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Child upon these maps do heed
This black stain to be effaced

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Omitting it you would proceed
Yet better it in red to trace

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Later, whatever may come to pass

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Promise there to go you must

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To fetch the children of Alsace
Reaching out their arms to us

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May in our fondest France
Hope's green saplings branch

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And in you, dear child, flower
Grow, grow,

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France awaits its hour

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To rid the map of every trace
of Germany, and of the Hun

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We must exterminate that race

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We must not leave a single one

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Heed not their children's cries,

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Best slay all now, the women too

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Or else some day again they'll rise,

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Which if they're dead they cannot do

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We have a one and only enemy

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Who digs the grave of Germany

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Its heart replete with hatred,
gall and envy

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We have a one and only enemy

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The villain raises its murderous hand

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Its name you know, it is England

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This is it!

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War has been declared!

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Well, little brother?

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Going to spend the war
repainting statues?

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I've put you on the list too!

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In two days, we're all leaving
for basic training in Glasgow.

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At last, something's happening
in our lives!

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Well, you coming?

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Two more minutes, Mr. Sprink.

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I have been ordered to read this message
from our beloved Kaiser:

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This is a dark hour for Germany.

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Our land is besieged

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and we must brandish the sword.

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I hope that with God's help
we shall use it well,

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so we may re-sheathe it with dignity.

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Two more minutes, Lieutenant!

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We're going out!

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100 meters to the German trenches.

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We've been shelling
their machine-gunners,

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so we should be alright.

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We take their front line,
then the farm just behind!

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The 134th will relieve us tonight

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and we can rest up in the rear.

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We'll have back-up from the Scots
on our left.

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You'll recognize their black caps.
Don't worry about them,

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pay close heed to what I tell you to do.

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I'm like you.

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I too want to go home.

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So do what you must
and we'll all be home for Christmas.

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Right.

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Come what will.

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Fix bayonets!

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Load rifles!

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Forward!

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Up along the sap!

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Get down!

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Don't stay here little brother...

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So one of us survives.

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No, William.

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Come on, William...

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I abandoned him.

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Like a coward! I abandoned him.

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I let him die, all alone!

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You had no choice.

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And now, we must pray for him
and for all the other casualties.

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The reinforcements have arrived.

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We're leaving, Dale.

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You stay here with the wounded.
- Yes, Lieutenant.

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I'll see you back at base.

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I know you're in the trenches, Father.

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It's me.

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It's Andrew Duncan.

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I'm not far, Padre.

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Father, I'm eight,

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eight feet...

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Father.

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The others are too far away, but me...

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Father.

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You've got to come out and help.

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That's it.

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Just walk straight ahead
and you'll be on top of me.

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I knew I could count on you, Father.

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Father, what are you doing?
This is suicide!

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Don't run off like that! Damn you!

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Get back! Get back here!

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We're ordered to stay in the trench!
- Cease fire!

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That was a stretcher-bearer.
- What?

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You shot a stretcher-bearer.

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How do you know?

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You fired first?

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A Scots marauder, Sir!

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Think I got him.
- Good.

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Stay vigilant.
At the slightest move, sound the alert.

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Yes, Sir!

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Sprink!

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Come with me.

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Yes, Sir!

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Attention all!

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Deposit the enemy weapons
in the Friedrichsstrasse trench!

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Go help them.
- Right.

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Have to rebuild it.

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Relax, no one saw me.

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Get hurt?

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Christ! What happened?

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You were barely 15 mins in there.

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Reinforcements didn't...
- Machine gunners in the sap.

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Lost a third of my men in 5 mins.

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When you saw the Scots retreat
on your left

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you gave up on the farm.

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So, any word?

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I tried the Red Cross, but no go.

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No news from the enemy-occupied zone.

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The Germans appear to be
treating civilians correctly.

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Your wife is most likely
at her parents' with the baby.

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During the shelling,
a faulty canon exploded.

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Killed the officer
and his 5 men outright.

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I asked you be drafted in
to replace him.

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Artillery, a fine corps.
You'll move up fast.

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No.

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Keep your gunner's career,
I stay here with my men.

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Find another Lieutenant, no shortage.

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I'm Major General here,
I'll do as I see fit.

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You'll do as I say.

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I'll let you spend Christmas
in your unit.

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Then you go to Poitiers for training.
That's an order.

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If you want your visit to remain secret
you'd best leave,

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my orderly's coming.

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You rest up here for 3 days.

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Then, the front line
by the Delsaux farm.

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The sector should be quiet
for Christmas.

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Get some rest.

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See you before you leave for Poitiers.

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Goodnight.

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Goodnight, Sir.

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Lieutenant,
found some blankets for tonight.

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What's wrong, Lieutenant?

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My wallet! I've lost my wallet.

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The wallet with the photo you showed me?

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Yes.

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What a shame...

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But you hardly need photos
of your wife's face.

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I'd a mishap too.

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Look at that, Sir.

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Two centimeters higher
and I was a goner!

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And it still rings!

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Unstoppable, just like me!
Eh, Lieutenant?

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It means placing one every five meters.

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Every five meters?

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How many is that in all?

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About 100,000.

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Or 20 trains for Lille via Brussels.

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Incredible!

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Christmas trees!

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It'll take me longer to send these trees
to the front than our canons.

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Show Miss Sörensen in!

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How is he?

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Well.

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His regiment came under surprise attack
four days ago.

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But they drove back the enemy.

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As regards your proposal...

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I'm afraid to say, I cannot accept it.

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As a Dane, I feel the gravity
of the situation escapes you.

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For five months now,

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two million of our men
have fought unrelenting.

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We have neither the time nor the urge
to organize recitals.

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It took me a while to realize
I'd approached the wrong person.

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So I contacted the Kronprinz,

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who'd be delighted to have a recital
at his HQ on Christmas Eve.

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I was told you were responsible
not just for canons and convoys,

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but also the soldiers.

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So if you would kindly sign here,

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next to the Kronprinz,
before informing your men.

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You'll only see him one night.
What's the point of that?

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It'll be much more than one night.

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Our minutes are longer than yours.

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Mother,

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William and I
got your package and letter.

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Thanks for the mittens and the mufflers.

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It's so cold here, they're most welcome.

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The thought of you at home nice and warm
keeps us going!

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Thanks for the cake, too.

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I hope we have some left
for Christmas Eve.

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Your two sons, who love you...

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Morning, Father.

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3 cases of whisky!
That's a lot of ammunition.

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I presume I'm invited?

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Sir, my men are completely exhausted.

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We're all tired, Gordon.

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Every single one of us.

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I can bring you no relief
before three days.

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And if the Germans do attack tonight
or tomorrow, as they may

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you'll just have to deal with it.

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Yes Sir.

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Our valiant stretcher-bearer.

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Who nearly got one of his own men killed
in no-man's -land.

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A stretcher-bearer is supposed
to save lives not endanger them.

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I gave orders,

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very clear orders that it was forbidden
to leave these trenches

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in case of a German counter attack.

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Yes Sir, but...

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But you don't give a damn!

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Now I suggest you
drop the St. Bernard act in future

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and never forget

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something called military discipline!

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Understood?

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Do you understand?

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Yes, Sir.

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Can you tell me what you're doing here

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in the front line
in the absence of combat?

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Visiting a friend...

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What?

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A friend?

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Where do you think you are?

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Your local parish?

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You will return with me immediately
to the back line.

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Come on, man! Make yourself useful.

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Sir.

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This way is shorter.

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Take a right through the cludgies,

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the latrines.
- This way?

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Yes, this way.
- Get me out of here, will you?

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Enough.

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Sorry we have to
go through the cludgies, Sir...

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Christ!
- Sniper, Sir!

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What a bloody disgusting mess!

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Bad place to take a fall, Sir.

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Get me out of here!
- Absolutely, Sir.

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Shut up, will you!

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As a priest, I'm used to silence...

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That's enough.

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Well?
- Nothing.

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Just a rifle shot. It's dead calm.

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Be wary, they'll stop at nothing,
even on Christmas Eve.

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Follow me.

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Know who had this brilliant idea?

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No.

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For you, Lieutenant.

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Sprink!

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You'll be leaving us for one night.

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To go where?

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Home, in a way,
where you'd be better off.

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Why do you dislike me, Sir?

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After your regiment was disbanded
I had to take you.

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But I prefer masons, bakers, farmers.

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Artists like you are a dead loss,

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nothing but a millstone.

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Now go. This officer's taking you.

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Get a move on!

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It's 10 o'clock and nothing's done!

252
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Easy on there.

253
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It's not too short?

254
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I told you, Lieutenant,
I'm the best barber in Lens.

255
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Even the mayor used to come to my shop!

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And Henri Hennebicque,
was he a customer?

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00:29:19,708 --> 00:29:23,583
Hennebicque... Doesn't ring a bell.

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My father-in-law,

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deputy mayor, lives at 21 Cypress Alley.

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00:29:30,042 --> 00:29:31,625
You never told me.

261
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Cypress Alley, I know it well!

262
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Been a few times to have my bike fixed

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at Narcisse Denoyelle's, number 43.

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Right, I can see it now,
a little blue gate.

265
00:29:52,042 --> 00:29:55,167
I feel I can tell you, now...

266
00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:59,083
Sometimes, of an evening,
I head up along the embankment

267
00:29:59,042 --> 00:30:03,333
towards the farm, softly softly,
so not to get killed.

268
00:30:06,750 --> 00:30:10,833
I sit down and I look...

269
00:30:11,542 --> 00:30:13,792
I know the Delsaux farm well.

270
00:30:14,333 --> 00:30:17,750
I'd cycle there for eggs and milk.

271
00:30:19,125 --> 00:30:24,875
Just beyond the farm
is the road to Lens.

272
00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:27,042
Straight to Lens.

273
00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:35,125
On foot, I'd be home in an hour.

274
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:37,125
No bother,

275
00:30:38,583 --> 00:30:39,667
one hour!

276
00:30:41,583 --> 00:30:45,083
My mother would be waiting at the door,

277
00:30:45,042 --> 00:30:48,083
a full pot of coffee on the stove,

278
00:30:48,958 --> 00:30:51,417
just like before...

279
00:31:00,167 --> 00:31:02,792
What a nuisance, these damn lice!

280
00:31:06,292 --> 00:31:07,458
There you go.

281
00:31:08,833 --> 00:31:12,000
I think I'm done, Lieutenant.

282
00:31:15,458 --> 00:31:16,792
Well?

283
00:31:17,875 --> 00:31:19,042
Ponchel,

284
00:31:20,542 --> 00:31:22,292
there's no mirror in front!

285
00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:25,958
Christ, what an idiot!

286
00:31:27,292 --> 00:31:32,167
But you're grand, Sir,
tip-top for the party tonight.

287
00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:34,167
If you say so!
- I do...

288
00:31:38,167 --> 00:31:40,083
Welcome, Miss.

289
00:31:40,125 --> 00:31:41,583
My pleasure.

290
00:31:41,625 --> 00:31:42,792
This way, please.

291
00:31:52,583 --> 00:31:54,875
Miss Sörenson, most honored.

292
00:32:00,917 --> 00:32:05,375
I will not tolerate mistakes!
Clean that up at once!

293
00:32:11,083 --> 00:32:15,042
Know where Nikolaus Sprink is?

294
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,292
Know where Nikolaus Sprink is?

295
00:32:20,292 --> 00:32:22,125
He arrived about an hour ago.

296
00:32:22,167 --> 00:32:24,292
Sprink? The tenor?

297
00:32:24,292 --> 00:32:25,125
Yes.

298
00:32:25,208 --> 00:32:29,000
Miss, though we've owned this house
for 300 years,

299
00:32:28,958 --> 00:32:32,542
it is no longer our home
since September 23 last.

300
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:34,833
Ask elsewhere, if you would.

301
00:32:35,417 --> 00:32:40,625
With any taste they'll have put him
in my room on the top floor.

302
00:32:40,542 --> 00:32:41,625
Thank you.

303
00:32:42,292 --> 00:32:45,875
You poor thing! Good taste indeed!

304
00:32:47,167 --> 00:32:52,750
Prussians with taste!
You shouldn't even answer those people.

305
00:33:19,583 --> 00:33:23,167
No! I have lice.

306
00:35:15,583 --> 00:35:18,583
We'll sing again together,
just like before.

307
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,042
I am not like before, Anna.

308
00:35:29,792 --> 00:35:32,667
Sing for me! Sing for us!

309
00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:10,375
Your Highness.

310
00:36:14,125 --> 00:36:18,000
I'm glad to see the war has spared you.

311
00:36:19,125 --> 00:36:24,083
That you volunteered as a private,

312
00:36:23,958 --> 00:36:26,375
was most impressive.

313
00:36:27,417 --> 00:36:30,250
I did not volunteer.

314
00:36:30,250 --> 00:36:33,083
I was called up like all the others.

315
00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:41,333
I congratulate you
on your initiative, Miss.

316
00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:46,333
It takes a woman to remind us
that despite the war, it is Christmas.

317
00:36:46,792 --> 00:36:50,417
Thanks to you and your voices,

318
00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:52,917
tonight shall feel just like Berlin,

319
00:36:53,625 --> 00:36:56,292
where I hope to return
as soon as possible.

320
00:36:57,625 --> 00:36:59,542
Perhaps next spring,

321
00:37:00,458 --> 00:37:02,917
if all goes to plan.

322
00:37:04,167 --> 00:37:05,708
Next spring!

323
00:39:53,417 --> 00:39:54,750
You smoke?

324
00:40:01,125 --> 00:40:03,375
Everyone smokes in the trenches.

325
00:40:03,958 --> 00:40:06,625
You kill time as you can.

326
00:40:10,042 --> 00:40:13,917
It's five years today since we met.

327
00:40:16,375 --> 00:40:17,583
Oslo...

328
00:40:20,125 --> 00:40:22,167
Five years already?

329
00:40:24,792 --> 00:40:29,292
To have to brush with death
to realize how time flies.

330
00:40:29,208 --> 00:40:30,750
That's the terrible thing.

331
00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:39,542
All these fat, sated men parading,
swilling Champagne.

332
00:40:44,458 --> 00:40:46,625
Anna, I must return to the front...

333
00:40:48,292 --> 00:40:50,625
to sing for my comrades.

334
00:40:51,542 --> 00:40:52,875
Tonight, above all.

335
00:40:52,958 --> 00:40:56,667
For months I've dreamt of this
and you want to go?

336
00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:58,458
I don't want to leave you,

337
00:40:59,208 --> 00:41:02,000
but I must go sing for them.

338
00:41:02,625 --> 00:41:04,458
I'll return afterwards.

339
00:41:05,583 --> 00:41:06,542
I'll come too.

340
00:41:06,625 --> 00:41:08,250
Out of the question!

341
00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:12,542
It's too dangerous. You don't realize.

342
00:41:13,625 --> 00:41:14,917
When you left,

343
00:41:14,958 --> 00:41:20,000
not a second passed without my wondering
if you were still alive.

344
00:41:19,917 --> 00:41:24,125
You are and I am with you.
Nothing else matters.

345
00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:29,458
I've too long awaited this night.

346
00:41:30,125 --> 00:41:32,917
I'll not lose a single instant.

347
00:41:35,292 --> 00:41:40,083
And without my pass from the Kaiser
you'll not get far.

348
00:41:41,792 --> 00:41:44,333
You have a pass from the Kaiser?

349
00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:51,500
The Major General places
his trust in you.

350
00:41:57,458 --> 00:41:58,917
Hell, Lieutenant!

351
00:41:58,958 --> 00:42:01,833
Couldn't they leave us be
on Christmas Eve?

352
00:42:01,792 --> 00:42:04,458
The dirty work always falls to the same!

353
00:42:04,458 --> 00:42:06,125
I volunteer to go.

354
00:42:07,417 --> 00:42:09,167
I want no trouble, Gueusselin.

355
00:42:10,292 --> 00:42:14,833
Approach their lines,
recce the machine guns and back.

356
00:42:14,750 --> 00:42:15,833
Understood?

357
00:42:15,917 --> 00:42:19,917
With this moonlight
can I return fire if spotted?

358
00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:23,625
Stealth and speed
if you want a hot meal.

359
00:42:41,208 --> 00:42:44,583
Hey lads, where'd you get the pipes?

360
00:42:46,083 --> 00:42:48,375
Where'd you get the pipes?
- I found it.

361
00:42:48,417 --> 00:42:51,958
The guys in 92nd heard
we'd be in the trenches for Christmas.

362
00:42:51,917 --> 00:42:55,583
That was decent!
Don't suppose there's a spare set?

363
00:42:56,083 --> 00:42:58,167
Sit here, you can use mine.

364
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,667
Padre, give us a song.

365
00:43:02,333 --> 00:43:03,958
I'm dreaming of home?

366
00:44:15,458 --> 00:44:17,208
Come boys, louder!

367
00:45:13,375 --> 00:45:15,625
They seem to be having fun.

368
00:45:17,125 --> 00:45:18,875
Wouldn't you like to as well?

369
00:45:19,625 --> 00:45:21,667
This is Anna Sörensen.

370
00:45:21,667 --> 00:45:23,625
Good evening.

371
00:45:25,208 --> 00:45:26,250
Good evening.

372
00:45:26,292 --> 00:45:27,417
What's all this?

373
00:45:28,625 --> 00:45:31,250
Are you mad bringing this lady here?

374
00:45:31,292 --> 00:45:32,917
Lieutenant,

375
00:45:32,917 --> 00:45:37,958
I convinced the Kronprinz
that a little music would do no harm.

376
00:45:40,958 --> 00:45:42,000
Very well.

377
00:45:43,083 --> 00:45:44,583
Fire away.

378
00:46:20,292 --> 00:46:21,375
Lieutenant!

379
00:46:22,250 --> 00:46:25,917
Come quickly, something odd is afoot.

380
00:46:32,792 --> 00:46:34,583
I don't like this, Lieutenant.

381
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,750
Could be a diversion
for some dirty trick.

382
00:48:27,750 --> 00:48:28,792
Sprink.

383
00:48:33,208 --> 00:48:34,333
Get down!

384
00:51:00,083 --> 00:51:02,000
Good evening, Englishmen!

385
00:51:02,042 --> 00:51:03,333
Good evening Germans,

386
00:51:03,375 --> 00:51:05,708
but we're not English! We're Scottish!

387
00:51:13,250 --> 00:51:16,167
Very nice, but that's enough.

388
00:51:17,833 --> 00:51:19,708
This is not the Berlin opera.

389
00:51:20,792 --> 00:51:21,917
You're right.

390
00:51:23,542 --> 00:51:25,667
It's better than Berlin.

391
00:51:28,625 --> 00:51:32,708
Well I never! That beats the lot...

392
00:51:32,625 --> 00:51:35,583
A summit meeting
and we're not even invited!

393
00:51:35,583 --> 00:51:37,042
Shut it, Ponchel!

394
00:51:37,792 --> 00:51:39,417
What the hell's going on?

395
00:51:55,292 --> 00:51:56,875
Good evening.

396
00:51:56,917 --> 00:51:58,417
Do you speak English?

397
00:51:59,083 --> 00:52:00,792
Yes... a little.

398
00:52:01,375 --> 00:52:03,083
Wonderful.

399
00:52:03,083 --> 00:52:06,000
We've been talking about a ceasefire

400
00:52:07,208 --> 00:52:10,208
for Christmas Eve. What do you think?

401
00:52:16,625 --> 00:52:19,125
The outcome of this war
won't be decided tonight.

402
00:52:20,083 --> 00:52:24,000
No one would criticize us for
laying down our rifles on Christmas Eve.

403
00:52:24,917 --> 00:52:27,583
Don't worry, it is just for tonight.

404
00:52:28,292 --> 00:52:30,625
What the devil are they up to?

405
00:52:30,625 --> 00:52:32,583
Maybe the Germans are fed up.

406
00:52:33,583 --> 00:52:35,542
They want to surrender.

407
00:52:37,625 --> 00:52:38,792
I doubt it.

408
00:52:41,958 --> 00:52:44,542
Give me a bottle of champagne
and my beaker.

409
00:52:49,750 --> 00:52:50,708
Thank you.

410
00:52:54,125 --> 00:52:55,167
Thank you.

411
00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:04,375
Merry Christmas!

412
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:06,708
Merry Christmas!

413
00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:08,417
Merry Christmas!

414
00:53:24,667 --> 00:53:26,458
What idiot did...

415
00:54:06,458 --> 00:54:07,625
Merry Christmas!

416
00:54:56,458 --> 00:54:58,375
Good evening, I'm Anna.

417
00:55:20,708 --> 00:55:22,667
You first... Go ahead.

418
00:55:37,625 --> 00:55:42,458
Felix! Where have you been?

419
00:55:42,375 --> 00:55:47,000
No, his name is not Felix, it's Nestor.

420
00:55:46,917 --> 00:55:49,458
It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.

421
00:55:49,417 --> 00:55:55,000
It's the cat from the Delsaux farm.
No, I know better than you.

422
00:55:54,875 --> 00:55:56,750
It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.

423
00:55:56,792 --> 00:55:58,792
Here, I've had enough.

424
00:55:58,792 --> 00:56:01,083
It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.

425
00:56:01,083 --> 00:56:08,708
See? It's Nestor.
- It's Felix.

426
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:12,083
Nestor's heading for the French side.

427
00:56:13,833 --> 00:56:15,000
My wife.

428
00:56:21,292 --> 00:56:24,458
A pretty girl.
- Very.

429
00:56:27,375 --> 00:56:29,250
This is my wife.

430
00:56:47,833 --> 00:56:49,042
Montparnasse...

431
00:56:50,125 --> 00:56:52,667
That's my wife's favorite part
in Paris.

432
00:56:53,708 --> 00:56:55,375
The Luxemburg Gardens.

433
00:56:56,417 --> 00:56:58,917
Got a picture of your wife?

434
00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:02,958
Like you, I had a photo of her, but...

435
00:57:02,917 --> 00:57:04,083
I lost it.

436
00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:08,292
I've drawn her face, but...

437
00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:11,333
it's not really the same.

438
00:57:23,583 --> 00:57:26,250
Do you live on Rue Vavin?

439
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,000
Yes.

440
00:57:35,250 --> 00:57:36,417
I think...

441
00:57:38,417 --> 00:57:42,458
I find your wallet in my trench,
the night of the assault.

442
00:57:43,208 --> 00:57:45,083
I kept it because of the address.

443
00:57:51,792 --> 00:57:54,042
A little hotel on Rue Vavin.

444
00:57:57,417 --> 00:58:01,125
Spent a week there with my wife,
two years ago.

445
00:58:01,958 --> 00:58:03,792
For our honeymoon.

446
00:58:07,458 --> 00:58:08,958
Thank you.

447
00:58:09,583 --> 00:58:10,667
You're welcome.

448
00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:18,542
Hold on, that's Gueusselin's bottle!

449
00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:20,333
Who cares, he's turned in.

450
00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:21,542
I doubt it.

451
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:26,500
Thank you, very much... Sirs.

452
00:58:38,917 --> 00:58:40,083
It's good!

453
00:58:42,375 --> 00:58:45,333
How many months pregnant was she there?

454
00:58:45,292 --> 00:58:46,458
Five months.

455
00:58:47,833 --> 00:58:49,708
That was in Lens, at her parents'

456
00:58:51,375 --> 00:58:52,667
last July...

457
00:58:53,958 --> 00:58:58,875
Then there were complications,
she was confined to bed...

458
00:58:59,583 --> 00:59:03,667
I asked to stay by her side, but no go.

459
00:59:08,125 --> 00:59:11,083
Called to war, I'd to leave her there.

460
00:59:11,958 --> 00:59:16,917
But... Don't you write?

461
00:59:16,833 --> 00:59:18,125
How is she?

462
00:59:19,708 --> 00:59:22,417
I've had no letters since September.

463
00:59:22,417 --> 00:59:24,667
The front is impassable.

464
00:59:25,625 --> 00:59:27,833
I don't even know
if it's a boy or a girl.

465
01:01:02,917 --> 01:01:04,417
I abandoned you.

466
01:01:05,917 --> 01:01:07,625
I abandoned you here.

467
01:01:10,792 --> 01:01:11,958
Hey, Scotsman!

468
01:01:12,750 --> 01:01:15,042
Don't go for the piety either?

469
01:01:15,875 --> 01:01:18,500
The French gave me some champagne.

470
01:01:18,500 --> 01:01:19,625
Like some?

471
01:01:23,708 --> 01:01:24,708
Come.

472
01:02:17,417 --> 01:02:18,875
Sing for us.

473
01:02:22,583 --> 01:02:23,833
Sing for them.

474
01:06:21,417 --> 01:06:22,958
Good evening, gentlemen.

475
01:07:20,792 --> 01:07:22,625
Please... Make way.

476
01:07:22,667 --> 01:07:24,500
Thank you, thank you.

477
01:07:27,375 --> 01:07:28,583
You were wonderful.

478
01:07:30,958 --> 01:07:34,083
I'm Jewish.
Christmas means nothing to me.

479
01:07:34,083 --> 01:07:37,208
But I'll never forget tonight.

480
01:07:38,208 --> 01:07:39,250
Thank you.

481
01:07:43,292 --> 01:07:45,417
So what about the young lady?

482
01:07:45,458 --> 01:07:47,708
Yes, I wanted to ask you.

483
01:07:47,708 --> 01:07:51,750
Could she spend the night
in your shelter?

484
01:07:51,667 --> 01:07:54,667
I meant: when is she leaving?

485
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,042
Tomorrow morning.

486
01:07:57,042 --> 01:07:58,042
Fine.

487
01:07:59,958 --> 01:08:02,583
Alas, you cannot sleep in my shelter.

488
01:08:02,583 --> 01:08:04,125
I have company.

489
01:08:05,833 --> 01:08:10,167
A big rat, for 3 days now,
but I'll get him in the end.

490
01:08:10,125 --> 01:08:12,417
We'll find a solution.

491
01:08:12,458 --> 01:08:14,500
Good night, Lieutenant.

492
01:08:14,500 --> 01:08:16,375
Good night.

493
01:08:20,208 --> 01:08:22,708
Don't worry, Miss.

494
01:08:22,708 --> 01:08:25,375
I'll find you a safe place.

495
01:08:25,375 --> 01:08:26,583
Thanks, Jörg.

496
01:08:29,625 --> 01:08:31,375
So, Lieutenant,

497
01:08:31,875 --> 01:08:34,333
what did you put in your report for HQ?

498
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,458
I wrote: 24th of December, 1914:

499
01:08:39,167 --> 01:08:41,542
no hostilities
on the German side tonight.

500
01:08:43,292 --> 01:08:44,917
Well, that's the truth.

501
01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:49,708
Tonight,

502
01:08:51,208 --> 01:08:55,667
these men were drawn to that altar
like a fire in the middle of winter.

503
01:08:57,583 --> 01:09:01,125
Even those who aren't devout
came to warm themselves.

504
01:09:03,542 --> 01:09:05,292
Maybe just to be together.

505
01:09:08,875 --> 01:09:11,375
Maybe to forget about the war.

506
01:09:13,458 --> 01:09:14,542
Maybe...

507
01:09:17,958 --> 01:09:19,875
But the war won't forget us!

508
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:58,542
Merry Christmas.

509
01:10:16,667 --> 01:10:18,708
Oskar!

510
01:10:19,667 --> 01:10:22,250
Oskar!

511
01:10:34,125 --> 01:10:37,750
Listen. Someone's digging out there.

512
01:10:37,708 --> 01:10:40,708
Mines! Those damn Scots
are digging a mine sap!

513
01:10:42,542 --> 01:10:45,125
They'll fill it with explosives
and blow us sky high.

514
01:10:48,875 --> 01:10:51,125
No, they're not digging any sap.

515
01:10:51,125 --> 01:10:55,042
They are, I tell you!

516
01:10:54,958 --> 01:10:56,792
You just got too pally with them
last night.

517
01:10:56,833 --> 01:10:57,917
Yeah?

518
01:10:59,125 --> 01:11:01,792
Look who's talking!
- Look!

519
01:11:10,583 --> 01:11:12,958
Jonathan, come with me.

520
01:11:15,167 --> 01:11:16,292
Jonathan.

521
01:11:18,250 --> 01:11:19,208
Dale!

522
01:11:20,500 --> 01:11:21,500
Dale!

523
01:11:22,292 --> 01:11:26,292
What the hell are you doing?
The truce is over.

524
01:11:26,250 --> 01:11:28,042
Any minute the Germans
will start shooting,

525
01:11:28,083 --> 01:11:30,167
get back in the trench!

526
01:11:30,208 --> 01:11:31,208
Now!

527
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:39,167
Get back down!

528
01:11:39,833 --> 01:11:40,833
Down!

529
01:11:47,625 --> 01:11:49,500
Good morning, Lieutenant.
- Good morning.

530
01:11:50,958 --> 01:11:54,667
Is it possible that we officers
talk about the dead?

531
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:57,000
The dead?

532
01:11:59,125 --> 01:12:00,208
Ponchel!

533
01:12:02,542 --> 01:12:04,000
Bring your coffee!

534
01:12:21,542 --> 01:12:22,583
Thank you.

535
01:12:28,208 --> 01:12:29,208
Thank you.

536
01:12:43,583 --> 01:12:46,708
Thanks, Ponchel. You can leave us now.

537
01:12:52,625 --> 01:12:56,417
My men will remove the bodies
of the men killed last week,

538
01:12:56,375 --> 01:12:58,083
so you can bury them.

539
01:12:59,625 --> 01:13:01,917
And we will return the remains
of your men

540
01:13:01,958 --> 01:13:04,417
who fell in front of our lines
last November.

541
01:13:05,375 --> 01:13:06,625
That makes sense.

542
01:13:07,625 --> 01:13:10,042
Burying the dead
on the day Christ was born.

543
01:13:11,458 --> 01:13:12,667
That makes sense.

544
01:13:14,292 --> 01:13:15,292
Yes.

545
01:13:24,042 --> 01:13:25,375
I'm fast.

546
01:13:26,375 --> 01:13:30,917
Sorry, but why does an alarm
go off every morning at ten o'clock?

547
01:13:30,833 --> 01:13:32,250
Changing of the guard?

548
01:13:32,292 --> 01:13:33,333
No,

549
01:13:33,375 --> 01:13:38,125
my aide-de-camp used to have coffee
every morning at ten, with his mother.

550
01:13:38,542 --> 01:13:41,583
He's worried he'll
forget about all that with the war.

551
01:13:42,208 --> 01:13:43,833
We've just got used to it.

552
01:13:44,500 --> 01:13:45,667
So have we.

553
01:14:48,125 --> 01:14:49,542
Need a hand?

554
01:15:37,750 --> 01:15:38,542
GOD IS WITH US

555
01:15:38,625 --> 01:15:40,333
Can you come, Father?

556
01:17:08,458 --> 01:17:11,375
In a few days, their families,

557
01:17:11,958 --> 01:17:16,042
their wives,
will receive the terrible news...

558
01:17:19,458 --> 01:17:21,708
What we'd rather not think about.

559
01:17:24,667 --> 01:17:28,125
For them,
nothing will ever be the same again.

560
01:17:32,750 --> 01:17:33,875
You too,

561
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:40,583
one day they'll cover you
and dump you in a hole.

562
01:17:43,750 --> 01:17:47,042
Let us go, while there's still time.

563
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,292
I have my pass, Holland is not far.

564
01:17:49,292 --> 01:17:52,500
It is at peace, we'd have a future.

565
01:17:52,458 --> 01:17:55,458
Impossible! That'd be to desert.

566
01:17:55,458 --> 01:17:59,125
It's not desertion,
it's staying together.

567
01:17:59,083 --> 01:18:02,167
I'm a soldier. Like all the others.

568
01:18:02,125 --> 01:18:04,625
I have duties, like everyone here.

569
01:18:06,292 --> 01:18:08,167
Holland is quite a way.

570
01:18:08,208 --> 01:18:12,125
We'd get caught. Even with your pass.

571
01:18:13,375 --> 01:18:15,750
There's another solution.

572
01:18:16,833 --> 01:18:21,167
The French border is 100 m away.
We only have to cross it.

573
01:18:22,083 --> 01:18:25,750
I've made tea. Perhaps you'd like some.

574
01:18:26,625 --> 01:18:27,625
Come.

575
01:18:29,958 --> 01:18:31,000
Come.

576
01:18:49,333 --> 01:18:50,542
By the way...

577
01:18:52,042 --> 01:18:54,833
The others asked me
to give you these letters.

578
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,917
We don't trust the military post

579
01:18:59,875 --> 01:19:03,875
and as you're going back to Berlin,
we thought...

580
01:19:05,292 --> 01:19:06,500
Sure.

581
01:19:25,583 --> 01:19:26,875
Come on, Morallec!

582
01:19:27,792 --> 01:19:28,750
Go for it!

583
01:19:44,583 --> 01:19:46,792
Looks like trouble for the Jerries.

584
01:19:57,083 --> 01:19:59,667
I heard last night, about your wife...

585
01:20:02,208 --> 01:20:03,833
If you like...

586
01:20:04,833 --> 01:20:07,208
I can get a letter through to her.

587
01:20:08,458 --> 01:20:12,167
Why would you do that?
If you got caught...

588
01:20:13,833 --> 01:20:18,125
One letter won't stop us
winning the war!

589
01:20:18,958 --> 01:20:24,375
And anyhow when we'll have taken Paris,
and it's over,

590
01:20:24,250 --> 01:20:27,667
you can invite us for a drink
in Rue Vavin.

591
01:20:28,708 --> 01:20:31,875
You don't have to invade Paris
to drop round for a drink.

592
01:20:35,375 --> 01:20:39,500
How many cartridges
have you to fire per day?

593
01:20:40,417 --> 01:20:41,333
How many?

594
01:20:42,458 --> 01:20:43,958
Ah, eight!

595
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:45,583
What?
- Eight.

596
01:20:47,917 --> 01:20:50,333
Oh, eight.

597
01:20:50,333 --> 01:20:51,792
And you?

598
01:20:51,833 --> 01:20:53,625
Seven
- Seven?

599
01:20:53,625 --> 01:20:55,667
Seven and eight.

600
01:20:55,667 --> 01:20:58,750
Us, five! Doesn't surprise me!

601
01:21:00,625 --> 01:21:03,625
Yesterday, William managed
to bag two Jerries

602
01:21:03,625 --> 01:21:06,250
who'd been sniping at us for hours.

603
01:21:06,250 --> 01:21:07,333
If he keeps this up,

604
01:21:07,417 --> 01:21:10,792
he'll qualify as the best shot
in the whole platoon.

605
01:21:11,958 --> 01:21:14,583
All our mates
have their eyes on your cake,

606
01:21:14,583 --> 01:21:17,542
but William and I
are guarding it closely.

607
01:21:18,542 --> 01:21:21,708
Lots of love from both of us.

608
01:21:33,167 --> 01:21:36,833
Still here? Weren't they sending a car?

609
01:21:36,792 --> 01:21:41,042
We waited, but no one came for her.

610
01:21:40,958 --> 01:21:44,500
I guess the party dragged on at HQ,
they're not awake yet.

611
01:21:53,583 --> 01:21:56,083
HQ called me 5 minutes ago.

612
01:21:56,708 --> 01:21:58,833
They told me you'd vanished.

613
01:21:59,792 --> 01:22:02,750
They thought you'd deserted, Sprink.

614
01:22:03,458 --> 01:22:06,750
I told them you were here
with Miss Sörensen,

615
01:22:06,750 --> 01:22:10,083
that you came to sing for your comrades.

616
01:22:10,042 --> 01:22:13,250
That really impressed them!

617
01:22:13,250 --> 01:22:17,667
I was asked to keep an eye on you
till they arrive.

618
01:22:18,833 --> 01:22:21,583
Miss Sörensen will return to Berlin

619
01:22:22,750 --> 01:22:25,333
and you will be put under arrest.

620
01:22:26,583 --> 01:22:28,333
Two weeks.

621
01:22:28,375 --> 01:22:31,167
For disobedience on the front.

622
01:22:33,125 --> 01:22:35,208
Disobedience?

623
01:22:36,125 --> 01:22:38,375
I'm not sure I understand?

624
01:22:39,125 --> 01:22:41,792
So what's the plan for tomorrow?

625
01:22:41,792 --> 01:22:44,000
A little football match

626
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,458
and an aperitif
with those across the way?

627
01:22:48,583 --> 01:22:53,625
Or will you shoot them like rabbits
having shared champagne?

628
01:22:54,708 --> 01:22:56,958
Well, Lieutenant?

629
01:22:57,833 --> 01:23:00,083
All that is now meaningless.

630
01:23:00,125 --> 01:23:02,583
To die tomorrow
is even more absurd than yesterday.

631
01:23:02,583 --> 01:23:04,375
That'll do, Sprink!

632
01:23:09,583 --> 01:23:10,875
Any coffee left?

633
01:23:12,417 --> 01:23:13,667
Felix!

634
01:23:14,750 --> 01:23:17,875
Damn that cat!

635
01:23:17,833 --> 01:23:21,750
Here, Nestor!

636
01:23:35,292 --> 01:23:37,042
Is the French Lieutenant here?

637
01:23:37,083 --> 01:23:39,833
Yes, he just arrived.

638
01:23:40,292 --> 01:23:42,167
What're you doing here?

639
01:23:42,208 --> 01:23:44,208
We said each to their own camp.

640
01:23:44,875 --> 01:23:46,542
I know, but...

641
01:23:49,750 --> 01:23:52,500
Our artillery will shell you
in 10 minutes.

642
01:23:53,250 --> 01:23:57,208
So I suggest you come shelter
in my trench.

643
01:24:11,708 --> 01:24:14,833
Had you been relieved,
I'd not have warned your successors.

644
01:24:15,750 --> 01:24:19,083
They would have shot you first anyway.

645
01:24:19,625 --> 01:24:21,042
Par for the course!

646
01:24:38,708 --> 01:24:40,208
Not a word, Sprink!

647
01:25:20,792 --> 01:25:22,167
Bull's-eye!

648
01:25:24,542 --> 01:25:25,625
Sorry.

649
01:25:27,208 --> 01:25:29,250
Damn! Have to rebuild it all over!

650
01:25:42,625 --> 01:25:43,917
By the way...

651
01:25:45,208 --> 01:25:48,625
That letter for my wife...

652
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,167
We've ceased fire.

653
01:26:04,875 --> 01:26:06,667
It's time for you to go back.

654
01:26:06,708 --> 01:26:08,708
Hope you both make it through the war.

655
01:26:09,458 --> 01:26:11,208
I don't think it's over yet.

656
01:26:11,833 --> 01:26:15,583
I wouldn't be surprised if our own
artillery opened fire after your attack.

657
01:26:17,208 --> 01:26:18,625
Par for the course!

658
01:27:00,542 --> 01:27:03,708
This time, we leave it at that.

659
01:27:07,833 --> 01:27:09,875
It was nice knowing you.

660
01:27:11,667 --> 01:27:16,667
Perhaps, in other circumstances,
we could have...

661
01:27:17,167 --> 01:27:18,750
Perhaps...

662
01:27:20,625 --> 01:27:24,250
Yet maybe a drink in Rue Vavin,
as a tourist!

663
01:27:25,458 --> 01:27:26,500
Yeh.

664
01:27:27,583 --> 01:27:31,250
That would be smashing!
Is that how you say?

665
01:27:31,208 --> 01:27:32,250
Right.

666
01:27:32,833 --> 01:27:35,375
Your French beats my German.

667
01:27:35,958 --> 01:27:39,542
No merit in that.
Your wife is not German.

668
01:27:43,958 --> 01:27:45,125
Well...

669
01:27:46,625 --> 01:27:47,625
Good luck.

670
01:27:47,667 --> 01:27:48,875
You too.

671
01:27:51,375 --> 01:27:56,458
Goodbye.
- Good luck.

672
01:28:08,417 --> 01:28:10,958
Goodbye.
- Good luck.

673
01:28:11,875 --> 01:28:13,208
Right boys!

674
01:28:49,458 --> 01:28:50,500
Lieutenant,

675
01:28:53,625 --> 01:28:57,167
I managed earlier
to recce their machine guns.

676
01:28:57,958 --> 01:28:59,375
All there.

677
01:29:10,125 --> 01:29:11,167
Jörg...

678
01:29:47,792 --> 01:29:49,875
What are you doing here?

679
01:29:50,708 --> 01:29:52,875
We want you to take us prisoner.

680
01:29:52,917 --> 01:29:56,333
Prisoner? That's not possible!

681
01:29:57,792 --> 01:30:00,875
How do I explain your presence
to my superiors?

682
01:30:01,625 --> 01:30:03,458
I can't do that!

683
01:30:03,458 --> 01:30:06,208
Go back to your trenches,
playtime's over.

684
01:30:08,500 --> 01:30:09,542
Sir,

685
01:30:10,958 --> 01:30:13,625
if we return to the German side
they'll separate us.

686
01:30:16,833 --> 01:30:20,500
Put us in whatever jail you like,
but let us be together,

687
01:30:21,958 --> 01:30:23,292
I beg of you.

688
01:30:28,708 --> 01:30:31,042
Couturier.
- Yes, Sir?

689
01:30:31,042 --> 01:30:33,458
Take these two to the rear,
to the village.

690
01:30:35,208 --> 01:30:38,167
They're prisoners.
Put them in the schoolroom,

691
01:30:38,125 --> 01:30:39,708
I'll bunk elsewhere.

692
01:30:39,750 --> 01:30:42,333
And stay with them, we're back tomorrow.

693
01:30:42,333 --> 01:30:43,417
Lieutenant!

694
01:30:44,750 --> 01:30:47,542
Can you give these to the Red Cross?

695
01:30:47,542 --> 01:30:48,708
It's important.

696
01:31:02,042 --> 01:31:02,958
Ponchel!

697
01:31:04,667 --> 01:31:05,667
Ponchel!

698
01:31:06,417 --> 01:31:09,708
Where's Ponchel?
Been calling him for the past hour.

699
01:31:09,667 --> 01:31:12,250
Said he was going for nosh, Sir.

700
01:31:12,875 --> 01:31:14,000
Nosh?

701
01:31:34,292 --> 01:31:36,708
Dearest, I cling to your memory,

702
01:31:36,708 --> 01:31:40,167
like a climber to his rope,
so not to fall...

703
01:31:40,125 --> 01:31:42,500
The poor guy died between our lines...

704
01:31:42,500 --> 01:31:45,708
Let President Poincaré come take
Lorraine himself for all I care!

705
01:31:45,667 --> 01:31:47,167
Try as we did,

706
01:31:47,208 --> 01:31:50,875
before we knew it, they'd scored six!

707
01:31:50,833 --> 01:31:54,500
They admitted later
that most of them play together

708
01:31:54,458 --> 01:31:56,333
in a Munich club called Bayern...

709
01:31:56,375 --> 01:31:58,958
Never will I forget her voice
in the night...

710
01:31:58,958 --> 01:32:01,292
I stayed in my trench, in peace.

711
01:32:01,292 --> 01:32:03,875
Drink with those bastards?
I'd rather die!

712
01:32:04,708 --> 01:32:06,417
Better trenches, must admit...

713
01:32:06,458 --> 01:32:10,583
The Scots photographer
promised us pictures at New Year's.

714
01:32:10,542 --> 01:32:12,000
Be a chance to get back together...

715
01:32:12,042 --> 01:32:15,625
A Bavarian gave me his address,
to visit when it's over...

716
01:32:15,625 --> 01:32:20,542
We and the British decided
to accept the Krauts' invitation.

717
01:32:20,458 --> 01:32:23,167
We'll go spend New Year's Eve with them.

718
01:32:23,167 --> 01:32:26,458
We'll sing that song
the Scots taught us.

719
01:32:27,292 --> 01:32:31,250
And above all, drink to the health
of all those bastards,

720
01:32:31,208 --> 01:32:34,750
who sitting pretty,
sent us here to slug it out!

721
01:32:52,958 --> 01:32:55,083
Come on...

722
01:33:06,125 --> 01:33:07,542
He's all yours now.

723
01:33:27,333 --> 01:33:28,708
Give me some water.

724
01:33:41,417 --> 01:33:44,250
You're being sent back
to your parish in Scotland.

725
01:33:45,542 --> 01:33:48,125
I've brought you your marching orders.

726
01:33:53,833 --> 01:33:57,458
I belong with those who are in pain,
and...

727
01:33:57,417 --> 01:33:58,750
who have lost their faith.

728
01:33:58,792 --> 01:34:00,417
I belong here.

729
01:34:02,208 --> 01:34:04,417
I am very disappointed, you know.

730
01:34:05,292 --> 01:34:11,042
When you requested permission to
accompany the recruits from your parish,

731
01:34:10,917 --> 01:34:13,208
I personally vouched for you.

732
01:34:15,167 --> 01:34:18,667
But then, when I heard what happened...

733
01:34:19,625 --> 01:34:21,208
I prayed for you.

734
01:34:25,542 --> 01:34:30,542
I sincerely believe
that Our Lord Jesus Christ guided me

735
01:34:31,375 --> 01:34:35,208
in what was the most important mass
of my life.

736
01:34:37,792 --> 01:34:41,208
I tried to be true to His trust

737
01:34:42,125 --> 01:34:46,917
and carry His message to all,
whoever they may be.

738
01:34:46,833 --> 01:34:50,542
Those men who listened to you
on Christmas Eve

739
01:34:50,500 --> 01:34:54,000
will very soon bitterly regret it.

740
01:34:53,958 --> 01:34:55,583
Because in a few days' time

741
01:34:55,625 --> 01:35:00,417
their regiment is to be disbanded
by order of His Majesty the King.

742
01:35:01,250 --> 01:35:05,958
Where will those poor boys end up
on the front line now?

743
01:35:06,500 --> 01:35:09,500
And what will their families think?

744
01:35:09,458 --> 01:35:12,500
Excuse me, Your Grace.
The boys are ready.

745
01:35:12,458 --> 01:35:13,500
Yes.

746
01:35:15,833 --> 01:35:18,583
They're waiting for me,
to preach a sermon

747
01:35:18,583 --> 01:35:22,958
to the soldiers replacing those
who went astray with you.

748
01:35:25,458 --> 01:35:29,708
May our Lord Jesus Christ
guide your steps back

749
01:35:29,625 --> 01:35:31,833
to the straight and narrow path.

750
01:35:33,750 --> 01:35:36,958
Is that truly the path of our Lord?

751
01:35:41,042 --> 01:35:43,333
You're not asking the right question.

752
01:35:44,417 --> 01:35:45,792
Think about this:

753
01:35:46,917 --> 01:35:52,792
are you really suitable to remain
among us, in the house of our Lord?

754
01:36:27,750 --> 01:36:29,333
Christ our Lord said:

755
01:36:29,375 --> 01:36:32,125
Think not that I come
to bring peace on Earth.

756
01:36:32,125 --> 01:36:36,375
I come not to bring peace, but a sword.

757
01:36:37,083 --> 01:36:39,625
The Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

758
01:36:44,708 --> 01:36:46,542
Well, my brethren,

759
01:36:46,583 --> 01:36:49,542
the sword of the Lord is in your hands.

760
01:36:49,500 --> 01:36:54,125
You are the very defenders
of civilization itself.

761
01:36:54,042 --> 01:36:58,042
The forces of good
against the forces of evil.

762
01:36:59,083 --> 01:37:05,542
For this war is indeed a crusade,

763
01:37:06,125 --> 01:37:08,542
a holy war

764
01:37:08,542 --> 01:37:12,333
to save the freedom of the world.

765
01:37:12,792 --> 01:37:14,625
In truth, I tell you,

766
01:37:16,167 --> 01:37:18,458
the Germans do not act like us,

767
01:37:18,458 --> 01:37:20,625
neither do they think like us,

768
01:37:20,625 --> 01:37:23,208
for they are not, like us,

769
01:37:23,792 --> 01:37:25,875
children of God.

770
01:37:27,333 --> 01:37:33,917
Are those who shell cities populated
only by civilians,

771
01:37:33,750 --> 01:37:36,208
the children of God?

772
01:37:36,208 --> 01:37:39,917
Are those who advance armed,

773
01:37:39,875 --> 01:37:44,042
hiding behind women and children,

774
01:37:43,958 --> 01:37:46,125
the children of God?

775
01:37:48,583 --> 01:37:50,500
With God's help,

776
01:37:51,500 --> 01:37:54,875
you must kill the Germans,

777
01:37:54,833 --> 01:37:58,750
good or bad, young or old.

778
01:37:58,708 --> 01:38:01,208
Kill every one of them,

779
01:38:02,458 --> 01:38:06,000
so it won't have to be done again.

780
01:38:09,833 --> 01:38:12,125
The Lord be with you!

781
01:38:12,125 --> 01:38:13,708
And also with you!

782
01:38:13,792 --> 01:38:16,375
May God Almighty bless you,

783
01:38:16,375 --> 01:38:21,125
the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.

784
01:38:21,042 --> 01:38:23,625
Amen.

785
01:38:40,167 --> 01:38:41,958
Everyone to their posts!

786
01:38:42,458 --> 01:38:43,833
Every man to his post!

787
01:38:43,875 --> 01:38:44,917
Quickly!

788
01:38:47,125 --> 01:38:48,958
No, stay here!

789
01:38:48,958 --> 01:38:52,667
What're you doing? Come back!

790
01:38:53,625 --> 01:38:57,167
What the hell are you doing?
Shoot the bloody Kraut!

791
01:38:57,125 --> 01:38:58,500
What are you waiting for?

792
01:38:58,542 --> 01:39:01,292
Shoot him, goddammit! Holidays are over!

793
01:39:06,333 --> 01:39:09,292
What the hell do you think
you're playing at?

794
01:39:09,667 --> 01:39:10,958
Shoot him!

795
01:39:12,583 --> 01:39:14,083
Shoot him!

796
01:39:20,792 --> 01:39:22,833
Stand down from your posts.

797
01:39:29,625 --> 01:39:31,458
Shame on you, Gordon.

798
01:39:32,833 --> 01:39:34,208
Shame on you.

799
01:40:00,250 --> 01:40:03,250
Be silly to die
disguised as a German, eh Sir?

800
01:40:05,958 --> 01:40:07,542
What the devil were you doing?

801
01:40:10,708 --> 01:40:12,792
I had a German help me...

802
01:40:16,500 --> 01:40:17,958
Saw my mother.

803
01:40:20,458 --> 01:40:22,708
We drank a coffee, just like before.

804
01:40:25,917 --> 01:40:27,833
You have a son.

805
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:32,750
Henri, his name is...

806
01:41:40,333 --> 01:41:41,875
How did you let yourself...

807
01:41:41,917 --> 01:41:43,667
If you came to preach, leave now!

808
01:41:43,708 --> 01:41:46,500
Don't you realize the gravity of this?

809
01:41:46,958 --> 01:41:50,000
It's high treason! Punishable by death.

810
01:41:51,417 --> 01:41:53,958
Only, we can't execute 200 men.

811
01:41:54,625 --> 01:41:55,958
That's all that saves you.

812
01:41:57,500 --> 01:42:01,333
Not counting all the other cases
of fraternization reported since.

813
01:42:01,958 --> 01:42:03,833
If public opinion hears of this...

814
01:42:04,417 --> 01:42:08,167
Have no fear, none here will tell.

815
01:42:08,125 --> 01:42:09,208
I hope not!

816
01:42:09,833 --> 01:42:11,708
Who'd want to! Want to?

817
01:42:11,750 --> 01:42:14,833
The men involved feel no shame.

818
01:42:14,792 --> 01:42:19,125
If they won't tell, it's because
none would believe or understand.

819
01:42:19,083 --> 01:42:23,292
Carousing with the enemy
while the country's partly occupied!

820
01:42:23,250 --> 01:42:27,625
The country? What does it know
of what we suffer here?

821
01:42:28,708 --> 01:42:30,458
Of what we do, without complaint?

822
01:42:31,375 --> 01:42:34,042
Let me tell you,
I felt closer to the Germans

823
01:42:34,042 --> 01:42:37,625
than those who cry Kill the Krauts!
Before their stuffed turkey!

824
01:42:38,542 --> 01:42:40,500
You're talking nonsense.

825
01:42:40,542 --> 01:42:43,750
No, you're just not
living the same war as me.

826
01:42:43,750 --> 01:42:45,250
As those across the way.

827
01:42:47,083 --> 01:42:49,500
You and your men
will rejoin the Verdun sector.

828
01:42:51,625 --> 01:42:53,125
You're right about one thing.

829
01:42:54,042 --> 01:42:55,667
I don't understand this war.

830
01:42:57,333 --> 01:42:59,375
My corps was the cavalry.

831
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,542
You should've made a career of it,
like I said.

832
01:43:04,792 --> 01:43:08,958
Today, I'm asked to fight a war
where the shovel outweighs the rifle.

833
01:43:10,333 --> 01:43:13,083
In which people swap addresses
with the enemy,

834
01:43:13,083 --> 01:43:14,958
to meet when it's all over...

835
01:43:17,625 --> 01:43:23,250
Plus the cat we found with a note
from the Germans: Good luck, comrades!

836
01:43:23,125 --> 01:43:27,750
I was ordered to arrest the cat
for high treason...

837
01:43:30,208 --> 01:43:31,458
Until further notice.

838
01:43:33,500 --> 01:43:35,000
You're a grandfather, Dad.

839
01:43:50,125 --> 01:43:51,583
His name is Henri.

840
01:43:53,875 --> 01:43:55,125
What are you on about?

841
01:43:58,375 --> 01:43:59,917
How do you know that?

842
01:44:00,958 --> 01:44:03,708
You wouldn't understand.

843
01:44:06,167 --> 01:44:07,292
Henri?

844
01:44:10,792 --> 01:44:12,000
Not bad.

845
01:44:14,167 --> 01:44:15,667
Henri Audebert!

846
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:22,417
Let's try and survive this war for him.

847
01:44:30,250 --> 01:44:31,417
Chin up.

848
01:44:57,958 --> 01:44:59,292
Be seated!

849
01:45:04,292 --> 01:45:08,750
In two days' time
you will be in East-Prussia

850
01:45:08,667 --> 01:45:12,875
to take part in an offensive
against the Russian army.

851
01:45:12,792 --> 01:45:17,583
I hope you'll show pugnacity
in the face of the enemy.

852
01:45:17,500 --> 01:45:21,125
This train will cross the fatherland,

853
01:45:21,125 --> 01:45:24,458
but it won't be possible
for you to see your families.

854
01:45:24,458 --> 01:45:26,292
Why?

855
01:45:26,333 --> 01:45:27,875
I think you can guess.

856
01:45:30,958 --> 01:45:32,583
Long live Kaiser Wilhelm!

857
01:45:32,625 --> 01:45:34,083
Long live the Kaiser!

858
01:45:53,250 --> 01:45:56,125
They hand it out to just anybody!

859
01:47:58,875 --> 01:48:01,250
This film is dedicated to the soldiers

860
01:48:01,292 --> 01:48:05,333
who fraternized on Christmas 1914
in several places on the front.

860
01:48:06,305 --> 01:48:12,841
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