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76 EXT. FLIGHT STATION 76
The SS Colonel stops and puts on his gloves. He looks out at
the field.
The trimotor taking off.
The Colonel salutes the plane and smiles.
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77 MONTAGE 77
Stock footage. Black and white images of smiling German
soldiers overturning a border crossing.
CHEERING CROWDS as Hitler marches triumphantly through the
streets of Vienna.
78 INT. SCREENING ROOM 78
Unity, age 33, in her hospital bed in the center of the
screening room. The onscreen images of the Anschluss create
a chaotic vision around her still silhouette.
Hitler is seated in one of the regular seats. He is eating
popcorn and quite enthralled by the movie.
Unity throws a pillow at him. It hits him in the head and
his popcorn goes flying. Unity LAUGHS uproariously.
UNITY
Why didn't you take me! I should never
speak to you again! A whole country
begging for your embrace and me holed up
in a leaky little room in Venice!
Hitler throws the pillow back at her. His smile says "dare
you" and she takes him up on it. They battle with pillows as
the images of joyous Nazis and Austrians dance on the screen.
Throughout the pillow fight, there are SQUEALS OF DELIGHT
from Unity.
UNITY
I know why! I know why! You wanted to
surprise me! You darling Fuhrer!
A pillow explodes. It sends a rain of feathers in front of
the onscreen image of a woman SCREAMING WITH JOY.
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79 EXT. MUNICH STREET - LATE AFTERNOON 79
It is mid-winter. The snow is falling. There are several
shops along the street. One has a smashed window while
another has "Juden" scrawled across its window in white
paint.
An open car drives by. In it are the SS LEUTNANT,a tall,
sharply featured man, the overweight and sweaty FOREMAN, and
Unity.
SS LEUTNANT
This apartment...you realize that it is
not yet vacant.
UNITY
Oh, that's fine. I still have to go back
to London and raid the house at Rutland
Gate. Curtains, tables, chairs.
SS LEUTNANT
A touch of jolly old England.
UNITY
Of course. English traditional with
German modern. The styles match so well.
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80 INT. APARTMENT HALLWAY - A FEW MINUTES LATER 80
A very nice, well-appointed hallway. Unity, The Foreman and
the SS Leutnant are standing outside a beautifully carved
double door. The Leutnant KNOCKS on the door. A small
JEWISH MAN opens it.
LEUTNANT
This district is being evacuated of all
Jews and other undesirables. Prepare
yourselves.
81 INT. APARTMENT 81
Unity brushes past the two with the Foreman in tow. She
begins to look around the room while the Foreman pulls out
his clipboard and begins taking notes.
The apartment is large and contains beautiful, heavily
Germanic woodwork and appointments, including a large
fireplace and fin de siecle furnishings. There is a grand
piano.
JEWISH MAN (O.C.)
But, sir, this...
SS LEUTNANT (O.C.)
Silence. The law is the law and a Jew is
a Jew. You're on the wrong side of both.
JEWISH WOMAN enters. She is carrying a bowl of soup. When
she sees the SS Leutnant, she GASPS and drops the soup.
UNITY
Not on the carpet!
FOREMAN
No, Fraulein. Only on the wood.
The Jewish Man goes to his wife and brings her to the couch.
He tries to calm her by SPEAKING to her quietly but
consolingly. The SS Leutnant pulls out a straightbacked
chair and sits.
Unity picks up a menorah from the mantelpiece. She brings it
over to the piano and puts it on top. She and the Foreman
appraise it for a moment.
UNITY
I don't know. It's awfully flat. It
lacks character.
She turns to the Jewish couple.
UNITY (cont'd)
You wouldn't happen to have something a
bit more dimensional, would you?
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82 EXT. WATERLOO STATION - DAY 82
Smoke pouring from the stack of steam locomotive.
The train pulls into the station. There is a very large
crowd of protestors, all awaiting the arrival of Unity
Mitford. There are several signs being held up. One reads
"Unity the Great Divider" and another, "Death to Hitler and
His Whore". The protestors are kept behind a police cordon.
The train pulls to a stop and a group of reporters rush to
the door of one of the train cars.
Unity steps out. She is wearing her makeshift "handmaiden of
the Reich" uniform and her Nazi Party badge. The reporters
rush her. In the background, the protestors SHOUT INSULTS.
REPORTER 1
Miss Mitford! We hear that you and
Hitler are planning to be secretly
married!
REPORTER 2
What about the reports that you're
carrying his love child?
Unity is clearly thrilled with the attention she's drawing.
She raises her hands.
UNITY
Darlings, I'm not here in any official
capacity. But it is so lovely of you to
welcome me home.
REPORTER 3
Are you here to officially renounce your
citizenship?
UNITY
Whatever for? My goal is to unite
Germany and England in the common cause.
What sense would it make to renounce my
citizenship?
The crowd is pushing against the police line. They are
clearly angry and the police are having a hard time keeping
them in line.
IRATE WOMAN
Nazi whore!
The crowd pushes the woman into the back of a bobby. The
bobby turns and pushes her back into the crowd. This starts
a violent chain reaction.
The reporters continue to SHOUT QUESTIONS and Unity continues
to bask in the attention. The NOISE of the protestors
struggle against the bobbies begins to overcome that of the
reporters. Unity looks over toward the protestors. She
smiles. She turn and looks over the heads of the reporters.
A car with an open door. It is waiting on the edge of the
platform. Next to it stands Robert Shelley as well as
several bobbies. Robert is motioning for her. She just
waves back.
There is the sound of a ROAR. The protestors have broken
through the line and now rush toward Unity.
Robert sees this and also runs toward her. The bobbies
follow him in.
The protestors swarm toward her, SHOUTING INSULTS and
reaching for her.
IRATE MAN
Filthy slut!
He reaches toward her and rips the Nazi Party badge off her
blouse. She doesn't appear to notice this. Her face shows a
mixture of fear and excitement.
Robert makes his way through the crowd. He manages to get
his arms around her. The bobbies surround them and together
they manage to get Unity into the car. The crowd pushes
against it.
83 INT. CAR 83
Robert and Unity are in the back seat. Robert is quite
freaked but Unity looks as though she's just had her first
orgasm. Flushed, a little confused but very excited.
UNITY
Oh my! Is my face red? It feels red.
ROBERT
Are you all right? Did they hurt you?
She lifts her hand to her breast. For the first time, she
notices that the Party badge is missing.
UNITY
No! My badge! Damn!
ROBERT
Unity...
UNITY
But he signed it. Now I'll have to ask
for another. He'll be so upset.
ROBERT
Unity, we...
UNITY
Not because it's stolen but because he'll
think I was in danger. Silly Fuhrer.
ROBERT
Unity!
The sharpness of this takes Unity away from her reverie.
UNITY
Oh, Bobby, don't spoil the moment. Let
it linger a little, will you?
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84 INT. SITTING ROOM, RUTLAND GATE - LATER THAT AFTERNOON 84
A posh, upper-crust, English town manor. The decor is very
post-Victorian masculine with a singular lack of comfortable
looking furniture. Straightbacked chairs and a love seat are
the dominant elements.
Lord Redesdale is reading a newspaper, Lady Redesdale is
crocheting. Unity and Robert sit on the love seat.
UNITY
But, Bobby, a little bit of danger is the
occasional price of being right.
ROBERT
That wasn't "a little bit of danger."
That crowd was out for blood. Your
blood.
UNITY
Farve? Bobby is being dramatic.
LORD REDESDALE
Dramatic.
UNITY
Muv?
LADY REDESDALE
Oh yes. Very dramatic.
LORD REDESDALE
Belongs on a stage.
UNITY
You see? Nothing to be worried about.
Now tell me about you. I want all the
dirty little details.
ROBERT
The Foreign Office sent me to retrieve
you. They knew what trouble would be
waiting. Your Herr Hitler is hardly a
popular figure around here.
Lord Redesdale responds without looking up from his paper.
LORD REDESDALE
Nonsense.
ROBERT
Sir?
LORD REDESDALE
Dump the Liberals? Sack the Jews?
Establish order? Solid Conservative
values.
ROBERT
But those people at the station?
UNITY
Rabble.
LORD REDESDALE
Ignorant, unwashed, useless rabble.
LADY REDESDALE
Rabble from the day they were born.
Fated, poor darlings.
Unity gestures to the room.
UNITY
This is England, Robert. Not all those
people.
Robert looks about the room. It is stately, respectable and
dead.
Suddenly, a rock SMASHES through the window. Robert jumps
but there is little reaction from the rest.
Lord Redesdale rises from his chair and crosses to the rock.
He picks it up and looks at it. There is a note attached.
UNITY
What is it, Farve?
Lord Redesdale looks at the note.
The note: "Go back to Berlin, you lying, bitch Nazi whore."
LORD REDESDALE
(to Unity)
I believe it's for you.
He hands it to her and goes back to his paper. Unity and
Robert both look at it.
ROBERT
And you won't even admit to the danger of
your stand?
UNITY
Of course I admit to it. What you fail
to understand is that the new order is
coming. We must ride the wave of it or
be drowned by it. You must be more of a
realist, Bobby.
ROBERT
Even if I were to believe in your cause,
I would still have to caution you. You
mustn't burn bridges.
UNITY
Bridges are for burning. Anyway, I'd
rather die than go back.
ROBERT
You don't mean that.
UNITY
Oh, yes, Robert. Yes I do.
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85 INT. UNITY'S APARTMENT, MUNICH - A FEW WEEKS LATER 85
It is now furnished very much like an English manor. The
look is quite incongruous with the formal Old World German
architecture.
On the table is a half-eaten birthday cake. Unity is pouting
in a chair. Josef and Magda are seated on the sofa.
UNITY
Why isn't he here?
JOSEF
Unity, liebling, he's preparing his
negotiations for Chamberlain and
Daladier. You know how this Czech
question is weighing on him.
UNITY
Fuck the Czechs! Today is my birthday!
He hasn't even remembered!
Josef reaches into his pocket and pulls out two small
packages. He hands them to her.
JOSEF
He remembered. He asked me to bring
these.
Now girlishly excited, she grabs the packages. She opens the
first one.
It is a new Nazi Party badge. She turns it over and sees
that he has signed it.
UNITY
Oh, my darling!
She rips open the second package. It is a small pistol.
JOSEF
It is the pistol he carried in his pocket
the night of the 1923 putsch. It saved
his life.
UNITY
Beautiful, darling gun.
JOSEF
He told me to tell you to use it without
hesitation the next time the devil comes
to call.
Excited, she stands up and looks about the room. She spots
the menorah on the piano. She takes aim.
UNITY
Shoot the devil!
She FIRES OFF A ROUND and hits the menorah, sending pieces of
it about the room. All LAUGH.
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86 INT. SCREENING ROOM 86
Unity, 33, is still in her hospital bed. She is watching
footage of Daladier and Chamberlain's negotiations with
Hitler over the Sudetenland.
UNITY
I told you! I told you! The English are
with us! I was right! I love being
right! Tell me I was right, darling.
She looks around. Hitler is nowhere to be seen.
UNITY (cont'd)
Darling? Mein Fuhrer?
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87 INT. ADLER HOTEL, MUNICH - DAY 87
The main ballroom, all gold and white. Up at the front, a
small stage. Hitler enters the stage from the right.
Immediately, the silhouettes of a large group rise up from
the bottom of the frame and HEIL loudly. A group of party
officials, including Goebbels, follow him on. The crowd
erupts in CHEERS.
In the crowd are Unity, Janos and Marie and Magda. Unlike
everyone about her, Unity does not seem very happy. Magda,
Janos and Marie, on the other hand, are quite ecstatic.
Janos is pushing Marie's wheelchair back and forth with
excitement.
MAGDA
Unity, darling! The east will soon be
ours! Celebrate!
UNITY
Why won't they let me see him?
JANOS
He has been very busy. Be happy! He has
secured our access to all the profits of
the east!
The crowd shouts "HEIL" again. Unity looks up to the stage.
Hitler is leaving.
UNITY
I have to see him.
She begins to push through the crowd. Janos looks to Marie.
She shrugs. Janos takes off into the crowd.
MARIE
(to Magda)
If only Putzi were here.
88 EXT. HALLWAY 88
Unity pries her way out of the ballroom. Janos is right on
her heels. He stops her before she has a chance to get very
far.
JANOS
Where are you going?
UNITY
I have to find him. I have to know
what's going on.
JANOS
What do you think is going on? You've
finished. Your job is done.
UNITY
My job?
JANOS
You taught him the character of the
English. You see how well you've served
him? We have the Sudetenland and soon,
all of Czechoslovakia.
UNITY
I'm more to him than that. He needs me
more than ever.
She turns away from him and goes to the front desk. Behind
it stands a young DESK CLERK.
UNITY (cont'd)
In what room will I find mein Fuhrer?
DESK CLERK
Fraulein?
UNITY
Mein Fuhrer, mein Fuhrer! What room is
he in!?
The Desk Clerk hits a BELL. Two uniformed GUARDS appear.
GUARD 1
You must leave, Fraulein.
GUARD 2
Now, Fraulein.
She steps back and pulls off her Party badge. She flashes
the signature at them. They are unimpressed.
JANOS
I suggest you listen to them, dearest.
Unity flashes the badge at him. He shrugs, not unkindly.
Janos takes her by the hand and leads her out onto the
street.
89 EXT. STREET 89
They come out of the hotel. Unity has to stop to catch her
breath and her thoughts. Janos lights a cigarette. He hands
it to her.
UNITY
No...thank you. I don't smoke.
JANOS
That's right. He doesn't approve.
UNITY
Why does he hate me?
JANOS
He does not hate you. He has far bigger
places to spend his hatred. You have
always said that you were put on this
earth to serve him. You have. You
should be happy.
UNITY
It's not over. There is no alliance with
England.
JANOS
There's as much of one as he needs...at
the moment.
He touches her cheek with his hand. For a moment, she begins
to melt a little. Not much, but enough for Janos. She pulls
back and wipes her eye.
UNITY
I must see him.
Janos considers a moment.
JANOS
Our room is on the same floor. I'll take
you up the back stairs.
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90 INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR - A FEW MOMENTS LATER 90
Janos waits at the end of the hall as Unity approaches
Hitler's room. Two ARMY GUARDS stand outside.
UNITY
He's expecting me.
The two Guards look at each other. They are confused.
Unity removes her Nazi Party badge and shows it to them. Not
really knowing what else to do, one of them KNOCKS on the
door.
Hitler comes to the door. He opens it halfway. He is
shirtless but still wearing his jodhpurs and boots.
HITLER
What?
When he sees Unity, he betrays no feeling.
HITLER
Yes, Fraulein Mitford?
UNITY
I need to see you. It's very important.
Hitler nods his head and pushes the door open.
There is a large canopy bed dominating the room. In it lies
Eva. She is naked with the bed sheet pulled up to her waist.
Her hands are bound to the opposing bed posts and there is a
uniformed SS MAN seated on a chair next to the bed. In spite
of the binding, a smiling Eva manages to wave hello with both
of her hands.
EVA
Good day, Fraulein Mitford.
Eva GIGGLES. Hitler shrugs and walks back to the bed. He
motions to the SS MAN who gets up and crosses to the door.
He nonchalantly closes it in Unity's face.
Unity steps back from the door, very shaken. Janos comes
forward. Before he gets there, Unity lets loose. Suddenly,
violently she begins to BEAT at the door. She YELLS but her
words are incoherent. The Guards grab onto her.
JANOS
Bring her to my room.
Janos runs ahead and unlocks the door. They drag her down to
Janos room.
91 INT. JANOS' ROOM 91
The Guards push her into the room. It is a reverse mirror
image of the one in which Hitler is staying. The Guards pull
the door shut, leaving Unity and Janos alone.
Unity falls on the bed. She is CRYING uncontrollably. Janos
sits next to her and puts his arms as much around her as
possible. She leans into him.
He kisses her lightly. He begins to press this advantage but
Unity pulls away with some resolve. The two look at each
other a moment and Unity begins to CRY again, now more
softly. She reaches for him and pulls him close. She
whispers in his ear.
UNITY
Advance.
Janos climbs on top of her. The act is completely quickly.
Unity's tears have stopped but so, apparently, has any other
feeling. She whispers in his ear.
UNITY (cont'd)
Retreat.
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92 INT. HITLER'S SUITE 92
Unity, age 33, is in the hospital bed which now replaces the
canopy bed. Otherwise the suite is the same.
Hitler is asleep face down, his head against Unity's breast.
She strokes his hair.
UNITY
I forgive you, darling. Men are ruled by
their passions and great men have great
passions. Only a woman can be truly
rational in the face of such things.
Hitler stirs and she shushes him.
From somewhere off-screen, we hear a deep, beautiful baritone
voice begin to SING "Isn't It Romantic."
Unity looks about the room for the source of the singing.
On the wall facing the foot of the bed is the portrait of
Hitler in Teutonic armor that was on the wall of Fraulein
Baum's classroom. It is the Hitler in the portrait who is
singing. This Hitler turns and sings directly to Unity.
A violin begins to accompany the singing.
Unity looks to another portrait. It is of Hitler in his
Tyrolean uniform. This Hitler is playing the violin. He
nods and smiles to Unity.
Unity smiles delightedly. She turns to the other side.
Hitler is now standing next to the bed. He is wearing a
cutaway. He holds out his hand to Unity.
Blushing, she extends her hand. Hitler takes it and kisses
it. He leads her off the bed.
They waltz romantically to the music. As they do so, the
walls of the room seem to melt into a black void leaving the
hospital bed as the only object of reality.
Stars appear about them. The singing melts to a male chorus
of the same song. Unity, in a state of romantic bliss, looks
to the floor.
The floor is dotted with life-sized heads of Hitler, all
singing the chorus. Unity and Hitler dance in and around the
singing heads. They are laughing in orgiastic delight.
Hitler twirls Unity. As she spins, the singing, the heads,
the stars and Hitler all disappear. Only the violin
continues.
She stops and looks around. She is alone. And terrified.
UNITY (cont'd)
Advance!
This word, extended, bleeds into the next scene along with
the violin.
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93 INT. HOFGARTEN GAZEBO, MUNICH - A FEW MONTHS LATER 93
A beautiful stone gazebo open at six points. It sits in the
center of a formal garden just off the Odeonsplatz.
Unity sits on one of the stone benches against the wall. She
is smoking. A VIOLINIST is PLAYING "Isn't It Romantic?" for
this audience of one.
TITLE:
"1939. Munich"
Robert Shelley enters. Unity greets him without much
enthusiasm.
UNITY
Hello, Robert.
ROBERT
Hello, Unity. I thought you stopped
smoking?
UNITY
What brings you to Munich?
ROBERT
Well, you, actually.
UNITY
Is that so?
She rises and walks out into the garden. Robert follows her
out.
94 EXT. GARDEN 94
They walk down one of the paths. The flowers are quite
beautiful and colorful.
ROBERT
Yes, your parents have asked me to convey
a message.
UNITY
And what's that?
ROBERT
They've spoken with your cousin, Winston
Churchill. He's gaining a good deal of
favor at the moment. It seems he's been
able to mend a few fences. They want you
back.
Unity stops and takes out another cigarette. She tries
lighting it but her lighter fails. Robert takes out a match
and lights it.
ROBERT (cont'd)
Did you hear what I said?
UNITY
Yes. On a boat? To a train? To a car?
Winny can't hide the crowds at each stop.
Unless they've forgotten me?
ROBERT
No, they haven't.
UNITY
It doesn't matter. I can't go back. I'm
not done here.
ROBERT
With what? What's your purpose here?
UNITY
They don't know him. He needs me to help
him bring England and Germany together.
Our destiny was carved a long time ago.
ROBERT
It's over. We're on a path now and
there's nothing you can do to change it.
It's up to the professionals. Come home.
You need the rest. Your parents need to
see you. Please.
UNITY
I have much work to do. I have to go
now. Thanks ever so for visiting. Love
to Muv and Farve.
Reflexively, Unity raises her arm.
UNITY (cont'd)
Heil.
She walks away. Robert is left alone to watch her leave.
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