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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,007 "...Thereupon Yazdgerd fled towards Marv and sought a watermill for refuge. 2 00:00:25,007 --> 00:00:29,751 "The miller, longing for his treasures, killed Him in sleep..." (651 A.D.) 3 00:00:29,751 --> 00:00:30,751 History! 4 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:45,800 Susan Taslimi 5 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,600 Mehdi Hashemi 6 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:57,320 in a film by Bahram Beizai 7 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:04,040 DEATH OF YAZDGERD 8 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:10,760 with Yasaman Arami, Amin Tarokh 9 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,280 A Lissar Film Group production 10 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,120 Director of Photography Mehrdad Fakhimi 11 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:34,280 Produced and directed by Bahram Beizai 12 00:01:59,490 --> 00:02:01,112 No, reverend masters... 13 00:02:01,245 --> 00:02:05,127 lofty commanders clad in armour from top to toe! 14 00:02:05,184 --> 00:02:09,362 That which you administer now is not justice but rank tyranny. 15 00:02:09,362 --> 00:02:12,819 This indeed is the place where his blood was shed... 16 00:02:12,851 --> 00:02:15,557 - this uninvited guest - 17 00:02:15,586 --> 00:02:17,684 but I'm not to blame for it. 18 00:02:17,839 --> 00:02:20,245 He had already opted for death. 19 00:02:20,458 --> 00:02:23,310 No, my armour-clad masters... 20 00:02:23,598 --> 00:02:27,203 what you do to us is not what we deserve. 21 00:02:28,691 --> 00:02:31,749 This is our verdict: man, miller... 22 00:02:32,267 --> 00:02:34,826 with hands dipped in blood up to the elbow! 23 00:02:35,506 --> 00:02:37,156 You shall be put to death... 24 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,543 presently... 25 00:02:39,203 --> 00:02:40,803 but not so easily. 26 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:42,974 You shall swing on the gallows, 27 00:02:43,391 --> 00:02:47,241 but not before your bones are crushed and your joints pulled apart. 28 00:02:47,446 --> 00:02:49,401 Your espouse shall be thrown into the oven 29 00:02:49,401 --> 00:02:52,122 and your daughter's hide shall be stuffed with straw. 30 00:02:52,696 --> 00:02:57,093 The record of this horrible crime will hang from city, gates 31 00:02:57,442 --> 00:03:00,966 and the name, of the miller shall be defiled forever. 32 00:03:00,966 --> 00:03:06,025 May turbid darkness be cast away from the dungeon of the flesh! 33 00:03:06,257 --> 00:03:12,532 May light be liberated from darkness and fire freed from smoke! 34 00:03:13,096 --> 00:03:17,910 May turbid darkness be cast away from the dungeon of the flesh... 35 00:03:17,910 --> 00:03:21,331 Where can we get some wood? Is there enough rope around here? 36 00:03:22,184 --> 00:03:24,276 Shame on you! 37 00:03:25,016 --> 00:03:27,230 Do you kill or plunder us? 38 00:03:27,616 --> 00:03:29,506 Pull out the tent poles 39 00:03:29,656 --> 00:03:31,695 and quickly raise the gallows. 40 00:03:32,015 --> 00:03:33,322 As for the rope... 41 00:03:33,335 --> 00:03:38,064 Yes, make haste lest we eat away, 42 00:03:38,471 --> 00:03:42,940 and our tongue shall reveal the disgraceful story of his flight 43 00:03:43,055 --> 00:03:47,374 and make people laugh at the valiant Shâh! 44 00:03:47,776 --> 00:03:49,215 Yes, be quick! 45 00:03:49,638 --> 00:03:53,184 Give me leave to work my sword here and now. 46 00:03:53,335 --> 00:03:56,599 It'll get the job quickly done with only two thrusts and one cut. 47 00:03:56,740 --> 00:03:59,491 Only two thrusts and one cut? Is there another way? 48 00:03:59,495 --> 00:04:01,352 Takes a long time to make the gallows. 49 00:04:01,415 --> 00:04:04,200 Let me hang 'em right here. Why bother about the gallows? 50 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,432 Simple-hearted man, whereto are you galloping so fast? 51 00:04:07,655 --> 00:04:10,241 We're all commanders and captains of noble lineage, 52 00:04:10,376 --> 00:04:12,230 and not looters and murderers. 53 00:04:12,230 --> 00:04:14,529 And this is administering Justice not an ambush! 54 00:04:14,816 --> 00:04:16,911 We do not kill them for the sake of killing. 55 00:04:16,911 --> 00:04:20,362 Their death is a retribution for shedding the blood of a gallant King... 56 00:04:20,375 --> 00:04:22,583 the Commander of commanders possessor of all possessors... 57 00:04:22,583 --> 00:04:25,548 Shâh of all Shâhs, Shâh Yazdgerd, the son of Shâh Yazdgerd... 58 00:04:25,548 --> 00:04:28,126 who himself was one of the sons of Yazdgerd the First. 59 00:04:28,527 --> 00:04:31,374 This red rivulet you see here running flows from him... 60 00:04:31,374 --> 00:04:34,285 who had royal blood in all his four hundred and sixty six veins, 61 00:04:34,474 --> 00:04:38,099 and was placed above all men by the hand of Ahurâ Mazdâ. 62 00:04:38,253 --> 00:04:40,670 Now that the enemy is pressing our throat, 63 00:04:40,670 --> 00:04:43,997 what could serve them more then severing the head from the body. 64 00:04:44,620 --> 00:04:47,896 And everyone knows that people are the body end the King is the head! 65 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:51,396 The King is not slain... 66 00:04:51,714 --> 00:04:54,879 the King is not slain! 67 00:04:54,915 --> 00:04:56,792 Is this not his body? 68 00:04:56,874 --> 00:04:59,124 Do not make them laugh at us! 69 00:05:02,412 --> 00:05:06,989 He is asleep, dreaming about us. 70 00:05:08,636 --> 00:05:12,030 He was about to gather a great army and deliver the kingdom... 71 00:05:12,608 --> 00:05:16,813 plain after plain from the countless hordes of the enemy. 72 00:05:19,824 --> 00:05:21,714 What shattered hope! 73 00:05:23,264 --> 00:05:25,165 By the end of the millennium, 74 00:05:25,623 --> 00:05:29,708 the cycle of the ewe shall come to an end and that of the wolf shall commence... 75 00:05:29,894 --> 00:05:33,486 - demons trampling on angels. 76 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,410 No, no. We did not kill him. 77 00:05:36,504 --> 00:05:40,283 You charge us with your own fancy. 78 00:05:40,283 --> 00:05:42,030 What a shameless lie! 79 00:05:42,338 --> 00:05:45,230 Where is he who found him slain by their hands? 80 00:05:45,264 --> 00:05:48,620 Did you not see these vultures clawing the carcass of the King? 81 00:05:50,904 --> 00:05:51,934 Indeed, 82 00:05:52,733 --> 00:05:56,822 I was the first to set foot in this desolate ruin; 83 00:05:58,263 --> 00:06:01,903 and my hair stood on end - seeing what I saw. 84 00:06:03,855 --> 00:06:06,910 The idle millstone seemed... 85 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:09,798 as if it had never turned, 86 00:06:10,457 --> 00:06:14,117 and these three - the miller, his wife and his daughter - 87 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,950 sat around the bleeding body of the King moaning. 88 00:06:19,803 --> 00:06:25,196 The King still in regal garb more magnificent than ever. 89 00:06:26,205 --> 00:06:29,560 Dust rising in an oblique shaft of light... 90 00:06:30,198 --> 00:06:34,250 rushing down from the casement to shroud his lifeless frame. 91 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:37,137 The streak of warm blood snaking across the floor... 92 00:06:37,490 --> 00:06:39,958 and disappearing under the millstone. 93 00:06:41,221 --> 00:06:45,157 Dark tokens of death scattered everywhere. 94 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:49,696 All this shall haunt me to my dying day. 95 00:06:49,982 --> 00:06:51,411 I'm still amazed... 96 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:54,292 at the tears these ruffians poured over their victim. 97 00:06:54,292 --> 00:06:57,608 We wept not for him but for ourselves. 98 00:06:57,608 --> 00:06:59,401 - For my child! - My brother! 99 00:06:59,712 --> 00:07:03,823 I raised him on my heart's blood till he was a comely youth. 100 00:07:04,003 --> 00:07:06,269 My son, my only son... 101 00:07:06,269 --> 00:07:08,862 was taken to the battle by your soldiers. 102 00:07:08,862 --> 00:07:12,377 And before the rising of the new moon they wanted me... 103 00:07:12,528 --> 00:07:16,661 to reward them tor bringing back his body soaked in blood... 104 00:07:16,661 --> 00:07:18,838 and mangled with eight arrows. 105 00:07:18,838 --> 00:07:20,980 Men are all soldiers of death. 106 00:07:21,096 --> 00:07:23,607 Be brief woman and say if your sapling 107 00:07:23,607 --> 00:07:26,233 was of the same worth as our sovereign! 108 00:07:26,233 --> 00:07:28,295 May my tongue wither if I say so! 109 00:07:28,730 --> 00:07:32,185 No, by heavens, no! 110 00:07:32,705 --> 00:07:35,000 For me he was of much greater worth! 111 00:07:36,243 --> 00:07:37,242 Did you hear that? 112 00:07:37,796 --> 00:07:40,849 It is thus that this kingdom is now falling to pieces. 113 00:07:41,964 --> 00:07:44,924 Say then you miller with a dead son... 114 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:49,246 have you revenged yourself upon the King? 115 00:07:54,055 --> 00:07:58,916 Ay my breast was full of revenge... 116 00:08:02,176 --> 00:08:04,239 but I did not kill him; 117 00:08:04,819 --> 00:08:07,497 not out of goodness, but fear. 118 00:08:07,944 --> 00:08:13,039 "A king has followers who'd look for him", you said. 119 00:08:13,039 --> 00:08:15,463 And you said that I was right. 120 00:08:15,463 --> 00:08:19,748 And you said that you should not raise your hand against him. 121 00:08:19,748 --> 00:08:22,106 And I did not raise my hand against him! 122 00:08:22,106 --> 00:08:25,596 Our only witness sleeps here. 123 00:08:26,072 --> 00:08:28,318 I can no longer bear lies. 124 00:08:28,799 --> 00:08:31,384 When the millennium comes to an end, 125 00:08:31,384 --> 00:08:33,767 men such as you would be more than many. 126 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:36,235 And out of five words four would be lies. 127 00:08:36,496 --> 00:08:39,905 You have turned your mill with our king's blood; 128 00:08:40,066 --> 00:08:42,039 and a king is the shadow of Ahurâ Mazdâ. 129 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,191 Your cup will be filled with your blood! Desert dogs shall feast on your bones! 130 00:08:45,191 --> 00:08:46,920 This is irrevocable; 131 00:08:47,124 --> 00:08:50,849 and we have sworn that your household shall perish. 132 00:08:51,335 --> 00:08:54,300 And the wind is already on its way. 133 00:08:55,636 --> 00:09:00,164 And now in the midst of storm they spin the rope that'll presently press my neck. 134 00:09:00,438 --> 00:09:04,388 And mouthing curses they raise the gallows for me. 135 00:09:05,044 --> 00:09:09,542 Their thirsty swords shall be satisfied only with my blood. 136 00:09:09,925 --> 00:09:13,563 Out of their anger they have raised a shield before me... 137 00:09:13,643 --> 00:09:18,779 throwing my words back at me like broken javelins. 138 00:09:19,013 --> 00:09:21,205 Ah, but where's the remedy? 139 00:09:21,568 --> 00:09:24,847 O masters draped in anger know... 140 00:09:24,847 --> 00:09:29,286 that I'm punished for my misery and no other sin. 141 00:09:29,533 --> 00:09:31,776 You're punished for your greed. 142 00:09:32,047 --> 00:09:34,563 The demon that raised its head in you was called avarice. 143 00:09:34,727 --> 00:09:37,529 Tell us if you gazed at the king's shining breast plate... 144 00:09:37,529 --> 00:09:40,441 or his knee-band or belly-band or leg-band? 145 00:09:43,499 --> 00:09:47,341 We know well that the subordinate long to rise above their superiors. 146 00:09:48,111 --> 00:09:52,093 The runner behind wants nothing more than to overtake the one running ahead of him. 147 00:09:52,511 --> 00:09:54,835 Or the loser what does he want but winning? 148 00:09:55,042 --> 00:09:58,599 The walker hates the rider and the beggar thirsts for the king's blood. 149 00:09:58,769 --> 00:10:00,767 Even so I did not kill him... 150 00:10:00,767 --> 00:10:03,270 - not out of detachment but fear. 151 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:09,391 "There are riders escorting the King who shall ride after him", you said. 152 00:10:09,973 --> 00:10:11,944 Ignorant that I am I was afraid. 153 00:10:12,865 --> 00:10:16,636 You then said that you should not raise your hand against him. 154 00:10:16,636 --> 00:10:19,195 I did not raise my hand against him. 155 00:10:19,195 --> 00:10:22,759 Our only witness sleeps here. 156 00:10:24,585 --> 00:10:26,986 A few pieces of wet wood were found in the cellar. 157 00:10:27,173 --> 00:10:29,758 This one can well stand the weight of the man. 158 00:10:31,516 --> 00:10:34,129 Father's death shall make me lonelier than ever. 159 00:10:34,129 --> 00:10:36,418 Lonely, dear daughter? Fear not... 160 00:10:37,318 --> 00:10:39,112 for you too shall die quickly... 161 00:10:40,021 --> 00:10:41,394 and I with you. 162 00:10:43,966 --> 00:10:48,505 Now enemies ride forth from every side... 163 00:10:50,436 --> 00:10:53,852 just as the eight winds blow from the mountains and the slopes... 164 00:10:55,681 --> 00:10:57,387 from the forests and the plains... 165 00:10:59,144 --> 00:11:01,007 from the sea and the rivers... 166 00:11:02,454 --> 00:11:05,300 and from the wastelands and the deserts. 167 00:11:07,598 --> 00:11:09,432 In the midst of this storm... 168 00:11:11,267 --> 00:11:12,795 standing am I. 169 00:11:15,580 --> 00:11:19,860 Look for the king's slayer not here but out there. 170 00:11:20,061 --> 00:11:23,619 The King was slain already by the King. 171 00:11:23,784 --> 00:11:26,882 He who came here was a feeble little man. 172 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,657 - Speak, but not over much! - Silent I cannot be. 173 00:11:29,783 --> 00:11:33,597 If I do not say now what I have to say then when can I say it? Under the earth? 174 00:11:33,983 --> 00:11:36,707 The King was not slain here. 175 00:11:37,022 --> 00:11:39,383 He was dead before he came. 176 00:11:39,583 --> 00:11:41,300 Make her hold her tongue! 177 00:11:42,229 --> 00:11:45,412 And you do not call us oppressors! 178 00:11:46,003 --> 00:11:50,053 Did not a man lost in the storm come to your battered mill? 179 00:11:50,821 --> 00:11:51,791 He did... 180 00:11:53,162 --> 00:11:54,781 like a shadow. 181 00:11:56,420 --> 00:11:59,069 He was looking for death. 182 00:11:59,069 --> 00:12:00,802 Babble no more! 183 00:12:01,369 --> 00:12:04,239 Speak man before I whip you. 184 00:12:04,471 --> 00:12:07,365 Did not a great man arrayed as a king come to this place? 185 00:12:07,365 --> 00:12:10,701 Would that I had gouged my eyes with my own hands, 186 00:12:10,790 --> 00:12:15,521 when standing at the threshold I saw him descend the hill. 187 00:12:15,521 --> 00:12:17,763 - Then he did come to this forsaken ruin! - Ay. 188 00:12:17,763 --> 00:12:20,598 - On his own feet? - Ay, he came. He did. 189 00:12:20,598 --> 00:12:23,492 And he was agitated. He came in rags. 190 00:12:23,621 --> 00:12:27,360 This "he" you talk about was the King of kings. 191 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:28,846 How could we know? 192 00:12:29,191 --> 00:12:31,754 He came here as a beggar. 193 00:12:31,770 --> 00:12:35,313 To a place so dark and dank. This forsaken pit. 194 00:12:35,510 --> 00:12:37,881 He came like a frightened wayfarer; 195 00:12:37,910 --> 00:12:40,560 so frightened that we took him for a bandit... 196 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:44,806 who having looted people on the road... 197 00:12:44,806 --> 00:12:49,022 was now blowing out the lamp with a terrified puff. 198 00:12:49,479 --> 00:12:53,604 He threw himself down in a corner and asked for the casements to be closed. 199 00:12:53,604 --> 00:12:56,311 Was it not that your heart was jolted? 200 00:12:56,311 --> 00:12:58,119 He was surely a thief. 201 00:12:58,151 --> 00:13:00,400 Or a beggar. How could we know? 202 00:13:00,506 --> 00:13:04,618 Give me something to eat! 203 00:13:04,889 --> 00:13:08,415 Say now, man! Before they raise your gibbet. 204 00:13:08,958 --> 00:13:11,131 Tell us what the King told you. 205 00:13:11,471 --> 00:13:14,509 Did he not think of going to war with the Arab enemy? 206 00:13:14,711 --> 00:13:19,198 "Give me something to eat" he said. 207 00:13:19,947 --> 00:13:21,820 Something to eat? 208 00:13:22,471 --> 00:13:24,148 Here's the bread bundle. 209 00:13:24,311 --> 00:13:26,736 - Dry bread? - Should we bake you a loaf? 210 00:13:26,736 --> 00:13:30,618 Meat! I'm hungry! Give me a piece of meat! 211 00:13:30,687 --> 00:13:33,222 Meat! Did you hear that? 212 00:13:33,230 --> 00:13:36,453 You sound as if you've never tasted meat 213 00:13:37,111 --> 00:13:40,240 or seen a partridge or a pheasant. 214 00:13:42,323 --> 00:13:44,439 What am I saying? 215 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,811 Is there no sheep or goat I could buy for a piece of gold? 216 00:13:47,811 --> 00:13:50,636 It would've been good to have a goat... 217 00:13:50,816 --> 00:13:54,670 for our girl here is sick and goat's milk is said to be her cure. 218 00:13:55,746 --> 00:13:58,858 I'm hungry and you talk about medication for the girl! 219 00:14:06,058 --> 00:14:08,400 What a mean hovel have I fallen into! 220 00:14:09,898 --> 00:14:14,114 Where is this and what wretches are you? 221 00:14:15,723 --> 00:14:18,414 I didn't know that creatures outside Ctesiphon, 222 00:14:18,414 --> 00:14:22,604 neither believed in God nor followed the Magi. 223 00:14:22,604 --> 00:14:27,584 Ctesiphon! Did you hear, woman? All the flour that I make goes to Ctesiphon. 224 00:14:27,584 --> 00:14:28,844 I'm hungry! 225 00:14:29,076 --> 00:14:32,488 Why didn't you stay in Ctesiphon and eat as much as you wanted? 226 00:14:32,949 --> 00:14:35,447 How could I eat this dry bread? 227 00:14:35,447 --> 00:14:39,815 Dip it in water. For guests there's whey to go with it. 228 00:14:40,009 --> 00:14:44,538 He ate what was my dinner. 229 00:14:44,932 --> 00:14:47,546 Shut your mouth you impudent whore! 230 00:14:47,546 --> 00:14:49,253 Give me water! 231 00:14:52,174 --> 00:14:55,455 We're ordered around in our own house! 232 00:14:55,455 --> 00:14:57,769 I don't think he's a beggar. 233 00:14:57,769 --> 00:15:00,873 Beggars beg but he takes. 234 00:15:01,461 --> 00:15:03,932 He behaves like the master of the house. 235 00:15:04,078 --> 00:15:07,380 His power doubtless comes from the gold he carries. 236 00:15:08,481 --> 00:15:12,081 We must look into his bag, miller. 237 00:15:12,081 --> 00:15:14,031 Be quiet and let him sleep! 238 00:15:16,432 --> 00:15:19,366 Outside, there's storm everywhere. 239 00:15:26,696 --> 00:15:29,846 And while he slept you looked into his bag. 240 00:15:29,846 --> 00:15:33,673 When we found all those royal pearls in his bag... 241 00:15:33,673 --> 00:15:36,861 we took it that he was a bandit who had robbed the King. 242 00:15:36,861 --> 00:15:39,601 All those royal pearls should have indicated to you... 243 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:41,565 that he was a mighty king... 244 00:15:41,565 --> 00:15:44,758 the head of all heads and the King of all kings. 245 00:15:44,964 --> 00:15:47,739 Do kings seek safety in flight? 246 00:15:48,272 --> 00:15:50,357 Beg like beggars? 247 00:15:50,769 --> 00:15:53,446 Steal their own belongings? 248 00:15:53,923 --> 00:15:56,051 Disguise? 249 00:15:56,319 --> 00:15:59,693 Noticing the regal garb and the golden crown... 250 00:15:59,693 --> 00:16:01,623 he had concealed in the bag... 251 00:16:01,623 --> 00:16:06,567 we took him for a common thief who had stripped a nobleman... 252 00:16:06,567 --> 00:16:08,791 of his clothes and stolen his jewels. 253 00:16:09,088 --> 00:16:12,205 Yes, all that we thought. 254 00:16:13,168 --> 00:16:15,132 What a banquet... 255 00:16:17,143 --> 00:16:19,182 what a banquet it was! 256 00:16:20,808 --> 00:16:23,607 And I was an invited guest. 257 00:16:26,526 --> 00:16:29,573 The King is not slain. 258 00:16:30,208 --> 00:16:32,141 Neighbours have abandoned us. 259 00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:36,167 Foreign hordes are everywhere. Take to your heels... 260 00:16:38,017 --> 00:16:39,202 No! 261 00:16:40,717 --> 00:16:46,836 How could one really know that he was the King? 262 00:16:46,876 --> 00:16:49,363 Curse on miseries as well as glories of this world! 263 00:16:49,918 --> 00:16:53,254 We followed him on swift horses, 264 00:16:53,892 --> 00:16:56,555 but he was far ahead of us on his swifter mount. 265 00:16:57,252 --> 00:17:00,090 And in the storm we lost his track. 266 00:17:01,618 --> 00:17:04,204 Darkness - curse upon its demons - 267 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:08,510 holding the reins of our horses took them where it wanted. 268 00:17:08,510 --> 00:17:10,560 Curse upon the evil Ahriman! 269 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,278 Twice, thrice, thirty times, a thousand times! 270 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,449 Today in the dimness of dawn when heavens like a crow's plumage... 271 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:25,420 were a mixture of darkness and light our easy paced horses boggled thrice. 272 00:17:26,218 --> 00:17:29,690 We then let them lead us to this hovel and as we opened the door, 273 00:17:29,690 --> 00:17:32,695 the slashed body of the mighty King spattered blood over the skies. 274 00:17:33,483 --> 00:17:36,197 Girls know the meaning of blood. 275 00:17:36,635 --> 00:17:39,131 Shut up! Are you not afraid I would raise my hand against you? 276 00:17:39,131 --> 00:17:42,167 Why should I? I have nothing left to loose. 277 00:17:42,778 --> 00:17:45,939 In this den of darkness his blood shines like a midnight sun. 278 00:17:47,324 --> 00:17:49,049 His wounds cry out for justice. 279 00:17:49,049 --> 00:17:50,355 They must be brought to death! 280 00:17:50,355 --> 00:17:51,743 Yield no ground to anger! 281 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,718 Would you kill them now with a thrust of your sword? 282 00:17:54,855 --> 00:17:58,855 Such a death would be a delight to them and very quick too. 283 00:18:01,051 --> 00:18:01,978 No! 284 00:18:03,771 --> 00:18:06,261 I'll tell you what they deserve... 285 00:18:07,941 --> 00:18:09,640 a slow death... 286 00:18:10,171 --> 00:18:13,088 long and ugly... 287 00:18:13,824 --> 00:18:16,119 a death that is ten times dying. 288 00:18:18,857 --> 00:18:20,460 Pray Mubad, 289 00:18:20,777 --> 00:18:21,849 pray! 290 00:18:25,043 --> 00:18:28,235 How does the moon wax? How does the moon wane? 291 00:18:28,295 --> 00:18:32,550 Who causes it to rise and set except you o Ahurâ Mazdâ? 292 00:18:32,949 --> 00:18:35,321 May He come to our aid! 293 00:18:35,381 --> 00:18:37,708 May He come to comfort us! 294 00:18:37,768 --> 00:18:40,053 May He come to forgive us! 295 00:18:40,113 --> 00:18:42,505 May He come to give us victory! 296 00:18:45,848 --> 00:18:49,202 Will there be prayers for us too when we are gone? 297 00:18:49,285 --> 00:18:52,493 I wish the impious dead! I wish the malevolent dead! 298 00:18:52,493 --> 00:18:56,120 I wish the devil-worshipper dead! May we never follow them! 299 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,688 May we never succumb to them! May we never become their play things! 300 00:19:00,397 --> 00:19:02,947 May the world be cleansed of their names! 301 00:19:06,226 --> 00:19:09,344 Is there no prayer to break the sleep of death? 302 00:19:09,344 --> 00:19:11,492 Better not speak of the impossible. 303 00:19:12,777 --> 00:19:14,800 Tell us you noble soldier... 304 00:19:15,046 --> 00:19:18,046 how can it be broken this sleep of death? 305 00:19:18,633 --> 00:19:20,783 True it cannot. 306 00:19:20,783 --> 00:19:23,140 His sleep was broken. Don't you remember? 307 00:19:23,193 --> 00:19:24,910 His sleep was broken. 308 00:19:24,910 --> 00:19:28,080 And you did not even recognise him you blind-hearted ruffians! 309 00:19:28,259 --> 00:19:29,431 Hands off the bag! 310 00:19:29,709 --> 00:19:32,537 - Look, he's rolling over. - His sleep was broken. 311 00:19:32,709 --> 00:19:35,986 Roaring, he woke up sticking a hand under his head. 312 00:19:36,145 --> 00:19:38,365 One hand under the head searching for the satchel of gold 313 00:19:38,365 --> 00:19:39,915 and the other reaching for the sword. 314 00:19:40,029 --> 00:19:42,721 Little man what're you looking for in the satchel? 315 00:19:42,826 --> 00:19:47,610 Once he realised we knew about the pieces of gold he lost his bearing. 316 00:19:47,824 --> 00:19:50,099 "I'm the King" he cried... 317 00:19:50,509 --> 00:19:53,028 "Look at me. I'm the King."... 318 00:19:53,030 --> 00:19:54,132 You laughed. 319 00:19:54,309 --> 00:19:55,007 She did. 320 00:19:55,104 --> 00:19:56,570 "I'm the King!"... 321 00:19:57,236 --> 00:19:59,065 Every man is king in his own house. 322 00:19:59,117 --> 00:20:02,833 And thus the king of this hovel is that miserable miller. 323 00:20:02,876 --> 00:20:04,056 He drew his sword. 324 00:20:04,117 --> 00:20:05,483 He drew his sword! 325 00:20:05,483 --> 00:20:09,778 O King if you're a warrior go fight the enemy! 326 00:20:09,778 --> 00:20:12,026 Why do you make war with us? 327 00:20:12,157 --> 00:20:14,504 - My head! - He held his head. 328 00:20:15,483 --> 00:20:18,986 In my head there is a noise. The beating of a thousand drums. 329 00:20:19,087 --> 00:20:22,589 Soldiers as numerous as the sands of the desert. 330 00:20:23,809 --> 00:20:27,133 - This is a game to cheat us. - I think so too. 331 00:20:27,716 --> 00:20:29,525 Does he at all behave like a king? 332 00:20:29,525 --> 00:20:32,152 This is him. It is he himself. I know that garb. 333 00:20:32,274 --> 00:20:34,317 That breast-plate, all in gold. 334 00:20:34,418 --> 00:20:36,211 That greave and elbow-piece. 335 00:20:36,211 --> 00:20:39,530 That wrist-band and belly-band. All pieces of pure gold. 336 00:20:39,723 --> 00:20:41,952 Ay. I know the King. 337 00:20:42,037 --> 00:20:46,086 "If you", said I "with your helmet armour horse and shield... 338 00:20:46,086 --> 00:20:49,288 "would run away how could I... 339 00:20:49,430 --> 00:20:51,437 "with my bare body and empty hands stand still?" 340 00:20:51,627 --> 00:20:54,986 He was frightened. Couldn't stay within himself. He was worn out. 341 00:20:55,094 --> 00:20:58,580 He moaned and groaned hitting his head against this shade-pole. 342 00:20:58,580 --> 00:21:02,948 He shouted that the enemy was coming. 343 00:21:02,948 --> 00:21:04,910 He tried to hide the sword... 344 00:21:04,957 --> 00:21:08,588 the crown and the regal garment. He was looking for a place to hide. 345 00:21:08,981 --> 00:21:10,013 I shouted. 346 00:21:10,061 --> 00:21:11,679 - He shouted. - I insulted him. 347 00:21:11,699 --> 00:21:14,555 - You did not. - I said "O King, 348 00:21:14,555 --> 00:21:19,775 "Commander, may your legs that have carried you here be broken! 349 00:21:19,919 --> 00:21:23,346 "Who will answer for my years of suffering? 350 00:21:23,381 --> 00:21:26,887 "I've paid you tribute every day of my life. 351 00:21:27,132 --> 00:21:29,903 "I've fed your horsemen. 352 00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:34,222 "And now that the enemy comes you run away, 353 00:21:34,340 --> 00:21:37,388 "and leave me hand-tied... 354 00:21:37,460 --> 00:21:39,475 "you who tied my hands for many years. 355 00:21:39,475 --> 00:21:44,803 "And I no longer possess the knowledge of war and the stomach for battle." 356 00:21:44,998 --> 00:21:48,515 Yes, I insulted him. I hit him. 357 00:21:48,515 --> 00:21:51,442 - You hit him. - Once, twice, thrice. 358 00:21:51,854 --> 00:21:56,244 No fouler deed was ever done anywhere in this tormented land. 359 00:21:56,474 --> 00:21:57,903 Why, and your hand didn't break? 360 00:21:58,075 --> 00:22:01,479 You hit the King and heaven and earth stayed intact in their place? 361 00:22:01,491 --> 00:22:03,855 I hit him. 362 00:22:04,355 --> 00:22:07,034 You hit him. Playfully and merrily... 363 00:22:07,206 --> 00:22:10,612 as they hit a clay-king in new year. 364 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:14,293 We never believed him to be the King. 365 00:22:14,395 --> 00:22:18,653 Indeed he seemed nothing more than a taunting liar. 366 00:22:19,990 --> 00:22:20,908 Silence! 367 00:22:21,364 --> 00:22:25,207 Do you not know that the soul stays hovering over the body for three days? 368 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:28,779 He is here amongst us. 369 00:22:29,664 --> 00:22:31,520 May he not suffer much... 370 00:22:32,077 --> 00:22:33,854 and give way to anger! 371 00:22:34,441 --> 00:22:36,251 May he not speak! 372 00:22:36,946 --> 00:22:40,458 Do you hear, woman? The soul of the King is here still. 373 00:22:40,458 --> 00:22:43,685 Grab hold of him! Close the casements and do not let him escape! 374 00:22:44,307 --> 00:22:45,313 Hit him! 375 00:22:45,643 --> 00:22:48,135 Devastate him! Crush him! 376 00:22:48,210 --> 00:22:49,544 What're you doing? 377 00:22:50,724 --> 00:22:52,817 Go to hell, o soul... 378 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:56,140 or speak and say that we have told the truth! 379 00:22:56,424 --> 00:23:00,050 Speak, o soul! To what corner have you crawled? 380 00:23:00,050 --> 00:23:02,984 Where are you? Here? Take this! 381 00:23:03,214 --> 00:23:05,558 These torturers... You've made them come here... 382 00:23:05,558 --> 00:23:07,337 and you yourself must answer them. 383 00:23:07,414 --> 00:23:08,574 Cease! 384 00:23:08,777 --> 00:23:11,745 You act as if you're conjurers and fiendish fellows. 385 00:23:11,745 --> 00:23:13,462 Have you renounced your faith? 386 00:23:14,441 --> 00:23:19,213 If the soul of the King is here let it then hear my curse: 387 00:23:19,213 --> 00:23:20,514 be damned, o soul! 388 00:23:20,528 --> 00:23:23,784 Away with the magician's magic! Away with the curser's curse! 389 00:23:23,784 --> 00:23:25,474 Away with the evil-doer's evil! 390 00:23:25,601 --> 00:23:27,317 To the four comers of the earth did I banish them... 391 00:23:27,317 --> 00:23:29,654 and tied their thousand hands with that invocation. 392 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,154 Block your ears and do not hear... 393 00:23:32,538 --> 00:23:35,430 for I am looking for the foulest language. 394 00:23:35,430 --> 00:23:36,658 Enough, woman! 395 00:23:36,987 --> 00:23:40,605 I'll no longer suffer the spirit of the King to be defiled. 396 00:23:40,986 --> 00:23:42,245 Do you hear, woman? 397 00:23:42,430 --> 00:23:45,588 These masters won't stand your taunts. 398 00:23:45,822 --> 00:23:47,174 And insults. 399 00:23:47,986 --> 00:23:52,192 Are taunts and insults also the property of the nobles... 400 00:23:52,624 --> 00:23:54,923 to be expended at their convenience? 401 00:23:55,169 --> 00:23:58,026 No, they're stones and pebbles on the ground... 402 00:23:58,026 --> 00:24:01,500 and I too can throw a few of them at you. 403 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:04,921 You've added the red-hot rod to your punishment. 404 00:24:04,921 --> 00:24:07,196 You can surely do worse than that! 405 00:24:07,289 --> 00:24:09,789 Your tongue will be cut, woman! 406 00:24:11,570 --> 00:24:13,763 Do not return their rage. 407 00:24:13,970 --> 00:24:14,793 Why? 408 00:24:17,441 --> 00:24:20,802 My tongue knows much about your King. 409 00:24:22,125 --> 00:24:24,944 Did I not tell you he'd had a dream? 410 00:24:24,965 --> 00:24:27,992 - A dream? - That which people see with eyes closed. 411 00:24:27,992 --> 00:24:30,297 Now, that is strange! Do you hear? 412 00:24:30,485 --> 00:24:32,712 Our King must have had a ruffled dream. 413 00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:35,155 There's always a secret in a dream. 414 00:24:35,205 --> 00:24:36,751 Tell me the secret, woman! 415 00:24:38,516 --> 00:24:41,290 Glad tidings, greatest Commander! 416 00:24:41,504 --> 00:24:46,074 May the lamp of your fortune glow! Your huntsmen have trapped a happy game: 417 00:24:46,168 --> 00:24:50,499 a half-dead Arab warrior with bleeding wounds. 418 00:24:50,499 --> 00:24:51,633 An Arab? 419 00:24:53,377 --> 00:24:57,548 Their swords're curved like the crescent moon. 420 00:24:57,697 --> 00:25:00,412 And their robes are made of black wool. 421 00:25:00,959 --> 00:25:02,305 And here is a louse! 422 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:07,782 Loosen his tongue! What does he know? 423 00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:11,036 What we need to know is surely what he hides. 424 00:25:11,129 --> 00:25:14,760 What sort of a man is he? A soldier, drummer, mule-driver? 425 00:25:15,724 --> 00:25:17,140 He's a man, lost. 426 00:25:17,288 --> 00:25:20,573 He who is lost is also a man. And how is he? 427 00:25:20,646 --> 00:25:24,632 Obstinate but hungry. Also much agitated. 428 00:25:24,704 --> 00:25:26,683 More agitated than the dream of a king? 429 00:25:28,763 --> 00:25:32,044 Give him bread and whey and then whip him until he talks! 430 00:25:32,232 --> 00:25:34,584 And ask him how many Arabs there are and where they are. 431 00:25:34,584 --> 00:25:37,132 What's on their minds? Are they on horseback or on foot? 432 00:25:37,223 --> 00:25:40,390 Going away or getting nearer? Passing or staying? 433 00:25:40,566 --> 00:25:44,119 Why has he stayed behind? Is he a messenger, an informer or a scout? 434 00:25:44,328 --> 00:25:49,033 Ask him why they destroy, burn and wear black? 435 00:25:49,207 --> 00:25:52,124 And this God they talk about why is he so enraged? 436 00:25:52,124 --> 00:25:53,442 He doesn't answer, Commander. 437 00:25:53,458 --> 00:25:54,997 - Out of insolence? - He speaks no Persian. 438 00:25:54,997 --> 00:25:56,439 Tie him with a cord! 439 00:25:56,578 --> 00:26:01,308 Hold him and beat him with a stick and make him talk! 440 00:26:01,418 --> 00:26:04,777 - Is the gallows ready? - What's not ready is the furnace... 441 00:26:04,817 --> 00:26:06,836 to heat the rod. 442 00:26:08,258 --> 00:26:09,847 They don't have enough firewood. 443 00:26:09,847 --> 00:26:11,337 Do not hope in vain! 444 00:26:11,826 --> 00:26:15,680 If you find no fire poke his eyes with a cold rod. Go! 445 00:26:16,380 --> 00:26:19,091 Go, quick! And make him talk! 446 00:26:23,740 --> 00:26:25,503 Now, what was that dream? 447 00:26:27,780 --> 00:26:29,914 I'm listening to you too, woman. 448 00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:32,423 You said that our King had had a dream. 449 00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:35,735 Yes, of the kind that only kings have. 450 00:26:35,735 --> 00:26:37,723 Everyone knows that there are messages in dreams. 451 00:26:37,740 --> 00:26:40,640 Say, woman. was there a secret in the king's dream? 452 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,343 Why did he wake up agitated? 453 00:26:42,343 --> 00:26:44,688 He was afraid of you! 454 00:26:44,891 --> 00:26:45,978 Afraid... of us? 455 00:26:45,978 --> 00:26:47,987 People like you! 456 00:26:47,987 --> 00:26:49,757 Her tongue shall rid her of her head. 457 00:26:49,757 --> 00:26:53,061 Let it if it cannot release me! 458 00:26:53,299 --> 00:26:55,598 - What benefit such talk brings? - And what loss? 459 00:26:55,660 --> 00:26:58,540 - Tell us the dream! - No, I close my lips. 460 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:00,950 Speak, woman for thus orders the great Commander! 461 00:27:00,950 --> 00:27:03,245 He ordered my tongue to be cut. 462 00:27:04,140 --> 00:27:06,142 How can a severed tongue speak? 463 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:08,872 That was out of anger. Speak, woman! 464 00:27:09,414 --> 00:27:11,796 The great Mubad is asking you. 465 00:27:12,414 --> 00:27:14,466 Should you be begged of? 466 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:15,394 What else could you do? 467 00:27:15,394 --> 00:27:17,624 - You frighten me! - Do not make it worse! 468 00:27:17,624 --> 00:27:18,622 Don't come near me! 469 00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:21,950 A warrior horseman such as I... 470 00:27:22,146 --> 00:27:24,784 with grey hair is asking you. 471 00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:29,258 - I'm thirsty. - Water! 472 00:27:29,541 --> 00:27:30,667 Throw it away! 473 00:27:30,868 --> 00:27:31,956 Light a fire! 474 00:27:32,334 --> 00:27:34,536 How dark it is. I see nothing. 475 00:27:35,094 --> 00:27:36,880 - Is there no lamp here? - What happened to her? 476 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,555 She wasn't so disturbed. 477 00:27:40,717 --> 00:27:43,275 - Why does she run away? - What are you hiding from? 478 00:27:46,328 --> 00:27:48,701 A lamp! 479 00:27:48,855 --> 00:27:50,679 - What's happened? - I had a bad dream. 480 00:27:50,862 --> 00:27:53,907 - Where are my interpreters? - I'm here, your Majesty! 481 00:27:57,077 --> 00:27:58,678 I dreamed I was riding... 482 00:28:00,413 --> 00:28:03,726 my nimble horse in a boundless desert. 483 00:28:06,004 --> 00:28:08,327 Out of the earth grew... 484 00:28:10,084 --> 00:28:11,443 not thorn... 485 00:28:12,817 --> 00:28:14,320 or grass... 486 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,746 but groves of sharp swords. 487 00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:21,067 My life was all an agitated dream. 488 00:28:21,239 --> 00:28:24,484 In such a ruin of a mill which I've inherited from my forefathers... 489 00:28:24,484 --> 00:28:26,441 what else can you have but agitated dreams? 490 00:28:26,639 --> 00:28:29,093 Riding the wind misfortune was coming. 491 00:28:29,572 --> 00:28:32,624 A dream in such an hour of the day when there's neither light nor dark... 492 00:28:32,624 --> 00:28:36,425 and time moves neither forwards nor backwards doubtless holds a message. 493 00:28:36,479 --> 00:28:38,557 A peerless horseman sharp-speared... 494 00:28:39,312 --> 00:28:42,531 The warlike deity... 495 00:28:43,173 --> 00:28:46,188 the supportive Bahrâm... 496 00:28:46,628 --> 00:28:50,937 he who heartened me the courageous one... 497 00:28:51,104 --> 00:28:55,563 who made the enemies tremble with fear... 498 00:28:55,889 --> 00:28:59,281 riding a bay horse... 499 00:28:59,562 --> 00:29:05,727 showed me the way with the sweep of his banner. 500 00:29:06,712 --> 00:29:12,527 Then a black wind broke out. 501 00:29:13,271 --> 00:29:16,905 A devilish rising wind, 502 00:29:17,312 --> 00:29:21,245 wild, unbridled. 503 00:29:21,435 --> 00:29:24,925 And dust filling my eyes. 504 00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:31,839 As I rubbed and opened them... 505 00:29:32,364 --> 00:29:36,014 the sharp-speared and warlike deity... 506 00:29:36,609 --> 00:29:39,822 the supportive Bahrâm... 507 00:29:40,311 --> 00:29:44,771 he who heartened me the courageous one... 508 00:29:45,030 --> 00:29:50,235 who made the enemies tremble with fear... 509 00:29:50,779 --> 00:29:55,389 even he had disappeared in the dust. 510 00:29:56,178 --> 00:30:02,213 Yes, I lost him in the wind. 511 00:30:02,738 --> 00:30:06,573 Now we should know why the King was so frightened. 512 00:30:06,573 --> 00:30:08,143 We do not sell our guests to anyone. 513 00:30:08,143 --> 00:30:12,555 Do you not? Why not? It is the best of deals. 514 00:30:13,062 --> 00:30:15,601 There are scores of buyers for my head. 515 00:30:15,874 --> 00:30:19,440 Many commanders with words of fidelity on their lips... 516 00:30:19,444 --> 00:30:22,731 secretly crave the throne of Yazdgerd. 517 00:30:22,731 --> 00:30:25,230 Are you not tempted by this gold? 518 00:30:25,345 --> 00:30:26,389 - No! - You fool! 519 00:30:26,946 --> 00:30:29,032 Make your bundle! 520 00:30:29,338 --> 00:30:31,122 You have here a marketable merchandise. 521 00:30:31,287 --> 00:30:34,659 Just take it to the buyers: 522 00:30:34,836 --> 00:30:37,878 my head in the sack. 523 00:30:38,058 --> 00:30:42,720 I shall write you the names of those who'd give you gold for it! 524 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,680 He's mad! 525 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,509 Mad? 526 00:30:46,710 --> 00:30:48,362 Ay, mad! 527 00:30:49,856 --> 00:30:53,594 My army was no more than a band of betrayers... 528 00:30:54,194 --> 00:30:58,370 who turned their back to me and took to their heels... 529 00:30:58,786 --> 00:31:01,242 when counting on them... 530 00:31:03,208 --> 00:31:05,723 I attacked the heart of the enemy. 531 00:31:06,494 --> 00:31:11,936 My hair was not grey until loneliness pressed me tight in its grip. 532 00:31:13,295 --> 00:31:15,458 My terror was so great... 533 00:31:15,950 --> 00:31:21,820 that the Arab warriors were stunned into opening a way for me. 534 00:31:21,978 --> 00:31:22,894 Do you hear? 535 00:31:23,016 --> 00:31:25,363 He's running away from friends not enemies. 536 00:31:25,837 --> 00:31:29,784 Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds; what's become of them? 537 00:31:29,948 --> 00:31:32,843 The Oath of Courage; what's happened to it? 538 00:31:33,026 --> 00:31:35,733 And the Banner of Blacksmiths; where has it gone? 539 00:31:35,768 --> 00:31:39,687 Rocks are being thrown at me from every side. 540 00:31:39,687 --> 00:31:44,551 These words truly show that he's the King. 541 00:31:44,995 --> 00:31:49,910 A king who has terror as his banner 542 00:31:50,789 --> 00:31:55,091 and whose army is but loneliness. 543 00:31:55,541 --> 00:32:00,634 You didn't do well making yourself known to me! 544 00:32:00,813 --> 00:32:04,116 There's a pain in my heart. You know I had a son. 545 00:32:04,116 --> 00:32:05,507 No, don't speak! 546 00:32:05,580 --> 00:32:07,944 In your name they took him away as a soldier. 547 00:32:08,091 --> 00:32:11,845 And he returned as if from the land of the dead. 548 00:32:11,845 --> 00:32:16,233 My green boy! 549 00:32:16,233 --> 00:32:20,330 Now the injured spirit of the boy... 550 00:32:20,580 --> 00:32:22,391 rises in my head... 551 00:32:22,672 --> 00:32:25,765 and prompts me to kill you, King. 552 00:32:25,781 --> 00:32:29,686 That is well. Let me cause it more injury... 553 00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:31,771 if this is truly so. 554 00:32:32,340 --> 00:32:35,590 Say what you will but don't be harsh... 555 00:32:35,590 --> 00:32:38,755 with the sad spirit of my little boy... 556 00:32:39,045 --> 00:32:44,662 who's now descending through the slanting lights of the roof... 557 00:32:45,093 --> 00:32:49,831 with a cracked skull and a bronze face. 558 00:32:50,396 --> 00:32:52,402 I'm truly frightened... 559 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,362 piling terror upon terror. 560 00:32:56,407 --> 00:32:57,309 Where is he? 561 00:32:58,526 --> 00:33:01,534 My little brother, he's here! 562 00:33:03,402 --> 00:33:06,128 He's pointing his finger at you. 563 00:33:06,331 --> 00:33:08,421 Is it not time, now to strike? 564 00:33:08,639 --> 00:33:10,133 He's throwing up blood 565 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,098 and truly there are drops of it on the floor. 566 00:33:17,754 --> 00:33:19,019 My little brother! 567 00:33:21,352 --> 00:33:23,115 He ran away from the casement. 568 00:33:25,095 --> 00:33:26,661 There's no blood there. 569 00:33:29,687 --> 00:33:32,850 The roof light is quite pale now. 570 00:33:35,690 --> 00:33:36,807 No! 571 00:33:37,781 --> 00:33:41,384 Every king is followed by horsemen who will arrive... 572 00:33:41,821 --> 00:33:43,374 sooner or later. 573 00:33:46,621 --> 00:33:47,740 My boy! 574 00:33:52,645 --> 00:33:53,955 My boy! 575 00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:59,575 It seems from the howling of the wind... 576 00:34:00,692 --> 00:34:03,410 that my mill is swallowed up by the storm. 577 00:34:04,212 --> 00:34:09,069 The low-bred are very much like their own lowness. 578 00:34:15,810 --> 00:34:18,243 They're obsessed by their petty interests... 579 00:34:18,929 --> 00:34:22,973 and think only about bread and water... 580 00:34:24,033 --> 00:34:27,085 to satisfy their growling bellies. 581 00:34:28,409 --> 00:34:32,889 Here the King found nothing but foulness and callous hatred. 582 00:34:34,650 --> 00:34:38,759 Look at these evil, obstinate animals who'll not gain in humanity... 583 00:34:39,322 --> 00:34:41,768 even as the mighty bring them comfort... 584 00:34:42,049 --> 00:34:45,976 and kings honour them with pity. 585 00:34:45,976 --> 00:34:47,902 Coarse-tongued man! 586 00:34:48,804 --> 00:34:50,284 What comfort? 587 00:34:51,690 --> 00:34:53,237 Which pity? 588 00:34:54,945 --> 00:34:56,454 Look at those made-up faces! 589 00:34:57,796 --> 00:35:01,867 The high-born such as you have crushed our bones. 590 00:35:02,035 --> 00:35:04,630 You and all those freshly-draped upstarts... 591 00:35:06,366 --> 00:35:09,612 you've plunged your snouts in our flesh. 592 00:35:11,416 --> 00:35:15,448 The difference between you and I is that sword dangling on your side. 593 00:35:15,448 --> 00:35:16,820 Cut be your tongue! 594 00:35:16,896 --> 00:35:19,779 That's why you wear a sword. 595 00:35:19,936 --> 00:35:22,964 Had a sack of flour been left, 596 00:35:24,295 --> 00:35:26,814 I would've poured it on my head 597 00:35:27,913 --> 00:35:30,867 and turned white from top to toe. 598 00:35:33,051 --> 00:35:34,281 Thus... 599 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,369 perhaps dazzling Nâhid... 600 00:35:38,578 --> 00:35:41,663 would've taken me for an angel... 601 00:35:43,537 --> 00:35:45,736 or washed me... 602 00:35:47,538 --> 00:35:49,545 instead of her daughter... 603 00:35:50,178 --> 00:35:52,056 in some spring. 604 00:35:53,552 --> 00:35:55,296 What am I to say, men? 605 00:35:56,832 --> 00:35:59,064 My husband is a distracted miller... 606 00:36:00,471 --> 00:36:06,239 who has ground nothing in this mill but his own wretchedness. 607 00:36:07,431 --> 00:36:09,384 A man regretting manhood... 608 00:36:10,363 --> 00:36:13,064 earning nothing but sighs and sweat... 609 00:36:13,064 --> 00:36:16,053 in the coldest cold and the hottest heat. 610 00:36:17,105 --> 00:36:18,897 Such is my husband... 611 00:36:19,099 --> 00:36:22,331 the man to whom you promised your sword. 612 00:36:23,661 --> 00:36:27,065 What do we have but a crumbling roof 613 00:36:27,657 --> 00:36:31,373 and a groaning millstone that goes round and round in circles? 614 00:36:34,898 --> 00:36:36,336 He groaned... 615 00:36:37,748 --> 00:36:40,988 even as this stone... 616 00:36:42,610 --> 00:36:46,109 and he went round in circles... 617 00:36:46,805 --> 00:36:48,628 when the man in tatters... 618 00:36:49,565 --> 00:36:51,008 revealed his rank. 619 00:36:51,116 --> 00:36:53,244 - Why do you laugh? - You're terrified. 620 00:36:53,797 --> 00:36:57,017 I'd never seen a man so terrified. 621 00:36:57,596 --> 00:37:00,321 You move left and right and beat your knees. 622 00:37:00,397 --> 00:37:03,339 You sigh like a bird of sorrow... 623 00:37:03,339 --> 00:37:06,849 and all the while steal yourself even from yourself. 624 00:37:06,959 --> 00:37:08,883 - You're sad. - Silence! 625 00:37:10,905 --> 00:37:12,396 Don't you hear a hubbub? 626 00:37:13,508 --> 00:37:15,926 They saw that ancient marble figures... 627 00:37:15,926 --> 00:37:18,167 standing in the palace of a hundred columns... 628 00:37:18,167 --> 00:37:22,339 have thrown down the gifts they bore for a thousand years 629 00:37:22,339 --> 00:37:24,220 and run away to the desert. 630 00:37:24,814 --> 00:37:27,344 - Did you ask something? - I laughed at you. 631 00:37:27,344 --> 00:37:29,449 Ah, yes... 632 00:37:29,746 --> 00:37:34,069 I also laughed much once. 633 00:37:34,069 --> 00:37:36,703 Put on this gilded crown... 634 00:37:37,822 --> 00:37:41,006 and repeat the very words of the King. 635 00:37:41,222 --> 00:37:42,907 He was preoccupied. 636 00:37:43,822 --> 00:37:46,059 He kept beating his wrinkled brow... 637 00:37:46,702 --> 00:37:49,888 with the palm of his hand. 638 00:37:50,422 --> 00:37:52,322 He was preoccupied. 639 00:37:55,505 --> 00:37:58,503 Not far from here my horse threw me down... 640 00:37:58,692 --> 00:38:02,815 and vanished into the darkness of the storm. 641 00:38:02,935 --> 00:38:05,909 The dead now come out of their crypts. 642 00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:08,127 People are struck by lightning. 643 00:38:08,251 --> 00:38:12,045 They go to meet the enemy, I've heard with gifts of bread and dates. 644 00:38:12,045 --> 00:38:12,921 Look... 645 00:38:14,275 --> 00:38:16,502 He's speaking the words of the King. 646 00:38:17,375 --> 00:38:21,326 What would the great think of a King who's a fugitive in his own realm? 647 00:38:21,326 --> 00:38:23,043 Nothing great. 648 00:38:23,172 --> 00:38:28,082 A fugitive in my own realm I move from house to house everywhere a stranger... 649 00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:33,800 and not invited to any table. 650 00:38:34,025 --> 00:38:36,925 My easy-paced horse... 651 00:38:37,127 --> 00:38:41,131 instead of carrying me to battle... 652 00:38:41,167 --> 00:38:43,002 took me away from it. 653 00:38:43,127 --> 00:38:44,627 Shame on me! 654 00:38:44,776 --> 00:38:48,841 What foolish prattle is this? Don't try your came on us, you impostor! 655 00:38:49,026 --> 00:38:52,536 You keep sighing to keep us from asking questions... 656 00:38:52,536 --> 00:38:55,633 about the owner of this gold. 657 00:38:55,977 --> 00:38:59,625 Otherwise you're no more than a man such as my husband: poor and churlish. 658 00:39:00,177 --> 00:39:03,658 I'll not charge you for the bread you've eaten if you quickly depart. 659 00:39:03,658 --> 00:39:05,269 With what horse? 660 00:39:05,978 --> 00:39:07,574 And where to? 661 00:39:08,192 --> 00:39:10,745 Doors are all closed to me. 662 00:39:10,745 --> 00:39:13,837 Only here as if in a caravanserai the door is open. 663 00:39:13,911 --> 00:39:17,233 I told this little man to mend the bolt but he didn't do it. 664 00:39:17,233 --> 00:39:20,322 The sun and the moon are in opposition. 665 00:39:20,962 --> 00:39:23,581 There's no respite anywhere. 666 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:25,944 The world lies in wait for me. 667 00:39:26,342 --> 00:39:27,718 Why do you moan? 668 00:39:27,784 --> 00:39:29,385 My chest, 669 00:39:30,343 --> 00:39:31,815 my belly. 670 00:39:33,304 --> 00:39:35,802 I have a pain in both. 671 00:39:35,802 --> 00:39:38,573 It's from hunger, dear girl. This I learned today. 672 00:39:38,737 --> 00:39:41,427 In Ctesiphon I knew nothing about this world. 673 00:39:41,457 --> 00:39:46,168 Groans never reached my ears. I'd turned my back to the world. 674 00:39:46,168 --> 00:39:48,605 And now the world has turned its back to me. 675 00:39:48,736 --> 00:39:50,007 Why do you moan? 676 00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:52,372 My pain, my pains! 677 00:39:52,372 --> 00:39:54,877 Yes, you've already told me. Why did I forget, then? 678 00:39:55,070 --> 00:39:58,466 In Ctesiphon I closed the doors one by one to myself. 679 00:39:58,466 --> 00:40:00,568 But here I found no doors... 680 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,221 With gold coins I'll buy the mill from you. 681 00:40:07,221 --> 00:40:09,319 Tell me miller, how much? 682 00:40:11,881 --> 00:40:14,245 He wants us to put a price on this ruin. 683 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:16,616 You be the miller and say what I answered. 684 00:40:16,616 --> 00:40:17,881 Take the whole sack! 685 00:40:18,377 --> 00:40:23,599 Is there no one to sell me this ruin of a mill for pieces of gold? 686 00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:26,171 There's no profit in this trade, man. 687 00:40:26,171 --> 00:40:28,701 We're helpless and bankrupt. 688 00:40:28,732 --> 00:40:31,846 The millstone is worn out. The columns are broken. 689 00:40:31,954 --> 00:40:35,499 And we've already eaten our draft animal. 690 00:40:35,499 --> 00:40:36,914 Ah, yes... 691 00:40:37,172 --> 00:40:41,095 I've heard that horses have trampled on their riders... 692 00:40:41,376 --> 00:40:45,719 and obedient dogs bare their teeth to their masters. 693 00:40:46,296 --> 00:40:48,762 No matter, here, we have pieces of gold! 694 00:40:49,215 --> 00:40:50,525 Why are you moaning? 695 00:40:50,610 --> 00:40:52,659 I have a burning heart! 696 00:40:53,256 --> 00:40:58,404 Other than the wound it has left in my soul... 697 00:40:58,952 --> 00:41:02,810 this mill shall yield no profit. 698 00:41:02,810 --> 00:41:05,239 You should run away! 699 00:41:06,227 --> 00:41:09,304 Why does he try to rid himself of the coins? 700 00:41:10,628 --> 00:41:15,171 Nowadays possessing gold means trouble 701 00:41:15,522 --> 00:41:18,897 and he who has it is not safe. 702 00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:23,399 Are there people lying in wait outside and are we to die for your sake? 703 00:41:23,399 --> 00:41:25,715 - Count! - Stolen coins! 704 00:41:25,715 --> 00:41:30,533 He cannot be a thief. Robbers spend their money more wisely. 705 00:41:30,593 --> 00:41:33,696 What use is this ruin to you? 706 00:41:33,968 --> 00:41:37,530 The rafters are falling off 707 00:41:37,607 --> 00:41:40,316 and neighbours have all run away. 708 00:41:40,855 --> 00:41:45,098 What do you want it for, 709 00:41:45,277 --> 00:41:47,978 if not as a mill? 710 00:41:48,176 --> 00:41:49,230 Suicide. 711 00:41:49,290 --> 00:41:50,362 Suicide? 712 00:41:50,696 --> 00:41:51,750 That is what he said. 713 00:41:51,810 --> 00:41:53,578 Suicide. Why do you laugh? 714 00:41:53,578 --> 00:41:54,678 I didn't laugh. 715 00:41:54,896 --> 00:41:56,811 - How much? - All that I have. 716 00:41:56,935 --> 00:41:59,475 You're indeed teasing us. 717 00:41:59,683 --> 00:42:01,298 It's a mean joke... 718 00:42:01,298 --> 00:42:04,453 to give hope and then take it back... 719 00:42:04,453 --> 00:42:07,283 and laugh heartily at your dupes. 720 00:42:07,283 --> 00:42:09,624 When will you heartily laugh at us? 721 00:42:09,624 --> 00:42:12,216 What's the use of laughing at us? 722 00:42:12,216 --> 00:42:14,276 It's the world that's laughing at me. 723 00:42:14,276 --> 00:42:15,214 Don't moan! 724 00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:17,946 All the coins! 725 00:42:17,946 --> 00:42:19,854 - I accept. - But there's a condition. 726 00:42:19,854 --> 00:42:22,842 - What? - I knew it couldn't be without a hitch. 727 00:42:23,011 --> 00:42:24,650 Why, out with it, damn you! 728 00:42:24,650 --> 00:42:26,716 My hands do not obey me. 729 00:42:27,132 --> 00:42:30,467 - Are you afraid? - The dagger does not obey my hand. 730 00:42:30,902 --> 00:42:32,665 Kings are without fear. 731 00:42:32,865 --> 00:42:35,989 They're not without death but surely without fear. 732 00:42:36,049 --> 00:42:39,301 Are you afraid of death as you are of life? 733 00:42:39,301 --> 00:42:40,969 With all my being. 734 00:42:41,064 --> 00:42:43,533 Did he, the King, declare that he was afraid? 735 00:42:43,584 --> 00:42:46,312 With his four hundred and forty pieces of bones! 736 00:42:46,312 --> 00:42:48,626 I do not hear. I will not listen! 737 00:42:48,626 --> 00:42:50,885 In the army of liars you're the commander. 738 00:42:51,098 --> 00:42:54,783 Did the King in his own words declare that he was afraid? 739 00:42:54,783 --> 00:42:58,490 Say, King, did I hear you right? Did you say you wore afraid? 740 00:42:58,521 --> 00:43:00,090 To my very roots. 741 00:43:00,185 --> 00:43:02,195 All stars be cursed! 742 00:43:02,265 --> 00:43:05,201 Yes, I'll give you all the coins if you help me. 743 00:43:05,225 --> 00:43:07,214 - What help? - Strike the dagger! 744 00:43:07,214 --> 00:43:10,386 Do you hear? He's trying to disown his guilt. 745 00:43:10,386 --> 00:43:12,996 In such a way that I will not know when or how! 746 00:43:12,996 --> 00:43:15,479 Stay with me a day. then from behind, in sleep... 747 00:43:15,583 --> 00:43:18,278 however you wish. Only don't let me know when! 748 00:43:18,324 --> 00:43:20,820 This is murder, not help! 749 00:43:20,820 --> 00:43:23,596 My saddlebag is full of coins. A whole load of them. 750 00:43:23,788 --> 00:43:26,285 Say, say what my answer was then! 751 00:43:26,285 --> 00:43:29,895 The miller said: "Woman! Whore! 752 00:43:30,305 --> 00:43:31,554 "Beware! 753 00:43:31,881 --> 00:43:36,832 "I begin to understand what it means to be a king. 754 00:43:37,722 --> 00:43:40,244 "And if it is such a frightening business, 755 00:43:40,244 --> 00:43:44,777 "why is it that lords and heroes seek it so dearly? 756 00:43:46,322 --> 00:43:50,614 "Look how he moans!" 757 00:43:50,747 --> 00:43:53,253 My enemies thirst for my blood 758 00:43:53,487 --> 00:43:55,353 and I'm weary of living. 759 00:43:56,956 --> 00:43:58,721 If only my horse had not run away! 760 00:43:58,938 --> 00:44:03,370 To tell you the truth, I, too, wish him dead. 761 00:44:04,202 --> 00:44:08,315 Had he not been what he is my lot would not have been so grim. 762 00:44:08,315 --> 00:44:11,314 And yet I am a man with clean hands. 763 00:44:11,572 --> 00:44:14,710 My bread was of rye but never soaked in blood. 764 00:44:15,044 --> 00:44:17,823 Let me look for an omen in the dust. 765 00:44:19,324 --> 00:44:21,905 Say something woman! 766 00:44:22,769 --> 00:44:25,349 Is it good or bad? 767 00:44:25,849 --> 00:44:29,612 You girl! Come and be the miller's wife and say what my answer was. 768 00:44:29,612 --> 00:44:31,720 I, the miller's wife? 769 00:44:33,608 --> 00:44:37,212 Miller, keep me at your side for a while! 770 00:44:37,806 --> 00:44:39,767 Impudent wretch! 771 00:44:39,992 --> 00:44:43,324 Be the miller's wife and listen to what the King has to say! 772 00:44:43,504 --> 00:44:47,134 I wish I could leave and be a shepherd. 773 00:44:47,447 --> 00:44:49,549 Everyone can run away... 774 00:44:49,747 --> 00:44:52,673 except the king. - Kings always run away 775 00:44:52,673 --> 00:44:54,436 and we're the executioner's prey. 776 00:44:54,436 --> 00:44:55,835 Not always. 777 00:44:55,987 --> 00:44:58,904 You can invoke their gods hold their stirrup 778 00:44:59,108 --> 00:45:04,721 make way for them and then you'll be one of them. 779 00:45:05,126 --> 00:45:07,229 The inferior thus become superior 780 00:45:07,229 --> 00:45:09,479 and you shall continue to pay tribute. 781 00:45:09,563 --> 00:45:11,802 No, there's no blame. 782 00:45:11,963 --> 00:45:13,965 You cannot kill a nation, 783 00:45:14,257 --> 00:45:17,006 but you can slay a king. 784 00:45:18,539 --> 00:45:22,742 And once the king is dead the nation dies. 785 00:45:22,742 --> 00:45:25,046 What sound is this? 786 00:45:25,105 --> 00:45:27,824 - It's the coins! - A whole sack full of them. 787 00:45:27,824 --> 00:45:29,179 Do you hear? 788 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,616 Gold was of use to me, 789 00:45:34,462 --> 00:45:37,615 when I could save my little boy 790 00:45:38,321 --> 00:45:42,450 when I could buy medicine for my little daughter. 791 00:45:43,471 --> 00:45:47,215 Today left alone in the desert 792 00:45:47,583 --> 00:45:50,130 without a soul in sight, 793 00:45:50,413 --> 00:45:52,240 what should I do with gold? 794 00:45:52,336 --> 00:45:54,925 There'll be an end to grief. People shall return. 795 00:45:54,925 --> 00:45:58,307 Ruins will be reclaimed and inhabited by people. 796 00:45:58,476 --> 00:46:00,275 Stay and welcome happiness! 797 00:46:00,275 --> 00:46:02,077 Happiness? With enemies around? 798 00:46:02,077 --> 00:46:04,893 Hide your treasure and no one will know. 799 00:46:05,022 --> 00:46:06,395 This is a time-honoured practice. 800 00:46:06,395 --> 00:46:08,111 Do you hear, woman? 801 00:46:08,296 --> 00:46:11,067 He makes me wonder. 802 00:46:11,433 --> 00:46:12,712 What is to be done? 803 00:46:13,491 --> 00:46:16,809 Our water shall turn into blood you say? 804 00:46:17,496 --> 00:46:18,927 But listen! 805 00:46:19,536 --> 00:46:23,735 This is the voice of our daughter burning with fever 806 00:46:24,084 --> 00:46:25,521 and moaning from pain. 807 00:46:25,976 --> 00:46:29,981 And she'll take a husband some day 808 00:46:30,181 --> 00:46:35,295 and she'll need all those coins. 809 00:46:37,362 --> 00:46:39,932 Hey, what say you? 810 00:46:40,838 --> 00:46:43,261 What is to be done? 811 00:46:43,861 --> 00:46:46,664 Why do you ask me when you know the answer? 812 00:46:46,745 --> 00:46:49,010 Why, you're already whetting your knife! 813 00:46:49,916 --> 00:46:53,252 It is clear he's testing our loyalty... 814 00:46:53,809 --> 00:46:55,771 measuring our hospitality 815 00:46:56,327 --> 00:47:00,941 and as soon as you comply he'll reveal his other face. 816 00:47:01,576 --> 00:47:04,144 The smouldering temper shall burst out into flames 817 00:47:04,144 --> 00:47:06,628 and consume us all. 818 00:47:07,447 --> 00:47:10,306 Therefore do not comply; 819 00:47:10,751 --> 00:47:14,481 be furious instead and season your remarks with many an oath. 820 00:47:16,041 --> 00:47:18,337 He may then be satisfied 821 00:47:18,940 --> 00:47:21,229 and if he's truly the King, 822 00:47:21,432 --> 00:47:23,487 he may give you a few coins. 823 00:47:24,091 --> 00:47:30,196 Otherwise what mad man would be king and ask for death? 824 00:47:30,858 --> 00:47:32,681 Lend no ear to this fable. 825 00:47:32,857 --> 00:47:34,607 It is nothing but trickery. 826 00:47:34,607 --> 00:47:38,107 I thought as much myself. 827 00:47:38,903 --> 00:47:45,710 Having taken us for dupes he's now testing us variously. 828 00:47:47,333 --> 00:47:48,852 No, guest! 829 00:47:49,250 --> 00:47:53,369 Be whoever you are but know that I am a miller, 830 00:47:53,369 --> 00:47:54,480 not a bandit! 831 00:47:57,491 --> 00:48:01,097 Now that he's not here every lie looks like the truth. 832 00:48:01,097 --> 00:48:03,376 My husband offered him a bed, 833 00:48:04,219 --> 00:48:06,439 a bite and a cup. 834 00:48:06,578 --> 00:48:09,698 - Is this the bed? - He gave him what he had. 835 00:48:09,698 --> 00:48:12,395 - And this, the cup? - We're not to blame if it's cracked. 836 00:48:12,395 --> 00:48:14,471 There's hospitality for you, masters... 837 00:48:14,471 --> 00:48:16,414 He suffered evil but did no evil. 838 00:48:16,554 --> 00:48:20,559 The King asked him thrice to kill him for coins, 839 00:48:20,784 --> 00:48:23,250 and thrice he refused. 840 00:48:23,330 --> 00:48:27,686 These words are but wind, o host of liars! 841 00:48:27,890 --> 00:48:31,214 He, the possessor of all possessors the spleeny sovereign... 842 00:48:31,214 --> 00:48:33,636 was not a man to kneel. 843 00:48:33,636 --> 00:48:36,553 Would a king such as he kill himself? Your mouths be filled with dust! 844 00:48:37,344 --> 00:48:40,266 And if it be otherwise give me solid proof! 845 00:48:40,478 --> 00:48:42,452 Ay, proof, proof! 846 00:48:42,518 --> 00:48:45,107 Something prickles my mind. 847 00:48:46,198 --> 00:48:46,871 Ay... 848 00:48:47,683 --> 00:48:50,166 now that this world is disjointed 849 00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:53,241 I can without fear say something 850 00:48:54,414 --> 00:48:56,337 even though I belong to lower ranks. 851 00:48:56,488 --> 00:48:57,476 What is this? 852 00:48:58,249 --> 00:49:00,806 Is it about the King or his slayers? 853 00:49:00,849 --> 00:49:03,127 We did not lose him in the storm. 854 00:49:03,917 --> 00:49:06,016 He fled from us. 855 00:49:06,124 --> 00:49:08,824 The sovereign, you say fled from his subjects? 856 00:49:09,465 --> 00:49:12,270 May Ahurâ Mazdâ forgive me a thousand times! 857 00:49:12,723 --> 00:49:17,843 Kingship to him was no longer anything but a precipice to fall from. 858 00:49:18,333 --> 00:49:21,499 He ran away from his stars not his subjects. 859 00:49:22,366 --> 00:49:25,071 I saw him saddling his horse. 860 00:49:25,247 --> 00:49:27,930 Were you not the warrior I know, 861 00:49:28,053 --> 00:49:30,878 I would have taken you for an enemy. 862 00:49:31,648 --> 00:49:34,458 I saw him put his foot furtively in the stirrup. 863 00:49:34,458 --> 00:49:37,625 The sovereign for whom the stirrup had always been held by slaves? 864 00:49:38,011 --> 00:49:41,107 Now I know why you're still in lower ranks! 865 00:49:41,107 --> 00:49:42,513 I'm an old man, Commander. 866 00:49:43,084 --> 00:49:45,730 Be angry with me but do not shout at me. 867 00:49:46,646 --> 00:49:49,704 If I'm wrong tell me and tell me why! 868 00:49:49,704 --> 00:49:53,767 Everyone knows that the King was a peerless slayer of lions 869 00:49:53,972 --> 00:49:55,518 a match for dragons 870 00:49:56,089 --> 00:49:59,701 and great, in the eyes of the warlike deity... 871 00:49:59,832 --> 00:50:01,430 the supportive Bahrâm. 872 00:50:01,881 --> 00:50:03,846 Would an ocean-hearted sovereign 873 00:50:03,846 --> 00:50:06,501 on meeting a handful of desert-dwellers attempt to kill himself? 874 00:50:06,501 --> 00:50:08,169 He commanded me. 875 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:08,938 Speak! 876 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,472 He commanded me. 877 00:50:10,561 --> 00:50:12,081 Never, never! 878 00:50:12,081 --> 00:50:15,516 He commanded me twice, thrice, four times. 879 00:50:15,516 --> 00:50:17,336 We've never killed a guest. 880 00:50:17,336 --> 00:50:22,281 Is there nothing in the Books of Counsel on respecting the will of a king. 881 00:50:22,281 --> 00:50:23,116 There is. 882 00:50:23,116 --> 00:50:26,787 It is written that the tidings of Ahurâ reside in the king. 883 00:50:26,787 --> 00:50:29,658 - So, here's the command of Ahurâ Mazdâ! - I hear nothing. 884 00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:33,623 He who obeys not the command shall have an end darker than shameful death. 885 00:50:33,623 --> 00:50:36,520 Deceitful demons shall crush his limbs 886 00:50:36,645 --> 00:50:41,147 and for nine thousand years he shall be prey to nightmares under the earth. 887 00:50:41,270 --> 00:50:44,167 Now that pure gold does not arouse you 888 00:50:44,167 --> 00:50:49,102 from the lofty pedestal of kingship high above your shoulder 889 00:50:49,279 --> 00:50:52,112 from the midst of Ahurâi glory do I command you, 890 00:50:52,112 --> 00:50:54,782 o man, miller to slay me! Are you not afraid? 891 00:50:54,782 --> 00:50:57,456 If you're the King you have people following you. 892 00:50:57,456 --> 00:50:59,170 Those are the ones I am afraid of. 893 00:50:59,170 --> 00:51:01,330 Has death, too turned its back on me? 894 00:51:01,472 --> 00:51:05,599 O King! You said that if you die a nation dies. 895 00:51:05,599 --> 00:51:08,226 How could I dip my hands in the blood of a nation? 896 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:13,062 Kill him, man! Perhaps a new nation shall be born out of his death. 897 00:51:13,091 --> 00:51:14,726 I'm neither a nurse nor a midwife. 898 00:51:14,730 --> 00:51:19,874 I am a miller. I have people bread. This is the only thing I have. 899 00:51:19,874 --> 00:51:23,523 The world has chosen you to shed my blood, man! 900 00:51:23,771 --> 00:51:26,355 The Arab army followed us everywhere: 901 00:51:26,411 --> 00:51:29,042 yelling roaring and clamouring. 902 00:51:29,130 --> 00:51:30,809 An army thick and tangled 903 00:51:31,011 --> 00:51:33,370 with a banner the colour of dark smoke. 904 00:51:33,570 --> 00:51:35,450 Everything has turned away from me 905 00:51:35,651 --> 00:51:37,130 except this army 906 00:51:37,593 --> 00:51:39,610 that follows me like my own shadow. 907 00:51:39,610 --> 00:51:42,395 Your enemy, o King is not this army 908 00:51:42,574 --> 00:51:47,203 but the people's plight which you yourself have brought about. 909 00:51:47,203 --> 00:51:50,023 How could a handful of men achieve by themselves anything so momentous? 910 00:51:50,045 --> 00:51:52,107 Many fire-temples are still intact. 911 00:51:52,414 --> 00:51:55,461 With warm words people should be taught how to war. 912 00:51:55,734 --> 00:51:57,073 Do not prattle, priest! 913 00:51:57,174 --> 00:52:00,263 Having been oppressed for so long people no longer believe in you. 914 00:52:00,294 --> 00:52:01,922 Heavens be cursed! 915 00:52:02,094 --> 00:52:06,124 Anyone speaking in that vein would have had his tongue pulled out. 916 00:52:06,124 --> 00:52:08,872 What other attainments can you boast of besides that? 917 00:52:08,893 --> 00:52:10,224 I change my verdict. 918 00:52:10,494 --> 00:52:12,255 Ours cannot be changed! 919 00:52:12,255 --> 00:52:15,208 You, man, are chosen by providence. 920 00:52:15,253 --> 00:52:18,245 Once again I command you, miller, 921 00:52:18,245 --> 00:52:20,379 to entertain me with my own blood. 922 00:52:20,934 --> 00:52:26,353 To disobey the King, he says is to challenge Ahurâ Mazdâ. 923 00:52:26,374 --> 00:52:29,022 Ay, and throughout the kingdom of Persia 924 00:52:29,022 --> 00:52:31,271 no one has ever disobeyed the King of Kings. 925 00:52:31,374 --> 00:52:36,920 Is that true? Then I am pleased. Now order the Arab army to retreat! 926 00:52:36,934 --> 00:52:38,014 You scoff at me. 927 00:52:38,014 --> 00:52:41,303 Your command was obeyed only in Ctesiphon and not here. 928 00:52:41,374 --> 00:52:43,970 Did you hear? I disobeyed. 929 00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:48,821 Is it just that slaves should disobey their sovereigns? 930 00:52:50,496 --> 00:52:51,553 I don't understand. 931 00:52:52,977 --> 00:52:55,792 Had he killed him he would've been a murderer 932 00:52:57,107 --> 00:52:59,592 and now he is disobedient. 933 00:53:01,352 --> 00:53:02,983 What should he have done, then? 934 00:53:14,991 --> 00:53:16,288 Nothing, woman. 935 00:53:17,276 --> 00:53:20,141 Sin is born with us. 936 00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:23,152 And my twin mate 937 00:53:23,499 --> 00:53:26,127 which is the nearest thing to my soul 938 00:53:26,756 --> 00:53:29,026 is called destitution. 939 00:53:42,259 --> 00:53:44,574 Ladders proved very useful. 940 00:53:45,602 --> 00:53:49,037 I told foot-soldiers to raise a crypt with stones instead of digging one. 941 00:53:49,882 --> 00:53:52,269 The earth is hard and the spade worn out, 942 00:53:53,333 --> 00:53:55,835 but corpses cannot be left without a grave. 943 00:53:57,534 --> 00:54:00,912 Apart from all this I cannot find a pick. 944 00:54:01,718 --> 00:54:03,693 Has the man confessed to anything? 945 00:54:03,836 --> 00:54:06,732 He mumbles something but we do not understand him. 946 00:54:07,712 --> 00:54:09,431 An oil-less wick. 947 00:54:09,602 --> 00:54:12,177 Perhaps the masters will get something out of him. 948 00:54:12,722 --> 00:54:13,819 Shall I fetch him? 949 00:54:14,436 --> 00:54:15,529 No! 950 00:54:15,876 --> 00:54:19,676 It's unbelievable that the miller was not seduced by gold; 951 00:54:20,316 --> 00:54:23,593 unbelievable that he did not strike the dagger; 952 00:54:24,276 --> 00:54:27,370 unbelievable that he did not slay the King. 953 00:54:28,037 --> 00:54:30,286 You must indeed have killed him 954 00:54:30,442 --> 00:54:32,669 and other than this everything is unbelievable. 955 00:54:32,669 --> 00:54:34,165 The gibbet is set. 956 00:54:35,390 --> 00:54:37,715 It only needs a piece of rope. 957 00:54:37,715 --> 00:54:39,395 There's rope in the cellar. 958 00:54:39,753 --> 00:54:41,356 You've ruined me. 959 00:54:41,590 --> 00:54:43,852 Don't take too much! Where is the wood from? 960 00:54:43,852 --> 00:54:46,722 - Leave the leftovers! - If you want him alive beat the drum 961 00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,503 but if you want his head blow the horn! 962 00:54:50,110 --> 00:54:53,291 To those whose hands are tied... 963 00:54:53,494 --> 00:54:55,457 you're a champion you block-head, you ape! 964 00:54:55,457 --> 00:54:58,276 Silence! Who told you to speak? 965 00:54:58,812 --> 00:55:02,207 This is my house and I speak as I please. 966 00:55:02,653 --> 00:55:04,786 I shall not sell my husband cheaply to death. 967 00:55:14,316 --> 00:55:17,027 Stay! Do not flounce, you dismal heretic! 968 00:55:17,215 --> 00:55:18,927 Our verdict will not change. 969 00:55:19,502 --> 00:55:21,717 Did you not hear that the gibbet was set? 970 00:55:22,202 --> 00:55:24,451 Why should I not do what I can? 971 00:55:25,677 --> 00:55:28,664 May your frame never enjoy freedom again, Commander, 972 00:55:29,372 --> 00:55:31,961 for you brought untimely death to our house! 973 00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:36,398 Even now that edicts of this vast land are changing... 974 00:55:36,863 --> 00:55:39,543 the rich are as always delivered 975 00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:41,686 and the weak are kept in bonds. 976 00:55:42,282 --> 00:55:43,913 Why did you not run away? 977 00:55:44,121 --> 00:55:47,174 I had no mule to pack my wares on. 978 00:55:48,842 --> 00:55:51,860 The world is lying in wait... 979 00:55:53,562 --> 00:55:56,596 for my chastity. 980 00:55:57,683 --> 00:56:02,094 All things have conspired to add to my misery. 981 00:56:04,429 --> 00:56:06,476 The mule dies... 982 00:56:07,564 --> 00:56:09,596 the neighbour goes away... 983 00:56:11,058 --> 00:56:13,958 the millstone breaks... 984 00:56:15,767 --> 00:56:17,038 and someone 985 00:56:17,658 --> 00:56:21,036 brings his death here. 986 00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:26,603 When he lost all hope of death... 987 00:56:26,994 --> 00:56:32,304 the stranger devised a new stratagem. 988 00:56:32,304 --> 00:56:36,383 He tried to rouse my anger. 989 00:56:36,630 --> 00:56:38,942 Why was not your anger roused? 990 00:56:39,058 --> 00:56:42,691 He looked and looked and looked at my face. 991 00:56:42,691 --> 00:56:45,332 - Fie! - Then spat at it. 992 00:56:45,434 --> 00:56:47,911 Stop, stop, stop! 993 00:56:48,078 --> 00:56:50,042 He hit me in the chest. 994 00:56:50,217 --> 00:56:51,652 O, stone-hearted creature... 995 00:56:51,964 --> 00:56:54,594 bandit, evil-eyed! 996 00:56:54,856 --> 00:56:58,065 O, you idiot! 997 00:56:58,573 --> 00:57:01,381 O, you fool! 998 00:57:02,036 --> 00:57:04,115 For so many long years... 999 00:57:04,115 --> 00:57:08,359 you've turned a mill in the midst of this desert... 1000 00:57:08,526 --> 00:57:13,699 eating rye bread and dry dates. 1001 00:57:14,134 --> 00:57:19,272 Is there no power of vengeance in you? 1002 00:57:19,499 --> 00:57:25,371 Am I not your King as well as your enemy? 1003 00:57:25,659 --> 00:57:29,435 You haven't seen my palace in Ctesiphon. 1004 00:57:29,887 --> 00:57:32,932 We don't sleep on straw there. 1005 00:57:33,181 --> 00:57:37,583 You haven't seen our Negârestân Carpet... 1006 00:57:37,748 --> 00:57:41,797 with warps of gold and woofs of silver... 1007 00:57:41,932 --> 00:57:46,034 patterned with trees and birds and flowers... 1008 00:57:46,181 --> 00:57:48,540 all inlaid with priceless gems. 1009 00:57:48,651 --> 00:57:57,107 I have a chess set with rows of red and yellow rubies. 1010 00:57:57,454 --> 00:58:01,020 And a set of backgammon made of clear emeralds. 1011 00:58:01,171 --> 00:58:06,737 I have thirty two thousand pieces of precious rubies. 1012 00:58:07,132 --> 00:58:08,030 Do you know? 1013 00:58:08,191 --> 00:58:10,383 And the Treasure of the Bride 1014 00:58:10,527 --> 00:58:12,402 and the Green Treasure 1015 00:58:12,572 --> 00:58:14,509 and the Treasure of the Wind 1016 00:58:14,643 --> 00:58:16,467 and the Treasure of the Regal Brocade 1017 00:58:16,467 --> 00:58:17,819 and the Burnt Treasure 1018 00:58:17,819 --> 00:58:19,218 and the Arched Throne 1019 00:58:19,399 --> 00:58:20,771 and the Great Tent 1020 00:58:20,802 --> 00:58:22,465 and the Golden Palace 1021 00:58:22,465 --> 00:58:25,732 and twelve thousand slave-girls. 1022 00:58:25,733 --> 00:58:27,099 Should more be said? 1023 00:58:27,099 --> 00:58:28,764 Are you not roused to anger? 1024 00:58:28,764 --> 00:58:30,743 Is there no power of vengeance in you? 1025 00:58:30,910 --> 00:58:31,704 I told him: 1026 00:58:31,704 --> 00:58:35,220 "O man", I said, "Whoever you are. Whether a King, 1027 00:58:35,220 --> 00:58:37,808 "a beggar in rags or a highway man... 1028 00:58:37,808 --> 00:58:39,700 "do not rouse my anger! 1029 00:58:39,708 --> 00:58:45,279 "My heart swells and I might do harm either to you or to myself." 1030 00:58:45,279 --> 00:58:47,166 1,200 elephants 1031 00:58:47,166 --> 00:58:49,570 13,000 camels of burden 1032 00:58:49,570 --> 00:58:50,964 and the Game Garden 1033 00:58:51,119 --> 00:58:52,788 and the Garden of the Beheaded Hero 1034 00:58:52,788 --> 00:58:54,045 and the Emerald Garden 1035 00:58:54,045 --> 00:58:55,733 and the Garden of the 12,000 Greyhounds 1036 00:58:55,733 --> 00:58:57,573 and 700,000 horsemen 1037 00:58:57,573 --> 00:58:59,164 and 300,000 foot-soldiers 1038 00:58:59,164 --> 00:59:00,888 and 100,000 riding horses 1039 00:59:00,888 --> 00:59:02,469 and 100,000 gold scabbards 1040 00:59:02,469 --> 00:59:04,932 and every year I receive 795 times... 1041 00:59:05,107 --> 00:59:07,845 a million drachmas from every direction. 1042 00:59:08,108 --> 00:59:11,628 I told him: "You evil-wisher loose-tongued babbler, 1043 00:59:11,686 --> 00:59:14,885 "you oppressor! Do not rouse my anger! 1044 00:59:15,033 --> 00:59:19,971 "I'm a man of ripe age and soon I shall be gone. 1045 00:59:20,126 --> 00:59:22,741 "Misfortune has made me cruel. 1046 00:59:22,766 --> 00:59:26,024 "And I do not wish to harm my guest." 1047 00:59:26,035 --> 00:59:27,052 He was laughing. 1048 00:59:27,052 --> 00:59:31,492 He reached for the whip and took him to task: 1049 00:59:31,565 --> 00:59:32,508 "O man", he said: 1050 00:59:32,779 --> 00:59:35,286 "You don't have the courage of an experienced slave. 1051 00:59:35,630 --> 00:59:38,521 "To you foulness is clean and disgrace counts as virtue. 1052 00:59:39,059 --> 00:59:41,628 "You do not value your King as a king. 1053 00:59:41,886 --> 00:59:45,565 "I had guard dogs whose voice I haven't heard for some time. 1054 00:59:45,751 --> 00:59:47,323 "Fall on your feet as dogs do! 1055 00:59:47,431 --> 00:59:50,606 "Like my dogs walk on all fours and bark! 1056 00:59:50,790 --> 00:59:53,872 "My nimble horse has not given me a ride for two days. 1057 00:59:53,950 --> 00:59:56,161 "Where's the saddle? I would put it on you. 1058 00:59:56,335 --> 01:00:00,564 "O, man! Tell your wife to come to my bed! 1059 01:00:00,721 --> 01:00:02,595 "Quick, quick!" 1060 01:00:02,757 --> 01:00:04,669 O, King, do not beat me. 1061 01:00:04,754 --> 01:00:09,186 Do not make me the laughing stock of people! 1062 01:00:09,186 --> 01:00:11,648 I'm a man with little patience left 1063 01:00:11,757 --> 01:00:19,607 and I might raise my hand against you. 1064 01:00:19,795 --> 01:00:21,563 Let me be! Leave me! 1065 01:00:21,921 --> 01:00:26,234 Your tongue be cut and your lips, sutured! You prattle so and you babble. 1066 01:00:26,378 --> 01:00:29,283 You foolish dastardly villain step aside... 1067 01:00:29,596 --> 01:00:30,886 and do not block my way! 1068 01:00:30,938 --> 01:00:35,657 I've just begun to notice your daughter who despite her ailments is not at all bad 1069 01:00:35,958 --> 01:00:37,804 and her lips are the colour of jujube. 1070 01:00:37,817 --> 01:00:41,268 And she's beginning to get ripe. Invite me to the fruits of her flesh! 1071 01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,929 O, King, you say things I do not understand. 1072 01:00:43,929 --> 01:00:46,788 If you do not understand my language, 1073 01:00:46,951 --> 01:00:50,009 you will that of the whip! 1074 01:00:50,057 --> 01:00:54,179 I know you want to test me. You fathom my fidelity. 1075 01:00:54,354 --> 01:00:57,013 There's no question about my fidelity none. 1076 01:00:57,013 --> 01:01:02,227 Do not make me more despicable than I am. O, King, let me kiss your knees! 1077 01:01:02,227 --> 01:01:06,053 O, King, he has fallen on his knees. Isn't that enough? 1078 01:01:06,053 --> 01:01:09,505 Did you say, "on his knees"? He has yet to rub his head in the dust. 1079 01:01:09,673 --> 01:01:12,406 Go down in the dust and lie there, 1080 01:01:12,582 --> 01:01:15,402 until I give your daughter the honour of lying under me! 1081 01:01:15,569 --> 01:01:19,391 - What do you want from me? - Jujubes and almonds laced with sugar. 1082 01:01:19,391 --> 01:01:22,926 No! Save me father! Save me! 1083 01:01:22,961 --> 01:01:26,706 No, no. This is all a trial for me. 1084 01:01:26,769 --> 01:01:29,460 All this is just to test me. 1085 01:01:29,460 --> 01:01:31,878 You're ripe and ready, girl! 1086 01:01:32,048 --> 01:01:37,155 Do you prefer the sweet tongue or the serpent whip? 1087 01:01:37,498 --> 01:01:39,373 I shall not be angry. 1088 01:01:39,555 --> 01:01:41,797 No, I shall not be angry. 1089 01:01:41,955 --> 01:01:44,757 Deliver me, father! 1090 01:01:45,095 --> 01:01:49,988 The dagger is on my throat. Deliver me! 1091 01:01:50,012 --> 01:01:52,811 A more shameful story has never been forged. 1092 01:01:53,154 --> 01:01:55,842 How could our sovereign crave a base slave-girl? 1093 01:01:56,163 --> 01:02:00,388 He who had three-thousand women in Ctesiphon each one better than the other. 1094 01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,814 Would that there was a sack of flour here 1095 01:02:08,012 --> 01:02:11,084 and I could pour it on my head 1096 01:02:12,610 --> 01:02:16,746 and turn white all over! 1097 01:02:19,347 --> 01:02:24,533 Would it be so! 1098 01:02:29,627 --> 01:02:30,894 My daughter... 1099 01:02:32,667 --> 01:02:34,710 she was never... 1100 01:02:36,441 --> 01:02:39,035 so lost and helpless... 1101 01:02:40,632 --> 01:02:42,469 with a dead look in her eyes. 1102 01:02:43,086 --> 01:02:45,079 You're tall 1103 01:02:47,595 --> 01:02:52,603 and twice as wide as I am. 1104 01:02:55,812 --> 01:02:59,149 Your might challenges my chastity. 1105 01:03:04,102 --> 01:03:05,832 And through the casement... 1106 01:03:06,447 --> 01:03:08,649 I watch the devil... 1107 01:03:09,379 --> 01:03:13,440 riding away on a grey horse. 1108 01:03:14,071 --> 01:03:15,096 No, 1109 01:03:15,870 --> 01:03:16,832 no! 1110 01:03:17,516 --> 01:03:19,447 My daughter was not like this. 1111 01:03:20,087 --> 01:03:22,808 He wanted to fathom my fidelity. 1112 01:03:23,645 --> 01:03:28,723 To raise a hand against the King: such an infernal sin! 1113 01:03:29,004 --> 01:03:31,453 No, not me! 1114 01:03:32,083 --> 01:03:37,554 And now a hell more fearsome bums me from within. 1115 01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:42,372 What is this boiling river running through my veins? 1116 01:03:42,501 --> 01:03:45,830 And this turmoil lodged in my heart? 1117 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,033 I shall slay him. 1118 01:03:48,067 --> 01:03:50,904 Ay, there's a millstone in my heart. 1119 01:03:51,614 --> 01:03:54,863 I pity the slain man. 1120 01:03:55,476 --> 01:03:56,788 Cut be your tongue! 1121 01:03:57,220 --> 01:03:58,802 Strike the dagger harder! 1122 01:03:59,062 --> 01:04:00,400 I shall slay him... 1123 01:04:00,463 --> 01:04:02,834 twice, thrice, four times... 1124 01:04:03,067 --> 01:04:04,780 Strike, strike! 1125 01:04:06,455 --> 01:04:08,032 I slew him. 1126 01:04:08,176 --> 01:04:10,463 Ay, and I am glad. 1127 01:04:10,935 --> 01:04:12,277 You saw it with your own eyes. 1128 01:04:12,611 --> 01:04:16,699 The words of this monster are they not enough to prove his guilt? 1129 01:04:16,699 --> 01:04:18,685 The truth finally spoke up. 1130 01:04:18,786 --> 01:04:22,007 Ay, an honest account cried itself out and we all heard it. 1131 01:04:22,007 --> 01:04:23,998 This is our justice! 1132 01:04:24,775 --> 01:04:26,799 But you did not kill him! 1133 01:04:27,724 --> 01:04:30,606 No, I did not! 1134 01:04:34,329 --> 01:04:36,275 What useless concealment! 1135 01:04:36,569 --> 01:04:39,398 I did not kill him. That was a false account. 1136 01:04:39,398 --> 01:04:40,208 Wherefore lie? 1137 01:04:40,208 --> 01:04:43,803 I feared that you would take me for a shameless father. 1138 01:04:44,195 --> 01:04:49,442 I did not kill him until he began to play with me. 1139 01:04:50,205 --> 01:04:52,238 - Play? - What play? 1140 01:04:52,424 --> 01:04:56,083 Well did I call myself king 1141 01:04:56,260 --> 01:04:58,746 and fooled you... 1142 01:04:59,398 --> 01:05:04,606 to get food, bed and bedmate. 1143 01:05:05,825 --> 01:05:09,331 Well, did I make sport of you. 1144 01:05:09,944 --> 01:05:13,770 Well, did I trick you with games? 1145 01:05:14,165 --> 01:05:17,887 Who am I, even to be made a door-keeper? 1146 01:05:18,990 --> 01:05:26,825 Any vagabond can walk in and call himself a king 1147 01:05:27,195 --> 01:05:30,700 and slip into your daughter's bed. 1148 01:05:32,989 --> 01:05:34,840 How easily, 1149 01:05:35,349 --> 01:05:39,653 how easily! - Not so easily! Not so. 1150 01:05:39,653 --> 01:05:41,521 Where's my club? 1151 01:05:41,784 --> 01:05:44,236 Her flesh was good. 1152 01:05:44,429 --> 01:05:47,198 Happy hospitality! 1153 01:05:47,390 --> 01:05:48,868 Where's my club? 1154 01:05:49,205 --> 01:05:52,565 Give me my stick! Hold my hand up! 1155 01:05:52,805 --> 01:05:55,052 Pull out the rafter! 1156 01:05:56,464 --> 01:05:57,548 Do you hear? 1157 01:05:57,927 --> 01:06:00,640 You did hear in this court that he cried out for his club. 1158 01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,635 To kill the King! 1159 01:06:02,712 --> 01:06:05,281 Who said I was the King? 1160 01:06:06,341 --> 01:06:10,300 Does my countenance shine with divine light? 1161 01:06:10,661 --> 01:06:12,838 Do I have an army 1162 01:06:13,113 --> 01:06:14,452 or a palace 1163 01:06:14,580 --> 01:06:16,905 or comely slave-girls? 1164 01:06:17,878 --> 01:06:19,392 Do I have a nation? 1165 01:06:19,590 --> 01:06:22,085 He has a treasure with him. 1166 01:06:22,284 --> 01:06:24,746 I've stolen it. 1167 01:06:25,145 --> 01:06:28,326 From whom, ask him! 1168 01:06:30,266 --> 01:06:31,362 From you. 1169 01:06:32,107 --> 01:06:35,835 Add up the wages of all your days 1170 01:06:36,148 --> 01:06:39,038 would they not add up to a treasure? 1171 01:06:39,579 --> 01:06:41,557 The days of my life. 1172 01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:47,702 I've forgotten when they began. 1173 01:06:47,838 --> 01:06:52,010 I stole all your days. 1174 01:06:52,474 --> 01:06:55,219 Then you are the King! 1175 01:06:56,700 --> 01:06:59,141 How could it be otherwise? 1176 01:07:00,500 --> 01:07:02,376 The days of my life. 1177 01:07:03,949 --> 01:07:08,053 Always I wished to plead justice with the King, 1178 01:07:08,705 --> 01:07:10,834 and now that he's here, 1179 01:07:11,859 --> 01:07:13,806 with whom should I plead justice? 1180 01:07:15,205 --> 01:07:18,249 Give back what you took from me, o King... 1181 01:07:18,598 --> 01:07:20,395 the days of my life... 1182 01:07:20,573 --> 01:07:22,549 my wasted hopes... 1183 01:07:22,549 --> 01:07:24,806 and my daughter's chastity! 1184 01:07:25,445 --> 01:07:27,161 Blood! Blood! 1185 01:07:27,485 --> 01:07:29,811 Blood gushed out of his mouth. 1186 01:07:30,018 --> 01:07:31,146 That's not enough! 1187 01:07:32,170 --> 01:07:34,093 Tell me, King, 1188 01:07:35,059 --> 01:07:37,244 how did you find my daughter? 1189 01:07:38,473 --> 01:07:41,114 Did she give you a good ride? 1190 01:07:41,562 --> 01:07:43,522 It rained all night 1191 01:07:46,051 --> 01:07:51,586 and he stood alone before me. 1192 01:07:51,784 --> 01:07:54,239 Speak, o mighty King! 1193 01:07:54,732 --> 01:07:58,509 Was she easy-paced when giving the ride? 1194 01:07:58,572 --> 01:08:00,614 I... killed... him! 1195 01:08:00,656 --> 01:08:02,368 Did you enjoy her? 1196 01:08:02,610 --> 01:08:06,266 Was she tame when you lay upon her and rode within her? 1197 01:08:06,412 --> 01:08:07,736 My club! 1198 01:08:07,969 --> 01:08:09,141 Strike! 1199 01:08:09,772 --> 01:08:11,863 Days of my life! 1200 01:08:12,205 --> 01:08:13,359 Strike! 1201 01:08:13,612 --> 01:08:15,770 All my wages! 1202 01:08:16,550 --> 01:08:17,412 Strike! 1203 01:08:17,822 --> 01:08:18,724 Strike! 1204 01:08:19,844 --> 01:08:20,626 Strike! 1205 01:08:22,546 --> 01:08:25,377 I slew him. 1206 01:08:29,002 --> 01:08:31,703 I pity the slain man... 1207 01:08:33,609 --> 01:08:36,358 I pity the slain man. 1208 01:08:41,381 --> 01:08:42,256 Father, 1209 01:08:42,872 --> 01:08:44,777 why did they kill you? 1210 01:08:44,792 --> 01:08:46,956 Be silent and stop your follies! 1211 01:08:48,111 --> 01:08:51,805 Father, father! What did they do to you? 1212 01:08:52,831 --> 01:08:54,787 Not another word! 1213 01:08:55,776 --> 01:08:58,819 Father, why did they kill you? 1214 01:08:59,719 --> 01:09:00,644 How? 1215 01:09:01,126 --> 01:09:03,256 Do you hear? What does she say? 1216 01:09:03,566 --> 01:09:05,765 He who sleeps here is my father. 1217 01:09:06,803 --> 01:09:08,778 A poor miller, 1218 01:09:09,589 --> 01:09:12,014 who received no reward from life... 1219 01:09:12,589 --> 01:09:14,067 not even... 1220 01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:18,314 after his death. 1221 01:09:18,403 --> 01:09:19,497 What are you saying? 1222 01:09:21,103 --> 01:09:24,167 Is this not the-blood-covered countenance of the King? 1223 01:09:24,167 --> 01:09:27,308 You should know that she has lost her wits. 1224 01:09:27,504 --> 01:09:31,037 Father, speak and answer them! 1225 01:09:34,979 --> 01:09:37,786 My child, 1226 01:09:41,326 --> 01:09:44,328 my child! 1227 01:09:45,770 --> 01:09:53,654 Why did I abandon you? 1228 01:09:53,709 --> 01:09:54,713 Do you hear? 1229 01:09:55,382 --> 01:09:56,834 The dead man speaks. 1230 01:09:57,300 --> 01:10:00,033 Nothing like this has ever been written in the sacred books. 1231 01:10:00,333 --> 01:10:02,864 Truth is calling us from the other world. 1232 01:10:03,039 --> 01:10:04,696 May my memory be obliterated! 1233 01:10:04,785 --> 01:10:06,594 Hold them and let me see. 1234 01:10:09,306 --> 01:10:11,474 And you get all of you together! 1235 01:10:11,618 --> 01:10:13,379 This is our war council. 1236 01:10:13,495 --> 01:10:14,169 Quick! 1237 01:10:14,625 --> 01:10:16,776 It is said that this is not the body of the King. 1238 01:10:16,776 --> 01:10:19,894 Has anyone seen his face at close range? 1239 01:10:20,065 --> 01:10:24,936 No one ever dared to look at his majestic countenance; 1240 01:10:25,264 --> 01:10:27,802 and he did not show his face to everyone. 1241 01:10:27,939 --> 01:10:31,639 Were you not the first to recognise the King... 1242 01:10:31,742 --> 01:10:33,527 on seeing his lacerated corpse? 1243 01:10:33,579 --> 01:10:35,907 I recognised him by his crown... 1244 01:10:36,499 --> 01:10:40,675 for I had never seen him without his dazzling mask of pure gold. 1245 01:10:41,875 --> 01:10:47,681 A piece of rare gold the shine of which blinded the eye. 1246 01:10:48,613 --> 01:10:49,933 Head of all Priests... 1247 01:10:50,188 --> 01:10:52,841 Guardian of the Luminous Fire-Temple, speak! 1248 01:10:53,111 --> 01:10:54,660 You had seen him many times. 1249 01:10:55,014 --> 01:10:56,172 I had, indeed... 1250 01:10:56,583 --> 01:10:59,711 but not with his face blue with the colour of death 1251 01:11:00,060 --> 01:11:02,546 and speckled with dried blood; 1252 01:11:02,816 --> 01:11:07,889 his mouth half open, his eyes fixed upon the rafters 1253 01:11:08,223 --> 01:11:11,505 and his whole countenance bearing signs of deadly pain. 1254 01:11:12,932 --> 01:11:14,828 I myself had never encountered him... 1255 01:11:15,940 --> 01:11:20,733 except when he wore his guilded helmet or sat behind a screen. 1256 01:11:21,796 --> 01:11:24,360 It is, therefore, difficult for me... 1257 01:11:24,790 --> 01:11:27,224 to say how far that glory is from this blood-covered corpse. 1258 01:11:27,396 --> 01:11:28,916 What should be done now? 1259 01:11:29,429 --> 01:11:34,167 In this sorry state even the King's bedmates could not recognise him. 1260 01:11:34,818 --> 01:11:38,215 Let alone the servants who kept their heads bowed all the time. 1261 01:11:38,653 --> 01:11:42,765 If he is the miller, then where's the King? 1262 01:11:43,090 --> 01:11:45,784 I told you thrice that he fled in disguise... 1263 01:11:45,973 --> 01:11:49,523 for the only thing he had in mind was to get away. 1264 01:11:49,523 --> 01:11:54,426 I've nothing more to say even though your disbelief may lead to my ruin. 1265 01:11:54,804 --> 01:11:57,596 Woe on us if this dead man should only be a nameless miller! 1266 01:11:57,884 --> 01:12:00,374 For I graced him with the Prayer of the Kings. 1267 01:12:01,185 --> 01:12:02,843 Fie! What days are these? 1268 01:12:02,912 --> 01:12:05,637 Even when the kingdom is being overrun by the enemy 1269 01:12:05,637 --> 01:12:09,233 our brave and warlike commanders continue to wreak vengeance 1270 01:12:09,258 --> 01:12:11,186 on humble folk. 1271 01:12:11,364 --> 01:12:12,369 Silence! 1272 01:12:18,854 --> 01:12:19,932 Where's the mortar? 1273 01:12:20,970 --> 01:12:25,116 Stand straight, Soldier! What do you want the mortar for? 1274 01:12:25,413 --> 01:12:28,532 The miller's bones must be pounded. 1275 01:12:28,532 --> 01:12:30,648 There's the mortar and here's the oven. 1276 01:12:30,648 --> 01:12:33,112 - Anything else that you want? - Only an axe! 1277 01:12:33,611 --> 01:12:36,828 Read out the scroll of victory and sound the trumpet... 1278 01:12:36,828 --> 01:12:39,587 for you've vanquished the humble and the empty-handed! 1279 01:12:40,118 --> 01:12:42,282 If that's the miller's corpse, 1280 01:12:44,531 --> 01:12:46,318 who is this man? 1281 01:12:48,599 --> 01:12:51,356 The Arab prisoner is ready to die but he won't speak. 1282 01:12:51,356 --> 01:12:53,405 Yet he keeps mumbling something. 1283 01:12:53,678 --> 01:12:58,007 It should be found out whether the Arabs are coming or going. 1284 01:12:58,079 --> 01:13:00,136 That indeed is necessary! 1285 01:13:07,399 --> 01:13:09,000 Who are you, man? 1286 01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:13,048 Can we speak together in private for a few moments? 1287 01:13:23,319 --> 01:13:24,462 We three? 1288 01:13:30,132 --> 01:13:32,343 A family council. 1289 01:13:34,651 --> 01:13:38,438 Why not. If thinking together can add to your wisdom. 1290 01:13:38,599 --> 01:13:42,902 Why not, indeed. If it brings perspicacity to those who indulge their folly. 1291 01:13:45,258 --> 01:13:48,245 And if it brings about what we're after, 1292 01:13:48,345 --> 01:13:51,524 ponder together and ponder more. 1293 01:13:53,459 --> 01:13:57,375 But woe on you if it doesn't yield the knowledge we seek! 1294 01:13:57,567 --> 01:14:01,918 Wait outside but watch the doors. These are your prisoners. 1295 01:14:02,116 --> 01:14:03,499 Let all exits be blocked! 1296 01:14:04,220 --> 01:14:04,942 Off we go! 1297 01:14:10,329 --> 01:14:13,141 And when we return that man's face... 1298 01:14:13,141 --> 01:14:16,760 must be cleared of flour and all that covers it. 1299 01:14:23,256 --> 01:14:26,197 Show me where the Arab is. 1300 01:14:37,907 --> 01:14:41,021 What is it that you should say and we must not hear? 1301 01:14:41,122 --> 01:14:42,485 Get lost! 1302 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,800 I wish one of you would run away! 1303 01:15:22,630 --> 01:15:24,779 My lance will be lying in wait. 1304 01:15:25,342 --> 01:15:28,827 You would make good meat for my skewer! 1305 01:15:29,711 --> 01:15:31,742 Pity my lance is poisoned. 1306 01:15:31,871 --> 01:15:32,751 To hell! 1307 01:16:00,961 --> 01:16:02,675 What's on your mind, woman? 1308 01:16:02,842 --> 01:16:04,994 Fool, there's no escape! 1309 01:16:05,009 --> 01:16:08,055 If they take this carcass to be the corpse of the fallen King, 1310 01:16:08,055 --> 01:16:09,889 they'll also spill our blood. 1311 01:16:10,002 --> 01:16:14,679 We must say and repeat that this is not the King. 1312 01:16:15,073 --> 01:16:19,053 We all know that this corpse is that of the miller. 1313 01:16:19,635 --> 01:16:23,365 If this is the miller, then who am I? 1314 01:16:23,365 --> 01:16:25,313 This is the question soon to be asked. 1315 01:16:25,313 --> 01:16:29,455 If I'm not the miller, then I must be the King, right? 1316 01:16:29,455 --> 01:16:30,533 No other way. 1317 01:16:30,892 --> 01:16:33,627 If you be not the King, then you'll be the King's killer 1318 01:16:34,089 --> 01:16:36,773 and we shall all die a painful death. 1319 01:16:37,451 --> 01:16:40,470 Which is better: to be the King or die? 1320 01:16:41,016 --> 01:16:43,275 You have a point there! 1321 01:16:44,132 --> 01:16:46,069 You never liked my father. 1322 01:16:46,483 --> 01:16:48,445 You were never kind to him 1323 01:16:48,856 --> 01:16:51,309 or shared your bed with him. O you! 1324 01:16:51,683 --> 01:16:54,171 You never gave yourself to him 1325 01:16:54,563 --> 01:16:58,176 and he has always mourned his own distress and poverty and your unkindness. 1326 01:16:58,399 --> 01:17:00,125 I shall never be reconciled to you. 1327 01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:01,414 What could I have done... 1328 01:17:01,862 --> 01:17:05,625 except to turn all the days of my life into night beside him in this dungeon? 1329 01:17:05,756 --> 01:17:07,820 And to be a beast of burden such as himself? 1330 01:17:08,181 --> 01:17:11,216 Like two mules together turning the millstone. 1331 01:17:11,866 --> 01:17:14,865 Don't make me even more regretful for having born you. 1332 01:17:15,375 --> 01:17:19,552 I never expected gratitude from you for having brought you to this world. 1333 01:17:19,616 --> 01:17:22,306 Enough! Stop it, girl! 1334 01:17:22,455 --> 01:17:27,051 Don't speak with me! Don't touch me, you stranger! 1335 01:17:27,051 --> 01:17:28,885 It is me, fool! Don't you know me? 1336 01:17:28,885 --> 01:17:33,291 I know you well. I know what manner of man you are. 1337 01:17:33,576 --> 01:17:36,255 Had there been buyers you would have sold me... 1338 01:17:36,336 --> 01:17:37,825 for one smile from this woman. 1339 01:17:37,856 --> 01:17:39,290 What can I do, my beloved? 1340 01:17:39,290 --> 01:17:41,272 Your sellers are my buyers. 1341 01:17:41,272 --> 01:17:42,706 Cut the quarrel short! 1342 01:17:43,888 --> 01:17:46,804 While here we scuffle, 1343 01:17:47,032 --> 01:17:51,464 outside they raise our graves stone upon stone 1344 01:17:51,577 --> 01:17:55,417 and make my gibbet steady. So, be silent! 1345 01:17:56,312 --> 01:17:58,598 Why should I not weep... 1346 01:17:58,846 --> 01:18:04,936 since my poor father perished before my very eyes? 1347 01:18:05,192 --> 01:18:10,856 O mother's darling do not make my heart bleed! 1348 01:18:13,189 --> 01:18:15,640 Why does she think me dead? 1349 01:18:17,198 --> 01:18:20,184 Have I ever lived in your eyes? 1350 01:18:21,745 --> 01:18:23,210 Ah, what am I saying? 1351 01:18:24,385 --> 01:18:26,687 I was born in this crypt. 1352 01:18:27,323 --> 01:18:30,282 I was already a dead man stepping into a cold grave. 1353 01:18:30,613 --> 01:18:33,482 And now, before seeing the light of the world, 1354 01:18:33,482 --> 01:18:35,504 I'm passing from one death to another. 1355 01:18:36,687 --> 01:18:41,175 Father, why did you not take me with you? 1356 01:18:41,567 --> 01:18:45,435 She truly believes him to be the miller! 1357 01:18:45,811 --> 01:18:47,249 It seems so. 1358 01:18:48,715 --> 01:18:50,583 And that's not a bad thing. 1359 01:18:52,153 --> 01:18:54,880 Her madness leads to profit... 1360 01:18:56,055 --> 01:18:58,280 while wisdom brings nothing but loss. 1361 01:18:59,233 --> 01:19:00,738 Ah, my daughter! 1362 01:19:01,863 --> 01:19:07,785 Misfortune has crushed her so and she no longer knows who she is. 1363 01:19:10,068 --> 01:19:12,878 God knows how long she'll thus continue 1364 01:19:14,037 --> 01:19:15,910 and do as she does. 1365 01:19:27,303 --> 01:19:29,011 Did you hear their words? 1366 01:19:29,011 --> 01:19:31,682 No, Commander, I only peeped through the hole in the door. 1367 01:19:31,903 --> 01:19:34,646 Before he died, that wretched little Arab... 1368 01:19:34,646 --> 01:19:37,898 as a result of what he said made us think of gathering an army... 1369 01:19:37,898 --> 01:19:39,961 as quickly as we could. 1370 01:19:40,455 --> 01:19:44,833 The Arabs have pushed directly eastwards so they're getting further away from here. 1371 01:19:44,833 --> 01:19:45,751 Further away? 1372 01:19:45,754 --> 01:19:50,011 Yes, and this stands to reason and tallies with the forecasts of war experts. 1373 01:19:50,011 --> 01:19:51,698 Getting further away. What glad tidings! 1374 01:19:51,815 --> 01:19:53,433 So fortune smiles on us. 1375 01:19:53,715 --> 01:19:58,008 Indeed, it would've been great news if the King were still alive. 1376 01:19:58,155 --> 01:20:00,950 Did the meeting of your minds bear any fruit? 1377 01:20:00,950 --> 01:20:02,670 We only watered the tree. 1378 01:20:02,670 --> 01:20:05,886 A ripe fruit, which should be picked. Be quicker! 1379 01:20:05,886 --> 01:20:07,210 It's not easy. 1380 01:20:08,035 --> 01:20:11,107 O priest, I must break an oath. 1381 01:20:11,731 --> 01:20:12,964 Is this admissible? 1382 01:20:13,131 --> 01:20:16,455 There's only one way and that's the path of truth. 1383 01:20:16,853 --> 01:20:19,061 The girl was right. 1384 01:20:19,892 --> 01:20:24,245 The miller sleeps here. 1385 01:20:24,861 --> 01:20:25,782 What did you say? 1386 01:20:26,815 --> 01:20:29,553 Consolidate everything you say with a deadly oath! 1387 01:20:29,677 --> 01:20:33,621 I swear by the lives of all priests! 1388 01:20:33,965 --> 01:20:35,838 So, this dead man is the miller. 1389 01:20:36,349 --> 01:20:37,801 And who is this man? 1390 01:20:45,616 --> 01:20:46,542 The King. 1391 01:20:47,713 --> 01:20:49,892 - Did you hear? - Unbelievable! 1392 01:20:49,892 --> 01:20:52,280 Yes, noble knights and Commanders. 1393 01:20:52,452 --> 01:20:54,758 The miller died his own death. 1394 01:20:54,942 --> 01:20:57,877 And this living standing man here is the King... 1395 01:20:57,973 --> 01:21:00,612 who wanted to be lost to himself. 1396 01:21:00,786 --> 01:21:03,317 So, he put on these clothes. 1397 01:21:04,895 --> 01:21:07,740 Is this not a dream come true? 1398 01:21:08,214 --> 01:21:10,101 Why did you not say this at first? 1399 01:21:10,963 --> 01:21:15,187 I had sworn to hide his secret. 1400 01:21:15,851 --> 01:21:18,370 And he was testing us, all of us. Do you hear? 1401 01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:20,701 I hope I haven't used any strong words. 1402 01:21:21,401 --> 01:21:24,502 I am indeed fortunate to have passed this test with honour. 1403 01:21:24,682 --> 01:21:25,877 O, King! 1404 01:21:26,861 --> 01:21:32,649 Look at your sword of justice becoming blunt now! 1405 01:21:33,084 --> 01:21:37,605 The death of the miller shall pass without punishment. 1406 01:21:37,605 --> 01:21:41,208 O yes, look at your justice! 1407 01:21:42,842 --> 01:21:44,749 What is the King's command? 1408 01:21:44,934 --> 01:21:46,813 Get out of my way! 1409 01:21:47,601 --> 01:21:49,861 Leave me to my solitude 1410 01:21:50,399 --> 01:21:53,408 and never say you've seen me! 1411 01:21:53,783 --> 01:21:56,170 Has the King no more wishes? 1412 01:21:56,170 --> 01:21:58,990 He won't accept his own kingship. 1413 01:21:59,356 --> 01:22:02,638 I didn't want to have brave knights around me. 1414 01:22:03,177 --> 01:22:06,620 I thought we'd soon be talked about everywhere... 1415 01:22:06,620 --> 01:22:08,826 and that wouldn't pass without harm. 1416 01:22:09,162 --> 01:22:12,684 I thought I should get away and cast no shadows. 1417 01:22:13,157 --> 01:22:16,356 So I thought it best to be taken for dead. 1418 01:22:16,889 --> 01:22:18,740 And I put on these clothes. 1419 01:22:18,877 --> 01:22:20,551 These are wise words. 1420 01:22:20,597 --> 01:22:22,627 What pain does the King suffer! 1421 01:22:23,013 --> 01:22:25,721 Our backs be bent before you, o King! 1422 01:22:29,885 --> 01:22:31,756 If you're the King, 1423 01:22:32,698 --> 01:22:35,521 speak my name! 1424 01:22:35,521 --> 01:22:38,073 Why should the King know the names of his servants? 1425 01:22:38,255 --> 01:22:39,954 That's a kindly answer! 1426 01:22:40,242 --> 01:22:42,002 But there should be a witness. 1427 01:22:42,775 --> 01:22:46,160 Is there no one among the military who's seen the King? 1428 01:22:46,342 --> 01:22:48,005 Are you testing the King? 1429 01:22:48,415 --> 01:22:52,408 Ay, now that this man's face is cleared of dust... 1430 01:22:52,594 --> 01:22:55,838 perhaps some can distinguish in him truth from falsehood. 1431 01:22:56,363 --> 01:22:59,924 If you spare me I shall confess my unforgivable sin. 1432 01:23:00,528 --> 01:23:05,354 Ay, I once stealthily looked at the shining face of the King... 1433 01:23:05,659 --> 01:23:06,744 but from far away. 1434 01:23:06,911 --> 01:23:10,173 He was in hunting grounds surrounded by the falconers... 1435 01:23:10,173 --> 01:23:13,330 when my eyes caught his sight, only for a short moment. 1436 01:23:14,107 --> 01:23:17,550 And I don't truly know if that was the true face of the King 1437 01:23:17,742 --> 01:23:20,164 or whether he had put on a false face; 1438 01:23:20,526 --> 01:23:23,908 A bow in one hand and a cup in the other. 1439 01:23:24,707 --> 01:23:26,934 But these are useless signs... 1440 01:23:27,045 --> 01:23:30,169 for I've heard that in order not to be recognised, 1441 01:23:30,345 --> 01:23:33,788 the King has put his hair and beard in the hands of hairdressers. 1442 01:23:34,165 --> 01:23:36,656 How then could he be recognised? 1443 01:23:37,252 --> 01:23:38,565 Indeed he couldn't. 1444 01:23:38,756 --> 01:23:41,625 The King had the scent of cardamoms and rose-water. 1445 01:23:41,712 --> 01:23:43,983 And here there's only the smell of must and dampness. 1446 01:23:44,585 --> 01:23:46,098 But I know a way. 1447 01:23:46,321 --> 01:23:51,586 O man, put on the King's crown and wear his robe! 1448 01:24:03,319 --> 01:24:04,252 Here! 1449 01:24:23,259 --> 01:24:25,139 No, this is not him. 1450 01:24:25,139 --> 01:24:27,753 With this crown and robe I swear... 1451 01:24:27,886 --> 01:24:30,753 he's far more magnificent than our King! 1452 01:24:30,932 --> 01:24:32,200 Another test! 1453 01:24:32,870 --> 01:24:33,700 Walk! 1454 01:24:34,448 --> 01:24:35,098 Laugh! 1455 01:24:35,674 --> 01:24:36,795 Turn around! 1456 01:24:38,724 --> 01:24:40,054 Close your eyes! 1457 01:24:40,564 --> 01:24:41,922 Gloat! 1458 01:24:42,163 --> 01:24:42,881 Shout! 1459 01:24:43,430 --> 01:24:44,064 Cry out! 1460 01:24:44,585 --> 01:24:45,304 Whisper! 1461 01:24:45,665 --> 01:24:46,849 Open your arms! 1462 01:24:47,064 --> 01:24:48,486 Put your hands to your sides! 1463 01:24:48,665 --> 01:24:50,116 Cross your hands! 1464 01:24:51,923 --> 01:24:53,052 Cannot be told. 1465 01:24:53,515 --> 01:24:55,436 But these are not the hands of a King. 1466 01:24:55,795 --> 01:24:58,032 Hands so rough and worked... 1467 01:24:58,396 --> 01:25:00,223 callous and crusty. 1468 01:25:00,354 --> 01:25:01,026 Are they not? 1469 01:25:01,195 --> 01:25:02,959 By heavens they are. 1470 01:25:03,207 --> 01:25:06,685 The war-battered hands of a warlike, club-wielding King... 1471 01:25:06,972 --> 01:25:11,027 that have pulled many a bow string thrown many a javelin... 1472 01:25:11,027 --> 01:25:14,172 shot many an arrow wielded many a sword and ripped many a chain mail. 1473 01:25:16,183 --> 01:25:19,874 I don't recall the name of the best of the King's horses. 1474 01:25:20,383 --> 01:25:21,275 Shabrang! 1475 01:25:22,027 --> 01:25:24,501 - And the best bird? - Shabâviz! 1476 01:25:24,501 --> 01:25:26,323 - And the best woman? - Shabâhang! 1477 01:25:27,108 --> 01:25:31,403 If you're the King then tell us the number of chambers in Ctesiphon palace! 1478 01:25:32,170 --> 01:25:34,402 The Dark Chamber for rebels, 1479 01:25:34,891 --> 01:25:37,372 the Ruby Chamber for women, 1480 01:25:37,771 --> 01:25:40,913 and the Chrysoline Chamber for musicians. 1481 01:25:41,567 --> 01:25:43,857 Any other question? 1482 01:25:44,527 --> 01:25:46,764 He knows. He knows! 1483 01:25:47,342 --> 01:25:48,658 Give us another sign! 1484 01:25:49,976 --> 01:25:51,455 The Negârestân Carpet... 1485 01:25:51,957 --> 01:25:55,000 with one 1,111 jewels. 1486 01:25:55,156 --> 01:25:57,356 He knows! Do you hear? 1487 01:25:57,431 --> 01:26:00,630 The exact number of the King's wives is my exclusive knowledge. 1488 01:26:00,812 --> 01:26:02,449 If you're the King, tell it! 1489 01:26:02,510 --> 01:26:04,027 Two hundred and ten. 1490 01:26:04,027 --> 01:26:05,903 Astonishing! These are all correct. 1491 01:26:07,093 --> 01:26:09,171 How do you know all this? 1492 01:26:10,417 --> 01:26:14,729 You told me, don't you remember, King? 1493 01:26:14,813 --> 01:26:15,879 I did not. 1494 01:26:16,895 --> 01:26:18,195 You told me... 1495 01:26:19,496 --> 01:26:21,390 the number of corridors, 1496 01:26:22,338 --> 01:26:23,599 jewels, 1497 01:26:24,286 --> 01:26:26,040 and bed chambers. 1498 01:26:26,544 --> 01:26:28,385 Who else could have told me? 1499 01:26:28,505 --> 01:26:29,294 He! 1500 01:26:29,837 --> 01:26:32,620 When he drove me into the rain. 1501 01:26:32,770 --> 01:26:34,764 He told you, the King! 1502 01:26:34,798 --> 01:26:36,379 You're the King! 1503 01:26:36,379 --> 01:26:37,998 No, he's not me. 1504 01:26:37,998 --> 01:26:40,581 I am I, myself, the miller. 1505 01:26:40,598 --> 01:26:42,289 I am a man without wealth or fortune 1506 01:26:42,289 --> 01:26:44,629 and I have my hands in blood up to my elbow. 1507 01:26:44,743 --> 01:26:46,820 Say he told you all this! 1508 01:26:46,838 --> 01:26:48,240 Indeed, he did. 1509 01:26:49,122 --> 01:26:50,628 Indeed, he did. 1510 01:26:50,675 --> 01:26:51,997 Separate them! 1511 01:26:52,961 --> 01:26:54,202 What is the matter? 1512 01:26:56,642 --> 01:26:57,955 The matter? 1513 01:27:00,506 --> 01:27:03,014 I saw it with my own eyes... 1514 01:27:03,905 --> 01:27:08,975 I, whom they took for nobody. 1515 01:27:09,142 --> 01:27:09,943 Speak! 1516 01:27:11,105 --> 01:27:13,757 He wanted to seduce my mother. 1517 01:27:13,806 --> 01:27:14,876 That's not true. 1518 01:27:14,876 --> 01:27:16,028 Your wife! 1519 01:27:16,145 --> 01:27:18,017 Do not slander our King! 1520 01:27:18,026 --> 01:27:19,984 He waylaid you, miller. 1521 01:27:20,105 --> 01:27:22,408 - Our King? - Pouring venom! 1522 01:27:22,408 --> 01:27:26,828 I don't mind this woman for she's been held in many arms before. 1523 01:27:26,828 --> 01:27:28,510 - Coward! - I'm no fool. 1524 01:27:28,510 --> 01:27:30,623 - We all have our clients. - Neighbours? 1525 01:27:30,626 --> 01:27:33,282 Had I not tried who would've given us bread? 1526 01:27:33,282 --> 01:27:35,068 How much harm did you to him! 1527 01:27:35,186 --> 01:27:38,980 Did I harm you by saving you from starvation when we had nothing? 1528 01:27:39,463 --> 01:27:40,929 What are they saying? 1529 01:27:41,228 --> 01:27:44,573 With all this evil talk Ahurâ Mazdâ cannot be here. 1530 01:27:45,170 --> 01:27:47,596 It is time for the moon to chance colour 1531 01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:50,446 and the sun to show fearsome signs. 1532 01:27:50,811 --> 01:27:53,649 There has crown conflict between my knowledge and my faith, 1533 01:27:53,820 --> 01:27:56,440 and between wisdom and love. It looks like the end of Ahurâi millennium. 1534 01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:58,947 We must send Books of Counsel. 1535 01:27:58,959 --> 01:28:00,963 Send Books of Counsel by all means, Mubad... 1536 01:28:01,638 --> 01:28:04,677 but let them be accompanied by some bread. 1537 01:28:05,461 --> 01:28:09,580 We people have a surfeit of counsel and crave for bread. 1538 01:28:09,861 --> 01:28:11,881 I'm not a man of knowledge, Mubad. 1539 01:28:12,282 --> 01:28:13,860 You who are, say something. 1540 01:28:13,923 --> 01:28:16,055 Yes, protest! 1541 01:28:17,442 --> 01:28:19,557 Who could blame me? 1542 01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,226 For long years I've been waiting for deliverance. 1543 01:28:30,356 --> 01:28:34,731 He wanted to seduce my mother. 1544 01:28:36,236 --> 01:28:38,794 He whispered in darkness 1545 01:28:40,111 --> 01:28:46,616 and there was only the tongue of fire between them. 1546 01:28:46,725 --> 01:28:47,765 Where was I? 1547 01:28:47,765 --> 01:28:50,080 - In the rain! - Was it not early evening? 1548 01:28:50,791 --> 01:28:57,098 When the storm swirled and spiralled and began to roar 1549 01:28:57,830 --> 01:29:02,319 and at last ended in blizzard and hailstone. 1550 01:29:03,283 --> 01:29:08,081 Yes, even then the King was still trying 1551 01:29:08,357 --> 01:29:13,444 to belittle the miller... forcing him to bark like a dog! 1552 01:29:20,437 --> 01:29:21,351 Louder! 1553 01:29:22,681 --> 01:29:24,662 Give me that gilded crown 1554 01:29:26,244 --> 01:29:27,461 and that girdle! 1555 01:29:34,119 --> 01:29:37,215 And now tell me, once again who I am! 1556 01:29:37,319 --> 01:29:39,201 My Liege, you're the King. 1557 01:29:39,519 --> 01:29:41,048 And who are you, beggar's son? 1558 01:29:41,245 --> 01:29:43,099 Your humble dog, the miller. 1559 01:29:43,278 --> 01:29:45,846 Whom does everything you have come from? 1560 01:29:45,999 --> 01:29:47,907 All we have comes from the King. 1561 01:29:47,958 --> 01:29:50,663 What are you saying, man? We don't have anything! 1562 01:29:50,693 --> 01:29:52,524 Even that comes from the King. 1563 01:29:52,859 --> 01:29:56,395 The girl was my kingly portion. 1564 01:30:01,851 --> 01:30:02,958 Did you know that? 1565 01:30:04,824 --> 01:30:05,710 What happened? 1566 01:30:10,605 --> 01:30:12,713 Arrows of misfortune rain from the sky. 1567 01:30:12,894 --> 01:30:14,348 I'm the target of them all. 1568 01:30:14,734 --> 01:30:16,760 There's no end to them. 1569 01:30:17,068 --> 01:30:20,283 With dishevelled hair they're soiled and leather-belted... 1570 01:30:20,468 --> 01:30:23,479 with raised banners and black saddles. 1571 01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:25,345 Were they so near? 1572 01:30:25,667 --> 01:30:26,681 The enemy? 1573 01:30:31,062 --> 01:30:33,461 Would that they were far away now! 1574 01:30:35,163 --> 01:30:37,291 It seems clear... 1575 01:30:37,949 --> 01:30:40,517 that the world does not wish me dead. 1576 01:30:41,460 --> 01:30:43,450 So, I'll have to stay alive! 1577 01:30:43,828 --> 01:30:45,339 Even rats are running away. 1578 01:30:45,474 --> 01:30:48,078 It is cold. What a rain... 1579 01:30:48,331 --> 01:30:51,074 Out of the blizzard I seem to hear a thousand dirges. 1580 01:30:51,074 --> 01:30:52,720 Perhaps they shall return. 1581 01:30:53,389 --> 01:30:54,248 Fetch some fire! 1582 01:30:54,990 --> 01:30:56,028 Where's the firewood? 1583 01:30:59,012 --> 01:31:01,253 I looked at the sky. 1584 01:31:02,758 --> 01:31:05,119 It is raining fast. 1585 01:31:06,789 --> 01:31:09,768 Like an inverted sea. 1586 01:31:10,332 --> 01:31:12,095 - What's this? - A sword. 1587 01:31:12,604 --> 01:31:14,921 For your breast! 1588 01:31:16,084 --> 01:31:19,321 You did not kill me miller. 1589 01:31:20,380 --> 01:31:23,552 You were more frightened than I had thought. 1590 01:31:24,219 --> 01:31:27,761 You did not even have the guts... 1591 01:31:27,761 --> 01:31:30,687 to bring down the stick you had raised. 1592 01:31:30,755 --> 01:31:32,186 I'm a harmless man. 1593 01:31:32,235 --> 01:31:33,804 It is cold. 1594 01:31:33,804 --> 01:31:34,950 What makes you shriek? 1595 01:31:34,950 --> 01:31:35,738 You! 1596 01:31:35,994 --> 01:31:37,363 You, man! 1597 01:31:37,554 --> 01:31:38,892 You, kind-hearted man... 1598 01:31:39,069 --> 01:31:43,851 who broke your stick on your knee when you should've cracked his skull. 1599 01:31:44,132 --> 01:31:48,012 Must we sit now and watch the ruffians come 1600 01:31:48,178 --> 01:31:50,452 and sweep away your household and disgrace you? 1601 01:31:50,452 --> 01:31:52,274 I am a hospitable man. 1602 01:31:52,297 --> 01:31:55,520 You didn't kill the man who held the key to our fortune. 1603 01:31:55,595 --> 01:31:58,323 Don't look at me so with bleeding eyes! 1604 01:31:58,323 --> 01:32:00,781 Was it not you who fell on his feet like a dog? 1605 01:32:01,533 --> 01:32:03,525 What is this secret parley? 1606 01:32:03,995 --> 01:32:06,164 He's a harmless man. 1607 01:32:07,372 --> 01:32:10,104 That is well, my good man. 1608 01:32:10,604 --> 01:32:13,084 You know that one is rewarded with gold 1609 01:32:13,084 --> 01:32:15,162 and punished with sword. 1610 01:32:15,945 --> 01:32:19,042 I'm cold to my bones. Fetch some firewood. 1611 01:32:21,533 --> 01:32:22,575 Fire... 1612 01:32:23,870 --> 01:32:26,590 and something to eat. A sheep. 1613 01:32:26,590 --> 01:32:29,533 Which sheep? There's famin among people. 1614 01:32:29,630 --> 01:32:32,099 Many have starved to death. 1615 01:32:33,870 --> 01:32:35,819 If only my horse had not run away... 1616 01:32:35,819 --> 01:32:37,309 We would've eaten it together! 1617 01:32:37,430 --> 01:32:41,131 - Are you making yourself equal to a king? - You made yourself equal to a beggar. 1618 01:32:41,133 --> 01:32:42,393 Go to the village. 1619 01:32:43,310 --> 01:32:45,577 Peddlers or hucksters or anyone... 1620 01:32:46,110 --> 01:32:48,470 who might have a sheep, 1621 01:32:48,630 --> 01:32:50,521 must know that it belongs to the King. 1622 01:32:50,808 --> 01:32:51,819 Use force! 1623 01:32:52,334 --> 01:32:53,171 Steal! 1624 01:32:53,969 --> 01:32:56,765 You all belong to the race of robbers. 1625 01:32:56,765 --> 01:32:59,136 It is cold. Do not send me away in this blizzard! 1626 01:33:00,375 --> 01:33:01,373 Take a lamp. 1627 01:33:02,778 --> 01:33:06,993 - And do not come back without victual! - The village is miles away. 1628 01:33:07,121 --> 01:33:11,040 Better if you find the roast. Did you hear? 1629 01:33:11,658 --> 01:33:15,130 Bring me a roast for dinner or a sheep! 1630 01:33:15,130 --> 01:33:16,897 It is late. I'll get lost. 1631 01:33:16,897 --> 01:33:19,060 It's dark and windy and there's lashing rain. 1632 01:33:19,060 --> 01:33:21,140 What about the King's command? 1633 01:33:21,140 --> 01:33:22,888 Humbly I go this minute. 1634 01:33:23,385 --> 01:33:24,103 Why? 1635 01:33:25,682 --> 01:33:30,573 No beast would venture into the desert... 1636 01:33:31,087 --> 01:33:32,525 in this black rainy night. 1637 01:33:33,413 --> 01:33:36,541 I've become suspicious of you, man. 1638 01:33:38,790 --> 01:33:41,024 My heart has turned against you. 1639 01:33:41,536 --> 01:33:46,729 You're not foolishly contemplating to go and reveal the King's secret, are you? 1640 01:33:46,729 --> 01:33:48,325 I had no such intention. 1641 01:33:48,830 --> 01:33:50,363 You know my whereabouts. 1642 01:33:51,095 --> 01:33:55,199 And there are those who'd give you gold for a sign of me. 1643 01:33:55,199 --> 01:33:58,030 You put this thought into my head, King! 1644 01:33:58,428 --> 01:34:03,328 Then, I shall keep your wife and daughter... 1645 01:34:03,328 --> 01:34:05,162 as hostages here 1646 01:34:06,388 --> 01:34:08,832 and I hold a naked sword in my hand. 1647 01:34:09,868 --> 01:34:13,288 When that idea crosses your mind, 1648 01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:16,080 remember this! 1649 01:34:16,756 --> 01:34:20,135 No bandit has ever treated us so. 1650 01:34:20,764 --> 01:34:23,654 Do you put kings on the same footing as bandits? 1651 01:34:24,476 --> 01:34:28,541 Unlike kings bandits show mercy to the poor. 1652 01:34:29,203 --> 01:34:30,198 I should go. 1653 01:34:30,350 --> 01:34:33,700 Is it not time for me to be delivered from this woman? 1654 01:34:33,700 --> 01:34:34,870 From me? 1655 01:34:35,249 --> 01:34:39,112 Wherever in the world you may be having lost your heart you shall return to me. 1656 01:34:39,112 --> 01:34:41,286 Have we not been through this many times before? 1657 01:34:43,084 --> 01:34:44,120 I went. 1658 01:34:44,284 --> 01:34:46,733 Under a dark and fearsome rain... 1659 01:34:46,765 --> 01:34:49,378 in which the desert could not be told from the night. 1660 01:34:49,553 --> 01:34:52,988 And the universe seemed like a turbulent sea... 1661 01:34:53,005 --> 01:34:56,421 a whore of a sea with its whirlpools. 1662 01:34:56,649 --> 01:35:00,800 There my mill appeared as an inverted ship. 1663 01:35:01,168 --> 01:35:02,909 I went. Far away. 1664 01:35:03,009 --> 01:35:06,520 Looking for a few pieces of firewood and a sheep for food. 1665 01:35:06,706 --> 01:35:13,074 But my thoughts were all here wondering what the King was up to. 1666 01:35:14,811 --> 01:35:16,741 Why must I die? 1667 01:35:18,161 --> 01:35:21,797 Why should I entrust myself to the frozen land of death? 1668 01:35:23,243 --> 01:35:26,704 The Arabs have lost track of me in the storm, 1669 01:35:27,614 --> 01:35:30,804 and I have shaved my chin and head 1670 01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,373 and gone into disguise, 1671 01:35:35,281 --> 01:35:38,084 hoping that I shall not be recognised. 1672 01:35:39,028 --> 01:35:40,853 One can run away 1673 01:35:41,393 --> 01:35:45,464 and live contentedly for years and years. 1674 01:35:46,393 --> 01:35:50,479 It would've been better if they thought me dead, 1675 01:35:50,747 --> 01:35:53,613 and stopped looking for me. 1676 01:35:55,037 --> 01:35:58,214 I wish I could find lifeless body 1677 01:35:58,830 --> 01:36:01,668 and clothe it with my clothes. 1678 01:36:02,506 --> 01:36:04,892 Ah, all is well... 1679 01:36:06,946 --> 01:36:11,868 except for this woman and her daughter, 1680 01:36:12,346 --> 01:36:15,607 who've been through the whole story 1681 01:36:15,867 --> 01:36:17,961 and can tell it to others. 1682 01:36:19,206 --> 01:36:21,264 The girl is witless, 1683 01:36:22,967 --> 01:36:26,622 and that leaves the woman. 1684 01:36:27,592 --> 01:36:28,828 He was with me. 1685 01:36:30,423 --> 01:36:32,596 The King and I, alone. 1686 01:36:34,582 --> 01:36:37,325 The miller's wife who has always had to put up... 1687 01:36:37,325 --> 01:36:40,420 with the scowls of hard-headed, hard-hearted ruffians. 1688 01:36:42,238 --> 01:36:44,485 The King is looking at me... 1689 01:36:46,401 --> 01:36:48,648 from beyond this fire. 1690 01:36:50,739 --> 01:36:52,181 What's on his mind? 1691 01:36:52,764 --> 01:36:55,616 Hum, this an idea. 1692 01:36:56,946 --> 01:36:58,961 Could she be trapped? 1693 01:36:59,321 --> 01:37:01,586 Fear has conquered me... 1694 01:37:03,095 --> 01:37:05,413 is my heart a dove? 1695 01:37:05,894 --> 01:37:09,692 The miller's wife has a fine body. 1696 01:37:10,081 --> 01:37:14,703 She has suffered and starved. 1697 01:37:16,061 --> 01:37:18,425 I shall make her look op to me. 1698 01:37:19,508 --> 01:37:21,217 I shall seduce her. 1699 01:37:21,388 --> 01:37:22,796 What do you want, King? 1700 01:37:23,548 --> 01:37:26,023 Could she be tamed with a bait? 1701 01:37:26,712 --> 01:37:27,730 Woman! 1702 01:37:28,175 --> 01:37:29,919 How is your husband? 1703 01:37:29,975 --> 01:37:30,798 He loves me. 1704 01:37:30,798 --> 01:37:31,871 - And you? - I? 1705 01:37:32,503 --> 01:37:34,129 Do I reveal anything? 1706 01:37:35,019 --> 01:37:37,897 Have I said anything to make you ask so direct a question? 1707 01:37:38,782 --> 01:37:40,046 I pity him. 1708 01:37:40,478 --> 01:37:42,836 He should not have gone. What am I doing? 1709 01:37:42,998 --> 01:37:44,391 What's happening to him? 1710 01:37:44,438 --> 01:37:46,033 Why do you tremble? 1711 01:37:46,703 --> 01:37:48,116 Why do you moan? 1712 01:37:48,116 --> 01:37:51,768 He's suffered much and I too. 1713 01:37:52,192 --> 01:37:53,373 I too! 1714 01:37:53,373 --> 01:37:56,303 O woman, you've made me desperate. 1715 01:37:56,303 --> 01:37:58,150 - No. - Come nearer woman! 1716 01:37:58,534 --> 01:38:00,176 You make my heart flutter. 1717 01:38:00,506 --> 01:38:01,974 You frighten me. 1718 01:38:02,376 --> 01:38:04,185 - Death to you, woman! - Why? 1719 01:38:05,202 --> 01:38:07,311 What pleasure did I ever have with you? 1720 01:38:08,445 --> 01:38:11,406 I was young when I stepped into this darkness my companion, 1721 01:38:12,639 --> 01:38:16,321 a stone placed beside another stone. 1722 01:38:16,599 --> 01:38:21,088 O father, why did they kill you? 1723 01:38:21,708 --> 01:38:23,579 No, dear girl. You were telling the King's story. 1724 01:38:24,110 --> 01:38:26,893 Mother, forgive me. I despise you. 1725 01:38:27,243 --> 01:38:29,050 I despise you! 1726 01:38:30,635 --> 01:38:34,918 That was a beautiful slap you gave to the King... 1727 01:38:34,994 --> 01:38:37,430 when he first opened his heart to you. 1728 01:38:37,430 --> 01:38:40,244 Stop! Don't torment me, my girl. You love me. Don't! 1729 01:38:40,384 --> 01:38:41,661 This miller is nothing. 1730 01:38:42,007 --> 01:38:45,898 If you despise him a little if you look for happiness be with me! 1731 01:38:45,898 --> 01:38:48,678 Yes, he said that and my heart fluttered. 1732 01:38:49,266 --> 01:38:51,160 Say more, o King! 1733 01:38:51,431 --> 01:38:54,947 I've taken a liking to you, miller's wife. 1734 01:38:55,310 --> 01:38:58,208 Your body is firm. It's the warmest thing... 1735 01:38:58,388 --> 01:39:01,072 that could be found in this rainstorm. 1736 01:39:01,351 --> 01:39:05,923 - I have taken to you! - Is that true? Would anyone take my hand? 1737 01:39:05,923 --> 01:39:07,739 - You shall be delivered. - From the whirlpool! 1738 01:39:07,790 --> 01:39:11,577 And I shall press you in my arms. 1739 01:39:11,577 --> 01:39:14,368 You pressed my daughter in your arms. 1740 01:39:14,390 --> 01:39:17,598 That wasn't for love. It was out of weariness. 1741 01:39:18,071 --> 01:39:21,044 You know well that this girl is not worthy of me. 1742 01:39:21,291 --> 01:39:23,670 All that was nothing but a bluff. 1743 01:39:24,043 --> 01:39:28,411 I sought your loathing, yours and the miller's, 1744 01:39:28,574 --> 01:39:31,468 and I wanted you to kill me with your own hands - 1745 01:39:31,468 --> 01:39:33,270 you and the miller. 1746 01:39:33,270 --> 01:39:34,471 May my hand be cut! 1747 01:39:34,472 --> 01:39:38,246 The likes of me die and the basest animals live. 1748 01:39:38,246 --> 01:39:39,694 - You shall not die! - What? 1749 01:39:39,694 --> 01:39:41,468 How can I be freed from my husband? 1750 01:39:41,468 --> 01:39:47,462 And I'm looking for a corpse a carcass in King's clothes. 1751 01:39:47,905 --> 01:39:49,823 How can I find this? 1752 01:39:52,756 --> 01:39:55,379 This is a fearsome thought. 1753 01:39:55,716 --> 01:40:02,607 Everyone will take it to be the King's body. 1754 01:40:03,264 --> 01:40:06,289 What end more glorious than that... 1755 01:40:06,631 --> 01:40:09,117 for your husband? 1756 01:40:09,264 --> 01:40:11,981 No one is guiltless. 1757 01:40:11,983 --> 01:40:16,026 You and I shall sit on one saddle 1758 01:40:16,346 --> 01:40:20,229 and my treasure shall suffice us forever. 1759 01:40:20,229 --> 01:40:22,003 - Shall I be free? - What do you say? 1760 01:40:22,003 --> 01:40:24,995 - You're younger. - And more comely. 1761 01:40:26,041 --> 01:40:29,605 I used to sit on Tâqdis, the Arched Throne 1762 01:40:29,971 --> 01:40:32,649 and walk on the Negârestân Carpet... 1763 01:40:33,046 --> 01:40:36,706 with 1,111 jewels 1764 01:40:37,447 --> 01:40:40,122 while my two hundred and ten wives followed me. 1765 01:40:40,122 --> 01:40:41,783 In the Ctesiphon Palace? 1766 01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:44,721 33 corridors in our palace... 1767 01:40:44,900 --> 01:40:46,816 All led to my terrace... 1768 01:40:47,450 --> 01:40:51,210 surrounded by seven chambers. 1769 01:40:51,424 --> 01:40:55,352 Dark Chamber for rebels, 1770 01:40:55,545 --> 01:40:59,242 Ruby Chamber for the women, 1771 01:40:59,545 --> 01:41:03,449 Chrysolite Chamber for musicians, 1772 01:41:03,505 --> 01:41:05,790 and other chambers. - Ah, you idiot! 1773 01:41:06,051 --> 01:41:09,547 - So you were listening to all that! - And more. 1774 01:41:10,649 --> 01:41:13,982 I'm from earth and water and you from air and fire. 1775 01:41:14,209 --> 01:41:17,645 For me there's no escape from you. No escape! 1776 01:41:17,645 --> 01:41:19,106 Don't torment me! 1777 01:41:19,743 --> 01:41:24,103 Your eyes are burning forests 1778 01:41:25,969 --> 01:41:30,266 and the storm is raging in your limbs. 1779 01:41:31,615 --> 01:41:33,879 Moan quietly, woman! 1780 01:41:34,629 --> 01:41:36,418 Quiet! 1781 01:41:40,956 --> 01:41:42,418 So you heard everything! 1782 01:41:42,418 --> 01:41:45,275 O miller's wife, the miller is nothing. 1783 01:41:45,455 --> 01:41:47,907 You close your eyes and we shall kill him... 1784 01:41:47,907 --> 01:41:50,679 and wrap him in my regal garments and run away. 1785 01:41:50,984 --> 01:41:53,594 Everyone will think that the dead man is me. 1786 01:41:53,594 --> 01:41:55,654 The girl. What about the girl? 1787 01:41:55,752 --> 01:41:57,701 That foolish slave-girl? 1788 01:41:58,476 --> 01:42:00,771 She has no wits! 1789 01:42:01,532 --> 01:42:03,054 If she stays alive, 1790 01:42:03,503 --> 01:42:06,908 the enemy's army shall pass over her body. 1791 01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:08,228 Kill her! 1792 01:42:08,693 --> 01:42:12,939 This is a better fate for her. 1793 01:42:12,939 --> 01:42:14,319 Kill her! 1794 01:42:14,503 --> 01:42:16,913 My father comes. 1795 01:42:17,384 --> 01:42:19,802 From the heart of darkness and storm... 1796 01:42:20,196 --> 01:42:24,219 he comes puzzled. 1797 01:42:24,219 --> 01:42:25,704 Kill him! 1798 01:42:25,903 --> 01:42:27,188 O shameless creature! 1799 01:42:27,578 --> 01:42:28,443 Die! 1800 01:42:43,052 --> 01:42:44,791 Yes, he attacked me. 1801 01:42:44,852 --> 01:42:49,074 Your King. With drawn sword. Like a wild beast. 1802 01:42:49,250 --> 01:42:53,464 He was a bold warrior and his Kâboli sword was peerless. 1803 01:42:53,672 --> 01:42:57,730 Like death he descended upon me and I killed him. 1804 01:43:00,950 --> 01:43:02,830 Was that not suicide? 1805 01:43:03,008 --> 01:43:05,846 Where is salvation? 1806 01:43:48,747 --> 01:43:51,081 The gallows is ready. The grave is dug. 1807 01:43:51,449 --> 01:43:54,255 The mortar is beside the gallows and the oven is blazing. 1808 01:44:03,358 --> 01:44:04,549 O woman! 1809 01:44:06,005 --> 01:44:07,439 O my daughter! 1810 01:44:08,777 --> 01:44:10,460 Come nearer! 1811 01:44:11,564 --> 01:44:14,191 You victims of my poverty! 1812 01:44:16,103 --> 01:44:18,697 Now I part with my twin mate: 1813 01:44:20,263 --> 01:44:21,899 Misery. 1814 01:44:23,702 --> 01:44:26,858 From what I've heard the advancing enemy, 1815 01:44:27,525 --> 01:44:28,868 the Arabs, 1816 01:44:29,783 --> 01:44:33,878 are more like me than these commanders. 1817 01:44:35,263 --> 01:44:37,805 And if I had bread and dates, 1818 01:44:38,616 --> 01:44:40,235 I'd give it to them. 1819 01:44:41,295 --> 01:44:43,846 Break the gallows and put out the oven! 1820 01:44:44,059 --> 01:44:45,278 My verdict changes. 1821 01:44:45,790 --> 01:44:46,914 Mine too. 1822 01:44:46,914 --> 01:44:47,630 And also mine. 1823 01:44:47,630 --> 01:44:51,267 The legend stays as it is. Put this dead body on the gallows! 1824 01:44:51,391 --> 01:44:52,312 The King? 1825 01:44:52,312 --> 01:44:54,345 Without delay. This is the miller. 1826 01:44:54,528 --> 01:44:56,814 Let me know when this evil deed is done. 1827 01:44:58,387 --> 01:45:01,722 O priest, should you not sing a hymn? 1828 01:45:03,393 --> 01:45:06,456 Let us go. History is written by the victors. 1829 01:45:55,174 --> 01:45:56,625 What're you gazing at? 1830 01:45:58,180 --> 01:46:01,001 I shall throw away this commander's uniform. 1831 01:46:02,140 --> 01:46:03,909 This is a hopeless war. 1832 01:46:04,587 --> 01:46:08,188 From him we have inherited a world we cannot defend. 1833 01:46:12,387 --> 01:46:13,702 What are you gazing at? 1834 01:46:14,806 --> 01:46:16,797 O man, look! 1835 01:46:17,202 --> 01:46:18,783 Through the same threshold... 1836 01:46:18,783 --> 01:46:21,894 where you witnessed the entrance of the King in rags, look! 1837 01:46:22,169 --> 01:46:24,955 In his footsteps I behold the Arab army. 1838 01:47:49,278 --> 01:47:52,234 We were all death's prey and did not know it. 1839 01:47:52,715 --> 01:47:54,667 Judgement is not passed yet. 1840 01:47:54,875 --> 01:47:57,558 Look at the principle judges who're just arriving. 1841 01:47:57,965 --> 01:47:59,934 A sea of an army! 1842 01:48:00,155 --> 01:48:02,116 They neither greet not take leave... 1843 01:48:02,289 --> 01:48:04,563 neither ask questions nor listen to answers... 1844 01:48:04,975 --> 01:48:07,568 they speak the language of the sword. 1845 01:48:08,406 --> 01:48:10,138 We're trapped. 1846 01:48:10,441 --> 01:48:11,508 The Arabs! 1847 01:48:12,807 --> 01:48:15,035 Draw your swords! Raise your spears! 1848 01:48:15,035 --> 01:48:16,819 Javelins! Drums! 1849 01:48:17,564 --> 01:48:18,852 Useless words! 1850 01:48:19,273 --> 01:48:22,558 Pray to death who is standing at the door! 1851 01:48:22,957 --> 01:48:26,867 Numberless like sands of the desert flying around in storm... 1852 01:48:27,038 --> 01:48:28,990 and blinding the eyes of the world! 1853 01:48:29,043 --> 01:48:33,368 Ay, the principle judges are coming now. 1854 01:48:33,843 --> 01:48:38,187 Flying your white banner, you have passed your judgement. 1855 01:48:38,739 --> 01:48:42,732 Let us now await the verdict of the Black Banners. 1856 01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:46,280 Susan Taslimi.........The Miller's Wife 1857 01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,360 Mehdi Hashemi...............The Miller 1858 01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:50,360 Yasaman Arami....The Miller's Daughter 1859 01:48:50,360 --> 01:48:52,560 Amin Tarokh..............The Commander 1860 01:48:52,560 --> 01:48:54,360 Mahmoud Behrouzian....The Mubad/Priest 1861 01:48:54,360 --> 01:48:56,200 Karim Akbari............The Army Chief 1862 01:48:56,200 --> 01:48:57,520 Ali Reza Khamseh...........The Soldier 1863 01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:55,240 Produced and directed by Bahram Beizai 1864 01:49:56,160 --> 01:50:03,160 Translation: Manuchehr Anvar Subtitles: TITRA-Laser, Vienna 1865 01:50:04,660 --> 01:50:10,660 OCR'd & sync'd by MehrAzar @ PTP KG 141489