Paths of Glory final scene (The Faithful Hussar)

[thevitalogy77]

that girl is the most beautiful girl I ever seen... and this scene one of the most touching endings. Kubrick is really a genius, and my favorite director.

[sodaxcandy08]

best war movie ive seen

[Raziul]

Wunderschöne Scene aus einem sehr guten und wichtigen Film.

[firedrap]

Release date December 25, 1957

the film was not submitted to French censors, and was not shown in France until 1975, when moral codes had changed. In Germany, the film was not allowed to be shown for two years after its release to avoid any strain in relations with France. The film was also officially censored in Spain by the government of Francisco Franco for its anti-military content, and was not released in that country until 1986, 11 years after Franco's death.

[fxcw85]

A very powerful scene from a great film.

[Daniel0889]

I hummed this for days after I watched the movie. Epic.

[bcbp14]

I heard my girlfriend humming this in the next room after I watched it one night.

[sodaxcandy08]

@bcbp14 lucky guy

[hopton100]

kirk Douglas at his very very best, depicts the horror and futility of war and the song at the end though I try each time I have watched it several times always makes tears well up. One of the best films ever made.

[ilbv5]

powerful scene

[dietpeppas14]

aww...KIRK DOUGLAS DON'T CRY!!!! :(

[dizzy3di]

The best anti-war movie I ever see

[polkenotecallas]

One person has no heart

[jamesvorroro]

after all,all in all is all we are!!!!!!!!

[jackywong]

Only one fool, hope that one day he/she can see true beauty.

[dentaljeremie]

@jackywong We'll see about that Jack wrong

[ChopstickBrando]

I read somewhere that a lot of the French "poilu" in this scene are actual WWI veterans (the war was "only" forty years in the past when this movie was made, and some of these guys are easily in their late 50s or 60s)

[stinson86]

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS ENDING SONG? The French soldiers are heckling her, then singing along with her? ????? What is it? Somehow I think it's that everyone in the scene makes the connection that we as human beings are HUMAN, regardless of nationality. Someone help me please

[Ryusuken55]

@stinson86 It's not really a matter of nationality, I would say, but more of self existence.

"What am I doing here?", "Why did we go to war, again?", and so on ...

For them, life has no point anymore. They only live to kill.

The song is just beautiful, they are not used to beautiful things anymore.

That last scene bring up so many emotions to them... nostalgia, afraid of what's coming next, hope that this mess will end soon, brothers that fell on the battlefield, etc.

[MultiKaffeetrinker]

@stinson86 Not at all. It´s a german song about a wife who gets the message of her husbands death in battle. At the very end of the movie the soldiers in the bar know they soon will die in a battle they will be sent to. And this foreign song of their enemies makes them cry. Wonderful idea, isn´t it?

[SPFrobber]

@MultiKaffeetrinker Nice perspective buddy. I knew there must have been some significance to the song. Thanks.

[AlJR189]

@stinson86 The song is about a soldier in the field who gets the message that his love is dying and so he leaves everything to be with her in her last hours.

As far as I know, there is also a French song with this melody and the same topic, so when hearing this song they have to think of their wifes and girls waiting at home.

So you're right, the significance is that all human beings are human and that not even war or enmity can really change this.

[Morris1581]

"wege zum ruhm" toller film!

klassiker von kubrick!

[espanolico1]

Thank you Stanley!

[championofcathay]

This video was disliked by the not-so-faithful hussar

[TheBarathbushan]

i am happy that just ONE fool disliked this beautiful song

[dvsxavier]

I'm not surprised Stanley proposed and married this Teutonic beauty ;) She's look so vulnerable, so moving...and showing the frailities of men of combat, the men of war going back to the trenches to die...

[dleone]

devastating

[poleske]

This movie demonstrates very well how WWI was an act of aggression by the ruling class upon the working class, forcing us to give up our ideals of equality in exchange for national conflict where we slaughtered each other while making them rich at the same time.

[capmconnundrum]

@poleske There was a saying during the American Civil War : "Rich man's war, Poor man's fight" When was it not that way?

[ElectroMcSampson]

This movie is rad. I saw it for the first time last night and this scene made me cry- which seems to be pretty standard.

[cucamonster15]

The woman in the bar is Stanley Kubricks Wife.

[SPFrobber]

I swear I cried when this scene came up.

These boorish animals of the "right" side realize that the "enemy" is simply protecting the women in their lives as the "right" side is protecting those they love as well.

Another great film that makes you realize that the "enemy" is simply protecting themselves is Letters to Iwo Jima. Cried in that one too and totally never saw it coming, just like this one.

What a beautiful woman. How could anyone want to violate that angel?

[FRANCOPROVENZAL]

amzing ! Few  seconds of humanity before the bestiality ! a great movie !

[nounoudu41]

J'ai vue ce film en histoire géo cette année.. Le film ne m'avait pas vraiment plut.. Jusqu'au moment où cette fille chantait, j'étais sous le charme, j'ai totalement accroché. C'est le moment du film que j'ai préféré.. Bisous

[bill1fl]

This is by far the best film made by Stanley Kubrick and also the best anti-war film ever made. I am so moved by it. When they stand the soldier on the stretcher up to shoot him I can only think of the stupidity of our human race. The song does give me hope.

[ele90]

All quiet on the western front is better, but only marginally.

[SPFrobber]

@bill1fl well the story is about how the French conducted leaders led the war. I don't think we should saw this is an anti-war movie so much as look how stupid the French leaders were in the first world war.

[poleske]

@SPFrobber It isn't directed at the French but the war in general. More specifically the difference between rank and file soldiers and the officers who order them to death. This final scene is the most beautiful because it shows how those soldiers are victims .... Even when the helpless woman is brought out the beauty of her song reminds the men of the humanity that has been lost. They cry for her for they miss their own wives. They see her as simply a woman, an d miss simply being men..

[Guildou]

@SPFrobber [1]

The French leaders were not stupid,

They led their armies as every armies were led in Europe before the WWI. It wasn't only the First WW, it was the first time combats happened between 2 lines of trenches, the first time deadly weapons such as machine guns, gaz, planes were used. First time so many men died for nothing : the frontline didn't move despite the combats and the war couldn't find it's winners and losers.

[Guildou]

@SPFrobber [2]

The progress of science & technology during the 20th century has been bigger than 1 millenium of progress before.

It went too fast and human had to adapt, it cost time, the attack strategy was abandonned, Verdun Battle was the turning point.

If WWI was based on trenches and artillery, WWII is again an all different war, based on motorized vehicles, supplies chains, coordination between units and speed.

All wars happening after were different, and in Astan we now use drones!

[poleske]

@Guildou How do you measure such things. we are simply enhancing old technology... the microchip, the engine... Plumbing.. the wheel... navigation algebra ... these are all relative... You are being pretentious. War has always been brutal. Imagine stabbing 100 men to death in a day. We will always look to find a way to avoid our own black nature.

[Guildou]

@poleske [1]

The great war wasn't a normal war.

You can measure it because it wasn't a war between 2 countries or a war involving a country against a coalition of 2 or 3 others. It was a world war, the first one, the great war, the war to end all wars.

You can measure it because never before a war cost so much lives, because it was a total war, women went to factories, food was rationned, countries' economies were entirely working for war.

[Guildou]

@poleske [2]

Soldiers weren't stabbing 100 men to death in a day, they were firing with artillerie, launching gaz, during the battle of Verdun soldiers rarely saw the ennemy, but the ennemy was dying anyway.

WW1 changed the traditionnal rules of war, it wasn't a common war and there's no pretention to say it.

[KatushaShortFilms]

best stanly kubrick movie ever!

[Dingoboy242]

It is an excellent film.

[alexp9999]

the blonde lady, Christiane (here shown by her stage name, Susanne Christian), was not yet the wife of director Stan Kubrick when this movie was filmed.

she was a very good looking woman, i've always thought =)

[Gallifrey1991]

they said Kubrick didn't do emotional films but that is wrong

[OnkelMickwald]

This is the exception:P But one hell of a good film.

[qwertj1]

what a beautiful scene!! WOW..

[TripleLLL77]

This is not the whole lyric, but the main part of the story. ---- "The Faithful Soldier" - or Der treue Hussar (in German) A faithful soldier, without fear, He loved his girl for one whole year, For one whole year and longer yet, His love for her, he'd ne'er forget. This youth to foreign land did roam, While his true love, fell ill at home. Sick unto death, she no one heard. Three days and nights she spoke no word.

[TripleLLL77]

And when the youth received the news, That his dear love, her life may lose, He left his place and all he had, To see his love, went this young lad... He took her in his arms to hold, She was not warm, forever cold. Oh quick, oh quick, bring light to me, Else my love dies, no one will see... Pallbearers we need two times three, Six farmhands they are so heavy. It must be six of soldiers brave, To carry my love to her grave.

[TripleLLL77]

A long black coat, I must now wear.

A sorrow great, is what I bear.

A sorrow great and so much more,

My grief it will end nevermore.

---

Because of the limited text, i had to post the parts for its own. you have to read first from my 1st post.

[agandia]

Thanks. A lot. I've seen this movie a dozen of times. It's very influential in my life. Reading these lyrics has heightened my appreciation for the film

[hospitalship1]

Is there any way someone can give us a good English translation of this German song and also tell us the history of the song itself?

Thanks,

John

[Karletto555]

3:27 is the best part

[jacknapier37]

SPLENDIDE

[Zeanu]

Oh yeah, wow. This is an amazing movie... this scene was so moving!

[kjseara]

it's kubrick's wife

[shervman]

Makes me cry every time! Damn it! :(

[KJAnsia]

I know. If you don't shed a tear while watching this, then, well, you're probably a robot.

What a film.

[shaunone]

One of the most powerful and important anti-war movies ever made

[helmuthoorn]

Those faces !

As if Kubrick actually revived those poor French soldiers, who were slaughtered for the glory of their incompetent generals.

[Bluebonnett52]

Watch this movie. I am not a fan of Stanley Kubrick, but this movie is 4.0.

And this scene is awesome...

[neon6]

Damn. Never have I been shaken up by cinema until now. I hope there will come a time when there will be no more pain, war, or discrimination.

[spammmy]

I want this on mp3. I'd kill for it : (

[jduff59]

This was pure brilliance, true, a Kubrick movie can be the best or the worst, but this sharing of humanity is what gives us all hope. Without this scene, this film would have left me without any hope at all. An important moment in film!

[cab711]

hmmm moving scene. Will have to watch this movie. I dont know i find some of Kubricks movies a lil overated. Maybe that violence is a common theme in lot of his movies.

[LutzLuedolph]

unfortunately German carnivalists have not at all understood this song!

[kkamizadeh]

The men cried, I believe, because the song reminded them of the fact that they too are, in a sense, prisoners of the war and not free. The song reminded them of their home, kids, wives,... One of the best movies, I believe, Hollywood has ever made!

[aaronharms123456]

Why did nobody bless the British, French and Germans the wisdom of the Russians. To take the social elite of the officer class of france and royalty of the british and germans and try them for being traitors and execute everyone single last pigfucking one of them. Europe would of been alot better off.

[StummvonBordwehr]

The common soldiers on both sides always are in the same boat. But often they just don't know it.

[lunermodge]

this video makes a very strong stament, a lot of people dont get it,

[sivartab]

This gal is Christiane Kubrik.  It's the director's German wife playing the part. She went by the name Susanne Christian in the movie. Maybe it's just me, but she has the cutest girl next door look about her in this scene (even by today's standards). She doesn't have the typical 1950s hair and makeup.

[mjeshaw]

She was actually still Christiane Harlan when this brilliant film was made.

[SonofBrunhilde]

LOL. That was funny. The movie is great though.

[mjeshaw]

You are obviously just trying to be provocative as no normal person could be so ignorant of history as not to know that such incidents took place.  The French notoriously used the Roman practice of decimating a whole regiment (executing 1 in 10, the word is incorrectly used these days to mean virtually wiped out), on 15th December 1914 in order to "encourage the others" as they put it.

[19Eragon78]

"talk in a civilised language"? I think we germans are one of the highest civilisation on this planet!

[SonofBrunhilde]

We are. But that's how the French used to think back then. They associated themselves more with Roman culture than German culture (even though the French are mostly descended from Germanic tribes). It's a complicated subject. Blame France's on turning its back on its Germanic roots on Charlemagne. He started it all. He was a traitor to the Germanic people.

[glumjnir]

I'm French,and I must admit you're absolutely right.But people in north and south of france are very different;north is definitely from Germanic descent,I live myself in the north and I'm of Flemish origin.South is totally Roman.And as Germany was the enemy of france after the 1870 war,all the French politicians prefered to refer French people to Roman culture.I've read a book about that subject:"Germanic presence in France",by hubert Kohler.Don't know if it is translated in another language.

[blunderbuss]

One of the greatest and most meaningful scenes in movie history.

Kubrick was such a genious

[ManOnTheMoon2]

The ordinary soldiers on all sides had no real hatred of each other, but wher driven by a sense of duty. They blamed those who sent them to war and the ones that profited by it.

We should all know who the real enemy was in that war, imperialists and industrialists.

[yabba234]

one of the best scenes of the movie:]

[dbww]

Why would A German woman be near the front line?

[olivenstein]

The French were able to invade parts of Imperial Germany in Elsass starting with Plan XVII with cavalry and infantry in '14 (notably Kolmar and Mulhausen) before being driven back. However, Chasseurs continued to periodically invade what France considered the lost province of "Alsace". Laurent.

[sspdirect02]

That's Stanley Kubrick's wife!

[19Eragon78]

And the Americans didnt learn from this history! Today the u.s. soldiers sing fire water burn and destroy smiling cities in Iraq! Shame on you!!!

[slackman7]

I understand that in Europe, many armies share the same military songs. So French soldiers know some German songs, German soldiers know French songs etc.

[Karletto555]

jup; thay also ate together and shared/brorrowed/changed things between tham (of course when there was no hot times)

[Karletto555]

*and joined together

[TrentH190]

beautiful, beautiful scene, to a film which shows the darkness of man due to war.

[sermind]

some part of translation : Ein ganzes Jahr und noch viel mehr.... For one whole year and longer yet, His love for her, he'd ne'er forget. And when he received the message That his sweetheart dear was dying All his goods and chattels he left behind And hastened to his sweetheart dear Oh mother dear, bring light to me, My darling dies, I cannot see. He was indeed a soldier true, Who loved his girl, a whole year through.

[justme989]

that's a great translation!

[sereze]

beatiful looking for this scene for a while thanks. This scene is a phenomen. You can see discussions about this scene on the net

[bubblekiller13]

Isn't it beautiful how a sentiment can transcend the barrier of language? Five stars.