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This film is adapted from the eponymous
novel by Giuliano da Empoli.
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While it is based on historical events,
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it remains an original work of fiction
with artistic intent.
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The characters, as well as their
statements and opinions, are fictional.
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Since Vadim Baranov
stepped down as advisor
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to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,
the Tzar,
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the legends about him haven't waned,
they've multiplied.
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Most men of power get their aura
from the position they hold.
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When they lose it,
it's like a plug has been pulled.
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Baranov was a different breed.
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Some say he retreated
to a monastery in Mount Athos.
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Others swore they saw him in Ibiza,
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surrounded by coked-up models.
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Still others insist they spotted him
on the front line in Donbas.
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Vadim Baranov went through life
in a swirl of enigmas.
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The sole certainty
was his influence on the Tzar.
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In his fifteen years of service,
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he contributed decisively
to the growth of the Tzar's power.
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He was known
as the Wizard of the Kremlin,
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the New Rasputin.
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He'd show up unannounced
at the President's office late at night
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to handle urgent matters.
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Perhaps the Tzar himself
would call him in on his personal line.
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Occasionally the two of them
were joined by a prominent minister
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or the CEO
of some state-owned conglomerate,
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but these witnesses
shed no light on the Tzar
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and his advisors' nightly activities.
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When I returned to Moscow
a few years after his disappearance
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Baranov's memory still loomed large.
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The press persisted in attributing to him
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the most baffling measures
taken by the Kremlin.
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As for me, I had just published
an essay in Foreign Affairs
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that created something of a stir.
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It was called: "Vadim Baranov
and the Invention of Fake Democracy".
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If you need anything, just dial 9.
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Thank you.
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- Have a good day, Mr. Rowland.
- You too.
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I took a year's sabbatical from Yale
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to write the first biography
of Yevgeny Zamyatin,
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one of Russia's great writers
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and an early antagonist
of Stalin's communist regime.
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I walked in the pale winter light,
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leafed through old books.
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Zamyatin became my obsession.
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He was a visionary,
and not just when it came to Stalin.
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All subsequent dictators as well.
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From Silicon Valley oligarchs
to China's one-party state,
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from Mark Zuckerberg to Xi Jinping.
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His dystopian novel We
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inspired George Orwell's 1984.
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I didn't know you read Zamyatin
in American universities.
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Zamyatin is the oracle of our times.
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How long are you in Moscow?
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I have something to show you.
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Just outside the city
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gloomy, never-ending woods
stretched all the way to Siberia.
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I felt a mix of curiosity
and apprehension.
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In Russia,
things generally go pretty well.
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But when they go bad,
they go really bad.
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Please follow me, Mr. Rowland.
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May I take your coat?
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I will bring you some tea. Thank you.
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I didn't know you collected old books.
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I don't collect them, I read them.
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There's a major difference.
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So you're a reader of Zamyatin.
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I have something to show you
that you will truly appreciate.
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Do you know what this is?
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A letter Zamyatin wrote to Stalin.
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Asking permission to leave the USSR.
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"Dear Iosif Vissarionovich,
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"just as the Christians created the Devil
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"as a convenient personification
of all evil,
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"so the critics have transformed me
into the Devil of Soviet literature."
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Zamyatin understood too much,
too quickly,
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and made the rash decision
to write about it.
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Please,
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have a seat.
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- You read it?
- Of course.
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You even took the time to make notes.
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I'm honored.
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Let's not get carried away.
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However, compared to the others,
you did understand something.
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Not much, but something.
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Thank you.
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You said
you consider yourself an artist.
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Let's just say I played
a supporting role. I'm retired now.
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You don't miss the adrenaline?
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Trust me, there is no greater joy
than waking up every morning,
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having coffee
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and taking your daughter to school.
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How did the others take it?
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My leaving?
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Badly, of course.
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Courtiers forgive everyone:
thieves, murderers, traitors.
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But not deserters.
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"What? You don't want
what we're willing to kill for?"
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And the Tzar?
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The Tzar is a different story.
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My father feared this library.
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It belonged to my grandfather.
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Custine, Gracián,
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Machiavelli...
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The skeptics, the disillusioned.
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Hardly the Soviet doxa.
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But to his credit,
he never tried to deny me any of them.
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Your father?
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He ended up director of the Academy of
Social Sciences for the Communist Party.
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His one goal in life was to avoid
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being awakened at dawn
by the KGB banging on his door.
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In his position,
he shouldn't have had to worry.
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No one was safe in the Soviet Union.
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No one is safe in Russia,
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period.
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Not me.
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Not even you.
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When I was young,
the greatest privilege in Moscow
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was the Kremlyovka,
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a food basket
for the Party's senior officials.
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What are we eating today?
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Salmon piroshki,
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lamb cutlets...
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Ultimately, my problem is
that I had a happy childhood.
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And in Russia, that's not normal.
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All the Russian elite
experienced Soviet poverty
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before they gained access
to villas on the Côte d'Azur.
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They still haven't gotten over it.
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Even the Tzar:
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"Me, the kid who grew up
in a shoddy kommunalka
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"in a gloomy courtyard
in Saint Petersburg.
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"Now I'm invited to Buckingham Palace!"
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- Things have changed.
- Not that much.
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For you Westerners, money is essential.
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What matters in Russia
is your proximity to power.
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The Soviet system
was based on privilege,
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not cash.
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Yesterday there wasn't any.
Tomorrow, who knows, so...
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you might as well just blow it all.
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Do you know what a vertushka is?
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It was a telephone without a dial
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that allowed Party leaders
to communicate directly with you.
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Having one meant you'd made it.
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Look. This is a vertushka.
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Gray, like everything Soviet.
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You think Moscow's gray, try Washington.
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God, they're not gray there,
they're dead.
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Anyway, I'm banned
from entering the USA and Europe.
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- Is your father still alive?
- No.
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He might have subsisted
in this world for a long time.
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But then along came Gorbachev
and his glass of milk.
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Glass of milk?
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We could tell Gorbachev
would destroy the Soviet Union.
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It was enough to look at him.
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He took to the rostrum,
they handed him a glass of milk.
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And he proceeded
to double the price of vodka.
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And try to get everyone on milk.
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In Russia!
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Can you imagine?
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No wonder everything spun
out of control.
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That was it for communism
and for my father.
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He lost everything.
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His job, privileges, reputation.
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What about you?
What did you do in those times?
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My father wanted me to be a diplomat.
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But I was never keen on studying.
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I did odd jobs. Found television sets,
cassette decks, and resold them.
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Business was good.
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I started to make more money
than my father. A lot more than my father.
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I was just a know-nothing 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 '90s,
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Moscow was a dynamic city.
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The place was filled with hope
for a few years. Just a few.
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Banned books
were coming out every week.
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Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Bulgakov...
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Art magazines and literary revues
were selling in the millions.
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The Russian appetite for freedom
was insatiable.
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So I enrolled
in the Russian Institute of Theater Arts
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and began living the messy life
of a thespian.
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We were barely 20 and a whole new world
had opened up to us
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just as we were finally strong enough
to conquer it.
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Open the door!
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Open the fucking door
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or I'll bust you up!
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We were so excited we never slept
more than 3 or 4 hours a night.
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We were convinced
it was finally our turn
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to rebuild society on new foundations.
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We could see plays from Europe,
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meet the actors and directors
and talk all night long.
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You really think
freedom will change everything
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and you will live
in a world of culture and poetry?
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Our generation rejected the system.
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Our parents kept their heads down,
not us.
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You won't like what I'm about to say.
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Communism was the reign
of culture and poetry.
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How can you say such a thing?
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Under communism, being a loser
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was the only way
to be a decent human being.
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You were not complicit, at least.
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You! Fuck off!
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Fuck you!
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Perfect.
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You really impressed me.
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Yeah?
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I had to tell you
because it doesn't happen often.
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Well...
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That's interesting...
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Guess you must be pretty important.
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- What exactly impressed you?
- You.
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Your performance.
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What performance?
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Wasn't that you singing?
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You call that singing?
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What do you call it?
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Trendy... bullshit?
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I did that as a favor.
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For who?
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The KGB agents watching us.
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And I'm happy to give them something
to spice up their reports.
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That's a shame, you have talent.
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Because I do what New Yorkers did
15 years ago?
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You're a real Soviet.
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You think the world's
just waiting for you.
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And you're not a real Soviet?
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My parents were poor and crazy.
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They were hippies.
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They carted me around
from commune to commune.
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Now they're old and don't believe
in their old values anymore.
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I tell you,
I'm not gonna end up like them.
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I'd like to discuss a role.
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Would you deign
to take me seriously for a second?
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A role.
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What,
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you mean like the kind
offered to actresses?
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The kind offered to actresses.
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Well, unfortunately,
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I'm not an actress.
And I have no desire to be one.
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I might even say
I've done everything in my power
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not to be one.
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Do you know Yevgeny Zamyatin?
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An icon of the most conventional
avant-gardists.
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I'm not into that stuff.
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With all due respect,
you're missing out.
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I'm putting on a version of his novel We
at the Institute of Theater Arts.
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You take risks.
I might be warming to you a bit.
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- Do you have a car?
- Yes.
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Take me home.
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I'm done with this party.
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In a hurry?
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What? Too fast for you?
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I don't know how I managed
to make contact with Planet Ksenia,
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but I knew immediately
that even if I lived a thousand years,
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I'd never meet anyone else like her.
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00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:57,959
Alright, take it again from the top.
Places, please.
256
00:17:58,126 --> 00:18:00,834
Scissors, D-503, places. Let's go!
257
00:18:01,168 --> 00:18:02,501
Which scene?
258
00:18:02,668 --> 00:18:05,084
The scene we've been doing all night,
the mirror scene.
259
00:18:05,251 --> 00:18:08,168
- Should I sit or lie down?
- You should be lying.
260
00:18:08,334 --> 00:18:11,084
When you feel the lights
from the Integral, sit up.
261
00:18:11,251 --> 00:18:14,334
Alright, it's all in the repetition.
262
00:18:14,501 --> 00:18:16,251
This was excellent, thank you ladies.
263
00:18:16,418 --> 00:18:19,668
The dinner scene was far too casual.
I need something more mechanical.
264
00:18:19,834 --> 00:18:22,293
- Is the Integral ready?
- Ready!
265
00:18:22,459 --> 00:18:24,584
Alright, keep your actions going
266
00:18:24,751 --> 00:18:26,834
until you feel the lights
from the Integral,
267
00:18:27,001 --> 00:18:30,459
at which point you all stand up
and walk towards the windows.
268
00:18:30,626 --> 00:18:32,751
Milana, ready?
269
00:18:32,918 --> 00:18:33,918
Yes!
270
00:18:41,043 --> 00:18:42,709
This is a bad case!
271
00:18:43,084 --> 00:18:45,001
It appears you have developed a soul.
272
00:18:45,251 --> 00:18:47,418
Is it very serious, Doctor?
273
00:18:47,584 --> 00:18:48,834
Untreatable.
274
00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:52,418
But what exactly is it?
I don't understand.
275
00:18:52,584 --> 00:18:54,251
How can I explain?
276
00:18:54,543 --> 00:18:55,918
Take a surface.
277
00:18:56,084 --> 00:18:57,668
Here, this mirror.
278
00:18:57,959 --> 00:19:00,834
You know that a regular mirror
reflects reality.
279
00:19:01,001 --> 00:19:03,001
This one absorbs it
280
00:19:03,168 --> 00:19:05,793
and retains a trace of everything.
281
00:19:13,376 --> 00:19:14,626
My brothers,
282
00:19:15,043 --> 00:19:17,918
as you all know,
down below in the city
283
00:19:18,084 --> 00:19:20,168
they're building
the Integral Spaceship.
284
00:19:26,126 --> 00:19:28,959
Down with the Integral!
Down with it!
285
00:19:30,251 --> 00:19:31,418
My brothers,
286
00:19:32,293 --> 00:19:35,459
the Integral must be ours.
287
00:19:37,043 --> 00:19:39,084
And she will be ours.
288
00:19:40,501 --> 00:19:43,668
When she rises skywards
for the first time,
289
00:19:43,959 --> 00:19:47,084
we will be the ones aboard.
290
00:19:48,834 --> 00:19:52,876
For we have with us
the builder of the Integral.
291
00:19:54,126 --> 00:19:57,084
He left the city
and came here with me.
292
00:19:58,376 --> 00:19:59,751
To be with you.
293
00:19:59,918 --> 00:20:02,001
Long live the Builder!
294
00:20:20,959 --> 00:20:23,126
Her ambitions may have been vague, but...
295
00:20:23,751 --> 00:20:27,626
Muscovite avant-garde theater
had little chance of satisfying them.
296
00:20:27,876 --> 00:20:30,084
I know,
I lived in Moscow during those years.
297
00:20:30,501 --> 00:20:31,751
There were no limits.
298
00:20:32,043 --> 00:20:35,751
Everything was collapsing
and being rebuilt at once.
299
00:20:36,459 --> 00:20:39,376
It was a fascinating and terrifying time.
300
00:20:39,543 --> 00:20:41,626
Ksenia and I lived in our artistic bubble
301
00:20:41,793 --> 00:20:44,543
while life outside
was rife with possibilities.
302
00:20:44,918 --> 00:20:48,168
Nearly every day, a former classmate
would come with an idea,
303
00:20:48,334 --> 00:20:49,834
a business proposition.
304
00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:52,501
First on his grandfather's bicycle,
305
00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:56,001
then in an armored Bentley,
surrounded by bodyguards.
306
00:20:57,043 --> 00:20:59,168
That's pretty much how it happened
for Dmitry.
307
00:20:59,459 --> 00:21:01,209
- Sidorov?
- Sidorov, yes.
308
00:21:01,376 --> 00:21:02,876
Dmitry Sidorov.
309
00:21:03,959 --> 00:21:05,376
I'd known him in high school.
310
00:21:05,543 --> 00:21:08,418
Now he was head of the Young
Communist League at the university.
311
00:21:08,584 --> 00:21:10,584
Don't think he was a Party apparatchik.
312
00:21:10,751 --> 00:21:11,834
In the late '80s
313
00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:15,543
the student cooperative
was the incubator for Russian capitalism.
314
00:21:16,626 --> 00:21:18,626
I liked hearing about his adventures.
315
00:21:18,793 --> 00:21:22,043
I wanted to write a play
about entrepreneurs like him.
316
00:21:22,209 --> 00:21:23,418
You seen Dmitry?
317
00:21:23,584 --> 00:21:26,043
Saw him 5 minutes ago.
Check the bar.
318
00:21:26,209 --> 00:21:29,501
They were a new social class,
emerging out of nowhere in just months.
319
00:21:30,084 --> 00:21:31,834
It was pretty remarkable.
320
00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:33,834
Vadya!
321
00:21:35,501 --> 00:21:36,668
Good to see you.
322
00:21:36,834 --> 00:21:39,918
This café was my first business
but I used it as a launching pad
323
00:21:40,084 --> 00:21:41,376
for more lucrative endeavors.
324
00:21:41,543 --> 00:21:43,001
Not all of which were legal.
325
00:21:43,168 --> 00:21:46,168
Vadya! Legality is over, forget it.
I'll tell you a story.
326
00:21:46,334 --> 00:21:48,459
No writing, close your eyes.
Pretend I'm your Mama.
327
00:21:49,001 --> 00:21:52,084
Once upon a time,
I come across a supply of cognac.
328
00:21:52,251 --> 00:21:54,751
- You mean fake cognac.
- Who cares? Not the point.
329
00:21:54,918 --> 00:21:57,376
I put it on the market for $50 a bottle.
330
00:21:57,793 --> 00:21:59,043
You hear that?
331
00:22:01,043 --> 00:22:02,918
Nothing.
No one wants it.
332
00:22:03,084 --> 00:22:05,626
I mark it up to $500,
they're fighting for it!
333
00:22:06,709 --> 00:22:08,543
I'm sure you didn't stop at cognac.
334
00:22:08,709 --> 00:22:10,793
Computers, acid-wash jeans,
souvenirs, software...
335
00:22:10,959 --> 00:22:12,876
all thanks to the Student Cooperative.
336
00:22:13,043 --> 00:22:16,293
A few minor cons.
I struggle to believe you.
337
00:22:16,459 --> 00:22:17,834
Can't fool you!
338
00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:20,626
Stories to make you
and your audience laugh.
339
00:22:20,793 --> 00:22:22,084
It's a play!
340
00:22:22,668 --> 00:22:23,876
I came up with a scheme
341
00:22:24,043 --> 00:22:26,584
to facilitate payments
between state-run businesses.
342
00:22:26,751 --> 00:22:29,126
I borrow money
and lend it to others for a fee.
343
00:22:29,293 --> 00:22:31,751
Basically what is known as a bank, but...
344
00:22:32,834 --> 00:22:34,793
no one in this country knows
what a bank is.
345
00:22:38,626 --> 00:22:40,543
Tough questions!
346
00:22:45,584 --> 00:22:48,876
Yes, you could say I created
Russia's first commercial bank.
347
00:22:49,043 --> 00:22:50,793
I'll tell you how.
I found a book:
348
00:22:50,959 --> 00:22:54,251
Commercial Banks of Capitalist Countries.
349
00:22:54,709 --> 00:22:56,001
Remarkable work!
350
00:22:56,168 --> 00:22:59,709
It explains simply and in great detail
how the banking system works.
351
00:22:59,876 --> 00:23:01,959
And I said, hey, I like this.
352
00:23:04,668 --> 00:23:06,834
Would you describe yourself as greedy?
353
00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:08,626
Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.
354
00:23:08,793 --> 00:23:11,001
I didn't use to be,
but I grow greedier by the day.
355
00:23:11,168 --> 00:23:13,959
An asset in my line of work.
I have a banker's personality.
356
00:23:14,126 --> 00:23:15,543
I love money.
357
00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:20,209
- Nice suit.
- Nice shirt.
358
00:23:22,709 --> 00:23:23,709
Good read.
359
00:23:23,876 --> 00:23:26,793
They're behind the times,
you still had your mustache.
360
00:23:26,959 --> 00:23:29,793
Journalists are always behind the times.
You know that, Vadya.
361
00:23:30,459 --> 00:23:31,668
Bloody hick mustache.
362
00:23:31,834 --> 00:23:33,293
You did well to shave it off.
363
00:23:33,459 --> 00:23:35,126
How's the play coming along?
364
00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:37,584
- My play about you?
- Yes.
365
00:23:37,751 --> 00:23:39,793
- I won't write it.
- Why?
366
00:23:39,959 --> 00:23:42,543
Because it's over now.
You can't tell me the truth anymore.
367
00:23:44,626 --> 00:23:45,876
You're right.
368
00:23:47,043 --> 00:23:49,209
But I never could tell you
the whole truth.
369
00:23:49,376 --> 00:23:51,709
But you used to tell me a bit more.
370
00:24:07,168 --> 00:24:10,168
So, this is the famous Dmitry?
371
00:24:10,418 --> 00:24:11,793
I see no other.
372
00:24:12,168 --> 00:24:14,918
Vadim says you're worth
80 million rubles a year.
373
00:24:15,084 --> 00:24:16,959
- Is that true?
- Could be, I don't know.
374
00:24:17,126 --> 00:24:18,834
He also says you're a thug.
375
00:24:20,084 --> 00:24:21,209
Is that so?
376
00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:23,001
Nothing wrong with that.
377
00:24:27,459 --> 00:24:28,709
Ulysse Nardin.
378
00:24:30,043 --> 00:24:32,543
A bit too flashy to be elegant.
379
00:24:32,709 --> 00:24:35,501
Flashy? Says the girl
wearing a fucking bear!
380
00:24:36,418 --> 00:24:38,918
In the world I move in,
it's better to be flashy than elegant.
381
00:24:39,084 --> 00:24:40,084
You get more respect.
382
00:24:41,793 --> 00:24:43,209
Explains your dreadful tie.
383
00:24:43,751 --> 00:24:46,751
Eugenio Marinelli from Naples, va bene!
384
00:24:46,918 --> 00:24:48,418
Bellissima cravata.
385
00:24:48,584 --> 00:24:49,626
Never heard of it.
386
00:24:50,043 --> 00:24:52,084
Of course you haven't, one tiny boutique.
387
00:24:52,251 --> 00:24:54,209
He travels the world
to make ties to measure.
388
00:24:54,376 --> 00:24:56,043
They make ties to measure?
389
00:24:56,209 --> 00:24:58,293
In the world I move in, they can.
390
00:24:58,876 --> 00:25:01,043
You like champagne?
Too flashy for you?
391
00:25:02,959 --> 00:25:06,793
I should have known from that first
encounter that my fate was sealed.
392
00:25:06,959 --> 00:25:08,959
Ksenia would choose Dmitry,
393
00:25:09,126 --> 00:25:11,626
his vulgarity, his energy.
394
00:25:11,793 --> 00:25:13,626
He felt it immediately.
395
00:25:13,793 --> 00:25:15,251
And so did I.
396
00:25:15,418 --> 00:25:17,918
But for a long time
I refused to believe it.
397
00:25:22,668 --> 00:25:23,376
Yes?
398
00:25:24,043 --> 00:25:25,584
Coming, coming...
399
00:25:27,626 --> 00:25:28,751
- Bad time?
- Dmitry?
400
00:25:28,918 --> 00:25:30,543
I wanted to surprise you.
401
00:25:31,334 --> 00:25:33,376
Let's go, let's go!
Are you hungry?
402
00:25:33,543 --> 00:25:36,043
I have some flashy things! Caviar!
403
00:25:40,418 --> 00:25:41,501
From that moment on,
404
00:25:41,834 --> 00:25:44,834
Dmitry became a frequent visitor
to our house.
405
00:25:45,126 --> 00:25:48,043
There I was, thinking he came out
of some deep-rooted respect
406
00:25:48,209 --> 00:25:51,834
for the art Ksenia and I had chosen
to dedicate our lives to.
407
00:25:52,501 --> 00:25:55,918
As if culture still had the power to exert
any influence over the real world.
408
00:25:56,084 --> 00:25:57,543
I love that sound!
409
00:26:02,001 --> 00:26:05,751
The sleek, shiny world of money
was Dmitry's natural habitat.
410
00:26:05,918 --> 00:26:08,084
Nothing could turn him away from it.
411
00:26:09,876 --> 00:26:13,251
But he wanted Ksenia, so he was willing
to spend a little time with us
412
00:26:13,418 --> 00:26:15,959
in the ruins of the city of the dead.
413
00:26:18,084 --> 00:26:19,626
As the months passed,
414
00:26:19,793 --> 00:26:23,501
Ksenia became increasingly receptive
to his largesse.
415
00:26:24,584 --> 00:26:27,168
Everything that initially
defined our friendship,
416
00:26:27,334 --> 00:26:30,793
books we shared, concerts,
the all-night discussions,
417
00:26:31,334 --> 00:26:34,793
had fallen by the wayside in favor
of more money-centric activities.
418
00:26:34,959 --> 00:26:37,209
Gallery and discotheque openings,
419
00:26:37,376 --> 00:26:39,834
dinners at White Sun or Ermitazh.
420
00:26:40,126 --> 00:26:43,501
Ksenia was getting higher by the minute
on Dmitry's lifestyle.
421
00:26:43,668 --> 00:26:45,543
Vadya's dancing!
422
00:27:01,293 --> 00:27:02,959
Vadya! Smile!
423
00:27:03,501 --> 00:27:04,876
I'm smiling!
424
00:27:05,418 --> 00:27:07,709
Communism is dead.
There's a whole new world to invent.
425
00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:09,668
You're gonna be a part of it.
426
00:27:18,668 --> 00:27:21,959
You know Vadya,
he doesn't like to go out.
427
00:27:22,126 --> 00:27:24,793
What he likes is going home.
428
00:27:45,001 --> 00:27:48,459
I remember waking up one night
and gazing at her for a long time.
429
00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:52,709
I felt so tired, even though
I hadn't accomplished anything yet.
430
00:27:52,876 --> 00:27:57,001
I nurtured the illusion that
Ksenia would perceive my greatness.
431
00:27:57,251 --> 00:27:58,959
But as the days passed,
432
00:27:59,126 --> 00:28:02,043
I noticed that the way she saw me
was changing.
433
00:28:02,209 --> 00:28:05,918
What began as a vague look of irony
was morphing into contempt.
434
00:28:06,376 --> 00:28:09,418
"You're stronger than I am
because you don't love me,"
435
00:28:09,584 --> 00:28:11,084
I wanted to tell her.
436
00:28:12,376 --> 00:28:14,751
My pain only augmented her boredom.
437
00:28:21,043 --> 00:28:22,293
Stop the car.
438
00:28:22,709 --> 00:28:24,126
Stop the car!
439
00:28:25,418 --> 00:28:26,918
Stop the fucking car!
440
00:28:38,209 --> 00:28:39,793
You want some water?
441
00:28:45,168 --> 00:28:46,334
There you go.
442
00:28:56,376 --> 00:28:57,168
Dmitry,
443
00:28:57,334 --> 00:28:59,584
I've told you 10 times
you drive too rough!
444
00:28:59,751 --> 00:29:00,543
I know no other way.
445
00:29:00,709 --> 00:29:03,084
Let Vadim take the wheel
or I hitchhike home.
446
00:29:04,959 --> 00:29:07,376
Do you wanna, like,
go in the back, or...
447
00:29:07,543 --> 00:29:10,834
That's sweet of you, honey,
but I get even sicker in the back.
448
00:29:57,334 --> 00:29:59,459
There's something I forgot to tell you.
449
00:29:59,834 --> 00:30:01,043
I'm listening.
450
00:30:02,584 --> 00:30:03,543
I'm leaving.
451
00:30:08,626 --> 00:30:10,709
Is that all you can muster?
452
00:30:11,293 --> 00:30:13,543
You saw me in the car with Dmitry.
Think I missed that?
453
00:30:16,918 --> 00:30:19,543
It's been over between us
for a long time.
454
00:30:30,584 --> 00:30:31,626
Come in.
455
00:30:32,001 --> 00:30:33,751
You're not disturbing me.
456
00:30:34,334 --> 00:30:35,751
I was afraid to wake you.
457
00:30:35,918 --> 00:30:37,168
Have a seat.
458
00:30:39,709 --> 00:30:43,418
Finally I have an excuse
to stay in bed all day.
459
00:30:43,584 --> 00:30:46,918
Rereading the classics and dozing.
That suits me.
460
00:30:47,084 --> 00:30:48,709
There's the illness.
461
00:30:48,876 --> 00:30:50,293
This may surprise you,
462
00:30:50,459 --> 00:30:53,209
but illness is not necessarily
a serious thing.
463
00:30:53,668 --> 00:30:55,209
Serious things,
464
00:30:55,626 --> 00:30:57,209
like effort and work,
465
00:30:57,376 --> 00:31:00,084
are the burden of people in good health.
466
00:31:00,251 --> 00:31:02,168
The dying have nothing more to do.
467
00:31:02,334 --> 00:31:04,834
They can just enjoy their days.
468
00:31:19,251 --> 00:31:21,459
I left Ksenia.
469
00:31:22,626 --> 00:31:23,918
I know.
470
00:31:25,126 --> 00:31:28,168
You'll have a dozen opportunities
to start over.
471
00:31:29,084 --> 00:31:32,126
I expected to suffer terribly, but...
472
00:31:32,876 --> 00:31:34,793
I feel lighter, and strong.
473
00:31:35,751 --> 00:31:36,626
You see.
474
00:31:36,793 --> 00:31:39,751
But theater is no longer enough for me.
475
00:31:40,793 --> 00:31:43,543
Losing Ksenia has made me ambitious.
476
00:31:43,918 --> 00:31:45,126
Ambitious now?
477
00:31:46,376 --> 00:31:47,959
That's unexpected.
478
00:31:48,668 --> 00:31:50,834
But all the better.
I'll take it as good news.
479
00:31:51,001 --> 00:31:54,251
I cannot bear
the writer's failure to affect reality.
480
00:31:54,418 --> 00:31:56,918
I want to be part of my times,
481
00:31:57,084 --> 00:31:58,793
not just a witness.
482
00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:00,376
You know what?
483
00:32:01,918 --> 00:32:03,793
I'll leave your times to you.
484
00:32:04,251 --> 00:32:05,293
With no regrets.
485
00:32:10,209 --> 00:32:11,501
This is Sputnik.
486
00:32:11,668 --> 00:32:13,668
The only one allowed inside.
487
00:32:13,834 --> 00:32:15,793
Come here, Sputy, say hi.
488
00:32:16,084 --> 00:32:17,834
My daughter loves him.
489
00:32:18,751 --> 00:32:22,376
In the end, my father had an attack
and died very suddenly.
490
00:32:23,126 --> 00:32:26,876
The ceremony wasn't exactly
headline news.
491
00:32:27,959 --> 00:32:31,126
Four poor souls followed the hearse
in a beat-up car
492
00:32:31,293 --> 00:32:34,501
while the shiny SUVs
of the nouveaux riches sped past them.
493
00:32:34,668 --> 00:32:36,209
He died too late.
494
00:32:36,709 --> 00:32:39,168
He probably would have wanted
a nicer funeral.
495
00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:41,334
But in the end
he didn't give a damn.
496
00:32:41,501 --> 00:32:44,001
At least, I hope he didn't.
497
00:32:51,584 --> 00:32:53,543
I needed to get my mind off things,
498
00:32:53,709 --> 00:32:57,418
and Moscow in the mid-'90s
was the perfect place to do that.
499
00:32:57,876 --> 00:32:59,876
Imagine all those young men and women
500
00:33:00,043 --> 00:33:03,918
suddenly seeing a new world
of possibility opening up before them.
501
00:33:04,084 --> 00:33:05,834
They could become
whatever they wanted,
502
00:33:06,001 --> 00:33:08,501
amass fortunes, travel the world.
503
00:33:08,668 --> 00:33:10,918
It was enough to make your head spin.
504
00:33:11,418 --> 00:33:13,459
It was a time of incredible violence.
505
00:33:13,626 --> 00:33:17,001
There was gunfire everywhere,
for the most frivolous reasons.
506
00:33:17,168 --> 00:33:20,084
Men of no importance
were escorted by private militia
507
00:33:20,251 --> 00:33:22,709
until the day they were blown sky-high.
508
00:33:26,918 --> 00:33:30,251
Turning my theater experience
into a career as a TV producer
509
00:33:30,418 --> 00:33:33,918
was like going from a horse and cart
to a Lamborghini.
510
00:33:34,168 --> 00:33:35,793
One day I was in a kitchen
511
00:33:35,959 --> 00:33:38,668
rhapsodizing about Mayakovsky
and drinking hot tea.
512
00:33:38,959 --> 00:33:40,709
The next, I was nursing a latte
513
00:33:40,876 --> 00:33:44,043
in an open space
designed by Dutch architects.
514
00:33:44,751 --> 00:33:47,709
Forget Channel One, forget state TV.
515
00:33:48,043 --> 00:33:49,918
We're a private company.
Times have changed.
516
00:33:50,084 --> 00:33:52,251
We're going to do game shows
and politics.
517
00:33:52,418 --> 00:33:53,459
But different.
518
00:33:53,626 --> 00:33:57,626
The Soviets tried to smother this country
under a lid of boredom.
519
00:33:57,793 --> 00:34:00,668
First rule, don't be boring.
520
00:34:02,084 --> 00:34:05,459
There's one project that stands out
from the others. This one.
521
00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:07,376
Do you know why?
522
00:34:09,043 --> 00:34:12,209
Because it has
all the Russian stereotypes,
523
00:34:12,376 --> 00:34:13,584
not a single one left out.
524
00:34:14,626 --> 00:34:16,168
The provincial Babushka,
525
00:34:16,334 --> 00:34:17,751
the nihilistic student,
526
00:34:17,918 --> 00:34:18,959
the ambitious slut.
527
00:34:19,126 --> 00:34:21,418
I read it. It stinks.
528
00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:25,751
- I read them all, they all stink!
- Especially that one.
529
00:34:25,918 --> 00:34:28,376
Except that it'll work.
530
00:34:28,543 --> 00:34:30,584
We're not just producing shows,
531
00:34:30,751 --> 00:34:33,376
all the other institutions have collapsed.
532
00:34:33,751 --> 00:34:36,043
It's now up to TV to show the way.
533
00:34:36,376 --> 00:34:38,501
Maybe a reality show
about finishing schools
534
00:34:38,668 --> 00:34:42,084
that teach young girls to attract
freshly minted millionaires?
535
00:34:42,543 --> 00:34:44,459
Not bad.
Does that genuinely exist?
536
00:34:44,626 --> 00:34:47,918
It totally exists.
It's big and it's getting bigger.
537
00:34:50,918 --> 00:34:53,501
My dream
is to be an international superstar.
538
00:34:56,543 --> 00:35:00,084
My dream is to buy my mom
the most beautiful house in Krasnoyarsk.
539
00:35:04,376 --> 00:35:06,709
My dream is to be the trophy wife
540
00:35:06,876 --> 00:35:09,751
of the richest oligarch in Russia
541
00:35:09,918 --> 00:35:12,501
and live my life in Monte Carlo.
542
00:35:12,918 --> 00:35:14,584
She's the one.
543
00:35:14,751 --> 00:35:16,876
No, seriously, she's the one.
544
00:35:17,251 --> 00:35:19,084
It's an excellent project
545
00:35:19,251 --> 00:35:21,834
and this girl rightfully belongs in it.
546
00:35:25,334 --> 00:35:27,376
At that time, the owner of RTP
547
00:35:27,543 --> 00:35:31,459
was a mathematician who'd become
a billionaire, Boris Berezovsky.
548
00:35:31,626 --> 00:35:35,126
He bought an old palace
on Novokuznetskaya Street.
549
00:35:35,668 --> 00:35:37,876
It was meant to be
the headquarters of his business
550
00:35:38,043 --> 00:35:40,209
but Berezovsky
did something else with it,
551
00:35:40,376 --> 00:35:42,126
something far more special.
552
00:35:42,293 --> 00:35:45,376
Made it a club of sorts,
the LogoVaz Club.
553
00:35:49,293 --> 00:35:50,959
It was very exclusive.
554
00:35:51,126 --> 00:35:55,334
The crème de la crème of politics,
big business, show biz and crime.
555
00:35:55,501 --> 00:35:58,668
So picture the scene:
the Caucasus, we're in Chechnya.
556
00:35:59,418 --> 00:36:01,084
And I'm standing in front of a warlord
557
00:36:01,251 --> 00:36:03,876
who has taken Russian officers hostage.
558
00:36:04,043 --> 00:36:05,376
And it's no joke.
559
00:36:06,209 --> 00:36:08,543
He's already beheaded one of them.
560
00:36:09,126 --> 00:36:12,168
But it wasn't politics, it was business.
He wanted cash.
561
00:36:12,334 --> 00:36:14,209
Right now.
I don't have cash on me.
562
00:36:14,376 --> 00:36:16,418
I don't walk around with wads of cash.
563
00:36:16,584 --> 00:36:19,043
But I notice him eyeing my watch.
564
00:36:19,209 --> 00:36:21,459
A Patek Philippe Nautilus like this one.
565
00:36:22,376 --> 00:36:23,751
So I say to him,
566
00:36:23,918 --> 00:36:25,459
"You like my watch?
567
00:36:25,751 --> 00:36:28,709
"Know how much it's worth?
More than your hostages."
568
00:36:28,876 --> 00:36:32,959
And he says, "I know exactly what
it's worth: $800,000, used."
569
00:36:33,126 --> 00:36:35,668
That floored me.
He knew the exact price.
570
00:36:35,834 --> 00:36:37,459
Rustam was no fool.
571
00:36:37,793 --> 00:36:38,918
He said,
572
00:36:39,209 --> 00:36:41,418
"If you take the hostages home,
573
00:36:41,584 --> 00:36:44,459
"the publicity you'll get on TV
is worth more than $800,000."
574
00:36:44,626 --> 00:36:48,668
And he gave me this vacuous
soldier's stare. Zero bullshit.
575
00:36:49,709 --> 00:36:52,293
"So you come out ahead. Is it a deal?"
576
00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:55,918
I gave him my watch,
took the hostages home.
577
00:36:56,084 --> 00:36:58,668
It was the opening story
on the evening news.
578
00:37:00,293 --> 00:37:03,543
In those days my modest achievements
as a TV producer
579
00:37:03,709 --> 00:37:07,001
got me the occasional invitation
to LogoVaz club.
580
00:37:07,543 --> 00:37:10,793
Usually, Berezovsky would summon me
for an update on some project
581
00:37:10,959 --> 00:37:13,918
or to suggest
I hire some random relative
582
00:37:14,084 --> 00:37:16,418
or equally random mistress.
583
00:37:18,084 --> 00:37:19,084
Come in.
584
00:37:21,293 --> 00:37:23,043
- Vadya!
- Boris.
585
00:37:25,251 --> 00:37:28,209
Our friend Vadya is a wizard.
586
00:37:28,793 --> 00:37:30,126
With his help,
587
00:37:30,751 --> 00:37:32,793
we pulverize our opponents.
588
00:37:34,209 --> 00:37:35,793
You happy where you are?
589
00:37:36,751 --> 00:37:38,209
I'm not sure I understand.
590
00:37:38,376 --> 00:37:42,709
In this country you run the same risk,
dog in the fight or no.
591
00:37:43,334 --> 00:37:44,709
I'll tell you my story,
592
00:37:44,876 --> 00:37:46,418
you'll see what I mean.
593
00:37:46,834 --> 00:37:49,459
So I was perfectly content
doing my own thing.
594
00:37:49,626 --> 00:37:53,209
I'd built a smart, modern, clean business.
595
00:37:53,376 --> 00:37:55,876
From what I hear
your business was more of a scam.
596
00:37:56,043 --> 00:37:59,126
You resold stolen cars
right off the assembly line.
597
00:38:02,126 --> 00:38:04,751
- I was doing what everyone was doing.
- Only worse.
598
00:38:04,918 --> 00:38:08,084
You weren't choosy about your partners
and their methods. No offense.
599
00:38:08,251 --> 00:38:09,334
Anyway.
600
00:38:10,501 --> 00:38:14,959
One day this bastard tries to steal
my business out from under me.
601
00:38:15,126 --> 00:38:17,959
What do you think he does?
Open a competing dealership?
602
00:38:18,126 --> 00:38:20,584
Try to beat me fair and square,
like in the US or Europe?
603
00:38:20,751 --> 00:38:22,543
No Boris, that's not what he did.
604
00:38:22,709 --> 00:38:27,043
That son of a bitch
filled an old Opel with TNT,
605
00:38:27,209 --> 00:38:28,709
parked it on my route home,
606
00:38:28,876 --> 00:38:31,834
and as I passed,
he pushed a remote and boom...
607
00:38:32,918 --> 00:38:34,543
no more Berezovsky.
608
00:38:35,751 --> 00:38:37,084
At least that was the plan.
609
00:38:37,251 --> 00:38:39,834
Unfortunately,
it didn't work out for him.
610
00:38:40,959 --> 00:38:44,543
And I ended up
with my chauffeur's head in my arms.
611
00:38:45,459 --> 00:38:46,834
I survived.
612
00:38:47,834 --> 00:38:50,959
But that day I realized
that if you don't grab power,
613
00:38:51,126 --> 00:38:52,293
power grabs you.
614
00:38:52,834 --> 00:38:55,459
So I went to Switzerland
for two weeks to recover
615
00:38:55,626 --> 00:38:58,168
and do you know what I did
when I got back to Moscow?
616
00:38:59,043 --> 00:39:00,709
You learned to play tennis.
617
00:39:00,876 --> 00:39:03,459
And it wasn't easy.
I hate the sport.
618
00:39:04,043 --> 00:39:05,709
You hate all sports!
619
00:39:08,084 --> 00:39:11,293
The old President, Boris Yeltsin,
was in decline.
620
00:39:12,084 --> 00:39:14,584
He overdid it on the vodka, they say.
621
00:39:14,751 --> 00:39:17,043
He had a sports club
built on Sparrow Hills
622
00:39:17,209 --> 00:39:19,084
that looked out over Moscow.
623
00:39:19,543 --> 00:39:22,834
He spent all his spare time
playing tennis there.
624
00:39:23,001 --> 00:39:25,418
It was the only way to get near him.
625
00:39:27,668 --> 00:39:29,459
Let's face it, Boris was finished.
626
00:39:29,626 --> 00:39:32,001
Elections were coming,
his numbers were in the dumps.
627
00:39:32,168 --> 00:39:35,501
His whole retinue of petty schemers
were at rock bottom.
628
00:39:35,668 --> 00:39:38,209
They quickly understood
I was their only hope.
629
00:39:38,709 --> 00:39:39,876
We hadn't lost yet.
630
00:39:50,043 --> 00:39:51,251
Listen to me,
631
00:39:51,668 --> 00:39:53,334
Boris Nikolayevich.
632
00:39:53,709 --> 00:39:57,459
Russia still needs you.
Your courage and your...
633
00:39:57,626 --> 00:39:58,959
integrity.
634
00:39:59,543 --> 00:40:01,501
No one loves me anymore.
635
00:40:01,709 --> 00:40:03,334
I saved democracy,
636
00:40:03,501 --> 00:40:05,251
but democracy here means
637
00:40:05,418 --> 00:40:07,918
that everyone has become poor.
638
00:40:08,334 --> 00:40:11,251
Except for a few smart devils like you,
639
00:40:11,418 --> 00:40:13,543
who've gotten filthy rich!
640
00:40:15,668 --> 00:40:17,251
Well, if you give me
641
00:40:17,751 --> 00:40:19,584
control of state TV,
642
00:40:20,793 --> 00:40:24,168
I will give you an election campaign
like you've never seen.
643
00:40:24,334 --> 00:40:27,959
You're in dire straits now,
but in 2 months you'll be on top.
644
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:34,376
This is how I took control of Channel 1.
RTP, as it's now called.
645
00:40:34,543 --> 00:40:35,876
And for the record,
646
00:40:36,626 --> 00:40:39,209
I kept my word.
I revived him in the polls.
647
00:40:39,376 --> 00:40:41,209
What you did was sink his rivals.
648
00:40:41,584 --> 00:40:43,751
A bunch of Communist nostalgics.
A cinch.
649
00:40:43,918 --> 00:40:46,168
You defended your interests,
those of oligarchs.
650
00:40:48,834 --> 00:40:50,834
True. So what?
651
00:40:51,209 --> 00:40:53,793
- All part of the democratic process.
- Right!
652
00:40:53,959 --> 00:40:56,793
When you have
a very loose notion of democracy.
653
00:41:04,626 --> 00:41:06,334
Over the course of the rallies
654
00:41:06,501 --> 00:41:08,334
the old man began to enjoy himself.
655
00:41:08,959 --> 00:41:10,084
Problem was,
656
00:41:10,251 --> 00:41:12,751
two weeks before the election
he had a heart attack.
657
00:41:12,918 --> 00:41:14,168
That was a close call.
658
00:41:14,959 --> 00:41:18,959
The very day he was supposed
to record his final speech to the nation.
659
00:41:19,126 --> 00:41:20,668
Obviously we canceled everything.
660
00:41:20,834 --> 00:41:23,793
But a few days later,
the rumors began to spread,
661
00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:25,293
he had to show up.
662
00:41:25,459 --> 00:41:27,876
Except his doctor
wouldn't let him leave his residence.
663
00:41:28,043 --> 00:41:31,709
Too risky.
So we figured, to keep up appearances,
664
00:41:32,209 --> 00:41:34,459
we'd bring the Kremlin furniture to him.
665
00:41:37,001 --> 00:41:39,501
OK, flags.
Put the flags in the stands.
666
00:41:43,543 --> 00:41:46,709
Put the national flag on the left.
Check the distance.
667
00:41:47,251 --> 00:41:49,501
The President is on his way down.
668
00:42:04,084 --> 00:42:06,293
Good morning, Boris Nikolayevich!
669
00:42:06,626 --> 00:42:08,334
Come see what we've done.
670
00:42:08,501 --> 00:42:10,751
A perfect copy of your Kremlin office.
671
00:42:10,918 --> 00:42:12,876
No one will notice the difference.
672
00:42:13,876 --> 00:42:15,543
Help him with the chair.
673
00:42:49,751 --> 00:42:51,834
Russian citizens...
674
00:42:52,834 --> 00:42:54,168
it's why...
675
00:42:56,459 --> 00:42:58,376
the motherland...
676
00:42:59,834 --> 00:43:01,168
Let's try again.
677
00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:04,959
Misha, can you slow down the prompter?
678
00:43:09,959 --> 00:43:11,251
Once again, please.
679
00:43:12,001 --> 00:43:13,918
Russian citizens...
680
00:43:15,251 --> 00:43:17,209
the 3rd of July
681
00:43:18,376 --> 00:43:20,251
elections day...
682
00:43:21,501 --> 00:43:22,459
you'll not...
683
00:43:22,876 --> 00:43:24,418
only vote for Yeltsin...
684
00:43:24,584 --> 00:43:26,751
This is not going to work.
685
00:43:30,418 --> 00:43:32,084
Just make him move his lips
686
00:43:32,251 --> 00:43:35,584
and we'll dub in bits
from his old speeches.
687
00:43:36,501 --> 00:43:38,751
Yeltsin was reelected by a landslide.
688
00:43:38,918 --> 00:43:40,918
And then he fell back into lethargy.
689
00:43:41,084 --> 00:43:43,293
He had two more heart attacks.
690
00:43:43,459 --> 00:43:45,168
For four years of his 2nd term,
691
00:43:45,334 --> 00:43:47,959
Berezovsky was the real leader
of Russia.
692
00:43:48,126 --> 00:43:50,918
The oligarchs raked in
everything they could.
693
00:43:51,084 --> 00:43:55,668
That's how my old pal, Dmitry Sidorov,
bought himself a fossil fuel giant
694
00:43:55,834 --> 00:43:58,376
for a mere 168 million.
695
00:43:58,584 --> 00:44:01,584
It would go on to make him
3 billion a year.
696
00:44:02,168 --> 00:44:03,251
Olya!
697
00:44:04,668 --> 00:44:06,959
Berezovsky sensed the winds were turning.
698
00:44:07,793 --> 00:44:10,418
The Russians were tired
and needed order.
699
00:44:10,834 --> 00:44:14,959
They'd grown up in a motherland,
now all they had was a supermarket.
700
00:44:15,126 --> 00:44:18,168
Our challenge was to come up
with a solution before someone else did.
701
00:44:18,334 --> 00:44:19,543
So yes.
702
00:44:21,126 --> 00:44:22,876
I have friends in the Kremlin.
703
00:44:23,334 --> 00:44:25,418
And I lend a hand from time to time.
704
00:44:26,001 --> 00:44:28,626
But the scenario has completely changed.
705
00:44:28,793 --> 00:44:31,834
It's no longer a matter
of supporting the current regime.
706
00:44:32,001 --> 00:44:33,876
We need to invent something new.
707
00:44:34,043 --> 00:44:35,876
Something and someone.
708
00:44:36,043 --> 00:44:38,084
The President won't make it
to the end of his term.
709
00:44:38,251 --> 00:44:41,209
Someone to embody it, of course.
That's the easy part.
710
00:44:42,209 --> 00:44:43,334
But what we need,
711
00:44:43,501 --> 00:44:46,751
first, is a party
for everyone to rally around.
712
00:44:47,251 --> 00:44:48,793
The Unity Party.
713
00:44:52,168 --> 00:44:53,918
What do you think, Vadya?
714
00:44:54,834 --> 00:44:56,459
I already have an emblem.
715
00:44:57,543 --> 00:44:58,668
The bear.
716
00:44:58,959 --> 00:45:00,793
Symbol of the Russian soul.
717
00:45:04,043 --> 00:45:05,584
So, will you join us?
718
00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:08,543
I don't know, Boris.
I like my job.
719
00:45:08,709 --> 00:45:09,959
It's the same job.
720
00:45:11,834 --> 00:45:15,668
I'm merely suggesting
that you graduate to the next level.
721
00:45:16,001 --> 00:45:17,668
Stop making up stories,
722
00:45:17,834 --> 00:45:19,709
start inventing reality.
723
00:45:20,251 --> 00:45:21,209
With me.
724
00:45:27,251 --> 00:45:29,918
LUBYANKA
HEADQUARTERS OF THE FSB
725
00:45:32,626 --> 00:45:35,459
The head of the FSB
would make a good candidate.
726
00:45:36,709 --> 00:45:38,334
The old geezer trusts him,
727
00:45:38,501 --> 00:45:40,876
he's shown his mettle
at decisive moments
728
00:45:41,043 --> 00:45:42,793
and he's a modest guy.
729
00:45:42,959 --> 00:45:44,251
You'll like him.
730
00:45:53,334 --> 00:45:55,501
Director Putin will see you now.
731
00:46:05,918 --> 00:46:07,293
Come, sit.
732
00:46:09,626 --> 00:46:10,543
Sit.
733
00:46:12,501 --> 00:46:14,001
I know why you're here.
734
00:46:14,418 --> 00:46:16,459
You're the best-informed man in Russia.
735
00:46:16,626 --> 00:46:19,293
I've been thinking it over,
Boris Abramovich.
736
00:46:21,501 --> 00:46:22,709
You see,
737
00:46:22,876 --> 00:46:26,918
the Secret Service
has all the advantages of politics
738
00:46:28,084 --> 00:46:30,084
without any of the drawbacks.
739
00:46:32,126 --> 00:46:34,084
I'm at the center of the system.
740
00:46:34,251 --> 00:46:36,876
I'm well positioned.
I hear, I see everything.
741
00:46:37,209 --> 00:46:40,918
I can effectively intervene
to protect the President, his family.
742
00:46:41,084 --> 00:46:43,251
I've done it before, I'll do it again.
743
00:46:45,501 --> 00:46:47,751
You take me out of here,
put me in government,
744
00:46:47,918 --> 00:46:51,126
they chew me up, spit me out
like every other Prime Minister
745
00:46:51,293 --> 00:46:53,876
these past years,
these past months, right?
746
00:46:54,043 --> 00:46:56,793
And you lose the most loyal guardian
of the State.
747
00:46:56,959 --> 00:46:58,501
If we don't act quickly,
748
00:46:58,668 --> 00:47:02,376
within a year there'll be no more
President or family to protect.
749
00:47:03,334 --> 00:47:06,168
The first thing
the new head of the Kremlin will do
750
00:47:06,334 --> 00:47:08,251
is replace you.
751
00:47:09,209 --> 00:47:10,501
Why me?
752
00:47:12,001 --> 00:47:13,459
I'm a civil servant.
753
00:47:14,834 --> 00:47:16,918
Sure, I've given...
754
00:47:18,459 --> 00:47:20,334
a couple of speeches in public,
755
00:47:20,501 --> 00:47:22,834
but they were never earth-shattering.
756
00:47:23,001 --> 00:47:26,459
The President steps into a room
and sniffs the air,
757
00:47:27,001 --> 00:47:29,751
everyone's on his side in two minutes,
laughing, crying,
758
00:47:29,918 --> 00:47:31,376
like chatting in his kitchen.
759
00:47:31,543 --> 00:47:33,834
I'm not that man.
I'm not cut from that cloth.
760
00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:36,584
If I may, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
761
00:47:37,418 --> 00:47:39,293
that's exactly what this is about.
762
00:47:39,876 --> 00:47:42,793
The President
has a one-of-a-kind personality.
763
00:47:42,959 --> 00:47:45,626
His human qualities were essential
for moving our country
764
00:47:45,793 --> 00:47:49,376
from the old Soviet Union
to today's Russia.
765
00:47:49,918 --> 00:47:51,834
But he's all used up.
766
00:47:52,209 --> 00:47:53,918
We need someone different.
767
00:47:54,084 --> 00:47:55,418
A clean break.
768
00:47:55,918 --> 00:47:58,709
If the President names you Prime Minister,
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
769
00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:01,459
you will represent legitimate authority.
770
00:48:02,001 --> 00:48:05,043
Russians need stability and security.
771
00:48:05,251 --> 00:48:08,168
You're young, athletic, energetic.
772
00:48:08,334 --> 00:48:09,543
Something about you says,
773
00:48:09,709 --> 00:48:12,876
"I can handle
the full responsibility of command."
774
00:48:13,709 --> 00:48:17,168
Your career in the secret services
guarantees you're trustworthy.
775
00:48:17,834 --> 00:48:20,709
And being a man of few words
will work in your favor.
776
00:48:21,293 --> 00:48:22,168
Not against you.
777
00:48:22,334 --> 00:48:24,334
Russians are tired of carnival barkers.
778
00:48:25,043 --> 00:48:27,543
And the campaign we have in mind
779
00:48:28,834 --> 00:48:32,751
won't be the usual rallies
and empty promises.
780
00:48:32,918 --> 00:48:35,501
We want to take the risk
of portraying you
781
00:48:35,668 --> 00:48:38,251
as a different brand of politician.
782
00:48:38,418 --> 00:48:41,876
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
I don't know much about politics
783
00:48:42,043 --> 00:48:44,793
but I do know a few things
about communication.
784
00:48:44,959 --> 00:48:48,043
There are two dimensions in a society.
785
00:48:48,209 --> 00:48:50,501
The horizontal axis
that is daily life
786
00:48:50,668 --> 00:48:53,501
and the vertical axis,
which is authority.
787
00:48:54,043 --> 00:48:55,918
The Soviet system was vertical
788
00:48:56,084 --> 00:48:58,334
then all of a sudden
since the end of the Soviet period
789
00:48:58,501 --> 00:49:00,501
it has become horizontal.
790
00:49:00,668 --> 00:49:04,584
Too much horizontality
is synonymous with chaos.
791
00:49:04,751 --> 00:49:07,168
Russians dream of verticality.
792
00:49:07,334 --> 00:49:08,834
A psychoanalyst would say
793
00:49:09,001 --> 00:49:12,543
they're waiting for a leader
to obliterate the language of the mother
794
00:49:12,709 --> 00:49:15,376
and impose the word of the father
once again.
795
00:49:15,543 --> 00:49:17,709
Public opinion coalesces fast.
796
00:49:17,876 --> 00:49:21,793
We only have a few months
to convince the Russian people
797
00:49:22,501 --> 00:49:25,209
that you are the man of the hour.
798
00:49:28,459 --> 00:49:31,584
And remember,
you won't be on your own.
799
00:49:31,959 --> 00:49:35,751
I'll be there by your side
to help you and to advise you
800
00:49:35,918 --> 00:49:37,334
whenever you need me.
801
00:49:42,001 --> 00:49:43,418
It's in the bag.
802
00:49:44,876 --> 00:49:48,084
He's no rocket scientist,
but for now he'll do just fine.
803
00:49:50,626 --> 00:49:53,084
I nodded along and laughed with him.
804
00:49:53,251 --> 00:49:57,376
But things were a bit more complicated
than Berezovsky seemed to grasp.
805
00:50:01,209 --> 00:50:04,376
When he addressed him
with his own brand of chummy joviality,
806
00:50:04,543 --> 00:50:07,668
I sensed a hint of annoyance
in Putin's gaze.
807
00:50:08,334 --> 00:50:10,001
And then there was that flash of irony
808
00:50:10,168 --> 00:50:13,168
when Boris promised to guide him
every step of the way.
809
00:50:14,668 --> 00:50:17,334
It seemed the very idea
of being guided by this man
810
00:50:17,501 --> 00:50:20,751
was wildly funny to the FSB chief.
811
00:50:24,751 --> 00:50:26,709
Hurry up, Vadim Alexeyevich.
812
00:50:26,876 --> 00:50:29,126
Vladimir Vladimirovich is waiting.
813
00:50:41,751 --> 00:50:43,209
Good afternoon, sir.
814
00:50:44,043 --> 00:50:45,126
Recommendations?
815
00:50:45,293 --> 00:50:47,584
Today we have excellent sea scallops
816
00:50:47,751 --> 00:50:49,209
with cauliflower mousseline...
817
00:50:49,376 --> 00:50:50,251
A bowl of kasha.
818
00:50:50,418 --> 00:50:52,501
- Two.
- Certainly, sir.
819
00:50:55,501 --> 00:50:57,793
I have a lot of respect for Berezovsky.
820
00:50:58,543 --> 00:51:00,001
I'm grateful
821
00:51:00,501 --> 00:51:02,543
for his offer, but if...
822
00:51:03,584 --> 00:51:05,168
I embark
823
00:51:05,876 --> 00:51:07,126
on this...
824
00:51:09,001 --> 00:51:10,084
journey,
825
00:51:10,709 --> 00:51:12,959
I'll be relying on my own strengths.
826
00:51:13,126 --> 00:51:15,043
Not someone else's.
827
00:51:15,626 --> 00:51:17,751
The Russian president cannot
828
00:51:17,918 --> 00:51:19,793
and must not
829
00:51:20,209 --> 00:51:22,751
be subservient to anyone.
830
00:51:24,334 --> 00:51:25,834
It's unthinkable to me.
831
00:51:27,543 --> 00:51:30,334
Your analysis the other day
was very interesting.
832
00:51:30,501 --> 00:51:33,668
But first we should clarify something.
833
00:51:35,459 --> 00:51:36,834
If you accept my offer,
834
00:51:37,001 --> 00:51:39,751
you'll be working exclusively for me,
835
00:51:40,959 --> 00:51:42,126
Vadim Alexeyevich.
836
00:51:51,376 --> 00:51:53,959
I've been thinking
about your concept of verticality.
837
00:51:54,584 --> 00:51:55,751
It's potent.
838
00:51:56,793 --> 00:51:58,834
But it cannot remain abstract.
839
00:52:00,793 --> 00:52:04,751
We need a well-defined arena where we can
restore the verticality of power.
840
00:52:04,918 --> 00:52:08,501
Otherwise we'll appear helpless,
like all politicians in this country.
841
00:52:08,668 --> 00:52:10,293
Indeed, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
842
00:52:10,459 --> 00:52:12,793
but we can't just snap our fingers.
843
00:52:13,459 --> 00:52:15,501
There is always the unexpected.
844
00:52:15,668 --> 00:52:18,043
Which is always a result of incompetence.
845
00:52:18,209 --> 00:52:20,584
- We're at the mercy of circumstance.
- Circumstance?
846
00:52:20,751 --> 00:52:22,584
It's staring us in the face.
847
00:52:23,959 --> 00:52:24,834
Don't you see it?
848
00:52:28,043 --> 00:52:30,209
The Islamic fundamentalists
849
00:52:31,251 --> 00:52:33,959
are no longer content with just Chechnya.
850
00:52:35,751 --> 00:52:36,834
They want Dagestan,
851
00:52:37,001 --> 00:52:39,793
Ingushetia, Bashkortostan.
852
00:52:41,918 --> 00:52:43,668
We let them have them,
853
00:52:44,918 --> 00:52:48,251
in a few years there'll be nothing left
of the Russian Federation.
854
00:52:48,626 --> 00:52:51,834
I would think twice
before getting involved in that mess.
855
00:52:52,001 --> 00:52:53,293
These past few years
856
00:52:53,459 --> 00:52:56,209
Chechnya has killed
more political careers in Moscow
857
00:52:56,376 --> 00:52:58,251
than enemies on the battlefield.
858
00:52:58,668 --> 00:53:01,584
None of them have put enough energy
into the issue.
859
00:53:01,751 --> 00:53:04,751
Those politicians want a war
860
00:53:04,918 --> 00:53:07,459
that dare not speak its name.
861
00:53:07,918 --> 00:53:09,834
A humane war,
862
00:53:10,001 --> 00:53:11,793
like the Americans do.
863
00:53:12,709 --> 00:53:14,668
I'm talking about something else.
864
00:53:15,501 --> 00:53:18,084
I'm not interested
in winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
865
00:53:18,251 --> 00:53:19,709
What interests me
866
00:53:20,709 --> 00:53:24,209
is restoring integrity
to the Russian Federation.
867
00:53:24,376 --> 00:53:26,001
I won't comment on geopolitics.
868
00:53:26,293 --> 00:53:28,459
That's not my field of expertise.
869
00:53:28,918 --> 00:53:30,918
What I will say, however,
870
00:53:31,626 --> 00:53:33,751
is that it's political suicide.
871
00:53:34,584 --> 00:53:36,126
I think you're mistaken.
872
00:53:37,584 --> 00:53:41,251
You've let Westerners persuade you
that an electoral campaign has to be
873
00:53:41,418 --> 00:53:45,501
two teams of economists
discussing PowerPoint presentations.
874
00:53:48,668 --> 00:53:49,959
In Russia,
875
00:53:50,793 --> 00:53:51,959
power
876
00:53:53,043 --> 00:53:55,043
is something else entirely.
877
00:53:58,543 --> 00:54:02,251
That day, I didn't understand
precisely what Putin meant.
878
00:54:02,751 --> 00:54:05,209
But I left the lunch with one certainty:
879
00:54:05,376 --> 00:54:08,751
Berezovsky had just made
the biggest mistake of his life.
880
00:54:10,626 --> 00:54:12,251
In the early days of August,
881
00:54:12,418 --> 00:54:14,626
Boris Yeltsin chose a new Prime Minister,
882
00:54:14,793 --> 00:54:16,126
unknown to most.
883
00:54:16,459 --> 00:54:20,584
The choice of Vladimir Putin
was greeted with general skepticism.
884
00:54:20,751 --> 00:54:24,751
He was the fifth head of government
Yeltsin had enthroned in under a year.
885
00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:29,418
Our offices were
in the former House of Soviets,
886
00:54:29,584 --> 00:54:31,459
dubbed the Russian White House.
887
00:54:31,626 --> 00:54:35,334
A giant block of naphthalene
on the banks of the Moskva River.
888
00:54:36,043 --> 00:54:38,834
A whole floor had been freed up
for new hires.
889
00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:42,459
Putin knew there were only a few weeks
left to harness public opinion.
890
00:54:42,626 --> 00:54:44,126
He had no time to lose.
891
00:54:46,668 --> 00:54:50,334
Tell that son of a bitch
the Prime Minister wants results.
892
00:54:50,501 --> 00:54:51,876
Doesn't matter how.
893
00:54:52,334 --> 00:54:55,584
Sorry, but the media
doesn't set our agenda, politics does.
894
00:54:55,959 --> 00:54:58,334
We're here to produce results,
895
00:54:58,501 --> 00:54:59,959
not limp excuses.
896
00:55:00,876 --> 00:55:03,709
I have the polls you requested.
You must crunch the numbers.
897
00:55:03,876 --> 00:55:06,168
I'll meet you later.
I have to see Gusinsky first.
898
00:55:06,334 --> 00:55:07,209
We're on the right track.
899
00:55:07,376 --> 00:55:09,793
Dmitry Anatolyevich,
we shouldn't be on the right track,
900
00:55:09,959 --> 00:55:11,876
we should already be there.
901
00:55:17,251 --> 00:55:18,668
Where's Gusinsky?
902
00:55:18,834 --> 00:55:20,626
Unfortunately he couldn't make it.
903
00:55:22,043 --> 00:55:24,001
Are we not important enough for him?
904
00:55:24,168 --> 00:55:24,876
He's abroad.
905
00:55:25,043 --> 00:55:27,543
So who are you, his messengers?
906
00:55:27,918 --> 00:55:29,334
We run the NTV network.
907
00:55:30,709 --> 00:55:33,584
Please give Mr. Gusinsky
the following message:
908
00:55:34,043 --> 00:55:37,043
The policies of the Russian Federation
909
00:55:37,209 --> 00:55:40,793
are not to be decided
in the offices of NTV.
910
00:55:40,959 --> 00:55:43,084
That never crossed Mr. Gusinsky's mind.
911
00:55:43,251 --> 00:55:45,626
I watch Kukly,
your political puppet show.
912
00:55:45,793 --> 00:55:49,126
Sometimes I find it funny.
I laugh, I do!
913
00:55:49,959 --> 00:55:54,001
Unfortunately the Prime Minister
doesn't share your sense of humor.
914
00:55:54,376 --> 00:55:57,084
He suspects Mr. Gusinsky
may have a bone to pick with him.
915
00:55:57,251 --> 00:55:59,543
No way, never in a million years.
916
00:55:59,709 --> 00:56:02,209
Shame he's not here
to explain that himself.
917
00:56:02,376 --> 00:56:06,209
You represent
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a midget.
918
00:56:06,376 --> 00:56:07,626
That's not correct...
919
00:56:07,793 --> 00:56:10,293
A deformed dwarf
manipulated by oligarchs.
920
00:56:10,459 --> 00:56:12,918
In the minds of the gagmen,
he's more of a child.
921
00:56:13,084 --> 00:56:14,376
Yes, exactly.
922
00:56:14,543 --> 00:56:17,918
And you see that as grounds for laughter,
an infantile gnome?
923
00:56:18,084 --> 00:56:19,418
It's a satirical show.
924
00:56:19,584 --> 00:56:22,626
The Prime Minister determines the line
between satire and insult,
925
00:56:22,793 --> 00:56:24,626
especially during election season.
926
00:56:24,793 --> 00:56:27,584
The PM has determined a line
that must not be crossed.
927
00:56:27,751 --> 00:56:30,418
I believe Mr. Gusinsky
can guess where that line is.
928
00:56:30,584 --> 00:56:32,668
If not, he'll find out at his own expense.
929
00:56:32,834 --> 00:56:33,959
Good day!
930
00:56:36,126 --> 00:56:40,168
Of course I was working 18-hour days.
Back-to-back meetings with the PM,
931
00:56:40,334 --> 00:56:44,334
every single one of them involving
decisions of major historical importance.
932
00:56:44,501 --> 00:56:47,376
The deeper I sank
into the routine of governing men,
933
00:56:47,543 --> 00:56:50,168
the more the world seemed rife
with misunderstanding
934
00:56:50,334 --> 00:56:52,043
and missed opportunities.
935
00:56:52,584 --> 00:56:54,834
And that's
when the unexpected happened.
936
00:56:57,084 --> 00:56:59,376
One autumn night, just after midnight,
937
00:56:59,543 --> 00:57:02,668
a terrific rumbling
tore through the darkness of the capital.
938
00:57:02,834 --> 00:57:05,376
On Guryanova Street
on the outskirts of Moscow,
939
00:57:05,543 --> 00:57:07,209
hundreds of kilos of explosives
940
00:57:07,376 --> 00:57:10,334
literally cut a 9-story
apartment complex in two.
941
00:57:11,959 --> 00:57:15,709
Dozens of sleeping families
were swallowed up alive by the explosion.
942
00:57:15,876 --> 00:57:17,126
Four days later,
943
00:57:19,001 --> 00:57:21,584
a second explosion rocked the city
at 5 in the morning,
944
00:57:21,751 --> 00:57:23,876
destroying another building
in the suburbs.
945
00:57:24,209 --> 00:57:26,001
Over a hundred victims.
946
00:57:26,459 --> 00:57:28,293
It was our September 11th.
947
00:57:28,459 --> 00:57:30,918
Before that,
the Chechen War felt remote.
948
00:57:31,084 --> 00:57:34,209
But when buildings started blowing up
in the Moscow suburbs,
949
00:57:34,376 --> 00:57:37,376
Russians found themselves
with a war at their front door.
950
00:57:38,543 --> 00:57:39,626
Of course,
951
00:57:40,001 --> 00:57:41,251
you know what...
952
00:57:41,751 --> 00:57:43,209
people say?
953
00:57:45,334 --> 00:57:47,334
They say we were behind it.
954
00:57:48,126 --> 00:57:50,418
By "we" I mean the FSB.
955
00:57:50,584 --> 00:57:52,251
It isn't just a rumor.
956
00:57:53,084 --> 00:57:55,376
There's serious evidence to back it up.
957
00:57:55,793 --> 00:57:57,126
Frankly, I don't know.
958
00:57:57,959 --> 00:58:01,834
If this is a bona fide secret,
thank God nobody shared it with me.
959
00:58:02,334 --> 00:58:04,251
Why would we have done that?
960
00:58:04,418 --> 00:58:05,584
We were certain to win.
961
00:58:05,793 --> 00:58:07,418
To instill fear.
962
00:58:07,751 --> 00:58:11,168
So the Russian people
would feel threatened by the Chechens.
963
00:58:12,709 --> 00:58:15,126
To justify the second Chechen War.
964
00:58:15,293 --> 00:58:18,084
Perfectly timed to warm public opinion
965
00:58:18,251 --> 00:58:22,126
to a coming authoritarian regime.
966
00:58:25,418 --> 00:58:27,043
I don't like public speaking.
967
00:58:27,209 --> 00:58:29,876
Right now the people
need to hear your voice.
968
00:58:30,043 --> 00:58:33,209
Here, on a state visit,
not from the Kremlin Palace.
969
00:58:33,793 --> 00:58:35,709
Give them a sense of urgency.
970
00:58:36,126 --> 00:58:37,501
I'm not an actor.
971
00:58:38,459 --> 00:58:40,626
I'll give them a simple statement.
972
00:58:46,501 --> 00:58:48,918
Word has it you've ordered
the bombing of Grozny Airport
973
00:58:49,084 --> 00:58:50,709
in retaliation for the attacks.
974
00:58:50,876 --> 00:58:52,293
Don't you think such actions
975
00:58:52,459 --> 00:58:53,959
could aggravate the situation?
976
00:58:54,709 --> 00:58:56,543
I'm tired of this kind of question.
977
00:58:56,709 --> 00:58:59,543
We'll get the terrorists
wherever they're hiding.
978
00:58:59,709 --> 00:59:01,668
If they're in an airport,
we'll strike the airport,
979
00:59:01,834 --> 00:59:03,709
if they're in the shitter,
excuse my language,
980
00:59:03,876 --> 00:59:06,084
but we'll get them in the shitter.
981
00:59:06,959 --> 00:59:09,626
You have no idea
the impact that one sentence
982
00:59:09,793 --> 00:59:11,209
had on the Russian people.
983
00:59:11,376 --> 00:59:14,168
Finally, we were hearing
a voice of command and control.
984
00:59:14,334 --> 00:59:16,793
Russians hadn't heard that
in the longest time.
985
00:59:16,959 --> 00:59:18,376
Stalin's voice?
986
00:59:18,543 --> 00:59:20,043
Not Yeltsin's in any case.
987
00:59:20,209 --> 00:59:21,834
Or Gorbachev's.
988
00:59:22,543 --> 00:59:25,751
That day, Putin became the Tzar.
989
00:59:27,293 --> 00:59:30,334
THE POWER VERTICAL
990
00:59:39,043 --> 00:59:41,793
Mr. Prime Minister,
we can't land at Gudermes,
991
00:59:41,959 --> 00:59:43,834
visibility is too poor.
992
00:59:44,001 --> 00:59:47,084
I planned to spend New Year's Eve
with our troops. Understand?
993
00:59:47,251 --> 00:59:48,459
We must land!
994
00:59:48,793 --> 00:59:50,168
No, we must land!
995
00:59:50,334 --> 00:59:53,543
We need 150 meters of visibility.
996
00:59:53,709 --> 00:59:56,668
We've got scarcely 100.
It's too dangerous.
997
01:00:04,043 --> 01:00:07,251
We have troops stationed in Dagestan.
998
01:00:08,126 --> 01:00:11,334
They're ready for inspection.
Could serve as an alternative.
999
01:00:17,876 --> 01:00:20,501
If the Tzar wanted
to ring in the New Year in Chechnya,
1000
01:00:20,668 --> 01:00:22,251
well then, that's where we'd go.
1001
01:00:22,626 --> 01:00:27,251
At 1 a.m. we got into some jeeps
and headed for the mountain passes.
1002
01:00:57,084 --> 01:00:59,918
33rd division, Lieutenant Colonel Fedorov.
1003
01:01:00,084 --> 01:01:02,168
Welcome on the base, Mr. Putin.
1004
01:01:02,959 --> 01:01:05,543
Men, what you're doing is so important.
1005
01:01:06,459 --> 01:01:09,126
People believe in you.
I'm here to tell you that.
1006
01:01:09,293 --> 01:01:11,709
We're proud of you.
You're working hard.
1007
01:01:12,876 --> 01:01:16,126
I know what you and your men have done.
Very courageous.
1008
01:01:16,959 --> 01:01:19,584
I want you to know the Russian people
1009
01:01:19,876 --> 01:01:21,168
think of you
1010
01:01:21,334 --> 01:01:22,793
and are proud of you.
1011
01:01:23,293 --> 01:01:24,459
Happy New Year.
1012
01:02:40,293 --> 01:02:41,543
Wait, wait.
1013
01:02:43,751 --> 01:02:46,626
I would love to drink a toast
to the health of the wounded
1014
01:02:46,793 --> 01:02:48,209
and to wish
1015
01:02:48,834 --> 01:02:51,626
everyone present here
a happy new year,
1016
01:02:52,209 --> 01:02:55,084
but we have serious tasks ahead.
1017
01:02:56,376 --> 01:02:57,876
As you all know,
1018
01:02:58,918 --> 01:03:02,501
we're not only fighting for the honor
and dignity of our country,
1019
01:03:02,668 --> 01:03:06,626
we're fighting to prevent Russia
from disintegrating.
1020
01:03:09,376 --> 01:03:12,626
We can't afford one second of weakness,
not one second.
1021
01:03:14,126 --> 01:03:15,959
If we let our guard down,
1022
01:03:16,626 --> 01:03:18,209
all those who died,
1023
01:03:18,834 --> 01:03:20,168
died in vain.
1024
01:03:21,584 --> 01:03:24,168
So I suggest we put our glasses down.
1025
01:03:27,543 --> 01:03:30,251
We will toast, but... later.
1026
01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:39,751
I am leaving...
1027
01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:45,001
Leaving before the end of my term.
1028
01:03:45,793 --> 01:03:49,084
I understand that it is necessary.
1029
01:03:50,251 --> 01:03:52,084
Russia must enter
1030
01:03:52,584 --> 01:03:55,751
a new millennium
with new political leaders,
1031
01:03:56,626 --> 01:03:59,626
and I leave you all
in the trusted hands
1032
01:03:59,793 --> 01:04:03,459
of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
1033
01:04:08,876 --> 01:04:10,543
The Yeltsin era is over.
1034
01:04:10,709 --> 01:04:13,376
Your friend Berezovsky has to know
1035
01:04:13,543 --> 01:04:16,334
I'm fed up with his bullshit memos.
1036
01:04:16,709 --> 01:04:18,709
I thought he was our friend.
1037
01:04:18,876 --> 01:04:20,959
Boris is a very smart man.
1038
01:04:21,126 --> 01:04:24,334
But his intelligence is no safeguard
for his stupidity.
1039
01:04:26,376 --> 01:04:27,293
Better bring him in.
1040
01:04:33,834 --> 01:04:35,334
Boris Abramovich.
1041
01:04:35,959 --> 01:04:37,043
Come.
1042
01:04:38,043 --> 01:04:38,876
Sit.
1043
01:04:42,543 --> 01:04:44,501
I've read your messages,
1044
01:04:44,668 --> 01:04:46,418
some of your memos.
1045
01:04:47,043 --> 01:04:49,918
You've always offered good advice.
I'm all ears.
1046
01:04:50,084 --> 01:04:52,293
Volodya, you made me wait an hour...
1047
01:04:52,459 --> 01:04:54,001
You asked for this meeting.
1048
01:04:54,584 --> 01:04:55,918
Here we are.
1049
01:04:58,084 --> 01:04:58,876
Go ahead.
1050
01:05:01,876 --> 01:05:03,418
Well, I'll be brief.
1051
01:05:05,001 --> 01:05:07,001
We're becoming too negative, Volodya.
1052
01:05:07,168 --> 01:05:09,459
Too dark.
We're at war, fine, we get it.
1053
01:05:09,626 --> 01:05:11,376
You're a great general,
1054
01:05:11,543 --> 01:05:14,918
you'll lead us all to victory,
but let's make an effort.
1055
01:05:15,376 --> 01:05:18,626
Give these poor Russians
a little bit of hope, too.
1056
01:05:18,793 --> 01:05:21,918
Otherwise rather than voting for you,
they'll jump out the window.
1057
01:05:23,084 --> 01:05:25,001
Rallies and concerts,
1058
01:05:25,168 --> 01:05:26,834
TV commercials, posters!
1059
01:05:27,251 --> 01:05:28,584
We need to make a splash.
1060
01:05:28,751 --> 01:05:29,584
Who'll pay for that?
1061
01:05:29,751 --> 01:05:30,668
I will, of course!
1062
01:05:31,543 --> 01:05:32,918
I heard you passed up
1063
01:05:33,084 --> 01:05:34,626
free public TV airtime?
1064
01:05:34,793 --> 01:05:35,876
That's correct.
1065
01:05:36,043 --> 01:05:37,918
It's our choice. Our strategy.
1066
01:05:38,084 --> 01:05:40,084
We'll see if the facts prove us right.
1067
01:05:40,251 --> 01:05:43,918
If you keep this up,
people will forget you're a candidate.
1068
01:05:44,084 --> 01:05:45,668
Don't be ridiculous, Boris.
1069
01:05:45,959 --> 01:05:49,209
I've been interim President for 3 months.
We're the government.
1070
01:05:50,709 --> 01:05:53,751
Our campaign is the news,
what we're doing,
1071
01:05:54,668 --> 01:05:56,543
the history we're making.
1072
01:05:58,084 --> 01:06:00,459
Nobody believes advertising anymore.
1073
01:06:00,626 --> 01:06:04,043
Facts are the only advertising
we're interested in.
1074
01:06:07,876 --> 01:06:10,084
The Tzar had reinstated
the Power Vertical
1075
01:06:10,251 --> 01:06:12,626
and voters were grateful to him for it.
1076
01:06:12,793 --> 01:06:16,084
He was elected President of
the Russian Federation with no runoff.
1077
01:06:18,126 --> 01:06:21,709
Berezovsky stopped bombarding the Kremlin
with unanswered phone calls.
1078
01:06:21,876 --> 01:06:24,959
Naturally, his media mocked
the pompous inauguration ceremony.
1079
01:06:25,668 --> 01:06:27,793
But Boris was waiting
for something else:
1080
01:06:28,459 --> 01:06:31,793
a chance to show the Tzar
who was really in charge.
1081
01:06:38,751 --> 01:06:41,459
SOCHI
SUMMER RESIDENCE OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS
1082
01:07:11,584 --> 01:07:13,209
- More?
- Yes.
1083
01:07:16,001 --> 01:07:18,251
I remember, you like yours...
1084
01:07:18,959 --> 01:07:20,543
medium rare.
1085
01:07:21,626 --> 01:07:23,376
Thank you for remembering.
1086
01:07:34,834 --> 01:07:35,709
Sir...
1087
01:07:58,334 --> 01:08:00,668
On August 12, 2000, the Kursk,
1088
01:08:00,834 --> 01:08:03,209
one of the world's
largest nuclear submarines,
1089
01:08:03,376 --> 01:08:06,543
sank during a training exercise
in the Barents Sea.
1090
01:08:07,459 --> 01:08:09,001
There were a hundred crewmen aboard.
1091
01:08:09,959 --> 01:08:12,126
Some of them died instantly.
1092
01:08:12,293 --> 01:08:14,626
Others were trapped
at the bottom of the sea.
1093
01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:19,709
This was the opportunity
Berezovsky had been waiting for.
1094
01:08:27,376 --> 01:08:30,918
We rented a helicopter to keep an eye
on the area where the sub sank.
1095
01:08:31,084 --> 01:08:32,751
- Has it been identified?
- Yes.
1096
01:08:32,918 --> 01:08:35,751
The information just dropped,
but no rescue team is on site.
1097
01:08:35,918 --> 01:08:38,626
Revolting,
that's what we have to expose.
1098
01:08:38,793 --> 01:08:40,584
Russian experts
won't go on the record.
1099
01:08:40,751 --> 01:08:42,668
- Find them abroad.
- We have a crew in Germany.
1100
01:08:42,834 --> 01:08:46,001
They say NATO forces offered their help,
1101
01:08:46,168 --> 01:08:47,918
but the Russian navy turned it down.
1102
01:08:48,084 --> 01:08:49,501
They're spy ships.
1103
01:08:49,668 --> 01:08:51,959
Russia can't humiliate herself
in front of them.
1104
01:08:52,459 --> 01:08:54,459
Can't humiliate herself
in front of them?
1105
01:08:54,626 --> 01:08:57,876
Go find the families,
ask them what they think!
1106
01:08:58,043 --> 01:08:59,918
- That's what we're doing.
- TV's about emotion.
1107
01:09:00,084 --> 01:09:03,751
The emotion's with the families.
Can you imagine their anguish?
1108
01:09:03,918 --> 01:09:07,459
Their loved ones may still be alive,
trapped inside a watertight container,
1109
01:09:07,626 --> 01:09:09,626
waiting for a rescue
that may never come!
1110
01:09:11,751 --> 01:09:14,001
How long will this last?
1111
01:09:14,168 --> 01:09:16,668
Our sons are paid 50 dollars a month,
1112
01:09:16,834 --> 01:09:20,126
and now they're locked in this tin can!
1113
01:09:21,043 --> 01:09:25,543
What good did it do me to raise my son?
Do you have children?
1114
01:09:26,751 --> 01:09:28,584
Who can understand us?
1115
01:09:28,751 --> 01:09:31,626
You people in power
never understand anything!
1116
01:09:31,793 --> 01:09:33,959
You only think about getting fat!
1117
01:09:34,126 --> 01:09:38,584
Our sailors have nothing to live on
and you let them die.
1118
01:09:39,293 --> 01:09:41,459
The situation was out of control.
1119
01:09:41,626 --> 01:09:43,084
I rushed to Sochi.
1120
01:09:43,251 --> 01:09:46,293
I couldn't understand
why Putin wasn't on the ground.
1121
01:09:48,543 --> 01:09:50,543
What would you have me do?
1122
01:09:52,626 --> 01:09:54,418
They're all dead, it's obvious.
1123
01:09:54,584 --> 01:09:56,709
We can't say it until we reach them.
1124
01:09:56,876 --> 01:09:59,543
According to all the experts,
there are survivors on board.
1125
01:09:59,709 --> 01:10:01,959
That's a fact.
We have to save them.
1126
01:10:02,126 --> 01:10:05,168
Whether they're dead or alive,
Berezovsky's circus is about hurting me.
1127
01:10:05,334 --> 01:10:07,043
Everyone is waiting for you to act.
1128
01:10:07,293 --> 01:10:09,918
I act when I decide the time is right.
1129
01:10:11,084 --> 01:10:13,751
Your composure has enhanced
your popularity thus far,
1130
01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:15,459
but it's becoming a liability.
1131
01:10:16,043 --> 01:10:19,376
The Russian people are suffering
and you're not with them.
1132
01:10:19,543 --> 01:10:20,834
This is a serious matter.
1133
01:10:22,668 --> 01:10:25,543
Since the authorities
are still refusing to budge,
1134
01:10:26,043 --> 01:10:28,834
RTP has created a fund
for the families of the sailors.
1135
01:10:29,001 --> 01:10:30,543
Call this number to support...
1136
01:10:31,501 --> 01:10:32,668
Do you realize?
1137
01:10:33,376 --> 01:10:37,418
They destroyed the State,
pillaged it for ten years,
1138
01:10:38,001 --> 01:10:40,418
bankrupted our army,
now they're raising money!
1139
01:10:40,584 --> 01:10:41,543
Fucking bastards!
1140
01:10:41,709 --> 01:10:43,084
Why don't they sell
1141
01:10:43,251 --> 01:10:45,834
their fucking chalets in Saint-Moritz!
1142
01:10:48,043 --> 01:10:50,043
Get that son of a bitch on the phone.
1143
01:10:59,834 --> 01:11:01,626
Do you realize what you're doing?
1144
01:11:02,209 --> 01:11:05,251
Your network
is giving round-the-clock airtime
1145
01:11:05,418 --> 01:11:07,834
to whores
pretending to be sailors' wives.
1146
01:11:08,001 --> 01:11:09,793
What are you talking about?
You out of your mind?
1147
01:11:09,959 --> 01:11:11,668
They're not whores,
they're the real wives!
1148
01:11:11,834 --> 01:11:14,709
You're State television, Boris,
1149
01:11:14,876 --> 01:11:17,043
and you're conspiring
against the Presidency!
1150
01:11:17,209 --> 01:11:18,834
What does that mean?
1151
01:11:19,168 --> 01:11:22,084
What does this mean, exactly?
I'm asking you a question!
1152
01:11:22,251 --> 01:11:24,334
I have a question for you,
Vladimir Vladimirovich.
1153
01:11:24,501 --> 01:11:27,626
What the hell are you doing
vacationing on the Black Sea?
1154
01:11:27,793 --> 01:11:30,001
Shouldn't you be in Murmansk
running operations?
1155
01:11:30,168 --> 01:11:31,251
Where are you?
1156
01:11:31,751 --> 01:11:33,584
Fucking laughing! Where are you?
1157
01:11:33,751 --> 01:11:35,584
Côte d'Azur, right?
What are you doing there?
1158
01:11:35,751 --> 01:11:36,459
C'mon!
1159
01:11:36,626 --> 01:11:38,959
I'm not the President,
nobody gives a damn where I am!
1160
01:11:39,126 --> 01:11:41,501
Plus, it so happens I am in Moscow!
1161
01:11:42,084 --> 01:11:44,209
Just think about it, Volodya.
1162
01:11:44,376 --> 01:11:46,501
If you go and console the sailors' wives,
1163
01:11:46,668 --> 01:11:48,626
your ratings will go through the roof.
1164
01:11:48,834 --> 01:11:52,751
And our network
will put its full firepower behind you.
1165
01:11:53,209 --> 01:11:55,251
And you know that's substantial.
1166
01:12:01,001 --> 01:12:02,084
Well?
1167
01:12:02,876 --> 01:12:05,668
We're going back to Moscow.
Set up that fucking meeting.
1168
01:12:05,834 --> 01:12:07,126
We have no choice.
1169
01:12:15,293 --> 01:12:17,626
And once this mess is behind us,
1170
01:12:18,376 --> 01:12:20,709
we'll take care of your friend Boris.
1171
01:12:23,834 --> 01:12:26,459
How could Boris
have deluded himself into thinking
1172
01:12:26,626 --> 01:12:29,168
he'd tolerate a relationship of equals
1173
01:12:29,334 --> 01:12:30,959
with one of his subjects?
1174
01:12:31,126 --> 01:12:33,209
All the oligarchs got it wrong.
1175
01:12:34,209 --> 01:12:36,709
When they decided to bet on Putin, they...
1176
01:12:37,918 --> 01:12:41,251
thought they were changing straw men
and not the whole system.
1177
01:12:41,418 --> 01:12:44,918
Taking over Berezovsky's network
was a piece of cake.
1178
01:12:45,334 --> 01:12:49,209
He wasn't the majority shareholder.
He only had 49%.
1179
01:12:49,543 --> 01:12:52,793
All it took was a call to the CEO of RTP
1180
01:12:52,959 --> 01:12:55,918
and he was now to take his orders
from the Kremlin.
1181
01:13:05,709 --> 01:13:08,793
He doesn't mean you any harm.
He respects you.
1182
01:13:08,959 --> 01:13:12,501
You stay safely in Moscow,
do whatever business you like.
1183
01:13:12,793 --> 01:13:15,626
But you must stay out of politics
once and for all.
1184
01:13:16,043 --> 01:13:18,043
Politics is his business.
1185
01:13:18,834 --> 01:13:22,334
Putin is the pure product of the KGB.
1186
01:13:24,126 --> 01:13:26,084
Its fiercest species.
1187
01:13:26,543 --> 01:13:29,959
He will put Russia in shackles.
1188
01:13:30,126 --> 01:13:33,876
And all we've done in the last 10 years
to turn it into a normal country
1189
01:13:34,043 --> 01:13:35,751
will be swept away.
1190
01:13:36,126 --> 01:13:37,834
Even you, Vadya.
1191
01:13:38,001 --> 01:13:40,626
You're creating a regime
worse than the Soviet Union.
1192
01:13:40,793 --> 01:13:42,126
At least back then,
1193
01:13:42,334 --> 01:13:45,918
the Party could muzzle
the KGB guard dogs.
1194
01:13:46,084 --> 01:13:48,251
But now the Party no longer exists.
1195
01:13:48,418 --> 01:13:50,751
The FSB is worse than the KGB.
1196
01:13:50,918 --> 01:13:52,751
Who's gonna stop them, you?
1197
01:13:52,918 --> 01:13:55,584
Certainly not.
You've become one of them.
1198
01:13:56,209 --> 01:13:58,668
They're vicious animals.
1199
01:13:58,834 --> 01:14:00,834
They come from the void.
1200
01:14:01,209 --> 01:14:03,501
They've cleared their path
with a sledgehammer.
1201
01:14:03,668 --> 01:14:05,876
No rules, no limits.
1202
01:14:06,043 --> 01:14:09,751
They're hungry.
It's brutish hunger.
1203
01:14:10,334 --> 01:14:12,251
They were humiliated.
1204
01:14:12,459 --> 01:14:15,626
They're descended
from centuries of humiliation.
1205
01:14:16,876 --> 01:14:20,126
They have to grab everything right away.
1206
01:14:20,876 --> 01:14:23,709
Because they know the tables will turn.
1207
01:14:23,876 --> 01:14:25,126
Maybe, Boris.
1208
01:14:25,501 --> 01:14:26,918
I don't know.
1209
01:14:27,959 --> 01:14:32,043
What I do know is that Russia
has always been forged this way.
1210
01:14:32,584 --> 01:14:34,168
With an axe.
1211
01:14:34,334 --> 01:14:38,084
UNITED NATIONS HQ
NEW YORK
1212
01:14:38,251 --> 01:14:41,293
Cautiously,
Berezovsky chose exile in London.
1213
01:14:41,459 --> 01:14:44,418
Meanwhile,
we were taking off for New York.
1214
01:14:44,584 --> 01:14:45,709
When you reach the top,
1215
01:14:45,876 --> 01:14:49,376
politics propels you onto
the world stage with no preparation.
1216
01:14:49,918 --> 01:14:52,126
The world's greats become your peers.
1217
01:14:52,418 --> 01:14:54,001
But they're a closed circle.
1218
01:14:54,168 --> 01:14:56,751
They've had time to get acquainted,
learn the ground rules.
1219
01:14:57,668 --> 01:15:00,959
However much you may be feared
and respected in your own country,
1220
01:15:01,126 --> 01:15:04,001
here,
you're just the new kid on the block.
1221
01:15:04,668 --> 01:15:06,668
The Waldorf Astoria is the best hotel.
1222
01:15:06,834 --> 01:15:10,043
Protocol has booked us a whole floor.
20 rooms.
1223
01:15:11,918 --> 01:15:13,168
Penthouse?
1224
01:15:13,751 --> 01:15:14,709
No.
1225
01:15:15,584 --> 01:15:16,418
Why not?
1226
01:15:16,918 --> 01:15:20,168
Top 3 floors are booked by the year
for the Saudis.
1227
01:15:21,709 --> 01:15:23,168
Won't take more than an hour.
1228
01:15:23,334 --> 01:15:27,334
15 minutes to the TV studio,
half-hour interview, 15 minutes back.
1229
01:15:29,251 --> 01:15:30,834
It's a good hit for us.
1230
01:15:42,084 --> 01:15:43,251
What's this?
1231
01:15:44,209 --> 01:15:45,501
It's the freeze.
1232
01:15:46,876 --> 01:15:49,751
The US President's motorcade
is on the move.
1233
01:15:49,918 --> 01:15:51,668
No one else can budge.
1234
01:15:54,959 --> 01:15:56,418
How long does it last?
1235
01:15:58,209 --> 01:15:59,251
Depends.
1236
01:16:04,543 --> 01:16:07,084
So what's it like being a spy?
1237
01:16:07,251 --> 01:16:09,751
Not very different
from being a journalist.
1238
01:16:10,459 --> 01:16:14,376
Your job is to gather information,
to synthesize it.
1239
01:16:15,084 --> 01:16:19,001
You show it to the decision makers
who can use that information.
1240
01:16:19,168 --> 01:16:20,501
Did you enjoy it?
1241
01:16:20,668 --> 01:16:23,918
Working in intelligence
allowed me to broaden my vision.
1242
01:16:24,251 --> 01:16:27,001
To acquire certain skills.
1243
01:16:28,126 --> 01:16:31,334
Skills of management,
focusing on priorities.
1244
01:16:32,543 --> 01:16:34,418
A learning experience.
1245
01:16:35,293 --> 01:16:38,459
The Kursk tragedy shook everyone.
1246
01:16:38,751 --> 01:16:41,209
Can you tell me what happened?
1247
01:16:41,709 --> 01:16:44,293
What happened to the submarine?
1248
01:16:45,668 --> 01:16:47,084
It sank.
1249
01:16:56,418 --> 01:16:57,709
If fucking Martians
1250
01:16:57,876 --> 01:16:59,959
were to seize power in Moscow,
1251
01:17:00,126 --> 01:17:03,209
the US would immediately see them
as a legitimate government,
1252
01:17:03,376 --> 01:17:06,001
just as long
as they didn't go near their interests
1253
01:17:06,168 --> 01:17:09,501
and deferred to them as the big boss.
1254
01:17:10,168 --> 01:17:13,376
The trouble is,
they think they won the Cold War,
1255
01:17:13,543 --> 01:17:15,418
but the Soviet Union
1256
01:17:15,709 --> 01:17:17,043
didn't lose it.
1257
01:17:17,376 --> 01:17:21,334
The Cold War ended because
we freed ourselves from a dictatorship,
1258
01:17:21,501 --> 01:17:23,459
which is not the same thing.
1259
01:17:23,876 --> 01:17:25,709
We dismantled the Warsaw Pact.
1260
01:17:25,876 --> 01:17:27,793
We offered them an olive branch.
1261
01:17:27,959 --> 01:17:29,209
Not surrender.
1262
01:17:30,543 --> 01:17:32,459
They should bear that in mind.
1263
01:17:33,084 --> 01:17:34,334
Just once in a while.
1264
01:17:52,709 --> 01:17:54,459
Limonov respects you.
1265
01:17:54,626 --> 01:17:56,293
I thought he despised me.
1266
01:17:56,543 --> 01:17:58,043
He's a visionary.
1267
01:17:58,501 --> 01:18:01,334
Everyone has a place in his party.
1268
01:18:02,584 --> 01:18:06,418
So what do you think
of my revolutionary avant-garde?
1269
01:18:06,584 --> 01:18:09,501
The Kremlin isn't exactly
quaking in its boots.
1270
01:18:09,668 --> 01:18:12,209
The Kremlin is very wrong.
Sit down.
1271
01:18:13,668 --> 01:18:16,168
So, how was the trip?
1272
01:18:17,001 --> 01:18:18,793
You know what it's like over there.
1273
01:18:18,959 --> 01:18:20,918
Always fairly amusing I guess.
1274
01:18:21,793 --> 01:18:25,251
New York can be fun,
as long as you avoid the Americans.
1275
01:18:26,459 --> 01:18:28,334
Which one do you prefer, Eduard?
1276
01:18:29,918 --> 01:18:30,751
This one!
1277
01:18:32,501 --> 01:18:35,334
Have you ever been
to one of their posh dinners?
1278
01:18:35,501 --> 01:18:37,709
All the men have been
to Princeton or Yale.
1279
01:18:37,876 --> 01:18:40,543
They all have children
who go to the same schools.
1280
01:18:40,709 --> 01:18:42,084
At least when I was younger
1281
01:18:42,251 --> 01:18:45,918
I could screw one of their
buxom blonde wives in the bathroom.
1282
01:18:46,084 --> 01:18:49,876
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
It's the same everywhere.
1283
01:18:50,418 --> 01:18:53,668
Vadya, America has destroyed
the bourgeoisie.
1284
01:18:53,834 --> 01:18:55,334
The bourgeoisie had values.
1285
01:18:55,501 --> 01:18:58,376
These people only believe in numbers.
1286
01:18:58,543 --> 01:19:00,501
They're boring as hell.
1287
01:19:02,168 --> 01:19:04,043
Imperialism isn't the problem,
1288
01:19:04,209 --> 01:19:05,709
American culture is.
1289
01:19:05,876 --> 01:19:10,126
You were attracted to it, until
it swallowed you up and spat you out.
1290
01:19:10,293 --> 01:19:11,418
Watching Yeltsin
1291
01:19:11,584 --> 01:19:15,334
turn Russia into a cheap version
of the American nursing home
1292
01:19:15,501 --> 01:19:18,084
prompted me to form
the National Bolshevik Party.
1293
01:19:18,251 --> 01:19:20,293
And you know why I called it that?
1294
01:19:20,459 --> 01:19:21,709
To infuriate you!
1295
01:19:22,043 --> 01:19:23,418
Nazbol!
1296
01:19:24,001 --> 01:19:26,626
We bring together former Stalinists,
1297
01:19:26,793 --> 01:19:29,501
homosexuals and punks,
1298
01:19:29,668 --> 01:19:31,376
anarchists, skinheads,
1299
01:19:31,543 --> 01:19:33,001
religious fanatics
1300
01:19:33,168 --> 01:19:35,084
from Buddhist to Orthodox!
1301
01:19:35,251 --> 01:19:39,043
The hardest part is keeping them
from smashing each other's heads in.
1302
01:19:39,209 --> 01:19:40,959
You can be sure
they will sooner or later.
1303
01:19:41,126 --> 01:19:42,626
You don't understand.
1304
01:19:42,793 --> 01:19:46,293
These young people want to escape
the boredom of ordinary life.
1305
01:19:46,584 --> 01:19:48,293
They crave heroics.
1306
01:19:49,084 --> 01:19:51,168
It would be a shame to waste that.
1307
01:19:53,084 --> 01:19:54,626
May I bum a cigarette, Sergei?
1308
01:19:54,793 --> 01:19:55,668
Yes.
1309
01:19:55,834 --> 01:19:57,334
I need a walk.
1310
01:20:01,334 --> 01:20:04,293
I'd always seen Eduard Limonov
as a brilliant sociopath
1311
01:20:04,459 --> 01:20:07,251
with no political acumen whatsoever.
1312
01:20:07,418 --> 01:20:10,584
So I wasn't yet ready to recognize
that he was right.
1313
01:20:11,626 --> 01:20:14,959
But for the first time
I saw his reasoning for what it was.
1314
01:20:15,751 --> 01:20:18,251
Not the result of rigorous analysis
1315
01:20:18,418 --> 01:20:20,793
but far more than casual intuition.
1316
01:20:28,001 --> 01:20:29,334
END OF THE OLIGARCHS
1317
01:20:29,501 --> 01:20:30,501
Come in.
1318
01:20:31,293 --> 01:20:32,793
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
1319
01:20:33,001 --> 01:20:35,001
Vadim Alexeyevich is here to see you.
1320
01:20:35,626 --> 01:20:36,793
You may come in.
1321
01:20:41,751 --> 01:20:45,043
How are my ratings?
Elections are coming, Vadya.
1322
01:20:45,209 --> 01:20:46,209
No need to worry.
1323
01:20:46,376 --> 01:20:49,459
Around 60%.
Closest candidate gets no more than 12%.
1324
01:20:49,626 --> 01:20:51,376
I'm not interested in them,
they're insignificant.
1325
01:20:51,543 --> 01:20:53,418
One Russian is more popular than I am.
1326
01:20:54,668 --> 01:20:55,793
Stalin.
1327
01:20:56,959 --> 01:20:58,793
I believe he's been dead
for some time.
1328
01:20:58,959 --> 01:21:01,834
You intellectuals insist on denouncing
the horrors of the Gulag.
1329
01:21:02,001 --> 01:21:05,751
You think Stalin was popular
in spite of the killings. Wrong.
1330
01:21:05,918 --> 01:21:08,168
Stalin was popular
because of the killings,
1331
01:21:08,334 --> 01:21:11,959
because he knew how to handle
a thief, a traitor.
1332
01:21:13,376 --> 01:21:17,668
Know what Stalin did when
the Soviet-run trains started to derail?
1333
01:21:17,834 --> 01:21:18,668
No, I don't.
1334
01:21:18,834 --> 01:21:21,251
He had the head of the railway
shot for sabotage.
1335
01:21:21,709 --> 01:21:24,918
It didn't solve the problem,
possibly aggravated it.
1336
01:21:25,084 --> 01:21:28,459
But it allowed an outlet for fury.
1337
01:21:29,376 --> 01:21:30,959
Fury is a structural given.
1338
01:21:31,126 --> 01:21:33,584
No point fighting it,
it must be managed.
1339
01:21:34,709 --> 01:21:36,709
- You want to feed the fury.
- Yes.
1340
01:21:36,876 --> 01:21:38,543
People want a head to roll.
1341
01:21:39,501 --> 01:21:40,459
Whose?
1342
01:21:40,626 --> 01:21:42,584
The most arrogant oligarch.
1343
01:21:43,376 --> 01:21:44,459
Dmitry Sidorov.
1344
01:21:46,209 --> 01:21:47,709
Your former friend.
1345
01:21:48,501 --> 01:21:50,668
I'm told he ran off with your woman.
1346
01:21:51,251 --> 01:21:52,376
Must make you happy.
1347
01:21:52,543 --> 01:21:55,418
Didn't last long.
Let bygones be bygones.
1348
01:21:55,584 --> 01:21:58,793
He's planning to sell a majority share
of his fossil fuel empire
1349
01:21:58,959 --> 01:22:00,168
to Exxon Mobil.
1350
01:22:00,334 --> 01:22:01,834
Been at it long enough.
1351
01:22:02,293 --> 01:22:04,334
He'll make himself
20 billion dollars richer
1352
01:22:04,501 --> 01:22:08,293
by putting our fossil fuel giant
in the hands of American investors.
1353
01:22:08,459 --> 01:22:11,084
You could say a Russian company
will acquire international status.
1354
01:22:11,251 --> 01:22:12,751
I won't say that, it isn't true.
1355
01:22:12,918 --> 01:22:16,668
He's gathered a huge war chest
to run against me in the 2007 election.
1356
01:22:16,834 --> 01:22:17,751
How do you know?
1357
01:22:17,918 --> 01:22:19,751
How do you think?
We tapped his phone.
1358
01:22:24,876 --> 01:22:26,209
"Nonentity."
1359
01:22:27,501 --> 01:22:31,084
That's what he calls me
when he speaks to his friends in D.C.
1360
01:22:31,251 --> 01:22:33,084
"A nonentity."
1361
01:22:33,251 --> 01:22:36,918
He explains that when elected,
he'll change the constitution
1362
01:22:37,084 --> 01:22:40,043
and dismantle the nuclear arsenal.
1363
01:22:40,251 --> 01:22:41,543
"Nonentity!"
1364
01:22:42,751 --> 01:22:43,834
"Nonentity!"
1365
01:22:45,918 --> 01:22:47,126
This man...
1366
01:22:47,834 --> 01:22:50,543
has fed me more mud than I can swallow.
1367
01:22:55,209 --> 01:22:56,376
So I've ordered
1368
01:22:56,543 --> 01:22:58,543
Dmitry Sidorov be arrested
1369
01:22:58,876 --> 01:23:00,459
tomorrow at dawn.
1370
01:23:00,626 --> 01:23:03,209
He's heading to Siberia,
has to stop to refuel.
1371
01:23:03,376 --> 01:23:04,584
That's where we'll take him.
1372
01:23:04,751 --> 01:23:07,626
Cameramen, photographers,
they'll all be on site.
1373
01:23:07,793 --> 01:23:10,376
Your job
is to orchestrate it for the media.
1374
01:23:24,001 --> 01:23:25,376
OK...
1375
01:23:28,918 --> 01:23:30,043
This is it.
1376
01:23:31,626 --> 01:23:32,543
Here we are.
1377
01:23:32,709 --> 01:23:34,209
The news went all around the world.
1378
01:23:34,751 --> 01:23:39,084
The immediate effect was to remind people
money can't protect you from everything.
1379
01:23:39,459 --> 01:23:42,459
Of course for you Westerners,
this is totally taboo.
1380
01:23:42,626 --> 01:23:45,001
A politician arrested, why not?
1381
01:23:45,501 --> 01:23:47,751
But a billionaire? Unthinkable.
1382
01:23:48,209 --> 01:23:50,376
Your society
was founded on the principle
1383
01:23:50,543 --> 01:23:52,501
that there is no power
greater than money.
1384
01:23:54,293 --> 01:23:59,043
My job was to fit Dmitry's fall from grace
into a successful TV format.
1385
01:23:59,209 --> 01:24:00,918
This wasn't difficult.
1386
01:24:01,251 --> 01:24:04,459
The masses have always loved
to watch a powerful man's head roll.
1387
01:24:04,626 --> 01:24:07,418
There's no bloodier dictator
than the people.
1388
01:24:09,084 --> 01:24:10,459
Once Sidorov was arrested,
1389
01:24:10,626 --> 01:24:12,918
Putin's reelection was a mere formality.
1390
01:24:13,668 --> 01:24:15,043
From that point forward,
1391
01:24:15,209 --> 01:24:18,543
the Russian government began
undergoing a profound change.
1392
01:24:18,709 --> 01:24:21,293
The power struggle shifted
from the public stage
1393
01:24:21,459 --> 01:24:22,668
to the Tzar's inner circle.
1394
01:24:23,334 --> 01:24:26,709
The State once again depended
on court intrigue.
1395
01:24:27,376 --> 01:24:29,126
There are those
with an office close to the Tzar's
1396
01:24:29,293 --> 01:24:31,584
and those with a direct line to him.
1397
01:24:31,751 --> 01:24:33,918
Those who accompany him
on overseas missions,
1398
01:24:34,084 --> 01:24:36,418
and those who vacation with him
in Sochi.
1399
01:24:36,959 --> 01:24:40,251
No detail can be overlooked,
no matter how trivial.
1400
01:24:40,584 --> 01:24:42,418
From seating plans at gala dinners,
1401
01:24:42,584 --> 01:24:45,251
to waiting times
in the President's antechamber.
1402
01:24:45,418 --> 01:24:48,043
Nothing escapes a courtier's attention.
1403
01:24:50,584 --> 01:24:53,834
I adapted to the new regime
as I adapt to everything.
1404
01:24:54,001 --> 01:24:56,168
Some were far better at it than I was.
1405
01:24:56,334 --> 01:24:58,001
Like Igor Sechin.
1406
01:24:58,959 --> 01:25:01,251
Especially Igor Sechin.
1407
01:25:02,251 --> 01:25:03,501
Like many men of his kind
1408
01:25:03,668 --> 01:25:06,418
he drew his strength
from being underestimated.
1409
01:25:06,918 --> 01:25:10,668
When the period of the courtiers came,
he was in his element.
1410
01:25:10,834 --> 01:25:13,626
Indeed, he was head courtier.
1411
01:25:15,418 --> 01:25:17,001
With Dmitri Sidorov in prison,
1412
01:25:17,168 --> 01:25:19,209
the problem was what to do
with his company.
1413
01:25:19,626 --> 01:25:21,959
Sechin gobbled it up in a single bite.
1414
01:25:22,126 --> 01:25:25,793
Judicial receivership,
public auction with just one participant,
1415
01:25:25,959 --> 01:25:29,084
and it ends up in the hands
of a financial group so opaque
1416
01:25:29,251 --> 01:25:31,084
it doesn't even have a phone number.
1417
01:25:31,251 --> 01:25:33,418
Well, did you get what you want?
1418
01:25:33,584 --> 01:25:34,918
Got what the Tzar wanted.
1419
01:25:35,084 --> 01:25:37,084
He wanted Dmitry's business for himself?
1420
01:25:37,251 --> 01:25:39,668
What he wants
is to destroy the oligarchs.
1421
01:25:39,834 --> 01:25:42,043
And replace them
with siloviki like yourself?
1422
01:25:42,209 --> 01:25:44,918
Russia has always needed strongmen.
1423
01:25:45,293 --> 01:25:47,959
Soldiers, spies, police.
1424
01:25:48,543 --> 01:25:49,834
That's how I got where I am.
1425
01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:52,043
And why you take what you want.
Well done.
1426
01:25:52,209 --> 01:25:54,959
If that's how you wish to put it,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
1427
01:25:56,876 --> 01:25:58,126
Watch out.
1428
01:25:58,709 --> 01:26:02,251
He's back from the G20 in Berlin.
Tired, bad-tempered.
1429
01:26:05,084 --> 01:26:07,251
It's always the same,
they treat me like I'm...
1430
01:26:07,418 --> 01:26:09,376
the president of Finland.
1431
01:26:09,918 --> 01:26:13,501
They better watch out.
They need to be very careful.
1432
01:26:13,959 --> 01:26:17,459
The ability to inspire fear
is a poor man's sole weapon
1433
01:26:17,626 --> 01:26:20,626
when he's defending his dignity.
I learned that on the street.
1434
01:26:21,043 --> 01:26:23,501
Trouble is, Mr. President,
by spooking our enemies
1435
01:26:23,668 --> 01:26:26,043
we're in danger
of spooking the markets too.
1436
01:26:26,209 --> 01:26:27,418
We can't afford that.
1437
01:26:27,584 --> 01:26:30,251
The markets never ruled Russia, Vadya.
1438
01:26:30,418 --> 01:26:31,918
Maybe once.
1439
01:26:32,668 --> 01:26:34,418
Maybe once under Yeltsin.
1440
01:26:34,584 --> 01:26:37,209
What was the result then?
Law of the jungle.
1441
01:26:39,043 --> 01:26:40,501
We need...
1442
01:26:40,834 --> 01:26:41,834
to take control.
1443
01:26:42,293 --> 01:26:44,876
Take control of all the wealth
of the country.
1444
01:26:45,168 --> 01:26:49,293
The forests, the mines, the gas,
and the petrol.
1445
01:26:50,418 --> 01:26:53,126
We'll see to it
that it serves the interests
1446
01:26:53,376 --> 01:26:56,126
and the glory of the Russian people.
1447
01:26:58,668 --> 01:27:00,209
Like with Dmitry.
1448
01:27:00,376 --> 01:27:01,293
What about Dmitry?
1449
01:27:02,168 --> 01:27:04,418
Well, the oil monopolies
1450
01:27:04,584 --> 01:27:07,834
went directly
from Sidorov's pocket to Sechin's.
1451
01:27:08,959 --> 01:27:12,543
What's that got to do with the interest
and glory of the Russian people?
1452
01:27:41,459 --> 01:27:44,293
Lovely weather,
you should have a dip before you leave.
1453
01:27:44,459 --> 01:27:46,418
Thanks, another time.
1454
01:27:46,709 --> 01:27:47,918
You prefer Sochi?
1455
01:27:48,959 --> 01:27:50,334
You know why I'm here.
1456
01:27:52,126 --> 01:27:54,001
I'd like to hear you say it.
1457
01:27:54,418 --> 01:27:57,126
- There's a rumor...
- You didn't come about a rumor.
1458
01:28:03,793 --> 01:28:05,501
We have very reliable intel
1459
01:28:05,668 --> 01:28:08,459
that you're one of
the Ukrainian protesters' main supporters.
1460
01:28:08,626 --> 01:28:09,459
Since you know...
1461
01:28:09,626 --> 01:28:11,001
Putin is spitting mad.
1462
01:28:11,168 --> 01:28:12,043
I was worried,
1463
01:28:12,209 --> 01:28:14,793
but in fact
you come bearing good news.
1464
01:28:14,959 --> 01:28:18,584
Ukraine has been an integral part
of Russian territory for centuries.
1465
01:28:18,751 --> 01:28:21,043
- You genuinely believe that?
- I'm just the messenger!
1466
01:28:22,376 --> 01:28:23,751
Know what he said?
1467
01:28:24,376 --> 01:28:26,168
"Go and see that fucker!
1468
01:28:26,334 --> 01:28:28,043
"Tell him he's gone too far
1469
01:28:28,209 --> 01:28:29,793
"and try to reason with him."
1470
01:28:31,293 --> 01:28:33,709
- Know what his problem is?
- I know what you think it is.
1471
01:28:33,876 --> 01:28:38,293
That he's not your regular politician,
that he's KGB, a spy.
1472
01:28:38,709 --> 01:28:39,668
He's not a spy.
1473
01:28:39,834 --> 01:28:43,668
A spy's job is to gather accurate intel,
but he's a counterspy.
1474
01:28:43,834 --> 01:28:46,668
A counterspy's job is to be paranoid,
1475
01:28:46,834 --> 01:28:49,168
to see conspiracies everywhere,
1476
01:28:49,334 --> 01:28:51,001
and to invent them if necessary.
1477
01:28:51,168 --> 01:28:53,126
You've been in exile too long.
1478
01:28:53,418 --> 01:28:54,543
You've lost touch.
1479
01:28:54,709 --> 01:28:57,584
As if the poor Ukrainians
don't have every reason to revolt
1480
01:28:57,751 --> 01:28:59,668
against a pro-Russian government.
1481
01:28:59,834 --> 01:29:03,001
You know who the main supporters
of the Ukrainian protesters are?
1482
01:29:03,168 --> 01:29:05,668
The CIA, the US State Department,
1483
01:29:05,834 --> 01:29:07,584
major American foundations,
1484
01:29:07,751 --> 01:29:09,834
George Soros and you,
1485
01:29:10,001 --> 01:29:12,376
to the tune of 30 million dollars!
1486
01:29:12,543 --> 01:29:13,709
Or so I've heard.
1487
01:29:13,876 --> 01:29:15,126
Well, that's politics, Vadya.
1488
01:29:15,626 --> 01:29:17,126
Do you know what else it is?
1489
01:29:17,459 --> 01:29:18,709
It's democracy.
1490
01:29:19,418 --> 01:29:22,168
You forgot the meaning
of that word long ago.
1491
01:29:27,668 --> 01:29:29,668
Remember, I'm not here by choice.
1492
01:29:29,834 --> 01:29:32,334
I'm living in exile here, Vadya.
1493
01:29:33,043 --> 01:29:36,793
If I even set foot in Russia,
I'll end up in Siberia like Sidorov.
1494
01:29:38,376 --> 01:29:39,376
Boris,
1495
01:29:39,543 --> 01:29:42,668
despite our differences,
the Tzar is still your friend.
1496
01:29:42,834 --> 01:29:45,209
You were permitted
to sell your Russian assets.
1497
01:29:45,376 --> 01:29:47,793
1.3 billion, correct?
1498
01:29:47,959 --> 01:29:49,126
Far less than they were worth.
1499
01:29:57,501 --> 01:29:59,293
What if I keep on at it?
1500
01:30:01,751 --> 01:30:03,418
You gonna send hit men for me?
1501
01:30:06,834 --> 01:30:07,793
Look.
1502
01:30:08,126 --> 01:30:09,751
I've got some of my own.
1503
01:30:11,376 --> 01:30:13,126
And they're better than yours.
1504
01:30:13,751 --> 01:30:15,959
Because I pay them ten times more.
1505
01:30:17,709 --> 01:30:20,334
I didn't come here to threaten you.
1506
01:30:21,293 --> 01:30:23,501
I understand your resentment.
1507
01:30:24,293 --> 01:30:26,334
But you can't turn against your country.
1508
01:30:26,501 --> 01:30:28,584
Putin's Russia isn't my country.
1509
01:30:29,543 --> 01:30:33,293
In spite of all our flaws,
we managed to build a free country
1510
01:30:33,459 --> 01:30:35,834
where you could do what you want,
say what you want
1511
01:30:36,001 --> 01:30:37,668
for the first time in Russian history.
1512
01:30:37,834 --> 01:30:40,709
And you have wrecked all that
in just a few years.
1513
01:30:42,209 --> 01:30:45,251
You turned Russia back into
what it always was...
1514
01:30:46,709 --> 01:30:48,376
a prison the size of a country.
1515
01:30:49,668 --> 01:30:51,709
Just like in the Soviet times.
1516
01:31:34,626 --> 01:31:35,668
Hello.
1517
01:31:38,293 --> 01:31:39,626
Is this your boat?
1518
01:31:40,126 --> 01:31:41,584
Nothing is ever mine.
1519
01:31:42,543 --> 01:31:44,501
At least not in the way you mean.
1520
01:31:45,459 --> 01:31:47,001
Oligarch money?
1521
01:31:47,793 --> 01:31:49,168
Are you afraid?
1522
01:31:50,334 --> 01:31:52,126
Afraid your masters will find out?
1523
01:31:52,293 --> 01:31:53,418
Masters?
1524
01:31:53,709 --> 01:31:54,876
From what I hear,
1525
01:31:55,043 --> 01:31:56,751
you're in the service to power now.
1526
01:31:56,918 --> 01:31:58,501
I suppose so.
1527
01:31:59,459 --> 01:32:02,459
You don't like
Vladimir Vladimirovich very much.
1528
01:32:02,626 --> 01:32:03,918
No, you're right.
1529
01:32:04,084 --> 01:32:05,543
I don't like power.
1530
01:32:05,959 --> 01:32:09,043
I like it even less
when you pretend it's modern art.
1531
01:32:09,209 --> 01:32:11,501
Sorry Vadya, but I find you despicable.
1532
01:32:11,668 --> 01:32:12,709
Despicable?
1533
01:32:13,793 --> 01:32:14,668
That's a bit harsh.
1534
01:32:14,834 --> 01:32:16,168
You've earned it.
1535
01:32:17,668 --> 01:32:18,876
You dodged my question.
1536
01:32:19,043 --> 01:32:21,834
Are we being bankrolled
by oligarchs as we speak?
1537
01:32:23,209 --> 01:32:26,918
This boat belongs to
a businessman from Portland.
1538
01:32:27,084 --> 01:32:29,668
He invented some software
when he was 24,
1539
01:32:29,834 --> 01:32:31,376
was a multi-millionaire by 26
1540
01:32:31,543 --> 01:32:34,501
and sold his company
to Microsoft by 28.
1541
01:32:34,668 --> 01:32:37,084
Been bored stiff ever since.
1542
01:32:38,293 --> 01:32:42,293
He'd like to have another idea
in his lifetime but it's slow in coming.
1543
01:32:42,793 --> 01:32:44,043
You sleeping with him?
1544
01:32:45,209 --> 01:32:46,501
Absolutely not.
1545
01:32:47,418 --> 01:32:49,418
When I have an idea
of a line of jewelry,
1546
01:32:49,584 --> 01:32:51,001
he funds it.
1547
01:32:51,334 --> 01:32:53,168
Sometimes he makes a bit of money.
1548
01:32:53,334 --> 01:32:56,043
I mean,
clearly chump change to him.
1549
01:32:56,418 --> 01:32:58,376
He lends you his boat
when you fancy it?
1550
01:32:58,668 --> 01:32:59,668
Yes.
1551
01:33:00,168 --> 01:33:03,834
When I'm bored of this world,
which is often,
1552
01:33:04,001 --> 01:33:06,168
I take refuge here.
1553
01:33:06,584 --> 01:33:08,084
A gilded cage.
1554
01:33:08,251 --> 01:33:09,751
Your comfort zone.
1555
01:33:11,751 --> 01:33:13,459
I loved Dmitry.
1556
01:33:15,293 --> 01:33:17,626
We had fun for a few months.
1557
01:33:17,793 --> 01:33:20,626
I loved the crazy wind that was blowing.
1558
01:33:20,793 --> 01:33:22,376
Then you got rid of him too.
1559
01:33:22,543 --> 01:33:23,876
I wasn't cruel.
1560
01:33:24,043 --> 01:33:25,418
Not that time.
1561
01:33:27,334 --> 01:33:28,584
We grew apart.
1562
01:33:28,751 --> 01:33:30,584
Dmitry got interested in oil.
1563
01:33:30,751 --> 01:33:32,959
That didn't bring him much luck.
1564
01:33:35,334 --> 01:33:38,209
But for a few years
I preferred Los Angeles
1565
01:33:38,376 --> 01:33:39,459
to anywhere else.
1566
01:33:39,709 --> 01:33:41,793
Was Hollywood up to your standards?
1567
01:33:42,084 --> 01:33:43,584
Hollywood!
1568
01:33:44,084 --> 01:33:48,001
I stayed away from Hollywood.
It's like Moscow.
1569
01:33:48,334 --> 01:33:52,501
Only power relationships count,
the rest is insignificant.
1570
01:33:52,668 --> 01:33:53,918
I liked the desert,
1571
01:33:54,084 --> 01:33:56,751
I liked the ocean waves,
1572
01:33:58,001 --> 01:34:00,959
driving along the Pacific Coast Highway...
1573
01:34:02,043 --> 01:34:05,334
and when I felt like going to Japan,
I went to Japan.
1574
01:34:18,626 --> 01:34:20,668
This is the prettiest cove.
1575
01:34:22,668 --> 01:34:24,209
Your plane awaits.
1576
01:34:29,043 --> 01:34:30,709
Tonight I'll be in Moscow.
1577
01:34:32,001 --> 01:34:33,543
How miserable.
1578
01:34:42,209 --> 01:34:45,459
ORANGE REVOLUTION
1579
01:34:46,709 --> 01:34:49,209
MAIDAN INDEPENDANCE SQUARE
UKRAINE 2004
1580
01:34:49,376 --> 01:34:51,543
The following autumn, as expected,
1581
01:34:51,709 --> 01:34:54,043
the situation in Ukraine worsened.
1582
01:34:54,209 --> 01:34:57,334
The protesters refused
to accept the election results.
1583
01:34:58,084 --> 01:35:00,543
Hundreds of thousands of them
occupied the Maidan,
1584
01:35:00,709 --> 01:35:04,126
Kiev's central square,
with songs, orange ribbons,
1585
01:35:04,293 --> 01:35:07,459
multicolored tents
and pro-Western slogans.
1586
01:35:09,293 --> 01:35:10,626
Don't disperse!
1587
01:35:11,459 --> 01:35:12,959
Stay on the Maidan!
1588
01:35:13,418 --> 01:35:17,668
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians
are joining us!
1589
01:35:18,751 --> 01:35:20,959
Suddenly, international observers
1590
01:35:21,376 --> 01:35:24,668
came out of the woodwork
to dispute the results of the election
1591
01:35:24,834 --> 01:35:28,001
which were won by
pro-Russian candidate Yanukovych.
1592
01:35:29,043 --> 01:35:32,793
Those elections were notoriously rigged.
I happened to be there.
1593
01:35:32,959 --> 01:35:34,293
Really?
1594
01:35:34,793 --> 01:35:36,626
There'd just been a vote in Iraq
1595
01:35:36,793 --> 01:35:39,168
with American soldiers
controlling polling stations,
1596
01:35:39,334 --> 01:35:42,709
and everyone thought that was fine.
But not in Ukraine.
1597
01:35:43,084 --> 01:35:45,209
No, in Ukraine
there had to be another vote,
1598
01:35:45,376 --> 01:35:47,543
because the result wasn't right.
1599
01:35:47,709 --> 01:35:50,418
They called that farce
the Orange Revolution,
1600
01:35:50,584 --> 01:35:54,084
and the previous year in Georgia
it was the Rose Revolution.
1601
01:35:54,251 --> 01:35:58,584
Another poetic revolution,
all pretty girls and lofty ideals.
1602
01:35:58,751 --> 01:36:03,084
Yet another stooge of the Americans
is catapulted to power.
1603
01:36:03,501 --> 01:36:07,584
Do you seriously believe
it takes a CIA conspiracy
1604
01:36:07,751 --> 01:36:09,834
to make Ukrainians
want to flee Russia's orbit
1605
01:36:10,001 --> 01:36:11,793
in favor of the European Union?
1606
01:36:11,959 --> 01:36:13,668
What people do you mean?
1607
01:36:13,959 --> 01:36:17,584
Do you really think everyone
finds your Europe so attractive?
1608
01:36:17,751 --> 01:36:21,126
We don't need a crystal ball
to see that Russia's turn is coming.
1609
01:36:21,293 --> 01:36:24,251
The next lovely color-coded revolution
will be in Moscow.
1610
01:36:24,418 --> 01:36:28,668
The future president of Russia
will have a degree from Yale.
1611
01:36:29,334 --> 01:36:31,959
That process seemed inevitable.
1612
01:36:32,334 --> 01:36:35,251
The young people were fed up with us,
and the Americans
1613
01:36:35,418 --> 01:36:37,584
were making the most of that rebellion.
1614
01:36:37,751 --> 01:36:40,751
We'd have to be stronger than them
to survive.
1615
01:36:41,126 --> 01:36:43,459
Now the old methods
had outlived their usefulness,
1616
01:36:43,626 --> 01:36:46,084
locking up agitators,
expelling diplomats...
1617
01:36:46,251 --> 01:36:49,668
If we were in a bad mood that day,
eliminating opponents.
1618
01:36:49,834 --> 01:36:51,293
I don't believe in any of that.
1619
01:36:53,168 --> 01:36:56,334
So I took a chance
and tried a different tack.
1620
01:37:09,834 --> 01:37:13,626
The President has been informed
of your arrival. He sends his greetings.
1621
01:37:19,543 --> 01:37:21,418
Alexander Sergeyevich,
1622
01:37:21,793 --> 01:37:25,293
I've been following you
and your Night Wolves for a few years.
1623
01:37:25,459 --> 01:37:27,168
I'm impressed.
1624
01:37:27,334 --> 01:37:30,626
You take those lost souls and...
1625
01:37:31,209 --> 01:37:34,376
give them a home,
a sense of discipline.
1626
01:37:34,543 --> 01:37:35,584
Our group
1627
01:37:35,751 --> 01:37:37,668
gives them two things they lacked:
1628
01:37:37,834 --> 01:37:40,209
fraternity and strength.
1629
01:37:40,793 --> 01:37:44,168
You aren't just a biker gang,
you're true Russian patriots.
1630
01:37:44,334 --> 01:37:45,376
We have values.
1631
01:37:45,543 --> 01:37:47,084
Russian values.
1632
01:37:47,251 --> 01:37:50,751
Those of our Holy Mother,
the Orthodox Church.
1633
01:37:50,918 --> 01:37:54,668
I understand, Alexander Sergeyevich,
and so does the President.
1634
01:37:55,001 --> 01:37:57,293
Wolves are not merely predators,
1635
01:37:57,459 --> 01:37:59,876
they're also
the guardians of the forest.
1636
01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:03,084
Did you see what happened
in Ukraine?
1637
01:38:03,251 --> 01:38:04,709
Yes. Revolution.
1638
01:38:04,876 --> 01:38:06,251
A coup.
1639
01:38:07,709 --> 01:38:09,168
Do you know who took power?
1640
01:38:09,334 --> 01:38:11,376
- The Americans.
- Spot on!
1641
01:38:12,126 --> 01:38:16,709
They set up a youth organization,
paid for free concerts in Maidan Square.
1642
01:38:17,293 --> 01:38:21,084
I bet even the orange ribbon
was thought up by an adman.
1643
01:38:21,293 --> 01:38:23,543
Everything is geared to the young
1644
01:38:23,709 --> 01:38:27,043
because their energy is the most
precious commodity out there.
1645
01:38:27,209 --> 01:38:30,876
Their frustration,
their desire to change the world.
1646
01:38:31,043 --> 01:38:32,543
Young people need a cause.
1647
01:38:32,709 --> 01:38:34,084
And an enemy.
1648
01:38:34,959 --> 01:38:37,043
We need to find them
a cause and an enemy
1649
01:38:37,209 --> 01:38:39,876
before they choose those things
for themselves.
1650
01:38:40,043 --> 01:38:43,293
Or worse, the Americans choose for them.
1651
01:38:43,459 --> 01:38:45,418
Except we can't do that.
1652
01:38:45,584 --> 01:38:47,293
Look around you, Alexander,
1653
01:38:47,459 --> 01:38:49,918
all we have here
are bureaucrats in suits.
1654
01:38:50,084 --> 01:38:51,459
We're the adults,
1655
01:38:51,626 --> 01:38:54,543
we're in power.
We're their true enemy.
1656
01:38:55,251 --> 01:38:57,001
You're younger than me, I believe.
1657
01:38:57,168 --> 01:38:59,084
You've taken a different path.
1658
01:38:59,293 --> 01:39:02,668
You embody freedom and adventure.
Your vitality is undimmed.
1659
01:39:02,834 --> 01:39:04,459
Young people can feel that.
1660
01:39:05,043 --> 01:39:07,501
The Tzar is with you.
He's your brother.
1661
01:39:07,751 --> 01:39:09,251
He's no bureaucrat.
1662
01:39:09,418 --> 01:39:11,876
He likes speed, he does judo, he hunts.
1663
01:39:12,043 --> 01:39:14,834
He is of the race of conquerors.
1664
01:39:15,001 --> 01:39:18,126
Do you think he'd join
one of our rallies?
1665
01:39:18,293 --> 01:39:19,209
Of course.
1666
01:39:19,376 --> 01:39:21,334
The Night Wolves will be honored.
1667
01:39:21,501 --> 01:39:24,084
We'll hold a rally
for all the young patriots.
1668
01:39:24,251 --> 01:39:27,001
We'll kick off the struggle
against our true foe:
1669
01:39:27,168 --> 01:39:29,918
the decadent West and its false values.
1670
01:39:30,084 --> 01:39:32,626
Maidan, but in reverse.
1671
01:39:32,793 --> 01:39:33,918
Exactly.
1672
01:39:34,084 --> 01:39:36,918
Russia must become a place
1673
01:39:37,084 --> 01:39:39,959
where people can vent their rage
against the world
1674
01:39:40,126 --> 01:39:42,834
while remaining
faithful servants to the Tzar.
1675
01:39:43,001 --> 01:39:43,751
Basically,
1676
01:39:43,918 --> 01:39:46,876
you want to make revolution impossible.
1677
01:39:47,293 --> 01:39:50,501
Let's just say
we want to remove the need for one.
1678
01:39:53,334 --> 01:39:54,668
Without a drop of vodka,
1679
01:39:54,834 --> 01:39:58,084
Zaldostanov left the Kremlin intoxicated.
1680
01:39:58,251 --> 01:40:01,751
Little did he know my next meeting
was with the intriguing spokesperson
1681
01:40:01,918 --> 01:40:04,501
of an Orthodox renaissance movement...
1682
01:40:06,834 --> 01:40:11,293
Followed by the head of a group
of strikingly crusty young communists...
1683
01:40:12,626 --> 01:40:15,668
And the leader
of the Spartak supporters.
1684
01:40:15,834 --> 01:40:17,626
I recruited them all:
1685
01:40:17,793 --> 01:40:19,209
bikers and hooligans,
1686
01:40:19,376 --> 01:40:23,043
anarchists and skinheads,
communists and religious fanatics,
1687
01:40:23,209 --> 01:40:25,918
from the far right to the far left
and beyond.
1688
01:40:26,209 --> 01:40:27,793
After what happened in Ukraine,
1689
01:40:27,959 --> 01:40:31,043
we could no longer leave
the forces of fury unchecked.
1690
01:40:31,501 --> 01:40:34,001
Monopolizing power
was no longer enough,
1691
01:40:34,168 --> 01:40:36,751
we needed to monopolize subversion.
1692
01:40:42,543 --> 01:40:44,834
So who didn't I bring on board?
1693
01:40:45,418 --> 01:40:49,459
The technocrats responsible
for the disasters of the '90s,
1694
01:40:49,876 --> 01:40:51,668
the remaining oligarchs,
1695
01:40:52,209 --> 01:40:54,584
the politically correct banner-wavers.
1696
01:40:54,876 --> 01:40:56,293
The vegans...
1697
01:40:56,459 --> 01:40:57,626
Actually,
1698
01:40:58,501 --> 01:41:01,293
I needed those characters
in the opposition.
1699
01:41:01,834 --> 01:41:03,334
They were my best players.
1700
01:41:15,168 --> 01:41:17,126
Virgin Mary, Mother of God
1701
01:41:17,293 --> 01:41:19,251
Banish Putin, banish Putin!
1702
01:41:19,418 --> 01:41:21,209
Black robes brag, gold epaulettes
1703
01:41:21,376 --> 01:41:23,084
All parishioners genuflect!
1704
01:41:24,751 --> 01:41:26,668
Freedom's ghost has gone to heaven
1705
01:41:26,834 --> 01:41:28,459
Gay Pride's chained and in detention!
1706
01:41:28,626 --> 01:41:31,626
When Pussy Riot marched
into the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
1707
01:41:32,001 --> 01:41:35,334
yelling obscenities
against Putin and Patriarch Kirill,
1708
01:41:35,584 --> 01:41:38,001
we went up five points
in the opinion polls.
1709
01:41:38,501 --> 01:41:40,543
I thought they were heroic, personally.
1710
01:41:40,876 --> 01:41:42,501
They go about it the wrong way.
1711
01:41:42,668 --> 01:41:45,793
They score against their own team.
In politics, the sanction is swift.
1712
01:41:46,168 --> 01:41:47,876
The sanction cuts both ways.
1713
01:41:48,459 --> 01:41:50,668
It gave them worldwide recognition.
1714
01:41:51,668 --> 01:41:54,001
I'd love to come, especially if she's not.
1715
01:41:54,168 --> 01:41:55,834
Wait, I will be back.
1716
01:41:56,959 --> 01:41:58,459
Vadim!
1717
01:41:58,876 --> 01:42:00,168
Miss Chekhova.
1718
01:42:00,334 --> 01:42:03,084
I'm so flattered
you blessed us with your presence.
1719
01:42:03,251 --> 01:42:06,584
Don't mock me.
You know how influential your salon is.
1720
01:42:06,751 --> 01:42:07,793
Love,
1721
01:42:07,959 --> 01:42:11,251
society gossip
has never had much influence on power.
1722
01:42:11,751 --> 01:42:15,376
Thanks to you
I can rub shoulders with my opponents.
1723
01:42:15,709 --> 01:42:16,876
Indeed.
1724
01:42:17,876 --> 01:42:20,501
Garry Kasparov is here.
1725
01:42:24,043 --> 01:42:27,001
Chess champions
have never gone far in politics.
1726
01:42:27,168 --> 01:42:28,543
Vadim Baranov.
1727
01:42:29,209 --> 01:42:30,959
The Wizard of the Kremlin.
1728
01:42:31,126 --> 01:42:31,834
That's me.
1729
01:42:32,001 --> 01:42:34,001
I hear you've given
your doctrine a name.
1730
01:42:34,168 --> 01:42:36,459
Indeed. "Sovereign Democracy."
1731
01:42:36,626 --> 01:42:40,376
Russia needs to be a democracy
to benefit from globalization.
1732
01:42:40,543 --> 01:42:44,418
I see no traces of democracy
in our society, but do carry on.
1733
01:42:44,584 --> 01:42:47,251
Sovereignty is politically synonymous
with stability.
1734
01:42:47,418 --> 01:42:50,709
The more stable the regime,
the more competitive it is.
1735
01:42:50,876 --> 01:42:54,126
You know what people say
of your "sovereign democracy?"
1736
01:42:54,293 --> 01:42:55,959
That it is to democracy
1737
01:42:56,126 --> 01:42:59,084
what an electric chair is to a chair.
1738
01:43:02,334 --> 01:43:04,793
A bit of clever wit! At least it's funny.
1739
01:43:13,084 --> 01:43:14,834
You left the Côte d'Azur.
1740
01:43:15,376 --> 01:43:17,168
I never stay anywhere for long.
1741
01:43:17,793 --> 01:43:20,001
You know me,
it's not one of my attributes.
1742
01:43:20,168 --> 01:43:21,626
Are you living in Moscow?
1743
01:43:22,418 --> 01:43:25,251
When I'm here,
I stay at the Hotel Metropol.
1744
01:43:25,418 --> 01:43:26,709
I rent a suite year-round.
1745
01:43:26,876 --> 01:43:28,043
Are you inviting me?
1746
01:43:32,959 --> 01:43:35,668
Do you remember my dear friend,
the dog-man?
1747
01:43:36,043 --> 01:43:37,168
Of course.
1748
01:43:37,334 --> 01:43:38,293
Arseny.
1749
01:43:38,459 --> 01:43:40,001
He's an acclaimed director now.
1750
01:43:40,334 --> 01:43:43,043
He's putting on Monteverdi's Orfeo.
1751
01:43:43,626 --> 01:43:47,959
He's turning the whole theater
into a pagan basilica.
1752
01:43:48,793 --> 01:43:50,584
He calls it a space liturgy.
1753
01:43:51,709 --> 01:43:53,751
I was his high priestess in Paris.
1754
01:43:55,126 --> 01:43:56,251
You want to come?
1755
01:43:57,043 --> 01:43:59,918
Maybe that kind of provocation
no longer interests you.
1756
01:44:07,251 --> 01:44:09,501
I'm not sure I remember who you are.
1757
01:44:09,668 --> 01:44:11,459
I get lost in all your mazes.
1758
01:44:11,626 --> 01:44:12,876
It's a game.
1759
01:44:13,709 --> 01:44:16,418
Politics is really
the only game worth playing.
1760
01:44:16,834 --> 01:44:18,126
You've become cynical.
1761
01:44:18,751 --> 01:44:21,501
You've reached the limit
of your intelligence.
1762
01:44:21,668 --> 01:44:22,793
Cynical.
1763
01:44:23,626 --> 01:44:24,793
Possibly.
1764
01:44:26,001 --> 01:44:26,918
But not only.
1765
01:44:27,084 --> 01:44:28,376
I don't know.
1766
01:44:30,251 --> 01:44:32,251
I'll have to get back to you on it.
1767
01:44:35,626 --> 01:44:38,001
As for now, I'm not sure.
1768
01:44:38,959 --> 01:44:40,668
Come with me to the opera.
1769
01:44:42,918 --> 01:44:44,751
We'll dine at the Metropol.
1770
01:45:17,793 --> 01:45:19,876
I'm tired, Ksenia.
1771
01:45:20,334 --> 01:45:21,543
What of?
1772
01:45:23,459 --> 01:45:25,918
Using your black magic
in the service of power?
1773
01:45:26,834 --> 01:45:29,668
The other day I caught a glimpse
of myself in a mirror,
1774
01:45:29,834 --> 01:45:31,459
only it wasn't me.
1775
01:45:32,001 --> 01:45:33,459
It was my father.
1776
01:45:33,751 --> 01:45:35,668
My father's face imprinted on mine
1777
01:45:36,043 --> 01:45:37,959
despite my best efforts.
1778
01:45:39,959 --> 01:45:41,168
Let's go in.
1779
01:45:42,418 --> 01:45:43,793
I'm cold.
1780
01:45:47,626 --> 01:45:50,209
Last time you asked me a question.
1781
01:45:50,793 --> 01:45:51,959
Remember?
1782
01:45:52,459 --> 01:45:54,043
You told me you needed some time.
1783
01:45:54,209 --> 01:45:55,709
Now I can answer.
1784
01:45:55,959 --> 01:45:58,251
You aren't just cynical.
1785
01:45:58,668 --> 01:46:00,626
You have chosen
1786
01:46:00,793 --> 01:46:02,334
to espouse your times.
1787
01:46:02,501 --> 01:46:05,126
You could just as easily
have run away from them.
1788
01:46:05,293 --> 01:46:06,334
Do you like these times?
1789
01:46:06,501 --> 01:46:07,834
They're ours.
1790
01:46:09,959 --> 01:46:12,501
We're no better or worse than they are.
1791
01:46:12,918 --> 01:46:16,543
I don't think I'm kidding myself.
I embody the worst of them.
1792
01:46:17,126 --> 01:46:20,001
You think you're gonna have
to answer for them one day.
1793
01:46:20,168 --> 01:46:21,876
Do you believe in the future?
1794
01:46:22,543 --> 01:46:23,709
I don't.
1795
01:46:24,084 --> 01:46:26,709
The future doesn't give a shit about us.
1796
01:46:27,751 --> 01:46:31,626
"Our wound is raw
beneath the yoke of these times.
1797
01:46:33,501 --> 01:46:34,668
"See,
1798
01:46:35,584 --> 01:46:38,043
"behind the forest we walk,
1799
01:46:38,209 --> 01:46:39,584
"trembling,
1800
01:46:40,376 --> 01:46:42,709
"how a castle already lit
1801
01:46:42,959 --> 01:46:44,668
"in the evening awaits."
1802
01:46:44,834 --> 01:46:46,001
Rilke.
1803
01:46:46,876 --> 01:46:48,126
I'd forgotten.
1804
01:47:09,668 --> 01:47:12,459
I've never been fascinated
by St. Petersburg.
1805
01:47:12,626 --> 01:47:14,959
It's a museum city, stuck in the past.
1806
01:47:15,459 --> 01:47:18,501
The Tzar, on the other hand,
can only fully relax there
1807
01:47:18,668 --> 01:47:20,501
with his oldest, truest friends:
1808
01:47:21,084 --> 01:47:25,126
a motley crew of former FSB agents,
black belt judokas
1809
01:47:25,459 --> 01:47:28,251
and real-life thugs
who have hit the big time.
1810
01:47:28,418 --> 01:47:31,918
They, it must be said,
were straight out of Richard III.
1811
01:47:32,334 --> 01:47:35,418
In just a few years,
the shady provincial dealers
1812
01:47:35,584 --> 01:47:38,668
had amassed wealth worthy of Gulf emirs.
1813
01:47:46,668 --> 01:47:47,793
Remarkable!
1814
01:47:50,543 --> 01:47:51,876
Delightful.
1815
01:47:57,251 --> 01:47:58,418
OK, guys.
1816
01:48:15,459 --> 01:48:16,709
Our new chef's
1817
01:48:16,876 --> 01:48:19,501
specialty is truffle risotto.
1818
01:48:22,709 --> 01:48:26,418
Let me know if I should keep him
or send him back to Italy.
1819
01:48:27,543 --> 01:48:28,793
Bon appétit.
1820
01:48:30,168 --> 01:48:32,626
Genia, you let us down.
1821
01:48:32,793 --> 01:48:36,584
You serve us truffle risotto,
but where is the arugula?
1822
01:48:37,584 --> 01:48:40,209
Shall I remind you
that our ice hockey team
1823
01:48:40,376 --> 01:48:43,251
finished the last championship
in sixth place?
1824
01:48:45,501 --> 01:48:48,209
We moved up seven spots in the ranking
1825
01:48:48,376 --> 01:48:50,376
and overtook Dynamo Moscow.
1826
01:48:50,668 --> 01:48:52,251
Wait till next year,
1827
01:48:52,418 --> 01:48:53,459
you will see!
1828
01:48:53,626 --> 01:48:56,876
Well then,
you'll have your arugula next year.
1829
01:48:58,084 --> 01:49:00,293
You can't find decent arugula
in Russia.
1830
01:49:01,043 --> 01:49:04,293
But I've just bought an estate
by the Black Sea in order to grow it.
1831
01:49:04,459 --> 01:49:07,251
It will be magnificent,
but there's a wait.
1832
01:49:07,626 --> 01:49:08,834
Keep the chef!
1833
01:49:09,376 --> 01:49:11,043
He knows what he's doing.
1834
01:49:12,293 --> 01:49:15,043
His flight home
to Pisa was already booked...
1835
01:49:15,209 --> 01:49:16,459
on Ryanair!
1836
01:49:21,418 --> 01:49:24,501
Yevgeny clearly has high standards.
1837
01:49:24,668 --> 01:49:28,793
But his talent goes beyond food.
It touches on geopolitics.
1838
01:49:30,126 --> 01:49:32,668
Even some subjects
we've been discussing lately.
1839
01:49:32,834 --> 01:49:36,209
It would be good
if you two had a word, Vadya.
1840
01:49:39,793 --> 01:49:42,626
I didn't know Prigozhin well.
Except as a restaurateur.
1841
01:49:42,793 --> 01:49:45,084
But I did know Putin
had been shepherding his ascent
1842
01:49:45,251 --> 01:49:47,334
with unwavering benevolence.
1843
01:49:48,168 --> 01:49:49,751
A 5-minute flight.
1844
01:49:49,918 --> 01:49:51,209
Shortly after taking off
1845
01:49:51,376 --> 01:49:54,168
we began maneuvers
to land on Kamenny Island,
1846
01:49:54,459 --> 01:49:57,418
where the Tzar's close friends
lived in the grandest palaces
1847
01:49:57,584 --> 01:49:59,418
of the imperial aristocracy.
1848
01:50:03,584 --> 01:50:07,459
I'm not an intellectual like you,
but life has taught me a few lessons.
1849
01:50:07,626 --> 01:50:09,334
And not only in jail!
1850
01:50:10,293 --> 01:50:11,834
I don't doubt that.
1851
01:50:12,334 --> 01:50:14,126
Do you know how I started out?
1852
01:50:14,293 --> 01:50:17,293
My partners and I
obtained Saint Petersburg's
1853
01:50:17,459 --> 01:50:19,209
first-ever casino license.
1854
01:50:19,376 --> 01:50:22,709
Or the Tzar gave it to you,
when he was deputy mayor there?
1855
01:50:22,876 --> 01:50:24,293
Know what a casino is?
1856
01:50:24,668 --> 01:50:27,543
A monument to human irrationality.
1857
01:50:27,876 --> 01:50:32,334
Why the hell throw away your money
when all the odds are against you?
1858
01:50:32,668 --> 01:50:35,376
When you bet on human irrationality,
you always win.
1859
01:50:35,543 --> 01:50:36,626
Sure.
1860
01:50:37,001 --> 01:50:39,043
Sure. Take an average guy.
1861
01:50:39,209 --> 01:50:41,084
As long as he's comfortable,
1862
01:50:41,251 --> 01:50:44,959
has a safe job,
can take family holidays at the seaside,
1863
01:50:45,126 --> 01:50:46,918
has a retirement plan...
1864
01:50:47,084 --> 01:50:48,626
he stays put.
1865
01:50:48,793 --> 01:50:51,043
But if things don't look so good...
1866
01:50:51,376 --> 01:50:53,668
If he loses his job, his house,
1867
01:50:53,834 --> 01:50:56,209
if the future is less certain...
1868
01:50:56,501 --> 01:50:58,168
will he play it safe?
1869
01:50:58,751 --> 01:50:59,668
Hardly!
1870
01:50:59,834 --> 01:51:04,084
He'll prefer risk
to a hopeless status quo.
1871
01:51:04,251 --> 01:51:06,959
Chaos becomes
more attractive than order.
1872
01:51:07,126 --> 01:51:11,126
Westerners see China, India,
thank God, Russia,
1873
01:51:11,293 --> 01:51:13,959
making great strides
while they're stalling.
1874
01:51:14,126 --> 01:51:17,043
And they're willing to make
the most unreasonable bets.
1875
01:51:17,209 --> 01:51:18,959
Our job is to encourage them.
1876
01:51:19,126 --> 01:51:20,459
The Internet.
1877
01:51:21,209 --> 01:51:23,751
It's the battleground of modern warfare.
1878
01:51:23,918 --> 01:51:25,126
I built the tool.
1879
01:51:26,043 --> 01:51:28,584
Now the Tzar wants you to take over.
1880
01:51:34,334 --> 01:51:37,209
"Internet Research Agency."
I thought up the name.
1881
01:51:37,376 --> 01:51:39,793
Sounds good, right? What do you think?
1882
01:51:40,626 --> 01:51:41,793
Anton!
1883
01:51:42,543 --> 01:51:44,334
Our managing editor.
1884
01:51:45,084 --> 01:51:47,293
He has a PhD
in international relations
1885
01:51:47,459 --> 01:51:50,001
and speaks every language
you can think of.
1886
01:51:50,251 --> 01:51:51,834
Pleased to meet you, Anton.
1887
01:51:52,001 --> 01:51:54,043
Tell him what you guys are doing here.
1888
01:51:54,209 --> 01:51:55,751
Influence. Information.
1889
01:51:55,918 --> 01:51:59,251
The Russian point of view on the West,
for Westerners.
1890
01:51:59,418 --> 01:52:02,209
They're convinced their media
and elites lie about everything,
1891
01:52:02,376 --> 01:52:04,501
so they'll buy alternative versions.
1892
01:52:04,668 --> 01:52:07,793
The message we're sending is that
we tell the truth.
1893
01:52:08,084 --> 01:52:10,084
Russia tells the truth.
1894
01:52:10,459 --> 01:52:11,626
Like Russia Today.
1895
01:52:11,793 --> 01:52:14,376
Except that we work in social media,
not TV.
1896
01:52:15,251 --> 01:52:16,751
Shall we get some coffee?
1897
01:52:17,001 --> 01:52:19,959
We have a nice little break area.
Sofas, houseplants.
1898
01:52:20,126 --> 01:52:21,709
And ping pong tables.
1899
01:52:21,876 --> 01:52:24,084
You go on. We'll catch up with you.
1900
01:52:27,709 --> 01:52:29,251
Yevgeny, you'll...
1901
01:52:29,918 --> 01:52:32,751
have to explain
because I don't quite get it.
1902
01:52:32,918 --> 01:52:34,001
Something wrong?
1903
01:52:34,709 --> 01:52:35,918
Can we talk?
1904
01:52:36,084 --> 01:52:37,084
Sure.
1905
01:52:42,543 --> 01:52:46,043
I thought our goal was to affect mindsets
in Europe and the States.
1906
01:52:46,209 --> 01:52:47,959
Get into people's heads.
1907
01:52:48,126 --> 01:52:49,751
And now you bring me Anton?
1908
01:52:49,918 --> 01:52:53,001
- He's the best.
- That's exactly the problem.
1909
01:52:53,334 --> 01:52:57,168
Don't you realize that Westerners
aren't interested in politics anymore?
1910
01:52:57,334 --> 01:53:00,918
If we want to screw them over, we should
talk about anything but politics.
1911
01:53:01,084 --> 01:53:02,709
We don't need Anton.
1912
01:53:02,876 --> 01:53:05,001
- Who do we need?
- We need idiots.
1913
01:53:05,168 --> 01:53:07,584
Highly addictive ones.
1914
01:53:07,918 --> 01:53:09,626
Cyber-dependent otakus,
1915
01:53:09,793 --> 01:53:12,668
beauty-advice bimbos,
YouTube conspiracy theorists...
1916
01:53:12,834 --> 01:53:14,793
Anything that generates clicks.
1917
01:53:14,959 --> 01:53:18,334
But we have to get our message
through at some point.
1918
01:53:19,459 --> 01:53:21,334
Who do you think we are?
1919
01:53:21,501 --> 01:53:23,126
The Komintern?
1920
01:53:23,293 --> 01:53:26,459
I regret to inform you
that the Soviet Union is gone.
1921
01:53:26,626 --> 01:53:30,876
No more party line,
no message to get across either, Yevgeny.
1922
01:53:31,043 --> 01:53:32,459
Just wire.
1923
01:53:33,001 --> 01:53:35,751
Come on, let's go.
We're wasting our time here.
1924
01:53:39,084 --> 01:53:40,918
What wire do you mean?
1925
01:53:41,334 --> 01:53:43,168
How do you break a wire?
1926
01:53:43,501 --> 01:53:46,084
You twist it one way,
and then the other.
1927
01:53:46,251 --> 01:53:48,126
That's what we're going to do, Yevgeny.
1928
01:53:48,293 --> 01:53:50,084
And how do you do that?
1929
01:53:50,918 --> 01:53:54,084
Build your network
and see who takes the bait.
1930
01:53:54,251 --> 01:53:58,043
They'll all have an obsession.
Which? The clicks will show us.
1931
01:53:58,209 --> 01:54:02,209
One will be an anti-vaxxer,
another will be pro-life or pro-choice.
1932
01:54:02,376 --> 01:54:05,876
It doesn't matter.
We won't convert anyone.
1933
01:54:06,043 --> 01:54:08,918
We just need them all
to have something that drives them nuts
1934
01:54:09,084 --> 01:54:11,626
and someone who enrages them.
1935
01:54:11,793 --> 01:54:12,959
It's infallible.
1936
01:54:13,126 --> 01:54:16,084
No preferences, no arguments.
1937
01:54:16,251 --> 01:54:17,459
Just wire.
1938
01:54:17,626 --> 01:54:21,084
We twist it one way
and then the other until it breaks.
1939
01:54:21,543 --> 01:54:23,334
I got it. Wire.
1940
01:54:24,209 --> 01:54:26,709
But everything is traceable
on the Internet,
1941
01:54:26,876 --> 01:54:29,293
and sooner or later we'll get caught.
1942
01:54:29,959 --> 01:54:32,543
Yes, we will.
And that's what we're after.
1943
01:54:32,709 --> 01:54:35,334
Serving our allies is predictable.
But how will they react
1944
01:54:35,501 --> 01:54:38,959
when they realize we're also supporting
our own opponents?
1945
01:54:39,126 --> 01:54:40,876
They'll think we're fools.
1946
01:54:41,043 --> 01:54:44,084
They'll go insane!
Lose their bearings.
1947
01:54:44,251 --> 01:54:46,584
All they'll know is that
we've gotten into their heads
1948
01:54:46,751 --> 01:54:49,626
and are playing with
their neural circuits as we please.
1949
01:54:50,459 --> 01:54:52,793
The Americans wrote the algorithm.
1950
01:54:52,959 --> 01:54:54,084
We'll use it too,
1951
01:54:54,251 --> 01:54:55,793
only better than them.
1952
01:54:55,959 --> 01:54:59,543
Anyone accusing us of plotting
against democracy will be an ally.
1953
01:54:59,709 --> 01:55:02,251
They'll build the myth
that we're all-powerful.
1954
01:55:02,418 --> 01:55:05,959
It'll be the greatest of all secrets
because everyone will know it:
1955
01:55:06,126 --> 01:55:09,543
the Russians are controlling
the modern world.
1956
01:55:09,709 --> 01:55:11,293
They are its masters.
1957
01:55:12,751 --> 01:55:15,626
That's the interesting thing
about politics, Yevgeny.
1958
01:55:15,793 --> 01:55:18,084
Anything that makes you seem strong
1959
01:55:18,251 --> 01:55:20,959
actually increases that strength.
1960
01:55:26,793 --> 01:55:28,834
LONDON
2013
1961
01:55:38,001 --> 01:55:38,918
Borya.
1962
01:55:39,334 --> 01:55:40,126
Vadya.
1963
01:55:43,168 --> 01:55:45,168
Do you come bearing a message?
1964
01:55:45,334 --> 01:55:47,501
Sorry Borya, no message.
1965
01:55:47,751 --> 01:55:49,418
So, to what do I owe this?
1966
01:55:49,584 --> 01:55:50,751
Purely pleasure.
1967
01:55:53,209 --> 01:55:55,668
You're in London to see
the British Olympic Association?
1968
01:55:57,376 --> 01:55:59,251
You're well informed, as ever.
1969
01:55:59,418 --> 01:56:02,501
The Sochi Olympics seem to be
all the Tzar cares about these days.
1970
01:56:02,668 --> 01:56:07,168
The President was kind enough to let me
supervise the opening ceremony.
1971
01:56:07,334 --> 01:56:10,543
I hope you'll be giving out medals
to the best political assassination.
1972
01:56:10,709 --> 01:56:12,293
I don't know, Boris.
1973
01:56:12,459 --> 01:56:15,126
The main thing is
for Russia to come out on top.
1974
01:56:16,793 --> 01:56:18,334
I'm not worried.
1975
01:56:19,334 --> 01:56:20,751
You'll find...
1976
01:56:21,001 --> 01:56:23,001
the worst possible solution.
1977
01:56:23,626 --> 01:56:25,043
You always do.
1978
01:56:36,918 --> 01:56:40,584
Well, you may not
have a message for me, but...
1979
01:56:42,376 --> 01:56:44,084
I have one for him.
1980
01:56:47,501 --> 01:56:49,418
Come on, there's no polonium in it.
1981
01:56:49,918 --> 01:56:52,918
It's a letter to the Tzar.
I wrote it from the heart.
1982
01:56:53,251 --> 01:56:55,001
You can read it if you want to.
1983
01:57:00,626 --> 01:57:03,126
"I beg you to grant me
your forgiveness as a Christian..."
1984
01:57:03,293 --> 01:57:04,709
Are you serious?
1985
01:57:04,876 --> 01:57:08,376
I'm appealing to his faith,
and I'm offering my services.
1986
01:57:08,543 --> 01:57:11,376
"Based on the experience I've gained..."
1987
01:57:16,251 --> 01:57:19,043
Listen, honestly, no way!
1988
01:57:20,793 --> 01:57:22,043
Times have changed.
1989
01:57:22,209 --> 01:57:24,834
You're not in the running anymore.
Sorry if I'm being cruel.
1990
01:57:25,001 --> 01:57:26,834
I'm appealing to his humanity.
1991
01:57:27,709 --> 01:57:29,209
Who are you kidding?
1992
01:57:29,376 --> 01:57:31,543
"The hardship of exile?"
1993
01:57:31,709 --> 01:57:33,126
"The passage of time..."
1994
01:57:33,293 --> 01:57:36,251
"Death drawing near." I get it.
1995
01:57:36,834 --> 01:57:38,584
But I don't think it'll make him blink.
1996
01:57:38,751 --> 01:57:42,626
The comfort of spending my final days
in our motherland.
1997
01:57:42,793 --> 01:57:44,834
You don't think he'll understand that?
1998
01:57:51,501 --> 01:57:53,001
I have to go now.
1999
01:58:00,876 --> 01:58:03,251
Just give him the letter, anyway.
2000
01:58:04,543 --> 01:58:06,126
I think it might cut it.
2001
01:58:07,001 --> 01:58:08,584
I genuinely do.
2002
01:58:11,293 --> 01:58:13,751
I wish I could've told him
it would work.
2003
01:58:13,918 --> 01:58:15,251
That the Tzar would be moved
2004
01:58:15,418 --> 01:58:19,209
and we'd all sit together
at the Olympics in the VIP box seats.
2005
01:58:20,209 --> 01:58:21,626
I was fond of him.
2006
01:58:21,793 --> 01:58:25,418
He wasn't a saint,
but there was a childlike joy about him.
2007
01:58:25,668 --> 01:58:27,793
Ever since the Tzar
had banished his kind,
2008
01:58:27,959 --> 01:58:31,751
all that was left were strongmen
and their grim determination.
2009
01:58:32,459 --> 01:58:36,459
Worst of all,
I'd played a part in making it happen.
2010
01:58:38,668 --> 01:58:39,501
So...
2011
01:58:39,876 --> 01:58:41,168
Did it go well?
2012
01:58:41,543 --> 01:58:43,293
How could it possibly?
2013
01:58:43,459 --> 01:58:46,376
He helped you.
You could give him a hand.
2014
01:58:46,543 --> 01:58:49,376
Boris sees
the Sochi Olympics approaching.
2015
01:58:49,543 --> 01:58:51,876
There's still plenty of money
to be made,
2016
01:58:52,043 --> 01:58:54,709
even if everyone's already
lined their pockets.
2017
01:58:55,126 --> 01:58:57,126
Present company included.
2018
01:58:58,626 --> 01:59:00,084
Do you like those?
2019
01:59:00,251 --> 01:59:02,293
They're the main costumes
for the Opening Ceremony.
2020
01:59:02,459 --> 01:59:03,668
Most importantly,
2021
01:59:03,834 --> 01:59:06,334
does the British Olympic Association
like them?
2022
01:59:06,501 --> 01:59:07,793
Who cares?
2023
01:59:08,043 --> 01:59:11,709
They've already had to swallow a Winter
Olympics at a balmy seaside resort.
2024
01:59:12,001 --> 01:59:14,918
Totally devoid
of athletic infrastructure.
2025
01:59:16,084 --> 01:59:18,001
Have you seen the others?
2026
01:59:19,084 --> 01:59:21,043
No. Not really, no.
2027
01:59:27,959 --> 01:59:32,043
Look. Each island represents
a period in our history.
2028
01:59:32,209 --> 01:59:34,751
They're animatronic
and float in midair.
2029
01:59:34,918 --> 01:59:38,543
Our entire literary history
will go marching by.
2030
01:59:38,709 --> 01:59:41,376
All the domes of Saint Basil's
will fly away.
2031
01:59:41,543 --> 01:59:43,959
And then... Swan Lake.
2032
01:59:46,709 --> 01:59:47,959
Like it?
2033
01:59:51,584 --> 01:59:54,251
Vadya, that Russia doesn't exist.
2034
01:59:56,709 --> 01:59:58,334
At least not anymore.
2035
01:59:59,376 --> 02:00:02,418
But they're the ones
who inspired us back then.
2036
02:00:03,043 --> 02:00:04,543
It's too late now.
2037
02:00:06,626 --> 02:00:07,876
You know that.
2038
02:00:12,584 --> 02:00:14,459
You won't save your soul.
2039
02:00:16,876 --> 02:00:20,126
The ceremony is just a mask
for the dictatorship,
2040
02:00:20,293 --> 02:00:21,126
and the rest...
2041
02:00:21,293 --> 02:00:23,251
is just empty pretext.
2042
02:00:26,084 --> 02:00:27,668
I see through you.
2043
02:00:31,293 --> 02:00:33,418
It doesn't mean I don't love you.
2044
02:00:34,918 --> 02:00:37,501
But I'm not gonna be
your partner in crime.
2045
02:00:44,126 --> 02:00:46,709
- Can I offer a drink?
- Champagne, please.
2046
02:00:47,251 --> 02:00:48,918
Same. Thanks.
2047
02:00:56,168 --> 02:00:57,668
The Tzar is...
2048
02:00:59,293 --> 02:01:01,209
going to free our old friend Dmitry.
2049
02:01:04,626 --> 02:01:08,126
Are you sure? It isn't the first time
you've told me that.
2050
02:01:08,293 --> 02:01:10,501
He'll do it
two weeks before the Games start.
2051
02:01:11,918 --> 02:01:14,334
Western media will have a field day.
2052
02:01:14,834 --> 02:01:16,126
That's the idea.
2053
02:01:29,501 --> 02:01:32,168
You never asked me what I did today.
2054
02:01:32,459 --> 02:01:34,168
Not shopping...
2055
02:01:35,293 --> 02:01:37,084
that's not like you.
2056
02:01:37,626 --> 02:01:39,876
Something edgier.
2057
02:01:40,043 --> 02:01:41,876
Drop the sarcasm, will you?
2058
02:01:42,043 --> 02:01:43,876
I was trying to guess.
2059
02:01:44,043 --> 02:01:45,876
I went to the gynecologist.
2060
02:01:50,834 --> 02:01:51,709
I'm pregnant.
2061
02:02:03,668 --> 02:02:04,501
You look...
2062
02:02:04,668 --> 02:02:06,668
I'm a little shocked, yes.
2063
02:02:11,376 --> 02:02:13,459
Actually, I'm blown away.
2064
02:02:15,543 --> 02:02:17,126
I have no words.
2065
02:02:25,876 --> 02:02:28,918
WAR IN CRIMEA
2066
02:02:29,084 --> 02:02:30,918
According to early police reports
2067
02:02:31,084 --> 02:02:33,959
Boris Berezovsky's death
is consistent with hanging.
2068
02:02:34,126 --> 02:02:37,626
Berezovsky was found dead last night
in his Ascot residence.
2069
02:02:37,793 --> 02:02:40,501
Pathologists have found
no signs of a struggle.
2070
02:02:40,668 --> 02:02:42,834
Access has been closed
until the results of the tests
2071
02:02:43,001 --> 02:02:46,084
for chemical, biological
and nuclear agents.
2072
02:02:51,709 --> 02:02:53,668
It had to end this way.
2073
02:02:54,126 --> 02:02:55,709
Exile was too painful for him.
2074
02:02:57,793 --> 02:02:59,043
I'll miss him.
2075
02:02:59,459 --> 02:03:01,751
He painted an appalling image
of the opposition.
2076
02:03:01,918 --> 02:03:03,626
That was priceless for us.
2077
02:03:04,793 --> 02:03:07,626
This is the program
for the opening ceremony.
2078
02:03:08,793 --> 02:03:10,918
Updated according to your notes.
2079
02:03:17,918 --> 02:03:19,876
What is "Daft Punk"?
2080
02:03:20,043 --> 02:03:22,001
Electronic music.
2081
02:03:22,168 --> 02:03:23,668
No. 1 worldwide.
2082
02:03:24,834 --> 02:03:27,709
Two Frenchmen
who never remove their robot helmets.
2083
02:03:27,876 --> 02:03:30,293
This setup wasn't in the previous draft.
2084
02:03:30,459 --> 02:03:33,918
They won 5 Grammy awards last week.
We have to get up to date.
2085
02:03:34,084 --> 02:03:36,209
You've asked the police choir
to sing their song?
2086
02:03:37,209 --> 02:03:39,626
He's turning the whole ceremony
into a farce.
2087
02:03:43,001 --> 02:03:45,209
Explain your rationale to Igor.
2088
02:03:45,876 --> 02:03:49,501
Today it's what people want to dance to.
It's that simple.
2089
02:03:49,668 --> 02:03:50,918
It'll be ridiculous.
2090
02:03:51,084 --> 02:03:52,251
It'll be kitsch.
2091
02:03:52,418 --> 02:03:55,043
The entire world,
three billion spectators
2092
02:03:55,209 --> 02:03:57,501
are waiting for the greatest show
they've ever seen.
2093
02:03:57,668 --> 02:04:00,793
It can only be
the apotheosis of kitsch.
2094
02:04:01,793 --> 02:04:05,126
Kitsch is the only language
available to us
2095
02:04:05,293 --> 02:04:07,793
if we are to communicate
with the masses.
2096
02:04:07,959 --> 02:04:11,168
- We want to show them our Russia.
- They don't want to see your Russia.
2097
02:04:11,334 --> 02:04:14,918
Besides, you have nothing to show
and everything to hide.
2098
02:04:15,501 --> 02:04:18,209
We want to paint the picture
of an open Russia.
2099
02:04:18,626 --> 02:04:21,834
Sure-footed,
but also capable of smiling.
2100
02:04:22,001 --> 02:04:24,584
Today's world requires self-deprecation.
2101
02:04:24,751 --> 02:04:27,376
Not your balalaikas, Igor.
2102
02:04:27,543 --> 02:04:30,751
Do you understand what I'm saying
or is it gibberish to you?
2103
02:04:31,709 --> 02:04:32,668
What can you do?
2104
02:04:35,001 --> 02:04:36,209
Vadya...
2105
02:04:36,709 --> 02:04:38,126
is an acrobat.
2106
02:04:38,584 --> 02:04:42,043
An artist for politicians,
a politician for artists.
2107
02:04:42,209 --> 02:04:43,751
Be careful, Vadya.
2108
02:04:44,084 --> 02:04:46,584
Sooner or later
you might miss the trapeze.
2109
02:04:46,918 --> 02:04:48,918
Fall flat on your face.
2110
02:04:52,626 --> 02:04:53,918
I declare
2111
02:04:54,084 --> 02:04:57,084
the 22nd Winter Olympic Games
2112
02:04:57,251 --> 02:04:59,418
of Sochi open.
2113
02:05:02,001 --> 02:05:04,334
That was probably
the night I should have left.
2114
02:05:04,501 --> 02:05:07,709
Closed the book at that page.
It was a good ending for me.
2115
02:05:22,001 --> 02:05:25,209
The Ukrainian independence movement
seized on the Olympic ceasefire
2116
02:05:25,376 --> 02:05:27,543
to occupy Maidan Square again.
2117
02:05:29,084 --> 02:05:31,168
Two days before the end of the Games
2118
02:05:31,334 --> 02:05:33,793
they ousted
pro-Russian President Yanukovych,
2119
02:05:33,959 --> 02:05:35,668
who fled the same day.
2120
02:05:36,751 --> 02:05:38,668
The chaos that ensued
gave the Tzar
2121
02:05:38,834 --> 02:05:41,334
a golden opportunity
to invade Ukraine.
2122
02:05:44,834 --> 02:05:47,709
Russian snipers
killed over a hundred protesters.
2123
02:05:48,251 --> 02:05:49,959
They say you were in charge.
2124
02:05:51,876 --> 02:05:53,168
Who says?
2125
02:05:53,334 --> 02:05:54,626
Ukrainians.
2126
02:05:55,459 --> 02:05:57,084
From your own emails.
2127
02:05:58,418 --> 02:06:01,001
They say you have Ukrainian blood
on your hands.
2128
02:06:09,793 --> 02:06:12,001
The night before the closing ceremony
2129
02:06:12,334 --> 02:06:14,334
following his grand plan,
2130
02:06:14,834 --> 02:06:17,376
the Tzar decided to annex Crimea.
2131
02:06:19,459 --> 02:06:22,001
Crimea was part of Ukraine.
2132
02:06:23,209 --> 02:06:27,209
We weren't about to send regular troops
to invade a sovereign country.
2133
02:06:28,751 --> 02:06:33,168
You sent in Russian soldiers
who weren't wearing any national insignia.
2134
02:06:33,334 --> 02:06:37,043
"Little green men",
as your fellow journalists used to say.
2135
02:06:37,209 --> 02:06:41,001
When Zaldostanov and his Night Wolves
brought their circus to Crimea,
2136
02:06:41,168 --> 02:06:42,626
you were pulling the strings.
2137
02:06:42,793 --> 02:06:43,459
True.
2138
02:06:43,834 --> 02:06:46,043
I gave them a supporting part.
2139
02:06:47,043 --> 02:06:49,001
Supporting actors are important.
2140
02:06:50,543 --> 02:06:52,543
As long as they don't get
too carried away.
2141
02:07:16,876 --> 02:07:18,793
Have you seen our flags?
2142
02:07:19,376 --> 02:07:22,168
We're not using
the Federation ones anymore.
2143
02:07:22,668 --> 02:07:24,709
We have something else in mind.
2144
02:07:24,876 --> 02:07:29,001
We're no longer a federation, Vadya.
We're conquering new lands.
2145
02:07:30,834 --> 02:07:34,084
We have taken back Crimea
from the Ukrainians.
2146
02:07:34,543 --> 02:07:36,834
Soon all of Donbas will be Russian.
2147
02:07:37,001 --> 02:07:38,834
It's high time to take stock.
2148
02:07:39,293 --> 02:07:41,043
Take stock. Truly.
2149
02:07:41,418 --> 02:07:43,126
I'm a man of action.
2150
02:07:43,293 --> 02:07:45,668
We're here to support the Russian army.
2151
02:07:45,834 --> 02:07:47,918
Help them bring you victory.
2152
02:07:48,084 --> 02:07:50,001
Who said anything about victory?
2153
02:07:51,376 --> 02:07:54,168
What we want in Ukraine isn't conquest.
2154
02:07:54,543 --> 02:07:55,959
It's chaos.
2155
02:07:57,168 --> 02:07:58,918
The Ukrainians fooled themselves
2156
02:07:59,084 --> 02:08:01,918
into thinking their Orange Revolution
would get them into Europe,
2157
02:08:02,084 --> 02:08:05,043
but it's going to take them back
to the Middle Ages.
2158
02:08:05,209 --> 02:08:08,584
If you listen to Westerners' promises
it always ends like that.
2159
02:08:08,751 --> 02:08:10,459
They drop you at the first hurdle
2160
02:08:10,626 --> 02:08:12,793
and you're left alone,
your country in ruins.
2161
02:08:12,959 --> 02:08:14,668
That's the moral of the story.
2162
02:08:15,668 --> 02:08:18,501
You see, Alexander?
This war isn't fought in real life,
2163
02:08:18,668 --> 02:08:20,501
but in the people's minds,
2164
02:08:20,668 --> 02:08:22,168
on the TV news.
2165
02:08:22,334 --> 02:08:25,126
In Moscow, Kiev, Berlin.
2166
02:08:25,501 --> 02:08:29,501
You're actors in a play
that goes over your heads
2167
02:08:29,668 --> 02:08:32,334
and resonates far beyond these borders.
2168
02:08:37,751 --> 02:08:41,584
Either you agree to be a pawn in my game,
with the attendant advantages,
2169
02:08:41,751 --> 02:08:42,459
or you don't.
2170
02:08:42,626 --> 02:08:45,501
But remember, I can pull
the plug on you whenever I like.
2171
02:08:46,001 --> 02:08:49,376
And then things will get
a great deal more complicated for you,
2172
02:08:49,543 --> 02:08:52,793
your Wolves
and your little business ventures.
2173
02:08:53,668 --> 02:08:54,709
Which are flourishing,
2174
02:08:54,876 --> 02:08:56,334
from what I gather.
2175
02:09:14,501 --> 02:09:16,834
Can I bother you for a moment,
Vadim Alexeyevich?
2176
02:09:17,126 --> 02:09:18,251
Go right ahead.
2177
02:09:20,126 --> 02:09:22,793
How did your trip to Lugansk go?
Well?
2178
02:09:22,959 --> 02:09:25,793
I'm sure you've read
your services' reports.
2179
02:09:27,501 --> 02:09:29,834
We have news from the Americans.
2180
02:09:30,418 --> 02:09:31,376
What news?
2181
02:09:31,543 --> 02:09:33,418
Seems they've drawn up a blacklist
2182
02:09:33,584 --> 02:09:35,834
of people forbidden on their soil.
2183
02:09:36,001 --> 02:09:37,584
Your name is on it.
2184
02:09:38,501 --> 02:09:41,209
You'll have to forget
about going to New York for a while.
2185
02:09:42,543 --> 02:09:45,709
Their sanctions for the takeover
of Crimea. When do they start?
2186
02:09:45,876 --> 02:09:47,001
This Monday.
2187
02:09:48,293 --> 02:09:51,209
Good thing I stopped liking New York
a long time ago.
2188
02:09:52,168 --> 02:09:54,459
I've heard something else, too.
2189
02:09:56,709 --> 02:09:57,751
Go on.
2190
02:09:58,418 --> 02:10:00,126
It'll be official tomorrow.
2191
02:10:00,459 --> 02:10:04,209
Your name is also
on the Europeans' shortlist.
2192
02:10:05,376 --> 02:10:06,501
Paris,
2193
02:10:06,793 --> 02:10:07,834
London,
2194
02:10:08,293 --> 02:10:09,084
no more.
2195
02:10:10,418 --> 02:10:12,376
I'm told you'll miss Naples.
2196
02:10:16,168 --> 02:10:18,626
I won't bother you any longer,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
2197
02:10:19,043 --> 02:10:21,334
I'm sure you have arrangements to make.
2198
02:10:21,501 --> 02:10:22,543
And fast.
2199
02:11:05,751 --> 02:11:07,334
Lionia, have you heard?
2200
02:11:08,084 --> 02:11:10,334
Yes, tonight
or tomorrow at the latest.
2201
02:11:11,209 --> 02:11:13,584
No, no interviews, just a press release.
2202
02:11:13,751 --> 02:11:15,584
Can you take this down?
2203
02:11:17,626 --> 02:11:19,584
"I see this sanction as an Oscar
2204
02:11:19,751 --> 02:11:22,459
"awarded for my entire political career.
2205
02:11:23,251 --> 02:11:26,626
"It means I have served my country
honorably." Full stop.
2206
02:11:27,793 --> 02:11:29,043
No, that's all.
2207
02:11:29,209 --> 02:11:30,293
Thank you.
2208
02:12:05,209 --> 02:12:06,251
Ksenia,
2209
02:12:07,501 --> 02:12:10,501
pack your bags,
I'll be over in 15 minutes.
2210
02:12:12,668 --> 02:12:15,251
A few hours later
we landed in Stockholm
2211
02:12:15,418 --> 02:12:17,751
for our last European weekend.
2212
02:13:00,626 --> 02:13:02,751
I suppose it was bound to happen.
2213
02:13:04,084 --> 02:13:06,001
Only you could avoid it.
2214
02:13:06,168 --> 02:13:07,334
By resigning.
2215
02:13:07,501 --> 02:13:08,584
For instance.
2216
02:13:11,209 --> 02:13:15,043
Power is addictive.
It's a tough habit to kick.
2217
02:13:15,209 --> 02:13:17,418
Before, when you spouted
that kind of truism,
2218
02:13:17,584 --> 02:13:19,334
I could hear the irony.
2219
02:13:20,043 --> 02:13:21,084
Not anymore.
2220
02:13:21,251 --> 02:13:22,376
There was none.
2221
02:13:23,584 --> 02:13:25,626
The war in Ukraine is like the rest.
2222
02:13:26,168 --> 02:13:28,584
I never wanted it.
I even opposed it.
2223
02:13:28,876 --> 02:13:30,001
If you say so.
2224
02:13:30,168 --> 02:13:31,293
Indeed.
2225
02:13:31,918 --> 02:13:33,334
I do say so.
2226
02:13:34,001 --> 02:13:37,459
And I also say that once the Tzar
had made up his mind,
2227
02:13:38,043 --> 02:13:40,668
I did everything I could
to see it succeed.
2228
02:13:40,918 --> 02:13:42,334
Out of habit.
2229
02:13:43,668 --> 02:13:44,918
Out of pride.
2230
02:13:46,084 --> 02:13:47,459
And because I could.
2231
02:13:47,626 --> 02:13:48,834
With no compunction.
2232
02:13:49,001 --> 02:13:50,043
That's true.
2233
02:13:50,209 --> 02:13:52,084
That's how it's always been.
2234
02:13:52,751 --> 02:13:56,334
With the Moscow bombings
and the war in Chechnya.
2235
02:13:57,043 --> 02:13:59,501
With Dmitry's arrest
and Berezovsky's fall.
2236
02:13:59,668 --> 02:14:03,001
And now the murders on the Maidan.
2237
02:14:03,876 --> 02:14:06,418
I never wanted any of those things, yet...
2238
02:14:06,584 --> 02:14:09,293
each depended on my tireless labor.
2239
02:14:09,751 --> 02:14:11,418
And now you're tired.
2240
02:14:12,376 --> 02:14:14,501
Russia devoured my grandfather.
2241
02:14:15,751 --> 02:14:18,584
You met my father,
it devoured him too.
2242
02:14:19,459 --> 02:14:22,043
I don't know about me.
I don't know if I'll be saved.
2243
02:14:22,209 --> 02:14:23,459
Probably not.
2244
02:14:25,126 --> 02:14:27,126
In any case, it's too late.
2245
02:14:30,501 --> 02:14:32,459
But our child will be saved.
2246
02:14:56,293 --> 02:14:57,376
Ksenia?
2247
02:15:00,876 --> 02:15:02,043
Ksenia!
2248
02:15:45,584 --> 02:15:48,751
Going to Novo-Ogaryovo
was never much of a thrill.
2249
02:15:48,918 --> 02:15:51,084
The bleak, sporty mood pained me.
2250
02:15:51,251 --> 02:15:55,418
After I got back from Stockholm
I almost never set foot there again.
2251
02:15:55,584 --> 02:15:59,168
A prince's trust is not a privilege,
but a conviction.
2252
02:15:59,584 --> 02:16:03,043
I had played my part.
I was no longer of any use.
2253
02:16:03,668 --> 02:16:06,626
I let him get out of the habit
of seeing me.
2254
02:16:06,793 --> 02:16:07,959
That's all.
2255
02:16:09,209 --> 02:16:11,293
He gets up early
and breakfasts on fresh eggs
2256
02:16:11,459 --> 02:16:14,043
sent by Patriarch Kirill from his farm.
2257
02:16:14,209 --> 02:16:17,084
If there's an emergency,
he reads his confidential notes
2258
02:16:17,251 --> 02:16:19,126
and makes his wishes known.
2259
02:16:19,709 --> 02:16:20,626
Next,
2260
02:16:20,793 --> 02:16:22,376
he swims a kilometer.
2261
02:16:22,668 --> 02:16:24,918
His first visitors wait by the pool.
2262
02:16:25,084 --> 02:16:28,084
Ministers, advisors, CEOs.
2263
02:16:28,501 --> 02:16:32,543
The presidential motorcade only leaves
for the Kremlin in the early afternoon.
2264
02:16:33,209 --> 02:16:35,584
The streets are closed
half an hour prior.
2265
02:16:35,751 --> 02:16:38,293
Putin drives
from Novo-Ogaryovo to the Kremlin
2266
02:16:38,459 --> 02:16:40,126
through his frozen capital.
2267
02:16:40,834 --> 02:16:42,709
And his real day begins.
2268
02:16:44,126 --> 02:16:46,543
Sometimes only ending at dawn.
2269
02:16:49,626 --> 02:16:51,459
One man stays awake
2270
02:16:52,793 --> 02:16:56,584
while everyone else who matters
in Moscow shares his vigil.
2271
02:16:57,209 --> 02:16:59,126
Like in Stalin's day.
2272
02:17:01,168 --> 02:17:04,001
Who's that? Who's this?
2273
02:17:05,751 --> 02:17:07,168
Hi, my sweet one.
2274
02:17:08,209 --> 02:17:09,793
Can I play with Machka?
2275
02:17:09,959 --> 02:17:12,084
Of course you can.
You're not bothering us.
2276
02:17:13,459 --> 02:17:14,751
Where is she?
2277
02:17:15,084 --> 02:17:16,626
Where's that Machka?
2278
02:17:16,793 --> 02:17:18,168
- Is she under the table?
- No.
2279
02:17:18,334 --> 02:17:19,834
- She's not under the table?
- No.
2280
02:17:20,001 --> 02:17:21,334
- Is she under the cushion?
- No.
2281
02:17:21,501 --> 02:17:22,793
- Are you sure?
- No.
2282
02:17:22,959 --> 02:17:24,584
- Is she under the piano?
- No.
2283
02:17:27,084 --> 02:17:28,584
There she is.
2284
02:17:38,709 --> 02:17:42,126
All the happiness I've known
in the world is concentrated in her.
2285
02:17:42,959 --> 02:17:44,043
Daddy,
2286
02:17:44,209 --> 02:17:47,334
what do you think Machka would say
if she could talk?
2287
02:17:47,793 --> 02:17:49,251
I think she'd say,
2288
02:17:49,418 --> 02:17:51,293
"I'd have more fun with a real rabbit."
2289
02:17:51,459 --> 02:17:52,376
Daddy!
2290
02:17:53,251 --> 02:17:54,459
She'd say,
2291
02:17:54,793 --> 02:17:56,959
"I like you best of all, Anya,
2292
02:17:57,293 --> 02:17:59,376
"I only want to play with you."
2293
02:18:01,251 --> 02:18:02,959
Cats aren't my favorite thing.
2294
02:18:03,126 --> 02:18:05,793
But how much longer
will I be able to make her happy?
2295
02:18:06,918 --> 02:18:09,376
I never felt fear before Anya.
2296
02:18:09,584 --> 02:18:13,293
From the moment I first laid eyes on her,
I've been living in terror.
2297
02:18:13,459 --> 02:18:16,376
I realize my life is in her hands,
not the other way around.
2298
02:18:17,334 --> 02:18:19,751
My daughter doesn't count
the hours or the days.
2299
02:18:21,001 --> 02:18:22,959
I've always lived in the future.
2300
02:18:25,376 --> 02:18:27,459
And she has given me the present.
2301
02:20:11,751 --> 02:20:14,001
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN
2302
02:24:47,084 --> 02:24:49,793
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