Beyond the Hills
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beyond the hills
Stay there!
Ok, calm down.
Alina...
Alina, let me go,
people are watching...
- You wrote this?
- No.
- It looks like your writing.
- No, the priest put this here last year.
Be careful, I haven't told them anything yet,
so don't speak about it before I do.
Why didn't you tell them?
The priest was busy
and I didn't find the moment.
FORBIDDEN TO ANYBODY OF A DIFFERENT RELIGION
BELIEVE AND DON'T DOUB
Here.
Electrical candle.
Oh, thanks but there's no electricity here.
I'll keep it like this anyway, it's nice.
This is all your stuff?
Everything else I had
I gave away.
- Do you have any suitcases?
- Mhm...
I have these big plastic bags.
You want to lay down a bit?
No.
Ok, then... come wash your face.
- You want me to help you?
- No.
- This is my chore since I came here.
- What's that? - Fetching the water.
Everything is strict here. Daddy tells each of us in the morning
what we have to do, and then he helps us if we need anything.
- Why do you call this priest "daddy"?
- When there are strangers around we call him "priest" too...
This was made by a painter brought
It's more just a trial, cause the money finished
and finally this painting is all we got.
Pity...
Bless us.
God bless.
- Mummy, this is Alina.
- Welcome.
- Sister Elisaveta.
- Mother Antonia.
- Mother Justina.
- Voichita, take this bucket and give it to the priest.
- You'll stay a few moments with the girls?
- Come on, nobody's going to eat her, go.
Bless me.
- Take a little clay and put it around that,
it cracked and it smokes. - Yes.
- Finish it before tomorrow evening, because maybe
Mr. Dima will pass by. Clear? - Yes.
What?
Daddy, I wanted to ask you something.
Ask.
About my friend, Alina, from Germany.
The one that I've been in the orphanage with in Birlad.
What, she's not here yet?
She is, she's in the kitchen
with mommy and the girls.
She's... how should I put it...
She's... it's very hard for her there in Germany and...
She's very tormented being alone there,
with nobody near to share her problems.
- Is she a believer?
- She goes to church from time to time, but not too...
Does she confess at least?
I don't know, daddy, but I don't think so,
as she's in Germany for so many years.
How does she want to have peace of
mind and soul if she doesn't confess?
All that she wishes is to
not be alone any more.
We got used to each other at the
orphanage and now it's very hard for her.
You can have all the people in the world beside you,
but if you don't have God in your soul, it's for nothing.
I told her, daddy, but she keeps telling me that I should
go with her, to Germany...
- That YOU should go? - To go for a while, until she gets
through the bad times and she calms down.
the path you want to take...
I chose it, daddy, I was just
telling you about her wishes.
I would turn back as soon
as she feels better...
On this path with Jesus
it doesn't work that way...
...that today I'm devoted to him,
but tomorrow I've got something to do...
There must be a continuity
in this spiritual life of ours.
It's not possible like this,
with pauses. You get it?
Yes, daddy...
And moreover, the one who goes and the one
who returns are never the same person.
Do you understand?
Yes, daddy.
Priest, Mr. Valerica says he
found a painter for the church.
How much does he ask for?
About 100 million.
He can whistle for it.
We don't have that kind of money now.
- About what?
- For the painting.
- Leave Mr. Dima alone.
For building it's one thing,
but now for painting...
He says he'll send somebody tomorrow
for the concrete casting in the back...
if he finds a car from the building site
and if it's not cold, because if it's cold...
...he said that better than casting and cracking,
we'd better wait for the warm weather.
- It has to be done before Easter.
- Mhm... It has to... If God also helps us with some good weather...
It will be warmer from now on.
And we also have to change
the gas can. This one is empty.
Tomorrow when you take the food
to the children you can change it.
- We need money, Father.
- You have nothing left from yesterday?
- No Father, I bought some towels, some
chains for the dog, it keeps breaking them...
- You'd better buy some padlocks, so we can
repair the old chains. - I bought padlocks too.
Listen, did those people
pay us for the vinegar?
No.
Mr. Valerica said that we have to
give some eggs too.
How many do we give to the orphanage?
I don't know. As many as we can gather.
Tell them that the eggs will come after Easter,
because now we don't have enough.
- But they need the eggs for Easter, not after...
- Where from? We have to give some to the children now.
(Alina whispers):
Ask him.
And with the gas can?
What do we do?
Ask him to charge it on credit if he wants.
If he doesn't want, God bless him and we'll make fire with wood.
We don't have too much
wood left either, daddy.
We can take wood from
the forest ourselves.
Daddy, may Alina come with us to town tomorrow?
She has to take care of some papers.
- Is there room in the car? - Yes.
We can put the food in the car trunk.
- You want to change your ID card?
- No, daddy, she needs some papers for work in Germany.
In Germany...
I never left the country. But I'm not sorry.
I would go to see the Saint Tomb if given the chance.
But in the west... And I'll tell you why:
Western Europe has lost the right path.
There's nothing sacred left out there.
In the name of liberty everything is allowed.
They marry men with men, women with women... Yes...
Drugs everywhere...
Even the church is no more
as it was supposed to be.
I'm in favor of tolerance,
but with some reasonable limits.
But there where you've been,
was there a church?
- Yes, but not ours.
- Sorry?
Not Orthodox.
You should know that for a true believer,
even to enter a non-Orthodox church is a sin!
But poor people don't think about this any more.
They go wherever they can to get some money...
...for the children, and meanwhile the children
grow up by themselves, without mother, without father...
...and we wonder how come so
many unspeakable things happen.
Sure they do, if that child has nobody to guide him,
to get him to the church, to teach him good from bad.
That means you also didn't
have a place to confess.
You have to come to confess...
We enter into Lent and
it's not proper this way.
I'll wait for you tomorrow morning.
People find their inner peace when
they're forgiven for their sins.
Let's pray.
You have a fever.
From the cold in the train I think.
Will you rub me with alcohol?
- I don't have alcohol.
- I do.
We'd better go on your bed.
Why, we don't sleep together?
- No.
- Why?
It's not allowed here at the convent.
Why is that?
It's not proper. Lent is approaching
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