Z (1969)
Jean-Louis Trintignant: Le juge d'instruction
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Quotes
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Examining Magistrate : Nom, prénom, profession... Signez votre déposition... Vous êtes officiellement inculpé pour homicide volontaire avec préméditation! Votre mandat de depôt est prêt. La loi accorde vingt-quatre heures aux officiers supérieurs avant de les incarcérer. Si vous voulez éviter les journalistes, vous pouvez sortir par là.
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Attorney General : So you'd indict the chiefs of police and security?
Examining Magistrate : It's inevitable.
Attorney General : Only events dictated by divine will are inevitable.
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Le colonel de gendarmerie : Thirteenth witness, a dockhand, "I saw Vago an Yago drinking all evening. By the time they left at 10:00 pm, they were drunk. The Chinaman said, 'Leave the kamikaze.'"
Examining Magistrate : Kamikaze?
Le colonel de gendarmerie : A three-wheel hauler. Japanese model.
Le procureur : This is like the Far East.
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Examining Magistrate : Any convictions?
Vago : Yes, four.
Examining Magistrate : Four?
Vago : Yes, four. Illegal possession of a weapon, abuse and slander, theft - and rape.
Examining Magistrate : Rape?
Vago : It wasn't really. I was a Boy Scout camp counselor.
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Examining Magistrate : You're a Communist.
Vago : Me?
Examining Magistrate : You and Yago. You're friends. It was something you let slip out: "A rich man catches a cold, we poor still have to work or we die." Then you caught yourself and stopped.
Vago : I hate Communists!
Examining Magistrate : Not words. I want proof! Only a Communist would say that.
Vago : I belong to an anti-Communist group!
Examining Magistrate : And Yago?
Vago : Yago too.
Examining Magistrate : Which one?
Vago : CROC! Christian Royalist Organization against Communism.
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Vago : This guy leaps onto the truck bed, lithe and ferocious as a tiger. He grabs me - and whoosh! Out I go into the street.
Examining Magistrate : How did he leap?
Vago : Like a tiger.
Examining Magistrate : Before that.
Vago : Lithe and ferocious as a tiger.
Examining Magistrate : Yago used the same exact phrase.
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Examining Magistrate : What did you do the day of the murder?
The General : I'd decided to attend the Bolshoi. Not out of love for dance. I'm no pervert, thank God. But it was a chance to spot sympathizers.
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Examining Magistrate : Name and occupation.
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Examining Magistrate : You are charged with first degree murder.