Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)
Idris Elba: Augustin
Quotes
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Augustin : [Over the telephone] Anne-Marie, can you hear me?
Anne-Marie : Yes, how are you Papa?
Augustin : [Hesitant] I'm fine.
Anne-Marie : And Mama...?
Augustin : She's fine. She's next door with your brothers. fine.
Anne-Marie : I'm scared...!
[the sounds of gunfire and mayhem increase]
Anne-Marie : We can hear the guns.
Augustin : [Trying to reassure himself as well as Anne-Marie] It's all right. You're in a Catholic school; nobody can go in there.
Anne-Marie : Papa, I have to go
[the alarm bell begins ringing offscreen]
Anne-Marie : . The other girls are waiting for the phone.
Augustin : [Distressed] All right... you, you know I love you...!
Anne-Marie : [Tearfully] I love you too, Papa...! Bye...!
Augustin : Bye-bye...!
[Hangs up. Anne Marie and a friend hug in fright, a scream from outside calls the girls' attention to the pandemonium in the courtyard]
Augustin : .
Martine : [Enters the office in a hurry] Girls... calm down! I want you to go to your dormitories, quickly-! Quickly-!
Priest : [Entering the office as Martine shepherds the girls out] Martine, a word.
Martine : [Focused on her frightened students] I'm sorry Father, we have a school full of terrified girls.
Priest : Martine, we are in a very difficult position, but we must do our duty. We cannot harbor rebels. We must hand them over.
Martine : [Shocked at this proposal] Father, these are not rebels! These are girls, girls that you've promised to raise as your own daughters! And now you would turn them out?
Priest : What can I do, my child? We cannot protect all of them! I do not have the power to change the situation!
[Martine begins to leave, then turns to him again]
Priest : We must pray.
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Jeanne : It's happening, isn't it?
[Looks silently at an equally silent Augustin before angrily returning to preparing dinner]
Jeanne : I should never have listened to you! We should have left a long time ago for Kenya or for Senegal, I don't know, but...!
Augustin : I'm in the military. This is our home.
Jeanne : Yes, but tell me: how can I call this home when I'm living in constant fear, Augustin? I already lost most of my family in '92. There's only us now.
Augustin : I can't just get up and run! Abandon everything? What?
Jeanne : We should have brought Anne-Marie back sooner!
Augustin : She's safer in the countryside than in Kigali. Come on!
Jeanne : [Snaps in frustration] Come on, wake up!... Nobody is safe in this country! Have you seen the Hutu Ten Commandments?
[Shows Augustin a flier]
Jeanne : Somebody put it on my desk today at the hospital! They even underlined number seven: "The Rwandese Armed Forces shall be exclusively Hutu; no member of the military shall marry a Tutsi."
[Huffs angrily, walking toward the window]
Augustin : [Tries to calm Jeanne] Jeanne...
Jeanne : Now I'm talking about our children's lives. If anything happens, they will let us all die.
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Augustin : Yes, is April again... Every year in April the raining season starts. And every year, every day in April... The haunting emptiness descends over our hearts. Every year in April, i remember how quickly life ends. Every year, i remember how lucky i should feel to be alive. Every year in April... I remember.
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Jeanne : [the night the killing begins. Augustin is preparing the car when Jeanne runs out] Augustin! I can't reach Anne-Marie on the phone!
Augustin : [Hesitates] Keep trying.
[There's desperate banging at the front gate]
Augustin : Who is there?
Xavier : Xavier!
Felicie : [Distraught as she and Xavier rush inside] Augustin, it's terrible! They're shooting everybody! There are dead people in the street!
Xavier : [Shaken] Félicie and I were picking up some food from Nando's restaurant when we heard the explosion! They are going house by house, pulling people out!
Jeanne : [Beginning to panic] Augustin, let's go!
Xavier : No! There are roadblocks all over!
Augustin : If we leave, we'll walk into the mouth of the lion.
Jeanne : [Irate] Well, where do you think we are now?
Felicie : [Sobbing] We cannot get trapped in Kigali!
[Sudden gunfire nearby startles them to the ground]
Augustin : Come on, go!
[They rush for the house]