ankela

Can anyone please help!

I am trying to find out about the poem/reflection, at the end of the film - something like - Life is forever. Love is for ever.

My father is dying from cancer. My Mum watched the film last week, and was touched by the words. She was unable to get the full text/where it can be found etc.

Steve Crook

Are you sure it was from Odette (1950)?
I didn't remember anything like that at the end of it, and I just checked. After she is driven to freedom by the Kommandant of Ravensbruck and turns him in we then see her back in Buckmaster's office. She speaks to her children on the phone and is then reunited with Peter Churchill (Trevor Howard).

There's an epilogue that scrolls up the screen:

"It is with a sense of deep humility that I allow my personal
story to be told. I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance
has been given to see human beings at their best and at their
worst. I knew kindness as well as cruelty, understanding as well
as brutality.

My comrades, who did far more than I and suffered far more
profoundly, are not here to speak. It is to their memory that
this film has been made and I would like it to be a window
through which may be seen those very gallant women with
whom I had the honour to serve."

Odette Churchill

And that's it.

Were you maybe thinking of the poem from Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)? That was also shown recently. The famous poem in that is:

The life that I have
Is all that I have,
And the life that I have
Is yours.

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have,
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.

For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours

Steve

Arthur Linden-Jones

Yes, that's the one I immediately thought of (which seemed to fit the request), but then realised I was thinking of CHNWP too ....

If that's the one, just Google the first line - heaps of references.

This is war Wilson, not Sainsburys!