Endless Requiem (episode)
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| 'Endless Requiem' (「終わりなき | ||
| LOGH: series 4, episode 98 released 1996/??/?? | ||
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| December 800 UC (2 NIC / 491 IC / 3600 CE) | ||
| ← | 98th of 110 released in LOGH | → |
| ← | 101st of 213 released in all | → |
Endless Requiem (Japanese: 終わりなき
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Synopsis
Oskar von Reuenthal returns to his office in Heinessen and assigns Julius Elsheimer to handle all domestic political matters. Job Trunicht is killed by Reuenthal after they both discuss their ambitions and Reinhard von Lohengramm. Reuenthal is visited by Elfriede von Kohlrausch and her baby. Reuenthal requests that she entrusts their son to Wolfgang Mittermeyer. On 16 December 800 UC (2 NIC / 491 IC / 3600 CE), Reuenthal dies at the age of 33. Mittermeyer arrives on Heinessen, but is too late to meet with his old friend. Hans Eduard Bergengrün, who had previously served under Siegfried Kircheis before serving Reuenthal, commits suicide after hearing of Reuenthal's death. Bergengrün had lost both his commanders to underhanded political schemes. Heydrich Lang confesses to all his actions and implicates Adrian Rubinsky. Rubinsky is however nowhere to be found.
Appendices
"I don't give a damn if you belittle republican democracy, profit at the expense of the state, or deceive the people. But…! But I won't allow you to soil the Kaiser's dignity with your filthy, faeces-filled tongue. I neither served nor rebelled against a Kaiser who could be insulted by someone like you!"
- – Oskar von Reuenthal, to Job Trunicht, after shooting him
Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Op. 67): III. Scherzo: Allegro (00:01:32)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection': I. Allegro maestoso. Mit durchaus ernstem und feierlichem Ausdruck (00:04:41)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden (00:07:02)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5: I. Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt (00:10:55)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection': IV. Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht (00:12:21)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection': V. Im Tempo des Scherzos (00:12:51)
- Giuseppe Verdi – Messa da Requiem: I. Introit and Kyrie (00:16:30)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Aulide: Overture (00:17:42)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam (00:19:40)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7: I. Langsam - Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo (00:22:44)
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Op. 67): II. Andante con moto (00:23:58)
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (Op. 55): I. Allegro con brio (00:25:39)
Background information
- Reuenthal's request to Kohlrausch on entrusting their son to Mittermeyer is a reference to Ji Kang, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, entrusting his children to his friend and fellow sage Shan Tao before he was executed as a result of being caught in a political intrigue. This act, together with Shan Tao honouring Ji Kang's wishes, became immortalised in the Chinese idiom 嵇绍不孤.
Cast
- Wakamoto Norio as Oskar von Reuenthal
- Tomizawa Michie as Elfriede von Kohlrausch
- Tanaka Ryōichi as Hans Eduard Bergengrün
- Uchida Sōmei as Sonnenfels
- Yamaguchi Kappei as Heinrich Lambert
- Mori Katsuji as Wolfgang Mittermeyer
- Murayama Akira as Volker Axel von Bülow
- Hayashi Nobutoshi as Karl Edward Bayerlein
- Mizuuchi Kiyomitsu as Armsdorf
- Suzuki Kiyonobu as Julius Elsheimer
- Horikawa Ryō as Reinhard von Lohengramm
- Katsuki Masako as Hildegard von Mariendorf
- Shiozawa Kaneto as Paul von Oberstein
- Ikeda Shūichi as Ulrich Kesler
- Horiuchi Kenyū as Anton Fellner
- Okiayu Ryōtarō as Emil von Selle
- Nakamura Tadashi as Franz von Mariendorf
- Ishida Tarō as Heydrich Lang
- Ishizuka Unshō as Job Trunicht
- Takizawa Kumiko as Mrs Lang
- Yara Yūsaku as Narrator
Production staff
- Screenplay: Kawanaka Shimao
- Storyboard: Maejima Kenichi
- Episode director: Kimiya Shigeru
- Animation director: Kayano Kyōko
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