Les Miserables Page #8

Synopsis: Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Claude Lelouch
Production: Warner Home Video
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1995
175 min
271 Views


Get grenades and blow it up.

Can I help? - Can you use it?

I can learn - Smart move.

Let's hit the bunker.

What? - The bunker.

I'm going too. - Stay here.

We can't just let them wipe those kids out.

Sir, I know them. We deliver them food.

We'll blow them up!

I'm coming too. - No they don't know you.

Show me how. - Pull the pin, count to five and blow the bunker up.

To 5? - Yes, but not to slow.

Brave kids.

No! no! those are Guillaumes kids!

Open the door.

Damn! The kids hit.

I'm going.

What's with that arsehole. He'll get us killed.

Stop. Of they'll shoot back.

General. The Americans have landed in Normandy.

The supreme battle has started.

After so much war, fear and pain. This is the decisive moment. - In Normandy.

Wasn't it to be Calais?

Who cares? Normandy or Calais. It's all the same. It's over and I'm happy the Jews leaving.

But the wars not over yet.

Not today, not tomorrow. Not yet.

But he'll be leaving soon.

They didn't land to visit the seaside resorts. It'll be over soon. I'll tell him.

Wait, Wait. What's the rush?

Aren't you off to Switzerland to get some money?

So what? - You never think do you?

It bug the hell out of you to see him leaving doesn't it? It bugs the hell out of you.

He doesn't care about you.

Take a look at yourself.

It bugs the hell out of you to see him leave, doesn't it? Well, it bugs the hell out of me to see him stay!

There, where even. The Jew bugs the hell out of me.

It's obvious that your no farmer.

It's obvious that your no farmer.

Storms come and got as they wish and here they were on the Germans side.

But how could the situation change so swiftly.

I told you. The bad storm...

They control everything now. Everything.

What happens if I disguise myself?

All the Jews where exterminated. Even the ones in disguise.

They couldn't kill all the Jews.

If some Jews are still alive, It's because of people like me.

You know the Americans. They'll try another landing.

With good weather they'll win!

Hitler declared that their stronghold was in Europe.

He won't give up. He's a maniac.

A maniac. When he's mad he's being known to eat carpets.

It's not your fault Ziman. I'm not jealous.

It's just. I have these images in our mind about my wife. It's being a wile since we got oozy.. because she gets it here.

I've never slept with your wife.

Stop this. I never.

It doesn't bug me that your a Jew. I'm not an anti-Semite.

I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm a good Christian.

But my wife. My wife, what can I say?

What can I say?

A letter for Sophie.

What else?

Are we really doing this?

Really?

It was here? - Someone must have taken the furniture.

I hope it was Ziman.

Where still a team, right?

No furniture left.

Look out miss. He's a punk.

Where's Marius?

Behind you.

I think he found himself a Cosette.

A nice one too.

What's your name? - Germaine.

Too bad. Remember, we are going to the capital soon.

Aren't we sticking together?

No, I won't forget you for your help. We are friends for life.

But now's the time to make it really big!

But can't you see? Your thing is not my thing.

Excuse me, ma'am. During the war I moved things into that house.

Who took the furniture?

I don't know. I saw nothing. - Nothing.

We're not home all the time, peeping on the neighbours.

Why meet in Montmartre?

I want you to take a look at that little apartment.

Overlooking the Sacre-Coeur? - Right.

See you Mr. chief of the new crime department of the new government.

Is that a joke?

Is my war record a joke?

What is the apartment like? Tinny-wine or Biggy-big?

Cutey-cute.

Dear Salome. Like mummy and me you must be disappointed that the American didn't land.

Don't loose hope honey.

Next time they'll be back. More numerous and stronger and for good.

The good news is that I beat my own record.

I walked 53 times back and forth in my cave. Soon I'll be able to jump.

Ziman, Ziman? - What now?

Hitler made his triumphant entrance into London England.

Like Ceaser.

Take this letter to the boarding school. And bring my girl back.

Don't you think we thought of that? We've tried everything.

She was caught. Because of your letters.

A Jew Salome.

No. She registered under a catholic name. Fortin.

Fortin. Salome. But the letter Ziman.

The letters, Ziman. Your daughter is dead.

You get it? The letters.

Salome, The letters.

Ziman. Never forget that. It was the letters.

If such a good business. Then why are you selling?

It's too much for a woman.

My husband didn't come back.

You say it draws a parisian crowd?

Where 20 miles outside of Paris.

The moment the sun shows up they're outside.

If you want I could show you the ropes for the first year.

Do you like it?

If you like it...I'll like it.

Are your pals involved in this? - No

It's over. No more pals, no more partners.

You think I'm a jerk?

I don't know what to do with him.

Go on, make a fool out of me if it makes you feel better.

Ziman. You don't get up any more?

What's happening in Paris?

The Germans are partying with our wine and women and whores.

And that;s nothing.

They dropped two atomic bombs. One on New York and on Los Angels.

Over a million dead.

All American Jews are being arrested and shot.

You might as well be the last remaining Jew.

The last one or one of the last.

So Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan rule the world?

Hitler didn't give a damn about the neutrality of Belgium did he?

He just announced that he'll invade Switzerland.

So if there is any money left in your account you must get it out now before Switzerland is defeated.

Your right.

Well it's just that my friend offered me a job.

You call that a job?

Mr. Fortin, Where have you being?

Mrs. Dubois. My neighbour.

This is Marius. Who chooses easy money over hard work.

Well, may I kiss you? - You bet.

Are you coming back?

No, just getting my stuff.

There's a letter. - For me?

Shall I read it? - Of Course.

Good day sir. I hope you still remember me...

I am Salome who you kindly brought to the boarding school.

With no news from my patents I can't think who to write to.

I wonder if you know where they are?

I am very worried. And you?

How are you? I enjoyed our journey together.

I tried to find you one like your.

Where are we going?

I found a beach near Paris where you can play all your life.

When will mama and dad join us.

You know it takes month for prisoners to come back.

They aren't dead? - I'm sure they're not.

Why don't they write me?

You'll meet a great guy.

Guess what his name is? Marius.

Imagine that! Marius and Salome.

Is there a school there - Yes.

It was destroyed during the bombing. So I'm there helping to rebuild it.

Your holidays will be short.

You married? - Not long ago and not for long.

Why? - Women don't like boxers.

Why? - Because we lead a bazaar life. We don't dance.

We can't... You know what I mean.

You'll grow up first.

Marius and Salome... pretty isn't it?

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Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency. more…

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