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Previously on Genius...

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STUDENT:
Walther Rathenau is dead.

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What sort of animals
would do this?

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He was coming to dinner
on Sunday.

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ERNST: It's only because
my customers requested it.

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Everyone has a choice, Ernst.

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I want to leave, Albert, please.

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We're not going anywhere, Elsa.

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There's already
much discussion

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of a Nobel.

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Relativity is a hoax.

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It isn't grounded in any
concrete discovery.

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You want to pay me
for a divorce?

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MAGISTRATE KONIG:
Mileva Maric

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is to retain full custody
in Zurich.

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MILEVA:
You idolized your father,
Eduard,

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but he was never there
and I could see

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how painful that was for you.

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Tell Papa I want to see him.

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WEYLAND:
Albert Einstein has engaged

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in a profit-grubbing promotion

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as our country suffers
deprivation and indignity.

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Einstein obviously desires
a public battle.

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It's time I enlisted
some public allies.

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(shouting)
Stay down!

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Elsa, you're right; it's time.

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(phone rings)

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Hello.... It's the United
States embassy.

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GEIST: I am conducting this
inquiry at the request

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of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover.

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What does he want with me?

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*

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(clock ticking)

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(bell dings quietly)

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WOMAN (whispering):
Osip...

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Osip, go wash before
your brothers wake.

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MAN:
Go. Go, go, go, go, go.

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(footsteps quickly approaching)

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Get the kid.
(woman screams)

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Everybody up! Against the wall!

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OSIP (crying): Mama.
WOMAN: What, what is this?

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What have we done?
Shut your mouth, kike.

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OSIP:
Mama!

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Stop resisting!

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WOMAN:
Please, please.

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He didn't do anything.

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(crying):
Please, please.

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PALMER:
Almost 3000 subversives
taken into custody,

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from 33 cities
in 23 different states.

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Well done, Mr. Hoover.

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The majority were
known anarchists, sir,

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but we arrested a number
of socialists as well.

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We sent a strong message to
these immigrants that threats

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to the American way of life
will not be tolerated.

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Interrogations
are in progress.

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Deportations will begin
imminently.

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And these reports of abuse?

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The only publications
giving them any ink

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are communist rags. Heh.

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You got a bright future
ahead of you, Edgar.

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Thank you, sir.

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GEIST:
I'm conducting this inquiry

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at the request
of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover,

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director of the United States
Bureau of Investigation.

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Hoover?
Yes.

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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.

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What does he want with me?

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He's been quite interested
in your political activities

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and affiliations since your
first visit to New York.

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So if you do not
answer my questions

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to his satisfaction,

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you will not be granted entry
to the United States of America.

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I don't have to
put up with this.

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ELSA:
Albert, sit down.

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No. I will not.

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The land of the free,

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isn't that what you call it?

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I've devoted my life
to freedom of thought,

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to peace for all peoples.

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And your American director
of espionage

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is concerned about
my affiliations?

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I meant no offense.
I'm not here to accuse you

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of anything, sir,
I'm merely here

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to ask questions.
Really?

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Or are you desperate for the
next rung on the ladder?

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Albert, please.
Flattered to be asked

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to interrogate the famous
Dr. Albert Einstein

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with visions of promotion
in your head?

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Albert!

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Please excuse my husband's
outburst, Mr. Geist.

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Uh, let's return to the subject

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of your former wife,
Mileva Maric.

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When did you last speak?

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Thursday, I think.

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And what did you discuss?

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We discussed our son,
Eduard.

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He's not been well.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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Are you acquainted

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with Miss Maric's brother?

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(scoffs)
I met him 20 years ago.

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I've not seen him since.

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Are you aware
he now resides

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in the Soviet Union?

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(chuckles)
She might have mentioned it.

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And to your knowledge,
has she ever visited him there?

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She has not... to my knowledge.

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Let's move on, shall we?

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How did you come to know
Chaim Weizmann?

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Oh, I see.

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This is a one-way street

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we are driving down, is it?

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The Weizmanns are
old friends of ours.

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Excuse me, Mrs. Einstein.

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The question was for
your husband.

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How did you come to know
Chaim Weizmann?

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EINSTEIN:
It's all right, Chaim,

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you can admit
you don't understand.

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WEIZMANN:
Albert, you have been explaining
general relativity

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for more than three hours,
and I am fully convinced

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that you understand it.
(Einstein chuckles)

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(sighs)
I anticipated

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that many would struggle
to comprehend my theory,

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but I must admit, I've
been a little taken aback

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by the jeers and the snubs,

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particularly from
the Nobel committee.

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There will always be resistance
to revolutionary ideas.

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But we've proved it with
mathematics, with astronomy.

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WEIZMANN: Some people see
a beautiful proof,

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others a damning repudiation.

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That's why certain scientists
loathe you,

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while the rest of the world
has fallen hopelessly in love.

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It's unpleasant sensation
to be beloved,

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not for your ideas,

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but for the image
people have of you.

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Of course, your fame also
affords us an opportunity.

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Chaim, if this is an attempt
to recruit me

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to the Zionist cause,
you should save your breath.

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Albert...
No.

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We have just barely
made it through

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the death and
destruction of the war.

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You cannot ask me to support
the creation of a new nation

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that will inevitably bring us
to war again.

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The world's Jews are in
desperate need of a refuge.

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But is Palestine the answer?

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It is not uninhabited land.

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You should visit
with me someday.

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You'll find our Arab friends
living in harmony

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with our Jewish brothers
and sisters.

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The Arab people will
rise up to resist

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such in influx of newcomers.

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It's not a matter
of "if", but "when."

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Will you join me upstairs?

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There's something
I'd like to show you.

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WEIZMANN:
Kill the Jews.

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That was their battle cry...
1903.

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The day after the
Russian Orthodox Easter.

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They celebrated
resurrection

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then brutally murdered
hundreds of our people.

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This was but one
of many pogroms.

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Ukraine, Poland,

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even Argentina.

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Babies ripped
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Slaughtered.

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My God.

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So, of course, they fled.

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As our ancestors did from Egypt.

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To Berlin, to London,
to Chicago,

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Minneapolis, New York.

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And what did they find
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Squalor, pestilence.

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Blamed for the ills
of the nations

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in which they sought refuge.

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Last year, the attorney general
of the United States

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ordered raids that rounded up
thousands of Jews,

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accusing them of
anarchism and radicalism.

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An excuse to deport them.

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When I tell you that

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our people are desperate for
a home, it is not harsh words

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from jealous colleagues
they are fleeing.

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Nor a snub from
the Nobel committee.

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It is endless
death and destruction.

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There are dozens of nations
hospitable to Arabs.

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But our tribesmen?

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They have nowhere to go.

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I sail for the United
States next week

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to raise money for a Hebrew
university in Palestine.

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Come with me.

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ELSA:
I should never have let you
go to dinner with Chaim.

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I knew this would happen.

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You are providing ammunition
to those fools who believe

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that Jews
cannot be good Germans.

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I've never aspired to be
a good German.

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Well, this does not
concern only you.

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No, it doesn't.

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It concerns legions of our
people who are suffering.

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And you're going to rescue them
all with Chaim's university,

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are you?
Elsa, I know you are not
this cold-hearted.

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And what about Brussels,
the Solvay Conference?

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You're the only German
scientist invited,

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and you're simply
going to cancel?
Four years of carnage.

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Now I should be the one
who is supposed to heal

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all the wounds
of the war?

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And Eduard,

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you're going to miss
his piano recital.

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I'll take him sailing
this summer.

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He'll understand.

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To you, this is
a chance to do good.

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To the rest of the world,
it is-- it's a famous man

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putting his race
above his country.

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And your enemies
will use it against you.

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How the world sees me,
it's not important to me.

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I wonder if you'll
feel the same way

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should the world
turn against you.

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("The Stars and Stripes Forever"
begins)

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(reporters clamoring)

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REPORTER 2: Dr. Einstein, how
long will you stay...

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(clamoring continues)

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REPORTER 3: Sir!
REPORTER 4: Professor!

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He can't answer
if he can't hear!

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Uh, you, sir.

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Professor Einstein, can you
explain the theory of relativity

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in one sentence?

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All of my life I've tried
to put it into one book

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and this fellow wants it
in a single sentence.

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(laughter)

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(reporters clamoring)

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You, there.
Will you be giving
any lectures

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while you're here?
EINSTEIN:
Yes.

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We have many scheduled,
but I am here primarily

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to support a Jewish
university...
Dr. Einstein

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will lecture
at Princeton,

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and then visit Harvard.

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REPORTER 5:
Do you believe
Zionism does more

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harm than good?

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No. That is foolish thinking.

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Well, then what do you say
to those who believe

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Jews should assimilate
into American society?

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I say it is a Jewish weakness,

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trying always to keep
the gentiles in good humor.

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(laughter)
Dr. Einstein is here
to raise funds

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for a university.

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Education is a
boon to all.

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Thank you very much.

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(upbeat march playing,
overlapping chatter)

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EINSTEIN:
I don't appreciate

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anyone doing my
talking for me!

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Tell her, Chaim. You brought me
here to speak out,

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not to trot in front of the
press like some circus animal.

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Chaim brought you here
to advance the cause.

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Insulting American Jews
is not an effective approach.

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Elsa's right.

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As I told you, most of
them are assimilationists,

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especially the
wealthy ones.

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So we shouldn't attempt
to change their minds?

256
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By calling them weak?
I was asked the question!

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And I told you how to answer it.

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"Education is
a boon to all"

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is not an answer.

260
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You and I are in
agreement, Albert.

261
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We should not have to give
up any part of ourselves

262
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in order to be
treated as equals.

263
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But we need their money.

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I took the liberty of
writing some remarks

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for you for tomorrow.

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SVANTE:
Tell me, Dr. Lenard,

267
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why should we deny Einstein
the Nobel this year?

268
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My case remains the same.

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Theoretical physics is
the purview of con artists.

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They are like... Cubist
painters... (laughs)

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...unable to render
form decently,

272
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convincing the world
their scrawlings are high art.

273
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I quite like
the little Spanish chap.

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(laughs)

275
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There is no science

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but that which can be
explored experimentally.

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Albert Einstein, unpalatable to
you though he may be, Philipp,

278
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is the most famous scientist
in the world.

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To deny him
the Nobel again-- well,

280
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some might say we are beginning
to look like fools.

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(scoffs)

282
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(crowd cheering)

283
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Thank you very much.

284
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EINSTEIN: Thank you.
Thank you so much.

285
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WOMAN:
God bless you, Einstein.

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Thank you very much.

287
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BOY:
Dr. Einstein!

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EINSTEIN:
Thank you.

289
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Dr. Einstein! Dr. Einstein!

290
00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:09,124
Hey, kid! Where do you think
you're going?

291
00:13:09,156 --> 00:13:10,586
Dr. Einstein!

292
00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:12,163
Where the hell do you think
you're going, huh?

293
00:13:12,192 --> 00:13:13,262
Dr. Einstein!
You bastard!

294
00:13:13,293 --> 00:13:15,633
Please, sir,
let him go.

295
00:13:17,998 --> 00:13:20,228
Are you all right, young man?

296
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To build a home
for the Jews.

297
00:13:37,517 --> 00:13:39,117
I cannot take it.

298
00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:43,892
They took my father away.
They said he was dangerous.

299
00:13:46,026 --> 00:13:47,156
Please.

300
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I want him to have home.

301
00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:56,000
What is your name?

302
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Osip.

303
00:13:58,738 --> 00:14:01,168
Thank you, Osip.

304
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I promise
I'll make good use of it.

305
00:14:06,546 --> 00:14:08,346
(applause)

306
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EINSTEIN:
Thank you for coming.

307
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As a young Jewish man

308
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with dreams of discovering the
mysteries of the universe...

309
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...I was lucky

310
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to have many
inspiring professors.

311
00:14:24,932 --> 00:14:26,532
Well, the truth is,

312
00:14:26,566 --> 00:14:28,696
most of my professors thought
I would not grow up

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to accomplish much of anything.

314
00:14:31,038 --> 00:14:33,038
(audience laughs)

315
00:14:43,083 --> 00:14:46,893
I have not been
the best of Jews.

316
00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,360
Before today, I had not set foot
in a synagogue in years.

317
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But now, I've come to believe

318
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a university
that celebrates our heritage

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is essential to the future
of our youth.

320
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Today, I am here with you to
celebrate our Jewish heritage

321
00:15:06,139 --> 00:15:08,109
as special and of value.

322
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Unique.

323
00:15:11,411 --> 00:15:12,581
(audience murmurs)

324
00:15:12,612 --> 00:15:13,982
Some people think
it is dangerous,

325
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defining ourselves as different.

326
00:15:16,483 --> 00:15:19,953
Blend in, they say.
Do not stand out.

327
00:15:19,987 --> 00:15:23,317
Do not ask questions
of authority.

328
00:15:23,356 --> 00:15:27,086
To me, they sound suspiciously
like my stuffy old professors.

329
00:15:27,127 --> 00:15:29,797
(audience laughs)

330
00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:32,729
We deserve to be accepted.

331
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Our heritage,
our faith,

332
00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:38,405
our traditions
and history.

333
00:15:38,438 --> 00:15:42,078
Why must we assimilate?

334
00:15:42,109 --> 00:15:44,909
There is no justice
in that.

335
00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:47,984
Only loss.

336
00:15:48,015 --> 00:15:50,015
Our people

337
00:15:50,050 --> 00:15:52,150
have sacrificed enough.

338
00:16:11,204 --> 00:16:12,974
(coins dropping)

339
00:16:18,645 --> 00:16:20,705
(applause fades)

340
00:16:31,191 --> 00:16:33,031
GEIST:
So the trip wasn't a success?

341
00:16:33,060 --> 00:16:34,960
People were not as generous
as we had hoped.

342
00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:36,904
EINSTEIN:
That's not true, Elsa.

343
00:16:36,929 --> 00:16:39,199
There was that little boy, Osip,
who gave me a nickel.

344
00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:42,373
And the poor woman
in the Bronx

345
00:16:42,402 --> 00:16:45,472
who dropped her wedding ring
in the donation box.

346
00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:47,065
Who knows?

347
00:16:47,107 --> 00:16:49,737
Maybe one day, we'll
bump into her again

348
00:16:49,776 --> 00:16:51,836
and we can buy her a new one.

349
00:16:51,878 --> 00:16:55,078
ELSA: My husband's
optimism is one of his

350
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most admirable
qualities.

351
00:16:56,549 --> 00:16:58,149
Right, then.

352
00:16:58,185 --> 00:17:00,745
Um...

353
00:17:00,787 --> 00:17:02,817
were you aware of
any persons at these rallies

354
00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:04,355
who held subversive beliefs?

355
00:17:04,391 --> 00:17:05,991
EINSTEIN:
Well, I was there.

356
00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:07,255
ELSA: Oh, Albert.
And what subversive beliefs

357
00:17:07,294 --> 00:17:09,234
do you hold,
Dr. Einstein?

358
00:17:09,262 --> 00:17:11,262
Well, they're mostly
established facts now.

359
00:17:11,298 --> 00:17:13,528
Things like the existence
of molecules,

360
00:17:13,566 --> 00:17:15,096
the notion that
gravity bends light,

361
00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:16,495
tiny...
Sir,

362
00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:17,896
I was referring to
your political beliefs,

363
00:17:17,937 --> 00:17:19,707
not your scientific ideas.

364
00:17:19,739 --> 00:17:20,769
But I think
you knew that.

365
00:17:20,807 --> 00:17:22,207
You do?

366
00:17:22,242 --> 00:17:23,612
Because you chose two words

367
00:17:23,643 --> 00:17:25,613
which can mean many things.

368
00:17:25,645 --> 00:17:29,015
Communists, socialists,
anarchists.

369
00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:30,548
Were you aware of
their presence at...

370
00:17:30,583 --> 00:17:32,393
I didn't take a survey
at the door.

371
00:17:33,953 --> 00:17:35,593
If you're going to
accuse me of something,

372
00:17:35,622 --> 00:17:39,762
Mr. Geist, please,
let's get to the point.

373
00:17:39,792 --> 00:17:41,532
Very well.

374
00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:44,261
Dr. Einstein, the United
States government

375
00:17:44,297 --> 00:17:45,597
has reason to believe
that you are

376
00:17:45,632 --> 00:17:47,232
a member of the Communist Party.

377
00:17:47,267 --> 00:17:49,437
Oh.

378
00:17:56,609 --> 00:17:58,779
GEIST: "Albert Einstein
advises, advocates,

379
00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:00,381
"or teaches
individual resistance

380
00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:01,913
"to all accepted
authorities--

381
00:18:01,948 --> 00:18:03,918
"whether it be a question
of peace or war,

382
00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:05,250
"government or religion,

383
00:18:05,285 --> 00:18:08,655
mathematics or anthrology..."

384
00:18:08,688 --> 00:18:10,488
She must have meant
anthropology.

385
00:18:10,523 --> 00:18:11,923
ELSA:
May I see that,

386
00:18:11,958 --> 00:18:13,088
please?

387
00:18:19,366 --> 00:18:22,296
The Women's Patriot Corporation.

388
00:18:24,671 --> 00:18:28,311
You mean to tell me
that we are being interrogated

389
00:18:28,341 --> 00:18:31,581
because a gaggle
of honking geese wrote a letter?

390
00:18:31,611 --> 00:18:32,651
The Women's Patriot
Corporation...

391
00:18:32,679 --> 00:18:34,079
EINSTEIN:
Frothingham?

392
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:37,823
Frothingham, that can't
possibly be a person's name.

393
00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:39,950
Mrs. Frothingham
and her compatriots

394
00:18:39,986 --> 00:18:42,786
are concerned American citizens.

395
00:18:42,822 --> 00:18:44,292
Director Hoover
feels their findings

396
00:18:44,324 --> 00:18:45,934
are worthy
of being taken seriously.

397
00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:47,588
Well, these geese are
right about one thing:

398
00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:49,127
I do have a contempt
for authority.

399
00:18:49,162 --> 00:18:50,502
Oh, it's true.

400
00:18:50,530 --> 00:18:53,030
The surest way to get my husband
to do what you want is to

401
00:18:53,065 --> 00:18:54,425
tell him not to.
Dr. Einstein...

402
00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:56,167
EINSTEIN:
Mrs. Frothingham

403
00:18:56,203 --> 00:18:59,343
suggests here that relativity is
of no more practical importance

404
00:18:59,372 --> 00:19:00,842
than the number
of angels

405
00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:03,683
dancing on the head of a pin.

406
00:19:03,710 --> 00:19:05,110
How many angels do you,

407
00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:06,454
or Mrs. Frothingham,

408
00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:08,449
imagine could fit

409
00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:10,381
on the head of a pin...
(laughs)

410
00:19:10,417 --> 00:19:13,087
...and still have room to dance?

411
00:19:15,154 --> 00:19:16,624
I suggest you treat me

412
00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,856
and these proceedings
with some respect.

413
00:19:18,891 --> 00:19:20,131
You're not making it

414
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:22,089
easy for me.

415
00:19:25,064 --> 00:19:28,874
Well, let's get back to
the matter at hand, shall we?

416
00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:32,171
Are you in fact a member
of the Communist Party?

417
00:19:32,205 --> 00:19:35,005
(laughs)

418
00:19:35,041 --> 00:19:37,211
Well, Mr. Geist,

419
00:19:37,244 --> 00:19:40,984
despite my deepest sympathy for
certain socialist ideals...

420
00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:41,983
Such as?

421
00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:43,354
EINSTEIN:
Economic fairness,

422
00:19:43,383 --> 00:19:45,223
the belief that it is
our duty as humans

423
00:19:45,252 --> 00:19:46,852
to contribute to
our communities.

424
00:19:46,886 --> 00:19:49,386
But the notion that I should
join the Communist Party--

425
00:19:49,422 --> 00:19:52,692
a commitment that would require
I surrender my autonomy

426
00:19:52,725 --> 00:19:53,985
to the authority
of the state--

427
00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,426
that, good sir,
is a nonsense.

428
00:19:56,463 --> 00:19:59,873
A monkey in a hat riding
a dog to a donut factory.

429
00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:02,369
(Elsa laughs)

430
00:20:02,402 --> 00:20:06,572
Well, I'm concerned
that neither of you are...

431
00:20:06,606 --> 00:20:09,506
appreciating the gravity
of this situation.

432
00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:11,742
I dare say I know
a bit more about gravity

433
00:20:11,778 --> 00:20:13,108
than you, Mr. Geist,

434
00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:15,875
and a few
other things besides.

435
00:20:15,915 --> 00:20:18,145
How long have you
lived in Berlin?

436
00:20:19,786 --> 00:20:21,186
A little over two years.

437
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:23,760
What do you think
about Mr. Hitler?

438
00:20:23,790 --> 00:20:25,890
Oh, he's unpleasant.

439
00:20:25,925 --> 00:20:27,355
But in the grand scheme
of things,

440
00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:28,804
he seems little more
than a nuisance.

441
00:20:28,828 --> 00:20:31,628
EINSTEIN: I don't
understand you, Mr. Geist.

442
00:20:31,664 --> 00:20:33,274
Hitler rejects
economic rule

443
00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:36,200
and talks of expanding
German territory.

444
00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:38,935
He advocates for eugenics.

445
00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:42,241
Who are the impure ones
he speaks of, do you think?

446
00:20:44,277 --> 00:20:46,307
I would like to leave Germany
of my own accord

447
00:20:46,346 --> 00:20:49,976
and save him the trouble
of violently exiling me.

448
00:20:50,016 --> 00:20:51,716
Or worse.

449
00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:54,551
Do you really think the German
people would stand for that?

450
00:20:54,587 --> 00:20:57,487
The government deporting the
world's most famous scientist?

451
00:20:57,524 --> 00:21:00,934
Jewish scientist.
I'm a Jew.

452
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,730
Zionism, communism...

453
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:05,163
these are not the threats

454
00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:06,797
that should be concerning
you, Mr. Geist.

455
00:21:06,833 --> 00:21:09,943
It's fascism that should
have you trembling.

456
00:21:11,938 --> 00:21:13,308
Dr. Einstein,
we're getting off...

457
00:21:13,340 --> 00:21:14,810
EINSTEIN:
Tell me,

458
00:21:14,841 --> 00:21:17,681
have you heard
of Walther Rathenau?

459
00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:21,310
RATHENAU: You know,
it's five years

460
00:21:21,348 --> 00:21:22,618
since I've looked
at this.

461
00:21:23,650 --> 00:21:25,620
(sighs):
And I...

462
00:21:25,652 --> 00:21:27,452
I hardly remember writing it.

463
00:21:27,487 --> 00:21:31,757
"That which produces harmony
in the chorus of the universe

464
00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:35,261
can seem a discord to
our partial hearing."

465
00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:36,604
These words,
they're beautiful.

466
00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:38,299
Thank you.

467
00:21:38,331 --> 00:21:40,971
So, how can you write about
freedom for the human spirit,

468
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,200
and yet still be
opposed to Zionism?

469
00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:46,805
(sighs) If I wanted
to hear someone call me

470
00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:48,639
a traitor to the Jews,

471
00:21:48,675 --> 00:21:51,805
I would have invited
your friend, Weizmann.

472
00:21:51,844 --> 00:21:53,014
EINSTEIN: I still
don't understand why

473
00:21:53,045 --> 00:21:54,105
you won't speak
out for us.

474
00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:57,216
Even if I agreed
with your cause,

475
00:21:57,249 --> 00:21:58,789
Albert,

476
00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:01,148
do you really think

477
00:22:01,187 --> 00:22:03,687
that my speaking out
would make it any better?

478
00:22:03,723 --> 00:22:05,193
EINSTEIN: You are
the most powerful Jew

479
00:22:05,224 --> 00:22:08,194
in Germany; your voice
would make a difference.

480
00:22:08,227 --> 00:22:09,997
The Gentiles respect you.

481
00:22:10,029 --> 00:22:11,629
Yeah, and how long

482
00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:12,904
do you think
that respect will last

483
00:22:12,932 --> 00:22:14,632
if I put my religion
above my nation?

484
00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:16,537
Oh...
Already,
the radicals

485
00:22:16,569 --> 00:22:17,869
are blaming me

486
00:22:17,904 --> 00:22:20,244
for Germany's paying
war reparations.

487
00:22:20,272 --> 00:22:21,542
I am foreign minister

488
00:22:21,574 --> 00:22:23,244
in a difficult time.

489
00:22:29,682 --> 00:22:31,382
Thank you for this.

490
00:22:37,223 --> 00:22:39,563
Are you still coming
for dinner on Sunday?

491
00:22:39,592 --> 00:22:42,332
If Elsa is making
the roast.

492
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:44,131
She will.

493
00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:50,597
You'll never be
one of them.

494
00:22:54,741 --> 00:22:58,041
EINSTEIN:
Walther was a German patriot.

495
00:22:58,077 --> 00:23:00,277
Still, they slaughtered him
like an animal.

496
00:23:00,312 --> 00:23:03,422
Minister Rathenau was
assassinated a decade ago.

497
00:23:03,450 --> 00:23:06,720
Yes, it has been ten years.

498
00:23:06,753 --> 00:23:08,923
And since then, your
stock market has crashed,

499
00:23:08,955 --> 00:23:10,355
people are out of work,

500
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,289
starving.

501
00:23:12,324 --> 00:23:16,464
Hitler promises jobs, bread,
pride to desperate people.

502
00:23:16,496 --> 00:23:19,996
Why is it so hard to believe
they might follow him?

503
00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:26,114
Mrs. Einstein, would
you please excuse us?

504
00:23:26,138 --> 00:23:28,938
No, I think not.

505
00:23:28,975 --> 00:23:30,775
My wife and I
have no secrets.

506
00:23:30,810 --> 00:23:32,710
Well, I'm afraid I cannot
continue the interview

507
00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:35,345
with Mrs. Einstein in the room.

508
00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:46,556
Why don't you go home

509
00:23:46,593 --> 00:23:49,003
and finish the packing.

510
00:24:11,183 --> 00:24:12,383
(door closes)

511
00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:17,317
Please...

512
00:24:17,356 --> 00:24:19,156
tell me about Betty Neumann.

513
00:24:19,191 --> 00:24:21,791
She worked for me.
She no longer does.

514
00:24:21,828 --> 00:24:23,358
Mm.

515
00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:26,765
I have a very efficient woman
handling my affairs now.

516
00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,699
Miss Dukas.

517
00:24:29,736 --> 00:24:31,336
Perhaps not as attractive

518
00:24:31,370 --> 00:24:33,210
as Miss Neumann,

519
00:24:33,239 --> 00:24:34,969
but I need a good secretary...
Secretary?

520
00:24:35,007 --> 00:24:37,677
Was that the full extent of your
relationship with Miss Neumann?

521
00:24:37,710 --> 00:24:39,750
You mean was I
intimate with her?

522
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,420
Sexually?

523
00:24:45,552 --> 00:24:50,392
I was. But what does that
got to do with anything?

524
00:24:50,422 --> 00:24:54,832
Men who have been indiscrete
are vulnerable to blackmail.

525
00:24:54,861 --> 00:24:57,301
A communist operative
could pressure you...

526
00:24:57,329 --> 00:25:00,529
No one is going to
pressure me about Betty.

527
00:25:00,567 --> 00:25:03,637
You better start walking.

528
00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:05,840
Are you throwing me out?

529
00:25:05,872 --> 00:25:07,342
The opera?

530
00:25:07,373 --> 00:25:09,683
You've been looking
forward to it all week.

531
00:25:09,709 --> 00:25:11,079
You'll miss the curtain.

532
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:13,150
I'm only going
if I can wear a disguise.

533
00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:15,549
Don't be ridiculous.
I have to.

534
00:25:15,582 --> 00:25:17,422
Because I'm either
Dr. Albert Einstein,

535
00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:20,149
or I'm that dirty Jew
who broke physics.

536
00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:21,586
I've been those things
for so long,

537
00:25:21,621 --> 00:25:24,361
I'm beginning to forget
who I started out to be.

538
00:25:26,258 --> 00:25:28,228
Have you seen this?

539
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:32,160
Lenard's latest,
condemning general relativity

540
00:25:32,198 --> 00:25:34,398
as wild speculation,

541
00:25:34,433 --> 00:25:36,103
propped up
by the Jewish press,

542
00:25:36,135 --> 00:25:38,535
signed by 19 physicists.

543
00:25:38,571 --> 00:25:40,041
Good ones?

544
00:25:40,072 --> 00:25:42,912
No.
Well, then...

545
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:02,863
My dear, I thought you

546
00:26:02,895 --> 00:26:05,095
would have gone on to
the opera without me.

547
00:26:05,131 --> 00:26:07,201
Sit.

548
00:26:07,233 --> 00:26:10,973
I'm sorry. I was delayed.

549
00:26:11,003 --> 00:26:12,713
I should have called.

550
00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:14,639
Or asked Betty to do so.

551
00:26:17,677 --> 00:26:21,577
Maybe she was
otherwise engaged.

552
00:26:21,614 --> 00:26:24,654
Between your thighs perhaps?

553
00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:30,615
This is nothing, with Betty.
A momentary escape.

554
00:26:30,657 --> 00:26:32,827
Some pleasure to numb

555
00:26:32,859 --> 00:26:35,999
the world's constant
pull upon me.

556
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:38,598
It has nothing to do
with our life.

557
00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:40,801
You are a selfish man.

558
00:26:40,833 --> 00:26:44,273
You have convinced yourself that
your contributions to the world

559
00:26:44,303 --> 00:26:46,673
absolve you from
the responsibility you bear

560
00:26:46,706 --> 00:26:49,676
to those you claim to love.

561
00:26:49,709 --> 00:26:51,509
They do not.

562
00:26:51,543 --> 00:26:53,313
I've never said that.

563
00:26:53,345 --> 00:26:57,175
Your actions speak for you.
You don't listen.

564
00:26:57,216 --> 00:26:58,316
I do.

565
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:01,850
I don't feel safe, Albert.

566
00:27:01,888 --> 00:27:05,088
And I have told you this
over and over again.

567
00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:07,334
And still, you fan the flames
with Chaim,

568
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,029
insisting that we stay here.

569
00:27:09,061 --> 00:27:10,461
For what, pride?

570
00:27:10,496 --> 00:27:12,866
The cause is important,
so is my work here.

571
00:27:12,899 --> 00:27:15,629
Your sons haven't
seen you in months.

572
00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:18,268
Yes, well, things have been...

573
00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:20,644
Things are always.

574
00:27:26,245 --> 00:27:30,175
I love this life,

575
00:27:30,216 --> 00:27:32,946
but I will not be treated
as an afterthought in it.

576
00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:36,985
So I will make
a bargain with you.

577
00:27:37,023 --> 00:27:40,733
You may engage in as many
dalliances as you like,

578
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,400
but when you have made
a commitment to me,

579
00:27:44,430 --> 00:27:46,670
I come first.

580
00:27:46,699 --> 00:27:50,199
And to prove it to me,
you will take me away from here,

581
00:27:50,236 --> 00:27:54,866
at least for a month
or two, and soon.

582
00:27:54,907 --> 00:27:58,277
This is not negotiable.

583
00:28:10,122 --> 00:28:12,292
Elsa.

584
00:28:14,126 --> 00:28:15,586
You made me.

585
00:28:15,627 --> 00:28:17,527
I was a lump of clay,

586
00:28:17,563 --> 00:28:19,403
and you shaped me.

587
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:23,071
I'm not sure I'd still be alive
if you hadn't taken me in.

588
00:28:25,071 --> 00:28:28,811
I should never have treated
you with such disregard.

589
00:28:31,944 --> 00:28:35,184
From the bottom
of my heart,

590
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:38,384
I'm sorry.

591
00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:46,460
EINSTEIN:
Elsa knows everything,

592
00:28:46,492 --> 00:28:49,102
so there's no threat
of blackmail, Mr. Geist.

593
00:28:49,128 --> 00:28:51,458
I see.
There's so much
about the world

594
00:28:51,497 --> 00:28:55,067
Elsa has always understood
more keenly than I.

595
00:28:55,101 --> 00:28:57,041
The shifts and moods
of the culture,

596
00:28:57,069 --> 00:29:00,639
she sees such things
the way I see calculations.

597
00:29:02,942 --> 00:29:06,082
If it were me and me alone
I had to worry about,

598
00:29:06,112 --> 00:29:09,722
I probably would have lived
a more reckless life.

599
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:13,048
I owe Elsa
a great deal,

600
00:29:13,085 --> 00:29:16,255
so I did as she asked.

601
00:29:16,288 --> 00:29:20,228
I gave my attention to science,
lectures, conferences.

602
00:29:20,259 --> 00:29:23,259
I accepted the offer
to go to Japan.
(jazz music playing)

603
00:29:23,295 --> 00:29:25,965
We sailed far from Germany.

604
00:29:25,998 --> 00:29:28,168
I cannot deny
the skill involved,
(knock on door)

605
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,940
but it's a little
too erratic for me,

606
00:29:29,969 --> 00:29:31,969
this modern music.

607
00:29:32,004 --> 00:29:34,244
Thank you.

608
00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:36,943
*

609
00:29:36,976 --> 00:29:38,376
Thank you.

610
00:29:42,982 --> 00:29:46,422
ELSA:
Albert.

611
00:29:46,452 --> 00:29:47,692
They've done it.

612
00:29:47,719 --> 00:29:49,519
They've given you
the Nobel Prize!

613
00:29:49,555 --> 00:29:52,755
So they've finally run out
of excuses?

614
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,431
If we disembark
at the next port,

615
00:29:55,461 --> 00:29:57,701
we can make it to Sweden
in time for the ceremony.

616
00:29:57,729 --> 00:29:59,429
Ah.

617
00:29:59,465 --> 00:30:02,765
Let them present the medal
to an empty chair.

618
00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:05,301
I know you detest
the committee, but...

619
00:30:05,337 --> 00:30:07,707
They refuse to acknowledge
relativity.

620
00:30:07,739 --> 00:30:09,039
What?
But they cannot ignore me,

621
00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:10,535
so I'm being
given the prize

622
00:30:10,576 --> 00:30:13,176
for my paper on the
photoelectric effect.

623
00:30:13,212 --> 00:30:15,382
Really?
My dearest Elsa,

624
00:30:15,414 --> 00:30:17,554
I know care not one
whit about physics,

625
00:30:17,583 --> 00:30:18,683
but let me remind you,

626
00:30:18,717 --> 00:30:20,987
this paper
would not have existed

627
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:23,390
without the work
of Philipp Lenard.

628
00:30:23,422 --> 00:30:26,332
(gasps):
Oh, my.
(laughs)

629
00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:28,188
He's going to lose his mind.

630
00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:32,872
Welcome to the Nazi Party,
Dr. Lenard.

631
00:30:32,899 --> 00:30:34,969
We are honored to
have you in our ranks.

632
00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:36,841
The honor is entirely mine.

633
00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:40,665
EINSTEIN:
I'd hoped when we returned home

634
00:30:40,706 --> 00:30:42,836
that the mood
would have cooled,

635
00:30:42,875 --> 00:30:45,235
and I could have continued
my work with Chaim,

636
00:30:45,277 --> 00:30:47,477
but Elsa wouldn't have it.

637
00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:51,923
So the great Albert Einstein
bends to authority after all?

638
00:30:51,951 --> 00:30:53,821
(chuckles)

639
00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:56,062
Who knew you had a sense
of humor, Mr. Geist?

640
00:30:57,789 --> 00:31:00,929
If my wife had her way, we would
never have returned to Germany.

641
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,260
And sitting here today,
I rather wish we hadn't.

642
00:31:04,296 --> 00:31:06,026
Why did you?

643
00:31:06,065 --> 00:31:09,195
I like my study,
with all my things just so.

644
00:31:09,235 --> 00:31:13,805
My tobacco shop, where Ernst
always has my favorite blend.

645
00:31:16,108 --> 00:31:18,308
I was settled.

646
00:31:19,912 --> 00:31:23,852
I'm not quite sure
how all of that happened.

647
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:26,892
A settled man is never
what I set out to be.

648
00:31:32,758 --> 00:31:35,558
So...

649
00:31:35,594 --> 00:31:38,204
your contention is
that you gave up

650
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:39,870
your political activities
entirely,

651
00:31:39,898 --> 00:31:42,568
and devoted yourself
only to your science?

652
00:31:42,601 --> 00:31:44,741
Mm.

653
00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,070
(bell jingles)
Ernst, my good man.

654
00:31:47,106 --> 00:31:50,876
Ah, two tins of the usual,
Professor?

655
00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:53,279
Indeed. And I would like
you to meet my good friend

656
00:31:53,312 --> 00:31:56,322
and thorn in my scientific
side, Dr. Niels Bohr.

657
00:31:56,348 --> 00:31:57,478
(clears throat)
Hello.

658
00:31:57,516 --> 00:31:59,286
An honor to
meet you, sir.

659
00:31:59,318 --> 00:32:00,888
Ernst, are you familiar with

660
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:03,319
Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle?

661
00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:05,585
(chuckles)
I can't say

662
00:32:05,624 --> 00:32:07,164
that I am, Professor.

663
00:32:07,193 --> 00:32:08,663
Well, it states that
the more accurately we measure

664
00:32:08,694 --> 00:32:10,564
the velocity of a particle,

665
00:32:10,596 --> 00:32:14,866
the less accurately we can
measure its position in space.

666
00:32:16,502 --> 00:32:20,612
So you know exactly how fast
a thing is going...

667
00:32:20,639 --> 00:32:24,839
Yes, but if we do, we cannot
also know where that thing is.

668
00:32:24,876 --> 00:32:26,646
Does that sound logical to you?

669
00:32:26,678 --> 00:32:28,248
No, sir.
Of course not.

670
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,350
And according to my
esteemed colleague,

671
00:32:30,382 --> 00:32:33,792
the particle does not exist
at all until we observe it.

672
00:32:33,819 --> 00:32:36,619
That makes absolutely
no sense to me.

673
00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:38,015
Exactly!
(mouths)

674
00:32:38,057 --> 00:32:39,987
Thank you, Ernst.

675
00:32:41,060 --> 00:32:43,460
Shall we stop by
your butcher's as well?

676
00:32:43,495 --> 00:32:45,425
Perhaps he has an opinion
on the matter.

677
00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:48,104
Ha, ha, ha, very amusing.

678
00:32:48,134 --> 00:32:51,104
Albert, the uncertainty
principle works, it functions.

679
00:32:51,137 --> 00:32:54,307
And it allows us to make use
of the quantum world.

680
00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:56,780
The goal of scientific
pursuit should not be merely

681
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:58,978
to make use of
the world around us,

682
00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:02,211
it should be to understand
it, fundamentally.

683
00:33:02,248 --> 00:33:03,948
No matter what
use it might be.

684
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,982
Albert, Albert, watch out!
(horn honks)

685
00:33:09,221 --> 00:33:12,791
Just watch where
you're going, please.

686
00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:16,204
Why should I?
Why should either of us?

687
00:33:16,228 --> 00:33:18,828
According to you, if that
automobile was a particle,

688
00:33:18,864 --> 00:33:20,974
but we didn't see it,

689
00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:22,969
it wouldn't have
been there at all.

690
00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:24,501
(horn honks)

691
00:33:24,536 --> 00:33:27,506
We would be perfectly safe.

692
00:33:27,539 --> 00:33:31,909
Automobiles aren't
subatomic particles, Albert.

693
00:33:31,943 --> 00:33:33,653
EINSTEIN:
Niels, it defies common sense

694
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:36,349
that the rules which govern
those things we can see

695
00:33:36,382 --> 00:33:40,552
do not apply
to those we cannot.

696
00:33:42,054 --> 00:33:44,094
I will not turn off
my brain simply because

697
00:33:44,123 --> 00:33:46,093
you've decided the
matter is settled.

698
00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:48,555
Well, if you don't start using
your brain to observe what's

699
00:33:48,594 --> 00:33:51,234
right in front of you, you're
going to get yourself killed.

700
00:33:51,263 --> 00:33:53,203
Hmm.

701
00:33:53,232 --> 00:33:55,932
Did you read his speech?
From Nuremburg?

702
00:33:55,967 --> 00:33:57,767
Yeah, he's an
egomaniacal swindler.

703
00:33:57,803 --> 00:33:59,673
No one takes
him seriously.

704
00:33:59,705 --> 00:34:01,235
EINSTEIN: I'm beginning to
wonder if perhaps we should.

705
00:34:01,273 --> 00:34:03,843
Well, I didn't come here
to discuss politics.

706
00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:06,275
Of course not. Oh...

707
00:34:06,312 --> 00:34:08,112
I've been thinking.

708
00:34:08,147 --> 00:34:11,077
What if we imagined
a box full of light,

709
00:34:11,117 --> 00:34:13,447
and we placed a precise
number of protons

710
00:34:13,485 --> 00:34:15,215
inside the box.

711
00:34:15,254 --> 00:34:18,424
We weigh a single one of them,
and let it out.

712
00:34:18,457 --> 00:34:20,057
What happens?

713
00:34:20,092 --> 00:34:21,532
GEIST:
Sorry. One more time.

714
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,960
These particles,
smaller than we can see,

715
00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:25,455
even with a microscope,

716
00:34:25,497 --> 00:34:28,567
are measurable only as...
probabilities,

717
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,970
where they might exist in space?

718
00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:31,401
How fast they might be going?

719
00:34:31,437 --> 00:34:32,597
Very good.

720
00:34:33,839 --> 00:34:35,739
So it's a game
of chance, then?

721
00:34:35,774 --> 00:34:36,984
A mathematical guess?

722
00:34:37,008 --> 00:34:38,608
According to Bohr.

723
00:34:38,644 --> 00:34:41,984
But I do not believe God
plays dice with the universe.

724
00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:44,583
You know, in all this talk
of your being a Jew,

725
00:34:44,616 --> 00:34:46,246
this is the first time
you've mentioned God.

726
00:34:46,285 --> 00:34:48,245
That's another one of
those words

727
00:34:48,287 --> 00:34:50,087
that can mean
many different things.

728
00:34:50,122 --> 00:34:52,262
But you do believe in God?
If I say no,

729
00:34:52,291 --> 00:34:54,961
will it prove I'm a communist?

730
00:34:54,993 --> 00:34:56,163
(chuckles softly)

731
00:34:56,195 --> 00:34:57,825
What I believe...

732
00:34:57,863 --> 00:35:02,573
is the universe
is so extraordinary,

733
00:35:02,601 --> 00:35:05,701
only God could have created it.

734
00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:11,239
My job is simply to figure out
how He did it.

735
00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:13,407
(chuckles)

736
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:16,105
What about you, Mr. Geist?

737
00:35:16,148 --> 00:35:18,278
Are you a religious man?

738
00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:21,288
I was raised Methodist.

739
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,690
Are you still?

740
00:35:24,223 --> 00:35:27,663
Well... Mother was
the true believer.

741
00:35:27,693 --> 00:35:29,133
(chuckles)

742
00:35:29,161 --> 00:35:31,301
Every holiday, she
would make extra food,

743
00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:34,030
and she'd pile me and my
brother into the Studebaker

744
00:35:34,065 --> 00:35:35,625
with all the dishes,

745
00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:37,497
and we'd drive across town
to the train station.

746
00:35:37,536 --> 00:35:39,306
That's where all the men
who were out of work went

747
00:35:39,338 --> 00:35:40,608
to get warm.

748
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:44,479
And we would
serve them all plates.

749
00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:47,280
I used to think we must be
the richest family in town

750
00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:49,983
to be able to give up so much
when no one else did.

751
00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:54,323
Your mother sounds
like a wonderful woman.

752
00:35:54,353 --> 00:35:55,723
She was.

753
00:35:59,425 --> 00:36:02,185
I thought about her when
you spoke about the wedding ring

754
00:36:02,228 --> 00:36:04,798
dropped in your donation box.

755
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,830
That sounded like
something she would do.

756
00:36:08,867 --> 00:36:10,197
How did you end up here?

757
00:36:12,371 --> 00:36:14,011
I wanted to be of service.

758
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,080
You are your mother's son.

759
00:36:17,108 --> 00:36:19,348
She would've preferred
I become a minister.

760
00:36:21,447 --> 00:36:25,877
I suspect she was proud
of you nonetheless.

761
00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:27,417
(knock on door)

762
00:36:27,453 --> 00:36:29,393
ELEANOR: Call for you,
Mr. Geist.

763
00:36:29,421 --> 00:36:31,361
Take a message
please, Eleanor.

764
00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:33,790
It's Director Hoover.

765
00:36:42,568 --> 00:36:44,568
*

766
00:36:53,645 --> 00:36:56,105
(chanting and marching outside)

767
00:37:02,954 --> 00:37:06,994
(indistinct chanting)

768
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:26,410
(soldiers shouting in German)

769
00:37:26,445 --> 00:37:27,975
HITLER:
...against the conniving,

770
00:37:28,013 --> 00:37:30,723
corrupt, incompetent Jew.

771
00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:31,979
EINSTEIN:
Elsa.

772
00:37:32,017 --> 00:37:33,247
Elsa.

773
00:37:34,953 --> 00:37:36,793
You're right.

774
00:37:36,822 --> 00:37:38,992
It's time.

775
00:37:41,293 --> 00:37:42,993
Oh, well...

776
00:37:43,028 --> 00:37:45,998
um...

777
00:37:46,031 --> 00:37:48,101
I'll, um...

778
00:37:48,133 --> 00:37:49,773
I'll call Princeton.

779
00:37:55,341 --> 00:37:58,011
I'm sorry.

780
00:37:58,043 --> 00:38:01,153
You have nothing
to apologize for.

781
00:38:01,179 --> 00:38:03,449
I knew you would make
the right decision.

782
00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:05,122
Why did I take
so long?

783
00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:08,550
(sighs) For all our
travels together...

784
00:38:09,788 --> 00:38:12,658
for all the places
we've seen,

785
00:38:12,691 --> 00:38:16,761
I've never actually lived
anywhere but Germany.

786
00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:19,695
And I thought I was too
old for new adventures.

787
00:38:19,731 --> 00:38:21,371
Oh, no.

788
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,940
Two spring chickens like us?

789
00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:26,299
We'll be pecking at
each other for years.

790
00:38:31,176 --> 00:38:33,176
ELSA:
We'll be all right. All of us.

791
00:38:33,211 --> 00:38:36,211
Hans Albert could come with us.

792
00:38:36,247 --> 00:38:37,617
Eduard...

793
00:38:37,649 --> 00:38:39,349
I-I don't know.

794
00:38:39,385 --> 00:38:40,845
It pains me to say it,

795
00:38:40,886 --> 00:38:43,146
but I think he's in
the best place for now.

796
00:38:43,188 --> 00:38:45,158
Switzerland is safe.

797
00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:46,960
What about Margot and Ilse?

798
00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:50,332
They're determined to
make their lives here.

799
00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,662
Perhaps they will
change their minds

800
00:38:52,698 --> 00:38:55,928
once they see how happy
a person can be in New Jersey.

801
00:38:58,870 --> 00:39:01,010
It'll take us
a little time

802
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,979
to get our affairs
in order, but...

803
00:39:04,009 --> 00:39:07,749
I will book a passage
for after the wedding.

804
00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:11,020
(kissing)

805
00:39:11,049 --> 00:39:13,049
*

806
00:39:26,565 --> 00:39:27,925
(laughs)

807
00:39:30,068 --> 00:39:32,238
Congratulations.

808
00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:33,910
Congratulations.

809
00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:38,084
ELSA:
They look so happy.

810
00:39:38,109 --> 00:39:39,879
Very happy.

811
00:39:39,911 --> 00:39:41,811
(sighs)

812
00:39:43,415 --> 00:39:44,615
Oh, dear.

813
00:39:44,650 --> 00:39:47,390
What on earth is
she doing here?

814
00:39:55,093 --> 00:39:56,963
MILEVA: I called
and called.

815
00:39:56,995 --> 00:39:59,725
Why do you not answer
your phone?
That gives you permission

816
00:39:59,765 --> 00:40:02,265
to appear at a wedding
uninvited to chastise me?

817
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,040
Oh, for God's sake, Albert.

818
00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:07,910
Your son...

819
00:40:07,939 --> 00:40:09,679
(whispers):
your son tried to kill himself.

820
00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:14,810
He's asking for you.

821
00:40:20,486 --> 00:40:23,716
DOCTOR: I've just given him
an insulin treatment.

822
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:25,685
He's not likely
to talk for a while.

823
00:40:44,543 --> 00:40:45,983
Hello, Teddy.

824
00:40:49,214 --> 00:40:51,784
I'm sorry I didn't come sooner.

825
00:41:12,704 --> 00:41:16,174
I will do all that I can
to help you feel well.

826
00:41:16,207 --> 00:41:20,477
Then when you are
feeling better...

827
00:41:20,512 --> 00:41:23,212
you can come to America
and live with me.

828
00:41:29,888 --> 00:41:34,228
I should have been better
to you, I know that now.

829
00:41:34,259 --> 00:41:38,659
I am much better at
theory than practice.

830
00:41:38,697 --> 00:41:42,397
I do hope you know, though...

831
00:41:42,433 --> 00:41:46,073
hope you've always known...

832
00:41:46,104 --> 00:41:48,514
how so very loved you are.

833
00:41:55,881 --> 00:41:57,551
Perhaps you didn't.

834
00:41:59,217 --> 00:42:03,347
I used to play
you to sleep.

835
00:42:03,388 --> 00:42:05,088
Remember?

836
00:42:08,059 --> 00:42:11,029
I'd like to play for you now.

837
00:42:12,230 --> 00:42:13,630
May I?

838
00:42:32,984 --> 00:42:34,994
*

839
00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:06,315
*

840
00:43:23,802 --> 00:43:27,242
LENARD: A healthy German spirit
must deflect from itself

841
00:43:27,272 --> 00:43:29,842
the foreign spirit of Judaism,

842
00:43:29,875 --> 00:43:34,945
which arises as a dark power
everywhere.

843
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:37,450
And which is so
clearly designated

844
00:43:37,482 --> 00:43:41,292
in everything that belongs
to Einstein's theory.

845
00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:43,989
German scientists have a duty
to bring enlightenment,

846
00:43:44,022 --> 00:43:50,002
to break the power of the dark
spirit everywhere possible.

847
00:43:53,064 --> 00:43:55,134
SECRETARY: Dr. Lenard,
it's an honor.

848
00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:56,626
He's expecting
you, sir.

849
00:44:03,709 --> 00:44:05,679
Heil, Mein Fuhrer.

850
00:44:17,756 --> 00:44:19,186
Dr. Einstein.

851
00:44:22,027 --> 00:44:23,827
I relayed your answers
to Mr. Hoover

852
00:44:23,862 --> 00:44:25,502
with the recommendation
that we approve your visa.

853
00:44:25,530 --> 00:44:27,500
And?

854
00:44:27,532 --> 00:44:30,342
I've been ordered to deny it.

855
00:44:37,776 --> 00:44:39,276
(sniffs)

856
00:44:46,051 --> 00:44:49,321
Sir, I want you to
know that I believe

857
00:44:49,354 --> 00:44:51,194
I called you here
in good faith.

858
00:44:52,557 --> 00:44:53,787
And I believed
that I...

859
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,260
that I was...

860
00:44:57,295 --> 00:44:58,895
Empowered?

861
00:44:58,930 --> 00:45:01,300
To be of service?

862
00:45:02,567 --> 00:45:05,197
Yes.

863
00:45:05,236 --> 00:45:08,106
You're a good man, Mr. Geist.

864
00:45:08,139 --> 00:45:11,609
I apologize for
suggesting otherwise.

865
00:45:11,642 --> 00:45:14,152
I wish you the
best of luck.

866
00:45:22,754 --> 00:45:24,794
(door closes)

867
00:45:25,991 --> 00:45:29,431
Well, do you
have the visas?

868
00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:33,060
You'll have to call
your reporter friend.

869
00:45:39,637 --> 00:45:41,307
You're going to want
to read this, sir.

870
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:52,277
HOOVER:
Get me Geist!

871
00:45:56,822 --> 00:45:59,062
Someone called
The New York Times.

872
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:01,130
Hmm.

873
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:03,389
The State Department
switchboard's

874
00:46:03,428 --> 00:46:05,928
been overloaded by citizens
incensed that their government

875
00:46:05,964 --> 00:46:08,304
is harassing the great
Albert Einstein.

876
00:46:08,333 --> 00:46:09,673
Hmm.

877
00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:11,000
Thank you.

878
00:46:11,036 --> 00:46:12,796
Congress has begun
to receive calls.

879
00:46:12,838 --> 00:46:15,408
Quite a few important men
have egg on their faces.

880
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,010
Your Mr. Edgar
left me little choice.

881
00:46:18,043 --> 00:46:20,853
I understand. Hmm.

882
00:46:22,047 --> 00:46:23,777
How far we've come.

883
00:46:28,286 --> 00:46:30,516
However...

884
00:46:30,555 --> 00:46:33,085
I have been instructed
to issue your visa

885
00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:35,334
only if you sign this.

886
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,930
It's a declaration that
you are not a member

887
00:46:37,963 --> 00:46:39,533
of the Communist Party.

888
00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:44,173
EINSTEIN:
Yes, I can see that.

889
00:46:44,202 --> 00:46:46,602
For your safety and
the safety of your family.

890
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:49,167
It's only a
piece of paper.

891
00:46:49,207 --> 00:46:50,407
Please.

892
00:46:52,810 --> 00:46:54,650
Please accept
this compromise.

893
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:03,860
(sighs)

894
00:47:08,426 --> 00:47:12,656
Your nation, Mr. Geist,
it's a miracle.

895
00:47:12,697 --> 00:47:14,967
The beautiful myth of it.

896
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,740
Scrappy revolutionaries
rejecting monarchy

897
00:47:18,769 --> 00:47:22,209
for self-government
built from shared values,

898
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:24,680
common purpose.

899
00:47:24,709 --> 00:47:28,409
I can understand why a man
might want to serve a nation

900
00:47:28,446 --> 00:47:30,416
that tells itself
a story like that.

901
00:47:33,518 --> 00:47:34,818
And I also understand

902
00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:37,862
how painful it can be
when the myth

903
00:47:37,889 --> 00:47:40,089
does not quite fit
with the reality.

904
00:47:47,032 --> 00:47:48,202
I cannot sign this.

905
00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:02,445
*

906
00:48:25,937 --> 00:48:27,707
These were not
your instructions.

907
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,568
No.

908
00:48:29,607 --> 00:48:31,807
This will cost you your job.

909
00:48:33,011 --> 00:48:35,181
Probably.
(caps pen)

910
00:48:41,652 --> 00:48:44,492
But there are other ways
to be of service.

911
00:49:01,439 --> 00:49:02,969
What are you doing?

912
00:49:03,008 --> 00:49:05,638
Keep your job, Mr. Geist.

913
00:49:07,612 --> 00:49:08,912
But promise me

914
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:10,776
Elsa and I will not be
the only Jews

915
00:49:10,815 --> 00:49:13,345
you help find their way
to America's shores.

916
00:50:00,998 --> 00:50:03,528
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