"What about the curfew?" "The curfew's for the wogs." "Not for the CRF." "What's the CRF?" "Committee for the Rebirth of France." "August 1956 in Algiers." "Martial law has been declared." "The only Algerian nationalist newspaper was suppressed in September 1955 its editor and writers, committed to the struggle for independance, are forced into hiding." "Hear about the explosion in the casbah?" "They say it was a Liberation Front bomb factory..." "There's no bomb factory in the casbah." "Not yet." "60 deaths!" "Women and children!" "It's a provocation." "Like the bombs at the workers' union or at your paper." "The NLF intends to strike back." "That's what the reactionaries want." "It's a trap." "Everything is escalating." "Get your coat on!" "The president's been killed." "Are we all going?" "Well... burials..." "It's not just any burial." "The president's not going out alone!" "There's Mme Charlègue." "So where's your husband?" "Cairo or underground?" "They haven't got you yet?" "Lay off her." "I'm only kidding." "You're right." "Today we shouldn't kid around." "Today we're going to get even..." "Your president wasn't any saint." "Didnt' he organize the private militia?" "We have the right to self-defense." "If the governement won't protect us, we have to do it ourselves." "You only repeat what the newspapers feed you, what the army feeds them." "The army doesn't control us." "We're the ones in charge." "If you say so..." "And we used to see him at every meeting..." "You have to be understanding." "You understand everything." "A little to the left, a little to the right." "You're always safe." "I don't put these out." "They get torn up." "Those friendly meetings, they're over now." "You have to be careful what you say." "You especially." "Say "Hi" to Henri." "I haven't seen him..." "I know." "I was just saying it." "There may be trouble at the funeral." "Is this place his?" "He was our sports' editor." "Have they put him in a camp?" "No." "He wasn't a communist." "They forgot about him." "They took him back into the army." "That's what worries me." "He might talk." "I think you should move." "Again?" "I just moved in." "I've moved 7 times in less than a year." "Are you OK?" "And the kids?" "They talk about you." "What are you doing here?" "He changed the locks." "The bastard!" "Try to understand." "It's getting rough." "So you waited for me here?" "And I brought a present." "A present?" "For me?" "It's New Years' day." "What is it?" "He needs a new place to hide." "He can come here." "You're the only ones the police don't bother." "But he should contact Garnero now." "He'll come here only in an emergency." "How's your dissertation coming?" "I hand it in tomorrow." "I can't concentrate on work." "What's this about?" "General Martin now has full police powers." "You don't have the rights..." "The right?" "Now the army is in charge." "The government agrees." "You against the government?" "You can't arrest all 5000 on our lists." "If we interrogate them one by one..." "We're sure to catch some rebels." "You're arresting all of them?" "We are." "Hurry it up!" "Really, M. Charlègue!" "If someone saw you!" "They'd denounce you?" "Who knows what they'd say?" "That I have men in here and God knows what!" "And my Ferdinand, being held in a camp." "Holy mother!" "Mme Campolongo." "Quick." "Inside." "Come in." "Sit down." "Would you like something strong or sweet?" "Sweet." "I have to keep my mind clear." "Some Moscatel then." "My poor Ferdinand bought it from the Mozabite downstairs." "Do you see him?" "The mozabite?" "No, Ferdinand." "My husband." "I see a dark man." "Locked up." "Another man, who is related to the first one." "Senator Bacri." "He promised to help get Ferdinand out." "Tall and dark and a beige coat?" "Dark but not tall." "With glasses." "That's not possible!" "He came here." "Then he'll come." "Don't interrupt!" "Do you want me to read the cards?" "Which is Mme Ferrer?" "I'm captain Fouquet." "Your husband is at Camp Lodi?" "Heard from any of his friends?" "If so, don't try to hide anything." "I'll be around again." "You bought two steaks?" "One's for my guest Mme Campolongo." "How kind." "But I can't stay..." "My kids have been alone all morning." "How dreadful for you!" "These soldiers won't let you be!" "It's not your fault your husband is communist." "Don't worry." "Everything will work out." "Thanks for the wine." "Did you hear?" "They'll be back." "I've been denounced?" "The butcher must have told him about the steaks." "It's too dangerous." "You'll have to go." "I know..." "Nobody could recognize you!" "I just ran into Miloud... he used to work for the paper..." "And so?" "So he said "Hi M. Charlègue."" "I'm frightened." "Algiers isn't big." "So many people know you." "Chasserand has been arrested." "A friend disappear or is arrested every day." "Every day now!" "They'll catch me soon you know." "But I'm waiting for them." "We're all waiting." "I've been waiting." "No one saw you?" "No." "I'm used to it." "It's about the petition..." "Trying to turn professors and Arab students... against the NLF..." "Don't worry." "I'll never sign it." "But you have to." "And act contrary to my convictions?" "But you're useful in the university." "If they throw you out... you won't be of use anymore." "Sign!" "You'll still be able to say what you like." "That's your opinion?" "No." "It's the NLF's." "OK." "I'll sign." "It's done?" "Yes." "In two hours they'll be in France." "I would never have thought I'd have to send my kids away because I'm afraid for them." "They were so excited about taking a plane, and seeing grandmother again." "It was really alright." "Garnero says it'll get worse." "What's so funny?" "Just across the street..." "They'd like to know where I am." "I'm from the Real Estate Agency." "The director sent me." "What does he want?" "It's about your lease." "You're not settled yet." "You're finished." "The building's surrounded." "It's almost midnight." "Three more papers to correct." "Henri?" "He said tomorrow at 11." "What do you want?" "Garnero." "We can't help you." "Really?" "What about Robertsau?" "And Jean-Paul Guedj alias Dupuis?" "My jacket!" "If he's cooperative he'll be back soon." "If you go to bed... leave the door open." "If the phone rings don't answer." "May I?" "M. Oudinot is out?" "I came about his policy." "I'll come another time." "Just wait." "Sit down, hands on your head." "Hello, lieutenant?" "Know who he is?" "Charlègue, ex-director of "Democratic Algeria"." "An excellent catch." "Where were you hiding?" "Who hid you?" "I won't tell you." "You will, too." "Put on the hand cuffs." "Play the fool and you get shot." "I'd like to put a sign around your neck, just to show who you are, and drop you in the european quarter." "They'd tear you in pieces." "Sit down." "We'll give you a last chance." "Tell us why you were hiding, where you were staying and who has been putting you up for the last year, and who you've been meeting and what you've been doing." "That's all." "I knew I was wanted..." "So I went underground." "I watched over the interests of my paper." "In Paris I met Guy Mollet and Gérard Jacquet." "I have nothing else to say." "I will not denounce the people who hid me." "We're wasting our time." "That's what I think." "Get a crew ready." "It's for a big shot." "Tell Derrida to get up here." "This is the customer?" "OK." "Undress." "Undress or my boys will do it for you." "Up to you." "Hey!" "He's French." "Shirt, pants!" "So, you chose the wogs." "Bastard!" "Take good care of this one." "Get a move on." "Shirt, pants, shoes." "Move it." "Look at his legs!" "Move it fatty." "Let's see your back too." "Come on sweetheart." "Hurry up." "Lie down." "You won't get away." "He's already had a night." "His friends had time to hide." "The lieutenant gives you a little time to think." "And then you'll talk." "OK?" "We take good care of Europeans here." "Here everybody talks." "Everybody." "And then you have to tell all the truth." "All of it." "OK?" "We should knock him off now." "He's a waste of time." "What's wrong?" "Frightened?" "Wanna talk?" "I'm just cold." "Some kinda joker, huh?" "You'll soon talk like a nice boy." "Have you thought about it?" "I haven't changed my mind." "He's asking for it." "Let's go into the next room." "There's more room for work." "Are you OK here?" "We're going to spend some time together." "You want to call Mme Oudinot?" "Your friend?" "Go ahead." "But a colleague of mine will answer." "Give me something to write on." "Show it to him." "You've heard of this already!" "You've even written about it?" "You're wrong..." "Wrong to use these methods." "If there's a charge against me... bring me into court." "You have 24 hours." "OK." "Down to work." "We're listening." "Where did you hide?" "I will not talk." "Just for morale, we're gonna beat you up." "Untie him." "Talk!" "You've been screwed." "You're good as dead!" "Get the other one!" "Oudinot, tell him what's waiting for him." "Spare him what you've been through." "It's rough, Henri." "Come on and talk!" "You have to talk." "Everybody has to." "It's the Gestapo!" "Heard of it?" "That's enough." "I'm not done yet." "Your fucking republic!" "We've screwed them!" "Let's start from zero." "Now we'll use the big one." "Know how to swim?" "The asshole fainted." "You were almost a goner." "Fainting's too easy." "Untie him." "Don't touch me." "What's next?" "All's calm here." "The lady's well behaved?" "Yeah." "Here too." "Good night." "Don't worry." "Your friend's OK." "And her husband?" "And mine?" "OK, I tell you." "Still won't talk?" "Put him in a cell." "What do you want?" "To piss." "Go ahead, piss." "This is him sir." "You're a journalist?" "Information comes first for you." "So, inform us." "Hear what he said?" "He decides." "Still won't talk?" "We don't give a fuck." "We have time." "We'll go all the way." "Stick it down his throat." "You'll see stars." "Is this bastard gonna talk?" "You could take his wife." "And kill her in front of him." "He just doesn't give a fuck." "But I'm not afraid of him." "I have to go home and change, and kiss my kids good night." "I'll be right back." "Talk for God's sake." "Rocognize your friend Garnero?" "Where's he hiding?" "Working overtime?" "It may take time but he'll talk." "Don't let him puck on me." "What's the difference?" "It's not hygienic." "Electricity makes you thirsty." "Worried about your suit?" "That's it." "You look worn out." "You need some rest." "Rest, brother, rest." "Piss." "Who put him here?" "We're not here to sleep." "Here we talk." "So, talk." "Shit!" "Yes or no?" "You wanna be killed, huh?" "We're not through." "Know what thirst is?" "You haven't drunk for two days." "So, what's happening?" "You're dehydrating." "Little by little." "In four days you'll be dead." "But four days is a long time." "You'll be licking up your piss." "If you talk you drink." "Talk and you drink." "Come and look!" "Give it to me." "See." "Talk and you drink." "Proud, huh?" "We're not so mean." "We'll give you some." "He doesn't like salt water." "The floor need cleaning." "When he wants to lick it up." "Get a generator!" "I'm lieutenant Lamaze," "General Martin's aide." "I'm sorry to see you like this." "You're only 36." "Too young to die." "Leave us alone." "He wants to talk to me." "You're afraid they'll know you talked?" "No one will know." "We'll protect you." "Tell me all you know." "And I'll have you put in the hospital." "In 8 days you'll be in France... with your wife." "I give you my word." "If not, you disappear." "Too bad." "You have children." "I could see them." "I could say I knew their father well." "You don't want to talk?" "If I go, the others will be back." "And they won't stop." "You may as well kill yourself." "Friday." "The first time you eat in three days." "Easy, or you'll throw up." "The general's propositions don't interest you?" "Why won't you talk?" "Don't want to betray your friends?" "You have to have a lot of nerve to resist..." "Easy, or you'll throw up." "Not so fast." "And he made us run around for a year!" "Bravo, commander!" "He hasn't talked?" "They all begin like that." "Our crews are well trained." "It may take a month." "Maybe two or three, but he'll talk." "He wants to be a hero." "With a plaque on the wall for posterity." "Meanwhile, you're well taken care of." "He doesn't give a fuck about his wife or kids." "He likes the party more." "Tell him about his kids." "Your kids arrive tonight." "They'll get it good." "You really don't care?" "You're gonna die." "People will find out." "No one will ever know anything." "Everything always comes out." "Yes, Lieutenant." "Certainly." "Mme Oudinot, you can do as you like." "I've learned that your men have arrested Henri Charlègue, and a University professor, Maurice Oudinot." "It's possible." "I control 8 areas." "I don't keep track of it all." "But I do, I am Secretary General of the Police, and responsible for each arrest." "I'm going to prepare a subpoena." "One for Oudinot and one for Charlègue." "And I'm putting the date of their arrest:" "You will have to present them in court." "Will that be all?" "That is all." "Brüll," "I think I'm going to submit my resignation." "If you do that, there will be no one... between the law and the paratroopers." "Already there's no one!" "The only weapon I have is a subpoena." "But it makes known who arrests who." "It gives you a certain control." "Control?" "It's as good as lost." "Already almost 4000 have disappeared, and are on no list." "And you know what goes on at El Biar and villa Sesini." "I didn't escape a nazi death camp... to condone the same thing here." "Feeling better?" "You'll soon be able to start in again." "You're right." "We're not through." "You'll be screwed." "Your wog lawyer friend fell here." "An accident!" "Yeah, he slipped." "Or maybe suicide?" "Who knows?" "He didn't like it here;" "he was depressed." "ve seen the dean, everyone." "They can't help us" "Why not go see the people at... the Commision for Safeguarding Individual Rights?" "They've come down from Paris." "I saw them." "Not me." "We have to try everything." "I'll take you there." "A week ago my husband was arrested." "I still don't know where he is." "Why didn't you..." "I can't talk any louder..." "Why didn't you come earlier?" "I was held at home by paratroopers." "As soon as I was freed, I spoke to my lawyer, in Paris." "He has spoken to senators, ministers, even to the President." "So Mme Oudinot told me." "What she and I want... is that the commission obtain news of our husbands." "Were you... tortured?" "Have I been tortured?" "Not yet." "I came about my husband." "I'm a doctor." "I'm here to see if people are mistreated." "Bring me a dossier with names, places, irrefutable facts." "When you have such information, come back to us." "We'll be happy to hear you." "But it's unnecessary." "You husband is no doubt alright." "It's simply provisional arrest." "He'll soon be in court." "And you just expect me to wait?" "I'm sure you don't want to be deported from Algeria." "the other arm now." "Only a small injection at first." "Henri!" "It's Marcel." "You OK?" "Did you work for "Democratic Algeria"?" "Years... and years..." "I started just after the war." "They met in cafés, on steps..." "The ones who could read, read aloud." "Listen." "They said you could tell me how to see Garnero." "How can I do it?" "Then they banned "Democratic Algeria"." "But I'd slip in at night... and turn on all the lights." "The paper was through, but there was still light." "I'm talking about Garnero." "Where is Garnero?" "Who sent you to me?" "I don't know where he is." "But when you want to see him?" "I don't have anything to do with him." "But what if he wanted to see you?" "He'd leave a note in a box..." "But why should he?" "It's important." "I have a place for him." "Can't you put me in contact with him?" "I'd be surprised if he made an appointment..." "But if he did come, how can I reach him?" "Where do you live?" "26, rue Michelet." "Ask for Marcel." "OK." "I'll remember." "No." "It's not OK." "You have to give me your adress." "You have to trust me." "Listen then." "We can meet if you like at Parc Gallandf next week at 6." "I don't like hanging around the streets." "You live near Parc Galland?" "Tell me the adress." "The adress!" "You give me too much shit." "So long." "We won't get anything else." "Bring your tape recorder!" "I'm waiting for you." "Go faster." "What's up?" "We're moving for the day." "Where to, though?" "Where no one will see'em." "Come on, hurry up." "Go complain to the commission downstairs." "The first one to put his ass on bed will get it." "Why won't you talk either?" "Is it so important?" "Nothing is important." "I won't talk." "But why?" "If it doesn't matter, why not tell?" "It's the only way I can spit in your face." "Everything seems fine, but we would've liked to talk to some prisoners." "I've explained." "Here suspects are quickly questioned." "We don't keep them here long." "They're sent to a camp." "Or set free." "Or set free, of course." "Surely you don't doubt our word?" "Certainly not, Colonel." "The clowns are leaving." "None too soon." "OK." "Back home everybody." "On the double." "They still insist on seeing the General." "Where are they?" "Up there." "You must understand." "General Martin can't see you." "Your husbands are accused of conspiracy." "When will they appear in court?" "Quite soon." "People speak of... torture." "I give my word." "It's false." "Your husbands are well." "You must understand why you can't see them." "It's war." "They're against us." "Can't they see their lawyers?" "As soon as they arrive." "But in Paris, they can't get visas." "They weren't allowed on the plane." "But we're not in charge in Paris, or at the airport." "I'm sorry." "There's no time to talk." "I'm glad to see you're better." "Know what's going on outside?" "Of course not." "General Martin is winning the Battle of Algiers." "People are laying down their arms." "They understand where the NLF is leading them." "Why are you telling me this?" "Once peace is established... you can participate in building a new Algeria." "I have a proposition." "Write what you think of Algeria's present and future." "Give me a complete report, and you're free." "You refuse?" "Think we'd use it against you?" "Yes I do." "I will not collaborate with you." "If you want to know what I think, read the back numbers of "Democratic Algeria"." "It'll be easy since you occupy our old offices." "You're too sectarian." "I've seen your wife." "She asked if you were dead." "I told her you weren't, yet." "It's too bad." "Really too bad." "I like you." "I admire your courage." "I'll shake your hand." "I may never see you again." "A generator for the General!" "You're full of shit, Mansard." "The sine qua non of our action... is that these methods are admissible and even moral." "The chaplain gave a sermon about it." "Isn't that enough?" "But the press is fighting us." "The same press that betrayed us in Indo-China." "It only proves our efficiency." "There's no point to fussing about torture." "Go ahead." "Hook me up, fool!" "Obey the General." "You can tell officers and men what you've seen." "It isn't so bad." "Are you going to talk or do we put this back?" "You're going to be sorry." "Has he talked?" "Not a word." "This is taking too long." "He's been here 10 days." "Rumors are circulating." "They won't lay off me about him." "They don't fuss so much about Arabs." "Your job is to make him talk." "I think you're losing." "Talk for God's sake!" "Shit!" "Talk!" "Why won't you talk?" "Why?" "That's enough." "Be careful." "He's dead." "Assholes." "Throw Carbonneau in the cooler." "No one is to see the corpse!" "No one!" "He could escape." "Without a trace." "You take care of it." "Yes. 30 days." "The General's mad." "Accidents musn't happen to Europeans." "30 days for that." "Shit." "No one asked your opinion." "See what you can do to set things straight." "There is something..." "I don't want to know." "You take care of it." "Get ready." "We're not going far." "Get Oudinot ready too." "And Charlègue?" "Don't worry." "Scared?" "More for you than for me." "Pull your belly in." "He's thinner." "And the driver?" "He's new." "An imbecile." "Take the prisoner to headquarters." "He got away." "I heard shots." "What is it?" "The prisoner ran away." "He couldn't have hit him." "These are blanks." "Hey, you're pretty smart." "Like 15 days leave?" "Sure would!" "Then keep quiet." "Mr Secretary General, an officer wishes to speak to you." "It's about Oudinot." "Have him come in." "Commander Roch." "My respects, sir." "What can I do for you?" "What I have to say is top secret." "He's my assistant." "He has to hear everything." "M. Oudinot has escaped." "He escaped without a trace during a transfer." "What can I do about it?" "As regards the populace this escape isn't good for us." "Not psychologically or politically." "What's bad for us is bad for the government." "You should understand." "But what do you expect me to do?" "Annul Oudinot's subpoena." "Destroy it." "No one will ever know he was arrested or that he escaped." "Do you realize what you're asking me?" "A man is done away with, and you want me to cover it up?" "That's not it at all!" "I'm only trying to avoid..." "I shall annul nothing." "I shall destroy nothing." "You can go." "This conversation is over." "You're working against us." "You know what this means." "Did it work?" "The motherfucker won't help." "He shouldn't even meet the real Roch." "They asked us to take care of it." "So we will." "Any way we can, huh?" "Sit down." "I've had you come here to tell you what you already know." "Your husband has escaped." "You can read the report." "It's not true." "There's a witness." "A civilian." "Read the report." "You killed him." "You killed him, like the others." "And I swear everyone will know." "It may take months or years but everyone will know." "You can see your children." "I'm being deported and that's all you say." "It's all so dumb." "We got on so well before." "You weren't born here." "But I remember when I was little." "At school all my friends were Arabs." "Even the head of the class was always Mustapha..." "Mustapha is underground today." "Or killed like thousands of others." "Do you want them to take everything?" "This is part of France." "The army has to defend us." "And people have to disappear, be tortured?" "No, that's bad." "But I don't want to leave, I don't want to." "You love Algeria?" "Is that a crime?" "This isn't right." "You think it's right?" "My orders are to put her on the plane." "So they're sending the bitch home." "What are you doing?" "We're making sure the police do their job." "Agnes Charlegue is my friend." "You better watch out." "I can do as I like." "Maybe it's time to choose sides once and for all." "Stop smirking." "Want a cigarette?" "I don't smoke." "Please be more polite." "If it means so much to you, OK." "I'm Captain Fouquet, the famous "Captain SS"." "You've heard of Villa Sesini?" "You must have a nice dossier on me." "What would you do to me if you won?" "I don't care." "I take my risks..." "Algeria is screwed, sold like a whore... by pimps like you... socialists, Jews, liberals, writers." "And painters." "And painters." "Everybody." "All the female intellectuals, who forget their country." "I care about my country." "You mean international communism, international betrayal." "We should be fighting in Morocco and Tunisia." "They should arrest all the commies and the socialists." "But the governor of Algeria is Socialist." "We missed out last year." "Because of Suez." "The American bastards kept us from continuing... and the English bastards dropped us like at Dunkirk." "I wish an American submarine had sunk a French ship." "That wouldn't have helped." "Yes, it would have." "There'd be war with the US." "Things would've been clear." "You can laugh." "We'll be back on top soon." "At present, you're too much talked about." "So, we're sending you to Lodi, till they forget." "Then you'll be brought to me." "And I'll take you in hand." "Everybody talks with me." "Even deaf-mutes." "Everyone will know, too." "And if you still won't talk..." "I'll still tell your friends you talked." "They won't believe it." "Get him out." "All that's from Lodi?" "Where do we put them?" "The paratroopers can take the extra." "Clothes off." "Why take my books?" "Against rules." "Why?" "At Barberousse you don't ask questions." "Put him in isolation." "In all these cells?" "They're afraid of putting us with the others." "As if we were contagious." "And downstairs?" "120 prisoners sentenced to death." "120!" "Almost everyone here is a political prisoner." "Prisoners of war." "2400 in a prison built for 700." "And your lawyer?" "He knows I'm here." "No doubt he finds it hard to cross the Mediterranean." "He's been put off his plane 3 times." "I wonder why." "Passengers from Paris are requested to report to Police control." "M. Michali." "A lawyer?" "Of commercial law." "War's hard on business." "Where is a telephone, please." "M. Michaeli." "A lawyer." "Show him in." "I wanted to see you right away." "I'd like to arrange for a prisoner, M. Charlegue, to see his lawyer, if possible." "I assure you that his lawyer, M. Borkar, can see him as soon as he arrives." "He doesn't seem to be in a hurry." "There are delays." "So I'm submitting two letters:" "One from M. Borkar who entrusts me with the case." "In the other M. Charlegue requests to see me." "10 minutes, eh?" "Please go." "He's called Gargoyle." "Agnes sends her love." "The kids are fine." "It's good to see you again." "Algeria has changed." "Last time I defended you, they were only going to fine you." "What will they do this time?" "Did you read the indictment?" "Breach of public security... criminal conspiracy..." "It makes me feel better." "At least I'm official, in the files." "That's already something." "Do you have any news of Maurice?" "We don't know anything." "It's certain they killed him." "But there's no proof." "Josette's suit will be heard in France, at least." "We have to obtain a confrontation with the men who tortured you." "Can you identify them?" "I had time to look at them." "You have to write it all down, everything that happened." "An eye-witness story..." "Next!" "Have to change the blade." "Give me the old one." "Ah, confidence, my son." "Want the news?" "Hamed was caught by paratroopers." "The government's through." "Bourges is finished." "Think I don't hear you?" "I'll denounce you." "Go ahead, my son, go ahead." "Time for the meeting with the director." "No, it's not true." "15 days downstairs." "Why?" "One month for the why." "What!" "Two months." "But why?" "Think you're smart?" "Three months." "Shit then!" "Now at least it's for something." "You've asked permission to study." "Do you imagine you have the right to?" "As a political prisoner?" "There are none here." "No political prisoners." "Just criminals." "Common criminals you understand." "As a special favor you can study Russian." "Here's a grammar and a notebook." "And if you go live in the USSR afterwards, good ridance!" "One communist less." "In this overcrowded prison where suffering dwells in each cell... it's indecent to talk of one's self." "On the ground floor, those condemned to death... await in chains... a pardon or their death." "Their condition determines ours." "Not again!" "I have permission." "It's true." "What is it?" "Russian exercises." "It must be pretty hard." "There's going to be executions." "We're dying for our country." "God is great!" "Long live independant Algeria!" "Three are going to die." "Can you hear?" "They open the gate." "They go into the yard." "Do you hear?" "It's the casbah weeping." "You can't strike!" "This is no union!" "Good shot!" "And your cigarettes?" "If you keep your cigarettes, it's not a real strike." "The opinion on the dissertation of M. Oudinot..." "Professor of science, University of Algiers, defended in his absence by M. Podel." "Title:" ""Linear equations in vectorial space."" "M. Podel's report... shows the importance of his work, a mastery of the subject... and a talent as precious as it is rare." "His discoveries... will be applicable in many ways." "The jury... unanimously awards a doctorate in mathematical science... with honors to M. Oudinot." "You may recall M. Oudinot disappeared in Algiers... eight months ago." "Please do not applaud." "Let us have a minute of silence." "At the request of your lawyer... sit down... you will confront the men you accuse in your charge." "Lt. Carbonneau, will you please read the charge." "It's nothing but lies." "You did not mistreat him?" "No electricity, no blows?" "Not even a slap?" "Not even a slap." "Since he did not wish to answer our questions... we locked him in a room." "He remained there." "He stayed there one month?" "Without leaving it." "He's lying." "I am not." "I don't see... what he has against us." "None of it is true." "I have nothing to add." "How could I ask questions?" "I don't even have a diploma." "It's not possible." "Why do you say such things about us?" "I swear on my mother's head it's not true." "Journalists have so much imagination." "It's perfectly ridiculous." "Have you got a light?" "Merely to have to reply to such slanders... is an insupportable insult, a scandal." "This man is lying!" "Lying!" "No matter what you hear, don't interrupt." "And stay beside me." "Can you identify the rooms listed in your charge?" "He never left the cellar." "It's upstairs." "Here..." "I was tortured with shocks..." "And there I saw Oudinot for the last time." "Why particularly here?" "All the rooms here are alike." "In fact..." "I wasn't here?" "This bar is... where I was hung by my feet and burned." "I was nearly drowned here." "He's making it all up." "Under the sink... 6 inches from the ground, a tube divides in two... wrapped in heavy duty paper." "It's true." "Under the window... scratched with a pin... is the name Safia and a heart with an arrow." "It's true." "On the third floor a terrace is paved with red tiles." "I'll show the way to the clinic." "Now you know who told the truth and who lied." "When do you indict them?" "For my french readers it had best be said... that the algerians... do not identify their torturers with the French people." "But they must know what is done in their name." "I repeat, in their name." "Hurry." "What's in there?" "You can't search me." "I have orders." "You're risking a lot." "These are letters from my client." "You see: "Dear M. Michaeli."" "You have no right to read them." "Professional secrecy..." "All this and he sees you each week?" "He's obsessed with writing." "Before, during Ramadhan... when the sun set... we kids came out all over the casbah... down rue Bologhine and rue du Chameau... sweets were everywhere, on trays, tables, on stairways:" "zalabiahs with honey, makrouds, gazelle horns..." "In rue de la lyre you could smell jasmine and mint tea." "Everyone shouted, "Sahfat tokhum!"" "And it went on all night." "Henri thought of "Questionnaire on Torture"." "Perhaps, "The Question of Torture"." ""The Question", perhaps..." "Yes." "In fact, that's what the Inquisition called torture." "Everyone out!" "No more notebooks." "No more paper." "Nothing!" "See, we're nice." "We stopped." "So now you talk." "There was a big shot here before you." "Charlegue." "Heard of him?" "He talked." "Never heard of him." "You want it tough, huh?" "OK, let's get back to it." "Out with it." "Do they want us to lose this war?" "Will they publish it?" "Our names even..." "If my mother saw it..." "They'll publish nothing." "The government will say it's lies." "we didn't do anything." "It took them long enough to decide to seize it." "It's been on sale a month all over France." "There'll be a new edition." "We'll seize it again." "And we'll publish it again." "It's all mixed up now." "People..." "Ideas..." "There's Arabs fighting for us, yet they're shot down at random." "The French fighting for the NLF... are tortured as if they were Arabs." "And not only communists like Henri." "There's even Christians and priests..." "Why, the Bishop of Algiers is pro-Arab." "I have a spanish friend in Oran, he fought against Franco in Spain... but he's fighting against independance." "I don't approve." "You don't approve of Henri." "But He's a friend." "I'm glad he got out alive." "He was lucky..." "He was lucky to be known, lucky to publish his story." "is a privilege hundreds of thousands don't have" "That's why we're making a case out of Henri." "It's for all the others who aren't heard." "Subpoena to appear the 13th of june." "before the Military Tribunal." "In two weeks." "They're suddenly in a hurry, after three years." "They'll try to keep a lid on it." "The presiding judge will be Carteau." "He's made to order." "He specialized in anti-communism during the 4th republic, and even under Vichy." "Governments change." "Judges remain." "You're to appear with Garnero, Hamid Hassani," "Youcef Said, Yohia Berkane, and get this:" "Maurice Oudinot." "They're filth." "Not to summon him would be to admit they killed him." "They'll judge a dead man in absentia." "I told you they'd clear the court." "They didn't let me speak." "They can't hide the truth." "All France believes Maurice was killed." "Summoning him, they're dishonoured." "Your presence only makes them more infamous." "Your presence was indispensable." "They're judging a dead man in absentia." "They can do nothing." "In there is a man whose book has been read by 200.000." "We're still denouncing torture." "I swear, the whole world will know what's going on." "Garnero, 20 years." "Me, 10 years." "It was a parody." "They refused to hear me." "Now I'm expulsed from Algeria." "But this isn't the end." "You'll be transferred to France to testify about Oudinot." "Here you're not safe." "Neither are you." "Everyday I get death threats." "Finished?" "Did the judge confront you with Carbonneau?" "Well, did you see Roch or Treguier?" "None of them were present." "Only a General who wasn't involved..." "And then they turned on me." "By publishing the torturers' names" "I've calomnied the army's honor." "I told you it might cut both ways." "I didn't come to play the prostrate widow, but to tell the judge who the killers were." "Come with me." "A car is waiting for you." "You've arranged a little accident?" "You know me better than that." "You're flying to Rennes, to Britanny." "Arrival of flight 757... from Paris." "And his medical visa?" "Do you have it?" "This is a special case." "That's not my concern." "Play sick!" "You're leaving him on the ground floor?" "Don't worry." "He's in no state to climb the wall." "What's wrong?" "I'll report on him to your superiors." "You just guard this door, OK?" "We've been waiting." "There's clothes in the closet." "Wait another two hours..." "Henri escaped from the hospital..." "October 4th, 1961." "Six months later, the amnesty made all charges impossible, and all accusations useless." "For the law, Maurice is not dead," "Henri was never tortured."