1. Child upon these maps do heed
This black stain to be effacedCopy !req
2. Omitting it you would proceed
Yet better it in red to traceCopy !req
3. Later, whatever may come to passCopy !req
4. Promise there to go you mustCopy !req
5. To fetch the children of Alsace
Reaching out their arms to usCopy !req
6. May in our fondest France
Hope's green saplings branchCopy !req
7. And in you, dear child, flower
Grow, grow,Copy !req
8. France awaits its hourCopy !req
9. To rid the map of every trace
of Germany, and of the HunCopy !req
10. We must exterminate that raceCopy !req
11. We must not leave a single oneCopy !req
12. Heed not their children's cries,Copy !req
13. Best slay all now, the women tooCopy !req
14. Or else some day again they'll rise,Copy !req
15. Which if they're dead they cannot doCopy !req
16. We have a one and only enemyCopy !req
17. Who digs the grave of GermanyCopy !req
18. Its heart replete with hatred,
gall and envyCopy !req
19. We have a one and only enemyCopy !req
20. The villain raises its murderous handCopy !req
21. Its name you know, it is EnglandCopy !req
22. This is it!Copy !req
23. War has been declared!Copy !req
24. Well, little brother?Copy !req
25. Going to spend the war
repainting statues?Copy !req
26. I've put you on the list too!Copy !req
27. In two days, we're all leaving
for basic training in Glasgow.Copy !req
28. At last, something's happening
in our lives!Copy !req
29. Well, you coming?Copy !req
30. Two more minutes, Mr. Sprink.Copy !req
31. I have been ordered to read this message
from our beloved Kaiser:Copy !req
32. This is a dark hour for Germany.Copy !req
33. Our land is besiegedCopy !req
34. and we must brandish the sword.Copy !req
35. I hope that with God's help
we shall use it well,Copy !req
36. so we may re-sheathe it with dignity.Copy !req
37. Two more minutes, Lieutenant!Copy !req
38. We're going out!Copy !req
39. 100 meters to the German trenches.Copy !req
40. We've been shelling
their machine-gunners,Copy !req
41. so we should be alright.Copy !req
42. We take their front line,
then the farm just behind!Copy !req
43. The 134th will relieve us tonightCopy !req
44. and we can rest up in the rear.Copy !req
45. We'll have back-up from the Scots
on our left.Copy !req
46. You'll recognize their black caps.
Don't worry about them,Copy !req
47. pay close heed to what I tell you to do.Copy !req
48. I'm like you.Copy !req
49. I too want to go home.Copy !req
50. So do what you must
and we'll all be home for Christmas.Copy !req
51. Right.Copy !req
52. Come what will.Copy !req
53. Fix bayonets!Copy !req
54. Load rifles!Copy !req
55. Forward!Copy !req
56. Up along the sap!Copy !req
57. Get down!Copy !req
58. Don't stay here little brother...Copy !req
59. So one of us survives.Copy !req
60. No, William.Copy !req
61. Come on, William...Copy !req
62. I abandoned him.Copy !req
63. Like a coward! I abandoned him.Copy !req
64. I let him die, all alone!Copy !req
65. You had no choice.Copy !req
66. And now, we must pray for him
and for all the other casualties.Copy !req
67. The reinforcements have arrived.Copy !req
68. We're leaving, Dale.Copy !req
69. You stay here with the wounded.
- Yes, Lieutenant.Copy !req
70. I'll see you back at base.Copy !req
71. I know you're in the trenches, Father.Copy !req
72. It's me.Copy !req
73. It's Andrew Duncan.Copy !req
74. I'm not far, Padre.Copy !req
75. Father, I'm eight,Copy !req
76. eight feet...Copy !req
77. Father.Copy !req
78. The others are too far away, but me...Copy !req
79. Father.Copy !req
80. You've got to come out and help.Copy !req
81. That's it.Copy !req
82. Just walk straight ahead
and you'll be on top of me.Copy !req
83. I knew I could count on you, Father.Copy !req
84. Father, what are you doing?
This is suicide!Copy !req
85. Don't run off like that! Damn you!Copy !req
86. Get back! Get back here!Copy !req
87. We're ordered to stay in the trench!
- Cease fire!Copy !req
88. That was a stretcher-bearer.
- What?Copy !req
89. You shot a stretcher-bearer.Copy !req
90. How do you know?Copy !req
91. You fired first?Copy !req
92. A Scots marauder, Sir!Copy !req
93. Think I got him.
- Good.Copy !req
94. Stay vigilant.
At the slightest move, sound the alert.Copy !req
95. Yes, Sir!Copy !req
96. Sprink!Copy !req
97. Come with me.Copy !req
98. Yes, Sir!Copy !req
99. Attention all!Copy !req
100. Deposit the enemy weapons
in the Friedrichsstrasse trench!Copy !req
101. Go help them.
- Right.Copy !req
102. Have to rebuild it.Copy !req
103. Relax, no one saw me.Copy !req
104. Get hurt?Copy !req
105. Christ! What happened?Copy !req
106. You were barely 15 mins in there.Copy !req
107. Reinforcements didn't...
- Machine gunners in the sap.Copy !req
108. Lost a third of my men in 5 mins.Copy !req
109. When you saw the Scots retreat
on your leftCopy !req
110. you gave up on the farm.Copy !req
111. So, any word?Copy !req
112. I tried the Red Cross, but no go.Copy !req
113. No news from the enemy-occupied zone.Copy !req
114. The Germans appear to be
treating civilians correctly.Copy !req
115. Your wife is most likely
at her parents' with the baby.Copy !req
116. During the shelling,
a faulty canon exploded.Copy !req
117. Killed the officer
and his 5 men outright.Copy !req
118. I asked you be drafted in
to replace him.Copy !req
119. Artillery, a fine corps.
You'll move up fast.Copy !req
120. No.Copy !req
121. Keep your gunner's career,
I stay here with my men.Copy !req
122. Find another Lieutenant, no shortage.Copy !req
123. I'm Major General here,
I'll do as I see fit.Copy !req
124. You'll do as I say.Copy !req
125. I'll let you spend Christmas
in your unit.Copy !req
126. Then you go to Poitiers for training.
That's an order.Copy !req
127. If you want your visit to remain secret
you'd best leave,Copy !req
128. my orderly's coming.Copy !req
129. You rest up here for 3 days.Copy !req
130. Then, the front line
by the Delsaux farm.Copy !req
131. The sector should be quiet
for Christmas.Copy !req
132. Get some rest.Copy !req
133. See you before you leave for Poitiers.Copy !req
134. Goodnight.Copy !req
135. Goodnight, Sir.Copy !req
136. Lieutenant,
found some blankets for tonight.Copy !req
137. What's wrong, Lieutenant?Copy !req
138. My wallet! I've lost my wallet.Copy !req
139. The wallet with the photo you showed me?Copy !req
140. Yes.Copy !req
141. What a shame...Copy !req
142. But you hardly need photos
of your wife's face.Copy !req
143. I'd a mishap too.Copy !req
144. Look at that, Sir.Copy !req
145. Two centimeters higher
and I was a goner!Copy !req
146. And it still rings!Copy !req
147. Unstoppable, just like me!
Eh, Lieutenant?Copy !req
148. It means placing one every five meters.Copy !req
149. Every five meters?Copy !req
150. How many is that in all?Copy !req
151. About 100,000.Copy !req
152. Or 20 trains for Lille via Brussels.Copy !req
153. Incredible!Copy !req
154. Christmas trees!Copy !req
155. It'll take me longer to send these trees
to the front than our canons.Copy !req
156. Show Miss Sörensen in!Copy !req
157. How is he?Copy !req
158. Well.Copy !req
159. His regiment came under surprise attack
four days ago.Copy !req
160. But they drove back the enemy.Copy !req
161. As regards your proposal...Copy !req
162. I'm afraid to say, I cannot accept it.Copy !req
163. As a Dane, I feel the gravity
of the situation escapes you.Copy !req
164. For five months now,Copy !req
165. two million of our men
have fought unrelenting.Copy !req
166. We have neither the time nor the urge
to organize recitals.Copy !req
167. It took me a while to realize
I'd approached the wrong person.Copy !req
168. So I contacted the Kronprinz,Copy !req
169. who'd be delighted to have a recital
at his HQ on Christmas Eve.Copy !req
170. I was told you were responsible
not just for canons and convoys,Copy !req
171. but also the soldiers.Copy !req
172. So if you would kindly sign here,Copy !req
173. next to the Kronprinz,
before informing your men.Copy !req
174. You'll only see him one night.
What's the point of that?Copy !req
175. It'll be much more than one night.Copy !req
176. Our minutes are longer than yours.Copy !req
177. Mother,Copy !req
178. William and I
got your package and letter.Copy !req
179. Thanks for the mittens and the mufflers.Copy !req
180. It's so cold here, they're most welcome.Copy !req
181. The thought of you at home nice and warm
keeps us going!Copy !req
182. Thanks for the cake, too.Copy !req
183. I hope we have some left
for Christmas Eve.Copy !req
184. Your two sons, who love you...Copy !req
185. Morning, Father.Copy !req
186. 3 cases of whisky!
That's a lot of ammunition.Copy !req
187. I presume I'm invited?Copy !req
188. Sir, my men are completely exhausted.Copy !req
189. We're all tired, Gordon.Copy !req
190. Every single one of us.Copy !req
191. I can bring you no relief
before three days.Copy !req
192. And if the Germans do attack tonight
or tomorrow, as they mayCopy !req
193. you'll just have to deal with it.Copy !req
194. Yes Sir.Copy !req
195. Our valiant stretcher-bearer.Copy !req
196. Who nearly got one of his own men killed
in no-man's -land.Copy !req
197. A stretcher-bearer is supposed
to save lives not endanger them.Copy !req
198. I gave orders,Copy !req
199. very clear orders that it was forbidden
to leave these trenchesCopy !req
200. in case of a German counter attack.Copy !req
201. Yes Sir, but...Copy !req
202. But you don't give a damn!Copy !req
203. Now I suggest you
drop the St. Bernard act in futureCopy !req
204. and never forgetCopy !req
205. something called military discipline!Copy !req
206. Understood?Copy !req
207. Do you understand?Copy !req
208. Yes, Sir.Copy !req
209. Can you tell me what you're doing hereCopy !req
210. in the front line
in the absence of combat?Copy !req
211. Visiting a friend...Copy !req
212. What?Copy !req
213. A friend?Copy !req
214. Where do you think you are?Copy !req
215. Your local parish?Copy !req
216. You will return with me immediately
to the back line.Copy !req
217. Come on, man! Make yourself useful.Copy !req
218. Sir.Copy !req
219. This way is shorter.Copy !req
220. Take a right through the cludgies,Copy !req
221. the latrines.
- This way?Copy !req
222. Yes, this way.
- Get me out of here, will you?Copy !req
223. Enough.Copy !req
224. Sorry we have to
go through the cludgies, Sir...Copy !req
225. Christ!
- Sniper, Sir!Copy !req
226. What a bloody disgusting mess!Copy !req
227. Bad place to take a fall, Sir.Copy !req
228. Get me out of here!
- Absolutely, Sir.Copy !req
229. Shut up, will you!Copy !req
230. As a priest, I'm used to silence...Copy !req
231. That's enough.Copy !req
232. Well?
- Nothing.Copy !req
233. Just a rifle shot. It's dead calm.Copy !req
234. Be wary, they'll stop at nothing,
even on Christmas Eve.Copy !req
235. Follow me.Copy !req
236. Know who had this brilliant idea?Copy !req
237. No.Copy !req
238. For you, Lieutenant.Copy !req
239. Sprink!Copy !req
240. You'll be leaving us for one night.Copy !req
241. To go where?Copy !req
242. Home, in a way,
where you'd be better off.Copy !req
243. Why do you dislike me, Sir?Copy !req
244. After your regiment was disbanded
I had to take you.Copy !req
245. But I prefer masons, bakers, farmers.Copy !req
246. Artists like you are a dead loss,Copy !req
247. nothing but a millstone.Copy !req
248. Now go. This officer's taking you.Copy !req
249. Get a move on!Copy !req
250. It's 10 o'clock and nothing's done!Copy !req
251. Easy on there.Copy !req
252. It's not too short?Copy !req
253. I told you, Lieutenant,
I'm the best barber in Lens.Copy !req
254. Even the mayor used to come to my shop!Copy !req
255. And Henri Hennebicque,
was he a customer?Copy !req
256. Hennebicque... Doesn't ring a bell.Copy !req
257. My father-in-law,Copy !req
258. deputy mayor, lives at 21 Cypress Alley.Copy !req
259. You never told me.Copy !req
260. Cypress Alley, I know it well!Copy !req
261. Been a few times to have my bike fixedCopy !req
262. at Narcisse Denoyelle's, number 43.Copy !req
263. Right, I can see it now,
a little blue gate.Copy !req
264. I feel I can tell you, now...Copy !req
265. Sometimes, of an evening,
I head up along the embankmentCopy !req
266. towards the farm, softly softly,
so not to get killed.Copy !req
267. I sit down and I look...Copy !req
268. I know the Delsaux farm well.Copy !req
269. I'd cycle there for eggs and milk.Copy !req
270. Just beyond the farm
is the road to Lens.Copy !req
271. Straight to Lens.Copy !req
272. On foot, I'd be home in an hour.Copy !req
273. No bother,Copy !req
274. one hour!Copy !req
275. My mother would be waiting at the door,Copy !req
276. a full pot of coffee on the stove,Copy !req
277. just like before...Copy !req
278. What a nuisance, these damn lice!Copy !req
279. There you go.Copy !req
280. I think I'm done, Lieutenant.Copy !req
281. Well?Copy !req
282. Ponchel,Copy !req
283. there's no mirror in front!Copy !req
284. Christ, what an idiot!Copy !req
285. But you're grand, Sir,
tip-top for the party tonight.Copy !req
286. If you say so!
- I do...Copy !req
287. Welcome, Miss.Copy !req
288. My pleasure.Copy !req
289. This way, please.Copy !req
290. Miss Sörenson, most honored.Copy !req
291. I will not tolerate mistakes!
Clean that up at once!Copy !req
292. Know where Nikolaus Sprink is?Copy !req
293. Know where Nikolaus Sprink is?Copy !req
294. He arrived about an hour ago.Copy !req
295. Sprink? The tenor?Copy !req
296. Yes.Copy !req
297. Miss, though we've owned this house
for 300 years,Copy !req
298. it is no longer our home
since September 23 last.Copy !req
299. Ask elsewhere, if you would.Copy !req
300. With any taste they'll have put him
in my room on the top floor.Copy !req
301. Thank you.Copy !req
302. You poor thing! Good taste indeed!Copy !req
303. Prussians with taste!
You shouldn't even answer those people.Copy !req
304. No! I have lice.Copy !req
305. We'll sing again together,
just like before.Copy !req
306. I am not like before, Anna.Copy !req
307. Sing for me! Sing for us!Copy !req
308. Your Highness.Copy !req
309. I'm glad to see the war has spared you.Copy !req
310. That you volunteered as a private,Copy !req
311. was most impressive.Copy !req
312. I did not volunteer.Copy !req
313. I was called up like all the others.Copy !req
314. I congratulate you
on your initiative, Miss.Copy !req
315. It takes a woman to remind us
that despite the war, it is Christmas.Copy !req
316. Thanks to you and your voices,Copy !req
317. tonight shall feel just like Berlin,Copy !req
318. where I hope to return
as soon as possible.Copy !req
319. Perhaps next spring,Copy !req
320. if all goes to plan.Copy !req
321. Next spring!Copy !req
322. You smoke?Copy !req
323. Everyone smokes in the trenches.Copy !req
324. You kill time as you can.Copy !req
325. It's five years today since we met.Copy !req
326. Oslo...Copy !req
327. Five years already?Copy !req
328. To have to brush with death
to realize how time flies.Copy !req
329. That's the terrible thing.Copy !req
330. All these fat, sated men parading,
swilling Champagne.Copy !req
331. Anna, I must return to the front...Copy !req
332. to sing for my comrades.Copy !req
333. Tonight, above all.Copy !req
334. For months I've dreamt of this
and you want to go?Copy !req
335. I don't want to leave you,Copy !req
336. but I must go sing for them.Copy !req
337. I'll return afterwards.Copy !req
338. I'll come too.Copy !req
339. Out of the question!Copy !req
340. It's too dangerous. You don't realize.Copy !req
341. When you left,Copy !req
342. not a second passed without my wondering
if you were still alive.Copy !req
343. You are and I am with you.
Nothing else matters.Copy !req
344. I've too long awaited this night.Copy !req
345. I'll not lose a single instant.Copy !req
346. And without my pass from the Kaiser
you'll not get far.Copy !req
347. You have a pass from the Kaiser?Copy !req
348. The Major General places
his trust in you.Copy !req
349. Hell, Lieutenant!Copy !req
350. Couldn't they leave us be
on Christmas Eve?Copy !req
351. The dirty work always falls to the same!Copy !req
352. I volunteer to go.Copy !req
353. I want no trouble, Gueusselin.Copy !req
354. Approach their lines,
recce the machine guns and back.Copy !req
355. Understood?Copy !req
356. With this moonlight
can I return fire if spotted?Copy !req
357. Stealth and speed
if you want a hot meal.Copy !req
358. Hey lads, where'd you get the pipes?Copy !req
359. Where'd you get the pipes?
- I found it.Copy !req
360. The guys in 92nd heard
we'd be in the trenches for Christmas.Copy !req
361. That was decent!
Don't suppose there's a spare set?Copy !req
362. Sit here, you can use mine.Copy !req
363. Padre, give us a song.Copy !req
364. I'm dreaming of home?Copy !req
365. Come boys, louder!Copy !req
366. They seem to be having fun.Copy !req
367. Wouldn't you like to as well?Copy !req
368. This is Anna Sörensen.Copy !req
369. Good evening.Copy !req
370. Good evening.Copy !req
371. What's all this?Copy !req
372. Are you mad bringing this lady here?Copy !req
373. Lieutenant,Copy !req
374. I convinced the Kronprinz
that a little music would do no harm.Copy !req
375. Very well.Copy !req
376. Fire away.Copy !req
377. Lieutenant!Copy !req
378. Come quickly, something odd is afoot.Copy !req
379. I don't like this, Lieutenant.Copy !req
380. Could be a diversion
for some dirty trick.Copy !req
381. Sprink.Copy !req
382. Get down!Copy !req
383. Good evening, Englishmen!Copy !req
384. Good evening Germans,Copy !req
385. but we're not English! We're Scottish!Copy !req
386. Very nice, but that's enough.Copy !req
387. This is not the Berlin opera.Copy !req
388. You're right.Copy !req
389. It's better than Berlin.Copy !req
390. Well I never! That beats the lot...Copy !req
391. A summit meeting
and we're not even invited!Copy !req
392. Shut it, Ponchel!Copy !req
393. What the hell's going on?Copy !req
394. Good evening.Copy !req
395. Do you speak English?Copy !req
396. Yes... a little.Copy !req
397. Wonderful.Copy !req
398. We've been talking about a ceasefireCopy !req
399. for Christmas Eve. What do you think?Copy !req
400. The outcome of this war
won't be decided tonight.Copy !req
401. No one would criticize us for
laying down our rifles on Christmas Eve.Copy !req
402. Don't worry, it is just for tonight.Copy !req
403. What the devil are they up to?Copy !req
404. Maybe the Germans are fed up.Copy !req
405. They want to surrender.Copy !req
406. I doubt it.Copy !req
407. Give me a bottle of champagne
and my beaker.Copy !req
408. Thank you.Copy !req
409. Thank you.Copy !req
410. Merry Christmas!Copy !req
411. Merry Christmas!Copy !req
412. Merry Christmas!Copy !req
413. What idiot did...Copy !req
414. Merry Christmas!Copy !req
415. Good evening, I'm Anna.Copy !req
416. You first... Go ahead.Copy !req
417. Felix! Where have you been?Copy !req
418. No, his name is not Felix, it's Nestor.Copy !req
419. It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.Copy !req
420. It's the cat from the Delsaux farm.
No, I know better than you.Copy !req
421. It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.Copy !req
422. Here, I've had enough.Copy !req
423. It's Felix...
- No, Nestor.Copy !req
424. See? It's Nestor.
- It's Felix.Copy !req
425. Nestor's heading for the French side.Copy !req
426. My wife.Copy !req
427. A pretty girl.
- Very.Copy !req
428. This is my wife.Copy !req
429. Montparnasse...Copy !req
430. That's my wife's favorite part
in Paris.Copy !req
431. The Luxemburg Gardens.Copy !req
432. Got a picture of your wife?Copy !req
433. Like you, I had a photo of her, but...Copy !req
434. I lost it.Copy !req
435. I've drawn her face, but...Copy !req
436. it's not really the same.Copy !req
437. Do you live on Rue Vavin?Copy !req
438. Yes.Copy !req
439. I think...Copy !req
440. I find your wallet in my trench,
the night of the assault.Copy !req
441. I kept it because of the address.Copy !req
442. A little hotel on Rue Vavin.Copy !req
443. Spent a week there with my wife,
two years ago.Copy !req
444. For our honeymoon.Copy !req
445. Thank you.Copy !req
446. You're welcome.Copy !req
447. Hold on, that's Gueusselin's bottle!Copy !req
448. Who cares, he's turned in.Copy !req
449. I doubt it.Copy !req
450. Thank you, very much... Sirs.Copy !req
451. It's good!Copy !req
452. How many months pregnant was she there?Copy !req
453. Five months.Copy !req
454. That was in Lens, at her parents'Copy !req
455. last July...Copy !req
456. Then there were complications,
she was confined to bed...Copy !req
457. I asked to stay by her side, but no go.Copy !req
458. Called to war, I'd to leave her there.Copy !req
459. But... Don't you write?Copy !req
460. How is she?Copy !req
461. I've had no letters since September.Copy !req
462. The front is impassable.Copy !req
463. I don't even know
if it's a boy or a girl.Copy !req
464. I abandoned you.Copy !req
465. I abandoned you here.Copy !req
466. Hey, Scotsman!Copy !req
467. Don't go for the piety either?Copy !req
468. The French gave me some champagne.Copy !req
469. Like some?Copy !req
470. Come.Copy !req
471. Sing for us.Copy !req
472. Sing for them.Copy !req
473. Good evening, gentlemen.Copy !req
474. Please... Make way.Copy !req
475. Thank you, thank you.Copy !req
476. You were wonderful.Copy !req
477. I'm Jewish.
Christmas means nothing to me.Copy !req
478. But I'll never forget tonight.Copy !req
479. Thank you.Copy !req
480. So what about the young lady?Copy !req
481. Yes, I wanted to ask you.Copy !req
482. Could she spend the night
in your shelter?Copy !req
483. I meant: when is she leaving?Copy !req
484. Tomorrow morning.Copy !req
485. Fine.Copy !req
486. Alas, you cannot sleep in my shelter.Copy !req
487. I have company.Copy !req
488. A big rat, for 3 days now,
but I'll get him in the end.Copy !req
489. We'll find a solution.Copy !req
490. Good night, Lieutenant.Copy !req
491. Good night.Copy !req
492. Don't worry, Miss.Copy !req
493. I'll find you a safe place.Copy !req
494. Thanks, Jörg.Copy !req
495. So, Lieutenant,Copy !req
496. what did you put in your report for HQ?Copy !req
497. I wrote: 24th of December, 1914:Copy !req
498. no hostilities
on the German side tonight.Copy !req
499. Well, that's the truth.Copy !req
500. Tonight,Copy !req
501. these men were drawn to that altar
like a fire in the middle of winter.Copy !req
502. Even those who aren't devout
came to warm themselves.Copy !req
503. Maybe just to be together.Copy !req
504. Maybe to forget about the war.Copy !req
505. Maybe...Copy !req
506. But the war won't forget us!Copy !req
507. Merry Christmas.Copy !req
508. Oskar!Copy !req
509. Oskar!Copy !req
510. Listen. Someone's digging out there.Copy !req
511. Mines! Those damn Scots
are digging a mine sap!Copy !req
512. They'll fill it with explosives
and blow us sky high.Copy !req
513. No, they're not digging any sap.Copy !req
514. They are, I tell you!Copy !req
515. You just got too pally with them
last night.Copy !req
516. Yeah?Copy !req
517. Look who's talking!
- Look!Copy !req
518. Jonathan, come with me.Copy !req
519. Jonathan.Copy !req
520. Dale!Copy !req
521. Dale!Copy !req
522. What the hell are you doing?
The truce is over.Copy !req
523. Any minute the Germans
will start shooting,Copy !req
524. get back in the trench!Copy !req
525. Now!Copy !req
526. Get back down!Copy !req
527. Down!Copy !req
528. Good morning, Lieutenant.
- Good morning.Copy !req
529. Is it possible that we officers
talk about the dead?Copy !req
530. The dead?Copy !req
531. Ponchel!Copy !req
532. Bring your coffee!Copy !req
533. Thank you.Copy !req
534. Thank you.Copy !req
535. Thanks, Ponchel. You can leave us now.Copy !req
536. My men will remove the bodies
of the men killed last week,Copy !req
537. so you can bury them.Copy !req
538. And we will return the remains
of your menCopy !req
539. who fell in front of our lines
last November.Copy !req
540. That makes sense.Copy !req
541. Burying the dead
on the day Christ was born.Copy !req
542. That makes sense.Copy !req
543. Yes.Copy !req
544. I'm fast.Copy !req
545. Sorry, but why does an alarm
go off every morning at ten o'clock?Copy !req
546. Changing of the guard?Copy !req
547. No,Copy !req
548. my aide-de-camp used to have coffee
every morning at ten, with his mother.Copy !req
549. He's worried he'll
forget about all that with the war.Copy !req
550. We've just got used to it.Copy !req
551. So have we.Copy !req
552. Need a hand?Copy !req
553. Can you come, Father?Copy !req
554. In a few days, their families,Copy !req
555. their wives,
will receive the terrible news...Copy !req
556. What we'd rather not think about.Copy !req
557. For them,
nothing will ever be the same again.Copy !req
558. You too,Copy !req
559. one day they'll cover you
and dump you in a hole.Copy !req
560. Let us go, while there's still time.Copy !req
561. I have my pass, Holland is not far.Copy !req
562. It is at peace, we'd have a future.Copy !req
563. Impossible! That'd be to desert.Copy !req
564. It's not desertion,
it's staying together.Copy !req
565. I'm a soldier. Like all the others.Copy !req
566. I have duties, like everyone here.Copy !req
567. Holland is quite a way.Copy !req
568. We'd get caught. Even with your pass.Copy !req
569. There's another solution.Copy !req
570. The French border is 100 m away.
We only have to cross it.Copy !req
571. I've made tea. Perhaps you'd like some.Copy !req
572. Come.Copy !req
573. Come.Copy !req
574. By the way...Copy !req
575. The others asked me
to give you these letters.Copy !req
576. We don't trust the military postCopy !req
577. and as you're going back to Berlin,
we thought...Copy !req
578. Sure.Copy !req
579. Come on, Morallec!Copy !req
580. Go for it!Copy !req
581. Looks like trouble for the Jerries.Copy !req
582. I heard last night, about your wife...Copy !req
583. If you like...Copy !req
584. I can get a letter through to her.Copy !req
585. Why would you do that?
If you got caught...Copy !req
586. One letter won't stop us
winning the war!Copy !req
587. And anyhow when we'll have taken Paris,
and it's over,Copy !req
588. you can invite us for a drink
in Rue Vavin.Copy !req
589. You don't have to invade Paris
to drop round for a drink.Copy !req
590. How many cartridges
have you to fire per day?Copy !req
591. How many?Copy !req
592. Ah, eight!Copy !req
593. What?
- Eight.Copy !req
594. Oh, eight.Copy !req
595. And you?Copy !req
596. Seven
- Seven?Copy !req
597. Seven and eight.Copy !req
598. Us, five! Doesn't surprise me!Copy !req
599. Yesterday, William managed
to bag two JerriesCopy !req
600. who'd been sniping at us for hours.Copy !req
601. If he keeps this up,Copy !req
602. he'll qualify as the best shot
in the whole platoon.Copy !req
603. All our mates
have their eyes on your cake,Copy !req
604. but William and I
are guarding it closely.Copy !req
605. Lots of love from both of us.Copy !req
606. Still here? Weren't they sending a car?Copy !req
607. We waited, but no one came for her.Copy !req
608. I guess the party dragged on at HQ,
they're not awake yet.Copy !req
609. HQ called me 5 minutes ago.Copy !req
610. They told me you'd vanished.Copy !req
611. They thought you'd deserted, Sprink.Copy !req
612. I told them you were here
with Miss Sörensen,Copy !req
613. that you came to sing for your comrades.Copy !req
614. That really impressed them!Copy !req
615. I was asked to keep an eye on you
till they arrive.Copy !req
616. Miss Sörensen will return to BerlinCopy !req
617. and you will be put under arrest.Copy !req
618. Two weeks.Copy !req
619. For disobedience on the front.Copy !req
620. Disobedience?Copy !req
621. I'm not sure I understand?Copy !req
622. So what's the plan for tomorrow?Copy !req
623. A little football matchCopy !req
624. and an aperitif
with those across the way?Copy !req
625. Or will you shoot them like rabbits
having shared champagne?Copy !req
626. Well, Lieutenant?Copy !req
627. All that is now meaningless.Copy !req
628. To die tomorrow
is even more absurd than yesterday.Copy !req
629. That'll do, Sprink!Copy !req
630. Any coffee left?Copy !req
631. Felix!Copy !req
632. Damn that cat!Copy !req
633. Here, Nestor!Copy !req
634. Is the French Lieutenant here?Copy !req
635. Yes, he just arrived.Copy !req
636. What're you doing here?Copy !req
637. We said each to their own camp.Copy !req
638. I know, but...Copy !req
639. Our artillery will shell you
in 10 minutes.Copy !req
640. So I suggest you come shelter
in my trench.Copy !req
641. Had you been relieved,
I'd not have warned your successors.Copy !req
642. They would have shot you first anyway.Copy !req
643. Par for the course!Copy !req
644. Not a word, Sprink!Copy !req
645. Bull's-eye!Copy !req
646. Sorry.Copy !req
647. Damn! Have to rebuild it all over!Copy !req
648. By the way...Copy !req
649. That letter for my wife...Copy !req
650. We've ceased fire.Copy !req
651. It's time for you to go back.Copy !req
652. Hope you both make it through the war.Copy !req
653. I don't think it's over yet.Copy !req
654. I wouldn't be surprised if our own
artillery opened fire after your attack.Copy !req
655. Par for the course!Copy !req
656. This time, we leave it at that.Copy !req
657. It was nice knowing you.Copy !req
658. Perhaps, in other circumstances,
we could have...Copy !req
659. Perhaps...Copy !req
660. Yet maybe a drink in Rue Vavin,
as a tourist!Copy !req
661. Yeh.Copy !req
662. That would be smashing!
Is that how you say?Copy !req
663. Right.Copy !req
664. Your French beats my German.Copy !req
665. No merit in that.
Your wife is not German.Copy !req
666. Well...Copy !req
667. Good luck.Copy !req
668. You too.Copy !req
669. Goodbye.
- Good luck.Copy !req
670. Goodbye.
- Good luck.Copy !req
671. Right boys!Copy !req
672. Lieutenant,Copy !req
673. I managed earlier
to recce their machine guns.Copy !req
674. All there.Copy !req
675. Jörg...Copy !req
676. What are you doing here?Copy !req
677. We want you to take us prisoner.Copy !req
678. Prisoner? That's not possible!Copy !req
679. How do I explain your presence
to my superiors?Copy !req
680. I can't do that!Copy !req
681. Go back to your trenches,
playtime's over.Copy !req
682. Sir,Copy !req
683. if we return to the German side
they'll separate us.Copy !req
684. Put us in whatever jail you like,
but let us be together,Copy !req
685. I beg of you.Copy !req
686. Couturier.
- Yes, Sir?Copy !req
687. Take these two to the rear,
to the village.Copy !req
688. They're prisoners.
Put them in the schoolroom,Copy !req
689. I'll bunk elsewhere.Copy !req
690. And stay with them, we're back tomorrow.Copy !req
691. Lieutenant!Copy !req
692. Can you give these to the Red Cross?Copy !req
693. It's important.Copy !req
694. Ponchel!Copy !req
695. Ponchel!Copy !req
696. Where's Ponchel?
Been calling him for the past hour.Copy !req
697. Said he was going for nosh, Sir.Copy !req
698. Nosh?Copy !req
699. Dearest, I cling to your memory,Copy !req
700. like a climber to his rope,
so not to fall...Copy !req
701. The poor guy died between our lines...Copy !req
702. Let President Poincaré come take
Lorraine himself for all I care!Copy !req
703. Try as we did,Copy !req
704. before we knew it, they'd scored six!Copy !req
705. They admitted later
that most of them play togetherCopy !req
706. in a Munich club called Bayern...Copy !req
707. Never will I forget her voice
in the night...Copy !req
708. I stayed in my trench, in peace.Copy !req
709. Drink with those bastards?
I'd rather die!Copy !req
710. Better trenches, must admit...Copy !req
711. The Scots photographer
promised us pictures at New Year's.Copy !req
712. Be a chance to get back together...Copy !req
713. A Bavarian gave me his address,
to visit when it's over...Copy !req
714. We and the British decided
to accept the Krauts' invitation.Copy !req
715. We'll go spend New Year's Eve with them.Copy !req
716. We'll sing that song
the Scots taught us.Copy !req
717. And above all, drink to the health
of all those bastards,Copy !req
718. who sitting pretty,
sent us here to slug it out!Copy !req
719. Come on...Copy !req
720. He's all yours now.Copy !req
721. Give me some water.Copy !req
722. You're being sent back
to your parish in Scotland.Copy !req
723. I've brought you your marching orders.Copy !req
724. I belong with those who are in pain,
and...Copy !req
725. who have lost their faith.Copy !req
726. I belong here.Copy !req
727. I am very disappointed, you know.Copy !req
728. When you requested permission to
accompany the recruits from your parish,Copy !req
729. I personally vouched for you.Copy !req
730. But then, when I heard what happened...Copy !req
731. I prayed for you.Copy !req
732. I sincerely believe
that Our Lord Jesus Christ guided meCopy !req
733. in what was the most important mass
of my life.Copy !req
734. I tried to be true to His trustCopy !req
735. and carry His message to all,
whoever they may be.Copy !req
736. Those men who listened to you
on Christmas EveCopy !req
737. will very soon bitterly regret it.Copy !req
738. Because in a few days' timeCopy !req
739. their regiment is to be disbanded
by order of His Majesty the King.Copy !req
740. Where will those poor boys end up
on the front line now?Copy !req
741. And what will their families think?Copy !req
742. Excuse me, Your Grace.
The boys are ready.Copy !req
743. Yes.Copy !req
744. They're waiting for me,
to preach a sermonCopy !req
745. to the soldiers replacing those
who went astray with you.Copy !req
746. May our Lord Jesus Christ
guide your steps backCopy !req
747. to the straight and narrow path.Copy !req
748. Is that truly the path of our Lord?Copy !req
749. You're not asking the right question.Copy !req
750. Think about this:Copy !req
751. are you really suitable to remain
among us, in the house of our Lord?Copy !req
752. Christ our Lord said:Copy !req
753. Think not that I come
to bring peace on Earth.Copy !req
754. I come not to bring peace, but a sword.Copy !req
755. The Gospel according to Saint Matthew.Copy !req
756. Well, my brethren,Copy !req
757. the sword of the Lord is in your hands.Copy !req
758. You are the very defenders
of civilization itself.Copy !req
759. The forces of good
against the forces of evil.Copy !req
760. For this war is indeed a crusade,Copy !req
761. a holy warCopy !req
762. to save the freedom of the world.Copy !req
763. In truth, I tell you,Copy !req
764. the Germans do not act like us,Copy !req
765. neither do they think like us,Copy !req
766. for they are not, like us,Copy !req
767. children of God.Copy !req
768. Are those who shell cities populated
only by civilians,Copy !req
769. the children of God?Copy !req
770. Are those who advance armed,Copy !req
771. hiding behind women and children,Copy !req
772. the children of God?Copy !req
773. With God's help,Copy !req
774. you must kill the Germans,Copy !req
775. good or bad, young or old.Copy !req
776. Kill every one of them,Copy !req
777. so it won't have to be done again.Copy !req
778. The Lord be with you!Copy !req
779. And also with you!Copy !req
780. May God Almighty bless you,Copy !req
781. the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.Copy !req
782. Amen.Copy !req
783. Everyone to their posts!Copy !req
784. Every man to his post!Copy !req
785. Quickly!Copy !req
786. No, stay here!Copy !req
787. What're you doing? Come back!Copy !req
788. What the hell are you doing?
Shoot the bloody Kraut!Copy !req
789. What are you waiting for?Copy !req
790. Shoot him, goddammit! Holidays are over!Copy !req
791. What the hell do you think
you're playing at?Copy !req
792. Shoot him!Copy !req
793. Shoot him!Copy !req
794. Stand down from your posts.Copy !req
795. Shame on you, Gordon.Copy !req
796. Shame on you.Copy !req
797. Be silly to die
disguised as a German, eh Sir?Copy !req
798. What the devil were you doing?Copy !req
799. I had a German help me...Copy !req
800. Saw my mother.Copy !req
801. We drank a coffee, just like before.Copy !req
802. You have a son.Copy !req
803. Henri, his name is...Copy !req
804. How did you let yourself...Copy !req
805. If you came to preach, leave now!Copy !req
806. Don't you realize the gravity of this?Copy !req
807. It's high treason! Punishable by death.Copy !req
808. Only, we can't execute 200 men.Copy !req
809. That's all that saves you.Copy !req
810. Not counting all the other cases
of fraternization reported since.Copy !req
811. If public opinion hears of this...Copy !req
812. Have no fear, none here will tell.Copy !req
813. I hope not!Copy !req
814. Who'd want to! Want to?Copy !req
815. The men involved feel no shame.Copy !req
816. If they won't tell, it's because
none would believe or understand.Copy !req
817. Carousing with the enemy
while the country's partly occupied!Copy !req
818. The country? What does it know
of what we suffer here?Copy !req
819. Of what we do, without complaint?Copy !req
820. Let me tell you,
I felt closer to the GermansCopy !req
821. than those who cry Kill the Krauts!
Before their stuffed turkey!Copy !req
822. You're talking nonsense.Copy !req
823. No, you're just not
living the same war as me.Copy !req
824. As those across the way.Copy !req
825. You and your men
will rejoin the Verdun sector.Copy !req
826. You're right about one thing.Copy !req
827. I don't understand this war.Copy !req
828. My corps was the cavalry.Copy !req
829. You should've made a career of it,
like I said.Copy !req
830. Today, I'm asked to fight a war
where the shovel outweighs the rifle.Copy !req
831. In which people swap addresses
with the enemy,Copy !req
832. to meet when it's all over...Copy !req
833. Plus the cat we found with a note
from the Germans: Good luck, comrades!Copy !req
834. I was ordered to arrest the cat
for high treason...Copy !req
835. Until further notice.Copy !req
836. You're a grandfather, Dad.Copy !req
837. His name is Henri.Copy !req
838. What are you on about?Copy !req
839. How do you know that?Copy !req
840. You wouldn't understand.Copy !req
841. Henri?Copy !req
842. Not bad.Copy !req
843. Henri Audebert!Copy !req
844. Let's try and survive this war for him.Copy !req
845. Chin up.Copy !req
846. Be seated!Copy !req
847. In two days' time
you will be in East-PrussiaCopy !req
848. to take part in an offensive
against the Russian army.Copy !req
849. I hope you'll show pugnacity
in the face of the enemy.Copy !req
850. This train will cross the fatherland,Copy !req
851. but it won't be possible
for you to see your families.Copy !req
852. Why?Copy !req
853. I think you can guess.Copy !req
854. Long live Kaiser Wilhelm!Copy !req
855. Long live the Kaiser!Copy !req
856. They hand it out to just anybody!Copy !req
857. This film is dedicated to the soldiersCopy !req
858. who fraternized on Christmas 1914
in several places on the front.Copy !req