Tuvia, this is it. This is all we have.
Coverthem up!
Some talk of their time in the ghetto.
They haven't eaten for days.
- What time is it? - Do you have an engagement?
- Is there any supper? - Not today.
Tuvia is sending out more food missions.
- We follow Tuvia like an old goat. - Rather be a goat than a snake.
Tuvia is doing the best he can.
- We should have joined Zus. - Who's stopping you?
You get used to it eventually.
- What are you going to do today? - Today I'm going on my first food mission.
I will tell Asael to send someone else.
No, I want to go. I must go.
Here, you must take this.
To stay warm, please.
Please, take it.
Thank you, Tuvia.
- You're a tasty one, you aristocrat. - What?
We were told: 'Hands off'. 'Property of the commander'.
Tuvia, I'm beginning to see signs of a some new sickness.
Two of the old ones have died this week.
- Miriam! - What happened?
He said it was a patrol.
They're watching the roads. The Germans are everywhere.
You go back, you stay alert!
She will be alright.
You bring the food back now and stay on this side of the river.
And watch out for patrols.
I'll wait here on the others, good luck.
- Halt! Who goes there? - Lazar, I'm coming from the camp.
- The danger's out there. - Sorry, Tuvia.
- Any sign of food mission? - Not yet.
I think it's typhus. And if it is, we're in trouble.
The lice are carriers.
The partisans have ampicillin, but they say they need it for themselves.
- Tuvia. - I heard you. Medicine, I'll go see Victor now.
What happened,? You're alright?
Fine, thank you.
You're too sick.
Stay in the truck.
- Make sure the medicine's getting back. - No, I'm coming with you.
I can do this tonight, Tuvia.
You don't have to do this.
- I don't? What about the tuphus, huh? - Some will die. They'll go anyway.
For luck, take it.
- What about the others? - Drive the fucking truck!
And the others?
Fighters die so that mabushem live?
- That's what you believe, yes? - What do you believe...
- You're a communist now, Zus? - Communist, Zionist, Fascist...
What difference does it make as long as you get your medicine?
Come back to us.
You're my brother!
So you remember.
Merciful God, we commit our friends Ben Zion and Krensky to your care.
We have no more prayers, no more tears and we've run out of blood.
Choose another people...
We have paid for each of your commandments. We have covered every stone and field with ashes.
Sanctify another land.
Choose another people.
Teach them the deeds and the prophecies.
Grant us but one more blessing.
Take back the gift of our holiness.
Chaya, this amount is shit!
Take your hand, and dig it to the bottom of the pot and give me some of the meat.
What do you think you're doing, huh?
- Preacher, who do you think you are? - I am in charge here, get back in line.
Go away, little man!
I'll take the skin of your face.
Get back! Put that away, put it away!
What is happening here?
Those who risk their lives to bring back food, deserve a larger portion...
...than those who risk nothing! - Everybody gets the same portion!
- Not when your little bitch serves that soup! - She's my wife!
Everybody gets the same.
Anybody caught stealing will face consequences.
- What kind of consequences? - Half rations. One week.
- Both of you. - What?
You're questioning me?
This matter is settled, get back in line.
Get back in line!
- Tuvia, I would never... - I know.
So then why am I to be punished?
On food missions they take first for themselves and don't even bring back what's left over.
And they spread rumors that you are power hungry, and corrupt...
that you take whatever woman you choose.
- That we keep the coal for ourselves... - What? What?
- What else? - That you're no longer fit to lead us.
Maybe they are right.
- Zus would have beaten him senseless. - Yes, I know.
- Though I miss him. - He made his choice.
What happened?
Who did this to you?
Gramov, Dueltof...
I used the officers' latrine.
They said they won't shit in the same hole as a Jew.
Hey, Arkadi, when will we eat, where is our food?
Lazar, you eat with the rest of the women and the mabushem!
I'll be there.
The village idiot...
I saw him try to impress the girls on guard duty
and he slipped over and landed right into the ditch, face down.
Chaya, you look lovely today.
Thank you, that looks delicious. And you look delicious.
What happened?
Arkady...
What is this?
New policy. Fighters get better food.
But that is against my orders.
You are no longer commander.
As long as I am leader of this group, you obey my commands.
There will be no complaining, no sitting, no doing nothing.
Anyone who wants to leave, leave now.
Take his body into the woods, leave it for the wolves.
Do it now!
Your fever broke in the night.
The medicine helped.
- For how long was I asleep? - Two days.
You nursed me?
I should get up. - No, no, no...
- Did you study nursing? - I was at university.
What did you do... before the war?
My wife...
her father, he had a business, and before the Race Laws...
- And she has passed? - Yes.
I'm sorry.
What did you study at university?
Music.
You should rest.
- Thank you. - My pleasure.
- Who's got the soap? I know there's a little bit left.
But use the sand, Chaya, it's good for your skin.
Look at that skin, and married already!
Look at me, I've turned into a skeleton.
When we get out of this forest, I'm going to eat only cake and grow big as a house.
Tamara!
Come, join us, enjoy the sun glow.
I can't go down. - Why?
I am pregnant. - I had no idea.
I have been hiding it for months, but it's obvious now.
It could come any day. - Who is the father?
It happened when I was escaping.
There was a man with a gun who stopped me.
What will happen when Tuvia finds out?
He will understand. - No, you mustn't tell him.
No, I won't tell him.
There's two lives inside me.
It is the only thing keeping me going.
And I won't give it up.
Lazar says he's spotted another patrol. They're getting closer.
Do you hear that?
- She promises not to take extra food. - It is against my orders
So you're going to shoot her too?
Please, Tuvia? The baby is all she has to live for.
I cannot allow it.
- You must let it live. - I cannot keep the living alive!
The mother and the man who fathered this child are responsible for it.
- They must leave. - She was raped...
...by the Germans.
And you'd asked all about our humanity,
not to become like animals.
And what better way than by bringing the life into this world of suffering and death?
It is her only hope.
- Alright. - Thank you, Tuvia.
I knew what was expected of the women here...
- and yet you never touched me... - No, no.
I am not afraid of anything, Tuvia.
I'm not even afraid of you.
You call that a move?
I call it an inevitable conclusion based an impeachable process of reasoning.
The question... my friend the genius...
...is what you're going to do about it? - I'm thinking about what I am going to do.
- I got him. - Tuvia!
We found this one and two of his friends by the second bridge.
We killed two. Aron was hurt, but he's a brave little soldier.
We found this.
Look what we have here.
I found it in his pouch.
You read this!
Looking for Jews? Look! We're all Jews.
Look at him!
They designed an entire division to surround the forest.
- So they have a war to fight? - The assault begins in two days.
With Passover, how fitting!
- He says he has a wife and two small children. - So did I!
If you let him go, he will lead them back here.
Ask him to promise not to reveal our location.
He won't say anything!
- We want justice! - Justice!
This is for David, he had blue eyes...
...he was only 15.
Justice!
Fight for our men!
I do not know what's going to happen to us.
It doesn't matter.
If I had stayed in the ghetto, I would be dead.
You saved my life.
You have saved mine.
Zus. what are we doing?
- Retreating. - What for?
I don't know.
And where will we go?
About the children of...
children of Israel...
were afraid to leave Egypt.
until Moses said, "Do not trust in me...
trust in God.
He will take care of you. "
And that is why tomorrow...
we will celebrate the Passover, by sitting around and arguing.
Just as we have done for centuries.
- Did he see us? - I do not know.
- Tomorrow is Passover, yes? - So?
Moses, the Exodus, he left before Pharaoh could stop them.
You want to move them all?
- The old, the sick they'll never make it. - We'll leave now.
Spread the word.
Shamon, this is it! We're going! Children, up, up. Let's go.
We're leaving, tell your parents we are going. Now!
I want every child accounted for.
- How will they keep up? - We'll carry them if we have to.
Hurry, please! Hurry!
They are coming!
Come on, in there.
Are you alright?
I'm alright, my ears...
- Go, get them out of the bunkers. Go! - Stay low.
No! It's over, it's over. They're coming. The infantry!
We need to hold them up until the rest are safe.
- Machine guns? - Yes, with Levine and Miriam. There.
Lazar, Rosa and Schmiel there and there. And me...
- No! No! - Yes!
To them and take all these people with you.
- I want to stay with you. - You must go with them.
It is too dangerous for you. Rosa... down there!
Go with them, it's not safe here.
Don't try to fight them. Just slow them down, then come and join us.
Chaya please! You go with them now, it's not safe. - No.
- Go with them! - No!
Take her!
Go!
Move, Chaya! Go!
- We must run quickly, let me help you. - Careful.
- We're moving to the right. - Yeah!
Oh, my God!
- We have to keep going. - The Germans will be here any minute.
Are the others back yet?
Asael?
Tuvia, do we stay or go?
We have to wait for the others. We can't leave them.
- We could hide. - I'd say fight them here.
This is crazy!
- My father cannot make it. - There are snakes?
- Children? - We put them on our shoulders.
- Tuvia, what do we do? - We can't go without the others.
The others are dead.
- What are you going to do? - What is wrong with him?
- Do you have a weapon? - Yes - Give it to me!
Give it to me!
You use this one yourself, before you let them take you.
- Why are we stopping? - Asael, you're still alive!
They're coming.
Why aren't we moving?
- We must keep going! - It is impossible.
Nothing is impossible.
What we all have done is impossible.
The troops are coming.
God will not part these waters.
- We will do it ourselves. - But how?
Not by miracles!
We will do it together, by our strength.
You, take the rope of your pack and give it to me. And you, give me your belt. Quickly!
- What if there's not enough rope or so? - Then we will link on to make a chain.
- What if someone slips? - The strongest take care of the weak.
- Give me your belt. - Tuvia, give me your belt.
Quiet!
How much farther?
You can't sleep here. It's no good time for sleeping now, come on.
My books!
Look! We've made it.
- I have something to say. - No, you rest now. Don't talk.
I almost lost my faith.
But you were sent by God to save us.
- Ridiculous. - I know.
But just in case.. I thank you now. I thank you...
Tank! Everybody down!
Get down!
Tuvia, what do we do?
- Do we try and go back to cross the river? - No, we stay and fight.
Get the ammunition! To the guns!
Isaac, take that!
Ammunition, ammunition there!
Strip the bodies of weapons and ammunition only. Take this.
- Anything else? - No, we got to get injured in the forest.
- And what about the dead? - We have to keep them away.
Everybody! Gather your belongings. We must get out of the open.
- Shulman -Yes, Tuvia? - Tell them: weapons only.
Weapons only!
You've been promoted. Congratulations!
- Where is the rest of your unit? - Good question.
Are you going back?
Well, we have a new camp to build.
Perhaps you have room for one more...
Let's go, come on.
- Can you see that? - What?
The forest. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Subtitles by KV on Subtitle Workshop - 2009