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He's known as Kat but his full name
is Stanislav Katczinsky.
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He's the leader of our group with
a remarkable nose for good food and dirty weather,
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but most of all for food
when there's none to be had.
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My name is Paul Baumer.
I am 18 years old.
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A few months ago,
six of us were classmates,
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our heads were stuffed with knowledge,
filled with ideals and hopes.
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Josef Behm, who will study theology.
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Albert Kropp, who will study law.
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Friedrich M?ller,
who will study everything.
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Franz Kemmerich,
who will be a forester.
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Peter Leer,
who will travel and make love.
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We are with our friends:
Tjaden, a locksmith before the war.
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The biggest eater of the company.
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Haie Westus, who dug peat for a living.
A good man to have on your side.
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And Detering, a farmer who thinks
of nothing but his horses,
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his farmyard and his wife.
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For months we've fought the French
for a hundred yards of earth.
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They attack our trench.
We attack their trench.
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Then, to keep the score even,
they will attack our trench once again.
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What are you doing? Wait.
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Over here. Here, over here.
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You'll be OK.
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OK, here we come. Come.
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Quick.
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Easy... easy.
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It's his leg. He's lucky.
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He'll be all right.
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You are our Iron Youth.
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Iron Youth becomes Iron Heroes.
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It is my duty. Uh, it is my honour,
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to prepare you for the part
you must play in this great war.
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Our homeland has need
of men of character and strong will.
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It is my duty to prepare your minds
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so that you will be better able
to train your bodies
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for your Kaiser, for your Fatherland,
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for your God.
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For upon you
rests the fate of the Fatherland
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and upon the fate of the Fatherland
rests the fate of the world.
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Germany is the nation of progress,
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the nation of culture...
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the nation of science,
the nation of ideas...
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the nation of Beethoven,
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of Schiller, of Goethe...
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Baumer.
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Sir.
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What is that?
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A bird, sir.
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- A bird?
- Yes, sir.
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A lark?
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- Yes, sir.
- Very good.
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On the window.
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- This line...
- The window.
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- Very exact.
- Thank you, sir.
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But you do not come here to draw,
to write poems... or to dream.
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Do you Baumer?
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No.
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Sit down.
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Gentlemen, you have all passed
your examinations.
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As you know, you are graduated.
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The time for class is over.
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The time for duty has begun.
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You are dismissed. Herr Baumer...
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You may stay.
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Cigarette?
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No, thank you, sir.
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Oh, you don't smoke.
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Well, it is not a good habit.
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But all good habits,
makes a dull person.
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What do the English say?
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- All work and no play makes...
- A dull man.
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A dull... Yes, yes, very good.
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So you see, you have learned
something here after all.
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There is a time for work
and there is a time for play.
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You are graduating.
The time for play is over.
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You are a dreamer, Baumer.
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You draw little sketches
and write little poems.
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But now you're a man,
you have your duties as a man,
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your duty to the Fatherland.
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Will you wait to be called up
or will you enlist?
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Well...
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Of course, you'll respond
to your call of duty.
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You will all respond.
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The entire class will go
as one man to serve the Fatherland.
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I know I will be proud of you,
Baumer.
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If you could get enough sleep,
it wouldn't be a bad little war.
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- If you could get enough food.
- If you could get enough women.
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Come on, Heinrich, open up, we're hungry.
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You know the regulations.
You must all be here.
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We are here!
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Don't lie to me. I've got food for 150 men
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and I don't serve
until the rest of you get here.
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The rest are either in the dressing station
or pushing up the daisies!
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Well, I've cooked for 150 men.
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Ah! So then we'll all have enough.
For once!
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- You've got bread for 150 men?
- Yeah.
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- And sausages?
- Tobacco?
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- Yeah, but...
- Good, let's have it!
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So let's see, that's enough bread for er...
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Double portions!
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Is that right? Double!
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I can only issue rations to 80 men.
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Here's Lieutenant Bertinck.
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The beans smell delicious, Sergeant.
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Thank you, sir.
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It would be nice to see this once in a while
at the front. Eh, Katczinsky?
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Yes, sir! That's right, sir.
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Eat hearty.
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Thank you, sir.
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- Come on, belly robber, you heard him.
- Yeah, but he didn't say...
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Look, you... We are the Second Company.
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You are the cook for the Second Company.
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You didn't make food for 80 men,
you made food for the Second Company.
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And we, damn you,
we are the Second Company!
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Well, it isn't right.
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Come on!
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Come on, stop cheating.
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It's not right. There should be a system.
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It's not right. I cook all this food...
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Come on, come on! Double!
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Today is wonderfully good.
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Every one of us has eaten for two men
and the mail has come.
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The grasses sway like tall spears.
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The white butterflies
float on the soft warm wind.
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How often in the last few days
have we come to the edge of death?
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Let's not even think about it.
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Let's just enjoy the world.
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Everything is new and brave.
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Red poppies, the good food,
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cigarettes and the summer breeze.
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Paul? Paul?
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We're going to see Kemmerich.
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Nurse, can you tell me
where Franz Kemmerich is?
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Yes, he's through there.
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Franz.
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How are you?
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Someone stole my watch.
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- Bastards!
- I warned you, Franz.
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- I know.
- We'll tell the doctor.
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You'll be going home soon.
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Do you think?
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- Any day.
- You look fine, Franz.
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I feel... I'm all right.
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My foot. It's so painful.
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It's so cold.
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That pain is your ticket home.
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You should be grateful to that pain.
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In a week you'll be smoking cigars
on Frau Hammerschmidt's front porch,
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telling big fat lies
to Katrine Hammerschmidt.
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We got you some smokes
and a piece of cheese from Kat,
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and your comb is in the tobacco tin.
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Put them under the bed, please.
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Hide them.
You know they stole my watch.
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Franz, will you be taking
these back home with you?
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Why not?
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Well, you don't really need
boots back home.
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We could do a trade. I've got...
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No! My mother gave me those boots.
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- Maybe you could lend them to me?
- No.
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You'll be home a lot sooner than us.
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That's right, you won't have
to wait for leave now.
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Orderly. Orderly!
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They don't come. They never come.
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We'll get someone.
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- It'll be different when you get home.
- When you come back...
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- We'll be together.
- We'll come tomorrow.
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- I'll come tomorrow.
- Thank you. Thank you.
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I'll be back.
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Make sure you get my watch.
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We will.
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You think I don't care about Franz.
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Of course I care.
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If I could save his leg or life, I'd
walk over barbed wire. You know that.
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But where he's going,
he isn't going to need his boots.
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He isn't going to need anything.
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And my boots hurt. They really hurt.
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Why should some damn orderly
get his boots
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and not one of his friends?
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He's right, Paul.
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I know.
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Very good, Kemmerich.
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Very good, Kemmerich.
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They've amputated my leg.
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Could be worse.
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Wegler lost his right arm,
which is very much worse.
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Besides, you're going home.
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Do you think so?
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Of course.
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Do you think so?
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Once you get over the operation.
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I don't think so.
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Don't talk nonsense.
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I wanted to be a forester once.
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You will.
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They... They make wonderful...
artificial limbs... now.
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Attach them right to the muscle.
You can do anything.
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If you find my watch, send it home.
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You'll go to a convalescent home.
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Maybe the one in Klosterberg.
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Remember how we used to hike up there?
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Remember the poplars?
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The stream full of fish?
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Franz, Franz... When I come back,
we go up to the mountains again.
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You can name all the trees for me.
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Tell me all about them.
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Franz, nothing will change.
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We'd be together again.
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Franz? Franz.
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Give... M?ller... my... boots.
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Doctor? Doctor?
Where's the doctor? Doctor!
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Doctor!
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Where's the doctor? Doctor?
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Doctor! Quickly,
Franz Kemmerich is dying.
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- Which one is that?
- Bed 36, amputated leg.
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How should I know that?
I've amputated five legs today.
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You see to it.
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One operation after another
since five o'clock this morning.
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Today there have been sixteen deaths,
yours will be the seventeenth.
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There'll probably be twenty altogether.
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We'll have to take him away at once.
We need the bed.
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They're lying on the floor outside.
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Don't forget, change your socks every day.
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- Oh, Mother!
- I won't.
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- Paul.
- Yes, Mrs. Kemmerich?
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Please, may we speak a minute?
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- I want you to promise me something.
- What, Mrs. Kemmerich?
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- Look after Franz.
- Of course...
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He looks up to you.
He'll do anything you ask, you know?
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Make him stay away from danger.
You know how reckless he is.
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- I'll make sure he behaves himself.
- Thank you.
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God bless you, Paul.
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Maria, Maria.
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Look after your brother.
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I'll see you soon. Take care.
Bye-bye, Mother, bye-bye.
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Take care, Father!
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Right, come on, boys. Wake up!
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Let's go. Hey, wake up there.
Come on.
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Come on, come on, Come on!
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It's beautiful here. Come on.
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Let's go. Wake up. Food.
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Come on.
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Oh, Kat.
I don't know how you do it.
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Next time you come with me,
I'll show you how to find food.
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Someday when I'm not here,
it'll come in handy.
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What? You'll always be here.
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Ah, up here
"always" isn't a long time.
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Anyway, you'd better learn
so you won't go hungry.
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You pay attention to the teacher.
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He's coming. He's coming.
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- What did he want?
- Doesn't matter. We're free.
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It is time for work, for duty.
You will enlist, the entire class.
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- Of course.
- Behm, you too.
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- They might not accept me. My eyes.
- They will.
253
00:26:58,199 --> 00:27:00,534
But not tonight.
Tonight we get drunk.
254
00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:04,538
Iron Youth. Iron Youth.
255
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:06,874
To Max's!
256
00:27:17,385 --> 00:27:21,221
? Who'll be the guardians of the Rhine
257
00:27:21,389 --> 00:27:25,059
? O Fatherland...
258
00:27:29,939 --> 00:27:31,982
Well, young men. Off to join the army?
259
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,692
Yes, yes!
260
00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:35,402
Well, so am I. I've been called up.
261
00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:39,573
You, Himmelstoss?
262
00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:41,200
I'm in the reserves.
263
00:27:41,368 --> 00:27:43,410
Himmelstoss is in the reserves.
264
00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:46,372
I'm going on active duty.
265
00:27:46,539 --> 00:27:49,541
Himmelstoss on active duty!
266
00:27:52,962 --> 00:27:57,758
Yes, you fine young gentlemen.
This is my uniform, do you understand?
267
00:27:57,926 --> 00:27:59,259
This is my uniform!
268
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:04,765
You fine young gentlemen!
269
00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:07,267
Your heads stuffed with garbage
from books!
270
00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:11,105
You'll soon be learning other lessons!
271
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:39,842
Almighty God, we give thanks for the food
you have set before us.
272
00:28:41,469 --> 00:28:44,555
We trust in you to protect the Kaiser
273
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,724
and the Fatherland
274
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:49,101
and all our brave soldiers...
275
00:28:50,979 --> 00:28:54,314
and our son, Paul Baumer,
276
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,817
who is soon to serve his Fatherland.
277
00:28:57,861 --> 00:29:00,988
We ask for your proetection
for Paul Baumer.
278
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:04,700
Amen.
279
00:29:10,665 --> 00:29:13,000
The war will be over in a few months.
280
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:15,836
The Russians are finished,
the French are crumbling,
281
00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:18,922
our U-boats are starving England.
282
00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:21,508
The Americans will never fight.
283
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:23,677
Victory is in our hands.
284
00:29:24,554 --> 00:29:26,346
Oh, I envy you, Paul.
285
00:29:26,514 --> 00:29:30,976
You'll march through Paris,
the bands blazing, the banners flying.
286
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:38,317
I envy you.
287
00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:45,032
? Fatherland beloved
288
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,659
? Faithful and true
289
00:29:47,827 --> 00:29:52,039
? Along the Rhine we'll stand
290
00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:54,792
? Watch o'er the Rhine
291
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:59,338
? Defend our Fatherland... ?
292
00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:13,852
? We'll be the guardians of the Rhine
293
00:30:14,020 --> 00:30:21,735
? O Fatherland beloved
294
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:24,363
? Faithful and true
295
00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:28,909
? Along the Rhine we'll stand
296
00:30:29,077 --> 00:30:31,453
? Watch o'er the Rhine
297
00:30:31,621 --> 00:30:36,083
- ? Defend our Fatherland ?
- Halt!
298
00:30:40,421 --> 00:30:42,339
Left... face.
299
00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:48,178
Form in three ranks.
300
00:30:50,431 --> 00:30:52,724
Three groups.
301
00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:06,154
At ease.
302
00:31:14,122 --> 00:31:16,248
Gentlemen, you are welcome.
303
00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:20,127
You will be my guests
for the next ten weeks.
304
00:31:21,296 --> 00:31:24,715
In those ten weeks, you will become
German soldiers.
305
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:29,303
You will leave here
to go to your front line units,
306
00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:33,599
where you will be privileged
to serve the Kaiser
307
00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:36,268
and the Fatherland.
308
00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:38,896
Gentlemen, you are welcome.
309
00:31:51,159 --> 00:31:54,077
Good morning,
my fine young gentlemen.
310
00:31:55,246 --> 00:31:57,372
My name is Himmelstoss.
311
00:31:58,249 --> 00:32:02,502
Corporal Himmelstoss.
I'm your training officer.
312
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:18,852
You will find I'll be a good teacher.
Do you know why?
313
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,815
Because what I teach you,
you will never forget.
314
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:29,947
Never.
315
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:32,240
Squad, attention!
316
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:35,994
Squad, at ease.
317
00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:38,830
Attention!
318
00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:39,998
Squad, at ease.
319
00:32:40,833 --> 00:32:43,418
Attention!
320
00:32:44,295 --> 00:32:45,712
Right face.
321
00:32:48,257 --> 00:32:49,508
Left face.
322
00:32:52,178 --> 00:32:53,553
Right face.
323
00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:57,516
Forward march.
324
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:03,397
Left, left, left, left, left.
325
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:06,066
Left, left, left.
326
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:11,196
Left, left, left. Squad...
327
00:33:11,698 --> 00:33:14,199
Right turn... march.
328
00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:21,623
Turn! Left! Left! Left!
Left! Left! Squad!
329
00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:23,500
Attention!
330
00:33:26,587 --> 00:33:27,796
Right face!
331
00:33:29,549 --> 00:33:30,841
Eyes front!
332
00:33:31,634 --> 00:33:33,135
Right face!
333
00:33:34,595 --> 00:33:36,346
Forward march!
334
00:33:36,889 --> 00:33:40,392
Left! Left! Squad!
335
00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:42,811
On the double.
336
00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:44,604
Quick march!
337
00:33:44,772 --> 00:33:47,941
Left, left, left. Squad!
338
00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:50,694
Right turn... March!
339
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:58,285
Left, left, left, left.
Left, left, left, left... Squad!
340
00:33:58,453 --> 00:34:01,038
Right turn... March!
341
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:06,043
Left, left, left, left, left, left,
342
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:10,589
left, left, left, left, left, left,
343
00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:15,552
left, left, left...
Squad! Lie down!
344
00:34:18,514 --> 00:34:20,599
Ready.
345
00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:22,267
Stand up!
346
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,729
Advance.
347
00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:29,357
Lie down.
348
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,402
Ready...
349
00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:34,988
Stand up!
350
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,200
Advance.
351
00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:42,079
Lie down!
352
00:34:43,831 --> 00:34:45,916
Ready...
353
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:48,168
Stand up.
354
00:34:49,712 --> 00:34:51,713
Advance.
355
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:56,301
Into the barracks. Inspection in 30 minutes.
356
00:34:57,970 --> 00:34:59,888
Dismiss!
357
00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:33,380
Lie down!
358
00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:36,842
Ready...
359
00:35:37,009 --> 00:35:38,051
Stand up!
360
00:35:39,887 --> 00:35:41,471
Advance.
361
00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:45,934
Lie down!
362
00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:49,354
Ready...
363
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:50,564
Stand up!
364
00:35:52,441 --> 00:35:54,359
Advance.
365
00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:58,280
Lie down!
366
00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:01,575
Ready...
367
00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:03,535
Stand up!
368
00:36:48,497 --> 00:37:32,707
Again.
369
00:37:44,178 --> 00:37:46,596
Come on, up, up, up, up.
370
00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:48,431
Come on. Come on.
371
00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:33,351
You.
372
00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:43,945
Again!
373
00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:06,843
Baumer.
374
00:39:10,514 --> 00:39:16,728
Again.
375
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,736
You'll pay for this, Baumer.
376
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:28,865
Rifle. Fill your pack.
377
00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:30,784
No, no, Corporal.
378
00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:34,537
You must keep
your eyes open, Corporal.
379
00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:46,669
Attack!
380
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:51,007
Lay down!
381
00:42:14,740 --> 00:42:17,158
Your training days are over.
382
00:42:18,077 --> 00:42:21,621
You are soldiers now
in the Imperial Army.
383
00:42:21,789 --> 00:42:26,709
Fit and ready to do battle
for the Kaiser and the Fatherland.
384
00:42:28,128 --> 00:42:32,298
In the front lines you will understand
the value and the purpose
385
00:42:32,466 --> 00:42:34,634
of everything you have learned here,
386
00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:37,762
everything your officers
have taught you.
387
00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:42,183
Their ways may have sometimes
seemed harsh to you,
388
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:44,602
but you will thank
your fine instructors
389
00:42:44,770 --> 00:42:47,855
for the lessons
they taught you in this camp.
390
00:42:49,441 --> 00:42:51,943
They have taught you to be soldiers.
391
00:42:52,111 --> 00:42:55,446
To be soldiers
in the service of Almighty God,
392
00:42:55,614 --> 00:42:58,616
the Kaiser and the Fatherland.
393
00:43:01,078 --> 00:43:04,122
Right... face.
394
00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:10,295
Forward... march.
395
00:43:59,094 --> 00:44:01,387
Forward... march.
396
00:44:28,916 --> 00:44:30,917
Open up.
397
00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:41,529
Shoulder weapons.
398
00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:49,746
Right face.
399
00:45:52,499 --> 00:45:54,500
Board the train.
400
00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,236
No smoking.
401
00:46:24,114 --> 00:46:26,157
No smoking.
402
00:46:37,377 --> 00:46:40,046
Fifth Company, get down.
Hold up.
403
00:46:42,883 --> 00:46:46,302
Second Company.
This way. Fall out, two ranks.
404
00:47:19,294 --> 00:47:22,964
So... Here you are.
405
00:47:27,177 --> 00:47:31,681
It's the custom to assign
one old hand to every new platoon.
406
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:34,225
You're the new platoon.
407
00:47:34,393 --> 00:47:36,561
I'm the old hand.
408
00:47:38,772 --> 00:47:43,401
In training camp they filled you with fancy
information on how to be a soldier.
409
00:47:44,403 --> 00:47:47,488
We're going to work hard
to forget all that.
410
00:47:48,907 --> 00:47:52,118
I'll teach you practic...
Listen to me, boy.
411
00:47:52,286 --> 00:47:54,996
I'll teach you practical things.
412
00:47:55,163 --> 00:47:58,291
Like how to put your diapers on
in the front lines.
413
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:00,835
And how to kill Frenchies.
414
00:48:03,589 --> 00:48:06,257
You won't have long to wait
before I baptise you.
415
00:48:06,425 --> 00:48:09,760
First we'll give you some hot food,
let you get some sleep,
416
00:48:09,928 --> 00:48:12,263
then I'll take you out
on your first patrol...
417
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:15,057
...tonight.
418
00:48:40,334 --> 00:48:44,253
Those deep booms,
that's the heavy artillery.
419
00:48:45,339 --> 00:48:48,049
They're heading behind us, so don't worry.
420
00:48:49,509 --> 00:48:53,095
They always come in threes,
they always fall close together.
421
00:48:53,263 --> 00:48:58,184
You've got five to ten seconds between
each round to get where you wanna go.
422
00:48:58,352 --> 00:49:01,103
You can hear them coming a long way off,
that's the good thing.
423
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:03,022
Same with the mortar.
424
00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:06,859
But the thing you gotta listen good for
is the "Eeee!"
425
00:49:07,027 --> 00:49:08,694
Like a mosquito.
426
00:49:08,862 --> 00:49:11,906
That's the small stuff they call daisy-cutters.
427
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:15,284
You've only got three seconds
before they hit you.
428
00:49:15,452 --> 00:49:17,870
Don't wait for anything!
429
00:49:18,830 --> 00:49:22,291
Up here you've got to learn to trust
your animal instinct.
430
00:49:22,459 --> 00:49:24,001
You understand?
431
00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:31,676
So... Don't wait. Move. When you're up this
close and you hear something, anything,
432
00:49:31,843 --> 00:49:33,719
hit the ground - fast.
433
00:49:33,887 --> 00:49:36,222
- You understand?
- Yes, sir.
434
00:49:42,896 --> 00:49:45,272
All right, boys.
There's gonna be some fireworks.
435
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,650
Frenchie wants to say hello.
436
00:49:49,069 --> 00:49:51,737
You just stick close to Kat,
437
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:54,991
and move when I tell you to move.
438
00:49:59,121 --> 00:50:03,290
All right, take cover.
Get off the road. Quick, quick!
439
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:09,005
Get down. Off the road.
440
00:50:09,172 --> 00:50:12,508
Take cover. Off the road!
441
00:50:41,913 --> 00:50:44,457
Shoot the wounded horses!
442
00:50:44,624 --> 00:50:46,250
Shoot them!
443
00:50:54,259 --> 00:50:57,136
Shoot them, can't you?
444
00:50:57,304 --> 00:50:58,804
Shoot them!
445
00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:10,733
Hey! You crazy?
You want to kill somebody?
446
00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:11,776
Get down.
447
00:51:37,177 --> 00:51:43,182
Why? What have they done?
They haven't done anything.
448
00:51:46,019 --> 00:51:51,357
Using horses is wrong.
It's wrong killing horses.
449
00:51:54,653 --> 00:51:57,154
All right, boys.
Frenchie's finished with you.
450
00:51:57,948 --> 00:51:59,865
Come on, let's go, boys.
451
00:52:00,033 --> 00:52:01,867
Get up.
452
00:52:08,333 --> 00:52:11,043
Up. Come on, boys.
453
00:52:18,009 --> 00:52:19,885
Everybody here?
454
00:52:20,387 --> 00:52:23,514
Huh? Link up, boys.
455
00:52:27,394 --> 00:52:31,814
That's just a taste of the real thing.
You'll get used to it.
456
00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:34,150
You ready?
457
00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:35,901
All right.
458
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,241
Well, you're almost getting
to be soldiers now.
459
00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:46,370
You stick with Kat
and you'll be all right.
460
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:06,724
We have been at the front for a year.
We are soldiers now.
461
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:08,809
We know this place well.
462
00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:10,936
We are at home.
463
00:53:11,104 --> 00:53:15,733
Only Kemmerich is dead but we keep
hearing about others in our class -
464
00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:18,152
dead, wounded.
465
00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:23,991
Always, over every one of us,
hangs the element of chance.
466
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:27,161
If a shot comes,
all we can do is duck,
467
00:53:27,329 --> 00:53:29,914
because we can never know
where it will fall.
468
00:53:37,464 --> 00:53:40,299
I can be smashed to bits
in a bomb-proof dugout,
469
00:53:40,467 --> 00:53:43,469
or I can survive ten hours
unscathed out in the open.
470
00:53:51,978 --> 00:53:55,856
Of course, every soldier believes
in chance and trusts his luck.
471
00:53:56,024 --> 00:53:58,651
But no soldier outlives
a thousand chances.
472
00:54:01,154 --> 00:54:03,697
Flamethrowers. A new invention.
473
00:54:03,865 --> 00:54:07,159
To the list of ways by which the keenest
minds in the world
474
00:54:07,327 --> 00:54:09,578
are making it easy to kill one another,
475
00:54:09,746 --> 00:54:12,957
add this miracle of modern
industrial ingenuity.
476
00:54:13,124 --> 00:54:14,333
Incineration.
477
00:54:17,879 --> 00:54:21,507
The rats here are particularly repulsive.
They are so fat.
478
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:23,634
We call them corpse rats.
479
00:54:23,802 --> 00:54:27,596
They have shocking evil faces
and even on our empty stomachs,
480
00:54:27,764 --> 00:54:30,766
it is nauseating
to see their long naked tails.
481
00:54:37,565 --> 00:54:41,902
The bait is bread, which is so rotten
that even we won't eat it.
482
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:46,699
These rats are so brazen.
If we make a pile of rotten crusts,
483
00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:49,785
they'll come right among us
to snatch them away.
484
00:54:54,249 --> 00:54:56,292
It's a way to pass the time.
485
00:55:51,806 --> 00:55:54,058
Gas gas! Gas gas!
486
00:55:54,851 --> 00:55:59,021
Gas, the most feared,
the most obscene weapon of all.
487
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:02,483
We remember the awful sights
in the hospital.
488
00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:05,110
The gas patients who, suffocating,
489
00:56:05,278 --> 00:56:07,821
cough up their burnt lungs in clots.
490
00:56:08,907 --> 00:56:10,657
Better to take your chances
in the open
491
00:56:10,825 --> 00:56:14,953
rather than stay in the hollows
where the vapours settle.
492
00:57:21,020 --> 00:57:23,981
The new recruits give us more trouble
than they are worth.
493
00:57:24,149 --> 00:57:27,609
Between five and ten of them
get killed to every old hand.
494
00:57:27,777 --> 00:57:31,155
And they get killed simply
because they are so inexperienced.
495
00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:35,033
They know nothing,
so they die like flies.
496
00:57:35,201 --> 00:57:38,120
No, don't! No!
497
00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:39,872
Get him.
498
00:58:03,563 --> 00:58:06,565
Hand me a rifle. Hand me a rifle.
499
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:14,490
Kat, wait!
500
00:58:32,091 --> 00:58:34,760
A baby.
501
00:58:37,096 --> 00:58:39,223
Just a baby.
502
00:59:05,750 --> 00:59:20,055
Mind the wire.
503
00:59:34,237 --> 00:59:35,445
They're in position.
504
00:59:35,613 --> 00:59:37,656
- Nearby?
- Yes, sir.
505
00:59:37,824 --> 00:59:39,366
How long has it been?
506
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:43,161
Weeks, months, years?
507
00:59:43,329 --> 00:59:44,746
Only days.
508
00:59:44,914 --> 00:59:48,208
Yesterday we were under fire.
Today we can rest.
509
00:59:48,376 --> 00:59:51,628
Tomorrow we go up
to the trenches again.
510
01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:19,323
Boys, boys, come here.
511
01:00:19,490 --> 01:00:22,075
Look, you fellas go on that side.
512
01:00:22,243 --> 01:00:24,036
Over here. This way.
513
01:00:24,203 --> 01:00:25,829
Easy, easy.
514
01:00:29,542 --> 01:00:31,668
Get around, get around up there.
515
01:00:38,509 --> 01:00:40,218
- Come on!
- Get it!
516
01:00:41,596 --> 01:00:43,347
Get him!
517
01:01:02,075 --> 01:01:05,077
Somebody eat the liver. I'm on a diet.
518
01:01:07,705 --> 01:01:12,793
My old woman would have used
lots of bay leaves, basil, paprika,
519
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:17,756
and the stuffing would have been
something very special.
520
01:01:19,050 --> 01:01:20,550
But all things considered...
521
01:01:20,718 --> 01:01:23,136
It was a feast. I feel like a king.
522
01:01:23,304 --> 01:01:25,514
Ah, not bad, not bad.
523
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:29,434
Like I say, it's not a bad little war.
524
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:33,855
You never answered
my question, Josef.
525
01:01:34,023 --> 01:01:35,607
What question?
526
01:01:35,775 --> 01:01:38,026
What'll you do after all this is over?
527
01:01:38,194 --> 01:01:40,779
What we'll all do. Get drunk.
528
01:01:40,947 --> 01:01:43,240
That's the most intelligent answer
I've heard yet.
529
01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:45,742
Of course he'll get drunk.
530
01:01:45,910 --> 01:01:49,037
Then it's back home
and mama and all that.
531
01:01:49,205 --> 01:01:50,372
But what else?
532
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:53,291
Tell him, Josef.
Don't be ashamed.
533
01:01:53,459 --> 01:01:54,459
I'm not ashamed.
534
01:01:54,627 --> 01:01:58,088
He's going to theology school
to be a minister.
535
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,177
A year at the front and you haven't changed
your mind about that?
536
01:02:04,804 --> 01:02:06,638
Is God still in his heaven?
537
01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:08,432
Nothing ever changes that.
538
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,686
- And you, M?ller?
- I'm going to be an engineer.
539
01:02:12,854 --> 01:02:16,231
That's all I've ever wanted to be.
I'm one of the lucky ones.
540
01:02:16,399 --> 01:02:19,985
- Why?
- I've always known what I wanted to do.
541
01:02:20,153 --> 01:02:22,112
Like Behm.
542
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,656
Like the farmer boy. Eh?
543
01:02:24,824 --> 01:02:27,451
Straight back to the harvest, Detering?
544
01:02:27,618 --> 01:02:31,079
Back to my horses and my sheep
and the harvest.
545
01:02:31,247 --> 01:02:32,914
And my wife.
546
01:02:35,001 --> 01:02:37,252
What will you do, Tjaden?
547
01:02:37,420 --> 01:02:40,422
Make sure Himmelstoss doesn't
get past me.
548
01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,799
I know what I want.
549
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:44,551
We all know what you want.
550
01:02:44,719 --> 01:02:47,512
I want to undress every mademoiselle
from here to the Rhine.
551
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,973
We're talking about future careers, Leer.
552
01:02:50,141 --> 01:02:52,893
I fully intend to make a career
of my lifelong hobby.
553
01:02:53,060 --> 01:02:56,062
I'm gonna become the world's first
professor of lust.
554
01:02:57,398 --> 01:03:01,818
What about you?
Back to the cobbler's bench, yeah?
555
01:03:01,986 --> 01:03:02,861
And the children.
556
01:03:03,029 --> 01:03:04,237
How many you got?
557
01:03:04,405 --> 01:03:07,449
Don't ask.
Good thing I'm a shoemaker,
558
01:03:07,617 --> 01:03:10,410
or I'd go broke just buying shoes.
559
01:03:11,746 --> 01:03:14,039
What about you, Westus?
560
01:03:15,458 --> 01:03:17,167
A feather bed.
561
01:03:17,335 --> 01:03:19,544
Yeah. And a fat girl.
562
01:03:19,712 --> 01:03:21,379
I won't get up for a week!
563
01:03:23,591 --> 01:03:25,467
The question is, what will you do
for a living?
564
01:03:25,635 --> 01:03:27,511
Mm?
565
01:03:29,305 --> 01:03:32,891
You know what? I think I'll stay in the army.
566
01:03:33,059 --> 01:03:36,645
- Are you crazy?
- Well, in peace time the food's good,
567
01:03:36,813 --> 01:03:40,607
you sleep in a bed and every week
you get clean underwear.
568
01:03:40,775 --> 01:03:44,277
In the evenings, you're a free man,
you go off to the beer hall.
569
01:03:45,446 --> 01:03:48,490
It's a much better life than digging peat.
570
01:03:48,658 --> 01:03:50,325
Much better.
571
01:03:57,542 --> 01:04:00,418
- More coffins.
- A bigger load than usual.
572
01:04:00,586 --> 01:04:02,587
That means a bigger offensive.
573
01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:10,136
How considerate
they are at headquarters.
574
01:04:10,304 --> 01:04:12,264
They even send us the stuff
to fill them with.
575
01:04:12,431 --> 01:04:14,766
Come on, get this one down.
576
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:16,935
Haul them up.
577
01:04:34,328 --> 01:04:36,580
Careful, careful.
578
01:04:42,086 --> 01:04:43,420
How old are you?
579
01:04:43,588 --> 01:04:46,047
Sixteen.
580
01:04:47,216 --> 01:04:49,676
Next year, right out of the cradle.
581
01:04:58,978 --> 01:05:02,188
- Did you notch this bayonet?
- Yes, sir.
582
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:05,025
Who told you to?
583
01:05:05,192 --> 01:05:08,528
- At the training camp...
- Training camp, eh?
584
01:05:08,696 --> 01:05:13,658
Sonny, if the enemy ever caught you
with this, they wouldn't kill you,
585
01:05:13,826 --> 01:05:17,329
they'd plump your eyes out
and fill them full of sawdust.
586
01:05:17,496 --> 01:05:19,831
Nobody uses these things any more.
587
01:05:19,999 --> 01:05:23,001
It's by mutual agreement,
on both sides.
588
01:05:23,169 --> 01:05:24,586
I didn't know.
589
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:26,922
- First time at the front?
- Yes, sir.
590
01:05:27,089 --> 01:05:29,591
Don't "sir" me. I'm a private.
591
01:05:29,759 --> 01:05:31,217
Sorry, I thought...
592
01:05:31,385 --> 01:05:33,386
Don't think. Just listen.
593
01:05:33,554 --> 01:05:35,680
Yes, sir.
594
01:05:36,933 --> 01:05:39,184
Your spade is better.
595
01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:42,812
You hit a man under the chin,
you can take his head off.
596
01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:45,357
It's a good club, too.
597
01:05:45,524 --> 01:05:47,484
Cos it's heavy.
598
01:05:47,652 --> 01:05:52,697
Hit a man between neck and shoulder.
Right here. Split him right in two.
599
01:05:52,865 --> 01:05:54,699
- Mother of God!
- It's cleaner.
600
01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:58,995
Bayonet gets stuck in ribs,
you have to kick him to pull it out.
601
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:03,124
Time it takes, you're a dead man.
602
01:06:04,502 --> 01:06:06,169
Understand?
603
01:06:08,714 --> 01:06:12,550
Now, where is your platoon leader?
604
01:06:12,718 --> 01:06:14,594
Corporal Himmelstoss
said he would meet us here.
605
01:06:14,762 --> 01:06:16,846
Ah.
606
01:06:17,014 --> 01:06:18,223
Corporal who?
607
01:06:18,391 --> 01:06:20,183
Himmelstoss.
608
01:06:20,351 --> 01:06:22,310
- From Oldenberg training station?
- Yes, sir.
609
01:06:22,478 --> 01:06:24,854
I don't believe it!
610
01:06:25,022 --> 01:06:28,024
Vengeance is mine!
611
01:06:28,192 --> 01:06:32,320
How did he mess up his playground?
He didn't volunteer for the front?
612
01:06:32,488 --> 01:06:34,656
No, sir. He got into trouble.
613
01:06:34,824 --> 01:06:39,285
Overdid it with a couple of trainees on the
muddy field. You know the muddy field?
614
01:06:40,371 --> 01:06:42,664
Do we know the muddy field?
615
01:06:42,832 --> 01:06:45,750
He went too far. He almost killed them.
616
01:06:45,918 --> 01:06:48,795
And he didn't know the son
of the local magistrate was watching.
617
01:06:48,963 --> 01:06:51,923
So they sent him up here. Wouldn't you
know he'd spoil it for himself?
618
01:06:52,091 --> 01:06:55,093
Wouldn't you know
he'd go just too far?
619
01:06:55,261 --> 01:06:58,930
Oh, Lord. I can hardly wait.
620
01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:03,101
Oh, well. Look who's here.
621
01:07:09,942 --> 01:07:11,276
Out of the way!
622
01:07:17,366 --> 01:07:19,367
Well, we meet again.
623
01:07:22,747 --> 01:07:26,541
Kropp, isn't it? You remember me,
Corporal Himmelstoss.
624
01:07:26,709 --> 01:07:30,545
M?ller, you here too?
Oh, yes, I remember you very well.
625
01:07:32,298 --> 01:07:37,260
Leer, Behm, Baumer... Baumer.
626
01:07:40,222 --> 01:07:41,639
Nothing wrong with my memory!
627
01:07:44,310 --> 01:07:47,896
Well, I told you that what I taught you,
you'd never forget.
628
01:07:48,064 --> 01:07:50,315
I see you've all managed
to stay alive.
629
01:07:50,483 --> 01:07:52,984
Not Kemmerich.
630
01:07:53,152 --> 01:07:56,321
Kemmerich?
I don't remember Kemmerich.
631
01:07:57,364 --> 01:08:00,492
The rest of you seem to have learned
your lessons pretty well.
632
01:08:00,659 --> 01:08:04,370
Here's your lesson, Himmelstoss.
When you get to the front,
633
01:08:04,538 --> 01:08:06,414
don't you turn your back.
634
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:10,001
What did you say?
635
01:08:11,504 --> 01:08:13,838
So this is the great
Corporal Himmelstoss?
636
01:08:15,341 --> 01:08:17,342
And who are you?
637
01:08:17,510 --> 01:08:19,177
I asked you a question, soldier.
638
01:08:21,180 --> 01:08:26,351
Himmelstoss.
There's a latrine down the road.
639
01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:30,688
Why don't you take a jump?
640
01:08:30,856 --> 01:08:32,774
Do you realise that
I'm your superior officer?
641
01:08:33,192 --> 01:08:34,943
Do you want to be court martialled?
642
01:08:38,197 --> 01:08:39,531
Stand up straight, heels together,
643
01:08:39,698 --> 01:08:42,033
when your superior officer
speaks to you.
644
01:08:42,201 --> 01:08:49,374
All of you!
645
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:52,585
Squad, attention!
646
01:08:56,048 --> 01:08:57,757
Right... face.
647
01:08:59,426 --> 01:09:02,637
Right turn, forward... march.
648
01:09:02,805 --> 01:09:06,724
Left, left, left, left.
649
01:09:06,892 --> 01:09:10,687
Left, left,
left, left, left, left.
650
01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:33,126
They are being good to us.
They brought us delicious edamer cheese.
651
01:09:33,294 --> 01:09:37,422
We eat and drink of course
but there is no joy in it
652
01:09:37,590 --> 01:09:41,259
because they always feed us like this
before they send us into hell.
653
01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:44,137
Kat has lost his fun.
654
01:09:44,305 --> 01:09:47,473
When he smells cheese
he also smells trouble
655
01:09:47,641 --> 01:09:49,601
and of course it comes.
656
01:09:54,773 --> 01:09:58,109
Easy, boy, easy.
It'll be all right.
657
01:10:20,299 --> 01:10:25,303
Ah, you see the way he blows up?
Boom, like that.
658
01:10:27,932 --> 01:10:30,141
Want to kill Frenchmen?
659
01:10:30,309 --> 01:10:34,312
Hey, give me the tin when you finish.
I can use the fat to polish my boots.
660
01:10:57,753 --> 01:10:59,921
You'll be all right, boy.
661
01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:01,839
You'll get used to it.
662
01:11:02,841 --> 01:11:05,551
They always shell us like this
before a big offensive.
663
01:11:05,719 --> 01:11:08,513
To soften us up so we can't sleep.
664
01:11:08,681 --> 01:11:10,598
Huh, then when they attack,
665
01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:14,102
we won't be able to fight back
because we're too tired.
666
01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:19,357
Two days and nights. How much longer?
667
01:11:19,525 --> 01:11:22,193
Not too long, not too long.
668
01:11:22,361 --> 01:11:24,487
Why don't they stop?
669
01:11:43,299 --> 01:11:44,924
Where are you going?
670
01:11:45,092 --> 01:11:46,884
I'll be back... in a minute.
671
01:11:47,052 --> 01:11:51,389
No, just relax. Wait. It'll be over soon.
Come on, sit down and relax.
672
01:11:54,685 --> 01:11:58,062
Let me go. I must get away. I must go!
673
01:12:05,404 --> 01:12:07,905
Sit down and calm down.
674
01:12:08,073 --> 01:12:11,743
Now, go and sit down.
Behave yourselves. Be easy, quiet.
675
01:12:13,412 --> 01:12:14,412
Listen...
676
01:12:15,622 --> 01:12:16,873
Attack!
677
01:12:22,421 --> 01:12:27,008
Come on, let's go.
Come on... Come on!
678
01:12:41,648 --> 01:12:45,193
No longer do we lie helpless,
awaiting destruction.
679
01:12:45,361 --> 01:12:50,114
We can destroy and kill
to save ourselves and to be revenged.
680
01:12:53,452 --> 01:12:56,287
When we see their faces,
we become wild beasts.
681
01:12:56,455 --> 01:12:58,664
We turn into thugs and murderers.
682
01:12:58,832 --> 01:13:01,125
Into God only knows what devils.
683
01:13:01,293 --> 01:13:03,503
If your own father was with them,
684
01:13:03,670 --> 01:13:06,547
you wouldn't hesitate
to fling a bomb into him.
685
01:13:53,429 --> 01:13:56,222
Forward!
686
01:14:09,319 --> 01:14:11,446
What the hell is this?
687
01:14:11,613 --> 01:14:14,115
Come on, let's go. Come on, you all.
688
01:14:14,908 --> 01:14:16,409
Come on. You too, soldier.
689
01:14:18,245 --> 01:14:21,581
Come on, let's go. Let's go, let's go!
Damn it, let's go!
690
01:14:21,748 --> 01:14:23,332
What's happening down there?
691
01:14:24,626 --> 01:14:26,377
Come on!
692
01:14:28,672 --> 01:14:31,591
Charge! Come on!
693
01:14:32,843 --> 01:14:38,306
How long is it? Days,
and weeks, and months, and years.
694
01:14:38,474 --> 01:14:42,059
Attack, counter-attack.
And the dead pile up.
695
01:14:42,227 --> 01:14:47,732
Winter, summer... The days are hot
and the dead lie unburied.
696
01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:49,650
The shells will bury them.
697
01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:53,237
But when the wind blows,
it brings the smell of blood,
698
01:14:53,405 --> 01:14:55,656
which is heavy and sweet.
699
01:20:41,586 --> 01:20:43,629
No, shh... shh...
700
01:20:45,799 --> 01:20:47,716
Shh! Shh!
701
01:20:47,884 --> 01:20:49,593
No, no...
702
01:20:51,763 --> 01:20:55,099
No, shh. Aider. Je vous...
703
01:20:56,101 --> 01:20:58,936
Je vous... help...
I want to help you.
704
01:21:54,326 --> 01:21:55,159
Ohh!
705
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:15,012
I didn't want to kill you.
706
01:22:18,683 --> 01:22:21,185
But you jumped in here like that.
707
01:22:23,438 --> 01:22:27,107
What would you have done? It's...
708
01:22:29,027 --> 01:22:32,529
It's just I'd never met you
before... like this...
709
01:22:35,158 --> 01:22:36,200
face to face.
710
01:22:39,496 --> 01:22:41,747
I just saw your rifle...
711
01:22:43,750 --> 01:22:45,918
your bayonet...
712
01:22:47,754 --> 01:22:49,713
grenades.
713
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:55,928
If we threw all those away...
714
01:22:58,890 --> 01:23:00,891
we could be brothers.
715
01:23:03,937 --> 01:23:07,815
But they never want us
to know that, do they?
716
01:23:11,069 --> 01:23:13,070
They never want us to know.
717
01:23:15,615 --> 01:23:17,950
We each have mothers...
718
01:23:19,536 --> 01:23:21,370
fathers...
719
01:23:23,707 --> 01:23:25,749
the same...
720
01:23:27,168 --> 01:23:29,169
fear of death.
721
01:23:31,673 --> 01:23:33,465
The same...
722
01:23:34,759 --> 01:23:36,719
pain.
723
01:23:38,221 --> 01:23:40,097
The same...
724
01:23:42,350 --> 01:23:44,309
everything.
725
01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:49,773
Everything.
726
01:23:58,700 --> 01:24:01,035
Forgive me, comrade.
727
01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:18,886
I could write... to your family.
728
01:24:21,639 --> 01:24:23,515
Yes...
729
01:24:23,683 --> 01:24:25,350
Yes, I'll write!
730
01:24:49,125 --> 01:24:51,752
"Gerard Duval, compositeur."
731
01:24:52,796 --> 01:24:56,173
I have killed
Gerard Duval the printer.
732
01:25:58,153 --> 01:26:01,738
Battalion, attention!
733
01:26:04,951 --> 01:26:07,744
Present arms!
734
01:26:13,543 --> 01:26:15,627
Eyes left!
735
01:27:26,157 --> 01:27:27,950
Battalion Commander, sir.
736
01:27:28,117 --> 01:27:31,453
Your Majesty, I have the honour
to bring you the salute
737
01:27:31,621 --> 01:27:34,331
of the 150th Infantry Battalion.
738
01:27:51,099 --> 01:27:54,476
Your Majesty, Soldier Bernard.
739
01:28:09,534 --> 01:28:12,369
Your Majesty, Soldier Langer.
740
01:28:31,973 --> 01:28:34,850
Your Majesty, Corporal Himmelstoss.
741
01:28:48,573 --> 01:28:51,033
Battalion! At ease!
742
01:28:52,493 --> 01:28:57,748
Officers, non-commissioned officers,
enlisted men.
743
01:28:59,042 --> 01:29:01,710
The men who have received
decorations this day
744
01:29:01,878 --> 01:29:05,922
have all performed actions
worthy of our great cause.
745
01:29:06,090 --> 01:29:10,469
Henceforth, Germany expects
each of you to follow their example.
746
01:29:11,846 --> 01:29:17,059
From this day on, your Kaiser urges
you all to aspire to such strength,
747
01:29:17,226 --> 01:29:23,857
to such bravery, to such obedience
to your God and your country.
748
01:29:24,025 --> 01:29:26,943
If you do, my soldiers,
749
01:29:27,111 --> 01:29:31,448
I am certain that every one of you
will one day wear a medal
750
01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:34,076
pinned on you by your Kaiser.
751
01:29:34,243 --> 01:29:37,913
You have all done your duty in the noble
tradition of the German warrior.
752
01:29:38,081 --> 01:29:41,875
You have shown the world our might.
753
01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:45,837
You have stricken
our enemies with fear.
754
01:29:46,547 --> 01:29:51,802
With God's help, you are winning
a glorious victory for the Fatherland.
755
01:29:54,639 --> 01:29:58,266
The Kaiser! Just wait till I tell my father.
756
01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:00,811
Oh, yeah? What'll you tell him?
757
01:30:00,978 --> 01:30:03,105
I'll tell him I saw the Kaiser!
758
01:30:03,272 --> 01:30:05,232
Up this close - he's never gonna believe it.
759
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:08,485
- He seemed like a very nice man.
- Yeah, really nice.
760
01:30:08,653 --> 01:30:11,154
Do you think it's true
they forced him into this war?
761
01:30:11,322 --> 01:30:13,615
- I wouldn't say that.
- Why not?
762
01:30:13,783 --> 01:30:16,284
It's the generals' fault, he had to say yes.
763
01:30:16,452 --> 01:30:19,871
- So the generals started the war?
- The French generals, yes.
764
01:30:20,039 --> 01:30:22,999
The French generals told the Kaiser
we had to have a war?
765
01:30:23,167 --> 01:30:25,001
No, you don't understand...
766
01:30:25,169 --> 01:30:27,379
Be careful with these uniforms, boys.
767
01:30:27,547 --> 01:30:29,798
They have to be handed down to the next
bunch of heroes
768
01:30:29,966 --> 01:30:31,591
that gets reviewed by the Kaiser.
769
01:30:31,759 --> 01:30:34,428
Kat, why do you think we're in this war?
770
01:30:35,012 --> 01:30:38,515
- Protect the Fatherland.
- What are the French fighting for?
771
01:30:38,683 --> 01:30:40,350
Protect the Motherland.
772
01:30:40,518 --> 01:30:42,018
And who's right?
773
01:30:42,186 --> 01:30:44,229
Whoever wins.
774
01:30:44,939 --> 01:30:46,731
That's not very patriotic.
775
01:30:46,899 --> 01:30:50,193
- Not very what?
- Patriotic.
776
01:30:50,903 --> 01:30:56,199
Maybe not. Maybe it's not very patriotic
to use your head.
777
01:30:56,367 --> 01:30:59,536
Maybe the real patriot just goes out
and gets his head blown off.
778
01:30:59,704 --> 01:31:02,414
- And gets a medal for it.
- Like Himmelstoss?
779
01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:04,708
Can you imagine that little peacock
getting a medal?
780
01:31:04,876 --> 01:31:06,251
From the Kaiser?
781
01:31:06,419 --> 01:31:08,295
Be fair, he deserved it.
782
01:31:09,505 --> 01:31:12,215
He behaved like a true German soldier.
783
01:31:12,383 --> 01:31:15,093
He ran ahead when he was told
to run ahead
784
01:31:15,261 --> 01:31:17,512
and he ran back
when he was told to run back.
785
01:31:19,182 --> 01:31:22,642
The only thing he didn't do
like a German soldier... was die.
786
01:31:25,062 --> 01:31:28,356
Do you think that's what we're fighting for?
Just to die?
787
01:31:30,067 --> 01:31:32,819
Well, do you know what we're fighting for?
788
01:31:33,654 --> 01:31:36,031
Does anybody know what we're fighting for?
789
01:31:36,199 --> 01:31:38,241
Does the Kaiser?
790
01:31:38,409 --> 01:31:41,912
Maybe if he'd stayed out of it in the first
place there'd be no war.
791
01:31:42,914 --> 01:31:43,914
Corporal.
792
01:31:45,458 --> 01:31:47,459
Come in.
793
01:31:58,137 --> 01:32:00,138
Sit down.
794
01:32:06,938 --> 01:32:10,524
Listen, their country insulted ours -
that's how it started.
795
01:32:10,691 --> 01:32:14,861
"Their country insulted ours"?
I don't understand.
796
01:32:15,613 --> 01:32:18,156
A mountain in France
insulted a mountain Germany?
797
01:32:18,324 --> 01:32:20,408
Ah, you know what I mean.
798
01:32:21,953 --> 01:32:26,540
- One country offended the other.
- Then what am I doing here?
799
01:32:26,707 --> 01:32:27,832
I haven't been offended.
800
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:31,795
How could I be offended?
I've never even been to France before.
801
01:32:31,963 --> 01:32:35,090
In all my life I've only known
a handful of Frenchies.
802
01:32:35,258 --> 01:32:38,468
They seemed all right to me.
Human, people.
803
01:32:38,636 --> 01:32:41,805
Let me tell you, the only reason
we're fighting this war
804
01:32:41,973 --> 01:32:44,099
is because it's useful to somebody.
805
01:32:44,267 --> 01:32:46,476
Hm? But who?
806
01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:48,103
Not for me.
807
01:32:48,271 --> 01:32:51,147
Let me tell you something else -
about those generals.
808
01:32:51,315 --> 01:32:53,358
They're getting something out of all this too.
809
01:32:53,526 --> 01:32:54,693
What do they get?
810
01:32:54,860 --> 01:32:56,653
Famous!
811
01:32:57,196 --> 01:32:59,948
Hey, anybody ever heard of Vitry-les-Bois?
812
01:33:00,116 --> 01:33:01,324
It's a French pastry!
813
01:33:01,492 --> 01:33:04,494
It's an occupied French village
and we're all going there.
814
01:33:04,662 --> 01:33:07,497
- What for?
- For seven days' leave!
815
01:33:18,759 --> 01:33:21,469
Ever seen anything
as beautiful as that.
816
01:33:21,637 --> 01:33:24,139
Never.
817
01:33:24,307 --> 01:33:26,349
How old would you say she is?
818
01:33:26,517 --> 01:33:27,767
21, 22.
819
01:33:27,935 --> 01:33:31,271
Oh, no. I don't think she'd be older than us.
820
01:33:32,106 --> 01:33:34,608
I'd say... 17 at the most.
821
01:33:34,775 --> 01:33:37,277
Oh, she's so clean.
822
01:33:37,445 --> 01:33:40,280
Why not? I bet she take a bath
every single day.
823
01:33:40,448 --> 01:33:43,199
Mm, twice. Three times a day.
824
01:33:43,367 --> 01:33:45,327
There's no dirt under those fingernails.
825
01:33:47,204 --> 01:33:50,373
How far do you suppose he could march
with shoes like that?
826
01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:54,461
- Do you remember white trousers?
- Do I!
827
01:33:54,629 --> 01:33:57,297
I have a pair like that at home.
828
01:34:25,409 --> 01:34:28,453
It would be nice, wouldn't it, Albert?
829
01:34:31,582 --> 01:34:34,250
Maybe we could go over
to the de-lousing station.
830
01:34:34,418 --> 01:34:36,586
Why? You'll be covered again
in half an hour.
831
01:34:36,754 --> 01:34:38,046
I just feel so dirty.
832
01:34:38,214 --> 01:34:40,757
Hey! Get your hands off her, she's mine!
833
01:34:40,925 --> 01:34:43,426
Oh my!
834
01:34:45,096 --> 01:34:49,057
What are these filthy-minded Krauts
been saying, sweetheart?
835
01:34:49,892 --> 01:34:52,644
Come on, shutzy, throw a little my way.
836
01:34:53,396 --> 01:34:56,147
You know, she looks a lot like
the first one I ever had.
837
01:34:56,315 --> 01:34:57,857
Olga.
838
01:34:58,025 --> 01:35:00,944
Olga, my little peasant calf.
839
01:35:01,112 --> 01:35:03,446
Come on, you never had anything like that.
840
01:35:03,614 --> 01:35:05,824
Oh no?
841
01:35:07,952 --> 01:35:09,494
See you later.
842
01:35:09,662 --> 01:35:11,538
- Where are you going?
- Sightseeing.
843
01:35:11,706 --> 01:35:13,581
What's wrong with this sight?
844
01:35:22,550 --> 01:35:24,801
It'll take six weeks to get to the skin!
845
01:35:24,969 --> 01:35:28,221
- Can I have a piece of that soap?
- How's the water?
846
01:35:28,389 --> 01:35:30,932
Beautiful! Come on in!
847
01:35:31,100 --> 01:35:32,684
Hey! Look at that!
848
01:35:38,149 --> 01:35:43,319
- Hello! Bonjour, bonjour!
- Jolies! Jolies!
849
01:35:43,487 --> 01:35:46,656
Somebody do something!
Just don't let them get away!
850
01:35:46,824 --> 01:35:51,161
Allo, Mademoiselles!
Allo, Mademoiselles!
851
01:35:51,328 --> 01:35:54,372
Ami! Ami, mademoiselles!
852
01:35:54,540 --> 01:35:57,333
Une minute, madame!
853
01:35:57,501 --> 01:36:00,628
- Attendez, s'il vous plait!
- Tell them to come over.
854
01:36:00,796 --> 01:36:05,884
Er, yes, er... Mademoiselle,
you come over this side, oui?
855
01:36:06,051 --> 01:36:08,428
Vous venez, s'il vous pla?t.
856
01:36:08,596 --> 01:36:12,724
- Ask them what they're doing tonight.
- Don't let them get away!
857
01:36:12,892 --> 01:36:16,853
Er, nous vivons ? vous parler,
all right?
858
01:36:20,274 --> 01:36:23,193
- Tell 'em we want to talk.
- Talk?!
859
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:26,196
- Parlez vous, Mesdemoiselles!
- Hey! Hey, wait a minute!
860
01:36:26,822 --> 01:36:28,907
Tell them... Mademoiselles!
861
01:36:30,201 --> 01:36:32,368
Venez assi!
862
01:36:32,536 --> 01:36:34,370
No, that's not it, it's venez ici.
863
01:36:34,538 --> 01:36:37,123
Frauleins, I'amour, yes?
864
01:36:37,291 --> 01:36:40,084
You coming over,
we have I'amour, yes?
865
01:36:40,252 --> 01:36:42,712
Oui, oui, oui.
866
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:45,840
- Don't go!
- Yoo-hoo!
867
01:36:46,008 --> 01:36:50,261
Girls! Fraulein, bread, yes?
You want bread?
868
01:36:50,429 --> 01:36:53,223
Look! Regardez!
869
01:36:53,390 --> 01:36:56,559
Yum-yum-yum-yum-yum, yes? Bread!
870
01:36:56,727 --> 01:36:59,145
You come over here, oui?
871
01:36:59,605 --> 01:37:01,356
Vous!
872
01:37:01,524 --> 01:37:03,024
Venez!
873
01:37:03,192 --> 01:37:04,234
Ici!
874
01:37:05,528 --> 01:37:07,070
Maintenant!
875
01:37:07,238 --> 01:37:08,196
Oui! Oui!
876
01:37:08,364 --> 01:37:10,406
- What did she say?
- They want us to come over. No...
877
01:37:10,574 --> 01:37:12,826
- Pas possible!
- No, we can't!
878
01:37:12,993 --> 01:37:16,621
We can't! There's guards, sentries,
you understand? Watch.
879
01:37:16,789 --> 01:37:19,290
We can't, they're up there.
880
01:37:23,587 --> 01:37:25,588
Ce soir!
881
01:37:25,756 --> 01:37:27,757
Vous venez!
882
01:37:28,592 --> 01:37:30,343
L?-bas!
883
01:37:30,511 --> 01:37:31,803
N?tre maison!
884
01:37:31,971 --> 01:37:35,598
They want us to come
to their house tonight!
885
01:37:35,766 --> 01:37:39,018
Oui! Avec quelque chose ? manger, oui?
886
01:37:39,186 --> 01:37:42,730
- With something to eat!
- La maison l?!
887
01:37:42,898 --> 01:37:44,607
Maison!
888
01:37:44,775 --> 01:37:48,403
- Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour!
- Bye! Bye!
889
01:37:59,164 --> 01:38:00,999
Drink up, Tjaden.
890
01:38:08,215 --> 01:38:12,135
It's bad luck there's four of us
and three of them.
891
01:38:12,303 --> 01:38:14,762
Mm-hmm... Bad luck.
892
01:38:15,806 --> 01:38:18,474
See, I just don't think it's fair to the girls.
893
01:38:19,518 --> 01:38:22,645
Drink up, Tjaden. How often
do you get good French wine?
894
01:38:22,813 --> 01:38:27,442
Not fair to the girls... No.
895
01:38:27,610 --> 01:38:31,821
One of us will have to make
the supreme sacrifice.
896
01:38:31,989 --> 01:38:33,781
Mmm?
897
01:38:33,949 --> 01:38:37,160
Bottoms up, Tjaden,
you're not keeping up with us.
898
01:38:41,332 --> 01:38:43,708
Maybe we should draw lots?
899
01:38:47,004 --> 01:38:48,838
You lose.
900
01:39:49,817 --> 01:39:52,694
- Bonsoir.
- Bonsoir.
901
01:40:41,285 --> 01:40:43,870
This looks like
the right line-up, huh?
902
01:40:45,122 --> 01:40:47,040
I'm all for this one.
903
01:40:47,958 --> 01:40:49,625
You like yours, Albert?
904
01:40:49,793 --> 01:40:51,002
Yes.
905
01:40:51,170 --> 01:40:53,171
Paul?
906
01:41:33,837 --> 01:41:36,547
Mais tu es blanc comme neige, toi.
907
01:41:36,715 --> 01:41:38,341
Er...
908
01:41:40,427 --> 01:41:42,678
Est-ce que je me trompe,
petit bon homme?
909
01:41:42,846 --> 01:41:44,514
Oui!
910
01:42:38,861 --> 01:42:41,320
Mon petit soldat.
911
01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:45,616
Viens. Viens.
912
01:42:51,957 --> 01:42:53,332
Non, non. Ici.
913
01:43:06,096 --> 01:43:08,222
- Quelle ?ge as tu?
- Eh?
914
01:43:08,390 --> 01:43:10,266
- Ton ?ge?
- No...
915
01:43:10,434 --> 01:43:13,686
- Quelle ?ge as tu?
- Ah! I'm nineteen.
916
01:43:15,189 --> 01:43:17,315
Nineteen.
917
01:43:17,482 --> 01:43:19,483
Nineteen... Oh!
918
01:43:27,409 --> 01:43:31,454
Vingt-cinq ans? Vraiment?
Tu exaggeres, non?
919
01:44:07,658 --> 01:44:11,661
The room grows dim
and dissolves in the half-light
920
01:44:11,828 --> 01:44:15,539
and only the face near mine lives
and is clear.
921
01:44:16,416 --> 01:44:19,710
The face is touched with a tenderness
that comes out of the night...
922
01:44:20,963 --> 01:44:23,256
and I let it all fall from me.
923
01:44:23,882 --> 01:44:26,175
War and terror,
924
01:44:26,343 --> 01:44:28,177
and grossness,
925
01:44:28,345 --> 01:44:32,014
in order to awaken young and happy.
926
01:44:53,870 --> 01:44:57,707
Look out! Look out! Take cover!
927
01:46:03,940 --> 01:46:07,109
Come on! Come on, Albert!
928
01:46:16,328 --> 01:46:19,705
- My leg!
- Come on, Albert! Up! Up!
929
01:46:25,712 --> 01:46:28,422
Come on, boys, a little bit more.
930
01:46:46,274 --> 01:46:47,942
Down! Stay down!
931
01:47:35,449 --> 01:47:37,533
I'll be right back!
932
01:48:13,069 --> 01:48:14,778
Hey!
933
01:48:24,873 --> 01:48:26,290
Easy!
934
01:48:36,343 --> 01:48:38,719
Paul!
935
01:48:38,887 --> 01:48:40,513
Take care!
936
01:48:53,109 --> 01:48:54,902
Kat.
937
01:49:01,117 --> 01:49:02,493
Kat!
938
01:49:02,661 --> 01:49:04,662
Kat, come on!
939
01:49:11,545 --> 01:49:14,797
- All right.
- Easy, easy.
940
01:49:28,770 --> 01:49:30,479
- It's from Kat.
- What is it?
941
01:49:30,647 --> 01:49:33,983
- We got a long ride. You could get hungry.
- Oh, bread and cheese!
942
01:49:35,902 --> 01:49:39,446
He could find a lobster dinner
in the middle of the desert!
943
01:49:42,367 --> 01:49:43,701
Goodbye.
944
01:49:44,578 --> 01:49:46,829
- Take care, Paul.
- Bye.
945
01:49:53,587 --> 01:49:55,921
Whistle blows)
946
01:50:15,984 --> 01:50:18,527
Albert and I are in a Catholic hospital.
947
01:50:18,695 --> 01:50:21,864
This is a piece of luck because Catholic
infirmaries are noted
948
01:50:22,032 --> 01:50:24,491
for their good treatment and good food.
949
01:50:24,659 --> 01:50:29,496
We were wheeled in the night before
and none of us slept well.
950
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:26,595
- Won't see him again.
- Why not?
951
01:51:27,305 --> 01:51:30,766
They've taken his clothes.
That means he's off to the Dead Room.
952
01:51:30,934 --> 01:51:33,394
The "Dead Room"?
953
01:51:34,312 --> 01:51:35,521
What's the Dead Room?
954
01:51:35,689 --> 01:51:38,565
The Dying Room,
whatever you wanna call it.
955
01:51:38,733 --> 01:51:40,943
It's in the basement.
956
01:51:41,611 --> 01:51:47,116
Whenever anybody wants to say
"goodbye, life", they take 'em there.
957
01:51:47,283 --> 01:51:51,203
It's convenient really.
It's next to the mortuary.
958
01:51:53,123 --> 01:51:55,624
No one ever comes back from it.
959
01:52:02,048 --> 01:52:05,926
The beds empty quickly
and new occupants take their places.
960
01:52:07,887 --> 01:52:11,014
It is going badly with Albert.
He is in much pain.
961
01:52:11,182 --> 01:52:15,102
Last night one of our wardmates
awakened with a severe haemorrhage.
962
01:52:15,270 --> 01:52:19,982
He is only semi-conscious today.
The doctors look in more often.
963
01:52:44,424 --> 01:52:47,760
They won't take me! No! No!
964
01:52:48,636 --> 01:52:50,179
We're taking you
to the bandaging room.
965
01:52:50,346 --> 01:52:53,640
I won't go to the Dying Room!
Stay here! Stay here!
966
01:52:53,808 --> 01:52:56,101
We're going to the bandaging ward.
967
01:52:56,269 --> 01:52:57,770
Then why are you taking his tunic?
968
01:52:57,937 --> 01:53:02,232
- I'll be back. I won't die!
- Why are you taking his tunic?
969
01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:06,570
I'll come back!
I won't die! I'll come back!
970
01:53:06,738 --> 01:53:08,113
Liars!
971
01:53:08,281 --> 01:53:10,073
They're lying.
972
01:53:10,241 --> 01:53:12,284
Liars!
973
01:53:15,538 --> 01:53:20,375
I'll come back!
I'll come back! I won't die...
974
01:53:23,087 --> 01:53:26,590
I am learning to walk again
but always in the corridor.
975
01:53:29,385 --> 01:53:32,221
I can't bear Albert's gaze
if I move abut the room.
976
01:53:34,390 --> 01:53:38,727
He has a strange look. I know what it is
because I know Albert.
977
01:53:38,895 --> 01:53:42,564
He is bitter and jealous that I am getting
better and he is not.
978
01:53:43,608 --> 01:53:47,069
And I know he has a terrible guilt
that he feels jealous of me.
979
01:53:47,237 --> 01:53:48,612
I know Albert.
980
01:53:48,780 --> 01:53:50,405
He's always been my best friend.
981
01:53:52,325 --> 01:53:54,785
I get to know this hospital very well,
982
01:53:54,953 --> 01:53:57,955
where they keep the abdonimal
and spinal cases,
983
01:53:58,122 --> 01:54:00,415
the head wounds and double amputations,
984
01:54:00,583 --> 01:54:04,920
the jaw wounds, the tesictle wounds,
the gas cases,
985
01:54:05,088 --> 01:54:06,755
the blind cases,
986
01:54:06,923 --> 01:54:09,925
the lung wounds and intestinal wounds.
987
01:54:10,093 --> 01:54:13,470
And this is only one hospital.
One single station.
988
01:54:14,180 --> 01:54:16,390
There are thousands in Germany.
989
01:54:16,558 --> 01:54:20,435
How many thousands are there in France?
In Russia?
990
01:54:20,603 --> 01:54:22,771
In England?
991
01:54:23,398 --> 01:54:27,234
How senseless is everything that can ever
be written, done and thought,
992
01:54:27,402 --> 01:54:29,736
when such things are possible?
993
01:54:29,904 --> 01:54:33,031
The culture of a thousand years
could not prevent this stream of blood
994
01:54:33,199 --> 01:54:35,117
being poured out.
995
01:54:35,285 --> 01:54:38,078
A hospital alone shows what war is.
996
01:54:47,463 --> 01:54:49,298
Stop it!
997
01:54:49,465 --> 01:54:52,426
Stop it! Stop that! Orderly!
998
01:54:53,052 --> 01:54:54,636
Get the orderly! Doctor!
999
01:54:54,804 --> 01:54:57,139
Orderly! Orderly!
1000
01:54:57,807 --> 01:55:00,517
He's trying to kill himself
with a fork!
1001
01:55:17,994 --> 01:55:20,662
Why didn't you leave him alone?
1002
01:55:35,845 --> 01:55:38,138
You are doing so well, Paul.
1003
01:55:38,306 --> 01:55:40,849
Soon we'll throw away the cane.
1004
01:55:45,688 --> 01:55:48,357
- Sister.
- Yes?
1005
01:55:49,192 --> 01:55:51,526
I'm worried about my friend.
1006
01:55:52,862 --> 01:55:56,865
I think... he is making
a very good recovery.
1007
01:55:58,034 --> 01:55:59,952
He worries me.
1008
01:56:00,119 --> 01:56:02,371
Since the operation, he...
1009
01:56:03,373 --> 01:56:07,042
He's in a terrible state of mind.
He hardly speaks to me any more.
1010
01:56:08,086 --> 01:56:12,965
There is always such a reaction
after an amputation.
1011
01:56:13,841 --> 01:56:15,759
Always!
1012
01:56:15,927 --> 01:56:18,387
Now, stop worrying.
1013
01:56:19,180 --> 01:56:21,348
Albert will get over it.
1014
01:56:21,516 --> 01:56:24,059
Go, tell him your good news.
1015
01:56:24,894 --> 01:56:26,979
That should cheer him up.
1016
01:56:43,079 --> 01:56:44,830
Albert?
1017
01:56:45,456 --> 01:56:47,332
How do you feel?
1018
01:57:03,266 --> 01:57:07,477
Albert, they're giving me 16 days'
convalescent leave.
1019
01:57:07,645 --> 01:57:08,854
I'll be going home.
1020
01:57:11,482 --> 01:57:14,735
They'll be sending you home, too.
Very soon.
1021
01:57:14,902 --> 01:57:19,281
Baumer! Hey, Baumer.
It's me, I'm back.
1022
01:57:20,283 --> 01:57:23,160
- Franz!
- Didn't I tell you I'd come back?
1023
01:57:23,327 --> 01:57:26,830
- I don't believe it.
- Death Room, Dying Room.
1024
01:57:26,998 --> 01:57:30,417
What the... hell
are they talking about?
1025
01:57:30,585 --> 01:57:33,295
Old Man Death didn't catch me.
1026
01:57:33,463 --> 01:57:35,630
I caught him out!
1027
01:57:37,925 --> 01:57:39,301
He did say he'd come back.
1028
01:57:41,220 --> 01:57:43,138
Didn't he?
1029
01:57:44,348 --> 01:57:46,308
Albert, is there anything I can get you?
1030
01:57:48,311 --> 01:57:50,270
A gun.
1031
01:57:53,816 --> 01:57:55,150
A what?
1032
01:57:57,945 --> 01:58:01,615
You want to get me something?
Get me a gun.
1033
01:58:06,245 --> 01:58:10,499
- Are you going to get me a gun or not?
- No! Don't talk nonsense!
1034
01:58:10,666 --> 01:58:14,336
No, you talk sense.
1035
01:58:20,259 --> 01:58:21,593
Albert...
1036
01:58:25,098 --> 01:58:26,431
I'm sorry.
1037
02:01:05,132 --> 02:01:07,008
Paul?
1038
02:01:07,176 --> 02:01:10,762
Paul! Why didn't you tell us
you were coming?
1039
02:01:11,639 --> 02:01:13,473
Mother. Mother!
1040
02:01:33,119 --> 02:01:35,912
Paul? Come up.
1041
02:01:55,141 --> 02:01:57,142
Give me your handkerchief.
1042
02:02:16,620 --> 02:02:18,621
How is she?
1043
02:02:20,333 --> 02:02:22,334
She's in bed.
1044
02:02:22,501 --> 02:02:24,502
She's sick, Paul.
1045
02:02:25,671 --> 02:02:27,505
What is it?
1046
02:02:28,424 --> 02:02:29,966
We don't know.
1047
02:02:30,134 --> 02:02:36,681
But... Dr Bradermeier thinks...
it's probably the cancer again.
1048
02:03:12,968 --> 02:03:15,053
Thank God.
1049
02:03:17,473 --> 02:03:20,016
Oh, thank God.
1050
02:03:23,104 --> 02:03:24,771
Thank God.
1051
02:03:26,816 --> 02:03:28,566
Are you wounded, Paul?
1052
02:03:30,861 --> 02:03:34,531
No... No, I'm just on leave.
1053
02:03:35,699 --> 02:03:37,909
- Oh, Paul.
- How are you feeling?
1054
02:03:38,077 --> 02:03:42,747
I'm going to try to get up
a little today, I think.
1055
02:03:42,915 --> 02:03:44,791
Good.
1056
02:03:45,835 --> 02:03:52,090
They must have known you were coming.
Ernst is making your favourite potato cakes.
1057
02:03:52,258 --> 02:03:55,635
And there's a bottle of whortleberryjam
with them.
1058
02:03:55,803 --> 02:03:59,431
- You like that, don't you?
- Yes, I haven't had any for a long time.
1059
02:04:00,975 --> 02:04:02,559
Where's Father?
1060
02:04:04,478 --> 02:04:06,729
At the sulphur factory.
1061
02:04:06,897 --> 02:04:08,565
He's working overtime.
1062
02:04:13,320 --> 02:04:20,034
My Paul.
1063
02:04:21,954 --> 02:04:23,288
Look.
1064
02:04:28,377 --> 02:04:30,128
Bread.
1065
02:04:30,921 --> 02:04:34,966
And cheese and... butter!
1066
02:04:36,886 --> 02:04:40,555
They feed you enough where you are?
1067
02:04:40,723 --> 02:04:42,765
Not always enough, but we manage.
1068
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:46,394
Is it very bad there?
1069
02:04:48,439 --> 02:04:49,647
No.
1070
02:04:49,815 --> 02:04:51,816
Not so bad.
1071
02:04:53,068 --> 02:04:54,944
Heinrich Bradermeier was here
1072
02:04:55,112 --> 02:05:00,909
and said it's terrible out there,
with the gas attacks
1073
02:05:01,076 --> 02:05:03,119
and all the rest of it.
1074
02:05:03,287 --> 02:05:04,829
It's just talk.
1075
02:05:04,997 --> 02:05:06,915
Just talk.
1076
02:05:07,082 --> 02:05:10,502
Look at me, I'm well and fit,
1077
02:05:10,669 --> 02:05:12,003
aren't I?
1078
02:05:14,840 --> 02:05:16,341
Yes.
1079
02:05:22,932 --> 02:05:24,933
But then...
1080
02:05:28,354 --> 02:05:31,814
I still don't understand why you want
to take off your uniform.
1081
02:05:31,982 --> 02:05:35,360
It's just more comfortable,
Father, that's all.
1082
02:05:35,528 --> 02:05:38,530
But I... I want to show off
our soldier boy
1083
02:05:38,697 --> 02:05:40,740
to the fellows at Max's.
1084
02:05:55,381 --> 02:05:59,509
You look well, Paul. Fit.
War agrees with you, eh?
1085
02:06:01,178 --> 02:06:02,929
I suppose, in a way.
1086
02:06:03,097 --> 02:06:04,305
- Have a cigar.
- No, thank you.
1087
02:06:04,473 --> 02:06:08,601
If you're old enough to kill Frenchmen,
you're old enough to smoke.
1088
02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:12,438
Hans, another beer
for our young warrior.
1089
02:06:12,606 --> 02:06:15,608
What's the spirit like out there?
Excellent, eh?
1090
02:06:16,527 --> 02:06:20,029
I can believe it. The thing to do now
is finish off the Froggies.
1091
02:06:20,197 --> 02:06:23,700
The enemy has many reserves,
Mr. Hollerstein.
1092
02:06:23,867 --> 02:06:26,953
The war may be different
from what people think.
1093
02:06:27,121 --> 02:06:29,872
You only see your little sector,
1094
02:06:30,040 --> 02:06:32,959
sometimes you lose sight
of the large picture.
1095
02:06:33,127 --> 02:06:39,632
The important thing as I see it is
the breakthrough, here in Flanders.
1096
02:06:39,800 --> 02:06:41,509
This is Frenchie, this is us.
1097
02:06:41,677 --> 02:06:46,639
We have to come round the Belgian side
and ram through.
1098
02:06:46,807 --> 02:06:48,099
There's no other way.
1099
02:06:48,601 --> 02:06:52,186
How can we do that before we beat them
on the Hindenburg line?
1100
02:06:52,354 --> 02:06:54,981
It is borders that are important.
1101
02:06:55,149 --> 02:06:59,360
You're quite wrong. A good soldier never
stays planted on a border like a turnip.
1102
02:06:59,528 --> 02:07:01,779
- He advances.
- I agree with Ludwig.
1103
02:07:01,947 --> 02:07:05,700
Offence is the key to modern warfare.
Look what happened in 1870.
1104
02:07:05,868 --> 02:07:11,789
Nonsense. We're talking about modern
warfare, not what happened 50 years ago.
1105
02:07:13,167 --> 02:07:18,379
You're lying to me, Paul.
I know that you are.
1106
02:07:19,715 --> 02:07:21,966
I swear to you, he died instantly.
1107
02:07:23,761 --> 02:07:26,763
- You promised me he wouldn't get hurt.
- Mrs. Kemmerich, I...
1108
02:07:26,930 --> 02:07:30,892
Why are you living
when he is dead? Why?
1109
02:07:31,060 --> 02:07:33,227
What right have you?
1110
02:07:51,955 --> 02:07:54,332
Tell me again.
1111
02:07:56,543 --> 02:07:58,753
Did you... see it?
1112
02:07:58,921 --> 02:08:02,590
Yes, I was right there next to him.
1113
02:08:03,592 --> 02:08:06,260
He died at once. He never suffered.
1114
02:08:11,183 --> 02:08:15,853
I know that
you're trying to comfort me,
1115
02:08:16,021 --> 02:08:20,942
but don't you see it is harder this way
than if you told the truth?
1116
02:08:23,612 --> 02:08:25,113
I want to know the...
1117
02:08:26,532 --> 02:08:28,574
I want the truth!
1118
02:08:30,786 --> 02:08:32,787
I have to hear it!
1119
02:08:35,124 --> 02:08:38,793
Mrs. Kemmerich, I promise you,
that's exactly how it happened.
1120
02:08:39,294 --> 02:08:43,673
He died immediately.
He felt absolutely nothing at all.
1121
02:08:45,592 --> 02:08:47,260
His face was quite calm.
1122
02:08:48,762 --> 02:08:51,180
- Do you swear it?
- Yes.
1123
02:08:52,975 --> 02:08:55,768
By everything that is sacred to you?
1124
02:09:03,485 --> 02:09:06,070
By everything that is sacred to me.
1125
02:09:07,114 --> 02:09:08,448
He died at once.
1126
02:09:09,950 --> 02:09:15,371
And do you promise never
to come back... if it is not true?
1127
02:09:26,425 --> 02:09:28,676
May I never come back...
1128
02:09:29,970 --> 02:09:32,180
if he wasn't killed instantly.
1129
02:09:39,021 --> 02:09:40,980
Carry that lesson to the front lines
1130
02:09:41,148 --> 02:09:45,109
and you will be better soldiers
in the service of the Kaiser.
1131
02:09:46,945 --> 02:09:48,696
You are dismissed.
1132
02:10:11,136 --> 02:10:13,179
Baumer.
1133
02:10:16,308 --> 02:10:18,226
Paul Baumer!
1134
02:10:20,562 --> 02:10:22,438
Baumer!
1135
02:10:24,024 --> 02:10:27,401
- Here, have a cigarette.
- No, thank you.
1136
02:10:27,569 --> 02:10:30,780
You still haven't picked up the habit.
Well, that's good.
1137
02:10:30,948 --> 02:10:36,077
It's not a good habit
but a man has to have some vices.
1138
02:10:36,245 --> 02:10:39,831
How does it go? All work
and no play... You remember?
1139
02:10:39,998 --> 02:10:42,250
Yes...
1140
02:10:42,417 --> 02:10:47,046
How is it, Baumer?
How... how is the spirit?
1141
02:10:47,923 --> 02:10:49,423
Excellent, eh? Excellent?
1142
02:10:51,218 --> 02:10:53,135
Behm is dead.
1143
02:10:53,303 --> 02:10:54,929
Behm?
1144
02:10:55,097 --> 02:10:56,681
Josef Behm.
1145
02:10:56,849 --> 02:10:59,934
Oh. You know,
I didn't think he would enlist.
1146
02:11:00,978 --> 02:11:02,645
But he went.
1147
02:11:03,689 --> 02:11:05,439
Yes...
1148
02:11:05,607 --> 02:11:08,067
Kemmerich is dead, too.
1149
02:11:08,235 --> 02:11:09,735
I was told.
1150
02:11:09,903 --> 02:11:12,488
And Kropp has lost a leg.
1151
02:11:13,323 --> 02:11:15,950
Er... Oh, Albert Kropp, yes.
1152
02:11:17,119 --> 02:11:23,124
I don't know about all the others.
We were separated, but Leer's alive
1153
02:11:23,292 --> 02:11:26,168
and M?ller is alive and I'm alive.
1154
02:11:27,212 --> 02:11:28,880
I'm glad to hear that.
1155
02:11:30,966 --> 02:11:33,301
Tell them...
1156
02:11:33,468 --> 02:11:38,973
Tell them I'm proud to have
taught them to be good Germans.
1157
02:11:40,309 --> 02:11:44,937
To know that you have all
done your duty by the Fatherland.
1158
02:11:47,399 --> 02:11:50,109
Can you imagine how that makes me feel?
1159
02:11:51,653 --> 02:11:54,822
You were a good class. Good boys.
1160
02:11:55,824 --> 02:11:58,326
Good boys all.
1161
02:11:58,493 --> 02:12:01,329
- And this class?
- This lot?
1162
02:12:01,496 --> 02:12:06,334
Not like you. Defeatism,
it has infected them.
1163
02:12:08,086 --> 02:12:10,296
They haven't got your spirit, Baumer.
1164
02:12:11,256 --> 02:12:13,341
Not the Iron Youth, eh?
1165
02:12:13,508 --> 02:12:14,717
Mm? I'm sorry...?
1166
02:12:14,885 --> 02:12:16,886
No Iron Heroes?
1167
02:12:17,596 --> 02:12:19,513
Just boys.
1168
02:12:20,182 --> 02:12:22,099
Want to play.
1169
02:12:22,267 --> 02:12:24,101
Laugh.
1170
02:12:24,895 --> 02:12:26,228
To stay alive.
1171
02:12:29,733 --> 02:12:31,734
Only boys.
1172
02:13:15,153 --> 02:13:17,863
Mother, it's late.
You should be asleep.
1173
02:13:18,740 --> 02:13:20,658
Did I wake you, dear? I'm sorry.
1174
02:13:20,826 --> 02:13:23,411
You'll catch cold here. Go, sleep.
1175
02:13:24,454 --> 02:13:26,163
I can sleep enough later.
1176
02:13:28,333 --> 02:13:30,584
Are you very much afraid?
1177
02:13:33,255 --> 02:13:34,547
No.
1178
02:13:34,715 --> 02:13:40,594
I'd like to tell you to be on your guard
against the women in France.
1179
02:13:40,762 --> 02:13:42,555
They're no good.
1180
02:13:44,766 --> 02:13:49,103
Mother, where we are
there aren't any women.
1181
02:13:49,271 --> 02:13:52,773
And be very careful
at the front, Paul.
1182
02:13:52,941 --> 02:13:57,319
- Yes, I will.
- I pray for you every day.
1183
02:13:58,363 --> 02:14:00,364
I know, Mother.
1184
02:14:01,950 --> 02:14:05,786
Perhaps you can get a job
that is not so dangerous?
1185
02:14:07,122 --> 02:14:10,458
Yes, perhaps in the cookhouse.
That could be easily done.
1186
02:14:10,959 --> 02:14:14,295
You do it, then,
and if the others say anything...
1187
02:14:14,463 --> 02:14:16,338
I won't let that bother me.
1188
02:14:16,506 --> 02:14:21,469
Now, you must go to sleep, Mother.
Come on.
1189
02:14:51,625 --> 02:14:55,377
You must get well, Mother,
before I come home.
1190
02:14:56,463 --> 02:14:58,506
Yes, my child.
1191
02:14:59,758 --> 02:15:03,928
And you must not send any more things
to me. We get plenty to eat out there.
1192
02:15:04,930 --> 02:15:07,515
You can make much better use
of them here.
1193
02:15:19,653 --> 02:15:22,696
Oh, I have two pair of underpants for you.
1194
02:15:22,864 --> 02:15:24,865
All wool.
1195
02:15:26,535 --> 02:15:28,869
They will keep you warm.
1196
02:15:29,037 --> 02:15:31,497
You must not forget to put them
in your bag.
1197
02:15:33,542 --> 02:15:35,209
I won't, Mother.
1198
02:15:35,377 --> 02:15:40,005
Good night.
1199
02:15:40,173 --> 02:15:41,882
My son.
1200
02:17:20,065 --> 02:17:25,402
Mother, I used to live in this room.
All my things are here.
1201
02:17:25,570 --> 02:17:28,948
All my books, my beloved books,
1202
02:17:29,115 --> 02:17:32,117
but they no longer speak to me
as they used to,
1203
02:17:32,285 --> 02:17:35,746
for I am not what I was
when I lived in this room.
1204
02:17:36,581 --> 02:17:41,961
I am a soldier. My business
is not reading, it is killing.
1205
02:17:42,128 --> 02:17:45,130
My knowledge of life is limited to death,
1206
02:17:45,298 --> 02:17:48,175
and I know now
I should never have come back.
1207
02:17:49,219 --> 02:17:51,637
Out there, all men think as I do.
1208
02:17:51,805 --> 02:17:53,806
There's no argument
about the meaning of life,
1209
02:17:53,974 --> 02:17:56,100
because it has no meaning.
1210
02:17:56,268 --> 02:18:00,104
My companions at the front
are the only truth I know.
1211
02:18:00,272 --> 02:18:04,108
They are now my books,
my family, my life.
1212
02:18:04,859 --> 02:18:08,153
I depend on them
and I depend on nothing else.
1213
02:18:09,406 --> 02:18:12,866
Mother, it's a terrible thing to say,
1214
02:18:13,868 --> 02:18:16,704
but I feel I am now going back
to my real home.
1215
02:18:36,266 --> 02:18:37,474
Paul!
1216
02:18:48,820 --> 02:18:52,740
- Well, you're back, my boy.
- Yes, I'm back.
1217
02:18:56,036 --> 02:18:59,413
You're a fool for coming back.
I'm glad to see you, anyway.
1218
02:18:59,581 --> 02:19:01,874
I'm glad to see you, too, Kat.
1219
02:19:05,253 --> 02:19:07,880
They're getting
younger and younger, Paul.
1220
02:19:11,593 --> 02:19:14,720
Our hands'll be full
just taking care of them.
1221
02:19:23,772 --> 02:19:26,565
Hey! The old deserter's back!
1222
02:19:29,611 --> 02:19:32,029
- How was your leave?
- Good. Where's M?ller?
1223
02:19:38,286 --> 02:19:41,246
- When was it?
- A week ago.
1224
02:19:45,752 --> 02:19:47,795
Was it quick?
1225
02:19:51,424 --> 02:19:55,803
Shrapnel in the stomach.
He lasted two hours.
1226
02:20:00,141 --> 02:20:02,059
Paul...
1227
02:20:03,812 --> 02:20:05,813
He said I could have them.
1228
02:20:20,328 --> 02:20:21,995
Damn!
1229
02:20:30,380 --> 02:20:33,173
If they come any closer,
we're done for.
1230
02:20:42,183 --> 02:21:13,797
Lieutenant!
1231
02:21:13,965 --> 02:21:17,885
Leer! No, leave him!
He's gone! He's gone!
1232
02:21:18,052 --> 02:21:20,053
Leer! Come back!
1233
02:21:36,863 --> 02:21:38,197
God!
1234
02:21:38,823 --> 02:21:42,075
Oh, God! God! God! God!
1235
02:22:31,417 --> 02:22:33,502
- Ready! Charge!
- Let's go!
1236
02:22:55,650 --> 02:22:58,819
We are bringing food
to our comrades at the front.
1237
02:22:58,987 --> 02:23:03,448
There isn't much. We are all
going hungry. We are all tired.
1238
02:23:03,616 --> 02:23:07,494
We are all hopeless.
But the war goes on.
1239
02:23:10,748 --> 02:23:12,457
Why don't theyjust let it end?
1240
02:23:12,625 --> 02:23:14,543
Ah, who knows?
1241
02:23:17,755 --> 02:23:19,506
We're finished.
1242
02:23:19,674 --> 02:23:24,344
We're starving, and the Froggies
are eating corned beef and white bread.
1243
02:23:25,763 --> 02:23:27,681
Our bread is nothing but sawdust.
1244
02:23:30,518 --> 02:23:33,854
You see anybody that hasn't got
dysentery and colic?
1245
02:23:35,565 --> 02:23:37,232
Artillery's burned out.
1246
02:23:37,400 --> 02:23:41,403
Damned barrels are so worn down... Ha!
1247
02:23:41,571 --> 02:23:45,699
...the shells are falling short
and half the time our men are being killed.
1248
02:23:45,867 --> 02:23:50,662
There's just too many of the enemy left.
They've got too much.
1249
02:23:50,830 --> 02:23:54,541
Too many guns, tanks.
Now the Americans are pouring in.
1250
02:23:56,252 --> 02:24:00,380
New guns, aeroplanes, fresh troops.
1251
02:24:18,733 --> 02:24:20,400
Lie still.
1252
02:24:21,235 --> 02:24:23,987
- Just as it's ending!
- Be quiet!
1253
02:24:24,155 --> 02:24:27,366
- After four years.
- Stretcher!
1254
02:24:27,950 --> 02:24:30,577
- Stretcher bearer!
- Just as it's ending.
1255
02:24:32,580 --> 02:24:34,081
It's all right. Just lie still.
1256
02:24:34,248 --> 02:24:37,417
Don't worry,
it looks like a clean wound.
1257
02:24:38,294 --> 02:24:40,545
If you can just hold on.
1258
02:24:40,713 --> 02:24:44,424
Before you know it you'll be
in a comfortable bed in a hospital.
1259
02:24:45,426 --> 02:24:47,260
Stretcher!
1260
02:24:47,428 --> 02:24:48,637
Think you can stand up?
1261
02:24:49,931 --> 02:24:50,931
Think you can get up?
1262
02:24:52,266 --> 02:24:55,268
Come on. Come on! Come on!
1263
02:25:03,945 --> 02:25:05,612
I've got to carry you.
1264
02:25:06,656 --> 02:25:08,532
Ready? Up.
1265
02:25:31,639 --> 02:25:32,514
I'm sorry.
1266
02:25:32,682 --> 02:25:35,350
That's all right, Paul. That's all right.
1267
02:25:45,027 --> 02:25:48,071
We gotta keep going. You ready?
1268
02:25:48,239 --> 02:25:49,823
Yes, yes.
1269
02:25:51,743 --> 02:25:53,493
Come on.
1270
02:25:57,498 --> 02:25:59,666
- You got it?
- I'll try.
1271
02:26:04,505 --> 02:26:05,672
- No.
- No, I'll try.
1272
02:26:05,840 --> 02:26:08,258
No, you can't. It's all right.
1273
02:26:41,626 --> 02:26:44,044
- What is it?
- My pipe.
1274
02:26:44,837 --> 02:26:46,630
I think I've lost my pipe.
1275
02:26:46,798 --> 02:26:48,465
Don't worry.
1276
02:26:48,633 --> 02:26:50,467
We'll find another one.
1277
02:26:51,511 --> 02:26:53,595
Here.
1278
02:27:09,445 --> 02:27:11,822
Well, Kat...
1279
02:27:13,115 --> 02:27:15,242
I think we're gonna be separated.
1280
02:27:17,620 --> 02:27:19,412
Three years.
1281
02:27:22,792 --> 02:27:25,085
You remember when I first came up here?
1282
02:27:25,753 --> 02:27:27,921
How green I was?
1283
02:27:29,465 --> 02:27:32,592
You fixed that. "Keep your head down."
1284
02:27:33,636 --> 02:27:35,387
That's what you said.
1285
02:27:39,892 --> 02:27:44,771
Maybe... Maybe, when this is over,
1286
02:27:45,606 --> 02:27:49,276
when this war is really finished,
1287
02:27:49,443 --> 02:27:52,821
maybe we can do something together. Huh?
1288
02:27:52,989 --> 02:27:55,031
I don't know what.
1289
02:27:56,325 --> 02:27:57,909
Glass of wine.
1290
02:28:00,955 --> 02:28:03,039
I don't even know where you live.
1291
02:28:03,666 --> 02:28:07,627
Three years in the same trenches,
I don't even have your address.
1292
02:28:08,004 --> 02:28:10,881
Let me give you mine. Let me give it to you.
1293
02:28:13,759 --> 02:28:15,135
Let's...
1294
02:28:16,137 --> 02:28:17,971
Let's go on.
1295
02:28:20,182 --> 02:28:22,893
- Come on. Ready?
- Yeah.
1296
02:28:23,060 --> 02:28:24,978
Come on!
1297
02:29:25,665 --> 02:29:30,752
You might have spared
yourself. Stone dead.
1298
02:29:36,133 --> 02:29:37,801
No.
1299
02:29:39,470 --> 02:29:43,932
It's his shin, he's fainted.
1300
02:29:45,768 --> 02:29:48,061
Come on, Kat, come on.
1301
02:30:09,750 --> 02:30:11,710
He was talking.
1302
02:30:16,424 --> 02:30:18,550
Ten minutes ago.
1303
02:30:24,098 --> 02:30:26,057
We were talking.
1304
02:30:49,957 --> 02:30:53,418
It is autumn.
We wait for the end.
1305
02:30:54,628 --> 02:30:56,546
We wait for the Armistice.
1306
02:30:57,465 --> 02:30:59,466
We wait for peace.
1307
02:31:07,641 --> 02:31:13,438
Dear Albert, I write to tell you
you and I are the last ones left.
1308
02:31:14,982 --> 02:31:20,320
Soon after Kat died, Tjaden got it -
a quick and merciful death,
1309
02:31:20,488 --> 02:31:22,197
a bullet in the head.
1310
02:31:22,740 --> 02:31:25,241
Himmelstoss was killed
the same day
1311
02:31:25,409 --> 02:31:27,744
and now Detering is gone.
1312
02:31:30,331 --> 02:31:33,666
I think we started
to lose Detering last spring,
1313
02:31:33,834 --> 02:31:36,336
when the apple trees came into bloom.
1314
02:31:37,004 --> 02:31:39,964
You know that expression of his
in springtime?
1315
02:31:40,591 --> 02:31:45,011
Two weeks ago he was missed
at roll-call, nowhere to be found.
1316
02:31:45,846 --> 02:31:49,307
A week later we heard he had been caught
by the Military Police.
1317
02:31:49,475 --> 02:31:54,813
You and I know where he was going.
Home, to the harvest.
1318
02:31:54,980 --> 02:31:58,858
We have not heard anything more,
but you know the penalty for desertion.
1319
02:32:00,861 --> 02:32:03,947
Albert, of the class of 1916,
1320
02:32:04,490 --> 02:32:08,368
out of the 20 who enlisted,
13 are dead.
1321
02:32:08,953 --> 02:32:11,204
Four are missing.
1322
02:32:11,956 --> 02:32:14,374
One is in a madhouse.
1323
02:32:15,334 --> 02:32:17,710
You and I live.
1324
02:32:17,878 --> 02:32:19,796
How I miss you.
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