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This film is adapted from the novel of the same name
by Giuliano da Empoli.
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Although inspired by historical events,
it remains an artistic work.
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The characters, as well as their words
and opinions, are fictitious.
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Since Vadim Baranov
was no longer an advisor...
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...by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,
the Tsar...
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...the legends on his account,
far from dying out, had multiplied.
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Most men of power
draw their aura from their position.
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When they lose it,
it's like a plug is being ripped out.
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Baranov was of another race.
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According to some, he had withdrawn
in a monastery on Mount Athos.
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Others swore they saw him in Ibiza...
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...surrounded by cocaine models.
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Still others supported
having spotted him on the Donbass front.
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Vadim Baranov moved forward in life
in a whirlwind of enigmas.
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The only certainty
was his influence on the Tsar.
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In fifteen years in his service...
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...he had contributed decisively
to extend its power.
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They called him the Mage of the Kremlin...
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...the new Rasputin.
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He arrived in the President's office
in the middle of the night...
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...to handle urgent matters.
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Perhaps the Tsar himself
he summoned him to his direct line.
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Sometimes joined them
a prominent minister...
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...or the boss
of a large state enterprise.
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But these witnesses shed no light...
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...the nocturnal activities of the Tsar
and his advisor.
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When I returned to Moscow
a few years after his disappearance...
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...the memory of Baranov
hovered like a shadow.
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The press persisted in attributing...
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...measurements
the most obscure in the Kremlin.
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As for me...
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...my recent essay in Foreign Affairs
had created a stir.
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It was titled: “Vadim Baranov
and the invention of Fake Democracy."
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If necessary, dial 9.
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Have a nice day, Mr. Rowland.
-To you too.
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I was on sabbatical from Yale...
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...to write the first biography
by Yevgeny Zamyatin...
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...great Russian writer...
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...and early adversary
of Stalin's communist regime.
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I was walking
in the paleness of winter...
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...leafed through old books.
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Zamiatin became my obsession.
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He was a visionary.
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Not only about Stalin,
but of all the dictators to come.
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Silicon Valley oligarchs
to the Chinese single party.
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From Mark Zuckerberg to Xi Jinping.
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His dystopian novel, We...
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...had inspired George Orwell for 1984.
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We read Zamyatin
in American universities?
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Zamiatin is the oracle of our time.
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Are you staying in Moscow for a long time?
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I have something to show you.
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Leaving the city...
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...endless, dark forests
stretched as far as Siberia.
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My curiosity was mixed with apprehension.
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In Russia, things
are generally going pretty well.
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But when they go wrong,
they go very wrong.
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Hello.
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Please follow me, Mr. Rowland.
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Can I take your coat?
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I'll bring you some tea.
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Do you collect old books?
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I don't collect them, I read them.
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Big difference.
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Do you read Zamyatin?
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I have something to show you
that you will appreciate.
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Do you know what it is?
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A letter from Zamyatin to Stalin.
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He asks for permission
to leave the USSR.
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“Dear Iosif Vissarionovich.
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"Like Christians
invented the devil...
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"...to personify
all forms of evil...
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"...criticism has made me
the devil of Soviet literature."
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Zamyatin understood too many things,
too quickly...
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...and was imprudent in writing it.
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Sit down.
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Have you read it?
-Of course.
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You took the time to annotate it.
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I'm flattered.
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Let's not get carried away.
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But unlike the others,
you understood something.
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Not much, but something.
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THANKS.
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Do you consider yourself an artist?
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Let's say I played a supporting role.
Now I am retired.
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Don't you miss the adrenaline?
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There is no greater pleasure
than waking up in the morning...
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...to have your coffee...
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...and take his daughter to school.
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How did the others take it?
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My departure? Badly, of course.
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At court, everything is forgiven:
thieves, murderers, traitors.
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But not the deserters.
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"You don't want what for
Are we ready to kill?"
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And the Tsar?
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The Tsar is something else.
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My father was afraid
of this library.
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It belonged to my grandfather.
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Custine, Gracián, Machiavelli...
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...the skeptics, the disillusioned.
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Not really Soviet doxa.
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But to his credit,
he never tried to deprive me of it.
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Your father?
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He ended up director of the Academy
of social sciences of the Party.
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Its only goal was to avoid
to be woken up at dawn...
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...by the KBG knocking on his door.
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At his post,
That shouldn't have worried him.
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No one was safe
in the Soviet Union.
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Nobody is in Russia, period.
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Not me.
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Not even you.
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In my childhood...
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...the most sought-after privilege
was theKremlyovka...
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...a basket of food
reserved for apparatchiks.
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What are we eating today?
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Pirojki with salmon...
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...lamb chops.
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Basically, my problem
is to have had a happy childhood.
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In Russia, this is not normal.
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All Russian elite
experienced Soviet misery...
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...before accessing the villas
of the French Riviera.
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She still hasn't come back from it.
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Even the Tsar:
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"Me, the kid growing up in a
kommunalka...
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"...at the bottom of a filthy courtyard
from St. Petersburg...
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..."here I am received at Buckingham Palace!"
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Things have changed.
-Not so much.
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In your home, money is essential.
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In Russia, what matters
it’s proximity to power.
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The Soviet system was based
about privilege, not cash.
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Yesterday there was none.
Tomorrow, who knows?
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Might as well slam it right away.
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Do you know what a vertushka is?
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A phone without a dial...
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...allowing the Party pundits
to communicate directly with you.
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have one
was a sign of success.
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Look. Here is a vertushka.
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Gray, like everything Soviet.
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If you find Moscow gray,
try Washington.
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There they are not gray,
they are dead.
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Either way, I'm banned
stay in the USA and Europe.
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Is your father still alive?
-No.
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In his world,
he could have existed for a long time.
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But Gorbachev arrived
with his glass of milk.
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His glass of milk?
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No need to listen to Gorbachev
to know that he would destroy the USSR.
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You just had to look at him.
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He went up to the podium
and we brought him a glass of milk.
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Then he doubled the price of vodka...
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...and tried
to put everyone on the spot.
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In Russia!
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Do you realize?
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No wonder
that everything went into a tailspin.
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It was the end of communism
and my father.
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He lost everything.
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His work, his privileges,
his reputation.
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And you ?
What were you doing at the time?
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My father wanted me to be a diplomat.
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But I didn't want to study.
I did odd jobs.
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I was reselling TVs,
cassette decks.
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It worked well.
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I started earning more
than my father, much more.
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I was an ignorant kid.
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That's why I was better suited
to the new world.
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THE NEW RUSSIANS
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In the early 1990s...
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...Moscow was an electric city.
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There were a few brief years
full of hope.
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Banned books
were released every week.
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Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Bulgakov...
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...Art and literature magazines
were sold by the millions.
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The Russians' appetite for freedom
was insatiable.
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I registered
at the Moscow Academy of Dramatic Art...
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...and I dove
in the dissolute life of theater people.
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We were twenty years old
and a new world opened up to us...
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...just at the moment
where we had the strength to conquer it.
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Open the door!
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Open the door, bitch...
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...or I'll explode you!
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We were too excited to sleep
more than three or four hours a night.
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We were convinced
that our turn had come...
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...to rebuild society
on new bases.
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We could see pieces
from Europe...
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...chatting until dawn
with the actors and directors.
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Do you really think
that freedom will change everything...
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...that you will live
in a world of culture and poetry?
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Our generation has rejected the system.
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Our parents bowed their heads, not us.
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At the risk of displeasing you...
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...communism was the reign
culture and poetry.
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How can you say that?
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Under communism, being a failure...
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...was the only way to remain dignified.
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At least we weren't making a deal.
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Get out!
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Kiss my ass !
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Perfect.
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You impressed me.
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Oh yes ?
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I wanted to tell you
because it rarely happens to me.
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It's interesting.
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You are not just anyone.
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What impressed you?
-YOU.
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Your performance.
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What performance?
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Didn't you just sing?
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Do you call that singing?
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What do you call that?
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Anything trendy.
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I did it to be of service.
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To whom?
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To the KGB agents who are watching us.
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I am delighted to give them
enough to spice up their relationships.
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It's a shame.
You have talent.
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To do what New Yorkers
were doing 15 years ago?
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You are a real Soviet.
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You think the world
just waiting for you.
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And you are not
a real Soviet?
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My parents were poor fools.
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Hippies.
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They carried me around
from community to community.
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Today they are old, sick
and no longer have faith in their values.
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One thing is sure,
I won't end up like them.
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I have a role for you.
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Will you deign to take me seriously?
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A role.
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How do we offer it to actresses?
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Like we offer to actresses.
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Alas...
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...I'm not an actress
and I have no desire to be.
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I would even say
that I have always done everything...
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...not to be.
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Do you know Evgeny Zamyatin?
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An icon of the avant-garde
the most conventional.
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It's not my thing.
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With all due respect, you are wrong.
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I am going to direct his novel Nous
at the Institute of Dramatic Art.
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You take risks.
You're starting to interest me.
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Do you have a car?
-Yes.
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Take me home.
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I've had enough of this evening.
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In a hurry?
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Am I going too fast for you?
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I don't know how I make contact
with the planet Ksenia...
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...but I knew immediately that,
even if I were to live a thousand years...
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...I will never meet
someone like her.
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Everyone in starting position.
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Scissors, D-503, in position.
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What scene are we doing?
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Always the same, Yuri.
The mirror scene.
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Am I sitting or lying down?
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You're lying down, and when you feel the light
of the Integral, you sit down.
255
00:18:12,042 --> 00:18:14,667
Above all, be repetitive.
256
00:18:14,833 --> 00:18:16,625
It was excellent, thank you.
257
00:18:16,792 --> 00:18:20,125
Dinner was too casual.
Be more mechanical.
258
00:18:20,292 --> 00:18:22,667
Is the Complete ready?
- Ready!
259
00:18:23,583 --> 00:18:25,042
Continue your actions...
260
00:18:25,208 --> 00:18:27,792
...and when you feel
the light of the Integral...
261
00:18:27,958 --> 00:18:30,875
...you all get up
and walk towards the windows.
262
00:18:31,042 --> 00:18:33,208
Milana, ready?
263
00:18:33,375 --> 00:18:34,333
Yes !
264
00:18:41,458 --> 00:18:43,375
A nasty case!
265
00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:45,500
Obviously,
you have developed a soul.
266
00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:47,833
Is it very serious, doctor?
267
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,292
Incurable.
268
00:18:49,458 --> 00:18:52,833
But what is it exactly?
I don't understand.
269
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,792
How to explain?
270
00:18:54,958 --> 00:18:56,375
Take a surface.
271
00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:58,250
Here, this mirror.
272
00:18:58,417 --> 00:19:01,292
You know that an ordinary mirror
reflects reality.
273
00:19:01,458 --> 00:19:03,458
This one absorbs it...
274
00:19:03,583 --> 00:19:06,167
...and keeps track of everything.
275
00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:15,292
My brothers!
276
00:19:15,458 --> 00:19:16,583
You all know it...
277
00:19:16,750 --> 00:19:20,500
...over there in town, we build
a spaceship: the Integral.
278
00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:29,333
Down with the Integral! Down!
279
00:19:30,583 --> 00:19:31,750
My brothers.
280
00:19:32,625 --> 00:19:35,792
The Complete must belong to us.
281
00:19:37,417 --> 00:19:39,458
And it will belong to us.
282
00:19:40,750 --> 00:19:44,125
When for the first time
she will ascend to heaven...
283
00:19:44,292 --> 00:19:47,375
...it's us who will be on board.
284
00:19:49,125 --> 00:19:53,167
Because we have with us
the Integral Constructor.
285
00:19:54,417 --> 00:19:57,375
He left the city,
he came here with me...
286
00:19:58,625 --> 00:20:00,083
...to be among you.
287
00:20:00,250 --> 00:20:02,292
Long live the Builder!
288
00:20:21,333 --> 00:20:23,500
His ambitions were perhaps vague...
289
00:20:24,125 --> 00:20:28,125
...but the Moscow avant-garde theater
was not likely to satisfy them.
290
00:20:28,292 --> 00:20:30,708
I know. I lived these years in Moscow.
291
00:20:30,875 --> 00:20:32,292
There were no limits.
292
00:20:32,458 --> 00:20:36,125
Everything was falling apart and rebuilding itself
at the same time.
293
00:20:36,792 --> 00:20:39,750
It was fascinating and frightening at the same time.
294
00:20:39,917 --> 00:20:42,042
Ksenia and I lived in a bubble...
295
00:20:42,208 --> 00:20:45,125
...when life around
was full of possibilities.
296
00:20:45,292 --> 00:20:48,500
Every day, a former comrade
came to me with an idea...
297
00:20:48,667 --> 00:20:50,250
...a business to develop.
298
00:20:50,417 --> 00:20:53,125
First on the bicycle
of his grandfather...
299
00:20:53,292 --> 00:20:56,500
...then in an armored Bentley,
surrounded by bodyguards.
300
00:20:57,375 --> 00:20:59,583
It's more or less
what happened with Dmitry.
301
00:20:59,750 --> 00:21:01,583
Sidorov?
-Sidorov, yes.
302
00:21:01,750 --> 00:21:03,292
Dmitry Sidorov.
303
00:21:04,292 --> 00:21:05,667
I knew him in high school.
304
00:21:05,833 --> 00:21:08,792
Now he led
Communist Youth at university.
305
00:21:08,958 --> 00:21:10,958
Don't imagine an apparatchik.
306
00:21:11,125 --> 00:21:12,375
At the end of the 1980s...
307
00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,875
...the student cooperative
was the incubator of Russian capitalism.
308
00:21:16,917 --> 00:21:19,000
I loved that he told me about his adventures.
309
00:21:19,167 --> 00:21:22,417
I wanted to write a play
on entrepreneurs like him.
310
00:21:22,542 --> 00:21:23,750
Have you seen Dmitry?
311
00:21:23,917 --> 00:21:26,417
Five minutes ago.
Try the bar.
312
00:21:26,542 --> 00:21:29,833
A new social class,
out of nowhere.
313
00:21:30,417 --> 00:21:32,167
It was quite astonishing.
314
00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:34,167
Vadia!
315
00:21:35,708 --> 00:21:37,083
Good to see you.
316
00:21:37,250 --> 00:21:38,875
This café was my first business...
317
00:21:39,042 --> 00:21:41,750
...but it served me to launch
more lucrative activities.
318
00:21:41,917 --> 00:21:43,417
Not all legal.
319
00:21:43,542 --> 00:21:46,542
There's no more legality, forget it.
I'll tell you.
320
00:21:46,708 --> 00:21:49,167
Stop writing. Listen.
I'm your mom.
321
00:21:49,333 --> 00:21:52,500
Once upon a time....
I picked up a stock of cognac.
322
00:21:52,625 --> 00:21:55,167
Fake cognac.
-False, true, who cares.
323
00:21:55,333 --> 00:21:58,042
I'm putting it on sale for $50 a bottle.
324
00:21:58,208 --> 00:21:59,417
Do you hear?
325
00:22:01,417 --> 00:22:03,333
Nothing. Nobody wants it.
326
00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:06,000
I put them at $500,
we fight to buy them.
327
00:22:07,083 --> 00:22:08,958
You didn't stop at cognac.
328
00:22:09,125 --> 00:22:11,208
Computers, faded jeans,
memories, software...
329
00:22:11,375 --> 00:22:13,292
...thanks to the student cooperative.
330
00:22:13,458 --> 00:22:16,667
A few little scams.
I find it hard to believe you.
331
00:22:16,833 --> 00:22:18,250
We're not doing it to you!
332
00:22:18,417 --> 00:22:21,042
These are anecdotes
to entertain your spectators.
333
00:22:21,208 --> 00:22:22,458
It's a room.
334
00:22:23,042 --> 00:22:24,292
I invented a trick...
335
00:22:24,458 --> 00:22:27,000
...to streamline payments
between state enterprises.
336
00:22:27,167 --> 00:22:29,500
I borrow money,
I advance to others.
337
00:22:29,667 --> 00:22:32,375
In fact, it's called
a bank, but...
338
00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:36,167
...in this country,
Who knows what a bank is?
339
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,875
Dirty questions!
340
00:22:45,917 --> 00:22:49,292
Indeed, I created the first bank
trade of Russia.
341
00:22:49,458 --> 00:22:51,208
How?
I had found a book.
342
00:22:51,375 --> 00:22:54,958
Commercial banks
capitalist countries.
343
00:22:55,125 --> 00:22:56,417
A remarkable work.
344
00:22:56,542 --> 00:23:00,125
He described simply and in detail
the functioning of the banking system.
345
00:23:00,292 --> 00:23:02,333
I said to myself: not bad!
346
00:23:05,042 --> 00:23:07,250
Would you say you are greedy?
347
00:23:07,417 --> 00:23:08,583
Absolutely, yes.
348
00:23:08,750 --> 00:23:11,417
I wasn't,
but I am more and more.
349
00:23:11,542 --> 00:23:14,375
It's an asset in my game.
I have a banker's personality.
350
00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:15,875
I like money.
351
00:23:18,375 --> 00:23:20,500
Nice costume.
-Nice shirt.
352
00:23:23,083 --> 00:23:24,292
You have good reading!
353
00:23:24,458 --> 00:23:27,208
They're one subway late.
You still had your mustache.
354
00:23:27,375 --> 00:23:30,667
Journalists always have a metro
late. I'm not telling you that.
355
00:23:30,833 --> 00:23:32,083
What a redneck mustache.
356
00:23:32,250 --> 00:23:33,667
You did well to shave it.
357
00:23:33,833 --> 00:23:35,708
Is your piece progressing?
358
00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:38,000
My piece about you?
-Yes.
359
00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:40,208
I won't write it.
-For what ?
360
00:23:40,375 --> 00:23:42,875
It's over.
You can't tell me the truth anymore.
361
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,250
You're right.
362
00:23:47,417 --> 00:23:49,583
But I could never tell you everything.
363
00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:52,083
Anyway, you told me a little more.
364
00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:10,625
So, are you the famous Dmitry?
365
00:24:10,792 --> 00:24:12,375
I don't see any other.
366
00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:15,333
Vadim says you weigh
80 million rubles per year.
367
00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:17,375
It's true ?
-Maybe, I don't know.
368
00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:19,208
He also says
that you are a thug.
369
00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:21,583
Oh yes ?
370
00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:23,375
There's nothing wrong with that.
371
00:24:27,792 --> 00:24:29,083
Ulysse Nardin.
372
00:24:30,417 --> 00:24:32,958
A little too flashy to be elegant.
373
00:24:33,125 --> 00:24:35,833
Flashy?
Said the girl with a bear on her head.
374
00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:40,458
In my world, it's better to be flashy
that elegant to be respected.
375
00:24:42,167 --> 00:24:43,542
Hence that horrible tie.
376
00:24:44,125 --> 00:24:47,167
Eugenio Marinella of Naples, go bene!
377
00:24:47,333 --> 00:24:48,792
Bellissima cravata.
378
00:24:48,958 --> 00:24:50,292
Don't know.
379
00:24:50,458 --> 00:24:52,500
Obviously.
It's a tiny shop.
380
00:24:52,625 --> 00:24:54,583
He moves
to make custom ties.
381
00:24:54,750 --> 00:24:56,458
Do we make custom ties?
382
00:24:56,583 --> 00:24:58,792
In the world I live in, yes.
383
00:24:59,333 --> 00:25:01,417
Do you like champagne?
Too flashy?
384
00:25:03,250 --> 00:25:07,250
I should have known. From this
meeting, my fate was sealed.
385
00:25:07,417 --> 00:25:09,375
Ksenia would choose Dmitry...
386
00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:12,042
...his vulgarity, his energy.
387
00:25:12,208 --> 00:25:14,042
He felt it immediately.
388
00:25:14,208 --> 00:25:15,625
And me too.
389
00:25:15,792 --> 00:25:18,500
But for a long time
I refused to believe it.
390
00:25:23,042 --> 00:25:24,292
Yes?
391
00:25:24,458 --> 00:25:25,917
I'm coming, I'm coming.
392
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,250
Am I having a bad day?
393
00:25:29,417 --> 00:25:31,000
I wanted to surprise you.
394
00:25:31,667 --> 00:25:32,667
We hurry!
395
00:25:32,833 --> 00:25:33,750
Are you hungry?
396
00:25:33,917 --> 00:25:36,458
Flashiness galore!
397
00:25:36,583 --> 00:25:37,625
Caviar!
398
00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,083
Since that moment...
399
00:25:42,250 --> 00:25:45,417
...Dmitry started
to frequent us assiduously.
400
00:25:45,542 --> 00:25:48,958
And I thought
that it was out of deference to art...
401
00:25:49,125 --> 00:25:52,292
...to which Ksenia and I
we decided to dedicate our lives.
402
00:25:52,833 --> 00:25:56,458
As if culture
still had a hold on the real world.
403
00:25:56,583 --> 00:25:57,875
I like this sound.
404
00:26:02,417 --> 00:26:06,208
The flamboyant world of money
was Dmitry's natural environment.
405
00:26:06,375 --> 00:26:08,458
Nothing could have dissuaded him.
406
00:26:10,208 --> 00:26:13,667
But he wanted Ksenia, so he accepted
to linger with us...
407
00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:16,375
...in the ruins of the city of the dead.
408
00:26:18,458 --> 00:26:20,042
As the months go by...
409
00:26:20,208 --> 00:26:23,917
...Ksenia became more and more sensitive
to his largesse.
410
00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:27,542
Everything that had marked
the beginnings of our relationship...
411
00:26:27,708 --> 00:26:31,167
...the readings, the concerts,
discussions until dawn...
412
00:26:31,667 --> 00:26:35,208
...had given way to activities
more focused on money.
413
00:26:35,375 --> 00:26:37,583
Gallery inaugurations
and nightclubs...
414
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:40,375
...dinners at White Sun or Ermitazh.
415
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,875
Ksenia was more intoxicated every day
by Dmitry's lifestyle.
416
00:26:44,042 --> 00:26:45,875
Vadia dances!
417
00:27:01,625 --> 00:27:03,333
Vadia! Mouse !
418
00:27:03,833 --> 00:27:05,000
I smile!
419
00:27:05,167 --> 00:27:08,042
Communism is dead.
There is a whole world to invent.
420
00:27:08,208 --> 00:27:10,042
You will be part of it.
421
00:27:19,042 --> 00:27:22,375
Vadia, he doesn't like going out.
422
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:25,167
Everything he loves,
it's coming home.
423
00:27:45,292 --> 00:27:48,792
I remember waking up one night
and looked at it for a long time.
424
00:27:49,583 --> 00:27:53,125
I felt so tired,
yet I hadn't done anything yet.
425
00:27:53,292 --> 00:27:57,500
I had cultivated the illusion
that Ksenia would perceive my greatness.
426
00:27:57,625 --> 00:27:59,375
But, day after day...
427
00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:02,458
...I noticed that the way
how she saw me changed.
428
00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:06,583
Which took the form of irony
turned into contempt.
429
00:28:06,750 --> 00:28:09,792
"You are stronger than me
because you don't love me..."
430
00:28:09,958 --> 00:28:11,458
I wanted to tell him.
431
00:28:12,583 --> 00:28:15,375
My suffering
only increased his boredom.
432
00:28:21,417 --> 00:28:22,958
Stop.
433
00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:24,500
Stop!
434
00:28:25,750 --> 00:28:27,292
Stop, damn it!
435
00:28:38,542 --> 00:28:40,167
Do you want some water?
436
00:28:56,708 --> 00:29:00,000
Dmitry, for the tenth time,
you drive too roughly.
437
00:29:00,167 --> 00:29:01,125
I can't do anything about it.
438
00:29:01,292 --> 00:29:03,458
Let Vadim drive
or I hitchhike home.
439
00:29:05,333 --> 00:29:07,750
Do you want to sit in the back?
440
00:29:07,917 --> 00:29:11,458
You're cute, but I'm
even sicker in the back.
441
00:29:57,667 --> 00:30:00,083
I forgot to tell you something.
442
00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:01,417
I'm listening to you.
443
00:30:02,917 --> 00:30:03,875
I'm leaving.
444
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,833
Is that all it does to you?
445
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,875
You saw me with Dmitry.
Do you think I missed that?
446
00:30:17,292 --> 00:30:19,875
Between us, it's been over for a long time.
447
00:30:30,917 --> 00:30:32,000
Approach.
448
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,542
You don't bother me.
449
00:30:34,708 --> 00:30:36,167
I was afraid of waking you.
450
00:30:36,333 --> 00:30:37,500
Sit down.
451
00:30:40,042 --> 00:30:43,792
I finally have an excuse
to stay in bed all day.
452
00:30:43,958 --> 00:30:47,292
I reread the classics and doze off.
That suits me.
453
00:30:47,458 --> 00:30:49,125
There is illness.
454
00:30:49,292 --> 00:30:50,667
This will seem paradoxical to you...
455
00:30:50,833 --> 00:30:53,875
...but the disease is not necessarily
a serious thing.
456
00:30:54,042 --> 00:30:55,833
Serious things...
457
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,583
...like effort, work...
458
00:30:57,750 --> 00:31:00,500
...are people's burden
in good health.
459
00:31:00,625 --> 00:31:02,542
The dying have nothing more to do.
460
00:31:02,708 --> 00:31:05,208
They can enjoy their days.
461
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:21,625
I left Ksenia.
462
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,292
I know.
463
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,167
You will have the opportunity to rebuild your life.
464
00:31:29,458 --> 00:31:32,500
I expected
to suffer a lot, but...
465
00:31:33,208 --> 00:31:35,167
...I feel light. And strong.
466
00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:37,083
You see.
467
00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:40,125
Theater is no longer enough for me.
468
00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:44,167
Losing Ksenia made me ambitious.
469
00:31:44,333 --> 00:31:45,625
Are you ambitious now?
470
00:31:46,708 --> 00:31:48,333
It's unexpected.
471
00:31:49,042 --> 00:31:51,250
But I take it
like good news.
472
00:31:51,417 --> 00:31:54,625
I can't stand helplessness anymore
of the writer facing reality.
473
00:31:54,792 --> 00:31:57,333
I want to be an actor of my time...
474
00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,375
...not a simple witness.
475
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:00,708
You know what?
476
00:32:02,292 --> 00:32:04,500
Your time, I leave it to you.
477
00:32:04,625 --> 00:32:05,625
And without regrets.
478
00:32:10,458 --> 00:32:11,750
It's Sputnik.
479
00:32:11,917 --> 00:32:13,958
The only one who has the right to enter here.
480
00:32:14,125 --> 00:32:16,333
Come here, say hello.
481
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,250
My daughter loves it.
482
00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:22,708
Finally, my father had a stroke
and he died very quickly.
483
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:27,250
We cannot say
that the ceremony made the news.
484
00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:31,500
Four clampins followed the hearse
in a battered car...
485
00:32:31,667 --> 00:32:34,958
...rushed past
by the SUVs of the nouveau riche.
486
00:32:35,125 --> 00:32:36,542
He died too late.
487
00:32:37,083 --> 00:32:39,583
He would undoubtedly have preferred
a beautiful funeral.
488
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:41,708
But in the end, he didn't care.
489
00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:44,208
Well, I hope.
490
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,125
I needed to take my mind off things...
491
00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:58,125
...and Moscow in the mid-90s,
it was the ideal place.
492
00:32:58,292 --> 00:33:00,292
Imagine all these young people...
493
00:33:00,458 --> 00:33:04,333
...who suddenly saw the opening
before them the paths of the world.
494
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,250
They could become
what they wanted...
495
00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:08,875
...make a fortune, cross the planet.
496
00:33:09,042 --> 00:33:11,583
It was enough to lose your mind.
497
00:33:11,750 --> 00:33:13,792
The level of violence was incredible.
498
00:33:13,958 --> 00:33:17,417
We were shooting from all sides
and for the most futile reasons.
499
00:33:17,542 --> 00:33:20,458
Private militias
escorted insignificant men...
500
00:33:20,583 --> 00:33:23,042
...until the day
where they jumped in the air.
501
00:33:27,167 --> 00:33:30,500
Converting my theater experience
in a career as a TV producer...
502
00:33:30,667 --> 00:33:34,333
...was like passing from the cart
Lamborghini style.
503
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:36,292
One day...
504
00:33:36,458 --> 00:33:39,375
...I was discussing Mayakovsky
while drinking tea.
505
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:41,167
The next day, I was sipping a latte...
506
00:33:41,333 --> 00:33:44,417
...in an open space
designed by Dutch architects.
507
00:33:45,083 --> 00:33:48,292
Forget the First Channel,
forget state TV.
508
00:33:48,458 --> 00:33:50,333
RTP is a private company.
509
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,625
We're going to play games and politics.
510
00:33:52,792 --> 00:33:53,833
But otherwise.
511
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,042
The Soviets tried to suffocate
the country under a blanket of boredom.
512
00:33:58,208 --> 00:34:01,042
First rule, don't be boring.
513
00:34:02,458 --> 00:34:05,792
There is a project above the rest.
This one.
514
00:34:06,375 --> 00:34:07,917
Do you know why?
515
00:34:09,417 --> 00:34:12,583
Because it contains
all the Russian stereotypes...
516
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:13,917
...without exception.
517
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,542
The provincial babushka...
518
00:34:16,708 --> 00:34:18,167
...the nihilistic student...
519
00:34:18,333 --> 00:34:19,375
...the ambitious little whore.
520
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,750
I read it. It's rubbish.
521
00:34:23,375 --> 00:34:26,167
I've read them all, they all suck.
-Especially this one.
522
00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,750
Except it will work.
523
00:34:28,917 --> 00:34:31,000
We do not produce
only broadcasts.
524
00:34:31,167 --> 00:34:34,000
All other institutions
collapsed.
525
00:34:34,167 --> 00:34:36,583
It's up to TV to show the way.
526
00:34:36,750 --> 00:34:38,875
A reality show about schools...
527
00:34:39,042 --> 00:34:42,833
...where we teach young girls
to attract the nouveau riche?
528
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,958
Not bad. Does it really exist?
529
00:34:45,125 --> 00:34:48,458
It's serious.
And it works with the fire of God.
530
00:34:51,333 --> 00:34:53,875
My dream is to be
an international superstar.
531
00:34:56,792 --> 00:35:00,583
My dream is to buy from my mother
the most beautiful house in Krasnoyarsk.
532
00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:07,167
My dream is to be the trophy wife...
533
00:35:07,333 --> 00:35:10,208
...of the richest oligarch in Russia...
534
00:35:10,375 --> 00:35:13,208
...and live in Monte-Carlo.
535
00:35:13,375 --> 00:35:15,042
She assures.
536
00:35:15,208 --> 00:35:17,500
Seriously, she assures.
537
00:35:17,667 --> 00:35:19,500
This is an excellent project...
538
00:35:19,667 --> 00:35:22,250
...and this girl has her place there.
539
00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:27,792
At that time, the RTP channel...
540
00:35:27,958 --> 00:35:31,875
...belonged to a mathematician
became a billionaire, Boris Berezovsky.
541
00:35:32,042 --> 00:35:35,833
He had bought an old palace
on Novokuznetskaya.
542
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,333
It should have been the seat
of his company...
543
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:42,542
...but Berezovsky did
something much more special.
544
00:35:42,708 --> 00:35:45,750
A kind of club, the LogoVaz club.
545
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:51,208
It was a very select club.
546
00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:55,625
The elite of politics,
commerce, entertainment and crime.
547
00:35:55,792 --> 00:35:56,750
Imagine the scene.
548
00:35:56,917 --> 00:35:59,083
We are in the Caucasus, in Chechnya.
549
00:35:59,792 --> 00:36:01,500
I have before me a warlord...
550
00:36:01,667 --> 00:36:04,333
...who took
Russian officers as hostages.
551
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:05,750
It's not a joke.
552
00:36:06,583 --> 00:36:08,917
He's already decapitated one.
553
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:12,583
But it's not politics.
He wants money.
554
00:36:12,750 --> 00:36:14,625
Right away.
I don't have any cash on me.
555
00:36:14,792 --> 00:36:16,833
I don't walk around with bundles.
556
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,875
But I see him looking at my watch.
557
00:36:19,042 --> 00:36:21,833
A Patek Philippe Nautilus
like this one.
558
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:24,208
So, I said to him:
559
00:36:24,375 --> 00:36:26,042
“Do you like my watch?
560
00:36:26,208 --> 00:36:29,167
“Do you know what it’s worth?
More than your hostages."
561
00:36:29,333 --> 00:36:33,417
He said to me: "I know exactly
what it is worth. $800,000 used."
562
00:36:33,542 --> 00:36:36,125
It blew me away.
He knew the exact price.
563
00:36:36,292 --> 00:36:38,083
Roustam was far from stupid.
564
00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:39,500
He said to me:
565
00:36:39,625 --> 00:36:41,833
"If you bring back the hostages...
566
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,875
...."the advert you will have on TV
will be worth more than $800,000."
567
00:36:45,042 --> 00:36:48,875
The soldier's fixed gaze.
Zero bullshit.
568
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:52,667
“You win. Are we doing business?”
569
00:36:54,208 --> 00:36:56,375
I give him my watch,
I'm bringing back the hostages.
570
00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,833
It was the opening news for all the news.
571
00:37:00,667 --> 00:37:04,000
At that time,
my modest exploits as a TV producer...
572
00:37:04,167 --> 00:37:07,875
...meant to be invited sometimes
at the LogoVaz club.
573
00:37:08,042 --> 00:37:11,250
In general, Berezovsky summoned me
to talk about a project...
574
00:37:11,417 --> 00:37:14,375
...or to recommend me
a vague cousin...
575
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,000
...or a no less vague mistress.
576
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:19,500
Come in.
577
00:37:21,667 --> 00:37:23,458
Vadia!
-Boris.
578
00:37:25,625 --> 00:37:28,583
Our friend Vadia is a magician.
579
00:37:29,208 --> 00:37:30,500
Thanks to him...
580
00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:33,208
...we crush the competition.
581
00:37:34,583 --> 00:37:36,208
Do you want to leave it there?
582
00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:38,625
Not sure I understand.
583
00:37:38,792 --> 00:37:43,125
In this country, you run the same risks
whether you're in the game or not.
584
00:37:43,583 --> 00:37:45,167
I tell you my story...
585
00:37:45,333 --> 00:37:46,625
...you will understand.
586
00:37:47,250 --> 00:37:50,042
I was quiet in my corner.
587
00:37:50,208 --> 00:37:53,625
I had built a small business
modern and clean.
588
00:37:53,792 --> 00:37:56,333
To my knowledge,
your business wasn't so clean.
589
00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,792
You recycled
cars stolen from the factory.
590
00:38:02,458 --> 00:38:05,208
I did like everyone else.
-Worse.
591
00:38:05,375 --> 00:38:07,625
You weren't very attentive
on your associates.
592
00:38:07,792 --> 00:38:09,708
Pardon.
-Brief.
593
00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:15,417
One day, a bastard shows up
and wants to steal the business from me.
594
00:38:15,542 --> 00:38:18,417
What does he do?
He opens a competing box...
595
00:38:18,542 --> 00:38:21,042
...to fight in the market
like in the USA or Europe?
596
00:38:21,208 --> 00:38:23,000
No, that's not what he did.
597
00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:27,500
This son of a bitch
loads an old Opel from TNT...
598
00:38:27,625 --> 00:38:29,167
...and the station on my way.
599
00:38:29,333 --> 00:38:32,417
When I pass, he presses
on the remote and boom.
600
00:38:33,333 --> 00:38:34,917
More Berezovsky.
601
00:38:36,042 --> 00:38:37,500
Well, that was the plan.
602
00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:40,250
Unfortunately for him, it didn't work.
603
00:38:41,375 --> 00:38:44,917
I found myself with the head
of my driver in the arms.
604
00:38:45,833 --> 00:38:47,250
I survived.
605
00:38:48,250 --> 00:38:51,417
But that day I understood
that if you don't take care of power...
606
00:38:51,542 --> 00:38:52,667
...power takes care of you.
607
00:38:53,250 --> 00:38:55,875
I went to Switzerland for 15 days
to heal me.
608
00:38:56,042 --> 00:38:58,542
And you know what I did
when returning to Moscow?
609
00:38:59,458 --> 00:39:01,167
You learned to play tennis.
610
00:39:01,333 --> 00:39:03,833
Not without difficulty. I hate this sport.
611
00:39:04,458 --> 00:39:06,250
You hate all sports.
612
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:11,667
The old President, Boris Yeltsin,
was in decline.
613
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,083
Vodka abuse, they said.
614
00:39:15,250 --> 00:39:19,333
He had a sports club built
on Sparrow Hill.
615
00:39:19,917 --> 00:39:23,375
He spent his time playing tennis.
616
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,792
It was the only way to approach him.
617
00:39:28,083 --> 00:39:29,958
Let's be clear, Boris was done.
618
00:39:30,125 --> 00:39:32,375
Elections coming soon
his polls at their lowest...
619
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:35,958
...His whole little court of schemers
had them at zero.
620
00:39:36,125 --> 00:39:39,000
They quickly understood
that I was their only hope.
621
00:39:39,167 --> 00:39:40,292
All was not lost.
622
00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:51,958
Listen to me...
623
00:39:52,125 --> 00:39:53,500
...Boris Nikolayevich.
624
00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:57,875
Russia still needs you.
Of your courage and your...
625
00:39:58,042 --> 00:39:59,375
...integrity.
626
00:39:59,917 --> 00:40:02,000
Nobody loves me anymore.
627
00:40:02,167 --> 00:40:03,750
I saved democracy...
628
00:40:03,917 --> 00:40:05,667
...but democracy here means...
629
00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:08,542
...that everyone has become poor.
630
00:40:08,708 --> 00:40:11,667
Except a few smart guys like you...
631
00:40:11,833 --> 00:40:13,750
...who picked up the stake.
632
00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:17,625
If you give me...
633
00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,125
...control of state television...
634
00:40:21,208 --> 00:40:24,583
...I'm setting up an electoral campaign for you
like we've never seen before.
635
00:40:24,750 --> 00:40:28,375
There you are in the hole.
In two months, you will be at the top.
636
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,792
This is how I took control
of the Première Chaîne, RTP.
637
00:40:34,958 --> 00:40:36,292
But be careful.
638
00:40:37,042 --> 00:40:39,625
I kept my word.
I resurrected it in the polls.
639
00:40:39,792 --> 00:40:41,250
You rather sunk his rivals.
640
00:40:41,417 --> 00:40:44,208
Nostalgic for communism,
easy to dezincify.
641
00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:46,542
You defended your interests
and those of the oligarchs.
642
00:40:47,708 --> 00:40:49,125
Yes.
643
00:40:49,292 --> 00:40:51,500
It's true. And what?
644
00:40:51,625 --> 00:40:54,250
This is the democratic process.
-Yes.
645
00:40:54,417 --> 00:40:57,208
According to a very vague conception
of democracy.
646
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,750
Throughout the meetings...
647
00:41:06,917 --> 00:41:09,250
...the old man started to have fun.
648
00:41:09,417 --> 00:41:10,500
Only problem:
649
00:41:10,667 --> 00:41:13,208
...two weeks before the vote,
he's giving us a heart attack.
650
00:41:13,375 --> 00:41:14,542
It was hot.
651
00:41:15,375 --> 00:41:19,417
The day he was supposed to record
his last appeal to the nation.
652
00:41:19,542 --> 00:41:21,125
Obviously, we canceled everything.
653
00:41:21,292 --> 00:41:24,250
But after a few days,
rumors were circulating.
654
00:41:24,417 --> 00:41:25,708
He had to show himself.
655
00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:28,333
But the doctor refused
let him leave his house.
656
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:32,125
Too risky.
So we decided, to create an illusion...
657
00:41:32,583 --> 00:41:34,833
...to transport
Kremlin furniture in his home.
658
00:41:37,417 --> 00:41:39,500
The flags, on their supports.
659
00:41:43,792 --> 00:41:45,667
That of the Federation on the left.
660
00:41:45,833 --> 00:41:47,583
Watch out for the gap.
661
00:41:47,750 --> 00:41:49,542
The President comes down.
662
00:42:04,458 --> 00:42:06,958
Hello, Boris Nikolayevich!
663
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:08,792
Come see what we did.
664
00:42:08,958 --> 00:42:11,250
It's the perfect copy
from your office in the Kremlin.
665
00:42:11,417 --> 00:42:13,083
Nobody will see the difference.
666
00:42:14,333 --> 00:42:16,000
Help him sit up.
667
00:42:50,167 --> 00:42:52,042
Dear compatriots...
668
00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:54,542
...That's why...
669
00:42:56,833 --> 00:42:58,750
...the homeland...
670
00:43:00,250 --> 00:43:01,542
We're going to start again.
671
00:43:02,417 --> 00:43:05,375
Misha, can you slow down the teleprompter?
672
00:43:10,375 --> 00:43:11,625
Again.
673
00:43:12,417 --> 00:43:14,333
Dear compatriots...
674
00:43:15,625 --> 00:43:17,583
...July 3rd...
675
00:43:18,750 --> 00:43:20,625
...election day...
676
00:43:21,833 --> 00:43:23,125
...you don't...
677
00:43:23,292 --> 00:43:24,792
...not just vote for Yeltsin...
678
00:43:24,958 --> 00:43:27,042
We're not going to make it.
679
00:43:30,667 --> 00:43:32,417
Make him move his lips.
680
00:43:32,542 --> 00:43:35,833
We will put together bits
of his old speeches.
681
00:43:36,875 --> 00:43:39,292
Yeltsin was re-elected hands down...
682
00:43:39,458 --> 00:43:42,042
...then he fell back into lethargy.
683
00:43:42,208 --> 00:43:43,667
He had two other heart attacks.
684
00:43:43,833 --> 00:43:45,583
During the 4 years of his 2nd mandate...
685
00:43:45,750 --> 00:43:48,458
...Berezovsky was the real boss
of Russia.
686
00:43:48,583 --> 00:43:51,333
The oligarchs have picked up
everything they could.
687
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:54,292
This is how my comrade
Dmitry Sidorov...
688
00:43:54,458 --> 00:43:58,792
...has acquired an energy giant
fossil for only 168 million.
689
00:43:58,958 --> 00:44:02,000
He was going to bring him
3 billion per year.
690
00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:03,583
Olya!
691
00:44:05,042 --> 00:44:07,375
Berezovsky felt the tide turning.
692
00:44:08,250 --> 00:44:11,125
The Russians were tired
and needed order.
693
00:44:11,292 --> 00:44:15,292
They had grown up in a homeland
and found themselves in a supermarket.
694
00:44:15,458 --> 00:44:18,750
The challenge was to find a solution
before someone else does.
695
00:44:18,917 --> 00:44:20,125
So, yes.
696
00:44:21,542 --> 00:44:23,542
I have friends in the Kremlin.
697
00:44:23,708 --> 00:44:25,792
I sometimes lend a hand.
698
00:44:26,417 --> 00:44:29,083
But the scenario has completely changed.
699
00:44:29,250 --> 00:44:32,292
It is no longer a question
to support the current regime.
700
00:44:32,458 --> 00:44:34,333
You have to invent
something new.
701
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,333
Something and someone.
702
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,500
The President will not finish his term.
703
00:44:38,667 --> 00:44:41,583
Someone to embody him.
That's easy.
704
00:44:42,583 --> 00:44:43,750
But we need...
705
00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:47,167
...first of all,
of a party that unites everyone.
706
00:44:47,625 --> 00:44:49,375
The Unity Party.
707
00:44:52,542 --> 00:44:54,000
What do you think, Vadia?
708
00:44:55,250 --> 00:44:56,792
I already have an emblem.
709
00:44:57,792 --> 00:44:59,167
The bear.
710
00:44:59,333 --> 00:45:01,125
Symbol of the Russian soul.
711
00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,417
Do you want to be there?
712
00:45:06,542 --> 00:45:09,000
I don't know.
I like my job.
713
00:45:09,167 --> 00:45:10,375
It's the same job.
714
00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:16,292
I simply suggest
to move to the next level.
715
00:45:16,458 --> 00:45:18,125
Stop making up stories...
716
00:45:18,292 --> 00:45:20,125
...and invent reality.
717
00:45:20,625 --> 00:45:21,583
With me.
718
00:45:27,625 --> 00:45:30,333
THE LUBIANKA
FSB Headquarters
719
00:45:33,042 --> 00:45:35,625
The head of the FSB would make a good candidate.
720
00:45:37,125 --> 00:45:38,750
The old man has confidence in himself.
721
00:45:38,917 --> 00:45:41,792
He has proven himself
in decisive moments.
722
00:45:41,958 --> 00:45:44,625
He is a modest man.
You will enjoy it.
723
00:45:53,625 --> 00:45:55,875
Mr. Putin will receive you.
724
00:46:06,333 --> 00:46:07,500
Enter.
725
00:46:10,042 --> 00:46:11,125
Sit down.
726
00:46:12,750 --> 00:46:14,042
I know why you are here.
727
00:46:14,208 --> 00:46:16,833
Of course.
You are the best informed man in the country.
728
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,417
I thought about it, Boris Abramovich.
729
00:46:21,792 --> 00:46:23,083
You see...
730
00:46:23,250 --> 00:46:27,250
...the secret services
have all the advantages of politics...
731
00:46:28,417 --> 00:46:30,417
...without any of its drawbacks.
732
00:46:32,458 --> 00:46:34,458
I'm at the center of the system here.
733
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:37,417
I'm in a good place.
I hear and see everything.
734
00:46:37,542 --> 00:46:41,292
I can effectively intervene
to protect the President and his family.
735
00:46:41,458 --> 00:46:43,875
I have done it before and I will do it again.
736
00:46:45,792 --> 00:46:48,125
If you take me out of here
to put me in government...
737
00:46:48,292 --> 00:46:51,500
...I will end up crushed
like the other Prime Ministers...
738
00:46:51,625 --> 00:46:54,250
...in recent years,
of recent months.
739
00:46:54,417 --> 00:46:57,167
And you will lose
the most faithful guardian of the State.
740
00:46:57,333 --> 00:46:58,958
If we don't move quickly...
741
00:46:59,125 --> 00:47:03,250
...in a year there will be no more
neither President nor family to protect and...
742
00:47:03,708 --> 00:47:06,583
...the first measure
of the new head of the Kremlin...
743
00:47:06,750 --> 00:47:08,625
...will replace you.
744
00:47:09,583 --> 00:47:10,875
Why me?
745
00:47:12,417 --> 00:47:13,833
I am a civil servant.
746
00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:17,333
Okay, I did...
747
00:47:18,833 --> 00:47:20,750
...some public speeches...
748
00:47:20,917 --> 00:47:23,292
...but it was never earth-shattering.
749
00:47:23,458 --> 00:47:27,292
The President enters a room,
sniff the air and everyone...
750
00:47:27,458 --> 00:47:30,208
...is conquered in two minutes,
laughing, crying...
751
00:47:30,375 --> 00:47:32,292
...as if they were chatting
in his kitchen.
752
00:47:32,458 --> 00:47:34,292
I am not made of this wood.
753
00:47:34,458 --> 00:47:37,125
If I may,
Vladimir Vladimirovich...
754
00:47:37,792 --> 00:47:39,667
...this is exactly what it is.
755
00:47:40,292 --> 00:47:43,250
The personality of the President is unique.
756
00:47:43,417 --> 00:47:46,083
His human qualities allowed
to move our country...
757
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:49,750
...from the old Soviet Union
to today's Russia.
758
00:47:50,333 --> 00:47:52,167
But it's worn out.
759
00:47:52,625 --> 00:47:54,417
We need someone different...
760
00:47:54,542 --> 00:47:56,208
...which marks a break.
761
00:47:56,375 --> 00:47:59,167
If the President
appoints you Prime Minister...
762
00:47:59,333 --> 00:48:01,833
...you will embody a legitimate authority.
763
00:48:02,417 --> 00:48:05,500
The Russians need
stability and security.
764
00:48:05,667 --> 00:48:08,583
You are young, sporty, energetic.
765
00:48:08,750 --> 00:48:10,000
Something inside you says:
766
00:48:10,167 --> 00:48:13,292
"I can take full responsibility
of command."
767
00:48:14,125 --> 00:48:17,708
Your career in the secret service
is a guarantee of reliability.
768
00:48:18,250 --> 00:48:21,125
Be a man of few words
will work in your favor.
769
00:48:21,625 --> 00:48:22,583
Not against you.
770
00:48:22,750 --> 00:48:24,708
The Russians are tired
barkers.
771
00:48:25,458 --> 00:48:27,917
The campaign we have in mind...
772
00:48:29,250 --> 00:48:33,167
...there will be no gatherings
and empty promises.
773
00:48:33,333 --> 00:48:35,958
The bet will be to make you appear...
774
00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:38,667
...like a politician
of a new type.
775
00:48:38,833 --> 00:48:42,333
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
I don't know much about politics...
776
00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:45,250
...but I know a couple of things
on communication.
777
00:48:45,417 --> 00:48:46,958
There are two dimensions...
778
00:48:47,125 --> 00:48:48,500
...in a society.
779
00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:50,958
The horizontal axis is everyday life.
780
00:48:51,125 --> 00:48:53,875
The vertical axis is authority.
781
00:48:54,458 --> 00:48:56,375
Soviet society was vertical...
782
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:58,750
...and suddenly,
by ceasing to be Soviet...
783
00:48:58,917 --> 00:49:00,958
...it has become horizontal.
784
00:49:01,125 --> 00:49:05,042
Too much horizontality
is synonymous with chaos.
785
00:49:05,208 --> 00:49:07,583
Russians dream of verticality.
786
00:49:07,750 --> 00:49:09,292
A psychoanalyst would say...
787
00:49:09,458 --> 00:49:13,042
...that they are waiting for a leader
which makes one forget the language of the mother...
788
00:49:13,208 --> 00:49:15,792
...and again imposes the father's word.
789
00:49:15,958 --> 00:49:18,167
Public opinion is formed quickly.
790
00:49:18,333 --> 00:49:22,208
We are only a few months old
to convince the Russian people...
791
00:49:22,875 --> 00:49:25,583
...that you are the man for the job.
792
00:49:28,833 --> 00:49:32,250
And don't forget,
you won't be alone.
793
00:49:32,417 --> 00:49:36,208
I will be by your side
to help and advise you...
794
00:49:36,375 --> 00:49:37,792
...when you need it.
795
00:49:42,417 --> 00:49:43,792
It's in the pocket.
796
00:49:45,250 --> 00:49:48,583
It's not a Nobel Prize in science,
but it will do the job.
797
00:49:51,042 --> 00:49:53,333
I nodded and laughed with him...
798
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,667
...but things
were more complicated...
799
00:49:55,833 --> 00:49:57,917
...than Berezovsky perceived them.
800
00:50:01,417 --> 00:50:04,667
When he spoke to him
with his usual joviality...
801
00:50:04,833 --> 00:50:08,417
...I had perceived a shadow of annoyance
in Putin's eyes.
802
00:50:08,542 --> 00:50:10,417
And there was this flash of irony...
803
00:50:10,542 --> 00:50:13,792
...when Boris promised
to guide him step by step.
804
00:50:15,083 --> 00:50:17,667
As if the only idea
to be guided by this man...
805
00:50:17,833 --> 00:50:21,167
...was of the highest comedy
in the eyes of the head of the FSB.
806
00:50:25,042 --> 00:50:27,167
Hurry up, Vadim Alexeyevich.
807
00:50:27,333 --> 00:50:29,500
Vladimir Vladimirovich is waiting.
808
00:50:42,125 --> 00:50:43,542
Good day sir.
809
00:50:44,417 --> 00:50:45,542
What do you recommend?
810
00:50:45,708 --> 00:50:48,000
We have excellent scallops...
811
00:50:48,167 --> 00:50:49,542
...with cauliflower mousseline.
812
00:50:49,708 --> 00:50:50,667
A bowl of kasha.
813
00:50:50,833 --> 00:50:52,708
Two.
-Good, sir.
814
00:50:55,875 --> 00:50:58,208
I have a lot of respect for Berezovsky.
815
00:50:59,042 --> 00:51:00,750
I am grateful to him...
816
00:51:00,917 --> 00:51:02,917
...of his offer, but if...
817
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,542
...I'm embarking...
818
00:51:06,292 --> 00:51:07,500
...in this...
819
00:51:09,417 --> 00:51:10,500
...adventure...
820
00:51:11,125 --> 00:51:13,417
...it will be by counting on my strength...
821
00:51:13,542 --> 00:51:15,458
...not on someone else's.
822
00:51:16,042 --> 00:51:18,208
The President of Russia cannot...
823
00:51:18,375 --> 00:51:20,500
...nor should...
824
00:51:20,625 --> 00:51:23,167
...be submissive to anyone.
825
00:51:24,708 --> 00:51:26,250
This is inconceivable to me.
826
00:51:27,917 --> 00:51:30,750
Your analysis from the other day
was very interesting...
827
00:51:30,917 --> 00:51:34,083
...but first we must
clarify a point.
828
00:51:35,833 --> 00:51:37,292
If you accept my offer...
829
00:51:37,458 --> 00:51:40,375
...you will work exclusively
for me...
830
00:51:41,375 --> 00:51:42,500
...Vadim Alexeyevich.
831
00:51:51,583 --> 00:51:54,375
I thought about your concept
of verticality.
832
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,167
He is powerful.
833
00:51:57,208 --> 00:51:59,250
But it cannot remain abstract.
834
00:52:01,167 --> 00:52:05,208
We need a well-defined scene
where to restore the verticality of power.
835
00:52:05,375 --> 00:52:07,167
Otherwise, we will appear helpless...
836
00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:08,958
...like all the other politicians.
837
00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:10,708
Indeed, Vladimir Vladimirovich...
838
00:52:10,875 --> 00:52:13,333
...but it is not enough
to snap your fingers.
839
00:52:13,833 --> 00:52:15,958
There are the unexpected.
840
00:52:16,125 --> 00:52:18,500
The unexpected is always
the fruit of incompetence.
841
00:52:18,625 --> 00:52:21,042
It depends on the circumstances.
-The circumstances?
842
00:52:21,208 --> 00:52:22,833
They are before our eyes.
843
00:52:24,333 --> 00:52:25,292
Don't you see them?
844
00:52:28,458 --> 00:52:30,583
Islamist fundamentalists.
845
00:52:31,625 --> 00:52:34,375
They are no longer satisfied
of Chechnya.
846
00:52:36,167 --> 00:52:37,292
They want Dagestan...
847
00:52:37,458 --> 00:52:40,208
...Ingushetia, Bashkiria.
848
00:52:42,333 --> 00:52:44,208
If we let them...
849
00:52:45,208 --> 00:52:48,333
...in a few years, there will be nothing left
nothing from the Russian Federation.
850
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:52,292
Sorry, but I would think twice
before getting into this quagmire.
851
00:52:52,458 --> 00:52:53,708
In recent years...
852
00:52:53,875 --> 00:52:56,625
...Chechnya killed
no more political careers in Moscow...
853
00:52:56,792 --> 00:52:58,958
...how many enemies on the battlefield.
854
00:52:59,125 --> 00:53:02,042
None put enough energy into it.
855
00:53:02,208 --> 00:53:05,208
All these politicians
wanted to wage a war...
856
00:53:05,375 --> 00:53:08,208
...who didn't dare say his name.
857
00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:10,292
A humanitarian war...
858
00:53:10,458 --> 00:53:12,208
...like the Americans.
859
00:53:13,125 --> 00:53:14,917
I'm talking about something else.
860
00:53:15,875 --> 00:53:18,500
The Nobel Peace Prize
doesn't interest me.
861
00:53:18,667 --> 00:53:20,125
What interests me...
862
00:53:21,125 --> 00:53:24,625
...is to restore integrity
of the Russian Federation.
863
00:53:24,792 --> 00:53:26,542
I'm not talking about geopolitics.
864
00:53:26,708 --> 00:53:29,208
It's not my part.
865
00:53:29,375 --> 00:53:31,333
What I can say, however...
866
00:53:32,042 --> 00:53:34,167
...is that politically,
it's suicide.
867
00:53:34,917 --> 00:53:36,625
This is where you are wrong.
868
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,667
You are designing an electoral campaign
Western style:
869
00:53:41,833 --> 00:53:45,875
...two teams of economists
discussing PowerPoint presentations.
870
00:53:49,083 --> 00:53:50,375
In Russia...
871
00:53:51,208 --> 00:53:52,375
...the power...
872
00:53:53,458 --> 00:53:55,458
...it's something else entirely.
873
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,083
That day, I didn't understand
precisely what Putin was insinuating...
874
00:54:03,250 --> 00:54:05,667
...but I left this lunch
with certainty:
875
00:54:05,833 --> 00:54:09,208
Berezovsky had just committed
the biggest mistake of his life.
876
00:54:11,083 --> 00:54:12,708
The first days of August...
877
00:54:12,875 --> 00:54:16,542
...Boris Yeltsin appointed a new
Prime Minister, unknown to most.
878
00:54:17,083 --> 00:54:21,083
The appointment of Vladimir Putin
was greeted with skepticism.
879
00:54:21,250 --> 00:54:25,417
He was the 5th head of government
inducted by Yeltsin in less than a year.
880
00:54:27,458 --> 00:54:29,875
Our offices were located
in the former Palace of Soviets...
881
00:54:30,042 --> 00:54:31,958
...nicknamed the Russian White House.
882
00:54:32,125 --> 00:54:35,750
A huge block of mothballs
on the banks of the Moskva.
883
00:54:36,500 --> 00:54:39,333
A floor had been freed
for new recruits.
884
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:42,958
Putin knew he had little time
to impose itself on public opinion.
885
00:54:43,125 --> 00:54:44,542
He didn't plan to lose any.
886
00:54:47,042 --> 00:54:48,125
Tell that son of a bitch...
887
00:54:48,292 --> 00:54:50,875
...that the Prime Minister
wants results on the ground.
888
00:54:51,042 --> 00:54:52,583
No matter how.
889
00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:56,292
We are not in media time,
but politics.
890
00:54:56,458 --> 00:54:58,792
We are here to produce results...
891
00:54:58,958 --> 00:55:00,417
...not fluffy excuses.
892
00:55:01,333 --> 00:55:04,333
I received your surveys.
Help me dissect them.
893
00:55:04,500 --> 00:55:06,583
I join you.
I have to see Gusinski.
894
00:55:06,750 --> 00:55:07,625
We are on the right track.
895
00:55:07,792 --> 00:55:10,292
Dmitri Anatolievitch, who cares...
896
00:55:10,458 --> 00:55:12,333
...we should have arrived by now.
897
00:55:17,750 --> 00:55:19,167
Where is Gusinsky?
898
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:21,083
Alas, he couldn't come.
899
00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:24,500
We're not important enough to him?
900
00:55:24,625 --> 00:55:27,750
He is abroad.
-And you are? His messengers?
901
00:55:28,375 --> 00:55:29,750
We run the channel.
902
00:55:31,167 --> 00:55:34,375
Then you will tell Mr. Goussinski
the following:
903
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:37,500
The policy of the Russian Federation...
904
00:55:37,667 --> 00:55:41,292
...is not defined
in the NTV offices.
905
00:55:41,458 --> 00:55:43,542
It wouldn't cross the mind
by Mr. Goussinski.
906
00:55:43,708 --> 00:55:44,708
I look at the Kouklys...
907
00:55:44,875 --> 00:55:46,125
...your political puppets.
908
00:55:46,292 --> 00:55:49,542
Sometimes I find it funny.
It makes me laugh.
909
00:55:50,417 --> 00:55:54,667
Alas, the Prime Minister
doesn't share your sense of humor.
910
00:55:54,833 --> 00:55:57,542
He suspects Mr. Goussinski
to want to harm him.
911
00:55:57,708 --> 00:56:00,042
But no, never in life.
912
00:56:00,208 --> 00:56:02,667
Too bad he's not here
to explain it.
913
00:56:02,833 --> 00:56:06,667
You represent the Prime Minister
like a dwarf.
914
00:56:06,833 --> 00:56:08,125
This is incorrect...
915
00:56:08,292 --> 00:56:10,750
...A runt manipulated by the oligarchs.
916
00:56:10,917 --> 00:56:13,417
In the minds of comedians,
he's more of a child.
917
00:56:13,542 --> 00:56:14,833
Exactly.
918
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,417
And is that a cause for laughter?
An infantile mogul?
919
00:56:18,542 --> 00:56:19,875
It's a satirical show.
920
00:56:20,042 --> 00:56:23,250
The Prime Minister defines
the line between satire and insult...
921
00:56:23,417 --> 00:56:25,125
...especially during election periods.
922
00:56:25,292 --> 00:56:28,083
The Prime Minister
defined a red line.
923
00:56:28,250 --> 00:56:30,875
Mr. Goussinski will guess without difficulty
where she is located.
924
00:56:31,042 --> 00:56:33,167
Otherwise, he will learn it the hard way.
925
00:56:33,333 --> 00:56:34,292
Good day !
926
00:56:36,542 --> 00:56:40,625
I worked 18 hours a day,
continuing meetings with the PM...
927
00:56:40,792 --> 00:56:44,833
...each involving
so many historic decisions.
928
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,833
But the more I fell into the routine
of the government of men...
929
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,625
...no longer the world
seemed to me full of misunderstandings...
930
00:56:50,792 --> 00:56:52,292
...and missed opportunities.
931
00:56:53,042 --> 00:56:55,292
It was then that the unexpected happened.
932
00:56:57,542 --> 00:56:59,833
An autumn night, shortly after midnight...
933
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,167
...a huge roar tore
the darkness of the capital.
934
00:57:03,333 --> 00:57:05,833
Guryanova Street,
on the outskirts of Moscow...
935
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,750
...hundreds of kilos of explosives...
936
00:57:07,917 --> 00:57:11,042
...cut in two
a nine-story residential building.
937
00:57:12,417 --> 00:57:14,375
Dozens of sleeping families...
938
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:16,375
...were swallowed up by the explosion.
939
00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:17,542
Four days later...
940
00:57:19,458 --> 00:57:22,083
...a second explosion
shook the city at 5 a.m....
941
00:57:22,250 --> 00:57:24,500
...and destroyed another building
from the suburbs.
942
00:57:24,667 --> 00:57:26,750
More than a hundred victims.
943
00:57:26,917 --> 00:57:28,750
It was our September 11th.
944
00:57:28,917 --> 00:57:31,417
So far, the war in Chechnya
seemed distant.
945
00:57:31,542 --> 00:57:34,667
But when the buildings
started jumping around Moscow...
946
00:57:34,833 --> 00:57:37,708
...the Russians found themselves
with the war at home.
947
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,333
Of course...
948
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:41,667
...you know...
949
00:57:42,208 --> 00:57:43,792
...what they say.
950
00:57:45,750 --> 00:57:47,750
They say we did it.
951
00:57:48,542 --> 00:57:50,875
Finally, us: the FSB.
952
00:57:51,042 --> 00:57:52,667
It's not just a rumor.
953
00:57:53,500 --> 00:57:56,125
There are serious and consistent clues.
954
00:57:56,292 --> 00:57:57,542
Frankly, I don't know.
955
00:57:58,417 --> 00:58:02,292
If this secret is one,
Thank goodness no one confided it to me.
956
00:58:02,750 --> 00:58:04,708
But why would we do it?
957
00:58:04,875 --> 00:58:06,083
Our victory was acquired.
958
00:58:06,250 --> 00:58:08,042
To instill fear.
959
00:58:08,208 --> 00:58:11,542
So that the Russians
feel threatened by the Chechens.
960
00:58:13,167 --> 00:58:15,583
And to justify
the second Chechen war.
961
00:58:15,750 --> 00:58:18,667
Which came at the right time
to prepare the opinion...
962
00:58:18,833 --> 00:58:22,542
...the coming of an authoritarian regime.
963
00:58:25,792 --> 00:58:27,500
I don't like speaking in public.
964
00:58:27,625 --> 00:58:30,333
The people need to hear your voice.
965
00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:33,583
Here, on a state visit,
not from the Kremlin.
966
00:58:34,208 --> 00:58:36,458
Give them a sense of urgency.
967
00:58:36,583 --> 00:58:37,917
I'm not an actor.
968
00:58:38,875 --> 00:58:41,167
I will stick to it
to a simple declaration.
969
00:58:46,917 --> 00:58:49,417
You would have ordered
to bomb Grozny airport...
970
00:58:49,542 --> 00:58:51,208
...in response to the attacks.
971
00:58:51,375 --> 00:58:52,750
You don't think that...
972
00:58:52,917 --> 00:58:55,042
...risks making the situation worse?
973
00:58:55,208 --> 00:58:57,042
I'm tired of these types of questions.
974
00:58:57,208 --> 00:59:00,042
We will hit the terrorists
wherever they hide.
975
00:59:00,208 --> 00:59:02,167
If they are at an airport,
we will hit the airport.
976
00:59:02,333 --> 00:59:04,208
If they are in the toilet,
excuse my language...
977
00:59:04,375 --> 00:59:07,292
...we will go and kill them
even in the toilets.
978
00:59:07,458 --> 00:59:10,125
You have no idea the impact
of this sentence...
979
00:59:10,292 --> 00:59:12,000
...on the Russian public.
980
00:59:12,167 --> 00:59:14,875
Finally, the voice of command
and control...
981
00:59:15,042 --> 00:59:17,292
...that the Russians
had stopped hearing.
982
00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:18,833
Stalin's voice?
983
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,500
Not Yeltsin's, anyway.
984
00:59:20,667 --> 00:59:22,292
Nor that of Gorbachev.
985
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,208
On that day, Putin became Tsar.
986
00:59:27,708 --> 00:59:30,750
THE VERTICAL OF POWER
987
00:59:39,333 --> 00:59:42,292
Mr. Prime Minister,
we cannot land in Goudermes.
988
00:59:42,458 --> 00:59:44,333
Visibility is insufficient.
989
00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:47,542
I plan to spend the New Year
with our troops.
990
00:59:47,708 --> 00:59:49,125
We have to land.
991
00:59:49,292 --> 00:59:50,625
We have to land!
992
00:59:50,792 --> 00:59:54,042
We need 150 m of visibility.
993
00:59:54,208 --> 00:59:57,125
We barely have 100.
It's too dangerous.
994
01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:07,667
We have troops
stationed in Dagestan.
995
01:00:08,542 --> 01:00:11,875
They are ready for review.
That could be an option.
996
01:00:18,375 --> 01:00:21,000
If the Tsar wanted to celebrate the New Year
in Chechnya...
997
01:00:21,167 --> 01:00:22,875
...that's where we would go.
998
01:00:23,042 --> 01:00:27,667
At 1 a.m., aboard jeeps,
we took the pass route.
999
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:00,417
33rd division, Lieutenant-Colonel Fedorov.
1000
01:01:00,542 --> 01:01:02,500
Welcome to the base, Mr. Putin.
1001
01:01:03,417 --> 01:01:06,333
Gentlemen, what are you doing?
is very important.
1002
01:01:06,875 --> 01:01:09,583
People believe in you.
I came to tell you.
1003
01:01:09,750 --> 01:01:12,167
We are proud of you.
You work hard.
1004
01:01:13,333 --> 01:01:16,542
I know what you did,
it was very courageous.
1005
01:01:17,417 --> 01:01:20,208
I want you to know
that the Russian people...
1006
01:01:20,375 --> 01:01:21,625
...think of you...
1007
01:01:21,792 --> 01:01:23,250
...and is proud of you.
1008
01:01:23,708 --> 01:01:24,875
Good year.
1009
01:02:40,708 --> 01:02:42,000
Wait.
1010
01:02:44,208 --> 01:02:48,625
I would like to drink to the health of the wounded
and wish...
1011
01:02:49,292 --> 01:02:51,875
...to all present a happy new year...
1012
01:02:52,625 --> 01:02:55,500
...but we have serious tasks
in front of us...
1013
01:02:56,792 --> 01:02:58,333
...you all know that.
1014
01:02:59,375 --> 01:03:03,000
We don't just fight
for our honor and dignity...
1015
01:03:03,167 --> 01:03:07,083
...but to end
to the debacle of Russia.
1016
01:03:09,792 --> 01:03:13,083
We can't afford
a second of weakness.
1017
01:03:14,542 --> 01:03:16,417
If we let our guard down...
1018
01:03:17,083 --> 01:03:18,625
...those who died...
1019
01:03:19,292 --> 01:03:20,583
...will have died in vain.
1020
01:03:22,042 --> 01:03:24,583
So I suggest you
to put down our glasses.
1021
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,667
We will toast, but later.
1022
01:03:38,500 --> 01:03:39,917
I'm leaving.
1023
01:03:42,667 --> 01:03:45,458
I am leaving before the end of my mandate.
1024
01:03:46,250 --> 01:03:49,500
I understood that it was necessary.
1025
01:03:50,667 --> 01:03:52,500
Russia must start...
1026
01:03:53,042 --> 01:03:56,375
...this new millennium with
new political leaders...
1027
01:03:57,083 --> 01:04:00,125
...and I leave you with complete confidence...
1028
01:04:00,292 --> 01:04:03,875
...with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
1029
01:04:09,333 --> 01:04:11,042
The Yeltsin era is over.
1030
01:04:11,208 --> 01:04:13,833
Your friend Berezovsky must understand...
1031
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,042
...that I'm fed up
of these stupid memos.
1032
01:04:17,208 --> 01:04:19,208
I thought he was ourfriend.
1033
01:04:19,375 --> 01:04:21,458
Boris is a very intelligent man...
1034
01:04:21,583 --> 01:04:24,750
...but his intelligence does not protect him
of his stupidity.
1035
01:04:26,750 --> 01:04:27,750
Bring him in.
1036
01:04:34,292 --> 01:04:35,750
Boris Abramovich.
1037
01:04:36,417 --> 01:04:37,542
Approach.
1038
01:04:38,375 --> 01:04:39,375
Sit down.
1039
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
I read your messages...
1040
01:04:45,167 --> 01:04:46,833
...some of your memos.
1041
01:04:47,500 --> 01:04:50,417
You have always given good advice.
I'm listening to you.
1042
01:04:50,542 --> 01:04:52,750
Volodya, you made me wait an hour.
1043
01:04:52,917 --> 01:04:54,458
You wanted this interview.
1044
01:04:55,125 --> 01:04:56,375
Here we are.
1045
01:04:58,500 --> 01:04:59,375
Go ahead.
1046
01:05:02,583 --> 01:05:03,917
I will be brief.
1047
01:05:05,458 --> 01:05:07,500
We become too negative.
1048
01:05:07,625 --> 01:05:10,042
Too dark.
It's war, we understand.
1049
01:05:10,208 --> 01:05:11,833
You are a great general...
1050
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,333
...you will lead us to victory.
But let's make an effort.
1051
01:05:15,792 --> 01:05:19,125
Let's give a little hope
to these poor Russians.
1052
01:05:19,292 --> 01:05:22,542
Otherwise instead of voting for you,
they will throw themselves out of the window.
1053
01:05:23,500 --> 01:05:25,500
Meetings, concerts...
1054
01:05:25,625 --> 01:05:27,542
...advertising spots, posters!
1055
01:05:27,708 --> 01:05:29,083
We must make ourselves heard.
1056
01:05:29,250 --> 01:05:31,125
Who will pay?
-Me, of course.
1057
01:05:31,833 --> 01:05:35,292
You gave up
to free advertising space?
1058
01:05:35,458 --> 01:05:38,417
That's correct.
It’s a choice, our strategy.
1059
01:05:38,542 --> 01:05:40,542
We'll see if the facts prove us wrong.
1060
01:05:40,708 --> 01:05:44,417
If you continue,
people will forget that you are a candidate.
1061
01:05:44,542 --> 01:05:46,375
Don't be ridiculous, Boris.
1062
01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:49,667
I have been interim president for 3 months.
The government is us.
1063
01:05:51,167 --> 01:05:54,208
Our campaign is the news,
what we do...
1064
01:05:55,125 --> 01:05:57,000
...the story we are writing.
1065
01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:00,958
Nobody believes in advertising anymore.
1066
01:06:01,125 --> 01:06:04,500
Facts are the only advertising
which interests us.
1067
01:06:08,333 --> 01:06:10,583
The Tsar had restored
the vertical of power...
1068
01:06:10,750 --> 01:06:13,167
...and the voters
were grateful to him.
1069
01:06:13,333 --> 01:06:16,500
He was elected president
of the Russian Federation in the 1st round.
1070
01:06:18,500 --> 01:06:22,208
Berezovsky stopped overwhelming the Kremlin
of unanswered calls.
1071
01:06:22,375 --> 01:06:26,083
Certainly, its journalists mocked
the splendor of the induction...
1072
01:06:26,250 --> 01:06:28,250
...but Boris expected something else:
1073
01:06:28,917 --> 01:06:32,250
...the opportunity to show the Tsar
who was in charge.
1074
01:06:39,250 --> 01:06:41,875
SOCHI
Summer residence of Russian Presidents
1075
01:07:16,458 --> 01:07:18,667
I remember that you prefer...
1076
01:07:19,333 --> 01:07:20,500
...on time.
1077
01:07:22,083 --> 01:07:23,750
Thank you for remembering that.
1078
01:07:35,417 --> 01:07:36,500
Sir...
1079
01:07:58,792 --> 01:08:01,167
...On August 12, 2000, Kursk...
1080
01:08:01,333 --> 01:08:03,667
...one of the greatest
nuclear submarines...
1081
01:08:03,833 --> 01:08:07,167
...sank during an exercise
in the Barents Sea.
1082
01:08:07,792 --> 01:08:09,458
There were a hundred men on board.
1083
01:08:10,417 --> 01:08:12,583
Some died instantly.
1084
01:08:12,750 --> 01:08:15,083
Others were trapped
at the bottom of the sea.
1085
01:08:16,457 --> 01:08:20,332
It was the opportunity
what Berezovsky was waiting for.
1086
01:08:27,792 --> 01:08:31,417
We rented a helicopter
to monitor the sinking area.
1087
01:08:31,542 --> 01:08:33,250
Was she identified?
-Yes.
1088
01:08:33,417 --> 01:08:36,250
The information has just come out.
No help on site.
1089
01:08:36,417 --> 01:08:39,125
Scandalous.
This is what must be denounced.
1090
01:08:39,292 --> 01:08:40,875
Russian experts
refuse to get wet.
1091
01:08:41,042 --> 01:08:42,000
Look elsewhere.
1092
01:08:42,167 --> 01:08:46,500
We have a team in Germany.
NATO offered to help...
1093
01:08:46,625 --> 01:08:48,417
...but the Russian navy refused it.
1094
01:08:48,542 --> 01:08:50,000
They are spy ships.
1095
01:08:50,167 --> 01:08:52,750
Russia cannot humiliate itself
in front of them.
1096
01:08:52,917 --> 01:08:54,957
Can't humble yourself in front of them?
1097
01:08:55,125 --> 01:08:58,375
Ask the families
what they think about it.
1098
01:08:58,500 --> 01:09:00,417
That's what we do.
-TV is emotion.
1099
01:09:00,542 --> 01:09:04,250
The emotion is the families.
Can you imagine their anguish?
1100
01:09:04,417 --> 01:09:07,957
Their loved ones, perhaps still alive,
enclosed in a waterproof compartment...
1101
01:09:08,125 --> 01:09:10,082
...and help that doesn't come!
1102
01:09:12,207 --> 01:09:14,500
How long will it take?
1103
01:09:14,625 --> 01:09:17,167
Our sons are paid $50 per month...
1104
01:09:17,332 --> 01:09:20,542
...and they are stuck
in this can!
1105
01:09:21,500 --> 01:09:26,167
What was the point of raising my son?
Do you have children?
1106
01:09:27,082 --> 01:09:29,082
Who can understand us?
1107
01:09:29,250 --> 01:09:32,125
Not you, the people in power.
You never understand anything!
1108
01:09:32,292 --> 01:09:34,457
You only think about getting fat!
1109
01:09:34,582 --> 01:09:39,042
Our sailors do not have enough to live on
and you let them die!
1110
01:09:39,707 --> 01:09:41,957
The situation was out of control.
1111
01:09:42,125 --> 01:09:43,542
I rushed to Sochi.
1112
01:09:43,707 --> 01:09:46,707
I didn't understand why Putin
was not there.
1113
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,125
What do you want me to do?
1114
01:09:53,082 --> 01:09:54,875
They're all dead, that's obvious.
1115
01:09:55,042 --> 01:09:57,208
We'll know when we reach them.
1116
01:09:57,375 --> 01:10:00,042
According to all the experts,
there are survivors.
1117
01:10:00,208 --> 01:10:02,458
It's a fact. We must save them.
1118
01:10:02,583 --> 01:10:05,625
Whether they are dead or not,
Berezovsky seeks to harm me.
1119
01:10:05,792 --> 01:10:07,500
Everyone is waiting for you to act.
1120
01:10:07,667 --> 01:10:10,375
I will act
when I see fit to do so.
1121
01:10:11,458 --> 01:10:14,167
Your composure
did a lot for your popularity...
1122
01:10:14,333 --> 01:10:15,875
...but it turns against you.
1123
01:10:16,417 --> 01:10:19,833
The Russian people are suffering
and you are not with him.
1124
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:21,292
It's serious.
1125
01:10:23,125 --> 01:10:26,000
Like the authorities
still do nothing...
1126
01:10:26,500 --> 01:10:29,333
...RTP organized a subscription
for families of sailors.
1127
01:10:29,500 --> 01:10:31,000
Call this number to help...
1128
01:10:31,917 --> 01:10:33,125
Do you realize?
1129
01:10:33,792 --> 01:10:37,833
They destroyed the state,
they plundered it for ten years.
1130
01:10:38,458 --> 01:10:41,333
They ruined our army
and they organize collections!
1131
01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:43,542
These bastards just have to sell...
1132
01:10:43,708 --> 01:10:45,875
...their chalets in St. Moritz!
1133
01:10:48,500 --> 01:10:50,500
Call me that son of a bitch!
1134
01:11:00,333 --> 01:11:02,542
Do you realize what you're doing?
1135
01:11:02,708 --> 01:11:05,958
Your channel gives voice
24 hours a day...
1136
01:11:06,125 --> 01:11:08,333
...to whores
playing sailors' wives.
1137
01:11:08,500 --> 01:11:10,292
What are you talking about ?
You're delirious.
1138
01:11:10,458 --> 01:11:12,167
These are their real wives.
1139
01:11:12,333 --> 01:11:15,208
You are state television, Boris.
1140
01:11:15,375 --> 01:11:17,500
And you're plotting against the presidency.
1141
01:11:17,667 --> 01:11:19,542
What does that mean?
1142
01:11:19,708 --> 01:11:22,542
What does that mean, exactly?
I ask you a question!
1143
01:11:22,708 --> 01:11:24,792
I have a question for you,
Vladimir Vladimirovich.
1144
01:11:24,958 --> 01:11:28,125
What are you doing
on vacation on the Black Sea?
1145
01:11:28,292 --> 01:11:30,500
Shouldn't you be in Murmansk?
1146
01:11:30,625 --> 01:11:31,667
And where are you?
1147
01:11:32,292 --> 01:11:34,083
He laughs... Where are you?
1148
01:11:34,250 --> 01:11:36,083
On the French Riviera?
What are you doing here?
1149
01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:39,458
Finally ! I am not the President.
Who cares where I am.
1150
01:11:39,583 --> 01:11:41,917
And I happen to be in Moscow.
1151
01:11:43,375 --> 01:11:44,667
Think, Volodya.
1152
01:11:44,833 --> 01:11:46,958
If you are going to console
sailors' wives...
1153
01:11:47,125 --> 01:11:49,250
...you will explode the ratings.
1154
01:11:49,417 --> 01:11:53,208
And our channel will put
all its firepower at your service.
1155
01:11:53,708 --> 01:11:55,750
And you know it's considerable.
1156
01:12:01,417 --> 01:12:02,500
So?
1157
01:12:03,417 --> 01:12:06,167
We return to Moscow.
We're having this fucking meeting.
1158
01:12:06,333 --> 01:12:07,875
We have no choice.
1159
01:12:15,667 --> 01:12:18,250
And as soon as we got out of this quagmire...
1160
01:12:18,750 --> 01:12:21,125
...we're taking care of your friend Boris.
1161
01:12:24,292 --> 01:12:27,042
How could Boris have imagined...
1162
01:12:27,208 --> 01:12:29,625
...that he would tolerate
a relationship of equals...
1163
01:12:29,792 --> 01:12:31,458
...with one of his subjects?
1164
01:12:31,583 --> 01:12:33,625
All the oligarchs were wrong.
1165
01:12:34,667 --> 01:12:37,000
By deciding to bet on Putin...
1166
01:12:38,375 --> 01:12:41,708
...they thought they would change
straw man, not system.
1167
01:12:41,875 --> 01:12:45,625
Taking TV to Berezovsky
was a piece of cake.
1168
01:12:45,792 --> 01:12:49,833
He did not control the majority,
only 49%.
1169
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,250
Il a suffi d'informer
the general director of RTP...
1170
01:12:53,417 --> 01:12:56,500
...that now,
he would take his orders from the Kremlin.
1171
01:13:06,167 --> 01:13:09,292
He doesn't mean you any harm. He values you.
1172
01:13:09,458 --> 01:13:13,125
Stay quietly in Moscow
and do whatever business you want.
1173
01:13:13,292 --> 01:13:16,083
But forget about politics.
1174
01:13:16,542 --> 01:13:18,500
Politics is his business.
1175
01:13:19,292 --> 01:13:22,750
Putin is a pure product of the KGB.
1176
01:13:24,500 --> 01:13:26,833
Of the most ferocious species.
1177
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,458
He will put Russia in irons.
1178
01:13:30,583 --> 01:13:34,375
And everything we've done for ten years
to become a normal country...
1179
01:13:34,500 --> 01:13:36,500
...will be swept away.
1180
01:13:36,667 --> 01:13:38,333
Even you, Vadia.
1181
01:13:38,500 --> 01:13:41,125
You build a diet
worse than the USSR.
1182
01:13:41,292 --> 01:13:42,625
At least back then...
1183
01:13:42,792 --> 01:13:46,417
...the Party was muzzling
the KGB watchdogs.
1184
01:13:46,542 --> 01:13:48,708
Now the Party no longer exists.
1185
01:13:48,875 --> 01:13:51,125
The FSB is worse than the KGB.
1186
01:13:51,292 --> 01:13:53,250
Who will stop them? You ?
1187
01:13:53,417 --> 01:13:56,042
Certainly not.
You became one of them.
1188
01:13:56,625 --> 01:13:59,167
They are ferocious beasts.
1189
01:13:59,333 --> 01:14:01,458
They come from nothing.
1190
01:14:01,583 --> 01:14:04,083
They carved out a path for themselves
with a club.
1191
01:14:04,250 --> 01:14:06,375
Without rules, without limits.
1192
01:14:06,500 --> 01:14:07,625
They are hungry.
1193
01:14:07,792 --> 01:14:10,000
An atavistic hunger.
1194
01:14:10,917 --> 01:14:12,750
They were humiliated.
1195
01:14:12,917 --> 01:14:15,708
They come from centuries of humiliation.
1196
01:14:17,333 --> 01:14:20,250
They have to take everything, right away.
1197
01:14:21,333 --> 01:14:24,208
Because they know the wheel is turning.
1198
01:14:24,375 --> 01:14:25,792
Maybe, Boris.
1199
01:14:25,958 --> 01:14:27,375
I don't know.
1200
01:14:28,417 --> 01:14:32,500
But I know that Russia
has always been done like this.
1201
01:14:33,042 --> 01:14:34,625
With an axe.
1202
01:14:34,792 --> 01:14:38,167
UN HEADQUARTERS
New York
1203
01:14:38,625 --> 01:14:41,750
Carefully,
Berezovsky chose exile in London.
1204
01:14:41,917 --> 01:14:44,833
Meanwhile,
we were flying to New York.
1205
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:46,208
When you get to the top...
1206
01:14:46,375 --> 01:14:50,250
...politics propels you
on the global stage without preparation.
1207
01:14:50,417 --> 01:14:52,875
The greats of this world
become your peers.
1208
01:14:53,042 --> 01:14:54,667
But they form a narrow circle.
1209
01:14:54,833 --> 01:14:57,208
They had time to learn
the basic rules.
1210
01:14:58,167 --> 01:15:01,458
You may be feared and respected
in your country...
1211
01:15:01,583 --> 01:15:04,458
...here, you're just the new kid.
1212
01:15:05,125 --> 01:15:07,167
The Waldorf Astoria is the best hotel.
1213
01:15:07,333 --> 01:15:10,667
The protocol reserved a floor for us.
Twenty rooms.
1214
01:15:12,375 --> 01:15:13,583
Penthouse?
1215
01:15:14,208 --> 01:15:15,875
No.
1216
01:15:16,042 --> 01:15:17,083
For what ?
1217
01:15:17,250 --> 01:15:20,833
The last three floors are reserved
year round by the Saudis.
1218
01:15:22,167 --> 01:15:23,625
It will take less than an hour.
1219
01:15:23,792 --> 01:15:27,917
15 min to go to the studio,
30 min interview and 15 min return.
1220
01:15:29,667 --> 01:15:31,458
It's a nice move for us.
1221
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:43,667
What is this ?
1222
01:15:44,625 --> 01:15:45,917
It's the freeze.
1223
01:15:47,333 --> 01:15:50,250
The procession of the President of the USA
is in motion.
1224
01:15:50,417 --> 01:15:52,250
No one else can move.
1225
01:15:55,417 --> 01:15:56,833
Does it last long?
1226
01:15:58,625 --> 01:15:59,667
It depends.
1227
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,542
So, what's it like to be a spy?
1228
01:16:07,708 --> 01:16:10,208
Not much different
to act as a journalist.
1229
01:16:10,875 --> 01:16:14,792
We collect information,
we summarize it...
1230
01:16:15,500 --> 01:16:19,500
...and we present it to the decision-makers
who can benefit from it.
1231
01:16:19,625 --> 01:16:21,000
Did you like doing that?
1232
01:16:21,167 --> 01:16:24,542
The information allowed me
to broaden my field of vision...
1233
01:16:24,708 --> 01:16:27,250
...to develop certain qualities...
1234
01:16:28,542 --> 01:16:31,750
...management qualities.
To focus on priorities.
1235
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:34,833
An apprenticeship.
1236
01:16:35,708 --> 01:16:39,083
The Kursk tragedy
moved the whole world.
1237
01:16:39,250 --> 01:16:41,625
Tell me, what happened?
1238
01:16:42,208 --> 01:16:44,708
What happened to the submarine?
1239
01:16:46,250 --> 01:16:47,500
It sank.
1240
01:16:56,875 --> 01:16:58,208
If the Martians...
1241
01:16:58,375 --> 01:17:00,458
...took power in Moscow...
1242
01:17:00,583 --> 01:17:03,667
...the USA would immediately recognize them
as a legitimate government...
1243
01:17:03,833 --> 01:17:07,042
...provided they don't touch
to their interests...
1244
01:17:07,208 --> 01:17:09,708
...and continue to process them
in patterns.
1245
01:17:10,583 --> 01:17:13,833
The problem is that they believe
having won the Cold War.
1246
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,042
But the Soviet Union...
1247
01:17:16,208 --> 01:17:17,750
...did not lose it.
1248
01:17:17,917 --> 01:17:21,792
The Cold War has ended
because we put an end to a dictatorship.
1249
01:17:21,958 --> 01:17:24,208
It's not the same thing.
1250
01:17:24,375 --> 01:17:26,208
The Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
1251
01:17:26,375 --> 01:17:28,292
They were offered peace...
1252
01:17:28,458 --> 01:17:29,792
...not surrender.
1253
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,875
They should remember that.
1254
01:17:33,500 --> 01:17:34,750
From time to time.
1255
01:17:53,125 --> 01:17:54,875
Limonov values you.
1256
01:17:55,042 --> 01:17:56,750
I thought he despised me.
1257
01:17:56,917 --> 01:17:58,500
He is a visionary.
1258
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,542
Everyone has their place in their party.
1259
01:18:03,042 --> 01:18:06,875
So what do you think
of my revolutionary vanguard?
1260
01:18:07,042 --> 01:18:10,000
The Kremlin does not tremble
in his boots.
1261
01:18:10,167 --> 01:18:12,333
The Kremlin is very wrong. Sit down.
1262
01:18:14,125 --> 01:18:16,583
So how was the trip?
1263
01:18:17,458 --> 01:18:19,292
You know how it is there.
1264
01:18:19,458 --> 01:18:21,375
Still pretty fun, I'd say.
1265
01:18:22,250 --> 01:18:25,667
New York can be fun,
if we avoid the Americans.
1266
01:18:26,875 --> 01:18:28,542
Which one do you prefer, Édouard?
1267
01:18:30,333 --> 01:18:31,833
This one.
1268
01:18:32,875 --> 01:18:35,792
You went
at one of their social dinners?
1269
01:18:35,958 --> 01:18:38,208
All men have studied
at Princeton or Yale.
1270
01:18:38,375 --> 01:18:41,042
Their children
go to the same schools.
1271
01:18:41,208 --> 01:18:42,208
At least younger...
1272
01:18:42,375 --> 01:18:46,417
...I could have a little wife
blonde in the toilet.
1273
01:18:46,542 --> 01:18:48,792
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
1274
01:18:48,958 --> 01:18:50,333
It's the same everywhere.
1275
01:18:50,833 --> 01:18:52,083
No, Vadia.
1276
01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:54,083
America has destroyed the bourgeoisie.
1277
01:18:54,250 --> 01:18:55,792
The bourgeoisie had values.
1278
01:18:55,958 --> 01:18:58,833
These people don't believe
than in the numbers.
1279
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:00,917
Boring as death.
1280
01:19:02,583 --> 01:19:04,750
The problem is not imperialism...
1281
01:19:05,375 --> 01:19:07,083
...it's American culture.
1282
01:19:07,250 --> 01:19:10,583
You were interested in it
before she swallows you and spits you out.
1283
01:19:10,750 --> 01:19:11,875
When I saw Yeltsin...
1284
01:19:12,042 --> 01:19:15,625
...transform Russia into a version
low cost of the American hospice...
1285
01:19:15,792 --> 01:19:18,542
...I decided to found
the National Bolshevik Party.
1286
01:19:18,708 --> 01:19:20,750
You know why
I called him that?
1287
01:19:20,917 --> 01:19:22,375
To make you angry!
1288
01:19:22,500 --> 01:19:23,583
Naz-Bol!
1289
01:19:24,458 --> 01:19:27,125
We bring together ex-Stalinists...
1290
01:19:27,292 --> 01:19:30,000
...homosexuals and punks...
1291
01:19:30,167 --> 01:19:31,833
...anarchists, skinheads...
1292
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:33,500
...religious fanatics...
1293
01:19:33,625 --> 01:19:35,542
...from Buddhists to Orthodox.
1294
01:19:35,708 --> 01:19:39,500
The most complicated thing is to avoid
let them kill each other.
1295
01:19:39,667 --> 01:19:41,458
Trust them, it will come.
1296
01:19:41,583 --> 01:19:43,125
You don't understand.
1297
01:19:43,292 --> 01:19:46,875
These young people want to escape
the boredom of a banal life.
1298
01:19:47,042 --> 01:19:49,375
They are in search of heroism.
1299
01:19:49,500 --> 01:19:51,583
It would be a shame to ruin that.
1300
01:19:53,500 --> 01:19:55,667
Will you pass me a cigarette, Sergei?
1301
01:19:56,250 --> 01:19:57,708
I need to walk.
1302
01:20:01,625 --> 01:20:05,042
I had always considered Limonov
like a brilliant sociopath...
1303
01:20:05,208 --> 01:20:07,708
...completely devoid of political meaning.
1304
01:20:07,875 --> 01:20:11,042
I wasn't ready yet
to prove him right.
1305
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:15,500
But his arguments appeared to me
for what they were.
1306
01:20:16,167 --> 01:20:18,667
No not the fruit
of a rigorous analysis...
1307
01:20:18,833 --> 01:20:21,500
...but much more
than a chance intuition.
1308
01:20:28,458 --> 01:20:31,583
THE END OF THE OLIGARKS
1309
01:20:31,750 --> 01:20:33,333
Vladimir Vladimirovich...
1310
01:20:33,500 --> 01:20:35,250
...Vadim Alexeyevich is here.
1311
01:20:36,083 --> 01:20:37,250
Enter.
1312
01:20:42,208 --> 01:20:45,500
Where is my popularity?
The elections are approaching.
1313
01:20:45,667 --> 01:20:46,667
Nothing to worry about.
1314
01:20:46,833 --> 01:20:49,958
Around 60%.
The next candidate tops out at 12%.
1315
01:20:50,125 --> 01:20:51,833
They are negligible.
1316
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:53,833
There is a Russian more popular than me.
1317
01:20:55,125 --> 01:20:56,250
Stalin.
1318
01:20:57,417 --> 01:20:59,292
He's been dead for a while.
1319
01:20:59,458 --> 01:21:02,333
You, the intellectuals,
you denounce the horrors of the gulag.
1320
01:21:02,500 --> 01:21:06,250
Do you think Stalin was popular?
despite the massacres. Fake.
1321
01:21:06,417 --> 01:21:08,750
He was popular because of the massacres.
1322
01:21:08,917 --> 01:21:12,417
Because he knew how to treat
a thief, a traitor.
1323
01:21:13,750 --> 01:21:16,708
You know what he did
when Soviet trains...
1324
01:21:16,875 --> 01:21:19,167
...started to go off the rails?
-No.
1325
01:21:19,333 --> 01:21:22,042
He had the director shot
for sabotage.
1326
01:21:22,208 --> 01:21:25,417
That didn't solve the problem,
It may have made it worse...
1327
01:21:25,542 --> 01:21:28,875
...but it gave an outlet for the rage.
1328
01:21:29,792 --> 01:21:31,458
Rage is a structural fact.
1329
01:21:31,583 --> 01:21:34,000
No need to fight it,
it must be managed.
1330
01:21:35,167 --> 01:21:37,208
Do you want to feed the rage?
-Yes.
1331
01:21:37,375 --> 01:21:39,167
The people want a head.
1332
01:21:39,917 --> 01:21:40,958
Which ?
1333
01:21:41,125 --> 01:21:43,042
That of the most arrogant of oligarchs.
1334
01:21:43,792 --> 01:21:44,875
Dmitry Sidorov.
1335
01:21:46,625 --> 01:21:48,167
Your ex-friend.
1336
01:21:48,917 --> 01:21:51,125
It seems he stole your wife.
1337
01:21:51,667 --> 01:21:52,833
You should be happy.
1338
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,875
It didn't last.
It's far from me.
1339
01:21:56,042 --> 01:21:59,292
He is preparing to cede the majority
of his oil company...
1340
01:21:59,458 --> 01:22:00,625
...to Exxon Mobil.
1341
01:22:00,792 --> 01:22:02,583
He's been working there for a long time.
1342
01:22:02,750 --> 01:22:04,792
He will get rich
20 billion dollars...
1343
01:22:04,958 --> 01:22:08,750
...by placing our energy giant
fossils under American control.
1344
01:22:08,917 --> 01:22:11,542
A Russian company would acquire
an international stature.
1345
01:22:11,708 --> 01:22:13,250
No, that's not true.
1346
01:22:13,417 --> 01:22:17,167
He is building up a war chest
to face me in the 2007 elections.
1347
01:22:17,333 --> 01:22:20,208
How do you know?
-In your opinion? He's being tapped.
1348
01:22:25,292 --> 01:22:26,583
“Non-entity.”
1349
01:22:28,083 --> 01:22:31,667
That's what he calls me
with his friends in Washington.
1350
01:22:31,833 --> 01:22:33,542
A “non-entity”.
1351
01:22:33,708 --> 01:22:37,417
Or when he explains that once elected,
he will change the constitution...
1352
01:22:37,542 --> 01:22:40,542
...and dismantle our nuclear arsenal.
1353
01:22:40,708 --> 01:22:42,000
“Non-entity”!
1354
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:44,292
“Non-entity”!
1355
01:22:46,375 --> 01:22:47,542
This man...
1356
01:22:48,292 --> 01:22:51,167
...made me eat more mud
that I can swallow.
1357
01:22:55,625 --> 01:22:56,833
I gave the order...
1358
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,208
...to have Dmitry Sidorov arrested...
1359
01:22:59,375 --> 01:23:00,958
...tomorrow at dawn.
1360
01:23:01,125 --> 01:23:03,667
He goes to Siberia.
He needs to refuel.
1361
01:23:03,833 --> 01:23:05,083
We'll pick it there.
1362
01:23:05,250 --> 01:23:08,125
Cameramen and journalists
will already be there.
1363
01:23:08,292 --> 01:23:10,792
It's up to you to orchestrate all of this
for the media.
1364
01:23:29,333 --> 01:23:30,500
That's it.
1365
01:23:32,042 --> 01:23:33,083
We are there.
1366
01:23:33,250 --> 01:23:34,625
The news went around the world.
1367
01:23:35,208 --> 01:23:39,750
With the effect of reminding
that money does not protect you from everything.
1368
01:23:39,917 --> 01:23:43,125
For you, Westerners,
it is an absolute taboo.
1369
01:23:43,292 --> 01:23:45,792
A politician arrested,
why not?
1370
01:23:45,958 --> 01:23:48,417
But a billionaire? Unthinkable.
1371
01:23:48,542 --> 01:23:50,958
Your company is founded
on the principle...
1372
01:23:51,125 --> 01:23:52,917
...that nothing beats money.
1373
01:23:54,750 --> 01:23:59,500
My job: make Dmitry fall
a successful TV show.
1374
01:23:59,667 --> 01:24:01,625
It wasn't difficult.
1375
01:24:01,792 --> 01:24:04,958
The masses have always loved
see the head of a powerful man fall.
1376
01:24:05,125 --> 01:24:08,167
There is no more bloodthirsty dictator
than the people.
1377
01:24:09,458 --> 01:24:11,042
Once Sidorov was arrested...
1378
01:24:11,208 --> 01:24:13,375
...Putin's re-election
was a formality.
1379
01:24:14,167 --> 01:24:15,500
From then on...
1380
01:24:15,625 --> 01:24:19,042
...the nature of Russian government
has changed profoundly.
1381
01:24:19,208 --> 01:24:21,708
The struggle for power
left the public square...
1382
01:24:21,875 --> 01:24:23,125
...for the Tsar's entourage.
1383
01:24:23,792 --> 01:24:27,167
The State was once again dependent
court intrigues.
1384
01:24:27,667 --> 01:24:29,750
There are those whose office
is close to the Tsar...
1385
01:24:29,917 --> 01:24:32,083
...and those in its direct line.
1386
01:24:32,250 --> 01:24:34,542
Those who accompany him abroad...
1387
01:24:34,708 --> 01:24:37,375
...and those who go on vacation to Sochi.
1388
01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:40,875
No detail should be overlooked,
however small it may be.
1389
01:24:41,042 --> 01:24:42,958
From the table plan
at a gala dinner...
1390
01:24:43,125 --> 01:24:45,708
...waiting time
in the President's antechamber...
1391
01:24:45,875 --> 01:24:48,792
...nothing escapes
to the vigilance of the courtier.
1392
01:24:51,083 --> 01:24:54,333
I adapted to the new regime
as I adapt to everything.
1393
01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,625
But others
were much better than me.
1394
01:24:56,792 --> 01:24:58,250
Like Igor Seshin?
1395
01:24:59,458 --> 01:25:01,708
Especially Igor Seshin.
1396
01:25:02,708 --> 01:25:07,125
Like many men of his kind,
he drew his strength from being underestimated.
1397
01:25:07,292 --> 01:25:11,125
When the time of the courtiers came,
he was in his element.
1398
01:25:11,292 --> 01:25:13,792
He was even the chief courtier.
1399
01:25:15,833 --> 01:25:17,500
With Dmitry Sidorov in prison...
1400
01:25:17,625 --> 01:25:19,625
...what to do with your business?
1401
01:25:20,167 --> 01:25:22,458
Sechine made short work of it.
1402
01:25:22,583 --> 01:25:26,292
Judicial receivership, public auction
with only one participant...
1403
01:25:26,458 --> 01:25:29,542
...and she ends up in the bag
of such an opaque financial group...
1404
01:25:29,708 --> 01:25:31,542
...that he doesn't even have
phone number.
1405
01:25:31,708 --> 01:25:33,875
So, did you get what you wanted?
1406
01:25:34,042 --> 01:25:35,417
What the Tsar wanted.
1407
01:25:35,542 --> 01:25:37,542
He wanted Dmitry's box?
1408
01:25:37,708 --> 01:25:40,167
What he wants,
it is to destroy the oligarchs.
1409
01:25:40,333 --> 01:25:42,583
And replace them
by silovikilike you?
1410
01:25:42,750 --> 01:25:45,625
Russia has always needed
of men of the force.
1411
01:25:45,792 --> 01:25:48,708
Soldiers, spies, police.
1412
01:25:48,875 --> 01:25:50,333
That's why I'm here.
1413
01:25:50,500 --> 01:25:52,500
And you take what you want.
Well done.
1414
01:25:52,667 --> 01:25:55,417
If you want to phrase it like that,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
1415
01:25:57,333 --> 01:25:58,542
Be careful.
1416
01:25:59,167 --> 01:26:02,667
He is returning from the G20 in Berlin.
Tired, in a bad mood.
1417
01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:07,708
It's always the same,
I'm treated like I'm...
1418
01:26:07,875 --> 01:26:09,792
...the president of Finland.
1419
01:26:10,375 --> 01:26:13,750
But be careful!
They should be careful.
1420
01:26:14,417 --> 01:26:16,208
The ability to inspire fear...
1421
01:26:16,375 --> 01:26:19,375
...is the only weapon of a poor man
to maintain his dignity.
1422
01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:20,917
I learned it on the street.
1423
01:26:21,500 --> 01:26:24,000
Except that by scaring the enemy...
1424
01:26:24,167 --> 01:26:26,500
...we risk scaring the markets.
1425
01:26:26,667 --> 01:26:27,875
We can't afford it.
1426
01:26:28,042 --> 01:26:30,708
The markets
never ruled Russia.
1427
01:26:30,875 --> 01:26:32,375
Maybe once.
1428
01:26:33,125 --> 01:26:34,875
Maybe once under Yeltsin.
1429
01:26:35,042 --> 01:26:37,625
And for what result?
The law of the jungle.
1430
01:26:39,500 --> 01:26:41,167
We need...
1431
01:26:41,333 --> 01:26:42,583
...to take control.
1432
01:26:42,750 --> 01:26:45,500
Control
of all the wealth of the country.
1433
01:26:45,625 --> 01:26:49,708
Forests, mines,
gas, oil.
1434
01:26:50,833 --> 01:26:53,667
We will put them
serving the interests...
1435
01:26:53,833 --> 01:26:56,542
...and the greatness of the Russian people.
1436
01:26:59,125 --> 01:27:01,708
Like with Dmitry.
-What, Dmitry?
1437
01:27:02,667 --> 01:27:04,833
The oil monopoly...
1438
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:08,208
...went from Sidorov's pocket
to that of Sechine.
1439
01:27:09,500 --> 01:27:13,083
What does this have to do with interests?
and the greatness of the Russian people?
1440
01:27:41,875 --> 01:27:44,750
The weather is nice.
You should take a swim before you leave.
1441
01:27:44,917 --> 01:27:47,042
Thanks, but another time.
1442
01:27:47,208 --> 01:27:48,375
Do you prefer Sochi?
1443
01:27:49,417 --> 01:27:50,750
You know why I'm here.
1444
01:27:52,542 --> 01:27:54,708
I want to hear you say it.
1445
01:27:54,875 --> 01:27:57,750
-According to rumor...
-You wouldn't come for a rumor.
1446
01:28:04,250 --> 01:28:06,000
According to very reliable information...
1447
01:28:06,167 --> 01:28:08,958
...you are a fervent supporter
Ukrainian demonstrators.
1448
01:28:09,125 --> 01:28:11,500
Since you know...
-Putin is mad with rage.
1449
01:28:11,625 --> 01:28:15,292
I was worried. In fact,
you are the bearer of good news.
1450
01:28:15,458 --> 01:28:19,083
Ukraine is an integral part
of Russia for centuries.
1451
01:28:19,250 --> 01:28:21,500
Do you really believe it?
-I am only the messenger.
1452
01:28:22,792 --> 01:28:24,208
Do you know what he said?
1453
01:28:24,792 --> 01:28:26,625
“Go see that bastard.
1454
01:28:26,792 --> 01:28:28,500
“Tell him he’s crossing the line...
1455
01:28:28,667 --> 01:28:30,375
"...and try to reason with him."
1456
01:28:31,625 --> 01:28:34,208
Do you know his problem?
-I know what you think.
1457
01:28:34,375 --> 01:28:39,042
That he is not a politician,
but a KGB man, a spy.
1458
01:28:39,208 --> 01:28:42,958
He's not a spy.
A spy gathers accurate information.
1459
01:28:43,125 --> 01:28:47,167
He's a counter-spy.
His job is to be paranoid...
1460
01:28:47,333 --> 01:28:49,625
...to see conspiracies everywhere...
1461
01:28:49,792 --> 01:28:51,500
...to invent them if necessary.
1462
01:28:51,625 --> 01:28:53,708
You have been in exile for too long.
1463
01:28:53,875 --> 01:28:55,042
You're no longer in the loop.
1464
01:28:55,208 --> 01:28:58,333
As if these poor Ukrainians
there was no reason to revolt...
1465
01:28:58,500 --> 01:29:00,167
...against a pro-Russian government.
1466
01:29:00,333 --> 01:29:03,500
You know who the main supporters are
Ukrainian demonstrators?
1467
01:29:03,625 --> 01:29:06,167
The CIA, the US State Department...
1468
01:29:06,333 --> 01:29:08,083
...the major American foundations...
1469
01:29:08,250 --> 01:29:10,333
...George Soros and you...
1470
01:29:10,500 --> 01:29:12,833
...to the tune of $30 million...
1471
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:14,208
...so they say.
1472
01:29:14,375 --> 01:29:15,542
It's politics.
1473
01:29:16,083 --> 01:29:17,708
And you know what?
1474
01:29:17,875 --> 01:29:19,250
It's democracy.
1475
01:29:19,833 --> 01:29:22,583
You forgot the meaning of this word
for a long time.
1476
01:29:28,125 --> 01:29:30,167
I am not here by choice.
1477
01:29:30,333 --> 01:29:32,542
I live in exile, Vadia.
1478
01:29:33,500 --> 01:29:37,250
If I set foot in Russia,
I will end up in Siberia, like Sidorov.
1479
01:29:38,792 --> 01:29:39,833
Boris...
1480
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:43,167
...despite our differences,
the Tsar has kept his friendship with you.
1481
01:29:43,333 --> 01:29:45,667
You were able to sell your Russian assets.
1482
01:29:45,833 --> 01:29:48,292
1.3 billion, right?
1483
01:29:48,458 --> 01:29:49,542
They were worth much more.
1484
01:29:57,917 --> 01:29:59,708
What if I persist?
1485
01:30:02,208 --> 01:30:03,833
Will you send me killers?
1486
01:30:07,292 --> 01:30:10,208
Look at. I have some, too.
1487
01:30:11,792 --> 01:30:13,667
And they are better than yours...
1488
01:30:14,208 --> 01:30:16,500
...because I pay ten times more for them.
1489
01:30:18,167 --> 01:30:20,750
I didn't come to threaten you.
1490
01:30:21,708 --> 01:30:23,917
I understand your resentment.
1491
01:30:24,708 --> 01:30:26,792
But don't turn against your homeland.
1492
01:30:26,958 --> 01:30:29,125
Putin's Russia is not my homeland.
1493
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:31,542
With all our faults...
1494
01:30:31,708 --> 01:30:33,875
...we had succeeded in building
a free country...
1495
01:30:34,042 --> 01:30:36,333
...where we could say and do
what we wanted.
1496
01:30:36,500 --> 01:30:38,250
A first in Russian history.
1497
01:30:38,417 --> 01:30:41,208
And you fucked it up
in a few years.
1498
01:30:42,625 --> 01:30:45,750
You brought back Russia
to what it has always been:
1499
01:30:47,167 --> 01:30:48,875
...a prison on the scale of a country.
1500
01:30:50,083 --> 01:30:52,208
Like in Soviet times.
1501
01:31:38,708 --> 01:31:40,167
Is this your boat?
1502
01:31:40,708 --> 01:31:42,167
Nothing is ever mine.
1503
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:44,917
Not in the sense you mean.
1504
01:31:45,875 --> 01:31:47,458
At the expense of the oligarchs?
1505
01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:49,583
Are you afraid?
1506
01:31:50,750 --> 01:31:52,583
Let your masters learn it?
1507
01:31:52,750 --> 01:31:54,042
My masters?
1508
01:31:54,208 --> 01:31:55,375
From what I hear...
1509
01:31:55,500 --> 01:31:57,250
...you put yourself at the service of power.
1510
01:31:57,417 --> 01:31:58,750
If you want.
1511
01:31:59,875 --> 01:32:02,958
You don't like it very much
Vladimir Vladimirovich.
1512
01:32:03,125 --> 01:32:04,417
No. You're right.
1513
01:32:04,542 --> 01:32:06,292
I don't like power.
1514
01:32:06,458 --> 01:32:09,500
Even less when you tell yourself
that it is modern art.
1515
01:32:09,667 --> 01:32:12,000
Sorry Vadia, but I find you vile.
1516
01:32:12,167 --> 01:32:13,167
Vile?
1517
01:32:14,250 --> 01:32:16,583
The word is strong.
-You deserve it.
1518
01:32:18,125 --> 01:32:19,375
You didn't answer me.
1519
01:32:19,500 --> 01:32:22,292
We profit from the money
oligarchs?
1520
01:32:23,625 --> 01:32:27,500
This boat belongs
to a Portland entrepreneur.
1521
01:32:27,625 --> 01:32:30,167
He invented software at the age of 24.
1522
01:32:30,333 --> 01:32:31,833
Multimillionaire at 26.
1523
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:35,000
Sold his company to Microsoft at age 28.
1524
01:32:35,167 --> 01:32:37,500
Since then, he has been bored like a rat.
1525
01:32:38,708 --> 01:32:41,083
He would like to have another idea
in his life...
1526
01:32:41,250 --> 01:32:42,667
...but it is slow in coming.
1527
01:32:43,250 --> 01:32:44,500
Are you sleeping with him?
1528
01:32:45,625 --> 01:32:46,917
No way.
1529
01:32:47,833 --> 01:32:49,875
When I have the idea for a jewelry line...
1530
01:32:50,042 --> 01:32:51,625
...he finances it.
1531
01:32:51,792 --> 01:32:53,625
Sometimes he earns a little money.
1532
01:32:53,792 --> 01:32:56,708
For him, cherry stems.
1533
01:32:56,875 --> 01:32:59,000
And he lends you his boat
when do you like it?
1534
01:32:59,167 --> 01:33:00,125
Yes.
1535
01:33:00,583 --> 01:33:04,333
When the world bores me,
that is to say often...
1536
01:33:04,500 --> 01:33:06,875
...I come to take refuge here.
1537
01:33:07,042 --> 01:33:08,542
A golden cage.
1538
01:33:08,708 --> 01:33:10,208
Your comfort zone.
1539
01:33:12,208 --> 01:33:13,875
I liked Dmitry.
1540
01:33:15,708 --> 01:33:18,125
We had a great time for a few months.
1541
01:33:18,292 --> 01:33:21,125
I loved the wind of madness at the time.
1542
01:33:21,292 --> 01:33:22,833
And you dumped him, too.
1543
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:24,375
I wasn't cruel.
1544
01:33:24,500 --> 01:33:25,833
Not this time.
1545
01:33:27,750 --> 01:33:29,958
We moved away from each other.
1546
01:33:30,125 --> 01:33:33,583
Dmitry was interested in oil.
It didn't bring him luck.
1547
01:33:35,667 --> 01:33:38,625
And for a few years,
I preferred Los Angeles...
1548
01:33:38,792 --> 01:33:39,958
...to the rest of the world.
1549
01:33:40,125 --> 01:33:42,458
Has Hollywood met your requirements?
1550
01:33:42,583 --> 01:33:43,917
Hollywood!
1551
01:33:44,500 --> 01:33:46,750
I stayed away from Hollywood.
1552
01:33:46,917 --> 01:33:48,625
It's like Moscow.
1553
01:33:48,792 --> 01:33:50,750
Only power relations count.
1554
01:33:50,917 --> 01:33:53,000
The rest is negligible.
1555
01:33:53,167 --> 01:33:54,417
I loved the desert.
1556
01:33:54,542 --> 01:33:57,500
I loved the ocean waves...
1557
01:33:58,458 --> 01:34:01,417
...driving on the Pacific Coast Highway.
1558
01:34:02,500 --> 01:34:05,750
And when I wanted to go to Japan,
I was going to Japan.
1559
01:34:19,042 --> 01:34:21,083
This is my favorite creek.
1560
01:34:23,125 --> 01:34:24,625
Your plane is waiting for you.
1561
01:34:29,500 --> 01:34:31,167
This evening I will be in Moscow.
1562
01:34:32,458 --> 01:34:34,000
How sad.
1563
01:34:42,667 --> 01:34:45,875
ORANGE REVOLUTION
1564
01:34:47,208 --> 01:34:49,667
MAIDAN, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE
UKRAINE - 2004
1565
01:34:49,833 --> 01:34:52,042
The following fall, as planned...
1566
01:34:52,208 --> 01:34:54,500
...the situation in Ukraine has degenerated.
1567
01:34:54,667 --> 01:34:58,000
The demonstrators refused
to recognize the results of the elections.
1568
01:34:58,500 --> 01:35:01,042
By hundreds of thousands,
they occupied the Maidan...
1569
01:35:01,208 --> 01:35:04,583
...the main square of kyiv,
with their songs, their orange ribbons...
1570
01:35:04,750 --> 01:35:08,083
...their colorful tents
and their pro-Western slogans.
1571
01:35:09,667 --> 01:35:11,083
Don’t disperse.
1572
01:35:11,875 --> 01:35:13,708
Stay on the Maidan!
1573
01:35:13,875 --> 01:35:18,125
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians
join us!
1574
01:35:19,208 --> 01:35:21,417
Suddenly,
international observers...
1575
01:35:21,875 --> 01:35:25,167
...came out of the woods
to contest the election results...
1576
01:35:25,333 --> 01:35:28,458
...won by the pro-Russian candidate,
Yanukovych.
1577
01:35:29,500 --> 01:35:31,792
These elections
were notoriously fake.
1578
01:35:31,958 --> 01:35:33,292
I happened to be there.
1579
01:35:33,458 --> 01:35:35,000
Oh yes ?
1580
01:35:35,167 --> 01:35:37,000
We had just voted in Iraq.
1581
01:35:37,167 --> 01:35:39,542
American soldiers
controlled the polling stations...
1582
01:35:39,708 --> 01:35:43,417
...and everyone thought it was very good.
But not in Ukraine.
1583
01:35:43,542 --> 01:35:45,667
No. In Ukraine, we had to vote again...
1584
01:35:45,833 --> 01:35:48,042
...because the result
was not the right one.
1585
01:35:48,208 --> 01:35:50,875
They called this prank
the “Orange Revolution”.
1586
01:35:51,042 --> 01:35:54,542
The previous year, in Georgia,
it was the “Rose Revolution”.
1587
01:35:54,708 --> 01:35:56,875
Another poetic revolution...
1588
01:35:57,042 --> 01:35:59,167
...pretty girls and noble ideals...
1589
01:35:59,333 --> 01:36:01,792
...but it's still
a vassal of the Americans...
1590
01:36:01,958 --> 01:36:03,792
...who is propelled to power.
1591
01:36:03,958 --> 01:36:08,083
Are you seriously thinking
it takes a CIA plot...
1592
01:36:08,250 --> 01:36:10,333
...so that the Ukrainian people
moves away from Russia...
1593
01:36:10,500 --> 01:36:12,292
...for the benefit of the European Union?
1594
01:36:12,458 --> 01:36:14,292
What people are you talking about?
1595
01:36:14,458 --> 01:36:18,083
Do you believe that everyone
finds your Europe so desirable?
1596
01:36:18,250 --> 01:36:21,583
No need to be a soothsayer,
It’s soon Russia’s turn.
1597
01:36:21,750 --> 01:36:24,708
The next colorful revolution
will be in Moscow.
1598
01:36:24,875 --> 01:36:27,042
The future president
of the Russian Federation...
1599
01:36:27,208 --> 01:36:29,125
...will graduate from Yale.
1600
01:36:29,750 --> 01:36:32,625
The process seemed inevitable.
1601
01:36:32,792 --> 01:36:35,708
The youth couldn't stand us anymore
and the Americans...
1602
01:36:35,875 --> 01:36:37,625
...exploited this revolt.
1603
01:36:38,208 --> 01:36:41,458
To survive,
we had to be stronger than them.
1604
01:36:41,583 --> 01:36:43,958
The old ways
had served their time.
1605
01:36:44,125 --> 01:36:46,542
Stop the agitators,
expel diplomats.
1606
01:36:46,708 --> 01:36:50,167
And if we were in a bad mood,
liquidate opponents.
1607
01:36:50,333 --> 01:36:51,708
I don't believe in any of this.
1608
01:36:53,583 --> 01:36:56,750
So I took the risk
to adopt another tactic.
1609
01:37:10,292 --> 01:37:14,083
The President has been informed of your arrival.
He sends you his greetings.
1610
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:22,125
Alexander Sergeevich...
1611
01:37:22,292 --> 01:37:25,750
...I've been following you for a few years,
with your Night Wolves.
1612
01:37:25,917 --> 01:37:27,625
You impress me.
1613
01:37:27,792 --> 01:37:30,792
You take these losers and...
1614
01:37:31,625 --> 01:37:33,417
...you give them a home.
1615
01:37:33,542 --> 01:37:34,833
A discipline.
1616
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:38,167
Our group brings them
two things they lack:
1617
01:37:38,333 --> 01:37:40,500
brotherhood and strength.
1618
01:37:40,667 --> 01:37:42,792
You're not just a gang of bikers.
1619
01:37:42,958 --> 01:37:44,583
You are true Russian patriots.
1620
01:37:44,750 --> 01:37:45,833
We have values.
1621
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:47,542
Those of Russia.
1622
01:37:47,708 --> 01:37:51,250
Those of our Blessed Mother
the Orthodox Church.
1623
01:37:51,417 --> 01:37:55,333
I understood that well, Alexandre
Sergeyevich, and the President too.
1624
01:37:55,500 --> 01:37:57,750
Wolves are not
only predators...
1625
01:37:57,917 --> 01:38:00,333
...they are also the guardians of the forest.
1626
01:38:01,458 --> 01:38:03,542
Did you see what happened in Ukraine?
1627
01:38:03,708 --> 01:38:05,208
Yes. A revolution.
1628
01:38:05,375 --> 01:38:06,667
A coup d'état.
1629
01:38:08,167 --> 01:38:09,625
Do you know who took power?
1630
01:38:09,792 --> 01:38:11,792
The Americans.
-Well done !
1631
01:38:12,500 --> 01:38:14,500
They created
a youth organization...
1632
01:38:14,667 --> 01:38:17,583
...funded free concerts
on the Maidan.
1633
01:38:17,750 --> 01:38:21,542
I bet even the orange ribbon,
It’s an advertiser’s idea.
1634
01:38:21,708 --> 01:38:24,042
Everything is custom made
for young people...
1635
01:38:24,208 --> 01:38:27,500
...because their energy
is the most valuable commodity.
1636
01:38:27,625 --> 01:38:29,125
Their frustration...
1637
01:38:29,292 --> 01:38:31,375
...their desire to change the world.
1638
01:38:31,500 --> 01:38:33,042
Young people need a cause.
1639
01:38:33,208 --> 01:38:34,500
And an enemy.
1640
01:38:35,417 --> 01:38:37,500
We must give them a cause
and an enemy...
1641
01:38:37,667 --> 01:38:40,375
...before they choose them
themselves.
1642
01:38:40,500 --> 01:38:43,750
Or worse, than the Americans
don't choose them for them.
1643
01:38:43,917 --> 01:38:45,875
Except we can't do that.
1644
01:38:46,042 --> 01:38:47,750
Look around you, Alexander.
1645
01:38:47,917 --> 01:38:50,417
Just bureaucrats in suits and ties.
1646
01:38:50,542 --> 01:38:51,958
We are the adults...
1647
01:38:52,125 --> 01:38:55,000
...we are the power.
We are their real enemy.
1648
01:38:55,667 --> 01:38:57,500
You're younger than me, I think.
1649
01:38:57,625 --> 01:38:59,583
You followed another path.
1650
01:38:59,750 --> 01:39:03,167
You embody freedom and adventure.
Your vital energy is intact.
1651
01:39:03,333 --> 01:39:04,875
Young people feel it.
1652
01:39:05,500 --> 01:39:08,000
The Tsar is with you.
He is your brother.
1653
01:39:08,167 --> 01:39:09,708
He is not a bureaucrat.
1654
01:39:09,875 --> 01:39:12,375
He likes speed,
he does judo, he hunts.
1655
01:39:12,500 --> 01:39:15,333
He is of the race of conquerors.
1656
01:39:15,500 --> 01:39:18,583
You think he would come
at one of our gatherings?
1657
01:39:18,750 --> 01:39:21,792
Of course.
-The Night Wolves would be honored.
1658
01:39:21,958 --> 01:39:24,542
We will organize a gathering
young patriots.
1659
01:39:24,708 --> 01:39:27,500
We will start the fight
against the real enemy:
1660
01:39:27,625 --> 01:39:30,417
...the decadent West
and its false values.
1661
01:39:30,542 --> 01:39:33,125
The Maidan, but in reverse.
1662
01:39:33,292 --> 01:39:34,417
Exactly.
1663
01:39:34,542 --> 01:39:37,417
Russia must become a place...
1664
01:39:37,542 --> 01:39:40,458
...where you can vent your rage
against the world...
1665
01:39:40,583 --> 01:39:43,333
...while remaining
a faithful servant of the Tsar.
1666
01:39:43,500 --> 01:39:47,583
In fact, you want
make revolution impossible.
1667
01:39:47,750 --> 01:39:50,917
Let's say we want
abolish the need for it.
1668
01:39:53,750 --> 01:39:55,167
Without a drop of vodka...
1669
01:39:55,333 --> 01:39:58,542
...Zaldostanov left the Kremlin
intoxicated.
1670
01:39:58,708 --> 01:40:00,708
But he didn't know that after him...
1671
01:40:00,875 --> 01:40:04,917
...I received the intriguing spokesperson
of an Orthodox revival movement.
1672
01:40:07,375 --> 01:40:11,708
Then the leader of a group of young people
particularly stingy communists.
1673
01:40:13,167 --> 01:40:16,250
And the leader of the Spartak supporters.
1674
01:40:16,417 --> 01:40:18,125
I recruited them all:
1675
01:40:18,292 --> 01:40:19,667
...bikers and hooligans...
1676
01:40:19,833 --> 01:40:23,500
...anarchists and skinheads,
communists and religious fanatics...
1677
01:40:23,667 --> 01:40:26,500
...from the extreme right to the extreme left
and beyond.
1678
01:40:26,667 --> 01:40:28,292
After the events in Ukraine...
1679
01:40:28,458 --> 01:40:31,792
...we had to contain
the forces of rage.
1680
01:40:31,958 --> 01:40:34,500
The monopoly of power
was no longer enough...
1681
01:40:34,625 --> 01:40:37,208
...we needed a monopoly
of subversion.
1682
01:40:42,917 --> 01:40:45,292
Who didn't I hire?
1683
01:40:45,750 --> 01:40:49,792
Responsible technocrats
disasters of the 90s...
1684
01:40:50,417 --> 01:40:52,542
...the residual oligarchs...
1685
01:40:52,708 --> 01:40:55,292
...the standard bearers
politically correct...
1686
01:40:55,458 --> 01:40:56,750
...vegans...
1687
01:40:56,917 --> 01:40:58,167
...To tell the truth...
1688
01:40:58,917 --> 01:41:01,708
...I needed these characters
in opposition.
1689
01:41:02,292 --> 01:41:03,750
They were my best actors.
1690
01:41:15,583 --> 01:41:17,583
Virgin Mary, mother of God
1691
01:41:17,750 --> 01:41:19,708
Hunt Putin, chase Putin!
1692
01:41:19,875 --> 01:41:21,667
Black cassock, gold epaulettes
1693
01:41:21,833 --> 01:41:23,500
All parishioners on their knees!
1694
01:41:25,208 --> 01:41:27,167
The ghost of freedom is in heaven
1695
01:41:27,333 --> 01:41:29,083
Gay Pride is sent to Siberia
1696
01:41:29,250 --> 01:41:32,333
When Pussy Riot invested
the Cathedral of Christ the Savior...
1697
01:41:32,500 --> 01:41:35,792
...yelling obscenities
against Putin and Patriarch Kirill...
1698
01:41:35,958 --> 01:41:38,750
...we won five points
in the polls.
1699
01:41:38,917 --> 01:41:41,083
I found them heroic.
1700
01:41:41,250 --> 01:41:43,000
They're doing it wrong.
1701
01:41:43,167 --> 01:41:46,500
They score against their side.
In politics, that is unforgiving.
1702
01:41:46,625 --> 01:41:48,333
It's a double-edged sword.
1703
01:41:48,875 --> 01:41:51,167
It made them famous worldwide.
1704
01:41:54,583 --> 01:41:56,292
One second, I'll come back.
1705
01:41:57,417 --> 01:41:59,208
Vadim!
1706
01:41:59,375 --> 01:42:00,625
Miss Chekhova.
1707
01:42:00,792 --> 01:42:03,542
Very flattered that you honor me
of your presence.
1708
01:42:03,708 --> 01:42:07,083
Don't make fun.
You measure the influence of your salon.
1709
01:42:07,250 --> 01:42:08,292
Darling...
1710
01:42:08,458 --> 01:42:12,000
...worldly chatter
never influenced power.
1711
01:42:12,167 --> 01:42:15,958
Thanks to you,
I can rub shoulders with my opponents.
1712
01:42:16,125 --> 01:42:17,250
Indeed.
1713
01:42:18,333 --> 01:42:20,917
Garry Kasparov is here.
1714
01:42:24,500 --> 01:42:27,500
Chess champions
never get far in politics.
1715
01:42:27,625 --> 01:42:29,000
Vadim Baranov.
1716
01:42:29,625 --> 01:42:32,333
The Kremlin mage.
-In person.
1717
01:42:32,500 --> 01:42:34,833
You made up a name
for your doctrine.
1718
01:42:35,375 --> 01:42:36,958
Sovereign democracy.
1719
01:42:37,125 --> 01:42:40,833
Russia must be a democracy
to benefit from globalization.
1720
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:44,875
I don't see a trace of democracy
in our society, but continue.
1721
01:42:45,042 --> 01:42:47,708
Sovereignty is politically
synonymous with stability.
1722
01:42:47,875 --> 01:42:51,208
The more stable a regime is,
the more competitive it is.
1723
01:42:51,375 --> 01:42:54,583
You know what they say
of your “sovereign democracy”?
1724
01:42:54,750 --> 01:42:56,458
That she is in democracy...
1725
01:42:56,583 --> 01:42:59,500
...what the electric chair is
is in the chair.
1726
01:43:02,625 --> 01:43:05,250
It's just a good word,
but he's funny.
1727
01:43:13,500 --> 01:43:15,667
You left the Côte d'Azur.
1728
01:43:15,833 --> 01:43:18,042
I never stay still for long.
1729
01:43:18,208 --> 01:43:20,500
You know me.
It's not one of my qualities.
1730
01:43:20,625 --> 01:43:22,083
Do you live in Moscow?
1731
01:43:22,875 --> 01:43:25,708
When I'm here,
I live at the Metropol Hotel.
1732
01:43:25,875 --> 01:43:27,208
I rent a suite all year round.
1733
01:43:27,375 --> 01:43:28,500
Is this an invitation?
1734
01:43:33,417 --> 01:43:36,375
You remember my friend,
the dog man?
1735
01:43:36,500 --> 01:43:38,750
Of course. Arseni.
1736
01:43:38,917 --> 01:43:40,583
He is a renowned director.
1737
01:43:40,750 --> 01:43:43,458
He staged Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
1738
01:43:44,083 --> 01:43:48,333
He transformed the theater
in a pagan basilica.
1739
01:43:49,333 --> 01:43:51,333
He calls it a spatial liturgy.
1740
01:43:52,167 --> 01:43:54,208
I was his high priestess in Paris.
1741
01:43:55,542 --> 01:43:56,667
Do you want to come?
1742
01:43:57,500 --> 01:44:00,667
Unless this kind of provocation
you are no longer interested.
1743
01:44:07,667 --> 01:44:10,000
Not sure I remember who you are.
1744
01:44:10,167 --> 01:44:11,958
I get lost in your labyrinths.
1745
01:44:12,125 --> 01:44:13,333
It's a game.
1746
01:44:14,167 --> 01:44:17,167
Politics is the only game
worth playing.
1747
01:44:17,333 --> 01:44:18,542
You have become cynical.
1748
01:44:19,208 --> 01:44:22,000
You have reached the limit
of your intelligence.
1749
01:44:22,167 --> 01:44:23,208
Cynical.
1750
01:44:24,083 --> 01:44:25,250
It's possible.
1751
01:44:26,333 --> 01:44:27,417
But not only that.
1752
01:44:27,542 --> 01:44:28,792
I don't know.
1753
01:44:30,667 --> 01:44:32,667
I'll tell you.
1754
01:44:36,083 --> 01:44:38,458
Right now, I'm not sure.
1755
01:44:39,458 --> 01:44:41,125
Come with me to the opera.
1756
01:44:43,458 --> 01:44:45,417
We'll go to dinner at the Metropol.
1757
01:45:18,250 --> 01:45:20,625
I'm tired, Ksenia.
1758
01:45:20,792 --> 01:45:22,000
What ?
1759
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:26,375
To put your black magic
in the service of power?
1760
01:45:27,292 --> 01:45:30,167
The other day,
I saw my reflection in the mirror...
1761
01:45:30,333 --> 01:45:31,875
...but it wasn't me...
1762
01:45:32,458 --> 01:45:33,958
...he was my father.
1763
01:45:34,125 --> 01:45:36,167
My father's face
printed on mine...
1764
01:45:36,333 --> 01:45:38,417
...despite all my efforts.
1765
01:45:40,417 --> 01:45:41,583
Let's go back.
1766
01:45:42,833 --> 01:45:43,833
I'm cold.
1767
01:45:48,042 --> 01:45:50,667
Last time,
you asked me a question.
1768
01:45:51,250 --> 01:45:52,750
Do you remember that?
1769
01:45:52,917 --> 01:45:54,542
You said you needed time.
1770
01:45:54,708 --> 01:45:56,333
Now I can answer.
1771
01:45:56,500 --> 01:45:59,042
You're not just cynical.
1772
01:45:59,208 --> 01:46:01,125
You chose...
1773
01:46:01,292 --> 01:46:02,792
...to embrace your time.
1774
01:46:02,958 --> 01:46:05,583
You might as well have run away from him.
1775
01:46:05,750 --> 01:46:08,292
Do you like this weather?
-It's ours.
1776
01:46:10,417 --> 01:46:13,250
We are neither better
nor worse than him.
1777
01:46:13,417 --> 01:46:17,000
I'm not blinding myself.
I embody the worst of it.
1778
01:46:17,542 --> 01:46:20,500
And you think you'll have one day
to respond?
1779
01:46:20,625 --> 01:46:22,833
Do you believe in the future?
1780
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:24,417
Not me.
1781
01:46:24,542 --> 01:46:27,167
The future has nothing to do with us.
1782
01:46:28,208 --> 01:46:32,083
"Our wound is raw
under the yoke of this time.
1783
01:46:34,042 --> 01:46:35,292
“See...
1784
01:46:36,042 --> 01:46:38,583
"...behind the forest where we walk...
1785
01:46:38,750 --> 01:46:40,208
"...trembling...
1786
01:46:40,792 --> 01:46:43,292
"...like an illuminated castle...
1787
01:46:43,458 --> 01:46:45,167
"...evening is already waiting."
1788
01:46:45,333 --> 01:46:46,458
Rilke.
1789
01:46:47,333 --> 01:46:48,542
I had forgotten.
1790
01:47:10,125 --> 01:47:12,958
I have never been fascinated
via St. Petersburg.
1791
01:47:13,125 --> 01:47:15,417
It’s a museum town,
petrified in time.
1792
01:47:15,875 --> 01:47:19,000
The Tsar, on the contrary,
is only fully at ease there...
1793
01:47:19,167 --> 01:47:20,917
...with his true lifelong friends...
1794
01:47:21,500 --> 01:47:25,750
...mixture of former FSB agents,
judo black belts
1795
01:47:25,917 --> 01:47:28,708
and authentic gangsters
who had hit the jackpot.
1796
01:47:28,875 --> 01:47:32,625
One and the other
seemed to come out ofRichard III.
1797
01:47:32,792 --> 01:47:35,875
In a few years,
these obscure provincial schemers...
1798
01:47:36,042 --> 01:47:39,375
...had accumulated wealth
worthy of Gulf emirs.
1799
01:47:47,125 --> 01:47:48,250
Remarkable!
1800
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:52,333
An enchantment.
1801
01:47:57,667 --> 01:47:58,833
It's okay, guys.
1802
01:48:15,875 --> 01:48:18,375
The specialty of our new chef:
1803
01:48:18,500 --> 01:48:20,042
...truffle risotto.
1804
01:48:23,167 --> 01:48:26,833
You tell me if I should keep it
or send it back to Italy.
1805
01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:29,250
Enjoy your food.
1806
01:48:30,583 --> 01:48:33,125
Genia, you disappoint us.
1807
01:48:33,292 --> 01:48:37,042
You serve us a truffle risotto.
Where is the rocket?
1808
01:48:38,042 --> 01:48:39,500
Should I remind you...
1809
01:48:39,667 --> 01:48:43,542
...that our ice hockey team
finished sixth in the championship?
1810
01:48:45,917 --> 01:48:48,667
We moved up seven places
in the ranking...
1811
01:48:48,833 --> 01:48:51,000
...and overtook Dynamo Moscow.
1812
01:48:51,167 --> 01:48:52,708
Wait until next year.
1813
01:48:52,875 --> 01:48:53,958
You'll see.
1814
01:48:54,125 --> 01:48:57,333
Well you will have your rocket
next year.
1815
01:48:58,708 --> 01:49:01,458
No proper rocket in Russia.
1816
01:49:01,583 --> 01:49:04,750
But I bought a domain
on the Black Sea to cultivate it.
1817
01:49:04,917 --> 01:49:07,958
She will be magnificent,
but you have to be patient.
1818
01:49:08,125 --> 01:49:09,292
Guard the leader.
1819
01:49:09,792 --> 01:49:11,500
He knows his stuff.
1820
01:49:12,708 --> 01:49:15,500
His ticket to Pisa was already booked.
1821
01:49:15,667 --> 01:49:16,875
On Ryanair!
1822
01:49:21,833 --> 01:49:25,000
Evgueni is very demanding.
1823
01:49:25,167 --> 01:49:29,250
But his talents go beyond cooking
and touch on geopolitics.
1824
01:49:30,542 --> 01:49:33,167
Even to certain questions
which we are discussing.
1825
01:49:33,333 --> 01:49:36,333
It would be helpful if you two talked.
1826
01:49:40,208 --> 01:49:43,125
I didn't know Prigozhin well.
Except as a restaurateur.
1827
01:49:43,292 --> 01:49:45,542
But Putin
had accompanied his rise...
1828
01:49:45,708 --> 01:49:47,750
...with unalterable kindness.
1829
01:49:48,583 --> 01:49:50,250
A 5 minute flight.
1830
01:49:50,417 --> 01:49:51,667
Shortly after taking off...
1831
01:49:51,833 --> 01:49:54,625
...we began the descent
on Kamenny Island...
1832
01:49:54,792 --> 01:49:56,250
...where the Tsar's relatives...
1833
01:49:56,417 --> 01:49:59,833
...inhabited the most beautiful palaces
of the imperial aristocracy.
1834
01:50:03,875 --> 01:50:05,750
I am not an intellectual
like you...
1835
01:50:05,917 --> 01:50:08,125
...but I received
some life lessons.
1836
01:50:08,292 --> 01:50:09,750
And not just in prison.
1837
01:50:10,708 --> 01:50:12,292
I don't doubt it.
1838
01:50:12,750 --> 01:50:14,583
Do you know how I started?
1839
01:50:14,750 --> 01:50:15,833
With my associates...
1840
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:19,667
...we obtained the first license
Saint Petersburg casino.
1841
01:50:19,833 --> 01:50:23,208
Or rather, the Tsar gave it to you
when he was deputy mayor.
1842
01:50:23,375 --> 01:50:24,750
Do you know what a casino is?
1843
01:50:24,917 --> 01:50:28,208
A monument to human irrationality.
1844
01:50:28,375 --> 01:50:30,292
Why throw away your money...
1845
01:50:30,458 --> 01:50:33,000
...when all the probabilities
are against you?
1846
01:50:33,167 --> 01:50:35,833
By focusing on irrationality,
we always win.
1847
01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:37,333
Exact.
1848
01:50:37,500 --> 01:50:39,500
Take an average guy.
1849
01:50:39,667 --> 01:50:41,542
As long as he's comfortable...
1850
01:50:41,708 --> 01:50:45,458
...that he has a secure job,
family vacation at the sea...
1851
01:50:45,583 --> 01:50:47,417
...retirement on the horizon...
1852
01:50:47,542 --> 01:50:49,125
...he keeps quiet.
1853
01:50:49,292 --> 01:50:51,292
But if things go wrong...
1854
01:50:51,792 --> 01:50:54,042
...If he loses his job, his house...
1855
01:50:54,208 --> 01:50:56,792
...if the future becomes uncertain...
1856
01:50:56,958 --> 01:50:59,042
...will he play it safe?
1857
01:50:59,208 --> 01:51:00,167
No way.
1858
01:51:00,333 --> 01:51:04,542
He will choose the risk
rather than a hopeless status quo.
1859
01:51:04,708 --> 01:51:07,500
Chaos becomes
more attractive than order.
1860
01:51:07,625 --> 01:51:11,458
Westerners
see China, India and Russia...
1861
01:51:11,583 --> 01:51:14,458
...take giant steps
while they stagnate.
1862
01:51:14,583 --> 01:51:17,500
They are ready to take the bets
the most unreasonable.
1863
01:51:17,667 --> 01:51:19,458
Our job is to encourage them.
1864
01:51:19,583 --> 01:51:20,875
On the Internet.
1865
01:51:21,667 --> 01:51:24,250
This is the battlefield
of modern warfare.
1866
01:51:24,417 --> 01:51:25,542
I built the tool.
1867
01:51:26,500 --> 01:51:29,042
The Tsar wants you to take over.
1868
01:51:34,708 --> 01:51:36,625
Internet Research Agency.
1869
01:51:36,792 --> 01:51:40,417
I found the name.
Sounds good, right? What do you think?
1870
01:51:41,250 --> 01:51:42,417
Anton!
1871
01:51:42,875 --> 01:51:44,667
Our editorial director.
1872
01:51:45,500 --> 01:51:47,750
He has a doctorate
in international relations...
1873
01:51:47,917 --> 01:51:50,500
...and all speak
the languages imaginable.
1874
01:51:50,625 --> 01:51:52,250
Nice to meet you, Anton.
1875
01:51:52,417 --> 01:51:54,500
Explain what you are doing here.
1876
01:51:54,667 --> 01:51:56,250
Of influence. Information.
1877
01:51:56,417 --> 01:51:59,625
The Russian view of the West.
For Westerners.
1878
01:51:59,792 --> 01:52:02,667
They think their media
and their elites lie about everything.
1879
01:52:02,833 --> 01:52:05,000
They are customers
alternative versions.
1880
01:52:05,167 --> 01:52:08,417
Our message:
We tell the truth.
1881
01:52:08,542 --> 01:52:10,750
Russia tells the truth.
1882
01:52:10,917 --> 01:52:12,125
Like Russia Today.
1883
01:52:12,292 --> 01:52:14,792
We are on social networks,
not on TV.
1884
01:52:15,667 --> 01:52:16,833
A coffee?
1885
01:52:17,458 --> 01:52:20,458
We have a relaxation area
with sofas, green plants...
1886
01:52:20,583 --> 01:52:22,208
And ping-pong tables.
1887
01:52:22,375 --> 01:52:24,500
Go ahead, we'll join you.
1888
01:52:28,167 --> 01:52:31,125
Evgueni, you will have to explain to me...
1889
01:52:31,292 --> 01:52:33,250
...because I have difficulty understanding.
1890
01:52:33,417 --> 01:52:34,458
Is something wrong?
1891
01:52:35,167 --> 01:52:36,417
Can we talk to each other?
1892
01:52:36,542 --> 01:52:37,500
Of course.
1893
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:46,500
I thought we wanted to act
on mentalities in Europe and the US...
1894
01:52:46,667 --> 01:52:48,458
...infiltrate people's minds.
1895
01:52:48,583 --> 01:52:50,250
And are you bringing me Anton?
1896
01:52:50,417 --> 01:52:53,625
It's the best.
-That's the problem.
1897
01:52:53,792 --> 01:52:57,625
Westerners
no longer interested in politics.
1898
01:52:57,792 --> 01:53:01,417
To fuck them, we have to talk
everything except politics.
1899
01:53:01,542 --> 01:53:03,208
We don't need Anton.
1900
01:53:03,375 --> 01:53:05,500
From whom, then?
-Idiots.
1901
01:53:05,625 --> 01:53:07,583
Very addictive.
1902
01:53:08,375 --> 01:53:10,125
Cyber-addicted otakus...
1903
01:53:10,292 --> 01:53:13,167
...sluts with beauty tips,
conspiracy youtubers...
1904
01:53:13,333 --> 01:53:15,292
...anything that generates clicks.
1905
01:53:15,458 --> 01:53:18,750
At some point,
we will have to get our message across.
1906
01:53:19,875 --> 01:53:21,792
Who do you take us for?
1907
01:53:21,958 --> 01:53:23,583
The Comintern?
1908
01:53:23,750 --> 01:53:26,958
I regret to inform you
that the USSR no longer exists.
1909
01:53:27,125 --> 01:53:31,375
There is no longer any Party line,
no more message to convey.
1910
01:53:31,500 --> 01:53:32,875
Only wire.
1911
01:53:33,458 --> 01:53:36,208
Come on, let's go.
We're wasting our time here.
1912
01:53:39,500 --> 01:53:41,625
What wire are you talking about?
1913
01:53:41,792 --> 01:53:43,792
How do you break a wire?
1914
01:53:43,958 --> 01:53:46,542
You twist it one way,
then in the other.
1915
01:53:46,708 --> 01:53:48,583
That's what we're going to do, Evgeni.
1916
01:53:48,750 --> 01:53:50,500
Explain to me how.
1917
01:53:51,375 --> 01:53:54,542
Build your network
and see who takes the bait.
1918
01:53:54,708 --> 01:53:58,500
They will all have an obsession.
The clicks will tell us which one.
1919
01:53:58,667 --> 01:54:02,667
One will be anti-tax,
the other pro-life, or pro-choice.
1920
01:54:02,833 --> 01:54:06,292
Never mind.
We don't want to convert anyone.
1921
01:54:06,458 --> 01:54:09,458
It is enough that everyone has
something that drives him crazy.
1922
01:54:09,583 --> 01:54:12,125
And someone who makes him angry.
1923
01:54:12,292 --> 01:54:13,458
It's foolproof.
1924
01:54:13,583 --> 01:54:16,542
No preference, no arguments.
1925
01:54:16,708 --> 01:54:17,958
The wire.
1926
01:54:18,125 --> 01:54:21,833
We twist it in one direction,
then into the other until it breaks.
1927
01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:23,750
Got it. The wire.
1928
01:54:24,625 --> 01:54:27,208
But everything is traceable on the Internet.
1929
01:54:27,375 --> 01:54:29,708
Sooner or later, we'll get caught.
1930
01:54:30,417 --> 01:54:33,042
Of course. And that's what we're looking for.
1931
01:54:33,208 --> 01:54:35,792
Supporting our allies is predictable.
But how will they react
1932
01:54:35,958 --> 01:54:39,458
when they see
that we also support our adversaries?
1933
01:54:39,583 --> 01:54:41,375
They'll think we're stupid.
1934
01:54:41,500 --> 01:54:44,542
They will go crazy!
They will be lost.
1935
01:54:44,708 --> 01:54:47,083
They will just know
that we got into their heads
1936
01:54:47,250 --> 01:54:50,083
to tweak their neural circuits.
1937
01:54:50,875 --> 01:54:53,292
The Americans created the algorithm.
1938
01:54:53,458 --> 01:54:54,542
We're going to use it too.
1939
01:54:54,708 --> 01:54:56,292
And better than them.
1940
01:54:56,458 --> 01:55:00,042
Those who will accuse us of plotting
against democracy will be our allies.
1941
01:55:00,208 --> 01:55:02,708
They will build the myth
of our omnipotence.
1942
01:55:02,875 --> 01:55:06,458
It will be the biggest secret
because shared by all:
1943
01:55:06,583 --> 01:55:10,042
...the Russians control the modern world.
1944
01:55:10,208 --> 01:55:11,708
They are the masters.
1945
01:55:13,208 --> 01:55:16,125
See, that’s what’s interesting.
in politics.
1946
01:55:16,292 --> 01:55:18,542
Everything that gives the illusion
strength...
1947
01:55:18,708 --> 01:55:21,417
...truly increases this strength.
1948
01:55:27,250 --> 01:55:29,292
LONDON
1949
01:55:38,458 --> 01:55:40,542
Borya.
-Vadia.
1950
01:55:43,583 --> 01:55:45,625
Are you carrying a message?
1951
01:55:45,792 --> 01:55:48,083
Sorry, Borya, no messages.
1952
01:55:48,250 --> 01:55:49,875
So, in what honor...
1953
01:55:50,042 --> 01:55:51,208
...For pleasure.
1954
01:55:53,625 --> 01:55:56,125
You come to meet
the British Olympic Association?
1955
01:55:57,792 --> 01:55:59,708
Always well informed.
1956
01:55:59,875 --> 01:56:03,000
The Tsar is no longer interested
than at the Sochi Olympic Games.
1957
01:56:03,167 --> 01:56:07,625
The President tasked me with supervising
the opening ceremony.
1958
01:56:07,792 --> 01:56:11,042
You planned the medal
of the best political assassination?
1959
01:56:11,208 --> 01:56:12,750
I don't know, Boris.
1960
01:56:12,917 --> 01:56:15,542
The main thing is that Russia
comes first.
1961
01:56:17,250 --> 01:56:18,750
I'm not worried.
1962
01:56:19,750 --> 01:56:21,417
You will find...
1963
01:56:21,542 --> 01:56:23,458
...the worst solution.
1964
01:56:24,083 --> 01:56:25,500
As always.
1965
01:56:37,333 --> 01:56:40,875
You may not have
message for me, but...
1966
01:56:42,792 --> 01:56:44,500
...I have one for him.
1967
01:56:47,917 --> 01:56:49,833
It's okay, there's no polonium.
1968
01:56:50,375 --> 01:56:53,625
It's a letter for the Tsar.
It comes from the heart.
1969
01:56:53,792 --> 01:56:55,458
Read it if you want.
1970
01:57:01,125 --> 01:57:03,583
"I beg you to give me
your Christian forgiveness..."
1971
01:57:03,750 --> 01:57:05,208
Are you serious?
1972
01:57:05,375 --> 01:57:08,833
I appeal to his faith
and I offer him my services.
1973
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,875
"Based on experience
that I have accumulated..."
1974
01:57:16,667 --> 01:57:19,250
Listen, honestly, no!
1975
01:57:21,250 --> 01:57:22,500
Times have changed.
1976
01:57:22,667 --> 01:57:25,333
You're no longer in the race.
Sorry for being cruel.
1977
01:57:25,500 --> 01:57:27,208
I appeal to his humanity.
1978
01:57:28,042 --> 01:57:29,667
Who are you kidding?
1979
01:57:29,833 --> 01:57:32,042
"The harshness of exile..."
1980
01:57:32,208 --> 01:57:33,583
"The passage of time..."
1981
01:57:33,750 --> 01:57:35,250
“The coming death…”
1982
01:57:35,417 --> 01:57:36,500
I understand.
1983
01:57:37,250 --> 01:57:39,083
But that won't make him blink.
1984
01:57:39,250 --> 01:57:43,042
The comfort of ending my days
in our motherland.
1985
01:57:43,208 --> 01:57:45,292
Can't he hear it?
1986
01:57:51,917 --> 01:57:53,458
I have to go.
1987
01:58:01,333 --> 01:58:03,667
Give him the letter anyway.
1988
01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:06,625
I think it can work.
1989
01:58:07,458 --> 01:58:09,042
Sincerely.
1990
01:58:11,708 --> 01:58:14,250
I would have liked to tell him
that it would work.
1991
01:58:14,417 --> 01:58:15,708
That the Tsar would be moved...
1992
01:58:15,875 --> 01:58:19,625
...that we would find ourselves side by side
for the Olympics, in the grandstand.
1993
01:58:20,625 --> 01:58:22,125
I liked him.
1994
01:58:22,292 --> 01:58:26,000
Without being a saint,
he had retained the joy of a child.
1995
01:58:26,167 --> 01:58:28,250
The Tsar having banished his fellow men...
1996
01:58:28,417 --> 01:58:32,208
...only the men remained in Moscow
strength and their bleak determination.
1997
01:58:32,875 --> 01:58:36,875
The worst part is that I contributed to it.
1998
01:58:39,125 --> 01:58:41,833
So?
Did it go well?
1999
01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:43,750
How could that have been?
2000
01:58:43,917 --> 01:58:46,833
He helped you.
You could reach out to him.
2001
01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:49,833
Boris sees approaching
the Sochi Olympic Games.
2002
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:52,375
There is still money to be made...
2003
01:58:52,500 --> 01:58:55,458
...even if everyone
has already lined his pockets.
2004
01:58:55,583 --> 01:58:57,375
You included.
2005
01:58:59,083 --> 01:59:02,792
Do you like it? The main costumes
of the opening ceremony.
2006
01:59:02,958 --> 01:59:04,167
More importantly...
2007
01:59:04,333 --> 01:59:06,792
...did you like it
to the British Olympic Association?
2008
01:59:06,958 --> 01:59:08,375
We don't care.
2009
01:59:08,500 --> 01:59:12,375
They have already swallowed the Winter Olympics
in a seaside resort.
2010
01:59:12,500 --> 01:59:15,500
Devoid
of the slightest sports infrastructure.
2011
01:59:16,542 --> 01:59:18,292
Have you seen the others?
2012
01:59:19,542 --> 01:59:21,500
No. Not really.
2013
01:59:28,417 --> 01:59:32,500
Look at. Each island represents
a period of our history.
2014
01:59:32,667 --> 01:59:35,250
They are on the move,
they float in the air.
2015
01:59:35,417 --> 01:59:39,000
All our literary history
will scroll.
2016
01:59:39,167 --> 01:59:41,833
The domes of Saint-Basile
will fly away.
2017
01:59:42,000 --> 01:59:44,333
And then
Swan Lake.
2018
01:59:47,125 --> 01:59:48,417
Do you like it?
2019
01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:54,625
Vadia, this Russia does not exist.
2020
01:59:57,208 --> 01:59:58,792
At least not anymore.
2021
01:59:59,792 --> 02:00:02,833
But they are the ones who inspired us,
formerly.
2022
02:00:03,500 --> 02:00:05,208
It's too late.
2023
02:00:07,125 --> 02:00:08,458
You know it.
2024
02:00:13,042 --> 02:00:14,875
You will not save your soul.
2025
02:00:17,208 --> 02:00:20,542
This ceremony
is only the mask of dictatorship.
2026
02:00:20,708 --> 02:00:23,667
The rest
These are empty excuses.
2027
02:00:26,458 --> 02:00:28,125
I see clearly in you.
2028
02:00:31,708 --> 02:00:34,125
That doesn't mean
that I don't love you.
2029
02:00:35,417 --> 02:00:37,875
But I won't be your accomplice.
2030
02:00:44,583 --> 02:00:46,875
Can I get you something?
-Champagne.
2031
02:00:47,042 --> 02:00:48,500
Madam ?
-The same.
2032
02:00:56,667 --> 02:00:58,083
The Tsar...
2033
02:00:59,667 --> 02:01:01,625
...will free our friend Dmitry.
2034
02:01:05,083 --> 02:01:06,375
Are you sure?
2035
02:01:06,917 --> 02:01:08,625
You've often told me that.
2036
02:01:08,792 --> 02:01:10,917
He will
two weeks before the Games.
2037
02:01:12,292 --> 02:01:15,125
Western media
will have a blast.
2038
02:01:15,292 --> 02:01:16,625
That's the idea.
2039
02:01:29,875 --> 02:01:32,708
You don't ask me
what did I do with my day?
2040
02:01:32,875 --> 02:01:34,542
Not shopping.
2041
02:01:35,667 --> 02:01:37,708
It's not your type.
2042
02:01:37,875 --> 02:01:40,375
Something sharper.
2043
02:01:40,500 --> 02:01:42,375
Forget the irony.
2044
02:01:42,500 --> 02:01:44,375
I was trying to guess.
2045
02:01:44,500 --> 02:01:46,250
I was at the gynecologist.
2046
02:01:51,292 --> 02:01:52,292
I am pregnant.
2047
02:02:04,125 --> 02:02:07,292
You seem...
-I'm a little in shock, yes.
2048
02:02:11,792 --> 02:02:13,667
In fact, I'm upset.
2049
02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:17,542
I have no words.
2050
02:02:26,292 --> 02:02:29,958
WAR IN CRIMEA
2051
02:02:30,125 --> 02:02:31,417
According to initial findings...
2052
02:02:31,542 --> 02:02:34,458
...hanging would be the cause
of the death of Boris Berezovsky.
2053
02:02:34,583 --> 02:02:38,125
Berezovsky was found dead
this night at his residence in Ascot.
2054
02:02:38,292 --> 02:02:41,000
The forensic doctor did not find
no trace of struggle.
2055
02:02:41,167 --> 02:02:43,333
Access has been prohibited
time to check...
2056
02:02:43,500 --> 02:02:46,750
...the absence of chemical poison,
biological or nuclear.
2057
02:02:52,167 --> 02:02:54,458
It had to end like this.
2058
02:02:54,583 --> 02:02:56,167
He suffered from exile.
2059
02:02:58,167 --> 02:02:59,417
I'm going to miss him.
2060
02:02:59,917 --> 02:03:02,292
He gave a detestable image
of the opposition.
2061
02:03:02,458 --> 02:03:04,083
It was precious to us.
2062
02:03:05,250 --> 02:03:08,083
Here is the program
of the opening ceremony.
2063
02:03:09,250 --> 02:03:11,375
Updated according to your instructions.
2064
02:03:18,375 --> 02:03:20,375
What is “Daft Punk”?
2065
02:03:20,500 --> 02:03:22,500
Electronic music.
2066
02:03:22,625 --> 02:03:24,125
Number one in the world.
2067
02:03:25,292 --> 02:03:28,208
Two French people who never take off
their robot helmets.
2068
02:03:28,375 --> 02:03:30,750
This table was not
in the previous version.
2069
02:03:30,917 --> 02:03:34,417
They have won five Grammy Awards.
You have to get up to speed.
2070
02:03:34,542 --> 02:03:36,625
Police choruses
will resume their tube.
2071
02:03:37,708 --> 02:03:40,083
He turns the ceremony into a farce.
2072
02:03:43,458 --> 02:03:45,625
Explain your reasons to Igor.
2073
02:03:46,333 --> 02:03:50,000
This is what people
want to dance. As simple as that.
2074
02:03:50,167 --> 02:03:51,417
It will be ridiculous.
2075
02:03:51,542 --> 02:03:52,708
It will be kitsch.
2076
02:03:52,875 --> 02:03:55,500
The whole world,
three billion spectators...
2077
02:03:55,667 --> 02:03:58,250
...wait for the greatest show
never seen.
2078
02:03:58,417 --> 02:04:01,167
This cannot be
as the apotheosis of kitsch.
2079
02:04:02,250 --> 02:04:05,583
Kitsch is the only possible language
2080
02:04:05,750 --> 02:04:08,292
if we want to communicate
with the masses.
2081
02:04:08,458 --> 02:04:11,625
We want to show them our Russia.
-No one wants to see your Russia.
2082
02:04:11,792 --> 02:04:15,375
Besides, you have nothing to show,
and everything to hide.
2083
02:04:15,917 --> 02:04:18,875
We want to give the image
of an open Russia...
2084
02:04:19,042 --> 02:04:22,333
...sure of herself,
but also able to smile.
2085
02:04:22,500 --> 02:04:25,083
The world today
calls for this self-deprecation...
2086
02:04:25,250 --> 02:04:27,833
...not your balalaikas, Igor.
2087
02:04:28,000 --> 02:04:31,208
You understand what I'm saying
Or is it gibberish?
2088
02:04:32,167 --> 02:04:33,167
What do you want...
2089
02:04:35,458 --> 02:04:36,708
...Vadia...
2090
02:04:37,250 --> 02:04:39,000
...is an acrobat.
2091
02:04:39,167 --> 02:04:42,500
Artist for politicians,
policy for artists.
2092
02:04:42,667 --> 02:04:44,417
Be careful, Vadia.
2093
02:04:44,542 --> 02:04:47,250
Sooner or later,
you risk missing the trapeze...
2094
02:04:47,417 --> 02:04:49,458
...and crash to the ground.
2095
02:04:53,083 --> 02:04:54,417
I declare...
2096
02:04:54,542 --> 02:04:58,875
...the 22nd Olympic Games
Sochi winter...
2097
02:04:59,042 --> 02:05:00,250
...open.
2098
02:05:02,583 --> 02:05:04,792
I probably should have left
that night.
2099
02:05:04,958 --> 02:05:08,250
Close the book on this page,
a good ending for me.
2100
02:05:22,292 --> 02:05:25,458
Ukrainian separatists
took advantage of the Olympic truce...
2101
02:05:25,583 --> 02:05:28,042
...to occupy Maidan Square again.
2102
02:05:29,625 --> 02:05:31,667
Two days before the end of the Games...
2103
02:05:31,833 --> 02:05:34,375
...they overturned
pro-Russian president Yanukovych...
2104
02:05:34,500 --> 02:05:36,125
...who fled the same day.
2105
02:05:37,208 --> 02:05:39,167
The resulting chaos
gave to the Tsar...
2106
02:05:39,333 --> 02:05:41,750
...a golden pretext
to invade Ukraine.
2107
02:05:45,292 --> 02:05:48,542
Russian snipers killed
more than a hundred demonstrators.
2108
02:05:48,708 --> 02:05:50,417
They say you are responsible.
2109
02:05:52,333 --> 02:05:53,625
Who says it?
2110
02:05:53,792 --> 02:05:55,083
Ukrainians.
2111
02:05:55,875 --> 02:05:57,500
From your own emails.
2112
02:05:58,833 --> 02:06:01,458
You would have Ukrainian blood
on the hands.
2113
02:06:10,250 --> 02:06:12,625
The day before the closing ceremony...
2114
02:06:12,792 --> 02:06:14,750
...following his great design...
2115
02:06:15,292 --> 02:06:17,792
...the Tsar decided to annex Crimea.
2116
02:06:19,875 --> 02:06:22,458
Crimea was part of Ukraine.
2117
02:06:23,625 --> 02:06:27,625
We weren't going to send troops
invade a sovereign country.
2118
02:06:29,208 --> 02:06:33,625
You sent Russian soldiers
not wearing a national badge.
2119
02:06:33,792 --> 02:06:37,500
"The Little Green Men",
said your fellow journalists.
2120
02:06:37,667 --> 02:06:40,292
When Zaldostanov
and his Night Wolves...
2121
02:06:40,458 --> 02:06:43,125
...landed in Crimea,
you were pulling the strings.
2122
02:06:43,292 --> 02:06:46,667
It's true.
I gave them a supporting role.
2123
02:06:47,500 --> 02:06:49,583
It's important, the supporting roles.
2124
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,000
As long as they don't get upset.
2125
02:07:17,333 --> 02:07:19,250
Have you seen our flags?
2126
02:07:19,708 --> 02:07:23,000
We no longer use
those of the Russian Federation.
2127
02:07:23,167 --> 02:07:25,208
We have something else in mind.
2128
02:07:25,375 --> 02:07:29,458
We are no longer a federation.
We are conquerors.
2129
02:07:31,292 --> 02:07:34,833
We took back Crimea
to the Ukrainians.
2130
02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:37,333
Soon all of Donbass will be Russian.
2131
02:07:37,500 --> 02:07:39,583
It's time to take stock.
2132
02:07:39,750 --> 02:07:41,500
The point. Really.
2133
02:07:41,667 --> 02:07:43,583
I am a man of action.
2134
02:07:43,750 --> 02:07:46,167
We are here to support the Russian army.
2135
02:07:46,333 --> 02:07:48,417
We will bring you victory.
2136
02:07:48,542 --> 02:07:50,458
Who talks about victory?
2137
02:07:51,792 --> 02:07:54,833
Our goal in Ukraine
is not conquest.
2138
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:56,417
It's chaos.
2139
02:07:57,542 --> 02:07:59,417
The Ukrainians told each other...
2140
02:07:59,542 --> 02:08:02,417
...that their orange revolution
would bring them into Europe.
2141
02:08:02,542 --> 02:08:05,500
She will take them back to the Middle Ages.
2142
02:08:05,667 --> 02:08:09,083
The promises of Westerners,
it always ends the same.
2143
02:08:09,250 --> 02:08:10,958
They let you go at the first obstacle...
2144
02:08:11,125 --> 02:08:13,292
...and you stay alone
in your country in ruins.
2145
02:08:13,458 --> 02:08:15,125
That's the moral of the story.
2146
02:08:16,042 --> 02:08:19,000
This war cannot be fought
in reality...
2147
02:08:19,167 --> 02:08:21,000
...but in the minds of the spectators...
2148
02:08:21,167 --> 02:08:22,625
...on the television news.
2149
02:08:22,792 --> 02:08:25,792
In Moscow, in kyiv, in Berlin.
2150
02:08:25,958 --> 02:08:30,000
You are actors in a drama
which surpasses you...
2151
02:08:30,167 --> 02:08:32,750
...and which resonates
far beyond these borders.
2152
02:08:38,167 --> 02:08:42,083
Or you agree to be a pawn
in my game, with all the advantages...
2153
02:08:42,250 --> 02:08:46,250
...or not. But know that I can
unplug you whenever I want.
2154
02:08:46,417 --> 02:08:49,833
And there things will become
more complicated for you...
2155
02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:53,250
...your Wolves and your little affairs.
2156
02:08:54,042 --> 02:08:55,208
Who thrive...
2157
02:08:55,375 --> 02:08:56,750
...from what I hear.
2158
02:09:15,000 --> 02:09:17,375
Can I bother you for a moment,
Vadim Alexeyevich?
2159
02:09:17,500 --> 02:09:18,708
Please.
2160
02:09:20,500 --> 02:09:23,292
How did it happen
your trip to Lugansk? GOOD ?
2161
02:09:23,458 --> 02:09:26,500
You must have read
reports from your services.
2162
02:09:27,917 --> 02:09:30,292
We have news from the Americans.
2163
02:09:30,792 --> 02:09:31,792
What news?
2164
02:09:31,958 --> 02:09:33,875
They would have established a blacklist...
2165
02:09:34,042 --> 02:09:35,792
...undesirable personalities.
2166
02:09:36,458 --> 02:09:38,042
Your name is there.
2167
02:09:38,917 --> 02:09:41,625
You're going to have to forget New York
for a moment.
2168
02:09:42,917 --> 02:09:46,208
Sanctions for annexation
of Crimea. When do they start?
2169
02:09:46,375 --> 02:09:47,458
Monday.
2170
02:09:48,708 --> 02:09:51,625
That's good
that I don't like New York anymore.
2171
02:09:52,583 --> 02:09:54,875
I also heard something else.
2172
02:09:57,167 --> 02:09:58,208
Go ahead.
2173
02:09:58,833 --> 02:10:00,708
It will be official tomorrow.
2174
02:10:00,875 --> 02:10:04,625
Your name is also
on the list of Europeans.
2175
02:10:05,750 --> 02:10:07,083
Paris...
2176
02:10:07,250 --> 02:10:08,542
...London...
2177
02:10:08,708 --> 02:10:10,000
...finished.
2178
02:10:10,792 --> 02:10:12,792
You'll miss Naples, I'm told.
2179
02:10:16,583 --> 02:10:18,792
I won't bother you anymore,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
2180
02:10:19,500 --> 02:10:21,792
You have arrangements to make.
2181
02:10:21,958 --> 02:10:23,000
And quickly.
2182
02:11:06,208 --> 02:11:08,000
Lionia, do you know?
2183
02:11:08,500 --> 02:11:10,750
Yes, tonight or tomorrow at the latest.
2184
02:11:11,625 --> 02:11:14,208
No interview, just a press release.
2185
02:11:14,375 --> 02:11:15,542
Do you notice?
2186
02:11:18,000 --> 02:11:20,083
"I consider these sanctions
like an Oscar...
2187
02:11:20,250 --> 02:11:22,875
"...crapping the whole
of my political career.
2188
02:11:23,667 --> 02:11:27,083
"It means I served my country
honorably." Point.
2189
02:11:28,250 --> 02:11:29,500
No, that's all.
2190
02:11:29,667 --> 02:11:30,708
THANKS.
2191
02:12:05,625 --> 02:12:06,667
Ksenia?
2192
02:12:07,917 --> 02:12:10,917
Pack your bags.
I'll arrive in fifteen minutes.
2193
02:12:13,125 --> 02:12:15,708
A few hours later,
we landed in Stockholm...
2194
02:12:15,875 --> 02:12:18,333
...for our last European weekend.
2195
02:13:01,083 --> 02:13:03,208
I guess it had to happen.
2196
02:13:04,500 --> 02:13:06,500
It was up to you to avoid it.
2197
02:13:06,625 --> 02:13:07,792
By resigning?
2198
02:13:07,958 --> 02:13:09,042
For example.
2199
02:13:11,625 --> 02:13:15,500
Power is an addiction.
It is difficult to wean yourself from it.
2200
02:13:15,667 --> 02:13:17,875
Before, when you said those platitudes...
2201
02:13:18,042 --> 02:13:19,750
...I heard the irony.
2202
02:13:20,500 --> 02:13:21,542
Not this time.
2203
02:13:21,708 --> 02:13:22,917
There wasn't any.
2204
02:13:24,042 --> 02:13:26,500
The war in Ukraine,
it's like the rest.
2205
02:13:26,625 --> 02:13:29,208
I didn't want it.
I even opposed it.
2206
02:13:29,375 --> 02:13:30,500
You're the one who says it.
2207
02:13:30,625 --> 02:13:31,708
Indeed.
2208
02:13:32,375 --> 02:13:33,750
I say it.
2209
02:13:34,458 --> 02:13:37,875
And I also say
that once the Tsar decided...
2210
02:13:38,500 --> 02:13:41,250
...I did my best
to see her succeed.
2211
02:13:41,417 --> 02:13:42,750
Out of habit.
2212
02:13:44,125 --> 02:13:45,375
Out of pride.
2213
02:13:46,500 --> 02:13:47,958
And because I could.
2214
02:13:48,125 --> 02:13:49,333
Without any scruples.
2215
02:13:49,500 --> 02:13:50,500
It's true.
2216
02:13:50,667 --> 02:13:52,500
It's been like this from the beginning.
2217
02:13:53,208 --> 02:13:56,750
With the bombs of Moscow
and the war in Chechnya.
2218
02:13:57,500 --> 02:14:00,000
With the arrest of Dmitry
and the fall of Berezovsky.
2219
02:14:00,167 --> 02:14:03,458
And now,
the killings on the Maidan.
2220
02:14:04,333 --> 02:14:06,792
I didn't want any of this...
2221
02:14:06,958 --> 02:14:10,083
...but every time,
I devoted my tireless work to it.
2222
02:14:10,250 --> 02:14:11,833
And now you're tired.
2223
02:14:12,792 --> 02:14:14,917
Russia devoured my grandfather.
2224
02:14:16,208 --> 02:14:19,042
You knew my father,
she devoured it too.
2225
02:14:19,875 --> 02:14:22,500
I don't know if I will be saved.
2226
02:14:22,667 --> 02:14:23,875
Probably not.
2227
02:14:25,542 --> 02:14:27,542
Either way, it's too late.
2228
02:14:30,917 --> 02:14:32,875
But our child will be saved.
2229
02:14:56,667 --> 02:14:57,750
Ksenia?
2230
02:15:01,375 --> 02:15:02,458
Ksenia!
2231
02:15:45,833 --> 02:15:49,208
I have never been to Novo-Ogariovo
with cheerfulness of heart.
2232
02:15:49,375 --> 02:15:51,583
The austere and sporty atmosphere
depressed me.
2233
02:15:51,750 --> 02:15:55,833
Once back from Stockholm,
I hardly set foot there anymore.
2234
02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:58,083
The confidence of a prince
is not a privilege...
2235
02:15:58,250 --> 02:15:59,875
...but a conviction.
2236
02:16:00,042 --> 02:16:03,500
I had played my part,
I was no longer useful.
2237
02:16:04,125 --> 02:16:07,125
At one point,
he lost the habit of seeing me.
2238
02:16:07,292 --> 02:16:08,417
That's all.
2239
02:16:09,625 --> 02:16:11,750
He gets up early,
breakfast of fresh eggs...
2240
02:16:11,917 --> 02:16:14,500
...from Patriarch Kirill's farm.
2241
02:16:14,667 --> 02:16:17,542
It's there
that he reads the confidential notes...
2242
02:16:17,708 --> 02:16:19,542
...and transmits its provisions.
2243
02:16:20,167 --> 02:16:23,000
Then
he swims a kilometer.
2244
02:16:23,167 --> 02:16:25,417
Its first visitors
waiting near the pool.
2245
02:16:25,542 --> 02:16:28,250
Ministers, advisors,
business leaders.
2246
02:16:29,083 --> 02:16:33,000
The presidential procession does not set off
until early afternoon.
2247
02:16:33,625 --> 02:16:36,083
The streets were closed
half an hour earlier.
2248
02:16:36,250 --> 02:16:40,541
From Novo-Ogariovo to the Kremlin,
Putin crosses his frozen capital.
2249
02:16:41,291 --> 02:16:43,375
Then his real day begins.
2250
02:16:44,541 --> 02:16:47,000
Sometimes ending at dawn.
2251
02:16:50,083 --> 02:16:51,875
Only one man does not sleep...
2252
02:16:53,250 --> 02:16:57,041
...and everyone who matters in Moscow
share his vigil.
2253
02:16:57,625 --> 02:16:59,541
Like in Stalin's time.
2254
02:17:01,583 --> 02:17:02,833
Who is this?
2255
02:17:06,208 --> 02:17:07,583
Hello my dear.
2256
02:17:08,625 --> 02:17:10,291
Can I play with Matchka?
2257
02:17:10,458 --> 02:17:12,500
Of course. You don't bother us.
2258
02:17:13,875 --> 02:17:15,416
Where is she?
2259
02:17:15,541 --> 02:17:17,125
Where did Matchka go?
2260
02:17:17,291 --> 02:17:18,625
Under the table?
-No.
2261
02:17:18,791 --> 02:17:20,333
Not under the table?
-No.
2262
02:17:20,500 --> 02:17:21,791
Under the cushion?
-No.
2263
02:17:21,958 --> 02:17:23,291
Are you sure?
-No.
2264
02:17:23,458 --> 02:17:25,041
Is she under the piano?
-No.
2265
02:17:26,708 --> 02:17:29,041
There !
-There she is!
2266
02:17:39,208 --> 02:17:42,541
All the happiness I've known
is concentrated in it.
2267
02:17:43,416 --> 02:17:44,500
Dad...
2268
02:17:44,666 --> 02:17:48,125
...what would Matchka say
if she could speak?
2269
02:17:48,291 --> 02:17:49,708
I think she would say:
2270
02:17:49,875 --> 02:17:51,750
“I would have more fun
with a real rabbit."
2271
02:17:51,916 --> 02:17:53,541
Dad !
2272
02:17:53,708 --> 02:17:55,125
She would say:
2273
02:17:55,291 --> 02:17:57,583
“I love you more than anything, Anja.
2274
02:17:57,750 --> 02:17:59,791
“I only want to play with you.”
2275
02:18:01,625 --> 02:18:03,500
Cats are not my passion.
2276
02:18:03,625 --> 02:18:06,250
But how long
Can I make her happy?
2277
02:18:07,375 --> 02:18:09,875
I didn't know fear before Anja.
2278
02:18:10,041 --> 02:18:13,750
Since the first time I saw her,
I live in terror.
2279
02:18:13,916 --> 02:18:16,791
My life is in his hands,
and not the other way around.
2280
02:18:17,750 --> 02:18:20,208
My daughter doesn't count
neither the hours nor the days.
2281
02:18:21,458 --> 02:18:23,416
I have always lived in the future.
2282
02:18:25,791 --> 02:18:27,875
She gave me the gift of the present.
2283
02:20:12,042 --> 02:20:14,583
THE MAGE OF KREMLIN
2284
02:20:18,833 --> 02:20:21,750
Based on the novel by
GIULIANO DA EMPOLI