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Here is an old fairy tale that has survived to this day...
There was a town - rich and gorgeous...
And in it lived a greedy man...
named Abu Hasan.
Screenplay: Levon Budaghyan, Rafael Babayan
Director: Rafael Babayan
He had a slipper shop...
And what slippers he had in this shop!...
Beautiful, fancy, first class.
But wherever he was...
He always wore the same slippers...
Which had become old rags a long time ago.
Which had become old rags a long time ago!
THE SLIPPERS OF ABU HASAN
One world, one empire and one Hasan.
Abu Hasan.
The shuffling of his feet Would wake up the whole street.
Every house would wake up, and the sultan's whole empire too.
And groups of neighbors would talk with disgust and in tears:
"That's Hasan, going to work."
He's a cobbler, buried in gold, but wears rags patched and stinky.
Patched!
Will my slippers be a trouble someday, and ruin my whole business?..
The neighboring jeweler, this skunk...
Holding envy in his heart, was setting a trap against Hasan...
And was pretending to be his buddy.
The jeweler, who knew better the vice and virtue of this world...
Exchanged Hasan's and the judge's slippers.
Enjoy your bath, my neighbor Abu Hasan.
He brought me these - he is my friend and my own back.
Not only a jeweler, but a man of gold.
There's the great Hadi... what a man, that Hadi! He would judge everyone.
Evildoers, ungrateful scum!
The guilt is not ours, Judge.
This is Hasan's work!
Yes, it was him. Catch him, catch this outlaw!
Catch him, catch him!
Catch him, catch him, catch him!
Take that, Abu Hasan, no one has escaped me yet.
I hid my slippers, and that will be the end of it.
What's that godless being doing?
Burying a treasure or digging one out?
It's not theft, but a fair lesson, when you steal another's stolen goods.
But in cozy, glorious sleep, evil often stirs one's dreams...
Whoever has seen the raggy slippers can become judges of you...
What slipper has ever judged its owner, or condemned him to beheading?..
Alas, alas, rotten world, God's conscience is over.
Off with his head, off with his head!
Many ships have sunk in the sea;
the sea hides a lot, and it will also hide slippers.
This is either because of the dragon, or the wicked shaitan.
In the morning, there was a horrific disaster in this crowded town.
Water was not flowing from the pipe; women were weeping and suffering.
The water master began his work.
O Allah, protect us from enemy armies...
And from the notorious slippers of the unholy cobbler Hasan...
Grind him, hang him, stake him out!
I'll burn them with red-hot fire.
Let them dry, they'll turn to ashes later.
He's dead, the noble judge is dead.
Hang his unholy, godless killer!
- Is he dead? - Dead?
This is my end, holy God!
The case reached the great sultan.
Talk, you beast!
I'm not guilty, oh great and glorious sultan.
I'm innocent, but my slippers...
My slippers are guilty; I'm innocent.
Your sentence, based on our laws, shall be both unforgiving and merciful...
We'll free you from the slippers, Abu Hasan.
Hang!
Now I know that you will buy new slippers for sure.
O Allah, protect us from enemy armies, and from our hangmen's knives too.
...From our salutary sultan's frightful jokes...
...And from poor cobbler Hasan's slippers, which became a well-known tale.
The End (subtitles - parizani & Niffiwan, 2024)