Edge of Darkness Page #5

Well, you see,

everybody in town thinks I'm useless.

- I'm not. I thought if we could bring them...

- We?

Will you help us?

What makes you think I'd do this?

What good will your filthy money

do me here?

Think I'm crazy enough to get mixed up

in anything like this?

I'm leaving here. Today.

They promised me.

- Well, I don't know. I just thought...

- Oh, you fool. You fool.

Go before somebody finds you.

Go, go.

Do you want me to give you away?

Wait a minute. How did you get in here?

Through the corridor window.

If you don't want to get a good beating,

you better go out the same way you came.

You wait here.

I will go and see

if there's anybody in the hall.

What are you looking at?

It isn't forbidden to look.

For you it is, you swine.

- You Polish sow.

- Go ahead. I dare you. I dare you to hit me.

You won't always be with the officers.

I can wait.

You will rot first!

Hello, Grandpa.

Oh, muscles. Heh, heh.

Not bad.

Teeth too.

Hey!

What's your hurry, Grandpa?

Look, men.

Look what came out of Katja's room.

Let me at him. I'm jealous.

No, no. Wait a minute.

Here. Before he dies, he's gonna tell us

the secret of his success with the ladies.

Let me go.

Before I tell you what I think of you.

What every honest man thinks of you.

Quiet! Quiet, everybody!

All right, Grandpa, tell us.

Brave Nazis. Very brave indeed. But not

so brave when you're patrolling at night.

I've watched your faces. Somebody

slams the door, you think it's a shot.

And how do you sleep at night?

Not very well. And why?

Because my Norway

has a fighting tradition.

There was Eric the Red.

There was lbsen.

You're dealing here with giants.

I could have told them all those things.

I didn't say a word.

Well, Johann.

You remember me, don't you?

- Of course. How are you, Brogge?

- Fine.

- I didn't know you were coming home.

- He surprised us.

Oh, surprise.

Well, that's the best kind of a visit.

I'm sorry. We have to hurry.

His mother is waiting.

Letter for Hauptmann Koenig

from Berlin.

Maybe we'll be lucky

and they'll transfer him.

Berlin has said no to my plan.

They have ordered me to stay here.

Now I remain nothing.

A commander of a garrison.

A garrison

in which even my own troops hate me.

- You weren't listening.

- I was. But the boat is leaving...

You will not go to the boat.

You weren't listening.

You kept thinking about yourself.

- You promised.

- You are not.

You're staying.

Here in this hole like I am.

- You're staying.

- You promised!

- You are staying!

- Liar! Liar!

You are staying!

- Liar! Liar!

Draw the curtains,

before someone sees me in here.

Weren't you taught to knock

before you enter someone's room?

Please don't be angry with me. Help me.

I don't know what to do.

Hauptmann was quite upset.

- You heard?

- Yes.

- You're Polish, aren't you?

- Yes.

What are you doing here in Norway?

Well, you see, at the time

the Germans took my country...

...I was in Berlin on the stage.

Then they wanted me

to work in a factory.

After all, they said, I was only a Pole.

I told them I was an actress.

Then they said

that before I could act anywhere again...

...I would have to prove my loyalty.

And to prove it,

you agreed to come to Norway?

They promised I would only have to be here

a little while.

Now I have been here almost two years.

What do you want me to do about it?

I thought that since you are here,

a high officer...

...that maybe you would talk to

the hauptmann, get him to send me back.

I am afraid to stay here any longer.

- What are you afraid of?

- Everything.

The soldiers. This town.

There's something going to happen here.

I feel it.

Only today, a man came up from town

and wanted to know if I would help him.

- Did you report him?

- No.

- Why not if you're loyal?

- I'm not loyal.

I'm not anything. I hate them.

I'll have you shot for such talk.

No, you won't.

I know you're not

what you pretend to be.

I saw you talking to those people

last night.

It was I who warned you.

I can't risk the fate of a whole village

just to help you.

- What must I do?

- You could do a lot.

You could help us all.

Remember the old man

who came and asked for help?

- No, no, I won't.

- You wanted me to tell you what to do.

I'm not going to get mixed up in anything

that will get me killed.

I want to get out of here alive.

Are you going to speak

to Hauptmann Koenig for me?

No.

Do you want me to speak

to Hauptmann Koenig?

Now, before your boat leaves?

I could do it so easy.

Only a word.

One little word.

You'll find my shirts in the top drawer.

Will you bring them here?

Ten o'clock and we're still up,

just like in the old days.

I'd like...

I'd like to make a toast.

Father, Mother wants us to drink a toast.

Oh, I'm sleepy.

No, Martin, you are drunk.

- Hello, Hulda.

- Good evening, sir.

Well, it's a fine thing.

My sister's son comes home, I'm not invited

to my sister's house to welcome him.

Oh, forgive me, Kaspar, I forgot.

- You see, there's so much excitement.

- Oh, forget it.

- Welcome home, Johann.

- Uncle Kaspar.

Well, this is nice. Family life.

Mother, father, children, all together.

I can see now I missed a lot

by never getting married.

But I have Johann.

Like a son he is to me, just like a son.

Now I can settle back

and take things easy.

You'll help your old uncle,

won't you, Johann?

Well, that's why I'm here, Uncle Kaspar,

to help you in the cannery.

Kaspar, we were just drinking a toast.

Will you join us?

Now, let me see,

what were we drinking to?

Oh, yes. To peace.

May peace come again and soon.

To a free Norway.

I'll drink to that.

From Trollness, 500 blankets.

From Trollness, 300 overcoats.

From Trollness, 800 pair of shoes.

From Trollness, 100 tons of fish.

From Trollness, milk.

From Trollness, eggs.

From Trollness, butter.

It will be ready in a minute.

Frulein.

The orders are that any person out

after curfew may be shot on sight.

Well then why don't you shoot me?

Why should there be hate between us?

There's such a thing as being in the war

and yet outside of it.

We all have our own lives.

All of us, even those who have the

strongest faith would like to stop fighting.

We'll fight until we push the last one of you

into the sea.

Perhaps what you say is true.

Perhaps that will be the end.

The resemblance is remarkable.

Good night, Frulein.

The 59th watch.

I feel like shouting out across the seas

to the world.

"Hey, world, we're waiting here

in Trollness. Don't forget us."

Go ahead. Shout.

Maybe it'll help.

But tell them to be quick. I'm getting old.

When my father was my age,

he already had two children.

What must it be like to live in world

where there are no Nazis.

Good.

I might have been a German guard.

At a time like this, you've no right

to think of yourselves.

Poor Gerd.

She's unhappy.

I would be too if I were in love

with a German soldier.

- You got everything?

- Yes.

Why don't you go home?

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