The Keep Page #2

Synopsis: Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgeable of the keep) are brought in to find out what is happening.
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Michael Mann
Production: Paramount
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
1983
96 min
937 Views


who are enemies of the state

When we reach that new

settlement place they

say we are going to,

then I play music for you guys

There are farms,

and wheat fields there

they said...

Where are you going

in such a hurry?

-Into the pass

-Get down

How far?

To the Keep

Move away from the machine

Open the case

Don't..

touch that

I will tell you something

if you want hope

the people who go to these

settlement camps,

there are only two doors,

One in, and one out

the one out, is a chimney

You'd better find a way to be

of use to me in three days

Three days

Or back to the camps, go you

and your daughter

What does it mean?

Can you understand it?

Well?

The former is in

the imperative

It says:

"I Will Be Free"

So we do have partisans

In zoltz navonic, but within

the Gaelitic alphabet

Your partisans

are writing to you

in a language that's

been dead for 500 years

Wood, we need wood for a fire

Does he get that cold?

Look at my father,

does he look 68?

He's 48

Eva!

He's dying from a variety

of Schleroderma

With the temperature

in this room

gangerine will be in his

fingers in an hour

Alright, that's enough!

He won't last

Major Kaempffer's 3 days

You'll get the wood,

and some furniture

and lights

get your food from

our mess

Let me tell you two something

the Major will snuff you out,

like that

He has his reasons for

a quick solution

I have mine

I don't want any

more of my men to die

find out what is killing us

And I may be able to

get you to Bucharest

And keep you safe

And then again, you may not

Mihail, how did you

manage this?

I didn't think I could

You rescued us, for me it

doesn't matter,but for Eva

What fairy tales

did you tell him

None

They made up their own

But I made them believe that

you could solve their problems

just to get you brought here

And now, now

we must get you out

How

Today I arrange a guide,

tomorrow you ask to see

the old slavonic

manuscripts in the church

the guide will take you from the

church across the mountains

to Nyipa, from there

the black sea,..anywhere

How far do you think

I'll get, I can't fight

I can't walk, nothing

You just get Eva out of here

Listen to me

They've already killed

three villagers here,

including old Seminesku,

I was in Breschauf

they're rounding up

trade unionists, journalists

Jews, gypsies,..God knows

what happens to them

We found out what happens

I'm not going without you

You'll have to try

I'll carry you on

my back if I must

So,

How long?

don't ask

whoever thought of sticking the

miracle of human intellegence

inside one of

these decaying bodies

He should of been fired

so where else would God

of put the human soul?

In a desk

maybe a street car,

won't have been so bad,

it breaks, you get a new part

Blasphemy,

one of these days your

gonna believe in the divine

You believe in Gods,

I believe in men

How's Eva?

Eva?

Hmm

Eva wastes her youth,

chained to an old man

in a wheelchair

I should have a nurse,

she should live her life

She won't let anyone else

take care of you

I have much to do

Hey say

yeah

the writing on the wall

yeah

did you put it there?

no

How'd it get there, Mihail

There is something you can

do for me, make me feel easier

Keep it with you, just two days

Hey look tres,

it's your sister

-Can I help you

-get your hands off me

Sit down

Get a healthy helping, ma'ar

-alright, that's enough

Eva!

Eva

Get away from my child

take me and leave her

What have you done to her

what are you?

Why are you, here?

They thought I could find

what was killing their soldiers

And I have!

haven't I?

you turned into an ally

you collaborate!

No!

Don't accuse me of

collaborating with Nazis

I'd do anything to stop them

If you don't believe me,

then kill me

Papa

Papa

What happenend?

your hands

Your face!

I feel warm

-I know, it brought you here

-Who?

Father, it was a dream

it was a nightmare

It carried you here, I saw it too

What I saw wasn't real

Look at my hands,

look at my face!

It touched my body

Look at you

don't know what it is

and I don't care

-He's like a hammer,

and can now smash them

-What are you talking about?

We're dealing with a golum?

A devil

A devil!

Now you listen to me

the devil of the Keep,

wears a black uniform

and has a deathshead at his cap

and calls himself a sturbein Furor

There were two more

deaths last night

you are going to stay at the Inn

you have two minutes to pack

Why?

because I can at least keep

you safe from what is killing us

And after the incidence

in the mess,

maybe from the men too

Maybe from the men..

I'm not going to leave

my father here alone

-Yes, you should go

-No

You now have

a minute, 45 seconds

A minute, 45 seconds

for what?

For fraulein Cuza to pack her

things and moving her stuff

She is not going anywhere

I forbid it, I will not permit you

to send my daughter away

You, you forbid?

Let me tell you something,

you forbid nothing

Nothing!

Get her out of here!

Are you ready?

Almost

Listen to me, my child

you are the meaning

of my life

Whatever I will do here

whatever happens to me

leave me behind,

escape

Go without me,

do not wait for me

-No

-Yes, go!

Meet a man

live a full life

and you live for me

-Who is this?

-My son

He died in Spain,

5 years ago this month

Fighting on the Republicans side

Were you in Spain?

If I were, I would of been

in the Itteral brigade,

with other anti-facist Germans

Your son and I, we would've been

fighting on the same side

But, No I wasn't

What?

Cross?

Why do you, a Jew

need protection of the cross?

I don't

It was a gift of a friend,

A humane man

Listen to me Captain Woermann,

I pass the gift on to you

Take it

You're a humane man too

and you...

you may need it

How did you get out?

did they let you go?

where's theodore?

Still inside

Anything for theodore Cuza

down here, through this door

I have no money

to pay you right now

Your father did me many

favors over the years

forget about it

Thank you, Mr. Oppe

What are you doing here?

Is this the only room

overlooking the Keep?

Yes

Than I'll take it

It's taken by Miss Cuza

It's okay

Where will you go?

Back into the Keep,

away from here,

I don't know

Why's your father in the Keep?

He's being kept there by soldiers

Are you going to wait for him?

Or leave?

I'm going to wait

right here for him

Then you better stay here with me

Why are you here?

You

Where do you come from?

-I'm a traveller

-From where?

Everywhere

Go to sleep

And dream

There is...

Death around you

-At your hands

-No

And what you sense is

my fate in a death camp

A place where people gather to die

A place where people are murdered

My people are murdered?

-yes, and others from all over

-who does this?

There leader in Berlin

-and the soldiers in black

-I'll destroy them!

I will consume their lies

When

could you do this?

When I am complete

in two nights

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Michael Mann

Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. more…

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