The Keep

Your new home

How do you like it?

Not very well, sir

Why not?

We should be in Russia

For what?

The final assault on Moscow

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,

his father before him, and so on..

My sons... will continue after me

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

Then what drives people out 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

a soldier could walk out 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!?

To string lights sir

-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

but you've earned yourself a place on first watch all week

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

Tie these around my ankle

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

the greater german Reich -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,

And whatever kills us, 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

the price these actions cost these villagers to pay

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

you may learn something new

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

What do these words mean?

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?