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Grandma, where is your Priest?

They killed him, Father. They killed him first.

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They ravaged my daughter. In front of my eyes.

Father!

Father, bless it, father!

It died on the way, it isn't christened.

Father, there were many of them - if I give birth, I will kill it.

I will kill it with my own hands.

It is not the children they want to make Enichars, my son,

but all of us.

We shall see

if your father has the strength to do,

what he asked of you.

You are welcome, Manole Kehaia.

Today and tomorrow and whenever you may come.

When my sheep were with you, you lost none and milk was flowing like a river.

Today we celebrate.

The earth took the blood of the animal we sacrified and the year will be good.

I hope I can help you with your problem. I can see you have come to ask for something.

Master Ismail, we have to come to buy a place for a village in your fields.

This old woman has a hundred refugees with her.

I won't lie to you, they are running away from Mehmed Pasha. Because they didn't want to change their faith.

Why is Mehmed trying to force the people to change their faith.

A man becomes ready for Allah on his own.

The wife of one of my sons is one of yours.

She wouldn't change her faith and carries a cross.

A place for a village you say...

I will gather my family, we will decide.

Father Ismail, do not send us back emptyhanded.

The faith of these people is hanging on a string.

Tell me, Master! Where will my bones rest?

Manol, who is buying the place? These people or you?

I am buying it.

Which one shall i give you...

These people are on the run. Make it a place where no one can find them.

Petglasets. I will give you Petglasets. Noone will find you there.

Manol...

I hope I am wrong, but the way it's going, I may need such a place for you too,

and I don't have another one like this.

I won't need one.

Where the tree grows, there its roots rot.

Can you move Allah in the mountain?

People are not tress, Manol.

Look at us,

we have left the springs of Efrates to wander the world.

Where we will arrive, noone knows.

Tel me, what do you want for Petglasets? Let's see if we can manage to afford it.

What will I want?

Your 52 silver bells. That is what I want.

I want when my herds leave for the south,

the whole mountain to ring and everyone to say: Ismail is passing by.

So? You agree?

Listen, Manol!

I know that these bells are the only thing you have left from your father.

I know that not only you, but the whole valley will miss them if I take them.

I know their sound is with you in sorrow and in happiness.

But that is why I asked for them.

Because, the greater the deed - the bigger must be the sacrifice.

It hurts me. But for something else!

Long ago, our forefathers bought this mountain with they swords,

and now I am buying it with bells.

You will have them. When the herds leave for the south. You will have them!

Fire!

Fire, Master Syuleyman.

It is coming this way.

We can not stop it.

You can if you want, Master Syleyman.

We will gather all men in Elindenya.

Do not leave us alone, Master!

Lead us and we will forget everything. The people you killed - the drowned, the hanged.

We will forget everything.

Manol,

why did you remeber the people I killed?

Why did you not remeber the bridges I built, the roads, the fountains?

- Untranslated subtitle -

Three villages rose to built the big stone bridge.

The children too.

Their hands still hurt from carrying the stones.

Master Syleyman, did you build the bridge yourself?

We all built it together.

And now you are offering to fight the Padishah together?

Isn't this what you are offering to me? A rebellion?

Karaibrahim, is here on orders from the Grand Vezir. He wants you all in the headquarters tomorrow.

This is all I had to say to you.

Manol, how could you do that! He will betray us.

We were wrong! The fires blinded us.

Wrong? Our cause is as good as lost without Syleyman's help.

It's madness to go to his headquarters.

I won't part with my head for free.

If we don't go, they will start with the women and the children.

We must go.

Let them hear us. We wont change our religion.

Father, they will kill us. They will kill us all.

They can't kill everyone. They will kill 10.

They will kill 100 just to frighten us.

We must not waver.

It's hopeless. We will break.

Come with me!

Take a good look!

Most of them were women.

They carried

their unborn children in ther wombs.

None of them wavered.

What can be expected of us?

The elite of Elindenya.

They are coming! The slaves are coming!

A great blessing has been bestowed on this valley.

The Padishah, praise his name,

protector of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina,

kind father to his subjects

and fearsome warrior to his enemies

has decided to offer you his hand of friendship.

Master! We all know why you are here.

The words of the imam are pointless.

We are gathered here to tell you this: We will not change our religion!

That is our decision, Master.

I was hoping for a different answer.

I could have started with sword and fire.

Like the ones before you.

And now there would have been only beleivers...

and dead.

I have come to do a job and I will do it.

If not today, then in a week.

When I entered the valley you greeted me with the sound of a church bell.

When I leave from here, you will see me off with the sound of the Myuesin.

If you ever leave!

Stop!

You in the back, if I die

another one will come in mu place. But the Myuesin will sound in Elynednya.

Master, If I may say something.

Do not spill blood over the mountain and we will be eternally grateful.

We are faithful subjects to the Padishah, we won't become more faithful if we twist our souls.

Do you think, Master, that even if someone accepts your religion, he will carry it in his heart.

I know that you won't carry it in your hearts,

but your grandchildren will beleive in it even more than the imams in Mecca.

I give you 10 days, starting from today.

If you don't come on the 10th day to accept the true religion -

I can not be held responsible.

Go now!

The tide comes, but the sand remains.

Not like a tide,

like fire I will sweep across you.

and what's left,

will be as soft as these ashes.

There are always a few charred pieces left. Charred, but still burning.

I'll not leave anyone alive from your familiy.

I will make them draw crosses on the ground with their own blood.

And I will spit on them.

My family is very big, Master You will need help.

I am an orphan and I was raised by everyone here.

They are all my brothers.

We will see in 10 days.

What now?

We have 10 days.

I hope this evil will come to pass.

God help us!

Lord, save us!

Forgive us, Lord.

You are awake too?

It's too noisy. I couldn't sleep.

Close the window!

I tried. It still too noisy.

Sit down, please.

Master Syuleyman, they say you killed your own brother?

Did Gyulfye tell you this?

Yes.

My brother was a brigand. The whole valley suffered from him.

Because of me, no one dared to put him in his place. I showed him no mercy.

I have spared no one who has broken the law.

I am thinking: What will my laws be worth in 10 days time?

When there will be more dead that alive,

more birgands that honest people.

I am the judge of deeds which will be blessed, and yet I ask myslef:

Am I a judge or a murderer?

The Sultan is the judge of all judges,

if it were his wish, he would send his mercy this way too.

I have heard that he is a merciful man.

He is merciful, but the Rhodopes he won't spare.

That's different.

And the Grand Vezir?

Have you ever seen him?

No, I haven't, Master.

But I have heard that he is an old and wise man.

He was old even when he was a child.

He tried all the poisons of the world: marijuana, opium, herbs.

He has 80 wives, but doesn't have the strength for even one of them.

He is a desparate man, and yet he rules the biggest country in the world.

A desparate man with power, my firend, is the worst of all evils.

He can see that the empire is falling apart.

From top to bottom, everyone lives on bribes.

And he knows only one cure for it:

Fight outside our borders, so that we don't kill each other inside.

The Empire is dying, my friend from Venice, who has the time to think about Elindenya.

The sad thing about it, is that when an empire starts dying

it can go on dying for 300 years.

And you? Why are you so concerned about the slaves? Are you not afraid that your Master may find out?

Will you tell him? How do you know that he didn't send me to ask you these questions?

Karaibrahim wants to know what everyone thinks.

Let him know!

He is on a quest to change the world, and for this task it is better not to know what others think.

You are a wise man, Master and I know little of wisdom.

Of course! Look at the way you sit.

Untill you learn to sit with your feet crossed underneath you, you won't achieve anything.

Wise men have thought of this position.

Can I ask you for a favour?

Yes, Master?

Tomorrow, go in the mountains and send this message to Manol, everyone knows him:

Give him this handkerchief and tell him: "Syuleyman can not stand in the way of Allah"

Why send me?

I do not want to send one of my own people.

Just because of that?

Are you sending me, so that I can tell Karaibrahim, that you are not with the people of Elyndenya.

There is no need to say things we both know.

Why not tell Karaibrahim yourself?

Because I do not want to humiliate myself.

This is a time of division, my friend from Venice.

You must chose a side.

I've been standing in the middle for far too long.

So, they have asked Syuleyman to rise against me?

Yes, but he declined.

It's too late.

The letter to the Grand Vezir is already on its way.

Then Syuleyman is doomed?

No one knows what the will of the Vezir will be.

Master, is there a point in me going to those shepherds?

There is! Let them know they are alone.

Manol! Manol! Syuleyman has sent someone to speak to you.

To me?

Master Syleyman has sent me to tell you, that he can't stand in the way of Allah.

Do you bring any other news?

No.

Then tell him that the people of Elyndenya send him their goodbyes.

Do not resist, "non chela fari.. " You won't succeed.

You are not a turk are you?

No, but I am alive.

You have sold your soul.

Listen, shepherd, there was a time when I would have killed you for this insult.

I hope we meet each other again!

Syuleyman has refused to help us.

I knew it. All our efforts are in vain.

Syuleyman's headquarters are a fortress.

We can't take it.

And Mehmed Pasha is nearby with 100000 men.

Father, I want to marry Elitsa.

Do I have your blessing?

Why are you here?

Elitsa, come.

I am afraid, Father. People stay away from me.

Dad hasn't spoken to me in two days.

Tell me what to do!

Does he know about Momchil?

We grew up together, Momchil and I.

I have always enjoyed his company.

But yesterday.. Something flipped in me.

I saw Manol.

I saw him in a way, I have never seen him before.

And since then, all I can think of is him. Day and night.

Is this a sin?

I do not know, child.

I do not know any more.

Elitsa! Elitsa!

Elitsa! Is it true?

It's true, Momchil!

Where is my father? Where is he?

Momchil! Wait, Momchil!

Leve me alone!

Momchil, wait!

Did you tell him about us?

What is there to tell?

That we together...

What?

Do you remember when we chased eachother in the forest,

and you caught me? I was burning with desire. I asked you to let go of me. Why did you let me go?

Do you remeber that night when I asked you to come with me to the spring.

I was holding your hand, but you kept telling me not to be afraid. I was trembling but not with fear. Why didn't you hold me?

When you saw me asleep in the Maidens Glen why did you ask me to wake up?

Why didn't you take me?

And if you wanted me so much, why did you not ask my father for my hand?

From Sunday, I will be Manol's wife. Then you will come me Mother.

You must bless it, Father!

Have you gone mad?

Go away! Take this away!

Manol! What are you doing?

The church bells mourn the dead, and yet you prepare for a wedding.

Our people need humility and prayer, not celebrations.

Manol!

I am looking for salvation too! I pray nights on end,

but instead of heavenly hymns, all I hear is turkish drums and trumpets.

Once, I looked at St. Marie's icon and saw a skull

and in the skull, dug up tree-roots, dug up by children's hands.

I saw many empty villages,

dead fires,

pregnant women, hitting their wombs with rocks, trying to kill their cursed children,

and a black swarm covering the mountains.

Manol, you can't start something that is doomed from the start.

All you can see on the horizont is scimitars and knives, people's heads stuck on poles.

I saw the head of Vrazhu, Stoiko Prosveta, grandpa Kralyu...

I saw your head there too, Manol.

Is this really you, Father?

You have lost your mind.

Manol, this wedding will bring evil.

Fear will bring evil.

Everyone is hiding.

Can you not see? The sound of bagpipes will bring them together.

Give them new strength.

You are looking for an excuse for the sin you are about to make.

You won't have my blessing!

With or without your blessing, there will be a wedding.

You want to ask me something?

You are wating for me to start?

You wanted her! Take her! What are you waiting for?

If you can't live without her, be a man!

Take your knife! Strike me!

To kill my father. I can not do that.

Then forgive me.

I have made this for you.

Master, you will lock away the weapons of your men.

Why?

So that there are fewer dead.

Won't you tell them, what's coming?

Everyone is here, apart from Stoyko Prosvet.

Goran, go guard the path.

We shouldn't drop our guard.

I will go.

Go!

I know this wedding is not to your liking.

And because of that, I thank you for coming!

Thank you for coming!

There can't be a wedding without guests.

Thank you for dressing up.

So we can leave pleasant memories to the mountain.

Cheers!

Cheers!

Cheers, Manol!

Cheers!

Cheers, Manol!

No! No! No!

Let go of me!

Help! Manol!

Stop!

Blood will be spilt! Blood will be spilt!

Why have you come?

There are three more days left,

out of the 10 you gave us.

That is true!

But you will spend them in the prison cells.

The days were for consideration,

not for wedding celebrations.

Take their bows!

Take the most important of them to the cells.

Manol!

What are you waiting for?

And now, Father?

Now Momchil, many paths lay before the people of Elyndenya.

Each must choose his own.

The film was shot in the Rhodopes, the same place, where three centries ago this story happened.

Many of the extras are heirs to the survivors of the Time of Violence.

Cast:

Karaibrahim Yosif Sarchadjiev

Father Aligorko Rusy Chanev

Manol Ivan Krastev

The Venician Valter Toski

Sevda Anya Pencheva

Syuleyman Vasil Mihailov

Grandpa Galushko Konstantin Kotsev

Elitsa Kalina Stefanova

Mircho Angel Mihailov

Momchil Momchil Karamitev

Goran Sotyko Peev

Kemandji Djongli Nokloay Latev

Bilyukbashyata Tsanko Petrov

Shaban Shibil Ivan Yanchev

Molla Sulfikar Softa Anton Karastoyanov

Gyulfye Stefka Berova

Ismail Bei Bogomil Simeonov

amd others.