Son of Saul Page #14

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Saul looks at Braun, who seems to be looking for an

opportunity to flee.

SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish)

Follow. +

They start running amidst the bullets toward the opening.

They leave the courtyard, running in the smoke and chaos.

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47 EXT. WOODS - DAY

The two men run in the woods with the corpse still wrapped in

a sheet.

In the distance, sporadic shots can be heard.

They are both exhausted. Saul does not let his companion

stop, even for a second.

Then, after taking a path that goes down a little slope

hidden by the trees, Saul suddenly stops.

Saul starts digging with his hand by the roots of a large

tree.

Braun looks at him, clueless. He tries to pull Saul up as

footsteps can be heard drawing nearer.

Braun looks at Saul, who relentlessly resumes digging the dry

earth with his hands.

SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish)

Kaddish. Kaddish. Please. Say it.

BRAUN:

(very low)

Yitgaddal veyitqaddash shmeh

rabba...

Braun suddenly stops.

Saul looks at him.

BRAUN (CONT’D)

(in Greek)

I forgot.

Braun runs away. +

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SAUL:

(in Yiddish)

You!

Saul gets up, takes the corpse and follows him, also running.

CUT TO:

48 EXT. RIVER AND WOODS - DAY

Saul, carrying the wrapped corpse, stops by the river, where

he finds Braun.

He softly puts the corpse down to the ground. Dog barking can

be heard.

Behind him eight fugitives of the Sonderkommando run out of

the woods, with Feigenbaum and Frankel leading them. Some of

them carry a revolver or a stick. Feigenbaum is wounded.

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The fugitives look briefly at the two men.

Feigenbaum does not stop.

FEIGENBAUM:

(in Yiddish, to his

companions)

Don’t waste your time. Come on! +

He goes to the water and starts swimming.

The men all follow Feigenbaum into the river.

Braun goes into the water.

Saul tries to grab Braun. +

SAUL:

(in Hungarian)

Help me.

Braun stops, and looks at Saul, before swimming away.

Saul goes back to the boy, uncovers the young face and looks

at it.

He takes up the body and enters the water.

He tries to maintain the body above the water, while swimming

toward the other side.

Reaching the middle of the river, he looks around. He is

alone.

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The stream is too powerful.

Saul, with no forces left, almost drowning, lets the body out

of his control.

He watches helplessly as the wrapped body is taken by the

waters and slowly disappears.

Saul starts drowning.

Frankel reaches Saul and helps him to the other side.

Saul does not resist, but his face is now transformed,

engulfed by helplessness.

CUT TO:

I/E. WOODS / BARN - DAY

Saul is pushed forward by Frankel, who trails the other

fugitives in the woods.

They come upon a derelict barn. The men enter. +

Saul is the last to enter.

Feigenbaum is on the floor, one of the fugitives attend to

his wound. He looks battered.

Some fugitives look at the scene, worried.

Others try to dry their clothes with straw.

FEIGENBAUM:

(in Yiddish)

Five minutes, we have to go on.

Frankel looks at Saul, who stands still, silent.

Two men are in a heated discussion about their plans to reach

the Partisans.

The entrance door is suddenly opened.

The men are stirred up, most of them jump up.

A YOUNG BOY dressed in peasant clothes slowly enters the

room. He must be 12 at most, but already robust. His hair is

fair, and he contemplates these ragged men with uttermost

interest.

The men look at him, amazed.

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The boy takes a few steps in the room, as if he were a

general in a review of his troops. He curses in Polish, as if

imitating his father. He smiles. He examines all the men,

some from a close distance.

He arrives near Saul and looks at him.

Saul looks up at the boy. The boy is now suddenly serious.

Scared, the boy runs out of the hut.

IN THE WOODS:

The boy keeps running in the woods.

A sudden upheaval of voices and footsteps. An SS squad passes

him by and go in the direction of the hut. He is pushed onto

the ground.

The soldiers quietly take position around the hut.

As the soldiers besiege the hut and open fire on it, the

child is frightened, and runs away further deep in the woods.

The camera stops. We see further and further away the child

running and finally disappearing among the trees.

THE END.

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