IN DARKNESS - Script.fdx - Sony Pictures Classics

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EXT. STREET - LATER
VARIOUS VOICES (O.S.)
(in Yiddish)
Is a Feldman here? Naomi...are you
there? Rothfield? Mama? Mama?!
Dawn. Socha traipses through a deserted street, the air acrid
with smoke from the nearby ghetto. His face is pinched.
The terrible silence is interrupted by the CLIP CLOP of a
horse DRAGGING a wooden wagon. Full of corpses, various ages,
with Jewish stars, some with mouths frozen open in terror.
Socha hurries on, rounds the corner. He almost collides with
four Ukrainian militiamen, eyes feral from the killing
frenzy, uniforms flecked with blood.
Startled, one of them raises his rifle, ready to shoot.
Socha’s hands fly up. The militiaman COCKS his rifle anyway.
SOCHA
(in Ukrainian)
Don’t shoot! Not a Yid!
(then)
I know Bortnik, Anton Bortnik!
Another MILITIAMAN gently pushes his comrade’s rifle down.
MILITIAMAN
(to his comrade, in
Ukrainian)
Anton’s cleaning up the ghetto.
EXT. GHETTO STREET - LATER
"IN DARKNESS" SCRIPT 25.
A German soldier KICKS IN the door of a ruined building and
throws in a grenade which EXPLODES.
The militiamen march Socha, hands still in the air. The RAT-
TAT-TAT of machine guns punctuate the silence.
MILITIAMAN
(in Ukrainian)
Hey, Bortnik! This Polack says he
knows you.
Bortnik is with a couple of other militiamen. A pile of dead
bodies in the corner of a courtyard. One of the policemen
pulls someone out of the staircase and SHOOTS him in the
head.