All language subtitles for The rack.1956.23fps-span-en

Traitor to his country

- Hey, is that it?
- I think so.

My husband is coming on that plane,
Four years in Korea.

- Wait for your husband?
- No, he died in the war.

- I'm sorry.
- I wait for your brother.

- Is this your son, colonel?
- Yes, he is my son.

We are about to take land.
Speed 160 km.

We have taken land, without novelty
on board. All in order.

My husband was a prisoner of war
for two years.

- My son too.
- They'll be happy to come back.

Excuse me.

What happens?

They shrink your heart
These receptions.

Come on, everything is ready.
Down.

There it is, isn't that it?

No, I don't think so.

Sergeant, do you want to deliver this?
to the wounded of that stretcher?

A lady from there asked me
I gave him this.

Ed!

Are you a boy?
Ed!

- Does your leg hurt, captain?
- No, my leg is fine.

We better go
to hospital.

Yes

Keep in mind that these men
they just went through circumstances

extraordinary than ever
They leave their mark.

If you want to talk, do it.
But don't ask them anything,

Don't push them.

They must remember that, although of
moment, it seems they don't want

honey, now they need it
especially.

The best way to express it
is having patience with them

and accepting them as they are.

Now they are before the officers
of the investigation service

telling the incidents
from captivity

before your impressions
be deleted.

Hi, Captain Hall. Come in, my name is
Byron Phillips I am a psychiatrist.

- Do you have to close it?
- No, it is not necessary.

Let me turn it on.

Leave it, it's the same.

I'm interested in talking with everyone
because I know

the fact of being a prisoner
It causes emotional problems.

I can help you. Tell me what
division belonged in front.

- What?
- What was your division?

Field number five, Piokton.

I mean before
of being taken prisoner

The division 24.

Well, can you tell me something
of what happened at that time?

When was he captured?

Everything is confusing.

He feels better this way, with
the hand in front of the mouth?

No, leave it if you want. Only
I asked him if he felt better.

- Yes, that's right.
- Do you try to hide something like that?

The denture, I lost several
pieces during my captivity.

- Many?
- Half of the molars.

It is unfortunate. He is ashamed
that people notice?

Do not.

Then he doesn't put his hand in front
from the mouth to hide it.

It won't be maybe to shut up something
who doesn't want it to be known?

And of the field?
Can you tell me anything?

Well...

there was a ...

a man...

who gave me a cigarette
and turned it on.

Was he a companion in captivity?
Who was it then?

An interrogator was Chinese.

That's why he's scared
that you light the cigarette?

What happened next
of having turned it on?

You don't want to tell me?

Ok There will be no lack of occasions
So we can continue chatting.

�You need help
now on something?

Maybe there is a question
What special do you want to record?

I'm scared.

I do not want to go home.

Son, what a joy!

- Hey, there is Ed.
- Wow, finally.

- Hi.
- Can I say hello?

Wow, let me see you.

�You know that at the airport
did you scare us? You are great.

- It is admirably.
- Yes, admirable, great.

- What you need is a ...
- A steak from Kansas City.

- Good steaks.
- It's all I need.

Happy to see you at home?
How are you?

- Calm down, I'm fine.
- We've brought you these candies.

Do you know what I would do if
Wouldn't there be public here?

- What, kiss me too?
- Square me.

- Square before you.
- Would you do it?

- I would, yes, sir. I would do it.
- Well, let's sit down, huh?

Aggie, I imagined that now
you would be waiting for a baby,

- Where is Peter ...?
- You didn't receive our letter, right?

Yes, I remember now ...
I'm sorry, Aggie.

- I take responsability.
- I'm not sorry. I...

Well, the only thing I remembered
To come back

it was that Peter owed me
3 turkeys of a ...

Shut up, let it go,
We must not explain anything.

Do you know how much has happened?
It has been more than three years.

Clear,
And is my room still the same?

Three years you have been hidden
in an oriental tea house

and here we go crazy.
You didn't write ...

Father.

- What have those done to you, Ed?
- Father, please.

I don't know what I'm saying.
I know you don't have to ask him,

- But it's so hard.
- I'm sorry I fell prisoner.

Don't say that, you couldn't help it,
They are war zones.

- I would like to compensate you in some way.
- Now it's all over,

It would be best to forget it.

Forget it.

Ed, we understand.

I do not...

I didn't want you to see me like that.

- We must go.
- Yes.

Hey, we will come often
even if only for ...

No. You don't have to come,
father.

Now I want to recover, and when
It's all right I'll come home.

- Did we send you anything?
- No, it's not necessary.

I will be in touch with the
doctors every day

and as soon as you are in condition
We will come looking for you.

It's a great idea, thanks.

- Well, bye.
- Goodbye, son.

These things do not make him
No grace, I already told you.

TRAITOR

Hey, wait a minute!

Hey, let me explain!

Hey, wait a minute!

What did you want me to do?
What could he do?

Good afternoon, sir.
I will tell the colonel that he is here.

- Would you like a soda?
- No thanks.

- Do you want a cup of coffee?
- The colonel is waiting for you, sir.

- Do you want some coffee?
- No thanks.

What's up, there's a conspiracy
not to let me sleep?

Yes

That does not worry me,
I am used to it.

- Do you know what I made you come for?
- Rumors have wings.

And this has flown.

I've been chatting with the nurse
from his living room

- He doesn't sleep either.
- I just saw him.

When someone wants to play us a
mischievously, we all present it.

�You think they played you
a trick?

- Yes, I think so.
- Why?

You will have time to find out before
of celebrating the war council.

Find out what, about
rumors of some talk

- About some complaints?
- It's something more serious than all that.

It's not about rumors.

- Can you give me a cigarette?
- Fix it yourself.

I told Colonel Harvey
that you would come to take charge

from the summary this morning and that
You would start acting right away.

Tell me what you need.

Value is what it takes.

Nobody likes it
set precedents.

Well, this is not the first case
of collaboration that is judged.

- I know.
- Well, remember it.

- You're very nervous.
- Of course I'm nervous.

A man goes to war being
lieutenant and returns from captain

with the silver star
and with mention.

- Your general gives you a complimentary letter.
- I know all that.

But you think loyalty ends
to fall prisoner?

According to the ordinances, no.

Hey, Sam, in everything you
affects the army act with caution

and he wants it done
strict justice.

Do you know how many cases like this one?
have they been tried?

Forty. Only forty between
hundreds in which there were signs

for maximum rigor.
This is one of them.

- I already know.
- We are both lawyers.

Our duty is to contribute
That true justice be done.

To be found guilty or not
It's something we don't have to decide.

- The jury will.
- In agreement.

But I say to accuse
You have to be well convinced.

Those who judge him will have
to probe their own souls,

Analyze your doubts.

A judge always has to
clear your doubts, Sam,

or else you don't have
right to judge.

Condemn with doubts and without guarantees
of Justice

It wouldn't be judging, it would be an iniquity
And nobody wants that.

I'm going to show you something, Sam.

Sergeant, call security and say that
I'm going there with the commander auditor.

Come on.

- Is this the Hall file?
- Yes, that is.

Well, my son is not that tall.

It is what the army has collected in
6 months among prisoners

who lived with him.
Everyone had something to say.

Could I sleep here tonight?

Sam, naturally, this case
It has to give you some grief,

But no regret.

- Do you need anything?
- Yes.

Coffee.

- Goodnight.
- Nice gift.

God help me tonight.

Good night, Sam.

Aggie?

Aggie, are you out there?

It's you, Aggie.
Hi.

What's up?
Is something wrong with you?

- If you were going to sleep, say it and I'll go.
- Oh no.

Al said that tonight he wanted
go to bed earlier

- To change system.
- I need to talk to someone.

- Honey!
- I'm coming right away, Al.

- Come in, I'll make some coffee.
- Wouldn't it be better to talk out here?

Good.

- Why don't you read a book, Al?
- Read a book?

Well, to instruct you.
I go right away.

- How is Roger?
- If you saw him an hour ago.

Ed will come home
Tomorrow night.

- Well, finally.
- I don't know what I'm going to do.

- I thought I knew, but I don't know.
- What do you want to do, stay the same?

I can't go on like that, that's
the problem. Do you not realize?

Caroline, do you want to do the favor?
to come at once?

Now I go, honey.

You better tell me
sooner.

- I don't want to bother you.
- You don't bother. Come on, tell me.

I thought I had forgotten all
These things a long time ago.

But when I enter the room
Now and I'm going to turn on the lamp

and put some flowers, right away
Peter's memory comes to mind.

How much I miss Peter
tonight!

Of course I do.

I thought I had forgotten what it was
a husband, and now

- Everything reminds me.
- I know.

- Why is life not the same?
- Because there is nothing eternal in it.

Aggie?

What can I do now?

If you want, you can stay a few days
with us. Roger will be happy.

- And Al won't mind.
- I know, not even you.

Sorry, I wouldn't want to interrupt,

But when are we going to fix
that library of Ed?

Now, I'll go right away.

I better go,
Don't you think?

- Aggie.
- Yes, sincere.

Yes, I think it's the best. Ed will come back
to his home from a hospital,

I will need all the help
that they can give him,

Don't you think?

Yes

Honey, I'm done reading.

- Captain Hall, sir.
- Let it happen.

- Do you want to sit down, captain?
- Thank you.

I don't intend to entertain you, so
I will do without formalities.

- Would you like to give me your affiliation?
- My name, grade and number?

It is pure procedure.

Edward W. Hall, captain, 4969001.

It is my duty to inform you that they weigh
about you serious charges,

and that must appear
before a war council.

Ok

Here I have a copy
of your service sheet.

- If you want, you can check it.
- No, I'm sure it's accurate.

Clear. I want to remind you that
before the law he has, as the accused,

The same rights as a civilian.
He will be considered innocent

as long as it is not proven
otherwise.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wasnick
He has been charged with his defense.

If you want, you can name another,
and can appoint a civil lawyer.

No, it's fine.

I'll take care that this afternoon
have a copy of the statements

of witnesses and may
act right away

�Wish me to visit you
to his house?

Yes, but ...

I would like to prevent my father before.
Now ignore what's against me.

Well, it can be left for tomorrow.

I will tell you tonight.

I must remind you that whatever you say since
Now it can be used against you.

- Will you take charge of accusing me?
- Yes.

Meanwhile, I have issued orders for
other than you arrested

and so that they don't bother you
of any kind.

It would not be fair considering
Your service sheet.

Thank you, I appreciate how much you have done.

- All right.
- Is that all, sir?

Everything. You can leave now.

I appreciate your attention.

And your pins?

Here in the pocket.

They are part of his uniform,
captain

Do not judge yourself.

Thank you.

Well, then until the advice.

Is no one home?

Welcome!

Hey, save me, will you?

Can you give me a drink?

- What do you think of the boy, Aggie?
- I'll make you a drink.

Well, soldier, how are you?
How much has passed, 6 years?

Don't get heavy, Frank,
Don't play jokes.

- This is wonderful. One never ...
- We have to sit down and talk.

- Do you have claustrophobia?
- Do not.

Neither do I, when
There are no bars on the doors.

I try to tear myself away from
people, but I don't want to be alone.

We wanted to show you our
joy and we thought this surprise

It would be a good idea.

Well, I don't like surprises,
But everything is fine.

- Looks like something happened to you.
- That's right.

I want to say something other than
the penalties of captivity.

- Looks like you've changed.
- Oh yes? Why?

You didn't communicate to anyone
what you felt or what you wanted.

- No one, not even your father.
- How's your health, Aggie?

- Immovable.
- I like that, I'm glad.

Nothing affects you, I don't know
how he manages

That is acquired in the army.

- Do you know what happens to me?
- Do not.

My mother was not in the army
And that's why I'm half done.

I still don't know you well. Is that
your way of being or is that now

- Do you laugh at yourself?
- Oh no.

Do you remember those beings
half man and half horse?

Well, something like that is me.
Half of my father ...

Half of my father,
the disappointments

Half of my mother,
hopes.

You have not disappointed your father.

You know what I did this afternoon
when leaving the hospital?

I went to the cemetery and I stayed for a while
before my mother's grave.

I said "Mother, I'm sorry. I've
become understanding, as you wanted,

but it has already been out of time. "

That is the change you notice.
It's funny, isn't it?

- No, I don't like it.
- See, when I was a child

and did some mischief, I needed
then talk to someone, explain ...

My mother always listened to me,
But my father never.

Well i'm drinking
And I haven't had dinner yet.

What worries you now, Ed?

- Are you perhaps impassive, Aggie?
- No, I don't think so.

Listen, I know what you are ...

It would have been better than instead of
I could come, Pete could have come.

I say how I feel,
and we both think the same.

We would have liked you to welcome
Out for someone else.

It is something we share.

I would like to stay here
just a moment. Soon it will come out.

You'll understand it all later,
Aggie

- Do you want to turn off the light?
- All right.

Say?

Who is it, Aggie?
I’m Dudley Smith.

What a surprise, I thought
I was still in Korea.

No, I arrived this afternoon.

- How is the old man?
- It's fine.

- Colonel Smith?
- Tell him I'll go see him later.

It might take a while, but
I will go as soon as I can.

Well, I'll see you later.

Guess who will come.
Colonel Smith

- But when have you returned?
- He has returned this afternoon.

I hope it's still on time
to the party. Have you seen Ed?

- I think it's in the kitchen.
- In the kitchen?

- Are you there, Ed?
- Yes, here I am.

I want to drink with you. Look,
button caught the enemy.

- Don't turn on the light, father.
- Are you feeling bad with so much noise?

- I'm not well.
- And why are you hiding here?

You don't know everyone
Have they come to see you?

Yes, I already know.

Do you want to try this one?
It smells, it has a hearth.

When everyone leaves, we
we will sit in front of the fireplace

and we'll talk about our stuff.
Do you think it's okay?

Yes, very good.

Say, how about you?

You already know that when you get to
certain age, they send you for a ride.

But everything went well.

Of course, it's not like having command.

Remember what they say about
Old soldiers, who never die.

I don't hide that I was about
of sinking a couple of times.

Because of Peter?

And for you.

For you.

- Peter died without suffering.
- Was lucky.

The high command sent me a letter.
Above is in a frame.

Your younger brother
He was also a good soldier.

Did you think I would come back?

I had got used to it
Not to think about anything.

Long time ago
Stopped doing it.

But I expected.

For a hope come true,
the one about my son Ed coming back.

Well, don't you want to say anything?

Yes, I want to toast for you, father.

For my father, the unbreakable
optimistic. God bless you.

I'm sorry, it's necessary
more whiskey out there.

Do you mind if I go to bed? I am
Tired and I don't want to spoil the party.

You can't spoil anything.
Today is the happiest day of my life.

- Goodnight.
- Good night boy.

- Excuse me, what did you want?
- Whiskey

- What a beautiful party, Aggie.
- Yes, a very beautiful party.

- I think everyone has had fun.
- Of course I do.

You want me to make coffee for you
And for Colonel Smith?

Surely you will pass
The night talking.

- I think it's an excellent idea.
- In agreement.

Stay here and rest.

You make me very happy, Aggie.

- You make me so happy. Did I tell you?
- Yes, you told me.

Are you singing, father?

No, I am dancing.

Smith!

Ed, old fox.

- Are you going to leave me out here?
- Come in, go inside.

- Now it's all free.
- I'm sorry I was so late.

Never mind. You are made an oak.

You don't know how glad I am
You visit.

Sit down so I can see you better.
Take that chair, it's comfortable.

Good.

Friend, we must recognize that
You keep well, very well.

The country air does it all.

You are not bad either
To be an old man.

The gray hair gives you an appearance
colorful and distinguished.

Do you know what it is?
The brain, which goes up.

I can only tell you
One thing: you still have guts.

My current destiny demands me
I have it.

Do you know what they have done with me?
Reduce myself to be a species

of school boys instructor.

- What do you want to drink?
- Anything.

I think I have Napoleon co�ac and
I opened the bottle only a few days ago.

I'm glad you take it
With such a good disposition.

What else can I do,
scream, cry?

It would be a way to let off steam.
Did he tell you himself?

Tell me what?

What?

Well, what about that mystery?

- Are you kidding?
- Kidding what?

- You are welcome.
- Go on, you shouldn't hide anything from me.

Why don't you sit still and
you sit? You make me nervous.

Feel there. Now tell me everything
What you thought I knew.

Ok

When I landed on Travis, I found
Colonel Hansen

- Who is it?
- A military judge.

- Where is Ed?
- Upstairs in your room, why?

- I think they will process him.
- Process him?

What has he done,
forget about greeting a superior,

- Or have you been surprised without a uniform?
- Do not.

It seems that he has collaborated
with the enemy

Are you crazy?

Colonel Hansen has said it.
Three charges, nine specifications.

I can't believe it!

- Ed, I thought you already knew.
- I can't believe it!

What have you collaborated with? Ue That my son
Have you collaborated with the enemy?

What kind of disgusting gossip
are you trying to tell me?

- Ask him.
- I don't have to ask!

What damage are you trying to do to me?

That boy has won
a silver star! Did you know?

- And other decorations.
- It's not me who wants to prosecute him.

It is my pride.
My son has honored my name.

- Ed!
- Calm down.

- Ed!
- Father, leave it now.

Father, not now.

- What time is it?
- Get up!

- What happens?
- Get up!

Well,
I have a question for you.

I want you to answer me simply
"yes" or "no".

Have you collaborated with the enemy?

Have you collaborated with the enemy?

Yes, I did.

Why didn't they kill you? Why?
Didn't they kill you like your brother?

I would have preferred
so be it!

Father!

Father!

That is what I would have preferred
also, such a death:

Clean, honorable and dignified.
What have you imagined?

That only tremendous reasons
They have been able to drag you into betrayal,

to the vileness of forgetting loyalty
that you owed us to your homeland and to me.

You? And what about me?

You know what I won by dragging me
before them as you say?

Do you know what they gave me, father?
Now you will know!

All I won was a blanket
smelly, radada and disgusting!

�And three hours scarce
of uninterrupted sleep!

And hey this, Colonel: that day
I told myself what I had done

a great business!

- Good morning, sir.
- Good morning.

Can you tell me the room
from Mr. Hall?

Room 316. It has not risen,
Last night I left no notice.

- Where is the dining room?
- Next to the lobby.

Room service, please.

Room service? Room
316. Bring a Bloody Mary.

A Bloody Mary

Wait a moment.
Do not hang up.

- Who are you?
- Your lawyer, my name is Wasnick.

They wait for me on the phone. Pass.

Yes, it's whiskey with tomato.
Do you want another one?

How, they don't open the bar
until nine?

- No, I don't want breakfast.
- Excuse me, captain.

I have already ordered your breakfast.
Orange juice, eggs with ham

and a double coffee well loaded.
You have to eat.

I would rather drink.

- What did he say his name is?
- Wasnick. W-A-S-N-l-C-K.

It is a Polish surname.

Nice to meet you.

- How did you know I was here?
- I come from your house.

Your sister has told me.
It is very nice.

Yes Was my father there?

It will be strategically withdrawn
Knowing who I was.

Aggie has told me what happened
Last night between you and your father.

Yes, poor Aggie.
It is between two fires.

I don't think so.

Well, what are we going to do
with this from you?

We have two weeks
to prepare us

- I don't know.
- It's a curious attitude.

Colonel, what kind of lawyer is it?

He has a predilection
for the lost causes?

I don't like that one judges
himself. I don't think so constructive.

- Do you not know? I'm guilty.
- We don't believe that either.

We both know he had his reasons
to act that way.

Both?

I am a man of laws, captain.
I have never won a silver star

I have not been in a field
of prisoners.

Therefore I don't know how I would have
ported in place.

But I think little more or less
I would have done the same.

In such a situation
I think we would all do it.

It must be breakfast.
Ahead.

Ok, come in.

- I serve you, sir?
- Needless. Leave it here.

Is that our
conversation

Do not want to comment?

Why don't you plead me guilty
and we forget this?

Let's be practical, Captain Hall,
at the risk of sacrificing your appetite.

He knows what they would condemn if he
Will they plead guilty to all charges?

I have a slight idea.

Then we should not pave them
the way.

Come on, I beg you.

This morning, at nine,
the whole nation will be pending

from the city of San Francisco, where
will be judged on war council

Captain Edward Hall. To the son of
colonel of the same name

he is accused of having collaborated
with the enemy

when he was a prisoner in Korea.

- I'm going to the council.
- Go away.

- Have you changed your mind?
- Do not.

I will not beg you.

� Come home on time
Or will I have to eat out?

I'll call you later.

- Sergeant.
- I'll have to wait for a turn.

- I am the captain of Captain Hall.
- Come please.

The council is constituted.

All who have been asked
cited as witnesses in this case

leave the room until
Be called to appear.

All charges listed
in the targeting are

by collaboration with the enemy.

If the accused consents, omit
the reading of the pointing.

A copy of it is found
before each member of the court,

- The auditor and the accused.
- The accused consents.

The reading is then skipped
of the aim.

The charges were presented by
me to the accused on March 6, 1954.

Captain Hall,
Do you have anything to claim?

Captain Edward W. Hall declares
that the accusations are not true

filed against him.
Is innocent.

The accusation recuses
The words of the defense.

The accusation will prove that the
accused, when he was a prisoner,

in North Korea, in the period
between January 51

and July 53, proportion�
consciously and willingly

Help the enemy.

According to the law, it cannot be accepted
that by doing it work

under duress or abuse.

The accusation requires the presence
of his first witness,

Mr. Millar Cassidy.

Raise your right hand.

He swears what he declares in this
advice will be the truth,

the whole truth and nothing but the
the truth with the help of God?

I swear.

- Sit down, Mr. Cassidy.
- Thank you.

Say your name and what job
is dedicated please.

My name is Millard Chilson Cassidy,
I am a mechanic.

- Where do you live, Mr. Cassidy?
- Block 5, district 2, Carlina del Sur.

- Do you know the accused?
- Yes, sir.

If you are in the room,
Can you point it out?

Yes, he is sitting there.

Where did he first see
The accused?

- In field 5, in Piokton.
- When was that?

Well, I don't remember exactly,
Did I ask Captain Hall?

No, you can't ask.

Little more or less in the winter
from 1951, as far as I remember.

�I observed in the behavior of the
Captain Hall some special detail?

Yes, one day he threatened a boy
That slept next to me.

He knew that boy
I was sick,

but told him to get up right away
or he would be thrown into the hole.

Then slapped him. I never believed that
An American officer did something like that.

He says I slapped him,
And did the boy get up?

No, sir, I was very sick
and could not move.

Describe other relative details
to the conduct of Captain Hall.

One morning they took us out of the barracks
to hear some doctrinal monsergas.

The instructor said there was
a special guest and then

- Captain Hall introduced himself.
- What did I talk about?

He wanted to convince us that
The Chinese were great.

He said they wanted to be
our friends

And then add that we would appreciate
the good food they gave us.

That made us all laugh.

He said the Chinese didn't hate
to simple people,

but to the rich people of Wall Street
that had induced the US UU.

to invade Korea.

He said: "I feel happy and happy
to declare the truth here

- Before all of you. "
- I protest.

The witness has cited a sentence
attributed to the accused

and I ask you to ratify it, or
contrary to the record.

�I can beg the defender
What point a little more?

Yes, I mean specifically the
words "I feel happy and happy."

Mr. Cassidy, Captain Hall
Did I say exactly those words?

Yes, sir, sure. Of course
They are not part of my language.

The witness confirms that the
Captain Hall uttered the words

"I feel happy and happy." Do them
appear in the minutes in quotes.

- Thank you for the clarification.
- You're welcome.

- Did you think what Captain Hall said?
- No, sir.

I didn't believe any of that because
I was sure it wasn't true.

But some boys
They started to doubt.

Because it was not a Chinese who
He spoke, but Captain Hall,

One of our officers. I mean
it was easy to be fooled

Seeing that he spoke sincerely.

- I protest. That is an opinion.
- Do not write down the word "sincerely."

He had the impression that the captain
Hall was so convincing

when he talked like when
hit the boy

and threatened to throw
to the hole?

Yes, sir. I think in both
Sometimes he worked the same way.

Nothing more.

This is one of the tests
most important we have.

Sergeant Pahnke, please,
Do you want to read this?

- Out loud?
- Yes, please be heard.

"Attention, comrades,
partners in division 24,

I speak on behalf of everyone
those who are under my command.

As prisoners we have learned
the truth about you

since they captured us.

We ask you to give up
immediately.

Turn your weapons against the
officers who are directing them

in this war
unfair and murderous. "

- Signed?
- "Edward W. Hall, son."

Aloud.

"Edward W. Hall, son,
infantry captain, division 24 ".

- The prosecutor has no more questions.
- The defense wants to ask.

Sergeant Panhke ...
I'm sorry, is Panhke or Pinhke?

- Panhke, sir.
- Thank you, sergeant. Where was he born?

- I was born in Campbell.
- Let's see, sergeant,

How do you know that Captain Hall
signed that?

How do I know?

Yes, he doesn't think it could be
a forged signature?

- Do not.
- No?

We would have to be a graphologist
Very expert to ensure it. Is it?

No, but I know it's his signature
because he told me.

- Are you sure he told you?
- Yes, sir.

I forced myself to sign it

and threatened to punish me
If I refused.

Did you sign?

It goes against my principles.

`` Captain Hall order ''
to be punished?

- Not me.
- No, I see it.

I had seen the defendant before
I asked him to sign the manifesto?

Yes, I saw him once.
When he made the announcement of the manifesto.

But since I announced the manifesto
until I asked him to sign it,

You say you didn't see him
Why?

Because after the conference
disappeared

And how long did that disappearance last?

I would say ... I'm not sure,
4 � 6 months.

- Do you know where he was?
- Do not.

So he doesn't know under what
Circumstances signed the manifesto.

I appreciated some difference
in his appearance when I saw him again?

- Yes.
- Would you say it was unrecognizable?

Yes
He looked scared.

I had seen a state before
horror like that in someone?

Yes, I saw it a few years before.
I was very young.

- In Dahau.
- Dahau, German crime camp.

I protest, I am suggesting that
the American countryside was a countryside

- Of crimes like Dahau?
- It is accepted.

There are no more questions.

Proceed the witness
to take an oath

Raise your right hand.

He swears that everything he declares to be
the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth,
with God's help?

- I swear.
- You can sit down.

Say your name, graduation
and military body.

John R. Miller, army captain
of Earth.

- Captain Miller, do you know the defendant?
- Of course I know that traitor.

I protest. It is inadmissible
That test.

The protest accepted.

Just answer the questions
without exposing your opinion.

Captain Miller, being you
prisoner of war in Korea,

specifically in Piokton, it was
part of the reactionary group?

- Yes.
- What was a reactionary doing there?

Create problems. It was a concern
constant for koreans.

- Were you many?
- There were several groups?

In mine we were 20 men and
certainly no traitor like Hall.

- I protest!
- The protest is accepted.

He existed in his prison camp
a leak commission?

Yes, there was.

- And you were the boss.
- Yes.

Dangerous matter, isn't it?

- Someone had to take over.
- A position for a brave man.

Why did I accept
that responsibility?

Because I didn't like it
the treatment he was the subject of.

- You managed to escape.
- Yes, but they captured me again.

- Why didn't he get away?
- There was someone who denounced me.

- How did you know?
- I saw a report.

- Signed by who?
- For Captain Hall!

I know your signature well.

Captain, in addition to frustrating your escape,
yours and two men,

because it was a group of three, right?

Yes, I was accompanied by sergeants
Scalpon and Jorgensen.

In addition to frustrating your escape,
what must have been a hard blow,

The report the defendant gave had
other repercussions on you?

- They killed Scalpon.
- Did you resist?

- Yes.
- And what happened to you?

Sergeant Jorgensen and us
they took to a house called

"Pak's palace".

I wish he told the court
what happened in "Pak's palace".

Well, we were held incommunicado.

They soon began
the interrogations.

They wanted to know the names of
those who planned to escape.

They were interrogating me
all day long

Maybe more, I don't know.

- Then Pak started.
- Then Pak started?

Who was Pak?

Among those men
He was the boss. A psychiatrist.

- I ordered them to chain me.
- Did his hands or feet chain him?

The feet.

They tightened the chains
to the maximum.

My ankles began to bleed.

They kept squeezing
Until you reach the bone.

Then they undressed me
and they hung me from a roof beam,

but they hung me upside down
As if it were a pig.

Then one of them
He began to whip me.

Did you lose knowledge?

It may be, but it would only be a
moment, because I vaguely remember

They were wetting my face.

What did you tell them?

I was enraged. I told them things
They didn't need to translate.

What else did they do to him?

Pak told his men that no
don't put out cigarettes

on the ground, they could
Do it on my body.

- And they did, right?
- Yes.

- How many times?
- They smoked a lot.

Captain, what happened to you
Sergeant Jorgensen?

- They also subjected him to torture?
- Yes, his thing happened.

They broke his jaw
with the butt of a rifle.

- Then they were taken back to the field.
- Yes,

but they kept us apart.
Then we didn't have such a bad time.

When they were torturing him,
�Pak and his henchmen managed

tear the names of the
Who had managed to escape?

Didn't you reveal anything to them?

Yes,
My name, graduation and number!

Did they mistreat you after that?

No, never again.

Although his body was
brutally wounded,

resisted to the limit of his forces
the penalties imposed, right?

Yes

Captain, you would be so kind
to take off your shoes,

the socks and shirt

and show the footprints to the court
of the tortures that ...?

I protest!

Tortures that are the result of
the information given by the accused.

- I protest!
- The protest is rejected.

It is proof of declaration
of the witness.

Wake up,
It is dawning.

It is not possible that it is so late.
Where have you been?

Over there
What do you carry in that package?

Clean shirts, I thought
that you would need.

Oh thanks. How about home?
I find you worse.

I didn't even try last night
dinner.

- I didn't see dad in the living room.
- Suffer a lot, Ed.

I understand, he has made you come
To take me home

- A full-fledged reconciliation.
- He doesn't know I've come.

Already. So you came to bring me
this. Do you want to have a drink?

- It's not a bad idea.
- Let's go up to my room.

Come on.

I liked that wrinkle of yours.
Prove that I am still a man.

Don't worry, if the concierge
Say something I will tell you that you are my sister.

Over here.

All right.

All right.

- All I have is whiskey.
- I don't feel like it.

- You said you'd have a drink.
- Yes, but then.

Well, as you want.

I have come because I have
Something to tell you.

- The shirt thing is a pretext.
- What is it about?

Today in the room you said no ...

How long have you been
married to Peter?

I never imagined that he dared to
ask you ... we were both embarrassing.

I know, but I haven't come
To talk about Peter.

You should get married again
With a good boy.

Once I found myself before
An old abandoned farm.

I saw a very curious thing: apple trees
They knew it was abandoned.

However they flourished as always.

The trees were full
of fruits.

But nobody picked the apples.

Do you understand?

- You have changed conversations.
- No, you have not understood me.

I want to say that apple trees

they were still alive despite
that nobody picked apples.

Oh my god! What a horror,
A life that does not take advantage!

Tell me, this seems logical to miss
A life this way?

Do not speak. We have to
End that hiccup.

- With a glass of water?
- No, that's better.

- You hurt me.
- It has to hurt you.

Take a breath and hold your breath.
Didn't you hear me?

- Now you're not in court.
- I don't like that ...!

I told you not to breathe!

Although during the trial you did not say
Nothing, I guessed what you thought

by the way you sit, and I don't understand
How do you accept what they say about you?

Why do you say that?

The hiccup will not pass you over
If you keep talking

- I have no hiccups!
- Yes, you still have.

What you did, you would do
for some reason.

If you say it in court,
It may be favorable.

You changed there because
You think you're more human now.

But humans can
Do something more than collapse.

Humans
They also fight.

Why don't you fight now? Before
You did it because they sent it to you.

Now you have to do it
because you want.

He passed the hiccups.

It's late, I have to go.

Will you be there tomorrow?

- In agreement.
- Bye.

- Thank you.
- Bye.

Order in the room.

Keep silence.

The advice is resumed.

All the jurors
They are present in this session.

The accusation has nothing
to add for now.

The defense wishes to expose
Your first report.

Do you have copies of the telegrams
included in the summary as evidence.

They are from the general in chief
and other senior officers.

They testify to the behavior
from Captain Hall.

It follows that the accused
he is a military man who has distinguished himself

for his behavior and that is
considered by his superiors

Like a courageous man. Hold
That is worthy of those concepts.

All our laws are based
in principles that we believe immutable.

One of them is that there is a level
determined moral

that society is obliged
to respect.

But we have reached a point
in which this moral level

they don't recognize it anymore
All the men.

Because a part of humanity
he has banished it,

replacing it with violence
and the torture,

not of the flesh, but of the mind,
To get what you want.

We are willing
to judge a man

that committed certain acts

under the influence of this new
moral situation in which the mind

is subject to a constant
torture that knows no mercy.

Our military code does not collect
this new situation

because it was not planned.

And Captain Hall, for being a
of his first victims,

has to be judged
With the current laws.

We all know that resistance
of each human being

It has a limit in its processes
of depression.

And that without suffering bodily harm
that limit can be reached.

The defendant reached that point.

Therefore, even if he does not have
denied participation

in the acts that are judged
in this advice,

he denies that he did
voluntarily, deliberately

or consciously.

I think few of us would have
resisted in those circumstances.

As the only person familiar
with the facts is the defendant himself,

you want to present to the court
your testimony

�You know exactly the accused
your witness obligations

and that everything I declare
Can it be used against you?

Those obligations have been exposed
and agree with them.

Then proceed
To take an oath.

The defense requests as a witness
to captain Edward W. Hall.

Raise your right hand.

He swears what he says in this advice
It will be the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth
with God's help?

- I swear.
- Sit down, captain.

Say your name, grade and destination
or current situation.

Edward W. Hall, captain, detachment
of patients, Letterman Hospital.

- Are you the one accused of this advice?
- Yes, sir.

Captain, I wish you mentally back
on the day of his capture, January 2, 1951.

That day you and many prisoners
they undertook a long march,

that would conclude several
days later in field number 5.

He wants to tell us what
Do you remember that day?

Sure, I remember it was cold.

Why do you keep that impression?
so particular?

Because they had broken my
pants on a fence

last night and
the wind came through the holes.

The boys laughed, but soon
They stopped doing it and even talking.

- What was it due to?
- Some began to die.

Many were exhausted,
Other injured

You were also hurt,
Right?

Yes, on one leg he had lodged
a piece of shrapnel.

The wounded had to
drag them on sleds.

A boy who was close to me
It had a huge hole in its belly.

They tried to cover it, but
the bandages fell off and ...

Well, although anyone could
see that he was dead,

the others were still on the sled
anyway.

Then the Chinese stopped
the column and they screamed

saying we were
Slowly and hurry up.

But dragging the sleds
It was not possible to do so.

- Did they give any solution?
- Yes,

they said to all of the
Sleds buried them.

It means
to those who had died?

No, not just them.
There was...

a lieutenant who tried to explain
that the boy who took care of his group

He was not dead yet.

They gave him a hoe and forced him
To dig two graves.

One for the sled boy
and another for him.

- Did the lieutenant do what they said?
- Yes, they put him in a gun.

I dug the graves.

And he said to his guardian: "In my land
such a thing would be murder. "

And after spitting at the guard in
the face made us a farewell gesture

and prayed a prayer.

Follow.

He was shot in the neck
and collapsed.

Is that true after this?
you picked up an injured officer

and charged with him for 4 days
so they wouldn't kill him?

They healed his leg
when did I get to the field?

No. They locked us in a barracks
and they left us there.

In general, how they were
you health?

No good. They only gave us
wheat to eat And bad.

When talking about barracks, which one
did he mean exactly?

That of the officers, they had us
separated from the soldiers.

Could you communicate?
with them?

No, officially not.

But I managed to know they were
in frightening conditions

and that young people died.

I knew they ate what we
and that none of us got sick,

I wanted to see what happened
and I went one afternoon to visit them.

How did you manage to do it?

I bribed the jailer,
I gave him my ration.

What did you discover when visiting the
barracks of the soldiers?

What I saw was that they were full pigsty
Of a smell that was nauseous.

There was no discipline, no command,
no authority

And it was true what they had told me
of the youngest, they were dejected.

It was a pathetic picture,
They didn't want to eat or drink.

Those boys were
sunk

I went to one of them and said:
"Do you want to die?" And he told me yes

and leave him alone.

I rebuked him, slapped him and told him
That would throw him into the hole.

Why did he do it?

I thought the irritation would force him
to get up.

Why did he want me to get up?

Because I had the strange idea that
Standing, a man does not die.

In other words, you wanted to give
We encourage you to continue living

and not recreate by attacking him brutally
as the accusation

- He has implied.
- Yes, sir.

Tell me, captain,
Did you get your purpose?

Well, some of those who were there
They got up and started hitting me.

- Did the incident originate a fight?
- Yes, of course.

I didn't think they had strength,
but they got me into the yard.

What happened next
of that mishap?

Instead of letting me go to the barracks,
The Chinese took me to their barracks.

They circulated the news
I was going to work for them.

And they tried to make me fat to
See that he received a favor deal.

They asked me to distribute
propaganda and accepted,

because it was the only way to
Get in touch with the soldiers.

I got them to trust me
the writing of the texts.

Why the reason?

I thought that by doing them, I would get
that look fake,

I wanted to make the soldiers understand
who did not believe in such patrons.

That was the reason I used
the phrase "I feel happy and happy"?

Yes, I thought that with it
It gave him a sarcastic tone.

From what you have just stated, it follows
how much the boy incident

like the propaganda he distributed
they agreed

With his military duties.

Despite appearances, it drove
His behavior a high ideal.

We understand that after the
propaganda distribution,

disappeared for 6 months
and then it changed again.

It was at that time when it threatened
to the soldiers to sign

the manifest of the surrender of form
that many would consider him a traitor?

He realized that by doing
did that violate military norms?

- Are you defending me?
- What motives drove him?

- Were they still high ideals?
- High ideals?

What were the reasons, I tried
to comply with military ordinances?

So they had changed
the reasons, right?

You had also changed.
Did you do all that voluntarily?

- Do not.
- Deliberately?

- Do not.
- Consciously?

You have changed, captain,
Or had they changed them?

�It is not true that he was tormented
during those six months

to the point that it is no longer
Did you have your own will?

What did they do to you, captain?

They had me isolated.

- They had him isolated. Where?
- In a quartet of a cellar.

How was that room?

Dark.

Water leaked
and the ground was damp,

except in a small place
and that was where he slept.

Every morning they entered
a bucket and some rags

to clean it up.
It was when they let me move.

- Did they allow you to do something else?
- Do not.

He had to be sitting in the
Darkness unable to support your back.

How long did they have it?

I do not know.

It started a few days later

to solve problems mentally
and sing some songs

I remembered from school
to entertain me

But they didn't let me go on,
They said it made a lot of noise.

What happened next?

Then they gave me paper and a candle
saying I could write

If I did it on myself.

They continued to question him
during this period?

Yes, they entered at midnight,
When I tried to sleep.

What did they want?

I wanted him to sign that leaflet
of surrender.

And he signed it?

I resisted for a long time.

What happened during
that long time?

They had me in the basement.
One night they went to look for me.

I had to walk through the snow.

I was ice cream, I felt nothing
I didn't even know what was happening to me.

So, over a puddle,

They said I had to sign them
that leaflet,

or I would spend only the rest of my life.

- Did he sign it?
- Do not.

Did you get punished?

Yes, they locked me in the basement
again.

They no longer wore rags
To clean the floor.

It was all a huge puddle
and when I wanted to sleep

I had to throw it out
in the dirt

My members were numb and the
dirt pours me to the bone.

It was like being buried in life.

They were approaching the skylight

and they told me that if I liked it
being alone.

I had to bite my tongue
not to answer

I don't know how long I was there.

So, I remember one night, one
voice said he had a letter for me.

At first I ...

I didn't believe them, because nobody wrote to me
or destroyed the letters.

They told me it was because ...

Why?

Because nobody remembered me.

What did that letter say?

Was...

A very short letter.
It was from my father.

I was wondering why
I hadn't written to him again.

And that was all?

Do not.

I said ...

He said ... He said my brother
Peter was dead

and at that moment I understood
that I couldn't anymore.

I was sad and something said a voice
of some blankets and a place to sleep.

He said that, or signed then
the leaflet,

or I would spend only the rest of my life.

And I said okay, yes.

I told them to tell me
what I had to do.

Bacteriological warfare, propaganda,
drug trafficking, whatever they would like

in exchange for not following alone
and be able to sleep for a few hours.

Then they took me out,

they gave me a pen
and signed everything.

In other words,
you collapsed.

Yes

Among the things I signed
the night of its collapse,

there was an informative note about
Miller's escape project,

- Is it or isn't it?
- Yes.

It is not true that there was
have you been locked up for 6 months

and that it was humanly impossible
I was aware of the plans

- Leaking Captain Miller?
- Yes.

Captain, he said that when
I was in the basement,

they gave him a day paper and a candle
to write about himself.

It was about writing
an autobiography?

- Yes.
- How was it? Could you remember her?

When I was young I worked
like buttons in an office,

washing dishes and washing cars.

I lit floors, I did everything.

I couldn't fool them,
They always knew.

�Wrote during your isolation
What they now call "your manifesto"?

Yes, I wrote a 20.
They forced me.

If I forgot anything
or add something new,

they told me what a lie
and they forced me to write again.

What did they propose with all that,
do you suppose

I think they wanted to find out
of my life.

In order to use some detail
against you, right?

Some special thing
that could demoralize him.

And finally he gave them the key,
Right?

Finally you provided them
What they were looking for.

Here I have the A test of defense,
identified, accepted

and included in the summary,
Captain Hall

Is it an authentic copy or not?
of his autobiography,

of which he wrote the night he
they locked him in the basement again?

Where did he get that from?

It is not true as before
of receiving the letter announcing

the death of his brother, every time
who presented the leaflet

refused to sign it?

I have underlined a paragraph
to read it yourself.

He wants to read it out loud
for the court to hear?

- No, I do not want to.
- Page 17. Read it, please.

No I can not.

� Consider that document
part of the testimony?

- Yes, that's right.
- The witness is obliged to read it.

"Being still a child, I remember
that our house was ... "

Nothing is heard.
Remove that hand from the mouth.

"... a place where you could barely
talk and you had to close the doors

very carefully,
Because my mother was sick.

It was a sad time for Peter
and for me.

We longed for our mother
He will heal so he can be with her.

But then he died. After
We had nothing left of that.

I was 12 when it happened.

My father was in the barracks
Busy almost all the time.

He left us a detailed note
leaving with many warnings

and the maid gave us a star
every day if we had been good

and my father checked
The stars coming back.

He taught us many things
that all soldiers should know:

how to have a clean room, comply
Orders and never complain.

I can't remember ...

I do not succeed to ...
I can't remember ...

that my father would give us
Someday kiss,

to hug us ... "

"To hug us as we see that
sometimes they did the other parents.

He never showed us affection and arrived
To be so stubborn with myself

as he was. I think I can no longer
love nobody again.

I loved my mother, but she doesn't exist anymore.
I loved my brother, but he died.

I wish my father would have given me
an opportunity to show you

How I loved him.

If that loneliness manages to kill me,
I wish it was now. "

He wants the defense
That the advice be postponed?

No, sir, there is no need.

This gentlemen has been
A new method.

There was no brainwashing,
They didn't use drugs.

They did not try to annihilate him
the brain but

neither did they try to avoid him
No suffering

In Captain Hall
we have a soldier

whose service sheet allowed
assume that he was able

of enduring any physical pain
with fortitude,

however, this soldier, subjected to
mental torture that made him suffer,

He couldn't resist it.

It is a process
of gradual application.

First an atmosphere is created
of terror and uncertainty,

then heads away,
attacking health and morale.

Spies are introduced
among the prisoners

and if there are not, it is made to believe
somehow they exist.

They make an army a school
ghost and they get the soldiers

become anxious children of
reward and fearful of punishment,

forcing them to be alone
and to be distrustful.

Then they choose the loneliest,

to destroy him even more.

They make him believe that only
They can forgive you and help you.

Find out after his secret
more intimate,

and once discovered,
they make use of it.

We all have our secret.

The defense is over.

It's 4 o'clock. With the permission of the court,
the accusation will not interrogate the accused

- See you tomorrow morning.
- The council is postponed until tomorrow.

- What do you want?
- Talk to you a little.

- It is late.
- It will only be a moment.

I don't intend to entertain you much.
Please.

In agreement.

Enters.

- No, I'm fine here.
- Grant me the attention of entering.

This ... is difficult for me,
you will understand.

Good,
What do you want to talk to me about?

Of what you have read in court.
From that autobiography.

- It made me think a lot.
- He wrote it more than 3 years ago.

Yes, I understand.

But it is quite a matter
prickly anyway.

You said about me things that I myself
I ignored. You have crushed me.

It has been a real dissection.

But when one discovers how it is in
reality in the eyes of their children ...

I guess Peter would feel it
Same for me. So it was, right?

It was like that.

How much I have lost.

It has been a hard lesson.
And I suppose

that your mother believed that
I didn't want her either, huh?

Well, tomorrow is the last
day, right?

You ... think back home telling
With everything ending well.

We wait for you, of course.

Thank you.

This is always going to exist
distance between us?

I do not know.

So what can I do?

I have to lose you
at three?

Please tell me
What can I do?

You have to give in.
Please, you have to try.

Is that all you want?

Oh God, God ...

Captain, during the period
of isolation that I described yesterday,

Did they torment him or beat him?

I mean that if he was subjected
to some kind of physical torture.

�When they interrogated him, he was
always in unfavorable conditions?

Yes

He gave the report accordingly
from Captain Miller.

- I ignored that he had run away.
- It doesn't matter if I knew it or not.

Sign a document knowingly
What did he mean?

A document that could be used
for the enemy to break

- The mood of those who wanted to flee?
- Yes, I did.

- How many officers were in the field?
- About 70.

Some of them signed documents,
did you advertise or threaten others?

Not that I know.

It is not true that most of the
officers, when asked

that will collaborate voluntarily,
they gave only their affiliation,

as they were taught
what would they do?

How did Captain Miller do
to be tortured

Yes, I think so.

It is not true that those who
they had with the enemy

Only the indispensable contact,
allowed by ordinances,

that did not give facilities to the Chinese,
no test opportunities,

- They spent their captivity better?
- Yes.

In other words, captain,
all the penalties that I endured

They were a consequence of their actions.
He was willing to collaborate,

- Isn't it true?
- Maybe.

It is possible, of course, that at the beginning
had honorable reasons,

- Was it like that or not?
- Yes.

Despite his good intentions,
you have been one of the few officers

that has lent itself to betray
To his homeland.

- I protest!
- The protest is accepted.

Very good.

Now let's examine what has been
called here "its collapse",

the process of his deep depression,

as the defense has qualified
poetically.

He judges his resistance
Did you reach the limit?

- Yes.
- What was the cause?

We know they gave him some
Feeding, right?

Yes

- Was it because he was dying of cold?
- Do not.

- Or because of the pain in the leg?
- Do not.

- The risk of death?
- They said he was a war criminal.

- Once they said they were going to kill me.
- They threatened to execute him?

That was never notified.
Do not.

No. And, of course, we know it lacked
of some amenities,

- But that wouldn't force him to give up.
- How did he say? Comforts?

No one had comfort,
we know.

No. It was none of those causes.
What forced him to crumble

It was only loneliness.
Isn't that what you said?

I think that issue of loneliness
It is an interesting detail.

If you think we will examine it
together...

Can I drink some water?

Clear.

- Thank you.
- You are welcome.

Captain, can you quote me some other
special moment when loneliness

it became unbearable before
That was sent to Korea?

- Do you mean a day of grief?
- Yes, that is.

Well, I don't know. A few days would be
Better than the others, I guess.

Do not remember if there was a day when
loneliness was so heinous

- Who couldn't resist it?
- Seems to refer to physical pain.

- Someday it would be unbearable.
- What do you mean?

What has been the day of greatest
loneliness that you remember?

- The day my mother died.
- The day your mother died.

We have read in your autobiography
that the Chinese forced him to write

and they realized that it was you
a very lonely child

- And they took advantage of it, right?
- I recognized that I was always alone.

- Did you recognize him before himself?
- Yes, and for the first time.

Until that moment, there was never
said to himself

- "Ed, frankly, I'm alone."
- Yes, I had.

Well, since I knew,
It was not a new thing for you.

Why did you go to choose
just that night to give up?

I don't choose it!

It was the night I knew
The death of my brother.

- Was his name Peter?
- Yes, Peter.

- Did that make you feel even more alone?
- Yes.

Suddenly, it made me believe
That it was all over.

- It was a feeling of abandonment.
- Yes, like when my mother died.

When your mother died, you
I felt the same, like

If I couldn't anymore, right?

But then he saw that he could resist it
and continued living.

He had to do it.

And he couldn't do it too
after Peter's death?

- I could do it, maybe.
- He could do it, maybe.

Why didn't he do it? Do you think there was
reached the limit of its resistance?

Or just afraid to get to that end?

He could not have resisted
a little more?

One day, one hour,
one minute even?

Think about it, captain.
Did you reach the limit?

Did you actually reach the limit?

No. I did not arrive.

I don't have to ask more questions.

Does the defense wish to interrogate
back to the witness?

It is not necessary.

- Does the court want to question you?
- No, neither.

The witness can withdraw.

Tell the defense if you want to expose
Some final consideration.

Yes, it is.

Gentlemen, here I have a document
whose reading is not very pleasant.

It is an enemy report
which describes

certain aspects of behavior
observed by some prisoners.

"One: many prisoners reveal
lack of affection for their relatives,

to society or the army.

Two: as soon as they are isolated,
they feel discouraged

and give up fighting to survive
because they have lost faith in themselves. "

Keep telling the report that until
university training soldiers

they have precarious knowledge
of American history

and of the advantages and disadvantages
of democracy.

Add that many of them
they have no idea of communism,

because nobody has bothered
of trying to instill it.

The entire propaganda program
of the enemy

has been based on all
These insights.

And in some cases it was successful,
because what was observed was true.

Now we are judging
to Captain Hall.

Gentlemen, guilt, if any,
Who has it?

Only the few who claudicated
under pressure like him?

We won't have something, at least everyone
those that we have contributed to form

so to this generation, capable of
collapse, weak, ill-disposed,

as in the case of Captain Hall,
lacking resources

to resist to the limit,
because I had not received the love

What should I hold him to the end?

Now, at the time of judging him,

we must ask ourselves if we have not
taken part in the moral collapse

of this man who has passed
for two wars in his youth

and who has suffered captivity in some
conditions that none of us

We have met so far.

Thank you.

He has something to object to
accusation to these arguments?

Gentlemen, in response
as stated,

I must say that in certain aspects
society can be considered

effectively responsible
of the offender and his fault.

But society is not exempted
of duty and responsibility

to subdue the offender
to the action of justice.

Lend to collaborate with the
enemy in time of war

it's a crime. And it is so planned
in laws like murder.

The defense has only
A legal argument.

An argument that will interest
both to the public and to the press:

the moral collapse. Which
It certainly has existed.

But in this case,
The facts are clear.

The penalties have been described
by the accused.

It wasn't they who took him
to moral collapse.

Captain Hall is an officer
responsible with command

Who has collaborated with the enemy.

I tried to persuade the troops
in front of them to surrender.

I was willing to inform
About the prisoners.

I tried to convince others
to collaborate with him.

Disobeying the orders of
not give more than

the name, grade and number,
and in doing this

favored our enemies.

If they declare Captain Hall
innocent of these accusations

must declare guilty of stupidity
to all Americans

They refused to collaborate.

The testimonies have shown

that Captain Hall is guilty
of the charges attributed to him.

The court withdraws
to start the deliberations.

� Can I wait for the verdict
with you?

- Sure, if you want.
- I would like it.

In agreement.
We will smoke a cigarette.

- Where is Aggie?
- Outside. He has not resisted anymore.

- Excuse me, captain.
- Commander,

I present to my father,
Colonel Hall

- At your service.
- Commander.

- Excuse me.
- It's your duty.

- Frank. My father, Colonel Hall.
- Delighted, sir.

I want to thank you
For the defense of my son.

You are understanding, colonel.

I think I'm understanding something
more since I've met Ed.

- Do you have children?
- Three.

I wonder if they are so incomprehensible
for you as they have been for me.

Who understands the children?
I'll see you later.

Come on?

- Don't cry alone.
- I'm not crying.

- Are we going to take a breath?
- It's fine.

Go you
I will stay here.

Order in the room.
Silence please.

The session is resumed.

All court components
that were present

by interrupting the session,
They are in the living room again.

Sit the accused
in front of the court

Captain Edward W. Hall, it is my duty
inform you as chairman of the council

that the court met in session
secret and by voting

two thirds of the votes of
the members present

have agreed to declare
to you,

in relation to the charges
and specifications,

guilty, with the exception of
charge of incitement to surrender.

Of that charge, the council
considers him not guilty.

Before the council ends
in the case of Captain Hall,

you are notified that this time
can expose the circumstances

mitigating before
if read sentence.

I will speak under oath.
- All right. He is still under oath.

What I wish to expose will not be�
a mitigating, but I want to say it.

Captain Miller was at my hotel
This early morning.

He is the witness who suffered torture.

He said he had read the documents,
who had witnessed my statement

and that he wanted to talk to me.
We sit and talk

about the companions of captivity
that we had

He said that, in his opinion, all beings
they have in their life

A decisive moment.

If they choose correctly,
They feel proud then.

If they choose to make a mistake,

a remorse invades them that
I will no longer abandon you in your life.

I want every soldier,

I want all people to feel
what I feel now.

Because if so, they would understand what
what does it mean for a man

have betrayed his homeland,

spoiling a moment
Of pride and glory.

I pray to God that all

They are right to choose.

A.M