Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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some violence, sexuality and language.
How long have you
been deaf in this ear?
Since as long
as I can remember.
Shut up!
is examining you.
I need a fish hook...
...about the right size
for a mullet...
...with a long shank,
and a hammer.
A fish hook?
A hammer?
Here's a fish hook...
...and a hammer.
Right.
Now keep still.
A pea.
It is very papilionaceous,
is it not?
He must have stuck it
in his ear when he was a child.
Oh, my God, it's loud.
I mean, everything is loud.
My own voice is loud.
Your deafness is cured.
A very satisfactory operation.
I've had an operation?
Ha! I'm the only person I know
who's had an operation.
It feels as if my whole head...
...has filled up with spring water,
all cold and clear.
Talk some sense when the doctor
has been kind enough to cure you.
All these years
thinking you are deaf.
But now there will be no excuses
when I ask you to remember...
...to collect something
on your way home.
Or to stoke up the fire
before we go to church.
Perhaps now
you will hear me...
...when I say to you,
"Mend the chair, Stamatis."
"Fix the leaking roof, Stamatis."
And now I won't have
to speak so loud...
Antonio,
do you remember our island?
It does not change.
On the feast day
of Saint Gerasimos...
to the holy place...
...and pray that
their suffering may cease.
When Pelagia was a child...
...I promised her that I would
write a history of Cephallonia...
...but somehow I still
have not found the time.
I wanted her to understand
how a land so peaceful...
...could be shattered
by earthquakes and war.
I wanted her to understand
why sometimes the gods bless us...
...and why they sometimes
become angry...
...and shake us,
and fill our lives with pain.
I want her to learn the lesson
That we should not ask
why we are wounded...
...only if the wound
can be healed.
A purely psychological
phenomenon.
How do you
explain the miracle?
Can Lenin cure the mad?
Can Stalin heal the afflicted?
It's obvious.
It's a set-up!
To keep people
enslaved to religion.
You don't have to shout.
I'm not deaf.
I want to see the cannon again.
- Yeah!
- Cannon!
All right.
I will need stones
from the street.
As many as you can find.
Be right back.
Ready, children?
Cover your ears.
Ow, that hurts!
Oh, that hurts!
Will he die?
Eventually, one of these days,
like all of us.
Turn over.
Good, strong gluteals.
Pelagia.
Tell us about the gluteals.
Please, come closer.
Have a good look.
Fetch your friends.
Everybody's welcome.
Gluteals.
Maximus, medius, minimus.
The maximus is the external
surface of the ilium...
...between anterior
Mandras!
- Iatre...
- He'll be fine.
They told me you were shot.
I don't know why you can't
keep out of trouble! I don't know!
Iatre, you should count yourself
lucky you don't have a son.
Boys, they never grow up.
Look at me.
Old...
before my time.
- Kalimera, Pelagia.
- Kailmera.
It's too hot.
The fish are all hiding
in the rocks, or...
...keeping cool
at the bottom of the sea.
No, Mandras!
No! Put me down!
Put me down!
There are reports today...
...that a Greek battleship, the Eli has been
torpedoed by an Italian submarine...
...despite the fact that Greece
is not yet involved in the war.
Prime Minister Metaxas has protested
strongly to Mussolini's government in Rome...
...which has denied
responsibility for the attack.
And there are continued reports of fighting
between Greek and Italian soldiers...
...on the Greek-Albanian border.
But in Athens this morning...
...the Italian ambassador
once again denied...
What are they saying?
The Italians are in Albania,
close to the border.
They have reported
some fighting.
There!
You hear that?
And they are saying they are
There. What did I say?
They want to catch us sleeping.
They want to creep up on us
in the dead of night!
- You filthy liar!
- Your father was a goat!
Shut up!
If you two don't stop trading insults,
I'm going to start taking coffee at home.
I told him
he'd have to ask you.
I don't want to marry him.
You don't like him.
You are both too young.
Everyone is too young
when they marry.
I have often thought...
...that you would only ever be able
to marry happily with a foreigner.
- A dentist from Norway...
- A dentist from Norway...
...or something.
Mandras is not your equal.
And he would expect
to be better than his wife.
He is a man, after all.
I will tell you now
what I will say to him.
I am not giving away a dowry.
I love Mandras.
So what am I supposed to do?
Go off to Mandras' mother's house
with nothing but a bag of clothes?
Oh, and my goat.
I'll never be able
to show my face.
I'll be the laughing stock
of Cephallonia.
You can imagine
how people will talk?
I don't know
how you will bear the shame.
There is going to be a war.
Terrible things happen in wars.
Use this to defend yourself.
And, if necessary,
use it against yourself.
Your marriage
will have to wait.
I look around me.
I see fishermen.
I see farmers.
I see strong, healthy men
who are born free.
But today your freedom
is in danger.
The Italian Army
sweeps through Albania...
...and her troops get ready to
cross the frontiers of Greece.
Exo Mussolini!
Exo Mussolini!
If you care
about your country...
...then you must fight
to defend her.
Join the war in Albania.
Fight for your mothers,
your sweethearts...
...your wives, your children.
Fight for the freedom...
...for all Greek people to live their
lives with dignity and respect!
When I come back
from the war...
...we will get married.
And I will build a house
for Pelagia...
...on the land
that belonged to my father.
I know we are different.
I don't know about the world.
Where have I been?
What could I know?
I don't know how to say
what I feel inside.
I don't know how to tell you
what is in here.
But I think... I know... Pelagia...
...I love you.
Tomorrow I leave for the war.
Pelagia, come
and dance with me.
I'll write.
I promise.
And promise that
you will write to me.
"My darling, you have not written
since that day I saw you off."
"And I am so terrified that I am not
getting any letters from you..."
"...because you have been
wounded or taken prisoner."
"And I have nightmares
that you are dead."
"Summer has turned to winter..."
"...and I am writing
"The wounded who have returned
bring news of terrible conditions."
"Freezing cold, no food."
"But they bring
no news from you."
"Every day I wait
for the mail from Argostoli..."
"...and every day
there is nothing."
"And I feel as if I am going
mad with worry and fear."
"I try not to lose hope..."
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