St. George Shoots the Dragon Page #4

Synopsis: The Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. The village is deeply divided between able-bodied men that are potential army recruits and the many disabled veterans from the previous Balkan wars; there is bitter animosity between the two groups, who do not intermingle much with each other even though they live in the same village.
Director(s): Srdjan Dragojevic
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Year:
2009
120 min
34 Views


- Threaten us...

Luka, are you celebrating

or shooting each other?

Teacher, this is military business.

Gavrilo!

Have a shot on me!

Get down!

Get down, you f***ing Kraut!

Now we're f***ed!

They're really gonna get mad!

People!

We killed the plane!

- You're alive!

- We're both alive.

By the decision of

the Serbian Supreme Command,

and signed by General

Radomir Putnik personally,

we hereby declare

a full-scale mobilization!

The third bells in three years.

I'm afraid there won't be anyone left

to hear the fourth one.

Let my great-grandson hear.

We don't have to.

Don't worry, Grandpa. Our mother was

in labour for two days with Gavrilo.

God forgive me, sometimes I wish

he'd never been born at all.

Come on, people, last orders.

The tavern will close during the war.

It wouldn't be right.

Does this mean I can't sing?

Once it starts,

it'll soon be over soon.

They called me again,

a half-blind man!

And again, they didn't call me.

- What happened?

- Jelena's okay. She'll be fine.

And the baby?

What about the baby?

After the war, your business will boom,

cripples, like never before!

I wanna make a reservation

In Invalid tavern right now!

The Kraut can run and hop

But at the Sava's banks he'll stop

MILAN VUKOVIC:

Now you stink too.

Just like the rest of us.

Major, sir! Gavrilo Vukovic,

second lieutenant, cavalry.

One thing I hate more than Germans.

Doctors.

- Let's hear it.

- I'm reporting for duty.

I know the river, I've crossed it

a hundred times.

A smuggler?

Decorated.

Before taking up smuggling,

you were a soldier.

You know I don't make the rules.

If it was down to me, I'd take you.

We need even men like you.

I'm sorry.

Our brave student killed him

His name is Princip Gavrilo

You're going to die,

and you scream like hell!

Spare a coin for a war veteran,

good people!

Grandpa, don't do this.

You promised to take me

to Belgrade.

Everything will be all right,

Gavrilo can tell you.

Grandpa. I know you can hear me.

This is horrible.

- He lay down and decided to die.

- Please, just one smile, grandpa.

Dying isn't going so smoothly...

Mile, put me down,

I want to be closer to the ground.

Grandpa!

That's better.

Grandpa...

You lived your way,

and you died your way.

A successful man.

Gavrilo!

Slavka, if the war starts

to go badly for us...

Burn the house down,

I don't want Krauts in it.

Look out for yourself, George.

I'm an expert in war.

If I don't make it back,

everything I have is hers.

And the child she's expecting...

If it's a boy, let him stay here,

to keep the family name alive.

If it's a girl, get her out of this

misery, as far away as possible.

Since my husband died,

I've not met as good a man as you.

It's easy to be good

when you've got nothing else left.

Goodbye, Slavka.

There's something for you

in the shed.

- You told him whose child it is?

- He already knew.

May St George be with you!

Watch your head, gendarme!

- Thrash them just like I would.

- Stop it!

I'm tired, already.

Give me that.

What's the hurry, George?

The Krauts will wait for us!

St George...

Please love Aleksa.

Love Gavrilo... Mile...

Love them like Zoja-man does.

Here, two dinars.

The bill I never paid.

Mile...

Get some rest.

I'll take over.

Soldiers.

I'm afraid we'll envy Aleksa

soon enough.

We'll say:
"Lucky you, Aleksa".

My grandpa used to say "I'd rather die

than that something happen to me!"

Shows their true colours,

beating a man who brings them

a soldier's letter!

Only the filthy Babic family

could do that.

No bird's flown over their house

for 200 years.

So you called in at Vojo's wife?

I took her a letter from Vojo!

- A letter from the frontline is sacred!

- Count yourself lucky.

You wouldn't have

got out of my yard...

Alive.

You're crippled, not deaf!

You heard me, frontline letters!

F*** off!

Rajko, drop by my place sometime.

Bring a letter to my wife.

I already did.

A pregnant woman doesn't

go to a wake.

- Bad luck.

- Exactly. Let her in.

I don't want to find you here

when I come back.

Neither you nor her.

- Witch!

- Let's get out of here.

Will St George finally kill the dragon

and save us from evil?

St George, help us!

Witch!

Why did you come?

I'm leaving tomorrow.

We won't see each other again.

Zoja-man sad.

While Europe has danced, sung

and grown rich

we'Ve spent centuries

in the trenches!

At their border posts,

like their guard dogs!

Where's that f***ing Europe now?

Cer Mountain,

The first battle of the Great War

Serbia today has

four million people.

Austria-Hungary has 55 million!

For years they've been threatening

and talking bullshit!

They say that Serbia should

'bathe in iror!

I've never heard a wickeder threat

than to bathe a nation in iron!

We'll stick their iron

up their asses!

They'll feel it for many years!

If they cross the border and head

for our villages, we f*** their what?

- We f*** their mothers!

- Exactly!

I have the honor to inform you that we

are at the focus of the enemy attack!

Once we repel the attack, we will

chase them all the way back to Vienna!

All the way to Vienna, we will...

Fly over, Sir!

The baby is mine, and only mine.

The decision is mine.

'Keep the family name going'!

That important name...

They go to war, sire children,

and die in that name!

We have to give birth and rejoice

if the child goes to war!

If it's a boy...

This child will not go to war.

Gavrilo! Gone mad!

Broke into army barracks!

Took dynamite...

to kill boat!

To kill Gavrilo-man.

Mad. Wanna all by him-self.

What?

You want to kill yourself?

I came to see what sort of man

you are, one last time.

Kill yourself?

What amazing knowledge, bravery

and wisdom that takes!

- What do you want from me?

- That you stay alive.

Katarina, it's wartime.

Is nothing holy to you men

apart from war?

Nothing? To be fathers, to love!

You forgot to learn that!

I spit on your holy things!

Do you hear me?!

Not easy without

a man in the house, right?

Need a hand with anything?

How can you help me?

Well, I can't chase chickens

around the yard. But...

I have my uses.

Really?

Tie up the dog, girl.

Men! Well done! Bravo!

We never got this far before!

Next time, we break their lines!

I promise you that!

Sergeant! Dismiss the men.

- Fall out.

- George.

Why haven't you told him

about the rejects?

When?

If some cripple had jumped

the Captairs wife

he'd have us all running there!

Look at this letter!

Running?

We'd be f***ing flying!

They f*** women and steal chickens?

Did you hear me?

Men unfit for war

f*** women and steal chickens?

Sir, we have the same reports

from other units.

- I had to report this to you.

- And I must report it to the Major,

The Major to the Colonel,

the Colonel to the General,

The General reports this

to Supreme Command, so

They react instantly,

They throw away all the war plans

and order the men home, so

They dig in trenches outside their

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