Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

Idris Elba: Augustin

Quotes 

• Marcus : So when I grow up, my I.D. card will say "Hutu"?

  Augustin : Yes. But one day, I hope that it will just say "Rwandan".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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]