YOUR FIRES! HURRY UP.
LIGHT YOUR FIRES.
TIME IS GETTING SHORT.
TRANSMIT TO "KRASSIN":
THERE IS TOO MUCH FOG.
WILL LOOK FOR OTHER LANDING AREA!
FLARES... MORE FLARES.
HURRY WITH THE FLARES... MORE FLARES.
STAND BY FOR CRASH LANDING!
FOUR HOURS ARE UP...
THEIR FUEL IS UP TOO!
LISTEN, CHUKNOWSKI...
LISTEN TO ME... STOP WALKING.
LEAVE ME ALONE.
SAMOILOVICH IS CALLING AGAIN.
SO WHAT?
HE WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU.
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO HIM.
WE ARE ALL RIGHT.
WHAT DO I TRANSMIT?
HE SHOULD CONTINUE
TOWARDS THE ITALIANS.
HE WANTS TO PICK US UP FIRST.
HE DEMANDS OUR POSITION.
HE'S LIKE AN OLD WOMAN...
TRANSMIT: THE SITUATION OF THE GROUP
OF THREE IS DESPERATE.
YOU WILL GET OUR POSITION
ONLY AFTER YOU RESCUE THE OTHERS.
REGARDS, CHUKNOWSKI.
BUT YOU HAVE SENT HIM
YOUR REGARDS ALREADY!
WELL, THEN... KISSES!
- Get the food out!
- And Some blankets!
The blankets! Pull them out.
I'll take that.
Get the food out! All the food you can get!
Troiani, help Behounek.
We're going down.
Just let me try it.
Here, Biagi, the radio.
Come on, there's no time!
You fool, come on!
Throw everything clear.
You are Valeria.
He asked me...
I had hoped to give you this sooner.
He's dead.
He asked me to give it to you.
I'm sorry.
Finn would have said
a general has no right to be sorry.
Malmgren, if he were able to talk,
would exonerate me to you.
You cracked like the ice, General Nobile.
You have no reason to say that.
You know nothing about it.
The ground rising up to meet us,
the screaming of the ship...
the unconsciousness of the crash.
A general in this situation...
were he Napoleon, would sit and wait.
But this is not true!
You allowed them to leave.
I understand you're deeply hurt.
You brought them all in
and could only bring yourself out.
Yes, I am hurt, General.
You and I will never meet again, I hope!
And I hope you never forget.
It's a ship.
Troiani.
It's a ship.
They've come.
- A ship.
- We're saved.
I'll be going to see my daughter.
Already safely on board the Krassin...
were Zappi, Mariano,
and the Russian airmen.
They were all safe.
And you'd been safe for two weeks, General.
Now, the charges are...
failure to exercise command...
desertion, and cowardice.
What's the verdict?
Samoilovich?
We judge a man by his actions...
and action by its results.
He left his men and went to Kingsbay...
where he radioed to me.
The result of his radio call to me...
was the rescue of the survivors.
The action, therefore, was correct.
Now, how would you describe
Chuknowski's action?
Heroic.
A second-in-command
is allowed to be heroic.
The rank and file are required to be heroic.
But their leader
has no right to risk the lives of his men...
by personal acts of heroism.
A leader must be correct.
Then the ideal leader would be a computer.
Samoilovich, your verdict.
In our opinion,
we have no right to judge General Nobile.
Just too bad.
They don't want to take any part in the jury.
But the others have to judge.
Guilty.
Guilty.
- Guilty.
- Guilty.
The jury is unanimous.
But I discount the verdict.
What? Why do you discount the verdict?
Take yourself, for instance, Captain Zappi.
You are clearly an officer
of great initiative...
and perhaps you should have led
an expedition of your own.
Thank you.
But as a second-in-command...
I personally wouldn't take you
on an expedition across a municipal park.
'Tis a thousand pities
that the merely reliable Captain Romagna...
was not in your place.
Thank you.
And a million pities
that Captain Zappi was not in yours.
Lieutenant Lundborg...
why did you so urgently persuade
the General to save his own life first?
Daren't you answer?
You disappoint me.
Yes.
Yes, I've heard it said
that I was paid a lot of money.
Yes? By whom?
By an insurance company
who would have had to pay a lot more...
if the General had lost his life.
You did it for money, then.
If I did, I wouldn't be ashamed of it.
Men are