All language subtitles for Zendegi Va Digar Hich (Abbas Kiarostami, 1991).ENG

I am a social worker of the Red Moon Media.
And I would like to speak to you

about something as important as
the adoption of children because

we have many cases of orphans
that need protection.

They are children that do not have relatives
and we should do something for them,

and that is, adopt them. The Red Moon Media itself
is overburdened and throws

a message of solidarity to all
those citizens that have

the will and the means to maintain these children.

Is the highway cut?

If it were, we would notify you.

If they desire to carry out a final adoption,
they can also be put in contact

with this association, which will take note

of their request and deal with all the documentation.

As for the humanitarian aid,
although the response has been

very generous, for which we thank you,
we still need a lot more help.

Is the highway cut?

If it were cut
we would notify you.

Did you not ask the same question yesterday?

Yes. Yesterday you directed me to Rudbar
and I arrived in Manjil.

But the bypass was cut and I had to turn around.

If you want more information
ask the traffic police.

Do you know if the highway is open?

Yes. Where are you going?

To Rudbar.

To Rudbar there is no problem.

But yesterday when we arrived in Manjil
we had to return.

You cannot enter Manjil.

The highway is only open
for the rescue services.

- Many thanks.
- You're welcome.

- Dad?
- What?

What are rescue services?

They are the things that people send
to help the victims

of the earthquake.

That's why he said
that only rescue services can pass.

Does it mean that today
we can't pass that way?

- I'll be thinking of something.
- For example?

I don't know. We will think of something.
We haven't arrived yet.

And if we show them the photos
of our friends and say that

we are going to help them?

It's not a bad idea.

Dad, what's that over there on top of the mountain?

They are towers of communication,
they transmit the news.

The news of the earthquake was given from there?

Of course.

- Dad?
- What?

- What's that?
- That?

What's making so much smoke.

It's a cement factory.

And why hasn't it fallen down?

The cement is very hard.
An earthquake cannot destroy it.

And the other houses are not of cement?

No, the majority are of clay bricks.

You should remember from the movie.

Maybe the ones that live there went to Teheran

to see the match.

Unfortunately, not.

As they do not have television they went to Teher�n

to see the match on television.

The night of the earthquake
Scotland and Brazil played, right?

If I remember correctly
it was Argentina and Brazil.

No, it was Scotland and Brazil.

I saw it, it was Scotland and Brazil.

Yes, Scotland and Brazil, you're right.

I have to pee.

I expected this.

Stay low.

- Dad, I have caught a grasshopper.
- That's bad.

- Why?
- Because they are very dirty.

If you catch them and then you touch the eyes
or the mouth, it can make you ill.

Besides grasshoppers live in the country.
Let it go.

No, I want to raise it until it's big.

I don't know anyone who raises grasshoppers.

Then I'll be the only one in the world
who raises them.

I think it's stupid to hunt grasshoppers
and then to raise them.

I will raise this grasshopper so that he can emigrate.

- Why?
- So that he can emigrate.

Emigrate, you say?
Do you know what that means?

It means that they go from a place to another.

More or less.

I have answered your question,

so you have to answer
one of mine.

Tell me.

Why do grasshoppers emigrate?

I don't know.

They emigrate because when they have eaten

the herbs of a field. They go to another
where there is fresh herb.

- You see?
- Yes.

Look inside.
It has red wings.

They are very pretty, dad?

What are you doing?
We almost hit that truck.

Come, you throw it away
if you don't want to annoy me.

I told you to throw it away, son.

You throw it away!

- Have you thrown it away?
- Yes.

Sleep a little.

If you're not sleepy you should rest.
Fold those clothes

and put them under your head.

- Dad?
- What?

When will we arrive at that long tunnel?

It's right there.

And Life Goes On.

Excuse me. Excuse me..

How do you go to the main highway?

Go straight until you reach the crossing.
There, turn to the left.

Thanks.

Move aside.
Move aside.

- Slowly. Slowly.
- Very well. Continue.

- Don't fear. It can pass.
- That's it.

Done. Go ahead.

Dad!
Dad!

Dad!
Dad!

Coming!

- Dad, they sell refreshments.
- Where?

You just passed it.

Sir!
Sir!

What do you want?

Do you have refreshments?

No, around here you will not find
refreshments.

- Dad! Dad!
- What?

Here are refreshments.
- Where?

- There.
- Let's see.

Sir!
Sir!

Sir!
Sir!

Sir!
Nobody answers.

- Can I take it, dad?
- Alright, leave the money there.

This is lukewarm.

- And this is very hot.
- They will be all the same.

Take anything.

Dad, this soft drink is very hot.
It makes me sick.

- Do I have to drink all of it?
- No.

Boy, don't spill it all to the ground.
Pour a little for the baby here.

It's enough, thanks.

Ahead, go on, go on.

You, stop a moment!

You go, let them pass!
Go on, hurry up.

Go on, don't slow down.
go on, go on.

What's going on? Don't stop here.
Go on, go on.

The car has stopped. It won't start.
Let me check.

Get out of the the car and push.

It is blocking
the highway.

Yes, yes, forgive me.

Keep on your lane, please.

Go on, go on,
or they can't advance.

- You mustn't block the highway.
- Go on, go on.

Ahead, go on, go on.

"The western influence in our composers..

Barely deserves to be reviewed
by its intrascendence."

"On the contrary, in North Africa, the music of..

Southern Europe has reached a singular symbiosis.

In our area, the musical purity has been maintained,
not only in the folk tradition..

But also in the contemporary melodies."

Excuse me, sir.
Excuse me.

Where is the traffic jam?

It's a disaster.

From Emamzadeh I have been delayed 4 hours.
I could barely advance.

Entire towns have gone downhill.
Even the hospital

is a pile of debris.

Never have I seen so much pain and suffering.

It's like a punishment.

I don't know what our town has done to deserve

something so terrible.

It's like a punishment.

Do you mind to pull back
so that I can pass through?

Are your sure there is an exit around here?

All the roads end some place.

This one may be a highway with no exit.

I would not trust myself, dad.

There are people, let's ask.

Excuse me, madam. Does this way go to Koker?

I couldn't say.

You want me to give you a lift?

No, but I want you to carry the gas cylinder.
It weighs a lot.

Our store is nearby.

- Leave it by the roadside.
- Very well.

I thank you with all my heart.

- I will leave it by the roadside.
- Good-bye.

Good-bye. Thanks again, sir.

Excuse me, grandfather.
Do you know if this road goes to Koker?

What did you say?

- You go to Koker this way?
- I don't know.

- And Poshteh?
- Eh?

- Oh, no?
- I don't know Koker.

- You know it?
- No, I am very sorry.

- What do you want?
- How do I go to Koker?

- Eh?
- Koker.

- Want to go to Koker?
- Yes.

You should take the other road.

You should take the main road.
I refer to the new road,

the one that is not made of earth.
It's a lot wider.

The highway is closed.

- Isn't there another road?
- To Koker one has to go by that road.

Many thanks.

What are we going to do now, dad?

We will find a road yet.
But I don't know which.

Excuse me, do you know if this way goes to Koker?

- Eh?
- To Koker.

- No.
- And to Poshteh? Is this the road?

I have lost my family.
16 on the whole.

They have all been buried under rubble.
My things are gone, too.

I am very sorry, madam.

Do you know if they have

many victims in Koker?

How do you expect me to know it?

Many thanks for the help.

May the Lord give you health and good fortune.

Do you know if this way
goes to Koker?

I'm sorry, I don't know anything.

- Where do you want to go?
- To Koker.

By there, there is a road that goes to Koker,
if it suits you

going along the road.

The highway is cut.
And there is a very large traffic jam.

There is not another road?

The one I told you about.
But it's full of potholes and cracks.

I don't think that you can pass with the car.
It would be very risky.

I will try. We'll see what happens.

Stop, stop. Don't go on.
The cracks are very large.

Go on, man! If I were careful, would I not be able to pass?

Impossible.
Even on foot it's very dangerous.

Turn back.
If you continue, the car might

erode parts of the road.

In short, thanks.

Excuse me. Do you know some road
that leads to Koker?

There is one at the other side of the large highway.

- You ask there.
- Thanks. Good-bye.

- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.

You see? As I told you.
Son, we had but to try.

It will be done at night
and we will still be in the car.

Hush, stop making me nervous.
Leave me in peace.

- And now what road are we going to take?
- Don't worry.

We will find one yet.

That man seems tired.
Give him a ride.

- Excuse me, sir.
- You mean me?

Do you know how to go to Koker?

This way is good. It's this road.

But there has been a landslide of the mountain

and I don't think you can pass.

- Aren't you from Koker?
- Yes, I am from there.

- Do you have any news about Koker?
- Koker is in ruins.

There no longer remains a house standing.

Tell me.
Do you know this boy?

- This boy?
- Yes.

- I think so.
- Who is he?

He is the son of Abdollah of Koker.

- He was in the movie.
- That's him.

- Do you knows if he is alive or if he has died?
- To be honest, I don't know.

- I don't know anything about anybody.
- Are you going to Koker?

- Yes.
- Get in and I will take you.

I can walk, it's near.

- Can I try?
- Not possible.

I can walk this way, but you cannot pass

with the car. Return and once in the highway,

you will see a road to the right
that will take you to Koker.

I think that bypass is open.

If you cannot pass, go on foot.

- Thanks.
- Anything else?

- No, good-bye.
- Good-bye.

Excuse me.
Is this the way to Koker?

- Hasan, Koker is over there?
- No, it's around here.

- You go straight on.
- Thanks.

- I don't know how to thank you.
- Have you found it easily?

Yes, very easy, thanks.

You don't agree with us,
Mr. Ruhi?

How do you know me?

Naturally.

What coincidence.

Don't tell me that you don't recognize us?

Yes, sure, now I see.

Thanks to God you survived the earthquake.

We were left with nothing,

we have lost everything.
But nobody of the family has died.

- What do you know about the Ahmadpur?
- Who are the Ahmadpur?

Come on, man. They worked with you in the movie.

That's the problem.
Nobody knows anything about anybody.

I don't have news of them because
they not are from my town. They're from Koker.

- And with this chaos.
- Exactly. They are from Koker.

There surely must be some road
that can take us there?

Yes, before there was a direct road.
But now, who knows?

There have been so many landslides,
and so many cracks have damaged roads

that one hardly knows where to go.

Forgive me, but with so much shortage of water,

how can you buy such a thing?
Where will you bring it?

It may seem strange to you,
but for me it's indispensable.

I have grown accustomed to it.
What can you do?

The ones that died already are gone.
And the ones that remain, some of them,

we need this valuable piece of porcelain.
In short, I congratulate you, Mr. Ruhi.

Thanks. And to you I wish a lot of

- Health.
- The same thing I say to you.

At times I think, if so many innocents,
so many people, children, women,

if almost everyone loses
their house, and if ours

has remained intact,
it means that the Lord is with me.

Will you not become pious, right?

Pious? Don't misunderstand me.

- I forgive, but. ..
- what has occurred is that this..

Disaster has been like a wolf
a hungry one that attacks and goes,

devouring the people where he passes by,
letting the people live

where he has not passed.
No, this is not the work of God.

He wants his servants.
That's how I see him.

Dad, can I ask a question to Mr. Ruhi?

Sure.

Mr. Ruhi, why were you

older when you were in the movie

"Where is The Friend's House?"

Aside from that, you had a hump.

Yes, I can see how that puzzles you.

That hump, they put it on me in the movie.
They told me that I had

to look older and I did what they told me.

But I did not like it -- it pinched me.
That wasn't fair.

I do not know what kind of art it is
that the people have to seem older

and uglier.

Art means happy and beautiful things
that touch you.

Art is to rejuvenate the people,
not to make them decrepit.

Well, to continue being alive is also an art.

I suppose it's the most sublime art of all,
don't you think so?

Of course. And thanks to God,

you continue alive and younger
than ever.

Most people don't appreciate
the value of youth

not until they arrive at old age.
They don't know to enjoy it.

And they don't appreciate the value of the life
until death comes to them.

- I agree.
- If they gave us the opportunity

to live our lives all over after we died, surely

- we would know to take better profit of it.
- That's true.

Well, we've arrived.
Let me off right here.

I am very grateful to you.

You have been very kind,
many thanks.

- Dad, I am thirsty.
- Excuse me, do you have some water?

- To drink?
- Yes.

Sure, sure.

I have left the car there in the middle.
Won't it be a bother?

Around here no vehicle passes.

Permit me, that must
weigh a lot.

- No, don't be bothered.
- Let me help you.

Walk before us and lead the way.

- Is this your house, Mr. Ruhi?
- Yes, why?

Frankly, I imagined you living in the other one,
the one with the terrace.

Well, that was my house in the movie.

That wasn't my real house.
It wasn't even mine.

Yes, this is mine truly.
You can leave it there.

In reality, this also belongs
to the movie.

- Dad, what is this?
- An oven.

They told me that if I wanted
I could remain in this house

and I told them, I wanted to.
Unfortunately, the earthquake

destroyed my real house,
although I refuse to acknowledge it.

I try to deceive myself.
I lived with all my family

in the rescue camps that
you have seen next to the highway.

Then I installed myself here
and I try to make it habitable.

- Dad, what is this?
- A hearth to cook.

After all, this house has survived, so it's real.

Yes, that's right. The movie again has become reality,

stops being fiction.
All the doors of the house are closed.

I am looking for a ladle
to give your son a little water,

but I cannot enter the house.

Mr. Director, do you know where the ladle is?

Miss Rabbi,
where have you left the ladle?

It is up there.
Get up and give it to him, please.

Excuse me, Miss Rabbi.

- Take it.
- Thanks.

Where is his son?
Didn't he ask for water?

He should be around here.

Sit down and let's have a chat.

You have dirtied yourself again.
How many times do I have to wash you?

Wasn't it 5 minutes ago that I have
washed you. How filthy you are, son.

- Hello.
- Hello.

Good, there he is.

Now try not to get dirty
till the night.

- This water can be drunk?
- Sure.

- It's of the spring.
- Then why does it come out of

- a pipe?
- That's because we have put one in.

Puya!

Puya!

- Puya!
- I'm here!

- Son, why don't you answer?
- I'm here. Drinking a little..

- of the spring water.
- And what happens with that of

- Mr. Ruhi?
- I don't want it, I'm no longer thirsty.

Don't stray too far away, son.

- You stay around here close.
- Alright.

- Hello.
- Hello.

Welcome home.

You give me a little water.

- You have gone to your uncle's house?
- No, I went to collect gypsum

and they entertained me too much.

You haven't gone to see Uncle Reza?

- He was not at home.
- How come he was not at home

- if he is sick.
- Then he must be recovered already.

Besides, the gypsum is more important.

I am dying of thirst.

- Go and bring that oil lamp.
- Which one?

The one in that window.

Come on, hurry up.

Very well. Bring it here,
don't break it.

Give it to me.

You sit apart, you are full of dust.

- And my socks?
- I left them on the cornice.

- Not those, the white ones.
- Here I go.

- Hurry up, I have to go.
- Wait.

Excuse me, madam,
is this water drinkable?

Yes, it is spring water.
Drink, drink.

- And why the pipe?
- We have put in the pipe.

Please, splash the water here.

You splash it here, here, here.

I am splashing it where you tell me.
Why do you quarrel so much?

Because I tell you to splash it here
and you splash it there.

Madam, that carpet weighs a lot
and has a lot of dust.

- How do you remove it?
- What can I do?

- You alone will not manage.
- I don't have anyone.

Don't you have husband or children?

My husband is buried under the rubble
and I don't have children.

- And what about your neighbors?
- Everyone has his own problems,

that's the way it is.

My back is very bad,
if you could pull this out, I'd be very glad.

Let's see.

It's impossible. It hurts me, too.
Not even I can move it.

Try if you can
unearth the teapot.

With the carpet there's no way.

I will dig up the teapot.

May the Lord give you long life.
Please, try not to dent it.

I can't last three days without taking tea.

Mash Khatun!

Here I go!

Yes. What?

If you wait a little,
Hosein will lend you a hand.

Hosein is busy with his problems.
I think he can't handle it.

I will fix them myself.
Don't worry, daughter.

- Life is thus.
- You are very tired, grandmother.

And what do you want?
I do things alone.

Someone there will help you, no?

There is nobody. My husband
is dead. Nobody remains.

Oh, sir! Have patience.

I have it, I have it.
Your teapot, grandmother.

- And without dents.
- Many thanks.

- Oh, the happy back.
- Thanks.

- You are from here?
- No.

- You have come from Teheran?
- Yes.

They come from the city to spend the holidays.

Why have you come
at a moment like this?

Amin, don't you see that it's rusty?

How often do I have to tell you
not touch anything without my permission?

Besides you have broken it. You are clumsy.

Oh, you are driving me crazy.
You are always up to no good.

There it goes.
That's just what I needed!

As if it were not enough
with the earthquake.

You sit down!

The first that moves
will have his ass beaten.

Quiet there!

- Mama!
- Shut up!

His house has remained well enough, no?

Well, only apparently.
It's full of cracks.

A few cracks is nothing.
Mr.. Ruhi's house is fine.

- Which is his?
- It's a very large blue house.

It has a chimney, an enormous oven
and also two faucets of water.

One up and another down.

That's the house of Ghadam-Ali Gholami.
His house was saved,

but they, who had gone to the festival,
they are buried under the rubble.

They didn't go to see the football match on television?

No, I don't believe that he liked football.

- You give me that.
- I don't want to, it's mine.

- Give it to me!
- I don't want to.

Fool, you have painted to me.

You are lucky not to lose your children.

Well, these three that stayed with me were saved.

But the eldest who stayed at my father's home, died.

Thus the Lord wanted him.

The Lord does like to kill his servants.

If He has not killed them,
who has?

Therefore, the earthquake has.

Poor daughter. She was very good student.

The earthquake is like a wolf
a hungry one that kills

everyone who crosses his road.
And on the other hand he does nothing

to the ones he doesn't see,
because they have had the luck

not to go his way.

It's the earthquake. He kills her.
Your daughter has been lucky

to die. Thus she has been liberated
from the school duties.

I suppose that you've once
heard the story of Abraham,

who went to sacrifice his son
with a knife because his God

had commanded it.
When Abraham raised the knife

with the intention to slay him,
as God commanded,

when he was on the verge of plunging

the knife, the angels brought a lamb and they said:

"You sacrifice it in his place."

Already you will ask me
how the Lord can kill your daughter,

when she was beginning to live.

I believe that if the people die,
and then resurrect, they will appreciate life better.

And also I believe that all the children that have

survived, will appreciate life more.
And they will be better
and they will want you..

A lot more.

Where did you learn all
those things?

Half of it from the history books.
Another half

Of Mr. Ruhi and the other half is mine.

- Puya! Puya!
- I'm here!

- What you are doing?
- I am speaking with a lady.

You come out so that I can see you.

- With whom were you speaking?
- With me, sir. Don't worry.

- Very well. You can stay.
- Thanks.

- Where have you put my socks?
- I don't know. I have not kept them.

If you had done so
they would be in their place, as usual.

Look if you have left them inside your shoes.

I don't think they are in the shoes.

What disorder!

- You have found them?
- Yes, yes.

- You seem recently married.
- We are.

- For how long?
- Five days.

- Five days or months?
- Not months.

Five days.

The night of the earthquake?

It was a day after the earthquake.

Eh! Why do you throw water?

Excuse me, I'm watering the flowers.

Wife, you have wet this gentleman.
He will think that we do not have

any consideration for outsiders.

As I told you I was watering the flowers.

Before you do, you should look down.

Yes, I know, I know.

- I can feel it.
- Let's see if you'll remember.

I think about the people that remain
buried under the rubble.

Two drops of water won't do me damage.
Don't worry.

There should not be many victims in your family,

since you married the following day of the earthquake.

On the contrary,

many cousins, aunts and uncles died.

In all, I lost some 65 relatives
more or less.

And despite that you married?

Well, we had left the wedding ring
in the house of my finac�e

and we would have waited
three or four days before we got married,

at least until the trembling stopped.

But I did not expect to lose all our kin.

Our elders would not have approved,
since we would have needed to keep

three days of mourning,
and wait another seven, another forty

and another year. Therefore we decided

to marry and to have it just once.

- And you brought her here?
- No, this is not ours.

No.

We slept three nights
in the plastic before coming here.

- In the plastic?
- Yes.

- What do you mean?
- I had bought twenty meters

of plastic for the paddies and
I placed them on four stakes.

That way we were protected from the rain.

- The wedding suite, eh?
- Yes.

Then I went to my father's house
to see if we could find something.

I found a pot, a dish and two
spoons among the debris.

We washed it and we carried it to
our refuge of plastic.

Later I went to the bazaar
to look for something to eat.

Then I saw two rescue trucks in the highway.

In one they distributed camping gear
and in another tomatoes.

But I wasn't lucky.

I couldn't get any camping gear,
although I did get some very good tomatoes.

I carried them to our refuge
and I washed them.

I made a thorn and I strang them together.
We roasted them, not too much nor too little,

and we ate them.

- A wedding banquet.
- Yes.

We thought that we should
hurry to set up a home.

The ones that hadn't died
expected it that

We should go on living
and proceed to raise a family.

Perhaps we will die in the next earthquake.

- Don't you think so, sir?
- You are right.

Hosein, you forget this.

And you fix your neck, calamity.

- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.

- Good morning, grandmother.
- Hello, son.

Do not touch anything. Feizollah and I
have come to remove all the things.

- How good you are.
- Here I left him a pair of tomatoes.

The Lord may bless you.

Puya! Puya!

He left a while ago.

Where?

- Over there, a while ago.
- Go man.

I believe that he is there.

- I can get up and call him?
- Yes, sure.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- Is it him?
- Yes.

Puya!

Puya!

Puya!

Puya!

- Good-bye and thanks.
- Good-bye.

- Dad, you know whom I have seen?
- Tell me.

Someone wants to pass.

Come on, hurry up!

Oh, how heavy!

Listen, take the car away from there!
I have a lot to do.

Who would think to leave it in the middle?

Come.
- Already, already.

Dad.

I tell you now?

I tell you?

I hope that he lets pass
this gentleman.

He's angry, and with reason.

Well, he already is.

Hello.

Tell me.

- I have seen the boy of the movie.
- What movie?

That of the boy, "Where is the
Friend's House?"

- Are you sure?
- Yes, dad, sure.

His back hurt him a lot
and he had green eyes. It was him.

- Mohammad Prays Parvaneh?
- The same.

Go.

He looks much like the one in the photo.

- Are you sure?
- Yes. I have seen him from the front.

And at half a meter. Then he went over there.
He has grown enough.

- Why didn't you speak to him?
- He didn't give me time.

Look! There he is.

- You see him?
- Seems like him, yes.

You are Mohammad Reza, no?

Get in.

- You are well, Parvaneh?
- Yes.

Where did you go?
What is that?

A beak and a bag for the debris.

Why?

With the beaks we raise the debris.

Your house also collapsed?

- Eh?
- Yes.

Where was it?

Down, in Poshteh. Behind the stores.

You know something about the Ahmadpur?

- I believe they live in Koker.
- I know that already. I wanted to know

how they were found.

I don't know.

Why?

The road that goes to Koker is cut.

- You have become a man.
- We all grow, no?

We all grow.

How did you manage to save yourself?

Tell me.

We went to visit my aunt.

Good, and then?

- Go on.
- You went to see the football?

Yes.

What teams played the night of the earthquake?

Brazil and Scotland.

You see, dad? I told you that that night
played Brazil and Scotland.

You were right.

Please, continue.

You tell me more things.

Scotland scored a goal.

I mean, about the earthquake,
not the match.

I remember that, suddenly,
the earth started to shake.

The house began to tremble and
we all tried to run out.

The walls fell, as soon as we got out.

A lot of dust was raised and
we could see nothing.

They all ran and they shouted a lot.

You can imagine, we were very frightened.

The uncle had remained there.
He was asleep and could't get out.

And when we raised the debris
he was already dead.

- Don't you know anything of the Ahmadpurs?
- The Ahmadpura are in Koker.

I already know that they are in Koker.

- This road goes to Koker?
- Yes, it continues from behind

of our stores.

The following day, could you see
the other match they showed

- On television?
- No, all was in ruins.

Not even light was there.

Your television was so broken
that you no longer could see the program?

- That's it.
- What happened to it?

The crystal screen was broken.

The night of the earthquake, until what point
did you see the match?

Until Brazil scored a goal.

What team do you think will win in the end?

I believe Germany.

- Then I say Brazil.
- We'll see yet.

- We bet something?
- Alright. You are going to lose.

What do we bet?

- We bet a ball.
- What kind of ball?

A ping pong ball.

A ping pong ball isn't worth anything.

Better a football ball.

I know that Brazil is going to win.

I'm sure Germany wins.

Oh yes? Them let's bet something better.

What could we bet?

Many things. A bicycle,
a... you tell me.

Some socks?

Some socks aren't valuable enough for a bet.

A notebook.

A notebook with many pages.

A notebook is not useful.

This is Poshteh.

And these are our stores.

Then, where do I have to go to Koker?

Over there. By the left you go to Koker.

- You have water?
- There is a spring there.

Hello, girls.

You can leave me a container
for water?

Yes, very well. That will serve.

No, no. You fill it from there.
The water is for the car.

Thanks. Now I bring it.

Puya, open the hood.

Puya, Puya, open.

Many thanks, girls.

- From where do those people come?
- From Poshteh.

- To Poshteh one does not go that way?
- Yes, but the bridge is broken.

- Anybody from Poshteh?
- The two of us.

- Poshteh is in ruins?
- Yes.

Where do you live now?

Right here. In the second store.

And your house in Poshteh?
Where was it?

There, higher up in the mountains.
At the side of that pine.

That dark pine?

No, the one that has the pine
higher to the side.

Yours, where was it?

It is so collapsed that it cannot be seen.

What?

It cannot be seen.

- In Poshteh?
- Yes.

- There were many dead persons there?
- We don't know.

I was at home of an uncle.
And the house fell.

- Someone died?
- Yes, my uncle.

You are not a sister of
Mohammad Reza?

- Yes.
- You resemble him.

I leave this here.

Puya, don't go away,
we may leave anytime.

- It is well.
- Tell me.

Two died.

Who?

- A sister and a brother.
- And how were you saved?

Tell me, please.

Tell me.

You don't want to?

If don't want to, don't tell.

When the earthquake began,
the house fell suddenly.

A beam fell next to me.
Another one here that almost

hit me and another by the right.
I remained there in the middle

as in a cave. I wasn't hurt,
but I was afraid a lot.

It took a day before help
arrived and, I do not know how,

they removed me from down there.

And your brothers?

They died.

Dad!

What?

What's going on?

- Dad! Dad!
- Careful, look carefully.

- Dad, I want to stay here.
- But what you are saying, son?

They are putting up a television antenna.

- Then a thing goes!
- We go. We go.

Run.

Run.

Please, come.

With that antenna we will be able see
the match Brazil-Argentina.

- You are obsessed with football.
- It will start soon.

I want to stay to see it.
Run along, I say yes.

You rotate it a little more to the right.

A little more.

Thus.

Now we can see better.

Still there is a little snow.

Good, you leave it thus.

- You see it, dad?
- I see it.

- Then, we will stay?
- No. I have to go to Koker.

And I do not know what will be the delay.

I want to see the match.

I stay and you fetch me on your return.

- But I cannot return around here.
- I will have to return.

There is not another road from Koker.

I think I remember there was another
road on the other side.

- It is cut, too.
- And if he remains, will you take care of him?

As if he were my brother.

Then I leave him in your
hands, eh, Mohammad?

- Well.
- But carry yourself well.

Don't worry.

- We go.
- See you.

See you.

Listen, girl. You give this to my son if he is cold.

- I will return within an hour.
- He is well.

You can tell me when the match begins on television?

- It is announced at seven o'clock.
- And when will it finish?

It will finish at nine
if it begins at seven o'clock.

I am not a football fan
but my son stays while I go..

- To Koker and I have to collect him.
- He wants to go to Koker now?

- Yes.
- With that car?

- Yes.
- Then I don't think that he can arrive..

Because there are three points
which are very dangerous.

- Don't I have more solutions.
- You will see.

- I will try it at least.
- Very well.

- Can I ask you something?
- Yes.

Given the situation that the earthquake
caused so many victims,

- you watch television?
- The truth is that I, too,

am of the mourners. I have lost my little sister
and up to three nieces and nephews.

But, what can we do?
The World Cup is once every

- Four years and the earthquake...
- Every forty.

- Every forty.
- Yes, life goes on

- Also, this is work of the Lord.
- How long will it take to go to Koker?

By car and in normal circumstances
it would take you twenty minutes.

- Now I don't know.
- You are from Koker?

I am from Koker and I am from this playe.
I am a little from all parts.

We see.

You know this one?

Yes, sure I know him.
He's the son of Abdollah.

He's one of those that were in the movie.
A while ago, he and his

- Brother went to the house.
- Are you sure it was him?

I know all the boys of this region very well.

They came from the street market.
they went directly to Koker and..

took a stove. Perhaps you reach them.
At the most they will be..

At the other side of the mountain.

I will see if I reach them. Good-bye.

- Hello, sir.
- Hello.

- Can you take us to Juban?
- I'm sorry, I don't go to Juban.

- I go to Koker.
- Can you take us to the crossing?

To the crossing? Sure.

Have you seen two boys
with a stove?

- We carry one.
- So I see.

- Two others I mean.
- No.

- Where do you come from?
- From Emamzadeh.

I mean from where have you been walking.

From where the road begins.

I understand. And where do you live?

- In Juban.
- Juban.

- How many kilometers is it?
- Up to some 3.

- And you intend to walk 30 kilometers?
- Not 30. 3 kilometers.

I got you wrong.
How man kilometers are there from Juban to Koker?

Not many.

Few.

- Few, eh?
- Yes.

Where are you from?

I was born in Emamzadeh,
but he is from Juban.

- So you are from Juban.
- Yes.

- And Juban is near Koker.
- Yes.

- Then you will know things about Koker.
- I don't know anything of what happened

in Koker. The following day of the
earthquake, a relative carried us,

running to Emamzadeh.
And I don't know anything of Koker.

Already.

See if you know him.

This boy

is Babak Ahmadpur.

- He was in a movie.
- You saw the movie?

I think so. I didn't see it entirely.
I have seen it a little.

Where did you see it?

I saw it, when I got honors and
my father took me to Teheran.

That movie was shown
in the Cine Kanun.

It's certain.

In what scene did you leave?
What did you see of the movie?

Yes, I was seated in the third row.
Had my hands this way,

and I needed two teeth ahead.

- What's your name?
- Yusef Berangi.

Yusef Berangi.

- And you do not know anything of the Ahmadpurs?
- No, when they carried us,

to Emamzadeh, my mother wasn't well.

- Your voice is a little worn.
- Yes, from shouting.

You remained under the rubble?

No, my brother was the one
that remained down there.

Would you tell me what happened?

My brother and I slept in a room.

My parents had left the house.

The mosquitoes didn't let us sleep.

As they stung me a lot
I went out to my parents. And when my mother

raised the screen the earthquake began.

- Ah. And your brother remained inside.
- Yes, under the rubble.

- You were only barely saved.
- Yes.

Those mosquitoes saved your life.

That's what my father says,
but my mother is angry.

Why?

Above all because the mosquitoes
had not stung Reza.

That's right.

He would have been saved.

My father says that is
the "willing" of the Lord.

- How do you say?
- "Willing".

Not the "willing", the will.

We have to get down here.

- Already we have arrived at Juban, eh?
- Yes, it's right there.

Very well. Then right now unemployment.

- There I will not bother.
- Juban is down there.

- Down there?
- Yes, in the valley.

To go to Koker should I continue this road
or should I catch some bypass?

You have to continue straight
and to catch the first road to the left.

There accelerate a lot
because there is a very steep slope.

Once up, past some curves,
already you will see Koker.

- Thanks.
- You're welcome.

- I hope, sir. You forget the photo.
- Thanks.

- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.

In the curve accelerate!

I will push.