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- Hello, Captain! - Hello, Dersu!

You are my dear man.

You haven't changed at all, Dersu.

Haven't changed. Haven't grown older.

You, my eagle with blue-black wings

Where have you been flying for so long

How have you been these years?

Shot lots of sables?

Plenty.

- Get much money. - Oh! That's good!

Only all this money go.

How come?

Rich trader me invite. Much vodka.

Me give him money to keep for me.

After that, his men no where.

Why so?

Me don't understand.

You, my eagle with blue-black wings

Where have you been flying forso Iong

I was flying there over the mountains

Where it all was silence

Next morning, the forest was shrouded in thick fog.

We were leading the way.

I was confident because Dersu was now with me.

Dersu, what do you think?

Will the weather clear up?

Yes.

Earth and hill all sweating now.

Soon they'll get completely well.

Why are they lagging behind?

It's high time they catch up with us.

Let us wait.

Me lost pipe.

Me think pipe be near. Must go back.

How I lose pipe?

Either got old...

or my head got bad.

Look, Captain. This is track tiger.

Him behind us go.

When us come here, was not track on road.

Him close here.

When us stopped over there, he was right here!

Me go back, tiger run away.

That is nothing, Captain. Tiger never make big noise.

Excuse us, Captain, for lingering.

Two horses got stuck in the bog.

Is this your pipe, Dersu?

- What is it with you? - There's a tiger nearby.

Hey, guys, careful!

A tiger's nearby!

Calm down!

Calm down, I say!

Come on, come on!

Again tiger go our track!

Why go behind? What do you need, tiger?

What do you want?

Us go road, not bother you, and you go behind!

Is there not enough space in forest, tiger?

Let's go!

Why have you halted?

Looks like fallen trees there.

- Dersu, what's that? - Ludiovo.

Ludiovo? And what's that?

Animals go to river, drink water.

Want to go round trunks and branches and fall into pit.

They catch animals, sell the skins.

Detail several men to follow me.

Belonozhkin, Zagourskii, Zakharov, Bochkariov, follow me.

Careful.

Look here.

Look in the other pits.

Go.

Sir! A doe and two reindeer there. Already dead.

Pasha, what do you have there?

I found two pits.

Only carrion in there.

What about you, Andriucha?

I fell in myself!

Vasia! Vasia!

- What's there? - I found a whole flaying house!

- Who did it? - Bad Chinese did this.

Why leave ludiovo, but not fill holes?

Bad to kill animals for nothing.

Bring axes and hoes here!

What happened, Dersu?

Hounhous! Chinese bandits!

They make holes in my shirt, and I make holes in theirs!

- How many are there? - Eight.

Turtygin, two remain here. The rest ofyou follow me.

They got away, the vipers.

Hounhous bad Chinese. Bad.

Steal money, fur.

Steal wife, kill men.

Sir, here.

Hounhous steal three women.

Me not understand what they do with men.

Turtygin!

Hey, guys, come here quick!

Much mosquito, horsefly there.

By night your face like this.

Then much pain.

Then die.

Good us found at daytime.

Very, very good.

All alive.

I'll kill those Hounhous!

Hounhous!

That Chang Pao, not Hounhous!

My name's Chang Pao. We fight Hounhous.

I'm Arseniev. We're exploring this area.

- Hello. - Hello.

They took the women with them, as always.

Hounhous go there. Move, hurry!

Dersu, calm down. They won't get far away.

Will you take care of these men?

Detachment, fall in.

Detachment, fall in.

In those places where they robbed and killed...

people told us that the bandits are not more than ten.

We'll handle them ourselves.

Well, good luck then.

- Good-bye. - Good-bye.

Danger no. Hounhous end.

At first sight, this river seemed quiet and peaceful.

I sent some men with horses to look for a place to ford it.

I myself with the others tried to cross the river on a raft.

Stand here.

Let me.

Pull it!

Give me the weapons.

The pole! Where's the pole?

The pole! Throw it!

Come on! Do it!

Go along the bank, men!

Along the bank! Run along the bank!

Get ahead of us! Ahead!

Run ahead!

Jump, Captain, jump!

Come on, come on!

- If we only had a rope! - We used all the rope for the raft!

Cut down tree! Cut down!

- This one? - No!

- This one? - No!

- This one? - Uh-huh!

Get the axes!

Tie the tree! Quick!

Tie the tree!

Take off your belts!

These will do too.

- We'll need levers. - Cut them!

Hold on! Hold on!

Come on, guys, faster, faster!

How are you there?

Hold it!

Let it go little by little!

Go, go, go!

Hold it! Let go!

Dersu, give me your hand!

Grab me!

You were like a bear!

Summer end, Captain.

Autumn come.

That's good. A bit to the left.

A bit to the left. Good.

Okay, get ready.

Attention.

Hold it.

Good.

Turtygin, come here. Now you take a picture of us.

Press here, okay?

My fondest memories of Dersu...

are connected with the beginning of that autumn.

- What's wrong with that horse? - Tiger.

Listen, tiger!

Soldiers fire rifle!

You go away. Go away!

What me do?

Kill tiger.

The tiger ran away. He's unharmed.

No, tiger always run until die.

Now me much frightened.

Don't be afraid, Dersu.

A dead tiger can't harm you.

Kanga will!

He send another tiger!

Kanga is a forest spirit whom the Goldi worship.

From that day Dersu changed.

He became morose and irritabIe.

What you do?

That sign say no ginseng here.

You break.

People search for ginseng, all for nothing.

Bad man are you.

So he just jumped in the river in all his clothes. He was drunk.

In all his clothes!

And I had an adventure--

Why throw meat into fire?

Meat throw into fire, lose.

Tomorrow we go, other people here come...

see meat, eat.

Who would come here?

How's that? Who come?

Badger come, marten come.

Crow come, mouse come.

All kinds of men in forest.

Good evening, Dersu.

I say, salute!

The Ussurii autumn is brief.

Winter colds come fast.

I started getting ready for winter...

and sent some of the men with all our horses to Olga Bay.

Smells! Men here!

- What men? - Boars!

I don't smell anything.

- Dersu, why didn't you shoot? - I not see.

Why not me see boar?

My nose see better than eyes.

I did not know then...

that this small incident was a fore runner of tragic events.

A stag!

Where, Captain?

Where?

There, under the half-fallen tree.

- Did I hit it? - No.

Didn't you see it?

Everyone misses sometimes, Dersu.

Why me not hit it?

Captain! Before, I always first see an animal!

Shoot, always hit target.

Now not hit. Bad are my eyes.

How I live in forest now?

Come to Khabarovsk with me.

My home is your home.

New Year's Eve came.

It was a strange night.

The tiger come to kill me.

Thank you, Captain! Thank you!

What happened, Dersu?

Captain, you say your home my home. Thank you, Captain!

Will you come with me to my place?

My eyes get bad.

Kanga not want me to live in forest.

He send the tiger.

Probably what Dersu called the tiger...

was the specter of his fear of the forest...

conjured by the imagination...

of a man grown old.

Listen here. Vova recorded Dersu.

Well, well.

The Captain go hills, work.

Go back to city...

sit at a table, write, work.

Me no work in the city.

Stare into fire.

Look at hills far away.

And that's it.

It's true.

He doesn't like the city.

Never mind. He'll get used to it.

Vova, did Dersu hear it?

Yes.

- What did he say? - He said, ''Right, not word miss.''

Does he often talk to you about the forest?

Yes. Dersu is not afraid of anything.

Neither of wolves, nor of boars, or of bears.

Snow storms and floods are nothing for him.

You know, Dersu is Vova's hero.

He is crazy about him.

And I owed him my life on several occasions.

He never mentioned it.

Well, he thinks it is quite a regular thing to do.

Most people like to boast about such things and exaggerate.

This men always with me roam the forest...

many, many years.

This is a bear tooth...

and claws.

And these are claws of lynx.

For you. Take.

You give it to me?

Yes, Little Captain.

Really?

I am so happy. It will be my talisman.

Don't you have tiger claws? Didn't you hunt a tiger?

I shoot at tiger but--

It bad to kill tiger.

Why?

Very...

very bad.

Take this. Thank you.

Why give money for water?

Much water is in river.

- Why you take money for water? - What?

You don't understand anything.

You are bad man!

- Where are you going? - Shoot.

Don't even think of it! It's not allowed to shoot guns in a city.

In barrel much dirt.

Me shoot a bullet, clean barrel.

Then wipe with cloth, shoot well.

There are many people here. It's dangerous.

Me fire not people. Me fire at air.

All the same, you cannot. The city isn't the same as the hills.

Do you understand?

Do you?

Well, how are you, Dersu?

Sit I here, just like duck.

How can men sit in box?

You are right.

It isn't a very nice room.

We'll have to change the wallpaper...

make everything more cozy.

Meanwhile, what if you live in my study.

Don't bother, Captain.

I pitch tent outdoors.

Sleep.

I don't disturb anyone.

See, Dersu...

it's not allowed in a city.

Why not?

Bad!

How should I explain?

That's a rule.

A rule.

Shoot a gun I can't.

Sleep outdoors I can't.

I not get enough air at all.

Pa, what happened? Dersu's been arrested!

The police just called.

What is it again?

You know, he saw me buying firewood yesterday and grew very angry...

and went to the city park to chop down a tree.

Please...

let me go back to hills.

Live in city I cannot.

Where will you go?

To the hills.

Captain.

Missus.

Little Captain.

All fine people.

Me go-- bad!

But I cannot live in a city.

Here, take this rifle as a gift.

New model.

It's easy to aim.

M�me avec une vue faible tu toucheras au but.

Thank you. Captain

To Mr Arseniev

Your visiting card found on dead goldi.

Request your presence to identify the body. Police Headquerters.

Mr Arseniev ?

Did you know him ?

We were friends !

And his name was ?

- Dersu Uzala... - His occupation ?

- A hunter. - A hunter. How strange.

He didn't have a rifle.

There must have been. A rifle of the latest model.

No, nothing was found...

except your visiting card...

It's clear now :

the criminal wanted the rifle so he killed the man.

- Ready Sir. - The ground is frozen. It was hard digging the grave.

Bury him !

So now I'll ask you to sign.

Beg your pardon. I'm a busy man

Thank you.

So... May I leave ?