"'One day we'll find each other above the mountains!" "' we say..." "With those words we left everyone we loved for the Eastern Front." "But the Germans captured us and..." "Stalin called us traitors because we didn't die for him." "Only 800 of us were left but none of us dared hope we would ever see the summits of Georgia again." "To survive we allowed the Germans to take us and everything seemed lost." "Until they sent us to a small flat holiday island with white beaches and broad skies and with..." "Marie." "The Aviatrix of Kazbek" "Oh, child." "People danced in the streets of Berlin." "That's where the danger is, Marie." "Where you think everything is beautiful." "De Mok's not just for shooting from" "De Mok keeps watch by day and night and time for fun can be found for in De Mok laughter resounds" "De Mok's not just for shooting from" "De Mok keeps watch by day and night and time for fun can be found for in De Mok laughter resounds we're far removed from cultured themes between dune, sand and watery realms for dune-fever the only cure known to man - is humour" "Danger" " Mines!" "Amen..." "Good evening." " Upstairs, boys." "Patience never harmed any creature." "We've been waiting so long." " I have provisions for a party." "So if that helps..." "It doesn't." "It's not decent to celebrate a marriage while at war." "Maybe Marie doesn't want to be decent." "Pappa!" "Germans..." "You saw the reinforcements arrive?" "The resistance is eager for islanders like you." "I have no choice, there's no room." "We have to requisition the barn and one room." "Take a look upstairs." " Yes, sir." "Komt u mee." "Gaprin... eh..." "Kintsura... ra..." "Leave that to the liaison officer." " Yes, sir." "Come here, Mr Indjia." "Silence!" "Amilakhvari, Baikhoidze." "Nizjaradze." "Tskrialashvili." "Who is that traitor?" "We saw who betrayed their country when the Reds moved in, didn't we comrade?" "We all love Georgia." "At least we have that in common." "I just introduced myself, sir." "Don't waste my time with your nonsense." "Go on." "Tangoshvili." "Chkhenkeli, Djavakhishvili." "Come with me, Indjia." "That traitor will leave us here alone?" " A compatriot with the enemy is useful." "Mind your own business." "Get to work!" "This is Kazbek, my home." "Be careful!" "It's all I have as a memento." "It's lovely." "Without my Kazbek, I would be lost." "I couldn't give it to you even if you asked me to." "Yes?" "The commander of the new regiment has arrived." "You mean our rebels?" "What did I do to deserve this?" "You can go." "It is over." "It's over." "The war is lost." "They'll probably lose." "It may take a few weeks." " You'll be free by summer." "Will we defend ourselves?" " I don't know." "I expect you to stay loyal now." "Choose life and repress the urge to rebel." "You don't want to be here and nor do I." "Let's serve on this island without doing anything silly." "No one expects heroism from you." "In Zandvoort you were impossible, even ridiculous." "You planned to liberate Amsterdam and Holland with a few hundred men?" "In Zandvoort you proved yourselves to be heroes hoping to liberate Amsterdam and Holland with a few hundred men!" "We don't believe in miracles, we count on them." "Hope keeps us alive." "Be thankful that survived your hope." "Butterflies, let us catch you!" "Butterflies, here we come!" "The open field Is our world..." "What are you waiting for?" "I think it was this way." "Smells nice!" "Common!" "Go ahead!" "Hello." "Lord, bless this food." "Amen." "Cheers." "Thanks to the mother of this family, to our good host!" "Thanks" " Thank you." "Ara!" "We are not from Germany." "We are from Georgia." "We come from Kazbek." "Kazbek." "I am Irakli." "This is Goga." "Goga..." "My name is Amiran." "Amiran, Tbilisi." "I live in Tbilisi." "We fought in the Red Army on the Eastern Front." "With Russians, against Germans." "We didn't fight hard enough and surrendered to become prisoners of war." "There was no food in the German camp." "We had to surrender again and sign up in the German Army." ""Win or die for the fatherland," says our great leader Stalin." "But I have two sons." "Red Army soldiers captured alive can expect to be executed when they return home." "There's only one thing to do now:" "...fight for the cause to the end." "I think they're Russians." "One, two, three and four, to time, men, march sun and sea, here we come, keeping step and march." "Blue skies and sunshine welcome our lines." "What could be finer than a cold bath?" "Shut!" "No more dancing." "Two tickets..." "It's war." "Are you okay, boy?" "In the name of God." "Take me instead of him." "He wants us to take him instead of..." " Maybe he's crazy." "It's great, someone who's willing to sacrifice everything for cinema." "He has his life ahead of him." "Hey Tato, give us a hand!" "Hello." "Will you handle this?" "It's dangerous if you don't know what lurks beneath." "I know, Mr Schalk." "Then it's really dumb to come to me." "I had no choice." "Your name was mentioned." "What?" "Resistance unit Zandvoort..." "Comrades!" "Music, I thought..." "You love things like that." "Different..." "I miss you, Pappa." "You on your island, me on mine." "Why do you always want the impossible?" "Yes boy, you just look." "How is it going?" "Put that down there." "What's still missing?" "Music!" "We've set the date." "We know our goal." "Now everything depends on one last thing." "We need accurate information of the location of all German troups on this island." "Accurate information!" "Good evening." "A beer and gin chaser please." "Cheers." "Hey, you." "Still not sure what side you're on?" "Can I have a bottle?" "Thank you." "We all love Georgia, of course." "Tbilisi women are cautious and play prudent." ""Girl, girl, don't lead me into temptation."" "Let's drink to women who like to flirt." "This is no time for women's charms." "The enemy is on the doorstep luring us into a new battle." "Can someone explain why we lose every battle?" "Don't lose your head with wine." "Hope keeps us alive." "That's what I know." "Hoping to be victorious conquers fear." "Cheers, let's wash down the last doubt." "Cheers!" "Nothing's as inflammable as hope!" "Why let tomorrow's hangover spoil tonight's party?" "When Tbilisi girls sing everything around is turned to wonder anyone who hears them sing just once can count himself happy for ever not every street in Tbilisi is flat but every Tbilisi boy is like gold when they sing their serenades" "girls come out onto their balconies" "a bright morning or the darkest night a sunny sky or the mildest moonlight" "Tbilisi people know what love is" "Tbilisi love flutters by like butterflies" "But those butterflies are hiding from the cold for now in tree bark, but soon they'll be set free." "That's what happens if you let the waves wash you, up and down, up and down." "You wash up somewhere you don't belong." "What do you want?" "If you stand on something like that, you can't object when you're trampled too." "One, two, three..." "Kazbek..." "Home?" "The flour's all gone." "Frans!" "In the midst of darkness the Lord sends us his most difficult trials." "Then he can see which of us allow ourselves to be misled and which are steadfast in our faith." "And for that, we see today, on our own island he sends us wolves again and he wrapped them in sheep's clothing to teach us that those we trust will be capable of the most gruesome deed." "Amen!" "Ton?" "I have coupons." "No bread?" "Pappa!" "Enjoy your food." "Go on, eat up." "We live on an island, I love that." "You can't leave if there's nowhere to go." "There's always somewhere to go." "What if you don't dare?" "You can always dare." "And leave." "First you need someone to leave." "You and I don't have that." "We don't belong anywhere." "We won't, mustn't, can't..." "People like us have to stick together." "Did you think it would remain without consequences?" "That fawning?" "What d'you want with those men?" "It's not the soldiers, Mum." " Don't lie." "People gossip." "Paul..." "What about Paul?" "What about him?" "Paul slapped me." "So don't provoke him!" "I have a good mind." "What my eyes see, my hands can make." "I read things and think until I understand them." "Then I get the ideas." "My child!" "So many ideas..." "I could write them down and amaze people." "I could have finished school, easily." "Maybe even on the mainland." "I didn't do it." "Reading and learning..." "I even lose pleasure in thinking because no one listens." "Things don't work out as you want." "Finally you choose what is left." "That's all." "This is our home." "It doesn't take much to see what's important." "This is our hope." "There's only a few fragments left." "You just need some imagination especially with Irakli's voice!" "Are we ready?" "Why do you always want the impossible?" "Why else would anyone trek across the plains?" "How do you survive if you don't believe there's something to climb?" "The least you can expect of a girl is that she does as she's told." "A father has to expect his children to pursue their dreams." "The well-being of our people comes first." "I live in the people and the people live in me." "If you go, you abandon your family." "That's a small sacrifice for the safety of a people." "So farewell, my father." "But don't you want to see your mountains again?" "No one can force a bird not to fly it soars away on conviction no one can force a mountain to move along it stands as a rock and waits for its dreams fly, aviatrix of Kazbek spread your wings of hope" "make our dreams come true help us across these mountains colours will be colours even though night has fallen birds keep flying even in the dark my father you are a peak hit by lightning but that doesn't matter as the mountains are your home" "fly, aviatrix of Kazbek spread your wings of hope make our dreams come true help us across these mountains when a butterfly follows the call of nature time by time and you listen to the voice of your dreams, walking from door to door" "the truth will lead you to the sky and to the end of sorrow and our goal lights up softly, like a pearl in the mist fly, aviatrix of Kazbek spread your wings of hope make our dreams come true" "help us across these mountains" "Why does she always want the impossible?" "Knowing that a storm will come one day is how to weather the calm." "Father, be my rock and let me soar above you." "I'll see you and know there, by that rock." "That's my home!" "We have heard worrying reports." "I'm sorry." "Reports that people notice you." "Strange behaviour..." " Strange friends..." "It's well known you're different from the rest." "You crossed the island alone, without anyone else." "But now you'll marry." "We must guard." " Guard!" "You've been seen dancing." " There was music!" "You've been seen smiling at the newcomers." "People are wondering if you know which side you're on." "It's said you're a friend of commander Bresser." "Of the German army." "He gives me cards." "With sinful pictures." " Sinful." "Pictures of mountains." " Mountains?" "Summits, slopes, ravines mountain chains all over the world, caves, peaks, valleys eternal snow..." "God preserve us!" "Marie..." "Marie..." "My heart is beating so hard, it's bursting out of my chest." "Yes, of course." "You do understand what I said, don't you?" "It's cold for the time of year." "Hide it, quick!" "We've been ordered to hold North Holland." "That means the battalion will be taken to the mainland in a few days to fight the final battle." "Liberation is near." "But his orders are to occupy North Holland." "From tomorrow you have to fight for a lost cause on the mainland." "Schalk!" "It's that Georgian..." "That man is lethal and crazy." "It's better to pretend we're not here." "The Georgians aren't afraid." "They don't care about the effects of their plans." "They don't think, only dream." "Now translate word for word." "Schalk!" "How are you?" "The time has come." "We have to do our duty." "Prepare your men." "We'll rebel and in two days you will be free." "The time has come." "We have to do our duty." "Prepare your men." "We'll rebel and in two days you'll be free." "I knew all 82 of them." "The whole flock." "I talked to them." "Days in the mountains can be long." "I don't mind being alone when there's someone to listen." "When I whistled, they pricked up their ears." "I can listen too." "When they were killed I held them firmly by the ears head back to expose the artery." "I just spoke to them very calmly, until it was done." "That's loyalty." "Now, listen." "We're not sheep going to slaughter." "We'll go everywhere together." "I'm not stronger, smarter or better." "I can't protect you." "We'll be killed." "You know you risk everything." "That sets you apart from dumb animals." "Marie..." "Marika..." "It's war, Goga." "You're from there and I'm from here." "But it's important, I have to warn you." "This is Texel." "We Georgians are here." "This is Germany." "We..." "War..." "May I?" "It's no scandal to stand on the side." "It's bad if other's don't tolerate you being different." "You have to break free." "Show you don't belong there." "Take a seat." "People believe it's about winning or losing." "But it's only a question of what you choose." "Sometimes you decide, but usually others decide for you." "One decision leads to another." "More and more roads are closed, fewer possibilities are left open." "In the end there's what's left, that's all." "What are your friends planning?" "My friends?" "They have fewer choices than we do." "Here they're occupiers, at home traitors." "If they keep quiet, they'll be condemned as collaborators and if they do something..." "And then?" "Then I face another decision." "This is the last one." "You're scared of everything and for so long." "Afraid of looks of words and ideas." "Wait here." "We can't wait, Marie." "We have so many plans." "We sit at home and imagine what to do with all the Kraut whores when we get our hands on them." "Indeed." "That day everyone can show they're better than his enemy was." "Okay, you can go on." "Yes, come in?" "Marie." "I didn't dare hope that..." "Come." "How can anyone understand that a dream keeps us alive?" "They say it's only air." "Are we supposed to stop breathing?" "Please..." "Read it." "Behind every summit hides the next." "Dear Daddy, a last postcard from the mountains." "Soon is the moment, the doctor has prepared me." "Be strong." "We will meet again when we have wings." "In the meantime, please live for two." "We don't believe in miracles we count on them!" "At the northern battery, 180 Germans." "Where were you?" "Here in the south 200." "In the east, 140." " 140 here?" "At the Koog: 100." " 100?" "I thought there were 50." " Rubbish!" "There are 80." "You calling me a liar?" "Enough!" "Go and join your men, quickly." "Join the rebels in the north." "Take up your positions." "Good luck." "Goga, take care of the boys!" "Be brave!" "Goodbye!" "Irakli, you're my greatest hope!" "You understand that?" "Goga..." "Where is your gun?" "We'll liberate Marie's fatherland!" "That distinguishes us from dumb animals." "You're angry." "You know I'm happy." "It's not right, yet I'm happy." "I keep thinking, that I don't know what you did in there." "I intended to sleep with him." "But I don't know if it matters..." "I would have done if necessary." "My heart says it doesn't matter." "I don't condemn you..." "On the contrary..." "You have grown, to my mind." "One, two three." "Indjia!" "We have something to tell you..." "Stay back, Indjia!" "Stay back!" "That's an order!" "There's no understanding without me!" "Guard!" "Let's move!" "The lock..." "Quick!" "South battery?" "Lighthouse?" "Oosterend?" "De Mok?" " De Mok?" "Yes, de Mok!" "No, no... please!" "Marie!" "Den Burg is being shelled." "The Germans have retaken the south." "We must move North." "We have to hurry!" "Hope is inflammable, you know!" "That's how the sun rises in Kazbek." "Until half past eight there's only that glow, this red colour!" "Then the sun creeps slowly over the ridge in deep red." "She dresses the rocks in a golden coat." "The sheep gleam like pearls." "What are you doing, boy?" "Tato..." "Of ours?" " 600." "Texel citizens?" " 117." "And how many Georgians?" " Between 480 and 560." "A few hundred are prisoners of war." "What did I do to deserve this?" "Get out!" "Cloths off!" "Immediately!" "Cloths off!" "Quick!" "Cloths off, Ivan!" "The trousers down!" "Quicker!" "You collect the cloths!" "Firing squad!" "Line up!" "Squad..." "Shoulder arms!" "Take aim!" "Don't kill me!" "Don't kill me!" "No!" "To a hero's death!" "That's where the danger is, Mum." "Where you think everything is beautiful." "And again we had to leave behind much that was dear to us." "Much, but not all." "It was I who taught her the words." ""One day we'll find each other..." I heard her say it myself..." "I am almost sure, while she looked around one more time at the white beaches, at the skies and at the flat countryside where our comrades are lying waiting until they grow wings."