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We greatly thank Reverend Metropolitan
Bishop of Kastoria,
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the Hellenic Army General Staff
and the Military Division of Kastoria
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for their valuable help during
the shooting of our film
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The film is dedicated to the known and
unknown Greeks who with their blood
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wrote the epic of 1940-1941
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God, how I love him!
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At daybreak on October 26th
there was a heavy rainfall.
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Then silence spread.
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In the guardhouse by the bridge lived
five of us soldiers and the sergeant.
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It took us time to get to know one
another but then we became a family.
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Stratos!
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Where to, so early?
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To the river.
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The girl, eh?
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Alright, go ahead.
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In the guardhouse, we all loved him.
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Every morning he'd set out
for the river.
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In the evenings, after guard
he sat all alone thinking.
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Sergeant never told him a word.
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Hey, Thanassis!
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Sergeant wants you.
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What's with you, Thanassis?
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What happened?
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What is it?
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I got a letter from the village.
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Mother tells me to drop everything
and go back.
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Because my sister sits in the yard all
day long, without a word but crying.
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Why does she cry?
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Her fiance left her.
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He asked for two acres and
there was none.
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And I told him before leaving.
Be patient, Stelios.
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Till my service is over.
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What do you know...
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Sofia!
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What is it?
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- Come and talk.
- Coming.
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My mother, my sister and I
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were left to work the land
when father died.
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We come every morning
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and go when the sun goes.
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- Hi Yiorgis!
- Hi.
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- Another Sunday gone, eh?
- Gone, teach...
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- You'll be released soon.
- Counting the days. How's your girl?
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- She's fine.
- Got a letter? What does she say?
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She awaits you, eh?
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- Bye.
- Bye.
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Hey, girl!
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Good morning!
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Hello!
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I know, you won't say anything again.
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I come here asking you and
you don't speak a word.
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Why don't you speak?
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Tell me what's your name?
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Mine is Stratos.
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I have a sister your age.
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She's getting married at Christmastime.
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Say something!
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All this time I love you.
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I love you!
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Me coming every day and you
never saying a word!
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It's a sin!
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You hear me? A sin!
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I understand why you don't speak.
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That's what a girl should do.
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Please, tell me your name.
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I'll come to your father
and ask for you.
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You look auburn-haired.
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Like my mother.
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Wait!
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Don't go!
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Hold it!
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Hold it!
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Wait!
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Don't go, I say!
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Wait!
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- He came again and called out.
- What did he say?
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He's called Stratos.
He wanted my name, too.
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He chased me through the river.
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Says he'll come to my father
and ask for me.
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Is he good-looking?
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What happened?
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Not even a word she spoke.
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What's in her letter?
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She's about to have the baby.
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She's a school teacher, in a village
near Thessaloniki.
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He told him that Ancient Greeks
were six metres tall.
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What are you saying,
said the other man.
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I saw Diakos in a dairy at my village
and he was that short...
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What did he say then?
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Nothing.
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The next day
a war began.
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My beloved child,
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today at 6 am, war sirens echoed
all over Athens.
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Afraid, mostly for you my son,
a soldier there at the borderline
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I ran out into the streets
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and so
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I heard that the Italians
declared war on us
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because when they asked to pass
through borders we cried out "no"!
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The people are swarming in the streets
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dancing and singing as if it's not
a war they're going to
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but some great festivity.
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The air resonates with speeches
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songs and hails.
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Embraced by the people
as tight as I am
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I felt fright gradually
leaving my heart.
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At the city centre
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like a river the people
were flowing down
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carrying placards and
singing anthems
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and as I saw the vehicles with soldiers
starting out to warfare
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my eyes grew teary with longing.
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Sonny,
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take my wishes where you're going.
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I'll pray to God day and night
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that bullets will go past you, so that
one day I'll be granted....
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Be careful, my Yiangos...
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Don't be hit by a bullet
and miss out on your youth...
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For you're a young lad
and it's a shame...
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In the eternity of the epic five people
were five moments...
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The teacher, the postman, the sergeant,
Stratos and Yangos,
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leave the guardhouse where we met them
and fight for the Country.
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Like a raindrop from the Sky of Glory,
This is their little story.
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Warfare separated us
into different units.
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When we left,
the guardhouse was deserted.
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None of us had any news about
the others' condition.
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I can't believe it's true, Vangelis.
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Last night we lit a fire and
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had a chat with the teacher.
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Now he's lying like that...
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The bastards got him.
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Won't be long
now for the rascals.
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We'll push them into the sea,
soon.
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I was walking down with Vangelis.
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The mountain surgery is still far away.
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I doubt anyone will be there.
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The fastest we can.
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To get there before dark.
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Save the teacher who's badly wounded.
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Want to change places?
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- Won't it still be the same?
- You're right.
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Perhaps you want a short stop?
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Not really helpful.
The other one will soon be frozen, too.
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Let's take a look at him.
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He's breathing heavily
but I can't hear him.
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Hey, teacher. Hear me?
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- He doesn't hear?
- He doesn't.
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Are you in pain, teacher?
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Mussolini, you sucker...
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None of you will be spared...
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You and Italy...
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your ridiculous homeland
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you're all scared of khaki...
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(One of the most popular songs
of the war period in Greece)
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Nobody here?
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Where did they go?
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How should I know?
They must have moved ahead.
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Come on.
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What shall we do?
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Walk down to the road
and wait for a vehicle.
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Let's go before dark.
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- Why don't you speak, Nikiforos?
- What is to say?
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Say something.
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Those that make the war
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have they seen this?
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Which one?
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This...
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This solitude.
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I think I heard something...
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An automobile...
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Look that way!
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It'll show up on the road.
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There... Over there...
Over there, Nikiforos!
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- See anything?
- Nothing!
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Have a look at him...
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- Gone?
- Gone.
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Eh, teacher...
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Sweet mother...
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I'm writing from the trenches.
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Ever since the first day of war,
I've only seen victories
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Italians run away as soon as
they see us.
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If not for this heavy winter in our way
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we'd surely have pushed them
into the sea by now.
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But all this snow is
a huge obstacle.
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Mules move with great
difficulty
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and when we have to climb a peak
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we carry our supplies on
our shoulders.
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Frozen wind and snow
are worse an enemy
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than the cockfeathered ones.
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Frostbite more deadly than their lead.
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But when rushing ahead with a bayonet
we forget all about them.
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Our crying "AERA" fills the air and
makes the enemy run away.
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Airplanes and artillery come to
our support in these combats.
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The enemy's losses are
quite often heavy.
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Throughout the front from side to side,
our army marches fast ahead.
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Bit by bit,
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peak to peak,
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our Northern Epirus is becoming
Greek again.
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Yesterday
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we marched triumphantly
into Korytsa.
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Its people greeted us
with enthusiasm.
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The streets wherever we passed
were full of huzza shouts.
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My mother,
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I'm a winner. Can you feel
what this word means?
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Two days ago, our sublieutenant
was killed.
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The sergeant took over in his place.
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With him now
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we walk on the snow and mud
for endless hours.
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Our eyelids heavy with
sleeplessness.
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Wild hunger blurs the mind.
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Within the horrible frost
of Albanian winter.
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Tell me, why are you always
the last one in line?
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Can't help it, sergeant.
A 7-hour walk...
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17! Move on!
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Don't get smart with me.
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That's the slope.
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Has no name.
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We'll wait a while.
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Nobody sit. All of you stay standing.
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How are we?
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How indeed...
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Just fine.
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I'd like a word with you.
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Like what, sergeant?
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I heard you're a learned man.
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Yes.
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I was.
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What's with "was"?
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Are you not still?
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In war, it's just the same.
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You say this because...
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'Cause what?
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Then say...
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Are you afraid or not?
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I don't give a dime.
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You don't look good. What's wrong?
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What indeed... Leaky boots.
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Let me see.
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The other one, too?
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Yes, the other one too.
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Let me see it.
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You'll get new ones up there.
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A brave man, our sergeant.
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One day he caught 11 Italians himself.
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It's almost daybreak.
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Yes. Shortly we'll attack.
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Will it be soon now?
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Yes. Soon enough.
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Come round here.
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Come on.
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It is now.
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We must get them.
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We'll go up there, spearheads on.
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They're hidden back there.
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Even if we all get killed.
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Come on, brave ones.
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Aera!
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Bravely attack them!
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My beloved one,
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instead of a kiss, I'm sending you
my song of glory from the front.
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Victories come in line.
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Pogradec, Argyrokastro,
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Agioi Saranta, Cheimara,
Kleisoura,
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and now fighting hard for Tepeleni.
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Two weeks ago, entering March,
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Mussolini launched a big
counterattack along the front.
265
00:39:12,462 --> 00:39:14,773
With aircrafts, tanks and artillery
266
00:39:14,870 --> 00:39:17,317
he's battering our lines all day long.
267
00:39:17,930 --> 00:39:20,122
Battles are now harder than ever.
268
00:39:21,042 --> 00:39:23,037
Slopes are covered with blood.
269
00:39:23,479 --> 00:39:25,671
Each one of us
has become a hero.
270
00:39:26,539 --> 00:39:28,443
Every battle an epic making.
271
00:39:29,306 --> 00:39:31,754
Where've you been Benito?
272
00:39:32,086 --> 00:39:34,041
Hidden in the cave...
273
00:39:34,844 --> 00:39:37,342
Why not come a bit further down?
274
00:39:38,531 --> 00:39:41,233
I'm scared of tsolias!
275
00:39:42,641 --> 00:39:45,381
Also, compared to the immensly
superior enemy forces
276
00:39:45,528 --> 00:39:49,092
we're constantly moving ahead,
more slowly of course, more strenuously
277
00:39:49,422 --> 00:39:50,725
but we are moving ahead!
278
00:39:58,858 --> 00:40:00,592
The war turned me into a postman
279
00:40:01,550 --> 00:40:03,221
I moved around
units on horseback,
280
00:40:03,354 --> 00:40:04,810
I delivered and
received letters.
281
00:40:06,087 --> 00:40:08,475
I went all around the mountains
and came back down.
282
00:40:09,688 --> 00:40:11,756
The battalion was at an
Arvanite village.
283
00:40:11,923 --> 00:40:14,233
The sight of burnt houses
made me feel depressed.
284
00:40:15,471 --> 00:40:17,190
Soldiers came running
when they saw me
285
00:40:17,256 --> 00:40:18,749
and my soul was overjoyed
286
00:40:19,084 --> 00:40:21,186
when I had something to deliver
to all of them.
287
00:40:26,384 --> 00:40:28,202
- That's all. Bye.
- Bye.
288
00:40:38,735 --> 00:40:39,975
Hey, postman!
289
00:40:40,095 --> 00:40:41,522
You forgot the parcel.
290
00:40:48,203 --> 00:40:51,269
Tanks and cannons are not
spaghetti-like...
291
00:40:53,277 --> 00:40:56,455
That's what this ascent was like,
long and graceless.
292
00:40:57,084 --> 00:41:00,586
While I saw women carrying ammunition
on the mountain tops
293
00:41:00,857 --> 00:41:03,963
I felt a fluttering in me and
a throb in my throat.
294
00:41:20,047 --> 00:41:21,844
Come now, Kotso!
Come...
295
00:41:23,204 --> 00:41:25,193
Every day, again and again...
296
00:41:28,830 --> 00:41:29,714
Keep up!
297
00:41:29,834 --> 00:41:31,281
They'll be up there waiting.
298
00:41:31,457 --> 00:41:32,552
Come, Kotso...
299
00:41:47,704 --> 00:41:49,998
I never knew how I lost the parcel.
300
00:41:50,522 --> 00:41:52,282
I went back to the forest and searched.
301
00:43:00,979 --> 00:43:02,177
The parcel's gone, Kotso...
302
00:43:03,205 --> 00:43:03,825
Gone.
303
00:43:07,639 --> 00:43:09,917
Wondering if it snowed in Piraeus...
304
00:43:12,483 --> 00:43:14,013
What's become of the others?
305
00:43:16,721 --> 00:43:18,130
Where could they be now?
306
00:43:21,436 --> 00:43:24,162
The old woman must be up and down
the doorstep alone...
307
00:43:27,611 --> 00:43:29,072
Who could ever tell?
308
00:43:32,681 --> 00:43:35,084
Did I ever lose a parcel before,
309
00:43:35,151 --> 00:43:35,571
did I, Kotso?
310
00:43:38,915 --> 00:43:41,178
Whoever knows what poor girl made it?
311
00:43:41,606 --> 00:43:43,288
And sent it to her man?
312
00:43:43,851 --> 00:43:45,284
Taking the little ones along,
313
00:43:45,308 --> 00:43:47,209
heading for the
post office together?
314
00:43:47,873 --> 00:43:49,475
I also put a little kiss in it,
315
00:43:49,930 --> 00:43:51,819
the little one must have said...
316
00:43:58,614 --> 00:44:00,041
Poor Motherland...
317
00:44:07,995 --> 00:44:08,913
Melas...
318
00:44:09,984 --> 00:44:10,901
Thomas.
319
00:44:11,619 --> 00:44:13,030
I don't know him.
320
00:44:16,375 --> 00:44:17,411
Mantzis...
321
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,031
Periklis...
322
00:44:19,835 --> 00:44:21,160
Not him either.
323
00:44:27,522 --> 00:44:28,695
Voulgaridis...
324
00:44:29,636 --> 00:44:30,469
Takis.
325
00:44:31,176 --> 00:44:32,415
Hello to you!
326
00:44:32,635 --> 00:44:35,167
Boys, it's the postman!
Hello, postman!
327
00:44:37,277 --> 00:44:39,589
See if I have anything...
328
00:44:39,931 --> 00:44:41,223
A little letter...
329
00:44:42,002 --> 00:44:43,498
Where have you been?
330
00:44:43,701 --> 00:44:45,418
Hey boys, don't push...
331
00:44:48,535 --> 00:44:49,741
Got any more?
332
00:44:49,861 --> 00:44:50,540
No.
333
00:44:50,660 --> 00:44:52,240
- Any news?
- None.
334
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,384
- What kept you?
- Night. Got lost in the woods.
335
00:44:57,451 --> 00:44:59,083
- Sinopoulos?
- Here!
336
00:44:59,473 --> 00:45:01,377
- Raikos?
- Here, sergeant!
337
00:45:01,666 --> 00:45:03,213
Nothing again today?
338
00:45:04,063 --> 00:45:05,473
Easy, don't push!
339
00:45:05,593 --> 00:45:07,632
We'll get what we have to get.
340
00:45:08,655 --> 00:45:10,133
Read the names out.
341
00:45:12,125 --> 00:45:13,553
- Mangas.
- Here.
342
00:45:14,188 --> 00:45:15,564
- Hatzis.
- Mine.
343
00:45:16,578 --> 00:45:18,158
- Lantzas.
- Present!
344
00:45:18,576 --> 00:45:20,126
- Papaditsas!
- That's me!
345
00:45:20,359 --> 00:45:21,684
- Ksenos.
- Me!
346
00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:24,244
- Tzamtzis.
- Present!
347
00:45:25,129 --> 00:45:26,931
- Voulgaridis.
- Mine, give it.
348
00:45:27,856 --> 00:45:29,556
- Melas.
- That's mine.
349
00:45:30,511 --> 00:45:32,493
- Anastaselos.
- Here, give it.
350
00:45:33,172 --> 00:45:34,175
Lambrinos.
351
00:45:51,892 --> 00:45:53,921
I tied up the horse and
took to searching.
352
00:45:54,059 --> 00:45:57,124
I wanted to find him, see whose
parcel got lost
353
00:45:57,638 --> 00:46:00,804
and tell him, so he won't be miserable
and I feel of remorse.
354
00:47:06,919 --> 00:47:09,862
I was about to leave when suddenly
my eye caught him.
355
00:47:11,185 --> 00:47:12,847
Isn't there anything for me?
356
00:47:25,789 --> 00:47:26,639
Nothing.
357
00:48:36,682 --> 00:48:38,126
My beloved Yangos,
358
00:48:39,057 --> 00:48:41,470
last Thurdsay it snowed in our village
359
00:48:42,048 --> 00:48:43,782
and it's white all over.
360
00:48:44,751 --> 00:48:47,062
Since the day you left for the front
361
00:48:47,166 --> 00:48:50,653
I haven't stopped thinking and
dreaming of you every night.
362
00:48:52,277 --> 00:48:53,875
Have no worry, Yangos,
363
00:48:54,499 --> 00:48:55,943
because I love you
364
00:48:56,211 --> 00:48:58,214
and I'm awaiting your return.
365
00:48:58,564 --> 00:49:01,821
I'm sending you a pair of woolen
stockings and a warm jersey
366
00:49:02,053 --> 00:49:03,837
so that you won't be cold.
367
00:49:04,358 --> 00:49:05,972
I knitted them myself.
368
00:49:06,092 --> 00:49:07,111
Loving you
369
00:49:07,224 --> 00:49:09,024
and sweetly kissing you...
370
00:51:13,586 --> 00:51:14,882
The rascals have stopped.
371
00:51:16,154 --> 00:51:17,203
Must be a trap.
372
00:51:19,842 --> 00:51:20,828
Colleague,
373
00:51:21,274 --> 00:51:22,586
you have some water?
374
00:51:22,729 --> 00:51:23,679
What for?
375
00:51:24,058 --> 00:51:25,264
I'm dried up.
376
00:51:26,109 --> 00:51:28,570
Down there is the spring of
immortal waters.
377
00:51:37,406 --> 00:51:38,875
Here's the dragon, too.
378
00:51:42,712 --> 00:51:44,796
- Eh, Antonis!
- What is it, Yangos?
379
00:51:44,997 --> 00:51:46,628
See what's happening?
380
00:51:47,434 --> 00:51:48,997
His mind went astray.
381
00:51:50,638 --> 00:51:52,531
- I'll go down for water.
- Have you gone mad?
382
00:51:52,825 --> 00:51:53,531
You'll be wasted.
383
00:51:53,584 --> 00:51:55,976
They only aim at the rocks,
not the spring.
384
00:52:15,869 --> 00:52:17,194
Get any letters?
385
00:52:17,314 --> 00:52:18,351
3 days ago.
386
00:52:18,435 --> 00:52:19,736
How's Anthoula?
387
00:52:20,536 --> 00:52:22,065
Awaiting my return.
388
00:52:24,292 --> 00:52:25,261
Antonis...
389
00:52:25,788 --> 00:52:28,179
If now you saw one coming
to the spring for water
390
00:52:28,921 --> 00:52:31,647
would you hit him?
- I don't know. Why ask?
391
00:52:32,339 --> 00:52:33,257
Because.
392
00:52:33,529 --> 00:52:36,810
- They may not see me.
- Stop that nonsense. Stay put.
393
00:52:39,244 --> 00:52:40,812
Remember the river, Antonis?
394
00:52:42,133 --> 00:52:43,442
You bet I do...
395
00:52:44,245 --> 00:52:46,390
Dreaming of it for the last 3 days.
396
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:49,582
We've dried up here.
397
00:52:51,145 --> 00:52:52,386
Come what may.
398
00:52:52,506 --> 00:52:53,742
I'm going down to the spring.
399
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:43,699
Yango!
400
00:56:03,286 --> 00:56:04,323
Eeh, boys!
401
00:56:05,998 --> 00:56:08,088
Which regiment are you from?
402
00:56:13,340 --> 00:56:14,683
From 28.
403
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,548
Is there a soldier Thomas Trigas
with you?
404
00:56:22,290 --> 00:56:23,275
Kosta!
405
00:56:23,628 --> 00:56:24,835
My Kosta!
406
00:56:25,437 --> 00:56:27,443
Brother of mine, Kostas!
407
00:56:30,772 --> 00:56:31,639
Thomas!
408
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:33,377
Eh, Thomas!
409
00:56:45,073 --> 00:56:48,682
Announcement 162 of April 6 1941
410
00:56:49,722 --> 00:56:52,018
From today 05:15,
411
00:56:52,416 --> 00:56:54,306
the German army in Bulgaria
412
00:56:54,587 --> 00:56:55,993
has attacked provocatively
413
00:56:56,063 --> 00:56:58,157
our troops at the Greek borders.
414
00:56:58,782 --> 00:57:01,031
Our forces defend homeland.
415
00:57:13,774 --> 00:57:15,235
My dear brother,
416
00:57:15,423 --> 00:57:17,423
the world around
has become to an inferno
417
00:57:17,634 --> 00:57:19,314
Fire is overwhelming us,
418
00:57:19,517 --> 00:57:22,329
the sky is filled with aircrafts
and the plains with tanks.
419
00:57:22,423 --> 00:57:23,685
The mountains with barbarians.
420
00:57:24,212 --> 00:57:26,477
They attack us with all the
forces that you can imagine.
421
00:57:28,236 --> 00:57:30,227
The Serbian front begins to collapse.
422
00:57:31,205 --> 00:57:33,204
Our fortresses perish
one after the other.
423
00:57:33,541 --> 00:57:36,009
At Roupel and Istidei
we fought till the very end.
424
00:57:36,756 --> 00:57:39,282
we defended them many times
like wolves.
425
00:57:40,799 --> 00:57:44,170
I know that you at the Albanian front
are still holding out strong.
426
00:57:45,088 --> 00:57:45,921
But we
427
00:57:46,118 --> 00:57:48,759
I can feel we won't keep up
much longer.
428
00:58:02,351 --> 00:58:04,797
The Germans have found their
way into Greece.
429
00:58:15,004 --> 00:58:17,477
In the mountains snows melted away
and mud was everywhere.
430
00:58:18,142 --> 00:58:19,587
We were on our way down.
431
00:58:20,323 --> 00:58:22,985
I did my best so that they wouldn't
know the end was near.
432
00:58:24,129 --> 00:58:27,688
It seemed unbelievable to all that
this return was actually a retreat.
433
00:58:28,878 --> 00:58:31,181
All those bodies lost,
all that sacrifice...
434
00:58:31,725 --> 00:58:32,968
They couldn't bear it.
435
00:58:33,726 --> 00:58:35,821
They all suspected it but
noone said a thing.
436
00:58:37,349 --> 00:58:40,298
As we walked down the ravine
we saw a soldier waiting.
437
00:58:41,135 --> 00:58:42,360
Unknown to us all.
438
00:58:43,007 --> 00:58:45,579
Gazing, like the lost, beyond
the Albanian mountains.
439
00:58:49,253 --> 00:58:50,743
Where are you from, colleague?
440
00:58:51,963 --> 00:58:53,071
What's your name?
441
00:58:54,107 --> 00:58:54,914
Stratos.
442
00:58:55,048 --> 00:58:56,627
What's your regiment?
443
00:58:57,363 --> 00:58:58,077
28.
444
00:58:59,172 --> 00:59:00,293
Are you ill?
445
00:59:01,676 --> 00:59:02,373
No.
446
00:59:02,837 --> 00:59:04,243
Get up and walk back with us.
447
00:59:11,763 --> 00:59:12,613
I can't.
448
00:59:12,901 --> 00:59:13,785
Get up!
449
00:59:15,459 --> 00:59:16,290
Take him!
450
00:59:16,934 --> 00:59:17,903
Leave me!
451
00:59:18,472 --> 00:59:19,433
Leave me!
452
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:21,472
Leave me, I say...
453
00:59:22,220 --> 00:59:24,039
Leave me, I'm telling you!
454
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,015
I'm not going back!
455
00:59:30,833 --> 00:59:32,688
Have we not won?
456
00:59:37,087 --> 00:59:38,917
I'm going nowhere!
457
00:59:40,074 --> 00:59:41,451
Mother of mine...
458
00:59:44,917 --> 00:59:46,600
I'm going nowhere...
459
00:59:55,433 --> 00:59:57,009
I couldn't do otherwise.
460
00:59:57,738 --> 00:59:59,610
Noone should suspect anything.
461
01:00:13,830 --> 01:00:15,829
We had someone in our squad,
just like you.
462
01:00:18,725 --> 01:00:19,970
His name was Gerasimos.
463
01:00:20,809 --> 01:00:21,863
A nice lad.
464
01:00:24,839 --> 01:00:27,712
He was illiterate.
I filled in his cards home.
465
01:00:30,336 --> 01:00:31,441
So, this man
466
01:00:32,292 --> 01:00:34,009
acted on his own accord.
467
01:00:35,387 --> 01:00:37,173
He almost went through court martial.
468
01:00:43,836 --> 01:00:45,735
Sergeant wouldn't put up with this.
469
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,053
At Morava, a bullet got him.
470
01:00:52,630 --> 01:00:53,868
Killed on the spot.
471
01:00:56,064 --> 01:00:57,649
We buried him under the snow.
472
01:00:59,659 --> 01:01:01,834
Sergeant was crying like a child.
473
01:01:33,101 --> 01:01:34,477
It looks deserted.
474
01:01:37,912 --> 01:01:39,352
We'll stay here tonight.
475
01:02:34,179 --> 01:02:35,235
What's with him?
476
01:02:36,405 --> 01:02:37,962
He's staring at the water.
477
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:40,360
What the hell's happened to him?
478
01:02:42,099 --> 01:02:43,238
Search me...
479
01:02:44,212 --> 01:02:45,962
- Something's wrong with him.
- What?
480
01:02:47,263 --> 01:02:48,602
Conscience of honor...
481
01:03:02,097 --> 01:03:03,329
What are you doing here?
482
01:03:05,242 --> 01:03:06,962
You know the front line broke?
483
01:03:08,216 --> 01:03:09,512
How do you know?
484
01:03:11,619 --> 01:03:13,048
I was in Transmission.
485
01:03:13,948 --> 01:03:15,134
In the battalion.
486
01:03:18,724 --> 01:03:20,149
How did you end up alone?
487
01:03:21,084 --> 01:03:22,485
During disengagement.
488
01:03:23,532 --> 01:03:25,368
Their aircrafts opened fire at us.
489
01:03:27,762 --> 01:03:29,105
Noone was left.
490
01:03:33,421 --> 01:03:35,682
- What else do you know?
- Nothing.
491
01:03:44,380 --> 01:03:45,759
So, why were you yelling?
492
01:03:47,196 --> 01:03:48,415
Can't you tell?
493
01:03:49,757 --> 01:03:50,781
Tell what?
494
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,681
You'll change the war, will you?
495
01:03:58,835 --> 01:03:59,715
Me?
496
01:04:02,192 --> 01:04:03,618
How can I change the war?
497
01:04:18,556 --> 01:04:20,282
Listen to me, Stratos
and bear with this.
498
01:04:21,139 --> 01:04:22,398
Then why did all this happen?
499
01:04:23,947 --> 01:04:25,040
Don't look at it this way.
500
01:04:27,142 --> 01:04:28,788
We did what we could
and then some more.
501
01:04:30,241 --> 01:04:31,595
And now we're going back...
502
01:04:33,617 --> 01:04:35,888
- Don't let this go to your head.
- Is that what you do?
503
01:04:37,192 --> 01:04:38,212
You're asking me that?
504
01:04:40,372 --> 01:04:41,587
There was no alternative.
505
01:04:43,291 --> 01:04:45,790
- Never crossed your mind?
- You knew from the start?
506
01:04:46,786 --> 01:04:48,071
I feared it would happen.
507
01:04:49,047 --> 01:04:50,390
And now it did.
508
01:04:51,849 --> 01:04:52,702
We must.
509
01:04:53,752 --> 01:04:55,235
Keep a stiff upper lip.
510
01:04:56,030 --> 01:04:57,071
Takes strength.
511
01:04:58,477 --> 01:04:59,565
Can't do it.
512
01:05:03,875 --> 01:05:05,399
You don't have a mother waiting?
513
01:05:06,901 --> 01:05:07,766
I do.
514
01:05:08,199 --> 01:05:09,114
Then?
515
01:05:14,504 --> 01:05:16,813
When we heard, our sergeant
almost cried.
516
01:05:18,609 --> 01:05:19,931
He wouldn't believe it.
517
01:05:21,645 --> 01:05:23,867
When the airplanes hit us
I was close to him.
518
01:05:24,565 --> 01:05:25,924
"Better this way"
519
01:05:26,513 --> 01:05:27,556
I heard him.
520
01:05:27,866 --> 01:05:29,649
I didn't know he'd been hit.
521
01:05:32,184 --> 01:05:33,697
When the planes left
522
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:35,661
I knew.
523
01:06:41,198 --> 01:06:42,337
Stratos, no!
524
01:06:43,409 --> 01:06:44,259
Stratos!
525
01:09:03,283 --> 01:09:04,750
Nobody expected this.
526
01:09:05,017 --> 01:09:06,078
But it happened.
527
01:09:07,842 --> 01:09:10,000
It seems like a lie that
all's been lost.
528
01:09:12,278 --> 01:09:14,679
Dispersed now, each one goes
back to his home
529
01:09:15,010 --> 01:09:17,125
whereas we'd started out singing...
530
01:09:19,068 --> 01:09:20,672
We all have the same way.
531
01:09:21,759 --> 01:09:22,558
Back.
532
01:09:27,964 --> 01:09:29,773
It comes so difficult
going back like this.
533
01:09:30,149 --> 01:09:31,507
Like we're the beaten ones.
534
01:09:32,357 --> 01:09:35,492
Who could ever tell, Kotso...
You'd lay up there in the snow.
535
01:09:41,421 --> 01:09:45,126
I still can't forget the boots I took
from the killed sergeant.
536
01:10:10,023 --> 01:10:13,578
I'm thinking of Stratos, the teach and
the other boys back at the guardhouse...
537
01:10:13,836 --> 01:10:15,517
Haven't seen them since.
538
01:10:26,108 --> 01:10:28,272
I left Nikiforos up in the mountains.
539
01:10:28,559 --> 01:10:31,132
One night he fell asleep in the snow
and never woke up again.
540
01:10:39,302 --> 01:10:40,884
Who was it, I can't remember...
541
01:10:41,732 --> 01:10:42,767
Who was that one?
542
01:10:43,619 --> 01:10:45,275
We were taught about him at school.
543
01:10:46,322 --> 01:10:46,970
Who?
544
01:10:48,599 --> 01:10:50,148
That ancient one...
545
01:10:50,692 --> 01:10:53,541
who said if only he could see smoke
coming from his home and then die...
546
01:10:57,134 --> 01:10:58,629
Odysseas? (Ulysses)
547
01:10:59,301 --> 01:11:00,848
That's it, Odysseas.
548
01:11:02,139 --> 01:11:04,025
He was the one burning for smoke.
549
01:11:20,743 --> 01:11:21,821
Along the way
550
01:11:21,994 --> 01:11:23,844
we saw many others going back home.
551
01:11:42,440 --> 01:11:43,533
It was almost dark
552
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,205
when we saw a woman waiting
there on the road.
553
01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:49,838
She said she was a teacher
going to her village.
554
01:11:51,193 --> 01:11:52,236
It was nightfall
555
01:11:52,309 --> 01:11:53,989
so we took her with us.
556
01:13:20,536 --> 01:13:21,998
You fed us, Athena.
557
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:23,777
With all you had on you.
558
01:13:24,018 --> 01:13:25,300
It wasn't that much.
559
01:13:25,648 --> 01:13:27,029
Bread, raisins...
560
01:13:28,115 --> 01:13:29,495
You think of them as too little?
561
01:13:30,096 --> 01:13:32,034
We couldn't have such goods up there.
562
01:13:34,665 --> 01:13:36,177
Where are you from?
563
01:13:36,650 --> 01:13:38,315
A village near Grevena.
564
01:13:40,389 --> 01:13:42,568
The man out there,
why is he on his own?
565
01:13:42,778 --> 01:13:43,708
I don't know.
566
01:13:44,024 --> 01:13:44,805
Quiet!
567
01:13:48,813 --> 01:13:50,326
Good night, Kostas.
568
01:13:54,401 --> 01:13:56,333
We know each other by now, teacher.
569
01:13:57,137 --> 01:13:58,943
We've come some way together.
570
01:13:59,172 --> 01:14:01,109
Know what we say about way?
571
01:14:01,299 --> 01:14:02,096
What?
572
01:14:02,353 --> 01:14:04,580
It brings together, not separate.
573
01:15:10,763 --> 01:15:12,161
Boys! An automobile!
574
01:15:12,358 --> 01:15:13,564
Let's stop it.
575
01:15:15,723 --> 01:15:16,709
Hey, stop!
576
01:15:17,143 --> 01:15:19,132
Let him take a woman with him.
577
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:09,702
He'll be back. Don't cry.
578
01:17:35,272 --> 01:17:36,190
Worthy.
579
01:17:42,828 --> 01:17:46,254
I behold Thy bridal chamber
580
01:17:46,574 --> 01:17:47,474
Worthy.
581
01:17:52,938 --> 01:17:56,214
richly adorned, O my Savior
582
01:18:02,754 --> 01:18:06,080
But I have no wedding garment
583
01:18:11,079 --> 01:18:14,538
to worthily enter.
584
01:18:20,771 --> 01:18:25,768
Make radiant the garment of my soul,
585
01:18:34,362 --> 01:18:37,220
O Giver of Light, and save me.
586
01:18:37,621 --> 01:18:40,270
(Greek Orthodox Psalm of the Holy Week)
587
01:19:08,665 --> 01:19:10,076
We'll go this way.
588
01:19:10,647 --> 01:19:12,618
Will smoke a cigarette first.
589
01:20:26,604 --> 01:20:27,743
So, goodbye.
590
01:20:28,666 --> 01:20:29,567
Bye now.
591
01:20:29,767 --> 01:20:30,767
Farewell.
592
01:20:31,532 --> 01:20:32,572
All the best.
593
01:20:32,681 --> 01:20:33,801
Farewell, boys.
594
01:20:34,711 --> 01:20:35,505
- Bye Andreas.
- Goodbye.
595
01:20:36,883 --> 01:20:37,937
Bye Petros.
596
01:20:38,570 --> 01:20:39,811
So long, boys.
597
01:21:14,872 --> 01:21:18,220
I still cannot understand why we're
going back. We were winning.
598
01:21:20,303 --> 01:21:23,165
Better see about getting home
the soonest possible.
599
01:21:24,396 --> 01:21:25,961
They must be waiting.
600
01:21:44,290 --> 01:21:45,276
That's it.
601
01:21:49,572 --> 01:21:50,660
We're there.
602
01:21:52,623 --> 01:21:53,948
We'd better go.
603
01:21:58,339 --> 01:21:59,749
Stay here tonight.
604
01:22:01,220 --> 01:22:03,200
You can leave in the morning.
605
01:23:00,516 --> 01:23:01,825
Poor Motherland...
606
01:23:18,074 --> 01:23:22,052
The film is dedicated to the known and
unknown Greeks who with their blood
607
01:23:22,172 --> 01:23:23,971
wrote the epic of 1940-1941.
608
01:23:24,091 --> 01:23:26,113
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