Wolf’s Lair NGCI PIC LOCK Script
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BW archive SA man
on balcony with flag waves
LS house - soldiers
surrender and move
FR
Recon OS man on
phone track R to
reveal Hitler b/g
LS tank Pan R along
line of tanks
LS gun pointed to sky tilt up
SA MS ‘Hitler’ shouting
OOFL
COMM
February 1943.
Recon OS ‘Hitler’ to
General
MS James Holland
OOFL
BW archive Generals
walk by body in snow
tilt up
LS down mass of
soldiers walking OOFR
Black
BW Hitler FL talking to
Generals
2s Hitler shakes hands
Group shot round map
SA General OOFR
Recon 2s MS ‘Hitler’
walking FR - leave FR
LA through legs to
forest Tony walks
away from camera
Germany is defeated at Stalingrad.
In July Hitler hastily orders a counterattack
from his bunker in the Wolf’s Lair.
It’s crushed.
James Holland
Hitler is entirely responsible for the failure of
Barbarossa.
They weren’t ready for it, they didn't have
enough manpower, it was a step too far, it was
entirely his idea,
um, and it was a failure.
COMM
For the first time the Wolf is
vulnerable in his lair…
COMM
Hitler’s isolation in his bunker
complex has led to a series of terrible
military
decisions.
Germany is under assault.
COMM
The Fuhrer’s paranoia is stoked by fear of
air attacks. He
orders a new, mammoth bunker built for
himself.
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Wolf’s Lair NGCI PIC LOCK Script
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CU legs tilt up as Tony
turns to speak Caption
Dr Tony Pollard
Battlefield
Archaeologist
Tony Pollard
By late 1943 Hitler’s spending more and more
time at the Wolf’s Lair, to the point where it’s
the only part of Germany he’s still familiar with.
And it’s at this time that he introduces a new
phase of modifications to the site, and they
include his own designs for his own personal
shelter.
CGI zoom into
structure animates to
show interior bunker and living space Pan R
COMM
Hitler’s engineers begin building a structure
200 feet long and 120 feet wide. 23 feet of
concrete divided by a layer of sand will
surround the Fuhrer on all sides. Inside,
Hitler’s living space will be a tiny 9 by 11
feet.
Recon jeep drives FL
SA ‘Linge’ exits jeep
OS to ‘Hitler’ seated in
rear
Tree f/g - ‘Linge’
opens door and ‘Hitler’ COMM
gets out and walks to
His staff are astonished by the scale of the
camera
building work.
‘Linge’ MS looks up FR
…
LINGE
It’s incredible what they achieved in such a
short time
VWS ‘Linge’ looking up
at exterior
LMS Tony walking by
exterior
LA up exterior
LMS Tony entering
bunker
LA up walls twist round
BW archive Hitler with
dog walking FL
MS Tony looking to
interior
Tony Pollard
Hitler’s personal bunker is the biggest building
on the site, and looking at it you can
understand why contemporaries
compared it to an Egyptian tomb. And
especially if you take
a peek inside, you can see how thick the walls
are here.
And I think it’s probably a reflection of his state
of mind, the war’s starting to go badly for
Germany…
and he’s becoming more and more isolated.
And I think this is a kind of manifestation of that
decline.
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CU wall of bunker mix through BW
archive of Hitler
CGI of bunker animates to show
interior and track R
COMM
Although its exact layout has never been
fully verified,
the bunker contains a warren of corridors
and small rooms.
MS Tony talking to
camera FR
TONY POLLARD
Hitler left no space whatsoever for windows in
his own designs for this bunker. And that would
have made for a really claustrophobic space
but on the up side, it made it virtually
impregnable for any type of bomb and it
suggests that even in the complex of the Wolf’s
WS looking up at ruins. Lair, Hitler was seeking to isolate himself. It
almost shouts out “don’t bother me”.
LMS Tony moving
through crack in rubble
LS to Tony moving to
camera
HA to legs moving FL
HA to rock and
vegetation - WS Tony
walks FL
LMS Tony walking FR
POV to exterior of
bunker
LA to wall - pan FL
Tony bottom frame looking at bunker FR
TS rock and vegetation
LMS Tony OOFR
HA into
accommodation level
POV to solid rock
LMS Tony moves FL
POV up rock face
LMS Tony looking FR
POV up rock wall
LMS Tony OOFR
POV to crack in rock
Tony Pollard
This is absolutely staggering. I’ve found a way
into the back of Hitler’s air
raid bunker. And look at it, it’s just concrete but
it looks
almost geological.
The amazing thing is,
that that level down there is the
accommodation level, you can see the
fragments of a room there, but all of this above
me, and it must go
up
8 metres or so, it’s difficult
Difficult to tell, but incredibly high above me is
the top of the structure.
And all of that is roof,
with this tiny living space beneath it.
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Tilt up
MS Tony looking FR
POV to girders
hanging down
CU along rock
SA Tony looking FR
LA to pipe in wall tilt
down
LMS Tony OOFR
POV to wall
And I think what we might be
looking at here, you see you’ve got
these girders dropping down from the roof, I
think we might have a two level
roof with an open space, a gap, between the
two supported by these
girders and that would provide some extra
protection if a bomb comes through
the top. It would dissipate the shockwave. This
gives a very good idea of the way this thing
was meant to operate.
LMS Tony looks FR
Tony Pollard
But staggered. Absolutely staggered.
CGI Wolf’s Lair - track
R over
COMM
This final stage of the Wolf’s Lair uses
material desperately needed elsewhere for
the war effort including enough concrete to
build the Empire State Building three and a
half times over.
HA to Tony walking
between walls
HA VWS Tony walking
along path
LMS Tony walking FR
VWS Tony looking at
exterior bunker
LMS Tony OOFR
The massive fortifications only help Hitler’s
complete withdrawal
from reality.
Tony Pollard
I’m still picking my way through the remains of
Hitler’s bunker complex, and the
scale of the thing is phenomenal. And he
distrusts people so much that
he draws up a list of those people who are
permitted to come and have lunch with him.
And the picture is one of increasing paranoia
and isolation.
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