"in association with" "The vocation of André Carel by Jean Choux with Blanche Montel" "André Carel" " Mr. Stéphane Audel" "The teacher, Gaston Lebeau - Mr. Michel Simon" "At the hotel Bellevue in Montreux." "Hotel Bellevue Montreux André Carel" "Hotel Bellevue Montreux Gaston Lebeau" ""Could I speak to the director of the hotel?"" ""I've just arrived with mister André Carel..."" ""It's the son of Jean Carel, our famous writer."" ""It was me who was his teacher from his earliest childhood..."" ""...and I had left him, three years ago, when his father recalled me."" "Jean carel" " Mr. Camille Bert" ""André worries me..."" ""I had thought, like you know, that he would continue my work."" ""Ah, the folly of sports"" ""He has exhausted, overworked himself." "You will go with him."" ""He needs rest, calm, and most of all the closest supervision."" ""Never leave him alone!"" ""And, now that you know, you can quietly inform the staff..."" ""In case mr." "André seems a bit strange."" ""You know, the Parisian who has just arrived..."" ""Well, you know..."" "Thanks to the eagerness of the staff..." "To my son André" "The first night." "But the next day..." ""What's up?"" ""That you are an idiot!"" "The next day, on the high lake." "To mr." "Jean Carel, Paris." "We have left the hotel since 3 days, and to escape the curiosity which...that a famous name excites everywhere in its path." "Mr. André has hired a villa on an island next to Montreux." "We do the tour of the high lake." "Mr. André has gone ashore to re- charge his kodak, his new passion." "Reine Lugrin" " Miss Blanche Montel" ""Do you know who this young girl is?"" ""That is Reine, the daughter of father Lugrin, owner of the boat "The Lorraine" at Meillerie." "In Meillerie." "Father Lugrin" " Mr. Maurice Destain" "One of his boatmen, Louis Cardan, boarder with the Lugrin family - Mr. Jean Cyri." "Two days later." "Mother Lugrin" " Mrs. Thérèse Reignier" ""What do you want?"" ""I'm looking for work..."" ""On the boats?"" ""You'll have to look somewhere else, for my crew is complete."" "A shy lover" " Miss Helena Manson" ""Good morning, Cardan."" ""I will take you on trial." "Board and lodging on the boat, and 80 francs each trip."" ""Who's this bloke then?"" ""This is the bloke who replaces you." "I've had enough of your lateness, of your laziness."" ""No!" "I don't want to take anyone's place."" ""Fine!" "Both of you stay!" "But to work!" "And lively!"" "Noon arrives just in time." ""This is a new boatman, whom I hired this morning."" ""He'll stay on the boat and will eat with us."" ""When do we leave?"" ""Tomorrow morning."" ""And when will we be in Evian?"" ""Maybe at noon, maybe at 2 o'clock, maybe at 6 o'clock, it depends on the wind."" ""You'll pack your bags and mine..." "You'll leave for Evian tonight, ...where you'll order two rooms." "Expect me there around 2 o'clock."" ""Where?"" ""Opposite the pier."" ""And the villa?"" ""Rent it out, if you can!"" ""And the maid?"" ""The maid too!"" "The next day in Evian." ""Let us go to the hotel." "I will explain to you."" ""Board..."" ""...and lodgings on the boat..."" ""...and 80 francs each trip!"" ""That's it." "I keep my room here, where I'll supposedly live." "On each trip, I come back to see you."" ""But not a word to my father!"" ""Never leave him alone!"" "Eight days later." ""They're waiting for you." "It's pay day."" ""I was watching you walk..." "It's a delightful sight"" ""You're a very strange worker!"" "His pay." "How he uses it." ""It's me who's buying!"" "Then comes the hour, when in the quiet evening..." "Like a similar gesture, unsayable and divine, the masts join together, and the hands join together." "On Sunday afternoon." "And while the teacher, in a quiet and solitary binge, tries to deceive his growing worries..." ""Your daughter is on the lake with that Parisian."" ""Where do you come from?"" ""I was on the water."" ""We didn't do anything wrong."" ""All the same!" "He's a stranger, we know nothing of him..."" ""What is that?"" ""That is the deepest place of the lake."" "The days the long days, blissful, that with the soft sun, glide into the evening deep." "André had become an excellent boatman." "He had hardened himself from hard work." "To blind and rapid winds that have to be captured and tamed." "To huge masts." "To the big boat itself that has to be pushed in the lake with poles." "...that has to be taken by the oars or hauled, little by little, the long way by a towline..." "He had seen the beauty of all things beautiful." "Beauty of the mornings." "Beauty of the evenings." "Beauty of the nights." "Beauty of the waters and the mountains." "Beauty of the departures." "Beauty of the voyages." "Beauty of the returns." "Beauty of a beloved sight, left behind time and again and found back." "And also another..." "BEAUTY ...that, for a long time, brewed in him, and that, suddenly..." "BURST OUT" ""I ask you for forgiveness, I've often been unfair to you..."" ""...impudent, offensive, rude!"" ""I didn't know..." "I know..."" ""What do you know then?"" ""Life."" ""It was yesterday, when I was at the rudder..."" ""The old man was pushing the ship..."" ""The boss and his second mate..."" ""I looked at them in turn..."" ""I saw their old faces..."" ""...tired, wrinkled, soaked in sweat, and tense with effort..."" ""And suddenly I understood the grandeur of work, the beauty of the human effort."" ""I would speak of the human Effort..."" ""I would praise the suffering people..."" ""I would speak if the human Effort..." "I would speak of the troubles of men..."" ""So then... you will leave this disguise and leave these people."" ""You seem to forget why I became a boatman."" ""I want to know if she loves me, thinking me a workman..."" ""But as soon as I know, I swear to you..."" ""I'll come to find you here, and we'll leave for Paris, to tell my father everything."" "Two days later." ""You still think of her..."" ""You're wrong, for she loves another."" ""They are always seen together..."" ""She loves him and he loves her."" ""He won't love her much longer!"" ""Miss Reine!"" ""Miss Reine!"" ""Cardan wants to hurt André."" ""Why do you me tell this, me?"" "After events only he can reveal, your son has found his voice, he is full of zeal and ardour." "So I think we'll return from here to Paris soon." "Until then, I remain, Lebeaux" ""Quick, my suitcase." "I'm leaving for Evian!"" "That night, on the open lake." "The boat returns..." "André and Cardan are on duty." "For my son André." "One hour later, at daybreak, in sight of Meillerie." ""And André?"" ""He must be below."" ""All hands on deck!"" "A man missing on board, the "Lorraine" was halted." ""André has disappeared."" ""I've been told of your threats." "Tell me the truth, or else, on your own head be it!"" ""Answer!"" ""Well, OK." "We had a fight..." "he slipped..."" ""Where?"" ""In the open at Evian."" ""And you haven't said anything!"" ""Villain!"" ""He must be searched for." "He must be found, rescued..."" "And while the boatmen who brought Reine turn back to reassure her mother the "Lorraine" turned round and, going from side to side, searched the restless lake." "In vain... always in vain..." "Until, suddenly..." "Oh Joy!" ""How did you know?"" ""Where is Cardan?"" ""Call him!"" ""Promise me to say nothing..." "I forgive him."" ""And now I ask you one last request."" ""We are quite close to Evian." "Put me ashore in the harbour."" ""Steer to Evian."" "And while father Lugrin, without understanding him, gives in to this strange wish..." ""Where is my son?"" ""He is... he is... on the lake..." "He loves the lake very much."" ""And when does he come back?"" ""Soon..." "Without a doubt, soon."" ""Let us go to his room to wait for him."" ""You're hiding something from me..."" "And André passionately tells everything:" "His love, his adventure, his calling..." ""Tomorrow we will take care of all that, my boy."" "The following afternoon." ""You've saved him, a good thing!"" ""He has abandoned us, and perhaps that's for the best."" ""He must have understood, poor man, that he is no match for you!"" ""You know nothing of André?"" ""...and Cardan has left the country."" ""My father."" "Things become clear and things are agreed." "One month later." "André and his young wife left Meillerie..." "But for Evian, from where they were to leave on a beautiful journey their friends the boatmen went with them..." "And so, on the big boat driven by 50 oars but with sails that the wind will soon fill." "They stood, burning with love, beautiful with youth and hope." "And so they went into the future." "The end" "This silent film from 1925 has been reconstructed in 2002 by the Swiss Film Archive." "In association with Memoriav." "Under the direction of Reto Kromer  Carole Delessat"