Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)
Pamela Nomvete: Martine
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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Martine : [after she places flowers in the room where she and Victorine survived the massacre] ... And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil, For Thine is the kingdom, The power and the glory, Forever and ever. Amen.
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Martine : [Desperately trying to dispel any trouble] Please, think of them as your own daughters.
RAF Soldier #1 : [Hits Martine in the stomach with the tail of his gun, she doubles over on the floor] My daughter is not a cockroach!
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Martine : [Hiding with her students in a dormitory, everyone is panicking and distraught] Girls, they're going to ask you for your identification cards. They want all Tutsis to come out...! They want to separate us...! I can't do this...!
[Gazes tearfully at the girls assembled around her]
Isa : [Breaking the long silence] I'll go, mistress.
Anne-Marie : [Trembling] If Isa goes, I'll go!
Anne-Marie's Friend #1 : I'll go.
Anne-Marie's Friend #2 : I'll go.
Anne-Marie's Friend #3 : I'll go.
Anne-Marie : We're sisters! We're staying together!
Victorine : [In Kindyarwanda] We're staying together!
Isa , Anne-Marie , Anne-Marie's Friend #1 , Anne-Marie's Friend #2 , Anne-Marie's Friend #3 , Victorine : [the girls begin chanting "We're staying together" as Martine tries to quiet them. A grenade explodes outside]
Martine : [Incredulous at what the girls are saying] Do you understand the choices that you're making?
[Desperate]
Martine : Do you understand?