Original subtitles

Central Partnership

Central Partnership presents

with the support of the Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography

A Courier Studio production

A film by Aleksandr Proshkin

Based on the story by Valentin Rasputin

Live and Remember

Darya Moroz

Here he is!

Mikhail Evlanov

Wait!

Sergey Makovetskiy

Evgeniya Glushenko

I�ll throw you in!

I�ll put you down an ice hole!

You hear?

Anna Mikhalkova

Stop!

Sergey Bekhterev Igor Khripunov

You�ll break your back and then what?

Be like Nestor? An idiot for the rest of your life?

Bloody fisherman! Go on then!

Natalya Tetenova Tamara Tsyganova

Yuriy Ivanov Sergey Tsepov

Close the door!

The hay's here.

- Someone stole the axe. - Well what's that then?

This? Nothing!

God knows who was here.

Yesterday he dropped some tobacco, remember?

The axe was under the floorboards. I always keep it there.

But one board over there wasn't nailed down.

That's where they stole it from.

You said they took the board up?

I always put it under there. The bastards guessed and took it up.

That's enough, Grandpa. Come on, stoke up!

You want to make Nastya cry?

She never used that axe.

So she won�t understand your grief.

Oh, it was a good axe�

�a carpenter�s axe� for easy cutting. Handy.

No, it wasn't anyone from around here.

They took the skis as well.

Andrey�s good hunting skis.

They took the skis,

and noone here in Atamanovka would ever do that.

Do your legs hurt?

Of course they hurt.

Of course they hurt.

They�re burning up.

Screenplay by Aleksandr Rodionov and Aleksandr Proshkin

Directors of Photography Gennady and Aleksandr Karyuk

Production design by Aleksandr Tolkachyov

Music by Roman Dormidoshin

Sound by Evgeniy Slivchenko, Maksim Reinbach

Costume design Svetlana Medovaya

Make-up Ekaterina Mitrofanova

Editor Natalya Kucherenko

Picture editor Evgeniya Kelchevskaya Executive producer Galina Shadur

Producers Sergei Daniyelyan, Aram Movsesyan, Yuriy Moroz

Produced by Ruben Dishdishian

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin

Run away, girls! Run away!

Let's go!

Why are you asleep?

Keep chopping!

Keep going with those axes!

Fat as cows!

Have you had a grope to check if we're fat?

I can�t look at you. I haven't the patience.

The men at the front are cutting down fascists.

And the women can't be bothered to cut down pine trees.

Last time he groped Katerina was at his wedding.

And even then he was drunk.

What? What?

They need the timber at the front.

They need it for victory.

Clear this spot by Monday!

Don't shout, Nestor Ilyich!

It�s pretty obvious we'll need a week to do it.

By Monday! The end!

Let's go!

Fucking general!

Lizaveta!

Why are you crying?

Pick up your axe.

Nestor says we're fat.

Come on! Come on, get up! Let�s shake off some fat.

I can�t do it anymore, Nadya!

What, and I can?

And Nadya?

And what about Nastya?

Get up!

Get up, I said!

Pull yourself together, sniveller.

Are you pregnant?

Of course, it�s the 5th year, she's nearly there.

Come on.

Wipe your tears, they�ll freeze up.

Be quiet!

It�s me!

It�s me!

Gun, bread.

If you need me, I�ll be in the lower hut.

In Andreyevskoe.

Where there's that cross by the stream.

If you tell anyone about me, I�ll kill you.

People of Atamanovka! ("Nestor is an idiot.")

You have upset our Comrade Officer.

Comrades! This country can�t manage without you.

So hurry up.

2,000.

I said 2,000.

Guskova Nastasya. 2,000.

Me too, of course.

The same, Innokenty Karmanovich?

2,000? Or more?

1,800 from me.

We're not all as rich as Nastya Guskova.

So, people of Atamanovka!

So Guskova's the only one who wants victory?

Is Guskova the only one to worry about duty�

�and everything else our Comrade Officer talked about?

Rogova Vasilisa.

200 roubles.

And it's right here.

"Notice board." "Giniral meeting, Wednesday."

What's the matter Nastya? You had to do more than anyone else?

The figures have increased.

Don�t drop.

"Loans for victory"

Check your spelling! Giniral?

Doesn�t the sum really dropped?

They've chosen a real smartarse to be chairman.

Katerina you just watch it, or I�ll give you a whack�

Don�t go off the boil, Nestor Ilyich.

Every family has their differences.

Are you pulling my leg, girl?

Have you gone out of your mind?

Have you got that kind of money?

Hidden away somewhere?

No.

Then what were you thinking?

Where are you planning to get it from?

Are you going to sell me? Or her maybe?

Noone would have us for free.

They said it was for victory.

Indeed! For victory.

What�s she saying?

She says we're very rich, we've got a lot of money.

So much that we don�t know what to do with it.

She put us down to give 2,000.

Doesn�t she know hunger? Or does she want to teach us?

She's lying in the gutter,

and she wants me, an old woman, to do the same?

So she can waste it on the government. To hell with the government.

We�ll pay it off somehow.

I�ll work hard.

This is the kind of daughter-in-law God gave us. It's shameful.

Everyone else has 2 or 3 children running around.

She's the only barren girl in the village.

If she were a normal woman the room�d be full of grandchildren.

Here we are again.

I volunteered to go to Karda.

The Commissioner's going there, I�ll go with him.

I�d never go anywhere with a strange man.

Especially nowadays.

Throwing yourself at a complete stranger.

That's enough old woman.

You've found someone to worry about. Nastya.

He won't spend the whole journey running after the sled.

He'll be lying next to her.

Nastya!

Look here.

Go, and God be with you.

You should have kept quiet or stuck your tongue out.

I�ll buy kerosene there.

Kerosene! Couldn't you have done that somewhere this morning?

Then you wouldn't have hung this 2,000 round my neck.

I'll take the shawl with me too.

I�ll swap it. Right, Pa?

Nastya, listen.

Look in at the post office.

Maybe there�s a letter, or papers.

Hello!

Don�t worry. Noone�s seen me.

I spent the night in Karda.

Here, I brought you some things.

Your boots, some kerosene.

Lard.

It�s really cold.

It froze while I was walking.

They think I�m in Karda.

And I'm here with you. If they knew�

Go away, stop messing around. I don�t know you.

What�s the matter?

I said, go away. Stop messing around.

Hush, Andrey.

There�s no hurry.

I forgot how it is.

Why so quiet?

You won't tell me?

Show me the wound.

Oh, you poor thing!

They tried to kill you.

Is it completely healed? Does it hurt?

It�s better now.

It just aches. Especially in bad weather.

It gets in the way

like it sticks out.

I'm not used to it yet.

Did you miss me?

Are you glad I came back alive?

Yes.

Have you forgotten who I am?

- No! - Who am I?

My husband.

Yes.

Your husband.

The owner was an Old Believer.

Did he die?

A long time ago.

His name was Andrey Sivyi.

That's why it's called Andreyevskoe.

Was he a Kulak?

He died before his sons were dispossessed.

His field was across the river.

Nobody needed it. The collective farm wouldn't plough it.

So.

Maybe they were shot, or exiled.

I don�t know.

Since then, noone�s come here.

I forgot about the milk.

You probably haven't drunk any in 4 years.

We can�t live a single day in public.

When you're sad, come and see me.

I came to you.

Not to my father, not to my mother - to you.

They mustn't know.

Don�t tell anyone where I am.

Noone.

Or I'll rip out your dead tongue.

I put up with a lot.

I fought and fought, I never skived.

Then something came over me, and I left.

How did you dare?

How did you have the guts?

I don�t know.

I couldn't stand it any longer.

I couldn't breathe.

I really wanted to see you.

I wouldn�t have left the front.

But there was Novosibirsk.

Right there.

I was looking for a train to the front.

And then I saw the train going to Irkutsk.

What is there to say?

A pig will always find mud!

In the wash house I didn't know if it was you or the devil.

I'd been saving myself for my husband.

And suddenly I'm convening with evil spirits.

Well, how were the evil spirits?

Alright.

But my husband is better.

You�re clever.

You've offended noone.

Enough.

Here.

What is that thing?

I took it from a German officer.

Alive, not dead. Don�t sell it too cheap.

The watch�s good.

Made in Switzerland.

Don�t take less than 2,000.

But I�m afraid of even holding it.

Take it.

I've got nothing more to give you.

The war will end, maybe they'll forgive you.

They don't forgive that.

If they could they'd shoot you

pick you up and shoot you 3 more times.

Mikheich, someone's here to see you from Karda.

He�s tall.

Come in, come in,

Comrade Burdak.

Cup of tea after your journey?

Fyodor Mikheyich Guskov?

I�m here about your son, Andrey Guskov, serving in the Red Army.

What about him?

- Where is he? - We�re about to find it out.

We had letters from him. Said he was fine. Nastya!

Nastya! Bring them here!

What�s he done?

Or has he upset the top brass?

No.

Papers came from Irkutsk.

Everything seemed to be alright.

He was fighting near Moscow, in the ski battalion.

Then,

in intelligence near Smolensk.

After Stalingrad, after his concussion,

he served in the howitzer regiment.

In here he says they'd let him go home when he recovered.

September 15th,

Novosibirsk.

But here he says:

"I was discharged from hospital and I went to my unit. To the front."

October 23rd. Novosibirsk.

Did he say anything else about himself?

No. Where is he?

Your Andrey is lost.

We have to do this.

The investigation�s under way.

Where are the rest of the letters?

It's a shame, Fyodor Mikheich.

If he came honourably they'd make him Commissioner

instead of that fool they appointed.

You haven't seen him, by any chance?

Who?

Your Andrey.

What about his wife?

Well, if you hear from him, let us know.

I've given instructions to Innokenty Ivanovich.

So if you don't tell us, he will.

Semenovna, as for the tea, it wasn't good.

Was it stewed?

Go away!

I'm going, I'm going.

I don't understand old man. Where�s my Andrey?

Where?

Everywhere's a mess.

On the farm, and in the army.

Maybe he was taken to another unit.

It's a long journey.

Where are you going?

To see Nadya.

Her baby is ill. I�m going to help her.

Who's going to milk the goat?

I�ll run back in the morning.

It'll be fine!

Andrey!

Stay!

Stay!

Andrey!

Andrey!

Don�t be scared!

- Don�t be scared! - Andrey!

Andrey!

I'm looking after him. Yesterday I shot a roe.

He had a bit too.

I can see�

�you live better than we do.

What�s happened?

I said I went to see Nadya, but I came to see you instead.

I'm tired.

I'll sleep a bit.

When I got here, I didn't think I'd be here for long.

Now I�d like to stay 'till summer.

To see what summer's like

after all.

I want it more than life itself.

Be patient for a few months.

When the time comes, I'll go to Kamenny

and disappear into the river.

Be patient.

I've put you through a lot.

You'll get through this as well.

And when it's all over

get your life on track.

You must.

You've got time.

You're not going to let me sleep, are you.

Where are you?

Why are you sitting there? Look for me.

Do you remember in that first year, how we used to mess around?

I brought you some homemade vodka.

Have some fun.

We did have fun after all, didn't we?

Do you remember haymaking on Elijah's Day?

Everyone left and we were arguing.

What were we angry about?

And suddenly, the rain came after the thunder.

- And the rainbow. - It all happened at once.

We stopped

looked at each other, threw away the scythes

And suddenly everything was alright.

We went to collect peas.

Then we went to collect peas.

I remember that rain so clearly.

Smoky, sort of holy.

And how I beat you till you bled, you remember that?

We had a bad time

a bad life.

Nastya!

I'm sorry.

Why do you remember the bad?

There are different types of bad.

I feel like a criminal.

My comrades think I'm a criminal.

I ran away from them.

Don�t follow me!

Go away!

Go away!

What will I tell your parents?

That I was with you?

Don�t come after me.

Stay here, understand?

"For Courage"

Lizaveta!

Lizaveta!

Lizaveta!

Come here quickly, get on my horse!

Quickly! Maksim's come back.

What are you waiting for? Come on, run!

My parasite couldn�t stay alive.

27 years old.

27 years old and that�s it. I�ve had my day. The hell with it!

Come on, let�s have a look at Maxim.

- Let's see what the men are like now. - Look at him, what for?

It'll just upset me. No, I'm not going.

Maksim Vologzhin!

Maksim Vologzhin!

Vologzhin�s come back!

Everyone to the Vologzhins for a feast!

Everyone to the Vologzhins for a feast!

Maksim�s come back!

The blacksmith is a complete cripple�

Can you budge it?

Where to? Why?

Won't it disturb you in the night?

I'll thrown you out of the farm for that kind of talk Nadya!

Sit down, sit down!

Careful you're not thrown out of the farm yourself!

Come on girls, let�s have a laugh. Let's humiliate him.

- Humiliate? Girls, did I humiliate you? - Sit down!

Well, isn't it true, girls?

Poor soldier's hardly crossed the threshold�

You should keep quiet Nadezhda!

Vasilisa! You're afraid of me.

Quite right, be afraid Vasilisa.

When your Gavrila comes back, I�ll quickly seduce him.

- I'm younger than you, eh? - I trust Gavrila.

Why do you trust him?

Is he a saint?

Saint or no saint, he won't be interested in you.

Come on, come on!

You can�t keep up with Vasilisa.

I would die if I was on my own.

I would have died of grief.

Today I said,

let�s slaughter the cow.

Let's celebrate!

But they just wanted cucumbers.

So I said, kill every last chicken.

But they couldn't even spare a chicken.

So, you're saying,

you�d die?

I�d die, Nadya.

I�d take my own life.

What do you mean Liza?

You're saying that me, Katerina, Kapitolina and Vera,

we should kill ourselves?

Shut up.

Why did Liza wait for her man, and you didn�t?

And why am I sure that my Gavrila will come back?

He will come back.

Nothing happens to people like you and Gavrila.

Everyone will die, and you two will survive.

And you'll live on.

Listen.

It's all about the woman.

Your Victor's died, why are you still agonising?

Maybe it's your conscience.

Maybe you should have thought about him more?

Nadezhda!

Let's drink to a quick victory!

To victory!

To victory!

To victory!

You sit down!

- For a victory! - Here's to you!

What were you salivating about?

Wait for your man!

So Nastya, when will you see yours again?

Oh, I don't think I will. He's lost somewhere.

Andrey's lost?

He was in hospital, also wounded. Then he went to the front.

And then not a whisper.

He�ll show up.

No, he's really lost.

Some investigators were here, asking about him. See?

Things happen. And letters don't always get there. Especially to us.

Well done pioneers�

Why'd you drag all that snow in? Didn't you see the broom on the wall?

Nastya, listen.

We had a captain in hospital, he got lost.

A case was brought, as usual.

6 months later we read in "Red Star"

that our captain had got a medal.

He�d been intercepted somewhere on the road,

and sent to another unit. He's a captain!

Not a needle in a haystack.

You don't need her right now.

Katya's going to play something for us.

Shoo!

Shoo!

Shoo!

Shoo!

Shoo!

Come on!

Shoo! Shoo!

Go to bed.

I'm going.

Oh! Oh!

Victor!

Viten�ka!

He lived and lived.

My dear brother!

That bastard Innokenty dragged you out

and you stood there and cried:

"Spare me, brothers! Don�t shoot!"

They shot you down, bastards!

They killed you in front of your baby son.

And you

you didn�t protect him.

You were scared.

How can you live after that?

Why didn't you hang yourself?

How have you lived to be an old man?

He shouldn't have gone over to Kolchakov's side.

Judas!

Turn off the light.

I will.

I'm not red or white. I�m a cripple.

And that's the whole story.

Move over a bit.

Where to?

Where to? The wall.

Andrey!

You could have met me.

I thought I wouldn't make it. And you don't even care.

How did I know you'd come today?

How?

You just should have known!

Has anything happened? Why have you come?

Why have I come?

To see you.

Nothing�s happened!

You can't even get animals out in this weather.

What�s happened?

What�s happened?

What�s happened?

Wolves killed a calf.

Innokenty�s calf.

The wolf shared it with me.

We'll have some dinner.

You haven�t had meat for a while, have you? Eh?

I won�t eat the calf.

Maksim came back.

Liza�s very happy.

Has my father asked about the gun?

Have you thought of what to say when he notices?

I think I�m pregnant, Andrey.

What?

I'm still not sure, but�

�I've never felt like this.

Right.

Bloody hell.

How can this be?

That means my blood goes on

it�s not finished, it hasn�t dried up.

And I thought�

�that was it.

That I was the last, the end of the line.

But he'll be born.

He�ll continue the line.

That's what's happened.

That's how it happened.

Nastya!

My Mother of God.

I don�t know what to do.

Andrey, I�m lost.

You can�t escape your fate.

Fate brought me here It was out of my control.

Fate was directing me.

You talk about fate too much.

I don't think you ever used to talk about it.

Fate took me from the front and brought me here.

You�ll go to Kamenny, and what about me?

I don�t live on an island, I live with people, did you forget?

What will I tell them?

Your father and your mother?

We don�t give a damn about anyone.

We�ve waited and hoped for so long.

We?

But you weren't even here.

Closer!

Closer!

Why did you run down?

You heard about my 10 roubles?

Innokenty, my brother in charge, will be the witness, and sign the certificate.

Maksim, the Commissioner, can�t use his left hand.

And the farm gives me 10 roubles for each one. There.

7 bodies I've buried in the lower pasture.

10 roubles for each.

Why do they drown themselves in the river?

The war�s over. There�s more hope.

Where are you going?

Help me drag him into the boat.

Girl, have you seen Andrey�s gun?

I've been through everything.

It's vanished into thin air.

You haven't seen it anywhere?

Yes, I have.

I sold it, Daddy.

What?

Sold it?

Who to?

When?

Ages ago.

When I took the Commissioner to Karda.

You were angry that I'd promised that money.

And I didn't know where to get it.

I�d stupidly blurted it out, but where could I get it?

And he saw it and kept saying, "Sell it, sell it".

What do you mean? Who kept saying that?

I don't understand.

He did.

Who�s he?

The Commissioner.

So you took the gun with you, then?

Yes.

I thought I�d have to come back in the dark. I was scared.

And you sold it?

Yes.

Nastya, are you joking?

Is that the truth?

Yes.

I had to do it straight away. I'd put it off, I was scared.

So what do you think?

Andrey will come back and say thank you?

For selling it.

He'll come back, we'll make some money.

I wanted to get us out of it. It wasn't for myself.

We'll make some money!!

Oh!

How much did you get for it?

Hang on.

Here.

What�s this?

A watch.

I didn't get money for it, I got this, like a swap.

Everyone's got a gun here, a watch is easier to sell.

It's foreign, it's got 3 hands. Look at those dots.

They glow in the dark. You can see everything.

Just wait 'till it's light!

Glow in the dark.

What do you need light for? Catching lice?

You swapped a gun for a watch, a toy.

Nastya!

What, Daddy?

You really don't know where Andrey is?

Andrey?

How could I know?

I know nothing.

We live in the same house.

I thought maybe you know something else.

Maybe you don�t want to say.

Tell me, Nastya.

Say it to me only.

Say what?

What should I say?

If I had something to say I would say it.

I was only asking.

You haven't been yourself recently.

What do you mean?

I'd never imagine that you would swap a gun for a watch, without asking.

You wouldn't have done it before.

Something�s happened to you, it's not just the gun.

You're always afraid of something.

I said I don't know where he is.

I know. I wasn't asking you that.

Where did you get it?

Eat while it's hot.

Did Andrey send it?

What do you mean?

I bought it for him, last year. In Karda.

Now I have to sell it.

He'll come back and make his own money.

I've said this 1000 times. I can't pay the 2,000 otherwise.

How much did you pay for it?

2,000.

Well, I don�t have that kind of money.

So

you're pretending to be poor.

2,000� in the blink of an eye.

- And gave it away like it was 2 roubles. - Well�

I really liked it.

I saved up.

I sold a shawl.

I saved up.

Well�

I don�t have 2,000.

I�m not as rich as you.

But 1,000�

I could just about scrape that together�

�with difficulty.

Well then, give me 1,000.

Mos'ka, Mos'ka

come on my love, let's go.

Come on.

Mos'ka

come here.

Mos'ka, Mos'ka, go on darling.

Mos'ka, go on my love.

Fedya!

Nastya!

Get up.

Victory!

Victory!

Is it really victory at last?

Burdak came from Karda.

He said we've won!

I'm calling a meeting!

Everyone to the meeting and celebration!

- Why are you yelling like that? - Mikheich, Nastya!

You're ordered to bring everything you have to the management.

Mikheich, bring vodka.

Well? What's the problem? Bring vodka. Got it?

Yes, I've got it. Bring vodka to you. Nothing else?

So you can get drunk.

The barbarian!

Now they'll tell us where our Andrey is, yes Nastya?

They should do, old woman, they should do.

Now they'll send everyone home to their mothers and wives.

No, they can't send everyone home at once.

Why not?

Why not, why not?

Anything could happen. They have to have troops.

They didn't announce the end of the other war.

Noone knew if it was over or not.

They left the Germans and fought amongst themselves.

It was even worse.

They fought for the Commune, for the farms.

We had no peace.

Where did you put that vodka? Go and get it.

Andrey will come back and we won't have anything to give him.

We'll find some. There'll be more.

There won't be another day like this.

Go, Nastya, go.

It's a sin to stay at home today. I'll look in later.

Put on that blouse, dress up a bit.

We sold the shawl.

Put on mine.

- Daddy! - What?

Are you angry with me?

Why?

For the gun.

No, I'm not. It�s doesn't matter!

Go!

Celebrate!

At last, Innokenty Ivanovich!

Do you know anything about your husband?

No, I don�t!

If I find out, you�ll be the first to know.

Don�t worry.

Or maybe you know something? Tell me, don't keep it secret.

Hurray! Hurray!

Oh, women!

I can't do it with my left hand.

- Go on, shoot. - Hurray!

At last, eh, Nastya?

My dear neighbour!

Take it over here.

Hurray!

Hurray!

People!

What can anyone say about victory?

Those words haven't been invented.

I was there, I know what went on.

And you all know�

what is there to say.

We�d have done nothing if it wasn't for you.

Our country�s great.

It wouldn't be anything without our Atamanovka.

It goes without saying.

There's never been a war like this.

There's never been a victory like this.

Let�s drink to it, people.

To victory!

To victory, girls!

"We'll sow and plough the whole

field with an iron horse".

"And the enemy will never walk on our lands."

And he wasn't drunk and making it up?

Making it up?

Me?

You what?

I galloped here you to tell you.

I left my people.

Thank-you!

Who would be evil enough to make it up?

- He was sober when he got here. - Don�t spread lies about him.

Forgive him, he's drunk too.

Let's have a drink!

What do you think of my honey vodka?

Let's get stuck in, girls.

Today we have to.

We�ll have everything.

The men will be back soon.

But who will come back?

Well, someone will come.

According to my information�

�6 men will come back.

That's including Andrey Guskov, who disappeared without a trace.

Gavrila Rogov.

Andrey Fedosov,

Sergey Barymbaev.

Nikolay Zobov,

Yuriy Astapov.

6 men.

Why didn't you count my husband?

Can't you count higher than that? You're an accountant.

Because you received the notice.

So what? You can count him.

He�ll come back. You'll see.

He�ll come back, and mess up your calculation. So, keep counting.

7, not 6.

Then mine will come too.

I don't about your husband

but mine will definitely come.

Well, anything could happen.

Like Nastasya�s mother-in-law, in Karda.

In Bratsk I heard someone got 2 notices for 1 man.

Like he died in 2 different ways.

Then he turned up on the doorstep. So now you can believe it.

Then my son will come back too.

Katerina! Play!

Go away!

Don�t snivel.

Don�t whine.

Hush, you bear! You�ll squash me.

Can't you see it?

- Is it in here? - You think I ate too much porridge?

It's not really obvious yet.

Isn't it?

I think it is.

There might be something in there.

Not "might be"�

I already know it's a boy.

How do you know?

Let's say it's a boy, then we'll get a girl!

Just think about this birth first.

Why wouldn't I be able to give birth?

I've never heard of it staying inside.

Andrey, you don't know yet�

The war�s over!

I know.

How do you know?

- Who told you? - I heard the salute.

Oh yes!

They fired shots, yes!

I've got such big ears now.

I can hear things far away.

Shall we go to the cave? No?

It looks pretty far.

No!

I hardly managed to bring you anything.

Just a little bit of bread and some eggs.

I was scared of being noticed.

Take the net.

I don�t need it.

The only thing I need is mesh.

With no mesh the midges will bite.

I forgot about the mesh.

Well, bring it next time.

Alright.

The war�s over.

What will happen to us now, Andrey?

I don�t know.

Who's going to know about us?

We must do something.

Do something?

You have to give birth.

That�s what we have to do.

Die, but give birth.

I'm not even afraid of being shot.

I'm scared I�ll disgrace you. You're asking what we should do?

You don't think I've been asking the same question, torturing myself?

You�re not my wife anymore.

Men live at home with their wives.

You're my whole world.

The sun rises and sets with you.

I'm not reproaching you.

I'm with you.

If something happens, we�ll be together.

Why are you knocking?

Come in.

Aren't you working?

I can't go anywhere with them.

Have some!

Honey. Innokenty Ivanovich gave it to us. Just like that.

- For the children, he said, for victory. - No thanks, Nadya, don't feed me.

- No? - No.

- Tea? - Yes please!

Give me that glass.

I wanted to make the honey cake last two days.

The parasites found it.

And devoured it.

Was this your work?

I'm going fishing.

Sit down!

Bloody fisherman!

You might do some good fishing in the cupboard.

Vitka.

Did you lick off all the honey?

Would you like some more?

Take that instead.

Do you want to adopt a child? You choose.

Why would I take one of yours?

I'd rather have my own.

Look at you! Why didn�t you have one before?

I didn�t want to.

Really?

You didn't want to.

Were you waiting 'till the war was over?

I should have scared him off, said there was going to be a war.

Should have restrained myself and not had 1 a year.

What are you laughing at?

I was imagining you keeping Vit'ka off you for 5 years.

I could never do it.

I'd have 1 each year if I could.

I get pregnant quickly. Straight away.

No time at all.

Not like some people.

I�m going home Nadya.

They'll be tired of waiting.

Alright.

Are you pregnant, girl?

Yes.

You bitch!

Bitch!

She was in a hurry.

She's gone quiet, she's alive, bitch.

What a bitch!

Andrey will come back and that pig is already pregnant.

Where is your shame?

Where was it? What have you done with it?

I hope your belly is infested with worms.

I hope you never give birth!

That would be good!

Are you lying?

Perhaps you're not pregnant.

I am.

"I am," she says.

"I am."

You�re empty of shame.

You are.

Empty.

Get out!

Get out!

You'll stink the place out.

Are you tired?

Can I live here for a bit?

- Who? You? - Yes.

What's going on?

They threw me out.

Who? You?

Are you blind or something?

What�

Where did you get this?

What�s going on?

Is this true? Nastya?

It's true!

Nastya! What a mess!

Here's a fine kettle of fish! Who�s the father?

The Holy Spirit.

Fair enough, the Holy Spirit.

But it�s interesting. There weren't any men here.

Maybe I should try that Holy Spirit.

Go on, tell me.

Remember when the Commissioner came to collect money?

- Yes, so? - What do you mean, "so"?

Off we went, and I came back like this.

Andrey will come back and hang you.

Just tell me if I can live here.

Well�

Well, what.

Of course.

Together we'll make a stand.

Listen, the old woman will be picking you to pieces.

You've managed to conceive.

Listen, Nastya,

you finish the ironing.

And then make your bed there, next to Lizka.

- I'll be back in a minute. - Where�re you going?

Well, people will find out anyway.

I'll go into the village and tell them.

We have to work out who gave you this gift.

Do, Innokenty Ivanovich, do work it out.

And I�ll spread the rumour the baby's going to look like you.

You snake!

Never mind. We�ll find out who it was.

We�ll find out.

I'll kill you!

Have you gone mad, Katerina?

Walking around with that belly!

Shaming me in front of the whole village!

And she just laughs!

Meek little whore!

And you're a stupid oaf!

Lousy chairman!

Your own wife sees nothing but your arse!

You've�

You've ripped my heart out with that baby!

Nastya! Tell her!

Tell her what?

She won�t believe me anyway!

Nastya, have you heard what people are saying?

They're saying it was your husband who got you pregnant,

noone else.

So where did I find my husband?

And 4 years is too long for this belly.

True.

Innokenty Ivanovich keeps guessing.

The old cat can't sit still.

He's impotent himself.

That�s why he�s stirring people up, making up interesting stories.

If you say so.

Nastya, please!

I know. Don't tell anyone.

Confide in me, Nastya. Tell me.

Have pity on me. I'm his father.

Let me just see him one more time.

Please, for God's sake!

If you keep it secret, you won't be forgiven.

I want to ask him what he�s hoping for.

Hasn't he told you?

All kinds of things have happened to us, but it's never come to this.

He's a son of a bitch! Now he's done it.

Nastya, let me see him! Please, for God's sake!

We have to save him before he's completely ruined.

You know that.

Help me, Nastya, yes?

It�ll be better for you, too.

You're making it up.

There is noone.

You're lying.

It's his child. Who else?

You can tell the old woman fairy-tales, not me.

You took him the gun. And the net.

That�s proof.

Where have you put him?

Where, tell me!

I�ve lived with your Andrey for 4 years and nothing happened.

And you talk about proof.

Help me, Lord.

Lord, can you hear me?

Lord, help me!

Lord!

Can you hear me?

Lord!

I ask you for the first time, and the last.

I pray for my son, who I have brought shame on.

That he can live a normal life. Help me, Lord.

Lord, help me!

Lord, help me!

Lord�

Andrey!

Andrey! Maybe it doesn't have to be like this.

Maybe we don't have to do this?

Let�s show ourselves.

I�ll go everywhere with you�

�even to do hard labour. I'll go wherever you go.

Andrey, I can�t bear it anymore!

Who said you�d be shot?

The war�s over.

Look at you, you're so good!

And you brought the mesh�

�so the midges won't bite me when I'm tied up.

Don't bother. I'll manage!

You�ve got into the habit of coming here. Exhausted yourself.

Just remember.

Don�t come here again.

Andrey! Look at me!

Do I look like the person you're talking about?

God what are you saying?

Go away!

"Outside, the bucket

overflows with rain

overflows with rain

Have you gone mad?

the ground is flattened

You went rowing, with that belly? Wandering about all day long?

the ground is flattened

I tried to find to my husband, but I changed my mind.

I rock my sister

You really have gone mad.

To hell with you if you won't understand.

Give birth as soon as possible. Don�t torture yourself.

You're having a child, not a puppy.

overflows with rain

the ground is flattened

Go to the stable.

Mikheich has been waiting for you since morning.

It's nice here isn't it, Daddy?

Listen to me, girl.

If he�s still here, tell him to leave or worse.

before they catch him.

The men have thought something up.

Innokenty�s the Commissioner here.

He went to Karda yesterday.

There�s something in that.

I would curse you for not letting me see him.

But you�ll have enough to deal with.

You'll carry that sin forever.

You won't get rid of it.

And he�

�he's a goose too!

He's too scared to talk to his father.

To hell with you!

There she is! There!

She�s off.

She tried to escape.

She won't make it.

We'll catch her.

Where are you going? What about me?

Sit down, comrade Burdak.

You'll get your feet wet. Me thinks it's not summer.

Come on, come on, faster!

Pull with the left, with the left.

Andrey!

Andrey!

Andrey!

Andrey!

Andrey!

Nastya! We�re here, we're close.

Nastya!

Stop rowing, you hear me?

Wait, I�ll show you something.

Nastya!

I can�t do it anymore! I�m dying!

Row!

I'm not going to help you.

Nastya!

Nastya!

I'm waiting for you!

Hurry up! She'll get away!

She�s on her own, and there are 2 of us!

Hurry up!

Well�

Row, I'm telling you!

Row, damn it!

Nastya!

Wait!

You�ll answer to the law!

Pregnant bitch!

Row, damn it!

Guskova!

Can you hear me?

It's me, Burdak!

Don�t mess around with me!

I'll shoot!

I can�t do any more Enough!

Go to the stern.

Innokenty, you�re not a man

you're a pile of shit.

You started all this.

Stop rowing!

Can you hear any oars?

Quiet! There was a splash!

Quiet!

Nastya!

Let�s make a toast to her.

The old river man said he wouldn't hand her over.

Said she was his if she'd drowned.

He'll earn 10 roubles.

I told him I'd scratch his eyes out, and his brother's.

Listen

Nastya was an angel.

And there�s one person who belongs in hell.

Everything�s ready for him there.

Is Mikheich dead?

He�s on death's door.

What about Semenovna?

She's looking after him.

Is she really looking after him?

She's bustling about as usual.

But it's like she's not quite there. Doesn't understand anything.

So.

Mikheich is also an angel.

Call her an angel too.

- But Andrey Guskov belongs in hell. - You're right.

I think he�s already there. Don�t worry.

He�s there alright.

But where are we?

I can't speak girls. My heart is broken.

Come one, let's drink to Nastya.

Rest in peace.

What do you want?

Hop it!

Go away!

Quiet I said, quiet!

Damn you, bloody accountant!

Bastard!

You drowned her didn't you!

We were nothing to do with it. It was pure chance.

What a dreadful fate!

I salute you, Atamanovka!

To the 20th anniversary of our victory!

How are you? Alive?

[In Red Square]

[Suvorov cadets take part in a ceremonial march.]

[They are the sons and grandsons of those men]

[who gave us that great victory]

[20 years ago.]

Cast:

Nastya - Darya Moroz Andrey Guskov - Mikhail Evlanov

Mikheich - Sergey Makovetskiy Semenovna - Evgeniya Glushenko

Nadya - Anna Mikhalkova Innokenty/Matvey Ivanovich - Sergey Bekhterev

Nestor - Igor Khripunov Lizaveta - Darya Ekamasova

Maksim Vologzhanin - Egor Barinov Vasilisa Rogova - Natalya Tetenova

Katerina - Tamara Tsyganova Commissioner - Yuriy Ivanov

Policeman Burdak - Sergey Tsepov