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such a terrible subject?

John, those bombs...

What do they do to you?

Now, listen, Jack, everything will be

all right, because it's got to be!

At worst, they will drop conventional

bombs that don't scare anybody.

They won't use the others.

You know why?

Because you know what would happen

if they did use the atomic kind?

It's crazy! You can't

imagine what it's like!

They don't dare drop it, it would

leave millions of dead!

And populations ground to powder as though they'd...

as though they'd gone through a coffee grinder.

- Water! Give him water, quick!

- Dear boy, he has a weak heart...

- Maria, turn that confounded radio off!

- Poor darling... Here, drink!

Thanks, Mom. I'm all right. I'm so sorry...

This always happens when we talk about...

- He always has been sensitive like that.

- I wanted to help you, Jack. - I know, I know.

I always have to have other people help me.

- Jack, it will be all right.

- Well, we'd better go to church now.

- I'm very sorry, really, I must be going.

They're waiting for me at the factory.

You see, that's the trouble with being

a boss:
everyone needs me.

If I were like you... For you it's all very

easy because you do whatever you like.

Your time is your own. Here I've got to

go to the factory and you can stay.

You know I'm with you in spirit.

Be very happy. I must leave.

- Good bye now.

- Good bye and thank you, sir.

- Good bye John. - Good bye

sir. - Good bye everyone.

Let's go. Daddy and I in front,

Mom and John next,

followed by all the wedding guests.

- Yes, let's go.

- I bet youngsters are getting impatient.

- How well I remember my wedding day!

- Traditional candy... - Thank you.

- And my hat...

- I can't run in these shoes...

- Oh, take them off then!

Oh, we are dreaming...

Yes, we are dreaming...

It can't be real, what

do you think? John?

- Is it simply a dream?

- No, Mama, it's the real thing.

- Let's see:
now I am sleeping. - You are

sleeping? - Maria, please pinch me.

- I want to be pinched too!

- I'll pinch you.

I've known you ever

since you were children.

You grew, and as you grew,

the love I have for you also grew.

This is one of the most important

moments in your life.

You, John Johnson, are one who has now reached

the lofty height that crowns a mountain range

and sees below a broad plain,

one of those broad plains

that seems to stretch endlessly,

as life itself.

From one horizon to the other horizon.

Hand in hand we walk,

and every trouble and

every peril, which... Every

trouble and every peril which...

My children! All of this was important yesterday.

But not today. So... I believe we

should hurry and get it over with.

- Maria Maria, do you take John Johnson as

your husband to love, honor and obey? - Yes!

John Johnson, my son, do you take Ma...

- Dad, Auntie, Mama!

- Hurry, we are over here!

They are coming back!

Please, don't cry Maria! Please,

please, Maria, please, for my sake!

The world has changed! Everything is

so horrible! My darling, we might die!

No, my sweet! We're in love,

it's impossible to die.

I guess... I guess it's better that we are

not married yet. I feel completely helpless.

Look Maria... I am alone in this world,

I am an orphan.

I wouldn't be able to live without you.

I have no one but you, Maria.

Maria, John, come over here!

Come on!..

- We're going home... We'll see you later.

- Good bye.

We'll have to get him to the mountains.

I'm afraid he'll never stand it.

I suppose I'll get used to it, Mama.

- Father! What do you think of all this?

- I can't say, I don't know.

- There is not much I can do for you now, my children.

- Good bye. - Good bye and God bless you.

Come now Dad! Come on!

An old railroad man like you can't give up!

They say that it's a small world...

Nowadays everybody moves around,

planes and boats and trains

help the whole world make friends.

Only it's no use...

It doesn't do any good.

All right, hurry it up...

Come on, bring this group here.

The other group to the truck...

To the other truck!

Here! Those five over here!

Hurry it up!

That's right, stay right there.

Come on, hurry it up!

Hurry it up, from over here to over here.

Bring them over.

Hey, you! And you!

Come on, in the truck.

- You're both mobilized as well.

- Mobilized, sir?

- Where've you been, there's a war going on!

- I know there is a war going on.

- But we don't have anything with us!

- We're going to give you everything,

you name it - we've got it, you'll get

all you need, even a toothbrush!

All right, that will do, pick them up!

Hurry it up!

Come on, let's go! Faster, faster!

We haven't got all day.

It's good!

Enough for that truck!

Now get the others going, hurry it up!

I want to go along!

We can't be separated, John!

There is no time for all of that,

it's not the place either,

so just cut it out...

All right, hurry up, take it away!

Maria, don't worry and take care!

- Jack, tell them, tell them about your heart!

- They can't keep me... Don't worry!

- John, please maintain him, please, John!

- All right Auntie, I swear!

- Maria, write to me!

- Where?

I don't know, Maria!

- Oh, Jack! Look at that, will you?

- What?

- Look at the sky. Maybe it's going

to rain soon. - Maybe...

Let's sing our anthem, come on,

the people are watching us!

Sing the national anthem, men, all together.

All together, men, sing!

- I don't know the words...

- Doesn't matter, just sing.

All of our hearts are

solely for our Motherland...

- Sing! - All of our hearts are

solely for our Motherland...

Let's be together, let's we fight to glory...

One, two, three, four...

Everybody out!

Everybody out of the truck.

- John! John!

- Louis!

You were right... See, I have a job

already! And how's Maria?

- Oh, this is Maria's cousin, Jack.

- How do you do. - I am pleased to know you!

- Louis, where they're going to send us?

- Who cares? I'll go wherever they tell us

to go, as long as they give me three

square meals a day - that's for me...

- All right there! - Maybe we'll

meet again... I hope so, at least.

- So long, John!

- So long, Louis.

All in there! Turn to the right! Go on!

Keep inside... All right you guys, all in!

Hurry up, there is a war going on!

- Eleven times six?

- Sixty six! - Six.

- Nick Nickson. - Six plus eighteen?

- Twenty four.

- Are your father and mother alive?

- That is, father is... mother's not.

Seven.

- Do you like women?

- Yes.

- I love women. - How long are you

able to get along without them?

- Ten days...

- What have you got in there? - Nothing...

Six.

- Pete Peters!

- Do you believe in progress? - Yes, sir!

Don't shout! Two.

- Jack Jackson. - Do you love your country?

- Yes. - How much? - As much as I can.

How much is that?

Not enough...

- He's a man with a weak heart...

- Who told you to talk?.. Four.

- Your name?

- John Johnson.

You have mopped up a transport,

are still fighting with one man.

All at once your opponent

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