1 00:01:22,830 --> 00:01:23,830 Spring? 2 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:27,250 Two more crocuses since yesterday. 3 00:01:28,150 --> 00:01:30,830 Our German spring is a wonderful time. 4 00:01:31,210 --> 00:01:33,350 Spring is always wonderful. 5 00:01:34,230 --> 00:01:36,850 I remember only one bad spring. 6 00:01:38,490 --> 00:01:41,890 1945. It was beautiful that year. 7 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:47,430 Exactly. The perfect weather meant the Allies would begin their final drive 8 00:01:47,430 --> 00:01:48,590 along the Western Front. 9 00:01:48,910 --> 00:01:50,550 Well, that year I... 10 00:01:50,940 --> 00:01:56,380 cursed the birds as they sang in the trees and wished I could hold back the 11 00:01:56,380 --> 00:01:57,800 blossoms with my hands. 12 00:01:58,380 --> 00:02:01,720 But the snow melted and the tanks rumbled on. 13 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:03,560 They had to come. 14 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:10,220 Hitler was finished and all the people close to him, including the ones that we 15 00:02:10,220 --> 00:02:11,220 knew at Heidelberg. 16 00:02:11,620 --> 00:02:13,460 Do you remember, von Baden? 17 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,080 How could I forget? 18 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:16,540 I was with the White Corps. 19 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,360 I fought with them. 20 00:02:19,950 --> 00:02:22,330 Drilled with them, drank with them. 21 00:02:23,670 --> 00:02:27,210 Rudolf Cassan was president of the White Corps, wasn't he? 22 00:02:27,690 --> 00:02:31,070 Yes. He was also a bully and a brute. 23 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:34,590 The most hated student in all Heidelberg. 24 00:02:36,190 --> 00:02:37,190 Schlager hoch! 25 00:02:38,150 --> 00:02:39,150 En garde! 26 00:02:39,990 --> 00:02:46,830 And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlager hoch! 27 00:02:47,420 --> 00:02:49,700 You fought a duel for him, didn't you? 28 00:02:50,740 --> 00:02:53,300 For Kassan, of all people. 29 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,940 None of us ever really heard the truth of that story, did we? 30 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:01,300 No. 31 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,820 I became president in my final year, but my record could never match Kassan's. 32 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:13,300 He fought ten times in his first year, although freshmen weren't obliged to 33 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:14,300 fight at all. 34 00:03:14,570 --> 00:03:18,910 It was not until the end of your second year that you needed to have your scar. 35 00:03:20,150 --> 00:03:25,430 He fought 30 times in his second year, and doubtless he would have fought many 36 00:03:25,430 --> 00:03:30,930 more if his career hadn't ended so... so abruptly. 37 00:03:32,470 --> 00:03:37,670 You know that curious English poem, The Jabberwock? 38 00:03:38,730 --> 00:03:40,930 Struck down by a vorpal blade? 39 00:03:42,370 --> 00:03:43,370 On guard! 40 00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:06,950 He was a wizard with a blade. 41 00:04:08,070 --> 00:04:09,110 And with women. 42 00:04:10,230 --> 00:04:15,950 There was one woman he loved, but at least when he was with her, he seemed a 43 00:04:15,950 --> 00:04:16,950 different person. 44 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:20,950 Eva. She worked below the bar in the beer hall. 45 00:04:21,890 --> 00:04:26,010 He'd even spent a weekend with her on a raft down the river. 46 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,280 I knew it. Leave her alone. 47 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:48,580 She must pay the penalty. 48 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,440 No. What do you mean, no? 49 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,820 She must trip or be stripped. 50 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:59,600 Keep your hands to yourself or fight me now. 51 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:03,040 But it's the rule, Cassandra. Get out! 52 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:10,720 Come in. 53 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:13,200 The Red Corps is rubbish. 54 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,640 No! 55 00:05:22,830 --> 00:05:24,930 So you were there that night, Lord Barton. 56 00:05:25,350 --> 00:05:29,470 I was Catan's second, but I hadn't fought yet. 57 00:05:30,770 --> 00:05:36,570 As for Ava, she was the only person who could bring out the tender, human side 58 00:05:36,570 --> 00:05:37,710 of Catan's nature. 59 00:05:40,390 --> 00:05:46,090 But she was also, let us say, generous with her favours. 60 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:04,400 This term's a fight, boy, you must. 61 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,740 That's our only purpose. 62 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,220 We didn't take you into the White Corps just to drink and have a good time. I'll 63 00:06:09,220 --> 00:06:10,660 fight when I'm ready. 64 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:11,880 You're ready now, Fonvard. 65 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:16,080 You'll fight next week. It's time you tasted blood. You're old. 66 00:06:16,820 --> 00:06:18,140 Not so soon. No. 67 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:22,240 I'm your president, boy. When I say fight, you fight on the White Corps. 68 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:23,940 What 69 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:30,820 is the 70 00:06:30,820 --> 00:06:33,900 paper? While the cat's away, his mouse likes to play. 71 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,500 No, Gunnar. Stay where you are. 72 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,160 No, it doesn't mean anything. 73 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:42,000 Rudolph, I was waiting for you. Please. She waits for anyone in trouble. 74 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Get up. 75 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:45,340 No. 76 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,940 We've never fought, Kassan. 77 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:54,840 I think perhaps it's time. 78 00:06:56,420 --> 00:06:58,280 I wouldn't dirty my blade with you. 79 00:07:00,250 --> 00:07:04,530 Young von Baden will uphold the honor of the White Corps Tuesday night. 80 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:06,310 Therefore, who's he, another of your mice? 81 00:07:07,290 --> 00:07:10,710 I'll slice off his nose and I'll come after you, Cassan. You think so? 82 00:07:11,410 --> 00:07:13,850 Any member of the White Corps can take you, Macca. 83 00:07:14,310 --> 00:07:18,290 That will be the final indignity to see you grovel in defeat before this boy. 84 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,300 So you had three days to prepare to fight for your life. 85 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,140 And one, two, three, four, five. 86 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:40,380 At speed. 87 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:45,640 Free play. 88 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,440 Ah, you could have cut him there, von Baden. Continue. 89 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,720 Parry, cut. Parry, cut. Use the wrist, not the arm. Continue. 90 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:06,300 Macca will murder you, boy. You left yourself wide open. 91 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,980 Keep the arm up, protecting the right. Keep the point down at the parish. 92 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:15,880 Come at me. 93 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:17,880 Come on. 94 00:08:19,660 --> 00:08:24,020 Stop! Dead boy, dead. I could have opened every vein in your head. I'm 95 00:08:25,460 --> 00:08:29,800 The White Corps never apologises. The White Corps win. 96 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:49,360 The new boy's rubbish. 97 00:08:49,460 --> 00:08:50,900 With Catan training him. 98 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,920 There isn't time to make anything of him. Today, tomorrow, Tuesday you fight. 99 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:57,940 You needn't lose any sleep, Gunner. I may. 100 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,160 I already have. 101 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,580 That isn't. But of course. Who else? 102 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,280 What do you mean? You like it here, Ava. You said so. 103 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,760 Sorry I interrupted. 104 00:09:09,420 --> 00:09:11,360 No, we were just resting between rounds. 105 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,240 Spread the word, Joseph. 106 00:09:23,420 --> 00:09:25,480 We'll meet again tomorrow morning at eight o 'clock. 107 00:09:26,460 --> 00:09:27,460 Get to bed early. 108 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,180 And have an early breakfast, not later than seven, so that you have time to 109 00:09:31,180 --> 00:09:32,159 digest it. 110 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,740 If you think you've sweated today, boy, just wait until tomorrow. 111 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,980 I did my best to obey him. I went to bed early. 112 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,140 I didn't sleep for hours. 113 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:52,240 When at last I did sleep, I dreamt... 114 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:56,280 I reported the whole business to the police, asked them to stop the duel. 115 00:09:56,820 --> 00:09:58,160 But they laughed at me. 116 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,840 Said, oh, we know dueling is forbidden, but look at our eyes. 117 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,140 And I looked, and the police were blind. 118 00:10:07,460 --> 00:10:09,020 It was always like that. 119 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,720 The law was never enforced. 120 00:10:12,460 --> 00:10:17,180 No. I knew there was no getting out of the duel, not without disgrace. 121 00:10:18,540 --> 00:10:22,760 But you were really going to fight for another man's honor, weren't you? 122 00:10:23,580 --> 00:10:24,580 Yes. 123 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:29,340 Whether I liked it or not, Kassan's honor had now become mine, too. 124 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,540 But Kassan was a bully and a tyrant. 125 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,180 That was why I slept so badly. 126 00:10:44,620 --> 00:10:46,180 Yes! Go, Batman! 127 00:10:46,380 --> 00:10:47,380 Whoa! 128 00:10:48,810 --> 00:10:50,310 You smelt the blood at last. Good. 129 00:10:51,450 --> 00:10:52,450 Bring out the sword. 130 00:11:00,770 --> 00:11:02,190 Take your sword, von Baden. 131 00:11:05,790 --> 00:11:09,290 So far it's been child's play, hasn't it? 132 00:11:10,050 --> 00:11:11,050 Right, on guard. 133 00:11:11,190 --> 00:11:12,190 On guard. 134 00:11:14,550 --> 00:11:15,550 Pack. 135 00:11:18,250 --> 00:11:20,110 I could have opened the flap on your cheek there, boy. 136 00:11:20,490 --> 00:11:21,570 So could Macca. 137 00:11:22,530 --> 00:11:24,270 Right. Get him dressed. 138 00:11:24,870 --> 00:11:27,550 All that day we practiced with the swords. 139 00:11:27,830 --> 00:11:31,690 And on Tuesday... Did you sleep better that Monday night? Oh, much better. 140 00:11:32,210 --> 00:11:37,530 You see, I had obtained some chloral hydrate, which I mixed with a glass of 141 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:40,670 schnapps. An old -fashioned cure for insomnia. 142 00:11:41,110 --> 00:11:43,150 Those days were old -fashioned. 143 00:12:32,590 --> 00:12:36,690 The first duel tonight is between Carl von Baden, upholding the honour of the 144 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:43,430 White Corps, and Gunnar Macker of the Red Corps. 145 00:12:45,510 --> 00:12:50,590 Which, as we all know, is totally lacking in honour, and therefore 146 00:12:50,590 --> 00:12:51,910 represented by Macker. 147 00:13:03,530 --> 00:13:04,509 Come here. 148 00:13:04,510 --> 00:13:05,790 No. Come here. 149 00:13:09,310 --> 00:13:12,050 Gentlemen of the White Corps, we have an intruder. 150 00:13:12,310 --> 00:13:14,370 Shall she pay the penalty? Ascend. No. 151 00:13:15,750 --> 00:13:18,730 When she was yours, Kassan, you spared her. Now she's mine. 152 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:20,850 And you spare her? 153 00:13:21,230 --> 00:13:23,850 You? She'll watch me win, Kassan. 154 00:13:25,810 --> 00:13:26,810 No, Maka. 155 00:13:27,790 --> 00:13:28,790 No. 156 00:13:29,830 --> 00:13:31,170 Ava shall watch you lose. 157 00:13:31,570 --> 00:13:32,570 Sit down. 158 00:13:33,130 --> 00:13:34,190 No one touch him! 159 00:13:35,030 --> 00:13:38,310 Von Baden, get out of that suit. 160 00:13:39,110 --> 00:13:40,610 I'll fight Macca myself. 161 00:13:41,890 --> 00:13:45,470 You cannot, Cassatt. It's against our code. Von Baden fights. 162 00:13:46,030 --> 00:13:47,130 Now who's sweat? 163 00:13:48,350 --> 00:13:49,350 Gentlemen. 164 00:14:05,070 --> 00:14:07,370 Even so. It's a scratch. Bring me another sword. 165 00:14:09,530 --> 00:14:12,470 That's enough, Doctor. It's not his blade. His blade hasn't touched me yet. 166 00:14:12,630 --> 00:14:13,630 Right. On guard. 167 00:14:14,030 --> 00:14:15,030 Distance, gentlemen. 168 00:14:19,810 --> 00:14:20,810 On guard. 169 00:15:50,030 --> 00:15:51,030 He's dead. 170 00:15:54,730 --> 00:15:56,010 And that was all? 171 00:15:56,890 --> 00:15:57,890 All? 172 00:15:58,630 --> 00:15:59,870 Isn't that enough? 173 00:16:00,430 --> 00:16:01,430 No. 174 00:16:02,230 --> 00:16:06,430 From your account, Kassan lost in a fair fight. 175 00:16:07,090 --> 00:16:10,110 Yet he was the best, far superior to Makka. 176 00:16:11,010 --> 00:16:14,250 And there were stories, rumors, were there not? 177 00:16:14,990 --> 00:16:19,110 Some even claimed that Makka killed him with a poison sword. 178 00:16:19,980 --> 00:16:22,120 That that was the only way it could have happened. 179 00:16:23,180 --> 00:16:24,180 Yes. 180 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:25,860 Some said that. 181 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:35,120 I heard the stories too. We all did. 182 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,260 Murderer. No, Ava. 183 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,160 Don't. 184 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:19,000 Don't. But it's true. 185 00:17:19,980 --> 00:17:20,980 True. 186 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,740 He poisoned him. 187 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:24,700 The post -mortem said. 188 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:26,880 The coroner said. 189 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:29,780 Murderer. 190 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:34,320 Come on. 191 00:17:35,420 --> 00:17:36,420 Come away. 192 00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:38,600 I beg you. 193 00:17:55,180 --> 00:17:56,900 You inherited Ava. 194 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,940 Ours was a sad love. 195 00:18:01,180 --> 00:18:04,820 But yes, Catherine was poisoned. That much was proven. 196 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,080 But by that time, it was too late to check Macca's sword. 197 00:18:15,580 --> 00:18:16,240 It 198 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:23,200 must 199 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,340 have poisoned him, sir. 200 00:18:24,670 --> 00:18:26,090 No sense of honour at all. 201 00:18:26,310 --> 00:18:28,430 I shouldn't care to have his conscience. 202 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,150 I'd like some service, please. 203 00:18:53,550 --> 00:18:56,570 For the rest of his college days, he lived in disgrace. 204 00:18:57,210 --> 00:19:01,470 Shortly after he left Heidelberg, he was killed by a train. 205 00:19:02,870 --> 00:19:04,450 So he was guilty. 206 00:19:05,290 --> 00:19:06,570 Now think it through. 207 00:19:07,650 --> 00:19:11,370 Would a man who had poisoned the blade of his sword before a duel lose much 208 00:19:11,370 --> 00:19:12,390 sleep about it afterwards? 209 00:19:13,250 --> 00:19:15,690 He would have had to think it out, plan it. 210 00:19:16,970 --> 00:19:18,850 Poisoning is a premeditated crime. 211 00:19:19,610 --> 00:19:20,610 Yes. 212 00:19:21,230 --> 00:19:25,450 And, of course, until the last moment, Makar thought he was fighting you. 213 00:19:25,590 --> 00:19:29,210 Exactly. Surely the best evidence of all for his innocence. 214 00:19:29,730 --> 00:19:34,610 And after Kazan stepped in and took my place, Makar never left the centre of 215 00:19:34,610 --> 00:19:35,610 room. 216 00:19:35,630 --> 00:19:38,510 He had no chance to poison the blade. 217 00:19:39,690 --> 00:19:43,930 Could the swords have been switched when they were dropped? Impossible. 218 00:19:44,310 --> 00:19:47,150 The hilts were white and red, the core colours. 219 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:54,060 So no one could have poisoned Maka's sword after Kassan entered the duel? Not 220 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:55,240 with all those eyes watching. 221 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,300 The woman, Eva? 222 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,640 How? When? 223 00:19:58,820 --> 00:19:59,820 No. 224 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,040 The poison was meant for you? 225 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:04,300 For me? 226 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:06,980 Maka had nothing to fear from me. 227 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:08,540 Then who? 228 00:20:09,620 --> 00:20:12,560 Of course I should have realized. 229 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:14,120 The doctor. 230 00:20:14,780 --> 00:20:19,040 He applied the poison while he swabbed the wounds on Cassandre's face? 231 00:20:19,380 --> 00:20:20,380 No. 232 00:20:20,660 --> 00:20:27,280 He had no motive. He was really Ava's father avenging his 233 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:32,080 daughter's honor. He wasn't Ava's father. And I'm sure the doctor, he 234 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:36,760 chosen a far safer and less spectacular method of murder if that had been his 235 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,380 intent, or at the very least, a slower acting poison. 236 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:42,580 No. 237 00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:46,930 Not a doctor. Then where are we left? 238 00:20:54,030 --> 00:20:55,030 You. 239 00:20:59,010 --> 00:21:00,950 Fear can be a terrible thing. 240 00:21:02,530 --> 00:21:03,710 But how? 241 00:21:04,610 --> 00:21:09,310 How did you poison Macassar? I didn't. 242 00:21:10,630 --> 00:21:11,630 Then what? 243 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:19,320 It'll be a pleasure to tell the truth now, after so many years, the truth. 244 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,560 Eventually, I did fight. I fought bravely and well for the White Corps and 245 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,020 Hitler. I collected my medals and my ribbons. 246 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:35,700 Men killed for love, for revenge, and in anger. But fear, fear, my dear Vince, 247 00:21:35,740 --> 00:21:38,600 look, is the greatest motive for murder. 248 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,740 Well, at least I think so, after all. 249 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,100 Wasn't it fear that drove us? 250 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,720 We acted under orders, von Wagner. You mean we feared to disobey them? No. 251 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,040 Oh, yes. 252 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:50,060 Now, listen. 253 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,040 I was afraid to fight murder. 254 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,700 Afraid for my face, my life, my honor. 255 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:58,080 Afraid? I was terrified. 256 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,380 I coated the blade of my sword with poison. 257 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:07,980 Got from the chemistry laboratory at the same time as I took the chloral hydrate 258 00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:10,240 I needed to make me sleep. I knew that... 259 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,880 I could never beat Marker in fair fight. 260 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,120 I had to kill him or at least sicken him so that I could win. And then Kassan 261 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,120 took my sword and in the first exchange it broke. 262 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,180 And the end flew back and scratched his forehead. 263 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,480 He said it was nothing. 264 00:22:29,580 --> 00:22:30,840 But it killed him. 265 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:33,900 Oh, my God. 266 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,640 A foolish thing. 267 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:39,160 A senseless thing. 268 00:22:41,130 --> 00:22:43,310 Like I said, a vorpal blade. 269 00:22:51,030 --> 00:22:52,630 Exercise is over. 270 00:22:54,270 --> 00:22:57,390 I shall be glad to be alone in my cell. 271 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:28,500 It is ironic. 272 00:23:29,420 --> 00:23:32,200 We are here because they call us war criminals. 273 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:33,640 We are not. 274 00:23:34,020 --> 00:23:36,000 We are here because we lost. 275 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,760 Think of their crimes. Let us face the truth at last. We are war criminals. 276 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:50,040 And yet... And yet I killed this man because I was 277 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,040 afraid to fight.