Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

Pamela Nomvete: Martine

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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?