Dry Season
2006 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,016 VOTES · DIR. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Overview
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
Dialogue Timeline — 244 lines
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00:01:08 Atim...
00:02:39 They're announcing the news on the radio.
00:03:19 to end the cycle of war that has eaten away at our country
00:06:51 was as brave as a lion.
00:10:39 Who are you looking at?
00:12:45 - Watch it, you. - Watch it!
00:13:43 You're bleeding.
00:14:36 - Yes. - And I'm from Mars!
00:24:27 who wants rid of his shadow at any price?
00:27:15 If it's work you want, come back tomorrow.
00:34:37 Are you from Moussoro?
00:38:05 Hello?
00:39:21 I can even be dangerous.
00:42:36 "Aïcha, bring me my shoes."
00:48:57 there'll be no peace.
00:57:05 I'll be alone in this great big house.
01:01:44 Going to the mosque?
01:04:42 Take whichever you like, it'll come in useful.
01:09:37 "is a voyeur or a thief."
01:18:17 God has abandoned me, Atim.
01:20:17 Atim, please wait.
01:22:46 Since you've been here, I've felt alive.
01:25:51 I am Oumar Abatcha.
01:31:29 Translation by Mark Robert Goodwin