. Always. That much, I

know. Listen to me. Sometimes,

it's just too danger.

I was so embarrassed.

I put you in danger.

No more danger than I face any day.

How could I think it would work simply

because I wanted it to work?It's all

right, D. It's all right.

I could not raise a hand against another

man.

This kind of hate...

takes something stronger than a punch.

Sometimes a punch makes a necessary

noise. And sometimes,

just as useless as spinning the wind.

I'm so fortunate not having anything like

this in Germany. My brother,

hate comes in every color.

Your eyes just haven't been opened yet.

Our host must have a special distaste for

you and me, her Bonhoeffer.

I don't know you.

Dr. Sigmund Raschel, once the first

champion scientist.

And you're Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the

pastor who forgot to love his enemy.

I know why I'm here,

but you here

were his golden child. So if you'll thank

me for studying the Juden's final

moments, to make the choice to

stop a heart, that is my greatest

accomplishment. What

is a life if you

don't comprehend its ending?

Alas, there's no cure for

my fears jealousy.

Jealousy. And it's a little

mistake of not pretending that he was

smarter than I. So for all my

work, I get it

tripped orThe piece of rope.

That's what we all can. I should be

fitted for the crown.

One day.

Our season will have ended.

But it will come again.

No season.

And the glory of God, the

light came

into the world,

and the darkness did not overcome.

The Quran to my friend,

how much light do you see?

Oh, I've just found joy

I'm as happy as a baby boy

With another brand new choo-choo door

Well, I'm with my sweet Lorraine A

pair of vine There

are blue than the summer skies

When you see them, you're in real life

Why I love much need Lorraine

Oh, why I'm so happy When it's

raining I don't miss the sun

Before it's in my sweet smile

And just to think that I am the lucky

one Who will lead her down the

aisle Oh, each night I

prayThat nobody takes

her heart away I can't

wait until that happy day

Well, not very sweet Lorraine

It's all right to clap now. That

music is... It's called

jazz. And it reinvents your ears with

every note. I'm glad you're home,

brother. Chung was empty without you.

Can you tell us one more thing before I

go up?One thing we couldn't imagine about

America. All right. It's this.

In the German church, I was headed into

the dead end of religion.

Father. HmmCan you hear

me?Yeah. I don't want to pursue theology

any longer. Thank God.

Such a fine mind was always too good for

the church. In Haarlem, I finally saw

real faith instead of dead

religion. And now I plan on

teaching the German church all about it.

Wait, the church?But you just said you

were done with religion. I am, as should

be the church. I like that, son.

You're still cocky, trying to teach the

church. They sure could use some damn

instructions at the moment.

The Nazis' rise to power has everyone a

little anxious, Dietrich. The Nazis?

They only got, what was it, 18% in

'30?And that was a mirage.

Well, this year's mirage will double

that. I don't believe that. That's

because you were away while Hitler used

the Mersantri. Do you like his personal

weapon?Every bad thing that ever

happened in Germany landed on the

doorsteps of the Jews and the communists

in there were. Enough working

people begging for bread to believe it.

There's no chance that this loudmouth

from Austria will have fooled enough

Germans by then. But Hitler only has to

fool the Germans who'll come out to vote.

But he's still only one man. If he does

somehow manage to sneak in, we'll vote

him out next time. Just like we did with

Ebert and Simon. See, your mother still

believes in the wisdom of people.

Unfortunately, that's our time as well.

So now it's my fault that Hitler will

become chancellor. Things have changed,

Paula. The country has grown angrier.

The people are falling prey to Hitler's

nationalism and paranoia. And the Nazis

feed off that. They've been systematic,

fighting for every local election, each

tiny hamlet, prying the country from our

hands while few were even watching. And

the church, no doubt, bears some blame.

Oh yeah, Hitler and his new bishop,

Miller. now call it the

Reichskechen, the Church of the Third

Reich. One man cannot change the name of

the whole church. He already has,

Dietrich. I've heard via my office that

the Nazis plan to identify and dispose of

people with mental disabilities. Father,

that can't be true. You...

You speak in nightmares.

Surely rumor and rage cannot win the day.

Unless the day is already lost.

Shouldn't smoke in bed. When

we were little, I used to steal father's

cigarettes and pretend to smoke them up

here. Me too. Never get past one half.

I guess we've graduated.

Remember, we would lie here,

staring at the ceiling, go out to world

and heaven. Yeah.

Every night. For years. Eternity,

eternity. Eternity,

eternity.

Like a song. An invitation.

Eternity, eternity, eternity. It never

worked.

It worked for me once. You never told me.

I didn't want to make you feel bad.

I was wearing his uniform. I

was walking away towards an umbrella.

On a beach.

Took off his hat. And

left it in the sand.

And he walked on. What was the sea?

Must be true what they say about twins.

Aren't you as afraid as I am?

I am

But I don't know why.

Something's coming.

Something unstoppable.

Nothing is unstoppable.

Eternity. Eternity.

Eternity. Eternity. Eternity.

Eternity. Eternity.

What?

Why?

Sabrina. I

can't

Finally, my friends, we

know who we are.

How long have we

waited for this moment,

when we can finally hear

Germany's heart beat again?

At last, we have read

the writing on the walls of

this country's soul.

And the words are,

Chancellor, Argos

Hitler!

Gods and Germany, a prophet,

and more than that,

a true Son of Yar!

Speak what he says about Christ, come the

title. Bless you.

Dilish, everything you needs a moment

to separate. You're in God's

house. And the bishop is celebrating a

man. I don't need time to let it settle.

So that we can solve the great challenges

facing our own people, to combine

our share of power so that we can achieve

this together. All right,

all rightYou don't support Hitler. Many

don't. That doesn't mean that you can

make a destruction. I'm not building an

idol to Hitler inside those walls in real

time. You're exaggerating, Dietrich.

You've been away. Quite a while.

While this man has been building... What?

An army of clergy blinded by... I don't

even know what. This man is without

charm, without character, charisma. He

has captured the nation's imagination,

Liedrich. And our churches have followed

and have been in years. But it's not

about how many bishops. It's about who?

Don't you realize handing a man this kind

of crown will come with a terrible price?

I can't agree. both for

us and those he's so aggressively

targeting, the Jews. Yeah, surely Hitler

will resolve the Jewish question too. Why

must there even be a Jewish question?

This is our national

cathedral.

Dietrich, it has long been our

policy that politics and the church

should not intersect.

Listen. To that applause,

they already have.

What if I speak to Chancellor Hitler?

We both fought in the Great War.

You might listen. They'll tell him the

church does not belong to him, or any

man. It belongs to the living God.

But everything needs to be a fight,

Dietrich. Your heart is

moving faster than your mind. Yeah, speed

matters. If no one warns the German

people, they might think the entire

clergy agrees with Bishop Miller and his

sycophants. I have a pulpit at Kaiser

Willem in two weeks. And Jacobi's

invitation, in fact, that might be the

perfect opportunity to speak up against--

Now, listen closely, young friend.

Everyone will be paying attention,

including this bishop that still remains

your superior. I advise you

recall the words of the English writer

William Shakespeare.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Yeah, I prefer the words of a Jewish

writer. Paul,

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

If you don't take your fear from God,

perhaps you should take it from your

bishop.

I never understood kites.

All this effort and they take you

nowhere. I think the

idea is they

get you to look up. No, my optimistic

son. Everything always

pointing to the sky.

You realize I come for these walls to

take a break from giving out advice,

don't you?I'm sorry.

I can figure it out myself. I'm sure you

already have. I guess I'm just

seeking permission to be brave.

You don't need anyone's permission, son.

You already are.

Thank you. Don't

thank me until after.

AfterAfter whatever is

requiring all this courage in the first

place.

They won't eat you, Didris. At least,

not until after the sun.

Woe to you,

hypocrites, you

whitewashed tools.

Outwardly beautiful,

inwardly full of dead man's bones.

You serpents, you

vipers, how can you

escape damnation?

These violent words are

not my own. They come from the mouth

of our Lord.

And his harshest words

were not for sinners,

but always reserved

for the religious.

Because there has never been anyone in

history who hated religion

more than Jesus Christ.

He never wanted our religion.

All he ever wanted

was us,

our full

selves.

But we, the

German Church, are on the

verge of giving ourselves

to another, of

choosing full pews

over full hearts.

The church should be

a place of refuge, a place of

sanctuary, not a place of

power. The

German church must stand

on God's word alone,

not any man's word, and

especially

not a fewer's word.

Yeah!

Turn with me in scripture to Matthew,

chapter five.

It's been a long time since I've heard

truth as preached for that pulpit. Thank

you. I wish you were preaching every

Sunday. I'd actually get my auto back to

church. What a privilege to be with

you. Oh ohh yes, it was a privilege. One

squandered. But now you have people's

intention, Dietrich. Perhaps that's

everything you've ever wanted.

I'm sorry. If the truth doesn't apologize

for being true, the

truth also separates Mero from Baum.

You're on the other side of those words,

Noel Pietrich. Beware.

You're not standing on the same ground

you were yesterday.

I'm so proud. Just bring it, brother.

Thank you. Bring it. Mama.

Mama. Carriage

needed, son. Carriage

shown. You were

wonderful, son. But it looked like you

were painting a target on your chest with

every single sentence. I knew a target.

And Swastika. Why does there have to be a

target?There were not too many in the

church today. A message like that...

It's not the size of the crowd, but who's

been paying attention?The

members of the church, under Hitler, the

Reichskirche demand the immediate

cessation of the publishing and

dissemination of the Jewish Bible in

Germany. Go order by the Fuhrer!

Mein Fuhrer!

The Christ of the new German Bible

will be Aryan

with no Jewish roots, no Jewish

weakness. The church must

clear away all crucifixes, Bibles,

and images of the saints, and

replace them with our leaders'

glorious words. And it

must be superseded by the only

unconquerable symbol, the swastika!

Matias! Matias!

Matias! You don't think I noticed you

just because you can't dress her?What is

this?I think if you're within

five minutes inside... Hand, hand,

look at her, look at me!This is madness.

This is not a joke if you'd like. I don't

need your hand so it's certainly more

than that. I'm sure you should go back

inside, Pastor. The church youth are now

the Hitler youth, as it should be.

Some problem, you must. Only that this...

I can see you've lost this clock.

You please listen to me. The church, you,

there's no... Costume as the Hitler youth?

I mean, how long until the entire country

is painted black?So what can

we do?Because do something, we must.

It's not what we can do.

It's what you can do.

Sit down, that motherfucker

My every move has been watched since I

gave you that Sunday at Kaiser Willem.

We need someone young who stake the

claim for the truth already. No one's

been interested in speaking to me since

the last time I opened my mouth. You may

not know it, but your servant not only

angered the Nazis, it also galvanized the

whole raft of seminary students and made

you friends in places where they never

even go to church. Good, because more

than the church's life is on the line.

This is a knife

to the heart of the nation. Bravery is a

rare commodity, Dietrich.

Especially when it's needed the most.

Can you rally more than your words to

this course?I'm ready for anything, sir.

I'm about to ask you to save the German

church.

To save him, we'll have to split it

apart. You will go to England

as our spy. Bishop Bell, he's

already waiting. Your job will be

simple. Tell him the truth so he can set

it free. If the river gets any higher,

we're gonna have a second baptism. Now

it's the first day in the month that

hasn't rained in West Sussex. Can you

keep an eye out for Noah?

Thank you for meeting with me. And now

I'm too young to be a messenger for

Germany's worries.

David was a teenager.

Moses was an old man. Ohh God

calls when he calls.

What good is the church if it doesn't

speak for the victims of the state, for

those who have no voice?The

Jews. The Jews?

We cannot stand by while the Jews are

being persecuted. You bring us a problem

of which there is no proof. How do we

know that this is simply not Jewish

propaganda?I have seen the yellow stars,

the violence in the streets.

Hitler has carved them out of society,

left them stateless,

unprotected. So look

me in the eye. and call me

propaganda.

I have secreted myself here to tell you

that the true German church has no

alternative but to break away from the

false church of the Nazis there

Reiske. We need to let the world know

what the Nazis are doing to the Jews.

And if the church does not

speak now,We will

lose our voice for a hundred years. This

is a German problem, not an international

one. Hitler took Germany and her church

without firing a single bullet. How many

would he have to fire at you?But you

speak of bullets when he should be

planning diplomacy. The church's job is

to kindle peace. Peacefully. Oh, you

mean silently?If need be. Our

silence in the face of evil

is itself evil. Not

to speak is to speak. Not

to act is to act.

I agree with Dietrich.

Hitler is a threat to all humanity.

The Church

should be the first to make that

announcement, not

the last.

Now,Dietrich is going to speak

and the Scrivener is going to write, and

unless you have anything to add,

I suggest we all enter a silent period.

We, the Confessing

Church in Germany,

reject the false doctrines of the German

Reichschurch. We

declare that the Church does not belong

to any man, and that it is under the

authority of God alone. The Church is

not merely for its members, but more

vitally for those who are not. God

calls the Church to be the

conscience of the stable,

and where there are victims, to bind up

their wounds. I do hope the Frost doesn't

punish my commissaries. Listen to this,

Bremen. And if the state harms

and oppresses, and for Germany this means

the Jews, then the church must stand

against the state, must put a stick

in the very wheel of the state until it

stops them. Besides, I,

Mr. Bonhoeffer and his merry men, just

did what England are too afraid to do.

What is that, darling?Declare

war on Hitler.

You can't just

kidnap a German citizen up on a German

airport. We think that you're arriving by

Amsterdam. It gave us just enough time to

meet your flight from Belfast. Germany is

no longer safe for you, Oliver. For any

of us. No

worries.