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Excuse me, but this couple...

...who killed themselves...

Why haven't you removed the body?

You want to teach me my job!

Jewish pig.

Go back to your place.

I'm OK.

Maman? Darling.

Is it true we're going to Poland?

It appears so... I don't know.

Papa can't come to see us here.

Perhaps he can...

Have you eaten?

No.

When you don't sleep, you don't eat.

You know, in July there's no need to store firewood.

You've seen?

Yes, it's silly.

As usual.

Are you sure you don't want coffee?

So?

It's not good.

There was an escape last night.

That's great!

Not for those who remain behind.

The Gestapo arrived at the school, and cancelled the children's return.

Departure is imminent.

And another thing...

We've information on the final destination.

There's talk about Poland.

Are Hélène and Anna still at the Préfecture?

No, they returned to the school just before the escape.

Hélène's sick, but it's not serious.

But I think she has a high fever.

They must be got out of there!

No, Albert, it's not possible, we've already spoken...

You said there was an escape. Who escaped?

Only one guy who managed to get his daughter out with a policeman's help.

So you see it's possible. With energy and conviction, anything's possible.

Not since the Gestapo arrived at the school.

There has to be a way... To get them out, even with the Gestapo...

If two guys from the Anti-Jewish Police came for Hélène and Anna...

...under pretext of an investigation...

And by what miracle would your two cops from the Anti-Jewish Police turn up?

With false papers.

But who would go?

Me, disguised, with someone else. We'll find one.

Albert! You're being hunted, it's madness.

It's my wife and my daughter!

Really, you have no chance of coming back.

We can't risk the lives of all our members to serve an individual interest.

All I ask is to let me try. No!

There's no question of it.

I don't take orders from a woman.

I agree with her, Albert.

Get off your bike.

No, no, no, stop. Please, don't be stupid.

Get off the bike!

No! Calm down! I am calm!

I won't stand by with my wife and daughter in SS hands. Get off the bike.

Quick, quick, inside!

Madame Germain.

How's it going, chief?

It's going to be hot, huh. It's beating down right now.

Worse than last month.

All the same it's not bad for the harvest.

Yes. As it rained all week...

Of course.

Madame Germain, have you noticed anything unusual over the last few days?

What do you have in mind?

People looking to hide.

People...?

Jews who escaped from the school at Villeneuve.

Oh, you know, we mind our own business here...

You're alone here?

Oh yes, it's best, with my chickens.

So whose are those trousers?

My husband's. I thought you were a widow?

Yes, I decided to give his things to National Aid, so I'm washing them.

I won't give dirty clothes to the needy.

Ah, I understand. That's good on your part.

If only everyone was like you!

We need to find these two Yids.

The Boches haven't left us alone all morning.

Good hunting, then.

Madame Germain.

OK, you can come out. They won't return.

Excuse me for that earlier.

I can't stand it.

It's already forgotten, Albert.

Speak for yourself.

I have to go and meet Schwartz, and then I'll go to see Victor.

I promise to tell him of your plan. OK? Thank you.

You can wait until I return. We'll surely have some decisions to make.

He was right... I'll hurry.

Maman told me what you'd done to get us out of the school.

And the children trick too.

That touched me.

What children trick?

Well, the false papers for orphans.

She told me you'd saved more than 20.

Are you alright?

Yes, fine.

Rita, I don't know what your mother told you, but...

...I didn't save any children.

To get you out of there, I asked your mother...

...I asked her to give me time.

She gave it to me.

There was no other way to get you out of there.

It's not a fairy tale.

Sometimes there's nothing else to do but try.

Put yourself in my place.

No, thanks.

Seriously, I'd like you to stay with me.

Now?

No, not now. In Villeneuve.

I'll get your mother to Switzerland and you stay with me.

We'll live together.

I could get you papers too. Cast-iron ones.

...that way, you could leave whenever you wanted.

...and then you could go and see your mother in Switzerland, too.

I have a very good contact with one of the cops there.

You could pass across whenever you wanted.

...in either direction.

What do you think?

Just now, nothing.

Yes, but you have to make your mind up quickly.

Because I can't get you out every time.

I'll talk with Maman.

Frankly, I don't know.

Do you know what I suggest?

We make an appointment for 5 o'clock, in the Garden at the same place...

...and then you tell me.

Obviously it's awkward not being able to get out of the car.

How do you manage to get in?

The maid!

Definitely helpful.

Do you have something?

Yes.

Jeannine has new business from Kollwitz. They're lengthening a runway at Volnay...

And they're build anti-aircraft emplacements near the airfield.

Here it is, I've summarised it all.

Thank you. It was nothing.

Raymond...

Your life with Jeannine is none of my business but...

Do you realize the company that bears your name is collaborating more and more...

That's my business.

More and more it ends up being ours!

No?

You finally see, why in the last few months, I've been right not to call you.

Good luck.

Hiding a stateless Jewess in your home at a time like this, Larcher!

You've gone beyond all bounds of common sense!

What's got into you, with all these Jews?

When I think, I helped you with this person!

If I'd known! If Chassagne knew!

The only thing we could do...

Couldn't you have chosen someone else, other than a foreign Jew as mistress?

This woman isn't my mistress.

No man would do what you've done for a woman he wasn't sleeping with!

She's not a family member, at least?

Servier!

Yes, good. With you, I no longer know.

Do you think that Kollwitz could do something?

The Gestapo deals with foreign Jews.

Kollwitz now only handles permits, and manages military supplies.

Do you know someone in the Gestapo?

Larcher, you must lie very low with respect to the Gestapo.

The Police found this stateless Jewess in your house...

I asked Marchetti not to report it...

...but the Germans have informers among us.

There's something you can do...

Forget this girl.

I hope Madame hasn't returned.

Where were you?

Go and close the gate.

I wanted some air.

Driving in your state!

What you want, Jeannine?

First, who was digging in my office yesterday?

Digging?

I brought an important file home, a very important file.

So? And so indeed!

The pages were numbered, and whoever looked at it...

...didn't put them back in the right order.

I don't see what you're saying.

That's it! You take me for an idiot!

Madame... Did you ring for her?

Go and make me a tea.

It was me, Madame, it was me.

I dropped the papers when I was tidying your writing desk...

...while dusting.

You opened the writing desk to dust!

That's strange. Isn't the dust on the outside?

I like to clean everything.

I must have let them slip and collected them up badly.

Yes, I remember, that was it.

Leave it Josephine, a nice try but useless.

You're dismissed.

Go and start packing, I'm giving you a week's notice.

She's got nothing to do with it.

Ah, that's obvious. Go on, hurry up. I want you out of my house within the hour. Go!

You don't have the right to do that.

I do what I want in my own home!

Listen to me carefully. These days I can't be much bothered...

..with your sleeping with your little farm whore, or this one...

Because you're screwing around, yourself.

You're brazen enough to tell me that, after all you've put me through.

In any case I'm warning you. If I discover...

...that you've put the company at risk...

..it will go very badly, Raymond. A word from me or Chassagne and...

...you'll find yourself in jail for fraud and murder. Handicap or no handicap.

I wasn't searching, I was reading. It's still my business.

For how long? There are going to be changes here!

For a start I'm sending Marceau to Paris.

Papa and Aunt will take far better care of him than you.

When ...! I think that you let him leave all alone, the other day!

When do you want to do this?

He'll travel tomorrow.

What about Gustave, who we were supposed to keep until Saturday?

Well, he'll return to his Uncle, that way he can help find food for the Yids.

You're late.

Oh yes, sorry.

A rendezvous of this kind isn't a tryst.

You have to be on time.

Well, hello to you too!

I joined the Resistance over a year ago, so spare me the lesson.

Schwartz can hardly walk, he's the one who was late.

Schwartz is your informant! Raymond Schwartz?

Look, everything is there.

The Volnay airfield will become an important centre. The Luftwaffe...

Your Schwartz should learn to write more clearly.

He doesn't need to, this is a one-off.

The guy isn't...

It's been a year.

I hope that you're no longer...

No.

In any case, this is good work.

Now, I have a question about Crémieux.

We've just learned that his family is going to be transferred to Poland.

Yes, it's very hard for him.

So, I had an idea for getting them out of the school.

Fire away!

Well, we send two guys, with false Anti-Jewish Police papers...

You have such papers?

No, we'd have to make them.

Our cops arrive at the school claiming they're investigating...

...Crémieux.

So they can plan an operation...

...and they ask to take the wife and daughter away for questioning.

Even the Gestapo would let them go.

Is this a joke?

No, it's just an idea.

This is a real woman's idea. It's out of the question.

The two guys are almost certain to be caught, and for what?

To prevent a woman and girl being interned in Poland for a few months.

There's no need to exaggerate.

Albert has given a lot for the movement, OK?

Yes, but like all Jews he dramatizes when it suits him.

Be sure to get the address they're transferred to, so he can write to them.

And then, there you go.

When we've kicked the Boches out, they'll eventually be released.

In any case, congratulations on your Volnay information.

He refused?

Well I'll go, before everyone wonders what became of me.

No, wait, sit down.

But to do nothing!

No, obviously!

But clearly, Victor said... Victor... Victor...!

I only know Albert Crémieux.

So Victor refused the idea of false papers. He didn't forbid doing something.

What do you have in mind?

Take advantage of the fact that Hélène is sick.

The Boches don't care if the kid is sick.

What if they fear it's dangerous for their troops.

What are you thinking of?

Meningitis.

Do you know the symptoms?

Stiff neck, fever...

.. then red spots.

Do you think it's possible to simulate it?

Given she already has a fever and she's clever, yes, maybe.

In July 40 just after the debacle...

...the Boches parked 2,000 POWs in the Monteuil Woods...

There was a case of meningitis in an Indo-Chinese.

They panicked... and the guy was evacuated immediately.

No, but that means leaving Anna there. that's impossible!

OK.

We begin with Hélène, and for Anna...

...for Anna, we'll see.

Your Gendarme who saved your bacon in the cellar.

Would he help you get into the big room?

So?

You're already up!

It's past noon. Anyway I couldn't sleep all night.

Have you any news? I haven't even seen her.

But did they tell you anything?

The Gestapo?

That if I came back to pester them about this Jewess...

...they'd send me to join her. They're monsters, Hortense.

Animals.

And Kollwitz?

He received me very kindly...

...he can do nothing.

Since the escape, the Gestapo have locked up the Jews until the train leaves.

I'm sorry, Daniel.

Not as much I am.

Daniel, if there's anything I can do, tell me.

I think I'll go and get some sleep.

Do you want me to get you something, a herbal tea...

Cancel my appointments. There was an infected abscess.

I don't care.

Wake me at three o'clock. Very well.

And then... Prepare some clothes for Sarah.

Dress, shoes, food that won't spoil...

...and a little money.

I'm going to try to take her some things.

But you just told me that if you went back...

Hortense, I don't want to discuss it with you.

You asked me what you can do, so do what I ask.

Yes?

I've got news about the van.

So?

Well, the Gendarmes say they carried out sacks...

...containing parts of the Linotype machine...

...at the request of Bériot, the Headmaster...

What idiots!

And you're sure it's the same sacks?

Sure... no! But it's the same van.

Two hours later the Boche ran into it with the famous sacks inside.

And what does the railwayman say?

He's no longer in a state to speak.

He said he didn't know Bériot.

So basically, you're not sure about the sacks...

...you're not sure about the van, nor Bériot. Is that it?

I remind you that he's the Headmaster, all the same.

Well, exactly, if he's a Resistant he's a nice catch.

Establish the facts better! I don't know what's..

Pull in a Gendarme if necessary, it's not clear enough.

Do you want to do the interview with me.

No, no, I've something to do.

Earn your salary, old boy. Do the honours for the French State.

Maman! Yes?

Can I ask you a riddle?

Of course.

I'm childless and nameless, who am I.

Can't you guess?

Good.

Step 1, I try to find the Capitaine.

Try to convince him, and if all goes well, come back, and we go in there.

And if they ask me what I'm doing here?

Medical evacuation requested by the Headmaster.

You're a nurse at the Saint Victor Hospital.

You don't know any more.

Can I go on the swing?

You can go there if you want.

Come on, darling.

I'm with the National Police, you've nothing to fear.

No stopping here!

I'm waiting for the Headmaster.

Someone is very sick, a little girl.

No stopping here!

Look it's... Sorry...

We'll go and look for the patient and then come back.

Move the car.

It'll take 5 minutes.

Move the car! Yes, 5 minutes.

Listen, I'm the Headmaster, I have an Ausweis.

It looks very bad.

Following the escape last night, my Gendarme was relieved of his command.

Didn't you mention a Deputy?

He's not here either.

Anyway he's an outright Collaborator.

What we can do!

Come on.

If I insist, perhaps they'll let me enter.

In that case, wait for me in the ambulance.

Monsieur Bériot!

National Police, please follow us.

I have a medical evacuation to carry out.

It will last 5 minutes.

Can't it wait 5 minutes!

No, I'm sorry, come with us.

Madame Germain?

Can I come in?

It's a bit of a mess.

You've come for my husband?

Yes, Lucienne. Don't worry but he's being questioned.

What!

I don't think they've anything definite against him.

Oh my God, this can't be true!

He's been afraid of being arrested since last night.

Lucienne...

Your husband is very resourceful.

I was arrested last year, I was in prison, but got through it.

He'll get out too.

Did the Germans arrest him?

No, no, the French, I'll have news soon.

But for now, the urgent business is Hélène: Hélène Crémieux.

I don't know what we can do.

I thought they were going to be taken to Paris, then Poland.

I need you to get me into the big room.

Me?

Has Jules not spoken to you of his activities?

No.

Well yes, he told me about it yesterday.

Forgive me for asking you this, but...

I was told that, well, you knew a soldier in the barracks?

Is that so?

Am I wrong?

No, no...

He's no longer in Villeneuve.

Yes, but did he have a friend you know a bit better than the others?

To whom you could explain how sick Hélène is.

Very sick...

And that the SS won't let us remove her!

Yes, yes,I know one.

Why didn't you come?

You were supposed to give me an answer.

Not coming was an answer.

What? It means it's over. Is that it?

Is it him?

You'd better go.

Wait, you need papers. At least let me provide you with papers. Please!

Are you proud of yourself?

Maman!

You oblige me to lie to my daughter and then make me look like an idiot.

Telling her everything! I suddenly saw how twisted you were.

Rita, can I talk to you, please. Two minutes alone together.

She's got nothing more to say to you.

She can answer for herself!

What will you do otherwise? Arrest us a second time?

Maman, two minutes. No!

I don't want to follow your advice. Thank you.

Listen

...between you and me,

I don't know what will happen...

If we don't try we can't know.

Maman needs me. I can't leave her alone in Switzerland.

She really needs you?

Yes! Why?

Well, I don't know, but a girl has to support her mother.

Rita, you're 40 years old.

She's epileptic.

If she has an attack and I'm not there, she may stay there.

Yes... does she often have attacks?

I'm Jewish, Jean!

I'm Jewish.

I'm Jewish!

I'm Jewish.

You have to forget me.

Our story isn't possible in the real world.

I thought you liked fairy tales.

I'll prepare two sets of papers for you and your mother.

You can pick them up at the Commissariat, from six o'clock on.

I certainly won't be there when you come by...

Ask for Loriot.

Have you seen this thing?

So?

What do you think of it?

I don't do politics.

However you were a Freemason before the war?

If you say so.

Well we think it was printed in Villeneuve.

Oh!

We arrested a guy in a van on Tuesday night...

...and with the guy there was a printing machine...

...completely dismantled and packed in sacks.

And then there were two other guys with him.

We know who one of them was.

Does the name Albert Crémieux mean anything to you?

Vaguely.

He's the father of a student.

We don't know who the second is, but we'd like to know.

Listen, I've a pile of things to do.

I don't understand what you're accusing me of.

Are you arresting me, or what?

On Tuesday you moved some things from the school cellar.

Maybe, I don't remember.

You even asked the Gendarmes to help you.

I've no recollection.

Was it the Gendarme who told you that?

Do you smoke?

No, thank you.

Come in, Brigadier Morel.

Monsieur Bériot doesn't remember you helped him clear out his cellar.

You're sure you've no chance to see her?

No, I'll just give the suitcase to someone who's promised to pass it to her.

I thought you'd cancelled the appointments.

Yes, of course!

Ah, it's Gustave!

Well my man, what's happened to you?

Did the Schwartz' call?

No.

Marceau's parents quarreled...

...and Marceau has to go to Paris tomorrow.

Oh well, you'll see Marceau again.

Paris is a long way away, but it's not that far.

Hélène's in prison.

Marceau is going.

We don't know where Papa is.

I'm all alone, Uncle.

No, no, Gustave, you're not alone.

However it's unbelievable, sending you back to us like this.

The Schwartz woman, really!

Come on, let's go.

Perhaps I should go and take the things?

What are you talking about?

You told me you'd no chance to see Sarah...

...so what difference does it make if it's me?

Take care of Gustave, give him something to eat.

I'll change and take her things, it's not complicated.

What should I do?

She's a little girl. She's in the camp.

I can do nothing for Jews.

But she's sick. She won't be able to make the trip to Paris.

And most important, she's contagious!

What is she sick with?

Meningitis.

Do you know what that is?

Yes, but have you seen her?

Have you examined her yourself?

No....not me.

The Capitaine of Gendarmes had her examined...

...and requested her evacuation, but as he's no longer here...

You have a document?

An Evacuation Order? No, unfortunately.

They probably didn't have time to fill one out before leaving.

Herbert, she is really sick!

You remember, she's the small girl who's good at the violin.

You gave her a lesson in May.

Ah yes, Hélène? Yes.

Hélène.

I beg you.

What was in those sacks?

I've told you, rubble.

It seemed rather metallic.

You didn't carry them.

Ask his superior, Capitaine Garin, if it was rubble.

Garin has already returned to Besançon.

I'm sure he knows.

Anyway we can soon check, the Fritz' have given us the sacks from the van.

Since we arrested their Jews, they refuse us nothing.

He's going to recognise the sacks.

I don't know what you mean.

If you keep on taking us for idiots, we'll tire and pass you to the Gestapo.

What's he doing here?

He's my witness.

Get him out of here.

Wait, he's on the point of... Get him out of here!

I don't want this asshole in my Commissariat, is that clear!

Out!

Get out!

Ah, the French police are beautiful!

I'm warning you, I'll make a report

Well, make a report. My name's Marchetti, M A R C H E double T I.

...but you know it, you've already made a report.

So what do you have on him?

Well, almost nothing, now!

You just fuck everything up.

It's unfortunate to annoy an honest citizen!

I'm really not in the mood to hear this kind of bullshit today.

Pick him up.

So, Monsieur Bériot...

...tell me... heads or tails?

I don't understand.

Do I have to choose for you?

Heads.

Well, it's heads. Bravo, Monsieur Bériot.

You can go. Come on, hurry, hurry!

I don't want to see him any more.

Hey wait, I don't believe you.

You demand results and then you... What happened to you?

Listen, the important thing, is not to arrest people, OK?

Either you know for sure, or you watch them. That's what.

Good. In the meantime prepare me two passes for Switzerland.

The Consular type, and leave the name spaces blank.

What will you do with Hélène if you get her out?

Don't you worry.

No, it's because she could come to live with me.

She trusts me.

We need to get her out of here as soon as possible.

You can come in, but you can't remove the child.

Oh, why?

No Jew can leave unless a German military doctor sees them...

...and signs a discharge. I'm sorry.

I'm going to try and treat her, and then we'll see.

Thank you Madame Bériot.

Come on.

Here she is.

Very well, you can enter.

Madame Morhange?

Oh, Marie.

What are you doing here?

Like everyone else here, I'm waiting for my train.

But weren't you in Paris with Monsieur de Kervern?

Yes, now I'm here, waiting for my train.

But what are you doing here?

Looking for Madame Crémieux and daughter.

Are you a nurse now?

No, I'll explain.

Ah yes, they're in the small room down there.

She's trying the get the little one to sleep.

She's coughed a lot. Is there a doctor here?

There's just an arsehole that measures skulls, somewhere...

We chased him out, but he came back.

Thank you.

Madame Crémieux?

Yes.

Excuse me.

I must be alone with the little one. Thank you.

I come from your husband.

How is he?

Safe and well.

Are you really a nurse?

No, I'm here to get your daughter out.

She's sick.

Precisely, this is our chance.

She could simulate meningitis. Meningitis?

She has a fever, I have lipstick to make spots.

We just need to explain the stiff neck to her.

Where will you take her?

Close to your husband.

It's too dangerous.

Madame Crémieux!

He's wanted by the police, he can never take care of her.

Forgive me telling you this, but you can't either.

As long as we stay together, it will be fine.

But you're not going to stay together.

They removed the children, they'll remove Hélène.

It could happen anytime.

I was told I could keep her until we get to Poland.

Anyway, I no longer have confidence in Albert.

He said that I risked nothing, Hélène risked nothing, and look...

If we can get her out of here...

...I think she'll risk less than if she stays.

What's he thinking of doing?

Getting her into Switzerland.

How could he do for Hélène what he couldn't do for me?

Because she's French.

Madame Crémieux...

I have two boys...

Who I'd like to keep near me, but...

...my clandestine life prevents it.

There comes a time when you must choose between...

...the safety of your child, and your own present well-being.

Present!

You have to decide quickly. I'm taking a big risk being here.

If you were in my place, what would you do?

Honestly.

Honestly? ... I don't know.

Honestly? ... I don't know.

Wake up, darling.

Wake up.

Hey, you're a specimen!

Docteur...

...we have a big problem with a girl next door.

I'm busy, Mademoiselle, and I haven't practised for years.

Excuse me, Monsieur.

I would like to talk to the doctor.

I think she has meningitis.

Any guy who caught, it could die.

Let's go and see.

Show me your wrist, my dear.

Raging fever.

Now straighten up and tilt your head backward, forward.

Like when nodding your head.

I can't do it, my neck's too painful.

What does she have Docteur?

He says it's meningitis.

I'll check her retinal sensitivity.

Good Heavens!

The rash.

Its acute. Above all don't touch her. She must be evacuated immediately.

I'm telling you it's meningitis.

It's a contagious and deadly disease.

Do you understand French?

But the Gestapo....

...demanded that no Jew leave the camp. Are you sure?

I'm a member of the Institute, Monsieur.

An expert from the Office of the Commissioner for Jewish Affairs.

Do you want to provoke a riot?

Go ahead.

But return to sign a waiver for me.

Where is your ambulance?

Behind there, in the street.

I'll accompany her.

I'll be back to sign whatever you want.

The Boches don't want us to turn contagious Jews over to them.

Go, go, move along.

Go, go on.

She's sick.

How are you?

Shes fine to go.

Wait!

Come with me!

Alarm!

A Jewess is trying to escape.

Which way did they go?

That way!

Subtitles by Rod Clarke. Whitby, Ont. March 2014.