Two rival soldiers are trapped together -- and rediscover their humanity. PAWNS is used with permission from Tyrees A. Lamptey. Learn more at history-making.com.
Versus the same people too. Imagine having parents/grandparents tell you how ridiculous the war is on a personal level and how they overcame their differences over a talk and then have the same thing happen again.
@@____-ju6mx so was Battlefield 1 but the flavors were still friendlier when you were stuck doing a 1 V 3. They didn't spawn camp in BF1, they didn't slaughter you when their team had 20 players and your team had 5.
Must admit I teared up at the end. My uncle, British, was a POW during WW2. He became a slave labourer working on Germany`s railways. Somehow he and a German guard of the same age clique together and the guard helped my uncle through it, gave him food and medicine if needed. After the war they remained lifelong friends, my uncle was even made a godfather to one of the German`s children. My uncle died first during the 1980s and his German friend flew over to England to attend the funeral. This is why war is madness, we are all humans, share the same passions, the same hopes and can feel love as well as hate. We should emphasise what we have in common and what brings us together, not on our differences. WW1 and WW2, NEVER AGAIN.
My great grandfather was in the British navy in ww1 and he and his freinds all agreed to meet after the war was over he went to the place they agreed to meet. But there was no one left
“I never did say ‘thank you,’ did I?” “You never needed to.” Two men who wanna be friends should not be forced to kill each other - so one thanking the other for him not doing something he never wanted to do in the first place is totally unnecessary.
Yep, one moment you're talking with your buddy in the battlefield, and the next you see that all that is left of him is half a head left by a projectile that took away millions upon millions of lives.
When you realise that the game of chess was a metaphor for war. The kings (leaders ) stay at the back while the pawns (soldiers) and other pieces do the fighting for them.
Not completely true, as some kings, nobles and generals back then bravely led a cavalry charge straight into the enemy ranks. Gustaf Adolf and Marshal Ney for example.
I like to play chess, but I never understood why the King was only allowed to move one square at a time and was pretty much on the defensive the entire game, but the Queen could run around as far as she wanted and killed everyone in her path. Then I got married. Perfectly clear now. Thank God for divorce.
Man this reminds me off the stories of soldiers who would play soccer during christmas and what not. Young men who didn't actually want to fight each other and would have preferred to been able to play together and may be even had settled the war through a soccer game. Unfortunately they had to due to their leaders and respective countries issues. These was a beautiful piece.
Back in the winter of 1915 or 16 on Christmas.. its really beautiful when you think about that happening. These people didn't want to fight eachother.. it reminds me of the quote, "what if we had a war, but no one came?"
Ah yes, the christmas wonder of 1914. It started with British soldiers singing a song and after they were finished, the Germans applauded and sang a song of their own. The result was a handshake between the young commanding officers, a soccer game and a small christmas party with presents from one side to the other. The heartbreaking fact is, they all knew, tomorrow they would kill each other again, even so they had spend a lovely time together or even became friends in this short time.
@@silbernehand_ Interestingly enough, when I was reading about it, a lot of the soldiers considered their peace treaty to still be ongoing afterwards, a lot of them didn't want to go back fighting and considered the enemy as friends still, not sure what happened to those people, maybe deserted, eventually forced, or killed by firing squad
I've also heard about the 2 opposing pilots and the german pilot did not gun down an alliance pilot, he just escorted the plane to safety so that the German AA would not gun the pilot down, when i heard that i was amazed but happy to know that in war people understood what they were fighting for and it was not just a massacre, they had honor and opinions too, but nobody never asks the soldiers
@@firewing1319 It happened in WW2 and the Allied Pilot was in a B-17, reason why the Flak gun didn't shoot idk if this is correct but most likely due to the fact it might've shot the German plane down accidentally
Slenderslayer351 it didnt shoot because an axis bf109 was escorting it to ally territory and no,the bf and b17 pilots were friends until they sadly passed away recently
This reminds me of my grandfather that fought during ww2 and befriended a German soldier. If I remember correctly they stayed in touch after the war Edit: I’m very happy to see you all sharing your families war stories. I really enjoy reading through all of them and I’m glad we can all remember the people that risked and sometimes gave their lives for our freedom
@@trazkey Thank you for asking. My grandfather passed away in 1996 at the age of 86. He fought for the Belgian army during WWII and was captured around the 28th of May 1940. He managed to escape during the transport to the POW camp and made it's way through the Belgian forests until he reached its village (about 3 days by foot). It was during the 1940-1945 German occupation that he met the German friend that I was talking about (he was probably stationed at his village). I don't know anything about him, except that I've seen a picture of my grandfather and him taken in the 50s. It's surprising that my grandfather became friends with a German, he held a grudge against the germans since he knew German occupation both from WWI and WWII.
@@greennecromorph9447 I'm sorry for your grandpa. But very interesting Story. I love hearing stories about ww2. For example that my grandpa almost had to fought in the war but he was just one year to young. Luckly but unfortunately for another young people who had to fought for their country because they had to and obey their commands. The majority of the Wehrmacht soldiers were just normal people, peasants, citizens. Some of them won't come back home to their families. My grandma who died at the age of 80 in 2018, had to flee from her hometown in Czechoslovakia because the russians came and said: you have 10 minutes to pack your stuff and leave your House! (in russian). As you see I'm german. Germany still suffer today from its dark past.
I remember my grandpa talking about WW2 only once. He was a teenager when he had his only enemy contact. It was a French, about the same age. They looked each other in the eyes, scared shitless and ran away. My grandpa was a lovely person, a gentleman in the truest, most literal sense. He could'nt read notes but loved playing blues harp. He was born in 1924 in the German Reich. Let us not allow the few rich monsters to ruin this beautiful thing called life. We're actually not that different. We all know what's right, deep in our hearts. We all want basically the same things: Food, fun, love and peace. Let's stop fighting each other and start fighting the real enemy. There's only around 3% sociopaths. Once we make the decision, they don't stand a chance.
And this is one of the reasons why I do reenactment. Playing war without hurting someone... having fun with all people from different countries, we sing, eat and drink together, sit around the campfire, discus about history... We all have different opinions. We do this because we don't want any war. And this video is very inspiring and lovely.
I also do reenactment! It's amazing how much you can learn by even attempting (and im my opinion never actually fully achieving) to put yourself in other peoples shoes.
my friend's father goes to civil war reenactments to fight as (mainly) confederate cavalry. it's fun to sit around the fire with the other actors and talk about things. there's always one thing in common- all of them don't like war
it's interesting because he knocked his own king over in the end, signifying that he lost, even though that they agreed to a stalemate. Why did he think he lost? because of his dying pawns around him, why did they have do die if nothing was accomplished? Truly a masterpiece of a video, there is much more to this than that meets the eye.
He threw the match. He let Karl bring them both to a stalemate, that way he could give Karl the satisfaction of a victory while simultaneously not having to admit defeat. That was a gentleman's move as well as an act of love and respect.
I think not necessarily that he lost but it being metaphoric for him falling back on the orders his "king" gave him. Since Karl not only survived but seems to be doing well it can be expected that he helped him quite a bit even after they were freed.
Sam Mulcahy Oh wait, I just read the description again. Apparently all the movie that appears here are the award winning movies for newcomers from the film festival, like Sundance. Read the description if you want to know more.
pawns sent to battle to solve an issue between 2 old kings ... while they could just throw them both in an arena and let them fight each other .... leaving millions of innocent people to their own business
Koudesu Boku wa Koudesu Sometimes in war, it's better to prevent the future other than letting the action happen for worse results. You're way better off of how things turned out.
I dont know if it is historically accurate but perhaps he was raised speaking english and german was his second language. Having english as his first language enabled him to become a teacher of the language.
I‘m German too and I think it was alright. His German accent could’ve been stronger, but then you know we all are different, maybe German was just his 2nd language. I was raised bilingual too.
I just watched someone use photoshop to show us what a certain celebrity would look like as a man, Then i watched this beautiful video with an important lesson and now next in my list is watching a bunch of happy nerds play a video game in which they pretend to be a piece of bread on a mission. CZcams is a strange place
I loved the imagery of taking the bullets from the guns to play a game together. This was full of such thought provoking imagery, loved it, love that this channel exists to bring a huge variety of short films to a wider audience then they could achieve scattered about with the ever talented creators, high point of my day is a new short film!
Just a small note of historical inaccuracy: The Brits did indeed draft people in to the service when they instituted general conscription in 1916, as their need for manpower rose quickly because the war dragged on much longer than anticipated and the size of the BEF had to expand to be able to fight as France's ally efficiently. Otherwise a good short film
@@glymmkira1511 Actually, the movie stated that "Lucky Jim" has served in the Great War for over 4 years before this movie started, so it couldn't possibly have taken place in 1914, unless this is a timeline where the Great War began 4 years earlier. This movie definitely takes place in 1918, the last year of the Great War.
@@harleyokeefe5193 USA sped up Germany losing the war so yeah they saved some lives on both sides. It wouldn't be until the 40s that they really got to flex nuts though.
My father-in-law (Kiwi) was fighting in Europe during WWII; he told few war stories. One was from Italy. He was walking across a field alone with his rifle strung over his back when he suddenly spotted a German sniper in a tree. The German just rested his rifle on his knee, they stared at each other silently for a minute, then the German just waved him on. Joe just walked on with his rifle still strung over his back. Soldiers ARE just pawns in an evil game of chess.
Has someone who studies both world wars as a hobby, I must say this film is absolutely amazing. The realism, and both soldiers having the realization that, the people they had been fighting the whole time, were in fact that. People.
Such as? The Leer-Enfield rifle remained in use throughout the war, as did the Webley revolver. The steel helmet is not early war at all, it came in in 1915. As for the uniform, bits of early war kit remained in use until the end, while the stocks lasted. The only problem I would see are the nicely polished leather boots used by the German; though even that would be possible if he'd inherited them from someone else, or managed to access leftover early war stocks.
@@Alopex1 the german helmets that are covering most of the head and without the spike were introduced almost late war. Edit:but im not certain if it's either the Stahlhelm M1916 introduced in early 1916 or the one to cover the back of the head introduced in 1918
@@Andreitolca1 Erm...perhaps I missed something, but the only German helmet I can see in the film is the one used by the machine-gunner, and that is a late-war German Stahlhelm, not an early war Pickelhaube. You can see the two protrusions for the attachment of extra armour plating, as well as the neck guard, both of which the Pickelhaube didn't have. Also, it's missing the Pickelhaube's spike. That said, the steel helmets were costly to make, as they used precious steel, and due to shortages some units in the German army appear to have used the Pickelhaube long after the steel helmet was officially introduced.
Gavin Dressler we don't know but I believe may be there were several incidents would had happened in the war of which we are not aware. Recently, we have seen sevral videos in which people are helping other people...
Very well said and very true. General Smedley Butler said it best when he said... "War is a Racket." In the 1930's he believed that War was fought for Corporate interests.
As a former soldier trained in the finer arts of killing, I found this an excellent short on humanity. Again, excellent work. Right to the heart of it.
"Stale. Bloody. Mate." Sums up World War I easily. Britain, France, and Germany were stuck in stalemate, which the US came and tipped the scale. Nice of them to add that in the game of chess. In my opinion, William tipped his king because if it weren't for Carl (Karl, Idk) he wouldn't be alive. Historical-wise, Britain couldn't keep fighting. And someone in the comments said being close to the enemy is a traitorous act to the king. Who knows. Up to anyone to come up with their own definition.
TheAverageSushi America were just numbers really. You had Britain and France holding off Germany and their other powers, so it was pretty equal. America then came in a weighed the scales down with their obesity problems and supposedly ‘saved the day’ but there would have been the same outcome if it was America and Britain v Germany and then France coming in and etc
Ryan Harte-Stovell Germany would have won ww1 if America never joined American numbers held the Germans back for longer while the British starved them If the Americans hadn't joined then all of Germanies soldiers could have easily focused on Italy and entering France from the south but American numbers meant Germany had to fortify the western front after bretsk livotsk instead of destroying italy
@@conor23052 No, it isn't. In this scenario, though German guy probably surrendered and became a POW, or vice-versa. After the war ended he would have been freed.
I hate war. War feels me with pain and confusion. It is dark and dreadful. These men found each other in the terror and formed a life long bond. So much lost--all the pawns, the other lives, the massacres, yet through it all there are survivors and even special circumstances for friendships that last a lifetime even across enemy lines. If only there did not have to be any sacrifices at all, but it makes the small miracles even more wonderful.
What a grand realization it must be to discover your enemy, that beast, that monster you've been fighting, is only a man as fragile and wanting to get home to his family as much as you do.
I myself have never been in the military. My father was in he US Navy for 22 years. I used to work at a local steak house during my teens/20s Also I grew up around VFW and American Legion posts as a teen/young 20s. My dad was a post officer at both. I used to cook steak dinners for the vets usually under my dad...we worked well together in a kitchen. After qa few months some of the older club members (some with (ret) Admiral Stars) started telling me stories The stories I have heard from these gentleman when they ask to speak to me because their steak was done perfectly...from rare...to well done...I can cook a steak with my eyes/touch, the stories make you wonder if you are in the presence of a deity. Stories that these guy probably have never told before...I felt honored to just sit and listen to them. I still do today when I(rarely) go back to Jacksonville,FL. ( I am an honorary member of Post #7909) because of my extensive volunteering at that post.
It has been more than a century since our forefathers have been trapped in such a situation. Please, do allow me to remind everyone born in this century - or the century past - of this one truth... We have been blessed.... that we do not need to fight each other. Lets keep it that way. Alright, Ladies and Gentlemen? Yours truly, A friend from Germany.
I think WW1 was the saddest war to be fought, and the ending theme of this video sums up at perfectly. Millions died, and for what? So that even more death could come in WW2. Nothing came of it.
What a perfectly lovely tale! Well done all the way around. I especially enjoyed the clear audio. Well written, well acted, lots of drama, filled with heart.
Walter Kara and Henry Broadfaste are who the two main soldiers in the film are based on. The soldiers shared a trench quarter and actually made a conversation among each other. Walter was almost shot in the neck before a fellow British soldier finds the two talking, this soldier realized that Brody wasn't cuffed and he wasn't being shouted at, not only that the only weapon Walter was carrying was a Luger. But he wasn't holding it at the time. The time this conversation came was 1:00 A.M. in 1918, The Armistice.
Most of the Krauts during WW2 weren't evil. They were following orders for what they they thought was right. Same as the soldiers who fought Allied Forces.
War is such an intense and powerful concept. Do you ever wonder how many souls got lost in war that had just as beautiful stories- but were never shared?
My Grandfather died in WWII but befriended a squad of 12 Germans that he had helped through the war. He eventually got shot down but those friends sometimes come to visit some of our family in a return of kindness, since my grandfather had saved them from one of the bombings in the battle of Guadalcanal. This video is kind of nice letting me be reminded of him a bit more throughout my life growing up now.
the reality of war, i think, is that it is so deeply human. fear and pain are something that everyone feels, no matter what uniform they’re wearing. it is human nature to become friends, to love each other, and there is an important bond formed in an environment where fear and death are constant and heavy in the air.
Sad thing is, both their kids saw another world war.
Versus the same people too. Imagine having parents/grandparents tell you how ridiculous the war is on a personal level and how they overcame their differences over a talk and then have the same thing happen again.
Saporatus but even worse
@@deleon6260 Yes, If you look at the description of the video it says it
Rhandy plus the tech here
Rhandy V it’s pretty obvious it is, just look, he’s using a rifle. And it just looks like it.
_At the end of the game, both the king and the pawn still go into the same box._
-Italian proverb
Sergej Miladinovic that’s not an Italian proverb lmao
Arcadium Brew i dont get it what does it mean
Actually chess pieces are stored in a box, which often happens to be the foldable chess board...
Arcadium Brew bro it means that when we die we all go to the same place: a coffin. A box.
Adomaster123 the Pharaos like to disagree ;)
*_When your friend is on the enemy team_*
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This is true me and my cousin did that then before the match ended i inserted 181 bullets into his head and everytime he dies i tibag him
Lmao😂😂underrated
@@Waterboy2434 please get out
@@Waterboy2434 dont you hate it when you commit arson
... then they discover that they both would prefer, fighting the French.
😂😂😂😂👏
@@karlkolumbus8357 facts
While it’s filled with a stench
@Heer Kommando with a musky lunch
Echelon Gaming a husky bunch
“I never did say thank you”
“You never needed to”
That. That’s what it’s all about
Love is never having to say thank you.
They were never 'even', they didn't need to.
Jim Gordon: “I never said thank you.”
Batman: “And you’ll never have to.”
*jumps off building and glides off into the end credits.
Lol Batman
2000. Liked Person XD
When you are in a Bf1 conquest lobby with one other player
I loved when this happened, all the players in BFV are so hostile...
True
Gregory LC its a competitive game what do you expect?
@@____-ju6mx so was Battlefield 1 but the flavors were still friendlier when you were stuck doing a 1 V 3. They didn't spawn camp in BF1, they didn't slaughter you when their team had 20 players and your team had 5.
“So eh... what kit you use?”
British and German Soldier Met: *Becomes Brothers*
Russian, French Soldier meets German Soldier: *C H A O S*
The Russian and the German will fight, but the French will be surrended.
You should read about the "Братания" on the Eastern Front.
@@Shin_Gojira this is ww1 not ww2 French faught like lions in ww1
@@covalschieugen8682 how should I read that, I can't even write that down 😂
@@Shin_Gojira France won the ww1 :p
What if the world's leaders had a war and nobody showed up
honestly how it should be.
Hmm...
Except ai murder machines
I wish that could be the truth but it isn't. They will get draft into the war rather they like it or not.
What if they had a draft and no one showed up?
“The best way to defeat an enemy is to make the enemy your friend”
@Jay-john Derbyshire who's zions and whos joe?
@Jay-john Derbyshire and what about Joe?
@Jay-john Derbyshire no worries I found out who's Joe is
@Jay-john Derbyshire Stalin full name is Joseph Stalin
Not Joe Stalin
Do you wanna know who's Joe?
make death my friend?
Signs of peace:
Peace dove
Poppies
Cigarettes and chess
like in jail
And football on Christmas Eve
Minecraft crouch
1910's chocolate bars🍫 and beers🍻
And :-)
Must admit I teared up at the end.
My uncle, British, was a POW during WW2. He became a slave labourer working on Germany`s railways.
Somehow he and a German guard of the same age clique together and the guard helped my uncle through it, gave him food and medicine if needed.
After the war they remained lifelong friends, my uncle was even made a godfather to one of the German`s children.
My uncle died first during the 1980s and his German friend flew over to England to attend the funeral.
This is why war is madness, we are all humans, share the same passions, the same hopes and can feel love as well as hate.
We should emphasise what we have in common and what brings us together, not on our differences.
WW1 and WW2, NEVER AGAIN.
My great grandfather was in the British navy in ww1 and he and his freinds all agreed to meet after the war was over he went to the place they agreed to meet. But there was no one left
And then Putin decides to invade ukraine
sometimes war makes us find the peice of humanity that we would have never discovered otherwise
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@@tiernanwearen8096 ⁹
“I never did say thank you”
“And you’ll never have to”
*Glides off building*
😂👏👏👏
So much win, mate.
what ?? 😂😂😂
Marvin Lorilla watch the batman trilogy
Bro
“I never did say ‘thank you,’ did I?”
“You never needed to.”
Two men who wanna be friends should not be forced to kill each other - so one thanking the other for him not doing something he never wanted to do in the first place is totally unnecessary.
Alex Harwell I would say it’s because of 4:18
just like this explanation
Alex Harwell they didn’t know that back then.
That line was so powerful .😢
From a German's perspective... Thank You. That, perhaps, my ancestor was allowed to live thanks to some GI's or Briton's forgiveness.
What I learned after 100 years or so in the pawn business you never know whats gonna happen in the trench.
Yep, one moment you're talking with your buddy in the battlefield, and the next you see that all that is left of him is half a head left by a projectile that took away millions upon millions of lives.
phong on don’t ever comment on CZcams again!
juslom2002 whay
This is a joke soooooooo plz stop
Everything in the trench has a story and a price.
When you realise that the game of chess was a metaphor for war. The kings (leaders ) stay at the back while the pawns (soldiers) and other pieces do the fighting for them.
Obviously I knew this but not many pick it up
Not completely true, as some kings, nobles and generals back then bravely led a cavalry charge straight into the enemy ranks.
Gustaf Adolf and Marshal Ney for example.
I like to play chess, but I never understood why the King was only allowed to move one square at a time and was pretty much on the defensive the entire game, but the Queen could run around as far as she wanted and killed everyone in her path.
Then I got married.
Perfectly clear now.
Thank God for divorce.
For me it goes by the king as the nation and queen as the leaders(head of states).
@@paulweisgerber7654 oof
The first time I seen a German soldier humanized . And for that you earned my respect .
You never watched the Pianist, and absolute classic amongst war films?
remember the German boy solider in the end of the movie Fury....
@@funkymonks8333 I saw that movie when I was 11. It was too much of a movie for a 11yo.... or perhaps not.
Watch the TV show Combat!
Watch "Generation War" does an excellent job at this.
I love how they used their bullets as chess peices and croutons as the soldier pieces
croutons or sugar cubes?
@@namanrawal5849 Well depends in what context, I wouldn't want croutons to sweeten my coffee, but I wouldn't want sugar cubes in my salad.
I think it's sugar, because croutons were not normaly a thing for soldiers in WWI >
@@silbernehand_ So? Neither would chocolate and cigars for most. Salad in the trenches would be contaminated though, most likely.
@@denierdev9723 LOL...no army ever had "salad" in any threnches or foxholes.
Man this reminds me off the stories of soldiers who would play soccer during christmas and what not. Young men who didn't actually want to fight each other and would have preferred to been able to play together and may be even had settled the war through a soccer game. Unfortunately they had to due to their leaders and respective countries issues. These was a beautiful piece.
bluebladex3 you're thinking about the french film made in 2005, it's called Joyeux Noel
Back in the winter of 1915 or 16 on Christmas.. its really beautiful when you think about that happening. These people didn't want to fight eachother.. it reminds me of the quote, "what if we had a war, but no one came?"
@@Agentdew212
Hermoso.
👍.
Ah yes, the christmas wonder of 1914. It started with British soldiers singing a song and after they were finished, the Germans applauded and sang a song of their own. The result was a handshake between the young commanding officers, a soccer game and a small christmas party with presents from one side to the other.
The heartbreaking fact is, they all knew, tomorrow they would kill each other again, even so they had spend a lovely time together or even became friends in this short time.
@@silbernehand_ Interestingly enough, when I was reading about it, a lot of the soldiers considered their peace treaty to still be ongoing afterwards, a lot of them didn't want to go back fighting and considered the enemy as friends still, not sure what happened to those people, maybe deserted, eventually forced, or killed by firing squad
*When u create a Match in Verdun but only 1 guy joined*
Good ‘ol Verdun
The Australian servers I heard are like that
I bought that game and never got to play it because it was dead
@@RealLilVodka what do you mean? It has alot of players
@@akriegguardsman on PS4?
When you and your friend are playing a game together and get put on different teams
I've also heard about the 2 opposing pilots and the german pilot did not gun down an alliance pilot, he just escorted the plane to safety so that the German AA would not gun the pilot down, when i heard that i was amazed but happy to know that in war people understood what they were fighting for and it was not just a massacre, they had honor and opinions too, but nobody never asks the soldiers
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler I suppose
AJ Othwal The cartoon character?
Just look up those 2 names that is all you need
@@firewing1319 It happened in WW2 and the Allied Pilot was in a B-17, reason why the Flak gun didn't shoot idk if this is correct but most likely due to the fact it might've shot the German plane down accidentally
Slenderslayer351 it didnt shoot because an axis bf109 was escorting it to ally territory and no,the bf and b17 pilots were friends until they sadly passed away recently
I love how their friendship started because Karl offered William a cigarette, and this video starts with William offering one to Karl
This reminds me of my grandfather that fought during ww2 and befriended a German soldier. If I remember correctly they stayed in touch after the war
Edit: I’m very happy to see you all sharing your families war stories. I really enjoy reading through all of them and I’m glad we can all remember the people that risked and sometimes gave their lives for our freedom
that's so sweet
Is he still alive or the german soldier? Tell me your grandpa's Story.
@@trazkey Thank you for asking. My grandfather passed away in 1996 at the age of 86. He fought for the Belgian army during WWII and was captured around the 28th of May 1940. He managed to escape during the transport to the POW camp and made it's way through the Belgian forests until he reached its village (about 3 days by foot). It was during the 1940-1945 German occupation that he met the German friend that I was talking about (he was probably stationed at his village). I don't know anything about him, except that I've seen a picture of my grandfather and him taken in the 50s. It's surprising that my grandfather became friends with a German, he held a grudge against the germans since he knew German occupation both from WWI and WWII.
@@greennecromorph9447 I'm sorry for your grandpa. But very interesting Story. I love hearing stories about ww2. For example that my grandpa almost had to fought in the war but he was just one year to young. Luckly but unfortunately for another young people who had to fought for their country because they had to and obey their commands. The majority of the Wehrmacht soldiers were just normal people, peasants, citizens. Some of them won't come back home to their families. My grandma who died at the age of 80 in 2018, had to flee from her hometown in Czechoslovakia because the russians came and said: you have 10 minutes to pack your stuff and leave your House! (in russian).
As you see I'm german. Germany still suffer today from its dark past.
I remember my grandpa talking about WW2 only once. He was a teenager when he had his only enemy contact.
It was a French, about the same age. They looked each other in the eyes, scared shitless and ran away.
My grandpa was a lovely person, a gentleman in the truest, most literal sense. He could'nt read notes but loved playing blues harp.
He was born in 1924 in the German Reich.
Let us not allow the few rich monsters to ruin this beautiful thing called life.
We're actually not that different.
We all know what's right, deep in our hearts.
We all want basically the same things:
Food, fun, love and peace.
Let's stop fighting each other and start fighting the real enemy.
There's only around 3% sociopaths.
Once we make the decision, they don't stand a chance.
And this is one of the reasons why I do reenactment. Playing war without hurting someone... having fun with all people from different countries, we sing, eat and drink together, sit around the campfire, discus about history... We all have different opinions. We do this because we don't want any war. And this video is very inspiring and lovely.
I also do reenactment! It's amazing how much you can learn by even attempting (and im my opinion never actually fully achieving) to put yourself in other peoples shoes.
my friend's father goes to civil war reenactments to fight as (mainly) confederate cavalry. it's fun to sit around the fire with the other actors and talk about things. there's always one thing in common- all of them don't like war
Gosh, I've always wanted to do reenactment when I get old enough.
it's interesting because he knocked his own king over in the end, signifying that he lost, even though that they agreed to a stalemate. Why did he think he lost? because of his dying pawns around him, why did they have do die if nothing was accomplished? Truly a masterpiece of a video, there is much more to this than that meets the eye.
Amazing. That and the acting sold it for me here.
In chess knocking over your king signifies defeat.
He threw the match. He let Karl bring them both to a stalemate, that way he could give Karl the satisfaction of a victory while simultaneously not having to admit defeat. That was a gentleman's move as well as an act of love and respect.
The symbolism is powerful. Much like the ending of "War Games". The only way to win is not to play.
I think not necessarily that he lost but it being metaphoric for him falling back on the orders his "king" gave him. Since Karl not only survived but seems to be doing well it can be expected that he helped him quite a bit even after they were freed.
"Hoist the flags hold the lines lessons ever lost in time, now we sing for you departed pawns of war"- Miracle of sound
That_one_nub I love MoS
That's the spirit!
That's how I found this video.
Ah,, another musical intellectual, rare for this vicinity... ;)
(puffs philosopher's pipe)
Two people who decided they would no longer be pawns in another person's game.
Well spoken, I could not agree more
My Father named my brother Karl out of friendship for the German's he had met.
I am a German and that really shakes my heart.
Thats so wholesome.
It should say “A British soldier is trapped with a German Ally”
Yeah that german was in the Resistance.
@@Poxvel Dude, that's supposed to be world war 1. There was no political resistance against the Kaiser. Every party supported the war.
Chris Math it was a joke lmao
@@xxtripleokgaming I have met too many people confusing world war I and II. Edit: Typo
Chris Math. Chill Bro i have post some sht to make a joke. I can not know that guy was in or not XD
Truely brilliant, omeleto sets the standard for quality time after time
It’s not omelets though, they are using other people’s works
The people purposefully send their videos to omelette though so their movie could get recognition.
Sam Mulcahy Oh wait, I just read the description again. Apparently all the movie that appears here are the award winning movies for newcomers from the film festival, like Sundance. Read the description if you want to know more.
Providing quality time after time.
pawns sent to battle to solve an issue between 2 old kings ... while they could just throw them both in an arena and let them fight each other .... leaving millions of innocent people to their own business
Well said
This.
Not just two old kings but two old cousins that wouldn't save the life of their Russian cousin for fear of upsetting someone.
"To see a king who fights his wars by himself, that would be a view!"
A quote from Achilles to Agamemnon, but it means the same
I come back to this short film a year later and it's STILL the best one I've ever seen.
"I never did say thank you, did I?"
"You never needed to."
Thank you NewHorizon :)
LEST - WE - FORGET
I love short films of this caliber... so well shot and well spoken.
Joe N. heh.. caliber.. shot.. i see what u did there
Football Ninja :)
any longer and it would have sucked!
Joe N. I see the pun
Just like a .303
Sometimes the best way to win a war is to not play at all.
How about a nice game of chess?
Can you imagine if England, France, USA didn't play against Nazis what would happen?
Koudesu Boku wa Koudesu Sometimes in war, it's better to prevent the future other than letting the action happen for worse results.
You're way better off of how things turned out.
~W.O.P.R from WarGames
@@James-qn3wi Thats true but even better humanity lives in peace and nothing ever happened and we still eat grass like cows.
War is a game of chess, both sides have casualties, might even end in a stalemate. Either way, both will end up back in the box anyway.
I'm German and I'm amazed how well done this is especially the German actor is doing really good
As a German I can tell the German that was spoken wasn't the best
? What makes you say that?
Kiriakos Player2004 bcs I speak the language?!?!?
? I personally liked the way he spoke his English.
I dont know if it is historically accurate but perhaps he was raised speaking english and german was his second language. Having english as his first language enabled him to become a teacher of the language.
I‘m German too and I think it was alright. His German accent could’ve been stronger, but then you know we all are different, maybe German was just his 2nd language. I was raised bilingual too.
I just watched someone use photoshop to show us what a certain celebrity would look like as a man, Then i watched this beautiful video with an important lesson and now next in my list is watching a bunch of happy nerds play a video game in which they pretend to be a piece of bread on a mission. CZcams is a strange place
And would you please pray tell in what game do you play as bread going on a mission? I need this in my life
I am bread.
Thats why I like CZcams
Mona Lisa yes it is
Bazza's Kitchen markiplier, jacksepticeye, pewdiepie, in I AM BREAD
I loved the imagery of taking the bullets from the guns to play a game together. This was full of such thought provoking imagery, loved it, love that this channel exists to bring a huge variety of short films to a wider audience then they could achieve scattered about with the ever talented creators, high point of my day is a new short film!
War is not hell, War has tons of innocent people
But hell is a big difference, it didnt have any single innocent people
Huh says the yag-10
@@taxidermypolarbear1724 i dont remember ive ever commented in this video and i never thought my past can be this wise
Reminds me of quote from M*A*S*H , are you inspired by it?
@@8zzzzzd79 i dont think i did. i dont even know what i was thinking back then
pretty wrong it does if you're not in the religion you will got o hell no matter what lol god is tyrannical
You just brought tears to the eyes of a vet.
K
@@TwentySevenClubb brutal
@@exenor6372 had to be said 🤷🏻💀
@@TwentySevenClubb very brutal
@@TwentySevenClubb you really did him like that
At first when the dude took off his bayonet and said “you won’t need that” I thought he was taking his supplies
Same
I thought he wasn't going over the top
This channel is like a movie store that sells free movies
Just a small note of historical inaccuracy: The Brits did indeed draft people in to the service when they instituted general conscription in 1916, as their need for manpower rose quickly because the war dragged on much longer than anticipated and the size of the BEF had to expand to be able to fight as France's ally efficiently. Otherwise a good short film
Glymm & Kira Not really since they’re wearing helmets which the British started using in 1915.
@@glymmkira1511 Actually, the movie stated that "Lucky Jim" has served in the Great War for over 4 years before this movie started, so it couldn't possibly have taken place in 1914, unless this is a timeline where the Great War began 4 years earlier. This movie definitely takes place in 1918, the last year of the Great War.
Then an American Soldier walks in apologizing for his tardiness.
Golfulus Shampoo kills both of them 😂
😐
And save your ass.
Jester Inmo the Americans didn't save anyone during WW1
@@harleyokeefe5193 USA sped up Germany losing the war so yeah they saved some lives on both sides. It wouldn't be until the 40s that they really got to flex nuts though.
“So how’s your day mate?”
*nein intensifies*
The most German response ever
Purely amazing.
My father-in-law (Kiwi) was fighting in Europe during WWII; he told few war stories. One was from Italy. He was walking across a field alone with his rifle strung over his back when he suddenly spotted a German sniper in a tree. The German just rested his rifle on his knee, they stared at each other silently for a minute, then the German just waved him on. Joe just walked on with his rifle still strung over his back. Soldiers ARE just pawns in an evil game of chess.
Astroflight, true
I honestly thought this was gonna be about British soldiers making omletes
Has someone who studies both world wars as a hobby, I must say this film is absolutely amazing. The realism, and both soldiers having the realization that, the people they had been fighting the whole time, were in fact that. People.
It is easy for comrads on the same team to befriend each other. But to befriend a soldier of the enemy is a difficult thing to do.
I just sometimes think, why do people dislike these beautiful creations of art?
they don't like them
Thought provoking
POWER WOLF because some people like videos with a upside down thumb
they don't dislike it, it's just Australians thinking it's the like button
I subscribed because your powerful
My grandpa who fought during ww2 could never stop talking about his days. I regret not recording his story. I miss him so much 😭😭😭
Any interesting stories you remember?
Yes, me too! What were some of the things he said?
@@thedesertfox5331 they had to drink a rainwater which were mixed with blood to survive,he said it heavily rain after their battle.
Interesting chi na mah mah e ...
I felt it when they started playing chess with rifle rounds and sugar cubes.
"Jim was brought in this war 4 years ago"
But they use early war equipment
Maximus pretty darn good short film though
Such as? The Leer-Enfield rifle remained in use throughout the war, as did the Webley revolver. The steel helmet is not early war at all, it came in in 1915. As for the uniform, bits of early war kit remained in use until the end, while the stocks lasted. The only problem I would see are the nicely polished leather boots used by the German; though even that would be possible if he'd inherited them from someone else, or managed to access leftover early war stocks.
@@Alopex1 i mean the german helmet
@@Alopex1 the german helmets that are covering most of the head and without the spike were introduced almost late war.
Edit:but im not certain if it's either the Stahlhelm M1916 introduced in early 1916 or the one to cover the back of the head introduced in 1918
@@Andreitolca1 Erm...perhaps I missed something, but the only German helmet I can see in the film is the one used by the machine-gunner, and that is a late-war German Stahlhelm, not an early war Pickelhaube. You can see the two protrusions for the attachment of extra armour plating, as well as the neck guard, both of which the Pickelhaube didn't have. Also, it's missing the Pickelhaube's spike.
That said, the steel helmets were costly to make, as they used precious steel, and due to shortages some units in the German army appear to have used the Pickelhaube long after the steel helmet was officially introduced.
Humanity always found the oasis in the midst of a chaos... Priceless...
A. A For one day, then they murdered each other with gas, MGs, and tanks :)
Gavin Dressler we don't know but I believe may be there were several incidents would had happened in the war of which we are not aware. Recently, we have seen sevral videos in which people are helping other people...
Yea and then we burn the oasis to the ground and then accept the chaos with open arms
Karl: “Checkmate, William”
William: Checkmate indeed, ol’ chap *Loads rifle*
The world could truly be a better place if we all learned to accept everyone and live in harmony
I swear I smelled smoke when that guy started smoking..
xD
Reddblue - those must have been good cigarettes...
😳
No smoke.....no war!
I’m not crying at all..it’s the onions I swear
Dessie Stone Hi Dessie I'm Jesse.
Damn onions!
Alucard Hellsing I know...they keep appearing every where
Jesse Chaitlal Hi Jesse I’m Dessie
Onions for the omelet
"WE THE UNWILLING,
LED BY THE UNQUALIFIED,
TO KILL THE UNFORTUNATE,
DIE FOR THE UNGRATEFUL"
-Nam 71-72
Very well said
and
very true.
General Smedley Butler
said it best when he said...
"War is a Racket."
In the 1930's he believed
that War was fought
for Corporate interests.
@@durasaxon5131 Alwais
war will never change
When lions are led by sheep.....
@@merlejones2222 more like lions led by rats
As a former soldier trained in the finer arts of killing, I found this an excellent short on humanity. Again, excellent work. Right to the heart of it.
"Stale. Bloody. Mate."
Sums up World War I easily. Britain, France, and Germany were stuck in stalemate, which the US came and tipped the scale. Nice of them to add that in the game of chess.
In my opinion, William tipped his king because if it weren't for Carl (Karl, Idk) he wouldn't be alive. Historical-wise, Britain couldn't keep fighting. And someone in the comments said being close to the enemy is a traitorous act to the king. Who knows. Up to anyone to come up with their own definition.
TheAverageSushi lol in 1917-18 the british army was the largest entente army.
TheAverageSushi America were just numbers really. You had Britain and France holding off Germany and their other powers, so it was pretty equal. America then came in a weighed the scales down with their obesity problems and supposedly ‘saved the day’ but there would have been the same outcome if it was America and Britain v Germany and then France coming in and etc
Hey king george V and kaiser wilhelm II are cousins
Mark San Felipe and tsar Nicholas
Ryan Harte-Stovell Germany would have won ww1 if America never joined
American numbers held the Germans back for longer while the British starved them
If the Americans hadn't joined then all of Germanies soldiers could have easily focused on Italy and entering France from the south but American numbers meant Germany had to fortify the western front after bretsk livotsk instead of destroying italy
The moment where he knocks his own piece down.
BOI OMFG THE FEELS
" I never did say thank you "
" And you ll never have to"
Thats from Batman Begins. Clever very clever 🤣
He answered “you never needed to.”
Hey this is really random and unrelated but, why is it that every time I read "Omeleto" I keep reading it as "Omelet"?
Same
You're not alone in that one sisb
The real question is, why you have the need to share it? 😂
@@JR-vt7rb Omelet
i still dont know how to pronounce this channel name
SAME!
yeah
Me too
like omleto. but with an o
for me at least
I just call it beauty.
So when they got rescued, which side found them first? How do they protect each other from getting killed from their friends on the opposing side?
They were stuck there until the war ended
@@nipunagunarathne4882 wow
German guy surrendered and became a POW
Is it a true story
@@conor23052 No, it isn't. In this scenario, though German guy probably surrendered and became a POW, or vice-versa. After the war ended he would have been freed.
I hate war. War feels me with pain and confusion. It is dark and dreadful. These men found each other in the terror and formed a life long bond. So much lost--all the pawns, the other lives, the massacres, yet through it all there are survivors and even special circumstances for friendships that last a lifetime even across enemy lines. If only there did not have to be any sacrifices at all, but it makes the small miracles even more wonderful.
This short got me in tears, not gonna lie.
Same
This gave me chills. Your videos are absolutely amazing. Bravo my friend
This made me want to cry, this was such a beautiful story. Compassion for you fellow man is a great thing.
What a grand realization it must be to discover your enemy, that beast, that monster you've been fighting, is only a man as fragile and wanting to get home to his family as much as you do.
I myself have never been in the military. My father was in he US Navy for 22 years. I used to work at a local steak house during my teens/20s
Also I grew up around VFW and American Legion posts as a teen/young 20s. My dad was a post officer at both.
I used to cook steak dinners for the vets usually under my dad...we worked well together in a kitchen.
After qa few months some of the older club members (some with (ret) Admiral Stars) started telling me stories
The stories I have heard from these gentleman when they ask to speak to me because their steak was done perfectly...from rare...to well done...I can cook a steak with my eyes/touch, the stories make you wonder if you are in the presence of a deity.
Stories that these guy probably have never told before...I felt honored to just sit and listen to them.
I still do today when I(rarely) go back to Jacksonville,FL. ( I am an honorary member of Post #7909) because of my extensive volunteering at that post.
These videos always suprise me. And this one is truly magnificent. I love the story, and the message makes me happy.
We need a full length feature film and at least 5 seasons of this masterpiece!
It has been more than a century since our forefathers have been trapped in such a situation.
Please, do allow me to remind everyone born in this century - or the century past - of this one truth...
We have been blessed.... that we do not need to fight each other.
Lets keep it that way.
Alright, Ladies and Gentlemen?
Yours truly,
A friend from Germany.
From a far distance , your friend soldier in uniform looks as the enemy soldier.
I think WW1 was the saddest war to be fought, and the ending theme of this video sums up at perfectly. Millions died, and for what? So that even more death could come in WW2. Nothing came of it.
What a perfectly lovely tale! Well done all the way around. I especially enjoyed the clear audio. Well written, well acted, lots of drama, filled with heart.
I love this. Two enemies who became friends ❤️❤️❤️❤️ both survived
Walter Kara and Henry Broadfaste are who the two main soldiers in the film are based on. The soldiers shared a trench quarter and actually made a conversation among each other. Walter was almost shot in the neck before a fellow British soldier finds the two talking, this soldier realized that Brody wasn't cuffed and he wasn't being shouted at, not only that the only weapon Walter was carrying was a Luger. But he wasn't holding it at the time. The time this conversation came was 1:00 A.M. in 1918, The Armistice.
That one's intense. Thx.
+Provocateur let go of the past. they're different now.
I think one of the actor in that short movie play as Vanee in Rogue One...
He is :D
My Lord Director Krennic is here to talk to you about war bonds.
who's vanee?
Devin Tariel hello there!
These so called enemies were human too no one realizes that
All right boys the enemy is human, i Can't believe you ended all wars and established world peace just like that
all i can say is, im blessed i wasn’t born in a time where war was a norm
@Hitroman how
@@levonwilliams7256 south China sea
Here I am getting emotional and crying again. I just discovered this page. Thanks for making me cry even though I HATE crying.
Most of the Krauts during WW2 weren't evil. They were following orders for what they they thought was right. Same as the soldiers who fought Allied Forces.
With ...sorry
I can actually agree on that.
Most of everyone isn't evil most of the time. We all get into it - - - - especially if forced. But these two weren't. Somehow.
That's for all armies they are just lead down the wrong path
Yup very true
honestly the german in this clip reminds me a lot of the college student from the one w the ex military dude
Sad to say the worst conflicts see the best and worse in people, then when people are at peace
War is such an intense and powerful concept. Do you ever wonder how many souls got lost in war that had just as beautiful stories- but were never shared?
Turns out 'Lucky Jim' wasn't that lucky after all.
Reminds me of a scene from All Quiet on the Western Front.
My Grandfather died in WWII but befriended a squad of 12 Germans that he had helped through the war. He eventually got shot down but those friends sometimes come to visit some of our family in a return of kindness, since my grandfather had saved them from one of the bombings in the battle of Guadalcanal. This video is kind of nice letting me be reminded of him a bit more throughout my life growing up now.
Wait you know Guadalcanal is in Papua New Guinea, which means there were only Japanese and no German. Learn some history dude
They met in the war but became friends forever
Would be nice if every road rage incident ended up like this.
Look up “Battle of Castle Itter”
Orppranator yes I’ve done a PowerPoint on it
the reality of war, i think, is that it is so deeply human. fear and pain are something that everyone feels, no matter what uniform they’re wearing. it is human nature to become friends, to love each other, and there is an important bond formed in an environment where fear and death are constant and heavy in the air.
This director will win an Oscar and BAFTA one day mark my words. This was just beautiful.
And to think their friendship was tested again during World War two. Kudos.
The ending music just fit and perfect closing for the entire film mood.