A Small Light (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

1
We are going into hiding.
When we get there, I will need
your help getting food and medicine.
Whatever you need.
There was a round up last night.
- German soldiers
- (WOMAN GROANING)
MIEP: blocked off
an entire neighborhood
- and arrested all the Jews.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
FRITZ: Can you help me then?
Can you find me a place to hide?
MIEP: I've found a
place. A hiding place.
Mr. Frank. I thought
you were in Switzerland.
Welcome to Switzerland.
- (ALL LAUGH)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
There are a number of us here
who disagree with the
policies of the occupiers.
- We'd like you to join us.
- Yes. Yes, yes. I'd love to help.
MIEP: My mum My mother had
no husband and she was poor.
She found a Dutch family
who were willing to adopt me.
And I repay her by what, forgetting her?
It doesn't seem to me
that you've forgotten her.
(DOOR OPENING)
- Do you know these children?
- Yes. We're their grandmother's tenants.
Their parents were arrested
at the train station.
Alfred, Liddy, come here.
They'd better not be
here when I come back.
JAN: Do you like apples?
Do you like apples?
- Where are you going?
- To my job.
- JAN: Do you like any fruits?
- ALFRED: No.
JAN: You don't like any fruits?
- Where's Jan going?
- To his job.
- LIDDY: You can't leave us alone here.
- I am not going to leave you alone.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) I'm gonna
wait until your grandmother
gets back with your uncle.
JAN: What would you like? Do you
like chocolate? You like chocolate?
- What's that piece of paper for?
- MIEP: It's for blotting my lipstick.
- LIDDY: Can I try your lipstick?
- JAN: Eat a little bit, come on.
- No. No, it's for grown-ups.
- ALFRED: No.
- JAN: Come on!
- Sit down.
- I don't want porridge.
- Okay, uh, what about toast?
- I don't like toast!
- I can do a cartwheel. Wanna see?
- Uh
- Um, maybe later.
- I do.
- Oh, uh
- Oh, um, uh
- MAX: I don't understand.
So Frannie and Lou were arrested at
the train station and taken where?
- MRS. STOPPELMAN: I don't know.
- MAX: Who brought the kids here?
MRS. STOPPELMAN: Some SS man. He
dropped them off with Miep and Jan
and said they better not
be here when he gets back.
Liddy, sweetie,
tell Uncle Max exactly what
happened at the train station.
- LIDDY: I don't remember.
- MAX: Liddy, please!
This is very important!
- When the men took your mom and dad
- (SIGHS)
MAX: did they say
where they were going?
LIDDY: I can't remember.
- MAX: Liddy! I, uh
- LIDDY: Alfred doesn't like his milk cold.
JAN: It's fine, he
needs to have something.
- (SPITS, GIGGLES)
- Oh, uh
- You'll have to heat it.
- MAX: Please, this is important.
Did they say where they were going?
- LIDDY: I can't remember.
- MRS. STOPPELMAN: Liddy, try to remember.
- (IN GERMAN) Say goodbye to Mama.
- (IN GERMAN) Mama, no!
Stop! She doesn't remember
what happened last night.
It's a blessing. Just let her
forget it. Leave her alone!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I'm sorry. I'm, uh
I'm sorry. I know you're worried about
Frannie and Lou. I I am as well.
Max, you work at the Jewish Council,
surely you can speak to them?
Yes. (SIGHS) I can at least try
and find out where they've gone.
Now, do you want to see my cartwheel?
I'd love to.
Their kids are gonna have to be hidden
and they're gonna ask us to
help hide them, you do know that?
(SIGHS)
- We can't, right?
- Us?
- No. We can't do it, I wish we could.
- Definitely not in the Annex.
- Yeah.
- And she's just our landlady.
Yeah. I mean, we we barely know her.
We're already looking
after loads of people.
Yes. Yes, and taking on any
more will put everyone at risk.
- Yeah, exactly.
- We can't save everyone.
- No.
- Why are you going in so early?
(SIGHS) Just got to pick
up a few things on the way.
Eh, you just want to
get away from those kids.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Nah, I think they're
quite sweet actually.
Liddy follows you
around like your shadow.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) You're
good with her, you know.
- Jan Gies don't do that!
- Do what?
Start hinting about having children,
- saying I'm a natural.
- I'm not.
I told you when we first
met, I don't want children.
If you think I'm going to wake up
one day and suddenly have the urge
- to be a mother
- I take pity on two traumatized children
that a Nazi deposits at our door
and suddenly you think I want kids?
Do you?
I want to get a seat
on this bus. (CHUCKLES)
- (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
- (KISSES)
JAN: I'll see you later.
And when they ask,
we're not hiding those kids.
We can't! We We can't. We can't.
- No.
- JAN: No.
Okay.
- JAN: I'll see you later.
- Bye.
JAN: Bye.
(BUS DOOR CLOSING, ENGINE RUMBLING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Can I help you?
No. I'm waiting for Otto Frank.
- He's not here.
- TONNY: He will be.
We have a standing meeting.
Oh! Uh, he has nothing in his calendar.
Are you the secretary?
Call him. Tell him
Tonny Ahlers is waiting.
- Mr. Frank has moved out of town.
- What? Where?
Switzerland.
- Give me the address.
- MIEP: I don't have it.
I don't believe you.
He didn't give me one, I'm sorry.
Sorry, I can't be of more help.
Have a good day.
(SIGHS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
No, no. I'll take that one
piece. Yes, right there. Yes.
(BELL RINGING)
You're a born criminal.
JAN: It was easier than
you made it out to be.
Well, keep going. The Resistance
needs all the ID cards you can get.
(BELL RINGING)
BRAM: Especially those
without a "J" stamped on them.
(BELL RINGING)
You just saved four lives.
- What?
- Do you know anyone hiding children?
Children who are separated from
their parents? (INHALES DEEPLY)
- Our landlady has two grandkids.
- Wait, please
The less I know the better.
Here?
Really?
MIEP: All right, we only have
15 minutes before we open.
- Mrs. Van Pels, a book on French cuisine.
- (GASPS)
- Why? All we have here is beans.
- Oh, let me have my dreams.
Peter, this is for you.
And, oh, Dr. Pfeffer, I
wasn't sure what you'd like,
- so I got you a Hesse novel.
- Oh! Thank you, thank you very much.
Margot, I've heard this
is a little bit racy,
so I'll be borrowing it
afterward, thank you very much.
- Miep! (CHUCKLES)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Thank you.
- I'll take a look at that.
- Peter! Give it back.
- Oh! Kitty Foyle!
Oh, no, I'm gonna read that first.
You haven't finished
your first book, Margot.
- MARGOT: Give it to me.
- Isn't that book a little adult for Anne?
It's smut. That's what it
is. Nobody's reading this one.
But why, Margot might be older but
I am more emotionally sophisticated.
- EDITH: Ah! Conceited, Anne.
- ANNE: Mother, stop being a prude.
Why does she always contradict me?
Why must you always
treat me like a child?
I'm sorry, this is my fault.
- ANNE: Well, I'm not you, am I?
- No. It isn't. It's constant now.
- EDITH: Halt den Mund.
- Otto, that girl has no boundaries.
To be fair, Anne has
nothing but boundaries.
Auguste, why don't
you tend to your child
and let me tend to
my child, please, yeah?
(SIGHS)
I'm mature enough, Mother.
- Just let me read it.
- Give me das.
- Mother! Just let me. No.
- Give me that book!
EDITH: For you to read
this kind of material
ANNE: Mother.
- Oh, my God.
- (MIEP SIGHS)
There was a man waiting for you
downstairs, uh, a Tonny Ahlers.
What did you say to Mr. Ahlers?
- I said you were in Switzerland.
- OTTO: And how did he react?
Angry.
Disappointed. He wanted an
address. I didn't give him anything.
Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
What business do you have with him?
- (INHALES BREATHES DEEPLY) I don't.
- MIEP: He said you've a standing meeting.
Yes, we did but I'm in
Switzerland, so now we don't.
Thank you for the books.
(DOOR OPENING, CLOSING)
- (MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
South of the border down Mexico way ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
That's where I fell in love, when
the stars above came out to play ♪
And now as I wander, my
thoughts ever stray ♪
BET: Get you something?
JAN: Lager, please.
(LAGER TRICKLING)
BET: You sure you're in the right place?
Uh, I'm looking for someone
named Willem Arondeus.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Thank you.
- (COINS CLINKING)
JAN: Hello.
I, uh, I heard you
might be able to help me.
I know two children whose
parents have been arrested.
- They're only little, seven and five
- Who are you?
(JAN SIGHING)
- Uh! Sorry. (CLEARS THROAT)
- (GLASS THUDDING)
- My name's Jan. Jan Gies.
- No, I mean who are you?
What do you do? What good are you to me?
I'm not a social worker, okay? If
I help you, how will you help me?
- (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
- Something funny?
I'm a social worker.
(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
They're Jewish, these kids?
Yes, their parents were
picked up at the station.
FRIEDA: We have a problem!
Come back later.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WILLEM: You, social worker!
I need you.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MIEP: Our company's called Opekta.
We make pectin and these spice packets.
Go ahead, taste it.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
MIEP: Tastes like meat, right?
But who can get real meat these days?
This is our special spice
blend, no one else makes it,
and it makes the sausage
filler taste like real meat.
- It's delicious, right?
- I'll take two, I guess.
Oh, come on, your wife will
go through that in a week.
Unless you don't like sausage?
- Okay. (SNIFFLES) Five.
- (CHUCKLES)
(MAN CHUCKLES)
MIEP: There you go.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Do you really think these
taste like real sausage?
- God, no. They're horrible. (CHUCKLES)
- (CHUCKLES)
I don't think anything could help these,
it's mostly ground up nutshells.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
(EXHALES DEEPLY) It's nice to be out
not cooped up in the office, isn't it?
Think about that. A little sunlight.
Moments like these make
the day seem so much nicer.
- (CAR HORNS HONKING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
And our friends don't get to have this.
Do you ever wonder who else
is doing what we're doing?
It can't just be us, right?
There's must be loads of us.
Dear God, I hope so.
(GIRL GIGGLING)
Do you know anyone
who's hiding children?
Yes, we are.
So there shouldn't be a sign out saying
that we're available
to hide anyone else.
No. And I don't. I'm not.
Good.
Now let me enjoy my sunshine.
It's apartment 214.
A Jewish family was rounded
up there this morning.
They had to leave
behind some papers for us.
A packet of important papers!
FRIEDA: The Green Police are there.
A Puls moving truck will be along
any minute. They'll empty the place.
W If the police are there now? What?
You're a social worker, your
your credentials can get you
into the apartment, right?
You can get the package.
They left it in a chest
of drawers, middle drawer.
WILLEM: You need to take
the package to the benches
at the south end of Beatrixpark.
You'll see someone there,
you will know her when you see
her, just get the package to her.
What are you standing here for?
(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
Okay. Do Do this for me and
I will help you with your kids.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(BELL TOWER RINGING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
GREEN POLICEMAN 1: It's apartment 214.
Hurry up!
MOVER 1: We need to empty 214.
- MOVER 2: Yes, sir.
- (DOGS BARKING)
MOVER 1: We haven't
got all day. Hurry up.
MOVER 2: Yes, sir. Right away, sir.
- MOVER 3: Get up there, now.
- Excuse me, is this for 214?
GREEN POLICEMAN 2: What do you want?
I'm here to scout the apartment
for a non-Jewish family.
Can I come in? I'll make it quick.
I would've been here an hour
ago but my bike chain broke
and my boss is already
crawling all over me.
- Fine. Just go. Make it quick.
- JAN: Yeah.
GREEN POLICEMAN 2: Hurry up, let's go!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(PANTS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- (WAILS)
- (JAN PANTING)
MOVER: The apartment's upstairs.
- How many rooms are there?
- (PANTS)
- It's okay. It's okay.
- (WAILS)
It's okay. Come here. Come
here, it's okay. Come here. Yeah!
It's okay. Come on.
You're all right. Okay?
MOVER: It's over here.
(PANTS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BABY WAILING)
Hey!
- (BABY GURGLES, CRIES)
- (PANTS)
(BABY WAILING)
You have a match?
Yeah, yeah. Yes. Uh
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
- (BABY WAILING)
- JAN: There you go.
It's okay.
- Shh!
- (BABY WAILING)
Nightmare.
(CARS HORNS HONKING)
Well not a bad day, thanks to you.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) You
could sell water to a fish.
(CHUCKLES)
You should go home, you live
so close to here. I've got this.
- KLEIMAN: You sure?
- Yes. Goodnight, Mr. Kleiman.
- KLEIMAN: See you tomorrow.
- See you tomorrow.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
LIDDY: Miep!
(GASPS) Liddy! And Alfred,
hello you two. Hello!
Uncle Max took us on an adventure today.
We walked around the whole city.
- MIEP: Really? You must be so tired!
- They're not but Uncle Max is.
(CHUCKLES) Hey
Um take these and
go feed the pigeons.
- (ALFRED GIGGLING)
- LIDDY: Come on, Alfred, let's go.
- (ALFRED GIGGLING)
- (SIGHS)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (SIGHS)
MIEP: Is it safe for them to be outside?
It's not safe for them to be inside,
it's not safe for them anywhere.
I've been trying to keep them busy
all day but they just don't stop. I
(SIGHS) I don't know
how Frannie does it.
- It's okay.
- No (STUTTERS) it's not okay.
(ALFRED AND LIDDY LAUGHING)
I went straight to the
Jewish Council for Mothers.
Frannie and Lou were already
transported to Westerbork.
But Westerbork is just a transit camp,
so from there they
could be going anywhere.
(SIGHS)
She's so stubborn, I told her not to
go to the train station. And now
- Alfred, come on.
- (SIGHS)
They look just like me
and Frannie at that age.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- MAX: We used to play like that.
Better than a best friend.
(LIDDY LAUGHING)
Do you have siblings, Miep?
Yeah, I I have a brother.
Well, I have a few but
Cas and I are close.
So, you know.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
How do I keep her children safe for her?
(ALFRED AND LIDDY LAUGHING)
(LAUGHS)
YOUNG MIEP: Mama, nicht!
Hello. Welcome to Amsterdam. I'm
your new papa, temporary papa.
B Boys, everyone,
slow down, slow down.
Hermine doesn't know Dutch. She only
speaks German. Cas, can you help?
YOUNG GENOFEVA: You speak
German. A little bit.
(IN GERMAN) Hello,
Hermine, my name's Cas.
I'm learning how to
speak German in school.
(IN GERMAN) Your accent is funny.
(IN GERMAN) Well, I
thought you'd be prettier.
(IN GERMAN) I'm sick.
What's your excuse?
- (LAUGHS)
- (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
Cas, what is she saying?
She says I can speak German really well.
(CHUCKLES)
- And that she's hungry.
- (GASPS)
Well, we can fix that.
Boys, come on, off to the kitchen,
let's make some sandwiches. Come on.
(YOUNG CASMIR IN GERMAN) "Hermine"?
Hermine is an old lady's name.
I'm going to call you
Miep.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
I might know a family.
They can They've take
They've taken in kids before.
- Really?
- Well, I mean, they've taken
in a kid before, they took in me.
I'll speak to them.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
- Look who's here.
- LAURENS: Hey, there she is.
Hiya.
What's going on? Are you
joining us for dinner?
MIEP: Ah, no, I can't.
I don't have much time.
She's got something important
she wants to talk to us about.
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- Oh, wait.
- She's pregnant.
- (LAUGHS)
- Are you pregnant?
- Please tell me you're pregnant.
- I'm not pregnant.
- CASMIR: Who's pregnant?
MIEP: No, no, no one is
pregnant! No one is pregnant.
- So, what did you want to say?
- Oh, I'll tell you in a second.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Mm.
- Are you okay?
- Mm-hmm.
(IN GERMAN) I just found out
my friend Claes got arrested.
(IN GERMAN) Is he Jewish?
(IN GERMAN) No, Christian as they come.
And he's blond, tall,
Dutch. But homosexual.
This guy he was sleeping
with turned him into the NSB.
- (IN GERMAN) Oh my God
- that's cruel.
- It's like you have your little secrets.
(IN GERMAN) I know. You
know I'm illegal, right?
The Nazis declared me illegal.
What if he gives up names? What
if the Nazis come here for me?
I don't want to put these two in danger.
They could be arrested
just for having me here.
They don't even know they're
harboring a "deviant."
Miep, what did you want to talk about?
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BABY WAILING)
What's that? What's that, huh?
Oh!
- (JAN GRUNTING, CHUCKLING)
- (BABY MUMBLING)
- You like that? Yeah?
- (WHEELS GRATING)
- (BABY MUMBLING)
- (CHUCKLES)
You like that? Yeah?
(BABY MUMBLING)
- Hi, darling! Hi.
- JAN: Hi.
How was your day?
(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY, KISSES)
(CHUCKLES, SNIFFLES)
(BREATHES HEAVILY, SNIFFLES)
Thank you. (SNIFFLES)
- (BABY MUMBLING)
- Wait. Sorry.
He likes this.
(WHEELS GRATING)
MIEP: You have to be careful.
- I know.
- No, I mean, you have to.
- I am.
- Can you just like not be a homosexual?
(CHUCKLES) Ha!
Kind of not joking.
(SCOFFS)
- You should be.
- Just until the war is over.
Just don't see anyone or be with anyone.
It's not just something that I do, Miep.
MIEP: I know, I know but, you
know, people are making sacrifices
- all over to stay safe.
- Mm-hmm.
People are going underground,
people are going into hiding.
Can Can you not just
hide one part of yourself?
Miep, I I know how
to hide a part of myself,
I've been doing it all my life.
You have no idea what it is
like to walk around every day
with this giant secret. And
And And lie in the faces
of people that you love. Every day.
So please just don't
tell me how to do this.
Okay, I'm gonna leave before
I say something I shouldn't.
- Are you ashamed of me?
- How can you ask me that?
Because something's changed.
You're being really weird.
You're distant and
and you always have to go.
Um, I miss you.
- Nothing's changed.
- CASMIR: No, you're lying.
And we don't lie to
each other, remember?
You've got this this
look, where you can't look
You're doing it now, you
can't look me in the eye.
No, I'm not.
(IN GERMAN) Just tell me.
(IN GERMAN) There's nothing.
(DOG BARKING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHING)
- (CROCKERY CLATTERING)
to set the world on fire ♪
- (LAUGHS)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I just want to start
a flame In your heart ♪
I need to speak to you.
- Who is he?
- Can Can we have a minute, please.
Just
In my heart I have but one desire ♪
- I heard you got it.
- Papers? A packet of papers?
Why the hell didn't you tell me?
You might've hesitated and we
didn't have time for that
Hesitated? You damn right I hesitated.
I What if I panicked? What
if I What if I left it there?
Then you'd be a monster.
And I'd be bad at reading
people. Which I am not, so
That is great. That's
That's fantastic.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Oh, my God. (EXHALES SHARPLY)
Sorry. (BREATHING HEAVILY)
So who was the girl in the park?
WILLEM: Does it matter?
They're people.
Really grateful people.
I'm grateful, too.
On here is the address of a student
at the University of Amsterdam.
He's got a group that's
hiding Jewish children
with families in the countryside.
(SIGHS) Thank you. Thank you.
(EXHALES HEAVILY)
(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
JAN: Miep?
Miep?
(CHUCKLES)
They asked. I was too
tired to say no. (CHUCKLES)
You're home late. Work?
Yeah.
You're up early, you're out late.
It's a busy time.
I have to tell you something.
I know we said that we weren't
going to try to hide the kids.
But I couldn't help it, and
I went to my parents' house
to see if they'd take them
in like they did with me.
What did they say?
Oh, I couldn't bring myself to do it,
because it would put my
parents in so much danger.
And Cas already has
a target on his back.
And it would make it
more dangerous for him
and more dangerous for all of them.
And I really don't want
to lose my brother. (SOBS)
But look at them, like, they're
just little kids. (SNIFFLES)
- And who am I to decide
- Shh! It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
- (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
- Why are you smiling?
(CHUCKLES)
I found a place for them.
- Really?
- JAN: Yeah.
- (BREATHING DEEPLY, KISSES)
- (CHUCKLES)
- (SMOOCHES, CHUCKLES)
- Shh!
- (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
- (SNIFFLES)
They're college students and
they're taking my grandbabies?
JAN: No, no, no. No. They
They're just relocate them.
They'll take them to a nice
family in the countryside.
- Oh, God. (SOBS)
- JAN: But they said
uh, they have to go tonight.
So, Miep and I will take them.
Why are you taking them?
Because you're a mess, Mother,
and it has to happen quickly
- No. No. (SOBS)
- and quietly.
JAN: You can say your goodbyes here.
And we'll make sure they
get there safe and sound.
If you'll agree to it.
- This is too quick, it's too sudden.
- But, Mother,
Jan and Miep have it all arranged.
We have to trust them.
- Okay, good. I'll make the arrangements.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
Mrs. Stoppelman, do
you have any peroxide?
- (PANTS) Why?
- Um, we have to dye the children's hair.
Oh!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- You're all right?
- No.
- What is it?
- Her.
You're still angry
that she took that book?
I'm angry that I have
a mother who is mean
and wants me to know as little
about the world as she does.
Anne,
you have to stop fighting with her,
the whole neighborhood can hear you.
And move. The office is
opening in half an hour,
- I have to get these upstairs.
- No, I'll help, I'll take them.
There you go. Hey if
you want to be helpful
- stop fighting with your mother.
- Tell her that.
Miep, uh, this man is
from the Dutch Nazi Party.
(BELL RINGING)
TONNY: You. Hello again.
Your friends here
are telling me the same
story you did yesterday.
- (MIEP SIGHING)
- Tell me where I can find Otto Frank.
It's urgent I reach him.
We have a business partnership
and he has abandoned it.
What business partnership?
And what monthly meeting?
I've worked here for years, and
I've never heard of you. Have you?
I I'm sorry, I'm just
trying to understand,
- so so I can help.
- Well, someone must know where he is.
Like I said yesterday, I
I have absolutely no idea
where he's gone. Sorry.
One of you?
All right
Give me your names.
- Is (CHUCKLES) Well, is that necessary?
- Starting with you.
- He took down all our names.
- He's just trying to scare you.
We don't know what he plans to do.
He's NSB. He's a Dutch Nazi.
What? So, you have a
partnership with a Nazi?
Sir?
Mr. Frank, we can't have secrets,
especially not about things like this.
Yeah, if I'm the one
downstairs, I have to be
That's a pretty good secret.
- No. No, thank you. Okay.
- It's all right, Miep.
(SLURPS)
Edith doesn't know what I'm going
to tell you. Certainly not the girls.
(SIGHS) About a year ago, I was
talking to a supplier at a trade show.
I should've known better but
I was talking about the war.
I told him, "It will end soon
and when it does it won't
end well for the Nazis."
Oh.
Of course, this man was a
collaborator and a good one.
He wrote a letter to the Nazi
Party telling them what I said.
- And I would've been arrested
- (DRINK POURING)
if it weren't for an
enterprising NSB messenger.
Tonny Ahlers.
Ahlers intercepted the letter and
told me that if I didn't pay him
he would give it to the Nazis.
- So this business partnership
- Blackmail. Pure and simple.
Which would've been
fine before but now
MIEP: He thinks you're in Switzerland.
He heard I'm in Switzerland.
He's ignorant and venal,
Miep, but he's not stupid.
He knows people are hiding.
He's like a dog sniffing around
for a bone, he won't stop.
(DRINK POURING)
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS) And now they're
murdering us by the thousands.
Making piles of us.
I thought we were safe.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) I
planned so carefully.
Furniture, supplies and food,
piece by piece, bit by bit.
I even made a paper trail
all the way to Switzerland.
They were safe, Edith and the
girls, I had them in a safe place.
One sentence that I I
don't even remember saying
and I failed them.
Okay. No, stop. Sorry.
I can't listen to this.
So, you couldn't keep
your mouth shut once?
I'm the Crown Princess of not
being able to keep her mouth shut.
This is not your fault.
- It's different.
- No. When your family were in trouble,
you moved Heaven and Earth for them.
You moved them across Europe.
You built them a fortress.
No one in the world has kept
his children safer than you have.
Mr. Frank, you are the finest
father I've ever met. (CHUCKLES)
And don't worry about
Tonny Ahlers. He's nothing.
- We'll scrape him off our shoe.
- Hmm.
ANNE: Mother, you can't hide
that book from me forever.
EDITH: And why do you speak
to me like this? Stop it, Anne.
- OTTO: These two
- (CHUCKLES)
- Well she is thirteen.
- OTTO: Yeah. It's true, it's natural.
But she's growing apart
from her mother. (SIGHS)
Which makes Edith hold her
more tightly. And Anne
- Fights her harder.
- Tooth and nail.
ANNE: What have I done to you,
Mother? It's always like this.
(CHUCKLES) Most families,
they would just make a
little space for each other.
But for us, it's impossible.
Another problem I didn't foresee.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
You'll understand when
you have a daughter.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN)
(IN GERMAN) Don't take
this off, Hermine, okay?
It's how the nice family in
Amsterdam will know who you are.
They're going to take care of
you and get you healthy again.
I can't help you, but they can.
- Don't be scared.
- YOUNG MIEP: Mama, nicht!
- (LAUGHS)
- Jan, look at my hair!
- All right.
- No, I don't want it!
- Oh, come on.
- LIDDY: I don't want to.
- MIEP: Alfred did it.
- You can't make me.
- MIEP: He's a baby.
- I won't.
- And he's a boy.
- LIDDY: No.
- I'll
- LIDDY: Please, no.
- Don't worry, it will grow back.
- No. Where are we going?
Why can't we stay with you?
(SIGHS) All right.
I'm going to tell you something.
(SOBS)
When I was a little girl I
went on a train all by myself.
And I had no idea where
I was going. And I was
I was really, really scared.
Just like you are.
Why did they send you away?
Because my mother had no
choice. I wasn't really well,
and I was in trouble and I needed help.
Or I was going to die.
Are we in trouble?
Yes.
Where did you go? (SNIFFLES)
Oh, well, I went to a family
who could take care of me
and give me the help I needed.
- And they did.
- And then you went home?
No, actually.
I loved it so much that I stayed.
And it became my new home.
You loved it?
I loved it! It was really fun.
And you know? When I did
that I was all on my own.
But you have Alfred.
Yeah, you have your brother.
And as long as you have
your brother, you'll be okay.
You'll be safe.
All right?
In you get. (SNIFFLES) Brave
girl! All right. Let's do it.
You okay?
(KISSES)
(SIGHS)
Ready?
There you go.
(KISSES) Be brave.
MRS. STOPPELMAN: Now,
children, listen to me,
I've got something
very important to say.
It doesn't matter
what color your hair is,
or what name people call you.
You're your mother's children.
And you're your father's children.
And you are my grandchildren, always.
(SIGHS) Now where you're going,
you might be asked to do things
that we've said you must never do,
to to steal, or to lie or to
eat foods that are not kosher.
And you're good children and
you'll say, "Oma said no!"
But the most important commandment
in Judaism is to preserve life.
You have to live. And
you must do what you must.
And Oma will understand and
Oma will always love you. Always.
(LIDDY CRIES, SNIFFLES) Yes, Oma.
- (CRYING)
- (CRIES)
MIEP: Who arranged all of this?
I don't know. Some
people knew some people.
Okay, just stay here.
- We're going in a car?
- We're going in a car? How?
This is what they said
to do. In you get, go on.
- Hey, who's they?
- Quick. Quick.
(SIGHS)
- (BREATHING DEEPLY)
- (CAR ENGINE STARTS)
JAN: We're here.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
We're early.
MIEP: They're finally asleep.
Where are they taking them?
I don't know.
Jan, what?
Well, some people are
taking them to I don't know.
Well, who are they?
Where are they going?
What if Liddy needs something?
- Well, how are we gonna get them back?
- We don't get to know.
- What? Why?
- JAN: Because
if one day we get caught
and they put a gun to your head
and say to me, "Tell us where the
Jews are or we'll kill your wife,".
I won't be able to tell
them. Because I won't know.
(SIGHS)
(CLICKS TONGUE)
Why is the gun to my head and not yours?
Why aren't they asking
me where the Jews are?
- (LAUGHS)
- (LAUGHS)
- Because you're prettier, that's why.
- Oh, yeah. (CHUCKLES)
(LAUGH)
(CAR ENGINE RUMBLING)
Something's out there.
MIEP: Alfred, Liddy. Wake up!
Okay, this is it.
(SNIFFLES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
What are their names?
This is Liddy and this is Alfred.
Hi, Liddy. Hi, Alfred.
So, what do we do?
Just wait a minute.
- JAN: Go! No, no, no.
- MALE STUDENT: Stop, it's okay, she's with us!
I'm gonna take the boy, and
she's gonna take the girl.
No! No, no. They're going together.
You said they wouldn't be separated.
Oh! I didn't know.
No family is taking on two kids. And
it's a dead giveaway to the Nazis.
They They have to stay together!
- She needs her brother.
- No, we have to spilt them up.
No, never mind then. I'll
take them. Come on, children.
- This is no good, let's go. Go.
- No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait.
Wait. Please, wait! Wait!
- (MIEP PANTING)
- Miep.
(PANTS, SOBS)
This is how it has to be.
You know it is.
Hey. This is their chance.
This is their only chance, okay?
Okay. Okay, come on.
Come on.
This is Alfred.
This is Liddy.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(YOUNG MIEP IN GERMAN)
Why do I have to go?
(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
(IN GERMAN) I love you,
Hermine. This is for the best.
(IN GERMAN) The train's
leaving. Say goodbye to Mama.
(IN GERMAN) It's all right. Once you
get healthy again, you'll come home.
- (KISSES)
- (CRIES)
come here, listen to me.
You're going to a good place,
both of you, both of you are.
You'll be safe. You'll be
okay. You'll both be okay.
Like you? (SOBS)
Yes, yes, like me.
Come.
(SNIFFLES)
(SOBS) Okay. Off you go. Off you go.
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CAR ENGINES RUMBLING)
MIEP: Anne? Good morning.
- ANNE: What's wrong?
- Oh, nothing, nothing.
It's almost time to wake up
and I needed to talk to you.
Anne
(SIGHS)
MIEP: Please try and see your
mother a little differently.
And try to think about
not what she does but why.
She just wants to keep
you alive and safe,
and that might mean keeping you
her little girl for a bit longer.
But she loves you.
So much.
More than you could know.
Okay.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
I don't want to set
the world on fire ♪
I just want to start
a flame in your heart ♪
In my heart I have but one desire ♪
And that one is you ♪
No other will do ♪
I've lost all ambition
for worldly acclaim ♪
I just want to be the one you love ♪
And with your admission
that you'd feel the same ♪
I'll have reached the goal ♪
I'm dreaming of believe me ♪
I don't want to set
the world on fire ♪