"ZURICH Filmcoopi" "CHICKEN WITH PLUMS" "Jeki bud, JEKI nabud." "Once upon a time, there never was." "So start Persian fairy tale." "Jeki bud, JEKI nabud." "In the fall of 1958" "I was in Tehran in transit." "There I am a certain Nasser Ali encounters, of which I want to tell." " Which I suppose." " Excellent choice." "Irane?" "Yes?" "Do not you remember me?" "I'm sorry." "Honestly, not at all." " Again ripped off." " But ..." " Terrible sound!" " You promised you." " Shut up." " Here." "Take the." "A rarity." "I'll trade for you." "Pathetic crooks." "Give me my money back." "After I had done something, I went to the famous Cafe Naderi." "When Nasser Ali Abdi sat his brother, was the Communist and as usual against the English Americans and ranted." "These idiots have everything." "A French coffee, please." "They think they pump off our oil." "In truth, they suck the blood out of us." "Am I boring you?" "No, no." "My violin was ruined." "By whom?" "What role does it mean?" "Mirza sold wonderful instruments." "The crooks wanted me to take for a ride." "His violins are miserable." "Like father, like son." "Bastards." "It's over." "I can never play more." "Wait a minute." "Last month I was a friend in Rasht." "Do you know what who?" "Look at these Stradivarius." "She has heard Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." "I'm going to Rasht." "I get me a violin." "Did you hear?" "I'm not deaf, like your mother." "Leave the dead alone." "If you want to." "But you forget that I work." "Who will take care of him?" "I do not know." "Ask your mother some." "You know that it is not there." "If you want to Rasht, take with him." "It does not work." "And it is not my problem." "Could you thought .." "What?" "If my husband would work," "I could stay home and look after take care of my son like a lady!" "You are to blame." " I am always to blame!" " Sure you're to blame!" " You suck!" " Bitch!" "Jerk!" "I ride alone, you hear?" "It is said that it was a donkey," "But I know there is a horse." "It has a stain on the forehead." "It gallops and carrying me on his back." "It smiles and complains." "It is said that it was a donkey, But ..." "I know ..." "It carries me on his back," "I do not hela, and you," "And you .." "My beloved horse, I carry you in my heart" "I feel good on your back, I will never make hela ..." "Goodbye my friends," "See you!" "Excuse me, where can I find M. Houshang?" "You go straight ahead." "Then go left, right, and right again." " Well, thank you." "Shit." "What are you doing?" "Comm" "Excuse me, is anyone there?" "Houshang monsieur?" "Who asks that?" "Nasser Ali Khan, the brother of Abdi." "I've been expecting you." " Day, monsieur." " No, not "Monsieur."" "Call me Houshang." "Welcome to my humble shop." "I adore you." "I adore you." "I love you." " There is love, love." " Sell a Stradivarius?" "Among other things." " Cigarette?" " No thanks, not now." "I deal with precious stones." "Pull that out." "Look here." "The largest diamond in the world." "Fabulous, right?" "In my shop, there is everything." "Safran," "Opium," "Fur Coats or ... a magic wand." " Would you like a cup of tea?" " No, thank you." " When we go to the bus?" " We go to the bus." "I was a long way because of this violin." "I'm thirsty." "I urge you not want But I could see them?" "But of course, my friend." " Dad, I'm thirsty." " DC." "First, this cost opium." "Relax!" "Yes, I've needed, especially as the child The whole trip has sung." "I have the solution." "The dissolved in milk." "That gave me my grandmother, When I was stripped." "And here is ... the wonder of all wonders." "I remember I heard you play for the first time." "I had never before heard anything so beautiful, really." "Alone at the thought come the tears." "See how I cry?" "Here." " You see?" " Yes, I see it." "This miracle I do not sell to you." "I give it to you." "For 1000 tomans." "Toman 1000?" "I paid 1049 for Toman." "49 I give you." "And why am I doing this?" "Because you are my friend." "Because you are you." "I've only 700th" "700, agreed." "That is clear." "What I would not do for the champions!" "We have to celebrate." "The stars have through my life nothing gained." "You do not shine brighter verronnen is my time." "Never my ears have ever heard why I was born and therefore I will die." "They came home the next night." "Nasser Ali wanted only one, play on his new violin." "But he waited." "He got up at seven." "He went to the barber." "Finish." "At home he put on his best suit." "You'd think you'd an appointment with the Prime Minister." "His wife and daughter were gone." "But one thing he had to still govern." "Good morning, Cyrus." "Do you have opium?" "Since no fiddle to him ever again Would give pleasure," "Nasser Ali decided to die." "Eight days later, on 22 November he was buried beside his mother." "All those who had loved him were there." "THE FIRST DAY" "Nasser Ali had therefore decided to die." "He wondered what possibilities there were." "First, he drew a radical method considered." "Then he thought a romantic approach." "And why is nothing more classic?" "But all of these possibilities were painful." "He remembered having read that the least painful method is," "To take sleeping pills and to pull a plastic bag over his head." "But the thought that he was with find the ordinary plastic bags would was simply unimaginable." "He was, after all" "Nasser Ali Khan, the best violinist of his time." "If he called "the man with the plastic bag "will be remembered?" "No, no, no." "He wanted to die with dignity." "In bed, he would wait for death." " Mom, may I rock?" " No, only the homework." "Cyrus?" "Nasser Ali?" "What are you doing at the time in bed?" " I have decided to die." " And where is Cyrus?" " If the neighbor." " Again?" "Is it asking too much, that you take care of your son?" "I'll be right back." "I'm your Brother are looking for." "Do your homework." "Yes, Mom." "Dad?" "You BIST, little one." " Are you sick?" " No." "Dad is just a bit tired." "And how was your day?" " I have "to 6" in the dictation." " Good!" "Mama is not happy." "She says this is not good enough." "She says she has a student always has the sixes." "Your mother talks too much." "She says if I want to be a doctor, I have a lot to learn and also have iguanas." "Yes, sure." "I can swing now?" "Yes, go." "Thank you, Dad." "Who are you?" "Although Nasser Ali not the father was born," "But he tried, as best I could, to play his role as father." "... and my sharp teeth!" "But why?" "Dad?" "Do I get a talking doll?" "Who do not speak." "However, the talk." "Come on, I'll show you." "Come on, I nibble on you!" "You see, it's just fabric." "Do not eat it!" "Children, what should I do?" "Eat it!" "Eat it!" "Want to ride carousel?" "No." " Want to cotton candy?" " No." "Want to play there?" "No." "What do you want?" "Since Nasser Ali is very interested in Morphopsychologie and his daughter resembled him, he was be sure of their kinship." "He was not wrong." "Both were intelligent, bright, witty and hopelessly melancholy." "At 23, married Lili at the request of her mother." "The marriage was divorced after eight months." "Lili was the gossip from nothing." "After some time they experienced the passion." "He was an actor." "Unfortunately, her lover came four years at a later accident." "It never came across Lili." "She numbed her pain with games, Alcohol and cigarettes." "She suffered two heart attacks." "When she said she put their lives, she said ..." "The life ..." "If you only knew what I think about it." "Their third heart attack hit the mark." "That's not possible." "What are you doing?" " Dad said ..." " What?" "THE SECOND DAY" "Faranguisse?" "Since when?" "Wait for me." "I'm coming." "Yes, good." " I must be about my brother." " Something bad?" "I do not know." "He stays for two days in his room." " What Faranguisse say?" " Nothing." "They will have fought back, and now he's mad." "But what do you want?" "She is a stupid cow." "Abdi red, not so." "Do you think it's easy with a man the music goes over everything?" "Nevertheless, it is underexposed." "She is stupid and mean as a biting dog." "This woman is a pain" "And who's to blame?" "Your mother has pushed him to the marriage." "It was clear that he does not Faranguisse was in love with." "This woman is Genghis Khan." "I certainly was against this marriage." "He deserves something better." "THE WOMAN FROM THE RIVER" "The brothers considered themselves, although they Children were very different to." "Abdi was conscientious and serious, Nasser Ali defiantly and recklessly." "Abdi was the pride of his parents, Nasser Ali brought her to despair." " What have you turned on again?" " I did not do anything, sir." "Look at the fool." "This pest." "He has repeated the class with his poor grades." "Unacceptable behavior." "Yes, Nasser Ali is nothing better occurred to than the disc to shatter!" " I was not." "Shut up!" "Abdi," "Come here, my child." "Look at me." "Abdi's his little brother." "Same family, same education, only that he in all subjects the best." "Their can see," "Pest ..." "Beneficial insect." "Beneficial insect ..." "Pest." "Applause for Abdi." "Come on, kids!" "Stop!" "That is enough." "Now ... boos from her Nasser Ali." "Speak up!" "Nasser Ali?" "It's me." "Abdi." "May I come in?" "I was close and thought I look over at my brother." "So, now you see me." "What's up?" "Nothing." "I've decided to die." "On the way" "I've seen that in "Persepolis" A new movie is playing." "You know, with whom?" "Watch out." "And?" "Greta Garbo?" "Not so!" "Sophia Loren?" "Do you remember how beautiful she In this film, was in Naples?" "Would you like to go to the movies?" "No." "As I said, I will die." "Your wife called me." "She is very worried." "It was pretty clear that you're not there by chance." "Unimportant." "What does it matter?" "I am here because of you." "I am your brother." "But do not you stay in bed and waiting for death." "This is ridiculous." "Well, you're depressed about the violin But you woman and two children, for which you are responsible." "Do not be so selfish." "Selfish?" "That you just say?" "Do you believe in your wife, your children, your family thought when you decided to Become a communist, because they have suffered, when you were in prison?" "No, you were the big Avengers, resistance fighters," "Do-gooders." "Too bad for the other." "Someone had to do." "If everyone were like you .." "What then?" "Do you think then everything would be worse?" "What have you changed?" "Do you find it really better today?" "Also, remember times." "When you played the hero, was the Family heritage on it for your liberation." "So you plug your homilies elsewhere." "Forgive me, Abdi." "It's okay." "Will you promise me that you care for my death to my children take care?" "Stop it." "Do not talk nonsense." "I promise you." "Vieni piccolo." "When it dawned on the second day, recalled Ali Nasser of forgotten pleasures." "For one night flew by his bitterness." "He was sleeping quietly." "THE THIRD DAY" "On the third day, was Nasser Ali out of boredom." "As everyone knows, thrive in the garden of boredom the most absurd ideas." "Between two cigarettes he asked himself," "He would like to be remembered, what he would leave the world ..." "He thought of Socrates, of a philosophical genius and the situation was, this world leaving elegant and courageous." "But Socrates, Their trankt why this poison?" " Leave us not." " What does it matter?" "Beyond this physical shell will be thinking of my constituents." "Only after my death it is immortal." "Nasser Ali called his children to help them His last thought to leave." "My children!" "My children!" "My children!" "Children, I know, I was often absent." "Now my time has come." "I must go." "We will soon part." "It is my duty as a father, you to bequeath a treasure to accompany you for life and you in the darkness conduct of life is." "And this treasure is the essence of creation." "Because we understand the art life, and life ..." "What does that matter?" "Beyond this physical shell will be thinking of my constituents." "Only after my death ..." "Nasser Ali thought how insignificant you are." "Socrates had got off very well." " Give us a hug!" " No, you stink." "What was to be expected from such a son?" "He was just the opposite of him:" "Loud, talkative, sweet tooth." "To make matters worse, he replied to Asked what he would sometimes be ..." "I want to be grocer." "What will become of him?" "It was no surprise." "At 22, Cyrus began after the difficult School a course in economics." "His joy was short-lived." "The revolution broke out." "A year later there was a war." "Like many others, was Cyrus in the USA." "He enrolled in a mediocre University of Wyoming one." "On the campus of the University he met Nancy." "They kissed." "She became pregnant, and they were married." "Hi!" "I'm back!" "Hi, Daddy!" "Cyrus, honey, have a drink?" "Guess, darling!" "Daddy, look at my nails!" "Are not they beautiful?" "Just wonderful!" "Just wonderful!" "We have a surprise." "You the draw it out." "Great!" " Correct great." "What is it?" "What is mouse?" "I'm so upset stomach." "I feel sick." "What did you eat, darling?" "Nothing." "Only a few pizzas." "No." "No, pizzas!" "Please help me!" " Cyrus" "We need to call 911th" "Immediately." "Honey, it is all good." "Everything will be fine, honey." "Doctor ..." " Will she be okay?" "We are their parents, tell us about it!" "Everything went wonderfully." "Oh, my God!" "It's a boy." "What a boy?" "4 kilos." "A beautiful baby." "A baby?" "A baby?" "Yes, a baby." "How is it possible that your niece did not know that she is pregnant?" "Trying times, a 4-pound baby in 200 pounds Meat locate." "That's not easy." "He also called "Nasser" with the middle name." ""Jimmy Nasser." Imagine that before." "Fortunately, my father is long dead, or it would surely burst aneurysm." "Or even two." "THE FOURTH DAY" "On the evening of the fourth day Faranguisse was stumped." "In the hope of reconciliation decided cook it, chicken with plums" "Nasser Ali's favorite dish, more than his Abdominal access to his heart to obtain." "Glad she saw her husband only during meals." "Sometimes even came a kind word." "This is the best chicken with plums I have ever eaten." "Contrary to all appearances Nasser Ali loved Faranguisse yet." "Hardly anyone knows that she has her childhood was secretly in love." "As he drove for years around the world They waited patiently for his return." "She studied hard and leaned the few Marriage proposals she received, from." "MATHEMATICS ALL LEVELS" " Nasser Ali is back." " Nasser Ali?" "Nasser Ali is back." "The wait was long, But before she was a spinster," "Nasser Ali came back to Tehran." "Nasser Ali is back." "At that time she was 30, he 41st" "Good day, Faranguisse." "Good day." "You know that Faranguisse Mathematics teacher." "I find that admirable." "This country needs women like you." "Modern women." "Ali Nasser, try it the pastry." "Faranguisse has brought it." "How tasty." "They look delicious, right?" "Yes, very tasty." "They were best of the year, Faranguisse?" " Yes, she was best in class." " No, no, only second best." " Now you're a teacher?" " Yes." "Fantastic." "An intelligent, respectable woman of character, common sense ..." " Very healthy." "I'll go get some water melon." "Nasser Ali, would you help me?" "But, Mom, I love this woman." "This woman, as you say, I think very well." "She's pretty, nice, educated ..." " And single." " What are you doing here?" "I let the women talk in peace." "Listen, my little one." "You are 41st You have traveled around the world." "You do not want no be an old bachelor." "You are not listening." "I do not love her." "And for good reason." "That's not bad." "Married only once." "Love comes later." "They were married." "But love never came." "Nasser Ali?" "It's me." "I told you cooked chicken with plums." "If your favorite dish." "You must still be hungry, my darling." "You have not eaten for three days." " Want Beac ..?" " No." "I'm not hungry." "I stell go there." "If you do you change your mind." "You do not understand." "I feel no more taste," "No joy, no seasoning." "And just because you're to blame." "Only one thing you should do, your son to a doctor." "Not even you can!" "For God's sake!" "I'm tired of making everything!" "I'm washing, the ironing, cook and must still work well." "You need a man provide for the family." "You married a musician, any of the workers." "Did you know that I am an artist." "Artists." "Yes nice!" "Not even the place in the Conservatory you have kept." "How petty can you be, little crappy teacher." "I never forgive you." "I never forgive you." "Sorry, honey." "You know how much I love you." "Ali Nasser, please tell me that you love me too." "Nasser Ali," "The violin can not destroy everything." "What are you talking about the violin!" "I've never loved you." "Ever, the war in your little" "Head clean." "Never!" "You're a monster." "I hate you." "Returning to Nasser Ali Childhood." "From an early age was his interest the music." "At 21, he sent his mother to Shiraz." "There he studied violin at the largest Masters of his time, Ara Mozafar." "Sometimes unsettled him the master, when he expressed himself terribly obscure." "For technique, I have nothing to say." "She is excellent." "But your music is absolutely sickening." "Champion ..." "The technique may be each report to make its own head." "The technique is not possible." "It's about art." "For by art We understand life." "The instrument is only to the light streaming out let." "Your fingers are moving." "It sounds come out." "But it is empty." "It is void." "There is nothing!" "Life is a breath." "Life is a sigh." "And you have to take that sigh." "Dad, I need a new dress." "Irane, you last week to get one." "That was different." "I need an evening dress for Malak birthday." "What will people think?" "Well ..." "Thank you, Dad." "Thank you." "Until tonight." "Bravo, sir." "Excellent choice." "Swiss quality," "Dial in solid gold incredible precision mechanics, crystal-clear sound." "And all ridiculous for 100 tomans." "Yes, yes, wonderful." "Good buy." "I'll grab you immediately." "Nasser Ali's fate turned." "He had absolutely the beautiful Irane again." " No!" " I am just come to you to say that it is going." "Mademoiselle?" "Irane?" "Do we know?" "Yes." "No." "I'm in the business lhres father saw and they wanted to ask ..." "They wanted to ask me ..." "THE FIFTH DAY" "At dawn on the fifth day felt Nasser Ali, weakened, the approach of death." "Soon he would be followed by all those who had gone before him." "He remembered his mother and in the last days before her death." "Nasser Ali?" "Are mode?" "Oh, no." " HERE you okay, Mom?" " I am not well." "I am angry, very angry even." " But ..." " Still, you naughty boy." "You think only of you again." "But yes." "I am suffering so much." "My hour has come, my little one." "And what are you doing?" "You pray and pray." " Your prayers keep me from dying." " But, Mom ..." "I know you love me." "And that you love me want to keep with you." "But I'll tell you again." "Life's become unbearable." "Cry no more for the good Lord." "Get it, right now." "Do you understand me?" "Kindle me a cigarette." "I do not know, in your state ..." "In my state" "I can only comfort the cigarette." "You know," "I've often said," "Smoke nourishes the soul." "Also, I've seen him." "Who?" "Well, Azrael." " The Angel of Death." " Yes, of course." " Nasser Ali ..." " Yes, Mama?" "Go into the garden." "Game for me." "Your music is so beautiful." "It was at her funeral an unusual phenomenon." "Formed directly after the funeral, a dense cloud of smoke over her grave." "Everyone had an explanation." "These are all the cigarettes, who has smoked it." "Three packs a day." "Think about it." "Sure." "As she has done what." "Oh where." "I am a surveyor." "The soil is calcareous." "This promotes condensation." "Ah yes, of course." "What kind of fools." "This smoke only proves that the soul exists." "Your mother's was so dense so powerful ... that they verstofflicht before our eyes." " Yes, definitely." "Do not believe me." " If you though." " Yes." "You think I'm a crackpot." " But I know a lot about you." " Really." "They were on 10 Born in March 1908." "Yeah, right." "She lost her father with a second" "At 21, you went to Shiraz, to study music." "Ah, Shiraz." "And there ... you broke your heart." "You think all the time on it." "Right?" "Do you see now?" "They doubt." "Her heart was so broken very that it is fossilized." "Let the breath of life into no more in itself." "A mistake." "They have renounced life." "There is nothing worse for a man than to give up their lives." "Nothing!" "You know what Hafez says:" ""I do not bow The wheel of fate." "I will destroy it, if it does not rotate the way I want! "" "It was good that you no longer have prayed for your mom." "Their hour had come." "Nasser Ali was suspected." "For five days he called in the death, But the disdain he seemed to." "He wondered whether someone was praying for him." "Yes, Ali Nasser." "Someone is praying for you." "THE SIXTH DAY" "During the sixth day I was looking for, Azrael, angel of death," "Finally, the meeting with Nasser Ali." "Good day, Nasser Ali." "Finally awake." "It's okay!" "Won." "I surrender." "My child, forgive me." "Faranguisse, all!" "Lord!" "I ask for mercy." "On, Azrael!" "Let's end!" "Do what you have to do." "I'm ready now." "You should not get so upset." "Otherwise you do get hurt even more." "Sit down, my good man." "Join." "Cigarette?" "Am I there?" "It's so far, right?" "No, not really." "I mean, not right away." "How about right now?" "What are you doing here?" "I wanted to meet you." "Call me for a week, So I am once passed." "I thought, who sees you, dies immediately." "Since you are?" "No, this is true only for those to die a natural death." "For suicides is it something else." "Interesting." "There are no hard and fast rule." "There are exceptions." "Sometimes I meet People happen to be." "Randomly." "Since I just had time to tell I will give you a little story." "Long ago I was a Monsieur Ashour front of the Taj Mahal in India take life." "The day before I met him by chance at a market in Jerusalem." " How much are the tomatoes?" " 100 dinars." " Too much." " 50 dinars." " 20 - 30" " 2 dinars." " M. Ashour!" "What are you doing here?" "He was so scared that he screaming the palace of King Solomon and fled a Notaudienz demanded." " Solomon!" " Yes?" "Oh, Salomon, Salomon." "Yes?" "Oh, my king!" "What can I do for you?" "I've met Azrael." "He gave me an eerie look to." "He picks me up." "I'm going to die." "I have to leave Jerusalem." "Immediately." "But M. Ashour, where are you going?" "The angel of death can not escape it." "I do not go away, so far as possible." "To India!" "If it is Their desire." "The kind So Solomon asked the wind Ashour to get to the desired location, the Taj Mahal in India." "There you are, just in time." "Dear Azrael, only one question then do I let you." " Promise." " Well, Monsieur Ashour, ask." "If you bring me today, why were looking Contact Me in Jerusalem, so angry?" "Mistake." "I was not angry." "Today I want you in India put the death blow, and yesterday I met you by chance on the market in Jerusalem." "This astonished me." "I wondered how long the journey in one day would." "I see." "Then he was dead?" "Well, his hour had come." " And when I'm there?" " I do not know." "I do not decide." "Azrael?" "Is there a bit late, to row back?" "It is not "a bit late," dear friend." "It is too late." "Oh, you, four and seven, randomly combined." "You, whether seven or four, they are throw yourself into a fever, drink." "I've probably told you, and indeed much more than you deserve, that it is a journey of no return." "Who goes, who goes on forever." "Too bad, Nasser Ali." "You had only this life." "He is not good." "You have to do what" "THE SEVENTH DAY" "Everything will be fine." "Do not worry." "Nasser Ali!" "He has a fever." "And?" "In its state, the syringe only a stopgap measure." "Can you do anything else?" "If someone has decided to die ..." " Do you think Dad dies?" " Yes." "Nasser Ali?" "It's all my fault." "Forgive me." "Mademoiselle ..." "Irane?" "Do we know?" "THE EIGHTH DAY" "THE EIGHTH DAY" "No." "I'm in the business Saw her father's and wanted to ask you ..." "They wanted to ask me ..." "Whether I go with you." "I mean, if I were a piece of must go with you." "Yes." "I'll prove the depth of my love." "You can return to your world ..." "Irane, will you marry me?" "But of course, my dear." "This is my biggest wish." "Tomorrow I go to your father." "Nasser Ali, I am so happy." "This is the happiest day of my life." "Dad ..." "Irane, let us alone." " But, Dad ..." " Please go" "How dare you come to me and to ask for the hand of my daughter?" " But, sir ..." " I was not born yesterday." "I know my way with a passion." "It comes as soon as it goes." "The reality is quite different." "They are musicians." "They have no money." "How will you provide for my daughter?" "I'm going to work and earn money." "How?" "With what kind of work?" "How long has earned an artist his living decently?" " I love them." " Then prove it by disappearing from her life." "You do not spoil her future." "You are still young." "By the time you forget it." "And they also forget you." "If I can promise you one, then it is that I have your daughter 'll never forget." "How could you do this to me?" "I love him." "You're there!" "You came." "I came to say goodbye and to see you one last time." "Make it even harder not to me." "I can not do this to my father." "It would kill him." "From now on, you're a great musician." "Finally you have succeeded, to take the sigh." "Her father does not want that I marry her." "I never see them again." "What a fool." "Come on, come with me." "This violin belonged to my teacher." "He gave it to me." "Now it's yours." "You know, my child, now is the one you lost, be in every note that you play." "She's your breath and your breath." "This love is precious because it is eternal." "And I know what I'm talking about." "Go now." "I teach you nothing more." "From then on, Nasser Ali traveled For 20 years the world." "And like his teacher had predicted," "Irane was there whenever he played, in every note, every chord." "Irane?" "Yes?" "Do not you remember me?" "I'm sorry." "To be honest ... not at all." " Grandma!" "Can we go?" " Yes." " I'm tired." " We continue the same, honey." "Excuse me please." "I must have been wrong." "Do something, anything." "Goodbye." "Nasser Ali." "Beloved!" "Irane ..."