The Keep
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- Year:
- 1983
- 96 min
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Your new home
How do you like it?
Not very well, sir
Why not?
We should be in Russia
For what?
You could transfer
But by the time you got there,
Russia would've gone like France,
Belgium,Holland...all the rest
We're all done fighting
Now we are the masters
of the world
Do you understand?
Yes, sir
Good!
We have been assigned to
guard this pass,
so here is where you'll stay
Tell the men to get out
Dismount!
Hurry!
Hurry!
Machine guns come across the
ravine into the Keep with us
What are you doing here?
I'm the caretaker, sir
And they?
They're my sons
There's a 108 such crosses
made of nickel
embedded in the walls
of the keep.
You counted them?
Or is it something to do
with cathecism
I'm Alexandru, my sons
and I work here
No one tours this place
I thought the keep
was unoccupied
We go home at night,
we live in the village
-Where is the owner?
-I have no idea
-Who is he?
-I don't know
-Who tells you what to do?
-We do what needs doing
My father
spent his life doing it,
and so on..
My sons...
There you are,
you may continue your
maintenance after we settle in
-You cannot stay here
-And why not?
No one stays here
And who forbids it?
No one forbids,
some travellers have stayed,
we don't stop them
-But no one stays the night
-Ghosts,Demons?
No,
No ghosts here
-Death then, Suicides?
-No one's ever died here
in the middle of a rainy night?
-Dreams
-ha ha...Nightmares?
Look man,
The real nightmares,
man has made
upon other men in this war
The bad dreams of your Keep,
are nursery rhymes
in comparison
Come on, I want a tour
Who built the Keep?
Some say the Turks,
some say the
warlords of ancient Volakia
How do I know this is
not a fortress
from outside the wall
Why are the same stones
on the outside,
and the large ones,
here in the interior?
It's constructed backwards
This place was not designed
to keep
something...out
What is this place?
No one knows for sure
-Herr Officer, stop them!
-Stop what?
-There opening the walls!!
-Old man, spikes for lights
we have generators
the Randoff doesn't live
by candlelight
Now is he stringing lights?
Soldier!
What's your assignment!?
-Then what the hell are you doing?
Answer!
Silver crosses,sir
there is talk among the men
they hide silver here
Treasure, sir
Private Lutz, it's been a
profitable day for you
not only have you learned the
crosses are made of Nickel
Get out!!
Never touch the crosses!
Never!
And why not?
You must not stay here
Good day Alexandru
Nickel!
Nickel...yes,
Nickel
but not this one
-I'm on duty!
-Forget it, c'mon
look at this!
Silver!
-Look it, look at the block
-This is the only silver cross
this block moves
Behind this one block there
may be more silver
-Are you ready to be rich?
-Oh yes
A passage, I knew it
Lets take this cross, block it
and come back later
that's stupid, we're here
why share it
Silver, there's more silver
Ah, Ah,
pull me back!
pull me back
Lutz, Lutz!
Stand down!
-I need to hire a boat
-Where to?
Constantes,
the Romanian coast
Too dangerous, very expensive
Steiner, last night
it was steiner
that makes five dead,
and I checked with
the radio man
there's been no answer to
your request for relocation
Stop this!
Stop!
Wait! Wait!
In this village,
partisans have been
operating against
-Are you insane!
I am Commander Koempffer,
is what I am
Captain Klaus Woermann,
is what you are
your request for relocation
is denied Woermann
I am now in command over
this emplacement
And you, will not interfere
with our actions
You,you,you,
you and you
Bring them to the Keep
There are no partisans
in this village!
these people know nothing!
If one more german soldier dies,
all five hostages will be shot
And five more will be shot
every time a german is killed
We will continue until
partisan activity stops
or we run out of villagers
They are no partisans!
You, see to it that my
command quarters are in order
Those people you murdered
are Romanian citizens
we are an allied state!
Let's have an immediate
understanding Woermann
who gives a damn
about a few communists
Listen to me
MG 34's cover the entrance,
lights illuminate the perimeter,
gets in anyway
Nothing we do,
no security works
we have seen no partisans!
-Something has been released!
Something?
What do you mean something,
Woermann?
are you trying to create
a mystery?
To excuse your incompetence
in protecting your men
My competence,
was proven in combat
against soldiers who shoot back
not slaughtering civilians
And I am a political soldier
Woermann
and I shall say it once only
your security doesn't work
because your methods
are wrong
The answer's fear,
Woermann,
From now on these partisans
will be afraid to kill
because they will fear
Now listen, something
else is killing us
And if it doesn't care,
about the lives
of three villagers
If it is like you
then does your fear work?
Take that brilliant thought
back to Dachau when you go
If...you go
Because here in this Keep,
Commander Kaempffer
neither you nor the Keep
can teach me anything
We found the rest of Steiner,
well, Commander Kaempffer
let's see the latest present
our friend has left us
Come
Bring a hostage
Explain this Kaempffer,
this is what's
happening to us
-Herr officer, I don't know
Don't lie to me, those words
are Romanian
What do they say,
I want to know
They look like Romanian
Herr Officer..but they're not
-I don't know
what they say!
-He's telling the truth
Make him stop,
What do you suggest I do?
Arrest him?
Priest, your next
Teach him the art
of translation
Herr Officer,
this writing is like Romanian
but different, it's meaningless
not written in the Latin alphabet,
nor the Cyerilic alphabet
What can you tell us about
the Keep we don't already know?
Me? nothing
Yes, you were about
to say more
-You can tell us nothing,
-No
-Who can?
-No one
Don't lie to me
or I'll shoot this man dead
There's a professor of
medieval history
at the university in the
city of Ayashi
He made a study of this Keep
perhaps he can translate
that for you
-His name?
-Dr. Theodore Cuza
He grew up in this village
Herr Officer
Dr. Cuza is not in Ayashi
Then where?
Dr. Cuza's a Jew
He's wherever you've
taken the Jews
Good.
today from the depot
Do you play at night?
I don't play music here
we suffer enough,
not happy here
Why are you here, girl?
I'm Eva Cuza
this is my father Dr.Cuza
We are Jews, the gypsies
are not the only ones
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