Original subtitles

Calm music

Intriguing music

Children shouting in the distance

Faint chatter

Conversation in German

Bell tolling

Conversation in Italian

Satisfied laughter

In Italian - Damn it! Go to hell!

Sly devil!

- It's my lucky day.

An engine sputters.

- Bruno!

Bruno!

Stop it, we're off duty.

- Come play with us!

- I can't help it, I love the sound of a purring engine.

- So?

- Like when your sister falls asleep on my shoulder.

They laugh.

- Bruno and his cars...

Ominous music Chatter

A door creaks and closes.

- The last one.

Rhythmic organ music

Engine roaring

- Bruno!

Gunfire and screams

Tense music

Bruno!

Giacomo, come help me!

There are more!

- Go!

- Go!

Combes and Lassalle, left. Dronne, straight ahead.

Cassard, right.

He speaks in Italian.

Epic music Screams

Intriguing music

Tires screeching

- Well then, Marcel, see you tomorrow.

- Bye.

- Where are the promised weapons?

Where is the promised money?

Nothing.

- I had 1,000 tons of weapons delivered and 6 million francs.

That's all the General could get.

- Let's be clear: drive out the Krauts, obviously,

but also Vichy and the cowards.

- The parliamentarians don't take back the Resistance. They betrayed it.

- Obviously. But the Resistance fighters must unite.

The Spanish Republicans failed

because they weren't able to coordinate with each other.

- Rex, I agree about the Secret Army.

- Who's going to lead it?

- The General.

Mocking laughter - Which one?

- Can you be serious?

- Are you following what's happening in Casablanca?

History is being written there.

In English - Casablanca is becoming the center

of Anglo-American power.

It's at the Anfa Hotel

that Mr. Churchill and Roosevelt, with the help of their chiefs of staff,

are preparing the next offensive plan.

Here is the General who will lead the French Forces into battle.

General Giraud will replace Admiral Darlan as head of the French.

- At least Roosevelt didn't pick

a guy who shakes hands with Hitler.

- They found a useful idiot to better make France a vassal.

What a display of subtlety.

Light sigh

- But, General, France's fate is being decided over there,

in Casablanca.

Chatter

- What are you here for?

- Securing the perimeter.

Against French dissidents. Order of General Giraud.

Tense music

- We're going to flush out some Gaullists! It's a hornets' nest.

I want them all.

- National Gendarmerie.

- On your feet.

Against the wall.

- Hands on your heads. - Lambert, bring me the little one.

- Come on. He's sobbing.

- No!

- If you don't answer me, I'll kill your family, then you.

Is that what you want? Where's your dad?

- Don't do that. Stop.

- Where's his father? - I'm begging you.

- Move forward.

Faster.

- Your name? - Reynaud.

- Your name?

- Pennacchioni. - Hurry up, get in.

- Move. - Your name?

- Giacalone. - Get in.

He moans. Screams

Chuckles

- Clean this up. - Yes, Sergeant.

- Put these Gaullists in the cooler.

- Come on, move along. - Come on, hurry up. Hurry.

- Go on.

- General Giraud...

He sighs.

English narration

Chuckles

- I'll say it again: Churchill has had a plane prepared for you.

- I'm not going to Casablanca, not by plane or by canoe, Pleven.

- General...

The fate of the world is at stake there. And Churchill is inviting you.

- They don't invite de Gaulle to France.

It's a trap.

Murmuring

Overlapping voices

The phone rings.

Intriguing music

Tense music Distant German conversation

- If de Gaulle doesn't go to Casablanca,

for us, it'll be Giraud.

- I heard you.

Livia, encode a telegram for the General.

We have to deal with this Casablanca business.

- Understood.

- The prisoners, in the hangar. - Yes, Captain.

Epic music Murmuring

- Message for de Gaulle: "Mission accomplished in Libya.

"We are joining the British in Tripoli.

"Signed, Leclerc."

- Received, Colonel.

Dramatic music

He sighs.

- General...

What is it, Blaise?

- General,

they're talking about a fake General

who claims to be the leader of the Free French.

- He's not a fake General, he's the real one!

Blaise shakes his head no.

You are the hero of France.

Its fearless and blameless knight.

- Not anymore, Blaise!

- Have you gone mad? The world admires you.

They're talking about you in the papers.

The Americans are even preparing a film about you.

Maybe Chaplin will play your part.

- I don't give a damn, Blaise!

Blaise opens the door, then closes it.

Pleven.

Ah.

Tell him I'm going to Casablanca.

- Yes, mon Général.

Epic music

He sighs.

- Let's go!

- We're taking precautions to keep your visit secret.

- Is this a French decision?

- Absolutely.

Chatter

- Step back!

He apologizes in English.

- The simplest option: form a binational army corps.

- Harold, can I help you?

- Good day, gentlemen. I'm looking for "Admiral Q".

- Churchill?

He's with "Commodore Frankland".

Foghorn of a ship

Faint sigh

Foghorn of a ship

- Mr. President...

- There you are!

- General de Gaulle has landed.

- The bride is arriving!

Congratulations, you've succeeded.

Eisenhower, is the groom ready?

- General Giraud is downstairs.

- We must celebrate this!

The end of the French mess.

Tomorrow, we'll have one single French army.

One leader, one subordinate:

finally some order!

- Giraud's army in Africa is large,

but de Gaulle's men have the fire in their hearts, that's what matters.

- Fine,

they can pass that fire on to Giraud's men.

- It's not that simple.

The groom, as you call him,

is surrounded by former Vichy men.

To de Gaulle and his men, they are traitors.

- Remind me of one thing:

who pays for de Gaulle's army?

I won't finance his private war against Vichy.

We'll smother it in a committee.

You get all flustered whenever the French come up.

You're like Frankenstein, terrified of his own monster.

- For pity's sake! - Do you know what?

I'll be the first to see him.

- Go on, treat yourself...

My heaviest cross to bear in this war...

is the Cross of Lorraine.

Conversations in English

- General, the President has requested a private meeting.

Follow me.

- General de Gaulle,

at last!

It's such a pleasure

to meet you.

- The pleasure is all mine, Mr. President.

- I can't say "welcome".

You're at home here.

A weapon is being loaded.

Ominous music

In English

The collapse of your country under the German invasion

was a real shock: six weeks?

We'll get you out of here.

If we see a child being attacked by savages,

we step in, don't we?

- France is not a child, Mr. President.

She has always kept on fighting.

The troops... - Your troops?

Roosevelt laughs.

Tell me, how many are we talking about?

10,000 men?

One battalion in the desert?

General Giraud's army is taking back control.

- General Giraud is a good soldier. He'll make a decent military commander.

But war is a moral affair.

The soldiers who will die must fight for a moral cause.

France needs moral authority,

not a desk-bound bureaucrat. - As long as France is occupied,

no one has any moral authority.

You have chosen our side,

the side of freedom.

But you remain a lone general,

without the backing of parties or deputies, and you've never been elected:

a rebel! - Neither was Joan of Arc.

She simply fought for France.

- General, Winston and I are asking you

to come to terms with Giraud.

Do you understand?

To help you,

we have drafted a memorandum

proposing an agreement between the two of you.

He sighs.

- If it is in keeping with France's interests.

- Yes...

The conference ends tomorrow,

you will exercise your legendary wisdom.

- Mr. President.

- Until tomorrow, General.

He sighs.

- What a character. - A lunatic.

He knows nothing about politics.

I expected something harder.

Don't leave without his signature.

He sighs.

Intriguing music

Barking in the distance

- I hope you fully enjoyed the one-on-one.

- Harold Macmillan.

I'm the special envoy of Prime Minister

Churchill, and I...

It's an agreement that respects your rank, General.

I'll stay in case

you have a ques... - Keep them

for your enemies.

Small laugh

- Oh, my plane...

crashed.

- Did I ask a question?

Intriguing music

Barking in the distance

Slight sigh

Join

a committee with Marcel Peyrouton,

a Vichy man from the very start... - General, they have the upper hand.

And Giraud brings them 400,000 men. We are

barely 13,000, including drivers and secretaries.

The matter is settled.

He sighs.

In English - Here we are, more than ready...

- Mr. President,

all I need is equipment for my troops.

You promised tanks... - Don't worry, my friend.

He clears his throat. - He said you will get the tanks.

- Does your creature know we have other fish to fry,

What do you think?

They call out to Churchill.

- Ah!

- With barely two brigades, and he marches in like Stalin!

- Good morning, de Gaulle.

- Did you sleep well, General?

- Unfortunately, we cannot accept the proposed agreement,

but we'll look into all of this with General Giraud...

Among Frenchmen.

- You can't stop the war, General de Gaulle!

If you don't sign, I'll denounce you to parliament

and to the press, and we'll carry on

without you.

- You are perfectly free to disgrace yourself,

Prime Minister. - Calm down.

He sighs.

General, you may be right,

it's a bit premature.

For now, it will be enough to confirm our commitment

to working out a solution that will suit everyone

and simply to shake hands.

- If you like...

- Very good!

Please.

Let's not waste time.

Murmuring

Come on, gentlemen...

follow me!

- The closing press conference will begin in 15 minutes.

- Ah, well, finally.

- My friends...

- You may come closer.

Murmuring

- Tada.

Someone whistles.

He hums.

He laughs.

- Is everything ready to break camp? - Yes, Colonel!

Murmuring

- Are you finished? - Almost.

- Hurry up. - I'm doing my best.

- Colonel.

- Colonel.

- Colonel.

- Congratulations. You've been promoted to general.

- Cut the nonsense. - The General has signed the promotion.

- Combes, what is the number one duty of Force L?

- Never obey a stupid order, General.

- There you go.

We're breaking camp. - Colonel, a message from the Americans:

"Remain on standby and await instructions from Giraud."

- What?

- Yeah, that's right.

- De Gaulle supposedly struck a deal with Giraud.

What do we do, General? - De Gaulle, with a Vichy man?

- Congratulations!

- Coming from you, Peyrouton?

From the bottom to the top. The city has been cleansed of the Gaullists.

Their master has bowed his head.

Checkmate.

I like your American friends more and more.

Ominous music

- France will be rid of the Germans,

but not of the Vichy men.

- Giraud?

But...

The Resistance with him?

- Free France is on the verge of disappearing.

- No, no, we can't

sign with Giraud. - We don't even know what we're going to sign.

Tense music Inaudible discussion

- So, how was the vacation?

DE GAULLE ACCEPTS GIRAUD'S TERMS

- We're in the process of weighing our options.

- There's no point in staying in London anymore.

- Here you go.

- We've received a memo from Downing Street.

Churchill intends to keep you in London.

He won't make any plane available to you.

Except for Algiers.

So you can come to terms with Giraud.

- So, Pleven, I'm a prisoner.

- Giraud is a pure soldier.

We have to sign with him to neutralize him.

Catroux is working hard to get an agreement

that leaves you a free hand. - Free?

You don't understand anything about politics.

Giraud is a puppet of the Americans.

A free hand...

Intriguing music

Chatter

Thunder rumbling

Airplane engine

Tense music

- Rex.

- Yes, sir!

You're not on the manifest for this flight.

- I have to get to London. At the next moon,

it'll be too late.

Listen to me, this is vital for the General.

- If that were the case, I would have received an order.

- He doesn't know that.

He needs my help.

Discussions in English

- Yes, Colonel? - Break camp.

- What do we tell them?

- That we never obey a stupid order.

Let's go on. The General needs us.

- Understood, General.

Break camp!

Chatter

In English

- He quit? - No, he dropped Giraud.

To join our troops in Tripoli.

That's a good thing, isn't it?

- Maybe.

- The French!

Remarks in English

8TH BRITISH ARMY

Cheering

- Well done, lads!

Chatter

- A good shower now!

- General Leclerc. - General Montgomery.

- Mmm...

Very well.

To be frank,

when I was told that you were going to cross the Sahara,

I doubted I'd see you alive again, and here you are!

General Giraud must be proud.

- We want to fight.

- I understand.

I appreciate it, but it's a complex operation...

If you insist.

The 1st American Division is occupying Gafsa.

It will pincer Rommel.

My men will push him from the south

to trap him in Tunis.

- If he gets past the Mareth Line, he'll hit you from behind.

- No, a battalion will cover my left flank.

- You'll only have two divisions, he has three.

- That's right.

- We look like tramps,

but we're fast and we know the desert.

We'll cover your left flank.

- How many of you are there? - 1,000.

- We'll supply the boots and rifles,

and clean clothes!

Light laughter

Melancholic music

Shouting

Whistling

All together - If one day, our children

Ask their mothers

Where we were

Why we are no longer here - Come on!

- Tell them that their fathers

Were Leclerc's men

And that we never surrendered

Tremble, enemies of France

Tyrants drunk on blood and hatred

Those who know how to die will give the world

Peace and freedom

And when France calls us

Let us know how to conquer or know how to perish

A Frenchman must live for her

For her, a Frenchman must die

Yeah!

They hum. Epic music

Soft music

Conversation in Wolof

- Go north.

- Ammunition!

- You okay, Mirloin? - Yeah.

- We almost waited too long.

Here, for your trouble.

Aircraft engine

- What's that thing?

- Wait.

Two more Stukas.

So that's 18.

Plus one, that's 19.

- A Panzer division.

- They're regrouping.

Reconnaissance vehicles.

Gunfire Moaning

Heavy breathing

- Heavy enemy presence. You're not equipped for this.

Fall back toward the sea.

Murmuring

- Against a Panzer division?

- And without a single tank. - Oh!

Whistling

Dronne, Raynal,

what's going on?

- At the next skirmish, you make them clear off.

A Panzer division,

the whole thing!

Ominous music Murmuring

- Officers of Force L!

- Come on, let's gather. Quick, quick, quick!

These gentlemen, the Krauts, want to push through the Mareth Line.

Our line.

- How many Krauts? - We counted

19 aircraft.

So there should be 90 armored vehicles.

From the 15th. Whispering

There are two passes.

They'll come through both of them at the same time.

We're going to let them in.

- They'll roll right over us.

- Dio,

you'll hide your men

at the northern one.

Dronne,

you'll take this one. Combe,

with me on the high ground,

at the epicenter. - But we'll have

air support, right?

- I don't think so.

The English air force is tied up

with priority missions in the east. - General,

we've won every battle so far.

You want us to get hammered by a Panzer division?

It's not coming for us.

- Did you see Montgomery's order?

Avoid all contact and fall back 90 kilometers toward the sea.

- Take cover!

- General, get down!

- Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang!

- General, don't stay there!

- Has someone forgotten the first rule

of Force L?

- But this isn't a stupid order.

Epic music

- Some people have understood nothing about Free France.

Back home, the kids fight with nothing in their hands.

Admittedly, we have no news.

But every one of us has a brother,

a sister,

a cousin,

who, leaning against the wall of a cellar, fights off sleep

to send an intelligence report to London.

We all have a friend

who, given a sabotage mission, comes out of a forest, crosses a mountain,

finds on a beach a boat with no sail, no oars, no mast, no rope

and sets out without a second thought.

Over there, everyone is alone and in constant danger of death.

And not one of them would give up

without even knowing whether his mission will make any difference.

All of them count on the fact that sooner or later,

the enemy will be drowned by all these anonymous acts.

So we,

who have the luck to fight, together, armed,

and in broad daylight,

let's prove ourselves worthy.

Does anyone here still want to fall back?

Dismissed.

- Go with the supply unit.

- No, I'm doing my job and I know the risks.

- We're no longer talking about risks, but a suicide mission.

Go with that...

- Hey, Mademba!

He whistles.

Ominous music

- The Krauts!

- The Boches are coming!

Commotion

- 12 tanks.

- No infantry visible.

- No infantry support visible.

- 12 armored vehicles, and the count doesn't add up.

They want us to reveal ourselves. - Everyone in position!

- You will fire on my command,

and on my command only!

Commotion

Tense music

Groaning

Heavy breathing

He shouts.

- Two seconds! - What are we waiting for?

We have to shoot now! - Fire, fire.

- What are we waiting for?

- Two seconds!

- It's the 12th tank.

- 12th tank!

- Fire!

- Fire!

- Fire!

- Fire!

- Fire!

- Reload.

- Right flank, fire!

Shouting

- Fire!

- Fire to the right!

- You two, stay here. You, take him

for treatment. Come back, we hold the position.

- Understood.

- At least 15 more tanks!

- The Secret Army is getting into position.

We'll be able to strike hard.

- Hold your blows and minimize your losses.

For now, we are alone.

I stand alone against America, and only America matters.

Don't get me wrong.

Roosevelt is a Francophile. He speaks French just like you and me.

- So, what's his problem?

- In 1940, we were the bulwark against Hitler.

When Paris fell,

after we had fought so poorly and so little,

he was shocked.

Like all of us.

- Exactly.

So he should support Free France.

- As far as he's concerned, France no longer exists.

And to keep the peace, he's placed a pawn at the center of the board:

Giraud.

- To keep the peace?

- So that he won't have across from him

someone who intends to make France a country again.

Mr. Prefect,

I have no support from the parliamentarians.

They voted full powers to Pétain.

I have few soldiers, and they're dissidents from a defeated army.

In other words,

I embody everything the Americans despise.

I'm weak.

And yet I stand my ground.

Dramatic music

- And Churchill?

- Ah, Churchill...

I swear allegiance to Giraud or he'll cut off our supplies.

- So the Resistance is finished.

- I may be an obstacle to France's future.

Muffled gunfire

- I saw the Krauts repositioning to the southeast.

We're going to get hammered.

- General,

we have to evacuate the wounded, it's now or never.

Immediate evacuation!

The wounded into the ambulances!

- You're leaving with them, Davis.

Listen to me carefully.

We may all end up dying here.

But I need you to stay alive.

Let it be known that we are undefeated, we, the Free French.

The Krauts never beat us.

We do not retreat, we do not submit.

When we return, our children will have nothing to reproach us for.

Do you understand?

Gunfire

Troop movement to the southeast.

Take the remaining artillery and set it up as a defensive line.

- Understood, General.

Troops to the southeast!

- Troop movement to the southeast, please confirm.

- Sometimes everything turns around with one card.

The parliamentarians.

- The parliamentarians?

Why not the political parties?

- Why not, indeed. - Because they handed over

France.

- They remain elected and legitimate for the Allies, not for us.

- No Free Frenchman will accept it.

- Without Allied support, who would fund them?

- What exactly are you claiming?

Gambling with the fate of Free France like a game of cards?

Drawing parliamentarians at random,

watched by the Germans night and day?

Locking them in a room

with resistance fighters hunted by the Gestapo?

And on top of that, you hope

to get them to agree when they heartily detest each other?

- If you trust me, yes.

- This isn't trust, it's the faith of the early Christians.

It took that much to create Free France

with a single aide-de-camp.

He sighs.

I have to leave.

Don't go to Algiers unless you're in a position of strength.

Give me the time to act,

without believing any information, any telegram,

or any rumor. I need time.

Don't sign any agreement with Giraud.

If you approve my plan, have a sentence broadcast on the BBC.

"The jack of diamonds is on the table." - I can't lose you.

- And otherwise,

have it broadcast: "The ace of spades is in my hand."

Faint sigh

Bell chimes Rex opens the door.

He closes the door. Bell chimes

- Fire!

- Fire!

- They're swarming everywhere!

- My General!

Dramatic music

- Leclerc didn't retreat.

He only evacuated his wounded.

He's lost, my General.

- "In a few hours, we will give you victory."

They don't make them like him anymore.

Have our planes finished their mission in the East?

- Not yet, my General.

No, my General!

Coughing.

- He's dead, my General.

Heavy breathing

- With me!

Epic music

For honor.

To the end.

- He's crazy! - Let's go.

- The English...

Shouting

- They're coming! - My General!

- We won!

Indistinct chatter

- Look, he's chasing them!

Let's give him a hand!

Shouting

Light chatter

- My General? - Leave me alone, Passy.

He sighs.

- My General, Leclerc is alive!

- Well done, my General.

- Leclerc held his ground against a Panzer division.

- With what tanks?

- No tanks, my General. - Alone with his men.

- Three submachine guns and a few rifles. - Incredible.

- Churchill congratulates you.

- Long live Free France! - Long live Free France!

Long live Free France! - Long live Free France!

Joyful laughter Applause and cheers

- To Free France!

Champagne cork pops

Ominous music

THE GAULLIST WARRIOR HUNTS DOWN THE GERMANS

ROOSEVELT ASSEMBLES AN UNPRECEDENTED MILITARY COALITION

Cheers

- Leclerc! Leclerc!

Leclerc! Leclerc! Leclerc! Leclerc! Leclerc!

Leclerc!

Leclerc! Leclerc! - De Gaulle!

- Leclerc! Leclerc! Leclerc! Leclerc!

- Shout, "Long live de Gaulle!"

- Leclerc! - Long live de Gaulle!

- Long live de Gaulle! - Leclerc! Leclerc!

De Gaulle! De Gaulle! De Gaulle! De Gaulle!

- For the BBC.

Personal message.

Praise is pouring in from every Allied capital.

A journalist who obtained an interview with General Leclerc

on the battlefield quotes him:

"We Free French are undefeated.

"The Boches have never beaten us.

"We do not retreat. We do not submit.

"Our children will have nothing to reproach us for when we return."

Now please listen to a few personal messages.

"The jack of diamonds is on the table."

I repeat.

"The jack of diamonds is on the table."

"The sun rises every day."

I say it twice:

"The sun rises every day."

End of personal messages.

Heavy breathing

A door is opened, then closed.

- In La Fontaine's box.

The Resistance can't have gone easy on you.

- They want more money.

For the weapons, for everything.

And they're right.

- The General is doing all he can.

- I missed one.

Something under a table.

- "On" the table?

The jack of diamonds?

Livia?

- I don't know, boss.

- Let's go.

Upbeat music

We're going to bring the parliamentarians in.

- You're either crazy or an idiot.

- We agreed, Rex.

You're destroying the Resistance because you don't control it.

- Not only will we never accept,

but we'll tell de Gaulle it's either us or you.

That's the last straw! - We need them.

- Of course.

- The General needs that legitimacy.

- And do you have the parliamentarians?

- I'm working on it.

- Oh, really?

Which ones?

- All those who refuse Vichy.

- Even the communists?

- I'm working on it. - Ah...

Good luck.

- Mr. Deputy... - You ask for my guarantee

while explaining to me that my party doesn't count.

- I'm not asking for your guarantee, I'm asking for your support.

- I'll be with you. I trust you.

- The priority is to get settled in Algiers.

- Catroux has secured the concessions so that we can sign.

- Your plane is waiting for you.

You'll be on French soil by tonight.

- Page 3.

- General?

We won't get anything more out of Gir...

- Page 3?

- Be patient.

Be patient, Blaise.

- I will not give up the presidency

and I will not agree to Peyrouton's resignation.

As for the rest, we can talk.

- New proposal from General Giraud.

Light sigh

He closes the door.

- Understood.

- Peyrouton.

- Uh, General...

- Minister of Police under Pétain, the man who did the dirty work.

- Once we're there... - Peyrouton.

- Yes, yes, that suits him fine, but...

we still need to rework the makeup of the committee.

And the preambles.

- I can't take it anymore, being caught between a donkey and a madman.

I'm making one last attempt. After that, I'm telling you, I resign.

- Trust,

that makes no sense. - We're gambling our country's future.

- What you're asking of us is impossible.

I don't see

any positive way out.

- We'll meet again, Deputy.

- I doubt my Communist Party would be in favor of it.

They open, then close the door.

- I'll manage it.

I'll organize the creation of the Resistance Council in Paris.

Simpler for the parliamentarians. - You like taking risks.

You set our meeting next to the militia headquarters.

Beeps

- G...

"Network blown."

Tense music

Bicycle bell - Watch out!

- Wait three minutes.

Doorbell

Barking

- Be quiet!

- Galibier and Suzette have been arrested. I was warned in time.

- You're burned. - We have to move very fast.

Have the agents cancel

their meetings. Change the mailboxes

and the identity papers.

Alert London and tell Mercure to disappear.

We meet in two hours.

No change of plan, we carry on.

Livia, if you're caught,

try to hold out 48 hours without talking.

If I'm taken, you'll put yourself at Mr. Bidault's service.

Happy birthday.

Come.

- I have nothing more to add.

This agreement is take it or leave it.

- My respects, gentlemen.

American accent Florence Conrad.

I bought 19 new ambulances.

I recruited 14 French women in New York City,

trained in first aid and able to drive.

We want to fight.

- Very well.

Very well. General, would you like...

- We want Leclerc.

- Wait, do you know their living conditions?

No washrooms, hundreds of kilometers a day

with dogs, chickens, fennecs...

- We have a genuine admiration

for General Leclerc.

- Fine. I'll speak to him when he takes a break between raids.

Ladies.

No one steps back

They open the door.

- The ambulances have arrived, and there are women with them.

They want to stay. - Sort it out with them.

- That's a joke, isn't it?

- General Giraud is here.

- General.

- The last time, you were the young Captain de Hauteclocque.

Since then, you've made a name for yourself.

- You're the one who trained me in arms.

- That doesn't explain your successes. - No.

It's the lack of telephones and the distance from higher command.

Light laughter

- I came first to thank you.

When I was taken prisoner in Germany,

my wife and children were in danger,

without help or resources in occupied France.

Until a family took them in.

Yours.

Your wife took them in.

She's well.

She had heard of a certain Leclerc,

without knowing who he was.

Philippe,

today I am in charge of this immense battle for France.

This war is bigger than our small selves and our small convictions.

I will give de Gaulle a leading role at my side.

So let's set politics aside and join our forces.

- Not while you're surrounded by criminals.

- What are you saying?

- Peyrouton.

He has the backing of the Supreme Commander, Roosevelt.

- Do you know what you can tell him? - Philippe!

- Hitler's arse-lickers will end up in the dustbin of history.

Careful not to join them there.

- Stop, or you'll answer for your words before a court.

- French or American?

Intriguing music

Ugh... And quoting Trotsky, on top of that...

- No pasarán! Spoken in Spanish

- Attention! - No pasarán!

- Death to the idiots!

- What the hell is this mess? - We're sending them back.

They're anarchists.

- No.

Dronne, you'll handle them very well for me.

- And that?

- Let it be.

There will never be enough ammunition. Spoken in Spanish

- Attention! - Viva!

- Knees up! - Come on!

- Right, let's go.

Hubbub

- No, that won't do. We knock.

Come in!

They close the door.

Not enough. Call me back in 20 minutes.

- Under no circumstances will my men and I parade through Tunis with Giraud.

- You helped win this victory, you must march!

- Then may we march with your men?

- You hate Giraud that much?

- I'm very fond of him, sadly.

He sighs.

- It would seem

that being French today

is a complicated thing.

- No, Catroux.

- We'll have to talk again.

- Goodbye, Catroux.

Ah! - General.

- Good to see you in France, Monnet.

Do you know Marcel Peyrouton?

- Pleased to meet you.

- To what do I owe the pleasure?

Finding Washington dull? - General,

it's President Roosevelt himself who sent me.

To finally write our friend in London out of the picture...

- De Gaulle? But he's finished.

He's written himself out of the picture.

Apart from Catroux, who stayed here to negotiate

some puppet agreement or other with us,

nobody supports him anymore.

- Apart from public opinion.

- Yes...

- Here, look. - Hmm?

This. DE GAULLE BACKED IN AMERICA

GIRAUD'S MEASURES: A BLOW FOR THE JEWS

And then this.

- Yes.

- For example. - We're not going to start again,

letting public opinion dictate our lives, stirring things up

with the dithering that did so much harm to France.

- If you want to keep Roosevelt's support,

you'll have to spare him this sort of thing.

- Monsieur Monnet, the American newspapers

are run by Jews.

It's up to them to fix that.

- I'm a soldier, I don't do politics.

- There's nothing that should worry you.

Show that you embody the French values...

and American ones.

- It's the speech Giraud gave in Algiers.

You should read it.

- As a tribute to Pétain? - No, but a big success.

A democratic program, compatible with the Americans.

Monnet did things well. - Ah.

And in his speech,

does Giraud restore French nationality to the Jews of Algiers?

- No. But, General,

he's entrenching himself further in power in Algiers while...

we wait for the English to cut off our supplies.

By the way, Churchill has just left for Washington.

Ominous music

And in case you're confusing it with the fireplace,

the other file contains a message

from the three main resistance networks.

They demand Rex's dismissal.

- Be patient.

ACTION OF THE DAY We must break with de Gaulle. Churchill.

In English - Gentlemen, de Gaulle

is taking us for fools.

He was supposed to go to Algiers to make peace with Giraud.

Instead, he's stirring up trouble in London,

rejecting any possible agreement.

He sighs.

How much longer are we going to put up with this?

- It's written there: let's break with de Gaulle.

- Let's vote.

- Thank you.

I know it's written down,

but we must think twice about it.

Speech in English

- Have you read Montgomery's report?

Leclerc refused to march with Giraud's troops in Tunis.

Breaking with de Gaulle means losing Leclerc.

- That would be absurd!

- If we don't break with him, let's force him to go to Algiers.

Now!

- But how?

Overlapping voices

- Listen to me.

I have an idea.

Light murmuring

- First, take note... - General,

the BBC has just announced your departure for Algiers.

- What?

Whispering

- Well played. If you don't go, you'll look weak.

- If I go to Algiers, it's to tell Giraud to his face

that there will never be any agreement between him and me.

- General, first take note of what General Catroux proposes.

- This is London.

Inaudible remarks

- It's dramatic.

Everything's ruined, he's heading for disaster.

- That's all I have.

Chiming

- Encode this and send it off immediately.

- "National Council of the Resistance has been formed."

But... that's false!

- The Republic is worth a forgery, Livia.

- "All networks and parties demand a swift installation.

"Provisional government in Algiers under the presidency of de Gaulle."

Boss... - Arrange a meeting with everyone.

- Even the communists?

And what if you don't succeed?

You're putting the General at immense risk.

And the Resistance too.

- Giraud still holds the presidency.

Peyrouton is still there.

Don't tell me things were better a month ago, because it's true.

Intriguing music

- Perfect.

I'll discuss the details in Algiers.

Gentlemen.

- What's going on?

Intriguing music

- Here we go.

- Gentlemen,

here is a message from General de Gaulle for our attention.

"The terrible upheaval in which the disaster,

"the treason, the usurpation

"have plunged our country will not end

"simply because the German forces have been crushed.

"The nation must emerge from its liberation independent.

"It is up to you to assert the rights

"and the interests of France."

- I propose the following motion.

Repudiating the dictatorship of Vichy, its men,

its symbols and its extensions,

a National Council of the Resistance is hereby created

and made up of the members present here.

It intends that a provisional government be installed in Algiers

and entrusted to General de Gaulle, who was the soul of the Resistance

in the darkest days

and who never ceased to prepare the rebirth of republican freedoms.

- That's impossible. We will never accept it.

- He has no legitimacy. He just wants power.

- Not a word

about this Council of the Resistance, General.

I have my doubts. I'll look into it.

- If it's a fake, it will end its suffering.

- Indeed.

- Peyrouton.

- Are you going to meet General Eisenhower directly?

We'll meet at his headquarters. - I beg your pardon?

It is Eisenhower who should come to see me, not the other way around.

We are in France.

Let's go by the War Memorial.

- The Communist Party

won't endorse fantasies. We know the Allies

entrusted power to Giraud, not to de Gaulle.

- I believe it's up to us to express our will

on the future French government. - The will of the parliamentarians?

Not long ago, the plan was to hand France over to Pétain.

- Are you rejecting parliamentarians

and political parties?

You want to turn the Resistance into a single party.

- What mandate from the people do you claim to have?

- The Resistance rose up against these fascist practices.

- No, the fascists came here.

Overlapping voices

- Gentlemen!

Each of us is being hunted by the Gestapo.

We have very little time left.

A slight sigh

Murmuring

- We must put France's interests ahead of those of the parties.

She exhales.

Epic music

- "We are undefeated, we, the Free French."

Murmuring

The phone rings.

Intriguing music

- We all know

what that means.

It's now or never.

Who votes against the proposed motion?

Who is in favor?

So it is decided. Thank you, gentlemen.

Epic music

She exhales.

Murmuring

- "Let it be known to all that we are undefeated,

"we, the Free French."

- This Committee... Council of the Resistance, where does it stand?

- It has been created.

- Well...

Oh!

Here's the diva.

He clears his throat.

- Good.

General, as future president, it's up to you to open

this meeting for the creation of a provisional government:

the French Committee of National Liberation.

- Yes, yes. So, well...

Does anyone have anything to say? - Yes.

Me.

The French people

have expressed their will.

- The French people?

- The National Council of the Resistance

brings together all the political parties,

as well as all the resistance movements.

Here is the motion that was adopted.

Unanimously. - Thank you, Pleven. I've read it.

Their will, indeed, cannot be ignored.

- Ah.

- Under these circumstances,

I propose a co-presidency of de Gaulle and Giraud,

with General Giraud remaining at the head of the armies.

Let's vote by show of hands.

Good.

The Provisional Government of France is born.

- I demand the retirement of the governor of Algiers.

- You demand nothing at all. Peyrouton is an excellent governor.

- A collaborator from the very beginning?

- The cars are waiting for us. We'll discuss it at the next meeting.

- "I demand..."

"I demand..."

"Father Victory" (Louis Gaston)

- He got out of it.

Speaking in English

Murmuring

Hold my glass.

Surprise!

Gentlemen,

don't take offense at my presence.

You know the love

I have held for France since my childhood.

She is going through difficult times.

I have always supported her

and I always will.

I am sure that General Giraud

and General de Gaulle

will give her back her destiny.

It is a great day for me.

So then,

I'm going to inflict

my favorite song on you.

Laughter

When I see our soldiers

Marching cheerfully, music leading

Ah, I say, keeping the step:

"Like long ago, France is beautiful"

As in the past

- Soldiers, I see again

Carnot decreeing victory

March on to glory

My dear children

Return triumphant

- Bravo! Bravo. - Thank you.

To victorious France!

- Long live France!

- Long live France!

Murmuring

- What a jackal!

- Sometimes you need a jackal to run a country.

In English - Mr. President...

- This is unacceptable, Ike!

Deal with the De Gaulle problem.

- Of course.

With respect,

Mr. President, we have a war to fight.

- That wasn't a suggestion, General.

I will not accept this putsch.

Get it sorted!

- Arrange a meeting with Generals Giraud and de Gaulle...

Distant crashing and shouting

Ominous music

- Let go of me!

Speaking German

Ow, you're hurting me! - Let me go.

- Move!

Tense music

Heavy breathing

Car horn honks

Radio crackling

Moaning

German accent - The address.

Which one?

In German - Talk!

Tires screeching

Distant shouting in German

- Let it be known that we are undefeated, we, the Free French.

Crackling and interference

Beeps

Beeps

Crackling

- Undefeated.

- Repeat that, please.

- Undefeated.

- "Undefeated"?

What does that mean?

Crackling

She pants.

Beeps

She exhales.

Heavy breathing

Murmuring

- Ah.

- Your interpreter.

- For him.

- Generals,

as you know,

we are preparing a massive military operation.

It will require a strict chain of command

and a perfect division of tasks.

- Of course.

I thought that was clear.

General Giraud is the military leader of the French,

he must command the army.

- Yes, yes.

And he is also in charge of political affairs

as co-chairman.

- A small question:

as the Allies' military commander,

are you also in charge of American policy?

- But I am also the guarantor

of the provisional government that Roosevelt helped establish.

Where's the problem? - I've read your speech.

I thought you were a committed Republican.

Separating civil and military powers is the basics.

- You command an army of mercenaries, foreigners and communists,

generals promoted by a deserter.

- I never deserted. - Neither did I.

Your 15,000 mercenaries

and your fascist methods, we'll do without them.

- I'm being called a fascist

because I demand respect for republican rules.

- You're creating problems where there aren't any.

I'm not working with this madman.

- I'll be very clear, General de Gaulle,

we won't change anything in the current organization.

My counterpart is Giraud,

him alone,

and on every subject. Period.

- Thank you, General.

- Like everyone...

a great commander in chief,

you follow the instructions of your President.

I understand that and respect it.

I wish you victory

in the difficult operations to come.

General.

Murmuring

Door - Gentlemen...

Good. - Gentlemen, it's time to settle

the problem of the separation of powers.

- Didn't you hear General Eisenhower?

- I'm glad you brought it up.

Could you tell us in a word here what just happened?

- General Eisenhower summoned us

and decided that I would keep the civil and military powers,

which de Gaulle wanted to contest.

- You just said it, we are dealing

with a blatant case of foreign interference

against French sovereignty.

I propose we study, right away, the appropriate way

to reaffirm our sovereignty.

- Oh yes, and would we be here without the Allies?

- I propose an immediate vote.

- Stop your act.

- Does what has happened constitute interference by the American army

against the French provisional government?

Intriguing music

- No, wait...

Right, now let's vote on...

the question

before us.

In the French Republic we are rebuilding right here,

can one person hold both civil and military power?

In that case, General, I see no other solution

than your resignation from this committee.

Monnet, notify the three decisions just taken

by France.

Prepare the necessary decrees right away.

- Yes.

- General.

Rex...

- Where?

- At the Gestapo headquarters.

There's nothing we can do.

Dramatic music

- Let's go on.

The door opens.

- Livia!

We got your message in time.

- Thank you.

We don't know who betrayed us.

But you were on the list.

You must disappear in another city.

Will you be all right?

- "My friend,

"The end is near.

"The reward is coming.

"Soon, together, we will be able to weep with joy.

"Charles de Gaulle."

- We won't see each other again.

Good luck.

He sighs.

Murmuring

- Perfect!

- Do I have to get involved? - You have to talk to him.

- I'll take care of it.

- Do it before noon.

Ah, McSherry!

Come and show us.

- Yes, Mr. President.

Remove "French Republic". Just the flag.

- Let's put "France" instead.

- No.

Not a country,

not anymore.

Just the flag. He coughs.

- Mr. President...

Speaking in English

- Our men are ready to administer France.

Each of them will take a department.

- Perfect.

- Eisenhower says he's counting on the Free French,

from the landing onward.

- He can say what he likes,

de Gaulle will be kept away from the theater of operations.

Next item?

Intriguing music

Speaking in English

Military Government of Territories under Trusteeship

- "New Wallonia"?

- I can hardly believe it.

- And yet...

- Perhaps we should talk to Roosevelt.

- No... Anthony.

We must win this war.

We'll squeeze this boil when the time is right.

- At least let's inform de Gaulle.

Discreetly, through his intelligence services.

Solemn music

Epic music

- General,

I am asking you to create, as quickly as possible,

an armored division

that will bring together the Free French Forces

you have at your disposal

and the personnel of the African armies.

You will take command of it.

In the direction of my arm.

Heavy breathing

Roosevelt intends to occupy France,

to cut off a third of it,

and turn what remains into a condominium.

Perhaps even keeping Pétain in place.

- General? - Leclerc,

I know what I'm saying.

If we don't assert ourselves, there will be no France.

A single battle will decide everything.

And I am entrusting it to you.

These instructions take precedence over any order, wherever it comes from.

Past or future,

they are secret and irrevocable.

Philippe...

Don't take any more absurd risks.

If you fall before you've succeeded...

I have no other option.

Intriguing music

I entrust you with the supreme battle that will decide everything:

Paris.

My hands in yours. Charles de Gaulle.

Epic music

So then,

after three years

of unspeakable ordeals,

the French people

re-emerges.

It has a Resistance Council

that brings together everyone

who is fighting underground against the invader.

It has a provisional government.

Cheers and applause

It needs a large army.

Upbeat music

It is in the desert

that, at this very moment, the force is rising again

that we lacked

in 1940.

Fast, modern, entirely designed for attack.

The force that will unite all the French

since it is born of their unity.

- Bravo!

- You are being assigned

to the 2nd Armored Division under my command.

This is the first major force in which

French people who, for three years, were separated are brought together.

Even enemies.

I ask you to reflect

on the importance of this reunion.

- In the world,

some minds, supposedly realistic,

may have believed that for the French,

and for the French alone,

the war effort could exist

outside of morality.

- Our country is in a situation

it has never known before.

It has become

a second-rate nation.

Our elites have failed.

When tomorrow you see a notable, you may ask yourself

whether he was incompetent before forty

or a coward since.

But we cannot afford the luxury of internal divisions.

- Theorists could

imagine

that our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen

unlike all the soldiers, all the sailors,

all the airmen in the world,

would go into battle without caring about the reasons

for which they would face death.

- From the moment

you set foot on French soil,

you will be thrown into battle,

with no transition.

- France

is a tortured captive

who, beaten

in her cell,

has measured once and for all

the causes of her misfortunes

and the infamy of her tyrants.

- No time to familiarize yourselves with the terrain and the enemy.

You will have to take

quick initiatives. - Without claiming

to have the gift of prophecy,

we need only listen

to our hearts beating

to express this:

- In life,

you only succeed if you are obsessed with an idea.

Cheers

Murmuring

- We recount the inventory and load the crates.

- I thought armored divisions were forbidden to Negroes.

- Do you have a problem? - Captain, Captain...

Captain, it's not worth it.

- Forget it.

- Because of them, we lost our 4,000 Senegalese riflemen.

- Three-quarters of the division.

- Think about the men instead of the division.

They fought like lions

and were sent back like defeated men.

- The Americans, they have rules for everything.

- One day, they'll be lecturing the whole world.

- They're still impressive, though.

- This way.

- Captain!

- Ariane? - We're completely lost.

- So are we.

Up on the hill.

- We don't have the faintest idea what we're supposed to do.

- Or when. - Or where we're supposed to do it.

- We don't even know where Leclerc is.

Aircraft engine approaching

- How long did it take them to build that?

- We're nowhere near finding him.

- Look, their General.

- General, Mr. Churchill on the line.

- Just between us, do we really need De Gaulle?

- How many losses are we prepared to accept?

That's the question.

- Be precise.

- The more the Resistance deploys,

the fewer men we'll lose.

Every act of sabotage,

every intervention by the Secret Army

against German logistics will ease the pressure.

And we really need that.

De Gaulle's men could make all the difference.

And I trust him.

- Have you told Roosevelt? - More than once.

I'm not even allowed to speak to de Gaulle.

- How will we tell the English that their children

died because we didn't speak to de Gaulle?

- I know, Anthony!

Can we avoid breaking up his armored division?

- The Leclerc division is not up to standard,

it's short 253 vehicles.

- Yes, I've read the file.

But...

could you step in?

- Is your line secure?

- Yes.

- Well...

I might be able to find other vehicles.

And tell my men to look the other way.

Would that help de Gaulle? - Yes.

- Agreed.

- If we want our children to think

that we acted like adults on the eve of this historic moment,

we need to bring de Gaulle in urgently.

We can't land in France behind his back!

- What's this?

- Eisenhower's message for success, and this...

is for the opposite.

- Where's Mr. Weather?

Sorry.

- Since we're brushing hell, we might as well be brave and dignified.

- That idiot said the storm would stop, I want him to say it again.

He calls out to Churchill.

De Gaulle!

- The prefect is the head of the police, of the gendarmerie,

of the firefighters and of the school.

They all repeat. - The prefect is the head of the police,

of the gendarmerie, of the firefighters and of the school.

- Very good, guys.

Let me introduce Mr. McSherry, our manager.

Go ahead, introduce yourselves.

Who's going first?

- What's your name?

- John Boivin. Lansing, Michigan, 39 years old.

Assigned to Limoges.

- Bill Abella, from Tucson, Arizona.

Married, three kids.

I'm a winemaker, I can't wait to get to Bordeaux!

Laughter

- Perfect.

Go on.

- Let's pick up where we left off.

The Vichy government...

- General.

- That's on upcoming military expenses.

- Ah!

General.

Murmuring

- Mr. Prime Minister.

- Thank you for coming.

Thank you, gentlemen.

I'll take it upon myself

to inform you that we are going to

launch a landing in Normandy

within the next few hours, weather permitting.

- Thank you for inviting me.

- A few hours after

the operation is launched,

Eisenhower will make a broadcast address.

It is essential

to show our unity

to spread fear among the enemy.

I hope you will agree

to speak after him.

- By what right would Eisenhower give orders

to the French people?

By what right

would he make decisions that belong

to the French Provisional Government?

You think I don't know that the Americans are about to land

with money made in the United States?

I think

you should go and see Roosevelt in Washington.

- What for?

I've asked him ten times to come and see me.

He never saw fit to answer. - General,

the battle is going to be long.

You can still win him over.

- Win him over to what, Mr. Eden?

- The President... - Sir,

if you don't publicly support

the Allied soldiers coming to liberate your country,

we will take it as an insult, myself and the entire Labour Party.

- An insult?

I lived as a prisoner in London.

I had to face systematic opposition in Algiers.

I sent proposals

that neither you nor Roosevelt bothered to answer.

And now the Labour Party feels insulted by me.

I will not endorse Eisenhower's statements by speaking

after him.

Go on, wage your war with your counterfeit money.

- General de Gaulle, understand this

once and for all:

whenever we have to choose between you and Roosevelt,

we will choose Roosevelt.

Between Europe and America, we will choose America.

Solemn music

- I have taken note of that, Prime Minister.

- Out of the question for him to go to France.

Lock him up.

Dramatic music

Aircraft engines

Clock ticking

Majestic music

- A crucial day in world history,

the one free people had hoped for.

This is D-Day.

These images from France

reveal the Allied victory.

An assault carried out

by American soldiers under General Eisenhower.

The operations were carefully planned

to push back a determined enemy.

Here, Prime Minister Churchill sets foot on shore.

He has followed the operations with justifiable pride.

Four years ago, the British, defeated at the Battle of France,

were evacuated.

Now they return,

hailed as heroes.

Some are asking:

where is General de Gaulle?

- General,

the White House has announced your immediate visit to Washington.

- Have you received an invitation?

- No. - Then?

- You could ask for the Government's recognition.

- I will not go and apply to Roosevelt.

They sigh.

- But if Eisenhower were permitted to speak with us,

it would make operations easier for the Resistance,

for Leclerc and for the Allied forces.

- Eisenhower wants to be able to make contact with you.

- I have an idea.

Murmuring

- Welcome to Washington, General.

- Step back!

Don't stay there!

In English - My country made a mistake,

General.

We thought we could isolate ourselves from the world's chaos.

It's clear now that we must govern it.

- This chaos includes some 150 countries.

- Some must take their share: Britain, the USSR.

The others will benefit from our protection.

We will establish permanent military bases around the world,

including in France.

Speaking of which, I'm sure you have some requests for me.

- Not that I'm aware of, Mr. President.

Light laughter

- I think we still haven't recognized your...

Committee.

Is that the CFLN? I'm terrible with acronyms.

It's now called "the French government,"

which, by the way, is offering you a little gift.

A symbol of French resilience,

it was made in 1942

while they were waiting for the parts to repair the real submarine.

- Well, I'll be!

Thank you very much.

And...

Harry? - Here you are, sir.

- For you.

- Thank you, Mr. President.

Intriguing music He laughs.

- Yeah...

- We're three weeks behind schedule.

The President wants us in Germany,

he doubts Paris's strategy.

But in fact...

- The Germans control all the key positions in Paris.

They're preparing to hold on.

Retaking the city would take a long time, at the cost of heavy losses,

to retake the city.

ROOSEVELT RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE

General?

- Mm.

- General Eisenhower asked to see you as soon as you arrived.

- The Allies won't be long!

If they don't get here, we won't have enough men.

Murmuring

- At Port-Royal, the Germans arrived

before they had time to finish.

Gunfire and shouting

- Let's go home, kids. - Why?

- It's dangerous, come on! Come on.

- Welcome to France, General.

Uprising in Paris. They've put up barricades.

- Who gave them the order? - Nobody.

A spontaneous action.

- We have to get there before the Germans massacre them.

- Go, go, go!

The Paris Mint, with us!

- In position!

Tense music

Murmuring

- Let's hurry.

Unload the bags, block the main entrance.

Gentlemen,

the Council orders us to take back control of the Mint,

in the name of our sovereignty.

- We need you.

It's the Mint of France.

Thank you.

Distant explosion

Distant gunfire

Distant gunfire and explosions

It whistles.

Gunfire and explosions

Explosion

- That's it, it won't be long now.

Let's get ready for what's next.

Dronne, Porte d'Italie. - Received.

- Strauss, go around to the north and enter through Asnières.

- Yes. - I'll take the Porte d'Orléans.

- General,

logistics has been attacked.

Three fuel trucks have been burned.

- Get me the Allied commander!

Conversation in English

- Cherbourg: 6.

Someone's counting in English.

Angoulême: 4. Someone's counting in English.

Lisieux: 8.

Someone's counting in English.

- 8,000 francs, General.

- Where are you going?

- It's heating up at the Hôtel de Ville, I'm heading out as reinforcement.

Come on, come on!

- Shit.

- Oh shit, shit, shit.

Speech in German

Come on, let's hurry.

Paul, speed up.

Faster!

- General.

- General Gerow here, go ahead.

- This is General Leclerc.

We're resuming our advance toward Paris. We urgently need fuel.

- Negative, General. The 3rd Army will head north.

You'll go on reconnaissance with the 1st

and will fall under its command.

- But the plan is to go to Paris!

- I repeat:

the plan has changed.

General Leclerc...

Do you copy?

General Leclerc...

- Please, go ahead.

- General de Gaulle.

- General.

- General Eisenhower,

an uprising is taking place in Paris right now.

- Paris is too dangerous, I won't risk it.

- Then let's send the Leclerc division alone.

- It would take more than one division to take Paris. Impossible.

- If we don't intervene, it'll be a bloodbath.

We'll never forgive ourselves.

- I'm sorry, General.

I have my orders.

They're warming up the engines.

- Save your fuel.

Or give it to the others!

- General, my Spaniards and I, we've had enough

of waiting to march on Paris.

What is the first duty of the Free French Forces?

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- Dronne, take all your men.

Go whichever way you can. Go for it!

- Let's go!

Exclamations in Spanish

Shouting

- Tell the Parisians to hold on! We'll be there tomorrow.

Heavy breathing

- General,

Leclerc has sent a company to Paris.

He's disregarded our instructions.

- That's unacceptable!

- I intend to redeploy his division

and strip him of his command.

- He's only doing his duty to his country, General.

- General...

Intriguing music

- This is a direct order to Leclerc.

And give his entire division

what it takes to reach Paris.

- Yes, sir.

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Tense music

- Paul!

Heavy breathing

Groaning

Heavy breathing

Groaning

- Are you all right? - No!

He's bleeding out. We have to get him out of here!

- Try to cover us! We'll catch up with you.

- Damn! There's almost nothing left.

Groaning

Heavy breathing

Dramatic music

She screams.

Heavy breathing

- Surrender!

- Let it be known that we are undefeated, we, the Free French.

We do not submit, we do not retreat.

Our children will have nothing to reproach us for.

Bell tolling German chatter

- Here come the reinforcements, make room!

- They're at the end of the street!

- The Germans are straight ahead, 300 meters away!

- A section over there, 300 meters. Stand ready.

- On my schoolbooks

On my desk and the trees

On the sand, on the snow

I write your name

On every page read

On every blank page

Stone or blood

Paper or ash

I write your name

On the golden images

On the warriors' weapons

On the crown of the kings

I write your name

On the jungle and the desert

On the nests, on the broom flowers

On the echo of my childhood

I write your name

On my ruined refuges

On my collapsed beacons

On the walls of my boredom

I write your name

On absence without desire

On naked solitude

On the steps of death

I write your name

On health restored

On danger gone

On hope without memory

I write your name

And by the power of a word

I begin my life again

I was born to know you

To name you

Liberty

Majestic music

Cheers

Exclamation in Spanish

- Bravo! We fought too!

Remark in English

Someone counts in English.

- Hey, General!

- Carry on. They'll make good kindling for the winter.

Murmuring

Cheers

- General,

it's time to proclaim the restoration of the Republic.

- France

has never stopped fighting.

The Republic has never ceased to exist.

Soft music

A clock ticking

- Mr. President.

- Mr. Prime Minister.

- We've come a long way

since I last received you

alone,

in my office.

- That day, you alone decided the fate of France.

- Well, you're

a better host

than a guest.

- Mr. Prime Minister,

today,

I propose an alliance.

East and West.

Two great powers

are going to govern the world,

but our two nations can

guarantee their independence together

if their friendship comes above all else.

- Mr. President...

Uh...

In politics, as in my strategy,

I prefer to win over the strongest

rather than stand in their way.

I make myself present in all of the world's affairs.

I agree to nothing for nothing.

And I still pick up a few dividends for my country.

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That's how the world works.

- I see.

Let's continue.

He sighs.

- When I see our soldiers

Marching past, music at their head,

Ah, I say, pausing in step:

"As in days gone by, France is beautiful"

As in the past,

Soldiers, I see again

- For you. - Carnot celebrating victory

March on to glory

My dear children,

Return in triumph

Epic music

The epic music turns modern.

Dramatic music

Majestic music

Solemn music

Subtitles: Émilie Nicolas

Subtitling: TransPerfect Media France