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THE ROOTS OF THE Heaven

What's going on here?

You're going to know!

I want to see Habib.

He's not here.

- When will he be back? - I don't know. I don't know.

What's he doing? What's he doing?

I don't know. I don't know.

I just work here, that's all.

Excuse me, please.

Living among the elephants, I don't know how to talk to people anymore.

- Elephants? - Yes.

Are you a hunter?

No! I live with them. I love them.

I like to look at them and listen to them.

In fact, I'd give anything to become an elephant.

Give me a beer.....

please.

Come on! Come on! I have a gift for your boss.

Don't worry, I beat him up. Next time, I'll kill him.

Does he work for Habib?

- Yes. His name is de Vries. - He's a murderer.

I got it when he was going to kill his fourth elephant.

Tell Habib that if I take over that scumbag near a herd,

I'll make it such a mess.

that elephants wouldn't do any better.

Not so fast! Not so fast!

You didn't pay for your beer.

You didn't even drink it.

You know we kill elephants by the thousands every year?

30,000, last year.

30000 ! If we keep going, there won't be any left.

Anyone who has seen their flocks on the last open spaces

knows that the world cannot to afford to lose them.

But we keep destroying everything!

Anything that is beautiful and free.

Soon there will only be than men to destroy.

People have to understand.

We have to shout it out!

Who, "we"?

I am alone. But I will have signatures, for my petition.

We will stop everywhere the martyrdom of the beasts.

At this point, we are we need all the friendships.

We need all the animals we can find of Africa, of all elephants.

Of all the birds....

Friendships....

When a Haas captures animals for a zoo,

half of his calves die of it!

It is through forest fires that the natives bring the animals down.

An elephant trapped agonizing for days on end,

impaled on spikes! Did you know that?

Suffering, I know what it is.

How long have you been here?

24 years old.

No! Since when did do you work here?

- Six months. - Happy here?

Happy?

I don't know what you're talking about.

But I like it here.

When I open my window in the morning,

and I see these millions of dollars of birds that fly....

Do you defend birds too?

Of course! Of course!

I'm leaving. I'm leaving.

Where? Where?

At the governor's house. That the first signature is his.

He will sign. He's a man of heart, and smart, huh?

I told you yesterday, the Governor will not see you.

He has conferences:

The problem of drought, politics...

And above all, we're waiting for Sedgwick to arrive.

I will wait. All day long if necessary.

I can't forbid you to do that.

But it's useless.

Who is this Sedgwick?

Mr. Sedgwick is the famous speaker of American television.

It is essential that it be very satisfied with his safari.

Safari?

Is he here to hunt big game?

This will be the best organized safari the A.E.F. has ever known.

And now you'll excuse me.

Send me urgently your water supply reports.

Goodbye, gentlemen.

Let's see what's organized for Mr. Sedgwick.

May I have a moment? This is important.

I'm sorry, sir. I'm too busy today.

Make an appointment with my Aide de Camp.

I waited for hours, yesterday and today....

That's right, he's here. for a long time, but....

- Come in. Come in. - Thank you.

I'm listening to you. But be brief.

Here is my petition.

I had already sent it to you. But have you been shown it?

I know it by heart.

You sent it to me, didn't you? ten times.

Sign it.

Your support would be invaluable.

My good friend, first you must to think of men.

We're already overloaded,

with the drought looming.

She'll be terrible.

If we do not take action urgently, it will be a massacre.

I'm getting scary reports!

I know. I know.

But is it impossible to help as well other animals than ourselves?

I salute your high opinion of humanity.

But you must excuse me.

I'll be back. I don't get discouraged easily.

With your pets, you're raising my heart!

Think about the people who are really suffering!

The sleepy ones!

Lepers! Lepers! The undernourished!

I know...

And trachoma! And the spirochete! And the rest!

And you come moaning on your elephants!

All right. You are a missionary.

You live among the disease,

human decay, but....

all this

doesn't it ever make you want to to see from the top of a hill

a strong and free greatness?

To find this, I don't don't turn to elephants.

I look at God.

I'm not offering you a pact with Satan.

I just want to save the elephants. They have not sinned....

- Who's that? - Elephants.

Are you thirsty?

No, thank you.

If you're looking for something else, see further than the elephant.

Look for something bigger,

which is threatened with extinction

in the hearts of men.

Maybe, but it doesn't mean you does not prevent you from signing.

I'm not asking for your soul.

Look to God.

- Aren't you going to sign? - No, and here's why:

You want me to sign

no "for animals", but "against men".

Disgusted with men, you move on to animals.

I'm not buying it!

Remember.... Men have a soul.

If that's the case,

they should show it, from time to time.

Goodbye, Father.

You will think about it again....

He's an artist!

I've never seen such a beautiful black eye!

All the moving tones of a sunset!

This is not a joke, I swear to you.

No, of course not, my poor little one!

How many elephants had you killed? before he caught you?

Three large males. 220 kilos, at least.

I've decided to spend the night in the city. I need a room.

It's full.

I saw Habib. He says that it is certain that you will be able to....

to take care of me.

I could, but I won't do anything about it.

Why? Why?

I'm much better. than all the others.

Perhaps, Mr. Orsini...

but I don't like your eyes.

The way you talk, too.

I don't like everything about you.

Minna, sweetheart.

This Morel left you a commission for me.

He said that if he takes over that scumbag chasing elephants,

he'll kill him.

This gentleman is full of energy.

He was talking very seriously.

By the way,

if you care so much to take care of Mr. Orsini,

why don't you give him your room?

Here's something. that will comfort you.

It's the best remedy. to cure all ills.

And there's this crazy guy coming get me to sign a petition

to prohibit elephant hunting!

He came to my house too.

A strange bird!

He wanted to stop me to provide the zoos!

He wants me to starve, or what?

He has undertaken us all.

Except for me!

But I'm going to throw

my reporters after him, I'll give you my ticket.

You can count on me so that his stupid petition

makes tears laugh the whole territory.

There it is, this invaluable document!

Your wife must be at the top of the black list.

How many does she have in total?

501 elephants,

plus lions, buffaloes and the rest. But listen:

"The man on this planet has reached the point where

"where he needs all the available friendships.

"In his solitude, he needs all the elephants,

"of animals and birds."

Wait, there are better....

"It's time to show that we can save

"this gigantic splendor that survives among us

"and to prove that there is still a place for this freedom."

"Freedom"! He's ready for asylum!

Listen to this!

"We, the undersigned, call for the abolition of

"of elephant hunting in all its forms,

"especially the most despicable:

"Trophy hunting."

Tell me, my good man....

How many signatures do you have? at the bottom of your petition?

Not one.

Do you mind if I do? I'd like to sign it.

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

I'd like to sign too.

A triple ban for elephants!

I would like a little...

family scotch

to drink to their health.

May I see this petition?

Of course.

I was very excited by what you say.

I really like this part. on the "need for friendships".

All right! All right!

By the way, I have a friend, too.

Do you want to see him? Come on! Come on!

My boyfriend's here. His name is Toto.

This is my friend Toto.

May I introduce you? Toto, this is Mr.....

Would you like to drink with us?

With pleasure.

Toto is a jumping bean from Mexico.

Come on, Toto, show us.

That's it! That's it!

Toto is inhabited by a worm trying to eat it to get out.

As a result, Toto wriggles like a devil in a holy water font!

Here you go. A toast to....

To Jumbo the Elephant and Toto!

To the very big and very small!

May they prosper forever!

This is what constitutes a brilliant crew:

This....

lady, that I would have thought most documented

on men than on the animal kingdom,

and this kind British military

with a dazzling past...

Two signatures which impose a lot...

You don't exterminate a species to ensure production

of billiard balls

and letter opener!

A woman like you, it's unexpected here in Fort Lamy.

Girls like me, they're everywhere.

I doubt it.

How did you end up here?

I worked at Kit Kat in Tunis.

Habib noticed me. He offered me the job.

We finally got along.

He is despicable,

but it didn't matter.

And....

Fort Lamy, it evoked the distant past

and the heat.

The heat?

I never forgot the cold and Berlin, during the war...

The snow...

the bombs....

the ice....

The impression that the sun was not shining anywhere....

Berlin?

The Germans had put me in a soldier's house.

A "doll's house".

Barbed wire around it,

and sentries...

A "doll's house".

I was only there for a short time.

The Russians came and "liberated" us.

Then...

Why am I telling you all this?

I think I can guess.

Then came the Americans...

Then the French....

and the English...

You won't believe it. how many times I've been "released".

"Free."

It was nothing. It was nothing.

There are more important things in life.

In any case,

it's not about when they take off their uniforms

that men are vile.

That's when they put it back.

The only thing

that really fits my memory,

it's the copper earrings. of their belts.

You now know that why I signed up.

You were the first.

Don't be so down, Mr. Morel.

Man needs to eat, to hunt, to kill

and sometimes to be killed. It's nature.

It is this nature that needs to be changed.

Maybe. But let me tell you this:

You're going about it the wrong way.

He is right.

He is absolutely right. I did it wrong.

Whatever you do,

Good luck!

Mr. Haas! Quickly! Quickly!

A wild elephant demolishes the enclosure!

Who could have done such a terrible thing?

I kind of suspect that.

Help! Help! Help!

This is Cy Sedgwick talking to you.

And his voice comes to you from the deepest depths of Africa!

Here beats the wild heart

of the largest country of the Great Fauns!

My friends! Take a look at this, if your ears can handle it!

This is Life!

Fiercely harsh, certainly....

Raw Life! Dangerous, yes!

But if you like the danger like some people,

then nothing, or the faded chic of London,

nor the cheerfulness of Paris,

nor the decrepit splendor from Greece or Rome,

no, nothing...

reaches the sublime level of solitude in the primary jungle!

Ah! To measure oneself,

measure up

to the height of the Great Fauns....

And that's what we have here, my friends! The Very Great!

Yes! When I remember

of the first elephant that I shot down....

I've been hit!

But I'm bleeding!

At face value, my blood is flowing!

We're under attack!

Forget it. Forget it.

I repeat, the main thing

is to foam up the sponsor!

No, call me back, you.

No, I'm not moving!

A distinguished visitor!

The Governor came from Fort Lamy!

The French governor.

My dear Mr. Sedgwick!

Your Excellency.

Sister, do you want to give a whisky to His Excellency?

I'm forwarding you all the apologies of my minister

for this outrageous incident.

There is an individual who...

I am very well informed: A guy named Morel.

He sent me his manifesto. Under personal envelope.

Needless to say, I don't have to tell you that this evil will be arrested

to be punished as he deserves.

Leave him alone. Leave him alone.

Do you understand me?

Quiet! Quiet!

Leave him alone! Leave him alone!

You hear me, Excellency!

I like it, me!

He spits in our faces! And he's right!

All my life, I've been waiting to have someone spit in my face!

It finally happened. And you want me to tell you?

I suddenly feel almost comfortable in my male skin.

So watch out!

Leave him alone! Leave him alone!

I don't see myself taking orders, Sir.

Listen, Governor.

I'm leaving tomorrow for New York. As soon as I get there, not only will I

I will stir up the huge audience of the TV.

Speaking of the man who dares to spit on humanity,

but if you touch a hair of this Mr. Morel....

Excellency...

and I'll drag the people in charge in the mud.

In the mud! And I'll cover them with shame!

The territory I administer takes on the appearance of a lunatic asylum.

You may have exceeded the boundaries...

It's the governor!

I was wrong to be too courteous. Imagine that, my little one!

I'm holding the adventure here the most commercial of the century!

Write!

"In this day of our time, in Africa

"prowls through forests and jungles a modern Robin Hood.

"At the risk of his freedom and his life,

"he vomits on humanity."

No! The image may shock its audience....

"At the risk of his life, he defends the elephant, threatened

"by our so-called civilization.

"I call on all Americans whose soul is straight!

"Retrograde minds hunt down this brave Frenchman

"while we slaughter the most noble living creatures."

And why is that? Why? Why?

Because we want to break the British de facto monopoly

of elephant hunting in Kenya and Tanganyika!

May all the good people are probing their souls!

Who are you for?

For the oppressors or for elephants?

Your friend Cy Sedgwick, talking to you about New York,

thanks you.

Good sending, huh?

Another full bus arriving....

You are for or against, Mr. Haas?

I sit on it.

You live well in Fort Lamy, sir?

Apparently, yes.

Could you describe us this Morel?

He used to come here a lot.

That's quite possible.

Can I buy you a drink?

I never drink.

A double whiskey, please.

Toto's a little thirsty today.

Is he still a bear?

I want a room with a bath.

You'll have to be satisfied from the terrace.

I heard that a white hunter got it

and he's dying. in a village.

Do you think!

You're late, gentlemen!

- He's not alone anymore! - Who's with him? Who's with him?

Professor Ostrach,

that had risen against H-bombs,

joined him and Peer Qvist,

the famous Danish zoologist.

Did Dr. Schweitzer, Professor Oppenheimer

and the ghost of Einstein support him too?

Of course, of course!

I'll explain everything to you, if you want to.

It's not the elephants. that Morel defends:

It's all of us.

We are threatened with extinction.

Another H-bomb,

a few more Sputniks

and we're all going up in smoke, like elephants!

What do you think, miss?

Is he a defender of humanity

or a crazy person?

You never thought about

that it is possible that he likes elephants?

Gentlemen, this is not going well.

Colonel, take a battalion, or more,

and sweep up everything for me. in this region

between the 16th and 18th parallels.

Since this Sedgwick took a bullet in the....

In the hindquarters.

It's not a life anymore!

He's passing me for a bogeyman!

And now, this wound of journalists....

Oh, there you are, Saint Denis! How about it, Commander?

Nothing.

That's all people talk about. but don't say anything specific.

There are 2000 telegrams for Morel, the remaining post office.

They come from all over the world.

2000 telegrams?

And it always does.

If it comes down to it at great expense,

we'll look good!

And another thing, gentlemen.....

I suspect Waitiri to pull the strings.

And let us not underestimate Waitiri.

He's quite amazing.

Maybe he has a political head.

Too bad we lost him.

Who knows, one day, he'll be back maybe one of our own...

It could be useful, if he wasn't so ambitious.

An ambitious politician, it's a plague for Africa.

You know the Uul� country better than anyone else.

That's right, that's right.

When I die,

one of the wizards will bring me back to life in the form of a tree.

Could you meet Morel there?

I think so, yes.

Ivory! Ivory! I'm also going to take a bullet in.....

In the hindquarters.

We're here, I think.

That scoundrel Korotoro! Aren't you in jail?

In prison, we're not well.

I hear you're not alone anymore.

You're never alone when you're defending a just cause.

Mr. Peer Qvist... when we welcomed you

in A.E.F., you were supposed to do a scientific study.

My duty is to protect all species,

all meats Roots of Heaven meat taken from the Earth.

I've spent my life protecting them.

Man destroys forests, poison the oceans

and the air he breathes with radiation.

The oceans, the forests,

beasts and men are the Roots of Heaven.

Poison the roots, it will wither the tree.

The stars will go out and Heaven will be destroyed.

You! You! I can't imagine you.

of interest to you to the protection of elephants.

Mr. Morel is right:

They are the symbol of freedom.

They will be the emblem of our flag.

When our power is secure, we will protect them.

We use you to for political purposes, you know that?

He's helping me.

You're the one who's helping him.

We help each other.

I don't like no form of nationalism.

But my petition was of no interest to me. no one.

Now it is politicized.

Out of fear, we'll have to take it into account.

Don't hide, Habib!

Don't be shy! Come on, come on!

Saint Denis! For example!

The old hermit is coming to join us?

Yes, it is me.

Wrapped up in beauty of a noble ideal.

I'm flying to the rescue of the elephants! Ah, die for a good cause...

Follow me now in Fort Lamy

and you will be, at most, suspended sentence.

Did someone send you to tell me that?

You have tired your horse for nothing.

The Conference for Protection of nature is meeting in Congo.

When the law prohibits all animal murders,

I will surrender. Not before!

We'll keep killing, whatever the Conference decides.

It's in our blood.

They're targeting the soft spot, between the eye and the ear,

because he's a beast. tall, free and beautiful.

This is what we call "a successful hit."

Elephants hinder progress:

They block the roads...

Their freedom has no place in a modern world.

That's what I refuse!

Will you persevere?

Of course, I persevere!

It'll take as long as it takes.

All right. I'll pass it on.

Don't you have any other messages?

Yes, it is. We're out of ammunition.

We lack everything, even drugs.

Do you hope to that we'll send you some?

Say it. You never know.

To me, he's a crazy person.

As the first reptile out of the water

10,000 centuries ago to live on earth!

He was crazy too. But in time,

this reptile has become human. We could become so too.

It's on the house for you.

Saint Denis!

Centuries of experience than we ever saw you!

It was claimed that that you had established yourself as a wizard.

We have a new attraction, I see....

Do you have any news of our friend who became famous?

Absolutely. I even went to the to see him, as an official.

Where? Where?

Somewhere in Pata country.

Was he alone?

He seems very lonely but he has a lot of people with him....

He didn't tell you anything?

Yes, it is. A lot of things.

You don't have....

No, I didn't shoot it.

You had to stop him!

He had a whole army.

And sometimes you don't know who's right and who's wrong.

A civil servant must know!

That's right, that's right. I think so, at least.

You have reported on to the governor?

But I will go.

I will go.

I need to talk to you.

Come on! Come on! My room is upstairs.

Don't worry about it. No one will see you.

Sit down, please. Would you like a drink?

I have a cognac not too bad.

I brought it back from Casablanca.

I'm willing to pay you.

I see... And what service would you like to pay me?

Do not deliver it.

- Who? Who? - Morel.

Please, please, please!

As you must like it....

It's not that. It's not that.

I don't think so.

I just want to help him, that's all!

If you want to help him, take him weapons and ammunition.

He asked me for some.

I've never met a man before. more confident than he is.

He knew I was being sent to bring him back.

And he quite simply asked for weapons.

And he wouldn't have been surprised that I give it to him.

I almost did it.

Something in him makes you want to help him.

I just got back from a mission

and I'm hanging out so I don't have to to make my report....

Where is he? Where is he?

He has too big a heart.

He wants to protect everything that moves.

He'd better to be careful of him.

Where is he? Where is he?

I'll do whatever you want.

So what? So what? Don't you like me?

You're very attractive, but also very stupid.

You should better gauge the men.

Maybe you could help him.

He needs it.

Great need.

He is seriously guilty:

He trusted men too much.

You could convince him.

You can succeed where I failed.

Tell him to surrender.

If he continues, he'll get stabbed in the back

by one of his allies or by the police.

Maybe I'm very stupid too,

but I think you, he will listen to you.

Come and see this map.

450 km from here, there is the village of Obo.

You will see an old wizard named D'Wala.

A very great wizard.

He gave me this amulet a long time ago.

If you give it to him, he'll know that you're a good friend.

What about the governor?

I'll tell him everything.

But without giving him an amulet.

Thank you for everything.

Dick! Dick! Wake up! Wake up!

Ah, it's you, my dear Minna....

Another big whisky, please.

I need your help. I'm going to join Morel.

You know him. You signed his petition.

Oh, yes.... The elephant guy....

Why do you think you find him? when no one can find it?

I talked to someone who knows where he is.

I have a card... I have everything.

Toto, I think it's a new girl drinking herself, huh?

I need your help.

If you present it that way, how can I refuse?

You have everything?

Everything! Medicines and ammunition.

With money, it's easy.

- Where are we going? Where are we going? - Cross the river.

It's strange:

What we dream of caressing refuses your caresses.

So you know everything. Everyone knows.

It floats in the air malicious slander,

all wriggling of the joy of harm.

So, what have you been told about me?

What are you talking about?

You know that well....

The "Rouans"...Have we omitted to give this clarification?

The Rouans?

This is called horses of a certain colour.

It's also the name of a famous English cavalry regiment.

Very famous.

I fell in the Balkans, at the head of 15 brave soldiers.

I parachuted into it! No horse! No horse!

You have been spared the glorious details of the adventure?

We were taken.

The others were all shot.

They had refused to talk, the morons!

The morons! Not a word! Not a word!

So they're all.....

And here I am....

full of joie de vivre!

There you go.

A pick-me-up.

I spotted the house on the map.

She's off the road, at the end of an alley.

The printing house is in the back of the garden.

I'd like to come with you.

Aren't you coming?

I have to give a speech. at a meeting on the Sudanese border.

Would you take the truck?

Ah, no! No! Not the truck! Not the truck! Your meeting can be postponed,

but tomorrow's prom is a unique opportunity.

There are two people

who are asking for you.

So be it. You'll get the truck. and three of my best men.

I also leave you Youssef.

Thank you, Waitari.

I've never heard of delirium. at this point!

A poor, single truck, one more meeting and in total....

Nothing! Nothing! Zero! Zero!

A big, round zero!

I love you idealists, that start all the wars!

I hope that His Humanist Highness live long enough to learn.

He'll end up an ivory merchant!

Life knows how to handle them, the idealists!

It must not be taken.

Not alive, huh?

He was precious to me.

I have a duty to keep it safe.

If he was brought before a court,

we would see too much that he's not than an inconsistent lunatic.

He'd be better off dead. He would become a legend.

He got you an ad for it. All right. Is that what you were looking for?

You're surprised, at this point?

A handful of faithful.... no money or weapons...

It'll take as long as it takes.

I'm at the stage propaganda and consolidation.

Propaganda and consolidation!

France and its books didn't get you anything.

Your head is stuffed big words,

but your instincts are gone.

What would your forefathers have done, in such a case?

Would they consider propaganda, to consolidation, to a meeting?

They'd have spears cut. and arrows by their tribes!

You took Morel's elephant as an emblem.

Finally, understand

that this noble animal is more than that.

He's going to solve all your little difficulties.

Not a single cloud!

The water holes are drying out.

It's the perfect time to admire natural beauties up close!

I saw Saint Denis.

He told me where to find you.

You needed help.

Forsythe guided me.

Where did you learn that tune?

In a doll's house, in Germany.

I agree with you.

What's wrong with him?

Is he mute?

On the contrary! He speaks fourteen languages fluently.

He is a doctor of philosophy, but humanity has disappointed him.

He vowed not to talk. no human language

until we have all changed.

- What is it? What is it? - Baboons.

They fight all the time.

An elephant?

Yeah, he's one of those old loners

who live far from the herds.

It's good to know that that there are still some.

The drought is coming early.

And it's serious?

The animals will go to to the last few water holes.

Some will die on the way.

You have always loved as much as ever elephants?

It started in my stalag, in Germany.

I needed to to hang up on me.

to something that changes me.

Elephants

were the best way to forget

the barbed wire of a prison camp.

They symbolized freedom and space.

I pictured myself their rush irresistible across Africa.

Across the plains and the hills...

I was hanging on to this image of freedom,

that helped me survive.

It is necessary to sleep.

We leave at dawn.

I'm already dreaming.

Don't worry about it.

I will stop drinking among the elephants.

It is the presence of men that makes me drink.

Not yours, of course....

Elephants! Elephants!

How to build a modern country with animals like that?

Then what are you doing here?

Waitari's order.

- Should I take care of the tires? - Not yet.

Wait for us here.

How nice to see you, Mr. Morel!

Do you know me?

We see your picture everywhere!

Would you like to print this

at the top of your newspaper tomorrow?

I like it. I like it. That's good. That's good.

A little drop? To avoid catching cold....

My house is next door. I have beer there.

And my wife would make you sandwiches.

Yeah, and he'd give the alert?

What if he has a phone?

Go ahead, of course.

World Committee Communiqu� of nature protection

A very interesting variety

of Antilopis Africana....

Yes, 501!

And the last one gave me some troublemaker.

With seven bullets in his body, the brute was always going for it.

I waited for him to approach.

and I gave him three more, here, behind the ear.

There, I got it.

I had never seen ivories like this.

Well, that'll be enough for us.

Good luck with that.

I'm too old, I can hardly help you.

Thank you for everything.

Take him to the front of the house. Do not stop the engine.

Take care of the tires. Quickly! Quickly!

Who is it? Who is it?

It's Morel.

What does this mean?

We're here to talk to Mrs. Orsini.

"World Committee Communiqu� of nature protection.

"Sanctions have been imposed against Mrs. Orsini,

"hunting champion.

"She was sentenced to public punishment.

"The committee recalls that he is apolitical.

"Problems of ideology, doctrines, parties, races,

"and nationalities are foreign to him.

"He only appeals to feelings and the dignity of every human being,

"without discrimination.

"Its purpose is an international agreement

"on the protection of nature."

Starting with the elephants,

the greatest of the companions of Man on Earth.

The sentence will now be executed.

If you touch a hair on his head....

We won't touch his head.

And to avoid any misunderstanding,

I charge our eldest to all of us to go by the dozen.

Get off me! Get off me! How dare you? How dare you?

A...

two....

three....

This is unbearable!

...twelve.

That'll be enough for tonight.

You'll pay for this!

I don't accept your explanations!

You have no excuse!

You all assured me in recent weeks

that he was far away, in the Uul� Mountains.

He appears in Sionville

and he's making a fool of us!

He's coming here soon!

And why is it being told to me two hours late?

The wires have been cut.

You are incapable!

This is an unprecedented situation.

Africans and Europeans join forces to protect Morel.

All they want to do is help.

The tribes call it the ancestor of elephants.

I'm not looking for excuses,

but we're fighting a legend.

What about that missing girl? What about this Englishman?

We found the car.

They probably have supplied Morel.

One thing is for sure:

In Sionville, there was no neither Habib nor Waitari.

Mobilize all your forces, including Biondi's meharists.

Go through the area with a fine-tooth comb.

Bring Morel back, dead or alive!

No, not dead.... Let's avoid the martyrs.

And besides, I'm not an ogre.

In 10 years of Africa, I've only hunted flies.

It sells everywhere!

And there are already a black market on it.

We're tearing it off. at any cost.

Orsini is right.

Look at that! Look at that!

There's nothing to laugh about!

Come back here at noon.

Mr. Morel... you betrayed us!

Your press release does not no reference to our movement.

It's an oversight.

You used us.

And you, from me!

Isn't that right?

Let's go east, to Lake Kuru.

We'll have water.

When the elephants are there, they can no longer fish.

Some herds

have traveled hundreds of miles to come here.

Look, Minna....

Maybe it's because the largest gathering

we've seen in thousands of years.

You were talking about immense freedom...

I understand now.

They are of unparalleled strength

and no animal fears them.

They don't scare people away

or birds or gazelles.

Man is their only enemy.

He's tracking them down, kills and maims them.

He turns their kindness into hatred

and claims they're angry.

The greatest massacre of elephants took place here 30 years ago.

During a drought like this one.

Ivory traffickers had benefited: 500 victims.

After the carnage, the water in the lake was red with blood.

The blood of fed animals tender green shoots

they find at the top of the trees,

and water lilies from rivers.

Are you all right?

Hi! Yes, I'm fine!

I have a nice picture here.

The pilot is dead.

He's in there.

Killed instantly.

I made sure of that.

- Where do you come from? - I am an American.

That I suspected.

I rented the plane from Fort Lamy.

It's full of journalists.

They are all on the Morel story....

the elephant guy.

I was wasting my time there,

so I left. do something else:

I had just taken great photos.....

Who are you? Who are you?

My name is Forsythe.

But you were with him....

with Morel!

Then where is he? Bring him to me!

Calm down, you're hurt.

Tell me... What is he like? Crazy?

Of course. We all are.

I recognized you right away. Don't move! Don't move!

What a lucky break!

A little closer.... please....

Look at you! Look at you!

Perfect.

A little smile... Perfect! Perfect!

Come on, Professor! Come on!

How fortunate! I have 16 left.

There you go, perfect. Thank you.

Look at me, please.

Look over there, please.

Very well. One last one.

Perfect! Perfect!

It'll pay for two years. of my rent in Paris!

My name is Abe Fields.

I'm a photographer.

Were you alone on the plane?

- The pilot is dead. - Can I ask you some questions?

Go ahead. Go ahead.

You've never killed anyone before.

- Is that by any chance? - I aim my best.

So as not to kill?

You can't teach a man anything. by killing him: Dead, he forgets everything.

Can I stay with you for a while?

If you want.

The snow...

The barbed wire....

Now it's all right.

It was a horrible nightmare:

The snow,

the ice....

Berlin...

All this is far away now....

Very far away....

I don't understand, but let's go check it out.

Three trucks are coming. Lots of soldiers, it seems.

Do you think they're soldiers?

Ivory traffickers.

Stay here, Minna.

What a wonderful show! What a vision!

It warms your heart!

Look at them. Look at them.

Ivory, machine gun. Machine gun, power.

Power, glory.

It's all yours, Waitari.

Less my modest commission, of course.

Allah has been good to us!

He was really perfect.

No, don't think about Morel. at a time like this.

Look at this.

Even the wind is with us!

Somebody has to be there. do the dirty work

for idealists like you!

Fritz! Disperse your men in the forest

and wait for the elephants.

Stash and Berval, look at the fords.

Happy hunting!

Let's split up here.

Sneak across the river.

We must scare the beasts away before the day.

As soon as I fire, open fire.

Who fired the shot?

Open fire. Open fire. Kill as many as you can!

There's someone there.

Take care of this one.

You killed him! You killed him!

That's enough! That's enough! Don't shoot me like that!

I represent the press!

I'll take his cameras.

They're mine! They're mine! These photos belong to the press!

Take that gun off, you idiot!

I'm an accredited journalist!

I'm Abe Fields.

You know me by name, I think so.

My name is Waitari. Maybe you know it too?

Very happy to meet you, Mr. Waitari. Don't move, don't move.

What are you doing here?

I was photographing the plane, yesterday.

I had an accident.

Aren't you with Morel?

Here's my press card, if you have any doubts.

Leave him his cameras.

What do you plan to do with Morel

and the others?

Kill them! Kill them! Kill them all!

The time has come to exterminate our enemies!

To disperse them!

We must free it forever our country! This is the time!

Excuse me, but....

if you execute them on your own initiative,

the government will have the pretext that he's looking for

to hunt you down and hang you from a tree.

In my opinion,

you will not be honored of a firing squad.

If you die, your movement will also die.

The movement is good for all of us!

Maybe. But people are know only him.

The army will hunt us down.

We have to keep going! You have to kill...

and kill again!

It's Morel the army is after. Not you! Not you!

He shoots people!

As for you,

you defended yourself against a bunch of crazy people!

What's wrong with slaughtering some elephants?

We must act! Enough theories!

Let's pour blood, not ink!

Tell me that again....

All right! All right! Perfect! Perfect! Thank you! Thank you!

Here we are gathered again.

Life knows how to handle idealists!

About us: You are free as a bird.

Waitari is so generous...

You should come by and see me, one day.

We'd talk.

We could even get along, for business....

This may be of interest to you.

An exciting article.

"The Congo Conference

"has been adjourned without anything being decided."

But what a speech!

An elevation of thought that brings out the tears!

But your poor elephants....

Ah, the poor beasts....

And the price of ivory is rising from day to day.

It's nothing, it's nothing.

That's what the human face is for.

My things are calling me.

He is right.

All the Habib are right.

They've been right all along.

They know where they're going. They see the world as it is.

The real evil comes from people of my kind.

Look where I've trained you.

My beautiful ideas have arranged us well....

I'm taking Minna to Biondi.

There's a hospital there.

There is also a position, to which I will surrender.

I understand your point.

Your bitterness is very well justified.

But I pray to God she doesn't doesn't destroy your faith.

I've lived a long time and I know how the world is progressing:

Slowly, very slowly, towards understanding....

He makes stops.... He's groping.

And those who follow you and love you?

What would become of us?

All these thousands of people who would like to do like you....

But they don't dare.

They are tired, crushed by weariness.

But they understand you:

Even the stupidest ones, like me.

They think of you.... They think of elephants.

And suddenly their faces lights up with a smile.

You have to keep going!

We continue!

We're going to Biondi

and we won't need this anymore.

Leave it, Youssef! May the wind carry him away!

Are you staying?

For a great report.

An exclusivity like there is few of them.

That is reasonable. He's looking for an exclusive and he'll get it.

You will have the most beautiful pictures, the last ones.

It's a little cold,

it'll be over soon.

A morphine shot?

No! I've seen worse in Anzio,

in Salerno, Normandy. That's nothing. That's nothing.

I landed in Tarawa, Iwo Jima,

in Okinawa.... It will be nothing.

You did all this for pictures?

Elephants, for you, It doesn't even exist?

Nothing to do!

And if we run into soldiers who shoot him so dry?

The order is to bring him back dead or alive.

They'll have to shoot me first.

It would be fun to die by fighting, at my age.

To die laughing.

How old are you, by the way?

I'm very old. I would like to die in Africa.

Why? Why?

This is where Man appeared.

You die better at home.

Biondi is 3 days walk away,

through the desert and thorns, without ever having a shadow.

We'll go north to the next riverbed on dry land.

We'll take its course to the main road.

Biondi can be seen from afar.

Come on, Youssef, we're going to get some water.

Why is he telling us this, like he's not going with us?

I don't know. I don't know.

Does that mean that that he no longer wants to surrender to the police?

I don't know. I don't know.

What are you waiting for?

Did you know that?

You weren't supposed to let me to take alive, huh?

It was Waitari's order. But I couldn't do it.

A stretcher....

No, it's all right. I promise you that!

I promise you that.

Hyenas....

Are they attracted to our blood?

All this will seem to you soon a nightmare.

This is the reality towards which I'm going home that will be the nightmare.

Leave us! Leave us!

Please, I beg you!

Get off this road.

Please, please, please.

Atomists predict the end of humanity

Where is humanity going now?

Yes, this is Cerisot. Speak more slowly.

Say it again, will you?

What? What? Is he coming here? Are you sure about that?

I'll show them!

Gather your men together.

Listen, all of you! We spotted him on the road to Biondi!

It's cooked! It's cooked! He's going for the trap!

Go away! Go away!

I know soldiers! I know soldiers! They'll kill you!

Present weapons!

Let them through.

Goodbye.

END

We would like to thank you, for their invaluable help,

the French ambassador in French Equatorial Africa,

Cameroon, Chad and Ubangi,

the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, the Belgian Congo

and the Directorate of Nature Reserves from the Belgian Congo.

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