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Waiting for the Barbarians

The surfaces are written on in an unfamiliar script

The surfaces are written on in an unfamiliar script

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The surfaces are written on
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in an unfamiliar script.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
01:25:06
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
N/A

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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.
Now, a reasonable inference - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:10
Now, a reasonable inference
It remains for you to explain - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:11
It remains for you to explain
I am sorry I have to send bad news. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
I am sorry I have to send bad news.
The soldiers came and took your brother away. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
The soldiers came and took your brother away.
I have been to the fort every day - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
I have been to the fort every day
Yesterday, they sent out a man to speak with me. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
Yesterday, they sent out a man to speak with me.
He says he has been ta-- - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
He says he has been ta--
Do not tell your mother, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
Do not tell your mother,
Now, let-- let's see... - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
Now, let-- let's see...
Um, I went to fetch your-- - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
Um, I went to fetch your--
They showed me into a room where he lay - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:08
They showed me into a room where he lay
"What's happened to him?" I asked the soldier. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
"What's happened to him?" I asked the soldier...
As you see, it contains a single character. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
As you see, it contains a single character.
It is the-- It is the character-- - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:17
It is the-- It is the character--
"justice." - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:08
"justice."
That is a part of barbarian c-cunning. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:05
That is a part of barbarian c-cunning.
Slips, they can be read in many ways. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:04
Slips, they can be read in many ways.
They can be read as a plan of war, - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:10
They can be read as a plan of war,
You have no idea how tiresome your behavior is. - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:06
You have no idea how tiresome your behavior is.
You are the only official on the frontier - Waiting for the Barbarians 00:07
You are the only official on the frontier