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Saturday the 6th
of January, 1917,
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five condemned soldiers were
escorted to Bouchavesnes
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at the Front in the Somme.
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Watch out for the wire!
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The first, once cheerful
and adventurous,
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wore the tag number 2124. He was
drafted from the Seine area.
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On his feet were boots,
taken from a dead German.
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Before becoming 2124, he
was known as Bastoche
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and was hooked on
a pretty redhead,
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a certain V?ronique Passavant.
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He was a carpenter.
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Taking a break from his
woodwork, they'd go for a beer
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at Little Louis' bar,
in Golden Hand St.
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He'd taken his boots from an
enemy who no longer needed them.
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Stuffed with straw or newspaper,
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they replaced his
old clodhoppers.
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He was court-martialed
for self-mutilation.
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Gunpowder had been found
on his wounded hand.
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He faced the death sentence.
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Watch out for the wire!
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The second soldier
was tag number 4077,
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also from near the Seine.
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He was a welder for the
State Railways, in Bagneux.
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His name was Francis Gaignard,
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nicknamed Six-Sous.
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He knew the poor build the cannons
of their own destruction,
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but it's the rich who sell them.
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He tried to explain
it to the troops,
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but he wasn't a good speaker.
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And cheap wine,
poverty's best friend,
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deadened the soldiers' eyes,
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making it difficult to
get through to them.
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Number 1818 was surely the bravest
and the toughest of them all.
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He had once killed a
fellow officer..
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an officer who kicked the dead.
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Get up!
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You swines!
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You lazy cowards!
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You! Get up!
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Attack! Attack!
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You! Get going!
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No one ever found out.
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Beno?t Notre Dame was a
farmer from Dordogne.
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One August morning,
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they came to get him at his farm
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and sent him off on a train.
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Watch out for the wire!
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The telephone wire is the only
link to the land of the living.
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A flimsy wire, their only chance
for President Poincar?'s pardon.
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Even if the only one
to still believe in it
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is him. Number 7328,
recruited in Corsica.
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Angel Bassignano.
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According to all
who'd known him,
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he was no angel at all.
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He was a liar, a
cheat, a show-off,
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a sneak and a troublemaker.
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Before all this,
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Tina Lombardi worked
as his whore.
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He'd received a 5-year sentence for
an affair of either love or honour,
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depending on who
he was talking to.
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It was, in fact, a conflict
between village pimps.
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Summer 1916, common-law
criminals were enlisted
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to beef up regiments melted
in the fires at Verdun.
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They gave him the choice.
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It's been shitting
shells round here!
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No, it's been rather quiet.
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Who are those for?
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Well, actually.. you'll
be attacking tomorrow.
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We're getting a head start.
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Watch out for the wire!
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The fifth was a "Cornflower", the
nickname for the class of '17.
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He was five months shy of 20.
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These days, everything
scared him.
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French canons short-firing,
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the wind that heralded
the mustard gas attacks,
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executions to set an example.
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He hadn't been like that before,
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quite the opposite,
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braving storms as he
helped lighthouse keepers.
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And then came one
shell too many.
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There you go.. The winning
ticket back to your fianc?e.
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The ticket for a court-martial.
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Turn a blind eye, Sarge.
He's been through enough.
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They could execute him.
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- Be human for once.
- Shut up!
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Please, Sarge!
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Shut up!
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The first time Mathilde
and Manech made love,
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he fell asleep, his
hand on her breast.
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Each time his wound throbs,
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Manech feels Mathilde's
heart in his palm.
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Each beat brings
her closer to him.
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If Manech were dead,
Mathilde would know.
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Since the death notice,
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she stubbornly holds on to her
intuition, like to a flimsy wire.
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She never gets discouraged.
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And Mathilde is of a
cheerful disposition.
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If that wire doesn't lead her
to her lover, never mind..
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she can always use
it as a noose.
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In June 1920, Mathilde
received a letter from a nun.
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A patient at the Rennes
hospital wants to see her.
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He'd met Manech in January '17
at the Front in the Somme.
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August 1912.
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Handsome, wasn't I?
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It's a De Dion,
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with direct drive.
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Please, tell me about Manech.
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In January '17,
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I escorted five
condemned soldiers.
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He was one of them..
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Yes.
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I was to take them to
a front-line trench.
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Gendarmes were waiting
with the prisoners
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near a bombed-out cemetery.
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What are you doing with
those German boots?
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Waiting.
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What for?
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Poincar?'s pardon? You'll wait!
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He'll sign it!
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I shouldn't even
have been condemned.
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I'm Corsican, not French!
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Leave him be.
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He's lost it, but
that's for the best.
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Finished, Lieutenant?
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The cold has saved that one.
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Gangrene would've
got him in summer.
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And Manech?
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Was he in pain?
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They had to cut off two fingers,
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but he wasn't suffering anymore.
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I led them to a trench,
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called "Bingo Cr?puscule".
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Bloody hell!
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Couldn't you have lost
them on your way?
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A kick in the ass
to get rid of them!
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My orders are to bring
you these five.
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And I'll tell you my orders!
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I'm to throw these
guys over the top
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and leave them to die like dogs
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between our line
and the Jerries'!
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Those are my damned
orders, Sergeant!
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You see, Sergeant,
with the Jerries,
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It's a little too calm?
Let's start the fireworks
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and watch all hell let loose!
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Soup, guys! You're
lucky, it's still warm.
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Beetroot and fennel.
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What can I get for you?
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A large hot chocolate and
some bread with honey.
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I'd kill my parents
to get you that!
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Do you mind, Lieutenant?
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He's an orphan!
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He'll get it. C?lestin Poux
is the "Mess Hall Marauder",
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the "Kitchen Raider".
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Fifteen minutes later, he
came back with it all.
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Salted Gu?rande butter,
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lavender honey,
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and..
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cocoa from Nigeria!
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Grand..
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Tell me, Cornflower,
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you've no one to write to?
A fianc?e?
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Mathilde.
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Her name is Mathilde.
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I hear her heart beating,
like Morse code.
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We're engaged.
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Luckily, we won't have to
wait till the end of the war.
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Now I can go straight
home after the execution.
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Should I spare you the rest?
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I'm lame, not dim.
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What happened?
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We opened the barbed wire
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and equipped the five
against the cold.
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C?lestin Poux gave up a red woolen
glove to protect your fianc?'s hand.
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Are they far?
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Too far for grenades,
too near for artillery.
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Gas is out of the question.
The gasser always gets it!
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Think they'll make it?
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If they're not blown to bits,
they'll starve and freeze.
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Either way, it'll
amuse the Jerries.
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A Corporal gave Bastoche,
the carpenter, a hug.
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It was Corporal Gordes.
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They clearly knew each
other before the war.
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And then,
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over they went.
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- Shit..
- Shut up.
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- Shit!
- Shut up!
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September '14.
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150 pound weight, easy!
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And I wasn't at my best!
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But that morning,
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in January '17, was
Manech still alive?
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At dawn, Favart called
out their names.
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Apart from the Dordogne
farmer, they all replied.
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Bassignano!
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Sir!
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Bouquet!
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What now?
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Langonnet!
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Yeah, still here!
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The Cornflower, hide
yourself better.
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Notre Dame!
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That's all I know.
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I wrote up my report
with a heavy heart.
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About time, Esperanza! The Brits
are replacing us, we're off.
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So, Bingo-thingy?
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What's that?
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The condemned prisoners' list,
signed by Capt. Favourier.
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Give it to me.
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Don't just stand there like that.
This isn't Pompeii!
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You've been promoted.
You're off to the Vosges.
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Even so, Sir,
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this expedition is going
to be hard to swallow.
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Lucky you.
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Where you're going, there's
mustard gas and throat lozenges.
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The famous Vosges sweets.
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Dismissed!
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A few months later, I was
wounded, in the Somme.
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I ended up in the same
ambulance as Chardolot,
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a corporal from
Bingo Cr?puscule.
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But he only had a few
days left to live.
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It's me. Esperanza.
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Bingo Cr?puscule, remember?
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Sorry, I don't recognize you.
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The five thrown over
into no-man's-land,
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what happened to them?
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What do you think?
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No one made it.
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Your conscience bothering
you, Esperanza?
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You should've stuck around.
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You'd have seen capital Ms,
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underwear being waved
and a flying albatross.
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You're delirious with fever!
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We sent over five men and
recovered five stiffs.
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Conclusion..
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My eyes are gone but I can imagine
your expression and I like it.
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He really spoke of capital
Ms and an albatross?
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And underwear.
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Here you go, Miss.
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In here
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are the prisoners' belongings I
was to return to their families.
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My health's prevented it.
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That's the letter the
Dordogne farmer, Notre Dame,
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wrote to his wife.
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I sent the original
just after Bingo.
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You're here because
of the mustard gas?
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Not even. Damned Spanish flu!
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Death moves in mysterious ways.
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If you can't cry, try talking.
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If you can't talk, say nothing.
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But sometimes, talking
can bring on the tears.
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Tears say what you can't say,
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if you get my drift?
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Otherwise, you can just
keep that sour-face!
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Little Louis, tell V?ro
I'm thinking of her.
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Shame she won't talk to me.
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Saw Biscuit, we
patched things up.
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Adieu, my friend. Bastoche.
258
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"Beno?t Notre Dame, number 1818. I
won't be writing for a long time."
259
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,518
Tell old Bernay I want
to settle up by March.
260
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,912
His manure's too costly,
watch out for him.
261
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,396
Tell my Baptistin that I so love
262
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,473
that he'll be fine if he
listens to his dear mother.
263
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,116
She's the kindest person I know.
Love you. Beno?t.
264
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,710
"For Tina Lombardi,
from Angel Bassignano."
265
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,713
If Chickpea comes in before
dinner's called, Manech is alive.
266
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,476
I'm not hungry.
267
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,759
Dinner's ready.
268
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,999
Mathilde, dinner!
269
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,629
Coming!
270
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,674
Mathilde was born the 1
st of January, 1900.
271
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,235
It's easy for
calculating her age.
272
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,439
In 1903, her parents died
in the n 44 bus accident.
273
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:41,317
Since then,
274
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,232
Mathilde often says to herself,
275
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,119
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.."
276
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:53,554
Her uncle and aunt,
277
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,872
Sylvain and B?n?dicte,
have raised her,
278
00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:02,035
with her parents' life insurance
invested by Pierre-Marie Rouvi?re.
279
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,310
When she was five, Mathilde
came down with polio.
280
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,516
She was bedridden for months,
281
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,955
despite mustard compresses..
282
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,829
pendulums
283
00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:14,792
and four-leaf clover infusions.
284
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,192
Today, Mathilde is twenty.
285
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,793
She plays the tuba.
286
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,749
It is the only instrument capable
of imitating a distress call.
287
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,517
Chickpea, the dog,
farts in his sleep.
288
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,152
When she hears it, B?n?dicte
never fails to say,
289
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,072
Doggie fart, gladdens my heart.
290
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,709
Mathilde needs daily treatment.
291
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,714
Since the Armistice, Georges
Cornu, a swimming champion,
292
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,029
massages her.
293
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,393
She used to get embarrassed,
but she got over it.
294
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,030
Mathilde sometimes imagines
that Georges admires her,
295
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,599
tormented with desire.
296
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,717
What's more, he once said,
297
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,076
You do have a fine figure, Miss.
298
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,709
And I've kneaded quite a few.
299
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,000
After that, how
should she call him?
300
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,229
Dear Georges..
301
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,149
My dear Georges..
302
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,635
Jojo..
303
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,632
Sometimes, before
falling asleep,
304
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,952
she imagines herself in
arousing situations.
305
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,628
Mathilde doesn't need to
fantasize for very long
306
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,916
before reaching fulfillment.
307
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,073
Since his disappearance,
308
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,074
she can't bear to think about her
fianc? as she satisfies herself.
309
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:38,554
That's the way it is..
310
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,069
If I were you, Mathilde,
I'd forget him.
311
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,398
Why chase pipe dreams?
312
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,837
If he was alive, you'd
have heard from him.
313
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,679
He was taken prisoner.
314
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,393
And stayed with a German girl
with braids and big boobs!
315
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,154
A Breton boy eating sauerkraut!
316
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,071
Impossible!
317
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,952
- Can I help?
- Keep your feet on the ground.
318
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,792
I stand on my own two feet!
319
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,234
- What?
- Never mind.
320
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,799
I heard you anyway.
321
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,311
But your dreams don't stand up.
322
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,878
Manech can't have
been taken at Bingo.
323
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:22,839
Our men took the
trench facing it.
324
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,516
Normally, it's the winners
325
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:26,988
who take prisoners.
326
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:28,673
So he's lost his mind.
327
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,878
Or he's in hiding, to
avoid hard labour.
328
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,350
Stop dreaming, Mathilde!
329
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:36,155
Face up to it.
330
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,914
You'll find a
husband, despite..
331
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,312
Something's off-key.
332
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,988
I'll find the "Mess Hall
Marauder", C?lestin Poux.
333
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,719
What can I get for you?
334
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,475
Or the Corsican's whore. She
might know more than me.
335
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,075
Tomorrow, I go to Paris.
336
00:27:58,800 --> 00:27:59,437
What for?
337
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,830
To find a survivor
from Bingo Cr?puscule.
338
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,954
Germain Pire, Private
Detective The Peerless Pry
339
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,073
I'm used to handling
red-hot affairs.
340
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,514
I've a cupboard full.
341
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,718
Scandals that would've been
brushed under the carpet..
342
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,520
brought to light
by Pire's prying.
343
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,838
Take this big affair..
344
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,838
very delicate.
345
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,876
In '17, a train derails. 425
soldiers on leave, dead.
346
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,948
The enquiry reveals how an
officer ordered the departure,
347
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,509
despite faulty brakes.
348
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,832
A total cover-up by
Poincar?'s government.
349
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,156
The victims' families only
hope of finding the officer?
350
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,269
Germain Pire!
351
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,629
The Peerless Pry.
352
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,792
Peerless, Miss. I
found their officer,
353
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,435
to the military's
great displeasure.
354
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,314
Granted, he was dead and buried.
355
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,193
I'll just pack my bags and be on
my way to track down Poux C?lestin
356
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,793
and the Corsican's fianc?e.
357
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,992
And your fees, Mr. Peerless Pry?
358
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,358
The Pry only bleeds dry
sitting ducks, Miss.
359
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,236
For you, I can do..
360
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,553
20 francs a day.
361
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,872
Plus expenses, of course.
362
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,595
Why so kind?
363
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,910
H?l?ne, come and say hello.
364
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,632
Don't worry about expenses.
Germain Pire eats little,
365
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,838
doesn't drink and
tips sparingly.
366
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:47,835
Notre Dame de Paris?
367
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,911
Not Notre Dame de Paris!
368
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,754
I'm calling from Paris
about Notre Dame Beno?t!
369
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,554
Beno?t Notre Dame!
370
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,313
A strapping,
good-hearted farmer.
371
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,269
Died for his country.
372
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,591
I've lost many a parishioner.
373
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,635
Are his wife and
Baptistin still there?
374
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,719
Quiet! Miss Minet, I
can't hear a thing!
375
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,869
No. She upped and left one day,
with no forwarding address.
376
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,108
Is that a choir I hear?
377
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,909
Of course, it's a choir!
We are in a church, Miss!
378
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,151
But that's no hymn at your end!
379
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,271
Thank you, Father. Goodbye.
380
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:26,799
Bingo Cr?puscule!
381
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,237
I can't make head
nor tail of it!
382
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,350
I thought you liked
defending lost causes.
383
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,672
Your impertinence was
charming at 10, not at 20!
384
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,239
Then start taking me seriously.
385
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,270
You're wasting your money
on a grotesque crusade!
386
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,594
Bingo Cr?puscule! Why
not Yippee doodle-doo?
387
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,597
I want access to army archives.
388
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,390
Let's say there's an
ounce of truth in this.
389
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,154
If one man has survived,
he risks hard labour!
390
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:58,594
And you know it!
391
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,513
Your prying would put
him in great danger!
392
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,073
Be reasonable.
393
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,592
Your parents entrusted me..
394
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:07,909
"Ashes to ashes.."
395
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,714
That's just it.
396
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,995
They entrusted you
with my happiness.
397
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,235
Goodbye.
398
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,395
Thank you, Pierre-Marie.
399
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,397
Don't be like that,
my dear Mathilde.
400
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,077
I'm thinking of your future.
401
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,793
Sorry to see your health's
worsened, despite the massages.
402
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,598
I'll see what I can do.
403
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,636
It doesn't only
happen in Lourdes!
404
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,155
I'm looking for Tina Lombardi. I
knew her when she was little..
405
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,712
Ladies, I'm Tina
Lombardi's uncle
406
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,076
and I'd like to know..
407
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,355
Excuse me..
408
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,797
I look after the Lombardi
family's interests
409
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,439
and I'm looking for Tina.
410
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,592
She's come into some money.
411
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,315
You're the one looking
for Tina Lombardi?
412
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,029
Well, actually..
413
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,357
Ever been to Corsica?
414
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,789
Very pretty, very picturesque.
415
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,077
But Tina's walking the street
416
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,230
somewhere else.
417
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,358
Luckily, a highly-placed
member of the Police
418
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,636
picked up her trail
in Bar-Le-Duc.
419
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,270
Valentina Emilia Maria
Lombardi, aka Tina,
420
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,795
was registered in 1916
421
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,589
near the 23rd regiment's
camp of Marseilles.
422
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,157
Since the Armistice, the
chick has flown the coop!
423
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,072
I've lost her trail,
but I've been busy.
424
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,075
She's disappeared into thin air.
425
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,234
So, you're giving up.
426
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,390
Not at all.
427
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,439
Pire never admits defeat.
Pire is stubborn.
428
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,796
Pire's peer doesn't exist.
429
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,711
Perfect! Thank you.
430
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,472
Just a little bit.
431
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:50,919
Not my eyes.
432
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,753
Careful with that!
433
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,589
What can I get you?
434
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:18,829
This is my fianc?.
435
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:21,677
And him,
436
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,069
the carpenter..
437
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,719
I think you know him.
438
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,788
My throat's dry.
439
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,197
- "Good glass of wine.."
- "Keeps the doctor in line."
440
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,638
My great-aunt's motto.
441
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,394
Died in 1911 in
Besancon, she was 99.
442
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,279
Never sick a day..
443
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,315
Good luck.
444
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,914
Touch wood.
445
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:53,755
The war?
446
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,435
A hyena in the
Botanical Gardens.
447
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,636
I was showing off, stroking it.
448
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,030
Bastoche and Biscuit made this.
449
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,870
Biscuit?
450
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,595
His best friend.
They met in 1910
451
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,718
during the floods,
saving a lady's life.
452
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,839
Bastoche was talented
453
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,514
but Biscuit.. a genius.
454
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,876
A magician with a chisel!
455
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,040
He pegged all the articulations.
456
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,155
This is for you.
457
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,835
"Louis, tell V?ro I'm
thinking of her."
458
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,798
"Shame she won't talk to me."
459
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,429
"Saw Biscuit, we
patched things up."
460
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,830
"Adieu, my friend. Bastoche."
461
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:46,269
To patch things up means they'd argued.
You know why?
462
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:47,631
A mystery.
463
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,716
They went through hell together,
464
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,913
the Marne, the
Wo?vre, the Somme..
465
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,076
Then one day, and who knows
why, they stopped talking.
466
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:02,639
Biscuit was transferred.
467
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,668
He died in a military
hospital bombing.
468
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,195
I'm glad they finally
patched things up.
469
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,556
They won't be queuing
up outside, today.
470
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:18,990
Pour me one?
471
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,913
She's thirsty!
472
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,597
A wooden hand, a heart of gold.
473
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:27,389
To love.
474
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:28,715
True love!
475
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,313
But who was V?ro?
476
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,997
V?ronique Passavant. His
regular, his woman.
477
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:35,673
They often came in together.
478
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,070
Why would they have argued?
479
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,199
He may have strayed and
she wouldn't forgive him.
480
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,316
There you go. '17, this way.
481
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,320
What exactly are the red files?
482
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:55,710
Secret defence.
483
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,996
You need a mandate
from someone high up.
484
00:38:58,240 --> 00:38:59,468
Of course, they're upstairs!
485
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:00,835
Go and help him.
486
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,639
Let's say you were
someone high up..
487
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,440
then you could give
us the mandate.
488
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,672
If I thought like that, I
wouldn't be an officer.
489
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,390
Consider yourself lucky
you've been allowed in.
490
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,837
It usually takes months.
491
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,514
It looks tidy but
it's really a mess.
492
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,678
So, the Somme..
493
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,957
The Bouchavesnes
sector, trench 108.
494
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,595
What a state..
495
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,712
Look at this. Appalling!
496
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,516
May I help?
497
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,797
Thank you for replying
favourably to the General..
498
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,911
We're very good friends.
499
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,118
Bouchavesnes.. two friends
of mine died there.
500
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,072
Dreadful, the battles
in that trench..
501
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,117
Paris wasn't much better.
502
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,670
Couldn't even find a
taxi after the opera.
503
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,149
So I heard!
504
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,994
We'd like information
on trench 108.
505
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,757
Posting slips,
trenches 104, 105.
506
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,316
Trench 107. Where's 106?
507
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,310
Trench 108.
508
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,396
How annoying, it's
written on both sides!
509
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,399
Trench 108.
510
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,155
"Dug by the Germans, taken
by us in 1916 and renamed
511
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,470
"Bingo Cr?puscule." Why
not Yippee doodle-doo?
512
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,432
"January 6th, nothing to report."
513
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,511
"The 7th, heavy
combat with losses."
514
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,752
"Killed in action: Capt.
Favourier, history teacher."
515
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,514
"It Beno?t Estrangin,
insurance agent."
516
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,639
"Corporal.."
517
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:34,955
Strange.
518
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,395
Certain losses are
filed confidential.
519
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,949
Confidential? You mean..
520
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,709
Sorry.
521
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:43,715
Can't you..
522
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,951
Sorry, we can't
look any further.
523
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,796
Not even the General.
524
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:51,071
Please.
525
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,154
Thank you for the
time you've taken.
526
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,389
You're welcome.
527
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:11,313
Nothing here of interest. Posting
slips, commissary bills.
528
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:12,675
The routine.
529
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,478
I assumed as much.
530
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:16,278
It was to be expected.
531
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,599
You've gone too far!
532
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,833
I do hope this paper wasn't
filed secret defence!
533
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,190
You must tell me
if it's important.
534
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,714
It's nothing.
535
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:44,991
Just a leave.
536
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,754
From the President?
537
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,675
That's right.
538
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,518
President Poincar?
sometimes granted a leave
539
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,159
to a deserving soldier.
540
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:53,995
End of story!
541
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:55,839
I'll see you out.
542
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,712
Corporal Bouquet Kl?ber..
543
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,072
Corporal Gaignard Francis..
544
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,956
Private Notre Dame Beno?t..
545
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,475
Private Bassignano Angel..
546
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,035
Private Langonnet Manech..
547
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,557
For self-mutilation, you
are sentenced to death.
548
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,312
If, before the count of 7, the
train hasn't entered the tunnel,
549
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,630
or the ticket inspector
hasn't come,
550
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,359
Manech is dead!
551
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,714
1, 2, 3,
552
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,993
4, 5, 6..
553
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:56,229
Ticket, please!
554
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,632
April fool!
555
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,438
When the newspaper strike is
over, we can place your ad.
556
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,719
"Reward for information
concerning Bingo Cr?puscule."
557
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,633
Encouraging her won't
bring back her appetite.
558
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,393
Take her to the Quimper Fair.
559
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:29,959
What for?
560
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:31,434
A change of scenery.
561
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,031
You might meet a nice boy.
562
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,509
What for?
563
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,230
To get married and have children.
Tell her!
564
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:40,913
Can you pour me one?
565
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,070
You drink now?
566
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,790
"Glass of wine keeps
the doctor in line."
567
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:46,595
Where's that from?
568
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,990
Dead-Hand barman
with a wooden hand.
569
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:52,550
His aunt's motto. Died at a
hundred, in Besancon, 1911.
570
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:53,950
Repeat that?
571
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,516
In Besancon, in 1911,
572
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,913
a 99 year-old lady left behind
a wooden-handed nephew,
573
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,958
owner of the Dead-Hand
bar, in Golden Hand St,
574
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,634
to whom she often said what
Sylvain just asked me.
575
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,159
She's already drunk!
576
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:45,870
Look!
577
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,758
An albatross is stubborn.
578
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,150
He knows he can
outlast the wind.
579
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:42,673
Hey, my gravel!
580
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:44,350
My gravel!
581
00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:49,439
V?ronique Passavant,
17th of July, 1920.
582
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,229
I'm writing from Little Louis' bar.
He told me about you.
583
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,755
I must tell you
about an encounter
584
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,274
which left me quite shaken up.
585
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,712
I headed for Bastoche's workshop.
I was feeling down.
586
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,032
I want to talk to Bastoche.
587
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:04,995
Bastoche?
588
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:09,028
He died. At the Front in the Somme.
Didn't you know?
589
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:10,759
I know something else.
590
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,069
What?
591
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,116
From the hospital, where I
care for dying syphilitics,
592
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,312
a patient sends you this.
593
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,270
If you don't want to die, covered
with oozing sores, answer me!
594
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,515
The comrade hiding
with your Bastoche..
595
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:28,955
Tell me..
596
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:30,918
tell me he's Corsican.
597
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,110
I was already traumatized
by nuns when I was little!
598
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,113
Tina Lombardi knows
something we don't.
599
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,435
What?
600
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,079
The Lombardi girl..
601
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,789
she knows something we don't.
602
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,276
That would prove
Bastoche had escaped.
603
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,837
With another condemned prisoner.
604
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,999
That hussy obviously
thinks it's her Angel.
605
00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:00,995
But if Bastoche had escaped,
he'd have looked out for Manech.
606
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:02,509
If he escaped..
607
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,636
Give me that.
608
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,959
With "ifs", a flea could
carry an elephant.
609
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:08,315
Maybe.
610
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,074
But without "ifs", might
as well hang myself.
611
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,552
Thanks to you, I spend my time
picking gravel out of the lawn!
612
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,278
When I see gravel, I make it a
point of arriving in style.
613
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:26,350
For the Miss.
614
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:29,553
Leprince Hardware, Paris,
25th of July, 1920.
615
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,952
Sunday lends itself to writing.
I'm replying regarding
616
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,839
C?lestin Poux and other survivors
from Bingo Cr?puscule.
617
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,709
I knew the fellow. The
smartest thief I ever met.
618
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,349
Thanks to him, I
never went without!
619
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,710
Olivier Nergeton, Animated Toys.
620
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,756
C?lestin Poux was our salvation,
621
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,355
aka the Mess Hall Marauder
or Justa Bit More.
622
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,749
He falsified losses,
623
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,197
making up numbers to
give double rations.
624
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,274
If you should see him, tell
him we'll never forget him.
625
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,551
Etienne Morillon, teacher,
3rd of August, 1920.
626
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,756
He always had us laughing.
627
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,073
He had even trained the
company's mascot for us!
628
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,678
Good morning. What weather!
629
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,310
Germain Pire, private detective.
630
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,198
Mathilde has spoken of you.
631
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,150
Sylvain!
632
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,512
Tell Mathilde to come down.
633
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,876
That Mr. Pry is here to see her.
634
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,597
Poux's been hopping around.
635
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,754
Two days in Dreux,
then Troyes, Castre,
636
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,194
five days in S?te.
637
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,554
It'll take luck and
patience to land him.
638
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,036
Too bad.
639
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,954
H?l?ne, some savoury biscuits.
640
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,599
Taste them.
641
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,399
Tell me what you think.
642
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,276
The kitchen's more comfortable.
643
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:58,908
Thank you, B?n?dicte.
644
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,190
I'll leave you.
645
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,350
Poux can't stay in one place,
whereas Tina Lombardi..
646
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:10,392
she's got us running in circles.
647
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,149
I know. And she's the
queen of disguise.
648
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,033
Anything new on Biscuit?
649
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,918
That's Benjamin Gordes.
650
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,115
The day he won
651
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,836
the Carpentry Prize for the
sixth consecutive year.
652
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:31,990
That's right.
653
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:35,476
Biscuit,
654
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:37,312
Bastoche's best friend,
655
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,278
is none other than
Benjamin Gordes.
656
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,677
A soldier from their company
657
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,435
said they were like brothers
before it went sour.
658
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,596
- Why won't you tell me?
- Stop it!
659
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:52,756
Tell me!
660
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,636
I don't want to fight
you, so stop it!
661
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,757
Why won't you talk?
662
00:49:58,360 --> 00:49:59,679
Whose idea was it?
663
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,553
Mine? No, it was your idea!
664
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:04,710
Bastard!
665
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,279
It was his idea!
666
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,831
All because of a woman!
667
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,109
V?ronique Passavant finished
with Bastoche in June '16.
668
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,148
And just after, he fought like a
mad dog with Benjamin Gordes.
669
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,356
Don't need to be Pythagoras!
670
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,114
They didn't meet again
before Bingo Cr?puscule?
671
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:25,912
Where it all ended!
672
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,878
No, where it all
begins, Mr. Pire.
673
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:29,629
Where it all begins..
674
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,793
Tina Lombardi is sure
Bastoche is alive.
675
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,438
What made him different from
the others that evening?
676
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,755
He was the only carpenter?
677
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,639
Something made Bastoche
different from the others.
678
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,194
His German boots!
679
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,316
He was the only one
with German boots!
680
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,278
Of course. You're right!
681
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,829
Tina Lombardi's discovered that a
man with German boots survived!
682
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,309
I bet he was seen
with a comrade!
683
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,472
I saw two soldiers who
looked like tramps.
684
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:06,631
One wore boots taken
from a Jerry.
685
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,791
He was holding up the other.
686
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:15,311
We also know Bastoche had patched
things up with his best friend!
687
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:16,515
Exactly!
688
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,872
Did it change the course
of events that night?
689
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,711
If I don't break the peel,
690
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,789
Gordes managed to save
Bastoche and Manech.
691
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,677
I'm never going to get
that pie in the oven!
692
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,433
I must go back to Paris.
693
00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:39,039
I must go back to Paris.
694
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,316
Again? That money's
going up in smoke.
695
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:44,629
"Ashes to ashes.."
696
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:22,713
Pilot fish!
697
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:26,073
Excuse me, Elodie Gordes?
698
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:27,912
Over there, selling carrots.
699
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:29,835
Thank you.
700
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,029
Never seen him!
701
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,557
Which one don't you know?
702
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,518
Him, by any chance?
703
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,152
Why did Bastoche and Biscuit argue?
Was it over you?
704
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:52,355
I have nothing to say!
705
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,670
- I want to know!
- Leave me alone!
706
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,793
They last met at
Bingo Cr?puscule.
707
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,597
My fianc? was also there.
With Bastoche.
708
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,118
In that shithole of a trench!
709
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:09,999
I want to understand.
710
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,232
I want to understand!
711
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:21,199
It's not what you think.
712
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,318
I can't talk about it.
Give me your address.
713
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,032
My spelling's terrible
714
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:30,996
but I'll explain it
all in a letter.
715
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:32,070
I promise.
716
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,230
Go ahead! My gravel!
717
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,354
Nothing for me?
718
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:00,195
What?
719
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:01,714
Nothing for me?
720
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,719
Just the newspaper.
721
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:07,038
They talk about everything
except Elodie Gordes.
722
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:08,110
Very funny!
723
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,432
You should read it,
one can learn things!
724
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,719
Has the President opened an
inquest on Bingo Cr?puscule?
725
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,315
He might have done,
726
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,837
if he hadn't fallen from
a train in his pyjamas.
727
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,236
Well, he wears pyjamas!
728
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,037
He wears pyjamas!
729
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,991
We recovered five stiffs.
730
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:47,719
Conclusion..
731
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,191
We knew you were a thief.
But a pyromaniac?
732
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:16,236
All for me?
733
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,152
No. Just this one.
734
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,915
If I'm not picking up gravel,
I'm picking up the postman!
735
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,436
The gravel's gone? A fair fight.
736
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:29,033
Fighting is never fair.
737
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,589
- Can I offer you a short one?
- Won't say no.
738
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,390
Miss, I beg you to keep
my secret to yourself.
739
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,752
When I met my husband, he
already had four children.
740
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:41,194
None were his.
741
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,795
Out of kindness, he'd
married a widow with TB.
742
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,553
She was Polish, like me.
743
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,910
He adopted her children
before her death.
744
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,957
I was also an unmarried mother.
745
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,597
He then found himself
the father of five,
746
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,876
though he couldn't
have any of his own.
747
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,072
You're going to run me over!
748
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,670
We had four years of tenderness.
749
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:09,190
We had plans.
750
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,954
We dreamt of seeing
the sea together.
751
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:13,753
Then the war came.
752
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,360
I thought Bastoche would
take care of him,
753
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:18,828
their being posted together.
754
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,998
But during his leave,
in September, 1915,
755
00:56:22,240 --> 00:56:23,958
just after the battle of Artois,
756
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,312
I knew nothing would
ever be the same.
757
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,595
Over there, it's all
we have to keep going.
758
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,353
Once, in a burning field,
I saw some comrades..
759
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,319
Their cartridge belts
exploded like fireworks.
760
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:08,109
Once, we even had to use
the body of a friend
761
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,991
as a shield.
762
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,949
There had been
something on his mind.
763
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,795
He came out with it
on the second night.
764
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,677
If I desert, the gendarmes
will come and get me.
765
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,793
My only way out is to
have a sixth child.
766
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,910
If you have six children,
they send you home.
767
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,834
As I said, he couldn't
have children.
768
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,436
I didn't dare think
what was on his mind,
769
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,750
but he just wouldn't let it go.
770
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,273
It's not betrayal
if I'm asking you.
771
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,158
Especially if it's
with Bastoche.
772
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:03,995
Don't touch!
773
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,955
The five aren't mine,
so why not a sixth?
774
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,715
You'd have nine months to wait.
The war will be over by then.
775
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,518
It will never be over. Never!
776
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,957
They'd be nine months of hope.
Have you no heart?
777
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,958
And then one day, I found a
note from Kl?ber Bouquet,
778
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:24,838
known as Bastoche,
779
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:29,358
saying to tie a coloured cloth at
the window if he wasn't to come up.
780
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:44,276
Coffee?
781
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:45,999
I'd love some!
782
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:47,828
- After you.
- Please.
783
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:57,315
Thank you.
784
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:01,796
Sugar?
785
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:03,553
No, thank you.
786
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:10,989
It's mother of pearl?
787
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,790
Yes, Benjamin made it.
788
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,798
- It's odd..
- How strange we never met.
789
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,917
The children aren't here?
790
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:29,309
Yes, but..
791
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:31,593
they're playing outside.
792
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,230
- A pick-me-up?
- Please.
793
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,831
No, no.. Sorry.
794
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,032
I don't fancy one.
795
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,318
Neither do I.
796
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:52,198
Elodie, we'll say we've done it.
797
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,158
It'll calm him down.
798
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,119
It will make things
easier for you, for me..
799
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:00,308
for everybody.
800
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,873
Funny how your smile
opens the parentheses.
801
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,631
I'll close them as
late as possible..
802
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,830
In two days, at the
train station.
803
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:40,389
Come on..
804
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:43,072
give me one last smile.
805
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,231
To close the parentheses.
806
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,198
I didn't even get pregnant!
807
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,832
But soon, fear no longer
tormented my husband.
808
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:56,393
It was jealousy.
809
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,393
"Where? When? Often?
Which positions?"
810
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,428
"Did you enjoy it?" It became
a living hell for both of us.
811
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,518
Now, Bastoche is
dead, as you know,
812
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,197
and my husband was killed
in a hospital bombing.
813
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:17,516
It's a relief to confide in you.
At times, I think I'm going mad.
814
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:19,153
Elodie Gordes.
815
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:21,557
Matti! Hurry up.
816
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,473
Mr. Rouvi?re is on the phone.
He's waiting.
817
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:25,789
Come on!
818
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,475
Mathilde? Pierre-Marie here.
819
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:48,474
I have some bad news.
820
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,875
Not really bad.. News you're
already supposed to know.
821
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,354
But news you can
no longer ignore.
822
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,273
You were right
about one thing..
823
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:05,469
Manech and his four comrades were
in that absurdly named trench.
824
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,995
They were buried in the
Herdelin cemetery,
825
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:15,474
after being temporarily buried under
a tarpaulin in a bomb crater.
826
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,398
That's that, my dear Mathilde.
827
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,513
In June, 1909, Mathilde
is 9 years old.
828
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,191
Manech Langonnet is 10.
829
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:35,953
Does it hurt when you walk?
830
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,595
It's Friday, or Saturday..
831
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:42,477
Mathilde can't remember.
832
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,034
Do you have any friends?
833
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:51,596
I can be your friend.
834
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,158
Do I stink of fish?
835
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,510
Ever been to the top
of the lighthouse?
836
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,879
I can carry you to the
top of the stairs.
837
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,674
Because my dad's the keeper!
838
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,196
Be stuck-up then! Church mouse!
Country bumpkin!
839
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:14,635
Do you want a kick in the pants?
840
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,197
Can you see far from the top?
841
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,034
I'm going to gobble
up your ears!
842
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:23,750
I'll throw you in the dungeon!
843
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,473
I am the squid's servant!
844
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,478
Doggie fart, gladdens my heart!
845
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,155
Manech's Marrying Mathilde!
846
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:35,193
Mathilde's Marrying Manech!
847
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:04,954
- I don't smoke.
- I know, but take it..
848
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:08,791
It'll help you make new friends.
849
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,076
If I reach the bend
before the car,
850
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:48,117
Manech will come back alive!
851
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:51,878
If I reach the bend..
852
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,796
If I reach the bend
before the car..
853
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,397
Manech will come back alive..
854
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:14,359
If I reach the bend..
855
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,078
You used to brag about being
one year older than me.
856
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,516
Now I'm older than you.
857
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:21,269
The man who gave you his
glove is called Poux.
858
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:23,388
C?lestin Poux.
859
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:25,193
Funny, isn't it?
860
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,269
The man I hired to
find him is Pire.
861
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:33,593
Germain Pire.
862
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:36,474
Strange name, too.
863
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,596
Either way, he hasn't found him.
Nor the Corsican's whore.
864
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:45,317
The wire's snapped, Manech,
865
01:10:46,480 --> 01:10:47,879
but I'm not giving up.
866
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,514
I still believe that
Tina Lombardi's a lead.
867
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:56,431
I need to be sure.
868
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,188
You understand, right?
869
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:03,517
That's why I must
find C?lestin Poux.
870
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,756
You can be really
annoying, you know.
871
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:15,235
We would be so much
better in Brittany.
872
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:19,993
Let's go, Mathilde.
873
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:23,312
You'll catch cold.
874
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:50,991
Thouvenel!
875
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:56,799
What do you want?
876
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:05,719
Who are you?
877
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,512
Was it you who phoned?
878
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:14,469
Who are you?
879
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:45,754
The days go by. Still no
news of C?lestin Poux.
880
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:47,951
Mathilde's sadness
is overwhelming.
881
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,754
She must eat. She's
making herself ill.
882
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:53,752
Leave her the marrowbone.
883
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:03,153
Her sadness is beginning
to rub off on us.
884
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:08,715
And so,
885
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,232
in the middle of the night on
the 15th of September, 1920,
886
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:14,118
the wire is re-tied.
887
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:35,714
"Victory! I've finally
found the roaming Poux."
888
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,916
"Sent by the grace of God
and Davidson motors."
889
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,958
"All expenses paid, of course.
Germain Pire."
890
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,430
C?lestin Poux, Terror
of the Tarmac!
891
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:47,348
The ad was yours?
892
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,239
Mathilde tightly
clasps her hands,
893
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,949
to keep from shaking and crying
894
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:55,550
and making a fool of herself.
895
01:13:57,480 --> 01:13:59,436
I didn't actually see
your fianc? get hit.
896
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:00,874
I went to get the stew
897
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,156
and ran into Leb?gue, a
guy I met in the Vosges.
898
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:07,279
A native of the Meuse. Or
rather a na?ve of the Meuse.
899
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,836
Even so, he could tell good
coffee from a stomach remedy.
900
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:14,595
I know. I tried to sell him a
mixture of coffee and charcoal
901
01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:16,478
in exchange for
some Dutch tobacco.
902
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:18,392
So, the last time
you saw Manech,
903
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:20,593
he was alive?
904
01:14:22,480 --> 01:14:24,550
You couldn't miss him.
905
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:26,836
Carving Ms on a
burnt tree trunk,
906
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,191
smack in the middle
of no-man's-land.
907
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,797
He carved three Ms before
the albatross got him.
908
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:35,550
Albatross!
909
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:37,513
"Albatross."
910
01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:39,911
"Great sweeping sea bird,"
911
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,879
"indolent traveling companion,"
912
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:45,238
"gliding with ships"
913
01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:46,913
"upon bitter deep."
914
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,392
It's a poem by Baudelaire.
915
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,676
It was also a Jerry bomber.
916
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,638
The machine gun was at the rear.
917
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,394
We couldn't shoot yet
through the propeller.
918
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,516
It was you who gave
him the glove?
919
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:45,678
A thick woolen red one.
920
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,430
My fianc?e spent her time knitting
scarves and mittens for me.
921
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:52,474
I traded them with
frostbitten Senegalese
922
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:54,875
in exchange for
Germans' gold teeth.
923
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:57,516
I melted them down
after the Armistice.
924
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:58,988
They paid for my Harley.
925
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:00,710
But..
926
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,756
are you sure Manech's dead?
927
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,474
A comrade told me, with
a wound like that..
928
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:10,911
he didn't stand a chance.
929
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:16,119
I only saw three of them get
killed with my own eyes.
930
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:17,515
I surrender!
931
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:19,470
I surrender!
932
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:20,715
Don't shoot!
933
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,118
I beg you! I surrender!
934
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:25,472
Let me through!
935
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:27,319
I'm on your side!
936
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:35,949
I'm not French, I'm Corsican!
937
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:37,838
I've nothing against you!
938
01:16:38,440 --> 01:16:39,634
Poor bastard.
939
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:43,599
So, he's not French!
940
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:46,599
Let's cancel his
birth certificate.
941
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,550
A French corporal
dealt with him..
942
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,759
Thouvenel. A
trigger-happy swine!
943
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,474
He had a heart made of
stone, but a sharp eye.
944
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:03,949
Poor bastard!
945
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:07,433
I guess you like it.
946
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:09,916
I'd kill my parents
for a good stew!
947
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,113
Don't worry, he's an orphan.
948
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:13,952
The same goes for truffles.
949
01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:17,397
If you like truffles, I
have one from P?rigord..
950
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:19,596
Which ones did you see die?
951
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:22,079
The one with gangrene.
952
01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:24,151
Six-Sous.
953
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:25,953
Yes, the welder.
954
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:28,628
Comrades..
955
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:30,914
Before dying..
956
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:32,753
I have a final request.
957
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,312
I want to piss standing up.
958
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,073
Like a man!
959
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:40,869
And then, you can fire away
to your heart's content!
960
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:48,516
So long to life, so long to love
961
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:52,389
So long to all those women
962
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,159
It's all over
963
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,155
Done forever
964
01:17:59,480 --> 01:18:02,313
This shameful war
965
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:06,474
At Craonne, on the plateau
966
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:10,349
That's where we'll
leave our skins
967
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:13,592
For we've all been sentenced
968
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:18,909
We are the sacrificed
969
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:27,516
And Bastoche?
970
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:29,352
He was so well hidden,
971
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:31,392
we couldn't locate him.
972
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:33,876
Even at dawn, when he
answered roll call,
973
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:37,511
no one knew where he was.
A ventriloquist!
974
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:39,432
No, he was a carpenter.
975
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:40,830
No matter.
976
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:44,875
He was shot down by the Albatross,
along with your fianc?.
977
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:11,230
The Albatross caught fire and
crashed on the enemy line.
978
01:19:11,480 --> 01:19:12,799
Return to sender.
979
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,195
What about the Dordogne farmer?
980
01:19:18,440 --> 01:19:21,398
He played dead from the beginning.
Not that it saved him.
981
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:25,317
The Jerries didn't
appreciate the grenade.
982
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,433
Don't look! It'll
only make it worse.
983
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,911
When I got back with the stew,
bullets were flying everywhere.
984
01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:34,670
Heavy shelling had begun.
985
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,360
Damn! No one can imagine
what it's like.
986
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,677
Can't move your legs, your heart
beats like a scared animal.
987
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,672
Then I saw the Dordogne
farmer shatter into pieces.
988
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:57,955
Attack, before we're
all slaughtered.
989
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:00,711
Prepare bayonets!
990
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,350
All that was nothing
compared to what followed.
991
01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:20,998
For France!
992
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:23,149
Charge!
993
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:47,233
We'd passed the five
prisoners bodies
994
01:21:47,480 --> 01:21:50,677
when the Jerry machine guns
started spitting bullets.
995
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:52,395
We were wiped out!
996
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,157
That Lavrouye bastard! He
kept the paper to himself.
997
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:41,628
Stretcher-bearers!
998
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:44,597
What paper?
999
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:46,913
That's all he said.
1000
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,755
That evening, there was
enough food to feed an army.
1001
01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:00,198
Favart and Chardolot
were counting losses.
1002
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,399
Why do those five show up
on our battalion list?
1003
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:06,199
We're only following orders.
1004
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:08,029
Something stinks here.
1005
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,794
Something stinks?
Lavrouye stinks.
1006
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:14,715
This food doesn't. Dig
in before it gets cold.
1007
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:19,068
It's cold!
1008
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,958
So you only saw three
of them get killed.
1009
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:24,110
With your own eyes.
1010
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,912
False hope will only
make you suffer.
1011
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:29,195
They're not false!
1012
01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:30,759
You'll taste my cake?
1013
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,274
I don't know if I should.
1014
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:34,158
With a bit of fresh cream.
1015
01:23:34,440 --> 01:23:35,919
If you insist..
1016
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,951
I like people who
appreciate my food.
1017
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:42,912
I'll put her to bed.
1018
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:45,517
Let's all get some sleep.
1019
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:07,399
Slow down!
1020
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:12,230
You lack control, no style..
1021
01:24:12,480 --> 01:24:15,119
You're better at
raking than skidding!
1022
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:18,033
Hey, Postman! I'll drop you
off at the next letterbox.
1023
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:18,996
And my bike?
1024
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,516
Leave it to me. I fought in the war!
I don't have a desk job.
1025
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:26,870
It's not my fault.
I'm asthmatic!
1026
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:28,792
An asthmatic who rides a bike!
1027
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:30,996
- By the sea.
- Sure, by the sea!
1028
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,276
C?lestin, it's not a sidecar.
1029
01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:37,638
Those men, they never grow up..
1030
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:39,836
As long as they don't
play soldiers.
1031
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:45,358
"Tell old Bernay.. settle up by March.
His manure's too costly.."
1032
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:49,229
He wouldn't write such trivialities.
Don't you agree?
1033
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:52,358
There must be a code.
1034
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:53,874
Except lovers' codes
1035
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:57,510
can't be cracked with brains
or divine intervention.
1036
01:24:59,960 --> 01:25:01,075
And Bastoche?
1037
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:05,115
If he was seen with his German
boots, he must have survived.
1038
01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:06,913
Not so, Miss.
1039
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:10,909
Gordes didn't let him go over
the top with those boots.
1040
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:18,399
If the Jerries see these,
1041
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,394
they'll know you've
stripped one of their dead.
1042
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,559
So Tina Lombardi's
on the wrong track.
1043
01:25:30,440 --> 01:25:31,759
The one with the boots
1044
01:25:33,440 --> 01:25:34,668
wasn't Bastoche.
1045
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:36,194
It was Gordes!
1046
01:25:36,440 --> 01:25:37,395
That's right, Miss!
1047
01:25:38,440 --> 01:25:40,032
He was with a boy,
1048
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:41,838
from the class of '17..
Desrochelles.
1049
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:45,797
I'd met some stretcher-bearers
who'd just passed them.
1050
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:48,388
Are you from Bingo?
1051
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:50,029
Might be.
1052
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:52,157
Tell them Gordes is wounded.
1053
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:55,392
- He's with a boy who's worse off.
- Desrochelles.
1054
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,596
- They're off to first-aid.
- With German boots!
1055
01:25:57,840 --> 01:25:58,955
Long Live Anarchy!
1056
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:02,199
Anarchy.
1057
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:19,678
What's happened, Matti?
1058
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:21,349
What did I say?
1059
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:24,393
Open up!
1060
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:27,678
Be reasonable.
1061
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:29,717
- What did you do?
- Nothing.
1062
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:32,991
You've known he's
dead for three years.
1063
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:34,593
I call that stubbornness.
1064
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,911
No, I call that hope.
1065
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:38,633
Poux has just killed it.
1066
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,235
If I can do anything..
1067
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:48,476
You can.
1068
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:51,796
Take me to Bingo Cr?puscule.
1069
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:08,194
An Indian princess
on her elephant.
1070
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,868
With her hunters, on
the Trail of Sorrow.
1071
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:15,114
It was there!
1072
01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:16,515
Right there!
1073
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:20,955
At a hundred yards,
facing Bingo,
1074
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,279
was Erlangen, the Jerry trench.
1075
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,355
Where's the burnt tree trunk?
1076
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,114
All the stumps and debris
1077
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:33,991
were used to fill
in the trenches.
1078
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:39,039
We found the five over
there, under a tarpaulin,
1079
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:41,236
covered with earth.
1080
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:43,716
- Not a pretty sight.
- No doubt!
1081
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:45,916
The youngest was only a boy.
1082
01:27:47,440 --> 01:27:49,510
Was he wearing a glove?
1083
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:51,598
A red, woolen glove?
1084
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:54,957
They all had one
bandaged hand, but..
1085
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:58,715
nothing on the other. I can't
remember seeing a glove.
1086
01:27:58,960 --> 01:27:59,597
Athos!
1087
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:03,193
I don't like him
digging like that.
1088
01:28:03,440 --> 01:28:04,634
Around here,
1089
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:09,032
you never know what junk
you might come across,
1090
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:11,430
that can blow off
an arm or a leg.
1091
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:15,309
It's the crypt!
1092
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:19,070
There was a chapel between
the two trenches.
1093
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,750
It was in ruins.
1094
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,434
Incredible. I don't
recognize a thing.
1095
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:50,432
Could Manech have lost
the glove as he fell?
1096
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:53,959
It was tightly knitted
and tightly fitted.
1097
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,988
I used the other one in the
kitchens until the end of the war.
1098
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,037
Maybe he took it off to carve?
1099
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:03,955
I couldn't say.
1100
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:05,879
But I don't think so.
1101
01:29:06,440 --> 01:29:08,874
What sort of red was it?
Bright red?
1102
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:11,115
A flashy red.
1103
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:15,476
With white dots. Looked
like maggots on an apple!
1104
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,071
Sorry to disturb you like this.
1105
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:34,835
My husband's family suffered
greatly in the war.
1106
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:37,036
I didn't want to go over
1107
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,158
to a French soldier's
table in front of him.
1108
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:43,559
What can you tell me?
1109
01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:46,350
Before dying, my brother Gunther
1110
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:50,639
saw your fianc? carve those
three letters on a tree.
1111
01:29:51,480 --> 01:29:54,074
He was wearing a
red, spotted glove.
1112
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:56,880
A comrade of Gunther's
told me the story.
1113
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:00,877
When our plane shot
down your fianc?,
1114
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,197
they were sick to the stomach.
1115
01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:04,954
After that,
1116
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:06,599
it was a nightmare.
1117
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:34,629
God spared that
French soldier twice.
1118
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:41,149
Then.. your side attacked.
1119
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:43,792
They killed my brother.
1120
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:47,273
He was 23 years old.
1121
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:50,599
I came to see his cross
at the cemetery.
1122
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:51,875
I'm sorry.
1123
01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:56,672
Time heals all. You'll see.
1124
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,400
I'll get back, he'll
be getting worried.
1125
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:12,873
Seems I haven't killed it.
1126
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:14,391
Pardon?
1127
01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:16,189
Hope!
1128
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:32,395
What now?
1129
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,473
Tina Lombardi. She's
going to the guillotine!
1130
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:37,517
They call her the
"Officer Killer".
1131
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:40,634
She's killed Lavrouye
and Thouvenel.
1132
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:43,394
And planned to kill
Mar?chal P?tain.
1133
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,073
When I think you sat in a
wheelchair to soften me up!
1134
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:26,513
I'll talk only to you,
1135
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:29,917
because I know we're
very similar.
1136
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:32,711
We'll leave them alone.
1137
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:39,797
What I did, you
could've done, too.
1138
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:41,949
I don't think so.
1139
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:44,948
I'd be too scared.
1140
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:46,959
I'm not scared.
1141
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:49,673
And I regret nothing.
1142
01:32:51,480 --> 01:32:52,629
Except my hair.
1143
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:57,516
I'll be treated to a bowl-cut
before the execution.
1144
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:02,071
I'll look like Joan of
Arc when I see my Angel!
1145
01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:06,196
Why did you want to kill P?tain?
1146
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:09,273
Throwing mutilated soldiers
over the top was his idea.
1147
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:11,312
Why not Poincar??
1148
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:13,194
He refused them a pardon.
1149
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:15,589
You don't know?
1150
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:20,473
He did pardon them. All five!
1151
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:23,389
It's just a leave.
1152
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:26,678
Lavrouye kept the
paper for himself.
1153
01:33:27,160 --> 01:33:28,957
Why did that dog
Lavrouye do that?
1154
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:33,276
Because dirty dogs play dirty.
That's all.
1155
01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:07,192
Trust me on this.
1156
01:34:07,440 --> 01:34:08,839
I took care of him!
1157
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:15,273
You and I have been running
the same investigation.
1158
01:34:16,480 --> 01:34:17,959
Each in our own way.
1159
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:22,716
Looking for survivors
from Bingo,
1160
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:26,516
I picked up a male nurse who'd
treated Angel and the others.
1161
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:30,311
This guy, Phillipot, was
sure he'd seen one of them.
1162
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,230
A big man, with a head wound.
1163
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,313
He was a big man. Head
wound, German boots..
1164
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:40,599
He wore German boots and was
carrying a thin-built soldier.
1165
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,752
I think that's about right.
I'm even sure of it.
1166
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:46,271
A big man, head wound..
1167
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:49,639
His superior told him
to keep his mouth shut.
1168
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:54,434
You can imagine how
overwhelmed with hope I was.
1169
01:34:56,480 --> 01:34:58,994
And then, I met the man
who shattered my dreams.
1170
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:02,278
Chief Sergeant Favart.
1171
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:08,158
He told me how that pig Thouvenel
had shot my Angel, just like that!
1172
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:10,239
Like taking a leak.
1173
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:17,034
I took care of him, too!
1174
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:21,553
It was an obsession.
1175
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,309
Kill all those who hurt my man.
1176
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:32,316
Your Angel left you this.
1177
01:35:52,400 --> 01:35:54,994
"Vengeance is pointless.
Try to be happy,"
1178
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:56,992
"and don't ruin
your life for me."
1179
01:35:57,240 --> 01:35:58,912
"Your Angel from Hell."
1180
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:07,394
Departure for Paris, Platform 2.
1181
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:10,871
Gordes, the one who switched
boots with Bastoche..
1182
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:12,235
was he big?
1183
01:36:12,480 --> 01:36:15,950
Biscuit? He was no athlete.
Just a guy like you or me.
1184
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:18,231
And you have no news
of Desrochelles?
1185
01:36:18,480 --> 01:36:22,678
He didn't make friends easily.
He lived alone with his mother.
1186
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:26,072
I must go. I'm boarding
in an hour for Venezuela.
1187
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:28,433
Good luck, C?lestin!
1188
01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:29,715
To you too!
1189
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:39,790
When I think you hid
Poincar?'s pardon!
1190
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:44,397
I didn't want to throw
salt on the wound.
1191
01:36:44,720 --> 01:36:46,153
I'd like one last favour.
1192
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:49,315
I suppose it concerns
Bingo-thingy?
1193
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:51,148
Son of bookseller,
Desrochelles Paul,
1194
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:52,799
born in Sarreguemines,
1195
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:55,474
died in February, 1897..
1196
01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:58,119
That's it, Desrochelles Jean!
1197
01:36:58,360 --> 01:36:59,395
What?
1198
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:03,029
In Saintes.
1199
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:05,389
In the Charentes.
1200
01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:12,910
Tell me, Mr. Pire, Tina Lombardi..
You had an inkling
1201
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:14,559
of what she was up to.
1202
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:16,956
Luckily, your paths
didn't cross.
1203
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:19,714
He who pries, flies,
when danger lurks.
1204
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:22,115
He who pries, pries,
but, from a distance.
1205
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,510
I've a new lead for you.
1206
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:28,036
Jean Desrochelles. Evacuated from the
Front on the 7th of January '17.
1207
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,829
His only next of kin was his
mother, the widow Desrochelles.
1208
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:35,436
She lives at 22 rue de I'Abbaye.
Saintes, in the Charentes.
1209
01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:37,199
All the work's been done!
1210
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:41,909
You've tried to reach me?
1211
01:37:43,440 --> 01:37:46,273
My brother's comrade, the
one I told you about..
1212
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:50,593
He remembered something
that might interest you.
1213
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:54,795
The two French soldiers
escorting him that morning,
1214
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:57,873
wanted to go back
through no-man's-land.
1215
01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:00,156
They saw the prisoners' bodies.
1216
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:02,675
One was in a kind
of small cellar.
1217
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:05,559
The French soldiers
seemed surprised.
1218
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:09,232
I don't know if
that can help you.
1219
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:11,836
Thank you.
1220
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:19,158
"Tell old Bernay I want
to settle up by March."
1221
01:38:19,400 --> 01:38:22,915
"His manure's too costly,
watch out for him."
1222
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:26,550
"His manure's too costly.."
1223
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:28,995
There must be a code.
1224
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:44,718
Your Mr. Pry called!
1225
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:47,276
He's run into a
dead-end in Saintes.
1226
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:48,475
I know!
1227
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:01,159
Hello! Go ahead.
1228
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:04,236
Yes, Miss. I remember you.
1229
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:08,429
Old Bernay? No,
never heard of him.
1230
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:11,551
Beno?t Notre Dame used the
manure from his animals.
1231
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:13,313
He never bought it!
1232
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:15,279
Thank you, Father.
1233
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:18,872
I must decode this letter.
1234
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:21,638
I think we're getting hot.
1235
01:39:56,400 --> 01:39:58,914
Will be - Bernay - March
1236
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:00,428
Sell - Everything
1237
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:01,749
Say - Nothing
1238
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:04,070
Listen - No one
1239
01:40:04,760 --> 01:40:05,590
Beno?t
1240
01:40:54,440 --> 01:40:57,079
Excuse me, the "End
of the World" farm?
1241
01:40:57,640 --> 01:40:59,756
The last house at the
end of the road.
1242
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:20,233
And if he doesn't come?
1243
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:22,039
He'll come, don't worry.
1244
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:23,793
Come back in two hours.
1245
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:55,109
Hello, Mathilde.
1246
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:57,794
It's dangerous to want
to bring back the dead.
1247
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:01,910
When I saw your ad in the paper,
1248
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:04,914
I knew, in time, the
gendarmes would come.
1249
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:07,795
Don't worry.
1250
01:42:08,480 --> 01:42:10,596
I had the chance to
do away with you..
1251
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:12,193
I let it go.
1252
01:42:37,440 --> 01:42:40,512
We knew you were a thief.
But a pyromaniac?
1253
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:42,432
I couldn't kill you.
1254
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:45,553
Now, even the rabbits and
chickens, my wife has to do it.
1255
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:47,313
The war's taken it out of me.
1256
01:42:47,560 --> 01:42:49,278
You know what I want to hear.
1257
01:42:50,360 --> 01:42:51,475
Is he alive?
1258
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,436
The last time I saw him,
he wasn't doing well.
1259
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:00,279
But he's stronger than he looks.
1260
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:12,194
Don't stay together.
1261
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,997
When things calmed down, I
tried to get some sleep.
1262
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:37,073
- Gaignard!
- You think we're at the whorehouse?
1263
01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:38,958
- Bouquet!
- What now?
1264
01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:40,519
Notre Dame?
1265
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:49,515
Then the pimp tried
to surrender.
1266
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:52,155
And the welder from
Paris was killed.
1267
01:43:54,440 --> 01:43:56,590
Your fianc? started
carving on the tree.
1268
01:43:57,200 --> 01:43:59,270
Then, the Jerries'
Albatross arrived.
1269
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,234
I came to, when the
ground started shaking.
1270
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:35,076
I don't know what happened.
I just saw that trapdoor
1271
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:36,639
the shell had half-opened.
1272
01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:54,995
For France!
1273
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:56,434
Charge!
1274
01:45:07,800 --> 01:45:10,519
They entered no-man's-land.
At the second German line,
1275
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:14,237
the machine guns got them.
A few hours later,
1276
01:45:14,680 --> 01:45:16,193
a voice woke me.
1277
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:20,069
My God! Bastoche is dead!
1278
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:21,549
We can't leave him here.
1279
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:23,711
We'll come back. He's
not going anywhere.
1280
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:25,593
Bastoche is dead.
1281
01:45:28,440 --> 01:45:30,351
Look, this one's still moving.
1282
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:32,795
It's the Cornflower.
He's a goner as well.
1283
01:45:49,480 --> 01:45:51,072
A shell had ripped the door off.
1284
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:53,511
One of the guys
arrived, in bad shape.
1285
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:55,193
Bastoche is dead!
1286
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:03,272
We're all going to die.
1287
01:46:04,840 --> 01:46:05,909
I recognized Bastoche's friend.
1288
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,674
The one who'd taken
his German boots.
1289
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:22,555
After eating, I
smoked his tobacco.
1290
01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:24,878
Then, I heard more voices.
1291
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:26,559
Let's go look over there.
1292
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:28,795
Look here!
1293
01:46:29,440 --> 01:46:30,589
Damn it!
1294
01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:33,993
It's not the Cornflower.
1295
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:40,198
What's he doing in there?
1296
01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:43,358
Where's the Dordogne farmer?
1297
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:07,316
- I'm cold.
- Don't worry.
1298
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:28,559
He was really messed up,
1299
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:31,993
but your fianc? wanted to live.
I saw it in his eyes.
1300
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:39,319
I put him on my shoulders and
set off through the trench.
1301
01:48:43,720 --> 01:48:45,233
He was burning with fever.
1302
01:48:46,120 --> 01:48:47,951
I felt the heat on my back.
1303
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:51,312
And he was delirious.
1304
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:54,672
Spoke of a heart
beating in his hand.
1305
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:02,875
Hey, Corporal!
1306
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:05,191
Only 500 yards to the hospital.
1307
01:49:05,440 --> 01:49:07,351
Want us to put your
friend on the stretcher?
1308
01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:08,589
No, thanks.
1309
01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:11,070
If you see any
officers from Bingo,
1310
01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:15,836
tell them Corporal Gordes has gone
to the hospital with Desrochelles.
1311
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:17,399
Have it your way!
1312
01:49:18,120 --> 01:49:20,076
I arrived just before
the explosion.
1313
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:22,914
Headquarters had the good
idea of setting up hospital
1314
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:25,958
in a hangar containing a
hydrogen-packed zeppelin.
1315
01:49:32,520 --> 01:49:35,273
The Cornflower has
just been evacuated.
1316
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:38,389
Will he make it?
1317
01:49:39,200 --> 01:49:43,398
His hip wound isn't too bad. But
he has a severe case of pneumonia.
1318
01:49:44,960 --> 01:49:48,077
You're both registered
according to your tag numbers.
1319
01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:51,552
I don't want to know anything else.
But good luck anyway!
1320
01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:40,588
Block the pulley!
1321
01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:15,675
Please!
1322
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:48,314
After that, I walked to Bernay.
1323
01:51:49,160 --> 01:51:51,674
I had no idea if my wife
had received my letter,
1324
01:51:51,880 --> 01:51:54,519
so each day I waited for
her at the bus-stop.
1325
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:04,272
With the money from the sale,
we bought a farm here.
1326
01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:07,275
The most isolated
one we could find.
1327
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:09,995
They call it "The
End of the World".
1328
01:52:17,960 --> 01:52:18,915
That's it.
1329
01:52:22,240 --> 01:52:23,229
Goodbye.
1330
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:28,389
How strange.
1331
01:52:29,360 --> 01:52:31,715
You shot a hole right
through your lifeline.
1332
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:33,519
Of course.
1333
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:37,071
I died. At Bingo Cr?puscule,
like your fianc?.
1334
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:47,872
If ever you find Jean
Desrochelles alive somewhere,
1335
01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:49,559
let me know.
1336
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:51,354
You know where to find me.
1337
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:04,315
Make yourself at home!
1338
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:06,312
At Christmas, come
down the chimney!
1339
01:53:06,560 --> 01:53:07,788
For Miss Mathilde.
1340
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:10,472
I'll give it to her later.
1341
01:53:10,960 --> 01:53:12,313
If I were you..
1342
01:53:12,840 --> 01:53:14,319
I would wake her up.
1343
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:20,789
What is it?
1344
01:53:38,120 --> 01:53:39,269
"He's alive."
1345
01:53:41,080 --> 01:53:42,798
"Stay where you are, Mathilde."
1346
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:44,871
"Just stay where you are."
1347
01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:46,474
"I'm on my way."
1348
01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:48,233
"Germain Pire."
1349
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:57,678
How silly I am!
1350
01:54:19,440 --> 01:54:22,352
Peerless on the prowl,
faster than a whippet!
1351
01:54:22,920 --> 01:54:26,151
He's well and truly alive,
but he's lost his memory!
1352
01:54:26,480 --> 01:54:30,837
Total amnesia. He even had to
learn to read and write again.
1353
01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:35,113
The psychiatrists treating him
since '17 aren't hopeful.
1354
01:54:35,560 --> 01:54:37,039
But who knows?
1355
01:54:37,280 --> 01:54:41,159
There are as many
amnesias as amnesiacs.
1356
01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:42,590
Where is he?
1357
01:54:42,880 --> 01:54:44,199
In Milly-la-For?t.
1358
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:48,593
Orphaned for the second time.
He's just lost his adopted mother.
1359
01:54:52,120 --> 01:54:54,839
Pierre-Marie, do
you know Mr. Pire?
1360
01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:56,674
By reputation.
1361
01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:57,955
An honour.
1362
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:02,315
Mathilde, I'll believe
it when I see it.
1363
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:03,989
"With my own eyes!"
1364
01:55:04,480 --> 01:55:06,198
When Jean Desrochelles was born,
1365
01:55:06,600 --> 01:55:08,795
his mother was 40, and
had no other children.
1366
01:55:09,040 --> 01:55:10,632
When the gendarmes took him..
1367
01:55:10,960 --> 01:55:12,996
To replenish the
troops in Ardennes.
1368
01:55:13,240 --> 01:55:14,639
She became depressed.
1369
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:17,719
One day, a comrade of
her son visited her..
1370
01:55:18,200 --> 01:55:19,235
Chardolot!
1371
01:55:20,560 --> 01:55:22,357
Unfortunately, it was Jean.
1372
01:55:23,760 --> 01:55:27,036
A shell had got him. He'd already
been dead for a few hours.
1373
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:30,079
I should also tell you..
1374
01:55:31,520 --> 01:55:34,557
Maybe the youngest prisoner
has taken Jean's identity..
1375
01:55:37,240 --> 01:55:38,719
exchanging tag numbers.
1376
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:45,711
She went off her rocker the
day the hospital rang her,
1377
01:55:46,480 --> 01:55:49,199
asking to come to
her son's bedside.
1378
01:55:51,520 --> 01:55:53,590
He's sleeping. I'll leave you.
1379
01:56:16,040 --> 01:56:17,393
Who are you?
1380
01:56:17,960 --> 01:56:19,757
Your mother, my darling.
1381
01:56:21,440 --> 01:56:22,998
I'm your mother.
1382
01:56:24,120 --> 01:56:25,792
I ran my own little
investigation.
1383
01:56:26,240 --> 01:56:28,117
Mrs. Desrochelles
died two months ago.
1384
01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:31,033
Run over by a truck after a
fight with a shopkeeper.
1385
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:32,713
And I'm not guessing!
1386
01:56:33,520 --> 01:56:35,715
- It's in the report.
- We already knew that.
1387
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:43,238
Don't get upset.
1388
01:56:43,840 --> 01:56:47,310
Mrs. Desrochelles didn't suffer,
she died straight away.
1389
01:56:47,560 --> 01:56:48,834
It's not that.
1390
01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:51,198
I feel so guilty!
1391
01:56:52,720 --> 01:56:55,314
I didn't believe you,
my dear Mathilde!
1392
01:56:55,560 --> 01:56:57,198
I should have known!
1393
01:56:57,960 --> 01:56:59,473
I'm so sorry.
1394
01:57:06,560 --> 01:57:09,518
In what she would refer to
as her "Milly Expedition",
1395
01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:13,116
the sun, the sky and
nature are with her.
1396
01:57:13,480 --> 01:57:16,756
As a true lady, she made every
effort to look her best.
1397
01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:18,958
Dressed in white for freshness,
1398
01:57:19,200 --> 01:57:22,636
lipstick for the occasion,
eyebrows shaped.
1399
01:57:22,880 --> 01:57:25,599
But none of that black which
lengthens the eyelashes.
1400
01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:27,956
She knows that tears
can make a mess of it.
1401
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:50,312
He knows about your visit.
1402
01:57:50,560 --> 01:57:53,677
We said a young girl he'd
dearly loved was coming here.
1403
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:56,514
He asked your name and
found it very beautiful.
1404
01:57:57,160 --> 01:57:59,594
He's in the garden.
He's waiting for you.
1405
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:04,472
Does it hurt when you walk?
1406
02:00:12,640 --> 02:00:14,073
Want to see what I'm doing?
1407
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:28,956
I'll show you later,
when it's finished.
1408
02:00:35,680 --> 02:00:36,999
But why are you crying?
1409
02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:45,433
Mathilde leans back
against her chair,
1410
02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:49,796
folds her hands in her
lap and looks at him.
1411
02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:54,439
In the sweetness of the air,
in the light of the garden,
1412
02:00:55,120 --> 02:00:56,792
Mathilde looks at him.
1413
02:00:57,560 --> 02:00:59,118
She looks at him..
1414
02:00:59,600 --> 02:01:00,999
She looks at him..
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