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-Finished. -PIay the Iast few bars again.

-Was it better today, ma'am? -Yes.

-When can I come again? -Your mother said...

... you had to Ieave. Aren't you?

Papa says there's no need. We're quite safe in Paris.

The day after tomorrow then, at 4 o'cIock.

-Goodbye, ma'am. -Give my regards to your mother.

-I wiII. Goodbye. -Go straight home.

Oh, how are you, ma'am? She's just Ieft.

I can tr, but she waIks so fast.

Yes, I'II go at once.

No, ma'am... HeIIo?

HeIIo?...

Come on! QuickIy!

Out, or I'II shoot!

Stay here by me. Don't go! Don't go!

Mama! Mama!

Edith! Go away! Go away!

-Get on! -You too!

RegionaI train number 4327.

Lead aII the prisoners...

... to the main square!

Get off!

Come on!

QuickIy!

Everone off the train!

Mama! Mama!

Get out!

Come on!

Move!

Come down!

Hurr up!

Left!... Right!... Left!... Right!...

Attention, pIease!

-No! Mama! No! -Edith!

-Edith? -Yes?

They'II kiII us aII at daybreak.

-How do you know? -I heard them.

I can speak German.

They'II kiII the chiIdren and the oId peopIe.

Two SS said that near me.

God, if onIy I couId see them again!

Shut up!

Stop yeIIing!

Come here! Where are you going?

-Let's escape, Pierre! -And go where?

I want to see my mother and my father again.

The door's open. You come too, Iet's go!

It's no good.

HoId him.

Goodbye, Pierre.

And who are you? Where are you off to?

-Let me come in, pIease! -What, in here?

Don't send me away. They want to kiII me!

Quiet, stupid!

-You're Jewish? -Yes.

WeII then!

You won't need this any more.

Come. Maybe we can both be of some use to each other.

Hurr!

-What is it, Sofia? -I brought you this one.

She arrived tonight. Jewish. They've seIected her...

for the gas chamber but they haven't registered her yet.

AII right, Sofia. Go now.

AII right my hat! What do I get?

-I haven't even any bread. -Give me some aIcohoI.

-No, it's bad for you. -Who cares!

You're sick, Sofia. Go now, I'II give you something next time.

My bIock's being transferred to a Iabour camp. I Ieave tomorrow.

Bye, Doctor.

They say it's a good camp. Tr to get her into our convoy.

Remember, bIock 1 2

-How oId are you? -1 4.

-Are you here on your own? -No,

with my mother and my father, but they spIit us up.

Wait here.

You're in Iuck. If no one had died tonight,

I couIdn't have heIped you.

Take your cIothes off. QuickIy now.

I toId you to strip off.

Everthing, unIess you want them to spot you at once.

Hurr up!

Put this on. Come on!

PIease yourseIf, but if you want to Iive, you must put...

... this smock on, now. We don't have much time.

Come on, hurr!

That bIack triangIe on your smock stands for criminaIs.

PoIiticaI prisoners wear a red triangIe, Iike mine.

The Jews have a yeIIow star.

But bIack triangIes get the best treatment.

The SS pick them as camp oversees.

They caII them ''Kapo''. Beware of them.

They're mean and they can do what they Iike to the prisoners.

But you stand a better chance with your bIack triangIe.

You're taking the pIace of a French thief.

I haven't reported her death. Her name was NicoIe.

Number 10099.

You're name is NicoIe now, understand? Remember that.

Come on, what's your name now?

-NicoIe. -NicoIe Niepas.

-NicoIe Niepas. -Number 10099.

In German it's...

Remember that. And don't show this for a few days.

Wait for it to heaI. I'II be right back.

I have to see if I can get you assigned to a hut.

NicoIe's is out, they'd be on to you at once.

Come here!

March!

Join the others!

Come on!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Attention, pIease! AII the Kapos...

... of the bIocks number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 appear...

before the Commander for generaI roII caII!

Come on! Move!

Mama! Mama! No! No!

Mama! Mama!

Mama... Mama...!

You've got to Iive, NicoIe, and think of nothing eIse.

Just Iive, that's aII. Come...

I managed to get you assigned to bIock 1 2.

That's where Sofia is, the girI who brought you here.

BIock 1 2. The number is on the hut, you can't miss it.

Tomorrow you'II Ieave for a Iabour camp.

It's better than this. Nobody wiII know you.

Your name is NicoIe, aIways remember that.

If they ask anything, say you Ieft the infirmar today.

You're not Jewish any more, understand?

You hear me, NicoIe?

Off you go.

It's up to you now. Tr to Iive. Good Iuck!

Good Iuck... Go on.

How many days wiII it take?

If you chew it weII and cIose your eyes, it tastes Iike bread.

Don't think about it, girI. Shrug it off.

You forget everthing here, except coId and hunger.

The rest is a Iot of rubbish. Isn't that right?

No, I don't think so.

-How Iong have you been here? -Over six months.

Wait then. We'II see in a year... if you're stiII aIive.

You Iisten to me, girI. In here the cIeanest one stinks.

-What can you see, IsabeIIa? -StiII nothing but woods.

-What kind of woods? -I wouIdn't know.

-Looks Iike oak. -StiII god-awfuI Germany then.

Right, who'II give me some bread for a cigarette?

Where do you get aII that stuff?

It isn't Iike that, you know.

There's one thing they can't take from us against our wiII.

Our seIf-respect. I'm positive of that.

What's wrong? Are you sick?

Go on, cr...

Stand up!

-Back! -Get out of here!

Come on! Move!

Quick! Quick!

It's stopping again. Take a Iook.

-What can you see? -A station...

-but there's no name. -Another train fuII of prisoners.

This damned war wiII never end!

-They're not speaking German. -You sure?

-Can't you hear them? -What's next to Germany?

-France? -You'd Iike that, wouIdn't you?

PoIand!

Open the wagons!

Come down!

Move!

QuickIy!

Hurr up!

Come down!

Get off!

Line up!

Stay stiII!

Now, move!

Come on, march!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Keep in step!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Any news from Warsaw? How are they there?

Better than you, Iass... Better than you.

Good Iuck.

Back!

Go back!

Go now! Go away!

Line up!

Come on!

Look what you've done!

Give me another ration!

NicoIe...

I reaIized from the start you were a nice girI

... in spite of your bIack triangIe.

Who sent you aIong with us? The infirmar doctor, right?

He's a good man. He has saved a Iot of girIs Iike you.

You're Jewish, aren't you?

No, I'm not Jewish.

Attention, pIease! GeneraI roII caII!

Line up!

Attention, pIease! GeneraI roII caII!

Line up!

-How many are the poIiticaIs? -About 50 percent, but you...

... can't trust them. Most of them have been here at Ieast 2 years.

-They renegade? -They adapted.

One's even been made a Kapo. The woman on bIock 10.

She was a good partisan once, then bit by bit...

I speak fIuent German.

-CouId that do me any good? -ProbabIy.

If they make you an interpreter, you couId be usefuI

... on a Iot of occasion.

AII in aII, this is far better than Auschwitz.

Yes. We sIeep better, we eat better. You've seen that.

They want to get the most out of us.

It's obviousIy in their interests.

But there's stiII the screenings nightmare.

-Here too? -Yes.

The SS doctor examines us ever four months.

The oIdest and thinnest are sent away.

A sore's enough, the sIightest wound, and you're repIaced.

You came to repIace 100 other women.

-Where did they take them? -Nobody knows.

But you can be sure...

there's a gas chamber there.

What's wrong, siIIy? Go to sIeep!

I don't want to die!

Come on! Work!

Quicker!

Move!

No miII, no meaI!

Idiot! Can't you Iook where you're going?

Damn you! I'II teach you to Ieave your work!

I'II warm you up! 1 5 days in soIitar!

-Hi, CaroIe. -HeIIo.

-What on earth did you say? -I don't understand.

-What are you, anyway? -Russian.

She hasn't been here Iong. She's a bit...

Anna, the Red Army's coming, right?

Yes, yes, it's coming.

Interpreter!

WeII done, they Iet you go. I didn't think you'd make it.

Did they bit you up again?

Have you understood? Now go and teII them!

Attention, pIease! The Kapo said...

Who took my potato?

Give it back, NicoIe. It's mine.

-NicoIe...! -I gave it to her.

-I traded my undershirt for it. -Who cares!

It's mine! I put it on the stove a few minutes ago!

You must have eaten it without reaIizing.

If it reaIIy was stoIen, get it back.

I'm suprised at you. You're a poIiticaI!

You mean the poIiticaIs are better than us?

You heard her Iadyship? She's scared though.

Yet she was in the Resistence.

I wonder how her Iadyship resisted back home?

Hey, Georgette, stop that, wiII you!

I wouIdn't brag about being here for steaIing.

Come here and repeat that if you dare!

-I'm coming. -AttagirI, you show her!

-Come on, stop that, girIs! -Let me go!

BIocks number 1 and 2! Wash yourseIf!

What a spring! The water gets coIder ever day.

Her Iadyship expects hot water? It's meIted snow.

Aren't you going to wash, NicoIe?

That's what they want. That's just what they're after.

To canceI us... turn us into animaIs.

We have to hoId out.

-By washing? -That too.

It's a way to make us feeI Iike human beings.

To stop ourseIves turning into brutes.

Come here! AII of you!

1 1 321 ! 3826!

Out!

1 21 30!

669!

71 5!

231 !

I've got through three screenings. Last time...

... I had a sore on my foot. They didn't notice.

Luck, that's aII. If they don't Iike the Iook of your face...

... being heaIthy won't heIp you.

-Does the grey stiII show? -No, don't worr.

I have good hands, good feet. Why worr about my teeth?

You'II see why, you'II see.

3006!

-You know you have to go. -You're aII right.

Shove her out, or they'II take it out on us.

Good Iuck... be brave.

Attention, pIease! AII the Kapos...

... of the bIocks number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 appear...

... before the Commander for generaI roII caII!

-Do I Iook Iess paIe, now? -Yes, that's a Iot better.

You think I shouId take the bandage off?

Sure, they'II see that first thing.

921 5!

Stand up straight and smiIe. And stick your chest out.

If it shows a bit, aII the better.

-Hide your hands. -They're not that stupid!

-What hope have you got Iike that? -10099!

That's you. SmiIe... smiIe.

Attention, pIease! AII the Kapos...

... appear before the Commander!

Get dressed.

-Left! -Come!

Interpreter! Come here!

Feet... Your feet!

The other one.

Good... your hands... Hands!

Turn them over!

-Left! -Go!

Next one!

Come!

Attention, pIease! AII the Kapos...

-Here she is! -Which is the good side?

-Left or right? TeII me! -I couIdn't find out.

Left or right?

-I teII you, I don't know. -It's easy to find out.

We'II just ask where they sent the oIdest women.

WeII, Ninette? Left or right?

Why are you asking me? Maybe I made it.

Sure, maybe you did. But was it Ieft or right?

Right.

HeII!

Don't cr. They won't send you away.

You'II see, Red Army come in time.

Right?

I fooIed them! Look at my hands!

I made it!

Look!

I showed you!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Stay back!

Hey, you! Line up!

Drop dead!

WeII, aren't you going to say goodbye?

Now you're scared of saying goodbye to me, you bitches!

Cowards! They've turned you into a bunch of sheep!

Cowards!

You too! Cowards!

Damn murderer! Scumbag!

Scumbag! Scumbag!

You don't scare me any more! I know where you're taking us!

VuItures! Brutes! You'II die too!

They'II kiII your kids! Your damn mothers!

Damn your mothers!

You, you and you! Come with me!

In step!

Hitch her up!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Take the Iime!

What are you doing?

Her socks...

Good.

Hey, you!

I have to send another girI to the SS.

I'II take her after roII caII.

TeII number 10099. It's worth her whiIe, teII her.

-But she's a chiId! -ExactIy.

NicoIe!

AIice wants to make you a ridicuIous proposaI.

She'd Iike you to go...

... to the SS tonight. You don't want to, of course.

-You don't, do you? -Why not?

-What has she said? -Nothing.

But you have no experience. Have you ever been with a man?

-No. -No?

But if I go, wiII they give me something to eat?

-NicoIe! -Ask her that.

Ask her!

Anyone pIay cards with me?

-No. -PIay on your own.

... and good night...

Look what I brought you! Like her?

What can you do with that?

Are we supposed to adopt her?

She's pretty, isn't she? I had her cIeaned up.

-But she weighs 60 pounds! -I Iike them Iike that.

Right, baby? Come on...

Have fun then!

-Did it come out? -The heII it did!

-How did it go? -Just great.

I was right. She's a virgin.

She was a virgin!

Hey you... Why are you stiII here? Scram!

Excuse me, you said you'd give me something to eat.

-What did she said? -She wants to eat.

Tomorrow!

Tomorrow...

Attention! The Camp Commander...

... wishes you aII a Merr Christmas.

Now sing!

How is it you've come today too?

Your mates sent for me.

Guess they changed their minds. They're in town getting drunk.

-Why didn't you go with them? -I don't Iike drinking.

What do you Iike, KarI? Just the war?

Where were you Iast Christmas?

In Cracow. And you?

Here. And before that?

-In Paris. -Do you Iike Paris?

It's just another city... onIy a bit noisier.

It was good the first day, when we entered.

And the Champs EIysées, the day of our parade.

Out.

Do you mind... not being at home?

Because it's Christmas? Nonsense!

What things are important for you?

My countr, I think. OnIy my countr is important.

What if you Iose the war?

ImpossibIe.

But if you do Iose?

Your turn, KarI.

We can't get news from the front any more.

MoraIe is pretty Iow, even among the poIiticaIs.

I toId the women in my hut to sabotage the work.

-They just Iaughed. -It's the same in the factor.

We need the right arguments.

-They'II Iisten to taIk of escape. -Let's taIk of escape then.

That's useIess, since escape is impossibIe.

It's not useIess. Look...

They're as thick as thieves now.

Are you nuts? That was a woIIen shirt.

At Ieast two more packs, or I'II have it back.

-Okay, I'II tr tomorrow. -How about some more jam?

-CiviIians go for that. -KarI says nothing must be...

wasted because his mates at the front are starving.

Rubbish! What does he care about his mates at the front!

He'II have forgotten by tomorrow.

-AII right, I'II tr again. -NicoIe!

Hurr up! Go inside!

The bIock Ieader's Ieaving. I might get picked to repIace her.

If so, they'II need a new Kapo for this hut.

I couId put your name forward. TeII your friends...

... about aII I do for you. And get busy!

If one of them steps in, it's your Iucky day.

Good evening, Miss! How are they at the command post?

-What do you mean? -Just asking how they were.

Mind you own business in future!

Line up!

Prisoners, attention!

You are prisoners of the German Reich.

You work for the German Reich

... and in return the Reich feeds you.

It's a cIear-cut reIationship.

Whoever betrays this reIationship is punished.

The prisoner 871 1 sabotaged the factor work,

by attempting to damage the machines.

The prisoner 871 1 was caught in the act.

Sabotage is punished with death.

TransIate.

TransIate! TransIate!

It is right...

It is right that such criminaIs shouId hang. Is that cIear?

Yes, Sir!

Now proceed!

Hey, you! Look up!

1 5 days in soIitar and 3 months on haIf rations.

-Is it time? -Five minutes.

Good.

I've appIied for the front again.

Even one-hand men shouId be needed now. I hope so!

-Don't you Iike it here? -No, I'm bored.

-Why, do you Iike it? -I do now.

I eat weII, I sIeep weII. No work, no screenings.

-Is that aII you care about? -What eIse is there?

When are you going to eat that?

At night, or eIse I can't sIeep.

You know it's Iess nourishing when it's staIe?

And the effort not to touch it, that's bad for you.

It weakens you, you know that?

You're stiII on haIf ration, huh?

The Russians sing now. One of your songs.

We don't know what we're aIIowed to sing.

Whatever you know, just sing it weII.

-''HoIy War'' -Don't be funny.

-You want to get us kiIIed? -We don't know anything eIse.

''HoIy War''. Let's sing!

The Russians!

You were right... The Red Army's come.

One moment... Show them the empty bunks! Go on in.

Come on... Come on...

My boys...

My boys!

WeII? Aren't the rest of you going to hug us?

Where have you come from? Say something to us.

PiIot.

-Quiet... quiet! -She's right, they'II hear us.

HoId on.

Show us the bunks that need dismantIing.

We'II answer your questions whiIe we work, okay?

It won't be Iong. The AIIies have Ianded in Normandy.

The Germans Iost StaIingrad,

the Red Army's at the Dnieper.

-CouIdn't they counter-attack? -No, not any more.

The whoIe front's on the move. You'II see.

-And the Red Army wiII get here. -What?...

-The Red Army wiII get here. -Yes...

They'II get here and free us aII.

-Is that reaIIy true? -Sure!

They brought us here to buiId fortifications, because they're...

... retreating and we'II see them aII run away from here.

We'II skin him aIive and dunk him in vinegar.

-Who? -Faust!

You'II do what?

-Nothing. I was joking. -Watch it!

And you men, get on with it!

-Who's that? -Our Kapo.

Don't you have them?

No, we just have a hut representative.

You're not scared of a kid Iike that?

You'II see, son... You'II find out what a Kapo is.

-Is he Faust? -Yes.

-What does it says? -''Touch Faust and you die''.

-The SS wrote that? -Yes.

-They're nice to cats. -Are you nice to everone?

No... not everone.

Come on, get your mates. It's roII caII soon.

-They haven't caIIed us yet. -I'II take you.

-Attention, pIease!

-RoII caII! RoII caII! -AII the Kapos must...

... count the prisoners and wait for new orders!

Come on, you, get moving.

You ate the Iot! Give it back, you bitch!

-Give it back! -What's going on?

She stoIe my bread! NearIy haIf a Ioaf I'd put by!

She scoffed the Iot! Bitch! Scumbag!

Tough Iuck! Now go to roII caII.

-What am I going to do? -Go!

Is it true?

-I couIdn't stand it any Ionger. -Let's go, it's roII caII.

-Let me be, NicoIe. -Let's go.

See? Washing ever morning didn't do you any good.

Leave me here, pIease.

-You preached so weII. -Leave me here.

Remember? You kept repeating it to me.

''We mustn't Iet ourseIves go, we must react''.

And Iook at you now!

-ExactIy Iike aII the rest. -One! Two! Three! Four!...

But it's naturaI. You preached a Ioad of rubbish.

Now what's got into you? Where are you going, siIIy?

Kapo, come here and bring three prisoners!

Come on, Boris!

Get moving, Boris!

-Come on, tr! -I can't do it.

On your feet! At once! Get to work!

What are you doing?

Come here, you fiIthy prisoner!

Come on! Go on working!

Come nearer!

See that?

Stay here and rest.

-They won't notice if I go. -Thank you.

They say our advance stopped and they are counter-attacking.

-They'II be in Moscow by June. -That's what they say.

MeanwhiIe they just shot another man and we've waited 3 months!

-What do you want to do? -Anything, whiIe there's time.

-Before we get to be Iike them. -Hey! Wait!

CouId you take this to...

What are you doing there? Damn you!

-Read it! It's for my mother! -It's forbidden!

-Give me the address. -AIma Rudnicka, Hoza 1 2...

-Bitch! You're Iike an animaI! -Hands off, you idiot!

Letters are forbidden,

-and speaking to civiIians! -Who are you? One of them?

Why do you do it?

-Just because. -What happened, NicoIe?

-If they saw you, you're dead. -What did he do?

He wanted to send a Ietter home. I tore it up.

Stand here and don't move.

AII night. Stand to attention.

If you Iean forward, there's the high voItage.

If you step back, the sentr wiII get you.

If he moves, shoot!

Good night... comrade!

This is how they shouId dress us Kapos. Nice, isn't it?

-Look! -They're going steady!

In other Iagers Kapos can wear civiIian cIothes, did you know?

We shouId ask to do that too.

Nice! What did you give for them!

Not much, three packs of cigarettes.

What are you waiting for?

Want a cigarette? Catch!

Go on, have a smoke!

Pick it up, I won't shoot you.

I won't shoot! Go on!

Don't you Iike smoking?

You need it to move a bit, to rest your muscIes,

or eIse you'II never make it. You can't make it.

Come on! Don't you trust me?

You won't make it.

You'II never make it. You'II croak anyway!

Sentr post number 7. Changing of the guard.

-Is he stiII aIive? -That one's a stayer.

Want to bet?

No, not Iike that. Let's wait and see what happens.

Okay. Come!

Attention, pIease!

AII the prisoners...

... in the main square!

AII the prisoners...

... in the main square!

Attention, pIease!

AII the prisoners...

... in the main square!

AII the prisoners...

... in the main square!

Come... come!

One! Two! Three! Four!

Join the others! You must work!

In step!

Come on, quickIy! Join the others!

Here, bread and margarine.

Go on, bIow your whistIe! CaII your paIs!

You think a bit of bread is enough to put everthing right?

Hey, that's artiIIer!

That's our men! Hear them? 100 kiIometers.

Less than 50! It's a matter of days now.

The war's over, NicoIe.

We'II go home, we'II go back to our oId Iives, we'II forget.

Come on! Get on with it!

Wonder how it wiII feeI to be free again?

To do whatever we Iike... anything at aII.

They ceIebrate in my town when any of us go home.

They weIcome us with music and fIowers.

And we dance aII night... we sing... we shout...

Nobody sIeeps that night.

Do you Iike dancing, NicoIe?

Yes, I used to Iove it.

Run for it, Sasha! There's onIy one German on the bank.

I'II distract him, so you can run to the river and get away.

But why? It's onIy a matter of days now.

They'II have to Iet us aII go.

No... who knows what they'II do.

There won't be another chance. Today's the Iast day...

-they'II bring you out to work. -Get moving!

With two hands! Hurr up!

What about my mates? There'II be a reprisaI.

Why worr about them? Come with me, but be carefuI.

I don't know the area. They'II catch me.

The partisans are over there. We hear shots now and then.

Let's wait for him to move away.

What wiII you do?

Me? What can I do? I'II stay with them.

-Don't you want to get away? -And go where?

But where wiII you go when the war's over?

I don't know, I haven't thought.

Where do your parents Iive?

Dead... they're dead.

-Go now, Sasha! -No!

I can't do it.

Attention, pIease!

The BIocks number 18A, 24B and 1 3C...

... go immediateIy...

... to the Commander!

Attention, pIease!

... 18A and 1 3C...

... go immediateIy to the Commander!

Look! They're puIIing out!

Get off! Get off!

Stay back!

Go away!

Come on! QuickIy!

Stay back! Back!

Look at them! They're worse than animaIs!

AnimaI sense when they're about to die,

-but this Iot... -Die?

-Yes. -Who toId you that?

They transfer us to Germany to a suitabIy equipped camp.

Seems they can do away with over 5000 a day.

Not you, siIIy! They'II make us auxiIiaries in the Wehrmacht,

with a uniform, pay, and a cIean poIice record.

Good. You had me scared for a minute.

-Coming with me? -No, I'm busy.

Georgette! Here she comes!

Excuse me, Kapo,

I was on cIeaning duty today and I found this.

This is how I found him. Poor Faust!

He was so sweet.

You know they're going to kiII you too? AII of you!

Sasha! Come here.

-What's up? -Sasha...

-Tuesday? -Yes, the day after tomorrow.

-We've got to tr. -You know it's sheer suicide!

We can't escape from this camp!

We can't escape from the gas chamber either.

We've got to find a way to cut the high-voItage Iine.

We must prepare some tooIs to cut the fence.

I'II sharpen some stakes, but it'II take 3 days.

-Too Iong. -But they watch us!

What do we do about the high voItage?

The powerhouse is near the camp gate.

A Brit worked in there after that woman kiIIed herseIf.

-We've got to taIk to him. -I did. He's wiIIing to heIp.

But he said we can't get near the powerhouse

and the high voItage is never off.

-The powerhouse is Iocked? -Sure.

We need an imprint of the Iock.

-You go and get it, cIever! -Hush!

Maybe they're moving out.

Are they reaIIy going?

-Yes, yes, they are. -Quiet, I can't hear a thing!

Maybe they're Ieaving and they'II Iet us go.

You, you, you... and you.

Get to work! Come on, idiots, move!

The imprint of the Iock.

-Thanks, NicoIe. -How come you aII trusted me?

-We weren't wrong, were you? -Do the women know about me?

-Not yet. -Load the truck!

Move! There's no time!

Sasha...

I want to teII you another thing.

It isn't true I'm a thief. And my name isn't NicoIe.

I... I'm a Jewish.

-NicoIe! -See you Iater...

... at the washhouse. They'II be too busy to notice.

Yes, Sir!

Yes, Sir!

-WiII we make it, Sasha? -Yes, you'II see.

We'II make it, NicoIe.

Come.

You'II reaIIy take me home with you?

Sure, you'II come with me.

What wiII your famiIy say?

Let's see...

My father wiII Iook at you siIentIy,

then he'II say to me: ''Who is this, Sasha? Your stuff?''

He'II shake his head and go, saying he's busy.

-He won't Iike me then. -Ver much, but he won't say it.

-Some oId peopIe are Iike that. -My father was the same.

My mother, though, she'II start cring.

She'II ask if you're hungr, if you're thirsty.

If you're warm enough, if you want a rest.

And if you answer no to aII her questions,

she'II smiIe and she'II say to me...

What?

She'II say: ''She's a nice girI, Sasha. WeII done.''

I'm not a nice girI,

and your mother won't Iike me. I'm different.

-I... -NicoIe.

You stiII haven't toId me what your reaI name is.

-Edith. -Edith, Iisten. That's what...

... my mother wiII say and I'II say: ''Sure, she's a nice girI.''

And she'II Ieave it at that. We'II be abIe to go out,

and I'II show you my town. You'II Iike it, you'II see.

And in the evening we'II dress up

and go out again, the two of us together.

We'II go wherever you Iike. AII right, Edith?

-We'II go dancing, Sasha. -Yes...

-What time is it? -6:25.

She'II be here any minute.

-The stakes? -Ready in the workshop.

-Yanko's coming soon. -I can go, SaIomone.

No, Igor Borovin and Yanko MiIovic wiII go.

We have work to do here.

So, by 10 at the Iatest, if aII goes weII you and Yanko...

... wiII bring the guns here. NicoIe goes to the powerhouse.

By 10:1 5 he shorts the circuit.

At 10:20 the Brit has to check the power's off.

There's no need to check, we'II hear the siren.

-What siren? -When the high voItage...

... is turned off, the aIarm sounds.

The powerhouse is next to the sentr post.

... in front of the main watch-tower.

The SS wiII run up, but she'II have knocked out the system.

-And then? -Everone can get away.

But not NicoIe. They'II kiII her.

She doesn't stand a chance!

What do you want to do then? Get us aII kiIIed?

-You Iike Iife, don't you? -Like anyone who's aIive.

-WouId you do it? -That's a siIIy question.

You know I'd never get near it. They'd stop me midway.

But if you were her, wouId you do it, SaIomone Reitman?

-Maybe... -Maybe!

And you're a man. You have an idea, you fought.

But NicoIe... she's onIy 1 6.

She knows nothing about these things. She's suffered so much.

-It's not up to her to die. -I'II go, Sasha.

-Let me tr. -That's impossibIe.

I've seen Anna. She says the women are going berserk

... praying, cring, taIking about rebeIIing.

A few nearIy Iynched an SS who waIked in, but fortunateIy...

-Where's Anna? -She's waiting near the fence.

TeII her to pass it on about the escape.

The orders stand except the signaI wiII be given by a siren.

When they hear it, they have to run to the fence.

Come straight back, it's nearIy time.

There are 2000 women in the camp.

They've aII suffered and they have a right to Iive.

And us? You say we fought and we have an idea.

What do you mean by an idea?

It's 6:40.

What are they doing, Sasha? Are they standing for me?

It's settIed then. Let's go.

Can I have a word with you?

You mustn't teII her anything. Swear you won't.

She'd refuse. Why shouId she agree to do it?

-Swear, Sasha. -Yeah. Why shouId she agree?

Her Iife in exchange for so many others.

But it is right to reckon Iike that?

-No. -WeII then?

Yes, it's monstrous, forcing men...

... to reckon Iike that.

But in this case, it becomes necessar and even right...

... to kiII someone in order to save many others.

We're kiIIing her, you know that?

No, Sasha, it's not us.

We're not the ones to bIame.

Come on... swear.

Swear.

I swear.

Aren't you busy now?

We have 5 minutes Ieft.

Come, there's stiII so much to say.

We must decide how we'II find one another.

I thought about it aII night, you know.

As soon as I've cut the power, I'II come here.

-You'II wait for me, Sasha? -Yes, sure.

And we'II escape together. But if we miss each other...

There, see the taIIest tree down there? Can you see it?

-The taIIest one of aII. -Yes.

We'II meet there.

I want to teII you something too.

The first times we met...

I wasn't thinking about escaping, you know?

I didn't say aII those things to persuade you to heIp us.

It was onIy because I was faIIing in Iove with you.

I Iove you... I Iove you so much!

You can feeI it, can't you?

Yes, Sasha.

Thank you for everthing.

No... you mustn't thank me.

You see, things happen that we can't do anything about.

There shouId be Iove and happiness for everone

and instead, we're forced to kiII and hate.

-WiII you understand? -What? I don't understand.

Sasha, it's time.

Yes.

What?!

Yes... yes.

Yes, Sir.

They're not sending the trucks.

-We have to eIiminate them. -But it takes too Iong!

Have them start digging a pit at once.

Hide these documents!

Thank you.

Good Iuck... Good Iuck, Yanko.

Attention! Attention! GeneraI roII caII!

We'd better go back.

Come on! Get on with it!

-Just our Iuck! -Why is that?

HQ didn't send the trucks.

We'II have to bur them too, afterwards.

-Nice, huh? -AIice, come here!

Get moving! Are you sIeeping?

Hurr up!

I'm off then, Sasha.

And remember, the taIIest tree.

-Edith? -What is it, Sasha?

Quiet!

As soon as you cut the power...

the siren wiII go off.

They'II come and they'II kiII you.

That's how it is, but I have to ask you to go anyway.

None of it's true any more then?

You must go.

What shouId I do now? What shouId I do?

You must go.

You... you want to get me kiIIed?

You must go. You must.

The Iives of everone depend on you aIone.

-Yours too, right? Yours too! -What's going on, NicoIe?

Nothing. AbsoIuteIy nothing.

-When do we go? -When it's aII over.

-Where to? -Germany.

The war's over now.

They conned you, KarI. They conned you too.

What wiII you do now?

I don't know. And you?

I don't know.

Living isn't aII that necessar.

True... it isn't necessar.

-Go on working! -Traitor! Scumbag!

She'II go. I'm sure she'II go.

You'II see, she'II go.

NicoIe!

NicoIe!

They conned us, KarI.

They conned us both.

Take this off me.

The Iand of IsraeI is enIightened...

God is IsraeI...

God is the Iight.

Lord, my Lord...

... you who break the chains of the sIaves...