i know who georges braque is, captain.
hello, major, my name is dymshitz. i'm glad to see you.
so, major, tell me, have you questioned dr. furtwngler?
i've had two meetings with him. he's a great musician. maybe the greatest conductor in the world. his brahms, beethoven, schubert - unequalled.
i'll come straight to point. i've offered him a very attractive position. conductor of the staatsoper unten den linden. he refused. but i want him. i want him badly. and i want your help.
i'm discussing it with you now. major, i want you to drop your investigation, save everybody time and trouble.
i'll give you another conductor in exchange or writer, musician, actor what. what do you care? but i like furtwngler. he's my favourite conductor. mine and hitler's. he's our favourite conductor.
dr. furtwngler -
moving, you agree? whenever i hear schubert i am moved. you agree?
wait, doctor, i understand you have difficulties with the americans. i want you to know, i am your champion. we can help.
to co-operation.
furtwngler's in a different category.
degenerates?
a great artist will have great privileges in a russian zone.
perhaps.  perhaps he believed he could at least try to preserve something important, things like an orchestra, a school. that's his country. maybe he has an old mother who can't be left alone. maybe he has brothers, sisters.  you can't.
anyway, major, why should he leave his country, his mother tongue, his family, his history, his past, his future, just because now, suddenly, there is a dictatorship? why?
don't talk about things you know nothing about. he was in a dictatorship!
in a dictatorship, art belongs to the party. if you want to be a conductor, you have to have an orchestra. and you can only get an orchestra if you have contact with the power. all over the world you need the right contacts and you have to make the right compromises.
there are good party members who help, and there are dirty non-party members who inform on you. of course, they gave him privileges.
and suddenly, steve, suddenly you notice that they like you. they honour you, suddenly you are the director of the best museum in the world, for example.
i'm sorry. museum? not.  i said orchestra. sorry. believe me. help me, steve. you say you answer for someone from high up. i, too, have orders from high up. very high up. we want furtwngler. i'll give you in return the whole orchestra, four, five conductors. i need him, steve.
let furtwngler go. please.
duty? i am sorry, duty? duty fucking duty. trouble is, you americans want everybody to live like you. we liberated berlin, major steve, not you. our duty also is to bring back the best of german culture.
then you're going to kill me.