"The story of this film is based on the actual events - so called around the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd (rabbit chase)" "January 1945, Mauthausen In block N20, 500 Officers of the Red Army were doomed to death The prisoners were deported to Mauthausen because they had refused to to fight on the side of German army." "Get up!" "Get up." "Go!" "On!" "Get out!" "Mikhail, Mikhail, get up!" "(Russian) In one month, the block 20 will be completely annihilated" "Strasser" "In single file!" "(Russian) Hey!" "Now!" "Comrades   Da, da, da, And world is full of dangers..." "[from 'Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht' song] Cheers mates!" "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "(Russian) Quiet!" "Quiet!" "Friends, to run from this hell..." "That is no good" "Who knows, maybe the war is over at last..." "Fredl, what happens?" "Are you ready?" "Yes, yes." "I'm coming." "Volkssturm rally" "This time you can't avoid" "Up until now other people risked their neck for you" "You can go, I'll find the only myself..." "Mitzi is still sleeping?" "What's going on?" "There is no fire" "Who raised an alarm?" "Is the war?" "They shot wildly." "That comes from Mauthausen" "Tonight from the Mauthausen camp five hundred criminals have broken out." "They have fled to the north, So also in this area." "All available men of the Volkssturm Wehrmacht soldiers absent on leave, firefighters, police and Hitler Youth... have to participate in the search!" "In no case the prisoners can be harbored" "The offenders will be liquidated on the spot." "Arm yourselves." "Örtsgruppenobmann!" "[The head of the local NS organization)" "Yes, sir!" "Here is the division, break them down into search parties." "People!" "Take no prisoners." "Do away with them!" "I will be very disappointed to have prisoners" "Bravo!" "Quite right." "You're the policeman." "You must protect us from these criminals!" "Leave me alone!" "Adam, you go with them:" "I need somebody reliable there." "These criminals did nothing wrong to me" "Be careful, keep a watch on your tongue" "I cannot carry a gun, I have a sciatica" "You go with them!" "You know what you have to do ..." "Well, then let's go!" "We see and hear nobody" "And we have nothing to do with captured..." "Is that clear?" "Fredl, why don't you help us?" "Why are you standing here?" "Let's go!" "I'm useless for you, I can't see anything you can't rely on this man!" "I must add you where there are couple of strong, reliable men." "That's already done." "So what's wrong then?" "I'll buy a bottle of schnapps for each who..." "So, now it's your turn!" "My fingers are itchy!" "You!" "There is no fun..." "We hunt them like rabbits!" "What are you doing with the potatoes?" "If anyone comes along ..." "Stay at home, today's bad time for going out!" "As long as our boys at war, I'll go to church every day!" "Do you think the little girl should see this..." "(Russian) What are you doing!" "Go away from there!" "It's useless, we will not survive" "There!" "Hi!" "They will pay us for that!" "I am not a KZ, I am one of you." "fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six fifty-seven ..." "Father, it's so awful" "Fredl, be a man!" "I see nothing anyway" "Do not leave the house today, and do not let in anybody!" "what if somebody needs us?" "We have nothing to do with this matter - from whatever side." "Bolt a bar on the door." "Keep the door closed!" "and if anybody ask, tell that the father is in the sawmill" "Lock it properly!" "Is anyone thirsty?" "Yes, always" "There's Most [local drink]!" "Aah" "What a swine am I!" "Here one is running there!" "What do we do with him?" "As it was said: shoot immediately" "You can't wait to do it?" "Do not shoot, please, please" "Do it yourself, if you said it" "We'll take him to the SS they are already doing this" "You two bring him there" "Go!" "Alarm!" "Alarm!" "Three men are running there!" "Alarm!" "In the East last weeks a fierce battle for Germany is going on" "It demands from soldiers and German people largest sacrifices seen in history" "At every point of battle-front the enymy has to deal with our infantry." "In difficult conditions, thousands of people have to leave their homes and belongings and escape the Mongol invasion to the West." "Through the Eastern German cities go the caravans of refugees and groups of Soviet prisoners." "(Russian) There is no sense anymore." "It does not matter how they kill us" "Beat us to the death or killed in the gas chamber or kill at the front" "That's just propaganda" "We know that it will end soon" "She is a Ukrainian" "Don't worry, we'll do nothing bad to you." "We are compatriots." "You have to help us." "Can you hide us well?" "There is no safe place here" "I love you" "He will let no one go" "Thank you!" "Moment!" "He needs shoes" "Whom do we have here?" "Why is he not already dead?" "Come" "In the neck" "You cannot imagine this" "I won't participate in this anymore" "I won't go to this hunt, never again." "You will!" "or you want them to send you to the front?" "They can do with me whatever they want." "I will not go there anymore" "You know how they call it?" "Rabbit hunt!" "Pssst!" "Hei, Pssst!" "Psst!" "Hey, Psst!" "Sssss!" "Nikolai!" "Hei!" "ssssst" "(Russian) She hurted me!" "Yes, let's go from here" "It is a good opportunity to run from here" "Ou!" "we need to disappear.." "Up there, there is an open field there" "We need to leave the village I'll go there, I'll go there!" "Andrei!" "Go with us, Andrei!" "Andrei!" "Andrej Oh!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "we go!" "Get up, get up!" "41, 42, 43, 44, 45 46, 47 .." "forty-eight ..." "(Russian) Leave me here, let me lie here" "While we are alive and on feet, We must run" "We have to go" "such nice houses, but only Nazis and Fascists we must knock on one of these houses, otherwise we will not survive" "We need help" "Help or death." "My heart says: "this house there"" "If they arrest you, let me know, cry out, so I can run away" "Yes" "Be ready, father, we are already late" "I Ukraine, interpreter Linz go back to Ukraine" "I already know who you are" "You need not fear" "My God, what a sight you are!" "What do they do to you?" "Please eat" "Come on!" "No fascists?" "You need not be afraid" "My own five boys are at war" "I want them all to come home again and you also have a mother who wants you back home" "Please mother, please help" "You have heard it" "I have heard what" "You've heard it right" "Is there one?" "Yes" "One has arrived" "Father, please don't anything to him, we'll keep him" "If the SS finds him with us then they will put us all against the wall if the Lord wills, we'll get through it" "You want to feed him as well?" "We should not ask this:" "if all our boys would be at home they would also need..." "That won't do!" "That won't do!" "Father, a day or two at least." "Until the hunt is over." "Do what you want." "You do what you want anyway" "But then you take also all the responsibility for all of us" "You need not be afraid, I will not hurt you" "You can stay" "Sit down, eat!" "Where is your friend?" "Do not know, do not know." "Forest walk" "Tell me, where is your friend" "Perhaps hay, sleep a comrade" "There is one in the hay" "Have you taken decision" "It will be all right" "They will arrest all of us!" "Should we send them away?" "This is for you and for your comrades" "Nikolai!" "Nikolai!" "(Russian) Everything is fine" "We are safe." "I have soup for you" "Nkolai, Nikolai, Nikolai?" "Later, Nikolai is tired" "Are you ready?" "Then we go" "We have yet a lot to finish off." "Now they come to us" "You should kill them immediately, these criminals" "I've got nothing to finish off, I won't join you, get lost!" "Berghammer, wait!" "Fredl will go now" "Fredl!" "You have to go, I beg you" "I'm tired, I just want to sleep more" "Please u go now!" "It is not only about you anymore." "You must not participate, yes you can pretend" "What happen?" "Volkssturm" "Comrades kaput?" "Fredl not!" "But today nothing is going on" "Yesterday I caught two" "Braggart!" "Well Fredl, you've already done one?" "Did you ever come across one?" "They are not guilty in anything if they take something it's just food and clothes" "There!" "Stay there!" "Stay there!" "Let them run" "I caught one!" "You guys are crazy." "You do not know what you're doing" "Anything else?" "If you had a piece of fabric for Adi?" "He needs a new pair of pants" "At the moment, unfortunately, no." "People should sacrifice Only after the victory" "Victory?" "Yes, yes." "It will be soon" "Why don't you fight at the front then?" "You know that I have a weak heart" "They're just too fainthearted!" "Mummy, what do they do there?" "Rabbit hunt ..." "Go!" "Get out!" "What do you do with them?" "If you're too fainthearted!" "Who gives you the right for?" "Take no prisoners, it was said." "Go!" "Enough is enough!" "Get out!" "Down!" "(Russian) What are you doing?" "twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine ..." "Mikhail, Nikolai!" "Food." "Good morning" "Good morning" "Why KZ, why camp?" "We were captured in war, in the camp they say..." "You've got to fight for German Army" "I say nyet, I will not betray my country" "We came to this camp" "Go quietly!" "Do you go to church now?" "Good morning" "Is something going on up there?" "Good morning" "Now it's over, it's over with us." "What do we do, father?" "Shut up!" "There are dishes in hayloft." "If somebody would find the dishes..." "Nani.Nani!" "you have to run back, tell the Mitzi, they should hide well and clear the dishes." "Come on, run!" "Kid!" "Does anybody else live there?" "The Lord gives us freedom and we provide evidence of what man is capable of" "For good, or for evil" "Does not it mean that a man is capable to sympathize with his neighbor?" "Is it only the cowardice that permits no mercy?" "I can't recognize many of our parish anymore" "Amen." "God bless you" "I believe in God the Father Almighty" "Creator of heaven and earth ..." "Nani!" "Nani, what is there looking for?" "Come on!" "They should not see you." "Not even animals are treated like this have you seen anybody?" "At our place there was nobody" "Go on, we should be ready, when mom comes" "Search!" "Search!" "Search!" "Mikhail, Nikolai?" "Tell him he must go." "The Volkssturm is coming." "Bang bang, bang!" "You must go." "The Volkssturm comes and shoots you." "Tell them I want a cigarette and something to write." "He wants something to write and a cigarette." "He must hurry, then he has a chance" "Faster!" "Please go, it's dangerous for us" "You should go, they are afraid!" "Give this to my mother, when you come home" "Except food anything else was stolen?" "Clothing and shoes" "What were they exactly?" "A jacket of mine" "Where did he go?" "We have not seen anyone and the tracks that go from here?" "Why are you not in search group?" "I am on duty, I write down the thefts." "You should help us catch the criminals!" "There he is, go!" "Get up!" "Take it off!" "Take his clothes" "Please hide" "I can not help you, It won't do." "I'm pissed off, I'm cold" "You have no idea how it was in Russia" "You can go on, I need to piss" "Let him go, he has done you nothing" "Eat or be eaten." "So it is in the nature" "But we are humans" "And?" "He shot to us too." "Now we are the stronger" "Look at him!" "Have you no mercy at all?" "We all must die one day and you decide when?" "He has done nothing" "That is very bad!" "Very good, one more..." "You kill him!" "Leave the boy out of this game" "I can not, and I do not" "Come back here, the heads are attached weakly" "He's a coward!" "What did he ever do to you!" "What a milksop you are" "Arrest this man." "Take him to the Gestapo office in Linz!" "what do you accuse him of?" "Arrest this man!" "A pig!" "He should be home already" "When it is dark, they can no longer search" "I felt that something should go wrong" "Look, there he is" "Hello!" "You do not need to be afraid of me." "We know each other long enough." "Since you're back from the hospital, you became quite a different" "A person to be scary of, and not to be happy with" "Why did I come after all..." "Fredl has been arrested by the SS." "But why?" "What has he done?" "He thought he must not participate" "What do we do now?" "I must be in the Gestapo in Linz, tomorrow early morning" "And what will be with those two?" "Again, nobody is allowed to come along with me a living person." "Slay them wherever you find them, stab them, strangle them, hanged them or for Christ's sake shoot them" "But dont'bring me a living one!" "Everything should be searched again!" "Every hayloft, every barn" "They are always in twos or threes, and they hide everywhere" "Therefore, every henhouse, every winecellar, every attic should be searched again" "I want to get them all." "No one may survive!" "Go!" "I have found noone in the Gestapo who is responsible for you" "Close your mouth and don't even blink" "Otherwise we both are lost!" "Thank you!" "get lost at last" "Stay here!" "We have to go, it is too dangegous for you" "This does not make sense, it does make Fredl come back" "Thank you!" "Thank you!" "Hello, is someone there?" "Hello?" "Fredl?" "Fredl!" "Why are you there?" "Why not?" "They want to go" "Thank you!" "Thank you" "That's out of the question." "You stay here..." "Fredl can't stay here, it's too dangerous" "He must be hiding somewhere else" "At least one night" "I must..." "Hey, what?" "stay here!" "Wait!" "Greetings to him, he should hide you until everything is over here" "Look out!" "The SS comes!" "Come in!" "Do you want something to eat?" "Heil Hilter!" "Sit still!" "God bless to everyone!" "God bless!" "God bless!" "Mom, I think they are thirsty" "And hungry?" "Psst" "Do you want something to eat?" "Hasso, seat!" "So!" "take it!" "So much food!" "But it wasn't necessarily" "Enjoy your meal!" "That is what I agree with, a good meal!" "I think I'm gonna look around the house don't be so gloomy" "Of course you get something too." "A good dog" "I guess you should have them all by now?" "A couple of them are still missing" "(From the Radio) The Battle of Vienna is in full swing." "In the north, the Soviets captured Klosterneuburg" "And they firmly hold the southern Mödling" "Hide yourself up!" "There's someone here!" "Why are you here?" "It is too dangerous for to hide me He is not brave enough." "I'd have guessed, only one time in life when we need him..." "My God, and we thought God knows who is coming" "You are so diligent, herr Lehmberger" "Yes, yes!" "We should not let down, not now" "Your I.D.?" "Nix, card lost" "(Russian) prekrasnij den, a beautiful day prekrasnij den" "prekrasnij den" "prekrasnij den how to say "girl" in Russian?" "What?" "Girl." "Mitzi Girl" "Ah!" "Dewushka" "Dewushka?" "Dewushka!" "Dewushka" "Dewushka" "Dewushka" "Eh time has come at last when you are back!" "I always wanted to see, how you do it." "Hello Mitzi, you are always hardworking" "And you have time to walk?" "Whom do you there?" "I wish I hide one there, because I have one at war" "Whom do you want to have?" "You ask, stupid!" "A man of course" "Why do not you look at me?" "because I only have one hand?" "Ah, go!" "Hello, neighbor" "Hello, Berghammer" "Say, whom has Mitzi in the barn?" "Whom do you mean?" "Ah, that one!" "Father brought one from the factory, for helping" "Aha!" "You haven't said that" "What is between them two?" "How did that come into your mind?" "She behaves like..." "She does?" "The mother heard something bad yesterday." "The front is already in Lower Austria" "Heil Hitler!" "Good day!" "What's up?" "Only you are here?" "Mhm" "And the chief?" "He has to bring away a few things" "I want to make a denunciation" "Yes, I am responsible for this." "At Karner's place there is a person." "I think he is one that left after the rabbit hunt a concentration camp inmate" "I'll handle this." "Anything else?" "So, out, guys, quick!" "The war is over, the war is over." "You're happy, right?" "I'm glad it's over" "Lehmberger!" "Lehmberger!" "He shot seven, he told that himself in the inn!" "Lehmberger?" "Let's go!" "Mitzi, I will stay with you forever, if you want" "You've got to go home, Mikhail, to your mother" "So!" "Take a seat please" "Come, come." "Back together!" "Here you go ..." "Yes!" "Wonderful!" "We're ready" "Yes!" "Smile please!" "People smile on photo, it is modern" "There is no dignity." "It's stupid" "In America, everyone smiles when making photos" "We do not smile" "9 of the 500 prisoners that were in so called "Mühlviertler rabbit hunt" survived." "Mikhail and Nikolai returned to their homes and are still living in the former Soviet Union."