"Howlonghaveyoubeen deaf in this ear?" "Sinceas long as Icanremember." "Shutup!" "Keepstill while the doctoris examiningyou." "Ineeda fishhook about therightsize foramullet... withalongshankandahammer." "A fishhook?" "A hammer?" "Here is the fishhook andahammer." "Right!" "Nowkeepstill." "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 ifmy head has filled up with spring water, cold and clear." "Talk some sense when the doctor has been kind enough to cureyou." "All theseyears thinking you are deaf." "But now, there will be no excuses when I askyou... to remember to collect something on yourway home... or to stoke up the fire before we go to church." "Perhaps nowyou will hear me... when I say toyou, "Mend the chair, Stamatis." "Fix the leaking roof, Stamatis."" "And now I won't have to speak so loud." "Antonio, doyourememberourisland?" "Itdoesnotchange." "On the feastday ofSaint Gerasimos... westillbringoursick to theholyplace... andpray that theirsufferingmaycease." "When Pelagia wasa child..." "IpromisedherthatI would writeahistoryofCephallonia." "But, somehow, Istill havenotfoundthe time." "I wantedherto understandhowa peacefullandcouldbeshattered... byearthquakesandwar." "I wantedherto understand whysometimes thegodsbless us... andwhy theysometimes becomeangryandshake us... andfillourlives withpain." "I wanthertolearn thelesson thatnature teaches us.:" "that weshouldnot ask why weare wounded... onlyifthe woundcanbehealed." "A purely psychological phenomenon." "How doyou 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, coveryour ears!" "Oh, my God!" "That hurts!" "Oh, that hurts!" "Will he die?" "Eventually, one ofthese days, like all ofus." "Turn over." "Good, strong gluteals." " Pelagia." " Mm?" "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 ofthe ilium... between anterior and interior gluteal lines." "Mandras!" " Iatre?" " He'll be fine." "They told meyou were shot." "I thought I was going to die." "I don't know whyyou can't keep out oftrouble!" "I don't know!" "Iatre, you should countyourself luckyyou 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 ofthe sea." "Put me down!" "Put me down!" "Thereare reports today thata Greekbattleship... the Eli, hasbeen torpedoed byan Italiansubmarine... despite the fact that Greece isnotyetinvolvedin the war." "Prime MinisterMetaxas hasprotestedstrongly... to Mussolini'sgovernmentin Rome... whichhas deniedresponsibility fortheattack." "Andthereare continued reports offighting... between GreekandItaliansoldiers on the Greek-Albanianborder." "ButinAthens thismorning, the Italianambassador..." " onceagain deniedrumors" " 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?" " Theywant to catch us sleeping." "Theywant to creep up on us in the dead ofnight!" " You filthy liar!" " Your fatherwas a goat!" "Shut up!" "Ifyou 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 askyou." " I don't want to marry him." " You don't like him." "You are both tooyoung." "Everyone is tooyoung when they marry." "I have often thoughtyou would only marry happilywith a foreigner." " A dentist from Norway." " Dentist from Norway." "Or something." "Mandras is notyour 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's mother's house... with nothing but a bag ofclothes?" "Oh, and my goat." "I'll never be able to show my face." "I'll be the laughingstock ofCephallonia." "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, ifnecessary, use it againstyourself." "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 ofGreece!" "Ifyou care aboutyour country... then you must fight to defend her!" "Join the war in Albania!" "Fight for your mothers, your sweethearts... yourwives, 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 loveyou." "Tomorrow I leave for the war." "Pelagia, come and dance with me." "I'll write." "I promise." "And promise that you will write to me." "My darling, youhavenot written since thatdayIsawyouoff." "AndIamso terrifiedthatIam not gettinganyletters fromyou... becauseyouhavebeen woundedortakenprisoner." "AndIhavenightmares thatyouare dead." "Summerhas turnedto winter, and Iam writing myhundredth letter." "The woundedwhohave returned bringnews ofterrible conditions-- freezingcold, no food." "But theybringnonews fromyou." "Every dayI waitforthemail fromArgostoli... andevery day there isnothing." "AndIfeelas ifIamgoingmad with worryandfear." "I trynot tolosehope... butIlong to feelsomething, evenifitis onlypain." "We won!" "We won!" "It's over!" "We've beaten them in Albania!" "Look!" "8,000 ofus against 1 4,000 Italians... and we forced them to withdraw!" "What?" "Hitlerwill never let his lapdog be humiliated." "He will come to Mussolini's aid." "Ihave written this letter a dozen times." "Anda dozen times, Ihave thrownitaway." "Idon'tknowhow to describemy feelings." "It's as ifI'vebeen waiting ahundredyears tohearfromyou." "Waitingahundredyears foryou toreturn." "This is hopeless." "It's all wrong!" "Following the Greek defeat ofthe Italians inAlbania..." "Hitler'sbombers counterattacked, andthe Germanarmyhas driven... apath through to the Greek capitalofAthens." "A largenumberofGreekships were destroyedin thebombing... ofthenearbyportofPiraeus." "OnApril27, theAthenian militarycommissioner..." "GeneralCarvacos, officially handedoverthekeys... oftheancientcity tohis German counterpart..." "Lieutenant Colonel VonSefen... andpreparations were underway fora carve-up ofthe territory." "Hitlerretains directcontrol ofmuch ofNorthern Greece... including Salonicaandthe southern islandofCrete." "TherestofGreece willbe under Hitler'sally, Mussolini... but the Germans willretain the finalauthority." "Left, right." "Left, right" "Bellabambini at two o'clock!" "Attention!" "Face!" "Hustle." "Hustle." "Captain Corelli." ""Fuck off."" "Tell the mayor that unless we receive the surrender... ofthe town's authorities in five minutes... we'll mobilize our troops and storm the building." "The mayor says ifyou don't know what "fuck off" means... then come inside and we'll showyou." ""We refuse to surrender to a nation that we have defeated... in Albania, and we reserve the right... to surrender to a German officer... ofsignificant rank, so fuck off."" "Who is this?" "Who areyou?" "Captain Weber, liaison officer with the Grenadiers at Lixouri." "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 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 haveyou served?" " Albania." "Albania?" "None ofus have seen any action yet." "I was with theJulia Division." "Yeah." "Then you have fought enough for all ofus." "Carlo, can you sing?" "Let's hearyou sing." "No matter." "Everyone in our battery is a member ofthe opera society." "These are the rules ofengagement." "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:" "Three:" "This is an outrage!" "Quite impossible." "It's out ofthe 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!" " Sir, these are my orders!" "I don't care!" "I don't recognizeyour 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 treatyour 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 toyou every day." "A hundred letters... and not a single reply." "I never learned... to read orwrite." "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 to look after them?" "And I don't care ifhe's been to war." "Ifwe catch his fleas and lice, I'm going to skin him alive." "Ammonia, oil ofsassafras, something for scabies." "You are a woman, and you know so many things." "At least, you can see whatyou're getting." "Not much ofa 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." "IfI could cook..." "I would exchangejobs with you." "In fact, I might retire." "Forgive me." "Forgive me." "I don't mean to embarrass you." "I'm Captain Antonio Corelli." "And that man is one ofour heroes." "He has a hundred medals for saving life and none for taking it." "A brave Italian is a freak ofnature." "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 made the inscription Latin." "Doyou thinkyou can so easily erase our history?" "Is this howyou wage war, by the chipping away ofletters?" " I must protest." " You cannot!" "There is no excuse!" "I was about to protest because I was not responsible for it." "Pathetic." "Ifyou could tell me where I'm going to sleep" "In my daughter's room." "But where will your daughter sleep?" "It's none ofyour business." "Tonight, I'll sleep in theyard." "Tomorrow, I'll request alternative accommodation." "I made an arrangement with your quartermaster." "You're staying here whetheryou like it or not." "Butyour daughter's bed, I feel it would not be" "I don't care howyou 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 toyou 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'tyou going to go and arrest him?" "He's defying you, ignoring the curfew." "You're absolutely right." "Quick, get the gun." "Somebody shoot him!" "Shoot him!" "Capitano Antonio Corelli." "Nowyou try." "Capitano Antonio Corelli." "Lemoni." "Babibaba Sinono Calicali." "What? "Babibaba"?" " Antonio Corelli." " Lemoni." "Go home." "Go on." "You can come back later." "In times ofwar, we have to make the most... ofwhat little innocent pleasure there is." ""I'vestarted tomakea waistcoatforyou." "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 ever know how he died." "Dimitris and Spiros have both left tojoin the partisans." "They've gone by boat to Patra... and who knows where from there." "I should be with them." "You can't go until you're strong." "Read the last one... the last letteryou 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 wroteyou a long letter that said everything perfectly." " And believe it--"" " Listen." "I can't stay here." " You are drunk." " Oh, yes." "I confess." "We've been drinking, singing, generally misbehaving." "I thoughtyou were a soldier." "Captain Antonio Corelli, 33rd Regiment Artillery... reporting for duty!" "Is everything ajoke toyou?" "No." "Not everything." "Captain Corelli..." "I think this would be a good time to hearyou play the mandolin." "What on earth areyou doing?" " I wasjust about to start." " Well, about time too." "The first 45 1 /2 bars are for the orchestra." "You have to imagine the orchestra." "I'm damned ifI can sit through all that tapping again." "Just playyour part." "IfI do that, I'll start getting 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 ofyou." "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 ifI can imagine an orchestra." "I am going to bed." "Is this where the captain sleeps?" "I was coming to seeyou." "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 ofmy hand." "I don't wantyou to go." "IfI die, I won't have died for nothing." "And ifI live..." "I'll walkwith my head held high for the rest ofmy life... and everyone will say, "That's Mandras... who fought for his country in the war."" "I finished yourwaistcoat." "You can take it now ifyou want." "The two sides, they are not the same." "The Italian captain." "Pindus gorges, Albania." "1 4,000 ofyou against 8,000 ofus." "You could have driven us into the sea." "Ifit weren't foryour German friends, we would have." "My friends are the men in my battery... people I grew up with, people ofmy hometown." "So, what doyou think ofour island, Captain?" "I likeyour island." "And what doyou think ofour girls?" "What doyou think ofmy Pelagia?" "Good-bye, Pelagia." "My beautiful Pelagia." " Heil Hitler." " Heil Puccini." "I sawyour party." "I thought I would come and introduce myself." "You mean, you saw naked women and want to come and 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 ofyou are here now?" " Approximately 1 ,200... under Colonel Barge." "Here to keep an eye on us." "Doesn't it feel good to haveyour allies here?" "I thought all you Nazis had blonde hair." "I come from the Tyrol." "Grew up in the Austrian mountains." "All my family and my family before them... going back as far as we can remember, have dark hair." "Like Adolf Hitler?" "You neglected to tell meyour rank." "I am the breve." "Maximilliano 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 ofArtillery." " Doyou sing?" " No, not really." "Maybe on my own, in the bath." "Have a drink!" "Be happy!" "Butjust remember, ifyou ever express admiration forWagner... you will be shot without trial and without leave ofappeal." "From the top." "Come on." "Areyou going to shoot me?" "It wasn't loaded." "I've never aimed a gun at anybody." "Never in my life." "Must be very difficult foryou to have to put up with us." "It must be very difficult foryou 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 ofa war, not an opera house." "And hereyou thinkyou are so cultured with your pasta... and your panettone and your puffed-up opera." "Why don'tyou takeyour 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 theywork." "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." " Butyou must understand." "I made an arrangement with your quartermaster." "We agreed to terms." "I would not feel comfortable letting him down." "Therefore, I thinkyou should stay." "I don't thinkyour daughter would agree." "She understands the importance ofhonoring an arrangement." "I'll speak to the quartermaster, make sureyou get medical supplies." "I've enjoyed meeting you." "I'm only sorry about the circumstances." ""Citizens ofCephallonia... 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." "Pleasejoin us in an evening ofrelaxation... as we extend the hand offriendship toyou 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 ifyou'll dance with him." "No, I can't." "Not with a German." "But tell him thankyou." "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 whereyou are!" "You must be one ofthe most stupid people I've ever met." "You wanted to show off, soyou nearly get us all killed." "I can seeyour 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 areyou saying?" "Areyou saying how beautiful life is since the Italians arrived?" "All my life I've been waiting." "I don't know how I survived beforeyou came." "Areyou 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 wayyou were moving... the turn ofyour head..." "I thought I could watch you forever." "You thinkyou can come here... and turn mywhole world upside down?" "Iodine." "Bandages." "Dressings." "This is all I have." "I can't giveyou any morphine." "And we need all the quinine we have." "1 2,000 ofour men on the mainland are sickwith 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 oftime." "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 reallywant this war to be over?" "What is wrong with you Italians?" "We don't haveyour advantages, Gunter." " Advantages?" " The advantage ofthinking that... other races are inferior toyours." "It's a question ofscience." "You can't alter a scientific fact." "I don't care about science." "It's morality that counts." "What is your morality?" "IfI 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 myselfbelieve it's personal." "For me, too, the war is personal." "I lost both my grandfathers in the Great War." "A war thatyou started." "My father's brother, two ofmy 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 wroteyou that song because I loveyou." "I don't care ifthe world knows it." "I couldn't care less ifI never pick up the mandolin again." "When I was playing, it felt like my hands were lumps ofwood." "It felt as ifevery 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 aboutyou." "Next timeyou see him, tell him I have got his mandolin." "He left it in the square." "Four more boys from the village have left tojoin Mandras." "Constantine's boys." "Kostas's brother." "What's his name?" "George." "He's only 1 5." "He always worshipped Mandras." " Doyou love him?" " We are engaged to be married." "I am not talking about Mandras." "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness." "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 whetheryour roots have become so entwined... that it is inconceivable thatyou 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 ofthe day." "It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing... every part ofyour body." "Don't blush." "I'm telling you some truths." "That isjust being in love... which any ofus 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." "Doyou think thatyou could begin to imagine... that that is howyou will come to feel with Captain Corelli?" "You must act honorably... with respect to Mandras and his mother." "And... pray for the liberation ofthe 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 askyou something." "We need to see the Italian captain." "I wantyou to ask him to meet with us." "Soon as you can." "In Germany, theportofHamburg... sufferedasecondday ofcontinuousairraids... from nearly 800 Britishaircraft... leavingmuch ofthe city in ruins... while in Italy, Romehas finally fallen to theAlliedadvance... after weeks offierce fighting... andahugebombing campaign on the capital." "Alliedcommandersare watching the Mediterranean countries... occupiedbyGerman andItalian forces." "It'snotyetclear what the Germanattitude... toan Italian withdrawal mightbe... but Germany willassumesole command ofmanystrategic territories." "Hitleris expectedtosend massive reinforcements... through the Balkans andinto Greece... as the Nazisstruggle tomaintain supplyroutes to NorthAfrica." "Mandras is back." "He wants to seeyou." "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... ofour heavyweapons and machine guns:" "the 1 5th ofSeptember." "That's in five days' time." "Why should we lay down our arms?" "Theywere 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." "Ifwe surrender our arms... do we have confirmation that theywill 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 theirweapons." "Ifyou surrenderyour arms in times ofwar... then you are no longer a man." "Ifyou were in their position, ifyou were German... you would want to be certain foryour own security... that the weapons will not be passed on... to the Allied forces or to the Greek partisans." "Or turned againstyou." "Or turned againstyou." "You must be looking forward to going home." "There'll be people happy to seeyou again, I'm sure." "Your family, your mother... yourwife, your girlfriend." " You wanted to see me?" " We need arms." "Machine guns, ammunition, land mines." " Anything you can spare." " How can I giveyou weapons?" " You know I can't do that." " You've surrendered." "Ifyou don't intend to fight, you won't be needing yourweapons." "We have a country to defend." "There is a massive buildup ofGerman troops on the mainland." "The 1 1 7thJaeger 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." "Doyou know, Captain, on Lefkada Island... all the Italians who surrendered have been sent to prison camps... in the north?" "We heard theywent home." "The trains were diverted in Albania." "In this war, Captain, it's hard to know whoyou 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 zuppe dicozzepiccante... then a plate of tagliarinialboscaiolo." "then a plate of tagliarinialboscaiolo." "Colonel Barge requested I withdraw your battery from Antisamos Beach." "Iftheywanted to bring in heavy reinforcements... this is where theywould do it." "Is this an order?" "Captain, don'tyou want to go home?" "Halt!" "Areyou going to let us through?" "My orders are to supervise the surrender ofyour arms and weapons." "The deadline for the handover is at noon tomorrow." "This order comes from Colonel Barge." "He's asked me to assureyou that ifyou surrenderyour arms... you will be guaranteed safe passage." "Like the Italian garrison at Lefkada?" "Lefkada?" "But they laid down theirweapons." "Theywent home." "You must be looking forward to seeing Italy again." "You thinkwe could keep in touch?" "I mean, after the war, ofcourse." "You can have my gun when I finish my cigarette." "Getyour hands offme!" "I understand your concern." "IfI were in your shoes, I would be asking questions too." "Ofcourse we'll investigate what happened." "I can tell you what happened." "Four ofmy men are dead!" " We'll take the appropriate action." " What does that mean?" "Does it mean that I can write to the families ofthese men... and tell them that their murderers will be charged?" " Thatjustice will prevail?" " Captain." "You force us at gunpoint to line up and surrender our arms!" "You impound ourweapons." " We're supposed to be allies!" " Captain Corelli, please!" "We need some kind ofassurance." "I can assureyou that the order to disarm... did not come from my headquarters." "We have agreed to the surrender ofour arms by noon tomorrow." "We would likeyour assurance that no more ofour troops... will be forcibly disarmed before that deadline." "Herr General... by noon tomorrow, I guarantee you'll be on yourway home." "This isnotour war." "This isbetween the Greeks andthe Germans." "Wouldyouprefer we left them to fighton theirown?" "The Fourth Regiment willholdAntisamos." "We'llkeep the Fifth in reserveatAssos... andI will take the Eighth andNinth toArgostoli." "Allgun lines tobeinposition by firstlight tomorrow." "Ifwe resist now, we can beat them." "What ifthe Germans send planes?" "Don't go nearArgostoli." "Stay away from Antisamos Beach." "I want to lie across the road so thatyou 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 whatyou feel." "You think, ifhe died, yourworld will stop." "I will look out for him." "Mama!" "Mama!" "Stay here!" "It's not safe!" " What areyou doing?" " She's a traitor and a whore!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "The enemy's a hundred meters away." "There's heavy armor coming now." "Let's go!" "Come on, move!" "Shoot me." "He's alive." "He's alive." "He was alive when I found him." "Fragments ofuniform in the bullet holes." " Splinters ofrib." "Just do it." "I am not a surgeon." "I have no penicillin." " Please!" " I have no sterile water, no serum." "Please, Father, do it!" "Hold." "Four ofhis ribs are broken." "Papa!" "Antonio, don't move." "Don't move!" "Ifyou even try to move, you will hemorrhage to death." "No, you must lie still." " I don't" " You were lying under Carlo's body." "Ifit 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, ofcourse... but ifthere was" "We needed something-- steel, wire-- to bind the bones." "Ofcourse 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 areyou doing?" "Ifthey find me, they'll shootyou." " They'll kill you ifyou leave." " I don't belong here, Pelagia!" "I never belonged here!" "Ever since I came... lookwhat has happened all around you." " I loveyou." " I had no right to makeyou... love me when you weren't mine to love." "Don't do that!" "Go." "Go to Dr. Iannis's house." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go now!" "Mama will be back!" "Doyou hear?" "Mama will" "Dimitris will rowyou to a boat out in the bay." "You should be home by tomorrow night." "We must go." "I had to seeyou 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'tyou leave him to die?" "I wanted you to love me again." "In Albania..." "I made them read every one ofthese to me." ""Mandras, I loveyou." "Mandras, I wantyou." "Mandras, when areyou coming back?"" "And then one day, a different letter." ""I don't know how to describe my feelings." "It's as ifI've been waiting a hundred years to hear from you... waiting a hundred years foryou to return." "Once I thought my heart was overflowing with love foryou... 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." "I'm sorry." "The war we thought wouldneverendis over... andtheislandwe thought wehadlostforever... is ours again." "In the doctor'shouse... thereare three ofusnow-- the doctor... his daughter... whois training tobea doctor... andLemoni." "It's foryou." "From Italy." "What is it?" "It's a record." "We should start making supper." "That's what we should do." "Lemoni." "Idonotknowif this letter willreachyou... orevenifyouarealive." "Perhapssomeone else sentusyourrecord... andthatis why we foundnonote." "I wouldlike tosay thatPelagia ishappy... butsheis fulloftears she willnotletfall... andofagrief no doctorcanmend." "Sheblamesherselfforthepain wehavesuffered... andperhaps thesame is true foryou." "Youknow Iam notareligiousman... butIbelieve this.:" "Ifthere isa wound, wemust trytohealit." "Ifthere issomeone whosepain we can cure... wemustsearch till we findthem." "Ifthegodshave chosen that weshouldsurvive... it willbe forareason." "Where is your miracle today, then, huh?" "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 ofyou, 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 fatherwrote you got the record." "It's a guitar." "It's different." "I tried to live withoutyou." "I tried to make myselfbelieve I could live withoutyou." "The scar healed well." "Stamatis, doyou loveyourwife?" "Ifyou loveyourwife... my advice is be nice to her." "Bring in the wood before she asks you for it." "Ifshe 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, no, no." "That would be against the Hippocratic Oath."