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!

Keep still while the doctor

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...

...we still bring our sick

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 nature teaches us.

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

and interior gluteal lines.

Mandras!

- Iatre...

- He'll be fine.

They told me you were shot.

I thought I was going to die.

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

not about to declare war.

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.

Mandras wants to marry me.

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.

Who marries without a dowry?

You should marry for love.

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

my hundredth letter to you."

"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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