Sunshine Page #12

- No, I want you. I believe this.

- I don't believe you.

I'll tell everybody.

I'll tell your husband.

Promise you'll never speak a word

about me to anyone, not even Knorr.

Why do you bring him up?

Because I know he's

a good friend of yours.

But good friends

with others too.

Promise me.

I will.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

- You look strange.

- I'm scared.

- Of what?

- I'm scared we're being watched.

- Who's watching?

- Everybody. I don't know you.

This is worse

than the Resistance.

Sit down, Comrade.

Sit down.

Sit!

We've uncovered a conspiracy,

bankrolled by overseas money.

- Guess where from.

- [Ivan] United States?

Wrong.

From Israel.

The conspiracy

is completely Zionist.

Three Central

Committee members,

two generals,

a police major general,

a group of doctors,

university professors.

All Jews who should be

thanking the Soviet Union...

and the Red Army

for their f***ing lives!

These Jewish gentlemen...

think they can hoodwink poor,

unsophisticated workers like us...

because they've read

their precious Talmud.

They're also planning to

take over the Workers' Movement.

Not a one of them has ever

so much as held a hammer.

Look at these hands!

These are worker's hands!

These people are only with us

out of revenge against the fascists,

not because they believe

in the Workers' Movement.

So, okay.

They say there are Anti-Semites

in this country.

Whose fault is that? Who's got the

best jobs? Jews. Here we go again.

Whose fault is that? Who's got the

best jobs? Jews. Here we go again.

I believe more Jews came back

from the camps than were sent.

Your assignment is to drag

these bastards in...

and indict

every one of them.

This won't be easy. You've got a

close, personal connection in this.

- Me?

- Andor Knorr, your beloved boss.

He's one of the heads

of the whole thing.

- That's impossible.

- We have film...

of Knorr speaking

with Israeli agents!

Read this.

Here.

You yourself could be highly suspect

because of being so close to Knorr.

Keep Jews off your team.

[Groans]

Tell me what

they're accusing me of.

A Zionist conspiracy.

Intention to overthrow

the Socialist state.

[Softly]

Are they crazy?

I have been ordered

to interrogate you.

Let's get started.

Thank you.

When did you first enlist in

the conspiracy against the State?

Never. I've never enlisted in

any conspiracy against the State.

We have filmed proof of your

meeting with Zionist agents...

in the museum garden

on the fifth of this month.

Made by your film director friend?

Who played my part?

[Ivan]

This is not a joke.

What connections do you have

with Zionist agents?

None.

I told you.

I've never met

with Zionist agents.

I don't even know

any Zionist agents.

- Not even before the war?

- No.

What about at your orphanage?

Have you ever heard

the word "Zionism"?

- Of course I have.

- Where?

At the orphanage,

I had a friend.

He and some of his friends

wanted to emigrate to Palestine.

I joined the Young

Socialists instead.

So...

why didn't you go to Israel

if your best friend was with them?

Because they were religious,

and I was not.

If there hadn't been

the Young Socialists,

I'd probably be living

on a kibbutz in Israel now.

- Well, don't you see?

- I didn't have to be ashamed...

of my origins, and I didn't have

to be proud of them either!

What happened to you

during the war?

- I was caught and put in Auschwitz.

- Any Zionists there?

Sors.

- Enough of this nonsense.

- No, it's not nonsense.

You better understand,

this is not a game.

I'm asking you questions on orders

from people way up there.

As an officer of this department,

you are a suspect.

You're under arrest.

If you don't answer thoroughly,

things are going to get tougher,

and you know what I'm saying.

There's a lot of evidence here

that singles you out...

as one of the leaders

of this conspiracy.

If you don't give me a confession,

you aren't going to leave here.

Don't hold your breath.

Why are Jews involved

in everything?

Wasn't Auschwitz

enough for you?

Even you will never

be free of Auschwitz.

Auschwitz

was our baptism.

There is something

you must know, though.

Surviving Auschwitz doesn't

make a man better or greater.

It's just burnt into your brain!

It can never be erased!

That's the problem.

dd [Humming]

dd [Continues Humming]

dd [Continues]

dd [Continues]

What was the purpose

of this miserable life?

Life itself,

that we are here.

A long time ago

we were happy.

No.

There are only

two of us left.

Only two Sonnenscheins.

Everything's become

so difficult again, Nana.

He's denying it? Have the son

of a b*tch slapped around!

The man's gone through a lot of

suffering. He survived Auschwitz.

Strange how the suffering

of Jews seems to touch you.

Don't you know that

other people suffered?

Ordinary people were shipped off

to the front to fight...

or else they stayed at home

and fought on their own doorsteps.

Don't these kind of people

matter to you too?

With all due respect,

after surviving Auschwitz,

I don't think a beating

is going to break him.

It's not the quality of the man.

It's the quality of the beating.

I'm not sure Knorr's guilt can ever

be proven without a confession.

- Then get one out of him!

- He calls himself a Communist.

Are you a policeman

or a f***ing Boy Scout?

If he keeps saying

he's a Communist,

make him understand that his

confession's important to the Party.

Our number one priority

is to let the world know...

the Workers' Movement is not

under Zionism's thumb,

and Marx and Engels

are not Jewish prophets.

By the way, you don't know how lucky

you are that your uncle died.

"Reunion of veterans

at the Gellert Hotel."

These people lived in the West,

and they must have been brainwashed.

We'll have these traitors

in our net in two weeks.

Another question: Who does your

grandmother take pictures for?

My grandmother takes pictures for

herself. She's just a photographer.

"A photographer"? You're surrounded

by questionable people.

Do you have

a girlfriend?

If you do,

have her investigated.

Let's try to avoid

any more nasty surprises.

[Footsteps Approaching]

- I have to ask you something.

- Go on.

- The Knorr case...

- I don't want to hear of it.

- It's important to me.

- I don't want to know about it.

Why did you ask me here?

Don't get me mixed up in any

of this. Please, don't.

Who benefits... from turning me

into the enemy?

Or is it we've just gone back

to anti-Semitism as a solution?

No new ideas?

In October, 1944, you were

recaptured by the fascists,

sentenced to death and shot.

Your body fell into the Danube

under the Margaret Bridge.

So how come you're still alive?

Touch it if you don't

believe your eyes.

They're turned you

against me.

We're children

of an unfortunate race.

Who is the traitor,

you or me?

How dare you bring me this hopeless

pile of sh*t of a confession!

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes