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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:18,646 LIFE AND NOTHING BUT 2 00:01:23,349 --> 00:01:25,078 Keep your back up. 3 00:01:25,485 --> 00:01:28,079 Be careful. 4 00:01:49,409 --> 00:01:52,401 Sit up straight. 5 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:02,017 Come on, up straight. 6 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:07,289 I warned you. 7 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:11,358 I can't hear you. 8 00:02:17,170 --> 00:02:18,899 Not hurt? 9 00:02:19,405 --> 00:02:21,305 I'll hold the horse. 10 00:02:48,601 --> 00:02:49,568 Sister. 11 00:02:51,337 --> 00:02:56,206 Military hospital 45, please. 12 00:02:56,309 --> 00:02:59,836 Up past the beached skiff. 13 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:01,709 Thank you. 14 00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:09,722 My brother loved those cars. 15 00:03:34,814 --> 00:03:36,281 Ready? 16 00:03:37,717 --> 00:03:38,979 One... 17 00:03:41,454 --> 00:03:42,785 Six. 18 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:45,084 No memory? 19 00:03:45,191 --> 00:03:47,557 Name, age, nothing? 20 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:49,787 Can hardly talk either. 21 00:03:49,896 --> 00:03:51,420 He sings sometimes. 22 00:03:51,531 --> 00:03:53,226 Sings what? 23 00:03:53,366 --> 00:03:54,560 Depends. 24 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:57,534 Tantum Ergo, or some filthy limerick. 25 00:03:57,670 --> 00:04:00,901 Put down Tantum Ergo, Trevise. 26 00:04:03,676 --> 00:04:05,109 He could be a priest. 27 00:04:05,211 --> 00:04:06,974 Dirty-minded priests do exist. 28 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,777 I need signs scars, warts, tattoos. 29 00:04:10,883 --> 00:04:13,078 Tantum Ergo's a tattoo of sorts. 30 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:15,177 You photograph bodies too? 31 00:04:15,288 --> 00:04:16,915 Yes, dead bodies. 32 00:04:17,023 --> 00:04:18,786 The living... 33 00:04:19,859 --> 00:04:20,883 The dead don't move. 34 00:04:20,994 --> 00:04:22,427 The living talk. 35 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:23,426 Theoretically. 36 00:04:23,529 --> 00:04:25,224 That costs money. 37 00:04:25,331 --> 00:04:27,526 Another thrifty guy. 38 00:04:27,634 --> 00:04:29,329 Know what "missing in action" means? 39 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:31,130 Sure. 40 00:04:31,237 --> 00:04:34,001 You're the first then. 41 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:42,276 A guy's maybe living or dead, or half-and-half, meaning deaf, blind, legless, amnesiac... 42 00:04:42,382 --> 00:04:43,713 like your pal there. 43 00:04:43,816 --> 00:04:45,181 Or a deserter. 44 00:04:45,285 --> 00:04:47,219 And I get 'em all. 45 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,617 So I take photos. 46 00:04:48,721 --> 00:04:49,449 File them. 47 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:51,420 Snoop about. 48 00:04:51,524 --> 00:04:58,862 And sometimes I put a name on a face, or vice versa. 49 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:01,627 That makes one less. 50 00:05:02,502 --> 00:05:06,438 Walking down from Nantes 51 00:05:06,539 --> 00:05:07,665 from Nantes to Montaigu 52 00:05:07,774 --> 00:05:09,537 Hi-diddle-dum! 53 00:05:09,642 --> 00:05:12,270 Diddle-my-bum! 54 00:05:12,378 --> 00:05:13,709 He sang that one? 55 00:05:13,813 --> 00:05:15,576 Think so. 56 00:05:15,682 --> 00:05:17,650 I met a fair lass 57 00:05:17,750 --> 00:05:20,651 Who slept quite bare-assed 58 00:05:20,753 --> 00:05:22,345 Excuse me. 59 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:26,619 Quite bare-assed... 60 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:28,216 What, dammit! 61 00:05:28,328 --> 00:05:29,556 I said Excuse me. 62 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:31,129 Can't you knock? 63 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:33,130 I did, on 10 doors. 64 00:05:33,232 --> 00:05:34,893 Knock on 11. 65 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:36,298 Knock till... 66 00:05:36,402 --> 00:05:37,869 somebody answers. 67 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:48,713 Definitely a priest. 68 00:06:04,897 --> 00:06:06,592 Dr Mortier, please. 69 00:06:06,699 --> 00:06:07,825 There's no sign. 70 00:06:07,934 --> 00:06:09,629 Ask at the office. 71 00:06:09,736 --> 00:06:12,102 But where is it? 72 00:06:15,408 --> 00:06:17,342 Madame de Courtil? 73 00:06:19,145 --> 00:06:22,478 Dr. Mortier sent me. 74 00:06:22,749 --> 00:06:28,654 Stretch your left leg. 75 00:06:28,855 --> 00:06:32,985 We have somebody who fits your description. 76 00:06:33,092 --> 00:06:34,354 Don't get your hopes up. 77 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:35,688 I'm used to it. 78 00:06:35,795 --> 00:06:37,160 You've been here? 79 00:06:37,263 --> 00:06:40,164 No, but in Vittel, Biarritz, all over. 80 00:06:40,266 --> 00:06:41,699 Of course. 81 00:06:42,135 --> 00:06:45,730 My father-in-law met the doctor at the Senate last month. 82 00:06:48,574 --> 00:06:51,236 The heads are shaved-scalp disease. 83 00:06:51,344 --> 00:06:54,336 Changes their looks. 84 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:56,241 Here we are. 85 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,253 There's a resemblance. 86 00:07:10,229 --> 00:07:12,697 Have him stand. 87 00:07:19,972 --> 00:07:21,997 Too tall. 88 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:23,973 Men grow after 20. 89 00:07:24,076 --> 00:07:25,839 My husband would be 34. 90 00:07:25,945 --> 00:07:28,311 Illness lengthens them. 91 00:07:29,549 --> 00:07:30,914 He just wanted to touch you. 92 00:07:31,017 --> 00:07:33,212 He's harmless. 93 00:07:34,287 --> 00:07:36,653 Show me the others. 94 00:07:38,224 --> 00:07:41,250 Even Napoleon scored less. 95 00:07:43,162 --> 00:07:45,562 Not even a million dead in twenty years. 96 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:47,599 And we scored 1, 500,000 in four years. 97 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:49,930 Fourteen to eighteen. Four years! 98 00:07:50,036 --> 00:07:51,936 Maybe even more. 99 00:07:52,605 --> 00:07:55,540 You'll say some journalist made it up. 100 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:58,371 But it's in print. 101 00:07:58,945 --> 00:08:00,606 "Proportionally... 102 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:07,577 France paid the highest toll: an eloquent record.” 103 00:08:07,687 --> 00:08:09,587 The Huns took us for idiots! 104 00:08:09,689 --> 00:08:11,486 But we're the record! 105 00:08:11,591 --> 00:08:14,355 All clean. 106 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:15,586 You're dry at least. 107 00:08:15,695 --> 00:08:17,458 I'll be on my way. 108 00:08:17,563 --> 00:08:19,690 We'll call you. 109 00:08:19,799 --> 00:08:20,527 Good! 110 00:08:20,633 --> 00:08:22,396 One more! 111 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:29,506 Sorry, dear lady, that's the last of my leftovers. 112 00:08:29,609 --> 00:08:36,071 I'll give you a note for my friend Favradanne at the Vetrille center for aphasia. 113 00:08:36,182 --> 00:08:37,945 Thank you. 114 00:08:42,388 --> 00:08:44,652 It's nothing at all. 115 00:08:44,757 --> 00:08:46,850 I admire the Senator. 116 00:08:46,959 --> 00:08:48,256 My respects. 117 00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:50,090 Let's see the lung cases. 118 00:08:55,501 --> 00:08:57,992 - And the gas victims? - Two dead this week. 119 00:08:58,104 --> 00:08:59,036 Good. 120 00:08:59,138 --> 00:09:00,537 It's calming down. 121 00:09:04,410 --> 00:09:06,844 Snubbing me, Simone? 122 00:09:06,946 --> 00:09:08,174 Not home in Reims? 123 00:09:08,281 --> 00:09:11,114 I'm a flighty fellow. 124 00:09:11,217 --> 00:09:13,481 You're thinning down. 125 00:09:13,586 --> 00:09:15,918 Eat. 126 00:09:16,022 --> 00:09:18,183 Find what you wanted, Madam? 127 00:09:18,291 --> 00:09:19,986 Yes, thanks. 128 00:09:20,092 --> 00:09:20,990 If I can help... 129 00:09:21,093 --> 00:09:24,085 You at least stopped singing. 130 00:09:28,634 --> 00:09:31,603 Those are hospital dead. 131 00:09:31,704 --> 00:09:33,729 Even Germans and Arabs. 132 00:09:33,839 --> 00:09:36,000 We treat everybody. 133 00:09:36,609 --> 00:09:37,940 Crosses. Names. 134 00:09:38,044 --> 00:09:39,341 I know how it's done. 135 00:09:39,445 --> 00:09:41,504 - Oh, yeah? - Yes, madame. 136 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:44,606 - With the mouth. - Oh, good. 137 00:09:54,327 --> 00:09:57,592 Put that in the bar, on the double. 138 00:09:58,264 --> 00:09:59,356 At last! 139 00:09:59,465 --> 00:10:03,094 My bicyle chain keeps breaking. 140 00:10:03,202 --> 00:10:08,902 The general's here and the shit's hit the fan. 141 00:10:09,008 --> 00:10:10,407 Predictable. 142 00:10:10,509 --> 00:10:13,410 Petitions, articles, Senate speechs. 143 00:10:13,512 --> 00:10:15,036 But you're oblivious. 144 00:10:15,147 --> 00:10:19,277 Only your statistics count, your hotchpotch... 145 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:21,444 you give no signs of life. 146 00:10:21,554 --> 00:10:24,853 You're never around, Major... 147 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:27,326 Not on the 24th... 148 00:10:27,426 --> 00:10:29,121 A field mission, sir. 149 00:10:29,228 --> 00:10:31,025 - And the 26th? - Another one. 150 00:10:31,130 --> 00:10:33,257 I've cornered you now. 151 00:10:33,366 --> 00:10:36,301 I need an unknown soldier. 152 00:10:36,402 --> 00:10:37,426 You're the man. 153 00:10:37,536 --> 00:10:38,867 No, General, 154 00:10:38,971 --> 00:10:43,340 I've done twenty missions - no unknowns. 155 00:10:43,442 --> 00:10:46,275 - My mission's to find and identify-- - Yes, FIND! 156 00:10:46,379 --> 00:10:49,109 -- Military dead -- or missing. 157 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:51,775 Up your alley! 158 00:10:51,884 --> 00:10:54,114 Perrin, your opinion? 159 00:10:55,254 --> 00:10:58,121 "In each military zone..." 160 00:10:58,224 --> 00:11:01,785 "exhumation of an unidentified French soldier". 161 00:11:01,894 --> 00:11:03,691 It's clear, dammit! 162 00:11:03,796 --> 00:11:04,524 "Soldier". 163 00:11:04,630 --> 00:11:05,392 "French". 164 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:06,863 "Unidentified." 165 00:11:06,966 --> 00:11:08,058 Your department! 166 00:11:08,167 --> 00:11:11,830 I won't pick a body to learn its name a week later. 167 00:11:11,937 --> 00:11:14,428 But you haven't managed in 2 years. 168 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:16,940 I have countless investigators.. 169 00:11:17,043 --> 00:11:20,479 Hundreds of questionnaires out... 170 00:11:20,579 --> 00:11:25,482 which may return any day, saying "Your soldier was called so-and-so." 171 00:11:25,584 --> 00:11:27,779 Then I have a family on my hands. 172 00:11:27,887 --> 00:11:32,415 There won't be questions because they won't know. 173 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:36,621 Can you read "Top Secret." 174 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:37,821 Fine, sir. 175 00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:40,865 - I'll search. - Don't search. Find. 176 00:11:40,966 --> 00:11:42,900 Today's the 5th. 177 00:11:43,002 --> 00:11:46,995 "Bodies from nine zones are due in Verdun at the latest..." 178 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:49,734 Guess? " November Sth, 1920." 179 00:11:49,842 --> 00:11:52,208 I want him signed, sealed and delivered tomorrow. 180 00:11:52,311 --> 00:11:54,438 If this leaks... 181 00:11:56,582 --> 00:11:59,483 Leaks how? 182 00:11:59,585 --> 00:12:01,450 The newspapers. 183 00:12:01,554 --> 00:12:07,550 Then your unknown soldier's mystery evaporates and loses it's symbolism. 184 00:12:10,262 --> 00:12:11,627 Still a Dreyfusard. 185 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:12,425 Get lost. 186 00:12:12,531 --> 00:12:14,294 Yes, sir. 187 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:27,070 Stick a pin in the map. 188 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:30,675 At random, General? 189 00:12:30,783 --> 00:12:32,478 At random. 190 00:12:37,156 --> 00:12:38,748 Better over there. 191 00:12:41,694 --> 00:12:44,094 "Top Secret". 192 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:45,561 You won't look? 193 00:12:45,664 --> 00:12:48,997 You alone are in charge. 194 00:12:50,102 --> 00:12:51,865 Oh? 195 00:12:53,472 --> 00:12:57,499 And no Brits or Huns under the Arch of Triumph. 196 00:13:16,295 --> 00:13:18,024 Hurry up! Hurry up! 197 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:21,065 You tool Hurry up! 198 00:13:25,104 --> 00:13:27,629 Look what I get. 199 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:29,731 Orientals. 200 00:13:29,842 --> 00:13:31,707 And tiny, to boot. 201 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:34,006 They're good diggers. 202 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:36,138 Even in chalk. 203 00:13:36,248 --> 00:13:42,619 - So I start with-- - That's your affair. 204 00:13:42,721 --> 00:13:46,623 For the coffins see Lambert: the best oak wood... 205 00:13:46,725 --> 00:13:50,024 silver handles, lead lining. 206 00:13:50,129 --> 00:13:54,623 - I'd rather go to Garnier-- - Lambert lost 2 sons. 207 00:13:54,733 --> 00:13:58,100 The work will do him good. 208 00:13:58,204 --> 00:14:00,331 Be careful. 209 00:14:00,439 --> 00:14:01,337 I know. 210 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:02,907 No English or Germans... 211 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:04,270 And no negroes. 212 00:14:04,376 --> 00:14:06,571 Of course. 213 00:14:08,914 --> 00:14:11,439 Chateau de Vétrille-- in Vétrille. 214 00:14:11,550 --> 00:14:15,213 But there's no such name. 215 00:14:15,321 --> 00:14:18,119 He must have mentioned a city. 216 00:14:18,224 --> 00:14:23,628 It's clear " Hospital zone... 217 00:14:23,729 --> 00:14:24,923 Chateau de Vétrille." 218 00:14:25,064 --> 00:14:27,897 Yes, but Vétrille? 219 00:14:30,836 --> 00:14:32,701 I'll ask. 220 00:14:36,575 --> 00:14:38,475 You're not fast enough. 221 00:14:41,146 --> 00:14:43,444 The schoolmistress! 222 00:14:50,356 --> 00:14:52,017 At last. 223 00:14:52,124 --> 00:14:55,992 - You recognize me? - Mr. Lagrange - my inspector. 224 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:57,756 Miss Vallier. 225 00:14:57,863 --> 00:15:01,993 I was afraid I'd miss you. 226 00:15:02,101 --> 00:15:03,398 It's the holiday period. 227 00:15:03,502 --> 00:15:07,734 - I asked that the kids-- - It was taken care of. 228 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,273 That's fine. 229 00:15:09,375 --> 00:15:13,812 But you know I'm here for a reason. 230 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:24,414 And my reason is Jacques Lecordier, licensed teacher, is back for his post. 231 00:15:24,523 --> 00:15:28,584 Which is yours. 232 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:37,902 Silence! 233 00:15:41,507 --> 00:15:43,236 No hurry. 234 00:15:43,709 --> 00:15:46,234 I can stay with my family. 235 00:15:46,345 --> 00:15:47,869 I have board too. 236 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:51,245 The kids nearly scare me now. 237 00:15:51,350 --> 00:15:53,614 They're nice. 238 00:16:05,831 --> 00:16:07,162 Chateau de... 239 00:16:07,266 --> 00:16:08,756 I'm in a rush. 240 00:16:36,061 --> 00:16:38,689 The stuff keeps coming up. 241 00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:47,865 Look, old boy. 242 00:16:47,973 --> 00:16:49,270 Parisians... 243 00:16:49,375 --> 00:16:51,605 Rich Parisians. 244 00:16:57,049 --> 00:17:00,849 But we're fine as we are. 245 00:17:00,953 --> 00:17:06,892 Those yellow-bellies may be comfy, but they're all cuckolds. 246 00:17:06,992 --> 00:17:11,895 Figure how many of their wives I fixed on leave. 247 00:17:11,997 --> 00:17:17,526 But hell, you got the clap as bonus. 248 00:17:26,979 --> 00:17:30,813 Don't move, old boy. 249 00:17:31,016 --> 00:17:33,246 This is big stuff. 250 00:17:33,352 --> 00:17:34,580 A 220, I'll bet. 251 00:17:34,686 --> 00:17:38,417 Got to undo the nag so's he won't move. 252 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:41,254 Fetch the Mine Squad. 253 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:44,318 Quick as ye can, son. 254 00:17:46,098 --> 00:17:48,362 Easy, old boy... 255 00:17:50,169 --> 00:17:54,799 Take it slow. 256 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:06,241 The one I replaced has replaced me. 257 00:18:06,351 --> 00:18:09,320 Could I work full time for you? 258 00:18:12,391 --> 00:18:14,689 If it's okay with the boss... 259 00:18:14,793 --> 00:18:16,158 Ask him. 260 00:18:16,261 --> 00:18:19,719 But what'll she ask for? 261 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:24,895 Before, she had the school pay coming. 262 00:18:25,003 --> 00:18:29,133 But now-- How much you want? 263 00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:33,143 Only what you'd pay another. 264 00:18:34,646 --> 00:18:37,012 That's alright. 265 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:39,414 Can you start now? 266 00:18:39,518 --> 00:18:40,883 Thanks, Madame Valentin. 267 00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:42,510 I'll take my bike in. 268 00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:44,316 I'll fix you a rum coffee. 269 00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:46,050 No rum, you know. 270 00:18:56,535 --> 00:19:01,268 Siemens and Shukert are back at the Alsacian coal and lumber union. 271 00:19:01,373 --> 00:19:02,738 So? 272 00:19:02,841 --> 00:19:04,638 They're Germans. 273 00:19:04,743 --> 00:19:06,040 So? 274 00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:08,238 The losers do better than us. 275 00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:11,214 Just be glad we're still on our feet. 276 00:19:11,316 --> 00:19:13,216 Looks like little Alice. 277 00:19:13,318 --> 00:19:15,286 She's back? 278 00:19:15,387 --> 00:19:17,480 Hope and zippers spring eternal. 279 00:19:17,589 --> 00:19:20,558 Shame on you for such talk. 280 00:19:20,659 --> 00:19:22,183 The boy wants the Mine Squad. 281 00:19:22,294 --> 00:19:23,693 Hear that? 282 00:19:23,795 --> 00:19:25,126 Nobody's in. 283 00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:30,429 Abel's horse turned up a shell. 284 00:19:30,536 --> 00:19:34,734 The Mine Squad's in the Fartout woods. 285 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,637 I can cycle there. 286 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:39,506 Take my bike then. 287 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,354 Look at that crowd. 288 00:20:07,573 --> 00:20:09,302 It must be a sale. 289 00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:11,672 I see soldiers. 290 00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:13,738 A sale of what? 291 00:20:13,845 --> 00:20:16,245 - A harvest. - A harvest? 292 00:20:16,348 --> 00:20:19,215 Eggs, or snails. 293 00:20:19,318 --> 00:20:21,479 Or mushrooms. 294 00:20:21,587 --> 00:20:23,578 It must be mushrooms. 295 00:20:23,689 --> 00:20:25,589 There are women too. 296 00:20:25,691 --> 00:20:27,886 They're buying! 297 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:29,893 Of course, Andre! 298 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:32,122 You always have an answer. 299 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,325 The angelus-bell! 300 00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:36,992 Time for your midday munch. 301 00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:39,400 It can wait a wee bit. 302 00:21:03,128 --> 00:21:05,619 The July law is crap! 303 00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:09,360 Letting families retrieve the bodies! 304 00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:11,527 It ls understandable. 305 00:21:11,637 --> 00:21:21,512 In the battlefields and the cemeteries the dead could be counted, or at least approximated. 306 00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:25,242 But once the bodies are dispersed, the issue is clouded. 307 00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:27,443 It's a political ploy! 308 00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:29,349 We'll write the mayors. 309 00:21:29,454 --> 00:21:31,445 With what personnel? 310 00:21:31,556 --> 00:21:33,649 That's why we have to hurry! 311 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,319 Put men in the stations! 312 00:21:36,428 --> 00:21:40,865 Count all the coffins before it's too late! 313 00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:42,456 This not pork, Miss? 314 00:21:42,567 --> 00:21:44,865 It's a roast! 315 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:52,274 See, it's written on the board - roast with puréed peas! 316 00:21:58,517 --> 00:21:59,484 Here's tea. 317 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,211 I want the wine-mug! 318 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,254 No liquor at this table. 319 00:22:03,355 --> 00:22:04,151 Not for the Muslims! 320 00:22:04,256 --> 00:22:05,655 I'm allowed! 321 00:22:05,757 --> 00:22:07,588 I'm Christian! 322 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:15,623 It's not the retrieval of bodies that set things going, 323 00:22:15,767 --> 00:22:19,294 but the retrieval of missiles, cartridges, weapons... 324 00:22:19,404 --> 00:22:22,567 that turns into tons of steel, copper and nickel. 325 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:24,005 All that has value! 326 00:22:24,109 --> 00:22:29,445 It gets turned into bullion -- gold bullion! 327 00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:33,541 This is my younger brother Julien. 328 00:22:33,652 --> 00:22:36,450 Artist, painter... 329 00:22:36,555 --> 00:22:39,888 Joined up in '15, two wounds, three mentions. 330 00:22:39,991 --> 00:22:41,686 In the infantry. 331 00:22:41,793 --> 00:22:44,956 A doughfoot's not worth a gunner, but he's gotta eat. 332 00:22:45,630 --> 00:22:47,325 May 1?7 333 00:22:47,432 --> 00:22:48,626 Have a seat. 334 00:22:51,636 --> 00:22:53,069 Alice! My coffeel 335 00:22:54,573 --> 00:22:57,201 And this "unknown soldier" bit -- 336 00:22:57,309 --> 00:23:02,076 it's been going on for three, no, four years - November 16th! 337 00:23:02,180 --> 00:23:05,115 Now they want to botch it in four days! 338 00:23:05,217 --> 00:23:07,481 The cheese has a taste... 339 00:23:07,586 --> 00:23:10,487 Of gas, the carpenters say. 340 00:23:11,623 --> 00:23:13,648 I'm in a hurry, my child. 341 00:23:13,759 --> 00:23:16,353 My cheese has a taste, Major? 342 00:23:16,461 --> 00:23:19,453 I didn't have any, but I hope it has a taste... 343 00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:21,429 ...of camembert. 344 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:23,261 Major. 345 00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:25,832 I lost my teaching job. 346 00:23:25,937 --> 00:23:28,098 Do you need anybody? 347 00:23:28,206 --> 00:23:29,696 And here? 348 00:23:29,808 --> 00:23:31,867 This is temporary, not a career. 349 00:23:31,977 --> 00:23:33,740 I have a diplomal 350 00:23:35,113 --> 00:23:38,048 You should return home, child. 351 00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:39,378 You know I can't! 352 00:23:39,484 --> 00:23:41,611 I know, I know, your fiancé. 353 00:23:42,687 --> 00:23:46,555 You should forget about him too! 354 00:23:49,594 --> 00:23:52,358 What do you think you're going to find? 355 00:23:53,732 --> 00:23:59,102 A handsome young man, a soldier in uniform? 356 00:24:00,238 --> 00:24:01,830 Even if he's alive... 357 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:08,038 if by some miracle you find him, you may wish you never had! 358 00:24:08,146 --> 00:24:13,413 Because he'll be missing half his body or half his face! 359 00:24:13,518 --> 00:24:15,782 How can you say that? 360 00:24:15,887 --> 00:24:19,015 I say it because it's better... 361 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:23,116 for both of you. 362 00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:26,388 My coffee... 363 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:31,900 Come round my office. 364 00:24:32,003 --> 00:24:33,868 I'll try to find you work. 365 00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:37,499 Absolutely not! 366 00:24:47,686 --> 00:24:49,381 That's nice! 367 00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:51,388 My brother did it. 368 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,253 He needs a job. 369 00:24:53,358 --> 00:24:55,656 Like everyone else! 370 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,455 Isn't that the Fargny mill? 371 00:24:57,562 --> 00:24:59,154 Yes, sir. 372 00:24:59,264 --> 00:25:01,824 July "16. 373 00:25:01,933 --> 00:25:03,992 July first. 374 00:25:04,102 --> 00:25:05,467 Nasty spot... 375 00:25:05,570 --> 00:25:07,333 I'll say! 376 00:25:07,439 --> 00:25:08,770 A real artist! 377 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:10,171 I've nothing to offer. 378 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,766 - You know Mercadot? - The sculptor? 379 00:25:12,878 --> 00:25:14,903 I'll mention you to him. 380 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:17,846 Bring him along to the tunnel tomorrow. 381 00:25:17,949 --> 00:25:19,143 Thank you, Major. 382 00:25:55,487 --> 00:25:57,648 Five plum brandies! 383 00:26:10,735 --> 00:26:12,896 How will you manage? 384 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:17,441 I'll put the tray on the seat. 385 00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:29,210 We mostly make mint tea, for the Arabs... 386 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:31,289 at least it's hot. 387 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:35,623 Here's sugar. 388 00:26:39,064 --> 00:26:41,225 You're really not hungry? 389 00:26:41,333 --> 00:26:42,960 I have no appetite. 390 00:26:43,068 --> 00:26:45,502 I can bring some cookies... 391 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:46,571 They're clean. 392 00:26:46,671 --> 00:26:47,831 No, thanks. 393 00:26:47,939 --> 00:26:49,770 Unless you have fruit? 394 00:26:49,874 --> 00:26:52,399 Fruit, fresh vegetables... 395 00:26:52,510 --> 00:26:55,070 even milk for the kids is a big fuss. 396 00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:56,408 You have children? 397 00:26:56,514 --> 00:26:57,776 I had over twenty. 398 00:26:57,882 --> 00:26:59,850 Not mine! 399 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:01,782 I was the schoolteacher. 400 00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:03,217 Not any more? 401 00:27:03,321 --> 00:27:04,913 As of today! 402 00:27:07,192 --> 00:27:09,126 Now I recognize you. 403 00:27:09,227 --> 00:27:10,888 You had a bike? 404 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:14,030 It's good, huh? 405 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:18,228 As long as it doesn't taste of cork or vinegar... 406 00:27:18,336 --> 00:27:20,133 At three francs, that's a good wine! 407 00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:25,671 It goes down well. 408 00:27:25,777 --> 00:27:27,677 Have a glass. 409 00:27:37,689 --> 00:27:40,487 Have a look at the headlines. 410 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,463 Grézaucourt... 411 00:27:49,567 --> 00:27:53,367 That name sounds familiar. 412 00:27:53,471 --> 00:27:58,408 You passed by it for sure, coming the way you did. 413 00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:00,375 It's a tunnel? 414 00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:01,502 Yes! 415 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:04,275 The bloody Huns mined it during their retreat... 416 00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:08,751 A whole train blew up inside - a Red Cross train! 417 00:28:08,853 --> 00:28:11,048 It's only being dug out now? 418 00:28:11,156 --> 00:28:13,249 It's not as if they haven't tried. 419 00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:15,952 Lots of railroad workers here. 420 00:28:16,061 --> 00:28:17,426 We know what's up. 421 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,690 It keeps caving in! 422 00:28:19,798 --> 00:28:23,234 The place I'm looking for is the Chateau de Vétrille. 423 00:28:45,957 --> 00:28:47,788 The "Deposit"? 424 00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:51,020 A deposit of what? 425 00:28:51,129 --> 00:28:52,619 A deposit of memories. 426 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,926 Of the poor guys who died in there. 427 00:28:55,033 --> 00:29:00,767 You must have noticed it from the road. 428 00:29:00,872 --> 00:29:05,502 I thought they were mushrooming! 429 00:29:10,048 --> 00:29:11,606 I bother them. 430 00:29:11,716 --> 00:29:15,174 You can laugh, you the Artist... 431 00:29:15,286 --> 00:29:17,516 I upset them! 432 00:29:17,622 --> 00:29:21,149 Because I keep accounts which never come out right. 433 00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:23,159 "Mind your own business!" 434 00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:27,027 "Your job's the missing, not the dead!" 435 00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:30,067 But I do it anyway. 436 00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:31,328 So? 437 00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:37,375 So-- 200,000 soldiers haven't been accounted for. 438 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:39,375 And I find more every day! 439 00:29:39,477 --> 00:29:41,172 200,000 more, 200,000 less! 440 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:43,338 My figures are exact! 441 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:45,143 200,000 dead have been concealed! 442 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:48,219 So what if they have? 443 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:53,723 Humanity's entered its final stage, the dance of life and death - 444 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,622 the great apotheosis! 445 00:29:55,727 --> 00:30:00,721 We plug up the holes and screw to prepare for the next war! 446 00:30:00,832 --> 00:30:03,892 Here's a good spot! 447 00:30:04,002 --> 00:30:05,731 What? 448 00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:09,238 I'll stick their bloody monument right here. 449 00:30:09,340 --> 00:30:12,605 Eight doughboys, four on each side, 450 00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:18,012 in gilded bronze, and Victory above, her wings outspread. 451 00:30:18,116 --> 00:30:20,050 What do you say? 452 00:30:21,686 --> 00:30:23,017 That's all? 453 00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:25,248 It's very nice... 454 00:30:25,356 --> 00:30:27,551 it looks a little like a brooding hen, but... 455 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:30,890 What are you hanging around for? 456 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:31,984 Major... 457 00:30:32,096 --> 00:30:35,429 They want to dig up my land. 458 00:30:35,533 --> 00:30:37,160 Your land? 459 00:30:37,268 --> 00:30:39,031 I was given this plot. 460 00:30:39,137 --> 00:30:44,837 Excellent soil for growing vegetables, Major. 461 00:30:44,943 --> 00:30:46,808 For beans... For lettuce... 462 00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:49,675 I'll see what I can do. 463 00:30:49,781 --> 00:30:50,873 Want a lift back? 464 00:30:50,982 --> 00:30:52,813 Think of it! 465 00:30:52,917 --> 00:30:57,616 I'm on the Fine Arts jury at Verdun, for the November 10th ceremony. 466 00:30:57,722 --> 00:30:58,780 What ceremony? 467 00:30:58,890 --> 00:31:01,085 The lottery for the "Unknown Soldier"! 468 00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:03,558 We can't very well shoot craps! 469 00:31:18,476 --> 00:31:20,410 Chateau de Vétrille? 470 00:31:20,511 --> 00:31:22,035 This is it. 471 00:31:22,146 --> 00:31:24,307 Where's the entrance? 472 00:31:24,415 --> 00:31:25,347 Right there. 473 00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:26,246 It's locked. 474 00:31:26,351 --> 00:31:28,410 Yes, it's locked. 475 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:31,750 My husband may be hospitalized here... 476 00:31:31,856 --> 00:31:34,950 Hospital's gone. 477 00:31:35,059 --> 00:31:37,493 The Baroness lives here now, at last! 478 00:31:37,595 --> 00:31:39,893 It's a chateau again. 479 00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:42,489 She's not displeased. 480 00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:59,048 Please sit down, believe me, I'm sorry... 481 00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:01,618 The hospital was disaffected three weeks ago! 482 00:32:01,719 --> 00:32:04,153 The letter is dated last week! 483 00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:07,884 I understand, Madam, but these disaffections are not within our limits... 484 00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:13,521 I've gone in circles on your roads - no markers, no roadsigns! 485 00:32:13,631 --> 00:32:15,724 Road repair is limited to... 486 00:32:15,833 --> 00:32:17,027 Yes, it's the limit! 487 00:32:17,168 --> 00:32:21,628 No, I said "is limited to" not "it's the limit"... 488 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:25,334 I say it's the limit - of incompetence! 489 00:32:25,443 --> 00:32:28,037 Where is the ledger? 490 00:32:28,146 --> 00:32:29,511 Of complaints! 491 00:32:30,348 --> 00:32:32,111 This is outrageous! 492 00:32:32,216 --> 00:32:37,313 All public places have them - but not you-- You get off easy! 493 00:32:37,422 --> 00:32:42,359 This letter (which comes from the National Assistance Board)... 494 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:45,691 "Liaison with Military Hospitals" - I can read! 495 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:48,425 But that's not us! 496 00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:50,899 "Hospital Services of Military Districts" 497 00:32:51,002 --> 00:32:54,665 "A ward for non-identified mentally-ill patients..." 498 00:32:54,772 --> 00:32:57,240 "may exist at the temporary hospital in Vétrille". 499 00:32:57,342 --> 00:33:00,038 "May exist... 500 00:33:00,144 --> 00:33:01,805 temporary hospital”. 501 00:33:01,913 --> 00:33:03,847 Give that to me! 502 00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:09,551 It won't shut! 503 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:11,417 You neither know or understand a thing! 504 00:33:11,522 --> 00:33:14,286 You're imbeciles and brutes and you break things! 505 00:33:14,392 --> 00:33:15,689 Leave me be! 506 00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:20,389 Will you honor me with your presence, Madam? 507 00:33:26,337 --> 00:33:28,635 Please sit down. 508 00:33:31,576 --> 00:33:35,569 I'm in charge of these brutes and imbeciles. 509 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,671 My name is Dellaplane. 510 00:33:37,782 --> 00:33:40,376 Your outburst is unjust. 511 00:33:40,485 --> 00:33:42,885 It's only normal that I intervene. 512 00:33:42,987 --> 00:33:47,253 You may remember we met near Berck. 513 00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:51,795 You are unjust because our service does what it can. 514 00:33:51,896 --> 00:33:55,525 You say we neither understand or know a thing... 515 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:59,125 “"Irene de Courtil, nee Santelloz..." 516 00:33:59,237 --> 00:34:03,298 "wishes to locate Infantry Sergeant Francois de Courtil, her husband..." 517 00:34:03,408 --> 00:34:05,774 "missing in action near Moronvilliers..." 518 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:10,177 "on September 26, 1918, on reconnaissance." 519 00:34:10,281 --> 00:34:15,685 Pretty good for a bunch of know-nothings, isn't it? 520 00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:20,087 - "Caught under artillery fire - " French artillery fire! 521 00:34:20,191 --> 00:34:21,658 That, Madam... 522 00:34:21,759 --> 00:34:25,195 "of great violence, he was seen to fall..." 523 00:34:25,296 --> 00:34:26,729 "while requesting the lifting of fire." 524 00:34:26,831 --> 00:34:29,595 So he's dead rather than missing. 525 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:30,860 Yes... 526 00:34:30,968 --> 00:34:31,730 No! 527 00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:37,741 We thought he was dead, we wore mourning, but one day a sergeant came to see us. 528 00:34:37,842 --> 00:34:45,248 He said my husband had been picked up by the Germans and hospitalized near Buzancy. 529 00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:47,442 He didn't react or speak, but he was alive! 530 00:34:47,552 --> 00:34:50,385 This fellow was sure he was alive. 531 00:34:50,488 --> 00:34:52,251 I have his name somewhere. 532 00:34:52,356 --> 00:34:55,348 Corporal Liebourg, farmer. 533 00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:57,826 You knew that? 534 00:34:57,929 --> 00:35:00,625 Have you a portrait of your husband? 535 00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:05,602 Only a small medallion. 536 00:35:05,703 --> 00:35:09,195 May I have it for a few minutes? 537 00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:18,706 The De Courtil dossier in the senatorial files! 538 00:35:24,489 --> 00:35:28,186 Make me an enlarged pantograph. 539 00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:29,816 What will you do? 540 00:35:29,927 --> 00:35:32,020 Have no fear, it's technical. 541 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,030 We won't dent it. 542 00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:41,368 As for the German military hospital, during our victorious offensive, 543 00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:44,669 they evacuated their own wounded. 544 00:35:44,775 --> 00:35:47,903 - As for ours, including, probably-- - Certainly! 545 00:35:48,012 --> 00:35:56,147 Probably - certainly - your husband, they were brought to the Vézillé and Vouziers stations. 546 00:35:56,254 --> 00:36:03,023 But the lists of wounded evacuated by train were destroyed by the bombardments. 547 00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:07,188 Thus -- thus you know nothing more than years ago! 548 00:36:07,298 --> 00:36:09,163 It's as clear as day! 549 00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:12,296 Recognize this? 550 00:36:12,403 --> 00:36:13,563 My father-in-law. 551 00:36:13,671 --> 00:36:15,036 Yes! 552 00:36:15,139 --> 00:36:21,476 The Senator has a terrifying idea of the Republic! 553 00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:28,377 There are 350,000 families in the same unhappy situation, 554 00:36:28,486 --> 00:36:31,011 but Paul de Courtil couldn't care less! 555 00:36:31,122 --> 00:36:32,350 He writes! 556 00:36:32,456 --> 00:36:34,390 Tirelessly! 557 00:36:34,492 --> 00:36:37,518 His colleagues intervene - the Senate, the Ministry, my superiors - 558 00:36:37,628 --> 00:36:41,724 all the bloody pains in the asses! 559 00:36:41,832 --> 00:36:45,962 You just wanted to get back at my father-in-law? 560 00:36:46,070 --> 00:36:47,970 Give me back my portrait! 561 00:36:48,072 --> 00:36:49,972 Just a minute. 562 00:36:50,074 --> 00:36:53,202 Your behavior is absolutely... 563 00:36:53,311 --> 00:36:54,642 shameful! 564 00:36:54,745 --> 00:36:56,975 "For personal and other reasons..." 565 00:36:57,081 --> 00:36:59,413 "I urgently need to know my son's fate." 566 00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:01,644 "Please give orders so that..." 567 00:37:01,752 --> 00:37:05,882 "priority be given, due to the interests at stake." 568 00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:07,082 Interests at stake! 569 00:37:07,191 --> 00:37:09,853 I'm not interested! 570 00:37:09,961 --> 00:37:13,362 "Services rendered over the years by Shukert & De Courtil..." 571 00:37:13,464 --> 00:37:15,955 That's a closet. 572 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,534 "Permit me to request" 573 00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:21,469 "a special effort from the Search Bureau", etc. 574 00:37:21,572 --> 00:37:25,338 - And here, concerning me-- - My portrait! 575 00:37:25,443 --> 00:37:30,176 "The Bureau Chief, whose statistical passion equals his staggering incompetence..." 576 00:37:30,281 --> 00:37:31,942 Francois wasn't like that. 577 00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:34,483 He volunteered - at the worst moment. 578 00:37:34,585 --> 00:37:36,246 I know. In May, "17. 579 00:37:36,354 --> 00:37:37,616 Better late-- 580 00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:43,319 So you've decided to be an obstacle. 581 00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:45,122 No, Madam. 582 00:37:45,229 --> 00:37:50,428 I don't have time to explain, but no, I'm not an obstacle. 583 00:37:50,534 --> 00:37:54,630 Except that there are 350,00 missing soldiers. 584 00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:59,108 349,771 to be exact. 585 00:37:59,210 --> 00:38:03,044 So tell the patriarch of Shukert & De Courtil 586 00:38:03,147 --> 00:38:09,814 that a 350-thousandth of my staggering incompetence is devoted to his personal case. 587 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,152 A 350-thousandth of my time, but that's all! 588 00:38:20,531 --> 00:38:22,158 Your medallion. 589 00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:24,429 What do you think? 590 00:38:24,535 --> 00:38:27,800 Dolicho -- I mean Dolichocephalic. 591 00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:29,736 Blond? 592 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:30,670 Dirty blond. 593 00:38:30,775 --> 00:38:33,676 Dirty blond, probably long-limbed. 594 00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:36,372 178-1807 595 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,940 - In centimeters-- - One meter 86. 596 00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:44,818 No, he was born in '86! 597 00:38:44,922 --> 00:38:47,186 About my height? 598 00:38:47,291 --> 00:38:49,191 Shorter. 599 00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:51,193 This high? 600 00:38:51,295 --> 00:38:53,024 Taller. 601 00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:57,760 Well, let's leave it at my 78-80... 602 00:38:57,868 --> 00:39:00,098 Eyes? 603 00:39:00,204 --> 00:39:01,603 Light. 604 00:39:07,712 --> 00:39:12,342 Incredible the range you get in clear eyes. 605 00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:14,850 Even dark eyes. 606 00:39:14,952 --> 00:39:16,579 Yours for instance. 607 00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:18,279 Francois' were light blue. 608 00:39:39,076 --> 00:39:42,807 Your blue is really grey. 609 00:39:42,913 --> 00:39:45,177 Let's say tall... 610 00:39:45,282 --> 00:39:46,510 size 3... 611 00:39:46,617 --> 00:39:49,882 medium grey...section F. 612 00:40:01,031 --> 00:40:02,589 Can I help? 613 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:08,903 I may sing dirty songs, but I know my manners. 614 00:40:25,823 --> 00:40:27,222 It's frightening. 615 00:40:29,093 --> 00:40:31,960 Only the first pages... 616 00:40:32,062 --> 00:40:34,895 Then it's like an herbarium. 617 00:40:51,482 --> 00:40:52,847 A Hotchkiss? 618 00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:54,645 Don't think so. 619 00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:57,220 Remember Duchene's? 620 00:40:57,321 --> 00:40:58,515 The general's? 621 00:40:58,622 --> 00:41:00,886 Yeah, the bastard. 622 00:41:00,991 --> 00:41:05,223 Well this hood's much bigger. 623 00:41:05,329 --> 00:41:06,796 Can we? 624 00:41:06,897 --> 00:41:09,491 Not the glass. It'll dirty. 625 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,591 Still warm. 626 00:41:11,702 --> 00:41:15,661 Does at least 60 mph. 627 00:41:15,773 --> 00:41:18,298 No, 80! 628 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,947 It's all set. 629 00:41:24,048 --> 00:41:26,812 You can eat at the Red Cross cantine in 10 minutes. 630 00:41:26,917 --> 00:41:28,043 Eat rice possible? 631 00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:29,813 Sure. 632 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,083 Eat rice possible all the time in those places. 633 00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:35,283 Sure it's a rice-terant. 634 00:41:35,392 --> 00:41:38,054 You take that one. 635 00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:40,163 Leaving the region? 636 00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:42,198 I've seen so many hospitals. 637 00:41:42,299 --> 00:41:44,290 And you close them all. 638 00:41:44,401 --> 00:41:48,098 Where can I reach you if I find a lead? 639 00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:50,105 At my father-in-law's. 640 00:41:50,207 --> 00:41:53,335 I'll do everything in my power. 641 00:41:53,444 --> 00:41:55,912 A 300-thousandth of your power. 642 00:42:13,797 --> 00:42:16,265 Dig up your anonymous holy relic? 643 00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:17,732 Not yet. 644 00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:19,496 You looked at least? 645 00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:21,036 I have the coffin. 646 00:42:21,138 --> 00:42:23,936 Thirty two oak. 647 00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:25,338 Impeccable. 648 00:42:25,442 --> 00:42:27,433 Not a shrapnel mark. 649 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,945 Answer my question the body? 650 00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:31,674 Packaging first. 651 00:42:31,782 --> 00:42:32,874 If I find my man... 652 00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:35,577 I must know where to put him. 653 00:42:35,686 --> 00:42:36,812 And those? 654 00:42:36,921 --> 00:42:38,411 Reserve. 655 00:42:38,522 --> 00:42:41,082 We're digging up more than we need, you know... 656 00:42:41,191 --> 00:42:44,126 I don't quite read you, Perrin. 657 00:42:44,228 --> 00:42:47,254 Get your demoralizing display out of sight. 658 00:42:47,364 --> 00:42:48,991 I need a van. 659 00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:50,896 There is no van. 660 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:57,429 Put all this in your wheelbarrow and get it out of sight. 661 00:42:57,541 --> 00:42:59,873 Do it as if it were an order. 662 00:42:59,977 --> 00:43:01,808 Fine, Major... 663 00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:08,677 Those coffins were inferior stuff. 664 00:43:08,786 --> 00:43:11,050 My father was a carpenter. 665 00:43:11,155 --> 00:43:13,020 Supplied the area. 666 00:43:13,123 --> 00:43:15,318 I should know. 667 00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:20,921 True, at that price you can't expect rosewood. 668 00:43:21,031 --> 00:43:23,693 They make profits on quantity. 669 00:43:24,635 --> 00:43:27,968 A 100 just for Grézaucourt. 670 00:43:28,072 --> 00:43:30,836 A franc an item = 100 francs. 671 00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:32,431 Grézaucourt? 672 00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:34,033 Is that a hospital? 673 00:43:34,144 --> 00:43:35,839 Hospital? No. 674 00:43:35,946 --> 00:43:37,436 A deposit. 675 00:43:37,548 --> 00:43:42,383 A convoy hit a mine in the tunnel to Buzancy. 676 00:43:42,486 --> 00:43:44,977 Is it far? 677 00:43:45,089 --> 00:43:46,886 We passed it today. 678 00:43:46,991 --> 00:43:48,754 The mushrooms. 679 00:43:48,859 --> 00:43:50,622 Let's go back. 680 00:43:50,728 --> 00:43:55,392 Monsieur ordered the car for the Senate in the morning. 681 00:43:55,499 --> 00:43:57,990 He won't go on horseback. 682 00:43:58,102 --> 00:44:00,229 Drive me to a train. 683 00:44:06,677 --> 00:44:08,941 Is Grézaucourt direct from here? 684 00:44:09,046 --> 00:44:11,344 It's not accessible. 685 00:44:11,448 --> 00:44:13,882 But you can get off at Vézillé. 686 00:44:13,984 --> 00:44:16,475 There are trucks from there. 687 00:44:18,622 --> 00:44:21,489 At 6:54, change at Moncornet. 688 00:44:23,193 --> 00:44:24,922 And lodging? 689 00:44:25,029 --> 00:44:26,963 Tonight? 690 00:44:28,399 --> 00:44:30,492 No hotels? 691 00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:32,626 A villager can put you up. 692 00:44:34,238 --> 00:44:38,106 My other son's room is bigger but colder. 693 00:44:38,208 --> 00:44:39,698 This is fine. 694 00:44:39,810 --> 00:44:41,710 Dinner's at seven. 695 00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,804 Vegetable soup and parmentier. 696 00:44:44,915 --> 00:44:47,110 I eat little. 697 00:44:49,086 --> 00:44:51,452 I can bring a pitcher of hot water. 698 00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:53,648 I'll come down. 699 00:45:08,872 --> 00:45:12,433 Drink it hot. I added cinnamon. 700 00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:14,238 Put it there. 701 00:45:16,547 --> 00:45:20,210 You're exaggerating to ask for a day off already. 702 00:45:20,317 --> 00:45:22,251 It's a break. 703 00:45:22,352 --> 00:45:24,217 The major agreed to take me along. 704 00:45:24,321 --> 00:45:26,585 But the boss will complain. 705 00:45:26,690 --> 00:45:28,282 He always does. 706 00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:30,053 Still, you exaggerate. 707 00:45:31,762 --> 00:45:33,923 How did you get on before? 708 00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:38,159 You worry me. 709 00:45:38,268 --> 00:45:42,136 You're not going to be like those poor women who pass daily. 710 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,073 I take their photos out of charity. 711 00:45:46,176 --> 00:45:51,876 But I feel like saying the dead are dead, even if you can't find them. 712 00:45:51,982 --> 00:45:59,388 It's not their photos that will bring them back. 713 00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:05,528 That's a nice thing to say. 714 00:46:05,629 --> 00:46:09,360 I'd say the same to my daughter. 715 00:46:11,401 --> 00:46:14,893 But I'm going anyway. 716 00:46:21,512 --> 00:46:23,377 Another brandy? 717 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,348 Sleep well. 718 00:46:32,589 --> 00:46:36,821 I thought of a job for you. 719 00:46:38,262 --> 00:46:43,256 Writing letters to veterans associations and town halls. 720 00:46:43,367 --> 00:46:44,959 That's fine. 721 00:46:57,014 --> 00:47:00,916 I've got my 812 for June 17! 722 00:47:01,018 --> 00:47:04,112 The Senegalese make 812. 723 00:47:05,189 --> 00:47:07,680 They weren't counted. 724 00:47:43,727 --> 00:47:47,322 Vézillé-Prin: two minute stop. 725 00:47:48,265 --> 00:47:49,732 Vézillé. 726 00:47:49,833 --> 00:47:51,630 One franc, eighteen, madam. 727 00:47:53,503 --> 00:47:56,870 Hurry, I've got the tickets to collect. 728 00:48:08,752 --> 00:48:12,119 VEZILLE - PRIN TEMPORARY STATION Do you have the pass? 729 00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:13,655 In my pocket. 730 00:48:25,135 --> 00:48:28,298 Passengers for Grézaucourt. 731 00:48:33,010 --> 00:48:36,844 The truck won't leave for 40 minutes. 732 00:48:36,947 --> 00:48:42,112 There are hot drinks offered by the 113th in the tent. 733 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,286 Prepare your passes. 734 00:48:45,389 --> 00:48:48,256 Do you have one? 735 00:48:48,358 --> 00:48:50,223 In my bag. 736 00:49:29,099 --> 00:49:29,963 What's happening? 737 00:49:30,067 --> 00:49:31,967 Soldier stepped on a mine, It. 738 00:49:32,069 --> 00:49:33,593 What do we do? 739 00:49:33,704 --> 00:49:36,195 Turn right. We sent the darkies. 740 00:49:48,685 --> 00:49:50,880 Car cranks are dangerous. 741 00:49:50,988 --> 00:49:54,822 My fiancé broke his hand on one. 742 00:49:54,925 --> 00:49:59,362 I took him to the hospital in Decize. 743 00:49:59,463 --> 00:50:00,896 He was white as a sheet. 744 00:50:00,998 --> 00:50:04,365 I'll continue on foot from here. 745 00:50:04,468 --> 00:50:06,197 You coming, Artist? 746 00:50:06,303 --> 00:50:11,331 Stay put. The path is rocky. 747 00:50:26,923 --> 00:50:31,724 They've had it up to their eyeballs with Rodin! 748 00:50:33,196 --> 00:50:36,597 He was great with clay, okay. 749 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:39,225 With his thumbs, fine. 750 00:50:39,336 --> 00:50:44,831 But on stone I'm his equal. 751 00:50:44,941 --> 00:50:46,533 And now that he's dead... 752 00:50:46,643 --> 00:50:49,578 I'm better than him. 753 00:50:54,484 --> 00:50:57,612 It'll be fine here. In the open. 754 00:51:05,695 --> 00:51:08,289 Sculpture going well for you? 755 00:51:08,398 --> 00:51:11,834 The Golden Age, my friend. 756 00:51:11,935 --> 00:51:15,029 Nothing like it since the Greeks. 757 00:51:15,138 --> 00:51:17,333 Since the cathedrals. 758 00:51:17,441 --> 00:51:20,842 Even shitty artists have their hands full. 759 00:51:20,944 --> 00:51:22,809 A monument per village. 760 00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:26,849 300 sculptors for 35,000 towns. 761 00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:33,280 Everybody wants his doughboy, his widow, his pyramid, his marble. 762 00:51:33,390 --> 00:51:38,384 Bas-reliefs, inscriptions -- it's a factory. 763 00:51:38,495 --> 00:51:42,022 Better than the Renaissance - it's the resurrection. 764 00:51:42,132 --> 00:51:44,396 Thanks to our dead. 765 00:51:44,501 --> 00:51:47,766 Thanks to them. 766 00:52:08,058 --> 00:52:10,492 I can't let you through. 767 00:52:10,594 --> 00:52:14,155 I'll pick you up this evening. 768 00:52:15,665 --> 00:52:18,031 What do I do? 769 00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:21,298 I'm speaking to you, sir. 770 00:52:21,404 --> 00:52:23,497 Later, Madam. 771 00:52:25,041 --> 00:52:27,942 Please group your baggage together. 772 00:52:28,044 --> 00:52:29,909 Those with passes... 773 00:52:30,013 --> 00:52:33,244 examination up there on the table. 774 00:53:02,078 --> 00:53:04,012 Not all spring chicks. 775 00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:35,928 Ah, the Major and his sculptor. 776 00:54:49,786 --> 00:54:51,083 This truck will take you. 777 00:54:51,187 --> 00:54:52,586 I won't leave. 778 00:54:52,689 --> 00:54:54,054 Be reasonable. 779 00:54:54,157 --> 00:54:55,715 I won't be treated like this. 780 00:54:55,825 --> 00:55:01,092 I demand permission - I didn't make this trip-- Don't touch mel 781 00:55:07,570 --> 00:55:09,094 What's going on? 782 00:55:09,205 --> 00:55:10,797 No pass, sir. 783 00:55:10,907 --> 00:55:13,034 Back to the station. 784 00:55:13,143 --> 00:55:14,838 Have a paper? 785 00:55:23,953 --> 00:55:27,047 Well...it needs a stamp... 786 00:55:28,525 --> 00:55:31,016 Yes,sir... since it's you... 787 00:55:42,806 --> 00:55:45,366 Get moving, greenhorns! 788 00:55:45,475 --> 00:55:46,942 Good work... 789 00:55:47,043 --> 00:55:49,273 Nearly 40 bodies identified. 790 00:55:49,379 --> 00:55:50,903 You have the list? 791 00:55:51,014 --> 00:55:56,042 - Inform the families here. - Yes. They'll come to the office. 792 00:55:56,152 --> 00:55:58,450 Check family and Christian names. 793 00:55:58,555 --> 00:56:01,922 We can't play around with figures. 794 00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:05,426 A question of ethics. Ethics! 795 00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:10,261 Coutrell familly to the identification bureau, please. 796 00:56:33,423 --> 00:56:34,856 You here, too? 797 00:56:34,958 --> 00:56:38,223 Lift her wings. 798 00:56:38,328 --> 00:56:40,023 She looks like a brooding hen. 799 00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:43,725 It's Victory! Make her palpable, sensual! 800 00:56:43,833 --> 00:56:45,698 Hey, miss... 801 00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:50,866 Somebody threw my cap off. 802 00:56:54,144 --> 00:56:57,636 Can you put it back on? 803 00:57:13,163 --> 00:57:17,930 My name is Eugene Dilatoire - investigations and research. 804 00:57:18,034 --> 00:57:22,494 Specialist in military disappearances... 805 00:57:22,605 --> 00:57:25,699 Get lost! They're bandits... 806 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:27,671 I know all about it. 807 00:57:27,777 --> 00:57:29,938 It cost me 20 francs... for peanuts. 808 00:57:45,295 --> 00:57:47,388 Our soldiers are buried here. 809 00:57:47,497 --> 00:57:48,987 Along the road are the Huns. 810 00:57:49,098 --> 00:57:50,497 Huns... 811 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,761 Or Arabs. And two Belgians. 812 00:57:52,869 --> 00:57:54,336 Arabs... 813 00:57:54,437 --> 00:57:55,665 Only Arabs towards the end! 814 00:57:55,772 --> 00:57:58,138 Except the officers. 815 00:57:58,241 --> 00:58:02,735 I'm looking for a French soldier. 816 00:58:02,846 --> 00:58:05,076 Really French. And anonymous. 817 00:58:05,181 --> 00:58:06,671 The one at the well. 818 00:58:06,783 --> 00:58:08,876 A grenade went off in his hand. 819 00:58:10,854 --> 00:58:13,516 Name was Mounter. From Le Mans. 820 00:58:14,991 --> 00:58:16,424 Anonymous, Madam. 821 00:58:16,526 --> 00:58:18,892 Anonymous. No name. 822 00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:21,555 No identity. An unknown soldier. 823 00:58:21,664 --> 00:58:22,722 Unknown? 824 00:58:22,832 --> 00:58:24,322 We knew them all a little. 825 00:58:24,434 --> 00:58:29,167 Our records indicate three unidentified bodies here. 826 00:58:35,545 --> 00:58:37,570 Yes, an American... 827 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,375 An American... I don't care... 828 00:58:39,482 --> 00:58:42,940 They were two - burned in their plane. 829 00:58:48,091 --> 00:58:50,457 You haven't an idea...where? 830 00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,619 It was during the harvest. 831 00:58:52,729 --> 00:58:53,753 I see... 832 00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:59,661 He's a prisoner?... 833 00:58:59,769 --> 00:59:01,361 Not any more. 834 00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:03,405 He's happy here... 835 00:59:03,506 --> 00:59:05,804 Who are they? 836 00:59:05,909 --> 00:59:08,377 Orientals. 837 00:59:08,478 --> 00:59:10,207 Very nice. 838 00:59:10,313 --> 00:59:12,213 Especially the little one... 839 00:59:12,382 --> 00:59:14,145 It's the nephew's. 840 00:59:14,284 --> 00:59:17,151 Sure it's my boy's goblet. 841 00:59:17,253 --> 00:59:22,350 He wrote me "Since it's calm, I've engraved a daisy on the bottom of my mug." 842 00:59:22,458 --> 00:59:24,551 - Regiment? - 2nd Infantry. 843 00:59:24,661 --> 00:59:25,593 2nd infantry. 844 00:59:25,695 --> 00:59:27,560 Got a few of those inside... 845 00:59:27,730 --> 00:59:31,029 Lebégue, Lebégue... 846 00:59:35,438 --> 00:59:37,998 no Lebégue... 847 00:59:38,107 --> 00:59:39,404 I have a no-name. 848 00:59:39,509 --> 00:59:42,706 A no-name, that could be him. 849 00:59:42,812 --> 00:59:49,809 You see, his fiancée, well, the girl he dated at home, her name was Daisy. 850 00:59:49,919 --> 00:59:52,786 Probably that's why he drew a daisy! 851 00:59:52,889 --> 00:59:56,381 I'll buy that. 852 00:59:56,492 --> 00:59:58,392 Red label. You're in luck. 853 00:59:59,462 --> 01:00:02,022 That means it was found on the remains. 854 01:00:02,131 --> 01:00:03,098 Remains? 855 01:00:03,199 --> 01:00:04,131 A body. 856 01:00:04,233 --> 01:00:05,996 Or what's left. 857 01:00:06,469 --> 01:00:08,630 You're going to show us? 858 01:00:08,738 --> 01:00:10,365 I have to - identification! 859 01:00:10,473 --> 01:00:13,408 Don't worry. They were preserved in clay. 860 01:00:13,509 --> 01:00:15,340 Fresh as bottles in a wine-cellar! 861 01:00:15,445 --> 01:00:22,044 But we keep 'em inside 'cause out in the air, the sun -- Lefébvre! 862 01:00:27,056 --> 01:00:28,421 No salute? 863 01:00:28,524 --> 01:00:31,891 Take these folks to visit n°14. 864 01:00:33,429 --> 01:00:36,364 - But, the girl-- - No, not the girl! 865 01:01:06,496 --> 01:01:12,230 I told him, I told the nephew, don't join up. 866 01:01:12,335 --> 01:01:13,825 They don't ask your opinion. 867 01:01:13,936 --> 01:01:15,563 I know. 868 01:01:16,939 --> 01:01:21,137 I served 16 months, and then - ciao! 869 01:01:21,611 --> 01:01:23,943 - Ciao? - Yep. Ciao! 870 01:01:27,850 --> 01:01:29,977 Surprised, eh? 871 01:01:44,734 --> 01:01:46,395 What's that? 872 01:01:46,502 --> 01:01:48,766 - Tunnel's not too solid. - Really? 873 01:01:48,871 --> 01:01:52,034 - Maybe we'd better not-- - No, it's over there that-- 874 01:01:52,141 --> 01:01:54,473 Let's hurry then. 875 01:01:55,011 --> 01:01:56,376 N° 14 876 01:02:05,254 --> 01:02:06,744 My God! 877 01:02:06,856 --> 01:02:09,120 How thin he is! 878 01:02:09,225 --> 01:02:10,886 - It's him? - Yes. 879 01:02:12,295 --> 01:02:15,230 God, the beard changes him! 880 01:02:15,331 --> 01:02:17,060 Hair and nails keep growing. 881 01:02:17,166 --> 01:02:19,225 Yep, so they say. 882 01:02:19,335 --> 01:02:22,065 Why isn't he in his uniform? 883 01:02:22,171 --> 01:02:24,162 Ambulance car... 884 01:02:24,273 --> 01:02:27,106 He must've been resting. 885 01:02:28,644 --> 01:02:32,808 - I'm gonna faint-- - Come on, kid. 886 01:02:32,949 --> 01:02:34,678 Demarchy! 887 01:02:35,651 --> 01:02:36,811 No Demarchy? 888 01:02:36,953 --> 01:02:39,012 Should we change the water? 889 01:02:42,325 --> 01:02:46,318 Charles, my fiancé, was a bit like that corporal. 890 01:02:46,429 --> 01:02:48,090 Impressive. 891 01:02:48,197 --> 01:02:51,189 It's his bearing - so straight. 892 01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:53,894 I was a pharmacist. 893 01:02:54,003 --> 01:02:56,597 I mean, I worked in my parent's shop. 894 01:02:56,706 --> 01:02:58,640 Let's empty that. 895 01:03:04,213 --> 01:03:06,511 We'll fill it at the spring. 896 01:03:09,285 --> 01:03:10,650 A Mark... 897 01:03:10,753 --> 01:03:12,380 There were Germans aboard? 898 01:03:12,488 --> 01:03:14,012 Not for certain. 899 01:03:16,659 --> 01:03:18,991 - Be our guests? - What's the menu? 900 01:03:19,095 --> 01:03:21,996 Either mutton & beans or beans & mutton. 901 01:03:22,098 --> 01:03:23,395 You never eat? 902 01:03:23,499 --> 01:03:25,933 I'll find an apple or something. 903 01:03:26,035 --> 01:03:27,400 Gotta eat hot! 904 01:03:27,503 --> 01:03:29,630 No one's watching you, you know. 905 01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,471 Wait, let me! 906 01:03:32,575 --> 01:03:34,338 Help the lady. I'm used to it. 907 01:03:41,450 --> 01:03:43,213 Hey, what's going on? 908 01:03:45,421 --> 01:03:48,618 He's good-hearted, it upset him to show us the kid. 909 01:03:49,125 --> 01:03:51,286 Grub's up! 910 01:03:54,463 --> 01:03:56,488 Beans as usual! 911 01:04:07,944 --> 01:04:10,105 You didn't do Africa, Trévise? 912 01:04:10,213 --> 01:04:17,119 Here and there, you see herds grazing in the new grass, among the baboons. 913 01:04:17,220 --> 01:04:19,245 Nothing really beautiful. 914 01:04:19,355 --> 01:04:20,947 And suddenly... 915 01:04:21,057 --> 01:04:22,820 an antelope... 916 01:04:22,925 --> 01:04:24,324 lost... 917 01:04:24,427 --> 01:04:26,691 majestic! 918 01:04:28,331 --> 01:04:30,629 All antelopes are beautiful. 919 01:04:33,502 --> 01:04:35,094 You know why? 920 01:04:35,204 --> 01:04:37,468 Because they're scared. 921 01:04:37,573 --> 01:04:40,633 Their eyes are black and they're scared. 922 01:04:40,743 --> 01:04:45,510 They're right to be; the world is full of jaws! 923 01:04:48,517 --> 01:04:51,884 - Transport of the body is free. - Nothing to pay? 924 01:04:51,988 --> 01:04:52,977 Nothing. 925 01:04:53,089 --> 01:04:55,887 July 31st Law of Finance. 926 01:04:55,992 --> 01:04:58,358 And what must be done? 927 01:04:58,461 --> 01:05:00,326 I can take care of everything. 928 01:05:00,429 --> 01:05:04,923 For a modest sum, I open a file and handle all formalities... 929 01:05:05,268 --> 01:05:06,735 What do you think? 930 01:05:06,836 --> 01:05:08,804 We'll bring him home ourselves! 931 01:05:12,174 --> 01:05:14,642 Is it better than at Valentine's? 932 01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:16,268 We'll soon see. 933 01:05:18,948 --> 01:05:21,246 How's it going inside there? 934 01:05:21,350 --> 01:05:24,410 There's a lot trickling down, but it's OK. 935 01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,044 Water? Infiltrations? 936 01:05:26,155 --> 01:05:28,248 Earth too. Sometimes a lot. 937 01:05:28,357 --> 01:05:30,825 I'll check it out. 938 01:05:34,463 --> 01:05:36,727 She won't come to my studio at Warin. 939 01:05:36,832 --> 01:05:38,424 I didn't say that! 940 01:05:38,534 --> 01:05:42,026 I won't go to any studio to pose for you! 941 01:05:42,138 --> 01:05:43,264 That's what I said. 942 01:05:43,372 --> 01:05:46,637 Such beautiful shoulders... 943 01:05:47,877 --> 01:05:53,008 In my desk, right-hand drawer, bring me my cup, plate, silverware. 944 01:05:53,115 --> 01:05:57,677 Think of all the boys who gave a piece of flesh to the Republic 945 01:05:57,787 --> 01:06:02,224 and you won't lend your young chest for just a two-hour session? 946 01:06:02,325 --> 01:06:04,589 Stop such talk! 947 01:06:04,694 --> 01:06:05,683 I'll pay you 100 sous. 948 01:06:05,828 --> 01:06:07,193 - Keep it! - Per tit! 949 01:06:11,634 --> 01:06:13,898 Chow's nearly all gone. 950 01:06:16,072 --> 01:06:18,666 Give me a piece that's lean. 951 01:06:27,316 --> 01:06:29,648 For the lady, over there. 952 01:06:40,596 --> 01:06:42,461 From the Major. 953 01:06:45,668 --> 01:06:48,398 A soldier is like a sack. 954 01:06:48,504 --> 01:06:50,995 When it's full, it stays up. 955 01:06:51,140 --> 01:06:53,700 When it's empty, it collapses. 956 01:06:54,777 --> 01:06:57,109 An empty sack flops! 957 01:06:57,213 --> 01:06:59,010 A soldier with an empty stomach flops! 958 01:07:00,649 --> 01:07:04,244 Thus the expression "Nothing in his guts". 959 01:07:09,258 --> 01:07:11,556 You can tell it's men's stew. 960 01:07:11,660 --> 01:07:13,651 I always put garlic and thyme in the mutton. 961 01:07:13,763 --> 01:07:14,787 Not you ? 962 01:07:49,598 --> 01:07:50,826 Major! 963 01:07:51,634 --> 01:07:53,864 Please come to the tunnel... 964 01:07:53,969 --> 01:07:55,766 Monsieur Fagot! 965 01:07:55,871 --> 01:07:58,066 Come with me, please! 966 01:07:59,642 --> 01:08:08,744 O Woman, when upon your shoulders Your hair loosely falls, 967 01:08:08,851 --> 01:08:15,950 Let me play the comb's role, and with My fingertips unrave! 968 01:08:16,058 --> 01:08:21,052 The intricacies of silk. 969 01:08:21,163 --> 01:08:22,721 Look at that! 970 01:08:22,832 --> 01:08:23,856 It's the Major's. 971 01:08:23,966 --> 01:08:27,766 He has the same cup at the canteen, engraved with "D". 972 01:08:27,870 --> 01:08:30,998 His family is mostly wealthy doctors. 973 01:08:32,374 --> 01:08:34,001 Two of his nephews were killed. 974 01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:36,738 One in a submarine, the other at Chemin des Dames. 975 01:08:36,846 --> 01:08:38,507 His wife's nephews. 976 01:08:41,717 --> 01:08:43,617 There's a name here. 977 01:08:44,420 --> 01:08:48,015 ..."Caussade". 978 01:08:50,826 --> 01:08:51,884 Caussade? 979 01:08:56,966 --> 01:09:01,096 Women, women, 980 01:09:01,203 --> 01:09:05,230 How to suppress 981 01:09:05,341 --> 01:09:10,608 All that our love desires... 982 01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:13,581 This convoy carried everything - 983 01:09:13,682 --> 01:09:19,484 troops, ambulance cars, artillery wagons, detonators, fuses... 984 01:09:19,588 --> 01:09:21,249 even gas! 985 01:09:21,357 --> 01:09:24,485 It seems the convoy started from Vézillé. 986 01:09:24,593 --> 01:09:26,356 The Yanks were on the attack. 987 01:09:26,462 --> 01:09:31,195 They hitched their wagons to an artillery convoy. 988 01:09:31,300 --> 01:09:33,860 We added our ambulance cars - and off it went! 989 01:09:33,969 --> 01:09:38,133 Unfortunately, the Jerries had mined the tunnel. 990 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,606 Why aren't the bodies in coffins? 991 01:09:40,709 --> 01:09:42,176 It was lunchtime. 992 01:09:42,278 --> 01:09:44,246 Here's where it gets worse. 993 01:09:44,346 --> 01:09:46,405 But I told you to buttress it. 994 01:09:46,515 --> 01:09:47,743 The wood, Major. 995 01:09:47,850 --> 01:09:48,839 The wood? 996 01:09:48,951 --> 01:09:52,387 It was sold to a contractor who paid double. 997 01:09:52,488 --> 01:09:53,978 Christ! 998 01:09:54,089 --> 01:09:56,319 Smells of ether, no? 999 01:09:56,425 --> 01:09:59,826 An ambulance car was damaged and containers broke. 1000 01:09:59,929 --> 01:10:02,625 I want that wood-merchant's name... 1001 01:10:02,731 --> 01:10:06,531 If the roofs resisted, we should be able to assess the damage... 1002 01:10:30,859 --> 01:10:35,455 - Give the alarm! - Two men with me! 1003 01:10:55,184 --> 01:10:57,243 No one into the tunnel! 1004 01:11:20,609 --> 01:11:22,702 Were you alone? The railroad guy... 1005 01:11:23,679 --> 01:11:25,442 Help the Major! 1006 01:11:25,547 --> 01:11:27,139 Bring a stretcher! 1007 01:11:27,249 --> 01:11:28,079 Easy now... 1008 01:11:28,217 --> 01:11:31,277 Easy does it, careful... 1009 01:11:31,387 --> 01:11:33,878 Put him on the stretcher. 1010 01:11:36,125 --> 01:11:40,323 Two men with gas masks, go fetch the lunatic in there! 1011 01:11:40,429 --> 01:11:42,294 Put him on the stretcher! 1012 01:11:42,398 --> 01:11:44,423 Not you, not now! 1013 01:11:44,533 --> 01:11:46,592 I was a stretcher-bearer, Sir. 1014 01:11:46,702 --> 01:11:48,067 All right. 1015 01:11:48,170 --> 01:11:54,109 First-aid kit, iodine, lint, and all the rest. 1016 01:11:54,943 --> 01:11:59,346 Breathe in, softly, breathe deeply... 1017 01:12:09,124 --> 01:12:11,422 Can't see a thing! 1018 01:12:11,527 --> 01:12:13,552 What a mess! 1019 01:12:19,168 --> 01:12:22,035 The North is that way? 1020 01:12:23,806 --> 01:12:24,830 What? 1021 01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:27,070 North. 1022 01:12:33,816 --> 01:12:35,443 No, no, North. 1023 01:12:36,151 --> 01:12:38,483 I don't understand a thing... 1024 01:12:38,587 --> 01:12:40,248 Tell me... 1025 01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:42,551 we, um, we... 1026 01:12:43,692 --> 01:12:45,489 South, south-west! 1027 01:12:45,594 --> 01:12:49,553 Whenever there's a fog, it's my turn. 1028 01:12:53,102 --> 01:12:56,401 Send a group to recover the bodies. 1029 01:12:56,505 --> 01:12:59,372 And have them wear their gas masks! 1030 01:12:59,475 --> 01:13:00,601 And the civilians? 1031 01:13:00,709 --> 01:13:02,973 Let them go home! 1032 01:13:03,078 --> 01:13:04,943 Pains in the asses! 1033 01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:06,947 We shut the site, and that's that! 1034 01:13:08,684 --> 01:13:15,647 Or rather, tell them we'll consolidate tonight and see about the rest tomorrow. 1035 01:13:18,427 --> 01:13:20,258 Ladies and gentlemen. 1036 01:13:23,132 --> 01:13:24,360 Your attention. 1037 01:13:25,667 --> 01:13:30,161 An accident has forced us to temporarily shut the site. 1038 01:13:30,272 --> 01:13:34,174 The Engineers Corps will advise us tomorrow-- 1039 01:13:34,276 --> 01:13:35,709 But tomorrow we work! 1040 01:13:35,811 --> 01:13:36,835 And my boy! 1041 01:13:36,945 --> 01:13:38,879 We're not going to leave him in this hole? 1042 01:13:38,981 --> 01:13:41,950 Pierre Lebégue, n° 14. 1043 01:13:42,050 --> 01:13:47,386 Now I remember - I recognize his watch. 1044 01:13:47,489 --> 01:13:48,456 You don't know... 1045 01:13:48,557 --> 01:13:49,854 Yes, I do! 1046 01:13:49,958 --> 01:13:54,418 Leon Couvert, born July 8, 1896 in Heudreville. 1047 01:13:54,530 --> 01:13:56,327 Write it down... 1048 01:13:56,432 --> 01:14:00,300 Those who wish to depart can take the train. 1049 01:14:00,402 --> 01:14:07,604 Otherwise, you'll find a temporary hotel two miles up the rail-line, at the Warin factory. 1050 01:14:08,911 --> 01:14:11,402 How'll I get to work? 1051 01:14:11,513 --> 01:14:13,105 I'm sorry - but you understand! 1052 01:14:13,215 --> 01:14:16,616 - What'll I do? - I'll take you if I find a bike. 1053 01:14:16,718 --> 01:14:18,913 Are there private rooms at the hotel? 1054 01:14:21,156 --> 01:14:22,748 At these rates, wine is extra. 1055 01:14:22,858 --> 01:14:24,189 What's made here? 1056 01:14:24,293 --> 01:14:26,625 Ironwork, machine tools. 1057 01:14:26,728 --> 01:14:29,219 Right! Warin's an old family from here. 1058 01:14:29,331 --> 01:14:33,233 Before the war, part was sold to Shukert & De Courtil. 1059 01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:34,663 You didn't know? 1060 01:14:34,770 --> 01:14:38,797 The De Courtils never talk shop with the women. 1061 01:14:39,741 --> 01:14:42,608 Hardly grand luxe, eh? 1062 01:14:42,711 --> 01:14:45,612 We had the best hotel for ten miles around. 1063 01:14:45,714 --> 01:14:49,707 It'll be rebuilt, but meanwhile, we make do. 1064 01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:51,410 The lavatories are brand new. 1065 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:55,320 It's big - but women and men will have to share. 1066 01:14:55,424 --> 01:14:56,857 The lady's quarters. 1067 01:15:07,870 --> 01:15:10,065 That's the generator that... 1068 01:15:10,172 --> 01:15:13,141 Everything you need is in the night-table. 1069 01:15:13,242 --> 01:15:15,540 I'll see to the stoves. 1070 01:15:21,416 --> 01:15:23,976 It's far from comfortable, but... 1071 01:15:24,086 --> 01:15:25,348 for a few hours... 1072 01:15:25,454 --> 01:15:26,921 I know. Thank you. 1073 01:15:27,890 --> 01:15:33,795 I have to telephone, but afterwards, care to join a man who detests dining alone? 1074 01:15:35,731 --> 01:15:37,596 I understand... 1075 01:15:37,699 --> 01:15:39,326 you're tired... 1076 01:15:55,717 --> 01:15:57,150 May I help. 1077 01:15:59,888 --> 01:16:01,753 You're sweet. I'll manage. 1078 01:16:02,791 --> 01:16:04,122 You have two beds? 1079 01:16:09,598 --> 01:16:14,331 The parish priest will hold mass at 9 a.m. 1080 01:16:14,436 --> 01:16:15,596 Thank you. 1081 01:16:15,704 --> 01:16:17,638 Where is the telephone? 1082 01:16:17,739 --> 01:16:18,706 The what? 1083 01:16:18,807 --> 01:16:20,240 Never mind. 1084 01:16:20,509 --> 01:16:24,275 Charpin, yes, Major Charpin, Engineers Corps. 1085 01:16:27,849 --> 01:16:29,009 I'll wait for the call, yes. 1086 01:16:32,154 --> 01:16:35,885 - I'll pay for the wine - Please, let us. 1087 01:16:35,991 --> 01:16:37,117 Next time then. 1088 01:16:37,225 --> 01:16:38,817 I'm the one who sings. 1089 01:16:38,927 --> 01:16:40,189 But we play. 1090 01:16:40,295 --> 01:16:41,956 And / sing. 1091 01:16:42,064 --> 01:16:43,998 I'm two notes over. 1092 01:16:48,403 --> 01:16:49,461 May I telephone? 1093 01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:05,814 Then go find him. 1094 01:17:05,921 --> 01:17:08,389 Your five minutes were up ten minutes ago. 1095 01:17:08,490 --> 01:17:11,550 I didn't ask for Marshal Foch, only a simple Engineers officer! 1096 01:17:11,660 --> 01:17:14,220 So find him! 1097 01:17:15,263 --> 01:17:16,161 May I try? 1098 01:17:16,264 --> 01:17:17,561 It'll be short. 1099 01:17:17,666 --> 01:17:19,065 You see... I'm waiting... 1100 01:17:19,167 --> 01:17:21,601 Excuse me, please go ahead. 1101 01:17:27,843 --> 01:17:30,437 Forty-seven in Mescil. 1102 01:17:31,146 --> 01:17:33,273 Very well. 1103 01:17:33,382 --> 01:17:34,644 Article 106. 1104 01:17:34,750 --> 01:17:40,950 July 31 Finance Law: the bodies will be transferred as of December 1, 1920-- 1105 01:17:41,056 --> 01:17:42,080 in just a month. 1106 01:17:42,190 --> 01:17:43,452 And until then? 1107 01:17:43,558 --> 01:17:45,924 I handle everything. 1108 01:17:46,028 --> 01:17:50,965 As soon as I've opened a file, I handle everything. 1109 01:17:59,574 --> 01:18:01,542 Mr. Mercadot's studio, please? 1110 01:18:01,643 --> 01:18:03,736 You refused to set foot in there. 1111 01:18:03,845 --> 01:18:06,609 He's going to work on the sculpture. 1112 01:18:06,715 --> 01:18:08,478 That way, to your right. 1113 01:18:10,719 --> 01:18:13,051 I'm at the Warin factory... 1114 01:18:13,155 --> 01:18:14,952 That's right. 1115 01:18:15,057 --> 01:18:16,524 By sheer coincidence... 1116 01:18:18,226 --> 01:18:20,160 I don't know yet. 1117 01:18:20,262 --> 01:18:22,560 As soon as possible... 1118 01:18:24,499 --> 01:18:28,595 Believe me, Pony, this situation is difficult for me too! 1119 01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:32,970 I want an end to this uncertainty, this ambiguity... 1120 01:18:33,875 --> 01:18:35,672 Pony, you know how I feel... 1121 01:18:37,312 --> 01:18:39,439 Priority! 1122 01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:41,743 I'm awaiting a call. 1123 01:18:41,850 --> 01:18:43,681 I have priority on the line. 1124 01:18:43,785 --> 01:18:45,548 You're mad! 1125 01:18:45,654 --> 01:18:47,884 Completely mad! 1126 01:18:47,989 --> 01:18:50,423 Military requisition, Madam! 1127 01:19:06,174 --> 01:19:07,801 Excuse me? 1128 01:19:09,211 --> 01:19:11,372 I don't know what woman you mean. 1129 01:19:12,614 --> 01:19:14,138 Put him on! 1130 01:19:14,249 --> 01:19:16,945 Charpin? It's none too soon. 1131 01:19:17,052 --> 01:19:22,183 Listen here. I need... heavy material for tomorrow morning, 1132 01:19:22,290 --> 01:19:23,780 or maybe for tonight. 1133 01:19:24,826 --> 01:19:27,795 Ask the Americans, they've got men in there! 1134 01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:33,428 Stop it... 1135 01:19:34,469 --> 01:19:36,801 Let's just talk... 1136 01:19:37,873 --> 01:19:39,534 I'm talking to you. 1137 01:19:42,844 --> 01:19:44,778 I don't want to... 1138 01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,677 I'm not free, I told you. 1139 01:19:49,718 --> 01:19:51,083 Then why kiss me? 1140 01:19:51,186 --> 01:19:53,711 It was you who... No, stop... 1141 01:19:53,822 --> 01:19:55,983 I swear I'll scream! 1142 01:19:56,091 --> 01:19:57,581 You're hurting me! 1143 01:19:59,094 --> 01:20:00,220 Get out! 1144 01:20:00,328 --> 01:20:02,694 Go find your stiff. 1145 01:20:02,798 --> 01:20:03,958 You should be ashamed! 1146 01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:06,160 No! 1147 01:20:06,268 --> 01:20:09,931 I saw thousands like him, thousands and thousands! 1148 01:20:10,038 --> 01:20:13,166 They can go to hell, because /I'm here! 1149 01:20:38,567 --> 01:20:39,932 May I come in? 1150 01:20:40,869 --> 01:20:43,133 Please, may I come in? 1151 01:20:52,814 --> 01:20:54,543 What's the matter? 1152 01:20:58,220 --> 01:21:00,950 Should we share this room? 1153 01:21:01,156 --> 01:21:02,851 I was going to ask you. 1154 01:21:34,656 --> 01:21:38,524 When the moon is full, autumn nights are like summer nights. 1155 01:21:39,427 --> 01:21:41,224 Sleepless... 1156 01:21:42,264 --> 01:21:44,232 Have a swig. 1157 01:21:47,569 --> 01:21:49,366 It's the mating season. 1158 01:21:50,338 --> 01:21:52,067 Great post-war copulation. 1159 01:21:53,174 --> 01:21:56,200 The stags are in rut. 1160 01:21:58,546 --> 01:21:59,979 The little soldier too. 1161 01:22:01,116 --> 01:22:02,981 Thought he was alone with Alice. 1162 01:22:03,084 --> 01:22:04,813 Tried, but-- 1163 01:22:06,021 --> 01:22:08,956 The feeling dampens the fire! 1164 01:22:10,025 --> 01:22:14,621 The idiot asked her permission. 1165 01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,065 And your affairs, Major? 1166 01:22:22,304 --> 01:22:23,965 My affairs? 1167 01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:26,669 Now, now, my friend! 1168 01:22:27,575 --> 01:22:30,305 My job's sniffing things out. 1169 01:22:30,845 --> 01:22:32,176 I have good eyes. 1170 01:22:32,580 --> 01:22:34,343 Work tools! 1171 01:22:34,950 --> 01:22:40,081 Eyes that watch other eyes, glances that meet on a tightrope! 1172 01:22:42,557 --> 01:22:45,617 That's how Love travels, pal. 1173 01:22:46,928 --> 01:22:48,953 Those with eyes can see it. 1174 01:22:49,931 --> 01:22:52,058 Without a balancing pole... 1175 01:22:53,368 --> 01:22:59,000 Between art and art-lovers, dogs and masters, men and women... 1176 01:23:00,775 --> 01:23:02,402 between you and her. 1177 01:23:03,545 --> 01:23:06,605 And even the other way around. 1178 01:23:07,649 --> 01:23:11,346 At my age... it's not possible. 1179 01:23:12,153 --> 01:23:13,381 In mere hours. 1180 01:23:13,755 --> 01:23:15,723 "When the full moon looms..." 1181 01:23:16,091 --> 01:23:18,457 "the earth's in a swoon." 1182 01:23:18,727 --> 01:23:20,160 I'm an ass. 1183 01:23:21,162 --> 01:23:23,494 The telephone is an invention-- 1184 01:23:26,401 --> 01:23:29,029 I couldn't bear her talking. 1185 01:23:31,206 --> 01:23:33,640 "Yes, Pony, of course, Pony." 1186 01:23:35,143 --> 01:23:37,111 I thought I'd die. 1187 01:23:37,579 --> 01:23:39,547 You like that kind of woman. 1188 01:23:41,349 --> 01:23:44,284 Feelings afterwards. 1189 01:23:44,886 --> 01:23:47,218 The act first, then the analysis. 1190 01:23:48,256 --> 01:23:49,223 The act! 1191 01:23:49,391 --> 01:23:50,358 Bang! 1192 01:23:52,193 --> 01:23:54,354 You're just a footslogger. 1193 01:23:55,030 --> 01:23:57,430 When you catch your breath... 1194 01:23:57,899 --> 01:24:01,130 maybe resort to manners... 1195 01:24:01,836 --> 01:24:03,303 maybe! 1196 01:24:04,272 --> 01:24:07,036 You're a hopeless case. Hopeless. 1197 01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:21,421 I don't have a single one of his letters. 1198 01:24:22,757 --> 01:24:26,193 My parents burned some; the rest were stolen. 1199 01:24:26,861 --> 01:24:28,829 Can you imagine? Stolen! 1200 01:24:29,197 --> 01:24:30,858 Perhaps a rival. 1201 01:24:31,766 --> 01:24:37,705 I recopied lines I could remember, the prettiest-- real poems. 1202 01:24:39,507 --> 01:24:41,475 Did yours write you? 1203 01:24:41,943 --> 01:24:43,604 At the beginning. 1204 01:24:49,484 --> 01:24:51,418 Will you go to Mass? 1205 01:24:52,620 --> 01:24:53,518 Why? 1206 01:24:53,955 --> 01:24:55,320 Just because. 1207 01:24:58,893 --> 01:25:00,793 I don't think so, no. 1208 01:25:02,263 --> 01:25:03,890 You're against it? 1209 01:25:05,066 --> 01:25:07,296 You're against God? 1210 01:25:09,571 --> 01:25:11,664 I should be. 1211 01:25:13,241 --> 01:25:15,232 All humans should be. 1212 01:25:16,144 --> 01:25:17,702 You're right. 1213 01:25:17,812 --> 01:25:19,404 Especially women. 1214 01:25:19,814 --> 01:25:21,611 Only we don't dare. 1215 01:25:42,971 --> 01:25:45,269 Try to understand, by God. 1216 01:25:45,373 --> 01:25:48,831 Try to understand! 1217 01:25:48,943 --> 01:25:52,538 What I'm touching there... 1218 01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:54,877 it's not the dead man, it's wood. 1219 01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:59,079 It's not bones, it's the coffin. 1220 01:25:59,187 --> 01:26:01,678 The two of us can't lift this alone. 1221 01:26:01,789 --> 01:26:08,456 Your religion forbids you to touch the dead, OK, but this is wood - like your shovel handles! 1222 01:26:08,563 --> 01:26:10,793 Wood touch dead man is dead man. 1223 01:26:10,899 --> 01:26:12,662 Shit! 1224 01:26:13,701 --> 01:26:15,464 Shit! 1225 01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:19,200 I've had it. 1226 01:26:19,307 --> 01:26:24,404 It might even be the right one, for all I know. 1227 01:26:24,512 --> 01:26:27,447 We need a strong rope. 1228 01:26:27,549 --> 01:26:29,073 A rope. 1229 01:26:30,685 --> 01:26:32,209 I dunno. 1230 01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:33,582 Will a rope do? 1231 01:26:37,358 --> 01:26:38,757 I'll go see. 1232 01:26:38,927 --> 01:26:44,194 You pull rope, you eat rice. 1233 01:26:44,299 --> 01:26:46,267 You eat rice. 1234 01:27:29,377 --> 01:27:32,835 Could you please make less noise? 1235 01:27:34,215 --> 01:27:36,843 The Lord forbids work on Sunday. 1236 01:27:36,951 --> 01:27:37,883 You're working. 1237 01:27:38,820 --> 01:27:40,549 It's my day! 1238 01:27:40,655 --> 01:27:43,249 Us, it's every day. 1239 01:27:44,125 --> 01:27:52,760 Today let us thank the Lord for the restoration of diplomatic relations between our country, 1240 01:27:52,867 --> 01:27:57,998 elder daughter of the Church, - errant daughter! 1241 01:27:58,106 --> 01:27:59,300 - And the Vatican. 1242 01:28:08,883 --> 01:28:10,851 Cabbage. And veal kernel? 1243 01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:13,011 I got what I could. 1244 01:28:13,121 --> 01:28:14,520 Anyway, it's veal. 1245 01:28:14,622 --> 01:28:16,590 Where'd she come from? 1246 01:28:16,691 --> 01:28:17,988 She was at Mass. 1247 01:28:18,092 --> 01:28:20,720 There was boar for sale. But I didn't dare. 1248 01:28:20,828 --> 01:28:22,261 Depends on the price. 1249 01:28:22,363 --> 01:28:25,127 You're plucky to walk so far. 1250 01:28:25,233 --> 01:28:26,700 I like to walk. 1251 01:28:26,801 --> 01:28:28,291 Have you made up my bill? 1252 01:28:28,403 --> 01:28:29,392 No indeed. 1253 01:28:29,504 --> 01:28:31,267 It's already paid. 1254 01:28:31,372 --> 01:28:33,431 The Major. That's what he said. 1255 01:28:33,541 --> 01:28:35,475 Impossible! Where is he? 1256 01:28:35,576 --> 01:28:37,134 My dear, you don't know? 1257 01:28:37,245 --> 01:28:38,507 At two a.m., 1258 01:28:38,613 --> 01:28:41,081 all hell broke loose in the tunnel. 1259 01:28:46,587 --> 01:28:50,353 It's forbidden to go past. 1260 01:29:45,613 --> 01:29:47,774 We've done all we could. 1261 01:29:47,882 --> 01:29:54,788 I'll send my compliments to your superiors requesting special leave. 1262 01:29:54,889 --> 01:29:56,117 Thank you. 1263 01:29:56,224 --> 01:29:59,125 Assemble your men. 1264 01:29:59,227 --> 01:30:00,888 Return to quarters. 1265 01:30:19,614 --> 01:30:21,673 We did all we could. 1266 01:30:21,783 --> 01:30:23,683 Your night must have been... 1267 01:30:23,785 --> 01:30:24,649 dreadful. 1268 01:30:25,686 --> 01:30:27,916 Pretty dreadful, yes. 1269 01:30:30,792 --> 01:30:33,260 For all sorts of reasons. 1270 01:30:33,361 --> 01:30:38,094 It'll take weeks to clear - clear what? 1271 01:30:38,199 --> 01:30:40,997 Mud and ashes... 1272 01:30:42,603 --> 01:30:44,161 You're hurt? 1273 01:30:56,451 --> 01:30:58,476 Thank you. 1274 01:31:02,323 --> 01:31:04,382 It's as if the war was still on. 1275 01:31:06,194 --> 01:31:08,594 You saw the war from afar. 1276 01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:12,163 War is worse... 1277 01:31:16,137 --> 01:31:17,900 so much worse. 1278 01:31:18,005 --> 01:31:22,999 Acres and acres covered with rotting cadavers, no trees, 1279 01:31:23,110 --> 01:31:26,477 fly-covered heads sticking out of water-holes... 1280 01:31:26,581 --> 01:31:27,878 It stinks! 1281 01:31:27,982 --> 01:31:29,540 - Swarming with rats. - Shut up! 1282 01:31:29,650 --> 01:31:32,016 We do nothing but shut up! 1283 01:31:32,119 --> 01:31:34,747 Who'd listen to us anyway? 1284 01:31:34,856 --> 01:31:36,483 Who'd print it? 1285 01:31:36,591 --> 01:31:39,992 The newspapers want only lies and official idiocy. 1286 01:31:40,094 --> 01:31:45,361 "The war's devastating allure only appears to be destructive.” 1287 01:31:45,466 --> 01:31:47,195 I read that! 1288 01:31:47,301 --> 01:31:49,531 Signed: General Cherfils. 1289 01:31:49,637 --> 01:31:53,869 1,500,000 deaths only appear fo be dead! 1290 01:31:53,975 --> 01:31:55,465 Bastards! 1291 01:31:56,677 --> 01:31:58,770 Bastards! 1292 01:32:02,016 --> 01:32:04,075 Who is Pony? 1293 01:32:05,586 --> 01:32:07,850 I said, who is Pony? 1294 01:32:07,955 --> 01:32:11,186 - It must be your fatigue. - No reply? 1295 01:32:11,292 --> 01:32:14,989 I'm the one with the questions. That's why I came. 1296 01:32:15,429 --> 01:32:16,987 By what right--? 1297 01:32:17,098 --> 01:32:19,726 Your behavior last night... 1298 01:32:19,834 --> 01:32:21,426 of a ruffian! 1299 01:32:21,536 --> 01:32:24,562 No, no, that term is old-fashioned. 1300 01:32:24,672 --> 01:32:28,233 - Last night I eavesdropped-- - Shame on you! 1301 01:32:28,342 --> 01:32:30,139 Your behavior is odious! 1302 01:32:30,244 --> 01:32:32,439 I'm ashamed, but I heard you... 1303 01:32:32,547 --> 01:32:35,107 So who is he? 1304 01:32:35,216 --> 01:32:36,683 My father-in-law. 1305 01:32:36,784 --> 01:32:38,376 I don't believe you. 1306 01:32:38,486 --> 01:32:42,013 He's always been called that in the family. 1307 01:32:42,123 --> 01:32:44,591 And like it or not, I'm part of that family. 1308 01:32:44,692 --> 01:32:46,125 The Senator? 1309 01:32:46,227 --> 01:32:47,922 "Pony"? 1310 01:32:50,831 --> 01:32:52,423 Like a little pony? 1311 01:32:55,403 --> 01:32:58,133 Major, two men are missing. 1312 01:32:58,239 --> 01:33:00,867 - Are you sure? - I checked... 1313 01:33:00,975 --> 01:33:02,237 Wait here. I'll go. 1314 01:33:16,991 --> 01:33:17,980 Come on! 1315 01:33:18,092 --> 01:33:21,255 He inhaled a ton of gas. 1316 01:33:21,362 --> 01:33:23,023 Let's go... 1317 01:33:23,130 --> 01:33:24,927 walk... 1318 01:33:33,140 --> 01:33:38,168 Glass capsules inside the shells shatter and release the gas. 1319 01:33:38,279 --> 01:33:44,707 Until the last one releases its poison, we'll have this kind of... 1320 01:33:47,254 --> 01:33:49,051 I must be jealous! 1321 01:33:50,625 --> 01:33:51,956 Pardon? 1322 01:33:52,059 --> 01:33:54,220 You asked "By what right?" 1323 01:33:54,328 --> 01:33:56,421 It's obvious. 1324 01:33:56,530 --> 01:33:58,088 I must be jealous. 1325 01:34:00,067 --> 01:34:01,898 Your husband wasn't? 1326 01:34:02,003 --> 01:34:03,800 My husband? 1327 01:34:04,939 --> 01:34:07,237 It's so long ago. 1328 01:34:07,341 --> 01:34:11,505 I'm linked to him only by this pursuit... 1329 01:34:15,049 --> 01:34:17,882 I thought I found his signet-ring. 1330 01:34:17,985 --> 01:34:20,920 - Was it his? - No. 1331 01:34:21,022 --> 01:34:22,182 Anyway, rings... 1332 01:34:22,289 --> 01:34:23,881 We've found thousands... 1333 01:34:23,991 --> 01:34:26,084 His was special. 1334 01:34:26,193 --> 01:34:30,527 It was sawed in two after an accident and badly repaired. 1335 01:34:32,500 --> 01:34:35,697 He broke his hand cranking up a car. 1336 01:34:35,803 --> 01:34:37,930 I know, you already told me. 1337 01:34:38,039 --> 01:34:39,836 - Me? - Yesterday. 1338 01:34:39,940 --> 01:34:40,668 Really? 1339 01:34:40,775 --> 01:34:44,302 But I'd completely forgotten about it until now! 1340 01:34:45,279 --> 01:34:48,908 At the hospital in Decize! 1341 01:34:49,016 --> 01:34:50,540 That's right! 1342 01:34:50,651 --> 01:34:52,915 The factory had withdrawn nearby. 1343 01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:54,920 I told you all that? 1344 01:34:55,022 --> 01:34:57,388 I'm losing my mind... 1345 01:35:04,198 --> 01:35:06,063 These bottles weren't here. 1346 01:35:06,167 --> 01:35:09,728 Yes, they were. 1347 01:35:09,837 --> 01:35:14,171 The families left them behind. 1348 01:35:14,275 --> 01:35:15,469 Left them? 1349 01:35:15,576 --> 01:35:17,567 Yes. 1350 01:35:17,678 --> 01:35:19,168 Like bottles in the sea. 1351 01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:20,872 Each has a few words. 1352 01:35:20,981 --> 01:35:23,541 "If you find Col. E. Blanchot of the 112th.." 1353 01:35:23,651 --> 01:35:26,814 "...notify his family in Greenvale Wood..." 1354 01:35:26,921 --> 01:35:29,617 I use "Greenvale" because its colorful... 1355 01:35:30,725 --> 01:35:36,095 About your husband's accident-- Were you there? 1356 01:35:36,197 --> 01:35:38,688 No. He came to Paris on weekends. 1357 01:35:38,799 --> 01:35:42,200 Otherwise he ran the factory. Why? 1358 01:35:42,303 --> 01:35:43,668 Oh, never mind. 1359 01:35:43,771 --> 01:35:47,571 Sorry, my head's not clear either. 1360 01:35:52,713 --> 01:35:54,681 De Courtil's pantograph. 1361 01:35:56,617 --> 01:35:58,585 And the fiancé? 1362 01:35:58,686 --> 01:36:00,551 Alice's? 1363 01:36:00,654 --> 01:36:02,451 Want both? 1364 01:36:07,228 --> 01:36:09,958 Could be my imagination... 1365 01:36:10,064 --> 01:36:13,056 two descriptions by two women... 1366 01:36:13,167 --> 01:36:18,002 and the same details about a crank and a broken hand at Decize. 1367 01:36:18,105 --> 01:36:20,096 Yes, I heard Alice. 1368 01:36:20,207 --> 01:36:22,698 But which other woman? Mme de Courtil? 1369 01:36:22,810 --> 01:36:25,074 - Why the same man? - Why not. 1370 01:36:26,247 --> 01:36:28,010 Was his name Francgois? 1371 01:36:28,115 --> 01:36:29,377 Charles. 1372 01:36:29,483 --> 01:36:31,747 Charles Férou. 1373 01:36:31,852 --> 01:36:34,047 There's no connection. 1374 01:36:34,155 --> 01:36:35,588 The initials! 1375 01:36:35,689 --> 01:36:36,747 F.C. 1376 01:36:36,857 --> 01:36:38,188 CF. 1377 01:36:38,292 --> 01:36:39,884 The samel! 1378 01:36:39,994 --> 01:36:41,018 That proves nothing. 1379 01:36:41,128 --> 01:36:43,426 But both women are here. 1380 01:36:43,531 --> 01:36:46,762 That's no coincidence, but a consequence. 1381 01:36:46,867 --> 01:36:50,598 They came the same way -- for the same man! 1382 01:36:50,704 --> 01:36:53,002 Like two rivers meeting. 1383 01:36:55,709 --> 01:36:57,870 Keep this to yourself. 1384 01:36:59,480 --> 01:37:03,416 These days I'm stumbling against everything. 1385 01:37:07,755 --> 01:37:11,953 I have to leave my car for the gas victim. 1386 01:37:12,059 --> 01:37:13,822 We can wait for it. 1387 01:37:16,397 --> 01:37:18,729 Our last year together was empty. 1388 01:37:18,833 --> 01:37:23,634 He scorned his advantages and social position. 1389 01:37:23,737 --> 01:37:26,672 The war was an escape from his privileges. 1390 01:37:26,774 --> 01:37:28,969 I couldn't hold him back. 1391 01:37:30,411 --> 01:37:32,777 Maybe I didn't want to. 1392 01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:35,007 I'm beginning to see... 1393 01:37:35,115 --> 01:37:37,413 The hospitals! 1394 01:37:37,518 --> 01:37:39,110 The wild procedures! 1395 01:37:39,220 --> 01:37:40,517 The zeal! 1396 01:37:40,621 --> 01:37:41,952 Excessive? 1397 01:37:42,056 --> 01:37:44,991 In fact, yes. 1398 01:37:45,092 --> 01:37:51,497 Had [ really loved him, I'd have fought tooth and nail to stop him. 1399 01:37:51,599 --> 01:37:55,365 I'd have laid down before his train. 1400 01:37:55,469 --> 01:37:57,596 But I didn't. 1401 01:37:58,739 --> 01:38:00,434 Because I hoped... 1402 01:38:01,442 --> 01:38:04,240 he'd return different. 1403 01:38:04,345 --> 01:38:06,472 Closer... 1404 01:38:09,149 --> 01:38:11,014 I'm cold. 1405 01:38:12,586 --> 01:38:17,114 I can do this in a bigger model if you want. 1406 01:38:17,224 --> 01:38:18,816 The price? 1407 01:38:18,926 --> 01:38:22,259 Check the catalogue there. 1408 01:38:22,363 --> 01:38:25,491 We want shells in it too. 1409 01:38:25,599 --> 01:38:26,566 Four shells. 1410 01:38:26,667 --> 01:38:31,832 With marble and name plates. 1411 01:38:31,939 --> 01:38:36,842 In Brizelle, there's an obelisque with 36 names... 1412 01:38:36,944 --> 01:38:38,468 nine on each side. 1413 01:38:38,579 --> 01:38:45,382 But they forgot the Lambert boy and had to make a separate plate. 1414 01:38:45,486 --> 01:38:49,980 37 dead for 906 inhabitants. 1415 01:38:50,090 --> 01:38:51,284 Too much, almost? 1416 01:38:51,392 --> 01:38:53,121 A fair average. 1417 01:38:53,227 --> 01:38:55,525 10% of those called up. 1418 01:38:55,629 --> 01:38:56,857 How many for you? 1419 01:38:56,964 --> 01:38:58,829 That's precisely... 1420 01:38:58,933 --> 01:39:01,493 why we want to see this officer. 1421 01:39:01,602 --> 01:39:03,763 He seems to have contacts. 1422 01:39:03,871 --> 01:39:06,601 Notably the Prefect Blancart. 1423 01:39:06,707 --> 01:39:08,174 Tell me. 1424 01:39:08,275 --> 01:39:09,606 I have contacts too. 1425 01:39:09,710 --> 01:39:11,575 It's like this... 1426 01:39:12,780 --> 01:39:15,806 our village, Lacagne, had 17 called up. 1427 01:39:15,916 --> 01:39:20,785 As luck would have it, not one casualty. 1428 01:39:20,888 --> 01:39:23,448 Some luck! 1429 01:39:23,557 --> 01:39:26,048 Imagine the insinuations! 1430 01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:28,560 And we get no priorities. 1431 01:39:28,662 --> 01:39:32,962 Not a centime from the county or ministry. 1432 01:39:33,067 --> 01:39:36,161 What's the prefect to do with this? 1433 01:39:37,371 --> 01:39:45,107 A farm in the next township had two dead-- one son and a farmhand. 1434 01:39:45,212 --> 01:39:51,447 If we could change the district boundaries we could claim the dead. 1435 01:39:51,552 --> 01:39:54,419 They had more than 30 anyway. 1436 01:39:54,521 --> 01:39:55,852 Wouldn't hurt them! 1437 01:39:55,956 --> 01:39:57,617 More than 30! 1438 01:40:01,996 --> 01:40:04,396 Nobody asked for two bodies. 1439 01:40:04,498 --> 01:40:06,159 It was safer. 1440 01:40:06,266 --> 01:40:10,430 - I wasn't sure-- - Sure about what? 1441 01:40:10,537 --> 01:40:14,769 One of them may have been a Yank. 1442 01:40:14,875 --> 01:40:17,275 He was missing an ear. 1443 01:40:17,378 --> 01:40:20,108 Meaning what? 1444 01:40:20,214 --> 01:40:22,478 You know Indians. 1445 01:40:25,419 --> 01:40:28,149 I was waiting for your return. 1446 01:40:28,255 --> 01:40:30,587 Some clients for you. 1447 01:40:30,691 --> 01:40:32,022 This isn't the place. 1448 01:40:32,126 --> 01:40:35,095 They just need a minute. 1449 01:40:36,030 --> 01:40:41,593 It's like this -- Our village had 17 called... 1450 01:40:41,702 --> 01:40:44,637 But no dead. 1451 01:40:44,738 --> 01:40:46,000 Not a one. 1452 01:40:49,810 --> 01:40:54,440 Charles and I bathed twice together in the same tub... 1453 01:40:54,548 --> 01:40:56,709 Francois would've hated that. 1454 01:41:18,138 --> 01:41:20,231 It's so beautiful. 1455 01:41:22,109 --> 01:41:23,872 You take them everywhere? 1456 01:41:23,977 --> 01:41:25,877 It's easy with the car. 1457 01:41:30,117 --> 01:41:33,609 Stop! We'll smell like floozies! 1458 01:41:34,188 --> 01:41:36,452 The horrid smells everywhere! 1459 01:41:36,557 --> 01:41:38,616 The cemeteries, the mass graves... 1460 01:41:39,593 --> 01:41:42,118 Worst are the ossuaries! 1461 01:41:46,500 --> 01:41:50,300 You'll find your man. 1462 01:41:50,404 --> 01:41:52,031 I don't think so. 1463 01:41:53,907 --> 01:41:55,898 He's here. 1464 01:41:56,009 --> 01:41:57,670 In Grézaucourt. 1465 01:41:58,645 --> 01:42:00,510 Charles too. I'm sure. 1466 01:42:01,548 --> 01:42:04,142 I found a Swiss knife. 1467 01:42:04,251 --> 01:42:06,344 I threw it away. 1468 01:42:06,453 --> 01:42:07,613 But it could have been his. 1469 01:42:07,721 --> 01:42:10,019 They all had one. Mine too. 1470 01:42:10,124 --> 01:42:11,113 With a cross? 1471 01:42:11,225 --> 01:42:12,351 I think so. 1472 01:42:12,459 --> 01:42:14,484 Hundreds were distributed. 1473 01:42:14,595 --> 01:42:16,529 For all they helped... 1474 01:42:18,465 --> 01:42:20,296 Why throw it away? 1475 01:42:21,268 --> 01:42:23,361 It's a dead man's knife. 1476 01:42:23,470 --> 01:42:25,233 I want him alive. 1477 01:42:25,339 --> 01:42:29,833 - You just said-- - I know I often contradict myself. 1478 01:42:29,943 --> 01:42:34,539 But alive, yes! That would be best. 1479 01:42:37,851 --> 01:42:43,551 All these months I feared finding him in some hospital... 1480 01:42:43,657 --> 01:42:45,386 Alive but broken. 1481 01:42:49,563 --> 01:42:51,997 Slowly the thought of him dead became... 1482 01:42:52,099 --> 01:42:53,930 a comfort. 1483 01:42:55,435 --> 01:42:57,767 I'm not even sad. 1484 01:42:58,772 --> 01:43:00,501 I feel soothed. 1485 01:43:01,575 --> 01:43:03,338 How can you say that? 1486 01:43:04,077 --> 01:43:06,170 I say it sincerely. 1487 01:43:06,847 --> 01:43:08,474 Very sincerely. 1488 01:43:09,883 --> 01:43:12,681 I was looking for Alice. 1489 01:43:12,786 --> 01:43:13,946 Me? 1490 01:43:15,355 --> 01:43:17,414 You broke a flask? 1491 01:43:19,359 --> 01:43:21,691 She'll be right back. 1492 01:43:27,234 --> 01:43:33,366 I managed to get the portraits of some bodies in the train. 1493 01:43:33,473 --> 01:43:36,704 Most were burnt just after. 1494 01:43:36,810 --> 01:43:38,573 Anyway... 1495 01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:43,741 See if any correspond. 1496 01:43:50,757 --> 01:43:52,725 Charles! 1497 01:43:54,595 --> 01:43:56,222 Are you sure? 1498 01:43:56,330 --> 01:43:57,957 I knew him. 1499 01:43:58,065 --> 01:43:59,692 1 m 80. Light eyes. 1500 01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:01,267 Yes. 1501 01:44:01,368 --> 01:44:02,858 You saw him often? 1502 01:44:02,970 --> 01:44:04,369 Yes, at first. 1503 01:44:04,471 --> 01:44:05,870 Which region? 1504 01:44:05,973 --> 01:44:08,237 You know. In Nievres. 1505 01:44:08,342 --> 01:44:10,833 What did he do? 1506 01:44:10,944 --> 01:44:13,310 He worked in armaments, I think. 1507 01:44:13,413 --> 01:44:16,280 Then he enlisted. 1508 01:44:16,383 --> 01:44:17,816 In 1917. 1509 01:44:17,918 --> 01:44:19,545 May "17. 1510 01:44:19,653 --> 01:44:21,780 Why these questions? 1511 01:44:21,888 --> 01:44:23,116 Verification. 1512 01:44:24,124 --> 01:44:25,751 He wore this ring. 1513 01:44:27,427 --> 01:44:29,156 We weren't married yet! 1514 01:44:29,263 --> 01:44:33,029 Yes, my child -- he was. 1515 01:44:37,471 --> 01:44:41,771 We'll close this file later in my office. 1516 01:44:54,187 --> 01:44:56,280 You dared tell her? 1517 01:44:57,391 --> 01:44:58,915 Why such brutality? 1518 01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:00,886 To help her. 1519 01:45:00,994 --> 01:45:02,518 By torturing her? 1520 01:45:02,629 --> 01:45:04,358 By stunning her. 1521 01:45:05,465 --> 01:45:10,869 You have to strike once, so hard it's like a nightmare. 1522 01:45:11,738 --> 01:45:16,232 Later you wake up and life seems gentler. 1523 01:45:19,980 --> 01:45:22,676 The 7:50 train won't do... 1524 01:45:22,783 --> 01:45:25,445 Full of soldiers on leave. 1525 01:45:26,386 --> 01:45:30,186 I'll put you on the morning train. 1526 01:45:30,290 --> 01:45:32,349 Are you hungry? 1527 01:45:34,261 --> 01:45:35,922 Ravenous. 1528 01:45:36,163 --> 01:45:39,963 Ragout and beef for the surveyors. 1529 01:45:42,436 --> 01:45:45,928 He was a typical wellborn lad. 1530 01:45:46,039 --> 01:45:47,802 I was dazzled. 1531 01:45:47,908 --> 01:45:49,773 So we danced and I was hooked. 1532 01:45:49,876 --> 01:45:53,141 You were really an orchestra violinist? 1533 01:45:53,246 --> 01:45:54,543 Not an orchestra. No. 1534 01:45:55,148 --> 01:45:57,981 Well, yes. For charity lepers... 1535 01:45:58,085 --> 01:46:00,747 Chinese...orphans... 1536 01:46:00,854 --> 01:46:02,151 The deaf? 1537 01:46:03,757 --> 01:46:05,122 Good-looking. 1538 01:46:05,525 --> 01:46:07,152 He was attractive. 1539 01:46:07,260 --> 01:46:08,659 That annoyed him. 1540 01:46:08,762 --> 01:46:10,730 Life's badly made. 1541 01:46:10,831 --> 01:46:13,061 I would have loved to be attractive. 1542 01:46:15,836 --> 01:46:18,202 He was shy. 1543 01:46:18,305 --> 01:46:20,705 More natural than the rest of his family. 1544 01:46:20,807 --> 01:46:25,437 That's a fact in his favor. 1545 01:46:25,545 --> 01:46:28,013 Why all this hate? 1546 01:46:28,115 --> 01:46:30,845 Hate? 1547 01:46:30,951 --> 01:46:33,784 The word's much too...weak. 1548 01:46:36,690 --> 01:46:38,590 Did you know that Pony... 1549 01:46:38,692 --> 01:46:48,260 was go-between in the restitution of a captured German munitions ship... 1550 01:46:48,635 --> 01:46:51,365 to its owner Krupp! 1551 01:46:51,471 --> 01:46:52,369 In mid-warl! 1552 01:46:52,472 --> 01:46:53,803 Impossible! 1553 01:46:53,907 --> 01:46:55,966 He's a patriot. 1554 01:46:56,076 --> 01:46:57,976 He made huge donations. 1555 01:46:58,078 --> 01:46:59,272 And here? 1556 01:46:59,379 --> 01:47:02,348 See any destruction? 1557 01:47:02,449 --> 01:47:06,283 Oh, the villages, woods, hospitals, churches, yes! 1558 01:47:06,386 --> 01:47:08,445 - But this factory? - Unusable! 1559 01:47:08,555 --> 01:47:11,547 Not in use, rather. 1560 01:47:11,658 --> 01:47:17,528 When the war started, we beat a strategic retreat... 1561 01:47:17,631 --> 01:47:24,764 thus delivering into German hands the plants of Brécy and Thionville. 1562 01:47:24,871 --> 01:47:25,735 In return for...? 1563 01:47:25,839 --> 01:47:34,178 The Germans spared these and other gems of industrial architecture when they retreated. 1564 01:47:34,281 --> 01:47:36,215 Reciprocity! 1565 01:47:36,316 --> 01:47:37,510 Absurd! 1566 01:47:37,617 --> 01:47:41,314 This plant can be active in two months. 1567 01:47:41,421 --> 01:47:50,329 Hence the patriarch's impatience to file the "missing-in-action" as "killed-in-action." 1568 01:47:51,064 --> 01:47:53,726 Legally a missing soldier jams the works. 1569 01:47:53,834 --> 01:47:59,704 A dead hero restores a firm's prestige. 1570 01:47:59,806 --> 01:48:04,641 - If that turns out to be true-- - What will you do? 1571 01:48:04,744 --> 01:48:08,373 Keep out of my affairs! 1572 01:48:08,482 --> 01:48:11,110 Understand? 1573 01:48:11,218 --> 01:48:12,708 Did I ask about your ring? 1574 01:48:12,819 --> 01:48:14,013 It's my mother's. 1575 01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:16,054 You must have a wife. 1576 01:48:16,156 --> 01:48:18,021 You never mention her. 1577 01:48:18,124 --> 01:48:24,063 An officer's wife - that's interesting. 1578 01:48:24,164 --> 01:48:26,291 Not any more. 1579 01:48:26,399 --> 01:48:31,894 She's now a notary's wife in Orléans. 1580 01:48:34,741 --> 01:48:36,606 Hot pear tarts. 1581 01:48:36,710 --> 01:48:38,371 Last of the season. 1582 01:48:38,478 --> 01:48:41,106 From the last living pear tree in Verdun. 1583 01:48:41,214 --> 01:48:42,374 Some champagne? 1584 01:48:44,084 --> 01:48:48,612 Between what the Huns drank and the Yanks took...! 1585 01:49:16,750 --> 01:49:20,186 Want to try one of the new dances? 1586 01:49:21,655 --> 01:49:23,919 I'm a throwback... 1587 01:49:24,024 --> 01:49:26,254 a man of 1913. 1588 01:50:10,437 --> 01:50:14,430 - Can you play that? - That? Kid's stuff! 1589 01:50:25,418 --> 01:50:26,976 You think it's immoral? 1590 01:50:27,087 --> 01:50:29,612 Champagne and dancing for a widow? 1591 01:50:29,723 --> 01:50:37,596 And now the One and Only Cora Mabel of the Concerts Parisiens. 1592 01:50:39,299 --> 01:50:42,496 I'm not immoral because I'm no longer a widow. 1593 01:50:42,602 --> 01:50:44,900 For sons of the dead. 1594 01:50:50,143 --> 01:50:56,878 After four years in the trench there met in a singular bout 1595 01:50:56,983 --> 01:51:04,082 Tiny Pierre for the fighting French and Franz the mighty Kraut. 1596 01:51:04,190 --> 01:51:08,456 Hate was the only compass Guiding them through the gas, 1597 01:51:08,561 --> 01:51:12,691 From the French mountain ridge to the tall Belgian grass. 1598 01:51:12,799 --> 01:51:19,432 At dawn Pierre jumps to his feet, Screaming across fo his foe 1599 01:51:19,539 --> 01:51:21,598 "Rendezvous with the crows! 1600 01:51:21,708 --> 01:51:25,269 Today's your final retreat!” 1601 01:51:25,945 --> 01:51:33,442 Lunging forth bayonette gleaming Pierre wounds Franz. 1602 01:51:33,553 --> 01:51:39,958 His blood is streaming; But Prussian strength knows no ebb 1603 01:51:40,060 --> 01:51:45,054 His butt cracks the head of our Paris pleb. 1604 01:51:45,165 --> 01:51:56,702 Both now stagger, their forces drained Pale as ghosts, crimson-stained 1605 01:51:56,810 --> 01:52:01,907 When the trumpet blares in the morning air it's the cease-fire 1606 01:52:02,015 --> 01:52:09,478 Then the Prussian falls to his knees Pleading "Have pity please 1607 01:52:09,589 --> 01:52:16,358 For my poor German hide We are now kin forever after!” 1608 01:52:16,463 --> 01:52:23,801 And throwing down their arms The two warriors confide 1609 01:52:23,903 --> 01:52:34,211 Sharing in the blink of an eye Tears, blood, and laughter! 1610 01:53:22,962 --> 01:53:26,090 I have a locomotive for you. 1611 01:53:43,983 --> 01:53:45,644 Is something wrong? 1612 01:53:45,752 --> 01:53:47,515 I'd like to leave, please. 1613 01:53:55,461 --> 01:53:58,328 I wanted to leave that place. 1614 01:53:58,431 --> 01:54:02,367 They're young; they've suffered so much. 1615 01:54:03,069 --> 01:54:07,005 One patriotic song - and off they go to war! 1616 01:54:07,106 --> 01:54:10,007 And you too - off to war! 1617 01:54:11,277 --> 01:54:12,835 It's a club. 1618 01:54:12,946 --> 01:54:18,748 It'll be a club for years to come, the club of those who won the war! 1619 01:54:18,852 --> 01:54:23,312 And the losing side will have its club too! 1620 01:54:25,391 --> 01:54:27,825 You know why I think of clubs? 1621 01:54:28,661 --> 01:54:31,425 Because women aren't admitted. 1622 01:54:32,165 --> 01:54:37,159 Nothing scares you more than women, their wombs, their courage, 1623 01:54:37,270 --> 01:54:38,794 their watching eyes... 1624 01:54:42,442 --> 01:54:43,602 Stop the car! 1625 01:54:44,010 --> 01:54:45,841 Stop the car! 1626 01:54:52,919 --> 01:54:54,819 Do you want me? 1627 01:54:55,588 --> 01:54:57,522 As I really am? 1628 01:54:59,392 --> 01:55:01,121 But, listen! Really! 1629 01:55:01,227 --> 01:55:03,286 You say such things... 1630 01:55:05,298 --> 01:55:06,788 You hardly know me. 1631 01:55:06,900 --> 01:55:10,267 I don't mean a business partnership. 1632 01:55:10,370 --> 01:55:13,999 It's not a question of confidence, but of love. 1633 01:55:14,107 --> 01:55:15,506 Of passion. 1634 01:55:18,411 --> 01:55:24,281 In mere seconds we can know of our desire to be together - forever! 1635 01:55:26,786 --> 01:55:28,117 I'm 15 years older than you. 1636 01:55:28,221 --> 01:55:31,349 Maybe more. So what? 1637 01:55:33,593 --> 01:55:35,925 A formula exists, Major. 1638 01:55:36,029 --> 01:55:37,326 Three words. 1639 01:55:38,164 --> 01:55:42,260 Just say them, and I'm sworn to you, irrevocably, 1640 01:55:43,503 --> 01:55:51,433 I'll follow you everywhere, with my dresses, my black eyes, my violin, and my 1641 01:55:51,544 --> 01:55:53,603 my romantic past. 1642 01:55:58,918 --> 01:56:04,254 Three words and we're together. 1643 01:56:07,460 --> 01:56:08,950 I'm listening... 1644 01:56:12,131 --> 01:56:13,325 Youl 1645 01:56:13,433 --> 01:56:14,900 Youl 1646 01:56:15,001 --> 01:56:16,798 Tomorrow... 1647 01:56:16,903 --> 01:56:20,031 we'll see things more clearly... 1648 01:57:10,189 --> 01:57:14,182 Monsieur Maginot, Minister of War and Pensions! 1649 01:57:19,032 --> 01:57:22,934 These women represent the widows and mothers. 1650 01:57:23,036 --> 01:57:25,402 And the soldier for the lottery? 1651 01:57:28,007 --> 01:57:29,269 But he fought? 1652 01:57:29,375 --> 01:57:31,775 Class of '19, volunteer, son of a missing soldier. 1653 01:57:31,878 --> 01:57:33,470 He fought in Champagne, Verdun, Alsace. 1654 01:57:33,579 --> 01:57:37,276 A rare survivor. 1655 01:57:37,383 --> 01:57:40,682 Soldier, approach! 1656 01:57:47,994 --> 01:57:49,962 Soldier Auguste Thain. 1657 01:57:56,636 --> 01:57:58,900 I've been told of your record. 1658 01:58:01,074 --> 01:58:02,701 You're very young. 1659 01:58:02,809 --> 01:58:03,901 Yes, Sir. 1660 01:58:04,010 --> 01:58:05,341 All the same. 1661 01:58:05,445 --> 01:58:08,209 So you leave me in the lurch? 1662 01:58:08,314 --> 01:58:09,872 I was held up. 1663 01:58:09,982 --> 01:58:11,279 Held up by what? 1664 01:58:11,384 --> 01:58:12,817 By everything. 1665 01:58:22,061 --> 01:58:23,392 Soldier! 1666 01:58:27,733 --> 01:58:37,836 Take this bouquet picked on the battlefield of Verdun amid the graves of our patriotic dead. 1667 01:58:39,846 --> 01:58:42,474 Lay it on one of these eight coffins. 1668 01:58:43,716 --> 01:58:51,020 It will be that of the Unknown Soldier which the nation will accompany to the Arch of Triumph. 1669 01:58:51,791 --> 01:58:53,850 Supreme homage! 1670 01:58:54,527 --> 01:58:59,021 The finest France ever paid to one of its children. 1671 01:58:59,132 --> 01:59:04,968 Yet none too great when he must symbolize 1672 01:59:05,071 --> 01:59:14,605 and immortalize the valiant soldier whose anonymous sacrifice and superhuman heroism 1673 01:59:14,714 --> 01:59:18,275 safeguarded homeland, 1674 01:59:18,384 --> 01:59:22,320 justice and liberty. 1675 02:00:03,963 --> 02:00:05,726 Not interested? 1676 02:00:07,500 --> 02:00:09,127 It distresses me. 1677 02:00:10,503 --> 02:00:12,562 But it reassures them. 1678 02:00:12,805 --> 02:00:18,471 They had 1,500,000 killed, but now they'll think only of this one. 1679 02:00:18,578 --> 02:00:21,547 This sham is a scandal! 1680 02:00:22,682 --> 02:00:24,616 You're a scandall 1681 02:00:24,717 --> 02:00:26,844 My final list, General! 1682 02:00:27,520 --> 02:00:29,715 I found 51,000! 1683 02:00:29,822 --> 02:00:31,312 In two months! 1684 02:00:31,424 --> 02:00:36,020 Have you finished bugging me with your maniacal accounts? 1685 02:00:52,411 --> 02:00:54,106 To the dead! 1686 02:01:21,874 --> 02:01:25,275 Why did you choose n°67? 1687 02:01:25,378 --> 02:01:27,005 I'm of the 132nd. 1688 02:01:27,113 --> 02:01:29,911 I added up the digits. 1689 02:01:30,016 --> 02:01:32,712 And my regiment's in the 6th corps. 1690 02:01:32,818 --> 02:01:34,513 Hold still! 1691 02:01:41,994 --> 02:01:45,452 Why only 8 coffins for 9 zones? 1692 02:01:45,564 --> 02:01:50,558 One zone wasn't sure about its body's nationality. 1693 02:01:50,670 --> 02:01:53,161 Nobody knows his identity? 1694 02:01:53,272 --> 02:01:54,500 He's my uncle. 1695 02:02:04,750 --> 02:02:07,617 I try not to judge... 1696 02:02:07,720 --> 02:02:12,123 That's what these years have taught me. 1697 02:02:13,059 --> 02:02:14,924 Another thing... 1698 02:02:15,995 --> 02:02:17,189 the tea. 1699 02:02:17,296 --> 02:02:19,696 You make it much too strong. 1700 02:02:19,799 --> 02:02:20,959 Ah? 1701 02:02:21,067 --> 02:02:23,001 But I never... 1702 02:02:23,102 --> 02:02:24,797 Oh yes! 1703 02:02:24,904 --> 02:02:25,962 In the car. 1704 02:02:26,072 --> 02:02:28,506 - Two days ago. - Two days ago? 1705 02:02:28,607 --> 02:02:31,440 It seems like weeks. 1706 02:02:31,544 --> 02:02:37,642 Put just a little in a tea-ball, and don't boil the water. 1707 02:02:37,750 --> 02:02:39,547 It's not really important... 1708 02:02:39,652 --> 02:02:43,588 unless you live with a tea-drinker. 1709 02:02:55,968 --> 02:02:57,333 As a souvenir-- 1710 02:03:05,344 --> 02:03:06,641 Wait-- 1711 02:03:19,191 --> 02:03:21,318 I'll remember you. 1712 02:03:21,427 --> 02:03:22,758 Me, too. 1713 02:03:25,030 --> 02:03:28,193 I'm going home. My parents are waiting. 1714 02:03:30,002 --> 02:03:31,902 Teacher. That's fine. 1715 02:03:32,004 --> 02:03:33,938 It will be. 1716 02:03:34,039 --> 02:03:37,008 I'll say goodbye to the Valentins. 1717 02:04:15,314 --> 02:04:19,307 "Bédarieux, January 6,1922 . 1718 02:04:19,418 --> 02:04:24,412 My dear, dear Iréne, 1719 02:04:35,367 --> 02:04:39,235 Your letter gave me great hope and thus great joy. 1720 02:04:39,338 --> 02:04:40,430 You at last! 1721 02:04:40,539 --> 02:04:44,873 At last a few words revived your voice, your gaze, 1722 02:04:44,977 --> 02:04:48,845 the poignant silhouette of my relentless solitude. 1723 02:04:50,649 --> 02:04:56,952 God brings my message to you in New York as you prepare to leave for Wisconsin. 1724 02:04:57,056 --> 02:04:59,923 It's a tiny spot on my globe. 1725 02:05:00,025 --> 02:05:04,223 How will I find you if you disappear there? 1726 02:05:18,611 --> 02:05:22,274 You say new life, new faces, new start. 1727 02:05:22,381 --> 02:05:24,372 Why all this novelty? 1728 02:05:24,483 --> 02:05:29,147 You who renew things so well especially the old hearts of old men. 1729 02:05:30,956 --> 02:05:33,823 You didn't understand my emotion, my silence... 1730 02:05:33,926 --> 02:05:36,053 Did I myself? 1731 02:05:37,897 --> 02:05:42,163 I still tremble with deep tenderness. 1732 02:05:42,268 --> 02:05:45,897 Your fervor and force paralyzed me. 1733 02:05:46,005 --> 02:05:49,463 Frightful night in my memory. 1734 02:05:50,776 --> 02:05:56,510 I only had to murmur those three words, but I kept silent. 1735 02:05:56,615 --> 02:06:02,576 Now I shout them a hundred times a day, with all my force, 1736 02:06:02,688 --> 02:06:06,351 hoping they bridge the great expanse between us. 1737 02:06:06,458 --> 02:06:07,891 I love you. 1738 02:06:07,993 --> 02:06:10,791 Yes, I love you. 1739 02:06:10,896 --> 02:06:12,693 Forever. 1740 02:06:14,700 --> 02:06:18,500 You may laugh after all these months apart. 1741 02:06:18,604 --> 02:06:20,071 My confession calms me. 1742 02:06:20,172 --> 02:06:24,268 It proves I'm alive, at peace with myself. 1743 02:06:24,376 --> 02:06:26,776 The rest is trivial... 1744 02:06:29,548 --> 02:06:31,607 I made big resolutions... 1745 02:06:31,717 --> 02:06:37,314 such as leaving the army, which let me go without difficulty. 1746 02:06:37,590 --> 02:06:41,720 As I have no taste for cities or suits, 1747 02:06:41,827 --> 02:06:49,461 I've returned to my childhood home where I have a few acres of rocks and vineyard. 1748 02:06:49,568 --> 02:06:53,402 Without illusions, I offer you this paltry kingdom. 1749 02:06:54,073 --> 02:06:55,870 It's 10 p.m. 1750 02:06:55,975 --> 02:07:02,813 There's dung, mint, and caramel in the air (because I dropped sugar on my stove). 1751 02:07:02,915 --> 02:07:10,219 Tomorrow ['ll see if my boars have left for Spain, and begin to wait. 1752 02:07:10,322 --> 02:07:12,017 For you. 1753 02:07:12,124 --> 02:07:13,853 I already am. 1754 02:07:15,227 --> 02:07:17,855 I'll only wait 100 years. 1755 02:07:17,963 --> 02:07:20,193 Let's say 101 years. 1756 02:07:21,367 --> 02:07:26,896 Post scriptum These are my final dreadful statistics. 1757 02:07:27,006 --> 02:07:33,241 In comparison to the duration of the Allied Victory March down the Champs-Elysées, 1758 02:07:33,345 --> 02:07:35,472 about three hours, I think, 1759 02:07:35,581 --> 02:07:40,609 I calculated that given the same speed, step, and military formations, 1760 02:07:40,719 --> 02:07:44,314 the march of those who died in this inexpiable madness 1761 02:07:44,423 --> 02:07:48,587 would have lasted 11 days and 11 nights. 1762 02:07:48,694 --> 02:07:51,458 Forgive me this crushing accuracy. 1763 02:07:51,563 --> 02:07:53,861 Yours, for life. 118745