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The story of this film is based on the actual events - so called around the M�hlviertler Hasenjagd (rabbit chase)

January 1945, Mauthausen In block N20, 500 Officers of the Red Army were doomed to death The prisoners were deported to Mauthausen because they had refused to to fight on the side of German army.

Get up! Get up. Go! On! Get out!

Mikhail, Mikhail, get up!

(Russian) In one month, the block 20 will be completely annihilated

Strasser

In single file!

(Russian) Hey! Now! Comrades ...

... Da, da, da, And world is full of dangers... [from 'Wildg�nse rauschen durch die Nacht' song] Cheers mates!

Cheers! Cheers!

(Russian) Quiet! Quiet!

Friends, to run from this hell...

That is no good

Who knows, maybe the war is over at last...

Fredl, what happens? Are you ready?

Yes, yes. I'm coming.

Volkssturm rally

This time you can't avoid

Up until now other people risked their neck for you

You can go, I'll find the only myself...

Mitzi is still sleeping?

What's going on? There is no fire

Who raised an alarm?

Is the war?

They shot wildly. That comes from Mauthausen

Tonight from the Mauthausen camp

five hundred criminals have broken out.

They have fled to the north, So also in this area.

All available men of the Volkssturm...

...Wehrmacht soldiers absent on leave, firefighters, police and Hitler Youth...

have to participate in the search!

In no case the prisoners can be harbored

The offenders will be liquidated on the spot.

Arm yourselves. �rtsgruppenobmann! [The head of the local NS organization)

Yes, sir!

Here is the division, break them down into search parties.

People! Take no prisoners. Do away with them!

I will be very disappointed to have prisoners

Bravo! Quite right.

You're the policeman. You must protect us from these criminals!

Leave me alone!

Adam, you go with them: I need somebody reliable there.

These criminals did nothing wrong to me

Be careful, keep a watch on your tongue

I cannot carry a gun, I have a sciatica

You go with them!

You know what you have to do ...

Well, then let's go!

We see and hear nobody

And we have nothing to do with captured...

Is that clear?

Fredl, why don't you help us?

Why are you standing here? Let's go!

I'm useless for you, I can't see anything

you can't rely on this man!

I must add you where there are couple of strong, reliable men.

That's already done.

So what's wrong then?

I'll buy a bottle of schnapps for each who...

So, now it's your turn!

My fingers are itchy!

You! There is no fun...

We hunt them like rabbits!

What are you doing with the potatoes?

If anyone comes along ...

Stay at home, today's bad time for going out!

As long as our boys at war, I'll go to church every day!

Do you think the little girl should see this...

(Russian) What are you doing! Go away from there!

It's useless, we will not survive

There!

Hi!

They will pay us for that!

I am not a KZ, I am one of you.

fifty-four, fifty-five,, fifty-six fifty-seven ...

Father, it's so awful

Fredl, be a man!

I see nothing anyway

Do not leave the house today,

and do not let in anybody!

what if somebody needs us?

We have nothing to do with this matter - from whatever side.

Bolt a bar on the door. Keep the door closed!

and if anybody ask, tell that the father is in the sawmill

Lock it properly!

Is anyone thirsty?

Yes, always

There's Most [local drink]!

Aah

What a swine am I!

Here one is running there!

What do we do with him?

As it was said: shoot immediately

You can't wait to do it?

Do not shoot, please, please

Do it yourself, if you said it

We'll take him to the SS they are already doing this

You two bring him there

Go!

Alarm!

Alarm! Three men are running there! Alarm!

In the East last weeks a fierce battle for Germany is going on

It demands from soldiers and German people

largest sacrifices seen in history

At every point of battle-front the enymy

has to deal with our infantry.

In difficult conditions, thousands of people have to leave their homes and belongings

and escape the Mongol invasion to the West.

Through the Eastern German cities go the caravans of refugees

and groups of Soviet prisoners.

(Russian) There is no sense anymore.

It does not matter how they kill us

Beat us to the death

or killed in the gas chamber or kill at the front

That's just propaganda

We know that it will end soon

She is a Ukrainian

Don't worry, we'll do nothing bad to you.

We are compatriots. You have to help us. Can you hide us well?

There is no safe place here

I love you

He will let no one go

Thank you!

Moment! He needs shoes

Whom do we have here?

Why is he not already dead?

Come

In the neck

You cannot imagine this

I won't participate in this anymore

I won't go to this hunt, never again.

You will!

or you want them to send you to the front?

They can do with me whatever they want. I will not go there anymore

You know how they call it?

Rabbit hunt!

Pssst! Hei, Pssst!

Psst!

Hey, Psst! Sssss!

Nikolai!

Hei!

ssssst

(Russian) She hurted me!

Yes, let's go from here

It is a good opportunity to run from here

Ou!

we need to disappear..

Up there, there is an open field there

We need to leave the village I'll go there, I'll go there!

Andrei! Go with us, Andrei!

Andrei! Andrej Oh!

Come on! Let's go! we go!

Get up, get up!

41, 42, 43, 44, 45

46, 47 ..

forty-eight ...

(Russian) Leave me here, let me lie here

While we are alive and on feet, We must run

We have to go

such nice houses, but only Nazis and Fascists

we must knock on one of these houses, otherwise we will not survive

We need help

Help or death. My heart says: "this house there"

If they arrest you, let me know, cry out, so I can run away

Yes

Be ready, father, we are already late

I Ukraine, interpreter Linz

go back to Ukraine

I already know who you are

You need not fear

My God, what a sight you are!

What do they do to you?

Please eat

Come on!

No fascists?

You need not be afraid

My own five boys are at war

I want them all to come home again

and you also have a mother who wants you back home

Please mother, please help

You have heard it

I have heard what

You've heard it right

Is there one?

Yes

One has arrived

Father, please don't anything to him, we'll keep him

If the SS finds him with us

then they will put us all against the wall

if the Lord wills, we'll get through it

You want to feed him as well?

We should not ask this:

if all our boys would be at home they would also need...

That won't do!

That won't do!

Father, a day or two at least. Until the hunt is over.

Do what you want.

You do what you want anyway

But then you take also all the responsibility

for all of us

You need not be afraid, I will not hurt you

You can stay

Sit down, eat!

Where is your friend?

Do not know, do not know. Forest walk

Tell me, where is your friend

Perhaps hay, sleep a comrade

There is one in the hay

Have you taken decision

It will be all right

They will arrest all of us!

Should we send them away?

This is for you and for your comrades

Nikolai!

Nikolai!

(Russian) Everything is fine

We are safe. I have soup for you

Nkolai, Nikolai, Nikolai?

Later, Nikolai is tired

Are you ready? Then we go

We have yet a lot to finish off. Now they come to us

You should kill them immediately, these criminals

I've got nothing to finish off, I won't join you, get lost!

Berghammer, wait! Fredl will go now

Fredl!

You have to go, I beg you

I'm tired, I just want to sleep more

Please u go now! It is not only about you anymore.

You must not participate, yes you can pretend

What happen?

Volkssturm

Comrades kaput?

Fredl not!

But today nothing is going on

Yesterday I caught two

Braggart!

Well Fredl, you've already done one?

Did you ever come across one?

They are not guilty in anything

if they take something it's just food and clothes

There!

Stay there!

Stay there! Let them run

I caught one!

You guys are crazy. You do not know what you're doing

Anything else?

If you had a piece of fabric for Adi? He needs a new pair of pants

At the moment, unfortunately, no. People should sacrifice Only after the victory

Victory?

Yes, yes. It will be soon

Why don't you fight at the front then?

You know that I have a weak heart

They're just too fainthearted!

Mummy, what do they do there?

Rabbit hunt ...

Go! Get out!

What do you do with them?

If you're too fainthearted!

Who gives you the right for?

Take no prisoners, it was said. Go!

Enough is enough!

Get out!

Down!

(Russian) What are you doing?

twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine ...

Mikhail, Nikolai!

Food.

Good morning

Good morning

Why KZ, why camp?

We were captured in war, in the camp they say...

You've got to fight for German Army

I say nyet, I will not betray my country

We came to this camp

Go quietly!

Do you go to church now?

Good morning

Is something going on up there?

Good morning

Now it's over, it's over with us. What do we do, father?

Shut up!

There are dishes in hayloft. If somebody would find the dishes...

Nani.Nani! you have to run back, tell the Mitzi, they should hide well

and clear the dishes. Come on, run!

Kid! Does anybody else live there?

The Lord gives us freedom

and we provide evidence of what man is capable of

For good, or for evil

Does not it mean that a man is capable to sympathize with his neighbor?

Is it only the cowardice that permits no mercy?

I can't recognize many of our parish anymore

Amen.

God bless you

I believe in God the Father Almighty

Creator of heaven and earth ...

Nani!

Nani, what is there looking for?

Come on! They should not see you.

Not even animals are treated like this

have you seen anybody?

At our place there was nobody

Go on, we should be ready, when mom comes

Search! Search! Search!

Mikhail, Nikolai?

Tell him he must go. The Volkssturm is coming. Bang bang, bang!

You must go. The Volkssturm comes and shoots you.

Tell them I want a cigarette and something to write.

He wants something to write and a cigarette.

He must hurry, then he has a chance

Faster!

Please go, it's dangerous for us

You should go, they are afraid!

Give this to my mother, when you come home

Except food anything else was stolen?

Clothing and shoes

What were they exactly?

A jacket of mine

Where did he go?

We have not seen anyone

and the tracks that go from here? Why are you not in search group?

I am on duty, I write down the thefts.

You should help us catch the criminals!

There he is, go!

Get up! Take it off!

Take his clothes

Please hide

I can not help you, It won't do.

I'm pissed off, I'm cold

You have no idea how it was in Russia

You can go on, I need to piss

Let him go, he has done you nothing

Eat or be eaten. So it is in the nature

But we are humans

And? He shot to us too. Now we are the stronger

Look at him! Have you no mercy at all?

We all must die one day

and you decide when?

He has done nothing

That is very bad!

Very good, one more...

You kill him!

Leave the boy out of this game

I can not, and I do not

Come back here, the heads are attached weakly

He's a coward!

What did he ever do to you!

What a milksop you are

Arrest this man. Take him to the Gestapo office in Linz!

what do you accuse him of?

Arrest this man!

A pig!

He should be home already

When it is dark, they can no longer search

I felt that something should go wrong

Look, there he is

Hello!

You do not need to be afraid of me. We know each other long enough.

Since you're back from the hospital, you became quite a different

A person to be scary of, and not to be happy with

Why did I come after all...

Fredl has been arrested by the SS.

But why?

What has he done?

He thought he must not participate

What do we do now?

I must be in the Gestapo in Linz, tomorrow early morning

And what will be with those two?

Again, nobody is allowed to come along with me a living person.

Slay them wherever you find them, stab them, strangle them,

hanged them or for Christ's sake shoot them

But dont'bring me a living one!

Everything should be searched again!

Every hayloft, every barn

They are always in twos or threes, and they hide everywhere

Therefore, every henhouse, every winecellar,

every attic should be searched again

I want to get them all. No one may survive!

Go!

I have found noone in the Gestapo who is responsible for you

Close your mouth and don't even blink

Otherwise we both are lost!

Thank you!

get lost at last

Stay here!

We have to go, it is too dangegous for you

This does not make sense, it does make Fredl come back

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hello, is someone there?

Hello?

Fredl?

Fredl!

Why are you there?

Why not?

They want to go

Thank you!

Thank you

That's out of the question. You stay here...

Fredl can't stay here, it's too dangerous

He must be hiding somewhere else

At least one night

I must...

Hey, what?

stay here! Wait!

Greetings to him, he should hide you until everything is over here

Look out!

The SS comes!

Come in! Do you want something to eat?

Heil Hilter!

Sit still!

God bless to everyone!

God bless! God bless!

Mom, I think they are thirsty

And hungry?

Psst

Do you want something to eat?

Hasso, seat!

So! take it!

So much food! But it wasn't necessarily

Enjoy your meal!

That is what I agree with, a good meal!

I think I'm gonna look around the house

don't be so gloomy

Of course you get something too.

A good dog

I guess you should have them all by now?

A couple of them are still missing

(From the Radio) The Battle of Vienna is in full swing.

In the north, the Soviets captured Klosterneuburg

And they firmly hold the southern M�dling

Hide yourself up!

There's someone here!

Why are you here?

It is too dangerous for to hide me He is not brave enough.

I'd have guessed, only one time in life when we need him...

My God, and we thought God knows who is coming

You are so diligent, herr Lehmberger

Yes, yes! We should not let down, not now

Your I.D.?

Nix, card lost

(Russian) prekrasnij den, a beautiful day

prekrasnij den

prekrasnij den

prekrasnij den

how to say "girl" in Russian?

What? Girl. Mitzi Girl

Ah! Dewushka

Dewushka?

Dewushka!

Dewushka

Dewushka

Dewushka

Eh time has come at last when you are back!

I always wanted to see, how you do it.

Hello Mitzi, you are always hardworking

And you have time to walk?

Whom do you there?

I wish I hide one there, because I have one at war

Whom do you want to have?

You ask, stupid! A man of course

Why do not you look at me?

because I only have one hand?

Ah, go!

Hello, neighbor

Hello, Berghammer

Say, whom has Mitzi in the barn?

Whom do you mean?

Ah, that one!

Father brought one from the factory, for helping

Aha! You haven't said that

What is between them two?

How did that come into your mind?

She behaves like...

She does?

The mother heard something bad yesterday.

The front is already in Lower Austria

Heil Hitler!

Good day! What's up?

Only you are here?

Mhm

And the chief?

He has to bring away a few things

I want to make a denunciation

Yes, I am responsible for this.

At Karner's place there is a person. I think he is one that left after the rabbit hunt

a concentration camp inmate

I'll handle this. Anything else?

So, out, guys, quick!

The war is over, the war is over.

You're happy, right?

I'm glad it's over

Lehmberger!

Lehmberger!

He shot seven, he told that himself in the inn!

Lehmberger?

Let's go!

Mitzi, I will stay with you forever, if you want

You've got to go home, Mikhail, to your mother

So! Take a seat please

Come, come. Back together! Here you go ...

Yes!

Wonderful!

We're ready

Yes!

Smile please!

People smile on photo, it is modern

There is no dignity. It's stupid

In America, everyone smiles when making photos

We do not smile

9 of the 500 prisoners that were in so called "M�hlviertler rabbit hunt" survived. Mikhail and Nikolai returned to their homes and are still living in the former Soviet Union.