Journey of the Stone (1977) - full transcript
For years the only windmill in the village is The Landlord's and he uses it to nobble the people. He also prevents people from building another mill. They are have ready a big stone to ...
Hey...
Ah, ah, ah,
[He is praying]
Ah, ah, ah, ah,
Do your ears hear?
The one who wants to pull a rock and start a
mill has not been born yet!
If a mill turns in any of these villages that
does not belong to Beyg... Are you
listening?
If it is not ours I break its roof on the
head of the miller!
Wheat must become flour in our mills
Go and thank God the Beyg said not take
your breath
Move a little. I respect your mane!
Those bastards,
all that was left to do was to drink your blood
Here, freshen up your throat. Here
Drink up!
Listen, your head is wounded
If you leave it alone it will get infected
and will never heal
This an ointment but it burns
Put your hand on this Quran, do it
If they wanted you dead they would have
mashed you with the first hit
Ouch, ouch, it burns
Why did they beat you like this?
Where isIslamic goodness?
Your hands were a cure for me
Could you see us?
- I was praying
It seems like God wanted it to be like this.
There is a reason for everything
Only if you knew what reasons
this rock holds for us
Can you believe that coming of this rock
to our village is even more urgent than
our daily prayer?
Where are you from?
- Your body does not show what all is broken
I just hope that your bones are not broken
Where are you from?
- "Mohammad Abbad"
It is two village over from here
I will lay you on this. It is difficult.
You cannot you up on the mule...
Can you bear it?
Now talk if you feel like talking so you
won't feel the pain as much
God will not forgive him.
He broke me for this rock
Much blood has been shed by this rock
Women became widows,
fathers lost their sons
Until now about twenty people have cut
this rock
If one mill that belongs to the people turn
in one of these villages...
We will have everything that we want
This Beyg is merciless
All mills around here belong to him
With one mill he has his hands in
everybody's belongings
Put this bags inside, weigh this one
Greetings
- God give you power
Thank you
Give me a glass oftea too
Doesn't anybody want to give me a hand
to put this mashed bag of bones down?
His name is Sheer - Ali
He is your relative, your friend...
He has the same blood as you!
It seems like this man has given me the
wrong address
Isn't there one among you to help me
put him in his house?
I know
I can do it
He is a good man, He is "Sheer - Ali"
This is "Zabih"
Is he bloody?
God shouldn't forgive the one who made
him like this
He is bloody!
Is he bloody?
- Only one man can do work in this village?
Doesn't God cast a shadow here?
Tell me "Sheer - Ali" were you an enemy of
these godless people
Before you wanted to break that stone?
- You have passed by that house,
haven't you...
What is the matter with you stranger?
The shade of that house is bigger
Have you come to rub these people's poverty
on their face?
What does he know, Ha!
- This is "Yar"
He is an able body
- I know
This bloody man says that you're an
able body, but I say that you talk
like the old ones
It's been long since the body and the soul of
this village is wounded
We have given much for pulling that rock...
But that house holds God favor
I told him you cannot do this "Sheer - Ali"
None of us could stand in front of that house
Now, who are you stranger?
What do you say?
Be yourseIf and put him down and go
People here are wishy - washy
You just got here and talking big?
Do you have name? What is your name
and reputation?
What do you need a name for?
What was and what became, I don't know...
But to this God's name I saw that this man's
life hung from his toe for you!
A man who has a name does not submit
to bullying
You give five bags of wheat and get
one bag of flour...
If the mill is yours four bags of flour
comes from five bags of wheat
Be thirsty first and then get to the water so
you'd know what thirst is
These people are not thirsty for that rock yet
Where is a man with bones?
- This is one!
I am the second
What do you want from the bottom of
your heart? Look for it
Don't keep sitting on the corner of these houses
and fan yourselves. It needs determination
One or two men can't handle that rock,
and the time is today!
Listen stranger,
we are satisfied with what we've got
What you have is what you're sitting on!
They are scared, I told you so
He works in the mill, he eats bread all the time
He won't give me any.
He won't give them any either
Where should I take you?
- To "Mohammad Hassan's" house
You mean only one door is open to you
in this village?
His house is open to everybody except me!
- I know where it is...
It is that way
- He's right, he knows
But if you take "Sheer - Ali" over there
you will make us laugh a bunch!
I have some news. Where is Agha?
I want to see him
- Can't you tell me?
I want to tell him personally
Hello sir
The Russians from one side and the
British from another side
And the gum chewing Americans kept on
chewing and chewing and chewing
and hanging around
Many betrayers.
Everywhere full of betrayers...
All of them where hired by the foreigners.
All of them!
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Allow me sir
I had something to tell you
- And the hardheaded Hitler's life was
dependent on one bridge...
This Veresk Bridge. The victory bridge...
Here, in the north.
Had this bridge been closed...
Could the supply reach Marshal Patton on
one side and Marshal Rommel on
another side behind the battle line?
Swear to God that they had a world of luck,
luck...
That this bright horizon...
What do you want boy?
- Sir, somebody has brought Sheer - Ali
into the circle...
And says plenty of bad things
- What does he say?
Sir, he tells people that they are cowards,
cowards
That you give two bags of wheat, and get one,
one bag of flour
I don't know sir, He, he says things like this
Who is the one who is with him?
- He is a stranger...
Stranger, a mountain man
- Hah, mountain man?
How great is the God
- He is a mountain man!
He is a mountain man
Now, where is the stranger taking
Sheer - Ali to?
I don't know sir. He said that
he would take him to Mohammad Hassan's
house, That black smith
What?
Ah, ah, it's here,
Mohammad Hassan's house is here
It is a guest sister, he is not well
We have somebody who is not well
Who is there Fatimeh?
He is a stranger. He says that he has
someone who is not well...
He is a guest
- Bring them in
In the name of God... come
Come...
You have come to us, what do you need?
God's blessing upon you!
Your house may be Mecca!
It seems like only one household in this village
eats bread and that is your household
This man does not have a good place left
on his body, asked me to bring him to you
That drummer knew the way
- Me!
Fatimeh, make some tea
Mountain man, there are ways and short cuts
in your eyes
Whomever comes to my house will not be
sent out
Who whispered in your ears that
this man's place is here?
- He himself
He had heard that you are the man of
hard days!
This man is a spring that had never had green
for us...
Let alone the green,
he put black garment on us
Look at that woman
- Man is sometimes small and
sometimes heavy
What he has done, I don't know.
His God told him to seek refuge with you
Why is he bleeding?
Why is he this way?
- I was praying that I saw that
they are beating him up
He was in the mountain, all alone
He was determined to load a mill stone and
bring it to the village all alone
I brought him, I, I
He is bloody for the rock!
Why did you go alone?
You know that you can't do that rock
You wanted to bloom man that it's so late?
Is the rock in its place?
- It needs one more day ofwork...
Only the center is left
Ah... ah...
These wounds need ointment
Do you have ointment with you?
- There is everything is a gypsy's saddle bag
except a home
The one who went crazy in the mill and
said crappy things in the circle in the
evening is here
Bring him
I sent two tractors to his land and
work on it...
I didn't ask him for money either.
When his crop came up he totally ignored me
I called him and told him: Hey believer,
let your daughter become happy...
Let her come here and hang around here
That's him sir...
And he is still being hardheaded
- Here, this is one of them
Didn't I say? Now, what do you say bastard?
Don't talk dirt
What I say is what wheat says,
that if these men of yours...
- Come, come here...
Come and sit here to discuss our issue...
Come
- Go let him give you some!
Come here, come
It's okay here, tell me what you want to say
Come, don't take it hard, come and sit and
smoke a piece so we can discuss the
our matter
Come, come. He really wants to come
but he is shy to do it
Ah...
Ya Allah, Ya Allah
Ah,... well
How are you, hah?
Well, whenever you have something
to say...
You wanted something, you know,
come straight to me
Well, what has happened now?
- The truth is that when your men confront
somebody...
They really think that there is no law and
they are it and that they can take us and...
- Oh, now...
These things are not yours anymore
When there is a group it's like that,
you don't know that yet? Oh!
Look, no, that one,
he is exactly like a cow...
Or this one for instance. Well,
is it worth it to put your seIf in trouble for that?
No!
In all these villages that are around here
no man is left who thinks about
bringing the rock
It does not go in their ears that Beyg is sharing
and taking their entire belongings with one mill
What belongs to a man is the land
that he farms
One of the people who took our lives,
stranger, is this Sheer - Ali!
When morning comes ten men are born and
at night ten men leave this world
What do you know? There are all these men!
Ah, ah, ah, ah, no more...
Nobody will come in his place any more
What a man from among us left for this rock.
That was Fatimeh's husband!
Whenever there is a talk of the rock my heart
gets jerked off of it's place
In one month of Moharam Seyed Yavar,
Heydar, and my brother
Along with this Sheer - Ali kept saying :
Come man...
Make a commitment and show that you are
alive too and pull one rope tied to that rock
And this man was firm that with three or
four people can not pull that rock
Now I don't know what part of him started
hurting that he got up alone to go
and pull the stone...
And that's when five years have passed
from that time
You shouldn't light a lamp in any night.
There are many lightless nights
One more move!
Many days and nights my son - in - law,
Fatimeh's husband and Seyed Yavar and
I went to this man's house
Back then this Zabih had not been kicked
in the temple by a horse yet...
He was still well. He is still strong!
Went to this man's house
How much did we extend our hands,
how much we were disrespected and
broken down
The hands that Yavar, and Heydar,
and I extended toward this man never
became alive again
God bless his soul, Heydar soaked in blood!
His body was left in the mosque for a
couple of days because of fear
He was a piece of my heart.
After that I never left my house...
Neither for their mosque ceremonies, not for
their funeral, and not for their weddings
And here, this Fatimeh. She was only
one month into his marriage...
When this man broke our back!
If on the day when the smell of blood
had stopped Heydar and me...
This man had come out of his house everyone
in the village would have come
out shouting God is great
It can't be that you put all of your life on the
corner ofthis house and the sound
of the hammer and anvil
Hit your hammer outside of the house,
since your heart is so large
Will you be late if you come out of your house
one more time
Your voice echoes in my ears
Come out of your house one more time...
We will put out lives on our hands!
Go after Yavar
I am a mountain man...
Once a year out tints hit the ground on the
other side of the mountains
I am not much with them
Ever since our black hearted khan received
money and automobile and sold
horses and girls...
I just watch them from distance since
my mother and my sister are with them
I won't miss being with them any more
Among us nobody weaves carpet, and
the girls feel ashamed sitting by the
carpet weaving frame
I was on my way to the city of Mallek Abbad
to buy a blanket
I was praying when I saw this man
To me, a man's work is his prayer and it is
worshiping God to stand in front of force. That
is much more important than reading Quran
I will be with you and anybody
who comes along
If you have the life in you come out of
your house one more time
Who is this Seyed Yavar?
Make him present
That Godless and crippled man is the
devil himseIf!
He cannot stand in front of the righteousness.
Hussein gave his life and fought wickedness
It seems like a black stick was broken
on your backs
You speak as though we do not know
what a wound is
Do you want your breath to touch it?
- Oh yes, I'd like that,
but first you have to do something...
If you don't do it know this flower wont
ever bloom in your heart to have a rock
turn in your village
Send after this Seyed Yavar
- Do you want to go to that white house?
I don't want to sneak out and go after that
stone tomorrow. That cripple must know
Zabih
- What?
You know Yavar's place.
Go after him and tell to come
It is for the thing that we've always
talked about
Yavar, that rock is easier for me than
this drum
To be on my shoulder
Yavar
[Folk music]
Hey, you drummer, cut that breath of yours!
I am talking to you Nayeb, if Sheer - Ali turns
one hair shorter than he was...
I will pull your intestine out of your stomach!
Are you deaf?
Tell your master that it's time for him
to pack up and get away before it's late!
It seems that your head feels heavy on
your shoulder that you've walked to your
gallows yourseIf!
Who is it that is making noise? "Nayeb"
Shepherd...
- Yes sir
Who is it?
- It is Mohammad Hassan the black smith
He is taking bad, it is unlucky
Make him quiet Ghorban
- Hurry, take me to the balcony.
Give me my coat
Talking to you is like kicking a dog
Where is the one who throws you bones?
You eat bones too. If I forget about all
my belongings I will cut your vein myseIf
Before I have you mashed go back to
your hole
The one who can will not dirty
his hands asshole...
I know what to do with you,
I know how to waste you
Who are you?
- The one who will sit you on a
hot burning tree trunk
Any time that...
- Where are they?
They are over there sir
- Who are you?
- Hello sir
Hello sir
- Hello sir
- Hello sir
Hello sir
- Hello sir
Hello sir
Does anyone dare to come here and shout?
By your order and your blood sucking
assistant...
Your people have beat up poor Sheer - Ali and
put him out of commission
Who will answer?
He should go and make a complaint
- Where should he go to complain?
Well, to the station
- Station?
They won't give you up to listen to him!
Now, by the way,
what business of yours is it?
Wasn't that enough for you? Whenever you
stepped out of your house and barked made a
mess among twenty people
I've had mercy on you so far
But this time I will have twenty sticks broken
on your back and...
- I am with all ofyou...
This time I will either uproot you or my root
will be pulled out ofthis village
Stick this in your ears and realize how
this leach is stuck on your existence
It will be your root that will be cut
Have you become people's representative
because you are stronger?
You have no education and you have no brain
to be able to understand
No, why should I make you understand?
If you have no money you cannot farm
your land...
You cannot irrigate it.
Farming a land needs capital
Who has that capital here? I do...
I am the one who gives them money and
takes care of them
What place is it that does not have a master?
Is it possible?
There should be one to organize them,
to loan them money, to help them
The money interest that this whole village
gives cannot pay for my opium for
one week
Now what do you say in the middle?
You got to bold I laid you down...
You tongue became long you became the
prisoner of your house
Now, you are too far gone
Do you want to come up here and tell me
what your problem is?
Do you want money? I will fix you up
You want to work for me? You want a shop?
Take the butcher shop in the circle
If you cross the limit I will not show any mercy
and will put your head on a
spear
Bless the one whose head goes on a spear!
This henna has no color for us,
color these here
We will be going tomorrow for bringing
that rock
We want to own our own mill
And if you think that we can be bought
you have vomited in your pants
Unless you go by yourseIf.
Nobody is behind you
Listen, Quran on my arm has a meaning...
And the meaning is that it knows the right
from wrong...
The right is Mohammad Hassan's stick
to come down on your head...
If it were up to me I would have put crabs
on your balls!
Hey, throw them out with your sticks, hurry
These people throw us out? Hah!
Keep them for the time when they tell you
that the stone is rolling
Now go and twist your wastes mommy boys
Let's go
Seyed Yavar, ifthere were a great one left
that would be you. If your hands are
there the stone will roll
This mountain man who has come,
I don't know what is in his tongue
and in his eyes...
That has made the talk of the rock to come
to the middle, do you want the stone?
I don't have anything except my life
You get up and stand...
Make a shadow and I will stand
in your shadow!
It's time. When you sent for me my heart said
that it's time!
It's time
- I was a passing mountain man...
If you accept me to be among you,
let my blood and belief be laid by your feet
God bless you. I've heard that it was you who
brought Sheer - Ali from the place
of that rock
And this evening also you stood to the people
We gave young lives for that rock,
we gave fresh blood for that rock...
If your heart reaches peace in being with us
without land and without wheat
When you invoke Ali's name then you
become of our blood!
I have nothing with land and I have nothing
with wheat, but I have something with force
Swear to this hour and this time that I put
your shoulders on my forehead
The light that is in this man's face makes me
to make him my Mecca
And now you!
Brother, I cannot sit by this door and wait
and stare at this door...
One time Heydar left and his body
came back...
This time only you're left
Take me with you too
- This road is not for a woman.
Woman and rock don't match sister
You say this so comfortably that you think
we want to throw wheat into the wind?
When Heydar left this shirt was full of
red flowers
When they brought him and left him behind
the door they were saying that this is
the result of going for the rock
I blackened this shirt myseIf...
The red flowers are still there
I don't have any other shirt to blacken
- A woman with us?
I don't want to be disrespectful but if
Fatimeh stays here...
That cripple and this village, you know
I can make tea, warm up your dinner
and prepare food...
Pull the mules
- Okay...
Be with us until the village up there
You stay with Asieh at the house of
Heydar Beyg's, Sheer - Ali's brother
If God willing we came back with the rock
you come back with us
You will take me with you too, won't you?
Hitting the drum is no work for me to do
I will watch the road, I will hold the rope,
I will stand ears
I won't let this place on my head
to get wounded
One man is one force, so far four of us
I have to go to the village at night
and get support
When I was coming Jaffar Reza Goll said
that he will be coming with us
He had heard,
maybe some blood can be found in some vein
I don't know what shape is the rock in
It is healthily sitting on the mountain
Everything has been done on it
It only needs a determination
The owner oftime (God) is behind us
If we make our hearts as one our arms
become one
We have to pack up the mules at night
God willing we will start before sun up
It's time
You have come well Jaffar!
It's here
Heydar Beyg,
I am Mohammad Hassan the black smith
Step on our eyes, come in
- Come in. It is family's house, come in
In the name of God
- Welcome
Hello
- Hello, isn't Heydar Beyg here?
Dear Fatimeh, your presence is welcomed
You brought flowers,
you brought the spring with you
You're still wearing black,
let your heart be white!
Thank you, I have come to stay with you
If this brother of mine goes
under the stone...
Let's sit in the shade
- Let's rest
Let's go to the shade
- Heydar Beyg
What?
- Well, we kiss the hand of our master!
Is that you Mohammad Hassan?
- I am your servant
Greetings
At last you took your veil off and
came out ofyou house...
Didn't you worry about strangers seeing you?
Daddy, they are our guests. This is Fatimeh
You know that losing a young man and
becoming a widow is hard
We were together. I wish the stick had hit
my head instead of him!
He didn't even moan once
You are my eye!
I was in black until now...
It was because of the rock that I wore
this scarf. I was afraid that black might
bring bad luck
Fatimeh will stay with you
These brave ones have joined their hands
for the rock
This time we will move it
- Like a dog scared of the shepherd!
You that are afraid of the shepherd want
to fight alongside the woIf
Can you be called a man?
- It is disrespectful, brave, but
If your back broke on this road it gives us
power to move
It has been forty years that this talk has
become the candy in the party of
spineless ones. Only talk!
This black smith has left my heart now!
If you sing a song to the ears of wheat it
won't grow. It needs action
You made me embarrassed in front of
these braves
Your village had only its back broken,
but our village gave life
Long life to you, may God give you patience
You talk boldly a lot black smith...
You closed the door and earned reputation
and talk
What business has the rock with you?
Rock moves the rock and wind moves
the weed
Go and pull weed
- Your back didn't break for the weed,
it broke for that rock
That time when that blessed soul Heydar was
present we bled...
You were not this old...
- Daddy, guest is dear to God...
It's okay that I am a stranger,
greeting him brings health!
His heart is a burnt tree trunk
- It's time for us to go
The final word. Had Fatimeh stayed
in that village she would've been unsafe...
She is safe here with you
If God willing we came back with the rock
we will take her with us
Hah, Fatimeh is my daughter...
Your account doesn't pair up with hers
- You're our master
If you want brave Heydar to give us a bowl of
tea when we come back the rock
must be with us
Your heart has been saddened
by the young ones
- May your heart be green, pray for our arms!
May God protect you
Your heart is large,
hope that you'll forgive us
If we return and the God was with us
the sound of the rock will come with us too
Hit them... hit them...
- You heathens
Go over there
You heathens
- Are your heads too much for your bodies?
Kill them
- Don't kill them
Don't kill them, that will cause being caught
Ouch
- Don't shed their blood
Mash them well
Kill him
Come...
Hit him Seyed...
- You heathens...
Heathens!
Come
Tie it up
Loosen it a little to come forward
Okay, that's good
Pull
Tie it up, tie it up
Tie it
Tie it in a way that when we move the stone
won't rob the rope
Tie it two or three folds Mohammad Hassan
Come
Oh, stop animal, stop, stop...
Tie it. Tie it then
Okay, that good, come
Pull hard
Look around, search well
Be alert
Stop animal, stop
Force it, force it
Slow
It's good, okay...
Come, God...
Say "Ali"
- "Ya Ali"
- Slowly
Pull
- Come
Come animal, come
Slowly, slowly
- Go
Pull
- Pull
- Come
Say "Ya Ali" you all
"Ali", I
- Pull
Pull now, pull
- Pull
Come, come animal, come
Pull
- In God's name!
Slowly, slowly
- Pull it
- Watch it
Come animal
My "Ali"
It's good
Stop it
- Go
Ya Mohammad
- Ya Ali
Pull
- Pull
- Come animal, come
Come
- Come animal
Go, go, okay now, go
- Come animal
Go, it's okay
- Hold it. Hold it tightly
Hold it
- Oh my "Ali"
Pull
- Ya Ali
Pull
- Go, go Seyed
- Come animal
Slow, slow...
May Ali help you Seyed!
- Ya Ali
- Come...
God, God, come, come...
- Pull...
Ya Mohammad
- Come, come animal...
May Ali help you, pull
- Come, come...
Go Seyed...
- Come animal, come...
Pull...
Go...
- Stranger, be careful
I've got it, get it to the middle
- Ya Mohammad
Come, come animal
- Go Seyed, go
Come...
My "Ali"!
Pull...
Be careful stranger...
- Ya Mohammad's God
I am careful
- Ya "Ali's sword"
- Pull
Good, good
- Yea, keep it like this
Calm down animal...
Ah...
- Put the stone under it
Come Zabih, put the stone under it
- God...
It was twenty years since that rock
hadn't moved from its place...
Now you come and tell me that
it's moving you lazy bums?
Bring that horse and let me see
He has brought the news that the rock
is moving
They want to make a flour mill
Bring that horse, come, come forward...
Come
- Slowly, slowly, slowly
Go
- Careful...
- Hold master's foot
Carefully...
- Hold his leg
Pull
I have to go to the feudal lord to straighten
these people up
Open up your eyes, and carefully watch
- Should I come with you sir?
No, keep your eyes and ears wide open.
Get going boy
Don't let it slide, don't let it slide
Slowly, come, come
- Come animal...
Come animal... yeah...
- Aha, pull...
- Not much is left...
Come
- Come, come animal...
That is a decline now!
- Hay Mohammad Hassan,
keep the control of it...
Seyed hold it
- Come, come
Pull
- Go...
Go, steer to the other side, not this side
God's blessing
- Steer to the other side Mohammad Hassan,
get to that side
Pull it...
Hey Mohammad Hassan, pull the rope,
pull the other side's rope
Be careful so it doesn't go back
- Move animal
Be careful!
- Let it come Seyed
Come forward a little
Don't let it go on that rock,
don't let it go on that rock
- Be careful / - Be careful
Hold it Seyed. Stop it...
- Seyed hold it...
Be careful
- May "Ali "help you
- Ya "Ali"
Come, don't be afraid
Come, come, come, come animal
Move, move animal, move, move, hay...
Come, come
- Pull Mohammad Hassan
Pull
- Come, come
Pull Mohammad Hassan
- Come, come animal, come...
If we pass this incline we would be done
Pull
- Go to the other side. Go to the other side,
pull...
Don't let it go back Seyed. Seyed,
put the stone under it so it won't go back
- Come, come
Go
Go up...
- Pull...
Pull
- Say "Ya Ali"
Pull
- May you have more power Seyed!
Pull to the other side
Hit it with a stick, hit it with a stick,
hit that animal with a stick. Hit with a
stick, hay...
One more move
- Pull to that side, pull to that side...
Don't let it fall, go that way
Go that way
- Come... come...
Slip it by this side
- Go Seyed
Say "Ya Ali"
- One more move...
- Ya Ali
Come, come, come, come, come,
come, come...
Say "Ya Ali"
- Ali
Go Seyed, go to the front and pull the rope
- Come...
Your ancestor may be your helper,
your ancestor is your helper!
- Ali...
My Ali
- Ya Ali
- Go
Ya Ali
Ya Ali
- Come, come, come...
come, come, come, come...
Ya Ali
Come...
- Pull...
[The sound of birds]
Hey, hey, slow...
Hold the other side of it
- Come on
My Ali!
- Slowly
"Mohammad "!
- Hay animal, come...
Don't buck, come
Force it...
- Slowly, slowly...
Come animal, come...
- Pull...
The wall, the wall, watch the wall
My Ali!
- Pull
- Come animal, come
Be patient and wait as much as a
drink of water
Let them come close.
Don't get intimidated by their number
With force we can stand in front of
Beyg's people...
But we will get mashed up in front of
these people!
Should I go and start a fire behind them?
- No, don't move...
This, our action is for them
[The sound of crowd]
If your body is tired say "Ya Ali"
Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
If you are disable say Ya Ali
Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
These brothers of yours put their lives in
their arms and put their arms against
this rock for you
These men of God who, by grace of God,
have neither land nor wheat...
Put their lives in their hands for you!
You are standing in front of them
to break their legs...
Or see the light of Ali's arm in their eyes?
They want to mill their wheat themselves
They want to run the mill themselves
This mill will come here in our village
tomorrow and will make its sound...
Another morning in that village up there and
another morning in that other village
Pay attention...
If day after tomorrow the sound of our flour
mill reached the sky and...
The smell ofwarm flour came from
your mill...
Won't our children hold their heads up?
He is right
- It's the truth
Anybody who wants to put the legs of
these men of God under this rock...
Has to answer to the owner ofthis!
- I seek forgiveness from God
God is great. God is great...
- I seek forgiveness from God,
I ask for repentance from God
Those who laugh in fake and show you
black money...
Are filling their own bags with flour
Those believers of Mohammad
send him a greetings
May God's peace be upon Mohammad and
the believers of Mohammad
Come, come
- Come to help them, come...
Pull it
Pull it...
Ya Ali, Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
Those who believe in Mohammed ask for
God's blessing loudly / - May God's blessing be
upon Mohammed and his followers
You are welcome,
you have brought the smell of spring
Your news is moving from village to village
All ofyou smell like great men
I adore your smiles since you're the only
one left from the great elders!
Nayeb has been around here since
this dawn...
He moves about like a wounded woIf...
And keeps trying to be discrete
Seyed Reza's son was bringing me the
news and he said...
He has gathered many stupid godless men
around...
And maybe he has put some money in
their hands and spoke about a golden
spring to them!
Good is that you all gave each other
your hearts and then your arms!
You're welcome Jaffar,
you have determination!
Why didn't Reza come?
He was so hot about it
His wife stopped him
I heard that she said : Do you want me
to become a widow like Fatimeh?
A woman who wants a coward man
how does smell his breath? God is great
God bless his soul, my father use to say...
A man is one who is a little heavy on the
shoulder of the earth...
These days manhood is the story of mountain
and a hoof broken horse. It is difficult!
Zabih
- Yes?
Why didn't you bring your drum with you?
I gave it to Mr. Reza, the kerosene seller...
I told him that I either come back and bang
on it myseIf or bang on it on my grave
They bang it inside their hearts because of
fear. Thanks to your courage since you had
it from beginning
I won't forget, the first that we wanted to go
for the rock
Are you listening Heydar?
- Yea
Zabih was not loose and out of it like he is
Nayeb's mule kicked him in the temple with
it's new nailed shoe so hard that l
thought he would be gone
Here, this is it!
Since then I became fat and banged
on the drum
The old man sat in the corner ofthis yard
and stared at the ground!
He use to say : My back has gone in the rock &
all of my mind is with the rock and that is why
the land where my house is on is made of rock
Slowly the life of this rock was taking him
The first bread made from the flour
that comes from this mill...
I will donate with dates in the
memory of Heydar!
A good man shouldn't stay in this world
When this rock reaches the village and sets
in place take offthe mourning clothes that
you have on for Heydar
They say as long as mourning clothes is worn
by the survivors, the dead will be
in mourning too
This was late Heydar's way
One night floodwater was running to the
village, and we had wheat stored in the barn.
Water was getting to the barn,
My brother wasn't there
I saw Heydar over there with a lantern light
in his face.
He diverted the floodwater from getting to
our wheat. The wheat stayed dry.
He put one flower on the mantle and left
Two days later at sunset he came with a
package of sweets and asked me for marriage
The flower on the mantle hadn't dried yet
when he left for the rock and never came back
More power to you brave
Why don't you come and sit by the
other braves?
I had your bed laid over there by the others
No, I won't sleep there...
I will stay by this rock
So the unbelievers cannot attack.
Unbelievers!
Now, how did you all bring it?
You have checked on this rock so many times
since the beginning of the evening
I remember you from the old time...
I know you
Do you remember me?
- Yes, I remember
The other time you were there too
This time the rock is also!
They killed
Wake up...
Bleeding...
- What has happened?
Blood is coming from here...
Wake up...
- It is Zabih!
What is the noise?
- Zabih
They killed... Killed...
- What is with you? What has happened?
Oh my Savior
- Oh the greatest of the believers
- Stand aside let me see
He has bled... Heydar...
- Heydar, Oh my God
Oh my God
- Oh my savior
My master... Heydar
- What has happened?
What is going on? What is going on?
What is it? What is with you all?
It is my father, Fatimeh, my father...
- My God...
Oh my believing lady, it is my father
- My God...
- Oh my savior
Get up, I want to bake fresh bread for you...
- My God, my God
I want to bake bread for you,
bake bread, bake bread...
- What a tragedy has fallen upon us, my God...
Get up, get up so I know that you're not dead,
get up...
Fatimeh, hold her so she cannot come forward
- Don't let her come here Fatimeh / - I want
to wake him up, I want to bake him bread...
I have become black destined.
Fatimeh I became fatherless, Fatimeh
- Come, come. Get up Asieh...
Get up, get up that the rock is here,
that rock that you talked about is here...
- Get up Heydar..
Dear father, the rock has come,
get up dear father...
- Come
Dear father the rock has come.
You heathens, you savage!
- I have become black destined
Fatimeh l'll kiss your feet,
I only had him Fatimeh
Calm down
- Oh God why did you have to take him
so soon?
Oh God
- Fatimeh, I only had him...
God, God, God, God
- Asieh, dear...
Oh my believing lady,
oh my believing lady...
- You are killing yourseIf
Fatimeh, Fatimeh, my father went to be
with your Heydar...
- Our light without you is very dim
Fatimeh my father went to be with you Heydar
- You were our light Heydar
Asieh, calm down. Asieh calm down...
- Fatimeh, Fatimeh, I became fatherless
There is no God other than the God
There is no God other than the God
Oh my Ali
- There is no God other than the God
My master
My teacher Heydar
That is my father Fatimeh where are you
taking my father?
There is no God other than the God
- Where are you taking my father?
- My Heydar...
That is my father. Fatimeh, I beg you,
let me see his face one more time then
they can take him
Daddy...
Daddy
Daddy
Come daddy... Daddy
Get up, we have to get going
This is only the beginning of the way!
I swear to Ali's blood that I will revenge
for his blood!
We all have made the determination
Get up. A dead who has gotten his wish is
still alive!
That is my father... that is my father...
There is nobody left for me
any more father...
Put your shoes on and get moving like a
man with us
Your hand is in my hand!
- I am not alone in that house anymore...
We will make bread out of the flour
from this mill
I will make you a bride myseIf
[They are praying]
Come
- Come
Come, come animal
- Say "Ali"
- Slow, slow
Give it to me...
- Come...
Pull... go...
- Pull everyone...
Ya "Ali"
- Slowly, slowly...
Go, go...
Come animal, come
Good, slow, slowly, slowly,
slowly, slowly...
- Careful...
Come animal, come...
- Hold it Mohammad Hassan...
Calm down
- That way, that way...
Ya "Mohammed"
- Go
Your ancestor my help you, hold it Seyed
Come this way, come this side, this side
Come, come animal, come, good
- Pull
Oh God's profit
- Ya "Ali"
- Move animal, move animal, move
Go
- Move animal
Hay, go...
- Ya "Ali"
- Move animal...
Come...
- Hit the animal Zabih, Hit it...
Hit it, move animal, move, move
- Go...
Go...
- Oh my "Ali"
May "Ali" be your protector, come
Hold this, put your power into your arm
- Ya "Ali"
Come animal, come
Come...
Get up... go...
Go, don't stop...
- God bless you...
Look at you!
Put your power into your arm...
- Pull, don't stop
Go, go, go...
- Pull, pull...
Go...
- Pull...
Steer to this side a little...
- Go Mohammad Hassan, go, don't stop
Steer this way
- Go, Ya "Ali"
- Move animal...
May "Ali "be your protector
- God bless you...
[Mourning ceremony]
Zabih, you haven't eaten, come,
night weather is a thief, it will come
out of your skin
Come, sit and eat
Had I had a sorna,
I don't mean disrespect...
I would have gone on a high place and blown
in it so hard that the sound could reach
our village to Beyg's ears and turn them over!
I wish I had my drum to bang on it for you
Only a drum by itseIf?
- With his sorna...
Would it be bad?
It would have been sound though
The value of a man is in his good name
Your heart doesn't seem to be with us
- Why? Why isn't it?
Because you neither could hear
Yavar's sorna nor Zabih's drum
They played it and we heard it
- Eat Zabih...
If a man doesn't have a life how can he give
his life?
At the end, the stone carver will put a stone
on all of us
Either the one who is a believer or
the one who is not
You, Asieh, what is with you?
The old man left. He had a good fortune
that he didn't die under a blanket or in
the corner of a teahouse
They killed him under this rock.
Our power is not only for that hollow stone...
It is for many other things that we each know
We want to be green within!
God knows how much that old man sat
on that stone in the front yard and
listened to the village young men
I told you, I will make you a bride myseIf!
- He wanted to hear all the news
He knew if a chicken laid an egg in the village
When this rock turns we will wear
colorful shirts
Now, the smell of spring and wheat can be
smelled very well
From now on we both put our hands in the
bread oven. May your sky be clear!
Human is like a tree. As long as it has roots
in the earth is not dead
Man's work is his root...
This action of us becomes our root that
cannot be pulled out
People say that we don't have any wheat,
why do we want a mill?
What they say is that they learned milling,
good for them, they have to profit by it
Why should all farms be planted?
The land of people up there, the land of
people down there...
We sit by the water, land, seed, stem and
scythe and then the people from that
white house take the profit?
They have made everyone believe that
we have to be scared
The property of a peasant is his land and
the one who farms it
Is it justice for five bags of wheat to go and
return in one bag of flour?
No respect is left for anything
If I had a green turban on my head in front of
this man who has been dressed
green no great thing happens
This gypsy saturated me with life
When he puts his hand on the Quran on
his arm and his power behind that rock
and moves it...
I say that there is a reason for God's
every action
This man's heart has the rain and the sun
together in one place
When I saw him in my master,
Mohammad Hassan's house for the first time...
There was Goodness in his eyes
- Praise "Ali "that the bread that I ate
and the barley that my horse was honest
Among men one cannot be the
servant of a coward!
My shade was in a cave and my sun was
on the lay of land, we get out powers
from the earth
Treachery does not lighten our nights and
doesn't turn our cloudy sky in to sunny
I know that I have never gone by evil
with this horse of mine
Where did he go?
- No...
Let him go. His body is just taking up life
I knew but I didn't know that you knew too
Why did he come? Do we eat more than a
piece of bread and a little milk that
we have to dip our bread into dirt too?
I ask for forgiveness. Your holiness,
please forgive us!
What happened? Why did he leave?
- He went to...
I hope that he comes out ofthis night
with his head up!
[The sound of river]
Come...
Help us God...
- Come animal, move
Help us God...
- It's good
- Your village is coming
Untie the mule, down there
I am holding it
Mohammad Hassan, we are by the river...
Our difficulty is this!
I was thinking that Jaffar with Beyg's people
come back
It feels like this whole rock has fallen
on my chest
Look, what a people, not even one person
has come to even watch!
Yavar...
- I am thinking about this water
Only this river is left, it's behind that hill
My God, I would like to get married!
Oh God, our reward will be with "Ali"
"Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
My "Ali"
Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
Ah, watch it, watch it...
- Be careful
Move animal, come
- Ya "Ali"
Come...
Come...
- Come you all...
Go
- Hold it, hold it
- Come animal, come...
Come... come...
- Slowly
"Mohammed"
- Ya "Mohammed"
Move animal
Come...
Shout at them, shout...
- Move animal, come...
Ya "Ali"
- Come... come
Come animal... come
Come animal...
- Come everyone, come this side...
Come this side
Come
Pull this way... pull everybody...
My "Ali", Help us "Ali"
Pull...
Pull...
- Come. Come this side
Come...
Go... Come...
Pull...
- Pull...
Pull Fatimeh
May "Ali "help us
- Oh my "Ali"
Come..
- Ya "Ali"
My "Ali, help us "Ali"
- Pull, pull, pull
Pull, pull
- Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
There is a stone caught under it
- Take it out
It's stuck under it
- Get it out
Go, go animal
- Don't get your hand stuck there
Oh God
Ya "Ali", say Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
That was it
- come...
Come... Ya "Ali"... say Ya "Ali"...
Say Ya "Ali", Ya "Ali"
Pull, pull
Oh God
Come...
- Hurry and Pull...
Ya "Ali", say Ya "Ali"
Come this side...
- Ya "Ali"
Come, come, come...
Go, go
Oh God
Pull Asieh, pull, pull, pull...
Pull in the name of God
Steer that way
- Come...
I can't believe it...
Come and sit in the shade
God wanted it to be,
come and sit in the shade
"Ali "was helping us, "Ali", My "Ali "!
God bless your courage!
God bless you
Ah...
"Ali", "Ali "!
I wish the old man, my father was here
Had he passed this river with us
he would have become young again
Look over there, It's Jaffar
Jaffar
What has happened?
- Jaffar...
Say something believer,
what has happened?
No, it was obvious whit is with wrong
with him...
And now he has come full of regret.
It would be better if no woman is there
Put me under this rock that
I am not worthy of your breath
It is clearly apparent in your eyes that the
light of righteousness has come into you
The night that Mohammad Hassan came
to tell me to come and pull the rock...
I saw Reza, the well digger,
left and came back with Nayeb for me
to be among you
He gave me a hundred Tuman too.
And those lowlifes told me that my mother
and my sister would not be safe
The plan was to cut the mule ropes
In the middle ofthis river and set the
rock loose
But when I saw you and your arms...
And thought why there is power
in them...
I realized what you are and what hundred
Tuman is!
Beyg has given all ofthose men either money
or promises
They are evil, put me under this rock!
If these people were as much a man as you are
the village will belong to this rock!
Yavar, kill Nayeb...
Kill him for God sake!
They say that they have crossed the river
Has the rock crossed too?
- Yea, the village has become quiet
Move animal, move...
This way, this way, this way...
- Come animal...
Come...
- Come...
My "Ali"
- Move animal
Come, come animal, come...
Come... come...
Oh the messenger of God!
Come animal...
If you take one more step forward you will be
responsible for your own blood!
Are you all for this rock and us?
I have nothing to say to you, the one
who is holding a gun. My words are for
you people...
That from Islam you Moslems are left!
These people recognize the right
from the wrong...
That is why they are standing here to give you
your answer in case you don't listen
First tell me who taught these people
what is right?
The right that you and your master
taught them?
Or the right that was in the power that
dragged this stone all the way here?
Are you four men and two women and
one idiot the right?
What about you who is holding a gun?
- It is hard on them to see that women are
behind this rock
It should be hard on them that they are like
the devil!
I am talking to you...
This is our final words
We have no more life to give for this rock...
But for you who is the servant offorce
and your master...
We have hundred more lives to put forward
- Shepherd...
The master is calling
- I was told to try my utmost not to shed
your blood...
But if you take one more step forward
from there
Prayer for the dead will become necessary
for you!
- Who gave you this order?
The master
- The hell with you and your master!
He is your owner and your master
Listen, I am talking to you all,
I am for you too...
For these people,
the money for planting is from me..
The money for place is by me, the money for
everything comes from me...
Where did you get it? Out of your pants?
It belonged to these people and you took it
from them. Now you have become
their owner with their own money?
I heard that you said your final word.
This is my final word...
I don't want anybody's blood to be shed
Leave that rock over there and go back
to your houses
If you ask these people whether they want the
rock or they want me...
Everybody wants me. That is because I have
taken care oftheir problems like a
brother...
They wanted well, I had it dug.
They wanted seed I gave them
People, they want to create animosity
among us. What bad thing has been
between us?
Today or tomorrow these people will realize
that the owner and master has died away
They will get there too!
God's land belongs to the one who farms on it
Listen people, this man who has become the
power offorcing arm has an owner too...
They are giving their last push
We have brought you the rock and power
We brought you a mill so that your wheat is
as much as your bread...
Be a little less hungry.
He is a partner in your property
You are scared and he utilizes your fear
Where is your courage?
You put your hands in the hand offorce?
What about your families?
Who will take care of them tomorrow?
You are making a pact with the devil!
If you make a commitment you will hear the
noise ofthis rock when it is making flour
out of your wheat for yourselves!
Listen, this same Nayeb who is holding
that gun in his hand like his own child
Gave me one hundred Tuman so I would bring
a thousand disaster down on
these men of God
I came and told him that I can't do it
This same Nayeb said that I won't pay
you more, there are other people too
That is why they beat me up like this!
- Our Quran asks us...
To fight injustice
From "Ali "only invoking his name is left.
Learn about his fighting
Don't read the Quran only on the grave sites,
don't stand next to injustice
This is your and your family's right
that has been taken from you
Stop Vali
- What are you waiting for?
That is Vali
- Hurry up, shoot him, shoot him!
That is Vali!
[The sound of shooting]
- Ah... ah...
Untie the rock
Shoot him!
Bastard!
- Ah....
He killed him...
- God is great
Ah, ah,...
- He killed him...
Kill him
Hit them
Let it go...
Ah...
Let him go, let him go...
Hit him, hit him with the stick...
Oh my "Ali"
- Oh my "Ali"
Ya "Ali"
"Mohammed "!
Ah, ah, ah,
[He is praying]
Ah, ah, ah, ah,
Do your ears hear?
The one who wants to pull a rock and start a
mill has not been born yet!
If a mill turns in any of these villages that
does not belong to Beyg... Are you
listening?
If it is not ours I break its roof on the
head of the miller!
Wheat must become flour in our mills
Go and thank God the Beyg said not take
your breath
Move a little. I respect your mane!
Those bastards,
all that was left to do was to drink your blood
Here, freshen up your throat. Here
Drink up!
Listen, your head is wounded
If you leave it alone it will get infected
and will never heal
This an ointment but it burns
Put your hand on this Quran, do it
If they wanted you dead they would have
mashed you with the first hit
Ouch, ouch, it burns
Why did they beat you like this?
Where isIslamic goodness?
Your hands were a cure for me
Could you see us?
- I was praying
It seems like God wanted it to be like this.
There is a reason for everything
Only if you knew what reasons
this rock holds for us
Can you believe that coming of this rock
to our village is even more urgent than
our daily prayer?
Where are you from?
- Your body does not show what all is broken
I just hope that your bones are not broken
Where are you from?
- "Mohammad Abbad"
It is two village over from here
I will lay you on this. It is difficult.
You cannot you up on the mule...
Can you bear it?
Now talk if you feel like talking so you
won't feel the pain as much
God will not forgive him.
He broke me for this rock
Much blood has been shed by this rock
Women became widows,
fathers lost their sons
Until now about twenty people have cut
this rock
If one mill that belongs to the people turn
in one of these villages...
We will have everything that we want
This Beyg is merciless
All mills around here belong to him
With one mill he has his hands in
everybody's belongings
Put this bags inside, weigh this one
Greetings
- God give you power
Thank you
Give me a glass oftea too
Doesn't anybody want to give me a hand
to put this mashed bag of bones down?
His name is Sheer - Ali
He is your relative, your friend...
He has the same blood as you!
It seems like this man has given me the
wrong address
Isn't there one among you to help me
put him in his house?
I know
I can do it
He is a good man, He is "Sheer - Ali"
This is "Zabih"
Is he bloody?
God shouldn't forgive the one who made
him like this
He is bloody!
Is he bloody?
- Only one man can do work in this village?
Doesn't God cast a shadow here?
Tell me "Sheer - Ali" were you an enemy of
these godless people
Before you wanted to break that stone?
- You have passed by that house,
haven't you...
What is the matter with you stranger?
The shade of that house is bigger
Have you come to rub these people's poverty
on their face?
What does he know, Ha!
- This is "Yar"
He is an able body
- I know
This bloody man says that you're an
able body, but I say that you talk
like the old ones
It's been long since the body and the soul of
this village is wounded
We have given much for pulling that rock...
But that house holds God favor
I told him you cannot do this "Sheer - Ali"
None of us could stand in front of that house
Now, who are you stranger?
What do you say?
Be yourseIf and put him down and go
People here are wishy - washy
You just got here and talking big?
Do you have name? What is your name
and reputation?
What do you need a name for?
What was and what became, I don't know...
But to this God's name I saw that this man's
life hung from his toe for you!
A man who has a name does not submit
to bullying
You give five bags of wheat and get
one bag of flour...
If the mill is yours four bags of flour
comes from five bags of wheat
Be thirsty first and then get to the water so
you'd know what thirst is
These people are not thirsty for that rock yet
Where is a man with bones?
- This is one!
I am the second
What do you want from the bottom of
your heart? Look for it
Don't keep sitting on the corner of these houses
and fan yourselves. It needs determination
One or two men can't handle that rock,
and the time is today!
Listen stranger,
we are satisfied with what we've got
What you have is what you're sitting on!
They are scared, I told you so
He works in the mill, he eats bread all the time
He won't give me any.
He won't give them any either
Where should I take you?
- To "Mohammad Hassan's" house
You mean only one door is open to you
in this village?
His house is open to everybody except me!
- I know where it is...
It is that way
- He's right, he knows
But if you take "Sheer - Ali" over there
you will make us laugh a bunch!
I have some news. Where is Agha?
I want to see him
- Can't you tell me?
I want to tell him personally
Hello sir
The Russians from one side and the
British from another side
And the gum chewing Americans kept on
chewing and chewing and chewing
and hanging around
Many betrayers.
Everywhere full of betrayers...
All of them where hired by the foreigners.
All of them!
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Allow me sir
I had something to tell you
- And the hardheaded Hitler's life was
dependent on one bridge...
This Veresk Bridge. The victory bridge...
Here, in the north.
Had this bridge been closed...
Could the supply reach Marshal Patton on
one side and Marshal Rommel on
another side behind the battle line?
Swear to God that they had a world of luck,
luck...
That this bright horizon...
What do you want boy?
- Sir, somebody has brought Sheer - Ali
into the circle...
And says plenty of bad things
- What does he say?
Sir, he tells people that they are cowards,
cowards
That you give two bags of wheat, and get one,
one bag of flour
I don't know sir, He, he says things like this
Who is the one who is with him?
- He is a stranger...
Stranger, a mountain man
- Hah, mountain man?
How great is the God
- He is a mountain man!
He is a mountain man
Now, where is the stranger taking
Sheer - Ali to?
I don't know sir. He said that
he would take him to Mohammad Hassan's
house, That black smith
What?
Ah, ah, it's here,
Mohammad Hassan's house is here
It is a guest sister, he is not well
We have somebody who is not well
Who is there Fatimeh?
He is a stranger. He says that he has
someone who is not well...
He is a guest
- Bring them in
In the name of God... come
Come...
You have come to us, what do you need?
God's blessing upon you!
Your house may be Mecca!
It seems like only one household in this village
eats bread and that is your household
This man does not have a good place left
on his body, asked me to bring him to you
That drummer knew the way
- Me!
Fatimeh, make some tea
Mountain man, there are ways and short cuts
in your eyes
Whomever comes to my house will not be
sent out
Who whispered in your ears that
this man's place is here?
- He himself
He had heard that you are the man of
hard days!
This man is a spring that had never had green
for us...
Let alone the green,
he put black garment on us
Look at that woman
- Man is sometimes small and
sometimes heavy
What he has done, I don't know.
His God told him to seek refuge with you
Why is he bleeding?
Why is he this way?
- I was praying that I saw that
they are beating him up
He was in the mountain, all alone
He was determined to load a mill stone and
bring it to the village all alone
I brought him, I, I
He is bloody for the rock!
Why did you go alone?
You know that you can't do that rock
You wanted to bloom man that it's so late?
Is the rock in its place?
- It needs one more day ofwork...
Only the center is left
Ah... ah...
These wounds need ointment
Do you have ointment with you?
- There is everything is a gypsy's saddle bag
except a home
The one who went crazy in the mill and
said crappy things in the circle in the
evening is here
Bring him
I sent two tractors to his land and
work on it...
I didn't ask him for money either.
When his crop came up he totally ignored me
I called him and told him: Hey believer,
let your daughter become happy...
Let her come here and hang around here
That's him sir...
And he is still being hardheaded
- Here, this is one of them
Didn't I say? Now, what do you say bastard?
Don't talk dirt
What I say is what wheat says,
that if these men of yours...
- Come, come here...
Come and sit here to discuss our issue...
Come
- Go let him give you some!
Come here, come
It's okay here, tell me what you want to say
Come, don't take it hard, come and sit and
smoke a piece so we can discuss the
our matter
Come, come. He really wants to come
but he is shy to do it
Ah...
Ya Allah, Ya Allah
Ah,... well
How are you, hah?
Well, whenever you have something
to say...
You wanted something, you know,
come straight to me
Well, what has happened now?
- The truth is that when your men confront
somebody...
They really think that there is no law and
they are it and that they can take us and...
- Oh, now...
These things are not yours anymore
When there is a group it's like that,
you don't know that yet? Oh!
Look, no, that one,
he is exactly like a cow...
Or this one for instance. Well,
is it worth it to put your seIf in trouble for that?
No!
In all these villages that are around here
no man is left who thinks about
bringing the rock
It does not go in their ears that Beyg is sharing
and taking their entire belongings with one mill
What belongs to a man is the land
that he farms
One of the people who took our lives,
stranger, is this Sheer - Ali!
When morning comes ten men are born and
at night ten men leave this world
What do you know? There are all these men!
Ah, ah, ah, ah, no more...
Nobody will come in his place any more
What a man from among us left for this rock.
That was Fatimeh's husband!
Whenever there is a talk of the rock my heart
gets jerked off of it's place
In one month of Moharam Seyed Yavar,
Heydar, and my brother
Along with this Sheer - Ali kept saying :
Come man...
Make a commitment and show that you are
alive too and pull one rope tied to that rock
And this man was firm that with three or
four people can not pull that rock
Now I don't know what part of him started
hurting that he got up alone to go
and pull the stone...
And that's when five years have passed
from that time
You shouldn't light a lamp in any night.
There are many lightless nights
One more move!
Many days and nights my son - in - law,
Fatimeh's husband and Seyed Yavar and
I went to this man's house
Back then this Zabih had not been kicked
in the temple by a horse yet...
He was still well. He is still strong!
Went to this man's house
How much did we extend our hands,
how much we were disrespected and
broken down
The hands that Yavar, and Heydar,
and I extended toward this man never
became alive again
God bless his soul, Heydar soaked in blood!
His body was left in the mosque for a
couple of days because of fear
He was a piece of my heart.
After that I never left my house...
Neither for their mosque ceremonies, not for
their funeral, and not for their weddings
And here, this Fatimeh. She was only
one month into his marriage...
When this man broke our back!
If on the day when the smell of blood
had stopped Heydar and me...
This man had come out of his house everyone
in the village would have come
out shouting God is great
It can't be that you put all of your life on the
corner ofthis house and the sound
of the hammer and anvil
Hit your hammer outside of the house,
since your heart is so large
Will you be late if you come out of your house
one more time
Your voice echoes in my ears
Come out of your house one more time...
We will put out lives on our hands!
Go after Yavar
I am a mountain man...
Once a year out tints hit the ground on the
other side of the mountains
I am not much with them
Ever since our black hearted khan received
money and automobile and sold
horses and girls...
I just watch them from distance since
my mother and my sister are with them
I won't miss being with them any more
Among us nobody weaves carpet, and
the girls feel ashamed sitting by the
carpet weaving frame
I was on my way to the city of Mallek Abbad
to buy a blanket
I was praying when I saw this man
To me, a man's work is his prayer and it is
worshiping God to stand in front of force. That
is much more important than reading Quran
I will be with you and anybody
who comes along
If you have the life in you come out of
your house one more time
Who is this Seyed Yavar?
Make him present
That Godless and crippled man is the
devil himseIf!
He cannot stand in front of the righteousness.
Hussein gave his life and fought wickedness
It seems like a black stick was broken
on your backs
You speak as though we do not know
what a wound is
Do you want your breath to touch it?
- Oh yes, I'd like that,
but first you have to do something...
If you don't do it know this flower wont
ever bloom in your heart to have a rock
turn in your village
Send after this Seyed Yavar
- Do you want to go to that white house?
I don't want to sneak out and go after that
stone tomorrow. That cripple must know
Zabih
- What?
You know Yavar's place.
Go after him and tell to come
It is for the thing that we've always
talked about
Yavar, that rock is easier for me than
this drum
To be on my shoulder
Yavar
[Folk music]
Hey, you drummer, cut that breath of yours!
I am talking to you Nayeb, if Sheer - Ali turns
one hair shorter than he was...
I will pull your intestine out of your stomach!
Are you deaf?
Tell your master that it's time for him
to pack up and get away before it's late!
It seems that your head feels heavy on
your shoulder that you've walked to your
gallows yourseIf!
Who is it that is making noise? "Nayeb"
Shepherd...
- Yes sir
Who is it?
- It is Mohammad Hassan the black smith
He is taking bad, it is unlucky
Make him quiet Ghorban
- Hurry, take me to the balcony.
Give me my coat
Talking to you is like kicking a dog
Where is the one who throws you bones?
You eat bones too. If I forget about all
my belongings I will cut your vein myseIf
Before I have you mashed go back to
your hole
The one who can will not dirty
his hands asshole...
I know what to do with you,
I know how to waste you
Who are you?
- The one who will sit you on a
hot burning tree trunk
Any time that...
- Where are they?
They are over there sir
- Who are you?
- Hello sir
Hello sir
- Hello sir
- Hello sir
Hello sir
- Hello sir
Hello sir
Does anyone dare to come here and shout?
By your order and your blood sucking
assistant...
Your people have beat up poor Sheer - Ali and
put him out of commission
Who will answer?
He should go and make a complaint
- Where should he go to complain?
Well, to the station
- Station?
They won't give you up to listen to him!
Now, by the way,
what business of yours is it?
Wasn't that enough for you? Whenever you
stepped out of your house and barked made a
mess among twenty people
I've had mercy on you so far
But this time I will have twenty sticks broken
on your back and...
- I am with all ofyou...
This time I will either uproot you or my root
will be pulled out ofthis village
Stick this in your ears and realize how
this leach is stuck on your existence
It will be your root that will be cut
Have you become people's representative
because you are stronger?
You have no education and you have no brain
to be able to understand
No, why should I make you understand?
If you have no money you cannot farm
your land...
You cannot irrigate it.
Farming a land needs capital
Who has that capital here? I do...
I am the one who gives them money and
takes care of them
What place is it that does not have a master?
Is it possible?
There should be one to organize them,
to loan them money, to help them
The money interest that this whole village
gives cannot pay for my opium for
one week
Now what do you say in the middle?
You got to bold I laid you down...
You tongue became long you became the
prisoner of your house
Now, you are too far gone
Do you want to come up here and tell me
what your problem is?
Do you want money? I will fix you up
You want to work for me? You want a shop?
Take the butcher shop in the circle
If you cross the limit I will not show any mercy
and will put your head on a
spear
Bless the one whose head goes on a spear!
This henna has no color for us,
color these here
We will be going tomorrow for bringing
that rock
We want to own our own mill
And if you think that we can be bought
you have vomited in your pants
Unless you go by yourseIf.
Nobody is behind you
Listen, Quran on my arm has a meaning...
And the meaning is that it knows the right
from wrong...
The right is Mohammad Hassan's stick
to come down on your head...
If it were up to me I would have put crabs
on your balls!
Hey, throw them out with your sticks, hurry
These people throw us out? Hah!
Keep them for the time when they tell you
that the stone is rolling
Now go and twist your wastes mommy boys
Let's go
Seyed Yavar, ifthere were a great one left
that would be you. If your hands are
there the stone will roll
This mountain man who has come,
I don't know what is in his tongue
and in his eyes...
That has made the talk of the rock to come
to the middle, do you want the stone?
I don't have anything except my life
You get up and stand...
Make a shadow and I will stand
in your shadow!
It's time. When you sent for me my heart said
that it's time!
It's time
- I was a passing mountain man...
If you accept me to be among you,
let my blood and belief be laid by your feet
God bless you. I've heard that it was you who
brought Sheer - Ali from the place
of that rock
And this evening also you stood to the people
We gave young lives for that rock,
we gave fresh blood for that rock...
If your heart reaches peace in being with us
without land and without wheat
When you invoke Ali's name then you
become of our blood!
I have nothing with land and I have nothing
with wheat, but I have something with force
Swear to this hour and this time that I put
your shoulders on my forehead
The light that is in this man's face makes me
to make him my Mecca
And now you!
Brother, I cannot sit by this door and wait
and stare at this door...
One time Heydar left and his body
came back...
This time only you're left
Take me with you too
- This road is not for a woman.
Woman and rock don't match sister
You say this so comfortably that you think
we want to throw wheat into the wind?
When Heydar left this shirt was full of
red flowers
When they brought him and left him behind
the door they were saying that this is
the result of going for the rock
I blackened this shirt myseIf...
The red flowers are still there
I don't have any other shirt to blacken
- A woman with us?
I don't want to be disrespectful but if
Fatimeh stays here...
That cripple and this village, you know
I can make tea, warm up your dinner
and prepare food...
Pull the mules
- Okay...
Be with us until the village up there
You stay with Asieh at the house of
Heydar Beyg's, Sheer - Ali's brother
If God willing we came back with the rock
you come back with us
You will take me with you too, won't you?
Hitting the drum is no work for me to do
I will watch the road, I will hold the rope,
I will stand ears
I won't let this place on my head
to get wounded
One man is one force, so far four of us
I have to go to the village at night
and get support
When I was coming Jaffar Reza Goll said
that he will be coming with us
He had heard,
maybe some blood can be found in some vein
I don't know what shape is the rock in
It is healthily sitting on the mountain
Everything has been done on it
It only needs a determination
The owner oftime (God) is behind us
If we make our hearts as one our arms
become one
We have to pack up the mules at night
God willing we will start before sun up
It's time
You have come well Jaffar!
It's here
Heydar Beyg,
I am Mohammad Hassan the black smith
Step on our eyes, come in
- Come in. It is family's house, come in
In the name of God
- Welcome
Hello
- Hello, isn't Heydar Beyg here?
Dear Fatimeh, your presence is welcomed
You brought flowers,
you brought the spring with you
You're still wearing black,
let your heart be white!
Thank you, I have come to stay with you
If this brother of mine goes
under the stone...
Let's sit in the shade
- Let's rest
Let's go to the shade
- Heydar Beyg
What?
- Well, we kiss the hand of our master!
Is that you Mohammad Hassan?
- I am your servant
Greetings
At last you took your veil off and
came out ofyou house...
Didn't you worry about strangers seeing you?
Daddy, they are our guests. This is Fatimeh
You know that losing a young man and
becoming a widow is hard
We were together. I wish the stick had hit
my head instead of him!
He didn't even moan once
You are my eye!
I was in black until now...
It was because of the rock that I wore
this scarf. I was afraid that black might
bring bad luck
Fatimeh will stay with you
These brave ones have joined their hands
for the rock
This time we will move it
- Like a dog scared of the shepherd!
You that are afraid of the shepherd want
to fight alongside the woIf
Can you be called a man?
- It is disrespectful, brave, but
If your back broke on this road it gives us
power to move
It has been forty years that this talk has
become the candy in the party of
spineless ones. Only talk!
This black smith has left my heart now!
If you sing a song to the ears of wheat it
won't grow. It needs action
You made me embarrassed in front of
these braves
Your village had only its back broken,
but our village gave life
Long life to you, may God give you patience
You talk boldly a lot black smith...
You closed the door and earned reputation
and talk
What business has the rock with you?
Rock moves the rock and wind moves
the weed
Go and pull weed
- Your back didn't break for the weed,
it broke for that rock
That time when that blessed soul Heydar was
present we bled...
You were not this old...
- Daddy, guest is dear to God...
It's okay that I am a stranger,
greeting him brings health!
His heart is a burnt tree trunk
- It's time for us to go
The final word. Had Fatimeh stayed
in that village she would've been unsafe...
She is safe here with you
If God willing we came back with the rock
we will take her with us
Hah, Fatimeh is my daughter...
Your account doesn't pair up with hers
- You're our master
If you want brave Heydar to give us a bowl of
tea when we come back the rock
must be with us
Your heart has been saddened
by the young ones
- May your heart be green, pray for our arms!
May God protect you
Your heart is large,
hope that you'll forgive us
If we return and the God was with us
the sound of the rock will come with us too
Hit them... hit them...
- You heathens
Go over there
You heathens
- Are your heads too much for your bodies?
Kill them
- Don't kill them
Don't kill them, that will cause being caught
Ouch
- Don't shed their blood
Mash them well
Kill him
Come...
Hit him Seyed...
- You heathens...
Heathens!
Come
Tie it up
Loosen it a little to come forward
Okay, that's good
Pull
Tie it up, tie it up
Tie it
Tie it in a way that when we move the stone
won't rob the rope
Tie it two or three folds Mohammad Hassan
Come
Oh, stop animal, stop, stop...
Tie it. Tie it then
Okay, that good, come
Pull hard
Look around, search well
Be alert
Stop animal, stop
Force it, force it
Slow
It's good, okay...
Come, God...
Say "Ali"
- "Ya Ali"
- Slowly
Pull
- Come
Come animal, come
Slowly, slowly
- Go
Pull
- Pull
- Come
Say "Ya Ali" you all
"Ali", I
- Pull
Pull now, pull
- Pull
Come, come animal, come
Pull
- In God's name!
Slowly, slowly
- Pull it
- Watch it
Come animal
My "Ali"
It's good
Stop it
- Go
Ya Mohammad
- Ya Ali
Pull
- Pull
- Come animal, come
Come
- Come animal
Go, go, okay now, go
- Come animal
Go, it's okay
- Hold it. Hold it tightly
Hold it
- Oh my "Ali"
Pull
- Ya Ali
Pull
- Go, go Seyed
- Come animal
Slow, slow...
May Ali help you Seyed!
- Ya Ali
- Come...
God, God, come, come...
- Pull...
Ya Mohammad
- Come, come animal...
May Ali help you, pull
- Come, come...
Go Seyed...
- Come animal, come...
Pull...
Go...
- Stranger, be careful
I've got it, get it to the middle
- Ya Mohammad
Come, come animal
- Go Seyed, go
Come...
My "Ali"!
Pull...
Be careful stranger...
- Ya Mohammad's God
I am careful
- Ya "Ali's sword"
- Pull
Good, good
- Yea, keep it like this
Calm down animal...
Ah...
- Put the stone under it
Come Zabih, put the stone under it
- God...
It was twenty years since that rock
hadn't moved from its place...
Now you come and tell me that
it's moving you lazy bums?
Bring that horse and let me see
He has brought the news that the rock
is moving
They want to make a flour mill
Bring that horse, come, come forward...
Come
- Slowly, slowly, slowly
Go
- Careful...
- Hold master's foot
Carefully...
- Hold his leg
Pull
I have to go to the feudal lord to straighten
these people up
Open up your eyes, and carefully watch
- Should I come with you sir?
No, keep your eyes and ears wide open.
Get going boy
Don't let it slide, don't let it slide
Slowly, come, come
- Come animal...
Come animal... yeah...
- Aha, pull...
- Not much is left...
Come
- Come, come animal...
That is a decline now!
- Hay Mohammad Hassan,
keep the control of it...
Seyed hold it
- Come, come
Pull
- Go...
Go, steer to the other side, not this side
God's blessing
- Steer to the other side Mohammad Hassan,
get to that side
Pull it...
Hey Mohammad Hassan, pull the rope,
pull the other side's rope
Be careful so it doesn't go back
- Move animal
Be careful!
- Let it come Seyed
Come forward a little
Don't let it go on that rock,
don't let it go on that rock
- Be careful / - Be careful
Hold it Seyed. Stop it...
- Seyed hold it...
Be careful
- May "Ali "help you
- Ya "Ali"
Come, don't be afraid
Come, come, come, come animal
Move, move animal, move, move, hay...
Come, come
- Pull Mohammad Hassan
Pull
- Come, come
Pull Mohammad Hassan
- Come, come animal, come...
If we pass this incline we would be done
Pull
- Go to the other side. Go to the other side,
pull...
Don't let it go back Seyed. Seyed,
put the stone under it so it won't go back
- Come, come
Go
Go up...
- Pull...
Pull
- Say "Ya Ali"
Pull
- May you have more power Seyed!
Pull to the other side
Hit it with a stick, hit it with a stick,
hit that animal with a stick. Hit with a
stick, hay...
One more move
- Pull to that side, pull to that side...
Don't let it fall, go that way
Go that way
- Come... come...
Slip it by this side
- Go Seyed
Say "Ya Ali"
- One more move...
- Ya Ali
Come, come, come, come, come,
come, come...
Say "Ya Ali"
- Ali
Go Seyed, go to the front and pull the rope
- Come...
Your ancestor may be your helper,
your ancestor is your helper!
- Ali...
My Ali
- Ya Ali
- Go
Ya Ali
Ya Ali
- Come, come, come...
come, come, come, come...
Ya Ali
Come...
- Pull...
[The sound of birds]
Hey, hey, slow...
Hold the other side of it
- Come on
My Ali!
- Slowly
"Mohammad "!
- Hay animal, come...
Don't buck, come
Force it...
- Slowly, slowly...
Come animal, come...
- Pull...
The wall, the wall, watch the wall
My Ali!
- Pull
- Come animal, come
Be patient and wait as much as a
drink of water
Let them come close.
Don't get intimidated by their number
With force we can stand in front of
Beyg's people...
But we will get mashed up in front of
these people!
Should I go and start a fire behind them?
- No, don't move...
This, our action is for them
[The sound of crowd]
If your body is tired say "Ya Ali"
Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
If you are disable say Ya Ali
Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
These brothers of yours put their lives in
their arms and put their arms against
this rock for you
These men of God who, by grace of God,
have neither land nor wheat...
Put their lives in their hands for you!
You are standing in front of them
to break their legs...
Or see the light of Ali's arm in their eyes?
They want to mill their wheat themselves
They want to run the mill themselves
This mill will come here in our village
tomorrow and will make its sound...
Another morning in that village up there and
another morning in that other village
Pay attention...
If day after tomorrow the sound of our flour
mill reached the sky and...
The smell ofwarm flour came from
your mill...
Won't our children hold their heads up?
He is right
- It's the truth
Anybody who wants to put the legs of
these men of God under this rock...
Has to answer to the owner ofthis!
- I seek forgiveness from God
God is great. God is great...
- I seek forgiveness from God,
I ask for repentance from God
Those who laugh in fake and show you
black money...
Are filling their own bags with flour
Those believers of Mohammad
send him a greetings
May God's peace be upon Mohammad and
the believers of Mohammad
Come, come
- Come to help them, come...
Pull it
Pull it...
Ya Ali, Ya Ali
- Ya Ali
Those who believe in Mohammed ask for
God's blessing loudly / - May God's blessing be
upon Mohammed and his followers
You are welcome,
you have brought the smell of spring
Your news is moving from village to village
All ofyou smell like great men
I adore your smiles since you're the only
one left from the great elders!
Nayeb has been around here since
this dawn...
He moves about like a wounded woIf...
And keeps trying to be discrete
Seyed Reza's son was bringing me the
news and he said...
He has gathered many stupid godless men
around...
And maybe he has put some money in
their hands and spoke about a golden
spring to them!
Good is that you all gave each other
your hearts and then your arms!
You're welcome Jaffar,
you have determination!
Why didn't Reza come?
He was so hot about it
His wife stopped him
I heard that she said : Do you want me
to become a widow like Fatimeh?
A woman who wants a coward man
how does smell his breath? God is great
God bless his soul, my father use to say...
A man is one who is a little heavy on the
shoulder of the earth...
These days manhood is the story of mountain
and a hoof broken horse. It is difficult!
Zabih
- Yes?
Why didn't you bring your drum with you?
I gave it to Mr. Reza, the kerosene seller...
I told him that I either come back and bang
on it myseIf or bang on it on my grave
They bang it inside their hearts because of
fear. Thanks to your courage since you had
it from beginning
I won't forget, the first that we wanted to go
for the rock
Are you listening Heydar?
- Yea
Zabih was not loose and out of it like he is
Nayeb's mule kicked him in the temple with
it's new nailed shoe so hard that l
thought he would be gone
Here, this is it!
Since then I became fat and banged
on the drum
The old man sat in the corner ofthis yard
and stared at the ground!
He use to say : My back has gone in the rock &
all of my mind is with the rock and that is why
the land where my house is on is made of rock
Slowly the life of this rock was taking him
The first bread made from the flour
that comes from this mill...
I will donate with dates in the
memory of Heydar!
A good man shouldn't stay in this world
When this rock reaches the village and sets
in place take offthe mourning clothes that
you have on for Heydar
They say as long as mourning clothes is worn
by the survivors, the dead will be
in mourning too
This was late Heydar's way
One night floodwater was running to the
village, and we had wheat stored in the barn.
Water was getting to the barn,
My brother wasn't there
I saw Heydar over there with a lantern light
in his face.
He diverted the floodwater from getting to
our wheat. The wheat stayed dry.
He put one flower on the mantle and left
Two days later at sunset he came with a
package of sweets and asked me for marriage
The flower on the mantle hadn't dried yet
when he left for the rock and never came back
More power to you brave
Why don't you come and sit by the
other braves?
I had your bed laid over there by the others
No, I won't sleep there...
I will stay by this rock
So the unbelievers cannot attack.
Unbelievers!
Now, how did you all bring it?
You have checked on this rock so many times
since the beginning of the evening
I remember you from the old time...
I know you
Do you remember me?
- Yes, I remember
The other time you were there too
This time the rock is also!
They killed
Wake up...
Bleeding...
- What has happened?
Blood is coming from here...
Wake up...
- It is Zabih!
What is the noise?
- Zabih
They killed... Killed...
- What is with you? What has happened?
Oh my Savior
- Oh the greatest of the believers
- Stand aside let me see
He has bled... Heydar...
- Heydar, Oh my God
Oh my God
- Oh my savior
My master... Heydar
- What has happened?
What is going on? What is going on?
What is it? What is with you all?
It is my father, Fatimeh, my father...
- My God...
Oh my believing lady, it is my father
- My God...
- Oh my savior
Get up, I want to bake fresh bread for you...
- My God, my God
I want to bake bread for you,
bake bread, bake bread...
- What a tragedy has fallen upon us, my God...
Get up, get up so I know that you're not dead,
get up...
Fatimeh, hold her so she cannot come forward
- Don't let her come here Fatimeh / - I want
to wake him up, I want to bake him bread...
I have become black destined.
Fatimeh I became fatherless, Fatimeh
- Come, come. Get up Asieh...
Get up, get up that the rock is here,
that rock that you talked about is here...
- Get up Heydar..
Dear father, the rock has come,
get up dear father...
- Come
Dear father the rock has come.
You heathens, you savage!
- I have become black destined
Fatimeh l'll kiss your feet,
I only had him Fatimeh
Calm down
- Oh God why did you have to take him
so soon?
Oh God
- Fatimeh, I only had him...
God, God, God, God
- Asieh, dear...
Oh my believing lady,
oh my believing lady...
- You are killing yourseIf
Fatimeh, Fatimeh, my father went to be
with your Heydar...
- Our light without you is very dim
Fatimeh my father went to be with you Heydar
- You were our light Heydar
Asieh, calm down. Asieh calm down...
- Fatimeh, Fatimeh, I became fatherless
There is no God other than the God
There is no God other than the God
Oh my Ali
- There is no God other than the God
My master
My teacher Heydar
That is my father Fatimeh where are you
taking my father?
There is no God other than the God
- Where are you taking my father?
- My Heydar...
That is my father. Fatimeh, I beg you,
let me see his face one more time then
they can take him
Daddy...
Daddy
Daddy
Come daddy... Daddy
Get up, we have to get going
This is only the beginning of the way!
I swear to Ali's blood that I will revenge
for his blood!
We all have made the determination
Get up. A dead who has gotten his wish is
still alive!
That is my father... that is my father...
There is nobody left for me
any more father...
Put your shoes on and get moving like a
man with us
Your hand is in my hand!
- I am not alone in that house anymore...
We will make bread out of the flour
from this mill
I will make you a bride myseIf
[They are praying]
Come
- Come
Come, come animal
- Say "Ali"
- Slow, slow
Give it to me...
- Come...
Pull... go...
- Pull everyone...
Ya "Ali"
- Slowly, slowly...
Go, go...
Come animal, come
Good, slow, slowly, slowly,
slowly, slowly...
- Careful...
Come animal, come...
- Hold it Mohammad Hassan...
Calm down
- That way, that way...
Ya "Mohammed"
- Go
Your ancestor my help you, hold it Seyed
Come this way, come this side, this side
Come, come animal, come, good
- Pull
Oh God's profit
- Ya "Ali"
- Move animal, move animal, move
Go
- Move animal
Hay, go...
- Ya "Ali"
- Move animal...
Come...
- Hit the animal Zabih, Hit it...
Hit it, move animal, move, move
- Go...
Go...
- Oh my "Ali"
May "Ali" be your protector, come
Hold this, put your power into your arm
- Ya "Ali"
Come animal, come
Come...
Get up... go...
Go, don't stop...
- God bless you...
Look at you!
Put your power into your arm...
- Pull, don't stop
Go, go, go...
- Pull, pull...
Go...
- Pull...
Steer to this side a little...
- Go Mohammad Hassan, go, don't stop
Steer this way
- Go, Ya "Ali"
- Move animal...
May "Ali "be your protector
- God bless you...
[Mourning ceremony]
Zabih, you haven't eaten, come,
night weather is a thief, it will come
out of your skin
Come, sit and eat
Had I had a sorna,
I don't mean disrespect...
I would have gone on a high place and blown
in it so hard that the sound could reach
our village to Beyg's ears and turn them over!
I wish I had my drum to bang on it for you
Only a drum by itseIf?
- With his sorna...
Would it be bad?
It would have been sound though
The value of a man is in his good name
Your heart doesn't seem to be with us
- Why? Why isn't it?
Because you neither could hear
Yavar's sorna nor Zabih's drum
They played it and we heard it
- Eat Zabih...
If a man doesn't have a life how can he give
his life?
At the end, the stone carver will put a stone
on all of us
Either the one who is a believer or
the one who is not
You, Asieh, what is with you?
The old man left. He had a good fortune
that he didn't die under a blanket or in
the corner of a teahouse
They killed him under this rock.
Our power is not only for that hollow stone...
It is for many other things that we each know
We want to be green within!
God knows how much that old man sat
on that stone in the front yard and
listened to the village young men
I told you, I will make you a bride myseIf!
- He wanted to hear all the news
He knew if a chicken laid an egg in the village
When this rock turns we will wear
colorful shirts
Now, the smell of spring and wheat can be
smelled very well
From now on we both put our hands in the
bread oven. May your sky be clear!
Human is like a tree. As long as it has roots
in the earth is not dead
Man's work is his root...
This action of us becomes our root that
cannot be pulled out
People say that we don't have any wheat,
why do we want a mill?
What they say is that they learned milling,
good for them, they have to profit by it
Why should all farms be planted?
The land of people up there, the land of
people down there...
We sit by the water, land, seed, stem and
scythe and then the people from that
white house take the profit?
They have made everyone believe that
we have to be scared
The property of a peasant is his land and
the one who farms it
Is it justice for five bags of wheat to go and
return in one bag of flour?
No respect is left for anything
If I had a green turban on my head in front of
this man who has been dressed
green no great thing happens
This gypsy saturated me with life
When he puts his hand on the Quran on
his arm and his power behind that rock
and moves it...
I say that there is a reason for God's
every action
This man's heart has the rain and the sun
together in one place
When I saw him in my master,
Mohammad Hassan's house for the first time...
There was Goodness in his eyes
- Praise "Ali "that the bread that I ate
and the barley that my horse was honest
Among men one cannot be the
servant of a coward!
My shade was in a cave and my sun was
on the lay of land, we get out powers
from the earth
Treachery does not lighten our nights and
doesn't turn our cloudy sky in to sunny
I know that I have never gone by evil
with this horse of mine
Where did he go?
- No...
Let him go. His body is just taking up life
I knew but I didn't know that you knew too
Why did he come? Do we eat more than a
piece of bread and a little milk that
we have to dip our bread into dirt too?
I ask for forgiveness. Your holiness,
please forgive us!
What happened? Why did he leave?
- He went to...
I hope that he comes out ofthis night
with his head up!
[The sound of river]
Come...
Help us God...
- Come animal, move
Help us God...
- It's good
- Your village is coming
Untie the mule, down there
I am holding it
Mohammad Hassan, we are by the river...
Our difficulty is this!
I was thinking that Jaffar with Beyg's people
come back
It feels like this whole rock has fallen
on my chest
Look, what a people, not even one person
has come to even watch!
Yavar...
- I am thinking about this water
Only this river is left, it's behind that hill
My God, I would like to get married!
Oh God, our reward will be with "Ali"
"Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
My "Ali"
Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
Ah, watch it, watch it...
- Be careful
Move animal, come
- Ya "Ali"
Come...
Come...
- Come you all...
Go
- Hold it, hold it
- Come animal, come...
Come... come...
- Slowly
"Mohammed"
- Ya "Mohammed"
Move animal
Come...
Shout at them, shout...
- Move animal, come...
Ya "Ali"
- Come... come
Come animal... come
Come animal...
- Come everyone, come this side...
Come this side
Come
Pull this way... pull everybody...
My "Ali", Help us "Ali"
Pull...
Pull...
- Come. Come this side
Come...
Go... Come...
Pull...
- Pull...
Pull Fatimeh
May "Ali "help us
- Oh my "Ali"
Come..
- Ya "Ali"
My "Ali, help us "Ali"
- Pull, pull, pull
Pull, pull
- Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
There is a stone caught under it
- Take it out
It's stuck under it
- Get it out
Go, go animal
- Don't get your hand stuck there
Oh God
Ya "Ali", say Ya "Ali"
- Ya "Ali"
That was it
- come...
Come... Ya "Ali"... say Ya "Ali"...
Say Ya "Ali", Ya "Ali"
Pull, pull
Oh God
Come...
- Hurry and Pull...
Ya "Ali", say Ya "Ali"
Come this side...
- Ya "Ali"
Come, come, come...
Go, go
Oh God
Pull Asieh, pull, pull, pull...
Pull in the name of God
Steer that way
- Come...
I can't believe it...
Come and sit in the shade
God wanted it to be,
come and sit in the shade
"Ali "was helping us, "Ali", My "Ali "!
God bless your courage!
God bless you
Ah...
"Ali", "Ali "!
I wish the old man, my father was here
Had he passed this river with us
he would have become young again
Look over there, It's Jaffar
Jaffar
What has happened?
- Jaffar...
Say something believer,
what has happened?
No, it was obvious whit is with wrong
with him...
And now he has come full of regret.
It would be better if no woman is there
Put me under this rock that
I am not worthy of your breath
It is clearly apparent in your eyes that the
light of righteousness has come into you
The night that Mohammad Hassan came
to tell me to come and pull the rock...
I saw Reza, the well digger,
left and came back with Nayeb for me
to be among you
He gave me a hundred Tuman too.
And those lowlifes told me that my mother
and my sister would not be safe
The plan was to cut the mule ropes
In the middle ofthis river and set the
rock loose
But when I saw you and your arms...
And thought why there is power
in them...
I realized what you are and what hundred
Tuman is!
Beyg has given all ofthose men either money
or promises
They are evil, put me under this rock!
If these people were as much a man as you are
the village will belong to this rock!
Yavar, kill Nayeb...
Kill him for God sake!
They say that they have crossed the river
Has the rock crossed too?
- Yea, the village has become quiet
Move animal, move...
This way, this way, this way...
- Come animal...
Come...
- Come...
My "Ali"
- Move animal
Come, come animal, come...
Come... come...
Oh the messenger of God!
Come animal...
If you take one more step forward you will be
responsible for your own blood!
Are you all for this rock and us?
I have nothing to say to you, the one
who is holding a gun. My words are for
you people...
That from Islam you Moslems are left!
These people recognize the right
from the wrong...
That is why they are standing here to give you
your answer in case you don't listen
First tell me who taught these people
what is right?
The right that you and your master
taught them?
Or the right that was in the power that
dragged this stone all the way here?
Are you four men and two women and
one idiot the right?
What about you who is holding a gun?
- It is hard on them to see that women are
behind this rock
It should be hard on them that they are like
the devil!
I am talking to you...
This is our final words
We have no more life to give for this rock...
But for you who is the servant offorce
and your master...
We have hundred more lives to put forward
- Shepherd...
The master is calling
- I was told to try my utmost not to shed
your blood...
But if you take one more step forward
from there
Prayer for the dead will become necessary
for you!
- Who gave you this order?
The master
- The hell with you and your master!
He is your owner and your master
Listen, I am talking to you all,
I am for you too...
For these people,
the money for planting is from me..
The money for place is by me, the money for
everything comes from me...
Where did you get it? Out of your pants?
It belonged to these people and you took it
from them. Now you have become
their owner with their own money?
I heard that you said your final word.
This is my final word...
I don't want anybody's blood to be shed
Leave that rock over there and go back
to your houses
If you ask these people whether they want the
rock or they want me...
Everybody wants me. That is because I have
taken care oftheir problems like a
brother...
They wanted well, I had it dug.
They wanted seed I gave them
People, they want to create animosity
among us. What bad thing has been
between us?
Today or tomorrow these people will realize
that the owner and master has died away
They will get there too!
God's land belongs to the one who farms on it
Listen people, this man who has become the
power offorcing arm has an owner too...
They are giving their last push
We have brought you the rock and power
We brought you a mill so that your wheat is
as much as your bread...
Be a little less hungry.
He is a partner in your property
You are scared and he utilizes your fear
Where is your courage?
You put your hands in the hand offorce?
What about your families?
Who will take care of them tomorrow?
You are making a pact with the devil!
If you make a commitment you will hear the
noise ofthis rock when it is making flour
out of your wheat for yourselves!
Listen, this same Nayeb who is holding
that gun in his hand like his own child
Gave me one hundred Tuman so I would bring
a thousand disaster down on
these men of God
I came and told him that I can't do it
This same Nayeb said that I won't pay
you more, there are other people too
That is why they beat me up like this!
- Our Quran asks us...
To fight injustice
From "Ali "only invoking his name is left.
Learn about his fighting
Don't read the Quran only on the grave sites,
don't stand next to injustice
This is your and your family's right
that has been taken from you
Stop Vali
- What are you waiting for?
That is Vali
- Hurry up, shoot him, shoot him!
That is Vali!
[The sound of shooting]
- Ah... ah...
Untie the rock
Shoot him!
Bastard!
- Ah....
He killed him...
- God is great
Ah, ah,...
- He killed him...
Kill him
Hit them
Let it go...
Ah...
Let him go, let him go...
Hit him, hit him with the stick...
Oh my "Ali"
- Oh my "Ali"
Ya "Ali"
"Mohammed "!