Even between those with language barrier, the message was clear with "Ich bin unbewaffnet. Ich habe eine Frau. Und eine Tochter. Ich habe ein Bild... Sehen Sie. Sie ist sieben. Sie ist wunderschön. Bitte, schieß mich nicht." (8:26-9:10), which can be translated as "I am unarmed. I have a wife. And a daughter. I have a picture... Look. She is seven. She is very beautiful. Please do not shoot me." Then tears dropped lavishly quite out of my control. What would I have done if I'd been this Tommy Atkins? I also wonder what the situation is like in Ukraine right now (Aug 2022). Unlike English and Deutsch, the Russian and Ukrainian languages are mutually intelligible.
This film is excellent. Great acting and performance. It's show the human aspect of the war. Making things about live, love and the pain soldier have. Thank you very much for this video. Have a great day. A. Valentin USN & FMF RET.
My grandad lied about his age to join up as his parents wouldn't let him join. He was 15 through training and 16 when he attacked the beaches of Normandy. He survived everything the Germans threw at him. He was told to go into a church tower to see what he could see of a village in Germany and as he got to the top step he was hit in the leg by a German soldier. He fell down all the steps with all his kit hitting him on the way down. He was laid dazed for a minute or 2 before he sat up and as he did so he was sat looking at 3 German soldiers in a window opposite him. He knew he was a dead man whatever he did so he stuck 2 fingers up at them and told hem to fcuk off. They were laughing and waving at him like kids do in a play ground for a few minutes, and so easily could have shot him. This infuriated my grandad......but he laughed about it telling me this story as I was a child. He said he believed they were like him....tired of killing....tired of seeing their friends killed, as he was and spared him. I like to think this also. Plus his Sgt major ordered a bren gun to plaster the window they were in which they duly scarpered. My grandad said they could easily have been his friends from school with their same cheeky banter.
Team Beard, this is literally my great-grandad's story. Your actor even looks exactly like him...in his case, it was shortly after the war had ended, and he and the other soldiers were under orders to shoot any German they saw, on sight. He went over to a bush to answer nature's call, and found himself confronted by a petrified German soldier - raised his rifle, told the man to get up, and very quietly motioned to him, 'scarper!'. The German scarpered. What happened to him later we will never know - he might have reunited with his family, or he might have been spotted and killed the same day, but thanks to one 23-year-old private, at least he had the chance. My great-grandad never spoke of the war for about 70 years, not even about what he did on D-Day, nothing. This story he only told us in the last few years of his life. He died on 6 June 2018 - D-Day.
Really, Daniel Karmy? After the war was over, they were told to shoot any German on sight ? Can you substantiate that ? I don't doubt bad things were done by individuals, but a matter of policy ?
this brought a tear to my eye. just two boys brought into a war. husbands, fathers, sons. how many wasted lives. may we remember our grandfathers with loving memories and may we never forget the horrors of war. lest we forget indeed
Brilliantly done by all involved. It managed to portray in less than 15 minutes what many epic films miss. The stupidity of war, where young men are sent to kill each other because their governments tell them to when in another time, in another place they may have become friends.
As soon as he turned around and they locked eyes with each other they were allies in terms of recognising the other's humanity, and at that point the only enemy was war!
@@TeamBeardFilms No worries :). Just wondering, is there a way to listen to the Soundtrack of this film? Because this has an amazing SoundTrack and I would love to listen to it.
All of this Disney “Kumbaya” humanity is what people who have never been to war wish war was like. But it’s not. We take the family photos and letters from enemy dead as souvenirs. And maybe their gold fillings too, and maybe while they’re still alive. And a soldier would never drop his rifle in the dirt, and never put it down in a combat zone.
Churchill claimed to be fighting for freedom and democracy but in reality he was defending globalism and the bank of England. If you doubt that then check out the Rudolph Hess flight to Scotland
It's true to an extent... and victors write history.. but anyway, for people like me it must of been hell... A German Mother, a Jewish father... I can only imagine when the nuremberg laws were passed how that must of been for people. the point is war is hell. Nothing should cause a war like this ever again.
Erm.... I hate to be that guy but you lot are clueless about small unit maneuvers or military discipline. Is it a good film still? Dunno. I know aa much about filmmaking as you do about soldiering I suppose. Pro tip: you see a grenade land next to you, try to not step over the ruddy thing while you clear out. That's how lineages end. 😄
@@TeamBeardFilms you want to make entertaining films, just talk to veterans. You got a lot of it right, just not realistic. Like that gash on your hero's cheek. A wound that big it's gonna be bloody. The entire right side of his face would swell up and he won't be able to use his eye... Things like that. Then, that German suddenly blows up... like, magic. Nobody threw a grenade on screen and a mortar , well, that'd end the story right there for both men probably.
