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One in a million chance.

Come and take a look!

On the gangway!

They're checking the horizon

with their binoculars.

Edouard, there's smoke.

There's smoke but there's no fire.

No, that's it, our friends

have sent my message.

Yeah, yeah.

Come and see.

Come and see this smoke.

Come quickly. Look carefully at it.

You see!

It's freedom that's on its way!

I'm sure that they're English boats.

And the miracle happens.

The life of Paul Clarus, Episode 9.

I persuaded the Allied Authorities

to help me create

a radio broadcast in order

to get the Madagascans

on their side.

Somewhere in the Indian Ocean,

Free Madagascar soon called out

to its friends and enemies.

You had to speak to the French

but also to Madagascans,

Indians, Chinese, in languages

they could understand.

That must have required

a huge number of people.

Hello, hello Madagascar!

Free Madagascar

speaking this evening.

Proclaim Madagascar's political

and economic autonomy,

and support the Allies.

Everybody, listen to me carefully,

everybody!

You too Michel!

You hypocritical old ass!

Vichy supporter, child of Ptain,

and sneaky criminal!

Vichy will let the Japanese

take Madagascar over,

just like in Indochina.

But not the Allies.

When they arrive,

welcome them as liberators,

not as enemies.

Do not fight, despite the orders

of the Vichy traitors.

Good night and until tomorrow.

The Royal special tribunal

has just condemned

ex-convict, Clarus, to death,

for seditious and anti-French

propaganda on the radio.

And my predictions came about.

On 4th May 1942,

the British landed at Diego Suarez.

Vichy supporters

gave the order to fight.

The English occupied

the town militarily.

But, two weeks later,

the English General Sturge,

formally proclaimed

that the only flag that is to fly

over the French town hall,

over the French town

of Diego Suarez

is the French flag.

Michel must have understood

your warnings,

and fled to a safe place.

Old boy, you haven't yet understood

Michel's character.

The truth is that as soon as

he learnt of the Allied landings...

Shamed be he who thinks ill of this.

Oh, that's touching,

it brings tears to my eyes.

Don't tell me the English

were taken in by him?

- No!

- He was arrested.

It was his turn to be imprisoned!

And you claim, dear Clarus,

that nature has endowed me

with the necessary attributes

to play the role of the despicable

and rotten Michel!

Listen old fool, I tried helping you create

the character that you're supposed to play.

And I tell you it's an insult!

An insult from an insignificant

and low-grade lawyer.

Monstrous pig!

- Watch your mouth!

- Hey, come on chaps!

What's going on in here?

We're just rehearsing,

just rehearsing.

Isn't that so, old stooge!

Yes, yes.

What did she say?

Let's go, it's all over now.

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