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Mektup Page #4
- Year:
- 1997
- 100 min
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See, I had just washed this shirt that
morning. He left without even putting it on.
But he'll be back. I know it.
Nothing can happen to him.
They say he's disappeared, that he's dead.
But that's not true. He'll be back.
Let me bring you some clean sheets.
- Where's the bathroom?
- Downstairs, right next to the kitchen.
Your father, he made me swear,
but, I just can't not tell you.
You have a sister. I just
couldn't not tell you.
What happened?
- Are you all right?
- Did you ever see "Superman?"
- No. - When he's flying with his girl,
you know he says to her?
- No.
- What a lovely thing you are.
So great you're here.
Orphanage.
My mother's first husband
was a pilot in the Luftwaffe
During the Second World War. But
then he began to turn against Hitler.
One day he took my mother and escaped
by plane to Istanbul via Bulgaria.
But the plane ran out of fuel.
They crashed somewhere near Edirne.
- My mother was crippled.
- When did she meet my father?
Her husband died right here on the spot.
A young fellow Onat Usta, saved her life.
Dunya, my sister! You're so beautiful.
Can I kiss you just once?
My father, I mean your father, met
my mother when she was with Onat Usta
They fell in love right away, but never
got married. You know father always thought
- that orphans were really angels.
- How long did he live with you?
Until mother died. I was just
beginning my medical residency then.
So what happened? Did you part at odds?
No, no. I think father had really hit
bottom. He had just set up the orphanage.
- He left everything to this place.
- You mean like the Christian saints?
- You can put it that way. - Didn't you
ever come across each other again?
Well, I suppose we did...
I don't know. He had changed.
- He kept saying, "thirty birds."
- Did he say where he was,
- what he was doing? - No, nothing.
he had changed, really changed.
It was as if he...
My mother said to me that everything and
everybody in this country was a fraud,
was filthy loud, and two-faced. According
to my mother that was the "East."
- What? - I said, this was
how my mother saw the East.
- That's because your mother hated your father.
- Sure, both him and his East.
She wasn't over able to understand
why my father loved the East. Never.
She wasn't over able to understand
why my father loved the East. Never.
So, am I your East know? Come on
tell me, am I your East or your West.
My spirit has found it's true home here.
- Quick. get up.
- What?
Elizabeth is here, she is
waiting in the lobby. Get up.
Hurry up, please, get dressed.
Would you like something to drink?
Just a second, I'm coming Nilufer.
- I should be going.
- Let's go together we'll drop you off.
- I have to stop odd a few places.
- Okay, it's up to you.
I'll call you.
Sure we're going back,
sure, my lovely Czech.
I put it there, they took it, in between
those busy hours, I'd take it out and look
with no one there; The mirror that
showed myself to me, they took it.
Spring in winter, in my waters it blossomed;
What sent it fleeing over snowy peaks?
A yellowed page in an old notebook,
the meaning that showed myself to me,
they took it. It was a light,
Evening, the flowers gone to sleep,
far shores enveloped in darkness,
The lamp that showed
myself to me, they took it.
- Hi. I'm looking for Nilufer.
- She's not here.
- She's not answering her phone either.
- What?
- Help me out. I've got to find her.
- That's not going to be easy, my friend.
- Why is that? - She has a pianist friend,
Ayten. Maybe she's with her.
- You haven't been around lately.
Where've you been? - Give me a drink.
Hey, you're The Man, aren't you? The
TV crime fighter. You're the greatest.
I mean, they should put up
your statue. I don't understand.
You, I mean, you're
the greatest, you're our
- savior. A national hero.
- What are you saying?
That lousy thief you uncovered last
week on your TV show. If I came across
like a bug. Don't be ridiculous.
Hey, listen, I'm not pulling anything. But
is all this worth it? You making out okay?
Just give me the word if you need
anything. Just give me the orders. Just ask.
- Please, stop. I'll get out here.
- What do you mean?
You're the greatest, the greatest
of the great. I'd take you anywhere.
I said I want to get out. Can't
you hear me? Here's your money.
- What's this about money?
- Let me out, you idiot.
Let you out? Come on, once in
a lifetime you ride in my cab.
If I were to tell my buddies about this
they wouldn't believe a word. No way.
Pull over right here, I said pull over.
Did I do something? Why are you
getting so upset? I don't understand.
Who is there?
- Isn't Ms. Ayten home? - Please don't shout.
Why are you looking for Ms. Ayten?
- I trying to find Nilufer.
- Look, you're raising your voice again.
Would you please be helpful? Has
Nilufer stopped by in the last few days?
Now I get it. I've been on leave for
ten years. We haven't seen anyone.
Nobody's been here. Hey, are you
her American friend, what's his..
- Yes, I'm Ragip.
- Oh,! Now I get it. I've heard about you.
Come on in, come in. Quiet. Quiet.
Great playing, isn't it? We haven't
left the house since I got here.
When I'm on leave she
And never disappoints me; always plays
for me. She knows how to get to a soldier.
- I've got to go. - You know something
about tape recorders, don't you?
I can't get it record.
It's on digital. Thanks.
If it weren't for Ayten's piano playing
I'd go crazy up therein the mountains.
Fighting every single day.. bodies all
over the place.. You understand, don't you?
Digital recording is really important.
I've lost my only boy, my little lamb.
Come here, my son, come here. Take my hand.
Hey.Look, he flew off into
the sky, just disappeared.
Didn't come back, didn't come back.
Sometimes I got the feeling he wanted to
go back to the States. But my being there
with him put a stop to that. At one point
I though of leaving. I even tried it.
I left him alone. Then I went back.
We were really locked into each other.
Just when I had found the two of
you, all of a sudden you disappeared.
Elizabeth, if she'd driven that
car any faster I'd be dead now.
At the moment that's what I
really wanted, father. To die.
To die suffering in an accident, to have
had a few last laughs at life looking up
at the sky there in the midst of a pile
of twisted steel, blood gushing out of my
ruptured organs. I would have had
one up on life, dying like that.
- Maybe I would have found the both
of us by dying. - What's this?
- A letter.
- Who for? Me?
He couldn't survive without
coming to this valley of the birds.
Battal, your father used to say, this is
the place to die. It was like his refuge.
The king of the birds, he'd always say.
Yes, once day all of the
birds in the world came here.
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