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00:03You
02:36Halt!
02:37Halt!
02:38We're on fire!
02:53Sergeant, foreman in the bedroom.
02:54Fire.
02:54We're on fire.
03:10We're on fire.
03:14We're on fire.
03:26Put us fired in the air, sir.
03:27Scare the old crowd.
03:30You scared him to death, sergeant.
03:32Too old to run. Poor old Devon. He must have been terrified.
03:38For a pound of butter. Christ.
03:41Get him in the truck.
03:56How much longer have we got to stay in this god-forsaken country, sir?
03:59We'll be moving on before long.
04:01Beyond the altar line.
04:03And let Joe Stallings, lads, hang.
04:05Some people might think he's been spared a fate worse than death, I dare say.
04:14God, I can't wait to get home.
04:34Do you always get up this early?
04:37Longest day of the year in two days' time.
04:44I hope they didn't mind me just dropping in yesterday.
04:47I didn't expect to stay here.
04:49I meant to spend the night at mother's place.
04:51You shouldn't have told mum your family were away then.
04:53She wouldn't let you stay there on your own.
04:56She looks on you as one of us now.
04:58Does she?
04:59You can do no wrong.
05:01Going out of your way to call it our humble abode.
05:04Bringing the news of a son in Germany.
05:07It's good of you to come and see her again on your way back off leave.
05:11To be perfectly honest, it wasn't exactly on the way.
05:14No?
05:16You know, I couldn't work out myself how Whit Stanton came to be situated halfway between
05:21Euston and Victoria Station.
05:23I always thought we were somewhere in Cumberland.
05:26I just thought I'd like to see you all again.
05:29You see what I mean?
05:33I'm supposed to have very good eyesight.
05:36Better than yours, I'll bet.
05:43See that man on the beach over there?
05:48No.
05:50He's gone behind the sea wall.
05:52Now you're pulling my leg.
05:55I'm not, actually.
05:57Though I could easily.
06:00You're so shy sometimes, aren't you?
06:03You shouldn't be.
06:05Life's pretty short, you know.
06:29Pariad!
06:33Pariad!
06:39War is over.
06:49You were right, I can hear someone shouting.
06:52You're like that, Ukrainians.
06:54You couldn't possibly tell he's Ukrainian at this distance.
06:58I'm supposed to have very good hearing and a masterly grasp of languages.
07:03No, I was cheating. I know who he is.
07:06He walks five miles here every morning from the POW camp down the coast to meet a lady.
07:12There's devotion for you.
07:14You?
07:16Me? All I seem to inspire is shyness, not devotion.
07:21No, it's my brother's wife. They both work at a farm down the coast.
07:24There are so many of you. Keir, was it?
07:27Owen. He was killed in the first year of the war.
07:31Dear Owen.
07:33Come on then.
07:34...
07:40...
07:48...
07:49...
07:59I don't know.
08:32I don't know.
08:52I don't know.
09:20I don't know.
09:20Nothing we can do with these poor sods.
09:23I don't know.
09:25I don't know.
09:50I don't know.
10:00I don't know.
10:05I don't know.
10:08I don't know.
10:27I don't know.
10:28I don't know.
10:31I don't know.
10:31I don't know.
10:33I don't know.
10:46I don't know.
10:48I don't know.
10:52I don't know.
10:54I don't know.
10:54I'll go and ask him to wait.
10:56I'll bring him back here if you like.
10:57He won't want to come here.
10:59He's shunned.
11:00What another one.
11:02All right then.
11:03I'll keep him company till you come.
11:05I don't know.
11:05I don't have to be at the library till 11.
11:07What time's your train?
11:09I've ours yet.
11:10Well you've only got to get from Euston to Victoria haven't you?
11:13What do you mean by that?
11:15I think she was pulling my leg.
11:20You told her about Euston?
11:22Yes.
11:23We told her.
11:24She loved Owen.
11:25We all loved Owen.
11:28Owen's dead.
11:30And she blames the Japanese.
11:31Not you that somebody's taken his empty place.
11:35Life goes on.
11:36How could it be otherwise?
11:37The war's over.
11:39Except for people like Keir and it'll be over for them too before long.
11:42We hope.
11:43Oh the Japanese can't hold out much longer.
11:46It's just a question of time that's all.
11:47And it's time we got stuck into the peace.
11:49There's an election in less than two weeks.
11:52And that'll solve everything will it?
11:53It'll shape the future.
11:55It'll do that for better or for worse.
11:57You can't expect the fruits of victory overnight.
11:59Facts are facts.
12:00Like these on your plate you mean?
12:02Well there's plenty worse off than us.
12:04I bet there's many a German would be glad of this.
12:07They started it.
12:09Not us.
12:09They didn't all the Wittler.
12:11Well when the dam breaks you get carried along in the flood.
12:15The innocent as well as the guilty.
12:30She gets tea in bed now does she?
12:33Your Frau.
12:34Jealous?
12:34Not really.
12:35Best billets we've had.
12:37Quite a jolly little family we've turned into.
12:40I just wish she wouldn't call me by my surname that's all.
12:42It makes me feel like the butler.
12:45What does she call you when you're alone?
12:47Lieb or something rather is it?
12:48Mind Liebling?
12:49Mind your own damn business.
12:51Quite a reversal these last few weeks.
12:53I've watched him with interest.
12:55To hell with a thousand frauleins he used to say.
12:58Biting on his enforced celibacy.
13:00Let them learn to love Jerry in his socks by the light of burning jackboots.
13:04Gile.
13:07I've been to Brigade HQ by the way.
13:09Yeah you're there every morning when they open shop.
13:11Can't wait to get home can you?
13:13Well neither could you before you started to fraternize.
13:16I don't like that word.
13:17It's dirty.
13:18Well that's what they want Blake.
13:20A dirty word.
13:22The skies would open if they knew about this.
13:28I don't want to see you in trouble old man that's all.
13:32Anyway we'll be moving on before long.
13:34The Russians will be using this kitchen.
13:37Odd thought isn't it?
13:38They've not set a date Brigade.
13:40Well not that anyone's told me.
13:41She does know it's going to happen doesn't she?
13:44I shall tell her when the time comes.
13:47I hate to think of her left to the tender mercies of our glorious allies.
13:51I've grown quite fond of the lady.
13:53In a purely platonic way of course.
13:55I'd worry about you though if I didn't know you've too much sense than to let it get serious.
13:59You are keeping it under control aren't you old man?
14:02You think I should do?
14:04Well hell Blake there's no future in it is there?
14:15You are Ukrainian.
14:17How come you are fighting for the Germans?
14:20Sit down.
14:25We are not an island like you.
14:32We live.
14:35But the Russians on one side and the Germans on the other.
14:40Come the war the Russians took our country.
14:45They began to collectivise us.
14:48To change us from Ukrainian to Russian.
14:51Even our language.
14:53They took my family from the house where we lived.
15:00Then came the Germans.
15:03Breaking their pact with the Russians.
15:05We change masters you see.
15:10They promised us we would only fight Russians.
15:15But some they sent to France.
15:17Their rival come prisoner.
15:20You understand?
15:22No.
15:24I understand what you say of course but I don't understand how awful it must have been.
15:31The war was easy for us at home compared to people in Europe.
15:34Except for people in the cities that were bombed.
15:38Your soldiers, when they come home, will tell you what it was like.
15:47We won't listen though.
15:50We never do.
15:53We live on an island.
15:55We have the odd war.
15:57We muddle through.
15:59And then we forget.
16:01We're great forgetters.
16:04Not from this time I think.
16:08Are they starving in England?
16:11No.
16:12The Russians are small.
16:13Less since the war ended I'm told.
16:18What is it like where you live?
16:20A small town in the north.
16:23Shabby, mucky, industrial.
16:26An untidiness of dirty streets.
16:29But tidy, clean, warm people.
16:32They live just outside by the sea.
16:36My grandad left us a house.
16:38He can't afford it.
16:39But I loved it when I was there.
16:42When I was a kid.
16:43Claying by the sea.
16:46You want to go home?
16:48Who would not?
16:50This is my home.
16:52When you go, I will be alone in it.
16:57You want to stay here?
16:59It's my home.
17:05There will be ghosts.
17:08All over Germany there are ghosts.
17:11My husband.
17:12Who died on the Russian front.
17:15And you.
17:16You will also be a ghost.
17:18Is that what you want?
17:19It's what I have.
17:20Suppose you were asked to leave here.
17:24For what reason?
17:26Any reason.
17:29Where would I go?
17:31You said you had relatives to the west.
17:33Why should I go to them?
17:35If there was fighting here.
17:37Fighting?
17:38Europe is in such a mess.
17:40Fighting? Why? The war is finished.
17:42It's done.
17:43No.
17:46I want you to think about the possibility.
17:49There could be a time when it might be wiser not to stay.
17:54There is my father.
17:56Yes.
17:57I got the print of his photograph.
17:58It's in my valise downstairs.
18:00All over Germany there are nailed up.
18:03These faces.
18:05On the doors of dead houses.
18:09Has anyone seen this person?
18:11A name?
18:12An address?
18:14Dead faces.
18:16Hey.
18:17There's always hope.
18:20When I came here that day, when you and Waters arrived, then I had no hope.
18:24Yes, I knew.
18:25You knew?
18:25Yes.
18:27Is that why you...
18:32Is that why you give me hope?
18:34Something you would have done for anyone?
18:35Is that what you believe?
18:37No.
18:39Funny man.
18:40Funny.
18:41When I ask a question, you answer with a question, funny man.
18:45Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar.
18:47What?
18:48It's the same.
18:49One day I'll explain it.
18:50One day before you go?
18:51Yes, yes.
18:52One day before I go.
18:54I have to go now.
18:55But I won't be long.
18:58Do you think they'll be able to marry?
19:01Why not?
19:02Eventually.
19:03It happened after the last lot.
19:04Will they let him stay in the country?
19:07He's not really a prisoner of war.
19:09Well, he's more a refugee and we've always opened our doors to refugees.
19:12It's his birthday next week, Ernst.
19:15I thought...
19:16I've asked Jean to invite him here.
19:18Do you mind?
19:19No.
19:20It's a good idea.
19:22I've come for Grandad's breakfast.
19:24Oh, no.
19:24Why can't he eat with us?
19:26After the election, he says.
19:28Saves argument, he says.
19:29He's right.
19:29Come on.
19:30Who argues?
19:32I don't.
19:32It's a waste of time.
19:34He'd vote for a pig if he'd had a blue ribbon round its neck.
19:37With the bacon ration cut to three ounces, he'd be right.
19:40Pigs are more used than politicians.
19:42You can eat pigs.
19:43What did you say to that, Dad?
19:44Oh, women aren't really interested in politics, love it.
19:47Aren't they?
19:49It's the women's votes that puts the Conservatives in, according to you.
19:52Oh, yes.
19:52They'll vote all right, but they'll not study what they're voting for.
19:56Here.
19:57Take that.
19:58Well, it's time I was off to work.
20:01I'll tell him the coup's clear.
20:03Cheeky monkey.
20:06There was nothing you did.
20:08Came from somewhere inside his head.
20:23He's not one of my lot.
20:26There were six of them in the truck when the Japs picked us up.
20:31He looked in a bad way even then.
20:33They were moving prisoners back before the camps were overrun.
20:38So they changed their mind.
20:42He doesn't seem to have an identity tag.
20:46Ah, some of the Japs don't like you to have identity tags.
20:49Makes you somebody.
20:52When you're taken prisoner, you're dishonored.
20:56Less than nobody.
20:59Worse than dead.
21:02Calendula Fissionality.
21:05What did he say?
21:07Couldn't make it out.
21:09Didn't sound like English.
21:11Calendula Fissionality.
21:12Yes.
21:33She got one of her pupils in?
21:35No, she's practising for her concert in chapel next week.
21:41Not bad, eh?
21:42Don't you stay out too long in this.
21:44Don't you start fussing too.
21:54Let her come for you.
21:55Oh, thanks Grandad.
21:59Thought I'd keep it out of sight.
22:01Knew you'd not want folks trying, asking questions.
22:05From that young Warrington lad that stayed with us, is it?
22:07Could be.
22:08Oh, I thought he'd gone back to his unit in Germany.
22:11Yes.
22:12From London, that.
22:13He must have posted it before he went back.
22:16And you're not going to open it?
22:17Eventually.
22:18Ah, wedding bells in the oven, are there?
22:21What do you think?
22:22Won't know till we open the letter, will we?
22:26Nay, well it's your damn letter.
22:28Keep it to yourself if you must.
22:29That's what I like about you Grandad.
22:31You don't pry.
22:37You were telling me about England.
22:41Ah, England.
22:44You were telling me about England.
22:54Ah, England.
22:56We extol thee.
23:04Be serious.
23:05Sorry, mother.
23:06Mother?
23:07She believes it.
23:08She also teaches music.
23:11Be serious.
23:12No, no, no, no.
23:13Waters, tell him to be serious.
23:15Heywood.
23:17Be serious.
23:18Yes, sir.
23:18I'm sorry, sir.
23:19I've forgotten the question, sir.
23:20Tell the lady about England.
23:22Which England?
23:22Your England?
23:23My England?
23:24The real England?
23:25Or the soldier's dream of home?
23:27Your England.
23:28You appreciate there's a difference then?
23:30Of course.
23:31You're not so sure I have an England.
23:33I have a place in my head that's part of a place called England.
23:36A gallery of faces.
23:44I'm the one in the middle.
23:46Next to the dog.
23:49This is you before the war?
23:52Hmm.
23:59Can I have it, please?
24:02I'll swap you for something similar.
24:04Swap?
24:04Exchange.
24:05I'll go and get one.
24:16Like a couple of young lovers, is that what you're dying to say?
24:23Delayed adolescence.
24:25The kind of thing you should have got through in me pimply youth.
24:28What are you going to do?
24:30Take her with me.
24:32They won't let you do that.
24:33I don't mean now, you idiot.
24:35She's relatives to the West.
24:37She'll have to stay there till the climate was right.
24:40Till we stop hating the Jerry's.
24:41How long does it usually take?
24:43Well, it all worked out, haven't you?
24:45More or less.
24:46Don't you think you ought to tell her?
24:48The facts?
24:50Started to break it gently.
24:52Is there time for that?
24:58You like them, don't you?
25:00Hmm.
25:02There were people like the Galways on our estate in Galicia.
25:05Sharp, but good.
25:08Sharp.
25:09Sharp.
25:10Sharp.
25:11You say sharp?
25:11I think you mean shrewd.
25:13It's more or less the same, I think.
25:16Shrewd.
25:18It sounds better.
25:20I think it is the word.
25:22You're teaching new words in your education.
25:26You've never looked as such as me in your own country.
25:28It's a good thing that I am here, then.
25:31It's good that I am taught to see.
25:34It's good that I learn words like shrewd.
25:37So I can become an English gentleman.
25:44My mother loved England.
25:47The idea of England as she was taught.
25:51Fair play.
25:53Freedom.
25:55The safe little island.
25:59The English gentleman.
26:01You're not all gentlemen.
26:04No.
26:07But even so,
26:09to feel safe.
26:11Just on a day like this.
26:13To feel there is goodness in the world.
26:17To feel that life can be good.
26:26I'll bring Colton to meet you soon.
26:28The boy?
26:30They will allow it, the grandparents?
26:32They will allow him to meet me, the enemy?
26:35Of course they'll allow it.
26:37What does he know of such things?
26:38You're not the enemy anyway.
26:40Ukrainians are the same as Russian, and Russians are allies.
26:42It's only the same to the politicians.
26:45Not to Ukrainians.
26:47I fought for the Germans, so I am enemy to England.
26:50And traded to Russia, they would say.
26:53Is that why the Russians want you back?
26:55They'll punish you.
26:57You mustn't listen to such talk.
26:59The Germans made you fight for them.
27:01No one is made.
27:04I chose to fight,
27:06rather than to die in a concentration camp where they would have sent me.
27:10And I chose to fight Russians.
27:13We'd call that Hobson's choice.
27:16Hobson's choice?
27:17No choice at all, it means.
27:20Hobson's choice.
27:22Hobson's choice.
27:24I learned, you see.
27:25I learned.
27:37Well, here we are then.
27:39At the parting once more.
27:40It won't always be like this.
27:44They will allow us to marry, you think?
27:46I told you.
27:47They're happy for me.
27:49They understand.
27:50The people who rule.
27:52Do they understand?
27:54Do they understand Hobson's choice?
27:58Hey, Jean!
28:00Wait for me!
28:02Don't run!
28:04You shouldn't run like that.
28:06Your mother will have a pink fit.
28:08I just wanted to remind you that you're coming to eat with us tomorrow,
28:11after you've finished work.
28:12Do you think I would forget such a thing, little one?
28:15About the same time tomorrow, then?
28:17I will be here, of course.
28:19Right.
28:20See you back at the house.
28:21Don't run!
28:25Why does she not run?
28:26She had scarlet fever when she was younger.
28:29It left her with a bad heart.
28:31She could go tomorrow, but she lives as if there was nothing wrong with her.
28:34Maybe it is not so serious.
28:36The doctor thinks it is.
28:38And she hopes it is not.
28:42Hope is everything when you have nothing.
28:47That print of your father's photograph I got for you.
28:50What did you do with it?
28:52I fastened it to the door where other people have put theirs.
28:55The door for missing persons.
28:58With the note that says has anyone seen this man?
29:00Your father went missing in Berlin.
29:02He would come to me, if he was alive.
29:05To this house?
29:05Yes.
29:06He knows this house.
29:08Well, why put his picture in town here?
29:11Because many old people have lost their minds.
29:13A memory, you mean?
29:14A memory, yes.
29:17Someone may see him.
29:20Wandering.
29:21He might remember how to get to the town, but not to the house.
29:24Is that what you mean?
29:25Yes.
29:28There are people in the town who would know him.
29:32Perhaps from his visits in the past.
29:36You're clutching the straws.
29:38Straws?
29:38I mean, it's not very likely, is it?
29:41I thought you'd lost hope.
29:43I have you now.
29:44What difference does that make to hope?
29:46I don't know.
29:48A difference.
29:49It takes your mind off it, you mean?
29:51Yes.
29:52Yes, it takes my mind off it.
29:55Before I had you, I had nothing.
30:00When you have gone, I do not want to be left with nothing.
30:05The day you found me in the room downstairs,
30:08I came from the garden into my house.
30:11I wanted food.
30:13Yet I wanted to die, also.
30:17I had no hope.
30:22Your revolver was there.
30:26You had gone up the stairs and left it in the room.
30:29You remember?
30:31Yes.
30:33You came down again before I could take it.
30:37You stopped me.
30:40You gave me hope.
30:41Reality, not hope.
30:48I should be going soon.
30:50Soon.
30:51Soon?
30:51We shall leave here.
30:52The Russians will come.
30:54How could that be?
30:55It's something that's been arranged with them at Yalta.
30:57Arranged?
30:58You British are not communists.
31:00There was a conference.
31:01The Allies divided Europe up.
31:03We're inside the Russian sector.
31:04We shall pull back and then move in.
31:06You do that to us.
31:07It wasn't something I arranged personally.
31:10I don't particularly like it myself,
31:11but it's the kind of thing that can happen when you start a war and lose.
31:14You hate us, don't you, as a people?
31:16Some things I hate.
31:20How do you hate a whole people?
31:26I want you to come with me.
31:31It would not be permitted.
31:34Permitted?
31:35We're collecting words tonight.
31:36Hate, hope, permitted.
31:38You're friends in our sector, haven't you?
31:40Relatives to the West?
31:40You could stay there for the time being.
31:43In town we could be together.
31:46You could come to England.
31:47England.
31:52You could invade us.
31:54You'd make it.
31:55Hitler didn't.
32:03Why are you crying?
32:09I'm not.
32:12It's a sound offer.
32:14Offer?
32:16It's not necessary that you do this.
32:18I'm with you because I want it to be.
32:22It's not necessary that you do this to me.
32:25It's necessary for me.
32:29Why?
32:31That's how it is. That's the reality.
32:33Reality. A word. One more word.
32:36Hate, hope, reality.
32:40The word is missing.
32:43What word?
32:48Love.
32:50Oh.
32:51You have heard of.
32:54Yes.
32:55I've heard of.
32:58My dad used to say something.
33:01I don't agree with a lot of things he used to say.
33:05But this one has the ring of truth about it.
33:09What you care is what you do.
33:11your home.
33:24That must be right.
33:24No, I don't know so much.
33:24Yeah, the'm coming so much better.
33:28Oh yeah, I love you.
33:39I got to climb.
33:41You told anybody really I wisdom.
33:41We don't have any, as I wasn't sure enough to make this dish and make it a good direction.
33:42Have you seen this man?
33:43Yes, already.
33:44That's my father. Where have you seen him?
33:46Duesberg.
33:47Duesberg. Where is Duesberg?
33:50Circa 5 km from here.
33:53And when have you seen him?
33:55Yesterday.
33:56Are you sure what that is?
33:58Yes, I'm sure.
33:59Yes, I'm sure.
34:13I'm George Haywood.
34:16We haven't met before.
34:18I thought I'd show you the way up to the house.
34:21It is good of you to have me.
34:27Happy birthday, by the way.
34:29Yes, my birthday.
34:30I had forgotten it.
34:32Jean reminds me.
34:34If you're going to talk like that, you're not eating with us.
34:37If George and I can accept it, and Peg, then I'm sure you can too.
34:41You understand me, don't you, lover?
34:43Yes, girl.
34:45Neil, that's the last one.
34:46We've come through a war.
34:48Millions have died.
34:50Your old lad was one of them.
34:51And you asked me to sit at table with a chap who fought for the Germans.
34:54That's where you'll sit if you want to eat.
34:56There's no service in here.
34:58We want peace in the world, don't we?
35:00You mean to say if I don't eat in there, I get out?
35:03That's what I mean.
35:04And if you eat in there, you'll hold your peace.
35:05Well, I'm damned.
35:08Are you listening, Lovett?
35:09So you'll know who to blame when the next one starts.
35:11Oh, he'll know who to blame.
35:13He's more understanding than you.
35:14Did you go along with this, Lovett?
35:16War's over, Grandad.
35:19Who's won?
35:20We did.
35:22And what have we won, Lovett?
35:24Freedom.
35:26Freedom, is it?
35:27I could have sworn we had that when it started.
35:30It wouldn't have let you keep it.
35:31Answer that.
35:32You've got a point there, Lovett.
35:35He'd no more let me keep it than your mother would.
35:37Me?
35:38Aye, they're all the same, these dictators.
35:41You've to think as they want you to think,
35:43not as the mind dictates.
35:45You've got to shut your mouth at the table,
35:47else you get a nap to eat.
35:48You've got the choice.
35:49It's up to you.
35:52Why did we win the war, Lovett?
35:54It's beyond me.
35:57We've spent up, and what have we got to show for it?
36:01Like I said, freedom.
36:03Except a dinner table, of course.
36:04Taketh her side, are you?
36:07Don't take sides, Grandad.
36:08I don't like sides.
36:24What do you think of Mr. Atlee, Grandad?
36:29Well, I know, she thinks of the Labour Party,
36:31but what does he think of Mr. Atlee, though?
36:32Can your dad stand to hear it?
36:34I may not agree with everything that's said,
36:36but I'll be fair.
36:37But you'll defend to the death your right to say it.
36:39All right, I would.
36:40There you are, Grandad.
36:41You can't ask fairer than that.
36:42Ah, but he's not mastered, is he?
36:44And I shall not get me pudding if I open my mouth.
36:46You won't get in if you don't, Grandad.
36:49Oh, making fun of me, are you?
36:51I thought you were a mate of mine.
36:52More potatoes, Ernst?
36:54No, no, please.
36:55He means thank you.
36:56He means please, don't you, Ernest?
36:58You've over-faced him.
37:01We'll finish your tea first, and I'll see to it.
37:03I'll see to it.
37:04I've got a certain cure for earache.
37:06Finish your tea first, though.
37:07Tell them about the Russians and the Germans, Ernst.
37:09I'm sure Ernst doesn't want to talk about the Russians.
37:11I think he does.
37:12He's trying to be English polite.
37:14There's nothing wrong with politeness.
37:16Pass those plates.
37:17Well, honestly, isn't there anything we can decently talk about in this house?
37:20There's your mother's hero, Churchill.
37:22You'll be on safe enough ground there.
37:24And I'm prepared to keep my mouth shut for the sake of peace in the house.
37:27I'll tell you what Churchill said about Attlee, then, shall I?
37:29He said an empty cab drew up and Mr. Attlee got out.
37:33That's cruel, Grandad.
37:35Ah, but it's politics, lass.
37:38Having trouble with your mouth, George?
37:39Ernst hates the Russians. The Germans, too.
37:42Ats them? He fought for them, didn't he?
37:44It was Hobson's choice they made him.
37:46Here we go. Satisfied, miss.
37:49Is it right what she says?
37:50Perhaps it is better we do not talk of these things.
37:53They don't send folks to Siberia or worse in this country for speaking their minds.
37:58They'll just give them now to eat.
38:00And there's my bloody pudding gone.
38:01Dad, just watch your language.
38:04What did they do to you, the Russians, then?
38:06Don't embarrass our guests, Dad.
38:08Shouldn't we know what'll happen if we don't stand fast?
38:11Happen yet sooner we didn't know.
38:13Happen, eh?
38:15You are right. I should tell.
38:18Look, don't you feel obliged to talk about something you'd sooner forget?
38:20Forget? No. I shall never forget.
38:24It's the others that want to forget.
38:26Or don't want to know in the first place.
38:28When the war came, first the Russians took our country.
38:32The NKVD came to our house.
38:34They called us boyas, nobles.
38:37We were only a small estate of little farms.
38:41They called my mother a bladyuha, a tart,
38:44and beat my father when he came between them.
38:47Then they took me into another room and beat me also.
38:51Before I became unconscious,
38:54I hear my mother screaming.
38:56The last I heard.
38:59When I open my eyes, they have all gone.
39:03I do not see them again.
39:06Perhaps if they are alive, they think I am dead.
39:11Sometimes I too think I am dead.
39:15Then came the Germans.
39:17They took our neighbors, who were Jews.
39:20But us, they left.
39:23I join others who have suffered.
39:25Worse.
39:27We try to survive.
39:31We sit in the firelight.
39:34The night is dark.
39:36Outside it is cold.
39:38We talk to make sound.
39:41So we will not hear the wolves coming down from the hills.
39:45We pretend we do not hear.
39:48We are afraid.
39:50We do nothing.
39:52But talk.
39:54Talk.
39:55Talk.
39:58Do you hear, George?
40:01Well, what's your point, Dad?
40:03You that wants to make friends with the Russians.
40:06Like Lasky.
40:07And your other mates.
40:08What?
40:09We are at peace with the Russians.
40:10We do not want any more war.
40:12I am a Labour Party man, not a communist.
40:14But they exist.
40:15They are there.
40:15And we have to live with them.
40:16In your own fold too.
40:18No, we do not have communists in the Labour Party.
40:20The constitution forbids it.
40:23But you have got them though.
40:24What's Lasky then?
40:26And those other fellow travelers.
40:27What are they?
40:29Wolves in sheep's bloody clothing.
40:31That is what they are.
40:31Dad, your language.
40:32Do I get me pudding then?
40:34Shhh.
40:35Happy birthday to you.
40:38Happy birthday to you.
40:41Happy birthday to you.
40:43Happy birthday dear ones.
40:45Happy birthday to you.
40:47Happy birthday to you.
40:59Very civilized girl.
41:01Oh for the family.
41:03Family?
41:04You, me, Blake...
41:06It's been like a family these last few weeks hasn't it?
41:09You have heard.
41:11When you go.
41:15we heard this afternoon actually when when will you go tomorrow
41:25so soon dinner is served
41:35flowers well it is rather a special occasion isn't it
41:38hmm you've told her I asked him
41:46oh I I wanted to tell you later I thought you might be upset the thought of
41:52leaving home I cannot come with you what I cannot come with you
42:09I cannot leave now why my father he's in duisberg duisberg it's a village some
42:21miles from here it's not too far I do not understand why he has not come here I do
42:27duisberg's in the Russian sector they probably won't let him out the woman did
42:31not tell me I'm not surprised she didn't tell you she's probably heard what's
42:36going on going on the Russians what they're doing to your people I've heard
42:44stories stories you think they're stories there's such stories I told in war the
42:52things your husband wrote you from the Russian front you believe them it was the
42:57front fighting the real war real what was what happened when you were in Berlin
43:06real the dead weren't they real children old people still think war only happens at
43:13the front the war is over over
43:21he's an old man they would not hurt him maybe not maybe old men could survive they
43:30play their cards right don't eat too much don't say too much when they come here he
43:37will be able to come here or I can go to him
43:43you're a woman do you know what they do to women they do what your soldiers did to
43:51their women they do it very efficiently to the death sometimes when I any sympathy a
43:56compassion because it's been burned out of their souls such stories are told in
44:00war Dresden was that compassion who are you English that you should condemn your
44:07shame makes you speak so if others tell these stories whatever stories about
44:12concentration camps were there they were true the truth was worse even you could be
44:22forgiven for not believing God's sake what does you tell her Blake's right Hertha the stories
44:31are true of course Englishmen are too polite Englishmen would never do such things might
44:37just be that would never really been driven to the war but when I practice in barbarians
44:41not even after Dresden you do not believe what then a romantic people perhaps who get
44:46what they want by pretending to be gentlemen by telling people how much better they are
44:51how superior coming from a member of the master race that takes some swallowing by God it does
45:13the war is over it's done you'll be back
45:21he's a funny man Hertha
45:24ha ha funny or ha ha peculiar
45:35I'm surprised at you
45:36no you're not all he's saying anyway
45:41he wants his grandma to fix his ear is
45:43sorry love I forgot bring him over here come on then and what grandma's got for you then hey now
45:51I
45:52know it's here somewhere somewhere your dad used to think this cured everything oh him hmm ever since I
46:00first gave it to him when he was much smaller than you he'd ask for it whenever he was hurt
46:05ah here we are
46:08marigold oil but I was a bit of a show-off in my garden in those days I called everything
46:13by its Latin name
46:14mum and Paulie'd say
46:17can I have calendula officinalis
46:36hey hey what's it mean what he keeps saying don't know it's Latin I think
47:07it's me
47:16I'm sorry I didn't think
47:20I'm sorry
47:25I said things to hurt you
47:27I know
47:27to hurt
47:29yes
47:30all lies not true
47:36Hertha don't stay here
47:42I must
47:44I couldn't sleep
47:48thinking about it
47:53I must stay
47:56you know you taught me
47:59what you care is what you do
48:01nothing will come of it
48:03for him to come here my father
48:05he's an old man
48:07his life's nearly over
48:09he wouldn't want you to risk yours for his
48:13is there no place for the old in the world anymore
48:18your father
48:20your mother
48:21what would you do if it was them
48:25what would you do
48:28as I do
48:29yes
48:30yes
48:40we used to say the only good Germans are dead German
48:44we say that too about others
48:48we say sometimes things we do not mean
48:52because we do not think about
48:55I'd imagined a life for us in England
48:59after four lousy years of living from day to day
49:02I had some hope for the future
49:09only because we lived together for a few weeks
49:13in a house
49:15as normal people
49:19almost as it was before the war
49:25the first woman you meet
49:27as a new life starts
49:30I'm the beginning of your peace
49:33that's all
49:39maybe that's how it started
49:41it isn't like that now
49:44don't make it hard for me
49:45I must
49:47I must be sure you don't give up
49:50I will never give up
49:52I promise
49:55that word that you
49:57no
50:01do not say
50:02say for when I come
50:06say
50:06say
50:08you
50:25you were angry with me last night
50:28why should they be
50:30some things I say perhaps
50:31I like you
50:33all of them
50:34they're happy for us
51:01good morning
51:03good morning
51:04frulein
51:07you
51:08good morning
51:08good
51:09good
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