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to your diplomatic mission...

...will be then transmitted to you.

Moyzisch, do what you can...

...to make the Colonel's stay

in Ankara a comfortable one.

Thank you.

Yes, I call him out. Yes, of course.

Monsieur Hodler...

...there's a gentleman who

wishes to see you privately.

You had a business

appointment, I believe?

I believe so.

- I'll take you to him.

I am indebted to Herr Moyzisch for

suggesting that I ask you to our...

...musical evening.

- The honour is mine, Madame.

I hope you haven't found

it too subdued.

On the contrary, it's been exactly

as I would have wished it.

Had you known Herr Moyzisch long?

We have been business

associates for some time.

Are you, too, a diplomat,

Monsieur Hodler?

I suppose you could call

me a middle man.

There are so many Swiss middle men.

It must be a national occupation.

It is natural.

After all, we Swiss have been in

the middle for hundreds of years.

Come in.

I'll see that you're not disturbed.

Colonel von Richter? Sit down, please.

Moyzisch tells me you'll

be the new intermediary.

That's correct.

Sent by Kaltenbrunner, I should

imagine to it that von Papen...

...keeps his hands off the

information I supply.

Havana's, the finest money can buy.

I approve of the change. Moyzisch is

conscientious but not very bright...

...and to well known here. It will

be safer for me to deal with you.

Your security is a matter

of grave concern to us.

I'm happy to hear it.

I share your concern.

For this reason I must

ask about the Countess.

Have you tell her who I am?

- Of course not.

Or the nature of your business?

- No.

Then just what is her relation?

- My dear Colonel...

...I did not invite you to

discuss my private affairs.

We've some business to transact.

Did you bring the money?

As always, you will be paid

after we have developed the film.

During the past six weeks I have

sold Moyzisch fifty photographs...

...all of genuine secret documents.

That's proof enough of my good faith.

Henceforth, you will pay

on delivery. The money?

Possibly you are no longer

interested in the plans of the...

...Allies for the entire

Mediterranean area.

You mean a second front?

I do not know the number of the front.

I do know that in these document

Mr. Churchill keeps referring...

...to the 'soft underbelly of Europe.'

I could take the films to

von Papen and ask that he...

...query the German High

Command as to their interest.

Very well.

Why, you had it with you all the time.

Who are you, anyway?

Would you believe me

if I told you I was...

...valet to the British Ambassador?

Certainly not.

- You see?

Then at least satisfy my personal

curiosity on one point.

Why are you selling us information?

- That was self-evident, for money.

You must have some other motive.

Perhaps you share our disgust

with British decadence...

...or our faith in the

future of Germany.

Colonel von Richter, if I have a

disgust for anything it is poverty.

And if I've faith in

the future of anything...

...it is in the future of money.

I cannot understand why

you sell us information...

...which will help us to win

the war, and you insist...

...upon being paid in money with a

very dubious future, British pounds.

What makes you think I think

Germany will win the war?

Apart from other considerations...

...apparently you attach little

importance to these documents.

Firstly, I cannot sell you the...

...ability to make proper use

of the information I got for you.

Secondly, by informing a man

about to be hanged of the...

...exact size, location

and strength of the rope...

...you do not remove the hangman or

the certainty of his being hanged.

And now I am sure you'll

want to rejoin your friends.

One week from tonight at the same

hour I shall have more film for you.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

I trust your meeting was a

satisfactory one, Monsieur Hodler?

Quite satisfactory, thank you, Madame.

And that you will honour

us again soon?

The honour will be mine.

- Goodnight.

How charmingly you Swiss

click your heels.

And old Swiss custom?

Goodnight.

You may retire. Turn out the lights.

- Thank you, Madame.

A profitable evening?

Profitable enough to bring

the total of 75.000 pounds.

Another six or seven weeks

should do it.

Diello, why don't you stop now?

Why go on playing with fire?

- What makes you think I am?

Don't treat me like an idiot child.

Your friend Hodler, he isn't Swiss.

I know a Prussian when I see one.

- Does it matter to you?

Your safety matters to me.

So many people are concerned

about my safety.

I never felt more secure.

Well, I don't. And my security

depends upon yours.

Forgive me. I keep thinking

of myself as a man.

I keep forgetting I'm a

valet who pays dividends.

Must you live so soon?

I mustn't stay away from

the Embassy for long.

I can't see why

a man as rich as you...

...should go on pressing the trousers

of the British Ambassador.

That's were I get my money.

I steal the change from his pockets.

Before you go, Diello, get

me a drink, will you?

Tell me...

...where do you plan to settle when

you leave for South America?

Rio.

- I've never been there.

There's nothing like it in the world.

When did you decide to go there?

- To go back.

I decided that the moment I first

saw it, many years ago.

I was a cabin boy on a

dirty tramp steamer.

I can remember standing at the rail...

...looking up at a villa high on the

mountainside above the harbour.

I could see a man on a balcony

looking down at my ship.

He was wearing a white dinner jacket.

He seemed close enough to touch...

...and yet he was beyond

the reach of anyone.

I swore then that some

day I'd be that man.

You might find Rio de

Janeiro not to your liking.

Do you have a nationality, Diello?

- Most people are born somewhere.

You're not a native Englishman.

What are you?

Albanian. English by adoption.

You're the only Albanian

I've ever known.

If you know one, you know them all.

I ran away to sea when I was a boy.

- And then?

Once in England, it seemed

profitable to become a gentleman.

So I went into service.

As you have pointed out,

I am not yet a gentleman.

I am the best of the gentlemen's

gentlemen, which reminds me...

...the Ambassador will be waiting.

What will you tell him?

- That I was detained...

...by a Turkish chamber-maid.

- He might not approve.

Why shouldn't he? Only a woman of

my own class would detain me...

...and only a man of my

class would permit her to.

Diello.

- Yes, Anna?

During the next five weeks

Cicero sold the Germans...

...35 top secret documents...

...which brought his growing fortune

to 155,000 pounds sterling.

The Germans knew

every secret word the...

...British Ambassador

set to paper...

...every secret conference,

every secret pact.

And yet despite the unerring

accuracy of the information...

...gathered from the documents...

...German Intelligence

refused to act upon it...

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