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MOSFILM

Third Artists' Association USSR

with participation of "AteIier-41" Japan

KORFOVSKAYA

- Looking for something? - Yes, for a grave.

Nobody's died around this pIace yet.

NearIy three years ago I buried a friend here.

There were tall trees out there. A cedar and a fir.

You remember those trees?

I guess we cut them down to buiId the village.

Maybe, those?

Dersu...

DERSU UZALA

All day our hunter

Goes around the isIes.

He curses his bad fortune,

No Iuck him beguiIes.

What is there to do?

How can he perform his job?

Never forgets our hunter

That beast's no easy drop.

There went our hunter To a warm seaside,

Where fish abounded On days quiet and bright.

There, by the seaside!..

That year, my mission was

to go through the Shkotov area in the Ussuri Region,

in order to make a topographicaI survey of the country.

Sometimes the mountains and the forest Iook pIeasant, weIcoming.

Sometimes though, they can be siIent and forbidding.

This wasn't just a personaI feeIing,

every man in the survey group feIt the same way.

He whom God heIps, nobody can harm.

Let's camp here for the night, and tomorrow we'll find a better pIace.

- All right, we can camp here. - We're making camp here.

This valley reminded me of

a painting of the Witches' Sabbath.

I couId aImost imagine them coming on their broomsticks.

- What was that? - A stone falling.

Somebody's coming this way.

A bear!

Shoot not! Me a man!

Hello, Captain!

Look at him, he's a man, really.

And you said, a bear!

WouId you Iike to have supper with us?

Thank you. Me not eat nothing for all day.

What are you? Chinese? Korean?

PeopIe called "GoId".

Are you a hunter?

Me hunt all time. No other work. Nothing.

Where do you Iive?

Me no home. In mountains me got IittIe hut.

SIeep there. Good enough for me.

It Iooks Iike you haven't killed anything today.

Today me shoot at deer. He ran away, not dead, onIy wounded.

Me chase that deer. Me saw man tracks.

Me waIk after sIow and easy,

me wonder what men doing so far in mountains.

Me Iook carefuI. Captain there, soIdiers there.

And so me, me come as well.

You're a strange hunter not to hit a bull's-eye.

You aIways hit bull's-eye?

We're in the army. We're not allowed to miss targets.

Then you great hunter!

You shoot everything. Leave for us nothing to eat.

Hey you, enough taIking at us!

AIright, aIright.

We can taIk now.

My name's Arsenyev. You tell me yours.

Dersu UzaIa.

And how oId are you?

How oId, me not know. Me have Iived pIenty summers.

You have a famiIy?

FamiIy all dead. Long ago.

Me had IittIe wife, son and baby girI.

Get smallpox and now they all dead. OnIy Dersu aIive.

We're expIoring this region,

the big hills, the valleys, the rivers.

Do you want to be our guide?

Me, sIeep on it.

All right, you think it over.

It's time that we turned in too.

The next day, without saying a word,

Dersu took his pIace at the head of the group.

Here, traiI go here!

- Here's a traiI! - Hey, there's a traiI!

AIong here, two-three days ago man waIking here.

Big rain fall then. Tracks of Chinese.

How do you know?

Not have eyes to see?

Chinese wear boot. Look, water in tracks.

You all Iike IittIe chiIdren. Got eyes but don't see.

When you Iive in wiIds, reaI soon you be dead.

Chinese! Come on!

ReaI soon now, find hut.

How do you know that?

Use eyes. Bark torn off for make roof.

Ashes fIattened by the rain,

a bed of straw,

a piece of Chinese cIoth -

just as Dersu had informed us.

A Chinese had certainIy spent the night here very recentIy.

Look at that!

Captain, give rice, saIt, matches.

What for?

Put it in bark, Ieave it in hut.

- Do you intend to come back? - Why?

Others come this way. Find dry wood there.

Food to eat. PeopIe no die.

OIentiev! Bring some matches, rice, saIt.

I couIdn't heIp admiring him.

He was so wise. He had a deep knowIedge

born of a Iifetime spent in the wiIds.

He was goodhearted, generous minded.

He couId think of a man he'd never met,

and that he probabIy wouId never meet.

Dersu, maybe we shouId wait till the rain stops?

Time to get ready. Birds begin singing, you hear?

Rain soon finish now.

Sun shine soon.

- Do you know what the sun is? - Sure, everyone know sun.

You never see sun?

You just take Iook. There he is in sky!

Captain, sun very big fellow, strong.

If he die one day, we all die!

Moon too, another reaI big fellow.

That bad fellow, noisy.

To Iisten to you taIk, there's nothing but peopIe around you.

PeopIe, yes. He's another fellow. Water aIive.

How do you Iike that? So the fire's aIive?

Sure, fire is strong fellow.

When he get angry, forest burn days and days.

Fire, water, wind get angry - me pIenty scared!

Fire, water, wind - three strong fellows!

That day, it snowed for the first time.

- Why for you shoot? - Because we Iike shooting.

You waste bullet for nothing.

Don't you know sharpshooters got to practice?

Well, Seryoga, did you have too much to drink Iast night?

All right!

It's as bad as hitting a bird on the wing.

- Good shooting is good hitting. - Have a try, granddad.

ShouIdn't break bottIe. Not Iot of bottIes in wiIds.

Don't try to get out of it. Admit you can't hit the bottIe.

Me shoot at string, and then you give me bottIe.

If you hit the string, the bottIe is yours.

Go ahead, Marchenko!

All right!

There, OIentiev, he really won his bottIe!

Get ready now, men! We're moving out.

Where's Dersu?

He took his day's ration of vodka and went away.

He's over there by the river, singing. Must be drunk.

Here, give me that.

Mind if I sit down with you, Dersu?

Captain, over there my wife, kids all dead. Smallpox.

So wife, kids, home, me burn everything.

Me get reaI bad dream Iast night.

Me see hut. Hut soon fall down.

In dream, wife and kids in hut.

They got no food, hurt with coId.

Me come here to get them food.

Yesterday, oId fellow here, all aIone. SIeep not at night.

How do you know that?

No traces cIose to fire where peopIe sIeep.

How do you know that he's oId?

Young aIways waIk on toes, oId aIways waIk on fIat of heeI.

A few days Iater I met this oId Chinese man.

This man name Li Sung Binn. Sixty four year oId.

Come from city call Tien Sin.

And what's he doing here?

He have woman. His brother take her. He come here in mountains.

He stay here 40 years aIone.

Thank you.

It's getting coId.

Maybe we shouId ask him over to the fire.

No, Captain. Got to Iet him be aIone.

Now he think pIenty.

Dream of house, dream of garden.

Garden all in fIowers.

Captain!

Li Sung Binn want say goodbye. He say he go home again now.

The finaI goaI of our expedition

was to expIore the region of Lake Khanka.

To get there, we wouId have to cross huge marshes with no traiIs.

I sent the Iarger part of the group to Tchernigovka,

and Dersu, OIentiev, Krushinov and myseIf

headed toward the Iake in a fIat-bottomed dugout.

OIentiev, you stay here.

Dersu and I will go on ahead. UnIoad the stuff.

We go back to dugout soon? Me pIenty pIenty bad scared.

The Iake's not far off. We'll go that far and come back.

Me do what you say. You say aIright, Dersu say aIright.

A vast siIence reigned over the frozen Iake.

The very siIence seemed in a way to be menacing.

We go back to dugout now. Wind going to quick bIow away track.

All right.

Don't worry, Dersu, we'll soon find out the way we came.

Over there!

Captain, we not come this way. No good!

We get bad Iost.

This is the right way. OnIy how can we cross? Water's all around.

Soon sun go down. Soon night be here. We get pIenty dead.

If the bivouac is near, they're sure to hear us.

We'll have to spend the night here. It's dangerous to go farther.

So what's best now?

Captain, Iisten reaI good. Got to work and work good.

We don't work reaI good, we soon be dead.

- Work at what? - Cut marsh-grass.

Captain! Work good! No stop!

Captain!

Captain! Work! Work!

Captain! Got to hoId grass in pIace.

Take rope!

Captain! Get up!

In the howIing wind, I sank into obIivion.

I don't know how Iong I sIept.

Captain!

Hey, you no bear. Come out! Sun fellow shining!

It was then that I reaIized that Dersu's ingenuity had saved my Iife.

Thank you, Dersu. I'd have died without you.

WaIk together, work together. No need say thank you.

That's OIentiev!

As time passed, our mission became harder.

Forward, forward.

Bitter coId, fatigue, hunger...

Man is too small faced with the vastness of nature.

Forward, keep moving!

Captain, me smell smoke.

Ussuri peopIe cooking fish.

Captain, where we waIk next?

We'll head for Tchernigovka. Our men are waiting for us there.

Then we take the raiIroad to VIadivostok.

Coming with us? A good town. Nice to Iive there.

Sorry, me not want. Town no good for me.

Dersu can't hunt in town. Hunt for sabIe, no can do.

At Ieast come with me as far as the station.

I can find you some money, buy you suppIies.

Money, Dersu not need.

Me go hunt for sabIe now. SabIe is Iike money to hunter.

What is it, Dersu?

Me, very bad fellow.

Me need onIy bullets to shoot.

OIentiev! Give him everything that's Ieft.

Thank you, Captain.

Me tomorrow waIk aIone.

Four suns straight ahead.

Daubikhe first, then UIakhe, then Foudzinh.

Me hear that there pIenty pIenty sabIe there.

Got pIenty deer too.

Me hear you taIk of train.

Me no understand. Now me understand.

Goodbye, soIdier fellows!

Take care of yourseIf.

Goodbye, Dersu! One day maybe we'll meet again.

Goodbye, Captain.

I wish you the best of everything, Dersu.

I aIso hope we'll meet again.

Goodbye.

He's a good man, isn't he? I never met anyone Iike him before.

He's something rare. God bIess him and keep him well.

All day our hunter

Goes around the isIes.

He curses his bad fortune,

No Iuck him beguiIes.

What is there to do?

How can he perform his job?

Never forgets our hunter

That beast is no easy drop.

There went our hunter To a warm seaside...

Captain!

Dersu!

End of Part One

That spring

I traveIed again to the Ussuri country.

Make way!

Ho! Come on!

Where are you going? To the Ieft!

Let's go!

Watch out! CarefuI with the horses!

We spent three months in the wiIds, and spring gave way to summer.

We expIored a Iot of country.

But if Dersu had been with us, we wouId've expIored a Iot more.

All the time I kept hoping that I'd meet up with him again.

Where are you, Dersu?

Go on, back up the stream! Go on!

Bring some water, quick!

What took you so Iong?

You promised us a wiId boar.

A coupIe of miIes from here I met a hunter.

He asked me about the detachment. Who we are, who the captain is.

Did you tell him anything?

No, I didn't. We're under miIitary secrecy.

Is he still over there?

No, he's not. He suddenIy began to pack up his kit in a great hurry.

- Your rifIe! - I won't need it...

- Dersu! - Captain!

It you, Captain!

Hello there, Dersu! My dear oId friend.

Why, you haven't changed a bit, Dersu. As young as ever.

Oh, my dear gray-winged eagIe,

Where've you been for so Iong?

How've you been all those years?

How many sabIes have you got?

PIenty. PIenty of money too.

OnIy Dersu Iose all money.

Rich merchant ask me to his house. PIenty vodka.

Me give all money to merchant to Iook after.

Then me not find him no more. Why he that way? Me not understand.

Oh, my dear gray-winged eagIe,

Where've you been for so Iong?

I fIew high over the mountains,

Where peace and quiet reign...

In the morning a thick fog covered the forest.

We were waIking at the head of the coIumn.

I was feeIing good. Dersu was with us.

Dersu, what do you think? Will the fog cIear up soon?

It cIear very soon. Forest and earth are all sweating.

Very soon be fine weather.

The section's Iagging too far behind. They shouId have caught up by now.

Let's wait here.

Me Iose pipe. Me go back and Iook.

How me Iose pipe Iike this?

Dersu getting oId. Or Dersu got head not working.

Captain!

That track of Amba! He waIking here behind us.

When we waIk this way, no track on path before.

When Dersu stop back there, he very cIose.

We go aIong this way, Amba go aIong too.

Amba don't never make no noise.

I beg your pardon, we're a bit Iate. Horses got bogged in the marshes.

Dersu, is that your pipe?

- What's the matter? - There's a tiger around.

Watch out, men! There's a tiger around.

Keep aIert!

Amba still follow our traiI.

Why you follow us? What you want, Amba?

We go aIong our way. We not bother you.

You not got enough room in forest?

Forward!

What are you stopping for?

It Iooks Iike a trap over there.

- What's this? - Loudieva.

Loudieva? What's that?

AnimaIs go down Loudieva to drink.

Then when they go around barrier, fall into trap.

Men kill animaIs.

A coupIe of you men come with me!

BeIonozhkin, Zagursky, Zakharov, Bochkaryov, follow me!

Watch out!

Captain, Iook!

Check on the other traps.

There's a deer and a coupIe of stags aIready dead.

Pasha, found anything?

I found two more traps. Nothing aIive in either.

- How about you, Andrei? - I just fell into one.

VassiIy, what have you got?

It's a reaI butcher shop over here.

- Who did this? - Bad Chinese did that.

Why trap not Iooked at? Not right way to hunt.

Kill animaIs for nothing is bad!

Go get the axes and shoveIs.

- What's going on? - Hunhutsi, Captain!

They make hoIe in Dersu's shirt. Me make hoIe in them.

- How many? - Eight.

Two men stay here. The rest follow me.

They've gotten away, bastards!

Hunhutsi, bad Chinese!

SteaI all money, steaI furs too.

SteaI women, murder all the men!

Look at this, Captain.

Hunhutsi steaI three women.

Where they put men? Me not understand.

Turtygin!

Hey, fellows! Come on over here!

Back there, there's pIenty mosquitoes.

At night, face this big... Great suffering. Bad way to die.

Good thing we find them during dayIight. All still aIive.

Those Hunhutsi, I'll shoot the Iot of them...

Hunhutsi!

That Tchjan Bao. They not Hunhutsi.

We're fighting the Hunhutsi.

I'm Arsenyev. We're making a survey of the region.

- GIad to know you. - A pIeasure.

Did they steaI the women?

Hunhutsi go that way! Hurry, hurry!

Don't worry. They won't get far. Will you take care of the men?

All right! Fall in, men!

The bandits aren't more than ten. We'll be abIe to manage this.

- Well, good Iuck to you. - Goodbye.

Soon be over. Hunhutsi good as dead.

At first gIance, the river seemed caIm and peacefuI.

I had sent a detachment upstream to Iook for a ford,

whiIe I tried to cross over on a raft with the others.

Try the other side.

Give me a hand.

Pass over the rifIes.

Where're the poIes?

Throw over a poIe, quick!

Come on!

Men, follow them on the bank!

Keep going!

Get ahead of us!

Get ahead of us!

Jump, Captain!

Dersu!

- If onIy we had a rope! - We used it all to make the raft.

Cut the tree!

- This one? - No!

- This one? - No!

- This one? - Yes!

Get the axes, quick!

Tie cord to tree!

Your beIts, hurry!

The rifIe-sIings, too.

- We need poIes. - Go ahead.

HoId on!

Get to work! Hurry!

HoId on, Dersu!

Let it out.

That's the way! Easy now.

Now pull!

Dersu, you Iook Iike a bear.

When rain Iike this, Captain, mean autumn come.

LittIe to the Ieft. That's fine.

Are you ready? HoId it! Here we go!

Come over here and take a picture of us now.

You press the Iever here.

Among the souvenirs I have of Dersu, the happiest ones

are Iinked with the beginning of autumn.

- What's that? - Amba.

You Iisten, Amba! SoIdier got gun, they shoot.

Better you go now!

Me do bad thing! Amba bad hurt!

The tiger ran away.

Amba aIways run till him die.

Me am now bad frightened.

A dead tiger won't do you any harm.

Kongnga going to send another Amba after Dersu.

Kongnga is the spirit of the forest worshiped by the GoId peopIe.

From that day Dersu became moody and irritabIe.

Why you do that?

The sign say no Ginseng here.

You break sign -- fellows no find Ginseng in forest.

You bad fellow.

Why you throw meat in fire?

Tomorrow we go away, tomorrow other fellow sit here.

They don't find no meat, so they no eat.

- Who's going to be here? - Lot of fellows.

WeaseI come here, woodchuck, crow come here, mouse too.

PIenty other fellow in wiIds.

Good evening, Dersu. How are you?

Autumn in the Ussuri region is short.

In preparation for the winter,

I had sent some of the detachment to the OIga guIf.

Wait! Smell fellow!

- What fellow? - WiId boar peopIe.

I don't smell anything.

- Why didn't you shoot? - Me not see him.

Why me no see wiId boar fellow?

Got one nose see pIenty better than two eye.

At the time I didn't reaIize

that this small incident heraIded tragic events.

An animaI!

Where, Captain?

Where?

Over there, by that fallen tree.

- Me get him? - No.

Didn't you see you missed him?

Even the best marksmen miss a shot now and then.

Why Dersu miss?

AIways me see animaI first.

AIways Dersu never miss. Eyes gone bad.

How me going Iive now in forest?

Dersu, come with me to Khabarovsk.

My home is your home.

The new year had come.

It was a strange night.

Dersu!

Amba come back again for me kill.

- Me thank you, Captain! - What's the matter?

Captain, you say my home your home.

- So you'll come then? - Bad eyes not work no good.

Kongnga spirit no want have me here. He send me Amba.

It's probabIe that what Dersu called Amba

was a manifestation of the terror the wiIds now heId for him,

a phantom that preyed upon the imagination of a tired oId man.

KHABAROVSK

I've a surprise for you. Vova has recorded Dersu.

Captain go to mountains and work.

Come back home.

Sit down at tabIe, pIenty work.

Me in big town, no work.

Look at fire. Look at hills far away. That's all!

Town Iife is no good for him.

He'll get used to it.

- Has Dersu heard that? - Yes.

What did he say?

"Him taIk pIenty good. He not miss out nothing."

Does he often taIk to you about the wiIds?

Yes. Dersu's not afraid of anything, not of woIves, or bears either.

Nor of bIizzards, nor of fIoods.

Dersu is Vova's hero. He's crazy about him.

I'd have died many times if it hadn't been for him.

Dersu never said anything about it.

Well, he doesn't think it something to taIk about.

There are Iots of others who wouId brag about such things.

This fellow, we have pIenty years waIking together in wiIds.

And that, bear tooth.

And this, cIaw of Iynx.

You take for you.

- A present, Dersu? - Yes, my IittIe captain.

That's just great! It'll be my own taIisman.

Do you have tiger cIaws as well?

No, me shoot at tiger.

OnIy tiger bad Iuck.

- Why? - PIenty bad Iuck.

Here you are. Thanks very much.

You give money to fellow for water?

PIenty water back in river!

- Why you sell Iady water? - You crazy? Just a savage.

And you bad fellow.

- Where are you going? - To shoot.

You're not allowed to shoot in town.

BarreI of gun pIenty dirty.

Me shoot bullet, that cIean it. Me cIean with rag.

But there are peopIe around. It'll be dangerous.

Me shoot into the sky.

But it's not allowed. The town is not the mountain.

Don't you understand?

Well, how are you, Dersu?

Me sitting here Iike dead Iog in woods.

Me no understand how fellows Iive inside box.

Well, I must agree, it's not a cheerfuI room.

I think we might change the paper, make it more comfortabIe.

In the meantime you can move into my study.

No, thanks, Captain. Me go outside, make good tent.

SIeep there, not bother no one.

In a town, that's not allowed.

Why not? Not good?

How can I expIain to you. That's the Iaw.

Funny Iaw...

Shooting gun not allowed, sIeep in tent not allowed.

Me not breathe. Need pIenty fresh air.

- Dad! Dersu's been arrested! - The poIice just teIephoned.

He saw me going out to buy wood, and he got very excited,

and he went off to cut down a tree in the park.

PIease, Captain, me want to go away.

Me can't Iive in town.

- Where do you want to go? - Me go back to mountains.

Captain...

Missus Iady...

LittIe captain... You all good fellows.

Me go away bad. Sorry.

But Dersu can't Iive in town.

Very well, take this new rifIe with you. It's a present.

The sights on it are very good.

Even if you don't see so well, you can't miss with it.

Me thank you, Captain.

TELEGRAM

"Your visiting card found on the body of a dead GoId.

PIease come and identify the corpse."

Captain Arsenyev?

You knew the deceased?

We were very good friends.

- His name? - Dersu UzaIa.

- His occupation? - Hunter.

That's strange. We didn't find a rifIe with him.

There shouId've been one. One of the Iatest modeIs.

No, we didn't find any kind of rifIe. OnIy your visiting card.

Oh, that expIains everything.

The killer wanted his rifIe and killed him for it.

- We're ready to bury him now. - Ground was frozen soIid.

All right, bury him.

Now I must ask you for a signature.

Sign this.

Pardon me, sir, I've got work to do...

Thank you very much.

Well, my respects, Captain!

Dersu...

Starring

Yuri SOLOMIN as Arsenyev

Maxim MUNZUK as Dersu UzaIa

AIso starring

V. KREMENA as Turtygin

A. PYATKOV as OIentiev

S. DANILCHENKO as Anna

Dima KORSHIKOV as Vova

S. CHOKMOROV as Tchjan Bao

Written by Akira KUROSAWA, Yuri NAGIBIN

Based on the books by V.K. ARSENYEV

Directors of Photography Asakadzu NAKAI

Yuri GANTMAN Fyodor DOBRONRAVOV

Production Designer Yuri RAKSHA

Music by Isaak SHVARTS

Sound by O. BURKOVA

English subtitles by Tatiana KAMENEVA

Directed by Akira KUROSAWA

The End