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Katarina.

Place your bets, have some fun and help the invalids!

Thankyou.

George!

Let's go. It's too hot.

The two ofyou go. I've got something to do.

George! How's your watch?

Both fighters possess the courage of our hero, Gavrilo Princip!

Your hand guided me when I saved his life.

Help me now, to save it again.

Don't let me kill him.

Spare a coin for a war veteran, good people!

St George really is your patron.

There! A man! Waving!

Hey, Kraut! Come have a beer!

Waving, my ass! He's threatening us!

Man! Flying! On a dragon!

I say... that's a threat.

No you don't!

He's really threatening us. Bastard!

- I'll fuck him up! - Threaten us...

Luka, areyou celebrating or shooting each other?

Teacher, this is military business.

Gavrilo! Have a shot on me!

Get down! Get down, you fucking Kraut!

Now we're fucked! They're really gonna get mad!

People! We killed the plane!

- You're alive! - We're both alive.

By the decision of the Serbian Supreme Command,

and signed by General Radomir Putnik personally,

we hereby declare a full-scale mobilization!

The third bells in three years.

I'm afraid there won't be anyone left to hear the fourth one.

Let my great-grandson hear. We don't have to.

Don't worry, Grandpa. Our mother was in labour for two days with Gavrilo.

God forgive me, sometimes I wish he'd never been born at all.

Come on, people, last orders.

The tavern will close during the war. It wouldn't be right.

Does this mean I can't sing?

Once it starts, it'll soon be over soon.

They called me again, a half-blind man!

And again, they didn't call me.

- What happened? - Jelena's okay. She'll be fine.

And the baby? What about the baby?

After the war, your business will boom, cripples, like never before!

I wanna make a reservation In Invalid tavern right now!

The Kraut can run and hop But at the Sava's banks he'll stop

MILAN VUKOVIC

Now you stink too.

Just like the rest of us.

Major, sir! GavriloVukovic, second lieutenant, cavalry.

One thing I hate more than Germans. Doctors.

- Let's hear it. - I'm reporting for duty.

I know the river, I've crossed it a hundred times.

A smuggler?

Decorated.

Before taking up smuggling, you were a soldier.

You know I don't make the rules.

If it was down to me, I'd take you. We need even men like you.

I'm sorry.

Our brave student killed him His name is Princip Gavrilo

You're going to die, and you scream like hell!

Spare a coin for a war veteran, good people!

Grandpa, don't do this.

You promised to take me to Belgrade.

Everything will be all right, Gavrilo can tell you.

Grandpa. I know you can hear me. This is horrible.

- He lay down and decided to die. - Please, just one smile, grandpa.

Dying isn't going so smoothly...

Mile, put me down, I want to be closer to the ground.

Grandpa!

That's better.

Grandpa...

You lived your way, and you died your way.

A successful man.

Gavrilo!

Slavka, if the war starts to go badlyfor us...

Burn the house down, I don't want Krauts in it.

Look out for yourself, George. I'm an expert in war.

If I don't make it back, everything I have is hers.

And the child she's expecting...

If it's a boy, let him stay here, to keep the family name alive.

If it's a girl, get her out of this misery, as far away as possible.

Since my husband died, I've not met as good a man as you.

It's easy to be good when you've got nothing else left.

Goodbye, Slavka.

There's something for you in the shed.

- You told him whose child it is? - He already knew.

May St George be with you!

Watch your head, gendarme!

- Thrash them just like I would. - Stop it!

I'm tired, already. Give me that.

What's the hurry, George? The Krauts will wait for us!

St George... Please love Aleksa.

Love Gavrilo... Mile...

Love them like Zoja-man does.

Here, two dinars.

The bill I never paid.

Mile...

Get some rest. I'll take over.

Soldiers.

I'm afraid we'll envy Aleksa soon enough.

We'll say: "Luckyyou, Aleksa".

My grandpa used to say "I'd rather die than that something happen to me!"

Shows their true colours, beating a man who brings them

a soldier's letter!

Only the filthy Babic family could do that.

No bird's flown over their house for 200 years.

So you called in at Vojo's wife?

I took her a letter from Vojo!

- A letter from the frontline is sacred! - Count yourself lucky.

You wouldn't have got out of my yard...

Alive.

You're crippled, not deaf! You heard me, frontline letters!

Fuck off!

Rajko, drop by my place sometime.

Bring a letter to my wife.

I already did.

A pregnant woman doesn't go to a wake.

- Bad luck. - Exactly. Let her in.

I don't want to find you here when I come back.

Neither you nor her.

- Witch! - Let's get out of here.

Will St George finally kill the dragon

and save us from evil?

St George, help us!

Witch!

Why did you come?

I'm leaving tomorrow.

We won't see each other again.

Zoja-man sad.

While Europe has danced, sung and grown rich

we've spent centuries in the trenches!

At their border posts, like their guard dogs!

Where's that fucking Europe now?

Cer Mountain, The first battle of the Great War

Serbia today has four million people.

Austria-Hungary has 55 million!

For years they've been threatening and talking bullshit!

They say that Serbia should 'bathe in iron'!

I've never heard a wickeder threat than to bathe a nation in iron!

We'll sticktheir iron up their asses!

They'll feel it for many years!

Ifthey cross the border and head for our villages, we fuck their what?

- We fucktheir mothers! - Exactly!

I have the honor to inform you that we are at the focus ofthe enemy attack!

Once we repel the attack, we will chase them all the way back to Vienna!

All the way to Vienna, we will...

Fly over, Sir!

The baby is mine, and only mine. The decision is mine.

'Keep the family name going'! That important name...

They go to war, sire children, and die in that name!

We have to give birth and rejoice ifthe child goes to war!

If it's a boy...

This child will not go to war.

Gavrilo! Gone mad! Broke into army barracks!

Took dynamite... to kill boat!

To kill Gavrilo-man.

Mad. Wanna all by him-self.

What? You want to kill yourself?

I came to see what sort of man you are, one last time.

Kill yourself?

What amazing knowledge, bravery and wisdom that takes!

- What do you want from me? - That you stay alive.

Katarina, it's wartime.

Is nothing holy to you men apart from war?

Nothing? To be fathers, to love! You forgot to learn that!

I spit on your holy things! Do you hear me?!

Not easy without a man in the house, right?

Need a hand with anything?

How can you help me?

Well, I can't chase chickens around theyard. But...

I have my uses.

Really?

Tie up the dog, girl.

Men! Well done! Bravo!

We never got this far before!

Next time, we break their lines! I promise you that!

Sergeant! Dismiss the men.

- Fall out. - George.

Why haven't you told him about the rejects?

When?

If some cripple had jumped the Captain's wife

he'd have us all running there! Look at this letter!

Running? We'd be fucking flying!

They fuck women and steal chickens?

Did you hear me?

Men unfit for war fuck women and steal chickens?

Sir, we have the same reports from other units.

- I had to report this to you. - And I must report it to the Major,

The Major to the Colonel, the Colonel to the General,

The General reports this to Supreme Command, so

They react instantly,

They throw away all the war plans and order the men home, so

They dig in trenches outside their houses, wait, and kill the studs!

Get away! Piss off!

Sergeant, are you married?

Yes I am, Captain.

Any children?

No... not any more.

God willing, I'll have them again.

Do you too suspect that someone's invading your home and your wife?

No, not at all, sir.

While I'm away...

there's another man...

- Another man? - He takes care of my wife and home.

If it wasn't for him, I'd be worried.

Get out.

What's this nonsense?

What bloody man?

- Her man. - Your wife's man?

- Yes. - She's your lawful wedded wife?

Yes, she is.

It's an ugly story, this isn't the time. Excuse me.

Wait a minute! Why isn't that scoundrel here?

He lost an arm in the last war.

We fought together.

We all fought together, Sergeant.

Do you care about your wife at all?

I came here to die... just like you.

I came here to win!

But the soldiers try to stay alive.

I feel sorry for them.

For me, this is a relief.

From a greater evil, I came into a lesser one.

What? I'm sure you heard everything!

Fuck diplomacy. Who's coming with me?

Wait, Baca. We have a petition.

If they catch you, you'll be court-martialled.

I'm going hunting for a songbird.

Let's start signing.

I won't.

Yes, you will.

- I can't write! - Just put a cross!

Not that big cross, moron! Give it to me. Next!

Mikan, watch out for the gendarme.

Why hasn't the Captain taken this to the Supreme Command?

The Supreme Command has better things to do!

They don't deal with rejects and lovers!

- This isn't about soldiers! - Who is it about, if not us?

We get letters saying that rejects are prowling around our houses!

- I didn't dare open the last letter! - Enough! Enough talk!

I did what I could.

- Listen up! - Maybe a package from my mother.

Letters for the 3rd Company!

Somebody's finally remembered you, footsloggers!

Let's see what treats we have here!

Vojo Milovanovic!

Vojo, stop fucking around!

- Milovanovic! - I'm dead.

- Milovanovic! - Dead!

Mikan Babic!

- Mikan Babic! - May God rest his soul.

Baca Dragojevic!

They're all dead!

These men are replacements.

You're alive, but you're no good to me.

- Baco. - Baco!

- Did you at least kill them? - Caught me before I got there.

Too bad.

Sergeant, assemble the squad.

Captain, is there any way we can avoid this?

- People, don't... - George...

You always respected the country, but my house, never!

I believed you when you said that the country exists!

That the country's worth dying for!

All I knew of this country was my family and my home!

- Fuck you and the country! - Ready. Aim.

Soldier, I wish you lasting rest.

Fuckyou and fuck the country!

Fire!

Brother!

My brother!

War... Boom, boom!

Mile, why don't you open the tavern?

Expect from us to drink river water till the end of the war?

Look!

- I'm getting out of here! - They know us...

We're a civilian building, theywon't shoot at us!

Our Russian brothers and Allies will never abandon Serbia!

Please, don't.

We are invincible!

Kraut murderers!

I suggest we don't relax until the Allies come.

- Pass it on. - Aleksa. You died right on time.

Fucking cripple!

Over here!

- Mile, what's this? - There you are!

- By the order ofthe Command... - They granted our pensions?

- I don't think so, teacher. - Nowyou're fucked!

Ifyou're able enough to fuck other men's wives,

you're able enough to fuck Krauts at the front!

Zoja-man don't want to shoot.

So you can fuck now, in the name ofthe king and the country!

- I'm for the military band! - Is this the enemy or the allies?

- I am straight! - I can see! On the road!

What's all this? What on earth are you doing?

Where'syour brother? With that whore again?

- He seized the opportunity! - Shut up!

- Let's go! - Move!

I can go by myself!

Please, don't! I've got a mill to run!

- Move it! - Faster!

Come on, child.

Stop!

- Please... - Where are you going?

Once this is over, I'll come to Belgrade. I promise.

Over? You're waiting for the end of something that has no end.

I'm not going to let some war make my decisions for me.

Come on! Move it, you bastards!

- Zoja-man won't shoot. - Yes you will! Move!

- Move, you old fart! - Faster!

Faster, rejects!

Witch!Witch!

Move! Move!

The mobilization doesn't apply to you.

You're a decorated war hero.

If it was up to me, you'd be leading this pack of freaks!

As fucker-in-chief!

Move these beasts!

Let's go.

Gavrilo!

Where you go, I go too!

You're not going anywhere. Do you hear?

I'm coming, Gavrilo! Please!

- You won't stop me! - Go home! Go!

I'm coming, and that's it!

Go home!

I hope you drop dead, Gavrilo! Drop dead!

Drop dead! Do you hear me, Gavrilo?!

Drop dead!

When you're out of ammo, and the enemy is still advancing...

Use the bayonet!

When the bayonet breaks, use your hands!

When they breakyour hands, use your teeth!

When they shoot you down, fall right across their path!

Let them trip over you! Fuckthem even when you're dead!

Serve the Fatherland even in death! Is that clear?

Can you hear me, sir?

Major, sir!

Requesting permission for another charge!

Can you hear me?

Yes! Another charge!

We've got enough men! We don't need reinforcements!

Please, Major, sir! I'm begging you!

I'm down on my knees!

Yes, sir!

- Motherfucker! - I wish I was dead.

We're out of luck!

The orders are to wait for the night and reinforcements!

It's a real shame, sir.

However...

for the first time in my life...

I will have to disobey my superior.

He's a goner.

Thankyou, St George.

What a hero, what a madman he was!

I raise you ten.

I call...

When his sort are all dead, we'll become the heroes

without noticing it! Show your cards. May God rest his soul.

Rest in peace.

What do you think you're doing, bastard?

No, you don't!

Let him take it. The hero doesn't need it anymore.

Thankyou, Major, sir.

- Reinforcments are on their way. - We're saved.

Reinforcements will be here. Fresh troops are coming.

Fresh troops!

Just one more battle, and God willing, we'll all go home... alive!

- Vojo, fresh troops. - Thank you, St George!

Heroes! It's almost free! I can make you immortal!

- Come on, let's take a picture. - For yor grand and grand grand children!

- Heroes, come on! - Get out of here!

I will immortalize you!

Clear off, jinx!

- I want to take a picture. - Me, too!

Make sure we look like heroes!

George, let's have one souvenir photo.

Move closer. Closer... All together.

I like it! Excellent... Real conquerors.

Not one smile, you'll spoil everything!

Look over here!

And... Watch the birdie!

What are you staring at? Heroes!

Move it!

- Let's go! Faster! - Move! Move!

Come on! Faster!

The petition. It worked!

Everybody signed it, George.

We didn't ask you because... Fuck.

Fall in!

What kind of people are you?

Sergeant, sir!

- You, stand at attention. - How?

To avoid revolt, they have been sent here as a punishment!

Punishment?!They told us that being here was an honour.

Sign here.

What a fool! I came here fucking singing!

- Dane, avenge your brother. - We've been set up, brothers!

- Malicious, wagging tongues! - Shoot.

Brothers!Those were all lies!

- Go ahead, shoot. - We're brothers now?

Where are our wives and sisters, brothers?

Enough! I'm sick ofyour bullshit!

You deserve such replacements.

This was all your idea, you sad excuse for a man.

You pushed the soldiers to revolt.

You ordered the mobilization of these poor creatures.

You lacked the guts to come and kill me, like a man.

Gavrilo, shut your mouth.

Once again, gendarme, you fucked up!

I wasn't mobilized, I'm a war reject.

I came here of my own will.

Have you done this because of her?

Don't you mention her.

Don't move!

I told you. A witch!

We could've settled this between the two of us.

Sergeant, sir, the enemy is preparing to attack.

It seems we won't settle this in this life.

Into position!

We don't need their commands.

Let's do the job they brought us here for.

The replacements are here!Too bad I won't be able to thankyou personally!

- Sergeant, sir... - Motherfucking sun...

Ninko...

Ninko! Bro!

Finally!

The ones that cursed us didn't waste their time.

Let's go, brother.

Across the lands forever cursed

The Sava's mighty banks have burst

The whole village is weeping

Shit! The last thing I'll hear...

Only my Smilja's sleeping

George. Forgive us.

We didn't want it to turn out like this.

Gavro!

Prepare to attack.

Sergeant, sir! We can't!The Major hasn't...

What are you doing here?

- George! Did you see that? - What?

- Songbird! I'll kill you now! - Quiet!

Don't come out till it's all over. Understand?

Take this watch.

It's still slow. Two hours exactly.

You'll get used to it by the time you grow up.

Vane, goodbye.

- Songbird! - The krauts will hear us!

He shouts like crazy. A man can't even die in peace.

Our time now... to die.

Why don't they shoot?

Our Czech brothers! Our Croat brothers!

Don't shoot!

I pray to you, St George.

Zoja-man don't want to hurt!

Songbird!

I've been looking all over for you!

So you sing...

I sing all day long...

I can walk by any house...

That's okay.

Fucking... fucking...

Fucking petition!

Vojo.

I wrote those letters... I was the informer.

But why?

Just out of spite.

Hold it, let me unscrew this...

Let's go, Luka.

What are you doing here?

Gavrilo... I saw him.

I saw him.

- Let me, Vane... - Light our way, kid.

Grandpa taught me... to walk in the dark.

And so it went on troughout the 20th century

English Subtitles: Zvonimir Ivanov