Sunshine Page #10

Something must be wrong

with my ears.

What do you think

you are, Jew?

Adam Sors,

Hungary's fencing champion,

[Gritting Teeth]

Olympic gold medalist.

Adam Sors,

Hungary's fencing champion,

- Olympic gold medalist.

- [Beating Continues]

[Adam Groaning]

Adam Sors,

Hungary's fencing champion,

- Olympic gold medalist.

- [Beating Continues]

Adam Sors, Hungary's fencing

champion, Olympic gold medalist.

Adam Sors,

Hungary's fencing champion,

Olympic gold medalist.

[Officer]

Hang him on the tree.

[Officers Groaning]

Come on.

And now,

what are you, Jew?

[Softly]

Adam Sors...

Hungary's Olympic...

gold medalist.

[Water Continues Running]

[Water Continues]

[Ice Crackling]

[Water Continues Running]

[Bombs Exploding]

[Ivan] Neighbors suspected

that Jews were hiding...

in Greta's apartment

and called the police.

Hungarian Nazis

broke down the door...

and dragged my Uncle Istvan,

Greta and their son to the Danube,

where, like thousands of other

Budapest Jews, they were shot...

and their bodies thrown

into the icy river.

Five days after they died,

the Russians liberated Budapest

from the Nazi rule...

and World War II was over.

[Driver Talking To Horse]

[Door Closes]

[Sighs]

[Ivan]

After my family was taken away,

Kato packed up our belongings...

and hid them somewhere

in her village.

It's me, Gustave...

your brother.

[Ivan] The Communist Party called

Gustave home from exile in France.

In spite of his age, he returned

to politics with great enthusiasm.

dd [Tuning Piano]

dd [French Anthem]

[Doorbell Rings]

Ivan.

Your father?

[Sobbing]

[Continues]

- [Crying]

- [Continues Sobbing]

[Valerie Crying]

They killed Adam too.

What happened?

He said...

he was a Hungarian officer.

He wouldn't admit

that he was a Jew.

That's why

they killed him?

- How many were there?

- Three, military police.

- How many were you?

- I don't remember.

Maybe...

Maybe... 2,000.

There were only

three of them?

There were ten more guards

in the camp.

How could 13 guards

hold back 2,000 people?

They had guns.

Why didn't you run at them,

grab their guns?

One or two people might be shot,

but you could have had them.

- You could have escaped.

- And go where?

- Anywhere.

- There was no place to go.

People would have hidden you.

In France, they hid us.

People either hated us

or they were scared of us.

If we were going to survive,

we had to stay together as a group.

And you just stood there

and watched them kill your father?

No, l...

They didn't know

that I was his son. They...

- They had to hold me down...

- So what did you do?

- Enough!

- Nothing!

[Crying]

I just stood there.

That's all I could do!

I could do nothing!

He should join the police, help them

round up the fascist bastards.

I can have a word

with the Comrade General.

He should study.

He hasn't finished school.

It says here that

your father was a lawyer.

Did you know he has

exactly the same name...

as the greatest

Hungarian fencer ever?

That was my father.

- Adam Sors was your father?

- Yes.

I used to fence a bit,

but I never had natural talent.

Your father was unbeatable.

He was a magician.

Where were you

during the war?

I was with my father.

You've come

to the right place.

[Whispers]

Sit down.

We're going to get every one

of those fascist bastards.

There can be no forgiveness

for what happened here.

It cannot be fobbed off

on the Germans.

It was organized

by Hungarian authorities.

It was carried out

by Hungarian civil servants:

Village mayors, local police,

railway officials.

Nice, ordinary Hungarian people

did the dirty work.

Who came up with the Jewish laws

in the first place? Parliament.

Most people just turned

the other way.

You think

about your father.

It's your job

to find his murderers.

[Ivan]

Look under the couch, Rosner.

Can you tell us how

this stuff got here?

I have no idea.

I've never seen any of it before.

Ah, you were blind,

but now you can see.

I'm sorry,

those things are private.

- "Kisses taste of acacia honey."

- That's private!

- You wrote this?

- Yes, I'm a poet.

Just a poet? You wrote poems while

your friends did the killing?

Dr. Adam Sors was

the world's greatest fencer,

a national treasure.

That he was swept away

by the storm...

- was not only a loss to our country,

- "Swept away by the storm"?

- But the entire world.

- Sors was murdered.

[Saray]

Dr. Adam Sors Fencing Center.

Happy now?

How do you like playing

cops and robbers?

- I like it, Comrade General.

- Come and join the Communist Party.

We need young people

we can trust like you.

You agree,

Comrade Sors?

Bring your application

to me directly.

[Narrator] You can see how

these partisan have been captured.

They terrorized the people who

had already suffered appallingly...

under a 25-year Bolshevik rule.

Our army is fighting against

the Red Devil, and it is victorious.

Our prison camps are a haven

for the starving Russian soldiers.

At least here

they have bread to eat.

Witness the horrendous crimes of the

Red Terror now fleeing the villages,

the dying babies.

- Well?

- We were smack in the middle of it.

There was no way

to say no.

We just watched.

It was horrible.

You managed to watch all right,

didn't you?

You just stood there, and you

did nothing. You just watched.

You just f***ing filmed it,

yes?

Yes.

You went

to the Russian front...

How come?

Weren't you scared?

I've never been

to the Russian front.

Don't lie to me.

It's on film.

The real footage was

all classified top secret.

I got orders to shoot films that

looked like it came from the front.

We built the Russian village:

Stage set, scenery.

Everything was shot 20 kilometers

out of Budapest.

Whose idea was this?

- [Sighs]

- Yours?

Yours?

You think you're an artist?

You're the worst kind.

You don't even think

what you did was a crime.

I've never hurt anybody.

After the war, I shot

the Communist Party's first film.

- I've never held a gun in my life.

- You've never held a gun?

Go on, pick it up.

It's a lot less heavy than your

camera, and your chance to shoot me.

Finish off what your f***ing

fascist friends started!

Pick up the f***ing gun!

Pick it up!

[Bangs Table]

You sh*t!

Take this pencil.

Write down the names of every

single person you ever worked with.

Everyone.

[Knorr]

They all signed?

Even that film director

friend of yours?

He gave us 25 new names.

People will do anything

to survive.

On their first day

in Hungary,

the gestapo received 10,000 letters

from people denouncing each other.

They have nothing

to be proud of.

Number seven:

Fekete-Nagy.

He's written some

beautiful poetry.

He got some bad advice

from his friends.

- Cross him off.

- But he wrote pro-Nazi articles.

He publicly denounced

several writers.

No, he's a great poet.

Great.

We won't let him publish

for a while. Cross him off.

Done.

Fifteen:
Laszlo Pan.

Cross him off.

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