César (1936) Subtitles

00:03:13,913 --> 00:03:17,- What brings you here?
- I had to see you, Elzéar.

00:03:17,625 --> 00:03:20,Couldn't you have attended mass
at the same time?

00:03:20,878 --> 00:03:23,You're afraid of seeming to be
a weak spirit.

00:03:23,714 --> 00:03:26,I'm afraid I've only just arrived.

00:03:26,258 --> 00:03:29,I came to find you
because Panisse is dying.

00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:34,Poor Honoré is close to death.

00:03:34,892 --> 00:03:36,Did he send you?

00:03:36,727 --> 00:03:42,No, Fanny did. She's meeting
her son, my godson, at the station.

00:03:42,608 --> 00:03:44,Yes, I baptised him.

00:03:45,111 --> 00:03:46,Who's his doctor?

00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,Félicien.

00:03:48,906 --> 00:03:53,He says it's his heart.
He had an attack last year.

00:03:53,703 --> 00:03:55,That gave me a real scare.

00:03:55,454 --> 00:03:57,He recovered,

00:03:57,957 --> 00:04:01,but last night
he had another attack.

00:04:02,503 --> 00:04:04,Come and hear his confession.

00:04:05,881 --> 00:04:07,Does he realise he's so ill?

00:04:08,634 --> 00:04:10,I think so.

00:04:10,511 --> 00:04:13,He called us all
to say goodbye this morning,

00:04:14,140 --> 00:04:17,Mr Brun, Escartefigue,
the stoker and me.

00:04:17,393 --> 00:04:19,But he was unable to speak.

00:04:20,271 --> 00:04:21,I'll come.

00:04:21,897 --> 00:04:24,Find an altar boy.

00:04:25,443 --> 00:04:28,Elzéar, I don't think
you should tell him.

00:04:28,070 --> 00:04:31,I can hardly avoid it
if I confess him.

00:04:31,615 --> 00:04:34,Don't say you came on purpose.

00:04:35,119 --> 00:04:37,But I'll be bringing the host

00:04:37,955 --> 00:04:40,and I'll have on my surplice.

00:04:41,041 --> 00:04:42,Precisely.

00:04:42,751 --> 00:04:44,You'll scare him.

00:04:44,586 --> 00:04:48,And Félicien said
the slightest shock could kill him.

00:04:49,174 --> 00:04:54,Why don't you leave your surplice
and the altar boy downstairs?

00:04:55,013 --> 00:04:58,You can say you just dropped by...

00:04:59,017 --> 00:05:01,and then break the news
little by little.

00:05:02,145 --> 00:05:05,It would be
less hard on him that way.

00:05:06,066 --> 00:05:09,I know I'm asking you to lie

00:05:10,070 --> 00:05:12,but it's for Honoré's sake.

00:05:13,490 --> 00:05:14,All right.

00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,Thank you, Elzéar.

00:05:17,744 --> 00:05:19,You're a good man.

00:06:02,497 --> 00:06:03,Elzéar is on his way.

00:06:05,291 --> 00:06:06,Tell him.

00:06:06,751 --> 00:06:10,He doesn't speak any more.
Not a word or gesture.

00:06:11,505 --> 00:06:13,The doctor just left.

00:06:13,173 --> 00:06:14,What did he say?

00:06:14,383 --> 00:06:15,He said he's done for.

00:06:16,802 --> 00:06:17,Done for?

00:06:18,303 --> 00:06:19,Done for.

00:06:20,556 --> 00:06:21,Poor Honoré.

00:06:22,724 --> 00:06:23,Monsieur Brun,

00:06:24,893 --> 00:06:26,Panisse is done for.

00:06:31,275 --> 00:06:33,What was that?
Did you speak, Honoré?

00:06:35,445 --> 00:06:36,He said "bollocks".

00:06:37,990 --> 00:06:39,Then he must be better.

00:06:40,784 --> 00:06:41,He's asleep?

00:06:43,996 --> 00:06:45,I feel a lot better.

00:06:46,373 --> 00:06:49,I can breathe now.

00:06:49,585 --> 00:06:50,You're saved.

00:06:51,128 --> 00:06:55,I don't know about saved, Félix...

00:06:55,632 --> 00:06:57,I think so,

00:06:57,426 --> 00:06:58,speaking for myself...

00:06:59,011 --> 00:07:03,Let him speak. He can hardly breathe
and you interrupt.

00:07:03,223 --> 00:07:05,It was worth saying.

00:07:05,184 --> 00:07:09,What's worth saying
on a day like this?

00:07:09,313 --> 00:07:10,Now look.

00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,Who's dying here, you or him?

00:07:12,649 --> 00:07:13,Him!

00:07:13,942 --> 00:07:16,Then let him talk!

00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,Honoré, you don't look ill at all.

00:07:33,462 --> 00:07:35,You look fine.

00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,That's what is so annoying.
I don't look as if I'm dying.

00:07:40,551 --> 00:07:42,My face is like a baby's bottom

00:07:43,012 --> 00:07:45,and my bottom like Félix's face.

00:07:46,015 --> 00:07:47,Minus the beard, of course.

00:07:48,226 --> 00:07:52,I'm dying and yet
it doesn't feel like it.

00:07:52,813 --> 00:07:54,It's ridiculous.

00:07:54,607 --> 00:07:56,I don't mind dying

00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,but I hate to think of not living.

00:07:59,862 --> 00:08:05,I hate to think I won't see
my wife again and my son.

00:08:05,743 --> 00:08:06,Or you people.

00:08:07,119 --> 00:08:11,Or drink a pastis
under the plane trees.

00:08:11,707 --> 00:08:13,Or play boules with you.

00:08:13,709 --> 00:08:16,Don't worry. We'll find a substitute.

00:08:16,837 --> 00:08:18,Wait till he's dead.

00:08:18,965 --> 00:08:20,I don't want him to worry.

00:08:21,384 --> 00:08:25,I'll miss not shaving each morning
in front of the open window,

00:08:25,888 --> 00:08:28,looking out on the old port,

00:08:28,975 --> 00:08:31,thinking about the day to come...

00:08:31,978 --> 00:08:36,while watching Félix start out
on his first trip of the day.

00:08:38,025 --> 00:08:40,I shall miss the little things.

00:08:41,612 --> 00:08:45,I shall miss the hairs on my chest.

00:08:46,742 --> 00:08:48,I'll miss my corn.

00:08:49,287 --> 00:08:54,It never did anyone any harm
and it forecast the weather for me.

00:08:57,211 --> 00:08:59,But skeletons don't have corns.

00:09:00,214 --> 00:09:01,What an awful thought!

00:09:02,383 --> 00:09:04,You'll lose more weight than me.

00:09:16,813 --> 00:09:18,Someone's coming.

00:09:23,486 --> 00:09:26,How's old Elzéar?

00:09:26,698 --> 00:09:28,I haven't seen you for ages!

00:09:28,783 --> 00:09:30,Hello, César.

00:09:32,871 --> 00:09:35,- Hello, Félix.
- How are you, Elzéar?

00:09:35,582 --> 00:09:38,The Good Lord keeps me going.

00:09:38,460 --> 00:09:41,What's wrong with you, Honoré?

00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,Are you ill?

00:09:43,715 --> 00:09:46,Yes, it seems I'm ill.

00:09:46,551 --> 00:09:50,But, Elzéar, it seems you're a liar.

00:09:50,722 --> 00:09:52,Honoré, he's a priest!

00:09:52,682 --> 00:09:54,Why do you say that?

00:09:54,434 --> 00:09:57,Why do you pretend you don't know?

00:09:58,021 --> 00:09:59,You've no proof, I know.

00:09:59,731 --> 00:10:04,I suppose you just happened
to be passing by chance.

00:10:04,194 --> 00:10:05,By chance.

00:10:05,195 --> 00:10:08,Not exactly by chance.

00:10:08,198 --> 00:10:12,You just looked in
to pass the time of day.

00:10:12,994 --> 00:10:13,Why not?

00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,I chanced to be passing
and it seems I chose a good moment.

00:10:19,125 --> 00:10:21,I know the chance
that brought you here.

00:10:22,087 --> 00:10:26,It was someone with auburn hair
and almond eyes.

00:10:27,175 --> 00:10:29,Someone called Fanny.

00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:31,No, it wasn't Fanny.

00:10:31,887 --> 00:10:33,But let's say it was.

00:10:34,473 --> 00:10:37,Let's say your wife came to mass

00:10:38,018 --> 00:10:41,and I spoke to her afterwards.

00:10:41,397 --> 00:10:43,What would be odd about that?

00:10:43,649 --> 00:10:48,After all, I baptised her.
I solemnised your marriage.

00:10:48,570 --> 00:10:51,Quite natural, of course.

00:10:52,658 --> 00:10:54,Nothing odd about that.

00:10:54,368 --> 00:10:57,And what if I asked after you?

00:10:57,871 --> 00:11:01,"How's your husband?
He never comes to church.

00:11:02,334 --> 00:11:05,"He must be knee-deep in sins".

00:11:05,921 --> 00:11:07,What if she said,

00:11:07,673 --> 00:11:11,"He's not too well.
Come and see him some time"?

00:11:11,969 --> 00:11:14,Surely, that's not a crime?

00:11:14,805 --> 00:11:18,No, Elzéar, quite the contrary.

00:11:18,892 --> 00:11:21,The truth is: You panicked.

00:11:21,687 --> 00:11:24,You think you're worse than you are.

00:11:25,441 --> 00:11:28,But, if you're a bit worried...

00:11:28,610 --> 00:11:31,If you think your hour has come...

00:11:32,448 --> 00:11:34,I can ease your burden.

00:11:35,909 --> 00:11:37,Since I'm here...

00:11:37,369 --> 00:11:42,and you seem well-disposed,
why not let me confess you?

00:11:43,375 --> 00:11:45,It wouldn't kill you.

00:11:45,586 --> 00:11:46,That's true.

00:11:47,546 --> 00:11:51,Since I'm so well,
it's just the moment

00:11:51,550 --> 00:11:53,to give me the Last Sacrament.

00:11:53,677 --> 00:11:56,Honoré, this is no joking...