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Luxembourg 1838

Under Dutch occupation, three famines, war and disease

have killed one quarter of the population.

A majority of people leave the country. A few remain.

In the north, the Graff family reigns over a remote high castle.

People loyal to Graff are fed and protected,

but their survival depends on the sacrifices they're willing to make.

A thief! A thief!

Where? - They steal from us!

Where? - Down by the river!

Where are you running to?

I must tell Graff! - Helene, come back!

Father, father!

Why did you ring the bell?

Thieves... they are close... four of them!

Go back to your mother! - I must tell him!

Thieves! They steal our food for the celebration.

Fetch your brothers!

Thieves! Pier, Luc! Father is calling!

Did they see you?

I caught the thieves. Out of the way!

Clear the way!

A loaf of bread, nothing else.

We do not eat cake before we eat the roast dinner.

We work hard for what we have.

Gather your family and get...

My daughters need help.

Thieves who get caught must be punished.

Are your girls ripe?

Give us one of your daughters.

I do not understand.

One daughter for all your lives.

Helene!

Bring bread!

You choose for him!

Choose!

Or none of them will survive.

She stays.

She is my youngest, I want the entire loaf.

Now get lost!

Your name?

What is your name?

Marie.

How old are you?

Twelve.

Do you bleed?

One day, I will be as strong as my father.

Hush! We will never catch it like this.

I will be stronger.

Impossible, you are just... - What?

A girl. - So what?

I will still be stronger than you!

Really? Prove it!

Go on, catch it!

Jon... go help Meyers!

He needs your swift hands with his bees. - Yes, father.

I am swifter than him.

You do not know your place, Missy.

Only male fireflies can fly.

Females have no wings.

Come along.

You want to burn the place down?

Get lost!

Push!

You must be stronger for this!

Those grains... are our daily bread.

Our bread... is our life.

Every grain that is lost is one less bite of bread.

Everyone here has his duty...

so that all of us can live a decent life.

Pushing the wheel of the mill is not your duty.

Your duty is to bear strong sons to my Jon.

Everyone gets his ration.

Go back to your father.

Open the gate.

Now you are the main man on the farm.

Next year I will go hunting, too.

I will come along.

I also want to see what is on the other side of the mountains.

You are not allowed.

What else should I do all those days without you?

You have a new sister now.

She does not say much.

She's pretty, though.

Lust is a mortal sin.

Soon, you will no longer be able to hide behind this.

Maybe you will not even recognise me.

Always.

Today, lent has come to an end for all of us.

Not one of you shall go home thirsty.

None shall go home hungry!

This will be the Easter of Helene and Marie...

and it must be celebrated.

We survived a tough winter together.

Together, we escaped death yet again.

Together...

we shall forge our own destiny.

Eat until your belly bursts.

Meyers... shall we go!

Gospel according to Luke...

And every year his father and mother

went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

And when he was 12 years old, they went up to Jerusalem, to the feast.

And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back,

the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem but they had no knowledge of it.

But they supposed him to have been in company...

Letter to Galatians, 5:16...

walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify

the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit...

and the Spirit against the flesh,

because these are opposite the one to the other...

so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

Do you understand?

Helene...?

You must stay.

I don't want to.

Those are the rules... to each his duty.

I should not even be here.

I brought you fresh bread.

I must get out of here! - That's impossible.

It is not over yet.

You are stronger than me.

I really must get out of here.

Wait... what about Marie? We cannot leave her here.

She is with father. Come now!

What have you done?

What did you do?

Helene?

It is not your fault.

Your grandmother also saw herself in this mirror for the first time.

And me too, many years ago... no one can take that away from us.

We go back now!

No!

We will leave.

What about you, boy?

What says the village?

Your brothers...?

Your sisters...?

We want to seek our own happiness.

Death is no one's happiness.

We will not stay here! - Death awaits out there!

You choose death over our village?

We choose our own destiny.

So be it.

My boy stays here!

No... no!

No!

You shall never run away again!

Kremer... punish him!

Jon... no!

Your flesh is all you get to keep!

The rest does not belong to you!

Come...

No... Mother! No!

Father!

My father did warn you...

Death awaits out here.

THE LAST ASHES

15 years later

After centuries of foreign occupation, Luxembourg is free.

To end the chaos, country and city folk must come together.

Tracks of iron are being laid right up to the north of the country.

Where no one dared to tread for decades.

Fire!

Fire!

That fire will not stop us.

We need to get to Clervaux by the end of next week.

How much damage is there?

We break our backs laying tracks,

but they fear for their lives.

Are you sure you saw someone on horseback?

We are not wanted here.

This is... is nothing... nothing but...

but a fairy tale.

On the far side of the river, buried in the dark...

haunting faces made of wood, are praising their patriarch...

It is... a...

a children's song.

Just a song...

to scare the children and keep them from going into the woods.

Fairytale or not, the tracks must be laid.

We cannot tolerate another attack.

Give it to him.

One is for me.

You have one shot, old man.

Out here death awaits, Kremer.

It is his carriage.

Here lies a body.

Bring a torch.

It is Kremer!

Blood... everywhere.

Dead... Pier, his throat was cut.

Tracks! Several people! On horseback!

What shall we tell the others?

The truth. Kremer was attacked.

Whose horse is this?

Father!

Father! One has survived.

For a whore is a deep pit,

an adulteress is a narrow well.

Cleanse your hands, you sinners,

and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You are not simple minded.

Ill?

You are not warm.

You are not afraid of me, are you?

Get dressed and come with me.

Your name?

Oona.

You are not from around here.

I was born in the chief town and raised on the New Continent.

You all come home, sooner or later.

Who marked your body in this manner?

My travels.

You were among the savages.

Settlers traded me for cattle.

The natives told me their tales and showed me their ways.

They gave me my freedom.

Your family?

Taken by the breath of Death.

Yet you believe in God?

I believe what nature shows me.

Ungodly ramblings.

Who attacked you?

Men in uniform.

Who attacked you?

Choose your words carefully!

Men in uniform.

Lies...

But... they did not cut your throat?

They were not after me.

Why were you in that carriage?

Your man promised to take me in and to give me food.

What did you promise him?

That he would not die alone.

Are you barren?

Or can you still bear children?

Good.

Good.

Wait here.

Come with me.

No need to be afraid of me.

I do not want to tempt the Devil.

I cannot get ill.

Why don't you rest?

A Graff knows no rest.

We must carry out our duties.

Are you sisters?

We are related by marriage.

Your neck looks all messed up.

It tells my story.

My name is Oona.

Sidonie... I'm Sidonie.

And you?

Marie.

I don't... trust them.

They are Luxembourgers, like us.

Who says it was not them... them who attacked us.

We will find out soon enough.

There was a fire at the railway tracks.

We need workers.

They will be paid.

You need us?

We need everyone.

The country doesn't build itself.

We have always been free.

And we shall remain free.

Every Luxembourger must do his part.

Those are not our laws.

Now get out of here!

The railway will lead to change.

Are your children ill?

It is not... not a fairytale.

Why are their faces hidden?

They are not... not fairytales.

Enough!

One of our men was attacked last night...

his throat was cut.

There must have been several men,

one guy alone could not have overpowered Kremer.

Tom saw the arsonist.

He w..was...

was on horseback.

Just...

just like him.

He is still green under the gills.

He... he... he... probably still wets his pants.

Easy, easy!

This one is loaded.

That one too.

We do not want...

we do not want...

unnecessary skirmishes.

Crawl back under your rock and stay in your fortress.

None here shall lift a finger for you.

Stay off our land.

This goes for our water, too.

Water belongs to everyone.

My babies...

time to wake up.

Honey wine...

Honey wine...

oh, you blessed honey wine.

Who is it?

Who, then, is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?

Who is there?

And Jesus called a little child unto him...

and set him in the midst of them.

Show yourself!

Who is it?

But who so shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me,

Come here...

it were better for him a millstone were hanged about his neck...

and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Meyers?!

Meyers?!

Meyers?! - Jon!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Jon!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

Meyers!

What are you doing here?

Meyers has vanished.

I looked everywhere... in his chambers at the chapel,

where he keeps his honey and his bees.

There is no trace of him.

And our father?

Leave him be... he must rest.

Ring the fire bell.

I do not think father would want that.

The fire bell.

The fire bell... now!

What happened?

Meyers has disappeared...

Where is Graff? - But we will find him!

Who attacked Kremer?

A gang of... - The same who attacked Meyers?

Listen up!

Kremer was murdered.

He gave his life to protect us.

From whom?

People from outside.

Hungry people.

In here, you are safe.

What about Meyers?

Meyers is an old man who flagellates himself.

He is happiest when he's drunk.

Together...

we are strong...

together, we are free...

and together...

we forge our own destiny!

You will take over Meyers's duties until he sobers up.

Nose bleeding again?

What about the child?

I still feel it.

Go wash your face, no one should see you like this.

What are you doing out here?

I need no help.

Follow me.

I must show you something.

Where are we going?

Help!

Marie... Marie! You must help me!

Go fetch the others!

Who are you?

Do not listen to her... she's just spewing lies.

Tell me your name.

Helene. - Do not believe her!

Helene?

Faster, Marie! Dig faster!

Have you forgotten what they did to us?

Do not look at her! Do not look at her!

They saved my life!

Dig, Marie, dig! Hurry!

Graff broke us!

It was you who chose me, you! Not Graff!

Hurry!

Marie... hurry!

What if it is a girl?

Faster!

Should she suffer the same fate?

Hurry!

And her daughter?

And her daughter's daughter?

Dig, Marie!

Why have you stopped?

Dig!

Why don't you?

You simple-minded woman...

you wretched whore!

Whores, both of you!

Your child

Your child will not need to hide its face.

Get me out of here!

It does not need to face any Graff.

You cannot kill them all.

Yes, I can... one after the other.

Even Jon?

I cannot lose another child.

A Graff grows inside me too!

The pain will never end...

no matter what you do!

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Is it a boy?

We must wait.

What is she doing here?

Go, lock her up!

Go!

It is a boy.

You did it.

It is a boy.

Marie, a boy.

Listen to him screaming.

He is strong and lively.

He is a Graff, Marie!

I want to see him.

Soon, the curse is over.

Rest now.

Rest.

Pier... - Yes, I'm here.

Pier, our boy. I want to see our boy.

What? What is happening?

I'm sorry...

he was not strong enough.

My boy...

Give him to me.

Marie?

Marie, come back.

Marie!

Come, Marie... - No.

Go home!

The stench of Death shall not remain here.

Give me back my baby.

Marie!

Give him back!

Marie!

Marie, come...

Get your brothers!

The bread must be shared.

Stay with your wife today.

Give me the stranger.

And you shall get the heir you deserve.

Her blood is my blood, her blood is my blood.

Her blood is my blood, her blood is my blood.

Let me do it.

No, I must do it.

Her babies are mine too.

She wiped my blood, I wipe hers.

Her blood is my blood.

Come with me.

You, stranger, come.

Her blood is my blood, her blood is my blood...

Where were you last night?

Marie and you?

In the woods. - Why?

She was scared.

She was in pain. She couldn't breathe.

Why did you not call for help?

I did not need help.

Did Marie come get you...

in your room?

She came to tell me why you rang the bells.

She was bleeding from the nose.

Odero!

Your horse is not well.

Odero!

Odero!

Ojibway [ Hello Odero. [How are you? I must apologise! ]

He must get out. He is not used to being locked up.

You will not get beyond the inner courtyard.

[ My sun. ]

You did say "you".

What?

Earlier on, you said "you" rang the bells.

If you want to be one of us, you must behave like one.

You call me "the stranger", you lock me up.

You are not my prisoner.

Death awaits out here.

Are...

are you from...

the castle?

The water is ours.

Did you...

mark those trees?

Lambs' blood.

Innocent blood.

The thing you carry...

is it... your sorrow?

What is it to you?

My name is...

Tom.

You... you do not...

have to go back...

if you do not...

want to.

My name is Sidonie.

[ Oh I am thinking I am reminded ]

[ Of my homeland, a faraway place ]

[ My homeland ]

[ My little daughter ]

[ My little son ]

[ I leave them far behind, a faraway place ]

[ My homeland ]

[ Now it is near ]

[ I am alone as I go ]

[ My homeland ]

[ My homeland ]

[ I am going home ]

[ I am going home ]

[ Oh I am sad ]

[ My homeland ]

[ Oh I am thinking I am reminded ]

[ Of my homeland, a faraway place ]

[ My homeland ]

The mill was your responsibility.

It was no accident.

You are the only one responsible!

I found this in the ashes.

You miserable cripple...

soldiers did it.

Enough!

How many days of food have we left?

Flour for two dozen days, more or less.

Until the damage is repaired,

grain must be ground by hand.

I have it all under control. - No, you have not!

Do I have to spoon-feed you every single thing?

Wall up the aqueduct first.

The castle must be secured.

No one enters, no one leaves.

And get rid of my piss!

That is the cripple's job.

Pier does not have your foresight.

Neither does he have my vices.

Your brothers are tough lads,

you could have been one, too.

And yet... they lost all their newly-borns.

Not one was strong enough.

Wash them again.

Wash my feet again!

Everyone has found his place.

Apart from you.

Especially you.

They share their wrong thoughts and say:

Short and sad is our life;

there is no cure for the end of man

and no one is known to deliver from the underworld.

By chance we came into being

and afterwards we shall be as if we had never been.

Smoke is the breath in our nostrils

and thought is a spark at the beating of our heart;

when it is extinguished, the body turns to ashes

and the spirit flies away like thin air.

Kremer was not of our blood.

Yet he always dedicated his blade to the Graff family.

In spirit, he was one of us.

Our time passes like a shadow.

Our end will not be repeated;

it is sealed and no one is coming back.

Our name will be forgotten in time,

our works will not be remembered.

Our life passes like the trail of a cloud

and dissipates like a mist chased away by the sun's rays

and pressed to the ground by its warmth.

Let us oppress the righteous who live in poverty,

not sparing the widow

and not shrinking from the gray hair of the aged!

Let our strength determine what righteousness is,

because the weak prove useless.

You must not remain unmarried.

Your life must be tied to the life of your offspring.

You shall be Jon's wife.

Each and everyone must do his share of work.

Today you rest.

Tomorrow we cut down trees and build the wall.

We carry Death outside our walls

and shall never let him in again.

Life always finds a way.

I planted a flower for every baby that left us.

The last one is not blooming yet.

No mother can take such grief.

And no father deserves it.

As a little girl, I also wanted to be a mother.

Bear strong children.

This is what they expect of you.

Our children.

They are Graff's children.

Is no one waiting for you at the place you came from?

Is there someone you love?

There was one...

Did anyone try to force one on you?

The way they do it to us.

You must endure a lot if you want to survive.

Since my last child died, Luc doesn't even look at me.

I became invisible.

We take care of the food, you rest.

I stared long enough at the ceiling in my room.

There is a lack of life at this table.

Am I right, Oona?

We are in mourning.

What about shame?

You should be ashamed.

Your mother brought you into this world.

She lost her life, not you.

She survived us.

He is the scourge.

Jon was stillborn.

But he was strong, he fought for every breath.

You still suck on my tit as if I was your sow.

You would have starved without me!

The cripple and the stranger could bring back life to this shack.

You wanted the stranger for yourself.

I wanted to... - You wanted to plough her like a fallow field.

I am sorry.

You gave me everything, and I gave nothing back.

I am sorry!

Father...

He can't breathe.

Breathe, father...

Get out...

Get out!

So I am your prisoner after all?

My father can still change his mind.

I am no match for you.

Good night.

I want to confess.

Follow me.

When did you last confess?

I stole...

I lied...

I took lives...

and I will do so again until I can rest my soul.

You promised you would always recognise me.

Look at me, Jon.

You saved my life.

Kremer?

Kremer?!

He got what he deserved.

And Meyers?

Where is he?

They should suffer the way we suffered.

Not all sufferings are equal.

There is no place for you here.

What have they done to you?

We should never have grown old.

The soldiers are stealing our water.

They should not be here.

Let's get them...

here and now.

Soon.

Take the bread!

This is not enough.

You do not believe in me.

So you do not believe in my bread either.

We broke our backs working.

We deserve this bread.

I never saw them this upset.

Hey!

Throw him in a cell!

You belong to us!

Do you want to be spoiled?

When an infection spreads,

the rotting limb must be cut off before everything dies.

Spare her.

She made a mistake.

Everyone makes mistakes.

She wants to confess.

Our Lord is merciful. - Shut up!

When Our Lord floods the land,

he puts to the test those who doubt Him.

When He contaminates our animals,

He wants us to fast.

And if one of us does not submit to that,

he must be punished.

No, wait!

She's not the infection!

No! It is not her fault!

No! It is not her fault!

It's the stranger!

[ Calm down, Odero, calm down. ]

[ We will soon be leaving. ]

What do you believe in?

I believe that I will take your life.

You cannot escape your fate.

I make my own fate.

You could have been a strong Graff.

I am not like you.

No, I am like you!

An orphan.

Our childhood suffering

has made us proud.

You destroyed families, ended lives...

So did you.

Without me, your parents would not have survived starvation.

Without me, you would not exist.

I gave before I took.

You take wantonly...

just like a child.

Children are afraid of Death indeed.

Dying is easy...

living less so.

Death cannot harm me.

Lies...

Not a day passes where you do not think of Death,

of that small moment that feels like eternity.

That thought lurks behind every moment of joy,

behind every sorrow, behind every gaze.

I already saw it in little Helene's eyes,

a fear that lasts forever.

My blood shall last forever.

In my dream no monster survives.

Who says you are not a Graff too?

Before you, I made a woman of your mother.

We are searching for one of our own.

We saw no one and want to see no one here!

He is here!

Shut up.

Enough with the hiding.

We locked him up, he deserves punishment.

What happened?

He assaulted one of our women.

Return him to us, we want no unnecessary bloodshed.

None of this would have happened, if your men had respected us.

Let him go or we get him ourselves.

Never.

If you want to risk your lives...

we are waiting!

Back to work!

We will be back, but not alone.

We will not let it happen.

Together we are strong, brother.

The wall is done we are ready.

They cannot hurt us.

Good.

Jon told the soldiers off.

He can, if he wants to.

Do not hesitate to fire.

No one gets in.

If one goes down, the others will run.

Now go.

Find your destiny.

Time has come, father.

She is stronger than us.

You...

you are my curse.

I am the last Graff.

[ Forever we are strong together ]

[ Forever we are strong together ]

[ We are daughters of the earth ]

[ We are daughters of the good seas ]

[ The sun and the spirits love us ]

[ The moon and the stars love us ]

[ Forever we are strong together ]

Helene... Helene!

We are under attack.

I told them who you are... to save myself.

Come...

I want to make amends.

Keep it... to protect yourselves.

What about you? - I take care of the Graff.

Cover!

Shoot!

I need more arrows!

I hit one.

The three of you, move over there!

I am hit!

Shoot!

We need more men.

Make sure father is safe!

Sidonie, keep away from her.

Luc, don't do it.

Sidonie...

Sidonie... Sidonie...

Come out... come out.

No need to hide from me.

Here I am...

Helene... Helene!

One at the time.

They deserve no better.

They deserve it.

Helene!

Helene... Helene.

Soldiers will be here soon.

I want to get Graff!

It is over!

You are too late.

You had no right.

I have every right.

He was mine.

You are not done yet.

I want you to do it.

We are free.

Come with me.

Away from this place.

I am a Graff.

The name means nothing, you are not like him.

His blood runs in my veins.

We are both like him.

I too have taken lives.

Not just you.

Innocent lives.

Graff's heirs...

my brothers' flesh...

children...

I took away their breath...

I could not let them live...

I deserve to die, just like them.

Oona...

listen to me.

Helene...

deliver me.

Subtitles: Jean-Pierre THILGES