Les Miserables Page #9

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
288 Views


It's better than Marius and Cosette, eh?

Time to stop and pig out a bit.

Pig out? - It's like having good luck while stuffing your face.

Say, young lady. Lets see what's in the magic basket.

If I teach you reading. Would you teach me slang?

Give me five... - Five what?

To close a deal you slap fingers.

You'll speak slang before I can read.

As a kid what did you learn first? Slang or French?

Straight to slang.

Is that why your a boxer?

No... Because I was cold and hungry.

It's complicated.

Repeat...It's easier to toss a load of sh*t onto a shingle. Then into a hole or the gut.

It's easier to toss a shump of lingle in the hole in the gut.

It's easier to toss a lump of sh*t onto a shinhle...

Toss a lump of sh*t on a shingle in the hole in the gut.

It's all there?

It's not enough?

What did you make today?

Soup. - That's all he eats.

Do you want to kiss him goodbye?

"Don Quixote saw 30 or 40 windmills."

comma. "looking at his squire he said" colon.

Not so fast - Mr. Henri.

The mayor wants to speak to you.

Important? - Seems so.

Do your homework.

Mr. Mayor your up early this weekend - Can I have a coffee?

Quickly, make two coffees.

You've being here a year now and you've helped everyone. And everyone has asked me to make you major.

Me? - Yes, I've lost all interest in everything but fishing.

Me? -Mr. Henri. There is a lady who would like to talk to you.

A lady? - Yes, she seems all shooken up.

Excuse me for a second. - Don't rush.

I'll come by tomorrow for your answer.

Mrs Ziman.

The mother superior gave me your address.

Is Salome here? You bet. Come.

She's studying.

What now? - Your friends.

What friends? - Your friends.

What a day. - I think their in trouble. Bills wounded.

What's up? - The cops are after us.

Here? - No we lost them in the forest.

Come follow me. and hide in the cabins.

Act like nothings going on. Protect Salome and her mum.

Hurry. It gets crowed at noon.

You sure they didn't tail you?

Where have I seen him?

They've got wounded people.

I've seen him before.

That's the car they used in Paris.

Surround the beach. Call for backup.

When did he stop writing?

At the end of the war.

He may still be alive. - That's what Mr. Fortin says every day.

Marius, get me a pan of hot water.

Sorry to leave you Mrs. Ziman.

I thought you and Salome would need some time alone.

Thank you for Salome.

With Salome, I found one hell of a pal and a teacher.

Can we get an order ma'am.

Mr. Ziman still with you? - No, I was just telling Salome.

You tell me about it.

Sorry again Mrs. Ziman. Salome, please show your mum around.

You two can settle in my room, okey?

Don't move. Nobody move!

Where are they?

What do you want? - Where are they?

What? - What's the water for?

I know you.

Well, In my job I get to know allot of hoodlums.

Where are they?

What the hell are they doing? Go find out.

We must stop the bleeding.

Sh*t!

Tell me where you hid them and I'll make you a plea bargain.

Did you plea bargain?

Tell me which cabin there in?

You know I'll never answer you.

You want to drink that?

A real obsession.

No body move. Hands up! Hands up!

Don't move.

Don't move, get his gun!

Get his gun!

You don't have a chance.

What do you mean no chance?

Our chance is your chance.

Because we are stick together. Now!

Sticking together! - Stop.

Calm down. You have to get out of here.

With him! With him!

Yes, With him.

Where in deep sh*t now - What's up?

Where slitting with just about every cop in France.

I told you we didn't shake them.

Why did you come here?

Why? Why?

See what you did to my pal? If he croaks, you croak.

Stick them in the cabins.

You stay alive so long as I'm alive.

Tell your guys to pull out.

Tell them!

Make we can make a deal? - The Guillotine?

Is that your deal?

For the last time! Tell them to pull out!

no. - No? What do you mean, NO?

Tell them to pull out now! quickly!

You said no. Watch.

You still won't tell them?

Watch some more.

Watch. Your boss said "No"

What are you going to do now? I guess your next.

What do you think?

Tell you guys to pull off the beach. Tell them!

I'll waist you.

Why did you save my life?

Why hunt miserable people down?

To each his own duty.

Because it's your job to hunt down the Miserables...

...Doesn't mean they can save you.

Why did you do it?

Why?

Why did you do it?

So I'd see you in court.

I always serve my country.

When you see a quite place could you pull over. I need to pee.

Keep going on. I'll catch up.

You have 30 seconds to spilt. That's all I can do for you.

That's all I can do for you. Come on lets piss.

When the car moves. Mow him down.

I have to piss too.

You don't want to have to say in court that you torched me.

I've always served my country. I served marshal Petain.

Just like I said.

Then I joined the counter spying agency.

I think you switched sides and joined the counter spying agency after having a few too many.

I switched sides when I thought the marshal was wrong.

Lets go.

Go on. I'm coming.

That's not what the police said happened.

What do they say?

That you asked to stop to pee.. then you attacked the commissioner.

When he realized that my trail would be his trail He killed himself.

I got the best lawyers in Paris.

My husband best friend.

Any news of Mr. Ziman?

I went all the way to the Swiss border.

No sign of him.

You know, so many strange things happened in the war.

He could have lost him memory. It happens.

Can Salome and I stay at your place.

Of course you can.

I just can't go home.

All during this time. Where where you?

In Poland.

How did you make it back?

I preyed.

Well I better start preying too.

13 days without contact from my farmer friends.

Tonight, I'll try to go outside.

My diary tells of my 625 days here.

It's dedicated to my family... and to my farmed friends who took such a risk keeping me here.

Germany Surrenders.

I would like to call the sacred hearts boarding school in Normandy.

When men are desperate and women sell themselves for bread.

When children suffer.

"The Miserables" come knocking at the door. Period.

Victor Hugo was 60 years old when he finished Les Miserables. Period.

He felt then that he could die fulfilling his duty. Period.

What can I get you?

Since where quoting...

... lets remember Cather's words.

In the history of the world, only 2 or 3 stories...

... keep repeating forever...

This story is one and it has every alibi.

How many Americans would have died...

... if Henri Fortin had not taken the bunker.

How many women...

... do not mourn there husbands because Henri Fortin saved them?

You Mr. Prosecutor, say that he stole the payroll of the Vinci Government.

Did the Vichy government represent France?

Answer me!

You have put on trial a man who cannot read of write.

A man who followed his common sense....

... and therefore was able to distinguish between good and evil.

Does the law punish people for common sense? Since when?

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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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