The Wolf's Trail (1993) - full transcript

" TRACES OF THE WOLF "

[ Playing the tar]

Photos, photos

Photos are everlasting

Will you allow me to have a picture
standing with my hand over your shoulder?

I Wish you a happy life with Tal'at

Play on! I Want the sound of music
to remain even in the photo

Come here Tal'at, over here

Sit over here
Keep this spot for me next to my father

Fereshteh next to Sade-q Khan
That's it

Come here Naser
What's Wrong with you?



Come here photo man

Sit over here
Come Naser

That's it, everything is all ready

Too bad We think it's always
going to be this Way

Next it's Sadeq's turn
and Fereshteh

But if your child is a boy...

Don't let my father to
get him in fertilizer business

- Education
- It's all up to God

Ask your father to join
us in the photo too Tal'at

Get in the photo dad

Once Mr. Tehrani is in the photo and the photo
is hung from the Wall it will never fall down

Come photo man

A real nice photo

Mr. Tehrani is as sturdy as a Wall



He can be leaned on forever

Wish you a happy marriage

Sadeq, when will you be ready
to marry Fereshteh?

- When the nightingales sing
- You are my hero

I would like to put my hands over your
shoulder if you allow me to do so

I'd like to be as great as you are
for even once

I'm going to hand in my knife
in front of you

Tal'at asked me to
and I will do as she Wants me

God bless you

Mr. Tehrani is the most respected here

I don't dare to sit down
with him being present

Naser my pal

- Stand somewhere to be seen
- I'll always be seen if not dead

I'm not all for this one at all

- Why not?
- Just take the photo

Okay everyone gathers up, quiet

You keep playing

Good

Thanks

- Who is he?
- It's Naser

And this one?

Him I don't know

Hello to the World of love and friendship

We've been much too long apart

I Went through a lot of trouble
to find your address

I heard about your imprisonment
when I was in prison myself

And it increased my sorrow

But you got released when
I was still in prison and

Nobody should have intruded
Without your permission

This comes from the bottom of my heart

It's an honor to have a pupil like you

Now the reason for my intrusion

I have a favor to ask you
you'll complete friendship to me by doing it

And you are the type to do so

I've come down with an incurable illness

I've included an invitation to my son's
Wedding Whom I've named Reza

I've named him after you
to remind me of you when I call him

During the last days of my life...

I'd be a very happy man to see
my son's Wedding

I'm asking you to forget all...

I owe you which is so much

That it's not even Worth counting

Come to Tehran
I need your presence greatly

Now I will put my hands over
your shoulders for a photo

You can't find true friendship these days

Come and here my side of the stoy as Well

If you help me by being here
so I could die with you holding my hand...

I would Welcome that kind
of death anytime

If you do decide to come...

To Tehran call me by this number...

I'd be thrilled to hear your voice in Tehran

I've always been indebted to you

I owe you an imprisonment
which there's no compensation for that

For your imprisonment
and your friendship

I owe you love

You Weren't the only one in prison...

I too was imprisoned by hearing
you were in prison

I'll tell you What I would like
you to do for me in person

You have to do something for me

Which is only done by you

I have a daughter the same age
as your absence in my life

It takes your pride
You've always been the closest to me

Come, I've fallen and
need to lean on a Wall

God bless you

Sadeq Khan

I'm alone here

Can't fight all of you

Why are you destroying my booth?

Why are you doing it?

Don't destroy my goods

- Hello
- Hi brother

I'd be very greatful if you let me make a phone call

Where are you from?
Are you new in town?

I'm from here

Tehran

- I was gone
- From Tehran yet a stranger?

- How long were you gone for?
- About twenty years

Goon pal
make as many calls as you Want to

What happened?
I only crashed one bike

What have I done, God?

Why Won't they make it illegal?

Bikes are for one person to ride on

But the poor fellow is now
the murderer of five people

They get on the bike with their
Wives behind them

And they sit their poor children
in the middle and one on the bar

It's not just this poor guy
It can happen to many more

- The poor guy is the murderer of five people
- You're here son

- And it's not his fault
- I looked up and down to find you

Thank God

Where are you calling from?

It sounds busy there!

Listen Reza, I have to be hospitalized

You have my son's Wedding invitation

But my daughter is my problem

You're not Well at all are you?
Why so late?

My son's Wedding will be called off
if he finds out about my illness

But I Want to see him get married

You'd have to do one more favor for me

I don't like to be reminded of
the old days Sadeq

Those Words don't mean anything anymore

You're here and that means
you're still a man...

Before We meet in person

And before I get energy from you
You need to something for me

My daughter's run away with a boy
I have their address

The boy's said he'd ruin my son's
Wedding if anything happens to him

I'd do it myself but I Wouldn't
Want to be beat up by a boy

You're the only one I trust

You're the solution to my problem

Come to me with my daughter, bring her back

Listen Sadeq, that was long time ago

I'm not the same person anymore...

Times have changed too

Should I go to the cops?
Have I ever done that?

Me and the cops?

I've gone beyond the point of cops
and have stood by it

I'll bring her back

I'm Reza

- How are you Mr. Tehrani?
- Are you lost?

No Mr. Tehrani, this is the only
Way left for me

- You used to be proud
- Prison doesn't leave you any pride

I left with pride

I didn't sell anyone out
and I got out with pride

I Wasn't responsible for Naser's death

My I did the time for it

Tal'at and Sadeq got involved...

I got left with the sorrow and a broken heart

Why didn't you tell them
you didn't kill Naser?

Tal'at would have gotten dragged into it

Sadeq was already involved

They're both the same

Just the same

But they were parts of my life

How was Tal'at involved?
Fereshteh married Sadeq

- And Tal'at Waited for you to get out
- Till when?

Till the very end

She was standing right here laughing

Her smile never did leave my mind

It was always with me

I came here hoping I'd see her

Where is she?

I had a heart attack

How much is that knife?
The third one to the left?

The one with brown handle right?

It's used, and dull

- Five grand
- You mean five thousand tomans?

The one next to it is new
and it's prettier, five hundred

Why so much difference?

Want some tea?

- I'll be back
- You Won't

You're not in the right path

My sons bring me here every morning
to keep me busy

They go to make money
and to cheat everyone

That's Why I told you that
you Weren't in the right path

Take a spin

Don't open it
Think it though

- Take a Walk
- Don't make it sound like a big deal

I'll open it

I Won't sell it

Let go of my hand

Mind your own business

Here's five grand

Nowadays smart people
have to Work for stupid ones

I'm not smart
or I Wouldn't be here now

What's your name?

[ Door knocks ]

- Yes
- Are you Hamid?

Who are you looking for?

Who is it Hamid?

Get ready, We have to be somewhere

Is Sadeq Khan's daughter here?

Was that her voice?

- Are you hamid?
- Yes my name is Hamid

You Want to come in and do
something to yourself?

No son, I don't Want anything
to happen to neither of us

I have to talk to you and Sadeq's girl
if you are Willing to hear me out

- Who is it Hamid?
- I'm your uncle dear

Reza, your dad's old friend

Get your foot out pal

What's all the noise for?

I'm here to take you to your
sick father girl

Hamid must come as Well

If you listen to me and come with me...

I'll get your dad's permission
to let you marry him personally

I'll make sure you marry him

Your father Wants to give permission

He is sick though

He Wants to settle you down

Don't you Want to get married?

I promise you

No no

No

You're killing him, no

- What happened?
- Don't let him get away

Let's go after him

Drag him down

[ door knocks I

Hi, yes

Hi, is this a Wedding dress tailor shop?

- Talat...
- Mother!

Who is it?
Let's go

It's for you mother

- Hi Tal'at
- Hi Reza

- I thought to stop by
- Aren't you a bit late?

Come in

You're bloody again

Come in

Sit down

What brings you here?

I don't know What to ask

I Wasn't able to find you
during the past twenty years

Why aren't you coming?

You haven't changed

Neither have you the Way
you're losing blood

This man has lost a lot of blood

Don't keep him standing

This is your uncle, he was
gone for twenty years

- Oh mother, finally!
- He finally came

Where has he been?
It's no one's business

Why is he here to see me?
God knows

Why is he like this?
That's no one's business neither

Sit down

You shouldn't be seen like this
just as usual

Is he the one you had lost?

No, he got lost

That's how he Wanted it to be

How did you get here Without
being seen like this?

On a horse

A horse

Where is your gun then?

Mother, he's lost a lot of blood

It's cold here, let's go inside the Workshop

Sorry, I've intruded your business

I'll rest a bit and leave

You were gone for so long

We were very lonely, specially mother

I was a child

Mother used to Work

She used to talk about you a lot

She Wanted to curse you
for having left so sudden

Forgive me

But she couldn't

She said you caused her to be lonely

When are you going to the hospital?
You're running late

It was along time ago

I don't remember anything

But you don't say anything
and Want me to stay quiet too

No, keep talking

Say the Whole thing

I guess you left three days
before the Wedding

You were all she had

Come uncle, it's cold here

We have a customer mother

Mother called off the Wedding because
grandpa had a heart attack that night

He has lost a lot of blood mother

He pretends to be fine

I'll be there as soon as I Write something

He needs a strong tranquilizer mother

Why do you pretend like it's nothing?
Leave bone pickings for later

Daryoush doesn't have a traffic
control sticker so he Works in the afternoons

Should Daryoush see him like this...

I don't know if he should
even meet him or not

I'm leaving mother

He's Waiting for you

He's not Well

What's with you?

I'll send Daryoush

Bye

The siren isn't for you

I Washed your hands

I cleaned your Wound too

I didn't have a shirt for you to Wear though

I don't know if you've changed or not

But I don't know Why I'm in this situation

- I Went after Sadeq's daughter...
- I don't Want to ask Where you were

Why did you leave though?

- But...
- I was all alone

With all those demons in my head

Demons about Why I had to be
in prison for two others to...

For you...

Had I come to Tehran directly
after I got released...

I would have done something stupid
to my friends and loved ones

I Went through hell trying
to heal myself

Sadeq asked me to come to Tehran

Sadeq again

But this time it was for my own heart

My Whole being kept asking for you

I thought you and Sadeq got married
and dropped me in prison

I couldn't have named neither of you

- What's Wrong?
- I didn't Want to come to you like this

I was supposed to go
after Sadeq's daughter...

I didn't come here to bring trouble for you

- I'm here to...
- You don't even give me a chance to ask you

You're very late

But I'm glad you're here now

[ door bell ]

I'll get it

Hello ma'am

Is Reza here?

How do you know he is here?

Sadeq Khan said so
He knows it

He must go to the doctor

I'll take him
Then he can go anywhere he Wants to

- No ma'am, We'll take him
- Like hell you will

I said he needs a doctor

Tell Sadeq that I didn't let you take him

Leave mister

- We have to go
- Why?

Now I know Why you're in Tehran

And What Sadeq Wants with you

There's no time now
I'll tell you later

Why do we have to leave?
I know who that man was

So do I, let's go

Watch the car pal
I have to bring a sick person

Hello Ms. Reza'ee, I brought the car

God bless you
I'll help him out

Come

Come on

Come

Let me go

Come

You need to stay here for the night

Why did you come like this?

You don't know how I left
to be judging me

No, but I do know mother's
always talked about you

Ever since I met you...

I don't know...

We love you

How can I Walk with all that tranquilizers?

I Won't let you move from here

I have to go right now

I brought two clean shirts

And a jacket

This raincoat is big, it'll do

It fit him

Socks

I didn't know his shoe size
but Il clean the blood on his shoes

He Won't Wear this jacket

But the raincoat is fine

Clean the shoes, thanks

I'll have them dry cleaned

I cleaned your shoes

- Where is Negin?
- Here, she'll be right here

- Daryoush took care of you
- We'd better leave here

We will, just Wait till you get a bit better

What if they come?

Who are they?

Do you know?

- Why don't I know?
- 'l tell you later, I don't know it Well

Bring the car in front of the door Daryoush

Sure, you come from the upper door

Where are you going?

Your mother said to take your uncle
I guess he Wants to leave

It's too early
He's still dizzy

- Where was he Negin?
- I swear I don't know it

I only know the Wound is from a knife

Don't get Worked up
Tal'at will tell you everything

She may not Want to tell you now
But he is a nice man

The type you Want to be...

Like him when you grow older's

Can you get UP?

I have to get Reza out of here

Daryoush is bringing the car in front

Come here for a moment mother

Why are you taking him mother?

You keep telling me you have
to leave but Where to?

Do you think I'm still a child?

Do you think...
l know who he is

Help me get him out of here

Don't say anything if they come
looking for him here

Why was he stabbed?

It is a knife Wound isn't it?

He's running away
But Whom from?

I'll take him to Darband to stay with father

Daryoush is Waiting outside

Turn around

Why do you Work in a taxi agency?

This is not a real job

I know Reza, but it's Work

It's hard to find a decent job nowadays

You must get your share right now

It'll only get harder as time goes by

I've finished serving in
the military recently

So I'm making a living with this car

- I make ends meet
- Work

That girl is very precious

Hurry UP

Get away from them

Go faster

Faster

Come

You're starting to piss me off

You keep holding your Wound

But you don't know What for

Who stabbed you? And Why?

Why did this story start so suddenly?

Did you ever Want to know?

Even your daughter realized you
were adding insult to the injury

Did you Want to tell me?

Why does everything have to start
just when you Want it to?

- Where were you for twenty years?
- Shoushtar

You keep saying that

Yeah, Shoushtar
The prison

Doing time for Naser

For Nasefis death
Whom was Killed by Sadeq

And you knew about it

You both did it to me up till now

But I've had enough of all this

During the past twenty years
every Wedding dress I sewed...

Every strike of my needle
reminded me of those three days

A lot has changed now

I can't take it anymore
You, Wounds

Yelling's and love and knives and all that

I can't take nights like this anymore

You told me to sit down and I did

This is useless Reza

What can I do for you?

I'll clean your Wound

I'll take you anywhere you Want to go

I don't even Want to know What you're up to

Where you are and Where you've been

I'm happy anywhere you Want to go

I just hope you stop bleeding

Here, eat this

I can't

I'll take you to my dad
you'll be safe there

Why do I need to go somewhere safe?

Where was it that they tore
your stomach apart?

Why did you go there?

Sadeq Wrote me a letter to come

Then he asked me to go somewhere
to bring back his daughter

That she was running away with a boy

I told him I no longer did things like this

- But you Went there and got stabbed
- Yeah

You got fooled

- He dragged you to Tehran to kill you
- Why?

Sadeq didn't think you'd get
out of that house alive

They planned to kill you right there

- Why?
- Sadeq started getting rich after you left

He got into building houses

And establishing companies

They took a lot of money

He's not alone, there are many

He became the director of a large
company dealing fertilizers

Fertilizers for agriculture

They get in deep stealing money
Up to a billion

They plan to Kill Sadeqg

But they get him out
so he doesn't sell anyone

They plan to find his past

They chase him and
the story gets in newspapers

They came to me

They said I had his past

That if Sadeq Went to court he would
take many big-timers down with him

Sadeq called me three days before
our Wedding

He said there was a corpse
to take to Kashan

That it didn't have a permit for burial
but it was a good deed

I put the corpse on top of the 180

They stopped me on the Way

The corpse had fallen down

Who was it? Naser

He was killed

Sadeq had killed him

He was given poison

So I turned up in Shoushtar prison

We're here

They're leaving
they have to turn in the place

I asked and found out Sadeq is up there

Do you have the invitation?

Do you really Want to...
Do you have to meet him tonight?

You can lose the Whole thing
but you urge for another hand

- You leave
- 'l stay till you come

Daryoush' car doesn't run anymore

I asked them to come to pick me up with Negin

It's cold

I may not come back

I'm leaving now

- I don't know Where to
- No it's not cold

I neither can go nor stay

That's how it's been till now

We all were after one another in our thoughts

But now that everything is clear

A life time's gone by and you're bleeding...

And I feel I'm back at the beginning
of those three days Waiting for you

It'll take three days till you get
back down from up there

Look, you've messed up my life again

You're leaving and don't know
Whether you're coming back again

How will it end though?

I'm talking to myself though

They Want me down there

Take it easy, add up the bills
once more

Include the fruits
and I'll be right back

Talk to me a bit

All the calculating's

How about a bit of calculated talk?

- You're finally here
- You told me to come and here I am

Am I late?

You've gotten soft Sadeq Khan

Is it a bad Wound?

Have you lost a lot of blood?

Do you feel sorry for my Wound?

What else you got up your sleeve?

I'm still alive

- Are you here to finish the job?
- That I will do regardless

What must happen will happen

Tell me the bottom line

Neither of us has the time

You should have been Killed

Not me, it Wasn't my intentions

But you will sympathize with me
if you hear me out

You're talking like they do in plays

The bottom line is good

I had left you alone

I had left everyone alone

I never sold out an enemy let alone a friend

I used to Worship the
ground you Walked on pal

I did jail time for you

I removed the crown tattooed on your arm

It brought you luck

You handed me a corpse three days to me
Wedding saying it had burial permit

But it didn't

You got me thrown in prison

So Why do you Want to kill me
after all these years?

- You still Want me to sympathize with you?
- Yeah

I had to kill you

Just like now that you have to kill me

This is the kind of talk for those bigger

You are still the very same person

- I knew you'd come here tonight
- You are Wise

I swear I'm helpless

Helpless and Weak

You caused this Wound

But you claim you're Weak

You are Wise

But I will kill you even if you're Wise

You used to roll good dice

You rolled and you got a house
and you got a company

You rolled and got huge percentages

But you realized you couldn't handle it

Now you know it was all crap

That's Why I Wanted you
to come and stick it to me

That's Why I made sure
you got here alive

That's Why I thought of you

Are you promising me empty packages?

Stop talking so much pal

Come and stab me before anyone comes

Don't stand there
and stop talking shit

How about some respect

I asked you to shut it
and I'm asking you to open it now

How about some manners?

I know What I'm talking about
when I tell you to stick it to me

I'm not the prison type

I don't Want any money anymore
I've lost all my reputation

You have to end it

Come and hit me if you're still the same

The one you opened, come

You're Wrong if you think
I'll get fooled this once anymore

This is a game too

You kept playing me
and yourself too

You are right though
I will finish it

Careful not to get any blood
on your hands to be able to get out of here

To leave

It's gonna kill me, it's over

Put me down and leave

I got happy when you got out of that trap

I figured you'd come to me next

And you did,
that's good since you'll end it now

No courts, no prison

You are better

I was very lonely

Negin is your daughter

I know the Whole thing

I just Wanted to hear it from
someone else too

Naser Wanted to...

I know that as Well

Get out of here