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Your new home

How do you like it?

Not very well, sir

Why not?

We should be in Russia

For what?

The final assault on Moscow

You could transfer

But by the time you got there,

Russia would've gone like France,

Belgium,Holland...all the rest

We're all done fighting

Now we are the masters of the world

Do you understand?

Yes, sir

Good!

We have been assigned to guard this pass,

so here is where you'll stay

Tell the men to get out

Dismount!

Hurry! Hurry!

Machine guns come across the ravine into the Keep with us

What are you doing here?

I'm the caretaker, sir

And they?

They're my sons

There's a 108 such crosses made of nickel

embedded in the walls of the keep.

You counted them?

Or is it something to do with cathecism

I'm Alexandru, my sons and I work here

No one tours this place

I thought the keep was unoccupied

We go home at night,

we live in the village

-Where is the owner? -I have no idea

-Who is he? -I don't know

-Who tells you what to do?

-We do what needs doing

My father spent his life doing it,

his father before him, and so on..

My sons... will continue after me

There you are,

you may continue your maintenance after we settle in

-You cannot stay here

-And why not?

No one stays here

And who forbids it?

No one forbids,

some travellers have stayed, we don't stop them

-But no one stays the night

-Ghosts,Demons?

No, No ghosts here

-Death then, Suicides?

-No one's ever died here

Then what drives people out in the middle of a rainy night?

-Dreams

-ha ha...Nightmares?

Look man,

The real nightmares, man has made

upon other men in this war

The bad dreams of your Keep,

are nursery rhymes in comparison

Come on, I want a tour

Who built the Keep?

Some say the Turks, some say the

warlords of ancient Volakia

How do I know this is not a fortress

a soldier could walk out from outside the wall

Why are the same stones on the outside,

and the large ones, here in the interior?

It's constructed backwards

This place was not designed to keep

something...out

What is this place?

No one knows for sure

-Herr Officer, stop them!

-Stop what?

-There opening the walls!!

-Old man, spikes for lights we have generators

the Randoff doesn't live by candlelight

Now is he stringing lights?

Soldier! What's your assignment!?

-To string lights sir

-Then what the hell are you doing? Answer!

Silver crosses,sir

there is talk among the men they hide silver here

Treasure, sir

Private Lutz, it's been a profitable day for you

not only have you learned the crosses are made of Nickel

but you've earned yourself a place on first watch all week

Get out!!

Never touch the crosses!

Never!

And why not?

You must not stay here

Good day Alexandru

Nickel!

Nickel...yes, Nickel

but not this one

-I'm on duty!

-Forget it, c'mon

look at this!

Silver!

-Look it, look at the block

-This is the only silver cross

this block moves

Behind this one block there

may be more silver

-Are you ready to be rich?

-Oh yes

A passage, I knew it

Lets take this cross, block it and come back later

that's stupid, we're here why share it

Tie these around my ankle

Silver, there's more silver

Ah, Ah,

pull me back! pull me back

Lutz, Lutz!

Stand down!

-I need to hire a boat -Where to?

Constantes, the Romanian coast

Too dangerous, very expensive

Steiner, last night it was steiner

that makes five dead,

and I checked with the radio man

there's been no answer to your request for relocation

Stop this!

Stop!

Wait! Wait!

In this village,

partisans have been operating against

the greater german Reich -Are you insane!

I am Commander Koempffer, is what I am

Captain Klaus Woermann, is what you are

your request for relocation is denied Woermann

I am now in command over this emplacement

And you, will not interfere with our actions

You,you,you, you and you

Bring them to the Keep

There are no partisans in this village!

these people know nothing!

If one more german soldier dies, all five hostages will be shot

And five more will be shot every time a german is killed

We will continue until partisan activity stops

or we run out of villagers

They are no partisans!

You, see to it that my command quarters are in order

Those people you murdered are Romanian citizens

we are an allied state!

Let's have an immediate understanding Woermann

who gives a damn about a few communists

Listen to me

MG 34's cover the entrance,

lights illuminate the perimeter,

And whatever kills us, gets in anyway

Nothing we do, no security works

we have seen no partisans!

-Something has been released! Something?

What do you mean something, Woermann?

are you trying to create a mystery?

To excuse your incompetence in protecting your men

My competence, was proven in combat

against soldiers who shoot back

not slaughtering civilians

And I am a political soldier Woermann

and I shall say it once only your security doesn't work

because your methods are wrong

The answer's fear, Woermann,

From now on these partisans will be afraid to kill

because they will fear

the price these actions cost these villagers to pay

Now listen, something else is killing us

And if it doesn't care,

about the lives of three villagers

If it is like you

then does your fear work?

Take that brilliant thought

back to Dachau when you go

If...you go

Because here in this Keep,

Commander Kaempffer

you may learn something new

neither you nor the Keep can teach me anything

We found the rest of Steiner,

well, Commander Kaempffer

let's see the latest present our friend has left us

Come

Bring a hostage

Explain this Kaempffer,

this is what's happening to us

-What do these words mean?

-Herr officer, I don't know

Don't lie to me, those words are Romanian

What do they say, I want to know

They look like Romanian Herr Officer..but they're not

-I don't know what they say!

-He's telling the truth

Make him stop,

What do you suggest I do?

Arrest him?

Priest, your next

Teach him the art of translation

Herr Officer,

this writing is like Romanian but different, it's meaningless

not written in the Latin alphabet, nor the Cyerilic alphabet

What can you tell us about the Keep we don't already know?

Me? nothing

Yes, you were about to say more

-You can tell us nothing, -No

-Who can? -No one

Don't lie to me

or I'll shoot this man dead

There's a professor of medieval history

at the university in the city of Ayashi

He made a study of this Keep

perhaps he can translate that for you

-His name? -Dr. Theodore Cuza

He grew up in this village

Herr Officer

Dr. Cuza is not in Ayashi

Then where?

Dr. Cuza's a Jew

He's wherever you've taken the Jews

Good.

The SS will bring them today from the depot

Do you play at night?

I don't play music here

we suffer enough, not happy here

Why are you here, girl?

I'm Eva Cuza

this is my father Dr.Cuza

We are Jews, the gypsies are not the only ones

who are enemies of the state

When we reach that new settlement place they

say we are going to, then I play music for you guys

There are farms, and wheat fields there

they said...

Where are you going in such a hurry?

-Into the pass

-Get down

How far?

To the Keep

Move away from the machine

Open the case

Don't.. touch that

I will tell you something if you want hope

the people who go to these settlement camps,

there are only two doors,

One in, and one out

the one out, is a chimney

You'd better find a way to be of use to me in three days

Three days

Or back to the camps, go you

and your daughter

What does it mean?

Can you understand it?

Well?

The former is in the imperative

It says:

"I Will Be Free"

So we do have partisans

In zoltz navonic, but within

the Gaelitic alphabet

Your partisans are writing to you

in a language that's been dead for 500 years

Wood, we need wood for a fire

Does he get that cold?

Look at my father,

does he look 68?

He's 48

Eva!

He's dying from a variety of Schleroderma

With the temperature in this room

gangerine will be in his fingers in an hour

Alright, that's enough!

He won't last Major Kaempffer's 3 days

You'll get the wood, and some furniture

and lights

get your food from our mess

Let me tell you two something

the Major will snuff you out, like that

He has his reasons for a quick solution

I have mine

I don't want any more of my men to die

find out what is killing us

And I may be able to get you to Bucharest

And keep you safe

And then again, you may not

Mihail, how did you manage this?

I didn't think I could

You rescued us, for me it doesn't matter,but for Eva

What fairy tales did you tell him

None

They made up their own

But I made them believe that you could solve their problems

just to get you brought here

And now, now we must get you out

How

Today I arrange a guide, tomorrow you ask to see

the old slavonic manuscripts in the church

the guide will take you from the church across the mountains

to Nyipa, from there the black sea,..anywhere

How far do you think I'll get, I can't fight

I can't walk, nothing You just get Eva out of here

Listen to me

They've already killed three villagers here,

including old Seminesku, I was in Breschauf

they're rounding up trade unionists, journalists

Jews, gypsies,..God knows what happens to them

We found out what happens

I'm not going without you

You'll have to try

I'll carry you on my back if I must

So,

How long?

don't ask

whoever thought of sticking the miracle of human intellegence

inside one of these decaying bodies

He should of been fired

so where else would God of put the human soul?

In a desk

maybe a street car,

won't have been so bad, it breaks, you get a new part

Blasphemy,

one of these days your gonna believe in the divine

You believe in Gods, I believe in men

How's Eva?

Eva?

Hmm

Eva wastes her youth,

chained to an old man in a wheelchair

I should have a nurse,

she should live her life

She won't let anyone else take care of you

I have much to do

Hey say

yeah

the writing on the wall

yeah

did you put it there?

no

How'd it get there, Mihail

There is something you can do for me, make me feel easier

Keep it with you, just two days

Hey look tres, it's your sister

-Can I help you

-get your hands off me

Sit down

Get a healthy helping, ma'ar

-alright, that's enough

Eva!

Eva

Get away from my child

take me and leave her

What have you done to her

what are you?

Why are you, here?

They thought I could find what was killing their soldiers

And I have! haven't I?

you turned into an ally

you collaborate!

No!

Don't accuse me of collaborating with Nazis

I'd do anything to stop them

If you don't believe me, then kill me

Papa

Papa

What happenend?

your hands

Your face!

I feel warm

-I know, it brought you here

-Who?

Father, it was a dream

it was a nightmare

It carried you here, I saw it too

What I saw wasn't real

Look at my hands, look at my face!

It touched my body

Look at you

don't know what it is and I don't care

-He's like a hammer,

and can now smash them

-What are you talking about?

We're dealing with a golum? A devil

A devil! Now you listen to me

the devil of the Keep, wears a black uniform

and has a deathshead at his cap and calls himself a sturbein Furor

There were two more deaths last night

you are going to stay at the Inn you have two minutes to pack

Why?

because I can at least keep you safe from what is killing us

And after the incidence in the mess,

maybe from the men too

Maybe from the men..

I'm not going to leave my father here alone

-Yes, you should go -No

You now have a minute, 45 seconds

A minute, 45 seconds for what?

For fraulein Cuza to pack her things and moving her stuff

She is not going anywhere

I forbid it, I will not permit you to send my daughter away

You, you forbid?

Let me tell you something, you forbid nothing

Nothing!

Get her out of here!

Are you ready?

Almost

Listen to me, my child

you are the meaning of my life

Whatever I will do here whatever happens to me

leave me behind, escape

Go without me, do not wait for me

-No -Yes, go!

Meet a man

live a full life

and you live for me

-Who is this?

-My son

He died in Spain, 5 years ago this month

Fighting on the Republicans side

Were you in Spain?

If I were, I would of been in the Itteral brigade,

with other anti-facist Germans

Your son and I, we would've been fighting on the same side

But, No I wasn't

What?

Cross?

Why do you, a Jew need protection of the cross?

I don't

It was a gift of a friend, A humane man

Listen to me Captain Woermann,

I pass the gift on to you

Take it

You're a humane man too and you...

you may need it

How did you get out? did they let you go?

where's theodore?

Still inside

Anything for theodore Cuza down here, through this door

I have no money to pay you right now

Your father did me many favors over the years

forget about it

Thank you, Mr. Oppe

What are you doing here?

Is this the only room overlooking the Keep?

Yes

Than I'll take it

It's taken by Miss Cuza

It's okay

Where will you go?

Back into the Keep, away from here,

I don't know

Why's your father in the Keep?

He's being kept there by soldiers

Are you going to wait for him?

Or leave?

I'm going to wait right here for him

Then you better stay here with me

Why are you here?

You

Where do you come from?

-I'm a traveller

-From where?

Everywhere

Go to sleep

And dream

There is...

Death around you

-At your hands

-No

And what you sense is my fate in a death camp

A place where people gather to die

A place where people are murdered

My people are murdered?

-yes, and others from all over

-who does this?

There leader in Berlin

-and the soldiers in black

-I'll destroy them!

I will consume their lies

When

could you do this?

When I am complete in two nights

If I can leave this place

-Why couldn't you?

because an object of mine

the origin of my power

must be removed from the Keep

and hidden in these mountains

and kept safe from people here

And from anyone who may come here

It must be done by someone I can trust

like you

Only then can I leave the Keep,

and destroy the soldiers in black

and their leaders

Will you...carry this object

out of here..for me?

Yes

-Mihail, -I'm not leaving yet

-did you get Eva out? -Eva..Eva is at the Inn

There is something here, a power

this power is our salvation

Power is God!

And the messiah, his immortal son

who took flesh of the holy mother and ever

virgin mary, And I... I have been right

And you... you Theodore Cuza

you have been wrong

I was right in my simple faith

I was right

Evil comes from the acts between man and man

it wears a swatzika and it believes in black dreams

you know this

What's happening to you?

Stay here, stay here with your

daughter and burn with the others

Burn with the misfits, the gypsies,

the heratics,

-I won't lift a finger to help you

-Mihail

Ha, Monster!

Burn in Hell!

And the dead and the glory,

and judge both the living and the dead,

and deliver of the grace! Pray for them

Mihail!

I never thought I'd see you alive again

-Now we can get out

-Not yet

-Mihail, told me you didn't leave

-you alright

Mihail's gone crazy

-What's happened to this place

-I can't help Mihail

What's happened is...

that what was repressed within the Keep

is spreading into the village

Who are you?

What do you know about it?

This is...

I know that you have bound yourself to him

that you've agreed carry the talisman out

-It's the source of the power

It is not his, it's what keeps him inside the walls

and if you carry it out, he will be released into the world of men

what's happening in the world is worse than anything he could do

-He is the same

-look at him

-what, it's my body,

I don't give a damn about me, I'm not doing this for me

That's why he picked you

only someone uncorrupted could even get near the Talisman

-Don't listen to this

-Stop this..you stop it

-What are you doing

-let's just get out of here

Don't take it out

-What do you want?

-there's a stranger at the Inn he asks questions

I believe he's connected to the people who pay

for the keeps maintenance

Arrest the man, bring him to the Keep

This place, seems to agree with you

you look...

healthier

This place has it's strong points

You're part of this

Aren't you?

Tell me!

tell me

The talisman that holds him inside is mine

I have been here for ages

watching..

and guarding against what is happening now

He is being released

I don't understand

I have come to destroy him

Now...

and it may be too late

I will end it

What ends?

When he goes..I go

What?

Then why?

why did you come to me?

Become my lover

out of a dream

To touch

as only mortal men can do

You are coming to the Keep for interrogation..now

Stay here

No!

What's all the shooting in the village huh?

-A civilian being interrogated resisted arrest

-another civilian

the courageous commander again is victorious

Woermann

Woermann!

I will not!

you will..nothing

You will... die

-All of us will die

-you're falling apart Woermann

you despise our ruthlessness

but you do not grab history by the throat

and write the next 1000 year future

without brutality and courage!

-Fairy tales Kaempffer

romantic fairy tales,

you tell yourself,

then dress up in black and silver,

so you can look in the mirror and maybe believe them

Eich! Hiel Furror!

A year and a half ago,

SS commander executed men, women and children

children for gods sake

Ruthlessness

Courage

How many times in this Keep

have you made your bed?

Don't you talk to me about courage

were you with the German anti-facist fighting us in Spain? No!

Did you stop commadore posnack, No

you have a debilitated german disease, Woermann

Sentimental talk

It allows you to feel sensitive

superior, and yet safe, because you take no action

your sentimental suffering makes me sick

for once, your right Kaempffer

I'm only half a man

all that we are is coming out

here in this Keep

-Ha Ha Ha

-the man sees the truth

and what truth do you see?

what are you discovering about yourself, Kaempffer...Huh?

I murder all these people therefore I must be powerful!

and you smash them down because only that raises you up

it's a psychotic fantasy to escape

the weakness and disease you sense at the core of your soul

you have scooped the most easy psyches out of the german gutter

you have released the foulness that dwells in all mans minds

you have infected millions with your twisted fantasies

and from the millions of diseased mentalities

that worship your twisted cross

what monstrosity has been released on this Keep

Who are you meeting Kaempffer?

in the granite corridors of this Keep?

Yourself

Jesus, protect me

protect me

What are you?

where do you come from?

Where am I from?

I am...

from you

Carry it from this place

take it out of here

There's no one left to stop you

Eva! I have it!

take it back

it belongs to Glaehic Mahistis

No, this is power!

It's corrupted

It's changing your soul

take it back

No!

-No!

-Get out of my way!

Kill her!

and take the talisman out of here

Who are you,

that I have to prove myself to you by killing my child

Obey me!

Or you will return to the diseased state I found you in

And I'll slay both of you!

If this is yours, as you said then you take it out of the Keep

You can't..

then this isn't yours

and the Keep is a prison to contain you

And you have lied, exploited, deceived

And you are the same evil outside this place

so you prove yourself to me!

You take it out of here

You yourself

Take it!!

Take it!!

You

Take your father

and get out of this place