All language subtitles for Kolberg 1945 HD

# Foreboding, daring to die

the big morning begins.

The sun is high, hot and bloody, our bloody path shines.

In the next hour's lap lies the fate of a world

and the tickets are already shaking and the die is falling.

Who still puts their hands cowardly in their laps?

The people arise!

The storm is breaking out! #

Report me to the king!

Impossible. His Majesty deign to sleep.

Deign to sleep? Now at noon?

Gneisenau?

I ask your majesty on behalf of all generals,

to make a call to our people.

Call?

What, uh ...

for a call?

An appeal to your people, Your Majesty.

A call to war on the streets, in the squares

is posted and appears in the newspapers.

The hour has arrived.

Call to war?

To the people?

Why to the people?

'The matter of the army ...

Gneisenau!

Very well, your Majesty,

but the people will be the army.

The whole people.

Look majesty out there.

# The storm breaks loose ... #

The people stand up, the storm breaks loose. Yes, your Majesty.

Rebell,... was?

Your people, your Majesty.

I don't mean you by rebels, Gneisenau.

Hope ... not having to mean you!

Your Majesty, I am one of those down there.

My great ancestor, Friedrich II.,

had no people behind it either, only soldiers.

A people only suffers from a war.

Every people is an enemy of war.

What can it offer me?

Faith, Your Majesty,

of strength, of justice and of victory.

If, after the people had gone,

so we would have Napoleon when he was fleeing through Germany

was imprisoned. The diplomats and have always hesitated

the military, who let themselves be tamed by this Herr Metternich.

Let us not miss the moment again , Your Majesty.

'You know my opinion, Gneisenau.

You are a dreamer, poet, ...

German dreamer ...

Reality looks different, Gneisenau.

I know the reality, your majesty.

I looked her in the face back then in Kolberg

When our armies fell apart and

Napoleon drove them through all of Germany.

As one fortress after another much,

it was the citizens who saved Prussia.

'Think you are the winner of Kolberg, Gneisenau.

It wasn't me, your Majesty, it was the citizens

who did not surrender on their own.

They gave us the military the opportunity to

to hold the fortress.

Nettelbeck, ...

Nettelbeck's well-fortified citizenship -

the people of Kolberg

Majesty!

Gneisenau!

Your Majesty, speak to your people.

Back then in Kolberg, then the thought occurred to me -

the idea of a people's army.

What I still unclearly recognized at the time

Scharnhorst then designed it.

General conscription is now in force.

Now the people are rushing to take up arms.

It was then in Kolberg that I was born

of German freedom,

when princes and kings left their people.

Gneisenau,...

'Don't have a good opinion of princes and kings, do they?

'Don't have a good opinion of me either,

ehrlich,... Gneisenau?

Yes, your Majesty ...

otherwise I would not be standing before Your Majesty now.

But a king must lead his people.

That is his natural and God-given task.

And if he can't, then he has to resign.

Gneisenau...

Like that German emperor back then in Vienna:

He left his kingdom in the hour of need.

We, Franz II., Emperor chosen by divine grace,

Hereditary Emperor of Austria, declare

that in view of various political events in the empire,

over which we are no longer masters, and especially after

the formation of the Rhine Confederation, after the separation of Saxony and

the indecisive attitude of the Prussian king,

the ribbon,

which us until now to the state body of the German Reich

has bound, see as solved ...

and thereby us from all duties assumed

to consider detached from the German Reich ...

and put down the imperial crown now worn because of it .

If there can be something ...

to alleviate the deep pain,

who bows me down in this tragic moment

where the millennial history of an empire comes to an end,

so it is only hope and confidence

that this sacrifice brings peace to the peoples.

From now on the guns are silent.

I see black, Nettelbeck.

I do n't want to take your faith away from you

but i see black.

I think it will be the last festival we will celebrate here.

Have you read that yet, Uncle Nettelbeck?

A proclamation to the states of the Rhine Confederation,

Strasbourg, Mainz and all German cities.

"The population of the German states who feared

the war will destroy their houses, their belongings,

I make it known that it is just my wish, happiness and

secure Europe's prosperity. Napoleon, Emperor of the French "

Farmer trapping - is that what you fall for?

One can only direct cannons against cannons,

no sentimental feelings.

These are exactly the notions

who rush us from one war to another.

Honor your patriotic sentiments, but ...

Let me go, Mr. Werner.

Mr. Nettelbeck, do you really believe

that little Prussia against the world conqueror

can do something? Wouldn't it be sensible

the balance of power would be allowed to exist as it is,

and would you like peace, order and prosperity?

Someone has to rule, but why we?

Become vassals where we could be masters -

Servants in their own house,

just so that your business is not disturbed, Mr. Gollnow.

You can't talk like that.

If anyone here tells about the pile dwellers.

And you? You saw the world.

You must have got a completely different look

a different one than the one here, from the Kolberg perspective.

If you hadn't been and told me about yours

Traveling, if I hadn't gotten around to it,

to come out and see for yourself.

And that's how I got a view of the world.

'I've just become a citizen of the world.

Well, we can chat smart as much as we want

we will no longer solve the European question today.

I'm going up to the Bullenwinkel, to your father, do you want to come?

What for? I feel very comfortable here.

Well then everyone, where he feels most comfortable.

Nettelbeck. Uncle Nettelbeck!

Let me down.

Do you want to drink something? No thanks.

But that's nice of you for coming to us.

Yes, I couldn't take it with the hustle and bustle

on the marketplace.

But you look so serious.

Oh, Claus worries me.

Was, Claus?

I shouldn't have persuaded you

to send him out to the music school in Strasbourg.

He may have learned to play the violin, but otherwise ...

Yes, farmer, he is no longer that.

He's got his mother's blood more than mine

she also never became a farmer,

she always remained the cantor's daughter.

Maria, she hit me, Friedrich too.

Yes, Friedrich - have you heard from him?

He's with Schill with the Duke of Braunschweig.

Nettelbeck, you have something, don't you?

Near Jena or Auerstedt, uh ...

How do you know that?

You know something about Friedrich. Is him what?

No, ... I don't know anything about the boy, but ...

But?

Lucadou has ordered that nothing should be said.

The citizens shouldn't be disturbed by the festival and uh ...

Now talk about it, for heaven's sake, what is it?

It went wrong. What?

The Prussians are defeated.

Prince Louis Ferdinand is dead, he fell near Saalfeld.

The prince?

Prussia's heart.

Frederick the Great ...

Frederick the Great...

Gentlemen!

Little sister.

Little sister. Friedrich.

Listen, father, you have Lieutenant Schill and

10 comrades quarters on your farm?

Yes, of course my boy, of course.

- Where's the lieutenant? - Here.

Lieutenant are you?

They're looking because of the uniform.

My uniform lies in tatters somewhere near Auerstedt.

If you feel comfortable with an old sergeant,

then you come in.

The harvest is in, but it has to be rationed at times.

The potatoes also have to be brought in from the rent,

before the frost comes. It snowed recently.

Well, it's gotten quite warm again.

Just don't rush anything.

But why do you want the potatoes?

get out of the rents again?

Well, because we need them in town.

If we wait till the enemy is at the gates

is it too late to bring in the potatoes, and

a city can only survive if food is secure.

Is that a matter for the citizens?

It is up to every reasonable person

to ensure that there is enough grain, flour, and slaughter cattle

Brandy is in town.

I have made exact lists

went from house to house, on all the barns and on all of them

I crawled around, recorded exactly,

whatever supplies are still available.

Who authorized you to do this?

I myself. I am a citizen representative.

My office gives me the right to do so. You're welcome.

What are these notes for?

These notes are intended to provide you with a base

Commander, for the purchases,

or the requisitions of food.

Please don't worry my head.

I took care of the nutrition of my soldiers.

Ah, and the others can go hungry.

My magazines are full.

Your magazines are far too much in one pile

Mr commander -

too good a target for the enemy.

A bomb in this half-timbered store and everything is gone.

What are you trying to say?

That it would be safer

to distribute the supplies in different places.

The great Elector and Frederick the Great have our magazines

laid out before the Seven Years' War,

and the Russians didn't meet them either.

Do you want to dare

To criticize the legacy of Frederick the Great?

Why not?

The provisions of Frederick the Great

were fifty years ago, right?

They no longer have to be today.

We're dealing with completely different cannons today.

I forbid you to give me military advice.

Speak for your citizens, this is your office!

Defending the city is my business.

Well then, God help us.

What? What? What did you just say?

I? Oh, I didn't say anything.

There you have your notes back!

Leave me alone with your stuff.

I stand here under my king's mandate,

but that does not mean that I cook their cabbage soup for the citizens.

Come over here!

I am surprised that there is no bird's nest in the cannon here.

Where did they beat you up like that, comrade?

That's Lieutenant von Schill.

What is the? Lieutenant?

Alright, how should he see it?

Tell me, do you want to shoot the cannon here?

Why not if it's necessary, Lieutenant?

When was the last time you shot with it?

I do not know. I never shot with it.

How long have you been here in Kolberg?

Sixth year, Lieutenant.

What, and you never fired the cannon?

No, lieutenant.

Well, it doesn't shoot anymore either, it's rusted.

Are they all like that?

Yes, they are all like that on this hill

but over on the Kleist ski jump,

there are twelve eight-pounders - uh - eight ... twelve-pounders ...

Well, what now?

Eight twelve-pounders made of bronze, they should be good.

And how many iron do you have?

Isn't the lieutenant a spy either?

No, I am the Emperor Napoleon personally, sheep's head.

He, he,... Napoleon...

So how much?

We have 72 iron ones, I think.

Spread all around the city.

Thanks mate.

Lieutenant.

Children, children ... Make it easy for Napoleon for you.

Uncle Nettelbeck always says that too.

Please stay with us, Lieutenant, with us in Kolberg.

I do n't understand so much about it

but my godfather Nettelbeck always says:

"We are betrayed and sold with our commander Lucadou.

Everyone is already talking about the bad cannons and

the bad provisions.

The fortress as it is now

is not up to an attack. "

So?

... says Nettelbeck.

Blücher.

Old Blücher ... his tobacco box.

When we lay down there on the Rhine in 1793

then he gave me the tobacco box.

We had nothing to eat, we tormented ourselves

He was already half starved and so he gave it to me.

And now they have starved him with 6000 men -

with 6000 men.

Children, children, when old Blücher take himself captive

leaves, then Matthäi has to be last.

There.

Where are we going now?

Maybe to ... Koenigsberg, to the king.

That's where you went, huh?

Who is playing the violin up there?

Claus.

To be wounded and sick - at such times.

Filth, damn it!

Well, it doesn't get any better from cursing.

Claus, stop it!

Downstairs is your brother and the sick lieutenant and you do

as if it's none of your business.

None of my business. What are you upset about?

As long as you wiggle your pitchfork

it doesn't work anymore. My fingers are very stiff.

Then I ask you to stop now, at least, Claus.

Why then?

I'm telling you: the lieutenant is sick.

This is a sick person

he comes out of battle and is wounded.

I know it. Have you got lost in him?

Little Maria.

Schill.

I'm scared, Schill.

Before me?

No, before the war.

Yes, but Maria

there is still nobody with you in Kolberg.

No, not yet, but you have already gone to Kolberg

shot - the Russians forty years ago.

What if that happens again?

Let's not hope so, Maria.

No no.

Does your wound still hurt you a lot?

No more.

Was it actually an officer or who was it

who wounded you?

Yes, that was an officer - it was with Auerstedt.

Why do you want to know?

The people are terrible.

Why does he have to strike at you with his saber?

It's war.

Exactly, it is terrible.

Nobody should hit your head, Schill,

or shoot at you.

Little Maria.

Who is this Lieutenant Schill?

He comes from Auerstedt.

He has ten men with him

he wanted to get through to Blücher.

What kind of ten men are they? Are these soldiers?

Volunteers, Colonel,

partly untrained people.

Where is he now?

Down in the market square and wait.

He's been wanting to be admitted for a week.

Is he standing around in the marketplace? That's awesome!

A battler on maneuvers

of the Nettelbeck'schen Guard.

Sunday soldiers.

May I intervene, Mr. Nettelbeck?

Yes, intervene!

The whole thing!

Take that, give me the rifle!

Gentlemen civilians,

because you are far from being soldiers

near Auerstedt we stood like oaks and

got shot down like rabbits.

Why?

With no protection and no cover we stood there like

a Prussian wall.

The French cavalrymen just knocked us down.

So we have to relearn!

Looking for cover, throwing it down, ruthlessly,

the beautiful uniforms are not important.

Folks, go home!

Stop the silly soldiers playing.

Who is that supposed to be of use?

Well, you as an officer support that.

May be meant in a very friendly way

from the good people

but do you expect it to have a military effect?

On the contrary: as soon as things get serious,

then this civil guard would only cause confusion.

Or maybe you disagree, Lieutenant?

If I may allow myself: Yes!

They want the right thing.

Look at one. What do they want?

They want to make the whole people fit for military service.

They want to become a people of soldiers.

We can use that.

Colonel, the salvation of the fatherland lies in the citizens.

It depends on their courage and their demeanor.

When a fortress is besieged, there is no difference

more between citizens and soldiers.

Waging war is a craft that needs to be learned.

Learned, yes, but a trade, Colonel? No.

It is not a craft, it is a matter of the heart

and the Kolbergers have hearts.

They love their city and their home

and their sea and their fields,

and therefore they will better defend it

as the gentlemen commanders of the fortress.

Magdeburg had 20,000 soldiers

and surrendered to 500 French

without firing a shot.

Yes, what are you doing here?

On what assignment do you actually gather people around you?

On behalf of His Majesty the King.

Please, His Majesty's handwriting,

that he instructs me to put together a choir,

everywhere I think it's right.

And if you are interested, Colonel,

I have already recruited 450 men in the Kolberg'schen Land.

We don't look very good yet.

We don't have uniforms for everyone yet, the material is scarce.

Money is tight too.

For now it's only possible out of my own pocket

but that doesn't matter.

Well, why do you go with your honorable zest for action

not to where war is being waged?

I think the war will come to us soon.

We don't need to run after him.

Nonsense. The war won't come up here.

As soon as Napoleon occupied Berlin,

there he can dictate peace.

Sad, but nothing to be changed.

What is Kolberg for him anyway?

It's almost just a village.

Giant cathedral, a couple of ragged houses around it -

not a man, not a cannon

he will sacrifice for Kolberg.

# The year is half past

the farmer mows the grain.

Some lost their hearts in summer. #

# The sea carries many ships,

they drive far past.

For one who may come soon

may come

I keep my heart free #

As chairman of the ten-man council

I'll bring you a cumbersome one, in French

drafted letter from the current Governor General

for Pomerania note, today in two versions

arrived here.

One to the commandant of Kolberg Fortress and

one to the citizen representative.

I will read it to you:

"... and to the representatives of citizens of the city of Kolberg.

In the name of the Emperor ... "

French? Not all of them can do that.

Tell us the content in German.

Well, then in good German:

"The French no longer need that,

to march against us,

we are easily conquered by mail.

The commanders have to surrender their fortresses and

the citizens' representatives are ordered to Szczecin,

to take the oath on the French emperor. "

Well, that has n't happened yet.

Now we should surrender to them

before they're even there?

Yes, how do you rate us?

They rate us just like Magdeburg or Spandauer.

Oh, the Magdeburg and the Spandau,

what could they do for it? They had cowardly commanders.

In Erfurt, there are the citizens and the soldiers

pulled in front of the commandant's house.

They would have killed the commander if they had him

would have caught. They wanted to fight for their city.

One should take the war from the city

keep away at all costs.

Well, write that to Napoleon,

maybe he'll do you a favor.

Well, if the grenades hit here,

then they go to our houses.

May I, Nettelbeck?

Yes, Mr. Rector.

Let's hear what the school has to say to us.

Nothing more than reason

to ask for what we do, my lords.

If you want to build a house you have to have a plan

otherwise one makes a fool of oneself.

If we continue the war alone

what will the result be?

We will be closed in, we will be cut off every supply -

your supplies will run out one day too,

Mr. Nettelbeck.

Well, all right, we'll defend ourselves to the utmost.

Yes, but, gentlemen, those over there aren't sleeping either.

And even Mr. Nettelbeck cannot cough against the storm.

And against modern French artillery ...

no heroism helps.

Well, if we talk like that, we can wrap up right away.

It's good that it was said once.

Well, then we can vote.

You don't vote on such a dishonorable impertinence.

We want to know the reason

why perhaps we should sacrifice ourselves - the purpose, the goal.

Oh, you need reasons to stay a decent guy.

There are also reasons not to give up a fortress.

For example the best French cannons,

of which you spoke earlier, Mr. Rector, to be held here

in front of Kolberg, so that they don't attack our troops near Danzig

or Tilsit or anywhere else.

That would be a reason, for example.

Oh, there are many factual reasons, but there are also

irrelevant reasons, as you may call them later.

For example, what would become of a Prussian

that says: "You, Napoleon, you are so much stronger,

so much more powerful, come and swallow us,

we can't do anything against you. "

What would become of these people

who would think and speak like that?

Well, they would exterminate themselves.

And they didn't deserve anything else

than to be exterminated.

Well, you have to think about something like that.

Reason, you have to listen to reason

Gentlemen, not just the enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is cheap.

Well, let's surrender.

Can I pack my bags and go to Stettin?

Surrender, nope, who said that?

No, no, no, don't surrender.

So who is going to surrender now?

I! I think there will be more

who want to surrender than me.

The gentlemen are just too cowardly to say it.

Oh, and the shipowner Gollnow, is he the brave one?

It takes courage to declare that I refuse

to live in a city besieged by the enemy.

I have no appetite for a heroic death

if you want to know. I'm not a soldier.

And all that I've collected in my life

it's too bad for me to just let it smash.

You have such a beautiful ship, Mr. Reeder Gollnow, right?

Then pack all your things on your ship and

travel with your dear family to Bornholm or

Sweden, that's where you get around the war.

Or do you imagine

we will surrender our beautiful old town

just so that your valuable property remains untouched?

Your house on the market is just as valuable to me

like the poorest day laborer's cottage down there at the Persante.

The French Commissaire is here

may he enter? You're welcome.

Gentlemen, I await your answer.

Tell the governor of the Emperor of France

the German kings, electors and princes

have resigned from their oath on the German Kaiser,

and the German Kaiser has his oath on the Reich

not held in the hour of need.

But the free citizens of the old Hanseatic city of Kolberg want each other

prefer to be buried under the ruins of their walls,

than break their oath on the king and lord.

We swore on the King of Prussia.

There is no longer a King of Prussia

he fled to Königsberg with his government.

Then I am King of Kolberg.

Tell your governor that!

A hard year is coming to an end

a new one is coming up:

1807.

Well, that sounds so gloomy.

Maria, light up the Christmas tree.

Who knows if we'll all still be next year

- so be sitting around him. - Well, don't you, father!

I swear something like that, boy, sometimes you know more

than you know.

Cheers, Nettelbeck, to 1807. Cheers New Year.

You can't celebrate a happy New Year

when you've had a sad New Year's Eve.

You can be quite satisfied today, Nettelbeck.

The citizens behaved great.

You couldn't have given the governor a better answer

and now they should come.

Well, it went well again.

But the French just didn't get it right.

If instead of an imperial postman

a hundred men would have sent

Lucadou would have given them a hundred polite bows

all gates open. I was at Lucadou's today.

Don't ask me how it was there.

It was dreadfully dreary.

We need another commander.

Do you want to toast with me?

No, I want to ask you something, Schill.

- You're welcome. - do you love Maria?

I wasn't prepared for such a direct question, but ...

Answer me!

Well ... I love her.

For God's sake, what will become of it?

Yes, maybe what should become of it?

You have to think about that, Schill,

that's my sister. Yes...

I once read a sentence in a book.

I don't read otherwise, but I remembered the sentence.

"Don't hurt a girl, always remember

that your mother was once a girl too. "

Yes, that's what it is called.

I will never marry a woman in my life.

I am married to the war, Friedrich.

Yes, you see, Schill, and that's why I ask you

don't make her unhappy. I am afraid for Maria.

You do not know what you are asking of me

but I promise you

I will not make her miserable.

Thanks.

Dear little Maria,

poor little woman, you are made for peace

It's in your eyes and it could take you through the whole war

make you forget.

Now look at those eyes and

I drink this peace with you.

Cheers my love Cheers, Schill.

What's going on here?

You can see that, sir.

We're bringing the cannons ashore.

What kind of cannons are they?

Which we will probably use to shoot the French.

Who do the cannons belong to? Who gave you the job?

Lieutenant von Schill.

Where is the Rittmeister von Schill?

I don't know him.

I only know one Lieutenant von Schill.

I say Rittmeister von Schill, the king promoted him.

He wouldn't have done it if he had known

what insubordination he is guilty of here.

I now want to know what kind of cannons these are?

The cannon was carried by a Swedish frigate

brought to the neutrality zone, sir,

and from there Mr. Nettelbeck has it with our swimming

Dragged the dance floor into the harbor,

because the Swedish ship was not allowed to enter.

And from whom did Nettelbeck commission it?

From nobody.

I am a citizen representative and can make decisions

without asking you.

Is the Rittmeister von Schill involved in this matter again?

Involved? What do you mean, involved?

You speak to us as if we were criminals.

Where is the Rittmeister von Schill?

If he's got anything to do with this thing

then he broke his neck.

Von Schill rode east with 15 men.

It shot from the east.

So. you, Mr. Nettelbeck,

You will report to me at the headquarters in an hour.

That will have to be a little later.

We won't get the cannons under the roof that quickly.

Please let me worry about that,

what happens to the cannons.

Oh, sir, if we had waited

for you to worry, then we wouldn't have the cannons.

Since when has it been the custom that the citizen representative

a city trying to get cannons?

Since that day as a certain commander of Lucadou

moved in here in Kolberg.

And then, most negligently, the cannons

let rust on our walls.

And thus in a criminal way

endangered the security of the city.

If the French artillery was up for weeks, months

drums around our city, then we have nothing else to do anyway

left than to crawl to crosses.

Crawl to crosses?

So that means surrender ?!

Yes, at the moment when I think it's right

I surrender!

Surrender is better than suicide.

Whoever talks about crawling in my presence,

I'll ram my saber into his body.

You're under arrest!

You write:

French vanguard south-east of the city by the pine grove.

Cannons are brought into position.

East of the city, about at the level of the Bullenwinkel homestead,

you can see tents, dismounted cavalry and

a troop of about 100 men pulls in.

Report immediately to Lieutenant von Schill!

Attack from all sides - precisely at the same time -

Shoot like crazy and knock down

so that they don't even come to their senses, understand?

Yes, Lieutenant.

But don't get involved in a longer fight,

so that they don't notice our inferiority.

- Franz group? - Here, lieutenant.

You ride with your group on the road to Tamm.

At the intersection to the old town you take cover.

As soon as you hear shooting - attack - attack immediately!

Just one volley, do you hear? But it has to be right!

And that you can't do me without the French cannons

come home.

Schill, the French!

Did you meet them At the Bullenwinkel ...

What's in the bull's corner? They occupied our yard.

How many are there? The father is in.

How many are there? Claus is in there too.

I ask you how many are there? Lots!

Maria, is it a hundred?

A hundred or fifty, I don't know.

I haven't counted them.

- How many are we left? - 16 men.

Everyone sit up, it's off to the bull's corner!

Claus, long live the Emperor.

Long live the emperor.

Well, don't you have a drink with the Kaiser?

- Doch. - Long live the Emperor, na?

- Long live the emperor. - Lauter!

- Long live the emperor. - Long live the emperor.

Notice!

Because of the imposed on the city and fortress Kolberg

The commander is under siege as of today

the citizen representative Joachim Nettelbeck,

Brewery owners all here, sentenced to death by shooting.

Well, Father Werner, not so profound.

We just hopped off the gravedigger's shovel.

Unfortunately.

Well, are you not happy that you are rid of the gang

from your house?

Isn't my house anymore.

I'll never be able to sit at that table again.

Long live the emperor.

My own flesh and blood under my roof ...

Long live the emperor.

He was already dead.

That was the one who put the bayonet on you.

Until?

Look at it.

Up until now only Werner's have died in this house.

They steal my house like they stole my son.

And now it's the country's turn.

Robber.

Yes, the incident clearly demonstrated one thing: the house has to go.

Do you hear Werner? The house has to go!

I looked at it from outside -

it is ideal cover for the enemy.

It is higher than the dune, the small wood protects from sight

and behind the homestead they can at any time

place their artillery unnoticed.

The house has to go?

Burn it in anyway.

Then eat it away.

What do you say the house has to go?

Our house, the farm here?

It is an ideal artillery position against the city.

One cannot see into the wood from Kolberg and

the access road is covered by the homestead.

The whole yard here is like a natural hill.

Like a fortress glacis against Kolberg.

Schill, are you serious?

It is mine

but I don't know if you're serious

that you sacrifice your court for Kolberg.

Yes, father, you are not saying anything.

Talk to him, answer him something.

What should I answer him?

What are you asking me?

That there is no life for us without our house.

Where are you going now

Leave me alone!

Lucadou, release the citizen Nettelbeck!

Lucadou, release the citizen Nettelbeck!

Yes, yes, Herr von Lucadou, people are grumbling.

For the time being they are still grumbling, that can turn out quite differently.

I fear completely different effects

if you really shoot the citizen representative.

I no longer guarantee anything.

And I confess that even I wouldn't stop at anything

if you twisted a hair at Nettelbeck!

Not even from your worst threats.

This is open riot!

Now is no time to fight in your own house

Mr commander. Release Nettelbeck,

we need him.

You cannot enforce the sentence now.

Who should stop me?

I'm just about to sign the execution order.

French vanguards are eight miles from Kolberg.

I'm from Henkenhagen, I've seen her.

8 miles you say?

Terrible.

Oh no, then we can have them at the gates tomorrow.

Awful.

Did you see that yourself, Herr Rittmeister?

Your vanguard should have seen that, Commander.

But your principle is to only take care of the city itself.

- What's going on outside ... - What are you thinking of?

I am in command of Kolberg, but not of Pomerania.

Do you believe, sir,

that the French will distinguish that?

Will the gentlemen tell me

how do I understand my military office?

We want to know,

whether you release Nettelbeck or not.

You may have your soldiers in hand

but who is the leader of the citizens,

when the enemy comes to the gates?

There is no quarrel in the room

when the roof over your head is already on fire.

Drive the animals away, they'll run into the fire!

Madness, idiotic.

Where is the father?

Cry yourself out, my child.

You cry yourself out.

You see, your father just couldn't survive

to see his house burn

He couldn't take it and

I would like to be your father now,

but...

now comes the big "but".

Then what about us and the city?

I wrote a letter tonight at night

and at none other than, ...

there,

to our most gracious King and Lord.

I wouldn't have had the courage, but at this hour

I think you can do anything. Not?

I am not asking for myself in this letter, no.

When it gets into his hands ...

then I'm already ...

Oh God, what do we know where we are?

But promise me, will you? Promise it in my hand

Maria, take this letter to Konigsberg.

You can do it, I know for sure.

You can do it. Go to Schill, he will say

how you get on the ship and out of the harbor.

But don't be fobbed off in the anteroom.

Do not give this letter to any servant , not even an adjutant.

You have to put it in his hands , do you hear?

his eyes must read it.

What's in the letter?

I ask for a young and courageous commander for Kolberg .

You don't send a little girl

through the French lines.

Why not if it matters?

Why is he sending you right now? I don't understand Nettelbeck.

Because he trusts me, Schill, more than you do.

He could n't tell anyone else

no one was allowed to join him in prison.

Just me because father died.

Wait until he's free and, uh, ...

then I'll talk to him.

He does not get free, this person is bad.

Nettelbeck said he would hand over Kolberg to the French.

We have to have a different commander.

Is that in the letter? Yes.

I am to deliver the letter to the king myself.

You little girl supposed to do this

Why not?

When you asked me to burn our house

you didn't think that I was a little girl.

You asked more of us than Nettelbeck is now.

I'm afraid for you, Maria.

You no longer have a father to take care of you

I'm afraid for you

Doesn't that make you a little happy?

I'd rather you be proud of me

And I'm supposed to take you out myself.

Isn't that asking too much, don't you agree?

I believe only when we ask too much of each other

Schill, only then can we do enough now in Kolberg.

Well, you're right, Maria. Do you see.

But if you don't come back

then I will forever reproach myself.

If I don't come back, Schill, then you should know

that little Maria from Bullenwinkel

loved very, very much.

Come on, it's urgent, says Nettelbeck.

Herr Rittmeister,

order all the officers for me.

- What about Nettelbeck? - It's free!

Na also.

But wait a minute!

Gentlemen, if you mean well with Nettelbeck

or if you have something of his own then warn him

Mr. Fanselow, Mr. Rittmeister.

A second time there is no pardon!

Nettelbeck is free.

But that's impossible, lieutenant,

what do you think? There is no time for that.

- Where is she? - Well, here.

You make my young officer nervous

Women.

What are you actually thinking? Don't make fisimatents!

Not everyone can wear their best Sunday dress and

demand to be left before the king. That is not possible.

I'm not allowed to leave here at all

without having spoken to the king

I promised that, Herr General.

It was so hard to get out of Kolberg at all,

you probably can

do not even imagine.

I'm not a general, just a simple major

but we already know how things stand in Kolberg.

I drove through two French barrages, Herr Major.

Yeah, do you think I want to go through it all for free?

They even shot at us.

Yes, then hand the letter in here, I will forward it.

Major, I sincerely ask you ...

Major! What is that supposed to mean?

Major, you mustn't go away now!

Well, let's go, let's ...

The lieutenant said

only you can bring me before the king.

If you go away now, all will be lost.

What does it say in your letter?

I, uh, yeah ...

Didn't even know?

Yes, of course I know, but the letter isn't

for you, it's for the king.

Not everyone should know what's in it.

Not even his adjutant? No of course not.

So?

Herr Nettelbeck said to me

I am not allowed to give the letter to an adjutant.

Well, if the letter were so important

you wouldn't have sent a girl, but a courier.

I don't think a courier could get past the French.

Oh, you don't think so, but you came over, huh?

A soldier or a courier, he won't come by, but you ...

How did you do that?

Yes, I can do that, a woman can do that.

Ha, ha, ... I think you can do that. Hey hey ...

With that violet look, huh? With rattling eyes, ha, ha, ha ...

None of this helps, now you have to give way to me

otherwise I'll have to use the guard to help.

The major won't do that.

Two soldiers against a girl, the major won't do that.

Oh? I have to go to the king!

Her Majesty asks for a report at once,

when the tsar's equipage arrives.

So you don't trust me, huh?

Wouldn't you give the letter to the Queen either?

The Queen?

Yes, I would give it to the queen too.

So, na!

I want to turn a blind eye

'Cause you're such a brave girl

Go after the white-haired lady and ask her

whether she wants to report you to the queen.

Thanks. Thank you, Major.

You, but keep your tongue in check!

Don't shame me, you can't be as cheeky as here.

Yes, Demoiselle, I don't have time.

Dear lady, I don't know who you are or who you are

how I have to address you, please excuse me

when i misbehave but i'm in adjutantship

His Majesty and I was simply turned away.

Yes, I can imagine that.

The king can't see every pretty girl.

I come from Kolberg. From Kolberg ...

Are you from Kolberg? Yes I...

I bring a letter from the representative of the citizens of Kolberg.

The queen is expecting

His Majesty Tsar Alexander of Russia,

but maybe she has a message from Kolberg

there is still some time left.

I want to try it.

Excuse me, how do you address the queen?

With: Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, thank you.

Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty,

to want to take this letter graciously.

The citizens of Kolberg want a shining example

be for all citizens of Prussia.

The, yes, the citizens of Kolberg want a shining example

be for all citizens of Prussia ...

How did Nettelbeck say?

The citizens of Kolberg rather want to find themselves under the rubble

to be buried than to be unfaithful to their king and their land.

Your Majesty, ...

please ...

Your Majesty, I beg your ... Oh God ...

Come on, my child.

Good afternoon my child.

What are you bringing us from Kolberg?

Speak!

Your Majesty, ...

I...

Come over here!

Now tell me what's on your mind.

I don't have time.

I can not...

I get reports from Kolberg every day.

You can be very proud of your hometown.

You want to give me something for the king.

Mh?

Well, give!

I will give the letter to the king -

even today.

I promise to you.

Your Majesty, His Majesty the Tsar has arrived.

Thanks.

So I press Prussia and Kolberg to my heart.

There are only a few gemstones left on our crown.

Kolberg is one of them.

Have you gone mad? What are you doing there?

We're digging a trench.

We also have to build barricades and tear up the pavement.

You have to drive around the back, along the long side.

Well, the hell too, who gave the idiotic order?

The Commander. Of course, the commandant.

Shovel, shovel and pave everything again immediately,

just like before, understand?

I'll be back in an hour and God have mercy on you,

if everything is not all right again!

But the commanding officer ... I said, shut it down!

This Mr. Nettelbeck is already back.

Should I turn him down?

That fits great,

then you can get to know him yourself right away.

Should come in!

Mr. Nettelbeck.

Tell me, did you give the order

to tear up the pavement in front of the Gellner Gate?

Yes I. Look, I ordered that.

And as I know you, you have commanded

that it will be filled up again.

It's closed again, Commander, it's closed again.

That would mean endangering the city,

to carry out such a rash order.

This is a masterpiece of yours, just like the order there

To have cow dung sprinkled on the roofs

at a drop angle of 45 degrees.

At the first gust of wind it rains cow dung all around.

If you have cow dung, then please go to the attics.

Roger that? Under the roof. Oh, it's no good

to talk to you about it. I urge them to,

To withdraw your order, otherwise it will look like rebellion

from what I'm doing.

Did I tell you too much?

It doesn't just look like rebellion, Herr Nettelbeck,

this is rebellion. Who are you, then?

Gneisenau.

Nettelbeck.

I am the citizen representative of the city of Kolberg.

I am in command of the city and fortress of Kolberg.

What who? I!

Is?

The new commanding officer you asked for from the king.

You are the young new captain?

But don't you imagine

that there are advantages for you!

Indiscipline becomes under my guidance

subject to the severest punishments.

So go straight back to Gellnertor and

cancel your counter-order.

I am the leader of the citizens of Kolberg.

You want to lead ...

and can not obey?

Commandant, let me explain to you

if we tear up the pavement now, then ...

I have nothing to talk to you

until you come and tell me that the order has been carried out.

You don't think he'll obey your orders, do you?

You don't know him well.

Finished in a minute, Mr. Nettelbeck.

Open the trench again!

But you yourself have ... Open up the trench again!

The traffic is diverted along the Persante.

So run into the potatoes, out of the potatoes.

Yes, what's up? Always with Tranquillity,

Wulkow, take it easy, right?

I'm sorry,

that I have to do double the job for you, but ...

Order is order.

Command executed. So!

I am interested, Mr. Nettelbeck,

To hear your opinion. At once?

Yes, think about it!

Why shouldn't the road be ripped open now?

That's the entrance road.

The French sit right in front of the Gellnertor and

when they enter the city ...

... they have to be kicked out again.

You can't build pitfalls

that we fall into ourselves. Why fall for it yourself?

Imagine a fire breaks out in the street and

we can't get through with our syringe.

There can be a source of fire

which spreads over the whole city,

because we can't get away with the syringe.

That's right. So, earlier it was rebellion.

It was anyway.

I don't understand that, it's too high for me.

Sit down. You're welcome.

What do you think what will become of it,

if everyone just carried out the order

which he considers right and sensible?

Admittedly, in the present case you were right,

yes, but does it really matter?

Then we would be well on the way to anarchy.

Mr. von Gneisenau, with all due respect for your office,

but I also demand the same respect for my office.

When, as the citizens' representative of Kolberg, I give an order

think it is nonsensical, then I will not do it and if so

he comes ten times from the city commandant.

So that we understand each other correctly right from the start.

Nettelbeck, I want to forget what you just said.

Listen, I want to forget because I need you.

We have to work together, not against each other.

Hand in hand, but my first demand is

that not everyone can declare this to be right,

what he thinks is right. I can only use the right

that is built on law and discipline.

Is that really too high for him?

Na also,...

No, no, I don't think that's too high for him!

Despite his 70 years of age , he's just a ...

69 please, yes, 69, don't overdo it.

Well, fine, so 69.

Despite his 69 years of age, he is a hotheaded youth.

Not to say stubborn.

But if you want to help me

you have to get rid of this stubbornness.

At least until Kolberg is free.

And you want to help me.

You're the father of the city.

You want to help me.

Tell me, how do you talk to me?

Like someone I want to be good friends with.

With whom I can go through thick and thin.

That I know he's the city and

loves his homeland more than himself.

Prussia, Germans, ...

your city has a hard fate

and on our unhappy fatherland.

The courage that sustains it is stronger than fate .

If you hadn't dared

to defy the foreign conqueror ,

if I wasn't here today. That forges us together.

No love is more sacred than love for the fatherland.

No joy is sweeter than the joy of freedom

but you know what is in bloom

if we don't win this fight with honor.

Therefore: whatever sacrifices required of the individual

may, they do not outweigh the holy goods,

for which we must fight and win,

if we don't want to stop being Prussians and Germans.

Citizens and soldiers,

from cart servant to citizen general,

you won't want to be worse

when your fathers were.

Dare to be like them, you have your example

now give an example!

The best defense of a fortress is to attack!

Spin the cannons!

Bredow, you have to drive in, you have to!

But, child, now look at this.

Kolberg,

armes Kolberg.

Do you think I want to risk my boat here?

No, no, we're going back.

I get off! But, child ...

And if I have to swim over, I'll get out

or do you think I want to be left alone?

My brothers are in there too, and Schill ..

Where is the Rittmeister von Schill?

On the beach in front of the Maikuhle and secures the harbor.

Port here and there. We need the deployments

shoot down the French from the flank.

There is no danger from the port

always on the flank, always on the flank!

Dear God, you mustn't be angry with me,

we've always been so good, but now please help us

help us ...

Oh, I'm not afraid for myself at all

just don't let Schill meet him.

Only hold your hands above Schill, Heavenly Father.

Only through Schill ...

Ruhe, Ruhe.

Always let you get there.

Bravo, Schill lets you get there.

OK then.

So, right in front of their noses now.

All guns at the same time, fire!

Fire!

I can not hear it anymore,

I can not hear it anymore,

can't hear it anymore ...

What are you screaming

I can not hear it anymore!

That's why you don't have to scream like that

we must all hear it.

Schill, there is no getting through.

The road to Wollin is crammed with French people.

We tried, the people were brave

but there are hundreds. Cavalry?

Cavalry, infantry, artillery, it's teeming with people.

Damn it!

Without the way to Wollin we are lost.

This is our backbone if they break this for us

then we sink to our knees.

There's only one thing left: you have to stop the enemy here

shoot to the last cartridge ...

I? And you?

I get by.

You can't get through, it's no use, you can't get through!

Well, if not on foot, then by boat.

What if the French are already sitting in Wollin?

Then I have to go on to Stralsund.

Gentlemen, we're going to fight out of town

place in front of the ramparts and bastions.

Here in the Maikuhle lies Schill with his Freichor and

protects the harbor. From the north we have Fort Münde,

that is in our hands. In the east we have the Wolfsberg.

The Wolfsberg should then be the center

make up our defense.

We are completely unprotected from the south.

And here, gentlemen, I have to appeal to the citizens' sense of sacrifice

make the greatest requirement.

The gates of the water locks must be opened and

the adjacent cultivated land ruthlessly

submerged, like this on the map

is already drawn in, so that the enemy does not succeed

to invade our city from the south.

That means hundreds of families will become homeless,

Mr commander.

That is bad, Mr Citizen Representative, but it has to be.

I will put you in charge of the flood operations.

I was told you were an expert at it.

Yes Mr commander.

You are liable to me

that the inundation is carried out quickly and ruthlessly.

Come on, get it all out of the ditch!

Close weir locks!

Open the trench lock!

Vigilante Moves!

Everything else home, but dalli.

It works great.

Now we can get the water over to the east too.

It's horrible, scary.

It makes me feel very cold.

What does he want now?

Where are you going, child?

That's Claus.

Claus!

Claus!

Where are you going, Claus?

What are you doing here, Claus? I've been looking for you everywhere.

What do you want here in the water?

I want my violin if you want to know.

I left her here with Timm.

He got his dirt out

but my violin is not vital, says this farmer.

It's not that important either, he's quite right about that.

Come out of the water!

Don't you even notice it, doesn't it keep rising?

Ha, I won't get drunk

but my violin should get drunk

that's not important. Madness, but that's how you want it,

her wild pack, her disgusting.

Lord God, Claus, what has become of you?

What you made of me

Where have you been, Claus, all the time?

I hid in front of you heroes.

I don't want to be a hero ...

Claus!

Claus. First father and now Claus.

It's good that mother no longer needs to see it.

Arme Maria.

But it's just as difficult for you yourself , Friedrich.

No, there is something else ...

What?

Schill leaves.

Where? To Stralsund.

To the Swedes?

Now is he leaving, where Kolberg can end every day?

He has to, Maria, we have lost the connection to Wollin,

we no longer have access roads.

Where should we get ammunition and bread

and anything at all? Everything will be all one day.

Did Schill ... Did Schill send you to me?

No.

He's so hard on me.

It used to be different.

He doesn't like me anymore.

No, it is not like that.

Oh what do you know

Have you ever loved a girl?

You were always gone, Friedrich, we hardly know each other.

I don't even know any of that.

As dear as you, Maria, I have never had one.

But, Friedrich, that's something completely different.

Of course that's different

but if your schill is gone now , then you always have me,

then you come to me with everything, then I am the father,

then I'll be Claus, then I'll be your Schill too.

Oh, Friedrich.

When is he leaving? Around four.

Where? On the beach in front of the Maikuhle.

I know where you are going

How do you know that again, Maria.

Friedrich sent it to me.

You wanted to leave without saying goodbye to me.

A soldier doesn't always have time for something like that , Maria.

A thaler - that's the first pay,

which my father received when he came into Prussian service.

Save it for me.

Carry it on your heart.

It's a nice feeling for a soldier

when a girl cries for him.

I thank you for your love, Maria.

Stralsund will be his grave.

What's the matter, Grabow? Who ordered a ceasefire?

A French parliamentarian

has appeared in front of the Lauenburger Tor .

Then make sure that everything disappears from the road:

no uniform, no formation!

We must n't give the enemy any clues.

No curiosity either - let the window close,

Extinguishing work continues.

Well, where are you going?

To the headquarters, a parliamentarian is there.

That's forbidden.

You want to be there.

You'll find out soon enough.

You have to know what's going on.

The lords of my staff and

some legal representatives of the citizenry. You're welcome.

You will guess my lords,

what the French parliamentarian wanted from me.

And what did you answer him?

What I am obliged to do as a soldier according to my oath.

But now the citizens of Kolberg are to him

give the answer yourself.

He believes that the citizens want the handover

and that only my ambition as a commander

stands in the way of handover. Please, Mister Parliamentary,

do you want to stand next to me at the window.

Citizens of Kolberg,

the generalissimo of the French siege army

asked me through this parliamentarian

to give up the resistance, to open the gates of the fortress.

It's about your city let me say our city

for your life, for your houses,

for your wives and for your children.

I told the parliamentarian

that we would rather die

than surrender our city to the enemy.

If you don't agree with me, you can call it out to me now.

But who is of my opinion

go to his place on the ramparts,

in the workshops, everyone at his work.

My adjutant will escort you out of the gate.

In fifteen minutes you can

in your four-horse gala carriage with yours

to be the new general of Mr. von Loison.

They're shooting into our town

they are shooting into our houses!

What are you standing around and selling mouth monkeys!

Come on, get off the street!

It is pointless to put yourself in jeopardy here .

Give me a blanket.

Go home, Nettelbeck, change your clothes!

You take death as wet as you are.

After all, you're no longer a youth , I'll do this alone.

That was with us.

Be calm, stop whining, it won't get any better.

I lived there for fifteen years .

Now it burns.

Oh, life goes on.

Much is asked of us.

Sometimes you think ... it breaks you.

And nevertheless...

we still have to get tougher .

Even harder.

No, I'm so alone in the basement and

my husband outside all day, I can't stand it.

Waiting is the worst, it's best to do something.

And who stays with the children?

You stay here, Maria, I'll be back soon.

# Cockchafer fly, your father is at war,

your mother is in Pommerland and Pommerland burned down. #

Pommerland burned down ...

Franz, take the syringe! Come on!

Well, Nettelbeck, how long do you think

can we still take it?

If it has to be a while longer, sir.

The houses could burn us, but not our earth.

And if we can't live as humans

then we just live as moles.

They are estimated at 20,000 men.

20.000?

One could have guessed it.

After the fall of Danzig they all have the troops free.

20,000 men, that's at least 200 guns.

More, Mr. Major, more than 200.

It's all of the siege artillery

from Gdansk there.

Donner and Doria.

Sometimes you ask yourself

whether one still has a right to hold the city.

From a military point of view, we don't have any more chances.

So there are now together:

30,000 to 35,000 men and 500 guns against 2,000 men and

5000 citizens.

Including women and children.

The number of our guns, well

we'd rather forget that.

That someone was still alive at all

in this desolate time

on that general night over Germany,

that was when a star was still glowing:

Kolberg,

and extinguish the star ...

Call Nettelbeck in for me.

35,000 men, Nettelbeck,

and at least 500 guns,

all directed towards this city.

Can you imagine what that means?

By contrast, everything we've experienced so far is a breeze.

Mr commander,

tell me frankly, where are you going?

It's over, Nettelbeck.

There is no point anymore.

We can't hold the city.

And,

and?

Handover, Nettelbeck.

Oh, like in Magdeburg,

Erfurt, Stettin, Spandau?

Has everything been in vain?

The end:

Shame?

It's not a shame

when soldiers have fired their last bullet.

Blücher also had to capitulate.

Yes, but we have our last ball

Not shot at all yet, sir.

And then Blücher,

he didn't have to give up the city,

in which he was born.

You were not born in Kolberg, Gneisenau.

You are ordered to Kolberg.

But we, we grew up here.

We know every stone, every corner, every house here.

Oh, we don't let go either

and when we get our nails into our ground

claw into our city -

we don't let go. No!

You have to chop off our hands one by one or

slain us one by one.

Gneisenau, 'the old man ca n't do me the shame and

surrender our city to Napoleon.

I also promised our king:

Better to be buried under the rubble than surrender.

Gneisenau?

I have never kneeled before a person

now i do it!

Kolberg must not be given up,

Gneisenau.

That's what I wanted to hear from you, Nettelbeck.

Now we can die together.

# We come to pray before God the righteous.

He rules and keeps a strict judgment.

He does not let the bad rule the good.

His name be praised, he does not forget ours. #

Tell me, did n't you see Maria?

No, she'll be in the marketplace.

She's sure to be in the marketplace.

On the marketplace?

- Where are you going? - Gneisenau speaks.

# In the struggle at our side, God has stood by us.

He wanted law to be victorious.

By then, the battle was hardly started .

You, God, were with us, the victory, it was yours. #

Schill drove off down there.

And,...

you gave everything, Maria, what you had,

but it wasn't in vain.

Death is swallowed up in victory

that's the way it is.

And the biggest ...

is only ever born in pain.

And if one takes the pain for all of us,

then he is big.

You are tall,

Maria.

You stayed in your place

did your duty and did not fear dying.

You won too, Maria.

You also.

# Your name be praised, oh Lord, set us free. #

This is the glory sheet in history

of the Prussian citizen.

You knew where the danger lies, there is also the way out

and the victory.

And if today in 1813,

6 years later, the citizen gets up again,

the people get up, your Majesty, then they are inspired by that one

mysterious power and example

that the Kolberger gave him once.

They strive to be like the citizens of Kolberg.

You want to shake off the shackles for good.

The people stand up for the coming battle of nations, your Majesty,

the storm breaks!

# The people arise. The people arise.

The storm breaks out. #

'You're ... right, ... Gneisenau.

"To my people ...

1813, ... in the year of freedom,

from ashes and rubble becomes like a phoenix

raise up a new people, a new kingdom.

# Who still puts his hands cowardly in his lap,

Who else cowardly puts their hands in their laps?

The people arise.

The storm breaks out. #