49th Parallel Page #5
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- 1941
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Hurry up, boy.
You are a slow boy.
Anna, more bread for our guests.
Mmm. I know a bit about baking.
If you don't mind my saying so,
you ought to get a new baker.
We had a good one, but he went to Small Springs.
- Better pay?
- Oh, no one gets paid here.
- Doesn't anyone get paid anything?
- No.
Well, what do you work for, then?
Just your keep?
No. For us all.
What, all these people
work for nothing?
- Yeah.
- What sort of work?
Whatever suits them best.
Well, what do you mean?
They don't choose themselves, do they?
- Haven't you got a leader of the community?
- Yes. There he is over there.
Where? Which is your leader?
There. Third from the right.
Well, doesn't he tell the people
what sort of job they've got to do?
Oh, no. We tell him what we want to do.
Then how can he be your leader?
How do you mean?
Well, anyone works
at whatever job they like, then.
Yeah, that's right.
If somebody can make shoes, he makes shoes.
If he wants to be a blacksmith,
he works in the forge.
If somebody feels he can preach,
well, he preaches.
Well, what's your specialty?
I'm... the baker.
When you sell your stuff in Winnipeg,
what happens to the money?
We buy new tractors, build houses,
found new settlements.
We just founded a new one over at Small Springs.
And if someone leaves you and then
wants to come back, don't you punish them?
- Punish?
- Yes. Don't you send them to a ...
- ... camp or something?
- Camp? Why a camp?
No, we just take them back
because our religion tells us to.
- The Hutterite religion?
- The Christian religion.
- ## [All Singing]
- Is it one of your rules to sing like this?
We haven't any rules. We sing because
we like to. It's good for the digestion.
## [Singing continues]
Well, good night.
The leader will look after you.
- Thank you.
- What's the salute?
- The what?
- Don't you give the leader a salute?
[Chuckles]
- Good evening, friends.
- Good evening.
On behalf of my friends and myself,
I have to thank you for your...
- ... kindness in giving us food and shelter.
- You're welcome.
I hear you come from up north in the woods,
or down north, as we call it here.
Yes.
- Just come out?
- Last week.
Are you Germans?
I ask, are you Germans?
-Yes.
-Are you ashamed of it?
Of course not.
I'll show you where to sleep.
[Hirth] Thank you
[Man] Most of us are Germans
You may find some from the same part
of the old country as yourselves
Anna, I thought you would have
told them all about us.
[Vogel] We mostly discussed birthdays.
[Chuckles] Well, it's quite an event with us,
the 16th birthday.
It means that one has grown up at last.
Come in, please.
This house belonged to Hugo Waldner ...
... one of our brothers
who has gone to the new settlement.
- At Small Springs?
- Yes.
You see, we are like bees.
If we get too many,
we send out a swarm.
So the house is empty
and at your service.
Good night.
- Sleep well.
- [Hirth] Good night
Hmm.
That's what I call a busy girl.
It's nothing.
I make 14 beds every night.
Hm. That's a lot of work.
You see, we have a lot of men who have no mothers
and who aren't married yet.
- So somebody has to make their beds.
- Quite right.
Two of you can sleep in here,
and there are two more beds in the other room
- Where do you sleep?
- In Peter's house.
- In Peter's house?
- But I don't make the bed for him
- Poor Peter. Why not?
- Because he has a mother to look after him.
[Vogel] Haven't you a mother?
No. She was drowned.
Drowned?
In the sea.
When we left Germany ...
... we went to England ...
... because we had to wait
until we got a permit to come to Canada.
We got our permit after war was declared.
- Was your father with you?
- Wait a minute.
I want to hear about her mother.
Her ship was sunk.
[Kranz] Torpedoed?
- I think so.
- Don't you know?
- Was there a big explosion?
- [Anna Whimpers]
Shut up, you two.
You and your questions.
Don't answer them, Anna
Oh, leave that.
- Run along now.
- I'll take her home.
All right, you take her.
- Good night, Anna.
- Good night.
Chins up.
[Hirth] Remember then, do nothing without orders
Discipline is more important
now than ever
So far, luck has been with us
It's a great stroke of fortune being here at all
- Do you think they are friendly, Herr Leutnant?
- Friendly? Yes.
But you saw how their leader tried to draw us out.
"Are you Germans?
Are you ashamed of being Germans?"
- That in a country with which we are at war.
- There can only be one answer to that.
Our agents have done their work well.
Yes. This religion may be
nothing but a cover.
I bet they sing the "Horst Wessel" song
better than hymns.
We shall see that tomorrow.
Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler!
Shut the door.
Well, Vogel, who knows?
Perhaps one day the story of our adventures
will all be written in a book.
In a few years time, it may be the basis
of compulsory lectures to the Hitler Youth.
The ships we sank, with women and children aboard ...
... the lifeboats we shelled.
Mmm, we were good at that.
What we did to the Eskimos
at the post ...
... the unarmed men we shot in the back.
You forget, Vogel, we're at war.
We can't expect to win
without the methods of total warfare.
Men, women and children they're all
our enemies and must be treated as such.
Did you never read what Bismarck said?
"Leave them only their eyes to weep with."
"Leave them only their eyes to weep with."
Did he say that?
Those were his actual words in the war of 1870.
He was a great German.
A great German.
You know, Vogel,
You're a good fellow,
but you don't discipline yourself.
You give way to emotions
That'll land you in trouble one of these days.
Why don't you take an example from Kranz,
a fine, soldierly fellow.
You could be just as good a Nazi as he is
if you tried.
- Are you listening, Vogel?
- Yes, Herr Leutnant.
- Then think it over.
- Yes, Herr Leutnant.
- And get out of bed and turn out the light.
- Yes, Herr Leutnant.
[Sighs]
Vogel, I ...
[Snoring]
- Herr Leutnant?
- Either of you seen Vogel?
- No, Herr Leutnant
- Well, get dressed at once.
- [Woman] Good morning, friend.
- Good morning.
He's asking for you.
Oh? All right.
Well? Aren't you going?
Well, I can't go till I've got this lot ready.
What shall I tell him?
I'll be along in a minute.
[Chattering]
[Man] Now, where's this new baker
I hear about, eh?
Ah.
Now, that's what I call bread.
- [All Murmuring Agreement]
- [Man] You'll have to teach David the trick
[David] Trick or no trick,
I could never make bread as good as that
Cheer up, David.
It took me seven years.
- Why ever did you want to give it up?
- I didn't want to give it up. I had to.
- You see, we all had ...
- [Door Slams]
[Man] Peter! Just come and look at this bread!
Good morning, friend.
Mr. Vogel is the best baker
we've had here in 15 years.
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