Operation Overlord (2021) - full transcript

Mmm.

Yankee.

Koch.

What you need, man?

What's this?

Let me go, man!

Let me go.

English then.

Operation Overload.

I want to know how many men
your army's sending to France.

Ah!



How many men come by plane

and how many men by vessel?

Speak or I will begin pulling
your teeth out, one by one.

I don't know.

You will tell me!

Enough games!

Now tell me how many
men come to the beach?

I don't know!

- Huh?
- I don't know!

I don't believe you.

What're you doing?

I don't know what
you're talking about!

Fuck no!

No!



Brown.

Colonel.

French hospitality.

I hear you're a good man in
tight spots, is that true?

Not sure I understand
the question, sir.

At ease, solider.

You can speak freely here.

I signed up for
the front lines, sir.

So you enjoy combat.

I do, sir.

You enlisted with the
hopes of killing Nazis.

I did, sir.

We're
here, Normandy's here.

To the east is an abandoned
prison camp, do you know it?

Yes sir, we passed
it on our first march.

It's a ghost town, sir.

Only to the naked eye.

It appears to be a strategic
withdraw by the Germans.

They're holding one
of our men there.

A young private named Donovan.

You know him?

No, sir.

Well, in five
days I'm gonna send

150 thousand men
across that sand.

Since Donovan's been missing,

the Germans have been
setting up fortifications

and artillery the
likes we've never seen.

We have reason to believe

Donovan may be giving them
sensitive information.

How many Germans, sir?

We believe six.

That should be plenty

for a healthy young
man such as yourself.

So tell me about your home.

I'm not sure I understand

the relevance of
the question, sir.

Just trying to
understand the man

who may save the war
for our side is all.

From Texas.

Father passed away a
year before I enlisted.

Mother is still there.

I imagine she wasn't pleased

with your decision to
be here and not at home.

What are you asking me, sir?

I need you to find our man.

If he's still alive,
we need to find out

how much of Operation Overlord
he has given to the Germans.

If not, Normandy
could be a massacre.

And if he spoke
to the Germans, sir?

Leave him to the
mercy of the SS.

Is there any questions?

No, sir.

Pick a soldier that you trust.

Pack your gear.

You're on your way immediately.

So?

Orders from Colonel Landy.

We're to head east.

Away from the beach?

That's right.

Huh.

I was hoping today
would be a good day.

The whole battalion?

Just you and me.

We leave immediately.

Get your kit.

What's east?

A Private Donovan.

An American caught by the Nazis.

Landy seems to think
he's leaking information

in regards to Overlord.

And he's only sending two men.

As to not attract
the German's attention.

Besides, if he's
giving up our plan,

he's not worth the
hundreds of American lives.

Only ours.

So what, he's a spy?

He is a prisoner and
an American soldier.

There's nothing more to discuss.

Well, I guess we'll have to
wait to leave till dark, huh?

No, we leave now.

Besides, on the last March,
the Germans were already gone.

Ha.

Yet we only pack grenades.

30 miles.

How long will that
take, 10 hours?

12 at the most?

It'll give us time
till the sun sets.

Otherwise, we're wide open.

A massacre, Anderson.

It's gonna be a massacre.

Those were Landy's
words, not mine.

This is our chance
to make a difference.

And kill Nazis in the progress.

We complete the
mission and we go home.

And you can stop kissing
that fucking picture.

Have a set of real lips
for the first time.

You got two minutes,
make up your mind.

All right.

- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

Having a child

was my greatest
achievement in life.

It was my savior before
the Führer came to power.

A child is a gift

that reminds you

of what is important.

She's a very
beautiful little girl.

Yeah.

It is senseless for her to
grow up without a father.

Yeah?

Give me the journal!

No.

I'm going to burn it

and then I'm going
to go get the wrench

and I'm going to
pull your toes off.

Slowly.

And then,

we're going to place
them up your ass

one at a time.

What is the American expression?

Foot up your own ass?

When they come for me

and I get out of this cage,

I'm going to kill you.

Hey, so what
does that make you?

Three wins, six loses.

Three wins, six loses.

What are you, a parrot?

Hey man, it's not that bad.

It's not good either.

It doesn't matter.

She doesn't need to
know your record.

She loves the fact
that you're a boxer.

Trust me.

- Huh?
- Hey.

Blonde curls,

breasts out to here.

Long legs.

I mean, man,

this dame is to kill for.

I don't know.

Hey man, just one date, huh?

That's all I'm asking.

I just don't want to
commit to anything is all.

What does that mean?

It means, this
war ain't over yet.

All right, we're nearly there.

German building's gonna be
150 yards passed that road.

You really think you're not
gonna make it after this war?

What?

War ain't over yet.

Do any of us go
home the way we left?

My father was in the...

in France in '17.

He survived that set trench
by being blown to hell.

He said that there were
bodies blowing everywhere.

I mean, all over the place,

you could just walk
right over them.

What happened to him?

Your father.

Fuck knows.

Okay, hold on, hold on.

Who knows?

Yeah, well, I mean...

Maybe he was lost in the
sandbags or something,

I don't know.

That's my point.

Yeah.

I know that's your point, Brown.

All right, shut the fuck up

before they get down on us.

All right.

Come on.

Will you hurry up?

Lay off me, Brown.

Just keep an eye out, all right?

Yeah.

If you don't hurry,
some Nazi's gonna run up

and shoot your dick off.

I'm trying
to concentrate, all right?

Just stop talking and go.

Exactly.

Stop talking so I can go.

That's what I said.

Fuck it.

Hang on.

I gotta tinkle a
little bit more.

Check your prostate.

All right.

Let's get out of here.

You good?

Let's go.

Shit.

Get down, my ass.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Oh man.

It's a trail.

What is it?

I've been on this road before.

Yeah, how do you know that?

Whoa.

Well I'll be a monkey's
ass dingleberry.

Damn right.

Hang on.

Fuck.

Ca-caw, man.

Ca-caw.

So now what?

We find another way.

Yeah.

Find us another way, slinger.

Bring me to him.

Mickey Mouse, New
York City, yeah?

Yes.

The mission has been box.

I told you people.

I don't know how
many men are coming.

By tomorrow,

our defenses will be in
place along the beach.

We will no longer
have a need for you.

Are you understanding
what I say?

So you're gonna kill me?

Because I didn't give you
information that I didn't have?

You sauerkraut-eating bitch.

Hmm.

Tell me.

What do you imagine
your generals will think

should we let you live?

They will assume
that you gave us

the information about
Operation Overload.

They will hang you as a spy.

They don't hang
people in my country,

except maybe a few Germans.

America.

We'll need to find out
how many men are in here.

Well,

we'll draw some straws, right?

See whoever comes out first.

Huh?

How're we gonna draw them out?

We need a diversion.

Yeah well, I could fire a
few rounds, break some glass.

Let 'em know we're here, right?

I was thinking a flare.

You don't have any flares?

No, I don't have
any flares, you?

No, fuck no.

Fuck.

I got an idea.

Make it count.

Make it count.

Oh, shit.

Okay, so I count three.

All officers.

So few?

My guess,

Germans want this
on the down low.

All right, so
now what do we do?

Play by the same rules.

Get Donovan, get the hell
out of here undetected.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

That's if he's still alive.

Son of a bitch, look
at that right there.

All right.

He's separated from
the rest of them.

Okay.

He's the one we get first.

See who comes after him
once he goes missing.

Okay.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

- What?
- I just wanna be clear.

What're we going?

We're under direct orders
from Colonel Landy from the 8th.

Yeah.

We're doing what
the fuck we want.

They got one of ours.

That's right, okay.

Hey.

What?

Shouldn't we put
these straps on?

No, forget the straps.

Okay.

You speak English?

We take that gag out of
your mouth and you scream,

I'm gonna shove it in there
and we're gonna kill you slow.

You understand?

No screaming.

Hey, English!

Not that Val-Jerry shit.

Donovan.

The kid.

You know him?

We have info he's being stationed
somewhere in this complex.

You wanna tell us where he is?

The sun's setting.

We have all night to sit here.

Go fuck yourself.

Hey, I would.

But I'm exhausted from
fucking your sister.

Huh?

How many men are here?

You can't expect me
to tell you anything.

Oh, that's exactly
what I expect you to do.

Why?

Because your
life depends on it.

You're going to
kill me anyways,

you pig-fucking Americans.

Coming from a
Jew-killing Nazi,

I take that as a compliment.

You have five minutes to
tell us how many men are here

and how they're armed.

Hit him again.

What did you say?

Huh?

What did you say?

Four minutes.

Three SS soldiers

and one Lieutenant Colonel.

Armed?

Thank you.

18 years old.

Rogers from Kansas City.

He was with us when they
dropped us into Nadine.

He was shot three times
before he even hit the ground.

His parents were dairy farmers.

I landed six feet from him.

His parachute was all tangled up

and blood had already
filled his lungs.

With his dying breath,

he had one wish.

For me to kill that
Nazi that shot him dead.

Now, I realize you
might not be that one

but you know what they say.

One dead Nazi is as
good as the next.

Nein, nein, nein!

10.

Did you hear what I said?

What?

Well,

he was saying.

"Nine, nine, nine, nine!"

And I, bam!

10.

You need help.

Goddamn it.

Let's go find the upstairs.

I thought it was funny.

She has told you

that your window of
worth is diminishing.

Yes?

Such a beautiful family

you have back in New York City.

I have a cousin
also in New York.

He married an Albanian dancer.

They have a child as well.

I believe a boy.

I look at this

photo of your family

and I think to myself,

I wonder if my cousin
would find it difficult

to locate them in
such a large city.

Good thing that I
have the address.

You wouldn't dare
hurt my family.

I would.

I would!

You will tell me how many
Americans are coming to the beach

if only to save
your family's life!

And to further my good
graces with the Führer!

Now,

you will tell me

how many men come by vessel

and how many come by plane!

12 hundred.

Got a lot of bombers.

22 hundred Canadian.

160 thousand troops at Normandy.

83 thousand British
and Canadian troops

at Gold, Juno and Sword beaches.

Your family thanks you.

The Führer

thanks you.

And you are now officially

a trader!

You son of a bitch!

You do what you want with me

but my family is
not to be touched.

This place is a fucking maze.

What building is this?

Uh...

Nine.

Wait, wait, wait.

14.

Fuck, man, I don't know.

Hey man, was that guy lying?

Was he lying about

this whole place being
riddled with freaking Nazis?

No.

But they will find that
dead body back there.

Oh man.

So we need to get to Donovan

before they kill him, no
matter how many there are.

All right.

Oh!

Cover me!

Oh fuck.

Nice shot.

- Yeah, you're welcome.
- Yeah.

Oh man.

You think they heard all that?

We ain't sticking
around to find out.

Let's find a hole.

Dig in for awhile.

All right.

After you.

Let me see this girl
you're always looking at.

She's beautiful.

Oh yeah.

When's the last she wrote you?

Oh, was it...

Week before last.

Yeah.

I try to write her
as much as I can.

Every chance I get.

She doesn't do the same?

Hmm.

Her father.

He just thinks that a soldier
doesn't make a great husband.

How about that?

Yeah.

He thinks a mail worker
makes a better life partner.

He's probably right.

Damn it, Brown.

Now why do you have
to go and do that?

Do what?

Be so dull.

Give me a break, man.

Bring me all the way
out here for this.

Oh hell.

Come on, I didn't
mean it like that.

Soldier's lack of commonsense
often find themself

in some kind of heroic feat.

Like jumping on a grenade
to save a platoon.

That doesn't necessarily
translate in the real world.

Back home,

ain't no one sitting
in some empty Nazi camp

waiting on the next battle.

Her old man will come around.

He just don't
understand you is all.

He'll come around,
I'm sure of it.

You're a good man.

Yeah, we'll see.

What about you?

How come you don't
have a girl back home?

I did, it didn't stick.

Oh yeah?

What happened?

She didn't approve me
going off to the war.

Didn't approve of the fighting.

Come to think of it, there's
wasn't much she did approve of.

Told her I was enlisting.

She cried for a day and a half.

Curled up in the bed like a cat.

I told her, I said,

some places on this
earth you gotta go alone.

Well, I guess the next
morning she agreed with me.

All my belongings out
there on the vestibule.

Nice and folded.

Went back to live
with my mother.

And that, as they say, was that.

Sorry about that.

So why did you get
back in the ring?

What, boxing?

Yeah.

That same hand that could
write those love letters,

knock you out in one punch.

Yeah.

Could kill a whole bunch of
Jew-murdering Nazis too, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah.

Hey.

The sun's coming up.

We gotta get ready.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey.

What's with the mannequins?

This place is creepy.

They're Nazis, Anderson.

Of course it's creepy.

Keep your eyes peeled.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Take it easy, pal.

Take it easy.

Where are the others!

The others!

That's not what
he asked you, pal.

They have killed your friend.

That's funny because I
didn't hear any screaming.

Did you, Brown?

Not a peep.

Take his weapon!

Fuck.

Goddamn it.

Oh.

Brown.

What?

- Let me see.
- No.

- Oh fuck.
- Fucking killed me.

Oh fuck.

- Fucking killed me.
- Hey, listen to me.

Listen to me.

I gotta move you, Anderson.

I have to move you!

I have to move you, ready?

Ready?

One, two, three!

Don't mess with it.

I sewed you up the best I could.

That's all the morphine I had.

Where is he?

He's in the other room.

What're you...

Stop moving, Anderson!

What're you gonna do to him?

I'm gonna question him.

We're gonna get Donovan, we're
all gonna get out of here.

Together.

Hey.

Why me?

What's that?

When you talked to Landy.

Why did you choose me?

I trust you, Anderson.

Always have.

You're not gonna
fucking die here.

Hey.

Let me be the one that puts
that bullet in him, will you?

Give me that much.

You sit right here.

Okay?

I'll be right in that next room.

Don't mess with
that wound, yeah?

Don't do it.

Hey, Brown.

What?

Don't let me die in
this Nazi shit hole.

Okay?

All right.

This is gonna hurt.

It's safe to say, I
took round number one.

One minute, round number two.

Where's Donovan?

Where's Donovan?

Oh fucking hell.

Remember him?

Anderson.

You're gonna tell
me where he is.

Where's Donovan?

Where's Donovan?

You're gonna tell me where
or I swear, to help me God,

I'll beat you till
there's nothing left!

Up stairs.

Up stairs, how many men?

How many?

Up stairs.

Auf wiedersehen.

Fuck.

Donovan!

Donovan!

Donovan!

Donovan!

Over here.

Donovan?

Yes.

Who sent you?

Colonel Landy.

We don't have much time.

All right, where do they
keep the key to your cell?

Koch, Koch, he's
got it, I think.

A tall guy.

Any others?

Two, I think,
and a lieutenant.

All right, we killed two.

Lieutenants are a
main concern now.

We?

Came with a
friend from the 8th.

He's gone.

They just sent two men?

Before we go any further,

I need to know
what you told them.

Any information.

Donovan!

Nothing.

Nothing about Overlord?

Nothing about the beach
or who's coming to France?

Look man, I told
you, I stayed quiet.

Pulled my fucking molars out.

All right.

Where do we find
this Koch fella?

Easy, now.

How about we put these guns down

and figure out a way we
all walk out of here?

Alive, yeah?

Look, look.

Look.

What
are you doing, man?

He'll kill us both!

Hey, what do
you want, soldier?

Easy.

What're you doing?

Quiet, Donovan!

He's dead?

He's sure as shit ain't alive.

Siegmund, the lieutenant,
you think he lift?

I don't know

but we're not sticking
around to find out.

All right, grab that pistol.

What is it?

I lied.

He threatened to kill my family.

How much?

All of it.

Everything I knew.

It didn't occur to you to lie,

soldier?

Do divert their
attention somehow?

He threatened
to kill my family.

How?

How?

As far as I know, the
Germans haven't made a weapon

that can reach
across the Atlantic,

hit your family's house.

You really think one German
soldier 3,000 miles away

could pull that off?

Answer the question, solider!

What do you want me to say?

He told me he already knew.

There was a woman, one
of Hitler's aids, man.

If they already knew our plan,

why'd they keep you alive?

I don't know.

I guess they were
planning on executing me

and you showed up and
ruined their plans.

Fucking know.

What're you gonna do?

Landy was clear.

You sing, we leave you here.

My business is killing Nazis.

Not American soldiers.

What Landy doesn't
know won't hurt him.

But we gotta get
back and let him know

the Germans are
prepared either way.

Stay close.

We don't know what old
Siegmund has in store for us.

Move it.

We can't go back.

What is it?

Artillery.

They're loading up.

Where do we go?

Follow me.

What're happening?

They're heading out.

Probably to Normandy.

Will they come for us?

They haven't yet.

Which I assume that means
they think we've already left.

Leading them on a merry chase.

Wish I could've gotten my
hands on that lieutenant.

Why is that?

He has something of mine.

Something I can't replace.

Something like this?

Who is she?

That man I came here with,

that's his girl back home.

I killed the man that
took him from her.

Doesn't look like I'm gonna
get that same satisfaction.

Well,

at least now you know
what it costs to get here.

And don't be so sure.

France is a big country.

What do we do now?

They're gone.

We get the hell out of here.

Stay here.

We're good.

Drop the weapon!

No chance.

Drop your weapon
or I kill him now!

You first, buddy.

No.

Good morning.

Morning.

There's something I
wanna talk to you about.

I saw the brochure
in your handbag.

I wanna talk to
you face-to-face.

Well,

have you ever been able
to keep anything from me?

That's why I have to leave.

Dad spent three years in France.

You heard the story same as me.

Stories.

Well, if that's what's
important to you,

you needn't leave home.

Train leaves tomorrow.

I guess you're
off to determine

who's right and
wrong in the world.

Just France.

The rest of the world can
figure it out on their own.

You know, your father
had the same misplaced idea

before they sent him
home in a pine box.

Just remember, the dead ones,

those are the only ones
that see the end of war.

Get to work.

So you're the little mouse

that make all the
trouble for me, no?

American girl?

She's not mine.

Then whose is she?

The man I came here with.

And where is this
man of yours now?

He's dead.

The spoils of
war are messy, no?

And this?

Yours too?

Do you know what the
Führer expects us to do

with American captured soldiers?

I could take a guess.

Yeah.

The information

that your fellow
soldier has given us

will cost you
thousands of lives.

Some of them your
fellow soldiers

and some of them allies.

Tell me,

how does that make you feel?

Does it matter?

Answer the fucking question!

He told the truth
to spare the lives

of his wife and daughter.

No shame in that.

I wonder if your generals

think this too.

Hmm.

Or would they call him a spy?

A few days from now

our forces will slaughter
your men at the beach

and I will be the
one being praised

to have bleed the
information out of him.

You give yourself
too much credit.

You haven't made it
back to Germany yet.

Boxer?

I too have spent some
time in the ring.

Where you any good?

Not really.

What was your record?

Three wins, six loses.

Well,

it is always important

that you warm up before a fight.

Yeah!

It's good, no, huh?

Come on, American soldier!

Come on!

Up, American.

Up!

There we go, come on.

All right, now, let's
see what you have, huh?

All right, motherfucker!

You all right?

We gotta go.

Wait.

You good?

I'm good.

Gentlemen.

Sir.

Job well done, Soldier.

Where's the man
you took with you?

He was lost, sir.

Have the medics check you out.

Both of you.

We're fine, sir.

Very well then.

I guess we should have a drink.

And have a very
long conversation

between the three of us.

Hey, Brown.

Thanks.

I was just doing my job.

Not just that.

For not telling the colonel
what happened back there.

Take care of
yourself, Donovan.

Where are you going?

Landy said you can leave.

Don't you wanna go home?

I'll tell you what.

I'll see you on the beach.

Oh my god.

I'm home, Mamma.

Oh my god.

Oh.

It looks like we have
some stories to tell.

Yeah, we do.

Oh.