The President Page #3

Synopsis: A brutal dictator comes face to face with the injustices committed by his regime when his country is taken over by revolutionists.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Production: Corinth Films
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Year:
2014
119 min
Website
17 Views


We are street musicians.

That's how we earn our crust.

Do you know this song?

Colorful buttery

YES.

Fly away slowly

YES.

Let's go, let's go!

Stop!

What's this? A wedding?

Hello.

Congratulations!

Welcome!

Boys! Leave them, we have a wedding!

Let's dance.

Dance, groom!

May I dance with your wife?

Dima!

Do you have no shame, people!

No one said anything!

NO one]

Shoot me!

Shoot me!

It happened revolution in our country.

It happened revolution in our country.

That's why we became refugee.

Please give us asylum visa.

Please give us asylum visa.

Because

their life are in danger.

NO!

Not their life! It's our life in

dangerous!

Granny, is it our life in danger

or theirs?

Our life!

God damn our President!

He was no good,

for the poor or for the rich!

All the hardship I endured in life

to earn some money.

I lost everything in one minute.

Excuse me! Take it!

For the chicken you loaned me.

Thanks a lot!

This isn't enough!

My chicken saved your life.

Without my chicken,

they'd have known you're not poor,

they'd have found your money and killed

you.

Okay, okay! Take it!

Stop!

Quickly!

Can you drive the car?

Yes, yes! I'll drive.

Come with us.

I despair for even the next hour

of this country.

No one said anything!

No OHM

Shoot me!

Death to the dictator!

I'm all wet.

Where are we going?

To Maria.

To my Maria?

No, to my Maria.

Maria!

Where are you, Maria?

It's my turn.

What does "It's my turn" mean?

Look! How wet you got!

Take this off, too.

Come on.

Do you remember me?

Don't you remember being kids at the lake?

Listen! It's very dangerous here!

It's my turn now.

Get out, you bastard!

Get out!

What do you want from me?

What are you looking at? Get out!

I'm fed up!

You don't want a guest?

Leave me alone!

Didn't you see those bastard soldiers?

F***ed me one by one.

And didn't pay.

One of them put his gun between my legs.

and said.

"Shall I shoot you cash?

Or you put it on my account?"

People are going backwards.

I don't want to do anything.

I'm tired.

Get out. Go away!

H's ma.

I'm fine.

Listen!

In two days.

Where we were supposed to meet.

Stand behind the curtain.

Don't turn around and don't listen.

I know you.

Do you want me

to tell you

your life story?

When you were 14 years old.

You fell in love with a 30-year-old man.

I've loved many men

but they were here just for

one-night-stands.

Nobody loves a prostitute.

These past 20 years,

the whole country has had my body.

Even the President.

The President?

When he was young.

Before he became someone for himself.

Really? Where is the President right now?

He's on the run.

There's a bounty on his head.

How much?

The price keeps getting higher and higher.

500 thousand... I don't know.

If you knew where he was.

Would you give him up?

If I was going to make money like that,

I wouldn't have needed to sell my body.

Why are you asking this?

Are you a policeman?

NO.

Then get out of here!

Can't you see I have my period?

Get out.

He was a coward, like his soldiers.

When my sister got arrested.

I wrote him hundreds of letters,

but he didn't reply to even one.

My sister died in prison.

I didn't receive even one letter from you.

Dachi?

Dachi.

Get out of here!

You brought me

nothing but misery my whole life.

I don't need your problems.

I swear, if I return to power,

I'll answer every letter myself.

Gia! No.

My sister was killed in your prison.

Get out of here!

Phase...

I beg you...

Have pity...

Have pity on my grandson.

If you don't keep him,

he might get killed with me.

I have to cross the border.

I may need to cross the sea.

I can't do it with him.

I swear, if I can cross the border,

I will send you a lot of money,

and I'll take my grandson back.

Please have pity and shelter him.

Maria!

It's very dangerous here.

I can't keep a child with me.

Who are they?

Soldiers.

Go inside!

I need money. Please give me some.

Go inside!

Don't look!

Hurry HP'

One, two, one, two...

The number of casualties

in the recent civil war

has risen above 1,000.

According to the latest reports.

the President is still in the country,

although he remains at large.

Roads and bridges across the country

are under the control

of the united opposition.

Search them!

Me and you... Don't look at me! Look away!

We're not grandfather and grandson, okay?

We don't know each other.

The woman next to you... Don't look at me!

You will be her granddaughter for a bit.

If you do everything I say.

I'll buy you an ice cream.

I don't want to be that lady's child.

Look away!

Hold you, we are in big danger!

Cross the bridge with that lady.

I'll find you on the other side.

Listen to me!

People with children on this side.

The rest, over there.

Quickly!

Move!

Faster!

God bless you, my son.

Put your hand down!

Down!

Stop!

Where are you going?

Who are you with?

Is this your child?

You and your children can go.

Search everybody!

Cover your legs.

You're scaring the child.

You look familiar.

TO me, 100.

Were you also in prison?

YES.

Hello, brother!

Hello!

The military have closed all the roads.

Sit down, then pee.

Why?

Because that's how girls pee.

If they ask who we are,

we say that I was a political prisoner

and you are my granddaughter.

What does "political prisoner" mean?

It means that I was the President's enemy,

and that's why they imprisoned me.

I wasn't the President.

I was his enemy.

Why were you the President's enemy?

If you say that I was the President,

they will kill us.

Why would they kill us?

Because they are the President's enemies.

Why, Your Majesty?

Don't call me "Your Majesty" anymore!

Sorry.

Are you finished?

YES.

What happened to his feet?

He was tortured.

What does "tortured" mean?

Don't tell the kid.

Why not?

It's better she knows.

They beat him with cables.

Why?

Go faster.

How many years were you in prison?

Many"-

Political prisoner?

YES.

Were you tortured?

After the collapse of the dictatorship,

angry people, along with freedom fighters,

burned the former dictator

of their country alive.

That is the current leading

international news story.

Did you hear?

He deserved it.

First kill the f***ing dictator,

then you can talk about democracy.

How can you talk about democracy

when your ideology is based on revenge?

You mean we should forgive the man

who tortured so many innocent people,

and ruined the lives of so many families?

We should kiss him goodbye

and let him go in peace?

I mean that we should not do

worse than him.

I, too, feel a great desire

to hurt the President.

But...

You hurt one.

Than another comes and hurts you.

And then another.

It never ends.

If you catch the President,

forgive him and let him go.

If I find him, I will kill him.

If we only had a hat

and a worn-out coat

Add to that a big belly

A belly and head

If we just had a bit of vodka

And a bit of throat

For the rest, let's not give a damn

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف‎, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. Time selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film Kandahar as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sixth President of Iran, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. more…

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