"LO N G LIVE DEATH!" "After capturing and disarming the Red Army today... official troops reached their final obje ctiv e." "The war is ov er." "Traitors will be relentlessly hunted down." "If ne cessary, we will kill half the country." "Long liv e Death!" "Papa, I don't want them to kill you!" "You'll die, too?" " Yes." " What'll I do?" "You'll be grown up by then." "I don't understand." "We must all die." " When we die, is it fore v er?" " Yes." "But what about heav en?" "That'll come later." " I'll bring you flowers." " When?" "When you die." "I'll bring you poppies." " Don't think about that." " Why not?" "Be caus e..." "All right." "Will we meet in heav en?" "Yes." "That's good." " Who inv ented it?" " What?" "H eav en." "Nobody." "And the rest?" "What "rest"?" "Death." "Nobody." "Then when you die, your belly'll be my drum." "Don't say that." "Is it a sin?" "No." "My son, when you feel the prickings of the flesh... put on a hairshirt and say an "Our Father."" "8 x 3 is 24, 8 x 4 is 32, 8 x 5 = 40..." "A package came for you." "For me?" "Pri-son." "Remember your papa." "U ncle, I need your advice." "My husband's be come a renegade, endangering his family's future with his awful progressiv e ideas." "I think it's my duty to turn him in to the authorities... so he'll be arrested right away." "...arrested right away..." "arrested right away..." "Fando, that's my Dr. Plumb pipe." "Yes, Dr. Plumb." "It's the only pipe I smoke." "Can I s ee it?" "You can." "It's hot!" "There." "You're under arrest for military re volt." "If he knew who turned him in!" "Smash the bastard's brains out!" "The prison dire ctor informs you your husband is under "spe cial surv eillance."" "For plotting against the established order... he's to be "punished" and placed in solitary." "Who did the y take?" "Where's Papa?" "The window!" "The neighbors'll s ee us!" "Where's Papa?" "Is he dead?" "Is he aliv e?" "H is political ideas hav e ruined your future and his." "Forget your father." "H e was a Red... and an atheist." " Didn't atheists kill Jesus?" " Yes." " Don't Reds burn churches?" " Yes." " I'll be atheist when I'm big." " No!" " I'll be a Red." " No!" "You're a good boy." "The y take away his red flag." "H e can't walk good 'caus e my theater's made of wood." "The y put Papa in jail." "The y lock the door." "Papa asks to s ee me, but the judges say he doesn't des erv e to." "So Mama goes to s ee him in prison." "She puts on her shawl." "She goes slow 'caus e she's afraid of dogs and vultures." "She reaches the prison." "She s ees Papa." "She tells him to suffer 'caus e he's been such a coward." "The judges come and take Papa out of jail... but he's brav e and keeps his pipe." "With a big knife the y cut off his head." "Come on, time to go to sleep." "Are you coming?" "Let's go, son." "Why the muzzles?" "To keep them from eating the grapes." "Down with muzzles!" "Down with muzzles!" "Assassins!" "Assassins!" "All towns hav e fallen, the war's ov er." "Our greatest fas cist victory!" "Last week... our troops hit the capital from the right, left and center." "Fighting was desperate and raged on... till the heights at each end of the front were occupied." "Enemy loss es... were disastrous." "Constant bombing threw the enemy in disorder... cutting off all retreat." "A total Red defeat was imminent." "Our heroic tanks and trucks... rushed into the fallen capital as the y did into all the Red cities." "The chief of state de clared:" "The bastard reign of liberal and socialist whoring... is dead, killed by our v aliant army." "The Nation has slain the anarchist dragon... who now lies biting the dust." "Bless ed by the Holy Church, the army has the reins of power fore v er." "Air raids soon de cimated the republican air corps." "H ere a Red pilot parachutes from his plane... the last one shot down before the war's end." "Is the sky-man an angel?" "Not so loud!" "Don't you lov e me?" "Oh, y es, you're the most beautiful mama... of all the world's towns and provinces." "Prettier than the church's Virgin." "Get up!" "After your bath we're going to the cemetery." "Stop it!" "I'm hot, I'm hot." "Be quiet!" "Come on, Theresa." "Ready!" "Let the exe cution of thes e Reds be an example." "Long liv e death!" "Fire!" "I'm sav ed!" "I'm not dead!" "Sav ed!" "It's the poet." "The faggot." "A faggot." "Finish him off up the ass." "Left face!" "Shoulder arms!" "Forward march!" "The y'v e killed Frederico Garcia Lorca." "We must trust God and respe ct H is wishes." "Yesterday you saw how H e punished thos e who burn churches." "And the poem for your mama?" "Mama is the prettiest flower." "Good." "Then what?" "...prettiest flower." "And I lov e her more each hour." "Does it rhyme?" "It's too prosaic." "God s ees us and is always watching ov er us." "E v en when we're on the toilet?" "Arms like a cross and 2 dictionaries!" "Get your cripple goin'!" "Get him out there!" "Go!" "Look at him go, he's a champion!" "Mine'll piss in your champion's e y e!" "My turtle's got no cock and no balls either!" "If your grand'ma heard ya!" "Holy Mos es!" "Let's go!" "The y'll beat us up!" "Go on!" "Kill 'im!" "Knock his teeth out!" "Bastard!" "Red!" "Son of a Red!" "Red!" "Red!" "Red!" "Son of a Red!" "Come, Fando." "U s e the hall." "Don't be afraid of the dark." "Go on." "You said a bad word today?" "Who squealed?" "I know what you said." "Giv e me your finger." "That'll teach you not to say that." "This kid's a little girl." "Wears his spigot on the right, not left." "You can s ee his pa wasn't a Christian." "My pa made me walk alone... in the dark... with a torch." "Awful shadows danced on the walls." "I wasn't afraid." "You're just a wet hen, a coward." "H igh time you looked after yours elf." "Afraid of the dark." "H is spigot on the right." "I'm not a chicken." "You'll s ee!" "Fando, get down." "You'll kill yours elf." "Fando, you'll kill yours elf!" "Gran'pa is v ery sick." "You must be brav e." "Peace on this hous e and family." "Amen." "The Lord forgiv es you all sins committed... by s cent... by the ears... the heart... and all adv ances." "In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, so be it." "Come, holy saints and angels..." "Take his soul and pres ent it to the Most H igh." "May Christ who called you now re ceiv e you and the angels lead you to Abraham's bosom." "Take his soul and pres ent it to the Most H igh." "Come kiss your gran'pa who's just died." "By this holy agony and in H is sweet mercy, may the Lord pardon you all sins committed with your e y es." "Pleas e, Lord, hav e mercy on our departed grandfather." "Don't punish him for his deeds... for he meant to do Your will." "As true faith bound him to the Belie v ers here... now may Your mercy place him in the choir of angels on high." "Don't stand there, come in." "Ask for mercy." "Pray with me." "May God keep granpa's soul... and not punish him for his deeds." "We must make a sacrifice so he can go to heav en today." "Beat me!" "Faster!" "Harder!" "I'm sorry." "I didn't wanna hurt you." "You're my only friend." "You're not like Aunt Clara." "H it him once!" "3 times." "The other hand." "All right." "3 times real hard." "Harder." "That's enough." "It's not your turn." "Once." " Once, but hurt him!" " Damn!" "Your turn now." "H urry up!" "Go on, a hard one." "Good!" "Not bad." "The little ol' priest... oughta bless your whip." "Cut his nuts off!" "Put 'em in his mouth, dirty priest." "Cut off his balls!" "Cram 'em in his trap!" "Oh, my balls!" "How tasty the y are!" "Thank You, Lord, for this divine dish." "God, You gav e them to me and took them away." "Bless ed be Your holy name." "Light trav els at 186,390 mps... less than 1 s e cond to go around the equator." "Most stars' light takes y ears to reach us." "The North Star takes about 40 y ears." "With a huge teles cope, the y calculated the distance... to a star millions of miles away." "This star's light takes 10 thousand y ears to arriv e." "We s ee it now as it was 10 thousand y ears ago." "Its light existed before the pyramids." "For centuries and centuries..." "Into the clos et with the rats!" "The maquisards again!" "It's the terrorists!" "It's the Reds!" "Why don't you e v er talk to me about Papa?" "Why should I make you suffer?" "Why talk about your Papa?" "Why tell you he was a traitor?" "Thrown into prison, that he e v en tried to commit suicide?" "I sacrificed my whole life for you and this is the thanks I get." "You must belie v e me." "Your father is dead." "Where're you going?" "Come here!" "Fando!" "Go on, kill him!" "What're you doing here?" "Maybe my father's here." "H is name's Tosan." "Sure, sure," "I remember him." "So you're his son?" "Where is he now?" "Better ask the court." "H e tried to commit suicide." "We're inv estigating your father." "When we learn something, we'll notify your mother." "What's he got?" "Lung trouble, as if the air here stifles him." "My poor baby." "Madame, your son has TB." "H e must be s ent to the clinic boat." "Burn his theater." "It's contaminated." "I'm sick, maybe I'll die." "I'v e got to find Papa." "I got Pa's Dr. Plumb and some shag." "I put some orange peel in the pouch y esterday." "Today the tobacco feels fresh." "Since the pipe's s easoned, when it goes out... it giv es off a nice smell." "It's Papa's Dr. Plumb pipe." "Maybe it was on his table when he tried to commit suicide." "The treatment began 6 months ago." "There's no improv ement at all." "The cavity is wors e." "We'll hav e to operate." "Tomorrow you'll be operated on at the hospital." "Did you turn him in?" "Not so loud." "People can hear us." "You turned Papa in?" "I only told the truth." "If he'd confess ed, the y'd hav e gone easier on him." "Thanks to my testimony... and my submissiv e attitude... the y were more indulgent with him... but he insulted me and said I'd betray ed him." "All my life he repaid my goodness with e vil." "Colonel... my husband's been corrupted by progressiv e ideas." "H e's an enemy of the nation." "As a soldier and a man your duty is... to pre v ent him from further endangering... his wife, children and country." "Arrest him." " Did you help him in prison?" " I couldn't." "I suffered more than him." "Why do we always talk about the past?" "We can't do anything to change it." "I wish you'd stop worrying... and forget the unhappy past." "Why was he in a mad cell?" "How'd you know that?" "H e didn't go mad in prison." "H e always was." "If not, how could he hav e committed all thos e sins?" "May God keep me from speaking ill of my belov ed husband." "H e tried to commit suicide." "I should'v e been the one." "I could'v e gone crazy with pain... but I had to stay sane to look after you... and get you out of this mess." "I'v e failed." "A lifetime of sacrifice for nothing!" "I had to turn him in for your good..." "Your own good." "But now he's dead." "No, he's not dead." "I hav e proof for you." "The pipe your father always smoked." "It was in his jacket pocket the day... he was exe cuted." "H ere's where the bullet hit it." "It's proof he's really dead." "That, Fando... is my Dr. Plumb pipe." "Dr. Plumb?" "Yes, Dr. Plumb." "It's the only pipe I smoke." "You'v e already grown up, son." "Cut off your father's balls." "Fando!" "Fando!" "Your father's es caped into the maquis." "Come on, we'll look for him." "Traitors will be relentlessly hunted down." "If ne cessary, we will kill half the country." "Long liv e Death!" "Sub titles:" "J. WARN ER" "Sub titling TITRA FILM Paris"