:32:03
with rich men's justice.
:32:06
You may be eloquent
but you are late.
:32:07
Do not punish poverty.
:32:10
Poverty is its own
worst punishment.
:32:14
Do not punish youth.
:32:17
This youth...
:32:20
this youth, which...
:32:23
which your bourgeois poets
:32:26
have called,
"The best years of our lives."
:32:29
But for this 20-year-old
here before you,
:32:32
what does that pretty
phrase mean?
:32:36
What does the word
"youth" mean to him?
:32:40
He has had no youth.
:32:42
His 20-year existence
can be quickly summarized:
:32:45
Parents unknown, which put him
in an orphanage for 14 years.
:32:49
Then, four years
in a reform school.
:32:52
Reform school!
And do I know about that!
:32:57
And two years in Algeria.
:32:59
Two years in Algeria!
:33:00
Your Honor,
you can't put him back in jail.
:33:03
- Two years in Algeria.
- Don't bring up Algeria.
:33:06
Why? Because
he deserted, you'll say.
:33:10
- Here, drink some...
- I don't have time.
:33:12
You tell me he betrayed
his country.
:33:15
But I ask you,
:33:17
I ask you, which country?
:33:22
Do you mean the territory
stolen from the Algerians...
:33:25
You need a haircut.
:33:26
...and which we call,
with beautiful hypocrisy...
:33:30
French Algeria!
:33:32
Must you insist?
It may hurt his case...
:33:35
Yes, I must insist,
gentlemen!
:33:37
Right now, in 1961,
:33:41
at a time when Ben Barka
is assassinated.
:33:44
Remember mother
is coming to dinner...
:33:46
Yes, I remember.
Now, where was I?
:33:49
At a time when
the Secret Army Organization
:33:52
unmasks the true face
of this colonial war, right?
:33:56
A Frenchman's sole duty...
:33:58
- listen to me!
- Hurry up.