Barry Lyndon

606 01:03:17,376 --> 01:03:20,088 I know one of the loveliest women in Europe there. 607 01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:24,384 May I ask you to take a letter to her? 608 01:03:26,219 --> 01:03:27,720 Certainly. 609 01:03:27,888 --> 01:03:31,225 By the way, to whom are you carrying your dispatches? 610 01:03:34,268 --> 01:03:35,437 General Williamson. 611 01:03:38,315 --> 01:03:40,234 - General Williamson. - Yes. 612 01:03:42,319 --> 01:03:45,239 General Percival Williamson? 613 01:03:47,281 --> 01:03:48,324 Yes, the same. 614 01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:56,291 Sergeant. 615 01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:09,304 Under arrest? 616 01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:11,055 Captain Potzdorf, sir. 617 01:04:11,807 --> 01:04:13,307 I'm a British officer. 618 01:04:13,933 --> 01:04:15,268 You are a liar. 619 01:04:15,977 --> 01:04:17,145 You're an impostor. 620 01:04:18,063 --> 01:04:19,230 You're a deserter. 621 01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:22,276 I suspected you this morning, 622 01:04:22,441 --> 01:04:24,819 and your lies and folly have confirmed this to me. 623 01:04:26,112 --> 01:04:28,115 You pretend to carry dispatches to a general 624 01:04:28,281 --> 01:04:30,199 who has been dead these ten months. 625 01:04:31,284 --> 01:04:34,079 You say your uncle is the British ambassador in Berlin 626 01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:36,455 with the ridiculous name of O'Grady. 627 01:04:38,457 --> 01:04:42,170 Now, will you join and take the bounty, sir, or will you be given up? 628 01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:47,842 I volunteer. 629 01:04:52,013 --> 01:04:55,809 <i>The Prussian service was considerably worse than the English.</i> 630 01:04:56,934 --> 01:05:00,605 <i>The life that the private soldier led was a frightful one.</i> 631 01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:04,693 <i>Punishment was incessant,</i> 632 01:05:04,859 --> 01:05:07,028 <i>and every officer had the right to inflict it.</i> 633 01:05:09,405 --> 01:05:13,452 <i>The gauntlet was the most common penalty for minor offenses.</i> 634 01:05:14,328 --> 01:05:16,162 <i>The more serious ones</i> 635 01:05:16,330 --> 01:05:18,999 <i>were punishable by mutilation or death.</i> 636 01:05:28,008 --> 01:05:30,551 <i>At the close of the Seven Years' War,</i> 637 01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:33,972 <i>the army, so renowned for its disciplined valor,</i> 638 01:05:34,848 --> 01:05:37,600 <i>was officered by native Prussians,</i> 639 01:05:37,768 --> 01:05:40,519 <i>but it was composed, for the most part,</i> 640 01:05:40,687 --> 01:05:43,273 <i>of men from the lowest levels of humanity,</i> 641 01:05:44,066 --> 01:05:47,527 <i>hired or stolen from almost every nation in Europe.</i> 642 01:05:49,362 --> 01:05:53,658 <i>Thus, Barry fell into the very worst of courses and company,</i> 643 01:05:54,701 --> 01:05:59,581 <i>and was soon very far advanced in the science of every kind of misconduct.</i> 644 01:09:18,572 --> 01:09:20,448 <i>The colonel's speech declared</i> 645 01:09:20,614 --> 01:09:23,284 <i>that the king had expressed his satisfaction</i> 646 01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:26,371 <i>with the conduct of the regiment at the Battle of Audorf</i> 647 01:09:27,121 --> 01:09:30,332 <i>and that the bravery of Corporal Redmond Barry</i> 648 01:09:30,500 --> 01:09:32,794 <i>in rescuing Captain Potzdorf</i> 649 01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:37,090 <i>was to be specially rewarded with the sum of two Friedrich d'or.</i> 650 01:10:00,070 --> 01:10:01,156 Corporal Barry. 651 01:10:06,243 --> 01:10:09,873 You're a gallant soldier and have evidently come of good stock. 652 01:10:10,039 --> 01:10:12,374 But you're idle, dissolute and unprincipled. 653 01:10:13,083 --> 01:10:14,960 You've done a great deal of harm to the men, 654 01:10:15,795 --> 01:10:19,882 and for all your talents and bravery, I'm sure you will come to no good. 655 01:10:22,928 --> 01:10:25,805 I hope Colonel Bulow is mistaken regarding my character. 656 01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,142 I have fallen into bad company, it is true, 657 01:10:29,308 --> 01:10:31,602 but I've only done as other soldiers have done, 658 01:10:31,770 --> 01:10:35,023 and above all, I never had a kind friend and protector before 659 01:10:35,189 --> 01:10:37,234 to show that I was worthy of better things. 660 01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:42,029 The colonel may say I'm a ruined lad and send me to the devil, 661 01:10:42,197 --> 01:10:43,572 but be sure of this: 662 01:10:43,740 --> 01:10:45,950 I would go to the devil to serve the regiment. 663 01:11:02,549 --> 01:11:04,636 <i>The war was soon ended</i> 664 01:11:04,802 --> 01:11:07,305 <i>and Barry's regiment was garrisoned in the capital.</i> 665 01:11:09,390 --> 01:11:11,350 <i>He had, for some time now,</i> 666 01:11:11,518 --> 01:11:14,937 <i>ingratiated himself considerably with Captain Potzdorf,</i> 667 01:11:15,604 --> 01:11:19,066 <i>whose confidence in him was about to bring its reward.</i> 668 01:11:28,617 --> 01:11:31,495 - Good morning, Redmond. - Good morning, Captain Potzdorf. 669 01:11:32,664 --> 01:11:37,127 I should like you to meet my uncle, the minister