IN DARKNESS - Script.fdx - Sony Pictures Classics

1
FADE IN
INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT
A nice, middle-class living room with a side bedroom.
Clutching a flashlight, LEOPOLD SOCHA, late 30s, searches,
flinging clothes and underwear from a chest of drawers.
Socha FLICKS open a small penknife, which he uses to SLASH
open a mattress. Feathers float out, as he rummages, looking.
SZCZEPEK, early twenties, also working class, approaches. He
opens his sack for Socha. A small amount of cutlery.
Socha grimaces, getting angrier. Szczepek trains his
flashlight on a beautiful silver cross on the wall, reaching
for it.
PLEASE NOTE: All dialogue is in Polish except where indicated
otherwise.
Look!
SZCZEPEK
Socha grabs Stefek’s arm, shaking his head.
The SOUND of someone approaching the front door. A
questioning look from Socha. Szczepek merely shrugs.
FOOTSTEPS and the sound of giggling. Socha hides behind the
door. Szczepek ducks out of sight.
A male and female figure, slightly drunk, enter the room.
Socha grabs the male and SMASHES him to the wall, as Szczepek
FLICKS on the light.
The male is a skinny BOY of sixteen in a Hitler Youth outfit.
Socha stops in mid-punch, confused. The female screams.
Socha turns to see that the female is also a teenager.
Szczepek and Socha exchange confused glances.
BOY
(in German, to GIRL)
Tell them there’s nothing of value
here.
GIRL
(in Polish, to the men)
His parents are away. They left
nothing valuable here.