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(PIANO CONCERTO NO. 23
IN A MAJOR PLAYING)

2
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(TELEPHONE RINGS)

3
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Radio Moscow.
Director Andreyev. What is it?

4
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Seventeen minutes.

5
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Yes, of course I can ring back
in 17 minutes.

6
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Yeah.

7
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Mm-hm.
Yes, I'm writing it down.

8
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(MOUTHING)
I can't get the...

9
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One, five...

10
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Sorry? Was that a nine, as in "fine"?

11
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Or... or another five as in, um...

12
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- "Hive."
- ..."hive"?

13
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Hello? Hello?

14
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- Hive?
- Who was it?

15
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The Secretariat
of the General Secretariat.

16
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Of the General Secretary.
The Secretary of the General...

17
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Stalin?

18
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- (MUSIC VOLUME INCREASES)
- Turn that down.

19
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(VOLUME DECREASES)

20
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Put that apple down.

21
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You're always eating bloody apples.

22
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I'm to call him back
in 17 minutes.

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Seventeen minutes from when
you picked up the phone

24
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or from when you put it down?

25
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Seventeen minutes from when I said
I'd call back in 17 minutes.

26
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- When was that?
- I don't know.

27
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Thirty seconds ago?

28
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- A minute?
- Well, which one?

29
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- A minute.
- A minute?

30
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A minute.

31
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- You sure?
- No.

32
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(MUSIC PLAYS)

33
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Well, well, well.

34
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Oh, I put Shteyman
on the list, the writer.

35
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- I know you like his work, but...
- No, leave him on.

36
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And, uh... Shteyman two, his wife?

37
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On.

38
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They're a couple, ain't they?

39
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We're talking about Stalingrad,
how cold it was,

40
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and we would do anything,
anything, to warm ourselves up.

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We'd throw live grenades
to each other.

42
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We'd pull the pin,
throw it to the prisoners.

43
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(CHUCKLES) They'd be jumping around
like drunken whores. "Oh, oh, oh!"

44
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- (CHUCKLES)
- What was the grenade?

45
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- A grenade.
- Georgy.

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- A grenade... what do you...
- No no no.

47
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You're obstructing the story.
Let him tell it.

48
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MAN:
<i>So, ten past, the call came in.</i>

49
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- Seventeen minutes...
- So call back 10:27?

50
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- Yeah.
- You don't seem confident.

51
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Well, I wasn't the one
on the phone.

52
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And it was definitely a nine,
wasn't it?

53
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- I wasn't the one on the phone.
- You keep saying that.

54
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- It's not helping.
- I wasn't, though. So...

55
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A grenade in his mouth!

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(GABBLES)

57
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- Always cracks me up, this one.
- KHRUSHCHEV: And then boom!

58
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I'll have these dispatched.

59
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That's how you turn a Prussian
into a bowl of soup.

60
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Oh, there he goes.

61
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Yes, we see your list, Beria.

62
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Shoot her before him,
but make sure he sees it.

63
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Oh, and this one... um...

64
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Kill him, take him to his church,
dump him in the pulpit.

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And I'll leave the rest
up to you.

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- (ENGINES START)
- Let's go!

67
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First three names on list.
Top name, apartment 15. Go.

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- (GUNSHOT)
- Go, go.

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(SHOUTING)

70
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(WAILING)

71
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(MAN CRIES IN RUSSIAN)

72
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(URGENT EXCHANGE IN RUSSIAN)

73
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(MAN PROTESTS)

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OFFICER: Come on. Where are you going?
Get round here. Get on the bus.

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Comrade, it's the greatest honour.

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(SIGHS) He can't see me bow.

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- Comrade Director.
- Oh, shit.

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Five... nine.

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(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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(APPLAUSE)

81
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Hello.

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This is Stalin.

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- (APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
- MAN IN AUDIENCE: Bravo!

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Sorry. It's really noisy.
I'm sorry about that.

85
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How are you?
How is it wherever you are?

86
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Sorry. Sorry again.

87
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<i>- Are you there?</i>
- Receiving you.

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I want a recording
of tonight's performance.

89
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I'll send someone to pick it up.

90
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I think you split
a couple of notes.

91
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You cheeky bugger. I did not.

92
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- How was it? Was it good?
- I thought wonderful.

93
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Was the concerto recorded?

94
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Was it recorded? Please say yes.

95
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- Erm... no. It went out live.
- Stay. Stay.

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Okay, nobody leave! Nobody leave!
Lock the doors! Lock those doors!

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If you wouldn't mind
just taking your seats again.

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That would be fantastic.

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Take your seats.
Take your fucking seats.

100
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Don't worry, nobody's
gonna get killed, I promise you.

101
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This is just
a musical emergency.

102
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Take your seats. That's it.

103
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Nobody be alarmed. It's fine.

104
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Sit down! Do not defy me!

105
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Sit your arses down!

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(CHUCKLING)

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- Top me up. Everybody drinks.
- (POUNDS TABLE)

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KHRUSHCHEV: As I was saying,
we had this 12-year-old scout.

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His whole family
was wiped out by the Krauts.

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But before that he taught us
this trick. He taught us this trick.

111
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He taught us this trick.
If you stick somebody's little finger

112
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in a glass of water
while they're sleeping,

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they wet themselves.

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(LAUGHTER)

115
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Here, what next?

116
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You stick a bar of chocolate

117
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in their pocket,
they shit their pants?

118
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(LAUGHTER)

119
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But it's biology, Chief.
We did it to Polnikov in Stalingrad.

120
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But, anyway,
"shit your pants", that's great.

121
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Whatever became of Polnikov?

122
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(LAUGHTER DIES)

123
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You wanna know
where fucking Polnikov is?

124
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You wanna go there?

125
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I love that grenade story.

126
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- Oh, is there one in your pocket?
- No, no, come on. No, not again!

127
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No, don't you...

128
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God damn it!

129
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Caught red-handed. (LAUGHS)

130
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Well, I would die for the Motherland!

131
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(LAUGHTER AND ENCOURAGEMENT)

132
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(CHANTING) Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

133
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Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

134
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Take this, you bastards!

135
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All right, let's get going.

136
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Time for a cowboy movie.
Who's in my posse?

137
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(FILM SCORE PLAYS)

138
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Here we go. He rides out,
he gets shot off his horse.

139
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- Adios.
- (SHOUTING AND GUNSHOTS IN THE FILM)

140
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Thank you very much.
It's gonna be okay.

141
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Sit where you sat before.

142
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Right, what do you think?

143
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Well, half the audience have gone.
The acoustic will be very lively.

144
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Go and get some more people
in off the street.

145
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Fat ones, so we don't need as many.

146
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Really? How fat?

147
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I could get my wife.
She'd deaden the acoustic.

148
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Comrades...
Comrades, shut up!

149
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I have wonderful news.

150
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Comrade Stalin
loved tonight's concerto

151
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and would like
a recording of it right away,

152
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which we don't have, for reasons
that are myriad and complex and...

153
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But meanwhile the concerto
we just played will be played again.

154
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And this time we will record it
and we will applaud it.

155
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Yes. Yes.

156
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Brilliant. Okay.

157
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Excuse me.

158
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I won't do it.

159
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Come on, through here.
In you come.

160
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Sit down. Sit down.

161
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You, Joan of Arc,
do you want to get killed?

162
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Like my father got killed,
my brother? Like that?

163
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- But they would want you to live.
- I won't do it. You can't force me.

164
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- Can't we just get another pianist?
- That would be ridiculous.

165
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The sound would be
completely different.

166
00:10:02,125 --> 00:10:03,615
- Even Stalin could...
- Even?

167
00:10:03,958 --> 00:10:06,495
- I didn't mean...
- Even Stalin?

168
00:10:06,667 --> 00:10:08,123
I hope this office isn't bugged.

169
00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:11,582
Of course Comrade Stalin would
be able to tell the difference.

170
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He's a great man with a great ear.

171
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- Two great ears.
- Sharp. They're sharp.

172
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- The sharpest ears in the...
- In the Soviet Union.

173
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Maria Veniaminovna,
you have to play.

174
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I didn't...
I didn't mean what I said.

175
00:10:26,625 --> 00:10:27,786
So you said it, then?

176
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As God is my witness, I won't do it.
The Lord will see me through.

177
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10,000 roubles.

178
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20,000.

179
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Done. Let's go.

180
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(CONDUCTOR GASPS AND PANTS)

181
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Ohh!

182
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What the fuck?

183
00:10:50,792 --> 00:10:55,958
What fucking brainless fire-safety
fucking idiot put that there?

184
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Now we need a new conductor.
Let's go.

185
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Which one's your father in?

186
00:11:10,875 --> 00:11:12,912
Thank you. You've been very helpful.
Follow me.

187
00:11:14,833 --> 00:11:16,039
Open up!

188
00:11:16,875 --> 00:11:18,206
Let's get these on the bus.

189
00:11:18,292 --> 00:11:21,705
Keep it moving!
We've still got things to do!

190
00:11:21,833 --> 00:11:22,914
Come on, move!

191
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(WOMAN CRIES IN RUSSIAN)

192
00:11:26,208 --> 00:11:29,655
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

193
00:11:31,583 --> 00:11:34,325
(KNOCKING PERSISTS)

194
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I love you. I love you.

195
00:11:38,292 --> 00:11:41,410
Now, you say whatever
you have to say to them. You say it.

196
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Oh, God.

197
00:11:44,042 --> 00:11:45,908
Hello. Hi.

198
00:11:46,375 --> 00:11:47,706
Deepest apologies, sir.

199
00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:50,325
Radio Moscow requests your
presence immediately, please.

200
00:11:50,458 --> 00:11:54,952
You're Moscow's finest and nearest
conductor, so... we must hurry.

201
00:12:01,208 --> 00:12:02,323
(LAUGHTER)

202
00:12:02,417 --> 00:12:04,784
BERIA: I rather enjoyed your reference
to Polnikov this evening.

203
00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:07,367
Stalin looked like he was
gonna split your head open.

204
00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:12,199
"What became of Polnikov and
Trotsky? I was a huge fan of his."

205
00:12:12,333 --> 00:12:13,869
"I miss the Tsar."

206
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,992
I'm exhausted. I can't remember
who's alive and who isn't.

207
00:12:17,083 --> 00:12:19,541
Georgy, when you go home,
make sure your wife writes down

208
00:12:19,667 --> 00:12:21,499
everything you think
you said tonight.

209
00:12:21,625 --> 00:12:23,912
All right, this way in the morning
you know what you're dealing with.

210
00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,456
That's Khrushchev's Law.

211
00:12:25,542 --> 00:12:28,705
Good night, comrades. Long live
the Communist Party of Lenin-Stalin.

212
00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:31,116
Long live John Wayne
and John Ford.

213
00:12:32,042 --> 00:12:33,328
(LAUGHS)

214
00:12:33,417 --> 00:12:35,158
Goodbye, Molotov, old friend.

215
00:12:35,292 --> 00:12:36,407
Goodbye forever.

216
00:12:38,208 --> 00:12:39,573
Yeah. On the list.

217
00:12:40,458 --> 00:12:41,744
It would be simpler and cheaper

218
00:12:41,833 --> 00:12:43,449
if they just drove
straight into a river.

219
00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:46,244
Sweet dreams.

220
00:12:48,792 --> 00:12:50,123
Good night.

221
00:12:54,250 --> 00:12:55,331
Night.

222
00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:04,536
(ORCHESTRA TUNES UP)

223
00:13:04,667 --> 00:13:05,953
People in off the streets.

224
00:13:06,042 --> 00:13:07,157
Just this way.

225
00:13:12,333 --> 00:13:15,405
I don't think any of these people
have ever heard of Mozart.

226
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(CLAPPING)

227
00:13:40,125 --> 00:13:41,581
KHRUSHCHEV:
<i>I made a joke about the farmers.</i>

228
00:13:41,917 --> 00:13:44,375
- Did Stalin laugh?
- Yeah.

229
00:13:46,417 --> 00:13:48,249
I made a joke about the navy.

230
00:13:48,458 --> 00:13:50,870
- No laugh.
- No more navy jokes.

231
00:13:51,417 --> 00:13:52,452
Good evening.

232
00:13:52,583 --> 00:13:54,119
Get this lot checked in.

233
00:13:54,417 --> 00:13:55,498
Good. Nice.

234
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- MAN: Long live Stalin!
- (GUNSHOT)

235
00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:03,457
- MAN: Long live Stalin!
- (GUNSHOT)

236
00:14:22,042 --> 00:14:25,285
- (MUSIC ENDS)
- (APPLAUSE)

237
00:14:27,625 --> 00:14:29,787
- Shouldn't we check it?
- No time.

238
00:14:31,208 --> 00:14:34,075
If it's not okay, then Stalin's men
will chop you into dog meat.

239
00:14:34,167 --> 00:14:35,157
Thank you.

240
00:14:35,625 --> 00:14:38,822
Move, move, move, move, move.
Excuse me. Thank you.

241
00:14:38,917 --> 00:14:40,624
I have it. I have it.

242
00:14:43,458 --> 00:14:48,783
I have the recording. I just had to
get a new sleeve, a white one.

243
00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:50,457
The delay has been logged.

244
00:14:50,583 --> 00:14:53,291
I wish to convey a special
message from my heart.

245
00:14:53,375 --> 00:14:56,242
I wish to convey this recording
to Comrade Stalin.

246
00:14:56,375 --> 00:14:58,116
I want Comrade Stalin to know

247
00:14:58,208 --> 00:15:00,540
the full intensity
of my feelings for him.

248
00:15:01,125 --> 00:15:02,832
No, this is unauthorised narcissism.

249
00:15:02,917 --> 00:15:04,032
No.

250
00:15:05,458 --> 00:15:09,122
The item is now in my possession...
after a significant delay.

251
00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:10,448
Note the time.

252
00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:41,707
What took you so long?
You fucking walk here?

253
00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:54,365
(NEEDLE CRACKLES ON RECORD)

254
00:15:55,333 --> 00:15:57,324
(RECORD JUMPS)

255
00:16:01,292 --> 00:16:02,908
(GRUNTS)

256
00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,366
MARIA:
<i>Josef Vissarionovich Stalin,</i>

257
00:16:07,458 --> 00:16:10,291
<i>you have betrayed our nation
and destroyed its people.</i>

258
00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:14,072
<i>I pray for your end,
and ask the Lord to forgive you.</i>

259
00:16:14,208 --> 00:16:15,539
<i>Tyrant.</i>

260
00:16:15,667 --> 00:16:17,408
(LAUGHS)

261
00:16:20,792 --> 00:16:21,998
(GASPS AND CHOKES)

262
00:16:22,125 --> 00:16:25,197
Oh, fuck. Fuck...

263
00:16:29,292 --> 00:16:30,623
(HEAVY THUD)

264
00:16:33,833 --> 00:16:35,198
Should we investigate?

265
00:16:35,583 --> 00:16:38,621
Should you shut the fuck up
before you get us both killed?

266
00:16:39,708 --> 00:16:40,948
(MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

267
00:16:41,083 --> 00:16:43,074
(STALIN GROANS SOFTLY)

268
00:16:49,833 --> 00:16:51,119
Good morning.

269
00:16:54,708 --> 00:16:55,823
Well?

270
00:16:59,625 --> 00:17:01,241
Comrade Stalin?

271
00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:03,911
Comrade Stalin?

272
00:17:04,042 --> 00:17:06,033
(PRISONER GROANS AND GRUNTS)

273
00:17:07,333 --> 00:17:08,698
I just need some names.

274
00:17:09,333 --> 00:17:12,246
Each name you give me
is one less bit of you I'll cut off.

275
00:17:12,375 --> 00:17:14,366
- (KNOCK AT DOOR)
- Enter.

276
00:17:16,250 --> 00:17:20,244
Sorry to interrupt, Comrade Minister.
It's Comrade Stalin.

277
00:17:21,792 --> 00:17:24,454
Oh, don't worry about him.
Those ears are full of blood anyway.

278
00:17:25,708 --> 00:17:27,369
Comrade Stalin is very ill.

279
00:17:28,083 --> 00:17:29,198
Very ill?

280
00:17:29,958 --> 00:17:30,993
Yes.

281
00:17:32,333 --> 00:17:33,448
Uh-huh.

282
00:17:34,417 --> 00:17:36,499
- You, carry on.
- Of course.

283
00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:37,911
(PRISONER COUGHS)

284
00:17:38,292 --> 00:17:41,250
Tell them Beria is on his way.

285
00:17:41,958 --> 00:17:46,623
They are to touch nothing,
call no-one. Understood?

286
00:17:47,375 --> 00:17:49,366
Tell me you understand
my instructions.

287
00:17:49,458 --> 00:17:51,540
I understand your instructions.

288
00:17:51,667 --> 00:17:52,998
Good.

289
00:17:53,125 --> 00:17:55,958
- (PRISONER COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS)
- GUARD: Shh, shh.

290
00:17:56,542 --> 00:17:58,032
What's your name, Lieutenant?

291
00:17:59,625 --> 00:18:01,036
S-Slimonov, sir.

292
00:18:01,167 --> 00:18:02,578
(IMITATES STUTTERING)
S-Slimonov?

293
00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:05,578
Be here when I g-get back.

294
00:18:07,458 --> 00:18:09,449
- MAN: Long live Stalin!
- (GUNSHOT)

295
00:18:13,542 --> 00:18:16,500
- Abramovsky still holding out?
- Yeah. He's close, though.

296
00:18:16,750 --> 00:18:18,366
He was close yesterday.

297
00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:19,786
- MAN: Long live Stalin!
- (GUNSHOT)

298
00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:21,491
Have his wife move into the next cell

299
00:18:21,583 --> 00:18:23,165
and start working
on her until he talks.

300
00:18:23,292 --> 00:18:24,657
Make it noisy.

301
00:18:24,792 --> 00:18:27,989
Shame. Mrs. Abramovsky's been
most cooperative so far.

302
00:18:29,292 --> 00:18:32,125
Some women will do anything
to get their husbands released.

303
00:18:32,250 --> 00:18:34,332
Yeah, and she did everything.

304
00:18:34,458 --> 00:18:37,416
I thank the Union for bringing me
so many devoted wives

305
00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,457
who fuck like sewing machines.

306
00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:41,036
Glasses.

307
00:18:41,125 --> 00:18:42,490
(CHUCKLES)

308
00:18:43,625 --> 00:18:45,366
To his dacha. Urgently.

309
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,241
MRS. KHRUSHCHEV:
Tanks, farmers, navy,

310
00:18:55,375 --> 00:18:56,786
grenade: funny.

311
00:18:56,917 --> 00:18:59,875
Beria, tomato, pocket: funny. Horse...

312
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,786
- Funny?
- ...slippers: question mark.

313
00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:04,492
- Farmers, horse again, navy...
- There were no whores.

314
00:19:04,875 --> 00:19:08,197
What are you writing?
Oh, "horse". Is this in code?

315
00:19:08,333 --> 00:19:10,791
This is your drunken nonsense,
not mine. Don't blame my notes.

316
00:19:10,917 --> 00:19:13,454
"Molotov C-H-H-H..."

317
00:19:13,583 --> 00:19:15,165
Was I stuttering? What is that?

318
00:19:15,292 --> 00:19:16,953
Molotov... (HAWKS)

319
00:19:18,208 --> 00:19:20,791
Oh. It's Molotov...
(MIMICS SLICING SOUND)

320
00:19:22,167 --> 00:19:24,158
- He's on the list.
- Poor Molotov.

321
00:19:24,792 --> 00:19:26,499
First his wife, now him.

322
00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,625
- Georgy is off in a hurry somewhere.
- (TELEPHONE RINGS)

323
00:19:30,125 --> 00:19:31,240
Something's happening.

324
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,115
Hello?

325
00:19:34,583 --> 00:19:35,618
What?

326
00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:36,948
Get my trousers.

327
00:19:37,167 --> 00:19:39,329
Just get my... No, not you.

328
00:19:39,458 --> 00:19:41,290
Who's there? Is Beria there?

329
00:19:41,417 --> 00:19:42,873
Never mind. I'll be right there.

330
00:19:43,583 --> 00:19:45,415
Your trousers. Your trousers.
Here are your trousers.

331
00:19:45,542 --> 00:19:47,203
- Okay, okay.
- Let me take your pyjamas.

332
00:19:47,750 --> 00:19:50,947
No, there's no time. Get my
shoes, please, Nina, my shoes.

333
00:19:51,042 --> 00:19:52,874
- Your shirt.
- Send me a shirt and tie.

334
00:19:58,125 --> 00:20:00,116
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

335
00:20:11,375 --> 00:20:12,831
Were you on duty
when he was found?

336
00:20:12,958 --> 00:20:15,495
- Yes, sir.
- No-one is to come in. Understood?

337
00:20:15,625 --> 00:20:16,990
Yes, sir.

338
00:20:17,083 --> 00:20:18,494
Remain at your stations.

339
00:20:22,667 --> 00:20:23,907
Oh, God.

340
00:20:28,042 --> 00:20:30,374
They told me
not to get a doctor.

341
00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:31,956
You did well, Matryona Petrovna.

342
00:20:32,083 --> 00:20:33,949
The Central Committee
will handle things now.

343
00:20:34,208 --> 00:20:36,870
- So they'll get a doctor?
- There are procedures in place.

344
00:20:38,167 --> 00:20:40,204
- So you'll get a doctor?
- I am the doctor.

345
00:20:41,333 --> 00:20:42,915
I'll see to everything. Come on.

346
00:20:46,208 --> 00:20:47,448
Go on. He'll be fine.

347
00:20:48,583 --> 00:20:51,371
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

348
00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,582
Smells like a Baku pisshouse in here.

349
00:20:55,625 --> 00:20:56,660
Greetings, by the way.

350
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,115
Oh, shit.

351
00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:08,657
Uh-huh.

352
00:21:15,833 --> 00:21:17,198
(HE GRUNTS)

353
00:21:27,208 --> 00:21:29,040
Oh, come on. Fuck!

354
00:21:48,958 --> 00:21:51,700
(RAPS ON WINDOW)
Khrustalyov! Khrustalyov!

355
00:21:54,458 --> 00:21:55,744
(RATTLES THE WINDOW)

356
00:21:55,833 --> 00:21:57,540
- Take the papers.
- Let them go.

357
00:21:57,708 --> 00:21:59,619
Take the papers or I'll cut
your eyes out one at a time

358
00:21:59,708 --> 00:22:00,914
so you can watch it happening!

359
00:22:01,042 --> 00:22:02,373
- Drop it.
- Take them!

360
00:22:05,167 --> 00:22:06,202
(DROPS THE KEYS)

361
00:22:11,167 --> 00:22:12,749
(KNOCK AT DOOR)

362
00:22:21,542 --> 00:22:22,953
(KNOCK AT DOOR)

363
00:22:27,208 --> 00:22:28,619
- (INSISTENT KNOCKING)
- Come in.

364
00:22:33,833 --> 00:22:35,198
Oh, my God.

365
00:22:39,958 --> 00:22:43,030
Is this...
I'm guessing that this is...

366
00:22:43,208 --> 00:22:45,791
Yeah, he's feeling unwell, clearly.

367
00:22:47,583 --> 00:22:48,789
He's irreplaceable.

368
00:22:48,917 --> 00:22:50,828
(HE SOBS)

369
00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:53,620
How can we possibly...

370
00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:57,829
All right, we must
think of the people.

371
00:22:57,958 --> 00:22:59,289
(SIGHS AND CLEARS THROAT)

372
00:22:59,375 --> 00:23:01,867
As Acting General Secretary,
I must step up.

373
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,074
I must... I must take his place
while he's... on the floor.

374
00:23:07,208 --> 00:23:09,040
But you just said
he's irreplaceable.

375
00:23:09,167 --> 00:23:11,033
Irreplaceable. Take his place as in

376
00:23:11,167 --> 00:23:12,953
assembling the Central Committee,
of course.

377
00:23:13,042 --> 00:23:16,910
Good. I was testing you.
Get used to that sort of challenge.

378
00:23:18,583 --> 00:23:20,039
So, what next, boss?

379
00:23:21,625 --> 00:23:23,582
We should...
We should get a doctor.

380
00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:25,581
Yeah...

381
00:23:26,417 --> 00:23:27,828
Yes. If only we hadn't...

382
00:23:27,917 --> 00:23:29,999
put away all those highly
competent doctors for treason.

383
00:23:30,083 --> 00:23:31,790
- You remember?
- Yes, I do. I do.

384
00:23:31,875 --> 00:23:34,082
You know,
they were plotting to poison him.

385
00:23:34,167 --> 00:23:35,999
Yes, that's right.
You collected the evidence.

386
00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:38,825
Yes, I did. I did.
Are you still testing me?

387
00:23:38,917 --> 00:23:40,123
(KNOCK AT DOOR)

388
00:23:43,917 --> 00:23:46,534
Oh, this is calamity!

389
00:23:47,417 --> 00:23:48,498
Calamity!

390
00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:51,207
Ah! Ohh...

391
00:23:51,625 --> 00:23:53,536
Oh. (WINCES)

392
00:23:53,792 --> 00:23:55,908
Oh-oh-oh, no!

393
00:23:56,458 --> 00:24:00,873
Oh, he's on the floor.
He's on the fucking floor!

394
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,661
GEORGY:
Okay, be careful, careful.

395
00:24:02,792 --> 00:24:06,205
Oh, what to do? Oh, what to do?

396
00:24:06,292 --> 00:24:08,579
My heart, it feels sick...

397
00:24:10,542 --> 00:24:12,158
like it's going into battle.

398
00:24:12,292 --> 00:24:13,407
(SOBS)

399
00:24:17,042 --> 00:24:19,909
(SOBS CONTINUE)

400
00:24:23,417 --> 00:24:24,748
Which doctor have you called?

401
00:24:24,833 --> 00:24:26,699
Well, the subject's currently
under discussion.

402
00:24:26,833 --> 00:24:28,198
As Acting General Secretary,

403
00:24:28,292 --> 00:24:30,624
I think that, well,
the Committee should decide.

404
00:24:30,792 --> 00:24:32,078
The Committee?

405
00:24:32,167 --> 00:24:36,115
But our actual General Secretary
is lying in a puddle of indignity.

406
00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:39,371
I mean, I think he's saying,
"Get me a doctor now."

407
00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,663
No, I don't agree. I think
we should wait until we're quorate.

408
00:24:42,792 --> 00:24:46,080
Quorate? The room
is only 75 percent conscious!

409
00:24:46,208 --> 00:24:49,280
- Are you wearing pyjamas?
- Yeah. So?

410
00:24:49,458 --> 00:24:52,200
- Why?
- Because I act, Lavrenti.

411
00:24:52,708 --> 00:24:54,119
Decisively and with great speed.

412
00:24:54,250 --> 00:24:55,456
I said you'd be tested

413
00:24:55,583 --> 00:24:58,041
and now you're being tested
by a shouting man in pyjamas.

414
00:24:58,167 --> 00:25:00,784
Have you got a nappy
under those too? Too late for him.

415
00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:04,038
(DOOR BANGS OPEN)
Out of my way, you fannies.

416
00:25:09,125 --> 00:25:10,115
Shit.

417
00:25:12,583 --> 00:25:15,621
(IN SLOW MOTION):
Where's the big fella?

418
00:25:15,750 --> 00:25:17,332
Are we late?

419
00:25:18,792 --> 00:25:20,157
Sorry.

420
00:25:21,583 --> 00:25:24,200
He can't go, not like this.

421
00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:26,332
- Careful. Careful.
- Whoa, whoa.

422
00:25:26,458 --> 00:25:28,074
It's wet.

423
00:25:28,208 --> 00:25:31,371
- So, was Beria here first?
- Yeah, what do you think?

424
00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:33,537
This can't be happening.
This can't be fucking...

425
00:25:33,667 --> 00:25:35,578
No, that's wet. For God's sake.

426
00:25:35,708 --> 00:25:38,040
You got here quick, comrade.

427
00:25:38,167 --> 00:25:40,033
I didn't stop to put on cologne.

428
00:25:40,167 --> 00:25:41,828
Hey, watch the suit. Watch the suit.

429
00:25:41,958 --> 00:25:44,666
Compelling drama, gentlemen,
but we do need to get him into bed.

430
00:25:44,750 --> 00:25:46,161
- You take the head.
- Why?

431
00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:48,617
- You're Acting General Secretary.
- I would be honoured.

432
00:25:49,250 --> 00:25:51,161
It's just me here
kneeling in the piss, yeah?

433
00:25:51,292 --> 00:25:53,784
- Why don't you...
- But, there's piss...

434
00:25:53,917 --> 00:25:56,284
- Come on.
- It is better. It's more balanced.

435
00:25:56,417 --> 00:25:58,283
Yeah? Well, you can pay
my laundry bill, then.

436
00:25:59,667 --> 00:26:01,658
You're not auditioning
for the Bolshoi.

437
00:26:01,750 --> 00:26:04,082
- Who are you, Nijinsky? Come on.
- I have a bad back.

438
00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:06,116
Too much social climbing, I expect.

439
00:26:06,250 --> 00:26:08,912
- The head is the heaviest part.
- All right, ready?

440
00:26:09,250 --> 00:26:11,082
- Three, two...
- Two.

441
00:26:11,208 --> 00:26:12,243
One.

442
00:26:12,667 --> 00:26:14,499
- Lift. Jesus.
- (STRAINING AND GRUNTING)

443
00:26:15,375 --> 00:26:17,742
- God.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

444
00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:19,741
- To me.
- Turn, turn, turn.

445
00:26:19,875 --> 00:26:22,333
- This way. There we go.
- Yeah, all right.

446
00:26:22,417 --> 00:26:23,703
Are you wearing pyjamas?

447
00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,374
Can we just stop twittering

448
00:26:25,458 --> 00:26:27,415
like fishwives at the market
and concentrate?

449
00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:30,743
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Open the door. Back up, back up.

450
00:26:30,917 --> 00:26:32,248
No, no, that way.

451
00:26:32,375 --> 00:26:34,616
Go. Right, go.

452
00:26:34,792 --> 00:26:36,248
- Get back to the kitchen now!
- Move!

453
00:26:36,417 --> 00:26:37,623
- Move!
- Now. Now.

454
00:26:38,417 --> 00:26:40,283
BULGANIN:
He's heavier than I thought he'd be.

455
00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:43,367
- Do you think Stalin's too heavy?
- No, it's a compliment.

456
00:26:43,458 --> 00:26:44,948
- Gold is heavy.
- Well, you'd know.

457
00:26:45,083 --> 00:26:47,165
You've looted enough of it,
you saucy little pirate.

458
00:26:47,292 --> 00:26:49,158
Get back in the dining room!

459
00:26:49,750 --> 00:26:52,367
- Right, this one. This way, this way.
- Stop using his feet.

460
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,161
- I'm sorry.
- Can we just put him down?

461
00:26:54,292 --> 00:26:56,624
- I'm absolutely soaked.
- Lamp. Lamp, lamp.

462
00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:59,082
- Out of the way.
- No, wait a minute... move, move.

463
00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:01,199
Mikoyan,
move out of the way, quickly.

464
00:27:01,333 --> 00:27:04,121
- I can't, I can't.
- Fucking hell!

465
00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:06,870
- Fuck. Jesus Christ!
- Turn him over.

466
00:27:06,958 --> 00:27:10,451
Fuck me! Three fittings
I had for this suit. Three.

467
00:27:11,042 --> 00:27:12,328
(ALL PANTING)

468
00:27:12,917 --> 00:27:14,453
He looks ready now.

469
00:27:14,583 --> 00:27:17,245
- I need a vodka.
- I need a wash.

470
00:27:17,375 --> 00:27:20,083
But we didn't drop him.
Well done, us.

471
00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:23,496
Oh, I still got fucking tomato
in my pocket.

472
00:27:23,625 --> 00:27:25,036
It's still funny.

473
00:27:25,792 --> 00:27:28,534
All right, comrades,
now that we're quorate,

474
00:27:28,708 --> 00:27:30,324
I propose we call a doctor.

475
00:27:30,458 --> 00:27:34,076
All the best doctors
are in the gulag, or dead.

476
00:27:34,167 --> 00:27:36,955
Yes, yes, because they tried
to kill the boss.

477
00:27:37,042 --> 00:27:41,616
So any doctor still in Moscow
is not a good doctor.

478
00:27:41,750 --> 00:27:46,745
What are people's thoughts
on getting a bad doctor?

479
00:27:46,917 --> 00:27:49,625
What the fuck are you
talking about? That's mad.

480
00:27:49,792 --> 00:27:52,500
What if he recovers
and finds out?

481
00:27:52,708 --> 00:27:55,575
Well, if he recovers,
then we got a good doctor,

482
00:27:55,917 --> 00:27:58,534
and if he doesn't recover,
then we didn't, but he won't know.

483
00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:00,581
What was the name of the...

484
00:28:00,708 --> 00:28:03,120
that woman who gave evidence
against the doctors?

485
00:28:04,167 --> 00:28:05,498
- Timashuk.
- Yes.

486
00:28:05,625 --> 00:28:08,117
She's got everything
we require for the situation.

487
00:28:08,292 --> 00:28:11,205
The location of all the remaining
doctors in the Moscow area,

488
00:28:11,333 --> 00:28:15,406
a proven desire to survive
and a talent for fellatio.

489
00:28:15,583 --> 00:28:17,369
Yeah, right, she gets my vote.

490
00:28:17,458 --> 00:28:19,916
Good. Let her find us
some doctors.

491
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,789
Yeah, and if it goes badly,
we pin it all on Lady Suck Suck.

492
00:28:23,917 --> 00:28:26,033
- Then we shoot her.
- Yes, that would work.

493
00:28:26,167 --> 00:28:29,455
You see? We're better as a committee.
(SIGHS)

494
00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:30,577
Let's go.

495
00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:55,912
You have a nice long sleep, old man.

496
00:28:58,542 --> 00:28:59,703
I'll take it from here.

497
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,241
TIMASHUK: That's him.
That's him there. There.

498
00:29:40,375 --> 00:29:42,366
(MAN PANTING)

499
00:29:44,958 --> 00:29:47,199
Please, I've done nothing wrong.

500
00:29:47,333 --> 00:29:48,323
Take the stethoscope.

501
00:29:48,458 --> 00:29:51,530
Comrade Timashuk,
I retired six years ago.

502
00:29:51,625 --> 00:29:53,332
- Get that coat on him.
- Please, I...

503
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:55,374
Look, (STUTTERS)
I can give you names.

504
00:29:55,458 --> 00:29:58,166
- Come on. Stop resisting.
- What about my dog?

505
00:29:58,250 --> 00:29:59,866
- This is appalling.
- Hurry up.

506
00:30:01,458 --> 00:30:02,573
Get him in the van.

507
00:30:03,375 --> 00:30:04,957
We found some old friends of yours.

508
00:30:05,625 --> 00:30:07,582
DOCTOR: I've never met them
before in my life.

509
00:30:14,125 --> 00:30:16,082
KAGANOVICH:
So, Molotov's off the list.

510
00:30:16,167 --> 00:30:18,659
KHRUSHCHEV:
Yes, Beria's moving fast.

511
00:30:19,542 --> 00:30:21,124
But we can still outvote him.

512
00:30:21,292 --> 00:30:26,037
I always thought it would be you,
to fill Stalin's shoes, if I'm honest.

513
00:30:26,125 --> 00:30:27,456
Not Malenkov.

514
00:30:30,917 --> 00:30:32,828
Who knows the future
of the Union?

515
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:36,666
Well, the Union
could really use change.

516
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,491
Maybe some reforms
now that the old man...

517
00:30:39,625 --> 00:30:41,241
No, Nicky.

518
00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:44,037
Nobody needs factionalism.

519
00:30:45,042 --> 00:30:46,532
You want factionalism?

520
00:30:46,750 --> 00:30:49,492
What about those two, fucking
Abbott and Costello over there?

521
00:30:49,625 --> 00:30:51,115
Christ.

522
00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:54,493
When I piss, I try to make
eye contact with an officer.

523
00:30:54,625 --> 00:30:55,865
Ruins their day.

524
00:30:56,667 --> 00:30:59,739
When I piss, I try to piss
on an officer. Also ruins their day.

525
00:31:00,875 --> 00:31:02,741
We should keep an eye
on Kaganovich.

526
00:31:02,958 --> 00:31:05,245
Yeah, Khrushchev too,
his talking goat.

527
00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:08,701
Khrushchev. I spend my life
making people talk.

528
00:31:08,792 --> 00:31:11,284
I can't shut that gabbling idiot up.

529
00:31:12,583 --> 00:31:15,541
We need to assert our authority,
increase security in Moscow.

530
00:31:15,708 --> 00:31:17,540
We should get
Stalin's children here.

531
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:20,864
Vasily will be lying face down
in a ditch full of vodka.

532
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,583
- But Svetlana...
- The people love her.

533
00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:25,874
- I'm gonna get her in.
- Comrade ministers!

534
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,994
- Svetlana is here!
- I'm here. I'm over here!

535
00:31:30,083 --> 00:31:32,199
- Svetlana!
- Svetlana!

536
00:31:32,292 --> 00:31:33,953
Shit. The race has started.

537
00:31:34,083 --> 00:31:37,621
All right, we need to start putting
together a plan. We need change.

538
00:31:37,750 --> 00:31:39,866
Put a halt to the arrests,
prison releases,

539
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,411
maybe even reform the Church.

540
00:31:41,542 --> 00:31:43,533
How can you run and plot
at the same time?

541
00:31:43,667 --> 00:31:44,828
Hello! Svetlana!

542
00:31:44,958 --> 00:31:46,574
- They're trying to cut you off.
- Where?

543
00:31:46,667 --> 00:31:48,328
It's obvious. Svetlana!

544
00:31:48,417 --> 00:31:49,873
- Svetlana!
- Svetlana!

545
00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:51,995
- Oh, my darling.
- Where is he?

546
00:31:52,083 --> 00:31:54,245
- Where's my father? I would like...
- Oh, my dear.

547
00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:57,166
- I'm so sorry.
- I would like to see him.

548
00:31:57,250 --> 00:31:59,287
- Yes, of course.
- Where is he?

549
00:31:59,375 --> 00:32:01,332
- (EVERYONE TALKING)
- We'll take you inside. He's in bed.

550
00:32:01,625 --> 00:32:03,787
God Almighty!
Look at that herb garden.

551
00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:04,956
Does nobody tend it any more?

552
00:32:05,042 --> 00:32:07,454
Do people no longer
eat herbs any more?

553
00:32:07,542 --> 00:32:08,953
Do they only eat weeds?

554
00:32:09,083 --> 00:32:11,165
- Come on, we'll take you to see him.
- Where is Vasily?

555
00:32:11,292 --> 00:32:13,158
- I will get your brother here.
- Most helpful.

556
00:32:13,292 --> 00:32:15,124
- All right.
- She wants Vasily.

557
00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:18,788
If Vasily is coming, granted,
we should probably have tea and buns.

558
00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:21,116
- We'll get some buns and some tea.
- Soak up the vodka.

559
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,365
What?

560
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:27,992
I saw you and Big Boy
out in the woods earlier.

561
00:32:28,083 --> 00:32:30,074
- Yeah.
- There's bears in there.

562
00:32:31,167 --> 00:32:32,999
You'd better watch your step, son.

563
00:32:33,208 --> 00:32:35,575
- Well, there's bears in here too.
- Hm?

564
00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:41,826
Come on, play! Play better!

565
00:32:41,917 --> 00:32:43,078
Urgh!

566
00:32:43,292 --> 00:32:44,874
Oh, Jesus.

567
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,741
When we play Hungary,
are we allowed to use guns?

568
00:32:47,875 --> 00:32:50,082
These are the best
I could find since the plane crash.

569
00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:52,324
What plane crash?
There was never a plane crash.

570
00:32:52,458 --> 00:32:54,950
Was there a plane crash?
Soviet planes do not crash.

571
00:32:55,042 --> 00:32:57,454
And Stalin's son
does not fuck up.

572
00:32:58,750 --> 00:32:59,785
Christ!

573
00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:01,407
We have Bobrov.
He wasn't on the plane.

574
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:02,535
What plane?

575
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,081
Bobrov!

576
00:33:04,750 --> 00:33:06,991
- Go on. Hit it.
- No!

577
00:33:08,625 --> 00:33:11,458
He's terrified, practically leaving
a trail of yellow ice!

578
00:33:11,542 --> 00:33:14,284
You're the coach. Coach them so
they're as good as the dead team was.

579
00:33:14,375 --> 00:33:17,208
- Or I'll have you killed, okay?
- Apologies. And agreed.

580
00:33:17,333 --> 00:33:19,119
Or I'll just do it myself.

581
00:33:20,167 --> 00:33:22,329
Come on! Play on!

582
00:33:23,208 --> 00:33:25,119
Play through! Ignore me!

583
00:33:25,208 --> 00:33:28,621
Get it. Give it. Hit it.

584
00:33:29,167 --> 00:33:30,157
Vasily.

585
00:33:30,250 --> 00:33:32,617
Play better, you clattering fannies!

586
00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:33,914
Come.

587
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,741
Oh, fuck!
Do they know about the crash?

588
00:33:35,917 --> 00:33:38,454
Give me a drink. I've got time
for a drink. Give me the flask.

589
00:33:38,542 --> 00:33:39,577
(OFFICER SOFTLY)
No, no.

590
00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:43,786
You are to come
to your father's dacha.

591
00:33:43,875 --> 00:33:45,206
The plane should never have taken off.

592
00:33:45,292 --> 00:33:47,283
Do you suppose
that just because I am who I am

593
00:33:47,375 --> 00:33:48,865
that I can predict an ice storm?

594
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,788
Ice storm? Are you saying something's
happened to our national team?

595
00:33:51,875 --> 00:33:53,912
- Nothing's happened.
- What the fuck are you doing?

596
00:33:54,083 --> 00:33:56,415
My father will have you saddled
and ridden to Siberia,

597
00:33:56,542 --> 00:33:58,078
you rude fucking pies.

598
00:33:59,458 --> 00:34:02,291
KHRUSHCHEV: These are good doctors,
my dear. They're the best.

599
00:34:02,417 --> 00:34:04,203
They look like mental patients.

600
00:34:05,042 --> 00:34:07,283
Are they going to sing for us?
Why are they standing in a line?

601
00:34:08,333 --> 00:34:09,414
Let's have it.

602
00:34:17,250 --> 00:34:20,914
Following a group assessment
of Comrade Stalin,

603
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,413
we've arrived
at the unanimous conclusion,

604
00:34:24,542 --> 00:34:26,158
based on a collective finding...

605
00:34:26,250 --> 00:34:27,706
Please put him out of his misery.

606
00:34:28,625 --> 00:34:31,538
Comrade Stalin has had
a cerebral haemorrhage.

607
00:34:31,625 --> 00:34:33,616
The right side of his body
is paralysed.

608
00:34:33,708 --> 00:34:34,789
SVETLANA:
Oh, God.

609
00:34:36,583 --> 00:34:38,199
(SIGHS)
What is the chance of recovery?

610
00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:39,744
It is hard to say.

611
00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:46,744
Relax. I'm not gonna kiss you.
Will he recover, yes or no?

612
00:34:51,292 --> 00:34:52,282
(WHISPERS)
No.

613
00:34:52,375 --> 00:34:53,740
- No?
- No.

614
00:34:55,958 --> 00:34:56,993
It's over.

615
00:34:57,917 --> 00:34:59,328
It's over!

616
00:34:59,417 --> 00:35:02,705
I want a second opinion.
I don't trust these creatures to...

617
00:35:02,875 --> 00:35:05,537
- I mean, how old are you?
- I'm 29.

618
00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:07,366
That's a lie. How old are you?

619
00:35:07,458 --> 00:35:08,619
You look dead.

620
00:35:09,583 --> 00:35:11,950
I know people in Stalingrad.
I know people in Moscow.

621
00:35:12,083 --> 00:35:16,407
No, no, no. We have all the doctors.
There is no other opinion.

622
00:35:16,542 --> 00:35:18,829
- Oh, God.
- And so it begins.

623
00:35:18,917 --> 00:35:19,907
Oh, God! (SOBS)

624
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,662
I cry for Stalin.
I cry for all the people.

625
00:35:22,750 --> 00:35:24,991
- I cry for the...
- Courage.

626
00:35:26,042 --> 00:35:28,784
Courage, little bird.
We're here for you.

627
00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:30,957
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

628
00:35:31,333 --> 00:35:33,199
Most of all, we cry for you,

629
00:35:33,292 --> 00:35:35,624
little... bird.

630
00:35:35,792 --> 00:35:39,330
We offer our tears,
though not as a gift, of course.

631
00:35:41,708 --> 00:35:43,574
Oh, God.

632
00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:53,749
I want Moscow cauterised, now.

633
00:35:53,833 --> 00:35:55,870
<i>Cut off the city.</i>

634
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,244
- Moscow's closed. No-one gets in.
- Especially you.

635
00:36:00,333 --> 00:36:03,041
NKVD to displace army officers
at every station.

636
00:36:07,417 --> 00:36:09,784
Army back to barracks.
We're taking over.

637
00:36:10,333 --> 00:36:12,449
Remove Molotov from that last list.

638
00:36:15,333 --> 00:36:16,494
Implement our lists.

639
00:36:17,458 --> 00:36:18,493
New lists.

640
00:36:21,375 --> 00:36:22,365
New lists.

641
00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:25,075
Ladies and gentlemen,
reset your watches.

642
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:27,161
- New lists.
- New lists.

643
00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:28,536
- New lists.
- New lists.

644
00:36:28,625 --> 00:36:30,241
- New lists.
- (GUNSHOT)

645
00:36:43,292 --> 00:36:44,874
Trophy hunting, comrade?

646
00:36:44,958 --> 00:36:48,201
Oh, Svetlana. No, no. I was...

647
00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:51,451
We were just about to make a toast
to your father's health

648
00:36:51,583 --> 00:36:55,872
and I know he kept
some fine vodka here somewhere.

649
00:36:56,083 --> 00:36:58,541
Well, better you find it
than my brother.

650
00:36:58,625 --> 00:37:00,536
Ah, yes. Vasily.

651
00:37:01,250 --> 00:37:03,161
I got a hold of him
and he's on his way.

652
00:37:04,250 --> 00:37:05,957
- Oh...
- Svetlana, I wanted to...

653
00:37:06,042 --> 00:37:09,956
There was one day when my brother
just rode a pig through here.

654
00:37:10,667 --> 00:37:13,534
- That must have been messy.
- It was terribly messy.

655
00:37:13,625 --> 00:37:15,912
(LAUGHS)
And my father was so cross.

656
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,332
Papa just chased him
around the room in a circle.

657
00:37:18,417 --> 00:37:20,658
Right here around this sofa,
just there, look.

658
00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:25,244
Yes, I wanted to let you know
that no matter what happens,

659
00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:30,078
I will never ever let any harm
come to you or your brother.

660
00:37:30,167 --> 00:37:33,034
- Who said anything about harm?
- No, that's what I'm saying.

661
00:37:33,125 --> 00:37:34,741
You know somebody
wants to harm us?

662
00:37:34,875 --> 00:37:36,582
- Tell me. I demand to know.
- If someone...

663
00:37:36,667 --> 00:37:38,499
No. I should not have used
the word "harm".

664
00:37:38,583 --> 00:37:40,449
Yes. But you keep mentioning
the word "harm". Why?

665
00:37:41,208 --> 00:37:47,204
If anyone tries to... you,
they'll have to get through me first.

666
00:37:50,417 --> 00:37:51,623
(LAUGHS WHEEZILY)

667
00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:53,953
My father's going to die.

668
00:37:54,042 --> 00:37:55,999
I'm going to have you
to look after me.

669
00:37:56,792 --> 00:37:59,079
I mean, I may as well
just shoot myself like Mother.

670
00:37:59,917 --> 00:38:03,490
- Svetlana, we need to be strong.
- Who would put a lamp on a chair?

671
00:38:05,542 --> 00:38:06,782
(SHE SIGHS)

672
00:38:07,917 --> 00:38:11,410
We need to be strong
and never afraid.

673
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,947
- I wasn't afraid. Now I am afraid.
- Don't be, because if any harm...

674
00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:16,203
- God, I actually...
- (DOOR OPENS)

675
00:38:16,292 --> 00:38:17,453
can't believe you said that again.

676
00:38:17,542 --> 00:38:19,203
Quick! The boss is back!

677
00:38:19,292 --> 00:38:20,703
- Ohh!
- Come on!

678
00:38:23,375 --> 00:38:25,833
- Papa!
- KAGANOVICH: A miracle.

679
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,240
Stalin is invincible.

680
00:38:27,417 --> 00:38:29,954
The boss has shipped death
back to the salt mine.

681
00:38:30,083 --> 00:38:32,324
What's happening?
This is impossible...

682
00:38:34,083 --> 00:38:36,495
and... and... and wonderful.

683
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,116
- He's pointing...
- What is it, Chief?

684
00:38:40,375 --> 00:38:43,163
Maybe he's appointing his successor.

685
00:38:43,250 --> 00:38:44,285
Do you think?

686
00:38:46,167 --> 00:38:47,373
- No.
- Maybe not.

687
00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:48,581
(GRUNTS)

688
00:38:48,667 --> 00:38:49,907
- What's he...
- It's the painting.

689
00:38:50,042 --> 00:38:52,830
- He's pointing at the painting.
- Hold on. You know what he's saying?

690
00:38:52,917 --> 00:38:54,999
MALENKOV:
He is saying, "I am the lamb."

691
00:38:55,417 --> 00:38:56,452
Huh?

692
00:38:56,542 --> 00:39:00,456
"I am the lamb and you, you,
my children, have given me life."

693
00:39:00,583 --> 00:39:01,618
Yes!

694
00:39:02,333 --> 00:39:07,703
Or the lamb is the people
and the milk is socialism.

695
00:39:07,792 --> 00:39:08,907
Maybe he's the milk.

696
00:39:09,417 --> 00:39:10,873
Maybe you're the tit.

697
00:39:10,958 --> 00:39:14,246
- Maybe he just wants a drink.
- A drink of milk.

698
00:39:14,917 --> 00:39:16,908
- Possible.
- Milk here! Immediately!

699
00:39:17,042 --> 00:39:20,660
- Not milk. Water. Water.
- And not in a horn. In a glass.

700
00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:22,332
(ALL TALKING)

701
00:39:22,417 --> 00:39:23,657
So, Top Boy.

702
00:39:23,792 --> 00:39:26,284
You had your hair
fucking embalmed or something?

703
00:39:27,375 --> 00:39:28,740
I owe it to him and the people.

704
00:39:29,917 --> 00:39:31,999
- There's going to be photos.
- Oh, right.

705
00:39:33,458 --> 00:39:35,916
You're a hero, Comrade Lukomsky.

706
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,914
This sometimes happens and I...

707
00:39:40,750 --> 00:39:43,162
I'm incredibly pleased.

708
00:39:46,792 --> 00:39:48,032
I won't forget it.

709
00:39:58,583 --> 00:39:59,573
SOLDIER:
Comrade.

710
00:40:00,917 --> 00:40:03,659
We've remained at our post
as you ordered.

711
00:40:04,333 --> 00:40:06,950
Might we respectfully
stand down from our position?

712
00:40:07,042 --> 00:40:08,077
Beria...

713
00:40:09,458 --> 00:40:10,573
...he's dead.

714
00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:34,368
(CRIES OF DISMAY)

715
00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:36,662
- Oh, Jesus!
- Fuck my boots!

716
00:40:36,750 --> 00:40:38,457
Oh, my God.

717
00:40:38,542 --> 00:40:40,874
I'm sorry, boss.
I wish I could take it for you.

718
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,743
Thick skull, you know. It's
an incredibly strong, hard skull.

719
00:40:44,833 --> 00:40:45,994
Shut up.

720
00:40:46,083 --> 00:40:47,665
We need to think about the Presidium.

721
00:40:47,792 --> 00:40:50,250
MALENKOV:
Yes, succession. We need to...

722
00:40:51,167 --> 00:40:53,909
Oh, fuck. That's his...

723
00:40:56,375 --> 00:40:57,706
Who organised the Wurlitzer?

724
00:40:57,792 --> 00:41:00,580
- It's a respirator.
- Did you use it?

725
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:03,496
- No. It's American.
- It's what?

726
00:41:03,583 --> 00:41:05,540
- It's from his hospital.
- It was his idea.

727
00:41:05,667 --> 00:41:08,864
Let's just pretend these last
six sentences never happened.

728
00:41:08,958 --> 00:41:10,790
Because if they ever find out
that we brought in...

729
00:41:10,875 --> 00:41:13,663
What are you doing to my father,
you jackals? Murderers!

730
00:41:13,792 --> 00:41:16,079
- You'll kill him!
- Vasily, your father is dead.

731
00:41:16,208 --> 00:41:19,326
You're dividing the spoils.
Leave his brain alone!

732
00:41:19,417 --> 00:41:20,873
- How old are you?
- I'm old.

733
00:41:20,958 --> 00:41:23,120
You're not old!
You're not even a person!

734
00:41:23,250 --> 00:41:26,163
You're a testicle!
You're made mostly of hair!

735
00:41:26,250 --> 00:41:28,036
- Vasily...
- Here's your fucking harvest.

736
00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:29,615
- Here it is.
- (GUNSHOT)

737
00:41:29,708 --> 00:41:31,824
Leave the man alone! I will not...

738
00:41:32,875 --> 00:41:34,866
No! Don't let him shoot!

739
00:41:34,958 --> 00:41:37,165
- Just get the gun off him.
- SVETLANA: Vasily!

740
00:41:37,250 --> 00:41:39,582
- Let her through.
- Remember what Papa said.

741
00:41:39,708 --> 00:41:41,870
They have a machine
filling his brain with American lies.

742
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,456
"Wade gently through the river

743
00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:45,658
because there are snakes
and crocodiles."

744
00:41:45,750 --> 00:41:48,538
It's okay, Vasily.
Everything's gonna be fine.

745
00:41:48,625 --> 00:41:51,492
- This is not exactly fine, is it?
- No, well, not exactly fine.

746
00:41:51,625 --> 00:41:53,081
My father's lying there
with his head open.

747
00:41:53,167 --> 00:41:55,909
Yes, your father is dead.
Your brother is shooting a gun.

748
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,240
It's not fine. You're right.

749
00:41:57,375 --> 00:41:58,581
Come on. There we go.

750
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:02,742
You have all made
a deadly mistake.

751
00:42:05,083 --> 00:42:06,573
(SHOUTS OF DISMAY)

752
00:42:07,375 --> 00:42:09,958
- Excuse me.
- That's right. Off you go, kitten.

753
00:42:24,208 --> 00:42:25,869
(SVETLANA COUGHS)

754
00:42:27,083 --> 00:42:28,790
(STRAINING AND GRUNTING)

755
00:42:31,958 --> 00:42:33,540
Oh, come on.

756
00:42:36,792 --> 00:42:39,500
- Just keep the gun away from him.
- I've got loads, anyway.

757
00:42:39,625 --> 00:42:41,115
Have you forgotten
how to salute?

758
00:42:41,208 --> 00:42:43,370
- No, sir.
- Then salute me.

759
00:42:45,333 --> 00:42:47,290
Now, let that be a warning.

760
00:42:48,083 --> 00:42:50,871
SVETLANA:
"Be strong," I hear my father say.

761
00:42:51,125 --> 00:42:52,160
SOLDIER:
Come on, chop, chop.

762
00:42:52,250 --> 00:42:53,456
Beria's picked you out.

763
00:42:54,917 --> 00:42:55,998
Just do as he says.

764
00:42:56,125 --> 00:43:00,119
- My car is right this way.
- No, no. She'll be happier with us.

765
00:43:00,208 --> 00:43:02,199
Okay, but we need to go. Let's go.

766
00:43:03,458 --> 00:43:05,119
- See you in Moscow.
- See you.

767
00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:09,581
Ah, nice.

768
00:43:16,708 --> 00:43:17,698
(HORNS BLARING)

769
00:43:17,833 --> 00:43:21,076
We need to go through first!
No, let us go first!

770
00:43:36,542 --> 00:43:37,577
Go, go, go!

771
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,035
Go!

772
00:43:48,333 --> 00:43:50,199
KHRUSHCHEV: Shit.
What, are we last now? Come on.

773
00:43:50,292 --> 00:43:51,373
(HORN TOOTS)

774
00:44:12,958 --> 00:44:15,290
Comrades, we share your grief.

775
00:44:15,375 --> 00:44:18,208
You will assemble outside
for further instructions.

776
00:44:18,292 --> 00:44:21,250
All staff into the transport.
Yes, that's it, hurry up.

777
00:44:21,333 --> 00:44:23,620
Come on, get a move on.
In the transports, please.

778
00:44:23,708 --> 00:44:26,951
Where the fuck
did she come from? Get her out!

779
00:44:27,083 --> 00:44:28,699
Gently with that, will you?
Hurry up.

780
00:44:30,292 --> 00:44:32,283
That's it, everything out.

781
00:44:36,208 --> 00:44:37,448
(DOCTOR WHIMPERS)

782
00:44:38,333 --> 00:44:40,620
Lookalikes.
I think their contract's up.

783
00:44:40,833 --> 00:44:41,823
This way.

784
00:44:43,958 --> 00:44:47,872
- You, come with me.
- But I don't understand.

785
00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:51,207
Come on. Just this way.

786
00:44:51,292 --> 00:44:52,282
You can stand down.

787
00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:53,823
Food in the kitchen.

788
00:45:01,667 --> 00:45:02,873
- Halt!
- (GUNSHOT)

789
00:45:03,042 --> 00:45:04,658
Move them out!

790
00:45:10,125 --> 00:45:11,911
Last one! Move it out!

791
00:45:16,792 --> 00:45:17,827
(GUNSHOT)

792
00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:30,581
BERIA: <i>Hello again.</i>

793
00:45:32,042 --> 00:45:33,032
There you are.

794
00:45:35,708 --> 00:45:36,869
You're very quiet.

795
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,708
See the little birch in the meadow.

796
00:45:44,917 --> 00:45:48,114
See the leaves dancing
when the wind blows.

797
00:45:50,042 --> 00:45:51,077
No?

798
00:45:51,792 --> 00:45:55,740
Well, come on, your voice was once
so beautiful, Polina Molotova.

799
00:45:58,083 --> 00:46:00,290
Oh, yes, sorry, meant to say.

800
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:02,706
Stalin's dead.

801
00:46:04,167 --> 00:46:07,239
No. The Stalin?

802
00:46:08,583 --> 00:46:10,199
Our Stalin?

803
00:46:11,292 --> 00:46:13,829
Yeah, your Stalin.

804
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:16,661
The one who put you here.

805
00:46:18,292 --> 00:46:19,282
Come on.

806
00:46:20,417 --> 00:46:23,739
Let's smarten you up
for Comrade Molotov.

807
00:46:24,125 --> 00:46:26,992
Good girl. Come on.

808
00:46:28,458 --> 00:46:32,247
Oh, sorry, darling. Work.
I'll make it up to you.

809
00:46:32,708 --> 00:46:35,245
Fetch the mattress
and have her washed.

810
00:46:35,333 --> 00:46:36,323
Okay.

811
00:46:36,875 --> 00:46:38,457
Right, get in there. Go on.

812
00:46:39,292 --> 00:46:40,908
Right, with me. Come on.

813
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,493
All right, jug, rug, flowers.
Right, grab that.

814
00:46:46,292 --> 00:46:48,499
- S-Slimonov, isn't it?
- Yes, sir.

815
00:46:48,583 --> 00:46:50,699
See you l-later, S-Slimonov.

816
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:52,490
Come on.

817
00:46:56,167 --> 00:46:59,159
Bought you a lovely new dress,
a nice dress.

818
00:47:11,417 --> 00:47:12,907
(DOOR SHUTS)

819
00:47:16,833 --> 00:47:17,823
(SIGHS)

820
00:47:22,917 --> 00:47:24,453
(GROANS) Oh, God.

821
00:47:24,583 --> 00:47:25,914
(KNOCKING)

822
00:47:27,333 --> 00:47:31,156
Christ. You look like you're about
to be bulldozed into a lime pit.

823
00:47:31,292 --> 00:47:32,498
Need your toilet.

824
00:47:34,667 --> 00:47:35,873
(RETCHES)

825
00:47:36,917 --> 00:47:39,124
Do you want me to hold back your hair?

826
00:47:39,250 --> 00:47:41,116
Polina always used to do that for me.

827
00:47:41,583 --> 00:47:42,914
Oh, no. Nothing's coming up.

828
00:47:43,708 --> 00:47:45,699
- Futile gesture.
- (GROANS)

829
00:47:45,792 --> 00:47:50,741
Listen, I wanted to invite you
to tomorrow's Committee meeting.

830
00:47:50,958 --> 00:47:51,948
Meeting?

831
00:47:53,375 --> 00:47:55,707
What meeting?
Why didn't I know about a meeting?

832
00:47:59,083 --> 00:48:00,994
(TOILET FLUSHES)

833
00:48:02,792 --> 00:48:05,580
(QUIETLY)
Stalin and Beria put you on a list.

834
00:48:07,958 --> 00:48:08,993
Stalin?

835
00:48:11,208 --> 00:48:14,621
Oh, I must have wronged him so badly.
What did I do?

836
00:48:14,792 --> 00:48:18,786
No, nothing. Don't you see?
Beria, he wants you out.

837
00:48:19,458 --> 00:48:21,165
Now, I've been talking
with Comrade Bulganin.

838
00:48:21,292 --> 00:48:22,282
No. No.

839
00:48:22,375 --> 00:48:23,831
I think he's right.
We can outvote them.

840
00:48:23,917 --> 00:48:26,375
No, no. This is factionalism.
Stalin didn't like factionalism.

841
00:48:26,458 --> 00:48:28,074
Oh, Stalin is dead!

842
00:48:29,083 --> 00:48:32,781
I've seen inside of him.
For fuck's sake, we have to act.

843
00:48:32,875 --> 00:48:35,207
(WITH DESPAIR):
I can't believe he's gone.

844
00:48:36,708 --> 00:48:38,415
Ohh...

845
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:40,491
(SOBS)

846
00:48:42,667 --> 00:48:44,408
(TOILET FAILS TO FLUSH)

847
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:46,867
You have to wait for it to fill up.

848
00:48:48,167 --> 00:48:50,158
Fucking apartments.

849
00:48:51,708 --> 00:48:52,789
Listen to me.

850
00:48:53,542 --> 00:48:55,874
Beria had Polina killed.

851
00:48:56,958 --> 00:48:59,199
Now, surely you must have wanted to...

852
00:48:59,292 --> 00:49:01,954
Act against the party? Me?

853
00:49:02,083 --> 00:49:03,573
- No?
- No, never.

854
00:49:03,667 --> 00:49:04,782
- Really?
- No.

855
00:49:04,875 --> 00:49:06,616
- Not once?
- Not once.

856
00:49:06,708 --> 00:49:09,496
(DOOR OPENS)
BERIA: Hello? Anyone home?

857
00:49:09,583 --> 00:49:11,915
- BOTH: What are you doing here?
- What are <i>you</i> doing here?

858
00:49:12,833 --> 00:49:14,369
We were just chatting.

859
00:49:14,458 --> 00:49:16,199
About Polina.

860
00:49:17,125 --> 00:49:20,243
- Well, well, would you believe it?
- Treacherous sow.

861
00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:24,409
Or a wronged woman who was framed.

862
00:49:24,542 --> 00:49:26,158
No, no. She was a criminal.

863
00:49:26,792 --> 00:49:27,827
I'm glad she's dead.

864
00:49:28,417 --> 00:49:31,375
Right, because,
well, she betrayed the party.

865
00:49:31,458 --> 00:49:34,075
- She plotted against Stalin.
- No, Nicky. False narrative.

866
00:49:34,167 --> 00:49:36,784
- No, no, she was a parasite.
- She <i>was</i> a parasite.

867
00:49:36,917 --> 00:49:41,491
She betrayed all of us, and, in fact,
the evidence was flimsy.

868
00:49:41,625 --> 00:49:44,583
There were no witnesses.
And look. Polina's back.

869
00:49:44,667 --> 00:49:46,453
- Is it really you?
- (LAUGHTER)

870
00:49:46,875 --> 00:49:51,039
Oh, my Polina.
Oh, I can't believe it.

871
00:49:51,125 --> 00:49:52,911
Oh, look, everyone, look.

872
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,413
- My little Polinka's back.
- I am back.

873
00:49:56,542 --> 00:49:59,580
I kept her safe for you, Vyacheslav.

874
00:49:59,667 --> 00:50:01,908
And I kept him safe for you, Polina.

875
00:50:02,042 --> 00:50:04,329
- I've got so much to tell you.
- Good.

876
00:50:04,417 --> 00:50:06,374
- I've bought a dog...
- Oh?

877
00:50:06,458 --> 00:50:08,290
So many changes to come.

878
00:50:09,833 --> 00:50:11,699
And you're gonna like
some of them, Nicky.

879
00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:14,491
(LAUGHTER IN BACKGROUND)

880
00:50:15,208 --> 00:50:16,664
KHRUSHCHEV:
It's great to have you back.

881
00:50:26,042 --> 00:50:27,532
(HINGES SQUEAK)

882
00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:30,123
Hello, my sweet.

883
00:50:36,417 --> 00:50:38,203
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

884
00:50:39,250 --> 00:50:40,365
SOLDIER:
You're the parents?

885
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,492
Thank you. You should go now.

886
00:50:50,417 --> 00:50:51,748
MALENKOV:
<i>We ready?</i>

887
00:50:52,833 --> 00:50:53,994
<i>Good.</i>

888
00:50:56,542 --> 00:50:58,658
Now, please don't go
until I say, okay?

889
00:51:00,750 --> 00:51:01,785
Did you hear me?

890
00:51:08,375 --> 00:51:09,490
Okay.

891
00:51:09,625 --> 00:51:10,831
(CAMERA CLICKS)

892
00:51:11,833 --> 00:51:13,824
Yes? It's good?

893
00:51:14,833 --> 00:51:16,870
I'd like to try one
with a faraway look.

894
00:51:19,083 --> 00:51:20,118
Comrade,

895
00:51:20,208 --> 00:51:23,496
I've scheduled some telephone calls
later with various members of the...

896
00:51:23,667 --> 00:51:25,408
I can't hear you.
Can you say that again?

897
00:51:25,542 --> 00:51:28,705
I'm sorry. I've scheduled
some telephone calls later with...

898
00:51:28,792 --> 00:51:30,954
- Then tell me later.
- Of course.

899
00:51:31,042 --> 00:51:33,909
Mr. Karloff, what an honour.
Love your work.

900
00:51:34,542 --> 00:51:37,864
Thinking of doing anything in colour?
(CHUCKLES)

901
00:51:38,208 --> 00:51:39,994
I need to talk to you about something.

902
00:51:40,125 --> 00:51:41,581
Would you please excuse me?

903
00:51:43,958 --> 00:51:45,164
I'll be right back.

904
00:51:46,833 --> 00:51:48,540
(BERIA CHUCKLES)

905
00:51:50,417 --> 00:51:53,330
Don't you ever... ever...

906
00:51:54,458 --> 00:51:56,040
humiliate me again in front of...

907
00:51:56,833 --> 00:51:59,700
I am the General Secretary
of the Soviet Union.

908
00:51:59,792 --> 00:52:01,499
Apologies. A line has been crossed.

909
00:52:01,583 --> 00:52:04,166
It is my duty to look good
for the people.

910
00:52:04,250 --> 00:52:06,582
- Of course.
- Ah, comrade, apologies.

911
00:52:06,667 --> 00:52:09,079
I'm not gonna do the seating plan.
Give it to Blavatsky.

912
00:52:09,167 --> 00:52:12,034
- He's expert at sitting on his arse.
- Of course. Thank you.

913
00:52:12,125 --> 00:52:13,786
- The Committee meeting...
- Oh, yes, yes.

914
00:52:13,917 --> 00:52:18,491
Um, item one:
these lists and these arrests.

915
00:52:19,167 --> 00:52:22,000
I think we...
Should we take that down just a gear?

916
00:52:22,083 --> 00:52:23,448
Or hold off altogether?

917
00:52:25,458 --> 00:52:27,620
- Freeze them?
- Freeze, yes.

918
00:52:27,708 --> 00:52:29,824
Excellent thought.
Yes, we could freeze arrests.

919
00:52:29,917 --> 00:52:32,033
We could even release
some low-level prisoners.

920
00:52:32,167 --> 00:52:35,865
(SIGHS IN RELIEF)
Fuck me. I mean... I mean, yes.

921
00:52:35,958 --> 00:52:37,619
But what would the old man...

922
00:52:37,750 --> 00:52:42,369
Oh, Stalin... Stalin destroyed
the status quo and he built a new one.

923
00:52:42,458 --> 00:52:45,075
The changes he made
were both radical and popular.

924
00:52:45,167 --> 00:52:47,204
- Liberalisation would be radical.
- Popular.

925
00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:49,040
- Radical.
- And popular.

926
00:52:49,125 --> 00:52:51,958
- (DOOR OPENS)
- I will deal with whatever horseshit

927
00:52:52,042 --> 00:52:53,373
you have presently.

928
00:52:53,458 --> 00:52:55,950
- Actually, I'd like you to see this.
- Come on through.

929
00:52:56,667 --> 00:53:00,661
You remember that famous photo
of Stalin and the little girl?

930
00:53:00,750 --> 00:53:01,785
Yes.

931
00:53:01,875 --> 00:53:05,413
Well, I was thinking
a photo of, you and the girl.

932
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:06,786
Continuity.

933
00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:10,447
And this way we're showing Stalin's
humanity moving forward, right?

934
00:53:10,542 --> 00:53:11,657
Yeah.

935
00:53:12,625 --> 00:53:14,912
I'm sorry about all that.
Find the girl.

936
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,741
- We should head to the Committee.
- We are.

937
00:53:21,458 --> 00:53:23,916
So I'll outline the releases
under Article 31.

938
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,707
- Yes, please.
- Okay.

939
00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:30,289
Please, understand that this
is not some cynical ploy.

940
00:53:30,375 --> 00:53:33,367
I mean, these reforms
are correct reforms.

941
00:53:33,458 --> 00:53:34,493
Totally understood.

942
00:53:37,333 --> 00:53:38,573
Are you wearing a corset?

943
00:53:42,083 --> 00:53:44,825
It's a girdle. I have a bad back.

944
00:53:46,167 --> 00:53:48,909
It's functional. It's not cosmetic.

945
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,115
You wear it well.

946
00:53:52,042 --> 00:53:54,704
Let's make this
a test of your discretion, shall we?

947
00:53:54,792 --> 00:53:56,374
Of course. Of course.

948
00:54:05,333 --> 00:54:07,324
- So, in accordance...
- I call this meeting to order.

949
00:54:07,458 --> 00:54:08,789
My apologies.

950
00:54:09,542 --> 00:54:13,581
So, in accordance with his will,
I propose Comrade Malenkov

951
00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:15,328
be named Chairman
of the Council of Ministers

952
00:54:15,417 --> 00:54:17,408
and General Secretary of the Party.

953
00:54:17,833 --> 00:54:20,165
MALENKOV:
And I propose Comrade Beria

954
00:54:20,250 --> 00:54:23,038
for First Vice-Chairman,
Council of Ministers.

955
00:54:23,125 --> 00:54:25,492
So, let's take a vote.
Those in favour?

956
00:54:25,583 --> 00:54:27,290
Those are two separate proposals.

957
00:54:27,375 --> 00:54:30,037
I suggest we vote one at a time.
Those in favour?

958
00:54:30,208 --> 00:54:32,666
I'm unsure of what's being proposed.

959
00:54:32,750 --> 00:54:34,832
I just said what was being proposed.
I just said it.

960
00:54:34,958 --> 00:54:36,824
And you're being obstructionist.

961
00:54:36,917 --> 00:54:39,500
Comrade Beria is busy
combining his role

962
00:54:39,583 --> 00:54:41,699
as Minister for both
Interior and Security.

963
00:54:41,833 --> 00:54:43,870
Wouldn't it be kinder if someone else

964
00:54:43,958 --> 00:54:45,619
carried the happy burden
of Vice-Chairman?

965
00:54:45,708 --> 00:54:47,369
I thank Comrade Khrushchev
for his concern,

966
00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:50,162
but I'm perfectly capable
of doing two things at once.

967
00:54:50,250 --> 00:54:53,538
- Well, it's three things.
- Should we bring in an abacus?

968
00:54:53,625 --> 00:54:57,323
All right, let's move to a vote
on both proposals.

969
00:54:57,417 --> 00:55:00,614
All right? First me as... you know,

970
00:55:00,708 --> 00:55:03,120
and Comrade Beria as Vice-Chairman.

971
00:55:03,208 --> 00:55:04,289
All those in favour?

972
00:55:08,042 --> 00:55:09,123
Carried...

973
00:55:10,542 --> 00:55:12,408
u... nanimously.

974
00:55:12,500 --> 00:55:13,490
Right, next.

975
00:55:13,625 --> 00:55:16,083
We need someone
to take charge of the funeral.

976
00:55:16,167 --> 00:55:18,659
- What about Comrade Khrushchev?
- Where's this coming from?

977
00:55:18,750 --> 00:55:20,491
I formally propose Comrade Khrushchev

978
00:55:20,583 --> 00:55:22,324
be given the honour
of organising the funeral.

979
00:55:22,458 --> 00:55:24,165
What? Come on,
I don't have any time to do that.

980
00:55:24,250 --> 00:55:26,332
What if I can do three things at once,
you can at least do two.

981
00:55:26,458 --> 00:55:28,369
- (CHUCKLING)
- What do I know about funerals?

982
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:30,366
You said you wanted
to honour his legacy.

983
00:55:30,458 --> 00:55:32,495
You told me last night
in the bathroom.

984
00:55:35,958 --> 00:55:38,950
- All those in... all those in favour?
- All those in favour?

985
00:55:39,042 --> 00:55:40,453
No, uh...

986
00:55:40,542 --> 00:55:43,534
Well, I think you'd be good,
actually, you know.

987
00:55:44,708 --> 00:55:45,743
(KHRUSHCHEV SIGHS)

988
00:55:46,125 --> 00:55:47,707
Passed unanimously.

989
00:55:47,792 --> 00:55:50,159
Nicky Khrushchev, funeral director.
It suits you.

990
00:55:50,250 --> 00:55:51,866
- Yeah.
- It suits that face, anyway.

991
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,035
(GLASS BEING TAPPED)

992
00:55:54,250 --> 00:55:57,493
- Comrade Beria.
- I propose a halt to deportations,

993
00:55:57,583 --> 00:56:01,781
the release of some existing detainees
under Article 31 and the suspension

994
00:56:01,875 --> 00:56:04,537
of all arrests that were officially
sanctioned three days ago.

995
00:56:04,625 --> 00:56:08,994
Whoa, whoa. That's like wiping
your arse on Stalin's final list.

996
00:56:09,083 --> 00:56:10,824
- No, no, no.
- This is demonstrably revisionist.

997
00:56:10,917 --> 00:56:15,115
Releasing people we arrested three
days ago will make us look cretinous.

998
00:56:15,708 --> 00:56:17,665
Listen, Stalin was misled.

999
00:56:17,792 --> 00:56:19,908
- We were misled.
- Really? (SCOFFS)

1000
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,118
Yes. So the people responsible
should be found and punished.

1001
00:56:23,208 --> 00:56:26,041
(LAUGHS) Who are you kidding,
Lavrenti, yourself?

1002
00:56:26,125 --> 00:56:29,538
We all knew what we were doing
when we signed those lists.

1003
00:56:29,625 --> 00:56:35,041
Stalin destroyed the status quo...
and he rebuilt it.

1004
00:56:36,500 --> 00:56:37,615
He was liberal.

1005
00:56:37,750 --> 00:56:39,161
- Radical.
- He was radical.

1006
00:56:39,250 --> 00:56:41,207
This is a blatant attempt
by Comrade Beria

1007
00:56:41,333 --> 00:56:42,789
to buy the support of the public.

1008
00:56:42,875 --> 00:56:45,788
I thought you were in favour of a more
liberal approach, Comrade Reformer.

1009
00:56:45,875 --> 00:56:48,993
All those in favour
of pausing the arrests,

1010
00:56:49,083 --> 00:56:51,666
of pausing the executions?

1011
00:56:53,083 --> 00:56:54,164
All those in favour?

1012
00:56:56,375 --> 00:57:02,075
Hmm. I've always been loyal to Stalin.
Always.

1013
00:57:02,667 --> 00:57:05,329
And these arrests
were authorised by Stalin.

1014
00:57:05,458 --> 00:57:08,075
But Stalin was also loyal
to the collective leadership,

1015
00:57:08,167 --> 00:57:10,534
and that is true loyalty.

1016
00:57:12,417 --> 00:57:16,331
However, he also had an iron will,
undeviating, strong.

1017
00:57:16,417 --> 00:57:19,250
Should we not do the same
and stick to what we believed in?

1018
00:57:21,083 --> 00:57:22,073
No.

1019
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,833
It is stronger still
to forge our own beliefs

1020
00:57:25,917 --> 00:57:28,875
with the beliefs
of the collective leadership.

1021
00:57:29,708 --> 00:57:32,541
Which I have now... done.

1022
00:57:36,875 --> 00:57:39,617
Carried... unanimously. Thank you.

1023
00:57:39,750 --> 00:57:41,332
I'll oversee the releases.

1024
00:57:42,583 --> 00:57:45,041
We have loosened
the Union's great corset.

1025
00:57:46,625 --> 00:57:49,913
Nicky, you've some bouquets
and swatches to look at.

1026
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,707
A funeral doesn't organise itself.

1027
00:57:54,625 --> 00:57:55,706
(GUNSHOT AND THUD)

1028
00:57:57,042 --> 00:57:59,784
(GUNSHOT AND THUD)

1029
00:57:59,875 --> 00:58:02,287
- Long live Stalin.
- Stalin's dead. Malenkov's in charge.

1030
00:58:02,375 --> 00:58:03,740
- Stop shooting.
- Long live Malenk...

1031
00:58:03,833 --> 00:58:05,665
- (SHOOTS)
- Amnesty effective immediately.

1032
00:58:05,750 --> 00:58:08,913
Orders of Comrade Beria.
We're moving out. Let's go.

1033
00:58:09,792 --> 00:58:11,123
Come on, let's go.

1034
00:58:26,167 --> 00:58:27,407
Come on.

1035
00:58:31,417 --> 00:58:32,703
Ahh...

1036
00:58:32,792 --> 00:58:34,908
(CRIES)
Oh, my God!

1037
00:58:35,583 --> 00:58:37,824
Ohh! (SOBS)

1038
00:59:11,333 --> 00:59:13,449
KHRUSHCHEV: Not too much on that.
He's not Clark Gable, okay?

1039
00:59:13,542 --> 00:59:15,408
Can somebody get a duster up there?

1040
00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:17,741
We've got a cobweb
large enough to snag a sheep.

1041
00:59:17,833 --> 00:59:19,665
We're opening in 15 minutes.

1042
00:59:19,750 --> 00:59:21,206
Now, for the curtains
at the front, comrade,

1043
00:59:21,292 --> 00:59:22,999
do you want ruched, not ruched?

1044
00:59:23,083 --> 00:59:25,165
- Whatever. I don't care.
- Not ruched?

1045
00:59:25,250 --> 00:59:27,742
- That's good. That's...
- Ruched? Not ruched?

1046
00:59:28,250 --> 00:59:30,241
- Ruched?
- Would you stop with this?

1047
00:59:30,708 --> 00:59:32,915
Why do you think I care?
Ah, excuse me.

1048
00:59:34,542 --> 00:59:36,658
- Fix that button.
- Welcome, comrades.

1049
00:59:36,750 --> 00:59:38,912
How's the Minister
for Fixtures and Fittings?

1050
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,161
It's going well. I'm enjoying it.

1051
00:59:40,292 --> 00:59:42,454
- Yes, you're very passionate.
- Well...

1052
00:59:42,542 --> 00:59:44,249
Yes, the ruched, please. Thank you.

1053
00:59:44,333 --> 00:59:46,290
- You're doing a great job.
- I know.

1054
00:59:46,375 --> 00:59:48,161
Well, hello. Are these...

1055
00:59:48,250 --> 00:59:49,957
- Oh.
- These my...

1056
00:59:50,042 --> 00:59:51,248
Which one of these is my girl?

1057
00:59:51,333 --> 00:59:52,869
We couldn't find the actual girl, sir.

1058
00:59:52,958 --> 00:59:54,665
These are some possible alternatives.

1059
00:59:54,750 --> 00:59:56,957
No, no, I want you to find...
Excuse me.

1060
00:59:57,042 --> 00:59:58,908
I want you to find
the girl in the photograph.

1061
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,957
Do you understand?
The nation depends on it.

1062
01:00:02,125 --> 01:00:03,707
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1063
01:00:04,333 --> 01:00:07,746
All right, girls, the Snow King
does not approve. Wait over there.

1064
01:00:08,958 --> 01:00:10,619
What happened?
Where's the girl in the photograph?

1065
01:00:10,708 --> 01:00:12,290
We couldn't find the actual girl.

1066
01:00:12,417 --> 01:00:15,955
I thought the entire point of the NKVD
was to know everyone's whereabouts.

1067
01:00:16,083 --> 01:00:17,699
- Yes, sir.
- Yes, sir, yes.

1068
01:00:17,792 --> 01:00:20,329
- So, you find her, you camel cock.
- Comrade Khrushchev.

1069
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:22,582
- Maria Veniaminovna.
- Yes.

1070
01:00:22,708 --> 01:00:25,166
I'm sorry that you heard that,
but he is a camel cock.

1071
01:00:25,250 --> 01:00:27,161
- (KISSES) How are you, Maria?
- Stalin?

1072
01:00:27,833 --> 01:00:30,370
Yes. You want to have a look?

1073
01:00:34,083 --> 01:00:37,075
Comrade Beria, this is Maria.
She'll be playing piano tonight.

1074
01:00:37,792 --> 01:00:39,578
- Good to meet you.
- Comrade.

1075
01:00:39,667 --> 01:00:40,828
What do you think?

1076
01:00:42,125 --> 01:00:45,447
Small. He looks so small.

1077
01:00:49,833 --> 01:00:52,074
- Sad day, soldier. Sad Day.
- Yes, sir.

1078
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,412
Aslanov. You handsome devil.

1079
01:00:55,958 --> 01:00:58,325
Stick you in a frock,
I'd fucking ride you raw myself.

1080
01:00:58,417 --> 01:01:00,704
- I will take that as a compliment.
- Yeah, don't.

1081
01:01:00,792 --> 01:01:04,285
Right, what's a war hero got to do
to get some lubrication round here?

1082
01:01:15,542 --> 01:01:17,032
Ah, Generalissimo.

1083
01:01:17,125 --> 01:01:19,036
There he is, eh, the great man.

1084
01:01:20,458 --> 01:01:24,031
I've seen a lot of death,
but that... that is a loss.

1085
01:01:24,125 --> 01:01:25,615
Tell me something.

1086
01:01:25,708 --> 01:01:29,906
Why has the army been replaced
by the NKVD all over Moscow?

1087
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,618
(FAKE LAUGHS) I mean, I'm smiling,
but I am very fucking furious.

1088
01:01:33,708 --> 01:01:35,415
Perhaps this is a good time
for Comrade Yudina

1089
01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:37,366
to go and prepare
those precious fingers.

1090
01:01:37,458 --> 01:01:38,994
Yes. One moment, General.

1091
01:01:39,083 --> 01:01:41,370
I will properly catch up with you
this evening.

1092
01:01:41,500 --> 01:01:44,788
- I'm looking forward to it.
- You never kiss my hand any more.

1093
01:01:44,875 --> 01:01:47,537
- I taught Nikita's niece to play.
- Yes, you did.

1094
01:01:47,625 --> 01:01:49,286
That was quite the salon recital.

1095
01:01:49,375 --> 01:01:51,241
Oh, I love the idea of you at a salon.

1096
01:01:51,917 --> 01:01:54,033
Do you have a party trick?
Burping the alphabet?

1097
01:01:54,125 --> 01:01:55,160
(FORCED LAUGHTER)

1098
01:01:55,292 --> 01:01:58,660
Comrade Malenkov, with sharper
cheekbones, as requested.

1099
01:01:58,750 --> 01:02:01,458
Sharp. Not sharp.
Sharp. Not sharp.

1100
01:02:02,292 --> 01:02:03,703
I would like...

1101
01:02:05,625 --> 01:02:08,162
...that one destroyed, thank you.

1102
01:02:08,375 --> 01:02:10,241
Good luck with the performance
tonight, by the way.

1103
01:02:10,333 --> 01:02:13,121
- Thank you.
- Nerve-racking, so many notes.

1104
01:02:13,208 --> 01:02:15,449
- Yes.
- Like your one to Stalin.

1105
01:02:17,083 --> 01:02:18,244
Which I have.

1106
01:02:21,250 --> 01:02:22,411
Come this way.

1107
01:02:22,708 --> 01:02:25,120
Why has the army
been confined to barracks?

1108
01:02:25,208 --> 01:02:28,075
The decision was mine,
supported by Comrade Malenkov.

1109
01:02:28,167 --> 01:02:29,532
Mm-hmm. Oh, was it indeed?

1110
01:02:29,625 --> 01:02:31,582
That right, Georgy?
It was your call?

1111
01:02:31,792 --> 01:02:35,285
Um, yes, of course.
We had to make a decision.

1112
01:02:35,375 --> 01:02:36,740
We're discussing the city's security.

1113
01:02:36,833 --> 01:02:38,574
- I know.
- Jesus Christ.

1114
01:02:38,667 --> 01:02:40,578
Did Coco Chanel
take a shit on your head?

1115
01:02:41,500 --> 01:02:44,413
- No, he did not.
- Listen, listen.

1116
01:02:44,542 --> 01:02:46,158
Moscow's gonna be boiling with people.

1117
01:02:46,292 --> 01:02:49,535
His little fucking apes at the NKVD
won't know what to do.

1118
01:02:49,625 --> 01:02:51,081
There's gonna be
thousands of civilians

1119
01:02:51,167 --> 01:02:52,908
flooding in from all over Russia.

1120
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,786
No, we're controlling
the crowd at source.

1121
01:02:54,875 --> 01:02:56,957
All trains and vans to Moscow
have been cancelled.

1122
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,206
- You can't do that.
- Wait a minute.

1123
01:02:59,292 --> 01:03:00,453
People have a right to see him.

1124
01:03:00,542 --> 01:03:02,499
- Oh, come on. No, no, no.
- Just temporarily.

1125
01:03:02,583 --> 01:03:06,030
I'm the funeral. I'm the trains.
This is horseshit, okay?

1126
01:03:06,125 --> 01:03:09,493
I've been picking out funeral cushions
with Slim Hitler over there...

1127
01:03:09,583 --> 01:03:12,701
calico this, taffeta that,
and you've done what?

1128
01:03:12,792 --> 01:03:15,124
No, I'm the trains and
I want them back.

1129
01:03:15,208 --> 01:03:18,326
Well, let's see who can
mobilise first. Oh, seems to be me!

1130
01:03:18,458 --> 01:03:20,199
You sneaky little shit.

1131
01:03:21,042 --> 01:03:23,249
(MEZHNIKOV CLEARS HIS THROAT)
And we're opening the doors.

1132
01:03:39,292 --> 01:03:42,614
MEZHNIKOV: Good. Steady pace.
Very good. Yes, just like that.

1133
01:03:42,708 --> 01:03:44,699
(SOBBING)

1134
01:03:48,042 --> 01:03:49,407
(SOBBING)

1135
01:03:49,917 --> 01:03:51,533
SVETLANA:
Rather overwhelming, isn't it?

1136
01:03:53,292 --> 01:03:54,953
And nobody's making them do this,
are they?

1137
01:03:55,042 --> 01:03:56,203
- BERIA: No, no.
- No.

1138
01:03:57,208 --> 01:03:58,744
MEZHNIKOV:
Just round to the right. Thank you.

1139
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,490
I don't suppose you want a chair?

1140
01:04:01,625 --> 01:04:05,619
Oh, no, no, no. I can't sit down.
I haven't sat down since he died.

1141
01:04:05,708 --> 01:04:07,244
One can't. He was too big.

1142
01:04:09,583 --> 01:04:10,664
Yes.

1143
01:04:13,375 --> 01:04:14,536
Do you remember Alexei?

1144
01:04:16,833 --> 01:04:19,996
- I remember everyone. It's a gift.
- Oh. (LAUGHS)

1145
01:04:20,083 --> 01:04:21,790
Do you remember
the way he used to laugh?

1146
01:04:21,917 --> 01:04:23,078
(HE LAUGHS)

1147
01:04:24,667 --> 01:04:27,375
- Alexei Kapler, yes, yes.
- Yes.

1148
01:04:28,208 --> 01:04:30,825
Yes, special to you, of course.

1149
01:04:30,917 --> 01:04:33,750
Some unsuitable associates.

1150
01:04:34,250 --> 01:04:36,457
Tragic, really.

1151
01:04:36,625 --> 01:04:38,582
I'm... I'm so sorry.

1152
01:04:39,250 --> 01:04:41,662
Yes, well,
I want you to bring him back.

1153
01:04:44,208 --> 01:04:46,165
The way that you brought
Molotov's wife back.

1154
01:04:47,833 --> 01:04:48,994
She...

1155
01:04:50,167 --> 01:04:53,910
- Well, I'd kept her as...
- Yeah, but I just want one person.

1156
01:04:54,875 --> 01:04:56,161
Just one person.

1157
01:04:56,875 --> 01:04:58,707
- Oh, my darling.
- Please.

1158
01:05:00,208 --> 01:05:02,540
For you,
I will attempt the impossible.

1159
01:05:03,875 --> 01:05:06,207
(SOMBRE CLASSICAL MUSIC)

1160
01:05:11,708 --> 01:05:14,541
MEZHNIKOV:
Keep it moving if you can. Thank you.

1161
01:05:14,958 --> 01:05:16,574
A lot of people to process.

1162
01:05:24,250 --> 01:05:25,456
(SNEEZING)

1163
01:05:25,583 --> 01:05:29,281
Oh, fucking pollen. They should make
gas bombs out of the stuff.

1164
01:05:31,708 --> 01:05:33,574
Wait, wait, wait.
That's not gonna fit.

1165
01:05:34,167 --> 01:05:37,205
- It's larger than the region itself.
- Go back. Go back.

1166
01:05:37,375 --> 01:05:38,957
Hunker down.

1167
01:05:41,292 --> 01:05:42,407
A quarter turn.

1168
01:05:44,500 --> 01:05:45,786
Through on that line.

1169
01:05:47,333 --> 01:05:50,200
- BULGANIN: How's Polina?
- She's well.

1170
01:05:50,375 --> 01:05:54,323
I can sense how sorry she is
for her treachery.

1171
01:05:56,667 --> 01:05:58,533
Jesus Christ, it's the bishops.

1172
01:06:00,208 --> 01:06:02,449
KAGANOVICH:
I thought we'd banned those freaks.

1173
01:06:02,625 --> 01:06:04,787
Sneeze on the bastards
as they go past.

1174
01:06:04,875 --> 01:06:06,582
- Did you invite them?
- No.

1175
01:06:06,792 --> 01:06:10,410
- Ask Beria if he invited the bishops.
- Don't give me orders.

1176
01:06:12,167 --> 01:06:14,534
Ask Beria if he invited the bishops.

1177
01:06:14,708 --> 01:06:17,700
- Did you invite the bishops?
- Yes.

1178
01:06:18,500 --> 01:06:19,786
- Yes.
- Well?

1179
01:06:19,875 --> 01:06:21,491
- He said yes.
- (SIGHS)

1180
01:06:22,250 --> 01:06:24,412
I'm going to give everyone
in Red Square a voucher

1181
01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:27,822
permitting one kick each
to his stupid face.

1182
01:06:27,958 --> 01:06:29,869
Is he asking for some delicious hay?

1183
01:06:29,958 --> 01:06:33,997
No, he said something quite
complicated about a voucher system.

1184
01:06:34,458 --> 01:06:38,622
Ask Nikita why in God's arse
he invited the bishops.

1185
01:06:38,708 --> 01:06:40,790
- No, I've already explained why...
- Ask Nikita.

1186
01:06:40,875 --> 01:06:42,036
You tell him...

1187
01:06:43,542 --> 01:06:45,704
- Never mind. Swap.
- No.

1188
01:06:45,833 --> 01:06:47,915
- Just swap with me.
- I said no.

1189
01:06:48,500 --> 01:06:50,332
We can make it look like
it's part of the ceremony.

1190
01:07:04,125 --> 01:07:05,866
What the fuck are you doing?

1191
01:07:09,458 --> 01:07:11,040
(DOOR BURST OPEN)

1192
01:07:11,125 --> 01:07:12,456
(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)

1193
01:07:12,542 --> 01:07:15,000
Buttoned-up sacks of shit! Fleabags!

1194
01:07:15,083 --> 01:07:16,699
Should I handle this for you?

1195
01:07:17,583 --> 01:07:19,165
(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING
IN BACKGROUND)

1196
01:07:19,292 --> 01:07:22,410
Foreigners. A vile crime
has been perpetrated.

1197
01:07:22,542 --> 01:07:26,490
Hairy monsters in coats
have scooped out my father's brain

1198
01:07:26,625 --> 01:07:29,037
- and sent it to America.
- (TRANSLATORS SPEAK SOFTLY)

1199
01:07:29,167 --> 01:07:32,489
And these traitors,
sucking the cocks and balls...

1200
01:07:33,333 --> 01:07:35,324
...sucking the cocks and balls
of Zionist...

1201
01:07:35,500 --> 01:07:39,038
New York...
New York Zionist queers in petticoats.

1202
01:07:39,167 --> 01:07:41,829
Look at them. You see?
Those brain thieves.

1203
01:07:41,917 --> 01:07:43,624
- Do not translate this.
- I see you. Heed me.

1204
01:07:43,750 --> 01:07:46,287
- There's food next door, gentlemen.
- I'm Stalin's son!

1205
01:07:46,417 --> 01:07:49,660
You will not take me down.
I will not go down!

1206
01:07:49,792 --> 01:07:51,829
KHRUSHCHEV: Please,
this side. I'm sorry. I apologise.

1207
01:07:52,667 --> 01:07:54,533
I will not be silen...

1208
01:07:54,750 --> 01:07:56,616
I know about the hockey team.

1209
01:07:57,542 --> 01:07:59,874
- I'm most deeply...
- Up we go. That's it.

1210
01:07:59,958 --> 01:08:01,619
Thank you all for your...

1211
01:08:01,875 --> 01:08:03,240
- Medic!
- (GASPING)

1212
01:08:03,375 --> 01:08:04,615
Not today!

1213
01:08:04,750 --> 01:08:08,243
You're a fucking stain
on that uniform. You fucking behave.

1214
01:08:08,958 --> 01:08:10,323
SVETLANA:
What is going on?

1215
01:08:10,417 --> 01:08:12,328
He felt a little overwhelmed,
Svetlana.

1216
01:08:12,458 --> 01:08:15,621
Harm. This is a perfect
example of harm.

1217
01:08:15,750 --> 01:08:17,787
- He's okay.
- Come here. Get up.

1218
01:08:17,875 --> 01:08:20,412
- Who did this?
- I did, and I enjoyed it.

1219
01:08:20,542 --> 01:08:21,873
It's been a long time coming.

1220
01:08:22,833 --> 01:08:24,073
If any of you...

1221
01:08:25,750 --> 01:08:27,366
...should do anything...

1222
01:08:28,167 --> 01:08:29,908
Right, well, that's me told.

1223
01:08:30,042 --> 01:08:33,000
I'm off to represent
the entire Red Army at the buffet.

1224
01:08:33,083 --> 01:08:34,289
You girls enjoy yourself.

1225
01:08:36,458 --> 01:08:38,449
Are you all right? He fell very hard.

1226
01:08:38,542 --> 01:08:39,907
Why did you let him do that?

1227
01:08:40,042 --> 01:08:43,239
Yes, I should have intercepted
his fist with my face.

1228
01:08:43,333 --> 01:08:45,574
I want to make a speech
at my father's funeral.

1229
01:08:46,125 --> 01:08:49,117
- And I want to fuck Grace Kelly.
- I simply don't care.

1230
01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:51,412
I want to make a speech
at my father's funeral.

1231
01:08:51,500 --> 01:08:53,207
Comrade Malenkov, your view?

1232
01:08:54,417 --> 01:08:55,498
Well, I think, um...

1233
01:08:56,875 --> 01:08:58,786
it can be, um...

1234
01:08:58,917 --> 01:09:00,658
- no... no problem.
- Ah...

1235
01:09:00,750 --> 01:09:03,117
Technically, yes, but practically...

1236
01:09:03,208 --> 01:09:05,449
There are programmatic complications.

1237
01:09:05,542 --> 01:09:07,783
You know, I think I misspoke
when I said, "No problem."

1238
01:09:07,875 --> 01:09:10,116
What I meant was, "No."

1239
01:09:10,875 --> 01:09:11,865
"Problem."

1240
01:09:14,083 --> 01:09:16,825
Ignore me. I'm... It's no problem.

1241
01:09:16,958 --> 01:09:18,995
- Yes. I take that as a yes.
- Go ahead, Nikita.

1242
01:09:19,125 --> 01:09:21,833
I will unlock the schedule
and squeeze him in.

1243
01:09:21,958 --> 01:09:23,574
I will not be squeezed.

1244
01:09:23,708 --> 01:09:26,166
Sometimes the shortest speeches
are the most memorable.

1245
01:09:26,792 --> 01:09:28,783
- Well, that's as maybe.
- True. Fish! Let's eat.

1246
01:09:28,875 --> 01:09:30,582
- What's going on?
- I don't...

1247
01:09:30,667 --> 01:09:32,123
(SVETLANA TALKING TO GUESTS)

1248
01:09:32,208 --> 01:09:34,199
I look forward
to the five garbled words

1249
01:09:34,292 --> 01:09:36,329
we afford him
before we start the flypast.

1250
01:09:36,458 --> 01:09:38,916
Hey, we need to talk.
First the trains, now the bishops.

1251
01:09:39,250 --> 01:09:40,866
Who else are we pals with now?

1252
01:09:40,958 --> 01:09:43,290
- You invite any old Nazis?
- Excuse me.

1253
01:09:43,375 --> 01:09:45,912
These stairs are like climbing
Mount Kilimanjaro.

1254
01:09:46,083 --> 01:09:47,619
I'm more sweat than man.

1255
01:09:47,750 --> 01:09:49,661
- Did you see off Vasily?
- Yes, we did.

1256
01:09:49,750 --> 01:09:51,707
And thank you
for landing me this funeral.

1257
01:09:51,875 --> 01:09:53,741
Come on, Nicky. You're enjoying it.

1258
01:09:53,875 --> 01:09:56,207
But why did you
have to invite the bishops?

1259
01:09:56,333 --> 01:09:58,870
What, you think I wanted
those boyfriends of Christ here?

1260
01:09:58,958 --> 01:10:00,039
That was his idea.

1261
01:10:00,167 --> 01:10:02,534
Lavrenti, you of all people must know

1262
01:10:02,625 --> 01:10:04,332
that religion
has never been part of...

1263
01:10:04,458 --> 01:10:07,120
You lecturing me?
You standing in the Hall of Columns

1264
01:10:07,250 --> 01:10:09,537
still insisting on Polina's guilt?

1265
01:10:10,375 --> 01:10:12,366
Well, she... she is...

1266
01:10:13,167 --> 01:10:14,373
(STUTTERS)

1267
01:10:14,583 --> 01:10:17,245
- Um, sorry. Maybe I shouldn't have...
- Oh, come on.

1268
01:10:17,458 --> 01:10:20,576
No, no. You both called
the blameless Polina Molotova

1269
01:10:20,667 --> 01:10:23,500
a traitor and a parasite
in her own apartment. I heard you.

1270
01:10:23,583 --> 01:10:26,575
She was guilty.
You found her guilty.

1271
01:10:26,708 --> 01:10:28,949
And Stalin agreed.
Nobody doubted.

1272
01:10:29,083 --> 01:10:31,040
Nobody doubted.
Past tense, you see.

1273
01:10:31,167 --> 01:10:33,659
In the good old days you pine for,
that sort of dissonance

1274
01:10:33,792 --> 01:10:35,374
would have had you both shot.
Both of you.

1275
01:10:35,458 --> 01:10:38,120
Oh, (BLOWS OUT)
this is just fucking wordplay.

1276
01:10:38,208 --> 01:10:39,243
Oh, is it?

1277
01:10:39,667 --> 01:10:43,080
Allegiance to the party line, hm?
That was what Stalin demanded.

1278
01:10:43,208 --> 01:10:44,323
Correct, Comrade Molotov?

1279
01:10:44,417 --> 01:10:47,489
Um, allegiance to the party line? Yes.

1280
01:10:47,583 --> 01:10:49,494
And defiance of the party line,

1281
01:10:49,583 --> 01:10:51,574
that would mark you out
as a traitor, wouldn't it?

1282
01:10:52,708 --> 01:10:54,915
I'm ashamed and I... I...

1283
01:10:55,042 --> 01:10:58,489
I beg your forgiveness
for my selfish deceitfulness,

1284
01:10:58,625 --> 01:11:01,913
and I will go and reassure Polina.

1285
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:08,786
You're just making this shit up
as you go along.

1286
01:11:08,875 --> 01:11:11,742
- What game is this, Lavrenti?
- Oh, don't be hysterical.

1287
01:11:11,833 --> 01:11:14,871
- We're in a new reality.
- What, you're the good guy now?

1288
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,240
You locked up half the nation.

1289
01:11:16,333 --> 01:11:18,700
You beat them, you raped them,
you killed them.

1290
01:11:18,792 --> 01:11:20,282
Yes, and now I'm releasing them.

1291
01:11:20,417 --> 01:11:22,624
And you won't believe
how many will be free.

1292
01:11:22,708 --> 01:11:24,870
So now you want the public
to love you, is that it?

1293
01:11:25,750 --> 01:11:27,866
You're bending and cracking the truth
like a human body.

1294
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:29,081
The truth?

1295
01:11:29,167 --> 01:11:31,750
This from the man who invited
his bit-on-the-side whore pianist

1296
01:11:31,875 --> 01:11:34,242
to play at the funeral,
even though she swore to kill Stalin,

1297
01:11:34,333 --> 01:11:35,323
who's now dead.

1298
01:11:35,458 --> 01:11:37,995
Whoa. What the barrelling fuck
are you talking about?

1299
01:11:38,083 --> 01:11:40,290
She wanted Stalin dead
and she knows your family.

1300
01:11:40,417 --> 01:11:42,624
She taught your niece
to play, remember?

1301
01:11:43,750 --> 01:11:44,990
I think you should read this.

1302
01:11:46,417 --> 01:11:50,285
It's the copy of a note I found
by Stalin's body, from the pianist.

1303
01:11:50,625 --> 01:11:52,992
It's lucky we both now live
in the new Soviet Union

1304
01:11:53,083 --> 01:11:54,369
or you and your wife and your family

1305
01:11:54,458 --> 01:11:57,655
would be a pile of dust
on the floor of a crematorium toilet.

1306
01:11:59,667 --> 01:12:02,534
Kobulov! My stomach's rumbling.

1307
01:12:02,667 --> 01:12:04,283
Is there any cheese in this building?

1308
01:12:07,333 --> 01:12:08,664
(EXHALES)

1309
01:12:10,792 --> 01:12:13,329
No, I don't have time
for that shit right now.

1310
01:12:13,458 --> 01:12:14,994
Wait, wait, wait.
Come back, come back.

1311
01:12:16,083 --> 01:12:17,198
No, go.

1312
01:12:18,625 --> 01:12:22,072
New security orders.
Restart the trains, all right?

1313
01:12:22,167 --> 01:12:25,125
Open the city's borders
and let the people back into Moscow.

1314
01:12:27,042 --> 01:12:28,624
They deserve to see the old man.

1315
01:12:28,750 --> 01:12:31,117
Let's see how Beria's goons
cope with that.

1316
01:12:31,917 --> 01:12:33,954
(TRAIN WHISTLE)

1317
01:12:35,583 --> 01:12:36,698
(STEAM HISSING)

1318
01:12:36,833 --> 01:12:39,416
MAN:
Train to Moscow in five minutes!

1319
01:12:39,542 --> 01:12:41,032
(LIVELY CHATTER)

1320
01:12:46,458 --> 01:12:47,994
(TRAIN WHISTLE)

1321
01:12:48,125 --> 01:12:50,241
(EXCITED CHATTER)

1322
01:12:52,375 --> 01:12:55,242
(TRAIN WHISTLE)

1323
01:13:02,542 --> 01:13:04,249
(FOOTSTEPS)

1324
01:13:07,833 --> 01:13:09,915
(LOW CHATTER)

1325
01:13:17,458 --> 01:13:20,371
- What's going on?
- Trains are bringing them in.

1326
01:13:27,792 --> 01:13:29,749
Quiet. Quiet, quiet.

1327
01:13:30,833 --> 01:13:32,039
Turn around!

1328
01:13:33,667 --> 01:13:37,205
- This is a secure area!
- We've come to see Comrade Stalin!

1329
01:13:37,417 --> 01:13:40,034
Back. Get back. Back!

1330
01:13:40,167 --> 01:13:41,749
- (SHOUTING)
- Back.

1331
01:13:42,417 --> 01:13:45,159
- Stay back.
- Stay where you are!

1332
01:13:47,250 --> 01:13:49,491
- (CROWD SHOUTING)
- Fire over their heads.

1333
01:13:51,667 --> 01:13:53,533
(GUNSHOTS AND SCREAMING)

1334
01:13:58,625 --> 01:14:00,912
(SHOUTING AND SCREAMING)

1335
01:14:09,542 --> 01:14:11,078
Don't let them through!

1336
01:14:11,708 --> 01:14:14,245
(GUNSHOTS)

1337
01:14:15,500 --> 01:14:16,661
(DOOR BURSTS OPEN)

1338
01:14:18,833 --> 01:14:20,415
This is your work, is it?

1339
01:14:20,542 --> 01:14:22,124
Why? Are there spelling mistakes?

1340
01:14:23,708 --> 01:14:27,030
Do you have any idea
what kind of man Beria is?

1341
01:14:27,167 --> 01:14:29,499
He's releasing people from prison.

1342
01:14:29,625 --> 01:14:32,208
That was my idea.
I was going to do that.

1343
01:14:33,333 --> 01:14:35,995
I'm the reformer. Me.

1344
01:14:36,083 --> 01:14:40,657
Don't you fucking laugh at me.
I was going to release the bishops.

1345
01:14:40,792 --> 01:14:42,954
- I thought you hated the Church.
- I do!

1346
01:14:43,083 --> 01:14:45,916
Just tell me it's not true.
Did you write this?

1347
01:14:47,292 --> 01:14:49,659
Stalin killed my family, my friends.

1348
01:14:49,792 --> 01:14:53,239
- Zinaida Reich, Kuperchinski.
- Kup... You knew Kuperchinski?

1349
01:14:53,375 --> 01:14:55,241
I should have you shot
just for saying his name.

1350
01:14:55,375 --> 01:14:57,457
Comrade Nikita Sergeyevich,
you know me. I...

1351
01:14:57,583 --> 01:15:01,156
Stop. No, I... I don't know you.
You don't know me.

1352
01:15:01,292 --> 01:15:05,331
You fucking taught
my niece piano lessons. That's it.

1353
01:15:05,458 --> 01:15:08,951
Don't you see what Beria's done now?
He's tied me to you.

1354
01:15:09,083 --> 01:15:10,323
We are tied together.

1355
01:15:11,333 --> 01:15:12,744
- Like a rock...
- I know.

1356
01:15:12,833 --> 01:15:14,289
...that's sinking and...

1357
01:15:14,458 --> 01:15:16,790
But I'm confident of everlasting life.

1358
01:15:18,417 --> 01:15:21,125
Who the fuck in their right mind
would want everlasting life?

1359
01:15:21,250 --> 01:15:23,207
The endless conversation.

1360
01:15:24,292 --> 01:15:25,407
(CLOSES THE DOOR SHUT)

1361
01:15:26,417 --> 01:15:27,828
(MURMUR OF VOICES)

1362
01:15:27,958 --> 01:15:30,325
Piano lessons, Nicky?
How's the fingering?

1363
01:15:30,458 --> 01:15:32,665
(SNIGGERS)
She hit the high note, did she?

1364
01:15:32,792 --> 01:15:34,282
(MIMICS PIANO SCALE)
F sharp?

1365
01:15:34,417 --> 01:15:36,499
Yeah, two clowns,
one joke between you.

1366
01:15:36,625 --> 01:15:38,081
Work on your fucking material.

1367
01:15:40,083 --> 01:15:41,619
Something's happening over there.

1368
01:15:41,750 --> 01:15:45,288
I hate him.
Hate her. Fucking wet box.

1369
01:15:45,417 --> 01:15:48,330
- Can you please just be cordial?
- I know the drill.

1370
01:15:48,458 --> 01:15:50,870
Smile, shake hands
and try not to call them a cunt.

1371
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:52,411
Perfect. That's perfect.

1372
01:15:53,333 --> 01:15:55,870
- How many?
- 1500.

1373
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:57,365
- Dead?
- Yes.

1374
01:15:57,917 --> 01:16:00,625
- I need a man with an army.
- Comrade minister.

1375
01:16:00,833 --> 01:16:04,872
I found her. She's uh...
grown a little since the photograph.

1376
01:16:05,042 --> 01:16:07,124
She's the size of an ostrich. No.

1377
01:16:07,250 --> 01:16:09,036
Okay, can we just go back
to my original idea

1378
01:16:09,167 --> 01:16:11,704
and find a girl
who looks like her but little?

1379
01:16:11,833 --> 01:16:14,370
No higher than this.
Chalk it on your fucking trousers.

1380
01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:17,947
Modern soldier's greatest fear.
It's not death. It's not starvation.

1381
01:16:18,083 --> 01:16:19,118
It's chafing.

1382
01:16:19,250 --> 01:16:21,662
And then he planted the flag
on Hitler's bunker

1383
01:16:21,792 --> 01:16:23,954
or he knocked the bear out
with one punch.

1384
01:16:24,083 --> 01:16:27,041
Either way, the man's a war hero.
Excuse us, please.

1385
01:16:27,167 --> 01:16:29,454
Listen, it was Goebbels' bunker,
not Hitler's.

1386
01:16:29,583 --> 01:16:32,245
Listen to me. I was the one
who put the trains back on.

1387
01:16:32,375 --> 01:16:33,957
- Comrade General...
- Fuck off!

1388
01:16:34,083 --> 01:16:35,699
Or I'll punch you into a sticky pulp.

1389
01:16:35,833 --> 01:16:37,915
- Thank you.
- What the fuck were you thinking?

1390
01:16:38,042 --> 01:16:39,908
I don't know, okay, but I did it.

1391
01:16:40,042 --> 01:16:42,750
- And I really need your help.
- To do what?

1392
01:16:42,833 --> 01:16:44,415
There's bodies fucking
piling up in the street.

1393
01:16:44,500 --> 01:16:45,490
It's a bit late, isn't it.

1394
01:16:45,583 --> 01:16:47,915
What if we blame this on someone...

1395
01:16:48,042 --> 01:16:49,749
- Wait.
- ...who's out of control.

1396
01:16:49,875 --> 01:16:52,867
Nicky, be very careful
what you say next.

1397
01:16:53,583 --> 01:16:54,664
Who?

1398
01:16:55,958 --> 01:16:57,073
Beria.

1399
01:16:58,042 --> 01:17:00,374
I'm gonna have to report
this conversation.

1400
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:01,911
Threatening to do harm

1401
01:17:02,042 --> 01:17:04,704
or obstruct any member
of the Presidium in the process of...

1402
01:17:04,833 --> 01:17:06,449
Look at your fucking face.

1403
01:17:06,583 --> 01:17:09,041
(WHEEZING LAUGH)

1404
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:11,119
Nikita Khrushchev.
(KISSES LOUDLY)

1405
01:17:11,250 --> 01:17:14,538
- You balls like Kremlin domes.
- Stop. Be serious. Are you in?

1406
01:17:14,667 --> 01:17:18,205
I'm in, I'm in. That fucker thinks
he can take on the Red Army.

1407
01:17:18,333 --> 01:17:21,951
I fucked Germany. I think I can take
a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.

1408
01:17:22,042 --> 01:17:24,704
- It's got to be tomorrow.
- Tomorrow?

1409
01:17:24,792 --> 01:17:26,658
Sorry.
You busy washing your hair or what?

1410
01:17:26,875 --> 01:17:28,161
Tomorrow's the funeral.

1411
01:17:28,292 --> 01:17:31,284
Yeah, the day that the entire fucking
army's in town with their guns.

1412
01:17:32,625 --> 01:17:33,865
(EXHALES) That's perfect.

1413
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,617
But we need the Presidium on board.
Every one of them.

1414
01:17:36,833 --> 01:17:39,416
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Malenkov's a bit tricky.

1415
01:17:39,542 --> 01:17:42,660
- No. We need fucking all of them.
- Well, I'll get him.

1416
01:17:43,125 --> 01:17:45,116
(SLOW PIANO MUSIC)

1417
01:17:45,208 --> 01:17:47,540
(WHISPERING)

1418
01:17:48,875 --> 01:17:50,206
- How many?
- 1500.

1419
01:17:50,333 --> 01:17:53,451
Find Khrushchev. I want to talk
to him about his future.

1420
01:17:53,583 --> 01:17:55,119
A very short conversation.

1421
01:17:56,458 --> 01:17:59,075
If you could do me a favour
and just nod as I'm speaking.

1422
01:17:59,208 --> 01:18:00,994
People are looking to me
for reassurance

1423
01:18:01,125 --> 01:18:02,615
and I have no idea what is going on.

1424
01:18:02,750 --> 01:18:05,583
We will bring the situation
under control. Order will be restored.

1425
01:18:05,708 --> 01:18:08,666
This moron has restarted the trains.

1426
01:18:08,792 --> 01:18:11,955
And your men pissed their pants
and killed 1500 people.

1427
01:18:12,042 --> 01:18:13,373
We were controlling the crowd.

1428
01:18:13,458 --> 01:18:14,948
Those people weren't
supposed to be there.

1429
01:18:15,083 --> 01:18:16,164
Are you blaming the dead

1430
01:18:16,250 --> 01:18:17,365
- for their own death?
- (SHUSHING)

1431
01:18:17,458 --> 01:18:20,576
I'm gonna tell you who's going to be
blamed. I am going to be blamed.

1432
01:18:20,667 --> 01:18:22,749
This shit sack is going to be blamed.

1433
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,206
Let's get out of here.

1434
01:18:28,292 --> 01:18:31,455
- Comrade, your girl. A girl.
- Ah! There you are.

1435
01:18:31,542 --> 01:18:32,577
(KISSES PASSIONATELY)

1436
01:18:32,667 --> 01:18:34,624
Are we ready for the balcony wave?

1437
01:18:34,750 --> 01:18:37,367
Who's gonna carry the can
for this farrago of shit?

1438
01:18:37,458 --> 01:18:39,449
That's easy. Khrushchev.
He put the trains back on.

1439
01:18:39,667 --> 01:18:41,408
And you shot the people
getting off them.

1440
01:18:41,625 --> 01:18:43,207
- Yes, he has a point.
- No, he doesn't.

1441
01:18:43,292 --> 01:18:44,908
There's no point
to Nikita Khrushchev.

1442
01:18:45,042 --> 01:18:47,955
Well, how about this?
We blame the security forces.

1443
01:18:48,083 --> 01:18:50,120
Right? Hothead officers
on the ground.

1444
01:18:50,208 --> 01:18:51,994
- (KHRUSHCHEV AGREES)
- Sorry. I'm sorry.

1445
01:18:52,083 --> 01:18:54,290
Do you still possess a working brain?

1446
01:18:54,417 --> 01:18:57,330
You dumb animal.
I <i>am</i> the security forces

1447
01:18:57,458 --> 01:19:00,450
and I'm not gonna be made the villain
for this catastrophe.

1448
01:19:00,542 --> 01:19:03,705
Look, even if you do get blamed,
we close ranks.

1449
01:19:03,917 --> 01:19:06,329
If anyone has a pop at you,
they have to come through us first.

1450
01:19:06,458 --> 01:19:09,075
Yes, good idea.
Give me the girl. All right?

1451
01:19:09,208 --> 01:19:11,791
- A lot of this is your own doing.
- You spineless rat.

1452
01:19:11,917 --> 01:19:14,454
You're just a cadaver
we propped up in a corset.

1453
01:19:14,583 --> 01:19:16,290
- Ohh...
- Hey, hey, easy.

1454
01:19:16,417 --> 01:19:19,489
It's time all of you realised who kept
the daggers out of your backs.

1455
01:19:19,625 --> 01:19:22,617
Show some fucking respect.
I... I've got... I've got...

1456
01:19:22,750 --> 01:19:25,037
I've got documents.
I have documents on all of you.

1457
01:19:25,167 --> 01:19:26,874
You, 13th of March, 1937.

1458
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:30,243
Zolotov trials.
Forty-two dead, 173 exiled.

1459
01:19:30,333 --> 01:19:32,119
- Your signature.
- Beria, that's enough!

1460
01:19:32,208 --> 01:19:34,791
Yeah, well, you signed off
the life of your own brother!

1461
01:19:34,917 --> 01:19:37,375
Oh, you think that was easy?
You bastard!

1462
01:19:37,458 --> 01:19:38,619
Bagrov, Gorev.

1463
01:19:38,750 --> 01:19:40,832
How did your conscience
accommodate that?

1464
01:19:40,958 --> 01:19:44,405
And Zykov! Zykov!
Poor blameless, guileless Zykov.

1465
01:19:44,500 --> 01:19:45,581
All of you!

1466
01:19:46,833 --> 01:19:49,200
(SCREAMS) All of you.
I have documents on all of you!

1467
01:19:49,625 --> 01:19:50,615
I've seen what you've done.

1468
01:19:50,708 --> 01:19:52,324
I know the truth.
It's all written down.

1469
01:19:52,458 --> 01:19:56,497
It's all written down on a very...
on a very fucking long list!

1470
01:19:58,542 --> 01:20:00,624
- Just pick them up.
- (PAPERS RUSTLING)

1471
01:20:02,250 --> 01:20:03,615
Are we done? Hm?

1472
01:20:03,708 --> 01:20:07,201
(PANTING) We will convene
tomorrow after the funeral.

1473
01:20:07,333 --> 01:20:09,370
I will nominate some scapegoats.

1474
01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:12,242
We can arraign a couple
of the officers who fired.

1475
01:20:12,375 --> 01:20:13,536
- No harm done.
- Are you okay?

1476
01:20:13,667 --> 01:20:16,625
Only comrades and friends
could shout at each other like this.

1477
01:20:16,750 --> 01:20:19,117
Right, so we'll fix this
in committee, all right?

1478
01:20:19,250 --> 01:20:22,163
Right, right...
He's using you, Georgy.

1479
01:20:22,292 --> 01:20:24,249
He's using you
and then he's gonna kill you.

1480
01:20:24,375 --> 01:20:27,117
- You saw those papers.
- What are you talking about?

1481
01:20:27,250 --> 01:20:30,242
Jesus, Nicky, he was pointing at you.
He wasn't pointing at me.

1482
01:20:30,375 --> 01:20:31,706
No, he said "all of you".

1483
01:20:31,833 --> 01:20:34,621
No, no.
I was over there, you know?

1484
01:20:34,750 --> 01:20:37,538
- And he went "all of you".
- Yeah, "all of you".

1485
01:20:37,667 --> 01:20:39,658
- No, no.
- Yes.

1486
01:20:39,792 --> 01:20:41,578
- "All of you."
- All of us.

1487
01:20:41,708 --> 01:20:44,040
No, he said "all of you".

1488
01:20:44,167 --> 01:20:48,365
You know, all of you
can kiss my Russian arse.

1489
01:20:48,500 --> 01:20:49,786
All of <i>you.</i>

1490
01:20:50,708 --> 01:20:51,994
On the balcony. Let's go.

1491
01:20:54,125 --> 01:20:56,116
(CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)

1492
01:21:06,708 --> 01:21:09,120
KAGANOVICH: Why did Molotov
want to meet us at dawn?

1493
01:21:09,250 --> 01:21:12,163
- Is he planning a duel?
- Said he wanted to start early.

1494
01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:13,411
Murderer!

1495
01:21:14,167 --> 01:21:16,283
You killed hundreds, Nicky.

1496
01:21:16,375 --> 01:21:18,537
You certainly got your big funeral.

1497
01:21:19,292 --> 01:21:21,624
- I'm regretting this already.
- MOLOTOV: Get in the car.

1498
01:21:21,750 --> 01:21:24,082
- What?
- Can't talk. Get in the car.

1499
01:21:24,208 --> 01:21:25,198
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

1500
01:21:28,250 --> 01:21:29,661
(GROAN OF EXERTION)

1501
01:21:30,917 --> 01:21:32,999
I see she moults.

1502
01:21:33,083 --> 01:21:35,825
This is for hungry ears.

1503
01:21:35,958 --> 01:21:38,666
- The drivers.
- (DOG YAPS)

1504
01:21:38,792 --> 01:21:40,829
(YAPPING)

1505
01:21:41,375 --> 01:21:43,161
Let's do him in.

1506
01:21:43,708 --> 01:21:45,039
- Who?
- Beria.

1507
01:21:45,125 --> 01:21:47,583
The treacherous snake
brought back the bishops.

1508
01:21:47,667 --> 01:21:49,078
He brought back Polina.

1509
01:21:49,167 --> 01:21:51,408
He expressly ignored
all Stalin's orders.

1510
01:21:51,500 --> 01:21:53,832
His men opened fire
on innocent people.

1511
01:21:54,708 --> 01:21:57,575
He'll get the blame.
Clever, eh, Nicky?

1512
01:21:57,667 --> 01:21:59,408
Yes, Beria is the murderer here.

1513
01:21:59,542 --> 01:22:02,705
This is how the Soviet Union
was built. Not with bishops.

1514
01:22:02,833 --> 01:22:06,030
Today Beria gets
an eight-foot crucifix up his arse.

1515
01:22:06,167 --> 01:22:07,953
- Good.
- I've...

1516
01:22:08,042 --> 01:22:10,750
I've had nightmares
that made more sense than this.

1517
01:22:10,833 --> 01:22:13,621
- Now we have a majority.
- Yes, you do.

1518
01:22:13,708 --> 01:22:17,906
- You two, me and Bulganin.
- Mikoyan and Malenkov.

1519
01:22:18,625 --> 01:22:20,866
- No... but we still have a majority.
- No, no, no.

1520
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:22,331
Everyone in or not at all.

1521
01:22:22,417 --> 01:22:25,955
Oh, come on. Slava, you just...
Dammit, you just said...

1522
01:22:26,042 --> 01:22:27,999
- All in or it's off.
- No...

1523
01:22:28,083 --> 01:22:32,122
This is what Stalin would have wanted.
The Committee as one.

1524
01:22:32,208 --> 01:22:36,202
But you've got to act fast, comrade.
Act fast or be dead.

1525
01:22:36,292 --> 01:22:38,829
- (YAPPING CONTINUES)
- Yes, Uncle Nicky's going to be dead

1526
01:22:38,958 --> 01:22:40,824
if he doesn't get a move on, isn't he?

1527
01:22:40,958 --> 01:22:42,244
Yes, he is.

1528
01:22:43,458 --> 01:22:45,040
- (DOOR OPENS)
- BERIA: How's my guest?

1529
01:22:45,500 --> 01:22:47,662
Yes, I'm working on my speech.
It's good.

1530
01:22:48,125 --> 01:22:49,286
I've brought you something.

1531
01:22:51,292 --> 01:22:52,532
No.

1532
01:22:52,625 --> 01:22:54,457
I'm not drinking.
I'm using water.

1533
01:22:54,583 --> 01:22:56,415
It's just to calm your nerves.

1534
01:22:56,500 --> 01:22:57,831
Yes, actually,
I will need some of that.

1535
01:22:57,917 --> 01:23:00,409
- No. He's not drinking.
- No, I'm not drinking.

1536
01:23:01,292 --> 01:23:03,784
- How's the speech?
- Um... ba-dum-ba-dum...

1537
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:05,115
My father...

1538
01:23:06,625 --> 01:23:09,242
...was a warm and mighty bear,

1539
01:23:09,792 --> 01:23:14,491
and we are his 170 million
orphaned cubs.

1540
01:23:14,625 --> 01:23:18,493
Russian cubs, Georgian cubs,
Armenian cubs, Lithuanian...

1541
01:23:18,583 --> 01:23:20,540
We'll leave you to it. Come on.

1542
01:23:20,833 --> 01:23:22,665
So, Lithuanian cubs,

1543
01:23:22,750 --> 01:23:25,822
- Ukrainian cubs, Moldavian cubs...
- (DOOR CLOSES)

1544
01:23:25,917 --> 01:23:27,032
Svetlana.

1545
01:23:29,458 --> 01:23:30,823
Alexei's dead.

1546
01:23:35,292 --> 01:23:36,999
15th of March, 1949.

1547
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,368
Attempted escape from Kolyma
with 12 others.

1548
01:23:41,500 --> 01:23:42,911
Executed. I'm sorry.

1549
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:44,832
But you said you would get him back.

1550
01:23:44,958 --> 01:23:50,124
Listen, it was outside my direct
control. It just wasn't possible.

1551
01:23:50,208 --> 01:23:52,825
Yes, but you said that
you would attempt the impossible.

1552
01:23:52,958 --> 01:23:56,872
I hate being sober. It's a terrible,
terrible mood to be in.

1553
01:23:58,125 --> 01:23:59,331
Why don't we go through that speech

1554
01:23:59,417 --> 01:24:00,748
- one more time?
- Sit down.

1555
01:24:00,833 --> 01:24:02,164
Get off me.
I can see what you're doing.

1556
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:03,661
- I don't want to sit down.
- Sit down.

1557
01:24:04,417 --> 01:24:06,078
(SCREAMS)
I don't want to sit down!

1558
01:24:09,708 --> 01:24:14,157
Right, many terrible things were done
in the service of the Union.

1559
01:24:14,292 --> 01:24:16,124
Evidence was fabricated.

1560
01:24:16,250 --> 01:24:18,787
Those who are responsible
will be found...

1561
01:24:18,875 --> 01:24:21,333
And what will you do to them?
Question them to death?

1562
01:24:21,417 --> 01:24:22,452
You know what I'm doing?

1563
01:24:22,542 --> 01:24:24,749
I'm offering you and
that bloated soak my protection.

1564
01:24:24,833 --> 01:24:28,827
- We are not children!
- You are a real listener. Thank you.

1565
01:24:30,083 --> 01:24:32,666
- I am not a child.
- Yes, you are. Yes, you are.

1566
01:24:32,750 --> 01:24:36,744
And I warn you, stick by my side
or you will both be beaten inside out

1567
01:24:36,875 --> 01:24:38,832
and strung up
for the crows by the others.

1568
01:24:38,958 --> 01:24:40,039
Why should I trust you?

1569
01:24:40,167 --> 01:24:42,283
Because I'm the only one
who's telling you.

1570
01:24:43,750 --> 01:24:44,990
Trust no-one.

1571
01:24:47,542 --> 01:24:48,782
(BELL TOLLING)

1572
01:24:56,125 --> 01:24:59,743
Georgy, Georgy.
Georgy, we have to act today.

1573
01:24:59,833 --> 01:25:01,073
Act, you limpet?

1574
01:25:01,167 --> 01:25:04,740
Act sombre, act respectful
like the rest of us, please.

1575
01:25:04,833 --> 01:25:06,665
Do you understand
how important this is?

1576
01:25:06,792 --> 01:25:08,829
- Would you...
- Places, comrades, please.

1577
01:25:08,917 --> 01:25:10,908
Form up either side of the...
Comrade, thank you very much.

1578
01:25:11,042 --> 01:25:13,204
If you could join
your comrades over here.

1579
01:25:13,292 --> 01:25:14,578
- Thank you.
- Damn it.

1580
01:25:20,208 --> 01:25:22,199
All right, guys, come on. Lift it up.

1581
01:25:22,333 --> 01:25:24,449
- That's it.
- Come on. Let's go.

1582
01:25:24,542 --> 01:25:25,623
- Which foot?
- Left foot.

1583
01:25:25,708 --> 01:25:26,994
MALENKOV: I don't have a good balance.

1584
01:25:27,083 --> 01:25:28,289
Okay. Yes.

1585
01:25:28,417 --> 01:25:30,078
Ooh. Argh.

1586
01:25:33,667 --> 01:25:35,499
- (SHOT)
- KHRUSHCHEV: Georgy...

1587
01:25:35,667 --> 01:25:38,659
Not now. God sakes.

1588
01:25:38,875 --> 01:25:39,990
(ANOTHER SHOT)

1589
01:25:40,542 --> 01:25:44,536
- Georgy, we really have to talk.
- Shut up. Have some respect.

1590
01:25:45,125 --> 01:25:47,787
- Is Malenkov on board?
- Yes, 100 percent.

1591
01:25:47,875 --> 01:25:49,411
Saddle up, cowboy.

1592
01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:53,289
- Is Malenkov with us?
- Trust me, 100 percent.

1593
01:25:53,375 --> 01:25:54,581
Yes!

1594
01:25:54,792 --> 01:25:57,534
- So you're on board, then, Molotov?
- Yeah.

1595
01:25:57,625 --> 01:25:59,707
Okay. You've got me, then, Nicky.

1596
01:25:59,792 --> 01:26:03,035
- Put your dancing shoes on.
- (HEAVY GUN SALUTE)

1597
01:26:03,250 --> 01:26:05,867
- MOLOTOV: Which way shall I...
- OTHERS: Left.

1598
01:26:06,625 --> 01:26:07,831
- (GRUNTING)
- All right.

1599
01:26:07,917 --> 01:26:11,239
Okay, let's go and catch
a pig for the pot.

1600
01:26:12,583 --> 01:26:16,622
MOLOTOV: <i>Stalin's love of the nation
was unwavering.</i>

1601
01:26:16,750 --> 01:26:21,495
<i>So must we now take
our unwavering pain,</i>

1602
01:26:21,833 --> 01:26:24,996
<i>our unwavering love,</i>

1603
01:26:25,375 --> 01:26:30,666
and with it build an unwavering,
unwavering... future.

1604
01:26:30,958 --> 01:26:32,824
Guns, please, gentlemen.

1605
01:26:32,958 --> 01:26:36,121
Take good care of this.
Don't want it going off.

1606
01:26:36,208 --> 01:26:40,406
MALENKOV: <i>Today we pause.
We pause in grief and sorrow.</i>

1607
01:26:40,500 --> 01:26:44,118
But is not a pause in itself
part of the revolution?

1608
01:26:48,875 --> 01:26:50,036
I think it is.

1609
01:26:50,125 --> 01:26:51,957
- (DOORS OPEN)
- Okay, let's tango.

1610
01:26:52,042 --> 01:26:53,703
You heard him, gentlemen. Let's go.

1611
01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:56,033
BERIA:
<i>We must embrace our terrible loss</i>

1612
01:26:56,125 --> 01:26:58,787
<i>with the strength and love
for our nation...</i>

1613
01:26:59,500 --> 01:27:01,958
<i>that Stalin himself held</i>

1614
01:27:02,042 --> 01:27:03,498
in his mighty heart.

1615
01:27:05,417 --> 01:27:06,657
Check the stalls.

1616
01:27:08,417 --> 01:27:10,954
<i>We promise you rights and liberties...</i>

1617
01:27:11,042 --> 01:27:13,534
bread... and peace.

1618
01:27:13,667 --> 01:27:14,748
(APPLAUSE)

1619
01:27:14,833 --> 01:27:15,823
(CLICK)

1620
01:27:16,125 --> 01:27:19,493
VASILY: <i>My father
was a great social scientist.</i>

1621
01:27:20,083 --> 01:27:23,246
But we,
the people of the Soviet Union,

1622
01:27:23,333 --> 01:27:25,415
are not laboratory animals.

1623
01:27:27,833 --> 01:27:30,666
<i>We are all but cubs.</i>

1624
01:27:31,458 --> 01:27:33,074
Russian cubs,

1625
01:27:33,208 --> 01:27:35,199
Georgian cubs,

1626
01:27:35,292 --> 01:27:37,533
Armenian cubs,

1627
01:27:37,667 --> 01:27:39,408
Lithuanian cubs...

1628
01:27:39,500 --> 01:27:42,037
- (JET ENGINES PASSING)
- Latvian cubs...

1629
01:27:42,625 --> 01:27:44,787
Estonian cubs.

1630
01:27:48,875 --> 01:27:50,866
(JET ENGINES FLYING PAST)

1631
01:27:53,250 --> 01:27:55,617
- Very good speech, Lavrenti.
- Thank you.

1632
01:27:55,750 --> 01:27:58,367
Yes, "bread and peace".
I knew it would work.

1633
01:27:58,458 --> 01:27:59,539
(CHUCKLING)

1634
01:27:59,625 --> 01:28:00,911
It was between "peace" and "sausages".

1635
01:28:01,542 --> 01:28:05,285
Both good things, but you know
where you are with a sausage.

1636
01:28:06,167 --> 01:28:10,206
Your name rings out.
Malenkov the hero. Good lad.

1637
01:28:10,292 --> 01:28:12,124
Vasily's face
when the planes flew over.

1638
01:28:12,250 --> 01:28:13,331
(CHUCKLING)

1639
01:28:13,417 --> 01:28:15,533
- Should have strafed the little shit.
- (CHUCKLES)

1640
01:28:15,625 --> 01:28:18,413
Poor Vasily. I sometimes wonder
if he's meant for this world.

1641
01:28:18,500 --> 01:28:21,333
I salute you, Top Boy,
and I salute your haircut.

1642
01:28:21,417 --> 01:28:23,454
- Goodnight, Vienna.
- Georgy.

1643
01:28:25,167 --> 01:28:27,124
Action is gonna be taken
at the meeting.

1644
01:28:27,208 --> 01:28:28,369
Action? What action?

1645
01:28:29,542 --> 01:28:32,250
Is this why everyone is treating me
like they wanna fuck my sister?

1646
01:28:33,458 --> 01:28:35,825
Zhukov has everybody on board
against Beria.

1647
01:28:35,917 --> 01:28:37,499
- When I heard that, I agreed too.
- Yes, yes.

1648
01:28:37,583 --> 01:28:42,248
But Zhukov...
is not governing the Soviet Union.

1649
01:28:42,333 --> 01:28:45,405
I am governing the Soviet Union.

1650
01:28:45,500 --> 01:28:47,207
- Do you understand that?
- Yes.

1651
01:28:47,292 --> 01:28:50,455
Now, I like him and I'll be happy
to listen to what he has to say.

1652
01:28:50,542 --> 01:28:52,749
You'll definitely have a chance
to talk to him.

1653
01:28:52,833 --> 01:28:56,076
Perhaps what we can do
is give Beria a slight demotion,

1654
01:28:56,208 --> 01:28:58,575
I don't know, Ministry for Fisheries.

1655
01:29:00,958 --> 01:29:04,371
All right, boys.
Meet your dates for tonight.

1656
01:29:04,958 --> 01:29:06,494
I'll take the tall blonde.

1657
01:29:08,625 --> 01:29:10,957
Comrades, time to set aside our grief

1658
01:29:11,042 --> 01:29:14,831
and begin to write the next chapter
of our great history.

1659
01:29:14,917 --> 01:29:16,658
- Comrade Malenkov...
- Proceed.

1660
01:29:16,750 --> 01:29:19,208
Item one, the unfortunate events
of yesterday evening.

1661
01:29:19,333 --> 01:29:22,871
It's clear that the regrettable deaths
of so many citizens...

1662
01:29:22,958 --> 01:29:26,326
Comrades. Comrades,
I would like to propose a new agenda.

1663
01:29:26,417 --> 01:29:28,784
Item one,
the conduct of Comrade Beria.

1664
01:29:28,917 --> 01:29:31,204
Seconded. Time to take stock.

1665
01:29:31,292 --> 01:29:33,499
If you have
a serious proposal, comrade,

1666
01:29:33,583 --> 01:29:34,869
I suggest "Any Other Business".

1667
01:29:34,958 --> 01:29:36,369
I accuse Comrade Beria

1668
01:29:36,458 --> 01:29:38,415
of centralising power
within his Ministry

1669
01:29:38,500 --> 01:29:40,457
at the expense of the Party
and Central Committee...

1670
01:29:40,542 --> 01:29:43,079
- There's no tabled motion.
- ...betraying the Soviet Union.

1671
01:29:43,208 --> 01:29:45,825
I deplore this wanton
breach of protocol. Georgy.

1672
01:29:45,958 --> 01:29:48,541
Breach, my arse!
This is an ad hoc motion.

1673
01:29:48,958 --> 01:29:51,495
It will end very badly for you.
Georgy, Georgy!

1674
01:29:51,583 --> 01:29:53,915
Georgy, press the button
underneath the desk.

1675
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:55,957
- Press the button, Georgy.
- What button?

1676
01:29:56,083 --> 01:29:57,994
- Arrest that madman.
- Where's the button?

1677
01:29:58,458 --> 01:29:59,994
(PUSHES BUTTON FIRMLY)

1678
01:30:00,375 --> 01:30:02,412
- (WEAPONS COCKED)
- Good luck, ladies.

1679
01:30:02,542 --> 01:30:03,703
Guards!
(BANGS ON THE WINDOW)

1680
01:30:03,917 --> 01:30:05,328
(SOUND INAUDIBLE OUTSIDE)

1681
01:30:06,625 --> 01:30:07,615
- Guards!
- (DOOR BURSTS OPEN)

1682
01:30:07,708 --> 01:30:09,369
Hands up or
I'll shoot you in the face.

1683
01:30:09,500 --> 01:30:10,786
Guards!

1684
01:30:10,875 --> 01:30:11,990
Oh, shit.

1685
01:30:12,333 --> 01:30:13,949
- Guards!
- Oi!

1686
01:30:15,250 --> 01:30:17,207
(GROANS)

1687
01:30:17,292 --> 01:30:19,249
Want a job done properly,
you call the army.

1688
01:30:19,792 --> 01:30:21,078
Take his belt off.

1689
01:30:21,250 --> 01:30:22,911
It's hard to run away
with your pants falling down.

1690
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,458
If you want to talk to General Zhukov,
now's your opportunity.

1691
01:30:25,542 --> 01:30:28,159
Spit it out, Georgy.
Staging a coup here.

1692
01:30:28,750 --> 01:30:30,366
He's got a knife by his ankle.

1693
01:30:30,458 --> 01:30:33,120
- You're a disgrace.
- Give his head a good kicking.

1694
01:30:33,250 --> 01:30:35,161
- Make you feel better.
- All in good time.

1695
01:30:35,292 --> 01:30:40,787
Oh, I'm gonna enjoy peeling the skin
from your self-satisfied face.

1696
01:30:40,875 --> 01:30:43,333
Not with that, you won't.
Come on, then.

1697
01:30:43,417 --> 01:30:44,907
(GRUNTS)

1698
01:30:49,125 --> 01:30:50,957
Sorry, comrades.

1699
01:30:51,458 --> 01:30:53,074
- Wrong room.
- Aslanov.

1700
01:30:53,208 --> 01:30:54,915
- ZHUKOV: Go and kill them.
- BERIA: Kobulov.

1701
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,286
- Shall we?
- KHRUSHCHEV: Yes, right.

1702
01:30:56,375 --> 01:30:58,116
Let's do this.
Georgy, come on, now.

1703
01:30:58,792 --> 01:31:00,578
Suit doesn't really work
without this belt.

1704
01:31:08,375 --> 01:31:09,490
Oh, shit.

1705
01:31:12,250 --> 01:31:13,411
(THUD)

1706
01:31:13,500 --> 01:31:15,912
Third door on the left. On the left.

1707
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:17,957
KAGANOVICH:
I have been picturing this moment

1708
01:31:18,042 --> 01:31:20,409
every day for the last three decades.

1709
01:31:21,750 --> 01:31:24,162
Arrest the staff.
Arrest all Beria's staff.

1710
01:31:24,333 --> 01:31:26,449
- (SOLDIER SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
- Check the bedrooms.

1711
01:31:26,708 --> 01:31:28,540
Come out. You're safe.
This way. Come out this way.

1712
01:31:28,667 --> 01:31:30,203
You're safe. Come out.

1713
01:31:30,292 --> 01:31:32,329
- You, take her down.
- This way.

1714
01:31:34,667 --> 01:31:36,499
Is this magisterial
enough for you all?

1715
01:31:36,583 --> 01:31:38,494
This charade? This is a lavatory!

1716
01:31:38,583 --> 01:31:41,416
Well, you should feel at home, then,
you little coil of shit.

1717
01:31:41,542 --> 01:31:42,532
Fuck me.

1718
01:31:42,625 --> 01:31:45,913
Georgy's eyes really do follow
you round the crapper. It's weird.

1719
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,037
Why did they hang a picture
of my grandmother in here?

1720
01:31:48,167 --> 01:31:49,703
(SNIGGERING)

1721
01:31:49,792 --> 01:31:52,033
This is madness.
This is madness.

1722
01:31:52,125 --> 01:31:54,787
- He deserves a trial.
- He'll get a trial. Take it easy.

1723
01:31:54,875 --> 01:31:57,458
Georgy!
Can't even look me in the eye.

1724
01:31:57,542 --> 01:32:00,000
- Guilt. Guilty, all of you.
- Say nothing.

1725
01:32:00,125 --> 01:32:03,493
Georgy, you'll get over it.
I did. Took me about five minutes.

1726
01:32:03,583 --> 01:32:06,496
H-How long before the army's here?
We're in complete limbo now.

1727
01:32:06,625 --> 01:32:09,822
Not long. We have to wait
for the NKVD to leave the Kremlin.

1728
01:32:09,958 --> 01:32:13,997
In that case, if nobody objects,
I'm going to spend a kopeck.

1729
01:32:14,125 --> 01:32:15,832
It's the excitement, I think.

1730
01:32:16,875 --> 01:32:18,866
(INAUDIBLE VOICES)

1731
01:32:19,208 --> 01:32:20,448
Right, hold your fire.

1732
01:32:20,667 --> 01:32:23,034
Hold your fire. Hold your fire!

1733
01:32:23,167 --> 01:32:25,204
The army's back.
Did you miss us?

1734
01:32:28,500 --> 01:32:30,537
- Take their weapons.
- Come on, this way.

1735
01:32:33,417 --> 01:32:36,785
All right, Judy Garland,
boys and girls. It's showtime.

1736
01:32:39,125 --> 01:32:40,160
Georgy.

1737
01:32:40,250 --> 01:32:43,493
- Georgy, you have to sign this now.
- No. No.

1738
01:32:43,583 --> 01:32:46,575
No. He deserves a fair trial.
He's one of us.

1739
01:32:48,542 --> 01:32:51,034
What about Tukhachevsky
and Piatakov?

1740
01:32:51,208 --> 01:32:52,744
Did they get a trial?

1741
01:32:52,875 --> 01:32:54,707
What about Sokolnikov?

1742
01:32:55,167 --> 01:32:57,283
Who begged him to look after
his elderly mother.

1743
01:32:57,417 --> 01:33:00,535
And what did this monster do?
He strangled her in front of him.

1744
01:33:02,542 --> 01:33:03,703
It's too late.

1745
01:33:04,250 --> 01:33:07,823
The only choice we have
is between his death or his revenge.

1746
01:33:08,875 --> 01:33:10,707
And you will fucking sign this.

1747
01:33:23,083 --> 01:33:24,539
I want it to go on record:

1748
01:33:25,167 --> 01:33:27,078
this was not my first
course of action.

1749
01:33:30,083 --> 01:33:31,994
Stalin would be loving this.

1750
01:33:33,917 --> 01:33:35,749
(BERIA MOANS)

1751
01:33:37,708 --> 01:33:39,949
- Through the door.
- (SHOUTING)

1752
01:33:42,375 --> 01:33:45,288
- Get the table.
- KHRUSHCHEV: Let me through.

1753
01:33:45,375 --> 01:33:47,787
Sit him down here. Sit him down.

1754
01:33:48,667 --> 01:33:51,659
- All right, all right.
- This... This is a travesty!

1755
01:33:51,750 --> 01:33:54,583
You are all witnesses to a criminal...
criminal travesty.

1756
01:33:54,708 --> 01:33:56,745
- MAN: Come on!
- (BANGING)

1757
01:33:56,833 --> 01:33:59,541
I demand... I demand... Fuck you!

1758
01:33:59,625 --> 01:34:02,117
I demand my rights under Article...

1759
01:34:02,208 --> 01:34:05,326
- Will you stop banging?
- Read it, Georgy.

1760
01:34:05,458 --> 01:34:07,119
- Here's your trial.
- Spit it out.

1761
01:34:07,208 --> 01:34:09,540
- Marshal?
- Comrade General Secretary!

1762
01:34:09,667 --> 01:34:11,954
- Get on with it!
- Read it.

1763
01:34:12,042 --> 01:34:14,329
You're judging me!
You're judging me!

1764
01:34:14,417 --> 01:34:15,532
- I judge you!
- Fuck you!

1765
01:34:15,625 --> 01:34:19,038
I judge you!
I judge all of you. All of you.

1766
01:34:19,125 --> 01:34:21,207
- Where's the logic?
- Nicky, read it.

1767
01:34:21,292 --> 01:34:22,532
Would you like me to read it for you?

1768
01:34:22,667 --> 01:34:24,908
- Read it, Nicky.
- Come on, Nicky, read it.

1769
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:26,866
"You are accused

1770
01:34:26,958 --> 01:34:28,949
"of using your position
as Minister of the Interior

1771
01:34:29,042 --> 01:34:31,249
- "to plot against the Soviet Union...
- Traitor!

1772
01:34:31,333 --> 01:34:35,031
...with the goal of forwarding
the interests of foreign powers."

1773
01:34:35,125 --> 01:34:37,583
Foreign powers?
Which one, the fucking moon?

1774
01:34:37,667 --> 01:34:40,864
"You are also accused
of 347 counts of rape,

1775
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:44,664
"of sexual deviancy
and bourgeois immorality

1776
01:34:44,792 --> 01:34:48,615
and acts of perversion with children
as young as seven years old."

1777
01:34:48,708 --> 01:34:50,119
Exotic for old Beria!

1778
01:34:50,250 --> 01:34:52,116
Seven years old!

1779
01:34:52,250 --> 01:34:54,992
BERIA:
Rapists! Rapists! You are the rapists!

1780
01:34:55,083 --> 01:34:56,744
- Error! Error! Error!
- (EVERYONE SHOUTING)

1781
01:34:56,833 --> 01:34:58,790
- Get on with it.
- "Petra Nikova, aged 13.

1782
01:34:58,875 --> 01:35:03,324
"Nadia Ranova, aged 14.
Magya Holovic, aged seven."

1783
01:35:03,458 --> 01:35:05,449
Would you like to read
the list yourself?

1784
01:35:05,542 --> 01:35:09,240
"You are accused of treason
and anti-Soviet behaviour.

1785
01:35:09,333 --> 01:35:12,291
The court finds you guilty
and sentences you to be shot."

1786
01:35:12,375 --> 01:35:14,707
- (SHOUTING)
- I rescind that.

1787
01:35:14,792 --> 01:35:16,282
BULGANIN:
Take him out.

1788
01:35:16,375 --> 01:35:17,615
No, please!

1789
01:35:18,208 --> 01:35:20,575
Please, don't shoot me!
Don't hurt me.

1790
01:35:20,792 --> 01:35:23,454
- MAN: Shoot him!
- (SHOUTING)

1791
01:35:23,625 --> 01:35:25,207
- Get him out. Come on!
- (GUNSHOT)

1792
01:35:25,292 --> 01:35:27,124
- Get out of here...
- (THUD)

1793
01:35:30,292 --> 01:35:31,578
Well, that's got it done.

1794
01:35:33,750 --> 01:35:35,161
Come on, have a look.

1795
01:35:36,750 --> 01:35:37,831
Come on.

1796
01:35:37,917 --> 01:35:39,874
This is for us.
This is for the people.

1797
01:35:39,958 --> 01:35:41,448
Everybody happy? Proper dead?

1798
01:35:41,958 --> 01:35:45,030
- Ruined everything, Lavrenti.
- Come on, get him up.

1799
01:35:45,208 --> 01:35:47,165
Fuck off back to Georgia, deadboy.

1800
01:35:47,250 --> 01:35:49,082
- On the rocks.
- It was shit knowing you.

1801
01:35:49,167 --> 01:35:50,248
Who's got a light?

1802
01:35:51,500 --> 01:35:52,706
Get the cans.

1803
01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:57,115
I wish the old man
could have seen this.

1804
01:36:01,208 --> 01:36:02,323
ZHUKOV:
That'll do.

1805
01:36:07,375 --> 01:36:08,911
(SIGHS) Fucking hell.

1806
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:13,072
I'm knackered.
It's been a busy old week.

1807
01:36:13,625 --> 01:36:17,118
You see? Old Molotov's
still got some scheming left in him.

1808
01:36:17,208 --> 01:36:19,074
(COUGHING)

1809
01:36:21,958 --> 01:36:24,074
I will bury you in history.

1810
01:36:24,167 --> 01:36:27,364
- You hear me, you fat fucker?
- That's enough.

1811
01:36:27,458 --> 01:36:28,914
That's enough. Come on, now.

1812
01:36:30,125 --> 01:36:33,197
You smell like rendered horse,
you burning arsehole.

1813
01:36:35,375 --> 01:36:37,366
That's how you deal with a problem,
isn't it?

1814
01:36:39,958 --> 01:36:41,198
I'm sorry you had to be here.

1815
01:36:41,292 --> 01:36:44,034
I hope you didn't tell Beria that
he was going to be safe from harm.

1816
01:36:44,208 --> 01:36:47,781
You will be safe, okay?
Vasily, too. If you listen to me.

1817
01:36:47,875 --> 01:36:50,037
- (FIRE CRACKLING)
- Why wouldn't we be safe?

1818
01:36:50,125 --> 01:36:52,332
- What are you talking about?
- Just be quiet now.

1819
01:36:52,417 --> 01:36:55,034
- I refuse to be quiet every time...
- Just shut up!

1820
01:36:57,583 --> 01:37:00,041
Vasily stays here in Russia
where we can take care of him.

1821
01:37:01,500 --> 01:37:02,706
Read it.

1822
01:37:03,458 --> 01:37:04,619
Vienna?

1823
01:37:09,292 --> 01:37:11,329
- If I stayed, I could contain Vasily.
- No. No.

1824
01:37:11,458 --> 01:37:14,200
No, you go to Vienna. He stays.

1825
01:37:14,292 --> 01:37:16,203
We can't have a drunken madman

1826
01:37:16,292 --> 01:37:18,249
spreading conspiracy theories
all over the world.

1827
01:37:18,333 --> 01:37:20,370
- He's not... He's not bad.
- Listen to me.

1828
01:37:20,458 --> 01:37:23,496
- He's just ill.
- No. No.

1829
01:37:25,833 --> 01:37:27,323
You understand what's going on?

1830
01:37:29,375 --> 01:37:32,117
This is how people get killed,
when their stories don't fit.

1831
01:37:34,833 --> 01:37:35,948
Safe travels.

1832
01:37:40,333 --> 01:37:41,744
I never thought it would be you.

1833
01:37:49,042 --> 01:37:50,453
KHRUSHCHEV:
Now we can turn the corner.

1834
01:37:51,292 --> 01:37:54,614
Yeah.
Put all the bloodshed behind us.

1835
01:38:00,958 --> 01:38:02,665
I'm worried about Malenkov, though.

1836
01:38:05,167 --> 01:38:06,373
KHRUSHCHEV:
Can we trust him?

1837
01:38:06,958 --> 01:38:08,744
KAGANOVICH:
Can you ever trust a weak man?

1838
01:38:11,458 --> 01:38:14,496
(PIANO CONCERTO NO. 23
IN A MAJOR PLAYING)

1839
01:38:18,833 --> 01:38:20,824
(WHIRRING)

1840
01:38:27,875 --> 01:38:30,537
(PIANO CONCERTO NO. 23
IN A MAJOR PLAYING)

1841
01:38:35,542 --> 01:38:37,533
(MUSIC CONTINUES)

1842
01:40:09,208 --> 01:40:10,619
(CAMERA CLICKS)