Karbala Page #3

Synopsis: Year 2004, operation Iraqi freedom ongoing. During the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, launched an insurgency. Karbala City Hall is cut off, leaving inside 40 Poles and 40 Bulgarian soldiers with supplies of food and ammo to 24h fight. They defended three days till reinforcement came, killing first night over 80 rebels.
Genre: Drama, War
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Year:
2015
115 min
94 Views


In the end, you were with them.

They trust you. We also trust you.

Your family is safe. That is also some

kind of wonder, don't you thing?

We must help our brothers in City Hall,

so that they could help us from the inside.

So if City Hall does not surrender this

night, we will come lo ask you for help.

Good girl.

Good bye.

Captain, will they relieve us tomorrow?

If they don't, they'll

take us out by helicopter.

But our helicopters don't fly at night.

American ones do.

Minta.

Here is sector:
distance 200,

burnt out car on left, mosque on right,

SQUQTE 3B.

Ready. Load.

You, you and you, with me.

Nothing to be scared of!

We're leaving!

Move along!

You can't be f***ing scared now.

Are they backing off?

So fast?

They got range on the roof, overshooting!

Fire from sector 1!

Contact in 2!

Fire on sector 2.

Minta! Fire on sector 3B!

Minta! Did you get that?

Ground floor, move your fire to sector 1!

What the f*** are you doing?

They ranged us! Fox4, fire from the mosque.

Everybody alive?

Sobahski!

Commander is reporting.

Covering fire!

Cover sector 1!

They're firing from the mosque!

What do we do?

Firing from the second terrace!

Contact on the terraces!

Mortar in the mosque!

Do we take it out, over'?

Minta! Load!

That's a holy site, do we fire?

Load!

Ready!

Fire!

RPG!

Shoot!

Shoot!

Death to America!

Death to Israel!

Death to all invaders!

Pack up the SPG. We're shifting position.

FOX 05, situation downstairs, over'?

FOX 05, come in, over'?

Sobariski! Over'?

Sobahski froze up.

Sobahski, look at me.

You hit bad?

F*** that! I shot a teenager!

They'll have beautiful

footage forAI-Jazeera.

F***, if they, get us on film, boy,

we're going to be famous.

This is FOX 06, to all: remain at

your stations, until further notice.

FOX 01 report.

FOX 01, alfs quiet.

When they come,

save your ammo.

Give me my daughter back.

L'm not able to figure you out, Farad.

Who do you stand by?

We agreed that a soldier is a

better hostage than those kids.

For killing their soldier, they wonl have to

go to a court, rather for killing civilians.

If I am right, you can take him.

If you are right, you will soon know.

Take them out!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Mortar fire, take cover!

Food dropped by the Ethiopians.

Thais what the Americans call ii.

Pure chemical additives.

Heats up in a minute.

OK, pull the plates, now!

Mortar, take cover!

- Quickly!

- You eat this and you're dead meat!

To the wall!

FOX 06 to FOX 04. Confirm,

do we return fire, over'?

Ineed confirmation, do we

fire on the mosque, over?

This is the Commander:

do not return fire on the mosque.

Chief,

Chief.

Our intel guy is back. He's waiting.

I was able to buy the Sergeant back.

But I don't know the status

of that Roien or the medic.

What's the situation in the city?

In the nonh districts, the Yanks and

ours are pushing As-Sadr back.

But if they fire on City Hall from the

mosque, the Yanks might not make it.

They're beginning AI Fajr.

We'll go when they stop praying.

Chief.

L'm going with you.

You should be in hospital.

They wounded my brother.

OK, get your stuff. You have one minute.

Surrender. Walk out into the square.

Private Kamil Grad, recon Company,

f*** you, motherf***er.

Get the f*** down!

Clear! Waszczuk, lefs go!

Fatima!

Where is he?

Gel over here!

Where is he?

Kalicki! Let's get out of here!

Let's go Chief!

Civilian down! Civilian down!

Here he is!

Cover us!

Don't get up.

Damn it, lwas supposed to quit.

Casualties?

One Bulgarian got it in the spine,

a few of ours slightly wounded,

no casualties besides that.

Three days and nights under siege.

No casualties.

He pulled two people from the fire.

His papers already went stateside.

- Nobody will slop the inquiry.

- Lf they court martial him,

I will testify that the order

was impossible to carry out.

You held City Hall'

Nobody can touch you now.

So we weren't even at City Hall...

- After all, we're here on a stabilization mission.

- Don't give this sh*t.

I will personally submit you for promotion as

soon as that is possible. You think that what.

L'm going to be happy when they give medals for

City Hall lo a couple of Yanks and a few locals?

Or when they send you

back stateside quietly?

We're going to have to get used to it.

- They didn't rescind the charges?

- N0.

- The inquiry is already started stateside.

- Do you have a lawyer'?

I was supposed to make money here.

What are you looking at?

It'll be all right.

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