Piękny film szczególnie że Stanley Kubrick użył szkiełka obiektywów NASA do kręcenia tego filmu.Było kilka nawet zostały użyte do kręcenia pierwszego lądowania USA na Księżycu.Trzeba podziwiać krajobrazy w tle bez lamp i rozjaśniania scen nawet ta scena z jedna świecą w tle bohaterów filmu bez jakichkolwiek naświetleń czy sztucznego światła.
In the german original it is not that kind "wenn Soldaten denken könnten blieben sie nicht in der Armee." Translated in english if soldiers cound think they would not stay in the Army.
And why? Most Prussian rulers were ambitious. Moreover the territory was extremely devasted in the 30years war, lost half of its population. In the future there should be a high risk for invaders
@@zimbabwe-wz5iw That is or at least speaks like a native speaker. Most German in Hollywood movies has a hard accent, since Americans cant pronounce certain sounds
The British army still whipped there soldiers well into the 1800s. There are many accounts from French soldiers during the Crimean war being shocked that Britain still punished there soldiers in that way.
In this war, you have to give credit to the prussians. They were virtually surrounded, against virtually all of Europe, except Great Britain. And they won and maintained all of their territory.
@@geordiejones5618 that is true, but to deny the military genius of Frederick the great and its army or the impecable victories of Loithen or Rossbach will be incredibly foolish
@@Yeahmanyup It is true that the British didn’t commit troops to fight in mainland Europe but they kept the French bottled up in North America and the Caribbean with the Royal Navy. This would help in stalling needed supplies coming from the Americas to France and vice versa.
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki it seems you only added defeats and non conquest territorial gains... yet prussian had many victories, sounds like prejudice to me.
✠CuttySobz✠ symbols are all well and good, but you can’t eat a medal
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@@92GreyBlue Yeah, but my (undeserved) commendation for bravery is just letters on a piece of paper in a closed file in an archive that nobody reads anymore and I myself don't even really care about. I would've taken a € 100 cash bonus over a commendation if the choice had existed. I can spend money. I get nothing for someone writing "Yeah, he was pretty ballsy during that one ambush" in my file. Had it been way more and been a medal, probably the same thing. It's obscene to go showing off, so what use is it? After a few months all that 'support your troops thanks for your service' bullshit just becomes annoying too. Much rather take money. That's why I signed up to begin with.
I have to think that Barry being rewarded with the sum of two Friedrich D'or for saving Captain Potzdorf was intended to serve as a reference point for later scenes to show just how high he climbed up in society, because the noblemen are throwing around THOUSANDS of Friedrich D'or over card games.
I completely agree with you here. It shows just how tilted the wealth of the nobility is. An officer's life is worth only 2 Friedrich D'or. I love this kind of social commentary as it's not slap over the head obvious but fully show not tell.
@@namename2215 I did back-of-the-napkin math one time. I own several Austrian Ducat, 1915, .11oz gold coins. They look to be about the same as a Frederick or Louis D'or. They costed me something like $230 a piece in todays money. So in 1791 value, Barry was paid something like $500 for saving Potzdorf. Meanwhile, the Prince of Tubingen owed the Chevalier 15,000 Frederick D'or, or in my calculation, something like $3,500,000
The flogging system in the Prussian Army was later removed when General Von Scharnhorst introduced reforms. Scharnhorst also introduced a system of exams, especially for officers, which they need to pass in order to be promoted Scharnhorst's reforms is ultimately one of the driving factors that helped them win against Napoleon
People I've met are amazed at the amount of history I know as I'm amazed at the amount of history I've missed. I assumed Scharnhorst was an admiral since a famous battleship was named after him. Now I will have to find out who Gneisenau is.
Barry Lyndon is such a fine film, it not only gives a fascinating historical period-piece but also a myth-like tale of the downfall of Barry himself and his faults and vices as he rises to the top only to stumble back down. I think it is quite underrated next to the shining or Dr Strangelove or Clockwork Orange. The biting commentary/satire also makes this film very good even for those not acquainted with the period, I didn't know much of anything about it. And a film where the 3 hours of runtime does not feel like a slog but worth every part.
I just love the humor of these scenes. Barry just escorting a soldier being disciplined portrying the horrors of mistreatment, Barry shooting from behind cover, and scenes before, Barry skipping the whole encounter by carrying his uncle to safety.
Indeed. In 1985 the hungarian director Ist. Szabo added to his own "Colonel Redl",(with K.M. Brandauer), a similar scene; two adolescent austrian cadets and friends, Redl and von Kubinyi get disciplined by their classmates, holding wooden sticks.
To be fair - the disciplining part, when it comes to Prussia, is actually a sign of Friedrich II's progressiveness - and I know that sounds totally barmy. However. Most other standing armies, at that time and for quite a while on, had very little tolerance to insubordinate soldiers. Many were executed, jailed, flogged, or demoted. For the smallest details. Prussia very rarely executed a soldier. Give him a few lashes (NOT flogging), and put him in the lines, was Friedrich's policy. We see it as barbaric, but media in general fails to display what the rest of the world did for the most minor of offences. In this regard, Prussia was ahead of its time. Many nations to this day prefer to demote and jail. Imagine being told you'll get a belt across the arse and be sent to the worst areas of combat haha no comfy cells!
When the Officer said „eight Steps forward“ (in german), I couldnt help but laugh when I (=a prussian) caught myself counting his steps if they were really eight...they were. GUT GEMACHT.
Nice to hear the Prussians of the Seven Years' War playing the "Hohenfriedberger Marsch" that commemorates their namesake victory in that war, a march which just happened to have been written A FULL 100 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE TOOK PLACE!
@@miklosernoehazy8678 That's exactly what I'm saying, did you not read what I wrote? I made the point that it's a film, not a documentary; therefore it doesn't need to be accurate.
@@AngSco30 ...I did read what you wrote... ... I was trying to show that I agree with you, and not argue with you... ...in fact, I really can't think of another Prussian march that would better suit this sequence of the film... ...and martial music from that era, specifically music from Prussia, is something of a hobby (or area of interest) of mine...
Oh he would of respected the hell out of them, probably the only European army at the time that would gain his immense interest. For their period they were unmatched
0:55 that was not entirely true. At the start of the seven years war, the prussian army was about 25% mercenaries or forced levies from other countries (mostly the recently annexed Silesia), and about 75% "Landeskinder". At the end of the war, all the mercenaries were gone, and only the Landeskinder remained loyal.
Not even a lot. The amount of contractors/mercenaries the US hires to do unaccountable actions is about 50% more than the amount of US military personnel deployed. The Prussians at least disciplined their scoundrels. People underestimate how important private armies are with modern militaries, nobody cares about contractor deaths or their misdoings. Just look at the Wagner group.
@@maaz322 "the amount of contractors/mercenaries the US hires to do unaccountable actions is about 50% more than the amount of US military personnel deployed." Unaccountable actions are carried out by contractors for a reason... They are specialized to fight under the radar, and responsbility can be shifted away to a much higher extent. During wartime, be it official declared wars like WW2 or unofficial de-facto wars like Iraq, the US did not use mercenaries to an extent that could even be expressed in percent. "Not even a lot." I never claimed it was. A third would have been the standard of the time.
3:03 fun detail. Captain Potsdorf looks visibly bothered by the colonel accusing Barry of being basically a useless but lucky soldier. Afterall Barry saved his life and the colonel all but dismisses this feat. By extension he dismissed the captain as being irrelevant.
According to estimates based on historical sources, about 100,000 Prussians survived the fight with the Teutonic Knights. Based on the number of villages established on the so-called In Prussian law, it is estimated that at the beginning of the 15th century, about 150,000 Prussians lived in Prussia, nearly 40% of the population.
@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Please forgive me, but I don't waste time explaining why in Deutschland you say Germany, and they themselves call themselves Deutschland, please read Ozorius History against pagans
@@KunaBojowa I don’t know if English isn’t your first language or if you just wanted to be a smart ass for a little boost to your ego. The person who responded with “????” was probably confused by the way you worded your original comment. You didn’t clarify Prussians from Old Prussians or anything else for that matter. Next time, be more clear in your wording before being rude.
Except for the part about the soldiers of the Prussian army. They were not mostly stolen or hired from foreign lands. Most of them were drawn from Prussia and they had a system to draw much more from their native population then what should've been possible. Also helped that everyone funded them if they were on their side.
@@rainyvideos3684 The book was Written in 1844, the Author was closer to the events than any Scholar you are quoting, he only had to ask Veterans, so the source is more than validated, Kubrick had a solid foundation for his historical drama.
@@marcosambrosino Barry Lyndon, it's a movie based in the political picaresque : the luck of Barry Lyndon, both to me are considered an important historical reference, unfortunately the hubris of today schollar community disregard documents written in it's respective times or close to such times, almost as if they intend to rewrite history.
@@dandyrevisionist7879 Thanks! About the "intention to rewrite history", unfortunately, that's worldwide consequence of allowing the left to occupy spaces.
We had this in my secondary school in the sixties . With the slight difference being it was gym shoes that was the weapon of choice and you wasn't aloud to strike above the waist line ( but if you didn't make it to the end of the line that rule was forgotten about ) it was called "running the gauntlet" happy days !
I can't help but think that the blanket party in Full Metal Jacket was some kind of spiritual succession to the Prussian soldier led by Barry being run through the gauntlet in this movie.
And this is why Prussia kicked ass and would later be the ones who unified Germany. I get the feeling that the Japanese, in their best shogun tradition, admire this.
@@danielmedina3094 Yep... That's right. Still, they admired France and the UK and saw how France lost a new country called Germany. It had to be interesting.
Mutilations? No no no! What use is a mutiltated soldier? A mutilated soldier is a burden, not an asset! Chastations on the otherhand were usefull sometimes and are still used today, albeit not in corproral form.
Piercing noses and cutting out tongues were punishments that still existed on the books for crimes like adultery and blasphemy. Desertion was punished by cutting off ears or the nose, etc. Real medieval shit.
Sometimes deserters were mutilated before execution yes, but no european army at that time (Except maybe the Ottomans) mutilated their soldiers and then let them back into their companies. That would only be contraproductive, and the Preussians knew better than that! Chastastions (Whipping, public shaming and so on) were common punishments though, but mutilations were defintely out of the question, at least for the ones that still were in the military!! Deserters on the other hand...
And I think Prussia got ther dicipline and army build-up doctrine from the Swedish army doctrine made by king karl XI and his Karolin-arme, the doctrine started 1682 in Sweden by Karl XI, and the Karolin-army kick the Prussian ass in a number of battles under the Swedish king Karl XII in the great Northen war 1700-1721.
Description reads: Austrian Maria Theresia, who was deprived of Schlesian by Prussia during the Austrian throne war, prayed for recapture, focused on increasing military spending, and at the same time cooperated with France, which had been hostile for 200 years, again made in Russia, Sweden, Saxony and other Germans. It also formed an alliance with the country and established a system to besiege Prussia. On the other hand, Prussia's Friedrich II, who had collusion with the British, defeated the steamship and invaded Saxony in August 1756, and the war broke out. With this blitzkrieg, Prussia won the Western War, but after a while, it was gradually consumed by a counterattack by the dominant enemy forces. I was on the defensive. In particular, after being defeated by the Austrian-Russian coalition in August 1759 in the Kunersdorf rotation, Berlin was also temporarily occupied, and the British Great Pitt was dismissed, and the aid of military funds was cut off, and Friedrich fell into a state of isolation and unemployment. There was a time when he decided to commit suicide after despair. However, the situation changed after the sudden death of Empress Elizabeth of Russia in 1762 and Peter III, who worshiped Friedrich, was crowned. . As a result, Prussia rose to the position of European powers and solidified the foundation for hegemony in Germany. Came to establish the stomach. [Naver Encyclopedia of Knowledge]
Indeed she prayed for recapture after failing twice, and after being told that Silesia is now Prussian and thats the end of it. Great that it took ALL of the best Continental Powers to fail with her on the 3rd go.
Barry Lyndon, a long watch that requires perseverance but rewarding in the end. Some of the cinematography in this movie is without equal, one of Kubrick's finest in that regard, if not the most entertaining.
@@joelspringman7748 Thanks for reminding me! I've watched Zodiac and The Day of the Jackal recently. Both are plenty long. So I can handle Barry Lyndon.
The brutality was most a post war problem. Its early war troops were from other nations. Latter war was the call up of the cantonal system. Friedrich was not likely to hurt these men with good cause.
This is one reason they were so disciplined and successful. They even had uniforms at one point that restricted their ability to turn their heads so they always looked forward in battle. I guess this is Kubrik's film, Barry Lindon. I will have to see this.
Love how they make musket fire in this movie sound like paintball guns, went to a reenactment one time and it was the loudest damn thing I've ever experienced
still seems that Barry Lyndon is the only decent film covering this period ..both in music and avoiding the ludicrous levels of stuff seen in various films about the FIW and AWI. Where else do you see Prussian troops of the 7YW?
For example in "Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck" , a miniseries from 1973. Not sure if there is an English version though.
You know, the most difficult thing about 'Barry Lyndon' is that absolutely NO character in it is actually likeable. Every single one of them is a conniving weasel and Barry himself has as much character a diahorretic turd. Well, the kid was nice enough, for a spoiled little fop-ling. Addendum: I should say that this is a really beautifully shot film with rich details. The fact that I didn't particularly like the characters doesn't detract from a legitimate technical achievement.
I felt bad for Lady Lyndon. She truly was in love with him but as they say, give your heart to a rogue and he’ll destroy it. In the end, she loses her fortune and her son.
@@crispinjulius5032 I can see your point, but once she had Barry's measure as a man she could have cut him off instead of letting the rogue strip-mine her estate like he did. As a widow, she was no innocent abroad. I see her as weak-willed in her own way as some of the detestable males in the film. She is a pathetic figure, certainly, but a great deal of her plight was her own making. Still, of all the main characters, I think you're right in that she deserves the most sympathy... or the larger portion of what little sympathy the lot of them get.
Frederick William III wasn't too bad a leader either. Rather than stand and fight Napoleon in another decisive showdown after Jena, he retreated the army and held out in East Prussia until the Russians could reinforce him. Although he still had to make peace with the French for a while, his decision may have saved his kingdom's army from total destruction.
To be fair. Thank to that "weird" Tsar of Russia which is a Fredrick the great Fanboy made Prussian win the war. During that time Russia change allegiances faster than Thanos snap his finger
Prussia was poor in resources, poor climate,poor soil, poor in every other way. But, it was the only country in Europe with compulsory school attendance, it was the only country where the ruling class considered itself servants of the people and not the other way around and the only country in the world where the king could be sued in court by a humble peasant ( Miller vs, Frederick the Great).
@@PrelaE frederick's alleged last words or at least last messages were that he was tired ruling over slaves, meaning he doesn't want to rule over serfs, but free men.
Damn that gauntlet run was so harsh in a brilliant way, walk too fast and you get impaled by a bayonet so you have to keep the exact pace as you're getting whipped
If you knew anything about history, you wouldn't be throwing 'cultural marixist' around, unless you're beyond ignorant and parroting demagogues. Oh no, not fat guys in fedoras! That's much worse than the annihilation of entire groups of people!
Again, 'cultural marxist' is literally a Nazi propaganda buzzword. I don't care at all if fat guys want to wear fedoras. I care a hell of a lot for racist buffoons trying to dominate people, which has been the cause of untold suffering for millenia.
I assume the English get nervous the same way when a Dane starts building a boat. Anyway ... we keep Schleswig-Holstein. Best regards from Germany (I had East-Prussian grandparents from what is now Kaliningrad). :-)
@@kylej741 One G-Grandma was Polish, one was from Alsace (back when it was still German), both G-Grandpas East Prussian. Family had relatives in Yugoslavia ("Volksdeutsche"). My dad (born 1934 in E-P) spent his childhood at the Danube until 1944. The 1/8 Polish that I am certainly helps me surving parties with my Polish neighbors and friends. :-)
This battalion formation scene and Barry being awarded was essentially recreated in WW2 terms for the 1993 movie “Stalingrad” and they even used the same Prussian “Hohenfriedberger Marsch”, except sped up a bit. Like Barry was chastised by his command, so too was the German sergeant in the Stalingrad film who had his medal revoked for refusing to button his collar.
@@Marco-bf4uu I'm certain. Prussians used a blue coat with different accent colors/embroideries but the main thing that gives it away is the regimental standard. It's of the 13th infantry regiment.
Tanner Herzman Truth, many people who know better would never join an army voluntarily. Only the brave and those who value their country join the soldiery, and also those who have no other prospects in life. However, soldiers are necessary for a nation and soldiers endure what others cannot and will not endure.
The Prussians in this battle scene are fighting the same French regiment as the English in the other battle scene. It's the regiment of Flandres. What a polyvalent regiment.
I noticed when I first saw this movie that the voice giving the French commands sounded identical to that of the English battle and I wondered if that was intentional or just reusing the audio they had. Knowing Stanley Kubrick he'd never let that happen unintentionally.
Strafen wie der Spießrutenlauf waren selten in der preußischen Armee. Außerdem war Friedrich II der Große einer der ersten Monarchen der die Folter abgeschafft hat. Und ich weiß nicht was für Uniformen das sind, denn die meisten preußischen Infanterieuniformen waren blau, gelb und rot
In the time of this war (before Napoleon) the Prussians were , both military and technologically and strategically advanced , like other sides. So the chances to succeed were very balanced. Whereas after the Napoleon, e.g. (Prussian -Austrian war 100 years later), the warfare on the land was already completely in the hands of far more superior Prussians, resp. France and especially Austrian Empire stayed 100 years behind .
Kubrick contrasts Prussian culture with that of British society & the landed gentry, which mainly consists ideas of opportunism & hoarding wealth, and that's why most of the British characters in the movie were either land owners, businessmen, or gamblers. Redmond Barry & Chevalier du Balibari, who were both British, were both intensely lonely in their time in Prussia not only because they were away from their family, but because it's not in their blood to dedicate themselves to Prussian duty & loyalty
Coz british descended from saxons, germanic tribe who migrated to England after the fall of the roman empire and they also got norse(north germanic) blood via vikings and normans (french norse)
He’s talking about how terrible it was to be a part of the Prussian army, yet it was the Prussian army that would become one of the most legendary and respected in history.
Doesn't change how terrible experience it was,though.Respect comes from overcoming hardship,so if they were among the most respected,you don't need to guess that much how hard earned it was
you do know that the prussian army during the 7 years war by the end was absolutely pathetic since majority of its experienced soldiers and officers are killed? Prussia was literally saved by luck at least 2 times
"Advanced in the science of every kind of misconduct"
What a brilliant line
This movie is full of them, they did a fantastic job.
Piękny film szczególnie że Stanley Kubrick użył szkiełka obiektywów NASA do kręcenia tego filmu.Było kilka nawet zostały użyte do kręcenia pierwszego lądowania USA na Księżycu.Trzeba podziwiać krajobrazy w tle bez lamp i rozjaśniania scen nawet ta scena z jedna świecą w tle bohaterów filmu bez jakichkolwiek naświetleń czy sztucznego światła.
Sounds like the modern university.
I was lmao when I heard that line..
what movie is theis?@@IJustKant
“ If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.”
-Fredrick The Great
People thought Frederick the Great was building Orphanages! That is why the Prussians were the greatest Opponents of Napoleon's Health Care!
Couldn't find a source for that one
@@izayaorihara7059 You can find the quote on the "AllAuthor".
Sounds like a perfect Tsar
In the german original it is not that kind "wenn Soldaten denken könnten blieben sie nicht in der Armee." Translated in english if soldiers cound think they would not stay in the Army.
"While many states have an army, Prussia's army has a state"
And why? Most Prussian rulers were ambitious. Moreover the territory was extremely devasted in the 30years war, lost half of its population. In the future there should be a high risk for invaders
Quote by Voltaire by the way
Voltaire besties was Fred the Great.
Prussia Kingdom...
Germany Unifier....
@@rudolfkraffzick642 they are a land power they are not isolated island have no real oceanic border, so gerany always is forced o be that way.
As a German I like that the Colonel was speaking proper German.
Whats proper german? Is it like recieved pronunciation or standard American English?
@@zimbabwe-wz5iw That is or at least speaks like a native speaker. Most German in Hollywood movies has a hard accent, since Americans cant pronounce certain sounds
The fact that he was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horcke in Mainz may have something to do with his proper pronunciation 😄
@@mrube683 It might :D Nevertheless, Hollywood should cast more native speakers. That is one of the reasons I enjoy Tarantino flicks so much.
Stanley Kubrick....nuff said mein Herr.
The British army still whipped there soldiers well into the 1800s. There are many accounts from French soldiers during the Crimean war being shocked that Britain still punished there soldiers in that way.
Yeah they still flogged and executed them for offenses that were considered minor in other armies
Yeah, the prussian abolished flogging in the 1800s after they had been defeated by Napoleon while the British didn't.
Anti Particle Napoleon didn't beat us. Maybe flogging had a point?
@@davidscoltock3970 I didn't say Napoleon beat the British did I?
@@davidscoltock3970 He certainly beat some of the expeditions.
In this war, you have to give credit to the prussians. They were virtually surrounded, against virtually all of Europe, except Great Britain. And they won and maintained all of their territory.
It was because Russia pulled out at the last second right?
@@geordiejones5618 Yes. And that was by far, Russia's worst mistake ever.
@@enenao Britain wasn’t feeling too helpful towards them though.
@@geordiejones5618 that is true, but to deny the military genius of Frederick the great and its army or the impecable victories of Loithen or Rossbach will be incredibly foolish
@@Yeahmanyup It is true that the British didn’t commit troops to fight in mainland Europe but they kept the French bottled up in North America and the Caribbean with the Royal Navy. This would help in stalling needed supplies coming from the Americas to France and vice versa.
_1 5 0 % D I S C I P L I N E_
Prussian Space Marines!
Discipline my ass
france : we have elan!!
prussia : sorry, what??
For God, King, fatherland and army are 400 % discipline!
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki it seems you only added defeats and non conquest territorial gains... yet prussian had many victories, sounds like prejudice to me.
"Your men died well, here is 2 coins, of with you now"
Well, back then money was a lot more useful than medals and promotions where rather limited
Yeah, pay wasn't much and wasn't regular, and those 2 coins had a much higher value than today
People who degenerate war medals into pieces of cloth and metal are missing the whole point.... they are SYMBOLIC.
✠CuttySobz✠ symbols are all well and good, but you can’t eat a medal
@@92GreyBlue
Yeah, but my (undeserved) commendation for bravery is just letters on a piece of paper in a closed file in an archive that nobody reads anymore and I myself don't even really care about. I would've taken a € 100 cash bonus over a commendation if the choice had existed. I can spend money. I get nothing for someone writing "Yeah, he was pretty ballsy during that one ambush" in my file.
Had it been way more and been a medal, probably the same thing. It's obscene to go showing off, so what use is it? After a few months all that 'support your troops thanks for your service' bullshit just becomes annoying too.
Much rather take money. That's why I signed up to begin with.
I have to think that Barry being rewarded with the sum of two Friedrich D'or for saving Captain Potzdorf was intended to serve as a reference point for later scenes to show just how high he climbed up in society, because the noblemen are throwing around THOUSANDS of Friedrich D'or over card games.
I completely agree with you here. It shows just how tilted the wealth of the nobility is. An officer's life is worth only 2 Friedrich D'or. I love this kind of social commentary as it's not slap over the head obvious but fully show not tell.
I thought about this every time I see it
how is this movie/series called?
@@namename2215 I did back-of-the-napkin math one time. I own several Austrian Ducat, 1915, .11oz gold coins. They look to be about the same as a Frederick or Louis D'or. They costed me something like $230 a piece in todays money. So in 1791 value, Barry was paid something like $500 for saving Potzdorf. Meanwhile, the Prince of Tubingen owed the Chevalier 15,000 Frederick D'or, or in my calculation, something like $3,500,000
@@danpan4982 barry lyndon be stanley kubrik
200 years later, Barry Lyndon lead the American 82nd Airborne division at Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden, under the name General James Gavin.
+TheBritishBulldog
Watch A Bridge Too Far, mate.
Same actor.
So as through a glass and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names - but always me.
+Elxaime
That one sound familiar, but I can't remember where I've heard/read it before.
George S. Patton :)
And 26 years after that he married a woman who later died of cancer. Very sad.
The flogging system in the Prussian Army was later removed when General Von Scharnhorst introduced reforms.
Scharnhorst also introduced a system of exams, especially for officers, which they need to pass in order to be promoted
Scharnhorst's reforms is ultimately one of the driving factors that helped them win against Napoleon
People I've met are amazed at the amount of history I know as I'm amazed at the amount of history I've missed. I assumed Scharnhorst was an admiral since a famous battleship was named after him. Now I will have to find out who Gneisenau is.
Scharnhorst is a general during the Napoleonic Wars....he was actually killed in battle fighting the French.
@@jrt818 so you havent read Clausewitz...
@@sedargames8161Haven't read him but familiar with his quote about war being the continuation of politics by other means.
@@jrt818 He was an admirer of Scharnhorst (and his friend).
Barry Lyndon is such a fine film, it not only gives a fascinating historical period-piece but also a myth-like tale of the downfall of Barry himself and his faults and vices as he rises to the top only to stumble back down. I think it is quite underrated next to the shining or Dr Strangelove or Clockwork Orange. The biting commentary/satire also makes this film very good even for those not acquainted with the period, I didn't know much of anything about it. And a film where the 3 hours of runtime does not feel like a slog but worth every part.
In addition, I feel Barry Lyndon set the stage for alot of future productions (of the same period) to have shots that imitate art from the era.
It's not as popular because most people are too stupid and impatient for that kind of film.
@@Camcolito: Bingo. You nailed it.
Kubrick shot the whole film with natural lighting.
@@SidneyBroadsheadI totally loved the lighting for Paths of Glory. From natural outdoors to single incandecent bulb. Genius all tje way.
I just love the humor of these scenes. Barry just escorting a soldier being disciplined portrying the horrors of mistreatment, Barry shooting from behind cover, and scenes before, Barry skipping the whole encounter by carrying his uncle to safety.
Indeed. In 1985 the hungarian director Ist. Szabo added to his own "Colonel Redl",(with K.M. Brandauer), a similar scene; two adolescent austrian cadets and friends, Redl and von Kubinyi get disciplined by their classmates, holding wooden sticks.
That's the spirit of the film, how a man of those times keeps foxing and dodging the institutions so he can get ahead of his lot.
this guy gets it
@@mauricio460 What has changed?
To be fair - the disciplining part, when it comes to Prussia, is actually a sign of Friedrich II's progressiveness - and I know that sounds totally barmy. However. Most other standing armies, at that time and for quite a while on, had very little tolerance to insubordinate soldiers. Many were executed, jailed, flogged, or demoted. For the smallest details. Prussia very rarely executed a soldier. Give him a few lashes (NOT flogging), and put him in the lines, was Friedrich's policy. We see it as barbaric, but media in general fails to display what the rest of the world did for the most minor of offences. In this regard, Prussia was ahead of its time. Many nations to this day prefer to demote and jail. Imagine being told you'll get a belt across the arse and be sent to the worst areas of combat haha no comfy cells!
When the Officer said „eight Steps forward“ (in german), I couldnt help but laugh when I (=a prussian) caught myself counting his steps if they were really eight...they were. GUT GEMACHT.
Prussia doesn't exist. Therefore, you not a Prussian.
same
1:13 Thank God I'm in a building with thick walls, those poor bastards outside.
Actually, in the next scene building was destroyed by enemy artillery,thus scene was cut from this video
@@saltysalt7627 what is the film name ??
@@robbielingga6530 Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Why didn't people bother taking cover and just standing in the field open and shooting each other those days?
@@OtoMagaldadze Линейная тактика
Nice to hear the Prussians of the Seven Years' War playing the "Hohenfriedberger Marsch" that commemorates their namesake victory in that war, a march which just happened to have been written A FULL 100 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE TOOK PLACE!
It’s a film! It’s not a documentary.
It was written by Frederick the Great himself
@@AngSco30 ...the music is about atmosphere to the scene, not accuracy to history...
@@miklosernoehazy8678 That's exactly what I'm saying, did you not read what I wrote? I made the point that it's a film, not a documentary; therefore it doesn't need to be accurate.
@@AngSco30 ...I did read what you wrote...
... I was trying to show that I agree with you, and not argue with you...
...in fact, I really can't think of another Prussian march that would better suit this sequence of the film...
...and martial music from that era, specifically music from Prussia, is something of a hobby (or area of interest) of mine...
Even Sun Tzu would be impressed with the Prussian Army's legendary reputation of being a well-trained and well-disciplined fighting force。
Oh he would of respected the hell out of them, probably the only European army at the time that would gain his immense interest. For their period they were unmatched
Look at Iena Audstasdt they were destroyed in a single day. A whole army disintegrated.
@@walideg5304Davout packwatch!
@@etholus1000Um the French bro?
@@romyarmada2521 Eh
that mount and blade NW role play regiment seems very nice!
auf gehts kamaraden!!!!
@@tenno5509 Gott schütze den König!!!
@@marschallblucher6197 zu mir!!!!!!
@@iancuPotcoava24 URRAAAAAA
2:33 "Ratatat!"
he said "gerettet hat"
it means "has saved"
@test tor Now say that again without crying ;)
0:55 that was not entirely true. At the start of the seven years war, the prussian army was about 25% mercenaries or forced levies from other countries (mostly the recently annexed Silesia), and about 75% "Landeskinder". At the end of the war, all the mercenaries were gone, and only the Landeskinder remained loyal.
Not even a lot. The amount of contractors/mercenaries the US hires to do unaccountable actions is about 50% more than the amount of US military personnel deployed. The Prussians at least disciplined their scoundrels. People underestimate how important private armies are with modern militaries, nobody cares about contractor deaths or their misdoings. Just look at the Wagner group.
@@maaz322 "the amount of contractors/mercenaries the US hires to do unaccountable actions is about 50% more than the amount of US military personnel deployed."
Unaccountable actions are carried out by contractors for a reason... They are specialized to fight under the radar, and responsbility can be shifted away to a much higher extent. During wartime, be it official declared wars like WW2 or unofficial de-facto wars like Iraq, the US did not use mercenaries to an extent that could even be expressed in percent.
"Not even a lot."
I never claimed it was. A third would have been the standard of the time.
yeah source?
@@ComradeHellas Wolfgang Venohrs essay on Frederick The Great in "Preußische Profile".
Dog mercenaries fight for gold , loyalty was a nonstarter
The colonel is a true judge of character. He sees beyond the shallow exhibitionism of Barry and knows that the boy is rotten at the core.
He knew a wrong'un when he saw one.
I think they thought the same about all of their men
3:03 fun detail. Captain Potsdorf looks visibly bothered by the colonel accusing Barry of being basically a useless but lucky soldier. Afterall Barry saved his life and the colonel all but dismisses this feat. By extension he dismissed the captain as being irrelevant.
He was pretty accurate in his assessment if we're being fair.
Brilliant film. I randomly watched it from start to finish on TV one night and was utterly transfixed for 4 hours
Been looking for this for ages! Thank you for posting it!
According to estimates based on historical sources, about 100,000 Prussians survived the fight with the Teutonic Knights. Based on the number of villages established on the so-called In Prussian law, it is estimated that at the beginning of the 15th century, about 150,000 Prussians lived in Prussia, nearly 40% of the population.
@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Please forgive me, but I don't waste time explaining why in Deutschland you say Germany, and they themselves call themselves Deutschland, please read Ozorius History against pagans
He is talking about the 'Old Prussians' that existed in the area before the Tectonic Order arrived where they killed much of the native population
@@leoi6 God willed it.
@@KunaBojowa I don’t know if English isn’t your first language or if you just wanted to be a smart ass for a little boost to your ego. The person who responded with “????” was probably confused by the way you worded your original comment. You didn’t clarify Prussians from Old Prussians or anything else for that matter. Next time, be more clear in your wording before being rude.
@@cgavin1 how absolutely disgusting and void of empathy of a comment
4:00 - What a beautiful painting.
Amazing interiors, specially the second half of the movie.
An accurate historical Drama, Kubrick was honest in his art.
Except for the part about the soldiers of the Prussian army. They were not mostly stolen or hired from foreign lands. Most of them were drawn from Prussia and they had a system to draw much more from their native population then what should've been possible. Also helped that everyone funded them if they were on their side.
@@rainyvideos3684 The book was Written in 1844, the Author was closer to the events than any Scholar you are quoting, he only had to ask Veterans, so the source is more than validated, Kubrick had a solid foundation for his historical drama.
What's the name of this movie?
@@marcosambrosino Barry Lyndon, it's a movie based in the political picaresque : the luck of Barry Lyndon, both to me are considered an important historical reference, unfortunately the hubris of today schollar community disregard documents written in it's respective times or close to such times, almost as if they intend to rewrite history.
@@dandyrevisionist7879 Thanks!
About the "intention to rewrite history", unfortunately, that's worldwide consequence of allowing the left to occupy spaces.
I love this, no smartphones, no cameras, just people living in the moment
멋진 전쟁 장면입니다,. 감사합니다
0:00 when you went back in time to call the Prussians kraut
That's right 👍
and do you know why we where called Kraut? And the English Limies?
We had this in my secondary school in the sixties . With the slight difference being it was gym shoes that was the weapon of choice and you wasn't aloud to strike above the waist line ( but if you didn't make it to the end of the line that rule was forgotten about ) it was called "running the gauntlet" happy days !
Aloud and allowed are different words with different meanings.
I can't help but think that the blanket party in Full Metal Jacket was some kind of spiritual succession to the Prussian soldier led by Barry being run through the gauntlet in this movie.
Good point. I didn't think about that.
How bad do you want to talk about the Prussian army:
Whoever produced this: yes
And this is why Prussia kicked ass and would later be the ones who unified Germany. I get the feeling that the Japanese, in their best shogun tradition, admire this.
Laudon would disagree :)
Curiously the Japanese were Pro-French as they used French weapons and uniforms during the Meiji Restoration, so they saw how France lost.
And after the forced opening of Japan in 1853 they used Dutch ships to modernise their navy.
Tojo is said to have greatly admired German military tradition and perhaps may have taken some inspiration from Germany.
@@danielmedina3094 Yep... That's right. Still, they admired France and the UK and saw how France lost a new country called Germany. It had to be interesting.
Mutilations? No no no! What use is a mutiltated soldier? A mutilated soldier is a burden, not an asset!
Chastations on the otherhand were usefull sometimes and are still used today, albeit not in corproral form.
Piercing noses and cutting out tongues were punishments that still existed on the books for crimes like adultery and blasphemy. Desertion was punished by cutting off ears or the nose, etc. Real medieval shit.
Sometimes deserters were mutilated before execution yes, but no european army at that time (Except maybe the Ottomans) mutilated their soldiers and then let them back into their companies. That would only be contraproductive, and the Preussians knew better than that!
Chastastions (Whipping, public shaming and so on) were common punishments though, but mutilations were defintely out of the question, at least for the ones that still were in the military!! Deserters on the other hand...
Do not confuse mutilation with maiming.
If you can, march and use your rifle you’re good enough I guess. Any other body part is fair game
@GEEKERS, not really. You have to be worth the food that bring to feed you.
Film this comes from is "Barry Lyndon".
The movie didn't look like it was made in 1975. Looks like something that would have been made 25 years later
It's astonishingly beautiful, and a technical marvel. Not to mention just a great film.
But what film is this?
@@bigmikem1578 Barry Lyndon. Directed by Stanley Kubrick
and the USA got the dicipline from a german officer called steuben. 1778
Glad someone knows. German American day is this Wednesday. Be sure to celebrate.
And I think Prussia got ther dicipline and army build-up doctrine from the Swedish army doctrine made by king karl XI and his Karolin-arme, the doctrine started 1682 in Sweden by Karl XI, and the Karolin-army kick the Prussian ass in a number of battles under the Swedish king Karl XII in the great Northen war 1700-1721.
Can we give a big thanks to the cameraman for actually using a camera with color? Great historical footage
Description reads:
Austrian Maria Theresia, who was deprived of Schlesian by Prussia during the Austrian throne war, prayed for recapture, focused on increasing military spending, and at the same time cooperated with France, which had been hostile for 200 years, again made in Russia, Sweden, Saxony and other Germans. It also formed an alliance with the country and established a system to besiege Prussia. On the other hand, Prussia's Friedrich II, who had collusion with the British, defeated the steamship and invaded Saxony in August 1756, and the war broke out. With this blitzkrieg, Prussia won the Western War, but after a while, it was gradually consumed by a counterattack by the dominant enemy forces. I was on the defensive. In particular, after being defeated by the Austrian-Russian coalition in August 1759 in the Kunersdorf rotation, Berlin was also temporarily occupied, and the British Great Pitt was dismissed, and the aid of military funds was cut off, and Friedrich fell into a state of isolation and unemployment. There was a time when he decided to commit suicide after despair.
However, the situation changed after the sudden death of Empress Elizabeth of Russia in 1762 and Peter III, who worshiped Friedrich, was crowned. . As a result, Prussia rose to the position of European powers and solidified the foundation for hegemony in Germany. Came to establish the stomach. [Naver Encyclopedia of Knowledge]
Indeed she prayed for recapture after failing twice, and after being told that Silesia is now Prussian and thats the end of it. Great that it took ALL of the best Continental Powers to fail with her on the 3rd go.
Ah, Barry Lyndon - such a great movie.
People in Europe :
The Prussian army is invincible
Napoleon : *HOLD MY BEER* (battle of Jena-Auerstedt, 1806)
Beer? Napoleon would drink wine
Napoleon would drink Champagne ?!
Wellington and Blücher entering the chat.....
Napoleon has left the Chat for St. Helena
Prussian Army: no u (Siege of Paris, 1814, 1871)
The battle scenes just make me think of how awesome Kubrick’s film about napoleon would have been
Barry Lydon looks like a painting that comes alive.
For those interested read For King and Kaiser. The Making of a Prussian Army Officer 1860-1914 by Steven Clemente. Excellent book!
My absolute favorite movie. I watch this a few times every year and never get tired of it.
Wotter what is the name of this Film?
@@caribbeanblueboatchartersl2760 Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a timeless masterpiece.
Barry Lyndon, a long watch that requires perseverance but rewarding in the end. Some of the cinematography in this movie is without equal, one of Kubrick's finest in that regard, if not the most entertaining.
A few years ago I made the attempt to watch this movie and failed. I must try again soon.
@@Scopper81
Endeavor to persevere!
@@joelspringman7748 Thanks for reminding me! I've watched Zodiac and The Day of the Jackal recently. Both are plenty long. So I can handle Barry Lyndon.
The whole movie fucking rocks, no perseverance needed
The brutality was most a post war problem. Its early war troops were from other nations. Latter war was the call up of the cantonal system. Friedrich was not likely to hurt these men with good cause.
Looks like I'll have to go to Seoul for a language course to be able to read the description for the video🙂
Looks like you'll have to go to nahui
This is one reason they were so disciplined and successful. They even had uniforms at one point that restricted their ability to turn their heads so they always looked forward in battle. I guess this is Kubrik's film, Barry Lindon. I will have to see this.
Geez is that true!? Somehow, it actually scares me a little.
@@raulfernandez57 it is true, but it does not seem to be intentional - rather, their uniforms were really bad.
Barry Lyndon is such an underrated movie.
I Love this movie.
Certainly not underrated, don't devalue the word.
0:03 and that's just what it's like going to the chow hall.....jeez talk about brutal.
Love how they make musket fire in this movie sound like paintball guns, went to a reenactment one time and it was the loudest damn thing I've ever experienced
It’s a crime Stanley Kubrick never got to made a Napoleon film
Just fyi, this is a scene from Stanley Kubrick's film Barry Lindon, truly remarkable movie.
Just fyi it's Lyndon
Barry Lyndon one of the greatest movies ever made.
still seems that Barry Lyndon is the only decent film covering this period ..both in music and avoiding the ludicrous levels of stuff seen in various films about the FIW and AWI. Where else do you see Prussian troops of the 7YW?
For example in "Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck" , a miniseries from 1973. Not sure if there is an English version though.
@@Fred_L. thanks..there are lot of series on all sorts of wars etc that dont see when in other languages
You know, the most difficult thing about 'Barry Lyndon' is that absolutely NO character in it is actually likeable. Every single one of them is a conniving weasel and Barry himself has as much character a diahorretic turd. Well, the kid was nice enough, for a spoiled little fop-ling.
Addendum: I should say that this is a really beautifully shot film with rich details. The fact that I didn't particularly like the characters doesn't detract from a legitimate technical achievement.
I felt bad for Lady Lyndon. She truly was in love with him but as they say, give your heart to a rogue and he’ll destroy it. In the end, she loses her fortune and her son.
@@crispinjulius5032 I can see your point, but once she had Barry's measure as a man she could have cut him off instead of letting the rogue strip-mine her estate like he did. As a widow, she was no innocent abroad. I see her as weak-willed in her own way as some of the detestable males in the film. She is a pathetic figure, certainly, but a great deal of her plight was her own making. Still, of all the main characters, I think you're right in that she deserves the most sympathy... or the larger portion of what little sympathy the lot of them get.
Remember what napoleon said, of Fredrick the great as he visited his grave to his generals, gentleman if this man where here today we wouldn't be.
Frederick William III wasn't too bad a leader either. Rather than stand and fight Napoleon in another decisive showdown after Jena, he retreated the army and held out in East Prussia until the Russians could reinforce him. Although he still had to make peace with the French for a while, his decision may have saved his kingdom's army from total destruction.
@@thunderbird1921 im so thankful for nerds like you, i thought I was td only 1 good points all of them.
If it wasn't for the Prussian,s we'd all be speaking French or Russian by now
And if it wasn't for Russians or French, we'd all be speaking German by now
@@Dan-hy6tx Surely not.
@@Dan-hy6tx *Americans
To be fair. Thank to that "weird" Tsar of Russia which is a Fredrick the great Fanboy made Prussian win the war.
During that time Russia change allegiances faster than Thanos snap his finger
Can't rule the world without naval dominance. Mainland Europe could have been more homogenized, but not the world.
Proud to have them as our allies. Prussia, Germany and England forever
"Forever" since 1989...
Stfup where is prussian you destroyed IT
That colonel liked him! I can’t imagine him not being punished if he didn’t for the backtalk
The detail is incredible.
Glad to see this movie was translated to the East, a good movie.
Prussia was poor in resources, poor climate,poor soil, poor in every other way. But, it was the only country in Europe with compulsory school attendance, it was the only country where the ruling class considered itself servants of the people and not the other way around and the only country in the world where the king could be sued in court by a humble peasant ( Miller vs, Frederick the Great).
You could say, the birthplace of freedom
I did not know of this until now..
@@PrelaE frederick's alleged last words or at least last messages were that he was tired ruling over slaves, meaning he doesn't want to rule over serfs, but free men.
이인좌의 난때, 경기도 안성 인가에서 조선관군과 이인좌군과의 싸움이 있었는데, 전투 양상이 유럽군대와 비슷했음. 조선관군도, 반란군도 엄청나게 많은 조총을 보유하고 있어서 일렬로 서서 서로 마주보고 조총을 쐈음. 그때 참전한 문인이 남긴 기록에 나옴.
"I would go to the devil to serve the regiment!"
Армия это тяжелый труд. Кто работает тот побеждает!
A terrific scene thanks for uploading
0:40 the person behind the guy on the right looks a bit down
Everyone does
if you were one of the lowest levels of humanity, you'd feel down too
Boy did that Colonel nail it on his assessment of Barry
Who's Berry?
@@OneofInfinity. Barry Lyndon. He’s the protagonist of the film
Why did you cut out the part where a cannonball hits the house and he saves his trapped captain?
I've seen a couple of clips and now I'm pretty damn addicted. I need to see it.
Damn that gauntlet run was so harsh in a brilliant way, walk too fast and you get impaled by a bayonet so you have to keep the exact pace as you're getting whipped
배리 린든이네요, 근데 저 요새가 박살나고 다친 장교 구해주는 장면이 잘렸네요
Oooh we have some armchair historians in the comments!
Mango Lassi oh splendid, something for me to cringe at...no doubt a bunch of fedora-wearing neckbearded cultural marxists.
+Rawfire Most likely yes, but Allied victory in WW2 has created such creatures as this.
And worse .
Well, to be fair: where else would you learn about history, but in an armchair with lots of books around?
If you knew anything about history, you wouldn't be throwing 'cultural marixist' around, unless you're beyond ignorant and parroting demagogues.
Oh no, not fat guys in fedoras! That's much worse than the annihilation of entire groups of people!
Again, 'cultural marxist' is literally a Nazi propaganda buzzword. I don't care at all if fat guys want to wear fedoras. I care a hell of a lot for racist buffoons trying to dominate people, which has been the cause of untold suffering for millenia.
From Denmark: these are the type of neighbors one keeps their eye on. And never underestimate them.
Yup, you Danes have certainly had more than your fair share of experiences with unfriendly Germans.
I assume the English get nervous the same way when a Dane starts building a boat.
Anyway ... we keep Schleswig-Holstein. Best regards from Germany (I had East-Prussian grandparents from what is now Kaliningrad). :-)
@@ottovonbismarck2443 👍 G-Grandma was born in Mustin Lauenberg (now part of lower S H).
„Ick bin Klinke. Ick öffne dit Tor.“
@@kylej741 One G-Grandma was Polish, one was from Alsace (back when it was still German), both G-Grandpas East Prussian. Family had relatives in Yugoslavia ("Volksdeutsche"). My dad (born 1934 in E-P) spent his childhood at the Danube until 1944.
The 1/8 Polish that I am certainly helps me surving parties with my Polish neighbors and friends. :-)
This battalion formation scene and Barry being awarded was essentially recreated in WW2 terms for the 1993 movie “Stalingrad” and they even used the same Prussian “Hohenfriedberger Marsch”, except sped up a bit. Like Barry was chastised by his command, so too was the German sergeant in the Stalingrad film who had his medal revoked for refusing to button his collar.
WAR is HELL
But dam you look good in Uniform
This is like the spank train from spongebob. Or I guess any spank train really
Even the Prussian uniforms were good looking. Unbelievable.
That's bavarian not prussian.
@@Marco-bf4uu They're Prussian uniforms of the Prussian 13th Infantry Regiment.
@@jpbair2000 really? The uniforms color combinations are so typically Bavarian
@@Marco-bf4uu I'm certain. Prussians used a blue coat with different accent colors/embroideries but the main thing that gives it away is the regimental standard. It's of the 13th infantry regiment.
@@jpbair2000 Yes but often it was in combination with red or yellow and Jäger Green
Die beste Armee seiner Zeit ! 👍
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
-Frederick the Great
Tanner Herzman Truth, many people who know better would never join an army voluntarily. Only the brave and those who value their country join the soldiery, and also those who have no other prospects in life. However, soldiers are necessary for a nation and soldiers endure what others cannot and will not endure.
@@HeroHoundoom the Prussian & Austrian-Hungarian empires where very unique and much more diverse in ethnic groups i find it fascinating.
1:25
Springfield Model 1873 rifle mocked up to look like a flintlock musket. The breechblock can be seen.
Source: IMFDB
The Prussians in this battle scene are fighting the same French regiment as the English in the other battle scene. It's the regiment of Flandres. What a polyvalent regiment.
What is the name of this movie?
@@AdityaSingh-iz5zs Barry Lyndon
I noticed when I first saw this movie that the voice giving the French commands sounded identical to that of the English battle and I wondered if that was intentional or just reusing the audio they had. Knowing Stanley Kubrick he'd never let that happen unintentionally.
Strafen wie der Spießrutenlauf waren selten in der preußischen Armee. Außerdem war Friedrich II der Große einer der ersten Monarchen der die Folter abgeschafft hat. Und ich weiß nicht was für Uniformen das sind, denn die meisten preußischen Infanterieuniformen waren blau, gelb und rot
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I read the book by Thackeray some years back but it's the movie that's stayed with me.
Love the first person view thingy
you gotta keep that 100000000% prussian discipline
If you have been a Soldier ...you will get goose bumps from this !
First Lieutenant
Air Force of Chile.
Qatar Airways Commander ( Ret. )
Mucha honra para usted, señor!
Glory To The Kingdom Of Prussia.
You again.. fuck off ami!
It don't think it exists anymore
I know that as Kaliningrad.
hahaha
In the time of this war (before Napoleon) the Prussians were , both military and technologically and strategically advanced , like other sides. So the chances to succeed were very balanced. Whereas after the Napoleon, e.g. (Prussian -Austrian war 100 years later), the warfare on the land was already completely in the hands of far more superior Prussians, resp. France and especially Austrian Empire stayed 100 years behind .
Kubrick contrasts Prussian culture with that of British society & the landed gentry, which mainly consists ideas of opportunism & hoarding wealth, and that's why most of the British characters in the movie were either land owners, businessmen, or gamblers.
Redmond Barry & Chevalier du Balibari, who were both British, were both intensely lonely in their time in Prussia not only because they were away from their family, but because it's not in their blood to dedicate themselves to Prussian duty & loyalty
Coz british descended from saxons, germanic tribe who migrated to England after the fall of the roman empire and they also got norse(north germanic) blood via vikings and normans (french norse)
Redmond Barry and Chevalier du Balibari are both Irish. The Chevalier du Balibari is Redmond Barry's uncle in the novel.
Great movie. Brilliant director.
They Prussians would have been even more successful if they had Sharpe help with the shooting. Tear, spit, pour, tap,aim, fire 🔥
Sharpe would come along 60 years after the Seven Years' War
@Peter D Fighting in a war decades before you were born? Now that's soldiering.
@@ObeyDarkElf 😆
He’s talking about how terrible it was to be a part of the Prussian army, yet it was the Prussian army that would become one of the most legendary and respected in history.
Doesn't change how terrible experience it was,though.Respect comes from overcoming hardship,so if they were among the most respected,you don't need to guess that much how hard earned it was
you do know that the prussian army during the 7 years war by the end was absolutely pathetic since majority of its experienced soldiers and officers are killed? Prussia was literally saved by luck at least 2 times
Fear your own officers more then the enemy- purssian style
That's a great name for a channel.