1864

- I'll die soon. - You'll never die.

Everything dies.

When did your wife die?

Rigmor died October 30, 1986 at 02:15.

That is the same day I stopped breathing.

It is a miracle, that I have kept going for so long.

Should we read a little?

Yes, I think so. Thank you.

Could I have this on?

As I wrote before, Peter never spoke about the war -

- until many years later. Sofia wrote his stories down -

- and I first heard of them several years later.

For Didrich never spoke well of his experiences.

Didrich? Why Didrich?

Read.

Sønderborg burned, and Peter and Dinesen were caught in the middle.

And myself...

Sofia and I practically lived at the camp hospital.

We worked around the clock, partly to help the soldiers -

- but also to drown the sorrow of Peter and Laust's death.

The terrible lie, that Didrich had planted in me.

Meanwhile the child grew inside me.

When life is tough, you think, it can't possibly get worse.

Dybboel and Als showed us all, pain that was white hot -

- as the purest flame, that it can be intensified -

with no limit.

I hear you've been to a brothel.

How was it then, you little virgin?

Did you come prematurely? Or were you late?

Or you maybe you didn't come at all?

Try this next time, Peter. If she is very ugly...

It's a trick I use myself.

You stick your cock into the girl and then you close your eyes -

and imagine -

it's Inge.

You can ask your brother what it's like.

He knows.

He has been there.

"How do you know?"

Well I know, because Inge told me.

"But why don't I know?"

You must be the last in the world who doesn't know.

Maybe it's because she's embarrassed to carry his child.

She bears his child. Your brother, Laust -

has fucked Inge pregnant.

So while you sprayed your sonnets around her -

Laust sprayed his semen inside her.

Cheers to another child of a whore!

Let it go.

Release your anger.

I have to find Laust.

He can't be here.

Gentlemen. We are ready.

Never before has the Prussian frontline had so many guns.

At 4 am, shells will rain down over the Danes -

and will continue till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Then the first 12,000 soldiers will storm the Danish position -

or what remains of them.

Questions?

Objections?

Is this a war or a massacre?

That's not a question, but a statement.

What do you think, Colonel Moller?

They will attack on the hour.

In half an hour or at three or four o'clock.

And then they will storm the redoubts, when it is light.

We will gather the 8th Brigade and all the reserves down in Sønderborg.

Do you think I'll get home?

- Why wouldn't you get home? - I am so big. Easy to hit.

Just keep your head down.

And you have to get home to Inge.

Yes.

Tell me about you two.

We are in the hay. It smells damp.

Mist lies over the fields.

Inge is laughing, so her cheeks glow.

They glow whenever she laughs.

She looks like all the things you dream about -

collected in a single living being.

It's unbelievable that all these things belong in the same world.

Her there -

and us here in the middle of hell.

That's what I always say. It's all about the woman.

Come, ye girls small

string will I touch.

Tears must be in the eye stand

when my song I hear.

About screwing one young lad

all brave girls' friend

sadly I sing.

Hear it, you girls small.

I do not cry

but when to the meadow you go

between the spring's fledgling birds

bind them a wreath

put flowers on it with care

to honour the fallen.

If it touched the song of the heart

touching the heart

could make you sing it many times

in the quiet woods

sing it on the beach

when over the white sand

the spring softly sings.

When the man came into the yard

oh look, oh look, oh look

three Guards' horses stood in a row and one and two and three.

When the man asked the wife what the Guards horses were.

The three Greek cows that my mother, she sent me.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, let go, Greek cows with saddles on?

I am a man, who understands everything.

When the man came into the hallway, oh look, oh look, oh look

three Guards' boots stood in a row and one and two and three.

When the man asked the woman what the Guards boots were.

These are three dice cups, that my mother, she sent me.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, let go, dice cups with boots on?

I am a man, who understands everything.

When the man into the hallway so, oh look, oh look, oh look

three Guards hats stood in a row and one and two and three.

When the man asked the woman what the Guards hats were.

These are three milk buckets, that my mother, she sent me.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, let go, milk buckets with shadows on.

I am a man, who understands everything.

When the man was in the bed, oh look, oh look, oh look

three guardsman heads were lined and one and two and three.

When the man asked the woman what the guardsman heads were.

This is three cabbage heads, as my mother, she sent me.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, let go, cabbage heads with noses on.

I am a man, who understands everything.

As the man in the bed then, oh look, oh look, oh look