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[indistinct chatting]
- Hi. You must be Helga.
I'm Erin. Part of the documentary crew.
How was your journey?
[tense music]
It's lovely to meet you.
- Let's get this done.
- Yeah. That's good.
- Can I... Can I get you something?
- No.
- Okay.
I don't think she likes me very much.
- Ooh.
They, uh, gave you everything you need.
- Yes. Thank you.
- Uh, we haven't been formally introduced.
Uri Glou.
True accord consists of not merely forgetting the past.
- Helga. My name is Helga Bahlmann.
- All of us who are members of the Germanic peoples
can be happy and thankful
that once in thousands of years,
fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples,
such a genius, a leader, our Führer, Adolf Hitler
and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler.
- I know who said it.
- We're ready.
- Don't watch the clock.
Just do what it does.
Keep going.
- Why would I be angry with this child?
Her immaturity shone through as she was so young.
Or should I not forgive her childish behaviour?
Could faults be found in the horror
or the monster she was becoming
when she realised but didn't say no?
Curiosity and fate spoke more directly to her than conscience.
- My feelings can...
perhaps be imagined,
but they can hardly be described.
- Have I tried to forgive myself for doing all those things?
Would it have made any difference?
- Leave your confessional for others to judge.
[train chugging]
[train whistle blares]
[tense music]
[train whistle blares]
- Show her around
[speaking German]
- Helga.
- Giselle.
- Where are they going?
- Patrol.
- Let's find you a room.
[footsteps tapping]
[bell tolls]
[engine rumbles]
[soldiers chatting indistinctly]
- Don't look.
- It's the Strasburg's.
- They are not concerned with us.
We're fine.
They've got three children William,
maybe I should bring them some food.
- My love.
We spoke about this.
It does not pay to get involved with these things.
[Emily sighs]
- The Meyers said they're building something
in Flossenburg.
Well, perhaps the Meyers
should pay more attention to their business.
Last time I was in there,
it took me almost ten minutes to get a loaf of bread.
This is why the soldiers come in the night.
- It could be like Dachau... another concentration camp.
Emily, stop, we do not know these things.
[Emily sighs]
These thoughts are bad for you.
Too many of them voiced out loud will scare the children.
Look as bad as you.
- Judith, what are you doing out of bed?
- I heard screaming outside.
- Come on.
See? Your brother's asleep.
- He's not asleep.
He's just pretending, trying to get me in trouble.
- Come on.
Don't forget Teddy Scrumpkins.
He needs his sleep, too.
Are you scared, mummy, because we're Jewish?
- Now what sort of a person
would tell you something like that?
All right.
As you're a very clever little girl,
you're forcing me to tell you.
Your grandfather was German,
and now that's all anyone knows
or thinks about when they shop in your father's store.
We're an essential business.
- But the Stromberg's are Jewish.
- Well, the Stromberg's aren't us.
Sleep time now.
- Night, mummy.
- Good night, my baby.
Good night, Teddy Scrumpkins.
Mwah.
[gentle piano music]
[water trickling]
- [Judith] Aunt Janine makes the best apple strudel.
- [Benjamin] Strudel is only for Passover.
It's a sin to eat it apart from then.
- Of course it's not a sin.
You couldn't eat it all before the holiday ended,
unless you were a pig.
- Seven days and eight nights.
Anything left after that is spoiled.
- Grandmother puts extra sugar in her strudel,
which is cheating because it stays better for longer,
and I don't like it, it's too sweet for me.
- I actually prefer grandmother's strudel.
All the others are too tart.
- Benjamin, stop using words I don't understand.
- Um, can we take a break?
- We can't stop yet.
We need to keep walking another couple of miles at least.
- Miles is a lot of walking.
I have shorter legs than you.
- Um, how much further, can you guess?
- That's not important right now.
What is important is that we get as much distance covered
as we can before dark.
Benjamin, remember, you need to make it last, okay?
- Why didn't you bring more?
- Come on, let's get going.
- Going where?
Do you even know where we are going?
- I think, um,
maybe we need to head down to the river.
We can find a crossing from there.
- I can't swim.
- Won't the bridge have checkpoints?
You said to avoid checkpoints.
- Benjamin, look, I'm trying here.
We'll figure something out, I promise you.
- I'm not filled with a lot of confidence, Gisella.
- Be nice to her, Benjamin, please.
[engine rumbling]
- Ssh.
- I'm scared.
- Are they here for us?
- No. At least I... I hope not.
- Mr. Stromberg, the baker.
- We know this man.
[military-style drumming]
[tense music]
- Come. We need to hide quickly.
- They have teddy Scrumpkins.
- Don't look.
[gun cocks]
[gunshot]
[Gisella gasps]
- Are you okay?
- I'll be fine.
- They took Teddy Scrumpkins.
- I...I'm sorry.
I'll get you another one.
- It won't be the same. I had Teddy Scrumpkins forever.
[tense music continues]
- We need to travel quickly.
We're still far too close to the town.
- They got teddy Scrumpkins.
- Why did you leave him there?
They almost found us.
- I'm sorry.
- We cannot be caught.
Not now, not out here, do you understand me?
- Yes. I'm sorry.
- Don't be sorry.
It's okay.
You didn't ask for any of this, Benjamin.
None of us did.
Come with me quickly.
Go!
[tense music continues]
- A Spanish fraulein.
- A Franco soldier.
- Spain should be on the list.
- Now now, Sergeant.
No need to make our guest nervous.
You are part of the program, my little angel.
This is just my way of instilling in you
the benefits of getting along.
You have no idea the amount of trouble a bunch
of hormonally charged women can cause in one place.
- There will be no trouble.
- There'll be no trouble.
- Normal and boring.
That's what suits this program.
I'm sure your family would agree.
No one cares.
[birds singing]
- Look! All sewn in.
I'm officially a member of the program.
How long, how long do you think before they do a pairing?
Come on, please tell me.
- Look, I don't know, Helga.
They tell me as much as they do you.
- Mine will be handsome or rich.
All songs aside, perhaps from a rich family.
Or maybe both.
Synni, sing me a song?
- I'm not a phonograph, Helga.
- Besides, she only sings for her friends.
- Are we not friends in here, Synni?
- It's all right, Heidi, I don't mind.
I will sing for this lost mulch.
[Heidi laughs]
- What did you call me?
- Helga.
Look, not all of us are as happy to be here as you.
- I know that.
[indistinct]
Call me names, Heidi.
But this program is important to Führer.
I am of true German blood, and they will pair me
with a partner of my choosing.
We are the future of the Reich.
- There is no future, Helga.
- Why are you a believer, Helga?
- Führer has commanded it.
We are the entitled ones, after all.
Oh, not the master race.
Well if you do not agree then I don't know why you're here.
- I do not agree.
Cadet 1138 ready for duty, sir.
[birds singing]
- So it finally arrived?
- Yes. By mail. My mother is very proud.
- How do you get your collar so stiff, Helga?
- Hot-iron technique, my captain.
It takes practice.
Closer. Closer.
You have to follow the seam.
Follow the seam.
- Oh!
- You're not late.
- She apologises, captain.
- No apologies, captain.
- Exemplary uniform, Cadet.
- [Helga] Thank you, my captain.
- Maybe some of the other girls could learn from your example.
- Yes, maybe they could.
[gentle music]
- [Judith] Father would never allow
your boots to be that muddy.
- [Benjamin] Well, father's not here right now,
so my boots can be as muddy as I choose.
- [Judith] It's going to take a long time to clean those boots.
- [Gisella] Somehow I do not think it will matter.
- [Judith] Are you frightened?
- [Benjamin] Yes I am, I'm scared.
- Look, when we get to the border,
your aunt will buy you new shoes.
- If she's still alive.
- Please don't say things like that, Benjamin.
[dramatic music]
[gunshot]
[body thuds]
- We haven't seen our aunty for the longest time.
- Our aunt is a Jewish woman on the German-French border.
If the Nazis haven't got her, she's long since fled.
- You'd be surprised.
Not many people would abandon their family so easily.
- You did.
- I...
[gentle music]
- These two troublemakers
will push all your buttons just so they could stay up all night.
Especially this little one.
- Don't worry, professor, I think I'll be okay.
- You be good, my lovelies.
- What time are you getting home?
- You don't need to worry about that.
You just go to bed when Gisella tells you to.
We shouldn't be too long after the presentation.
- Now she's banning drinks and socialising.
- Go and enjoy your evening.
We'll be all right here, won't we, huh?
- She should have her bath in the next hour.
- Why can't I go to bed at the same time as Benjamin?
- Oh, this again?
It's because your brother is older.
- I hate being the youngest.
- Well, that's just how it is.
[laughs]
- Go enjoy your evening.
I can hold down the fort here.
- Come on, trouble. - Thanks, Gisella.
[tense music]
- They found me a room.
I mean... sorry. I'll wait.
- What's good in life, cadet?
- Furtherance of the Reich. Wisdom of our Führer.
Subjugation of our enemies.
- Verbatim and correct, cadet.
You nervous, miss home?
- I do not.
- Family, mother perhaps?
- I do not.
My father was lieutenant in Luftwaffe.
I do not wish to be paired with anyone of lower rank.
- Ambition is welcomed and will serve you well.
Were you close to your father?
- He was closer to my brother.
But he did take me hunting and taught me how to shoot.
- Why here?
So far from home?
- Females aren't allowed to fight
despite willingness and ability.
Choices are restricted for women.
Risks escalate, but reward is the same.
- Our work here is seen as endeavours of Frankenstein
and madness.
- Yet you know the Führer.
- That is the notoriety to which my firm is associated.
Don't worry about the sergeant.
I had lunch with the Führer once in Berlin with my uncle.
He was commanding officers on action in Austria.
- A great honour, captain.
- Information you already had and just wanted to confirm.
- I wish to serve the Fatherland.
- So young.
Coming so far to join us.
- I believe in destiny and fate.
Both of which have brought me here.
Furtherance of the Reich.
- What luck for our rulers that women don't think too much.
[horse hooves clopping]
[yawns]
[toilet flushes]
[plays saxophone]
- Oh! Shut up!
Christ!
[knocking on door]
Get rid of them!
- Uncle, it's so good to see you.
- And you, my girl.
Get dressed.
For your hangover.
- Whatever it is, the answer is no.
- Shut up, you idiot!
Just shut up.
- I barely got back from the Austrian front.
I'm taking my ten days' leave.
- Front? Front?
That isn't a front, you wouldn't know a front if it...
All leave has been cancelled.
- Shit! Really?
They're doing it, aren't they?
Finally!
This is a fight we've been spoiling for for a long time.
- Frankly, yes.
The Führer, in his infinite wisdom, has decided on Poland.
- Bloody Poland?
- He sees it as poking the bear.
All rank and file at the ready.
- Uncle, but you can't, you promised.
- Why do you think I'm here?
I've not forgotten.
- How many men?
- He wants everyone.
Everyone.
- So we're all in?
Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
- At least eviscerate the British.
Uncle was lost to the first Battle of Aisne.
He'll have his truth.
- It is not the truth that matters.
We don't have the numbers to beat the French.
- Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe
wishes for nothing but chaos.
- We strike first, deliver the first blow.
- With the kind of numbers the French have amassed
there will be plenty of fight left before this is done.
Mark my words.
A shift of focus within the SS ranks
has seen our family stock rise
and I have been assigned a number of special projects.
- Special? What is special?
- Ursula, shut up and let the man speak.
- A project called Lebensborn.
I have taken the lead role in Stuttgart.
It is part of the Führer's master race plan,
so it will be recognized.
- Don't think me a coward, Wagner.
- The project's already been running in Munich
for three years, with varying degrees of success.
And it comes with a promotion.
- How long?
- The rank of captain
with a year in Stuttgart whilst the offensive takes place.
- How long?
- One.
Maybe two.
- Two years?
- Ursula can visit as often as she likes.
These clashes are an evolutionary possibility,
which will enable us one day to create a Germanic Reich.
- I'll be fighting sheep by the time I get to the war.
- Do not be an imbecile.
Our family lost 15 members in the last war.
You lost two uncles, one of whom died saving my life.
There will be no repeat.
Understand and rejoice in that.
Tomorrow morning, be ready.
If I appear as a revolutionary,
then it is as a revolutionary against revolution.
Goodbye, Ursula.
[tense music]
- Girls.
This isn't a holiday.
You're part of Lebensborn.
Full uniform when not in the house is expected.
Try to conduct yourself with dignity at all times.
Do not bring the programme into disrepute.
Or the sergeant here will have to punish you.
[Synni laughs]
I was joking about the sergeant.
Let's get you a uniform.
- What are you doing here, Margaret?
Where's your grandfather?
- I'm sorry, father.
They arrested Granddad Manns.
They said he was a spy.
- It's okay. It's okay.
You just have to be strong now.
- You've been gone so long.
I don't know what to do.
Please, just tell me what to do.
[he sighs]
- Don't say anything to anyone here.
I'll think of something, I promise.
You need to go now,
but don't let anyone know.
Just pretend it's normal.
And that we're just strangers.
- Margaret Shultz?
This way. Daylight's a wasting.
- Helga! Hurry up, there are others waiting.
- You remind me of when I was younger, Heidi.
I didn't know as much.
- God damn you, Helga.
You'd make an exceptional stranger.
- We'll now not all be ready on time.
- Maybe you should sing to her, Synni.
Melt the bitch's heart.
- I am more than my singing.
[door unlocking]
- Helga, it takes four seconds to get out of the bathroom.
I'll give you two.
- Any woman who relies on her face is a fool, Helga.
- I can fix that.
[Synni singing]
- You have not thought this through.
- Helga has her way out of this shitty programme, and so do I.
- Forget about Helga.
She's a juck.
Look, to get to the border, you're going to need transport.
It's too far to walk.
- I have provisions enough for two days.
We'll get to the French border,
and then I'll call for resistance.
- Not if you're caught.
- Don't tell.
I plan to go cross country.
Oh, promise you'll be true.
- It's not me that you need to worry about.
- Helga,
get out of that darn bathroom.
[Synni singing]
- You don't have to worry about him.
- Look, just promise me that you'll reconsider.
- Hmm.
[Synni singing]
[gentle music]
- It's like they do not wish to be here.
- Every girl comes to her own story, Helga.
- It is time, captain.
- As you know, today is a special day.
Your efforts today will be
celebrated and remembered now and forever.
As a victory over our enemies.
And the betterment of the Reich.
- We are very excited, captain.
- Yes, captain.
Our special day.
- Heidi.
- It is a day for our nation, captain.
- Correct. Heidi.
You have been chosen to bring glory to the Fatherland.
Heidi.
Private Lang.
Giselle.
Private Hoffmann.
Well, go to your girl, Private Hoffmann.
No need to goose-step here.
You too Lang.
- Do you think it's empty?
- I don't know, maybe.
- I'm tired.
- It's getting dark and we need a place to stay.
We've been walking for 15 or more hours,
and there's no way that we're going to the border.
- I know.
- Well do something.
- I know, I'm thinking.
- Great. You're thinking.
- Look, what do you want me to say, hmm?
This is difficult for me too, you know.
All right, I'll go check it out.
Just stay here.
[gentle music]
What are you doing? I told you to wait.
- Is it empty?
- I think so, but it's locked.
- [whispers] You could break a window.
- And then I was stationed over in Calais
where I was overlooking the building of sea defences.
It's your move.
- Sorry?
- Ah, it's your move.
- Oh.
Um.
- Something tells me you're a bit of a genius.
- What?
- Uh, that move that you just made is actually a very famous,
documented attack by a Russian chess master back in 1919.
It was actually called the, uh, Indian king's attack.
- Oh. Sorry.
- Oh.
Excuse me. It's not an illegal move.
I was merely just pointing out that
you seemed to know the game very well.
- So it appears I'm still waiting on my beau, captain.
- I'll discipline that private when he shows up.
He's very rude.
- Private?
How low you think of my ambition.
- So you consider yourself to be officer material then,
do you, Helga?
- At the very least.
So what officer did you have in mind?
Or should I report this tardiness to my captain?
- The sergeant and I racked our brains for hours
trying to find a match suitable for your beauty.
But no, no, we couldn't find anyone suitable.
A beauty of your calibre does require someone more deserving.
- Filled with confusion, captain.
Not to find a match in this programme?
Oh, woe is me.
- I can assure you that a lot of thought
has gone into finding you a...
- A match that keeps me waiting.
- I would be frightened beyond my wits.
- Tonight.
I've been thinking.
And it has to be tonight.
- [chuckles] Please excuse my friend.
I'll have that water now.
This might be too soon.
- Listen, I do not want to be with child when I escape from
here.
[indistinct background chatter]
- If you go missing the captain,
he'll use the soldiers to help find you.
- I told her this.
- Helga.
Helga will be my subterfuge.
Men are easily distracted.
- Margaret, please.
- If you wait, I...
There might be.
I might want to help you.
- Sergeant will find you.
- No he won't.
I cannot explain, but my plans have been made
and my mind is set.
Synni, come with me.
- I'm not that brave.
[gentle music]
- So, may I ask, how long have you been
a part of the Lebensborn programme.
- Well, this doesn't sound like small talk, Hans.
- I mean, I don't want to offend you, I just...
If possible, I'd like to know more about you
and understand maybe why you joined the programme.
- Joined?
You make it sound like it was a choice.
It doesn't matter.
- It all seems a little odd.
I, too am a little nervous,
but I would like to try and ease any of your worries.
- Look, Hans, you seem sweet.
Come on, you're only following orders
just like everyone else in here, including me.
Believe it or not, not all of us are volunteers.
- I don't...
Maybe we should change the subject.
Um, so
where abouts in Spain do you come from?
- Show me.
Show me.
The list they gave you, the questions
when you were paired with me.
You see.
You were doing so much better on your own.
- This was going well?
I can never tell.
I don't really know many women.
Well, other than my mother and my sister and...
- It's fine.
I understand.
[birds singing]
- Gisella, wait, please. Gisella, wait, please, please.
Look, I'm sorry.
I was meant to give this to you earlier.
I know it's part of the ritual, I just left it in my coat.
- Hans, you're your own person.
You've done nothing wrong but...
Or maybe you should think that
not all orders should be followed.
- You have concerns, I understand that,
but in my defence, we did get to choose our own flower.
Um, it's a Valencia rose.
I thought you might miss Spain,
and it would remind you of better times.
- Well, that was very thoughtful of you,
but I just believe that romance is best left in novels.
- I will not be the reason for you getting shot.
- Don't worry, Margaret.
It's madness here.
- The French will not believe me when I tell them my story.
- They'll have to.
You have been and will be missed, father.
- I've missed you, Margaret.
- I will not get caught.
I'm many things, but not completely stupid.
- Maybe you should get a second opinion on stupidity,
Margaret.
What is it you want, Helga?
- The scene is all wrong.
It doesn't fit the story you two portray yourselves in.
- Ignore her, she's just a bitch.
Go back to your little playpen.
- Tell me, Margaret,
is there an attraction to old men?
- Go.
[dramatic music]
[soldiers chatting indistinctly]
- Maybe Margaret's right.
We should try and make it to the border.
- She has a reason for an escape.
Don't let that inspire you to take greater risks.
- What? Are you worried I'll stop coming back here?
Huh?
- Is that a threat or a promise?
- I'm not to be underestimated.
Look, Hans is an easily led automaton.
He won't push back too hard,
but they will want a match.
- No matter what we do, the war's going to end, Gisella.
We must continue our plan.
- Yes, but our plans are not going to work
if we don't take decisive actions.
- Anywhere we go, we need money.
I earn next to nothing.
You looking after the professor's children
is the same.
- But they're kind to me.
They give me what they can.
- I think we may lose our souls before it's too late.
- Oh, my Isaiah,
you're so sweet,
but possibly quite stupid and irretrievably deluded.
[chuckles]
- You prefer your soldier, Hans.
- Oh, come on, why would I give up my strong man?
Hmm?
Look at me.
This war will end.
And there will be a place for us.
- Margaret isn't gonna make the border.
- She thinks the French Resistance will take her in.
- She's a prize cow, Gisella.
exalted like the ancient Egypt's queens and pharaohs.
So what am I to you
a prized cow or maybe an Egyptian queen?
[laughs]
- What can I possibly
give a queen in this place and time right now?
- You're mine and that's enough.
Well, it looks like no one's been here for days now.
I think we're safe.
- I'm hungry.
- Did you find any food?
- No, I couldn't find anything.
- What are we gonna do?
- Um,
maybe I can look at the surrounding area,
see if there's any other buildings.
- Any other choices?
- I don't know, Benjamin, what do you expect me to do?
I'm trying my best here.
- I'm sorry.
- No, don't be sorry.
It's fine.
We have to be a team in this together, don't we?
- What are you thinking?
- When I knock like this.
[knocking on door]
You'll know that it's me.
So go inside, find a place to hide.
If you hear anyone come, I need you to stay quiet.
Can you do that for me?
- Yes. - Okay, go on.
[Gisella sighs]
- Benjamin.
- No! No!
[gunshot]
[breathing heavily]
[people chatting indistinctly]
[gentle music]
[clears throat]
- Would you care to dance?
- Is that an order?
- May I?
Thank you.
I thought a lot about what you said.
- What did I say?
- Well, more not what you didn't say.
But not having to follow every single order.
- Whilst that's a gallant gesture, Hans,
If you do not fulfil your orders, someone else will,
and they may not be so nice.
- A lot of expectations have been placed on me by my family.
We're from the Moselle Valley,
and my father was a soldier and his father before him.
- It's hard to disappoint them.
- Expectations can be difficult to manage.
But if we can work together,
maybe we can find an alternative route.
- My family were part of the Franco exodus.
Many were murdered as they tried to escape,
but by luck... Well, if you can call it that,
um, my mother did have German heritage,
so that gave us access to the Rhineland.
Then German infantry brought us here,
and they let me save her,
But only if I joined the Lebensborn.
- Gisella is falling in love.
- And how come you're not?
[car engine rumbling]
[tense music]
- Well, this is unexpected.
- Obviously.
- No doubt handpicked.
- If I'd know you were in town.
- Then I would have been presented
with a sanitised view of the operation.
- Please accept my apologies.
- No need.
Very much his fault and he should know better.
Boys will be boys
attending.
- Conscripted my sergeant?
- Progressing well with the programme, I see.
It's been noticed.
- It's a work in progress.
Good.
Then you were in the right place at the right time.
- No. Whatever it is, no.
I'm a little busy here making babies for the Führer.
- High command have issued a list of a number of combatants
they want questioned.
Interested parties who have spoken
or acted against the war effort.
- Dealt with those idiots who are printing the leaflets.
- This new list
are of particular annoyance to the Reich.
Juden ancestry.
Round them up.
Question them.
- And when I'm done?
- Dachau would be the nearest.
- You can't be...
- Interrogate. Investigate. Eliminate.
- You come up with that?
There are extra resources available?
This looks like a highly questionable military operation.
- You'll have everything you need.
- Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful.
This is going to take forever.
Bloody Wagner.
- I know that one.
- Have another look.
[military-style music]
- No, I don't recognise any of them, sir.
- That's not true, Gisella.
You looked after the professor's children.
- I only ever met the mother and the children
but not him, never him.
It's a pleasure to meet you, professor.
- Oh, William, please.
We have no formalities here, Gisella.
Of course, William.
- Gisella, I need you to focus.
- Of course, captain.
- When you visited the house,
did you notice any Jewish paraphernalia?
- Sorry, what?
- Jewish paintings,
or more other illegal things?
- I'm sorry, Helga, is your rank suddenly been promoted?
Clearly, the captain's not keeping your mouth occupied.
- Girls! Girls, girls!
Are we good?
Stop it! Stop!
This is exactly what we don't need.
Gisella, concentrate.
Did you notice anything in the professor's house
that made you think that Jewish people might live there?
[tense music continues]
- I'm sorry, sir, no, nothing that I saw.
- She's lying.
[speaking Spanish]
- That is all, Gisella, thank you.
I'll tell him to let you go if you've calmed down.
- She's lying.
- Why would she lie?
- Could be lovers.
- Oh, Helga, shut up.
He's old enough to be her grandfather.
- Well, some girls like older men around here.
I'm telling you, that Hundin is lying.
[bell tolls]
- Emily only takes small things.
- Of course I have.
Gisella. how long?
- I don't know, but they cannot find me here.
- We know Gisella, and we're very grateful.
- Will you come with us?
- Oh.
I'm so sorry, I can't.
Look, you'll be safe with your mother and father, okay?
- I'll miss you.
- Oh, darling I'll miss you, too.
[kisses]
[engine rumbling]
[knocking on door]
Is there another way out?
- Yes.
Go through the basement.
There's a door that leads to the back garden.
We'll find a way to meet you after.
- Wait, what are you asking me to do?
- Giselle, take the children. - Please.
- I can't take your children.
Look, the soldiers are here, they'll know that I've told you.
[knocking on door]
- Please, there's no time. - Okay.
- Children, do what your mother tells you.
- Benjamin, go, go.
[knocking on door]
- What's the meaning of this?
What's the meaning of this?
- Save your outrage.
Take him.
- No! What have we done?
We're German citizens.
- Well, clearly someone thinks otherwise.
- I found the door.
Are we going?
It's... It's okay.
It's okay.
Should we fight?
What's happening?
- I can't really see, but...
- Helga. Is this your doing?
- Professor, you lied to us.
You are Jews.
- No, we are German.
Look at our papers.
- Captain, this is all a mistake.
We are Germans!
It was my grandfather's.
Only a keepsake.
- That is true.
We're German citizens.
We have an essential business.
- We found nothing.
- Well have you checked under the beds?
- What?
- Shut up, Helga.
- They have children
and houses like this have a basement.
Find the right door.
- Oh my God, I think they've arrested your father.
We have to go.
- It's this way.
- You should be ashamed of yourself.
- My wife does not deserve this.
- What have you done with your children?
- We are German citizens.
- Enough already!
Take him for questioning.
- No! Please stop!
Stop! Oh!
[thuds]
- No! No!
[machine gunfire]
- No! Please!
No, no!
[gunshot]
[body thuds]
[traffic rumbling]
- We need to leave.
- I got your message.
- Soldiers came and Helga...
Oh my God! Helga, she...
She shot them.
- Helga?
- Who did she shoot?
- I can't.
- I got Teddy Scrumpkins.
- Thank you, Benjamin.
- Gisella,
You need to leave the city, start on foot.
When I get a chance, I'll come with the truck.
- I can't do this.
- I warned you, Gisella.
- But I tried... - You need to go!
- But Helga. - Forget Helga.
- [Judith] It's been a long time.
- She'll be back.
- Do you think so?
- You alright?
We might be on her own from now on.
- And how will that work out?
- Don't worry. I will protect you.
- You can't protect me.
You're too scrawny, Benjamin.
Even dad says so.
I'm cold.
[engine rumbling]
[car door closes]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[footsteps tapping]
- Sorry I took so long.
- Want some food?
- Don't be afraid.
Look, this is Isaiah.
He's a friend.
- The roads are full of Nazi patrols.
- What trouble I have brought with them.
- Gisella, you're Lebanese born.
They'll keep you safe.
- I am nothing more than a prize cow at market to them.
- You're more than a prize cow
and fortunately, you won't suffer the same fate.
- We need to go cross-country.
We need to avoid any border markers.
- Avoid people.
When you head over to France,
I'll meet you just outside Strasbourg.
We'll journey to Féchain together.
I've heard of a man called Marlene.
He'll give us shelter.
- I just wish this damn war would be over.
- Soon.
Then we can be together.
[bell tolls]
[sighs]
- Please, Margaret.
You have to wait.
- Your clothes, there's blood on them.
What has happened?
- Something terrible.
- Your hand, it's burnt.
- I caught it on my gun.
- Fenway is helping me.
She is braver than you.
- Your hand.
I can help.
It is clean material and you need to keep the wound covered.
- You're not a doctor!
- No, she's a nurse.
- I trained as a nurse in a hospital in Zurich
before the soldiers took me.
- The moment you're seen with her...
- We understand your concerns
but our minds are set on this action.
- See.
She knows me better than my own father.
- Cross country won't be easy.
- And living here will be?
- Gisella may not have chosen her path,
but she will not deviate from it.
- Let me help you.
- That time has passed, father.
[birds singing]
- She's been gone since yesterday.
- God damn you, Gisella.
- None of the girls were close to her,
so they don't know where she's gone.
And her?
- Killing a Jew is one thing.
Not one of ours is missing
and the other ones mentally challenged.
Wagner will have my head.
- We could blame the Jews.
- Don't be an idiot.
We can't be outsmarted by Jews.
God damn Jews for Christ's sake,
why did she warn them?
- Gisella knows the difference between right and wrong.
She knew what she was doing.
- This is Wagner's doing.
He's testing me, I know it.
- What about Helga?
Want me to take her in the house?
- No, I'll look after her, one missing is enough.
- Move it out.
- Meet me by the border.
Stay away from the patrols and towers.
- Please don't leave.
What if they find you?
- I'm just another guy going about my business.
If they find me with you, that's a different story.
- I love you.
- I guess we're walking again.
- We can't go by road.
It's too dangerous.
- Will I get shot if I'm found with you.
[gentle music]
- No, no, I won't let that happen.
- God damn it, roads!
They'll never make it to the border.
There's too many patrols.
- Farmland,
woods, maybe they could hide from patrols.
- So you're over your recent trauma, then?
- Gisella is smart.
She lived through Franco.
She knows that would be her best chance to stay hidden.
She's not so smart,
otherwise she wouldn't have joined the program.
Gisella is a survivor.
She'll do whatever it takes to make it through this.
And the programme is done for her now, she knows that.
It makes her dangerous.
- Don't go getting ideas, Helga.
That Spanish bitch is coming back.
What Wagner does with her afterwards is his concern.
- Well, I imagine that would be harder to explain
than how you lost one of your precious Lebensborn.
- God damn it! You are young and stupid.
You think this is all some sort of game, don't you?
You think this is what life is like?
There's more outside than this war and the Reich.
- Well don't let Wagner hear you say things like that.
- [scoffs] Wagner is the worst.
My family have land in Argentina.
When this war is over, that is where I will be.
- So your big plan is being a farmer?
- I'll be sitting in my chateau,
drinking wine and surveying my land
as far as the light touches.
[gentle music]
- Do not move.
I am armed.
Who are you?
- My name is Margaret Shulz.
Fenway sent me your location.
- Why are you dressed that way?
Come in quickly.
There are patrols everywhere.
[gentle music]
- Should have gone in the truck, hidden in the back.
- Soldiers patrol the roads.
We can hide if we need to.
- Ssh. Quiet.
- Nothing plus something doesn't always equal everything.
[speaking German]
[military-style music]
[tense music]
- Hello, Fraulein.
What are you doing here?
- Nothing.
We're just going for a walk.
- Spanish, huh?
- Yes.
- Papers?
Show me your papers.
You're on a very long walk.
[soldier speaks indistinctly]
Shut up!
Please excuse me.
If I'd have known who...
But of course, allow us to escort you.
- It's fine.
Um, we'd much prefer.
- There is an outpost not far from here.
- Honestly, it's...
- I insist.
[tense music continues]
- When I'm right, I'm right.
- Captain won't be happy.
- Hmm, captain will be whatever I instruct him to be.
- She wasn't here by herself.
- Hmm.
Help from a man, but who?
- Radio a patrol to take you back to the house.
- No reason to go back.
Not now.
- You caused this.
- That black bitch was nothing of the sort.
Taught your precious Margaret to read.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
[birds singing]
- You have come a long way.
- Yes, my father... - There is much death here.
It is not a good place.
- Can you help me?
- These things I... I do not know.
I barely have enough rations for myself.
It will not be easy to get across the border.
- You are Resistance.
- [scoffs] My mission is not to rescue anyone.
- An assassin?
- I have killed but I didn't take joy in it.
- No, I didn't... - Rest.
We leave in a couple of hours.
Don't thank me yet.
[gentle music]
[soldiers shouting]
[gun barrel clicking]
- Who is in charge here?
- Is your patrol in need of assistance?
- I'm scared.
- You've got no bullets.
- Yeah.
Found these people walking in the woods?
- Who are they?
- Lebensborn.
Program in Stuttgart.
- Stuttgart? That's a long way from here.
- Accompanying the Becker family of Stuttgart.
- Hmm.
Hoffmann!
- You volunteered Lebensborn.
[tense music]
- You know her?
- Yes, sir, I know her.
And the Becker family?
- If anyone asks, tell them you're the Becker family.
A well known German family.
Soldiers won't know who is or who isn't sons and daughters.
- Yes, I know the Becker family.
I had dinner there.
- And?
- Yes, Becker family.
How is your father?
- Y...Yes, my father.
It's been a long time.
- Yes, too long.
[truck engine rumbling]
- So these red paths all interlink with checkpoints.
We could radio other checkpoints and alert the patrols.
- We're not using the radios.
- Don't be embarrassed.
Radio is the most efficient way of finding Gisella.
Don't let one of your prized cows escape.
- Why don't you try to escape?
- Survivors don't think long term,
they react based on instinct, which works against them.
And when we are married, I will not be living in Argentina,
We will live in Austria.
- Have you given this some thought then?
- Yes, of course.
My grandfather was Austrian.
It's a lovely place to raise children.
- Helga, you're reading from the wrong script.
- Or would you prefer me with one of those idiot soldiers?
Do you not want a child from rank and file?
- Helga, I don't think you've quite got...
- We are the chosen few.
Our children will rule the world.
- Helga, I'm married.
- That's not a good joke.
- I'm serious.
I've got a wife.
Her name is Ursula.
You met her.
- That's not a funny joke.
- Don't be naive.
I mean, think about the women who joined the program.
- Yes, but you chose me.
- It wasn't like that.
- You ate all of it, piggy.
- Sorry.
It's funny how you forget
the things in life that make you happy.
- I'm worried they know why I'm here.
- Bad for us then.
- Look, I'll keep you safe, I promise.
[gentle music]
- Why have you come here? Have you run away?
- Look, it's a long story and not one of my making.
- Juden?
- What? No. No, of course not.
- Do not think me stupid, Gisella.
- Look, Hans, you've been very kind to help
but please, please do not complicate matters further.
- You're gonna get me shot.
- What can I say, It's a running theme with the men in my life.
Can you get us to the border?
- You're pushing your luck.
There's patrols everywhere.
Besides, don't you have a boyfriend to help?
- Hans, do not judge me.
Come on, you knew that Lebensborn
was always going to be entangled.
- Look, there's a guard changed every four hours.
That'll be your opportunity to escape.
Provisions?
I don't know. May be difficult.
- Thank you.
- Not yet.
Save your thanks.
The Becker ruse is not gonna protect them long.
- Soldiers only see what they're told to see.
- I'm more concerned about losing a prized Lebensborn.
- I'm not going back there.
- Can we trust him?
- They still hate and fear us.
It's hard to tell because
he was so polite about it.
- How far to the border.
- We will be there by morning.
- I miss Fenway.
- Do not talk now.
[gentle music]
- Benjamin.
Look, we've got the bag.
- Your German friend has conviction.
- The guard change.
That's our opportunity.
Come on.
[birds singing]
- Is there a crossing?
- None that we can use without being spotted.
- Why are you helping me?
- My family were rich before the war.
I did not know life.
My father and brother were shot by German soldiers.
My mother was hanged for being part of the Resistance.
I was kept safe, smuggled out to fight
Vite, vite, we must cross.
- Wait!
I cannot swim.
[dog barking]
[soldiers shouting]
- Merde! Go!
Go!
[dog barking]
- Benjamin,
nothing in life can bring you peace except from yourself.
- I'm so scared, Judith
- We're the Becker family, like mother said.
- Death twitches in my ear.
Live, he says.
I am coming.
- That will never come again.
It's what makes life so sweet.
- I'm so sorry for everything.
- I'm sorry is waiting.
[tense music]
- Go quickly and hide.
- The guards? - Look.
- Fuck! I'll come back later.
- Captain, you're one of us.
- Who's in charge here, Lieutenant?
- Captain.
- Hold that thought.
[tense music continues]
- We don't run out of dreams.
We just run out of time.
- Wait for the guard change.
- [radio] Urgent communication.
- What greater news is there than urgent communication?
Go on, enthral me.
- [radio] Girl in river.
- I'm getting a bad feeling.
- [radio] Lebensborn girl.
- Gisella. God damn it!
Location. What's your location?
- [soldier] Location? Send location, over.
- [radio] Accident. Tried to cross river.
- Location!
I'm blaming you for this.
Paper's, name on paper's.
[radio static]
- [radio] Mar mad.
Margaret.
- [Captain] Margaret?
- [radio] Margaret.
- God damn it!
Bloody women!
[gentle music]
- Captain, one of your Lebensborn is here.
- Here?
Oh, thank God.
- Looked after, of course.
Why, she was just here.
- Captain, search the camp.
- Gisella.
Thank God.
- Greatest comeback since Lazarus.
- There was... - Where is the Juden?
- No Juden here.
Only the Becker family.
[grunts]
- Where is the Juden?
- It doesn't matter what people think.
You know what you did.
- Captain, order your men into the woods.
- Enough already! Gisella, get into the truck.
- Wait!
- Spiteful bitch caused all of this.
[speaking Spanish]
- Helga, stop!
One dead Lebensborn is quite enough.
- What? Who?
- Margaret.
Stupid bitch drowned in the river.
- Margaret. No!
No, no, no.
[speaking Spanish]
- Margaret was too stupid to think this way.
- What have we done to each other, Helga, hmm?
Tell me.
Look, tell me what happens now, huh?
- I killed for you.
Who else can say that?
- [Captain] Helga, the gun, now!
- Fear of death
is what keeps us alive.
Juden.
- No Juden here.
Only Becker family.
[gunshot]
- You are Gisella's man.
Go with him.
Gisella didn't make it.
- What happened?
- Helga.
My hands will wring her neck, I promise.
[engine rumbling]
[speaking French]
[speaking German]
- Don't worry, I will protect you.
- [Judith] You're too scrawny, Benjamin.
even Tess said so.
Cold.
[camera snapping]
Benjamin.
- You should be ashamed of yourself.
[hand slaps]
- Take him for questioning.
- No! Please stop.
Stop! Oh!
[thuds]
- No! No!
[machine gunfire]
- No! Please!
[screams]
No! No!
[gunshot]
[body thuds]
[tense music]
- I've ordered you a cab.
When you're ready.
- How many children did you have?
- Three sons.
After the war.
- Do they know?
- No one knows.
You came all this way.
Did you get what you wanted?
- Can I forget?
No.
Can I forgive?
Possibly
true reconciliation
is never cheap, for it's based on forgiveness, which is costly.
Forgiveness, in turn, depends on repentance,
which has to be based on an acknowledgment
of what was done wrong
and therefore on disclosure of the truth.
You can't forgive what you don't know.
- If there is to be reconciliation.
First, there must be truth.
[gentle music]
[singer vocalising]
[gentle music continues]
[gentle music]