Passport to Freedom (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - Episode #1.8 - full transcript
Heydrich: Gentlemen,
thank you for coming.
I called this meeting by request
of Reichsmarschall Goring
on behalf of the Fuhrer.
I am honored to announce
that the Reich Chancellery
has appointed me as coordinator
of arrangements
for the Final Solution
of the Jewish Question.
The cleansing efforts of the SS
have been admirable,
but our special forces,
the mobile units
in charge of control
and eradication
are facing
an impossibly onerous task,
considering
the astounding numbers
of Semites
in the occupied areas.
Our soldiers are being exposed
to contamination
and extremely taxing
work conditions.
For these reasons,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eichmann
has been commissioned to create
an emergency plan
to avoid further damage
to morale.
Colonel, if you please...
Eichmann: Thank you, General.
The most pressing issue
facing us now
is how can we transport
such a large number of Semites
to these cleansing facilities.
There are 11 million Jews
in Europe.
Note the high number of Semites
in the occupied areas
and beyond.
Our investigations
are well-advanced.
Tests of gas cleansing
in Auschwitz-Birkenau
have shown promising results.
First, Jews will be transferred
in groups by rail
to the transit centers
and then relocated east
from there.
Heydrich: Excellent,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eichmann.
As you can see,
there's a prodigious effort
for the German nation
and for a free Europe.
We need the unconditional
support of all here present.
Aracy: Look what they've done
to Edu's letter.
Can you imagine
the Gestapo reading
about Edu's
new swimming trunks?
Joao: Apparently,
Hitler's so paranoid,
he barely eats anymore,
afraid of being poisoned.
Aracy: Thank God my boy
is safe from that lunatic.
Joao: Not sure anywhere
in the world is safe right now.
Aracy: Disgusting, isn't it?
You can't even get good,
Brazilian coffee anymore.
Joao: We can't get
good anything.
There's only enough coal
to heat Ribeiro's office.
Aracy: At least Edu's drinking
decent coffee now.
Can't stop thinking
about the children,
Mendel Krik's grandchildren.
Joao: Aracy, you did
everything you could.
Aracy: But it wasn't enough.
[Kiss]
Adolf Hitler: [Speaking German
over loudspeaker]
Zumkle: You said you'd be
tailing Rosa full time.
Muller: You want me to have
my men following a diplomat
24 hours a day?
There is a war on.
Zumkle: He's a Jew helper.
Muller: Doesn't matter anymore.
We have already sent
thousands of Jews
from Hamburg to the east.
Soon, there will be
no left here.
We will resume the deportations
once the trains
are less full of soldiers
heading to Russia.
Zumkle: I made you rich,
and now you won't help me?
Muller: What, exactly,
have you got against that man?
Ribeiro: Thailand's declared war
on America and Britain.
Joao: It's hard to keep up
with all the war declarations
since Pearl Harbor--
the U.S. and the Allies
against Japan,
China against Japan
and Germany,
Germany and Italy
against the U.S.,
Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
against the Allies.
Do you think we'll be next?
Ribeiro:
If Roosevelt gets his way.
Now America's in it,
they want all Latin America
to join in the war.
Joao: What about Rio? Any news?
Ribeiro: Only that
the conference is rumbling
into its second week.
Joao: While they sit discussing
whether to fight Germany,
we're stuck here with bombs
falling around our heads.
Ribeiro: There's nothing
we can do, Rosa.
We're in the serpent's nest,
and what do you do
when you fall down a snake hole?
Joao: I have no idea.
Ribeiro: You don't move.
You blink, and it strikes.
[Thumping and clattering]
[Glass shattering]
[Knocks on door]
Aracy: Yes? Rudi.
What happened?
Rudi: They almost found me.
Aracy: How?
Rudi: They came
to the safe house.
Someone must have denounced me.
Aracy: I'm only here because
there's no heating
at the consulate.
I'm calling Hardner.
Ribeiro: Yes, Excellency.
The ambassador wants us to
gather all sensitive documents.
Joao: Are we declaring war?
Ribeiro: No, not yet,
but we should prepare
to burn everything.
Joao: Rudi came here?
Aracy: No one saw him.
Joao: Aracy, we're about to go
to war with Germany. You can't--
Aracy: They found
his hiding place.
He's at Hardner's now.
They may have already seen
Hardner visiting.
Joao: Then both are in danger.
[Men shouting]
Hardner: 10 Reischsmarks
on the short one.
Ludo: It's your money to lose.
Hardner: How's business
without Mendel Krik?
Ludo: Slow.
Nobody runs the docks anymore.
Hardner: So if someone
needed to board a ship?
Ludo: Does this someone
have a ticket?
Hardner: Would I be asking
if they did?
Ludo: A Jew.
It's not gonna happen.
Hardner: Then I need a quiet
place for someone to hide,
just a few days till
we figure something out.
Ludo: Oh.
You were lucky, old man.
My home is not a boarding house.
Hardner: Ludo Hass...
I can pay good money.
Joao: We've been compiling
the most sensitive files
ready for burning.
They're all in the safe.
Aracy: Never thought
I would miss the old days
of forging visas.
Joao: And your sneaky
blotting paper trick.
Aracy: Ha! Was it
really obvious?
Joao: No, but--
Aracy: Do you think
Ribeiro knew
when he was signing visas?
[Bell tolling]
Joao: That notebook
is what we should be burning.
Aracy: There are some things
I still need to copy,
some names and addresses
of which clients went where
so they can find each other
after the war.
Joao: Any other documents here?
That's the least suspicious
place in the world--
the home of a single mother,
a nobody.
Joao: You're not a nobody.
Aracy: I'm very happy
being a nobody, thank you.
These can all burn.
[Airplanes passing]
Joao: I had no idea
you were so efficient.
Aracy, this book
is a death sentence.
Aracy: Everything that I've done
is in there--
every name and address
of everyone
that I helped to leave Germany,
still have some
of their belongings,
like to return them in person.
Joao: You've already
saved their lives.
They wouldn't want you
to risk your own, not now.
[Knocks on door]
Mina: Is something burning?
Aracy: We made a fire
to warm us up.
It's freezing in here.
Mina: Be careful.
I don't want to get fined
for disobeying the blackout.
Joao: Mrs. Schwartz,
how's your son doing?
Mina: Wilfried's
gone back to the front.
I haven't heard from him yet.
Joao: Send him my best
when you write to him.
Mina: I will.
[Departing footsteps]
Aracy: That poor woman.
Joao, I don't want her
reporting us.
Joao: Give me the notebook.
I'll throw it in the Alster.
Aracy: I just need to copy
some of it first.
I can sew notes
into my coat liner.
Joao: Can we have dinner first?
Got more potatoes.
Aracy: We will turn
into potatoes soon.
Thank you.
Chocolate.
Joao: [Inhales]
Perks of being a diplomat.
Aracy: Mm-hmm.
[Door closes]
Mina: No!
No!
That's a lie.
You murdered him.
[Door opens]
[Sobbing]
[Door closes]
[Engine starts]
Wilfried.
[Vehicle departs]
My son.
My son did not do it. No! No!
Man: Your son was convicted
as a deserter,
but he committed suicide
before--
Mina: That's a lie!
No!
[Voices echoing]
Mina: No! No! It's a lie!
Aracy: Oh, what happened?
What happened?
Mina: They killed my baby.
Damn them to hell.
Aracy: I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
Please sit down.
I'm so sorry.
Mina: My baby.
My son,
he was sick,
and they killed my baby.
Joao: I don't have
any more morphine at home.
I'm gonna try to find
some brandy.
Schaffer: Colonel Zumkle is
an embarrassment to our uniform.
Heinz: We all deserve a little
fun in these tough times.
Schaffer: How did he make
so much money so quickly?
He barely leaves his desk.
He's never once stuck
his own neck on the line,
yet he's always promoted.
Heinz: If you suspect
some sort of corruption,
you'll need evidence.
Schaffer: With respect, General,
suspicions are all the evidence
you need in wartime.
Heinz: In Hamburg,
we still observe the law.
Zumkle: Excuse me for a second.
General...
Schaffer seems to be
more cantankerous than ever.
Heinz: He feels the war
is unfair
to hardworking soldiers
like him.
Zumkle: How sad for him.
General, you will come join us?
My friends are keen to meet you.
This is the general.
[Soft big band music playing]
Woman: Oh...
[Kissing]
Zumkle: Get out.
Get out.
Hardner: If you are caught,
use this.
Don't think.
Just pull the trigger.
Rudi: I'll take
two of them with me.
Hardner: No.
Save it for yourself.
You don't want to be
captured alive, trust me.
Aracy: I'm taking her
the chocolate.
I think it may help with--
Colonel Zumkle.
Zumkle: May I come in?
Aracy: No. Colonel Zumkle, out.
Haraus!
Joao: I'm sorry I took so long.
Brandy's as rare as morphine.
Where's Aracy?
Zumkle: You're so beautiful.
Aracy: And you're drunk.
Zumkle: So g--give me a cup of
your good, old Brazilian coffee.
That'll sober me up.
Aracy: No.
Zumkle: Then invite me
for dinner.
It smells wonderful.
Aracy: You lied to me.
Zumkle: How did I lie to you?
Aracy: You sent those children
to their deaths.
Zumkle: I took them
away from Hamburg.
They're safe now.
Aracy: That's not true.
You sent them to the camps.
Zumkle: Camps? Uh-uh.
I know nothing about it.
They're not my remit.
Aracy, I did everything
I could to help,
but some things
are beyond even my power.
Aracy: Get out.
Zumkle: Are you afraid
your boring, little boyfriend
will interrupt us?
Aracy: I'm not expecting anyone.
Zumkle: Ah?
That's not how it looks.
Your son is far away
in Brazil, huh? Did you--
Aracy: Don't touch me,
you coward. Uh!
Zumkle: Did you send him home
to have more time
with your lover?
Aracy: You're disgusting.
I'm disgusted.
Zumkle: You are
the most amazing woman.
[Kiss]
Aracy: Uh uh!
Zumkle: Aah!
Aracy: [Sobs]
Joao: What's going on?
Aracy: Colonel Zumkle
was on his way out.
Zumkle: Why, here he is,
the deputy consul.
Joao: Good-bye.
Zumkle: That's rather rude
of you to just barge in
on a man and a woman
together in private, eh?
Aracy: Stop, Joao.
Joao: Stay out, Aracy.
Aracy: Please.
Zumkle: I am here to settle
things with Miss Aracy.
Joao: That is brave of you,
bringing a gun to settle things.
Zumkle: I keep my hands clean.
Boom.
You're dead.
Joao: You'll
be court-martialed for it.
Zumkle: But you won't
be there to see it.
Aracy: Colonel Zumkle...
put that gun down.
Zumkle: I would never
hurt you, Aracy.
[Chuckles]
[Door closes]
Aracy: [Sobbing]
Joao: I'm here.
[Ship's horn blows]
Aracy: We don't have a choice.
We have to get Rudi out now.
Joao: We can use
the diplomatic car.
That should give us some cover.
Hardner: Even so,
it's a massive risk.
Where's the safest place
to cross?
Joao: Uh, Switzerland.
It's the only unoccupied
neighboring country,
but it's also the furthest
from Hamburg, 15 hours' drive.
Who knows if there's petrol?
Aracy: Denmark?
Hardner: There's heavy patrol
at the Danish border.
There's an SS unit
for each acre of the forest
because of the partisans
at the other side.
Aracy: But it's the most direct
way out from Hamburg,
and if we can get word ahead
to the partisans--
Joao: Or...
Holland.
Aracy: We've got
some contacts there.
If they can get Rudi down
through Belgium into France,
he could join the resistance.
Hardner: Maybe.
It's a fortified border,
and they're a lot further away,
but if he can make it
without being captured
and the resistance take him
to the south to Free France--
Aracy: Those are
our best options--
Denmark and the SS units
or Holland and a prayer.
Hardner: Time to go, Rudi.
Ludo: I'd invite you to stay
longer, but I don't want to.
Pleasure doing business
with you.
Now clear off.
Rudi: So where are we going?
Hardner: Holland.
Deputy Consul Rosa will get you
across the Dutch border,
and from there, the resistance
will take you down to the south.
Come on.
There's no time for that.
We've a long drive ahead.
Aracy: So I'm going
to my aunt's house
to celebrate her birthday.
You are going on
a special diplomatic mission
regarding the Rio conference,
right?
Joao: Right,
and if somebody asks,
stick to the story.
Aracy: But, Joao--
Joao: We can't turn back.
We have to be prepared
for what comes next.
Aracy: Be careful, my Joaozito.
Joao: You, too, my Ara,
and do not drive too fast, huh?
Aracy: You know I'm a much
better driver than you are,
Mr. Deputy Consul.
Joao: Of course you are.
[Airplane passing]
Ludo: So what do I get
for this information?
Zumkle: Show him
to our guest room.
Ludo: Colonel,
I told you the truth.
Zumkle: Shut him up, Lieutenant.
Grass: Yes, sir.
Ludo: Please, Colonel, plea--
Colonel, please!
Colonel, I told you the truth!
Please, please, Colonel!
Please, Colonel! Colonel!
Colonel, please!
Colonel!
Schaffer: What's going on?
Ludo: Please!
Zumkle: An undercover operation
I've been planning
for the last 3 years.
The Brazilian consul is going to
smuggle a Jew across the border.
Schaffer: 3 years?
Zumkle: Come along.
See how a real
military maneuver works.
Man: Good evening, sir.
Open the trunk.
Joao: I'm the Brazilian
deputy consul.
I have diplomatic immunity.
Man: Not in a war zone.
Joao: Check my registrations.
They're diplomatic plates.
Man: Open it now, please.
Joao: You're violating
international protocols.
I'll file a complaint.
Man: Go ahead...
once you've opened the trunk.
[Dogs barking]
Rudi: [Breathing deeply]
Joao: I refuse.
Call your superior.
Zumkle: Mr. Deputy Consul...
open the trunk, please.
Joao: No.
Aracy: Step back, please.
I'm a diplomat.
[Dog barking]
Man: Open the trunk.
Aracy: No.
Joao: Don't!
You're breaking
the diplomatic accord
between our two countries.
Zumkle: I don't care.
We have information that you're
smuggling a fugitive, a Jew.
Joao: That's absurd.
[Gunshots]
[Gunshot]
Man: I can break it open, sir.
Different man:
That's not necessary.
The lady will open it for us.
Aracy: I'm a diplomat, and
this is my diplomatic vehicle.
Man: Those are not
diplomatic plates.
Aracy: I am Aracy de Carvalho.
Remember my name.
You'll be hearing it
at your court-martial.
Man: Her papers
are in order, soldier.
You may proceed, madam.
Schaffer: Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!
Oh, that was priceless.
Ha ha ha!
You should see your face.
Thank you for inviting me.
I have learned so much.
You actually thought that
you could arrest the consul
and his girl would just
come running into your arms.
Ha ha ha!
Zumkle: Shut up.
Schaffer: You know
what the best part is?
You were tricked by two women
of the sub-races, eh--
a Brazilian and a Jew,
oh, a doped-up Jew at that, huh?
Oh, thank God I didn't
catch anything from her, hmm?
Ha ha ha!
Yes.
Your Vivi,
she could sing like an angel,
and she could fuck like a whore.
Zumkle: Are you still chasing
my sloppy seconds?
Schaffer: Actually, you know,
she said she'd never
had it better.
Zumkle: Now she's dead.
You can come out now, Rudi.
Rudi: [Coughs]
Aracy: It's over.
You're safe.
Rudi: Tell my father I'm safe
if you can.
Tell him where I am.
Aracy: Of course.
I'll find him,
and I will tell him,
and when this is over,
we'll see each other again.
Man: You're the angel
of Hamburg.
[Hands clasp]
Schaffer: We were told
that the Brazilian woman
crossed the Danish border at
the same time the consul did...
probably smuggling a Jew
in her car,
and yet Zumkle plots
a failed ambush for the consul?
Heinz: Yes. He messed it up.
Schaffer, your rivalry
with Zumkle
has clouded your judgment.
Schaffer: No.
Heinz: You're both
high-ranking officers.
Schaffer: He is a bureaucrat,
a profiteer,
and he is fleecing
our government.
Heinz: While you
have been heroically
cleansing Hamburg of Jews.
I'm aware.
Schaffer: General, Zumkle
is perpetrating a conspiracy.
Do you know that he
tricked the Reich
into clearing a path
for his lover?
Heinz: His lover is dead.
Schaffer: The Jewish one, yes,
but now he's sleeping
with the Brazilian woman.
Heinz: If you can prove
any of this,
show me the evidence.
Otherwise, shut up.
Schaffer: General, I--
Heinz: That is all.
Aracy: Rudi will be
in the Danish safe house by now.
Hardner: And you need
to lie low, Aracy.
Joao: You've done enough now.
Aracy: Oh, are you two
in cahoots against me? Cheers.
Hardner and Joao: Cheers.
Hardner: All you have is
this girly swill to celebrate?
Aracy: It is 8:00
in the morning.
[Telephone rings]
[Ring]
Aracy: Hello?
Yes, sir.
Of course.
Joao: What happened?
Aracy: Brazil just broke off
diplomatic relations
with Germany.
Ribeiro: By order
of President Vargas
and Foreign Minister Aranha,
we've been instructed
to burn all consulate documents.
All German diplomats
currently working in Brazil
have been detained,
so I'm expecting a visit
from the German authorities
very soon.
Joao: How much time do we have?
Ribeiro: I don't know.
Let's make sure we burn anything
that's of interest to the Nazis.
Man: Who is in charge
of this consulate?
Ribeiro: I am the Brazilian
consul-in-chief.
Man: Identification papers
and passport, please.
We're shutting down this office,
and all its employees
will remain under our custody
until further notice,
and you are?
Joao: Deputy Consul
Joao Guimaraes Rosa.
Man: I need your passport
and identification papers.
Your name, please.
Tina: Tina Falluda.
Man: Where is
Miss Aracy de Carvalho?
Zumkle: Where are we holding
the Brazilian diplomats?
Heinz: At the consulate.
Zumkle: We should
bring them here.
Heinz: We can't arrest them,
or they'll start arresting
German diplomats in Brazil.
Zumkle: But they're
not all diplomats.
Aracy: OK.
[Knocks on door]
Woman: Miss Aracy de Carvalho?
Aracy: Yes?
Woman: I need to see
your passport
and identification papers.
Aracy: Just a minute.
I need to find them.
Woman: Come with me, please.
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Approaching footsteps]
Zumkle: Aracy...
I've come to offer you
a last chance.
Aracy: No, thank you, Colonel.
Zumkle: You're not as clever
as you think.
We've been watching you
for a long time.
Aracy: You've been watching me.
Zumkle: We've got
all your documents now.
We know exactly what you've
been doing at the consulate,
everything you ever wrote down.
Aracy: That was my job.
You have no charges against me.
Zumkle: You smuggled a Jew
over the border.
I have proof.
Aracy: What proof?
You'll find out.
Aracy: You can't prove something
that never happened.
Zumkle: You smuggled a Jew
into Denmark,
and they'll hang you for it.
I am the only one
who can save you.
Aracy: I know you're lying.
There's going to be a diplomatic
swap between Brazil and Germany.
Zumkle: But you're
not a diplomat, are you?
You didn't come to Germany to
work in the diplomatic service.
You weren't even an employee
of the Brazilian government
when you moved here.
You came because
your mother is German,
which means you can be tried
as a German citizen.
Aracy: You have nothing on me.
Zumkle: I have the power
to hang you by your neck
Aracy: You think you have power,
but with all the power
in the world,
you will never have me.
Zumkle: I can have you
anytime I want.
Aracy: No.
You are petty and vile.
You make me sick.
[Door opens]
Woman: It's time
to take her in, sir.
Schaffer: Zumkle,
you look awful.
You've been in interrogating
the Brazilian woman?
So you missed your last chance
to be with her.
They're sending her
back to Brazil,
where she's going to be relaxing
on some beautiful beach
while you're stuck here
eating sauerkraut.
Ha ha ha!
I can't believe you couldn't
find a single piece of evidence
to keep her in the country.
Zumkle: Go to hell.
Heinz: You're all going
to Baden Baden,
where you'll be held
until further notice.
Ribeiro: What do you mean, held?
That's unacceptable.
Joao: We're diplomats.
You can't just deport us
wherever you like.
Heinz: Yes. We can until
our own diplomats
have safely returned to Germany.
Joao: It will take months to
cross the Atlantic in wartime.
Heinz: Those are
the arrangements
which our two governments
have agreed to.
Joao: Aracy.
Aracy: They know it's me.
Zumkle: Ah.
Mina: Please, sir,
I must talk to you.
Zumkle: You see Miss Aracy's
comings and goings.
What the hell happened here?
Did you do all this?
Mina: My son, they killed him.
They said he deserted.
You are an important man.
You can clear his name.
He gave his life for Germany.
My son was a hero.
Zumkle: If your son
was a deserter,
he got what was coming to him.
Mina: Colonel?
[Stab]
Zumkle: [Gasping]
[Exhales]
Mina: What a mess.
Uh...what--
Wilfried wouldn't like it.
Heinz: You're going
to Baden Baden,
where you'll remain
until the safe passage
of German diplomats from Brazil
has been arranged.
Your train leaves
just after midnight
from Hamburg station.
[Train horn blows]
Aracy: I always wanted to see
Baden Baden, but not like this.
Joao: Me, too.
Aracy: What happens now?
[Bell tolling]
Joao: There you go.
Aracy: Thank you.
Tastes like rotten wood.
Joao: I miss our coffee.
Aracy: Can you imagine
the first sip back home,
like smooth chocolate...
Joao: Ohh...
Aracy: if we ever get there.
Joao: We'll get there.
The world is not the same
anymore.
Aracy: I miss my son, my Edu.
I miss him so much.
Joao: And my girls,
didn't know
it would take 4 years.
Aracy: I'm tired of this war.
What's going on?
Joao: I'll find out.
[Approaching footsteps]
Aracy: What?
Joao: We're going home.
Aracy: Really?
Joao: The German diplomats
arrived in Lisbon.
We're--we're being released.
Aracy: I can't believe it.
I can't believe--
Joao: It's true.
Aracy: Ah...
Heh.
Joao: Oh, my Aracy...
when horror is everywhere,
how can we love like this?
Aracy: I don't know.
Joao, no one will ever know.
I love you,
each day, more and more.
Joao: Oh...oh...
Aracy: We're going home. Heh.
Heh! Heh heh!
[Exhales]
Ha ha!
thank you for coming.
I called this meeting by request
of Reichsmarschall Goring
on behalf of the Fuhrer.
I am honored to announce
that the Reich Chancellery
has appointed me as coordinator
of arrangements
for the Final Solution
of the Jewish Question.
The cleansing efforts of the SS
have been admirable,
but our special forces,
the mobile units
in charge of control
and eradication
are facing
an impossibly onerous task,
considering
the astounding numbers
of Semites
in the occupied areas.
Our soldiers are being exposed
to contamination
and extremely taxing
work conditions.
For these reasons,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eichmann
has been commissioned to create
an emergency plan
to avoid further damage
to morale.
Colonel, if you please...
Eichmann: Thank you, General.
The most pressing issue
facing us now
is how can we transport
such a large number of Semites
to these cleansing facilities.
There are 11 million Jews
in Europe.
Note the high number of Semites
in the occupied areas
and beyond.
Our investigations
are well-advanced.
Tests of gas cleansing
in Auschwitz-Birkenau
have shown promising results.
First, Jews will be transferred
in groups by rail
to the transit centers
and then relocated east
from there.
Heydrich: Excellent,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eichmann.
As you can see,
there's a prodigious effort
for the German nation
and for a free Europe.
We need the unconditional
support of all here present.
Aracy: Look what they've done
to Edu's letter.
Can you imagine
the Gestapo reading
about Edu's
new swimming trunks?
Joao: Apparently,
Hitler's so paranoid,
he barely eats anymore,
afraid of being poisoned.
Aracy: Thank God my boy
is safe from that lunatic.
Joao: Not sure anywhere
in the world is safe right now.
Aracy: Disgusting, isn't it?
You can't even get good,
Brazilian coffee anymore.
Joao: We can't get
good anything.
There's only enough coal
to heat Ribeiro's office.
Aracy: At least Edu's drinking
decent coffee now.
Can't stop thinking
about the children,
Mendel Krik's grandchildren.
Joao: Aracy, you did
everything you could.
Aracy: But it wasn't enough.
[Kiss]
Adolf Hitler: [Speaking German
over loudspeaker]
Zumkle: You said you'd be
tailing Rosa full time.
Muller: You want me to have
my men following a diplomat
24 hours a day?
There is a war on.
Zumkle: He's a Jew helper.
Muller: Doesn't matter anymore.
We have already sent
thousands of Jews
from Hamburg to the east.
Soon, there will be
no left here.
We will resume the deportations
once the trains
are less full of soldiers
heading to Russia.
Zumkle: I made you rich,
and now you won't help me?
Muller: What, exactly,
have you got against that man?
Ribeiro: Thailand's declared war
on America and Britain.
Joao: It's hard to keep up
with all the war declarations
since Pearl Harbor--
the U.S. and the Allies
against Japan,
China against Japan
and Germany,
Germany and Italy
against the U.S.,
Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
against the Allies.
Do you think we'll be next?
Ribeiro:
If Roosevelt gets his way.
Now America's in it,
they want all Latin America
to join in the war.
Joao: What about Rio? Any news?
Ribeiro: Only that
the conference is rumbling
into its second week.
Joao: While they sit discussing
whether to fight Germany,
we're stuck here with bombs
falling around our heads.
Ribeiro: There's nothing
we can do, Rosa.
We're in the serpent's nest,
and what do you do
when you fall down a snake hole?
Joao: I have no idea.
Ribeiro: You don't move.
You blink, and it strikes.
[Thumping and clattering]
[Glass shattering]
[Knocks on door]
Aracy: Yes? Rudi.
What happened?
Rudi: They almost found me.
Aracy: How?
Rudi: They came
to the safe house.
Someone must have denounced me.
Aracy: I'm only here because
there's no heating
at the consulate.
I'm calling Hardner.
Ribeiro: Yes, Excellency.
The ambassador wants us to
gather all sensitive documents.
Joao: Are we declaring war?
Ribeiro: No, not yet,
but we should prepare
to burn everything.
Joao: Rudi came here?
Aracy: No one saw him.
Joao: Aracy, we're about to go
to war with Germany. You can't--
Aracy: They found
his hiding place.
He's at Hardner's now.
They may have already seen
Hardner visiting.
Joao: Then both are in danger.
[Men shouting]
Hardner: 10 Reischsmarks
on the short one.
Ludo: It's your money to lose.
Hardner: How's business
without Mendel Krik?
Ludo: Slow.
Nobody runs the docks anymore.
Hardner: So if someone
needed to board a ship?
Ludo: Does this someone
have a ticket?
Hardner: Would I be asking
if they did?
Ludo: A Jew.
It's not gonna happen.
Hardner: Then I need a quiet
place for someone to hide,
just a few days till
we figure something out.
Ludo: Oh.
You were lucky, old man.
My home is not a boarding house.
Hardner: Ludo Hass...
I can pay good money.
Joao: We've been compiling
the most sensitive files
ready for burning.
They're all in the safe.
Aracy: Never thought
I would miss the old days
of forging visas.
Joao: And your sneaky
blotting paper trick.
Aracy: Ha! Was it
really obvious?
Joao: No, but--
Aracy: Do you think
Ribeiro knew
when he was signing visas?
[Bell tolling]
Joao: That notebook
is what we should be burning.
Aracy: There are some things
I still need to copy,
some names and addresses
of which clients went where
so they can find each other
after the war.
Joao: Any other documents here?
That's the least suspicious
place in the world--
the home of a single mother,
a nobody.
Joao: You're not a nobody.
Aracy: I'm very happy
being a nobody, thank you.
These can all burn.
[Airplanes passing]
Joao: I had no idea
you were so efficient.
Aracy, this book
is a death sentence.
Aracy: Everything that I've done
is in there--
every name and address
of everyone
that I helped to leave Germany,
still have some
of their belongings,
like to return them in person.
Joao: You've already
saved their lives.
They wouldn't want you
to risk your own, not now.
[Knocks on door]
Mina: Is something burning?
Aracy: We made a fire
to warm us up.
It's freezing in here.
Mina: Be careful.
I don't want to get fined
for disobeying the blackout.
Joao: Mrs. Schwartz,
how's your son doing?
Mina: Wilfried's
gone back to the front.
I haven't heard from him yet.
Joao: Send him my best
when you write to him.
Mina: I will.
[Departing footsteps]
Aracy: That poor woman.
Joao, I don't want her
reporting us.
Joao: Give me the notebook.
I'll throw it in the Alster.
Aracy: I just need to copy
some of it first.
I can sew notes
into my coat liner.
Joao: Can we have dinner first?
Got more potatoes.
Aracy: We will turn
into potatoes soon.
Thank you.
Chocolate.
Joao: [Inhales]
Perks of being a diplomat.
Aracy: Mm-hmm.
[Door closes]
Mina: No!
No!
That's a lie.
You murdered him.
[Door opens]
[Sobbing]
[Door closes]
[Engine starts]
Wilfried.
[Vehicle departs]
My son.
My son did not do it. No! No!
Man: Your son was convicted
as a deserter,
but he committed suicide
before--
Mina: That's a lie!
No!
[Voices echoing]
Mina: No! No! It's a lie!
Aracy: Oh, what happened?
What happened?
Mina: They killed my baby.
Damn them to hell.
Aracy: I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
Please sit down.
I'm so sorry.
Mina: My baby.
My son,
he was sick,
and they killed my baby.
Joao: I don't have
any more morphine at home.
I'm gonna try to find
some brandy.
Schaffer: Colonel Zumkle is
an embarrassment to our uniform.
Heinz: We all deserve a little
fun in these tough times.
Schaffer: How did he make
so much money so quickly?
He barely leaves his desk.
He's never once stuck
his own neck on the line,
yet he's always promoted.
Heinz: If you suspect
some sort of corruption,
you'll need evidence.
Schaffer: With respect, General,
suspicions are all the evidence
you need in wartime.
Heinz: In Hamburg,
we still observe the law.
Zumkle: Excuse me for a second.
General...
Schaffer seems to be
more cantankerous than ever.
Heinz: He feels the war
is unfair
to hardworking soldiers
like him.
Zumkle: How sad for him.
General, you will come join us?
My friends are keen to meet you.
This is the general.
[Soft big band music playing]
Woman: Oh...
[Kissing]
Zumkle: Get out.
Get out.
Hardner: If you are caught,
use this.
Don't think.
Just pull the trigger.
Rudi: I'll take
two of them with me.
Hardner: No.
Save it for yourself.
You don't want to be
captured alive, trust me.
Aracy: I'm taking her
the chocolate.
I think it may help with--
Colonel Zumkle.
Zumkle: May I come in?
Aracy: No. Colonel Zumkle, out.
Haraus!
Joao: I'm sorry I took so long.
Brandy's as rare as morphine.
Where's Aracy?
Zumkle: You're so beautiful.
Aracy: And you're drunk.
Zumkle: So g--give me a cup of
your good, old Brazilian coffee.
That'll sober me up.
Aracy: No.
Zumkle: Then invite me
for dinner.
It smells wonderful.
Aracy: You lied to me.
Zumkle: How did I lie to you?
Aracy: You sent those children
to their deaths.
Zumkle: I took them
away from Hamburg.
They're safe now.
Aracy: That's not true.
You sent them to the camps.
Zumkle: Camps? Uh-uh.
I know nothing about it.
They're not my remit.
Aracy, I did everything
I could to help,
but some things
are beyond even my power.
Aracy: Get out.
Zumkle: Are you afraid
your boring, little boyfriend
will interrupt us?
Aracy: I'm not expecting anyone.
Zumkle: Ah?
That's not how it looks.
Your son is far away
in Brazil, huh? Did you--
Aracy: Don't touch me,
you coward. Uh!
Zumkle: Did you send him home
to have more time
with your lover?
Aracy: You're disgusting.
I'm disgusted.
Zumkle: You are
the most amazing woman.
[Kiss]
Aracy: Uh uh!
Zumkle: Aah!
Aracy: [Sobs]
Joao: What's going on?
Aracy: Colonel Zumkle
was on his way out.
Zumkle: Why, here he is,
the deputy consul.
Joao: Good-bye.
Zumkle: That's rather rude
of you to just barge in
on a man and a woman
together in private, eh?
Aracy: Stop, Joao.
Joao: Stay out, Aracy.
Aracy: Please.
Zumkle: I am here to settle
things with Miss Aracy.
Joao: That is brave of you,
bringing a gun to settle things.
Zumkle: I keep my hands clean.
Boom.
You're dead.
Joao: You'll
be court-martialed for it.
Zumkle: But you won't
be there to see it.
Aracy: Colonel Zumkle...
put that gun down.
Zumkle: I would never
hurt you, Aracy.
[Chuckles]
[Door closes]
Aracy: [Sobbing]
Joao: I'm here.
[Ship's horn blows]
Aracy: We don't have a choice.
We have to get Rudi out now.
Joao: We can use
the diplomatic car.
That should give us some cover.
Hardner: Even so,
it's a massive risk.
Where's the safest place
to cross?
Joao: Uh, Switzerland.
It's the only unoccupied
neighboring country,
but it's also the furthest
from Hamburg, 15 hours' drive.
Who knows if there's petrol?
Aracy: Denmark?
Hardner: There's heavy patrol
at the Danish border.
There's an SS unit
for each acre of the forest
because of the partisans
at the other side.
Aracy: But it's the most direct
way out from Hamburg,
and if we can get word ahead
to the partisans--
Joao: Or...
Holland.
Aracy: We've got
some contacts there.
If they can get Rudi down
through Belgium into France,
he could join the resistance.
Hardner: Maybe.
It's a fortified border,
and they're a lot further away,
but if he can make it
without being captured
and the resistance take him
to the south to Free France--
Aracy: Those are
our best options--
Denmark and the SS units
or Holland and a prayer.
Hardner: Time to go, Rudi.
Ludo: I'd invite you to stay
longer, but I don't want to.
Pleasure doing business
with you.
Now clear off.
Rudi: So where are we going?
Hardner: Holland.
Deputy Consul Rosa will get you
across the Dutch border,
and from there, the resistance
will take you down to the south.
Come on.
There's no time for that.
We've a long drive ahead.
Aracy: So I'm going
to my aunt's house
to celebrate her birthday.
You are going on
a special diplomatic mission
regarding the Rio conference,
right?
Joao: Right,
and if somebody asks,
stick to the story.
Aracy: But, Joao--
Joao: We can't turn back.
We have to be prepared
for what comes next.
Aracy: Be careful, my Joaozito.
Joao: You, too, my Ara,
and do not drive too fast, huh?
Aracy: You know I'm a much
better driver than you are,
Mr. Deputy Consul.
Joao: Of course you are.
[Airplane passing]
Ludo: So what do I get
for this information?
Zumkle: Show him
to our guest room.
Ludo: Colonel,
I told you the truth.
Zumkle: Shut him up, Lieutenant.
Grass: Yes, sir.
Ludo: Please, Colonel, plea--
Colonel, please!
Colonel, I told you the truth!
Please, please, Colonel!
Please, Colonel! Colonel!
Colonel, please!
Colonel!
Schaffer: What's going on?
Ludo: Please!
Zumkle: An undercover operation
I've been planning
for the last 3 years.
The Brazilian consul is going to
smuggle a Jew across the border.
Schaffer: 3 years?
Zumkle: Come along.
See how a real
military maneuver works.
Man: Good evening, sir.
Open the trunk.
Joao: I'm the Brazilian
deputy consul.
I have diplomatic immunity.
Man: Not in a war zone.
Joao: Check my registrations.
They're diplomatic plates.
Man: Open it now, please.
Joao: You're violating
international protocols.
I'll file a complaint.
Man: Go ahead...
once you've opened the trunk.
[Dogs barking]
Rudi: [Breathing deeply]
Joao: I refuse.
Call your superior.
Zumkle: Mr. Deputy Consul...
open the trunk, please.
Joao: No.
Aracy: Step back, please.
I'm a diplomat.
[Dog barking]
Man: Open the trunk.
Aracy: No.
Joao: Don't!
You're breaking
the diplomatic accord
between our two countries.
Zumkle: I don't care.
We have information that you're
smuggling a fugitive, a Jew.
Joao: That's absurd.
[Gunshots]
[Gunshot]
Man: I can break it open, sir.
Different man:
That's not necessary.
The lady will open it for us.
Aracy: I'm a diplomat, and
this is my diplomatic vehicle.
Man: Those are not
diplomatic plates.
Aracy: I am Aracy de Carvalho.
Remember my name.
You'll be hearing it
at your court-martial.
Man: Her papers
are in order, soldier.
You may proceed, madam.
Schaffer: Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!
Oh, that was priceless.
Ha ha ha!
You should see your face.
Thank you for inviting me.
I have learned so much.
You actually thought that
you could arrest the consul
and his girl would just
come running into your arms.
Ha ha ha!
Zumkle: Shut up.
Schaffer: You know
what the best part is?
You were tricked by two women
of the sub-races, eh--
a Brazilian and a Jew,
oh, a doped-up Jew at that, huh?
Oh, thank God I didn't
catch anything from her, hmm?
Ha ha ha!
Yes.
Your Vivi,
she could sing like an angel,
and she could fuck like a whore.
Zumkle: Are you still chasing
my sloppy seconds?
Schaffer: Actually, you know,
she said she'd never
had it better.
Zumkle: Now she's dead.
You can come out now, Rudi.
Rudi: [Coughs]
Aracy: It's over.
You're safe.
Rudi: Tell my father I'm safe
if you can.
Tell him where I am.
Aracy: Of course.
I'll find him,
and I will tell him,
and when this is over,
we'll see each other again.
Man: You're the angel
of Hamburg.
[Hands clasp]
Schaffer: We were told
that the Brazilian woman
crossed the Danish border at
the same time the consul did...
probably smuggling a Jew
in her car,
and yet Zumkle plots
a failed ambush for the consul?
Heinz: Yes. He messed it up.
Schaffer, your rivalry
with Zumkle
has clouded your judgment.
Schaffer: No.
Heinz: You're both
high-ranking officers.
Schaffer: He is a bureaucrat,
a profiteer,
and he is fleecing
our government.
Heinz: While you
have been heroically
cleansing Hamburg of Jews.
I'm aware.
Schaffer: General, Zumkle
is perpetrating a conspiracy.
Do you know that he
tricked the Reich
into clearing a path
for his lover?
Heinz: His lover is dead.
Schaffer: The Jewish one, yes,
but now he's sleeping
with the Brazilian woman.
Heinz: If you can prove
any of this,
show me the evidence.
Otherwise, shut up.
Schaffer: General, I--
Heinz: That is all.
Aracy: Rudi will be
in the Danish safe house by now.
Hardner: And you need
to lie low, Aracy.
Joao: You've done enough now.
Aracy: Oh, are you two
in cahoots against me? Cheers.
Hardner and Joao: Cheers.
Hardner: All you have is
this girly swill to celebrate?
Aracy: It is 8:00
in the morning.
[Telephone rings]
[Ring]
Aracy: Hello?
Yes, sir.
Of course.
Joao: What happened?
Aracy: Brazil just broke off
diplomatic relations
with Germany.
Ribeiro: By order
of President Vargas
and Foreign Minister Aranha,
we've been instructed
to burn all consulate documents.
All German diplomats
currently working in Brazil
have been detained,
so I'm expecting a visit
from the German authorities
very soon.
Joao: How much time do we have?
Ribeiro: I don't know.
Let's make sure we burn anything
that's of interest to the Nazis.
Man: Who is in charge
of this consulate?
Ribeiro: I am the Brazilian
consul-in-chief.
Man: Identification papers
and passport, please.
We're shutting down this office,
and all its employees
will remain under our custody
until further notice,
and you are?
Joao: Deputy Consul
Joao Guimaraes Rosa.
Man: I need your passport
and identification papers.
Your name, please.
Tina: Tina Falluda.
Man: Where is
Miss Aracy de Carvalho?
Zumkle: Where are we holding
the Brazilian diplomats?
Heinz: At the consulate.
Zumkle: We should
bring them here.
Heinz: We can't arrest them,
or they'll start arresting
German diplomats in Brazil.
Zumkle: But they're
not all diplomats.
Aracy: OK.
[Knocks on door]
Woman: Miss Aracy de Carvalho?
Aracy: Yes?
Woman: I need to see
your passport
and identification papers.
Aracy: Just a minute.
I need to find them.
Woman: Come with me, please.
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Approaching footsteps]
Zumkle: Aracy...
I've come to offer you
a last chance.
Aracy: No, thank you, Colonel.
Zumkle: You're not as clever
as you think.
We've been watching you
for a long time.
Aracy: You've been watching me.
Zumkle: We've got
all your documents now.
We know exactly what you've
been doing at the consulate,
everything you ever wrote down.
Aracy: That was my job.
You have no charges against me.
Zumkle: You smuggled a Jew
over the border.
I have proof.
Aracy: What proof?
You'll find out.
Aracy: You can't prove something
that never happened.
Zumkle: You smuggled a Jew
into Denmark,
and they'll hang you for it.
I am the only one
who can save you.
Aracy: I know you're lying.
There's going to be a diplomatic
swap between Brazil and Germany.
Zumkle: But you're
not a diplomat, are you?
You didn't come to Germany to
work in the diplomatic service.
You weren't even an employee
of the Brazilian government
when you moved here.
You came because
your mother is German,
which means you can be tried
as a German citizen.
Aracy: You have nothing on me.
Zumkle: I have the power
to hang you by your neck
Aracy: You think you have power,
but with all the power
in the world,
you will never have me.
Zumkle: I can have you
anytime I want.
Aracy: No.
You are petty and vile.
You make me sick.
[Door opens]
Woman: It's time
to take her in, sir.
Schaffer: Zumkle,
you look awful.
You've been in interrogating
the Brazilian woman?
So you missed your last chance
to be with her.
They're sending her
back to Brazil,
where she's going to be relaxing
on some beautiful beach
while you're stuck here
eating sauerkraut.
Ha ha ha!
I can't believe you couldn't
find a single piece of evidence
to keep her in the country.
Zumkle: Go to hell.
Heinz: You're all going
to Baden Baden,
where you'll be held
until further notice.
Ribeiro: What do you mean, held?
That's unacceptable.
Joao: We're diplomats.
You can't just deport us
wherever you like.
Heinz: Yes. We can until
our own diplomats
have safely returned to Germany.
Joao: It will take months to
cross the Atlantic in wartime.
Heinz: Those are
the arrangements
which our two governments
have agreed to.
Joao: Aracy.
Aracy: They know it's me.
Zumkle: Ah.
Mina: Please, sir,
I must talk to you.
Zumkle: You see Miss Aracy's
comings and goings.
What the hell happened here?
Did you do all this?
Mina: My son, they killed him.
They said he deserted.
You are an important man.
You can clear his name.
He gave his life for Germany.
My son was a hero.
Zumkle: If your son
was a deserter,
he got what was coming to him.
Mina: Colonel?
[Stab]
Zumkle: [Gasping]
[Exhales]
Mina: What a mess.
Uh...what--
Wilfried wouldn't like it.
Heinz: You're going
to Baden Baden,
where you'll remain
until the safe passage
of German diplomats from Brazil
has been arranged.
Your train leaves
just after midnight
from Hamburg station.
[Train horn blows]
Aracy: I always wanted to see
Baden Baden, but not like this.
Joao: Me, too.
Aracy: What happens now?
[Bell tolling]
Joao: There you go.
Aracy: Thank you.
Tastes like rotten wood.
Joao: I miss our coffee.
Aracy: Can you imagine
the first sip back home,
like smooth chocolate...
Joao: Ohh...
Aracy: if we ever get there.
Joao: We'll get there.
The world is not the same
anymore.
Aracy: I miss my son, my Edu.
I miss him so much.
Joao: And my girls,
didn't know
it would take 4 years.
Aracy: I'm tired of this war.
What's going on?
Joao: I'll find out.
[Approaching footsteps]
Aracy: What?
Joao: We're going home.
Aracy: Really?
Joao: The German diplomats
arrived in Lisbon.
We're--we're being released.
Aracy: I can't believe it.
I can't believe--
Joao: It's true.
Aracy: Ah...
Heh.
Joao: Oh, my Aracy...
when horror is everywhere,
how can we love like this?
Aracy: I don't know.
Joao, no one will ever know.
I love you,
each day, more and more.
Joao: Oh...oh...
Aracy: We're going home. Heh.
Heh! Heh heh!
[Exhales]
Ha ha!