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On August 16, 1958 a few minutes after 10 am,
two armed men
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broke into the Hungarian Embassy in Bern.
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Certain details of the incident are still unclear.
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Our film portrays a possible chain of events
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based on existing State Security archive files.
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Maybe it happened differently.
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Maybe it happened exactly like this.
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presents
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A film by
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BERN, SWlTZERLAND
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AUGUST 16, 1958
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45... 69... 1...
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13... 13... 2...
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Production Designer
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Music by
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Edited by
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Director of Photography
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Screenplay by
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Produced by
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EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY
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Directed by
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THE AMBASSADOR TO BERN
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HUNGARIAN EMBASSY, BERN
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1ST FLOOR PRESS OFFICE
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Did you hear?
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No.
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Headquarters decide about
Koroknai today.
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Who said that?
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Radó.
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What do you think?
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I think they'll fire him.
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This is a war.
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We are waging a war for the souls
of the immigrants.
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1ST FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
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We, a handful of us, with our
modest devices to enlighten
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while Switzerland, with the power
of politicians and industrialists
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is telling lies and provoking
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using dirty tricks.
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The attaché would like to know
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how many immigrants have returned to Hungary.
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A lot.
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1,000 1,200. And there'll be more.
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Because every Hungarian is important to us.
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We will fight for them one by one if need be.
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GROUND FLOOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICE
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Are there any criminal proceedings
against you in Hungary?
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No.
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We left with all the others.
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When the borders were open.
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- We're homesick.
- They look down on us.
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A Hungarian can only be a laborer
or an alcoholic here.
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You are free to return to Hungary.
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But the moment you reach Hungary,
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you will be arrested for illegally
crossing the border.
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The punishment is 3-6 months in prison.
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Do you wish to proceed?
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Yes.
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You need to fill these forms in.
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ATTIC - RADIO ROOM
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Attaché Lai congratulates you on your
excellent achievements.
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And I congratulate Attaché Lai
on his appointment.
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I welcome him to Bern
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and I hope he will support the
Hungarian cause just as strongly...
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as his predecessor Attaché Feng.
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I trust that his great country will help
our small country at the UN
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so that the Hungarian question may be
resolved as quickly as possible.
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Cheers!
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Thank you.
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Did you go to the concert?
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Jerry lee! He played at the
Wankdorf last night.
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lt was super!
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We don't like the Wankdorf.
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It's a Hungarian thing.
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The Wankdorf?
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The World Cup final was there,
4 years ago. 3:2.
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Goddamn Germans.
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Where do you think you're going?
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To have lunch.
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Lunch?
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At 10 in the morning?
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We're hungry.
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Half of the staff are on holiday.
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The other half are either having a
lunch break or a cigarette break.
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It's Saturday, Comrade Ambassador.
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This is not a salt office.
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Did the telegram come?
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Not yet.
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They promised it for today.
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They promised. But it didn't come.
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Don't forget, Comrade Vermes...
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I am still the ambassador.
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For now.
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Did you bring something
to cover your face?
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- What?
- To cover your face.
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Sure.
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They don't suit you.
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ls this any better?
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That rotten bastard!
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1ST FLOOR AMBASSADOR'S APARTMENT
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- Which rotten bastard?
- Vermes. He's hiding something.
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Why? Did headquarters send the telegram?
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He says they didn't.
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Why would he deny it?
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Why? To win time.
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It's not enough for him to get rid of me,
he wants to be the new ambassador.
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What are you going to do?
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I don't know.
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I'll wait.
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You'll wait.
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What do you think I should do?
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Strike back?
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God forbid, Misi.
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You're a diplomat, you can't play the hero.
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Hero?
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You want a hero, Edina?
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You want me to confront them?
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Well, watch this...
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What are you looking for?
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The key to the safe.
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I secretly copied it.
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Why? Are you going to break
into the safe?
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If I read the telegram, I can make a move.
I can win some time.
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I can say I have new proof.
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And?
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Do you?
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I won't let them get me.
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Good. I've ordered the new curtains.
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What?
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I've ordered the new curtains.
I'm going to collect them now.
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Right.
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That must be my taxi.
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Just a minute.
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Can I help you?
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We want to go home.
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- Good morning, madam.
- Good morning, Comrade Gottman.
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You'll need to wait a bit
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Hands up!
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Stand up!
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Jesus Christ...
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What was that?
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Come on, get out!
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Move it!
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- We're Hungarians.
- Don't hurt us, please.
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We've got two kids.
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Against the wall, with your hands up!
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Where's the safe?
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What do you want?
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- Where's the safe?
- In the attic.
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- Who's got the key?
- Not me.
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- Who's got the key?
- Comrade Vermes.
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Who are you?
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Move! Come on!
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Stop!
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Gate key.
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Go!
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Lock the door.
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Leave the key in it.
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- Bandits!
- Go in!
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Go in!
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I can't...
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Get in.
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I'll look.
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What?
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How do we get out?
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It's another country.
Over the border.
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- What happened?
- Two bandits with guns!
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Two intruders! They're armed!
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- Call the police!
- You are the police!
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- He can't go in...
- Call the police!
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Bern Police.
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This is the Hungarian Embassy.
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We have two intruders!
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Don't move!
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They're shooting at us! We need urgent help!
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What's going on downstairs?
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Bandits, Comrade Ambassador!
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Lock yourself in!
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Help me!
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Help! Help! Help!
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ls there anyone in there?
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Hands up!
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Name?
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Mihály Koroknai.
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- Rank?
- Ambassador.
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UNGARHILFE CENTRE
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Switzerland welcomes
Hungarian refugees.
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In return, there are two simple rules to obey.
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First is employment.
All refugees must find work.
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The other is that you have to move on.
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You cannot settle in Switzerland.
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Until you find work,
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we'll give you accommodation,
free meals, and second-hand clothes.
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We'll look after the children,
we have our own nursery.
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Hajni, listen to this!
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Two armed men have broken into
the Hungarian Embassy
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shortly after 10 am, and
they started shooting.
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We do not know if there are any casualties.
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Who would do something that stupid?
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Hajni! Where are you going? Hajni!
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Get me a phone.
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Connect me with the Home Affairs.
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What do you want?
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The key.
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There's no money in there.
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What's the combination?
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- Only Comrade Vermes knows.
- Who's Comrade Vermes?
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- The trade attaché.
- He's the ÁVÓ officer. (security police )
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That's the protocol. The safe is the
competence of the trade attaché.
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He won't even tell me the combination.
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Inspector Lambert.
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I forbid any intervention!
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But, Minister...
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Without the ambassador's approval
the embassy enjoys political immunity.
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Intervention would breach a whole load
of international conventions.
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Shall we just stand here and
watch them shooting?
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Until further instruction stay on
the street and maintain order.
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Understood. Thank you, Minister.
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Hungarian Embassy.
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Hungarian Embassy.
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This is Inspector Lambert from
the Bern Police.
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Please do something!
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Who's speaking?
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Ágnes Márton, embassy staff.
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Please stay calm.
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We're across the street in the café.
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We're across the street in the café.
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We will intervene if necessary.
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It's necessary!
They're shooting at us!
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ls anyone injured?
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Gottman perhaps
the embassy secretary.
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But we're barricaded in.
We can't see a thing.
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Where are the intruders?
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We haven't heard them for a while.
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How many external lines do you have?
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Two. Both in the office.
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And there is one in the
ambassador's apartment.
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Keep one line free at all times.
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We'll communicate on that.
Understand?
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Yes.
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Please stay calm.
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We're making the necessary
preparations,
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and we will intervene soon.
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I need to talk to the police.
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Are you crazy? What for?
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Hajni!
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I know those two guys in there.
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How did you get in?
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No one searched you?
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And Gottman?
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He should only see one person
at a time.
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I don't believe this.
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We told them we were Hungarians.
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And that we have two kids
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And we have two children.
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And
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And then the younger one told us to go.
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And then the younger one told them to go.
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This lady says she knows the intruders.
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Hajnalka Dorozsmai, I'm an
interpreter at Ungarhilfe.
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An organization that helps
Hungarian refugees.
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Inspector Lambert.
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ls this them?
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Yes.
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Yes, it was them.
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Who are these men?
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They're freedom fighters.
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Tibor Bános and Ábel Takács.
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They fought in Budapest in 1956.
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And now they're fighting in Bern.
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00:27:30,469 --> 00:27:35,543
The freedom fight continues for
them today.
271
00:27:36,629 --> 00:27:39,268
- What are you doing with the radio?
- Too much talk.
272
00:27:39,629 --> 00:27:42,427
Of course it's too much!
You're just ruining my life.
273
00:27:43,869 --> 00:27:45,860
- The radio?
- It's working.
274
00:27:46,109 --> 00:27:47,827
- Munich?
- Got it.
275
00:27:48,069 --> 00:27:49,787
We've got 20 minutes left.
276
00:27:51,949 --> 00:27:53,541
ls it going to work?
277
00:27:54,509 --> 00:27:56,465
All the safes have the same weak point.
278
00:27:56,949 --> 00:27:59,509
A good locksmith can open any of them.
279
00:28:10,229 --> 00:28:11,947
A safe?
280
00:28:12,189 --> 00:28:14,942
Yes, they mentioned a safe.
281
00:28:15,309 --> 00:28:18,540
She says they were looking for a safe.
282
00:28:24,789 --> 00:28:30,261
Inspector. they won't get hurt,
will they?
283
00:28:34,789 --> 00:28:37,508
If they don't do anything stupid, they won't.
284
00:28:43,549 --> 00:28:45,426
This is the police!
285
00:28:45,669 --> 00:28:50,060
Come out with your hands up
and you won't be harmed.
286
00:28:52,869 --> 00:28:55,144
I repeat: this is the police!
287
00:28:55,389 --> 00:28:56,617
Can you hear this?
288
00:28:56,829 --> 00:29:01,619
Come out with your hands up
and you won't be harmed.
289
00:29:02,629 --> 00:29:06,099
The Swiss Police guarantees no harm
will come to any of you.
290
00:29:21,109 --> 00:29:23,987
Filthy traitors! You're going to die!
291
00:29:24,989 --> 00:29:27,742
We work at the embassy.
292
00:29:28,789 --> 00:29:30,108
Who was that?
293
00:29:30,349 --> 00:29:32,817
That was Comrade Vermes.
294
00:29:41,669 --> 00:29:43,148
We want to go in.
295
00:29:43,389 --> 00:29:46,062
We are Comrade Radó and
Comrade Vermes.
296
00:29:46,309 --> 00:29:48,743
Trade Department.
297
00:29:49,389 --> 00:29:53,746
Inspector Lambert.
Bern Police.
298
00:29:53,989 --> 00:29:57,425
We're trying to negotiate with
the intruders.
299
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:07,984
There's a telephone in the
Ambassador's apartment.
300
00:30:09,869 --> 00:30:16,468
I'll call you in 2 minutes, and we'll
try to find a peaceful solution.
301
00:30:21,749 --> 00:30:24,582
I think you should talk to them.
302
00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:27,228
Ábel?
303
00:30:31,709 --> 00:30:34,098
I'd prefer to talk to Comrade Vermes.
304
00:30:35,029 --> 00:30:36,860
I'd offer him a deal.
305
00:30:37,749 --> 00:30:41,947
The ambassador's life in exchange
for the combination to the safe.
306
00:30:45,309 --> 00:30:47,265
He won't take it. I know him.
307
00:30:47,349 --> 00:30:48,145
You'll convince him.
308
00:30:48,229 --> 00:30:50,743
He doesn't give a shit if I live or die.
309
00:30:50,989 --> 00:30:52,263
Bános...
310
00:31:01,029 --> 00:31:03,179
You want to kill that man?
311
00:31:04,709 --> 00:31:06,028
Are you chickening out?
312
00:31:07,829 --> 00:31:09,308
Just thinking.
313
00:31:09,549 --> 00:31:13,098
We've killed before,
it's not a pleasant feeling.
314
00:31:13,309 --> 00:31:16,858
But if we kill this man,
we have to be ready to die.
315
00:31:18,869 --> 00:31:20,382
I'm ready.
316
00:31:22,589 --> 00:31:24,261
And you?
317
00:31:27,349 --> 00:31:30,261
We swore. We swore to Imre Nagy
that we'd fight
318
00:31:30,629 --> 00:31:32,984
for the freedom of Hungary to the
last drop of blood.
319
00:31:33,229 --> 00:31:34,947
If we have to die today,
we'll die today.
320
00:31:35,189 --> 00:31:36,907
Who says we have to die today?
321
00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:40,107
If I'd been shot on Corvin Lane,
I wouldn't have made it to the Mecsek Hills.
322
00:31:40,309 --> 00:31:43,187
If I hadn't survived the Mecsek, I
wouldn't be here today, you get it?
323
00:31:43,429 --> 00:31:44,464
You are chickening out.
324
00:31:44,709 --> 00:31:47,667
All I'm saying is that we should leave
ourselves a way out.
325
00:31:49,829 --> 00:31:51,501
I'm going to talk to Vermes.
326
00:32:15,429 --> 00:32:17,147
You're a good kid.
327
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:20,499
I didn't mean to, but I heard.
328
00:32:22,709 --> 00:32:24,461
I can tell.
329
00:32:25,869 --> 00:32:27,507
You're different.
330
00:32:30,989 --> 00:32:33,344
Compared to what?
331
00:32:33,589 --> 00:32:35,944
Compared to Bános.
332
00:32:37,229 --> 00:32:38,901
Compared to him, I am.
333
00:32:53,629 --> 00:32:57,702
I went to high school for 2 years
before they kicked me out.
334
00:33:02,549 --> 00:33:04,904
A year later, my kid brother
was kicked out, too.
335
00:33:07,389 --> 00:33:09,539
"Anti-establishment behaviour."
336
00:33:15,269 --> 00:33:17,589
My father was fired from the
print works.
337
00:33:17,589 --> 00:33:19,978
He wasn't a member of the Party.
He raised his voice, they locked him up.
338
00:33:20,229 --> 00:33:22,584
2 months in prison.
339
00:33:25,789 --> 00:33:28,349
The Takács family screw themselves!
340
00:33:29,109 --> 00:33:32,818
No need to intern us, no need
to line up against the wall.
341
00:33:33,069 --> 00:33:34,866
A small tap on our back,
342
00:33:35,109 --> 00:33:37,020
we collapse on our own.
343
00:33:39,309 --> 00:33:40,901
Bános lived in Üllő.
344
00:33:41,829 --> 00:33:44,138
The Russkies raped his mother in '45.
345
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:47,984
His father tried to protect her,
he was nearly beaten to death.
346
00:33:48,229 --> 00:33:51,301
All this witnessed by an 8-year-old Bános.
347
00:33:56,949 --> 00:33:58,985
All I'm saying is
348
00:34:00,669 --> 00:34:03,308
that I'll happily shoot you in the
head if I have to
349
00:34:03,549 --> 00:34:06,222
but Bános will also smash
your face to pieces
350
00:34:06,349 --> 00:34:08,305
before he screws your wife.
351
00:34:09,309 --> 00:34:12,107
That's the difference between us.
352
00:34:22,869 --> 00:34:25,667
Inspector Lambert, Bern Police.
353
00:34:25,909 --> 00:34:28,662
Tibor Bános. Give me Vermes.
354
00:34:28,909 --> 00:34:30,228
Vermes?
355
00:34:38,349 --> 00:34:40,305
Stay calm.
356
00:34:44,349 --> 00:34:45,498
Vermes.
357
00:34:45,749 --> 00:34:49,105
Tell me the combination
or the ambassador dies.
358
00:34:49,349 --> 00:34:50,702
You've got 10 minutes.
359
00:35:03,589 --> 00:35:05,261
Are you insane?
360
00:35:05,509 --> 00:35:08,546
We don't negotiate with bandits.
361
00:35:11,149 --> 00:35:12,946
But what did he say?
362
00:35:23,949 --> 00:35:26,099
You have to help.
363
00:35:26,389 --> 00:35:28,186
I understand you boys.
364
00:35:29,389 --> 00:35:32,904
You don't need to understand,
you need to think.
365
00:35:33,589 --> 00:35:36,422
You'll die in 5 minutes because
you don't know the combination.
366
00:35:36,669 --> 00:35:38,466
I'd start thinking if I were you.
367
00:36:20,789 --> 00:36:22,302
9 minutes.
368
00:36:23,829 --> 00:36:25,501
Tibor, it's me.
369
00:36:28,789 --> 00:36:30,268
Hajni.
370
00:36:32,629 --> 00:36:34,665
You said you wouldn't do it.
371
00:36:36,829 --> 00:36:38,820
What are you doing here?
372
00:36:40,229 --> 00:36:42,538
You're all over the news.
373
00:36:43,669 --> 00:36:45,739
Did you have to do this?
374
00:36:47,909 --> 00:36:49,740
They killed Imre Nagy.
375
00:36:52,709 --> 00:36:56,782
What's Imre Nagy got to do with us?
376
00:36:57,869 --> 00:36:59,621
With the two of us?
377
00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:03,141
If this was all about the two of us,
378
00:37:03,389 --> 00:37:06,506
I would've proposed to you 2 weeks
ago on that bridge in Holligen.
379
00:37:07,549 --> 00:37:09,460
You would've said yes.
380
00:37:10,269 --> 00:37:12,863
We'd buy a house in Ittigen or Bolligen.
381
00:37:14,589 --> 00:37:16,625
We'd have three kids.
382
00:37:17,149 --> 00:37:21,427
Florian, Mathias and Adrian.
383
00:37:24,669 --> 00:37:26,944
Okay, I don't fancy the name
Adrian either.
384
00:37:33,869 --> 00:37:35,666
You're such a fool.
385
00:37:38,829 --> 00:37:40,547
It'll be over soon.
386
00:37:44,909 --> 00:37:46,786
Will I see you again?
387
00:37:54,309 --> 00:37:56,061
Say something.
388
00:38:00,189 --> 00:38:01,907
You will.
389
00:38:26,709 --> 00:38:28,779
I don't trust the Swiss.
390
00:38:29,029 --> 00:38:30,587
Imperialists.
391
00:38:32,549 --> 00:38:35,507
We have to get this thing sorted
in the embassy on our own.
392
00:38:35,869 --> 00:38:37,268
Are you in?
393
00:38:40,229 --> 00:38:41,742
I'm in.
394
00:38:52,789 --> 00:38:53,938
I'm listening.
395
00:38:55,269 --> 00:38:57,146
I can only guess.
396
00:38:57,949 --> 00:38:59,860
Then take a good guess.
397
00:39:01,509 --> 00:39:04,387
We've waited enough. We're going in.
398
00:39:04,629 --> 00:39:06,904
I can't allow that.
399
00:39:07,149 --> 00:39:11,267
We're sovereign citizens of a
sovereign country.
400
00:39:11,509 --> 00:39:14,421
You can't stop us.
401
00:39:17,589 --> 00:39:20,023
The Great October Socialist Revolution.
402
00:39:20,349 --> 00:39:22,021
17-10-25.
403
00:39:42,789 --> 00:39:44,745
According to the Gregorian calendar?
404
00:39:45,909 --> 00:39:47,740
17-1 1-07.
405
00:39:55,349 --> 00:39:56,702
They broke the key off.
406
00:39:56,949 --> 00:40:00,100
- The bastards!
- We'll take the back door.
407
00:40:00,349 --> 00:40:03,500
The declaration of the Republic of Councils.
19-03-21.
408
00:40:11,789 --> 00:40:15,065
The liberation of Hungary.
45-04-04.
409
00:40:24,829 --> 00:40:26,387
Vermes' birthday?
410
00:40:26,629 --> 00:40:28,267
No idea.
411
00:40:37,029 --> 00:40:38,985
They went for the safe.
412
00:40:39,229 --> 00:40:40,981
56-10-23.
413
00:40:47,069 --> 00:40:48,946
They're here for the code book.
414
00:40:54,189 --> 00:40:55,747
The code book?
415
00:40:57,189 --> 00:40:59,066
What if they get hold of it?
416
00:40:59,709 --> 00:41:01,381
They can't have it.
417
00:41:01,869 --> 00:41:03,427
What happens if they do?
418
00:41:03,669 --> 00:41:07,548
If they have it, Comrade Gottman,
we're all finished.
419
00:41:12,029 --> 00:41:13,701
Comrade Vince!
420
00:41:15,789 --> 00:41:17,461
It's all right, it's me.
421
00:41:19,629 --> 00:41:21,665
49-08-20.
422
00:41:25,349 --> 00:41:27,180
53-03-05.
423
00:41:34,669 --> 00:41:36,819
54-07-04.
424
00:41:39,269 --> 00:41:40,702
Watch out!
425
00:41:46,709 --> 00:41:47,937
We're going in!
426
00:41:52,669 --> 00:41:55,229
Stop shooting, you morons!
427
00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:56,941
You stay here.
428
00:42:11,389 --> 00:42:13,300
Are you there, Comrade Vermes?
429
00:42:16,869 --> 00:42:18,348
I'm here.
430
00:42:18,669 --> 00:42:20,182
I'll count to 3.
431
00:42:20,429 --> 00:42:24,900
You either tell me the combination,
or the ambassador dies.
432
00:42:34,709 --> 00:42:36,062
One...
433
00:42:40,069 --> 00:42:41,548
Vermes!
434
00:42:51,629 --> 00:42:53,062
Two
435
00:42:54,509 --> 00:42:57,626
Vermes, tell them the code!
That's an order!
436
00:42:57,869 --> 00:43:01,942
I'm sorry, Comrade Ambassador,
but you can no longer give orders.
437
00:43:03,869 --> 00:43:05,825
The telegram came this morning.
438
00:43:06,869 --> 00:43:10,748
You've been fired, and
I'm the senior officer.
439
00:43:22,789 --> 00:43:24,666
This is the last chance!
440
00:43:30,909 --> 00:43:32,342
Three!
441
00:43:32,589 --> 00:43:34,386
30-12-16!
442
00:43:34,589 --> 00:43:36,580
30-12-16!
443
00:43:44,549 --> 00:43:46,744
My wife's birthday.
444
00:44:41,789 --> 00:44:43,745
That was a close call.
445
00:44:45,589 --> 00:44:50,583
What are you doing here?
You can't enter, this is Hungarian territory!
446
00:44:50,829 --> 00:44:53,218
Where you're endangering
the lives of others.
447
00:44:54,189 --> 00:44:56,100
We'll take over from here.
448
00:44:57,149 --> 00:44:59,140
The show's over.
449
00:45:01,029 --> 00:45:01,469
If you try to come in,
the ambassador dies!
450
00:45:01,469 --> 00:45:04,905
If you try to come in,
the ambassador dies!
451
00:45:16,629 --> 00:45:17,982
Take them down.
452
00:45:19,869 --> 00:45:21,541
Move!
453
00:45:22,349 --> 00:45:23,668
Come!
454
00:45:26,469 --> 00:45:27,788
Come on!
455
00:45:35,269 --> 00:45:36,827
Did you know?
456
00:45:37,709 --> 00:45:40,428
That they'd order me back?
I had a hunch.
457
00:45:40,669 --> 00:45:42,227
Why did they order you back?
458
00:45:42,989 --> 00:45:44,468
Because of '56.
459
00:45:45,789 --> 00:45:49,304
I threw the ÁVÓ officers out off
the embassy on October 30.
460
00:45:49,909 --> 00:45:52,343
Vermes, Radó and the others.
461
00:45:52,589 --> 00:45:53,908
Why?
462
00:45:54,989 --> 00:45:56,786
Because Imre Nagy said so.
463
00:45:58,949 --> 00:46:00,587
He just wants to win some time.
464
00:46:00,829 --> 00:46:02,501
I'm telling the truth.
Why would I lie?
465
00:46:02,749 --> 00:46:04,660
To save your ass.
466
00:46:07,469 --> 00:46:10,666
Half a sandwich: salami.
467
00:46:12,709 --> 00:46:15,906
430 forints in cash.
468
00:46:17,429 --> 00:46:19,579
The Communist Manifesto, in Hungarian.
469
00:46:22,669 --> 00:46:24,307
And this.
470
00:46:29,789 --> 00:46:31,302
It's the telegram logbook.
471
00:46:31,549 --> 00:46:35,224
- Isn't that what we wanted?
- It's worth shit without the code book.
472
00:46:35,469 --> 00:46:36,697
Damn!
473
00:46:57,149 --> 00:46:59,947
What does a code book suppose to look like?
Small, big, thin, thick?
474
00:47:00,029 --> 00:47:02,179
I don't know! I don't know.
475
00:47:02,389 --> 00:47:04,459
lt depends on how complicated
the codes are.
476
00:47:05,909 --> 00:47:07,820
What do you need the code book for?
477
00:47:08,069 --> 00:47:11,425
If you steal it, the State Department
will change the codes by tomorrow.
478
00:47:11,709 --> 00:47:15,065
The code book can save lives
and expose the guilty.
479
00:47:17,669 --> 00:47:19,341
And how do you plan to take it?
480
00:47:19,589 --> 00:47:22,661
Stuff it into your underpants
and walk out the door?
481
00:47:28,829 --> 00:47:32,504
This is Radio Free Europe.
Are you there, Ábel?
482
00:47:36,469 --> 00:47:37,948
Yes. This is Ábel.
483
00:47:38,189 --> 00:47:39,144
Success?
484
00:47:39,389 --> 00:47:41,266
We're checking the safe now.
485
00:47:41,709 --> 00:47:44,462
We're in the studio.
Ready to go on air.
486
00:47:44,709 --> 00:47:46,586
We need one more minute.
487
00:47:47,149 --> 00:47:50,186
Do you want to read the codes
out on the Free Europe?
488
00:47:54,349 --> 00:47:56,305
Live on air.
489
00:47:59,229 --> 00:48:02,619
Those traitors in Munich are in
on this too, huh?
490
00:48:02,869 --> 00:48:03,779
I can't believe it.
491
00:48:04,029 --> 00:48:06,623
In a few minutes, Comrade Ambassador,
the whole free world...
492
00:48:06,869 --> 00:48:09,463
will know the codes of the
Hungarian State Department.
493
00:48:10,069 --> 00:48:12,902
All your dirty secrets will be exposed.
494
00:48:16,189 --> 00:48:18,066
What does the code book look like?
495
00:48:18,189 --> 00:48:19,747
No idea.
496
00:48:19,989 --> 00:48:23,061
This safe belongs to Home Affairs,
I work for the State Department.
497
00:48:32,309 --> 00:48:35,506
If it's not in the safe,
then Vermes has it.
498
00:48:39,909 --> 00:48:43,299
The ambassador's life in exchange
for the code book!
499
00:48:44,949 --> 00:48:47,668
I've got bad news for you.
500
00:48:47,909 --> 00:48:50,582
Vermes has burnt the code book.
501
00:48:54,109 --> 00:48:56,020
What did he say?
502
00:49:00,029 --> 00:49:02,224
Vermes burnt the code book.
503
00:49:06,469 --> 00:49:09,029
- ls there only one code book?
- Yes.
504
00:49:09,309 --> 00:49:11,777
You're left with no other option.
505
00:49:12,029 --> 00:49:14,497
You have to give yourselves up.
506
00:49:18,789 --> 00:49:20,780
Now what?
507
00:49:22,789 --> 00:49:24,222
We stay.
508
00:49:24,469 --> 00:49:27,905
And if we have to die,
the ambassador dies first.
509
00:49:28,149 --> 00:49:30,299
Have you got the code book?
510
00:49:34,109 --> 00:49:35,667
No.
511
00:49:36,549 --> 00:49:38,983
I repeat: we don't have the code book.
512
00:49:40,069 --> 00:49:43,220
In that case, I have to abort
the broadcast.
513
00:49:43,469 --> 00:49:44,948
Give us one more minute.
514
00:49:45,189 --> 00:49:47,987
One minute and we're out.
515
00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:52,147
You'd better surrender.
516
00:49:52,389 --> 00:49:55,187
Prisons here are like hotels at home.
517
00:50:02,669 --> 00:50:04,705
Now what?
518
00:50:13,749 --> 00:50:21,178
Down with Kádár! Down with Kádár!
519
00:50:24,029 --> 00:50:26,497
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
520
00:50:52,789 --> 00:50:54,939
There's a change to the program.
521
00:50:55,229 --> 00:50:57,379
Ambassador Mihály Koroknai is
going to speak.
522
00:50:57,629 --> 00:50:59,267
What? The ambassador to Bern?
523
00:51:00,149 --> 00:51:03,425
He's going to publicly apologise for
Imre Nagy's murder.
524
00:51:03,669 --> 00:51:05,068
Are you insane?
525
00:51:08,389 --> 00:51:10,459
- Why don't we shoot him?
- And then what?
526
00:51:10,709 --> 00:51:14,702
- We're trying to break out.
- Are you determined to die?
527
00:51:15,109 --> 00:51:24,939
Kádár's henchman! Kádár's henchman!
528
00:51:34,309 --> 00:51:41,784
Down with Kádár! Down with Kádár!
529
00:51:54,389 --> 00:51:55,742
KÁDÁR = MURDERER
530
00:52:14,389 --> 00:52:16,300
We're waiting for the ambassador.
531
00:52:17,309 --> 00:52:18,788
We're ready.
532
00:52:19,029 --> 00:52:22,908
You're going live. All the best!
533
00:52:23,429 --> 00:52:24,748
Let's do it.
534
00:52:36,349 --> 00:52:37,577
What should I say?
535
00:52:37,869 --> 00:52:39,427
Introduce yourself.
536
00:52:41,629 --> 00:52:44,462
I don't have the permission
to make any declaration.
537
00:52:45,429 --> 00:52:48,785
- I just wanted to clarify that.
- Your name?
538
00:52:49,749 --> 00:52:52,263
Mihály Koroknai, Hungarian
ambassador to Bern.
539
00:52:52,509 --> 00:52:54,864
Two bandits are holding a gun
to my head.
540
00:52:56,389 --> 00:52:59,028
What happened at the embassy in 1956?
541
00:53:00,389 --> 00:53:03,506
Tell us what you wanted to say earlier.
542
00:53:14,669 --> 00:53:16,546
What did Imre Nagy ask you to do?
543
00:53:16,789 --> 00:53:18,461
lt wasn't Imre Nagy,
it was the State Department.
544
00:53:18,709 --> 00:53:21,303
What did the State Department
ask you to do?
545
00:53:21,989 --> 00:53:24,628
To dismiss the Home Affairs
staff from the embassy.
546
00:53:24,869 --> 00:53:26,507
The ÁVÓ officers.
547
00:53:27,229 --> 00:53:29,504
I was ordered to get rid
of intelligence operatives.
548
00:53:29,749 --> 00:53:32,024
- It's Koroknai.
- Koroknai?
549
00:53:32,229 --> 00:53:34,584
And? Did you throw them out?
550
00:53:34,829 --> 00:53:36,820
How? What station is it?
551
00:53:37,069 --> 00:53:39,105
I sent them home, it's not a secret.
552
00:53:39,349 --> 00:53:41,021
Radio Free Europe.
553
00:53:43,189 --> 00:53:44,861
When did this happen?
554
00:53:45,149 --> 00:53:46,628
On October 30.
555
00:53:46,869 --> 00:53:48,825
Did you take the side
of the revolution?
556
00:53:49,069 --> 00:53:51,105
I'm a diplomat, I don't take sides.
557
00:53:51,349 --> 00:53:53,260
I follow orders, that's all.
558
00:53:53,949 --> 00:53:56,258
For Rákosi and Imre Nagy equally?
559
00:53:56,469 --> 00:53:58,983
I swore on the Hungarian flag.
560
00:53:59,229 --> 00:54:01,743
What happens at the top
is not my business.
561
00:54:01,989 --> 00:54:05,698
I'm a professional.
I do my job.
562
00:54:05,949 --> 00:54:08,861
Do you consider the revolution
to be a professional matter?
563
00:54:09,109 --> 00:54:11,259
Why's that important?
Who cares?
564
00:54:11,509 --> 00:54:14,421
Do you weigh orders up before
you carry them out?
565
00:54:14,669 --> 00:54:17,058
Yes, I do, like all normal people.
566
00:54:17,309 --> 00:54:19,629
Did you agree with throwing
the ÁVÓ out?
567
00:54:21,229 --> 00:54:22,298
I'll repeat
568
00:54:22,389 --> 00:54:23,617
Mihály?
569
00:54:23,869 --> 00:54:25,507
I followed an order.
570
00:54:25,749 --> 00:54:28,183
Did you agree or not?
571
00:54:28,429 --> 00:54:32,741
It's not easy to speak honestly
with a gun to my head.
572
00:54:32,989 --> 00:54:34,627
It's just as hard without a gun.
573
00:54:34,869 --> 00:54:36,302
You don't want honesty from me,
574
00:54:36,549 --> 00:54:38,744
you want a confession.
575
00:54:43,829 --> 00:54:45,057
Relax...
576
00:54:45,309 --> 00:54:47,027
We're just talking.
577
00:54:50,189 --> 00:54:51,417
Thank you.
578
00:54:51,669 --> 00:54:53,944
I don't understand what
we're talking about.
579
00:55:01,189 --> 00:55:03,419
- What? Live on air?
- Yes.
580
00:55:03,669 --> 00:55:05,307
Goddammit!
581
00:55:11,269 --> 00:55:13,066
We're just two Hungarians,
away from home
582
00:55:13,309 --> 00:55:16,460
from the two sides of the trenches
finally agreeing on something.
583
00:55:21,549 --> 00:55:23,585
We both hate the ÁVÓ.
584
00:55:24,589 --> 00:55:27,023
Everybody hated the ÁVÓ, didn't they?
585
00:55:34,829 --> 00:55:38,981
Especially the diplomats.
That's no secret.
586
00:55:40,629 --> 00:55:43,143
They're Home Affairs,
we're the State Department.
587
00:55:43,389 --> 00:55:45,664
What are they doing in an embassy anyway?
588
00:55:45,909 --> 00:55:48,707
They don't speak languages,
they don't manage matters.
589
00:55:48,949 --> 00:55:51,747
All they do is spy on our staff.
590
00:55:53,309 --> 00:55:55,186
Snoops, that's what they are.
591
00:56:00,069 --> 00:56:04,187
When I got the call on October 30
that the new order was to dismiss the ÁVÓ
592
00:56:04,429 --> 00:56:05,862
what was I supposed to say?
593
00:56:06,109 --> 00:56:07,588
I was happy.
594
00:56:09,149 --> 00:56:11,822
I never thought that communism could end.
595
00:56:12,069 --> 00:56:14,185
Imre Nagy was the greatest
communist, wasn't he?
596
00:56:14,429 --> 00:56:17,349
He was a friend of Gerő and Rákosi.
What was I supposed to think?
597
00:56:17,749 --> 00:56:19,899
Haven't you heard about the revolution?
598
00:56:20,949 --> 00:56:23,224
The revolution happened
differently for us.
599
00:56:24,029 --> 00:56:25,542
We were far way.
600
00:56:25,789 --> 00:56:29,862
We heard that the crowds were out
on the streets, chasing the ÁVÓ away.
601
00:56:30,109 --> 00:56:31,462
And what did you think would happen?
602
00:56:34,629 --> 00:56:37,905
They'd get rid of the ÁVÓ
and communism would remain.
603
00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:41,138
A communism without the ÁVÓ.
604
00:56:42,669 --> 00:56:44,421
What else should I have thought?
605
00:56:44,669 --> 00:56:48,628
On October 30, the orders came
from the same people...
606
00:56:48,869 --> 00:56:50,621
as before and since.
607
00:56:50,869 --> 00:56:52,939
Then why do they want to fire you?
608
00:56:53,189 --> 00:56:54,588
Good question.
609
00:56:54,829 --> 00:56:58,105
You followed their orders and
now they're getting rid of you?
610
00:56:58,349 --> 00:57:01,500
After a shameless, 18-month procedure,
they came up...
611
00:57:01,749 --> 00:57:04,707
with this outrageous and
humiliating verdict.
612
00:57:04,949 --> 00:57:06,826
You'll have me feeling sorry for you.
613
00:57:09,629 --> 00:57:11,347
And Imre Nagy?
614
00:57:14,069 --> 00:57:15,741
What about him?
615
00:57:16,669 --> 00:57:18,785
What do you think of his execution?
616
00:57:22,509 --> 00:57:24,625
I can't apologise for others.
617
00:57:24,869 --> 00:57:29,181
But what's your take on it? You fought
for the same reason after all, didn't you?
618
00:57:29,429 --> 00:57:30,782
Not exactly.
619
00:57:31,029 --> 00:57:33,668
You both wanted to get rid of the ÁVÓ.
620
00:57:33,909 --> 00:57:36,867
If you're outraged by
getting unfairly fired for this,
621
00:57:37,109 --> 00:57:40,067
aren't you a bit upset about
Imre Nagy getting executed?
622
00:57:40,309 --> 00:57:42,345
Just because I'm
pissed off by it.
623
00:57:42,589 --> 00:57:43,908
It's not the same.
624
00:57:44,149 --> 00:57:45,468
What's not the same?
625
00:57:47,669 --> 00:57:49,899
Imre Nagy gave the order,
I just carried it out.
626
00:57:50,149 --> 00:57:53,346
You're just as responsible as the one
who gave the order, don't you think?
627
00:57:53,549 --> 00:57:56,746
On that basis, a whole country
could be called to account.
628
00:57:56,989 --> 00:57:58,900
Would you have executed Imre Nagy?
629
00:57:59,509 --> 00:58:02,626
Let me say it again:
I did not give the order.
630
00:58:02,869 --> 00:58:05,409
- But you'd carry it out.
- Would you have carried it out?
631
00:58:05,509 --> 00:58:07,898
Would you have executed him
if you'd been ordered?
632
00:58:08,149 --> 00:58:10,982
This conversation is over.
633
00:58:11,229 --> 00:58:13,060
Would you have killed Imre Nagy?
634
00:58:14,869 --> 00:58:16,939
- Switch the radio off.
- Say yes or no.
635
00:58:17,069 --> 00:58:19,219
Did he deserve to die?
Did he deserve the rope?
636
00:58:19,389 --> 00:58:21,539
- Would you have tied it around his neck?
- Kick the stool from under his feet?
637
00:58:21,629 --> 00:58:22,903
Watch him
fighting for his life?
638
00:58:23,029 --> 00:58:25,463
- If you'd been given the order...
- Would you have killed Imre Nagy?
639
00:58:30,269 --> 00:58:32,624
lt was a mistake
640
00:58:33,029 --> 00:58:35,099
to kill Imre Nagy.
641
00:58:37,589 --> 00:58:39,261
Say it again.
642
00:58:41,749 --> 00:58:44,582
lt was a mistake to kill Imre Nagy.
643
00:58:47,789 --> 00:58:49,586
A bloody big mistake.
644
00:58:52,429 --> 00:58:54,101
I struggled,
645
00:58:54,309 --> 00:58:55,788
I pleaded,
646
00:58:56,029 --> 00:58:58,929
at headquarters, with the minister,
with Kádár.
647
00:59:00,149 --> 00:59:04,381
I told him it would be a huge mistake
to execute Imre Nagy.
648
00:59:04,629 --> 00:59:08,099
"He's just a tired old man,
wouldn't hurt a fly."
649
00:59:08,349 --> 00:59:10,783
"People will forget him quickly."
650
00:59:10,989 --> 00:59:13,219
Kádár said:
651
00:59:13,469 --> 00:59:16,347
"We don't understand you,
Comrade Koroknai."
652
00:59:16,629 --> 00:59:19,507
"Imre Nagy is a rat, an enemy of the state."
653
00:59:21,669 --> 00:59:24,103
"He has to die, right away."
654
00:59:24,349 --> 00:59:27,261
I said: "Comrade Kádár...
655
00:59:27,509 --> 00:59:29,898
what will we achieve by executing him?"
656
00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:33,107
"We'd only make the
counter-revolutionaries stronger."
657
00:59:33,349 --> 00:59:35,180
"We'd shake the immigrants up."
658
00:59:37,349 --> 00:59:39,021
"We'd give them something
659
00:59:39,269 --> 00:59:42,659
one hundred times stronger
than a tired old man."
660
00:59:45,669 --> 00:59:47,944
"We'd give them a martyr."
661
01:00:51,789 --> 01:00:53,461
Don't...
662
01:00:56,509 --> 01:00:57,498
Listen.
663
01:00:58,749 --> 01:01:01,661
(lyrics of Hungarian folk song
about Lajos Kossuth)
664
01:01:01,909 --> 01:01:06,778
"If he sends this message again,"
665
01:01:07,069 --> 01:01:11,699
"We all have to join his army."
666
01:01:11,949 --> 01:01:16,579
"Long live the Hungarian freedom!"
667
01:01:16,829 --> 01:01:20,139
"Long live the homeland!"
668
01:01:20,389 --> 01:01:24,905
"Raindrops are falling all around,"
669
01:01:25,149 --> 01:01:27,868
"Falling on Lajos Kossuth's hat."
670
01:01:28,389 --> 01:01:31,028
Leave yourself a way out.
671
01:01:42,629 --> 01:01:44,585
What happened in there?
672
01:02:52,389 --> 01:02:56,223
I demand that you search him
immediately.
673
01:03:14,349 --> 01:03:16,021
The other one?
674
01:03:16,869 --> 01:03:18,382
What other one?
675
01:03:21,949 --> 01:03:23,143
Go!
676
01:04:09,349 --> 01:04:10,464
We're with you!
677
01:04:10,709 --> 01:04:13,621
We're with you!
678
01:05:00,509 --> 01:05:03,069
Would you really have let them kill me?
679
01:05:04,869 --> 01:05:06,621
I was bluffing.
680
01:05:06,869 --> 01:05:09,303
Where was that goddamn code book?
681
01:05:12,989 --> 01:05:16,538
You must have figured it out by now,
Comrade Ambassador.
682
01:05:18,909 --> 01:05:20,979
Enjoy packing your bags.
683
01:05:51,149 --> 01:05:54,186
41... 61... 6...
684
01:05:55,389 --> 01:05:57,349
29... 04...
685
01:05:57,349 --> 01:05:57,986
29... 04...
686
01:05:58,189 --> 01:05:59,417
58... 60... 1...
687
01:05:59,589 --> 01:06:03,218
98... 64... 6...
688
01:07:07,629 --> 01:07:10,587
You can put the new curtains up, Edina.
689
01:07:10,869 --> 01:07:12,746
We're staying.
690
01:07:23,549 --> 01:07:25,540
Headquarters sent a telegram.
691
01:07:27,469 --> 01:07:29,629
"Earlier order retracted.''
692
01:07:29,629 --> 01:07:32,189
''In light of heroic efforts...''
693
01:07:34,069 --> 01:07:36,629
''the ambassador stays."
694
01:07:37,989 --> 01:07:42,062
I told you.
I won't let them get me.
695
01:08:13,269 --> 01:08:16,102
The code book was right in front
of us all along.
696
01:08:16,349 --> 01:08:18,340
lt was in our hands.
697
01:08:19,229 --> 01:08:21,345
We were blind not to realise.
698
01:08:23,029 --> 01:08:24,940
lt doesn't matter anymore.
699
01:08:25,469 --> 01:08:27,585
My best friend is dead.
700
01:08:29,069 --> 01:08:32,300
Maybe it was determined by fate
maybe by him.
701
01:08:34,309 --> 01:08:36,459
Bános was definitely ready.
702
01:08:37,549 --> 01:08:41,588
He was ready to give his life
for freedom.
703
01:08:45,229 --> 01:08:48,426
I know that his death was not in vain.
704
01:10:41,189 --> 01:10:46,269
Tibor Bános was given a public burial
in Bern on August 28, 1958,
705
01:10:46,269 --> 01:10:50,342
despite the protestation of the embassy.
706
01:10:51,309 --> 01:10:54,221
Hundreds of Hungarian immigrants attended.
707
01:10:57,309 --> 01:11:00,267
Ábel Takács was released
18 months later.
708
01:11:00,509 --> 01:11:04,582
He gained Swiss citizenship,
attended university, and married.
709
01:11:04,749 --> 01:11:08,185
He wasn't able to attend either
his father's or his mother's funeral.
710
01:11:08,429 --> 01:11:12,263
He could only return
to Hungary in 1989.
711
01:11:15,389 --> 01:11:19,064
Mihály Koroknai and György
Vermes were awarded
712
01:11:19,309 --> 01:11:21,300
the Medal of Worker and
Peasant Rule for
713
01:11:21,549 --> 01:11:24,507
"exemplary, self-sacrificing
and heroic behaviour".
714
01:11:24,709 --> 01:11:27,462
Koroknai's career went from
strength to strength.
715
01:11:27,709 --> 01:11:32,066
He served as ambassador in Prague,
Belgrade and finally Moscow.
716
01:11:32,309 --> 01:11:35,540
He retired as deputy prime minister.
717
01:11:37,629 --> 01:11:40,541
Following the political amnesty
granted in 1963,
718
01:11:40,789 --> 01:11:43,747
Hungary's UN mandate was restored.
719
01:11:45,349 --> 01:11:49,388
The "Hungarian Question" was
taken off the agenda.
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