I’ll Wait Until You Kill

The Second World War. Dogs are being trained for guard duty in the Nordfelsen training centre. Concentration camp prisoners are used as targets for attack, and are forced to provoke the dogs and get them to feel hatred for the striped prison uniform. One of the prisoners is Mareš, a former member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He has been allocated the Alsatian bitch Rita, and is secretly training her in a different way. He just pretends to beat her and at night, he goes and feeds her leftover scraps of food. Mareš is planning an escape with his fellow prisoner Benda. The camp commander Dörner organizes a demonstration of the effects of the training for the SS major who has come for the dogs. He promises freedom to three new prisoners - a woman, an older man and a small Norwegian boy - if they manage to escape from the pack of dogs. The woman and man perish, but Rita lets the boy escape. Because Benda has backed out, Mareš escapes by himself. In the wood, he meets the little Norwegian and they carry on together but unfortunately, Rita faithfully follows Mareš at a short distance and alerts the pursuers to their trail. Benda under torture reveals to Dörner where Mareš is heading - his own old wood cabin. Dörner catches up with Mareš, but the prisoner overcomes him in the ensuing struggle, ties him up and even takes his uniform to continue his escape. The young Norwegian manages to join up with a travelling circus as a musical clown. Dörner is waiting for Mareš at his destination, the cabin, but Rita tears out the Nazi's throat, dying herself in the act. The prisoner continues his flight in a freight train.