There's nothing wrong with you, except that you smoke too much. You're a brave man, braver...
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Captain Kiesel:
They're rolling up both flanks, it's chaos. Colonel Brandt:
That need no longer concern you. You are to report at once to general headquarters. You're being evacuated. Captain Kiesel:
I can't leave the command, sir. Colonel Brandt:
While I am still in a condition to issue orders those orders will be obeyed. Captain Kiesel:
I'm prepared to disobey that order, sir. Colonel Brandt:
You've been around Steiner too long. Come, listen to me for a moment... For many of us Germans the exterminator is long overdue, but I have decided that you are worth saving. Captain Kiesel:
But I'm part of all this. There are better people than me. Most of them are being killed out there. Colonel Brandt:
There's nothing wrong with you, except that you smoke too much. You're a brave man, braver than you think you are. One of these days there will be a need for brave civilians, had you thought of that? In the new Germany, if such a thing is allowed to exist, there will be need for builders, for thinkers, for poets. I begin to see now what your job is to be. I will make this my final order to you; you will search out and contact all of these, um... better people, you call them, and together you will take on the responsibility that goes with survival. Now you must leave. Please leave
They're rolling up both flanks, it's chaos. Colonel Brandt:
That need no longer concern you. You are to report at once to general headquarters. You're being evacuated. Captain Kiesel:
I can't leave the command, sir. Colonel Brandt:
While I am still in a condition to issue orders those orders will be obeyed. Captain Kiesel:
I'm prepared to disobey that order, sir. Colonel Brandt:
You've been around Steiner too long. Come, listen to me for a moment... For many of us Germans the exterminator is long overdue, but I have decided that you are worth saving. Captain Kiesel:
But I'm part of all this. There are better people than me. Most of them are being killed out there. Colonel Brandt:
There's nothing wrong with you, except that you smoke too much. You're a brave man, braver than you think you are. One of these days there will be a need for brave civilians, had you thought of that? In the new Germany, if such a thing is allowed to exist, there will be need for builders, for thinkers, for poets. I begin to see now what your job is to be. I will make this my final order to you; you will search out and contact all of these, um... better people, you call them, and together you will take on the responsibility that goes with survival. Now you must leave. Please leave
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There are better people than me
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Most of them are being killed out there
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There's nothing wrong with you except that you smoke too much
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You're a brave man Braver than you think you are
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One of these days there will be a need for brave civilians
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Had you thought of that
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In the new Germany if such a thing is allowed to exist
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there will be a need for builders for thinkers
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For poets
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I begin to see now what your job is to be
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I will make this my final order to you
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You will search out and contact all of these um
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better people you call them
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And together you'll take on the responsibility that goes with survival
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Now you must leave
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Please leave
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Movie Summary
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
