"THE CORPORAL AND THE OTHERS" "Written by:" "Music by:" "Director of photography:" "Starring:" "Directed by:" "What a soldier!" "This is a real soldier!" "Halt!" "Written order?" "Standfast!" "Long live Szálasi!" "Special messenger service." "I'm looking for the 4th Border Guards." " Turn right at the crossroads." " All right." "To the right." "Standfast!" "Hey!" "What are you doing here?" "Come here!" "Special messenger service, sir." "You are a Fascist, aren't you?" "Fascist my ass, sir." "I would deal with them if the Nazis weren't here." "The Nazis!" "Who gives a shit." "We don't." "You're wrong, son." "We've got the biggest shit." "Move on!" "Do you have battery, master?" "Mine has a hole in it and the acid is leaking." "The 27th." "Hey, you have a lock-jaw?" "I've got written orders, so watch your back." "Do you have battery?" "Six volt battery, you see!" "I see." "We'll check, but first we must finish the job." "Who cares the job." "I'm in a hurry, no time to waste." "Listen, man!" "What are you looking at?" "The battalion's payroll is with me." "Today is payday." "I have a written order." "You foul my food, you swine!" "I'll show you my papers." "Idiot!" "Master, I've got more than just money." "I'm bringing the battery." "More work?" "It will be midnight I get home." "This will be the last." " Where are you going, son?" " To Pálháza, where mother lives." "I haven't heard about her for a week." "If you finish in time, I'll take you home." "Deal?" "Nice blanket." "They left the wounded behind after looting the Miskolc hospital." " There's a shooting at the river." " They said they'd never get here." "But they got here all right." "As we did to the river Don." "But this is more embarrassing." "What do you have here?" "This will please the wife." "I'll serve the dear customer." "You could give me more." "How much was it for you?" "As much as the battery for you." "Halt!" "Come here!" "Come on!" " I report, sir..." " You must report to the commander of the Storm Unit in the castle of the lakeside." "Sir, I have to report, I have the battalion payroll." "I'll be hanged." "Repeat the order!" "I report that I must report to the commander of the Storm Unit on the right at the lakeside castle." "Who is he?" "I report he is the commander's son." "He's deaf and dumb." "He said to the right." "If I had always done what was ordered, I wouldn't be here." "Keep right!" "The Storm Unit." "What's the matter?" "Why is the panic?" " Why did you hide there?" " To save it from the rain." "Damn the Storm Unit!" "Who wants to be ordered into action?" "These grenades would be too valuable to throw to the Russians." " You should tell the commander." " Tell what?" "The truth." "That you are a messenger carrying the money." "You mean the battalion?" "Do you know where they are?" "They're encompassed at Buda." "Three of us just managed to get out." "The other two didn't dare to come here." "What are you looking at?" "Too much for my retirement?" "After three years in the front line?" "Look at that!" "They are pulling out." "Then we can put it back." "That's it, dear friends." "Back to your house." " What's the matter, boy?" " Let's go!" "They'll leave us here." "Well, and who wants to go with them?" "Let's go." "What's that?" "Where have you been living?" "A knocker." "You can knock with this at trendy places." "You wish to see someone?" "Don't fool me, old man." "The baron and his family have left." "I have no authorisation to..." "Besides I'm leaving for Buda for Úri Street where my brother who has a very good..." "You're going nowhere." "The Úri Street is closed for war." "You cannot behave like this in this house." "Would you show me the right behaviour?" "You would need years to learn." "You appear to be lack of basic training." "Shut up!" "What's your name?" "My master, Baron Dexler Senior called me Albert." "The baroness called me Mon Albert." "The young baron said Don Alberto, and the old lady called me Old Chimp." "That's the best." "As you prefer, sir." "Is anybody here?" "I can assure you, sir that the house is empty." "If you try to foul me, I'll break your head." "You don't understand joke even from the reverse side." "As Plautus put it so well in the Miles." "You are an educated man, Albi." "Thank you, sir." "If you want to steal anything, I must warn you, that all properties here were left for me by the baron." "Everything here is mine." " Is there a bathroom here?" " In each suite there are two." "Come on!" "You can't take anything away from here." "I won't recommend you to wander on the roads, because you'll die." "Be thankful that I look after you." "Thank you, sir." "Let's go." "One goes, another comes." "Like predators." "He's a fine man, but he has no manners." "This is the wardrobe chamber." "Terrible smell here!" "The moths." "This place has always been draughty." "Come out!" "Come out!" "Look, the son of a baron, with the face of a peasant." "Stand here!" " Do you know them?" " Sorry, I never met them." "How do you do?" "My name is Albert." "God damn you." "Where did you want to go in this unhealthy weather?" "Please..." "We work around here in the forestry." "We took shelter here." " We took shelter..." " You did." "You look to be well-dressed woodcutters." "Where is your unit, you swines?" " We're tired." " From chopping wood, you mean?" "You know, the forest is big..." "Where is your unit?" "Corporal, we beg to report..." "Corporal!" "?" "Why don't you report, corporal?" "Corporal!" "Where are you?" "I want to see you." "Open it!" "So, why don't you report, corporal?" "To a truant?" "I don't mind." "It's the end." "Three of us are left from the battalion." "Or do you think it's time for everybody to die?" "What else do you want, corporal?" "Isn't there enough Hungarian corpses?" "However there are quite a few of them, small ones, big ones..." "Come on, don't glare, fire!" "I don't waste the bullet." " The blast..." " It's a pity." " Any drinks?" " Yes..." "Sir." "Maria Theresa brandy, Zwack Unicum..." "Black and White, Couirvoisier, Scotch..." "Altwater Gessler, Grand Marinier, Pernot fils..." "Is there some real spirit?" "These are all that, sir." "Gather yourself together!" "What for?" "What a question!" "I don't let anyone take away my life, and I don't throw it away." "Life!" "This is nothing but an illusion." "Farewell to all we have hang on." "Hungary!" "Hungary doesn't exist any longer." "It's all over." "Empty." "That's my luck." "I haven't left for myself." "Enough of snivelling." "Fall in!" "Fall in!" "Corporal, the cognac..." "I occupy the castle for the Regimental Command." " Which Regiment?" " The 4th Border Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Sárosi." " Did you understand?" " Yes, we did." "Otherwise anybody coming along may kick us out of here." "Telephone!" "Typewriter!" "You, Ensign, please, be sitting at the telephone." "With pleasure." "My name is Edvárd Gálfy." "Nice to meet you." "Molnár." "Let's go!" " Quietly, please." "Yes!" "I recommend the drawing-room." "All right." "We'll take it." "You make up the room, this will be the Regimental Command post." "Fekete the telephone, Gáspár the typewriter, Ensign, go to the table." "We open the office." "The hydrographical chart of Africa..." "An eternal companion of the lion-hunter." "Excellent!" "We'll say that Rommel sent it for Christmas." "I'm cold, light the fire, lads." "Yes, sir." "You barbarian!" "Yes, sir." "What are you doing, my dear boy?" "That's different." "A palace is beautiful even when it's burning." "A French countess told it when they set fire." "To the countess?" " Albert!" "A hot tea!" " All right, sir." "As for the chair you've just burned." "There is a scene of vandalism in Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel but I don't review it now." "Gáspár!" "You keep guard on the corridor." " Fekete, come here!" " Yes." "We'll have a look at the wardrobe." "Wardrobe..." " Listen, you also have a conscience." " Everything must be in order." "And if they aren't here?" "We were told they are here, so..." "Jean, who are these people?" "Some dirty kit... my lord." "My lord, I'm looking for the commander of the Storm Unit." " This deserter..." " On the other corridor." " And don't disturb me with this kind of thing." " Do not disturb him!" "Yes, my lord." "Sergeant Pál Suhajda from the 12th Labour Company." "I have to hand this deserter to the commander of the Storm Unit." "Excuse me." "Are these the Command Headquarters?" "... if the Öcsöd Hussards encircle the hill no. 17..." "Székesfehérvár will fall in our hands." "Supposed that the cycle battalion of Nyékládháza links up with them in time." "After joining the hors-drawn artillery of Csákánydomoszló." "Of course, of course." "What about our wonder weapons?" "They are coming." "I start the Daisy operation on the day Z at 4:12 in the Páty-area," "In a south/southern-east direction." "Right." "Let's set our watches." "It's 52..." "Sergeant Pál Suhajda from the 12th Labour Company." "I have to hand this deserter to the commander of the Storm Unit." "I'm always disturbed at the wrong moment." "Hurry up!" "Please sign here." "István Szijártó..." "From where did he desert?" "Beg to report, from our unit." "This was the second time." "The little idiot thought he can slip out of our hands." "Are you Israelite?" "Worse:" "Political." " I didn't ask you." " I see." "Please sign here." " Have you got a pencil?" " I beg to report I did have one little piece." "Why do you need a pencil, you dirty swine?" "You won't write with it even more." " You can leave." " As you command." "What am I to do with you?" "We'll ask for instruction." "Listen, please." "They brought here a chap." "That will be hard like this, Ensign." "These technical people..." "What have you done, you political?" "Why did they put you into the punishment company?" "Leave him alone, Edvárd." "Get out of here." "Now I ready to let you go." "Are you still here?" "You're lucky that the staff-sergeant didn't notice anything... my lord." "Stop blattering or I'll silence you." "I have a proposal for you, sirs." "I have a fancy that neither of us can interrogate the other." "Allow me to stay with you until the front arrives here." "I have no papers at all." "After all, who are you?" "Political." "Don't you understand?" "That means trouble if we are found together with him." "If I can remain with you now, I can return your kindness later." " Why!" " No." "It'won't do." "Me, Edvárd Gálfy I'm not after the favour of the enemy." "Not so fast, Edvárd!" "[...]" "Who do you know over there?" "No one personally." "What are you chattering about?" "I thought one of the top dogs is your friend." "They are all, without knowing me." "Civilian clothes are safer." "You're a Hungarian and you look for friends among those?" "Among those who don't want to destroy us." "And the motherland?" "Can't you see?" "A nation is burying itself." "And you think to save your filthy skin." " You don't think about the 1,000 years..." " Cut your cackle!" "These are not words." "Empty words." "We have been fed on that sort of guff since I was born and it has got nowhere." "You'd better vanish." "We have more than enough trouble." "Aren't we going to wait for the Öcsöd Hussars?" "There is nothing to eat here." "And when do you take me home?" "I've already told to the young man, that his lordship brought with him all food to Buda." "There is some champagne." "Salami?" "Pick salami..." "What are you gaping at?" "Ours is finished." "You won't eat my reserve." "We have to think about the future." "A good command post would have supplies." "Not here." "Then I'll quit." "Do you have any money?" "As much as you want." "I know a place where they killed a pig." "Not far from here, at the forester's house." "I was hiding there." "I think they give us if we can pay it." " They caught you there?" " I spent there only one night there and I left." " Do you know them?" " Leave it to me." " Would you take me there?" " I told you to leave it to me." "István Szijártó, I promote you to corporal." "If you have no paper, you should have a rank." "Quick, march to the forester's home." "Albert, clean up the area!" "And if anybody comes to look for you?" "That would be a problem." "Fall in there!" ""It will be all over a day..."" ""Everything come to an end..."" "Hush!" "Someone is coming." "Down!" "Don't shut until I get the signal." "Are you frightened, bloody creatures?" "This is how you have to receive the bullet." "Some of us must sacrify himself." "That is how a Hungarian officer dies!" "Shoot here!" "Shoot here!" "Good God!" "Shooting at game is strictly forbidden." "I don't like wild animals." "They also need some distraction." "Here are the Russians!" "They can't be here." "Do you hear it, Gutnacht?" "The Russians are here!" "That's the limit!" "Don't expose yourself to danger!" "Perhaps the news is true about the Russians." "Where is the canned fruit you promised?" "Yes, the canned fruit..." "Where is the canned fruit?" "There is no canned fruit..." "No canned fruit!" "The Russians are in the larder..." "You fool!" "What?" "The Russians?" "Alarm!" "We've managed it so far." " Good afternoon!" "Welcome to you." " Good afternoon!" "You got over it luckily." "God bless you, dear warriors." "Thanks very much for all you have done for us." "You needn't be thankful, Mum." "We'll share things." "One here, the other there." "Right?" " Yes." " Yes." "That's not what we agreed." "Don't be so soft-hearted." "It's all the same for them." "We can't do this." "They offered me a hiding place." "So what?" "Corporal!" "I'm absolutely in the dark." "First:" "How did you drive them away?" "Second:" "Why did we have to fire into the air for a quarter?" "Why?" "Because the corporal used his brain." " What did you do with them?" " They were leaving as fast as they could." "Well?" "I didn't do anything." "I only noticed than the Russians are here." "And then one of them went to the larder" "for a glass of stewed fruit." "There is no stewed fruit." "No stewed fruit!" "No stewed fruit." "So, he went in... he brought a glass of stewed fruit, opened the door, and he said that the Russians are in the larder." "The Russians are in the larder." "There is no stewed fruit!" " If you dare to raise hand..." " He will riddle me with bullets." "At last, comrade." "You are quite safe." "Don't be afraid." "Don't shoot!" " Do you speak Russian?" " I just picked it up in Russia." " Tell him that I am..." " He is still ready to fire." "I see you are also a corporal." "Yes." "We are all corporals." "A nice meeting." "What is your name?" "Grisha." "Grisha." "He came in the evening." "He was scratching at the door." "What would you have done?" "I don't know, but if you have the obsession to hide someone every night," "I don't forecast a promising future for you." "Put down your weapon!" "We won't hurt you." "Prison?" "No, no." "I'm a Hungarian communist, do you understand?" "Marx, Engels, Lenin..." " Who is he?" " He's a good boy, a Communist." " What did you say?" " I just recommend you." " You'd better vanish now." " Where?" "I'm wounded." " What did he say?" " He's wounded." "We'll take you away." "We'll get a doctor." "Not a whole hospital?" "If they find him, he'll be lost." "He'll hobble along." "It's nice that I let him go." "You can stay with him if you like." "It's an atrocity!" "A wounded man!" "Gentlemen, remember the Geneva agreement." "When we go to Geneva." "What am I?" "A nurse?" "This soldier is more valuable than I am." "If you meet them you just have to tell them that you saved him." "You're a clever boy!" "You mislead me." "Don't be excited!" "Fekete, take care of him." "We'll manage." "Follow me!" "Halt!" "What are you doing here?" " We've taken over the castle." " Who told you to do so?" "First Lieutenant Borbás." "Albert!" "I told this gentleman that the castle was occupied." "He told that a... corporal was not competent." "Not competent?" "!" "The regimental commander will soon be here." "This is his prisoner." "The messenger of the Red Army." "We caught him along with the mails." "It's very important." "Are you fool?" "You want to oppose the counter-intelligence corps?" "It's all the same to me." "But when the commander comes, I wouldn't like to be in your place." " Thank you, corporal." " Not at all." "Take the prisoner inside!" "Please, I was told that we need a castle..." "Albert!" " Where is the nearest castle here?" " At the Pheasant plain, sir." "Behind that hill." "Pheasant plain, behind that hill." "Thank you." "Brother Dunyhás, go on!" "You haven't learned to salute?" " Is there any castle?" " There is, sir." "The Borbéndi castle." "About 20 miles from here." " Albert!" " I did what I could." "Fekete, come here!" "Take a lamp and take up position on the tree." "Give 3 signals if the Germans are coming and 5 if the Russians." "Is that clear?" " Albert will report." " Yes, sir." "Thank you." "Pardon." " Is this absolutely sterile?" " Absolutely." "Have you got some idea of that?" "I used to be an army doctor, Eddy." "3 years in the war and one knows everything." "I'll take out your tonsils, if I have time." "Let's go." "A knife." "Not that." "The pocket knife." "That one." "Put it over the fire." "This one?" "!" "Yes, make it sterile." "In a minute." "Knife." "Iodine and cotton wool." "Off with the blanket." "Wash it." "What did you tell him?" "He has to bear it." "All right, boy." ""Dream, dear sonny..."" "How well they stand up to pain!" "There is no problem." "Dinner's ready." "What was it old man Kis used to say?" "To your health!" "He's hungry as a hunter." "Leave him and stoke up." "Gentlemen." "To your health!" "I thank you everything." "And mostly you, corporal, thank you very much." "To your health." "To your health." "He says he thanks me for everything." "I don't like too much talk." "I'm bored even of my own." "I don't like speeches." "Let's drink to Grisha." "This lame boy is first class document to safety." "What?" "You told us to use him if the Russians come." "Why don't you say it in Russian?" "I don't know the word "document" in Russian." " What?" "Document?" " Forget about it." "Eat!" "Cheers." "Gentlemen..." "The Russians." "Are you sure?" "I never make mistake, sir." "That's for sure." "They're here." "Change clothes!" "Just a minute." "You idiot!" "In uniform?" "Yes, this is Hungary." "Changing, we always change coats." "How long shall we have enough coats to change with self-respect..." "How do you say in Hungarian?" "Gentlemen..." "I must correct my announcement." "The Germans." "Now for sure?" "I don't make two mistakes, sir." "Change your clothes!" "Gentlemen, I'm afraid it would be dangerous here." "Please, follow me." "This is a well-tested place used by the baron to the boudoir." "You may wait here for the next change of clothes, Mr. Corporal." "I managed to get a chair through." "Take this, it's yours." "I wouldn't like to commit myself." "Mein Gott!" "If they discover the pork, it's over." "Because we always like to stuff ourselves." "A Hungarian curse." "Wonderful!" "Do you have a sodium bicarbonate?" "If I eat to much, call the doctor." "Right." "I also want milk." "Here, Herr Obersturmführer." "What?" "!" "I'm suffering from diabetes." "Where are the sausages?" "They were here a few minutes ago." "I give 40 seconds, but the sausages must be here!" "10 seconds." "20 seconds." "30 seconds." "40 seconds." "He was quite rude, but sympathetic gentleman." "It's a crazy thing to do." "They may come back." " They won't come back." " Because you know everything?" "You are right, mate." " You're alive." "Thank God!" " What does he say?" "He said that I'm the living example how to fight against the rough, mean, bastard fascists." "But Mr. Molnár..." "Vanish!" " We must leave this place?" " How did you work that out?" " We'll go over and bring some help." " Tell him!" " We bring some help." " What about me?" " May I make a remark?" " How can we get out of here fast?" " Leave it on me, sir." " How can we get out..." "If I eat too much, call the doctor." "At least, I'm satisfied." "Oh, yes." "I report, Herr Obersturmführer... the Russians are behind the wall." "Idiot!" "What?" "!" "May I call your attention to the fact, that under the willows there are pleasure boats." "Please, follow me." " Take care of my motorbike." " I will, sir." "Here we are." "I've got an idea." "In order to make your return absolutely safe, there will be candle in the window." "When the young lady wanted Jenõ Koch Gombolai, the young stableman to visit her, she always put a candle in the window." " It always worked." " You're great, Albi." "Candle in the window." "Thanks." " Look after Grisha and the others." " I will, sir." "A lump of sugar for the dog." "You verminous little creature." "Have you seen any Russian around?" " Albert." " They have not been here." "Only the baron is here." "He remained at home to show an example to the cowards." "My motorbike!" "Come on, faster!" "Come on, you are as slow as lice." "Jump on!" "Don't take them away!" "You want to make war with children?" "Jóska!" " My husband wasn't enough for you?" " Shut up!" "Come on, you bastard!" "Come on, jump!" "You are like lice, you are so slow!" " Let him go!" " How you dare!" "Is your son among them, mate?" "You may come off badly even if you are a soldier." "I'll report this to the district leader." "You can report him backward, and kiss his ass." "Hands up, Corporal!" "Just a moment." "How long have you been in the front line?" "None of your business." "You point a gun to a soldier from the front?" "Throw it!" "Run!" "Come on!" "Leave!" "Go home while you can!" "Everybody go home!" "God bless you for what you did." "We can't get far with blessings." "Have you got anything to eat?" "Here you are." "My grandchildren." " My grandchildren." " We have no time for this." "Go home immediately." "Why did you stop?" "We have to repair all of them." " Repair what?" " These wrecks." "When the war is over all the rich men come forward." "What do you think?" "They'll go on foot?" "A nice service workshop, a skilful assistant with petrol station attached and a good pub." "One person will get along somehow and the other 9 million can go to the hell." "Do you think the other 9 million are worrying about my future?" "What is Molnár for them?" "A poor corporal in his hollow pants." "And which is the fund you wish to start with?" "I have got two kinds of capital." "The first is this." "The sacred right hand of King Stephen is nothing compared with this." "And secondly..." "Look at this." "I have collected the pay." "Not only my own." "I say, you are a fine chap." "Fareseeing." "It is difficult to start the peace with empty pockets." "Let's have a drink!" "Damn it!" "My motorbike is gone!" "God damn it!" "Now we must walk." "This is what I have been waiting for all my life." "Comrades!" "We are here!" "You're mad, mate." "Did you think they would be cheered?" "Don't forget that you are still a Hungarian soldier." " But I am..." " They don't know it." "So we must make them understand." "How do you say in Russian:" ""Don't shoot"?" "This doesn't work, mate." "Have you got a piece of white cloth?" "Yes, I have." "But I'm sorry see it go." "A brand new piece." "Am I to finance everything?" "I shouldn't have got mixed up in this." "Attention!" "Put it up!" "Wave it!" "Higher!" "Higher!" "They really think we are enemies." "How do you say that we are Hungarian communists?" " Only you, not me!" " Don't be silly." "If you want to shout, shout on your own behalf!" "Right, I'll shout then." "Come here!" "They refuse to notice us." "We've failed." "Tey are your friends?" "Congratulation." "They were looking forward to seeing you." "Your special connection." "We can't even surrender." "You'll need that." "You'll give me some if mine gives out." "No, friend, we'll separate." "You'are a good chap but you failed to bring luck." "We'll get along separately." "You shouldn't count on me any longer." "And the others in the castle?" "No business of mine." "I've never seen such a selfish fellow." "Just wait!" "I give you something." "A paper from the reserve bag." "A written order." "Your name is corporal Ferenc Molár 1." "Mother's name:" "Berta Kolozs." "Outfit: 4th Border Guard." "2nd Battalion, commander:" "Major Kenesei." "Take it." "Thanks." "I'm sorry." "Are you angry?" " No." " Bye." " In check!" " In check..." "Look, Grisha." "Do you know what I feel?" "History has brought us together." "He has brought us in this room with an ironical smile." "Do you understand?" "The two of us." "I don't understand." "I wanted to discuss important things with you." "You can't imagine how important they are." "What is your civilian profession?" "When you aren't wearing this." "What is your job?" "All right." "It's your turn." "What's the matter?" "We have some visitors." "Hungarian soldiers." "They are the..." "legal representatives of the present reign." "Our distinguished enemy would be advised to withdraw." "Come on!" "Dont cry, keep silent." "Here you are." "In check." "Check, check, check..." "Check?" "God forbid!" "It's checkmate." "That's impossible." "I already know my next move." "That's fine!" "You can save it yourself." "Frankly, I'm very bad at chess." "No!" "You are too critical of yourself." "I'm sorry for disturbing you with such small things." "Where is your unit is your unit now?" "It's nothing." "It was destroyed." "I was a bit tired." "I arrived here last night, all alone." "I must get back in touch." "Alone?" "You haven't a man left?" " This is strange." " I remained alive, that is strange." "Excuse me for disturbing you." "The telephone will be ready soon and we'll clarify things." "Sergeant!" "Search the house!" "Is there a cellar here?" "We have excellent cellars, sir." "Would you like to have a look at them?" "That's all right, then." "Everyone can't be a soldier." "But it's not too late." " Were you members of the military youth organisation?" " Yes." "All right." "I found these." "Interesting." "Imre Gáspár and György Fekete." "A bit of indolence gives big troubles." "You ought to have burned these things." "The Ensign!" "Everything is identical." "The number of your unit, the stamp and the signature." "There are still some men left from your unit." " How dare you an officer?" " An ex-officer." "You swine!" "When we do all that we can." " To drive people into the mincer!" " Into the cellar!" "I thank you everything." "Dear Grisha." "It's no use to saying thanks." "I'm unfamiliar with slave languages." "But, please, send back my nephew's clothes after the war." "It was a pleasure to meet you." "Hey..." "You!" "My name's Albert, sir." "Albert." "Albert, yes." "I have two men standing in the corridor." "Take them through the castle and make fire." "The bedrooms too." "We have several bedrooms, sir." "Will lady Mici's do?" "Lady..." "Mici?" "Fine." "Make the fire there." "Lady Mici..." "That's fine." "Right, Berci." "Berci..." "Well, if it's not enough for you..." "Some signal?" "To make you quite secure, I can put a burning candle in the window." "I have always some excellent idea." "Shall I put it immediately?" "As you wish." "Your advice was good, that we come here." "It was worth while." "Let him go!" "Lieutenant, corporal Molnár reporting to you." "How long have you been in the army?" "4 years." "2 years in Russia." "I would be sorry to see you deserting." "Lieutenant, I report that I'm on a special messenger mission." "This morning my motor-bike was destroyed at point no. 17." "I returned the fire, I'm looking for my unit." "Waiting for orders." "Written order." "Have a cigarette!" "Thank you, lieutenant." "We are organising a punishment unit." " There are many deserters." " Unfortunately." "You'll be good for a corporal." "Go to the kitchen." "Standfast!" "Live Szálasi!" "Yes!" "Corporal, why don't you report?" "Lieutenant, Corporal Ferenc Molnár 1. reporting." "Ferenc Molnár?" "!" "Corporal?" "!" "Glad to see you, corporal." "Coffee!" "Standfast!" "Thanks, I saw the candles." "You couldn't have seen it, it wasn't there." "It was." "Incredible." "And my treasure, my love, my dear?" " Went up in flames." " No, it didn't." "Just disappeared." "You saw that it was in the stove." "He didn't stay in the stove." " How can I get out of here?" " Is there any problem?" "I have no motor-bike, no luggages and if they discover Grisha..." "I have just told you that he left." " And my motor-bike?" " Here you are." "Can you repeat your name, dear boy?" "Corporal Ferenc Molnár 1." "Turn around!" "It's a nasty trick." "And to play it so badly!" "Two Molnárs in the same battalion!" "Corporals." "And both of them messengers." "Well, well, well." "We have to find out now which is the smaller rogue and which is the bigger." " I'd like explain..." " Shut up, boy!" "He came first." " Speak!" " It's true that I was in the front line." "And for four years." "I was a good soldier, please, ask my battalion." "What's your name?" "Corporal László Tóth." "Where's your paybook?" "I threw it away when I had to run." "Then I met him, corporal Molnár." "I saw he had been given free passage, I beg him to give me a written order." "Did you know that he was a deserter?" "He's not a deserter." "He told me the 4th Border Guards were encircled in Buda." "That's terrible!" "But one of the battalion was in this area, wasn't it?" "Yes..." "So you stole orders?" "I report..." "I didn't." "Lieutenant, I saw him riding a motor-bike which was hit." "God help me, that's the truth." "Why did you give Tóth a written order?" "I report, I took pity on him." "So, you are the real one." "Why did you correct the order?" "It came to my mind that there are two Molnárs in the battalion..." "He left and I couldn't correct his." "All right." "Then produce the pay of the battalion." "Well?" "I haven't got it." "It's all the same now." "I'll tell you the truth." "I'm not a soldier." "That's the worst idea you hit upon yet." "Where is the money?" "He's says nonsenses." "He's suffering from shell-shock." "Where is the money?" "A serious case you know..." "Shut up!" "Come on, my boy!" "It is in the grenades." "I didn't steal." "I wanted to save it." "It was hanging around your neck." "We carried it alternately, as a precaution." "That's enough, lads." "The more you try to save another, the more you get involved." "I have known for 3 days that you stole the battalion's pay." "Take it apart!" "Both of you are rogues." "You stole from your comrades who may have died on the battlefield." "You body-snatchers!" "Desertion is your smallest crime." "I repeat the whole truth:" "I'm not..." "Sir, this is insinuation." "Tell me who are they." " Soldiers." " I know." "Why did you want to help this fellow to escape?" "I don't want to disappoint you, but there is a mistake." " What's your name?" " Kovács." "Dezsõ Kovács." "So you're hiding with pseudonym." "So why do they call you Albert?" "Baron Dexler insisted on that name." "He thought that Dezsõ is not the right name for a well-educated butler." "Don't be impertinent!" "I don't want to offend you, but I can't stay any longer in this house." "I leave." "The firing squad is ready." "On behalf of the National Council..." "For desertation and treason I condemn to death ex-ensign Edvárd Gálfy." "Privates Fekete and Gáspár." "As an accomplice Dezsõ Kovács, civilian person, servant," "And with an additional punishment corporals László Tóth and Ferenc Molnár." "Ferenc Molnár, step forward!" "Look at these two rogues!" "They have stolen the pay of the heroes." "Molnár, throw a grenade over here." "Brother Dunyhás, pick it up!" "Take it apart!" "Come on, quickly!" "Come on!" "The other ones!" "Go on!" "Get it ready!" "Run!" "I can't get rid of you till the end of my life!" "Am I to die along with you here?" "Keep calm and leave it to me." "The lieutenant is coming soon I'll talk to him." "In Latin?" "My father came home from Siberia after the 1st World War." "Although the trains were rather slow then." "I'm a fool." "It's clear now!" "Gentlemen, we have been weighted on the scales and found wanting." "It would be wiser to face our destiny." "Shut up!" "The corporal is thinking." "He's thinking, so he's existing." " Let's clarify my case." " Listen to me, comrades..." "I made fool a whole German battalion." "The major of Haglyas will testify in my favour..." "I've saved hundreds of lives!" "Comrade lieutenant!" "What do you want?" "Do you speak Russian?" " Why do you hold us here?" " Because it is war." "We are partisans." " What did you say?" " That we are Hungarian partisans." "We fought German and Hungarian nazis." " Partisans?" " We are." "They hold us like the fascists and they want to put us in prison?" "All these gentlemen say they are guerillas." "That's not true!" "Only we are partisans." "Have you got any document?" "We saved the life of a corporal called Grisha." "I did it with my own hands." "We have quite a few Grishas here." "We'll see." "All of them are called Grisha." "Grisha, Grisha, where are you?" "Nobody wants us." " If only I had a revolver!" " I know, you'd kill yourself." "Look at him!" "He has already found a place." "Sitchas, gentlemen!" "Did I say correctly?" "Gentlemen, I'll serve you some rice in the evening." "Hurry up, mate!" "You weren't the waiter at the Gundel Restaurant!" " Mr Cook, today is a meatless day." " Yes, caraway-seed soup." "Go back to your place!" "Keep in line!" " Excuse me, milord." " Are you also a baron?" "I introduce myself here, at the limb of the hell, I'm baron Hétházy." "I'm not a baron." "Hunger has addled his brain." " Suhajda!" " Sergeant Suhajda!" "Fekete, Gáspár keep watching!" "Take off your clothes!" "I beg to report..." "You as the commander of the Storm Unit can certify that I only..." "What do you say?" "Keep quiet!" "You'll give us away." " What we are looking for?" " Acknowledgement of receipt." " Here it is." " All right." "It's not good." "I've signed it." "Well, eat it, let's do it!" "One for Mummy, one for Daddy..." "What's going on here?" "Why was Szijártó taken away?" "The one who has support can get away." "Keep quiet." "We are on the right track." "We are on the right track." "He won't come back." "You had the idea and he's enjoying the fruit of it." "You have to trust people." "I think he'll come back." "It wasn't so simple." " The commandant telephoned..." " Fall in, bastards!" "I'll get you out of here." "You can kiss the corporal's hand." "We are going home." " It's not so easy as that." " Why?" "You told that we are partisans." " Hungarian partisans." " And then?" " Did he believe it?" " Of course." "I told you it wasn't an easy job." "They give us weapons and we form a Hungarian unit." "I'm looking for 5 brave men." "And we are supposed to be the five brave men?" "Stop kidding, I'm fed up with the war." " I'm finished with it!" " Be sensible!" "You told yourself that we were Hungarian partisans." " We have to live up to what you said." " I can't live up to anything." "As for the process, something is beginning, but without me." "If we exclude ourselves from this..." "I agree with Mr Szijártó's ideas." "And the national dignity demands..." "You'll get a bullet through your national dignity." "Do you think that a German bullet makes a nice hole?" "You seem to have found one another." "You can go if you like." "I'll try to do something else with these two fellows." "They'll shoot us." " Are you afraid?" " Very much." "They are distributing the land at home." " Would you like to go home?" " Very much." "Halt!" "Grisha!" "Best wishes to your Aunt in Moscow!" " What does he say?" " He is very happy to find us." "Of course you are free." "But we give you an assignment." "This is it." "You'll go behind the enemy lines and blow up a fascist ammunition dump." "A dangerous matter." "But we have confidence in you." " Are you prepared to carry it out?" " I am." "I am." "I am..." "I am..." "And you?" "Thanks for your confidence but..." "Not me." "Could I get a document with some stamps as an appreciation of my merits?" "That's all right." "You can go in the morning." "Four people is not enough." " What does he say?" " He'll be the fifth." " Perhaps we'll meet some day." " Good bye." "See you." "It was a pleasure to meet you." " Good bye." " Excuse me, what's your first name?" " Ferenc." "Good luck, Ferenc!" "Thanks." "Look after yourself, corporal." "OK." "I'm sorry that you are not coming." "See you." "Bye, Feri." "Good bye." "Hope to see you later when it will be all over." "All the best!" "See you!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait, boys!" "Do you want to leave the brain's trust behind?" "THE END"