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.

00:13:16 And if you travel, you have to stay in a hotel...

00:15:53 Just look, Hadricourt, what can I do here in the way of cultivation...

00:18:24 How many children were there in total?

00:20:42 I am not a cannibal. I am not one. If you read my biography...

00:23:34 The proof, the officials didn't have their salaries.

00:25:35 "Well, if anyone wants to replace me as president let him raise his hand now.

00:28:14 who at the same time feels superior to the other Africans because he had really lived...

00:32:02 Instead of which he was like that...

00:37:07 He put them in there.

00:40:14 He found her to his liking and finally the dancer left with him.

00:42:08 It is a really extraordinary story because Bokassa was serving in Indo-China...

00:44:10 On the fall of Bokassa amongst the charges which were levied against Dédé Abodé...

00:47:04 "Passi, Passi" to her and Passi was his name.

00:50:05 This and all that... He was sentenced... And then, that was all...

01:01:45 and all my French friends all the police and particularly to Admiral Phillipe De Gaulle...

01:05:36 It should be remembered that the prisoner is always alone

01:08:04 Your papa would like to see you. - And there I was!

01:10:34 we were detained in this frontier town.

01:12:53 that this time I was going to succumb and be free.

01:15:22 But you could have died? - Yes, of course.

01:22:53 Yes. - Yes, there are two lions here.