"This is Galei Tsahal, the Israeli Defense Forces Radio." "Galei Tsahal at 220, 230, 233, on medium waves, and at 123, on short waves." "Our military correspondent reports that Egyptian and Syrian forces are advancing on our borders." "A state of emergency has been declared." "Some reserve units have already been called up." "I repeat:" "Our military correspondent reports that Egyptian and Syrian troops are advancing on our borders..." "Looks like Dayan and Golda underestimated them." "I could do without neighbors like that, anyway." "They're craftier than one thinks." "Why?" "A surprise attack on Yom Kippur?" "Nobody expected that." "What's wrong with this car?" "Can't it go faster?" "We should've taken my bike." "No, a helicopter!" "Listen, Weinraub, this is war." "Real war!" "And this time it's ours." "We're the right age!" "Drive, man, drive!" "You stressed out?" "I only buy second hand cars." "On principle." "Because they're cheaper?" "That's not it." "A car is for carrying people." "Not to show social status." "You should read Marcuse." ""One-Dimensional Man"." "It'd make you think." "Forget Marcuse." "You just don't like new cars." "No." "We're all conned into buying the latest model." "Marcuse says if we changed our consumer habits, this'd be a better world, and if we got rid of advertising, we'd be less alienated by things we don't need." "Drop Marcuse." "Drive!" "There's a war on!" "Keep going." "You can make it." "Close your door!" "Get on the side!" "Let us through!" "Move!" "Watch out!" "Where are you headed?" " What's going on?" " You can't get through." "Road's blocked!" "OK." " You won't get through." " We will!" "Come forward!" "Come on, let us through!" "Move over!" "What's going on?" "What are you doing here?" "Turn around!" "Get out!" "The Syrians are coming!" " Move on!" " To go where?" "Go back to Metulla!" "We have to go to Kuneitra." " Are our troops firing?" " Shut up!" "Turn around." "Get going!" "Why Metulla?" "Where do we go?" "Go to Metulla!" "Get out of here fast!" "What's going on?" "I don't get it." " What's going on?" " Leave!" "The Syrians are here!" "Where you going?" "Syrian tanks have been seen approaching our borders." "Fighting is going on right now." "There have been forays of Syrian tanks into the Golan heights." "These attacks have been repelled..." "Wait for me in the Jeep!" "Sorry." "We were stuck in a traffic jam at Rosh Pina." "We're looking for our unit." "We met back there," " and you sent us here." " What happened back there?" "Wake up, kids." "There's a war on." "I have news for you." "Your unit has left." " I'll take you in mine." "I said in mine." "We'll show those dumb Arabs!" "They didn't learn from the other wars." "In 2 days we'll be in Damascus." "We'll destroy them!" "Ginger, I need men like you." "Get your kit." "And come back." "You, pal, get a haircut!" "And fast!" "Cleaned your weapons?" "Answer me!" "I want no surprises." "This isn't a game now." "Give him two towels, in case he finds a shower..." "Wake up, guys." "Move it!" "We're at war now!" "Miss your mom already?" "Get dressed fast!" "Move it!" "No smoking here!" "Take off that hat!" "Make it snappy!" "Can I have a sleeping bag?" " Got everything?" " Yes." " We have to report to that officer!" " I don't trust him." "Why?" "You want to follow him, charging to Damascus in 2 days?" "Forget it!" "We have to find the others." "We'll load our kit in the car and go." "This silence is weird." "I thought we were at war." "Our unit has left." "There isn't even a sentry." "I'm starving." "This is better than being in your Fiat." "Complain!" "I pick you up, drive you straight to the front and you still complain!" "They've all gone." "I never chased anyone this hard!" "We don't have to report to our unit." "We really don't have to." "I'd rather be with them." "But if we can't find them..." "Too bad." "Let's try something else." "Listen..." "Tanks are cramped." "They're slow and you're stuck with 4 guys, swallowing dust." "You can't even piss when you want to." "Get it?" "Forget tanks." "The Air Force is a bit better organized." "Let's join an airborne rescue unit." "Helicopters!" "It's not right." "We'd only see the war from up high." "This silence is strange." " Hi, I'm Keren." "He's Oren." " Hi." "Hi Keren, Oren." "You missed your train?" "Wake up." "You're not on vacation." "This is a military base." "You forget, there's a war on?" " I was taking a shower." " I hope the water was hot!" " You, Oren, get to your post!" " Yes, Lt." "Officers!" "I'm Klauzner, an Air Force doctor." "I'm headed for Ramat David, to the airbase." "I've been here all night." "My car broke down." "There are dead and wounded." "I'm urgently needed." "We're looking for our unit." "Ramat David is over there." "And the war's over there." "Yes, but it's urgent." "It's urgent." "I must get there." "He wants to go to Ramat David." "What do you say?" "All right." "It's fine with us." "Thanks a lot." "I'll get my things." "Let's try and organize this mess." "We'll divide up into teams." "A pilot, a co-pilot, a mechanic, a doctor if one's needed, medics, soldiers..." "What's important..." "Hi, doctor." "Hi, Noah." " Gadassi, fill me in." " They're new boys." "Hi." "Who are you?" "Lt. Ruso, Sgt. Weinraub." "We lost our unit." "We met the doctor... and here we are." "Sit down." "I'll start over." "We're briefing people." "To my right, Major Noah, who's in charge of the rescue unit." "I'm Capt. Yoram, helicopter pilot." "We're trying to organize this mess." "And it's quite a mess." "Our unit has two essential duties:" "Evacuating the wounded and recovering shot down pilots." "When we're recovering pilots, we may be under enemy fire." "Don't forget that." "It's important." "We'll fly our missions in a Bell helicopter." "There's 6 on the base." "In an emergency, we'll be backed by Sikorskys." "They enable us to evacuate up to 30 casualties." "The situation at the front is complex." "We've had heavy losses." "Visibility is bad, we can't fly." "Lt. Ruso, you're in charge of the combat teams." "If you've got anything to say to your men, say it now." "He and I have been trained for missions like this." "If we have the doc with us, and maybe one other soldier, we can be operational in an hour." "We can discuss the assignments, the teams etc." "After this briefing." "If you have any questions, this is my team:" "Kobi," "Lt. Kobi, co-pilot," "Kauchinski," "Shlomo Kauchinski, airborne mechanic." "That's all." "Noah, got anything to add?" "That's enough words." "There's work to do." "I wish you good luck." "Dismissed." "Evacuate him." "That one, too." "Where's the doctor?" "Evacuate him." "Weinraub, wait for the doctor." "Go on, move." "Another one!" "Look, doctor." "They're all dead here." " We have to evacuate them, doctor." " There's nothing to evacuate." " Evacuate him!" " No point, he's dead." "Move him away." " Evacuate him!" " No, don't!" "Put him in the helicopter." " Cover me!" " You're covered!" "Go on, Gadassi, follow him." "Keep your heads down!" "Run!" "Follow him." "Klauzner, go on, run!" "Weinraub, your turn!" "Where's the field hospital?" "Over there!" " We've got to get there." " Show me where." " Behind the eucalyptus tree." " By the truck?" "Weinraub, check out the gate!" "Form two groups." "You and the pilot, that way," "Klauzner and Gadassi with me." "Go!" "We're close." "Weinraub, go look!" "It's all clear." "I'll go." "Stay behind me!" "You see anything?" "Get down!" "Gadassi, stay with Klauzner." "Doctor, how many casualties you got?" "Get the kit!" "We have to intubate him." "Keep giving him mouth-to-mouth." "Klauzner, the unit doctor's here." "Change his bandages." " I've got 7 casualties." " Who do we evacuate, doc?" "I've got one amputee." "He's severely wounded." "Take him before he dies." "I've got one severely burnt, another there." "He's the amputee, evacuate him." "And those 5, too." "Not him, I said!" "Take one serious casualty!" "Hurry!" "Put him down!" "Ruso!" "Get him out in a hurry!" "Watch his head." "Raise him!" "Turn him around!" "Easy does it, watch out!" "I've got another 5 light casualties unfit for combat." " Not the light casualties." " There's more all the time." "Prepare 4 serious ones, there's no room for more." "Shut up, that's an order!" " Who do we take?" " Him, him and him." "Hurry up!" "Come back, I've got more casualties." "Come back fast!" "We've got to unload them as fast as we can!" "Come on!" "Lie down!" "Easy, there!" "Take him away!" "Can I bum a cigarette, doc?" "Sure, here." "Thanks." "You don't look good." "These are tough days for everyone." "You lose your sense of time." "Each day lasts a century." "Today, we lost 4 Phantoms." "We've had heavy losses from the start." "Three pilots were killed." "A fourth is missing." "A childhood friend of mine." "I'm sorry." "The truth is..." "This time it's going badly." "I try not to think of it." "Were you in the war of 1967?" "The last two days, I was sent into the Sinai." "But those were different times." "There was a kind of euphoria, a victory euphoria." "Sure we had losses, but nothing like this." "At the time I was in Belgium, in a hospital." "To me, a casualty's a casualty, whatever the war." "For me the war, is getting them back home." "Didn't you want to be a fighter pilot?" "No, my father and brother both were." "It's a family tradition to be a pilot, to serve." "But you need an instinct that I don't have." "I don't get it, what instinct?" "I can't explain it." "A hunter's instinct." "A hunter's instinct?" "What does that mean?" "The killer instinct." "That's what you need to be a fighter pilot?" "In my home they say the most dangerous thing is to be one of the 3 worst pilots, or one of the 3 best." "The 3 worst, you can see why." "As for the best, they start to get careless." "Got any news about your friend?" "Did he make it back?" "We don't know." "Either he's a prisoner in Damascus..." "Or?" "Or he isn't." "There's interesting stuff in the paper." "Like what?" "Look at the headline in "Ha'aretz"." "I don't read the papers," "I just look at the photos." ""An important news item:" "Due to the state of emergency," ""fewer carbonated drinks will be distributed."" "How about that?" ""All pilgrimages to Jerusalem and tours of the President's home" ""are postponed."" "You saw the photo of the prisoner?" "The Syrian prisoner." " On the Golan?" " Yes." "Listen to this." ""The University of the Negev informs all its students" ""that all convocations for the fall of 1973" ""are canceled until further notice." ""To all our called-up students and teachers:" ""Be strong and brave."" " Hand me your tobacco, doctor." " Here, help yourself." "Thanks." "They're tough to roll." "Give it to me, I'll help you." "Don't feel too lonely?" "My Belgian grandpa rolled 'em one-handed in the dark." "Your grandfather was Belgian?" " Mine was a banker in Milan." " In Milan?" "Yes." "I thought you were Polish." "I'm half Belgian, half Polish." "My mother fled the Nazis in Poland." "I was 2 years old." "We escaped to Belgium, to Brussels." "They caught her there." "Before she was arrested and sent to a camp, she entrusted me to my adoptive family." "I grew up there." "I never knew I was Jewish." "There you are." "Need a light?" "Poor thing, when she returned from the camp, she looked for me." "When she found me, I didn't know her." "My own mom." "I didn't want to go with her, so I stayed there." "And grew up in Belgium." "What happened to your mother?" "She died six months later, of a broken heart, it seems." "It's strange." "I wanted to say how much I miss my girlfriend, and you tell me the story of your mom and the Nazis." "At least you miss someone who's alive." "I don't know how you hold out." "This is hard for me." "If I'd known I'd see people so badly hurt..." "Sometimes I think we're trying to escape from something that will happen anyway." "But I've always felt that something up there was smiling down at me..." "Are you scared?" "Scared of dying." "And tomorrow?" "Like today." "Same thing." "Just another day." "Good night, doctor." "I'm going out for a breather." "Good night." "Grab him, Gadassi." "I've got him." " One moment, Gadassi." " I won't move." "Wait!" "Over there." "Put him down a moment." "Wake him up." "You can't stay here!" "Go on, lift him." "Where do we put him, doc?" "On the floor, way in the back." "Gadassi, come help me!" "Keep the mask on." "Ruso, the morphine!" "Give him a shot." "Gadassi, check that all their masks are in place." "He's bleeding hard." "I'll use a tourniquet." "Stretchers, over here!" "Help me carry him." "Wait!" "I've got him." "On the other side." "Hold him tight." "Put him on the ground." "Hurry, doc, he's dying!" "I'm losing him, wait, I'm losing him..." "One second." "Take him away." "You can't stay here!" "Take him away." "Where's the helicopter?" "It's a few minutes away." "Hurry, we've got another one." "Put him down!" "Gently." "Klauzner, put him on an IV and let's go." "Where's the helicopter?" " It's beyond that hill." " Gotcha." "Raise him!" "Put him on the side, Ruso." "Gadassi, check the tourniquets!" "Ruso!" "What?" "Come here a second." "What?" "I dreamt that I was burning." "You dreamt what?" "I was burning... in a tank." "Smoke everywhere... and my shoes were on fire." "The hatch was jammed." "It was a dream, don't think of it." "Go back to sleep." "You were already like that when we were recruits." "This is different." "This time it was terrifying." "It seemed real." "I was scared." "Calm down, Weinraub, you're too edgy." "It's always the same with you." "You don't listen." "I tell you, this time it was real." "Nothing'll happen to you." "Don't forget, we're in the same helicopter." "To hell with your dreams." "Let me sleep." "You son of a bitch!" "Motherfucker!" "My leg's stuck in the mud." "Pick him up." "We'll take him like that." "Get him off me!" " Help us, Gadassi." " Grab a leg!" "Fuckin' mud!" "Come here." "Move with me." "Go round the other side." "Ready?" "No, let's raise him." " The stretcher!" " Get it!" "Klauzner, we'll wait for them here." "Wait, I'm slipping..." "Get him out of the water." "Get out a tourniquet!" "Gadassi, come over." "This earth..." "This shit..." "Get me out of this mud!" "What are we doing here?" "Doctor, come dance with me." "Come dance..." "Come dance with me!" ""Earth, earth..." ""Let me get off..."" "Doctor, deal with the casualty!" "Get me out of here!" "Go deal with the casualty!" "Calm down, Gadassi!" "It's me, Klauzner." "It's me." "Take me in your arms, Klauzner, hug me!" "Doctor, give him some morphine!" "One moment." " We've got to reach the chopper!" " Hand me the radio." "What's going on, doctor?" "What happened to him?" "Take off in 5 minutes." "Ruso, we have to move." "We have to leave him here." "We have no choice." "Grab all your men." "The chopper leaves in 5 minutes." "Klauzner, is he alive?" "Is he dead?" "We have to move, shape up!" "Leave him, guys." "Move!" "Doctor, we don't have time." "We gotta go!" "Ruso, get your men and follow me." "He's breathing, he's not dead." "Come on, we've got no choice." "Put him in the helicopter." "It's empty isn't it?" "You don't load the dead into a helicopter!" "You know that!" " Let's go!" " But he's not dead." "Help me." "We'll put him in the helicopter." "Don't you understand?" "We don't take him, he's dead!" "Let's take him." "We don't have time." "Leave him, you hear?" "We're going!" "No, we're taking him." "Kauchinski, follow me." "Ruso, help me drag him into the ditch." "Stand by for evacuation." "Keep his mouth open." "Open his mouth." "Behind you, Gadassi!" "Ruso, put a tourniquet on him." "Kauchinski, move your hand!" "Watch out for his leg!" "Hang on!" "Hold tight!" "Klauzner, his leg." "They're the casualties from the helicopter." "He's seriously wounded." "A deep cut in the neck." "Let me see." "Shoulder wound." "Pulse 120, pressure 180/60." " Breathing difficulties." " Breathe slowly." "Put him on a respirator." "Drain the left lung, pulmonary catheter, four doses of blood." "Put him in intensive care." "Keep me posted." "One second." "I won't hurt you." "Put your head down." "I won't touch anything, I promise." " Was the other leg hit?" " No." "I'll just look." "Change the tourniquet." "Artman 1000 plus 1000." "20 mg of Valium, repeated doses of sulfa penicillin." "To the orthopedic wing for operation." "Let's take a look..." "Yes, I see." "Turn your head a bit." "Open your eye." "One second." "OK, I saw it." "Let me see the other one." "Nurse." "Wait..." "Don't move, I won't do anything." "To neuro-surgery." "Come this way." "Hello, can you talk?" "Can you tell me what happened?" "Ruso has shrapnel in the back of his head." "So be careful." "I couldn't intubate Kauchinski." "It was impossible." "Are you the doctor?" "I see..." "Were you wounded?" "Me?" "I want to be with my mother..." "I'm sending you to X-rays." "I won't let you talk, it'll tire you." "Hang in there, doctor." "To X-rays." " Hello." "You came with them?" " Yes." " Where are you wounded?" " In the back." "Yes, I see..." "Does it hurt when I press?" " Here" " Yes." " The pain spreads to your leg?" " No." "The leg's fine." "Can you stand up all right?" "No problem." "You'll have to watch that." " You're wounded?" " No, I'm OK." "You're the pilot?" "Can you tell me what happened?" "We were near Tel El Ahmar in Syria to pick up a shot down pilot." "A missile hit us, then 20mm shells." "Many in the back got hit, the co-pilot killed, it was shrapnel, we made an emergency landing, the mechanic got a load in his skull..." "He's here." "We're taking care of him." " You're wounded?" " No, I'm fine." "I'd like you to be examined." "I'm due at the base." "They need me." " Doctor, we've got a problem." " I'm coming." "First have them register at admission." "Send them to Akko rest center." "They'll take care of them." "I'm swamped." "Good luck, guys." " Family name?" " Hattav." " First name?" " Yoram." "That's for you." " Family name?" " Weinraub." "That jeep broke my back." "Weinraub..." "Every minute of silence is a great treasure to me." "They wanted me to fly to Tel Aviv... to take Moshe Dayan to the front." "I told them that he should go... to the nearest bus station." "I hope you steer better than I did." "You weren't so bad." "English subtitles:" "A. Whitelaw" "Processed by L.V.T."