:45:00
If you'll read
his letter carefully...
:45:08
I will read the letter
more carefully...
:45:11
and send the tsar
my answer later.
:45:15
Good night to you, Colonel.
:45:30
Gentlemen, tomorrow at dawn...
:45:33
we cross the Niemen into Russia.
:45:35
We'll talk of peace...
:45:37
in Moscow!
:45:45
And on the 12th of June, 1812...
:45:48
Napoleon Bonaparte, at the head
of an army of 200,000 men...
:45:52
crossed the river Niemen
into Russia.
:45:55
To combat this aggressive invasion
of their homeland...
:45:58
the Russian peasant
chose to welcome the French...
:46:01
with nothing more than
a destroyed storehouse...
:46:03
a widely desolated land.
:46:14
Looting, burning.
:46:16
As soon as Napoleon
approaches a village...
:46:18
the peasants and serfs run off with
their carts and horses and grain.
:46:22
What they can't take away with them,
they burn or slaughter.
:46:25
If we don't put a stop
to it somewhere...
:46:28
we're going to leave
behind us a desert...
:46:30
a scorched earth.
:46:32
We must fight.
:46:34
The army demands it,
the tsar demands it...
:46:37
and the people demand it.
:46:43
What does the army want...
:46:46
to be destroyed?
:46:48
Because that will be
what would happen if we fought now.
:46:52
What does the tsar want...
to be brought to his knees?
:46:56
Because that would be
what would happen if we fought now.
:46:59
What do the people want...