Captain Corelli's Mandolin Page #5

Synopsis: In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): John Madden
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2001
131 min
$25,261,240
Website
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My men will never agree to return

home without their weapons.

If you surrender your arms

in times of war...

...then you are no longer a man.

If you were in their position,

if you were German...

...you would want to be certain

for your own security...

...that the weapons will not be passed on

to the Allied forces or to the Greek partisans.

Or turned against you.

Or turned against you.

You must be looking forward

to going home.

There'll be people happy

to see you again, I'm sure.

Your family, your mother,

your wife.

Your girlfriend.

You wanted to see me?

We need arms.

Machine guns,

ammunition, land mines...

...anything you can spare.

How can I give you weapons?

- You know I can't do that.

- You've surrendered.

If you don't intend to fight, you

won't be needing your weapons.

We have a country to defend.

There is a massive build up of

German troops on the mainland.

The 117th Jaeger Division

is nearing the Corinth Canal.

The 104th is moving south

from Yugoslavia.

- Then you are not in any position to resist.

- Unless we act now.

Do you know, Captain,

on Lefkada island...

...all the Italians who surrendered have

been sent to prison camps in the north?

We heard they went home.

The trains were diverted

in Albania.

In this war, Captain...

...it's hard to know

who you can trust.

But one thing is certain...

...you can't trust the Germans.

Last night I dreamed I was sitting

in a restaurant in Piazza Navona.

Eating zuppe di cozze piccante...

...then a plate

of tagliarini al boscaiolo.

Colonel Barge has requested I withdraw

your battery from Antisamos Beach.

If they wanted to bring in

heavy reinforcements...

...this is where they would do it.

Is this an order?

Captain...

...don't you want to go home?

Are you going to let us through?

My orders are to supervise the

surrender of your arms and weapons.

The deadline for the hand-over

is at noon tomorrow.

Antonio.

This order comes

from Colonel Barge.

He has asked me personally to assure

you that if you surrender your arms...

...you will be guaranteed safe passage.

Like the Italian garrison

at Lefkada?

Lefkada?

But they laid down

their weapons.

They went home.

You must be looking forward

to seeing Italy again.

Do you think

we could keep in touch?

I mean, after the war,

of course.

You can have my gun when

I've finished my cigarette.

Get your hands off me,

you fu...

I understand your concern.

If I were in your shoes, I would

be asking questions, too.

Of course, we will

investigate what happened...

I can tell you

what happened...

- My men are dead!

- ...take the appropriate action.

What does that mean?

Does it mean that I can write

to the families of these men...

...and tell them that their murderers will

be charged that justice will prevail?

You force us at gunpoint to

line up and surrender our arms.

You impound our weapons.

- We're supposed to be allies!

- Captain Corelli, please!

We need some kind of assurance.

I can assure you

that the order to disarm...

...did not come

from my headquarters.

We have agreed to the surrender

of our arms by noon tomorrow.

We would like your assurance

that no more of our troops...

...will be forcibly disarmed

before that deadline.

Herr General...

...by noon tomorrow,

I guarantee...

...you'll be on your way home.

This is not our war.

This is between

the Greeks and the Germans.

Would you prefer we

left them to fight on their own?

The 4th Regiment

will hold Antisamos.

We'll keep the 5th

in reserve at Assos...

...and I will take

the 8th and 9th to Argostoli.

All gun lines to be in position

by first light tomorrow.

If we resist now,

we can beat them.

What if the Germans send planes?

Don't go near Argostoli.

Stay away from Antisamos Beach.

I want to lie across the road,

so that you can't leave.

Keep a gun with you

at all times. Promise me.

- Come back to me.

- Promise me.

When it's over...

you will come back to me.

I know what you feel.

You think if he died

your world will stop.

I will look out for him.

Pelagia!

Mama! Mama!

Pelagia!

Stay here!

It's not safe!

Pelagia!

Drosoula!

Drosoula!

- Drosoula! Drosoula!

- What are you doing?

She's a traitor and a whore.

Mandras?

Help me!

Help me!

Mandras!

Help me!

The enemy's a hundred meters away.

There's heavy armour coming.

PROSTITUTE:

TREASON:

Gunther!

Gunther!

Come on, move!

Shoot me.

He's alive.

He's alive.

He was alive

when I found him.

Fragments of uniform

in the bullet holes.

Splinters of rib.

- Just do it.

- I am not a surgeon.

- I have no penicillin.

- Please!

I have no sterile water.

No serum.

Please, Father, do it!

Hold.

Four of his ribs are broken.

Papa!

Antonio!

Don't move!

Don't move!

If you even try to move,

you will haemorrhage to death.

No, you must lie still.

How... I don't...

I don't...

- I don't...

- You were lying under Carlo's body.

If it wasn't for him...

you wouldn't be alive.

How did I get here?

Mandras found you.

Antonio, you

should try and drink something.

Antonio?

What would you like for lunch?

Not that there is

any choice, of course.

But if there was...

We needed something...

...steel...

...wire...

to bind the bones.

Of course, they'll have to be

removed sometime in the future.

I could try and get some

new strings from somewhere.

I could ask around.

Antonio!

What are you doing?

If they find me,

they will shoot you both.

They'll kill you

if you leave this house.

I don't belong here, Pelagia!

I never belonged here!

Ever since I came, look what

has happened all around you.

I love you.

I had no right to make you love me

when you weren't mine to love.

No!

Don't do that!

Lemoni!

Lemoni!

Go to Doctor Iannis's house.

Go now!

Go! Go!

Go now!

Mama will be back!

Dimitri will row you

to a boat out in the bay.

You should be home

by tomorrow night.

We must go.

I had to see you again.

One last time.

We must go!

Pelagia...

Don't say anything.

Look at me.

We must go!

- Go.

- Pelagia.

Go! Go.

Why did you save him?

Why didn't you

leave him to die?

I wanted you

to love me again.

In Albania...

...I made them read

every one of these to me.

Mandras, I love you.

Mandras, I want you.

Mandras, when are you

coming back?

And then one day,

a different letter.

I don't know how

to describe my feelings.

It's as if I've been waiting

a hundred years to hear from you.

Waiting a hundred years

for you to return.

Once I thought my heart was

overflowing with love for you.

But now all I feel is emptiness.

And I think all the time

it was a pretence...

...that I never loved you at all.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

The war we thought

would never end...

...is over.

And the island we thought

we had lost forever...

...is ours again.

In the doctor's house...

...there are three of us now.

The doctor...

...his daughter...

...who is training

to be a doctor...

Pelagia!

...and Lemoni.

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Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also made the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Slovo currently lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. more…

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