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Come on, wake up.

Get up.

Get down!

- Is it bad? - There's a bang on the head.

All right... who is in here?

Hey, in here!

Come here.

Everybody say his name.

Visconti.

Khozek.

- Kramer. - Larshen. I've got Lund here with me.

- Grabinski. - Rouquet.

- Is Lund all right? - He's all right, yes.

Can we get through?

I know these doors. They don't open.

Visconti?

Here.

Escape shaft.

Here, take this paper.

One... two... three...

four... five... six...

seven...

It's getting worse. Better go down.

You first, Visconti.

I'm going down.

I don't like heights.

Don't worry. It's just a ladder.

- Grab a hold of that one. - Where?

Over there. Have you got it?

Yes.

Good.

My leg. Please! Please!

Check Lund.

Is the heart still beating?

Get back!

Is it on my neck? No, please! Get it off!

Come on!

I found a store room!

- Hey! I found a store room! - Don't touch anything!

Wine!

Grabinski.

Khozek.

- What is it? - Wine.

Oh, God...

At least we won't die of thirst.

So much wine.

It's officers' wine.

Leave it!

Why? I don't see any guards here.

Before anyone starts getting drunk, we gotta find out where we are.

Right. We'll, uh... start a search.

Kramer, Khozek, Rouquet.

- Are you okay? - Oh, yes.

I'll leave you my matches.

Thanks.

Rouquet?

- Who's that?! - Me!

Give me!

Food!

Food!

Food!

We shouldn't touch anything.

Listen, old friend...

There are no Germans down here.

And it's none of your damn business.

They'll come back.

Will they?

- Look what I found. - Candles.

Here, take this. Open a tin for each man.

Me!

Stop it!

They'll shoot us. They will. It's stealing.

- It's me they'll blame! - Oh, shut up.

I'm getting out now.

I'll cut you a piece.

Oh, yes...

I'm going to piss.

Something... to wash... the food.

The wine?

Here is something... to wash...

Everything's blocked.

I... can't get out.

Come here, please.

Look.

This is the blockhouse.

Here is the escape shaft where we all came down.

Blocked.

Here... is the main entrance.

Caved in.

This... tunnel here...

Solid granite.

This one...

Hopeless.

Why hopeless?

I know these places.

So then we're trapped?

Maybe, but...

let's get some more light on this place and see what we can do.

Well, you know about this place, Grabinski.

Are there any possibilities to dig ourselves out?

- It's not... - Any place that...

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - No, no. Just tell us.

All right. We are 30 meters underground.

There's no air at all from the escape shaft.

In the main corridor, also nothing.

The only air comes through two ventilation pipes

which face north towards the sea

and run through seven meters of reinforced concrete.

It would take us...

No, it's impossible. We can do nothing.

No, there must be some possibility. I mean, we...

We must... we must try.

Maybe we could light a fire and let the smoke fill as a signal.

We'd just fill up the whole place with smoke.

Well, but let's try!

Look, Lund...

Look, we got food, we got drink, we got clothes.

We're safe.

How about water?

There'll be a little condensation from the walls.

Oh, please. That's silly. That's silly.

But washing will have to be done... with wine.

This is the best time I've had since the war started.

All I need is a woman.

Hey, Visconti...

Your last woman... what was she like?

Come on, tell me. What was she like, huh?

Big tits.

Tell me some more.

- Hey, Kramer? - Yeah?

- How long since we're here? - Three days.

- How do you know? - I don't know.

It could be day or night.

- Yeah? - Long legs, red hair.

- She had toasted skin. - Sexy.

How many times?

No, go on. What? Twenty-five?

No. Three.

Grabinski...

You know, I've been studying these candles.

They last about five hours each.

Since we have been in this room, we have burnt exactly 12.

Kramer, please remember the last room on the right.

My pulse rate is normally 72 beats per minute.

If you multiply that by 60,

it would give you 4,320 beats per hour.

Now, we had been down here about 24 hours before we came to this room.

That makes three days in a row exactly.

Seems a pretty reliable way to keep time...

providing we have candles... and my heart doesn't stop.

We could be here for quite some time.

Yes.

But I... have made a list.

There are supplies down here sufficient to feed an entire army.

Or certainly for us.

- Masses of things. - A bloody mess.

What a bloody mess.

This place... is getting out of control.

No, sometimes two... sometimes one...

Let's clean up.

Visconti.

- Yeah? - Come on. Clean up.

Bet that felt good, huh?

You, too, Roquet.

Yes, Aufret. You are right.

But why can you not ask?

I'm still the section leader here.

Hey, Khozek.

Tidy up!

Grabinski, what'll I do with it? It stinks.

We could get disease.

Of course.

We must just go against the walls, use the cardboard boxes,

fill them up with... grain to absorb it and...

What's that?

Who is it?

Lund.

What does he think he's doing?

Lund, what are you doing?

If you listen carefully, you can hear the sea.

You'll never get through there. You're wasting your time.

Through there's open air. Nothing else to do with my time.

That's stupid. The Germans will rescue us.

Yeah, sure.

Rouquet.

What are you doing?

Just... poetry.

Poetry? What kind?

Well, um...

I'm trying to remember some poetry that, uh...

...one of my pupils wrote, you know.

It's difficult.

Kramer, let's play some cards.

All right.

Three.

Kramer.

- Get your hair cut. You've got lice. - Go back to sleep.

Three plus three...

- I haven't been to sleep. - For Christ's sake.

Been watching you and Lund.

Go away.

You're a disgrace, you know that?

He's disgusting.

The other day I observed him playing with himself.

Two weeks down here, and look at the lot of you!

It's not two weeks, Aufret.

It's not two weeks.

It's at least... seven.

Seven weeks.

Seven?!

That's rubbish.

He'll never dig his way out of there.

You lot just wait for the Germans to come back.

- Yeah, you'll see. - Piss off.

Piss off?

They'll help me with you lot.

You won't last any time down here.

Especially you, Kramer.

Kramer, stop! Enough!

Collaborator.

You...

You're nothing!

You gimp. You'd do anything!

You'd even fuck your own mother!

What's that you said?

I'll cut you to pieces, Aufret.

Bloody collaborator.

I'll kill him!

I'll kill him!

I'm getting out of here.

I'm gonna sleep on my own.

I'm all right.

I know what I'm doing. I know.

And I'm not gonna face a firing squad when they...

...when they dig me out. I'm not.

I'm gonna keep discipline. I'm gonna...

I'm gonna get this whole place in order.

Aufret is listening.

Did I ever tell you about that woman of Aufret's?

- No. - No?

Round...

and fat...

...and she was a whore!

- He was a policeman. - Yes. That's how they met.

They had the same beat. He married her and became a pimp!

Worked two jobs.

Give me the glass.

He's gone.

May I try some?

- Who is that? - It's Lund.

Go away. I don't want you here.

Kramer and Visconti...

I think they didn't mean anything.

So, um...

If you want to come back...

I mean, um...

I think we should stay together.

I'm staying here.

Well, that's up to you.

Go away! Go away.

Yes. Yes.

And... if you want to come back soon...

...do so.

You want to survive too... don't you?

Check.

I'm very sorry, Rouquet, but you must resign.

There's no point in playing with you, Grabinski.

You always win.

I'm going to read.

Hey, I'm thinner.

It's not possible, Khozek. You eat too much.

Therefore you will never become thin.

I am.

Why?

I eat... salamis and... cheese.

Tons of meat and... jams.

Pickles... cheeses...

Look at me!

It's the lack of exercise. Look at Kramer.

At least he's started.

- I have one. - Perhaps you should have a haircut.

Perhaps I should ask if you'll cut it off.

- It itches. - Really?

- Yes, really. I want to cut it. - Okay.

Okay.

A bit long.

You know, Aufret's spent this whole time up there listening.

What are you grinning at?

Stupid bastard.

Keep still. Keep still!

Keep still.

- That's all right. It's okay. - Keep still.

- No, no. Don't. - Keep still!

Christ.

So, what do I look like?

You look like an egg.

Good. Fine. Okay.

- All right. Let's get drunk. - Yes, let's celebrate that.

All right.

Feels good. It's clean.

Here's to liberation.

And... and to Naples.

Drink to that.

To Naples, Roma, and, well...

everywhere.

Drunk.

Come out! Come on. Come out and fight!

There's no use hiding. I know you're there!

Let's see you.

It's me.

It's Aufret.

I'm waiting for you!

You're cowards... all of you.

All dead.

All dead. All of you. All dead.

Shouldn't we do something?

What can we do?

He's drunk.

But we shouldn't leave him alone.

It's his choice.

Leave him.

I'll need another barrel.

I don't mind!

I don't mind.

I don't mind!

This is... not bad.

What's that? Get up! Get up!

How much you get?

Everybody say his name!

Broke in the neck Grabinski!

Kramer?

No!

No. Not... not me, no.

No.

You won't get me.

I'm safe!

I'm all right!

I can't see.

I can't see!

See!

I can't...

I can't hear! I can't...

What is it? What is it?!

Aufret?

What are we going to do?

Bury him.

- How? - The flour in the grain store.

That's it.

I didn't know.

I didn't...

Understand?

I'm frightened.

May he rest in peace.

I've got here an English game.

Would anyone like to play?

How about you, Khozek.

Would you like to play this game with me?

What is it?

It is called dominoes.

It sounds Greek to me.

Yes, it does sound Greek. But nevertheless it is English.

I don't know the name of the inventor... possibly he was Greek living in England.

On the other hand, he could've been English,

and went to Greece and brought it back with him.

Will you explain to us how to play this game?

I can tell you one thing... it's much too simple for you, Grabinski.

But I will explain nevertheless.

You were in England?

No, I've not been to England.

I discovered this game from outside of England.

Here, take all of these out of here.

Put them on the floor.

I will then explain to you what the reason is.

Visconti, you want to play this game with us?

I'm gonna have a wash.

You are going to have a wash?

No, that's right. You can't expect to have dots on all of them.

There are never dots for everybody.

Everyone has got some dots, some people don't have dots.

Wait one second. Seven each.

Each of you take seven, but before you... no, wait. Wait.

Please wait. I don't interfere with your chess games.

I'll explain the rules.

All of these dots count against you or for you, depending which...

Can you bet with this game?

You can bet with the game, yes. That's the whole idea.

I think you'll lose.

Why do you think I will lose?

How can you possibly tell I can lose when I'm teaching you this game?

Never mind. Carry on. Carry on, carry on. Please.

...to say whether I will... - Please, carry on.

Take seven each, please, first of all, before we get any...

seven.

You really do say some stupid things sometimes, Grabinski.

Unbelievable.

Piece of shit.

Get him!

- Okay? - Okay. You win.

Okay. Okay, now, finish it off. Time for a rubdown, huh?

Christ!

- That's cold? - That's cold.

Winter must be nearly over now.

Maybe spring.

Who knows? Not even Rouquet pretends to know anymore.

If you do that, you've lost.

No, I haven't, because...

Why?

Right. Try to think.

I'm going to take your queen.

But it is my turn.

What do you do?

I don't see.

Yes?

Hey... you!

Where did you get that?!

Where?

- Where? - In the store room.

Can I... can I go?

- Can I go, then? - Yes.

How did I do?

Puts you in the lead.

- I'm the lead? - Yes.

- Good. - Me now.

Kramer should. You're last.

Hold it now. Listen, you'll all take a turn.

Now...

Remember it's the same as before.

I will say, "One, two, three,"

and I will light the match, then you go.

Please let me do it.

One, two, three...

Go.

Careful!

My bicycle!

But he won.

He'll be all right. He's only knocked out.

Aufret.

He's leaking.

Why didn't we notice the smell?

We got used to it. That's all.

Want to sit down?

I don't know if you want to have a biscuit or something.

I wouldn't touch that because I got some infection from it.

We said...

...Grabinski and I...

...that we are going to have a party.

What kind of party?

Just a party.

I see.

Well, that... sounds good.

Am I... invited?

I'll see.

I'll start... planning.

Well...

That sounds nice.

Adeste, fideles

Laeti triumphantes

Venite, venite in Bethlehem

Natum videte

Regem angelorum

Venite adoremus

Venite adoremus

Venite adoremus, Dominum

God of Gods

Light of Light

Lo, he abhors not the Virgin's womb

Very God, Begotten not created

Oh, come let us adore Him

Oh, come let us adore Him

Oh, come let us adore Him

Christ the Lord

Christ...

...the Lord.

I'm drunk.

I didn't think I'd ever get drunk again.

Well...

Could I have some...

...cognac, please.

Cognac, please.

Say it yourself.

Merry Christmas.

Thank you, Lund.

Thank you, Lund.

Drink. Happy Christmas, Lund.

Thank you.

Grabinski...

Grabinski...

Don't you ever drink?

Go on... drink.

Drink with us.

- Go on. - Please.

Come on.

- Come on. - Come on, drink.

Drink.

Show us.

Merry Christmas.

I'm strong.

You are weak.

And you are old.

You are old.

He is dead.

Where is Kramer?

I'll find him.

Paul?

You're there.

It's cold.

You'd better come back with us.

It's not your fault about Grabinski.

It was an accident.

Yes... it was... an accident.

Have a drink?

All right.

Get some sleep.

Well...

Yes?

Where is he?

He's in the tunnel.

I don't think he'll come back.

Shouldn't I...

I will get him... some candles and food.

Rouquet.

We're running out. We're running out of candles.

That's all we have got.

- You sure? - Yeah.

But there are boxes.

How many have you got?

Visconti has got 14.

Maybe. Roger.

- How many have you got? - I don't know.

You can see.

Khozek?

Where do you hide your candles, Khozek?

What are you doing?

Khozek's dead.

Help me, Lund.

There's only three left now.

One for each.

Yes.

Rouquet.

Rouquet is gone.

Why?

It's only a candle.

I don't want to die.