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A film by Samira Makhmalbaf
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Screenplay and editing:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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THE APPLE
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You've enough to live on.
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But you lock up your children and leave!
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lsn't that right?
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lf you want to see your children,
l'll take you.
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Your poor girls are innocent!
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Madam,
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do what you can
to let their mother see them.
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All right.
First, let me see their mother.
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- She says they'll hurt her children.
- l'll do what l can.
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We don't hurt children.
Open the door.
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The neighbors filed a complaint
with the Welfare Department,
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so we took action.
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You wouldn't let the neighbors
take the girls to the public baths.
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They haven't been washed in ages.
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Zahra, Massoumeh, come here.
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Can we go in? You go first.
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These children have no contact
with the outside world.