The Egyptian Page #4

Synopsis: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues, and bizarre secrets are revealed to him, he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth. Short on historical accuracy but strong on plot and characterization.
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.6
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Year:
1954
139 min
1,021 Views


I'll show you the absolute

perfection of love.

What are you doing here?

It has gone to tavern

for many days.

Had to see it.

The man who knew, is dead.

Forget it.

I can not forget.

Sinuhe, please listen to me.

I want to help you.

I am not inexperienced.

You learn a lot about

life in a tavern.

Every night I see the appetite

in the eyes of men.

With a maid in a tavern ...

they do not bother to hide.

Some come to you

with arrogance

Horemheb as your friend.

This type can never be

hurt by a woman.

And there are those timid

too much to ask ...

But I also wish

is in your eyes.

Are those who are unarmed,

because they are afraid of approaching ...

a woman who can

make them happy ...

become easy victims

to another kind of woman.

They think they are in love,

because there is no other way,

of how love is.

What are you trying to say?

What was not to say ...

when he gets home at that time and

find me waiting for you.

If you want to help me,

you can.

Here are the scriptures

the house of my parents ...

and the tomb that they thought

would give them immortality.

Here is her name,

the new owner.

Read, Merit:

Nefer, Nefer, Nefer!

Sinuhe, can not!

The scriptures must be witnessed.

Be the first to sign.

Come on, subscribe!

If he does not sign, make your mark!

That the gods have

pity you!

The house and the tomb are his.

From now on I am

damn and bastard ...

before the gods and men.

It's a high price to pay.

Now prove to me

which is not too high.

How do I

prove, Sinuhe?

Delivering on its promise.

Promise?

What was that promise?

The perfection of love.

Promised?

Sinuhe, as I told you ...

I find you very attractive ...

Are you sure that perfection

is what you want?

Yes.

Then you have it.

I'll end with his martyrdom.

Secum!

Watch this

man to the door.

Never let it enters

in my house again.

All philosophers know

we have come to life

looking for perfection ...

and found that only

in the end.

In the end?

Sooner or later even a cat

tired of your game.

Sinuhe!

Sinuhe!

Again I returned

alone and in darkness ...

home to my parents.

The house was not more of them.

How did they die?

As you know, love, a doctor ...

can burn your skin ...

taking lives,

instead of saving them.

Her father had left it.

Read.

I can not.

Then listen.

"For Sinuhe, our son.

We are suffering

because of you,

because he had bad luck.

Do not whine because you asked

to sell our grave ...

because all existence is meaningless.

and do not want another life.

Always remember ...

that bless thee before

we left.

For you who came to us,

by the river ...

when we were old,

was the greatest joy

of our lives.

His heart is

protected from bitterness.

This is the wish of his father,

and his mother. "

They want here

House of Death?

He brought the bodies

a man and a woman ...

to be preserved

for its art ...

and so can enjoy

of eternal life.

Like you said,

here we are artists.

What can you pay for

our services?

I have nothing.

Nothing? Throw the burden on the River.

Wait! I am willing

working here.

to pay

Embalming ...

during the time

you might need.

Work here?

Only convicted felons ...

and cursed by the gods,

seeking work in this house.

No man here

is worse than me.

Put it to work!

For 90 days I lived among

damned in the House of Death.

It was as if I myself

had died.

Only my servant, KapTa

knew where I was

and what I had done.

What are you doing here?

Speak, or sink your head!

Are you a god?

God?

no god would dare ...

show the face after dark.

It is a grave robber?

Do not come here to steal.

And what they want, then?

I brought my parents to

bury them here.

In the Valley of the Kings?

I hope that buried here ...

they can share ...

the wealth of the pharaohs,

in the other world!

In the other world.

It is true that many

pharaohs are buried here.

but have not seen any of them,

going out with his own feet.

And certainly not

see their wealth,

Because we take

first.

Do not believe in another life.

They believed.

You're weird.

I'll help you dig.

I would like to mark their graves

somehow.

With or without mark

is all the same.

a pyramid ...

The 10 minutes to

dig a hole in the ground.

Dead is dead, not

matter where we put them.

In the end, the sand conquers all.

Every grain of sand ...

survive every man alive ...

and every man who will still be born.

Immortality?

Holding in my hand.

Only the small grains

Sand will never die.

Listen!

A coyote.

A two-legged jackal.

One of my friends telling you that there is

a stranger on his way.

Here in the shade.

Sinuhe!

Is this you?

Yes.

A good place to

meet a woman.

How do I find?

KapTa told me.

He told me

he did.

As he worked 90 days

House of Death.

Stay away!

The smell of death still

is in me.

How long have not you eat?

I do not know.

Brought to you bread and wine.

Come back, Merit, come back.

Leave me alone.

Not until we eat.

Sit down, Sinuhe,

at least for me please.

Bread?

A little wine.

Thebes, city of lust

and evil.

Your men deserve justice.

They deserve their priests

wicked and cruel gods ...

because we are despicable.

Nothing but a slow disease

that creeps on the earth.

The tomb is only cure

for our pettiness.

That's what I learned.

I'll take back the city.

Can not return.

Pharaoh's daughter died because

was not there to save her.

He is angry, hurt.

Sinuhe, he ...

sentenced him to death.

It does not mean anything.

Death does not come

to everyone who asks.

I learned that also in

my new wisdom.

You call this wisdom?

To despise because ...

than a woman you did?

Do you really think that all

women are like that?

Do not believe in love

asks for nothing?

Oh my love!

Everything is arranged, love.

I bought tickets for us.

Bought?

He took everything I had ...

all that I stole from you.

Come on, we have to hide,

before the other

passengers arrive.

Merit ...

I do not know how to say this ...

Take it with you.

Not gold, but ...

want to accept.

It is the symbol of God

the sun, Aton.

Maybe again one day ...

No. We need not deceive,

thinking so.

This is a farewell

forever.

Forever?

He's young, Merit,

has a lifetime ahead.

My end at

darkness, in some strange land.

I love you, Sinuhe.

Always remember that.

Hurry Love.

So I left behind

the land from my parents ...

and with it, I left my youth

that punished both ...

which was full of despair.

Over the years,

KapTa and I were traveling,

to the ends of the earth.

In the beginning, we lived

as it gave.

Solo and friendless,

deceived and

stole for a living.

We know the heat

hunger and cold ...

and slept under the stars.

Then, as time

stifled my sorrows ...

I began to put into practice,

what I learned in school of life ...

and my parents' house.

As we changed,

my fame followed

distant lands, where they had never

an Egyptian visa before

or a doctor prepared.

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