All language subtitles for Bajo el signo de Ishtar - The Mole People

Ladies and gentlemen, it's amazing how
much we know about the surface of our

globe. In the last hundred years, men
have progressively studied this.

Explorations have reached the North, the
South Pole.

They're reading relatively only a few
square miles left of the surface of our

globe that are not known.

During the same years, men have reached
out into the stars.

Three times further in your lifetime and
mine, three times further into space

than men have ever been able to go
before.

Amazing knowledge we have of that and of
this.

What's inside this globe?

What is there beneath our feet as we
stand on the earth?

No one knows, of course, and science
ponders about it and all men are

but no one knows.

Primitive man going into caves, reaching
back and back and down and down,

wondered what lay beyond, and in terror
he fled out.

and he remembered strange sighs and
noises.

Now you go back to Mesopotamia, the
beginning of Western civilization, and

have the great hero Gilgamesh going down
into the underworld.

And so too were the Greeks.

All down through time, religions of the
past have postulated the existence of

this inner, habitable world. All through
the Middle Ages, people believed

that...

Something under the surface. Dante, the
great Dante, saw a great cone -like

cavity stretching down to the very
center of the Earth.

There's nothing new about this. It's as
old as man, this belief that under the

surface there may be areas inhabitable
by man.

And in our time, and in the last hundred
years, there have been a number of

theories, very curious and strange
theories, about what goes on in the

our planet.

This is a very famous and interesting
and odd one.

A soldier...

rather a minor hero. The War of 1812 was
a man named John Cleves Sims, and he

had a sudden idea that inside our world,
like onion layers, there were globes

within globes, five of them, some of
them inhabited, and that if you were to

travel up through the icy wastes of our
world, the northwest edge of Siberia,

you could go down through a hole and go
successively to these various spheres.

Unfortunately, he was thoroughly
obsessed with this, went around

in fatigue, died before he could make
this experiment.

Now, here's another theory much closer
to us. This is 1870 about.

A young American physician named Cyrus
Reed Teed had a revelation.

We are not living on the outside of the
globe, said Teed, but on the inside.

That when we think we're looking out at
the sun, we're really looking...

in at the sun.

Strange, strange, questing mind of man
that tries to find answers to things

he can't understand.

This was a theory by Karl Newport in
Germany in the 1920s. He again imagined

that we're living on the inside rather
than the outside of the globe. And

a real sun and a real moon, and then a
rather shadowy and formless mass of...

electric potentiality with little bright
sparks in it, and they give us the

sense of our stars.

And so in this picture you're about to
see, you'll see the culmination of a

series of such desires to look into the
earth.

One might well believe philosophically
that some ancient culture engulfed by a

great and tremendous upheaval of nature
might linger on in some pocket of earth.

This is science fiction, of course. It's
a fiction.

It's a fable beyond fiction.

For I think if you'll study this picture
and think about it when it's over,

you'll realize that this is something
more than just a story told.

It's a fable with a meaning and a
significance for you and for me in the

century. Thank you and goodbye.

Eventually, Dr. Stewart.

Come quick.

Come on. Let's hide. Come on.

Some sort of stone tablet.

What's it doing in this stratum?

It's a cuneiform writing.

But is it not possible in this part?

You mean it's not probable, LaFarge?

In archaeology, all things are possible.

The fact is we found it below the great
flood level, so it must be at least 5

,000 years old, which would make it one
of the oldest human records.

What about the inscription?

Sumerian. It's the dedication of a
temple or a public building.

Stuart, every time I think of how many
civilizations have crumbled, fallen

apart, rotted from the inside or cracked
from the outside, I shudder when I pick

up the front page of a newspaper.

The translation, Bentley.

Sure.

First part reads, I, Charu, king of
kings, son of Charuad,

breaks off there.

Charu. Well, that's a new one on me.

Mean anything to you, Leparge?

Not to Bentley.

Do you remember the Gilgamesh tablets
George Smith found?

Yeah, they told a legend about a dynasty
that suddenly disappeared from the face

of the earth. Right. It also referred to
a king of the dynasty, one called Charu

or Charu.

Well, what does the rest of us say?

He who with malice destroys their faces
or removes from its place.

This my signed attestation.

May he be denounced by Ishtar.

May his name, his seed, and the land be
destroyed.

We'll have to open new trenches tomorrow
along the north line, Judd. Most of the

old ones caved in. That earthquake put
us behind at least a month. Ah, you know

better, I mean. We shouldn't complain
about the work. I think we were

The epicenter of the earthquake was only
25 miles from here.

You think the goddess of Ishtar is
punishing us for removing the tablets to

fight? The inscription said, he who
removes it with malice. But we aren't

malicious, are we?

We want to rescue the Sharu dynasty from
oblivion. That's what archaeologists

are for, no?

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity
agents for deceased royalty.

This shepherd boy found something.

What, another one? This boy came a long
way, Dr. Bellarmine.

You buys your ticket and you takes your
chance.

I believe in grabbing for the gold ring
every time.

Hey, where'd you find this?

Kuitara. High, high.

Kuitara, the epicenter of the
earthquake.

It's a kind of moss that is native to
this region.

It grows only on the rocks of Cuitara,
but not where the boy found it. Much,

much higher.

The earthquake must have dislodged it
and rolled it down to the plateau.

But how did it get up on Cuitara to
begin with?

Maybe Bentley has the answer. How's it
coming, Raj?

It's an oil lamp, all right, shaped like
a boat.

The engraved figures are of a man, a
woman, different animals in pairs.

The Sumerian version of Noah's Ark?
Exactly.

The flood's been proven to be a
historical fact. Why not a Sumerian

According to the inscription, they got
wet, too. Listen.

I, Sharu, king of kings, son of Sharuad,
from water I emerged.

I caused to embark within the vessel all
my family, my relations, my craftsmen

and my slaves and the beasts of the
field.

Made my home in the Ark.

We floated on the waves until we found
the land of the snow near the goddess of

Ishtar. The top of the mountain.

The Sharu dynasty was safe from the
flood on Kuitara.

But was never heard of again. Of course
not. No one would look for human beings

on top of Kuitara.

We're going to.

It's impossible.

The summit is less than 20 ,000 feet.

It's treacherous. Always wind and snow.
Nothing's there. Nothing.

And we shouldn't be afraid of nothing.

Gentlemen, Kuitara is a treacherous
mountain to climb. You think we can make

I think so.

We shall establish three camps.

The porters will carry enough supplies
to establish a base camp here at the

of the snow level.

We will then climb to here, which is 2
,000 feet from the plateau on Kuitara,

and establish a second camp.

The next day, we shall attempt the final
climb.

All this risk and money because of a
vague poetic inscription on an ancient

lamp.

Don't you trust poets, old man?

No, I don't. Schleman did.

He found the ruins of Troy by trusting
Homer, the biggest blabbermouth of all.

When can we start, Nazar? My men are
ready, sir.

More warning then.

Good dollar.

That's a lot of mountain.

We're only going to the plateau.

Is that it on the right face, Nazar?

No, Dr. Stewart.

Tomorrow we may be able to see it if we
keep to our schedule.

Then let's keep to the schedule.

We'll make camp here.

Peaceful looking, isn't she?

The thing that impresses me the most is
the complete and utter silence.

You can almost hear it.

Don't let her fool you, Mr. Bentley.

When she wants to, she can scream so
loud as to make you deaf.

And you will hear her, and quite soon.

I think perhaps even tonight.

Run us invention gasoline.

Yeah, I'm well down in front. My back
teeth are chattering.

Cheer up, Judd.

The storm clears. We'll be on the
plateau of Cuitau by tomorrow night.

Tomorrow night is 24 hours and 3 ,000
feet of thin air away.

Avalanche.

This mountain's hundreds of square miles
in area.

You're only occupying one square foot.

Sitting here is a lot safer than
crossing Times Square.

Well, the goddess of Ishtar isn't
smiling so sweetly this morning.

Look.

The avalanche must have brought it down
from the plateau.

Can anyone be living up there now?

In this thin air, it's possible to
imagine anything.

ruins of a Sumerian temple.

I don't understand.

They usually built their cities near
their temples. Where are the rest of the

buildings?

5 ,000 years is a long time.

To make any sense out of all this is
going to take a while.

I think we ought to send Nazar back for
his men and set up permanent camp here.

Dr. Bentley!

Bellamy! Take a look at this.

The goddess of Ishtar?

Right. How did the inscription on the
oil lamp go?

We floated on the waves till we found
the land of the snow near the goddess of

Ishtar.

Wait till Stuart sees this.

I can't see the bottom.

We've got to get down.

Get your alternator.

It's getting warm.

We must have come down at least 100
feet.

You going to be all right?

Oh, sure. I'm fine.

We are trapped here.

Hey, this isn't a natural cavern.

It's been excavated.

You all right?

We are trapped here. No food, no water.

Seems to be a draft.

There must be another opening.

Come on, let's look for it.

Another tunnel.

You better take a look at the fires.

What's wrong?

It's the air.

It's hard to breathe.

Give me a hand with the jets.

The light.

What do you make of the light?

Probably some chemical in the rocks.

There must be some rational scientific
explanation for this.

Look.

It's an exact duplicate of the head we
found on the plateau.

Here, gentlemen, is your city.

It's fabulous.

The city must have been built on a thick
crust of earth over a volcanic bubble.

Strong enough to support the city until
an earthquake came along.

What we found on the plateau were the
suburbs.

You're right. Look here.

The temple of Ishtar have I built with
the stones of the mountain.

Sharu.

That's how the Sharu dynasty ended.

Iran. Away from a flood right into an
earthquake.

Children of Noah survived.

The children of Ishtar died.

There's gonna be some history rewritten
when we get out of here.

How do you know there's a way out?

There has to be.

We'll keep looking.

How long can we keep looking?

We've been on our feet now over 15
hours.

Yeah. We gotta get some rest.

Well, this is as good a place as any.

I think I'll sleep forever.

How is it?

It's as if the whole mountain were lying
on my chest.

We're going to get out of here.

Don't worry.

Now get some sleep.

What was that?

I didn't hear anything.

Is anything alive in here?

Nothing dangerous. Dwarf lizards, small
bats, things like that.

Go on to sleep.

Get out of there.

What were they? I couldn't see a thing.

I couldn't either.

Judd, come here.

Take a look at this.

Claw marks.

Maybe a hand. Four cuts.

Some hand.

Whoever it was needs a manicure. It
can't be.

It can't be.

Now, save your battery, Rog.

There's no way out of here.

We were brought in. There has to be a
way out.

What do you think, Judd?

I'm no anthropologist.

I wouldn't know whether they were Cro
-Magnon or Neanderthal.

I don't think an anthropologist could
classify this one either.

All we can say for sure is that they
walk erect and

they have a skull large enough to house
a brain with associative areas.

And this one died as a result of a blow
from a heavy blunt instrument.

That's a sign of higher civilization.

What is it?

Look.

Don't move.

He wants us to go with him. No, don't.

Gentlemen, we're in 3000 BC.

In my hand I hold the magic eye of
Ishtar, the sacred weapon of Ishtar,

the golden rod, the secret of death.

There, O king, are the evil ones who
were captured by the beasts of the dark.

Bring them here.

Who are you?

We are friends.

We are different from you, but we are
your friends.

He speaks our tongue.

We come from a world where your tongue
can be studied on ancient tablets.

There is no world beyond ours.

There is only heaven, where we lived a
long time ago, until we were expelled

our sins amidst thunder and fire.

This is the world, and we are its
people.

You are not of us.

There is heaven, and only the gods live
there.

Would you tell us that you are gods?

The greatest find of all time, and we're
buried with it.

In the name of the king, I declare a
sentence upon you.

If you are evil spirits, you must be
destroyed.

If you are mortal, as you claim, our
world cannot support you.

In either case... You must be destroyed.

You will die in the fire of Ishtar.

Accelerate the light.

Help him up, Judd.

We won the first round.

Look at it. No pigmentation.

Without sun or ultraviolet rays, they
turn into albinos.

Pupils are enlarged to let in the
maximum amount of low -intensity light.

Optical nerve must be hypersensitive.

That's why they couldn't stand the
light.

And how have they survived here?

What do they eat?

What happened to the mind, the memories
of the past, and the world alight?

So many questions.

So many questions.

And why is it necessary for them to kill
us?

They have to kill us. Because we made
them doubt their world is the only

Their answer is the only answers.

We must get away from them. We have to
get out of here. If we go back to the

temple, we are lost.

All right, all right.

It's been going down all the time. It's
getting hotter and hotter.

Yes, it's getting worse.

I cannot breathe.

I don't know.

I'm sorry. You wait here.

Come on, Chet.

Oh, my God.

Well, let's go.

Come on. Come on. They won't work.
Forget it. Come on. I can't move.

Elise Lafarge is at rest where he always
lives, in a world of the past.

Back where we started.

There's bound to be a way out of here.
There's fresh air. It has to come from

somewhere. Why don't I go back to the
river and try and swim out? You know as

well as I do that river runs underground
for months.

In the king's name, do not use the
burning light.

We come to you as friends.

You can count on that.

What do you want?

Since you have shown that you possess
the divine fire of Ishtar, the king is

convinced that you are holy messengers.

Are you speaking only for your king?

The king's will is law for all.

He has ordered me to assure you of his
friendship and to invite you to a royal

feast.

We're most grateful.

Where is the absent one?

He was called back to heaven by Ishtar.

Follow me.

And why did Ishtar send you to our
kingdom?

To see how you live.

To learn of your needs so she can help
you.

Does she not know us through our
prayers?

Does she not reward us for our
sacrifices?

Does she not see us with her all
-pervading eyes?

We are her eyes.

Then you will see.

Our kingdom is your home.

Mushrooms.

Why not?

It's one of the few things that can grow
without the sun.

The king's will is the law.

The fire of Ishtar is the law.

So be it.

You have fondness for her, have you not?

Yes. She belongs to you.

Go.

The gods do not favor trading human
beings.

Human?

She is a marked one.

Are there many like her?

No.

Rarely is one born with the mark of
darkness.

Any others, like yourselves?

How many are there? Twice and a half
times sixty.

Well, that's not very many. It is a
sacred number. The highest number that

sacred food can nourish. What do you do
when your population exceeds that

number? We kill them. We sacrifice them
in the fire of Ishtar.

The like of which you possess within
that cylinder.

Speak.

The beasts of the dark have desecrated
our dead.

They took the body of the guard that was
slain by the intruders.

When they were finished with it, they
left it in the tunnel.

All the flesh had been torn from the
body. You have apprehended them?

I have, oh priest.

Kill them.

Let us now bless the spirit of the
earth.

Ishtar has given us the food of the
tunnels, the fish of the river, and the

sacred milk of the goat.

Above all, we glorify Ishtar for giving
us power over the beasts of the dark,

that they may till the earth beneath us,
so that Sharu, king of kings, his

children and his children's children,
may live in strength and rule the world.

So be it.

Well, even if there is a way out, we'll
never find it. Not without help.

You mean the albinos?

No.

Well, surely you don't expect the beasts
of the tunnel to help us.

Why should they after what's been done
to them?

5 ,000 years of slavery, a plan to
generation has turned men into beasts.

There's no help there, Jack.

Thank you, Adele.

Bye, Dan, my lord.

Well, go right ahead, Raj. Don't mind
me.

I will watch you while you're away.

Away? In your dream.

What about you?

When do you sleep, Adel?

Or do you?

I sleep when my sleeping time comes.

Your sleeping time?

But how are you able to tell?

Here, in my heartbeat.

One, two, three.

But you're not counting all the time,
are you?

No. I just feel it all the time.

What happens when your heart beats
faster?

It matters not.

It is my heart.

It is my time.

It's okay, Dad. You'd better go home.

This is my home.

The king has ordered it so.

Well, never mind the king.

You're free to go, understand?

Free?

What is free?

If you wish to go, you go. And if you
wish to stay, you stay. That's being

Then I am free.

Because I wish to stay.

But you're in danger.

Danger? Why?

Because we're different than your
people.

They fear us and may try to harm us.
You're different, too.

And if you're with us, it may remind
them.

What are you going to do?

Try to get back to our world.

There's nothing beyond darkness, my
lord.

Are you sure of that?

Have you never in your life heard of a
world of light above the darkness?

No, my lord.

Never.

Well, then let me tell you about it.

The world of light changes color with
every heartbeat.

There are mighty rivers and places where
the land is covered with living things.

And then there are the cities, beautiful
cities, filled with many people like

you and me.

You're speaking of heaven, my lord.

Maybe I am.

Maybe I am.

Well, that's one way of doing it.

What is it?

Steam from an underground spring?

Something hotter than that.

Lava.

Figure this one out.

You tan eyes with tannic acid made from
tree bark, right? What do they use?

Want me to ask them?

No, not now.

Let's go.

The Egyptians were able to weave very
fine materials out of wool.

The stuff they're weaving here looks
like burlap.

The finer cloth is loomed by the
priests. One of their trade secrets.

I sure would like to get out of here.

And that is not all.

The king has shown weakness and poor
judgment. He believes in the divinity of

these intruders.

Dealing with the divine is our office.

If we abandon the smallest particle of
it to outsiders, our position will soon

come to naught.

But are these outsiders not divine?

No, they are mortal.

Do they not eat when they are hungry?

Do they not sleep when they are weary,
when the gods attack them? Did not their

faces show the fears of mortal men?

But do they not possess the power of
heaven?

The cylinder they carry possesses it.

If you had that cylinder, or you, or
you, you could use it too.

And if it is the power of heaven, is it
not we who should possess it? And use it

to control the beasts of the dark, the
people, and... Yes, if need be.

Even a faltering king himself.

You will therefore follow these
intruders wherever they may go.

And bring me that cylinder.

Here's something.

No, that's not it either.

That's hopeless, Roger.

Not as long as we're alive.

We just give up and apply for Sumerian
citizenship.

I don't like mushrooms.

Oh, now, don't complain, Raj. Last night
we had cave rat for dinner.

Now, why don't we settle down?

Especially you.

Why especially me?

Well, there's a doll.

Just imagine what some future
archaeologists would think if they

rediscover this world.

And the wild theories they'd concoct in
order to explain the presence of dozens

of little Bentleys speaking Sumerian
with a Harvard accent.

And playing baseball in front of the
Temple of Ishtar.

The Ishtar Nine champions of the little
mushroom league.

Come on.

Look around some more.

In order, Captain.

Shall I feed them? They're getting weak.

You have your orders.

They're not to be fed until you're told
otherwise.

Don't interfere. The beast has committed
a crime. He was hungry.

My orders are to keep them hungry.

Captain, look.

If you realize you're bringing disaster
on our heads, and yours too...

that song as a child?

I did not learn it. I found it.

It's beautiful.

As beautiful as you are.

No. I'm a marked one.

The priest said so.

They're so right.

It's not only the color of your eyes,
your hair, your cheek that mark you, but

your heart also beats with tenderness.

The love of your ancestors is there.

Oh.

I do not understand.

Well, if somebody has hurt and his hurt
gives you pain, or if somebody has joy

and his joy gives you pleasure, that's
love.

Adele, do you believe as your king
believes that I'm one of your gods?

No, my lord.

Our gods are always angry and give
orders.

You smile.

If I ever get out of here, into my
world, The world of light and flowers?

Will you come with me?

Yes, my lord.

My lord.

What is it? The king wishes to see you
at once.

The

captain

of the guards has been found murdered.

The beasts of the dark have done it.

It is possible they intend to revolt.

What about your guards?

Cowards.

They tremble at the sight of their own
shadows.

We do not want unnecessary bloodshed. We
need the beasts.

But with your cylinder of fire, you
could bring them under control.

We will not take part in any plan to
punish your slaves.

They are against us.

They are evil.

Ishtar has sent them. I say to you that
she has not.

Take their magic cylinder away from
them, and you shall see then that they

powerless, and we will have their power.

No, Elinor.

We will not challenge Ishtar.

Have the guards arrest three of the
beasts and beat them until they are

It's dead.

And so are we.

As long as they think we're armed,
they'll stay away from us.

Come on, help me with these chains.

You gonna release them?

We can't leave them here.

Well, they attacked us the last time.
The guards forced them to.

They're trying to say something.

They don't have the power of speech, but
they can reason.

And all we can hope is they try to help
us.

Ishtar has turned her face away from us
because we have sinned. The intruders

are the sinners, and we are to starve
because of them.

They are behind the rebellion.

It is they who encourage disobedience so
that the beasts of the dark do not

produce enough to feed us all. If we
cannot produce enough food, we must

our population as it is inscribed on the
sacred stones.

We will offer them in sacrifice to our
goddess so that the others can live.

In my hand I hold the golden rod, the
secret of death.

For death shall appease Ishtar through
the spirit bride of sacrifice.

Ishtar, who is married for life to the
spirit of our world, to the glory of

death.

I have something to show you, priest.

Please come with me.

Wait.

The king must see for himself.

The divine messenger who has gone to
heaven.

He was mortal, as we are mortal.

And he is dead, as we shall soon be dead
if we do not deal with the intruders.

What do you advise?

Give me freedom to act. You have it.

Destroy them.

Did you ever hear of anyone smoking
dried mushrooms?

What?

Oh, nothing. Skip it.

Oh! What a pleasant surprise.

Where'd all the food come from? Slaves
back at work?

I don't know, my lord. The food keeper
was very generous.

Delicious.

Sit down, Adele.

Why don't you eat?

Royal food is not for servants.

Haven't I told you before that you're
not a servant?

Yes.

And what else have I told you?

Then I'm just like you.

Correct.

Now eat.

In your presence, my lord.

I cannot eat.

Tell her.

I want you to... My lord.

My lord!

calling.

Thank you.

We've nothing to fear. I have the
burning light.

I love

you.

Your people, it was a burning death.

But to us, it's life.

You see, a long time ago, your people
came from our world.

You're a living proof that that's true.

But they didn't understand.

That's why they called you the marked
one.

It's warm. It's beautiful.

And deadly for our friends of the
tunnel.

That's right.

I'm afraid the world of darkness is
theirs forever.

The priest must have had this secret for
thousands of years.

Then finally the sun became too strong
even for them.

You won't take me with you.

Welcome to our world, Adele.

It's even more beautiful than I
imagined.

Hey, Rog, look. There's our gear.