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Oh prophet, love has caught me.

Oh Mustafa, oh Muzamil. Love has caught me.

Oh prophet, love has caught me.

Oh Mustafa, oh Muzamil. Love has caught me.

Wait Sakina.

Hello, Sheikh.

Your coming is a blessing. This is my son Muzamil.

God has given me a child. Sheikh Al-Shafee appeared to me.

Now they are here.

I bring him, so that you may bless him.

God's will has illuminated his face.

They called him Muzamil, to honor the prophet.

Peace be with him.

Praise be to God. 12.

Praise be to God. 16.

Man on God's earth does not know where his path will lead him.

Wherever he goes, he searches for God.

Praise be to God. 17.

Praise be to God. 18.

Take your child with you.

I ask God, may it be the joy of the parents.

Praise be to God. 19.

And that his life...

Twenty!

God is omnipotent.

Poor Sakina, her heart is broken.

What does it all mean?

Why don't you say something?

Tell me, that's not what he meant.

Otherwise he will be cursed.

Believers, the prophecy comes from God,

and everything will pass.

By the name of the Prophet, Sheikh.

May the Prophet be sanctified,

and holy is God's will.

God is omnipotent.

God's will is holy.

God's will is holy.

God's will is holy.

God's will is holy.

I can't do that.

Death. Even the word "death"...

...scares me, Sakina.

I'm going to Addis Ababa for a year or two to Addis Ababa.

I find work and send you money.

Money?

I don't need money, but you.

Do you remember my brother Abbas?

I dream how he drowned in the Nile.

I am there, without being able to help.

You are strong, Sakina.

I can't do that.

Muzamil! Son of Death.

Muzamil! Son of Death.

Muzamil?

Iss.

I'm not hungry.

I want to play with the boys.

Can I go to the river with Gaiballah?

To the river? No.

Eat and go wash up.

Muzamil?

Are you going to drown?

Did you only leave when I was asleep?

How will I die? according to Al-Khalifa?

He does not say how.

Drowning?

Death is always the same.

I want my father.

I want to see my father.

I want to see my father.

How are you, Aunt Nafisa?

I'm still alive, thank God.

Eissa Fageri, how are you?

Hello, Sakina.

I need oil, lentils and beans.

Oil. No problem.

What's new from Alnur?

Not much. Sometimes he writes.

It is shameful, son of Amna.

To leave you with all the burden to leave you alone.

Here are the beans.

And soap.

- Please write it down. - Agreed.

- Peace be with you. - Peace.

Peace be with you. Sakina, how are you?

Good afternoon, Imam.

Praise be to God.

Muzamil has grown up.

But his face is pale.

He should go out more.

Children should play outside. He can learn to read with me.

The knowledge doesn't help in his short life anyway.

Who dies at the age of 20,

Is he a responsible man or a meaningless boy?

Responsible man.

Should the responsible man not be able to read the Koran?

And be able to pray?

And serve in God's house?

What are you losing?

- Let's see. - She loses nothing.

That's right.

"In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate..."

"You are ruled by the striving for more"

"until you visit the graves."

God is truth.

Muzamil. Come and sit down.

Sakina, you can go.

Read your tablet, my boy.

"You are ruled by the striving for more

"until you visit the graves

"You will know

"You will know how foolish you have been."

Mama?

Ja?

Does pregnancy actually count as well?

My son is in Saudi Arabia. I miss him.

Why do they stay away for so long? What does this life give them?

Work, sister.

How are you, Muzamil?

Is that from Fageri's store?

Take this to the kitchen.

First in the mosque and now at home?

Be careful, otherwise he'll get scared.

Do you know what's going on?

No.

Al-Kambo.

That's where the singer Alnesea lives.

I would love to sing like her.

The people there are not good. They do bad things.

They do disgusting things.

What does disgusting mean?

The women there kiss men.

And what's wrong with that?

Are you crazy?

A woman may not not kiss a stranger.

And if she knows him?

If she loves him too, she can.

You better ask Sheikh Abdelgader.

"Until you visit the graves

"Truly! You will know!

"Truly! You will know!

"Truly! You will know!

"Once again: Truly! You will know!"

Praise be to God, my son. Keep learning.

I go to Eissa and come back.

Son of Death, we'll play something fun.

Die now or you'll never die.

Nein!

Let me go!

Let go of me!

Nein!

Nein!

Let go of me!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die! Let me go!

Let go of me!

Muzamil.

Stand up.

All these years without you have been so hard, Sakina.

All the running, the humiliations.

Whenever I wanted to go back,

I was drawn to another country.

Since the beginning of the month I've been in Libya.

I hope it gets better

than Addis Ababa, in Kenya and Senegal.

Many years have passed and you never write.

I only find out news about others.

Go to the caliph with your son.

Perhaps he can intervene with the prophets.

Perhaps ask for mercy.

When the boy asks for me,

don't tell him anything.

Is the sheikh there?

- Peace be with you. - Peace be with you.

What brings you here?

I am Sakina, Gadeen's daughter, from Sheikh Al-Shafee's village.

At this time of year the sheikh is supposed to be here.

For three years the sheikh has been on the Hajj.

He didn't come back. He only appears in dreams and visions.

For many years I have followed the ablutions and prayers,

so that he appears to me in my dreams.

But it was a long time ago.

Al-Khalifa is our ambassador in God's country.

And God's land belongs to him. What do you want?

This is my son, Muzamil.

Al-Khalifa said, he dies at twenty.

Please mediate with Al-Khalifa and all friends of God,

so that he lives on and escape his fate.

Wait outside.

Agreed.

Come closer.

Al-Khalifa never says the wrong thing.

We ask God, who is the ruler of all things.

Take off your robe.

Praise be to God.

A handsome boy.

You carry the light of the righteous and the burden of the prophets.

Listen, boy.

Life is too short for sin.

Until the Lord claims this soul,

come and stay with me.

Serve the guests and the residents.

How are you, Aunt Nafisa?

I am alive.

Still.

As always.

- Come on, let's go. - Agreed.

How old am I actually?

The angel of death has forgotten me, Sakina's son.

He sneaks through the village and pays no attention to me.

I am afraid that I will die in front of him.

He has no one, who feeds and cares for him.

Who are you looking for?

Leave me alone!

Where were you? for two days?

I was busy and...

Busy?

Muzamil, Sakina's son, Gadeen's daughter,

either you are afraid of me or you love me.

Do you like my new hairstyle?

Looks good.

Gut?

I'm free after school. Take me to the river.

Stop working at Eissa. It's too hard.

The work in the mosque is enough.

Eissa wants me to go into town with him,

to buy things for the store for the shop.

No, you stay here in the village.

I need you, come on.

Take this to the English House, which used to be closed.

Nobody is allowed to see you.

Is there a jemand?

Eissa sent me.

I have ordered something. Do you have it with you?

- I've got it. - Give it to me.

Give me the ashtray.

Here.

What kind of shit is that?

This Aragi is disgusting!

What are you standing there for? The money is there.

It is forbidden, to sell alcohol.

Work is work.

God will forgive.

- Did he give you money? - Forbidden money!

- Imam Abdelgader says... - What did he say?

Do you believe that your soul remains as pure as when you were born?

Why don't you go to your imam?

Pray a little. That calms you down.

Well, go on.

"Lord, do not punish our mistakes and vices.

"Lord, do not burden us with a heavy burden,

"as you burdened our forefathers.

"Do not burden us, because we don't have the strength.

"Blot out our mistakes! Forgive us! Be merciful to us!

"You are the Lord! Help us against the unbelievers!"

God speaks the truth.

- Naima. How are you? - How do you do?

- How are you? - Fine.

Muzamil, how are you?

Gut.

Won't you stay with us for a moment?

I'm sorry. I'm busy.

Are you still angry about earlier?

We were young and we forgave each other.

Not now.

Careful, Gaiballah.

Don't worry, he does it more often.

I ask for nothing in life.

I just want to live like Gaiballah live in my own world.

I would like a big house.

A place from here to the village.

We build countless rooms.

Our children play in the water.

A whole village full of children, the village of Sakina's son.

Does it taste good?

It is delicious.

Will you tie my hair?

Every child will have their own room.

And ours will be the biggest.

- I'll do that. - Wait.

- It doesn't look any better. - Shall we go swimming?

- No, there are crocodiles in the Nile. - Nonsense. Come on.

No.

- I don't want to. - There are no crocodiles.

No, Naima!

Let me live the rest of my life.

I am full.

"He blesses me wherever I am

"and commanded me prayer and almsgiving, as long as I live,

"and love for my mother.

"He did not make me me proud and unhappy.

"Hail the day I was born

"and the day when I die and am raised to life!

"This is Jesus, the son of Mary.

"Word of truth, which they doubt.

"It is not for Allah to beget a son.

"Praise Him!

"When he decides a thing, he only speaks: 'Be!

"And it is."

Who is your father?

Alnur.

Is he still alive?

He has been traveling for a very long time.

What do people say about me in the village?

Your father and I were friends.

We spent whole days playing in Saleh's garden.

It was said that demons haunted the place.

Do you believe in demons?

What is your name?

Muzamil.

There are demons in the Koran.

Eissa said, that the payment...

Did he teach you to count?

No.

But I can recite the Koran, the Hafs and Al-Duri.

A long time ago I attended the Koran school.

I found that difficult.

I asked my father, why I should learn this.

"Why should I memorize such a thick book by heart?"

I got a slap in the face.

We've been arguing ever since.

Later I left.

I left the village to him.

The money is in the room.

Boy.

Come on.

I can't find the key to the room.

Try.

- Is that it? - Yes, it is.

Do you know what cinema is?

No.

The only good thing about my father was his love of the movies.

Is it real?

She comes from another planet.

Samia Gamal.

One of the best dancers in the world.

After work, I could clean up the mess.

Chaos?

These are the old movies of my father and the English.

Now go. Go.

Muzamil, how are you?

- How are you? - Fine, and you?

Aisha, Fatma, tells the neighbors, that Muzamil will pray tomorrow.

- If God wills it, it will be good. - God bless him.

How are you, Sakina?

- Hello, Ehsan. - Are you all right?

- I am fine. - God bless you.

Thank you.

Tomorrow Muzamil prays before?

Yes, if God wills it.

May God give him strength and his blessing.

Amen.

Yes, Naima told me.

They are always together.

She is like his sister. They grew up together.

Unimportant, he must not lose any time.

God let him live longer than you.

You know that I don't believe in it.

What are you planning?

I go to the store and buy two or three things.

Where did you live before?

Everywhere in the world.

Cairo, Paris, Berlin, South Africa.

I have traveled a lot.

My father is supposed to be in Africa.

And where are we? Isn't this Africa?

When I traveled, I filmed the people in the streets.

The friends of the government and the opponents of the government.

The war, celebrations,

the girls in Khartoum

and in Europe.

Everything is in here.

Why did you return?

You've never out of this shitty village.

You have never been to Khartoum.

I'll show you. I filmed every inch of it.

There on the screen.

- There? - Yes.

What do you think?

Another time.

I have to study for the prayer tomorrow.

In the village mosque?

Ja.

Are you coming too?

Please.

“Ya-Sin,

"you are truly

"one of the messengers on a right path.

"So that you may warn a people,

"whose fathers were not warned and who are careless."

And now continue reciting from here.

"Like those who lived before them.

"They tasted the disaster of their cause,

"they were painfully punished.

"I seek protection from Allah against Satan, the accursed one.

"Like those who lived before them,

"they tasted the disaster of their cause,

"they were painfully punished.

"Like Satan, who says: 'Be unbelieving!

"Since he has become unbelieving, he speaks:

"'I have nothing to do with you. I fear Allah, Lord of the worlds!"'

God speaks the truth.

- God bless him. - God bless him.

Today Muzamil learned the whole Koran.

As the first in this village

he knows the two versions of the Koran,

Hafs and Al-Duri.

God bless him.

The boy could have could have become a great scholar,

but everything in this world is passing away.

Come on.

You made your mother happy.

Your father has written again.

It is still unopened.

Peace be with you.

How are you, Aunt Sakina?

- Be welcome. - How are you?

- I hope, good? - It works.

We haven't seen each other for a long time.

You don't stop by often.

What are you working on?

I read a lot.

Would you like to get married?

I'm waiting for the right moment.

God give you a husband who will take good care of you.

Muzamil is in the store. He will need something else.

I wanted to talk to you and have a cup of tea.

We'd love to.

I'll make you some tea.

Your pictures are beautiful.

If I were you I would drive down the Nile.

From here you come to Egypt,

then to the Mediterranean and on to Europe.

Traveling?

Your village is not the world!

You don't even know Khartoum.

This is Khartoum, when it was still great.

Will you teach me math?

I'll make something to eat.

You must be hungry.

Your father is back.

This life was worse than death.

You should have come back.

Insults, uselessness, humiliation.

You said only one or two years.

I couldn't, Sakina.

How old is he?

As old as you were when you left.

Count if you can.

Is this your first movie?

Ja.

Are you dreaming of the devil's daughter?

Sometimes.

- Does she look like Hanouma? - No. She is Sudanese.

You know...

If I were you,

and someone would say to me: "You're going to die at twenty",

I would live like a king.

Everyone should for me.

Food, alcohol, women.

And Hanouma should marry me.

And on my 20th birthday I laugh at them.

My father is back.

He is welcome.

It's the first time I've seen him.

Imagine sowing wheat

and you have to work hard, to harvest 36 sacks.

Six friends and and relatives come by

and you want to divide the sacks among them.

How many does everyone get?

For everyone...

Six.

Because you're stupid.

Tell them to fuck off!

Are you wasting your effort?

Better kick their asses.

This is my Hanouma.

- Muzamil, how are you? - Good.

Und Sakina?

She is doing well.

I love this place.

We haven't been here for a long time.

We were still children back then.

I still believe in it, what I said back then.

When two kiss, who love each other,

it is not evil.

Hopefully the lover feels

the same and says: "I love you."

I love you.

Muzamil.

Get the sandalwood from Aunt Nafisa.

Oh my God.

Sakina wants to say goodbye prepare incense with the women.

God does what he can.

I kept it for my death.

But your mother is important to me.

Here is the incense for your funeral.

Salt, please.

Will you tell me how you met this stranger?

Uncle Suleiman?

Do you mean him?

He is a dangerous drunkard with a bad reputation.

He's good to me.

He teaches me things that I didn't know.

He is a good man.

He is like a father to me.

That's enough, Muzamil.

You can't go there anymore.

Don't waste time on sins and bad people.

Hello, welcome.

- Thank you for coming. - God bless you.

- Welcome. - God bless you.

- Thank you. - God bless you. Come in, come in.

Do you want to act against God's will?

When the angels ask for it, the demons have mercy.

Your game is dangerous, Sakina.

If you want to, then let's go to Set Alnesea

and perform the ritual against the demons.

You're wearing black, even though he's still alive.

You always wear white.

Yes, to mourn my dead son to mourn my dead son.

You mourn your living son.

Or are you sad out of habit?

What is it?

I think my mother is expecting something.

A man.

Altaib.

Talk to her.

I'll take care of the rest.

The problem is, I am like you.

I like to lie to myself.

If I ask you if you're coming with me,

you answer "Tomorrow."

And I say "Agreed".

I think I like this "tomorrow."

Why are you chaining yourself to me?

Because I'm stupid.

You're afraid of everything. Even of me!

Muzamil hasn't been not been here for two weeks.

Very strange.

You know, Muzamil's story is so funny.

Even the women of Al-Kambo know it.

Do you also sense the invisible?

Not only in Al-Kambo.

Al-Khalifa, the successor of Sheikh El-Shafee as well.

Ich sang beim Sumayah-Fest.

Do you have henna on your hand?

What kind of henna?

Women paint themselves with henna only at weddings.

Who is the grave from?

Von Gubbara, Nafisas Sohn.

We will bury him here.

Next to my father.

No.

We bury him here. At my father's grave.

Wo warst du?

I've been waiting for you.

Where does the doomed man go?

Does he want to end his last days here?

I'll live here until I'm twenty.

I serve God's house and need his mercy.

You talk like them now.

The sheikh and my mother do not lie.

They're just dervishes.

Here.

Used it to think. Not just for memorizing!

Nobody needs to know more than the sheikh.

He knows God's word and can interpret it.

If you don't like us, why don't you go back?

What color is that?

White.

And now?

Still white.

The ink blots make it even whiter.

What sins should I forgive you for?

Have you never tried it?

If you have ever sinned,

you also understand the difference between white and ink.

Peace be with you.

Peace be with you. How's it going?

Good, thank God. And you?

Well, praise be to God.

Gott segne dich.

I need a pound of tea,

a bag of sugar and two crates of Pepsi.

Two boxes! Are you having a party?

Let's see, if God wills.

Very good.

Muzamil.

Muzamil.

Gaiballah, go home.

No more of this.

Gaiballah, don't follow me.

She got engaged.

I heard the chants.

It hurts like stab wounds all over the body.

Und?

Why is Naima agree to this?

Go to hell!

To hell with you two!

What did you expect?

She loved you, because she's crazy.

Even crazy people follow their instinct.

They want to live and you are a living dead.

Everything about you smells of death.

Your walk, your friendliness, your smell.

Your look is dead, boy!

I want lively people around me.

I don't know, what I liked about you.

Tonight I drink to Naima, the queen of life.

Listen carefully: Math is over now.

And your bad Aragi I don't want any more.

Go away.

Stand up.

Go and cry somewhere else.

You were too hard on him.

Leave me alone, Set Alnesea.

What are you still doing with me?

Why aren't you living your life?

Live my life?

I could have done that years ago!

When you left me.

- Do you remember? - That's your mistake.

Why don't you follow your instinct? like Naima?

Better marry one of the men you sleep with.

Do you think you're driving me away with this nonsense?

I am not like you, noble man.

You give him speeches about life and death.

You reek of death, not Muzamil.

Naima.

It's your fault. It is your mistake.

It's your fault.

It's your fault. It is your mistake.

Everything is just your fault.

Let me count. I have learned.

Suleiman was buried in my grave.

I saw the dervishes of the sheikh.

Where have you seen them?

Where have you seen them?

Where were the dervishes?

Muzamil?

Have you spoken to them?

Did they talk to you?

Where have you seen them?

Where were the dervishes?

Muzamil.

Maybe they have good news.

Twenty.

Have you perhaps made a mistake?

Did you make a mistake?

Muzamil.

Have you perhaps made a mistake?

Perhaps they will bring good news.

Perhaps they wanted to apologize.

Perhaps they wanted to apologize.

You may have miscounted.

Where have you seen them?

Where did you see the dervishes?

Muzamil.

Muzamil.

What's going on?

Suleiman has died.

Er ist tot, Muzamil.

Suleiman ist tot.

He leaves us both behind.

I am not grieving with you.

Ich bin wegen dir hier.

I want what men want, what men want.

I'll call a girl your age, to accompany you.

I only have time tonight.

And I want you.

His grave is still fresh.

Keep your money.

He said I should sin.

He convinced me.

Am I not allowed to become a man?

Am I not allowed to experience anything?

Muzamil...

No, my boy.

Muzamil, calm down.

Am I not allowed to become a man?

Am I not allowed to become a man?

Muzamil, calm down.

Not so, Muzamil.

Muzamil, calm down.

No.

Muzamil, calm down.

Muzamil!

Muzamil!

The boy was twenty years old.

God's commandment was fulfilled.

To honor the dead, you have to bury them.

We have to find his body.

He certainly drowned.

Our youth is drowning in the Nile.

Search by boat.

He does not reappear again in three days' time.

God will guide us.

God will guide us.

Do you know where this money comes from?

From my work in the mosque.

This is now a thing of the past.

I know the Koran by heart.

All this

everyone knows.

They all clapped.

My mother was happy.

What will become of her now?

Naima.

If you don't die, this is for you.