[quiet, tense music playing]
[thunderclap]
[rain falling]
[music fades out]
The machine.
"A SOUL WILL RISE FROM THE DEAD"
It was completely intact.
It was standing there in perfect condition, taunting me.
It seemed like it was shielded by a strange armor
or a power beyond my comprehension.
As though it had eyes and was grinning at me from afar.
That was the first time I felt the devil right next to me.
It seemed to be hidden somewhere in the room,
whispering in my ear, "The game is far from over."
"Your suffering has just begun."
[loud thunderclap]
The book contains 81 pages.
Page 81 is blank.
It has nothing on it. What does that mean?
[adventurous music playing]
[Grandma] Open your right palm,
and take a close look at the lines up there.
What do you see? 18.
Eighteen.
[Grandma] Now, open your left palm.
What do you see?
It's 81.
Eighty-one.
Now put them together. What does it make?
Ninety-nine!
Good job!
The book says God has 99 names.
Now you understand while we pray, while we perform our sacred ritual,
we open our palms.
The Creator engraved his 99 names on our palms.
He did that when we were all born.
There is no exception.
Do you understand what I'm trying to convey to you, Ziya?
Engraved in our palms.
[older Ziya] Engraved in our palms.
Engraved in our palms.
Engraved.
Engraved in our palms.
He finished the book at page 80.
However, page 81 is empty, nothing on it!
He left it blank on purpose,
because when added together,
They make 99!
[adventurous music continues]
So an empty page means
A newly born!
[thunderclap]
It means new life!
"When the healing comes from the palms,
the palms giveth, and the palms taketh."
"The palms of your hands."
"And a light that comes from the heavens will strike the machine
to give life to the dead, a life stronger than before."
"It is because this light outshines all other lights
since the beginning of time immemorial."
[adventurous music continues]
It's because this light outshines
all other lights before it.
I had to put him back in his place with a slap.
Even at birth, that boy was unruly.
It was a breech birth.
His father had to rip her open to get him out,
He was covered in blood.
That's why my poor Gülfem was unable to have another child.
And she never will.
[Ziya] It's a light that has succeeded in blocking all other light
since time immemorial.
[Ziya panting]
[thunderclap]
[groaning]
I was the one that cut through
my mother's womb.
I was the one who blocked
the way for the ones after me!
I'm the one! I'm unique! Love me! See me as I am:
-Light! -[thunderclap]
I will create, I will bring you back into existence!
You'll be born from your ashes.
Like the phoenix.
[thunderclap]
Like the phoenix.
[music stops]
Good day to you.
You, too, thank you.
[giggles quietly]
Asiye. Who was it, dear?
Gü-- Gülnihal. She came by to invite me over for coffee.
Have it here. She's already here. Tell her to come in.
She's gone. She spoke to me, and left.
Does she feel uncomfortable here?
Fine, you go then.
You can have a chat. You've neglected your friends anyway.
Yeah, you are right.
I'm not gonna tell my folks that I've received a letter.
Psst.
Girl… start talking. Tell me what he says in the letter.
I'd like to know how the male species acts when they're in love.
I mean, you know, it's the usual stuff. He calls me a piece of his soul,
And also tells me that his left side, where his heart is, is empty,
that without me his lungs burn, and there isn't any air to breathe,
and his stomach churns like grinding meat--
Whoa, wait, girl, that's disgusting!
Like he's a sausage maker trying to sell you links.
What can I do? I guess he's just combusting at the thought of having me.
Combusting?
You should tell the fire squad to shoot some water on Ziya.
[both giggle]
[in Turkish] ♪ Whenever there's a fire ♪
♪ That's where we are as a choir ♪
♪ Whenever there's a fire That's where we are as a choir ♪
-[dramatic music playing] -[Ziya groaning]
[Ziya snickers]
-[loud thunder rumbling] -[cackling]
[screaming]
Almost.
[Ziya groans]
-[thunderclap] -[screaming]
Palms giveth, and then… taketh.
[grunts]
[dramatic music continues]
[grunts]
[knife slicing]
[grunts]
-[thunder crackling] -Arise!
-[electricity zapping]
[Ziya groans]
Isn't this enough? Make it happen!
What more do you need? Is it my life, huh?
[groaning]
[gasps]
[groaning]
[gasping]
[music becomes more dramatic]
[loud thunder rumbling]
[groaning]
[exhales deeply]
[explosive thunder]
[music fades out]
[exhales deeply]
[dramatic music builds in intensity]
CREATURE
[music stops]
-[wheezing sound] -[rain trickling and distant thunder]
[quiet, dramatic music playing]
-[thunderclap] -[wheezing continues]
[Ziya chuckles faintly]
[Ziya groaning]
[Ziya chuckles faintly]
[cackling]
[Ziya breathes deeply]
[music fades out]
[Captain] Well then, what happened?
Captain, take me out into the sun.
Why, God?!
Tell me why?!
What fanned the flames in me?!
Why did I give up on this world?
This beauty.
On this life?
[Captain] Why so gloomy, son?
You are still young.
What is it that's over? What's gone?
Everything's within your control. Aside from death.
[laughing]
[cackling]
[men chuckling]
[sighs]
[animal sounds]
-[groaning] -[faint tense music playing]
[gasps]
[groaning]
[music become ominous]
[music builds in intensity]
[music stops]
[gasping]
[gasps]
[groaning] Professor. Professor.
Let go. [groaning]
Can you hear me?
[anguished screaming]
[loud groaning]
[groaning]
It hurts, I know.
Listen, first, I'll get you some ointment.
Come on, let go of me, please.
Come on!
[loud groaning]
[Ziya] After the intoxication, and the sense of victory subsided,
I tried to recover.
[glass clinking]
What I resurrected,
Where I brought it back from,
I had no idea what I had given life to.
And then I realized,
my mouth was way ahead of me.
It had stopped calling it İhsan.
[Ziya groans]
Stay still. This should feel better.
[İhsan groans]
Here. It's all good.
W-- Wait! What's wrong with you?
That's not for eating, it's an ointment.
Gosh. You're hungry.
I guess I am too.
We need to get through this, understand me? Not edible. Hear me?
[groaning]
[melancholic music playing]
-[Ziya coughing] -[İhsan groaning]
[Ziya coughing]
[İhsan grunts]
[groaning faintly]
[Ziya groaning]
[melancholic music continues]
-[Ziya groaning] -[Darwin barking]
[distant thunder rumbling]
[Ziya groaning]
[screams]
[groaning]
[cackling]
[retching]
[Darwin whimpering]
[panting]
[Ziya] I don't have time for you.
Come. Come, come, come, come, come, come. Look, there it is.
[loud groaning]
[gasping]
[grunting]
[gasps]
[melancholic music continues]
[cow mooing]
-Thank you, my boy. -Thank you.
God bless you.
Shhh.
[Ziya] Here, drink this.
[gulping]
[İhsan] Mmm.
[moaning]
No, no, don't touch that. Don't touch it.
-I know you're in pain, I know that. -[moaning]
-But it's okay. -[moaning]
-You're going to be just fine. -[moaning]
What's wrong? Why are you staring at me?
You recognize me?
I'm… It's me, Ziya.
[moaning faintly]
İhsan?
[moaning faintly]
Go on. Come on.
Come on, talk to me, go ahead.
Say something.
Tell me your name.
Please stop looking at me like a fool! Speak!
[moaning faintly]
[Darwin barks in the distance]
[moaning faintly]
[distant howling]
[İhsan grunts faintly]
-See? Yeah. -[moaning]
Come on. There you go. You remember.
I'm sure you still have memories.
Hidden in your brain, in your mind.
You will remember, gradually.
Look.
[quiet, dramatic music playing]
-[fearful moan] -No, come.
Come on.
Remembering will be painful.
But you were behind the machine when it happened.
It provided you cover.
It will…
cause you pain.
And you'll be scared of yourself, but look, your body's unharmed.
Come on.
Look, you built this machine.
You built it with me.
I helped you, too, Professor.
Yeah, take a look. Remember.
Think hard.
-[moans] -[gasps]
[quiet, dramatic music continues]
[sighs]
Well I'll be damned.
[grunts]
What?
[gurgled grunt]
What?
-[groaning] -[flatulence]
[moist flatulence]
-[groans faintly] -[music stops]
[Ziya sniffs]
[faint, tense music playing]
No.
Is this real?
[haunting, melodic music playing]
[İhsan groaning]
[mumbling]
[music fades out]
[whimpering]
What's wrong?
Why are you scared?
-[İhsan groans loudly] -[Ziya gasping]
Let… Let go!
[gasping and coughing]
[groans]
No. It can't be.
That's impossible. That's impossible!
[moaning faintly]
[gasps]
[groans angrily]
[distant dog barking]
[groaning painfully]
[groans angrily]
Asiye, dear, I'm wonder how many of those bags you're going to pack before we leave.
Well, it's just some clean shirts, underwear, and other stuff for Ziya.
[breathing deeply]
We'll unpack them once we get there anyway.
Yeah, and we're gonna bring back the dirty ones.
-Yeah, if he can't do his laundry there… -[chuckling]
Well, I'm sure he has a woman doing his cleaning.
An arrangement with a laundry lady.
It's fine. Please don't even worry about it.
I understood what you were saying.
Who is Yunus, anyway?
He's a tenant here.
You should've said so. This is a bachelors' inn.
We're never short of tenants.
Mmm… Curly hair.
-He-- He's a student. -Ah, the one going to school.
Yeah, that's his room there.
But try not to come again at this hour, young man.
We normally don't allow visitors in the evening.
Best you come during the day.
[inhaling deeply]
[knocking]
[exhaling deeply]
Ziya?
Finally, man. I was worried sick. Where have you been?
I wanted to come visit you, but I thought you didn't want that.
You felt the earthquake last night, didn't you?
The ground was shaking violently, we thought that was it.
Since nothing's collapsed here, I thought you were safe.
I didn't sleep a wink, though. My mind was reeling.
What the hell are you up to with that man? I'm out of excuses to tell the faculty.
You can stop.
It's all over. I won't go back there, Yunus.
What the hell are you talking about?
Listen, Ziya, you can tell me if something's immoral. You know that?
Look, I'm trustworthy. I won't tell anyone, don't worry.
Your secret will be safe with me.
You'll really keep my secret?
Will you help me?
What happened to your hands?
Yunus, I did something really horrible.
Did you kill the guy? Is that it?
[animal sounds]
[dog barking]
[breathing deeply]
[lock clicking]
What's that?
Ziya. Ziya!
Ziya, what's that, Ziya?
Yunus. Yunus!
[panting]
Yunus. Get a grip on yourself.
Are you with me?
We'll be fine if we convince Hamdi I've been with you for the last couple nights.
And what about the landlord? He saw you.
Just tell him that I snuck in or something.
And you hid me in your room.
Tell him I'd been there for two nights when he saw me.
That's really what you're worried about, Yunus?
I don't think they'll dig that deep.
We'll be okay… if Hamdi thinks I wasn't here.
But with you at the time of the explosion.
He's the only witness.
What if he doesn't believe us?
He'll believe me.
This house is very secluded.
Late at night, no one will see, or notice the fire.
[quiet, haunting music playing]
Yes. A fire.
It's the perfect cover for everything. There won't be any trace left.
Of İhsan, or the machine.
Don't.
Don't tell me you're gonna burn him. Leave me out of this.
I will report you myself.
Even with the state he's in…
Have you lost your mind?! What do you think of me?!
I'm not a murderer, Yunus! That's not who I am. That won't be me.
You think the police won't look for the scorched İhsan?
-They won't wonder where his bones are? -They won't.
We scorched İhsan.
We have a corpse.
He's out back.
-[both grunting] -[haunting music intensifies]
[both retching]
Yunus.
Yunus, snap out of it.
All right, but what about Professor İhsan, th-- that thing inside?
[Ziya] He's somebody else now. No one can recognize him. You saw him.
We'll abandon him on the street. Let fate take its course.
I know, Yunus, that this is cruel, but this was never my intention.
He kinda chose this path for himself.
I was just a pawn on the chessboard.
[haunting, dramatic music continues]
We can't help him. We can't.
I'm unable to do anything, Yunus. If I could do something…
I'm exhausted, Yunus.
[both groaning]
[Ziya] I will pay the price for whatever sins I committed. I will leave school.
I'll go back home.
All my hopes, my future,
and everything will be burned with this house.
[music becomes quiet]
Give me your foot.
A leprous man living on the streets. He's-- He's just a madman now.
I'm sure someone will step up to help him.
A hospital, a philanthropist,
or a lazer house.
[music become melancholic]
I won't be able to become a physician.
Half my heart will stop beating.
This is how I will pay the price of my sin.
If there really is a hell,
Then this fire will be my personal hell.
There will be two hells for me, Yunus.
I will burn twice.
With the flames of this fire, and the one on the other side.
[moaning faintly]
It's okay.
[moaning]
[Ziya] Maybe he was just scared of the pain the fire left on his flesh.
-Or maybe, in those flames… -[sobbing]
…he caught a glimpse of the place from which he had just returned,
a place that we know nothing about.
[İhsan continues sobbing]
[melancholic music continues]
In short, İhsan was no more.
His heart stopped beating anyway.
Did you ask him? What hell was like, I mean?
Tell us. What should we do to avoid being burned down there?
-We should know, so that we… Yeah. -[music ends]
Even if you asked him his own name,
He wouldn't respond.
He had even forgotten his own name.
The world he saw, what he experienced
was all inside his head.
Brother, I mean no disrespect, but I may be able to explain
what you've been telling us with reason and logic.
Maybe his heart really stopped.
The lightning then gave it a boost. I think that's possible, huh?
[men chuckling]
My uncle experienced that. We thought he had died.
Even gathered for his wake meal.
But then the grave started to move. Everyone was scared shitless.
[men chuckle]
He even stuffed his face at his own funeral.
-[men chuckle] -[Ziya chuckles faintly]
It is possible. My father had cases like that.
Then, one day though,
I sat down and listened to him.
Like I listened to İhsan.
A few years ago, there was an explosion in his backyard, see?
He acquired some gunpowder.
-[Ziya] Gunpowder? -[Hamdi] Yeah. And barrels of it.
Anyway, rumor had it that he was trying to kill himself.
[melancholic music playing]
[Ziya] Whoa. [flutter lips]
Let's stop. We'll continue on foot from here.
[Ziya sighs]
Come. Come, İhsan.
Forgive me.
Please…
Forgive me!
[music become ominous]
-Don't look back, Yunus. -[music become dramatic and tragic]
Don't look back!
Don't! Don't look back!
Come!
[ship horn blows]
We can go back inside, if you're cold, Asiye.
No, this is just fine.
Well, aren't you hungry, dear?
I'm offended now, because we are finally on our Istanbul trip,
and you have me here, so feel free to ask,
"Father can you buy me something?" [chuckling]
Let's buy a couple of poppy simit, shall we?
Hey, young man!
The poppy simit sounds amazing. It's been a while since I had one.
-Here, enjoy, good sir. -Thank you.
If I come across some nice fabric in the window displays,
I will have you purchase me a few ells of them.
-Since you're generously offering. -[chucking]
My God. All right then.
Nothing's too good for you, dear one.
Bless you.
[Ziya and Yunus panting]
I will explain everything to Hamdi. He's the only loose end in this.
If we get our stories straight, and make him believe us…
I mean, you just have to nod at anything I say. That's it.
-What do you say, Yunus! -Of course I will, what do you think?
That's my only job, to be your witness.
Besides, I'm sure you've figured out what to say, what lies you'll fabricate,
and how your speech would be.
Yunus, for God's sake. We don't have time for this. Hm?
Yunus, please.
I only need this one last favor from you. After that, I'll be on my way!
I told you everything. It wasn't my fault.
Of course not. It's never your misdeed or your fault.
It's his fault, that poor madman's fault
we abandoned on the road like a lost puppy.
It's always someone else's fault. It's this whole wide world's fault.
It never got you, never could keep up with you. Your hands are clean.
Okay, if it's my fault, then you helped me with it.
We got into this together.
Remember, if I'm going down…
"You're also going down"? Am I right?
[sighs]
There's no need for threats, man.
I'm not one to break promises.
Don't worry too much.
Though it's good that you've threatened me.
At least now I'm sure what kind of a person you are.
[quiet, moody, melodic music playing]
[music stops]
[Muzaffer] All right, according to my watch,
We left home at five in the morning.
Right now, it is quarter past nine a.m.
So with another six hours or so, what does that make it?
Quarter past three in the afternoon.
We'll take the train in Eminönü.
We'll be at the faculty gates just as Ziya is about to leave.
Though, even if we can't, we can find him at the address on the letter.
By the way, I sent a wire to his school, to his professors.
They must have told him that we're on our way. He'll wait for us at the gate.
[Asiye giggling]
I'm sure he will.
So, I'm leaving this town, Mr. Hamdi.
I'm here to get your blessing.
Of course, of course.
You certainly have my blessing.
Though, I don't get it, why the sudden change?
You were once adamant about getting an education.
-You look like you regained your health. -Like an ox, I must add.
He stayed at my place for two days.
Stuffed his face with food.
What about İhsan? What does he say?
I really wish you'd talk to him. He wouldn't approve of you leaving school.
If he could speak, surely it would be great.
[Ziya] That's part of the reason.
I was scared to turn into him.
I wasn't on good terms with the instructors anyway.
We never seemed to agree on anything.
-And once I saw him like that… -Like what?
-Lately, he was doing better. -No, he was back…
In that, you know…
Remember when you came to see me with Yusuf?
After you left, I saw the barrels of gunpowder.
-[gasping] -Lots of them.
They looked recent too.
I just got scared.
That night, I went to Yunus'.
Yeah, exactly like that.
[Hamdi] Oh, my.
I can't believe he's still having problems. God, save his soul.
I should go over there and see how he is, but I have to close up the shop first.
Son, come inside and pack your stuff.
[quiet, mysterious music playing]
[music stops]
I can never repay you, Hamdi.
Release me. I need your blessing.
Don't mention it, son. I'm not okay with this, that's all.
I got used to having you around.
If you think this is for the best…
Maybe you'll think this through, and come back next year to restart your education.
Remember, you'll always have a home, and your friend Hamdi here.
[Ziya] Fare thee well.
You too, son. Write to me.
Jamshid, customers.
-A lamb bone broth. -[Jamshid] Right away, sir.
Well, if you're done with me, I'd better get back to the faculty.
-Yunus-- -All right man, I get it.
You're gonna recite the same things all over again.
You talk a good talk, but with that suspicion in my heart,
I have no way of knowing if your heart's in the right place.
Therefore, man,
anything you say is gonna fall on deaf ears here.
Go on, better be on your way. Godspeed.
[men shouting]
[men] Move! Move! Move!
[man] Out of the way!
[men continue shouting]
-Oi, townsfolk! Oyez, oyez, oyez! -[folksy accordion music playing]
Ladies and gentlemen, stay a while and listen!
The most famous of the famous,
the company of Vasili have arrived in your wonderful town!
Get ready, folks!
You won't believe the things you'll witness in this extraordinary troupe,
which is well-known and making waves across Europe!
Ahhh.
Gentleman, I see that you're in deep grief.
But I'm very confident that we can cheer you up
with the magnificent numbers that our company has in store for you!
Please, sir, how about a little smile, eh?
Oi, townsfolk!
Oyez, oyez, oyez!
Ladies and gentlemen!
Stay a while and listen!
The most famous of the famous, the company of Vasili
have arrived in your wonderful town!
Captain Ömer, have you ever wondered why people
are afraid of ghouls?
I don't know.
Because they're afraid of death, maybe.
They aren't afraid of death
because they're aware of its existence.
People are afraid of the possibility that the ghouls might start talking.
Because then, they will know for certain that there is naught beyond death.
[quiet, contemplative music playing]
[coughing and sniffling]
[moaning]
[whimpering]
[moaning]
[woman 1 gasps]
Oh, my!
-Don't look, child, don't look! -[man 1] Leper!
He's leprous! Hurry!
[man 2] He's leprous! Run!
[music becomes ominous]
[woman 2] It's a ghoul! Risen from the grave!
[man 2] Demon, go away!
[gasping]
Please, stop!
Leprous! Run!
[man 1] Stop!
-Stop right there! Stop, stay away! -[man 3] Stay away, stop!
It's a ghoul from beyond the grave! Back from the grave!
[people shouting]
[ominous music continues]
[shouting continues]
Stop it. Stop, please.
Stop it! Stop it! Stop!
Let him go! Stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Don't do this!
[music becomes faint]
[slow, dramatic music playing]
[muffled shouting]
[people] Move! Move!
[man 2] Move! Make way! Make way! Move!
Move! Let him go! Let him go!
[shouting continues]
[man 4] Got him!
[music ends]
[melancholic music playing]
[music fades out]
[quiet, moody, music box music playing]
[music stops]