1 00:00:11,351 --> 00:00:15,354 MOSFILM 2 00:00:17,940 --> 00:00:22,735 Second Artists' Association 3 00:00:36,708 --> 00:00:41,211 Alisa Freindlikh 4 00:00:43,755 --> 00:00:48,342 Aleksandr Kaidanovsky 5 00:00:50,428 --> 00:00:55,015 Anatoly Solonitsyn 6 00:00:56,726 --> 00:01:01,229 Nikolai Grinko 7 00:01:02,939 --> 00:01:05,858 in the film 8 00:01:06,901 --> 00:01:13,115 STALKER 9 00:01:16,076 --> 00:01:21,664 Scenario: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky 10 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:26,918 Adapted from the novel Roadside Picnic 11 00:01:28,086 --> 00:01:34,133 Director: Andrei Tarkovsky 12 00:01:35,302 --> 00:01:41,432 Photography: Alexander Knyazhinsky 13 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,396 Art Direction: Andrei Tarkovsky 14 00:01:49,522 --> 00:01:54,943 Music: Eduard Artemyev 15 00:01:56,112 --> 00:02:00,240 Assistant Director: L. Tarkovskaya 16 00:02:01,367 --> 00:02:07,163 Poems by F.I. Tiutchev and Arseny Tarkovsky 17 00:02:08,331 --> 00:02:11,208 Sound: V. Sharun 18 00:02:11,292 --> 00:02:14,127 Conductor: E. Khachturyan 19 00:02:15,296 --> 00:02:19,883 Makeup: V. Lvov Film Editing: L. Feyginova 20 00:02:19,966 --> 00:02:22,635 Costume Design: N. Fomina 21 00:03:24,859 --> 00:03:29,649 STALKER 22 00:03:30,232 --> 00:03:32,648 "Was it a meteorite or a visitation from outer space? 23 00:03:32,732 --> 00:03:37,440 Whatever it was, in our small country, there appeared a miracle — the Zone. 24 00:03:37,523 --> 00:03:41,814 We sent in troops. Not one returned. 25 00:03:41,897 --> 00:03:47,729 Then we surrounded the Zone with a security cordon. 26 00:03:47,814 --> 00:03:49,771 We did right... 27 00:03:49,855 --> 00:03:54,311 Although I'm not sure. I'm not sure." 28 00:03:54,396 --> 00:03:59,145 From an interview with Nobel Prize winner Professor Wallace to an RAI correspondent. 29 00:10:03,890 --> 00:10:05,640 Why did you take my watch? 30 00:10:09,139 --> 00:10:11,597 Where are you going? 31 00:10:14,971 --> 00:10:19,388 You gave me your word. I believed you. 32 00:10:23,970 --> 00:10:26,595 You won't think of yourself. But what about us? 33 00:10:28,345 --> 00:10:30,344 Think about your daughter. 34 00:10:32,594 --> 00:10:36,468 She's not even used to you yet, and you're going back to your old ways. 35 00:10:40,885 --> 00:10:44,801 You've turned me into an old hag, ruined my life. 36 00:10:45,176 --> 00:10:47,883 Quiet. You'll wake up Monkey. 37 00:10:49,634 --> 00:10:52,925 I can't spend my life waiting for you. I'll die. 38 00:11:07,256 --> 00:11:09,214 You were going to get proper work. 39 00:11:10,881 --> 00:11:13,630 They promised you a decent, normal job. 40 00:11:17,963 --> 00:11:19,713 I'll be back soon. 41 00:11:21,338 --> 00:11:23,212 You'll be back in prison. 42 00:11:23,588 --> 00:11:26,171 Next time, they'll give you ten years instead of five. 43 00:11:26,462 --> 00:11:28,836 And you'll have nothing to show for those ten years. 44 00:11:28,921 --> 00:11:30,836 Not the Zone, not anything. 45 00:11:31,753 --> 00:11:35,543 And in ten years, I'll be dead. 46 00:11:37,628 --> 00:11:41,127 "Prison"? I'm imprisoned everywhere. 47 00:11:45,126 --> 00:11:47,917 Let me go. - I won't let you go. 48 00:11:48,001 --> 00:11:49,501 - Let me go. - I won't! 49 00:11:59,458 --> 00:12:00,916 Go on, then! 50 00:12:02,124 --> 00:12:03,956 And may you rot there! 51 00:12:05,290 --> 00:12:09,122 I curse the day I met you, you scum! 52 00:12:10,165 --> 00:12:13,872 God cursed you by sending you that child. 53 00:12:14,956 --> 00:12:18,122 And he cursed me because of you. You bastard! 54 00:13:04,492 --> 00:13:08,366 My dear, the world is so unutterably boring. 55 00:13:08,449 --> 00:13:12,947 There's no telepathy, no ghosts, no flying saucers. 56 00:13:13,032 --> 00:13:15,114 They can't exist. 57 00:13:15,782 --> 00:13:18,406 The world is ruled by cast-iron laws. 58 00:13:18,490 --> 00:13:23,030 These laws are not broken. 59 00:13:23,113 --> 00:13:25,196 They just can't be broken. 60 00:13:27,364 --> 00:13:31,321 Don't hope for flying saucers. That would be too interesting. 61 00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:33,944 But what about the Bermuda Triangle? 62 00:13:34,237 --> 00:13:37,695 You're not going to contradict... - Yes, I am. 63 00:13:37,779 --> 00:13:40,111 There is no Bermuda Triangle. 64 00:13:40,195 --> 00:13:41,652 There's Triangle ABC, 65 00:13:41,736 --> 00:13:45,318 which equals Triangle A prime, B prime, C prime. 66 00:13:45,652 --> 00:13:49,234 It's all so tedious, so very tedious. 67 00:13:50,402 --> 00:13:53,360 In the Middle Ages, life was interesting. 68 00:13:53,443 --> 00:13:57,983 Every house had its goblin, each church had God. 69 00:13:58,068 --> 00:14:02,233 People were young. Now every fourth person is old. 70 00:14:02,317 --> 00:14:05,358 It's boring, my angel. It's so boring. 71 00:14:05,442 --> 00:14:10,649 But you said that the Zone is the product of a super civilization — 72 00:14:10,733 --> 00:14:15,982 Which is probably also boring, also with laws and triangles, 73 00:14:16,066 --> 00:14:19,731 but without goblins and, of course, without any God. 74 00:14:21,065 --> 00:14:25,481 Because if there is a God, he'll be that very triangle. 75 00:14:26,522 --> 00:14:28,813 Then I simply don't know. 76 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,270 It's for me. Good-bye, dear friend. 77 00:14:39,063 --> 00:14:42,187 This fine lady agreed to go with us into the Zone. 78 00:14:42,270 --> 00:14:45,269 She's so brave. Her name is — 79 00:14:46,270 --> 00:14:48,561 Excuse me, what is your name? 80 00:14:48,644 --> 00:14:51,227 Are you really a stalker? 81 00:14:57,934 --> 00:14:59,933 I'll explain everything later. 82 00:15:08,725 --> 00:15:10,099 Get lost. 83 00:15:18,515 --> 00:15:20,098 An idiot. 84 00:15:24,431 --> 00:15:26,764 So you've been drinking? 85 00:15:26,848 --> 00:15:32,847 I simply had a drink, as does half of all humanity. 86 00:15:32,930 --> 00:15:37,387 And the other half also gets drunk, including women and children. 87 00:15:37,888 --> 00:15:39,387 I simply had a drink. 88 00:16:01,469 --> 00:16:03,676 Damn it! Someone spilled something. 89 00:16:17,924 --> 00:16:19,757 Drink. It's still early. 90 00:16:22,757 --> 00:16:25,922 How about one for the road? 91 00:16:28,089 --> 00:16:29,589 What do you think? 92 00:16:44,129 --> 00:16:48,836 - Take it away. - Of course, the prohibition law. 93 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,337 "Alcohol is the scourge of mankind." 94 00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:52,961 Let's drink beer then. 95 00:16:55,961 --> 00:16:57,419 Is he coming with us? 96 00:16:58,544 --> 00:17:02,251 Don't worry. He'll sober up. He needs to go there, too. 97 00:17:10,126 --> 00:17:14,583 - Are you really a professor? - If you wish. 98 00:17:14,959 --> 00:17:19,334 In that case, let me introduce myself. My name is — 99 00:17:19,416 --> 00:17:21,999 They call him the Writer. 100 00:17:22,082 --> 00:17:23,998 And what's my name? 101 00:17:24,541 --> 00:17:26,832 You're the professor. 102 00:17:28,207 --> 00:17:29,707 Of course. 103 00:17:30,415 --> 00:17:34,039 I'm a writer, so naturally everyone calls me the Writer. 104 00:17:34,831 --> 00:17:38,621 - What do you write about? - About my readers. 105 00:17:38,706 --> 00:17:41,080 No sense in writing about anything else. 106 00:17:41,164 --> 00:17:44,455 There's no sense in writing about anything. 107 00:17:45,455 --> 00:17:49,454 What are you? A chemist? 108 00:17:50,579 --> 00:17:52,411 I'd say a physicist. 109 00:17:52,495 --> 00:17:55,745 That's probably tedious, too. Searching for the truth. 110 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:01,827 You dig here and there. 111 00:18:01,910 --> 00:18:05,993 Right. The nucleus consists of protons. 112 00:18:06,077 --> 00:18:08,160 That's a good dig. 113 00:18:08,243 --> 00:18:12,492 Triangle ABC equals Triangle A prime, B prime, C prime. 114 00:18:13,076 --> 00:18:15,159 But with me, it's a different matter. 115 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,574 I dig for the truth, but, while I do, something happens to it. 116 00:18:22,075 --> 00:18:26,199 The truth changes into a pile of — 117 00:18:27,199 --> 00:18:28,782 I won't say what. 118 00:18:34,656 --> 00:18:36,780 It's just fine for you. 119 00:18:36,865 --> 00:18:40,323 Say there's some antique pot in a museum. 120 00:18:40,406 --> 00:18:43,113 In its own time, it was a trash bin. 121 00:18:43,197 --> 00:18:50,155 But now it draws admiration for its simplicity of line and unique form. 122 00:18:50,904 --> 00:18:54,112 And everyone oohs and aahs over it. 123 00:18:54,195 --> 00:18:58,486 Suddenly, it turns out not to be an antique at all. 124 00:18:58,570 --> 00:19:02,569 It was planted by some joker for a laugh. 125 00:19:03,570 --> 00:19:09,402 The sounds of admiration die away. Some connoisseurs! 126 00:19:09,736 --> 00:19:12,319 This is what you think about all the time? 127 00:19:14,484 --> 00:19:16,608 God forbid. 128 00:19:16,693 --> 00:19:19,567 I seldom think. It's bad for me. 129 00:19:19,651 --> 00:19:24,483 It's impossible to write and keep thinking about success or failure. 130 00:19:24,567 --> 00:19:25,941 Naturlich. 131 00:19:26,025 --> 00:19:30,107 But on the other hand, if my books aren't being read in 100 years, 132 00:19:30,191 --> 00:19:32,232 why bother to write? 133 00:19:33,982 --> 00:19:39,480 Tell me, Professor, why did you get involved in this business? 134 00:19:39,565 --> 00:19:42,814 What's the Zone to you? 135 00:19:42,897 --> 00:19:46,355 Well, in a sense, I'm a scientist. 136 00:19:48,772 --> 00:19:50,522 What's in it for you? 137 00:19:52,147 --> 00:19:53,521 A fashionable author... 138 00:19:54,896 --> 00:19:57,687 ...women draped all over you. 139 00:19:57,771 --> 00:20:00,979 I've lost my inspiration. 140 00:20:01,062 --> 00:20:02,770 I'm going to beg for some. 141 00:20:04,312 --> 00:20:06,644 So you've exhausted your talent? 142 00:20:06,728 --> 00:20:10,435 What? Yes, in a way. 143 00:20:12,769 --> 00:20:16,019 Do you hear that? That's our train. 144 00:20:23,517 --> 00:20:26,349 Did you take the top off the car? - It's off. 145 00:20:39,432 --> 00:20:40,806 Rueger. 146 00:20:43,973 --> 00:20:46,389 If I don't come back, tell my wife. 147 00:21:01,887 --> 00:21:04,803 Damn! I forgot to buy cigarettes. 148 00:21:06,345 --> 00:21:08,095 Don't go back. 149 00:21:09,304 --> 00:21:12,136 - What is it? - Well... 150 00:21:12,219 --> 00:21:15,593 - You're all like that. - Like what? 151 00:21:15,677 --> 00:21:17,884 You believe any superstitious rubbish. 152 00:21:19,052 --> 00:21:21,385 I'll have to save these for a rainy day. 153 00:21:25,010 --> 00:21:26,718 Are you really a scientist? 154 00:23:04,247 --> 00:23:05,579 Get down! 155 00:23:09,371 --> 00:23:10,704 Keep still! 156 00:23:41,450 --> 00:23:43,117 See if anyone's there. 157 00:23:49,032 --> 00:23:51,156 Hurry, for God's sake! 158 00:23:56,948 --> 00:23:58,780 There's nobody here. 159 00:23:58,864 --> 00:24:00,614 Go to the other door. 160 00:24:28,377 --> 00:24:30,459 Get going, Writer. 161 00:26:42,026 --> 00:26:43,942 Keep your eyes open. 162 00:27:39,602 --> 00:27:42,018 Did you bring the gasoline can? 163 00:27:42,103 --> 00:27:44,143 Yes. A full one. 164 00:27:57,684 --> 00:28:00,100 What I said about going there... 165 00:28:01,350 --> 00:28:06,099 It's all a lie. I don't give a damn about inspiration. 166 00:28:06,974 --> 00:28:10,639 But how can I put a name to... 167 00:28:12,099 --> 00:28:13,973 ...what it is that I want? 168 00:28:14,056 --> 00:28:18,430 How am I to know I don't want what I want 169 00:28:18,514 --> 00:28:22,888 or that I really don't want what I don't want? 170 00:28:24,055 --> 00:28:26,971 These are intangibles where the moment you name them, 171 00:28:27,055 --> 00:28:31,804 their meaning evaporates like jellyfish in the sun. 172 00:28:31,887 --> 00:28:33,387 You've seen them around. 173 00:28:34,637 --> 00:28:38,261 My consciousness wants the triumph of vegetarianism. 174 00:28:38,345 --> 00:28:41,594 My subconscious longs for a juicy steak. 175 00:28:42,761 --> 00:28:44,344 So what do I want? 176 00:28:45,803 --> 00:28:50,343 I want world supremacy, at the very least. 177 00:28:53,802 --> 00:28:56,260 Why do they need a train in the Zone? 178 00:28:56,343 --> 00:29:02,342 It won't go beyond the military post. The guards won't venture in there. 179 00:29:10,591 --> 00:29:12,091 Everyone in their places? 180 00:30:25,748 --> 00:30:27,081 Hurry! 181 00:31:23,032 --> 00:31:28,489 Listen. Go and see if there's a railcar there. 182 00:31:28,573 --> 00:31:30,948 - What railcar? - Hurry up! 183 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:55,486 Get back. I'll go. 184 00:33:52,221 --> 00:33:53,720 The gasoline can. 185 00:34:19,092 --> 00:34:20,383 Give it to me. 186 00:34:22,675 --> 00:34:25,382 Leave your rucksack. It's in the way. 187 00:34:25,467 --> 00:34:27,758 I see you're traveling light. 188 00:34:31,007 --> 00:34:35,381 If anyone's hit, don't cry out. If they spot you, they'll kill you. 189 00:34:36,423 --> 00:34:40,422 Then when everything's quiet, crawl back to the post. 190 00:34:40,507 --> 00:34:42,006 You'll be picked up later. 191 00:34:58,171 --> 00:34:59,879 Won't they come after us? 192 00:34:59,962 --> 00:35:03,462 No, they're scared to death of it. 193 00:35:04,587 --> 00:35:05,920 Of what? 194 00:39:25,761 --> 00:39:29,509 Here we are, home at last. 195 00:39:33,510 --> 00:39:35,010 It's so still. 196 00:39:37,676 --> 00:39:40,009 It's the quietest place on earth. 197 00:39:42,009 --> 00:39:44,008 You'll see for yourself. 198 00:39:45,842 --> 00:39:49,799 It's so beautiful. There's no one here. 199 00:39:49,883 --> 00:39:51,382 We're here. 200 00:39:51,466 --> 00:39:54,798 Three men can't foul it up in one day. 201 00:39:54,882 --> 00:39:56,964 Why can't we? Sure we can. 202 00:40:00,798 --> 00:40:04,589 Strange, the flowers have no scent. 203 00:40:04,672 --> 00:40:08,088 Don't you feel it? 204 00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:10,920 It stinks like a swamp. 205 00:40:11,005 --> 00:40:13,171 No, that's the river. 206 00:40:14,838 --> 00:40:20,795 There used to be flower beds here, but Porcupine trampled on them. 207 00:40:21,545 --> 00:40:26,210 But their scent lingered on for many years. 208 00:40:27,753 --> 00:40:31,252 Why did he wipe them out? 209 00:40:31,335 --> 00:40:32,835 I don't know. 210 00:40:34,627 --> 00:40:36,377 I asked him why. 211 00:40:37,710 --> 00:40:39,709 He said, "One day, you'll understand." 212 00:40:41,792 --> 00:40:45,958 I think he simply began to hate the Zone. 213 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,999 Is Porcupine his real name? 214 00:40:54,083 --> 00:40:56,832 No, a nickname. Like yours. 215 00:40:58,499 --> 00:41:01,999 For years he brought people into the Zone, and nobody could stop him. 216 00:41:02,999 --> 00:41:04,331 He was my teacher. 217 00:41:05,831 --> 00:41:07,621 He opened my eyes. 218 00:41:10,247 --> 00:41:14,704 They didn't call him Porcupine then, but Teacher. 219 00:41:17,038 --> 00:41:21,996 Then something happened to him. Something broke inside him. 220 00:41:23,954 --> 00:41:26,412 I think he was being punished. 221 00:41:26,495 --> 00:41:30,661 Help me. Tie the bandage strips to these metal nuts. 222 00:41:31,661 --> 00:41:35,577 I'll just take a walk. 223 00:41:37,369 --> 00:41:38,702 I need... 224 00:41:52,325 --> 00:41:55,199 Be careful when you walk here. 225 00:42:01,324 --> 00:42:02,949 Where did he go? 226 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,448 Perhaps he just wants to be alone. 227 00:42:06,532 --> 00:42:11,281 Why? Even with three of us here, I feel uneasy. 228 00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:16,488 He's back in the Zone. Remember, he's a stalker. 229 00:42:18,156 --> 00:42:20,113 What of it? 230 00:42:21,071 --> 00:42:24,987 You see, stalking is a kind of vocation. 231 00:42:25,988 --> 00:42:29,653 - I imagined stalkers to be different. - How so? 232 00:42:29,738 --> 00:42:34,528 Like Leatherstocking or Chingachgook or Big Snake. 233 00:42:34,611 --> 00:42:38,069 Our stalker's biography is more terrifying. 234 00:42:38,153 --> 00:42:41,735 He was in prison several times, and he was crippled here. 235 00:42:41,819 --> 00:42:45,235 His daughter is a mutant, a so-called Zone victim. 236 00:42:45,318 --> 00:42:47,109 They say she has no legs. 237 00:42:51,359 --> 00:42:54,024 What did he mean about the Porcupine? 238 00:42:54,942 --> 00:42:58,024 What did he mean he was punished? 239 00:42:58,483 --> 00:43:00,357 What is that, a figure of speech? 240 00:43:03,233 --> 00:43:05,940 One fine day, 241 00:43:06,024 --> 00:43:09,274 Porcupine returned from this place 242 00:43:09,357 --> 00:43:11,314 and suddenly became rich. 243 00:43:13,481 --> 00:43:15,064 Incredibly rich. 244 00:43:15,148 --> 00:43:17,105 You call that a punishment? 245 00:43:18,814 --> 00:43:21,604 Within a week, he had hanged himself. 246 00:43:22,021 --> 00:43:24,312 - Why? - Quiet! 247 00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:29,812 What is it? 248 00:45:25,631 --> 00:45:30,547 About 20 years ago, they say a meteorite fell here. 249 00:45:31,755 --> 00:45:33,713 It razed the settlement. 250 00:45:35,338 --> 00:45:39,462 They searched for it, but they found nothing, of course. 251 00:45:41,629 --> 00:45:43,962 Why "of course"? 252 00:45:44,045 --> 00:45:46,253 Then people began to vanish. 253 00:45:47,670 --> 00:45:52,377 Finally, it was decided — - Well? 254 00:45:52,460 --> 00:45:55,418 Finally, it was decided 255 00:45:55,502 --> 00:46:00,292 that this meteorite was not quite a meteorite. 256 00:46:01,127 --> 00:46:02,626 So, for a start... 257 00:46:05,376 --> 00:46:10,625 ...they put up barbed wire to stop the inquisitive taking risks. 258 00:46:13,708 --> 00:46:18,748 Then rumors began that somewhere in the Zone there's a place... 259 00:46:21,748 --> 00:46:23,914 ...where desires come true. 260 00:46:24,581 --> 00:46:30,871 Well, naturally, they started to guard the Zone like a treasure. 261 00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:36,830 For who knows what desires a person might have? 262 00:46:37,621 --> 00:46:40,745 What was it if it wasn't a meteorite? 263 00:46:44,079 --> 00:46:45,662 Nobody knows. 264 00:46:47,453 --> 00:46:49,619 But what do you think it was? 265 00:46:51,578 --> 00:46:55,285 I don't have any idea. It could have been anything. 266 00:46:57,661 --> 00:47:01,368 A message to mankind, as a colleague of mine says. 267 00:47:01,868 --> 00:47:03,410 Or a gift. 268 00:47:08,451 --> 00:47:10,325 Some gift. 269 00:47:11,617 --> 00:47:13,783 Why would they want to do that? 270 00:47:13,866 --> 00:47:15,782 To make us happy. 271 00:47:20,282 --> 00:47:24,281 The flowers are blooming again, but they've no scent. 272 00:47:25,490 --> 00:47:30,698 Forgive me for leaving you here, but it was too early to go on. 273 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,196 Did you hear that? 274 00:47:37,572 --> 00:47:42,029 - Maybe there are people living here. - Who? 275 00:47:44,613 --> 00:47:47,029 You told me the story yourself. 276 00:47:47,113 --> 00:47:52,611 Those travelers who were here when the Zone appeared. 277 00:47:52,696 --> 00:47:55,237 There's no one in the Zone. There can't be. 278 00:48:00,152 --> 00:48:01,902 Are we ready to start? 279 00:48:48,979 --> 00:48:50,396 How do we get back? 280 00:48:51,479 --> 00:48:54,895 - Nobody finds their way back from here. - What do you mean? 281 00:48:56,229 --> 00:48:58,728 We'll proceed as agreed. 282 00:49:04,311 --> 00:49:07,185 Each time, I'll point out the path. 283 00:49:07,268 --> 00:49:09,226 It's dangerous to veer from it. 284 00:49:11,810 --> 00:49:14,351 Keep the last pole in sight. 285 00:49:15,434 --> 00:49:18,767 You go first, Professor. 286 00:49:31,099 --> 00:49:32,598 Now you. 287 00:49:40,806 --> 00:49:43,180 Try to follow in his tracks. 288 00:51:02,046 --> 00:51:04,836 Lord! Where's — 289 00:51:05,504 --> 00:51:09,544 Did they remain here, the people? 290 00:51:10,211 --> 00:51:12,918 Nobody knows. 291 00:51:13,002 --> 00:51:18,334 I only recall them leaving from our station to come here to the Zone. 292 00:51:19,043 --> 00:51:20,917 I was still a kid then. 293 00:51:21,502 --> 00:51:25,542 Everyone thought someone wanted to conquer us. 294 00:51:32,583 --> 00:51:34,333 Go on, Professor. 295 00:51:42,915 --> 00:51:44,414 Now you, Writer. 296 00:54:14,479 --> 00:54:16,228 The Room is over there. 297 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,020 We go this way. 298 00:54:20,561 --> 00:54:25,060 Are you trying to make it seem hard? You can almost wrap your arms around it. 299 00:54:26,727 --> 00:54:29,893 Yes, but you need very long arms. 300 00:54:31,602 --> 00:54:33,101 We don't have it. 301 00:55:40,718 --> 00:55:42,301 Leave it! 302 00:55:44,051 --> 00:55:46,216 Don't — Don't touch it! 303 00:55:49,383 --> 00:55:51,549 I said don't touch it! 304 00:55:51,633 --> 00:55:56,131 What, are you crazy? What was that for? 305 00:55:58,341 --> 00:56:00,715 I said this wasn't the place for a stroll. 306 00:56:02,256 --> 00:56:05,088 The Zone demands respect, otherwise it'll punish you. 307 00:56:05,173 --> 00:56:08,838 Don't try anything like that again. 308 00:56:08,922 --> 00:56:10,880 Has the cat got your tongue? 309 00:56:12,547 --> 00:56:15,212 - I asked you not to. - Do we go this way? 310 00:56:18,047 --> 00:56:22,545 Yes. To the left. But we don't go in a direct line. 311 00:56:24,004 --> 00:56:26,128 We'll go roundabout. 312 00:56:27,462 --> 00:56:28,628 Why? 313 00:56:30,378 --> 00:56:34,461 Here, the straight path isn't shortest. 314 00:56:34,544 --> 00:56:37,002 The more indirect, the less risk there is. 315 00:56:37,085 --> 00:56:39,001 Is it fatal to go straight ahead? 316 00:56:39,085 --> 00:56:42,460 - I told you. It's dangerous. - Is the detour less dangerous? 317 00:56:42,543 --> 00:56:44,667 It's not, but nobody goes straight... 318 00:56:44,751 --> 00:56:46,459 You and your detours! 319 00:56:47,084 --> 00:56:49,791 How about if I just go straight? - Listen. You — 320 00:56:49,876 --> 00:56:53,875 Why can't we go straight ahead? It's right under our noses. 321 00:56:53,958 --> 00:56:57,374 It's risky here, risky there. What the hell. 322 00:56:57,458 --> 00:57:00,707 You know your attitude about this is very irresponsible. 323 00:57:02,790 --> 00:57:05,956 I'm fed up with your nuts and bandages. 324 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,539 Forget it. I'm going this way. 325 00:57:09,956 --> 00:57:12,997 - The man's crazy. - And I return the compliment. 326 00:57:13,623 --> 00:57:15,122 May I? 327 00:57:27,287 --> 00:57:28,953 The wind is rising. 328 00:57:30,745 --> 00:57:33,369 Do you feel it? The grass... 329 00:57:42,201 --> 00:57:45,534 Okay, all the more reason. 330 00:57:46,327 --> 00:57:47,826 What do you mean? 331 00:58:04,532 --> 00:58:06,906 - Hold it. - Take your hands off me. 332 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,406 All right. 333 00:58:10,531 --> 00:58:13,697 Then let the professor be my witness. 334 00:58:13,781 --> 00:58:17,363 I'm didn't send you in there. You're going of your own free will. 335 00:58:17,448 --> 00:58:19,447 Of my own free will. What else? 336 00:58:20,697 --> 00:58:23,113 Nothing. Go on. 337 00:58:30,070 --> 00:58:32,320 And hope to God you're lucky. 338 00:58:47,193 --> 00:58:49,109 Listen! 339 00:58:49,193 --> 00:58:55,151 If you suddenly notice something or feel something strange, 340 00:58:55,234 --> 00:58:58,150 turn right back. 341 00:58:58,234 --> 00:59:00,859 Just don't throw a lump of iron at my head. 342 01:00:10,516 --> 01:00:12,016 Stop! Don't move! 343 01:00:17,056 --> 01:00:20,514 - Why did you do that? - Do what? 344 01:00:20,598 --> 01:00:23,014 Why did you stop him? 345 01:00:23,848 --> 01:00:25,598 I thought you did. 346 01:01:05,551 --> 01:01:09,633 What happened? Why did you stop me? 347 01:01:10,383 --> 01:01:13,591 - I didn't stop you. - Who did then? 348 01:01:13,674 --> 01:01:15,007 You? 349 01:01:18,674 --> 01:01:20,840 What the hell. 350 01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,381 You're a fine one, Mr. Shakespeare. 351 01:01:26,007 --> 01:01:29,006 Afraid to advance, ashamed to retreat. 352 01:01:29,089 --> 01:01:32,671 So you order yourself to stop in a false voice. 353 01:01:32,755 --> 01:01:35,171 Fear's sobered you up. 354 01:01:35,255 --> 01:01:37,254 - What? - Shut up. 355 01:01:37,338 --> 01:01:40,713 - Why'd you empty my bottle? - I demand discipline! 356 01:01:56,711 --> 01:01:58,501 The Zone is... 357 01:01:59,627 --> 01:02:05,209 ...a very complex maze of traps. 358 01:02:06,251 --> 01:02:08,001 All of them are death traps. 359 01:02:10,709 --> 01:02:14,083 I don't know what happens here when humans aren't around. 360 01:02:14,166 --> 01:02:19,498 But as soon as humans appear, everything begins to change. 361 01:02:22,207 --> 01:02:24,872 Former traps disappear, new ones appear. 362 01:02:26,790 --> 01:02:29,123 Safe ways become impassable. 363 01:02:30,998 --> 01:02:33,871 The way becomes now easy, 364 01:02:33,956 --> 01:02:35,788 now confused beyond words. 365 01:02:40,580 --> 01:02:42,079 This is the Zone. 366 01:02:43,663 --> 01:02:46,996 It might seem capricious. 367 01:02:48,579 --> 01:02:52,744 But at each moment, it's as if we construct it according to our state of mind. 368 01:02:55,619 --> 01:03:01,201 I won't hide the fact that some people turned back half-way. 369 01:03:02,535 --> 01:03:05,784 Some perished on the threshold of the Room. 370 01:03:07,243 --> 01:03:10,450 But everything that happens here depends on us. 371 01:03:10,826 --> 01:03:14,449 So the Zone lets the good through and kills the evil? 372 01:03:15,742 --> 01:03:17,533 I don't know. I don't believe that. 373 01:03:17,616 --> 01:03:23,073 I think it lets through those who've lost all hope. 374 01:03:23,575 --> 01:03:27,907 Not the good or the bad, but the unhappy. 375 01:03:29,032 --> 01:03:33,323 But even the most unhappy will perish if they don't know how to behave here. 376 01:03:43,155 --> 01:03:46,779 You're lucky. The Zone warned you. 377 01:03:51,237 --> 01:03:56,652 If you don't mind, I'll wait here till you come back. 378 01:03:58,486 --> 01:04:00,485 You'll return happy men. 379 01:04:00,861 --> 01:04:03,735 - That's impossible. - Believe me. 380 01:04:03,819 --> 01:04:05,859 I've got sandwiches and a thermos. 381 01:04:05,944 --> 01:04:08,901 - First, you won't survive an hour. - And second? 382 01:04:08,985 --> 01:04:11,733 What's more, nobody returns the same way. 383 01:04:14,442 --> 01:04:16,525 All the same, I'd prefer it. 384 01:04:16,609 --> 01:04:19,234 Then we'll go back immediately. 385 01:04:19,692 --> 01:04:25,816 I'll refund your money minus a small sum for my trouble. 386 01:04:26,983 --> 01:04:28,856 Sobered up, Professor? 387 01:04:34,274 --> 01:04:37,189 All right. Toss the metal nut. 388 01:05:29,808 --> 01:05:33,473 Part Two 389 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:41,639 STALKER 390 01:05:44,514 --> 01:05:47,429 Where are you? Come here! 391 01:05:52,846 --> 01:05:54,471 Are you tired? 392 01:06:10,177 --> 01:06:11,843 Oh, Lord. 393 01:06:15,427 --> 01:06:20,093 Judging by his tone of voice, he'll lecture us again. 394 01:06:39,590 --> 01:06:41,965 May everything come true. 395 01:06:43,674 --> 01:06:45,714 May they believe. 396 01:06:47,631 --> 01:06:50,338 And may they laugh at their own passions. 397 01:06:51,214 --> 01:06:55,754 For what they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, 398 01:06:55,838 --> 01:06:58,671 but merely friction between the soul and the outside world. 399 01:07:00,505 --> 01:07:04,671 But, above all, may they believe in themselves 400 01:07:04,754 --> 01:07:08,378 and become as helpless as children. 401 01:07:08,462 --> 01:07:12,294 For softness is great and strength is worthless. 402 01:07:17,294 --> 01:07:20,210 When a man is born, he is soft and pliable. 403 01:07:21,126 --> 01:07:23,833 When he dies, he is strong and hard. 404 01:07:25,501 --> 01:07:28,542 When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. 405 01:07:28,959 --> 01:07:33,124 But when it is dry and hard, it dies. 406 01:07:34,458 --> 01:07:38,624 Hardness and strength are death's companions. 407 01:07:40,291 --> 01:07:44,082 Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life. 408 01:07:45,707 --> 01:07:50,040 That which has become hard shall not triumph. 409 01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:11,453 Come here. 410 01:08:13,537 --> 01:08:15,536 It will fit very well. 411 01:08:15,620 --> 01:08:18,161 Soon we'll reach the dry tunnel. 412 01:08:18,245 --> 01:08:20,369 Careful. Don't jinx us. 413 01:08:20,452 --> 01:08:25,159 - Are we already on our way? - Of course. Why? 414 01:08:25,244 --> 01:08:30,535 I thought you only wanted to show us something. 415 01:08:30,618 --> 01:08:33,784 What about my rucksack? - What happened to it? 416 01:08:33,867 --> 01:08:38,116 I left it back there. I didn't know we were going. 417 01:08:38,617 --> 01:08:41,824 - It can't be helped. - Why not? 418 01:08:41,908 --> 01:08:44,241 I've got to go back. - It's not possible. 419 01:08:44,324 --> 01:08:47,240 - I can't go without my rucksack. - There's no going back. 420 01:08:47,324 --> 01:08:50,448 Nobody goes back the same way they came. 421 01:08:52,365 --> 01:08:56,030 Forget your rucksack. What's in it? Diamonds? 422 01:08:56,114 --> 01:09:01,155 You'll lose your way. The Room will give you all you desire. 423 01:09:01,239 --> 01:09:03,780 It will snow you under with rucksacks. 424 01:09:03,863 --> 01:09:06,363 Is it far to this Room? 425 01:09:06,446 --> 01:09:11,529 Straight ahead, 200 meters, but there are no direct paths. 426 01:09:11,612 --> 01:09:12,945 Let's go. 427 01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:17,277 Don't let doubt creep in, Professor. 428 01:09:18,028 --> 01:09:20,069 Miracles are outside your experience. 429 01:09:22,070 --> 01:09:24,985 Remember how St. Peter nearly drowned. 430 01:09:29,610 --> 01:09:31,109 Go, Writer. 431 01:09:33,318 --> 01:09:36,609 - Go where? - Down the ladder. 432 01:09:47,608 --> 01:09:49,774 Professor, where are you? 433 01:11:40,968 --> 01:11:44,926 - This is the dry tunnel. - You call this dry? 434 01:11:46,842 --> 01:11:51,841 It's a local joke. Usually we have to swim it. 435 01:12:20,755 --> 01:12:23,004 Wait. Where's the professor? 436 01:12:23,087 --> 01:12:26,420 - What? - The professor's lost. 437 01:12:26,504 --> 01:12:28,377 Professor! Professor! 438 01:12:28,462 --> 01:12:31,086 He was following you the entire time. 439 01:12:31,878 --> 01:12:35,002 He must have strayed and lost his way. 440 01:12:35,086 --> 01:12:38,877 He didn't lose his way. He went back for his rucksack. 441 01:12:39,585 --> 01:12:41,293 Now he'll never get out. 442 01:12:42,752 --> 01:12:47,792 - Shall we wait for him? - We can't. Things change every minute. 443 01:12:47,876 --> 01:12:49,833 The two of us must go on. 444 01:13:18,955 --> 01:13:21,704 Look! What's all this? 445 01:13:21,788 --> 01:13:25,329 - I told you about it. - About what? 446 01:13:25,413 --> 01:13:27,913 This is the Zone. Do you understand? 447 01:13:27,996 --> 01:13:31,120 We have to hurry. Let's go. 448 01:13:52,076 --> 01:13:53,576 Here he is. 449 01:14:06,949 --> 01:14:10,865 I really appreciate that you... 450 01:14:10,948 --> 01:14:12,698 How did you get here? 451 01:14:14,948 --> 01:14:20,947 Most of the way, I crawled on all fours. 452 01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,738 Incredible. How did you manage to overtake us? 453 01:14:26,405 --> 01:14:28,279 Overtake you? 454 01:14:29,571 --> 01:14:33,487 I came back here for my rucksack. 455 01:14:33,571 --> 01:14:36,445 Where did the metal nut come from? 456 01:14:39,236 --> 01:14:40,694 My God. 457 01:14:41,361 --> 01:14:44,027 It's a trap. 458 01:14:48,068 --> 01:14:51,942 Porcupine hung it here on purpose. 459 01:14:55,443 --> 01:15:00,066 How did the Zone let us through? 460 01:15:05,941 --> 01:15:07,399 Lord. 461 01:15:08,608 --> 01:15:11,065 I won't take another step until — 462 01:15:12,232 --> 01:15:14,023 A good deal. 463 01:15:19,231 --> 01:15:20,564 Enough. 464 01:15:22,231 --> 01:15:23,522 So. 465 01:15:36,021 --> 01:15:38,103 We'll all rest here. 466 01:15:38,188 --> 01:15:41,395 But keep away from that metal nut in any case. 467 01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:45,644 I didn't think Professor would get out. 468 01:15:49,102 --> 01:15:53,310 I never know what sort of people I'm bringing in. 469 01:15:53,393 --> 01:15:57,767 It's only in here that things become clear, when it's too late. 470 01:15:58,893 --> 01:16:04,184 The main thing is that the professor's rucksack and spare pants are safe. 471 01:16:05,476 --> 01:16:08,808 Don't poke your nose into another guy's drawers, 472 01:16:08,892 --> 01:16:10,600 if you know what I mean. 473 01:16:10,683 --> 01:16:13,057 What's there to understand? 474 01:16:13,974 --> 01:16:19,973 Don't pull my leg with your binomial theorem and your psychological explanations. 475 01:16:20,348 --> 01:16:23,139 We're out of favor at the institute. 476 01:16:23,223 --> 01:16:25,514 We're refused funds for an expedition. 477 01:16:26,764 --> 01:16:31,305 So let's fill the rucksack with manometers, shit-ometers... 478 01:16:32,889 --> 01:16:35,180 ...slip into the Zone illegally... 479 01:16:36,721 --> 01:16:39,179 ...and check all the local miracles with algebra. 480 01:16:41,929 --> 01:16:45,262 No one in the world has any conception about the Zone, 481 01:16:45,345 --> 01:16:47,636 so it'll be a sensation. 482 01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:52,177 Television, your lady fans getting hot flashes, 483 01:16:52,261 --> 01:16:54,552 people carrying brooms as if they were laurel wreaths. 484 01:16:55,302 --> 01:17:01,633 Then our professor appears all in white and declaims, 485 01:17:02,218 --> 01:17:05,800 "Mene, mene. Tekel upharsin." 486 01:17:05,885 --> 01:17:12,800 Naturally, everyone gapes and shouts, "Give him the Nobel Prize!" 487 01:17:15,716 --> 01:17:22,131 You bedraggled hack writer. You homegrown psychologist. 488 01:17:22,215 --> 01:17:28,006 Fit only to scribble graffiti in lavatories, you talentless clod. 489 01:17:29,173 --> 01:17:33,338 That's feeble stuff. Call that an insult? 490 01:17:34,547 --> 01:17:37,713 You don't know how it's done. 491 01:17:37,796 --> 01:17:41,628 All right. Suppose I'm after a Nobel Prize. 492 01:17:41,713 --> 01:17:44,879 What are you after? 493 01:17:44,962 --> 01:17:49,794 Want to bestow on mankind the pearls of your bought inspiration? 494 01:17:51,211 --> 01:17:53,294 I spit on mankind. 495 01:17:54,253 --> 01:17:59,210 In all of your mankind, only one man interests me. 496 01:17:59,294 --> 01:18:01,126 And that's me. 497 01:18:01,210 --> 01:18:06,959 Am I worth anything, or am I shit like certain other people? 498 01:18:07,042 --> 01:18:10,624 What if you find out that's indeed what you are? 499 01:18:10,709 --> 01:18:15,958 Know something, Einstein? I don't want to argue with you. 500 01:18:19,041 --> 01:18:23,040 Truth is born in arguments, damn it. 501 01:18:26,124 --> 01:18:29,165 Listen, Chingachgook. 502 01:18:32,415 --> 01:18:36,289 You've brought so many people here. 503 01:18:38,372 --> 01:18:41,037 Not as many as I would like. 504 01:18:41,122 --> 01:18:43,954 It doesn't matter. 505 01:18:44,038 --> 01:18:47,496 Why did they come? What were they after? 506 01:18:47,580 --> 01:18:49,246 Happiness, more than anything. 507 01:18:49,329 --> 01:18:53,203 Yes, but what kind of happiness? 508 01:18:56,036 --> 01:19:00,411 People don't like to reveal their innermost thoughts. 509 01:19:00,494 --> 01:19:04,368 Anyway, that concerns neither you nor me. 510 01:19:04,453 --> 01:19:07,160 You've been lucky. 511 01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:11,617 All my life, I have never seen one happy person. 512 01:19:11,701 --> 01:19:13,992 Nor have I. 513 01:19:14,076 --> 01:19:17,492 They return from the Room, and I guide them back. 514 01:19:17,576 --> 01:19:19,783 And we never meet again. 515 01:19:22,199 --> 01:19:24,865 Wishes don't come true immediately, you know. 516 01:19:26,366 --> 01:19:32,282 And you've never wanted to make use of this Room? 517 01:19:37,198 --> 01:19:39,448 I'm fine as I am. 518 01:20:31,649 --> 01:20:34,190 Professor, listen. 519 01:20:36,441 --> 01:20:39,356 I'm thinking about inspiration you can buy. 520 01:20:42,064 --> 01:20:49,063 Suppose I return to our godforsaken city a genius. Understand? 521 01:20:56,229 --> 01:21:00,853 But a man writes because he's tormented, unsure of himself. 522 01:21:03,186 --> 01:21:08,768 He has to keep proving his worth to himself and to others. 523 01:21:11,811 --> 01:21:14,852 But if I'm convinced I'm a genius... 524 01:21:17,309 --> 01:21:19,434 ...then why do I need to write? 525 01:21:21,767 --> 01:21:23,517 What's the deal? 526 01:21:26,308 --> 01:21:32,349 Anyway, I must say we exist in order to — 527 01:21:32,433 --> 01:21:35,682 Just leave me in peace. 528 01:21:37,974 --> 01:21:42,140 Let me nap a little. I didn't sleep all last night. 529 01:21:43,181 --> 01:21:46,305 Keep your complexes to yourself. 530 01:21:46,390 --> 01:21:51,389 At any rate, all your technology — 531 01:21:55,055 --> 01:21:57,471 all those blast furnaces, wheels... 532 01:21:59,555 --> 01:22:03,595 ...and suchlike hustle and bustle 533 01:22:03,679 --> 01:22:07,344 so that people can work less and consume more... 534 01:22:09,220 --> 01:22:12,177 ...they're all crutches, artificial limbs. 535 01:22:15,010 --> 01:22:18,551 Mankind exists in order to — 536 01:22:21,260 --> 01:22:23,592 to create works of art. 537 01:22:25,260 --> 01:22:30,675 At least that's unselfish compared with all other human activities. 538 01:22:32,967 --> 01:22:38,174 Great illusions. Images of absolute truth. 539 01:22:40,049 --> 01:22:42,674 Are you listening to me, Professor? 540 01:22:44,257 --> 01:22:47,381 What unselfishness are you talking about? 541 01:22:47,465 --> 01:22:51,464 People keep dying of hunger. Have you been living on the moon? 542 01:23:01,088 --> 01:23:04,753 And this is our intellectual aristocracy. 543 01:23:06,462 --> 01:23:09,461 You're unable to think in abstract terms. 544 01:23:11,254 --> 01:23:16,919 Why don't you teach me the meaning of life... 545 01:23:20,335 --> 01:23:22,501 ...and, at the same time, how to think. 546 01:23:23,335 --> 01:23:24,918 It's useless. 547 01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,625 You may be a professor, but you're ignorant. 548 01:24:19,495 --> 01:24:23,828 "And, lo, there was a great earthquake; 549 01:24:25,327 --> 01:24:28,660 And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair... 550 01:24:29,660 --> 01:24:32,742 ...and the moon became as blood; 551 01:24:33,951 --> 01:24:37,783 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, 552 01:24:37,867 --> 01:24:42,075 even as a fig tree casts its unripe figs 553 01:24:42,158 --> 01:24:45,949 when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 554 01:24:46,616 --> 01:24:50,740 And the heavens departed as a scroll; 555 01:24:50,824 --> 01:24:57,656 and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 556 01:25:01,531 --> 01:25:07,029 And the kings of the earth and the great men 557 01:25:07,114 --> 01:25:12,821 and the rich men and the generals and the mighty men... 558 01:25:14,238 --> 01:25:19,404 ...and all free men hid themselves in the dens 559 01:25:19,487 --> 01:25:21,444 and in the rocks of the mountains; 560 01:25:21,528 --> 01:25:23,860 And they said to the mountains and rocks, 561 01:25:23,945 --> 01:25:30,276 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, 562 01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,234 and from the wrath of the Lamb. 563 01:25:33,318 --> 01:25:37,567 For the great day of his wrath has come, 564 01:25:37,651 --> 01:25:41,608 and who shall be able to stand?'" 565 01:28:42,794 --> 01:28:44,959 "That same day... 566 01:28:46,585 --> 01:28:49,250 ...two of them... 567 01:28:50,126 --> 01:28:57,125 ...were going to a village called Emmaus. 568 01:28:57,875 --> 01:29:01,707 And it came to pass 569 01:29:01,792 --> 01:29:09,290 that Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, 570 01:29:09,791 --> 01:29:13,790 but they did not recognize him. 571 01:29:15,373 --> 01:29:17,580 'What manner of discussions are these... 572 01:29:20,206 --> 01:29:24,455 ...that you have one to another as you walk and are sad?' 573 01:29:24,538 --> 01:29:26,288 And one of them, named" — 574 01:29:40,620 --> 01:29:42,119 You awake? 575 01:29:48,285 --> 01:29:54,159 You were talking about the meaning of our life... 576 01:29:55,618 --> 01:29:57,575 ...the unselfishness of art. 577 01:30:01,492 --> 01:30:03,282 Now, take music. 578 01:30:09,657 --> 01:30:13,365 It's connected least of all with reality. 579 01:30:13,449 --> 01:30:17,365 Or, if connected, then it's without ideas. 580 01:30:17,448 --> 01:30:21,405 It's merely empty sound without associations. 581 01:30:26,447 --> 01:30:31,862 Nevertheless, music miraculously penetrates your very soul. 582 01:30:35,571 --> 01:30:39,445 What chord in us responds to its harmonies... 583 01:30:40,570 --> 01:30:44,527 ...transforming it into a source of delight, 584 01:30:44,611 --> 01:30:47,902 uniting us and shattering us? 585 01:30:49,319 --> 01:30:53,443 Why is all this necessary? And, above all, for whom? 586 01:30:56,651 --> 01:31:02,067 You'll reply, "For no one and no reason." 587 01:31:03,817 --> 01:31:07,691 No. I doubt that. 588 01:31:10,608 --> 01:31:13,774 For everything in the final reckoning has a meaning. 589 01:31:15,690 --> 01:31:19,481 A meaning and a reason. 590 01:31:48,436 --> 01:31:51,935 You mean we go there? 591 01:31:54,685 --> 01:31:58,642 Unfortunately, there's no other way. 592 01:32:14,016 --> 01:32:18,349 It's rather gloomy, eh, Professor? 593 01:32:22,474 --> 01:32:25,264 I don't think I should go first here. 594 01:32:26,473 --> 01:32:29,180 Big Snake never volunteers. 595 01:32:31,014 --> 01:32:35,596 Obviously, we'll have to draw lots. 596 01:32:36,430 --> 01:32:39,179 Here, I'd prefer some volunteer. 597 01:32:42,387 --> 01:32:43,970 Got any matches? 598 01:32:52,303 --> 01:32:53,469 Thanks. 599 01:33:05,926 --> 01:33:07,759 The long match goes first. 600 01:33:10,925 --> 01:33:12,467 The long one. 601 01:33:19,424 --> 01:33:22,840 This time, you were out of luck. 602 01:33:38,213 --> 01:33:41,296 How about throwing a metal nut? 603 01:33:41,380 --> 01:33:43,713 Of course. You're welcome to. 604 01:34:21,083 --> 01:34:22,583 Another one? 605 01:34:31,540 --> 01:34:32,873 All right. 606 01:34:34,457 --> 01:34:35,789 I'm going. 607 01:36:22,567 --> 01:36:24,191 Hurry, Professor. 608 01:40:34,451 --> 01:40:36,034 Over here. 609 01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:41,616 There's some sort of door over here. 610 01:40:58,781 --> 01:41:00,322 Now it's over there. 611 01:41:01,531 --> 01:41:03,488 Open the door and go in. 612 01:41:11,905 --> 01:41:15,821 Me again? I should go in there? 613 01:41:15,904 --> 01:41:17,612 You drew your lot. 614 01:41:19,696 --> 01:41:21,528 You mustn't hang about. 615 01:41:26,194 --> 01:41:28,193 What have you got there? 616 01:41:28,278 --> 01:41:30,277 You can't go in there with a gun! 617 01:41:31,111 --> 01:41:33,943 You'll be killed, and you'll doom us! 618 01:41:34,027 --> 01:41:35,777 Remember the tanks! 619 01:41:36,694 --> 01:41:38,443 Put it away, I beg you. 620 01:41:38,526 --> 01:41:40,400 Don't you understand? 621 01:41:42,150 --> 01:41:45,233 If anything happens, I can get you out. 622 01:41:45,317 --> 01:41:46,817 But like this — 623 01:41:47,817 --> 01:41:50,358 Please, I beg you. And who — 624 01:41:52,358 --> 01:41:54,941 Who will you shoot at in there? 625 01:42:07,981 --> 01:42:10,397 Go! We've very little time. 626 01:42:14,397 --> 01:42:15,896 There's water here. 627 01:42:17,230 --> 01:42:19,813 Never mind. Hold onto the rail. 628 01:43:06,181 --> 01:43:10,222 Don't go any farther. Wait for us up there by the exit. 629 01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:26,844 I hope you've nothing like that. 630 01:43:27,971 --> 01:43:30,678 - Like what? - Like a pistol. 631 01:43:31,053 --> 01:43:33,594 I've an ampoule, for an emergency. 632 01:43:34,844 --> 01:43:39,301 - What kind of ampoule? - For protection. Poison. 633 01:43:39,386 --> 01:43:42,635 Good God, you mean you came here to die? 634 01:43:48,842 --> 01:43:51,384 That's how it is, just in case. 635 01:44:18,964 --> 01:44:20,754 Back! 636 01:44:21,172 --> 01:44:23,463 Return, it's suicide! 637 01:44:23,546 --> 01:44:25,545 I told you to wait at the exit. 638 01:44:26,921 --> 01:44:28,337 Don't move! 639 01:45:14,831 --> 01:45:16,414 It's all because of your pipe. 640 01:45:16,498 --> 01:45:18,455 - What? - Never mind. 641 01:45:19,039 --> 01:45:21,788 You should have gone first. 642 01:45:21,872 --> 01:45:24,829 He took the wrong turn out of fright. 643 01:47:10,983 --> 01:47:14,274 Another experiment. 644 01:47:16,649 --> 01:47:22,356 Experiments, facts or truth as a last resort. 645 01:47:23,898 --> 01:47:27,314 But there's no such things as facts, especially here. 646 01:47:28,856 --> 01:47:33,396 All this is someone's idiotic invention. 647 01:47:33,480 --> 01:47:35,729 Can't you tell? 648 01:47:38,271 --> 01:47:41,145 You, of course, want to know whose invention. 649 01:47:43,854 --> 01:47:48,645 What good will it do you to know? 650 01:47:49,187 --> 01:47:53,519 Whose conscience will be bothered by it? Mine? 651 01:47:54,644 --> 01:47:58,267 I have no conscience, only nerves. 652 01:47:58,936 --> 01:48:02,559 Some bastard abuses you, you're hurt. 653 01:48:02,643 --> 01:48:06,225 A different bastard praises you, you're hurt. 654 01:48:06,309 --> 01:48:11,225 You put your heart and soul into your work, and they devour you. 655 01:48:13,433 --> 01:48:16,474 They even devour the filth in your soul. 656 01:48:17,724 --> 01:48:19,973 They're all literate. 657 01:48:22,098 --> 01:48:24,972 They all have voracious appetites. 658 01:48:26,015 --> 01:48:33,347 They all keep crowding round — journalists, editors, critics, 659 01:48:33,431 --> 01:48:35,680 a constant stream of women. 660 01:48:36,597 --> 01:48:39,638 All of them clamoring for more. 661 01:48:43,013 --> 01:48:45,304 What kind of writer am I... 662 01:48:46,554 --> 01:48:48,720 ...if I detest writing? 663 01:48:50,678 --> 01:48:54,719 If it's torture for me, a painful, shameful occupation, 664 01:48:54,802 --> 01:48:57,219 something akin to extruding hemorrhoids. 665 01:49:00,802 --> 01:49:04,801 I used to think my books helped some people to become better, 666 01:49:04,885 --> 01:49:06,884 but nobody needs me. 667 01:49:07,468 --> 01:49:11,675 If I die, in a couple days, they'll find someone else to devour. 668 01:49:15,467 --> 01:49:17,507 I wanted to change them, 669 01:49:17,592 --> 01:49:22,507 but they've changed me to fit their own image. 670 01:49:27,548 --> 01:49:32,339 Once, the future was only a continuation of the present. 671 01:49:32,423 --> 01:49:36,088 All its changes loomed somewhere beyond the horizon. 672 01:49:37,131 --> 01:49:39,796 But now the future's a part of the present. 673 01:49:47,630 --> 01:49:49,712 Are they prepared for this? 674 01:49:50,670 --> 01:49:54,920 They don't want to know anything. All they do is gobble. 675 01:50:09,627 --> 01:50:11,293 You certainly are lucky. 676 01:50:12,293 --> 01:50:17,292 Now you'll live to be a hundred. 677 01:50:31,124 --> 01:50:35,207 Why not forever? 678 01:50:38,290 --> 01:50:40,122 Like the Wandering Jew. 679 01:51:20,618 --> 01:51:24,366 You must surely be a fine person. 680 01:51:24,450 --> 01:51:26,949 Not that I doubted it. 681 01:51:27,033 --> 01:51:30,823 You must have been through such agony. 682 01:51:32,365 --> 01:51:35,364 This pipe is the most terrible part of the Zone. 683 01:51:35,449 --> 01:51:40,864 They call it the meat grinder. How many people has it ground up? 684 01:51:46,156 --> 01:51:49,405 Porcupine sent his brother through instead of himself. 685 01:51:52,988 --> 01:51:55,362 He was so sensitive, so gifted. 686 01:51:57,779 --> 01:51:59,362 Listen to this. 687 01:52:01,279 --> 01:52:05,320 Now the summer is passed, it might never have been; 688 01:52:06,445 --> 01:52:10,861 It is warm in the sun, but it isn't enough; 689 01:52:11,485 --> 01:52:17,318 All that I could attain, like a five-fingered leaf, 690 01:52:17,402 --> 01:52:22,151 fell straight into my hand, but it isn't enough; 691 01:52:22,942 --> 01:52:28,316 Neither evil nor good has yet vanished in vain; 692 01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:32,857 It all burned and was light, but it isn't enough; 693 01:52:33,608 --> 01:52:38,273 Life has been like a shield and has offered protection; 694 01:52:39,107 --> 01:52:43,440 I have been very lucky, but it isn't enough; 695 01:52:44,273 --> 01:52:49,688 The leaves were not burned, the boughs were not broken; 696 01:52:49,772 --> 01:52:54,855 The day shines like glass, but it isn't enough. 697 01:52:56,938 --> 01:52:59,812 Fine, isn't it? That's his poem. 698 01:52:59,897 --> 01:53:04,021 Why are you evading things? "Fine" indeed! 699 01:53:04,104 --> 01:53:06,187 It makes me sick to look at you. 700 01:53:06,270 --> 01:53:10,144 You can't imagine how glad I am that we made it. 701 01:53:10,228 --> 01:53:12,686 Your conduct was exemplary. 702 01:53:13,769 --> 01:53:17,269 You're fine, honest men. I'm proud I was right. 703 01:53:17,352 --> 01:53:20,518 So he's happy we got back. So happy he could choke. 704 01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:25,267 Fate! Zone! So I'm a fine fellow. 705 01:53:25,851 --> 01:53:29,309 Do you think I didn't see you offer me two long matches? 706 01:53:29,392 --> 01:53:31,600 - You don't understand. - No, of course not. 707 01:53:31,684 --> 01:53:38,016 I'm sorry, Professor, but this louse chose you as his favorite. 708 01:53:38,099 --> 01:53:39,765 What are you going on about? 709 01:53:39,849 --> 01:53:43,556 He shoved me into the pipe because I'm a second-rate person. 710 01:53:44,348 --> 01:53:46,806 Meat grinder! What a word! 711 01:53:47,848 --> 01:53:52,680 What right have you to choose who lives, who goes into the meat grinder? 712 01:53:52,764 --> 01:53:55,014 You made the choice. 713 01:53:55,097 --> 01:53:59,888 What choice did I have — one of two long matchsticks? 714 01:53:59,972 --> 01:54:02,221 Forget the matches. 715 01:54:02,305 --> 01:54:06,137 Back by the metal nut, the Zone let you through 716 01:54:06,221 --> 01:54:09,429 to pass through the meat grinder. 717 01:54:09,928 --> 01:54:12,136 Is that for you? - Who knows? 718 01:54:13,262 --> 01:54:18,052 I never choose. You can't imagine how terrible it is to make the wrong choice. 719 01:54:19,136 --> 01:54:21,594 But someone has to go first. 720 01:54:21,677 --> 01:54:25,093 Yes? No, this isn't the clinic. 721 01:54:26,885 --> 01:54:30,508 Someone has to go first! How would you like it? 722 01:54:37,592 --> 01:54:39,175 Don't touch it! 723 01:54:59,755 --> 01:55:02,629 - Yes? - Laboratory Nine, please. 724 01:55:04,172 --> 01:55:05,754 One minute. 725 01:55:12,045 --> 01:55:13,170 I'm listening. 726 01:55:13,254 --> 01:55:16,461 - I hope I haven't disturbed you. - What do you want? 727 01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:19,752 Just a few words. 728 01:55:19,836 --> 01:55:24,710 You hid it. I found it in the old building, Bunker 4. 729 01:55:27,169 --> 01:55:30,750 Are you listening? - I'll inform the security service. 730 01:55:30,835 --> 01:55:36,417 Go on! Inform on me, write a denunciation. 731 01:55:36,501 --> 01:55:40,876 Set my colleagues against me. But you're late. 732 01:55:40,959 --> 01:55:43,791 I'm just two steps away from the place itself. 733 01:55:45,499 --> 01:55:47,331 Are you listening to me? 734 01:55:47,416 --> 01:55:49,999 You realize this finishes you as a scientist? 735 01:55:50,082 --> 01:55:51,331 So be happy. 736 01:55:51,416 --> 01:55:54,415 Do you realize what happens if you dare? 737 01:55:56,874 --> 01:55:58,582 Trying to scare me again? 738 01:56:00,747 --> 01:56:06,663 Yes, all my life I've been scared. Even of you. 739 01:56:06,746 --> 01:56:10,328 You don't scare me anymore. 740 01:56:10,413 --> 01:56:13,829 My God, you're not even Herostratus. 741 01:56:13,912 --> 01:56:20,786 You just wanted to trip me up because, 20 years ago, I slept with your wife. 742 01:56:20,870 --> 01:56:25,161 You've finally managed to settle the score. 743 01:56:25,244 --> 01:56:29,577 Go on, do your dirty work. 744 01:56:30,702 --> 01:56:32,410 Don't dare hang up on me. 745 01:56:34,201 --> 01:56:37,242 Prison isn't the worst thing that awaits you. 746 01:56:37,535 --> 01:56:40,659 You'll never forgive yourself for this. 747 01:56:40,742 --> 01:56:45,366 I can see you hanging from your belt over a prison latrine. 748 01:56:48,366 --> 01:56:51,824 What are you up to, Professor? 749 01:56:53,366 --> 01:56:58,073 Imagine what will happen when everyone believes in this Room... 750 01:56:59,574 --> 01:57:02,656 ...and when they all come hurrying here. 751 01:57:03,656 --> 01:57:09,238 It's only a question of time. Not today, but tomorrow. 752 01:57:09,322 --> 01:57:11,321 And in the thousands. 753 01:57:11,405 --> 01:57:14,654 All these would-be emperors, grand inquisitors, 754 01:57:14,738 --> 01:57:16,488 fuhrers of all shades. 755 01:57:16,571 --> 01:57:20,736 The so-called saviors of mankind! 756 01:57:20,821 --> 01:57:25,403 And not for money or inspiration, but to remake the world. 757 01:57:25,486 --> 01:57:30,193 - I'll never bring that sort here. - What do you understand? 758 01:57:31,570 --> 01:57:34,235 You're not the only stalker in the world. 759 01:57:34,318 --> 01:57:40,109 No stalker knows what ideas the people you bring here take away with them. 760 01:57:40,818 --> 01:57:43,733 The number of motiveless crimes is growing. 761 01:57:43,818 --> 01:57:45,650 Isn't that your work? 762 01:57:45,734 --> 01:57:47,401 What about the military coups? 763 01:57:48,859 --> 01:57:52,524 The mafia in the governments, couldn't they be your clients? 764 01:57:53,150 --> 01:57:54,982 What about the lasers, 765 01:57:55,066 --> 01:58:01,857 the deadly bacteria hidden away in vaults for the time being? 766 01:58:01,940 --> 01:58:05,148 Stop this sociological drivel! 767 01:58:05,232 --> 01:58:07,314 Do you really believe in these fairy tales? 768 01:58:07,398 --> 01:58:12,147 Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes. 769 01:58:12,231 --> 01:58:14,313 Just stop it. 770 01:58:14,397 --> 01:58:20,437 No single individual can have enough hatred or love 771 01:58:20,521 --> 01:58:23,311 to spread over all mankind. 772 01:58:24,479 --> 01:58:30,311 You desire money, a woman. Or you want your boss to get run over. 773 01:58:30,395 --> 01:58:32,644 That's neither here nor there. 774 01:58:32,727 --> 01:58:35,768 But world domination, a just society, 775 01:58:35,853 --> 01:58:38,018 the kingdom of heaven on earth. 776 01:58:38,102 --> 01:58:42,976 Those aren't desires, but an ideology, actions, concepts. 777 01:58:44,476 --> 01:58:49,767 Subconscious compassion cannot yet be realized 778 01:58:49,851 --> 01:58:52,558 as a common instinctive desire. 779 01:58:53,350 --> 01:58:57,432 You can't be happy at the expense of others' unhappiness. 780 01:58:58,474 --> 01:59:05,265 I see you've decided to smash humanity with some inconceivable boon. 781 01:59:06,682 --> 01:59:09,181 Yet I'm completely calm. 782 01:59:09,265 --> 01:59:13,264 I'm not worried about you or myself or mankind. 783 01:59:14,722 --> 01:59:17,222 Nothing will come of it. 784 01:59:18,264 --> 01:59:22,179 At best, you'll receive your Nobel Prize... 785 01:59:23,638 --> 01:59:28,804 ...or more probably something quite inconceivable 786 01:59:28,887 --> 01:59:31,387 which you haven't even thought about. 787 01:59:31,720 --> 01:59:33,511 A telephone. 788 01:59:35,011 --> 01:59:39,386 You dream of one thing and get something quite different. 789 01:59:41,344 --> 01:59:43,052 Why did you do that? 790 01:59:57,342 --> 02:00:00,842 A telephone, electricity. 791 02:00:04,882 --> 02:00:07,714 Look, sleeping pills. 792 02:00:08,507 --> 02:00:11,923 This sort isn't prescribed anymore. Where did they come from? 793 02:00:16,673 --> 02:00:18,672 Shall we go there? 794 02:00:19,506 --> 02:00:23,963 It'll soon be evening, too dark to get back. 795 02:00:31,088 --> 02:00:33,712 By the way, 796 02:00:33,796 --> 02:00:38,503 I can see that all this poetry reciting and walking around 797 02:00:38,586 --> 02:00:42,377 is a new, original way of apologizing. 798 02:00:42,461 --> 02:00:43,961 I understand you. 799 02:00:46,086 --> 02:00:49,668 A difficult childhood environment. 800 02:00:49,752 --> 02:00:51,876 But don't fool yourself. 801 02:00:54,501 --> 02:00:56,251 I don't forgive you. 802 02:00:57,084 --> 02:00:59,250 Don't. Please. 803 02:01:51,910 --> 02:01:55,076 Professor, come here. 804 02:02:28,697 --> 02:02:32,446 Just a moment. No need to rush. 805 02:02:32,530 --> 02:02:34,695 I'm not rushing anywhere. 806 02:03:25,357 --> 02:03:27,189 Don't get angry. 807 02:03:30,523 --> 02:03:32,563 But I have to tell you. 808 02:03:39,605 --> 02:03:44,395 We're now standing at the threshold. 809 02:03:52,269 --> 02:03:57,185 This is the most important moment... in your life. 810 02:04:00,519 --> 02:04:02,851 You must know that... 811 02:04:04,185 --> 02:04:09,017 ...your most cherished desire will come true here. 812 02:04:10,892 --> 02:04:16,516 Your sincerest wish, the desire that has made you suffer most. 813 02:04:45,888 --> 02:04:47,513 There's no need to speak. 814 02:04:51,262 --> 02:04:57,011 You must only... concentrate 815 02:04:57,095 --> 02:05:00,177 and recall all your past life. 816 02:05:03,260 --> 02:05:08,510 When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder. 817 02:05:09,593 --> 02:05:11,093 But the main thing — 818 02:05:44,963 --> 02:05:46,463 The main thing is... 819 02:05:51,213 --> 02:05:52,712 ...you must believe. 820 02:06:02,170 --> 02:06:03,795 Now go. 821 02:06:09,668 --> 02:06:11,418 Who wants to go first? 822 02:06:16,501 --> 02:06:18,167 Perhaps you? 823 02:06:19,834 --> 02:06:22,875 Me? No, I don't want to. 824 02:06:24,000 --> 02:06:25,957 I know it's not easy. 825 02:06:26,042 --> 02:06:29,041 But don't worry. That will soon pass. 826 02:06:30,333 --> 02:06:34,749 I'm not sure... that it will. 827 02:06:36,873 --> 02:06:40,372 Firstly, if I begin to recall my life... 828 02:06:42,081 --> 02:06:43,996 ...I shall hardly become kinder. 829 02:06:45,830 --> 02:06:50,662 And then, can't you see how shameful all this is? 830 02:07:08,495 --> 02:07:10,327 To humiliate yourself. 831 02:07:11,327 --> 02:07:13,785 To snivel and to pray. 832 02:07:14,660 --> 02:07:16,410 What's bad about praying? 833 02:07:18,868 --> 02:07:20,825 That's your pride speaking. 834 02:07:22,784 --> 02:07:27,824 Relax. You're just not ready. That happens. 835 02:07:30,741 --> 02:07:32,491 Perhaps you'll go first? 836 02:07:40,656 --> 02:07:41,989 Me? 837 02:07:52,781 --> 02:07:57,821 Voilà! Here we have the professor's new invention. 838 02:07:58,863 --> 02:08:02,945 A device for testing the human soul. A soul meter. 839 02:08:03,487 --> 02:08:06,194 It's just a bomb. 840 02:08:06,278 --> 02:08:07,277 What? 841 02:08:09,487 --> 02:08:12,319 - You're joking. - No. 842 02:08:14,527 --> 02:08:16,735 It's just a 20-kiloton bomb. 843 02:08:18,194 --> 02:08:19,318 What for? 844 02:08:30,275 --> 02:08:33,940 I assembled it with some friends. 845 02:08:36,025 --> 02:08:39,815 With some former colleagues. 846 02:08:44,149 --> 02:08:47,607 This place, evidently, won't bring anyone happiness. 847 02:08:52,148 --> 02:08:56,730 And if it falls into evil hands... 848 02:08:59,105 --> 02:09:01,271 However, I really don't know now. 849 02:09:03,313 --> 02:09:05,103 Once we had the idea... 850 02:09:08,103 --> 02:09:10,769 ...that the Zone should not be destroyed. 851 02:09:12,145 --> 02:09:17,852 Even if it was a miracle, it was a part of nature. 852 02:09:18,394 --> 02:09:20,977 And in a certain sense, it means hope. 853 02:09:23,268 --> 02:09:27,642 They hid this bomb, but I've found it. 854 02:09:28,018 --> 02:09:30,808 It's an old building, Bunker 4. 855 02:09:35,892 --> 02:09:39,557 Obviously there must be a principle — 856 02:09:40,891 --> 02:09:43,556 never to perform irreversible actions. 857 02:09:43,807 --> 02:09:46,140 I understand that. I'm no maniac. 858 02:09:50,557 --> 02:09:56,014 But as long as this canker is open to any scoundrel... 859 02:09:58,722 --> 02:10:00,512 ...there can be no rest. 860 02:10:08,345 --> 02:10:11,470 Maybe something inside us won't permit it? 861 02:10:17,970 --> 02:10:20,595 Poor guy, he's made himself a problem. 862 02:10:44,674 --> 02:10:45,840 Give it to me. 863 02:11:00,589 --> 02:11:02,255 Give it to me! 864 02:11:07,088 --> 02:11:09,046 You're an intelligent man. 865 02:11:16,712 --> 02:11:19,794 - What's that for? - You hypocritical louse! 866 02:11:22,128 --> 02:11:27,835 Why — Why are you doing this to me? 867 02:11:27,918 --> 02:11:31,459 He wants to destroy your hope. 868 02:11:54,623 --> 02:11:57,956 There's nothing else left to people on Earth. 869 02:11:59,123 --> 02:12:05,872 This is the only place to come to when all hope is gone. 870 02:12:08,955 --> 02:12:14,287 You have to come here. Then why destroy hope? 871 02:12:14,954 --> 02:12:16,953 Shut up! 872 02:12:19,163 --> 02:12:22,703 I see through you. 873 02:12:22,786 --> 02:12:25,869 You don't give a damn about others. 874 02:12:25,953 --> 02:12:31,702 You earn your money from our... misery. 875 02:12:31,785 --> 02:12:35,160 It's not even the money. You enjoy this. 876 02:12:35,243 --> 02:12:37,200 Here you're czar and God. 877 02:12:37,285 --> 02:12:41,659 You louse, you decide who's to die and who's to live. 878 02:12:41,743 --> 02:12:44,075 He chooses, he decides. 879 02:12:45,576 --> 02:12:50,033 I know why the stalker himself never enters the Room. 880 02:12:50,117 --> 02:12:55,532 What for? You're drunk with power out here. 881 02:12:55,615 --> 02:12:57,656 With mystery! With authority! 882 02:12:57,741 --> 02:13:00,948 That's not true. You're wrong. 883 02:13:06,281 --> 02:13:08,780 A stalker is forbidden to enter the Room. 884 02:13:08,864 --> 02:13:12,821 Especially for his own selfish reasons. 885 02:13:13,613 --> 02:13:15,446 Remember Porcupine. 886 02:13:18,238 --> 02:13:20,404 Yes, I'm a louse. 887 02:13:20,487 --> 02:13:23,820 I've never achieved anything, and I can't do anything here. 888 02:13:26,237 --> 02:13:28,361 I have nothing to give my wife. 889 02:13:29,737 --> 02:13:34,485 I can't have any friends, but don't deprive me of what's mine. 890 02:13:34,569 --> 02:13:38,234 They took everything from me behind the barbed wire. 891 02:13:42,443 --> 02:13:45,067 Everything I have is here. 892 02:13:45,151 --> 02:13:47,650 Here, in the Zone. 893 02:13:49,192 --> 02:13:54,025 My happiness, my freedom, dignity. They're all here. 894 02:13:56,108 --> 02:13:59,898 The people I bring are unhappy like me. 895 02:13:59,983 --> 02:14:03,732 They've nothing left to hope for. Nobody can help them. 896 02:14:05,024 --> 02:14:10,981 But I can — a louse. A louse can help them! 897 02:14:13,647 --> 02:14:16,272 I weep for joy because I can help them. 898 02:14:18,355 --> 02:14:20,105 I ask for nothing more. 899 02:14:42,561 --> 02:14:44,269 I don't know. Maybe. 900 02:14:45,351 --> 02:14:47,767 Anyway, forgive me, but — 901 02:14:49,059 --> 02:14:51,017 You're simply one of God's fools. 902 02:14:53,267 --> 02:14:55,932 You've no conception of what's happening here. 903 02:15:00,225 --> 02:15:03,433 Why do you think Porcupine hanged himself? 904 02:15:03,766 --> 02:15:10,348 He came to the Zone for profit, and his brother died for money. 905 02:15:10,432 --> 02:15:14,347 I understand that, but why did he hang himself? 906 02:15:14,432 --> 02:15:18,431 Why didn't he come back? Not for money, but for his brother. 907 02:15:19,930 --> 02:15:21,680 Is that how he repented? 908 02:15:21,763 --> 02:15:26,179 He wanted to. But within a few days, he hanged himself. 909 02:15:26,263 --> 02:15:32,262 He realized that it is one's most secret desire that is granted here. 910 02:15:40,761 --> 02:15:43,052 What are you yelling about? 911 02:15:51,343 --> 02:15:56,009 What comes true here is that which reflects the essence of your nature. 912 02:15:56,092 --> 02:15:59,174 It is within you. It governs you. 913 02:15:59,259 --> 02:16:02,758 Yet you are ignorant of it. 914 02:16:02,842 --> 02:16:07,507 You've understood nothing. Greed didn't do Porcupine in. 915 02:16:07,590 --> 02:16:11,297 He crawled on his knees to plead for his brother, 916 02:16:11,382 --> 02:16:13,631 but he got a pile of money. 917 02:16:13,716 --> 02:16:16,589 He couldn't get anything else. 918 02:16:17,297 --> 02:16:20,838 Porcupine was given the essence of his true nature. 919 02:16:20,922 --> 02:16:25,838 Conscience and soul-searching were all invented by the mind. 920 02:16:25,922 --> 02:16:28,046 When he realized all that, he hanged himself. 921 02:16:32,963 --> 02:16:34,713 I won't go into your Room. 922 02:16:36,795 --> 02:16:42,044 I don't want to pour the filth in my soul onto anyone's head — 923 02:16:42,128 --> 02:16:44,419 even yours — 924 02:16:44,503 --> 02:16:46,669 and then hang myself as Porcupine did. 925 02:16:48,253 --> 02:16:53,293 Better to stay grunting in my stinking private villa. 926 02:16:55,710 --> 02:17:01,291 You're a bad judge of human nature 927 02:17:01,376 --> 02:17:03,959 if you bring people like me into the Zone. 928 02:17:11,958 --> 02:17:19,331 How did you learn that this miracle actually exists? 929 02:17:20,790 --> 02:17:25,497 Who told you that desires really come true here? 930 02:17:27,789 --> 02:17:32,413 Do you know one man who was made happy here? 931 02:17:33,705 --> 02:17:35,662 Perhaps Porcupine? 932 02:17:40,537 --> 02:17:45,160 And who told you about the Zone, 933 02:17:45,245 --> 02:17:48,827 about Porcupine, about this Room? 934 02:17:50,411 --> 02:17:51,576 He did. 935 02:18:56,528 --> 02:18:58,777 I don't understand anything at all. 936 02:19:00,402 --> 02:19:02,901 What's the sense in coming here? 937 02:20:26,307 --> 02:20:27,807 It's so still. 938 02:20:29,391 --> 02:20:30,890 Can you hear it? 939 02:20:36,223 --> 02:20:39,347 Suppose I chuck it all in... 940 02:20:41,222 --> 02:20:45,638 ...get my wife and Monkey and come here to live... 941 02:20:49,388 --> 02:20:50,720 ...forever. 942 02:20:53,221 --> 02:20:54,720 There's nobody here. 943 02:20:56,054 --> 02:20:57,886 No one will hurt them. 944 02:25:12,687 --> 02:25:14,395 You came back. 945 02:25:20,436 --> 02:25:22,186 Where did the dog come from? 946 02:25:23,685 --> 02:25:27,684 It tagged along. Don't chase it away. 947 02:25:45,016 --> 02:25:48,140 Well, shall we go? 948 02:25:49,098 --> 02:25:50,848 Monkey's waiting. 949 02:25:54,723 --> 02:25:56,056 Are we going? 950 02:26:10,471 --> 02:26:12,470 Does anybody want a dog? 951 02:26:15,845 --> 02:26:18,178 I've got five already. 952 02:26:28,344 --> 02:26:30,843 So you like dogs? 953 02:26:31,427 --> 02:26:32,927 What? 954 02:26:33,010 --> 02:26:34,343 That's good. 955 02:26:40,217 --> 02:26:42,508 All right, let's go. 956 02:29:45,359 --> 02:29:47,358 If you only knew how tired I am. 957 02:29:49,401 --> 02:29:51,191 Only God knows. 958 02:29:53,275 --> 02:29:56,357 They still call themselves the intelligentsia. 959 02:29:56,442 --> 02:30:00,024 Writers! Scientists! - Calm down. 960 02:30:00,108 --> 02:30:02,649 They don't believe in anything. 961 02:30:02,733 --> 02:30:07,732 Their capacity for faith has atrophied — 962 02:30:07,815 --> 02:30:09,606 - Calm yourself. - ...through lack of use. 963 02:30:11,356 --> 02:30:15,314 Stop it. Come, lie down. Don't worry. 964 02:30:15,397 --> 02:30:19,937 It's damp. You can't stay here. 965 02:30:23,730 --> 02:30:25,229 Take it off. 966 02:31:36,429 --> 02:31:38,344 My God, what kind people are they? 967 02:31:38,429 --> 02:31:42,720 Calm down. It isn't their fault. 968 02:31:42,803 --> 02:31:45,510 They should be pitied, not abused. 969 02:31:45,595 --> 02:31:47,927 Their eyes are blank. 970 02:32:00,800 --> 02:32:04,340 They're thinking how not to sell themselves cheap, 971 02:32:04,425 --> 02:32:10,007 how to get paid for every breath they take. 972 02:32:13,173 --> 02:32:17,672 They know they were born to "be someone," to be an elite! 973 02:32:20,590 --> 02:32:22,298 They say, "You live but once." 974 02:32:24,630 --> 02:32:27,379 How can such people believe in anything at all? 975 02:32:28,755 --> 02:32:30,463 Relax now. 976 02:32:30,547 --> 02:32:34,629 Try to get some sleep. 977 02:32:35,671 --> 02:32:37,170 Go to sleep. 978 02:32:40,628 --> 02:32:44,252 Nobody believes. Not only those two. 979 02:32:45,628 --> 02:32:46,961 Nobody. 980 02:32:47,461 --> 02:32:49,211 Who shall I take there? 981 02:32:53,460 --> 02:32:55,793 Oh, Lord. 982 02:32:55,877 --> 02:32:57,376 The most terrible thing... 983 02:32:59,918 --> 02:33:06,084 ...is that nobody needs that Room and all my efforts are in vain. 984 02:33:07,458 --> 02:33:10,416 Why do you say that? Don't. 985 02:33:16,790 --> 02:33:18,831 I'll never go there again with anyone. 986 02:33:22,164 --> 02:33:26,581 If you want, I'll go there with you. Do you want that? 987 02:33:29,039 --> 02:33:31,497 Do you think I've nothing to ask for? 988 02:33:36,580 --> 02:33:37,787 No. 989 02:33:41,620 --> 02:33:43,995 You mustn't. - Why? 990 02:33:47,287 --> 02:33:48,494 No. 991 02:33:53,661 --> 02:33:57,368 What if you fail, too? 992 02:34:33,614 --> 02:34:36,446 You know, Mama was very opposed to it. 993 02:34:38,780 --> 02:34:43,404 You've probably already guessed that he's one of God's fools. 994 02:34:46,362 --> 02:34:48,695 Everyone around here used to laugh at him. 995 02:34:48,779 --> 02:34:51,570 He was such a wretched muddler. 996 02:34:54,194 --> 02:34:56,443 Mama used to say, 997 02:34:56,528 --> 02:35:00,902 "He's a stalker, a marked man, an eternal jailbird. 998 02:35:00,986 --> 02:35:03,860 Remember the kind of children stalkers have." 999 02:35:03,943 --> 02:35:06,817 I didn't even argue. 1000 02:35:09,734 --> 02:35:12,109 I knew all about it — 1001 02:35:12,192 --> 02:35:17,983 that he was a marked man, a jailbird, about the kids. 1002 02:35:21,816 --> 02:35:23,857 Only what could I do? 1003 02:35:23,941 --> 02:35:26,648 I was sure I'd be happy with him. 1004 02:35:29,232 --> 02:35:31,398 I knew there'd be a lot of sorrow. 1005 02:35:33,023 --> 02:35:37,939 But I'd rather know bittersweet happiness... 1006 02:35:39,605 --> 02:35:41,437 ...than a gray, uneventful life. 1007 02:35:46,437 --> 02:35:49,854 Perhaps I invented all this later. 1008 02:35:59,562 --> 02:36:04,477 But when he came up to me and said, "Come with me," I went. 1009 02:36:06,102 --> 02:36:08,809 And I've never regretted it. 1010 02:36:12,601 --> 02:36:13,934 Never. 1011 02:36:16,684 --> 02:36:19,808 There was a lot of grief 1012 02:36:19,892 --> 02:36:22,225 and fear and pain. 1013 02:36:22,308 --> 02:36:25,932 But I've never regretted it nor envied anyone. 1014 02:36:28,015 --> 02:36:29,931 It's just fate. 1015 02:36:31,557 --> 02:36:33,973 It's life. It's us. 1016 02:36:39,431 --> 02:36:43,180 And if there were no sorrow in our lives, it wouldn't be better. 1017 02:36:44,888 --> 02:36:46,471 It would be worse. 1018 02:36:49,179 --> 02:36:53,970 Because then there would be no happiness either. 1019 02:36:56,512 --> 02:36:58,886 And there'd be no hope. 1020 02:37:02,220 --> 02:37:03,427 So... 1021 02:37:49,839 --> 02:37:53,462 I love those eyes of yours, my friend, 1022 02:37:53,547 --> 02:37:58,170 Their sparkling, flashing, fiery wonder; 1023 02:37:58,254 --> 02:38:02,002 When suddenly those lids ascend, 1024 02:38:02,087 --> 02:38:05,503 Then lightning rips the sky asunder; 1025 02:38:05,586 --> 02:38:09,669 You swiftly glance, and there's an end; 1026 02:38:09,752 --> 02:38:13,334 There's greater charm, though, to admire 1027 02:38:13,418 --> 02:38:16,876 When lowered are those eyes divine 1028 02:38:16,960 --> 02:38:20,500 In moments kissed by passion's fire; 1029 02:38:20,584 --> 02:38:24,667 When through the downcast lashes shine 1030 02:38:24,751 --> 02:38:31,250 The smoldering embers of desire...