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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:53,517 --> 00:02:55,742 They're moving away...the filthy bastards! 2 00:03:23,336 --> 00:03:24,976 Will they be recaptured? 3 00:03:25,410 --> 00:03:27,184 Can't do much before daylight. 4 00:03:27,184 --> 00:03:29,555 - A pipe? - Thanks, corporal. 5 00:03:29,555 --> 00:03:31,226 Until then... we've got the best spot. 6 00:04:12,617 --> 00:04:14,315 So you still refuse to talk? 7 00:04:15,492 --> 00:04:19,008 You were friendly with the convicts Vautrin and Calvi... 8 00:04:19,043 --> 00:04:21,765 You're sure to know something about their escape.. 9 00:04:23,150 --> 00:04:23,769 So talk! 10 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:26,118 Speak up! 11 00:04:27,987 --> 00:04:31,102 Ball and chain for these men from tomorrow...and 20 days in solitary. 12 00:04:31,102 --> 00:04:32,456 Take them away! 13 00:04:37,067 --> 00:04:39,100 This is a nice mess...gentlemen... congratulations!... 14 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:42,870 It's one thing for Calvi to escape... but Vautrin... 15 00:04:42,870 --> 00:04:46,291 Vautrin, the most dangerous hoodlum of our time! 16 00:04:46,291 --> 00:04:47,398 You let him get away! 17 00:04:48,069 --> 00:04:49,625 There were circumstances... 18 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:52,994 Circumstances!...I am the one responsible for this penal colony... 19 00:04:52,994 --> 00:04:54,982 in the eyes of His Majesty... 20 00:04:55,010 --> 00:04:57,822 A penal colony that is meant to be escape-proof!... 21 00:05:01,081 --> 00:05:02,756 Who was in charge of the watch? 22 00:05:04,290 --> 00:05:07,556 You'll be waiting somewhat longer for your promotion to captain. 23 00:05:07,656 --> 00:05:09,791 You'll be under close arrest from tomorrow. 24 00:05:12,855 --> 00:05:14,415 Lieutenant Serbin, take 40 men... 25 00:05:15,151 --> 00:05:17,643 Search the farms, barns and churches... 26 00:05:18,698 --> 00:05:19,411 Mr de Niron... 27 00:05:20,162 --> 00:05:24,614 alert the police stations right away in La Rochelle, Cognac and Jonzac. 28 00:05:38,387 --> 00:05:41,168 Unlikely they'd tell you about their stash! 29 00:05:41,168 --> 00:05:42,091 They probably fooled you. 30 00:05:43,416 --> 00:05:45,275 There are two things I don't like, Calvi... 31 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:48,658 That I have to do all the work... and people�s opinions. 32 00:06:25,461 --> 00:06:26,927 You've nothing to fear from me... 33 00:06:27,361 --> 00:06:31,205 I stopped to rest and I did not know of your presence... 34 00:06:31,205 --> 00:06:34,907 Besides...I'm alone... and I'm not armed... 35 00:06:34,907 --> 00:06:36,568 and I'm a priest... 36 00:06:36,568 --> 00:06:37,892 Who are you? 37 00:06:39,012 --> 00:06:41,060 Father Don Carlos Herrera... 38 00:06:45,891 --> 00:06:47,834 He DID come to take a rest. 39 00:06:51,476 --> 00:06:52,653 I've never killed! 40 00:06:52,653 --> 00:06:54,965 It's not a murderer I need... it's a man! 41 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,437 Scram! 42 00:08:11,247 --> 00:08:13,140 Go and find us some fresh horses. 43 00:08:13,140 --> 00:08:15,119 We need to sleep in Poitiers tonight. 44 00:08:24,850 --> 00:08:27,108 Reverend...we'll need to stop for a while... 45 00:08:27,108 --> 00:08:29,001 We have to repair the rear axle... 46 00:08:29,001 --> 00:08:31,365 if we're going to get through on these damn roads! 47 00:08:31,365 --> 00:08:34,368 "Ad augusta per augusta" my friend. 48 00:08:36,189 --> 00:08:38,903 To a noble destiny by narrow paths... 49 00:08:40,686 --> 00:08:42,277 Hurry...it still feels like prison here. 50 00:08:42,277 --> 00:08:44,332 We got through to here... The hard part's done. 51 00:08:45,747 --> 00:08:46,538 But I'm in the greatest hurry 52 00:08:46,538 --> 00:08:48,205 of any abbot in France! 53 00:08:48,205 --> 00:08:50,065 At your command, Reverend! 54 00:09:08,829 --> 00:09:11,416 Woe to he who transgresses! 55 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:22,602 What can I offer you, Reverend? 56 00:09:22,602 --> 00:09:25,576 Anjou?...Loire?...Muscadet? 57 00:09:26,473 --> 00:09:29,414 Bring me...a glass of water. 58 00:09:30,772 --> 00:09:33,536 I'm from a monastery where alcohol is unknown. 59 00:09:33,536 --> 00:09:34,645 Very well, Reverend. 60 00:10:14,824 --> 00:10:15,818 There you are, Reverend 61 00:10:15,818 --> 00:10:17,309 Thank you, my child. 62 00:10:29,887 --> 00:10:30,848 Miss!... 63 00:10:35,106 --> 00:10:37,971 But that's much too much, sir! 64 00:10:38,493 --> 00:10:39,375 That's it. 65 00:10:50,903 --> 00:10:52,336 Where does it go through there, my child? 66 00:10:52,336 --> 00:10:53,570 To the river, Reverend... 67 00:11:13,243 --> 00:11:15,936 This is a very poetic place to drown yourself, sir! 68 00:11:16,663 --> 00:11:17,445 That's my business, Reverend... 69 00:11:18,390 --> 00:11:20,296 I can't see how you can assume that... 70 00:11:20,296 --> 00:11:23,624 This, my child... Your tears and this piece of paper... 71 00:11:24,848 --> 00:11:27,420 No need to read it to know that it's a goodbye... 72 00:11:28,239 --> 00:11:30,762 A symbol of youth...to write to those you leave. 73 00:11:31,503 --> 00:11:32,730 You still deny it? 74 00:11:32,730 --> 00:11:33,930 But I've nothing to deny. 75 00:11:33,930 --> 00:11:35,901 Be on your way, Reverend. 76 00:11:35,901 --> 00:11:38,436 Your comfort is useless to me. 77 00:11:38,436 --> 00:11:41,365 I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist. 78 00:11:41,365 --> 00:11:46,342 I'm from Spain, sir. We don't believe in atheists down there. 79 00:11:46,342 --> 00:11:48,171 Tell me why you want to die... 80 00:11:48,171 --> 00:11:50,221 Do you have an incurable illness? 81 00:11:50,221 --> 00:11:52,631 Yes, Father...poverty! 82 00:11:52,631 --> 00:11:54,259 A diamond knows not its value. 83 00:11:54,259 --> 00:11:57,269 Confide your troubles in me, my son. 84 00:11:57,269 --> 00:12:00,530 It is a love affair gone wrong? 85 00:12:00,530 --> 00:12:02,815 What can grieve you... at your age? 86 00:12:02,815 --> 00:12:06,216 Dishonour, Father. I fled Paris...deeply in debt. 87 00:12:06,216 --> 00:12:08,138 I owe 15,000 francs to a moneylender. 88 00:12:08,838 --> 00:12:11,015 15,000 isn't enough to drown yourself over. 89 00:12:11,016 --> 00:12:12,342 That's not all... 90 00:12:12,377 --> 00:12:13,017 Before the payment date... 91 00:12:13,018 --> 00:12:16,055 I lost my head and did something wrong... 92 00:12:17,127 --> 00:12:20,086 I forged my brother-in-law's signature... 93 00:12:20,087 --> 00:12:22,566 And as he was unable to pay... 94 00:12:22,567 --> 00:12:25,006 he was thrown into prison. 95 00:12:25,007 --> 00:12:27,606 I've no choice but to die. 96 00:12:27,607 --> 00:12:30,607 You have too much heart and not enough brains... 97 00:12:32,087 --> 00:12:34,766 Fate is only worth what we judge it to be... 98 00:12:34,767 --> 00:12:36,886 To you rate yours at 15,000 francs? 99 00:12:36,887 --> 00:12:39,846 I'm inclined to pay you more. 100 00:12:39,847 --> 00:12:41,686 -YOU...Father? - Yes, me... 101 00:12:41,687 --> 00:12:44,687 I'll give you proof. 102 00:12:46,887 --> 00:12:49,369 I think it'll hold together 'til Poitiers. 103 00:12:50,367 --> 00:12:51,542 You can rest assured, sir... 104 00:13:10,527 --> 00:13:11,276 Look... 105 00:13:16,167 --> 00:13:17,926 There are 30,000 crowns here... 106 00:13:17,927 --> 00:13:22,180 Tonight at Poitiers, I'll give you what will free your brother.... 107 00:13:22,607 --> 00:13:23,689 and give you back the will to live. 108 00:13:23,689 --> 00:13:24,739 You'd do that for me? 109 00:13:24,739 --> 00:13:25,760 Later this evening... 110 00:13:27,487 --> 00:13:28,745 Why would you do it? 111 00:13:28,745 --> 00:13:30,536 Because I'm interested in you... 112 00:13:31,407 --> 00:13:33,432 As fate would have it...I met you on the verge of suicide... 113 00:13:33,432 --> 00:13:35,475 Because you moved me... 114 00:13:40,847 --> 00:13:41,899 We can leave, Reverend... 115 00:13:42,887 --> 00:13:44,443 Go on ahead and wait for me! 116 00:13:48,047 --> 00:13:51,047 I was talking to people here... Calvi let himself be caught. 117 00:13:52,327 --> 00:13:55,327 May God forgive him. 118 00:13:56,447 --> 00:13:59,447 A few minutes walking doesn't bother you? 119 00:13:59,767 --> 00:14:02,237 Come on...I want to talk to you... privately. 120 00:14:09,967 --> 00:14:12,804 Believe me...in my experience, you've been very unwise... 121 00:14:14,127 --> 00:14:17,127 Only those who make the laws get around them... 122 00:14:18,047 --> 00:14:20,366 not those who have to obey them. 123 00:14:20,367 --> 00:14:23,367 The small fry are to serve... not to be served. 124 00:14:23,447 --> 00:14:24,926 I understand that too well, Father. 125 00:14:24,927 --> 00:14:27,341 We've been chatting a long time without introducing ourselves... 126 00:14:28,047 --> 00:14:30,366 I'm Abbot Carlos de Herrera, 127 00:14:30,367 --> 00:14:33,246 honorary canon at Toledo Cathedral... 128 00:14:33,247 --> 00:14:35,366 ...on a mission for His Majesty. 129 00:14:35,367 --> 00:14:38,367 My titles are more obscure, Mr Abbot... 130 00:14:38,807 --> 00:14:41,086 My mother is of noble birth... 131 00:14:41,087 --> 00:14:43,406 I might have been a marquis. 132 00:14:43,407 --> 00:14:46,046 My unlucky star didn't want it... 133 00:14:46,047 --> 00:14:48,886 My name's Lucien Chardon. 134 00:14:48,887 --> 00:14:51,166 And you suffer from it, right? 135 00:14:51,167 --> 00:14:53,326 -You're ambitious? -To die from it... 136 00:14:53,327 --> 00:14:56,327 Better to live... Would you like to succeed? 137 00:14:56,607 --> 00:14:59,607 I can take you very far down the way to power. 138 00:15:00,207 --> 00:15:03,207 I saved your life... Consent to be mine. 139 00:15:04,647 --> 00:15:06,279 I'll make your fortune. 140 00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:08,022 Once again...Why? 141 00:15:10,247 --> 00:15:12,246 Because I'm alone... 142 00:15:12,247 --> 00:15:15,247 One of the most dreadful sorts of solitude... 143 00:15:15,407 --> 00:15:16,503 That of the soul... 144 00:15:17,607 --> 00:15:20,606 Whether he's a convict or a leper... infamous or sick... 145 00:15:20,607 --> 00:15:22,566 Man has only one thought... 146 00:15:22,567 --> 00:15:25,567 ...to find an accomplice or companion to his destiny. 147 00:15:28,727 --> 00:15:29,429 Would you be that? 148 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:31,806 What a strange priest you are! 149 00:15:31,806 --> 00:15:34,767 Do not be fooled by appearances... 150 00:15:38,687 --> 00:15:40,646 You've been hunted out of Paris? 151 00:15:40,647 --> 00:15:43,446 You be back there in your coach within 6 months... 152 00:15:43,447 --> 00:15:46,447 ...with your marquis arms engraved on the doors. 153 00:15:48,007 --> 00:15:51,007 Obey...and you'll be as great you were small... 154 00:15:52,607 --> 00:15:55,607 I shall plan, you will execute... And Paris will belong to us! 155 00:15:54,887 --> 00:15:59,504 Success has a secret that I don't know. 156 00:16:14,167 --> 00:16:15,508 That's is the secret of success... 157 00:16:15,508 --> 00:16:17,080 ...straight to the point and quick about it!... 158 00:16:17,081 --> 00:16:18,081 I don't have as steady a hand as you. 159 00:16:20,607 --> 00:16:23,046 I don't want you to hold the gun... 160 00:16:23,047 --> 00:16:26,047 I want you to be the bullet! 161 00:16:28,527 --> 00:16:29,881 Father...I'm yours! 162 00:16:35,047 --> 00:16:36,319 Off we go! 163 00:16:53,167 --> 00:16:55,926 Servants of the Marquis de Rubempr�... 164 00:16:55,927 --> 00:16:58,927 Servants of the Marquis de Rubempr�...... 165 00:17:01,287 --> 00:17:02,351 Your lordship! 166 00:17:06,927 --> 00:17:07,765 Thank you my friend. 167 00:17:26,234 --> 00:17:27,034 Lucien? 168 00:17:30,483 --> 00:17:32,356 I didn't want to let you leave 169 00:17:33,087 --> 00:17:35,246 without a more personal goodbye.. 170 00:17:34,847 --> 00:17:37,726 How do you want me? 171 00:17:37,727 --> 00:17:38,727 Mad as you are... 172 00:17:37,727 --> 00:17:41,714 I'm afraid your father would guess the reason for your absence. 173 00:17:41,887 --> 00:17:44,887 The duke doesn't think much of me. 174 00:17:44,888 --> 00:17:45,888 But his daughter loves you. 175 00:17:45,127 --> 00:17:47,286 I love you, Lucien. 176 00:17:47,287 --> 00:17:50,287 Don't take offence at my father's distrust... 177 00:17:50,327 --> 00:17:53,327 Think about how far you've come in 6 months... 178 00:17:53,367 --> 00:17:55,646 You came as Lucien Chardon 179 00:17:55,647 --> 00:17:57,886 and here you are... Lucien de Rubempr�... 180 00:17:57,887 --> 00:17:59,966 A marquis and now received in our house... 181 00:17:59,967 --> 00:18:02,086 ''Received'' ? You mean "tolerated". 182 00:18:02,087 --> 00:18:04,526 Come now... don't be so down... 183 00:18:04,527 --> 00:18:06,806 I bear one of the great names of France... 184 00:18:06,807 --> 00:18:09,366 Before agreeing to let me change it... 185 00:18:09,367 --> 00:18:11,446 my father would require guarantees... 186 00:18:11,447 --> 00:18:14,447 He acts as a father... So act as a lover!... 187 00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:15,726 If you love me... 188 00:18:15,727 --> 00:18:17,206 Do you have any doubt? 189 00:18:17,207 --> 00:18:19,526 No, because I want to live. 190 00:18:19,527 --> 00:18:22,527 I know I'm not as pretty as a lot of other women... 191 00:18:23,247 --> 00:18:25,446 but I also know what I'm worth. 192 00:18:25,447 --> 00:18:27,646 Let ambition make you love me... 193 00:18:27,647 --> 00:18:30,647 ...and I'll bring you to loving me for love! 194 00:18:30,767 --> 00:18:31,856 I love you Clotilde! 195 00:18:35,647 --> 00:18:37,476 Don't make me too happy... 196 00:18:38,007 --> 00:18:41,007 ...lest I have too much regret someday. 197 00:18:41,447 --> 00:18:44,366 - Good night! -You're leaving so early this evening... 198 00:18:44,367 --> 00:18:46,766 Is Madame de S�risy so impatient? 199 00:18:46,767 --> 00:18:48,686 Don't be cruel... 200 00:18:48,687 --> 00:18:51,687 My life is suspended until I see you again... 201 00:18:51,927 --> 00:18:54,927 I'm going home... I'll see you tomorrow. 202 00:20:25,407 --> 00:20:28,166 A handsome guy... masked for the opera ball! 203 00:20:28,167 --> 00:20:31,006 He's come to steal us away! 204 00:20:31,007 --> 00:20:33,846 Lucien ! Lucien Chardon ! 205 00:20:33,847 --> 00:20:36,766 It's you! Our Lucien!... 206 00:20:36,767 --> 00:20:39,767 I told you he was in Paris. 207 00:20:39,807 --> 00:20:42,807 Lover! Isn't he handsome...well-dressed! 208 00:20:44,487 --> 00:20:47,126 CHEERS FOR LUClEN CHARDON ! 209 00:20:47,127 --> 00:20:50,127 Gentlemen...please excuse me! 210 00:20:58,327 --> 00:20:59,326 Very happy... 211 00:20:59,327 --> 00:21:02,246 to see you in Paris again... Mr Chardon... 212 00:21:02,247 --> 00:21:04,846 You seem to be right back in the saddle... 213 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:06,606 Congratulations! 214 00:21:06,607 --> 00:21:09,566 You did very well in the provinces? 215 00:21:09,567 --> 00:21:12,567 Not everyone takes advantage of Parisians' gullibility! 216 00:21:13,607 --> 00:21:16,126 You're getting rather testy Monsieur Chardon... 217 00:21:16,127 --> 00:21:19,127 Monsieur de Rastignac, call me by my name... 218 00:21:19,727 --> 00:21:22,727 I am Marquis de Rubempr�... under a royal decree... 219 00:21:25,007 --> 00:21:26,806 I HAD heard that. 220 00:21:26,807 --> 00:21:29,366 You're welcome to repeat it. 221 00:21:29,367 --> 00:21:32,367 So...Long live the king!... Monsieur de Rubempr�. 222 00:21:32,487 --> 00:21:35,487 He knows how to choose his gentlemen. 223 00:21:39,927 --> 00:21:41,553 ''De Rubempr�'' ? 224 00:21:42,207 --> 00:21:45,207 Little Lucien Chardon has finally got to use his ancestors. 225 00:21:46,127 --> 00:21:48,926 His noble line is far older than yours... 226 00:21:48,927 --> 00:21:51,046 Madame Marquise d'Empire! 227 00:21:51,047 --> 00:21:54,047 Wait 'til the gold on your crest is dry before judging others! 228 00:21:58,167 --> 00:21:59,133 What impertinence! 229 00:21:59,133 --> 00:22:02,168 What a pity I didn't get a chance to slap him! 230 00:22:01,927 --> 00:22:04,566 This Chardon is making his mark... and somebody's sponsoring him. 231 00:22:04,567 --> 00:22:07,567 Should he trip up... I'll crush him! 232 00:22:19,367 --> 00:22:21,486 You? 233 00:22:21,487 --> 00:22:24,086 You'll lose you place in paradise. 234 00:22:24,087 --> 00:22:26,286 And you're wasting your time! 235 00:22:26,287 --> 00:22:27,632 You're not at the Hotel Grandlieu? 236 00:22:27,632 --> 00:22:28,743 I'm on my way. 237 00:22:29,607 --> 00:22:32,046 I came here because... I was feeling sad. 238 00:22:32,047 --> 00:22:32,757 Clotilde doesn't love you anymore? 239 00:22:32,757 --> 00:22:34,517 She leans on her father... 240 00:22:35,407 --> 00:22:37,920 What's he got against you? You're a marquis! 241 00:22:38,487 --> 00:22:40,086 A marquis without land. 242 00:22:40,087 --> 00:22:43,087 If I become a landowner... I get the hand of his daughter! 243 00:22:45,207 --> 00:22:46,055 Which would cost... 244 00:22:46,055 --> 00:22:47,720 600,000 francs. 245 00:22:49,967 --> 00:22:52,606 We'll have to find someone who's got it! 246 00:22:52,607 --> 00:22:53,645 Lucien! 247 00:22:56,087 --> 00:22:59,087 Do you know who I just left? The charming Madame de S�risy... 248 00:22:59,687 --> 00:23:01,806 She's waiting for you in her dressing-room. 249 00:23:01,807 --> 00:23:02,816 That's all I have to say. 250 00:23:02,816 --> 00:23:04,061 Thanks, old man! 251 00:23:05,167 --> 00:23:07,406 Ah, Madame de S�risy ! 252 00:23:07,407 --> 00:23:10,407 Very good!... She loves you, she can be useful... 253 00:23:10,487 --> 00:23:11,382 Off you go, my son! 254 00:23:37,687 --> 00:23:40,686 I took you to be a trustworthy boy, Lucien... 255 00:23:40,687 --> 00:23:43,687 When Diane saw you... I refused to believe it! 256 00:23:44,087 --> 00:23:46,886 I'm hoping my eyes didn't deceive me... 257 00:23:46,887 --> 00:23:49,887 Standing there in your finery? Is this in our honour? 258 00:23:50,447 --> 00:23:52,926 Apparently not! Sit down! 259 00:23:52,927 --> 00:23:55,927 Have you already forgotten about Mademoiselle de Grandlieu? 260 00:23:56,287 --> 00:23:59,287 By the way...how's your affair going? Has the duke succumbed to your charms? 261 00:24:01,247 --> 00:24:02,457 Somewhat slowly, madame. 262 00:24:02,912 --> 00:24:05,248 He'll come 'round! 263 00:24:04,607 --> 00:24:06,646 Clotilde loves you. 264 00:24:06,647 --> 00:24:09,624 When one has the heart of a place... the walls tumble down. 265 00:24:09,624 --> 00:24:13,166 You'll soon be Monsieur Clotilde de Grandlieu. 266 00:24:13,167 --> 00:24:14,686 No fear about that! 267 00:24:14,687 --> 00:24:17,686 You're cruel!... 268 00:24:19,376 --> 00:24:20,470 No...jealous! 269 00:24:29,647 --> 00:24:31,206 I have to leave you... 270 00:24:31,207 --> 00:24:31,993 You're already running away? 271 00:24:31,993 --> 00:24:32,923 I'm really forced to... 272 00:24:33,327 --> 00:24:35,406 Tomorrow I have to go hunting... 273 00:24:35,407 --> 00:24:38,286 It's going to be a long day. 274 00:24:38,287 --> 00:24:41,287 Go on then...you're a scoundrel! 275 00:24:41,967 --> 00:24:44,886 Could I see you the day after tomorrow? There'll be gaming tables... 276 00:24:44,887 --> 00:24:47,086 Isn't it the man who's supposed to ask such things? 277 00:24:47,087 --> 00:24:50,087 Yes...but none of us are perfect...are we? 278 00:24:55,687 --> 00:24:58,246 My dear...you really are badly in love with that boy! 279 00:24:58,247 --> 00:25:00,206 Do you mean I don't love him enough? 280 00:25:00,207 --> 00:25:02,526 You love him too much... and too obviously! 281 00:25:02,527 --> 00:25:05,527 Hearts only burn well in uncertainty. 282 00:25:05,567 --> 00:25:08,567 Mine burns enough for two! 283 00:25:17,167 --> 00:25:20,167 My angel! Esther, my darling! 284 00:25:32,607 --> 00:25:34,326 It really is you, Lucien! 285 00:25:34,327 --> 00:25:37,046 I was so afraid you wouldn't be able to come! 286 00:25:37,047 --> 00:25:38,286 So afraid! 287 00:25:38,287 --> 00:25:40,606 I've been watching for your signal since I arrived... 288 00:25:40,607 --> 00:25:43,607 For several minutes my whole life was on hold. 289 00:25:43,967 --> 00:25:45,486 My angel! 290 00:25:45,487 --> 00:25:48,487 We can't stay here... 20 people have recognized me already. 291 00:25:49,767 --> 00:25:52,686 I've had to smile... defend myself...lie... 292 00:25:52,687 --> 00:25:55,206 ...losing the minutes I was keeping for you! 293 00:25:55,207 --> 00:25:57,726 We'll have to separate. 294 00:25:57,727 --> 00:25:58,727 Already? 295 00:25:57,727 --> 00:25:59,766 We can meet again at your place. 296 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:02,767 So what have I got to complain about? 297 00:26:03,567 --> 00:26:04,765 See you later! 298 00:26:07,607 --> 00:26:09,406 Monsieur de Rastignac? 299 00:26:09,407 --> 00:26:10,106 What do you want with me? 300 00:26:10,106 --> 00:26:11,432 To speak to you as a friend... 301 00:26:12,847 --> 00:26:14,926 Not a friendship I'd like... Monsieur Masked One! 302 00:26:14,927 --> 00:26:16,473 You don't know my voice? 303 00:26:16,803 --> 00:26:18,207 How about my face? 304 00:26:19,647 --> 00:26:22,647 Vautrin? So you're out of prison? 305 00:26:22,927 --> 00:26:25,927 Yes...Just to recommend a friend of mine to you! 306 00:26:28,567 --> 00:26:29,323 Who are you talking about? 307 00:26:29,323 --> 00:26:32,568 The Marquis de Rubempr�... 308 00:26:32,127 --> 00:26:33,824 I would like you to like him, Mr Rastignac... 309 00:26:33,824 --> 00:26:35,171 I like those who please me. 310 00:26:35,171 --> 00:26:36,694 Make him one who pleases you! 311 00:26:36,694 --> 00:26:37,555 Otherwise?... 312 00:26:37,555 --> 00:26:41,927 I haven't forgotten how you reached your place in the world! 313 00:26:43,767 --> 00:26:46,767 Monsieur de Rubempr� will be one of my friends. 314 00:26:47,447 --> 00:26:50,046 Monsieur MARQUIS de Rubempr�! 315 00:26:50,047 --> 00:26:52,606 I stress the difference... it cost me a lot. 316 00:26:52,607 --> 00:26:53,161 Goodbye. 317 00:27:26,767 --> 00:27:30,299 Mademoiselle, I'm confused ... 318 00:27:31,327 --> 00:27:31,985 Pardon me! 319 00:27:34,687 --> 00:27:37,126 How could I have been so clumsy? 320 00:27:37,127 --> 00:27:40,127 Don't worry... it doesn't matter at all! 321 00:27:40,247 --> 00:27:41,587 Mademoiselle.... 322 00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:43,806 Here... 323 00:27:43,807 --> 00:27:46,807 I tore the dress of the prettiest woman at the ball! 324 00:27:48,047 --> 00:27:51,047 I feel it will take me a lifetime to make amends... 325 00:27:52,047 --> 00:27:54,995 I'd much rather forgive you right now!...Goodbye sir! 326 00:27:55,367 --> 00:27:56,556 But, mademoiselle......... 327 00:28:02,527 --> 00:28:05,326 That's a dress that could cost you dearly, Baron! 328 00:28:05,327 --> 00:28:07,966 Why?... Do you know that beauty? 329 00:28:07,967 --> 00:28:09,606 Nothing special about it... 330 00:28:09,607 --> 00:28:12,915 That's the beautiful Esther... You'll find her at 15 Rue de Langlade... 331 00:28:13,007 --> 00:28:15,486 Knock on the door with a gold piece! 332 00:28:15,487 --> 00:28:18,366 -A whore? -Courtesan, Baron!... 333 00:28:18,367 --> 00:28:21,367 An unscrupulous one. 334 00:28:22,127 --> 00:28:25,127 I am rich... and she is beautiful!... 335 00:28:25,447 --> 00:28:28,446 That's not the first pretty woman you've looked at! 336 00:28:28,447 --> 00:28:31,447 No...but it's the first one that looked at me, Rastignac... 337 00:28:32,247 --> 00:28:34,966 Goodbye, Nucingen. 338 00:28:34,967 --> 00:28:37,967 Hey...that was 15 Rue de Langlade wasn't it? 339 00:28:39,927 --> 00:28:41,102 Thanks my friend... 340 00:28:58,687 --> 00:29:00,846 Angel...you're so clumsy! 341 00:29:00,847 --> 00:29:03,847 Right now, a badly-tied tie is hardly relevant! 342 00:29:04,687 --> 00:29:07,086 So...my true love... what are you going to do about it? 343 00:29:07,087 --> 00:29:09,246 I want you to be as handsome as possible... 344 00:29:09,247 --> 00:29:12,247 Even if it's only the night and me who sees you... 345 00:29:12,607 --> 00:29:14,646 Remember that pride is a sin! 346 00:29:14,647 --> 00:29:17,647 I'm proud of being yours! 347 00:29:20,767 --> 00:29:23,767 I wonder if a joy like mine is not a challenge to the heavens. 348 00:29:25,887 --> 00:29:28,887 Six months of happiness... what have I done to deserve it? 349 00:29:30,287 --> 00:29:32,606 Happiness and deserts are two lords 350 00:29:32,607 --> 00:29:35,606 who often go to war with each other. 351 00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,607 Until tomorrow my love. 352 00:29:39,447 --> 00:29:41,966 I'll be counting the hours that separate us. 353 00:29:41,967 --> 00:29:44,967 The hours, days, your worldly life... 354 00:29:45,287 --> 00:29:47,886 Madame de S�risy the renowned beauty... 355 00:29:47,887 --> 00:29:50,766 Clotilde de Grandlieu and several others. 356 00:29:50,767 --> 00:29:52,686 You envy them? 357 00:29:52,687 --> 00:29:55,687 I pity them...because it's me that you love! 358 00:30:03,007 --> 00:30:03,669 Until tomorrow... 359 00:30:12,967 --> 00:30:13,721 Until tomorrow. 360 00:30:38,207 --> 00:30:41,207 Here you are Angel... here they are! 361 00:30:45,507 --> 00:30:46,968 Who are you? 362 00:30:46,968 --> 00:30:49,528 The Abbot Don Carlos Herrera. 363 00:30:49,847 --> 00:30:52,526 I see that he spoke to you about me... 364 00:30:52,527 --> 00:30:55,527 Young people have no secrets from their lovers. 365 00:30:56,607 --> 00:30:59,006 He loves you...is that right? 366 00:30:59,007 --> 00:31:00,766 He told me so. 367 00:31:00,767 --> 00:31:02,726 My happiness depends on believing it. 368 00:31:02,727 --> 00:31:05,006 A shared love...one hears? 369 00:31:05,007 --> 00:31:07,126 Pointless question, Father... 370 00:31:07,127 --> 00:31:10,086 For six months we've only lived for each other. 371 00:31:10,087 --> 00:31:12,842 All very well...but... does he know what you are? 372 00:31:15,167 --> 00:31:17,967 What I was...yes. 373 00:31:18,567 --> 00:31:20,104 He also knows that I've become 374 00:31:20,104 --> 00:31:24,438 a new and decent woman for him. 375 00:31:24,727 --> 00:31:27,727 I've no doubt about that... but love is a fragile sentiment. 376 00:31:30,207 --> 00:31:33,207 I don't accept that, Father... nothing can separate the two of us! 377 00:31:33,807 --> 00:31:34,926 Nothing! 378 00:31:34,927 --> 00:31:36,127 Even if he was to kill himself? 379 00:31:36,127 --> 00:31:37,410 Why should he kill himself? 380 00:31:37,410 --> 00:31:38,760 He's happy. 381 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,373 Why is he happy? 382 00:31:40,373 --> 00:31:42,607 I put on the road to fortune... 383 00:31:42,927 --> 00:31:44,399 And I on the road to happiness! 384 00:31:45,047 --> 00:31:48,047 Somebody else might feel that way... Not him! 385 00:31:49,087 --> 00:31:52,087 He's ambitious... as you well know. 386 00:31:52,127 --> 00:31:55,086 If that success eludes him... and he is finished... 387 00:31:55,087 --> 00:31:58,087 It's not your love that will save him. 388 00:32:02,247 --> 00:32:03,366 Come on now... 389 00:32:03,367 --> 00:32:05,886 Tears have never fixed anything... 390 00:32:05,887 --> 00:32:08,887 We must learn to bow to the inevitable, my child... 391 00:32:10,247 --> 00:32:12,726 Let's say Lucien loves you and you love him... 392 00:32:12,727 --> 00:32:15,727 But concede that I have rights over him... 393 00:32:18,167 --> 00:32:21,167 My life is nothing without him... If you take him...you're taking me. 394 00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:25,526 Who said anything about taking you two? 395 00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:28,527 I'm only asking for his social life... his future... 396 00:32:29,927 --> 00:32:31,108 The rest is yours! 397 00:32:31,647 --> 00:32:34,079 But I have to be obeyed... in his own best interests.. 398 00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:35,091 Do you accept that? 399 00:32:35,091 --> 00:32:36,296 Tell me what to do! 400 00:32:36,296 --> 00:32:39,366 I'll obey because I care for him. 401 00:32:39,367 --> 00:32:41,955 Very good my child... Now you're listening to reason. 402 00:32:43,607 --> 00:32:44,460 Youth! 403 00:33:01,607 --> 00:33:03,526 You like music, Reverend? 404 00:33:03,527 --> 00:33:06,002 Enough not to have it abused in my presence! 405 00:33:17,487 --> 00:33:20,487 Went out at 9 o'clock... He's gone to the Spanish Embassy. 406 00:33:20,567 --> 00:33:23,567 He was accompanied to the door by the 1st Councillor... 407 00:33:24,167 --> 00:33:27,167 ...who seemed to hold him in high esteem... 408 00:33:27,607 --> 00:33:28,654 Your impression? 409 00:33:28,654 --> 00:33:31,120 There's been mistake... It's certainly Carlos Herrera. 410 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,164 It's Vautrin ! 411 00:33:33,087 --> 00:33:35,766 He managed to fool the Spanish Embassy... 412 00:33:35,767 --> 00:33:37,366 he doesn't fool me. 413 00:33:37,367 --> 00:33:40,367 I'll send him back to the dungeons. 414 00:33:49,247 --> 00:33:51,646 Back already, Lucien? 415 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:55,055 I was thinking of you on the Champs-Elys�es... I have to speak to you. 416 00:33:55,407 --> 00:33:56,258 I know... 417 00:34:09,847 --> 00:34:10,521 So?... 418 00:34:10,939 --> 00:34:12,620 I'm listening. 419 00:34:15,007 --> 00:34:18,007 It is so difficult for you to admit that you're returning from Esther's? 420 00:34:19,287 --> 00:34:21,606 Had the bird flown the nest? 421 00:34:21,607 --> 00:34:22,447 What? 422 00:34:23,567 --> 00:34:26,567 You know? You saw us at the Opera!... 423 00:34:26,727 --> 00:34:28,126 Where is she? 424 00:34:28,127 --> 00:34:29,646 Where I put her... 425 00:34:29,647 --> 00:34:32,198 This woman was something between us that should never have existed... 426 00:34:32,198 --> 00:34:33,980 a lie and a secret! 427 00:34:38,447 --> 00:34:40,926 When I open up the salons of Grandlieu to you... 428 00:34:40,927 --> 00:34:43,927 ...it's not so you can go wallowing in the gutter! 429 00:34:49,367 --> 00:34:52,367 bring her back to me...I love her... Do you want that I should die?... 430 00:34:53,767 --> 00:34:55,014 No...I want you alive... 431 00:34:56,207 --> 00:34:58,406 ...in the life you have to have. 432 00:34:58,407 --> 00:35:00,886 And what if I should choose a different one for myself? 433 00:35:00,887 --> 00:35:03,326 I see that you need the truth... 434 00:35:03,327 --> 00:35:06,327 I war you.. it'll hit you like a ton of bricks... 435 00:35:06,607 --> 00:35:08,926 We have debts of 60,000 francs... 436 00:35:08,927 --> 00:35:11,927 And I'm not talking about the 600,000 needed for you to marry Clotilde... 437 00:35:13,287 --> 00:35:14,620 That's not all...come... 438 00:35:19,767 --> 00:35:21,606 You see that man there? 439 00:35:21,607 --> 00:35:24,607 He's the most stubborn of mules... Monsieur de Granville... 440 00:35:24,967 --> 00:35:26,286 state prosecutor... 441 00:35:26,287 --> 00:35:28,246 The police? So he knows? 442 00:35:28,247 --> 00:35:29,366 They suspect... 443 00:35:29,367 --> 00:35:32,367 This imbecile could smell the convict dressed as a priest. 444 00:35:37,127 --> 00:35:38,347 We're done for! 445 00:35:38,347 --> 00:35:39,135 No... 446 00:35:40,727 --> 00:35:43,727 If you obey me like you need to obey me! 447 00:35:44,047 --> 00:35:46,206 Don't look back any more... 448 00:35:46,207 --> 00:35:48,446 or your fortune and our salvation are gone. 449 00:35:48,447 --> 00:35:49,064 And Esther? 450 00:35:49,064 --> 00:35:50,606 I'll tell you where she is... 451 00:35:50,606 --> 00:35:51,809 You'll see her this evening... 452 00:35:53,167 --> 00:35:55,058 She risks nothing because you love her. 453 00:35:56,198 --> 00:35:57,627 Thank you...I'll do as you say. 454 00:36:24,447 --> 00:36:26,378 Hey...coachman! 455 00:36:37,767 --> 00:36:40,271 Please... You're welcome to share my cab! 456 00:36:40,271 --> 00:36:43,527 It'll save you from having to pay for another one to follow me! 457 00:36:44,047 --> 00:36:47,047 -Monsieur... -Monsieur Abbot...Up you go... 458 00:36:47,492 --> 00:36:50,206 Besides...we're going the same way... 459 00:36:50,207 --> 00:36:52,354 Coachman...to the Palais de Justice! 460 00:37:07,847 --> 00:37:10,847 You overwhelm me with reports about Abbot Carlos Herrera... 461 00:37:11,807 --> 00:37:14,001 in whom you make out that you recognise Vautrin. 462 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:18,779 I'm not interested in your hunches... I want evidence! 463 00:37:19,567 --> 00:37:21,269 Unmask him... or leave me alone! 464 00:37:21,527 --> 00:37:24,527 It's not easy, sir... It is very hard. 465 00:37:24,647 --> 00:37:27,564 You're paid to be harder... Come in! 466 00:37:29,007 --> 00:37:30,484 Agent Contenson 467 00:37:30,484 --> 00:37:31,539 is asking to see you. 468 00:37:31,539 --> 00:37:32,818 That's one of my men! 469 00:37:33,487 --> 00:37:35,816 He's on this case... he must have news! 470 00:37:36,976 --> 00:37:37,870 Have him come in. 471 00:37:42,745 --> 00:37:44,404 Anything new? Our man? 472 00:37:44,404 --> 00:37:45,530 He's here. 473 00:37:45,530 --> 00:37:46,787 You brought him in? Bravo! 474 00:37:46,787 --> 00:37:49,226 I didn't bring him in... he came himself... 475 00:37:50,683 --> 00:37:52,027 And what does he want? 476 00:37:53,087 --> 00:37:55,526 Monsieur the Abbot Don Carlos Herrera, 477 00:37:55,527 --> 00:37:58,406 Honorary Canon of Toledo Cathedral. 478 00:37:58,407 --> 00:38:01,166 and envoy to His Majesty Ferdinand VII... 479 00:38:01,167 --> 00:38:02,557 king of Spain... 480 00:38:03,007 --> 00:38:06,619 ...solicits the favour of an interview with the Prosecutor General. 481 00:38:08,727 --> 00:38:10,413 Very well... Leave him alone with me. 482 00:38:29,687 --> 00:38:32,071 You have indicated a desire to see me, Monsieur Abbot... 483 00:38:32,071 --> 00:38:33,976 How can I be of service? 484 00:38:33,976 --> 00:38:38,053 Monsieur Prosecutor, I'm here to set my soul at rest... 485 00:38:38,053 --> 00:38:42,488 ...and you are seriously jeopardizing that. 486 00:38:42,488 --> 00:38:45,440 Me?...Please explain yourself. 487 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:50,123 Due to your surrounding my humble person with so much attention... 488 00:38:50,123 --> 00:38:51,705 you risk making me commit 489 00:38:51,705 --> 00:38:53,206 the sin of Pride... 490 00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:54,701 I would be extremely sorry! 491 00:38:54,701 --> 00:38:57,243 But I don't understand... 492 00:38:57,243 --> 00:38:59,323 What do you want to talk about? 493 00:38:59,656 --> 00:39:03,714 This bodyguard you have following me... 494 00:39:03,714 --> 00:39:07,228 A man who would be most useful doing general duties... 495 00:39:07,228 --> 00:39:09,024 There are so many criminals... 496 00:39:09,024 --> 00:39:10,155 Perfect... 497 00:39:10,155 --> 00:39:14,722 My only concern has been the protection of your person. 498 00:39:16,127 --> 00:39:18,566 But if that doesn't suit you... 499 00:39:18,567 --> 00:39:20,588 I have a guardian angel Monsieur Prosecutor... 500 00:39:21,331 --> 00:39:22,171 Very well... 501 00:39:22,171 --> 00:39:25,378 The chief detective will receive the necessary orders tonight. 502 00:39:25,378 --> 00:39:29,583 I was starting to think the police suspected me of something! 503 00:39:29,583 --> 00:39:31,511 Nothing surprising in that by the way... 504 00:39:31,511 --> 00:39:34,218 It's quite easy to claim you're sent by the Court... 505 00:39:34,218 --> 00:39:39,209 Still...take a look at my credentials... 506 00:39:39,209 --> 00:39:41,159 I'd feel happier... 507 00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:42,852 These are my personal papers. 508 00:39:45,761 --> 00:39:47,897 That abbot's a long time in the confessional. 509 00:39:47,897 --> 00:39:49,178 Sure is. 510 00:39:49,807 --> 00:39:52,807 That prosecutor could get a confession out of a pile of rocks. 511 00:40:08,247 --> 00:40:10,825 Thank you for your kindness Monsieur Prosecutor. 512 00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,983 The least I could do, Monsieur Abbot... 513 00:40:14,808 --> 00:40:16,881 'Pax Domine sit semper nobiscum.' 514 00:40:35,567 --> 00:40:37,273 Fresh water! 515 00:40:47,391 --> 00:40:49,090 Fresh water! 516 00:40:49,647 --> 00:40:53,007 Who wants fresh water? 517 00:40:53,008 --> 00:40:54,008 You can see I'm busy. 518 00:40:53,647 --> 00:40:56,647 80, 90... Is that all? 519 00:40:57,527 --> 00:41:00,366 It's a real diamond... It's worth 10 times that. 520 00:41:00,367 --> 00:41:03,367 So it'll be 10 times easier to pay me...get out! 521 00:41:09,247 --> 00:41:11,966 Hullo my boy! Hullo Asia! 522 00:41:11,967 --> 00:41:13,772 The others are upstairs... 523 00:41:23,247 --> 00:41:24,476 Don't I even get a 'hullo'? 524 00:41:27,327 --> 00:41:28,825 Good to see you, Boss... 525 00:41:29,647 --> 00:41:31,740 You working for me? Yes, Europe... 526 00:41:32,047 --> 00:41:33,625 The good and the bad... 527 00:41:33,625 --> 00:41:35,228 I don't like doing everything... 528 00:41:36,607 --> 00:41:38,355 Hullo Paccart... What's new? 529 00:41:39,127 --> 00:41:41,495 Silky has just finished his time... 530 00:41:41,807 --> 00:41:44,526 He's claiming his money... 7,000 francs 531 00:41:44,527 --> 00:41:45,858 He's claiming or asking? 532 00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:50,047 He'll be paid in two weeks. Sit down. 533 00:41:51,887 --> 00:41:54,766 I've found you a job. 534 00:41:54,767 --> 00:41:57,767 You'll enter the service of Madame Esther Van Gobseck... 535 00:41:58,647 --> 00:42:01,647 Funny name...funny idea... Who's going to look after the shop? 536 00:42:03,127 --> 00:42:05,526 Providence... I'm fine with it. 537 00:42:05,527 --> 00:42:07,846 You'll a cook over there... 538 00:42:07,847 --> 00:42:09,846 - And me? - Chamber maid. 539 00:42:09,847 --> 00:42:12,126 - You'll listen at keyholes. -And me? 540 00:42:12,127 --> 00:42:13,526 Her coachman. 541 00:42:13,527 --> 00:42:16,527 In the neighbourhood they say she's a foreigner without much money. 542 00:42:17,087 --> 00:42:20,087 Just enough to live. I'd say she's a miser. 543 00:42:20,527 --> 00:42:21,721 That's it. 544 00:42:21,721 --> 00:42:25,690 She'll stay at home during the day. Nights...she'll go out in a carriage. 545 00:42:26,967 --> 00:42:29,129 Her doctor recommends moonlight. 546 00:42:29,607 --> 00:42:30,711 That's right! 547 00:42:31,207 --> 00:42:34,207 Nobody visits her except Lucien de Rubempr�... 548 00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:37,767 To take her for a walk... or whatever...eh? 549 00:42:37,967 --> 00:42:38,726 That's all. 550 00:42:39,327 --> 00:42:42,327 Asia will pass on my orders, if necessary... 551 00:42:42,807 --> 00:42:45,606 -And be good servants. -Goodbye, Boss. 552 00:42:45,607 --> 00:42:47,970 -On Mademoiselle Esther's orders?... -And on mine. 553 00:42:55,567 --> 00:42:57,633 What's going on in that head of yours? 554 00:42:57,668 --> 00:42:59,470 I don't have a cent to my name. 555 00:42:59,927 --> 00:43:01,215 I need 600,000 francs. 556 00:43:02,807 --> 00:43:03,885 Good grief! 557 00:43:04,407 --> 00:43:07,086 You won't find that on the doorstep! 558 00:43:07,087 --> 00:43:08,406 Any ideas? 559 00:43:08,407 --> 00:43:09,912 Just one...but a good one. 560 00:43:11,207 --> 00:43:14,207 -Baron Nucingen's in love with the kid... -''Nucingen'' ? 561 00:43:15,167 --> 00:43:18,167 -You're talking millions! -A real piggy bank ... 562 00:43:19,127 --> 00:43:20,366 So? 563 00:43:20,367 --> 00:43:21,805 So he'll be the fish. 564 00:43:21,805 --> 00:43:24,606 Esther will be the hook. 565 00:43:24,607 --> 00:43:27,286 Lucien will eat the result. 566 00:43:27,287 --> 00:43:30,287 You go to a lot of trouble for that boy, Jacques... 567 00:43:30,727 --> 00:43:31,726 A lot. 568 00:43:31,727 --> 00:43:34,686 He reminds me of my unfulfilled ambitions, 569 00:43:34,687 --> 00:43:35,700 my squandered youth... 570 00:43:37,087 --> 00:43:38,391 I feel he can give me a fresh start... 571 00:43:40,287 --> 00:43:41,265 Basically you're a good guy Jacques... 572 00:43:42,847 --> 00:43:44,318 A good guy who's been in prison. 573 00:44:05,527 --> 00:44:07,759 Florine, you play wonderfully... 574 00:44:07,759 --> 00:44:09,926 Herr Schubert is definitely talented! 575 00:44:14,224 --> 00:44:18,269 Herr Schubert may have talent... but not our beloved Florine. 576 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,960 Go and join your handsome Lucien... 577 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,739 Don't make fun of me, Diane... 578 00:44:22,739 --> 00:44:24,943 He's so young and handsome! 579 00:44:25,043 --> 00:44:27,767 Haven't you had any other lover? 580 00:44:27,767 --> 00:44:29,669 ''Any other''?... Don't be rude! 581 00:44:29,669 --> 00:44:32,179 That's not something you ask a lady. 582 00:44:32,179 --> 00:44:33,956 Now go... 583 00:44:38,297 --> 00:44:40,405 -Can you follow suit? -No... -Thanks... 584 00:44:41,176 --> 00:44:43,294 Eight points and three honours. 585 00:44:43,294 --> 00:44:44,786 I'm out... 586 00:44:44,786 --> 00:44:47,768 The gods of whist are against me... Take my place, Rastignac... 587 00:44:50,007 --> 00:44:50,990 You clean up! 588 00:44:52,007 --> 00:44:54,686 Our friend Lucien follows the proverb... 589 00:44:54,687 --> 00:44:56,069 ''Unlucky in cards...'' 590 00:44:56,069 --> 00:44:58,761 Your deal. 591 00:44:58,761 --> 00:45:01,370 Did you know it's full of thieves at your place? 592 00:45:02,018 --> 00:45:03,714 Did they take something of yours? 593 00:45:03,714 --> 00:45:06,079 Your presence...your smile... 594 00:45:06,487 --> 00:45:07,408 It's unbearable! 595 00:45:07,408 --> 00:45:09,144 I have to put up with more than that! 596 00:45:09,144 --> 00:45:11,398 Every woman here is in love with you! 597 00:45:11,398 --> 00:45:13,548 You saw how Madame Espard was looking at you!? 598 00:45:14,785 --> 00:45:17,103 Forget it!... I've certainly forgotten it. 599 00:45:17,103 --> 00:45:19,202 You're just saying that to reassure me... 600 00:45:19,202 --> 00:45:20,954 You find forgetting too easy! 601 00:45:20,954 --> 00:45:23,213 About anything... except you! 602 00:45:28,607 --> 00:45:29,833 You are divine... 603 00:45:29,833 --> 00:45:31,718 YOU are a demon!... 604 00:45:31,718 --> 00:45:33,350 I'm lost before I start... 605 00:45:33,350 --> 00:45:35,811 Mademoiselle Clotilde de Grandlieu...! 606 00:45:41,119 --> 00:45:43,794 Off you go... Don't keep her waiting! 607 00:45:43,794 --> 00:45:44,963 She looks like she's drowning... 608 00:45:44,963 --> 00:45:46,641 and looking for something to grab onto. 609 00:45:46,641 --> 00:45:47,727 I adore you! 610 00:45:49,193 --> 00:45:51,308 -Hullo, Clotilde. -Hullo, my dear. 611 00:45:52,047 --> 00:45:54,328 Oh...I have to leave you... see you soon. 612 00:45:54,328 --> 00:45:56,527 I'm late, Lucien... 613 00:45:56,847 --> 00:45:58,083 Tell me that you've been worried... 614 00:45:58,083 --> 00:45:59,459 I certainly have... 615 00:45:59,459 --> 00:46:01,017 You are all I worry about! 616 00:46:01,805 --> 00:46:04,099 -Have you spoken to your father? -Yes... 617 00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:06,496 Unfortunately others have spoken to him, too... 618 00:46:06,496 --> 00:46:08,695 Have I been well-trampled into the mud? 619 00:46:08,695 --> 00:46:11,764 There was talk of 100,000 francs in debts... 620 00:46:11,764 --> 00:46:14,244 ...and that you risk going to prison. 621 00:46:14,551 --> 00:46:16,229 Ridiculous slander! Who said that? 622 00:46:17,537 --> 00:46:19,441 -Madame d'Espard... -''Madame d'Espard''? 623 00:46:19,927 --> 00:46:21,212 You can see how she's looking at us... 624 00:46:22,774 --> 00:46:24,119 What have you done to that woman? 625 00:46:24,119 --> 00:46:25,741 She hates you... 626 00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:28,093 Since I stopped loving her... 627 00:46:28,093 --> 00:46:30,526 A gentleman doesn't talk about such things! 628 00:46:30,526 --> 00:46:32,507 You can get our confidence back... 629 00:46:32,507 --> 00:46:35,530 Buy the Rubempr� lands... and forget all the others! 630 00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:39,227 Clotilde de Grandlieu's husband shouldn't have enemies. 631 00:46:45,513 --> 00:46:47,342 Monsieur de Rastignac! 632 00:46:47,342 --> 00:46:51,548 Hop in please...I have things to discuss with you... 633 00:46:58,561 --> 00:46:59,253 What do you want with me? 634 00:46:59,253 --> 00:47:01,465 How is dear Baron Nucingen getting along? 635 00:47:02,037 --> 00:47:04,118 How long have you been interested in HIM? 636 00:47:04,118 --> 00:47:08,372 And I could ask you...how long have you been interested in HIS WIFE? 637 00:47:10,826 --> 00:47:12,243 The baron is in a bad way... 638 00:47:12,243 --> 00:47:15,795 He doesn't sleep...he doesn't eat... he's neglecting his affairs. 639 00:47:15,795 --> 00:47:17,036 In short...he's in love. 640 00:47:18,069 --> 00:47:19,737 -You can guess all the rest. -All of it! 641 00:47:21,250 --> 00:47:25,584 I can even guess that fat fool will find the beautiful Esther. 642 00:47:25,584 --> 00:47:29,031 He'd pay a fortune to find where she's hidden. 643 00:47:29,031 --> 00:47:30,863 But we can hope for the best, my friend... 644 00:47:31,672 --> 00:47:32,729 Hope for the best. 645 00:47:33,276 --> 00:47:36,393 -Anyway...where can I drop you? -My place. 646 00:47:36,981 --> 00:47:38,935 Coachman...7 Rue d'Artois! 647 00:48:17,567 --> 00:48:19,246 Good morning... 648 00:48:19,247 --> 00:48:22,621 I was told I'd find a certain Madame de Saint-Est�ve here. 649 00:48:22,927 --> 00:48:23,818 That's me, Baron. 650 00:48:25,718 --> 00:48:27,289 So you know me? 651 00:48:28,726 --> 00:48:32,095 I know all the rich of Paris... That's my business. 652 00:48:32,541 --> 00:48:35,771 So...it seems you may be interested in our pretty girl...Esther? 653 00:48:36,815 --> 00:48:40,692 Where is she? Monsieur de Rastignac assured me... 654 00:48:41,338 --> 00:48:42,924 Calm down!... 655 00:48:42,924 --> 00:48:45,142 Between what Rastignac told you and what I can tell you... 656 00:48:45,142 --> 00:48:46,776 ...there is a gap, dear old chap! 657 00:48:46,776 --> 00:48:48,730 A gap of 50,000 francs... 658 00:48:50,085 --> 00:48:52,511 Now let's see how you jump over it... 659 00:48:52,511 --> 00:48:54,221 You want money? 660 00:48:54,221 --> 00:48:56,220 Of course! I want my money... 661 00:48:57,187 --> 00:48:59,718 The money I loaned towards securing your passion... 662 00:48:59,718 --> 00:49:03,533 -YOU loaned her 50,000? -No, no, no... 663 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,176 25,000... 664 00:49:06,176 --> 00:49:08,195 25 of 50...of course. 665 00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:09,815 You'd understand that... being a banker. 666 00:49:10,510 --> 00:49:12,338 Alright...50,000. 667 00:49:12,338 --> 00:49:14,389 I'll give you a note on my bank. 668 00:49:21,484 --> 00:49:24,251 Don't forget the silverware... while you are at it. 669 00:49:24,251 --> 00:49:25,346 What silverware?... 670 00:49:25,346 --> 00:49:27,271 I have to pay for silverware!? 671 00:49:27,271 --> 00:49:28,789 It was needed... 672 00:49:28,789 --> 00:49:31,694 by the beautiful one... I sold it to her. 673 00:49:31,694 --> 00:49:33,898 The heart of a 20 year old can be a little bit mischievous! 674 00:49:33,898 --> 00:49:35,309 It likes to show off! 675 00:49:35,787 --> 00:49:38,050 How much including the silver? 676 00:49:38,050 --> 00:49:39,610 80,000, in round figures... 677 00:49:39,610 --> 00:49:42,316 I am too great a lady to be bothered with small change... 678 00:49:43,066 --> 00:49:47,020 And when I hand over 80,000... I'll get to see her? 679 00:49:47,020 --> 00:49:48,898 Not yet... 680 00:49:48,898 --> 00:49:51,612 - Because of the curtains... - What curtains?! 681 00:49:51,612 --> 00:49:53,021 Hers... 682 00:49:53,021 --> 00:49:56,763 Curtains she chose herself... They're beautiful! 683 00:49:56,763 --> 00:49:57,660 You'll see! 684 00:49:58,447 --> 00:50:01,142 Add 20,000... and she's in your arms! 685 00:50:01,142 --> 00:50:03,524 But that makes 100,000 all up... It's robbery! 686 00:50:05,763 --> 00:50:07,605 Will she love me, at least? 687 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,265 You aren't good-looking...you're a bit fat... you're a bit of a goose... 688 00:50:12,265 --> 00:50:16,455 ...but you're rich enough to buy some semblance of love. 689 00:50:39,207 --> 00:50:42,606 Thank you, pet... if you'll just follow me... 690 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,102 There... 691 00:51:07,251 --> 00:51:09,129 But where is she? 692 00:51:09,129 --> 00:51:11,114 He'll tell you, Baron... 693 00:51:17,178 --> 00:51:17,816 Who are you? 694 00:51:17,816 --> 00:51:19,556 Your confidant... 695 00:51:19,556 --> 00:51:22,743 ...and coachman to the one of interest to you, sir. 696 00:51:22,743 --> 00:51:23,874 Are you going to show her to me?! 697 00:51:23,874 --> 00:51:25,081 This very night... 698 00:51:25,081 --> 00:51:28,296 -''This very night''? -This very night... 699 00:51:30,393 --> 00:51:31,355 Here... 700 00:51:32,035 --> 00:51:35,077 That's for you my boy... 701 00:51:36,727 --> 00:51:38,030 Thank you, Baron... 702 00:51:38,030 --> 00:51:40,205 ...but I already make a decent living. 703 00:51:41,694 --> 00:51:43,324 You're an honest man... 704 00:51:44,109 --> 00:51:44,980 Congratulations! 705 00:51:44,980 --> 00:51:48,576 I get 1,000 francs a year... it's a good job... 706 00:51:48,576 --> 00:51:51,923 I'd be happy to risk losing it to make you happy... 707 00:51:51,923 --> 00:51:55,094 ...but it'd take 50 years to make up for it. 708 00:51:55,094 --> 00:51:57,275 If you work it out... 709 00:51:57,275 --> 00:51:58,608 Work out what? 710 00:51:58,959 --> 00:52:00,812 50 years at 1,000 francs a year... 711 00:52:00,812 --> 00:52:02,375 ...makes 50,000 francs. 712 00:52:02,375 --> 00:52:04,053 You'd understand, Baron... 713 00:52:04,053 --> 00:52:06,517 50,000 francs! 714 00:52:06,517 --> 00:52:08,559 This is a swindle! 715 00:52:08,559 --> 00:52:11,321 I've already been relieved of 100,000 francs for a girl... 716 00:52:11,321 --> 00:52:13,356 That's dear enough!... 717 00:52:13,356 --> 00:52:15,797 You'd be the better judge of that, Baron. 718 00:52:17,789 --> 00:52:20,261 And what if your mistress refuses to receive me? 719 00:52:20,261 --> 00:52:22,931 Mademoiselle is much too honest 720 00:52:22,931 --> 00:52:24,887 not to recognise your merits, sir. 721 00:52:25,994 --> 00:52:27,547 Tonight could be a beautiful night... 722 00:52:27,547 --> 00:52:31,338 if you were willing to trust me, sir. 723 00:52:31,338 --> 00:52:32,540 Tonight? 724 00:52:33,540 --> 00:52:35,155 So be it...I'll pay! 725 00:52:35,155 --> 00:52:37,320 Where will I see her? 726 00:52:38,128 --> 00:52:42,527 At midnight...at a place called "Three Ways" in the Fausses-Reposes woods. 727 00:52:42,527 --> 00:52:44,654 You'll soon see if I'm lying, Baron. 728 00:52:44,654 --> 00:52:47,254 Give me a pen. 729 00:52:47,254 --> 00:53:06,705 - Mademoiselle? - Is that Lucien? 730 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,347 Lucien won't be coming this evening. 731 00:53:10,347 --> 00:53:11,508 Why not? 732 00:53:12,778 --> 00:53:14,275 Has something happened to him? 733 00:53:14,275 --> 00:53:17,830 Yes, an order... The advice I gave him... 734 00:53:17,830 --> 00:53:20,868 A trial separation seemed necessary to me. 735 00:53:20,868 --> 00:53:22,350 And he accepted it? 736 00:53:22,350 --> 00:53:24,203 With difficulty... you'll be glad to hear... 737 00:53:24,203 --> 00:53:26,671 He even said nasty things to me... 738 00:53:26,671 --> 00:53:28,683 ...though flattering for you. 739 00:53:28,683 --> 00:53:31,154 What harm are you planning for us now? 740 00:53:31,154 --> 00:53:33,684 Why would I want to harm him? 741 00:53:34,807 --> 00:53:37,488 You're mistaken... I love him as much as you do. 742 00:53:38,725 --> 00:53:41,497 lmpossible!... I'd give my life for him! 743 00:53:41,497 --> 00:53:43,325 The beautiful affair that makes life worth living!... 744 00:53:43,325 --> 00:53:46,881 Better to show him how intelligent you are...and make him happy. 745 00:53:46,881 --> 00:53:49,097 I am his happiness... and he's mine!... 746 00:53:49,097 --> 00:53:50,706 That's all we ask for. 747 00:53:50,706 --> 00:53:52,704 You really are all woman... 748 00:53:52,704 --> 00:53:55,126 You don't see further than your bed... 749 00:53:55,126 --> 00:53:57,111 That will help him to a great career. 750 00:54:00,023 --> 00:54:01,413 I decided he'd be my masterpiece. 751 00:54:02,844 --> 00:54:04,299 And if that should lead to my death? 752 00:54:04,299 --> 00:54:08,423 It's astonishing...the mania women have about wanting to die! 753 00:54:08,423 --> 00:54:10,492 It'd be easier than living without him. 754 00:54:10,492 --> 00:54:11,893 Be reasonable. 755 00:54:11,893 --> 00:54:13,826 He needs both of us. 756 00:54:14,887 --> 00:54:16,268 -Lucien is in a most serious situation! -Really?! 757 00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:18,906 Would you like to help me save him? 758 00:54:18,906 --> 00:54:21,608 What a question! 759 00:54:22,209 --> 00:54:24,595 So just sign these papers. 760 00:54:24,595 --> 00:54:32,847 IOUs? What's it all about? 761 00:54:34,367 --> 00:54:36,892 That you owe 150,000 francs to Baron de Paccart... 762 00:54:37,401 --> 00:54:38,556 To my coachman? 763 00:54:38,556 --> 00:54:40,510 I've made you coachman a baron. 764 00:54:41,683 --> 00:54:42,679 So, sign!... 765 00:54:44,413 --> 00:54:45,625 Sign!... 766 00:54:48,007 --> 00:54:51,007 Paccart must obtain a judgment against you... 767 00:54:54,967 --> 00:54:57,926 -But who's going to pay? -Love! 768 00:54:57,927 --> 00:55:00,252 That love that has inspired Baron de Nucingen. 769 00:55:00,252 --> 00:55:02,301 Nucingen?...who's that? 770 00:55:02,301 --> 00:55:04,290 -Eh!? - Who's that? 771 00:55:04,290 --> 00:55:08,219 The least noble, but the richest gentleman in Paris. 772 00:55:09,479 --> 00:55:11,176 I don't know the man at all. 773 00:55:11,176 --> 00:55:12,573 That won't deter him. 774 00:55:12,573 --> 00:55:16,220 But you'll get acquainted in 2 or 3 days... 775 00:55:16,220 --> 00:55:18,914 -He dreams of ruining himself for you... -What? 776 00:55:18,914 --> 00:55:20,415 I won't do it! 777 00:55:20,415 --> 00:55:21,631 You have to! 778 00:55:21,847 --> 00:55:24,771 It's the only way of saving Lucien from prison... 779 00:55:25,139 --> 00:55:26,314 I'll save him. 780 00:55:27,298 --> 00:55:29,991 I was thinking that my darling had a fatal illness... 781 00:55:33,053 --> 00:55:34,929 It's essential he knows nothing about this. 782 00:55:34,929 --> 00:55:38,024 It would be the same as shooting him in the head. 783 00:55:39,024 --> 00:55:42,167 Good night. 784 00:56:15,007 --> 00:56:16,793 -What's the time, Georges ? -Midnight, sir. 785 00:56:18,167 --> 00:56:18,871 But I don't see anybody. 786 00:56:20,247 --> 00:56:22,880 A midnight rendezvous... deep in the woods!... 787 00:56:23,567 --> 00:56:25,466 I must be completely mad! 788 00:56:25,466 --> 00:56:27,315 Maybe she'll never come. 789 00:56:27,647 --> 00:56:29,742 You shouldn't linger around here. 790 00:56:30,207 --> 00:56:30,940 Shut up! 791 00:56:35,794 --> 00:56:38,120 I see that you have trusted me, Baron! 792 00:56:38,727 --> 00:56:40,250 If you'd like to follow me Baron... 793 00:56:55,287 --> 00:56:56,900 And what do see there, Baron? 794 00:57:00,367 --> 00:57:04,413 Oh, my God! She's wonderful! 795 00:57:07,047 --> 00:57:08,381 Let me go to her! 796 00:57:08,967 --> 00:57:11,606 -Are you joking, Baron? -Of course not! 797 00:57:11,607 --> 00:57:12,697 I want to talk to her! 798 00:57:13,767 --> 00:57:15,720 -That's not possible, Baron -How dare you! 799 00:57:16,687 --> 00:57:18,739 In the best interests of yourself, Baron... 800 00:57:19,207 --> 00:57:22,294 Mademoiselle would not allow a stranger to pounce on her. 801 00:57:23,567 --> 00:57:24,868 -It needs time... -''TIME'' ! 802 00:57:25,687 --> 00:57:28,008 You thief! You promised me... 803 00:57:28,407 --> 00:57:30,878 that this would be a beautiful night. 804 00:57:31,407 --> 00:57:35,093 Haven't you been able to see the woman you love, Baron? 805 00:57:35,967 --> 00:57:38,587 You can't catch butterflies by firing a pistol. 806 00:57:39,407 --> 00:57:41,582 If you could be patient for three days... 807 00:57:42,207 --> 00:57:44,340 ...you'll be received in a bedroom. 808 00:57:45,847 --> 00:57:47,949 -In HER bedroom? -In 3 days. 809 00:57:48,767 --> 00:57:50,486 You'll receive a confirmation note. 810 00:58:07,647 --> 00:58:09,104 Three days... 811 00:58:57,527 --> 00:58:59,106 Through here...Baron, sir... 812 00:59:08,127 --> 00:59:09,336 Gosh!...Nice apartment!... 813 00:59:10,047 --> 00:59:12,048 Your mistress has better lodgings than my wife! 814 00:59:12,287 --> 00:59:14,457 Every jewel has to have its case... 815 00:59:14,847 --> 00:59:17,807 Everything here is chosen to serve the beauty of Mademoiselle... 816 00:59:18,487 --> 00:59:20,479 The marbles...the silver... 817 00:59:20,514 --> 00:59:22,448 the curtains... -I know! I know!...You're telling me! 818 00:59:22,448 --> 00:59:25,303 Where's your mistress? Has she been told about me? 819 00:59:25,927 --> 00:59:27,435 At length, Baron. 820 00:59:28,207 --> 00:59:31,056 More than once... But she doesn't want to listen... 821 00:59:31,407 --> 00:59:35,801 But I highlighted your merits... your fortune... 822 00:59:36,087 --> 00:59:37,870 I'm the biggest banker in Paris! 823 00:59:38,487 --> 00:59:40,201 ''The biggest'', yes... 824 00:59:40,447 --> 00:59:42,393 That's what upsets her... 825 00:59:43,247 --> 00:59:44,288 She doesn't like big and fat... 826 00:59:45,167 --> 00:59:47,222 In the end, she's let me decide 827 00:59:47,222 --> 00:59:49,118 ...if you might please her or not. 828 00:59:49,118 --> 00:59:50,398 So... 829 00:59:51,487 --> 00:59:52,256 What have you decided? 830 00:59:54,647 --> 00:59:55,886 You see me hesitating... 831 00:59:57,367 --> 01:00:02,187 If I make a mistake...I lose my job... A job worth 1000 francs a year... 832 01:00:02,607 --> 01:00:04,527 It would take me 10 years to match it... 833 01:00:05,247 --> 01:00:08,699 So you too!? You're all thieves! 834 01:00:09,047 --> 01:00:11,141 This is blackmail! I refuse to pay... 835 01:00:12,287 --> 01:00:13,432 That's a pity... 836 01:00:14,527 --> 01:00:18,555 There's the door that'll bring you within a hair's breadth of happiness. 837 01:00:19,007 --> 01:00:21,982 So be it...10,000 you said. 838 01:00:22,447 --> 01:00:23,815 20 000, Baron... 839 01:00:24,287 --> 01:00:26,338 10,000 for my job... 10,000 for my conscience. 840 01:00:27,847 --> 01:00:29,229 You rogue! 841 01:00:34,367 --> 01:00:35,960 The Baron de Nucingen! 842 01:00:38,727 --> 01:00:42,126 Mademoiselle...you see before you the happiest of men approaching you! 843 01:00:46,927 --> 01:00:49,464 Yet most miserable... because he sees you crying... 844 01:00:49,607 --> 01:00:51,228 Don't let my tears upset you... 845 01:00:52,087 --> 01:00:55,448 They're not because of you... neither can you make them go... 846 01:00:55,807 --> 01:00:57,729 You are unhappy, though? 847 01:00:58,887 --> 01:01:00,991 Allow me a place in your life... 848 01:01:01,687 --> 01:01:04,118 I'll make you the most envied woman in Paris! 849 01:01:05,567 --> 01:01:06,760 Come... 850 01:01:07,567 --> 01:01:09,149 Come and sit next to me! 851 01:01:11,567 --> 01:01:12,096 There... 852 01:01:16,087 --> 01:01:17,561 I love you, Esther. 853 01:01:18,527 --> 01:01:20,306 Can one be in love with something one buys? 854 01:01:21,047 --> 01:01:23,766 I only pay your debts... Do you have others? 855 01:01:24,367 --> 01:01:25,690 I'll pay them, too! 856 01:01:26,967 --> 01:01:32,128 All I ask is one thing... let me be close to you. 857 01:01:32,163 --> 01:01:34,416 Sounds like fun, Baron... 858 01:01:35,527 --> 01:01:36,576 but I think you're jumping the gun! 859 01:01:37,927 --> 01:01:40,661 Should you get to crumple my dress after just 5 minutes of wooing? 860 01:01:42,087 --> 01:01:43,450 Let's drink to your health... 861 01:01:44,407 --> 01:01:45,655 Everything in good time! 862 01:01:47,247 --> 01:01:50,320 You are charming my child! 863 01:01:50,367 --> 01:01:51,511 Your ''child''? 864 01:01:52,007 --> 01:01:55,133 I'd like to be...but then you must love me like a father! 865 01:01:55,527 --> 01:01:56,786 Though not really like a father! 866 01:01:57,607 --> 01:01:59,794 Come on now... drink...drink up! 867 01:02:00,807 --> 01:02:03,943 Come and sit next to me! 868 01:02:03,944 --> 01:02:04,944 Soon... 869 01:02:06,167 --> 01:02:08,514 To the loves of Baron de Nucingen! 870 01:02:13,607 --> 01:02:14,917 Yes, old girl...I'm nervous! 871 01:02:16,767 --> 01:02:17,990 I'm gambling everything on this. 872 01:02:18,767 --> 01:02:21,475 The cards are marked... and your opponents are blind! 873 01:02:21,475 --> 01:02:22,755 Fortunately! 874 01:02:24,247 --> 01:02:26,170 Tomorrow you'll go to the bank to cash the Baron's note. 875 01:02:28,927 --> 01:02:30,538 If our girl knows how to play her role... 876 01:02:31,607 --> 01:02:32,602 Lucien will marry Clotilde. 877 01:02:34,287 --> 01:02:36,773 I'll send an announcement to that idiot agent Contenson. 878 01:02:39,527 --> 01:02:40,973 - So...? -All going well, boss... 879 01:02:42,727 --> 01:02:44,935 Grandpa is in Mademoiselle's bedroom... 880 01:02:46,087 --> 01:02:49,570 Love made him so stupid... I took him for 20,000. 881 01:02:53,727 --> 01:02:54,998 He's got so much... 882 01:02:54,998 --> 01:02:56,749 He'll hardly notice it. 883 01:03:16,047 --> 01:03:18,458 This time I've got you! 884 01:03:19,327 --> 01:03:22,327 I've got you!... You terror of a girl!... 885 01:03:38,407 --> 01:03:41,054 What a nasty man... who won't drink my health!... 886 01:03:52,887 --> 01:03:55,262 I feel... I feel... 887 01:03:57,247 --> 01:03:58,609 I feel sick... 888 01:04:00,127 --> 01:04:02,708 Don't leave me... my treasure... 889 01:04:03,407 --> 01:04:06,189 Don't leave me... my little heart-throb... 890 01:04:06,224 --> 01:04:09,030 Easy...easy now... 891 01:04:10,247 --> 01:04:13,229 Rest for a while... close your eyes... 892 01:04:14,367 --> 01:04:16,278 You've got all night ahead of you! 893 01:04:32,887 --> 01:04:35,871 You go and keep him amused. 894 01:04:36,287 --> 01:04:40,495 Is that how we hang onto a good catch 895 01:04:40,496 --> 01:04:41,496 that pays our debts? 896 01:04:40,530 --> 01:04:41,217 Shut up! 897 01:04:44,327 --> 01:04:48,204 You are not good at doing this... and you're too full of yourself... 898 01:04:49,567 --> 01:04:52,714 We find a millionaire... and you turn up your nose... 899 01:04:53,087 --> 01:04:53,562 Get out! 900 01:05:11,927 --> 01:05:12,809 Through here, gentlemen... 901 01:05:16,367 --> 01:05:17,605 What's this about? 902 01:05:17,687 --> 01:05:19,663 Are you Esther Gobseck? 903 01:05:20,927 --> 01:05:22,294 -Yes...but... -Officer Dherville... 904 01:05:22,294 --> 01:05:24,077 ...bailiff of the Paris court... 905 01:05:24,077 --> 01:05:27,567 ...acting on a judgement obtained against you... 906 01:05:27,767 --> 01:05:30,576 ...by Baron Paccart... to whom you owe 150,000 francs. 907 01:05:30,887 --> 01:05:31,922 I'm here to seize your furniture. 908 01:05:31,922 --> 01:05:33,394 My furniture? 909 01:05:33,487 --> 01:05:34,916 Do you recognize these documents? 910 01:05:35,447 --> 01:05:36,590 Is that not your signature ? 911 01:05:38,007 --> 01:05:38,924 Yes, but... 912 01:05:38,924 --> 01:05:40,121 Are you able to pay? 913 01:05:40,856 --> 01:05:41,519 No... 914 01:05:43,527 --> 01:05:44,039 Get to it!... 915 01:05:57,141 --> 01:05:59,225 Following complaint be Baron Paccart... 916 01:05:59,647 --> 01:06:01,400 I'm arresting you for default of payment... 917 01:06:02,727 --> 01:06:04,719 What are you people doing here? 918 01:06:04,967 --> 01:06:08,218 They're here to seize the furniture... 919 01:06:08,367 --> 01:06:09,661 and throw her in the debtor's prison! 920 01:06:10,327 --> 01:06:11,507 Please save her, Baron! 921 01:06:12,767 --> 01:06:15,427 What...even more debts? 922 01:06:18,487 --> 01:06:20,508 Show me the details. 923 01:06:26,007 --> 01:06:27,806 Yes... 924 01:06:27,807 --> 01:06:31,119 That seems to be in order... Do you know who I am? 925 01:06:31,407 --> 01:06:33,753 Do you wish to pay it perhaps ? 926 01:06:34,847 --> 01:06:36,670 150,000 francs. 927 01:06:37,727 --> 01:06:39,407 One could argue... the devil...!... 928 01:06:39,567 --> 01:06:41,807 It's either paid... or justice takes its course... 929 01:06:42,007 --> 01:06:42,743 Mademoiselle... 930 01:06:43,047 --> 01:06:45,825 This man is going to let you go to prison for 150,000 francs! 931 01:06:46,207 --> 01:06:47,132 Take my savings! 932 01:06:48,047 --> 01:06:49,926 Shut up you little slut! 933 01:06:50,487 --> 01:06:52,678 I know where 20,000 francs of your savings come from! 934 01:06:56,767 --> 01:06:57,330 I'll pay. 935 01:07:12,727 --> 01:07:15,937 -We only accept payment in cash... -That's right... 936 01:07:16,727 --> 01:07:18,902 I am Baron de Nucingen! 937 01:07:21,247 --> 01:07:22,704 Well...that changes everything! 938 01:07:23,087 --> 01:07:25,437 Your signature will suffice, Baron! 939 01:07:31,127 --> 01:07:32,929 Thank you, Baron! Everybody out!... 940 01:07:35,127 --> 01:07:36,187 Through here, gentlemen! 941 01:07:47,927 --> 01:07:50,236 Here we go, my treasure! 942 01:07:51,167 --> 01:07:54,386 Cheer up... You've been extravagant... 943 01:07:54,807 --> 01:07:56,353 Like all pretty women... 944 01:07:57,916 --> 01:07:58,787 Go away! 945 01:07:59,646 --> 01:08:00,735 You can't mean it! 946 01:08:01,007 --> 01:08:03,302 You've already cost me more than 300 000 francs! 947 01:08:03,567 --> 01:08:06,028 Be reasonable, my treasure! 948 01:08:06,028 --> 01:08:07,458 Let me go, I say! 949 01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:10,621 Let you go...let you go!... I've been doing that for 4 days! 950 01:08:11,207 --> 01:08:13,752 Now I'm going to get what I paid for! 951 01:08:14,047 --> 01:08:14,896 You brute! 952 01:08:20,727 --> 01:08:21,448 You whore! 953 01:08:22,207 --> 01:08:23,346 Filthy thief! 954 01:08:23,567 --> 01:08:24,516 Isn't that it?... 955 01:08:25,127 --> 01:08:28,690 I cough up 320,000 francs in return for a slap? 956 01:08:29,127 --> 01:08:30,279 Well...that's not on! 957 01:08:30,807 --> 01:08:33,131 You'll soon be getting a bit of news from Baron Nucingen! 958 01:08:34,847 --> 01:08:36,473 Good work, my child! 959 01:08:36,807 --> 01:08:37,910 Congratulations! 960 01:08:39,007 --> 01:08:40,873 If that oaf gets too angry... Lucien is lost! 961 01:08:42,247 --> 01:08:43,289 He'll go straight to prison. 962 01:08:44,367 --> 01:08:45,896 It was beyond me... I couldn't... 963 01:08:47,407 --> 01:08:51,256 I couldn't... I'll never be able to... 964 01:08:51,291 --> 01:08:52,463 Phooey!... 965 01:08:53,527 --> 01:08:57,246 So this great love has only served to speed up his demise! 966 01:08:58,287 --> 01:08:58,787 Bravo! 967 01:08:59,447 --> 01:09:01,972 I love Lucien and you're asking me to love somebody else... 968 01:09:02,167 --> 01:09:03,803 Show me the woman who would submit to that! 969 01:09:05,247 --> 01:09:06,182 Probably none.... 970 01:09:07,887 --> 01:09:12,354 Too bad...But he's young enough to endure a few years in prison... 971 01:09:12,389 --> 01:09:14,551 No...not him! I couldn't bear it! 972 01:09:14,567 --> 01:09:16,158 So? 973 01:09:16,527 --> 01:09:19,876 His life or death simply depend on a gesture from you, Esther! 974 01:09:21,007 --> 01:09:22,325 Tell me what I have to do... 975 01:09:23,287 --> 01:09:26,179 I shall have to find the strength not to defend myself from him. 976 01:09:26,367 --> 01:09:29,088 Write a nice not to the baron... he'll come back.... 977 01:09:30,567 --> 01:09:32,378 He's the sort that easily forgets a slap. 978 01:09:33,607 --> 01:09:35,311 That will be the end of my love. 979 01:09:36,287 --> 01:09:37,480 You deserve to be happy... 980 01:09:39,269 --> 01:09:41,762 but life is cruel, my pet. 981 01:09:42,447 --> 01:09:45,271 I ask you one last effort for 300,000 francs. 982 01:09:45,887 --> 01:09:47,927 After that...you can slap every baron on the planet. 983 01:10:00,207 --> 01:10:02,717 Cheer up!... We've got 320,000 francs!... 984 01:10:03,567 --> 01:10:06,670 Half your marquis estate... 985 01:10:06,671 --> 01:10:07,671 Where did the money come from? 986 01:10:06,687 --> 01:10:09,504 What you don't know won't hurt you. 987 01:10:11,007 --> 01:10:11,128 Yes? 988 01:10:13,567 --> 01:10:14,665 Excuse me Marquis... 989 01:10:14,665 --> 01:10:17,515 there's a man wishing to see you. 990 01:10:17,550 --> 01:10:19,766 Does he have a name? 991 01:10:19,767 --> 01:10:22,738 He said that was irrelevant... But he insists. 992 01:10:22,807 --> 01:10:25,275 -Damn him...I'm in a hurry. -No...show him in. 993 01:10:26,527 --> 01:10:28,417 If he hides his name, he may have something of interest. 994 01:10:43,807 --> 01:10:45,323 You want something? 995 01:10:46,847 --> 01:10:50,438 Yes, Marquis... 100,000 francs. 996 01:10:51,327 --> 01:10:52,160 That's a lot of money. 997 01:10:53,047 --> 01:10:54,833 And on what basis, may I ask? 998 01:10:55,527 --> 01:10:58,804 On the basis of discretion. 999 01:10:59,007 --> 01:11:01,379 I presume it's yours you're selling...you sneak? 1000 01:11:02,047 --> 01:11:04,653 Only to connoisseurs, Marquis! 1001 01:11:07,647 --> 01:11:09,037 I wonder at which key hole 1002 01:11:09,567 --> 01:11:11,305 our dear abbot has his ear... 1003 01:11:12,087 --> 01:11:13,390 but it doesn't really matter. 1004 01:11:13,927 --> 01:11:14,835 Let's talk business... 1005 01:11:16,247 --> 01:11:18,480 You're counting on marrying Mademoiselle de Grandlieu... 1006 01:11:19,007 --> 01:11:21,456 ...once you come up with 600,000 francs... 1007 01:11:23,007 --> 01:11:24,517 Miscalculation. 1008 01:11:25,887 --> 01:11:28,748 - You'll need 100,000 more. - Otherwise?... 1009 01:11:28,847 --> 01:11:31,090 Otherwise I talk. 1010 01:11:32,087 --> 01:11:33,620 I tell the duke what I know... 1011 01:11:34,527 --> 01:11:35,911 ...and I know sufficient... 1012 01:11:36,727 --> 01:11:39,614 ...to put him right off any marquis of your type. 1013 01:11:40,967 --> 01:11:41,868 There are two possibilities... 1014 01:11:42,447 --> 01:11:44,660 ...either you know nothing and I give you nothing... 1015 01:11:45,007 --> 01:11:45,682 ...or you know something... 1016 01:11:46,847 --> 01:11:49,516 and if I give you money... you blackmail me forever. 1017 01:11:52,767 --> 01:11:56,462 The young often speak without thinking... 1018 01:11:58,847 --> 01:12:01,377 So think about it, Marquis... 1019 01:12:02,367 --> 01:12:04,604 I'll walk down the stairs slowly... 1020 01:12:05,687 --> 01:12:09,962 You may decide to call me back before I reach the street door. 1021 01:12:10,287 --> 01:12:11,431 Certainly not! 1022 01:12:15,545 --> 01:12:18,143 In that case...you're lost... Monsieur de Rubempr�. 1023 01:12:29,207 --> 01:12:30,697 -Well? -You heard him? 1024 01:12:31,127 --> 01:12:31,874 This man will betray us! 1025 01:12:31,874 --> 01:12:33,118 No...I don't think so. 1026 01:12:34,167 --> 01:12:36,969 Why give away information he still hopes to sell? 1027 01:12:37,967 --> 01:12:39,093 We have to get ahead of him. 1028 01:12:40,127 --> 01:12:42,338 Get over to Grandlieu's and make your request as soon as tonight ... 1029 01:12:43,847 --> 01:12:45,054 Madame de S�risy is expecting me at the opera. 1030 01:12:45,054 --> 01:12:46,622 You can join her later... 1031 01:12:49,207 --> 01:12:51,314 And when can I see Esther again? 1032 01:12:52,287 --> 01:12:54,533 Why do I have to be separated from her? Where is she? 1033 01:12:55,967 --> 01:12:56,989 That girl doesn't matter to me just now... 1034 01:12:57,567 --> 01:12:59,213 When the fire's in the castle... you don't worry about the stables. 1035 01:13:22,567 --> 01:13:25,288 -Well? -I'm sorry...no one is here. 1036 01:13:25,607 --> 01:13:28,294 -What!?...What do you mean? -There's no one here. 1037 01:13:28,487 --> 01:13:29,414 Are you mad? 1038 01:13:29,727 --> 01:13:31,691 I repeat...sir... there is nobody here. 1039 01:13:32,367 --> 01:13:34,365 There is nobody here to receive the Marquis de Rubempr�. 1040 01:13:46,567 --> 01:13:47,896 Lucien? 1041 01:13:50,247 --> 01:13:50,683 Lucien! 1042 01:13:51,767 --> 01:13:53,424 -Clotilde!...what's going on? -Come with me! 1043 01:13:54,127 --> 01:13:57,841 My father gave orders that you aren't to be admitted. 1044 01:13:58,007 --> 01:13:58,853 Why? 1045 01:13:59,087 --> 01:14:00,688 A policeman came to talk to him. 1046 01:14:02,087 --> 01:14:02,953 Contenson! 1047 01:14:03,127 --> 01:14:04,841 He spoke very badly about you... 1048 01:14:05,687 --> 01:14:08,941 He said your money comes from your mistress's bedroom activities... 1049 01:14:09,887 --> 01:14:12,182 The wretch! And you father believed it? 1050 01:14:13,087 --> 01:14:14,270 As for me...I believe in you... 1051 01:14:14,487 --> 01:14:16,727 I know you're a decent man! 1052 01:14:17,647 --> 01:14:20,647 Clear yourself of these slanders... I beg of you! 1053 01:14:21,407 --> 01:14:23,020 -You'll do it...won't you? -I swear 1054 01:14:24,607 --> 01:14:26,738 My father wants me to leave Paris for a few days... 1055 01:14:27,447 --> 01:14:30,547 I'll obey...but not before I've seen you again. 1056 01:14:31,327 --> 01:14:35,525 Be at the entrance to Fontainebleau forest tomorrow morning at 8... 1057 01:14:35,525 --> 01:14:37,479 at the Belecroix crossroads... You know it? 1058 01:14:38,807 --> 01:14:40,928 But now you must leave... Go quickly! 1059 01:14:41,407 --> 01:14:42,624 -'Til tomorrow, Clotilde! -'Til tomorrow! 1060 01:15:55,007 --> 01:15:56,324 Esther... 1061 01:15:57,167 --> 01:15:59,633 Esther, my treasure... look at me... 1062 01:16:00,487 --> 01:16:03,502 -Why are you so mean? -Me?...Mean?... 1063 01:16:04,127 --> 01:16:08,065 Come now!...I'm taking care of you... Because of indigestion... 1064 01:16:08,567 --> 01:16:10,775 one shouldn't court a woman right after a meal. 1065 01:16:11,607 --> 01:16:14,467 Aren't I kind to you?... I've paid all your debts... 1066 01:16:15,127 --> 01:16:17,061 Don't I wear your livery? 1067 01:16:19,767 --> 01:16:21,579 We are the perfect couple. 1068 01:16:22,007 --> 01:16:24,588 The whore and the thief... fit very well together. 1069 01:16:47,527 --> 01:16:49,634 I've been waiting for you for half an hour... 1070 01:16:49,807 --> 01:16:51,236 I had things to do. 1071 01:16:52,127 --> 01:16:53,285 You're rather uncouth this evening... 1072 01:16:54,647 --> 01:16:56,651 Punctuality is not only the courtesy of kings... 1073 01:17:06,087 --> 01:17:07,568 What are you up to... are you crazy? 1074 01:17:14,127 --> 01:17:15,902 But you wrote me to come back... 1075 01:17:16,927 --> 01:17:19,326 With 300,000 francs. Where is it? 1076 01:17:19,327 --> 01:17:21,086 If I get it for you... 1077 01:17:21,087 --> 01:17:22,878 ...what would you do for me in return? 1078 01:17:24,327 --> 01:17:26,684 -You know what I'm talking about? -Yes. 1079 01:17:27,847 --> 01:17:30,722 So...fair exchange? 1080 01:17:33,247 --> 01:17:33,962 Yes 1081 01:17:34,407 --> 01:17:36,506 I'll send instructions to my cashier. 1082 01:17:53,687 --> 01:17:56,424 I have just one word to say to you... 1083 01:17:57,007 --> 01:17:58,213 -Goodbye! -'Goodbye''? 1084 01:17:58,527 --> 01:18:00,186 I'm leaving you to your new conquest. 1085 01:18:01,327 --> 01:18:03,376 Congratulations!... He's what you need. 1086 01:18:03,807 --> 01:18:05,898 You don't deserve anything else!... You're nothing but a whore! 1087 01:18:08,087 --> 01:18:10,154 -Lucien!...quiet down... -You can't deny it! 1088 01:18:10,527 --> 01:18:13,062 I saw him look at you... I saw you smile! 1089 01:18:13,687 --> 01:18:15,270 Am I lying? Do you belong to him? 1090 01:18:17,247 --> 01:18:19,884 Lucien...you're destroying things for yourself!... 1091 01:18:19,885 --> 01:18:20,885 I'm totally destroyed anyway! 1092 01:18:27,967 --> 01:18:30,763 Esther...my treasure! You're crying? 1093 01:18:31,007 --> 01:18:32,192 -Why? -It's nothing. 1094 01:18:32,687 --> 01:18:34,210 Come on!... let's get out of here... 1095 01:18:54,847 --> 01:18:58,216 Go on...give us a smile!... Who's upsetting you? 1096 01:18:58,807 --> 01:19:02,089 If it's a woman... she'll be dying of jealousy... 1097 01:19:02,247 --> 01:19:04,925 If it's a man...I'll throw so much wealth in between you... 1098 01:19:05,327 --> 01:19:06,063 that you'll forget him. 1099 01:19:06,063 --> 01:19:07,287 I don't want to forget him. 1100 01:19:07,807 --> 01:19:09,059 That would be like losing him again. 1101 01:19:12,807 --> 01:19:14,478 Ah! That'll be my cashier... 1102 01:19:26,767 --> 01:19:29,431 You've finally learned how to talk to women, Baron! 1103 01:19:30,127 --> 01:19:31,679 Shut up you slut! 1104 01:19:32,287 --> 01:19:34,883 -Thank you for that... -At your service, sir. 1105 01:19:34,918 --> 01:19:40,397 This way, sir... 1106 01:19:40,087 --> 01:19:41,357 See you again soon... I hope! 1107 01:19:46,887 --> 01:19:49,998 Esther...this money is yours! 1108 01:19:50,807 --> 01:19:52,360 I kept my word! 1109 01:19:54,447 --> 01:19:55,834 It's a deal, then... 1110 01:19:56,727 --> 01:19:59,176 In 10 minutes... come into my bedroom... 1111 01:19:59,567 --> 01:20:02,814 Allow me this last delay... it's to make myself beautiful. 1112 01:21:32,687 --> 01:21:35,326 Come in... 1113 01:21:35,327 --> 01:21:36,290 What do you want? 1114 01:21:36,290 --> 01:21:37,849 Softly...softly... 1115 01:21:37,849 --> 01:21:41,021 Your marquis is here... He wants to see you. 1116 01:21:41,727 --> 01:21:44,377 I know what it's like in love... But be quick! 1117 01:21:48,527 --> 01:21:49,354 Why have you come? 1118 01:21:49,354 --> 01:21:51,314 I wanted to see you. 1119 01:21:51,314 --> 01:21:54,662 Tell me that I've been wrong... that I've been unjust...cruel... 1120 01:21:55,567 --> 01:21:56,329 Tell me that it isn't true. 1121 01:21:56,329 --> 01:21:57,952 It isn't true! 1122 01:21:58,487 --> 01:22:01,486 Esther! 1123 01:22:01,487 --> 01:22:04,487 Now you must go. 1124 01:22:04,488 --> 01:22:05,488 Don't ask me any questions. 1125 01:22:06,527 --> 01:22:09,609 Tomorrow, I'll be free... and nothing will be able to touch me. 1126 01:22:10,767 --> 01:22:12,661 Go, my angel...go! 1127 01:22:18,887 --> 01:22:19,890 Until tomorrow, my love! 1128 01:22:22,607 --> 01:22:23,122 Yes... 1129 01:22:25,167 --> 01:22:26,069 Tomorrow... 1130 01:23:46,327 --> 01:23:46,686 Esther ? 1131 01:23:50,989 --> 01:23:52,882 Esther ! 1132 01:24:01,327 --> 01:24:03,863 Help! 1133 01:24:14,327 --> 01:24:15,545 Look... 1134 01:24:16,847 --> 01:24:17,725 What is it? 1135 01:24:31,127 --> 01:24:32,279 Dead! 1136 01:24:34,527 --> 01:24:35,618 ''Dead''? 1137 01:24:37,527 --> 01:24:39,960 My 300,000 francs! 1138 01:24:40,487 --> 01:24:42,827 Where are my... Where are my 300,000 francs? 1139 01:24:55,047 --> 01:24:56,060 My money's been stolen... 1140 01:24:57,407 --> 01:24:58,686 My money's been stolen! 1141 01:24:59,487 --> 01:25:01,423 My money's been stolen! 1142 01:25:02,487 --> 01:25:04,509 Thief!...Murder! 1143 01:25:04,567 --> 01:25:07,500 Softly, Baron... we don't want a scandal! 1144 01:25:07,767 --> 01:25:10,000 Calm down... you need to stop and think! 1145 01:25:10,687 --> 01:25:12,445 I want my money! 1146 01:25:12,567 --> 01:25:13,861 This could go badly for us. 1147 01:25:13,861 --> 01:25:16,009 Let me go...you witch! 1148 01:25:16,607 --> 01:25:19,955 I want my money!... I have to get my 300 000 francs back! 1149 01:25:20,052 --> 01:25:21,834 Calm down!... we'll get you back your money. 1150 01:25:22,487 --> 01:25:23,468 Time to scram! 1151 01:25:24,167 --> 01:25:25,578 My 300,000 francs! 1152 01:25:34,767 --> 01:25:36,348 Save yourself... we're all done for! 1153 01:25:36,887 --> 01:25:37,599 The police are here. 1154 01:25:38,263 --> 01:25:39,719 Why? 1155 01:25:40,047 --> 01:25:42,119 -What happened? The kid killed herself... 1156 01:25:47,927 --> 01:25:49,083 I wasn't expecting that. 1157 01:25:49,367 --> 01:25:52,492 Save yourself...there's a body... they'll get you! 1158 01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:54,998 Paccart and Europe have run off like rats! 1159 01:25:55,607 --> 01:25:56,562 The scum! 1160 01:26:07,247 --> 01:26:09,283 Open in the name of the king! 1161 01:26:30,647 --> 01:26:32,442 Don't move or I'll shoot! 1162 01:26:38,847 --> 01:26:41,989 Forgive them Lord... for they know not what they do. 1163 01:27:13,287 --> 01:27:14,355 Thanks for stopping... 1164 01:27:14,355 --> 01:27:15,894 What would you expect? 1165 01:27:17,887 --> 01:27:19,956 I have company... let's not stay here. 1166 01:27:25,207 --> 01:27:27,118 I swear to be nothing but your wife... 1167 01:27:27,727 --> 01:27:30,184 I'm more prepared to believe YOU than my father... 1168 01:27:31,087 --> 01:27:32,979 He has sworn to me that you're a dishonest man. 1169 01:27:35,207 --> 01:27:36,904 You're a better person than I am, Clotilde... 1170 01:27:37,487 --> 01:27:39,599 Maybe I love you more when you don't love ME. 1171 01:27:40,047 --> 01:27:41,489 But now I must go back! 1172 01:27:42,887 --> 01:27:43,192 Never fear! 1173 01:27:59,767 --> 01:28:00,650 What's the matter? 1174 01:28:01,207 --> 01:28:02,326 You must be Lucien Chardon? 1175 01:28:03,687 --> 01:28:06,312 -Yes...Why? -I'm arresting you in the name of the king! 1176 01:28:19,487 --> 01:28:21,442 Open the window a bit... it's stuffy in here.... 1177 01:28:27,153 --> 01:28:27,977 Yes? 1178 01:28:30,167 --> 01:28:31,467 Here already, Monsieur Camusot ? 1179 01:28:32,407 --> 01:28:35,293 Something came... Leave us please, Am�lie... 1180 01:28:38,967 --> 01:28:40,993 ...something extraordinary! 1181 01:28:41,927 --> 01:28:44,087 Really? I'm in a lather of excitement. 1182 01:28:44,407 --> 01:28:47,812 This Vautrin-Rubempr� affair will make our fortune... 1183 01:28:48,527 --> 01:28:50,512 I'm lucky to have been in charge... 1184 01:28:51,087 --> 01:28:52,851 -Guess what turned up? -Tell me. 1185 01:28:53,487 --> 01:28:57,726 Madame Maufrigneuse has asked me to come to her place this morning... 1186 01:28:58,207 --> 01:28:59,743 He's interested in our methods. 1187 01:29:01,207 --> 01:29:03,571 -Do you know who she is? -A duchess. 1188 01:29:03,887 --> 01:29:06,703 Beside the point...Importantly, she's a friend of Madame de S�risy... 1189 01:29:07,367 --> 01:29:09,057 Do you know who Madame de S�risy is? 1190 01:29:09,967 --> 01:29:10,574 A countess. 1191 01:29:11,047 --> 01:29:11,935 You don't understand anything. 1192 01:29:13,207 --> 01:29:17,085 Madame de S�risy is a cousin of the Attorney General!... 1193 01:29:17,487 --> 01:29:20,179 who's responsible for my promotion. Understand now? 1194 01:29:22,247 --> 01:29:24,792 Better yet, dear husband... I'm finding out about you. 1195 01:29:25,687 --> 01:29:28,395 A taste for intrigue may come late, but is no less for that. 1196 01:29:30,127 --> 01:29:31,246 You can work twice as hard. 1197 01:29:31,925 --> 01:29:34,075 I do believe I will, my dear... I really do. 1198 01:29:35,527 --> 01:29:37,398 -Excuse me, madame... -Just a moment, Am�lie... 1199 01:29:38,367 --> 01:29:40,681 Monsieur de Granville... 1200 01:29:40,681 --> 01:29:43,074 Don't expect anything from the duchess!... 1201 01:29:43,247 --> 01:29:44,534 ...and test the wind carefully... 1202 01:29:45,287 --> 01:29:47,526 ...with intelligence and tact... 1203 01:29:47,527 --> 01:29:50,527 I'd hate to finish up still a magistrate's wife. 1204 01:29:51,727 --> 01:29:53,011 Rest assured my dear... 1205 01:29:55,127 --> 01:29:56,190 The opportunity is too good. 1206 01:30:03,327 --> 01:30:05,604 -What is it? -A coach is waiting for you Madame... 1207 01:30:06,247 --> 01:30:08,126 The Countess d'Espard has sent it... 1208 01:30:08,327 --> 01:30:10,599 She wants you to drop everything and come over to her place. 1209 01:30:11,318 --> 01:30:13,278 Madame d'Espard?! 1210 01:30:18,687 --> 01:30:21,159 Hurry!... My linen jacket, my gray dress! 1211 01:30:22,047 --> 01:30:24,369 Madame d'Espard is the intimate friend of the Minister of Justice. 1212 01:30:25,567 --> 01:30:26,927 Quick...hurry up! 1213 01:30:27,847 --> 01:30:29,721 This time... the Camusot fortune IS made! 1214 01:30:39,167 --> 01:30:40,141 In here, sir... 1215 01:30:45,847 --> 01:30:47,115 Ah, it's you! 1216 01:30:47,287 --> 01:30:50,608 -As you requested, Madame... -Come closer Monsieur Camusot... 1217 01:30:51,607 --> 01:30:53,199 It's regarding a small matter. 1218 01:30:53,687 --> 01:30:56,007 An order was made to arrest Monsieur de Rubempr�... 1219 01:30:56,527 --> 01:30:59,536 You were in charge of that matter? Yes, Madame... 1220 01:30:59,967 --> 01:31:02,062 He must be the victim of a misunderstanding... 1221 01:31:02,807 --> 01:31:06,866 I guarantee his innocence... He should be released within 24 hours. 1222 01:31:07,047 --> 01:31:08,779 But...Madame...! 1223 01:31:08,779 --> 01:31:11,304 I am faithful to those who serve me...Monsieur Camusot... 1224 01:31:13,407 --> 01:31:15,901 I think you'd make a charming Counsellor to the Court... 1225 01:31:17,847 --> 01:31:19,933 What do you think about that? 1226 01:31:19,934 --> 01:31:20,934 Goodness gracious! Madame... 1227 01:31:20,527 --> 01:31:22,636 That is also the opinion of Madame de S�risy... 1228 01:31:23,247 --> 01:31:26,616 The Attorney General would soon come around to our views. 1229 01:31:27,047 --> 01:31:30,094 He likes magistrates who are quick thinkers. 1230 01:31:30,367 --> 01:31:33,194 -Au revoir, Monsieur Camusot. -My respects, Madame. 1231 01:32:00,904 --> 01:32:02,044 Camusot ! 1232 01:32:02,527 --> 01:32:04,086 What are you doing here? 1233 01:32:04,087 --> 01:32:07,957 I've just come from Madame d'Espard, the friend of the Minister of Justice. 1234 01:32:08,207 --> 01:32:09,539 She used to be... 1235 01:32:10,127 --> 01:32:13,127 If you send de Rubempr� to prison or the gallows... 1236 01:32:14,007 --> 01:32:15,242 you'll become Counsellor to the Court... 1237 01:32:15,967 --> 01:32:17,908 and I'll be able to have the gas installed at our place. 1238 01:32:18,607 --> 01:32:21,526 Now we're between two lines of fire... 1239 01:32:21,527 --> 01:32:24,527 The Minister of Justice on one side... and the Attorney General on the other! 1240 01:32:25,407 --> 01:32:26,481 The A.G. wants to save him? 1241 01:32:26,846 --> 01:32:28,609 That was what was made clear to me! 1242 01:32:29,527 --> 01:32:31,886 My goodness... what are you going to do? 1243 01:32:31,887 --> 01:32:36,051 My duty...a desperate solution... but the only one left to me. 1244 01:32:36,327 --> 01:32:38,726 So which way does your duty take you? 1245 01:32:38,727 --> 01:32:41,727 You have about as much spirit pile of bricks! 1246 01:32:43,367 --> 01:32:46,367 Leave me alone my dear... and good night! 1247 01:33:18,887 --> 01:33:21,887 Magistrate Camusot awaits you for questioning. 1248 01:34:04,367 --> 01:34:07,412 Father!... YOU...in the hands of justice! 1249 01:34:07,412 --> 01:34:08,733 It's sacrilege! 1250 01:34:10,007 --> 01:34:12,427 The errors of men are temporary. 1251 01:34:12,927 --> 01:34:14,256 Have no fear! 1252 01:34:14,647 --> 01:34:16,598 At least bless me Father! 1253 01:34:23,167 --> 01:34:26,167 Go now!...do not be afraid... God will recognize his own. 1254 01:34:47,007 --> 01:34:50,007 -Here's the accused. -Perfect! 1255 01:34:58,727 --> 01:35:01,727 Come forward! 1256 01:35:01,767 --> 01:35:03,406 You have been arrested... 1257 01:35:03,407 --> 01:35:07,486 on charges of fraud with respect to Baron Nucingen... 1258 01:35:07,607 --> 01:35:09,594 and concerning the murder 1259 01:35:09,967 --> 01:35:12,582 of Mademoiselle Esther Gobseck. 1260 01:35:14,407 --> 01:35:15,791 First question... 1261 01:35:17,047 --> 01:35:17,773 Who...are...you?! 1262 01:35:18,807 --> 01:35:21,406 The Abbot Carlos Herrera, sir... 1263 01:35:21,407 --> 01:35:24,407 Honorary Canon of Toledo and secret envoy to Ferdinand VII. 1264 01:35:25,767 --> 01:35:29,009 At least, that is what you claim to be! 1265 01:35:29,487 --> 01:35:32,124 It is always possible to get false papers. 1266 01:35:35,767 --> 01:35:37,231 I suppose one has to accept 1267 01:35:37,231 --> 01:35:38,206 the opinion of a magistrate. 1268 01:35:38,206 --> 01:35:39,788 No sarcastic remarks, thank you! 1269 01:35:41,247 --> 01:35:44,247 I have reason to believe you are Jacques Collin... 1270 01:35:44,687 --> 01:35:48,222 known as Vautrin...a convict who escaped from Rochefort. 1271 01:35:48,522 --> 01:35:50,603 Well? 1272 01:35:51,047 --> 01:35:53,363 Me, Magistrate? A convict!? 1273 01:35:53,687 --> 01:35:56,568 May God forgive you for such a mistake! 1274 01:35:56,807 --> 01:35:58,446 Stop grieving, 1275 01:35:58,447 --> 01:36:00,926 we'll get Lucien out of this mess... 1276 01:36:00,927 --> 01:36:03,927 He's got enough connections to get out! 1277 01:36:04,447 --> 01:36:08,290 Him!...in prison! Oh God...I'm so miserable! 1278 01:36:09,207 --> 01:36:12,207 We need to know what happened to our letters... 1279 01:36:12,327 --> 01:36:15,327 I've written to him in the past... You've been writing to him. 1280 01:36:15,407 --> 01:36:18,326 Clotilde would have, too. 1281 01:36:18,327 --> 01:36:21,327 Pretty scandalous if the police sniff them out. 1282 01:36:21,647 --> 01:36:22,677 What is it? 1283 01:36:23,887 --> 01:36:26,646 A woman who insists on seeing you... 1284 01:36:26,647 --> 01:36:29,406 She has news of Monsieur de Rubempr�... 1285 01:36:29,407 --> 01:36:30,212 Show her in. 1286 01:36:30,447 --> 01:36:31,762 Very well, madame. 1287 01:36:35,767 --> 01:36:38,126 Have you been with him? Have you seen him? 1288 01:36:37,897 --> 01:36:38,539 Who are you, anyhow? 1289 01:36:38,539 --> 01:36:41,697 A friend...a casual acquaintance. 1290 01:36:42,327 --> 01:36:45,327 This business may end badly both for him and for you... 1291 01:36:46,367 --> 01:36:47,027 Meaning?... 1292 01:36:48,207 --> 01:36:50,326 Meaning!?...meaning... 1293 01:36:50,327 --> 01:36:53,327 ...the police will search his papers... That may be inconvenient... 1294 01:36:53,527 --> 01:36:55,206 particularly for a duchess! 1295 01:36:55,207 --> 01:36:58,207 Monsieur Camusot's interrogation could have him charged... 1296 01:36:59,127 --> 01:37:02,127 Something must be done... or he'll be up in the criminal court! 1297 01:37:02,407 --> 01:37:05,407 ''The criminal court'' ? Dear God! 1298 01:37:06,167 --> 01:37:09,167 There's not a minute to lose!... Pull yourself together, madame! 1299 01:37:10,007 --> 01:37:12,966 Why did you try to run away when Contenson turned up? 1300 01:37:12,967 --> 01:37:14,623 An innocent man doesn't fear the police. 1301 01:37:14,623 --> 01:37:16,193 Proof... 1302 01:37:16,407 --> 01:37:18,806 So explain how come you were found 1303 01:37:18,807 --> 01:37:20,887 in the residence of a courtesan! 1304 01:37:21,767 --> 01:37:24,767 Well?... Strange place for an abbot! 1305 01:37:25,287 --> 01:37:28,287 Why should that be?... There was a soul to be saved. 1306 01:37:29,007 --> 01:37:30,727 Come in! 1307 01:37:32,087 --> 01:37:35,087 I found a witness... He knew this man previously. 1308 01:37:35,767 --> 01:37:38,767 Thank you Inspector. 1309 01:37:41,407 --> 01:37:44,407 -Baron de Rastignac. -Come in, sir. 1310 01:37:45,647 --> 01:37:48,647 How can I help you, Magistrate. 1311 01:37:49,567 --> 01:37:52,567 Do you know this man? 1312 01:37:56,807 --> 01:37:57,778 Certainly... 1313 01:37:58,887 --> 01:38:00,855 Clerk...make note! 1314 01:38:01,807 --> 01:38:02,638 Who is he? 1315 01:38:04,207 --> 01:38:07,207 The Abbot Carlos Herrera... there's no doubt about it! 1316 01:38:07,447 --> 01:38:10,086 How are you my dear Abbot? 1317 01:38:10,087 --> 01:38:13,087 -Do you need me anymore? -No, you may go. 1318 01:38:25,247 --> 01:38:26,444 This is unconscionable. 1319 01:38:26,967 --> 01:38:29,967 I insist that this is the convict Vautrin! 1320 01:38:30,167 --> 01:38:33,167 I give you my word on that! 1321 01:38:33,168 --> 01:38:34,168 So what am I supposed to do about it?! 1322 01:38:33,407 --> 01:38:36,407 You're Chief of Security... maybe you can be a witness. 1323 01:38:36,767 --> 01:38:37,850 Then I demand the "brand test". 1324 01:38:37,850 --> 01:38:40,001 Go ahead! 1325 01:38:41,567 --> 01:38:42,886 Did you hear that? 1326 01:38:42,887 --> 01:38:44,648 Do what's required. 1327 01:38:50,967 --> 01:38:53,967 Remove your coat and take off your shirt! 1328 01:38:55,767 --> 01:38:56,538 Do you understand? 1329 01:38:57,527 --> 01:38:59,886 Not at all sir... Please forgive me... 1330 01:38:59,887 --> 01:39:02,887 I'm accustomed to monastery rules... not those of prison... 1331 01:39:04,127 --> 01:39:07,127 Every convict is branded on entering the prison... 1332 01:39:08,127 --> 01:39:10,366 These scars are indelible... 1333 01:39:10,367 --> 01:39:13,367 Drawing blood to the skin makes them appear... 1334 01:39:14,167 --> 01:39:16,846 So we'll see. 1335 01:39:16,847 --> 01:39:18,488 Do it! 1336 01:39:28,607 --> 01:39:31,607 This is the final humiliation. 1337 01:39:31,887 --> 01:39:34,406 Might I say, Magistrate... 1338 01:39:34,407 --> 01:39:37,407 that you have a strange method of treating diplomatic envoys. 1339 01:40:00,967 --> 01:40:03,967 There...look...that's the mark! 1340 01:40:06,487 --> 01:40:09,487 I can't make out anything in that mass of scars... 1341 01:40:10,287 --> 01:40:13,287 The scars have nothing to do with a prison brand. 1342 01:40:14,247 --> 01:40:16,126 Where do they come from? 1343 01:40:16,127 --> 01:40:19,127 I took the word of God to the Indians of North America... 1344 01:40:19,327 --> 01:40:22,327 They whipped me until I bled. 1345 01:40:28,447 --> 01:40:30,326 You looked for a scar... 1346 01:40:30,327 --> 01:40:33,327 I have the glory and the regret to have had several to show you. 1347 01:40:33,927 --> 01:40:35,166 Are you satisfied? 1348 01:40:43,887 --> 01:40:46,406 Reverend...I face the facts... 1349 01:40:46,407 --> 01:40:48,566 and I apologize. 1350 01:40:48,567 --> 01:40:51,567 The police reports were wrong about you... 1351 01:40:51,647 --> 01:40:53,406 To err is human. 1352 01:40:53,407 --> 01:40:56,407 You will be free tomorrow... We'll fix the dismissal of the charges... 1353 01:40:57,327 --> 01:40:59,926 and to prepare your discharge. 1354 01:40:59,927 --> 01:41:02,927 I hope you won't hold too much against me! 1355 01:41:04,247 --> 01:41:07,247 Your mission is to punish... mine is to forgive. 1356 01:41:07,487 --> 01:41:10,487 I leave the task to God of judging the judge. 1357 01:41:23,047 --> 01:41:24,086 Ladies... 1358 01:41:24,087 --> 01:41:27,087 Tell the prosecutor we're here... and make be quick about it! 1359 01:41:49,207 --> 01:41:52,207 Why have I been arrested?... What am I supposed to have done? 1360 01:41:53,847 --> 01:41:56,847 Monsieur de Rubempr�, you are here under two charges... 1361 01:41:58,807 --> 01:42:00,954 ...of theft and of murder... 1362 01:42:00,954 --> 01:42:01,628 -Me?! 1363 01:42:01,628 --> 01:42:06,207 of one Esther Gobseck... your mistress. 1364 01:42:07,047 --> 01:42:10,047 Dead? Esther is dead? 1365 01:42:10,367 --> 01:42:11,489 Poisoned. 1366 01:42:18,167 --> 01:42:21,167 As there is no reason to consider suicide... 1367 01:42:21,727 --> 01:42:24,286 we are obliged to regard it as murder... 1368 01:42:24,287 --> 01:42:26,206 and to find the culprit. 1369 01:42:26,207 --> 01:42:29,207 Police officer Contenson... who had been watching you... 1370 01:42:30,487 --> 01:42:33,446 has seen you enter this woman's home... 1371 01:42:33,447 --> 01:42:36,447 around the time of the murder. 1372 01:42:36,567 --> 01:42:40,157 The same evening, you had a violent argument with her at the Opera. 1373 01:42:41,287 --> 01:42:44,206 She was in the company of Baron de Nucingen... 1374 01:42:44,207 --> 01:42:47,207 who was widely known to be keeping her. 1375 01:42:48,727 --> 01:42:51,727 So...extract yourself from all that if you are able. 1376 01:42:54,007 --> 01:42:54,918 You must be mad!... 1377 01:42:56,207 --> 01:42:58,646 Me!...do anything at all to Esther?! 1378 01:42:58,647 --> 01:42:59,250 Why? 1379 01:43:01,567 --> 01:43:02,776 I was in love with her! 1380 01:43:06,167 --> 01:43:08,406 She was all I loved. 1381 01:43:08,407 --> 01:43:10,886 One can very well kill for love... 1382 01:43:10,887 --> 01:43:13,887 You wouldn't be the first. 1383 01:43:16,487 --> 01:43:20,124 You've been living in grand style these last months...Monsieur de Rubempr�! 1384 01:43:20,567 --> 01:43:22,206 No doubt your expenses... 1385 01:43:22,207 --> 01:43:25,707 exhausted the generosity of Mademoiselle Esther... 1386 01:43:26,327 --> 01:43:29,327 Her change of heart was not to your liking. 1387 01:43:30,007 --> 01:43:30,782 So... 1388 01:43:31,767 --> 01:43:32,608 What are you saying!? 1389 01:43:35,487 --> 01:43:36,220 You're lying! 1390 01:43:36,807 --> 01:43:38,481 Where have you been getting all your money? 1391 01:43:38,481 --> 01:43:40,808 You don't have any personal fortune. 1392 01:43:41,967 --> 01:43:42,892 Well? 1393 01:43:44,447 --> 01:43:47,447 See who it is! 1394 01:43:52,647 --> 01:43:54,766 Where do you think you're going? 1395 01:43:54,767 --> 01:43:57,246 I had to see you right away! 1396 01:43:57,247 --> 01:44:00,247 I've just come from Poitiers where I arrested Esther's coachman. 1397 01:44:01,247 --> 01:44:03,126 Who ordered that? 1398 01:44:03,127 --> 01:44:06,127 The Attorney General... Monsieur de Granville. 1399 01:44:06,687 --> 01:44:09,687 Oh? Well...good...So? 1400 01:44:10,207 --> 01:44:13,207 I've retrieved Baron de Nucingen's 300,000 francs... 1401 01:44:13,487 --> 01:44:16,487 and also found this letter... 1402 01:44:17,167 --> 01:44:18,446 Read it. 1403 01:44:18,447 --> 01:44:21,447 It proves the innocence of Monsieur de Rubempr�...absolutely. 1404 01:44:29,607 --> 01:44:32,607 [Esther's suicide note to Lucien] You may go, Contenson. 1405 01:44:34,487 --> 01:44:37,046 Monsieur... I owe you an apology... 1406 01:44:37,047 --> 01:44:40,047 i thought you were guilty.. and you were only a victim...read it. 1407 01:44:48,847 --> 01:44:51,847 Forgive me, my love... 1408 01:44:52,327 --> 01:44:55,327 And I dared to accuse her! 1409 01:44:56,047 --> 01:44:59,047 It was undoubtedly a fashionable error! 1410 01:45:02,287 --> 01:45:05,286 The other one did everything... Did you read it? 1411 01:45:05,287 --> 01:45:07,086 He's the guilty one! 1412 01:45:07,087 --> 01:45:09,486 -The abbot Herrera ? ''Abbot''?...come off it!... 1413 01:45:09,487 --> 01:45:12,487 Do abbots murder? He's no more than a runaway convict... 1414 01:45:13,087 --> 01:45:15,886 What are you saying? Wait there a moment!... 1415 01:45:15,887 --> 01:45:16,329 Write! 1416 01:45:17,167 --> 01:45:20,167 Write it down...you idiot! 1417 01:45:20,247 --> 01:45:23,247 Then you assert that the abbot Carlos Herrera... 1418 01:45:23,327 --> 01:45:26,327 Is none other than the convict Vautrin... who escaped from Rochefort prison? 1419 01:45:27,767 --> 01:45:29,399 I'm giving him up to you... 1420 01:45:31,567 --> 01:45:34,567 because Esther must be revenged! 1421 01:45:40,327 --> 01:45:42,646 Then you can do nothing? 1422 01:45:42,647 --> 01:45:45,647 Nothing...absolutely nothing my dear cousin. 1423 01:45:45,887 --> 01:45:48,887 Camusot is totally in charge of this affair... 1424 01:45:49,527 --> 01:45:52,527 All we can do is rely on his intelligence. 1425 01:45:53,167 --> 01:45:55,246 But Lucien is innocent! 1426 01:45:55,247 --> 01:45:58,247 Such an attractive boy in prison... there's no justice anymore! 1427 01:45:58,647 --> 01:46:01,647 When I think of some petty constable 1428 01:46:01,687 --> 01:46:03,886 reading our letters! 1429 01:46:03,887 --> 01:46:08,312 I gave orders accordingly... I hope they've been carried out. 1430 01:46:09,766 --> 01:46:10,520 Yes? 1431 01:46:12,647 --> 01:46:15,647 -Monsieur Camusot wants to see you. -Show him in. 1432 01:46:21,727 --> 01:46:24,727 My apologies sir... 1433 01:46:25,007 --> 01:46:27,766 -I'm disturbing you... -Not at all my friend! 1434 01:46:27,767 --> 01:46:29,766 Where are we up to in our affair? 1435 01:46:29,767 --> 01:46:32,767 Victory, sir... Victory in every respect. 1436 01:46:33,087 --> 01:46:36,087 I have just exposed the most famous criminal of our time! 1437 01:46:37,087 --> 01:46:40,087 Here is the statement signed by Rubempr�. 1438 01:46:41,607 --> 01:46:44,607 Vautrin is ours! 1439 01:46:50,047 --> 01:46:51,806 You're right, madame... 1440 01:46:51,807 --> 01:46:54,807 De Rubempr� isn't guilty of either theft or murder... 1441 01:46:55,007 --> 01:46:58,007 ...but he has confessed to a crime even bigger than those. 1442 01:46:58,927 --> 01:46:59,966 Which crime? 1443 01:46:59,967 --> 01:47:02,967 He acknowledged that an escapee was his mentor and companion. 1444 01:47:03,567 --> 01:47:06,567 In this account his innocence is no help. 1445 01:47:06,607 --> 01:47:08,446 Vautrin will face the criminal court... 1446 01:47:08,447 --> 01:47:11,447 and de Rubempr� will be shown to have been the friend of this man. 1447 01:47:12,887 --> 01:47:14,277 Isn't that so, Monsieur Camusot? 1448 01:47:14,277 --> 01:47:16,721 Never!...I'd rather die than see that man!... 1449 01:47:16,721 --> 01:47:19,121 shown to be a convict's friend. 1450 01:47:19,121 --> 01:47:21,941 I shall make myself heard by His Majesty! 1451 01:47:23,967 --> 01:47:28,246 The king hasn't the slightest power over the most stupid of magistrates... 1452 01:47:28,687 --> 01:47:31,687 That's the greatness of our liberal institutions... 1453 01:47:32,167 --> 01:47:35,167 For Monsieur Camusot it's just a matter of conscience. 1454 01:47:36,567 --> 01:47:39,567 So you'll just have to try to fall in with Monsieur Camusot's conscience. 1455 01:47:41,167 --> 01:47:44,046 Your masterpiece my friend! 1456 01:47:44,047 --> 01:47:44,983 Well done! 1457 01:47:56,167 --> 01:47:59,167 I hope the prosecutor doesn't commit the folly... 1458 01:47:59,767 --> 01:48:02,406 of parting with such a clever magistrate as yourself! 1459 01:48:02,407 --> 01:48:04,926 Am I to understand that here is where I shall spend my life? 1460 01:48:04,927 --> 01:48:07,927 You suddenly catch on very quickly... 1461 01:48:08,007 --> 01:48:11,007 Why did you leave it so late? Show me this stupid document... 1462 01:48:15,647 --> 01:48:16,875 Is this your only proof? 1463 01:48:16,875 --> 01:48:19,964 The only one. The only copy. 1464 01:48:20,367 --> 01:48:23,086 -Perfect! -Stop...you haven't the right! 1465 01:48:23,087 --> 01:48:26,087 I protest...I order you... 1466 01:48:27,287 --> 01:48:28,526 Oh, you... 1467 01:48:28,527 --> 01:48:31,126 You've assaulted a magistrate! 1468 01:48:31,127 --> 01:48:33,886 Other magistrates would have loved it! 1469 01:48:33,887 --> 01:48:36,887 It's a crime against justice!... I shall complain!... 1470 01:48:37,887 --> 01:48:39,766 Come...come...take it easy! 1471 01:48:39,767 --> 01:48:42,767 These cries are not worthy of a Counsellor to the Court! 1472 01:48:44,727 --> 01:48:47,366 ''Counsellor to the Court!...'' 1473 01:48:47,367 --> 01:48:50,367 As soon as a position becomes vacant of course. 1474 01:48:51,767 --> 01:48:54,686 Madame...really!... 1475 01:48:54,687 --> 01:48:55,867 Anything new, ladies? 1476 01:48:55,867 --> 01:48:58,688 I think everything's worked out for the best. 1477 01:48:58,607 --> 01:49:01,607 The abbot Carlos Herrera has been the victim of a judicial error. 1478 01:49:03,087 --> 01:49:06,087 Monsieur Camusot has fixed it with his usual finesse. 1479 01:49:07,447 --> 01:49:10,366 I congratulate you in resisting outside influence... 1480 01:49:10,367 --> 01:49:13,166 and only obeyed your own good sense! 1481 01:49:13,167 --> 01:49:15,126 You will be a great magistrate. 1482 01:49:15,127 --> 01:49:18,127 There's nothing to stop me seeing Lucien now! 1483 01:49:18,647 --> 01:49:19,671 Of course!... 1484 01:50:08,687 --> 01:50:10,486 Bring him into my office. 1485 01:50:10,487 --> 01:50:12,371 Camusot...help him. 1486 01:50:41,927 --> 01:50:44,286 Monsieur...you are a criminal. 1487 01:50:44,287 --> 01:50:47,287 You escaped our justice... but will not escape that of God! 1488 01:50:48,247 --> 01:50:50,966 You will receive your punishment and I pity you...it will be terrible! 1489 01:50:53,003 --> 01:50:53,967 Prison? 1490 01:50:55,287 --> 01:50:58,287 Hell!... de Rubempr� is dead. 1491 01:51:01,167 --> 01:51:02,766 Lucien? 1492 01:51:02,767 --> 01:51:05,086 Dead?...It can't be true! 1493 01:51:05,087 --> 01:51:07,166 How? Who killed him? 1494 01:51:07,167 --> 01:51:08,206 You did... 1495 01:51:08,207 --> 01:51:11,207 He hanged himself in his cell because his mistress was dead... 1496 01:51:12,167 --> 01:51:15,167 and her death was all your fault. 1497 01:51:22,207 --> 01:51:25,206 Might I get some gesture of pity from you? 1498 01:51:25,207 --> 01:51:28,207 You'll see it... We'll take you to him... 1499 01:51:28,767 --> 01:51:31,767 Thanks for thinking of it. 1500 01:51:44,087 --> 01:51:46,206 Would you excuse me please, Duchess... 1501 01:51:46,207 --> 01:51:49,207 but it looks as though the Countess is getting her colour back! 1502 01:51:50,007 --> 01:51:50,756 You're right... 1503 01:51:58,967 --> 01:52:00,543 L�ontine, my dear... 1504 01:52:00,543 --> 01:52:03,544 Lucien...my poor love! 1505 01:52:03,727 --> 01:52:06,286 You may go...thanks! 1506 01:52:06,287 --> 01:52:10,966 Cry your eyes out!...it's the best way of washing your grief away. 1507 01:52:18,927 --> 01:52:19,798 Well? 1508 01:52:22,407 --> 01:52:25,407 She won't die from grief. She looks pretty when she's suffering. 1509 01:52:26,367 --> 01:52:27,326 Any news about our letters? 1510 01:52:27,326 --> 01:52:30,368 The searches have yielded nothing. 1511 01:52:30,887 --> 01:52:32,886 They've probably been hidden... 1512 01:52:32,887 --> 01:52:34,926 A tough character, this Vautrin... 1513 01:52:34,927 --> 01:52:37,927 With these letters signed by L�ontine, Clotilde et Diane... 1514 01:52:39,207 --> 01:52:42,207 he's more powerful locked in his cell than you and the police. 1515 01:52:42,807 --> 01:52:45,807 If ever those wretched letters ceased to be a secret... 1516 01:52:47,287 --> 01:52:50,287 There's nothing like the wind of scandal to ruffle the hair of kings... 1517 01:53:17,327 --> 01:53:20,327 You can take him. 1518 01:53:21,167 --> 01:53:24,167 Let's not beat about the bush... you have a trump card... 1519 01:53:25,767 --> 01:53:28,767 You have letters from three of the grand dames of the kingdom... 1520 01:53:29,567 --> 01:53:32,567 Cards on the table... what do you want in exchange? 1521 01:53:34,247 --> 01:53:37,247 Nothing...Monsieur Attorney General... 1522 01:53:37,287 --> 01:53:40,287 I'd been counting on the letters as my ultimate defence... 1523 01:53:41,007 --> 01:53:43,206 but now there's nothing to defend. 1524 01:53:43,207 --> 01:53:45,726 Your freedom perhaps? 1525 01:53:45,727 --> 01:53:48,086 What good would that do me? 1526 01:53:48,087 --> 01:53:51,087 You'll have those letters within the hour... 1527 01:53:52,247 --> 01:53:53,467 Do what you want with me. 1528 01:53:53,467 --> 01:53:56,248 What gave you the idea I'm generous? 1529 01:53:56,092 --> 01:53:59,487 No matter...For 20 years, I've seen another side to the world... 1530 01:54:00,967 --> 01:54:03,967 it's lower depths...it's cellars... Because I despised it, I thought 1531 01:54:05,367 --> 01:54:08,086 that it was right, for those smart enough, to take from it... 1532 01:54:08,087 --> 01:54:11,087 But no...Above all of us, there is still something... 1533 01:54:11,967 --> 01:54:14,967 -Providence... -Yes. 1534 01:54:17,287 --> 01:54:20,287 Providence has come down on me in one fell swoop. 1535 01:54:20,367 --> 01:54:22,686 But even in prison...I can be free. 1536 01:54:22,687 --> 01:54:25,246 You are a free man. 1537 01:54:25,247 --> 01:54:27,646 You might even make a useful man... 1538 01:54:27,647 --> 01:54:29,886 if you show the inclination. 1539 01:54:29,887 --> 01:54:32,166 The throne is trembling on its foundations. 1540 01:54:32,167 --> 01:54:35,167 It's better to have at its service the abilities of an adventurer... 1541 01:54:36,607 --> 01:54:39,607 than the conscience of an imbecile. 1542 01:54:44,887 --> 01:54:48,712 You'll find out that doing good is not as easy as doing evil... 1543 01:54:49,087 --> 01:54:52,087 and if you are willing to be put in the service of His majesty... 1544 01:54:52,567 --> 01:54:55,567 the liberty which I grant in his name...is yours. 1545 01:54:56,527 --> 01:54:58,023 On your way, Monsieur. 1546 01:56:01,156 --> 01:56:05,124 Subtitles by FatPlank [RLB] for KG 116690