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Why were you there?

Don't you know that you have to veil your face?

Don't you think that I put this because of your God?

I put it, because you told me, you're not going to do any harm to them!

You are not a man. You are a beast. A murderer. This is what you are! You shell die in all the agony of those you killed.

Street dogs shell carry around you flesh!

I got you! Don't you know that you are handsome? You can proceed with the baring.

You can get help by others ?! This woman made fun of Allah. Give her to army around.

and tell them, that I give everybody a gold coin who sleeps with her.

Nein, Nein!

Hurrah!

What's on your mind, my son?

Hey you, where're you going? The mistress ordered fish.

Where're you going? To the mistress

Do you have a knife? No.

Come on!

The mistress ordered me fish!

Goran, I didn't order you fish.

It's not for you. It's for Karaibrahim. Lead me to him.

I can�t do it, but I can show you where is his room. The last room on this side.

Who let you here?

Who are you?

Goran. Glaushko's son.

What are you waiting for? Should I bleed out?

Aga !

Did you catch him?

He is dead Aga. Who was he?

I don�t know.

Faster. Help me!

Who is he?

I dont know him.

Do you know him?

No Aga. I can�t recognize him.

Don't you know him either?

No Aga. I don't know him.

Goran. My son.

Don't you listen to him. He's gone mad. Don't you listen to him!

Manol, he is Manol. Why do you hide his name?

Let the people know, what he has done. Let the mountain remember him.

He is Goran. My son.

Take him!

Aga, he is his father. He recognize him!

Strahin!

My son!

Did you recognize me?

I recognized you, my son.

God didn't have mercy with me. I had to wait for you.

Why are you here?

Have you sent him to kill me?

No, my son. But if I knew, I wouldn't have stopped him.

Had he known it that I'm his brother?

Where could he have known it from? Why did you burn him so?

He burned himself. So that nobody recognizes him and to preserve you.

Where is my mother?

Your mother Strahin, was taken back by God. She couldn't stand your absence. The sadness had taken her life.

Aga, what's happening here?

Didn't you hear? He is my father. And the one who tried to kill me, was my brother.

Now get away all of you. I want to be alone.

I can�t anymore like this, Momtchill. I can�t leave our father alone.

Let me go in the konak. I'll plead with him. He's my brother, he may have mercy.

What kind of a brother can a janissary be? A beast. He was your brother a long time ago.

If you go there, you won't go out anymore!

He might be touched. How did he know it, that I was his sister and he preserved me? Look for a whole month already he hasn't done any harm to our people there.

Le me go, Momtchil. Since it happened so with Goran, my father has nobody but me.

My father, Ishmael Bey, is giving you back the herd bells.

These are the remains of Suleiman Aga.

During the day the sultan rewarded him with a purple robe, a white silk belt, and a gold honor necklace, and during the night in out tent entered

two Dzelats (executioners) who put a strap around his neck and pulled each of them on one side until they strangled him.

The Aga was kneeling and was looking at me. I was standing in front of him and didn't do anything.

Karaibrahim calumniated him. If there has been only any strength in me, I'd have strangled him.

What's up? What's it all about?

Allah shell bless you, Karaibrahim.

Allah's mercy shell be with you, Karahasan.

Mehmed pasha gives you his regards. I'm bringing you 400 janissary, ready to do anything they are told to.

I've never asked for any help, Aga. Anyway, you are still here, be my guest.

Iljuk bashi, take care of the solders.

Are you hearing what's happening outside. They sent me help. To me !?

They've decided, I'm unable to cope with the situation, and that Karahasan is able.

On his way so far the people changed to the right faith. And me? I stay here and wait !

Me! Karaibrahim, the first! The favorite of the janissaries' Aga. I don't do anything and wait!

I wanted to preserve you. To let less blood flowing.

You are my father. You got to help me!

How could I, my son?

By dismissing the false faith! Someone has to be the first one.

Don't want me to this. I can�t.

But you could give me as a janissary. Why didn't you give away Manol?

Manol. wasn't my son. How could I?

A man can give away only his own son.

So it is. So am I. And everyone alive will regret being such from now on.

Father!

Bolukbasi (turk. captain), take this woman away!

Brother !

Brother, have mercy with him! Have mercy with him brother! You don't know how miserable he's been being since you are away. Have mercy with him !

Bolukbasi didn't you hear what I said?

You are not a man. A beast! Be cursed from now on!

Aga, it's said in the Koran, even if the son is believing in the right faith, he may not kill his father, even if he is a infidel.

I don't kill him. He dyes by himself.

Let him fall !

My son !

I don't believe my eyes that it's you. What have they made out of you?

They opened my eyes!

And what did you see through them?

I saw, that as there is one sun, there must be only one truth, one God. So thah everybody's doing well.

For that reason you prepared the guillotine.

It was prepared by you.

I came with a stretched armed. I wanted to give you the whole valley.

So that you experience power and strength. I wanted to save you, to make you equal to the others. To become people.

And you tried to kill me. Didn't you understand, that I don't fear neither the wound, nor the dead.

Only the dead doesn't fear anything. For that reason perhaps you don't fear anything. Your roots are cut and you stand dried up.

The last root was cut by you, when my brother tried to stab at me.

Look!

When I stroke above with the hand, I don't feel anything.

It's the same in my soul. I don't have any brothers, any sisters, nor do I have people I belong to. Nor anything.

Put on the turban if you don't want to turn Elindenja into a cemetery.

If you were in my shoes, would you have put it?

And you, harder then a stone you are, if you were in my shoes, would you have had mercy with someone?

Yes, with my father.

Gut, if you are so merciful, let us see if would have mercy with your son.

Take him away!

Aga, set the boy free.

I beg you, Aga.

Throw away this fool.

Get started!

A turban! A turban! Give me a turban!

Release him!

A turban!

Repeat after me: Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Wait !

I promised to you father, that everybody from his family will draw a cross and will spit on it. Draw it!

Spit on it!

Spit on it!

They killed my father. They killed everybody.

And I drew a cross and spited on it.

After the decision to come here, we thought you need help.

Now I see, that I came here in vain.

You are here anyway. Give me the boys to have a walk around the valley. It'll be inappropriate if they'll go back with empty hands.

From here upside there is a village.

Burn. Nobody should survive !

Father, father! Come here fast!

Faster !

Look, did you see her. She came out from this dark hole. She's gone again.

Did you see her? Quite skinny. With red eyes w/o and hair on the head. I recognized her at once. The pest!

As we all reached this place, she stopped!

She saw all of them and start crying. She turned back and went away.

Father, why did the pest have mercy with us, and God didn't?

Tell me Father? Father against what we sin, that God abondoned us? Tell us Father, doesn't God see what's happening?

I don't know. It seems that God doesn't take care of every single living being separately. It's one's own responsibility to take care of oneself.

He is taking care of the most important things: of the existence of the sun, the water, the air,... of breeding life.

Listen, in a few days this child will die. So will be she. Nobody will escape alive from here. And you know it.

Why do you lie to us? Why don't you get away? Everyone's got to take care of his own rescue. Get away!

Why are you the only one set free ?!

Satan, Satan! He is not our Pope. It's the Satan in the pope's visage.

God! Who are you? What is your real name?

Isn't it all the same, if you are called Allah or Jesus. Aren't you in the heart of every man, regardless of being a Moslem or a Christian ?

Don't you take care of where the river flows in, and not where it flows?

Haven't you seen enough agony on earth?

Folks! Folks!

Folks! Folks!

Listen to me folks! Listen to me folks!

I saw an omen. God Himself told me: Go and change your faith !

It's all the same if you call me Jesus or Allah. More important is to stay alive. Because the most precious I've given is life itself.

Those who are against life, are those against Me!

He's lying! He's gone mad! He's lying! Don't you listen to him!

Leave me alone! Get away, I'll kill him!

Leave him alone.

He can kill me.

You may kill me Momtchil, but let the people go down, back to their villages.

The winter is coming. Everybody here is going to die.

Father, don't dare to degrade the memories of my father!

Honored shell be Manol and those who died and didn't change their faith. But someone has to remain alive, to narrate about them and to honor them.

Look at this mountain, Momtchil. This is a fortress. To it's kern there are nine ramparts.

Only the first one is called faith. But there is a 2nd one, common past. A 3rd one, common language. A 4th one, common land.

Honored are those who loose their lives by the first rampart, the faith. They showed us how to defend the 2nd one, the 3rd one, and so on.

I speak to you for the last time as your Pope. By changing our faith, we don't change core.

Come after me to stay alive and keep the Rhodopes Bulgarian.

Aga, they are coming! The people from the valley are coming to serve to Allah!

Allah il Allah!

Why are you coming Papaz?

To serve to God!

To which God?

To Allah!

Get started!

Repeat after me: Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Come on!

Next !

Repeat after me: Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Next !

Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Say: Allah is Great and Mohamed is his Prophet.

Say it!

Say it my son! Say Allah is Great!

I can�t father!

Under the guillotine!

I did it for you my son. For you my son.

My son, I did it for you!

My son!

Is there anyone else who wants to go under the guillotine ?!

Go on !

Why they are fleeing? We are supposed to belong together.

But not with you. We don't belong together with you.

What do you still want from us?

Momtchil!

I fulfilled my assignment in Elindenja. Only one thing left. To catch him.

You go and find him.

How could I? I don't know where he resides.

You know it, Papaz. You know it !

Even if I would find him, he'd kill me seeing me like this.

Before he kills you, you tell him that I'm going back in 3 days. If he doesn't come, I take Eliza with me.

She's awaiting a child.

If he's a boy, I'll make him a janissary.

What if I don't go, Aga?

I rumble you Papaz. You'll go.

I know, you will not allow that Momtchil's son returns one day as a janissary.

Karaibrahim is sending me to tell you, that in 3 days he's going away.

He is to take Eliza with him. She's awaiting a child.

Is this true?

It's true ..

Karaibrahim said, if it is a boy, he'll make out of him a janissary to come back one day to the valley and do the same to his father, as Karaibrahim did.

He also said, he'll only set Eliza free, if ...

What does he want?

You.

He said, if you don't go alone, the bag, your head is brought with, will be filled with gold.

You have to help to get to the konak.

You know with that wound I don't have so much time left.

Wait! Where're you going? Come back!

I can�t do it on my one. You got to help me!

Wait !

Father, would you do it!

I can�t Momtchil.

I can�t.

Father !

Aga, the head of Momtchil. It's being brought by his brother !

You're lying to me, you dog! Tell me, you're lying.

It's true, Aga.

Eliza. Bring Eliza, faster! She must see it!

His brother, His brother!

Get back, I want to see it!

Are you seeing this. His brother. For a bag full of gold.

Get off the way, you dogs!

He may come here.

Come here boy! Come here on the top! Bring it here!

Father, it's time to say goodbye to you. Live long for protecting me and taking care of me!

You know, that we all liked you. But since this is your decision.

I know it.

Exactly a year ago, I came for the first time in Elindenja. Manol was alive, Momtchil was alive and Mirtcho too.

You all were together. Now in one village a muezzin is singing, and in another the bells toll.

Nevertheless we are together again. It's true, the mountain born two villages, but they are from the same mother.

So, why was all this about? Was it necessary that so many people die?

Who was the right one? Those who died, or those who changed their God?

I don�t know.

100 years will pass away, 1000 maybe, until we know it.

But what are 1000 years for this mountain.

Why are the herd bells tolling?

It's a boy. A boy was born.

Eliza brought a son, Momtchil's son.

Take it. It's yours. I preserved it for you.

The film was shot in the mountains Rhodopes, where 3 centuries ago these events took place

Many of the participants in the masses scene are descendents of the survivors from those terrible times of violence.

Cast:

Karaibrahim Yosif Sarchadjiev

Father Aligorko Rusy Chanev

Manol Ivan Krastev

The Venician Valter Toski

Sevda Anya Pencheva

Syuleyman Aga Vasil Mihailov

Grandpa Galushko Konstantin Kotsev

Eliza Kalina Stefanova

Mirtcho Angel Mihailov

Momtchil 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

Karahasan Dzoko Rositch

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