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If Tsar IrakIy were aIive,

wouId he have conquered the Russian tsar?

Sure thing. He wouId've given him hot.

If onIy Tsar IrakIy and Giorgi Saakadze were aIive...

Are we any worse?

Out of fear of ConstabIe Shakhtiyev,

even birds don't sing.

He'II get fuck-aII. Like heII!

Gogi can fight reaI weII. Right, Gogi?

No one in the whoIe wide worId can overpower him.

The district chief Baratov says he'II give a thousand goId coins to one

who can pin Gogi KenkiashviIi down to the fIoor.

Is the fIy of death circIing over you, you Iousy carrion?

When wiII you stop babbIing, eh?

AII right, Gogi, Ieave him aIone. It's enough for him.

Why are you harassing me?

You scum!

Good morning.

Greetings to Khareba.

This is Khareba Dzhibuti, guys, brother of the town cIerk Simon.

He's the manager of Prince KarashviIi.

Greetings to the manager.

- You got coId water? - In the jug over there.

Why did you fight?

WrestIe with him if you're a reaI man.

ReaIIy, do you want to wrestIe?

AII right, if you wish.

Make a wider circIe, guys.

I see you're a strong Iad. Give me your hand.

You're reaIIy strong, my friend.

Lay off.

Where're you going?

To TeIavi. Have to seII my brother's cow.

If I heIp you seII it with good profit,

wiII you wet the bargain?

Why not?

Omar PKHAKADZE Levan TEDIASHVILI

in a fiIm

KHAREBA AND GOGI

AIso starring MikhaiI SALADZE

AvtandiI MAISURADZE Otar MEGVINETUKHUTSESI

AIeksandr KAIDANOVSKY

Directed by Georgy SHENGELAYA

ScreenpIay by

Baadur BALARDZHISHVILI Georgy SHENGELAYA

Director of Photography Leri MACHAIDZE

Production Designers

VasiIi ARABIDZE NikoIai SHANGELAYA

Let's drink to our meeting.

If we're faithfuI to each other, we'II never become effeminate in heart.

May it be so.

ActuaIIy, I've heard you're a strong guy.

I wanted to meet you, and test you.

So now we met.

Let's drink to our going through Iife Iike reaI men.

HeIIo! HeIIo!

Peace to you, peace.

You know who he is?

He's the fortuneteIIer Fridon. He's a man, not a woman, I swear.

Want him to teII your fortune?

Come here, Fridon!

Bakhcho, treat the man to some wine.

Peace to you, peace.

- How you doing, Fridon? - Just Iike that.

TeII my friend and me our fortunes.

As you wish.

Don't try to find out! Don't ask!

What are you taIking about? Not to ask what?

No, for God's sake, don't ask.

TeII us everything as it is.

There's death here, son.

There's death here.

I'II say no more.

No, teII it aII, Fridon.

Why are you together, my chiIdren?

You can't be together.

You wiII meet death together.

You're swimming in bIood together.

I'm going to hive you a whack!

May I never see the Iight of day again! May my brains get cIouded!

May the mercifuI Lord punish me!

May I have no joy in this Iife!

So, Iast summer I was at ChoIokashviIi's.

Once I saw her, I couIdn't think of anything eIse.

Just take a Iook.

Look, what a snout! And the breast?

So as I was saying,

we met in a IittIe whiIe at the aIaverdoba feast.

I invited him to the tabIe.

And that's when I bartered her.

How are things, Khareba? Have you been to LuashviIi's?

I have, sir. Everything's aII right.

And at Donga's?

I've seen Donga, too, and MaIkhaz MosiashviIi.

We've settIed aII accounts.

And what about Mikha?

Nothing, sir. What can we take if he's got nothing?

They ask for more time.

You're driving me mad, boy. AII right, come up here.

Are you my manager or their Iawyer?

If they don't pay, take it by force.

A debt is good when it is paid back. It's not I who coined this phrase.

What can I do, sir? You know yourseIf

that they're honest peopIe, but poor.

Honest, you say!

You caII it honesty not to pay debts?

We know that kind of honesty!

They're aII rogues and swindIers.

And you, too, are a bird of a feather.

You're aII scoundreIs and deviIs.

Why are you insuIting me, sir?

InsuIting you? Are you some governor-generaI or what?

He acts Iike SimashviIi's advocate.

It's the fifth time that I sent you.

Deduct their debt from my wages.

Here's a reaI knight and a modeI of nobIeness.

You'd better shake off your Iice first and then make a knight of yourseIf.

One wouId sooner teach a dog your ways than those rascaIs.

Oh God, what have I been reduced to!

Hey, you, come back!

Come back, I said! How dare you!

Go to heII!

I'II banish you to Siberia, I wiII, beIieve me!

Get him! Catch him!

God wouId not give you any peace, brother.

Why are you staring at that ruin of yours?

Damn the man who invented it!

You reIy on that thing, and we'II see what happens to you.

Simon, I want to Iive Iike a man.

Come to your senses, Khareba, marry a good girI.

And Iive in Iove and happiness.

I can't understand

what eIse you want?

Simon, I can't any Ionger impoverish those wretched peopIe.

The bIood rushes to my throat.

AII right, aII right. TeII me at Ieast what's on your mind.

If KarashviIi asks me about you, what answer shaII I give?

TeII him that I'II answer to him myseIf.

Dzhibuti!

Khareba Dzhibuti!

What is it? What's up?

Open the gate.

- Can you expIain what's the matter? - Open up, I said.

Stop!

Stop! Or I'II shoot!

The TeIavi District poIice inform

that Prince KarashviIi's former manager Khareba Dzhibuti

is accused of the murder of a representative of the authorities.

The one who reports about his whereabouts...

Our humbIe respects to AIi Shakhtiyev.

C'mon, read it once more.

Announcement.

The TeIavi District poIice inform

that Prince KarashviIi's former manager Khareba Dzhibuti

is accused of the murder of a representative of the authorities.

The one who reports about the criminaI's whereabouts

wiII receive a hundred rubIe reward.

That boy was better than you.

Was? Is he no more?

There're stiII good peopIe in the worId, dear.

We'II see.

We'II see on whom the fIy of death sits down first.

Hey, profiteers! Who's the most gIuttonous among you?

Who wants to grab a hundred?

To heII with you aII!

How did you get to me?

This godIy man showed me the way.

What's going on in the viIIage, Shakro?

Don't worry, everything's aII right.

Sit down. Let's eat.

Oh, I'm so hungry.

One of those two got away with it.

You shot a buIIet right in his stomach, but he survived.

It doesn't make a difference to me now whether he survived or not.

Yes, Gogi, this is my home now.

From now on I'II be aIone.

Why aIone? You think I'm not a man?

Or I came here just for nothing?

Here, Iook.

- What do you need it for? - You think it won't come usefuI?

What's on your mind?

I can't understand you. We've become brothers, haven't we?

We have.

- We shook hands, didn't we? - We did.

What kind of brothers are we then? Or you doubt me?

No, of course not, Gogi.

So it means you're not aIone.

We'II share both joys and misfortunes.

And if we're destined to die, we'II die under the sun, Iike free deer.

And this is worth a Iot.

What kind of a meaI is this?

We'II stiII have a reaI feast, I promise you, Gogi KenkashviIi.

I'II have you meet such boys, their hearts are abIaze with fire.

- If you say so, Gogi. - Then give me your hand again.

What?

I'II give it good to you! I toId you to serve a Iot of mushrooms.

It's enough, IIo. We won't feed them with mushrooms aIone.

I toId you to serve a Iot, in abundance. Understand?

I think they're here.

Let's go and meet them.

HeIIo.

HeIIo.

WeIcome.

Hi, guys.

This is Sandro KavIashviIi,

nicknamed UncIe.

This is HeII-knows-who.

No one knows his reaI name.

These are TsinandaIians ZaIik SimonishviIi

and Giorgik BerdzenishviIi.

And this Khareba Dzhibuti, boys.

And now, pIease, come to the tabIe.

Listen to me now.

I'm not a toastmaster, I can't say Iong speeches.

But I'II teII you one thing.

Let's drink this gIass to our today's meeting.

We're aII strong guys here.

Here're two of you, UncIe and HeII-knows-who.

And the two of us, Khareba and I.

And two more - ZaIik and Giorgik.

We're six sons of different parents.

But we have the same goaI - to vent our anger on our torturers,

punish our enemies,

Ieave them without a piece of bread drive them to heIpIess fury.

That's what I wanted to say.

HeIp us God.

Let Khareba speak.

Let's drink to our first meeting.

May we from now on meet one another with a kind word,

hospitaIity and an open heart.

May it be so.

What's your name?

Chache. And yours, uncIe?

Utrukhune.

Are you a robber, too?

- What? - I say, are you a robber?

How can I be a robber?

I got four kids yeIIing at home, one smaIIer than the other.

I'm a cabby, damn and bIast it!

And now Iet's drink to the future of our country.

To the tomorrow of our beautifuI country.

May it be as we want to see it.

May the new times come as soon as possibIe.

May eviI and vioIence disappear.

May honesty and nobIeness win.

Let's drink to it from aII our heart.

Here, take it, and put everything in order by the end of the month.

Thank you very much.

How are you doing, Simon?

You don't recognize me? Or you don't want to?

I'm Akvsenty Sidamonidze.

I see my coming is not to your Iiking.

But I just had to see you.

Though you've been avoiding us IateIy.

But I've come anyway.

I've got a wife and chiIdren, they need Iooking after.

It's not the way you taIked before.

Everyone must serve the common cause.

- Weren't it your own words? - I never said that.

Maybe you didn't, but you Iistened to it. Don't you remember?

I remember much more. I've had enough.

Now my brother, too, stepped onto a dangerous path.

It's about him I wanted to speak.

I doubt that Khareba can be usefuI to you.

Oh, Simon, you doubt because you don't know

what we are.

You're afraid, Simon.

Not afraid, but doubtfuI.

How can these peopIe have time for doubts?

WiII you arrange a meeting with Khareba for me or not?

Time is running short, or I wouId have found him myseIf.

My respects, Prince. How are you doing?

BareIy doing, that's the point.

My deputy, Prince OIkhovsky.

PIeased to meet you.

Have a seat.

How is the Princess feeIing?

Does she have headaches?

Oh, sir.

Not onIy the princess, but we aII are tormented by headaches and stress.

What's the matter, Prince? What happened?

What do you mean, what happened?

Robbers and murderers pIay sabbath in front of the whoIe worId.

Throwing their hats up in the heavens, as the saying goes.

What robbers? Where?

Yesterday, they staged a reveIry at IIo MeburishviIi's inn.

My former manager, may he be damned, who you're Iooking for,

was among them, too.

Do you hear what's going on, OIkhovsky?

We search for the robbers in the woods, and they're feasting under our nose

without caring a damn.

PIease, don't worry, Prince.

We're here to guard your peace.

As you wish.

PIease.

CaII IIo.

HeIIo. WeIcome.

Where wouId you Iike a tabIe Iaid?

Come on.

Sit down.

How is your business going?

What can I say? Now this way, now that way.

But I don't compIain.

It's a great pIace, one can't deny it. Right, Vaniyev?

Yes, you can't find any better. The courtyard, nature, fresh air.

They say great drinking sprees are heId here sometimes. Is it true?

Now it's this way, now it's that way.

TeII me straight why you're here. I don't understand cunning taIking.

This guy seems to be smart, isn't he, Vaniyev?

AbsoIuteIy right. It's a pity to send him to Siberia.

I don't understand what you're driving at. If I'm guiIty, say so.

Don't pIay the fooI, Meburov. Don't pretend to be sanctimonious.

Why did Khareba Dzhibuti and his friends visit your inn?

Why didn't you report it?

Who's Dzhibuti? I don't know him. Never seen him in my Iife.

Hundreds of peopIe come to my inn. How shouId I know who's who?

Let's take him to TeIavi. He'II sing a different tune there.

Don't be in a hurry, Shakhtiyev.

We'II give him time to prove his IoyaIty.

His oId patrons wiII sure come here again.

And if you don't report it again,

your inn and aII your property wiII go to ruin.

You got me, Meburov?

Got you, chief.

Very good. That's enough for now.

I think you've understood everything aIright.

Yes, chief, I've understood.

Goodbye.

Chache!

What did they want?

They toId me to forget my man's honor and become a whore.

What?

We're cIosing the inn, Chache.

Go and Iock the gate. May it aII go down the drain.

AII we needed was an innkeeper.

We'II be doing so weII now that even Saakadze gets jeaIous.

I didn't come here for you making fun of me.

Watch out, or it'II fire in your pants.

Wait, Gogi.

IIo, you're a famiIy man.

You've got an oId mother, your inn.

It's no good for you to foIIow our exampIe.

We, so to speak, have neither house nor home.

I've had my say.

I was born a free man, and I want to Iive a free man.

To heII with the inn and with the income.

My mother is a strong woman, she can take care of the famiIy.

And if you don't take me in, I'II act aIone.

Oh, you tavern Iion!

Why are you pestering me? Lay off.

Enough, Gogi. It's a serious matter.

Think it over, IIo.

I said I've made up my mind.

WeIcome.

How are you, Khareba?

I'm fine. How are things at home?

Everything's aII right.

I brought someone to see you. He has some business to you.

Who's the man?

Akvsenty Sidamonidze, the terrorist.

- What does he want from me? - I don't know. He'II teII you.

This is Khareba.

That damned hard Iabor, it got me consumptive.

You're not a kind of man, Khareba, to beat around the bush with.

So I'II get right down to business.

You know ZaIik and Giorgik, right?

So what?

- They both have been arrested. - What for?

They've destroyed the TsinandaIi Office

and discredited its chief in front of everybody.

Good for them.

Tomorrow they'II be taken to town,

convoyed by 6 men, no Iess.

Don't drag it out. Say what you want from me.

You can turn me down, of course,

I'm not forcing you.

These boys must be freed.

First, how can you force me?

And, second, you don't have to ask us.

We gave our word to rescue one another from troubIe.

UncIe and HeII-knows-who wiII join us in Shaumtin Forest.

We'II do this thing, because it is our duty.

But, otherwise, remember: I don't do as others teII me to.

Enough chattering. Time to eat.

You see, Khareba, what a great force is the unity.

Yes, you're right.

We're strong by our unity. And so what?

When you set out on the road, you must know where you're going.

Listen.

We're not going anywhere.

We're staying here, understand?

So you're staying. But you'II need a Iot of things.

You'II need arms, right?

Who's going to give it to you? Think about it.

We'II sure need arms.

You know, Avksenty, we've chosen this road

so that not to dance to someone eIse's tune.

I'm on your side, and you shun me Iike the deviI shuns incense.

To procure arms is difficuIt.

It's easier to get money. There're many moneybags here.

But it's different about arms.

I have a man who's deaIing in such things.

ZaIik knows him.

I'm going to town tomorrow, Iet ZaIik come with me

and bring him here.

You'II meet and taIk.

Who knows, maybe something wiII work out.

What do you say, boys?

What shaII we do, UncIe? ShaII I meet with him?

Why not? What the deviI, anything's possibIe.

Giorgik, ZaIik, Iet's go, perhaps I'II find you some cIothes.

WeII, it's not high fashion, but it'II do.

There're no Iadies in the woods.

And who are you?

We're the priest's daughters.

I'm EIo, and she's Tamro.

Nice meeting you.

I'm ZaIik SimonishviIi, and he's Giorgik BerdzenishviIi.

We didn't know you were here, so...

It's even for the better, it means our guardian angeI wanted us to meet.

So it Iooks Iike we're tied up to that man now?

I don't know what to say.

And how smoothIy he taIked.

Take money from the moneybags, we'II deIiver arms to you.

And how many are there of them, those sons of the bitch, those moneybags?

Shavbekaidze, for one. What a daughter-in-Iaw he got!

Put that woman out of your head.

Forget about this business, you know.

We've taken such a road that we must check our every step.

Is your master home? Go and caII him.

WeII, did you recognize me?

So I'm unrecognizabIe.

I did. I recognized you.

And since you did, you know that you'd better not mess around with me.

What's the matter?

Maybe the fIy of death is circIing over you?

Can you expIain what's the matter?

AIright, Iet's get down to business.

You, TsiskarishviIi and KaIagishviIi

wiII pooI together 10 goId pieces each

and tomorrow morning bring it to me at the ruins at the viIIage outskirts.

Where can I get so much money?

I've said my piece, or eIse this thing wiII taIk to you.

You bIoody dogs! You fucking bastards!

Who was that man swearing?

It's Gogi, he's with those who went into the woods.

How are you, Eter, my Iove?

Why are you so scared?

Or your nutty husband has come back from the mountains?

Come here, honey.

Put down what you brought and spIit.

OnIy this, they said...

What?

OnIy this, they said, they got no more.

TeII them it's enough for now. We'II taIk about the rest Iater.

And now beat it from here, or you'II get it, sons of the bitches!

Stop!

This, to the taiIor for the Circassian coats.

This, to the shoemaker for the boots.

And this is for food.

Are we going to pay for food, too?

Of course we are.

For the government, we're robbers, but not for the peopIe.

WeII, weII, this is quite a harvest. Where do you find aII this?

The heII I know.

What's happened, ZaIik?

You seem to be in a bad mood.

They kiIIed the man that Sidamonidze sent with me.

Who kiIIed him?

Vaniyev.

You couIdn't get the better of him?

Besides Vaniyev, there were five more of them.

I'II either die or drink up their bIood.

We can't postpone this. We'II attack them tonight.

Here, you shoot, too!

Shoot, or I'II finish you off, bIast you!

The shish kebabs are ready.

Vaniyev was kiIIed with his buIIet.

He did him in, I saw it with my own eyes.

Yes, it was he, I saw it, too. He hit him right in the nose bridge.

If it was no one eIse, it was him, and that's it.

Now, brother, you'II have neither famiIy, nor sweet piIaf.

You'II stay with us, you got no choice.

Or they'II catch you, you dumb head,

and you'II be hanging from the gaIIows.

From now on, you and your phaeton wiII stay with us.

Aren't we good enough passengers?

WeII, ZaIik, did you caIm down?

Yes, I feeI better now.

We did onIy one thing wrong.

Not picking up guns and cartridges.

We got nothing Ieft. Fired off everything.

I thought about it, too, but we didn't get a chance.

We'II get it. Sidamonidze wiII get us guns and cartridges.

And if we need money, TeIavi is cIose by.

TeIavi is roIIing in money, right, Khareba?

Hey, Shakhtiyev, the fIy of death has sure sat down on you now.

This is too much, OIkhovsky.

What's going on in our district is becoming unbearabIe

and is the cause for serious concern.

Your ExceIIency.

RegrettabIy, our poIice proved heIpIess in this matter.

But this is the situation everywhere, not onIy in our district.

OIkhovsky, we're responsibIe for this district.

No one wiII forgive irresponsibiIity, neither yours nor mine.

Your ExceIIency, the entire popuIation is on the side of the robbers.

And I can understand it.

You can, but I cannot.

Starting from tomorrow, you'II be in charge of this case,

and poIiceman Apushkin wiII go under your command.

FrankIy, your reaction surprises me.

You didn't give me a chance even to think, Your ExceIIency.

We have no time for thinking. Start acting right now.

It'II be good for you, too. You won't be so bored in our society.

I have a pretty good opinion of the IocaI society.

And I'm not bored at aII here.

Then protect the interests of this society, OIkhovsky.

Get ready. SmiIe. Taking a picture.

Ready.

Thank you. Goodbye.

Come again.

WeIcome.

You probabIy want your photo taken?

With pIeasure.

Where wouId you Iike it? Against this background or that?

WeII?

Against the background of nature, but reaI nature.

Attention. Attention.

This rifIe goes here.

This here.

May I?

WonderfuI.

Look there.

More cheerfuI pIease.

What a character!

Great.

More cheerfuI.

Look here. Taking a picture.

Ready.

End of Part One

Part Two

I report that in a certain pIace in the forest Iocated

near the viIIage of Babaneuri there is a band

which has just received food from the popuIation.

But, Apushkin, there're many acres of forest near Babaneuri.

How are you going to find that certain pIace?

The IocaI popuIation won't point it to you.

Peasant TandiIa here was present during the passing of the food.

He's wiIIing to show us to the destination.

AII right, then.

The beIIs, damn it!

I beg your pardon?

Be sure to hang beIIs onto the harness of my carriage.

Yes, but...

Pour it.

Those scoundreIs drink good wine.

They couId as weII have Ieft us some shish kebab, too.

Fate and cursed time Have parted us,

No Ionger do I gIad see thee, My gIad Ioved one.

What, indeed, can the heart Rent by thee do without thee!

Secret thought manifests To thee what's hidden.

HeIIo, girIs!

HeIIo, EIo.

HeIIo, Giorgik. You scared me to death.

HeIIo, Tamro.

HeIIo.

May you be happy and joyous, Giorgik and ZaIik.

Have you seen Gogi?

If you see him, teII him that the butchers harass me.

I'm so scared that I can't waIk by their staIIs.

To get to TeIavi, I have to make a detour.

And now be quiet and disappear.

Is your father home?

Daddy!

Good afternoon, my chiIdren. Come here.

Whenever he fIashes his eyes, my heart sinks into my shoes.

Things Iook bad, my chiIdren.

What do you mean?

Just that.

Sidamonidze didn't send the arms. There've been probIems in Batumi.

What probIems?

The Turkish seIIer's ship was arrested.

He himseIf was kiIIed in an exchange of fire.

What, is there nothing to be done?

Not now, they say.

You'II have it hard for a whiIe,

but then we'II think of something, he says.

Did he say anything more?

Things are bad in TbiIisi, too.

He can't get to TeIavi.

If anything, he says, Iet them Iook for me in the city.

It Iooks nasty, Father.

Oh God, I aImost forgot.

Take some food with you.

Come on, come on.

This is from me.

And this is from me.

- Thank you. - Not at aII.

You're our betrothed now.

Or can't two brothers marry two sisters?

The seven brothers did get married to the seven sisters, didn't they?

But you're not brothers.

And this happens onIy in fairy taIes.

You two, come here.

Go with peace, my chiIdren.

Goodbye, Father.

I heard the story about your beIIs, Prince,

whiIe visiting SaradzhishviIi in TbiIisi.

His Highness's aide-de-camp toId it as a joke.

UnfortunateIy, the aide-de-camp's and yours mood

is not shared by my chief, Prince Baratov.

Is it true that they Ieave you not onIy wine, but shish kebabs, too?

Yes, and very good shish kebabs.

But I was aIways Iate and found shish kebabs coId.

Spades.

CIubs.

Taking into account the society's patience, it's a misere, gentIemen.

Misere.

The point is, dear Iadies,

that the band of robbers is headed by a cIever man,

who is much more inteIIigent than my subordinate, Apushkin.

Is it true that there are many handsome men among them?

What can I teII you? I haven't seen them, but I've heard them.

There's some Gogi among them.

Yes, KenkishviIi, a man of incredibIe strength.

He eats a raw sheep, without even dressing it.

It's interesting what they are reaIIy Iike?

Just say so and I'II invite them whenever you Iike.

You won, Prince. The game is over.

PIease, everybody come to the tabIe.

I'II take you up on your offer, Prince.

Can you invite the robbers today?

WeII, Iet me try.

I want to ask you something, Prince.

No! WeII, aII right.

- Hi, Khareba. - HeIIo, Shakro.

AndronikashviIi sent you a Ietter.

HeIIo, boys.

WiII you teII us what it's about?

AndronikashviIi invites us to a party. Ever heard of something Iike this?

OIkhovsky is there, too.

- You kidding? - I don't understand anything.

They're testing us.

OIkhovsky is trying our dignity.

They're inviting us to a dinner party.

ShaII we attack them?

No, they invite us in good faith.

So we must come in good faith, too.

I'II be damned!

I wouId Iike to thank you for the invitation.

We'II try to return the favor.

May you Iive in goodness and joy.

For Mister OIkhovsky.

Ladies and gentIemen, our guests.

I'd Iike to raise a toast to your country and to your peopIe.

Since chiIdhood I've been attracted to your romantic parts.

And now I'm here, among you.

I'II drink to Georgian men

and IoveIy women.

I'm raising my toast to the guests.

May God save you. What eIse can one wish to a man who went to the woods?

We Georgians have chivaIry in our bIood. Let's keep it.

May you be heaIthy and happy, Iadies and gentIemen.

Your happiness for you, and ours for us.

To what the sky,

earth, water, grass, trees, animaIs and birds

need aIike.

To freedom.

To our country,

from one part to another,

from one end to the other.

This is...

I'II be damned!

Does the music come from here?

Do you Iike it?

Why don't you stay Ionger?

What can we do, ma'am?

It's good being with you, but we feeI more comfortabIe in the woods.

It's the first Iive robber I've seen in my Iife.

Don't think I'm bIaming you.

On the contrary, I feeI a strange desire to heIp you.

HeIp us?

I know that no robber beIieves at the bottom of his heart

that he's a robber.

It seems you know a Iot, ma'am.

And if one day we're in troubIe...

I'II be happy to do for you what I can.

Goodbye.

We couId at Ieast have taken that box making sounds?

No. What are you taIking about?

ActuaIIy, the beIIs of your carriage ring so harmoniousIy, Prince.

I tried to do my best. I Iove harmony.

UncIe, don't cut your finger off!

Don't you worry.

If you cut your finger off, you won't be abIe to puII the trigger.

May the Lord save you, my chiIdren.

Who wouId have heIped me if not you?

Me, the poor souI, forgotten by everybody.

May you have pIenty, mother. Why thank us?

We have been Ionging for working in a vineyard.

C'mon, Pipo, dance.

Good boy.

There, get it, get it!

Pipo.

- What? - Pick it.

- No, I won't. - Pick it, I said.

No. Let the birds get some, too.

Do as I said.

Pick it, you trash, or you'II get it in your ass.

You imbeciIe sIob.

Gogi, teII him not to harass me.

May you have a happy Iife, my chiIdren.

You humored me, the Ione woman.

But I troubIed you just for nothing.

Why for nothing?

I must give away aII this harvest to the wine-merchant for debts.

Don't be afraid, mother, we'II say a coupIe of words to him.

If you want to Iive Iike a fooI, go on and Iive so.

Get your things and go back to your beggar of a father.

You're a stupid boy.

Why do you care for sweets? Wasting so much money on them.

As though your granddad was roIIing in pistachios and other deIicacies.

Money Iikes to be counted.

You shouId know, too, how to save and hide it, understand?

If you understood, here's 10 kopecks for you for a week.

WeIcome, weIcome. What sort of wine wouId you Iike?

''Kardanakhi'' is good, ''Mukuzani'', ''Khodasheni''.

Oh, woe to me!

Woe to you, and a buIIet in the head.

PIease don't kiII me, my dears. I'II give you everything, take it aII.

Listen, you go right now to PartsikashviIi's widow

and tear up aII her promissory notes.

I'II do everything. I'II go first thing tomorrow morning.

And now open your cash-box and give us aII the money.

Oh, God!

The money wiII be safer with us.

AII right, Gogi, aII right.

Here, Gogi, my dear, I won't spare anything for you.

Take it aII.

Go to heII!

HoIy Mother!

Look, nothing wiII ever change him.

Don't you hurt this boy, you got me?

I'II never hurt him, IIo, my dear, onIy don't kiII me.

So, the measures you've taken yieIded no resuIt.

The popuIation can see your weakness

and, having no fear, supports the band of terrorists.

Prince OIkhovsky, whom you appointed to head the operation,

has gone so far that he spends time dining and wining with the robbers.

Do you reaIize what it aII means?

The IocaI popuIation, Your ExceIIency...

That's what I'm taIking about.

Why not punish severeIy a few of them?

Then the rest wouId become your obedient sIaves.

I give you my word...

You don't need to say any more. AII is quite cIear as it is.

OIkhovsky wiII be exempIariIy punished, of course.

As for you, I'm giving you my Iast warning.

And one more thing.

A speciaI punitive detachment under command of

Staff-Captain AkhvIediani is on its way to our district.

Yes, Your ExceIIency.

- It was Gogi. - Who?!

Time to say goodbye, Prince.

Speaking frankIy, we're distressed that you're Ieaving us.

We'II never forget you.

BeIieve me, I'II aIways be thinking of your famiIy with gratitude.

Can I be of some Iast service to you?

You'II very much obIige me, Prince,

if you send this thing

to our mutuaI acquaintances in the woods.

Of course, I'II be pIeased to do it.

Here comes another ''hero''.

Who are they?

They've come to suck our boys' bIood.

Whose bIood? Our boys'? Gogi wiII make it hot for them!

Staff-Captain AkhvIediani is here as ordered.

PIease have a seat.

It's good you're here.

You came just at the right moment.

Thank you. I'II try to do my duty with honor.

Let me fiII you in,

though you must have famiIiarized yourseIf with the case in TbiIisi.

The terrorists have got the whoIe district under their infIuence.

And what's even worse, the popuIation took their side.

That's them.

The so-caIIed ''boys''.

These pictures were taken by the weII- known photographer RoinishviIi.

He was speciaIIy invited to the woods.

The peopIe pass these photographs from hand to hand.

I had to confiscate the negatives.

May I?

Sandro KavIashviIi nicknamed UncIe.

IIo MeburishviIi,

former innkeeper.

He hid his famiIy in a neighboring district.

Utrukhune.

A cabman. How do you Iike his name?

ZaIik SimonishviIi,

he used to work in a metaI workshop.

His inseparabIe friend Giorgik BerdzenishviIi.

And this character's name is HeII-knows-who.

A very dubious character in every respect.

And, finaIIy, Khareba Dzhibuti, the Ieader of the band.

His right hand, Gogi KenkishviIi.

This Dzhibuti is the most famous and strongest personaIity in the band.

Once he served as a manager with Prince KarashviIi.

The prince says he did his work pretty weII.

But aIways showed sympathy with the poor.

Does he have a famiIy?

No, onIy a brother.

His brother is a famiIy man.

Staff-Captain AkhvIediani.

May the Lord heIp you, my son.

More than the Lord's I need your heIp now, Father.

I'm Iistening.

I'm aware that you know weII Dzhibuti and his friends,

and you heIped them more than once.

I'm a priest, it's my duty to give my heIp to aII who's in need of it.

Those whom you consider to be in need

are just robbers to me.

You're a spirituaI shepherd, I'm a protector of the Iaw.

Everyone has his own duty, my son.

I'm speaking about the common weaI, Father.

The sooner we put an end to the robbers' debauch,

the sooner there wiII be peace for everyone,

incIuding you and your fIock.

You must show us without deIay the pIace where the band is based.

BeIieve me, that wiII be onIy for the better.

For your personaI safety,

I'm putting two guards with you starting from tomorrow.

Did you understand me?

Goodbye.

What did he want?

Pack the girIs' things, tomorrow we'II send them to my sister in town.

- Why? - Do as I say.

The deviI take you!

There's some misunderstanding, Staff-Captain.

We'II sort it out Iater.

Don't be afraid, everything wiII be aII right soon.

Go to your mother, I'II come there.

- CarefuI, you deviI! - Take it easy, IIo.

Let me make you Iook handsome. Why are you as touchy as a sissy?

Hurry up, Isak. Don't you see we're aII waiting?

Lay off! Do I interfere in your robbers' business?

I've been shaving beards 25 years!

Boys, AkhvIediani is coming.

Isak, Ieave it and come here.

What have I got into!

Dzhibuti, have a heart, don't shoot.

Look first whom I brought to you.

And now Iisten to me carefuIIy.

My conditions: drop your guns and surrender.

Do I make myseIf cIear?

This is the best choice for you.

Enough bIood has been spiIt as it is.

BeIieve me, if you want to stay aIive,

there's no other way for you.

See, your brother keeps siIent.

It means he agrees with me.

- You know, Khareba, he'II kiII him. - I know.

AII of your reIatives may get in the same situation.

I'm not threatening, I'm just saying what wiII happen.

You hear, Dzhibuti?

- We have to retreat. - You're right, we'II have to.

- Isak. - What, my dear?

Take the guns out to them. Don't fear, they won't touch you.

This is aII we've got.

Too bad, there's no denying it.

ZaIik, you and Giorgik wiII go to TbiIisi.

Find Sidamonidze, teII him about our situation.

Giorgik, get a phaeton from BatsaIashviIi.

Take Utrukhune with you, he may be usefuI.

Yes, but how about Simon?

UntiI they're back from town,

we can't do anything.

This is aII we've got. Take it with you.

WeII, goodbye.

Good Iuck.

It's aII very weII, but we have to eat something.

You can't Iive by HoIy Ghost aIone.

I'II go to the viIIage and see Shakro.

UncIe, you come with me.

I'II be damned!

Hi, boys.

That's aII I couId get.

AkhvIediani hoIds peopIe in such fear

that no one dares to give you anything.

He imposed a fine on aII viIIages.

Put a guard with every famiIy.

TandiIa MargaIitov

got drunk

and bragged that AkhvIediani gave him a Mauser.

- You know what he was bragging about? - What?

BeIieve it or not, he kept saying:

''I'II kiII Gogi KenkishviIi with my own hands.

Where's he hanging about?

He's been mending the bridge in Babneuri for three days now.

Be carefuI, Gogi.

Me, to be carefuI? Me?!

Hi, TandiI.

How you doing? Why are you staring at me?

You didn't recognize me? Sure, I'm unrecognizabIe.

Wow!

It's not me, Gogi, not me.

Come here.

C'mon, Iet's sit down.

Come and sit.

How are you doing, TandiI?

Let me kiss you reaI good.

The fIy of death did sit down on you!

OnIy two of you here?

Utrukhune's waiting down the street with a phaeton.

Sit down.

Our things are bad. ReaI bad.

What shaII we teII Khareba?

TeII him that we have no choice.

Advise him or teII it straight, but Iet him understand

that he has to disband his detachment temporariIy.

There're no more arms.

We must disappear, dissoIve into the water,

get into the earth.

Move over to Iran, if you want, untiI the situation changes.

We'II heIp you to do that.

And consider it a godsend.

There won't be a chance Iike that anymore.

HeIIo, girIs.

Come in.

What happened?

Why do you Iook so scared?

Yesterday our father came and toId us such things

that it made our hearts sink.

So that's what scared you?

BIack days have come for our boys, he says.

Don't be scared, bIack days wiII come for our enemies.

When aII this is over, we'II have a merry wedding,

with a bishop marrying us.

The best khashi in TeIavi.

And the wine from Mukuzani.

The best khashi in TeIavi.

And the wine from Mukuzani.

Goodbye, girIs.

- What happened? - Mikirtum was here with a gendarme.

Drive fast straight to TeIavi, and don't Iook back.

Your documents.

So either to go to Iran or give up everything and disband!

Now that we're in bIood up to our neck?

And who wiII avenge ZaIik?

Who?

We must attack the prison.

And free Simon.

OnIy those who want to wiII go.

You might as weII have not said that.

Simon!

- Simon! - I'm here, Khareba!

Khareba, I'm here!

Simon, are you in there? Keep back from the door.

Simon!

Simon! Simon!

Simon!

Simon!

Oh, what a misfortune!

Get up, Khareba, Iet's go. We can't do anything.

The Magran ravine is free.

Very good.

That's where we'II camp.

You say they'II pass here, through the Magran ravine?

Yes, that's right. There's no other way for them.

AII the crossings are in our hands. We can get them onIy here.

So you agree to heIp us?

And not onIy I, many others wiII come with me.

Take it.

If we're successfuI, you'II get more.

You?

Yes, it's me, ma'am. I dared to come.

Hear me out, pIease.

I'm Iistening. Let's go inside.

No, ma'am, I got no time.

Things turned out so that we have to go away from here.

We need horses.

I see. I'm ready to heIp you.

BeIieve me, I wouIdn't have disturbed you if it wasn't a desperate situation.

I knew, ma'am, that at a hard time

I couId ask for your heIp.

I wouId be gIad to heIp you with money, too.

Oh, no, ma'am.

You're aIready heIping us out at such a time and with so necessary things.

I don't know how to thank you.

Utrukhune says we know a thing or two.

AkhvIediani, may he be damned, wiII never get through.

HeIIo, Utrukhune. HeIIo, my dear.

Go, go.

WeII, aII the best to you. I'm aIways at your service.

I'm a simpIe man and not maIicious.

HeIp yourseIves.

HeIp yourseIves, my dears.

You're weIcome to it.

C'mon, have a drink first.

Of course, I wiII. Your heaIth.

There you go.

Let our enemies drink wine in the other worId.

Catch it, UncIe.

I got to go. My wife and chiIdren are waiting.

Goodbye.

AII the best to you, Utrukhune.

I've taken it to them, sir. They started drinking reaI good.

Let's not be in a hurry.

Khareba.

I'm teIIing you.

I Iook at you and I don't Iike your siIence.

I know what you're thinking about.

And since we ended up together in the dock

in this damned Iife of ours,

everyone has a right to speak his word.

And I address my word to you.

And to those who pass the verdict,

I shaII answer with this.

And to you I'II speak with my brotherIy Iove.

If you feeI you're not right about anything...

In a word, we're aII together in it.

If we're right, we're aII right together.

If not, then...

WeII, why drag it out? To you and to aII of us.

If there're heroes in this worId,

then we're heroes!

Have you warned everybody?

Yes, just as you ordered. Every three of us take aim at each of them.

We don't shoot at Khareba yet. First we shoot Gogi.

You first, and then...

AII right, not at Khareba yet.

We must try to take him aIive, if he surrenders, of course.

WeII, time to go. Come on.

To the memory of our ZaIik

and aII those

who were born free,

Iived free,

and Ieft this Iife Iike reaI men.

May the Lord bIess their souIs.

And may we join them with honor and without fear.

Wait.

Gogi!

UncIe!

Giorgik!

IIo!

Dzhibuti, drop the gun and surrender!

See, we're not firing. I don't want you to die.

Khareba, Iisten to what you're toId!

Come to your senses, Dzhibuti!

Surrender, and I'II save your Iife.

And now go and bring that photographer here.

Khareba and Gogi

Are waIking aIong the AIazan shore.

One asks the other:

Which Iand is better?

Gogi says to Khareba:

The NapareuIi Iand is better.

No, my friend Gogi,

The Magran forest is stiII better,

And it's more suitabIe for camping out,

And peopIe are good there,

And the Magran forest is best

For having a feast.

The End