All language subtitles for Army Of Shadows Extras - Simone Signoret and Lucie Aubra_track3_[eng]

Our first obstacle is to contact Félix
and let him know.

This woman in Army of Shadows

is Lucie Aubrac,

who was my history professor
during my studies in philosophy

in 1939-40.

Then I lost touch with her.

I saw her again after Liberation,

and I realized
she was my old history professor,

because by then everyone knew that
that extraordinary woman

had been
a great Resistance fighter.

So when I made Army of Shadows,

it was very troubling for me
to portray that woman

whom I'd known as a girl.

In Army of Shadows,
she's Lucie Aubrac and other women.

She's a composite character.

But what made it
even more ambiguous for me...

what made me feel
a bit indecent...

was that my makeup artist
on Army of Shadows...

a woman with whom I continued
to work for many years, now retired,

a woman named Maud Begon,

was another Lucie Aubrac.

She wasn't as lucky
as Lucie Aubrac,

because she couldn't
escape to England.

She was arrested
in Clermont-Ferrand

and imprisoned for months

and then spent almost two years
in a concentration camp.

I sat there
in front of the mirror

like any other actress
at her makeup table,

and Maud tried to fix me up
so I wouldn't be too ugly,

because a female
Resistance fighter in a movie

can't be ugly, after all.

So she did her best
to fix me up.

I remember one morning,

she was busy applying fake eyelashes
to make me more alluring,

and I was ashamed,
and I told her so.

I wanted to end
that awkward moment.

I asked, “Did you wear
false eyelashes in Clermont-Ferrand

when you went to meet people

in your network?”

She laughed and said, “No.”

It really bothered me
that I was that age

and I was playing that role,
when I knew I hadn't been

that type of woman in real life.

I remembered
that incredible woman, Lucie Aubrac,

and next to me,
trying to make me up,

was a different woman
yet somehow the same woman,

and it was very troubling.

Go!

After the war,

of course we suddenly found ourselves
being treated like stars

because we'd done things
that were a bit extraordinary,

and our actions were the talk of the town,
making headlines in every paper.

But we never imagined
films would be made about it.

In any case, we never imagined it
during the war.

During the war
our first priority was survival!

That was what mattered.

We never thought
we were in a movie.

Sometimes we realized
we were doing extraordinary things

that had nothing to do
with everyday life

or the lives
we'd been prepared for.

But we never imagined
that one day

we'd become the subject
of films and novels.

Of course not.

I don't have any problem

with portraying a historic figure

from the very distant past,

because there are
no eyewitnesses.

They're not there to watch you do
the brave things they actually did,

watching you do them
as an actor,

making your living
using their heroism.

When this heroism

took place
in the very recent past-

40 years may seem
like a long time to children,

but it really isn't very long -

then I think it's difficult
to portray these characters

without a certain sense of shame
at not being as good as they were.