"How long have you been deaf in this ear?" "Since as long as I can remember." "Shut up!" "Keep still while the doctor is examining you." "I need a fish hook about the right size for a mullet  with a long shank and a hammer." "A fish hook?" "A hammer?" "Here is the fish hook and a hammer." "Right!" "Now, keep still." "A pea." "It is very papilionaceous, is it not?" "He must have stuck it in his ear when he was a child." "Oh, my God." "It's loud." "I mean, everything is loud." " My own voice is loud." " Your deafness is cured." " A very satisfactory operation." " I've had an operation?" "I'm the only person I know who's had an operation." "It feels as if my whole head has filled up with spring water, all cold and clear." "Talk some sense when the doctor has been kind enough to cure you." "All these years thinking you are deaf." "But now, there will be no excuses when I ask you to remember to collect something on your way home  or to stoke up the fire before we go to church." "Perhaps now you will hear me  when I say to you, "Mend the chair, Stamatis." ""Fix the leaking roof, Stamatis."" "And now, I won't have to speak so loud." "Antonio, do you remember our island?" "It does not change." "On the feast day of Saint Gerasimos  we still bring our sick to the holy place  and pray that their suffering may cease." "When Pelagia was a child  I promised her that I would write a history of Cephallonia." "But, somehow, I still have not found the time." "I wanted her to understand how a land so peaceful  could be shattered by earthquakes and war." "I wanted her to understand why sometimes the gods bless us  and why they sometimes become angry and shake us  and fill our lives with pain." "I want her to learn the lesson that nature teaches us:" "That we should not ask why we are wounded  only if the wound can be healed." "A purely psychological phenomenon." "How do you explain the miracle?" "Can Lenin cure the mad?" "Can Stalin heal the afflicted?" "It's obvious." "It's a setup to keep people enslaved to religion." "You don't have to shout." "I'm not deaf." "I want to see the cannon again." "Yeah!" "I will need stones from the street, as many as you can find." "Be right back." "Well, children, cover your ears!" "Oh, my God!" "That hurts!" "Oh, that hurts!" "Will he die?" "Eventually, one of these days, like all of us." "Turn over." "Good strong gluteals." "Tell us about the gluteals." "Please." "Come closer." "Have a good look." "Fetch your friends." "Everybody's welcome." "Gluteals." "Maximus, medius, minimus." "The maximus is the external surface of the ilium  between anterior and interior gluteal lines." "Mandras!" " Iatre?" " He'll be fine." "They told me you were shot." "I thought I was going to die." "I don't know why you can't keep out of trouble." "You should count yourself lucky you don't have a son." "Boys, they never grow up!" "Look at me." "Old before my time." "It's too hot." "The fish are all hiding in the rocks  or keeping cool at the bottom of the sea." "Put me down!" "Put me down!" "There are reports today that a Greek battleship  the Eli, has been torpedoed by an Italian submarine despite the fact that Greece is not yet involved in the war." "Prime Minister Metaxas has protested to Mussolini's government in Rome, which denied responsibility for the attack." "There are continued reports of fighting  between Greek and Italian soldiers on the Greek-Albanian border." "In Athens this morning, the Italian ambassador denied rumors...." "What are they saying?" "The Italians are in Albania, close to the border." " They have reported some fighting." " There, you hear that!" "And they are saying they are not about to declare war." " There." "What did I say?" " They want to catch us sleeping." "To creep up on us in the dead of night!" " You filthy liar!" " Your father was a goat!" "Shut up!" "If you two don't stop trading insults, I'm going to start taking coffee at home!" "Mandras wants to marry me." "I told him he'd have to ask you." " I don't want to marry him." " You don't like him." "You are both too young." "Everyone is too young when they marry." "I have often thought you'd only marry happily with a foreigner." "A dentist from Norway." "Or something." "Mandras is not your equal." "And he would expect to be better than his wife." "He is a man, after all." "I will tell you now what I will say to him." "I am not giving away a dowry." " Who marries without a dowry?" " You should marry for love." "I love Mandras!" "So what am I supposed to do?" "Go off to Mandras' mother's house with nothing but a bag of clothes?" "And my goat." "I'll never be able to show my face." "I'll be the laughingstock of Cephallonia." "You can imagine how people will talk." "I don't know how you will bear the shame." "There is going to be a war." "Terrible things happen in wars." "Use this to defend yourself." "And, if necessary, use it against yourself." "Your marriage will have to wait." "I look around me." "I see fishermen." "I see farmers." "I see strong, healthy men who are born free!" "But today, your freedom is in danger." "The Italian army sweeps through Albania  and her troops are driving to cross the frontiers of Greece!" "If you care about your country then you must fight to defend her!" "Join the war in Albania!" "Fight for your mothers  your sweethearts, your wives, your children!" "Fight for the freedom  for all Greek people to live their lives with dignity and respect!" "When I come back from the war, we will get married." "And I will build a house for Pelagia  on the land that belonged to my father." "I know we are different." "I don't know about the world." "Where have I been?" "What could I know?" "I don't know how to say what I feel inside." "I don't know how to tell you what is in here." "But I think  I know  I love you." "Tomorrow, I leave for the war." "Pelagia..." "I'll write." "I promise." "And promise that you will write to me." ""My darling:" "You have not written since that day I saw you off." ""And I am so terrified that I'm not getting any letters from you..." ""... because you have been wounded or taken prisoner." ""And I have nightmares that you are dead." ""Summer has turned to winter, and I am writing my 1 00th letter to you." ""The wounded who have returned bring news of terrible conditions..." ""...freezing cold, no food." ""But they bring no news from you." ""Every day I wait for the mail from Argostoli..." ""... and every day there is nothing." ""And I feel as if I am going mad with worry and fear." ""I try not to lose hope..." ""... but I long to feel something, even if it is only pain."" "We won!" "We won!" "It's over!" "We've beaten them in Albania!" "Look!" "8,000 of us against 1 4,000 Italians, and we forced them to withdraw!" "What?" "Hitler will never let his lapdog be humiliated." "He will come to Mussolini's aid." ""I have written this letter a dozen times." ""And a dozen times, I have thrown it away." ""I don't know how to describe my feelings." ""It's as if I've been waiting 1 00 years to hear from you." ""Waiting 1 00 years for you to return."" "This is hopeless." "It's all wrong!" "Following the Greek defeat of the Italians in Albania, Hitler counterattacked  and the German army has driven a path through to the Greek capital of Athens." "A number of Greek ships were destroyed in the bombing of the port of Piraeus." "On April 27, the Athenian military commissioner, General Carvacos  handed over the keys of the ancient city to his German counterpart  Lieutenant Colonel Von Sefen  and preparations were underway for a carve-up of the territory." "Hitler retains direct control of Northern Greece  including Salonica and the southern island of Crete." "The rest of Greece will be under the control of Hitler's ally, Mussolini  but the Germans will retain the final authority." "Left, right." "Left, right...." "Bella bambina at two o'clock!" "Attention!" "Face!" "Hustle." "Hustle." "CITY HALL" " Fuck off" "Captain Corelli." ""Fuck off."" "Tell the mayor that unless we receive the surrender  of the town's authorities in five minutes  we'll mobilize our troops and storm the building." "The mayor says, if you don't know what "fuck off" means  then come inside and we'll show you." ""We refuse to surrender..." ""...to a nation that we have defeated in Albania." ""And we reserve the right..." ""...to surrender to a German officer..." ""... of significant rank, so fuck off."" "Who is this?" "Who are you?" "Captain Weber, liaison officer with the Grenadiers at Lixonri." ""Captain" is not what we would call a significant rank." "There are only 200 Germans on the island  and Captain Weber is the highest-ranking officer amongst them." "Our decision is  that surrendering to Captain Weber's dog  is more appropriate than surrendering to an Italian." "Carlo Guercio reporting for duty, sir." " Carlo, where have you served?" " Albania." "Albania?" "None of us have seen any action yet." "I was with the Giulia Division." "Then you have fought enough for all of us." "Carlo, can you sing?" "Let's hear you sing." "No matter." "Everyone in our battery is a member of the opera society." "These are the rules of engagement." "One:" "All those called to regular musical fatigues  shall be obliged to play a musical instrument." "Spoons, the helmet, comb, paper and so on and so on." "Two:" "Anyone who says that Donizetti is better than Verdi  shall be required to sing Funiculi-Funicula  and other songs about railways." "Three...." "This is an outrage!" "Quite impossible." "It's out of the question!" "Sir, the fact is, I am sorry to say, and with great regret  that my orders are to billet an officer in your home." "I am a doctor." "This is my surgery!" " I don't have room for guests!" " These are my orders!" "I don't care!" "I don't recognize your authority." "Wait a minute." "What is wrong with your feet?" "I have terrible corns." "My boots are killing me." "You are a quartermaster." "You must have access to medical supplies." "To treat your corns, I will need morphine, hypodermic syringes sulfur ointments, surgical spirit, neosalvarsan  iodine, scalpels, collodion bandages, lint." "Perhaps your officer could bring supplies when he comes." "My father is not here." "He'll be home this evening." "You don't even know who I am." "I walked all the way from the hills." "No boots." "I wrote to you every day." "A hundred letters  and not a single reply." "I never learned to read or write." "Oh, Lord, what a stench." "It's worse than pigs." "You see, Pelagia  what a state these men get into when there are no women around?" "And I don't care if he's been to war." "If we catch his fleas and lice, I'm going to skin him alive." "Ammonia, oil of sassafras, zinc for scabies." "You are a woman, and you know so many things." "At least, you can see what you're getting." "Not much of a bargain, is he?" "You fall in love with a person, not the body." "Love enters by the eyes and also leaves by the eyes." "Take it from me." "We beat the Italians." "We had them running." "But we couldn't fight the Germans." "If I could cook  I would exchange jobs with you." "In fact, I might retire." "Bella bambina." "Forgive me." "Forgive me." "I don't mean to embarrass you." "I'm Captain Antonio Corelli." "And that man is one of our heroes." "He has 1 00 medals for saving life and none for taking it." "A brave Italian is a freak of nature." "Said like a true Greek patriot." "Captain Corelli, I want a word with you." "Now." "I want an explanation." "I want to know why you have defaced the monument." " What monument?" " You've changed the inscription to Latin." "Do you think you can so easily erase our history?" "Is this how you wage war, by the chipping away of letters?" " I must protest." " You cannot protest!" "There is no excuse!" "I was about to protest because I was not responsible for it." "Pathetic." "If you could tell me where I'm going to sleep." "In my daughter's room." " But where will your daughter sleep?" " It's none of your business where I sleep." "Tonight, I'll sleep in the yard." "Tomorrow, I'll request other accommodation." "I've made an arrangement with your quartermaster." "You're staying here whether you like it or not." "But your daughter's bed, I feel it would not be" "I don't care how you feel." "That is not my problem." "I am not the aggressor, you understand me?" " This is very good." " This is Cephallonian meat pie." "Except, thanks to you people, it doesn't have any meat in it." "I could bring some food, a little wine, some panettone." "We don't accept food from the enemy." "Maybe a little panettone." "I am going for a walk." "Curfew starts in one hour's time." "I was born here." "This is my island." "Aren't you going to go and arrest him?" "He's defying you, ignoring the curfew." "You're absolutely right." "Quick, get the gun." "Somebody shoot him!" "Capitano Antonio Corelli." "Now you try." "Capitano Antonio Corelli." "Lemoni." "Babibaba Sinono Calicali." "What? "Babibaba"?" "Capitano." " Capitano." " Si." "Antonio." " Lemoni." "Go home." " Corelli." "Go on." "You can come back later." "Signorina." "In times of war, we have to make the most  of what little innocent pleasure there is." ""I've started to make a waistcoat for you." ""Eagles and flowers embroidered with gold thread." ""But I can't seem to get them to match up." ""One flower is much bigger." ""One eagle is in a different place from the other." ""And when I try to make them more even, it gets worse." ""I just can't get it right."" "You could kill him, you know?" "He's the enemy." "You could poison him." "No one would know how he died." "Dimitris and Spiros have left to join the partisans." "They've gone by boat to Patras  and who knows where from there." " I should be with them." " You're not going until you're strong again." "Read the last one." "The last letter you wrote before I came home." ""My darling:" ""I've heard nothing from you for such a long time..." ""... and I feel desperate and helpless." ""And I am burning my brains with worry." ""Yesterday, I wrote you a long letter that said everything perfectly." " "And believe it--"" " Listen." "I can't stay here." "Signorina." " You are drunk." " Yes, I confess." "We've been drinking, singing, generally misbehaving." "I thought you were a soldier." "Captain Antonio Corelli, 33rd Regiment, Artillery  reporting for duty!" "Is everything a joke to you?" "No." "Not everything." "Captain Corelli  I think this would be a good time to hear you play the mandolin." "What on earth are you doing?" " I was just about to start." " Well, about time too." "The first 45 and a half bars are for the orchestra." "Allegro, moderato, grazioso." "You have to imagine the orchestra." "I'm damned if I can sit through all that tapping again." "Just play your part." "If I do that, I'll get confused  about when I'm supposed to come in, and that  in a concert hall, would be a disaster." "I apologize for disrupting the concert." "I apologize to each and every one of you." "To those in the cheapest seats, in the gods to Your Majesties in your royal boxes  draped in yourjewelry and your fine furs." "But I'm damned if I can imagine an orchestra." "I am going to bed." "Is this where the captain sleeps?" "I was coming to see you." "I'm leaving, Pelagia." "In the morning." "I'll take my boat to Astakos." " It's not safe." " I'm a fisherman." "I know those waters like the back of my hand." "I don't want you to go." "If I die, I won't have died for nothing." "And if I live  I'll walk with my head held high for the rest of my life." "And everyone will say, "That's Mandras who fought for his country in the war."" "I finished your waistcoat." "You can take it now if you want." "The two sides, they are not the same." "The Italian captain." "Pindus gorges, Albania." "1 4,000 of you against 8,000 of us." "You could have driven us into the sea." "If it wasn't for your German friends, we would've." "My friends are the men in my battery  the people I grew up with, people of my hometown." "So, what do you think of our island, Captain?" " I like your island." " And what do you think of our girls?" "What do you think of my Pelagia?" "Goodbye, Pelagia." "My beautiful Pelagia." " Heil Hitler." " Heil Puccini." "I saw your party." "I thought I would introduce myself." "You mean, you saw naked women and wanted to get a closer look." " We've met before." " The surrender at the town hall." "You're much better at having parties than at negotiating surrender." "Well, we're Italian, famous for singing, eating, making love." " What's your name?" " Antonio Corelli." "Grazie." "You Germans always have the best tobacco, huh?" " How many of you are here now?" " Approximately 1 ,200 under Colonel Barge." "Here to keep an eye on us." "Doesn't it feel good to have your allies here?" "I thought all you Nazis had blonde hair." "I come from the Tyrol." "Grew up in the Austrian mountains." "All my family  going back as far as we can remember, have dark hair." "Like Adolf Hitler?" "You neglected to tell me your rank." "I am the breve." "Massimiliano here is the semibreve." "He is the minim." "Those boys are the crotchets and the quavers." "Piero here is the semiquaver, and Carlo is the rest  the pause between the notes." "In the opera club, we have our own ranking system  but otherwise, I am a captain, 33rd Regiment of Artillery." " Do you sing?" " No, not really." "Maybe on my own, in the bath." "Have a drink." "Be happy!" "But just remember, if you ever express admiration for Wagner  you will be shot without trial, and without leave of appeal." "From the top." "Come on." "Buona sera, signorina." "Are you going to shoot me?" "It wasn't loaded." "I've never aimed a gun at anybody." "Never in my life." "It must be very difficult for you to have to put up with us." "It must be very difficult for you to have to live with yourself." "You lie in the sun and swim in the sea  and flirt with your prostitutes." "And there are people I know, people I grew up with  who are fighting for their lives and dying for what they believe in." "And all you do is sing!" "What's there to sing about?" "We are in the middle of a war, not an opera house." "And here you think you are so cultured with your pasta  and your panettone and your puffed-up opera." "Why don't you take your holiday on somebody else's island?" "What is there to sing about?" "There is singing when babies are baptized  when you celebrate a marriage." "Men sing as they work." "Soldiers sing as they march into battle." "And there is singing when people die." "I've always found something in life worth singing about." "And for that, I cannot apologize." "For the fact that I've caused you pain, I cannot apologize enough." "I have not been able to imagine until now  the offense I have given." " What are those?" " My things." "I can see that." "Why?" "I'm going to stay in the encampment with my men." " I think it will be best." " But you must understand." "I made an arrangement with your quartermaster." "We agreed the terms." "I would not feel comfortable letting him down." "Therefore, I think you should stay." "I don't think your daughter would agree." "She understands the importance of honoring an arrangement." "I'll speak to the quartermaster, make sure you continue to get medical supplies." "I've enjoyed meeting you." "I'm only sorry about the circumstances." ""Citizens of Cephallonia, in these unfortunate and difficult times..." ""..." "let us show the world how two ancient cultures..." ""...can coexist and behave in a civilized manner towards one another." ""Please join us in an evening of relaxation..." ""... as we extend the hand of friendship to you all."" "I'll be back in a minute." "My friend thinks you're very pretty." "Why doesn't he tell me himself?" "He's too shy." "He wants to know if you'll dance with him." "No, I can't." "Not with a German." "But tell him thank you." "Tell him I don't mean to be rude." "Can we dance now?" "It's Turkish." "From the Great War." " We should explode it." " The explosive must have decayed." "It's been floating for about 20 years." "We could put on a good show." "We are going to explode the bomb!" "It will be a fantastic explosion!" "And when the time comes, nobody must come down to the beach!" "You must watch from where you are!" "You must be one of the most stupid people I've ever met." "You wanted to show off, so you nearly get us all killed." "I can see your lips moving, but I can't hear a word you're saying." "It should pass in a day or two." "Your father says it will pass in a day or two." "Does he?" "Is that what the great doctor says?" "What are you saying?" "Are you saying how beautiful life is since the Italians arrived?" "All my life, I've been waiting." "I don't know how I survived before you came." "Are you saying how much you missed having me around?" "I miss you so much I can't sleep at night." "The other night, when you were dancing  the way you were moving  the turn of your head  I thought I could watch you forever." "You think you can come here  and turn my whole world upside down?" "Iodine." "Bandages." "Dressings." "This is all I have." "I can't give you any morphine." "And we need all the quinine we have." "1 2,000 of our men on the mainland are sick with malaria." "Supplies are not getting through." "Nobody knows why." "Nobody knows what is happening." "And I'm going to eat." "You know, when I met Pelagia's mother  she was betrothed to somebody else." "He nearly killed me." "I had to leave the island." "I had to lie low for a while." "She wants to train to be a doctor, you know." "You think she'd make a good doctor?" "I think she'd make a very good doctor." "Another thing." "This is a very ancient land." "We have had nothing but earthquakes and slaughter for 2,000 years." "We've had massacres at Sami and Fiskardo." "God knows where else." "There will be more." "It's only a question of time." "So don't make any plans." "After the war, I'll leave it with you." "You're very sweet." "The Allies have landed in Italy." "We can all go home then!" "I can't believe it." "You really want this war to be over?" "What is wrong with you Italians?" "We don't have your advantages, Gunter." "Advantages?" "The advantage of thinking that other races are inferior to yours." "It's a question of science." "You can't alter a scientific fact." "I don't care about science." "It's morality that counts." "What is your morality?" "If I were to see a man being set upon by others  I would think that man was my brother." "That is my morality." "I would make myself believe it's personal." "For me, too, the war is personal." "I lost both my grandfathers in the Great War." "A war that you started." "My father's brother, two of my mother's brothers." "I grew up in a country where it was hard to survive." "We were hungry all the time." "All we ever knew about was defeat, but now...." "Sometimes it is better to lose than to have so much blood on your hands." "It's a beautiful night, and everything is peaceful." "And we should think about falling in love." "That's beautiful." "What is it?" "It's Pelagia's Song." "I wrote you that song because I love you." "I don't care if the world knows it." "I couldn't care less if I never pick up the mandolin again." "When I was playing, it felt like my hands were lumps of wood." "It felt as if every note was sour or stale." "And then I realized it's useless." "It's hopeless." "It can't begin to express the way I feel about you." "Next time you see him, tell him I have got his mandolin." "He left it in the square." "Four more boys from the village have left to join Mandras." "Constantine's boys." " Kostas's brother." "What's his name?" " George." "He's only 1 5." "He always worshipped Mandras." "Do you love him?" "We are engaged to be married." "I am not talking about Mandras." "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness." "It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides." "And when it subsides, you have to make a decision." "You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined  that it is inconceivable that you should ever part." "Because this is what love is." "Love is not breathlessness." "It is not excitement." "It's not the desire to mate every second of the day." "It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing  every part of your body." "Don't blush." "I'm telling you some truths." "That is just being in love  which any of us can convince ourselves we are." "Love itself is what is left over  when being in love has burned away." "Doesn't sound very exciting, does it?" "But it is." "Do you think that you could begin to imagine  that that is how you will come to feel with Captain Corelli?" "You must act honorably  with respect to Mandras and his mother." "And  pray for the liberation of the island  because then, everything becomes possible." "Drosoula." "All night, I've been thinking about Mandras." "About me and Mandras." "Thinking about how long we've been apart." " When did you arrive?" " Where is your ring?" "My fingers got too thin." "I thought I would lose it." " Where will you stay?" " I want to ask you something." "We need to see the Italian captain." "I want you to ask him to meet with us." "As soon as you can." "In Germany, the port of Hamburg suffered a second day of continuous air raids from nearly 800 British aircraft, leaving much of the city in ruins  while in Italy, Rome has finally fallen to the Allied advance  after weeks of fierce fighting  and a huge bombing campaign on the capital." "Allied commanders are watching the Mediterranean countries  occupied by German and Italian forces." "It's not yet clear what the German attitude to an Italian withdrawal might be  but Germany will assume sole command of many strategic territories." "Hitler is expected to send massive reinforcements  through the Balkans and into Greece  as the Nazis struggle to maintain supply routes to North Africa." "Mandras is back." "He wants to see you." "It's over!" "It's all over!" "Mussolini has fallen!" "We're going home!" "Colonel Barge and I have agreed the date for the surrender  of our heavy weapons and machine guns:" "September 1 5." "That's in five days' time." "Why should we lay down our arms?" "They were our allies." " Why should they be dictating terms to us?" " We have surrendered." "Mussolini has surrendered to the British and the Americans." " Not to the Germans." " Colonel Barge and I have agreed." "If we surrender our arms  do we have confirmation that they will not use force against us?" "I have a personal undertaking from Colonel Barge and his officers  that our troops will be allowed safe passage." "My men will never agree to return home without their weapons." "If you surrender your arms in times of war  then you are no longer a man." "If you were in their position, if you were German  you would want to be certain for your own security  that the weapons will not be passed on to the Allied forces or to the Greek partisans." "Or turned against you." "You must be looking forward to going home." "There'll be people happy to see you again, I'm sure." "Your family, your mother, your wife, your girlfriend." " You wanted to see me?" " We need arms." "Machine guns, ammunition, land mines." " Anything you can spare." " How can I give you weapons?" " You know I can't do that." " You've surrendered." "If you don't intend to fight, you won't need your weapons." "We have a country to defend." "There is a massive buildup of German troops on the mainland." "The 1 1 7th Jaeger Division is nearing the Corinth Canal." "The 1 04th is moving south from Yugoslavia." " Then you are not in any position to resist." " Unless we act now." "Do you know, Captain, on Lefkada Island  all the Italians who surrendered have been sent to prison camps in the North?" " We heard they went home." " The trains were diverted in Albania." "In this war, Captain, it's hard to know who you can trust." "But one thing is certain:" "You can't trust the Germans." "Last night, I dreamed I was sitting in a restaurant in Piazza Navona  eating zuppa di cozze piccante  then a plate of taglierini alla boscaiola." "Colonel Barge requested I withdraw your battery from Antisamos Beach." "If they wanted to bring in heavy reinforcements  this is where they would do it." "Is this an order?" "Captain, don't you want to go home?" "Halt!" "Are you going to let us through?" "My orders are to supervise the surrender of your arms and weapons." "The deadline for the handover is at noon tomorrow." "This order comes from Colonel Barge." "He's asked me to assure you that if you surrender your arms  you will be guaranteed safe passage." "Like the Italian garrison at Lefkada?" "Lefkada?" "But they laid down their weapons." "They went home." "You must be looking forward to seeing Italy again." "You think we could keep in touch?" "I mean, after the war, of course." "You can have my gun when I finish my cigarette." "Get your hands off me!" "I understand your concern." "If I were in your shoes, I would be asking questions, too." "Of course we'll investigate what happened." "I can tell you what happened." "Four of my men are dead!" " We'll take the appropriate action." " What does that mean?" "Does it mean that I can write to the families of these men  and tell them that their murderers will be charged?" " That justice will prevail?" " Captain." "You force us at gunpoint to line up and surrender our arms!" "You impound our weapons." " We're supposed to be allies!" " Captain Corelli, please!" "We need some kind of assurance." "I can assure you that the order to disarm  did not come from my headquarters." "We have agreed to the surrender of our arms by noon tomorrow." "We would like your assurance that no more of our troops  will be forcibly disarmed before that deadline." "Herr General  by noon tomorrow, I guarantee you'll be on your way home." "This is not our war." "This is between the Greeks and the Germans." "Would you prefer we left them to fight on their own?" "The Fourth Regiment will hold Antisamos." "We'll keep the Fifth in reserve at Assos  and I will take the Eighth and Ninth to Argostoli." "All gun lines to be in position by first light tomorrow." " If we resist now, we can beat them." " What if the Germans send planes?" "Don't go near Argostoli." "Stay away from Antisamos Beach." "I want to lie across the road so that you can't leave." "Keep a gun with you at all times." "Promise me." " Come back to me." " Promise me." "When it's over, you will come back to me." "I know what you feel." "You think, if he died your world will stop." "I will look out for him." "Mama!" "Mama!" "Stay here!" "It's not safe!" " What are you doing?" " She's a traitor and a whore!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "The enemy's 1 00 meters away." "There's heavy armor coming now." "Let's go!" "WHORE" " TRAITOR" "Come on, move!" "Shoot me." "He's alive." "He was alive when I found him." "Fragments of uniform in the bullet holes." "Splinters of rib." "Just do it." "I am not a surgeon." "I have no penicillin." "I have no sterile water, no serum." "Please, Father, do it!" "Hold." "Four of his ribs are broken." "Papa!" "Antonio, don't move." "Don't move!" "If you even try to move, you will hemorrhage to death." "No, you must lie still." " I don't" " You were lying under Carlo's body." "If it wasn't for him, you wouldn't be alive." "How did I get here?" "Mandras found you." "Antonio, you should try and drink something." "What would you like for lunch?" "Not that there's any choice, of course." "But if there was." "We needed something  steel, wire to bind the bones." "Of course, they'll have to be removed sometime in the future." "I could try and get some new strings from somewhere." "I could ask around." " What are you doing?" " If they find me, they'll shoot you." " They'll kill you if you leave." " I don't belong here, Pelagia!" "I never belonged here!" "Ever since I came, look what has happened all around you." "I love you." "I had no right to make you love me when you weren't mine to love." "Don't do that!" "Go to Dr. Iannis' house." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go now!" "Mama will be back!" "Do you hear?" "Mama will" "Dimitris will row you to a boat out in the bay." "You should be home by tomorrow night." "We must go." "I had to see you again, one last time." "We must go!" "Don't say anything." "Look at me." " We must go!" " Go." "Go!" "Why did you save him?" "Why didn't you leave him to die?" "I wanted you to love me again." "In Albania  I made them read every one of these to me." ""Mandras, I love you." "Mandras, I want you." ""Mandras, when are you coming back?"" "And then one day, a different letter." ""I don't know how to describe my feelings." ""It's as if I've been waiting 1 00 years to hear from you." ""Waiting 1 00 years for you to return." ""Once I thought my heart was overflowing with love for you..." ""... but now all I feel is emptiness." ""And I think all the time, it was a pretense..." ""... that I never loved you at all."" "I'm sorry." "The war we thought would never end is over." "And the island we thought we had lost forever  is ours again." "In the doctor's house, there are three of us now:" "The doctor, his daughter  who is training to be a doctor  and Lemoni." "It's for you." "From Italy." "What is it?" "It's a record." "We should start making supper." "That's what we should do." ""I do not know if this letter will reach you..." ""... or even if you are alive." ""Perhaps someone else sent us your record..." ""... and that is why we found no note." ""I would like to say that Pelagia is happy..." ""... but she is full of tears she will not let fall..." ""... and of a grief no doctor can mend." ""She blames herself for the pain we have suffered..." ""... and, perhaps, the same is true for you." ""You know I am not a religious man..." ""... but I believe this:" ""If there is a wound, we must try to heal it." ""If there is someone whose pain we can cure..." ""... we must search till we find them." ""If the gods have chosen that we should survive..." ""...it will be for a reason."" "Where is your miracle today then?" "What do we have to say about that?" ""Wake up." "Fetch the firewood." "Fix the roof." "Paint the house."" "She's driving me mad." "When I was deaf, I couldn't hear her nagging." "But now...." "Iatre, I beg of you, help me." "Put the pea back in my ear." "I was looking for Lemoni." "She's down the road." "I went to the house." "It doesn't exist anymore." "We are building a new one." "Your father wrote you got the record." "It's a guitar." "It's different." "I tried to live without you." "I tried to make myself believe I could live without you." "The scar healed well." "Stamatis, do you love your wife?" "If you love your wife  my advice is be nice to her." "Bring in the wood before she asks you for it." "If she is cold, then put a shawl around her shoulders." "And bring her a flower every time you come back from the field." " You won't put the pea back in my ear?" " Oh, no." "That'd be against the Hippocratic Oath." "Subtitles ripped by DIVXJUNKIE!" "*enjoy*: -)"