Adieu Bonaparte

Come upstairs!

Come!

No, you come down!

But Aly, what are you doing?

We don't have to time, I tell you!

A huge fleet has arrived!

It's dumb... missing such a good opportunity...

- Aly! Come here! - There is nothing!

Look, France answered to our call.

- We were 30 to sign the petition. - 30 and they send 300 boats?

In France we are all equal.

You annoy one citizen, the whole Republic annoys you!

Yehia, get out of here and take your children.

Go away, I told you to get out of here!

Go now,

run after them!

You're looking at the sea, but why?

Ma ti ekhi ekino?

If there are 1.000 men in each boat,

there must be 30.000 legends!

And one rhyme for each. The Odyssey of Aly Mohieddine!

Why not?

I can't wait.

I put the ladder 4 days ago, so the neighbours get used to it.

I sent my father on a journey...

and my mother to the market. Why?

You're right, congratulations! Let's rush to your room!

Grand-ma's sleeping pills'll have lost their effect.

Dad will be back from Rosette...

and Mom will ask me to peel the vegetables.

So, where?

Here.

You're really crazy!

What if the French find us?

I'll turn them into pigs!

You are Calypso in all her glory!

No...

Fotini Herodotopoulos.

Farewell, Bonaparte

Where's Aly?

He's praying.

Dad, the fleet, this is the French.

Forget it, they are to Governor's guests.

What about my guests?

Dad, the French!

He knows.

Yehia, you and Aly, go straight to the Great Mosque.

Tell the sheikhs we'll gather home.

Tell them to wait for me if I'm late.

We'll all fight, Dad!

I'll reassure the Governor and ask him for arms!

- Where's your brother, Aly? - He's praying.

Idriss represents the Ottoman State.

Only my friendship for you prevent me from beheading you.

Your message is shameful!

Dear consul, your chief thought about breaking our bonds...

to Admiral Idriss, brother and friend of Islam.

You think of offering him a draft.

And you pretend you're instructed and open-minded!

Re-read the end, Idriss, or maybe you, Magallon.

You know what's written, you were on the "Orient".

It's true, I visited General Bonaparte.

The letter says: "You belong to our friend the Sultan."

Really, Magallon?

France is friend to the Sublime Gate?

If your chief wants us to feed its army...

he chose the right season!

The harvest was abundant, thank God...

But if he thinks we'll let him do that...

and occupy one inch of our sacred country...

he will only prove his ignorance!

Yes, sheikh Bakr?

"Doesn't it concern us?" I told him.

He said: "Keep educating my children..."

"and may the people keep calm."

"Yes? And who'll fight, the Mamaloukes?"

"No conflict with the Mamelouks!"

As we say...

My brother and me against my cousin...

"You accept the Bedouin's help!"

my cousin and me against everybody.

"And we, Egyptian, do nothing?"

Ah, may the French win!

How dare you? French are infidels!

And Mamelouks are real believers?

Anything but live like this!

You talk like a traitor!

Greed knows no borders...

Both will suck us like leeches.

Dad, will they occupy Alexandria?

Let's go to Cairo!

One thousand arrogant Mamelouks and a bunch of Bedouin...

The French army will crush them.

Go to Cairo? And abandon our parents?

The Governor'll think it's a betrayal.

Ignore the battle, that's the betrayal!

In Cairo, militants are counted by thousands!

We'll be beheaded!

Better than stagnate in humiliation.

French and Mamelouks will fight a bit, negotiate a bit...

and finally share the booty.

What booty? Will wee still be alive?

Let's go to Cairo.

No, I'm not going.

- You will lead them. - I said no.

And I say you will go.

Let's wait for tomorrow, Selim. We all have things to settle.

What things? Do you want to be stuck here?

Maybe they have landed already!

What will you do in Cairo?

The Bedouin will kill you before you get there!

You're betraying us!

Deserter!!

- You won't hear my speech? - But...

What speech?

Frenchmen! One more effort if you want to become Republican.

He wouldn't understand a thing!

Who? Aly?

Thanks to me he knows who Racine is. You think it's a flower.

Aly, stay.

You'll stay, won't you?

- My brother... - You can't live when you have to work!

Your pregnant sister-in-law won't endure the trip.

Your brother is an anarchist! These people come to help you. Here, read!

"For too long Mamelouk slaves have been terrorizing that part of the world."

"People of Egypt, they will tell you I come to destroy your religion." Read!

Don't believe them. Tell them I come to...

restore your rights and punish usurpers.

And that I respect more than the Mamelouks

God, His prophet and Islam!

We'll be seen with these lights!

General Caffarelli, I can't do better in such conditions.

What are you waiting for? A miracle?

God!

The sea will be calm at dawn.

But Nelson...

will he be calm too?

General Menoux, 22nd light brigade, 13th and 72nd battles.

General Kleber, 2nd brigade of infantry, 25th and 15th.

The greatest walked on this land: Caesar, Alexander...

and above all our great Bonaparte!

Get lost!

God!

General, the outing in Cairo was a failure.

And Alexandria?

We'll be there before noon.

Call for rally!

He's crazy!

Is he worry about her? She's Christian like them.

You're unjust. It's her who's worry about him.

Why doesn't Bakr accompany them?

I'll come back. I don't care about Cairo.

Don't be caught by the Bedouin.

Don't fall in French arms!

Don't worry.

And all of us should fear Mamelouks.

They would slit our throats.

Slowly, Aly! You shake her too much.

She won't give birth,

she's in pain because of the smell of the onions.

God is great! He is alive!

Let's ask to road to the dervish.

I won't ask anything. Go straight.

"Straight!" That's what you've been saying for 6 days!

Leila will give birth "straight" in your cart!

He is a charlatan, I'm telling you.

God is great! He is alive!

The kid will live. You will name him Chaaban.

He'll go to Mont Carmel...

and 17 times to Mecca.

The 18th time he will die amongst his disciples...

who always gave him drinks and food...

and a bit of cheese, maybe?

Sorry, we ate it all.

Miserable greedy family! May the fire of Hell burn you!

Throw your faces at the ground...

and beg God for forgiveness for you insulted one of his saints!

Let's go, Aly, hurry up!

You will be rugged, bunch of awful disbelievers!

Better show us the road to Cairo.

It's going between your mother's legs!

- The French are already in Cairo? - We'd have met them.

- Maybe they went through the desert. - Do you think they are dumb?

Water, son of a bitch! I'm dying!

A lake! Water!

Let's follow them. I'm thirsty too.

What a cruel illusion. There is no water.

Over there!

No, here!

Group in squares!

- Group in squares! - Group in squares!

At my order... Fire!

It's a roadblock, let's go back.

These are the Chief Commandant orders: Walk! Walk!

Let the Generals know that...

if you want to gain the influence on the country weapons will never grant you

the immediate occupation of holy Cairo...

will be an irrefutable signal that the whole Egypt was taken.

We're on the border of the Nile, singing Italian songs.

Tomorrow we'll eat the greatest vegetables. We'll need Brussels sprouts!