All language subtitles for Holy father.en.srt

Andrei...

Andrei?

There's two!

There's two lines!

- Are you laughing or crying?
- I don't know!

Oh my God!

Do you realise?

This is how I found out
I'd be a father.

This is Paula.

An aspiring actress.

Hi, I'm Paula.

I am Andrei.

A documentary filmmaker.

We met in a run-down cinema.

Paula organised a fundraiser
to renovate the building.

We sold 1498 tickets!

And I filmed it.

Months later, we were at the premiere
of my new documentary.

Wait!
Let's listen to that again.

That's Paula.
She's the one yelling:

We unknowingly conceived a baby
that very night.

Fucking shit!

For me, "father" is
just a word in the dictionary.

A word barely related to the man
who left when I was little.

Mom raised us by herself,
in spite of her severe illness.

She died a few years ago.

All of a sudden,

I have less than 9 months
to become the father I never had.

For that, I need to find
the truth about my own father.

You're filming me
because you don't want to open up.

That's how it seems to me.

It's easier to look at me
through that lens--

Say that again?

I was saying...

It seems that you're filming me
because you're afraid to open up.

So you stick that lens under my nose.

It's like I'm only talking
to your closed eye.

How about telling me how you feel?

I don't know,
I find this exciting in a way.

Me too!

How do you feel knowing

that you'll share this with everyone?

Aren't you afraid?

Aren't you...

...something?

But...

You should be grateful and happy.

You have a great story!

You got me, too.

And the baby.

I can't see your eyes.

My eyes?

Can you see them now?

Now I do!

- Kisses, dear! Dad misses you.
- Me too.

Listen, Dad.
You keep postponing your visit,

so, even though I wanted
to tell you in person...

I'll just have to tell you like this:

Dad, you're going to be a grandfather!

That's why you had your back
to the camera in all the photos!

Right.

And what is Andrei saying?

That's the most important
thing I want to know.

The most important.
What is he saying to this?

Nothing, right now.

He's happy, or at least
that's what it looks like to me.

Well, if he's happy,

then I'm happy for you two.

Remember this from your old man:
you've never had this experience,

but a baby always needs
a mother and a father.

A whole family again!

I said the exact same thing!

Mum!

Mum?

Rotate your phone horizontally.

- I have a bad signal.
- Turn your phone sideways!

How are you?

- Can you hear me?
- Shoot.

- I'm pregnant.
- Yes, I can hear you.

Fuck off!

I mean it.

Yeah, right, fuck off!
You got that, right?

I'm not kidding!

That's your problem,
what am I supposed to say?

But I wasn't--

If you're serious
that's all I can say.

Maybe you need a little time.

I don't know what to say.

- You're the one who needs time.
- No, you need time...

To understand you've grown old
and you'll be a grandmother.

- Until next time.
- Bye, take care.

Kisses, bye.

Ciao!

Thanks. Bye.

Hey, baby...

- Yes, where are you?
- Hello, father!

- Where are you?
- Crossing through Bulgaria.

Which route?

Stara Zagora is the next town.

Zagora, right.

Listen, what do I do
when I reach Ouranoupoli?

Is there more than one ferry?

Just one.

One that comes to Athos.

So I just go to the ferry at 6:30?

You show your ID and get on board.

You get your access permit
and that's it.

And what do I do when I get to Athos?

I'll send a car to pick you up.

And how long is the car ride?

- Two hours.
- That long?!

Well, the monastery is
all the way over the mountain.

Oh, cool!

I wouldn't know, I've never been there.

Well, you'll see.

Look at the peak,
surrounded by clouds!

Come!

Where to?

I'll show you the view from up there.

You'll catch the entire monastery
in the valley.

That's Joseph's hermitage.

He has some big flags.

When planes or ships come nearby,
he waves his flags.

And they signal back.

Over there you climb some switchbacks
and reach over 2.000 metres.

- What do you see?
- The whole monastery.

Where can we go
swimming around here?

Over that way.
Down that path.

It's about 2 km away.

- When could we go?
- Maybe on Sunday.

- Only on Sunday?
- I don't have time until then.

During the week I have my duties.

Do you hold services?

Maybe on Sunday, we'll see.

Let's go.

- I'm going.
- You go ahead, I'll shoot some more.

Go shoot from the other side as well.

Spurn me not, the sinner,

made useless by
shameful thoughts, words and deeds,

enslaving my judgement
to the pleasures of life.

But as the Mother of the Merciful God,

show compassion unto me, the sinner.

- Look how I've prepared the beer.
- Is it cold?

I did my best.

- You brought your laptop as well?
- Yes, so I can download what I shoot.

I copy it onto the laptop.

I'm not properly dressed to be filmed.

What's this for?

That's for blowing
the dust off the lens.

Usually, you need
three people on a shoot:

the director, the camera operator
and the sound recordist.

- But I am...
- A one-man show.

- An omni-talent.
- Omni-talented...

- What time do you wake up?
- 1:30 a.m.

And what do you do until the prayer
at 3 a.m.?

I go out and sit on a bench in the yard.

I meditate under the stars, the moon,
I reflect on things...

Then I go to the church, they
play the semantron and that's it.

- Are you kidding?
- No!

- Really?
- Yes, really.

Every night at 2:30
you'll find me on the bench.

Unless it rains, of course.

But it's a pleasure to sit there,
seeing the moon, the stars,

and wondering: what is beyond?

When did we ever spend
this much time together?

When could I have?

I see your cut-off thumb

and I remember, in first grade,
you were Santa Claus at school.

I noticed Santa had half a thumb
and realised it was actually you!

So I told all my classmates:
"That's my dad, that's my dad!"

- You can't see the content.
- It's Mickey Mouse.

Alright, see you later. Sleep tight.

O God, thou art my God;
early will I seek thee.

My soul thirsteth for thee,
my flesh longeth for thee

in a dry and thirsty land,
where no water is,

to see thy power and thy glory.

Thy kindness is better than life,
my lips praise thee.

That's the only place you hear chickens.
No other females on the Mountain.

It's the house of an ascetic, Yannis.

- A what?
- A hermit.

He was a sniper in the U.S. military.

- Really? Did he kill people?
- I wouldn't know.

Are there any other monks
who have children?

I don't know.

Probably not in our monastery.

Will you ever leave this place?

Virgin Mary's will be done. She brought
me here, she alone knows.

What do you mean by
"she brought me here"?

If I reached this place and stayed,
it was her will.

All happens according
to the will of the Virgin Mary.

This is her garden, her mountain.

- Are you filming?
- Yes.

On the Mountain?
Or here in our monastery?

- I am the son of Father Calinic.
- Really? No way!

You're kidding me!

- So he was married?
- Yes.

Stop filming me already!

Stop filming me!

Go away! Enough!

Where are you? Take this.

Come.

- Come on already!
- Put it in your pocket.

Here, take it! Behave yourself
or you won't get any!

Take this!

Stop filming me like I'm a monkey.

You keep filming me
like I'm some monkey!

- Listen, since we're having a beer--
- I'm not having a beer, I need to go.

- Why won't you listen to me?
- There's no time.

I have to do my chores.

I have to be somewhere else.

I wanted to tell you...

The reason I came here...

...is to give you some news.

- Shocking and sensational!
- Right.

- You're going to be a grandfather.
- Yes? Who's the...

Paula.

- The one you were talking to earlier?
- Yes.

- Where is she?
- At home, in Piatra.

- I mean studying or--
- She graduated.

- And doing what?
- Having a baby.

Yes, everyone has babies,
but what's her line of work?

Well... she just graduated.

So good to find these chairs
and have a rest.

I was hoping for
a more interesting reaction.

And when are you getting married?

- What for? So I can get divorced?
- What kind of answer is that?

Well...

What kind of example did I have?
Both me and her, poor thing.

- Her parents divorced, too, and--
- Let's go.

Don't you dare leave that can here.

What I am, you will be,
what you are, I used to be.

Look...

Here are all.

So there are no cemeteries
on Athos, only ossuaries?

Yes.

- Will you end up here?
- If I die here, I will.

As God and the Virgin Mary decide.

Let's go.

Do you like it?

Son...

Here, I brought you some tea.

Original, local sage tea.

With chestnut jam.

From where you're standing,
you can't see everything.

Wasn't it easier back in Romania?

No.

At the nuns' convent,
one had more freedom,

but this is something else.

Here, one sees beyond appearances.

But you can judge for yourself.

Away from all that...

...confusion.

But don't you miss your children,
your family?

Isn't it "Leave your parents,
children, wife, and follow Me"?

- I don't know, is it?
- Christ says it.

That's what Christ, our Saviour,
said to His disciples.

Well, He says a lot, but not all of it
is easy to follow.

Can anyone do everything He says?
No one can, right?

So, since you became a monk,
you haven't missed anyone?

Look up there, a plane is passing!
It's flying over Mount Athon.

See it?

Let's get you away
from all these mosquitoes.

Let's go.

- A gift!
- What is it?

You brought me a headlamp?

Yes, it's a good one.

I heard some animals
and ran for the headlamp.

The jackals!

What have you discovered?

Ursa Major, Ursa Minor...

How does it know
the names of all these?

Take your phone.

Please install this app
on my phone too.

You know why we carry these sticks?

Do you think it's useful or useless?

- To scare off the vipers.
- Exactly!

See, I got it.
I guessed it. I'm a smart boy.

- No idea who I take after.
- No idea, he says.

Father, do it like this!

Not like a doggy,
move it from the shoulder!

Stretch your arms!

Get them up.

That's it! Higher!

Move your legs to stay afloat.
Right! Legs and arms, good!

And your legs.

Keep going!

Put some oomph in it!

- I'll crash into the rocks!
- No you won't.

I'm so fast!

Good Lord and Virgin Mary,
you're making me laugh!

It feels so good!

See what a great teacher he is?