Prophet Jacob guides the Israelites to pray to the One and Only God. God annunciates to him about the next prophet, who will be from his own generation. One night, his son, Joseph, dreams about the sun, the moon and eleven stars which kneel in front of him. He tells Jacob, who advises him not to tell his brothers about the dream. Prophet Joseph is dear to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. For centuries, the story of his life has been told over and over in many different ways and in many different languages. This is the Iranian version of a very beloved story.
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00:00Well done. It's delicious. What's your secret?
00:15It is the same as always, Your Excellency. Only a little happiness and honesty have been added.
00:26Tell me, do happiness and honesty really make food tastier?
00:32That is because of the magnanimity and the favorable opinion of my lord and lady.
00:37Why were not the happiness and honesty here before?
00:41Because Yusasif wasn't here before.
00:50Yusasif, is there some sorcery you use that attracts others to you so much?
00:57Sorcery? No, my lady. What is sorcery?
01:04He uses kindness and affection. He doesn't need sorcery.
01:11As of tomorrow, in addition to being in the kitchen, Yusasif can be our table decker too.
01:41What's the matter?
02:03I worked very hard to become Potiphar's table decker.
02:07I tolerated slavery and hard work for many years simply to catch Potiphar's attention.
02:14And now a child, a shepherd Hebrew, ruins everything as soon as he arrives.
02:20Yusasif is blameless. Potiphar makes decisions. Yusasif is not allowed to disobey Potiphar.
02:30What should I do? Now they will send me to work on a hot farm or to work in a stone mine.
02:38I suggest you talk to Yusasif about it.
02:42You could talk to Honefer as well. Perhaps there is a solution to this.
02:48Clear the dishes.
03:04Are you just going to stand there? Help us.
03:09As of now, Yusasif is the table decker of Excellency Potiphar. It's not my right to interfere.
03:16Honefer, have I done something to upset you?
03:20You don't know. Everything is ruined because of you.
03:25If you only knew how hard I worked to become Potiphar's table decker.
03:32They will send him to work on the farms or the stone mines.
03:43May God forgive me. Forgive me if I've hurt you unknowingly.
03:50I'll try to make up for it. Please don't worry.
04:05Lady Zelenka approaches.
04:20Excellency Kofo wishes to see me.
04:24It is sad indeed, my lady, that it is up to a mere child to decide how the temple is run.
04:34I think the news you have been given has been exaggerated.
04:39This little child and his behavior indicates his animosity towards our gods.
04:47Do not give him responsibility over Potiphar's palace.
04:51Yusasif is a child. What animosity can he have towards our gods?
04:58You are aware of my belief in gods. An enemy of the gods will have no place in my palace.
05:05Lady Zelenka is one of the goddesses in Amon Temple, and one of Amon's wives.
05:11We expect more from you than from the others.
05:14Yusasif does not yet know the gods are temples. You had better tell this to Excellency Potiphar as well.
05:22Very well.
05:31Your Excellency, did you give permission to a child to decide the food portions of the palace residence?
05:39Yusasif simply reads the number of helpings from the papyrus we have given him.
05:47We used only his ability to read and write, nothing more.
05:51Then why did he prevent the taking of the temple share yesterday?
05:55Yusasif simply questioned why the five people in the temple require twenty helpings of food.
06:02We also have the same question.
06:07And the priests objected to that. It wasn't a lack of respect for the gods or the priests.
06:14What is it to a child? The temple wants to take the gods' and servants' share together.
06:22Who has been allowing the temple servants to eat both their share and gods' share?
06:29Why must the temple servants become obese like you, and yet the other palace residents weak and thin?
06:37Excellency Potiphar, you are comparing us with the slaves and servants.
06:44We are the servants of Amon, the god of Egypt's gods.
06:50The palace residents, too, are the servants of Amon and their own lord.
06:57The difference seems to be that the palace servants try hard to please their lord.
07:06And the temple priests seem to do very little for their gods, but eat and gain copious amounts of weight.
07:27I will report this insult to Ankh-Mahu, the highest priest of Amon Temple.
07:44Although we love Yusasif, we mustn't offend the priests of Amon Temple because of him.
07:53It's not because of Yusasif. Behavior of the priests in the temple is unbearable, my lady.
08:03Excellency Potiphar and Ladies Olega, your dispute is not my concern.
08:11But as goddess in Amon Temple, I plan to raise Yusasif so that he will become Amon's worshiper.
08:22Not Amon's enemy.
08:52Greetings to the high priest of Amon Temple, Excellency Ankh-Mahu.
09:19What is it?
09:22I am here to beg the high priest to exempt me from serving in the temple in Potiphar's palace.
09:31Why? What is the problem?
09:35Amon and the priests of Amon Temple are insulted in Potiphar's palace.
09:42They are infidels, especially Potiphar, who is the least faithful of them all.
09:51You still haven't answered. What has happened?
09:56A Hebrew child by the name of Yusasif objects to Amon and the priests of Amon Temple.
10:03He instigates everybody against us and ridicules us in public. I will not return to Potiphar's palace.
10:10Oh, it's a child who frightens you.
10:13I thought you considered Potiphar and Amenhotep the enemies of the temple.
10:18I didn't know you were no match for a ten-year-old child.
10:22He is no ordinary child.
10:24Stop it. Shut up.
10:27You should not have left the palace.
10:30Return immediately, before it is discovered.
10:34We need you in Potiphar's palace more than here.
10:39We were contemplating the ousting of Amenhotep, the mighty pharaoh of Egypt.
10:47And now, one of our greatest priests has been defeated by a small child and run away?
10:57Don't stand here. Go!
11:09Go.
11:26How beautiful he is. He's like an angel.
11:31He looks like an angel.
11:33He does.
11:34That's Yusasif.
11:35Oh.
11:36Oh, good to see you.
11:37He is beautiful.
11:38Yes.
11:39I'd heard, but I've never...
11:40He is so beautiful.
11:42Why don't you get your food?
11:47He looks like an angel.
11:49He does.
12:00The table looks beautiful.
12:03Did you set the table, Yusasif?
12:07Samani taught me.
12:10He taught you?
12:12Yes.
12:13He taught me.
12:15He taught you?
12:17Yes.
12:18Yes.
12:19Yes.
12:20Yes.
12:21Yes.
12:22Yes.
12:23Yes.
12:24Yes.
12:25Yes.
12:26Yes.
12:27Yes.
12:28Yes.
12:29Samani taught me.
12:31Yusasif is very smart.
12:35Yusasif has undoubtedly perfected what he has learned.
12:40The beauty of this table excites me.
12:43I feel that I could eat an elephant.
12:50Thank you, Yusasif.
12:54Is the young Yusasif able to read story books?
13:00I have also learned amazing stories from my father.
13:05All right.
13:07As of tonight, you read me stories.
13:10Stories?
13:12Excellency Potiphar always listens to stories before he goes to bed.
13:17The one who reads me stories now does not amuse me anymore.
13:24You don't answer, Yusasif.
13:28Your Excellency, what will happen to your current book reader?
13:34Sufer?
13:36He'll do something else.
13:39I caused Hoya to lose his job.
13:42I don't want Sufer to lose his job, too.
13:46Can I request something from Excellency Potiphar?
13:54Your caring attitude impresses me greatly.
13:58Are you wanting to ask me to give Hoya and Sufer better jobs?
14:04Or to return them to their previous jobs?
14:08I don't want to hurt people or endanger their position.
14:14Don't worry.
14:15I will tell Potiphar to give Hoya and Sufer better jobs.
14:22As of today, you will be my librarian and book reader.
14:26I thought Excellency Potiphar gave Yusasif to me as a present.
14:31But he seems to enjoy Yusasif's company just as much.
14:35If you do not agree, Yusasif won't do anything.
14:40I was only joking.
14:43Yusasif will do whatever the lord of this house wills.
14:49You must always be very grateful and never take advantage of your kindness.
14:59I will always be grateful to my god.
15:19Come with me.
15:50This library is a valuable treasure, collected with much difficulty.
15:56Either I have read them myself, or my book reader, Sufer, has read them for me.
16:02Which book would Excellency Potiphar like me to read?
16:09I want you to read this to me tonight.
16:13This is a letter from Yusasif.
16:17I will read it to you.
16:21I will read it to you.
16:25I will read it to you.
16:29I will read it to you.
16:33I will read it to you.
16:37All right.
16:40This book predicts the future of Egypt.
16:49I don't know who wrote it.
16:53Whoever it was, their ideas are worth pondering.
17:08Egypt's power is not eternal, and the despotism ruling it shall not last forever.
17:14One day, all criteria shall change in Egypt.
17:17The poor and wealthy shall change places.
17:26This will happen after a bloody war.
17:30The wealthy shall lose their palaces and slaves,
17:35and Amman shall not be worshipped by anybody.
17:41People will come to power, and shall worship a god greater than Amman.
17:47I think that this prophecy will one day be realized.
17:53But how?
17:57I don't know.
18:05What are you thinking about, Yusasif?
18:10I think I know.
18:13That event can happen only by a heavenly man, or a divine savior.
18:21Only he can oust the wealthy and the oppressors, and destroy Amman,
18:27and other gods of Egypt and other parts of the world.
18:34Yes, I think I know.
18:38You are older than you look, Yusasif.
18:43How do you know these things?
18:52I think in addition to not worshipping Amman, you are hostile to it.
19:01Amman is nothing but stone.
19:03It wouldn't be rational to be hostile towards a stone.
19:12Look at you.
19:14You consider Amman not worth worshipping, nor despising.
19:22If Agmahu, the high priest, were to hear you, he would hang himself.
19:32But never express your opinion in front of others.
19:36Particularly Lady Zuleika. She worships Amman fanatically.
19:43May I ask, Your Excellency, what is it that you worship?
19:51I used to worship Amman.
19:55But now...
19:59I don't know.
20:03Don't tell anyone.
20:08Don't tell anyone.
20:12But I hate the priests of Amman Temple.
20:22May I ask why, Your Excellency?
20:28The temple priests are insolent and selfish.
20:34Instead of the interests of Egypt, they think only of their own interests.
20:43All right. That's enough.
20:47Go and rest.
21:03Good night.