Turtles Can Fly Page #4

Synopsis: On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Bahman Ghobadi
Production: IFC Films
  23 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
PG-13
Year:
2004
98 min
$213,047
Website
222 Views


The child understands everything.

Lower your voice!

How many times must I tell you?

Everyone's leaving. Only we're left.

Uncle Hengov, will you remove this?

Of course!

Come closer!

Does it hurt?

Remove it!

Let me see! Look,

it is not bleeding now!

- What is this?

- Throw it away!

If you don't come, I'll go alone.

You say you want to go everyday.

Why don't you leave then?

Leave if you want to!

How can I go alone?

How would you manage with the child?

Let's leave.

If we don't leave this child now,

we will never be able to do that.

Let's go!

Someone will find him

and take care of him.

We'll all go together.

We won't go with him.

What will we tell people

when he grows up?

Shall we say we found him

in the streets?

What will we tell him

when he grows up?

Hengov, let's go!

Somebody will take him!

I'm leaving.

Mummy!

Where are you?

Hurry! Hurry up! Quick!

Didn't I say no one is allowed

to have weapons in the school?

Teacher, how are you today?

Do you think this is a good place

for shooting?

The white flag is enough.

This is the best place for weapons.

The best place.

Oh, brother!

Hey, work hard!

Hey you, work harder!

All you do is go to villages

and mess them up.

You'll make trouble

for the kids someday.

What? Me? Did I mess them up?

Do I make trouble for the children?

If it hadn't been for me,

they would have been jobless.

Can't you hear the explosions?

War is coming closer to us.

It's war, teacher!

We have to get weapons ready.

Hey, why aren't you listening?

Teach them Math and Science!

They know Math and Science.

They have to learn

how to shoot now.

They have to learn how to use masks.

Look teacher!

Shirkooh! What's 40 times 5?

Pashow! What's 240 minus 100?

See, teacher!

They know all of it.

They have to learn

how to fight now. Dig! Dig!

Well done! Dig! Dig!

The brother of the armless boy

has gone on a mine.

- Who?

- The brother of the armless boy.

Hurry!

Someone go and find the brother!

He hasn't walked on a mine!

Who said that?

Stay where you are!

Don't move!

- How long has he been there?

- Since morning, Satellite.

Don't move! Don't move!

- Are you talking to me?

- Yes! If you move you'll die.

Please don't move!

I'll come over to you.

- What?

- There are mines all around you.

What? I shouldn't move?

Are there mines here?

- Has anybody gone to get his brother?

- Yes!

Don't move! I'll come over to you.

Everyone quiet!

I'm coming. I'm coming.

Don't move! I'm coming.

Satellite, please don't go there!

Don't move! I'm coming.

Don't move!

- Satellite, please don't go there!

- He's right, don't go!

Don't move! I'm coming.

Bring the bike!

Don't go further!

I want the bike.

Honk.

Ok! I'll do it for you.

Bring the bike!

I've brought it. Don't move!

- Why don't you honk?

- Wait! Wait!

- I want the bike.

- OK! I'll give it to you.

I'll give it to you.

Satellite, Please don't go there!

I had a nightmare last night.

Don't go!

Satellite, for God's sake!

Don't cry!

I beg you to let me

or Pashow go there.

What? Look at my leg! Do you want me

to lose the other one too?

Satellite is a good person.

Let us go there!

- Everyone clap for Pashow!

- No need for that!

Let his brother go there!

Enough! Don't talk!

Here's your bike!

I've brought red fish, for you.

Don't move!

Stay where you are!

There are some mines over there!

If you don't come forward

I'll give this to you.

Wait, don't come forward,

I'll give it to you.

Don't touch it! It's a mine.

Bring him inside! Bring him!

Don't cry! Don't cry!

How many times must I tell you

not to play with such things?

Put him there.

Esmaeel, slower! Slowly!

Don't worry! It's nothing!

It will be fine!

My leg!

I'll bring a doctor for you tonight.

You kept saying USA, USA

until you fell on a USA mine.

I'll go fetch the doctor.

Do you need anything, Satellite?

No, thanks! Don't stay here!

All of you leave!

I said leave.

- Where's Pashow?

- He went with Esmaeel.

Satellite, Esmaeel sent this for you.

How's your leg?

What's up with the child?

Don't touch it! It hurts.

Thank God he is fine!

I returned him healthy and well.

- Did you see his sister?

- No.

But the armless boy

sent a message for you.

What did he say?

Move away!

He said everything would come

to an end tomorrow morning.

What?

Everything will end by tomorrow.

The war would end?

I don't know.

Everything ends tomorrow!

Go and tell Esmaeel

to inform the people

that the war will end tomorrow!

OK!

Tell me what to say again!

Go and tell Esmaeel to tell the people

on the mosque microphone

that the war will end tomorrow.

Open the door!

What is it? It's midnight.

- Saddam has fallen.

- What?

I saw it myself.

There are lots of Americans here.

The refugees are coming back

to the city.

How did you find out?

I saw it myself.

All the children are on the hill.

Why have they gone up there?

When the Americans got here,

they went to Esmaeel.

They took his dish

and carried it to the hill.

The children are watching

the prohibited channels

with the American soldiers.

They are watching

the prohibited channels?

Where is Shirkooh?

He's going to the city

with his uncle.

Satellite,

can we please go to the city?

They say it is the end of the world.

The city is chaos.

Please, let's go!

Everywhere is a mess.

- Where were you?

- Shirkooh has come.

- Satellite! Are you better?

- What is this?

This is Saddam's arm.

It's for you!

They say it's very important.

I sold all my mines to get it.

The Americans said

it's very expensive.

- How did you learn their language?

- You taught me!

The Americans said not to collect

American mines any more.

Not any more.

They will pay us money to collect

these.

They will pay dollars. Dollars!

I have brought you something else.

How nice

and interesting!!

- Well, what's going on?

- I am coming.

Guess what I have for you?

What?

A few red fish.

What is this?

Where did you get it?

It's foreign.

My uncle bought it

from the Americans.

- Let me see.

- This is the red fish you wanted.

- Where did you bring it from?

- It's nice...

It is first class American!

Please,

don't go into the water anymore!

American...

Are you making fun of me?

I have to go now.

My uncle is waiting for me.

Coming Uncle!

- Where are you going?

- To the town.

Take care!

Come back soon!

I am looking for a new job.

I want to make some money!

Goodbye!

Why is the color like this?

Don't look at them for too long!

Sleep!

- Why are they this color?

- Goodbye!

Shirkooh!

Satellite said to come to the spring.

He has seen something strange.

Agrin!

Agrin!

Here, Satellite!

The armless boy gave this to you.

He said in 275 days something else

will happen in the area.

Look! Didn't you want to see

the Americans?

An Iran-Iraq joint product

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Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی‎; Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی / Behmen Qubadî) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province. Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema. more…

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