SCREENPLAY BY NOVEL ''WILHELM GUSTLOFF'' - DIANNA DIVERNO

Characters: Norman Schiffer, head hunter and paid killer Ervin, two sisters Uma and Ursel Roland fleeing a ship named „Wilhelm Gustloff“, Navy background worker Ana Maria Gruber, captain of the Russian submarine Marinescu and others ...
Norman Schiffer receives a mission to send a confidential letter of multi-millionaire heritage and jewelry to his aunt in Norway. In the meantime, his aunt is being liquidated precisely because of that letter while Norman is on board. A paid killer named Ervin is following him to gain confidential documents. Two Sisters Uma and Ursel are among the 10,000 refugees on board. On the ship, Uma and Norman start a love affair, while the paid killer is persistently trying to find him in order to liquidate him. Then three torpedoes emerge from the Russian submarine and Wilhelm Gustloff begins to sink. The payer has only half an hour to get to the letter, but he and Norman are starving in a terrible sink. Nobody knows that a letter he gave to the Uma, who will survive this tragedy and visit his aunt and hand over to her confidential documents, but also that the Uma remained in a different state and that she will eventually give birth to a son who will give the name Wilhelm - by boat)

Scene 1 -
(a display of winter idyll in the barn of Herman Baron, a long walk to the house, trees without leaves, and the arrival of a car.The tires slip, it looks as if the driver is drunk, the car rushes over and stops a few centimeters from one tree, a young man, excursions from the car and watching if there are scratches)

NORMAN:Hell! That stupid, stupid ice! (he ran two circles around the car, he took a loud breath and again sat behind the wheel.) He got to the house, walked out, taking care of the ice and knocking on the door. The servant Suzanne opened them)

SUZANNE:Good afternoon, Mr. Schiffer. Baron Herman awaits you (she bowed. Norman stepped in, looked over the decorated, luxurious corridor and the Christmas tree in the corner that stood. Suzanne moved forward, he followed her)

SUZANNE:He was expecting you an hour ago!

NORMAN:
I know, but it was that stupid ice!
(they came to the office. The elderly man, Baron Herman sat at the table and smoked a pipe.) Suzana retreated)

BARON:So, Norman, you're here!

NORMAN:(Smiles and folds into the armchair, grabs the tunic in the hand and turns in the hand to play with her.) Lively and healthy. Mr. Herman should come to you. So much ice on the approach.

BARON:(he takes out the lips out of his mouth for a moment) Ice? But we did it.

NORMAN:Some places are slipping. For a while, I slammed a car.

BARON:(laughs) Oh don`t say that, Norman, you're a little drunk. Which is not good, because now it is still daytime. And that (look at the clock) passed two, and you've already gotten mad.

NORMAN: I'm not drunk, it's just a terrible trip. And it's cold. You were not out today, Baron Herman, otherwise you would know that the weather is terrible. Probably the coldest January I know about.

BARON:(He shrugs his shoulders) You're overwhelming the young Normans, you're going a little more and you'll be traveling. Imagine how cool it is in the Baltic Sea where you will sail. Since you are fine, you have to freeze at the first wind. About the iceberg, I do not even say. (Smile) When are you sailing?

NORMAN:Tomorrow.

SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION BY NOVEL (2012)
Translation- Miodrag Radojchin
Proofreader: Tijana Minic


I nakon mnogo vremena, opet imamo prilike videti maleni odlomak scenarija za film ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' Dajane Diverno. Retko je predstavljan na ovim stranama, jednako kao i roman. Objavljen je u ''The First Anthology''