Original subtitles

An UFA feature

Dawn

Screenplay: Gerhard Menzel Idea: E. Freiherr v. Spiegel

Cinematography by Carl Hoffmann

Directed by Gustav Ucicky

Our flags are waving on the mast.

They proclaim the power of our kingdom.

We don't want to stand it any longer

that the English man laughs about it.

Because we're going, because we're going,

Because we're going against En - ge - land.

Because we're going, because we're going,

Because we're going against En - ge - land.

What the hell is going on in Meerskirchen?

I've never seen that many people in one place before.

Our U-boat men are leaving today.

Lieutenant commander Liers! Our U-boat people! Jawoll, yes!

Our Liers, Mister! Did you never hear of lieutenant commander Liers before?

Every child knows him!

Jaul! Jaul! Jaul! Jaul!

What is it? What is it? Please, leave him to me for the few minutes!

No! Mine! Mine! He belongs to me alone! Yes!

And if we had climbed the church tower, then they had brought us down as well.

Even proud of it, ain't you?

Bursting because of pride, boy.

And you?

You not at all, hm?

Sure!

The whole town is proud of you three.

Thus I may be a bit proud of you as well. Right?

Actually, I'm nothing.

There are quite different characters!

Thank you!

Thank you!

They are crazy mother, are they not?

And you're happy about it

as I know you.

And you either.

Don't dispute! It all applies to me.

ls our Jaul already here?

Here, lieutenant commander!

We've received enough acclaim

we don't take premature praise

we are superstitious!

Alas, the mayor has to speak again.

Short and sweet, I hope.

It's a deep felt necessity to me

in this moment

when our U-boat heroes are leaving

to express the pride and delight of the whole town.

They have been with us for a week.

They pleased us and we could listen to the stories of their feats.

The unforgettable feats of our U-boat are known all over Germany.

Meerskirchen is proud that out of its bricks alone

three sons are fighting on the U-boat, which is feared by the enemy

and admired by fatherland.

A son of our honored Mrs. major, who already has given two sons

Let it be!

Yes.

I am quite allowed to say that our lieutenant commander Liers

whose glory moderately reflects on us as well

and someone else, whom we like to consider as one of us

first lieutenant Frederiks, who grew up with us

and lived here for twelve years, becoming a man,

and who accompanied lieutenant commander Liers

through thick and thin

on every single tour.

And our friend Jaul, the radio operator of the U-boat.

A Jack of all trades.

Father always comes up with nice words.

Please, join in to the call: Hooray!

Hooray!

Hooray!

Hooray!

Hooray!

Hooray!

Well, little cousin?

Does it look like that, Fips?

Ha, ha! No!

Not that romantic.

More dirt and oil and powder and so on.

Not that sweet!

A pity!

Then I don't know how to imagine it.

Not at all!

What's with you, Fips?

Why so sisterly? Always sisterly!

Not a little bit of throbbing?

For an old U-boat soul?

No.

I don't think so.

Let's listen!

Maybe?

Wonderful! That's how it starts.

Only a little and then

You've got something woman-like. Recently.

Pretty.

You

love

YQu?

Me! Of course! Who else?

Not so hedonistic, Fips!

Children!

Leave him to me the last few minutes!

Jaul, you're a proper radio operator, ain't you?

Yes, write it down for him, mayor!

What I have to tell him, works orally only.

Jaul, you have to make it happen that we hear about

. the ongoings on the U-boat.

You see, Jaul

The train! The train! The train is leaving!

The train is leaving!

Mayor!

That helped. Quick, come here! It's pretty empty.

But the others!

Well, when the time came, it's always been quiet.

Often I sat here, saying goodbye.

And Albert an Erich

didn't come back.

You're the last one!

Why do you say that, mother?

So that you understand, why I submitted a petition for your leave.

The factory is lacking a man.

I can't. As long as the war lasts

my post is out there on the boat.

SQ?

And me?

And you?

Jawoll!

And me? Me?

Alas!

You think, I'm an old woman.

Nobody needs to get upset because of me?

For I won't need much anymore.

You're telling me the truth face to face.

Your post is out there on the boat.

But I don't want to hear the truth! No!

Mother!

Didn't you always say to us

as it comes it gets eaten?

Oh!

Of course!

It gets eaten as it comes, mother!

Mr. Petersen?

I checked the astronomical calendar, Mr. Petersen!

Disaster is hovering above the tour of our U-boat!

Nonsense, Lottner!

Don't panic!

Today it's October, 13th, Mr. Petersen.

Disaster above the U-boat, I say to you!

Mr. Petersen, I'm absolutely sure!

Scaremonger!

We'll take care you, you know!

Everyone has to die, finally.

Thus you don't have to care about How!

But care about the Why!

Understand?

Jawoll, captain!

Mother!

What's important?

Life?

We don't know.

We care for things of least significance.

And what's important, we don't even see.

Maybe...

death is

the only event in life.

Look!

With Albert and Erich

to me it means

They are not dead, gone and erased to me.

One day all of us will know why and what for.

so: SO?

And that's a new-fashioned religion, or what?

One two three four five six seven

Well. Three little Jauls would be enough!

But only one has arrived yet!

And number two, hm, Gretl?

I will hope, hm?

Now we're leaving

It shouldn't have been my fault.

Well, and for number three

I'll have to appear once more.

If we didn't have killed two birds with one stone this time!

But Gustl!

Gretl!

Here, Missis, give me a chocolate bar for my wife.

That loving couple heartbreaking farewell scene?

Kiss, kiss

Here are no lovers!

Although there could be one!

Possibly could.

But somehow it's not working.

Because someone is a fool.

You won't say that a second time to me.

If someone says fool then Fips always thinks someone called for him!

Ha, ha, ha! Dear child!

In my day you didn't fool with men like this!

It's the war, Mrs. major!

You have to bring up big guns.

Can be, can be.

The cannon thunder makes you deaf!

Ladies and Gentlemen! The train is leaving in a minute.

Actually, we have to be there in half an hour!

Thanks to all of you.

We will take pains

to claim honor

for the fatherland.

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Expect most certainly a reunion!

That lies with God.

And the English!

(sung in Swabian dialect) Must I go, must I go

out of town, out of town

and you my dear stay here!

When I come, when I come

when I really do come, when I really do come home

I'll come to you my dear!

If I can't be with you all time

I'll still be pleased with you all time.

When I come, when I come

when I really do come, when I really do come home

Take care, Gustl! Take care!

Are you already sniffing the big vessel?

Something isn't right, Fips!

Something is hanging in the air.

Course 315 degrees. Course 315 degrees.

For nine long days.

Nine days!

But I do swear to you, on the 10th that vessel will pass our nose!

I swear to you!

Both diesels stop!

Both e-motors slow throttle ahead.

Jaul?

Man the radio room!

Once more antennas out! Well, Juraczik. My intuitiveness!

The captain is looking for something special out here.

ls looking for a long time, the captain lieutenant.

Waits and waits. And pretty ships pass by.

He easily could have sunk 10.000 GRT.

What the Capt.-Lt. is looking for, he finds!

Juraczik, man, this here is in Meerskirchnern like an antenna!

When you're from Meerskirchen you're a visionary, hm? Ha, ha!

Dumb stays dumb.

There is no medicine for.

Piranha, holy

Man, your polar bear has quite a waved fur!

Ha, ha, ha!

You! The Capt.-Lt. has to feed polar bears.

Man, he is doing it! He is throwing fish, don't you see!

Headline: It's eaten as it comes!

Because we're going

Because we're going

Against En - ge - land.

Petermann! Capt.-Lt.?

Man, you're singing a pirate song like a funeral march!

It doesn't pay out to be funny, Capt.-Lt.!

It does!

Make it cheaper, Petermann!

Nose torpedo room, silence!

Immediately our position! Jawoll, Capt.-Lt.!

Still the peace of God all about?

Still no whispering around here?

Not a soul!

Capt.-Lt.! What if we can't find the English armored cruiser?

That's all I need!

The whole Eastern front depends on it!

Any idea, Jaul, who's on that ship?

Heavy ranking folks!

General Staff! Instruction officers!

They shall help the tsar on his legs again.

Make the steamroller roll again!

We'll win through in the end.

Capt.-Lt., you're, in a manner of speaking, not at all from bad parents.

To fail what am I saying? That word does not exist!

Captain's order: exact position!

Captain! A regular in the radio room.

That's right!

As if it leads to anything!

Probably knows why.

Holy Brahmaputra! Capt.-Lt.! The English, the English!

Bridge on keen watch!

This should spice things up.

Both e-motors stop!

Both e-motors stop!

Quiet!

Noises!

Map!

Don't move!

Capt.-Lt. is listening in the radio room!

Attention!

Report to captain!

70 degrees, 30 minutes north, 4 degrees, 25 minutes east.

Yes.

Message from helmsman.

Boat location: Latitude 70 degrees

30 minutes north. Longitude 4 degrees, 25 minutes east.

Right.

Square 241 B center

bonus number 11.

We'll get it!

On alert now!

Like a hawk!

On diving stations!

On diving stations!

On diving stations!

SQ!

With sharp eye, boys, it's getting started!

But, dear captain, that we haven't heard of the U-boat for nine days

doesn't worry me at all.

Quite the opposite! I'm very optimistic.

I bet that our U-boat got a major challenge.

But I don't deny it!

You don't. A pity. You had lost the bet.

SQ?

I am going as far as to say that every hour a message is to be expected.

What do you say about that?

Mr. Kramer, Mr. Kramer!

What's going on?

Within an hour a message from the U-boat is expected! The mayor has said so!

Thelma, Thelma! Message from the U-boat within 30 minutes!

Mr. Wilken, Mr. Wilken! In 15 minutes we will get a message from the U-boat!

Message from the U-boat has arrived!

Mrs. Jaul, something about our ship in the naval staff's report?

But, I've heard it!

Old Krake won't publish before three, and if the whole world goes to hell.

Just let me do it, I'll pump the news from him!

She'll perform some straight talking!

Mr. Krake?

But, Mr. Krake! Don't duck yourself!

Three-fourths of it I do already know!

Impossible, the boss!

Dear Mr. Krake!

We do know, I must not get excited!

It's not possible!

Mr. Krake!

If you don't hand over the paper immediately

I'll tell your wife about the beer last Whitsunday!

But I have everything forgotten! Thanks.

Nothing!

There it is!

There it is!

I'll be jiggered!

Thank God!

Port-side engine stop!

Starboard engine full throttle ahead!

TO port!

Flooding!

One two three four five six

Lower!

.. two three four five

Higher!

three four five

Two convoy destroyers.

Lower!

Stop!

Rag!

Water tube one and two.

Water tube one and two.

Port-side twenty!

Port-side twenty!

Another destroyer!

Pull in!

Map position? Twenty metres, both half throttle ahead!

Listen for propeller noises!

We must dive beneath the destroyer.

Jawoll!

Destroyer is close! Bring the boat deeper!

11,12,13, 14,15-15, 15 Go deeper with the boat!

Everybody ahead! Regulators flooding!

Boat obeys, goes deeper.

17,18,19, 20. Boat lies at 20.

Didn't want to!

The beast.

Either way.

One day our time is up anyway...

Hey?

But when then sell as dearly as possible.

That's right, isn't it?

You!

Melancholic rabbit!

17,18,19, 20. Destroyer has passed.

Now it�s all or nothing.

9 Metres!

9 Metres!

Nose full up, stern five down.

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Tube one and two ready!

First and second tube ready.

First and second tube are ready!

First and second tube are ready!

Attention!

Torpedo shot!

Attention!

Torpedo shot!

Lower!

Hocus pocus!

If Satan can't make it, he sends his father!

Good luck, good luck, good luck!

9 metres! Keep 9 metres! Keep 9 metres!

Attention! Attention!

First and second tube! First and second tube!

Go! Go!

Go!

30 metres!

Silent running!

Nobody moves in the boat!

Compartments closed!

30 metres!

Now Russia has to help herself!

The Eastern front is relieved, BtShm!

For months.

It was like a miracle.

We did it, Jaul, didn't we?

First lieutenant, I wonder what the people of Meerskirchen

will say when they hear it?

Now the hunt is on. Three destroyers!

What's up?

Capt.Lt., port-side regulator is leaking!

Starboard regulator balance flooding!

Fill the safety tank with compressed air.

Emergency lighting on!

Keep calm!

Emergency lighting!

They stick to their guns.

How lies the boat?

40 metres.

2 degrees front-heavy.

The Englishmen!

Clearing out their storage of depth charges.

Sellout!

The sea is 1200 metres deep.

If we sink

we're very far from the world and all its people.

All at once we have

... peace.

1200 metres!

Waiting.

Keep calm.

Waiting.

Drop the Handkerchief!

Few more minutes, Biihm.

Jawoll, Capt.Lt.!

A breather!

Well deserved, Capt.Lt.!

Fipg!

The war diary!

Now the hardest part.

Office duty.

YOU!

I was right after all.

Concerning what?

Concerning something very important.

The fool

Helga spoke about was me!

Not you.

Me.

And I always thought, that she loves you.

Cousin and cousin.

Did you always know, you rascal!

That she thought of me?

Happy about it?

Yes, of course.

Write it to the rest!

Already

... registered!

Fipg!

Done!

A free soul!

Fipg!

On diving stations!

On diving stations!

3 metres, quickly!

Now tobacco, finally tobacco!

You old rascal, once again impatient?

Exactly 9 metres!

Higher!

Not a soul to see.

Well, then out with mother into spring air!

Lower!

Surface!

Compressed air into the middle tank!

To the Liers factories!

If only your father was back!

He always takes his time.

Mrs. major will wake up before everything is finished.

Very happy, Helga?

Yes!

Very!

Grete! What is it?

YOU!

I have something on my mind.

So, what is it?

You have your man on the U-boat.

You probably don't know it

Me too!

Surely, surely.

But he himself

still doesn't know.

That fool!

Hey, he probably knows. He only doesn't say.

Was it the same with you? Of course!

I had to tell him. He lacked the courage!

Keep calm, people, very calm!

Only when I open the window and wink with my handkerchief then

you're shouting. Keep very calm!

Let them be! Come quickly, before Mrs. major wakes up.

Yes, yes. For God's sake!

Keep calm! It's a surprise.

If only she doesn't wake up untimely.

Such a pity!

What are you doing here?

Dear Mrs. major!

Message from the U-boat!

Everyone safe and sound.

Special edition.

We've sunk a destroyer!

All papers report!

They're on their way home.

I'm so happy, dear Mrs. major!

From Helmut?

Yes. And from my Gustl.

Dear Mrs. major, we're bringing She already knows!

I couldn't keep it any longer. Such a faux pas!

Dear Mrs. major, our congratulations!

Congratulations from the heart, the people of Meerskirchen

I know that you are a good speaker. But you speak too much! Too much!

Always I told you so.

I'm happy

that the men on the boat of my son are safe and sound.

But there is no reason to be proud about it.

Realize that!

They did their duty.

And the duty was bitter.

Why shall there be happiness when, and who knows how many,

people sacrificed their lives, also performing their duty.

We have to thank God for the fortune

that we didn't have to suffer his time.

And to beg Him that he relieves the sorrow of those

who have to suffer this time.

But, I thank you.

You meant well.

Today we want to sing u little song.

We want to drink cool wine.

And the glasses shall ring in addition.

Because we have, because we have to say goodbye.

Give me your hand. Your dear hand.

Farewell my dear, farewell!

Because we're going, because we're going

because we're going, against En - ge - land.

because we're going, because we're going

because we're going against En - ge - land.

This time we have to pass the channel without minesweepers, Fips.

Well, we'll do it.

Almost home.

Riddle!

Why do have gifts of love to be that hard?

Eat up! Duty is duty.

And no favour.

Poor diving rescuer! Newest model.

Patented diving rescuer.

Strange things!

Said to be absolutely reliable.

Doesn't fit in the boat, I think.

More fire department.

Emergency exit for heroes!

Ha, ha!

'Emergency exit for heroes' is wonderful!

What's going on, B6hm?

Sensation?

Hopefully it's worthwhile, Btihm.

Well, a strange vessel.

Appeared as suddenly as a ghost ship, captain.

SQ?

Periscope higher!

I can't make it out!

The boat in balance! The boat in balance!

Course 30 degrees. Course 30 degrees. Course 30 degrees.

Tube 3 and 4.

Ready!

Tube 3 and 4 ready.

Here you go!

Grease it, you screech owls!

A pity if it's only for a mere 2000 GRT.

Only two are left.

Be careful, man!

Ha, ha, ha!

But I'm not penny-pinching.

Everyone shall get what's coming. Big or small.

Clip off!

Clip is off!

Push in the propeller blades!

Propeller blades are pushed in.

Attention!

Clip on!

Clip is on!

With love! Shove it!

So long!

Tubes are loaded!

Lower, B6hm!

Stop!

Tube three and four

Attention!

Tube three and four. Attention!

Tube three and four. Attention!

Higher!

Wait a minute!

Without flag?

A merchant vessel without flag?

First lieutenant Frederiks!

First lieutenant Frederiks to the captain!

Look at this vessel, Fips!

Sails without flag!

What do you think?

His clock stopped working.

Only one thing to do, a shot across the bows.

We have to get closer!

It's not armed.

What shall we do?

If it's English, we're allowed to, but it's a neutral one, we are not.

It's a good law.

Well, what one cannot clear outward, has to be considered neutral.

Let's have a look at the vessels papers!

Surfacing!

Compressed air in all tanks!

Ready for artillery alarm!

Diving stations stay manned.

Switch engines. Both diesels half throttle ahead.

Hoist the flag!

Give him a warning shot, Fips.

Direction 60 degrees, in front of the vessel,

distance 470.

Ready to fire!

Fire!

Danish!

Then we have to pack up.

Pack up!

Heaven! Bloody hell!

That damn bastard!

Open fire!

Distance 450, left 10. Fire!

Port-side 10, both engines half throttle ahead!

Port-side 10, both engines

Attention! Upper Silesia is coming!

We have a sharp tongue as well.

I've hit it!

Fire in the belly.

Fire!

He won't last much longer!

Give it water line, Fips!

Aim for the center!

Looks bad, huh?

Keep firing, Juraczik!

First lieutenant!

I don't need help.

Nobody ever has cared for me. Nobody has to begin now.

Petermann! You got hurt?

Relief!

Relief immediately for Petermann! Jawoll, Capt.Lt.!

To starboard! Both engines stop.

You're right, Fips. Stop shooting! They're entering the lifeboat.

Cease fire!

Cease fire!

A pity! Was zeroed in on it rather nicely, captain!

B'c5hm, Keller, Kassecker! Make it ready.

Do you want to break up the miracle ship? Well, those guys let their captain sink.

Hold on!

I'll send a boat!

It went alright. By a whisker!

But they had us with that fashionable thing.

No rain will wash that up.

What a trick! Such tempting bait.

A fox trap.

Trap setting! An U-boat trap is what it is.

Jaul, immediately 'FD' to all U-boat fleets.

New anti-U-boat weapon. Disguised guns, harmless vessel

after pretended panic follows sudden attack.

Warning to everyone for further traps!

Trouble's brewing!

Diving positions!

Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!

Close bulkheads!

40 metres!

Both engines full throttle ahead.

40 metres fast!

Three, four

4, 5, 6, 7 - 7!

Damn!

8,9 - 9, 9, 9, 9, 9

Boat disobeys!

Flooding regulators!

Flood what can be flooded!

Boat disobeys!

Open all tanks!

Boat disobeys!

Jaul?

Here.

Lieutenant commander.

Can you with a battery make an emergency light?

I'll try.

Lieutenant commander.

Frederi ks?

Yes.

Helmut?

Biihm?

Jawoll, lieutenant commander.

Kassecker?

Here.

Liefering?

Juraczik?

Lieutenant commander.

Gahlenz?

Hen nig?

Petermann?

Here.

Lieutenant commander. Weller?

Siebelmann?

Here.

Ladewig?

Tetzlaff?

Yes, lieutenant commander.

Piontek?

Zacharias?

Mi tter?

Han ner?

Busse?

J�hkel?

L?hringbach?

Hessmann? Yes, Capt.Lt.!

Very often I've told you so

Mrs. Jaul!

You don't shake out my underblanket correctly.

I can't sleep at all for all that lumps!

Lot's of lumps.

Marika comes tomorrow, She'll do it right after all.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

Tonight I can't sleep.

There are many who can't sleep at night in Germany.

You really don't look

as if you can't sleep at night.

No! I really do sleep well. That's right.

I don't know. It doesn't make me restless.

Well, come here!

Yes.

Sit down.

Tell me! What, Mrs. major?

So you don't get restless?

No. No?

Don't you love your husband?

If I don't love my husband?

More than he thinks, more than is good for him!

But I know that he'll come back!

And then it's no trick to keep calm.

SQ?

You know, that yours is coming back.

And mine? He as well!

Thank God!

Finally lights!

Stay, don't move!

Save oxygen.

We're at 60 metres when the manometers are right.

What time is it?

If it works correctly then it's 12 o'clock.

Yes. 12 o'clock at night.

Juraczik!

Lieutenant commander?

Knock on the bulkheads!

Jawoll!

In Meerskirchen everyone is sleeping.

For six hours we're lying on the bottom.

Look at this.

As time goes by

Jaul, Jaul

It took you six hours to make one light bulb work!

If I will ever marry, you won't install lights in the apartment!

Then I can wait until silver wedding.

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

Forecastle was flooded as well.

Depth charge.

Direct hit.

The whole bow is ripped open.

Thanks to our great philanthropy!

Our distinguished, feudal chivalry!

hooray!

The whole boat dead

only the control room still alive.

21 men dead.

10 men still alive.

dead.

A high price!

The world goes down high-minded!

Quiet, Frederiks!

Those 21

did run away.

They couldn't wait for.

Soon we will catch up with them.

Lieutenant commander.

The diving rescuers!

My god! Nobody has thought of them!

Helmut!

The diving rescuers!

Ha! And you did joke about them. Remember?

'Emergency exit for heroes', you said. You remember that?

What means emergency exit. They'll help us.

Right, boys? What do you say?

Strange.

How come, that nobody of you has seen them?

Nobody has seen them?

Boys, have you been blind? Haven't you seen them?

Strange, why did just I spot them?

Boys,... What's wrong?

Why don't you jump up?

Why don't you cheer up?

Don't you understand?

We're only 60 metres deep!

Wait am I am I

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, s

Crew

Ready for diving rescuers!

Crew ready for diving rescuers!

10 we are.

Only 8 diving rescuers!

Everyone or none of us.

We don't leave lieutenant commander and first lieutenant down here.

Capt.Lt. cannot demand it.

We don't deserve it, Capt.Lt.

We really don't deserve it, lieutenant commander.

Fipg!

Do the right thing.

Such men!

I could die ten times for Germany.

A hundred.

I'm grateful for this crew.

What for?

For everything!

Thanks to all of you.

I'm pleased to have sailed with you over there.

To live

we Germans maybe

understand badly.

But

dying!

We are fabulously skilled for.

Want to stay together over there.

The whole crew!

Right?

Or do you believe some of us are ordered to hell?

Then we follow him to hell, lieutenant commander!

But Biihm!

You don't like it?

Well?

Biihm?

Well, I think

hell won't be worse than this, lieutenant commander.

It turns like a human

Well, they're now throwing many divisions from the south-east to France.

Men, men, men.

And every time only half of them returns.

When fortunate.

Then they get replacements, young folks.

Always again with young folks.

And the old?

Who got it over three, four times? Have to go as well.

Until it catches them.

Why are you so sad all the time, sister Anna?

Always so sad and bitter talking. Only seeing the black side.

I don't know, I can't do that!

Don't be angry with me.

You only think on one guy.

I'm thinking on all of them.

I can't help it.

Egoist!

ls love egoism?

Yes.

But it doesn't hurt.

You don't have to be ashamed.

and we're going against En - ge - land.

When the soldiers are marching through town

the girls do open windows and doors.

Why that? For that! Why that? For that!

Because of Schingderassa! Bumderassasa!

In all its splendor, lieutenant commander.

At least there is oxygen for three hours.

Juraczik!

Old boy!

Well.

Now I don't need that onion anymore.

Juraczik! Tell me Do you believe in god?

When it will be sheer delight

You too, Petermann?

Splendid of you.

Then we are two.

Two too many here.

Eight diving rescuers!

First lieutenant.

Eight can resurface. Must resurface!

If it's only eight, first lieutenant, they have to resurface, right?

I thought, If I start then a second one would show up.

Shall I first

Simultaneously.

I won't shake either.

And those at home?

There is no one.

There is no one in the world who loves me and thinks of me.

I'm a lone wolf.

When I stay here for the others to live

eight will think of me forever, right?

Eight friends I'll have.

First lieutenant!

Eight friends.

Yes, Petermann.

What's your first name?

Paul.

Paul!

My mother used to call me 'Fips'.

She's gone a long time.

Good night!

Paul.

Good night, Fips.

Fipg!

That's against the agreement!

You didn't keep your word!

We are

only eight.

Eight diving rescuers

Eight men.

Only eight.

Just now we were 10.

And now we're eight.

Fips, my boy Why did you do it?

Why did both of you do it?

We have to accept!

They died for that we may live.

But live for what?

What for?

We have achieved what we had to achieve.

What to live for?

But maybe

maybe they did want something completely different?

But we have to!

Where only was my mind?

Our life belongs to

...not to us anymore.

Not to us, BtShm!

Right?

We have to sail as long as we can lift a finger.

Again on the boat, and again and again

Until god relieves us of duty.

Sleep well, good boys.

Who gives his life for his brothers

Sleep well.

Ready for diving rescuers!

Open floor valves!

'Lieutenant commander Liers and seven men rescued.'

'Lieutenant commander Liers and seven men rescued.'

'Lieutenant commander Liers and seven men rescued.'

Last time you screamed Hooray!

This time you don't scream. Why not?

Because one is missing.

Or because the clouds turned dark?

Did you get scared?

ls it for that that you don�t feel like it any more?

Once again we are gathered here to escort lieutenant commander Liers.

After heavy losses.

Mayor!

Not like this!

Not like this, my dear!

The cotton out of the ears, the black glasses off!

Even if a gale is blowing

and some in Germany start to chatter with their teeth

Don't care!

It's just the weather we need here from time to time.

Thus coming to strength again.

In broad daylight we're scattering in every direction.

But in deep dark night and when it gets to you

Then we Germans reunite!

Fifty years of night!

That doesn't blind a single German.

Helga!

Thank you that you in spite of everything came.

All the time you almost didn't talk at all with me.

No.

All the time, almost no word.

Why not?

Although I knew it all the time

that someone is waiting.

You knew?

Yes.

But man only understands just one minute before the train is leaving

that he's forgotten the most important.

Now it's engaged.

What, Gustl?

The lieutenant commander the English can't engage.

Why not, Gustl?

Because that woman over there was faster!

Ha, ha, ha! But Gustl!

Let�s go, Jaul!

Then let's go!

Not so fast, not so fast!

Save something for the next time!

Yes.

For the next time!