"BULGARIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY" ""BOYANA" FILM STUDIO" ""HAEMUS" CREATIVE TEAM" "The year is 1668." "The Ottoman Empire has long since conquered South-Eastern Europe, but the Holy War for the total domination of Islam continues." "The battle rages on for Candia (Crete)." "A janissary is sent to the Rhodopes - a Bulgarian mountain of great strategic importance." ""Janissary" is the name given to young Christian boys, separated by force from their parents, raised with unimaginable cruelty and transformed into fanatically faithful soldiers of the sultan." "I fear not that there are enemies of the padishah still walking the Earth." "We will crush them just like we crushed the Romans, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Serbs." "I dread that many of his subjects still worship the Cross." "Only when a single faith binds us, only when all fly the holy banner of the Prophet, only then will we become invincible." "If we fail in this, the world will never belong to us." "TIME OF VIOLENCE based on the book "Time of parting" by Anton Donchev" "Chapter 1 THE THREAT" "Script Ludmil Staikov, Georgi Danailov, Mihail Kirkov, Radoslav Spassov" "Starring" "Iossif Surchadzhiev Rousy Chanev Ivan Krystev" "Valter Toski Anya Pencheva" "Vassil Mihajlov Konstantin Kotsev Kalina Stefanova" "Angel Ivanov Momchil Karamitev Stoyko Peev" "Bogomil Simeonov Ivan Yanchev Anton Karastojanow" "Nikolay Latev Tzanko Petrov Stefka Berova" "Script editor Todor Monov" "Consultants Tsvetana Georgieva, Atanas Semerdjiev, Ganka Mihaylova, Hristo Dermendjiev" "Costume design Nikolay Nikolov, Sonya Kalcheva" "Make-up Tanyo Kukov" "Film editing Violeta Toshkova" "Sound department Lyudmila Mahalnishka" "Original music Georgi Genkov" "Production design Georgi Todorov" "Producer Christo Nenov" "Cinematography Radoslav Spassov" "Directed by Ludmil Staikov" "What's the matter, aga (master)?" "We've arrived." "Call him." "Hey!" "Hey!" "He fell on his back." "That's good luck." "That's only when in battle." "It is a battle." "Call them." "Hey!" "Come here!" "He must be mad to stand before the aga with his hat on." "Why don't you take your hat off, giaour (slave)?" "Manol." "Please, don't!" "What is the name of this valley?" "This one?" "Elindenya." "And over there is Chitak." "The village Chitak." "Then Podviz and further down is Luki." "Where is the grave of Enihan Baba, the conqueror of the Rhodopes?" "Yes, it's over there, on the top." "Father, go toll the bells!" "Wait, we must put your wife's bones in the church." "We can't leave them like this." "It's a sin." "If we don't hurry, we will make an even greater sin." "Hurry, father!" "I will take them." "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet." "Eternal glory to you, Enihan Baba!" "Turkish cavalry, grandpa Kralyu." "They passed the graveyard." "I will call Vrazhu Kehaya and Velko." "You call Merdzhan and the others." "Merdzhan!" "Merdzhan!" " Syakur, where is your father?" " He is at home." "Tell him that I will be waiting for him at Stayko's place." "Hurry, my boy." "How many of them are there, Manol?" "Many." "We must hide the boys." "You take the upper neighbourhood." "You" " Ilchov's neighbourhood and Prizhari." "Zhelio, you'll lead them!" "You know where." "Manol, but they have a list of their names." "That many soldiers." "It can't be just for the children." "I say, hide everything - animals, harvest, family..." "And be careful." "Hide your knives." "The last thing we want is an incident." "Turks!" "Send the child to Zhelyo, he will take the children to the caves." "Get inside!" "Soldiers!" "Dad, where is Mircho?" "Haven't seen him today." "Why?" "An army entered the valley." "I don't think there are any of ours there." "They were all sipahis, I didn't see any janissaries." "Goran, pour some more in!" "Can't you see it's empty?" "I thought they forgot all about us." "Goran, stop it." "What's the matter, dad?" "Why are you still standing here?" "Go look for the child." "They can't take anything from me anymore." "Mircho!" "Where have you been?" "I was with Elitsa, at the big pond." "Leave the basket and go home." "Find a task fit for a man!" "Who are you?" "And who are you?" "I am Karaibrahim." "I was sent here by the grand vizier." "These are my men." "I am Suleyman Aga and this valley belongs to me." "Then I have come to see you." "The vizier sends his regards." "And this letter." "And this letter is for the army's cheribashi (commander)." "That will be me." "A letter for the local qadi (judge)." "That will be me." "A letter to the hodja (priest)." "Have you become a hodja too?" "No." "I have a hodja." "Hasan Hodja!" "Why do you meet us as if we were brigands?" "Why did you not send any news that you are coming, so that I can welcome you properly?" "You will understand after you have read the letters." "Shall we go?" "Run!" "Do they always run like this when they see you?" "A while ago, I came this way to meet you." "None of them ran." "It would seem they are not running away from me." "Elitsa!" "What is this?" "Nothing." "They let the valley know that you have come." "So everyone knows." "Who is he?" "Builder, foreigner." "Believer or infidel?" " Infidel." "I bought him recently." " Sell him to me." "I have paid 6000 for him." "If you want him - he is yours." "Why did you kill him?" "To let everyone in the konak (courthouse) know that I have arrived." " Do you need any help?" "I can do it myself, Goran." "Hurry, hurry." "Come on!" "Hurry!" "Your rule is coming to an end, Suleyman Aga." "Whatever you do, it will be wrong." "Hide them in the sheep-pen for the night and then take them to the upper fields before dawn." "Momchil, did you hear what I said?" "I was hoping to get a chance to stop by at the mill." "I have a gift for Elitsa." "To get a chance to see her..." "Now is not the time for gifts." "Mircho, be careful." "I want you to take the room next to Suleyman Aga's." "I want to know everything that's going on in there." "Aga!" "Did you know?" "We have to pay for everything." "Suleyman Aga charges us for food and everything." "Bread alone costs 12 aspras." "Consider also the hay and oats for the horses..." "Suleyman Aga sent me to let you know that everything is free of charge for you." "You are all his guests." "Do not be afraid." "These are your mother's remains." "You know that soldiers came today." "They will probably take children as janissaries." "They were here when I was your age." "Had they taken me," "I would be a janissary now." "You can't be a janissary." "No one is born a janissary, my son." "I don't know what they do to the Christian children after they take them away, but they turn them into beasts." "I won't let that happen with you!" "God forbid, if they take you," "I want you to remember these three things, and swear on your mother's remains that you will fulfill at least one of them." "Sit down." "Listen to me now:" "When they take you out of the village, you will pass through Suleyman's bridge." "My first request is to jump into the river." "The water will take you away." "You may drown, but you may yet survive." " Will you remember this, son?" " I will remember, dad." "My second request:" "If you can not jump off the bridge, further down where the road gets narrower, jump off the cliff." "Once a girl jumped off that very same cliff to save herself from her pursuers." "If a girl can do it - so can you." " Will you remember this, my son?" " Yes, dad." "What about the third request?" "If you can't manage to jump off the bridge or off the cliff, when you reach the top of the hill, stop and turn around." "As if you want to see Elindenya one more time before you go." "Turn around, so that you face the stone crosses." "I will be hidden in the graveyard and I will shoot you straight in the heart." "Should I falter and miss, stand still and wait." " Can you do this, son?" " I will, dad." " Swear on it!" " I swear." "Father, say Amen!" "What's that howling?" "There is an endless abyss here." "They say it leads all the way to Hell." "No one has been there and back alive." "How do you know this, aga?" "Aga, something is wrong here." "I don't like this place." "They can kill us in our sleep." "You think we would have been better off in the village?" "You have your guards." "Guard us!" "Sevda, what are you doing here?" "What's the matter?" "You go, father." "I will catch up with you." "What's wrong, Sevda?" "I can't go on alone, Manol." "Goran is crazy for you!" "Why don't you give him a chance?" "My heart is not set on him." "I know it is a sin, but after I lost my husband, all I can think of is you." "I have been waiting for you to notice me for so long and I will wait longer if I have to." "You are alone too..." "Now that 3 years have passed after your wife..." "I will take care of Mircho too, I will be like a mother to him." "Take me, Manol!" "One coffee for each." "Mehmed Koprulu put a ban on coffee." "The old Mehmed Koprulu, may he rest in peace, put a ban on coffee." "But his son, the present grand vizier, praise his name, again lifted the ban for the believers." "Go!" "A day doesn't go by that I don't think of the grand vizier." "Let me show you the sword he gave me at Belgrade, when the janissaries revolted." "I killed the first one to raise a hand against him." "And yet you are still alive?" "Where were the comrades of that janissary?" "They were with him." "I killed them too." "You helped him then, you will help him now." "The grand vizier is outside the walls of Candia in deadly combat with the infidels." "The battle for the Rhodopes is a battle for Candia." "The battle for Candia is a battle for the future of the empire." "Suleyman Aga, if we are to win, this mountain must forget the Bulgarian name." "When he sent me here, the grand vizier told me:" "The Rhodopes is a fortress, and when you leave and look back all you must see is minarets and not even one cross." "Only then will that fortress be ours." "And the janissaries' aga said..." "The janissaries' aga..." "We go a long way back together." "All the way back to the Persian expedition." "When he was here hunting, he gave me these silver pistols." "And the padishah, conqueror of all, gave me a golden bow, because I shot a bear from 100 paces." "The bow!" "You can show it to me later." "I can see you have many gifts to show." "The padishah, praise his name, if he would see in Istanbul, may Allah let us spend our days there, an infidel with colourful clothes, he would behead him immediately." "And what did my eyes see in this valley?" "!" "Women dressed as if at a wedding and I didn't see even one of them wearing a veil." "And what were those bells when we entered the valley?" "It is writen: the infidels are only allowed a semantron!" "Enough!" "When I leave, there won't be any infidels." "Aga, did you read the letters?" " I did." " Tell me then, how will you aid me in my task?" "How can I aid you, aga?" "The believers here are few and many of their parents are still infidels." "Here, my hodja is Hasan, son of Velko." "He is a priest and his father is an infidel." "And then, the shepherds from the Aegean Sea are coming back these days, all armed with bows and arrows." "Who allowed them to carry weapons?" "An infidel mustn't carry a knife, let alone a bow." "It is for the bears and the wolves, hodja." "How can shepherds walk the woods unarmed?" " When will they arrive?" " Some of them are already here." "The rest - tomorrow." " We are too late!" " We are just in time." "I knew when they would arrive." "Aga, I want you to gather the leaders, I want to see them in your residence." "There are no leaders here, they are all rayah (flock)." "There is no village without leaders, aga." "I want the ones whose word is respected." "I will see what I can do." "But while they are in here, I won't allow any harm to come to them." "They will be my guests." "It will be so..." "while they are your guests." "Aga, the mistress asked for you." "I am Gulfiye, Suleyman's wife." " What is your name?" " Abdullah." " I can see you are a foreigner." " Yes." "I was captured at Candia." "And you put on the turban?" "Yes." "There wasn't a big choice of hats." "The ones who rejected it lost their heads." "And you got scared?" "I am more fond of my head than of my hat." "Why don't you run away, go back to your people?" "Same reason." "My people won't forgive me for changing my religion." "And now I serve the padishah." "I am a nobleman and I keep my word." "My family is one of the most prominent in Venice." " I guess you don't believe me." " Sure I do." "I have seen all kinds of people." "We had a man who claimed he was Mohammed himself." "What's stopping you from saying you are the king himself?" "Nothing." "These days, mad people are popular." "Sit down." "Why are you still standing?" "Sit down." "Help yourself." "Around here, this is the food for both masters and slaves." "Your master, what is he like?" "I look at him and I can't believe he's just a simple sipahi." "He is a sipahi (soldier)." "Sipahi or not - he is a brave man." "To go out in the valley only with you at his side." " And what type of women does he like?" " Pretty ones." "Just like me then." "Mamma mia!" "Why do you eat so much?" "I am bored." "I have but a few joys around here." "That's all I have left - food and hashish." " And what type of women do you like?" " Me?" " What, are you...?" " What?" "!" "No, no." " Alright." "Go on." "Eat, eat." "What is that?" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Mercy, Suleyman Aga!" "Mercy!" "I will be grateful forever!" "No!" "Please don't, aga!" "No!" "What's going on down there?" "A trial." "They will put him in a sack and toss him in the waterfall." "Why?" "What has he done?" "He catched a girl at the spring." "Put his hand under her blouse." " And they will kill him for this?" " That's the way it goes around here." "What about where you come from?" "Is there no trial for this?" "If we killed for this sort of thing, we would have no army." "Quick - milk, bread!" "Where do you come from, old woman?" "We are all from different villages, my son." "We are from Chepino." "This is all that is left of Chepino." "They burned the houses, knocked down the churches, killed young and old, everyone who would not change his religion." "What is this?" "Where are they taking these gravestones?" "They are moving their graveyard." "That's all they have managed to save." "Grandma, where is your priest?" "They killed him, father." "They killed him first." "They ravaged my daughter." "In front of my eyes." "Father!" "Father, bless it, father!" "It died on the way, it isn't christened yet." "Father." "Father, there were many of them - if I give birth, I will kill it." "I will kill it with my own hands." "It is not the children they want to turn to janissaries, my son, but all of us." "We shall see if your father has the strength to do what he asked of you." "You are welcome, Manol Kehaya (chief shepherd)." "Today and tomorrow and whenever you may come." "When my sheep were with you, you lost none of them and milk flowed like a river." "Today we celebrate." "The earth took the blood of the animal we sacrificed and the year will be good." "I can see you have come to ask for something." "I hope I can help you with your problem." "Ismail Bey (chief), we have come to buy a place for a village in your fields." "This old woman has a hundred refugees with her." "I won't lie to you, they are running away from Mehmed Pasha." "Because they didn't want to change their faith." "Why is Mehmed trying to force the people to change their faith?" "A man becomes ready for Allah on his own." "Here, the wife of one of my sons is one of yours." "She wouldn't change her faith and still carries a cross." "A place for a village, you say..." "I will gather my family, we will decide." "Father Ismail, do not send us back empty-handed." "The fate of these people is hanging on a string." "Tell me, bey!" "Tell me so I'll know where will my bones rest." "Manol Kehaya, who is buying the place?" "These people or you?" "I am buying it." "Which one shall I give you..." "These people are on the run, bey." "Make it a place where no one can find them." "Petglasets." "I will give you Petglasets." "No one will find you there." "Manol Kehaya..." "I hope I am wrong, but the way it's going, I may need such a place for you too." "And I don't have another one like this." "I won't need one, bey." "Where the tree grows, there its roots rot." "Can you move Allah to the mountain?" "People are not trees, Manol." "Look at us, the Yuruks, we have left the springs of Euphrates to wander the world." "Where we will arrive, no one knows." "Tell me, bey, what do you want for Petglasets?" "Let's see if we can manage to afford it." "What will I want?" "Your 52 silver bells." "That is what I want." "I want, when my herds leave for the south, the whole mountain to ring and everyone to say:" "Ismail Bey is passing by." "So?" "Do you agree?" "Listen, Manol Kehaya!" "I know that these bells are the only thing you have left from your father." "I know that not only you, but the whole valley will miss them if I take them." "I know their sound is with you in sorrow and in happiness." "But that is why I asked for them." "Because, the greater the deed - the bigger the sacrifice must be." "It hurts me, bey." "But for another reason!" "Long ago, our forefathers bought this mountain with their swords, and now I am buying it with bells." "You will have them." "When the herds leave for the south." "You will have them!" "It's burning!" "It's burning, Suleyman Aga." "It is coming this way." "It can't be stopped." "You can, if you want, Suleyman Aga." "We will gather all the men in Elindenya." "Don't leave us alone, aga!" "Lead us and we will forget everything." "The people you killed - the drowned, the hanged." "We will forget everything." "Manol Kehaya, why do you remember the people I killed?" "Why do you not remember the bridges I built, the roads, the fountains?" "Three villages rose to build the big stone bridge, aga." "The children too." "Their hands still hurt from carrying the stones." "Suleyman Aga, did you build the bridge yourself?" "We all built it together." "And now you are offering to fight the padishah together?" "Isn't this what you are offering to me?" "A rebellion?" "Karaibrahim is here on orders from the grand vizier." "He wants you all in the headquarters tomorrow." "This is all I had to say to you." "Manol, what have you done!" "He will betray us." "We were wrong!" "The fires blinded us." "Wrong?" "Our cause is as good as lost without Suleyman Aga anyway." "It's madness to go to his headquarters alone." "I won't part with my head for free." "If we don't go, they will start with the women and the children." "We must go." "Let them hear us that we won't change our religion." "Father, they will kill us." "They will kill us all." "They can't kill everyone." "They will kill 10." "They will kill 100 just to frighten us." "We must not waver." "It's hopeless." "We will break." "Come with me!" "Take a good look!" "Most of them were women." "They carried their unborn children in ther wombs." "None of them wavered." "What can be expected of us?" "The leaders of Elindenya." "They are coming!" "The giaours are coming!" "A great blessing has been bestowed on this valley." "The padishah, Allah bless his name, protector of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, kind father to his subjects and horror to his enemies has decided to offer you his hand of friendship." "Aga!" "We all know why you are here." "The words of your priest are unnecessary." "We are gathered here to tell you this:" "We will not change our religion!" "That is our decision, aga." "I was hoping for a different answer." "I could have started with sword and fire." "Like the others." "And by now there would have been only believers... and dead..." "I have come to do a job and I will do it." "If not today, then in a week." "When I entered the valley you greeted me with the sound of a church bell." "When I leave from here, you will see me off with the sound of the muezzin." "If you ever leave!" "Stop!" "To the one who called from behind the other's backs, I'll say that if I don't leave, another one will come in my place." "But the muezzin will sound in Elindenya." "Aga, if I may say something." "Do not spill blood over the mountain and we will be eternally grateful." "We are faithful subjects of the padishah, we won't become more faithful if we twist our souls." "Or you think, aga, that even if someone accepts your religion, he will carry it in his heart?" "I know that you won't carry it in your hearts, but your grandchildren will be more righteous than the hodjas in Mecca." "I give you 10 days, starting from today." "If you don't come till the 10th day to accept the true religion, my hands will be unleashed." "Go now!" "The tide passes away, but the sand remains." "Not like a tide, but like a fire I will sweep across you." "And what's left will be as soft as these ashes." "There are always a few embers left." "Charred, but still burning." "I'll not leave anyone alive from your family, who doesn't draw a cross on the ground with his own blood." "And then spit on it." "My family is very big, aga." "You will need help." "I am an orphan and I was raised by everyone here." "They are all my brothers." "We will see in 10 days." "What now?" "We have 10 days." "Let's hope the evil that has come will pass us by." "God help us!" "Lord save us, my children!" "Give us redemption, Lord." "You are awake too?" "It's too noisy." "I couldn't sleep." "Close the window!" "I tried." "It's still too noisy." "Sit down!" "Suleyman Aga, they say you killed your own brother." "Did Gulfiye tell you this?" "Yes." "My brother was a brigand." "The whole valley suffered from him." "Because of me, no one dared to put him in his place." "I showed him no mercy." "I have spared no one who has broken the law." "And now I am thinking:" "What will my laws be worth in 10 days time?" "When there will be more dead than living, more brigands than honest people." "I am the judge of deeds which will be blessed and yet I ask myself:" "Am I a judge or a murderer?" "The sultan is the judge of all judges, if it were his wish, he would send his mercy this way too." "I have heard that he is a merciful man." "He is merciful, but the Rhodopes he won't spare." "That's different." "And the grand vizier?" "Have you ever seen him?" "No, I haven't, aga." "But I have heard that he is an old and wise man." "He was old even when he was a child." "He tried all the poisons of the world:" "hashish, opium, herbs." "He has 80 wives, but doesn't have the strength for even one of them." "He is a desperate man and yet he rules the biggest country in the world." "A desperate man with power, Venetian, is the worst of all evils." "He can see that the empire is falling apart." "From top to bottom, everyone lives on bribes." "And he knows only one cure for it:" "Fight outside our borders, so that we don't kill each other inside." "The empire is dying, Venetian." "Who has the time to think about Elindenya?" "The sad thing about it is that when an empire starts dying, it can go on dying for 300 years." "And why are you so concerned about the giaours?" "Are you not afraid that your master may find out?" "Will you tell him?" "And how do you know I'm not asking because of him?" "Karaibrahim wants to know what everyone thinks." "He doesn't want to know, Venetian!" "He is on a quest to change the world and for this task it is better not to know what others think." "You are a wise man, aga, and I know little of wisdom." "Of course!" "Look at the way you sit." "Until you learn to sit with your feet crossed, you won't achieve anything." "Wise men thought up this position." "Can I ask you for a favour?" "Yes, aga?" "Go in the mountains tomorrow and send this message to Manol, everyone knows him:" "Give him this handkerchief and tell him that Suleyman Aga can't stand in the way of Allah." "Why send me, aga?" "I do not want to send one of my own people." "Just because of that?" "Are you not sending me, so I can tell Karaibrahim that you are not with the people of Elindenya?" "There is no need to say out loud things we both know." "Why not tell Karaibrahim yourself?" "Because I do not want to humiliate myself." "Look now, Venetian, a time of parting has come." "You must choose a side." "I've been standing in the middle for far too long." "So, they have asked Suleyman Aga to rise against me?" "Yes, but he declined." "It's too late." "The letter to the grand vizier is already on its way." "Then Suleyman Aga is doomed?" "No one knows what the will of the vizier will be." "Aga, is there a point in me going to those shepherds?" "There is!" "Let them know they are alone." "Manol!" "Manol Kehaya!" "Suleyman Aga has sent someone to speak to you." "You've asked for me." "Suleyman Aga has sent me to tell you that he can't stand in the way of Allah." "Do you bring any other news?" "No." "Then tell him that the people of Elindenya send him their goodbyes." "Do not resist, non chela fari..." "You won't succeed." "You are not a Turk, are you?" "No, but I am alive." "You have sold your soul." "Listen, shepherd, there was a time when I would have killed you for this insult." "And now I'll tell you only this - I hope we meet each other again!" "Suleyman Aga has refused to help us." "I knew it." "All our efforts are in vain." "Suleyman Aga's headquarters are a fortress." "We can't take it." "And Mehmed Pasha is nearby with 100 000 men." "Father, I want to marry Elitsa." "Do I have your blessing?" "Why are you standing here?" "Elitsa, come." "I am afraid, father." "People stay away from me." "Dad hasn't spoken to me in two days." "Tell me what to do!" "Does Momchil know?" "We grew up together, Momchil and I." "I have always enjoyed his company." "But yesterday..." "Something flipped in me." "I saw Manol." "I saw him in a way I have never seen him before." "And since then, all I can think of is him." "Day and night I see only him." "Is this a sin, father?" "I do not know, child." "I do not know anymore." "Elitsa!" "Elitsa!" "Elitsa!" "Is it true?" "It's true, Momchil!" "Where is my father?" "Where is he?" "Momchil!" "Wait, Momchil!" "Let me go!" "Momchil, wait!" " Did you tell him about us?" " What is there to tell?" " That we, together..." " What?" "Do you remember when we chased each other in the forest, and you caught me?" "I was burning with desire." "I asked you to let go of me." "Why did you let me go?" "Do you remember that night when I asked you to come with me to the spring?" "I was holding your hand, but you kept telling me not to be afraid." "I was trembling, but not with fear." "Why didn't you hold me?" "When you saw me asleep in the Maiden's Glen why did you ask me to wake up?" "Why didn't you take me?" "And if you wanted me so much, why did you not ask my father for my hand?" "Call me Elitsa now, because after Sunday you will call me mother." "You must bless it, father!" "Have you gone mad?" "Go away!" "Take this away!" "Manol!" "What are you doing?" "The church bells toll for dead and you prepare for a wedding." "Our people need humility and prayer, not celebrations." "Manol!" "I am looking for salvation too!" "I pray nights on end, but instead of heavenly hymns, all I hear is Turkish drums and trumpets." "Once, I looked at the Virgin Mary's icon and I saw a skull, and in the skull - dug up tree-roots." "Dug up by children's hands." "I saw many empty villages, dead fires, pregnant women, hitting their wombs with rocks, trying to kill their children from the rapes, and a black swarm covering the mountains." "Manol, you can't start something that is doomed from the start." "All you can see on the horizon is yatagans and knives, people's heads stuck on poles." "I saw the head of Vrazhu Kehaya, Stoyko Prosveta, grandpa Kralyu..." "I saw your head there too, Manol." "Is this really you, father?" "God has taken your mind." "Manol, this wedding will bring evil." "Fear will bring evil." "Everyone is hiding." "Can you not see?" "The sound of bagpipes will bring them together." "Give them new strength." "You are looking for an excuse for the sin you are about to make." "You won't have my blessing!" "With or without your blessing, there will be a wedding." "You want to ask me something?" "You are waiting for me to start?" "You wanted her!" "Take her!" "What are you waiting for?" "If you can't live without her, be a man!" "Take your knife!" "Strike me!" "To kill my father." "That's not a man's deed." "Then forgive him." "I've made this for you." "Aga, you will lock away the weapons of your men." "Why?" "So that there are fewer dead." "Won't you tell them what's coming?" "Everyone is here, even Stoyko Prosveta." "Goran." "Go to the path." "We should keep watch." "I will go." "Go, go!" "I know this wedding is not to your liking." "And because of that, I thank you for coming!" "Thank you for coming!" "A wedding without guests is like a bell without a clapper." "Thank you for dressing up your best clothes." "So we can leave pleasant memories to the mountain." "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Cheers, Manol!" "Cheers!" "Cheers, Manol!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Let go of me!" "People!" "Manol!" "Stop!" "Blood will be spilt!" "Blood will be spilt!" "Why have you come?" "There are three more days left, out of the 10 you gave us." "That is true!" "But you will spend them in the cells." "The days were for consideration, not for wedding celebrations." "Take their bows and knives!" "Take the most important of them to the courthouse." "Manol!" "What are you waiting for?" "And now, father?" "Now, Momchil, many paths lay before the people of Elindenya." "Each must choose his own." "The film was shot in the Rhodopes, the same place, where this story happened three centuries ago." "Many of the extras are heirs to the survivors of the horrible times of violence." "Cast:" "Karaibrahim Iossif Surchadzhiev" "Father Aligorko Rousy Chanev" "Manol Ivan Krystev" "The Venetian Valter Toski" "Sevda Anya Pencheva" "Suleyman Aga Vassil Mihajlov" "Grandpa Galushko Konstantin Kotsev" "Elitsa Kalina Stefanova" "Mircho Angel Ivanov" "Momchil Momchil Karamitev" "Goran Stoyko Peev" "Kemandzhi Dzhogli Nikolay Latev" "The bolukbashi Tzanko Petrov" "Shaban Shibil Ivan Yanchev" "Molla Sulfikar Softa Anton Karastojanow" "Gulfiye Stefka Berova" "Ismail Bey Bogomil Simeonov and others." "Subtitles: temporarybobi@yahoo.de Subtitles editor:" "NikeBG" "End of part one" "BULGARIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY" ""BOYANA" FILM STUDIO" ""HAEMUS" CREATIVE TEAM" "TIME OF VIOLENCE based on the book "Time of parting" by Anton Donchev" "Chapter 2 THE VIOLENCE" "Script Ludmil Staikov, Georgi Danailov, Mihail Kirkov, Radoslav Spassov" "Starring Iossif Surchadzhiev Rousy Chanev Ivan Krystev" "Valter Toski Anya Pencheva" "Vassil Mihajlov Konstantin Kotsev Kalina Stefanova" "Angel Ivanov Momchil Karamitev Stoyko Peev" "Bogomil Simeonov Ivan Yanchev Anton Karastojanow" "Nikolay Latev Tzanko Petrov Djoko Rosic Stefka Berova" "Script editor Todor Monov" "Consultants Tsvetana Georgieva, Atanas Semerdjiev, Ganka Mihaylova, Hristo Dermendjiev" "Costume design Nikolay Nikolov, Sonya Kalcheva" "Make-up Tanyo Kukov Christopher Tucker" "Film editing Violeta Toshkova" "Sound department Lyudmila Mahalnishka" "Original music Georgi Genkov" "Production design Georgi Todorov" "Producer Christo Nenov" "Cinematography Radoslav Spassov" "Directed by Ludmil Staikov" "Bring the bride to my room." "No!" "Keep the boy for me!" "Sister!" "Sister!" " Mircho!" " Leave me alone!" "What are you waiting for?" "Didn't you understand the girls belong to you?" "What about you?" "Can't you choose one?" "Hold on." "Do you like this one?" "Take her to his room." "Leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "Open it!" "Let me out!" "Open it!" "My poor child!" "My poor granddaughter!" "Open it!" "Let me out!" "My poor child!" "My granddaughter is there!" "No, no!" "Don't shout!" "Io sono Veneziano!" "I won't do you any harm!" "No, no!" "I won't do you any harm!" "No, no!" "Basta!" "Have mercy, pasha!" "She is my only grandchild!" "My daughter!" "Have mercy, pasha!" "She is my only one!" "Have mercy..." "My grandchild..." "Please, pasha!" "Have mercy, pasha!" "Let me go!" "Leave him alone!" " What do you want?" " Leave the boy!" " Why?" " It's the order of Karaibrahim." "Well, I'll give him to you later." "Didn't you hear what I said?" "Or you want me to call Karaibrahim?" "What do you want?" "Take this child away for the night!" "You are not used to what is happening." "Come, I want to show you something." "This gangway runs around the whole residence." "It's only me and the aga who know about it." "This way you can escape from the residence." "You're a good man." "You may need it some day." "Now be silent." "This is the room of Karaibrahim." "Do you hear anything?" "Not a single sound." "I was here a little while ago." "Not a sound came from that bitch Elitsa." "She had to scream for appearances at least." "Listen, she is still silent." "Sevda." "Bitch!" "You seduced Goran and you are the reason for this evil." "You slut!" "May you die tomorrow." "May the plague lay you low!" "May you pop off!" "May snakes suck your eyes." "May your head be devoured by stray dogs!" "May a shovel bury your eyes!" "May wolves and devils devour you!" "You slut!" "May stray dogs tear you to pieces!" "May the plague take you..." "Aah!" "You dirty slut!" "May God kill you!" "Stop!" "Leave her alone!" "Have you gone mad?" "I'm to blame." "I left the path unguarded." "It's my fault." "Leave her!" "Sevda!" "Go away!" "Father, what are you doing?" "Everybody went to the caves." "Why are you still here?" "As long as there are people alive, this mill will roll!" "Who are these men?" "These are the ahciis (cooks) of Suleyman Aga." "From now on, you alone will take care of the food!" "Come on, get out!" "I don't want to see any strangers here anymore!" "You called for me, aga!" "You took Manol's son!" "Yes." "There are things I'm still not used to." "Don't make a habit of using my name." "On the other hand, it was the right thing." "I'll need this boy later on." "You will take care of him!" "Aga!" "Where did you catch him?" "He came alone!" "I wasn't at the wedding yesterday, aga." "I've come to my people." "When I saw you for the first time at the cemetery, I thought you were a coward." "Now I see you are a man of sense." "Did you come to help them?" "Yes, aga, as much as I can." "Where are your fur caps?" "Aga, Allah Himself is with you." "If he only puts on the turban, everybody will follow him." "What if he refuses to?" "Impossible." "You know how to make him change his faith." "I know." "But if he dies before he changes to the true faith?" "That would be bad." "He'd become a martyr and that's what the Christians are waiting for." "For someone to become a saint, so that they can follow him." "So he mustn't be allowed to die before he changes to the true faith." "Get out!" "Quick!" "Go!" "Why are you dawdling?" "Faster!" "Quicker!" "Move!" "Move!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Water!" "Water!" "I want to drink!" "The 10 days are over!" "I gave you my word and I stood by it." "You had enough time to think it over." "Here are your turbans." "Put them on and you will get Allah's blessing." "The herds will be yours again." "You'll go home." "No more agony." "You'll be the masters!" "Aga, we already said what we had to say." "Nobody in this valley will change his faith!" "Nobody?" "Get her here." "Show them your face." "Repeat so that they hear you!" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "Say it, my daughter:" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet!" "I thought you'd be the one leading the people." "But it turns out that you are led by a woman!" "Veil your face so that they don't stain it with their eyes!" "I want to drink!" "I want to drink!" "First you will drink from the spring of the pure faith!" "Come on, papaz (priest), you start!" "Show them what they are supposed to do." "Show it to them!" "You didn't understand me, aga." "I didn't come to change my faith, but to die with them!" "Very well!" "You!" "I can't, aga." "You can't?" "I can't." "What if the others take them?" "I'll see then, aga." "Let me be the last one." "Isn't it all the same, giaour, who is first or last?" "It isn't, aga." "If I'm the last one, no one will be left to curse me." "And you, are you going to accept the true faith?" "No, aga!" "You?" "No, aga!" "I know that you won't take it." "Come on!" "Step out!" "You?" "The priest will be first!" "The priest will be first!" "These others are going to die after him!" "I will kill one of them every day, until you all accept!" "On Friday I rest." "Then I'll ask you once again." "If you are still stubborn, your agony will be so great that you'll look for salvation in death." "And you were too rash." "You will be last." "So you may witness the deaths of those who followed you!" "Aga, some Yuruks are outside and want to come in." "They can't come in right now." "They can wait!" "They are led by Ismail Bey himself." "Let them in!" "Where is Suleyman Aga?" "Why hasn't he come out to meet me?" "I'm here, bey!" "Welcome!" "Aga, I, Ismail Bey, made a deal with this man, Manol, giving him land for a village." "And he is to give me in exchange his 52 silver bells." "I'm here to collect them." "Ask him for the bells, Ismail Bey." "Where are my bells?" "They are in a safe place." "I didn't know they belonged to you." "I'll return them." "The bells!" "Where have you given him land, bey?" "Aga, let me ask you something." "Why are these men being held here?" "I know every single one of them." "Not one has ever stolen anything, nor killed anyone." "They are standing against the will of Allah!" "Remember, aga, the green watermelon can't be made sweet by force." "A green watermelon, forcibly ripened, isn't sweet!" "Bey, I'm listening to you and don't see any difference between you and these shepherds." "The gate is behind your back and can be easily barred." "I'm too old to be frightened!" "You bar the gate and my people will bar the mountain passes." "Forgive me, Manol Kehaya and you shepherds." "This is the will of Allah." "And you don't forget, aga, that Allah sees everything!" "Where are you going, Hasan Hodja?" "Aga, one of those who are dying first is his father." "You have the right to a last wish." "I'll fulfill it before you die." "So you shall have fond memories of me." "What do you want?" "Me?" "To milk a sheep." "You?" "To see my granddaughter for the last time." "She must be here somewhere in the courthouse." "And you?" "I want to hear the church bell, aga." "You got away easily." "And you, papaz, what do you want?" "Nothing, aga." "Manol, they start tomorrow." "They start tomorrow with me." "Kill me." "Don't let them violate me in front of everyone." "Father, if you give in tomorrow, I won't blame you!" "People!" "It's a miracle!" "He's gone!" "The grave of Enihan Baba is empty." "It's empty!" "I wanted to burn his bones." "So that nothing is left of him." "I searched through everywhere." "There were no remains in the grave." "People, the Rhodopes have no conqueror!" "They have deceived us!" "They've been deceiving us for 300 years!" "The mountain has no conqueror, people!" "Aga, the grave of Enihan Baba has been desecrated!" "By whom?" "I don't know, aga!" "Come on!" "Vrazhu Kehaya withstood!" "Don't look at the arms." "You're not going to do anything." "You've had many opportunities to kill me over the years." "You're a weak person." "Aga, there is an envoy from Edirne." "They're looking for Suleyman Aga." "Let them in!" "Aga, we are bringing you good news from the sultan." "Open it!" "It's yours!" "So?" "Aga, we don't know what they want you for, but we are not allowed to come back without you." "So it's not for good!" "Read!" "To the fairest among the faithful judges, the first among the sacred dignitaries, the spring of virtue, wisdom and fair decisions for the whole people." "Enough!" "What's written there?" "!" "It says that you are honoured with a caftan, a white fox skin and a silk belt." "You are invited to go to Edirne to get them." "What do you say about it?" "You have to go." "It bears the sultan's stamp." "Do not force me, in any case, to repeat this holy order on this matter." "That is, think of the consequences if you don't come!" "Who would be invited twice for a reward?" "Prepare the baggage." "A man can't get away from his own fate!" "Aga, let us wait until tomorrow." "Why?" "Today my father will be killed!" "Will you put it on?" "Come on!" "Don't you know that you are not allowed to come in here without an invitation?" "What are these things for?" "I'm preparing my husband's baggage." "You are preparing too much for him." "Why should it be too much?" "It's a long way." "Do you know something?" "I do." "Why don't you go to Suleyman Aga and tell him?" "He has always treated you well." "Can't you think of why not?" "Should I tell him "Don't go"?" "Am I to tell him this?" "They are very beautiful." "You are afraid of everybody and of everything." "Not of everything." "Only of that which threatens my life." "Write this also:" "Suleyman Aga donates to the people of Elindenya the land of the summer residence and his two herds there." "Don't you know that I don't want you in my rooms?" "Aga, I'm worried about you." "Don't worry." "The residence will remain yours." "Here!" "I'm on my way, Manol." "In a few hours Elindenya will be behind me." "I want to get you out of here." "Only me?" "I can't take all of you." "But for you I'll give it a try." "Free my son, aga." "From the bottom of my heart I ask you this." "I can't." "Abdullah, the Venetian, watches over him." "For your sake I didn't kill him, because he had your handkerchief." "And it's a good thing - your son is in the safest place in the residence." "What about Elitsa?" "She's with Karaibrahim." "I've got to go, Manol." "What's your decision?" "Farewell, Suleyman Aga." "Farewell, Manol Kehaya." "Aga, he dismissed his retainers." "They're armed and are going to take the woods." "Better they take the woods than stay here in the courthouse." "Aga, are you going to kill me?" "What?" "Are you going to kill me?" "Why should I?" "I don't kill children." "I'm not a child." "Come on." "Nobody's going to kill you." "Go to bed now." "I heard you last night saying something." "To whom?" "You were talking to yourself but I didn't get anything." "It might have been in Italian." "What's that?" "That's my mother's language." "Is she alive?" "I don't know." "Where is Manol?" "Aga, why don't you take me?" "I was to be the first one." "Open it!" "I can't stand it anymore." "Submit, my friend, submit so you can avoid the agony!" "I can't change my faith, hodja." "Begin!" "Dad!" "Mircho!" "Dad!" "If you are thirsty, drink!" "What do you want from me, aga?" "Why don't you kill me?" "Because you are to die every day, as long as you resist." "You're a holy man." "You know the saying:" ""Ye shall not resist evil"." "It's also said, aga:" ""There shall be no other God before me." "You are going to be tortured and killed because of me."" ""Many of you will give up, but those who endure to the end, those will be redeemed!"" "You know the Gospel." "Do you know any other books?" "I don't need any other books, aga." "Blessed are the ignorant, father, blessed." "You should have seen at least St. Peter's cathedral in Rome or some of the other cathedrals." "You don't have even a single normal church, so that you have something left to preserve." "We preserve our people, aga!" "You preserve them so well that they will all die." "Do you speak to me like this because you're searching for redemption yourself?" "Redemption?" "For what?" "By changing my religion, have I become another man?" "Better or worse?" "A man is more than his faith, holy father." "As a man can not live without a face, the soul can not live without faith!" "Very well." "Tell me, when you look at me, who am I?" "Am I what you see and know?" "Or am I what I know about myself?" "Both of them." "And the more distant one is from the other, the more frightful it is." "Karaibrahim sets you free." "He ordered me to let you go." "Why am I here?" "Karaibrahim told me to tell you that he has done nothing to me." "And if you want to be with me, you should give in." "Those were his words." "Manol, I'm really untouched." "I swear!" "If he had ever tried to, I would have killed myself." "I believe you." "God didn't allow you to become my wife." "That was His will." "But you won't be my widow either." "That is my will." "You have to flee from here." "Go to Momchil and become his wife." "I want you to bring a boy into the world." "His name must be Manol." "If he's not my son, he'll be my grandson." "He'll bear my blood regardless." "And the second duty is that Momchil must kill Karaibrahim!" "Did you hear well?" "Tell Momchil that he must kill me!" "You don't have to flee." "I set you free!" "Aga, aga!" "Have you freed the priest and the girl?" "I have!" "Go on, why are you staring at me!" "?" "Father, is it you?" "It's me." "Manol!" "Why are you here?" "I want to see you." "I can offer you nothing." "Go away!" "Where should I go?" "I put on the veil because of you." "They told me that if I did this, they wouldn't kill you." "How could you believe that?" "I did, Manol." "I'd believe anything that could save you." "Forgive me!" "Aga, this one uncovered herself before the giaours and spoke to them." "Why were you there?" "Don't you know that you have to veil your face?" "Veil yourself!" "Do you think that I wear this because of your God?" "I put it on because you told me you wouldn't do any harm to them!" "You are not a man." "You are a beast." "A murderer." "That is what you are!" "I hope you die in the same agony as those you killed." "May the dogs carry around your flesh!" "I get it!" "Don't you know that you are pretty?" "And since you've begun to undress, why don't you continue?" "Or you want others to help you?" "This woman made fun of Allah." "Hand her over to the men in the camp, and tell them that I'll give a gold coin to whoever sleeps with her tonight." "No, no!" "Hurrah!" "What's on your mind, my son?" " Hey, you, where are you going?" " The mistress ordered fish." " Where are you going?" " To the mistress." " Do you have a knife?" " No, I don't." "Go on!" "The mistress ordered fish!" "Goran, I didn't order fish." "It's not for you, it's for Karaibrahim." "Lead me to him." "I can't do it, but I can show you where he is." "The last room on this side." "Who let you in here?" "Who are you?" "Goran." "Galushko's son." "They killed Karaibrahim!" "Are you waiting for me to bleed to death?" "Aga!" "Did you catch him?" "He is dead, aga." "Who was he?" "I don't know." "Quickly." "Help him!" "Who is he?" "I don't know him." "Do you know him?" "No, aga, I don't recognize him." "Don't you know him either?" "No, aga, how could I know him?" "Goran." "My son." "Don't listen to him." "He's gone mad." "Don't listen to him!" "Manol, it's him." "Why do you hide his name?" "Let the people know what he has done." "Let the mountain remember him." "He is Goran." "My son." "Take him!" "Aga, this is his father." "He recognized him!" "Strahin!" "My son!" "Did you recognize me?" "I recognized you, my son." "God didn't have mercy on me." "I lived to see you." "Why did you burn him so?" "Did you send him to kill me?" "No, my son." "But if I had known, I wouldn't have stopped him." "Did he know I'm his brother?" "How could he know?" "Why did you burn him so?" "He burned himself." "So that nobody would recognize him, to save you." "Where is my mother?" "Your mother, Strahin, was taken by God." "She couldn't stand your absence." "Sadness took her life." "Aga, what's happening here?" "Didn't you hear?" "He is my father." "And the one who tried to kill me was my brother." "Now go away, all of you, I want to be alone." "I can't go on like this, Momchil." "I can't leave father alone." "Let me go to the courthouse." "I'll plead to him." "He's my brother, he may have mercy." "What kind of a brother can a janissary be?" "A beast." "He was your brother a long time ago." "If you go there, you won't return a second time!" "He might be touched." "How did he know that I was his sister?" "For a whole month already he hasn't done any harm to our people here." "Let me go, Momchil." "Since what happened with Goran, my father has nobody but me." "My father, Ismail Bey, is giving you back the herd bells." "Help me unload them!" "This is what's left of Suleyman Aga, Gulfiye." "During the day the sultan rewarded him with a caftan, a white fox skin and a silk belt." "And during the night two cellats (executioners) came in our tent, put a strap around his neck and pulled each of them on one side until they strangled him." "The aga was kneeling and was looking at me, I was standing in front of him and didn't do anything." "Karaibrahim slandered him." "If there were any strength left in me, I'd strangle him in return." "What?" "What is it?" "May Allah bless you, Karaibrahim." "May Allah's mercy be with you, Karahasan." "Mehmed Pasha sends you his regards." "I bring you 400 janissaries, ready to do whatever they are ordered." "I've never asked for any help, aga." "But since you are here, be my guest." "Bolukbashi (captain), take care of the soldiers." "And you, Karahasan, are my guest in the residence." "Are you hearing what's happening outside?" "They sent me help!" "To me!" "They've decided I'm unable and that Karahasan is able." "Where he's passed, the people have converted." "And I?" "I stay here and wait!" "I, Karaibrahim, the first one!" "The favourite of the jannisaries' aga." "I do nothing and wait!" "I wanted to save you." "To prevent bloodshed." "You are my father." "You've got to help me!" "How could I, my son?" "By abandoning the false faith!" "Someone has to be the first one." "Don't ask me to do this." "I can't." "But you could give me up to be a janissary." "Why didn't you give away Manol?" "Manol wasn't my son." "How could I give him?" "A man can give away only what's his own." "So it is." "And I will give away my own." "And every living thing will scream." "Father!" "Bolukbashi, take this woman away!" "Brother!" "Brother, have mercy!" "Have mercy, brother!" "You don't know how miserable he's been since you went away." "Have mercy!" "Bolukbashi, didn't you hear what I said?" "You are not a man!" "Beast!" "Curse you!" "Aga, it says in the Quran that if the son is of the true faith, he may not kill his father, even if the father is an infidel." "I won't kill him." "He'll die on his own." "Let him fall!" "My son!" "I watch and can't believe it's you." "What have they turned you into?" "They opened my eyes!" "And what did you see through them?" "I saw that as there is one sun, there must be only one truth, one God." "So everyone will be well." "And for that reason you've prepared the chopping log?" "It was prepared by you." "I came with open arms, I wanted to give you the whole valley, so that you might gain power and strength." "I wanted to save you, to transform you into normal people." "And you tried to kill me." "Don't you understand that I fear neither wounds, nor death?" "Only the dead fear nothing." "Perhaps you don't fear anything because you've already been a long time dead, Strahin." "Your roots are cut and you stand dried up." "The last root was cut by you, when my brother tried to stab me." "Look!" "When I stroke my head, I feel nothing." "It's the same in my soul." "I have no brothers, no sisters, nor a people of my own." "Nothing." "Put on the turban if you don't want to turn Elindenya into a cemetery." "If you were in my shoes, would you put it on?" "And you, harder than a stone as you are." "If you were in my shoes, would you show mercy?" "Yes, to my father." "Good." "If you are so merciful, let us see if you'll show mercy to your son." "Lead him!" "Aga, set the boy free." "I beg you, aga." "Take this fool out." "Get started!" "A turban!" "A turban!" "Give me a turban!" "Release him!" "A turban!" "Repeat after me:" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "Wait!" "I promised your father that every member of his family would draw a cross and spit on it." "Draw it!" "Spit on it!" "Spit on it!" "They killed my father." "They killed everybody." "And I drew a cross and spat on it." "When it was decided that we were to come here, we had the idea that you needed help." "Now I see that we aren't needed." "You are here anyway." "Let the lads have a walk in the valley." "It wouldn't be right to let them go back empty-handed." "Up above here, there is another neighbourhood." "Burn it." "Let none survive!" "Father, father!" "Come, quickly!" "Quickly!" "Look, did you see her?" "She came out from this dark hole." "She's gone again." "Did you see her?" "Utterly withered." "With red eyes and no hair on her head." "I recognized her at once." "The plague!" "As we all reached this place, she stopped!" "She saw them and started crying." "She turned back and went away." "Father, why did the plague have mercy on us and God didn't?" " Tell us, father, why?" " Father, how did we sin that God abandoned us?" "Tell us, father, doesn't God see what's happening?" "I don't know." "It seems that God doesn't take care of every single being separately." "It's one's own responsibility to take care of himself." "He is taking care of the big things:" "of the sun, the water, the air... of life." "Listen, in a few days this child will die." "So will she." "Nobody will escape alive from here." "And you know it." "Why do you lie to us?" "Why don't you go away?" "!" "Everyone's got to save himself." "Get away!" "Why were you the only one set free?" "!" "Satan!" "Satan!" "He is not our priest." "It's Satan in the priest's form." "God!" "Who are you?" "What is your real name?" "Isn't it all the same if you are called Allah or Christ?" "Aren't you in the heart of every man, Moslem or Christian?" "Doesn't the land feed both people equally?" "Isn't all the blood shed in your name enough for you, God?" "!" "Haven't you seen enough agony?" "People!" "People!" "People!" "People!" "Listen to me, people!" "Listen to me, people!" "I saw an omen, God Himself told me:" "Go and change your faith!" "It doesn't matter if you call me Jesus or Allah." "It's more important to stay alive." "Because the most precious gift I've given is life itself." "Those who are against life, are against Me!" "He's lying!" "He's gone mad!" "He's lying!" "Don't listen to him!" "Let me go!" "Get away." "I'll kill him!" "Let him go." "He can kill me." "You may kill me, Momchil, but let the people go down back to their villages." "The winter is coming." "Everybody here is going to die." "Father, don't dare to degrade the memory of my father!" "Honoured shall be Manol and those who died, but didn't change their faith." "But someone has to remain alive, to talk about them and to honour them." "Look at this mountain, Momchil." "This is a fortress that surrounds our people with nine ramparts." "Only the first one is called faith." "But there is a second one: the common past." "A third one: a common language." "A fourth one: a common land." "Honoured are those who lost their lives by the first rampart, of faith." "They showed us how to defend the second one, the third one, and so on." "I speak to you for the last time as your priest." "By changing our faith, we don't change our kin." "Come after me to stay alive and keep the Rhodopes Bulgarian." "Aga, they are coming!" "The people from the valley are coming to serve Allah!" "Glory to Allah!" "Why are you coming, papaz?" "To serve God!" "Which God?" "Allah!" "Get started!" "Repeat after me:" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "Come on!" "Next!" "Repeat after me:" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "The next one!" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "Say:" "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." "Say it!" "Say it, my son!" "Say "there is no God but Allah"!" "I can't, father!" "Under the axe." "I did it for you, my son." "For you, my son." "My son." "I did it for you!" "My son!" "Is there anyone else who wants to go under the axe?" "Get on with it!" "Why are they fleeing?" "Aren't we one now?" "We're not, aga." "We're not one with you." "What do you still want from us?" "Momchil!" "I fulfilled my assignment in Elindenya." "Only one thing is left." "To catch him." "You go and find him." "How could I?" "I don't know where he is." "You know it, papaz." "You know it!" "Even if I should find him, he'd kill me, seeing me like this." "Before he kills you, tell him that I'm leaving in three days." "If he doesn't come, I'll take Elitsa with me." "And she's with child." "If it's a boy, I'll make him a janissary." "What if I don't go, aga?" "I can see right through you, papaz." "You'll go." "I know you won't allow Momchil's son to return one day as a janissary." "Karaibrahim sent me to tell you that in three days he's going away." "He is to take Elitsa with him." "She's with child." "Is this true?" "It's true..." "Karaibrahim said, if it's a boy, he'll make him a janissary, to come back one day to the valley and do to his father what Karaibrahim did to his own." "He also said he'll set Elitsa free only if..." "What does he want?" "You." "He said, if you don't go alone, whoever brings your head in a bag will have that bag filled with gold." "You have to help me get to the residence." "Quickly." "You know I don't have much time left with this wound." "Wait!" "Where are you going?" "Come back!" "I can't do it on my own." "You've got to help me!" "Wait!" "Father, you'll do it!" "I can't, Momchil." "I can't." "Father!" "Aga, Momchil's head, it's being brought by his brother!" "You're lying to me, you dog!" "Tell me you're lying!" "It's true, aga." "Elitsa!" "Bring Elitsa, quickly!" "She must see it!" "His brother." "His brother!" "Get back, I want to see him!" "Do you see this?" "His brother." "For a bag full of gold." "And then I was a beast." "Get out of the way, you dogs!" "Come here!" "Come here, boy!" "Come here to the top!" "Bring it here!" "Mother!" "Father, it's time to say goodbye to you." "Live long for protecting me and taking care of me!" "You know that we all came to like you." "But if this is your decision..." "I know it." "Exactly a year ago, I came for the first time to Elindenya from here." "Manol was alive, Momchil was alive and Mircho too." "You were all together." "Now in one village a muezzin is singing and in another the bells toll." "We are still together." "It's true, the mountain gave birth to two villages, but they are from the same mother." "So, what was all this about?" "Was it necessary for so many people to die?" "And who was right?" "Those who died or those like us - who changed their Gods?" "I don't know." "100 years will pass away, 1000 maybe, until we know." "But what are 1000 years for this mountain?" "Why are the herd bells tolling?" "It's a boy." "A boy was born." "Elitsa bore a son." "Momchil's son." "May he be blessed." "Take it." "It's yours." "I saved it for you." "The film was shot in the Rhodopes, the same place, where this story happened three centuries ago." "Many of the extras are heirs to the survivors of the horrible times of violence." "Cast:" "Karaibrahim Iossif Surchadzhiev" "Father Aligorko Rousy Chanev" "Manol Ivan Krystev" "The Venetian Valter Toski" "Sevda Anya Pencheva" "Suleyman Aga Vassil Mihajlov" "Grandpa Galushko Konstantin Kotsev" "Elitsa Kalina Stefanova" "Mircho Angel Ivanov" "Momchil Momchil Karamitev" "Goran Stoyko Peev" "Kemandzhi Dzhogli Nikolay Latev" "The bolukbashi Tzanko Petrov" "Shaban Shibil Ivan Yanchev" "Molla Sulfikar Softa Anton Karastojanow" "Gulfiye Stefka Berova" "Ismail Bey Bogomil Simeonov" "Karahasan Djoko Rosic" "Subtitles: temporarybobi@yahoo.de Subtitles editor:" "NikeBG" "The End"