Son of Saul Page #5

Shooting Draft April 25, 2014

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Saul goes toward the doorway leading to the gas chamber.

Inside, Hirsch and another PRISONER of the Sonderkommando are

cleaning the floor.

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Saul kneels down and scrubs the floor. +

SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish)

Hungarians?

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HIRSCH:

(in Yiddish)

Who?

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SAUL:

(in broken Yiddish)

This transport?

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HIRSCH:

(in Yiddish)

No. Maybe.

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The prisoner next to them intervenes. +

PRISONER I:

(in Yiddish, low)

Some other camp.

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Feigenbaum loses his patience, he takes a few steps toward

Saul, makes a threating move with his arm.

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The momentum of the move suddenly stops and Feigenbaum stops.

Saul looks up and sees a serious face with commanding eyes.

This is ABRAHAM WARSZAWSKI.

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Feigenbaum turns away. +

Abraham comes to Saul and kneels down. He scrubs and looks at

Saul.

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CUT TO:

6 INT. KREMATORIUM - TUNNEL - DAY - LATER

Saul and Abraham stand in front of the lift as it comes down +

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They start piling bodies in it. They glance at each other.

In the background men of the Sonderkommando close the door of

the tunnel that leads to the undressing romm and the gas

chamber.

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Shooting Draft April 25, 2014

11.

A tall and robust man, around 30 years old, the Jewish

Oberkapo named ELIEZER BIEDERMAN comes down from the stairs

next to the lift to inspect the ongoing operations. He keeps

on tapping a decorated tin box with a rolled cigarette. He

wears an armband adorned with a blue star of David, on which

the letters of the word OBERKAPO have been sewn in black.

He nods at Abraham, and goes toward the closed door where

other Sonderkommando PRISONERS are waiting. Abraham follows

Biederman.

Saul follows him. Abraham looks at Saul, surprised.

SAUL:

(in Hungarian, whispers)

I’ll help you.

Abraham reaches Biederman before the door. They start

whispering. On the other side of the door, hundreds of

footsteps can be heard. All the men wait at the door, staring

down.

A guard opens the door.

Abraham goes to the doorway. Saul follows suit.

ABRAHAM:

(in Hungarian, whispers)

Forget the food. The shiny only.

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7 INT. KREMATORIUM - UNDRESSING ROOM / PASSAGE / EXIT AREA -

DAY:

With lowered head, Saul and Abraham enter the undressing

room. Biederman stops in the doorway and talks to the GUARD.

Some men are already busy taking the clothes from the racks.

They throw everything to the centre of the hall.

Other prisoners sort out the personal objects found in the

pile of small-size bundles stacked up on the floor.

Some of them are putting the food they find in their pockets.

Saul and Abraham take some clothes, inspect them then throw

them onto the floor.

Saul leaves Abraham and goes in a corner, where documents are

laid out on the floor.

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