1 00:01:14,417 --> 00:01:15,792 INDO-CHINA 2 00:02:50,042 --> 00:02:51,958 I had never left Indo-China, 3 00:02:52,917 --> 00:02:55,375 Camille's hand was ice-cold in mine, 4 00:02:55,833 --> 00:02:57,917 Her mother and father were dead, 5 00:03:00,583 --> 00:03:01,292 They had been 6 00:03:01,625 --> 00:03:02,875 my dearest friends, 7 00:03:04,083 --> 00:03:07,583 Their plane had crashed into the ocean, 8 00:03:09,375 --> 00:03:10,708 I had no children, 9 00:03:11,292 --> 00:03:12,417 she no parents, 10 00:03:13,083 --> 00:03:15,667 The little princess of Annam became my daughter, 11 00:03:15,917 --> 00:03:17,208 I adopted her, 12 00:03:19,667 --> 00:03:23,958 Prince N'Guyen, his wife and I had been inseparable, 13 00:03:24,333 --> 00:03:26,875 Such is youth, believing 14 00:03:27,167 --> 00:03:30,417 that the world is made of inseparable things: 15 00:03:30,958 --> 00:03:32,583 men and women, mountains and plains, 16 00:03:33,167 --> 00:03:36,292 humans and gods, Indo-China and France, 17 00:03:58,333 --> 00:04:00,333 I inherited her parents' lands, 18 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:03,417 which added to what my father and I had, 19 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:12,167 The Lang-Sai rubber plantation became one of Indo-China's biggest, 20 00:04:13,292 --> 00:04:16,083 It was my domain:6000 hectares of rubber trees, 21 00:04:23,292 --> 00:04:23,833 No! 22 00:04:24,083 --> 00:04:25,125 Oh! Watch it! 23 00:04:30,708 --> 00:04:32,833 Mama! We'll never get it right. 24 00:05:18,583 --> 00:05:20,083 In a bad mood again? 25 00:05:20,333 --> 00:05:23,125 Me get rid of Mr. Emile's new girl. 26 00:05:23,417 --> 00:05:25,167 Get rid of Hoa, why? 27 00:05:26,625 --> 00:05:31,625 Too greedy, too costly, bad girl, mouth too big... 28 00:05:31,958 --> 00:05:36,292 Always wants more... today rice, tomorrow pig, 29 00:05:36,542 --> 00:05:38,125 after tomorrow buffalo. 30 00:05:38,833 --> 00:05:42,333 Me know many girls ready to replace her... 31 00:05:42,625 --> 00:05:45,625 Very nice, eat less... 32 00:05:45,750 --> 00:05:47,833 No, this one you keep... 33 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:51,167 Father's never felt better, 34 00:05:51,458 --> 00:05:54,333 he might even smile soon. 35 00:05:54,583 --> 00:05:58,042 Congaie bad, love cost too much. 36 00:05:58,292 --> 00:05:59,417 He's happy though. 37 00:06:03,042 --> 00:06:04,833 He may never love again... 38 00:06:25,708 --> 00:06:27,667 Your father trains them a lot? 39 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:30,250 Every morning the past month. 40 00:06:31,083 --> 00:06:34,917 They're too tired to work on the plantation, but he's happy. 41 00:06:35,083 --> 00:06:36,458 Rowing takes beasts of labour. 42 00:06:37,333 --> 00:06:39,125 Harder, harder... 43 00:06:48,083 --> 00:06:49,458 How can they in this heat? 44 00:06:49,917 --> 00:06:52,708 Yours, I can understand, but mine? 45 00:06:53,167 --> 00:06:55,375 I still hope my sailors beat them! 46 00:06:56,208 --> 00:06:58,042 Come now, Admiral, it's my crew. 47 00:06:58,208 --> 00:07:01,167 You shouldn't give these people ideas of victory. 48 00:07:01,792 --> 00:07:03,333 I bet you 2000 piastres. 49 00:07:03,583 --> 00:07:05,833 A deal. But you're going to lose. 50 00:07:06,625 --> 00:07:08,042 Oh! Stop it! 51 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:09,625 In your condition! 52 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,958 Some days you drive me crazy. 53 00:07:13,250 --> 00:07:14,833 It's been a week now. 54 00:07:15,375 --> 00:07:17,500 And what we do at naptime? 55 00:07:17,792 --> 00:07:19,250 That's not making love. 56 00:07:20,375 --> 00:07:22,417 Pregnant during monsoon season! No thanks. 57 00:07:23,125 --> 00:07:24,208 You're not bearing. 58 00:07:24,625 --> 00:07:26,667 Come on! Time to go all out! 59 00:07:37,375 --> 00:07:40,458 Ah! Madame Devries, how awful for Mr. Emile! 60 00:07:40,750 --> 00:07:44,292 All that training, only to lose! 61 00:07:44,875 --> 00:07:48,667 As Raymond says, the Indo- don't have the physique. . 62 00:07:49,750 --> 00:07:52,250 Keep calm, Yvette. They haven't lost yet. 63 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:01,958 We won! 64 00:08:07,583 --> 00:08:09,167 You owe me 2000 piastres. 65 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:16,333 Who won? I couldn't see. 66 00:08:17,250 --> 00:08:20,167 Ladies and gentlemen, the race 67 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:24,042 has been won by Madame Eliane Devries' crew, 68 00:08:24,292 --> 00:08:25,417 The line-up: 69 00:08:25,750 --> 00:08:28,417 Lui Van Min, Phan Van Dong,,, 70 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:40,125 Cowswain, Mr, Emile Devries! 71 00:08:57,250 --> 00:08:59,542 A statue ofJoan of Arc, in stucco. 72 00:09:00,083 --> 00:09:02,875 Attributed to a student of Bouscasse. 73 00:09:03,083 --> 00:09:05,000 Opening bid, 600 piastres. 74 00:09:05,167 --> 00:09:07,083 Sorry I'm late, Madame. 75 00:09:07,208 --> 00:09:11,667 I almost bought a bedroom suite, but I only liked the bed. 76 00:09:11,875 --> 00:09:12,958 Buy the bed! 77 00:09:13,375 --> 00:09:15,875 No. The furniture should stay together, 78 00:09:16,125 --> 00:09:19,875 it'll bring good luck to the person who buys it. 79 00:09:21,083 --> 00:09:24,583 You're poetic. That's it exactly, Yvette, 80 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:26,667 you're a poetic person. 81 00:09:46,708 --> 00:09:48,375 This is what you came for? 82 00:09:49,458 --> 00:09:52,292 Has everyone seen it? Thank you, Mr. Gabriel. 83 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:56,042 Painted with great sensitivity. Starting price, 300. 84 00:09:57,083 --> 00:09:57,833 300. 85 00:09:58,083 --> 00:09:59,500 - 400. - 420. 86 00:10:00,458 --> 00:10:01,125 450. 87 00:10:04,125 --> 00:10:05,542 460. 88 00:10:06,667 --> 00:10:07,167 500. 89 00:10:08,375 --> 00:10:10,417 Madame, please let me have it. 90 00:10:11,125 --> 00:10:13,417 I hear you are rich, I am not. 91 00:10:14,583 --> 00:10:17,417 This painting means a great deal to me. 92 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:20,875 Sit down, Sir! Your bid please. 93 00:10:21,542 --> 00:10:22,458 Well? 94 00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:23,417 Wait! 95 00:10:23,583 --> 00:10:25,583 Stop it. How much do you need? 96 00:10:25,833 --> 00:10:26,708 Let go of me! 97 00:10:35,292 --> 00:10:37,000 Tell me why you like it, 98 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:39,000 and you can have it. 99 00:10:40,875 --> 00:10:43,292 Enough! Madame Devries? 500? 100 00:10:44,083 --> 00:10:47,583 I painted this landscape dozens of times as a boy. 101 00:10:48,458 --> 00:10:50,875 But I was never satisfied. 102 00:10:51,083 --> 00:10:54,500 The hill and valley were invented by the artist. 103 00:10:55,333 --> 00:10:58,208 A boy doesn't know that the world 104 00:10:58,458 --> 00:11:00,333 has to be changed. 105 00:11:02,958 --> 00:11:04,208 I need this painting. 106 00:11:04,625 --> 00:11:07,417 I'm suffocating in Saigon, there's no ocean here. 107 00:11:09,333 --> 00:11:13,458 I cannot parade my feelings before strangers, as you do. 108 00:11:15,917 --> 00:11:17,958 Especially when something moves me. 109 00:11:19,292 --> 00:11:20,250 Fine. 110 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:24,208 The benefit of the doubt then. 111 00:11:24,833 --> 00:11:25,708 Sold! 112 00:11:27,042 --> 00:11:27,958 She has a collection! 113 00:11:28,458 --> 00:11:29,417 Sold! 114 00:11:30,750 --> 00:11:31,708 Mind your own business. 115 00:11:44,375 --> 00:11:45,417 I no trafficker. 116 00:11:45,708 --> 00:11:48,542 Never traffic opium. Officer know me. 117 00:11:48,792 --> 00:11:49,750 My wife sick, 118 00:11:50,083 --> 00:11:51,875 I go get medicine. 119 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000 What time is it? 120 00:11:53,875 --> 00:11:56,042 8:09, lieutenant. 121 00:11:57,250 --> 00:12:00,083 No boats on the delta after 8. You know what to do. 122 00:12:02,208 --> 00:12:05,083 Stop it! He has papers! 123 00:12:23,042 --> 00:12:23,958 You're insane! 124 00:12:24,083 --> 00:12:25,250 They didn't do anything! 125 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:31,417 In a year they've drained you. 126 00:12:31,667 --> 00:12:35,500 You're as glassy-eyed as someone lying in an opium den. 127 00:12:35,875 --> 00:12:38,042 This country's sucking you dry! 128 00:12:41,792 --> 00:12:44,583 They'll drown. Proud of yourself? 129 00:12:44,833 --> 00:12:48,958 I obeyed orders. I leave indulgence to you. 130 00:12:50,042 --> 00:12:51,250 You're like my father. 131 00:12:52,542 --> 00:12:57,750 He always said the same thing: "follow your heart". 132 00:12:59,458 --> 00:13:02,208 And then he'd disappear somewhere. 133 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:04,417 He caused us nothing but grief. 134 00:13:04,667 --> 00:13:07,167 I'll never be like him! 135 00:13:09,250 --> 00:13:13,333 No one's stealing what's in my not even eternal Asia! 136 00:13:14,042 --> 00:13:14,958 No one! 137 00:14:30,250 --> 00:14:32,542 You wanted to run away... 138 00:14:33,375 --> 00:14:34,583 You made me beat you. 139 00:14:35,292 --> 00:14:37,708 A mother doesn't like to hit her children. 140 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,583 You're my father and mother. 141 00:15:08,417 --> 00:15:09,375 What are you doing here? 142 00:15:09,833 --> 00:15:13,583 I'm lost. I must have made a wrong turn. 143 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:17,375 Where are you going? 144 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:22,167 I'm looking for the occupants of a sampan sunk by the navy. 145 00:15:23,042 --> 00:15:25,417 I hear it happened nearby. 146 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:29,292 So you're the one going from village to village. 147 00:15:29,875 --> 00:15:31,125 You're wasting your time. 148 00:15:31,958 --> 00:15:33,292 No one will talk to you. 149 00:15:33,625 --> 00:15:34,250 Know anything? 150 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:38,000 Maybe. 151 00:16:12,833 --> 00:16:14,250 His name is Liem. 152 00:16:15,375 --> 00:16:17,542 Let him go, you're scaring him. 153 00:16:22,708 --> 00:16:24,292 His father's fine too. 154 00:16:25,833 --> 00:16:27,333 I saw him last night. 155 00:16:27,542 --> 00:16:29,250 We talked very late. 156 00:16:32,625 --> 00:16:34,333 I ordered that sampan sunk. 157 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,417 I thought the boy had drowned. 158 00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:41,833 I even dreamt about it. 159 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:45,167 Why did you do it? 160 00:16:45,417 --> 00:16:46,625 Because I had to. 161 00:16:47,750 --> 00:16:49,042 You were right to! 162 00:16:49,875 --> 00:16:52,292 There was opium aboard. 163 00:16:53,542 --> 00:16:55,708 They are traffickers. 164 00:16:56,417 --> 00:16:59,958 Bao, the man you sank, is a reputed supplier. 165 00:17:00,792 --> 00:17:04,625 His father was before him, and his son will be too. 166 00:17:07,917 --> 00:17:12,167 But if you repeat what I said, I'll deny everything. 167 00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:35,625 It doesn't bother you the way they look at you? 168 00:17:35,833 --> 00:17:38,208 Why? They're my coolies. 169 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,333 They're also men. 170 00:17:41,167 --> 00:17:43,042 I'm just their boss. 171 00:17:43,292 --> 00:17:45,292 Giving orders is a man's job. 172 00:17:45,958 --> 00:17:47,667 That's what men usually say. 173 00:17:51,292 --> 00:17:52,417 What's wrong? 174 00:17:59,292 --> 00:18:01,542 I'm lapsing back to childhood. 175 00:18:04,375 --> 00:18:06,667 I had to stay like this for hours. 176 00:18:07,958 --> 00:18:11,250 My head would spin, I'd start dreaming. 177 00:18:11,625 --> 00:18:12,583 Here. 178 00:18:15,083 --> 00:18:16,167 About what? 179 00:18:20,167 --> 00:18:23,542 The admiral who defeated the Turkish fleet at Lpante. 180 00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:26,000 He was 23. 181 00:18:27,333 --> 00:18:30,333 The hero of all Europe. Don Juan of Austria. 182 00:18:33,208 --> 00:18:35,167 And what did you dream about? 183 00:18:36,625 --> 00:18:38,208 I wanted to be a boy. 184 00:18:41,542 --> 00:18:42,167 And now? 185 00:18:44,083 --> 00:18:47,458 I don't need to dream. Everything I love is right here. 186 00:18:50,625 --> 00:18:51,708 Wait... 187 00:19:00,750 --> 00:19:01,750 Stay still. 188 00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:19,000 I think it's stopped now. 189 00:19:23,708 --> 00:19:25,208 Don't get lost this time. 190 00:19:47,542 --> 00:19:50,333 The Chief's back from his trip. 191 00:19:51,208 --> 00:19:52,375 What mood is he in? 192 00:19:59,417 --> 00:20:01,458 It's always good to see you. 193 00:20:02,750 --> 00:20:04,917 A secret? Wilth all these people? 194 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:11,833 Luxury... mystery... 195 00:20:13,667 --> 00:20:15,792 All it takes to seduce a woman. 196 00:20:18,708 --> 00:20:19,708 You look tired. 197 00:20:20,167 --> 00:20:20,875 This time it's serious. 198 00:20:21,417 --> 00:20:23,417 In Canton the offensive's ready. 199 00:20:23,708 --> 00:20:25,958 Communists and nationalists in complete agreement. 200 00:20:27,667 --> 00:20:29,375 Wilth Moscow's blessing. 201 00:20:31,417 --> 00:20:32,417 So, to us! 202 00:20:39,125 --> 00:20:40,833 Now you don't have a choice. 203 00:20:41,542 --> 00:20:42,917 You'll need protection. 204 00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:45,542 Marriage is perfect for that. 205 00:20:47,625 --> 00:20:49,458 - People are looking. - I don't care. 206 00:20:53,292 --> 00:20:54,250 No. 207 00:20:55,333 --> 00:20:56,167 No, what? 208 00:20:56,917 --> 00:20:59,083 For the marriage, no. 209 00:20:59,917 --> 00:21:02,208 Very well. To friendship. 210 00:21:10,417 --> 00:21:11,083 Mama, 211 00:21:12,167 --> 00:21:15,625 Tanh will forget me in Paris with all those French girls. 212 00:21:17,375 --> 00:21:20,250 Honestly, how do I look? 213 00:21:22,208 --> 00:21:22,917 Perfect. 214 00:21:23,125 --> 00:21:24,625 You always say that. 215 00:21:28,542 --> 00:21:30,667 Are all French girls light-skinned like you? 216 00:21:35,083 --> 00:21:39,458 It's not their colour that's important. 217 00:21:40,542 --> 00:21:44,375 It's this! The taste, the fruit. 218 00:21:46,208 --> 00:21:48,875 A child who eats only apples 219 00:21:49,625 --> 00:21:50,958 can't be like me. 220 00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:54,167 I'm Asian. 221 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,625 A mango. 222 00:22:00,958 --> 00:22:02,208 When will Tanh be back? 223 00:22:03,042 --> 00:22:04,500 Not till next year. 224 00:22:05,542 --> 00:22:07,125 He still loves Paris? 225 00:22:10,125 --> 00:22:11,625 He asks if I love him. 226 00:22:13,667 --> 00:22:14,708 Well? 227 00:22:16,917 --> 00:22:18,750 What's it like to be in love? 228 00:22:25,708 --> 00:22:27,667 When it happens, you'll know. 229 00:22:33,625 --> 00:22:35,292 I wanted to protect Camille,,, 230 00:22:35,542 --> 00:22:37,333 She knew nothing about me, 231 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:38,917 the men I'd known, 232 00:22:39,125 --> 00:22:40,333 those I'd loved,,, 233 00:22:41,333 --> 00:22:44,000 I'd had casual affairs, 234 00:22:44,917 --> 00:22:46,500 The kind one forgets, 235 00:23:28,333 --> 00:23:32,292 Jean-Baptiste came to meet me in our house in Saigon, 236 00:23:34,042 --> 00:23:36,292 My father had never sold it, 237 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:41,875 It was full of childhood memories, 238 00:23:54,458 --> 00:23:56,167 Waiting for you, I thought: 239 00:23:57,083 --> 00:23:59,292 At 4 he won't be here. 240 00:24:00,083 --> 00:24:01,583 He'll be a little late. 241 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:05,833 So I thought I'd tidy up, 242 00:24:07,167 --> 00:24:09,083 close the house and leave. 243 00:24:09,458 --> 00:24:11,625 As if nothing had happened. 244 00:24:12,792 --> 00:24:16,667 Our encounter, our rendezvous here, all erased. 245 00:24:25,042 --> 00:24:25,875 Jean-Baptiste... 246 00:24:32,292 --> 00:24:34,917 There's still time for this not to happen. 247 00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:03,958 I should have fled, 248 00:25:05,417 --> 00:25:07,208 Yet nothing existed but him, 249 00:25:11,667 --> 00:25:13,500 I know he loved me too, 250 00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:15,250 Prepare him the opium. 251 00:26:44,125 --> 00:26:45,083 Hello, Sir. 252 00:26:46,792 --> 00:26:48,208 Eliane's not here. 253 00:26:52,083 --> 00:26:55,125 Yes, Thursday she's at the bank. 254 00:27:08,667 --> 00:27:11,208 She'd brought no one here in years. 255 00:27:18,875 --> 00:27:21,708 I'm going to tell you a story. - I'm not interested. 256 00:27:21,958 --> 00:27:25,958 Oh no you don't! You're in my house! 257 00:27:34,583 --> 00:27:35,333 Now listen! 258 00:27:37,167 --> 00:27:39,000 Father was so afraid of losing me, 259 00:27:39,250 --> 00:27:41,125 He was capable of anything then, 260 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,625 Old Tchung told me one day 261 00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:47,458 that father had offered Jean-Baptiste money, 262 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,042 How much? 263 00:27:52,667 --> 00:27:55,167 How much is your daughter worth? 264 00:27:55,750 --> 00:27:58,708 Humiliate me, pay me! 265 00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:02,042 Say a price, a figure! 266 00:28:02,667 --> 00:28:05,208 100,000? 200,000? 267 00:28:05,458 --> 00:28:08,000 I saw how the steward, the coolies, the bankers 268 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:10,250 were all at her beck and call! 269 00:28:10,792 --> 00:28:12,583 So it'll cost you! 270 00:28:14,042 --> 00:28:15,792 500,000! 271 00:28:16,417 --> 00:28:18,750 If I leave her to you, 272 00:28:22,208 --> 00:28:24,750 Say it! I want to hear it! 273 00:28:27,583 --> 00:28:30,125 Yes... 500,000. 274 00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:47,583 No, Sir, such things don't have a price. 275 00:28:58,583 --> 00:29:02,375 You have your life to live! Not her! Not me! Leave her! 276 00:29:21,083 --> 00:29:22,333 Jean-Baptiste? 277 00:29:25,667 --> 00:29:27,500 Mister Officer gone. 278 00:29:29,083 --> 00:29:30,542 When will he be back? 279 00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:32,667 Me not know. 280 00:30:04,625 --> 00:30:07,042 "Flee, jealousy, tortures... 281 00:30:08,333 --> 00:30:13,167 Wherever you are your soul shall embrace mine." 282 00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:24,208 Now, dear archangel, your turn... 283 00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:27,917 No, stop it. 284 00:30:29,375 --> 00:30:31,042 I'm trying my luck. 285 00:30:40,250 --> 00:30:41,792 An apparition... 286 00:30:53,625 --> 00:30:54,583 What are you doing here? 287 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:58,000 I've been looking everywhere for you... 288 00:31:00,208 --> 00:31:02,750 Talk to me, Jean-Baptiste, talk. 289 00:31:05,875 --> 00:31:10,958 There will always be hours, days, weeks to myself. 290 00:31:12,167 --> 00:31:13,458 All to myself. 291 00:31:14,458 --> 00:31:15,667 Understand? 292 00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:18,542 It's the same for you. 293 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,625 We're two people. 294 00:31:25,667 --> 00:31:27,000 I need you. 295 00:31:27,250 --> 00:31:31,583 You're part of my life now. I need your voice, 296 00:31:31,750 --> 00:31:33,417 your softness, your hands... 297 00:31:34,958 --> 00:31:36,458 Protect me. 298 00:31:39,667 --> 00:31:41,500 You must protect me. 299 00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:45,125 Stop it! This isn't you! 300 00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:49,500 I want the world, not just a little piece of land. 301 00:31:51,333 --> 00:31:52,875 I want to see the world. 302 00:32:19,958 --> 00:32:21,417 Problems, Madame? 303 00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:24,292 No, why? 304 00:32:25,125 --> 00:32:26,625 Because you're crying. 305 00:32:34,583 --> 00:32:35,417 No! 306 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,333 Go away. 307 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:47,250 You're mad. 308 00:32:47,375 --> 00:32:48,583 Forgive me. 309 00:33:06,333 --> 00:33:07,917 Jean-Baptiste! 310 00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:11,875 Stop! 311 00:33:16,583 --> 00:33:17,083 Stop! 312 00:33:25,958 --> 00:33:27,167 Get out. 313 00:33:28,958 --> 00:33:29,750 Satait, out, please. 314 00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:42,083 Life went on as before,,, 315 00:34:44,083 --> 00:34:46,417 The sound of footsteps on dead leaves, 316 00:34:46,750 --> 00:34:48,833 the sap oozing from the bark, 317 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:53,167 and what I loved most, which most people don't like, 318 00:34:53,333 --> 00:34:54,583 The smell of rubber, 319 00:35:01,667 --> 00:35:02,500 I didn't believe it... 320 00:35:03,167 --> 00:35:05,250 I'm so used to Guy's jokes. 321 00:35:06,792 --> 00:35:08,500 - When did you arrive? - Two days ago. 322 00:35:09,333 --> 00:35:10,208 Staying in Saigon? 323 00:35:14,542 --> 00:35:16,292 He's been deported from France. 324 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:19,375 What did you say? 325 00:35:19,917 --> 00:35:22,167 Deported. Definitively. 326 00:35:22,333 --> 00:35:23,417 But why? 327 00:35:25,042 --> 00:35:26,292 She knows about Yen-Bay? 328 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:28,958 No. 329 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:31,333 She has a right to know! 330 00:35:32,958 --> 00:35:37,917 3 months ago, Indo-Chinese troops massacred their French officers. 331 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,542 So the assassins were executed. 332 00:35:40,917 --> 00:35:42,208 The case was closed. 333 00:35:43,333 --> 00:35:46,708 Not at all! There were demonstrations in Paris. 334 00:35:47,917 --> 00:35:51,417 The demonstrators were jailed. Case closed. 335 00:35:51,625 --> 00:35:56,375 Not at all! It triggered a movement of solidarity. 336 00:35:56,958 --> 00:36:00,750 They marched up to the Elise! And Tanh was with them. 337 00:36:02,417 --> 00:36:03,417 So he was kicked out too. 338 00:36:05,208 --> 00:36:06,125 And now? 339 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,417 It's over now. I was bad, I've been punished. 340 00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:34,833 On the boat coming back 341 00:36:35,167 --> 00:36:37,208 I thought about our childhood here. 342 00:36:38,333 --> 00:36:40,833 Soon this land will be ours again. 343 00:36:41,417 --> 00:36:43,042 I know my son. 344 00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:45,417 Whims of youth, bad influences in Paris. 345 00:36:46,917 --> 00:36:49,333 I can talk to him. 346 00:36:49,583 --> 00:36:50,750 Money? 347 00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:53,750 He'll be a merchant like me. 348 00:36:53,917 --> 00:36:58,042 And he'll be rich, richer than the French engineers. 349 00:36:58,958 --> 00:37:01,375 I didn't want him to go to France, 350 00:37:01,542 --> 00:37:04,917 but you and Guy insisted so much. 351 00:37:06,458 --> 00:37:09,583 Young people like Tanh are this country's future. 352 00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:12,417 An Indo-Chinese elite must be created. 353 00:37:12,750 --> 00:37:15,542 We're the elite, because we're rich. 354 00:37:16,708 --> 00:37:20,125 Tanh's an intellectual, not a businessman... 355 00:37:20,375 --> 00:37:22,542 He has to grow up! 356 00:37:23,167 --> 00:37:24,000 What is it? 357 00:37:24,208 --> 00:37:26,292 I've cried a lot, 358 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:29,792 my buffalo's dead and my boy sick. 359 00:37:30,042 --> 00:37:31,125 He's taken the remedy? 360 00:37:31,333 --> 00:37:34,167 Yes, but he's hungry and I need money. 361 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,292 You gamble it away. Send your wife. 362 00:37:37,542 --> 00:37:40,208 I'll give her rice and medicine. 363 00:37:40,417 --> 00:37:42,875 You get nothing. 364 00:37:50,708 --> 00:37:52,250 Champagne? 365 00:37:52,750 --> 00:37:54,292 No thanks, aunt. 366 00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:02,917 Camille's mother was my cousin. We wanted our children to marry. 367 00:38:03,750 --> 00:38:05,417 When you adopted Camille, 368 00:38:05,542 --> 00:38:08,000 that was my one condition. 369 00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:10,667 The ties must not be broken. 370 00:38:13,542 --> 00:38:16,917 She's my daughter now and I want her to be happy. 371 00:38:18,958 --> 00:38:22,333 Two boys, they'll give us two boys! 372 00:38:22,625 --> 00:38:26,333 We'll be happy in our old age... 373 00:38:26,583 --> 00:38:29,250 The older one will marry a rich girl, 374 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,542 and our children will take care of us. 375 00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:36,750 And when our time comes, we'll die content, 376 00:38:36,958 --> 00:38:40,000 our children and grandchildren at our side. 377 00:38:41,917 --> 00:38:45,208 I hadn't forgotten Jean-Baptiste, 378 00:38:46,417 --> 00:38:48,542 What did people know about us? 379 00:38:49,333 --> 00:38:51,208 Certainly not my distress, 380 00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:54,000 I hid my feelings so well, 381 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:57,792 We lived in peace, in an illusion, 382 00:38:58,833 --> 00:39:01,750 The dream was shattered on the "Day of Tranquillity", 383 00:39:02,208 --> 00:39:05,833 Father and I were the only invited by the mandarin, 384 00:39:48,042 --> 00:39:49,333 They've killed the mandarin! 385 00:39:49,625 --> 00:39:51,792 It's the communists! 386 00:39:52,375 --> 00:39:55,792 Run! They'll kill us all! 387 00:40:04,583 --> 00:40:08,583 Madame Devries, Mr. Emile! Hurry! 388 00:40:42,333 --> 00:40:43,875 The fire was no accident... 389 00:40:45,083 --> 00:40:47,250 All the rubber's burned up. 390 00:40:50,042 --> 00:40:51,750 When can work start again? 391 00:40:54,042 --> 00:40:55,833 The vats must be cleaned. 392 00:40:56,042 --> 00:40:57,292 - Tomorrow. - Why not now? 393 00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:59,208 They're afraid to go inside. 394 00:40:59,417 --> 00:41:00,083 Afraid? 395 00:41:00,292 --> 00:41:01,250 Boom. Danger. 396 00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:02,333 No work. 397 00:41:07,208 --> 00:41:10,125 - No! I think I heard shots. - You think? 398 00:41:10,333 --> 00:41:11,292 Make up your mind! 399 00:41:22,417 --> 00:41:25,292 No danger! Back to work! 400 00:41:32,167 --> 00:41:33,083 Start the generator! 401 00:41:33,292 --> 00:41:34,750 It's too dangerous. Wait for the police. 402 00:41:35,583 --> 00:41:36,667 Kim, the generator! 403 00:42:42,292 --> 00:42:43,708 They're alive! No danger! 404 00:42:49,292 --> 00:42:51,208 Get going! 405 00:43:28,333 --> 00:43:30,875 I don't want to go to school Monday. 406 00:43:32,417 --> 00:43:33,500 When I'm not with you 407 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,917 I imagine horrible things: 408 00:43:36,792 --> 00:43:39,000 the house on fire, 409 00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:40,917 you and grandpa dead. 410 00:43:42,083 --> 00:43:43,667 You mustn't be afraid. 411 00:43:44,042 --> 00:43:45,875 They've won if we're afraid. 412 00:43:47,792 --> 00:43:50,000 Guy said "prepare for cruelty". 413 00:43:55,042 --> 00:43:56,375 The crank! 414 00:43:58,042 --> 00:44:02,042 Fired for a minor illness. 415 00:44:02,917 --> 00:44:06,667 After years in her service, it's inhuman. 416 00:44:07,375 --> 00:44:10,667 Say what you will, she's got a lot of nerve. 417 00:44:11,208 --> 00:44:12,917 She enjoys humiliating. 418 00:44:14,375 --> 00:44:16,458 I thought she was a friend! - Shut up. 419 00:44:16,708 --> 00:44:19,792 She'll get hers all right. 420 00:44:21,375 --> 00:44:24,167 Lack of love's never a good thing. 421 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,167 It's the worst illness of all. 422 00:44:31,792 --> 00:44:33,208 Go on with your superior airs. 423 00:44:34,667 --> 00:44:36,958 The truth is you have no friends. 424 00:44:37,125 --> 00:44:40,750 If the trees were human, they wouldn't produce for you. 425 00:44:41,542 --> 00:44:43,625 I pity you, you have nothing to look forward to. 426 00:44:43,875 --> 00:44:45,417 Everyone will leave you. 427 00:44:45,583 --> 00:44:49,792 It smells. It's hard to breathe here. 428 00:44:51,125 --> 00:44:52,542 Goodbye Madame. 429 00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:57,042 People are fooled by you. 430 00:44:57,625 --> 00:44:59,667 Sure, you're beautiful. 431 00:45:01,042 --> 00:45:04,875 But it's sad when you're not beautiful inside. 432 00:45:05,417 --> 00:45:06,833 Get in, Raymond, 433 00:45:07,292 --> 00:45:08,917 we have no business here. 434 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,042 It smells. 435 00:45:15,667 --> 00:45:16,958 My respects. 436 00:45:41,125 --> 00:45:43,417 You'll talk soon enough. 437 00:46:01,708 --> 00:46:04,083 One communist per 100 arrests is the average. 438 00:46:04,833 --> 00:46:09,042 My respects, Sir. Inspector Perrot from the back-up contingent. 439 00:46:09,208 --> 00:46:10,875 What'd you get out of him? 440 00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:13,417 Take off his handcuffs. 441 00:46:19,583 --> 00:46:21,125 Your father came to see me. 442 00:46:23,667 --> 00:46:27,583 You've always been a respectful Rebelling against the authorities 443 00:46:27,792 --> 00:46:31,917 is as bad as rebelling against your father and ancestors. 444 00:46:32,417 --> 00:46:33,375 Perrot... 445 00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:36,750 When I drop him, you slap. 446 00:46:38,333 --> 00:46:39,042 Harder! 447 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:43,250 I know everything, Kao. Go back to your meetings. 448 00:46:44,208 --> 00:46:48,375 Nothing changes. Except you report back to me in a week. 449 00:46:48,583 --> 00:46:52,583 If you don't, you go to Poulo-Condore prison. 450 00:46:52,792 --> 00:46:54,000 Your father and brothers too. 451 00:46:54,708 --> 00:46:55,625 Got it? 452 00:48:05,292 --> 00:48:07,000 Stop! To the side. 453 00:48:09,917 --> 00:48:10,875 What's going on? 454 00:48:23,167 --> 00:48:24,167 Stop! 455 00:49:39,125 --> 00:49:41,375 Get the doctor! Hurry! 456 00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:19,458 It's the prisoner's blood. 457 00:50:48,708 --> 00:50:50,417 I'm alive? 458 00:51:20,375 --> 00:51:22,042 You saved my life. 459 00:51:54,958 --> 00:51:55,875 Leave her... 460 00:52:06,375 --> 00:52:07,708 What is it? 461 00:52:09,917 --> 00:52:11,333 What is it? 462 00:52:12,833 --> 00:52:14,000 Is it serious? 463 00:52:17,625 --> 00:52:21,125 Mama, I can't marry Tanh. 464 00:52:26,375 --> 00:52:28,250 I love another man. 465 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,375 He saved my life, I love him. 466 00:52:37,667 --> 00:52:39,542 Help me, mama... Please. 467 00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:43,833 My darling, my Camille... Of course I'll help you, 468 00:52:44,458 --> 00:52:46,167 I promise. 469 00:52:48,375 --> 00:52:49,458 Who is it? 470 00:52:49,750 --> 00:52:52,708 If it's not him I marry, I'll die. 471 00:52:52,833 --> 00:52:54,375 But who is it? 472 00:52:57,042 --> 00:52:59,208 The officer who saved me... 473 00:52:59,917 --> 00:53:01,250 His name is Jean-Baptiste. 474 00:53:13,333 --> 00:53:14,917 And does he love you? 475 00:53:16,125 --> 00:53:18,792 He will. I'm sure of it. 476 00:53:20,750 --> 00:53:22,333 How can you be sure? 477 00:53:25,667 --> 00:53:27,375 You can't understand. 478 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,667 No one can. 479 00:53:31,083 --> 00:53:36,042 He's always with me. He talks to me, he smiles at me. 480 00:53:37,292 --> 00:53:40,542 He sweeps me off my feet, takes me in his arms. 481 00:53:41,042 --> 00:53:42,583 I'm his. 482 00:54:10,375 --> 00:54:11,583 Enough eggs? 483 00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:15,000 Hurry. Want to ruin everything? 484 00:54:40,458 --> 00:54:43,625 He's not here... He won't come. 485 00:54:43,833 --> 00:54:48,375 Yes he will... He'll arrive last so that everyone'll see him. 486 00:54:49,417 --> 00:54:52,542 I'm sure he's hiding nearby looking at you. 487 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,917 So this is the surprise! 488 00:55:28,083 --> 00:55:30,125 A Yule log, like in France! 489 00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:32,958 What a Christmas! 490 00:56:15,792 --> 00:56:16,292 Coming? 491 00:57:17,792 --> 00:57:21,542 Fan it, fan it! The heat will melt the record. 492 00:57:21,708 --> 00:57:23,417 It's not made for this climate. 493 00:57:52,042 --> 00:57:54,042 I want to be alone with you. 494 00:57:55,875 --> 00:57:56,292 In a chalet 495 00:57:56,583 --> 00:57:57,708 in the mountains. 496 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,833 Just like in fairy tales. 497 00:58:10,625 --> 00:58:12,792 Stay here. No! 498 00:58:30,333 --> 00:58:31,875 I leave Saigon tomorrow. 499 00:58:32,250 --> 00:58:33,125 Where to? 500 00:58:33,458 --> 00:58:34,167 Haiphong. 501 00:58:34,542 --> 00:58:37,667 Perfect. The ocean. You'll see the world. 502 00:58:37,833 --> 00:58:40,500 Not of my own free will. Transferred... 503 00:58:40,958 --> 00:58:45,292 Thanks to you! Awoman decides my fate. 504 00:58:45,458 --> 00:58:47,000 That's order in your colonies? 505 00:58:52,167 --> 00:58:53,333 My daughter's crazy about you. 506 00:58:53,792 --> 00:58:54,500 What? 507 00:58:55,625 --> 00:58:57,500 Or she thinks she is, anyway. 508 00:58:59,417 --> 00:59:00,542 I barely know her! 509 00:59:00,917 --> 00:59:02,625 It's not you, it's her. 510 00:59:03,333 --> 00:59:07,708 Camille is young, romantic. She thinks you saved her life. 511 00:59:08,125 --> 00:59:09,625 But I didn't do anything! 512 00:59:11,542 --> 00:59:15,917 You won't be able to resist her. 513 00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:24,833 I wanted to save her from you. 514 00:59:25,583 --> 00:59:28,667 I don't want her to think love means suffering. 515 00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,000 Good night. 516 00:59:34,625 --> 00:59:37,542 Save her from me? You want revenge! 517 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,542 You can't bear freedom! 518 00:59:39,792 --> 00:59:40,917 Let me go... 519 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,833 - You can't let others live! - Let me go! 520 00:59:44,083 --> 00:59:46,458 You think you have a monopoly on life, 521 00:59:46,708 --> 00:59:48,917 that you control me, Camille, your coolies. 522 00:59:49,500 --> 00:59:51,333 How awful to be like that! 523 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,583 You stifle her the way your father stifled you! 524 00:59:54,792 --> 00:59:59,042 You treat people like trees! You acquire them and drain them! 525 01:00:00,083 --> 01:00:01,292 You're vultures! 526 01:00:07,458 --> 01:00:08,375 You're insane! 527 01:00:12,542 --> 01:00:14,417 Follow me at once. 528 01:01:54,333 --> 01:01:57,208 Lili, you're coming with me. 529 01:02:07,750 --> 01:02:10,000 No, I'm cold. 530 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,667 I'm not to be disturbed. 531 01:02:46,125 --> 01:02:51,125 Your driver brought your clothes. Feeling better? 532 01:02:54,042 --> 01:02:55,000 Yes, a little better. 533 01:02:56,083 --> 01:02:57,667 Bring us tea. 534 01:02:58,208 --> 01:02:58,833 And you, 535 01:02:59,083 --> 01:02:59,917 prepare the betel. 536 01:03:02,333 --> 01:03:03,542 I was at school. 537 01:03:03,708 --> 01:03:06,000 It's disastrous. Camille's in quarantine. 538 01:03:07,292 --> 01:03:09,833 The students call her names: 539 01:03:10,125 --> 01:03:12,875 "little congaie"! "Chink"! 540 01:03:13,083 --> 01:03:15,250 The Mother Superior had to isolate her. 541 01:03:16,875 --> 01:03:18,792 I've got to go get her. 542 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,833 She refuses to see you. 543 01:03:22,042 --> 01:03:23,167 You spoke to her? 544 01:03:23,625 --> 01:03:24,500 Yes. 545 01:03:25,667 --> 01:03:27,458 I don't care, I'm going. 546 01:03:27,625 --> 01:03:28,958 Listen, Lili... 547 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,708 We'll marry them right away. 548 01:03:31,958 --> 01:03:34,292 I'll take them to the palace. 549 01:03:34,583 --> 01:03:38,000 The court must give its agreement, it's the custom. 550 01:03:39,542 --> 01:03:43,917 I'll talk to Camille, you both must be reconciled. 551 01:03:44,167 --> 01:03:46,000 Come join us in Hué. 552 01:03:47,167 --> 01:03:48,750 I can't promise it... 553 01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:51,625 You must forget that man. 554 01:03:54,417 --> 01:03:57,375 I'll never understand French people's love stories. 555 01:03:57,583 --> 01:04:00,958 So much folly, fury, and suffering. 556 01:04:01,333 --> 01:04:03,833 It reminds me of our wars. 557 01:04:04,125 --> 01:04:08,083 You know the secret, I've already told you. 558 01:04:12,583 --> 01:04:15,708 I know... indifference. 559 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,750 After that Christmas night, 560 01:04:45,167 --> 01:04:47,625 Jean-Baptiste's transfer became a sanction, 561 01:04:48,792 --> 01:04:51,458 He was sent to a remote outpost, 562 01:04:53,042 --> 01:04:56,083 Dragon Island, in Ha-Iong bay, 563 01:04:58,042 --> 01:05:00,042 I thought he would refuse to go, 564 01:05:00,292 --> 01:05:02,833 That he'd quit the Navy, 565 01:05:05,167 --> 01:05:07,917 I thought I knew him, but I didn't, 566 01:06:00,250 --> 01:06:02,208 Sheer mockery, my friend, 567 01:06:03,958 --> 01:06:05,917 sheer mockery. 568 01:06:07,125 --> 01:06:10,792 You either fight it, or you do as I do, 569 01:06:11,125 --> 01:06:12,208 you revel in it. 570 01:06:13,667 --> 01:06:16,917 You can become a hero here, but no one will know. 571 01:06:17,417 --> 01:06:20,917 A mere drop of water in this ocean of jade, 572 01:06:21,792 --> 01:06:23,708 but it's your drop of water. 573 01:06:24,083 --> 01:06:25,708 And our presence here? 574 01:06:25,875 --> 01:06:26,708 Nothing. 575 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,083 Ghosts of the Empire! 576 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,833 From here, observation of foreign vessels, 577 01:06:37,667 --> 01:06:39,792 a few sampans, fishermen... 578 01:06:40,375 --> 01:06:41,292 Nothing. 579 01:06:41,917 --> 01:06:44,917 The pirates stay outside the bay. 580 01:06:46,667 --> 01:06:49,792 So we remind the world of our presence. 581 01:06:50,250 --> 01:06:53,292 We fire the cannon from time to time. 582 01:06:54,625 --> 01:06:55,958 Nothing much. 583 01:06:58,958 --> 01:07:00,875 But once a month, 584 01:07:02,375 --> 01:07:03,583 a celebration. 585 01:07:05,875 --> 01:07:06,958 A real celebration! 586 01:07:08,417 --> 01:07:10,083 The slave market. 587 01:07:11,750 --> 01:07:16,125 Manual labour, volunteers, are recruited up north. 588 01:07:16,833 --> 01:07:19,250 They have no choice, they're too hungry. 589 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,167 That's how we serve France! 590 01:07:44,083 --> 01:07:46,333 The volunteers are brought here, 591 01:07:47,083 --> 01:07:51,042 and we keep watch as buyers from the south pick workers 592 01:07:51,292 --> 01:07:53,375 for the plantations of Cochin China. 593 01:07:53,708 --> 01:07:56,625 All you have to do is be here. 594 01:08:15,333 --> 01:08:18,125 For the first time I left matters 595 01:08:18,625 --> 01:08:20,542 in someone else's hands, 596 01:08:21,542 --> 01:08:24,625 Madame Minh Tam had arranged everything, 597 01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:27,667 Camille was with her, to marry Tanh, 598 01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:31,292 She was in the palace for the days of purification 599 01:08:31,458 --> 01:08:32,833 that court tradition 600 01:08:33,083 --> 01:08:34,292 imposes on fiancés, 601 01:08:42,292 --> 01:08:45,958 As a European, I was not allowed at the ceremony, 602 01:08:47,042 --> 01:08:50,542 But Minh Tam had obtained a meeting with Camille 603 01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,292 the day before the engagement, 604 01:09:25,542 --> 01:09:27,750 I saw emperor Ming Mang's tomb. 605 01:09:28,375 --> 01:09:32,792 He was 25 when he began for his burial place. 606 01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,917 He found the place, which resembled a dream he'd had. 607 01:09:40,917 --> 01:09:42,583 So he designed it. 608 01:09:42,708 --> 01:09:45,167 He planted trees, flowers, 609 01:09:46,708 --> 01:09:48,667 everything in gentle, continuous lines. 610 01:09:48,875 --> 01:09:51,042 Not a single broken line. 611 01:09:52,125 --> 01:09:56,125 And when the landscape was exactly like in his dream, 612 01:09:58,167 --> 01:09:59,542 he said: "I can die now." 613 01:10:06,042 --> 01:10:09,333 I dream of such a place too, but to live there. 614 01:10:10,792 --> 01:10:12,583 This place exists, Camille... 615 01:10:13,333 --> 01:10:14,708 it's yours. 616 01:10:16,417 --> 01:10:18,000 The domain belongs to you. 617 01:11:15,083 --> 01:11:16,250 Soon, you will be 618 01:11:16,583 --> 01:11:17,708 my daughter. 619 01:11:18,292 --> 01:11:19,625 She was so gentle, 620 01:11:20,083 --> 01:11:21,292 so calm, 621 01:11:21,708 --> 01:11:24,625 as if she had accepted her fate: 622 01:11:24,917 --> 01:11:27,125 to marry the man meant for her. 623 01:11:39,708 --> 01:11:42,125 In fact, she'd decided her future. 624 01:11:43,083 --> 01:11:45,292 And which is why she looked so beautiful! 625 01:12:14,417 --> 01:12:16,333 Tell them we know what we're doing! 626 01:12:21,167 --> 01:12:23,125 I loved her more than life itself, 627 01:12:23,750 --> 01:12:25,417 and I had never told her. 628 01:12:29,792 --> 01:12:31,792 Now she was leaving for good. 629 01:12:33,833 --> 01:12:36,083 She was joining Jean-Baptiste. 630 01:12:39,042 --> 01:12:40,750 She had chosen, 631 01:12:42,208 --> 01:12:43,167 and I hadn't wanted to see it, 632 01:12:43,333 --> 01:12:46,583 I hadn't wanted to understand. 633 01:12:47,250 --> 01:12:48,333 She was in love 634 01:12:50,042 --> 01:12:52,083 the way one is the first time. 635 01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:56,083 Nothing would stop her. 636 01:13:02,375 --> 01:13:03,500 Go on. 637 01:13:06,417 --> 01:13:08,458 They didn't arrest her in Hanoi. 638 01:13:08,708 --> 01:13:10,750 She knew they'd be waiting for her. 639 01:13:14,625 --> 01:13:16,417 I remembered her father's phrase: 640 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,833 "In Asia one does not die"... 641 01:13:19,542 --> 01:13:23,417 So I hoped he was with her and would protect her. 642 01:14:00,792 --> 01:14:01,458 Tai! 643 01:14:06,083 --> 01:14:08,375 There's been no progress since yesterday. 644 01:15:00,125 --> 01:15:01,167 Wait! 645 01:15:02,292 --> 01:15:03,583 Wait! 646 01:15:06,375 --> 01:15:07,250 What do you want? 647 01:15:09,292 --> 01:15:11,125 I'm going north, 648 01:15:11,583 --> 01:15:12,917 to the sea. 649 01:16:21,167 --> 01:16:22,417 My name's Sao. 650 01:17:09,292 --> 01:17:09,792 Sao! 651 01:17:39,833 --> 01:17:43,125 It's for a family. That's enough. 652 01:18:50,083 --> 01:18:52,708 You'll answer for this! 653 01:18:53,250 --> 01:18:54,667 Camille's free! 654 01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:59,667 It's her life, and her life to live as she wants. 655 01:19:00,750 --> 01:19:01,542 I'm leaving too. 656 01:19:02,667 --> 01:19:07,625 I dare you to say you're abandoning the altar of your ancestors! 657 01:19:08,917 --> 01:19:10,958 On your knees... I order you! 658 01:19:12,333 --> 01:19:15,458 Obedience has made us slaves. 659 01:19:15,667 --> 01:19:19,208 The French taught me the words "freedom", "equality". 660 01:19:19,458 --> 01:19:20,875 I'll fight them with it. 661 01:19:21,708 --> 01:19:22,625 Farewell, mother. 662 01:20:22,417 --> 01:20:25,208 Cholera. The north is cursed. 663 01:20:25,458 --> 01:20:28,292 They're recruiting on Dragon for the plantations. 664 01:20:28,583 --> 01:20:31,708 There, we'll find food and work. 665 01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:44,250 I often dreamt about her,,, 666 01:20:46,417 --> 01:20:48,250 I don't remember static dreams, 667 01:20:49,750 --> 01:20:53,250 I pictured her walking through gently moving landscapes,,, 668 01:20:55,250 --> 01:20:58,750 I had the impression they entered her eyes, like blood,,, 669 01:21:00,458 --> 01:21:04,708 I thought: she has Indo-China inside her now, 670 01:21:35,375 --> 01:21:39,625 We're saved, we're going to live. 671 01:21:52,458 --> 01:21:55,958 The boats would pick up the volunteers at dusk, 672 01:21:57,042 --> 01:22:00,542 They came by the hundreds, hoping for a better life, 673 01:22:01,458 --> 01:22:04,417 The boats took them to Dragon Island at night, 674 01:22:04,875 --> 01:22:08,375 So darkness would hide the shame of this human market, 675 01:24:28,583 --> 01:24:29,875 This way. 676 01:24:36,167 --> 01:24:37,375 Get down. 677 01:24:37,875 --> 01:24:39,292 Come on, get down! 678 01:24:53,708 --> 01:24:54,542 Darling! 679 01:25:19,333 --> 01:25:22,333 They seem docile, squatting there. 680 01:25:23,042 --> 01:25:26,333 One day they'll rise up and we'll have to leave. 681 01:25:47,333 --> 01:25:48,208 What happened? 682 01:25:48,458 --> 01:25:50,958 The start of an uprising. 683 01:25:51,958 --> 01:25:53,250 You mean a riot! 684 01:25:55,208 --> 01:25:57,250 They wanted to be together. 685 01:25:57,417 --> 01:26:00,917 They started screaming bloody murder. 686 01:26:01,375 --> 01:26:01,958 They had to be silenced. 687 01:26:03,583 --> 01:26:04,750 But the child? 688 01:26:06,667 --> 01:26:09,500 A public menace! Hysterical! 689 01:26:10,167 --> 01:26:11,792 A devil. Out of control! 690 01:26:16,375 --> 01:26:18,292 Calm down, they're looking... 691 01:26:21,583 --> 01:26:23,375 No one saw what I did. 692 01:27:49,792 --> 01:27:52,167 What's he doing? Picking a congaie? 693 01:28:05,375 --> 01:28:08,958 Do something. Go get them. 694 01:28:10,208 --> 01:28:12,458 Hurry up! Shit! 695 01:28:28,542 --> 01:28:30,625 You're out of your mind! 696 01:28:30,875 --> 01:28:32,667 Start the boarding! 697 01:28:36,292 --> 01:28:36,792 Sao! 698 01:28:38,625 --> 01:28:40,167 Sao! 699 01:28:40,792 --> 01:28:41,375 Sao! 700 01:28:42,958 --> 01:28:44,542 They hadn't done anything! 701 01:28:49,458 --> 01:28:49,958 You killed them. 702 01:28:51,625 --> 01:28:52,625 Shut up. 703 01:29:03,583 --> 01:29:04,792 Go, Camille. Go fast! 704 01:29:05,917 --> 01:29:08,208 Stop her! Stop the bitch! 705 01:29:08,417 --> 01:29:09,167 Run! 706 01:29:10,500 --> 01:29:12,875 Run fast! 707 01:29:13,125 --> 01:29:14,250 Guards, take her to the fort! 708 01:29:14,500 --> 01:29:16,042 Stay where you are! 709 01:29:17,250 --> 01:29:19,042 Stop them before they attack! 710 01:29:30,917 --> 01:29:32,458 Stop it, lieutenant. 711 01:29:32,708 --> 01:29:35,250 That bitch killed him, she's mine! 712 01:29:35,500 --> 01:29:36,458 She's under my protection! 713 01:29:36,708 --> 01:29:37,792 You have no right! 714 01:29:37,958 --> 01:29:41,708 Let go of me! I'm going to kill her! 715 01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:43,375 I want her tried! 716 01:29:43,583 --> 01:29:45,625 I'm the one to decide! 717 01:29:48,667 --> 01:29:49,625 Get down there! 718 01:29:50,500 --> 01:29:51,208 - Shoot. - Down. 719 01:29:52,292 --> 01:29:52,792 Shoot. 720 01:29:53,625 --> 01:29:54,500 Down! 721 01:29:59,542 --> 01:30:03,458 Goddamn it! Shoot! 722 01:30:11,583 --> 01:30:15,208 You're lying! You're a liar! My daughter's not a murderer. 723 01:30:15,833 --> 01:30:16,917 Yes, a bullet in the head. 724 01:30:18,458 --> 01:30:20,917 I had blood, brains all over me. 725 01:30:21,125 --> 01:30:22,000 On my shirt, on my face. 726 01:30:22,625 --> 01:30:23,792 Enough! Put it down. 727 01:30:23,958 --> 01:30:25,875 That chink may be your daughter, 728 01:30:26,125 --> 01:30:27,750 but she's a terrorist. 729 01:30:27,917 --> 01:30:29,000 I saw the hate in her eyes. 730 01:30:29,333 --> 01:30:32,250 Enough! If I catch her and that bastard, 731 01:30:32,500 --> 01:30:35,000 they'll get what Hebrard got. 732 01:30:35,125 --> 01:30:37,583 Two bullets in the head! Like dogs! 733 01:30:37,833 --> 01:30:39,875 Alright, enough. Out. 734 01:30:42,375 --> 01:30:43,292 I've got to find her. 735 01:30:43,500 --> 01:30:46,167 Nonsense. Let me do my job. 736 01:30:50,250 --> 01:30:51,833 The Corsican's briefed you? 737 01:30:52,333 --> 01:30:54,958 You go too. Officially, under his orders. 738 01:30:55,208 --> 01:30:57,292 But you report directly to me. 739 01:30:57,667 --> 01:31:00,083 I love her like she was my own child. 740 01:31:00,292 --> 01:31:02,333 Then why send Castellani? 741 01:31:02,500 --> 01:31:03,333 He'll kill her. 742 01:31:03,583 --> 01:31:06,708 Because he won't give up till he finds her. 743 01:31:06,958 --> 01:31:09,500 But Minh will be there. Trust me! 744 01:31:13,625 --> 01:31:14,792 What did they tell you? 745 01:31:16,125 --> 01:31:19,250 I didn't answer my father, Camille was mine, 746 01:31:20,250 --> 01:31:20,958 What did they want? 747 01:31:21,167 --> 01:31:23,167 I couldn't talk about her to anyone, 748 01:31:23,875 --> 01:31:26,292 I felt that my silence would protect her, 749 01:31:26,917 --> 01:31:28,958 That it would conceal her murder, 750 01:31:29,667 --> 01:31:32,292 that in time it would erase it, 751 01:34:51,917 --> 01:34:54,500 They went into the labyrinth of Ha-Long bay, 752 01:34:56,583 --> 01:34:58,833 A holy place for all Indo-Chinese, 753 01:34:59,167 --> 01:35:03,667 Mountain people, peasants, fishermen in the Gulf of Siam, 754 01:35:03,917 --> 01:35:07,292 all know of its existence, but have never seen it, 755 01:35:08,500 --> 01:35:11,083 They know of the curse on these islands, 756 01:35:12,875 --> 01:35:16,458 When I learned that Camille and Jean-Baptiste had gone there, 757 01:35:17,083 --> 01:35:17,958 I read every book, 758 01:35:18,208 --> 01:35:19,875 everything I could find, 759 01:35:21,042 --> 01:35:22,625 They all say the same thing: 760 01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:26,542 those strong or foolish enough to brave the curse 761 01:35:26,792 --> 01:35:28,792 have never been seen again, 762 01:35:30,292 --> 01:35:32,667 They become invisible to the rest of mankind, 763 01:37:18,792 --> 01:37:20,708 Extraordinary,,, 764 01:37:21,292 --> 01:37:22,792 They're alive. 765 01:37:41,125 --> 01:37:42,625 Save her... 766 01:37:44,917 --> 01:37:46,708 I want her to live. 767 01:37:53,792 --> 01:37:58,917 Take them to the valley. I'll meet you. Tell no one. 768 01:38:23,792 --> 01:38:27,542 For centuries my country has often been invaded. 769 01:38:27,792 --> 01:38:32,583 But no foreigners know the access to this valley. 770 01:38:33,208 --> 01:38:34,542 This is where we'll hide you. 771 01:38:35,792 --> 01:38:37,958 You're not prisoners, 772 01:38:38,625 --> 01:38:40,625 but you can leave only with me. 773 01:39:53,792 --> 01:39:55,917 Don't be afraid, we're safe here. 774 01:39:56,833 --> 01:39:58,208 I'm not afraid. 775 01:40:01,792 --> 01:40:03,833 If you surrender now they'll pardon you. 776 01:40:05,208 --> 01:40:09,083 Go see Guy. He'll help you. He'll say it's not your fault. 777 01:40:13,792 --> 01:40:18,208 If you aren't here in the morning I'll understand. 778 01:40:31,292 --> 01:40:32,500 The water's rising fast, 779 01:40:34,083 --> 01:40:36,375 the cave will soon be flooded. 780 01:40:37,792 --> 01:40:39,542 We'll return after the monsoon. 781 01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:45,292 We have to go... 782 01:40:46,375 --> 01:40:47,458 Goodbye. 783 01:42:42,292 --> 01:42:43,708 Goddamn bloody country! 784 01:42:44,208 --> 01:42:46,792 Can't that old monkey help us? 785 01:42:47,083 --> 01:42:48,583 Instead of just bowing? 786 01:42:51,958 --> 01:42:56,333 He bows because you are a respectable man. A white man. 787 01:42:57,250 --> 01:43:00,292 Go get help. 788 01:43:00,875 --> 01:43:02,125 Fast! 789 01:43:03,917 --> 01:43:05,750 Have you been searching long? 790 01:43:05,958 --> 01:43:07,583 Three months. 791 01:43:09,083 --> 01:43:11,792 It's a very difficult task. 792 01:43:13,375 --> 01:43:16,500 But there are things the women know 793 01:43:16,750 --> 01:43:19,667 that we men don't. 794 01:43:22,083 --> 01:43:23,458 Where are they? 795 01:43:24,333 --> 01:43:26,292 Who here knows something? 796 01:43:27,083 --> 01:43:28,292 That way? 797 01:43:30,500 --> 01:43:35,083 Tall French soldier, 798 01:43:35,458 --> 01:43:37,417 little Indo-Chinese girl? 799 01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:39,542 Minh! Translate! 800 01:43:56,333 --> 01:43:57,458 Finally, a lead. 801 01:43:58,667 --> 01:43:59,375 Where are they? 802 01:44:03,750 --> 01:44:04,375 They're playing with me! 803 01:44:04,667 --> 01:44:05,875 Oh shit! 804 01:44:20,500 --> 01:44:22,458 Had a good trip, Sir? 805 01:44:22,917 --> 01:44:25,333 Useful, Minh. Useful as ever. 806 01:44:25,625 --> 01:44:26,708 China is a great reservoir. 807 01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:28,958 And you? 808 01:44:30,542 --> 01:44:31,792 I'm talking to you. 809 01:44:32,375 --> 01:44:34,042 Nothing... of course. 810 01:44:34,292 --> 01:44:36,875 For 4 months we've been all over Tonkin. 811 01:44:38,417 --> 01:44:41,333 Informers... nothing. Threats... nothing. 812 01:44:41,542 --> 01:44:43,583 Reward money... nothing. It's clear: 813 01:44:43,833 --> 01:44:45,917 They're in China or they've drowned. 814 01:44:46,667 --> 01:44:48,333 It's time to call it off. 815 01:44:48,958 --> 01:44:50,042 I give up. 816 01:44:50,417 --> 01:44:52,292 Your job is to find them. 817 01:44:52,667 --> 01:44:54,250 You'll find them, if it takes your whole life! 818 01:44:55,917 --> 01:44:58,000 Inspector Castellani's right. 819 01:44:58,500 --> 01:44:59,792 We won't find them. 820 01:45:06,458 --> 01:45:08,375 "She rolls up in a ball" 821 01:45:09,458 --> 01:45:12,875 "and nibbles her knees" 822 01:45:13,250 --> 01:45:16,000 "That rubber gal"... 823 01:45:16,375 --> 01:45:19,250 "All the things" "you can do with her!" 824 01:45:19,833 --> 01:45:23,958 "She grabs you" "and you turn into mush!" 825 01:45:24,250 --> 01:45:25,542 "She's something else!" 826 01:45:25,708 --> 01:45:27,500 "She'll put you out of joint!" 827 01:45:27,625 --> 01:45:28,917 This is your surprise? 828 01:45:29,625 --> 01:45:32,417 "She's quite a number," "a funny little thing" 829 01:45:32,583 --> 01:45:35,333 "She's the real thing," "and she suits every taste" 830 01:45:39,583 --> 01:45:42,458 "When she wants to please you" "The things she'll do" 831 01:45:42,708 --> 01:45:45,125 "Because she's quite a lure..." 832 01:45:59,667 --> 01:46:02,083 "I'll tell you, just between us" 833 01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:05,792 "Well, that rubber gal" 834 01:46:06,625 --> 01:46:08,333 "Is me." 835 01:46:10,125 --> 01:46:12,083 "Yes, that's what they call me." 836 01:46:13,375 --> 01:46:16,208 "Next to me marshmallow" "is like wood" 837 01:46:16,583 --> 01:46:19,417 "As for the snake woman" "I'm every inch as good as her" 838 01:46:19,708 --> 01:46:22,708 "I'll do a cartwheel for you" "and pinch my cheeks too" 839 01:46:22,917 --> 01:46:26,542 "I hop like a bird" 840 01:46:28,042 --> 01:46:29,375 "I'm taunting you" 841 01:46:30,917 --> 01:46:32,750 "I'm giving you the eye" 842 01:46:34,917 --> 01:46:38,167 "But with my bellybutton..." 843 01:46:44,917 --> 01:46:46,292 And how are you? 844 01:46:47,333 --> 01:46:48,000 Okay. 845 01:46:49,042 --> 01:46:50,708 You were right to bring me here. 846 01:47:06,708 --> 01:47:07,333 She has a nice figure. 847 01:47:07,583 --> 01:47:08,750 Ah! You noticed too? 848 01:47:19,667 --> 01:47:21,208 The champagne's on me. 849 01:47:21,667 --> 01:47:23,458 Let me give you a kiss. 850 01:47:24,708 --> 01:47:28,417 It's nice to see you. Especially after what happened. How awful. 851 01:47:31,500 --> 01:47:32,458 How are your children? 852 01:47:33,500 --> 01:47:35,375 Raymond took them with him to France. 853 01:47:36,167 --> 01:47:37,958 It simplifies things. 854 01:47:38,250 --> 01:47:40,667 Yet when I think they're 10,000 kilometres away 855 01:47:40,917 --> 01:47:42,792 I could cry for hours. 856 01:47:46,917 --> 01:47:49,208 I'm sorry, but I have to go. 857 01:47:51,042 --> 01:47:52,750 You won't stay for a drink? 858 01:47:55,375 --> 01:47:56,958 And I was being sincere. 859 01:48:00,500 --> 01:48:03,708 You shouldn't act so proud, with what's said about Camille. 860 01:48:09,333 --> 01:48:11,917 And about you too, in Saigon! 861 01:48:14,458 --> 01:48:17,250 Yes, my dear Yvette, "how awful"! 862 01:48:31,375 --> 01:48:35,125 Today I staked out a parcel of land with Kim. 863 01:48:35,917 --> 01:48:38,417 For ten minutes I thought only of my rubber trees. 864 01:48:41,208 --> 01:48:42,917 And then while getting dressed 865 01:48:44,125 --> 01:48:46,375 I fell sobbing to my knees. 866 01:48:49,083 --> 01:48:51,333 Now I'm almost cheerful. 867 01:48:53,625 --> 01:48:55,583 Sometimes the despair diminishes. 868 01:48:57,125 --> 01:48:59,792 As if it's evaporated, gone. 869 01:49:01,875 --> 01:49:03,708 Sometimes it's suffocating. 870 01:49:06,125 --> 01:49:07,542 Promise you're not hiding anything? 871 01:49:07,917 --> 01:49:10,042 It's the same everywhere. 872 01:49:11,875 --> 01:49:13,500 The informers are going crazy. 873 01:49:14,083 --> 01:49:16,250 We check each lead: nothing. 874 01:49:16,833 --> 01:49:18,625 She's becoming a legend. 875 01:49:18,792 --> 01:49:20,375 An Indo-Chinese Joan of Arc. 876 01:49:26,167 --> 01:49:29,417 You think she's still alive? Tell me the truth! 877 01:49:31,125 --> 01:49:33,792 Yes. I'll find her. 878 01:49:39,333 --> 01:49:42,375 Go in the pagoda. Stay out of sight. 879 01:50:18,375 --> 01:50:21,167 You can't remain here. 880 01:50:21,375 --> 01:50:23,708 We have more important people to hide. 881 01:50:24,750 --> 01:50:28,250 Come with us, Camille. The Party needs you. 882 01:50:28,958 --> 01:50:32,625 I learned of Tanh's role and importance only later, 883 01:50:33,500 --> 01:50:37,000 He'd become one of the secret heads of the communist party, 884 01:50:37,667 --> 01:50:41,083 Xuy will try to get you to China. 885 01:50:41,292 --> 01:50:43,833 That's all I can do for you. 886 01:50:44,333 --> 01:50:48,125 He'd convinced them to protect Camille and Jean-Baptiste. 887 01:50:48,417 --> 01:50:49,333 Do you have news 888 01:50:49,625 --> 01:50:50,625 of my mother? 889 01:50:50,833 --> 01:50:54,250 No, neither of your mother nor mine. 890 01:50:54,500 --> 01:50:56,458 That's all in the past. 891 01:51:51,542 --> 01:51:53,208 Stay inside the wagon. 892 01:51:53,500 --> 01:51:56,500 Remember, you're a white deserter. 893 01:51:58,208 --> 01:52:01,708 But this place is absolutely deserted! 894 01:52:02,250 --> 01:52:04,125 There are eyes everywhere, 895 01:52:05,083 --> 01:52:09,167 put that in your ignorant French officer's head. 896 01:52:11,208 --> 01:52:13,375 You're threatening our safety! 897 01:52:13,542 --> 01:52:15,375 The French have blocked the roads. 898 01:52:15,708 --> 01:52:18,458 It's even dangerous to leave you here during the spectacle. 899 01:54:04,458 --> 01:54:05,167 Jean-Baptiste. 900 01:54:45,167 --> 01:54:48,292 Push... push harder. 901 01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:00,208 You wanted to stay, I warned you. 902 01:55:01,042 --> 01:55:03,958 This isn't for men! 903 01:55:04,250 --> 01:55:07,583 You look like a devil, you'll scare the baby. 904 01:55:43,833 --> 01:55:45,042 Yes, harder... Here he is! 905 01:55:46,250 --> 01:55:47,875 It's a boy. 906 01:55:48,042 --> 01:55:50,542 You have a son, that's good. 907 01:55:50,708 --> 01:55:54,208 Better than a girl. 908 01:56:10,833 --> 01:56:14,583 Death to the land robbers who've starved us! 909 01:56:28,542 --> 01:56:33,958 Death to the mandarins and the notables who support the French! 910 01:57:24,833 --> 01:57:26,375 You're all worthless! 911 01:57:28,792 --> 01:57:30,750 Your pay, your allowances, 912 01:57:31,083 --> 01:57:34,250 submissive congaies, you know all about that! 913 01:57:35,083 --> 01:57:37,417 But when ideas are needed, no one! 914 01:57:39,208 --> 01:57:43,458 It's because of sheep like you France will lose the empire. 915 01:57:43,917 --> 01:57:46,583 I feel like I'm fighting Asia all by myself. 916 01:57:47,667 --> 01:57:49,333 I'm tired! 917 01:57:54,042 --> 01:57:59,042 Disturbances have occurred here, here and here. 918 01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:01,333 What does this mean? 919 01:58:02,500 --> 01:58:06,875 This means someone's going along this line starting fires. 920 01:58:08,083 --> 01:58:09,083 Alright? 921 01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:13,292 Who follows this itinerary 922 01:58:14,042 --> 01:58:15,792 without attracting attention? 923 01:58:16,917 --> 01:58:19,917 From village to village for centuries, 924 01:58:20,542 --> 01:58:21,583 in such a way 925 01:58:22,333 --> 01:58:25,625 that it seems as natural as the wind or rain? 926 01:58:25,958 --> 01:58:28,875 So natural you don't even stop them? 927 01:58:30,083 --> 01:58:31,292 Well? Who? 928 01:58:37,792 --> 01:58:39,292 The theatre troupes! 929 01:58:41,458 --> 01:58:45,542 Actors in our country are free and neutral people. 930 01:58:46,375 --> 01:58:47,750 And have been for centuries. 931 01:58:48,083 --> 01:58:50,542 It's impossible the communists corrupted them. 932 01:58:51,583 --> 01:58:53,750 You have no right to suspect them. 933 01:58:54,250 --> 01:58:57,667 Fine. In one week I want all the actors, 934 01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:00,417 all the singers, the puppeteers 935 01:59:00,667 --> 01:59:02,792 in the north of Tonkin arrested. 936 01:59:04,792 --> 01:59:07,750 Code name: "Operation Molire". 937 01:59:40,542 --> 01:59:44,250 In five hours we're in China, the Yunnan province. 938 01:59:44,917 --> 01:59:47,167 You know what Yunnan means? 939 01:59:48,750 --> 01:59:50,792 "The land south of the clouds". 940 02:00:17,875 --> 02:00:18,875 Where are you going? 941 02:00:20,333 --> 02:00:21,500 Not far. Don't worry. 942 02:00:21,833 --> 02:00:22,958 Wilth the baby? 943 02:00:47,375 --> 02:00:50,625 In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, 944 02:00:51,333 --> 02:00:52,583 I baptise you 945 02:00:53,417 --> 02:00:57,958 Etienne, Marie, Loic. 946 02:01:06,250 --> 02:01:08,667 My baby. My baby boy. 947 02:01:46,958 --> 02:01:49,458 You're a murderer. 948 02:01:49,625 --> 02:01:52,417 They'll kill you. And the child will die too. 949 02:01:52,875 --> 02:01:54,583 Let them go. 950 02:01:55,250 --> 02:01:56,958 We must flee. 951 02:02:01,417 --> 02:02:04,333 You'll see them again. 952 02:02:04,958 --> 02:02:10,000 For that you must live. Flee with us. 953 02:02:38,083 --> 02:02:40,208 She never had time to become attached to you. 954 02:02:40,833 --> 02:02:42,542 You had just been born. 955 02:02:48,708 --> 02:02:51,375 I often wondered if you should know all this. 956 02:02:55,542 --> 02:02:58,500 I thought of meeting Jean-Baptiste's family... 957 02:03:00,667 --> 02:03:02,083 I didn't do it. 958 02:03:03,458 --> 02:03:04,875 Nor did they. 959 02:03:25,333 --> 02:03:27,583 Wait, lieutenant. Calm down! 960 02:03:27,958 --> 02:03:28,667 He's hungry. 961 02:03:28,833 --> 02:03:30,125 What can I do? 962 02:03:32,042 --> 02:03:33,042 Find a woman. 963 02:03:42,125 --> 02:03:46,417 Congaie, congaie... 964 02:04:21,250 --> 02:04:24,292 Indo-Chinese women nourished at every stop. 965 02:04:27,333 --> 02:04:29,125 That's how the legend began... 966 02:04:29,333 --> 02:04:30,667 Wilth you. 967 02:04:32,750 --> 02:04:34,833 Countless women said they'd nourished you. 968 02:04:35,542 --> 02:04:37,250 Even elderly women, 969 02:04:37,958 --> 02:04:39,875 even those who'd never seen you. 970 02:04:45,083 --> 02:04:49,167 Camille and Jean-Baptiste became legends... 971 02:04:51,833 --> 02:04:53,792 The legend spread everywhere, 972 02:04:54,333 --> 02:04:56,167 from village to village, 973 02:04:56,875 --> 02:04:59,667 from China all the way to Saigon. 974 02:05:45,375 --> 02:05:47,042 Why did you bring me here? 975 02:05:55,625 --> 02:05:56,500 No one move! 976 02:06:02,917 --> 02:06:04,208 Follow them! 977 02:06:22,792 --> 02:06:23,792 Hurry up! 978 02:06:23,958 --> 02:06:25,875 Tell me! Why'd you bring me here? 979 02:06:29,125 --> 02:06:30,917 Camille's in Poulo-Condore prison. 980 02:06:33,083 --> 02:06:33,958 She's alive! 981 02:06:34,667 --> 02:06:36,875 You'll get her out. I want to see her! 982 02:06:37,083 --> 02:06:37,708 You can't see her. 983 02:06:38,083 --> 02:06:40,250 It's impossible even for me. 984 02:06:40,458 --> 02:06:42,625 Stop talking! 985 02:06:43,292 --> 02:06:44,958 You're the boss, I want Camille! 986 02:06:45,292 --> 02:06:46,792 In Indo-China right now 987 02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:50,250 there are 100 troupes acting out Camille's story. 988 02:06:50,625 --> 02:06:51,458 There's nothing I can do 989 02:06:51,625 --> 02:06:54,625 Get her out of prison. Please! 990 02:06:54,875 --> 02:06:56,542 Can't you understand? 991 02:06:57,667 --> 02:06:59,708 Not only will she stay there, 992 02:07:00,208 --> 02:07:01,750 she'll end up communist! 993 02:07:02,500 --> 02:07:03,292 Poulo-Condore prison 994 02:07:04,125 --> 02:07:06,583 is a communist breeding ground. 995 02:07:06,708 --> 02:07:10,667 You go in a criminal, a prostitute, a nationalist, 996 02:07:10,917 --> 02:07:12,708 you come out a Marxist! 997 02:07:12,875 --> 02:07:16,125 And all I hope is that she becomes communist! 998 02:07:16,333 --> 02:07:18,042 It's her only chance! 999 02:07:18,208 --> 02:07:19,833 Everyone else dies! 1000 02:07:23,750 --> 02:07:25,333 Now I know who you are. 1001 02:07:26,125 --> 02:07:28,667 Nothing. You're nothing. Nothing but words. 1002 02:07:29,625 --> 02:07:31,083 You're worse than a coward. 1003 02:07:31,750 --> 02:07:32,958 You're always there. 1004 02:07:33,417 --> 02:07:35,375 You sniff around. And you talk. 1005 02:07:37,042 --> 02:07:39,542 You wonder that I never slept with you? 1006 02:07:40,500 --> 02:07:42,250 I didn't want you as a lover. 1007 02:07:42,458 --> 02:07:44,125 Women need more than words from their lovers. 1008 02:07:47,583 --> 02:07:48,542 Eliane! 1009 02:07:49,333 --> 02:07:50,208 Eliane! 1010 02:08:15,333 --> 02:08:18,083 This is Etienne. 1011 02:08:19,708 --> 02:08:21,750 Please sign here. 1012 02:08:24,167 --> 02:08:27,292 He ugly... he drop of mud. 1013 02:08:27,458 --> 02:08:30,708 You're right, Shen... very ugly... 1014 02:08:30,917 --> 02:08:32,250 Not handsome at all. 1015 02:08:32,958 --> 02:08:33,625 Not much big, 1016 02:08:34,167 --> 02:08:37,833 not pretty, dressed anywhen... 1017 02:08:38,458 --> 02:08:41,458 Not "anywhen" Shen, "any old way!" 1018 02:08:45,583 --> 02:08:47,250 The evil spirits are listening. 1019 02:08:47,750 --> 02:08:50,875 If we say he's handsome, they'll harm him. 1020 02:09:13,333 --> 02:09:14,458 Give me Le Guen. 1021 02:09:15,375 --> 02:09:16,000 No. 1022 02:09:16,583 --> 02:09:17,833 What will you do with him? 1023 02:09:18,208 --> 02:09:19,875 I await orders from Paris. 1024 02:09:20,083 --> 02:09:21,917 Give me 2 days. I need to question him. 1025 02:09:22,500 --> 02:09:25,792 What he knows about the their hideouts 1026 02:09:26,125 --> 02:09:27,250 is of major interest to us. 1027 02:09:27,958 --> 02:09:29,667 Three points, Mr. Asselin. 1028 02:09:30,167 --> 02:09:31,833 One: Le Guen won't talk. 1029 02:09:32,208 --> 02:09:33,917 Not a word since his arrest. 1030 02:09:34,583 --> 02:09:37,000 Not even to my chief of staff, his classmate. 1031 02:09:38,500 --> 02:09:41,625 Two: if I hand him over, 1032 02:09:41,958 --> 02:09:43,458 perhaps he'll talk. 1033 02:09:43,708 --> 02:09:45,583 I prefer not: I know your methods. 1034 02:09:46,542 --> 02:09:48,167 Three: Le Guen is a sailor. 1035 02:09:48,500 --> 02:09:51,542 He will be tried by sailors. 1036 02:09:52,042 --> 02:09:55,542 What is of interest will be communicated to you. 1037 02:09:55,750 --> 02:09:59,250 More proof of navy-police cooperation. 1038 02:10:00,583 --> 02:10:02,667 That's how empires are great! 1039 02:10:23,458 --> 02:10:24,792 You've decided to talk. 1040 02:10:26,708 --> 02:10:28,042 I'm listening. 1041 02:10:28,417 --> 02:10:29,708 I have one request, 1042 02:10:31,542 --> 02:10:32,750 one only. 1043 02:11:08,750 --> 02:11:10,167 Jean-Baptiste. 1044 02:11:11,917 --> 02:11:13,000 Hello. 1045 02:11:13,917 --> 02:11:15,375 Hello, Eliane. 1046 02:11:18,167 --> 02:11:19,875 They've given me 24 hours. 1047 02:11:21,167 --> 02:11:22,792 I gave my word. 1048 02:11:23,958 --> 02:11:25,667 I take the boat in the morning. 1049 02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:28,917 I'll be tried in Brest. 1050 02:11:29,875 --> 02:11:32,667 Here, the navy would've been soiled, 1051 02:11:32,833 --> 02:11:34,958 and France would've been on trial. 1052 02:11:36,667 --> 02:11:39,917 I have one day to pack up. 1053 02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:43,917 You're taking him to France? 1054 02:11:46,208 --> 02:11:48,167 No. I'm asking you to keep him. 1055 02:11:48,958 --> 02:11:50,292 For now, at least. 1056 02:11:52,125 --> 02:11:53,375 Do you accept? 1057 02:11:56,708 --> 02:11:58,667 I wouldn't have let you take him. 1058 02:12:01,292 --> 02:12:02,792 You haven't changed. 1059 02:12:07,125 --> 02:12:10,500 I've never had a little baby all my own. 1060 02:12:20,792 --> 02:12:22,333 Where will you sleep? 1061 02:12:23,667 --> 02:12:24,750 I don't know. 1062 02:12:29,125 --> 02:12:31,167 Take him to the house in Saigon. 1063 02:12:31,625 --> 02:12:34,458 He needs to spend a night with his father. 1064 02:12:37,125 --> 02:12:39,417 You want Shen to help you? 1065 02:12:40,583 --> 02:12:41,583 No, I'll manage. 1066 02:12:50,125 --> 02:12:51,500 I'll come tomorrow. To the boat too. 1067 02:12:58,500 --> 02:12:59,417 You have no news? 1068 02:13:02,583 --> 02:13:03,833 No, none. 1069 02:13:08,792 --> 02:13:09,875 You'll see her again. 1070 02:13:11,667 --> 02:13:13,458 She's become so strong. 1071 02:13:56,250 --> 02:13:57,333 Did they sleep well? 1072 02:13:57,792 --> 02:13:59,500 Me not know. 1073 02:14:00,083 --> 02:14:01,208 You didn't go up? 1074 02:14:01,458 --> 02:14:05,542 No. Baby cry last night, then sleep. 1075 02:15:03,542 --> 02:15:04,917 Etienne, 1076 02:15:07,583 --> 02:15:09,000 my darling, 1077 02:15:11,083 --> 02:15:12,583 we're going home, 1078 02:15:14,042 --> 02:15:15,625 back to our house. 1079 02:15:30,500 --> 02:15:32,417 Madame... Madame Devries! 1080 02:15:59,417 --> 02:16:00,500 Swear it wasn't you! 1081 02:16:00,875 --> 02:16:01,833 Swear it! 1082 02:16:02,625 --> 02:16:04,208 That I didn't do what? 1083 02:16:05,042 --> 02:16:06,667 Jean-Baptiste is dead... 1084 02:16:07,000 --> 02:16:08,083 and you killed him. 1085 02:16:12,417 --> 02:16:13,750 He's in Emile's house. 1086 02:16:14,458 --> 02:16:15,958 The gun's in his hand. 1087 02:16:16,333 --> 02:16:19,208 He didn't do it! Not with a baby in his arms! 1088 02:16:19,417 --> 02:16:19,958 Calm down, Eliane! 1089 02:16:20,208 --> 02:16:20,875 Calm down! 1090 02:16:21,042 --> 02:16:23,792 His day of freedom! You were all in on it! 1091 02:16:24,042 --> 02:16:24,875 He was free, 1092 02:16:25,333 --> 02:16:26,958 free to die, 1093 02:16:27,417 --> 02:16:28,750 free to get shot! 1094 02:16:31,417 --> 02:16:34,208 But I'll find proof against you, 1095 02:16:34,458 --> 02:16:35,292 the navy, the government! 1096 02:16:35,792 --> 02:16:36,708 Stop it! Stop! 1097 02:16:37,333 --> 02:16:38,042 It's the communists! 1098 02:16:40,625 --> 02:16:41,792 The communists! 1099 02:16:42,292 --> 02:16:44,583 He'd infiltrated them, he'd betrayed them, 1100 02:16:45,458 --> 02:16:46,500 he betrayed everyone, 1101 02:16:46,792 --> 02:16:48,542 so he got what he deserved! 1102 02:16:54,375 --> 02:16:55,792 It's hopeless, by noon 1103 02:16:55,917 --> 02:16:58,500 all Saigon will be convinced it was suicide. 1104 02:17:08,625 --> 02:17:11,208 Put locks on Mr. Devries' house, 1105 02:17:11,750 --> 02:17:15,000 inform the chief of cabinet, and admiral Josselin. I'm on my way. 1106 02:17:40,750 --> 02:17:43,667 As expected, they concluded suicide. 1107 02:17:45,625 --> 02:17:47,750 To fight for Jean-Baptiste's memory 1108 02:17:47,917 --> 02:17:50,542 was like fighting France itself. 1109 02:17:56,625 --> 02:17:59,167 So I wrote to Saigon's leading paper. 1110 02:18:00,958 --> 02:18:02,625 A very simple letter. 1111 02:18:03,000 --> 02:18:04,708 It said your father loved life 1112 02:18:04,917 --> 02:18:07,708 much too much to die that way. 1113 02:18:11,625 --> 02:18:15,208 I went with him to the boat. I'd promised him. 1114 02:18:18,500 --> 02:18:22,125 Wilthout you, I'd have followed him. 1115 02:18:38,167 --> 02:18:39,375 You turned five. 1116 02:18:39,875 --> 02:18:42,292 I had no news of your mother, 1117 02:18:42,792 --> 02:18:44,208 other than that she was alive. 1118 02:18:48,000 --> 02:18:50,833 To obtain her pardon I wrote to the President, 1119 02:18:51,083 --> 02:18:53,625 to the minister of Justice, 1120 02:18:53,917 --> 02:18:55,708 to the governor general. 1121 02:18:56,292 --> 02:18:57,250 There was no answer. 1122 02:19:26,250 --> 02:19:27,833 I didn't do anything, 1123 02:19:30,375 --> 02:19:31,625 I tell you, I didn't, 1124 02:19:32,667 --> 02:19:34,250 it's my parents, not me. 1125 02:19:36,167 --> 02:19:37,250 They say you're... 1126 02:19:37,500 --> 02:19:38,500 That I'm? 1127 02:19:40,333 --> 02:19:42,833 A red! A dirty communist! 1128 02:19:43,667 --> 02:19:44,792 Tell them it's true. 1129 02:19:49,833 --> 02:19:53,333 You'd become the little king of my beloved domain. 1130 02:19:53,958 --> 02:19:55,542 Every day bankers came. 1131 02:19:56,833 --> 02:19:58,083 They wanted my lands. 1132 02:19:58,667 --> 02:20:02,417 I wanted to save everything for my daughter and for you. 1133 02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:04,958 When Camille would be free again 1134 02:20:05,167 --> 02:20:06,625 life would go on as before. 1135 02:20:07,958 --> 02:20:10,125 Then, one night Guy called. 1136 02:20:11,125 --> 02:20:13,167 He was the same as ever, 1137 02:20:13,792 --> 02:20:16,333 as if 3 years hadn't gone by. 1138 02:20:18,083 --> 02:20:19,417 Ladies and gentlemen! 1139 02:20:19,583 --> 02:20:21,875 Bow deeply, the woman I love. 1140 02:20:23,417 --> 02:20:23,958 Pig! 1141 02:20:28,167 --> 02:20:29,708 I forgive you. 1142 02:20:30,458 --> 02:20:31,417 Not me. 1143 02:20:31,667 --> 02:20:33,333 It doesn't matter, I'm leaving. 1144 02:20:34,833 --> 02:20:36,750 Come on, don't hold back! 1145 02:20:37,667 --> 02:20:39,167 Make my last day unforgettable! 1146 02:20:40,000 --> 02:20:42,792 Wilthout my Chinese I'd have left long ago. 1147 02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:43,833 Why are you leaving? 1148 02:20:46,167 --> 02:20:49,750 Dismissed... Fired... Discarded... Willl you have me? 1149 02:20:51,208 --> 02:20:52,042 No. 1150 02:20:53,250 --> 02:20:55,000 Like the Popular Front, 1151 02:20:55,333 --> 02:20:57,125 the Forces, everyone... 1152 02:20:57,958 --> 02:20:58,625 No one likes Guy Asselin. 1153 02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:01,625 Where are you going? 1154 02:21:02,250 --> 02:21:05,375 To some fragment of the Empire. 1155 02:21:07,208 --> 02:21:09,125 The innocent are kicked out, 1156 02:21:09,458 --> 02:21:11,208 the guilty will be freed. 1157 02:21:17,792 --> 02:21:19,292 Drink up, my friends! 1158 02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:22,167 Help me forget my misfortune 1159 02:21:22,792 --> 02:21:26,875 and if you like secrets, share them, you know everything. 1160 02:21:27,500 --> 02:21:30,625 I was just the mailbox, the Post Office. 1161 02:21:31,375 --> 02:21:33,625 Forget your oaths of silence. 1162 02:21:33,792 --> 02:21:35,667 Tonight, we reveal everything! 1163 02:21:36,333 --> 02:21:36,792 Come on! 1164 02:22:31,042 --> 02:22:32,625 You think I have a destiny? 1165 02:22:34,042 --> 02:22:35,417 Hurry back to Guy. 1166 02:22:35,750 --> 02:22:37,667 Men like him can't be left alone. 1167 02:22:38,167 --> 02:22:40,208 His kind is always getting hurt. 1168 02:22:47,333 --> 02:22:48,417 My turn! 1169 02:22:49,333 --> 02:22:50,500 My turn! 1170 02:22:54,458 --> 02:22:55,708 Here! Here! 1171 02:22:55,917 --> 02:22:57,125 My turn! 1172 02:22:57,792 --> 02:22:58,458 See, it's easy. 1173 02:23:01,750 --> 02:23:03,417 Guy had known before everyone, 1174 02:23:03,917 --> 02:23:06,417 Several days later it was official, 1175 02:23:07,292 --> 02:23:11,375 The Popular Front opened the prisons and amnestied the prisoners, 1176 02:23:32,792 --> 02:23:34,500 Stay back! 1177 02:23:34,750 --> 02:23:39,708 The amnestied prisoners will be transported to Saigon by truck, 1178 02:23:39,917 --> 02:23:43,208 they will be freed at police headquarters. 1179 02:23:43,583 --> 02:23:45,250 Stay back. 1180 02:25:22,042 --> 02:25:23,375 Back! Let them through! 1181 02:25:49,875 --> 02:25:50,917 Oh! My baby, 1182 02:25:51,167 --> 02:25:52,500 my darling. 1183 02:25:57,125 --> 02:25:58,875 You've become so thin. 1184 02:25:59,875 --> 02:26:02,500 The red Princess! There she is! 1185 02:26:04,375 --> 02:26:05,667 I'll carry your bag. 1186 02:26:05,917 --> 02:26:07,625 No, I'm fine. 1187 02:26:10,958 --> 02:26:13,375 I tried everything to get you out. 1188 02:26:15,542 --> 02:26:17,667 I prayed, I'd have given my life. 1189 02:26:19,333 --> 02:26:20,917 I was so afraid you'd die. 1190 02:26:24,875 --> 02:26:26,125 I've kept everything. 1191 02:26:26,333 --> 02:26:29,125 The domain, the land. It's yours. 1192 02:26:29,333 --> 02:26:30,583 I'm not coming home. 1193 02:26:33,333 --> 02:26:33,958 I have to go. 1194 02:26:34,542 --> 02:26:35,542 What are you saying? 1195 02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:37,333 I beg you... Think... 1196 02:26:37,417 --> 02:26:38,542 I've been thinking 5 years. 1197 02:26:50,750 --> 02:26:52,458 It's too late, mama. 1198 02:26:52,917 --> 02:26:54,583 I can't go back. 1199 02:26:55,125 --> 02:26:57,958 I have no past. I forgot everything. 1200 02:26:59,542 --> 02:27:01,750 Otherwise I'd have died of sorrow. 1201 02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:18,167 What's his name? 1202 02:27:22,875 --> 02:27:26,500 Etienne... he's a wonderful boy. 1203 02:27:30,750 --> 02:27:32,208 Listen, 1204 02:27:35,458 --> 02:27:36,875 try, 1205 02:27:41,000 --> 02:27:41,833 I'll help you, 1206 02:27:45,375 --> 02:27:46,667 my darling. 1207 02:27:47,750 --> 02:27:51,417 I don't want him to know what I lived through, how I suffered. 1208 02:27:51,667 --> 02:27:52,625 I want him to be happy. 1209 02:27:53,833 --> 02:27:55,042 Honey... 1210 02:27:56,208 --> 02:27:58,042 Go to France. 1211 02:27:58,667 --> 02:28:02,250 Take him. Your Indo-China's dead. 1212 02:28:04,375 --> 02:28:06,292 It no longer exists. 1213 02:29:57,250 --> 02:29:58,667 You sold it? 1214 02:30:00,375 --> 02:30:00,958 Yes. 1215 02:30:01,167 --> 02:30:02,750 Many piastres? 1216 02:30:03,458 --> 02:30:04,333 Many. 1217 02:30:04,500 --> 02:30:06,542 You buy another plantation? 1218 02:30:07,958 --> 02:30:10,167 No Shen, of course not. 1219 02:30:10,375 --> 02:30:13,667 Satait, and Kim and me, go where? 1220 02:30:14,833 --> 02:30:16,208 You stay. 1221 02:30:16,542 --> 02:30:18,250 It's decided with Madame Minh Tam. 1222 02:30:19,083 --> 02:30:21,000 Mister Emile stays too. 1223 02:30:21,167 --> 02:30:22,625 And you, go where? 1224 02:30:48,958 --> 02:30:50,875 I left for France, 1225 02:30:52,792 --> 02:30:54,125 to start a new life, 1226 02:30:56,583 --> 02:30:58,000 taking only you with me. 1227 02:31:09,708 --> 02:31:12,833 Tomorrow, France loses Indo-China for good. 1228 02:31:14,917 --> 02:31:17,542 A big delegation of Vietnamese is here. 1229 02:31:20,250 --> 02:31:22,750 Camille, your mother, is in that hotel. 1230 02:31:24,125 --> 02:31:26,042 Room 212... 1231 02:31:27,375 --> 02:31:28,583 You want to see her? 1232 02:31:30,292 --> 02:31:31,125 And you? 1233 02:31:33,250 --> 02:31:34,333 No. 1234 02:32:17,750 --> 02:32:18,750 Did you see her? 1235 02:32:20,417 --> 02:32:22,125 The lobby was full of people. 1236 02:32:22,375 --> 02:32:25,833 Police, security, barriers. 1237 02:32:27,292 --> 02:32:30,083 I realized how ridiculous the situation was. 1238 02:32:30,417 --> 02:32:34,167 I pictured myself jumping on an Indo-Chinese woman, yelling: 1239 02:32:34,417 --> 02:32:35,417 "Mama"! 1240 02:32:36,708 --> 02:32:39,000 So I thought a miracle had to happen. 1241 02:32:40,625 --> 02:32:44,375 I hoped one of the women would shout:"Etienne, my son!" 1242 02:32:45,458 --> 02:32:46,750 I waited. 1243 02:32:47,250 --> 02:32:48,667 A long time. 1244 02:32:49,750 --> 02:32:51,250 Nothing happened. 1245 02:32:52,167 --> 02:32:53,500 So I left. 1246 02:32:53,917 --> 02:32:55,000 You're always joking. 1247 02:32:55,250 --> 02:32:58,500 No. You're my mother. 1248 02:33:00,500 --> 02:33:01,875 What is it? 1249 02:33:02,833 --> 02:33:04,667 I broke my heel. 1250 02:33:35,958 --> 02:33:38,500 The next day, July 21, 1954, 1251 02:33:38,708 --> 02:33:41,417 the Geneva conference was over, 1252 02:33:41,625 --> 02:33:43,542 ending 15 years of turmoil, 1253 02:33:43,792 --> 02:33:46,542 and inaugurating the division into two separate nations 1254 02:33:46,708 --> 02:33:49,125 of what would henceforth be called Vietnam.