1 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,680 VLASIK THE SHADOW OF LONELINESS 2 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,000 Unexpected and horrible death of Nadezhda Allilueva 3 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,480 has changed a lot in Stalin 4 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:32,720 and for Stalin. 5 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,560 Now he is forever a man whose wife took her life. 6 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,160 Though officially Nadezhda died after a severe illness, 7 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,680 he clearly understood, that the news may come out 8 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,520 of the Kremlin walls at any moment. 9 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:48,720 Besides, 10 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,360 there were two men who might have read her last note, 11 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,160 addressed solely to him. 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:55,520 These two, 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,160 Peterson and Vlasik, 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,160 continued their service in the Kremlin 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,400 not knowing what deadly threat was hanging over their heads. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,440 Stalin will shoot Peterson during the peak of repressions, 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,480 in 1937–1938. 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,080 Vlasik, however, will live. 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,280 Only all this will happen later. 20 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,080 In 1933, he prepares a new home for the boss, 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,040 the famous Blizhnyaya Dacha near Kuntsevo. 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,360 The design provided a room for Sveta, 23 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:23,440 a room for Vasya, 24 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:24,680 and one for Sergey Kirov, 25 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,200 the First Secretary of the Leningrad Committee. 26 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,440 His close comrades had called him Mironovich. 27 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,320 After the death of Nadezhda he has become Stalin's closest man, 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,200 besides the children, of course. 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,680 Vlasik will write separately about Kirov in his diary. 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,440 Stalin loved and respected Kirov the most of all. 31 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,360 Loved him with touchy and tender love. 32 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,200 By the way, there was no room for Yakov at the estate. 33 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,000 Part 3 34 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,680 Greetings! 35 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:30,920 Halt! 36 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,400 State your business. 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,800 - Comrade Kirov is expecting me. - You can pass. 38 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,520 Lenya! 39 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:44,840 Are you not at work? 40 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,680 I see, neither are you. 41 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,120 Today is the office report day, so I am actually at work. 42 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,360 The office is reporting, how is this your problem? 43 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,120 Lenya, what is wrong? Why aren't you at work? 44 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,800 I do not work at the depot any more. 45 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,840 - What? - They wanted to send me to Penza. 46 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,000 Further from here. 47 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,680 I refused, so they fired me. 48 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,840 I know who ordered about Penza. 49 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,320 - Lenya, do you know what you're doing? - Do you? 50 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:28,560 You got cleared out of Smolny, and you are wandering here. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,240 Please, I can't stand this any more. 52 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,000 Lenya, this is impossible, you... 53 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,720 Instead of being jealous and stalking me, you'd better 54 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,120 find a job. 55 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:44,560 What shall we live on? 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:47,680 I think you'll find someone 57 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,760 to take care of you and of your children. 58 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,080 Comrades Heavy Machinery Administration employees, 59 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,960 your turn to report by sectors is in 5 minutes. 60 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,200 Planners are reporting first. 61 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,880 Please proceed to the hall. 62 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,600 Comrade Kirov will arrive shortly. 63 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:17,000 He's been unbearable lately, he needs a job. Do you hear me? 64 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,840 All right, I'll see what can be done about it. 65 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:22,800 Boy, am I sick of them. 66 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,640 - Of whom? - The security. 67 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,720 Right. Okay. 68 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:30,840 - I'm going. - Yes. 69 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:32,320 Yes! 70 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,440 Have you heard about healing by the Russian stove? 71 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:50,840 Negative, comrade Stalin. 72 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,520 And you consider yourself a rural native! 73 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,920 Russian stove is the main medicine against every disease. 74 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,800 I wasn't then 75 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,760 even a Stalin. 76 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,320 I was 77 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,480 a Besoshvili. 78 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,160 Or not? 79 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:17,880 A Chizhikov! 80 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Exactly. 81 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,960 It was my Party name then. 82 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:28,280 Chizhikov. 83 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:31,840 Tatka. 84 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:36,720 She also laughed when I told how I was a Chizhikov. 85 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:39,680 Long time ago. 86 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,760 This was my first exile. 87 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,320 To Novaya Uda village, 88 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,960 Balagansky county of the Irkutsk region. 89 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,320 I was not even 30 years old then. 90 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,880 But my back was already no good. 91 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,880 There, one old woman 92 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,920 was curing me with a Russian stove. 93 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:07,640 Right. 94 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,840 She wrapped me into her kerchief of sheep wool, 95 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,920 and sent me up to sleep upon the stove. 96 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,640 Think of it, an old woman, 97 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,360 a torn kerchief, 98 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,200 and a Russian stove 99 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,480 have cured me. 100 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:28,400 20 years. 101 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,200 I never felt any pain. 102 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,040 But the last year, oh my, 103 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:36,600 the pain's back. 104 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,280 So I've remembered a Russian stove. 105 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,840 It's a shame that Novaya Uda village 106 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,320 is so far away. 107 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,520 How is the construction in Volokolamsk? 108 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,600 Finishing building the house, comrade Stalin. 109 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,440 - You should speed up. - Affirmative. 110 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,480 And Vlasik, 111 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,480 your people smelled of garlic from afar, and now it is cologne. 112 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:15,680 It's unpleasant. 113 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,200 And what about this new invention of yours, 114 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,560 the special coach, maybe... 115 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:31,920 Tell me, Vlasik, 116 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,000 is your wife very mad at you? 117 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,880 What for, comrade Stalin? 118 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,720 Well, you spend too much time with me... 119 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:47,720 ... at the job. 120 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,440 What are you saying, comrade Stalin? She is quite reasonable. 121 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,800 Look after her, Nikolai. 122 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,040 Take care of her. 123 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,560 Comrade Merzhanov! Where are you going? 124 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:08,800 I have to verify 125 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,120 that all directives of comrade Vlasik, 126 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,320 especially about the Russian stove, are fulfilled. 127 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,200 Vlasik does not repeat himself. 128 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,080 Are you going to calm down or what? 129 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,720 Who is this Vlasik, and why is he messing with my work? 130 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,560 I know Le Corbusier, 131 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,120 I know Gaudi. 132 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:34,080 Vlasik? Don't know! 133 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:35,760 Who is this man? 134 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,600 Well then, it's the right time to meet him. 135 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,920 Well, comrade Vlasik, 136 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,720 please show me 137 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,640 the place for this monster here 138 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:57,040 in this ensemble? 139 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,840 Listen, you, Miron from Rostov, 140 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,960 I do not care about your ensemble, I'll now 141 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,760 show you your own place. 142 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,080 Sasha? 143 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:06,480 Look. 144 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,560 We keep this, and this is to be cleared 145 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,520 - cause you see... - You... 146 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,880 Screw you, comrade Vlasik! 147 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,840 Faster, faster, faster! 148 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,040 Did they give rations today? 149 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:56,320 Why are you lying all the time? 150 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,440 Why are you lying? I used to work there myself! 151 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:00,920 Did you forget? 152 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,400 I know who gets which rations. 153 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:22,560 Buying me off with food. 154 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,360 What do you mean? 155 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:32,040 Nothing. 156 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,200 Come here. 157 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:55,600 Here. 158 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,960 This will be your room. 159 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,920 To stay when you visit. 160 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,280 Tomorrow they'll connect a phone for you, right beside the bed. 161 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,280 It will be very convenient. 162 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,760 Yeah. 163 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:21,640 And what is there? 164 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,520 - Mironovich? - Yes. 165 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,600 Tell me, are the Petersburg comrades 166 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:29,800 ready for rationing cancellation? 167 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:33,840 Always ready. 168 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,480 My report at the Party meeting is due on December the 1st. 169 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:40,560 This is good. 170 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:43,920 I thought of it. 171 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,480 I am ready to become the Secretary General. 172 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,760 But on one condition. 173 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,280 If the great leader will be the chairman of the government. 174 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,440 Look, you have not yet been appointed, and you put down conditions already! 175 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,280 - It is great here, dad! - Yes, much more than at Zubalovo! 176 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,320 - How so? - More room! 177 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Uncle Sergey... 178 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,920 Let's go riding! Let's! 179 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,000 Quiet, Vlasik will hear you, and put you in the pantry! 180 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,400 - Let's go now! - The car is ready. 181 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,840 Right on, let's go! 182 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:26,800 Gotta make it like here. 183 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,720 Good view. Good job, Sasha, it's properly done. 184 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,440 Oh yes! 185 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:33,920 Then... 186 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,720 ...to provide full view of the whole corridor, 187 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,960 and access ways to comrade Kirov's study, 188 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,880 we'll have to break down, in the eastern wing, 189 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,440 a part of the carrier wall, here, and here. 190 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,000 What are you saying? No one will allow us to do it. 191 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,640 What do you mean, allow? Break it! 192 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,760 May I? Your guy there... 193 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:00,840 Yours! 194 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,920 A bloody bear! Pulled races on ice! 195 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,560 With the kids in the car! 196 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,120 Oh, cholera! Miron, where are your eyes? 197 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,840 - Where is Stalin? - In the car! 198 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:14,640 Are you mad? 199 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:17,880 It was fun! 200 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:20,800 Comrade Stalin! 201 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,920 I request to discharge me over failure to fulfill my duties. 202 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,040 I have not prevented the deadly danger to yourself, your children, 203 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,080 and comrade Kirov. 204 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,720 I request court marshaling me. 205 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,320 Looks like you and I 206 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,280 did something wrong. 207 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,240 Yeah, we like er... 208 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,400 Okay, I'll talk to him. 209 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,920 The children should be taken home. 210 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,240 Medved! 211 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,600 Get the boys home and into a bath! 212 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:58,720 Yes! 213 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,320 Sergey, come with me. 214 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:04,760 Vlasik! 215 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:08,800 - Vlasik! - Let's go! 216 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,640 Hey, wait, cholera! 217 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:25,880 When are you coming? 218 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,080 I haven't left yet. 219 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,840 Okay. Are you inviting me for the New Year? 220 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Certainly! 221 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,360 I'll go to Zagubie, hunt some game for the meal. 222 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:46,560 All right. 223 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:01,760 Mironovich! 224 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:12,640 Let's go. 225 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Look after him. 226 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,040 Waiting for you with the instructions. 227 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,920 What do you think about Borisov? 228 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 He’s sensible. 229 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,800 Do we have to replace him? 230 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,760 Comrade Stalin, I'll get there, check how they mastered my instructions 231 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,120 regarding comrade Kirov's safety. Then I'll tell for certain. 232 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,160 So far it's too early to draw conclusions. 233 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,760 To draw conclusions, 234 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,760 it's never too early. 235 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,080 Trust my experience. 236 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,080 Tell me, Vlasik. 237 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,440 Do you believe in premonitions? 238 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,000 I believe, comrade Stalin. 239 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,200 Well, I do not. 240 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,720 Just... 241 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:38,880 ...right here... 242 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,240 ...there's a pinch... 243 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,480 ...somehow. 244 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,240 Maybe the weather? 245 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,600 Comrade Stalin, may I? 246 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:52,760 - Escort you? - Where to? 247 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,040 Please go. 248 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:08,920 Where to, Vlasik? 249 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:14,560 Well, go, 250 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:16,720 smart ass. 251 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:25,400 Smart ass. 252 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:33,640 Vlasik! 253 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,880 It is a stove! 254 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,080 You have lit it already, rascal! 255 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,120 - Of course! - Hold it. 256 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:30,280 Push me up there, will you. 257 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:34,560 Vlasik. 258 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,400 Respect. 259 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,400 Thank you, Kolya. 260 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,320 - Do not disturb me until dinner. - Affirmative. 261 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,280 An old Jew told me, 262 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,920 Hey Vova, these days can't believe no one, even oneself! 263 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,440 Yesterday at a Party rally 264 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,000 I wanted to fart, 265 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,560 and pooped in my pants! 266 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,600 Volodya, you tell such vulgar jokes. 267 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,680 Oh darling, your laughter is so contagious. 268 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,440 Vulgarity is when 269 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,160 it's flat, a cliche, and primitive 270 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,400 up to nausea, and not funny. 271 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,240 - Very funny! - Here, it's right in! 272 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,600 Only, why at a Party rally and not at the barber's? 273 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,480 Because a Party rally is modern times! 274 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,680 Hello, hello! 275 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,120 Hello, dear! 276 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,840 Vitka, my beauty. 277 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:06,440 - Hi! - Hi! 278 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,440 Please meet my friends. 279 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,760 Nikolai, 280 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,600 Alexander, 281 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,880 Stenberg the artist. 282 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,720 Music theater artists Tamara and Kirill, 283 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,600 and the incomparable, 284 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,040 incomparable Angelina Vitkovskaya. 285 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,200 You can call me Vitka. 286 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,240 That's how my friends call me. 287 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,400 To the Red Cross and the trade union! 288 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,240 What, why? 289 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,560 Come on! 290 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,400 This is a Miron joke. 291 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:49,520 Grisha, 292 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:51,960 bottoms up! 293 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,520 Excuse me. 294 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,600 Left my wrap in the coat. 295 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Sasha, with me. 296 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:15,960 Good one? 297 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,720 Good one. 298 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,320 Come here. 299 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:26,880 Got money? 300 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,280 - A 50. - Cough it up. 301 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:39,800 Kolya, what's on your mind? 302 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,000 That fox caught your fancy? 303 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,800 Watch it. 304 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,200 She's a snake, Kolya. 305 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,840 You are talking crap. 306 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,840 I want to buy cologne for Lyuda in the morning. 307 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,840 Don't covet at another man's pie! 308 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,080 He's a solid family man, by the way. 309 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:08,920 So what? 310 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,360 A wife is no wall. 311 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,520 Lyubov Orlova managed to move. 312 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:16,560 She's a star now. 313 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,720 A rehearsal is in ten minutes. 314 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,280 Nemirovich hates late comers and deprives them of parts. 315 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,680 And who Orlova had moved? 316 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,680 Did Alexandrov have a wife? 317 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,960 Alexandrov had Eisenstein! 318 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,000 - If it's for Lyuda... - Give me. 319 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,840 Then hold it. 320 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:45,960 It's time for my rehearsal. 321 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:47,840 What a pity! 322 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,440 Wow, like that, we... 323 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,120 Yes, a premiere is coming soon, and you are invited. 324 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,320 Are you coming? 325 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 I will. 326 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:58,480 Here you are. 327 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,680 - Thank you. - You are welcome. 328 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,360 - Good bye. - Good bye. 329 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,320 - Good bye. - Good bye. 330 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,240 See you later then. 331 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,920 Kolya, well, still want the 50? 332 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:41,960 What? 333 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,000 Oh... Let's go. 334 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,080 Comrade! Comrade, wait a minute! 335 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,400 - What is it? - I should ask you that. 336 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,840 I see you every day at the same time. 337 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,560 You must take me for someone else. 338 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,840 I am a working man, no time for daily visits here. 339 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,240 We'll check this. Show your documents. 340 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,360 Sure thing, here you are. 341 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:12,480 Follow me. 342 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,760 - What for? - For clarification. 343 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,120 What is there to clarify? 344 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,080 I was waiting for my landsman. Grisha! 345 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,640 Grisha, at last! I was waiting for you here. 346 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,920 - Hello! - Hello, dear! 347 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,880 Waiting for you, I say. Thank you. What brings you here? 348 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,600 Wanted to ask you. 349 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,520 I see, you hold a high position. 350 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:32,560 Come on! 351 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,160 How are your wife and kids? 352 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,480 She's a bit sick, all the rest is good. 353 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,200 I have a request for you. 354 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,880 But I see, you are in a rush. 355 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,040 Yes, a bit. 356 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,320 - A bit. - I'll call you later then. 357 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440 - Okay. - Good. 358 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,680 - Bye. - Bye. 359 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,560 Kolya? 360 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,000 You've got regards. 361 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:11,560 From whom? 362 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:12,960 From Vitka. 363 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:17,640 She's asking. 364 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,760 When that brave Vlasik is going to attend my play? 365 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:24,640 Too much work. 366 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,120 You should remind about yourself. 367 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,600 I do not know, how you hussars do it? 368 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,840 You'd come with a bunch of flowers. 369 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,160 What kind of hussar am I? No time for shows, theaters. 370 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,800 I hardly sleep two hours a day. 371 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,680 Well, you better watch it. Those like Vitka, 372 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,680 they don't forgive ignorance. 373 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:58,600 Bye. 374 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,120 And don't forget about my Lyuda. 375 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720 Visit her, she might need something. 376 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,080 - Okay. Need a ride? - Thanks, I'll manage. 377 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:10,400 Bye. 378 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,880 - Well? - Like a clock! 379 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,920 - Go on. - Look, Sergey, Vlasik. 380 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,520 He'll be back soon. 381 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,880 - If anything is wrong... - Everything is wrong. 382 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,000 Why, in the morning, 383 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,880 there was no car for comrade Stalin, as I have ordered? 384 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,840 My bad. 385 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,240 But he was at the "dacha" in the morning. 386 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,000 Not in Kremlin. 387 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,360 - We thought... - You were not commanded to think! 388 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,480 You were commanded to execute! 389 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,440 I gave an order that every day 390 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,080 comrade Stalin's car 391 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,400 shall be present at his doorway at different times. 392 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,640 No matter where he actually is. 393 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,080 Affirmative. 394 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,120 Have I explained what is this for? 395 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,320 Affirmative, comrade Vlasik. 396 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,240 Well, 397 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,320 what for? 398 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:19,760 To confuse enemies 399 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,240 and prevent a possible attempt. 400 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,280 Why the heck you are not executing? 401 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,040 Maybe you thought 402 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,720 you can goof off if I'm away? 403 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,440 - Go and work! - Yes! 404 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,400 I warn you for the last time. 405 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,440 Every day, at different times, 406 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,680 bring comrade Stalin's car to his doorway. 407 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,640 - Clear? - Clear. 408 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,760 I was passing by, hello. 409 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:23,480 Hello. 410 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,280 I say, Borisov, 411 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,040 is this true what they say that this Latvian girl 412 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,560 has a son from Kirov? 413 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:43,800 None of your business. 414 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,360 Looks alike. 415 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,320 Milda. 416 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:09,640 It's over. 417 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,840 I am not leaving my son, I’ll help as much as I can. 418 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,200 That's it, Lenya, I am back. 419 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:40,920 To you. 420 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,200 Forever. 421 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,320 What a beauty! 422 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,120 - Nice buttons. - This is new. 423 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,520 Chief nurse at my work gave it to me. 424 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,120 Her daughter grew up so fast, she didn't even wear this. 425 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,400 Such nice shoes! 426 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,280 I want this for Nadya, our niece. 427 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,640 When Kolya has a vacation in his depot at last, 428 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,240 we'll go to Belorussia, bring presents to our family. 429 00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:20,760 Yes, Lyudmila Viktorovna, they got lucky. 430 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,320 Your husband and you are so generous. 431 00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:24,720 Unlike my family, 432 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,080 as stringy as they come. 433 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:31,680 Well, here comes the landlord. 434 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:39,440 I'm going, Vitya must be awake now. 435 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,040 Look what your wife has obtained. 436 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,600 All new. 437 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,560 We'll go to Belorussia, bring presents to our relatives. 438 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,280 What is it? 439 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000 My sister. 440 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:09,640 Olya. 441 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,680 Last month, from typhoid. 442 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,520 I'll ask for leave at work tomorrow. 443 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,440 Have to go. 444 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,760 Nadya is completely alone there. 445 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,560 Last year, old man. 446 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,360 Now, the mother. 447 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,920 I'll cook the supper. 448 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:20,720 You’re gorgeous. 449 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,040 Don't peek. 450 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,360 Come on, get out, loiterer. 451 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,320 Breakfast is served. 452 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:58,760 Coming, coming. 453 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:06,280 Coming. 454 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,560 All right, I'll go get a newspaper. 455 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:55,280 Yes. 456 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,360 My days are numbered, I am learning, 457 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,880 To keep life going, do I say 458 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,440 I must be sure in the morning... 459 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,880 That I'm seeing you today. 460 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:24,480 When, Sergey? 461 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,040 At four o'clock. 462 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,160 In the Smolny. 463 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,240 Of course I can. 464 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,040 Oh darling, I miss you so much. 465 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,920 I love you. 466 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,440 You know, I totally forgot. 467 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,720 We can't go to the cinema today. 468 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:11,240 Why so? 469 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:13,840 I... 470 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,560 I was offered a new job. 471 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:23,880 This is great! 472 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,440 Why did I only ask for leave at my work? 473 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,040 You know, 474 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,520 if you insist, 475 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,640 I won't go anywhere. 476 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:51,840 No. 477 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,320 It's very important. 478 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,000 Do what you need to. 479 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,320 Well, yes. 480 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,600 I do what I need to. 481 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,720 Hello. Don't kill the engine. 482 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,440 I guess it won't take long. 483 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,480 Just wait here. 484 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,760 Are you going to leave me in peace, huh? Vlasik? 485 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:56,800 What is it? 486 00:44:58,960 --> 00:44:59,960 Comrade Stalin. 487 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,720 Urgent telegram from Leningrad. 488 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,200 Who? 489 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,360 Kirov. 490 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:54,720 Comrade Stalin. 491 00:45:57,240 --> 00:45:58,480 Attention! 492 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:12,600 Where is the body? 493 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,040 In the morgue, comrade Stalin. 494 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,200 Vlasik. 495 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,080 - We go to the morgue. - Yes! 496 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:21,720 Comrades, mount up! 497 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:23,520 Right turn! 498 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,480 Forward march!