"Cadets" "Based on historical facts inspired by Alfons Menne" "Direction Karl Ritter" "and as cadets:" "German boys of today, of the same flesh and blood as in old times" "October 1760 the fifth year of the Seven-Years-War" "The Russians attack Berlin, while Frederic stands in Silesia." "Remove the lid." "Put it over here." "like this" "Hallertöns!" " Keep the guys in order" " Yes Major" "Everybody back to the table double quick don't be ridiculous!" "parbleu!" "get them away from the window are you a Cadet corps or a herd of rams?" "back to the ranks, double quick" "attention" "what's this?" "a fort, Major that is... a four-sided redoubt, Major" " what's this called?" " a casemate, Major and that?" "the draping of the flanks, Major eh, flanking of the trenches attention!" "all cadets file line up in the barracks yard!" "two officers, two non-commissioned officers, four bandsmen and 278 cadets reporting, nobody missing thank you" "Cadets in this darkest hour I announce to you the orders of the Commander of Berlin, General Lieutenant von Rochow since it seems impossible to hold the open city of Berlin with the Garrison troops against the superior Russian army" "and since I, in accordance with the King, want to avoid the destruction of the capital" "I hereby order the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Berlin." "the garrison, and each citizen capable of carrying arms will today retreat to the fortress of Spandau the Corps of Cadets, excepting the lower classes, will join the retreat" "Long live the King!" "Long live the King!" "The first, second and third company will march off in combat order in 30 minutes the fourth company will remain here" " Sergeant Schönbrunn!" " General" "I hand over to you the command of the institute since you're an invalid, you won't be in any danger and neither are the cadets of the 4th company since they cannot be treated as military persons, being only children of the age of 9 to 12" "Yes, General" "Schönbrunn is to report to me for further instructions 1st, 2nd, 3rd company, dismissed" "4th company, at ease why aren't we military persons?" "because you're still peeing in your pants" "I don't pee in my pants anymore silence in the ranks if we aren't military persons, you can't give us orders anymore" "Excellent, merveilleux what was that, Bork cannot give us orders anymore?" "he still can, to you as long as it says in your report card:" ""intellectual capacities: invisible"" "shut up, Hohenhausen attention" " are you crying?" " no you're crying snot and water, you cowardly swine" "I want to join them my brothers are leaving with them too écoutez, why can't we join them?" "we cannot march so fast and there are no wagons and there's no food at Spandau, except for the garrison don't be afraid the Russian aren't allowed to touch us" "I hope the Russians know about that, mon cher ami if they don't know, they can always consult Bork" "I say, I'd rather starve at Spandau than stay here and let a Cossack stick his lance into my belly don't you notice?" "it's so quiet all of a sudden where's Schönbrunn?" " he's filling his wooden leg with powder - why?" "well, once the Cossacks are here ... where are the Cossacks?" "4th Company who's shouting?" "silence, the Sergeant's calling 4th company, to your quarters" "4th company, attention 4th company, to your quarters, double quick" "Get back, you!" "Fall in!" "?" "I'm not your "Klops Kaline", you rascals at ease" " where are the others, girl?" " they all ran away, were afraid of the Russians what about you?" "if the boys are staying, I might as well stay too but they cannot run away like that!" "Where are they?" "man, again cabbage soup but we'll get double rations now, the others are gone double-ration, my foot!" "half-rations from now on we'll economize" "Sophie, we must hide the food supplies hide them?" "but where?" "what do I care, but they must be gone when the Russians are here very well, but you must help me" "I can't manage alone" " when will the Russians be here?" " they haven't announced themselves to me but it can be any moment now get going!" "into the coal cellar with the food" " Halt!" "do you hear!" " what is it?" "they're coming!" " let's run over, quick!" " Stand still, quiet!" "the Cossacks!" "The Cossacks" "man, they look wild!" "like robbers" " holy son of a gun!" " thanks a lot, I say but they sure know how to ride like the "Zentner" [50 kg]" " like who?" " like those whose bodies are grown together with their horses" "Centaurs, that's what you mean" " yes yes - stop babbling now you all help Sophie they look like they'll take anything they can get hold of you'll all stay here, I'll go upstairs and ?" " where shall we carry with the stuff?" " all of this must go?" "Good grief!" "The King of Prussia must be desperate he even puts children under arms" "what did he say?" "He says he knows you." "why, do you speak Russian?" "I don't how can you be sure what he said then?" "how can you be sure he didn't say it?" "what kind of a children's party is this?" "100 Prussian cadets of the age of 9 to 12 assembled what are we to do with the little ones?" "I beg your pardon" "German Dummkopf" "I'll take them all prisoners, lock them up yessir but General Rochow asked me to tell Your Excellency cadets aren't military persons" "I decide who's a military person, not your von Rochow" " do you have any weapons?" " no, Your Excellency you don't?" "I protest!" "protest?" "ha!" "tell your General Rochow that he ?" "Dummkopf, German lock them up, the brats!" "prisoners of war, who fights back will be shot!" "he doesn't stop crying but that's no reason for you to cry as well come on, stop it now you'll see more men die yet it only happened because of me because of Mama's medallion" "I don't know, little one, the thing was damned old-fashioned you should be glad you got rid of it let Mummy give you another if God permits that'll you'll turn 10 it wasn't old-fashioned, it was from my mother" "calm down, little one it was from your grandmother or maybe from the ancestral matriarch of your glorious lineage stop it, Hohenhausen, I don't want you to torture the little one" "I can torture the big ones as well just as you wish stop it now come on, Anders, play something" "Merde de merde, Man, stop it!" "what's the matter, Lampe, go on" "I can't then don't please, Bork, he mustn't play but he doesn't play anymore" "well, is nobody going to help me this is hot soup" " what about plates?" " no plates today here are the spoons out of the bucket, like pigs you'll have to get used to much more, you fop!" "here you are thank you" "and we won't get any more?" "perhaps we will." "I think the Russians are leaving what!" " why?" " the guard in the corridor has left already no!" "let me check" "once the womenfolk try to bring good news he wasn't there a short while ago otherwise I wouldn't have gotten in" "?" "he's leaving" "I don't believe it go now, try to get into town, maybe you'll hear news from the King" " let me have the buckets!" " why?" "leave them here no, I need them, you don't want to starve no, we don't" "We don't want to kick the bucket." "["die Löffel abgeben" - hand in the spoons]" "I think the Russians are leaving" "The King is coming!" "The King is coming?" "The King is coming!" "all that excitement for nothing # the King is coming ... # the King's already here not so loud, the Russians are still here you idiots, the Russians are still here rubbish, the King's coming!" "The King's coming?" "# the King's coming, the King's already here" "Look at that, he calls it dancing naturellement, he's from Pomerania yessir from Lower Pomerania" "Do you really want to take them with us?" "Of course." "Hostages are always useful." "but they'll hinder us with our march" "I'll teach you all how to march!" "get a move!" "all get downstairs!" "get dressed!" "get going!" " I beg your pardon, what are we..." " shut up!" "which outfit are you wearing?" "parade outfit, of course silence, the two of you!" "get dressed hurry up all down to the ?" "hurry up. get a move on" "come on" "halt!" "halt!" "our Zeil ?" "Davaj!" "Get up!" "Get up!" "lie down!" "Johann!" "what's the matter?" "I can't go on you must!" "pull yourself together" "The Russian will let you die here hunger!" "what a wimp!" "here, give him a drink" "drink ... slowly there!" "there!" " Sophie!" " where?" "I think in the wagon over there he's gone crazy well what else can you expect crazy!" "I saw her too" " what's the matter?" " Sophie is in that wagon" "Sophie?" "Bork!" "It's me, Sophie how are you all doing?" "we won't last long." "Jordan dropped with exhaustion" " didn't they give you anything to eat?" " no. what are you doing here?" "but I couldn't leave you alone wait. here's an apple, for Jordan that's all I have. go now." "I'll stay with you" "here. from Sophie" "what have they done?" "they rebelled against requisitioning and now?" "they'll be hanged in honour of the Czarina but that's terrible!" "it's a quick death" "I'd rather be hanged than having to go on starving they're capable of starving us to death they can do so if they like." "but I'll kill the swine first who smashed my flute mon Dieu, now a plate of cabbage soup or pea soup with bacon stop it, I can't bear to hear this anymore just such a little piece of black bread" "Sacre bleu!" "if my ancestors hadn't emigrated from France" "I'd be sitting in Paris, eating white bread fromage de Brie" " what?" " with cheese" "what's that supposed to mean?" "a ram, of course, man" " should we eat him alive?" " no, we must fry him have you ever fried a ram?" "of course not, but it's easy, light a fire, fry him, that's it but first the ram must be killed and skinned how shall we kill him?" "If I had my bow and arrow or a spear" "I think I'll strangle him beat him to death, with a stone or a stick or whatever... stop it!" "are you crazy!" "why?" "the ram shall not be fried what was that?" "we're not to eat our fill?" "what the Russians stole from Prussian peasants... who are being hanged for it on top of it out of the question!" "I'd rather drop dead yes, we'd rather drop dead but this is going too far" "I agree don't you have any honour "in your stomach"?" "[im Leib] no, when he has an empty stomach there's no honour left in it either away with that ram, he'll find his way home alone home?" "into the Russian stomachs, he'll go if only Sophie were here that's enough now!" "bravo, today you've impressed me for the first time so pleased I'm sure say, what made you think of it?" "well, you know..." "I can't stand mutton" "Sophie!" "silent, the guard here, pass this on" "from Sophie what's going to happen to the imprisoned peasants?" "the Russians want to hang them are they under guard?" "why?" "you're not going to do something silly I hope are they under guard?" "I didn't see any guards, but... did you want to free the peasant swine?" "yes do want to hang with them?" "do you want to, little one?" "stoj!" "down with you you'll remember this next time you'll hang with them" "Hohenhausen man, what did you do?" "Fritz, great!" "... and 100 Prussian prisoners congratulations!" "how much will he get for them?" "one Gulden per head, that makes 100 Guldens, Your Excellency [in French] write out the order for payment" "where did the battle take place?" "[in French]" ""combat"?" "srajenie no battle?" "where did you catch them?" "Cadets?" "How old?" "9-10 years old" "what am I to do with them?" "a trump in your hand:" "100 future Prussian officers" "Cavalry Captain von Tzülow" "Your Excellency" "mon cher ami you've been a cadet too, n'est-ce pas?" "Yes, Your Excellency in Berlin, Corps de Cadets?" "Yes Your Excellency formidable very good" "Goroshev, voilà, the man for you get ready, Tzülow you'll ride with them to Portievize you're assigned to them turn the little fellows into future officers for the Czarina she'll be more grateful than their tyrant of Potsdam" "don't you agree?" "he imagined himself to be the one who conceives the great plan against Frederic and now he can act the nanny for little boys" "Goroshev, you know Herr von Tzülow?" "no as you heard, a Prussian had a little misunderstanding with his King since then, he hates him and all of Prussia his hate is something wonderful, we all couldn't hate like he does he's the right man" "I'm at the General's command but they are little vultures evil" "they must feel the fist" "Tzülow is a good animal tamer you just look after your prisoners he'll turn them into Russians or eat them alive all of your dear Berlin cadets" "this is great!" "you call yourself Prussian cadets!" "what a gang of ragamuffins filthy run-down" "totally screwed up the King of Prussia must hard up if he has to put into uniforms such pitiful figures we've been treated badly, Herr... did I ask you?" "no Cavalry Captain then shut up treated badly by the enemy?" "you don't say!" "complain to His Majesty the King of Prussia who left you in the lurch otherwise you wouldn't be here" "you don't seem to like it, do you?" "no, Cavalry Captain" "I can believe that, you tin soldier what is it you don't like?" "you're being unfair, Cavalry Captain no more unfair than your King what's your name?" "Hohenhausen, Cavalry Captain" "Pomerania or "the Mark" [Brandenburg]?" "the Mark, Cavalry Captain disgusting!" "then we're relatives we cannot be related to a man who betrayed his fatherland" "take this!" "you haven't fallen into my hands in vain" "even if I'm no longer a Prussian..." "I haven't forgotten Prussia tomorrow morning, 4 o'clock all your coats shall be brushed and mended all buttons sewn on shoes polished wigs powdered hands washed and nails cut and if anybody catches my eye, then..." "I'll make him run the gauntlet" "I'd like to return to the King of Prussia something of the education I enjoyed with him" "The swine!" "I'll kill him!" "worse than a Cossack yes, if only we had a pistol or a gun shot him like a dog" " Sophie!" " yes, Sophie" "Sophie, Sophie" " did you hear that?" " you must help us did you bring buttons and your sewing things?" "Buttons?" "no, only what I hold in my hands combs, brushes, powder but that's of no use, we must sew our outfits look at this!" "he's right, you really look like gypsies, but..." "The swine!" "a Russian and calls himself my relative but you gave him the idea yourself he'll beat us to death" "Mon Dieu, if he even treats his relatives like that... a gauntlet with the Cossacks?" "Man, nobody will get out alive" " Bork, we must flee!" " yes, we must flee silence, everything's already prepared" "How many woman's dresses did you manage to collect, Sophie?" "not nearly enough for everybody but we all must have some perhaps in the manor house, all the maids have run away" " go on, get what you can find - quick, we must flee before the Russians come back you must come with us" "The swine!" "are they already asleep, your little boys?" "I'll go back to them presently, put them to bed were they well-behaved?" "so so did you teach them "Long live the Czarina"?" "vashe zdorovye, Tsaritsa" "Not so fast, they've been saying for too long "Long live the King"" "doesn't matter, they'll never say it anyway let them drop dead under drill" "Frederic will never get them back, the little animals well, then, your health you know, the Colonel was just joking" "I understand alright drink, brother, drink all of them, the little ones, dead like a dormouse we'll annoy your Frederic a bit wherever we can" "# I feel like battling with the enemy in the wide field # like a brave warrior who is true and honest # the flag waves to him who stands by her he's coming take those women's clothes off" "hide them in the straw everybody lie down" "go on with your singing" "get up!" " who's the elder?" " I am" "why did you sing?" "The King has won a battle at Torgau." "He'll be beaten again." "how did you know?" "by secret signal ?" "is that so?" "then go on singing, if you're so pleased" "# I feel like battling with the enemy in the wide field # like a brave warrior who is true and honest # the flag waves to him who stands by her # may God the Lord help us stop it!" "that'll do!" "Tomorrow morning I'll teach you a different tune" "Sikhall !" "come on, put on the clothes, and let's get away" "# the flag waves to him who stands by her # may God the Lord help us" "silence, gentlemen!" "kapisko?" "the ladies have a request" "did you understand ?" "not one word listen to me the ladies want to have a look at the little Prussians how they're sleeping the little children of the King of Prussia are they pretty boys?" "may we kiss them?" "come along let's all look at the little wolf cubs feed them with sugar give them the bottle so that they don't ?" "come along, everybody" "ladies and gentlemen ?" "the little Prussian traveling circus, no entrance fee" "Guard!" "Cavalry Captain von Tzülow!" "they cannot be far, I'll bring them back" "a pretty sight in women's clothes running across the country like a herd of muttons" "what a shitty "vintage" [class of 1760]" "a fine masquerade but suits you well" "better than the uniform your King ought to see you like this exactly like this" "who devised this brilliant plan of escape?" "well?" "doesn't the responsible man want to report?" "down on your knees!" "get up!" "on your knees!" "get up!" "on your knees!" "get up!" "and now forward march, parade step mark the time squadron, march!" "one ought to let you march like this all your life each of you "with a wooden board in front of your skull" [German proverb meaning "a blockhead"]" "?" "she stole bread and meat come here" "do you really belong to the cadets?" "take her to my room" " all hundred?" " yessir, all hundred very well, they'll be only 90 tomorrow morning why?" "one must set an example for the others ten will draw lots and be hanged hanged?" "but they're just children!" "you may treat them harshly... but you can't hang them like rebels!" "you think so?" "because they're Prussians?" "how do you mean?" "I'm trying to find an explanation for your sudden humanity would you like to take over my duties, Major?" "no thank you then you mind your own business!" "njet ?" "you take that back!" "I don't think so quiet, children, make peace" "Nadezhda's singing a love song from my youth tomorrow morning we'll see how many we'll hang or shoot maybe all of them who knows make peace, children shake hands" " brat - let's make it up" " bratisha - orderly!" "Cossack!" "drink long live friendship!" "and love!" "and youth" "This is how I like you, brother!" "Drink!" "Cossacks, follow me!" "He's the richest man in Prussia who makes ?" "na zdorovye, drink it up" "ah, the cadet girl have a drink and let the guards have some too" "everybody must be happy" "how did you join the boys?" "I helped out in the kitchen, in Berlin in the Cadet Corps?" "cooking cabbage soup, were you?" "Royal Prussian cabbage soup à la Schönbrunn is he still alive, the old bone?" "The Russians beat him to death well, cheers" "why didn't you stay in Berlin?" "I have noone and somebody's got to help the boys pretty cadets needing help from a Klopps-Kaline putting them into women's clothes and sending them across the country was your idea too, wasn't it?" "my idea a good idea tomorrow ten cadets will hang for it no!" "God in Heaven!" "No!" "no!" "what must I do?" "but it was all my fault!" "I've been so stupid help us. you cannot let this happen!" "stop whimpering, that won't change it either women's clothes a shitty "vintage"" "when I think how we would have handled it in quite a different way first we'd have tried to get a clear picture of the situation, like we learned in tactics lesson where are the Prussians standing?" "the Prussians are standing over there, not 30 miles from here a good rider will get through in two days, but... there's Putenicze here are we" "the river Vistula" "Graudenz" "Graudenz the fort and here, in the middle of the swamp ... lies the old redoubt "Victoria"" "halfway to the Prussian lines this is where we would have retreated to with a few guns one could hold the redoubt till help arrives this is how we would have secured the escape instead of running in the wrong direction in women's clothes" "but they don't have any weapons and they're under close guard" "look at the guards they're in pretty good shape, aren't they" "I guess in an hour they'll drop down senseless where can we get weapons?" "there's a barn, behind there's the baggage, enough guns and weapons and ... a single guard, one makes some noise, lures him away and takes all one needs ... not only guns of course, but also ammunition" "but they must reach the fort within a day's march" "I cannot grant them more time oh my God!" "I hope I'll remember everything, I..." "I'm so stupid thank you get out, you!" "hey!" "I'd take the piece of paper too to assist your memory" "?" "I never want to see you again yes" "I would have gone south or crossed the Vistula" "Tzülow knows what he's about" "May God have mercy with them, once I have that spawn of Prussians in my power again and I'll catch them anyway!" "attention, he's coming get ready!" "ready!" "let's grab the reins ?" "the guns out on the street only shoot when I order it the others jump on the guy and hold him, got it?" "let's roll" "halt!" "halt!" "stop the wagon" "shoot!" "fire damned shit, doesn't work nothing doing, filthy Russian rubbish there he goes, and we could have needed him so badly why didn't you hold him?" "you try and hold him while you're hanging on to such a grimy fellow" "Nothing else in the village?" "rien du tout, emptied out, not a cat left then there's no other way, we'll have to march we must reach the fort today, otherwise they'll catch us the Fort?" "maybe Hohenhausen is already there with our soldiers" " you're nuts!" " why?" "impossible. he has to ride 80 miles ouch!" "my cheek!" "arse cheek all line up!" "halt!" "halt!" "I've got some food what's the matter?" "I've got some food food?" "not now!" "only in the fort" "Forward march!" "we've searched here there up to there over there we've combed everything they are nowhere to be found" "little Prussians" " but where?" " ?" "I thought so at once you see, brother, sometimes Russians can be cleverer than Prussians" "I'll ride over there at once bratishka" "I'd like to join you so that you won't take a wrong turn again as you wish try once more" "I can't go on me neither" "I can't march another step come on, Ramin, it'll work out leave us here" "I don't care anymore pull yourselves together it can't be far to the fort" "Raden, Arne" "I'll stay here too" "I've had enough, you fat pig" "I'll kick your arse isn't one allowed to sit down for moment?" "but not now, you idiot, when I'm trying to get up those two you wimp!" "you chicklets, come here drink this hands off!" "everybody assemble!" "I'll stay with the little ones we'll follow you later out of the question!" "then the Russians will get you but it's impossible!" "you just go on en avant, we must leave now if we want to arrive at daylight" "I know, Gutrow and Lampe, come here." "cross your guns and let Raden sit on it what?" "we're to carry him?" "shut up, I'll carry Arne hold on to them, like this" "4th company, march!" "don't be angry Potron I'll even let you have my knife when we're back in Berlin" "Berlin!" "très bien you're a good one, Benjamin" "this road turns right left" "I mean the fort there's the redoubt Victoria where I think the cadets are hiding yes, that's the turn to the left here's the map yes I know even without a map what's the meaning of the joke then?" "listen, Tzülow if you had ridden to the right, I'd have you arrested really?" "and why, if I may ask?" "I suspected you to support the cadets you're a Prussian" "I see." "And now you don't suspect me anymore?" "no so to the left, the fort isn't far away" "foot" "nothing to see perhaps they're even further let's have a look very well do you know the fort?" "it looks weird yes it has been destroyed, the casemate has been blown up it used to secure the crossing of the Vistula it lies in the middle of a swamp it has only one entry, the wooden dike over there" "shall we go alone?" "afraid of the Prussians even if they're only 10 years old?" " wake him up - one moment" "you marmot!" "sleeping while on guard duty!" "we'll cut off your head march alarm alarm!" " who's coming?" " the Russians" "back!" "here you are!" "the guard's asleep the gate's open and you can't even shoot a pitiful vintage" " now it's over!" " shoot him" "Hohenhausen?" "Hohenhausen?" "here you're all complete in here?" "yessir how did you know that this fort isn't occupied?" "who told you?" "I did what's the meaning of this?" "your pistol, please so a traitor after all you see, I've heard that twice during the last days betrayed, traitor" "I only have to pull the trigger and it would have been your last word but I'd rather you ride back and tell your Colonel Goroshev... that I'm against injustice" "I left my fatherland because of this once before and now I've returned to... the innocence, the helplessness, well the little ones here... to help them hang." "zabaki ?" "you to the right you to the left, to the loopholes look sharp, report what you see yessir attention!" "the company obeys under my command hurrah hurrah why do you shout?" " I thought..." " what's your name?" "de Potron, Cavalry Captain" "I see, a Frenchman, well they're always so quick with their thinking" "I'm a Prussian, Cavalry Captain really?" "a Prussian?" "then I'd first obey an order and think later, off you go, to your post yes, Cavalry Captain" "Hohenhausen ..." "Hohenhausen has gone over to the Prussians?" "yes Cavalry Captain who else?" "nobody else alone?" "that was a mistake well... why didn't you manage to shoot?" "we've loaded them alright pulled the trigger only the trigger doesn't work you see, it works like this:" "everybody watch there's an extra lever with the Russian guns you must turn it back before shooting" "then it works now try make room, I'm going to shoot" "To the garrison of the redoubt Victoria" "I demand immediate unconditional surrender of the fort otherwise we'll start the attack and we'll slay everybody unto the last man signed Goroshev" "Imperial Russian Colonel did you understand everything?" "yes Cavalry Captain what are you going to do?" "defend ourselves, Cavalry Captain at last!" "my class (vintage) would have done the same thing all the vintages, Cavalry Captain yes, I think so too well, let's give Herr Goroshew an answer" "the garrison refuses Colonel Goroshev's conditions for surrender one must attack them from all sides at once impossible!" "there's swamp everywhere continue the attack" "push harder, man!" "but I can't. the gun's too big step on a stone alright three times!" "I did so. shut up here you are, Cavalry Captain take mine, it's loaded fine let's see" "you see, my gun your gun?" "idiot?" "it's shooting that counts, not loading they're firing like mad, Cavalry Captain don't shoot into the blue, we must save ammunition" "careful!" "don't put it in your mouth, fatty!" "but the Russians are shooting too c'est la guerre, you see" " what?" " that's what war's like" "man, look at this!" "here's another one" "Cavalry Captain" "Cavalry Captain they're shooting with arrows all the better." "we're shooting with bullets you see. we're shooting with bullets" "I know that" "what's the matter?" "my arm, my arm come, I'll take you to Sophie stay here!" "load!" "he can walk alone" "does it still hurt?" "no. but I was just going to tell Raden that he's to step on a stone so that he can load better ouch!" "what are you doing?" "I think you're a man a man doesn't cry but I'm not crying suddenly I felt a blow, I thought Raden had pushed me" "my God but that's Bork" " what's happened to him - a bullet scratched his head thank God it's not bad but who'll shoot in his place?" " should I ..." " no no no it's René Potron's turn, he... hurrah!" "The Russians... the Russians are withdrawing the Russians are withdrawing they're still there but they're withdrawing yes indeed!" "they're retreating to the ?" "hurrah!" "hurrah!" "it's no use our losses are too high" "post your guards." "I'll be back soon but it's a good idea" "# may God the Lord help us very soon, you won't feel like singing anymore!" "# I feel like battling with the enemy in the wide field # like a brave warrior who is true and honest # the flag waves for him who stands by her # may God the Lord help us from our distress to victory" "# may God the Lord help us from our distress to victory now here's something to eat" "but no meat balls no cabbage soup only bread here, for everyone a piece did you bring something for me, Kaline?" "Something special for you here ... here and one piece for the Cavalry Captain with liver sausage?" "but I get double-ration" "I'd like to know how Hohenhausen is doing?" "Hohenhausen?" "8 o'clock by now he might have reached the outpost then we can be freed tomorrow morning if he got through in time a single rider could nobody have accompanied him?" "he's the only rider among us the only rider?" "listen when we were your age we all rode horses well, it'll work out alright but Hohenhausen must get through, we've no food left what?" "no food left?" "nothing" "Now you're finished who's that?" "My goodness, Herr Goroshev is outside may he come in?" "please let him come him please come in" "[Russian accent] oh, the Prussian ?" "there they are!" "I'll have you quartered!" "and make vodka out of you a bet?" "volunteer ?" "davaj davaj man, are you crazy, stop that whipping, let me up down with Goroshev!" "# the flag waves for him .... # who stands by her" "# God the Lord may help us ... # from our distress to victory" "Golly!" "if the Russians attacked now we wouldn't be able to see anything you see, the mist is rising from the swamp no fear. as soon as anything moves... we'll just fire along the wooden dike, then nobody will get through" "all quiet at post 2 very well" "all quiet at post 3 you heard nothing?" "nothing, Cavalry Captain it would have been a wonder anyway because the Cossacks never attack at night they're too superstitious they're afraid of evil spirits but evil spirits don't exist, Cavalry Captain don't they?" "well, I've never seen one before" " ah, it's you!" " yes, me!" "you, I had a slice of bread, did you..." " bread?" " you!" "don't lie to me!" "ah, the piece that lay around..." "I thought you didn't need it anymore have you eaten it already?" " no." " well... here it is you're lucky, you!" "otherwise I would have reported you to the Cavalry Captain" "Good God, there he comes" "post 4, all quiet you're talking while on guard?" "don't you know that this is forbidden?" "it was on a matter of duty, Cavalry Captain very well. go to sleep" "I'll stay here yes Cavalry Captain" "well don't you want to go to sleep?" "no do you still believe that we'll get home?" "sure!" "with drums and pipes and all the pomp and circumstance ... we'll enter Berlin and you in front of them then you'll get back that other uniform or don't you want to?" "I'd like to alright but I'll get something else a court martial at Küstrin and eight guns for Ascension Day" "God in Heaven!" "No!" "I don't believe our King would act like this!" "I don't know what you've done, ... why you went over to the Russians, but... when the cadets and I tell him how much you've helped us the King is such a fair man fair?" "it is fair to chase an entire regiment out of the army, with all its officers it's happened at Kunersdorf just because the regiment had to fight an already lost battle we fought like devils for 48 hours against a sixfold enemy force" "half of us were cut off the devil knows how it got reported to the King, mutiny or... and when we finally fought our way back to our lines, we were told:" "the King, in his rage, has struck the entire regiment from the army lists" "Kunersdorf was a great misfortune for the King degraded the Colonel shot himself because he couldn't live with the disgrace and I?" "I went over to the Russians, having only one thought:" "to harm the King, wherever I could" "I told myself, one more time, he should hear the name of Frederic von Tzülow and he say to himself:" ""that was one of the Kunersdorf officers" ""whom I degraded" ""because they did their duty."" "come on girl, don't cry what's your name?" "Sophie look at this!" "Sophie!" "Sophia the Wisdom" "I don't have the right, but I'm telling you anyway it's wrong of you to think that way!" "do you imagine I don't know?" "do you imagine I'd be here otherwise?" "but then you too should believe that everything'll turn out alright" "Sophia the wisdom and Hohenhausen, he might have done exactly the same thing as you did" " once he gets furious" " Hohenhausen" "I wonder where he is now" "Hohenhausen and Goroshev, our fate lies in their hands the mist is lifting what's that?" "where?" "over there, to the right of the earthworks" "Oh my God, cannons!" "Goroshev means business!" "Sophie!" "Sophie!" "Oh my God, who was it?" "Tiesenhausen come on, quick!" "I've got his foot pull carefully take away that stone is anybody hurt?" "the Cavalry Captain wants to know" "Tiesenhausen he's dead" "halt!" "here, Cavalry Captain are you wounded?" "I can't see anymore, Cavalry Captain come here" "go to the back to Sophie you take over the gun" "Cavalry Captain!" "let me go to the back, I can't go on anymore get lost!" ""He's shooting with cannons at sparrows." [German proverb:" "He breaks a fly on the wheel]" "We'll have the Prussian on our necks." "I'd let them get away!" "Let's pull back, Colonel." "Only when this Tzülow stands before me" "stop it!" "stop it!" "keep off!" "stop it!" "stop it!" "I can't go on!" "Jordan, get back!" "The Jordan!" "he ran right into it and I even called to him stop crying, you!" "stop it!" "stop it!" "leave him alone" "I think the Russians are attacking shoot, shoot, I'll get the Cavalry Captain" "they're coming, Cavalry Captain shoot as fast as you can" "The Russians are attacking!" "you should have come earlier but they're retreating we fought them off!" "the swamp is worth ten cannons hurrah hurrah" "Gulliver among the dwarves..." "Cavalry Captain you see, what did I tell you mort de ma vie!" "he can't be killed off that easily" "Gulliver among the dwarves?" "be quiet!" "Thank God, Cavalry Captain where's Bork?" "here, Cavalry Captain how's the situation?" "what are the Russians doing?" "the shelling has stopped" "I've placed guards at the gate and on the wall guards?" "it's night, Cavalry Captain, and there's mist like yesterday of the Russians nothing to see" "but you're all grinning!" "that such a big man too has to fall down once in a while?" "no, Cavalry Captain we're glad that you're still alive, Cavalry Captain is that so?" "I would have been annoyed too what's happened to my arm?" "I'm afraid the bone is shattered, Cavalry Captain" "I made a wooden splinter" "I couldn't do any better excuse me thank you you're a good girl" " Bork!" " Cavalry Captain?" "losses?" "10 dead 3 heavily wounded and you, Cavalry Captain" "10 dead?" "Raden, my little man but you're not crying!" "no, Cavalry Captain how was he hit?" "his leg's shattered well Schack, where did they hit you?" "under my eyes, Cavalry Captain but it doesn't hurt anymore" "it doesn't hurt for me either you must lie very still, do you hear" "who's that?" "Lampe thank God, he's asleep he pulled Raden out of the stones then he got hit himself in his head and back" "I think ..." "I think... in fact, you're not such a bad vintage after all" "Long live Cavalry Captain von Tzülow" " Long live ..." " Silence!" "how dare you!" "let the poor guys sleep and you too so lie down" "shut your eyes" "and sleep" "10 dead don't leave them here" "take them back home" "To the garrison of the redoubt Victoria" "I demand the immediate surrender of the fort conditions: 1. delivery of all arms" "2. extradition of Cavalry Captain von Tzülow 3. the rest of you will be free to go in 15 minutes the fort is to open up otherwise, the shelling shall be continued until its total destruction" "Goroshev, Imperial Russian Colonel" "shall I finish the Russian off, Cavalry Captain?" "I can still see him how dare you!" "one respects the code of war how swinish of them to imagine we could do such a thing we're to hand you over to them?" "Bork listen to me you've seen how the fort can be held under all circumstances" "I hand over to you the command and I order you... to abandon the fort only when the Prussians are here whatever may happen you cannot trust Goroshev's pardon understood?" "yes Cavalry Captain very well" "Sophie but you have my medallion what medallion?" "that one, with the portrait of my mother inside open it" "come here, girl no Sophie, please don't go away, Sophie stay with us, Sophie please please, Cavalry Captain, Sophie mustn't go away but she'll be back very soon" "Sophie will stay be calm now well ... why ... are you going to leave us?" "I'll take a walk over to the other side" "I'll try to stop the shooting but Hohenhausen is bound to come and the Prussians, he can be here any minute now so much the better but Cavalry Captain!" "wait, but wait, I'll run upstairs, maybe he's coming after all" "I have such good eyes, I saw the cannons first too you'll wait, won't you, dear Cavalry Captain another 7 minutes" "ready?" "yes Cavalry Captain loaded." "pull the trigger" "3 minutes more" "open the gate" "didn't you hear?" "open the gate!" "well, girl there's nothing to see you see don't don't, please don't" "I'm going!" "Tzülow" "So we managed to lure you out!" "you've fallen into the trap" "I did under the condition that, upon your word of honour, you grant a free retreat to the garrison this is a good joke did you hear that, gentlemen?" "he demands conditions free retreat" "I don't dream of it!" "not a single one will I let get away you'll all stay here, one way or another there's no way out for them, there isn't there is there's one way out left and which is it, please tell me" "Shabaka ?" "Bork!" "Bork!" "Bork!" "Bork!" "Bork!" " What's the matter?" " The Russians are retreating." " where?" " wait the mist will soon lift there, they're coming they attack fire!" "but that's... but that's... don't shoot!" "don't shoot!" "Bork!" "Bork!" "Bork!" "# I feel like battling with the enemy in the wide field # like a brave warrior who is true and honest # the flag waves for him who stands by her # may God the Lord help us from distress to victory" "# may God the Lord help us from distress to victory" "# The march goes on through day and night, we're not at our destination yet" "# We march towards a great battle, our enemies are still many # you brothers, do you hear the storm signal?" "# then be prepared for battle, and for eternity # then be prepared for battle, and for eternity" "# The march goes on through day and night, we're not at our destination yet" "# We march towards a great battle, our enemies are still many # the flag waves for him who stands by them # may God the Lord help us from distress to victory # may God the Lord help us from distress to victory" "subtitles: serdar202"