The House Is Black

1 00:00:06,190 --> 00:00:11,800 <i>This edition of THE HOUSE IS BLACK was made at the initiative of Cinema magazine,</i> 2 00:00:11,958 --> 00:00:16,065 <i>with authorization from the film's producer, Ebrahim Golestan.</i> 3 00:00:16,189 --> 00:00:22,649 <i>The copy used is from the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, developed from the original negative.</i> 4 00:00:22,759 --> 00:00:27,149 <i>Some elements were completed using a copy from the French Cinematheque.</i> 5 00:00:28,899 --> 00:00:39,200 THE HOUSE IS BLACK 6 00:00:40,030 --> 00:00:42,832 There is no shortage of ugliness in the world. 7 00:00:43,429 --> 00:00:48,329 If people closed their eyes to it, there would be even more. 8 00:00:48,829 --> 00:00:51,029 But man knows how to solve any problem. 9 00:00:52,426 --> 00:00:55,225 On this screen, you will witness a picture of ugliness, 10 00:00:55,426 --> 00:01:01,026 a picture of suffering, which no sensitive soul should ignore. 11 00:01:02,725 --> 00:01:07,632 To remove this ugliness, to relieve those who bear it, 12 00:01:07,831 --> 00:01:10,436 and to comfort the afflicted... 13 00:01:10,638 --> 00:01:14,736 this is what motivated the making of this film. 14 00:01:15,837 --> 00:01:19,936 Translation and subtitles: kephasmnc 15 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 16 00:01:41,784 --> 00:01:45,384 Lord, I praise You... 17 00:01:45,584 --> 00:01:47,183 for having created me. 18 00:01:47,384 --> 00:01:49,284 Lord, I praise You... 19 00:01:49,483 --> 00:01:53,185 for having created my mother who cares for me 20 00:01:53,385 --> 00:01:54,784 and my father full of kindness. 21 00:01:54,885 --> 00:01:59,986 Lord, I praise You for the water that flows and for the trees that bear fruit. 22 00:02:00,186 --> 00:02:05,087 Lord, I praise You for having given me hands to work, 23 00:02:05,287 --> 00:02:12,288 eyes to see the wonders of the world 24 00:02:12,486 --> 00:02:19,788 ears to hear beautiful melodies 25 00:02:19,989 --> 00:02:26,591 and feet to go wherever I wish. 26 00:02:32,389 --> 00:02:37,268 Who is this that from hell praises You, Lord? 27 00:02:38,283 --> 00:02:40,185 Who is this from hell? 28 00:03:20,604 --> 00:03:22,306 Thursday... 29 00:03:23,407 --> 00:03:25,108 Friday... 30 00:03:26,209 --> 00:03:28,407 Saturday... 31 00:03:28,908 --> 00:03:30,810 Sunday... 32 00:03:31,408 --> 00:03:33,311 Monday... 33 00:03:34,009 --> 00:03:35,912 Tuesday... 34 00:03:37,012 --> 00:03:39,513 - Wednesday... - October. 35 00:03:39,711 --> 00:03:42,312 - Thursday... - November. 36 00:03:42,615 --> 00:03:44,913 - Friday... - December. 37 00:03:45,215 --> 00:03:47,216 - Saturday... - January. 38 00:03:47,716 --> 00:03:50,116 - Sunday... - February. 39 00:03:50,417 --> 00:03:52,616 - Monday... - March. 40 00:03:53,018 --> 00:03:55,116 Tuesday... 41 00:03:55,616 --> 00:03:57,519 Wednesday... 42 00:03:58,318 --> 00:04:00,020 Thursday... 43 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:00,919 Friday... 44 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:06,122 Saturday... 45 00:04:06,122 --> 00:04:07,823 - Sunday... - September. 46 00:04:08,223 --> 00:04:10,122 - October. - Monday... 47 00:04:11,122 --> 00:04:13,125 - November. - Tuesday... 48 00:04:13,625 --> 00:04:15,625 - December. - Wednesday... 49 00:04:15,925 --> 00:04:18,026 - January. - Thursday... 50 00:04:18,225 --> 00:04:21,026 - February. - Friday... 51 00:04:21,225 --> 00:04:23,427 - March. - Saturday... 52 00:04:23,629 --> 00:04:25,028 April. 53 00:04:25,228 --> 00:04:27,329 - Sunday... - May. 54 00:04:27,629 --> 00:04:29,129 Monday... 55 00:04:30,629 --> 00:04:32,031 Tuesday... 56 00:04:33,129 --> 00:04:34,632 Wednesday... 57 00:04:35,932 --> 00:04:37,432 Thursday... 58 00:04:38,432 --> 00:04:39,932 Friday... 59 00:04:41,333 --> 00:04:44,934 I will sing praises to Your name, O Eternal One! 60 00:04:45,134 --> 00:04:49,533 I will sing praises to Your name with the ten-stringed harp 61 00:04:49,733 --> 00:04:54,434 because You created me in a wonderful way. 62 00:04:55,134 --> 00:05:00,934 My bones were not hidden from You when I was made, 63 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:04,834 I was formed in the depths of the earth. 64 00:05:19,735 --> 00:05:23,836 In Your book, all my members were written. 65 00:05:24,137 --> 00:05:28,536 And Your eyes, O Lord, saw me in the womb... 66 00:05:28,937 --> 00:05:31,836 Your eyes saw my embryo... 67 00:05:32,002 --> 00:05:35,273 <i>I will see spring no more but my words will remain.</i> 68 00:05:35,273 --> 00:05:38,543 <i>One day, the heavens departed from me and I awoke in this asylum.</i> 69 00:05:38,644 --> 00:05:42,543 <i>I departed. With my heart in sorrow. I am sad tonight, my brothers.</i> 70 00:05:53,403 --> 00:05:56,394 Leprosy is a chronic and contagious disease. 71 00:05:56,994 --> 00:06:00,882 Leprosy is not hereditary, but it is contagious. 72 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:06,168 Leprosy can be found anywhere and everywhere. 73 00:06:07,165 --> 00:06:09,459 Leprosy is accompanied by poverty. 74 00:06:10,355 --> 00:06:14,843 When attacking the body, it deepens and widens wrinkles, 75 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:18,737 devours tissues, 76 00:06:19,038 --> 00:06:22,637 covers nerves with a withered shield, 77 00:06:23,038 --> 00:06:26,738 dulls sensitivity to heat and touch, 78 00:06:27,038 --> 00:06:28,838 blinds the eyes, 79 00:06:29,170 --> 00:06:31,737 corrodes the nasal septum, 80 00:06:32,348 --> 00:06:35,257 finds its way to the liver and bone marrow, 81 00:06:35,257 --> 00:06:37,658 withers fingers, 82 00:06:38,158 --> 00:06:41,857 and opens the way for other diseases. 83 00:06:52,728 --> 00:06:55,422 Leprosy is not incurable. 84 00:06:56,321 --> 00:06:59,920 Treating lepers prevents the disease from spreading. 85 00:07:00,951 --> 00:07:04,750 Where lepers are cared for in an appropriate manner, 86 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,139 the disease disappears. 87 00:07:08,209 --> 00:07:13,146 When leprosy is treated in its early stages, it can be completely cured. 88 00:07:16,047 --> 00:07:18,247 Leprosy is not incurable. 89 00:08:26,067 --> 00:08:29,567 O generous God, grant Your benevolence to our supplications. 90 00:08:29,932 --> 00:08:34,932 You are the Supreme over men and spirits. In the name of God, 91 00:08:35,514 --> 00:08:40,299 merciful and compassionate, 92 00:08:40,499 --> 00:08:45,782 In the name of Allah, of Allah and by Allah. 93 00:08:45,980 --> 00:08:50,966 To You I submit my being, Lord, and to You I turn my face. 94 00:08:51,066 --> 00:08:54,155 To You I entrust my works and my destiny equally... 95 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:58,655 Your hands are for me my left and my right, 96 00:08:58,712 --> 00:09:01,114 my north and my south, 97 00:09:01,313 --> 00:09:04,313 my rock and my destiny. 98 00:09:04,413 --> 00:09:07,816 Everything is subject to Your command and Your power, 99 00:09:08,015 --> 00:09:12,515 for there is no righteousness nor power, except from Allah. 100 00:10:28,123 --> 00:10:32,129 If I had the wings of a dove, 101 00:10:32,230 --> 00:10:35,933 I would fly away and find rest. 102 00:10:36,034 --> 00:10:41,642 I would go far away and find shelter in the desert. 103 00:10:41,942 --> 00:10:47,548 I would hurry to escape the whirlwind and the storm. 104 00:10:48,451 --> 00:10:52,456 For I have seen misery and disgrace on earth. 105 00:11:00,067 --> 00:11:02,691 The universe, pregnant with inertia, 106 00:11:02,691 --> 00:11:05,265 gave birth to injustice. 107 00:11:05,576 --> 00:11:07,572 Where would I find refuge? 108 00:11:07,572 --> 00:11:10,158 away from Your face and Your presence? 109 00:11:11,264 --> 00:11:14,166 If I hid under the wings of the morning breeze, 110 00:11:14,265 --> 00:11:17,365 and took refuge in the depths of the sea, 111 00:11:17,565 --> 00:11:21,065 Your hand would reach me. 112 00:11:22,167 --> 00:11:25,168 You made me numb with indecision. 113 00:11:25,268 --> 00:11:28,068 How wondrous are Your works! 114 00:11:28,668 --> 00:11:31,971 How wondrous are Your works! 115 00:11:45,777 --> 00:11:49,275 I speak of the bitterness of my soul. 116 00:11:49,676 --> 00:11:53,475 I speak of the bitterness of my soul. 117 00:11:54,775 --> 00:11:58,774 While I kept silent, my bones rotted 118 00:11:58,975 --> 00:12:02,274 amid my silent cries of each day. 119 00:12:03,774 --> 00:12:07,073 Remember that my life is but a breath! 120 00:12:08,773 --> 00:12:14,072 I have become the pelican of the desert, the owl of the ruins, 121 00:12:14,373 --> 00:12:18,672 and like a sparrow, I remain alone on the roof. 122 00:12:26,346 --> 00:12:33,544 I am like spilled water, like those who died long ago. 123 00:12:34,993 --> 00:12:38,590 Upon my eyelids, the shadow of Death hides. 124 00:12:38,988 --> 00:12:42,186 Upon my eyelids, the shadow of Death hides. 125 00:12:44,483 --> 00:12:50,178 Leave me, leave me, for my days are nothing but a breath. 126 00:12:50,678 --> 00:12:56,073 Leave me, before I depart to the land of no return. 127 00:12:56,872 --> 00:13:00,069 To the land of eternal darkness... 128 00:13:19,052 --> 00:13:25,545 O Lord, do not deliver the life of Your dove to the claws of beasts! 129 00:13:48,750 --> 00:13:51,542 Do not forget that my life is wind, 130 00:13:51,641 --> 00:13:55,328 that You gave me a time of languor, 131 00:13:55,528 --> 00:13:59,436 and around me, the song of happiness, 132 00:13:59,436 --> 00:14:01,080 the sound of windmills, 133 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,674 and the glimmer of dying light. 134 00:14:05,436 --> 00:14:10,179 Blessed are those who are in the harvest now, 135 00:14:10,373 --> 00:14:14,270 and their hands gather the wheat sheaves. 136 00:14:47,405 --> 00:14:52,912 Hear the soul of her who sings in the distant desert! 137 00:14:54,013 --> 00:15:00,017 The soul of her who sings and stretches her hands saying: 138 00:15:00,217 --> 00:15:06,623 "Woe is me, for my wounds have numbed my spirit!" 139 00:15:22,237 --> 00:15:25,139 O time, long forgotten, 140 00:15:25,139 --> 00:15:31,044 when you dressed in red and put on your golden ornaments, 141 00:15:31,844 --> 00:15:35,449 and carefully made up your eyes, 142 00:15:36,250 --> 00:15:39,652 remember that in vain you made yourself beautiful 143 00:15:39,852 --> 00:15:43,555 for a song in the distant desert, 144 00:15:43,855 --> 00:15:47,758 and your friends who defamed you... 145 00:18:03,979 --> 00:18:11,786 Alas, for the day gently fades, and the evening shadows spread. 146 00:18:12,087 --> 00:18:15,991 And our being, like a cage full of birds, 147 00:18:16,191 --> 00:18:19,293 is filled with the sighs of captivity. 148 00:18:20,294 --> 00:18:24,922 And none of us knows how much longer captivity will last. 149 00:18:26,136 --> 00:18:28,149 The time of harvest has passed, 150 00:18:28,149 --> 00:18:32,766 summer has come to an end, and we have not found our salvation. 151 00:18:34,394 --> 00:18:38,977 Like doves, we cry for justice... and there is none. 152 00:18:40,875 --> 00:18:46,159 We long for light... but darkness prevails. 153 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,980 Venus. Sometimes, at dusk, we can see a bright star. 154 00:19:00,337 --> 00:19:03,337 Its name is Venus (Morning Star). 155 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,672 Venus is very luminous. 156 00:19:07,198 --> 00:19:11,504 The planet Venus is very close to us. 157 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:15,703 The planet Venus does not twinkle. 158 00:19:17,692 --> 00:19:23,080 Why should we thank God for having father and mother? 159 00:19:25,306 --> 00:19:27,001 You answer! 160 00:19:28,628 --> 00:19:32,253 I don't know, I have no father or mother... 161 00:19:36,988 --> 00:19:39,529 You! List some beautiful things! 162 00:19:43,838 --> 00:19:47,766 The moon, the sun, flowers, playtime... 163 00:19:49,176 --> 00:19:51,873 And you, list some ugly things! 164 00:19:54,767 --> 00:19:55,966 The hand... 165 00:19:56,166 --> 00:19:58,662 the foot, the head... 166 00:20:06,988 --> 00:20:10,374 Write a sentence that contains the word "house"! 167 00:20:27,965 --> 00:20:30,349 LEPER COLONY 168 00:20:38,198 --> 00:20:40,284 <i>THE HOUSE</i> 169 00:20:48,034 --> 00:20:49,898 <i>IS</i> 170 00:20:52,282 --> 00:20:53,697 <i>BLACK</i> 171 00:20:54,199 --> 00:20:57,964 <i>THE HOUSE IS BLACK</i> 172 00:20:58,870 --> 00:21:03,812 O overflowing river moved by the force of love, 173 00:21:04,504 --> 00:21:08,160 flow to us, flow to us... 174 00:21:09,673 --> 00:21:14,527 Made in autumn 1962 for the Association for Assistance to Lepers 175 00:21:14,625 --> 00:21:17,497 by Gulistan Film Co. 176 00:21:19,652 --> 00:21:20,905 Translation and subtitles: kephasmnc 177 00:21:20,905 --> 00:21:24,504 Cinematography: Soleiman Minassian 178 00:21:26,253 --> 00:21:31,087 Sound: Mahmood Hangwall, Samad Poorkamali 179 00:21:36,435 --> 00:21:39,932 Producer: Ebrahim Golestan 180 00:21:41,578 --> 00:21:48,777 Editing and direction: Forough Farrokhzad 181 00:21:49,305 --> 00:22:49,425 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm