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Good afternoon, I'm taking a foot bath.

No, don't go away!

You might give me a hand while you're here.

Whatever for?

There's a great big crayfish. It's enormous...

I can't seem to catch him though.

Where... show me.

Can you still see it?

Anyway, I'd be surprised if you managed to get it out of there.

The damn thing's run away into the roots.

I suppose we'd better dig him out with a stick.

My chance, he's in there for keeps.

There are deep hollows under the bank.

It's like a bunker in the Maginot Line.

You'll get your fingers nipped.

Hey, what's a bunker? - You've never seen one?

No.

I guess there can't be that many around here.

You're from far away? I haven't seen you before.

You don't live in the region. - No, I don't live here.

What's your name? - Nanette.

Well it's really Jeanne, but that sounds stupid.

Jeanne Lambert, and yours?

Mine's Claude.

Some girls are named Claude. - So are some boys.

I had a girlfriend whose name's Claude.

Are you going to help?

Help you catch the crayfish?

It's gone into that... thing you said a while ago.

I want you to help me

stand on my feet.

I can't do it by myself.

Did you have an accident?

Why didn't you say so?

I'll get my father... he's not far away.

Hey... are you out of your mind?

I just hurt my foot a bit.

You mean you're not old enough to find me a good solid stick?

All alone?

What kind do you want?

Look for a branch, this long...

and this thick.

It should have fork at one end like so...

It's to make me a crutch, do you see what I mean.

A live branch is best.

It'll break otherwise.

Do they ever talk about the war?

Does your father talk about it?

I dunno... he never mentions it.

You know, in spite of the rationing,

I still have a piece of chocolate.

Do you like chocolate?

Look in my bag.

My father says that

if all the French people

were more obedient, things would be a lot better.

He also says that Marshal Pétain knows his job.

You don't know what goes on behind his beard,

but the Marshal has saved France.

Well...what does he say about the Maquis and the Resistance?

What... those bandits that murder and steal...

sabotage the trains?

They were the ones that are after you.

And who wounded you.

You'd better tell the Gendarmes about it.

Forget it.

It's funny...

You know I'd never imagined something like this..

Like what?

Tell me, what do you think of your country?

Do you love France?

Well yes, of course, like everyone.

No, not like everyone.

You're old enough to know there are some

who don't give a damn about it.

How old are you?

Fourteen and a half.

I'm gonna take my Certificate soon.

You're not the brainy kind?

Brains have got nothing to do with it.

Henri Calmar passed his exam at 13 and he's as stupid as a barn door.

You ought to know that the Germans are the enemies of France.

I don't believe that.

The hostilities are over the Germans aren't harming us.

Good Lord... then it's no use.

What?

What's no use?

It's stupid.

If I wanted to ask you to say nothing to anybody,

to get me something to eat, until I can walk again.

It's no use.

Hand me over to the Gendarmes if you want

Or find your father, your neighbour, because I'm an enemy of the Germans.

I'm not one of your bandits, but still I'm an enemy of the Germans.

If I'm caught, I shall be shot at dawn.

How would you like that?

What's the use? I'm finished.

Let the Gendarmes come if they want to.

How can you be so stupid?

You can come to my house, nobody's there.

I was lying to you before...

my parents and my brother are out harvesting.

In the big field.

Come on.

Careful... alright?

And when we're there... what then?

I'll hide you... don't worry.

Come on.

What time is it?

Five o'clock.

And that's the time by the sun...

you're on city time I bet.

Come on, get up we're not there yet.

Oh dear...

it hadn't been started yet.

And I can't start it because Mama'd notice.

She notices everything.

Oh well!

She gives the biggest slices to my brother

because he's bigger and he works.

Anyway you haven't any more right to it than I have.

But I'll find you something else.

You'll see.

Come on... quick!

Alright... alright.

Just a minute... gently.

Here... under my arm.

I'll never make it.

I'll never make it with my foot.

Oh yes you will... go on.

Nothing but a rat-trap!

I'd never be able to get away if your parents discovered me here.

Don't you trust me?

Nobody ever comes here.

I used to play with my brother in here.

No one ever bothered us.

That overlooks the rear of the house and orchard

And over there is a very small trapdoor

that comes out level with the barn roof.

When you get better you can go out by it...

and never be seen.

I'll fix up a corner for you.

No, leave that, I can manage. You're very kind.

It's really nothing.

I must warn you we're not very rich.

Thieves'd find nothing to steal.

But I'll look after you... you'll have enough to eat and drink.

Thank you.

Already!

Hey, any water in this establishment?

Yes, but Papa and Mama say it's not safe to drink.

Our well is a very old well...

all kinds of things have fallen into it.

You might catch something from it.

The wine's much better.

It'd nice and cool, I've just drawn it off for you.

Want some?

I don't know how to drink that way.

Neither does Mama.

Just a minute...

do you mean to tell me you eat this sawdust?

I've forgotten what real bread tastes like.

And anyway the men from the Ministry

requisition the biggest part of our harvest.

The wheat is for them.

So the bread and butter goes to Hitler, eh?

It appears your father doesn't mind giving his best bread to the Germans.

If it weren't for them we'd live like in the Middle Ages.

I learned history. It's in the schoolbooks.

In olden days the peasants were treated like animals.

They'd have nothing to eat.

And in times of war we had to find a refuge

in a town or a castle.

We lived on roots and went about in rags.

The soldiers used to hunt us

and there was no one there to defend us.

Nowadays we're important people.

To get bread without coupons, they'd come here from the town on bicycles

or in those gas-bag cars.

And they're ready to fight over a potato.

I know.

Because the city people live on chestnuts

and substitute ersatz things.

Now they're the ones getting the war.

They're the ones getting bombed now.

You think that's a reason to be grateful to the Germans?

In the farm up the road they've got a refugee.

His parents disappeared in a bombing raid.

And it was the English who did it.

You're wrong... the English don't bomb civilians deliberately.

It was the Germans who wanted the war.

I'm at your mercy. I should tell you that

I was in England... as a refugee.

And over there, day and night

many civilians disappeared in bombing raids.

And my mission is to stop that.

Only last night, I was parachuted in...

The Kraut anti-aircraft fire was really going strong..

We missed the fighters by the skin of our teeth.

My pilot misjudged the drop-point,

I was hurt when I hit the ground, and I lost my way too.

I've got to join up with the partisans, Those are the people you call terrorists.

I'll try to help you...

Don't worry you can trust me.

Oh dear... it's night already.

What if my parents are already back, and they're wondering where I've gone.

I'm not here... you haven't seen me.

Admiring the view.

You're better off on the orchard side.

If you looked into the yard they might see you.

You'd already forgotten me.

They all went away this morning, to my aunt's.

I couldn't find an excuse to come up here.

How's your foot?

I'm not exactly ready to hop like a rabbit.

Poor thing.

You mustn't play tricks on me.

I'd begun to feel uneasy.

And if the Gendarmes had come here, what would you have said?

I'd have said hello to them in MY fashion.

Let me see that.

No.

It's loaded.

Papa no longer has his gun.

He misses it.

It was requisitioned a while ago.

So we use snares and traps with my brother,

but it's not nearly as much fun.

If there's no more hunting,

you'd better blame Marshal Pétain for it.

It's the war, that's all.

At school you sing a song don't you?...

Well, we've learned a couple of little songs.

And rounds.

I mean the song you sing, before the beginning of classes.

You all stand up in lines I suppose?

Then you start to sing it.

What song?

A kind of hymn.

Well, sing it for me.

I'm shy.

You sing it every day in school.

Morning and afternoon.

I can't. I can't all alone.

I can with the class.

Is there anything you can do all alone?

The mistress teaches us to embroider a napkin.

Are there things the mistress doesn't teach you?

Why ask me?

Stop acting like a baby.

No use behaving like that with me.

Be honest with me.

All right we'll begin.

That hymn... you know it by heart,

and you can sing it, I'm sure.

You're going to get up and sing it, right now. For me.

Why should I?

Because I asked you to.

So on your feet... up... go on!

Go on... we're all by ourselves.

Get on with it.

Go on, sing.

Alright, that's enough.

That'll do.

Do you really think the Marshal of France is glad

when all the little brats in France scream out that song?

What are you crying for?

I'm not crying.

You're snivelling like a sow.

I'm not!

What's all the fuss about?

Because... you're being nasty to me.

You were being nasty first.

You know I'm not joking about my mission.

I can't be bothered about your little moods.

You've got to look after me.

Cure my foot.

It hurts bad?

You're an adorable little nurse.

Around here... - Here?

Yes.

That's better.

I wish I could stay here, with you.

I don't like you to be alone.

This morning when I couldn't come, I was thinking about you...

Gently.

...all the time.

It's time for you to go, mademoiselle.

No... just another minute.

I'm so happy.

I'll prove it.

You'd really be happy to stay here?

Oh yes!

That's enough, mademoiselle!

Anyhow, I was nastier than you were.

Hey... your way of kissing is just like the English.

Whadda you mean?

In England everybody kisses on the mouth.

Even the men.

I'm not surprised.

The English are savages.

Anyway they'll disappear soon.

The man at the post office says so every day.

He's got a voice like a bull. Like the vicar during his sermon.

He always says, "England is ripe for destruction, like Carthage of old."

Well what if I don't kiss like the English?

As a matter of fact I kiss like my cousin kisses my brother.

And I love you, Englishman

I love you.

I do think about you when you're all alone.

Do you miss me?

It's wonderful today, we're all by ourselves.

The whole day... just us two.

Don't you realise?

They've gone into the fields and are not coming back until lunch

Why do they let you off the harvesting?

Hay-fever?

I had to do some reviewing for my exams.

It's for the day after tomorrow.

That's perfect. We'll review your exam.

Reviewing! I don't feel like it.

Mmm... '39

Want some?

Just a little.

There you are.

That's fine, thank you.

No more?

That'll do nicely.

A steak? Do you have a beef-steak?

Thank you.

Here's to us, Nanette.

Mmm... melts in the mouth...

...even the fork!

Sensational!

You're a good cook.

I can't help it,

but I need a nice nap.

I'm not sleepy.

Aren't you?

When I was small, me and my brother

played doctors here.

I was the patient, and he used to examine me.

He gave me an injection for influenza.

We used to play papas and mamas too!

It looked so stupid.

But we won't play at doctors, or at mamas and papas.

You're too big for that.

Don't be so silly.

I was just telling about it.

I feel roasted.

Aren't you feeling hot?

Make yourself comfortable if you like.

Do as you want.

Are you comfortable now?

Don't feel hungry? Don't feel sleepy?

No.

Good, then we'll talk.

Yes, tell me a story.

Nope.

We'll talk about those bandits, as you called them.

The Resistance are patriots.

You've got to love them as you love me.

They're the same as I am.

Patriots! Patriots!

Joan of Arc was a patriot.

All my schoolbooks say it,

and the vicar says so too.

She was the saviour against the English... no?

And they burned her...

the swine!

That was hundreds of years ago.

They confuse me... the patriots.

Always hurting people, even their own.

But I've known Germans who are nice.

Last year they occupied the castle on the hill,

and from time to time they came to get things from us.

There was one, tall and blond,

who always had something for me.

Things you couldn't buy in the village.

Candy and chocolate.

At first I was afraid of him, afraid to look in his eyes...

I didn't even say thanks to him.

Too stupid to.

He'd stroke my hair and touch it, the way you do,

and murmur things in my ear.

It soon became a habit

I used to wait for the chocolate.

Papa and Mama were afraid to say anything.

They were all smiles, but I think it upset them.

My brother was jealous.

Nothing's ever simple.

Take it from me.

You let yourself be bribed with chocolate.

After all, I gave you chocolate as well.

The Germans are your enemies, even if you haven't realised it yet.

Now it's about time to think of your Certificate.

Go and get dressed.

Nanette wants a chest to cry on.

Nanette doesn't like exams.

Poor Nanette... she feels sick.

Poor Nanette, needs a good smacked bottom!

Up now! Your mother will be coming back soon.

She's got to fix the meal and milk the cows.

Yes, yes... go on now.

Oh! The sheep!

I was supposed to watch it while reading my school book.

She strangled herself she's that stupid.

When she wound the chain around the post,

it never entered her head to turn around the other way.

Papa will be so mad!

She's a fool! Can't even take care of a sheep.

Surprised?

That's enough out of you!

You there?

In the flesh!

But you're walking again! You're walking!

After all, if the Resistance won't come to me...

Don't say that!

First you must get your strength back.

Exercise!

Get out of here.

Get out at night.

Tonight we'll sleep in the corn-field.

Why "we"?

It'll be damp out there.

Anyway... only bad girls go out after nightfall.

I'm a good girl,

and I've often been outside at night.

I've closed my bedroom door, so no one'll hear any noise.

Nobody can hear me then.

Not a soul.

Why tonight of all nights?

To celebrate my exam, and your getting cured.

And because it's warm out.

Because it'll be so nice, just you and me together.

Tonight, you go out by the little door

that leads onto the roof of the shed.

You know.

You just follow the orchard wall

and I'll go there first and wait with a ladder.

You'll be there?

Over here!

To the right...

Not very graceful, eh?

I'm pretty rusty.

If my commander could see me now...

It's your first time out.

Come on!

Here, do you like it?

I chose a place in the middle, so no one can see us.

The blankets are from the cow-shed.

We keep them for when the cows are calving.

Do you like our castle?

Yes, it's magnificent.

Oh, look... the corn-silk's dry.

You can smoke it if you like.

I used to do that with my brother.

My father smokes it when he's out of tobacco.

See what I borrowed.

I'd rather not if you don't mind.

Anyhow, I've got English cigarettes.

They're somewhat less strong than corn-silk.

Go on... try one.

You must do it gently.

Are you warm enough?

Hold me tight.

It's so nice.

I wanna go with you wherever you go.

Like a wife.

I'm big enough to, now.

I got my School Certificate just this afternoon.

I'm not ignorant any more.

You won't be ashamed of me now.

I'll never go back home again.

I thought it all out.

We could do it.

We'll steal tomatoes, and we'll dig up potatoes,

and I'll cook them in hot ashes.

They'll be all soft inside.

It'll be wonderful.

I'll take care of you.

I'll wash your things in the stream.

We'll live like Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday.

We won't need anybody else.

Yes, Man Friday.

Go to sleep.

I love you so much.

Hi, Nanette!

What are you doing?!

There's nobody around...

I was fed up with my hideout.

I told you not to come down to this yard...

not even to look.

Sorry I disobeyed, mademoiselle Bluebeard.

This is where you should have put me up.

We could go swimming!

It's quite safe today.

Everybody's at the big field for the threshing.

You're not.

I was.

I said the machine gave me a headache.

I came down for a sandwich.

Ever since you gave up regular hours,

I starve to death.

I haven't done this for ages.

I'll get you!

The bridge... we'll go under it, eh?

Let's see who gets through first.

Alright!

I won!

I'll show you!

Take my hand.

Come on!

Listen, I wanna make a confession...

I never swam in this stream before.

Papa and Mama said it's far too cold for swimming.

Only with you there, I didn't care.

Isn't that marvellous?

Something's tickling me.

I guess we're going to be bitten by every bug in creation.

Buzz off!

The grass will make marks on our skins.

But so what?

I'd like to get tattooed permanently.

What about you?

There!... Now we're married!

Tell me... do you love me?

Do you love me as much as I love you?

Yes, yes... lie still... eh?

Yes, we should stay here and never go away again.

Look... this can't go on.

Either my mission's a failure and I return to England,

or I succeed in contacting the Resistance.

I don't want you to go.

Don't be silly.

You'd better dress, you're shivering.

No.

Listen to me...

I have no direct way of finding the men waiting for me.

I've got to contact another Resistance network.

It doesn't matter which.

Now get dressed.

If you want me to stay...

go and get someone in the parish

or from a parish nearby.

Someone you can trust. - That won't be easy...

they don't walk around

with "Resistance" written all over them.

I know... but they talk.

Impossible, not Jan Monnery, he's joined the Pétain Division.

Ever since, he's sounded much better off.

Before I knew you, I used to envy them.

You know, he gets very strange visitors.

I saw some of them once, all in black from head to toe...

with the Death's Head on them.

It made me afraid.

They're the SS, my angel.

The French SS... they're the worst.

They hunt the Resistance as if they were animals.

They pillage the farms.

If you resist, they shoot you, burn your house down.

I know.

I know all that.

I know the saviour of France isn't the one in the song.

I know you're the saviour.

Don't talk nonsense.

Find someone down in the village.

But think carefully...

if you say the wrong thing, I'm dead.

Is that for me?

I know somebody very nice.

He used to spoil me. He's on the town council.

He often had rows with Papa about Marshal Pétain

and the ones they call the Gaullists.

To make Papa hopping mad

he used to whistle "The Marshal" and the "Song of Departure."

They say that's a bad thing.

You know what I told you.

That's that way they end the broadcasts from London.

A real partisan'd be more careful.

They've known each other since they were boys.

Well, we can always try.

Did you hear that?

Here... pretty close shave, eh?

How does it happen that your father...

Don't ask me.

No... I don't believe it!

Could you have shot him?

If he found us here?

Would you have shot him?

Why... no... I'd only have frightened him a bit.

I'd have said that I forced you up here

and I would have escaped.

And after? You'd have done what?

I couldn't have come back.

No... I couldn't have.

Monsieur Flouret!

Monsieur Flouret!

Hello Monsieur Flouret. - Hello Nanette.

What brings you here?

Not out in the fields with your parents?

You're getting so damned educated now...

you don't want to work in the fields any more.

Yes, I'm going to the big field.

I thought I'd look in to say hello.

You've been doing some growing up.

You're a mighty pretty girl.

Thank you.

How's it at home then?

Just fine...

And your father?

Is he still as mule-headed?

Listen... something's happened... I don't know what to do.

What?

Well, you see, I found a man in the woods.

His foot had been hurt badly, he wasn't able to walk.

He said he wanted to find someone.

Strange thing,

he didn't want me to fetch Papa or a Gendarme.

And you did what exactly?

I should have told Papa? Or the Gendarme?

Well on principle, it's always go to go and tell your Papa.

But there are things not that important, when it's best not to say anything.

I mean the Gendarmes...

that depends on whether you think the man looks dangerous or not.

I think he was mainly scared of the Germans.

He had an English accent.

You just left him there in the woods?

He may be in need of some help.

And the Gendarmes?

Will you keep quiet about it?

Alright, come on.

Nanette, you're a big girl.

There are times when it's much better to say nothing.

Alright, we'll bring him something to eat.

Monsieur Flouret... I lied before.

That man's not in the woods...

Well, you can meet Flouret tonight.

At eleven. At the waterfall bridge.

Alright then.

When Papa came up to the loft yesterday,

would you've taken me with you if he'd seen us?

I'd have liked to, but it's impossible...

Your place is here, with your parents, your brother.

I hate them.

Don't be silly.

You really belong to your family.

Summer holidays... all finished.

So we'll never see each other again?

After the war, perhaps.

But I'll bet that you'll have forgotten me.

Time heals everything - I'll never forget you, never!

What do you know of life?

Every minute, every second wears away the things we feel.

You think you love me, and you love only a memory.

I believed I'd be able to speak to you

like a grown-up person.

I was wrong.

I should have told lies.

You're a child.

I'm not a child!

It's because I love you so much. I want to marry you.

You're so stupid.

Here...

Nanette...

What's the matter with HER?

I know a lot of people in town who'd be glad to eat that.

It'd put some flesh on you.

Stop that.

You're not sick are you?

We haven't the time for that sort of nonsense.

Ever since you got your Certificate,

you're as high and mighty as a duchess.

And she works just about as hard.

She's even stupider than she used to be.

Oh shut up! Tomorrow you'll come out and work with us in the fields.

No appetite?

Isn't that just too bad!

No point in wasting it.

Just pour it all back into the soup pot.

Come on will you!

Nanette, where are you?

Of all the lousy lazy bitches!

We better be going.

This'll keep until later.

Wait until I get my hands on her tonight!

Oh, come on take it easy.

Hello, Nanette.

I suppose you are Nanette Lambert, you've grown into a big girl!

Join in the sing-song!

Come on!

I want Monsieur Monnery.

You don't want to keep US company?

Well, Papa's out the back there.

Up the stairs to the attic, and you'll see him.

You ought to stay for lunch.

We got some mushrooms.

Well, look who's here!

Nanette... what a surprise!

We don't see YOU often.

Afraid of coming here, or something?

My goodness...

your loft is simply enormous.

Yes, isn't it?

It'd be great for playing in... eh?

I'm not so keen on playing as I was.

Monsieur Monnery...

I want to tell you something.

It's something I couldn't tell my Papa.

What is it, Nanette?

Monsieur Monnery...

there's one of those terrorists hiding at my house.

And I was much too afraid to say anything.

I'm glad you told me... it took courage.

You were right to come to me.

Especially to me.

I've given my two boys to France, you saw them on the terrace.

They're in the SS, The Charlemagne Division.

They're also fighting against bolshevism.

Monsieur, you see he forced me to... he made me... you know...

Monsieur Monnery...

I want you to find him, and kill him please!

Hello, my angel... it's such a pleasure to see you again.

How's everything?

It's funny...

I'm beginning to develop a liking for lofts.

You gave me the taste for them.

Of course,

I could have received you in Monnery's salon.

It's very chic.

But I thought you'd be happy to see me again in a loft.

Much more friendly...

More intimate.

Come closer.

I'll show you how I've got things organised.

We'll be able to talk in peace, just the two of us.

You don't want to?

Nanette, my angel, I never abandoned you.

I promised I'd return, and I wouldn't forget.

You see... I returned much sooner than you expected.

Now come with me.

Get in.

You're not English.

Just what are the English like?

You made a fool of me.

No, I never made a fool of you.

I loved you and respected you more than a Frenchman would have done.

We had to find out where the terrorists were hiding

in order to root them out and destroy them.

I needed your pity and your aid and then your love.

And finally your anger and your hatred.

Thanks to you, we've destroyed the terrorists whom you hate.

Have you heard the sound of the fighting?

That was your doing. I am proud of you.

You see, even in a death-trap like this...

no ambushing.

The Resistance were all annihilated.

I know how you feel.

You hate yourself because

you've committed two unpardonable crimes.

Paradoxical crimes.

You denounced a hero, and you sheltered a traitor.

Your feeling of guilt will be haunt you all your life.

It will stick to your skin.

You'll be happy as usual, and then, without warning,

when you least expect it,

you'll go back and relive those early days.

You'll be... a living ghost.

Only... if you're philosophical, you won't let it bother you.

You'll simply be accursed, but no more accursed than the others.

Those who think they're pure.

Your superiority will be that you're aware of the curse on you,

like me!

Who are you?

I'm Claude... just like when you met me.

I'm Claude, your Englishman, that's all.

I believe at times that I've lived for years,

hundreds of years...

That I've lived everywhere where men must suffer.

Do you still love me?

For I'm still the same man.

Do you find me handsome?

You ARE handsome.

As handsome as before?

Yes, Just as beautiful.

I loved you so.

I still love you.

Don't ever let me go.

By order of the German army: Groups of more than 3 will be shot,

as will people seen at windows, which must be kept shut.

No, let me go!

Go on, get moving.

Please let them go, they're afraid.

It doesn't matter, my angel.

Whatever shall come, you mustn't be scared any more.

For us, the war's as good as lost.

It doesn't matter.

In twenty years, in fifty years, we'll be the masters everhere.

Not obviously, but you'll find governments performing acts that are... bizarre.

Things we would have done... as if they were executing our orders.

And then you'll realize that our defeat was only an illusion.

My angel, there's still a last choice for you.

We're awaiting your orders.

What orders?

Stay here... it's alright.

Congratulations...

excellent work!

Let me go... let me go.

This is a mistake. I'm not one of them!

What's the meaning of this?

You know I've always been on your side.

You see, I have to protect you.

You denounced me to Monnery.

He might have talked about it.

I killed him for you.

We must also execute Councillor Flouret and his family.

But why?

You sent a spy to them, didn't you?

Then there are the farmers...

who served as contacts between Flouret and the Maquis.

And see... due to slight negligence they weren't separated...

they've been whispering amongst themselves, and so have the women.

Nanette, they know you betrayed them.

Even my parents?

My brother?

They were the first... they know.

They'll poison your life.

So what now?

The order... just make a sign.

We'll see to it that not one soul gets away.

The terrorists have been wiped out. Only you and I will know the truth.

That's our marriage, our link, our indissoluble bond.

Even though we may never see each other again.

Oh God!

God? I AM God!

Quick, give the order.

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!

It seems it was an abbey in the 12th century.

What I like most is the style.

I passed through the village.

Frankly, I didn't care for it.

Those rows of houses in neat lines... those streets as straight as a ruler...

so uninteresting.

Well, that's as a result of the war,

the village was completely razed to the ground.

Had to be built again.

Not much of a place for tourists.

But between you and me...

you know the only way to keep young men here

is a modern style.

Why, yes of course.

And that's why I'm here,

to bring you a touch of the modern.

Everything was destroyed?

The villagers were all killed? All of them?

Oh, I'm not from this region.

Thank you.

You see, I met my wife in the autumn during the harvest.

She was just a kid...

I had to wait to marry her.

The old village... I just never knew it.

My wife inherited this farm here.

Why wasn't this farm here destroyed with the rest of the village?

I really don't know.

Well, it's a fair distance away.

My wife knows all about it, but she doesn't talk about it.

She was such a small kid.

We thought about it before we decided to take it on.

We kind of felt afraid.

Almost as if the farm had a curse on it.

Nanette... this is Monsieur Müller, you know, about the machine.

Glad to meet you.

How do you do?

Nanette, why don't you draw us a little wine.

From the barrel... the one in the corner.

I don't know why I did that.

I just wanted a little for my glass, to drink your health with you.

She's as shy as ever.

Here's to you.

To your health!

And to yours.

Maybe I'd better leave you now, because there's the work,

and looking after the children.

What's the hurry?

You're shaking all over.

Just nerves.

I've got to feed the pig.

Don't leave us so quickly.

She's just shy.

Whenever she sees someone for the first time she gets all emotional,

just like a kid.

You're such a fool!

There's plenty to be done here.

It'll take quite a large investment.

It's easy to see that nothing has changed here for years.

Your wife stared at me rather strangely, as if she recognised me.

Maybe I look like someone else.

Everybody has a double somewhere, they say.

Don't worry about her, that's the way she is.

She's very reserved, very strange, but she's strong.

The only thing to hold against her is she's a bit old for her age,

but she's had a rough time.

Sometimes when her mind is somewhere else.

When she's dreaming and I say something stupid

deliberately, so she'll call me a fool,

that way she comes back to earth.

I'm so sorry.

I'm very fond of this region.

The waterfall, the bridge, and the stream,

it is very romantic.

You went down as far as the waterfall?

I saw it from far away, from the road.

Well you've certainly got good eyesight!

Your wife's coming back.

That's funny... she's got my shotgun.

She's going to aim at us.

She'll put her finger on the trigger.

She's going to shoot.

Right now.

For you, Englishman!