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ARSENAL The revolution epic story

Screenplay by, director - Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Cinematography by D. Demutskyi

Production design by: Y. Shpinel, V. Miuller

Cast: Tymish - S. Svashenko Red Army man - G. Kharkov Bespectacled German soldier - A. Buchma

German officer - D. Erdman German soldier - S. Petrov Nationalist - Mikhaylovskiy

Nikolay II - A. Yevdakov

PRODUCTION of the All-Ukrainian Administration of Photography and Cinematography (VUFKU) 1928

Oh, a mother had three sons

There was a war

The mother doesn't have three sons

September, 12. I killed a crow. The weather is nice.

Niki.

- You've missed your aim, Ivan.

There exist gases that amuse a human soul.

- Where is the enemy?

- Everything rushed and buzzed along Ukrainian paths.

- Give back, foe, our Ukrainian boots!

- For three hundred years I was tortured by the damned Katsap.

- Is it about me?

Arrived at the post, at ''Volynskyi''.

- I can't go further, comrades. Here is a slope. The breaks broke.

- You drive? - No.

- You drive? - No.

- You drive?

- Calm down, lads, we'll fix the breaks by ourselves.

- By the name of the Ukrainian People's Republic, lay down the weapons!

- By the name of the Ukrainian nation?

- Who said that?

- How to steer the train?

Move, Havrylo!

- Hey, move, Havrylo!

- Hey, move, move up, Havrylo!

- Turn the piston!

- I will become an engine operator.

- Who?

- Who?

- Who?

- Who?

- Demobilized soldier from the Arsenal, I have an honour to come back.

- Ukrainian?

- Deserter?

- Go back, Timish, to the barracks. The time will come and revolution committee will call you.

- Let us pray to God for our God-saved free mother-Ukraine...

- Orthodox people!

Gymnasia pupils!

Students!

Teachers!

Teachers!

Co-operators!

Actors!

- Long live!

- Let, let it be!

Let! Let! Let it be!

- For three hundred years we were...

- The Christ will rise from the dead!

- The Christ has risen from the dead!

- Do you know who Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was?

- One of the Khokhol's generals.

- Soldiers! The Central Council calls upon you!

- I wonder, can we kill bourgeois and officers on a street if we meet them?

- And you are Ukrainian?

- Yes, a worker.

- Yes, a worker.

- We have the congress here as good people do - the first Pan-Ukrainian one.

- This is that Ukrainian presidium, which the teacher told us about.

- The representative of the Bolsheviks is taking the floor.

- We, workers, we support Ukraine too, but we demand factories, land...

- The Soviet power!

- Let us see how you will commit the self-justice over unarmed representatives of workers and peasants!

- Well, good, you say that the power is Ukrainian, than whom land belongs?

- And land belongs to lords or peasants?

- The floor is taken by general ataman Symon Petliura.

- Gentlemen, we have received the greeting from the Black Sea Fleet.

- Do not lie to our brothers and sons, because they'll see soon your

reality and you will be cursed by all Ukraine's sons.

- Do not rely on the Black Sea Fleet,

because we will be the first ones who will aim twenty-inch guns at you.

- Gentlemen, this is mistake... I'm voting, gentlemen.

- Who is for to considerthis a mistake?

- Who is against?

Dreadnought Maria!

Three apostles!

Donbas! Poltava!

Bohunians!

Taraschanians!

Arsenal was listening.

Strike.

The proletariat is cancelling trains.

Arsenal.

Well, lads, let us start working!

- Come on!

- It seems they are shooting already.

- I bow low...

- I bow down to the raw earth for you...

- And what is the address?

- Whom should the letter be addressed to?

- He bowed down to the raw earth for you...

- And asked everybody of you whether one can kill bourgeoises and officers outdoors if one meets them.

- Yes you can!

Bakhmach and Nizhyn are flooded with blood.

- Hey you, my brothers, comrades in arms...

- Served for four years and was in four wars...

- And one year as a civil, brothers...

- Petliura wounded me by a bullet, and I feel my heroic death.

- Bury me at home for a half an hour. I have not seen it for nine years. Hurry up, brothers, Arsenal is dying.

- Hey, you, our battle horses!

- Hurry up to bury our friend...

- The dead fighter of the revolution!

- We hear...

- We hear, our masters!

- We are rushing on our 24 legs!

- Take, mother, we have no time to explain. Our life and death are revolutionary.

- Armoured vehicle "Vilna Ukraina" ("Free Ukraine").

- You toppled over our "Free Ukraine".

- Stand with your face to the wall so I could kill you in your back.

- Can you if I look into your eyes?

- And why can I?

Seventy second hour.

- What weather will we have tomorrow?

- We stopped... I think that tomorrow we will be done. We stopped... We moved and then stopped.

- Shells!

- Where is the father?

- Where is the husband?

- Where is the son?

- Where is metalworker? -We do not have one.

- Where is the smith? - We do not have one.

- Freeze! Name yourself!

- A Ukrainian worker. Shoot at me!

- Down! Down... You are wearing an armour, or what?

The film was restored on the "MOSFILM" studio in 1972

Music, conductor - V. Ovchinnikov

The End [RL]