Ali and Nino Page #3

Courtesy of the officers.

Pork chops for the boys.

You see the kind of thing

we have to deal with?

You were so right not to join up.

Hello!

- I'm gonna go.

- Okay.

Bye.

Salaam alaikum.

Is Malik making any progress?

He's certainly trying hard enough.

But my mother still calls you a wild Muslim.

I don't think anyone's ever

called me wild before.

I quite like that.

I don't think she meant it as a compliment.

I know your friends

are serving in the army, Ali.

But between you and me,

I'm sorry the Russians are doing so well.

- Does it matter to us?

- It does.

Because unless the Russians are defeated,

we have no chance to achieve

what our country most needs.

And what is that?

Our independence.

My father thinks we have

no chance of independence.

I think he is wrong.

Left, left, one, two, three!

Ali, it's me.

Any news?

Malik's here.

He's telling them that in this region,

he thinks mixed marriages

are the only way forward.

- Is that so?

- Yes.

And I think, after the war,

maybe, even more...

All right. Maybe we can see each other later.

More...

complicated, yeah.

So I'll see you after the opera.

I think it's time for us to go.

- See you later.

- Nino? Are you coming?

Bye.

If Russia takes Turkey and Persia,

the czar has said he will close

our mosques and schools

and abolish our languages.

And yet the czar asks us for money.

Why should we collaborate

in the destruction of our own culture?

All we can be sure of is that after the war,

everything will be quite different.

All the great powers

will be weak and exhausted,

but we will still have our strength,

our money, and our oil.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could become

the first democratic Muslim nation?

I don't like the way

he's trying to portray the czar.

I agree with Fatali Khan.

We should liberate ourselves.

And I don't mean go back a hundred years ago

to the way it was before the Russians came.

I mean we should create a modern

progressive country and run it ourselves.

Thank you so much for agreeing

to accompany me, Mr. Nakhararyan.

I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

It's my pleasure.

As-salaam alaikum.

Amir, you have to talk to the young people.

They listen to you.

It was a wonderful evening.

Thank you.

Wait. Wait.

I like you.

I really like you.

Wha... what are you doing?

We can leave the country together.

- We will get married in Moscow.

- No.

Yeah. And then we'll go to London.

No, no, no. Malik. What are you doing?

Let me out. Stop the car! Malik!

Let me out!

Let me go! Let me go!

Stop the car, Malik!

Good to have your support.

Thank you for inviting me, sir.

Thank you, Fatali Khan.

You conducted yourself very well, my son.

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