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Waiting for the Barbarians

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Duration
7 seconds
Views
104
Timestamp in Movie
00:42:37
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
Genres
drama
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At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
I think we were followed for a while by barbarians, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
I think we were followed for a while by barbarians,
Are you sure they were barbarians? - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
Are you sure they were barbarians?
At brigade headquarters, they're saying - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
At brigade headquarters, they're saying
The plan is to move them back all along the frontier, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
The plan is to move them back all along the frontier,
The people who-- whom you call barbarians are nomads. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
The people who-- whom you call barbarians are nomads.
They will never permit themselves - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
They will never permit themselves
Tell me, sir, as someone who knows the region... - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Tell me, sir, as someone who knows the region...
Well, what is the trouble about? - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Well, what is the trouble about?
Ahem. Well, there was no trouble that-- that I know of... - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Ahem. Well, there was no trouble that-- that I know of...
But it's-- it's all changed now. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
But it's-- it's all changed now.
It will take years to patch up the damage - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:08
It will take years to patch up the damage
[chuckles] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
[chuckles]
We, you and I, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
We, you and I,
We say to ourselves we reclaimed the land from the desert, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:09
We say to ourselves we reclaimed the land from the desert,
They still see us as visitors, transients. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
They still see us as visitors, transients.
They say to one another, "Be patient. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
They say to one another, "Be patient.
One day, these foreigners will pack up and leave." - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:11
One day, these foreigners will pack up and leave."
The frontier towns are the first line of defense of the Empire, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:08
The frontier towns are the first line of defense of the Empi...
Oh! [laughs] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Oh! [laughs]
Wh-What is that? - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Wh-What is that?