1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:22,732 --> 00:00:27,778 ESTER 4 00:00:29,697 --> 00:00:34,160 A MOVIE BY AMOS GITAI 5 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,238 SCRIPT BY AMOS GITAI AND STEPHANE LEVINE, 6 00:01:11,322 --> 00:01:13,199 BASED ON BIBLICAL STORY 7 00:02:38,826 --> 00:02:41,078 This happened in the time of King Ahasuerus, 8 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:44,331 who reigned from India to Ethiopia, 9 00:02:44,665 --> 00:02:47,334 in more than 127 territories. 10 00:02:47,877 --> 00:02:49,587 Back then... 11 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:54,550 King Ahasuerus reigned from his throne in the capital city of Shushan. 12 00:02:55,259 --> 00:02:57,511 And in the third year of his reign... 13 00:02:57,595 --> 00:03:01,974 gave a banquet for all his princes and servants. 14 00:03:02,391 --> 00:03:06,353 All nobles and princes from Persia and Media gathered before him… 15 00:03:06,437 --> 00:03:08,814 and he showed the riches of his kingdom... 16 00:03:08,898 --> 00:03:13,402 and his glorious majesty for 180 days. 17 00:03:48,354 --> 00:03:50,356 When this period of time passed... 18 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:54,860 offered a banquet for all the people of Shushan, 19 00:03:55,277 --> 00:04:00,366 a seven-day feast that took place held in the garden of the king's palace. 20 00:04:00,783 --> 00:04:04,203 Large curtains green and blue hung... 21 00:04:04,286 --> 00:04:07,331 hung by silver rings and marble pillars. 22 00:04:07,414 --> 00:04:11,710 Gold and silver sofas placed on red, blue and white marble floors. 23 00:04:12,336 --> 00:04:15,923 The wine was served in golden chalices. 24 00:04:16,006 --> 00:04:19,635 The wine flowed without stopping, as it marked the status of the king. 25 00:04:20,177 --> 00:04:26,642 Vashti, the queen, also gave a party for the women of King Ahasuerus's harem. 26 00:04:53,335 --> 00:04:56,588 Bring the queen, Vashti, with his royal crown... 27 00:04:56,672 --> 00:05:00,968 to show to the people and the princes their enormous beauty! 28 00:05:47,514 --> 00:05:49,516 Your majesty, 29 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,519 the king wishes to appear before him... 30 00:05:52,895 --> 00:05:57,107 so that his guests and he can delight your eyes. 31 00:06:12,498 --> 00:06:13,999 No. 32 00:07:31,827 --> 00:07:34,454 If it pleases the king, 33 00:07:34,538 --> 00:07:39,293 order them to bring to all the young virgins, 34 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:46,091 that officers be sent to all the lands of his kingdom… 35 00:07:47,134 --> 00:07:50,012 so that they find to the most beautiful maidens... 36 00:07:51,263 --> 00:07:54,349 and bring them to the capital, Shushan, 37 00:07:55,934 --> 00:08:00,314 so that they remain in custody of Hagai, guardian of the royal harem, 38 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:04,151 may they be purified… 39 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,240 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen in Vashti's place. 40 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:15,704 So be it and let it be in writing. 41 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,582 What is destiny? 42 00:09:01,208 --> 00:09:04,962 Some are raised to great heights. 43 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:09,549 Others writhe in the dust. 44 00:09:14,096 --> 00:09:18,267 And the king ordered the letters to be sent to all the lands of his kingdom, 45 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:22,729 in the deed of each land and in the language of each town. 46 00:09:23,063 --> 00:09:28,110 "Let every man be king and master from your own home… 47 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:35,367 "and that the queen's royal estate Vashti be given to someone better than her..." 48 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,249 What is destiny? 49 00:09:42,833 --> 00:09:46,128 What is destiny? 50 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:50,966 What is destiny? 51 00:09:51,633 --> 00:09:55,387 Some are raised to great heights. 52 00:09:56,305 --> 00:09:59,933 Others writhe in the dust. 53 00:10:52,194 --> 00:10:56,156 Now in the capital, Shushan, There lived a certain Jew... 54 00:10:56,239 --> 00:11:00,786 called Mordecai, son of Jair, of the Shimei of Kish, a Benjamite… 55 00:11:00,869 --> 00:11:04,247 who was exiled from Jerusalem, next to the king of Judea, 56 00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:07,501 by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. 57 00:11:17,803 --> 00:11:21,890 And he raised Esther, his uncle's daughter, who had no father or mother. 58 00:11:21,973 --> 00:11:24,935 Esther was a maiden beautiful and beautiful… 59 00:11:25,352 --> 00:11:29,564 and Mordecai received her as if she were his own daughter. 60 00:15:00,191 --> 00:15:06,281 And of all the maidens gathered in Shushan, under Hagai's custody, 61 00:15:06,364 --> 00:15:09,784 Esther was the one Ahasuerus liked the most. 62 00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:13,288 But Esther had not revealed neither his race nor his kinship, 63 00:15:13,371 --> 00:15:16,041 since Mordecai asked him that he didn't do it. 64 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:23,882 These are the seven maids most valuable in the palace. 65 00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:28,219 They will prepare them for his presentation before the king. 66 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:36,269 You and your maids will be taken to the best house of the royal harem. 67 00:15:42,859 --> 00:15:46,112 His purification lasted twelve months. 68 00:15:46,196 --> 00:15:48,531 Six months with oils and myrrh… 69 00:15:48,615 --> 00:15:52,786 and six months with perfumes and other feminine balms. 70 00:15:52,869 --> 00:15:58,708 And at the end of that period the maidens They were brought before the king. 71 00:16:14,516 --> 00:16:17,977 Oh, little creature, Tomorrow you will be a woman! 72 00:16:18,061 --> 00:16:21,398 And that torments me because you are still a girl! 73 00:16:21,481 --> 00:16:24,818 Oh, little creature, Tomorrow you will be a woman! 74 00:16:24,901 --> 00:16:28,196 And that torments me because you are still a girl! 75 00:16:28,279 --> 00:16:32,033 ♪ Well, you're already thinking of a man ♪ ♪ and tomorrow you will say: "It's that one." ♪ 76 00:16:32,117 --> 00:16:36,996 ♪ Oh, little creature, ♪ ♪ tomorrow you will be a woman! ♪ 77 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,542 ♪ People say it's a girl. ♪ ♪ I say it will grow. ♪ 78 00:16:40,625 --> 00:16:44,379 ♪ They fear that I will lose myself in you ♪ ♪ and I regret it. ♪ 79 00:16:44,462 --> 00:16:47,924 ♪ I love you, not because you are my girl. ♪ 80 00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:51,261 ♪ Oh, little creature, ♪ ♪ tomorrow you will be a woman! ♪ 81 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:57,350 When the time came for every maiden appeared before the king, 82 00:16:57,434 --> 00:17:01,438 she was given whatever she wanted of that harem. 83 00:17:01,813 --> 00:17:07,068 At night he appeared before the king and in the morning he returned to the harem. 84 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:10,196 And it did not appear before him again... 85 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:15,744 unless the king wanted her again and then they called her by her name. 86 00:17:17,203 --> 00:17:21,040 ♪ People say it's a girl. ♪ ♪ I say it will grow. ♪ 87 00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:24,544 ♪ They fear that I will lose myself in you ♪ ♪ and I regret it. ♪ 88 00:17:24,627 --> 00:17:28,131 ♪ I love you, not because you are my girl. ♪ 89 00:17:28,214 --> 00:17:31,092 ♪ Oh, little creature, ♪ ♪ tomorrow you will be a woman! ♪ 90 00:17:31,176 --> 00:17:32,719 Tomorrow you will be a woman! 91 00:17:32,802 --> 00:17:36,014 ♪ Oh, little creature, ♪ ♪ tomorrow you will be a woman! ♪ 92 00:17:36,097 --> 00:17:39,225 And that torments me because you are still a girl! 93 00:17:39,309 --> 00:17:42,437 Oh, little creature, Tomorrow you will be a woman! 94 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,690 And that torments me because you are still a girl! 95 00:17:45,774 --> 00:17:48,943 ♪ Well, you're already thinking of a man ♪ ♪ and tomorrow you will say: "It's that one." ♪ 96 00:17:49,027 --> 00:17:51,821 ♪ Oh, little creature, ♪ ♪ tomorrow you will be a woman! ♪ 97 00:17:51,905 --> 00:17:53,656 Tomorrow you will be a woman! 98 00:18:27,857 --> 00:18:29,484 - Good morning. - Good morning. 99 00:18:29,567 --> 00:18:31,611 - Are you okay? - Praise God! 100 00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:36,157 - The royal clothing suits him well. - And you too. 101 00:18:36,241 --> 00:18:39,994 And young Esther, are they treating her well? 102 00:18:40,078 --> 00:18:43,331 What has to be done is done. 103 00:18:49,045 --> 00:18:53,299 And young Esther, are they treating her well? 104 00:18:53,716 --> 00:18:57,387 What has to be done is done. 105 00:18:59,305 --> 00:19:03,560 And young Esther, are they treating her well? 106 00:19:03,643 --> 00:19:07,564 What has to be done is done. 107 00:19:08,064 --> 00:19:12,151 What has to be done is done. 108 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:35,652 Esther, the young maiden of Shushan! 109 00:20:47,288 --> 00:20:48,665 Turn around. 110 00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:53,711 Show your beauty to King Ahasuerus, who reigns from India to Ethiopia. 111 00:21:35,253 --> 00:21:39,590 My beloved is mine and I am his, he feeds among lilies. 112 00:21:40,049 --> 00:21:45,304 My beloved is like a fawn on the mountains of spices. 113 00:21:46,681 --> 00:21:50,768 At night I searched my bed whom my soul loves, 114 00:21:50,852 --> 00:21:53,312 I looked for it, but I didn't find it. 115 00:21:53,396 --> 00:21:57,775 I'll get up now and I will go through the city... 116 00:21:57,859 --> 00:22:02,697 in search of the one my soul loves. I looked for it, but I didn't find it. 117 00:22:03,072 --> 00:22:05,700 The guards found me that surround the city. 118 00:22:05,783 --> 00:22:08,494 Have you seen the one my soul loves? 119 00:22:08,578 --> 00:22:13,332 I had barely gone past them a little, I found the one my soul loves. 120 00:23:59,230 --> 00:24:04,110 And now, the gifts for the king, from all the lands of his kingdom! 121 00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,530 Sumerian spices. 122 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:11,367 Ethiopian gemstones. 123 00:24:12,743 --> 00:24:16,080 Indian tiles. 124 00:24:17,248 --> 00:24:20,418 Pearls of the Bay of Babylon. 125 00:24:21,419 --> 00:24:24,422 Flints from the Ararat Mountains. 126 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,676 Acadian Cave Bats. 127 00:24:29,427 --> 00:24:32,597 Pure gold from China. 128 00:24:33,431 --> 00:24:37,393 Diamonds from the mines of Africa. 129 00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:41,564 A spotted leopard from Bengal. 130 00:24:42,273 --> 00:24:46,485 Golden coral from the Red Sea. 131 00:24:47,153 --> 00:24:51,699 yellow snakes of the deserts of Arabia. 132 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:59,582 To honor the king's wedding it was decreed a holiday throughout the kingdom. 133 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:06,422 Each man will receive two pieces of gold, 134 00:25:07,381 --> 00:25:13,387 one measure of meat, another of oil and one of wine. 135 00:26:13,406 --> 00:26:17,368 And Esther had not yet revealed neither his race nor his kinship, 136 00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:19,745 just like Mordecai I had asked him. 137 00:26:19,829 --> 00:26:25,835 And Esther still obeyed her uncle, just as he obeyed him in his youth. 138 00:27:05,458 --> 00:27:10,796 May the event occur at dawn, while the king leaves his chamber. 139 00:28:03,641 --> 00:28:10,648 ♪ You took my heart away, ♪ ♪ my sister, my girlfriend. ♪ 140 00:28:10,731 --> 00:28:18,406 ♪ You stole my heart ♪ ♪ with your eyes, my sister, my girlfriend. ♪ 141 00:28:18,489 --> 00:28:23,494 ♪ How beautiful is your love! ♪ 142 00:28:23,577 --> 00:28:27,957 ♪ My sister, my girlfriend. ♪ 143 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,127 ♪ And the aroma of your clothing... ♪ 144 00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:36,632 it is like the aroma of Lebanon. 145 00:28:40,386 --> 00:28:44,765 Take care of the king when he comes out to the balcony this morning. 146 00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:48,310 There is a plan to harm him. 147 00:29:20,718 --> 00:29:24,680 My king, I have been informed that there is a plan against him. 148 00:29:25,139 --> 00:29:26,807 Who is it about? 149 00:29:26,891 --> 00:29:31,020 Who dares to raise their hand against the king of Persia and Media? 150 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:33,772 Bigthan and Teresh. 151 00:29:34,857 --> 00:29:37,735 Check if this is true! 152 00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:50,956 Oh, night, how long you are! 153 00:29:52,917 --> 00:30:00,299 You made me walk barefoot. 154 00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:06,680 Oh, burden, how heavy you are! 155 00:30:06,764 --> 00:30:12,978 How great is your weight on my shoulders! 156 00:30:13,395 --> 00:30:19,485 For you, my heart is in pieces, 157 00:30:19,568 --> 00:30:23,822 torn... 158 00:30:24,156 --> 00:30:30,079 And the dark hair in our heads, oh mother, 159 00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:35,084 they have turned so white. 160 00:30:42,216 --> 00:30:45,803 The queen spoke the truth, your majesty. There is a conspiracy against him. 161 00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:51,475 The law decrees that the penalty for the traitor it is death. 162 00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:55,479 tell me, 163 00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:58,274 who discovered this conspiracy? 164 00:30:58,357 --> 00:31:00,818 Mordecai discovered her. 165 00:31:04,822 --> 00:31:09,618 May the great deed of Mordecai is recorded in the king's chronicles. 166 00:31:15,916 --> 00:31:21,380 My patience it is the patience of a tree... 167 00:31:21,714 --> 00:31:27,886 ♪ under the blows of the axe. ♪ 168 00:31:27,970 --> 00:31:32,933 ♪ I bear patiently ♪ ♪ the passage of time, ♪ 169 00:31:33,267 --> 00:31:39,023 ♪ as well as the meat of the bird ♪ ♪ supports cooking time. ♪ 170 00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:51,410 ♪ Oh, eyes, cry no more! ♪ 171 00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:57,207 ♪ Oh, eyes, with how much injustice ♪ ♪ they have treated me! ♪ 172 00:31:57,708 --> 00:32:02,546 ♪ Oh, eyes, ♪ ♪ What good are your tears now? ♪ 173 00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:07,885 ♪ Because of him ♪ ♪ my heart is in pieces. ♪ 174 00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:18,497 What? 175 00:33:19,873 --> 00:33:21,583 Oh yes! 176 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:28,549 And King Ahasuerus favored Haman, son of Hamedata the Agagite. 177 00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:35,013 And he placed his seat on of all the other princes and ministers. 178 00:33:35,806 --> 00:33:40,936 And all the king's servants They bowed down and obeyed Haman, 179 00:33:41,353 --> 00:33:43,939 well that was what the king had ordered. 180 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:49,528 But Mordecai did not bow down, nor did he obey. 181 00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:30,402 Why do you disobey the king's orders? 182 00:34:30,778 --> 00:34:32,654 I am Jewish. 183 00:34:32,738 --> 00:34:37,868 And I bow to no man, only before God. 184 00:34:45,918 --> 00:34:51,840 A rebellious people that disobeys The order of a king must be punished. 185 00:35:47,771 --> 00:35:51,024 I see great danger in the future. 186 00:35:51,108 --> 00:35:57,406 I can't see clearly, everything is covered in fog. 187 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,744 I can't see clearly the face of the executioner. 188 00:36:02,828 --> 00:36:04,955 But it's not... 189 00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:10,627 It's a face I've already seen... 190 00:36:23,932 --> 00:36:27,561 In the twelfth year of the king's reign, 191 00:36:27,644 --> 00:36:31,732 in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, 192 00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:37,195 They threw the Pur, destiny, before Haman, to know the day and month... 193 00:36:37,654 --> 00:36:41,742 in which the people of Mordecai it had to be destroyed. 194 00:37:55,023 --> 00:37:59,736 There is a scattered town among the lands of his kingdom… 195 00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:02,447 and their laws are different to all the others 196 00:38:02,531 --> 00:38:05,033 and they disobey the king's laws. 197 00:38:06,994 --> 00:38:08,996 Your majesty, 198 00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:14,334 it is not appropriate May the king tolerate them. 199 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:20,632 If the king likes you, leave it in writing that must be destroyed. 200 00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:30,017 May the destiny of the Jews be whichever you like, in the name of the king, 201 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:32,811 and seal it with the royal ring. 202 00:38:34,604 --> 00:38:36,773 Your majesty... 203 00:39:01,548 --> 00:39:07,763 And letters were sent, to everyone the king's kingdoms, with orders... 204 00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:13,852 to destroy, murder and exterminate all the Jews, 205 00:39:13,935 --> 00:39:18,523 young and old, women and children, in a single day... 206 00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:21,485 and loot their belongings. 207 00:39:21,568 --> 00:39:26,156 This edict must be delivered in all lands… 208 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:31,495 and it must be shown so that people is ready that day. 209 00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:52,015 If I don't support myself, who will support me? 210 00:39:52,474 --> 00:39:56,728 And if I only support myself, who am I? 211 00:39:57,437 --> 00:40:01,608 And if it's not now, So when? 212 00:40:18,458 --> 00:40:22,212 I, King Ahasuerus, 213 00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:25,757 who reigns from India to Ethiopia, 214 00:40:25,841 --> 00:40:29,052 who dominates many peoples, 215 00:40:29,136 --> 00:40:32,472 whose power is enormous in the world, 216 00:40:32,556 --> 00:40:34,516 I hereby declare… 217 00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:40,147 that I want to govern with clemency and justice, 218 00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:44,401 not submit to the arrogance of power, 219 00:40:44,484 --> 00:40:48,196 and ensure peace for my subjects, 220 00:40:48,697 --> 00:40:51,825 support wisdom and culture, 221 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:55,996 open new paths for everyone the corners of the kingdom... 222 00:40:56,329 --> 00:41:02,627 and bring peace that all men wait for. 223 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:10,135 The letters were sent to all the territories of the kingdom, 224 00:41:10,218 --> 00:41:15,682 to destroy, murder and exterminate all the Jews, 225 00:41:15,765 --> 00:41:19,936 young and old, women and children, in a single day, 226 00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:22,564 and loot their belongings. 227 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:26,651 This edict must be delivered in all lands… 228 00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:32,032 and it must be shown so that people is ready that day. 229 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:46,004 Haman, the vizier, has told us… 230 00:41:46,087 --> 00:41:50,008 that among all peoples scattered across the earth... 231 00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:52,677 there is one that is evil... 232 00:41:52,761 --> 00:41:56,681 and whose laws oppose to those of all other nations, 233 00:41:56,765 --> 00:42:03,563 who disobeys the king's law and subverts our mutual government. 234 00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:06,733 It is necessary to root out to this town, 235 00:42:06,816 --> 00:42:09,152 in good faith and without remorse. 236 00:42:09,236 --> 00:42:11,363 We are convinced… 237 00:42:11,446 --> 00:42:16,826 that these people will become alienated of the world community… 238 00:42:16,910 --> 00:42:20,121 by maintaining their foreign laws… 239 00:42:20,205 --> 00:42:24,417 and that this town, being hostile to our mutual security, 240 00:42:24,501 --> 00:42:27,754 It will undoubtedly cause us harm. 241 00:42:28,296 --> 00:42:31,049 Haman, the vizier, has told us… 242 00:42:31,132 --> 00:42:35,095 that among all peoples scattered across the earth... 243 00:42:35,512 --> 00:42:38,473 there is one that is evil... 244 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:42,352 and whose laws oppose to those of all other nations, 245 00:42:42,435 --> 00:42:48,817 who disobeys the king's law and subverts our mutual government. 246 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:51,444 It is necessary eliminate this town from the roots, 247 00:42:51,528 --> 00:42:54,447 in good faith and without remorse. 248 00:42:56,658 --> 00:42:58,702 We are convinced… 249 00:42:58,785 --> 00:43:04,541 that these people will become alienated of the world community… 250 00:43:04,624 --> 00:43:08,253 by maintaining their foreign laws… 251 00:43:08,336 --> 00:43:13,383 and that this town, being hostile to our mutual security, 252 00:43:13,466 --> 00:43:17,595 It will undoubtedly cause us harm. 253 00:43:23,685 --> 00:43:26,313 We are convinced… 254 00:43:26,396 --> 00:43:32,152 that these people will become alienated of the world community… 255 00:43:32,235 --> 00:43:35,780 by maintaining their foreign laws… 256 00:43:35,864 --> 00:43:40,201 and that this town, being hostile to our mutual security, 257 00:43:40,285 --> 00:43:44,622 It will undoubtedly cause us harm. 258 00:43:45,332 --> 00:43:49,294 And, therefore, We hereby decree… 259 00:43:49,377 --> 00:43:56,051 that all those named by Haman, my vizier, 260 00:43:56,468 --> 00:44:00,972 be exterminated, until the last one of them, 261 00:44:01,056 --> 00:44:04,934 young or old, women and children, 262 00:44:05,018 --> 00:44:10,106 without mercy, with the sword of his enemy, in just one day, 263 00:44:10,190 --> 00:44:13,777 on the 13th day of the twelfth month, Adar. 264 00:44:15,528 --> 00:44:18,031 We are convinced… 265 00:44:18,114 --> 00:44:24,579 that these people will become alienated of the world community… 266 00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:28,375 by maintaining their foreign laws… 267 00:44:28,458 --> 00:44:32,212 and that this town, being hostile to our mutual security, 268 00:44:32,295 --> 00:44:36,466 It will undoubtedly cause us harm. 269 00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:41,262 And, therefore, We hereby decree… 270 00:44:41,346 --> 00:44:47,435 that all those named by Haman, my vizier, 271 00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:52,190 be exterminated, until the last one of them, 272 00:44:52,273 --> 00:44:55,568 young or old, women and children, 273 00:44:55,652 --> 00:45:02,325 without mercy, with the sword of his enemy, in just one day, 274 00:45:02,409 --> 00:45:06,329 on the 13th day of the twelfth month, Adar. 275 00:45:12,085 --> 00:45:14,337 And, therefore, We hereby decree… 276 00:45:14,421 --> 00:45:21,052 that all those named by Haman, my vizier, 277 00:45:21,678 --> 00:45:25,014 be exterminated, until the last one of them, 278 00:45:25,098 --> 00:45:27,642 young or old, women and children, 279 00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:31,563 without mercy, with the sword of his enemy, in just one day, 280 00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:34,649 on the 13th day of the twelfth month, Adar. 281 00:45:35,525 --> 00:45:38,820 By destroying our enemies... 282 00:45:38,903 --> 00:45:44,451 we will make sure a peaceful and secure future. 283 00:46:01,134 --> 00:46:03,511 We are convinced… 284 00:46:03,595 --> 00:46:08,975 that these people will become alienated of the world community… 285 00:46:09,058 --> 00:46:11,978 by maintaining their foreign laws… 286 00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:16,316 and that this town, being hostile to our mutual security, 287 00:46:16,399 --> 00:46:19,235 It will undoubtedly cause us harm. 288 00:46:19,652 --> 00:46:22,906 And, therefore, We hereby decree… 289 00:46:22,989 --> 00:46:27,410 that all those named by Haman, my vizier, 290 00:46:27,494 --> 00:46:30,455 be exterminated, every last one of them... 291 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:34,083 They are persecuting innocent people. 292 00:46:34,751 --> 00:46:38,004 They are persecuting innocent people. 293 00:46:38,546 --> 00:46:41,341 They want to destroy an innocent people. 294 00:46:41,674 --> 00:46:44,594 They are persecuting innocent people. 295 00:46:45,053 --> 00:46:47,931 They are persecuting innocent people. 296 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,518 They want to destroy an innocent people. 297 00:46:53,061 --> 00:46:55,730 They want to destroy an innocent people. 298 00:46:56,356 --> 00:46:59,400 They are persecuting innocent people. 299 00:46:59,484 --> 00:47:03,404 They want to destroy an innocent people! 300 00:47:07,367 --> 00:47:15,583 Who is that what emerges from the desert? 301 00:47:16,251 --> 00:47:23,007 Who is that that arises from the desert… 302 00:47:23,091 --> 00:47:29,097 leaning on your loved one? 303 00:47:29,472 --> 00:47:36,104 Leaning on your loved one... 304 00:47:36,437 --> 00:47:42,819 Who is that that looks radiant like the morning? 305 00:47:42,902 --> 00:47:48,533 ♪ Radiant as the morning it's how it looks. ♪ 306 00:47:49,033 --> 00:47:52,870 Place a seal on your poor heart, 307 00:47:52,954 --> 00:47:59,210 because love it is as strong as death. 308 00:47:59,669 --> 00:48:01,254 Your majesty, 309 00:48:01,337 --> 00:48:04,465 his uncle Mordecai It is at the door of the palace, 310 00:48:04,549 --> 00:48:07,260 dressed in rags and covered in ash. 311 00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:10,221 And he is crying loudly and bitterly. 312 00:48:11,264 --> 00:48:15,643 Take the clothes most beautiful in the palace. 313 00:48:18,187 --> 00:48:23,192 ♪ You who live in the gardens, ♪ ♪ you who live in the gardens, ♪ 314 00:48:23,276 --> 00:48:27,905 ♪ you who live in the gardens, ♪ 315 00:48:28,323 --> 00:48:33,077 ♪ You who live in the gardens, ♪ ♪ you who live in the gardens, ♪ 316 00:48:33,161 --> 00:48:37,790 ♪ you who live in the gardens, ♪ 317 00:48:38,207 --> 00:48:43,046 ♪ your companions hear your voice, ♪ 318 00:48:43,504 --> 00:48:48,092 ♪ your companions listen to your voice. ♪ 319 00:48:48,468 --> 00:48:50,595 ♪ Let me listen to it. ♪ 320 00:48:53,348 --> 00:48:55,683 ♪ Let me listen to it. ♪ 321 00:48:59,979 --> 00:49:01,439 Your majesty, 322 00:49:01,522 --> 00:49:03,483 his uncle Mordecai does not want to accept 323 00:49:03,566 --> 00:49:06,194 the clothes who told me to take him. 324 00:49:06,986 --> 00:49:12,075 Go back to him and ask him what is the problem. 325 00:49:16,746 --> 00:49:24,212 You are beautiful, my love, how beautiful you are! 326 00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:28,341 You are beautiful, my love! 327 00:49:28,424 --> 00:49:34,639 Your eyes are doves... 328 00:49:34,722 --> 00:49:41,979 hidden behind your curls. 329 00:49:42,063 --> 00:49:49,070 And your hair is like a herd of goats... 330 00:49:49,404 --> 00:49:56,285 hidden behind your veil. 331 00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:09,048 Your majesty, Mordecai sends you the decree sealed with the king's ring. 332 00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:13,845 He asked me to repeat these words: 333 00:50:15,638 --> 00:50:20,226 Remember your humble past... 334 00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:25,064 and how I fed you with my own hands. 335 00:50:25,148 --> 00:50:30,236 Haman made the king against us... 336 00:50:30,319 --> 00:50:33,322 and he wants to destroy us. 337 00:50:33,740 --> 00:50:37,368 Beg for your people before the king... 338 00:50:37,452 --> 00:50:41,414 and save us from destruction. 339 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,546 Go to Mordecai and tell him… 340 00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:34,383 that all the servants and the king's subjects know... 341 00:51:34,467 --> 00:51:37,678 that any man or woman let him appear before the king... 342 00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:39,639 without being called, 343 00:51:39,722 --> 00:51:42,433 receives the death penalty, 344 00:51:42,517 --> 00:51:47,063 Unless the king extends the scepter, in which case he will be able to live. 345 00:51:48,648 --> 00:51:53,152 I have not been summoned before the king for thirty days. 346 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,382 Tell this to Esther: 347 00:52:56,757 --> 00:52:59,302 Do not think that in the king's palace 348 00:52:59,385 --> 00:53:02,471 you will escape unlike of the other Jews, 349 00:53:02,805 --> 00:53:05,433 Well, if you stay calm now... 350 00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:10,771 the Jews will be handed over to another hand and you and yours will perish. 351 00:53:15,902 --> 00:53:18,112 And who knows? 352 00:53:18,195 --> 00:53:22,116 Maybe you reached majesty for a time like this. 353 00:54:01,030 --> 00:54:02,907 And who knows? 354 00:54:02,990 --> 00:54:06,202 Maybe you reached majesty for a time like this. 355 00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:11,332 Go tell Mordecai this: 356 00:54:12,792 --> 00:54:20,091 Go and gather all the Jews that are in Shushan… 357 00:54:20,633 --> 00:54:23,386 and fast for me. 358 00:54:23,469 --> 00:54:29,433 Do not eat or drink for three days, 359 00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:31,936 night and day. 360 00:54:32,812 --> 00:54:36,691 My maids and I we will also fast. 361 00:54:37,358 --> 00:54:40,611 And so I will go before the king. 362 00:54:41,570 --> 00:54:46,367 And if I must perish, I will perish. 363 00:56:31,013 --> 00:56:36,560 ♪ Oh, you who guide the camel, ♪ 364 00:56:39,105 --> 00:56:44,902 ♪ bring my kisses to my mother. ♪ 365 00:56:45,611 --> 00:56:51,117 ♪ And tell him what happened to me. ♪ 366 00:56:52,243 --> 00:56:56,872 ♪ Tell him about my anguish. ♪ 367 00:56:58,374 --> 00:57:03,587 ♪ Oh, you who guide the camel, ♪ 368 00:57:05,089 --> 00:57:11,345 ♪ bring my kisses to my mother. ♪ 369 00:57:13,097 --> 00:57:18,686 ♪ And tell him what happened to me. ♪ 370 00:57:20,062 --> 00:57:24,733 ♪ Tell him about my anguish. ♪ 371 00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:30,656 ♪ And what does it matter if they, my goodness, ♪ 372 00:57:30,739 --> 00:57:33,951 ♪ end my life? ♪ 373 00:57:34,493 --> 00:57:38,706 ♪ And what does it matter if they, my goodness, ♪ 374 00:57:38,789 --> 00:57:41,792 ♪ end my life? ♪ 375 00:57:42,209 --> 00:57:46,755 ♪ I will return to you, my mother, ♪ ♪ to my home, ♪ 376 00:57:46,839 --> 00:57:52,052 ♪ for an impossible eternity. ♪ 377 00:57:52,511 --> 00:58:00,227 ♪ This land, without the rose, ♪ ♪ is infertile soil. ♪ 378 00:58:01,770 --> 00:58:08,694 ♪ I must pluck the rose ♪ ♪ and prick my flesh with its thorn. ♪ 379 00:58:09,528 --> 00:58:15,784 ♪ And plant it with my own blood. ♪ 380 00:58:15,868 --> 00:58:22,958 ♪ And plant it with my own blood. ♪ 381 00:58:25,461 --> 00:58:31,592 ♪ Oh, you who guide the camel, ♪ 382 00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:38,432 ♪ bring my kisses to my mother. ♪ 383 00:58:39,558 --> 00:58:45,105 ♪ And tell him what happened to me. ♪ 384 00:58:45,940 --> 00:58:50,653 ♪ Tell him about my anguish. ♪ 385 00:58:51,904 --> 00:58:57,201 ♪ Oh, you who guide the camel, ♪ 386 00:58:58,118 --> 00:59:03,749 ♪ bring my kisses to my mother. ♪ 387 00:59:04,875 --> 00:59:10,506 ♪ And tell him what happened to me. ♪ 388 00:59:11,507 --> 00:59:15,970 ♪ Tell him about my anguish. ♪ 389 00:59:17,096 --> 00:59:22,893 ♪ Oh, you who guide the camel, ♪ 390 00:59:23,936 --> 00:59:29,775 ♪ bring my kisses to my mother. ♪ 391 00:59:30,985 --> 00:59:36,824 ♪ And tell him what happened to me. ♪ 392 00:59:38,117 --> 00:59:44,164 ♪ Tell him about my anguish. ♪ 393 01:01:20,302 --> 01:01:22,638 Come in peace! 394 01:01:33,190 --> 01:01:37,361 Oh, my master, you appear like an angel of God sent before me. 395 01:01:37,444 --> 01:01:41,073 And its magnificence fills my heart of fear and dread, 396 01:01:41,156 --> 01:01:43,033 Well you are idolized. 397 01:01:43,450 --> 01:01:46,662 What's wrong, Esther? What is your request? 398 01:01:46,745 --> 01:01:49,498 ask me and half of my kingdom will be yours. 399 01:01:49,581 --> 01:01:52,835 If it pleases your majesty, let the king and Haman... 400 01:01:52,918 --> 01:01:56,046 attend the banquet What I will prepare for you. 401 01:01:58,424 --> 01:02:02,136 Go, order Haman to attend and fulfill Esther's wish. 402 01:03:09,995 --> 01:03:16,043 Say what your wish is and it will be attended to. Ask me and half of my kingdom will be yours. 403 01:03:24,635 --> 01:03:27,930 If I find the king's favor... 404 01:03:28,764 --> 01:03:34,811 and if the king is pleased to fulfill me my wish and my request, 405 01:03:35,729 --> 01:03:37,773 allow your majesty and Haman... 406 01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:40,400 attend the banquet What I will prepare tomorrow. 407 01:03:42,110 --> 01:03:44,404 So be it. 408 01:05:02,107 --> 01:05:03,734 I had a dream... 409 01:05:03,817 --> 01:05:05,319 What was it? 410 01:05:05,402 --> 01:05:07,779 The king's life was in danger. 411 01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:10,949 Bigthan and Teresh were the traitors. 412 01:05:11,950 --> 01:05:14,494 But who discovered the plot? 413 01:05:36,350 --> 01:05:39,519 Bring me the king's chronicles! 414 01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:58,830 What honor was granted to Mordecai for discovering this plot against me? 415 01:06:05,671 --> 01:06:08,090 None, my master. 416 01:06:08,173 --> 01:06:10,717 Call one of my ministers! 417 01:06:12,511 --> 01:06:14,012 Who is in court? 418 01:06:14,096 --> 01:06:17,391 - Haman is at court. - Let him appear before me! 419 01:06:43,250 --> 01:06:45,419 Your majesty. 420 01:06:48,088 --> 01:06:52,134 What should be done for man Whom does the king wish to honor? 421 01:06:52,467 --> 01:06:55,887 The man the king wishes to honor? 422 01:06:57,222 --> 01:07:01,810 Let them give him the royal robes... 423 01:07:01,893 --> 01:07:04,980 and one of the king's horses. 424 01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:10,068 Let him go out for a walk through the streets and let it be proclaimed: 425 01:07:10,152 --> 01:07:14,364 This will be done for man whom the king wishes to honor! 426 01:07:14,448 --> 01:07:15,949 Hurry up. 427 01:07:16,032 --> 01:07:19,202 Take a horse and clothes, like you said. 428 01:07:19,286 --> 01:07:23,582 Do all this for Mordecai, the Jew sitting before the king's door. 429 01:07:23,999 --> 01:07:27,210 And let nothing of what you said be missing. 430 01:08:45,831 --> 01:08:50,710 And Haman decided to build a scaffold fifty cubits high… 431 01:08:50,794 --> 01:08:56,758 and talk to the king the next morning so that Mordecai could be hanged there. 432 01:09:20,031 --> 01:09:25,412 Your majesty, King Ahasuerus, who rules from India to Ethiopia! 433 01:09:48,894 --> 01:09:53,732 They say I'm dark, 434 01:09:59,779 --> 01:10:03,700 but my skin was light, 435 01:10:07,996 --> 01:10:12,250 darkened with the burning heat of the summer sun. 436 01:10:21,593 --> 01:10:26,222 Now I'm dark. 437 01:10:26,306 --> 01:10:30,852 How beautiful you are, 438 01:10:30,936 --> 01:10:34,814 my dark-skinned girlfriend. 439 01:10:34,898 --> 01:10:39,861 A flame burns in your eyes. 440 01:10:39,945 --> 01:10:43,740 My heart is all yours. 441 01:10:45,116 --> 01:10:49,204 What is your wish, Esther? Say it and it will be granted to you. 442 01:10:49,621 --> 01:10:53,959 ask me and half of my kingdom will be yours. 443 01:10:55,293 --> 01:11:00,006 If the king wants to grant me a favor and if this were to the king's pleasure, 444 01:11:00,090 --> 01:11:04,678 my wish is my life and my request is the lives of my people. 445 01:11:05,220 --> 01:11:08,473 Because we were delivered, me and my people, 446 01:11:08,556 --> 01:11:11,518 to be destroyed, murdered and exterminated. 447 01:11:11,601 --> 01:11:13,895 If we had been delivered to slavery, 448 01:11:13,979 --> 01:11:16,064 I would have held my tongue, 449 01:11:16,147 --> 01:11:18,984 Well then our predicament would not harm the king. 450 01:11:21,569 --> 01:11:23,363 Tell me... 451 01:11:23,446 --> 01:11:27,242 what man has dared to do such a thing? 452 01:11:27,325 --> 01:11:31,955 An adversary and enemy, evil Haman! 453 01:11:43,049 --> 01:11:45,677 My queen, do you know... 454 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:51,057 that if the king does not forgive the sinner Will this be condemned to die? 455 01:11:52,225 --> 01:11:54,602 If you don't forgive me, 456 01:11:54,686 --> 01:11:58,148 Won't my queen intervene for me? 457 01:12:05,989 --> 01:12:09,784 Are you going to try to force to the queen here, in my presence? 458 01:12:10,869 --> 01:12:17,000 Haman prepared a scaffold for Mordecai, who served the king well. 459 01:12:17,083 --> 01:12:21,337 This scaffold is located in the garden of Haman and is 50 cubits high. 460 01:12:25,967 --> 01:12:28,762 May Haman be hanged on it! 461 01:13:34,536 --> 01:13:37,747 Queen Esther and his uncle Mordecai! 462 01:14:12,824 --> 01:14:17,203 If it pleases the king and if you grant me your favor, 463 01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:22,083 If the king deems it right, 464 01:14:22,500 --> 01:14:27,505 that an edict be issued to suspend the letters written by Haman… 465 01:14:27,839 --> 01:14:31,926 to destroy the Jews in all the king's lands. 466 01:14:32,302 --> 01:14:36,431 Well how could I bear that Will this evil be done to my people? 467 01:14:36,764 --> 01:14:40,435 How could I stand the destruction of mine? 468 01:14:41,352 --> 01:14:43,855 I give you Haman's house. 469 01:14:44,606 --> 01:14:48,568 And he will be hanged for having left lay his hand on the Jews. 470 01:14:48,985 --> 01:14:53,865 That a document be issued in favor of the Jews, just as you wish, 471 01:14:53,948 --> 01:14:56,242 in the name of the king. 472 01:14:56,326 --> 01:14:58,912 And seal it with the king's ring. 473 01:15:00,872 --> 01:15:04,167 That written and sealed in the name of the king... 474 01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:07,420 cannot be reversed by any man. 475 01:17:03,411 --> 01:17:07,206 Death to Haman! Death to Haman! 476 01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:11,878 Death to Haman! 477 01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:20,553 Death to Haman! Death to Haman! 478 01:17:21,971 --> 01:17:23,514 Death to Haman! 479 01:18:26,994 --> 01:18:32,625 And Mordecai wrote in the name of the king and decreed… 480 01:18:32,959 --> 01:18:40,591 that the Jews should unite and fight for their lives, 481 01:18:41,008 --> 01:18:47,265 destroy, murder and exterminate to all his enemies, 482 01:18:49,350 --> 01:18:53,229 women and children, 483 01:18:53,312 --> 01:18:56,941 and loot their belongings. 484 01:18:58,484 --> 01:19:04,282 And the letter he also revoked the extermination... 485 01:19:04,365 --> 01:19:09,370 which had been decreed by Haman. 486 01:19:09,704 --> 01:19:13,958 And when it was declared this new proclamation, 487 01:19:14,041 --> 01:19:20,173 the Jews had light and joy, joy and honor. 488 01:19:21,716 --> 01:19:30,057 And many people in that land he converted to Judaism... 489 01:19:30,391 --> 01:19:35,354 for fear that the Jews fall on them. 490 01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:40,401 And all the rulers of the lands and the viziers... 491 01:19:40,485 --> 01:19:48,784 and the ministers and officials and pashas of all lands, 492 01:19:50,077 --> 01:19:54,373 as well as all who they worked for the king, 493 01:19:54,457 --> 01:19:57,919 favored and they helped the Jews, 494 01:19:58,002 --> 01:20:02,048 for fear that Mordecai fall on them. 495 01:20:02,632 --> 01:20:08,971 And the Jews struck their enemies with the weight of their swords... 496 01:20:09,805 --> 01:20:14,644 and they killed all the women and the children. 497 01:20:15,478 --> 01:20:22,151 But they did not touch the loot. 498 01:23:29,547 --> 01:23:34,218 The Jews murdered 500 men in Shushan and to the 10 sons of Haman. 499 01:23:34,301 --> 01:23:37,263 And they have killed many more throughout the kingdom. 500 01:23:37,722 --> 01:23:42,727 Say what you wish and it will be granted to you. Say your request and it will be fulfilled. 501 01:23:48,983 --> 01:23:52,528 If it pleases the king, let the Jews do tomorrow... 502 01:23:52,611 --> 01:23:55,072 the same thing they did today. 503 01:23:57,992 --> 01:23:59,785 So be it. 504 01:23:59,869 --> 01:24:03,456 And that the ten sons of Haman be hanged from the gallows. 505 01:24:04,081 --> 01:24:06,751 May it be so too. 506 01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:25,686 And the next day the Jews rested and they had a day of celebration and joy. 507 01:24:26,979 --> 01:24:32,651 Mordecai gained power and his fame spread throughout the kingdom. 508 01:24:33,652 --> 01:24:38,908 Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in all the king's lands... 509 01:24:38,991 --> 01:24:44,455 so that they would commemorate the days 14 and 15 of the month of Adar, 510 01:24:44,538 --> 01:24:46,957 every year. 511 01:24:47,291 --> 01:24:52,713 And the Jews of Shushan gathered together and they killed 300 more men. 512 01:25:54,567 --> 01:25:58,404 My name is Shmuel Wolf, I am an actor. 513 01:25:58,487 --> 01:26:02,867 I was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934. 514 01:26:04,493 --> 01:26:09,498 My mother died when I was seven years old. and I stayed with my father. 515 01:26:10,082 --> 01:26:15,796 He remarried 18 months later, so I had a stepmother. 516 01:26:17,256 --> 01:26:21,510 The Germans occupied Hungary in 1944. 517 01:26:22,678 --> 01:26:25,931 They killed my father six months later, 518 01:26:27,975 --> 01:26:31,562 in one of the Budapest pogroms. 519 01:26:31,645 --> 01:26:34,273 But it was too late for... 520 01:26:34,356 --> 01:26:36,567 They will send us to the fields of concentration. 521 01:26:37,443 --> 01:26:42,197 I went to Israel in 1948... 522 01:26:42,281 --> 01:26:45,409 and I arrived in January 1949. 523 01:26:45,492 --> 01:26:49,038 I had always imagined that Israel would be a beautiful place, 524 01:26:49,121 --> 01:26:54,376 from what I had seen in photos and what they had told me. 525 01:26:54,460 --> 01:26:58,714 As it says in the Bible: a land of milk and honey… idyllic. 526 01:27:06,472 --> 01:27:09,767 I'm David Cohen Hattak, I was born in Alexandria, Egypt, 527 01:27:09,850 --> 01:27:13,228 on March 19, 1947. 528 01:27:13,312 --> 01:27:15,856 I grew up by the sea. 529 01:27:16,565 --> 01:27:21,070 They were all Arabs, I was the only Jew. 530 01:27:22,071 --> 01:27:28,494 Different religion, different language and somewhere there was a Jewish country. 531 01:27:29,119 --> 01:27:33,290 When I came of age to go to school... 532 01:27:33,374 --> 01:27:37,962 They told me: "Dirty Jew!" and I cried. 533 01:27:38,629 --> 01:27:42,967 We arrived in Israel in 1954 and it was the same story... 534 01:27:43,050 --> 01:27:50,933 He didn't speak Hebrew and everyone said: "He's not Jewish." 535 01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:55,854 They expelled me again, they rejected me... I was alone. 536 01:27:58,774 --> 01:28:04,446 I was born in 1958, in Nazareth, in that then my father was in jail. 537 01:28:04,530 --> 01:28:09,410 I remember going to visit him when I was four years old. 538 01:28:09,910 --> 01:28:13,455 For a while we lived in the offices of the Communist Party of Nazareth. 539 01:28:13,539 --> 01:28:17,126 Then we moved to Haifa. 540 01:28:17,543 --> 01:28:22,631 Then the Six Day War... They hit me, they break my arm... 541 01:28:22,715 --> 01:28:26,260 because the Egyptians sank an Israeli ship. 542 01:28:26,593 --> 01:28:31,390 Then Czechoslovakia. My father was a representative of the party. 543 01:28:31,473 --> 01:28:36,437 Since 1968, two months before of the invasion, until 1972. 544 01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:40,983 Then Moscow, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Türkiye, Italy… 545 01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:43,527 And back to Israel. 546 01:28:43,610 --> 01:28:49,283 Here, a kick and a punch to the face from the army: "dirty Arab!" 547 01:29:00,502 --> 01:29:06,383 I was born in the village of Banne, in Galilee, in 1953. 548 01:29:07,259 --> 01:29:12,973 A normal Palestinian family: many brothers and sisters. 549 01:29:16,185 --> 01:29:21,607 The story of Mordecai It reminds me of another story. 550 01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:25,027 There was a very, very poor man... 551 01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:29,740 who lived in a place very, very poor. 552 01:29:29,823 --> 01:29:33,452 And I always asked God to do something about it. 553 01:29:33,535 --> 01:29:36,330 It's an old popular legend, you must know her. 554 01:29:36,413 --> 01:29:41,168 One day God hears him and takes him to heaven... 555 01:29:41,251 --> 01:29:44,588 as a representative of your community. 556 01:29:44,671 --> 01:29:49,760 And when he gets there he sees things that I had never seen before: 557 01:29:49,843 --> 01:29:53,764 clouds, colors, stars. 558 01:29:53,847 --> 01:29:57,810 Finally, he appears before God and God says to him, "So what do you want?" 559 01:29:58,519 --> 01:30:01,814 But the man had forgotten what was he going for? 560 01:30:03,482 --> 01:30:06,485 Somehow that reminds me our history. 561 01:30:06,568 --> 01:30:11,281 After everything I had seen, Mordecai forgot why he was fighting. 562 01:30:11,365 --> 01:30:15,577 Did he want to protect his people? Well, he did. 563 01:30:15,911 --> 01:30:21,208 But he forgot what it was a war for survival. 564 01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:25,254 And suddenly the war for survival... 565 01:30:25,337 --> 01:30:30,467 It turned into a cruel war and bloody, without justification or end. 566 01:30:30,843 --> 01:30:35,639 That's where I see a parallel. between today and the past. 567 01:30:36,056 --> 01:30:40,227 And that's why I feel angry and I hate Mordecai. 568 01:30:40,727 --> 01:30:44,606 You and I make this movie... 569 01:30:45,065 --> 01:30:49,611 with the hope to be able to avoid such a massacre. 570 01:30:50,028 --> 01:30:55,534 None of us wants Let this cycle of revenge continue. 571 01:30:55,617 --> 01:30:58,370 But it does continue and we are both furious... 572 01:30:58,453 --> 01:31:01,415 and we express our fury in this movie. 573 01:31:28,942 --> 01:31:34,531 Everything has its time and everything anyone under the sky has his hour, 574 01:31:34,615 --> 01:31:37,492 a time to be born and a time to die, 575 01:31:37,576 --> 01:31:41,413 a time to plant and one to uproot what was planted, 576 01:31:41,747 --> 01:31:44,750 a time to kill and one to cure, 577 01:31:44,833 --> 01:31:48,170 a time to destroy and one to build, 578 01:31:48,253 --> 01:31:51,715 a time to laugh and one to cry, 579 01:31:52,174 --> 01:31:56,428 a time to throw stones and one to collect stones, 580 01:31:56,511 --> 01:32:00,682 a time to hug and one to walk away, 581 01:32:01,183 --> 01:32:04,853 a time to win and one to lose, 582 01:32:05,270 --> 01:32:09,149 a time to save and one to give, 583 01:32:09,942 --> 01:32:13,195 a time to tear and one to sew, 584 01:32:13,278 --> 01:32:17,157 a time to be silent and one to talk, 585 01:32:17,241 --> 01:32:20,619 a time to love and one to hate, 586 01:32:20,702 --> 01:32:24,790 a time for war and one for peace. 587 01:32:28,335 --> 01:32:31,546 I'm just Zari Vartinyan. 588 01:32:31,964 --> 01:32:35,133 Vartinyan is an Armenian name, you know? 589 01:33:07,457 --> 01:33:11,378 My name is Simona Benyamini. 590 01:33:12,713 --> 01:33:17,968 I was born in 1963, 591 01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:22,347 in a poor neighborhood, the Moroccan neighborhood of Tel Aviv. 592 01:33:24,016 --> 01:33:28,145 I don't remember much from there because We moved when I was one year old. 593 01:33:28,228 --> 01:33:32,232 But my mom says to live there It was wonderful. 594 01:33:32,733 --> 01:33:37,029 Then we moved on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. 595 01:33:37,821 --> 01:33:40,449 And when I was twelve years old 596 01:33:40,532 --> 01:33:43,577 we moved to the part richest city, the north. 597 01:33:44,953 --> 01:33:50,417 But I felt much more at home in the south, 598 01:33:50,959 --> 01:33:54,171 in the Negev desert. 599 01:33:56,048 --> 01:34:01,553 The desert sun It's such a glorious sun.