The President Page #4

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
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What were you charged with?

Sedition.

Luckily they didn't know

I was involved in a terrorist act.

What terrorist act?

Remember when they killed

the President's son and his

daughter-in-law?

All the other participants

were tortured to death.

If they'd known about me

I would have wished for death.

I'll kill you!

I am the President!

You killed my son!

I'll strangle you one by one!

I'll leave you to rot in prison!

What is a "terrorist act"?

Tonight, you are all my guests.

If my wife knew that I'd been released.

She'd throw a party for the whole village.

When she sees me alive,

her heart might stop for joy.

Slowly, slowly.

You don't know her.

In our village,

our love story was legendary.

When people fell in love with each other

they would recite our love story.

This is all the fault

of the damn President...

All these years of torture.

I bore it for one reason only.

Her love gave me the strength to bear it.

Now I have just one wish.

That the moment I embrace my wife

be the moment

the President embraces his death.

What can I do with these feet?

What can I do with these clothes?

I don't want her to see me like this.

If she sees me like this,

she will commit suicide from sorrow.

Wear mine.

Put me down.

What? No.

No, better that I take you to the door.

No, no. I want to go on my own feet.

Okay. Careful!

I can feel you in my heart.

I'll go by myself.

Just a little further.

Who is it?

H's ma.

You?

You're alive?

Yes! I'm alive.

NO"-

I don't believe it.

Aren't you harry?

I am happy. but...

But what?

The baby is crying.

Who?

My baby is six months old.

Six months?

I was in prison for five years.

I got married.

Hello!

Hello?

Forgive me!

Don't let the kid see!

We will leave you here, brothers.

Our village is two kilometers away.

Bye.

Bye.

Travel safely.

Thank you!

I'm afraid when my mom sees me

she'll die from joy.

Mother, Mother...

Uncle, why were you in prison?

Because I sang.

Stop! Thank you.

We will leave you here.

Take care.

Attention! Attention!

The bounty on the President's head

has been increased to one million dollars.

I don't like this play anymore.

When will we finish it?

Soon.

Just one more scene.

When we reach the sea,

everything will be finished.

Hurry!

Stand like this.

Like a scarecrow.

It's finished!

The play is over!

Now the boat will come

and take us to Grandma.

I want to go back to the palace.

Your Majesty!

Sorry... Granddad!

Don't worry!

From now on,

you can call me "Your Majesty"!

LOOK!

I built a palace for you.

Where did we dance'?

HOTS]

More than two days have passed

but I still remember Maria!

Here, we played

turning the lights on and off.

You remember?

I know why the revolution happened!

When we turned off the lights,

people couldn't see anything

in the darkness.

Quick! We have to hide!

They are looking for us.

Catch him!

This way!

Here's his guitar,

and this is his sack.

They must be somewhere around here.

These are their footprints.

They're in here! Come on!

Come on! They're over here!

Kill him!

Don't let him get away!

Get ready!

Ready!

One...

Don't shoot them!

This kind of death is too easy for him!

This monster

hanged my only son in front of me.

We should hang his grandson

in front of him,

than hang the bastard!

Make him suffer!

Hang him!

Murderer!

Murderer!

First kill his grandson!

Then f***ing kill him!

Bastard!

He is not human!

Killer!

F***ing kill him!

Hang them!

Make him suffer!

Killer!

Hang the boy!

Don't 100th HIS boy!

The child is innocent!

What is he guilty of?

When they were torturing me in his prison,

you were his soldiers.

You killed people in the streets

at his command.

How could he kill so many people,

without you as his soldiers?

Stop!

Don't hang him!

Burn him!

Burn the bastard!

He burned my brother alive!

People! Let's take our revenge!

People! Burn him alive!

Burn the monster!

You are the people who cheered him.

You are the people

who filled your houses with his pictures.

What freedom are you talking about?

Don't look back, darling!

Look at the sea.

I don't like this game.

Put your hands over your ears.

I can still hear them.

Listen to the sea!

Listen to the waves.

Look at yourself!

Your...

Let me go!

I don't like this game.

Cover your ears.

Cover your ears.

Why are you burning him?

You're holding one million dollars

cash in your hands.

God is just.

I can still hear them!

Try to listen to the sea.

Cut him into 100 pieces

and everyone will have their $10,000 share

of the reward.

Stop!

Is this what you want?

Then start with me!

It!

How can you not understand?

If we don't stop here,

we will continue

the same old f***ing system.

First you kill the dictator,

then you'll start.

There's no end to it!

So what should we do?

Should we let him go?

No! Let's make him dance!

What?

Let him dance for democracy!

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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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