No!
Please not here! Please, Hansen.
The next time I see you, Vogel, I'll tear out your eyes.
Captain?
It's me, Hansen.
There's trouble.
Vogel's got the Hoffman girl up at the shrine. He's raped her.
Graf told me to fetch you.
Don't.
Who is with you, Hansen?
No one, Captain.
Hurry!
Claus, come on!
Captain, are you all right?
Captain, are you all right? It's Graf.
- It was Hansen. Who was with him? - They were too far off. I don't know.
Get them. Alive if you can.
Geddes, Tub, Czeraki, go with him.
There's nothing to say, is there?
Yes, you're safe.
You are safe, and you're not hurt, Inge.
You'll marry Andreas and live in peace.
No, I won't do that.
Thank you.
You must go home now.
How do I know that is the truth?
She's told you, and I've told you a dozen times.
- Father, it wasn't Vogel. - Shut up!
She wouldn't lie. She's never told a lie in her whole life.
She may be protecting him now.
It would not be the first time a girl did that.
Maybe he's put a spell on her.
You are a sorcerer. That explains everything.
No. But you are a bigot and a god-cursed witch-hunter.
Satan.
But you do conjure up dreams.
- Why did you follow her? Why? - Satan.
We caught him just outside the village. He attacked Inge.
- I heard. - It's witchcraft.
- He led the soldiers here, and now... - Be silent.
Before God, did this man attack you?
No, Father.
- Before God, has he lain with you? - No, Father.
- Swear by Our Lady. - I swear by Our Lady.
May I burn in hellfire forever. It was Hansen.
Vogel stopped him.
She tells the truth.
It was Hansen.
This matter is ended.
"Bear not false witness against thy neighbor."
I did not, Father. I was mistaken, I'm sorry.
As a penance, you will eat no meat for three months.
And you will give a generous gift to Our Lady.
You will sweep out the church daily, and you will feed Vogel as one of your own.
Beg God's forgiveness.
Only the guilty need fear His wrath.
What are you doing?
Playing a game.
You're not his real father, are you?
We lost them, Captain.
We followed them for miles down into the valley.
Then we lost their trail.
How many will Hansen tell?
About us and the valley?
Enough for an effective attack.
If he tells too many...
he'll have his throat cut and the valley stolen from him.
How many?
There are 17 of us.
He'll bring 30. Experts.
What's your plan?
This battle is very simple.
To win, Hansen must kill me. Then my men will join him.
For us to win, we must stamp them out.
All of them.
So, I am the bait for the trap.
Good. Get it covered and hidden.
Yes, Captain.
Get it covered.
Come on, hurry up.
Satan, lord of light, kill Hansen.
Kill him as I destroy his likeness.
Kill him and the others before they tell about our valley.
Tell me...
what do you think of witchcraft?
Both religions burn witches, Captain.
Catholics, Protestants.
Luther was violent against them. Calvin eually.
Why?
Can witches cast spells?
My sister was accused of witchcraft, by whom we never knew.
She confessed that the devil was her lover and came to her bed every night.
She was 6 years old.
Her trial was legal.
The unspeakable things they did to her, before and after she confessed...
legal.
Her burning...
legal.
Of course witches cast spells.
I have to believe it.
How else could a man remain sane?
If they can't, then 10,000 to 20,000 innocent men, women, and children...
are falsely accused, brutally tortured till they confess.
Then murdered, each year, in Germany alone.
All in the name of God.
Nations are murdered in the name of God.
You are so naive.
You want to look under the plate they put the food on.
There's no need for that.
Nothing's hidden.
Why did you marry?
It was Gruber's way of protecting me.
Who from?
The harpies of the village, and other men, and the priest.
Him, too!
If popes and bishops can have families, why not priests?
They're all men. It's foolish to pretend otherwise.
He's not a bad man.
He takes care of his woman and children better than most.
Why haven't you had children?
Some women are barren.
They say that spells can sometimes make a woman barren.
Yes.
Was there ever a witch in the village?
Old Martha Vorfeld confessed to being one.
I don't want to talk about it.
There's no need to be frightened.
Witchcraft is nonsense.
It's just a legend.
You shouldn't say such things.
They could denounce you, burn you.
- Everyone would turn against you. - Don't worry.
The valley and all it contains will burn before I do...
or you do.
Captain!
There are soldiers on the Rheinfelden road.
- How many? - Andreas says 32.
Stoffel, sound assembly.
Hoffman, tell Gruber.
Hurry up with these animals.
Faster! Faster!
Who is guarding the church?
You are, Father.
Vogel, down to the mill. Pirelli, come with me.
Remember, once we've killed him, the valley is ours.
Rethman, flank right.
Claus, go ahead, I'll flank left.
There they are. Follow me.
The poor, weak bastard.
He's left the fighting to his men, and put himself right in a trap.
Get under cover!
Get back to the mill! Get out! Out!
Come on!
Here they come!
Pirelli.
Quick! Run!
Come back!
Julio!
Vogel!
Give me a knife.
Quick!
Don't leave me alive. Please, Vogel.
Father, help me. I'm Catholic.
Please.
God.
He's the devil incarnate!
Graf.
I prayed for you.
Prayer, you know, is an illusion.
None escaped.
You're safe now, that's all that matters.
It's about time you and Andreas were married.
I don't want to marry yet, Father.
Daughter, it's time I had grandchildren.
You are old enough.
It has been agreed long enough, Andreas?
I want to marry Inge, yes.
But not until she's ready.
When will that be?
In the spring, perhaps.
When in the spring?
Is the food ready yet?
I'll think of a lucky day.
I'm hungry.
That looks good.
There's no need to patrol now, Captain.
We're locked in for the winter.
Habits die hard.
You'll eat with me tonight, to celebrate the birth of our Lord?
Thank you, and afterwards...
I will let you win at chess.
You'll always play to win.
And so will you, Gruber.
- Andreas, patrol ahead. - Yes, Captain.
Your new life suits you.
Thank you.
This was always the time we liked the best, wasn't it?
When we're all safe from outside evil.
Yes.
The snows have come, Erica.
I won't help you.
Have I asked you to help me?
Please, let there be peace in the valley.
How can there be peace?
We're a conuered people, we live at their whim.
Don't we always live at someone's whim, all of us?
This is the best time of the year.
Yes, it is.
But tomorrow the New Year begins...
soon the thaw will come...
and then...
Join the dance.
Welcome, Mathias. What news?
It's been a terrible winter, Master Gruber.
Worst I've ever seen.
There isn't a farm or village...
within 50 days' march that hasn't been looted and raped.
I heard in Freiburg many have turned cannibal.
When I came up the pass, I wondered if you'd still be here.
Our Lady has protected us.
It's a miracle, yes.
I brought you almost 10 pounds of rock salt.
The best uality, very expensive, very hard to get.
So is our bacon and pickled beef.
What news of the war?
Which side did you serve, Captain?
That's unimportant. The truth.
It's not often a man wants the truth nowadays.
Very well, the truth.
The news is all bad, but nearby it's worse.
The lmperialists under General Werth...
are on the north of the Rhine, here.
The Protestants under Prince Bernard of Saxe-Weimar...
are to the south, here.
We're about here.
If Bernard's got to get the French subsidies...
as promised by Cardinal Richelieu...
he must cross the Rhine, and uickly.
His troops are starving, and no pay all winter.
The Prince told you all this personally?
What I hear, I sift.
What I say will happen, happens.
He will cross at this bridge.
The bridge is at Rheinfelden.
I speak frankly, and Bernard is on the move.
I was at his camp.
Then history has caught up with us.
Our neutrality is over.
God and the serpent have joined hands...
and we are all kicked out of Eden.
We are hidden as we've always been. Nothing's changed.
You will defend the village?
It has never been my policy to defend the village.
Only myself.
We will join Prince Bernard. Help him cross the bridge.
Why join the enemy?
You fought for the Emperor, you fought a just war.
You dare to speak to me of enemies and just war?
There is no just war.
You know it, everyone knows it.
The truth is your leaders are bigots...
your generals are bandits...
you employ any mercenary you can get, and the Pope plays politics.
The truth is your war is filth, greed, and hypocrisy.
And the other side is just as rotten.
I will tell you.
All sides are rotten, except for people like you.
Religious fanatics who incite murder...
for the sake of a God they have never known.
The world is, as it is, a fallen world.
Men are what they are, sinners.
And your mind is sick.
It will lead you straight to hell.
There is no hell, don't you understand?
Because there is no God.
There never was, don't you understand?
There is no God.
It's a legend!
Vogel, is it true what they say? That there may be fighting here?
There won't be trouble here. The valley will be safe.
Are you going with the soldiers?
I'm leaving the valley, yes.
Take me with you.
I couldn't protect you.
You'd be brutally dead within the week.
Then stay in the valley.
By the Madonna, if you'll stay, I swear I'll stay happily forever.
You could work for my father. I'll talk to him, I'll talk to Gruber.
Gruber will have my head the moment the Captain's gone.
Then take me with you.
I love you.
I can't live in the valley without you.
I love you.
Please take me with you.
My poor Inge.
They tore the heart out of me before you were born.
Marry Andreas, he's a good man. Stay in the valley.
Please, I love you.
You must stay here.
That's all the chance you have.
You will take me with you?
It's better that you stay here.
I'm dead here.
There are tens of thousands of families with every army.
In the camps, or on the march.
Even at battles.
Please.
The outside world is no place for you.
I'll be no trouble to you.
I'll look after you, forage for you, I'll kill for you. Anything.
And all the time, I'll love you as no man has ever been loved before.
This, you know I can do.
Please.
I love you, but I cannot take you with me.
I am what I am: A killer beast.
I was born in war.
I have no country, no friends, no people.
War is all the wealth I have.
Then share a little of your wealth with me.
No.
Don't sack the village.
Will you never learn?
It is not necessary.
Very well, but you will stay as part of the bargain.
I'll give you Pirelli, Geddes, and some weapons...
and you will be in command until I return.
No.
Gruber would eat me up.
If you want a safe place to retreat to, leave Graf and 10 men.
- No, I need Graf. - Why don't you stay?
You've all the time in the world.
What's so important about one rotten battle in an unjust war?
It exists, Vogel.
Why should I let Gruber murder me?
You cannot run away from life forever.
You cannot always pass the responsibility of it on to others.
Refuse, and I will obliterate this village.
Gruber works to policy.
I'm no value to Gruber.
Then become one!
And watch over Erica.
Why not take her with you? She'd be safe with you.
No one is safe with me, Vogel.
My wife wasn't, nor my child.
No one is safe with me.
Kill the priest.
Quickly, he is the real danger.
Have you no solution to anything but kill?
Is your answer better?
Run?
Papa!
- Good luck to you, Czeraki. - Goodbye, Pirelli.
Good luck, Graf.
I have left soldiers with Vogel.
He will look after you.
Why not come back?
I have considered it.
I'll pray for you.
Gruber won't harm you.
I know him.
I leave Vogel in charge until I return.
Mount!
You're not a fool, Vogel.
You'll understand we don't really need a judge anymore.
Yes, I understand very well.
So we don't really need you here at all.
Or any soldiers.
Food is short.
You could make this valley safe from any soldiers if you wanted to.
How?
By becoming soldiers yourselves. Every man in the valley.
Geddes and Pirelli could teach them.
Your brain's become addled.
You know the Captain, Graf, the other soldiers.
You've lived in their pockets for weeks, so you know all their tricks.
- We haven't the weapons. - Buy them.
You create food, therefore wealth.
You're a dreamer.
Our old ways are proven, they've kept us safe.
The truth is, you always protect your own neck by risking others...
and risking the valley.
But I am alive.
And while I am, the valley will survive.
No.
Too many people know about it now.
Where will you hide, all of you, the next time soldiers come riding in?
And you?
Where do you fit into your plan?
Nowhere.
You don't need me.
And the Captain?
When he returns? If he returns?
If you made peace with one another, you'd have the best of both worlds.
Why do you think I agreed to the Captain in the first place?
Because he existed.
Why did we help him against Hansen? To survive.
Why didn't we destroy him and his men after the first snow?
To learn.
You always see too little and too much.
The Captain was a good teacher.
But now he is a mad dog.
Satan, lord of truth, prince of light...
protect him from harm and let him return safe.
I beg you, Satan.
Protect him and I will worship you...
forever and...
But you have taken the Holy Sacrament all your life.
I took nothing more...
than a piece of bread and a sip of wine.
God have mercy on you.
There is nothing I can do.
Why did you torture her? She confessed.
The Devil had to be driven out of her.
Her soul had to be saved.
Through God's mercy she is saved.
She is truly saved.
Poor child.
Tie her to the ladder.
I'll do it.
Geddes, help me.
I can't let her be burnt alive.
Hypocrite. Liar.
Help me!
Fire!
Captain!
I told you to stay away from him.
- Get into the house. - Father, listen...
Leave her alone.
Don't hit her again, "Meister" Hoffman.
You're not safe here anymore, Vogel.
You must go away.
I am waiting for the Captain.
There's an ambush waiting for him.
I know you lied about the dream. The others don't know, but I know.
That's one thing I'm not ashamed of.
So I'm to run and be ambushed, too?
You could escape Gruber, perhaps, but the Captain won't.
And Inge's yours now.
I brought food.
I've got to warn the Captain. You'll be in the way.
Please. Andreas helped me. He told me where the ambush is.
I know a shortcut to the road.
This way is the shortcut.
Wait there, Captain.
You're surrounded, and we're well-armed.
Captain...
Andreas.
And the others?
The one who doesn't like killing.
So, you made yourself useful to Gruber.
The ambush is for you and me.
Where's Erica?
Did Prince Bernard win?
He won, Vogel.
But we lost.
How we lost.
Graf is dead.
Czeraki, Vornez, dead.
All dead.
How I missed you.
I wanted to see you...
just once more.
I would take you with me now...
if I could turn back time.
But I'm glad I left you safe.
I adore you.
Leave me now.
Go back to the valley.
Please.
Listen, Vogel.
It was a beautiful valley.
You were right.
I was wrong.
You know, without you...
I would never have done it.
If you ever find God...
tell him...
we created...
- Inge, go back to the village. - No.
I'm leaving with Vogel.
Where are you going?
Just going.
But you'll be safe here now, I swear it.
No.
You will stay here.