WEBVTT 00:00:23.672 --> 00:00:26.232 Mad Ahmet is coming. 00:01:37.992 --> 00:01:44.227 THE SMALL TOWN 00:02:08.032 --> 00:02:13.584 Based on a story by Emine Ceylan 00:02:19.192 --> 00:02:23.788 Editing Ayhan Ergürsel 00:02:24.672 --> 00:02:29.462 Producer Sadik Incesu 00:02:30.512 --> 00:02:34.824 Production NBC Film 00:02:36.112 --> 00:02:40.628 Written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan 00:03:29.232 --> 00:03:32.542 Good morning. -Thank you. - I swear to be honest... 00:03:33.432 --> 00:03:35.070 to protect my youngers. 00:03:36.432 --> 00:03:40.823 To respect my elders. 00:03:42.112 --> 00:03:45.502 To love my homeland 00:03:45.752 --> 00:03:48.983 and nation. 00:03:49.712 --> 00:03:54.547 My ideal is to rise, to progress. 00:03:55.032 --> 00:03:57.182 O Ataturk 00:03:57.312 --> 00:03:59.667 I vow to 00:03:59.792 --> 00:04:02.943 walk your path... 00:04:03.712 --> 00:04:05.589 to... to... 00:04:05.712 --> 00:04:08.465 towards the 00:04:08.592 --> 00:04:11.265 goal you set. 00:04:11.792 --> 00:04:16.627 I surrender my being to that of Turkey. 00:04:16.752 --> 00:04:19.505 Happy is he who is a Turk. 00:04:19.832 --> 00:04:22.062 Good day friends. - Thank you. 00:05:30.192 --> 00:05:32.706 - Good morning! - Thank you! - Sit down. 00:05:51.152 --> 00:05:54.462 Pinar? -Here. - Elif? -Here. 00:05:55.312 --> 00:05:59.146 Nazli. -Here. Ismail. -Absent. 00:06:18.072 --> 00:06:21.508 Yes Gökhan, read today's passage aloud. 00:06:23.792 --> 00:06:26.989 Love and Loyalty in the family. 00:06:27.112 --> 00:06:29.945 Families are like small societies. 00:06:30.072 --> 00:06:32.791 They share joy and sorrow. 00:06:32.952 --> 00:06:36.501 Family relations are based on love, respect and solidarity. 00:06:36.632 --> 00:06:40.102 The family is the nucleus of the nation and human society. 00:06:40.232 --> 00:06:42.188 It is the source of social peace. 00:06:42.312 --> 00:06:45.031 Peace and order within families radiates outwards... 00:06:45.152 --> 00:06:48.701 to affect the entire society. 00:06:50.672 --> 00:06:52.981 It is our duty to uphold this structure. 00:06:53.112 --> 00:06:56.104 Children, is there a strange smell in the room? 00:06:56.232 --> 00:06:57.824 Yes. There is a smell. 00:06:58.992 --> 00:07:02.541 Everyone, take out your lunch boxes. 00:07:02.832 --> 00:07:04.345 Put them on the desks. 00:07:05.912 --> 00:07:07.425 One of the meals smells. 00:08:08.832 --> 00:08:12.302 Asiye, dear. Didn't you notice this smell? 00:08:13.592 --> 00:08:16.504 No, I couldn't smell anything. 00:08:16.872 --> 00:08:21.309 This could poison you, my girl. Your mother should be more careful. 00:08:22.552 --> 00:08:24.190 How could she do this? 00:08:25.352 --> 00:08:27.661 Please go and throw it away. 00:08:28.312 --> 00:08:30.746 I will arrange something else for you to eat. 00:08:31.632 --> 00:08:35.864 Tell your mother to be more careful. Come. 00:09:31.152 --> 00:09:35.031 Today's subject is the rules which govern social life. Who wants to read? 00:09:35.712 --> 00:09:40.342 The others should listen carefuly. Well. 00:09:40.992 --> 00:09:43.586 Doesn't anyone want to read? 00:09:43.952 --> 00:09:46.022 Yes, Nazli. 00:09:47.432 --> 00:09:49.707 The rules that regulate social life. 00:09:49.992 --> 00:09:55.225 Society needs rules so that people can live in peace 00:09:55.512 --> 00:09:58.026 in safety together. 00:09:58.192 --> 00:10:00.706 These rules prevent 00:10:00.872 --> 00:10:03.830 the individual.. 00:10:04.032 --> 00:10:07.502 from acting selfishly within the society. 00:10:07.752 --> 00:10:11.904 In order to live together 00:10:12.072 --> 00:10:14.791 in our society 00:10:15.032 --> 00:10:18.422 are certain rules and restrictions. 00:10:18.552 --> 00:10:22.750 If we don't obey these rules 00:10:22.952 --> 00:10:26.308 we must suffer the consequences. 00:10:26.472 --> 00:10:30.545 These rules which regulate the society 00:10:31.152 --> 00:10:35.191 may be written or unwritten. 00:10:35.552 --> 00:10:38.225 Unwritten rules concern 00:10:38.432 --> 00:10:41.504 customs and morals. 00:10:43.512 --> 00:10:48.028 They take shape by themselves 00:10:48.192 --> 00:10:51.468 and are passed down from generation to generation... 00:10:51.592 --> 00:10:56.620 and are based on respect and.. 00:11:04.352 --> 00:11:05.626 Ismail. Take your seat, son. 00:11:29.472 --> 00:11:31.030 Pinar. Now you continue reading. 00:11:31.872 --> 00:11:33.908 Start reading where your friend has stopped. 00:11:34.832 --> 00:11:36.151 The rest of you... 00:11:36.912 --> 00:11:38.948 follow from the book. 00:11:40.072 --> 00:11:42.632 I may ask any of you. Go on Pinar. 00:11:48.112 --> 00:11:52.424 - The importance of solidarity in social life. 00:11:52.832 --> 00:11:58.987 Solidarity means loyalty to one another regarding... 00:11:59.312 --> 00:12:04.989 individual feelings, interests and thoughts. 00:12:05.272 --> 00:12:09.185 The feeling... of belonging together... 00:12:09.352 --> 00:12:11.741 encourages... 00:12:12.112 --> 00:12:14.103 living together. 00:12:14.232 --> 00:12:17.269 People can not live alone 00:12:18.072 --> 00:12:20.825 and meet their needs. 00:12:21.432 --> 00:12:23.104 That's why 00:12:23.392 --> 00:12:26.702 people always need each another. 00:12:28.112 --> 00:12:31.468 We should help the poor... 00:12:33.752 --> 00:12:36.585 as best we can... 00:12:37.112 --> 00:12:43.108 either directly or through charities. 00:12:53.872 --> 00:12:55.385 And help... 00:12:55.872 --> 00:13:00.070 does not just mean giving money. 00:13:00.552 --> 00:13:03.862 Because... people... 00:13:04.152 --> 00:13:09.385 also need moral support. 00:13:09.832 --> 00:13:11.060 During hard times.. 00:13:11.192 --> 00:13:12.545 ...people... 00:13:12.792 --> 00:13:15.590 comfort each other.. 00:13:17.032 --> 00:13:20.183 Everyone is responsible... 00:13:20.512 --> 00:13:23.504 of the sorrow of others. 00:13:23.712 --> 00:13:26.180 to a certain extent. 00:13:26.352 --> 00:13:28.627 They do their best... 00:13:28.752 --> 00:13:30.868 to make each other happy. 00:13:31.512 --> 00:13:36.188 They experience joy together too... 00:13:36.352 --> 00:13:38.707 and share it. 00:13:52.832 --> 00:13:54.390 Shared joy and sorrow... 00:13:54.592 --> 00:13:56.583 strengthens... 00:13:57.272 --> 00:13:59.149 national unity. 00:14:09.272 --> 00:14:11.467 The problems that arise... 00:14:12.672 --> 00:14:15.106 Such a bond 00:14:15.352 --> 00:14:20.426 is called national unity. 00:19:10.712 --> 00:19:12.623 Should we eat plums growing in the cemetery? 00:19:23.632 --> 00:19:25.031 You are stepping on the grave. 00:19:37.072 --> 00:19:38.300 What does it say here? 00:19:41.632 --> 00:19:44.669 It says what it says. Why do you care anyway? 00:19:52.912 --> 00:19:55.062 You can read better if you outline it with a piece of red tile. 00:24:26.112 --> 00:24:28.467 Won't its shell break? - No. 00:24:30.112 --> 00:24:32.501 - Even if a car goes over it, it won't break. 00:24:41.432 --> 00:24:43.946 They only die if you leave them upside down. 00:24:48.432 --> 00:24:50.548 They can't turn themselves over again. 00:24:52.112 --> 00:24:54.501 - Shall I ride on it, too? - Allright, but be careful. 00:24:55.712 --> 00:24:57.623 Come on, move. 00:25:00.112 --> 00:25:01.227 Come on. 00:25:02.512 --> 00:25:03.865 It is slippery. 00:25:14.952 --> 00:25:16.704 It really is strong. 00:25:22.192 --> 00:25:24.069 Won't it poke its head out? 00:25:26.512 --> 00:25:28.707 Won't it poke its legs out? 00:25:29.472 --> 00:25:33.704 - If it forgets about you it might. - How can it forget about me? 00:25:40.272 --> 00:25:42.581 You must stand still for a long time. 00:25:52.152 --> 00:25:53.665 A thorn pricked me. 00:25:54.632 --> 00:25:57.669 Couldn't you find a better place than the grave to place it on? 00:26:01.632 --> 00:26:04.021 Stop fidgeting. It won't come out then. 00:26:10.592 --> 00:26:12.105 Don't move. 00:26:41.032 --> 00:26:43.500 What was that? - A rifle. 00:31:20.032 --> 00:31:21.545 Father. They are coming. 00:31:33.112 --> 00:31:36.149 Where have you been? You have lost track of time again. 00:31:36.472 --> 00:31:39.623 We met a hunter by the cemetery. He knows father. 00:31:40.352 --> 00:31:44.106 - That must be Huseyin. He hunts blackbirds there. 00:31:44.752 --> 00:31:48.188 What he wants with those tiny birds I will never understarstand. 00:31:49.792 --> 00:31:54.104 Didn't I tell you to come up directly. It is nearly dark. 00:31:55.112 --> 00:31:57.342 Don't trample the corn, child. 00:31:57.632 --> 00:32:00.863 Come round the other way. You'll get shot one day. 00:32:01.072 --> 00:32:03.586 But we cross the field without trempling the maize. 00:32:03.752 --> 00:32:05.549 Don't exaggerate. Nothing will happen. 00:32:08.272 --> 00:32:10.183 You never know son. 00:32:10.472 --> 00:32:13.350 Corn fields are dangerous. 00:32:14.832 --> 00:32:18.029 On just such an evening as this, ismail from... 00:32:18.232 --> 00:32:21.622 Torhasan was lying in wait for wild boar and... 00:32:22.312 --> 00:32:26.191 when he heard a rustling sound he pulled to trigger. 00:32:26.712 --> 00:32:29.909 He looked. It was Kasirahmet's son. 00:32:30.632 --> 00:32:36.150 He was seriously injured and died on the way to the hospital. 00:32:37.792 --> 00:32:41.626 You should avoid the fields. He was the same age as Ali. 00:32:42.152 --> 00:32:44.302 You should stick to the road. 00:32:44.592 --> 00:32:48.426 Has the tailor finished my trousers? - Yes. -Good. 00:32:49.032 --> 00:32:52.547 - It's 50 lira. -What? - He says he wants 50 lira. 00:32:54.232 --> 00:32:56.302 50 lira? -50. 00:33:00.432 --> 00:33:03.344 Did you have the hems put up? - Yeah. 00:33:12.712 --> 00:33:15.943 Let him give me 50 lira, and he can keep the trouser. 00:33:20.672 --> 00:33:24.267 All he did was turn up the legs and let out the waist. 00:33:24.952 --> 00:33:26.670 Goodness gracious! 00:33:27.552 --> 00:33:30.271 You can't get anything altered anymore. 00:33:31.112 --> 00:33:36.140 - Give the child 50 lira. - Don't be ridiculous. 00:33:37.912 --> 00:33:39.425 So will the trouser stay there? 00:33:46.712 --> 00:33:50.944 I've got no hair left. I went to the barber. He just cut twice. 00:33:51.472 --> 00:33:52.700 And how much? 00:33:52.872 --> 00:33:55.306 50 lira. It's ridiculous. 00:33:55.752 --> 00:33:58.550 I won't pay him 50. 00:33:59.632 --> 00:34:03.545 As if he is selling a field to me. - This damned... 00:34:06.512 --> 00:34:08.946 When I paid 20 lira for our house... 00:34:09.192 --> 00:34:13.902 everyone said it was expensive. That was in nineteen... 00:34:15.752 --> 00:34:19.266 When I was in America a dollar was less than one lira. - Ali, come! 00:34:19.431 --> 00:34:22.344 - What is it? - Come here I say. 00:34:22.712 --> 00:34:25.351 A skinny barber used to come to village... 00:34:26.152 --> 00:34:29.030 in summer and in Winter. 00:34:29.672 --> 00:34:33.505 He'd cut your hair for a couple of tomatoes. 00:34:36.152 --> 00:34:39.268 He always thanked people. 00:34:39.712 --> 00:34:42.101 I never heard him complain once. 00:34:42.992 --> 00:34:45.380 Now the guy sits in his shop... 00:34:45.512 --> 00:34:48.708 and you have to go to him. Two clicks and he wants 50 lira. 00:34:50.072 --> 00:34:52.460 Who can afford it? 00:35:35.632 --> 00:35:39.068 He just turned up hems and took in the waist a little. 00:36:37.672 --> 00:36:40.789 How time has flown. I can hardly believe it. 00:36:41.112 --> 00:36:42.830 That's life. 00:36:43.552 --> 00:36:45.907 We were much more energetic earlier. 00:36:46.112 --> 00:36:49.422 I was young and strong then. 00:36:49.792 --> 00:36:54.070 I was only 15. But the war was on, so who cared about age. 00:36:54.192 --> 00:36:58.424 I, who had never been beyond the hills around the village... 00:36:58.912 --> 00:37:04.430 found myself in Istanbul. They put us on a train at Sirkeci Station. 00:37:04.832 --> 00:37:09.781 It must be Haydarpasha Station. - It was very crowdy. 00:37:10.392 --> 00:37:14.863 Many guys who like me never had left their villages were there. 00:37:15.592 --> 00:37:19.267 A Kurdish boy kept on following me. 00:37:19.952 --> 00:37:23.547 I made friends with him. What was his name? 00:37:23.872 --> 00:37:26.625 He was a bit simple but he had a good hearth. 00:37:26.752 --> 00:37:29.346 - May God bless him if he's alive. - Where is Nusaybin? 00:37:29.592 --> 00:37:31.310 - What? - In Iraq. 00:37:31.472 --> 00:37:34.589 What happened then? - We set out for Mosul. 00:37:34.752 --> 00:37:37.630 There was poverty in those parts. 00:37:37.872 --> 00:37:42.821 We asked for food from the villagers but they just said "maho". 00:37:43.112 --> 00:37:45.910 "Maho" means "nothing". 00:37:46.752 --> 00:37:50.870 We asked at other houses but it was again "maho". 00:38:20.992 --> 00:38:23.301 The cherries are over early this year. 00:38:23.752 --> 00:38:26.983 Not only the cherries, you know. Blackberries, too. 00:38:29.032 --> 00:38:31.341 I was passing under the cherry tree yesterday.. 00:38:31.472 --> 00:38:34.032 and a sound came from above. - Was it a squirrel. 00:38:34.952 --> 00:38:37.022 I thought so too 00:38:37.472 --> 00:38:39.269 but it was a snake. 00:38:39.552 --> 00:38:43.227 - Snake? What kind of snake? - A huge grey snake. 00:38:43.912 --> 00:38:46.301 What it was doing up in the tree I can't imagine. 00:38:46.432 --> 00:38:48.263 Everything is strange these days. 00:38:48.432 --> 00:38:50.582 Even the walnuts don't ripen on time. 00:38:52.512 --> 00:38:55.265 - The cranes don't come any longer. - Why? 00:38:55.552 --> 00:38:59.067 - Don't know. The pesticides probably. 00:39:00.632 --> 00:39:02.065 What happened then, father? 00:39:08.712 --> 00:39:12.944 That damned cough. I can't get rid of it. 00:39:13.712 --> 00:39:17.705 Where was I? - You had got to Mesopotamia, Baghdad. 00:39:19.072 --> 00:39:21.586 Yeah. We came to that plain... 00:39:21.912 --> 00:39:24.665 and crossed that long, desert-like plain... 00:39:25.552 --> 00:39:27.508 and reached Kutulenmare... 00:39:28.232 --> 00:39:31.747 near Baghdad. We were there. 00:39:32.832 --> 00:39:35.471 We suddenly encountered the British. 00:39:37.472 --> 00:39:41.784 We defeated them even though we were hungry and thirsty. 00:39:43.192 --> 00:39:45.706 And do you know what happened next? 00:39:46.752 --> 00:39:52.429 The English commander committed suicide. - He couldn't bear the defeat. 00:39:52.872 --> 00:39:56.148 But when their reinforcements arrived, they beat us. 00:39:56.432 --> 00:40:01.870 We could have won if we hadn't been starved. 00:40:03.552 --> 00:40:07.022 Then we were taken prisoner. 00:40:07.792 --> 00:40:11.387 They put us on a ship to India. 00:40:12.072 --> 00:40:15.701 From Bombay we were taken by train to Semerpor. 00:40:16.072 --> 00:40:19.303 We worked there as building labourers. 00:40:19.672 --> 00:40:22.186 I was so weak that.. 00:40:22.632 --> 00:40:25.544 I couldn't even carry two bricks on my back. 00:40:25.672 --> 00:40:28.106 Even that was too much. 00:40:28.752 --> 00:40:33.462 The English guard kept shouting: "Come on Joe, come on Joe. " 00:40:34.432 --> 00:40:37.868 Actually, if we could feed ourselves properly we would... 00:40:37.992 --> 00:40:42.190 wipe out the English. But we had no strength. 00:40:44.072 --> 00:40:50.261 Most of us died of starvation or disease. 00:40:57.672 --> 00:41:00.744 - Those damned jackals are down by the stream again. 00:41:01.512 --> 00:41:04.822 They're cunning creatures. They hide during the day. 00:41:04.952 --> 00:41:09.468 They must be hungry to come down to the stream. 00:41:12.952 --> 00:41:17.901 Whether it was luck or fate which brought me back, I don't know. 00:41:18.872 --> 00:41:21.067 I came back safely 00:41:21.752 --> 00:41:23.947 but I had nothing. 00:41:24.712 --> 00:41:26.430 What's there to do? 00:41:50.992 --> 00:41:53.301 Perhaps it would have been better if you hadn't come back. 00:41:53.472 --> 00:41:56.509 You returned and then what? Did you get a reward for it? 00:41:57.632 --> 00:42:00.704 It's all in vain. - Saffet. 00:42:00.912 --> 00:42:02.789 I thought you were asleep. 00:42:03.312 --> 00:42:05.906 What a way to talk, Saffet. 00:42:06.112 --> 00:42:08.023 How can you think that way? 00:42:08.192 --> 00:42:11.502 Homesickness is a suffering unlike any other. 00:42:11.792 --> 00:42:14.260 Even if you starve it's still your homeland. 00:42:14.632 --> 00:42:18.591 Look at Gobak Ismail. He worked in Germany for years but... 00:42:18.832 --> 00:42:21.630 - Aunt. To be buried in your homeland... 00:42:21.752 --> 00:42:25.791 or not, why should it matter, anyway? 00:42:26.112 --> 00:42:30.025 No, you are young 00:42:31.112 --> 00:42:35.025 and far from death. That's why you can talk like that. 00:42:39.112 --> 00:42:40.943 What do you mean? 00:42:41.512 --> 00:42:45.983 When death approaches you prepare yourself spiritually. 00:42:46.712 --> 00:42:49.545 Otherwise it is unbearable. You must have faith. 00:42:51.792 --> 00:42:54.386 It is so difficult to be far from home. 00:42:54.552 --> 00:42:57.350 and everywhwere you look are strangers. 00:42:58.152 --> 00:43:02.270 - That's true. I don't even feel at home in the town. 00:43:02.512 --> 00:43:06.983 - Who knows how I'd feel? So why go? 00:43:07.232 --> 00:43:12.226 Whereever you go, it is.. the same sky, the same trees. 00:43:12.512 --> 00:43:18.189 But still we dream about.. our own sky, our own trees. 00:43:19.152 --> 00:43:21.871 Look! That dry tree over there is dead 00:43:21.992 --> 00:43:24.904 but it still sways in the wind. 00:43:25.352 --> 00:43:28.708 I believe that when we die we remain a part of.. 00:43:28.952 --> 00:43:32.024 life one way or another, just like that dry tree. 00:43:32.712 --> 00:43:37.024 In India my mother used to appear and smile at me. 00:43:37.272 --> 00:43:42.585 I used to freeze with awe. I found out she died in those days. 00:43:44.912 --> 00:43:49.702 - The thing called telepathy is.. - Some people feel like that.. 00:43:50.472 --> 00:43:55.466 If your spirit is elsewhere you don't feel if you have a brother. 00:43:55.632 --> 00:43:57.384 Maybe it's better this way. 00:43:57.552 --> 00:43:59.383 Why better? - I don't know. 00:43:59.712 --> 00:44:03.546 I don't want to stay here and rot. 00:44:04.152 --> 00:44:06.541 While I was in the army I thought about that all the time. 00:44:06.712 --> 00:44:09.988 People always discussed these matters. 00:44:10.152 --> 00:44:16.546 I think these are all in vain. - Vain? Vain in what way? 00:44:16.712 --> 00:44:18.543 What else is there to do? 00:44:18.872 --> 00:44:22.990 - That's the law of nature. Only the strong survive. 00:44:24.152 --> 00:44:25.790 Evolution. 00:44:27.592 --> 00:44:30.709 We shouldn't waste our lives. We should work. 00:44:31.152 --> 00:44:35.350 Grandfather has worked for years and what did he get? 00:44:35.472 --> 00:44:36.700 Yes. That's right. 00:44:36.872 --> 00:44:39.591 But what else can we do but work? 00:44:40.232 --> 00:44:43.827 And what else do we do anyway? Look at my hands. 00:44:44.192 --> 00:44:48.231 - We are so inadequate, and there is so much work to do. 00:44:48.472 --> 00:44:52.909 It is not likely to finish. - We should add new things. 00:44:53.592 --> 00:44:58.825 Many legends arose from Mesopotamia, where civilization was born. 00:45:00.072 --> 00:45:02.711 You were in some really important places, father. 00:45:05.112 --> 00:45:06.670 Is it raining? 00:45:09.352 --> 00:45:10.831 I don't think so. 00:45:10.952 --> 00:45:13.671 - I felt a drop on my hand. - Stone carving. 00:45:13.912 --> 00:45:17.905 What? - It also began in Mesopotamia. 00:45:18.232 --> 00:45:20.109 Yes. That's right. 00:45:21.392 --> 00:45:24.862 The cradle of civilization. 00:45:25.632 --> 00:45:30.387 "La barceau de la civilisation" in French. 00:45:32.632 --> 00:45:34.702 Then, Babylon for instance. 00:45:35.512 --> 00:45:38.185 Have you seen Babylon? - I have heard about it. 00:45:38.432 --> 00:45:40.502 Babylon is very important. 00:45:40.912 --> 00:45:42.709 That is where Alexander the Great died. 00:45:42.832 --> 00:45:46.427 He conquered the world from end to end in his youth. 00:45:46.952 --> 00:45:50.183 Dad, tell us how did they cross the river? 00:45:50.392 --> 00:45:55.944 - Tell us about the elephants. - All right. Listen then. 00:46:00.352 --> 00:46:03.424 Alexander comes to the river Hidaspes. 00:46:03.832 --> 00:46:09.782 On the other side of the river is King Poros, with his army. 00:46:10.392 --> 00:46:12.860 Alexander first builds his camp 00:46:13.072 --> 00:46:15.745 and later splits his army into three.. 00:46:15.872 --> 00:46:19.182 And marches down the river with one part.. 00:46:19.432 --> 00:46:22.902 Poros' army was very strong because of the elephants. 00:46:53.912 --> 00:46:58.428 Of course there were plenty battles. Four are important. 00:46:59.392 --> 00:47:03.670 The first one was at.. Granicus in 334 BC. 00:47:04.152 --> 00:47:08.065 Then at Pineros, which is called Delicay now.. 00:47:08.272 --> 00:47:10.991 somewhere around Iskenderun. 00:47:11.672 --> 00:47:15.347 And then the third on Gaugamela plain... 00:47:15.512 --> 00:47:19.664 northeast of Mosul. Finally there was 00:47:19.912 --> 00:47:22.028 the one against Poros. 00:47:22.872 --> 00:47:27.343 I met a man from Iskenderun, and asked him about Delicay. 00:47:27.632 --> 00:47:30.590 He was amazed I had heard of Delicay. 00:47:35.032 --> 00:47:40.231 But, didn't he win all the battles with his army? 00:47:41.672 --> 00:47:44.903 No one remembers their names. 00:47:45.512 --> 00:47:48.345 Only Alexander. - You are wrong. 00:47:48.872 --> 00:47:51.306 Of course he needed his army, 00:47:51.472 --> 00:47:55.181 but 2300 years ago to go on a campaign 00:47:55.392 --> 00:48:00.705 and winning all battles under those circumstances isn't easy. 00:48:01.392 --> 00:48:03.906 Do you think it is easy 00:48:04.112 --> 00:48:06.262 to lead an army all that way for 13 years. 00:48:06.432 --> 00:48:09.151 Sultan Selim couldn't even reach Caldiran 00:48:09.432 --> 00:48:11.741 because his army rebelled against him. 00:48:11.872 --> 00:48:15.148 - But why did he do it? Just to make history? 00:48:17.312 --> 00:48:19.507 He invaded peaceful countries. 00:48:19.632 --> 00:48:21.748 That's enough about Alexander. 00:48:21.912 --> 00:48:25.746 - What's so special about this Alexander? 00:48:26.032 --> 00:48:28.705 - People who don't know the past can't see the future. 00:48:28.872 --> 00:48:32.467 We have many great commanders too. Fatih the Conquerer for instance. 00:48:32.592 --> 00:48:37.825 Or Urukagina, that great Mesopotamian king. 00:48:38.832 --> 00:48:40.470 Urumachine? 00:48:44.192 --> 00:48:49.027 What kind of name is that? - Urukagina. The king of Lagesh. 00:48:49.472 --> 00:48:52.703 He appeared when the priests were exploiting the people. 00:49:01.072 --> 00:49:02.949 And about invasions. 00:49:04.352 --> 00:49:06.912 Alexander expanded civilization. 00:49:07.192 --> 00:49:09.103 He built new cities, and... 00:49:09.272 --> 00:49:12.070 brought cultures together. 00:49:13.112 --> 00:49:16.582 The Persians had been making the Greeks suffer, 00:49:17.192 --> 00:49:20.389 constantly attacking them. 00:49:21.552 --> 00:49:24.589 First he dealt with the attacks. 00:49:24.752 --> 00:49:28.427 He wanted to conquer Egypt so that... 00:50:42.032 --> 00:50:43.101 Mother. 00:50:44.192 --> 00:50:46.786 Get down, mother. 00:50:48.752 --> 00:50:49.741 Get down. 00:50:56.392 --> 00:50:59.941 He reached the Gedrozia Desert in southern Pakistan. 00:51:00.072 --> 00:51:02.825 It was a terrible place almost impossible to cross. 00:51:03.592 --> 00:51:08.268 Only 12.000 men survived out of 60.000. 00:51:08.792 --> 00:51:12.182 Some of them died of thirst 00:51:12.352 --> 00:51:14.627 and some of starvation. 00:51:15.592 --> 00:51:19.631 They were so hungry they ate their horses. 00:51:20.872 --> 00:51:24.911 Exhausted they struggle across that endless desert. 00:51:26.032 --> 00:51:31.868 Then they saw flocks of crows flying through the empty sky. 00:51:33.152 --> 00:51:37.748 They thought that the crows were flying to a water source. 00:51:38.872 --> 00:51:41.625 After they struggled for some time... 00:51:41.792 --> 00:51:45.148 they saw something like water. 00:51:46.112 --> 00:51:49.502 First they thought it was a mirage. 00:51:51.032 --> 00:51:53.023 Suddenly they saw 00:51:53.152 --> 00:51:56.383 water in the middle of the desert. 00:51:57.512 --> 00:52:01.061 One soldier walked towards the water, and.. 00:52:01.192 --> 00:52:03.752 - Son! Forget about other people's troubles 00:52:04.352 --> 00:52:06.104 and let's worry about us. 00:52:08.752 --> 00:52:13.030 I'm still grieving for my poor son's death. 00:52:13.472 --> 00:52:15.064 That's right. 00:52:15.952 --> 00:52:18.261 But there is nothing we can do about it. 00:52:18.832 --> 00:52:24.304 He was always reckless and he never liked working. 00:52:28.512 --> 00:52:31.948 He insisted on going away and we couldn't stop him. 00:52:33.352 --> 00:52:37.106 And he loved you a lot, Saffet. - What kind of love was it? 00:52:37.752 --> 00:52:42.030 It was my mother who brought me up. What did he do? 00:52:42.392 --> 00:52:45.350 He wasn't here when we were in trouble. 00:52:45.672 --> 00:52:50.746 He visited us once or twice a year. 00:52:51.312 --> 00:52:55.430 - Am I right? - And you take after him. 00:52:55.712 --> 00:52:57.509 You want to go, too. 00:52:58.672 --> 00:53:01.186 You've turned out to be a rebellious lad. 00:53:01.312 --> 00:53:04.509 You still haven't got a proper job. 00:53:04.872 --> 00:53:08.262 I can't understand why you resigned 00:53:08.512 --> 00:53:12.664 from the registry office? - I changed jobs. 00:53:13.392 --> 00:53:17.180 I was condemned to work all my life. It was too much. 00:53:17.712 --> 00:53:20.829 - I know the registrar. He's a fine man. 00:53:21.232 --> 00:53:25.669 Yes, he is really an easy going man. 00:53:27.512 --> 00:53:30.549 If you can't get along with him, there's no one you could. 00:53:32.352 --> 00:53:36.425 He said you're here for the sake of your grandfather 00:53:36.552 --> 00:53:38.747 otherwise I would have flown away. 00:53:38.952 --> 00:53:43.548 I told him he overestimated.. my abilities to fly. 00:53:44.232 --> 00:53:47.986 - And what did he say? - "Take the mister away. " 00:53:52.472 --> 00:53:55.703 We arranged all possible jobs for you in the town. 00:53:57.752 --> 00:54:00.061 Either you were fired or you quit. 00:54:01.472 --> 00:54:04.350 You went into the army but it didn't make a man of you. 00:54:05.312 --> 00:54:07.951 What else can we do? 00:54:08.912 --> 00:54:10.630 What do you want? 00:55:04.625 --> 00:55:11.497 I want to tell you this. Yes. Maybe I am a looser. 00:55:11.825 --> 00:55:14.783 You are fed up with me being discontented. 00:55:15.145 --> 00:55:17.943 I think I've got no talent for anything. 00:55:18.065 --> 00:55:24.061 My youth is being wasted like a useless cigarette end. 00:55:24.825 --> 00:55:28.215 I've got no home, no friends, no job. 00:55:28.665 --> 00:55:32.180 I wasted my best years stuck in this town. 00:55:33.345 --> 00:55:37.463 My manhood and my heart are melting away before my eyes. 00:55:38.465 --> 00:55:40.103 Let me add this, too. 00:55:40.265 --> 00:55:44.736 I thought of nothing but leaving this town before military service. 00:55:45.265 --> 00:55:47.654 On that particular morning.. 00:55:47.865 --> 00:55:52.381 I felt there were deeper ties binding me to this town. 00:55:52.865 --> 00:55:56.574 There was the scent of pines in the air. 00:55:57.185 --> 00:55:59.415 That day I felt 00:55:59.585 --> 00:56:03.658 I saw the pines and the oaks for the first time. 00:56:04.145 --> 00:56:07.854 So early in the morning, there are usually.. 00:56:08.065 --> 00:56:11.057 only stray dogs out in the streets, wandering aimlessly. 00:56:11.225 --> 00:56:15.423 I love these quiet mornings, the dogs, the smell of the soil. 00:56:16.425 --> 00:56:20.543 I don't understand the people's petty concerns. 00:56:20.905 --> 00:56:23.499 I find them alien and offensive. 00:56:24.625 --> 00:56:28.140 Now tell me. What's wrong with wanting 00:56:28.385 --> 00:56:32.856 to go to some place where.. something serious is going on? 00:57:31.825 --> 00:57:33.338 Mother do you remember 00:57:33.625 --> 00:57:37.459 when I was at highschool we were living in that damp basement? 00:57:37.865 --> 00:57:42.177 One night he suddenly came. We were very poor, then. 00:57:42.545 --> 00:57:45.264 We were eating the provisions from the village. 00:57:47.425 --> 00:57:52.704 We used to secretly collect pieces of soap. 00:57:53.225 --> 00:57:57.901 We were eating porridge when there was a knock at the door. 00:57:58.265 --> 00:58:00.904 It was him. - Is there any corn left, grandma? 00:58:03.345 --> 00:58:05.813 Well dressed as usual. 00:58:06.025 --> 00:58:07.174 He came inside.. 00:58:07.385 --> 00:58:11.014 and saw the porridge on the crooked table. 00:58:11.305 --> 00:58:14.058 Turning up his nose he said.. - Son, stop 00:58:14.585 --> 00:58:17.463 "What's that? Are you eating wheat porridge?" 00:58:17.585 --> 00:58:19.177 Emin! Stop it! 00:58:24.385 --> 00:58:25.420 Whatever. 00:58:26.825 --> 00:58:28.975 He was an interesting man. 00:58:29.345 --> 00:58:31.495 He lived and died. 00:58:31.785 --> 00:58:34.697 without ever getting tired, carrying any burden. 00:58:34.865 --> 00:58:36.935 - You have contributed, and look what happened? 00:58:37.625 --> 00:58:41.903 You had a channel built and now the villagers talk about you. 00:58:49.265 --> 00:58:52.541 - I don't care what the villagers say. 00:58:55.625 --> 00:58:59.982 Whenever I go 00:59:00.305 --> 00:59:04.856 past that channel I feel very proud. 00:59:05.345 --> 00:59:08.735 Didn't your field happen to be at the end of the channel? 00:59:10.585 --> 00:59:13.782 Wasn't your goal to bring water to your field? 00:59:13.945 --> 00:59:20.214 Didn't it make all the valley get greener? 00:59:20.345 --> 00:59:24.657 A channel with no water. - Even so, it doesn't matter. 00:59:24.985 --> 00:59:29.137 Even this small sapling has... 00:59:29.305 --> 00:59:31.944 wonders of nature 00:59:32.145 --> 00:59:34.101 hidden in it. Look at these branches. 00:59:34.225 --> 00:59:39.299 A new branch every year. This one is short because it rained less. 00:59:39.945 --> 00:59:41.424 So what? 00:59:48.465 --> 00:59:51.502 Nature holds the answer to all our questions. 00:59:53.345 --> 00:59:57.782 You have to feel yourself as part of the whole. 00:59:58.505 --> 01:00:00.302 Your father abandoned this place. 01:00:00.465 --> 01:00:03.537 Let's get somethings straight. 01:00:04.225 --> 01:00:07.820 Not everyone is lucky enough to go to college. 01:00:07.945 --> 01:00:10.334 Luck? You call this luck? 01:00:11.585 --> 01:00:14.975 What else could have my father done? 01:00:16.185 --> 01:00:17.504 You feel strong. 01:00:17.625 --> 01:00:24.064 But the reality is that you have to live in the town. 01:00:25.825 --> 01:00:29.261 There is nothing but the trees. 01:00:30.345 --> 01:00:33.860 Maybe he was right. - Listen. 01:00:34.425 --> 01:00:37.895 - When your father left... - He was your brother. 01:00:38.025 --> 01:00:40.937 You played together in these meadows. 01:00:41.225 --> 01:00:44.023 You have laughed in the same streets. 01:00:44.425 --> 01:00:48.464 But I haven't once heard you say anything good about him. 01:00:48.745 --> 01:00:52.055 People should have a little compassion or tenderness. 01:00:52.225 --> 01:00:55.422 How can you be so distant and insensitive.? 01:00:56.665 --> 01:00:58.303 But Saffet, what about.. 01:00:58.425 --> 01:01:02.703 Why I'm the only one suffering for my father's faults? 01:01:02.985 --> 01:01:05.055 Aren't you his relatives, too? 01:01:07.145 --> 01:01:09.705 Why am I the only one suffering? 01:01:10.865 --> 01:01:14.255 - Saffet, son.. - How can you shrug off... 01:01:14.465 --> 01:01:17.537 responsibilty like water off a duck's back? 01:01:18.905 --> 01:01:20.258 Certainly not. 01:01:20.465 --> 01:01:22.899 What makes you think that? 01:01:23.105 --> 01:01:27.064 Maybe I'm ignorant. I don't know about Alexander... 01:01:27.265 --> 01:01:31.702 But what use is knowledge if you don't share it? 01:01:32.385 --> 01:01:35.457 It's not enough to read books. 01:01:35.625 --> 01:01:37.900 Did you learn all that for yourself alone? 01:01:38.025 --> 01:01:43.258 Now this is absurd. What do you know? 01:01:43.585 --> 01:01:47.464 It's easy to talk and hard to do anything. 01:01:47.825 --> 01:01:50.259 I started with nothing. 01:01:51.025 --> 01:01:54.540 I was determined to study and I never gave up. 01:01:54.785 --> 01:01:57.982 I went to school on a donkey back all winter. 01:01:58.185 --> 01:02:01.461 I know what I went through. 01:02:01.585 --> 01:02:05.544 I worked in the fields. Do you think it was easy? 01:02:06.065 --> 01:02:07.623 Do you? 01:02:15.185 --> 01:02:18.939 I worked hard on my own and made it into university. 01:02:19.105 --> 01:02:21.539 My back saw its first coat at the university 01:02:21.705 --> 01:02:25.744 I learned English by myself, and went to America. 01:02:26.225 --> 01:02:29.774 And how did I do all this? While the others discussed.. 01:02:29.985 --> 01:02:34.024 football matches all night. What was your father doing then? 01:02:34.185 --> 01:02:38.019 Dressed in fancy clothes he was running around after deputies. 01:02:38.385 --> 01:02:39.659 Wasn't he? 01:02:54.465 --> 01:02:57.662 Yes, maybe I live a secluded life 01:02:59.065 --> 01:03:01.181 and my best friends are my books. 01:03:01.985 --> 01:03:04.579 I don't believe in people anymore. 01:03:05.385 --> 01:03:06.977 Only in nature. 01:03:07.545 --> 01:03:10.617 Your father thought I had wasted my life. 01:03:11.025 --> 01:03:13.539 He used to tell people I didn't know how to live. 01:04:06.265 --> 01:04:09.575 Isn't there any corns left? - No. 01:04:24.505 --> 01:04:26.973 Dad. Shall we go and pick some corn? 01:05:52.785 --> 01:05:55.504 Why do you stare at me like that? - Nothing. 01:06:03.025 --> 01:06:05.016 Stop crying, woman. 01:06:11.545 --> 01:06:14.013 Now why did you bring up the subject again? 01:06:18.865 --> 01:06:20.662 Do you think you are perfect? 01:06:36.665 --> 01:06:41.102 Saffet, you've got the same troubles as your father. 01:06:42.905 --> 01:06:45.783 You still haven't got a proper job. 01:06:48.185 --> 01:06:50.540 Now your military service is over, make up your mind. 01:06:53.265 --> 01:06:55.540 Get married and have kids. 01:06:59.065 --> 01:07:03.502 You are the only person in our village who has gone to college. 01:07:03.745 --> 01:07:06.498 You went abroad, learnt foreign languages. 01:07:06.945 --> 01:07:10.255 but in the end you came back and settled here. 01:07:13.385 --> 01:07:16.934 Didn't you study to get away from these fields? 01:07:19.705 --> 01:07:22.856 I don't understand what all that education was for. 01:07:36.185 --> 01:07:38.699 One of us is under the earth, and.. 01:07:39.545 --> 01:07:42.821 that's where we are all destined for. 01:07:47.065 --> 01:07:51.502 I have an absolute faith in God, but we come and we go. 01:07:51.905 --> 01:07:55.614 Where is my mother, father and uncles? They have all gone. 01:07:56.905 --> 01:07:59.499 We're all older now. 01:08:03.265 --> 01:08:07.144 But why does God take away an innocent child's life? 01:08:09.665 --> 01:08:12.577 What sin could a two year old child have committed? 01:08:15.825 --> 01:08:18.180 Take Kezban's child, for instance. 01:08:21.225 --> 01:08:22.897 No one can know. 01:08:28.625 --> 01:08:30.661 No one but God. 01:08:31.265 --> 01:08:33.460 We shouldn't know everything. 01:08:36.585 --> 01:08:39.702 Just know what you need that's enough. 01:08:41.545 --> 01:08:43.934 What's the point in knowing more? 01:08:45.665 --> 01:08:48.497 God gave us two ears instead of four. 01:08:50.545 --> 01:08:53.059 Because you can hear with two ears, too. 01:08:55.465 --> 01:08:58.377 Yes woman, we've lost our son but 01:08:58.545 --> 01:09:04.893 it is the will of God. There are good days and bad days. 01:09:05.305 --> 01:09:07.773 When I came back from India 01:09:07.944 --> 01:09:09.935 I was totaly exhausted. 01:09:10.104 --> 01:09:14.337 While I was shivering on the ship's deck I was thinking. 01:09:14.705 --> 01:09:18.743 If I ever reached my country, I would never be 01:09:18.904 --> 01:09:23.341 unhappy again as long as I had a shelter and food. 01:09:24.785 --> 01:09:29.336 We got home, but the place was in ruins. 01:09:30.665 --> 01:09:33.020 The war had affected these places too. 01:09:35.665 --> 01:09:39.624 My fiancee had given me up and married someone else. 01:09:40.625 --> 01:09:42.216 She even had a child. 01:09:46.944 --> 01:09:48.264 That's right. 01:09:49.625 --> 01:09:51.741 Now I'm a farmer. 01:09:52.665 --> 01:09:55.816 So what? It's all right. 01:09:59.025 --> 01:10:01.300 But I don't want to die, you know. 01:10:04.345 --> 01:10:07.894 I hope God let's me live another 20 years at least. 01:10:09.745 --> 01:10:13.624 - You have to live and eat healthily like the Americans. 01:10:14.585 --> 01:10:18.134 - To cut a long story, I've had good times and bad times. 01:10:18.265 --> 01:10:21.860 You should alwayd have hope. - You will outlive us all, father. 01:10:24.705 --> 01:10:27.219 You can see the state I am in. 01:10:28.665 --> 01:10:31.543 My mouth shakes and my left eye twiches. 01:10:32.945 --> 01:10:35.505 But the worst of all is trying to sleep. 01:10:38.385 --> 01:10:42.503 Just as I start to fall asleep, suddenly 01:10:42.705 --> 01:10:45.663 I get a pain in my right side. 01:10:48.105 --> 01:10:51.814 Then the pain moves up to my head 01:10:54.025 --> 01:10:56.619 and I have terrible headaches. 01:10:57.425 --> 01:10:59.734 - Age brings its aches and pains. 01:10:59.865 --> 01:11:02.425 But I still want to carry on living. 01:11:02.705 --> 01:11:04.661 At least 20 more years. 01:11:11.985 --> 01:11:13.976 Can you hear music? 01:11:14.945 --> 01:11:19.416 - Father is right. When my mother died I thought I couldn't bear it. 01:11:19.665 --> 01:11:22.020 But now I can hardly remember her face. 01:11:25.905 --> 01:11:30.217 But when I was pregnant I felt something I had never before. 01:11:31.985 --> 01:11:35.375 I don't exactly know. May be a wish for goodness? 01:11:37.945 --> 01:11:41.096 As if I had realised what life was about. 01:11:41.305 --> 01:11:44.377 - Soon no one will even visit our graves. 01:11:44.505 --> 01:11:46.336 Change your pillow, father. 01:11:47.065 --> 01:11:50.535 Use a thick wooden rolling pin like the Japanese do. 01:11:51.065 --> 01:11:53.340 Right under your neck. 01:11:53.585 --> 01:11:57.180 Most headaches are coused by the nerves at the back of the neck. 01:11:59.785 --> 01:12:04.700 - Last year when the fire broke out I ran home. 01:12:05.545 --> 01:12:08.742 I was so relieved to see it wasn't at our house. 01:12:08.985 --> 01:12:12.898 Ali and Asiye were watching the fire with the... 01:12:13.105 --> 01:12:18.782 looks of horror, panic and pleading on their faces. 01:12:19.825 --> 01:12:23.261 It scared me to see them like that. 01:12:23.465 --> 01:12:27.697 I thought these kids will see so much throughout their lives. 01:12:27.865 --> 01:12:31.904 All the people were running around shouting. 01:12:32.545 --> 01:12:35.696 And that imploring look on the children's faces. 01:12:35.825 --> 01:12:37.895 I couldn't get it out of my mind. 01:13:53.185 --> 01:13:55.494 Mother! At which direction lies India? 01:13:56.385 --> 01:13:58.455 - Don't know. This way I think. 01:13:59.305 --> 01:14:02.138 - You mean, towards Yenice? - I guess so. 01:14:02.265 --> 01:14:04.859 That's east, isn't it? - Then it is over the mountains. 01:14:06.065 --> 01:14:07.817 Yeah. I think so. 01:14:37.465 --> 01:14:40.980 If she had had the title deeds made out in her name 01:14:41.105 --> 01:14:45.064 while her husband was alive she wouldn't be penniless now. 01:14:50.425 --> 01:14:52.381 She asked if I had any laundry to be done. 01:14:52.825 --> 01:14:54.304 - Who? - Your wife. 01:14:55.865 --> 01:15:00.017 I said there are only those that I am wearing. 01:15:02.585 --> 01:15:05.463 She didn't offer to wash those. 01:15:06.945 --> 01:15:10.142 So I didn't take them off. I dumped them in a bag. 01:15:16.905 --> 01:15:20.580 Maybe I should have a few deeds made out in my name. 01:16:41.585 --> 01:16:43.541 Asiye, are you asleep my lamb? 01:16:44.265 --> 01:16:46.779 I was going to ask you to massage my shoulders. 01:16:47.265 --> 01:16:49.415 You carry on sleeping. 01:16:51.225 --> 01:16:55.741 My head is aching again. It is keeping me awake. 01:16:56.265 --> 01:16:59.257 Nuri! Come and massage it for me. 01:17:00.305 --> 01:17:02.694 Massage my shoulders a bit. 01:17:05.385 --> 01:17:08.821 This damned pain. Why is it tormenting me like this. 01:17:09.025 --> 01:17:11.175 My neck feels like a block of wood. 01:17:11.345 --> 01:17:14.735 I'd like to chop it off. 01:17:16.865 --> 01:17:19.618 Wait. Let me tie this. 01:17:27.385 --> 01:17:30.457 Do you want me to press it? - Look. 01:17:31.345 --> 01:17:33.575 This pain is like a weather forecast. 01:17:34.745 --> 01:17:37.020 Let me sit down and rest for a moment. 01:18:24.065 --> 01:18:26.420 Are the children in bed? - They are. 01:18:27.665 --> 01:18:29.576 They didn't finish eating the melon. 01:18:30.865 --> 01:18:34.414 I didn't take it in. They can eat it when they wake up. 01:19:08.785 --> 01:19:10.423 God preserve us. 01:21:34.265 --> 01:21:36.056 For my Mother and Father...