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Waiting for the Barbarians

Since all is not well here-- and by no stretchof the imagination can we saythat all is...

Since all is not well here-- and by no stretch
of the imagination can we say
that all is well here in your little sliver
of the frontier

Full Transcript

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Since all is not well here--
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and by no stretch of the imagination
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can we say that all is well here
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in your little sliver of the frontier...
Duration
11 seconds
Views
93
Timestamp in Movie
00:31:42
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

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 want everything as it was before at once! - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
I want everything as it was before at once!
[soldiers muttering] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
[soldiers muttering]
[wind blowing] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
[wind blowing]
This is how I look. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
This is how I look.
We do not permit vagrants in the town. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
We do not permit vagrants in the town.
I offer that you should... - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
I offer that you should...
Come and work here. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Come and work here.
Um, either that or go back to your people. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
Um, either that or go back to your people.
[speaks local word] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
[speaks local word]
[girl sighs] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:09
[girl sighs]
[birds chirping] - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
[birds chirping]
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...