1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:02:24,213 --> 00:02:25,172 Ah! 3 00:03:25,315 --> 00:03:28,860 - Jews aren't keen on dogs. 4 00:03:29,069 --> 00:03:30,529 Dogs bite you or chase you. 5 00:03:30,737 --> 00:03:34,700 Jews have been barked at for so long, they prefer cats. 6 00:03:34,908 --> 00:03:38,871 Well, at least that's what my master says. 7 00:03:39,079 --> 00:03:40,247 My master, 8 00:03:40,455 --> 00:03:43,208 is Rabbi Sfar. I don't have a name. 9 00:03:43,417 --> 00:03:46,753 Throughout Algiers, I'm known as the rabbi's cat. 10 00:03:48,505 --> 00:03:49,381 - Mmm 11 00:03:52,593 --> 00:03:53,719 Zlabya! 12 00:03:53,927 --> 00:03:55,679 - Zlabya is my mistress. 13 00:03:55,888 --> 00:03:56,680 - Daughter! 14 00:03:56,889 --> 00:03:59,683 - Her name is like a honeyed pastry. 15 00:04:00,851 --> 00:04:04,938 - As a girl, she'd always come running to greet me! 16 00:04:08,775 --> 00:04:09,860 Zlabya! 17 00:04:10,068 --> 00:04:10,944 - Zlabya, 18 00:04:11,153 --> 00:04:12,446 I love you! 19 00:04:12,654 --> 00:04:14,740 Zlabya, I love you! 20 00:04:14,948 --> 00:04:16,200 - What's it saying? 21 00:04:16,408 --> 00:04:19,828 - She wanted him to say, "Knidelette I love you". 22 00:04:20,037 --> 00:04:22,289 - My name's too sophisticated. 23 00:04:22,497 --> 00:04:25,709 It's hard for a bird to say. You see, Rabbi? 24 00:04:25,918 --> 00:04:27,878 Zlabya is more common. 25 00:04:28,086 --> 00:04:31,506 - Even boys don't say, "Knidelette, I love you" 26 00:04:31,715 --> 00:04:35,385 - Oh, yeah? And are they queuing up at your door? 27 00:04:35,594 --> 00:04:38,472 - Without Dad, there'd be a riot to see me. 28 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,600 - What's this talk in a rabbi's house? 29 00:04:41,808 --> 00:04:45,145 - I mean, I'm lucky Dad watches over me. 30 00:04:46,855 --> 00:04:48,106 - And my cat. 31 00:04:50,817 --> 00:04:52,319 - Knidelette, don't you have chores? 32 00:04:52,527 --> 00:04:53,320 - No. 33 00:04:53,528 --> 00:04:56,740 - That's a polite way of saying, "Leave us in peace". 34 00:04:56,949 --> 00:04:59,243 - Ok, I get it. 35 00:04:59,451 --> 00:05:00,661 - See you tomorrow. 36 00:05:00,869 --> 00:05:02,788 - That's right. See you tomorrow. 37 00:05:03,413 --> 00:05:05,624 - I love you, Zlabya! I love you! 38 00:05:06,833 --> 00:05:08,752 - You dear little cat. 39 00:05:08,961 --> 00:05:11,129 That parrot annoys you, doesn't he? 40 00:05:11,338 --> 00:05:13,882 - You love that cat more than your dad! 41 00:05:14,091 --> 00:05:17,844 In a fire, who would you prefer to save: 42 00:05:18,053 --> 00:05:19,930 the cat or your old father? 43 00:05:20,138 --> 00:05:23,058 - Dad! Stop the emotional blackmail. 44 00:05:23,267 --> 00:05:24,476 Mmm 45 00:05:24,685 --> 00:05:26,937 - Do your piano practice. - Yes, Dad. 46 00:05:27,145 --> 00:05:29,773 - Make sure I can hear. 47 00:05:29,982 --> 00:05:31,441 - Yes, Daddy dear. 48 00:05:32,234 --> 00:05:33,485 - Zlabya! 49 00:05:33,694 --> 00:05:35,195 I love you, Zlabya. 50 00:05:35,404 --> 00:05:37,531 - What a pain in the neck! 51 00:06:38,133 --> 00:06:39,843 - Zlabya! Zlabya. 52 00:06:40,052 --> 00:06:41,386 Zlabya. 53 00:06:41,595 --> 00:06:42,679 Zlabya. 54 00:06:42,888 --> 00:06:44,514 Zlabya. 55 00:06:51,813 --> 00:06:53,023 - My parrot! 56 00:06:53,232 --> 00:06:54,149 Did you just eat my parrot? 57 00:06:54,358 --> 00:06:55,067 - No. 58 00:06:55,275 --> 00:06:56,526 - What? - Wasn't me. 59 00:06:56,735 --> 00:06:57,986 - So where is it? 60 00:06:58,195 --> 00:06:58,904 - Humph! 61 00:06:59,988 --> 00:07:01,156 - Dad, what's wrong? 62 00:07:01,365 --> 00:07:04,535 - I must be tired. I heard the cat speak! 63 00:07:04,743 --> 00:07:06,578 - You work too hard. 64 00:07:06,787 --> 00:07:08,580 - I didn't eat the parrot. 65 00:07:08,789 --> 00:07:10,874 - What did he say? - A lie! 66 00:07:11,083 --> 00:07:12,668 He kills, he lies, 67 00:07:12,876 --> 00:07:14,711 this animal's the Sheitan. 68 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,089 - Dad, the cat can talk! 69 00:07:17,297 --> 00:07:19,591 - Spare me the song and dance. 70 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,885 - My cat! It's a miracle! 71 00:07:22,094 --> 00:07:24,930 - Keep away, this animal may be dangerous. 72 00:07:25,138 --> 00:07:28,892 - I've always served you. Why be wary of me now I can talk? 73 00:07:29,101 --> 00:07:31,478 - Because your first words are a lie! 74 00:07:31,687 --> 00:07:34,064 - I didn't eat it! I wasn't hungry. 75 00:07:34,273 --> 00:07:37,526 - You Cain! You're lying to cover up a murder! 76 00:07:37,734 --> 00:07:39,736 - You can't condemn a cat for eating a bird. 77 00:07:39,945 --> 00:07:42,322 Will you put him in prison? 78 00:07:43,949 --> 00:07:47,035 - "Deeply alarmed by Julien's appearance, 79 00:07:47,244 --> 00:07:51,790 "Madame de Renal soon fell prey to merciless dread. 80 00:07:51,999 --> 00:07:54,418 "My God, being happy, 81 00:07:54,626 --> 00:07:57,004 "being loved, is this all it is?" 82 00:07:57,212 --> 00:07:58,297 - What's that? 83 00:07:58,505 --> 00:08:00,507 - Stendhal. - "Scarlet and Black". 84 00:08:00,716 --> 00:08:01,800 - The cat's reading? 85 00:08:02,009 --> 00:08:04,553 Since when can you read? 86 00:08:04,761 --> 00:08:07,639 - I learnt with your daughter. But before I only mewed. 87 00:08:07,848 --> 00:08:09,892 - "Scarlet and Black", is it a political book? 88 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:12,060 The cat gave you this propaganda? 89 00:08:12,269 --> 00:08:13,020 - What propaganda? 90 00:08:13,437 --> 00:08:16,148 - No, master, it's a love story. 91 00:08:16,356 --> 00:08:19,109 - Even better... Give me that. 92 00:08:19,318 --> 00:08:23,196 I forbid you to see this cat without me around! 93 00:08:23,405 --> 00:08:24,781 - But he's my cat! 94 00:08:24,990 --> 00:08:27,701 - At your age, watch who you spend time with. 95 00:08:27,910 --> 00:08:29,745 I forbid you to spend time 96 00:08:29,953 --> 00:08:30,996 with just anyone. 97 00:08:32,372 --> 00:08:36,210 - The rabbi's scared I'll give his daughter 98 00:08:36,418 --> 00:08:37,836 bad ideas. 99 00:08:38,045 --> 00:08:40,839 So he keeps me with him. I'm bored! 100 00:08:43,217 --> 00:08:45,469 - What's this? - The Talmud. 101 00:08:45,677 --> 00:08:46,595 - lnteresting? 102 00:08:46,803 --> 00:08:49,097 - It explains how to be a good Jew. 103 00:08:49,306 --> 00:08:51,892 For example: "lying is very bad." 104 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:54,895 - Should I feel concerned? - Why not? 105 00:08:55,103 --> 00:08:57,147 - I'm just a cat. 106 00:08:57,356 --> 00:08:59,566 I don't know if I'm Jewish or not. 107 00:08:59,775 --> 00:09:03,320 - You are, like your masters! - I'm not circumcised! 108 00:09:03,528 --> 00:09:05,864 - Ah... We don't circumcise cats. 109 00:09:06,073 --> 00:09:07,824 - No bar mitzvah. 110 00:09:08,033 --> 00:09:10,035 - You have to be over 13 for that. 111 00:09:10,244 --> 00:09:14,581 - I'm 7. That's 49 in cat years. I'm almost your age! 112 00:09:14,790 --> 00:09:18,210 If I'm a Jewish cat, I have to do my bar mitzvah! 113 00:09:21,171 --> 00:09:23,549 Why do we need to see your rabbi? 114 00:09:23,757 --> 00:09:25,509 - Because you're driving me mad! 115 00:09:25,717 --> 00:09:28,679 The problem you've raised is obsessing me. 116 00:09:32,266 --> 00:09:34,017 - Argh! 117 00:09:34,226 --> 00:09:34,935 But... 118 00:09:35,435 --> 00:09:37,271 - Don't leave me here. 119 00:09:37,479 --> 00:09:38,522 He beats his students. 120 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:40,107 - Shut up. 121 00:09:41,692 --> 00:09:43,068 - No, no, no! 122 00:09:43,777 --> 00:09:47,614 I don't care if he talks. He's not doing his bar mitzvah! 123 00:09:47,823 --> 00:09:48,991 - May I ask why? 124 00:09:49,199 --> 00:09:51,034 - Bar mitzvahs aren't for cats. 125 00:09:51,243 --> 00:09:55,330 - Master of my master, how do humans and cats differ? 126 00:09:55,539 --> 00:09:57,708 - God made man in his image. 127 00:09:57,916 --> 00:10:01,253 - In that case, can you show me an image of God? 128 00:10:01,461 --> 00:10:02,379 - lmpossible. 129 00:10:02,588 --> 00:10:04,506 God is a word. 130 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:09,636 - So if man is like God because he can talk, I'm like man. 131 00:10:09,845 --> 00:10:11,889 - No, your words are bad 132 00:10:12,097 --> 00:10:14,266 gained through a deed of death. 133 00:10:14,474 --> 00:10:16,226 - I didn't eat the parrot. 134 00:10:16,435 --> 00:10:17,853 - You're a liar too? 135 00:10:18,061 --> 00:10:20,439 - Words let you say anything. 136 00:10:20,647 --> 00:10:23,442 Even untruths. It's wonderful. Try it. 137 00:10:23,650 --> 00:10:25,444 - Want my advice, Abraham? 138 00:10:25,652 --> 00:10:26,862 Drown your cat! 139 00:10:27,070 --> 00:10:29,698 - You think so? But I'm fond of him. 140 00:10:29,907 --> 00:10:31,241 And he hates water. 141 00:10:31,450 --> 00:10:34,703 - Who are you, who wants to kill me? 142 00:10:34,912 --> 00:10:38,123 I am the Lord your God, disguised as a cat 143 00:10:38,332 --> 00:10:39,458 to test you. 144 00:10:39,666 --> 00:10:43,670 I am God and I am displeased with your conduct! 145 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:44,588 You have been as hard on me 146 00:10:44,796 --> 00:10:48,634 as some Christians are on Jews! 147 00:10:49,635 --> 00:10:50,594 - Lord God! 148 00:10:50,802 --> 00:10:52,638 Forgive me for I have sinned. 149 00:10:52,846 --> 00:10:54,264 I'm guilty. 150 00:10:54,473 --> 00:10:57,434 - You are guilty but I was kidding. I'm a cat. Get up! 151 00:10:57,643 --> 00:10:58,685 - Blasphemer! 152 00:10:58,894 --> 00:11:01,188 You lie? You usurp God's name? 153 00:11:01,396 --> 00:11:02,564 We should drown you! 154 00:11:02,773 --> 00:11:03,774 - Oh... 155 00:11:03,982 --> 00:11:07,736 - I want to do my barmitzvah. I want to convert to Judaism 156 00:11:07,945 --> 00:11:08,737 - Why? 157 00:11:08,946 --> 00:11:13,075 - If I'm a good Jew, the rabbi will let me see his daughter. 158 00:11:13,283 --> 00:11:15,202 I can't live without her, 159 00:11:15,410 --> 00:11:16,662 because she brings me joy, 160 00:11:16,870 --> 00:11:19,540 and love is beautiful. 161 00:11:20,249 --> 00:11:20,874 - No. 162 00:11:21,083 --> 00:11:21,875 No! 163 00:11:22,084 --> 00:11:22,834 No! 164 00:11:23,043 --> 00:11:26,922 Your reasons for converting to Judaism are bad ones. 165 00:11:27,130 --> 00:11:29,508 Your love of God isn't sincere. 166 00:11:29,716 --> 00:11:31,843 - I never mentioned my love of God. 167 00:11:34,012 --> 00:11:36,181 To become Jewish, 168 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,058 you must fear God, 169 00:11:38,267 --> 00:11:41,144 seek out his protection and cherish Him. 170 00:11:41,353 --> 00:11:43,272 A Jew must see God's presence 171 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,023 in all things. 172 00:11:45,232 --> 00:11:46,733 Thinking of God 173 00:11:46,942 --> 00:11:48,735 brings sunlight to the greyest day. 174 00:11:48,944 --> 00:11:50,612 The love of God 175 00:11:50,821 --> 00:11:53,240 must be almost carnal. 176 00:11:53,448 --> 00:11:55,158 - Oh, la la, la la. 177 00:11:55,993 --> 00:11:58,412 - Loving God is important. 178 00:11:58,620 --> 00:12:00,998 We are always in His arms. 179 00:12:01,206 --> 00:12:03,458 He is strong and we're content. 180 00:12:03,667 --> 00:12:06,086 When he takes care... 181 00:12:06,295 --> 00:12:07,254 - Yes. 182 00:12:07,462 --> 00:12:10,382 I feel exactly the same way about my mistress. 183 00:12:10,591 --> 00:12:11,383 - Animal! 184 00:12:11,592 --> 00:12:13,719 You walk around on four legs! 185 00:12:13,927 --> 00:12:17,723 You can't attain God's love! You only know ignoble love. 186 00:12:17,931 --> 00:12:20,601 - Blasphemy! My mistress is real. 187 00:12:20,809 --> 00:12:22,102 - Only God is real! 188 00:12:22,311 --> 00:12:25,147 - God is a comforting invention. 189 00:12:25,355 --> 00:12:28,734 You're all alone, ancient, and your parents are dead. 190 00:12:28,942 --> 00:12:32,946 I'll never be alone because I'll die before my mistress. 191 00:12:33,155 --> 00:12:34,531 - Be gone! 192 00:12:37,117 --> 00:12:39,077 - Angry with me? - Bad animal. 193 00:12:39,286 --> 00:12:42,581 - I want to see how the truth feels. 194 00:12:42,789 --> 00:12:46,335 - You lie when you shouldn't and use the truth to hurt. 195 00:12:46,543 --> 00:12:48,253 - I hurt too now I speak. 196 00:12:48,462 --> 00:12:50,297 My mistress used to cuddle me. 197 00:12:50,505 --> 00:12:51,590 Oh, Zlabya... 198 00:12:54,426 --> 00:12:57,137 I'd do anything to see her again. 199 00:12:58,597 --> 00:13:00,682 - Shut up, I can tell you're faking it. 200 00:13:02,726 --> 00:13:05,270 - You can never return to Eden. 201 00:13:07,773 --> 00:13:09,942 - We must find another rabbi 202 00:13:10,150 --> 00:13:13,111 who'll let me do my bar mitzvah. 203 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,615 - You fool, no sane rabbi will agree to teach a cat. 204 00:13:19,326 --> 00:13:20,827 - So lets look for a mad rabbi. 205 00:13:21,036 --> 00:13:23,539 - I don't know one. - You then. 206 00:13:23,747 --> 00:13:27,543 - It's a huge responsibility. I don't want to. 207 00:13:28,210 --> 00:13:30,963 - Your daughter could teach me. 208 00:13:31,171 --> 00:13:33,465 Ok, forget it. 209 00:13:35,092 --> 00:13:38,679 The rabbi's daughter weeps for her cat. 210 00:13:38,887 --> 00:13:40,222 Her lovely cat. 211 00:13:40,430 --> 00:13:42,683 - My cat, I want my cat. 212 00:13:42,891 --> 00:13:44,810 - My mistress! 213 00:13:45,018 --> 00:13:47,020 My mistress! 214 00:13:47,229 --> 00:13:48,188 - All right. 215 00:13:48,397 --> 00:13:50,399 You win. I'll teach him about Judaism. 216 00:13:51,775 --> 00:13:54,152 But, for pity's sake, stop crying. 217 00:13:55,654 --> 00:13:58,740 - But, Dad, I'm crying for joy now. 218 00:13:59,366 --> 00:14:02,452 - So my master sat me down 219 00:14:02,661 --> 00:14:05,455 for my first lesson in Judaism. 220 00:14:05,664 --> 00:14:08,292 - Here's how the world began. 221 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:12,754 The Lord God created the world in seven days, 5,700 years ago. 222 00:14:12,963 --> 00:14:13,714 - I'm not stupid. 223 00:14:13,922 --> 00:14:14,923 - It's true. 224 00:14:15,132 --> 00:14:18,719 - That's absurd! Carbon dating has proved 225 00:14:18,927 --> 00:14:21,555 that the world is billions of years old. 226 00:14:21,763 --> 00:14:25,267 - Maybe Noah's flood made the planet seem 227 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:27,144 older than it is. 228 00:14:27,352 --> 00:14:30,063 - Even a kitten wouldn't fall for that! 229 00:14:30,272 --> 00:14:31,815 - My master told me so. 230 00:14:32,024 --> 00:14:33,483 - Your wise master! 231 00:14:33,692 --> 00:14:37,529 - Perhaps the years only make sense if men count them. 232 00:14:37,738 --> 00:14:40,782 Maybe the first calendar is 5,700 years old. 233 00:14:40,991 --> 00:14:42,534 - Excellent explanation. 234 00:14:42,743 --> 00:14:45,537 - Now let's talk about Adam and Eve, 235 00:14:45,746 --> 00:14:47,956 father and mother of us all. 236 00:14:48,165 --> 00:14:50,751 - Adam and Eve are a symbol! 237 00:14:50,959 --> 00:14:53,795 - Non, they're real! - What's real are 238 00:14:54,004 --> 00:14:56,465 prehistoric men. - Pretentious. 239 00:14:56,673 --> 00:14:57,299 - What? 240 00:14:57,507 --> 00:15:01,011 - Giving things a scientific name makes you understand? 241 00:15:07,059 --> 00:15:09,728 - This morning, my master had some mail. 242 00:15:09,937 --> 00:15:13,565 He had his breakfast before opening it. 243 00:15:13,774 --> 00:15:15,817 - What are these letters? 244 00:15:16,026 --> 00:15:17,444 - Eh? 245 00:15:17,653 --> 00:15:19,696 -One's from Paris. 246 00:15:20,405 --> 00:15:22,157 - Nothing to worry your little head about. 247 00:15:22,366 --> 00:15:24,993 - He puts them in his pocket to read later. 248 00:15:25,202 --> 00:15:27,579 I think he's enjoying this. 249 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,291 - You come with me. 250 00:15:49,768 --> 00:15:50,561 - Excuse me, 251 00:15:50,769 --> 00:15:53,522 I'm afraid we don't serve Arabs or Jews. 252 00:15:53,730 --> 00:15:54,356 - Oh? 253 00:15:54,565 --> 00:15:56,316 It doesn't say that anywhere. 254 00:15:56,525 --> 00:15:57,192 - Get lost. 255 00:16:00,779 --> 00:16:01,738 - Come on, master. 256 00:16:05,492 --> 00:16:08,495 You were about to beat him up. 257 00:16:13,166 --> 00:16:14,793 - The fountain's good. 258 00:16:15,002 --> 00:16:17,421 Everyone is free to use it. 259 00:16:17,629 --> 00:16:21,466 And there's water, the best drink that God provides. 260 00:16:21,675 --> 00:16:24,595 - I'd prefer a fountain with milk. 261 00:16:24,803 --> 00:16:27,222 Time to open the mail? 262 00:16:31,268 --> 00:16:32,936 - What did the letters say? 263 00:16:33,145 --> 00:16:35,981 - I love knowing things that you don't. 264 00:16:36,189 --> 00:16:37,858 - Tell me. - For a fish. 265 00:16:39,484 --> 00:16:40,569 - Now tell me! 266 00:16:40,777 --> 00:16:43,697 - Now tickle me under the chin, mistress. 267 00:16:43,906 --> 00:16:45,032 - I'll slap you! 268 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,201 Tell me! - Ok. 269 00:16:47,409 --> 00:16:50,871 The letter from Paris is about a test. 270 00:16:51,079 --> 00:16:52,039 - A medical test? 271 00:16:52,247 --> 00:16:54,833 - No, a French language test. 272 00:16:55,042 --> 00:16:55,918 - That's all? 273 00:16:56,126 --> 00:16:58,003 - The other is more interesting. 274 00:16:58,212 --> 00:17:00,964 Cousin Malka is coming to stay. 275 00:17:01,173 --> 00:17:03,008 - Lion Malka? 276 00:17:03,217 --> 00:17:04,551 - Zlabya! 277 00:17:05,886 --> 00:17:08,472 - Yes, Dad? - Lend me some books in French. 278 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,641 - Books? What for? 279 00:17:10,849 --> 00:17:14,603 - To do dictation. So I can become our official rabbi. 280 00:17:14,811 --> 00:17:16,021 - You already are! 281 00:17:16,230 --> 00:17:18,440 - No, I am an ordinary rabbi. 282 00:17:18,649 --> 00:17:22,027 - What's it to do with the French? Why a dictation test? 283 00:17:22,236 --> 00:17:23,987 - To see if I'm qualified. 284 00:17:24,196 --> 00:17:26,907 You expect them to pick just anyone? 285 00:17:27,115 --> 00:17:28,700 - It's insulting for you. 286 00:17:28,909 --> 00:17:32,204 - What do you know? Give me some books. 287 00:17:35,165 --> 00:17:37,834 Stop looking at me like an idiot! 288 00:17:38,043 --> 00:17:40,629 Help out. Dictate to me. 289 00:17:40,837 --> 00:17:42,005 - "Daphnis and Alcimadur". 290 00:17:42,214 --> 00:17:43,799 - What's that? - The title. 291 00:17:44,007 --> 00:17:45,634 - The title of a fable? 292 00:17:45,842 --> 00:17:47,219 - Yes. - Pick another. 293 00:17:47,427 --> 00:17:48,720 - Fine. "The Candle". 294 00:17:48,929 --> 00:17:50,973 - That's all? 295 00:17:51,181 --> 00:17:52,808 Another fable, quick! 296 00:17:53,016 --> 00:17:54,601 - "Jupiter and the Passenger". 297 00:17:54,810 --> 00:17:57,396 "How peril would enrich the gods..." 298 00:17:57,604 --> 00:17:58,897 - "The gods"? - Oui. 299 00:17:59,106 --> 00:18:00,607 - No, that's no good. 300 00:18:00,816 --> 00:18:04,653 Find me a monotheistic fable with normal animals 301 00:18:04,862 --> 00:18:06,530 whose names we know. 302 00:18:06,738 --> 00:18:09,408 - "The Cat, the Weasel and the Little Rabbit"? 303 00:18:09,616 --> 00:18:10,325 - I can find one with kosher animals. 304 00:18:10,534 --> 00:18:13,036 - You prefer kosher animals? 305 00:18:13,245 --> 00:18:15,706 - Argh! Shut up and read. 306 00:18:15,914 --> 00:18:17,457 - Shut up or read? - Read! 307 00:18:17,666 --> 00:18:18,792 - Ok. 308 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:21,795 "From a young rabbit's dwelling, Lady Weasel..." 309 00:18:22,004 --> 00:18:23,046 - Slow down. 310 00:18:23,547 --> 00:18:24,840 Slow down. 311 00:18:25,048 --> 00:18:27,509 - Lion Malka is coming! 312 00:18:27,718 --> 00:18:29,261 He'll sleep at our house! 313 00:18:29,469 --> 00:18:31,179 - Can we see him? 314 00:18:31,388 --> 00:18:33,265 - Yes, he'll do shows around the city 315 00:18:33,473 --> 00:18:35,767 and read at the synagogue. 316 00:18:35,976 --> 00:18:38,437 - But can we come here to see him? 317 00:18:38,645 --> 00:18:40,606 - No, he'll be resting here. 318 00:18:40,814 --> 00:18:43,525 - I'd make a good wife for him. 319 00:18:43,734 --> 00:18:47,112 - You fool! Lion Malka won't be interested in you. 320 00:18:47,321 --> 00:18:49,531 He only loves desert women. 321 00:19:00,584 --> 00:19:02,794 - "The Raven, ashamed..." 322 00:19:03,545 --> 00:19:04,630 "A-sssh-amed and embarra-ssss-ed... 323 00:19:06,506 --> 00:19:08,008 - Why are you hissing? 324 00:19:08,217 --> 00:19:10,594 - "swore too late this was the last time." 325 00:19:10,802 --> 00:19:11,803 - Ho, ho! 326 00:19:12,012 --> 00:19:15,182 - "the lasssst time." 327 00:19:16,225 --> 00:19:16,850 - There. 328 00:19:17,059 --> 00:19:18,101 I've finished. 329 00:19:19,937 --> 00:19:22,856 - Master, you'll never manage it without me. 330 00:19:23,065 --> 00:19:24,983 - What? I don't write that badly. 331 00:19:25,192 --> 00:19:27,069 - The handwriting is good 332 00:19:27,277 --> 00:19:30,197 but spelling is what matters most. 333 00:19:31,698 --> 00:19:32,783 - I've had an idea. 334 00:19:32,991 --> 00:19:33,784 Let's pray. 335 00:19:33,992 --> 00:19:38,163 - Fine, but I'm going to come along and do the dictation for you. 336 00:19:38,372 --> 00:19:41,458 - How dare you? That's totally dishonest! 337 00:19:41,667 --> 00:19:45,170 - Master, we needn't respect the laws of the mad. 338 00:19:45,379 --> 00:19:49,216 As a rabbi, you pray in Hebrew for Arab-speaking Jews, 339 00:19:49,424 --> 00:19:52,636 and these madmen want you to write in French! 340 00:19:52,844 --> 00:19:54,429 You'll fail without me. 341 00:19:57,307 --> 00:19:59,393 Lets sleep now, master. Hurry. 342 00:20:03,730 --> 00:20:07,234 Before I could speak, I used to have simple dreams. 343 00:20:08,485 --> 00:20:10,654 In them, I'd chase tiny animals. 344 00:20:10,863 --> 00:20:13,240 Bigger animals would chase me and I'd run to get away. 345 00:20:13,448 --> 00:20:14,575 I'd find refuge 346 00:20:14,783 --> 00:20:18,120 in my mistress' loving arms. 347 00:20:18,328 --> 00:20:20,497 Those were a cat's dreams. 348 00:20:21,456 --> 00:20:24,251 Now I can talk, I only have nightmares. 349 00:20:25,794 --> 00:20:28,672 I dream my mistress is sick and can't be cured. 350 00:20:28,881 --> 00:20:30,924 I dream she vanishes, 351 00:20:31,133 --> 00:20:33,760 and they tell me she's away. 352 00:20:33,969 --> 00:20:36,597 I tell everyone she's away, 353 00:20:36,805 --> 00:20:38,682 but thinking of me and will buy me a present. 354 00:20:38,891 --> 00:20:43,061 One day, the rabbi, sick of hearing me say this, 355 00:20:43,270 --> 00:20:46,607 sits me on his knee and tells me the truth. 356 00:20:47,482 --> 00:20:49,568 She is dead. Yes. 357 00:20:49,776 --> 00:20:51,862 Now I can speak, 358 00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:54,781 I often dream my mistress is dead, 359 00:20:54,990 --> 00:20:57,451 and that the rabbi only has me. 360 00:20:57,659 --> 00:20:59,870 Then he rejects religion, 361 00:21:00,078 --> 00:21:02,831 renounces his master, dismisses his disciples. 362 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,668 Even though I don't believe, I have to pretend I do 363 00:21:06,877 --> 00:21:08,503 to cheer him up. 364 00:21:08,712 --> 00:21:09,713 Come on, master... 365 00:21:10,672 --> 00:21:12,090 Come on, master! 366 00:21:12,591 --> 00:21:14,426 Look, God is everywhere. 367 00:21:14,635 --> 00:21:15,969 Even if you can't see Him. 368 00:21:16,178 --> 00:21:18,347 - I know those lines by heart. 369 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:20,891 - I tell him I want to do my bar mitzvah 370 00:21:21,099 --> 00:21:24,603 to motivate him and make him feel responsible. 371 00:21:24,811 --> 00:21:27,564 - Enough of all this! 372 00:21:27,773 --> 00:21:30,067 Why do you want to be human 373 00:21:30,275 --> 00:21:33,070 when I'd like to be a cat? 374 00:21:34,112 --> 00:21:36,740 - In this dream, we both become cats. 375 00:21:36,949 --> 00:21:38,867 We roam the streets at night. 376 00:21:39,076 --> 00:21:41,286 We root through the butcher's refuse 377 00:21:41,495 --> 00:21:43,539 where meat isn't kosher. 378 00:21:43,747 --> 00:21:45,040 Female cats mew at us, 379 00:21:45,249 --> 00:21:48,460 I grab one by the neck to show him how. 380 00:21:48,669 --> 00:21:50,921 My master won't do it. Not like that. 381 00:21:51,129 --> 00:21:53,715 He's still too human, or too old. 382 00:21:53,924 --> 00:21:56,718 We go to see my mistress. 383 00:21:56,927 --> 00:21:58,637 She isn't at her piano. 384 00:21:58,845 --> 00:22:00,931 She isn't in her kitchen. 385 00:22:01,848 --> 00:22:04,059 She isn't reading. 386 00:22:04,268 --> 00:22:06,019 She's in her grave. 387 00:22:06,228 --> 00:22:08,480 And we can't go there. 388 00:22:13,193 --> 00:22:13,652 - Ah! 389 00:22:13,861 --> 00:22:15,612 - A nightmare, master? 390 00:22:17,406 --> 00:22:19,283 Maybe I had the same one. 391 00:22:21,618 --> 00:22:22,661 - My cat, 392 00:22:23,328 --> 00:22:25,497 I preferred it when you didn't speak. 393 00:22:25,706 --> 00:22:26,999 - So did I. 394 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,339 The test is held in a school. 395 00:22:34,548 --> 00:22:36,216 My master expected to see other rabbis, but no. 396 00:22:36,425 --> 00:22:38,594 There are no other rabbis. 397 00:22:38,802 --> 00:22:41,263 We're the only ones there. 398 00:22:54,109 --> 00:22:54,902 Open up! 399 00:22:55,110 --> 00:22:56,862 Hey! Open up! 400 00:22:59,656 --> 00:23:00,824 - "And, in the morning, 401 00:23:01,033 --> 00:23:02,492 "the baker..." 402 00:23:05,829 --> 00:23:07,456 - He crossed that out! 403 00:23:07,664 --> 00:23:09,750 You're going to fail, master! 404 00:23:12,127 --> 00:23:14,796 Why can I read and write if I can't help? 405 00:23:15,005 --> 00:23:17,382 I speak for a reason after all! 406 00:23:17,591 --> 00:23:19,218 What can I do? 407 00:23:20,636 --> 00:23:23,180 God can't help you now. Or maybe... 408 00:23:23,847 --> 00:23:25,349 Barouch Ata Adonai! 409 00:23:26,350 --> 00:23:27,935 - Sacrilege! - What? 410 00:23:28,143 --> 00:23:30,896 - Don't utter that word! It's God's name. 411 00:23:31,104 --> 00:23:33,190 We only say it to work miracles. 412 00:23:33,398 --> 00:23:35,359 - I only thought it. 413 00:23:35,567 --> 00:23:38,320 - It's a magic word, only used for prayers. 414 00:23:38,529 --> 00:23:40,906 - I don't care. I'll say it anyway. 415 00:23:41,114 --> 00:23:41,740 Adonai. 416 00:23:43,242 --> 00:23:44,993 Now's the time to call God. 417 00:23:45,202 --> 00:23:46,119 Adonai. 418 00:23:46,328 --> 00:23:50,123 My master who loves you and your books is failing his test! 419 00:23:50,332 --> 00:23:53,001 Adonai, Adonai, Adonai, miaou. 420 00:23:53,210 --> 00:23:54,503 Miaou, miaou. 421 00:23:54,711 --> 00:23:55,379 Miaou. 422 00:23:56,213 --> 00:23:58,006 Miaou! - "... hard at work..." 423 00:23:58,215 --> 00:23:59,091 - Miaou. 424 00:23:59,299 --> 00:24:00,551 - "Hard at work..." 425 00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:01,885 - "Last night..." 426 00:24:02,094 --> 00:24:04,096 - "Last... Night..." 427 00:24:04,930 --> 00:24:06,557 - "The baker..." 428 00:24:13,897 --> 00:24:14,815 - Miaou. 429 00:24:15,023 --> 00:24:17,067 - How'd it go? 430 00:24:17,276 --> 00:24:18,944 - Mia-ou. Miaou. 431 00:24:19,152 --> 00:24:21,405 - Speak. No one can hear you. - Miaou! 432 00:24:21,613 --> 00:24:23,490 Miaou? Miaou. - Oh... 433 00:24:26,535 --> 00:24:27,828 Dad! 434 00:24:28,036 --> 00:24:30,330 The cat can't talk anymore! 435 00:24:30,539 --> 00:24:32,291 - You talk to him? 436 00:24:32,499 --> 00:24:34,793 - No! No, but... he mews. 437 00:24:35,002 --> 00:24:36,128 - Let him mew. 438 00:24:36,336 --> 00:24:38,589 - Didn't it go well? 439 00:24:38,797 --> 00:24:41,967 - I don't know. I did my best but it's hopeless. 440 00:24:42,175 --> 00:24:43,719 I've had it. 441 00:24:54,104 --> 00:24:56,440 - My master isn't well. 442 00:24:56,648 --> 00:25:00,110 Nothing interests him now, not even the things 443 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:01,445 that made him laugh. 444 00:25:01,653 --> 00:25:04,489 For instance, the goats that climb that acacia trees. 445 00:25:04,698 --> 00:25:06,200 He used to say: 446 00:25:06,408 --> 00:25:10,037 "Look, a goat tree. The ripe fruit will fall." 447 00:25:10,245 --> 00:25:13,749 But he doesn't notice them now. 448 00:25:22,049 --> 00:25:22,925 - Mr Sfar! 449 00:25:23,133 --> 00:25:23,967 Mail! 450 00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:27,596 - The test results, maybe. 451 00:25:29,264 --> 00:25:31,391 - From Paris. Must be important! 452 00:25:31,975 --> 00:25:33,644 - Yes, that's it. 453 00:25:34,394 --> 00:25:37,981 - Nothing can spoil this day. Cousin Malka arrives today. 454 00:25:38,190 --> 00:25:39,733 - Ah! Cousin Malka! 455 00:25:39,942 --> 00:25:43,028 He's coming here? - No, I'm going to meet him. 456 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:45,948 - Where? - At the Cafe Carbodel. 457 00:25:46,156 --> 00:25:47,032 - Are you sure? 458 00:25:47,241 --> 00:25:50,327 - He's mad! He'll get beaten up! 459 00:25:56,542 --> 00:25:58,418 He's singing to himself. 460 00:26:00,546 --> 00:26:03,048 Master, maybe we shouldn't... 461 00:26:03,257 --> 00:26:04,508 No, master. 462 00:26:04,716 --> 00:26:08,262 We can go to the fountain. That's just as good a place to meet. 463 00:26:08,470 --> 00:26:10,097 Hey? Master? 464 00:26:10,931 --> 00:26:11,890 Hey. 465 00:26:12,516 --> 00:26:13,267 Master. 466 00:26:14,935 --> 00:26:15,644 Hey. 467 00:26:16,728 --> 00:26:19,940 But then, 468 00:26:20,148 --> 00:26:21,650 all of a sudden, Cousin Malka appears 469 00:26:21,859 --> 00:26:24,152 with his lion! 470 00:26:24,361 --> 00:26:27,197 Tell them they can't sit here. 471 00:26:32,035 --> 00:26:34,246 - Yes, sir? - Cousin Malka! 472 00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:36,999 Cousin Malka. 473 00:26:40,002 --> 00:26:41,044 You're so handsome! 474 00:26:41,253 --> 00:26:43,922 God bless you! - Can you tell? 475 00:26:44,131 --> 00:26:45,048 - What? 476 00:26:45,257 --> 00:26:47,634 - My moustache. I dyed it. 477 00:26:47,843 --> 00:26:49,219 - Not at all! 478 00:26:49,428 --> 00:26:51,889 You look 20. 479 00:26:52,097 --> 00:26:55,976 I swear on my life, cousin, time has no effect on you. 480 00:26:56,184 --> 00:26:58,729 - Flatterer. - You're handsome anyway. 481 00:27:01,565 --> 00:27:03,734 - I greet the old lion, he understands me. 482 00:27:03,942 --> 00:27:07,112 I can still talk to animals. 483 00:27:07,321 --> 00:27:10,115 Shalom, old chap. - Shalom, kid. 484 00:27:14,161 --> 00:27:16,205 - Don't damage anything. 485 00:27:16,413 --> 00:27:19,833 - And take your boots off for the tiles. 486 00:27:23,837 --> 00:27:25,422 - Don't worry, he won't bite. 487 00:27:26,089 --> 00:27:27,049 - Malka! 488 00:27:29,092 --> 00:27:30,469 - Lion Malka... 489 00:27:33,055 --> 00:27:35,849 Good evening, Mr Malka. 490 00:27:36,058 --> 00:27:39,645 My name's Knidelette, and I'm Zlabya's best friend. 491 00:27:39,853 --> 00:27:41,396 - My respects. 492 00:27:41,605 --> 00:27:42,981 - Delighted. 493 00:27:43,732 --> 00:27:45,651 - What's this crate? 494 00:27:45,859 --> 00:27:47,528 - Books from Russia. 495 00:27:47,736 --> 00:27:48,862 - Ah, that's true. 496 00:27:49,071 --> 00:27:51,907 The Communists destroy prayer books so we house them here. 497 00:27:52,115 --> 00:27:54,785 - It's a good deed! You should be pleased. 498 00:27:54,993 --> 00:27:55,911 - Yes, yes. 499 00:27:56,954 --> 00:27:58,372 - I can't tip you. 500 00:27:58,580 --> 00:28:02,167 - It's silly worrying about that letter. You should contact them. 501 00:28:02,376 --> 00:28:03,919 - It's alright, my daughter. 502 00:28:04,127 --> 00:28:06,004 It'll get here soon enough. 503 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:09,216 - Share it! 504 00:28:10,342 --> 00:28:11,593 They are good. 505 00:28:11,802 --> 00:28:13,554 Delicious sweetmeats, my girl! 506 00:28:13,762 --> 00:28:15,514 - I made them. 507 00:28:15,722 --> 00:28:17,933 - Using my mother's recipe. 508 00:28:18,141 --> 00:28:21,478 - Malka, go to see Dad, he's out of sorts. 509 00:28:21,687 --> 00:28:24,064 - You're right, I'll go now. 510 00:28:24,773 --> 00:28:26,149 - You're mean! 511 00:28:26,358 --> 00:28:29,152 Is he sick or did you want to get Malka away from me? 512 00:28:29,361 --> 00:28:32,906 - Malka has only ever loved the same woman. 513 00:28:33,115 --> 00:28:33,949 - Really? 514 00:28:34,157 --> 00:28:36,285 She must be ancient then. 515 00:28:36,493 --> 00:28:37,536 - Age doesn't matter. 516 00:28:37,744 --> 00:28:40,122 - You're so naive, Zlabya! 517 00:28:41,290 --> 00:28:44,793 - The rabbi tells Malka about the disastrous test. 518 00:28:46,295 --> 00:28:50,299 - As kids, we'd talk for hours before falling asleep. 519 00:28:50,507 --> 00:28:54,011 And you always had wine stole from aunt Rifka 520 00:28:54,219 --> 00:28:55,178 under the bed. 521 00:28:59,266 --> 00:29:00,726 I knew it! 522 00:29:01,310 --> 00:29:02,519 - Malka. - What? 523 00:29:02,728 --> 00:29:04,771 - I'm going away for a few days 524 00:29:04,980 --> 00:29:06,190 to think. 525 00:29:06,398 --> 00:29:07,816 - Don't mess up. 526 00:29:08,025 --> 00:29:10,444 - I'll visit Messaoud Sfar's tomb. 527 00:29:10,652 --> 00:29:13,405 He always advises me well. I'll return soon. 528 00:29:13,864 --> 00:29:14,865 - Hey, cousin! 529 00:29:15,365 --> 00:29:17,534 What if I kill the postman? 530 00:29:18,285 --> 00:29:22,289 Sometimes, killng one person can sort everything out. 531 00:29:22,497 --> 00:29:24,208 That way, no letter. 532 00:29:24,625 --> 00:29:26,293 - Thank you, but no. 533 00:29:26,501 --> 00:29:29,630 Simply guard the house for me. 534 00:29:29,838 --> 00:29:34,176 - Messaoud Sfar was the rabbi's ancestor. 535 00:29:34,384 --> 00:29:36,595 A doctor and a saint. 536 00:29:36,803 --> 00:29:40,724 My master visits his tomb every year and this time I'm going too. 537 00:29:40,933 --> 00:29:42,309 - Salam aleikoum! 538 00:29:42,517 --> 00:29:44,436 - Shalom aleichem! 539 00:29:49,691 --> 00:29:51,443 - Hi-han! Salam aleikoum. 540 00:29:51,652 --> 00:29:52,945 - Aleikoum salam. 541 00:29:53,153 --> 00:29:55,531 What's your master's name? - Poor fool! 542 00:29:55,739 --> 00:29:57,574 He's sheikh Mohammed Sfar. 543 00:29:57,783 --> 00:30:00,118 - Hold on... an arab called Sfar? 544 00:30:00,327 --> 00:30:03,747 - You ass! Sfar means "yellow" in Arabic. 545 00:30:03,956 --> 00:30:07,292 Like a coppersmith's flowers of sulphur. 546 00:30:07,501 --> 00:30:09,670 We're off to the tomb of Messaoud Sfar, our ancestor. 547 00:30:10,837 --> 00:30:11,880 - So are we! 548 00:30:12,089 --> 00:30:15,217 - Messaoud Sfar was a great sufi, a saint. 549 00:30:15,425 --> 00:30:18,512 - Rubbish! Messaoud Sfar was a rabbi. 550 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:19,930 - Take that back! 551 00:30:28,021 --> 00:30:29,898 - The animals seem tired. 552 00:30:30,107 --> 00:30:32,693 - Yes, let's rest. 553 00:30:32,901 --> 00:30:36,029 -Adios, mi amor... 554 00:30:43,996 --> 00:30:45,789 - He's a strange donkey. 555 00:30:45,998 --> 00:30:49,459 He can read my music and sing in three languages. 556 00:30:49,668 --> 00:30:50,669 - Incredible. 557 00:30:50,878 --> 00:30:53,630 - No, it's a problem. He sings off key. 558 00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,592 Even with the gift of speech, a donkey is a donkey. 559 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,927 - Do we educate everyone? 560 00:30:59,136 --> 00:31:01,805 - Yes. Even donkeys. But without illusions. 561 00:31:02,014 --> 00:31:02,764 - You know what? 562 00:31:02,973 --> 00:31:06,018 We should live like hermits in a cave 563 00:31:06,226 --> 00:31:08,228 with my books and your songs. 564 00:31:08,437 --> 00:31:10,856 - No, Allah would not be pleased. 565 00:31:11,064 --> 00:31:14,860 We'd be like Jonah, preferring things to people. 566 00:31:15,068 --> 00:31:18,280 - So? Can't we say we've served others? 567 00:31:18,488 --> 00:31:21,200 We are old and want peace. 568 00:31:21,408 --> 00:31:22,201 - No. 569 00:31:22,409 --> 00:31:24,161 - Believe me, brother, 570 00:31:24,369 --> 00:31:27,706 I don't want to go home. 571 00:31:27,915 --> 00:31:30,876 - Why not? - I was a rabbi 30 years. 572 00:31:31,084 --> 00:31:34,087 Then, by mail, without a word of comfort, 573 00:31:34,296 --> 00:31:38,300 they write from Paris to say I'm the rabbi of nothing. 574 00:31:38,508 --> 00:31:40,177 - Show me the letter. 575 00:31:40,385 --> 00:31:42,095 - Go ahead, open it. 576 00:31:42,304 --> 00:31:44,514 - You can read unopened letters? 577 00:31:44,723 --> 00:31:45,807 - That one I can. 578 00:31:46,016 --> 00:31:49,519 - You thought God had abandoned you. 579 00:31:49,728 --> 00:31:52,189 And that's a big mistake. Listen. 580 00:31:52,397 --> 00:31:53,357 "Dear Rabbi, 581 00:31:53,565 --> 00:31:56,985 "we inform you that you obtained a mark of 582 00:31:57,194 --> 00:31:58,362 "10.5 in the dictation." 583 00:31:58,612 --> 00:31:59,321 - Oh! 584 00:31:59,530 --> 00:32:01,907 - You did a dictation? - Read, brother! 585 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:05,118 - "10.5 means you have the required level." 586 00:32:05,327 --> 00:32:07,371 "The Consistory is proud of you 587 00:32:07,579 --> 00:32:10,999 "and hopes other rabbis will follow your lead, 588 00:32:11,208 --> 00:32:13,794 "rather than reject French like asses." 589 00:32:14,002 --> 00:32:15,337 - It says that? 590 00:32:15,546 --> 00:32:17,839 - No, I added the "asses". 591 00:32:18,048 --> 00:32:19,675 - So I'm still a rabbi! 592 00:32:19,883 --> 00:32:22,594 Let me give you a hug! 593 00:32:22,803 --> 00:32:25,597 Let's pray! - Mind my glasses! 594 00:32:26,515 --> 00:32:27,683 - So they prayed, 595 00:32:27,891 --> 00:32:31,270 one facing Jersusalem, the other Mecca. They danced, they sang, 596 00:32:31,478 --> 00:32:34,106 they laughed, drunker than if they'd drunk. 597 00:32:34,314 --> 00:32:36,859 Amidst this euphoria, I felt 598 00:32:37,067 --> 00:32:40,696 it'd be nice to get the power of speech back. 599 00:32:41,154 --> 00:32:42,072 But nothing. 600 00:32:51,290 --> 00:32:53,834 He doesn't complete his pilgrimage 601 00:32:54,042 --> 00:32:57,254 but hurries back to Algiers to tell people the good news. 602 00:32:57,462 --> 00:33:01,091 - My daughter, my cousin, great news! 603 00:33:03,010 --> 00:33:05,220 - Put your back into it! Open the crate! 604 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,640 Just the man. Lend a hand. 605 00:33:08,849 --> 00:33:11,768 - What are you doing? - Inspecting your books. 606 00:33:11,977 --> 00:33:13,437 - They're prayer books! 607 00:33:13,645 --> 00:33:15,063 - Russian ones. - So? 608 00:33:15,272 --> 00:33:17,065 - Do you know Russian Jews? 609 00:33:17,274 --> 00:33:18,775 - They're Jews. 610 00:33:18,984 --> 00:33:20,360 - We'll see about that. 611 00:33:20,569 --> 00:33:23,113 - We can put the books in our synagogue. 612 00:33:23,322 --> 00:33:25,824 They'll look pretty alongside ours. 613 00:33:26,033 --> 00:33:28,619 - Not until I take a look! - Master, 614 00:33:28,827 --> 00:33:30,287 what do you fear? 615 00:33:30,495 --> 00:33:32,164 - I'm just defending myself. 616 00:33:32,372 --> 00:33:33,457 - Against what? 617 00:33:33,665 --> 00:33:35,709 - Haven't you heard of Communism? 618 00:33:35,918 --> 00:33:37,377 Open it up! 619 00:33:42,633 --> 00:33:43,425 - A corpse! 620 00:33:43,634 --> 00:33:44,343 - A Russian corpse! 621 00:33:48,305 --> 00:33:49,765 - Do we prey? 622 00:33:49,973 --> 00:33:52,226 - Do you speak Ashkenazi? 623 00:33:52,434 --> 00:33:54,603 - Hey may not even be Jewish! 624 00:33:54,811 --> 00:33:56,813 - He's alive, you hear? 625 00:33:57,022 --> 00:33:58,899 This guy is alive! 626 00:33:59,107 --> 00:34:00,651 A-l-ive. Alive. 627 00:34:02,152 --> 00:34:03,695 - Shut up, will you? 628 00:34:03,904 --> 00:34:05,155 - I'll get other rabbis! 629 00:34:05,364 --> 00:34:07,241 - Bring some Cinzano too! 630 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,371 - In no time, the room was like a Sanhedrin. 631 00:34:12,579 --> 00:34:15,749 10 rabbis, a circumciser, 10 students and onlookers. 632 00:34:15,958 --> 00:34:17,584 A hen. 633 00:34:18,335 --> 00:34:20,671 Confusion in numbers. 634 00:34:20,879 --> 00:34:23,423 Fear of the police, of everything. 635 00:34:23,632 --> 00:34:26,134 - We need to know if the dead man has a foreskin 636 00:34:26,343 --> 00:34:29,846 to decide on the right burial ritual. 637 00:34:30,055 --> 00:34:32,224 Bless the heavens I'm here. 638 00:34:32,432 --> 00:34:35,185 My diagnosis 639 00:34:35,394 --> 00:34:36,854 is worth an official rabbi's certificate. 640 00:34:37,062 --> 00:34:40,315 - What if he's Christian? You call a priest? 641 00:34:40,524 --> 00:34:42,818 They'll call it a ritual murder! 642 00:34:43,026 --> 00:34:45,612 - We could do the Christian ritual. 643 00:34:45,821 --> 00:34:48,073 - You know how to do a Catholic burial? 644 00:34:48,282 --> 00:34:49,700 - I know some Latin. 645 00:34:49,908 --> 00:34:52,244 - You'll say the Kaddish in Latin? 646 00:34:52,452 --> 00:34:56,206 - Maybe he's Jewish! The crate was full of Talmuds. 647 00:34:56,415 --> 00:34:59,293 - How does that help? Jewish or not, he's Russian! 648 00:34:59,501 --> 00:35:02,629 Do Jews there bury their dead like us? 649 00:35:02,838 --> 00:35:04,423 - Of course, master. 650 00:35:04,631 --> 00:35:07,926 - Taking dictation in French makes you a genius! 651 00:35:08,135 --> 00:35:10,470 Close it up, 652 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:12,389 and ship him back to Russia. 653 00:35:12,598 --> 00:35:15,017 - We have to take the books out first. 654 00:35:16,268 --> 00:35:17,477 - May God curse 655 00:35:17,686 --> 00:35:18,604 he who leaves a man unburied! 656 00:35:22,274 --> 00:35:24,484 It's like finding Moses in his basket 657 00:35:24,693 --> 00:35:27,196 and putting him back on the Nile! 658 00:35:27,404 --> 00:35:30,240 - We'll send him back where he comes from. 659 00:35:30,449 --> 00:35:33,076 - Out of the question. - They all agree 660 00:35:33,285 --> 00:35:34,995 - Yes! 661 00:35:36,496 --> 00:35:39,124 He's not even dead. I'll show you! 662 00:35:40,918 --> 00:35:41,877 - Oh! 663 00:35:43,962 --> 00:35:44,755 - Oh! 664 00:35:49,968 --> 00:35:53,764 - One of the undead! Shut him up in his crate! 665 00:35:58,310 --> 00:36:00,145 (In Russian) 666 00:36:02,940 --> 00:36:07,194 - They can't understand him, just like me. 667 00:36:10,113 --> 00:36:11,281 - Miaou. Miaou. 668 00:36:11,490 --> 00:36:12,199 Miaou! 669 00:36:14,117 --> 00:36:15,911 They don't know how to listen. 670 00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:18,330 - Doesn't anyone speak Russian here? 671 00:36:18,539 --> 00:36:21,208 - I understand you. - A talking cat! 672 00:36:21,416 --> 00:36:24,753 - No human has listened to me in ages! 673 00:36:24,962 --> 00:36:26,171 No one understands me. 674 00:36:26,380 --> 00:36:29,800 - That's a pity. You can't be my interpreter then? 675 00:36:30,008 --> 00:36:32,761 - No, but we can talk. That can help. 676 00:36:32,970 --> 00:36:35,222 - These people, this house. 677 00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:36,598 Is this Algeria? 678 00:36:36,807 --> 00:36:39,226 - Yes, this is Algiers. In Algeria. 679 00:36:39,434 --> 00:36:40,435 - That's good. 680 00:36:45,649 --> 00:36:47,901 - Give him air! - He's not well. 681 00:36:48,110 --> 00:36:50,112 - The Russian's not well. 682 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,738 - I just said that. - Out with you! 683 00:36:53,574 --> 00:36:55,659 - We will sit in the yard. 684 00:36:57,202 --> 00:36:59,037 How's our survivor? 685 00:36:59,246 --> 00:37:02,374 I have an idea how we can communicate. 686 00:37:02,583 --> 00:37:04,626 We'll use the prayers. 687 00:37:05,335 --> 00:37:06,920 Hey, Michel Strogoff! 688 00:37:07,129 --> 00:37:09,548 Do you understand these prayers? 689 00:37:10,132 --> 00:37:11,717 - Mode... oni... 690 00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:12,843 - Lefaneha. 691 00:37:13,051 --> 00:37:13,927 - Lefaneho. 692 00:37:14,136 --> 00:37:16,388 - Terrible pronunciation! 693 00:37:16,597 --> 00:37:17,681 Shalom aleichem. 694 00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:18,849 - Shalom oleichem. 695 00:37:19,057 --> 00:37:21,018 - Oh, la la, la la! 696 00:37:21,226 --> 00:37:24,855 - You understand? - He uses O's for A's in the prayers. 697 00:37:25,063 --> 00:37:26,481 - Try talking in Hebrew. 698 00:37:26,690 --> 00:37:28,859 - No one speaks Hebrew, daughter. 699 00:37:29,067 --> 00:37:31,570 Ladino and Castilian are languages. 700 00:37:31,778 --> 00:37:33,530 Hebrew is just for prayers. 701 00:37:36,742 --> 00:37:38,744 - Zlabya! Do your chores. 702 00:37:38,952 --> 00:37:41,496 Get inside, the boy needs air. 703 00:37:41,705 --> 00:37:44,291 Are you hypnotised, or what? Go inside! 704 00:37:45,417 --> 00:37:46,710 - What's his problem? 705 00:37:46,919 --> 00:37:50,005 - He needs my help! Can I refuse to help a fugitive? 706 00:37:50,214 --> 00:37:53,217 - What fugitive? 707 00:37:53,425 --> 00:37:56,386 Think he was stupid enough to flee his country in a crate? 708 00:37:56,595 --> 00:37:58,305 - So he was playing hide and seek? 709 00:37:59,598 --> 00:38:03,435 - What are you doing? You're not smart, huh? 710 00:38:03,644 --> 00:38:05,646 To fill your pockets with paints instead of sandwiches. 711 00:38:05,854 --> 00:38:08,357 - Dad! 712 00:38:08,565 --> 00:38:10,567 Take him seriously. 713 00:38:10,776 --> 00:38:13,612 Look... It seems to be moving. 714 00:39:23,765 --> 00:39:25,392 - That's it, he's mad. 715 00:39:25,601 --> 00:39:28,437 He left Russia to lose himself in Africa. 716 00:39:28,645 --> 00:39:29,521 - Da, da! 717 00:39:29,730 --> 00:39:31,523 - Vastenov. Vastenov. 718 00:39:31,732 --> 00:39:32,608 - Vastenov? 719 00:39:32,816 --> 00:39:34,443 That's a Russia name. 720 00:39:34,651 --> 00:39:37,696 A Russian living in Algiers? - Da! Da! 721 00:39:37,905 --> 00:39:39,281 Vastenov! 722 00:39:39,489 --> 00:39:41,408 - A Russian? In Algiers? Ha, ha! 723 00:39:41,617 --> 00:39:44,578 A needle in a haystack! 724 00:39:44,786 --> 00:39:47,539 - Go on, Dad! You know people, 725 00:39:47,748 --> 00:39:49,208 you'll find him. 726 00:39:49,416 --> 00:39:52,169 - Zlabya thinks I know everyone... 727 00:39:52,377 --> 00:39:55,130 Surely someone here can help me. 728 00:39:55,339 --> 00:39:57,591 - Try the Russian church. 729 00:39:57,799 --> 00:39:58,884 Miaou, miaou. 730 00:39:59,092 --> 00:40:00,677 - Stop mewing, will you! 731 00:40:00,886 --> 00:40:03,597 Let's try the Russian church. 732 00:40:03,805 --> 00:40:05,557 - What a brilliant idea. 733 00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:12,397 - Father? 734 00:40:13,315 --> 00:40:14,650 - Come in, come in. 735 00:40:14,858 --> 00:40:16,610 - I'm Rabbi Sfar, 736 00:40:16,818 --> 00:40:19,321 from the synagogue near the harbour. 737 00:40:19,530 --> 00:40:21,281 Sorry to bother you, 738 00:40:21,490 --> 00:40:24,701 but I need someone who speaks Russian. 739 00:40:24,910 --> 00:40:26,537 - But I'm Catholic. 740 00:40:26,745 --> 00:40:28,288 - In an Orthodox church? 741 00:40:28,497 --> 00:40:31,959 - The place was abandoned so my diocese sent me here. 742 00:40:32,167 --> 00:40:34,962 - So you don't know any Russians? 743 00:40:35,170 --> 00:40:36,755 - I do know one. 744 00:40:36,964 --> 00:40:39,049 But he prays without me. 745 00:40:39,258 --> 00:40:42,344 He's a rather extravagant fellow, Mr Vastenov. 746 00:40:42,553 --> 00:40:43,512 Mr Vastenov. 747 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:46,139 - Are you joking? 748 00:40:46,348 --> 00:40:48,225 - Not at all. - How can I find him? 749 00:40:48,433 --> 00:40:49,101 - He's here. 750 00:40:49,309 --> 00:40:50,227 - Here? - Look. 751 00:40:50,435 --> 00:40:52,896 He arrives every day in a fancy car, 752 00:40:53,105 --> 00:40:55,023 accompanied by a beautiful woman. 753 00:40:55,232 --> 00:40:58,610 He must be depraved to pray an hour a day! 754 00:40:58,819 --> 00:41:00,863 - Ah! God! 755 00:41:02,906 --> 00:41:05,784 You'll never see me in church again! 756 00:41:06,285 --> 00:41:08,871 You let Tsar die! 757 00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:11,123 I will not come back! 758 00:41:11,331 --> 00:41:14,710 - It's good to berate the Lord, my son. 759 00:41:14,918 --> 00:41:16,795 It shows you believe in Him. 760 00:41:17,004 --> 00:41:18,005 - Ah! 761 00:41:18,213 --> 00:41:21,300 - You look retired. - Retired? 762 00:41:21,675 --> 00:41:24,469 I have sexual activity! 763 00:41:24,678 --> 00:41:25,554 Night and day! 764 00:41:26,138 --> 00:41:27,806 I run, swim... 765 00:41:28,015 --> 00:41:30,392 - I'm sure you do. 766 00:41:30,601 --> 00:41:34,062 This is Rabbi Sfar. He wishes to meet you. 767 00:41:34,271 --> 00:41:38,442 - I never refuse to drink with new friends! 768 00:41:43,363 --> 00:41:45,157 - Urchins, rabbi? - Thank you. 769 00:41:45,365 --> 00:41:46,325 I'm not allowed them. 770 00:41:50,204 --> 00:41:50,829 - Delicious. 771 00:41:51,413 --> 00:41:52,623 - And the murder? 772 00:41:52,831 --> 00:41:53,957 - Pardon me? 773 00:41:54,166 --> 00:41:56,293 - You never killed someone? 774 00:41:56,501 --> 00:41:59,087 - My son. - You neither? 775 00:41:59,296 --> 00:42:01,006 What I miss most 776 00:42:01,215 --> 00:42:02,925 since exile 777 00:42:03,133 --> 00:42:05,093 is murder! 778 00:42:06,094 --> 00:42:07,429 I'm very bored. 779 00:42:07,638 --> 00:42:09,431 Luckily, there's 780 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:10,265 love. 781 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,644 - The love of God? 782 00:42:15,687 --> 00:42:18,315 I love my late wife. 783 00:42:18,857 --> 00:42:22,069 I love my daughter, my cat and the Torah. 784 00:42:23,070 --> 00:42:26,281 - I love alcohol, women, my car, tobacco, 785 00:42:26,490 --> 00:42:27,658 and literature! 786 00:42:27,866 --> 00:42:29,159 - That's for 787 00:42:29,368 --> 00:42:30,369 the young. 788 00:42:30,577 --> 00:42:33,872 You act young to avoid looking at your life. 789 00:42:34,081 --> 00:42:37,751 The time given to us is like a stone thrown in the air. 790 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,546 It always falls back down. 791 00:42:40,754 --> 00:42:42,839 - Hrmmm... explain. 792 00:42:43,048 --> 00:42:45,842 - When I drive a car, I watch the road. 793 00:42:47,803 --> 00:42:49,388 - That's sad! 794 00:42:50,264 --> 00:42:50,847 Oh! 795 00:42:51,723 --> 00:42:52,558 Let's drink. 796 00:43:02,609 --> 00:43:03,694 - Get out of here! 797 00:43:04,444 --> 00:43:05,571 Idol worshippers! 798 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,740 - Whoa, whoa! What's going on? 799 00:43:08,949 --> 00:43:13,036 - The undead fellow has decided to paint your daughter! 800 00:43:13,245 --> 00:43:14,079 - So? 801 00:43:14,288 --> 00:43:15,163 - "So"? 802 00:43:15,372 --> 00:43:17,583 The second commandment forbids it! 803 00:43:17,791 --> 00:43:20,836 "You shall have no other God but me. 804 00:43:21,044 --> 00:43:22,963 "You shall make no carved image..." 805 00:43:23,171 --> 00:43:24,047 - I know it. 806 00:43:26,758 --> 00:43:28,260 It's a nice painting. 807 00:43:28,468 --> 00:43:30,304 Surely we can let them carry on. 808 00:43:30,512 --> 00:43:31,263 - Right... 809 00:43:31,471 --> 00:43:34,349 He'll be sleeping with her next! 810 00:43:34,558 --> 00:43:36,560 - Enough! Rabbi, I respect you, 811 00:43:36,768 --> 00:43:39,062 but this is my house. 812 00:43:39,271 --> 00:43:40,230 Go home. 813 00:43:40,439 --> 00:43:43,317 - Abraham, you let a child order me around? 814 00:43:44,234 --> 00:43:46,778 I demand you burn that painting, 815 00:43:46,987 --> 00:43:49,323 and punish your daughter harshly! 816 00:43:49,531 --> 00:43:50,991 - Yes, women must obey! 817 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,743 - Get out, you old wreck! 818 00:43:52,951 --> 00:43:55,037 And take your student too! 819 00:43:55,245 --> 00:43:59,416 Find a fiancee instead of hanging out with an old man. 820 00:43:59,625 --> 00:44:02,628 He's sweating! He can't look me in the eye! 821 00:44:02,836 --> 00:44:04,254 Get out of my house. 822 00:44:06,590 --> 00:44:08,634 - Who's that? - A Russian. 823 00:44:08,842 --> 00:44:10,052 - You collect them! 824 00:44:10,260 --> 00:44:12,930 - What's so funny? My daughter shaming me? 825 00:44:13,138 --> 00:44:15,307 - Yes, she's wonderful! 826 00:44:15,516 --> 00:44:18,560 I've never seen a Jew angry before. 827 00:44:18,769 --> 00:44:21,271 In Russia, always with head lowered. 828 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,857 Your daughter would scare Cossacks! 829 00:44:26,944 --> 00:44:29,696 You're a fine specimen of Jew. 830 00:44:29,905 --> 00:44:30,447 - Oh! 831 00:44:30,656 --> 00:44:32,407 - Just watch her from afar. 832 00:44:32,616 --> 00:44:35,369 Translate the Russian and stay away from her. 833 00:44:35,577 --> 00:44:36,453 - He's Vastenov? 834 00:44:37,538 --> 00:44:39,581 You found him? - Vastenov! 835 00:44:39,790 --> 00:44:42,584 - Let's go somewhere where we men can talk. 836 00:44:42,793 --> 00:44:43,877 - And my portrait? 837 00:44:49,883 --> 00:44:52,219 - So why's this Russian in Algiers? 838 00:44:52,427 --> 00:44:53,512 - He's a Jew. 839 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:55,222 - We noticed. 840 00:44:55,430 --> 00:44:57,015 - For us, in Russia, 841 00:44:57,224 --> 00:44:59,434 a Jew is not a Russian. 842 00:44:59,643 --> 00:45:01,019 It stays a Jew. 843 00:45:01,436 --> 00:45:02,729 - What's the difference? 844 00:45:02,938 --> 00:45:04,439 - It changes everything. 845 00:45:04,648 --> 00:45:07,401 A Russian, you challenge to a duel. 846 00:45:07,609 --> 00:45:09,611 A Jew, you burn. 847 00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:11,697 A Russian, you seduce his wife. 848 00:45:11,905 --> 00:45:14,283 A Jew, you take. - Even since 849 00:45:14,491 --> 00:45:15,659 the revolution? 850 00:45:17,286 --> 00:45:19,621 - You have a sense of humour! I like it! 851 00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:20,914 - Can you ask him 852 00:45:21,123 --> 00:45:23,250 what he wants? 853 00:45:23,458 --> 00:45:25,460 (In Russian) 854 00:45:33,594 --> 00:45:34,761 What did he say? 855 00:45:34,970 --> 00:45:36,638 - He has to go to Ethiopia. 856 00:45:36,847 --> 00:45:38,682 - Tell them I'm not mad. 857 00:45:38,891 --> 00:45:43,228 - He's a madman who doesn't know geography. 858 00:45:43,437 --> 00:45:47,608 - In Ethiopia live descendants of Queen of Sheba and King of Solomon. 859 00:45:47,816 --> 00:45:52,362 - He says: "Some negroes there are Jews too." 860 00:45:52,571 --> 00:45:54,740 - A Zionist! He wants to found a Jewish land! 861 00:45:54,948 --> 00:45:57,868 - I want to paint that vast country. - A land without people, 862 00:45:58,076 --> 00:45:59,661 for a people without land! 863 00:45:59,870 --> 00:46:03,999 The Jewish Agency sent him. We must help. Let's go to Ethiopia! 864 00:46:04,208 --> 00:46:06,210 Just imagine: African Jews! 865 00:46:06,418 --> 00:46:08,003 - We're African Jews, my son. 866 00:46:08,212 --> 00:46:09,922 - I mean Black Africa. 867 00:46:10,130 --> 00:46:13,091 - Black Jews? It's a sin to say that, my son. 868 00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:15,052 - Abraham! You're a racist! 869 00:46:15,260 --> 00:46:18,263 - I'm just saying no one ever saw a black Jew. 870 00:46:18,972 --> 00:46:20,516 - I'm not shocked. 871 00:46:20,724 --> 00:46:23,477 - He says its natural for him. 872 00:46:23,685 --> 00:46:25,854 -Perhaps in Russia. 873 00:46:26,063 --> 00:46:28,357 But in Africa, we are the Jews. 874 00:46:28,565 --> 00:46:30,067 - Bravo! Well said. 875 00:46:32,694 --> 00:46:34,530 - He asks how you know 876 00:46:34,738 --> 00:46:36,740 that Moses was white. 877 00:46:36,949 --> 00:46:40,827 - He's right. What proves our ancestors had fair skin? 878 00:46:41,036 --> 00:46:45,082 - Blacks have slavery, Jews have pogroms. 879 00:46:45,290 --> 00:46:48,085 It's a lot to bear. No one could ever deal with both! 880 00:46:48,293 --> 00:46:50,045 - I have proof for what I say. 881 00:46:50,254 --> 00:46:53,090 - Colour photos of Moses? 882 00:46:53,298 --> 00:46:56,969 - Better: A Russian Communist Party report. 883 00:46:57,177 --> 00:47:01,306 It wants to exile the Jews without creating an uproar in Europe. 884 00:47:01,515 --> 00:47:02,474 - A fine plan! 885 00:47:02,683 --> 00:47:05,561 - They found black Jews in Ethiopia. 886 00:47:05,769 --> 00:47:08,897 The Falasha. But something else interested them there. 887 00:47:09,106 --> 00:47:13,277 I didn't just bring paints with me. 888 00:47:14,361 --> 00:47:17,865 "... found a territory in Ethiopia the size of a country 889 00:47:18,073 --> 00:47:19,867 "where the inhabitants 890 00:47:20,075 --> 00:47:23,620 "speak Aramaic and practice strict Judaism." 891 00:47:23,829 --> 00:47:26,331 An authentic document, that's for sure. 892 00:47:26,540 --> 00:47:27,332 - Incredible! 893 00:47:28,959 --> 00:47:31,044 - I can finance the whole expedition! 894 00:47:31,253 --> 00:47:32,796 - You'll see giraffes as well? 895 00:47:33,005 --> 00:47:36,049 - With me, you have an excellent guide. 896 00:47:36,258 --> 00:47:39,469 I could draw a map of brothels in Africa. 897 00:47:39,678 --> 00:47:41,388 I know many. 898 00:47:41,597 --> 00:47:44,308 - One second more, and I'll go to hell. 899 00:47:44,516 --> 00:47:46,059 Isaac! Abraham! Come along! 900 00:47:46,268 --> 00:47:49,021 - I'm not seeking adventure. I'm just listening. 901 00:47:49,229 --> 00:47:50,480 - Don't worry. 902 00:47:50,689 --> 00:47:53,650 We shall travel very comfortably. 903 00:47:53,859 --> 00:47:55,944 Even an old man can come. 904 00:47:56,153 --> 00:47:57,196 - What old man? 905 00:47:57,404 --> 00:48:01,533 - Come, or I'll pour lead in your ears to drown out the voice of temptation! 906 00:48:01,742 --> 00:48:03,911 - Mr Vastenov, why did your compatriot, and my fellow Jew, 907 00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:07,289 have your name on him? Why you? 908 00:48:07,497 --> 00:48:11,126 - Because I alone possess something 909 00:48:11,335 --> 00:48:15,464 that can allow a Jewish painter to cross Africa. 910 00:48:24,389 --> 00:48:25,641 Voila! 911 00:48:27,267 --> 00:48:29,853 - A 1925 Citroen half-track! 912 00:48:30,062 --> 00:48:31,730 What a beauty! 913 00:48:36,902 --> 00:48:37,861 May I? 914 00:48:52,417 --> 00:48:54,253 Let me see to her. 915 00:48:54,461 --> 00:48:56,630 In a week, she'll be as good as new. 916 00:48:56,838 --> 00:48:58,799 If you want, I can drive her. 917 00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:11,395 - Dad! 918 00:49:12,479 --> 00:49:13,397 Papa! 919 00:49:13,605 --> 00:49:15,899 - Lion Malka will stay here. He'll watch over you. 920 00:49:16,108 --> 00:49:17,484 Everything will be fine. 921 00:49:17,693 --> 00:49:20,112 You don't want to stay with him? 922 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,406 - Father, I'm fond of Malka. 923 00:49:22,614 --> 00:49:24,867 But I could have come too. 924 00:49:25,075 --> 00:49:27,703 This voyage is an initiation! 925 00:49:27,911 --> 00:49:29,538 An incredible opportunity! 926 00:49:29,746 --> 00:49:32,082 It's not fair only you should go. 927 00:49:32,291 --> 00:49:33,834 - That's the way life is. 928 00:49:34,042 --> 00:49:36,003 Malka, pass me the salt, will you? 929 00:49:38,755 --> 00:49:41,341 - What are you painting on my Citroen? 930 00:49:42,467 --> 00:49:44,344 - The symbol of Jerusalem. 931 00:49:44,553 --> 00:49:46,388 It will bring us luck. 932 00:49:46,597 --> 00:49:49,141 - lmpossible! If you do that, 933 00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:51,560 we'll be taken for Jews! 934 00:49:52,227 --> 00:49:53,937 - And so? 935 00:49:54,146 --> 00:49:55,480 - Get rid of it! 936 00:49:55,689 --> 00:49:56,565 - No. 937 00:49:57,024 --> 00:49:57,858 I insist. 938 00:49:58,066 --> 00:50:02,112 - Enough. I only set off under the Russian flag. 939 00:50:03,447 --> 00:50:06,950 Here's what we'll do, we'll blend the two flags. 940 00:50:08,076 --> 00:50:09,578 - Good idea, cat. 941 00:50:12,915 --> 00:50:14,625 - You're leaving me too? 942 00:50:18,503 --> 00:50:21,924 Don't be sad, mistress, I'll be back soon. 943 00:50:23,592 --> 00:50:25,886 - Do you miss Rabbi Sfar? 944 00:50:26,094 --> 00:50:26,887 - Oh, no. 945 00:50:27,095 --> 00:50:30,599 He must be home celebrating with his family by now. 946 00:50:30,807 --> 00:50:32,935 We'll see him next year. 947 00:50:33,143 --> 00:50:35,896 Now, make the most of the silence. 948 00:50:36,104 --> 00:50:38,273 - Yes, but it's so lonely... 949 00:50:38,482 --> 00:50:42,402 - No wonder you don't understand music, my loyal donkey. 950 00:50:42,611 --> 00:50:45,531 You never respect the moments of silence. 951 00:50:46,907 --> 00:50:48,242 - What's all that 952 00:50:48,450 --> 00:50:49,952 dust over there? 953 00:51:07,844 --> 00:51:08,887 - Cousin! 954 00:51:09,096 --> 00:51:10,889 Don't we look good? 955 00:51:12,808 --> 00:51:13,892 - Abraham! 956 00:51:14,101 --> 00:51:16,186 What's that ridiculous flag? 957 00:51:16,395 --> 00:51:18,230 - It's the Russian Empire! 958 00:51:18,438 --> 00:51:19,815 - And Jerusalem! 959 00:51:20,023 --> 00:51:22,150 - Coming to invade Africa with us? 960 00:51:22,359 --> 00:51:23,902 - What's going on here? 961 00:51:24,111 --> 00:51:24,862 - Listen, 962 00:51:25,070 --> 00:51:26,780 we're off on a crazy adventure. 963 00:51:26,989 --> 00:51:29,950 Don't worry, the madman's paying. 964 00:51:30,158 --> 00:51:31,159 - Ah... 965 00:51:32,369 --> 00:51:35,080 - We need you anyhow. You can't refuse. 966 00:51:35,289 --> 00:51:39,167 - Crossing Africa to find Jerusalem? Preposterous! 967 00:51:39,376 --> 00:51:41,962 But if I can learn some new songs, I'll come. 968 00:51:42,170 --> 00:51:45,132 - We're driving a genuine Citroen half-track! 969 00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:49,261 She did the Croisiere Noire with Audouin-Dubreuil. 970 00:51:49,469 --> 00:51:51,555 - Let's hope she's ready to take to the road again. 971 00:51:51,763 --> 00:51:55,642 - Look at this marvel! How much fuel does the tank contain? 972 00:51:55,851 --> 00:51:56,894 Go on, say it! 973 00:51:57,102 --> 00:51:58,312 180 Litres. 974 00:51:58,520 --> 00:51:59,563 Can you believe it? 975 00:51:59,771 --> 00:52:01,440 - Very nice. 976 00:52:01,648 --> 00:52:04,610 But why not take a ship to get to Ethiopia? 977 00:52:04,818 --> 00:52:07,863 - No. We're prefer our truck. 978 00:52:19,041 --> 00:52:20,417 - The painter is happy. 979 00:52:20,626 --> 00:52:23,378 The Star of David shines on the flag. 980 00:52:23,587 --> 00:52:26,673 We let him buy art materials too. 981 00:52:26,882 --> 00:52:29,384 He paints countless landscapes. 982 00:52:29,593 --> 00:52:32,513 This is the desert. What can you paint here? 983 00:52:32,721 --> 00:52:34,181 - The colour. 984 00:52:34,389 --> 00:52:37,184 - It's all blue. That's dull. 985 00:52:37,392 --> 00:52:39,811 - I can use other colours too. 986 00:52:40,020 --> 00:52:42,564 And I can swap the dune's calm lines 987 00:52:42,773 --> 00:52:44,149 for something else. 988 00:52:44,358 --> 00:52:47,152 - Why come here to reinvent everything? 989 00:52:47,361 --> 00:52:50,614 You could have done exactly the same in Russia. 990 00:52:50,822 --> 00:52:53,033 - No. Not exactly. 991 00:52:53,242 --> 00:52:56,495 - I prefer looking at nature than your daubs. 992 00:52:56,703 --> 00:52:59,831 - Me too, that's why I observe closely, 993 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,375 before I begin. 994 00:53:01,583 --> 00:53:03,544 I work with real things. 995 00:53:03,752 --> 00:53:06,547 - What does it feel like when you paint? 996 00:53:06,755 --> 00:53:09,508 - Like you, when you devour your prey. 997 00:53:09,716 --> 00:53:11,552 It was prettier running free, 998 00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,720 but you can't help it. 999 00:53:13,929 --> 00:53:15,889 You sink your teeth into it. 1000 00:53:16,098 --> 00:53:19,852 - Ah, I understand. I think I saw a mouse. 1001 00:53:27,943 --> 00:53:30,821 - See... That belt operates the engine. 1002 00:53:31,029 --> 00:53:31,905 - And that? 1003 00:53:32,114 --> 00:53:33,532 - This? 1004 00:53:34,992 --> 00:53:36,660 This is the radiator. 1005 00:53:37,744 --> 00:53:40,038 - Tell the rabbi his cat's not well. 1006 00:53:40,247 --> 00:53:40,998 - Huh? 1007 00:53:41,206 --> 00:53:45,252 The painter says this is a cat that talks. 1008 00:53:45,460 --> 00:53:46,712 - How does he know? 1009 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,965 - He claims that ever since he got to Algeria, 1010 00:53:50,173 --> 00:53:52,467 the animal never stopped talking. 1011 00:53:52,676 --> 00:53:54,469 - He used to talk to me once. 1012 00:53:54,678 --> 00:53:57,222 Maybe he's chosen a new master. 1013 00:53:57,431 --> 00:53:59,266 - Not praying for your cat? 1014 00:53:59,474 --> 00:54:01,852 - When my wide died, I prayed and the Almighty did nothing. 1015 00:54:02,060 --> 00:54:03,604 He won't lift a finger for a cat. 1016 00:54:06,481 --> 00:54:07,649 - Enough! 1017 00:54:08,233 --> 00:54:09,610 It's just a cat. 1018 00:54:09,818 --> 00:54:11,403 Bury it, and... 1019 00:54:11,612 --> 00:54:13,238 - No! - He's important. 1020 00:54:13,447 --> 00:54:16,116 - You can't replace it like an old truck. 1021 00:54:16,325 --> 00:54:19,077 For us, cats and donkeys are important. 1022 00:54:19,286 --> 00:54:21,496 - Because they last a long time. 1023 00:54:21,705 --> 00:54:24,124 How can we treat scorpion stings? 1024 00:54:25,876 --> 00:54:29,588 - I know the chief of a tribe near the Tanezrouft. 1025 00:54:29,796 --> 00:54:32,049 Their camp isn't far away. 1026 00:54:32,257 --> 00:54:34,384 Their marabout works wonders. 1027 00:54:34,593 --> 00:54:35,552 - A friend? 1028 00:54:35,761 --> 00:54:37,971 - No, but I think he respects me. 1029 00:54:47,689 --> 00:54:50,442 Be careful while we're among them! 1030 00:54:50,651 --> 00:54:53,111 They're very easily offended. 1031 00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,864 - What particular topic of conversation 1032 00:54:56,073 --> 00:54:57,699 must we avoid? 1033 00:54:57,908 --> 00:55:01,328 - Don't talk about religion. They're fanatics! 1034 00:55:09,711 --> 00:55:12,464 - You're lucky my prince respects Sheikh Sfar. 1035 00:55:12,673 --> 00:55:15,551 I'd never soil my hands with a cat. 1036 00:55:15,759 --> 00:55:17,886 - He doesn't even have a name... 1037 00:55:18,095 --> 00:55:19,304 - He'll live. 1038 00:55:19,513 --> 00:55:20,931 - My heartfelt thanks, marabout. 1039 00:55:21,139 --> 00:55:22,558 What's your name? 1040 00:55:22,766 --> 00:55:24,268 - Professor Suleyman. 1041 00:55:24,476 --> 00:55:26,562 - If you like, I'll call him Suleyman. 1042 00:55:26,770 --> 00:55:30,524 - That would be an insult! It's a prophet's name. 1043 00:55:30,732 --> 00:55:34,027 Giving an animal that sacred name would be tactless. 1044 00:55:34,236 --> 00:55:35,112 - Forgive me. 1045 00:55:35,863 --> 00:55:38,115 He'll remain nameless then. 1046 00:55:38,323 --> 00:55:40,075 But I'll pray for you often. 1047 00:55:40,284 --> 00:55:41,618 - Are you Jewish? - Yes. 1048 00:55:41,827 --> 00:55:43,954 - Your prayers won't go far then. 1049 00:55:44,705 --> 00:55:46,456 - Thank you for the cat, then. 1050 00:55:49,835 --> 00:55:51,420 - My old master... 1051 00:55:51,628 --> 00:55:52,880 - But... 1052 00:55:53,088 --> 00:55:55,674 - We're back with the madmen? 1053 00:55:55,883 --> 00:55:57,092 - You're talking again? 1054 00:55:57,301 --> 00:55:58,635 Oh! God be praised! 1055 00:55:58,844 --> 00:56:02,389 I don't know why you stopped nor why you've started again. 1056 00:56:03,849 --> 00:56:06,476 - I never stopped, you just didn't listen. 1057 00:56:06,685 --> 00:56:08,770 - No, all you did was mew. 1058 00:56:08,979 --> 00:56:11,523 - I have a lot to tell you. 1059 00:56:11,732 --> 00:56:15,360 - These people are touchy. Don't say too much. 1060 00:56:15,569 --> 00:56:17,196 - Damn you! What are you doing? 1061 00:56:17,404 --> 00:56:21,283 - Calm down, brother. He's painting your prince, 1062 00:56:21,491 --> 00:56:23,702 to thank him for your hospitality. 1063 00:56:23,911 --> 00:56:25,120 (In Russian) 1064 00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:29,416 - Every Muslim knows that the Koran forbids 1065 00:56:29,625 --> 00:56:32,211 representation of the human image! 1066 00:56:32,419 --> 00:56:34,755 - I know the Koran better than you! 1067 00:56:34,963 --> 00:56:35,839 - Liar! 1068 00:56:36,048 --> 00:56:38,258 - You call me a liar before your prince? 1069 00:56:38,467 --> 00:56:40,344 Here's a copy of the Koran. 1070 00:56:40,552 --> 00:56:42,012 Find a single line 1071 00:56:42,221 --> 00:56:44,890 forbidding my friend to paint your prince. 1072 00:56:46,725 --> 00:56:47,935 - Friend asks 1073 00:56:48,143 --> 00:56:50,604 if he must stop painting. 1074 00:56:50,812 --> 00:56:53,899 - No. Our tradition is wary of statues 1075 00:56:54,107 --> 00:56:55,817 that may lead to idolatry. 1076 00:56:56,026 --> 00:56:59,488 An outline in a frame has no shadow. It is less harmful. 1077 00:56:59,696 --> 00:57:04,076 My descendants will be happy to see what I looked like. 1078 00:57:06,703 --> 00:57:08,288 - No need to tell us 1079 00:57:08,497 --> 00:57:11,750 not to talk religion! Ha ha! 1080 00:57:11,959 --> 00:57:14,086 - I know. I was wrong. 1081 00:57:14,294 --> 00:57:16,547 But I'm touchy too. 1082 00:57:16,755 --> 00:57:18,799 For 75 years I've roamed this world, 1083 00:57:19,007 --> 00:57:21,927 hailing my prophet five times a day. 1084 00:57:22,135 --> 00:57:25,597 I can't stand being lectured to by some irate child. 1085 00:57:25,806 --> 00:57:27,683 Our God isn't full of hate. 1086 00:57:27,891 --> 00:57:30,519 He loves science and the arts. 1087 00:57:30,727 --> 00:57:34,106 He's never happier than when His children are at peace. 1088 00:57:34,314 --> 00:57:38,610 It's a pity he lets so many fools speak in His name. 1089 00:57:40,821 --> 00:57:43,407 - My benefactor, come to the banquet. 1090 00:57:43,615 --> 00:57:46,493 I'll give the prince his portrait. 1091 00:57:46,702 --> 00:57:48,495 I'm bound to need a translator. 1092 00:57:48,704 --> 00:57:49,705 - Ha, ha! 1093 00:57:50,664 --> 00:57:53,250 I'll load my revolver then. 1094 00:57:53,458 --> 00:57:55,502 It's the language of the future. 1095 00:57:55,711 --> 00:57:57,504 Everyone understands! 1096 00:57:57,713 --> 00:57:58,755 Bang! Bang! 1097 00:58:00,340 --> 00:58:02,843 - You try to play the merciless old soldier. 1098 00:58:03,051 --> 00:58:05,596 But, in fact, you're respectful. 1099 00:58:05,804 --> 00:58:08,307 - Watch what you're saying, 1100 00:58:08,515 --> 00:58:09,641 painter! 1101 00:58:09,850 --> 00:58:11,518 I don't respect anyone. 1102 00:58:11,727 --> 00:58:13,979 I say screw the lot of you! 1103 00:58:14,188 --> 00:58:16,732 Jews, Arabs, Reds... 1104 00:58:16,940 --> 00:58:19,109 friendship between nations. 1105 00:58:19,318 --> 00:58:19,943 Oh! 1106 00:58:20,777 --> 00:58:21,612 All crap! 1107 00:58:21,820 --> 00:58:24,823 Long live friendship between men! 1108 00:58:25,032 --> 00:58:26,533 - Voila. 1109 00:58:26,742 --> 00:58:28,785 We must go and eat now. 1110 00:58:33,415 --> 00:58:35,375 - Ah, my portrait. 1111 00:58:39,171 --> 00:58:39,963 - My friend. 1112 00:58:40,172 --> 00:58:41,131 Thank you again. 1113 00:58:41,340 --> 00:58:44,301 Without you, my cat would be dead. He's talking again too. 1114 00:58:44,510 --> 00:58:45,886 - Yes, thank you. 1115 00:58:46,094 --> 00:58:49,389 - Shhh! They're not all my friends. 1116 00:58:49,598 --> 00:58:52,518 If they hear you, they'll think we're sorcerers 1117 00:58:52,726 --> 00:58:54,520 and behead us on the spot. 1118 00:58:54,728 --> 00:58:55,896 - Miaouw. 1119 00:58:56,104 --> 00:58:57,272 - That's better. 1120 00:59:06,740 --> 00:59:07,950 I'm pleased. 1121 00:59:08,492 --> 00:59:09,785 Now, let's eat. 1122 00:59:18,168 --> 00:59:20,045 - Still thinking about your pretty painter? 1123 00:59:21,630 --> 00:59:24,216 - You fools. I'm worried about Dad. 1124 00:59:24,424 --> 00:59:26,969 It's dangerous and he's frail. 1125 00:59:27,177 --> 00:59:30,097 - Is that any way to talk about your father? 1126 00:59:30,305 --> 00:59:32,057 You father's strong and brave. 1127 00:59:32,266 --> 00:59:34,893 He knows Africa inside out. 1128 00:59:35,102 --> 00:59:35,769 - Where did he learn? 1129 00:59:35,978 --> 00:59:37,020 - At the Talmud Torah, 1130 00:59:37,229 --> 00:59:39,606 when we were kids, with his rabbi. 1131 00:59:39,815 --> 00:59:40,983 - Should I feel better? 1132 00:59:41,191 --> 00:59:44,695 - Have you read the Bible? Where is Moses' story set? 1133 00:59:44,903 --> 00:59:46,196 In Eskimoland? 1134 00:59:46,405 --> 00:59:48,657 The Bible's set in Africa. 1135 00:59:48,866 --> 00:59:51,869 A man who knows the Torah has nothing to fear. 1136 00:59:52,077 --> 00:59:53,954 - Wasn't it in the Middle East? 1137 00:59:54,162 --> 00:59:57,332 - You know better than me? Go on, speak. 1138 00:59:57,541 --> 00:59:59,084 - Sorry, Mr Malka. 1139 00:59:59,293 --> 01:00:01,003 - This is Africa. 1140 01:00:01,211 --> 01:00:03,046 This is the land of Israel. 1141 01:00:05,299 --> 01:00:07,467 Your father's following this path. 1142 01:00:07,676 --> 01:00:09,761 He's close to Jerusalem. 1143 01:00:09,970 --> 01:00:11,054 - Where is he now? 1144 01:00:11,263 --> 01:00:12,723 - Your father's here. 1145 01:00:12,931 --> 01:00:13,807 - Is he well? 1146 01:00:14,016 --> 01:00:16,351 - He's with a tribe of people 1147 01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,812 who are very fond of Jews. 1148 01:00:26,778 --> 01:00:28,197 - Your women? 1149 01:00:28,405 --> 01:00:29,865 Where are they? 1150 01:00:30,073 --> 01:00:31,116 Where have you put 1151 01:00:31,325 --> 01:00:34,286 the desert maidens with heavy breasts? 1152 01:00:35,746 --> 01:00:39,041 - It's wise to leave certain jewels in their case. 1153 01:00:39,249 --> 01:00:41,543 - They have to finish leftovers 1154 01:00:41,752 --> 01:00:43,754 after we leave the table? 1155 01:00:43,962 --> 01:00:45,547 - Shut up now, Vastenov. 1156 01:00:45,756 --> 01:00:47,591 - Forgive him, he's a hothead. 1157 01:00:47,799 --> 01:00:49,426 Don't take him seriously. 1158 01:00:49,635 --> 01:00:52,638 - I'm the hothead? 1159 01:00:52,846 --> 01:00:54,890 - Prince, this is intolerable. 1160 01:00:55,098 --> 01:00:56,934 He's insulting us at our table. 1161 01:00:57,142 --> 01:01:00,896 - This old man's shameful state shows the harm drink can do. 1162 01:01:03,023 --> 01:01:05,984 - Even drunk, we can still behead him. 1163 01:01:06,193 --> 01:01:08,529 - Yes, you're right. 1164 01:01:08,737 --> 01:01:12,282 - Want to play that game? - I'm not scared of you! 1165 01:01:12,491 --> 01:01:13,784 - I love to die. 1166 01:01:13,992 --> 01:01:15,244 - I love death more than you. 1167 01:01:15,452 --> 01:01:17,162 - Ah, no, no. 1168 01:01:19,498 --> 01:01:21,667 - Wait! Kill each other after the meal. 1169 01:01:21,875 --> 01:01:25,587 For now, let's talk calmly to see if it's necessary. 1170 01:01:25,796 --> 01:01:27,965 - You're right, Jew. 1171 01:01:28,173 --> 01:01:30,342 Let's discuss our religions. 1172 01:01:30,551 --> 01:01:32,094 - Not over dinner. 1173 01:01:32,302 --> 01:01:34,721 - Tell us about Islam and Judaism. 1174 01:01:34,930 --> 01:01:36,056 - What can I say? 1175 01:01:36,807 --> 01:01:38,600 Islam is very good... 1176 01:01:38,809 --> 01:01:40,519 And Judaism too. 1177 01:01:40,727 --> 01:01:44,231 They're good religions and very similar. 1178 01:01:44,439 --> 01:01:46,900 For example, Jewish and Arab pastries are the same. 1179 01:01:47,109 --> 01:01:50,195 - Don't you think Islam is better? 1180 01:01:50,404 --> 01:01:52,489 - Yes, no doubt. 1181 01:01:52,698 --> 01:01:56,535 - Why not convert to our faith, in that case? 1182 01:01:57,494 --> 01:02:00,747 - The Koran says we must respect the children of Abraham. 1183 01:02:00,956 --> 01:02:02,833 - You love Jews more than you love your brothers! 1184 01:02:04,501 --> 01:02:07,421 - Your Jew recognises Mohammed's law 1185 01:02:07,629 --> 01:02:10,883 or my sword will deal with him. 1186 01:02:12,050 --> 01:02:13,510 - That's uncalled for. 1187 01:02:14,636 --> 01:02:18,849 I'll keep my religion because I know the prayers in Hebrew 1188 01:02:19,057 --> 01:02:21,768 and I'm too old to learn new ones. 1189 01:02:21,977 --> 01:02:24,021 But my religion isn't better. 1190 01:02:24,229 --> 01:02:25,564 - Good answer, Jew! 1191 01:02:27,274 --> 01:02:29,693 Now listen well. 1192 01:02:29,902 --> 01:02:31,862 Which of these three prophets 1193 01:02:32,070 --> 01:02:35,199 have the longest beard? 1194 01:02:35,866 --> 01:02:36,742 Moses, 1195 01:02:37,117 --> 01:02:38,660 Jesus or Mohammed? 1196 01:02:38,869 --> 01:02:40,370 - I'll silence you! 1197 01:02:40,579 --> 01:02:41,205 - Try it! 1198 01:02:44,958 --> 01:02:47,461 - Bow down to a soldier of God!. 1199 01:02:48,545 --> 01:02:51,632 Each slain infidel brings me closer to God! 1200 01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:55,010 - I've killed more men than you. God loves me! 1201 01:02:55,219 --> 01:02:56,887 - God guides my hand. 1202 01:02:57,095 --> 01:02:59,973 If I die fighting, I'll go to paradise! 1203 01:03:00,182 --> 01:03:01,683 - God lied to you. 1204 01:03:02,100 --> 01:03:03,060 We don't go... 1205 01:03:03,268 --> 01:03:04,228 anywhere! 1206 01:03:07,856 --> 01:03:09,691 - It was an equitable duel. 1207 01:03:09,900 --> 01:03:13,362 On the field of honour, the matter is closed. 1208 01:03:14,238 --> 01:03:18,784 However, you have deprived my army of a key soldier. 1209 01:03:18,992 --> 01:03:20,244 You owe me a life. 1210 01:03:20,452 --> 01:03:24,331 Leave your painter here and I'll let you go unharmed. 1211 01:03:24,540 --> 01:03:27,084 - These men don't belong to me. 1212 01:03:27,292 --> 01:03:31,255 - Then the only gift you can offer is your wretched life. 1213 01:03:31,463 --> 01:03:33,423 - My life belongs to the Tsar! 1214 01:03:40,389 --> 01:03:43,642 - Perhaps two deaths suffice for one evening? 1215 01:03:43,851 --> 01:03:48,230 You'd show wisdom in allowing us to continue unhindered. 1216 01:03:48,438 --> 01:03:49,147 - True. 1217 01:03:49,356 --> 01:03:52,150 But we must have desert first. 1218 01:03:52,359 --> 01:03:54,778 Then we'll drink tea. 1219 01:03:54,987 --> 01:03:58,782 You may leave in peace first thing tomorrow morning. 1220 01:04:25,392 --> 01:04:28,395 - We were allowed to take Vastenov's body with us. 1221 01:04:28,604 --> 01:04:29,605 We buried him 1222 01:04:29,813 --> 01:04:32,941 near the ancestor of my rabbi and the musician. 1223 01:04:33,150 --> 01:04:34,318 If like me, 1224 01:04:34,526 --> 01:04:36,945 he had kept silent, he'd still be here. 1225 01:04:37,154 --> 01:04:37,905 - I am proud of my cat. 1226 01:04:38,113 --> 01:04:40,782 Before, he used to talk willy-nilly. 1227 01:04:40,991 --> 01:04:43,827 I was afraid he'd get involved in the dispute. 1228 01:04:44,036 --> 01:04:46,079 But he said nothing. That's good, my cat. 1229 01:04:46,288 --> 01:04:48,415 - It doesn't mean I did nothing. 1230 01:04:48,624 --> 01:04:51,168 I sneaked into the prince's tent 1231 01:04:51,376 --> 01:04:53,420 and clawed his portrait. 1232 01:04:53,629 --> 01:04:56,340 - What a good cat! 1233 01:04:56,548 --> 01:04:57,591 - No, master. 1234 01:04:57,799 --> 01:05:00,135 I'm loving but I'm not kind. 1235 01:05:00,344 --> 01:05:01,053 - That's good. 1236 01:05:05,516 --> 01:05:09,228 - At this point, my rabbi will discover Blacks. 1237 01:05:09,436 --> 01:05:11,104 And I'll discover 1238 01:05:11,313 --> 01:05:13,857 he's no smarter than others. 1239 01:05:14,066 --> 01:05:16,818 - When we reach Oubangui, watch out 1240 01:05:17,027 --> 01:05:19,905 for the Ban-Da. They're cannibals. 1241 01:05:20,113 --> 01:05:22,533 They call white men "yum-yum". 1242 01:05:22,741 --> 01:05:24,952 - The rubbish you talk! 1243 01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:28,038 I didn't learn about Africa from books. 1244 01:05:28,247 --> 01:05:29,665 Put that thing away! 1245 01:05:29,873 --> 01:05:31,667 - What? This is scientific. 1246 01:05:31,875 --> 01:05:34,503 It's the Citroen explorer's log. 1247 01:05:42,302 --> 01:05:44,179 - You're not looking at anything. 1248 01:05:44,388 --> 01:05:48,183 You'll never make this journey again. Look! 1249 01:05:48,392 --> 01:05:51,854 - I'm looking, but the book's educating me too. 1250 01:05:52,062 --> 01:05:54,731 - If your Citroen lot had written that about Jews, 1251 01:05:54,940 --> 01:05:57,317 you'd say they did not understand. 1252 01:05:57,526 --> 01:06:01,530 When you see new things, look and don't speak right away. 1253 01:06:01,738 --> 01:06:05,409 - You think you're smarter than Andre Citroen. 1254 01:06:06,034 --> 01:06:07,911 He doesn't realise that 1255 01:06:10,706 --> 01:06:11,874 without a guide, 1256 01:06:12,082 --> 01:06:15,752 I feel like I'm in the ocean without a lifebelt. 1257 01:06:15,961 --> 01:06:16,962 - The sheikh's right. 1258 01:06:17,170 --> 01:06:19,256 You could look in silence. 1259 01:06:19,464 --> 01:06:21,884 - And not comment on what I see? 1260 01:06:22,092 --> 01:06:23,594 I've never done that. 1261 01:06:23,802 --> 01:06:26,722 - Not very French. - Not very Jewish. 1262 01:06:27,931 --> 01:06:29,933 - Can you scratch me here? 1263 01:06:48,994 --> 01:06:51,580 While the sheikh swaps songs, 1264 01:06:51,788 --> 01:06:55,125 my master clings to familiar things. 1265 01:06:55,334 --> 01:06:58,170 He starts making remarks. 1266 01:06:58,378 --> 01:07:01,256 - Hey! I play the darbuka too. 1267 01:07:02,257 --> 01:07:04,468 You use the back of the hand? 1268 01:07:04,676 --> 01:07:06,345 I use the flat of it. 1269 01:07:06,553 --> 01:07:09,973 - The tiny details show the extent 1270 01:07:10,182 --> 01:07:12,809 of what you don't know. 1271 01:07:13,018 --> 01:07:15,103 Mohamed! Listen! 1272 01:07:15,312 --> 01:07:16,980 I play like a Tuareg! 1273 01:07:17,189 --> 01:07:18,440 Go to sleep! 1274 01:07:19,983 --> 01:07:21,777 I'm tired. 1275 01:07:21,985 --> 01:07:24,279 I'll read the Citroen guide another time. 1276 01:08:24,006 --> 01:08:26,884 - In the Belgian Congo, we meet a young reporter. 1277 01:08:27,092 --> 01:08:30,179 - I didn't know they had Israelites in Black Africa. 1278 01:08:30,387 --> 01:08:32,264 - And his dog is stupid. 1279 01:08:32,472 --> 01:08:34,975 - Boss, you no claw me, ok? 1280 01:08:36,143 --> 01:08:38,228 - He thinks we're idiots. 1281 01:08:38,437 --> 01:08:41,648 - You see? This is the paper I write in. 1282 01:08:41,857 --> 01:08:44,276 I don't actually write, of course. 1283 01:08:44,484 --> 01:08:47,821 We use an invention called printing. 1284 01:08:48,030 --> 01:08:50,866 Can you decipher Western script? 1285 01:08:51,074 --> 01:08:51,950 - He talks, 1286 01:08:52,159 --> 01:08:53,577 but never listens. 1287 01:08:53,785 --> 01:08:57,539 - I'm busy washing, see. I wash once a day. 1288 01:08:57,748 --> 01:09:00,375 It keeps me healthy, free of lice... 1289 01:09:00,584 --> 01:09:03,462 Washing isn't a game, it's healthy. 1290 01:09:03,670 --> 01:09:05,088 Goodbye, my friends! 1291 01:09:05,297 --> 01:09:08,300 Remember, I'm in the paper every week! Ciao! 1292 01:09:17,392 --> 01:09:20,729 - Things are complicated in white men's towns. 1293 01:09:20,938 --> 01:09:24,316 These adventures set a high price 1294 01:09:24,525 --> 01:09:26,318 on bread and board. 1295 01:09:26,527 --> 01:09:28,403 - Not coming to sleep, Abraham? 1296 01:09:28,612 --> 01:09:30,072 - No, cousin. 1297 01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:31,865 I'm watching the truck. 1298 01:09:35,118 --> 01:09:36,370 This is scary! 1299 01:09:36,578 --> 01:09:38,789 - But we're having fun. 1300 01:09:38,997 --> 01:09:39,706 - Yes. 1301 01:09:39,915 --> 01:09:43,544 - The painter and I prefer the night's dangers. 1302 01:09:43,752 --> 01:09:48,048 We look at everything in every town, missing nothing. 1303 01:09:53,971 --> 01:09:56,890 The painter looks so much, he falls in love. 1304 01:09:57,099 --> 01:10:00,936 A real Russian, he does nothing by halves. 1305 01:10:01,144 --> 01:10:04,523 - Cat, tell him to stop staring, I can't work. 1306 01:10:04,731 --> 01:10:07,484 - He says he can't stop. 1307 01:10:07,693 --> 01:10:09,528 He wants to draw you. It's his job. 1308 01:10:09,736 --> 01:10:12,573 - Ask if he does this to all the girls. 1309 01:10:12,781 --> 01:10:14,324 (In Russian) 1310 01:10:15,284 --> 01:10:16,910 - He asks what time you finish. 1311 01:10:25,836 --> 01:10:27,421 - Translate for me. 1312 01:10:32,551 --> 01:10:35,971 Listen carefully, cat. Tell him that I'm not like that. 1313 01:10:39,683 --> 01:10:42,811 - Translate this, but with the same emotion. 1314 01:10:52,988 --> 01:10:55,449 - I'm a painter too. Get her to pose nude. 1315 01:10:55,657 --> 01:10:58,035 These women are goddesses. 1316 01:10:58,243 --> 01:11:00,996 I'll give you a tip for drawing blacks. 1317 01:11:02,706 --> 01:11:06,585 The Negro's specificity lies in the curve of the face. 1318 01:11:06,793 --> 01:11:08,086 You understand? 1319 01:11:08,295 --> 01:11:10,422 (In Russian) 1320 01:11:11,757 --> 01:11:14,635 - A foreigner? Never mind. 1321 01:11:15,552 --> 01:11:17,304 Here are the basics. 1322 01:11:17,513 --> 01:11:20,265 There's no sense in drawing 1323 01:11:20,474 --> 01:11:23,268 if you don't possess the rudiments of anatomy. 1324 01:11:25,938 --> 01:11:26,813 Savage! 1325 01:11:27,022 --> 01:11:30,067 - Tell him not to get into such a state. 1326 01:11:32,444 --> 01:11:35,155 I've heard worse than that. 1327 01:11:35,364 --> 01:11:36,615 (In Russian) 1328 01:11:38,659 --> 01:11:41,787 - In his country, they do similar drawings of Jews. 1329 01:11:41,995 --> 01:11:43,830 - We were made to meet. 1330 01:11:44,039 --> 01:11:45,666 - Tell her I'll take her to the land 1331 01:11:45,874 --> 01:11:48,460 where the Blacks and Jews come from. 1332 01:11:48,669 --> 01:11:51,255 Tell her there's no racism there. 1333 01:11:51,463 --> 01:11:54,216 - You really want me to translate that? 1334 01:11:56,134 --> 01:11:57,594 - Wake up, you adventurer! 1335 01:11:57,803 --> 01:11:59,304 Time to go! 1336 01:12:01,306 --> 01:12:03,976 He needs to sleep. 1337 01:12:04,184 --> 01:12:07,521 He's in love with me. I'm coming to his Jerusalem. 1338 01:12:07,729 --> 01:12:10,440 I think I love him too. 1339 01:12:14,403 --> 01:12:16,238 - He's not coming? 1340 01:12:16,446 --> 01:12:18,991 - He's in love. He wants us to take a waitress along. 1341 01:12:19,199 --> 01:12:19,908 - Ah! 1342 01:12:20,117 --> 01:12:23,537 If she accepts, God is great, and that's good news. 1343 01:12:23,745 --> 01:12:24,830 - Why? 1344 01:12:25,038 --> 01:12:28,292 - I couldn't keep drinking your coffee all the way 1345 01:12:28,500 --> 01:12:29,877 to Ethiopia. 1346 01:12:30,085 --> 01:12:32,337 - I'm insulted. My daughter likes me coffee. 1347 01:12:32,546 --> 01:12:34,506 - She's a good girl. 1348 01:12:35,174 --> 01:12:37,551 - How do you know the waitress' coffee is better than mine? 1349 01:12:41,513 --> 01:12:43,182 - I dreamt of your father. 1350 01:12:43,390 --> 01:12:46,268 You know, my dreams are always true. 1351 01:12:46,476 --> 01:12:47,644 - How is he, Malka? 1352 01:12:47,853 --> 01:12:49,605 - He's well, thank God. 1353 01:12:49,813 --> 01:12:51,857 But he's been in danger. 1354 01:12:52,065 --> 01:12:53,692 I saw your father on a battlefield. 1355 01:12:53,901 --> 01:12:56,820 Tribes of black men were clashing. 1356 01:12:59,448 --> 01:13:00,532 But all of a sudden, 1357 01:13:00,741 --> 01:13:03,702 Rabbi Sfar held up the Tables of the Law 1358 01:13:03,911 --> 01:13:07,080 and all the fighters put down their weapons. 1359 01:13:07,289 --> 01:13:09,291 - Really? - Certainly. 1360 01:13:09,499 --> 01:13:13,545 He said: 'Stop fighting. You must shake hands." 1361 01:13:13,754 --> 01:13:16,840 They're all friends now, God be praised. 1362 01:13:17,049 --> 01:13:19,510 - You're kind, trying to reassure me. 1363 01:13:19,718 --> 01:13:23,096 - I don't know why he had to go so far away. 1364 01:13:23,305 --> 01:13:26,433 He even took my cat. - Listen, my girl. 1365 01:13:26,642 --> 01:13:28,435 Your father is old, that's true. 1366 01:13:28,644 --> 01:13:32,689 This journey may well be his last great adventure. 1367 01:13:32,898 --> 01:13:36,235 So it's good to let him go. 1368 01:13:40,322 --> 01:13:42,491 - The journey lasts months. 1369 01:13:42,699 --> 01:13:45,369 No one complains. The old laugh at everything. 1370 01:13:45,577 --> 01:13:47,663 Even our mechanical problems. 1371 01:13:47,871 --> 01:13:50,457 When they see animals, they become pompous. 1372 01:13:50,666 --> 01:13:53,919 They thank God for the richness of Creation. 1373 01:13:54,127 --> 01:13:57,881 They're like two little boys discovering the world. 1374 01:14:00,717 --> 01:14:03,136 As for the lovers, they get acquainted. 1375 01:14:03,345 --> 01:14:07,432 Thanks to his African, my Russian is learning French. 1376 01:14:09,101 --> 01:14:10,185 (In French) You... 1377 01:14:10,394 --> 01:14:11,645 ... love me? 1378 01:14:12,771 --> 01:14:13,856 Not laugh! 1379 01:14:14,064 --> 01:14:16,316 Hard for me speak French! 1380 01:14:16,525 --> 01:14:19,820 - I laughed because other white people speak to me like that. 1381 01:14:20,028 --> 01:14:22,239 But you can't help it! 1382 01:14:27,995 --> 01:14:30,914 - She black so you won't marry us? 1383 01:14:31,123 --> 01:14:33,292 - We have no laws forbidding Blacks. 1384 01:14:33,500 --> 01:14:36,253 But I need two Jews for a Jewish wedding! 1385 01:14:36,461 --> 01:14:39,506 - A non-Jewish wedding then. - I'm not authorised to do that. 1386 01:14:39,715 --> 01:14:43,051 - I can take the same god as him. 1387 01:14:43,260 --> 01:14:45,137 - Yes, but its complicated. You can't decide on a whim. 1388 01:14:45,345 --> 01:14:48,807 You study for years to become Jewish. 1389 01:14:49,016 --> 01:14:51,768 - My village full Jews who never study. 1390 01:14:51,977 --> 01:14:55,314 - If Jewish people are ignorant, that's God's fault. 1391 01:14:55,522 --> 01:14:57,316 - But if I convert 1392 01:14:57,524 --> 01:15:00,819 someone who doesn't know the 613 laws, I'm the guilty one. 1393 01:15:01,028 --> 01:15:03,197 - You guilty then! Fine! 1394 01:15:03,405 --> 01:15:04,531 Hurry! I want to marry her. 1395 01:15:05,449 --> 01:15:06,200 - All right. 1396 01:15:07,326 --> 01:15:10,746 The greatest Jewish wise man was Hillel. 1397 01:15:10,954 --> 01:15:13,916 He summed up our laws in one line: 1398 01:15:14,124 --> 01:15:16,335 "Love your neighbour as yourself." 1399 01:15:16,543 --> 01:15:18,795 - Who's my neighbour? - I am. 1400 01:15:19,004 --> 01:15:20,964 - I love you! 1401 01:15:24,885 --> 01:15:25,761 - Mazel Tov! 1402 01:15:28,263 --> 01:15:30,891 - What must God think of a rabbi like me? 1403 01:15:31,099 --> 01:15:34,478 - Maybe he sees you as someone raising the level. 1404 01:15:34,686 --> 01:15:37,940 - Perhaps. You never know what to think with God. 1405 01:15:38,148 --> 01:15:41,443 - It's enough to tell yourself God is a decent guy. 1406 01:15:41,652 --> 01:15:42,569 - Yeah. 1407 01:15:44,196 --> 01:15:47,866 - You're lucky to get him, my mistress liked him too. 1408 01:15:52,579 --> 01:15:55,457 To sum things up: On this expedition we have 1409 01:15:55,666 --> 01:15:56,875 two kids, 1410 01:15:57,084 --> 01:16:00,963 a cat, a donkey, two lovers and soon a baby. 1411 01:16:01,171 --> 01:16:02,798 It's Noah's Ark. 1412 01:16:06,385 --> 01:16:09,638 In Asmara, we meet Eritrean Jews. 1413 01:16:09,847 --> 01:16:12,975 They talk about the Falasha, Jews since the dawn of time. 1414 01:16:13,183 --> 01:16:16,186 But no one has heard of the city called Jerusalem. 1415 01:16:16,395 --> 01:16:20,107 - Tell this fool his Jerusalem doesn't exist. 1416 01:16:20,315 --> 01:16:21,859 (In Russian) 1417 01:16:22,067 --> 01:16:24,152 - He says you have no faith. 1418 01:16:24,361 --> 01:16:25,988 - A communist tells me that? 1419 01:16:26,196 --> 01:16:29,992 - They don't know it because the region is inaccessible. 1420 01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:31,493 Tell them I'm sure. 1421 01:16:31,702 --> 01:16:33,954 - That's supposed to reassure us? 1422 01:16:37,332 --> 01:16:40,252 - There are beasts in the water! 1423 01:16:40,460 --> 01:16:42,379 I'm sure there are! 1424 01:16:42,588 --> 01:16:46,091 I'm sure there are beasts in the water! 1425 01:16:46,300 --> 01:16:47,926 - Cut it out! 1426 01:16:57,269 --> 01:17:01,273 - Bless you, Lord, for allowing us crocodile meat. 1427 01:17:01,481 --> 01:17:05,527 And give us strength. We can't go on. 1428 01:17:05,736 --> 01:17:07,237 - Amen. 1429 01:17:11,158 --> 01:17:14,161 - The track is so rough, we abandon the truck. 1430 01:17:14,369 --> 01:17:15,871 Even the donkey gives up. 1431 01:17:18,749 --> 01:17:21,543 - Remember where I am. 1432 01:17:21,752 --> 01:17:23,295 Don't abandon me! 1433 01:17:23,504 --> 01:17:24,379 - I promise. 1434 01:17:28,467 --> 01:17:30,969 Even the two Sfars can't go on. 1435 01:17:31,178 --> 01:17:33,472 - You should give up, my friend. 1436 01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:36,725 - No, it's my dream. - And you, with your baby? 1437 01:17:36,934 --> 01:17:39,478 - I go where my love goes. 1438 01:17:41,271 --> 01:17:42,189 - Wait! 1439 01:17:42,397 --> 01:17:43,815 I'll accompany you. 1440 01:17:45,359 --> 01:17:48,320 Watch your step! 1441 01:17:48,737 --> 01:17:52,032 - All the Jews and Blacks come from this city. 1442 01:17:54,117 --> 01:17:56,745 Maybe Adam and Eve too. 1443 01:17:56,954 --> 01:18:01,083 Maybe Adam and Eve are still alive, 1444 01:18:01,291 --> 01:18:03,377 thanks to their very balanced diet. 1445 01:18:06,505 --> 01:18:08,549 Look. We're here! - Woah! 1446 01:18:08,757 --> 01:18:10,634 What a view! 1447 01:18:11,385 --> 01:18:12,970 This is it! 1448 01:18:13,178 --> 01:18:15,222 - The city of our origins. 1449 01:18:15,430 --> 01:18:17,182 - Fantastic! 1450 01:18:17,391 --> 01:18:19,726 - They lived in peace for 2,000 years. 1451 01:18:19,935 --> 01:18:21,895 Far from racism, from hatred! 1452 01:18:23,355 --> 01:18:26,316 It's magnificent! 1453 01:18:26,525 --> 01:18:28,861 - Our home at last! 1454 01:18:29,069 --> 01:18:30,320 We'll be loved here. 1455 01:18:31,989 --> 01:18:33,115 (Unknown language) 1456 01:18:34,992 --> 01:18:36,910 - It's not visiting time. 1457 01:18:37,119 --> 01:18:40,914 - They don't know who we are. We're in your tribe! 1458 01:18:41,123 --> 01:18:42,916 Don't kill us. 1459 01:18:46,128 --> 01:18:47,713 - They're big. 1460 01:18:51,758 --> 01:18:54,511 - They don't seem very friendly. - They don't know us yet. 1461 01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,681 Language barrier. - I understand. 1462 01:18:57,890 --> 01:18:59,725 They're telling you to get lost. 1463 01:18:59,933 --> 01:19:01,768 - Misunderstanding! 1464 01:19:01,977 --> 01:19:04,646 Explain: we're Jewish like them. 1465 01:19:04,855 --> 01:19:08,400 - We all have the same religion... 1466 01:19:12,654 --> 01:19:13,322 - See? 1467 01:19:13,530 --> 01:19:14,948 They're adopting us. 1468 01:19:15,699 --> 01:19:16,992 (Unknown language) 1469 01:19:17,201 --> 01:19:19,036 Ah... what did they say? 1470 01:19:19,244 --> 01:19:22,748 - l can translate, but you won't like it. 1471 01:19:22,956 --> 01:19:24,082 They say 1472 01:19:24,291 --> 01:19:27,419 they never saw a pink Jew like you. 1473 01:19:28,754 --> 01:19:31,131 - I'll draw you. 1474 01:19:31,340 --> 01:19:33,926 A portrait of each one of you. 1475 01:19:35,469 --> 01:19:38,096 - It's so pretty. 1476 01:19:38,305 --> 01:19:41,475 Hello sir, very pretty. 1477 01:19:41,683 --> 01:19:45,229 What a big bathroom! 1478 01:19:45,437 --> 01:19:47,856 Hello! Having a nice soak? 1479 01:19:48,065 --> 01:19:51,068 Hello. Magnificent. 1480 01:19:52,444 --> 01:19:54,738 What's the matter? 1481 01:19:54,947 --> 01:19:56,823 What the... Ah! 1482 01:20:03,413 --> 01:20:05,123 No, please... 1483 01:20:12,923 --> 01:20:14,174 - You're annoying! 1484 01:20:14,383 --> 01:20:15,592 (Prayers in Hebrew) 1485 01:20:17,261 --> 01:20:18,470 What's that? 1486 01:20:21,473 --> 01:20:23,183 It's... it's... 1487 01:20:25,727 --> 01:20:27,229 But it's... 1488 01:20:28,730 --> 01:20:30,607 A bar mitzvah! 1489 01:20:31,942 --> 01:20:33,110 I want to do 1490 01:20:33,318 --> 01:20:34,903 my bar mitzvah too! 1491 01:20:36,989 --> 01:20:39,074 Hey, friends! 1492 01:20:39,283 --> 01:20:42,619 Afer he finishes, can I do mine too? 1493 01:20:47,082 --> 01:20:48,333 - There we go. 1494 01:20:49,459 --> 01:20:51,003 - I just wanted 1495 01:20:51,211 --> 01:20:53,338 to do my bar mitzvah. Help! 1496 01:20:53,547 --> 01:20:56,592 - A bit stylised, but drawn with love. 1497 01:21:00,304 --> 01:21:01,346 - No! 1498 01:21:05,726 --> 01:21:07,436 - Let's go, please? 1499 01:21:07,644 --> 01:21:09,229 - Cat, you help me. 1500 01:21:09,438 --> 01:21:11,857 Translate. - Not right now. 1501 01:21:12,065 --> 01:21:14,568 - There's a misunderstanding. 1502 01:21:14,776 --> 01:21:17,738 - He says you're an idol worshipper, stealing their faces. 1503 01:21:17,946 --> 01:21:19,740 - Who are they? 1504 01:21:19,948 --> 01:21:23,118 - They don't want me to do my bar mitzvah. 1505 01:21:23,327 --> 01:21:25,829 - Don't run away, cat. 1506 01:21:26,038 --> 01:21:27,789 Solve all problems 1507 01:21:27,998 --> 01:21:29,208 through dialogue. 1508 01:21:54,942 --> 01:21:56,360 - You're right. 1509 01:21:56,568 --> 01:21:57,986 Stay as you are. 1510 01:21:58,195 --> 01:22:01,281 Don't change your way of life. 1511 01:22:01,490 --> 01:22:05,327 You're just like the rest of mankind. 1512 01:22:06,245 --> 01:22:08,539 I prefer cats. 1513 01:22:11,083 --> 01:22:12,459 We set off again! 1514 01:22:13,961 --> 01:22:15,462 We find the Sfars. 1515 01:22:15,671 --> 01:22:17,881 We find the donkey. 1516 01:22:18,090 --> 01:22:20,300 We find the truck. 1517 01:22:20,509 --> 01:22:22,678 - You see, your city doesn't exist. 1518 01:22:23,595 --> 01:22:25,347 - We told you so. 1519 01:22:28,642 --> 01:22:30,185 - Husband... 1520 01:22:30,686 --> 01:22:33,063 Your story is funny. 1521 01:22:34,523 --> 01:22:37,359 - I always thought your city was a dumb idea. 1522 01:22:39,027 --> 01:22:40,612 - What do we tell the others? 1523 01:22:40,821 --> 01:22:42,865 Do we tell them it exists, or not? 1524 01:22:44,324 --> 01:22:46,410 - I think we must lie to them. 1525 01:22:46,618 --> 01:22:50,831 Talking about things as they are isn't my job. 1526 01:22:51,665 --> 01:22:53,667 - I'll go, if I'm in the way. 1527 01:23:02,509 --> 01:23:04,011 That's really swinging! 1528 01:23:05,220 --> 01:23:07,389 That's not Maalouf. 1529 01:23:07,598 --> 01:23:10,309 - I pinched a few ideas 1530 01:23:10,517 --> 01:23:13,270 from Django Reinhardt in Constantine. Want to sing with me? 1531 01:23:13,478 --> 01:23:16,190 - No, talking is already hard enough. 1532 01:23:16,398 --> 01:23:18,358 I'll learn to sing another time. 1533 01:23:19,484 --> 01:23:21,570 Writing to Zlabya, master? 1534 01:23:21,778 --> 01:23:23,864 - Yes. - Have you mentioned me? 1535 01:23:24,072 --> 01:23:25,616 - You're very curious. 1536 01:23:25,824 --> 01:23:27,701 - Have you said I'm talking again? 1537 01:23:27,910 --> 01:23:30,787 - I say you've travelled and learned a lot 1538 01:23:30,996 --> 01:23:33,040 and that you have become a good cat. 1539 01:23:33,248 --> 01:23:36,335 - Please tell her we'll be home soon. 1540 01:23:36,543 --> 01:23:38,962 Tell her I love her with all my heart. 1541 01:23:39,171 --> 01:23:42,883 that I dream of nestling against her breast... 1542 01:23:43,091 --> 01:23:46,261 - Are you telling me how to write to my daughter? 1543 01:23:46,470 --> 01:23:48,764 Get out of here! 1544 01:23:50,724 --> 01:23:54,895 - Oh, Eternal God of Abraham, allow me to return to Zlabya. 1545 01:23:55,103 --> 01:23:58,106 Ask her to care for me and love me as always. 1546 01:23:58,315 --> 01:24:00,984 God of heaven and earth, carry me to her arms. 1547 01:24:01,193 --> 01:24:04,404 Keep her happy with me for ever and ever. 1548 01:24:08,575 --> 01:24:12,120 May she never marry or have children! Amen. 1549 01:24:24,216 --> 01:24:26,134 O Eternal 1550 01:24:28,887 --> 01:24:30,347 God of Abraham 1551 01:24:33,100 --> 01:24:35,102 Allow me to return 1552 01:24:36,144 --> 01:24:37,563 to my mistress 1553 01:24:39,481 --> 01:24:41,984 Make her to love me 1554 01:24:42,192 --> 01:24:43,235 Always 1555 01:24:45,237 --> 01:24:47,281 God of Heaven and 1556 01:24:47,489 --> 01:24:49,032 Earth. 1557 01:24:52,286 --> 01:24:55,747 Make her care for me 1558 01:24:58,917 --> 01:25:00,586 Carry me 1559 01:25:01,086 --> 01:25:02,254 To her heart 1560 01:25:02,921 --> 01:25:04,590 To her arms. 1561 01:25:07,134 --> 01:25:07,593 May she never marry 1562 01:25:07,593 --> 01:25:09,803 May she never marry 1563 01:25:10,012 --> 01:25:12,055 May she never have children 1564 01:25:12,264 --> 01:25:13,891 May she never marry 1565 01:25:14,099 --> 01:25:16,101 May she never have children 1566 01:25:16,310 --> 01:25:17,936 May she never marry 1567 01:25:18,145 --> 01:25:20,147 May she never have children 1568 01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:24,112 Download Movie Subtitles Searcher from www.OpenSubtitles.org