A scene from Das Boot 1981
Lt. Werner

Captain?

Captain

I'm sorry.

Lt. Werner

You think it's hopeless now?

Captain

It's been 15 hours. He'll never do it. I'm sorry.

Lt. Werner

They made us all train for this day. "To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland." Oh God, all just empty words. It's not the way they said it was, is it? I just want someone to be with. The only thing I feel is afraid.
In the German version, Werner's words at this place were: I wanted to stand before something relentless. Where no woman crosses our path, and no mother looks after us. Where only the reality reigns, cruel and large. I was drunk of this prospect. [sobs] Now this is the reality.

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