The Corporal and the Others (A tizedes meg a többiek)

THE CORPORAL AND THE OTHERS

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What a soldier!

This is a real soldier!

Halt!

Written order?

Stand fast! 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!!

Standfast!!

Hey!

What are you doing here? Come here!

Special messenger service, sir.

You are Arrow Cross, right?

Sir, the Arrow Cross can go to hell, sir.

I would deal with them if the Nazis weren't here.

The Nazis!

Captain, they can go to hell as well, all of them but us!

You're mistaken, son: us, we're already deep in hell.

Move on!

Do you have a battery, master?

Mine has a hole in it and the acid is leaking.

The 27th.

Hey, you have a lock-jaw, pops?

I have an open order, it can harm you bad! Do you have a battery?

Six volt battery, you see!

I see. We'll check, but first we must finish the job.

I really don't care, I need to rush, I've got no time.

Listen to me, old chap...

What are you staring at?

The battalion's payroll is with me. Today is payday.

I have an open order!

You foul my food, you swine!

This is an outrage!

Idiot!

I'll show you the paper.

Idiot!

- Master, I've got more than cash... - I'll bring the battery.

Finally.

Don't we have enough as it is? It'll be midnight when I get home!

We'll finish this one just yet.

- Where're you headed, kid? - To Palhaza, where my mother lives.

Haven't had news from her since a week.

Well, you do this job, I'll take you home. Alright? Come on!

Berki!

Nice blanket...

They left the wounded behind after looting the Miskolc hospital.

Swines...

- 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. What did it cost you?

As much as the battery for you.

Halt!

Come here!

Come on, come on.

I beg to report, sir...

You must report to the commander of the Storm Unit in the castle

at 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's this one?

I beg to report he is the commander's son. He's deaf and dumb.

To the right, they said!

If I had always done what was ordered, I wouldn't be here.

Keep right!

The Storm Unit.

What's up, kid? Why do you fret?

- Why did you hide it 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 Russkies...

- You should tell the commander. - Tell what?

The truth. That you are a messenger carrying the money.

You mean the battalion, huh?

Do you know where they are? They're encompassed at Buda.

Three of us barely managed to slip out of the quagmire.

The other two didn't dare to come this way.

What are you looking at, what are you?

Too much for my retirement?

After three years in the front line?

Look at that! The brats are pulling out. Then we can put it all back.

That's right, dear Mathias Rex. Kindly retire back to your cottage.

- What's the matter, kid? - Let's be off! They'll leave us here.

Well, and who wants to go with them, huh?

Scram!

Come on!

What on earth is that?

Son, where have you been living? It's a knocker.

You can knock with this at trendy places.

You wish to see someone?

Don't fool me, old chap. Hey!

The baron and his family have left the building.

I have no authorisation.

Besides, I'm leaving for Buda to Úri Street where my brother,

- who has a very good place... - You're going nowhere.

Úri Street is closed down due to shootings.

This is no way to behave in this house.

Would you show me the right behaviour?

You would need years to learn.

You appear to be lacking basic training.

Shut up!

What's your name?

My master, the elderly Baron Dexler 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 one.

As you prefer, sir.

Is anybody here at all?

I can assure you, sir, that the house is empty.

Sir...

If you try to foul me, I'll bash your head in.

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 get

your skin punctured.

Be thankful that I look after you.

Thank you, sir.

Off with you!

One goes, another comes. Like predators.

A fine man...

One who lacked a cultured upbringing...

This is the wardrobe chamber.

Terrible smell here!

Yes, the moths.

This place has always been draughty, sir.

Come out!

Hey! Come out!

Look, the son of a baron, with the face of a peasant.

Up next to him!

- Do you know them? - Sorry, I never met them.

How do you do?

My name is Albert.

Sweet Lord damn you all...

Where did you want to go in this unhealthy weather?

Please... We work around here in the forestry.

We took shelter here for a while.

- We took shelter... - You did.

You appear to be mighty well-dressed woodcutters.

Where is your unit, you swines?

- We're tired... - From chopping wood, you mean?

The forest is big, don't you believe?...

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?

It doesn't work, I can't go on...

Three of us are left from the battalion.

Or do you think it's time for everybody to croak, eh?

What else do you want, corporal?

Aren't there enough Hungarian corpses?

There's quite a variety we have. Small corpses, big corpses...

Come on, don't just glare, fire!

I don't waste the bullet.

- The blast... - It's a pity.

- Any drinks on the premises? - Yes... Sir.

Maria Theresia Brandy, Zwack Unicum,

Black and White, Courvoisier, Scotch...

Altvater Gessler, Grand Marnier, Pernod Fils...

ls there some real spirit around?

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, we're finished.

Heh, it's empty.

That's my luck. I haven't left for myself.

Enough of sniveling. Fall in!

- Fall in! - Okay, okay, okay.

Corporal, the cognac...

I hereby occupy the castle for the Regimental Command.