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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:14,498 --> 00:00:19,894 THE CONFESSION 2 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,000 -Are they back? -No, no. 3 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:27,271 -Is it one of your cars? -It's not my Service's 4 00:03:27,852 --> 00:03:30,793 I don't handle important figures. 5 00:03:30,863 --> 00:03:33,929 You're being followed, that's for sure. 6 00:03:34,811 --> 00:03:38,590 It must be his Services. There must be an explanation. 7 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:42,391 One can't say they are being cautious 8 00:03:43,026 --> 00:03:45,965 Why are you doing this? What do you want? 9 00:03:45,970 --> 00:03:48,190 Let's start again 10 00:03:48,288 --> 00:03:50,132 -Since when? -Three days 11 00:03:51,059 --> 00:03:53,931 -Are you sure? -There they are. 12 00:03:55,195 --> 00:03:57,105 Good. Let's see. 13 00:04:09,276 --> 00:04:11,326 What makes you think it is a security car? 14 00:04:11,562 --> 00:04:14,344 If it is not, then you should take measures to protect me. 15 00:04:14,506 --> 00:04:18,847 I have rights. Here, the plates of the cars that followed me. 16 00:04:21,009 --> 00:04:23,975 Find Pavel. 17 00:04:24,036 --> 00:04:29,108 You forget the comrades. If they point to me, they point to you. 18 00:04:29,201 --> 00:04:32,826 And every other Spain veteran. I'm sick of it 19 00:04:32,992 --> 00:04:35,000 Why not face me with No�l Field? 20 00:04:35,016 --> 00:04:38,671 I know very well that he is under arrest in Hungary. 21 00:04:39,063 --> 00:04:40,965 Yes! 22 00:04:53,434 --> 00:04:58,548 Who is behind this? They are after the veterans. 23 00:04:58,622 --> 00:05:00,966 Those who went to France or London. 24 00:05:01,030 --> 00:05:02,819 ...during the occupation. 25 00:05:03,182 --> 00:05:05,512 You think you'll escape because you are in security? 26 00:05:08,052 --> 00:05:11,580 Loebl, Pavlik, Feigl were also in high places. 27 00:05:11,747 --> 00:05:16,028 And they are all in jail. The Vice-minister of security... 28 00:05:16,066 --> 00:05:18,131 ...is at the Party School, as a pupil. 29 00:05:18,146 --> 00:05:24,180 Otto has lost his job. Today it's me. And tomorrow? 30 00:05:27,193 --> 00:05:29,134 Whose turn will it be? 31 00:05:30,005 --> 00:05:32,133 Are they security cars? 32 00:05:33,730 --> 00:05:37,323 You don't know what goes on in your job. Control the orders. 33 00:05:37,490 --> 00:05:40,213 If they come from whom I think they do it could be dangerous. 34 00:05:41,378 --> 00:05:43,299 -Aren't they aware? -Better this way. 35 00:05:43,329 --> 00:05:46,882 Why not? It affects them. 36 00:05:49,313 --> 00:05:53,248 -Did you come together? -No. We coincided -Oh, yes? 37 00:05:53,401 --> 00:05:56,122 When we are watching veterans there are no coincidences. 38 00:05:56,144 --> 00:06:00,835 -It looks like a brigades� meeting. -"Watch"... 39 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,998 There are problems. But nobody is watching me. 40 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,922 You lost your job. Sling is in jail. 41 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,486 Me, at the Party's School they teach me dialectics. 42 00:06:10,655 --> 00:06:13,142 The positive and negative. The deepening of the class... 43 00:06:13,214 --> 00:06:15,318 ...struggle, as socialism is built. 44 00:06:15,661 --> 00:06:20,833 The vice-minister is being followed, and the security chief doesn't know about it. 45 00:06:21,098 --> 00:06:23,267 The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot. 46 00:06:25,129 --> 00:06:28,178 Renounce, leave your job, do your self-criticism. 47 00:06:28,195 --> 00:06:31,805 They won't accept my renunciation and I'm kept from everything. 48 00:06:32,015 --> 00:06:35,638 -Type this for the Department Chiefs meeting -But... 49 00:06:35,703 --> 00:06:37,965 ... the meeting was this morning. 50 00:06:40,010 --> 00:06:42,952 What's this supposed to mean? 51 00:06:43,018 --> 00:06:47,880 -The Minister said it wasn't necessary you came -The believed him. 52 00:06:48,051 --> 00:06:53,439 G�rard, I no longer believe anything. I wonder where will we end up. 53 00:06:54,010 --> 00:06:58,392 The Party decides and clears up misunderstandings. It's obvious. 54 00:06:59,141 --> 00:07:02,255 -Unless it comes from further up. -I thought it was about Field. 55 00:07:02,416 --> 00:07:06,190 The secretariat told me it's not about him. Bederich said:... 56 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,865 The Field case is finished. The Secretary General... 57 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,097 The meeting is useless. 58 00:07:14,703 --> 00:07:18,360 But G�rard insists. It's important for him. 59 00:07:24,187 --> 00:07:27,123 He has a lot of work. He will call you. 60 00:07:27,437 --> 00:07:29,260 As for the Party, all cleared. 61 00:07:30,022 --> 00:07:33,519 You know how security works. It's a grave situation. 62 00:07:33,684 --> 00:07:39,237 But you have friends there. You are in charge of security. 63 00:07:40,405 --> 00:07:45,477 He has problems too. He knew No�l Field as well. 64 00:07:46,248 --> 00:07:48,583 We will have our own processes. 65 00:07:48,719 --> 00:07:52,344 -No, the circumstances are different. -They are the same. 66 00:07:53,046 --> 00:07:57,936 We shall find the spies and traitors in our country. 67 00:07:58,054 --> 00:08:01,094 Did you speak with my successor? The new Minister. 68 00:08:02,021 --> 00:08:03,977 That's what he thinks. 69 00:08:04,404 --> 00:08:06,535 You have a terrible record. 70 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:08,075 This matter is not done with. 71 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,154 Ramifications everywhere: Poland, Germany... 72 00:08:12,242 --> 00:08:18,143 You should see him. 73 00:08:18,213 --> 00:08:19,484 Come. They won't believe we met... 74 00:08:19,501 --> 00:08:21,918 ...to remember Spain. 75 00:08:25,583 --> 00:08:27,372 We already feel guilty, don't we? 76 00:08:29,043 --> 00:08:30,010 Don't forget. 77 00:08:37,076 --> 00:08:39,823 They are still waiting. I'll ask the minister to see you. 78 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,836 I'm with G�rard, he wants to talk to you. He's very worried. 79 00:08:49,950 --> 00:08:54,620 Tell him to come tomorrow. Since that business with Field he's been falling lower. 80 00:08:54,706 --> 00:08:58,767 Many comrades were with Field during the occupation. 81 00:08:58,968 --> 00:09:01,868 -The Party knows it. -We weren't able to see the enemy. 82 00:09:02,019 --> 00:09:05,299 Treason and death are part of the Revolution. 83 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:07,249 We knew it. 84 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:10,928 Now it's our turn to taste treason and death... 85 00:09:10,996 --> 00:09:14,219 ...so that the Revolution can go on. That's the important thing: That it goes on. 86 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,891 Even if we must die. 87 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:21,968 Go see him tomorrow. 88 00:09:24,437 --> 00:09:28,888 -What else is there to do? -Nothing. Trust the Party. 89 00:09:35,078 --> 00:09:37,336 Who is it? 90 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:40,963 Are you the Frenchwoman? Soon your husband will hang. 91 00:09:40,990 --> 00:09:42,136 What is it? 92 00:09:43,305 --> 00:09:45,280 Nothing. Wrong number. 93 00:11:03,609 --> 00:11:05,845 Who are you? What do you want? 94 00:11:06,809 --> 00:11:08,263 Let me go! Let me go! 95 00:12:31,065 --> 00:12:33,123 The handcuffs. 96 00:12:42,288 --> 00:12:43,694 I want to see the Party member in charge. 97 00:12:43,855 --> 00:12:45,612 Shut up. You can ask for nothing. 98 00:12:47,783 --> 00:12:50,848 -Who are you? I demand to see... -Shut up! 99 00:12:52,014 --> 00:12:54,869 Undress him. 100 00:13:28,725 --> 00:13:30,933 Put it on. 101 00:13:57,002 --> 00:13:59,796 Bills, odd papers... 102 00:14:00,866 --> 00:14:02,584 Pen... 103 00:14:02,693 --> 00:14:08,969 Watch, keys... 104 00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:12,620 Wedding ring... 105 00:14:15,088 --> 00:14:17,017 Wallet... 106 00:14:17,491 --> 00:14:21,858 -350 crowns... -350... 107 00:14:24,163 --> 00:14:28,901 -Party card. -cards... 108 00:14:29,531 --> 00:14:31,448 Family photos. 109 00:14:36,073 --> 00:14:38,651 Here is the Frenchwoman. 110 00:14:38,665 --> 00:14:41,781 -tell my family . -She'll think you fled. 111 00:14:48,145 --> 00:14:50,933 Darex bonds 112 00:14:52,005 --> 00:14:55,197 Worth 1200 crowns. 113 00:14:55,248 --> 00:14:58,109 Special business, like foreign diplomats... 114 00:14:58,278 --> 00:15:02,194 ...while we sacrificed ourselves to build socialism... 115 00:15:02,256 --> 00:15:05,525 ...you lived like a bourgeois. 116 00:15:10,687 --> 00:15:12,988 Leave that! 117 00:15:14,151 --> 00:15:17,355 You number is 3225. 118 00:15:17,418 --> 00:15:19,250 Do not forget it. 119 00:16:00,086 --> 00:16:02,274 Walk! 120 00:16:08,493 --> 00:16:13,340 You are not allowed to sit down! Not allowed to stay put! Walk! 121 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,638 Walk! 122 00:16:39,045 --> 00:16:41,393 Walk! 123 00:16:48,728 --> 00:16:50,572 The Party is always right. 124 00:16:50,643 --> 00:16:53,939 There's a misunderstanding. Everything will be cleared up. You must... 125 00:16:53,986 --> 00:16:56,993 ...submit to the rules to prove your good faith. 126 00:17:08,033 --> 00:17:10,531 Stop walking, and we'll smash your face! 127 00:17:24,697 --> 00:17:26,138 Walk! 128 00:17:34,805 --> 00:17:36,120 Walk! 129 00:17:47,508 --> 00:17:49,421 The soup. 130 00:17:53,627 --> 00:17:55,768 He's not entitled to it. 131 00:17:57,638 --> 00:17:59,873 Walk! 132 00:18:05,186 --> 00:18:07,692 Have you seen G�rard today? 133 00:18:08,017 --> 00:18:10,090 Oh, he didn't go? 134 00:18:29,158 --> 00:18:31,346 Have you seen G�rard today? 135 00:18:33,497 --> 00:18:34,090 Oh, he didn't go? 136 00:18:35,504 --> 00:18:36,783 Is Ossik there? 137 00:18:36,848 --> 00:18:40,022 Thank you. Excuse me. 138 00:18:43,523 --> 00:18:46,423 -This is a search. -What's this about? 139 00:18:48,984 --> 00:18:52,260 What's this about? Not there. That's where the children sleep. 140 00:18:52,327 --> 00:18:53,301 What is the meaning of this? 141 00:18:53,326 --> 00:18:57,559 -We have orders to search. -Search? 142 00:18:57,796 --> 00:19:00,091 I have a direct line with the Central Committee. 143 00:19:00,144 --> 00:19:04,764 I shall call the Secretary General. Let's see what he says. 144 00:19:13,931 --> 00:19:16,648 -Do you have a warrant? -We don't need one. 145 00:19:16,844 --> 00:19:19,021 I've told you: we have orders to search. 146 00:19:19,188 --> 00:19:22,772 I tell you: I won't let you. 147 00:19:40,675 --> 00:19:42,814 Mother, go to bed. 148 00:19:46,509 --> 00:19:48,591 Stay, madam. 149 00:20:05,658 --> 00:20:08,403 He's my elderly son. 150 00:20:08,689 --> 00:20:12,886 He was born in jail, in France, in La Roquette 151 00:20:13,304 --> 00:20:16,112 -A jail in Paris -Why were you arrested? 152 00:20:16,129 --> 00:20:18,786 Because in '42 the Germans arrested the communists. 153 00:20:19,592 --> 00:20:24,380 I was sentenced to death. They didn't kill me because I was pregnant. 154 00:20:24,503 --> 00:20:27,478 -Were you in jail for long? -I was deported to Ravensbr�ck. 155 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,735 My son is France's youngest political prisoner. 156 00:20:32,836 --> 00:20:35,036 My husband was sent to Mathausen. 157 00:20:35,430 --> 00:20:37,951 NN. Night and fog. Ever heard of it? 158 00:20:42,622 --> 00:20:45,865 Those are photos of my husband in the Spanish Civil War and in... 159 00:20:45,929 --> 00:20:48,417 ...France, during the Resistance. 160 00:20:51,037 --> 00:20:53,109 Please, my daughter is here. Put that away. 161 00:20:53,558 --> 00:20:55,576 Hello dear. 162 00:20:56,741 --> 00:21:00,122 -Where's daddy? -He'll be right back. These are friends from the Ministry. 163 00:21:00,953 --> 00:21:03,610 -Did you have fun? Was dinner nice? -Yes. 164 00:21:04,776 --> 00:21:10,059 Go to bed. It's late. Go see how the boys are sleeping. 165 00:21:14,104 --> 00:21:16,071 Do you want coffee? 166 00:21:15,509 --> 00:21:18,284 There you have it. 167 00:21:33,546 --> 00:21:36,122 Search. 168 00:21:39,285 --> 00:21:41,627 You act like Nazis. I didn't see the warrant. 169 00:22:08,516 --> 00:22:11,488 They work as usual. Not a word. 170 00:22:22,556 --> 00:22:26,695 -I want to speak with the minister. -At five o'clock in the morning? 171 00:22:29,796 --> 00:22:33,096 After school we will go to the ministry. 172 00:22:40,555 --> 00:22:43,627 Nothing important. They only took letters, photos, papers... 173 00:22:44,794 --> 00:22:48,617 Fifteen years of marriage. Souvenirs from Spain... 174 00:22:48,778 --> 00:22:51,265 Letters written in jail... 175 00:22:51,334 --> 00:22:54,255 G�rard doesn't keep official documents at home. 176 00:22:54,579 --> 00:22:58,713 We shall get this solved. You have a direct line. You can call me 177 00:23:09,562 --> 00:23:13,305 Last night he had an appointment with Dr. Dymer. With his lung problems... 178 00:23:13,474 --> 00:23:16,848 -... problems... -Of course. He shall see a doctor. 179 00:23:16,977 --> 00:23:22,198 He is in isolation, as I said. For you and your family, nothing is changed. 180 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,754 The driver and the car from the ministry... 181 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,433 ...are still at your service. 182 00:23:38,912 --> 00:23:42,597 -Did you see the minister? -Yes. G�rard is not under arrest... 183 00:23:42,694 --> 00:23:46,604 ...he is just isolated with some comrades to clear up... 184 00:23:46,775 --> 00:23:50,117 ...some problems. They need his help. 185 00:23:50,590 --> 00:23:54,182 Grave and confidential Party business. 186 00:23:54,241 --> 00:23:56,542 It's best if they let him speak. I feared it was worse. 187 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,294 If you need anything, count on me. 188 00:24:00,356 --> 00:24:02,173 He said nothing had changed. 189 00:24:07,015 --> 00:24:11,803 Madame, I shall be taking care of you. This is your car. 190 00:24:32,242 --> 00:24:34,100 But listen! 191 00:24:37,601 --> 00:24:38,724 What's your complaint? 192 00:24:38,996 --> 00:24:41,425 I want to see an officer from the Party. 193 00:24:41,612 --> 00:24:44,176 -Identify yourself -The Vice-minister... 194 00:24:44,513 --> 00:24:47,429 You are nothing! What's your number? 195 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:49,845 Your number! 196 00:24:52,289 --> 00:24:54,776 You are number 3225. I shan't repeat it again. 197 00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:57,056 Walk! 198 00:25:46,583 --> 00:25:47,120 Put this on. 199 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:16,410 Don't stand still. Walk! 200 00:27:27,276 --> 00:27:29,579 You are here to confess you crimes. Confess it all. 201 00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:32,970 Confess what? Who are you? 202 00:27:33,005 --> 00:27:35,906 February 1st. Confess your crimes! Confess who you are! 203 00:27:36,059 --> 00:27:38,468 -Vice-minister of External Affairs -You are nothing. 204 00:27:38,521 --> 00:27:40,689 You are only a number. Your number? 205 00:27:42,394 --> 00:27:47,687 -Your number! -3225. Precise questions. What am I accused of? 206 00:27:47,754 --> 00:27:51,379 You know it too well; better than anyone. What is your name? 207 00:27:51,546 --> 00:27:54,742 -The Party knows... -Do not talk about the Party. 208 00:27:55,504 --> 00:28:00,052 Ever. You are here to confess. You will confess. 209 00:28:00,223 --> 00:28:01,518 -Get me the responsible... -Confess! - Ask precise... 210 00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:05,454 -...questions! -Confess! -I want to see the person in charge. 211 00:28:05,616 --> 00:28:07,837 I shall make you confess! 212 00:28:07,998 --> 00:28:10,740 In the beginning, one tries to help the Party, try to understand... 213 00:28:10,902 --> 00:28:16,935 ...why one is there, what has one done. You are open... 214 00:28:17,069 --> 00:28:21,013 ...to self-criticism, to admit mistakes harmful... 215 00:28:21,133 --> 00:28:24,067 ...to the Party. Years of struggle and discipline and our education... 216 00:28:24,164 --> 00:28:26,500 ...have led us to believe the Party is never wrong. 217 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:30,297 -that the USSR was always right -We are not alone here. 218 00:28:30,396 --> 00:28:33,500 -We have counsellors. -Many time we proudly said... 219 00:28:33,556 --> 00:28:35,904 ...that it was better to err... 220 00:28:36,083 --> 00:28:39,187 ...inside the Party than being right outside of it. 221 00:28:39,235 --> 00:28:41,365 Confess your crimes! Confess it all! 222 00:28:41,405 --> 00:28:45,080 But, confess what!? Make precise questions! 223 00:29:19,568 --> 00:29:22,394 Eat! 224 00:29:31,184 --> 00:29:34,580 Enough. Walk! 225 00:29:41,564 --> 00:29:45,154 Enough. Stand! Walk! 226 00:29:55,755 --> 00:29:57,894 Walk! 227 00:30:03,111 --> 00:30:04,793 Stand! 228 00:30:07,957 --> 00:30:12,167 Don't behave like the enemy. Obey! 229 00:30:13,733 --> 00:30:16,275 Walk! 230 00:30:45,745 --> 00:30:48,794 Please... Is it two AM or PM?? 231 00:30:57,789 --> 00:31:00,605 You are here for a very grave reason. 232 00:31:00,768 --> 00:31:06,090 The Party ordered your arrest. We must interrogate you. 233 00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:10,334 It's about international spying and betrayal... 234 00:31:10,404 --> 00:31:13,192 ...against the Soviet Union and our country. 235 00:31:13,355 --> 00:31:16,876 Your duty is to help establish the truth. 236 00:31:17,067 --> 00:31:21,450 You are not alone. 237 00:31:21,618 --> 00:31:25,032 There are many other high-ranking officers implicated. 238 00:31:25,482 --> 00:31:29,984 You can save yourself. You have been a member of the Party for a long time. 239 00:31:31,746 --> 00:31:35,605 I appeal to you to help the Soviet Union and the Party. 240 00:31:35,770 --> 00:31:38,007 Have you anything to say? 241 00:31:38,170 --> 00:31:42,691 All I want is for the Party to clear all of this up. 242 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,655 I am willing to answer anything. 243 00:31:45,864 --> 00:31:49,384 Very well. We shall start the interrogation. 244 00:31:50,551 --> 00:31:54,104 Tuesday, February 4th... I declare... 245 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,048 Where and when did you start contacts with the American services... 246 00:31:58,111 --> 00:32:02,406 ...led by Allan Dulles? How did No�l Field recruit you? 247 00:32:02,566 --> 00:32:04,756 Did you collaborate with other American spies apart from Field? 248 00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:11,379 -Never! No one! -Shut up and answer! 249 00:32:12,750 --> 00:32:16,102 Many heads will roll! We have evidence. 250 00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:20,138 We shall use methods you cannot dream of! 251 00:32:20,309 --> 00:32:23,473 You will confess! Your luck depends on you! 252 00:32:23,836 --> 00:32:27,835 You either confess to save yourself... 253 00:32:28,004 --> 00:32:31,687 ...or you shall stay an enemy of the Soviet Union and the Party... 254 00:32:31,754 --> 00:32:35,304 ...until you die. Answer the question! 255 00:32:44,705 --> 00:32:46,705 Enough! Hand on the plate! 256 00:32:51,706 --> 00:32:52,706 Enough! 257 00:32:58,107 --> 00:33:00,107 Keep walking 258 00:33:48,508 --> 00:33:50,508 You may sleep now. 259 00:34:07,109 --> 00:34:09,109 On your back, standard position. 260 00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:12,210 Arms straight. 261 00:34:17,711 --> 00:34:19,711 Stand up! 262 00:34:20,912 --> 00:34:21,912 You may sleep! 263 00:34:25,413 --> 00:34:26,413 Stand up! 264 00:34:29,813 --> 00:34:31,813 Stand up! 265 00:34:31,714 --> 00:34:33,214 Register number! 266 00:34:36,615 --> 00:34:37,615 Register number! 267 00:34:40,417 --> 00:34:41,417 You may sleep. 268 00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:54,068 Register number! 269 00:34:56,234 --> 00:34:58,607 Stand up! Stand up! 270 00:35:14,769 --> 00:35:16,776 Register number! 271 00:35:25,945 --> 00:35:29,596 Obey the orders, sir! 272 00:35:49,708 --> 00:35:51,735 You and your dirty race are all the same. The gas chambers... 273 00:35:51,745 --> 00:35:53,444 ...never finished their job. 274 00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:57,292 You talk like that wearing the Party's symbol? 275 00:35:57,456 --> 00:36:02,211 A traitor is going to lecture me? You want the Party... 276 00:36:02,375 --> 00:36:04,979 ...but it repels you. You are expelled! 277 00:36:05,143 --> 00:36:08,109 You lie. It can't be. It's against regulations. 278 00:36:08,278 --> 00:36:10,034 The statutes are very clear. 279 00:36:10,102 --> 00:36:13,476 What a bourgeois conception of the Party's democracy. 280 00:36:13,758 --> 00:36:16,827 The Central Committee can do whatever it wants. 281 00:36:17,997 --> 00:36:21,314 Your cards: Yours, Val�s'... 282 00:36:21,885 --> 00:36:23,795 ...and Zadovsky's, chief of security. 283 00:36:24,964 --> 00:36:28,274 We know about your criminal activities in Spain and France. 284 00:36:28,364 --> 00:36:33,138 Thanks to the counsellors. You are expelled from the Party. And we shall find... 285 00:36:33,164 --> 00:36:35,067 -...the missing cards. -You are not the Committee. 286 00:36:35,131 --> 00:36:37,657 No. We are above it. 287 00:36:38,729 --> 00:36:42,083 We must find the traitors, including those in the Committee. 288 00:36:44,251 --> 00:36:46,212 We incarnate proletarian power. 289 00:36:47,758 --> 00:36:51,145 The friends you protect are here, and they are talking. 290 00:36:53,313 --> 00:36:56,808 You shall do as them. You will answer the questions. 291 00:36:57,977 --> 00:37:01,660 Like Zadovzky, who confessed it all. 292 00:37:02,725 --> 00:37:04,678 He was chief of security. 293 00:37:04,686 --> 00:37:06,980 He knew he could save himself if he confessed. 294 00:37:09,735 --> 00:37:13,540 Zadovsky? Confess? 295 00:37:16,471 --> 00:37:19,245 Confess what? 296 00:37:21,706 --> 00:37:25,107 You went to a clandestine meeting the day before his arrest. 297 00:37:25,267 --> 00:37:28,043 -What decisions were taken? -Did you organise the meeting? 298 00:37:28,731 --> 00:37:30,773 You were the leader of the Trotskyist group in the International Brigades. 299 00:37:30,867 --> 00:37:33,914 You knew you had been found out. What decisions were taken? 300 00:37:34,023 --> 00:37:36,804 In Spain you let loose your Trotskyist ideas. 301 00:37:37,741 --> 00:37:40,778 How did you organise your work? You sabotage work? 302 00:37:41,221 --> 00:37:45,067 You met Rajk in Spain, did he put you in touch with the spies? 303 00:37:45,781 --> 00:37:49,490 Rajk was discovered, tried and executed in Hungary. 304 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,929 -It shall happen to you. -What was the nature of your relation with Rwal and Winkler? 305 00:37:53,107 --> 00:37:56,515 Why did you protect Dapchevitch in Spain? 306 00:37:56,755 --> 00:38:01,162 The others confess. You will only save yourself if you do the same. 307 00:38:01,219 --> 00:38:02,721 And if your are quicker and go further than they do. 308 00:38:02,891 --> 00:38:05,520 Given that you were the one in charge. 309 00:38:05,946 --> 00:38:08,281 Here we weed out the bad plants. We reap them. 310 00:38:09,178 --> 00:38:12,210 Did you meet Rajk in Spain? 311 00:38:13,073 --> 00:38:15,723 Did he put you in touch with the spies? 312 00:38:17,336 --> 00:38:20,638 Bartons was also in Spain. What do you know of him? 313 00:38:20,690 --> 00:38:24,094 -We know he deserted. - Jares was part of your unit. Do you remember? 314 00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:30,089 Here is a report saying he had Trotskyist tendencies. 315 00:38:30,447 --> 00:38:33,920 Like all your contacts, here and abroad. 316 00:38:34,071 --> 00:38:37,209 They were the French and Italian communist parties. 317 00:38:37,305 --> 00:38:39,594 Where does that report come from? 318 00:38:39,663 --> 00:38:41,917 You must understand... We know it all. 319 00:38:41,931 --> 00:38:45,279 With the experience and help of our Soviet comrades... 320 00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:48,930 ...we discovered the spy ring you lead. 321 00:38:51,857 --> 00:38:54,540 Zadovsky confessed it all He described... 322 00:38:54,607 --> 00:38:56,993 ...the criminal activities of your Trotskyist group. 323 00:38:57,747 --> 00:38:59,854 That is false. Zadovsky cannot have said that. 324 00:39:00,854 --> 00:39:05,711 And this? Is it not his signature? All signed. Is it his or not? 325 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:16,343 -It cant' be. It cant' be. In Marseille? -Yes, maybe. 326 00:39:16,019 --> 00:39:18,690 "My activities for the US services in Marseille..." 327 00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:21,690 Do you not know his signature? 328 00:39:29,752 --> 00:39:32,026 Zadovsky and the others tricked you. 329 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,338 You didn't know what you were getting into. 330 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:39,721 To prove your good faith, tell me what you know. 331 00:39:40,888 --> 00:39:45,091 -Your confessions will help the Party. -I'm no spy. 332 00:39:45,943 --> 00:39:48,503 You have a very subjective view of things. 333 00:39:51,757 --> 00:39:55,207 Zadovsky, arrested immediately after you confessed at once. 334 00:39:55,276 --> 00:39:58,700 And he is still doing it. He knows it's the only way out. 335 00:39:58,780 --> 00:40:03,957 But this is all false. The French party and the resistance... 336 00:40:04,051 --> 00:40:07,228 ...have official documents. Verify my activities. 337 00:40:07,457 --> 00:40:10,596 They are nothing next to these confessions. And the others... 338 00:40:10,657 --> 00:40:13,417 ...are confessing; the same story. 339 00:40:13,584 --> 00:40:15,406 Believe me. Here everyone confesses. 340 00:40:16,768 --> 00:40:19,323 You are the leader. You cannot escape. 341 00:40:19,786 --> 00:40:23,660 Think of your family. What could happen to them. 342 00:40:23,699 --> 00:40:29,387 Listen: "I spied for the USA to overthrow your regime... 343 00:40:30,750 --> 00:40:33,979 In this activity I was directed by..." 344 00:40:34,778 --> 00:40:37,888 Look. Your name. Black on white. 345 00:40:38,925 --> 00:40:42,680 What can you do against that? Are you thirsty? 346 00:40:45,844 --> 00:40:49,073 He accuses himself of the greatest crimes, under your direction. 347 00:40:49,717 --> 00:40:51,758 Who will they believe in court? 348 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:56,241 You, who denies everything, or he, accusing himself? 349 00:40:57,724 --> 00:41:01,262 -And he hasn't finished talking. -It's not true. 350 00:41:01,426 --> 00:41:04,761 What matters is confessing. Why would Zadovsky... 351 00:41:04,923 --> 00:41:08,679 ...confess things that could cost him his head? To... 352 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:11,783 ...save his life. He knows there's only one option: confessing. 353 00:41:11,850 --> 00:41:15,256 I want to help the Party. But I have nothing to confess. 354 00:41:15,417 --> 00:41:17,784 I do not allow you to mention the Party! 355 00:41:19,144 --> 00:41:23,112 And don�t talk to him like that. He is not a comrade but a traitor. Go. 356 00:41:23,312 --> 00:41:27,450 The Party abandons me; the friends, the comrades. 357 00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:30,819 Nobody doubts my culpability I reacted the same way... 358 00:41:31,273 --> 00:41:35,655 �during the Rajk trails. What communist wouldn�t be appalled? 359 00:41:35,756 --> 00:41:39,957 How to even conceive that a Party which one hols infallible, 360 00:41:39,959 --> 00:41:42,528 ...can force innocents to confess? 361 00:41:44,795 --> 00:41:47,491 We shall do everything we to reveal your treason to the Party and the people. 362 00:41:48,078 --> 00:41:51,656 Zadovsky knew of the contacts with the American spy. 363 00:41:51,822 --> 00:41:55,057 He hid because you knew about his contacts with the Gestapo. 364 00:41:55,220 --> 00:42:00,260 Your friend Val�s confesses... 365 00:42:00,427 --> 00:42:02,172 ...to have collaborated with the British police. 366 00:42:02,268 --> 00:42:06,056 You are Jewish, but you didn't die at a concentration camp. 367 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,676 -Why? -Because you collaborated with the Gestapo. 368 00:42:09,799 --> 00:42:14,801 The spy Dulles got to the Gestapo list. That's how you were recruited. 369 00:42:27,764 --> 00:42:30,312 Walk. 370 00:42:35,783 --> 00:42:40,256 Every day we make a report about the conduct and cooperation... 371 00:42:40,353 --> 00:42:43,258 ...of the prisoners. 372 00:42:56,725 --> 00:43:00,070 -Number 3225. Present. -Louder! 373 00:43:00,785 --> 00:43:04,542 Number 3225. Present. 374 00:43:24,733 --> 00:43:27,645 What did you do? Why are you here? 375 00:43:27,745 --> 00:43:32,778 I don't know. They don't let me sleep. 376 00:43:34,047 --> 00:43:38,469 I'm innocent. 377 00:43:39,023 --> 00:43:41,300 Wait. 378 00:43:43,706 --> 00:43:48,093 They gave orders about you. You are a special case. 379 00:43:58,754 --> 00:44:01,767 Don't tell anyone or they will punish me. 380 00:44:05,714 --> 00:44:08,221 I want to see an officer from the Party. 381 00:44:08,373 --> 00:44:09,925 Confess to a crime. 382 00:44:10,797 --> 00:44:14,142 I haven't slept or eaten or drunk for ten days. 383 00:44:15,108 --> 00:44:18,700 Let an officer ask me questions and I shall answer. 384 00:44:20,115 --> 00:44:23,489 You haven't slept or eaten? I'll look into that. 385 00:44:23,751 --> 00:44:25,830 The guards do what they want. 386 00:44:27,995 --> 00:44:30,645 Ready. Holdos is here. Your group is complete. 387 00:44:30,650 --> 00:44:32,778 All the veterans from Spain. Here, as in Hungary... 388 00:44:32,803 --> 00:44:37,557 ...Poland and Germany. This concerns all the International Brigades. 389 00:44:47,562 --> 00:44:50,377 Those are the questions they asked Rajk in his trial. 390 00:44:50,782 --> 00:44:52,969 It seems like you studied his trial. 391 00:44:53,129 --> 00:44:56,740 Each or Rajk's confessions uncovered more. 392 00:44:58,088 --> 00:45:02,641 But you used your knowledge to hide better. 393 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,134 We shall do as the Hungarians who liquidated Rajk. 394 00:45:07,295 --> 00:45:11,539 This is the resolution that proposes the condemnation... 395 00:45:11,624 --> 00:45:15,132 ... of the spy and traitor Laszio Rajk, unmasked... 396 00:45:15,295 --> 00:45:17,815 ...by our Hungarian comrades. Whoever... 397 00:45:17,983 --> 00:45:22,332 ... agrees, let he raise his hand. 398 00:45:24,714 --> 00:45:27,443 There are many veterans from Spain in this trial. 399 00:45:27,614 --> 00:45:30,304 -Not all of us were good in Spain. -I hope the tree... 400 00:45:30,374 --> 00:45:32,061 ...doesn't hide the forest. 401 00:45:32,221 --> 00:45:34,050 Good. Let's carry on. 402 00:45:35,221 --> 00:45:37,610 "In my work I committed some faults... 403 00:45:37,721 --> 00:45:40,510 ...for carelessness. 404 00:45:41,108 --> 00:45:49,082 I made contacts with Kohnova, Vesela, Pavlik and Feigl... 405 00:45:49,252 --> 00:45:51,878 ...all condemned by links with the spy Field" 406 00:45:52,043 --> 00:45:58,450 Vesela was not condemned. He committed suicide during the trial. 407 00:45:58,611 --> 00:46:02,433 Well, not Vesela. "I accepted for my clandestine work... 408 00:46:02,481 --> 00:46:05,560 ...money from the American imperialists". 409 00:46:08,616 --> 00:46:11,045 That's all. Sign. 410 00:46:12,897 --> 00:46:19,638 Isn't it better like that? Now you may sleep. 411 00:46:40,708 --> 00:46:42,771 I was unconscious. I deny what I said. 412 00:46:42,784 --> 00:46:47,557 -I was extorted -What? -Yes, physically. 413 00:46:47,618 --> 00:46:48,993 Do you think that was a confession? 414 00:46:49,070 --> 00:46:51,892 It's not even self-criticism. 415 00:46:52,463 --> 00:46:56,277 I'll see how you will end up signing. Let's start again. 416 00:46:56,885 --> 00:47:02,504 You will talk! Otherwise, we shall let this business die! 417 00:47:05,670 --> 00:47:08,262 Go. First your life's story. Walk. 418 00:47:10,813 --> 00:47:14,359 Walk! 419 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,423 Tell me your life's story. From the beginning. 420 00:47:19,787 --> 00:47:21,975 When were you born? 421 00:47:24,147 --> 00:47:29,556 -When were you born?! - February 11, 1915 in Ostrava. 422 00:47:30,018 --> 00:47:35,279 -My father was a rail worker. -Why did they call you G�rard? 423 00:47:35,285 --> 00:47:38,153 That was my nickname in the French Resistance. 424 00:47:38,642 --> 00:47:40,646 Resistance in a foreign country? 425 00:47:40,729 --> 00:47:43,672 You are a Jew and a communist. The Gestapo got to you... 426 00:47:43,771 --> 00:47:49,693 ...and you escaped. How suspicious. Go on. 427 00:47:49,764 --> 00:47:54,241 My son was born in jail. He's called G�rard because his mother... 428 00:47:54,242 --> 00:47:57,242 ... didn't know if we'd meet again. 429 00:47:58,525 --> 00:48:02,411 Do not try to move me. Continue! 430 00:48:04,772 --> 00:48:09,295 My father was the 5th of 8 children of a Moravian rail worker... 431 00:48:09,908 --> 00:48:13,603 ... during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Afterwards he went to Switzerland. 432 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:16,659 At the turn of the century he went to the United States. 433 00:48:17,790 --> 00:48:20,353 He soon learned English. 434 00:48:21,971 --> 00:48:27,426 He recited poems from Whitman, pages of Paine or Jefferson. 435 00:48:29,795 --> 00:48:33,481 In New York he met my mother, another �migr�. 436 00:48:33,978 --> 00:48:39,583 They went back to their country together. He was a stretcher-bearer during the war. 437 00:48:39,753 --> 00:48:42,339 In touch with Russian prisoners... 438 00:48:42,460 --> 00:48:44,710 ...he meets Bolshevik elements. 439 00:48:45,772 --> 00:48:49,360 He was the first to talk to me about Rosa Luxemburg 440 00:48:50,724 --> 00:48:55,660 About the Spartakists, Lenin, the Cantonese commune. 441 00:48:55,787 --> 00:49:00,330 He made me read Heinrich Heine. 442 00:49:01,794 --> 00:49:05,756 My father showed me the way to the Communist Youth. 443 00:49:08,918 --> 00:49:13,081 In 1930 we wanted to blow up the Ostrava town hall. 444 00:49:13,189 --> 00:49:17,255 Did you do it or not? 445 00:49:17,844 --> 00:49:20,419 Last night you said otherwise to my colleague. 446 00:49:20,488 --> 00:49:24,831 No. We were fifteen. We just sought attention. 447 00:49:25,264 --> 00:49:26,848 We dreamt with blowing it up. 448 00:49:27,087 --> 00:49:30,086 Dreamt? This morning you've told me otherwise. 449 00:49:30,759 --> 00:49:35,213 Three versions: one in the morning, another in the afternoon, and yet another at night. 450 00:49:36,014 --> 00:49:42,145 Start again, let's see if there's a fourth. I'm listening. 451 00:49:44,729 --> 00:49:46,753 I was born in Ostrava the 11th of February... 452 00:49:47,832 --> 00:49:50,548 You said your friend Wagner disappeared in Moscow in... 453 00:49:50,617 --> 00:49:52,889 ...1935, before your trip to Spain. The other day you said... 454 00:49:52,937 --> 00:49:58,673 ...that you knew nothing about him. Which version am I to believe? Again. 455 00:50:00,786 --> 00:50:04,509 I met Wagner in Moscow. He was coming back from China... 456 00:50:04,510 --> 00:50:08,266 No! From the beginning. When were you born? 457 00:50:08,730 --> 00:50:14,023 Go on, go on... Your father made you read Heinrich Heine? 458 00:50:14,790 --> 00:50:17,360 What else? 459 00:50:17,524 --> 00:50:19,248 Heinrich Heine. 460 00:50:19,713 --> 00:50:22,965 My father showed me the way to the Communist Youth. 461 00:50:24,702 --> 00:50:26,718 The Sacco-Vanzetti case interested you. 462 00:50:27,428 --> 00:50:29,809 I marched with him through the streets of Ostrava. 463 00:50:32,731 --> 00:50:35,976 I respected the physical courage of Bakunin... 464 00:50:36,427 --> 00:50:38,744 ...and had consideration for Kropotkin. 465 00:50:40,786 --> 00:50:43,204 I knew all his writings. 466 00:50:43,771 --> 00:50:46,572 But I didn't share in the fundamental ideology... 467 00:50:46,638 --> 00:50:47,834 ...of the anarchists. 468 00:50:49,725 --> 00:50:54,564 Old member of the socialist faction, he was one of the... 469 00:50:54,596 --> 00:50:57,625 ... founders of the city's Communist Party. 470 00:50:58,703 --> 00:51:02,577 Boycotted by the good society and the Jewish community... 471 00:51:04,741 --> 00:51:08,343 ...who considered him a traitor for being an atheist... 472 00:51:10,513 --> 00:51:14,072 ...and being a member of anti-religious organisations... 473 00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:17,625 ...it was hard for him to find a job. 474 00:51:17,778 --> 00:51:19,705 His family didn't help him either. 475 00:51:19,751 --> 00:51:24,660 Apart from his uncle Sigmund, who lectured him. 476 00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:29,948 I last saw my father in the summer of 1935, in Moscow. 477 00:51:31,722 --> 00:51:34,916 He was very old. He was organising... 478 00:51:35,237 --> 00:51:40,474 ...a trip here... with some of the people... 479 00:51:43,117 --> 00:51:45,312 ...who were with him. 480 00:51:45,472 --> 00:51:47,395 He wanted to meet my wife. 481 00:51:48,764 --> 00:51:51,022 He was interested by everything. 482 00:51:51,188 --> 00:51:53,595 Sometimes he asked questions... 483 00:51:53,652 --> 00:51:55,742 ...I wasn't capable of answering. 484 00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,524 I couldn't answer them. 485 00:52:02,851 --> 00:52:05,825 He didn't like everything in Moscow 486 00:52:05,953 --> 00:52:10,223 He couldn't understand some things. 487 00:52:11,792 --> 00:52:15,094 But he had fulfilled his dream:... 488 00:52:15,256 --> 00:52:19,566 ...of seeing the Red Square and Lenin in his mausoleum, 489 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:25,462 When I left, he was sad. 490 00:52:25,732 --> 00:52:28,766 He asked when would we see each other again. 491 00:52:30,623 --> 00:52:33,616 I never saw him again. 492 00:52:33,682 --> 00:52:35,716 Not him, not my mother, or my brother Jean. 493 00:52:36,885 --> 00:52:41,951 Nor my sister Juliette. They all died in the camps. 494 00:52:46,717 --> 00:52:49,900 We are in a 4x5 room. 495 00:52:51,062 --> 00:52:57,607 A greenish grey wardrobe and a typewriter. 496 00:52:57,773 --> 00:53:05,468 An empty beer mug and a cup of coffee... bread... 497 00:53:05,728 --> 00:53:09,297 Dirty traitor! Out! 498 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,769 We'll talk later. Let's go. Finish this. 499 00:53:56,939 --> 00:54:00,502 Bastard... Trotskyist bandit... 500 00:54:00,766 --> 00:54:04,722 You started your dirty job in Moscow. 501 00:54:04,881 --> 00:54:07,604 Come on. 502 00:54:16,701 --> 00:54:19,179 They are going to hang me. 503 00:54:19,247 --> 00:54:21,141 Talk or we'll finish you! 504 00:54:21,927 --> 00:54:25,610 They'll make me disappear, like Wagner in Moscow. 505 00:54:25,639 --> 00:54:26,973 They took my Party card. They call me Trotskyist. 506 00:54:27,126 --> 00:54:31,232 They will say I committed suicide for having too many regrets. 507 00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:34,660 He committed suicide. He couldn't face his crimes. 508 00:55:01,729 --> 00:55:05,291 You are lucky. But you might end up hanging. 509 00:55:05,754 --> 00:55:08,486 And our people shall have revenge. 510 00:55:08,652 --> 00:55:11,691 If the orders come from who I think; it could be dangerous. 511 00:55:12,755 --> 00:55:16,138 The comrades want you alive for the trial. 512 00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:20,431 I gave the Soviet security counsellors... 513 00:55:20,596 --> 00:55:23,524 ...the statute and advantage of the diplomatic corps. 514 00:55:23,791 --> 00:55:25,731 They are policemen. Not diplomats. 515 00:55:25,898 --> 00:55:29,582 We make good use of their experience in Moscow. 516 00:55:30,747 --> 00:55:33,568 The presence of the counsellors seemed natural to us. 517 00:55:33,638 --> 00:55:36,887 It came from the principle of technical and economic aid... 518 00:55:37,049 --> 00:55:39,561 ...of the USSR to socialist countries. 519 00:55:39,593 --> 00:55:41,829 The process will be in August. You have 5 months to confess. 520 00:55:41,904 --> 00:55:47,673 In Moscow Radek had 3 months. As you can see, we have a good margin. 521 00:55:47,780 --> 00:55:51,473 Comrades are disappearing. There's going to be a big trial. 522 00:55:51,550 --> 00:55:56,328 Confess soon or I shall judge you with 20 witnesses, to make you hang. 523 00:55:56,446 --> 00:55:57,708 They made me write down my biography. 524 00:55:57,734 --> 00:56:01,662 They found a difference in a small detail I had forgotten. 525 00:56:05,852 --> 00:56:09,446 Confess you are a Trotskyist! Confess it! 526 00:56:11,825 --> 00:56:13,906 In Moscow, in '36, I had contacts... 527 00:56:14,068 --> 00:56:16,273 ...with Trotskyist spies. 528 00:56:16,340 --> 00:56:18,952 You went to Spain so that they didn't discover you. 529 00:56:19,799 --> 00:56:22,965 Wagner had been in the Komintern for years. 530 00:56:23,026 --> 00:56:26,782 -He came to see me in the hotel on Gorky Street -That's why I forgot. 531 00:56:26,945 --> 00:56:28,557 ...they examined my biographies. 532 00:56:28,622 --> 00:56:31,854 They took my papers, my card, my job, the hotel... 533 00:56:31,963 --> 00:56:38,188 It can't be. Stalin can't know about this. He couldn't. 534 00:56:51,793 --> 00:56:54,288 Ready, boss. He started confessing. 535 00:56:54,649 --> 00:56:55,726 Look into his declarations. 536 00:56:55,784 --> 00:56:59,127 ...impressive. He's started. 537 00:56:59,289 --> 00:57:01,005 One sentence obsessed me:... 538 00:57:01,006 --> 00:57:03,006 "The individual become guilty... 539 00:57:03,007 --> 00:57:06,007 "...not because he is, but because he believes he is." 540 00:57:06,591 --> 00:57:09,136 Look, what a beautiful statement. 541 00:57:09,291 --> 00:57:11,136 "This is what I have to say about the activities of the... 542 00:57:11,303 --> 00:57:13,718 ...Trotskyist group of the Brigades' veterans". 543 00:57:14,070 --> 00:57:18,147 From this we can start working. It's your friend Tonda. 544 00:57:18,164 --> 00:57:21,342 The Party decides, it clears up every misunderstanding. 545 00:57:22,484 --> 00:57:24,985 Trotskyist group! Your friend knew! 546 00:57:26,292 --> 00:57:28,364 Over three weeks without sleep or food. 547 00:57:28,691 --> 00:57:30,146 He is talking. He confesses to it all. 548 00:57:30,731 --> 00:57:33,519 -He didn't sign. -It's a copy! 549 00:57:34,970 --> 00:57:38,337 Like our friends did, we have to get to... 550 00:57:38,499 --> 00:57:40,702 ...the definition of a: "Trotskyist Spy Organization": 551 00:57:40,834 --> 00:57:43,641 That's what he must sign. 552 00:57:44,889 --> 00:57:47,969 You will sign, too, given that you are the leader. 553 00:57:50,168 --> 00:57:52,062 The comrades at the Party will not stand for this. 554 00:57:52,145 --> 00:57:55,061 What did you do when thousands were disappearing? 555 00:57:56,732 --> 00:57:58,782 You are delirious. 556 00:58:03,442 --> 00:58:05,534 What would you do in my place? 557 00:58:05,796 --> 00:58:08,558 -Confess! -Confess what? That I am a spy? 558 00:58:11,728 --> 00:58:13,786 What would you do in my place, G�rard? 559 00:58:18,291 --> 00:58:20,822 Leave him. He's exhausted. 560 00:58:20,887 --> 00:58:23,116 Stalin taught that man is the most precious capital. 561 00:58:24,989 --> 00:58:27,379 If he drowns, take him out of the water. 562 00:58:32,709 --> 00:58:35,647 Comma. 563 00:58:46,772 --> 00:58:51,427 Listen to Smola say: "Leave him. We'll carry on soon." 564 00:58:51,523 --> 00:58:55,694 They let me fall on the floor and I had a wonderful vision. 565 00:58:55,847 --> 00:58:58,324 I'm in Monte Carlo, where I never was... 566 00:58:58,450 --> 00:59:01,107 ...in a very beautiful beach. 567 00:59:09,741 --> 00:59:12,184 The first thing I did when I got to France... 568 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,292 ...was to come and see this place. 569 00:59:15,717 --> 00:59:19,166 And the doctors advised me to do it; the weather is good for my lungs. 570 00:59:19,269 --> 00:59:21,725 -You have to speak out, Gerard. -Of what? 571 00:59:22,126 --> 00:59:25,606 -All this. You have to make it known. -To who? 572 00:59:25,862 --> 00:59:27,862 Write a book. I know publishers. 573 00:59:28,758 --> 00:59:31,616 -Write for who? -For us. 574 00:59:31,886 --> 00:59:34,768 The communists cannot understand these truths. 575 00:59:35,932 --> 00:59:39,453 They will say you have to wash your dirty linen inside the family, that I... 576 00:59:39,621 --> 00:59:42,969 ...am playing the enemy's game. They will even say... 577 00:59:43,139 --> 00:59:46,074 ...it was smoke without fire. There was no Party spirit 578 00:59:48,243 --> 00:59:49,828 It's too soon, objectively. 579 00:59:49,995 --> 00:59:53,450 Even so, you should write the book. 580 00:59:53,619 --> 00:59:54,113 The people from these trials... 581 00:59:54,209 --> 00:59:57,374 ...are still in power. They wouldn't admit such testimonies 582 00:59:57,738 --> 00:59:59,800 -Publish it here, in French. -No. First it has to be there. 583 01:00:00,798 --> 01:00:03,853 The book must arise from the situation. 584 01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:08,530 -Are we going to remain silent? -Jean, I owe nothing to anyone. 585 01:00:08,697 --> 01:00:11,591 -It's a juncture problem. -Precisely. And who... 586 01:00:11,631 --> 01:00:13,657 ...will speak for the dead? 587 01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:18,832 And for us? Who spoke for us in '52? You? 588 01:00:19,887 --> 01:00:22,930 Do you remember what you said during the trials? 589 01:00:23,093 --> 01:00:27,079 We were rabid dogs, Titoist cosmopolitan spies... 590 01:00:27,085 --> 01:00:29,118 ...Trotskyist bandits. All my activity in France... 591 01:00:29,148 --> 01:00:34,417 ...the Party knew it. But no one spoke out. What did you do? 592 01:00:35,061 --> 01:00:37,748 -Nothing. -Why? -They would have expelled me. 593 01:00:37,827 --> 01:00:41,413 Yes, sure. But did you think them guilty or not? 594 01:00:41,868 --> 01:00:43,234 There wasn't sufficient information. 595 01:00:43,395 --> 01:00:46,461 We knew about it in the 20th Congress, in 1956 596 01:00:47,729 --> 01:00:51,548 You read the bourgeois press and you saw that the trials... 597 01:00:51,664 --> 01:00:57,737 ...were a farce. But you lived in the world... 598 01:00:57,705 --> 01:01:02,690 ...History doesn't add anything to it, apart from details, the mechanism... 599 01:01:02,699 --> 01:01:04,563 ...of this hell. But its existence was well-known. 600 01:01:04,626 --> 01:01:07,986 A senator at the time wrote: "The trials of... 601 01:01:07,993 --> 01:01:10,965 ...Prague remind us that hell has its own logic". 602 01:01:11,026 --> 01:01:14,644 The same person justified the war in Indochina. 603 01:01:14,689 --> 01:01:18,038 And Algeria's, which provoked a million dead. 604 01:01:18,201 --> 01:01:21,167 Well, all this explains "how". What about "why"? 605 01:01:21,820 --> 01:01:25,435 Stalin eliminated the best, the most brilliant. 606 01:01:25,792 --> 01:01:29,941 Stalin, who wasn't alone was a former seminarian. 607 01:01:31,741 --> 01:01:34,149 The public confession, the sinner's humiliation... 608 01:01:34,918 --> 01:01:37,666 Plus he was infallible. 609 01:01:40,232 --> 01:01:43,363 In '49, the Cold War. The popular democracies... 610 01:01:43,439 --> 01:01:45,707 ...aren't solid. The come from the Soviet military victory... 611 01:01:45,878 --> 01:01:48,267 ...and not from Revolutions. 612 01:01:48,742 --> 01:01:52,327 There are grave economical and social problems. Stalin... 613 01:01:52,393 --> 01:01:54,513 ...distrusts the independent socialist powers. 614 01:01:54,580 --> 01:01:57,279 He distrusts Tito, who refuses to imitate the Russian model. 615 01:01:57,797 --> 01:02:00,448 Tito is proclaimed to be an imperialist agent. 616 01:02:00,613 --> 01:02:03,395 Titoist is synonymous with spy. 617 01:02:05,757 --> 01:02:08,650 The same was done with the word "Trotskyist". 618 01:02:09,220 --> 01:02:13,286 -And? -After the Rajk trial in Hungary... 619 01:02:13,484 --> 01:02:16,336 ...the Party accepted receiving the Soviet counsellors. 620 01:02:16,363 --> 01:02:17,883 It considered it to be a show of confidence. 621 01:02:18,722 --> 01:02:22,631 They are a specific work group, under... 622 01:02:22,661 --> 01:02:24,671 ...the direction of our comrade counsellors. 623 01:02:24,841 --> 01:02:28,443 We only respond to them, the President of the Republic... 624 01:02:28,512 --> 01:02:31,262 ...and the Secretary General of the Party. 625 01:02:31,425 --> 01:02:35,832 No special instance of the Party can control this activity. 626 01:02:35,979 --> 01:02:39,772 After a month I was transferred again. It was at the end... 627 01:02:39,843 --> 01:02:42,777 ...of February. No, these cars were more recent. 628 01:02:43,746 --> 01:02:48,183 In '51 it was the Tatraplan with the back flap. 629 01:03:00,746 --> 01:03:04,255 Finding myself in a normal jail gave me hope. 630 01:03:04,353 --> 01:03:05,939 You may sleep. 631 01:03:41,705 --> 01:03:46,269 If you saw yourself, you'd be scared. 632 01:03:46,526 --> 01:03:50,704 Today is March 6. He has refused to collaborate for the past 35 days. 633 01:03:51,947 --> 01:03:55,408 The Party knows about your negative attitude. 634 01:03:59,025 --> 01:04:00,700 Let's start from the beginning. 635 01:04:00,704 --> 01:04:04,160 -I shall answer under the condition... -What condition? 636 01:04:04,191 --> 01:04:07,285 Your neck is on the line! You have only one responsibility:... 637 01:04:07,302 --> 01:04:09,571 ...Confess it all! 638 01:04:11,886 --> 01:04:16,342 Take him. Prepare him for the interrogation. 639 01:04:28,765 --> 01:04:31,153 You may sleep for 4 hours. 640 01:04:31,787 --> 01:04:35,561 Undress. Standard position! 641 01:04:43,731 --> 01:04:48,032 You must admit your culpability. As a member of the Party... 642 01:04:48,146 --> 01:04:50,204 ...you must submit to trial. 643 01:04:50,773 --> 01:04:52,996 If I am a Trotskyist spy, why appeal... 644 01:04:53,050 --> 01:04:54,710 ...to my feelings as a disciplined communist? 645 01:04:54,795 --> 01:04:59,578 And if I am a good communist, what am I doing here? 646 01:05:01,796 --> 01:05:04,645 My commander. The telephone. 647 01:05:05,746 --> 01:05:08,000 Watch him. 648 01:05:13,761 --> 01:05:16,383 Is he the one from the corridor? 649 01:05:17,745 --> 01:05:21,595 -He must be exhausted. -It's hard, but he saved himself. 650 01:05:22,768 --> 01:05:26,245 And what will happen to me? 651 01:05:26,409 --> 01:05:29,935 You will work 4 or 5 years in a far, to forget it all. 652 01:05:33,704 --> 01:05:37,691 Zadovsky was executed in 1954 after the rest. 653 01:05:40,779 --> 01:05:43,075 We received a letter from your wife. 654 01:05:45,076 --> 01:05:50,076 "It's not easy to keep a family, of course..." 655 01:05:50,977 --> 01:05:53,977 "... but I get by with the help from the Party" 656 01:05:55,878 --> 01:05:58,878 She has the right spirit... She has repudiated you. 657 01:06:00,779 --> 01:06:03,779 Are you surprised? It's not the first time. 658 01:06:04,780 --> 01:06:10,076 One of your friends confessed that she was his lover. 659 01:06:09,781 --> 01:06:10,781 Bastard! 660 01:06:17,981 --> 01:06:19,981 It's all here! 661 01:06:18,981 --> 01:06:20,481 Imbecile! 662 01:06:21,082 --> 01:06:25,082 A good lot your Trotskyist friends. 663 01:06:25,283 --> 01:06:27,283 I know that she is French... But him! 664 01:06:27,384 --> 01:06:30,384 They were found in his office. 665 01:06:32,985 --> 01:06:35,985 She was resting on his shoulder. 666 01:06:38,385 --> 01:06:42,385 "In this case, did you intimate with her?" 667 01:06:42,386 --> 01:06:46,386 Answer: "I did not intimate, we were just very friendly" 668 01:06:46,387 --> 01:06:49,387 Question: "Was she resting on your shoulder?" 669 01:06:49,388 --> 01:06:51,388 Answer: "Yes" 670 01:06:52,389 --> 01:06:56,389 "According to the dictionary, that means intimating" 671 01:06:57,290 --> 01:07:02,290 Answer: "Fine, then we were intimating." He confessed she was his lover. 672 01:07:02,891 --> 01:07:05,891 Who dreamt all of this? 673 01:07:05,992 --> 01:07:06,992 Guess! 674 01:07:07,193 --> 01:07:09,193 What matters is... 675 01:07:09,294 --> 01:07:12,294 ... she has repudiated you and put herself at the disposal of the Party 676 01:07:12,780 --> 01:07:14,806 -New information? -Like every day. 677 01:07:14,952 --> 01:07:17,784 We have to speed up. Send me the information on G�rard. 678 01:07:25,950 --> 01:07:28,792 And? What is happening with my husband? 679 01:07:28,965 --> 01:07:30,819 You wrote many letters. 680 01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:35,177 The comrades cannot spend their lives reading your letters. 681 01:07:36,341 --> 01:07:40,835 The secretary asked me to see you. What do you want? 682 01:07:40,948 --> 01:07:43,802 Know what is of him. It's been 2 months. 683 01:07:46,084 --> 01:07:48,512 It seems to me that he is very compromised. 684 01:07:48,811 --> 01:07:51,120 Al this concerns him. 685 01:07:51,211 --> 01:07:53,520 Is he under arrest or not? 686 01:07:53,794 --> 01:07:55,801 If he is, I have the right to know it, and why. 687 01:07:55,865 --> 01:07:58,760 -I'm his wife and a member of the Party. -He hasn't been found guilty. 688 01:08:01,441 --> 01:08:04,618 But some shady business have to be cleared up. 689 01:08:04,633 --> 01:08:08,633 His life is transparent. I've been sharing it for the past 16 years. 690 01:08:08,692 --> 01:08:11,839 You know nothing. One day something is discovered and things get complicated. 691 01:08:11,999 --> 01:08:14,893 -It's not the case with G�rard. -You say that because you love him. 692 01:08:14,989 --> 01:08:18,305 There have always been traitors, provocateurs, policemen... 693 01:08:18,476 --> 01:08:22,218 in the workers' movement. Their wives never discover them. 694 01:08:24,684 --> 01:08:25,987 In '41 in your party... 695 01:08:26,755 --> 01:08:31,569 ...they had to get rid of your secretary of organisation. 696 01:08:32,885 --> 01:08:34,772 -Are you talking about Gitton? -Gitton. 697 01:08:35,789 --> 01:08:39,367 He had been a police informer for years. 698 01:08:39,416 --> 01:08:42,651 The secretary of organisation... 699 01:08:43,722 --> 01:08:48,088 Wasn't he behaving strangely lately? 700 01:08:49,249 --> 01:08:52,672 Didn't he leave you, come back late? 701 01:08:52,692 --> 01:08:54,355 Did the Party arrest him for his private life? 702 01:08:54,664 --> 01:08:57,452 To teach him moral? 703 01:08:57,538 --> 01:09:00,613 I have said he has not been found guilty. 704 01:09:00,883 --> 01:09:05,040 You should go back to France with your family. 705 01:09:05,204 --> 01:09:08,571 Oh yes? Should I be the first to condemn him? 706 01:09:08,758 --> 01:09:13,827 Why should I do it? Let he talk to me. 707 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,069 Your life won't be easy here. 708 01:09:17,372 --> 01:09:22,713 It's my duty to tell you that you have to leave the radio. 709 01:09:22,805 --> 01:09:26,007 Why? The direction has nominated me... 710 01:09:26,170 --> 01:09:27,860 ...the best journalist in French programmes. 711 01:09:28,025 --> 01:09:31,130 It doesn't matter. You can no longer work at official services. 712 01:09:31,793 --> 01:09:35,629 -You can go to a factory. -Is this punishment? 713 01:09:36,793 --> 01:09:40,152 An irritating appreciation for the working class,... 714 01:09:40,319 --> 01:09:43,142 -... it being in power. -It's not me who decides. 715 01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:46,692 In the Soviet Union this is how these matters are dealt with. 716 01:09:46,935 --> 01:09:51,236 Mom, they are taking the things away. I couldn't stop them. 717 01:09:52,795 --> 01:09:54,771 What are they doing? 718 01:09:56,534 --> 01:09:59,039 Dad, your paper. 719 01:09:59,726 --> 01:10:02,787 -What is the meaning of this? -Minister's orders. 720 01:10:02,861 --> 01:10:06,923 -You must vacate the house. You'll be given another. -Where? 721 01:10:07,785 --> 01:10:10,091 It's here. 722 01:10:16,916 --> 01:10:21,593 It could be worse. You can put the children here. 723 01:10:23,707 --> 01:10:27,995 -Who is this lady? -A friend. 724 01:10:28,746 --> 01:10:32,417 Her brother is with daddy. We are going to work together. 725 01:10:32,580 --> 01:10:35,281 His brother is in jail with daddy? 726 01:10:37,443 --> 01:10:40,417 -Who told you that? -Everyone says it at school. 727 01:10:51,747 --> 01:10:55,808 -Are you Londonova? -Yes. Do you know my husband? 728 01:10:55,970 --> 01:10:59,133 I heard of him. Some comrades where with him. 729 01:10:59,150 --> 01:11:05,656 I'm looking for work. I need it urgently. I don't know how to do anything. 730 01:11:05,737 --> 01:11:07,706 It doesn't matter. We we'll teach you. And you? 731 01:11:07,792 --> 01:11:10,455 I found a place at Autorenova. 732 01:11:10,532 --> 01:11:12,901 Good. Right next door. You'll be neighbours. 733 01:11:14,739 --> 01:11:17,933 If you want you can start at the end of the month. 734 01:11:18,326 --> 01:11:20,944 I'd like to. Thanks. 735 01:11:21,109 --> 01:11:24,215 -We'd like to be together. -If it was possible. 736 01:11:24,389 --> 01:11:26,691 I'll see what we can do. 737 01:11:39,709 --> 01:11:42,284 Come. Let's go! 738 01:11:45,753 --> 01:11:48,387 -They left because of me -No, no... 739 01:11:48,716 --> 01:11:53,353 Yes, they did... I'm used to it. 740 01:11:53,516 --> 01:11:56,687 Did you see? They arrested the Secretary General of the Party. 741 01:11:56,699 --> 01:11:59,997 I wonder where will they stop. I wrote him about G�rard. 742 01:12:01,718 --> 01:12:04,752 -He never got the letter. -Now it's over. 743 01:12:04,977 --> 01:12:06,709 With this arrest, everything will be cleared. 744 01:12:06,794 --> 01:12:10,794 -What did your paper say? -That he is responsible of the arrests. 745 01:12:10,962 --> 01:12:14,133 G�rard's included. 746 01:12:14,229 --> 01:12:17,001 To hide his nefarious economic policies... 747 01:12:17,065 --> 01:12:20,690 ...he set out on a purge of those who were against them. 748 01:12:21,857 --> 01:12:26,277 I know them... If you knew how they persecuted me... 749 01:12:26,748 --> 01:12:29,903 You'll see. G�rard will be freed soon. 750 01:12:30,718 --> 01:12:32,996 He was the chief redactor of the Party's paper. 751 01:12:33,157 --> 01:12:37,011 Weeks later, he was arrested, confessed and was... 752 01:12:37,162 --> 01:12:41,471 ...one of the 14 accused of conspiracy against the State, 753 01:12:41,662 --> 01:12:43,117 ...condemned and executed. 754 01:12:46,746 --> 01:12:49,228 There he is. 755 01:12:52,730 --> 01:12:55,671 I wish you much pleasure. 756 01:13:05,765 --> 01:13:08,386 Sit down. 757 01:13:08,963 --> 01:13:11,962 Sit down, sit down. 758 01:13:16,050 --> 01:13:19,511 In 6 months you have worn out 12 inquisitors... 759 01:13:20,750 --> 01:13:23,045 ... you ended up even irritating the commander. 760 01:13:23,114 --> 01:13:25,119 But don't worry. It doesn't matter. 761 01:13:25,193 --> 01:13:27,909 We shall start from the beginning. 762 01:13:28,772 --> 01:13:38,618 We have many more men, and more importantly, a lot of time. 763 01:13:38,784 --> 01:13:42,052 All that's necessary for you to confess everything. 764 01:13:42,124 --> 01:13:44,139 One year or more, if it's necessary. 765 01:13:44,311 --> 01:13:48,493 I have 5 months to make you confess. I'm not in a rush. 766 01:13:48,755 --> 01:13:52,686 You can't imagine the fun that awaits you. 767 01:13:57,792 --> 01:14:01,393 Put this on. 768 01:14:08,750 --> 01:14:11,654 Stand up. 769 01:14:15,821 --> 01:14:18,163 Walk. 770 01:14:20,332 --> 01:14:22,569 Walk. 771 01:14:25,740 --> 01:14:29,450 I later learned that Kohoutek, in the old day and during... 772 01:14:29,463 --> 01:14:30,710 ...the Nazi occupation, had been a police commissary,... 773 01:14:30,714 --> 01:14:34,576 ...in charge of the anticommunist repression. 774 01:14:35,758 --> 01:14:40,257 "I established contact with Noel Field in Geneva in 1947". 775 01:14:40,865 --> 01:14:44,897 -Sign, please. -The Party knows. I wrote a report. 776 01:14:45,798 --> 01:14:49,598 Finish it. Sign. 777 01:14:51,732 --> 01:14:52,934 The Party knows it very well. 778 01:14:55,626 --> 01:14:58,961 "For these contacts..." 779 01:14:58,962 --> 01:15:03,706 "... Noel Field paid me the sum of..." 780 01:15:03,707 --> 01:15:05,104 How much was it? 781 01:15:05,105 --> 01:15:10,285 Not "for these contacts" but "during these contacts" 782 01:15:10,286 --> 01:15:14,195 It was to pay for sanitary costs. The Party knew and authorised it. 783 01:15:14,196 --> 01:15:17,846 Who said otherwise? How much were you given? 784 01:15:19,228 --> 01:15:21,271 I can't remember... It was five years ago. 785 01:15:22,248 --> 01:15:26,481 I caught tuberculosis at the concentration camp. 786 01:15:29,034 --> 01:15:33,554 The Party knew of Field's health service for deportees. 787 01:15:47,778 --> 01:15:49,006 Go on. 788 01:16:01,798 --> 01:16:04,388 How much did Field give you? 789 01:16:04,389 --> 01:16:08,089 300 Swiss Francs? More? Less? 790 01:16:08,210 --> 01:16:09,974 -More -How much? 791 01:16:11,667 --> 01:16:13,652 Double, or more. 792 01:16:13,386 --> 01:16:15,839 Face the wall. You said 800 Francs? 793 01:16:16,935 --> 01:16:21,557 Now we are getting to the facts. That's what I want. 794 01:16:21,558 --> 01:16:23,795 "In 1947..." 795 01:16:23,796 --> 01:16:24,954 Come closer. 796 01:16:24,955 --> 01:16:29,223 "Noel Field paid me the sum..." 797 01:16:29,224 --> 01:16:32,808 "... of 800 Swiss Francs" 798 01:16:35,173 --> 01:16:36,746 Sign, please. 799 01:16:39,261 --> 01:16:41,733 - But the Party knows... - Go on. 800 01:16:44,949 --> 01:16:50,884 Szony, condemned to death at the Rajk trial, received only 300 Francs. 801 01:16:51,472 --> 01:16:53,906 - But mine... - ... were for sanitary expenses. 802 01:16:55,050 --> 01:16:56,419 Nobody is saying otherwise. 803 01:16:59,318 --> 01:17:02,015 "In 1947, in Switzerland... " 804 01:17:02,050 --> 01:17:04,053 "... I was in touch with the American spy, Noel Field" 805 01:17:05,349 --> 01:17:06,379 Sign here. 806 01:17:06,380 --> 01:17:10,604 No, in 1947 I didn't know that Field was a spy. 807 01:17:10,605 --> 01:17:14,365 Is Noel Field an American spy? 808 01:17:15,614 --> 01:17:20,102 Did the Rajk trial not establish that Field was an American spy? 809 01:17:21,353 --> 01:17:26,464 This resolution voted for the Party condemns the traitor Rajk 810 01:17:26,465 --> 01:17:28,749 Did you sign this resolution? 811 01:17:30,434 --> 01:17:32,868 -To cover yourself up... -No! 812 01:17:33,169 --> 01:17:39,521 Did the Rajk trial not establish that Field was a spy in 1947? 813 01:17:39,722 --> 01:17:43,617 Yes but, in 1947, we did not know he was a spy. 814 01:17:43,618 --> 01:17:46,915 Let's say that in 1947 you were in touch with... 815 01:17:46,916 --> 01:17:51,131 ... a spy unmasked in 1949? 816 01:17:52,876 --> 01:17:54,358 Say it then. 817 01:17:56,762 --> 01:17:59,538 "In 1947, in Switzerland... 818 01:17:59,539 --> 01:18:02,978 "... I was in touch with the American spy, Noel Field" 819 01:18:03,124 --> 01:18:07,990 Yes, but in 1947 I could not know what was to be discovered in '49. 820 01:18:08,076 --> 01:18:11,563 No one could anticipate in 1947 that Field was a spy. 821 01:18:25,966 --> 01:18:27,777 Well... 822 01:18:28,316 --> 01:18:33,131 Let us consider each fact objectively. 823 01:18:33,457 --> 01:18:35,701 Later we shall consider the subjective aspect. 824 01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:43,079 Noel Field was an American spy. You were in touch with him. 825 01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:45,028 I did it because... 826 01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,847 -What kind of contact did you have? -I did it because... 827 01:18:47,848 --> 01:18:51,745 Spying... Espionage contacts. 828 01:18:51,970 --> 01:18:54,288 -Really, no. -Admit it. 829 01:18:54,461 --> 01:18:58,339 No, I was sick and had no money, so I got in touch... 830 01:18:58,340 --> 01:19:00,724 ... with Field's health service. 831 01:19:00,725 --> 01:19:03,024 I am not a social worker. 832 01:19:09,508 --> 01:19:12,403 How did you establish your spy contacts with Field? 833 01:19:12,504 --> 01:19:15,486 It wasn't spying. 834 01:19:15,487 --> 01:19:17,995 You signed these declarations. 835 01:19:18,096 --> 01:19:20,228 "In 1947, in Switzerland... 836 01:19:20,229 --> 01:19:23,482 "... I was in touch with the American spy, Noel Field" 837 01:19:23,483 --> 01:19:28,792 "In 1947, Noel Field paid me the sum of 800 Swiss Francs". 838 01:19:30,331 --> 01:19:31,426 Consider the facts. 839 01:19:33,912 --> 01:19:36,745 Why would an American spy pay for the expenses of a communist officer? 840 01:19:37,096 --> 01:19:41,583 We are just listing the facts, I repeat:... 841 01:19:41,651 --> 01:19:43,890 The subjective aspects... 842 01:19:45,887 --> 01:19:49,628 ... will be dealt with later. 843 01:19:49,206 --> 01:19:51,824 Ready. 844 01:19:51,813 --> 01:19:57,280 "In 1947 I got in touch with Noel Field. As he was a spy..." 845 01:19:57,745 --> 01:19:59,873 I resumed it in the most favourable way for you. 846 01:20:00,924 --> 01:20:03,486 "and as I was in touch with him, I am... 847 01:20:03,531 --> 01:20:06,352 ...objectively guilty of spying contacts. 848 01:20:06,475 --> 01:20:09,377 In that moment, Field gave me 800 Swiss francs". 849 01:20:09,746 --> 01:20:14,880 Ready. If you would sign... I have taken out the subjective appreciations. 850 01:20:16,742 --> 01:20:19,537 Excuse me. 851 01:20:27,706 --> 01:20:30,766 Here, too. For the translation. 852 01:20:36,930 --> 01:20:39,580 For the comrades counsellors. 853 01:20:39,745 --> 01:20:42,435 Ah, I almost forgot... 854 01:20:45,466 --> 01:20:48,781 I have a letter from your wife for you. 855 01:20:51,953 --> 01:20:54,182 After you can sleep for a while. 856 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,975 Standard position. 857 01:21:19,743 --> 01:21:23,826 Sit down. The chief forgot to make you sign this. 858 01:21:23,743 --> 01:21:27,045 "Given that the veterans of the Brigades recognise being... 859 01:21:27,063 --> 01:21:32,589 ...Trotskyists and traitors, being responsible for them... 860 01:21:32,659 --> 01:21:36,536 ...puts me at the same level, objectively". Sign. 861 01:21:36,606 --> 01:21:39,035 Afterwards you can write to your family. 862 01:21:44,786 --> 01:21:47,519 "In the Communist Youth I had already worked... 863 01:21:47,633 --> 01:21:51,500 ...under the direction of Smirkovsky... 864 01:21:51,669 --> 01:21:56,112 ... whose Trotskyist past... 865 01:21:56,276 --> 01:21:58,705 ... is well-known". 866 01:21:58,825 --> 01:22:02,591 -I never said that. -Didn't you work with Smirkovsky? 867 01:22:02,004 --> 01:22:05,181 Yes, but I never said that he was Trotskyist. 868 01:22:05,747 --> 01:22:08,430 He said it himself. 869 01:22:10,794 --> 01:22:14,448 -Do you know his signature? -No. 870 01:22:14,489 --> 01:22:17,695 It's his. It only reasserts his confession. 871 01:22:24,646 --> 01:22:26,934 We are convinced he was a Trotskyist... 872 01:22:27,105 --> 01:22:30,366 -...before going to Spain. -Where did you get from? 873 01:22:30,633 --> 01:22:36,837 Tipee. In 1936, you brought Wagner, a Trotskyist ... 874 01:22:36,864 --> 01:22:42,457 ... expelled from the Party to your hotel in Moscow. 875 01:22:42,500 --> 01:22:46,196 You were sceptical about the Moscow trials. 876 01:22:46,786 --> 01:22:52,380 I have to include something in this questions. Come closer. 877 01:22:54,550 --> 01:22:58,201 "In Moscow, I lived in a hotel full of Trotskyists". 878 01:22:58,366 --> 01:23:00,754 How will the President of the Republic... 879 01:23:00,924 --> 01:23:03,575 ... and the Secretary General. 880 01:23:03,741 --> 01:23:06,333 They lived in the same hotel. 881 01:23:06,700 --> 01:23:11,475 Precisely. The former Secretary General of the Party... 882 01:23:12,124 --> 01:23:13,774 ...is here. 883 01:23:15,307 --> 01:23:21,103 Do not build your hopes up. It's no excuse. To the contrary. It proves... 884 01:23:21,167 --> 01:23:23,396 ...that they appointed you to important posts... 885 01:23:23,497 --> 01:23:27,014 ...to take the power in benefit of the American imperialists. 886 01:23:27,112 --> 01:23:29,771 -Is it you who says that? -No, he will say it. 887 01:23:30,749 --> 01:23:34,553 And you will confirm it. You already started saying it. 888 01:23:34,791 --> 01:23:36,980 I will never sign any of this. 889 01:23:37,751 --> 01:23:41,533 Yes, you will. Like all the others. 890 01:23:44,373 --> 01:23:47,650 Do you think the Party arrested the Secretary lightly? 891 01:23:50,677 --> 01:23:53,124 The secretary wrote the British Zilliacus. His... 892 01:23:53,226 --> 01:23:57,263 ...letters went by diplomatic bag, through your... 893 01:23:57,426 --> 01:23:59,604 ...services. How many letters? 894 01:23:59,614 --> 01:24:02,030 -Zilliacus is from the peace movement. -He was an agent... 895 01:24:02,034 --> 01:24:04,106 ...of the Intelligence Service. 896 01:24:04,458 --> 01:24:08,491 Add: "I declare having received and sent..." 897 01:24:08,757 --> 01:24:12,544 -How many letters? Four, five? -No, two. 898 01:24:13,712 --> 01:24:15,752 Five. 899 01:24:19,368 --> 01:24:21,855 I'm going to translation. You sign later. 900 01:24:33,740 --> 01:24:36,058 Put these on. 901 01:24:36,224 --> 01:24:37,712 And walk. Walk! 902 01:24:40,935 --> 01:24:44,040 Traducido. Puede firmar. Ah� tiene. 903 01:24:48,727 --> 01:24:51,283 After you can go to sleep. 904 01:24:51,854 --> 01:24:55,893 -Wait. It's not the same. -It's a copy. 905 01:24:58,254 --> 01:25:01,189 -No it's not. -It is, you are tired. 906 01:25:01,373 --> 01:25:03,762 -No, it's not a copy. -Yes, it is. 907 01:25:04,125 --> 01:25:06,012 You may sleep. 908 01:25:09,972 --> 01:25:14,466 According to declarations you signed, and to testimonies... 909 01:25:14,636 --> 01:25:17,774 ...you denounced the Clandestine Central Committee to the Gestapo... 910 01:25:17,843 --> 01:25:21,797 ...thus indirectly provoking the execution of Fucik. 911 01:25:21,851 --> 01:25:25,700 Testimonies? What is this dirty game? 912 01:25:30,174 --> 01:25:33,462 "I organised the return of Klecan by procuring him documents". 913 01:25:34,953 --> 01:25:37,085 You say that Klecan was in your Trotskyist group and... 914 01:25:37,750 --> 01:25:40,031 ...recognise yourself responsible for them. 915 01:25:41,193 --> 01:25:43,259 -I followed instructions... -Sit down. 916 01:25:43,725 --> 01:25:47,886 I followed instructions. Klecan was in France. We took him... 917 01:25:47,895 --> 01:25:51,092 out of jail and got him false papers... 918 01:25:51,108 --> 01:25:53,743 -...so that he could come back. -Klecan denounced Fulk and... 919 01:25:53,807 --> 01:25:55,902 ...the Clandestine Central Committee to the Gestapo? 920 01:25:55,977 --> 01:25:58,171 -Klecan didn't talk. -Were you present? 921 01:25:59,678 --> 01:26:02,605 -It was said... -There is no proof, your Trotskyist group says that... 922 01:26:02,670 --> 01:26:07,593 ...you ordered Klecan to denounce the Central Committee. 923 01:26:07,658 --> 01:26:09,896 -But Klecan... -Don't argue. We have testimonies. 924 01:26:10,061 --> 01:26:12,239 And what about the Clandestine Central Committee? 925 01:26:12,405 --> 01:26:16,582 I put in the interrogation of Rejistin, who already signed it 926 01:26:16,549 --> 01:26:17,726 Well, put this on. 927 01:26:20,949 --> 01:26:24,428 "In Spain I had more esteem for the anarchist leaders... 928 01:26:24,429 --> 01:26:29,762 -...than for those of the Party". -I won't sign that. 929 01:26:29,931 --> 01:26:32,971 In Spain I admired leaders... 930 01:26:33,139 --> 01:26:35,113 ...such as La Pasionaria, Durruti. 931 01:26:42,782 --> 01:26:44,251 Walk. 932 01:26:53,719 --> 01:26:56,426 Walk, I said! 933 01:26:56,595 --> 01:26:59,252 We've been stuck with this for days. 934 01:26:59,418 --> 01:27:00,872 I had to delay my trip. 935 01:27:03,241 --> 01:27:06,485 -Given to your anarchist activities. -I never had... 936 01:27:06,649 --> 01:27:08,201 -...anarchist activities. -Yes 937 01:27:08,368 --> 01:27:10,026 You wanted to blow up the town hall. 938 01:27:10,192 --> 01:27:12,402 I was 15. 939 01:27:12,416 --> 01:27:15,230 The age were tendencies are crystallised. Moreover,... 940 01:27:15,391 --> 01:27:18,569 it's a formality. The cuffs. We cannot try you for that. 941 01:27:20,735 --> 01:27:23,230 It's just an administrative question. 942 01:27:23,663 --> 01:27:26,573 The Party can condemn you severely with... 943 01:27:26,588 --> 01:27:29,053 ...little material or lightly, with a lot. 944 01:27:30,222 --> 01:27:33,517 All you have left is to surrender completely to the Party. 945 01:27:38,778 --> 01:27:43,303 Good. Now I can go on holiday. Don't spoil it. 946 01:27:44,821 --> 01:27:47,609 "In Albacete, at the HQ of the Brigades... 947 01:27:47,672 --> 01:27:51,528 -...I met the Titoist Dapchevitch". -No. 948 01:27:51,692 --> 01:27:52,869 I'm reading from your previous declarations. 949 01:27:52,908 --> 01:27:58,533 Not only did I meet Dapchevitch But also Luigi Longo,... 950 01:27:58,573 --> 01:28:01,481 -...Paglietta, Mart�... -Face the wall! 951 01:28:02,743 --> 01:28:07,195 -We haven't got there, yet. -I never said the word "Titoist" 952 01:28:07,547 --> 01:28:11,401 It's not a word, it's a political qualification that... 953 01:28:11,490 --> 01:28:13,079 ...defines our enemies. 954 01:28:13,082 --> 01:28:16,205 In '37 in Spain there were Yugoslav communists... 955 01:28:16,236 --> 01:28:20,759 -...not Titoists. -And you got to Vice minister? You ignore... 956 01:28:20,824 --> 01:28:24,046 ...the basis of dialectics. You must judge the past in... 957 01:28:24,120 --> 01:28:27,062 ...the light of the current truths of the Party. 958 01:28:29,192 --> 01:28:33,134 Do you know what Titoism is? Say it, sir, say it! 959 01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:37,083 I approved the denunciation of Titoism. 960 01:28:37,695 --> 01:28:41,510 Do not talk about your approval! Dapchevitch is a Titoist. 961 01:28:41,118 --> 01:28:43,768 He is a Minister of Tito's. 962 01:28:45,933 --> 01:28:50,032 Are you waiting for daylight? You won't sleep before you sign. 963 01:28:51,309 --> 01:28:53,570 -Good day. -How were your holidays? 964 01:28:54,244 --> 01:28:59,146 -They did me good. -Great, here we are still the same. 965 01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,361 Still bothering. No wonder he is Jewish. 966 01:29:04,361 --> 01:29:06,189 All right? You did well in telling your wife... 967 01:29:06,344 --> 01:29:08,871 ...to go back to France. It's the best she can do. 968 01:29:08,953 --> 01:29:12,164 Did you see her? 969 01:29:12,736 --> 01:29:15,037 Did she not write you? 970 01:29:18,031 --> 01:29:19,242 Sit down, sit down. 971 01:29:22,048 --> 01:29:24,081 The leadership of the Party has asked for and interrogation... 972 01:29:24,177 --> 01:29:30,118 ...that synthesises all this and reflects your activities. 973 01:29:29,710 --> 01:29:34,940 The counsellors prepared the project to win time. 974 01:29:36,103 --> 01:29:37,880 -But... will they hang me? -No, no way. 975 01:29:37,992 --> 01:29:43,588 The interrogation won't go to court. It's internal. 976 01:29:44,319 --> 01:29:46,734 Your co-accused have already signed theirs. 977 01:29:46,902 --> 01:29:49,462 -Believe me. They are much graver. -"In 1947,... 978 01:29:49,502 --> 01:29:53,358 ...I got in touch with Field, the well-known... 979 01:29:53,447 --> 01:29:56,403 ...American agent, in return for the information I gave him... 980 01:29:56,566 --> 01:30:01,690 ...he gave me 800 Swiss Francs". In return for what information? 981 01:30:02,567 --> 01:30:04,162 But that is impossible! 982 01:30:04,737 --> 01:30:07,267 The Party approved the way this was put. 983 01:30:07,413 --> 01:30:12,481 Do like him. Show yourself to be a good communist. 984 01:30:12,508 --> 01:30:15,493 -I won't sign that I am a Trotskyist spy -You are still a communist. 985 01:30:15,364 --> 01:30:17,748 For that, you won't assume your mistakes. 986 01:30:21,283 --> 01:30:25,520 confessions are the highest form of self-criticism. 987 01:30:24,962 --> 01:30:28,872 Self-criticism is the main virtue of communists. 988 01:30:36,090 --> 01:30:38,650 They ask for corrections. 989 01:30:38,842 --> 01:30:43,730 Your friend Hadju, replace Trotskyist for Zionist. 990 01:30:43,747 --> 01:30:46,323 It's Jew, not Zionist. 991 01:30:46,491 --> 01:30:49,725 We are in a popular democracy. "Jew" is an insult. 992 01:30:49,753 --> 01:30:54,306 -Let's leave "Zionist". -It's a political qualification. 993 01:30:55,402 --> 01:30:59,198 In the USSR it's forbidden. They use "Hebrew". 994 01:30:59,561 --> 01:31:02,501 Put "Hebrew". Zionist is not the same. 995 01:31:02,601 --> 01:31:08,510 "Hebrew" doesn't sound well. "Zionist" It's the order. 996 01:31:10,808 --> 01:31:14,039 Let's go on. Wait. 997 01:31:14,764 --> 01:31:16,757 This is the paper of the accusation. 998 01:31:16,713 --> 01:31:21,560 Afterwards we shall write de the defence, dictated by yourself 999 01:31:25,721 --> 01:31:29,176 There was never a defence paper. 1000 01:31:30,872 --> 01:31:34,208 After hearing "Trotskyist", "Titoist", "nationalist", "bourgeois"... 1001 01:31:34,272 --> 01:31:36,701 for so long, words start losing meaning. If you asked me to write... 1002 01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:41,160 ..."My Trotskyist son Michel is one", I would have signed. 1003 01:31:41,735 --> 01:31:45,324 I had only one way out: suicide. I attempted it. Twice. 1004 01:31:45,492 --> 01:31:50,199 And yet you're still a communist. I can't understand it. It's a faith. 1005 01:31:50,911 --> 01:31:52,187 They are believers who dislike the church. 1006 01:31:52,295 --> 01:31:56,165 Which one? There are many. God is already dead. 1007 01:31:56,326 --> 01:32:00,115 -Today we can be communists. -And what happened to Field? 1008 01:32:01,133 --> 01:32:03,490 In '55 he reappeared in Hungary. 1009 01:32:03,597 --> 01:32:05,419 They freed and rehabilitated him. 1010 01:32:05,429 --> 01:32:08,603 He's still there. Didn't want to come back West. 1011 01:32:08,633 --> 01:32:11,381 But what was him? An American agent? A Russian one? 1012 01:32:11,868 --> 01:32:15,777 -Maybe one day he writes about. -But why did they choose him? 1013 01:32:16,725 --> 01:32:19,535 Soon after the Spanish Civil War he directed a service... 1014 01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:22,331 ... of aid to refugees in Marseille and Geneva. 1015 01:32:22,957 --> 01:32:26,388 He met many communists in Central Europe. He helped them. 1016 01:32:26,635 --> 01:32:32,498 And he was still in touch with Alan Dulle, who directed an American... 1017 01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:33,088 ...information network in Switzerland. It's not simple. 1018 01:32:33,132 --> 01:32:36,520 In the war against Hitler, the USSR and the USA were allies. 1019 01:32:36,707 --> 01:32:40,329 Then when the Cold War came the US fired Field because... 1020 01:32:40,500 --> 01:32:42,976 ...he knew too many communists. 1021 01:32:43,028 --> 01:32:46,191 And the Soviets made him look like he was an American agent. 1022 01:32:46,287 --> 01:32:50,313 It's your twentieth month of interrogations. 1023 01:32:51,783 --> 01:32:55,003 Learn this by heart: questions and answers. 1024 01:32:56,091 --> 01:32:58,690 Take it. 1025 01:32:58,735 --> 01:33:01,103 Put your blindfold on. 1026 01:33:01,731 --> 01:33:05,305 Question: "Did you confess to directing... 1027 01:33:05,475 --> 01:33:07,596 ...a plot against the State?" 1028 01:33:07,658 --> 01:33:09,162 "Yes, I did not hide anything. Not during the proceeding... 1029 01:33:09,201 --> 01:33:10,762 ...nor before the Court. I admit to my participation... 1030 01:33:10,929 --> 01:33:13,871 ...in the centre of the conspiracy against the State..." 1031 01:33:20,794 --> 01:33:22,790 Speak your text when he finished talking. 1032 01:33:23,008 --> 01:33:25,553 Just like we rehearsed. 1033 01:33:30,743 --> 01:33:35,126 -Good. There you are. -You know your text. -Take that off. 1034 01:33:35,784 --> 01:33:40,501 He doesn't look good. How often does he sunbathe? 1035 01:33:40,795 --> 01:33:43,868 -Never, for the past 21 months. -What do you mean, never? 1036 01:33:44,730 --> 01:33:47,086 At least it's nearly over. 1037 01:33:47,730 --> 01:33:50,917 It wasn't always easy. Put it on. 1038 01:33:50,966 --> 01:33:55,142 Now you'll face your leader and accomplices. Come. 1039 01:33:57,725 --> 01:34:02,041 The Party asked for a report on your behaviour. 1040 01:34:06,029 --> 01:34:07,938 Take the blindfold off. 1041 01:34:10,757 --> 01:34:13,418 Sit down. 1042 01:34:13,730 --> 01:34:16,393 I travelled often to the Popular Democracies... 1043 01:34:16,556 --> 01:34:20,386 ...and had contacts with Domoulka in Poland... 1044 01:34:20,556 --> 01:34:23,633 ...and in Yugoslavia with Tito and his fascists. 1045 01:34:23,688 --> 01:34:26,530 ...in Hungary with Rajk, in Bulgaria with Kosto. 1046 01:34:26,690 --> 01:34:30,316 We ended up meeting, all fallen into the same trap. 1047 01:34:30,675 --> 01:34:34,163 The Secretary General, who ordered the first arrests... 1048 01:34:34,208 --> 01:34:37,322 ...and the Security Minister, who prepared the process... 1049 01:34:37,324 --> 01:34:38,937 ...with the Soviet counsellors. 1050 01:34:39,003 --> 01:34:42,225 I build the nucleus of the conspiracy against the State... 1051 01:34:42,473 --> 01:34:44,436 ...with many enemies. 1052 01:34:44,547 --> 01:34:47,523 Later I found out the Secretary General had attempted suicide... 1053 01:34:47,610 --> 01:34:49,259 ...hurling himself against the wall. 1054 01:34:49,434 --> 01:34:52,475 To avoid it they padded his cell. 1055 01:34:52,536 --> 01:34:58,493 Another time, being alone, he tried to hang himself. 1056 01:34:58,793 --> 01:35:01,436 They threw down the door just in time. 1057 01:35:01,578 --> 01:35:04,650 His saviour was given a medal for the feat. 1058 01:35:04,678 --> 01:35:06,492 ...men who lived in the West before and during... 1059 01:35:06,529 --> 01:35:09,634 ...the war. That's how I introduced in the General Secretariat... 1060 01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:12,295 ...the bourgeois nationalist Bederich Geminder, in... 1061 01:35:12,464 --> 01:35:16,505 ...Security, J. Pavel and Karel Svab, in Foreign... 1062 01:35:16,674 --> 01:35:18,607 ...affairs the Vice-minister... 1063 01:35:18,665 --> 01:35:21,686 Why do this here? Nobody will know. 1064 01:35:21,690 --> 01:35:24,343 The Party asked for a report on your behaviour. 1065 01:35:24,414 --> 01:35:27,386 -If you confess, then there's a closed-doors trial -You must... 1066 01:35:27,451 --> 01:35:29,853 ...survive. You'll tell the truth. 1067 01:35:32,715 --> 01:35:35,723 You signed all this. 1068 01:35:36,719 --> 01:35:40,558 I was part of a conspiracy against the State... 1069 01:35:40,626 --> 01:35:42,922 ...directed by the Secretary General of the Party. 1070 01:35:43,787 --> 01:35:47,028 I was responsible for a Trotskyist group in the Ministry... 1071 01:35:47,178 --> 01:35:49,528 ...of Foreign Affairs... 1072 01:35:50,770 --> 01:35:54,598 You did well to stick to the text. 1073 01:35:54,797 --> 01:35:57,589 That's what you should do in the public trial. 1074 01:35:59,712 --> 01:36:03,079 The Secretary General wants to limit your role to the ideological... 1075 01:36:03,121 --> 01:36:05,429 ...direction of the group... 1076 01:36:05,653 --> 01:36:08,178 In Moscow, Bukharin did the same, but it cost him his head. 1077 01:36:08,749 --> 01:36:13,454 Well... Now we have to learn from all this. 1078 01:36:13,549 --> 01:36:16,337 Don't worry. It'll be there. 1079 01:36:16,637 --> 01:36:20,017 Solicitor: "How many espionage letters... 1080 01:36:20,117 --> 01:36:22,341 ...did you take to Zilliacus?" 1081 01:36:23,376 --> 01:36:24,110 Answer... 1082 01:36:25,012 --> 01:36:29,285 ...Two, maybe five... I didn't keep account. 1083 01:36:30,189 --> 01:36:33,863 Solicitor: "be more precise. Ten letters have been mentioned" 1084 01:36:34,211 --> 01:36:34,961 Answer... 1085 01:36:35,302 --> 01:36:36,772 Maybe there were ten. 1086 01:36:44,437 --> 01:36:46,322 Your injection. 1087 01:36:49,926 --> 01:36:51,317 It's calcium. 1088 01:36:52,652 --> 01:36:54,149 Warms you up, right? 1089 01:36:55,306 --> 01:36:56,878 You are as white as chalk. 1090 01:36:57,279 --> 01:36:59,544 We'll have to fix that. 1091 01:36:59,749 --> 01:37:04,337 Guided by my bourgeois instinct to have a career... 1092 01:37:04,449 --> 01:37:05,337 No. 1093 01:37:06,749 --> 01:37:10,637 Guided by my bourgeois instinct to have a career... 1094 01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:13,520 No. "Selfish". "Bourgeois and selfish". 1095 01:37:15,688 --> 01:37:18,446 "Guided by my bourgeois and selfish instinct... 1096 01:37:18,511 --> 01:37:21,551 ...to have a career and assure my welfare... 1097 01:37:21,692 --> 01:37:24,551 ...being in the West I became cosmopolitan... 1098 01:37:24,675 --> 01:37:28,885 -... and joined the ranks of the bourgeoisie". -That's it. Good. 1099 01:37:28,942 --> 01:37:34,587 No. It's not good at all. The text is good. 1100 01:37:34,714 --> 01:37:38,073 But no-one will believe you are guilty if you speak like that. 1101 01:37:46,737 --> 01:37:50,155 You're lucky I'm here. 1102 01:37:50,318 --> 01:37:54,555 You're not the main accused. The injection? 1103 01:37:54,613 --> 01:37:57,875 -Yes, only five to go. -Good. It gives him colour. 1104 01:38:01,020 --> 01:38:02,875 Take that off. 1105 01:38:05,957 --> 01:38:08,266 Dr. Novak, President of the State Tribunal. 1106 01:38:08,405 --> 01:38:13,444 -Have you ever been convicted? -Yes, twice. 1107 01:38:13,548 --> 01:38:17,305 In the years '31, '32. And in Paris in 1942. 1108 01:38:17,957 --> 01:38:22,339 -For what reasons? -The first, for communist activities 1109 01:38:22,508 --> 01:38:26,126 The second, for participating in the struggle against the Nazis. 1110 01:38:26,184 --> 01:38:30,628 There's no need to write that down. Do you have a lawyer? 1111 01:38:30,794 --> 01:38:33,551 -No. and I don't want one. -The law obliges you. 1112 01:38:33,743 --> 01:38:35,864 The State shall provide you with one. 1113 01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:38,828 Dr. Ruzick, your lawyer. 1114 01:38:41,756 --> 01:38:46,625 Despite the gravity of your case, the State takes good care of you. 1115 01:38:46,779 --> 01:38:51,680 -Spoils you. -It fattens me. Like a goose. 1116 01:38:51,774 --> 01:38:54,416 -What? -You were saying...? My case is grave? 1117 01:38:54,586 --> 01:38:56,990 You risk capital punishment, which is what you deserve. 1118 01:38:58,154 --> 01:39:00,430 Which is contemplated by the law. 1119 01:39:00,593 --> 01:39:02,699 You will only receive a lighter sentence... 1120 01:39:02,700 --> 01:39:06,015 ...if you plead guilty and behave well. 1121 01:39:06,778 --> 01:39:10,090 "What was your role in the conspiracy?" 1122 01:39:10,104 --> 01:39:12,294 "I recognize that I established spy contacts as a member of... 1123 01:39:12,491 --> 01:39:14,734 the conspiracy of the Secretary General... 1124 01:39:14,968 --> 01:39:21,691 ...with the British agent Zilliacus and that I used the diplomatic mail... 1125 01:39:21,712 --> 01:39:24,798 ...at the Ministry. Moreover I was in touch with the American spy Noel... 1126 01:39:24,856 --> 01:39:26,863 ...Field and I gave him secret information" 1127 01:39:27,969 --> 01:39:30,318 I have spoken with the attorney. 1128 01:39:31,055 --> 01:39:35,220 -And? -He believes your case is the least grave. 1129 01:39:36,536 --> 01:39:41,390 Fifteen years top. I told you: it's your only chance. 1130 01:39:41,728 --> 01:39:46,014 Behave well. If you don't, your family will suffer. 1131 01:39:49,623 --> 01:39:51,761 The security minister wanted to see you. 1132 01:39:58,779 --> 01:40:00,740 In the name of the Party and the President of the Republic 1133 01:40:00,762 --> 01:40:06,069 ...I appeal to you to stick to the Tribunal's record. 1134 01:40:06,431 --> 01:40:08,049 You would be doing a great favour to the Party. 1135 01:40:08,830 --> 01:40:13,165 The situation is dire. There is risk of war. 1136 01:40:13,326 --> 01:40:15,299 The Party hopes you are guided by its interests. 1137 01:40:15,406 --> 01:40:19,122 That would be taken into account. Don't forget who protects your family. 1138 01:40:19,725 --> 01:40:22,663 It won't suffer the consequences of this trial. 1139 01:40:23,906 --> 01:40:26,971 The night before the trial they brought me a new suit from home 1140 01:40:34,663 --> 01:40:36,684 Don't forget the tie 1141 01:40:38,906 --> 01:40:40,738 -These? -Yes 1142 01:40:47,934 --> 01:40:50,355 -Is he going to be let out soon? -I don't know, madam 1143 01:40:52,815 --> 01:40:54,101 Is he coming home? 1144 01:40:54,102 --> 01:40:58,314 They took away my brother's things as well. Maybe they will come back tonight 1145 01:40:58,586 --> 01:40:59,389 To school, boys 1146 01:43:03,729 --> 01:43:06,520 Later we found out the ones in charge... 1147 01:43:06,684 --> 01:43:09,619 ...of getting rid of the ashes of the executed,... 1148 01:43:08,707 --> 01:43:12,110 ...found their way blocked by snow... 1149 01:43:12,140 --> 01:43:16,027 ...and decided to spill them on the roadside. The drivers joked. 1150 01:43:19,189 --> 01:43:22,011 First time I take 14 people in my Tatraplan. 1151 01:43:22,172 --> 01:43:25,179 Us 3 and 11 more in the bag. 1152 01:44:33,747 --> 01:44:37,649 The session is open. I speak to the defendants. 1153 01:44:37,712 --> 01:44:41,652 Was the time contemplated by the law respected for the viewing before a court? 1154 01:44:41,677 --> 01:44:43,050 -Yes 1155 01:44:43,755 --> 01:44:47,042 Carry on with the reading of the accusations and... 1156 01:44:47,150 --> 01:44:48,793 ...the unfolding of the debates. Make use of your right... 1157 01:44:48,954 --> 01:44:53,223 ...to express your opinion. I remind you that you may... 1158 01:44:53,386 --> 01:44:58,485 ...defend yourselves as you see fit. 1159 01:44:59,434 --> 01:45:02,611 I give the word to the comrade General Attorney. 1160 01:45:05,778 --> 01:45:09,592 The investigation of the Ministry of Security... 1161 01:45:09,729 --> 01:45:12,187 ...establishes that the North American imperialists, 1162 01:45:12,753 --> 01:45:17,847 ...assuring their control over the world, just after the II World War, 1163 01:45:18,780 --> 01:45:21,119 organized a conspiracy against the peace of the peoples. 1164 01:45:21,289 --> 01:45:24,997 In the popular democracies the created clandestine centres... 1165 01:45:25,003 --> 01:45:29,881 ...with corrupted elements. I accuse you all of being traitors... 1166 01:45:30,047 --> 01:45:32,863 ...Trotskyists, Titoists, Zionists... 1167 01:45:32,999 --> 01:45:35,605 ...bourgeois nationalists and enemies of the people... 1168 01:45:35,720 --> 01:45:40,235 ...for creating a conspiracy nucleus subject... 1169 01:45:40,431 --> 01:45:42,504 ... to the American Imperialists, directed... 1170 01:45:42,695 --> 01:45:44,125 ...by western information agencies... 1171 01:45:44,176 --> 01:45:48,499 ...to break up the people's alliance and friendship... 1172 01:45:48,588 --> 01:45:51,512 ...to the Soviet Union, to overthrow the regime... 1173 01:45:51,603 --> 01:45:53,726 ...to halt the building of Socialism... 1174 01:45:53,927 --> 01:45:56,585 ...and restore capitalism. 1175 01:45:57,795 --> 01:46:02,269 Even though the conspirators and their boss may have... 1176 01:46:02,693 --> 01:46:06,034 ...risen to important positions in the Party and the State... 1177 01:46:06,767 --> 01:46:11,387 ... they did not manage, like Tito in Yugoslavia, to take the power... 1178 01:46:11,579 --> 01:46:16,117 ...nor reach their criminal goal. Thanks to our loyalty... 1179 01:46:16,237 --> 01:46:21,088 ...to the Soviet Union, the conspiracy was defeated. 1180 01:46:21,710 --> 01:46:24,930 For that, the accused:... 1181 01:46:26,797 --> 01:46:28,759 ...Ex-Secretary General of the Party, of Jewish origin... 1182 01:46:29,881 --> 01:46:33,135 ...ex-Head of Foreign Affairs of the Party... 1183 01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:35,513 ...of Jewish origin... 1184 01:46:35,656 --> 01:46:38,623 ...ex-Head of Economy, of Jewish origin... 1185 01:46:38,727 --> 01:46:43,414 ...Ex-Junior Secretary General of the Party, Czech... 1186 01:46:42,735 --> 01:46:46,185 ...ex-Minister Foreign Affairs, Slovak... 1187 01:46:46,208 --> 01:46:48,643 ...ex-Vice minister of National Defence, of Jewish origin... 1188 01:46:49,319 --> 01:46:54,392 ex-Vice minister of Security, Czech, of Jewish origin... 1189 01:46:52,927 --> 01:46:59,032 ...the two Vice ministers of Foreign Affairs... 1190 01:46:59,122 --> 01:47:02,084 ...of Jewish origin... 1191 01:47:02,253 --> 01:47:04,510 ...the two Vice ministers of Foreign Trade. 1192 01:47:04,717 --> 01:47:05,994 ...of Jewish origin... 1193 01:47:06,710 --> 01:47:09,871 ex-Vice minister of Finance, of Jewish origin... 1194 01:47:09,916 --> 01:47:14,608 ...Ex-Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Party, Jewish... 1195 01:47:14,673 --> 01:47:17,839 ...ex-Chief of staff of the Party's newspaper, Jewish... 1196 01:47:17,924 --> 01:47:20,692 I accuse you all of... 1197 01:47:20,737 --> 01:47:24,124 During the 3 hours that the accusations lasted... 1198 01:47:24,269 --> 01:47:26,518 ...an absolute silence reigns in the room. 1199 01:47:26,869 --> 01:47:30,756 They film us. We shall be the spectacle of dark rooms. 1200 01:47:33,340 --> 01:47:35,545 Session adjourned. 1201 01:47:50,740 --> 01:47:53,569 Stay sat. 1202 01:47:54,588 --> 01:47:57,416 Cigarettes. 1203 01:48:00,767 --> 01:48:02,249 Everything ok? 1204 01:48:07,328 --> 01:48:09,507 Everything ok? 1205 01:48:10,095 --> 01:48:12,103 Cigarettes? 1206 01:48:19,730 --> 01:48:21,685 Take a drag. 1207 01:48:22,752 --> 01:48:26,162 -It's a political process. We don't need deaths. -Open... 1208 01:48:26,288 --> 01:48:27,949 ...your mouth. They are vitamins. Swallow. 1209 01:48:29,884 --> 01:48:33,015 Do you need anything? 1210 01:48:35,140 --> 01:48:37,981 The President of the Republic wishes everything to go smoothly. 1211 01:48:38,027 --> 01:48:40,522 It depends on you. 1212 01:49:05,735 --> 01:49:08,123 -Everything ok? -Yes 1213 01:49:10,767 --> 01:49:13,733 I have news. 1214 01:49:14,980 --> 01:49:19,345 There will be no capital punishment. The party does not want heads... 1215 01:49:19,571 --> 01:49:22,261 ...just a high-level political trial. 1216 01:49:22,427 --> 01:49:26,314 If there are 1 or 2 death sentences they will be a mere formality. 1217 01:49:28,387 --> 01:49:30,499 If anyone tries anything before the court... 1218 01:49:30,513 --> 01:49:33,410 their microphone will be turned off and they won't be heard. 1219 01:49:33,701 --> 01:49:37,217 And in will come the witnesses. 1220 01:49:57,737 --> 01:50:00,280 It's mine. 1221 01:50:04,742 --> 01:50:06,475 The session is open. 1222 01:50:09,742 --> 01:50:13,048 We continue with the live transmission of the... 1223 01:50:13,074 --> 01:50:16,594 ...trial of the conspiracy cell against the State. 1224 01:50:16,597 --> 01:50:20,960 You will listen to the declarations of the former Vice minister of Security. 1225 01:50:20,974 --> 01:50:23,409 The American spy Field... 1226 01:50:23,415 --> 01:50:26,718 ...uncovered by the trials in Hungary... 1227 01:50:26,876 --> 01:50:32,631 ...who had created a spy ring in our country. 1228 01:50:32,635 --> 01:50:35,091 How did you keep this secret? 1229 01:50:35,099 --> 01:50:39,862 As we could no suppress his declaration, I ordered... 1230 01:50:39,959 --> 01:50:43,052 ...that the investigation be carried out formally. 1231 01:50:43,775 --> 01:50:47,608 I told the accused to prepare their defence. 1232 01:50:47,726 --> 01:50:52,627 Here there is a change of text. Warn him. 1233 01:50:56,965 --> 01:51:00,486 You're next. Let's go through it again. 1234 01:51:00,553 --> 01:51:03,760 -I know it... -Come on. 1235 01:51:03,949 --> 01:51:07,291 "What led you to work as an enemy of the Republic?" 1236 01:51:07,752 --> 01:51:12,240 I grew up in a bourgeois family, without contact with the working masses... 1237 01:51:12,404 --> 01:51:14,859 -Do you want an interpreter? -No. 1238 01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:19,121 -Do you understand the questions and believe yourself able to answer? -Yes 1239 01:51:20,273 --> 01:51:24,544 -What school did you go to? -The German School in Ostrava. 1240 01:51:24,765 --> 01:51:27,983 -What language do you know best? -German. 1241 01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:33,559 -How well do you know it? -I haven't spoken it for a long time. 1242 01:51:34,728 --> 01:51:37,596 In reality you don't know any language well. 1243 01:51:37,711 --> 01:51:41,067 Typical cosmopolitan. 1244 01:51:41,106 --> 01:51:43,108 What was your attitude towards the working people? 1245 01:51:43,178 --> 01:51:45,787 It was... 1246 01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:51,695 It was insensible. 1247 01:51:54,740 --> 01:51:57,209 Did you understand the question? 1248 01:51:57,719 --> 01:52:02,081 What was your attitude towards the working people? 1249 01:52:19,631 --> 01:52:21,598 I felt indifference for the interests of the working class. 1250 01:52:22,049 --> 01:52:22,703 I was never... 1251 01:52:25,378 --> 01:52:28,903 I felt indifference for the interests of the working people. 1252 01:52:30,103 --> 01:52:32,058 I was never attached to the people. 1253 01:52:32,059 --> 01:52:33,059 To me their interests were always foreign. 1254 01:52:36,104 --> 01:52:37,208 Are you ready for your turn? 1255 01:52:37,993 --> 01:52:40,937 Remember. Everything depends on your attitude. 1256 01:52:40,938 --> 01:52:41,938 I was brought up in a bourgeois background. 1257 01:52:44,932 --> 01:52:47,011 The working masses were always completely alien to me. 1258 01:52:48,111 --> 01:52:50,327 And I let myself be driven by my burgeois instincts. 1259 01:52:52,554 --> 01:52:53,704 Burgeois and selfish. 1260 01:52:54,101 --> 01:52:56,207 They drove my career and my personal life. 1261 01:52:56,665 --> 01:52:58,770 The eleven years I spent in the West changed me. 1262 01:52:59,427 --> 01:53:03,233 In those days I became cosmopolitan and passed to the burgeois field. 1263 01:53:03,532 --> 01:53:10,432 I confess to being guilty of integrating, since 1948 and to the day of my arrest,... 1264 01:53:11,263 --> 01:53:13,485 ...the core of a conspiracy against the State. 1265 01:53:13,936 --> 01:53:17,585 I recognise fully my culpability due to being... 1266 01:53:17,647 --> 01:53:20,658 Listen mom, the man who speaks in the radio is dad, isn't he? 1267 01:53:21,096 --> 01:53:21,793 No, dear, no. 1268 01:53:26,439 --> 01:53:27,359 You go to bed, as well. 1269 01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:35,016 ...and of spying with the English agent, Zilliacus... 1270 01:53:37,157 --> 01:53:41,363 ...and of having utilized for those purposes the diplomatic mail of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... 1271 01:53:42,724 --> 01:53:49,717 ...also of having a spying contact with the American agent, Noel Field... 1272 01:53:50,287 --> 01:53:53,071 ...to whom I passed information. 1273 01:53:58,759 --> 01:54:01,364 My wife wrote the President of the Republic to... 1274 01:54:01,430 --> 01:54:05,614 ...express her desperation before my confessions. 1275 01:54:07,299 --> 01:54:09,984 We shall read the letter of Londonova, wife... 1276 01:54:10,051 --> 01:54:13,149 ...of a traitor judged by a State court,... 1277 01:54:13,222 --> 01:54:14,745 ...sent to the President of the Republic. 1278 01:54:15,718 --> 01:54:19,273 To president Gottwald: Soon after the arrest of my husband... 1279 01:54:19,726 --> 01:54:22,716 ...with all the elements I shared in his life, his activity... 1280 01:54:23,750 --> 01:54:26,522 ...I believed he was a victim of traitors... 1281 01:54:26,697 --> 01:54:29,731 that hid their criminal activities inside the Party. 1282 01:54:30,897 --> 01:54:36,101 After reading the accusations and the confessions, 1283 01:54:36,765 --> 01:54:40,469 ...my hopes faded: my husband was no victim... 1284 01:54:41,633 --> 01:54:44,666 ...but a traitor of his Party and country. 1285 01:54:44,717 --> 01:54:47,510 My sorrow is great. I'm human. 1286 01:54:47,765 --> 01:54:50,276 But as a communist... 1287 01:54:50,473 --> 01:54:51,727 ...it gladdens me, for the people's interest and peace, that... 1288 01:54:51,824 --> 01:54:56,479 ...the conspiracy cell has been discovered, I am with... 1289 01:54:56,545 --> 01:54:58,485 ...honest people in claiming... 1290 01:54:58,654 --> 01:55:01,504 ...a fair punishment for those under trial. 1291 01:55:13,773 --> 01:55:15,704 Ever since I don't drive to the factory I go earlier. 1292 01:55:17,869 --> 01:55:22,578 It's my fault. If you haven�t'... 1293 01:55:23,475 --> 01:55:25,639 No. I'm not from a worker background... 1294 01:55:25,683 --> 01:55:28,869 ...and I was in the West during the war. 1295 01:55:30,719 --> 01:55:36,615 Listen: I make you no reproaches. I know you are sincere. 1296 01:55:36,779 --> 01:55:38,697 But that letter was a mistake. 1297 01:55:38,754 --> 01:55:43,510 I wrote it to the President, not the radio. 1298 01:55:44,162 --> 01:55:48,747 -But you heard him. He plead guilty. -I heard too much. 1299 01:55:49,913 --> 01:55:51,953 The testimonies, the accusations, the confessions... 1300 01:55:52,122 --> 01:55:55,089 It's all false. They learned it by heart. 1301 01:55:58,772 --> 01:56:01,793 Why would they do a trial if it wasn't true? 1302 01:56:02,761 --> 01:56:05,783 -There are precedents... -Precisely. In the debates... 1303 01:56:05,976 --> 01:56:09,343 ...there are bouts of anti-Semitism. It's unacceptable. 1304 01:56:11,504 --> 01:56:15,163 Heroes become traitors. I don't understand. 1305 01:56:15,328 --> 01:56:17,933 I don't agree. I shall leave the Party. 1306 01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:22,102 Do you know what could happen? 1307 01:56:24,744 --> 01:56:27,973 Why would a man like him confess? 1308 01:56:28,003 --> 01:56:29,980 He will tell us. 1309 01:56:31,786 --> 01:56:34,588 I hope one day he tells us. 1310 01:56:36,879 --> 01:56:40,367 When I heard the accusations, I rethought... 1311 01:56:40,446 --> 01:56:44,682 ...the activities of Reising during the occupation. 1312 01:56:44,774 --> 01:56:49,075 I came to the conclusion that he denounced Julius Fucik... 1313 01:56:49,293 --> 01:56:53,471 ...and the Clandestine Central Committee to the Gestapo. 1314 01:56:53,524 --> 01:56:56,542 The story of the CCC? Forget that. 1315 01:56:56,608 --> 01:56:58,910 We put it in Reising's confession. He signed it. 1316 01:56:59,064 --> 01:57:03,698 I'd like to read you the last words of Fucik. 1317 01:57:05,860 --> 01:57:11,037 "He who lived for the future and who fell for its beauty... 1318 01:57:11,788 --> 01:57:13,864 ...is a figure cast in stone. 1319 01:57:15,029 --> 01:57:18,784 He who wanted, with the dust of the past, to build a barricade... 1320 01:57:18,948 --> 01:57:22,053 ...against the revolution, is rotten wood... 1321 01:57:22,735 --> 01:57:25,162 ...though his shoulders may be covered in stripes. 1322 01:57:26,715 --> 01:57:31,203 Men, I loved you so much... Be careful!" 1323 01:57:41,500 --> 01:57:44,034 The declaration of Fucikova, Widow of the resistance hero... 1324 01:57:44,116 --> 01:57:46,018 ...left an impression that the judges will not forget easily... 1325 01:57:46,075 --> 01:57:50,126 Before, the chief of the conspiracy declared... 1326 01:57:50,244 --> 01:57:53,310 ..."Our conspiracy cell against the state... 1327 01:57:53,467 --> 01:57:56,762 had hundreds of members - the judges will have a lot of work". 1328 01:57:57,923 --> 01:58:00,891 I'm going. I'll go on, comrade. Three simple benches are won... 1329 01:58:01,059 --> 01:58:04,805 ...under the weight of the crimes of these treacherous vampires. 1330 01:58:05,743 --> 01:58:07,832 The citizens should see the boss. 1331 01:58:08,074 --> 01:58:12,310 His pink face, his thick Judas eyebrows. 1332 01:58:12,330 --> 01:58:16,759 The weight of his crimes have buried him underneath them. 1333 01:58:17,707 --> 01:58:21,230 He's a dead man. To a dog, a dog's death. 1334 01:58:22,738 --> 01:58:24,713 The session begins. 1335 01:58:25,066 --> 01:58:29,033 In 1939, I established a spy ring in London. 1336 01:58:30,075 --> 01:58:34,311 -Who with? -Emmanuel Troska, American agent. 1337 01:58:34,474 --> 01:58:37,127 I gave him information on the Communist Party... 1338 01:58:37,130 --> 01:58:42,374 -...and its aims in England. -Go on. 1339 01:58:42,794 --> 01:58:48,223 Moreover, I confess I made contacts with agent Hanz... 1340 01:58:49,312 --> 01:58:53,036 of the Intelligence service. He summoned me in December '44... 1341 01:58:53,297 --> 01:58:58,402 ...to an interview at the Ministry of Information... 1342 01:59:18,780 --> 01:59:20,790 ...in the British Ministry of Information... 1343 01:59:20,960 --> 01:59:26,228 ...for my subversive action... 1344 01:59:26,383 --> 01:59:27,651 ...in our country... 1345 01:59:39,751 --> 01:59:44,191 ...in my country, once it was liberated. 1346 02:00:01,748 --> 02:00:03,943 Go back to your place! 1347 02:00:05,959 --> 02:00:08,676 The session is adjourned. 1348 02:00:40,751 --> 02:00:43,085 You tried to ridicule justice... 1349 02:00:43,143 --> 02:00:45,150 ...following the Imperialist game. 1350 02:00:47,806 --> 02:00:48,709 It will cost you your head. 1351 02:00:49,774 --> 02:00:51,557 Traitor! 1352 02:00:52,725 --> 02:00:53,679 Don't leave him. 1353 02:00:56,773 --> 02:00:58,930 You put your neck on the line with what you did. 1354 02:01:03,590 --> 02:01:04,932 He did it on purpose. He's always like that. 1355 02:01:05,093 --> 02:01:09,068 He wants to make fun of the trial. It will cost him dearly. 1356 02:01:25,869 --> 02:01:28,324 The session opens. 1357 02:01:28,758 --> 02:01:31,612 Stand. Listen to the sentence. 1358 02:01:34,997 --> 02:01:39,426 The State court listened from the 20th to 27/11/1952... 1359 02:01:39,740 --> 02:01:43,163 the debates of the criminal case of the conspiracy cell... 1360 02:01:43,473 --> 02:01:48,115 ...against the State. In the name of the Republic, the following... 1361 02:01:48,250 --> 02:02:02,875 ...are condemned to death... 1362 02:02:04,065 --> 02:02:07,137 In the name of the Republic, the following are condemned... 1363 02:02:07,453 --> 02:02:09,941 ...to life sentence... 1364 02:02:10,190 --> 02:02:15,716 ...to life sentence... 1365 02:02:17,093 --> 02:02:20,337 I give to the accused some time to reflect. 1366 02:02:20,793 --> 02:02:23,402 You may consult your lawyers and decide... 1367 02:02:23,573 --> 02:02:26,460 ...if you accept the sentences given. The court... 1368 02:02:26,549 --> 02:02:30,537 ... reserves its right to precise it's point of view. 1369 02:02:30,925 --> 02:02:33,234 The session is adjourned. 1370 02:03:03,917 --> 02:03:06,186 Where are our lawyers? 1371 02:03:06,629 --> 02:03:07,963 Where is my lawyer? 1372 02:03:15,093 --> 02:03:21,434 I want to see my lawyer. Call him. 1373 02:03:21,535 --> 02:03:22,941 -Why aren't they here? -Where are they? 1374 02:03:22,996 --> 02:03:27,818 -I'm appealing. -Me too. 1375 02:03:28,835 --> 02:03:32,264 -I'm appealing as well. -And me. 1376 02:03:36,459 --> 02:03:37,735 Here are your lawyers. 1377 02:03:40,859 --> 02:03:44,510 A great many processes ask for the death penalty. 1378 02:03:44,703 --> 02:03:46,825 The international situation is worsening. 1379 02:03:47,027 --> 02:03:49,414 There shall be world war. 1380 02:03:49,507 --> 02:03:52,416 Eisenhower was elected president. The Party needs you. 1381 02:03:52,747 --> 02:03:58,918 If you appeal, the attorney shall do the same. You will all be hanged. 1382 02:04:00,083 --> 02:04:03,647 Petitions from all over the country call for your death. 1383 02:04:03,770 --> 02:04:07,621 If you behave and accept the decision of the court... 1384 02:04:07,646 --> 02:04:08,572 ...you will be pardoned. 1385 02:04:09,058 --> 02:04:12,098 The Party needs a trial, not your heads. 1386 02:04:12,767 --> 02:04:16,503 The session is opened. I speak to the accused. 1387 02:04:16,702 --> 02:04:18,460 Do you accept your sentence? 1388 02:04:18,726 --> 02:04:22,343 I accept my sentence and renounce my right... 1389 02:04:22,506 --> 02:04:22,895 ...to appeal. 1390 02:04:23,769 --> 02:04:28,300 I accept my sentence and renounce my right to appeal. 1391 02:04:30,497 --> 02:04:32,703 I accept my sentence. 1392 02:04:32,793 --> 02:04:34,069 I accept my sentence. 1393 02:04:34,425 --> 02:04:35,334 I accept my sentence. 1394 02:04:35,493 --> 02:04:37,386 -I accept. -I accept. 1395 02:04:37,504 --> 02:04:39,195 -I accept. -I accept. 1396 02:04:39,792 --> 02:04:41,701 -I accept. -I accept. 1397 02:04:42,064 --> 02:04:43,031 -I accept. -I accept. 1398 02:04:43,452 --> 02:04:43,715 -I accept. -I accept my sentence. 1399 02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:46,156 I accept my sentence... 1400 02:04:46,272 --> 02:04:48,508 ...and renounce my right to appeal. 1401 02:05:11,744 --> 02:05:16,087 In '63 penal rehabilitation is done for all. 1402 02:05:16,776 --> 02:05:19,358 But some are not politically rehabilitated. 1403 02:05:19,744 --> 02:05:22,118 Why did nobody retract in the trial before... 1404 02:05:22,207 --> 02:05:25,549 -...the journalists? -The communists... 1405 02:05:25,671 --> 02:05:27,784 ...would not have believed us. Only the enemy... 1406 02:05:27,872 --> 02:05:29,530 ...would have shouted victory. 1407 02:05:29,796 --> 02:05:33,543 In '63 they freed and rehabilitated you? 1408 02:05:34,191 --> 02:05:37,685 They freed me in '56, but it's more complicated. 1409 02:05:38,046 --> 02:05:40,737 One years after the death of Stalin, they executed Beria,... 1410 02:05:40,903 --> 02:05:43,332 ...Minister of Security in the Soviet Union, and... 1411 02:05:43,503 --> 02:05:46,226 ...some of the chief counsellors who organised the trial. 1412 02:05:46,751 --> 02:05:50,609 In '55 a commission re-examines the proceedings. 1413 02:05:50,794 --> 02:05:54,629 Kohoutek and his crew are arrested for abusing their power. 1414 02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:56,059 The survivors are still in jail. 1415 02:05:57,722 --> 02:06:01,466 Two years later, they give amnesty to Kohoutek... 1416 02:06:01,630 --> 02:06:02,808 ...while many of the victims of other trials 1417 02:06:04,005 --> 02:06:07,314 ...will stay in jail for 2 or 3 more years. 1418 02:06:16,477 --> 02:06:18,965 Do you not remember me? 1419 02:06:20,734 --> 02:06:23,338 What happened to us, sir? 1420 02:06:23,702 --> 02:06:28,225 Do you understand anything? In '56, when they freed you... 1421 02:06:28,457 --> 02:06:32,186 ...I was in jail. No one knows what is true and what isn't. 1422 02:06:32,236 --> 02:06:34,703 But those who gave the orders are still in power. 1423 02:06:35,869 --> 02:06:40,066 I followed orders. They had microphones to watch me. 1424 02:06:41,236 --> 02:06:43,543 I want to invite you to a beer. 1425 02:06:43,900 --> 02:06:46,395 Is your wife well? 1426 02:06:46,948 --> 02:06:51,331 I heard that after the trial, seeing that you were innocent... 1427 02:06:51,708 --> 02:06:53,713 ...she did a lot for you, here and in France 1428 02:06:54,758 --> 02:06:59,065 And your health? Better? You have to take care. 1429 02:07:00,226 --> 02:07:02,495 Yes. I found a quite job. 1430 02:07:02,890 --> 02:07:04,857 They'll never get me again. 1431 02:07:07,026 --> 02:07:09,125 I'm happy for you, sir. 1432 02:07:11,906 --> 02:07:13,906 APRIL, 1968 1433 02:07:15,074 --> 02:07:20,584 The story of Kohoutek... Do you want to keep it? 1434 02:07:22,750 --> 02:07:26,199 -What happened to us? Do you understand any of it? 1435 02:07:34,701 --> 02:07:37,939 AUGUST 20, 1968 1436 02:07:39,105 --> 02:07:40,724 I didn't sleep at all. 1437 02:07:43,889 --> 02:07:47,566 -Are you really publishing it? -I'm not doing it... 1438 02:07:47,625 --> 02:07:49,778 ...the Czechoslovak writers' Union is. They are waiting for... 1439 02:07:49,977 --> 02:07:52,522 -...the manuscripts -The situation isn't clear. 1440 02:07:52,788 --> 02:07:55,136 The imperialist forces are loose. You risk... 1441 02:07:55,168 --> 02:07:56,725 -...taking... -Water to the enemies' mill. 1442 02:07:56,808 --> 02:08:00,515 I know, I know, but you are with me, right? 1443 02:08:02,732 --> 02:08:05,272 I'm not alone. The Party agrees... 1444 02:08:05,456 --> 02:08:07,507 ...and demands the truth, despite the difficulties. 1445 02:08:07,672 --> 02:08:10,323 -I hope we don't regret this. Many will say... -Many things. 1446 02:08:10,484 --> 02:08:14,526 They'll say: "In your place, I wouldn't have confessed". 1447 02:08:14,544 --> 02:08:17,726 They'll ask what am I doing alive. Let them speak. But... 1448 02:08:17,888 --> 02:08:21,987 ...I'm not alone. I am with the Party, which says the same. 1449 02:08:29,407 --> 02:08:32,534 The conservatives lost the direction of the... 1450 02:08:32,615 --> 02:08:33,910 ...the Czechoslovak Communist Party in early 1968. 1451 02:08:34,007 --> 02:08:38,142 A new period began. The people spoke... 1452 02:08:38,326 --> 02:08:40,017 ...after years of silence and passivity... 1453 02:08:40,153 --> 02:08:43,097 ...indifference, spitefulness. 1454 02:08:43,517 --> 02:08:45,044 It was proved:... 1455 02:08:45,059 --> 02:08:47,190 ...socialism is to the freedom of the masses... 1456 02:08:47,193 --> 02:08:52,804 ...what a fish is to water. The day I arrived in Prague... 1457 02:08:52,947 --> 02:08:57,355 I had to live through the invasion of the country by the 600 thousand men... 1458 02:08:57,407 --> 02:09:00,355 ...and the 6 thousand tanks of the armies of the Warsaw Pact. 1459 02:10:52,723 --> 02:11:03,821 LENIN WAKE UP THEY HAVE ALL GONE MAD119906