Son of Saul Page #8

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Saul, sitting, faces with a tense expression an untouched

plate full of smoking cabbage. Next to him, Frankel is

talking to himself over two pieces of bread. +

Saul looks at Frankel with a strange look.

FRANKEL:

Barukh ata Adonai, Elohenu, melekh

ha olam...

Yankl embraces Frankel from behind and swings back and forth

with him. Frankel tries to get rid of the young man.

YANKL:

(in Yiddish, into

Frankel’s ear)

The angel of death hears your

blessings, rabbi! +

Frankel removes the arm of Yankl with a strong movement from +

his back. +

Saul looks back at the bread, takes a piece but throws it to +

the table. +

Behind, Hirsch is taking something from two of the men

sitting against the wall.

He comes next to Saul.

HIRSCH:

(in Yiddish, to Saul)

You, give me your shiny.

Saul does not react.

Hirsch hits Saul on the shoulder.

SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish,

subdued)

Nothing. +

HIRSCH:

(in Yiddish)

You must have something. In your

mattress. Or in your socks...

Saul remains silent. Hirsch waves at someone OFF SCREEN.

Abraham comes to them. He looks at Saul and realizes

something is wrong.

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ABRAHAM:

(worried)

Saul?

Silence.

Abraham nods at Hirsch.

ABRAHAM (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish)

Just count it.

Hirsch sits down and lays out the valuables and start

organizing them.

Biederman enters the room and comes to them.

Abraham is still standing, leaning toward Saul.

ABRAHAM (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian, to Saul)

What did you do down there?

Biederman glances at Saul and sits on the table.

BIEDERMAN:

(in Yiddish, to Abraham)

Sit down.

Abraham stays still.

BIEDERMAN (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish)

Sit. I said.

Abraham stays still. +

Biederman points at the valuables.

BIEDERMAN (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish, to Abraham)

I take these with me. +

Abraham takes the valuables from the table. +

ABRAHAM:

(in Yiddish)

We need these. We can’t wait more. +

We have to get the package from +

Ella. +

He turns to Hirsch. +

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ABRAHAM (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish, to Hirsch)

These enough for the guards? +

Hirsch nods. Biederman remains silent, worried again. He goes +

out. +

The prisoners around slowly cease their conversations and +

many go to sleep. +

Saul looks up. His suddenly illuminated gaze follows the man

who just entered the room. Miklos, the Jewish doctor, glances

around with weary eyes.

ABRAHAM (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian)

What does this butcher want?

Saul swiftly stands up and goes to Miklos. Hardly controlling

himself, he grabs the doctor’s gown.

SAUL:

(in Hungarian)

Where’s the boy?

MIKLOS:

(in Hungarian)

Hold on, hold on...

He tries to undo Saul’s fingers, but to no avail. +

Saul drags Miklos to a quiet corner in the room.

MIKLOS (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian)

Your boy’s safe. +

Saul slowly lets go of him. Miklos looks deep into his eyes.

MIKLOS (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian)

I had to hide it from the doctors.

Saul hesitates.

SAUL:

(in Hungarian)

Can’t you exchange him for someone

else?

Miklos stiffens.

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MIKLOS:

(in Hungarian)

No, I have to autopsy it, document

it... Come with me.

Miklos and Saul leave the room.

21B INT. KREMATORIUM -ATTIC STAIRS / BACK OF THE OVENS / GROUND

FLOOR CORRIDOR / UNDERGROUND STAIRS - NIGHT

BACK OF THE OVENS

They go down the stairs, past the back of the ovens, which

are being fed. Miklos wipes his face.

MIKLOS:

(in Hungarian)

What a heat... How can you get used

to this?

He looks at Saul, tries to remember.

MIKLOS (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian)

What’s your name?

SAUL:

Auslander. Saul.

MIKLOS:

(in Hungarian)

It’s in the autopsy room. I’ll be

right back.

Miklos leaves him at the top the stairs and goes down to the

tunnel. Saul walks to the autopsy room.

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22 INT. KREMATORIUM - AUTOPSY ROOM - NIGHT

Saul silently enters the autopsy room.

He moves to the side, where on the bench he finds the corpse

of the boy. He unwraps the sheet.

He sits down next to the boy and looks at the boy’s face,

lost in his thoughts for long seconds.

He moves his hand across the hair of the boy, leaves his hand

on it.

They are alone in the room.

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At times, the sounds of the building can be heard.

Saul wraps the sheet around the body.

He takes his jacket off, lifts up the body, takes it onto his

shoulders and covers it with his jacket.

Saul leaves the room.

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24 INT. KREMATORIUM - BACK OF THE OVENS / ATTIC STAIRS / ATTIC –

SAUL’S CORNER - NIGHT

Carrying the wrapped corpse, Saul comes across the night

shift workers busy around the ovens.

He walks up the stairs into the attic.

IN THE ATTIC:

He hurries to the part of the hall where the prisoners sleep

in sections separated by canvases and pieces of cloth.

He comes across a figure in the dark, sitting on the floor,

his back to a curtain. The figure is writing on an empty bag

of cement. As Saul gets closer, the figure quickly stops.

It’s Feigenbaum.

Saul tries to pass round him. Feigenbaum gets up.

FEIGENBAUM:

(in Yiddish)

What are you carrying?

Saul does not answer. Feigenbaum lifts the cloth covering the

body. Saul pushes him away.

FEIGENBAUM (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish, nervously)

Bring it back! You can’t do that!

Saul readjusts his load on his shoulder.

FEIGENBAUM (CONT’D)

(in Yiddish)

You play with our lives.

SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish,

excited)

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SAUL (CONT'D)

I’ll show Germans, where, they dig, +

your writings KZ.

Feigenbaum stays still. Saul goes behind the curtain.

IN SAUL’S CORNER +

Saul enters new sections until he reaches a corner with a bed-

camp and pieces of cloth.

Saul lays the body of the boy on a bed-camp. Some light comes

in from the common area through the canvas and low-toned

conversations can be heard.

Saul sits down on the ground.

Suddenly, Abraham appears behind the curtain.

ABRAHAM:

(in Hungarian, low)

Saul!

Saul jumps up and exits the corner through the curtain.

IN THE COMMON ROOM +

ABRAHAM (CONT’D)

(in Hungarian)

We’re getting more weapons tonight.

We should be ready by the morning.

SAUL:

(in Hungarian)

The morning?

Abraham looks at him.

ABRAHAM:

(in Hungarian)

It’s my plan.

SAUL:

(in Hungarian)

I have to find a rabbi.

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