All language subtitles for Surrender VO 1931. (William K.Howard)

Bye bye.

Deidre.

Goodbye, Axel.

The war won't last long.

I'll be back in time for our marriage.

I'll be waiting.

There's so much I can do here to help
the fatherland.

It won't seem long.

I'll pray God to bring you back to me.

I stand.

Remember this.

In the Middle Ages, it was a
Reischendorf who brought home the Holy

Grail.

Always, we Reischendorfs have made
Prussia the might of the North.

In 1870, I went to Paris.

Now, you will carry through.

Germany first.

Forever.

Conrad.

Friedrich.

Adelbert.

Dietrich.

My son.

When will they return, uncle?

When they have taken Paris.

When they have forced the French.

And the English to their knees.

To Paris.

To Paris.

Adalbert.

Friedrich.

Conrad.

And now only Dietrich is left.

I've kidnapped everything.

You hear that, Captain Elby?

Everything.

Three sons I've lost in this war.

My forests are cut down, the castles
sinking into the sand, and they do

If it were not for Dietrich's pay, we
should all be starving.

Do they forget who I was, a general?

Do they remember 1870, these red -tape
bureaucrats cooling their heels

in Berlin?

And they're not fighting this war right
either.

No movement, no action.

I take it up with the emperor, but he
has too many cares already.

If you'll forgive me, General, the
picture isn't quite so bad as you've

it. The peasants and the villagers who
used to plow your lands and bend your

walls have all been conscripted, true.

It is war, and we need men.

On the other hand, we've given you
recruits.

You know as well as I do, General, the
prison camp was laid here at

largely as a concession to your needs.

A new batch of prisoners arrives
tonight.

These French weaklings.

A lot of work they do.

They hate us. They hurt more than they
help.

Are you reflecting on my discipline,
General? They hate us, I tell you. They

planning to destroy all of us.

Think how she has suffered.

The loss of her father, her mother, her
fortune, everything.

She too has only Dietrich left.

And you, uncle.

Yes, my dear.

And I have you.

Else I could never have borne my loss.

Three years, Captain Helbing, she has
stayed here.

Given up all her friends in order to...
I concur, General, regretting any

hardships that have come to Foil and
Axel.

But the destruction of your forest and
your castle... Wait!

You don't agree!

But I'll show you!

And I'll show those office worms in
Berlin!

Come, Axel! I want air!

Great air!

Any news?

He's still waiting.

But how futile.

You mean he isn't coming back? You've
heard something? No, I've heard nothing.

He'll be back here soon on his leave,
most likely.

But whether he comes back or doesn't
isn't waiting futile.

Life is so brief.

Why wait for anything?

I'm only half a man now.

Please, Ferdinand. It isn't that.

Thank you. It's nice of you to deny it.

However, when I knew you before the war,
when I was old, then I should have

wooed you in the conventional romantic
manner.

Flowers, pretty speeches, moonlight.

That sort of thing would be ridiculous
for me now.

I'd have too much humor to indulge in
it.

But...

Do you remember the first time I met
you?

Do you?

The military ball.

I was the dashing young officer.

You were a naive young girl.

Your first visit to Berlin.

I remember that night.

You were interested.

You were even dazzled. I could tell it.
I could see it in your eye.

And I thought, what a charming girl.

But why hurry? I'll wait.

A week later, the war broke out and I
was called.

Doesn't that prove that any waiting is
foolish?

But you forget Dietrich.

I'm engaged to Dietrich. Dietrich.

Can't you understand my love for you is
more intense than his can ever be?

And more enduring.

Attention!

You have arrived.

You'll be taken to three barracks. One
in each one. It is one o 'clock.

I'm giving you special permission to
have light until two o 'clock.

One candle in each barrack.

Sergeant Muller, take charge.

Well, this is a nice place to spend a
vacation.

It smells like a birdcage.

Camp Reichendorf by the Baltic Sea.

Where's the water?

Well, we can sit down here anyway.

Sit down, Gulo.

You can complain much better sitting
down.

How about a little snack?

Open up the packs, Richard.

What's the matter? Have you seen a
devil? No.

A Russian?

He's in pretty bad shape, you poor
fellow.

Tell you what.

Give him a piece of cheese.

Are you mad or what?

You're new here and it's easy to be seen
or you wouldn't be throwing your grub

away on a Russian.

Where do you think that'll get you, huh?

And you think you're smart, you filth.

Warming your way in here and whining for
food. Get up.

Go on, get up. Why don't you leave him
alone?

Ah, there's 200 more like him here.

Now that you're so rich, how about
giving something to a freshman, huh?

Thanks.

Two hours out there digging in that
sand.

Do they work at night here, too?

Well, how about the stiffs? Somebody's
got to shovel them in, don't they?

And some of them are only skin and
bones.

That kind of work's got to be done at
night.

They make us do it at night. You bet
they do.

Shh. Put out the candle, quick.

Let's just see what you're up against
here.

Get me out of here.

Get me out of here!

Good Lord, kid.

You're not afraid of the dark, are you?

It'll be daylight before you know it.

I'll get you out of here.

There must be some way to escape from
this place.

You just leave it to us now, boy. We're
all here with you.

Sergeant Dumais.

Here.

Bichet. Here.

Goulot.

Here.

Vandale. Here.

Claverie. Here.

Burial detail.

Detail. Attention.

Forward.

New trade, eh, Gulo?

Yeah, you learn a lot of new trades in
four years at war.

Here's this fellow's marking to men.

Class 96.

Poor beggar.

Another one who left in 14.

In a carriage filled with flowers and
wine kegs.

I bet he thought it was all grand and
wonderful then.

Well, his troubles are over now.

They'll be buried not soon if we wait.

I agree with Gullo.

They'll be burying us if we wait.

Tom, it ain't good.

I told you that I'd get you out of this
hole.

Now's our chance. You willing to make a
try for it?

Yes, to men.

Aha.

I'll show you.

Bichet, will you hand me my coat,
please?

Get ready.

Cell phone dial.

Detail. Attention.

Order!

It's over!

Here, take care of them, boys.

With what?

Use your shirt and bandage this wound.

Don't go away. I'll only be a minute.

We've got to get food and provisions
before we get out of here.

What are you doing here?

What do you want?

I want food, bread, coffee, anything,
Fraulein.

Sorry to break in on you like this, but
we're desperate.

You're an escaped prisoner. Yes, one of
my comrades is wounded.

Comrade? Where are the others?

In the cellar.

We have nothing to give the enemy. All
right, I'm sorry then. I must help

myself.

Oh, no.

Staying right here. You're not going to
give us up.

Oh, don't be afraid. I'm not going to
hurt you. Oh, I'm not afraid.

But it's utterly hopeless. You're trying
to escape.

And you've already told them.

I'm advising you to go back. Why?

Kindness, that's all.

Thank you, Roland, for your kindness.

Ryan, I'm so sorry.

You'll find that the discipline in this
camp is no more difficult and severe

than any other prison camp, under any
flag.

For your attempted escape tonight,
you'll receive hard labor and cellar for

confinement for a month.

If you'll try it again...

That's what happens to second offenders.

Smith!

We've been doing this for five weeks.

Digging, digging, digging.

Work, work, work.

Morning, noon, and night. Nothing but
work.

This is the first job I ever got without
asking for it.

This is what we get for trying to
escape.

If I get one more chance to escape,
they'll never bring me back here alive.

I wish I had a crust of bread. I'm
hungry.

Hungry? I'm so hungry I could eat a
rubber boot.

Oh, if I only had a bowl of my wife's
chicken soup.

Or a nice slice of my mother's pastry.

Pastry and soup, ah.

I wish my grandfather was here. I'd eat
the whiskers right off his face.

What's that, a fire?

You're right, Golo, it is a fire. The
castle's burning down. Right, the

burning down.

The castle's burning down. The castle's
burning down. The castle's burning down.

There was a fire.

I was outside and saw the smoke and I
thought that I should... You should have

called someone.

Well, everything in the place would have
burned before they could get here.

It's dangerous to use oil.

Oh, call Captain Elving.

Yes, Lord.

Good heavens.

You don't think I set fire to the place,
do you?

Oh, you've burned your head.

It's a privilege to burn one's hand in
the service of Fräulein von Meerbach.

Oh, yes.

Yes, I know who you are.

I was interested.

That night I came here for food and you
gave me away.

Oh, I didn't. Oh, didn't you?

Well, as I was saying, I was interested
and inquired.

Oh, yes. Yes, I know quite a lot about
you.

You're a descendant from an ancient
German family.

And you're an enemy.

I am a Frenchman.

Furthermore, I've just done you a favor.

We do not accept any favors from the
prisoners.

Fine.

The last favor I shall ever do you.

What are you doing here?

Oh, Ferdinand.

This prisoner has just been of great
service.

The lamp overturned and set fire to the
room.

He put it out, alone.

It's dangerous to use oil.

Your name is Jermaine?

Yes, Jermaine. Profession?

I'm an engineer.

What school?

Central. Infantry?

Yes, Captain.

You could have been more useful in the
artillery.

However, that's not my business.

What's your specialty? Electric
installation.

Can you wire this castle?

I don't think I could.

Very good.

Dismissed.

You'll report here tomorrow morning.

Why, Ferdinand?

To wire the castle.

a joke about two farmers.

One farmer had a black hand that laid a
white egg. Shut up, shut up.

You can't shut me up. I got an all
-night license.

Shut up, all of you.

Don't you know that laughing's not
allowed here? It's a funny walk. He

laugh. Domaine's got nothing to laugh
about. He's got to start wiring that

castle tomorrow all by himself.

That's what he gets for being an
electrician.

Say, I wonder if they couldn't use a
bartender in that castle.

A bartender?

Oh, yes.

I used to be one of the best bartenders
that ever robbed a cash register.

I know you.

The Café Pigalle.

Why, you served me lots of cognac. You
remember me?

No, no. I've met so many important
people, I wouldn't know you.

A bartender and a drunkard.

What terrible company one meets in
wartime. Thank heaven I'm a dressmaker.

A dressmaker?

Yes, and if you laugh, I'll punch you
right in the nose. A dressmaker.

Well, I knew they had barbers,
blacksmiths, plumbers, and even

But a dressmaker, can you imagine an
army full of dressmakers?

Yes, and artists, too.

Eh, Clevery?

Yes, I'm an artist.

Ah, a young Van Dyke, or perhaps another
Rembrandt.

No, no, just an artist.

What did you ever draw?

What did he ever draw?

Here's a little thing he sketched for me
this morning.

Here, take a look at that.

Well, what's this great masterpiece
supposed to be?

What is it supposed to be? Why, it's a
picture of a cow eating grass.

A cow eating grass?

Well, where's the grass?

Where's the grass? Why, the cow ate all
the grass.

Well, the cow ate all the grass.

Well, where's the cow?

Well, you can't expect the cow to hang
around after he's eaten all the grass.

Say, Jermaine.

When you go over to wire that castle
tomorrow morning, I want you to take a

look at that German girl I saw there.

She's beautiful, and you may find her
interesting.

Thanks.

But nothing will interest me until we
get out of this terrible hole.

How long have you been at the castle
now, Sergeant Domingue?

How long?

Does it seem very long to you?

How long have you been at the castle?

Seems as if I came only yesterday.

But I've really been here all of one
glorious month.

Tell me, exactly how long does it seem
to you?

Long enough to remove that.

My prisoner's number? Yes.

I'd rather not.

I don't see much of my comrades anymore,
and when we do happen to be together,

it might look as though I were trying to
show off my good luck.

Your good luck?

My very good luck.

Being here alone with you, it's all
good. I see an item for two dozen bows.

What are they for?

To illuminate the general's battlefield
cases.

Oh, you dare to touch those cases?

You should have consulted me.

Oh, should I?

Why, the general never allows anyone to
go near them. You may not be permitted

to come back here again. You'll be
furious.

You think so?

General, I took the liberty of
illuminating your cases.

What?

You tampered with my cases?

May I show you?

find the lighting extremely good. Thank
you. Like moonlight.

And that's just as it should be.

The Battle of Borny was fought by the
light of the moon.

Excel!

Come here.

Have you seen this?

Tell me, how did you get that moonlight
effect?

Oh, that was easy. I just daubed the
bulbs with blue paint.

Ah, that's ingenious.

Decidedly ingenious. No?

You're not irritated, then, that I took
this liberty?

Irritated? On the contrary.

I'm even more sorry that you are not an
officer.

Tell me, why out of all these equally
famous battles did you choose Borne?

Because it was a battle which had the
most important results.

Well, very intelligent.

You should have been an officer. I'm a
sergeant. An officer, I said. In the

German army, you would have gone far.

But the French have no sense of
efficiency.

That's a great mistake.

And do you know what happened at Varney?
Yes, sir.

The French were outnumbered.

But they fought valiantly. Yes, yes. But
the point is the Germans triumphed.

And soon, Germany will triumph again.

The day of victory is at hand.

Those men down there are soldiers of
France.

Do you hear them? They're singing.

Well, what of it?

As long as those men can endure such
hardships and sing at their work like

you mustn't be too sure that you're
there.

We're so thankful, Fraulein.

We were starving.

The castle has always been good to us.

The castle is always open to you.

We wish we could do more.

We've crossed the Marne, and the enemy's
line is cutting through.

Is it true?

Yes, Brolin, it's true. Tell the
General. Yes, Brolin.

Come to my arms, my child.

Is it true? Yes. We've crossed the Marne
for the second time. And you know who

did this?

My regiment.

Dietrich's regiment.

I thank God my son was active in this
great event.

This glorious German victory which will
bring the end of the war.

I must find Erwin.

I suppose now you're happy.

I have no right not to be.

I understand.

that have been killed in this war and
you still live. No.

It's enough to make me sick to my
stomach.

Well, there's one thing I agree with him
about.

Tonight's our chance.

I wonder what's keeping Domingue.

He's probably holding hands and swilling
food up at the castle.

Hey, I suppose you'd refuse a chance
like that, wouldn't you?

Of course you would. The point is this.
Hello, boys.

Hello, Domingue.

What's up?

Here's what we've been saying. By
midnight, the Germans will be so soaked

beer and so stuffed with sausage that
they won't know what's happening.

be a good chance for us to get away.

Yeah, that's what I think, Domingue.
What do you say?

I don't know.

Why, what's the matter?

This news about a German victory...
That's not the idea.

Well, Lulo, there's no use risking your
neck.

trying to escape, but there's going to
be an armistice in the next week.

You see?

It ain't the first time that a man
turned traitor for a woman.

What's that?

It's easy enough to see what's happened.

He's got a nice, soft job with the
enemy.

He loves them.

Take that back.

Now, let's go.

Sergeant Domaine, report to the office
of the commandant.

Sergeant Domaine,

I have good news for you. Please.

You have, Captain?

Yes. It seems you have influential
friends at Paris.

May I ask why you say so?

The International Commission is in favor
of sending you to Switzerland.

Exchange of prisoners?

Yeah.

But I... But what?

Am I obliged to go to Switzerland,
Captain?

Obliged to go?

Please explain what you mean.

I mean that I'd rather remain here.

Here? At camp? Yes.

Must be joking.

I'm not joking, Captain.

You're absolutely firm in your decision?

Yes, I... If I were going to be sent
back to France, it would be different.

But to be confined here or somewhere
else, to me, it's all the same thing.

Fine here.

That relieves me of all responsibility
in the matter.

Your decision is most flattering to me.
I didn't realize you would join our

company so much.

Thank you, Captain.

Dismiss. Don't do that, Dominica.

I need every inch of that wire.

Rubbish. Always messing the place up
with wires and tapes.

Now, aren't you sorry?

I'm not sorry for anything I do to a
Frenchman.

Good morning, Frodo. Good morning.

I'll be out of here in just a moment.

Well, why don't you go on with your
work?

Am I in the way?

Oh, no, no.

No, on the contrary, I... I need your
help.

Would you sit down over here just a
moment, please?

Please.

Now, I was thinking of putting a nice...
Reading lamp, yes.

With a shade on it.

Would you like that?

You're always thinking of something to
make it more tearful, George.

Well, I can't think of anything else.

And my work is about finished.

You mean the castle is all wired?

I've wired it three times.

Dominica? The packages came last night.

Here's some chocolate for you and
Gottlieb. Take it to him, will you?

Very kind of you.

Is France so well off still?

Oh, yes. Very well off.

Well, it's a good thing.

Seeing that the German armies will soon
be in Paris.

You know, Dominica, they really should
see Paris. It's the most marvelous city

in the whole world.

There's one person who'll be glad to
know that I'm leaving.

Leaving?

I've been offered my release from camp
to go to Switzerland.

Are you going?

Do you want me to go?

Oh, the castle was such a gloomy place
before you came.

Oh, I knew you'd have to leave sometime,
but...

I wanted it to last as long as possible.

It's made some difference, then, my
being here.

It's changed everything.

I'm not going, Axtell.

I tried to, but I couldn't.

It means too much to me, just to be near
you.

Oh, it's so hopeless.

Can't we forget these stupid barriers?

What if I am a Frenchman, a prisoner of
war?

Don't we mean more to each other than
all the things that stand between us?

But there's Dietrich.

Everything's a rain.

I know.

Your whole life is mapped out for you.

But I don't want it to be.

Jermaine.

Say it, Axel.

Don't be afraid.

I love you.

How are you, Dominique?

Enjoy thine excels.

You're like all your French generals.

You think all you have to do is to
advance. Now, throw your dice.

Try to withdraw two regiments.

No, no, no, no, no. You can't do that.

You can't cross that river.

You haven't enough pontoon.

Boy, it's easy to see you were in the
infantry.

Dietrich, isn't that like the French?

An electrical engineer in the infantry.

I must go back to camp, if I may,
General.

You were in the infantry?

Yes. Where?

On the Aisne. When?

May 1915.

At just what part of the Aisne? At Ulch.

I was there myself, at exactly the same
time.

We must have been almost out to each
other.

I was there, too.

I camped there, right at that very spot.

On the evening of the 15th of January,
1871.

Ah, see how my memory holds out.

Oh, that was a grand fight.

We stormed the heights of the Aene
without getting off our horses' backs.

Those were the days when men fought real
battles, when there was action.

Not like today, when it takes you months
and years to capture a few cursed

trenches per father.

There are more German soldiers buried in
that little place than you lost in the

entire campaign of 1871.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, but that's just
what's wrong with these present methods.

Enormous losses, no results.

No distinction in the plan of action.

Do you remember that day toward the end
of January? You mean the day when one of

your battalions was captured?

Yes, I remember.

That was a bad day for us.

Snow everywhere.

Snow and... and dead.

In Foulon Wood, there were so many dead
piled up, we could scarcely make any

headway.

That was a bad day for us, too.

A bad day, a bad day.

All that to take or lose a battalion,
not even a regiment.

What do you say about Sedan?

In one day at Sedan, we took 60
regiments.

Dietrich, do you hear me?

60 regiments.

Everything was different in your day,
Father. You fought with flags flying and

music playing.

Gloriously, magnificently.

The war we're fighting is different.

Entirely different.

A war... A war impossible to describe to
you. A war of which you can have no

conception. Absolutely no conception.

Ask him.

He knows.

What's that?

Some of the prisoners have escaped. God,
the fools.

They think they can get away, but they
can't. And they don't seem to learn.

Frenchmen have no brains.

I didn't think they'd do it.

You know them?

Yes, I think they're my comrades.

I beg your pardon, Major.

The guard is waiting for Sergeant, you
mean.

Thank you, Captain.

Good night, Sergeant.

Good night, Commander.

Jermaine!

Then you didn't escape.

No, but that's where I should be. Out
there with my companions.

They didn't wait for me. They didn't
think I'd come.

I heard the siren. I didn't know.

Oh, I'm glad.

What's the matter, Axel?

Nothing.

I was just thinking of those...

Poor miserable fugitives.

Poor devils. I hope they get away.

So do I.

Why, Axel, how unpatriotic we are.

Suspend all privileges for French
prisoners.

No smoking, no mail, no packages, no
talking.

If they go this way, they'll be stopped
by the sea.

And this way, our dogs will get them.

A hopeless, futile airport.

Why don't you go on playing?

I love to humor.

I can't play.

I can't read. I can't settle down to
anything.

Dietrich, what is it? You're so
wretched.

After the music you hear out there on
the front.

This music is too unreal.

What's Beethoven after the big burthens?

Jill, I think the music of Beethoven
will survive all the guns in the world.

Maybe. What difference does it make to
us what survives beyond us?

For us, for me, the reality's out there.

What a music.

Poetry. The babblings of a week.

child.

Oh, Excel, everything about me, my past,
my education has been so wrong. I see

now that father was right.

He was angry with me because I refused
to fight duels at the university,

I insisted on fooling around with poetry
and philosophy instead of learning

military tactics.

He was right.

I'm such a misfit, Excel.

There's no place for me at all.

You mustn't talk like that. I won't let
you.

This war can't last forever.

Everything you stand for will come back.
What do I stand for?

Gentleness.

Understanding.

Kindness. Beauty.

All the things that make life worth
living.

That's funny.

What is it?

So ironic.

What is?

That of all four of us, the four sons of
Reischendorf, I should be the one to

survive.

Well, maybe that's a symbol. Oh, don't
be sentimental. Can you, in times like

these, still believe in symbols?

No, it's just stupid.

It's just part of the general stupidity.

Fair body.

My three brothers lie on the battlefield
while I walk after them. A living

corpse waiting for the end.

If there was any sense in anything, they
would have survived, not me.

Because they believed in it all. They
believed in Prussia and our high destiny

as a world power.

They believed in the emperor and the
male fist in blood and iron.

I don't. I hate it all.

I can't endure it all.

Why was I saved?

Perhaps because everything you love and
in which you believe will survive all

others.

I believe it, Dietrich, I do.

If it wasn't for that face, how could I
endure these times?

How could any of us?

You are sweet.

You are good.

You're real.

Aren't you, Axel?

The man.

Gullo.

How'd you get here?

Where are the others?

Are they alive? They're in the cellar.

You gotta help us, the man. We want food
and water. You gotta help us. You are

mad to come here.

There'd be a little mad, too, laying out
in the woods day and night, watching

for a chance to escape.

Every spot is watched. So is this
castle. They search it every day. We

that.

But there's a boat leading the village
to the next, but we'll lose.

The night of Sweden. We'd be in France
in a week.

I want to get rid of these. But how?

We want civilian clothes or German
uniforms.

This time they won't take us back.

A lie.

They won't take you back.

Not if I can help it.

I'll get you food and clothes and
everything.

Now you hurry. I'll come down as soon as
I can.

Good evening, Debelica.

The soup is excellent.

I've been so busy at camp the last week,
I haven't had a chance to call on

Dietrich.

Dietrich would be glad to see you.

He's leaving tonight.

Axel.

I'll tell him you're here. One moment.

I don't want to talk to Dietrich.

I want to talk to you.

I don't mind telling you I'm jealous of
Dietrich.

That's why I've stayed away purposely.

Ferdinand. Axel.

You're all that's left to me out of all
this.

Embarrassing, isn't it, to love you so
much?

Good evening, Alvin.

Major.

How's the stern soldier, the
disciplinarian?

Well, thank you, as you see.

And how's the amateur musician?

One nice thing about Alvin, you don't
have to pretend to like him. He doesn't

expect it.

I've good news for you, Alvin.

I'm leaving tonight.

The war must be won, you know.

Don't be such a martyr, Dietrich.

The war hasn't cost you so much.

You'll probably survive it and all of
us.

No, Albing, I don't think I will survive
it.

Even the war couldn't be as illogical as
that.

Charming to the end, eh, Dietrich?

Charming at all costs.

Let me say farewell to you, and
imparting that I never could endure you

charm.

At your service.

Always.

Poor fellow.

I remember him when he was a dashing
officer, proud of his success with

He was always so vain.

Can you imagine what this means to him?

I feel desperately sorry for him.

Axel, there's so much that we haven't
said to each other.

When you come back.

No, not now.

You're not in love with me, Axel.

Dietrich. You're so good.

You're so dear.

You've tried not to let me see it, but I
know you're not in love with me.

Please, Dietrich. No, no, you must
listen.

Our engagement, what was it? A device to
keep alive two ancient families.

Keep them alive for what?

Better that we reichendorf and all we
stand for should sink into the sea.

Perhaps the true meaning of this war is
that it will seal our doom.

I tell you, Axel, I feel certain that
for us there is no victory.

It's the end.

That old man playing with his toy
soldiers is the end.

I am beyond the end.

You'll be happy someday, darling.

What news from the front, Elvin? It
won't cheer you.

Losses. Losses everywhere.

We're being defeated on every front.
What? Behind the line, the blockade is

starving us. Slowly, surely.

Our morale is broken. I don't believe
you. How dare you?

I forbid you.

Leave my house.

Leave my house, I say.

I'm here on duty.

Duty? What?

Do you hear that, Dietrich?

A soldier talks of defeat.

I report him.

You hear, Irving.

I report you.

Why do you tell him those things?

I always tell myself the truth, no
matter what it costs.

Why should I spare others?

I'm leaving, Father.

Goodbye, my son.

I know you won't fail your country, your
Kaiser, or your family.

Come back victorious.

Goodbye,

father.

Well? Well what, Captain Elving? Where
do you plan taking these things? To my

comrades. The escaped prisoners?

Yes, the escaped prisoners.

They're going to have German uniforms
and German guns.

And I'm going with them.

Captain Elving.

Jermaine, we've taken you in, trusted
you, forgotten you were a Frenchman, an

enemy. Yes, I've forgotten it too.

Deserting my own countrymen.

Why, I've talked some to you Germans,
I've even forgotten my own language.

While my friends were being clubbed and
starved.

And looking to me for help. What was I
doing?

Playing with toy soldiers.

Flattering an old man in his second
childhood.

And falling in love with a woman I can't
have.

Demain!

You won't get very far.

And this time he'll be shot.

I must do my duty.

Surely as a patriotic German, you
wouldn't have me behave otherwise.

Ferdinand!

Don't go away.

I... I want to talk to you.

Sergeant Muller.

You'll keep the five prisoners, Bondyle,
Fichet, Clavery, Boulot, and Dumaine

under close guard till 11 .30.

At that hour, you will take them to the
southwest gate to the burial ground.

And at midnight, you'll shoot them.

Me. Me.

Me. Me.

Are you pleased with the result, Hugo?

Seductive, eh?

Compelling, don't you think?

Wine.

It's an occasion, Hugo.

To my last conquest.

You must drink with me, Hugo.

Drink.

Why not?

Master and servant.

Truth and falsehood.

All these old -fashioned distinctions.
They're in the discard, Hugo.

Miss Smith!

Vernon!

Did you come to escort me?

I'm not so disabled.

I came to talk to you.

Am I to be flattered that your
anticipation was so keen that you could

That's what I came to tell you.

Our plans for tonight.

This rendezvous? It was a mistake. A
mistake? Then why did you ask me to come

you? Because I love Jumaine. That's why.
For him. To save him.

Then it was Jumaine I should have
thanked. Oh, you should have known. It

madness. When I had time to think, I
couldn't wait to come and tell you the

truth. And what would you like me to do?

You say you love me.

Then you know what love is.

Oh, there's been so much suffering. What
good will it do you to add to it?

Well, there has been so much. Can a
little more make any difference?

Oh, you must save him.

You must.

What harm can he do you or the German
cause or anybody?

Oh, you can't take him away from me.

Oh, please, please, before it's too
late.

Will you excuse me?

I've sent them back to their barracks.

You don't think for an instant I
believed you when you asked me to come

tonight? That you had a change of heart?

I knew you were in love with the
Frenchman, were lying, and I hated you

My dear, your coming here and telling me
the truth is the only thing that could

have saved me.

I've cancelled the order for the
execution.

Quite unmilitary.

At least I've always been a good
soldier.

You've ruined even that distinction.

What have I left?

Vernon Adams, what you have done...
Don't thank me.

If I thought his death would help me, I
should be less magnanimous.

Hugo, see that Mademoiselle has an
escort back to

the castle.

Sergeant Domaine, Fichet, Goulod, Van
Dyle, Claverie.

The order for your execution has been
cancelled.

Dismissed.

The war is over, Hugo.

It is the end.

Surrender.

Peace.

I had hoped, Hugo, that in peacetime I
might find some use for you.

But in peacetime I shall find no use for
myself.

I'm leaving you some money, Hugo.

You have the keys to my strong box.
Destroy my papers.

I want to leave nothing behind.

I know I can trust you.

You're a good fellow, Hugo, but
sentimental.

I, unfortunately, am logical.

I see ahead.

A certain heroism clings to a mutilated
soldier in wartime. A uniform covers

much.

But civilian clothes are less graceful.

To be assembled like a machine in the
morning. To be taken apart again at

To go stomping along the boulevards,
watching whole men pursue their

The prospect does not entertain me. No.

Exhale.