Marie is ambivalent about their secret: On one hand she never misses an opportunity to blame her husband for bringing in the Jew, but on the other she is merciful and sympathetic towards the poor kid locked in the closet day and night.

She suggests that Josef accept Horst's job offer evicting Czech Jews from their homes, so as to get more protection and deflect possible suspicions.

Josef accepts and is considered a collaborator by the neighbor Franta (who had tried to give David over to the Nazi authorities, when he first escaped from a concentration camp).

Josef finally finds the new ruling troika which includes his old neighbor Franta as the representative of the Czech Resistance.

Josef protests his innocence and invites them to meet David as proof of his ambivalence towards the Jews, in exchange for a chance to find the Nazi doctor to deliver Marie's baby.

In the ruins, he imagines David's deceased family and his supervisor's youngest son sitting around a small table, waving at him.

Bach's St Matthew Passion (Erbarme dich, mein Gott, God, please have mercy on our frailty!)

The website's critical consensus states, "Divided We Fall takes a complex look at World War II, skillfully balancing humor and gravity".

[5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Josef has had to collaborate with the Nazis to provide additional cover while hiding a Jew in his home; Horst has been a pro-German collaborator, but has also kept his old friend's secret, Marie has had to compromise herself for the sake of their safety, and even the anti-Nazi partisan Franta, now in a position of authority, had at one time tried to turn David over to the Germans.