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The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals.
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00:00:00I'll tell you how it should all be done.
00:00:05Whenever there's a big war coming on,
00:00:07you should rope off a big field...
00:00:10And sell tickets.
00:00:11Yeah.
00:00:12And...
00:00:15And on the big day,
00:00:16you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals,
00:00:21put them in the center dressed in their underpants,
00:00:24and let them fight it out with blood.
00:00:26The best country wins.
00:00:30Now the cat's settled everything,
00:00:32let's go see Cameron.
00:00:33Something interesting might happen on the way.
00:00:35Boy,
00:00:36me and the Kaiser want you back in time to march tomorrow.
00:00:39Don't forget.
00:00:41I'll be back before my regard.
00:00:49Whoa.
00:01:02Well, there he is.
00:01:05Hello, Cameron.
00:01:07How are you?
00:01:08How's it going?
00:01:09How are things going?
00:01:10Are they looking after you all right?
00:01:12How are they treating you?
00:01:14Franz.
00:01:15All right.
00:01:18There are robbers here.
00:01:23Robbers.
00:01:26They stole my watch.
00:01:29I always told you nobody should carry as good a watch as that.
00:01:32And they took it while I was under either too.
00:01:34Franz.
00:01:35Franz.
00:01:35You'll get it back.
00:01:37You feel all right?
00:01:41Just look at my hand though.
00:01:43That's because you lost so much blood.
00:01:45Just eat decently and you'll get well again.
00:01:47Oh no.
00:01:48Franz, you must eat.
00:01:49That's the main thing.
00:01:51That looks good too.
00:01:56I have such a terrible pain.
00:01:59My foot.
00:02:01Every toe in my right foot hurts.
00:02:09But how can your foot hurt when your leg's been...
00:02:16Oh, I know what you mean.
00:02:18I don't...
00:02:19I don't know.
00:02:23They've cut my leg off.
00:02:28Why didn't they tell me?
00:02:30Why...
00:02:31Why didn't they tell me?
00:02:33Why didn't they tell me?
00:02:34Franz.
00:02:34How I can't walk anymore.
00:02:35Franz, you must be thankful that you've come off with only that.
00:02:45I wanted to be a foster one.
00:02:49You can, yes.
00:02:51They make artificial lengths that are wonderful.
00:02:54And you're through too.
00:02:55You can go home.
00:02:56Think of that.
00:02:58We brought your things for you.
00:03:00See?
00:03:01Put them under the bed.
00:03:11That's a marvelous pair of boots.
00:03:15Look at that leather.
00:03:17What comfort.
00:03:19I was just thinking.
00:03:24If you're not going to be using these, Franz, why don't you leave them with us?
00:03:30What good are they to you?
00:03:32I can use them.
00:03:34My boots give me blister after blister.
00:03:42We'll be going, Franz.
00:03:44Oh, don't go.
00:03:45Stay just a little while longer.
00:03:49I'll come right back.
00:03:50We'll be coming soon again, Franz.
00:03:52I know you'll be feeling better, Franz.
00:03:54Bye.
00:03:56Goodbye, Franz.
00:03:57You think you're allowed to lap the mess?
00:03:59You don't think...
00:04:00Done for.
00:04:04Boys, you go along.
00:04:05I'll see you later.
00:04:06Goodbye.
00:04:07Goodbye, Paul.
00:04:07All right, Paul.
00:04:12I'm sorry, Paul.
00:04:15I wouldn't touch a thing of his if he could use it.
00:04:18I'd go barefoot over barbed wire for him.
00:04:21It wouldn't do him any good.
00:04:23Only...
00:04:23Only why should some orderly get those boots?
00:04:26I understand, Mullen.
00:04:28We're all alike out here.
00:04:30And good boots are scarce.
00:04:41Tell the doctor to come, please.
00:04:50Doctor.
00:04:51The man in the next bed would like to see you, sir.
00:04:54I've done everything I can for him.
00:04:56There's no helping him.
00:04:57Cool little fellow.
00:05:11He says next time, Franz.
00:05:23Do you think I'll ever get well?
00:05:25Of course.
00:05:29Do you really think so?
00:05:31Sure, once you get over the operation.
00:05:41I don't think so.
00:05:44Franz!
00:05:45Don't talk nonsense.
00:05:47Well, you'll be as good as new.
00:05:48They picked up worse things than that.
00:05:51I don't think so.
00:05:52Perhaps you'll go to the convalescent home at Close to Baird, among the village.
00:05:57Then you can look out of the windows, across the field, to the two trees on the horizon.
00:06:04The loveliest time of the year now, in the Kornreichens.
00:06:09You can go out without asking anyone.
00:06:12You can even play piano if you want to.
00:06:19Oh, but Franz, you must try to sleep now.
00:06:40Oh, God.
00:06:43This is Franz Cameron.
00:06:45Only 19 years old.
00:06:48He doesn't want to die.
00:06:51Please don't let him die.
00:06:54Paul.
00:06:56Paul.
00:06:57Yes, Franz.
00:07:00Take my boots home from Muller.
00:07:03Oh, no, Franz, no.
00:07:06And...
00:07:07And if he...
00:07:10To find my watch.
00:07:13Start at home.
00:07:15Franz!
00:07:19Doctor!
00:07:21Doctor!
00:07:23Doctor!
00:07:25Doctor!
00:07:26Where's the doctor?
00:07:28Why isn't there a doctor here?
00:07:30Doctor!
00:07:31Come quick, Franz.
00:07:32Can't work.
00:07:32He's dying.
00:07:33Which one was that?
00:07:34Half a tated leg.
00:07:35Half a tated a dozen legs today.
00:07:36Bed 26, sir.
00:07:37Oh, you see to it.
00:07:38I'm doing the operating move.
00:07:41One operation after another since 5 o'clock this morning.
00:07:4416 days a day.
00:07:46The orders are 17.
00:07:47They'll probably be 20.
00:08:12They'll probably be 20.
00:08:14All around.
00:08:16That's the best thing.
00:08:16This guy is far from me.
00:08:18Oh, no.
00:08:24Here!
00:08:25Oh, no.
00:08:27Oh, no.
00:08:28Oh, no.
00:08:29Oh, no.
00:08:29Oh, no.
00:08:30Oh, no.
00:08:30Oh, no.
00:08:32Oh, no, no, no.
00:08:38Oh, no.
00:08:39Listen, the sum of an arithmetic series is S equals A plus L times N over 2.
00:08:46Interesting, isn't it?
00:08:47What do you want to learn that stuff, Bob?
00:08:50One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be wasted.
00:08:53I got a lot of fun out of it.
00:09:14My boots.
00:09:22Mother.
00:09:25I saw him die.
00:09:30I didn't know what it was like to die before.
00:09:35And then I came outside.
00:09:39And it felt, it felt so good to be alive that I started in to walk fast.
00:09:47I began to think of the strangest things like being out in the fields.
00:09:53Things like that.
00:09:56You know, girls.
00:10:00And it felt as if there were something electric running from the ground up through me.
00:10:07And I started.
00:10:09And I began to run hard.
00:10:10And I passed soldiers.
00:10:11And I heard voices calling them.
00:10:13And I ran.
00:10:14And I ran.
00:10:15And I felt as if I couldn't breathe enough air into me.
00:10:23And now I'm hungry.
00:10:29I don't mind the war now.
00:10:31It'd be a pleasure to go to the front in boots like these.
00:10:55But...
00:10:55Oh, God!
00:10:56Come on, my bike!
00:10:56Hey,من Edit!
00:10:58Come on!
00:10:59Hey!
00:11:00Come on!
00:11:00Come on!
00:11:01Come on!
00:11:02Come on!
00:11:02Go on!
00:11:03Come on!
00:11:03I'm hungry!
00:11:03Come on!
00:11:25It's a good invention just the same.
00:11:28If you crack each separate louse, think of all the energy you use up.
00:11:31Watch.
00:11:35Burned to death.
00:11:38How was patrol?
00:11:39Bad?
00:11:40Must have been terrible if they had time to gather in the harvest.
00:11:43We passed the cherry tree, and when he saw it, he sort of went crazy.
00:11:46I could hardly drag him away.
00:11:48It was beautiful.
00:11:52I have a big orchard with cherry trees at home.
00:11:57When they're in full blossom, from the hayloft it looks like one single sheep.
00:12:03So, why?
00:12:07Perhaps you can get leave soon.
00:12:09You may even be sent back as a farmer.
00:12:12A woman can't run a farm alone.
00:12:14That's no good, you know?
00:12:15No matter how hard she works.
00:12:19Harvest is coming on again.
00:12:24What's the matter with him?
00:12:25He got a letter yesterday from his wife.
00:12:27He wants to get back to his farm.
00:12:29We'd all like to get back home when comes to that.
00:12:31I wonder what we'd do if it were suddenly peace time again.
00:12:34Get drunk and look for women?
00:12:37I'd go looking for a Cinderella that could wear this for a garden.
00:12:42And when I found her, nobody would see me for two weeks.
00:12:46I'll go back to the peat fields.
00:12:49And those pleasant hours in the beer gardens.
00:12:54And there's worse things than cobbling, too.
00:12:57Look, my family.
00:13:03We'll give you a kick in the backside for starting all this.
00:13:06It's alright for all of you to talk.
00:13:08You've got something to go back to.
00:13:10Wives, children, jobs.
00:13:13But what about us?
00:13:14What have we got to go back to?
00:13:16School?
00:13:17Why not?
00:13:17You know everything already?
00:13:19A man can't take all that rubbish they teach you seriously.
00:13:23After three years of shells and bombs.
00:13:26You can't peel that off as easily as a sock.
00:13:29They never taught us anything really useful.
00:13:31Like how to light a cigarette in the wind,
00:13:33or make a fire out of wet wood, or...
00:13:35They ain't had a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.
00:13:39What can happen to us afterwards?
00:13:41I'll tell you.
00:13:43Take our class.
00:13:44Out of 20,
00:13:46three are officers,
00:13:48nine dead,
00:13:51Muller and three others wounded,
00:13:53and one in the madhouse.
00:13:55We'll all be dead some day, so let's forget it.
00:14:06Pimble stones!
00:14:20There is justice in the army.
00:14:25Well, well.
00:14:27So we are all here, huh?
00:14:29A bit longer than you, Hemmy.
00:14:31And since when have we become so familiar?
00:14:33Stand up, man!
00:14:34Take your hands together!
00:14:35All you!
00:14:36Take a run and jump at yourself!
00:14:38Who is your friend?
00:14:40Would somebody give General Ludendorff a nice, comfortable chair?
00:14:45Come on, George, your superior officer!
00:14:47Do you want to be caught by surprise?
00:14:49I do.
00:14:49It's going to be a big attack tonight, and I'd just love to get out of here.
00:14:54Will you obey my orders?
00:14:56Kiss my foot!
00:15:03It isn't customary to ask for salutes here.
00:15:06But I'll tell you what we'll do.
00:15:07We're going to attack a town that we tried to take once before.
00:15:10Many killed and many wounded.
00:15:12There's great fun.
00:15:13This time you're going with us.
00:15:16If any of us stops a bullet,
00:15:17before we die, we're going to come to you,
00:15:20click our heels together and ask stiffly,
00:15:22Please, Sergeant Himmelsdorff, may we go?
00:15:24No, you'll...
00:15:24You'll pay for this!
00:15:33Here it is.
00:15:38Right on time.
00:15:40Better get ready, boys.
00:16:00The
00:16:40I've moved it! I've moved it!
00:16:42It's a scratch, you yellow rat!
00:16:44Up! Get on with the others!
00:16:46Up!
00:16:47Up!
00:16:48You yellow rat!
00:16:50You yellow rat!
00:16:53Let the others do it, eh?
00:16:55Get up! Get up!
00:16:58Forward! Forward!
00:17:00Come on, Ian!
00:17:01Get back!
00:17:03It's forward!
00:17:07Come on!
00:17:08It's forward!
00:17:09Forward!
00:17:13Forward!
00:17:14Forward!
00:17:17Forward!
00:17:18Forward!
00:17:20Forward!
00:17:22Forward!
00:17:33Forward!
00:17:34Forward!
00:17:36Forward!
00:17:36Forward!
00:17:39Forward!
00:17:40Forward!
00:17:42Forward!
00:17:42Forward!
00:17:44Forward!
00:17:46Forward!
00:17:50Forward!
00:17:50Forward!
00:17:50Forward!
00:17:59THE END
00:18:26THE END
00:18:51THE END
00:18:52THE END
00:19:04Come to attack.
00:19:27Come to attack.
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00:21:03Come to attack.
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00:21:06Come to attack.
00:21:10Come to attack.
00:21:11Come to attack.
00:21:41I want to help.
00:22:38Come to attack.
00:22:38Come to attack.
00:23:12Come to attack.
00:23:14Come along before I will.
00:23:15Come to attack.
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00:28:00Come to attack.
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00:28:50Uncommissioned officers, go let your men. Dismissed.
00:29:35Uncommissioned officers, go let your men.
00:29:39One, two, three, two, one.
00:29:48Hey, come on. A beer.
00:29:50Hey, get out of here. Come on, get me a beer.
00:30:01A beer. One beer.
00:30:05Closer!
00:30:09The beer's hoping we get falling down from today.
00:30:13Here's how it started.
00:30:30I've forgotten there were girls like that. There aren't.
00:30:36Just look at those thin little shoes.
00:30:39She couldn't march many miles in those.
00:30:42Oh, don't speak about marching.
00:30:45You're boring the young lady.
00:30:48A thousand pounds.
00:30:53How old do you think she is?
00:30:55Oh, about twenty-two?
00:30:58No, no. That'd make her older than us.
00:31:01Jeez.
00:31:04Seventeen.
00:31:08A girl like that.
00:31:10Let it be good, eh, Albert?
00:31:17We wouldn't have much of a chance with him around.
00:31:36We could take a bath. Wash our clothes.
00:31:39All right.
00:31:40I might even go so far as to get deloused.
00:31:43Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:31:45She's a long way from here now.
00:31:47Look at the date.
00:31:48May, 1917.
00:31:50Four months ago.
00:31:52That's true.
00:31:53Well, here's to her anyway.
00:31:57Here's to them all.
00:31:58Everywhere.
00:32:04Albert.
00:32:05You might as well wash up anyway.
00:32:08All right.
00:32:12Personally, I like them bigger around.
00:32:16This conversation was on a high moral plane up to now.
00:32:19Now we do need a bath.
00:32:21A bath?
00:32:22For what?
00:32:25You wouldn't understand.
00:32:33This water's freezing.
00:32:35This romantic business has gone too far.
00:32:36Ah, but think of her beautiful eyes.
00:32:39Oh, on her hands.
00:32:42Here we are.
00:32:43We're not going to miss a thing.
00:32:44Go away.
00:32:45What are you doing here?
00:32:46Fading.
00:32:47They tell me there's some people in this world
00:32:49take their bath every week.
00:32:52Women!
00:33:09Well, you want to swim?
00:33:10Well, no!
00:33:12Brodie-moi and moi.
00:33:14Well...
00:33:14Brodie-moi and moi.
00:33:17You have to get me on my way.
00:33:29You are very...
00:33:31Oh, my God!
00:33:32Oh, my God!
00:33:34I'm so hungry!
00:33:36Ma'am!
00:33:37I'm hungry!
00:33:38I'm hungry!
00:33:38You can always get me to get me in.
00:33:40Oh, baby!
00:33:41You can get me, ma'am!
00:33:43Give me!
00:33:43I'm hungry!
00:33:44I can't get you?
00:33:45Well, you can always go in the back!
00:33:48Oh, my God!
00:33:49I'm hungry!
00:33:49Oh, no!
00:33:50Don't go away!
00:33:52Oh, my God!
00:33:54Oh, my God!
00:33:55Oh, my God!
00:33:57Oh, my God!
00:33:57Oh, my God!
00:33:57Oh, my God!
00:34:01Oh, my God!
00:34:04Of course.
00:34:05Oh, my God!
00:34:10Oh, my God!
00:34:12Oh, my God!
00:34:13Woo-hoo!
00:34:14Woo-hoo!
00:34:15Regardez!
00:34:17Monje!
00:34:18Monje!
00:34:20Monje!
00:34:20Bon!
00:34:21Bon!
00:34:21Oh, mon!
00:34:24There we come!
00:34:28Monje!
00:34:31The '' rehabclamation''
00:34:31You can swim here. Come here!
00:34:46You know you're forbidden a cross.
00:34:48You fellas stay on this side or you'll get yourselves in a lot of problems.
00:35:06What are they jabbering about?
00:35:08They want us to swing over tonight. They're expecting us.
00:35:10That's fine. We'll do it.
00:35:11That blonde's crazy about me.
00:35:13But there's four of us and only three of them.
00:35:15I was the one that stopped them.
00:35:17That blonde piece of work is mine.
00:35:19You three fight for what's left.
00:35:21The fight's the worst.
00:35:23All's fair in love and war.
00:35:25What do you mean? What are you going to do?
00:35:27You'll find out.
00:35:30Au revoir.
00:35:31Au revoir.
00:35:49Au revoir.
00:35:51C'est moi, blondie.
00:35:53Bon ami, bon ami.
00:35:54Bon camarade, bon camarade.
00:35:56Oh, un moment.
00:35:59Double as port.
00:36:00She means the door.
00:36:05Ça peut voir ce qui te passe ici, hein?
00:36:24Not only modest, but dashing, a perfect bed, it might have been made for me.
00:36:29That's officer's code.
00:36:30We're following distinguished company.
00:36:31Ha-ha!
00:36:33No one see!
00:36:41Good morning!
00:36:43I won't ever forgive if I have enough for my sins.
00:36:53Faut, Faut, Faut.
00:36:54Faut pas que tu fasses
00:36:55où tu as eu besoin de fass ?
00:36:56Faut pas que tu fasses, où est-ce que tu fasses ?
00:36:58Faut pas que tu fasses.
00:36:58Faut pas que tu foies.
00:36:59Faut pas que tu fasses en fait.
00:37:02Faut pas que tu fasses en fait.
00:37:05Faut pas que tu fasses ici.
00:37:10Merci.
00:37:12À soi-pas.
00:37:13Ils sont gentils quand même de venir nous amener ça.
00:37:18Pauvre garçon.
00:37:19Encore un bout de pain ?
00:37:20Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:37:21It's a war.
00:37:23And you too?
00:37:24Oh, but then.
00:37:26Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:37:27I'm hungry.
00:37:28And you too?
00:37:30Yes, yes.
00:37:31I could eat all the time.
00:37:33I'll serve a little for tomorrow.
00:37:35Oh, tomorrow, I'll eat.
00:37:38So, come here.
00:37:40Come here.
00:37:40Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:37:42Have another little drink, my man.
00:37:47Is this your birthday or mine?
00:37:51What?
00:37:53You've been buying me drink after drink for two hours.
00:37:58What I'm trying to figure out is why?
00:38:02Why?
00:38:04Why?
00:38:07Oh, ha, ha.
00:38:10Oh, it's just that the boy told me a music for a little while.
00:38:20Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:21Oh, nice boy.
00:38:23Yeah.
00:38:24Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:25Yeah.
00:38:25They said you'd understand.
00:38:28Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:38:30Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:38:31Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:38:33Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:38:34Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:36Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:37Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:39Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:40You silly act.
00:38:42Take that for a minute.
00:38:44No.
00:38:45Now get him more.
00:38:47Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:38:49Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:51Ha, ha.
00:38:54Ha, ha.
00:38:57Ha, ha.
00:38:57It's too loud.
00:39:02Ha, ha, ha.
00:39:04Ha, ha, ha.
00:39:05Ha, ha.
00:39:07Ha, ha.
00:39:07Ha, ha, ha.
00:39:08Ha, ha, ha.
00:39:09Ha, ha.
00:39:27Suzanne, I'll never see you again, and I wouldn't even know you if I did, and yet, I'll remember
00:39:35you always, toujours. Oh, if you could only know how different this is from women that we
00:39:43soldiers meet. Oh, non, non, il faut tout oublier, c'est cette guerre. You, that's what I'm talking
00:39:50about, rule. It seems as though all war, terror, and grossness had fallen away from me, like
00:40:01a miracle, like something I never believed. Oh, oh, yes. Oh, yes. Call Paul. We're going,
00:40:15Paul.
00:40:40Have a look. Nice new coffin. For us. I must say that's a very cheerful preparation for
00:40:48this offensive. Very considerate of it. But I don't see any long enough for our comrade
00:40:53Jodden. Mind you, I'm not speaking to you, you traitors. But no coffin's going to get me.
00:41:00I should say not, heartbreaker. You'll be thankful to this little waterproof sheet around
00:41:07that Aunt Sally of a carcass of yours.
00:41:39Oh, my slide. Oh. My slide. Oh. My slide.
00:42:21Catholic Hospital, Albert. Oh. They say you always get good food and good treatment. We're
00:42:29lucky. After that rainy dressing station and 24 hours on the train, we deserve to have
00:42:33some luck. Um, Hamaker. Yes, that's my name. I got a crack in the head, and they gave me
00:42:50a certificate stating that Joseph Hamaker is periodically not responsible for his actions.
00:42:58And ever since then, Hamaker has been having a grand time. I hope you boys are not too badly
00:43:15wounded. The others die off so quickly we don't have time to get acquainted. You'll get to
00:43:23know us very well. Thank you. You too.
00:43:35I'm sorry, my dear. It's time to go now.
00:43:40Yes, sister.
00:43:48Watch.
00:43:49Watch. They take his clothes away. You've seen the last of him. See? They're taking him
00:43:59to the dying room. Dying room?
00:44:01When you're ready to kick the bucket, they get you out of the way so they can use the
00:44:05bed. In the corner of the building, there's a little room. Right next to the moor. Ha-ha-ha!
00:44:13It's so convenient, it saves a lot of trouble. But suppose he gets well. I've seen a lot
00:44:19of them go in that dying room, but nobody ever comes back.
00:44:33No...
00:44:38But the rest...
00:45:03Is that you ringing, Paul?
00:45:05Yes.
00:45:06Nothing's all wrong.
00:45:08I think I have a hemorrhage.
00:45:10The bandage is all wet.
00:45:11I've been ringing forever and nobody comes.
00:45:15I think I'm bleeding.
00:45:19Why didn't someone call me?
00:45:21He's been ringing.
00:45:22Then we nobody can walk, sister.
00:45:24Sister, is it bad?
00:45:26No.
00:45:26No.
00:45:27We'll be all right.
00:45:28We've got it in time.
00:45:30Oh.
00:45:32Oh.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:34Oh.
00:45:35Oh.
00:45:36Oh.
00:45:36Oh.
00:45:37Oh.
00:45:37Oh.
00:45:38Oh.
00:45:39Oh.
00:45:40Oh.
00:45:53Oh.
00:46:01Oh.
00:46:03Oh.
00:46:06Oh.
00:46:08Oh.
00:46:09Oh.
00:46:09Oh.
00:46:09Oh.
00:46:09Oh.
00:46:10Oh.
00:46:10Oh.
00:46:10Oh.
00:46:11Oh.
00:46:12Oh.
00:46:12Oh.
00:46:12Oh.
00:46:13Oh.
00:46:13Oh.
00:46:13Oh.
00:46:14Oh.
00:46:14Oh.
00:46:15Oh.
00:46:20what's the matter what are you doing we must rearrange your bandages
00:46:27where are you taking me to the bandaging board
00:46:39no no i'm not going i'm staying here now now i'm not going to die
00:46:45but we're going to the bandaging board then why are you taking my clothes you're lying to me
00:46:50but i'll come back i won't die i'll come back i won't die i'll come back i won't die i'll
00:46:59come back
00:46:59i won't die i'm not going to die i'll come back
00:47:12sister liberty how is he poor boy they had to amputate his leg
00:47:37paul paul paul oh yeah he's gone he's gone
00:47:51hello welcome home albert
00:47:58how do you feel kid all right but i've got the just awful pain my foot
00:48:11hamaker did they cut my leg off of course not how many did you have two you still got them
00:48:18one two
00:48:19don't play the fool hamaker tell me truthfully of course not and you look fine
00:48:30look
00:48:32see
00:48:46i won't be a cripple i won't live i tell you
00:48:50be calm i kill myself the first chance i get albert
00:48:53i won't live yes you will
00:48:55i won't live albert albert albert albert i've come back
00:49:02i told you i'd come back look everybody i've come back
00:49:07that's not where i'm going i live over there
00:49:09oh i'm so happy
00:49:12albert i have come back from the dead
00:49:14it's most irregular never happened before
00:49:17albert we must get well quickly so we can go home soon
00:49:20albert everything will be all right now
00:49:22yes everything will be all right
00:49:25now
00:49:47so
00:49:49and
00:50:04so
00:50:06so
00:50:08so
00:50:08so
00:50:10so
00:50:58Paul, Paul, Paul!
00:51:05What's the matter, Paul?
00:51:08Nothing, nothing.
00:51:34Give me a handkerchief.
00:51:46Mother!
00:51:47Here I am, Paul.
00:51:49Here I am.
00:51:53Mother's ear.
00:52:12Are you wounded?
00:52:13No, Mother, I got leave.
00:52:23Here I lie and cry instead of being glad.
00:52:29Ernest, get down the jar of blackberries.
00:52:33You still like them, don't you?
00:52:36Yes, Mother.
00:52:38I haven't had any for a long time.
00:52:43We might almost have known you were coming.
00:52:45I'm making potato cakes.
00:52:48Don't let them burn.
00:52:51Oh, sit down.
00:52:55Beside me.
00:53:00Good night, Paul.
00:53:04My baby.
00:53:06Strange.
00:53:09Oh, I almost forgot, Mother.
00:53:11I've got some little presents for you.
00:53:28Look, Mother.
00:53:30Bread, sausage, and rice.
00:53:32Yes.
00:53:32Paul, you've been starving yourself.
00:53:36Hadn't I better go and tell Father Paul's home?
00:53:39If Paul could watch the things on the stove.
00:53:41No, no, child.
00:53:42I'm getting up.
00:53:44Oh, Paul.
00:53:45You're a soldier now, aren't you?
00:53:48But somehow, I don't seem to know you.
00:53:53I'll take these off, Mother.
00:53:55I'll get your suit, Paul.
00:53:56It's in the wardrobe just where you left.
00:53:59Are you really here, Paul?
00:54:02You won't...
00:54:04You won't disappear, will you?
00:54:07No.
00:54:09I'm here.
00:54:13You lies in.
00:54:26Good thing is ready for you, Paul.
00:54:31I remember when you caught that one.
00:54:32Yes.
00:54:33And you took it away from me, didn't you?
00:54:36I did.
00:54:50They're behind the lines, but we know how to honor the soldier who goes on in spite of blood and
00:54:56death.
00:54:57Gentlemen, my son.
00:55:00Roses.
00:55:00Roses.
00:55:05I'm glad to know you, young man.
00:55:07I'm glad to know you.
00:55:09And how are things out there?
00:55:11Terrible, eh?
00:55:13Terrible.
00:55:14But we must carry on.
00:55:17After all, you do at least get decent food out there.
00:55:22Naturally, it's worse here.
00:55:23Naturally.
00:55:24But the best for our soldiers all the time.
00:55:27That's our motto.
00:55:29The best for our soldiers.
00:55:32The best for our soldiers.
00:55:34But you must give the Frenchies a good looking.
00:55:43And if you boys want to come home, let me show you what you must do before you can come
00:55:51home.
00:55:53Give us a hand there, men.
00:55:56Now then.
00:55:58There's the line.
00:55:59Run so.
00:56:01In a beam.
00:56:03Here is San Quentin.
00:56:05You can see for yourself.
00:56:06You're almost through now.
00:56:08All right?
00:56:08Come ahead out there and don't stick to that everlasting French warfare.
00:56:13Smash through the johnny.
00:56:15And then you will have peace.
00:56:19When you get in it, the war isn't the way it looks back here.
00:56:23Oh.
00:56:24You don't know anything about it.
00:56:26Of course.
00:56:27You know about the details.
00:56:28But this relates to the whole.
00:56:31And you can't judge that.
00:56:33Of course you do your duty and you risk your life.
00:56:37But for that, you'll receive the highest honor.
00:56:42I said that every man of the water has the iron cross.
00:56:45First, the enemy lies must be broken through in Flanders.
00:56:49On to Paris.
00:56:51Push on to Paris.
00:56:52Right.
00:56:52No, no, not in Flanders.
00:56:54Now, I tell you just where the break should come.
00:56:55Here.
00:56:56The enemy has so many reserves there.
00:56:59I insist upon Flanders.
00:57:01I know, but my dear man, why did they do that when they're halfway through San Quentin already?
00:57:05Why go the other way?
00:57:06Because Flanders is a flat country.
00:57:08There are no mountains, no obstructions.
00:57:10But there's so many rivers there.
00:57:28From the pubs they have gone.
00:57:30From the schools, from the factories.
00:57:33They have gone bravely, nobly, ever forward, realizing that there is no other duty now
00:57:41but to save the father.
00:57:44Flanders!
00:57:46How are you, Flanders?
00:57:48How are you, Flanders?
00:57:48How are you, Flanders?
00:57:49Glad to see you, Professor.
00:57:50You come at the right moment, Flanders.
00:57:53Just at the right moment.
00:57:55And as if to prove all I have said, here is one of the first to go, a lad who
00:58:01sat before
00:58:02me on these very benches, who gave up all to serve in the first year of the war.
00:58:07One of the iron youths who have made Germany invincible in the field, look at him, sturdy and bronze and
00:58:16clear-eyed, the kind of soldier every one of you should envy.
00:58:21Poor lad.
00:58:23Poor lad.
00:58:23You must speak to them.
00:58:24You must tell them what it means to serve your father, lad.
00:58:30No, no.
00:58:31I can't tell them anything.
00:58:32You must, Paul.
00:58:33Just a word.
00:58:34Just tell them how much they're needed out there.
00:58:37Tell them why you went, what it meant to you.
00:58:41I can't say anything.
00:58:42If you remember some deed of heroism, some touch of nobility, tell about it.
00:58:56I can't tell you anything you don't know.
00:58:59We live in the trenches out there.
00:59:02We fight.
00:59:03We try not to be killed.
00:59:06Sometimes we are.
00:59:10That's all.
00:59:15No.
00:59:16No, Paul.
00:59:17I've been there.
00:59:19I know what it's like.
00:59:20That's not what one dwells on, Paul.
00:59:23I heard you in here reciting that same old stuff, making more iron men, more young heroes.
00:59:30You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?
00:59:35We used to think you knew.
00:59:37The first bombardment taught us better.
00:59:41It's dirty and painful to die for your country.
00:59:44When it comes to dying for your country, it's better not to die at all.
00:59:48There are millions out there dying for their countries.
00:59:51And what good is it?
00:59:57You ask me to tell them how much they're needed out there?
01:00:00He tells you, go out and die.
01:00:03Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to say go out and die than it is to do it.
01:00:07Coward!
01:00:08And it's easier to say it than to watch it happen.
01:00:12No!
01:00:15No!
01:00:15Mind!
01:00:16Mind!
01:00:18I'm sorry, Dalmer, but I must say...
01:00:20There's no use talking like this.
01:00:22You won't know what I mean.
01:00:24Only, it's been a long while since we enlisted out of this classroom.
01:00:28So long I thought maybe the whole world had learned by this time.
01:00:32Only now they're sending babies.
01:00:35And they won't last a week.
01:00:36I shouldn't have come on leave.
01:00:39Up at the front you're alive or you're dead and that's all.
01:00:42And you can't fool anybody about that very long.
01:00:45And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive.
01:00:50Three years we've had of it.
01:00:51Four years.
01:00:52And every day a year.
01:00:54And every night a century.
01:00:56And our bodies are earth.
01:00:58And our thoughts are clay.
01:00:59And we sleep and eat with death.
01:01:02And we're done for because you can't live that way and keep anything inside you.
01:01:07I shouldn't have come on leave.
01:01:09I'll go back tomorrow.
01:01:10I've got four days more but I can't stand it here.
01:01:13I'll go back tomorrow.
01:01:16I'm sorry.
01:01:29Mother, you'll catch cold here.
01:01:31You must go to sleep.
01:01:32There'll be plenty of time to sleep.
01:01:35When you're gone.
01:01:38Must you go tomorrow, Paul?
01:01:40Must you?
01:01:42Yes, Mother.
01:01:43Orders were changed.
01:01:47Are you very much afraid, Paul?
01:01:51No, Mother.
01:01:55There's something I want to say to you, Paul.
01:01:57It's just be on your guard against the women out there.
01:02:05They're no good.
01:02:07Where we are, there aren't any women, Mother.
01:02:11Be very careful at the front, Paul.
01:02:14Yes, Mother, I will.
01:02:17I'll pray for you every day.
01:02:20And if you could get a job that's not quite so dangerous.
01:02:27Yes, Mother.
01:02:28I'll try and get in the cookhouse.
01:02:30That can easily be done.
01:02:31You do it, then.
01:02:33And if the others say anything...
01:02:34That won't worry me, Mother.
01:02:37Now, you must go to bed.
01:02:39And you must get well quickly before I come back.
01:02:44I've put two sets of underwear, new ones, in your pack.
01:02:49They'll keep you nice and warm.
01:02:51They're all warm.
01:02:53That's sweet of you.
01:02:56Good night, my son.
01:03:07Good night, Mother.
01:03:31You still think I'm a child.
01:03:32Oh, Mother, Mother.
01:03:33You still think I'm a child.
01:03:37Why can't I put my head in your lap and cry?
01:04:04Is this the second company?
01:04:06Yes, sir.
01:04:32We had a hundred and fifty men, but this is all that came back yesterday.
01:04:35But now they're going to give us enough to make a hundred and fifty again.
01:04:40How old are you?
01:04:42Sixteen.
01:05:03No use. I couldn't find anything.
01:05:06We'll have pizza and soda.
01:05:09Not me!
01:05:10I'll go hungry first!
01:05:12It makes me sick!
01:05:29Now it's going to be a real war again.
01:05:32Paul! How's old Paul?
01:05:35Here I am.
01:05:36You know, the second company's getting hard to find.
01:05:38Nobody seemed to know where you were.
01:05:41I'm glad you found it.
01:05:47I guess I don't get much of this.
01:05:54There used to be some food in the sawdust.
01:05:57Now it's all sawdust.
01:05:59No joke, either.
01:06:00Each up inside.
01:06:03This doesn't look much like the old second company.
01:06:05The replacements are all like that.
01:06:07Not even old enough to carry a pack.
01:06:10All they know how to do is die.
01:06:13I guess some of the old-timers are here yet.
01:06:18Paul, they're trying to invent something to kill me right now.
01:06:23Where's Wester's?
01:06:26The messenger dog was wounded.
01:06:28He went out to get it.
01:06:31Is it true about the armistice, Paul?
01:06:34It doesn't look that way back there.
01:06:35You mean they want us to go on fighting?
01:06:37That's what they say.
01:06:38They're crazy!
01:06:41Germany will be empty pretty soon.
01:06:45Where's...
01:06:45Where's Datering?
01:06:48He got homesick.
01:06:49You remember about the cherry blossoms?
01:06:52I guess he never got over that.
01:06:54He started out one night to go home and help his wife with the farm.
01:06:59They got him behind the lines, and we never heard of him since.
01:07:02He was just homesick, but probably they couldn't see it that way.
01:07:09Where's Cat? Is he...
01:07:11Oh, not Cat.
01:07:13If he were out, the war would be over.
01:07:15You remember what he always says, they're saving him for the last.
01:07:19Where is he?
01:07:20He's out looking for food, trying to collect something to make soup with.
01:07:24Which way?
01:07:25Down the road about two miles that way.
01:07:28I'll see you later.
01:07:43Cat!
01:07:49Paul!
01:08:07Hello, Paul.
01:08:10How's the sign?
01:08:11Well, it's all right now. It's fine.
01:08:15Have any luck.
01:08:16No, the General Staff's been over this country with a ring.
01:08:21Let's sit on them.
01:08:26Tell me, Paul.
01:08:28How's it at home? Have a good leave?
01:08:31In spots.
01:08:33What's the matter?
01:08:36Oh, I'm no good for back there anymore, Cat.
01:08:39None of us are.
01:08:41We've been in this too long.
01:08:43The young men thought I was a coward because I told them that we learned that death is stronger than
01:08:49duty of one's country.
01:08:51The old men said, go on, push on to Paris.
01:08:54My father even wanted me to wear my uniform around.
01:08:59It's not home back there anymore.
01:09:01All I could think of was, I'd like to get back and see Cat again.
01:09:08You're all I've got left, Cat.
01:09:11I'm not much to have left.
01:09:14I missed you, Paul.
01:09:16At least we know what it's all about out here.
01:09:18There are no lies here.
01:09:21Push on to Paris.
01:09:23You ought to see what they've got on the other side.
01:09:25They eat white bread over there.
01:09:28They've got dozens of airplanes to all want.
01:09:31And tanks that'll go over anything.
01:09:33What have we got?
01:09:36Guns so worn they drop shells on our own men.
01:09:39No food.
01:09:41No ammunition.
01:09:42No officers.
01:09:44Push on to Paris.
01:09:46So that's the way they talk back there.
01:09:50I guess we'd better be going.
01:09:59Listen, how I lied to my poor mother.
01:10:03I told her that it wasn't so bad out here because there was always a lot of us together.
01:10:09Now that I'm with you, I'm beginning to believe that I told her the truth.
01:10:13Don't!
01:10:23That's another one that missed us.
01:10:25Come on, let's go.
01:10:26Wait a minute.
01:10:28Looks like the old bread wagon's broke down.
01:10:31I guess I don't walk the rest of the way.
01:10:34Did that get you, Cap?
01:10:35Oh, I think it broke my shin.
01:10:39Well, that's not so bad.
01:10:41We'll get her.
01:10:42Just my luck, huh?
01:10:44Good luck.
01:10:45That means the war's over.
01:10:47Oh, no, sir.
01:10:49This war don't end until they really get me.
01:10:55Easy now.
01:10:57Easy.
01:10:58Easy.
01:11:01Come on, I'll take you in.
01:11:03Come here, Han.
01:11:08Easy.
01:11:08Easy.
01:11:10All right.
01:11:22Well, kid, now we're going to be separated.
01:11:26Maybe we can do something together later on, when the war's over.
01:11:30Yes, kid.
01:11:31You'll give me your address, and I'll give you mine.
01:11:40You can't get both of us in one day.
01:11:44Ah, we'll surely see each other again, Cat.
01:11:47Remember that day when you brought the whole pig into the factory?
01:11:51And that day in the woods when you taught us how to dodge shells?
01:11:55And my first bombardment.
01:11:58How I cried.
01:12:00I was a young recruit then.
01:12:06Here we are.
01:12:08Here we are.
01:12:10Here we are.
01:12:10Here we are.
01:12:14All right now, Cat.
01:12:19You could have spared yourself the trouble.
01:12:21He's dead.
01:12:22Oh, no.
01:12:23He just fainted.
01:12:24He was hit from the Shem.
01:12:25He's dead.
01:12:41Would you like to take his pay book?
01:12:45You're not related, are you?
01:12:47No, we're not related.
01:12:57You're not related.
01:12:58Did you get his name and number?
01:12:59Uh, Corporal Stanislav Kaczynski, 306.
01:13:22There's a bunch of little lads.
01:13:40So they needed to lift upright.
01:13:42Hold off the headlights.
01:13:50They did this Watch TV.
01:14:00I don't know.
01:14:29I don't know.
01:14:58I don't know.
01:15:26I don't know.
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