Genius

What sort of animals would do this?

He was coming to dinner on Sunday.

It's only because my customers requested it.

Everyone has a choice, Ernst.

I want to leave, Albert, please.

We're not going anywhere, Elsa.

There's already much discussion

of a Nobel.

Relativity is a hoax.

It isn't grounded in any concrete discovery.

You want to pay me for a divorce?

Mileva Maric

is to retain full custody in Zurich.

You idolized your father, Eduard,

but he was never there and I could see

how painful that was for you.

Tell Papa I want to see him.

Albert Einstein has engaged

in a profit-grubbing promotion

as our country suffers deprivation and indignity.

Einstein obviously desires a public battle.

It's time I enlisted some public allies.

Stay down!

Elsa, you're right; it's time.

Hello... It's the United States embassy.

I am conducting this inquiry at the request

of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover.

What does he want with me?

Osip...

Osip, go wash before your brothers wake.

Go. Go, go, go, go, go.

Get the kid.

Everybody up! Against the wall!

Mama. What, what is this?

What have we done? Shut your mouth, kike.

Mama!

Stop resisting!

Please, please.

He didn't do anything.

Please, please.

Almost 3000 subversives taken into custody,

from 33 cities in 23 different states.

Well done, Mr. Hoover.

The majority were known anarchists, sir,

but we arrested a number of socialists as well.

We sent a strong message to these immigrants that threats

to the American way of life will not be tolerated.

Interrogations are in progress.

Deportations will begin imminently.

And these reports of abuse?

The only publications giving them any ink

are communist rags. Heh.

You got a bright future ahead of you, Edgar.

Thank you, sir.

I'm conducting this inquiry

at the request of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover,

director of the United States Bureau of Investigation.

Hoover? Yes.

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.

What does he want with me?

He's been quite interested in your political activities

and affiliations since your first visit to New York.

So if you do not answer my questions

to his satisfaction,

you will not be granted entry to the United States of America.

I don't have to put up with this.

Albert, sit down.

No. I will not.

The land of the free,

isn't that what you call it?

I've devoted my life to freedom of thought,

to peace for all peoples.

And your American director of espionage

is concerned about my affiliations?

I meant no offense. I'm not here to accuse you

of anything, sir, I'm merely here

to ask questions. Really?

Or are you desperate for the next rung on the ladder?

Albert, please. Flattered to be asked

to interrogate the famous Dr. Albert Einstein

with visions of promotion in your head?

Albert!

Please excuse my husband's outburst, Mr. Geist.

Uh, let's return to the subject

of your former wife, Mileva Maric.

When did you last speak?

Thursday, I think.

And what did you discuss?

We discussed our son, Eduard.

He's not been well.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Are you acquainted

with Miss Maric's brother?

I met him 20 years ago.

I've not seen him since.

Are you aware he now resides

in the Soviet Union?

She might have mentioned it.

And to your knowledge, has she ever visited him there?

She has not... to my knowledge.

Let's move on, shall we?

How did you come to know Chaim Weizmann?

Oh, I see.

This is a one-way street

we are driving down, is it?

The Weizmanns are old friends of ours.

Excuse me, Mrs. Einstein.

The question was for your husband.

How did you come to know Chaim Weizmann?

It's all right, Chaim,

you can admit you don't understand.

Albert, you have been explaining general relativity

for more than three hours, and I am fully convinced

that you understand it.

I anticipated

that many would struggle to comprehend my theory,

but I must admit, I've been a little taken aback

by the jeers and the snubs,

particularly from the Nobel committee.

There will always be resistance to revolutionary ideas.

But we've proved it with mathematics, with astronomy.

Some people see a beautiful proof,

others a damning repudiation.

That's why certain scientists loathe you,

while the rest of the world has fallen hopelessly in love.

It's unpleasant sensation to be beloved,

not for your ideas,

but for the image people have of you.

Of course, your fame also affords us an opportunity.

Chaim, if this is an attempt to recruit me

to the Zionist cause, you should save your breath.

Albert... No.

We have just barely made it through

the death and destruction of the war.

You cannot ask me to support the creation of a new nation

that will inevitably bring us to war again.

The world's Jews are in desperate need of a refuge.

But is Palestine the answer?

It is not uninhabited land.

You should visit with me someday.

You'll find our Arab friends living in harmony

with our Jewish brothers and sisters.

The Arab people will rise up to resist

such in influx of newcomers.

It's not a matter of "if", but "when."

Will you join me upstairs?

There's something I'd like to show you.

Kill the Jews.

That was their battle cry... 1903.

The day after the Russian Orthodox Easter.

They celebrated resurrection

then brutally murdered hundreds of our people.

This was but one of many pogroms.

Ukraine, Poland,

even Argentina.

Babies ripped from mothers' arms.

Slaughtered.

My God.

So, of course, they fled.

As our ancestors did from Egypt.

To Berlin, to London, to Chicago,

Minneapolis, New York.

And what did they find when they arrived?

Squalor, pestilence.

Blamed for the ills of the nations

in which they sought refuge.

Last year, the attorney general of the United States

ordered raids that rounded up thousands of Jews,

accusing them of anarchism and radicalism.

An excuse to deport them.

When I tell you that

our people are desperate for a home, it is not harsh words

from jealous colleagues they are fleeing.

Nor a snub from the Nobel committee.

It is endless death and destruction.

There are dozens of nations hospitable to Arabs.

But our tribesmen?

They have nowhere to go.

I sail for the United States next week

to raise money for a Hebrew university in Palestine.

Come with me.

I should never have let you go to dinner with Chaim.

I knew this would happen.

You are providing ammunition to those fools who believe

that Jews cannot be good Germans.

I've never aspired to be a good German.

Well, this does not concern only you.

No, it doesn't.

It concerns legions of our people who are suffering.

And you're going to rescue them all with Chaim's university,

are you?

Elsa, I know you are not this cold-hearted.

And what about Brussels, the Solvay Conference?

You're the only German scientist invited,

and you're simply going to cancel? Four years of carnage.

Now I should be the one who is supposed to heal

all the wounds of the war?

And Eduard,

you're going to miss his piano recital.

I'll take him sailing this summer.