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The Woman and the Stranger
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Based on the story
"Carl and Anna" by Leonhard Frank
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Parts of the film are thanks to
the support of Mosfilm Studios
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WE ALL HAVE ONLY ONE WISH:
VICTORY OR DEATH!
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THINK OF OUR WAR ORPHANS!
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CUPID ON THE DRILL GROUND
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YOU ARE ASSURED THE NATION'S GRATITUDE!
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GERMAN WOMEN, GERMAN FIDELITY.
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Richard!
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Do you hear that?
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Can't you hear it?
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Listen!
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Goddamn it!
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What's he doing?
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We're prisoners.
We're not at the front.
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Where'd he come from and where's he going?
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When she got up in the morning...
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I lay in our bed near the wall,
she was in front.
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I didn't even notice.
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Very quietly.
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You've told me so many times.
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You only got up
when the gas-burner began to whistle.
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Yes. I always wanted to fix it,
but then I had to leave.
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A monotone, wasn't it?
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Yes, exactly.
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How is it that...
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her breasts are so white,
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yet the body and hips so much darker?
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When you have her,
you don't have time to think.
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Stop it!
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It was all ages ago!
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Sometimes...
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I can't remember what Anna looks like.
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I can't see her face anymore.
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I don't see it any more, Karl.
Everything's disappearing.
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I know exactly
what she looks like and how she is.
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Everything.
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You're a dreamer, Karl.
You've never seen her, my Anna.
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When I was three years old,
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I made a coach out of my mother's hat;
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it was a kind of bonnet with long ribbons.
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Then I harnessed myself between the ribbons
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and pulled the hat
through the puddles in the courtyard.
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I'd be with her soon with that plane.
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Just imagine: in only a few days,
maybe even sooner.
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Just like that.
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And we've been sitting here for years.
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You're lucky, Richard.
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At least you have someone
who's thinking of you.
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Karl, why don't I just take off?
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Westward, like the plane.
I'm sure I'd get there sometime.
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You'd be shot!
Or beaten to death!
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An escaped prisoner-of-war?
We're the lowest of the low!
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It's a few thousand miles to our home.
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The war can't last forever.
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It may even be over
by the time I get home.
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Maybe it's over now,
and they've forgotten us.
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We'll find out tomorrow
when we get supplies at the camp.
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And the plane...
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Just a hallucination.
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We should never have enlisted!
We should've gone into hiding.
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You, for example, under your Anna's skirt.
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And me too, right there with you,
if I'd known her then.
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All the men under their wives' skirts,
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and the war would've never happened.
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God, when I think of it!
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Life under a skirt,
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the... soft flesh,
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those sweet smells,
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and the heat... like in a hothouse.
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I could stay there for years.
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You shouldn't talk like that, Karl.
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What have we lost here?
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Here, in this... bloody,
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forsaken, shitty wilderness!
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I'm no coward.
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I'm no shirker.
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If everybody's needed for the Fatherland...
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Yes, we're brave.
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Soldiers are brave men.
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Do you remember
what our division chaplain said?
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A soldier should...
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shoot to kill.
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He should shove the bayonet
into the enemy's ribs.
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He should smash the enemy
with his whistling blade.
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That is his holy duty.
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I made a point of remembering that.
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And when he's off-duty,
the soldier stands in line
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in front of the brothel trailer!
There, we become men again.
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Every one of us, for 5 minutes!
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You're like that too!
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If you're so smart, why are you here?
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I don't know!
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I was awfully scared.
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But then you forget when you move forward.
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You have your orders
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and you turn into an animal,
like those around you.
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Obeying is easy.
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Maybe Anna's died a miserable death.
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Anna isn't dead, do you hear!?
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Richard...
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if she were here now, Anna I mean,
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would you let me have her?
Just once?
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If she were here now...
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Hey!
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Because your goddamn need
is as great as mine, Karl,
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maybe just once. Maybe.
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But the second time,
I'd beat your skull in.
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Besides, Anna wouldn't do it.
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She's not for others to have.
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I've told you that before.
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No, no, my friend.
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She's not one of those.
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But when you have her at last...
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Anna...
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You always clean yourself up
when we go to the camp.
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Anna wouldn't recognize you
with a full beard.
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All I'd do is remind her of something,
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of the kind of things
only a woman's husband knows.
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Here's one.
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And another here.
That's a little bigger.
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And the third birthmark is here.
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And they're all fawn-colored.
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Because her skin is so white.
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One-hundred-eighty-five.
- One-hundred-eighty-six.
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One-hundred-eighty-seven.
- One-hundred-eighty-eight.
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One-hundred-eighty-nine.
- One-hundred-ninety.
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Maybe they're leaving?
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Do they look like it?
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Well then. The usual.
I'll try to get bread and groats.
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And I turnips and potatoes.
- One-hundred-ninety-nine.
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Going home?
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Not going home. To Vostok.
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No, I don't belong there!
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I'm from the outpost!
I have to go back!
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I don't belong here!
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You...
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You need a replacement now
for your work out there?
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You have an easy life out there.
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It's luxury. Never been used.
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You're mistaking me for someone else.
I'm not in the outpost.
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Anna!
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Hello Elfi. This is Alma.
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Hello Elfi. This is Alma.
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Hello Alma. Nice of you to call.
What're you having for supper?
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Turnips, as always.
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Same here.
Turnip casserole and cabbage.
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We're having turnip dumplings
and turnip salad.
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What else is new?
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You get war-pulp now instead of
treacle for your jam rations.
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I swapped soap for it.
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Hands up. Go on, hands up!
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My boys don't like to wash, anyway.
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Horst, how's little Hermine to know
what to do with that?
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You show her how, Trude.
Like this.
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Look at your father, like a baby!
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Nonsense! That's not our father.
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He's just screwing your mother.
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Say, Elfi, I saw a new recipe:
sparrows à la pigeon.
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Who's that?
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Anna, do you recognize me?
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Who are you?
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I must strip the paint
off these chairs and stain them.
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I told you before I left
the varnish wouldn't last.
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I... I did buy a can though.
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Is it still...
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Is it still here?
- It's still here.
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It's probably dried out
after nearly 4 years.
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We'll buy a new can.
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You can't get any.
Haven't for a long time now.
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So you didn't recognize me?
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Who are you?
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Your husband.
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You're not my husband.
You're not Richard...
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my husband.
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That's something else I wanted
to fix, but I had to leave.
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Well, Anna.
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So you don't believe me.
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You're my wife.
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"It is our painful duty...
Warrant Officer Richard Seidel"
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"fell for his Fatherland
on September 4, 1914."
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"Honor to his memory."
That's not true.
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Look Anna, it's not true.
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My husband died
three-and-a-half years ago.
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What they write, Anna...
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Have you no one?
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I have you, Anna.
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The old fork with the 3 prongs,
is that still here?
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Why do you say you're my husband?
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Why do you say that?
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And how come you know everything?
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I was fond of Richard.
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He was good to me.
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Good Lord, I was the first in this
neighborhood to get a death notice.
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I didn't want to believe it.
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But then the years passed.
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And now you talk like this.
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It's forbidden to shelter strangers.
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But it's late.
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Tomorrow morning when you leave,
you'll have to register.
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I have to leave early.
I work in an army sewing shop.
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I'm turning off the light.
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"I wish you luck.
When you leave, put the key"
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"under the doormat.
Don't forget to register."
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"Anna."
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Which of these nails would you like?
This one, perhaps?
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Or this one, for our soldiers in the field?
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For 5 marks or 1 mark.
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You always stopped
in front of the shop window.
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It was still there.
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But it's much too expensive.
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Much too expensive.
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I went to register and then
to the veterans' relief office.
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I got 15 Marks Homecoming Aid.
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So I bought the clock.
- You are...
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There was a wedding.
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That's not a good place.
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Hello Elfi. This is Alma.
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Hello Elfi. This is Alma.
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Morning Alma. I'm up.
Did you have sweet dreams?
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Yes, of roast goose and red cabbage.
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Shall we go to the movies after school?
If they're playing a romance?
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See you then. I'm cold.
- See you.
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Aren't you hungry today?
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Our Anna's in a melancholy
mood today, like all of us.
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Melancholy is a foreign word,
Baroness, you shouldn't use it.
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Anna needs a man!
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Dead for 3 years,
and still waiting for him. Poor girl!
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They all have the same thing
between their legs!
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If you're lucky, they manage
to get it up once a week.
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Not enough calories, that's it.
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They say some who come home
from the front can't do it at all.
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Who're you kidding?
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"...your son fell for our Fatherland"
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"in faithful performance of his duty."
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What are you doing here?
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That's no work for you.
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You address me formally?
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If you ever say you're my husband again...
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Listen, if you ever say that again...
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Anna, we belong together.
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We don't belong together at all.
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I never saw you before in my life.
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What about yesterday?
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Maybe my husband is still alive.
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Maybe he's still alive and will come back.
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Hello Alma. This is Elfi.
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Yes, Elfi?
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It seems the stranger
is Frau Anna's husband.
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Let anybody come.
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But nobody will come.
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I fixed it today.
It was only a little clogged.
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Don't touch me.
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I'll scream.
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You're...
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It's open. Come in.
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Hello.
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I just heard, Anna.
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I'm so happy for you.
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00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,917
So it's true.
261
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,957
Anna, you must be crazy with joy!
262
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,117
Someone comes back who was already dead.
263
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,880
Leave it, Marie.
264
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:33,800
Mr. Richard.
265
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,718
I couldn't really remember you anymore.
266
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,720
Of course you'd just moved in then.
267
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,833
But that little moustache...
268
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,635
I'm sorry, Anna.
I didn't mean to disturb you.
269
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,914
But you're not disturbing us, Marie.
270
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,959
You're our first visitor, Fräulein Marie.
271
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,594
I can still see you in my mind's eye
in your dress
272
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,793
with the red and yellow flowers.
273
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,714
At the train station,
you had a light green parasol.
274
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,912
How stupid we were then!
We sang and threw flowers.
275
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,511
I stuck a carnation in your boot,
276
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,360
as though you were off to the fair!
277
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,599
To the first fair in peacetime!
We'll dance a waltz together.
278
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,509
You'll have to wear
the red and yellow flowered dress.
279
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,111
If only it were already here.
280
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,634
My God!
You don't have to go right back?
281
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,992
Someone who was dead,
282
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:10,872
someone who walked
thousands of miles through Europe...
283
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,199
They'll never get him to leave.
284
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,591
Mr. Richard, weren't you
a locksmith or a turner or something?
285
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,395
I think I know where you can get a job.
286
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,832
At the Municipal Machine Works.
287
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,915
My sister Trude's Horst,
288
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,751
who lives with her now,
he works there.
289
00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,880
They're looking for skilled workers.
290
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:41,959
War equipment production.
291
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:48,437
Additional rations
for heavy labor, ration card A
292
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,836
and an extra ration of meat.
293
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,913
What's the good of an extra card
if there is no meat?
294
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,230
You wouldn't have to go sewing any longer.
295
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,752
Thanks ever so much, Fräulein Marie.
296
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,919
I'll leave you alone.
297
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,755
Forgive me, Anna.
Don't be angry.
298
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,431
Maybe you also know
what I said to my girlfriend
299
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,837
when my husband died?
300
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,517
And maybe you know what happened
to me before I got married?
301
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,474
And when I was a child?
302
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:55,074
You were able to wait.
303
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,759
Didn't get impatient
when your mother braided your hair.
304
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,115
I was impatient.
305
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:10,960
I was...
306
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,877
always longing for something,
307
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,030
was dissatisfied.
308
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,754
Maybe you didn't know what longing was...
309
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,878
until you got the news.
310
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,754
Marie tries to comfort you.
311
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,994
But you didn't believe that
something like that
312
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:44,840
had happened to you.
313
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,176
And then came, even for you...
314
00:48:49,201 --> 00:48:56,358
this living on from day to day,
for nothing and again nothing.
315
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,871
And then longing came.
316
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,439
What are you saying?
317
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,958
We're longing and longing...
318
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,992
the men out there
in the trenches and prison camps,
319
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,956
and the women at home
in their empty kitchens.
320
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,990
Death is powerless against it.
321
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,039
You are not Richard.
322
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:40,794
Whoever you are,
323
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,795
you're different.
Entirely different.
324
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,873
Stay in bed. It's Sunday.
325
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,159
It's Sunday.
You don't have to get up for me.
326
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,197
Well, I'll be off then.
- Alright.
327
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,951
Trude's husband is coming.
- What?
328
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,832
Trude's husband is coming home on leave.
329
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,634
And Trude?
330
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,037
She thinks I should stay.
331
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:36,992
She thinks he'll understand.
332
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:44,275
Maybe she's scared.
Who knows how to handle these things?
333
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:45,915
How could you understand?
334
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,558
In your place, I'd vanish.
After all, he's her husband.
335
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,112
And the child?
Where will the child go?
336
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,470
We'll just take off the body,
then we'll have the chassis.
337
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,833
But be careful, or she'll start crying!
338
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,477
What will become of the child?
339
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,639
Let's go have a beer.
340
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:24,760
Why not?
341
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,031
You two have problems too, don't you?
342
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,514
You've become distant.
343
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,314
Why?
344
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,989
It's obvious.
345
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:35,874
It'll be alright.
346
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,115
Anna.
347
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:12,755
Yes, Richard?
348
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,000
We never thought he would react like that.
349
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,753
He didn't even let Trude explain.
350
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:37,638
He saw the child, turned around
and walked out the door.
351
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:41,039
What should he have done?
He's her husband.
352
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,954
When Frau Moser's husband
came back, her Fritz moved out.
353
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,235
But Herr Häußler's been back
3 months and the ration-card seller
354
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,149
is still there,
because he can't find another room.
355
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,877
They're all 3 living together in one room!
356
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,871
It's the circumstances!
They're also to blame!
357
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,472
But he'll come back for sure.
358
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,435
Where should he go?
He's got no one else.
359
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,349
He has his buddies.
He'll be on the next train
360
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,031
back to the front.
- Oh my God!
361
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,869
Three of them...
362
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,193
All three of them in one room!
363
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,033
I want a child.
364
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:48,355
A child?
365
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:52,080
Yes.
366
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:58,712
Did you hear, Elfi? Frau Trude
got a letter from the military.
367
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,119
Your mother is a concubine!
Your mother is...
368
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:06,634
The elephant on Lake Titicaca
lifts his little cock...
369
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:08,840
Trude, Trude,
370
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,637
when I'm near you
I'm like the elephant at Titicaca.
371
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:17,359
They say it happened the
day he came back from leave.
372
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:19,758
Be quiet, Alma. Be quiet!
373
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,159
She drove him to death.
Her own husband.
374
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:32,716
Trude, Trude, when I'm near you!
Trude, Trude... Anna, Anna!
375
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,152
It's kicking. I think it's kicking.
376
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:43,757
It's your heart, and mine.
377
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,238
That means peace.
378
01:02:58,080 --> 01:02:59,833
An armistice, yes.
379
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:03,834
I love you.
380
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:05,594
"Dear Anna",
381
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:11,274
"Since there is peace in the East and
the exchange of prisoners has begun",
382
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:13,837
"I don't really know where I am."
383
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,831
"First, the Whites took us away
from the Reds,"
384
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,557
"then the Reds opened the gates,"
385
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,879
"then we were in the hands
of the Whites again."
386
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,439
"Now I'm on a ship."
387
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,440
"You sit in the coal room and sweat."
388
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,791
"Especially in summer
and somewhere in the South."
389
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:43,110
"Yesterday, the other ship hit a mine"
390
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:48,359
"and the whole ship was gone.
Not a thing left to see."
391
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,518
"We'll be sailing on soon,
always through mine-fields."
392
01:06:56,440 --> 01:07:01,151
"Nobody knows where they're going.
I'm giving this letter to a Turk."
393
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,559
"They say the Turks
will go ashore at the next port."
394
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:09,358
"So if you get this letter
I'm writing you, good old Anna..."
395
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:13,196
"Good old Anna".
396
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:18,317
"...that I'm still alive.
And I love you as much as you know"
397
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,275
"and I long to be
with you again at last."
398
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:22,920
"Your Richard,"
399
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,078
"in the summer of 1918."
400
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:48,354
What's your name?
401
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:12,516
Karl.
402
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:17,034
Each of us bore it
in our own way, the longing,
403
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:20,274
the loneliness.
404
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:26,593
And he told me everything.
Everything, Anna.
405
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,034
I shared it with him.
406
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,879
If you had been different, another woman...
407
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:42,759
But I knew you from the start.
408
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,959
I saw you,
409
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,520
saw you more and more clearly before me.
410
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:56,917
I just knew everything.
411
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:04,278
I didn't lie.
412
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:38,914
The letter was posted months ago.
413
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,159
He was on a ship then.
414
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,076
Maybe...
- No. Not that.
415
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,309
I don't want that.
All we can do is wait...
416
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,070
We could leave.
We could move to another town.
417
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:00,160
We have the child. Our child.
- ...wait until Richard comes,
418
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:03,877
and then tell him everything.
If he doesn't let me go,
419
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:07,752
I can't go on living.
420
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:00,880
Germany.
421
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:05,913
We're in Germany!
422
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,279
We were asleep when we crossed
the border. We're home!
423
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,072
We were asleep when we crossed the border.
424
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:32,354
Look!
425
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:34,549
Look.
426
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:42,917
My mother's eyes are in there.
427
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:49,794
My mother cried her eyes out for me
and sent them to me in this little box.
428
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:55,913
Brown eyes.
429
01:12:03,480 --> 01:12:05,199
She cried them out for me.
430
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:08,394
DON'T PICK THE CORNFLOWERS IN WARTIME
431
01:12:35,480 --> 01:12:38,632
The first Soviet congress
is convening in Berlin!
432
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,197
Workers' and Soldiers' Soviets everywhere!
433
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,350
Now we'll see some changes!
Everything will be different!
434
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:52,837
Now everything will change.
435
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:55,912
Nothing old will remain.
436
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:01,995
Revolution in Russia,
in Germany, in Hungary.
437
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:07,159
And soon in France too,
and in Turkey, in Armenia.
438
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,035
The resounding blow
of the world revolution.
439
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:14,032
They say the Kaiser is in Holland.
440
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,750
I have a little business:
cigars, wholesale.
441
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,515
Do you think the Bolsheviks will...?
442
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,953
In Germany?
Barking dogs seldom bite.
443
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:31,995
10 million corpses, 50 million
liters of steaming human blood.
444
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:36,875
Enough to replace
the Niagara Falls for an hour.
445
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:39,798
10 million heads.
446
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:45,239
All the cars of the Prussian Railway
couldn't transport
447
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,593
10 million severed heads.
448
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:55,910
Look.
My mother's eyes are in there.
449
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:59,114
Alright!
How long will you keep it up?
450
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:00,560
It's peacetime now!
451
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:04,636
Every mother and widow's tears
deserve to be held
452
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,800
in sacred honor as a warning.
453
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,878
The fear of every loving heart,
454
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,596
the lament of every forlorn soul...
455
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:19,112
Every victim on the ravaged
fields of Europe,
456
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:23,952
every rotting corpse and every cripple
have a right to claim
457
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:29,910
that from now on
we strive to achieve only one goal:
458
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:36,799
to free the world from every war,
I'm telling you.
459
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:43,799
Nothing will remain of this age
of power, violence, and lies,
460
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:49,520
nothing will remain but horror,
461
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:54,396
and later ridicule.
462
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:58,672
Where did you get that?
463
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,272
For my children. I've been
keeping it for them for years.
464
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,076
Please.
Just let me smell it, will you?
465
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,758
I'll just smell.
466
01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:29,756
I don't have one of my Anna.
467
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,033
I often regretted it all these years.
468
01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:36,678
Soon you'll be holding her
in your arms and then...
469
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:43,870
All my life I've fucked nothing but whores.
470
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:48,237
Only whores in this whole damn war!
471
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,076
All women are whores.
472
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:05,880
Yes?
473
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:08,758
Excuse me, Frau Anna.
474
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:14,072
I wonder if you could lend me
a few pieces of wood?
475
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:17,592
You'll get them back tonight.
My boys are in the forest, so...
476
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,953
I hope my husband will bring
home a few briquettes today.
477
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,357
At least a few. Wait a minute.
478
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,869
He was going to the cemetery after work.
479
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:35,597
Apparently they sell coal
from the crematorium there.
480
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,396
Are you looking for someone who lives here?
481
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,594
Yes, for my wife. Hello.
- Hello.
482
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:29,829
For Anna, Anna Seidel.
483
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:08,880
Anna?
484
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:19,880
I'm here.
485
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:34,718
Your hand is like ice.
486
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:37,998
I must have startled you.
487
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,070
Too filthy.
488
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:12,919
Yes, the journey.
489
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:17,873
That endless journey.
490
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:29,956
Everything's still the way it used to be.
491
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:32,917
The way I always imagined it
492
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:36,880
for four-and-a-half long years.
493
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,917
You fold that filthy rag
as though we're keeping it.
494
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:48,189
Throw it in the fire.
I don't need it anymore.
495
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:21,192
Well. Good old Anna.
496
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:31,510
You waited a long time.
It lasted a long time.
497
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:36,074
You've set the table, I see.
498
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:38,640
Richard.
499
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:44,832
The fork with the 3 prongs.
500
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,517
I dreamed of it sometimes.
501
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,556
Now you are surprised.
502
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:15,839
It's still like ice.
503
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,032
Something's different, though.
504
01:21:30,480 --> 01:21:33,040
The gas-burner's not hissing anymore.
505
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:54,833
I'm telling you:
He was going to his wife.
506
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:22,000
Good evening.
- Good evening, Herr Richard.
507
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:26,959
Good evening.
- Good evening.
508
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:45,240
Karl!
509
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:48,873
Come in! Sit down!
510
01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:56,598
I never thought
I'd see you again, and so soon!
511
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:58,713
I just arrived myself.
512
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:02,912
You brought some coal.
We can use it, there isn't any.
513
01:23:08,440 --> 01:23:10,796
Do you live in town too?
514
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,717
When did you arrive?
515
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:22,233
Got anything in your belly?
516
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:28,071
Anna should be back any minute.
517
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:33,399
I suppose she went out to get something.
She ran off all of a sudden.
518
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:36,758
The table's set, though.
519
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:40,114
Laid for two.
520
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:44,316
So she must have gotten my message.
521
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:48,399
Leave it. It's warm enough, old boy.
522
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:50,992
You'll be needing some for yourself.
523
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:15,917
Oh man, to think we survived!
524
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:43,600
What is it?
525
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:49,159
You must let Anna go.
526
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:51,720
What?
527
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:00,393
Anna, why don't you say something?
528
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:07,593
Anna is my wife.
529
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:23,359
Oh, so that's how it is!
530
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:13,759
Stand aside, Anna.
531
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:19,353
Don't be afraid.
532
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,798
He sneaked in here.
533
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:27,150
Thought I wouldn't come back, did you?
534
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:06,677
I can't stand it any longer!
535
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:23,710
I can only be with him, Richard.
536
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:28,038
It just happened that way.
537
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:42,633
But who are you?
538
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:52,992
Anna, explain it to me.
539
01:27:58,320 --> 01:27:59,320
You...
540
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:01,240
you can't...
541
01:28:06,480 --> 01:28:08,949
you can't be with me anymore.
542
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:15,910
But who is he?
543
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:19,040
I'm Karl.
544
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:20,880
He's my husband.
545
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:24,833
But you're Anna...
- Yes. His wife.
546
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:35,278
Well, then...
I suppose I'll have to...
547
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:40,871
I suppose I made a mistake.
548
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:46,760
I suppose I'm a stranger here.
549
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:50,756
You're his wife?
550
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:53,713
And he's your husband?
551
01:28:59,920 --> 01:29:01,240
But then, who am I?
552
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:17,752
Then who am I?
553
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:21,715
Yes?
554
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:30,234
Just go away.
555
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:31,596
The End.
556
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:33,594
Subtitles by
Evan Torner
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01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:36,999
©2008 DEFA Film Library
University of Massachusetts Amherst