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Summer 1914.
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There was an atmosphere
of rioting and fun fairs.
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Bertrand, my best pal,
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Théophile, our childhood friend,
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and I volunteered
since no-one managed to avoid this war.
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Not even Jean Jaurès.
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I order you to stand up.
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You're insulting France.
I won't tolerate it!
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I'm a free man!
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I refuse to salute the war!
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I was 19.
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I knew nothing of war.
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They did well to kill Jaurès!
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Punch this coward's face in!
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He's a spy. He shouted
"Long live Germany!"
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To me, this man was
the first victim of the war.
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Get him out
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Down with the anarchists!
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Pacifists are all rogues!
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Death to the Boches!
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Hey, what about your drinks?
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The bastard wasn't gonna pay!
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It's time for revenge.
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This won't be a repeat of 1870!
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Long live France!
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The poor man is courageous.
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A courageous idiot!
You can't go against public opinion.
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Barbarity was at our door.
but we didn't know it.
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We were the silent witnesses
of this great frenzy.
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The drinks are on me!
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We'll get the Boches!
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FEAR
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I wanted to know everything,
experience everything.
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War and love.
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I couldn't bring myself
to leave her.
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Marguerite was my sun.
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I don't want you to go.
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In my head, I imagined the war
like on a cinema screen:
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a great spectacle not to be missed.
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Gabriel...
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Gabriel Dufour.
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1.71 metres.
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57 kilos.
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Are you Gabriel Dufour?
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Yes, sir.
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Fit to serve.
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Next.
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Bertrand Frontan.
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Yes, sir.
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1.85 metres.
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70 kilos.
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Fit to serve.
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Next.
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My name's Théophile
and I'm a poet.
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Last name, young man?
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Guys, look at me,
I'm not even naked!
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Long live France!
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Please...
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Your name, young man?
- I'm a poet.
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A poet...
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Dear Marguerite,
Barracks life
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is a joke.
Our training is a masquerade.
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We're going to war!
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Out of curiosity!
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We sure are curious!
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Our uniforms are incomplete
and we have no guns.
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Bertrand, Théophile, and I feel
we're on a fool's errand.
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Let's shut him up!
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The other day, I had a close shave.
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An old captain sent for me.
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My grandmother wrote to say
I was too fragile to go to war.
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I was furious.
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I said she exaggerated
like all grandmothers. I wasn't sickly.
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I felt such an idiot.
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We'll stick our big mortar shells
up their asses!
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Tomorrow we're going
to the war zone.
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I worry about Théophile,
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because I'm afraid that at the front,
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poetry isn't enough.
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All my love,
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Gabriel.
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Seeing Marguerite was great,
but how can I put it?
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I wanted to see a battlefield
and know what goes on there.
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It's only natural,
We all want to know.
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It's just a matter of months.
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It'll be over by Christmas!
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I imagine the front
like a colonial expedition.
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No way. We'll go to Berlin
and pull chicks!
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We'll raise hell!
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Jaurès was wrong
about the Boches.
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They're much stronger than we think.
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We'll beat 'em.
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We must defend the values of France.
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There's nothing better than soldiering.
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I prefer Baudelaire.
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"Be quiet, my pain
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Be still
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You wanted the night
It's coming
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Here it is
An obscure atmosphere..."
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Shut up! Your poetry's gibberish.
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Go on, Théo.
Don't listen to the cretin.
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He's the romantic type!
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He's a mad babbler!
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You useless swine,
I'll put you through hell!
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Line up in twos!
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Forward!
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Ideas of revenge or national grandeur
are foreign to me.
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I resist the brainwashing,
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all the lies about vengeance.
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I just try not to lose my reason
and follow it.
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My reason will make me strong.
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It will give me courage
when the time comes.
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22nd October 1914
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We came by train to the Artois Plain.
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10 kms from the front.
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Luckily, Betrand, Théophile and I
are still together.
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In the daytime, we're ravenous.
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We think of nothing but food.
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As we're not at the front,
they ration us.
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We're famished.
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In the morning, I eat
half my loaf of bread.
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I need a whole one.
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In the evening,
we eat bully beef.
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It calms the hunger pangs.
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What a mess! What is this?
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It's more practical.
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You mustn't change
standard issue uniforms.
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I'll tell the captain.
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Put your puttees back on!
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Corporal's not easy-going.
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He's a bloody fool!
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We'll be on fatigue duty now.
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It'll keep us occupied.
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The corporal marches us
all over the place. I'm sick of it.
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Military discipline's not for me.
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Come here.
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Bertrand nicknamed the corporal
Catiline for a laugh.
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The fellow is a brute
and a big coward.
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Yesterday he pushed us too far,
I pointed my bayonet at his chest.
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I surprised myself.
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It could have cost me dearly.
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It scared him.
Since then, he's left me alone.
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Bertrand and I keep our spirits up
despite the fatigue.
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Théophile keeps saying
he wants to go home
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We'll help him keep going.
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Blondin!
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Dufour!
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Frontan!
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Lespinasse!
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Since my mother died,
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I've never felt such pain.
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Seeing those lads
coming back from the front
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made my heart sink.
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I was shaking,
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my mouth was dry,
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like the morning
my old man told me she was dead.
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I didn't understand him.
He had to repeat it.
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I still didn't understand.
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For the first time,
Bertrand seems shocked.
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Théophile stopped speaking.
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Hey, Corporal, look!
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Get up! That's an order!
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Stand up!
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There are no cowards in the French Army!
Get up or you'll be court-martialled!
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7th January 1915.
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Dear Marguerite,
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This morning,
the earth is frozen solid.
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Snow covers everything.
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We still await the offensive.
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Boredom spreads in us like poison.
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Sleep brings oblivion.
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So I seek refuge in sleep
to smother the gloom.
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I plunge my hands
in your hair.
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Corporal bing back some hooch!
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Please send a lock of your hair
or your photo.
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I'd like that.
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Spring is nearly here, pals.
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We'll go home soon.
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Yeah, sure!
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Shut the door!
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- Damn lice!
- Too right.
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Can you write my letter?
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It's to my family.
I want to send it before Easter.
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It's nearly finished.
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You speak patois?
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It's all my grandma spoke.
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Wow!
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In the countryside,
no-one speaks French.
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You're a very courageous woman
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but don't forget:
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first, the cattle,
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the field of alfalfa,
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and then, the garden.
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It'll take you a week.
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All I think of
is seeing you again.
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In the meantime,
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You wouldn't believe
the things we see here.
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Indian soldiers
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have arrived
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proudly wearing turbans on their heads
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and a dot of colour
on their foreheads.
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They eat goat's meat.
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"Apart from a few lice.
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nothing really bothers us.
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Big kisses
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to you all,
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and to ol' Lili.
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Your Jean-Baptiste."
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Death doesn't exist...
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As long as we keep walking
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and breathing,
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we're all right.
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I hear heavy gunfire coming closer
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I'll be invisible to the bullets.
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How can men kill each other
on such a lovely day?
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As an anarchist, I don't belong here.
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I have to go
before the fighting starts.
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We're bound to attack.
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We have no choice
but to crush the Boches.
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And desertion
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leads to certain death.
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Fall in!
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Come on, line up!
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Sergeant!
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The squad is formed.
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Relief troops are awaited
on the front line.
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They've shot men who cracked.
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Attention!
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Order of the day
from General Joffre:
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"Soldiers of the Republic,
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after months of waiting,
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the time has come
to attack and win.
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You will all charge together.
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Your surge will be unstoppable.
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It will take you
to the enemy's batteries.
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Behind their lines.
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You will give them no rest or respite
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until victory is yours.
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Go with a brave heart
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for the liberation of French soil,
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the triumph of justice
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and freedom!"
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Filthy Boches!
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They're using flamethrowers!
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Our lads are being burnt alive!
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Kill me, pals!
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Kill me!
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That's it, Marguerite.
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This morning,
we went to the front line.
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The corporal stuck grenades
in my pockets.
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I'm afraid they'll explode
and my head will blow up
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and be scattered all around.
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We can't hear the Boches,
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But they could start again
at any moment.
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It wears you down.
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It's better not to think
or it's too much to bear.
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We come across bodies
at every step.
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Guys who were smiling in the morning
lie dead by nightfall like cattle.
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Shells rip the sky apart,
bursting it like a balloon.
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Something in me falters.
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But be reassured, we are still alive.
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Knowing you're with me
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gives me courage.
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While we're together,
nothing can happen to us.
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Wait for me.
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This attack isn't working.
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But we recovered Hill 120.
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- We lost it again.
- We'll win it back.
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All for 150 metres
which we'll lose again!
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We'll win them back!
271
00:22:50,113 --> 00:22:51,872
Then we'll lose them again!
272
00:22:52,033 --> 00:22:54,952
- Brothers, we must die.
- Shut up!
273
00:22:57,193 --> 00:23:00,232
Why have a break
while they're shelling us?
274
00:23:00,393 --> 00:23:02,832
Our leaders lack common sense.
275
00:23:02,993 --> 00:23:04,752
Always the same stupid shit!
276
00:23:05,553 --> 00:23:07,312
- Get ready!
- Where are we going?
277
00:23:07,473 --> 00:23:09,552
Forward! Forward!
278
00:23:09,913 --> 00:23:11,352
Clear the entrance!
279
00:23:12,633 --> 00:23:13,912
Look out, lads!
280
00:23:20,953 --> 00:23:22,552
Hurry up!
281
00:23:25,273 --> 00:23:26,472
Come on!
282
00:23:27,273 --> 00:23:28,552
Be quick!
283
00:23:29,433 --> 00:23:31,432
Follow me!
284
00:24:01,513 --> 00:24:04,232
Fix your bayonets!
285
00:24:09,833 --> 00:24:12,432
Come on, lads, keep up the fight!
286
00:24:13,233 --> 00:24:15,312
It's coming thick and fast!
287
00:24:15,473 --> 00:24:17,072
Forward!
288
00:24:50,309 --> 00:24:51,472
Mummy!
289
00:24:53,233 --> 00:24:55,752
The trench! Where's the trench?
290
00:24:55,913 --> 00:24:57,592
Don't leave me, pals!
291
00:24:57,753 --> 00:24:59,192
I can make it!
292
00:24:59,353 --> 00:25:00,672
Stretcher-bearers!
293
00:26:58,513 --> 00:27:01,592
I crawled until the dawn
revealed a blue trench.
294
00:27:02,873 --> 00:27:05,832
You should have seen it, Marguerite.
It was blue.
295
00:27:05,993 --> 00:27:08,312
full of French bodies.
296
00:27:09,593 --> 00:27:13,472
The stretcher-bearers couldn't reach
the wounded. It was chaos.
297
00:27:14,793 --> 00:27:16,832
I kept looking for Bertrand.
298
00:27:18,113 --> 00:27:20,312
You know he's like a brother to me.
299
00:27:22,073 --> 00:27:24,152
I asked people if they'd seen him.
300
00:27:24,313 --> 00:27:25,952
Nobody had.
301
00:27:27,233 --> 00:27:28,752
I had to find him.
302
00:27:30,033 --> 00:27:31,152
Without him,
303
00:27:31,313 --> 00:27:32,872
how could I go on?
304
00:27:44,233 --> 00:27:45,632
His face was calm,
305
00:27:45,793 --> 00:27:47,712
like that of a sleeping child.
306
00:27:48,513 --> 00:27:50,592
A child wiped from people's minds.
307
00:27:51,393 --> 00:27:53,152
A child who'd died for nothing.
308
00:29:41,153 --> 00:29:43,312
I would like to die too,
309
00:29:43,473 --> 00:29:45,232
to bury myself with him.
310
00:29:49,393 --> 00:29:51,352
I feel it would be fairer.
311
00:29:54,073 --> 00:29:56,312
I hate myself for still being alive.
312
00:30:35,513 --> 00:30:37,032
I pray for the earth,
313
00:30:37,193 --> 00:30:38,992
not for a crucified man.
314
00:30:40,273 --> 00:30:42,072
I whisper into my friend's ear:
315
00:30:42,873 --> 00:30:44,472
"Be quiet, my pain
316
00:30:44,633 --> 00:30:46,472
Be still
317
00:30:47,273 --> 00:30:48,592
You wanted the night
318
00:30:48,753 --> 00:30:50,032
It is coming
319
00:30:50,193 --> 00:30:51,552
Here it is
320
00:30:52,833 --> 00:30:55,592
An obscure atmosphere envelops the city
321
00:30:56,393 --> 00:30:58,192
Bringing peace to some
322
00:30:58,993 --> 00:31:00,712
To others worry"
323
00:31:38,473 --> 00:31:39,912
I can't hear anything.
324
00:31:40,713 --> 00:31:42,072
I am cold.
325
00:31:42,873 --> 00:31:43,912
I'm in pain.
326
00:31:47,153 --> 00:31:48,232
My hand...
327
00:31:48,633 --> 00:31:49,672
my back...
328
00:31:50,937 --> 00:31:51,952
my legs...
329
00:31:52,753 --> 00:31:53,832
Where are my legs?
330
00:31:54,113 --> 00:31:55,312
There they are.
331
00:31:55,473 --> 00:31:56,752
It's all there.
332
00:31:56,913 --> 00:31:59,512
I feel hot yet I feel so cold!
333
00:32:00,913 --> 00:32:02,832
No more sky, no more noise.
334
00:32:04,593 --> 00:32:06,072
Your flame-red hair.
335
00:32:06,313 --> 00:32:07,512
Marguerite.
336
00:32:08,793 --> 00:32:10,512
Your sacrificed hair.
337
00:32:11,393 --> 00:32:12,912
It is in my mouth.
338
00:32:14,673 --> 00:32:15,992
I'm swallowing it.
339
00:33:32,753 --> 00:33:33,992
Poopoo.
340
00:33:35,273 --> 00:33:36,472
Time for a poopoo.
341
00:33:43,993 --> 00:33:45,032
Théophile.
342
00:33:45,467 --> 00:33:46,472
Bertrand is dead.
343
00:34:17,113 --> 00:34:19,472
Our Father who art in Heaven...
344
00:34:52,553 --> 00:34:54,432
Poopoo. Time for a poopoo.
345
00:35:10,313 --> 00:35:12,152
- Hello, my son.
- Chaplain
346
00:35:13,913 --> 00:35:15,512
What do you have to tell me?
347
00:35:17,753 --> 00:35:18,952
Nothing special.
348
00:35:19,753 --> 00:35:21,352
Don't you have sins to confess?
349
00:35:23,113 --> 00:35:24,472
No more.
350
00:35:24,841 --> 00:35:25,841
How so?
351
00:35:27,113 --> 00:35:29,352
We're asked to kill our brothers.
352
00:35:29,593 --> 00:35:30,632
Aren't we?
353
00:35:31,433 --> 00:35:33,272
They are France's enemies.
354
00:35:34,673 --> 00:35:36,672
In the army too, they keep saying:
355
00:35:36,833 --> 00:35:38,432
"Don't try to understand."
356
00:35:40,193 --> 00:35:41,912
Such small-minded reasoning.
357
00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:46,912
I pity you, my child.
358
00:35:51,073 --> 00:35:53,752
Only men's shells are left
in the heavens, Father.
359
00:35:53,913 --> 00:35:55,032
It's empty
360
00:35:55,193 --> 00:35:56,512
like a corpse.
361
00:35:58,618 --> 00:35:59,632
This war
362
00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:01,712
is a sanctifying test.
363
00:36:01,873 --> 00:36:03,432
You blaspheme.
364
00:36:07,315 --> 00:36:08,432
No.
365
00:36:09,713 --> 00:36:11,392
The war killed God...
366
00:36:12,793 --> 00:36:13,992
as well.
367
00:36:22,953 --> 00:36:24,672
Wait, Father!
368
00:36:34,233 --> 00:36:38,312
General Nincompoop has just woken up,
as you can see.
369
00:36:38,473 --> 00:36:41,392
He's in high spirits
on this mortar-free morning.
370
00:36:41,553 --> 00:36:43,152
Right, boys?
371
00:36:47,301 --> 00:36:49,152
How are you old folks?
372
00:36:49,313 --> 00:36:51,392
Far from the corpses and shrapnel!
373
00:36:52,193 --> 00:36:54,152
Up you get! Come on, ladies!
374
00:36:54,593 --> 00:36:57,792
This place is luxury!
Give thanks to the god of war!
375
00:36:58,273 --> 00:37:00,432
The man in the next bed
is Sergeant Nègre,
376
00:37:00,593 --> 00:37:02,232
a guy who's been around.
377
00:37:02,593 --> 00:37:06,872
We laugh at his imitations
of degenerate General Nincompoop.
378
00:37:07,033 --> 00:37:09,072
You don't know the Nincompoops!
379
00:37:09,233 --> 00:37:12,192
My family are blue bloods and generals!
380
00:37:12,353 --> 00:37:15,352
Sir, what do you think
of the economy of human lives?
381
00:37:15,513 --> 00:37:17,952
War is the destruction
of human lives
382
00:37:18,153 --> 00:37:21,192
A generous mission
to deliver us from barbarity
383
00:37:28,233 --> 00:37:29,672
Number 12 has healed.
384
00:37:30,113 --> 00:37:31,832
He can be discharged.
385
00:38:00,953 --> 00:38:03,712
You won't have it easy for long.
386
00:38:07,873 --> 00:38:10,072
"It was time for the war
to come to France
387
00:38:10,233 --> 00:38:13,512
to resuscitate a sense
of the ideal and the divine."
388
00:38:13,793 --> 00:38:15,752
How can they write such rubbish?
389
00:38:16,553 --> 00:38:18,192
What did you do at the front?
390
00:38:18,513 --> 00:38:19,792
Did you fight?
391
00:38:20,193 --> 00:38:21,912
You didn't answer me.
392
00:38:26,073 --> 00:38:27,752
Go on, tell me.
393
00:38:28,553 --> 00:38:30,352
Depends what you mean
by "fighting".
394
00:38:30,513 --> 00:38:32,792
You saw no Germans on the front line?
395
00:38:32,953 --> 00:38:34,592
No living ones.
396
00:38:34,993 --> 00:38:36,312
So, what did you do?
397
00:38:37,593 --> 00:38:39,832
What I was told. No more.
398
00:38:40,753 --> 00:38:42,312
You're so annoying.
399
00:38:42,473 --> 00:38:43,992
Come on, answer me.
400
00:38:44,353 --> 00:38:46,232
What did you do?
401
00:38:47,513 --> 00:38:51,152
I walked day and night,
not knowing where I was going.
402
00:38:51,953 --> 00:38:53,832
I was hungry. I was thirsty.
403
00:38:55,593 --> 00:38:57,512
I was sleepy. I was cold.
404
00:38:59,273 --> 00:39:00,392
I had lice.
405
00:39:05,513 --> 00:39:06,592
Is that all?
406
00:39:07,393 --> 00:39:09,712
The only occupation
that counts in the war...
407
00:39:11,473 --> 00:39:12,712
I was afraid.
408
00:39:13,513 --> 00:39:15,352
Are you fearful?
409
00:39:18,073 --> 00:39:21,832
Listen, miss,
true courage starts with fear.
410
00:39:22,713 --> 00:39:24,472
Were the others scared, too?
411
00:39:25,273 --> 00:39:26,432
Of course.
412
00:39:27,233 --> 00:39:28,872
You're the first to say that.
413
00:39:29,673 --> 00:39:31,592
When you're afraid, you run away...
414
00:39:33,833 --> 00:39:35,672
You can't run away in the war.
415
00:39:37,433 --> 00:39:39,552
We didn't get shelled
to be manipulated
416
00:39:39,713 --> 00:39:41,312
by society girls!
417
00:39:41,753 --> 00:39:44,432
- If we could...
- Everyone would go!
418
00:39:45,193 --> 00:39:47,552
The French, the Boches,
Africans, Russians!
419
00:39:48,353 --> 00:39:50,672
Didn't we have a laugh
in the war, lads?
420
00:39:51,473 --> 00:39:52,992
You bet! It was a gas!
421
00:39:53,873 --> 00:39:55,912
I see the sorrow in your eyes,
422
00:39:56,073 --> 00:39:57,512
little French soldier!
423
00:39:57,673 --> 00:39:59,112
We'll go back.
424
00:39:59,273 --> 00:40:02,192
Without bayonets. With forks!
425
00:40:02,993 --> 00:40:04,712
Long live Nincompoop!
426
00:40:04,913 --> 00:40:08,032
Thanks, children,
I'll always be behind you in battle
427
00:40:08,753 --> 00:40:10,112
and in front at the parade!
428
00:40:12,153 --> 00:40:13,792
I'll send you
against the cannons.
429
00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:16,912
You'll silence the cannons!
430
00:40:17,073 --> 00:40:18,432
We'll shut 'em up!
431
00:40:18,619 --> 00:40:19,872
Yes, brave boys:
432
00:40:20,073 --> 00:40:21,872
We'll fight to the death!
433
00:40:22,255 --> 00:40:23,792
Do you want to attack?
434
00:40:24,633 --> 00:40:26,072
Do you want to?
435
00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:29,872
Hurry up.
436
00:40:30,113 --> 00:40:32,792
For us, the hospital
is a promised land.
437
00:40:32,953 --> 00:40:35,832
The nurses' presence
keeps us in this illusion.
438
00:40:36,193 --> 00:40:39,032
But Négre has decided
to spread anarchy
439
00:40:39,833 --> 00:40:41,752
and to stir dulled minds.
440
00:40:45,433 --> 00:40:48,312
Hey, kitten,
you and I should get together.
441
00:40:52,113 --> 00:40:55,352
Don't let it happen again
or you'll have me to deal with.
442
00:40:55,513 --> 00:40:57,832
I have a kind of devil in me.
443
00:41:06,313 --> 00:41:09,192
I won't tolerate such behaviour
in this hospital.
444
00:41:33,033 --> 00:41:34,152
Théophile?
445
00:41:40,713 --> 00:41:41,472
Théo!
446
00:41:43,713 --> 00:41:46,312
Nothing seems more useless than love.
447
00:41:47,113 --> 00:41:48,672
Love doesn't save us.
448
00:41:48,873 --> 00:41:50,472
Love can do nothing.
449
00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:53,312
Yet at night, I curl up in it.
450
00:41:54,233 --> 00:41:55,952
I reach out to it.
451
00:41:58,673 --> 00:42:02,512
When I see you again, Marguerite,
maybe you'll have changed.
452
00:42:02,673 --> 00:42:06,992
Maybe your breasts, like little apples,
will burst open in my hands.
453
00:42:07,353 --> 00:42:10,392
Maybe your whole body
will burst open in my hands.
454
00:42:11,193 --> 00:42:14,192
Only then will I dive inside
455
00:42:14,353 --> 00:42:16,272
and drink what flows from you.
456
00:42:19,473 --> 00:42:20,912
In my head, it goes bang.
457
00:42:21,313 --> 00:42:24,472
Bang, bang, bang.
458
00:42:25,273 --> 00:42:27,072
Many have lost their minds.
459
00:42:27,233 --> 00:42:28,392
Not me.
460
00:42:29,193 --> 00:42:30,792
I think terrible thoughts.
461
00:42:30,953 --> 00:42:32,952
But my reason keeps me going.
462
00:42:33,113 --> 00:42:35,072
What I lack is enthusiasm.
463
00:42:35,433 --> 00:42:37,032
I won't get it back.
464
00:42:37,833 --> 00:42:39,752
I was drawn to this war.
465
00:42:40,553 --> 00:42:42,192
Today, I spit on it.
466
00:42:51,633 --> 00:42:53,152
Want to come for lunch?
467
00:42:56,353 --> 00:42:57,432
Yes, I'm hungry.
468
00:43:01,073 --> 00:43:03,632
It's amazing
how comfortable it is here
469
00:43:03,913 --> 00:43:05,192
to suffer.
470
00:43:07,073 --> 00:43:08,872
I'm not afraid of death now.
471
00:43:09,033 --> 00:43:11,432
But agony and mutilation...
472
00:43:12,073 --> 00:43:13,392
they scare me.
473
00:43:15,553 --> 00:43:17,472
Your Marguerite writes a lot.
474
00:43:17,633 --> 00:43:18,992
That's great.
475
00:43:22,353 --> 00:43:23,672
The little darlings...
476
00:43:24,667 --> 00:43:28,032
Want a hero in their beds.
Our wounds arouse them.
477
00:43:28,473 --> 00:43:30,272
What have they done in the war?
478
00:43:30,433 --> 00:43:33,112
They've excited men
to go to the slaughter.
479
00:43:33,913 --> 00:43:35,232
The little bitches!
480
00:43:43,233 --> 00:43:44,152
Négre...
481
00:43:45,433 --> 00:43:46,952
I don't want to go back.
482
00:43:55,953 --> 00:43:59,552
We've been crippled enough
by those who call the shots.
483
00:43:59,713 --> 00:44:01,352
The swine!
484
00:44:05,513 --> 00:44:06,592
Hey, Joséphine!
485
00:44:07,033 --> 00:44:09,752
My kitten!
Ready when you are!
486
00:44:09,913 --> 00:44:12,272
Come on, we'll have a laugh!
487
00:44:23,673 --> 00:44:25,192
Blood...
488
00:44:25,353 --> 00:44:26,672
It smells of death.
489
00:44:27,033 --> 00:44:28,832
I'm a piece of shit.
490
00:44:28,993 --> 00:44:30,792
A poor piece of shit.
491
00:44:31,033 --> 00:44:32,032
Shit.
492
00:44:34,273 --> 00:44:35,632
Théo, calm down.
493
00:44:36,433 --> 00:44:38,232
If I infect myself with pus,
494
00:44:38,513 --> 00:44:40,592
I'll be invalided out.
495
00:44:41,873 --> 00:44:43,512
You can do it, too.
496
00:44:44,313 --> 00:44:46,272
I've brought you one.
497
00:44:48,593 --> 00:44:50,752
I'd rather go back.
498
00:44:52,033 --> 00:44:53,872
My name is Poopoo.
499
00:44:54,673 --> 00:44:56,592
I am the truth.
500
00:44:57,393 --> 00:44:59,232
And I dominate you all.
501
00:45:14,953 --> 00:45:19,712
I won't tell you about the suffering
or the horsehair stitches.
502
00:45:19,993 --> 00:45:22,032
The rotting flesh
503
00:45:22,193 --> 00:45:23,552
that bursts open.
504
00:45:23,833 --> 00:45:26,472
I won't tell you
about Théophile's madness.
505
00:45:26,633 --> 00:45:28,712
If I come back, as I hope I will,
506
00:45:29,033 --> 00:45:30,912
you'll see it all in my eyes.
507
00:45:33,153 --> 00:45:34,832
And I must tell you the truth.
508
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:37,432
This leave made me feel sick.
509
00:45:38,273 --> 00:45:40,552
I didn't expect to see all those folk
510
00:45:40,753 --> 00:45:42,832
sitting, drinking in cafés.
511
00:45:43,633 --> 00:45:46,792
The hypocrites seem
to be doing well out of the war.
512
00:45:59,353 --> 00:46:01,272
I saw you crying
513
00:46:01,433 --> 00:46:02,592
with pleasure,
514
00:46:02,753 --> 00:46:03,952
with joy,
515
00:46:04,113 --> 00:46:06,312
and at having to part again.
516
00:46:06,553 --> 00:46:07,672
Naked in my hands.
517
00:46:07,833 --> 00:46:09,952
So white, I didn't dare touch you.
518
00:46:10,273 --> 00:46:12,592
You called me,
I was already far away.
519
00:46:31,633 --> 00:46:33,272
14th May 1916
520
00:46:34,073 --> 00:46:36,552
I go back to my squad
in a cursed town.
521
00:46:37,353 --> 00:46:39,192
The garrison is in agony.
522
00:46:41,913 --> 00:46:44,192
I hear about lads
coming back from Verdun.
523
00:46:46,033 --> 00:46:48,032
They escaped massive carnage.
524
00:46:49,793 --> 00:46:51,872
Some didn't come back from leave -
they deserted.
525
00:46:51,873 --> 00:46:53,272
Some didn't come back from leave-
they deserted.
526
00:47:02,233 --> 00:47:03,232
Mail!
527
00:47:08,873 --> 00:47:12,032
- You didn't have the right injury.
- I guess not.
528
00:47:12,833 --> 00:47:16,832
Loads of new recruits are coming.
The new officers yell at us
529
00:47:16,993 --> 00:47:20,832
while awaiting orders from on high
which never come on time.
530
00:47:22,113 --> 00:47:24,272
I know him.
I can get the letter to him.
531
00:47:24,513 --> 00:47:27,272
No need. The poor fellow
was killed the other day
532
00:47:27,433 --> 00:47:31,232
by French bombs.
Can you believe it?
533
00:47:32,113 --> 00:47:34,592
This is undelivered mail to send back.
534
00:47:34,753 --> 00:47:38,512
One guy was going on leave
the next day to get married.
535
00:47:38,673 --> 00:47:42,312
We're like pawns to them.
As long as they get an extra stripe.
536
00:47:42,473 --> 00:47:47,312
One year on,
we're still in filthy trenches.
537
00:47:47,473 --> 00:47:49,792
It's bloody disgusting!
538
00:47:53,553 --> 00:47:54,352
Raynaud!
539
00:48:26,873 --> 00:48:28,392
The previous messenger
540
00:48:29,193 --> 00:48:30,872
was shot, going over the top.
541
00:48:32,153 --> 00:48:33,992
The battalion commander sent me.
542
00:48:34,913 --> 00:48:36,672
Pass me a ciggie.
543
00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:44,392
The worst thing is...
544
00:48:45,673 --> 00:48:47,232
I can't piss by myself now.
545
00:48:58,593 --> 00:48:59,832
Help me.
546
00:49:03,993 --> 00:49:05,512
I hear so many voices.
547
00:49:05,673 --> 00:49:08,712
But I can't hear yours anymore,
Marguerite.
548
00:49:09,553 --> 00:49:11,032
I just hear the shells.
549
00:49:11,193 --> 00:49:14,552
Some whistle,
some mew, some moan,
550
00:49:14,833 --> 00:49:16,432
some rattle your helmet.
551
00:49:16,593 --> 00:49:20,272
From the noise they make,
we know what's in store.
552
00:49:29,793 --> 00:49:32,072
I feel the first symptoms of fear.
553
00:49:32,233 --> 00:49:35,152
Everything drains out of me.
It's hell here.
554
00:49:47,953 --> 00:49:49,712
- Going?
- To the latrines.
555
00:49:49,873 --> 00:49:51,072
Not now!
556
00:49:51,233 --> 00:49:54,672
The Boches know the place
from aerial photos.
557
00:49:54,833 --> 00:49:57,392
They're shelling so hard,
we can't see.
558
00:49:57,553 --> 00:49:59,632
How do they sleep
with this noise?
559
00:49:59,793 --> 00:50:01,312
Get ready! Quick!
560
00:50:01,473 --> 00:50:03,952
You're crazy. He won't get far.
561
00:50:11,473 --> 00:50:13,632
Gas attack!
562
00:50:17,313 --> 00:50:18,832
An entrance has collapsed.
563
00:50:18,993 --> 00:50:21,992
2 lookouts are trapped.
We gotta get 'em out!
564
00:50:22,153 --> 00:50:23,792
What's going on?
565
00:50:23,953 --> 00:50:25,512
We don't know, sir.
566
00:50:25,793 --> 00:50:27,992
Send the messengers!
567
00:50:28,793 --> 00:50:29,872
We'll get wiped out!
568
00:50:30,033 --> 00:50:33,352
That's an order! Hurry up!
569
00:50:35,113 --> 00:50:37,832
He's scared to death!
Where are the artillery officers?
570
00:51:56,473 --> 00:51:58,192
You must kill that butterfly
571
00:51:58,593 --> 00:52:00,592
or you'll be shot.
572
00:52:00,913 --> 00:52:03,592
It's an order from Pétain!
573
00:52:04,393 --> 00:52:05,232
But...
574
00:52:05,673 --> 00:52:07,112
it's my heart.
575
00:52:07,913 --> 00:52:09,832
War is very interesting.
576
00:52:09,993 --> 00:52:12,792
Even more interesting
than a lion hunt.
577
00:52:36,633 --> 00:52:37,792
Get up!
578
00:52:38,593 --> 00:52:39,752
C'mon, get up!
579
00:52:41,993 --> 00:52:44,352
Squad, fall in!
580
00:52:47,073 --> 00:52:50,912
We have to regain
the ground we lost yesterday.
581
00:52:51,073 --> 00:52:52,352
What? We all go?
582
00:52:52,513 --> 00:52:56,632
Half of you. The other half stays here.
How many of you are there?
583
00:52:56,793 --> 00:53:00,152
Not counting the orderlies and cyclists,
5, sir.
584
00:53:00,313 --> 00:53:02,272
Who'll march with the company?
585
00:53:03,553 --> 00:53:04,912
Right, I see.
586
00:53:07,153 --> 00:53:08,192
We'll play a game.
587
00:53:09,473 --> 00:53:10,832
The short straw goes.
588
00:53:10,993 --> 00:53:12,752
The long straw stays here.
589
00:53:15,073 --> 00:53:16,312
You do it.
590
00:53:19,073 --> 00:53:20,352
The short straw.
591
00:53:20,673 --> 00:53:21,792
Look out!
592
00:53:26,953 --> 00:53:29,232
Get up! We're going.
593
00:53:33,993 --> 00:53:37,472
Our artillery are shelling us!
The bastards!
594
00:53:37,633 --> 00:53:38,792
Not at us, dammit!
595
00:53:38,953 --> 00:53:42,472
Those gunners are a lousy shot!
The fucking morons!
596
00:53:43,273 --> 00:53:44,792
Now get ready.
597
00:53:45,233 --> 00:53:46,712
Let's go!
598
00:53:52,793 --> 00:53:53,792
Come on!
599
00:53:54,593 --> 00:53:55,632
Forward!
600
00:54:06,993 --> 00:54:07,792
Charge!
601
00:54:43,633 --> 00:54:45,872
Join the others!
602
00:55:20,753 --> 00:55:23,032
There are no heroes,
just cannon fodder.
603
00:55:24,313 --> 00:55:27,552
From Verdun to the Chemin des Dames,
It's always the same.
604
00:55:31,233 --> 00:55:33,312
What's happening here
is criminal.
605
00:55:39,873 --> 00:55:42,112
We should've beaten them
in the attack.
606
00:55:42,273 --> 00:55:44,952
But in a week,
we've gained just 30 metres.
607
00:55:46,233 --> 00:55:48,992
We have to face facts,
it's getting worse.
608
00:55:49,153 --> 00:55:53,472
The Boches are hammering us.
The French officers keep their stripes.
609
00:55:55,713 --> 00:55:57,592
It's an endless war of attrition.
610
00:55:57,753 --> 00:56:00,312
Some expect a medal
for their bravery.
611
00:56:00,753 --> 00:56:02,232
I don't expect a thing.
612
00:56:44,793 --> 00:56:47,032
So, you don't salute me?
613
00:56:47,833 --> 00:56:50,592
Where we come from,
we only salute the dead.
614
00:57:24,033 --> 00:57:26,112
We've learnt to stop being men.
615
00:57:31,713 --> 00:57:33,072
I'm surprised though
616
00:57:34,353 --> 00:57:37,192
that we can still resist death so much.
617
00:57:52,473 --> 00:57:54,512
26th September 1917.
618
00:57:55,793 --> 00:57:58,512
We're at a turning point
in our world's history.
619
00:57:58,673 --> 00:58:00,272
We're killed senselessly.
620
00:58:01,553 --> 00:58:03,392
Those who don't realise it
are scum.
621
00:58:07,073 --> 00:58:10,952
I won't kiss your mouth
or hold your head anymore.
622
00:58:11,393 --> 00:58:13,512
I discard
these memories that hurt.
623
00:58:13,673 --> 00:58:16,432
They stop me going forward,
so I break them,
624
00:58:16,593 --> 00:58:19,352
bury them,
drive them from the night.
625
00:58:23,993 --> 00:58:25,992
This war burnt everything in me.
626
00:58:32,073 --> 00:58:34,152
How could you love
the one I've become?
627
00:58:40,713 --> 00:58:43,192
Nègre suddenly reappeared
one morning
628
00:58:43,993 --> 00:58:46,232
with a new scheme
and a hen under his arm.
629
00:58:46,593 --> 00:58:49,992
It's not that you're butchered -
you give your life to France!
630
00:58:50,153 --> 00:58:51,232
Hey, Négre!
631
00:58:51,393 --> 00:58:52,592
Hey, son!
632
00:58:55,313 --> 00:58:58,392
You shirker, I waited
in vain for you a year ago.
633
00:58:58,553 --> 00:59:02,472
Some funny things happened to me.
This lays golden eggs!
634
00:59:03,753 --> 00:59:07,472
I'm meeting a nutcase who supplies me
with hooch and chocolate.
635
00:59:07,633 --> 00:59:10,992
It's a big scam.
You're coming to help me.
636
00:59:17,753 --> 00:59:20,712
You weren't at Verdun
or the Chemin des Dames.
637
00:59:21,113 --> 00:59:23,112
I'm a sergeant now.
638
00:59:23,273 --> 00:59:24,832
An observer for the colonel
639
00:59:24,993 --> 00:59:27,312
who's planning one hell of a coup.
640
00:59:28,113 --> 00:59:31,232
We're apparently preparing
another Austerlitz, no less.
641
00:59:34,433 --> 00:59:37,792
The hatred mustn't die down.
Those are then damn orders!
642
01:01:29,473 --> 01:01:33,072
In my head, the dead shatter
and smash into one another.
643
01:01:34,873 --> 01:01:37,512
We belong
to the great national slaughter.
644
01:01:37,673 --> 01:01:39,872
It seems that nobody knows.
645
01:01:46,473 --> 01:01:48,152
When it's time to die,
646
01:01:48,313 --> 01:01:49,992
I'll have this lucidity.
647
01:01:50,793 --> 01:01:54,712
My eyes won't show the terror
of he who is taken by surprise.
648
01:01:58,393 --> 01:01:59,272
It's strange.
649
01:01:59,433 --> 01:02:00,712
For the first time,
650
01:02:00,993 --> 01:02:02,832
I want to write to my mother.
651
01:02:04,153 --> 01:02:05,832
She died long ago.
652
01:02:05,993 --> 01:02:07,552
I'm nobody anymore.
653
01:02:10,753 --> 01:02:13,272
The guy is hiding around here.
654
01:02:16,953 --> 01:02:18,232
Search, birdy.
655
01:02:18,513 --> 01:02:19,912
Find the 2 dwarves.
656
01:02:25,033 --> 01:02:26,072
Ferdinand!
657
01:02:28,793 --> 01:02:30,872
- What?
- Where's my stuff?
658
01:02:31,673 --> 01:02:34,112
In a safe place, General!
Somewhere quiet!
659
01:02:34,913 --> 01:02:36,712
This sleepyhead can't see anymore!
660
01:02:36,873 --> 01:02:40,272
Like I told you,
this hooch makes you blind!
661
01:02:40,433 --> 01:02:41,712
Oripot!
662
01:02:42,113 --> 01:02:43,512
Are you dozing again?
663
01:02:43,673 --> 01:02:46,352
Put your shoes back on.
You'll catch cold!
664
01:02:46,553 --> 01:02:48,512
It's total chaos here!
665
01:02:48,673 --> 01:02:52,752
If we didn't get plastered,
what'd be the point of war, eh?
666
01:02:52,913 --> 01:02:54,112
Give me a hand.
667
01:02:54,913 --> 01:02:56,592
Where's my stuff, dickhead?
668
01:02:57,953 --> 01:02:59,552
It's hidden somewhere else.
669
01:02:59,713 --> 01:03:02,112
You never know.
I might get a beating.
670
01:03:02,273 --> 01:03:04,432
Wait here. I'll go and get it.
671
01:03:04,753 --> 01:03:05,872
Morituri Te salutant.
672
01:03:18,713 --> 01:03:20,152
What've you been up to?
673
01:03:20,313 --> 01:03:22,992
I watch where shells fall
and stay away.
674
01:03:23,153 --> 01:03:25,752
I'm sick of pipes. Give me a ciggie.
675
01:03:29,553 --> 01:03:31,272
You won't desert, will you?
676
01:03:32,193 --> 01:03:33,112
No.
677
01:03:34,393 --> 01:03:37,752
I act like politicians and the rich.
I don't give a fuck.
678
01:03:38,593 --> 01:03:42,192
Couldn't those sacks of shit
have spared us this massacre?
679
01:03:42,993 --> 01:03:44,552
I've always said it, lad.
680
01:03:44,793 --> 01:03:46,912
Try to save your skin.
681
01:03:50,113 --> 01:03:51,272
I don't feel hatred.
682
01:03:51,633 --> 01:03:54,032
My life is all I possess.
683
01:03:54,273 --> 01:03:58,432
When I'm dead. I don't care
how the living will carve up the world.
684
01:04:00,713 --> 01:04:01,912
Négre...
685
01:04:02,193 --> 01:04:03,872
I have a question for you.
686
01:04:06,593 --> 01:04:07,672
What do you think of courage?
687
01:04:09,793 --> 01:04:10,312
You fucker!
688
01:04:15,673 --> 01:04:16,152
Thanks, Ferdinand, lad.
689
01:04:16,313 --> 01:04:18,152
Good work.
690
01:04:19,433 --> 01:04:22,912
Well, I'm running late.
And I'm on foot.
691
01:04:23,713 --> 01:04:24,952
When will I see you?
692
01:04:25,113 --> 01:04:27,072
I'll let you know, don't worry.
693
01:04:31,233 --> 01:04:33,632
Please yourself, slave driver!
694
01:04:35,353 --> 01:04:37,312
He's a fucker!
695
01:04:39,073 --> 01:04:41,632
Want a drink, comrade?
696
01:04:48,233 --> 01:04:50,752
Where are the hooch and chocolate from?
697
01:04:50,913 --> 01:04:55,512
I'll explain. We went
with the NCO. He's not a bad guy
698
01:04:55,913 --> 01:04:59,072
I said: "I'll go with Oripot
to find provisions."
699
01:04:59,233 --> 01:05:00,752
"What do you want?"
700
01:05:00,913 --> 01:05:02,832
"Well... some grub."
701
01:05:02,993 --> 01:05:05,792
We go all over this bloody desert
702
01:05:05,953 --> 01:05:08,792
and end up finding a blockhouse
full of nosh.
703
01:05:08,953 --> 01:05:14,672
We couldn't sneak in. It was guarded
by 2 guys who went by the book.
704
01:05:14,833 --> 01:05:16,712
"What do you want?" they said.
705
01:05:17,993 --> 01:05:19,272
"Some grub."
706
01:05:19,433 --> 01:05:23,192
"Got a ration book?"
I said: "No, do I need one?"
707
01:05:23,353 --> 01:05:27,992
They told me how it worked.
I said: "I'll get you a book."
708
01:05:28,393 --> 01:05:29,512
Booky-wooky!
709
01:05:35,473 --> 01:05:38,472
We told the NCO
He refused to sign my card
710
01:05:38,633 --> 01:05:40,592
I said: "Sign any old name!"
711
01:05:41,153 --> 01:05:44,272
We went back with a ration book
for 25 men.
712
01:05:44,433 --> 01:05:47,952
We got 5 drums of hooch
and lots of chocolate.
713
01:05:48,113 --> 01:05:52,192
We hid in that hole
and cooked the chocolate an the hooch!
714
01:05:52,353 --> 01:05:55,472
We emptied the 5 drums in 24 hours.
715
01:05:55,633 --> 01:05:59,152
So, we went back
with another ration book.
716
01:05:59,313 --> 01:06:01,512
And another and another!
717
01:06:01,673 --> 01:06:05,032
"Don't you ever lose men?"
they asked.
718
01:06:05,193 --> 01:06:08,512
"We're in a safe spot,"
the fat guy said.
719
01:06:08,873 --> 01:06:10,712
The fucker!
720
01:06:11,993 --> 01:06:13,272
What about Négre?
721
01:06:14,073 --> 01:06:15,472
He heard about it.
722
01:06:15,633 --> 01:06:17,272
He offered us a deal.
723
01:06:18,073 --> 01:06:19,832
And we shook on at.
724
01:06:22,193 --> 01:06:23,712
The fucker!
725
01:06:31,233 --> 01:06:32,952
Come here, you!
726
01:06:33,753 --> 01:06:35,072
Come here!
727
01:06:40,433 --> 01:06:44,752
They sent me and Oripot
to give a letter to some general.
728
01:06:44,913 --> 01:06:49,112
We crawled from hole to hole,
over the dead.
729
01:06:51,833 --> 01:06:55,072
I'm telling you,
we were walking in raw meat.
730
01:06:57,873 --> 01:06:59,992
But I have a way out of here.
731
01:07:55,993 --> 01:08:00,192
Several lads were shot
by a firing squad made up of pals.
732
01:08:01,473 --> 01:08:04,272
The mighty ordered
the massacre of the innocents.
733
01:08:06,513 --> 01:08:07,992
We won't get over it.
734
01:08:10,233 --> 01:08:12,552
Depression makes men
capable of anything.
735
01:08:29,793 --> 01:08:31,552
Pull the pin and run!
736
01:08:33,793 --> 01:08:35,672
Go on, you fucker!
737
01:10:08,153 --> 01:10:09,552
So long, Ferdinand.
738
01:10:18,033 --> 01:10:19,112
2...
739
01:10:19,273 --> 01:10:20,592
3...
740
01:10:20,753 --> 01:10:21,912
4...
741
01:10:21,936 --> 01:10:23,936
5...
742
01:10:24,153 --> 01:10:26,032
embers in my heart.
743
01:10:27,533 --> 01:10:28,533
7...
744
01:10:29,002 --> 01:10:30,002
8...
745
01:10:30,594 --> 01:10:31,633
9...
746
01:10:32,113 --> 01:10:33,232
10..
747
01:10:34,033 --> 01:10:34,872
11...
748
01:10:36,153 --> 01:10:38,632
12 embers in the inferno of the war.
749
01:10:40,873 --> 01:10:42,792
I'm 17 times the fire.
750
01:10:43,593 --> 01:10:45,312
18 times the sun.
751
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:47,479
1...
752
01:10:48,003 --> 01:10:49,003
2...
753
01:10:49,913 --> 01:10:50,632
3...
754
01:10:51,433 --> 01:10:52,512
4...
755
01:10:53,793 --> 01:10:55,312
Fire is the strongest.
756
01:10:57,633 --> 01:10:58,712
11...
757
01:10:59,513 --> 01:11:00,352
12...
758
01:11:01,633 --> 01:11:03,032
Get the hell out.
759
01:11:04,313 --> 01:11:05,272
13...
760
01:11:05,593 --> 01:11:06,712
14...
761
01:11:07,513 --> 01:11:08,592
Too late.
762
01:11:15,649 --> 01:11:16,649
4...
763
01:11:16,953 --> 01:11:18,112
3...
764
01:11:18,588 --> 01:11:19,588
1...
765
01:11:21,033 --> 01:11:23,152
Hooch does the trick.
766
01:11:24,913 --> 01:11:26,832
It anaesthetises the mind.
767
01:11:32,513 --> 01:11:34,632
I'm 23 times the earth.
768
01:11:35,433 --> 01:11:37,152
25 times the sun.
769
01:12:06,273 --> 01:12:07,432
This is my son.
770
01:12:09,673 --> 01:12:11,472
He's on leave after being wounded.
771
01:12:11,913 --> 01:12:13,112
Well done, lad.
772
01:12:13,273 --> 01:12:14,832
Congratulations.
773
01:12:15,633 --> 01:12:17,912
Don't stay there. Sit down.
774
01:12:23,113 --> 01:12:24,392
Are you OK now?
775
01:12:24,553 --> 01:12:25,752
Yes, thanks.
776
01:12:27,993 --> 01:12:29,912
I've been back on my feet for ages
777
01:12:31,673 --> 01:12:34,432
How come you didn't get any stripes?
778
01:12:34,753 --> 01:12:36,312
I don't want any, Dad.
779
01:12:39,033 --> 01:12:40,432
Another of your mad ideas.
780
01:12:42,873 --> 01:12:43,512
Have a drink.
781
01:12:58,273 --> 01:12:59,512
It's blood!
782
01:12:59,673 --> 01:13:00,992
Horse blood's healthy.
783
01:13:01,153 --> 01:13:06,312
"This is my blood which is shed for many
for the remission of sins."
784
01:13:06,473 --> 01:13:09,112
"Do this in remembrance of me."
785
01:13:10,873 --> 01:13:14,712
You know Maurin's sons?
One's a corporal, the other a sergeant.
786
01:13:14,873 --> 01:13:16,792
The old man is so proud.
787
01:13:16,953 --> 01:13:18,512
No reason to be!
788
01:13:23,633 --> 01:13:25,392
Your mother came to say hello.
789
01:13:27,633 --> 01:13:28,792
She's dead.
790
01:13:28,953 --> 01:13:32,912
My son...
791
01:13:40,913 --> 01:13:42,432
She'll never grow.
792
01:13:44,673 --> 01:13:47,832
So, lad, do you have fun at the front?
793
01:13:48,273 --> 01:13:49,352
Yes, sir.
794
01:13:50,153 --> 01:13:51,512
It's a blast.
795
01:13:53,753 --> 01:13:56,112
Every night, we bury our pals.
796
01:14:00,753 --> 01:14:04,672
If you want to make me happy
797
01:14:04,833 --> 01:14:08,672
Marguerite, Marguerite
798
01:14:08,953 --> 01:14:12,752
If you want to make me happy
799
01:14:12,913 --> 01:14:16,672
Marguerite, give me your heart
800
01:14:49,953 --> 01:14:52,392
I'm now in a rest sector
801
01:14:53,673 --> 01:14:57,585
After 3 years of war, we've gone back
to our position in Champagne
802
01:14:57,712 --> 01:14:59,552
where I met Perrault.
803
01:14:59,913 --> 01:15:03,011
an observer in the 22nd Battalion
of French Canadians
804
01:15:03,273 --> 01:15:05,512
who cleaned trenches in Argonne.
805
01:15:06,747 --> 01:15:10,992
Every day, we go scouting,
noting topographical details
806
01:15:11,153 --> 01:15:15,152
in order to fill in demolished trenches
and plan new ones.
807
01:15:16,233 --> 01:15:19,152
I prefer to wander by myself
in this big maze.
808
01:15:20,433 --> 01:15:21,952
I walk on instinct,
809
01:15:22,233 --> 01:15:23,872
sometimes all day long.
810
01:15:25,153 --> 01:15:28,192
I like this isolation,
far from others.
811
01:15:32,793 --> 01:15:34,952
My ears and head hurt again.
812
01:15:36,233 --> 01:15:38,912
I hurt all over,
but I'm still standing.
813
01:15:40,193 --> 01:15:43,832
It takes a catastrophe like this war
to judge the measure of a man.
814
01:15:45,113 --> 01:15:47,672
A horse is nothing alongside a man.
815
01:15:48,473 --> 01:15:50,832
Especially alongside the power
of alcohol.
816
01:15:51,633 --> 01:15:53,272
That liquid can overcome anything.
817
01:15:55,793 --> 01:15:57,432
I didn't know all that.
818
01:16:24,673 --> 01:16:26,992
You get sick
of using wine to shave.
819
01:16:27,153 --> 01:16:28,672
Complain to Staff HQ.
820
01:16:28,833 --> 01:16:30,352
What did he say?
821
01:16:30,513 --> 01:16:31,752
Know what I heard?
822
01:16:31,913 --> 01:16:36,152
The Boches now see the road to Paris
isn't easy. They lost another plane.
823
01:16:36,953 --> 01:16:38,352
Keep your spirits up, lads.
824
01:16:47,793 --> 01:16:48,952
Long live France!
825
01:18:56,673 --> 01:18:58,392
I'm not scared now.
826
01:19:08,793 --> 01:19:10,032
Hey, look.
827
01:19:18,993 --> 01:19:19,592
Comrades!
828
01:19:19,753 --> 01:19:23,912
They followed me like hungry dogs.
They'd sell their mothers
829
01:19:24,073 --> 01:19:25,272
for some sausage.
830
01:19:25,513 --> 01:19:27,312
Hey, lad, there you are again.
831
01:19:27,473 --> 01:19:29,232
And where have you been?
832
01:19:30,993 --> 01:19:32,192
War over?
833
01:19:32,633 --> 01:19:33,992
Yes.
834
01:19:37,673 --> 01:19:38,512
Give 'em some.
835
01:19:42,193 --> 01:19:44,672
The little brat isn't exactly worked up!
836
01:19:46,913 --> 01:19:48,792
Don't talk, Sauerkraut!
837
01:19:50,553 --> 01:19:51,592
Good?
838
01:19:54,313 --> 01:19:55,952
Good, good.
839
01:19:57,353 --> 01:19:59,352
In Germany, nothing to eat?
840
01:20:01,193 --> 01:20:03,432
In Germany, we're starving.
841
01:20:05,193 --> 01:20:07,112
Isn't this Boche funny?
842
01:20:07,913 --> 01:20:08,992
He's smarter than us.
843
01:21:09,793 --> 01:21:11,312
They took everything from us.
844
01:21:40,153 --> 01:21:41,832
A shadow passes in the trench.
845
01:21:43,593 --> 01:21:46,912
I'm sometimes closer to the Boches
than to our own lines.
846
01:21:47,713 --> 01:21:49,432
We hear each other walking,
847
01:21:50,073 --> 01:21:51,032
breathing.
848
01:21:51,313 --> 01:21:54,552
We sometimes look
at each other and wave.
849
01:21:55,833 --> 01:21:57,792
They could kill me, but they don't.
850
01:21:57,953 --> 01:22:01,752
Mutual loyalty prevents us
from killing one another.
851
01:22:03,633 --> 01:22:06,192
We've been brainwashed
with racial hatred.
852
01:22:07,953 --> 01:22:10,952
The end is near,
but the word "victory" is meaningless.
853
01:22:17,153 --> 01:22:20,552
A Yank sergeant was handing out
coffee to his men.
854
01:22:20,713 --> 01:22:22,352
Someone asked for more.
855
01:22:22,513 --> 01:22:24,672
The sergeant said no.
856
01:22:24,833 --> 01:22:27,352
The guy takes out has gun
and kills him.
857
01:22:27,513 --> 01:22:29,552
The officers catch the killer.
858
01:22:29,713 --> 01:22:31,792
They tie a rope to a tree
859
01:22:31,953 --> 01:22:33,312
and hang him.
860
01:22:33,753 --> 01:22:35,832
Yeah. so they say.
861
01:22:37,193 --> 01:22:41,232
Back there I got laid.
I caught a bad dose of the clap.
862
01:22:42,033 --> 01:22:44,112
You should've waited
for the armistice.
863
01:22:46,353 --> 01:22:50,912
The telegraphists picked up enemy radio.
The Krauts want to negotiate peace
864
01:22:52,313 --> 01:22:55,152
If it's true,
here's to going home.
865
01:22:55,953 --> 01:22:57,512
We can tell the truth.
866
01:22:58,313 --> 01:23:01,392
To who? To guys
who lined their pockets in the war?
867
01:23:01,553 --> 01:23:04,192
No-one's interested in victims like you.
868
01:23:04,353 --> 01:23:06,712
Get that through your thick head.
869
01:23:06,873 --> 01:23:09,592
We'll be seen as idiots.
Change sides.
870
01:23:09,753 --> 01:23:11,752
The next generation will listen to us.
871
01:23:13,033 --> 01:23:15,272
You still believe that
after what you saw?
872
01:23:15,433 --> 01:23:17,912
What a joke!
I don't care about anything.
873
01:23:18,713 --> 01:23:19,832
Too right.
874
01:23:20,633 --> 01:23:24,432
We're at a fanatic's mercy.
So, this wise old owl says take cover.
875
01:23:36,273 --> 01:23:39,192
You think it's funny
that I steal from the dead.
876
01:23:39,993 --> 01:23:41,712
The Boches don't need 'em!
877
01:24:18,113 --> 01:24:20,672
I burnt your locks of hair, Marguerite.
878
01:24:20,833 --> 01:24:22,752
They smelled like singed flesh.
879
01:24:23,193 --> 01:24:25,392
The stench never leaves me.
880
01:24:30,513 --> 01:24:32,472
I won't say your name ever again.
881
01:25:00,593 --> 01:25:03,032
The drinks are on me, lads!
882
01:25:03,193 --> 01:25:05,072
Who cares what happens next?
883
01:25:05,913 --> 01:25:07,152
Look out!
884
01:25:14,193 --> 01:25:16,792
Lads, you're not used to peace yet!
885
01:25:17,593 --> 01:25:20,352
Yeah, we're not yet used
to not being afraid.
886
01:25:22,807 --> 01:25:27,272
This morning, I went to see Nincompoop.
I waited 4 years for that.
887
01:25:27,433 --> 01:25:30,392
I looked him in the eye and said:
"We inform you
888
01:25:30,553 --> 01:25:33,472
that we never want to hear of you again
889
01:25:33,633 --> 01:25:35,312
or of your murdering clique!"
890
01:25:35,473 --> 01:25:38,392
Give us some peace, dammit! Some peace!
891
01:25:38,553 --> 01:25:40,552
Fall out, General!
892
01:25:54,993 --> 01:25:57,472
Peace came, to everyone's surprise.
893
01:25:58,353 --> 01:26:01,312
A sort of unspeakable nervous laughter.
894
01:26:04,993 --> 01:26:06,672
France tasted like ashes.
895
01:26:09,473 --> 01:26:11,392
My name is Gabriel Dufour.
896
01:26:13,193 --> 01:26:15,072
I just turned 23.
897
01:28:54,593 --> 01:28:57,472
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898
01:28:58,273 --> 01:29:00,872
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