Echoes from a Sombre Empire

00:00:00 ECHOES FROM A SOMBRE EMPIRE

00:08:08 I have a particular reason to be interested in the emperor, you know.

00:10:47 Yes.

00:13:18 in a country. But if I am going to stay in a hotel what am I going to pay with?

00:15:57 or in the way of breeding? I can't do anything...

00:18:34 He said he had 54 children.

00:20:52 And then he continues: "First of all I get some rice...

00:23:44 he said, "Why did you do that? Just disappear and get lost."

00:25:44 One day after sounding out opinions the people said:

00:28:26 who was in that class of progressive officers of the 60s.

00:32:27 There was a small person if I remember rightly, there was a small person

00:38:30 It must have been very hard, wasn't it? - Yes, it was very hard, yes.

00:40:37 And one morning after having had breakfast she took the bicycle of her hotel boy.

00:42:29 and when he had taken his fill of all the honour involved

00:45:19 in novels, which you see in the cinema but it is...

00:47:35 who said that she had become an adoptive child. - Yes.

00:50:29 but she never took the plane to Bangui. She disappeared from circulation.

01:03:55 In the same way as in all other countries of the world lawyers have the right...

01:06:02 And people talk a lot about his religious obsessions...

01:08:37 Yes. ...to see... to see Bokassa.

01:11:08 we were already sleeping... someone opened the cell...

01:13:31 It was then that he said:

01:16:22 and the mother of General Obrou and they said, "But this woman has three bosoms."

17:16:01 say to one of the children "you do that"...