All language subtitles for Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013)

af Afrikaans
ak Akan
sq Albanian
am Amharic
ar Arabic
hy Armenian
az Azerbaijani
eu Basque
be Belarusian
bem Bemba
bn Bengali
bh Bihari
bs Bosnian
br Breton
bg Bulgarian
km Cambodian
ca Catalan
ceb Cebuano
chr Cherokee
ny Chichewa
zh-CN Chinese (Simplified) Download
zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)
co Corsican
hr Croatian
da Danish
nl Dutch
en English Download
eo Esperanto
et Estonian
ee Ewe
fo Faroese
tl Filipino
fi Finnish
fr French Download
fy Frisian
gaa Ga
gl Galician
ka Georgian
de German Download
el Greek
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
ht Haitian Creole
ha Hausa
haw Hawaiian
iw Hebrew
hi Hindi
hmn Hmong
hu Hungarian
is Icelandic
ig Igbo
id Indonesian
ia Interlingua
ga Irish
it Italian
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
kn Kannada
kk Kazakh
rw Kinyarwanda
rn Kirundi
kg Kongo
ko Korean
kri Krio (Sierra Leone)
ku Kurdish
ckb Kurdish (Soranî)
ky Kyrgyz
lo Laothian
la Latin
lv Latvian
ln Lingala
lt Lithuanian
loz Lozi
lg Luganda
ach Luo
lb Luxembourgish
mk Macedonian
mg Malagasy
ms Malay
ml Malayalam
mt Maltese
mi Maori
mr Marathi
mfe Mauritian Creole
mo Moldavian
mn Mongolian
my Myanmar (Burmese)
sr-ME Montenegrin
ne Nepali
pcm Nigerian Pidgin
nso Northern Sotho
no Norwegian
nn Norwegian (Nynorsk)
oc Occitan
or Oriya
om Oromo
ps Pashto
fa Persian
pl Polish
pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil)
pt Portuguese (Portugal) Download
pa Punjabi
qu Quechua
ro Romanian
rm Romansh
nyn Runyakitara
ru Russian
sm Samoan
gd Scots Gaelic
sr Serbian
sh Serbo-Croatian
st Sesotho
tn Setswana
crs Seychellois Creole
sn Shona
sd Sindhi
si Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
so Somali
es Spanish Download
es-419 Spanish (Latin American)
su Sundanese
sw Swahili
sv Swedish
tg Tajik
ta Tamil
tt Tatar
te Telugu
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
to Tonga
lua Tshiluba
tum Tumbuka
tr Turkish
tk Turkmen
tw Twi
ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
cy Welsh
wo Wolof
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish
yo Yoruba
zu Zulu

Original subtitles

What is this animal called in English?

Uh... what? A rabbit.

I am rabbit..

I am fucking rabbit.

* ("Rasputin" by Boney M. plays) *

* There lived a certain man in Russia long ago *

* He was big and strong In his eyes a flaming glow *

* Most people looked at him with terror and with fear *

* But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear *

* He could preach the bible like a preacher *

* Full of ecstasy and fire

* But he also was the kind of teacher *

* Women would desire

* Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen *

99% of Ukrainian girls

don't even know what feminism is.

They never heard this word at school...

I shouldn't be smiling...

It's a big problem here...

It's a catastrophe.

Ukrainian girls have no awareness of the world around them

and that's not how women should be raised

so... Femen's bright, shocking... startling protests,

raise awareness and so are desperately needed in Ukraine.

Sasha!

What are you doing?! Idiots!

I can't watch our protest videos. It's so fucked up.

My phone is ringing.

-It's Victor.

He said, 'When are you getting here?!'

I said, 'I didn't know we had to come.'

'We always meet after a protest.'

—Oh shit.

-Since when do we 'always meet after protests?'

-Oh shit.

-Kitty is filming this for some reason.

After the Soviet Union collapsed...

Ukraine was left in crisis.

Many Ukrainian women in the 90's

left the country to work in Europe...

but wound up in brothels.

Many Ukrainian girls were bought and sold

as sex slaves.

It's shameful.

The world sees our country as one big brothel,

tourists come here to find whores...

We believe that we need to protest against this

we need to do everything we can so that

the world sees Ukraine as a country where naked girls protest, not sell their bodies.

We protest against patriarchy, of all sorts,

against anything that infringes upon the rights of women.

Ukraine should be ashamed!

Whores! Prostitutes!

The people are against this!

What's the difference between a prostitute and a feminist?

As political manifestos go,

this one's pretty eye-catching.

Meet the women of Femen,

Ukraine's topless protest movement.

"Our god is woman, our mission is protest.

Our weapons, our bare breasts," they chant.

It's true that nobody in this country

wants to listen to women

Nobody takes a woman seriously...

but...

everyone wants to look at women,

everyone wants to see beautiful, sexy women,

naked women...

and in order to get our message across,

we condense each issue into a few words

that we write on our placards...

Who is it?

I don't know.

-Hi Inna.

Yes?

—Hello. -Hello.

What's going on there?

Hi.

Oh sorry.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

For me personally, Femen is...

it's a way of life...

It's a chance to participate in something... good.

Not like other girls.

I see the way other Ukrainian girls live

and I'm so grateful that I found Femen

and that I didn't end up... in prostitution.

That's just how it worked out.

It's not like Femen kicked me out.

It just worked out that...

some people are ready to go topless,

and I'm glad these people exist,

but I won't do it myself.

Look! It's the first protest!

-We don't need to see this!

-Yes we do!

-Francesca looks so worried.

—She knows what will happen to Femen in five years time!

In order to promote the brand,

Femen needs beautiful girls

On the one hand, it's right. On the other, it isn't because...

the girls who really want to be in Femen

but don't have the figure...

Femen loses good people with this image...

People that could make Femen a better organisation.

It's a marketing strategy.

Lots of people don't like it.

Lots of people don't like McDonalds, but why do so many people eat there?

People say, 'Oh McDonalds is bad for you'

but still everyone knows what it is and everyone eats it.

It's the same as Femen.

Lots of people hate it but...

it must be working, because everyone knows what Femen is.

It's Gossip Girl here.

Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of the Manhattan elite.

—I dreamed about studying at NYU. Just to be a normal student...

I'm a different person in front of the camera.

I'm Beyonce.

When I'm out there protesting,

my mind and body transforms like that...

I become very aggressive and powerful. I'm really in the moment.

There might be cars all around you, but it's not important.

It's just me, my placard, the girls and the camera.

Nothing else.

This photo was made by my fans.

They made a collage of my photos for me.

That was from a protest in Italy, in Rome,

we were protesting against Berlusconi.

They love Femen and they want to support us...

They buy our t-shirts, mugs and bags...

Fans? Yes, I have heaps. The positive balances out the negative.

I was dressed like...

a cheap porn star.

I knew it was brave,

especially considering my figure,

to walk down the main street of the capital...

in a g-string...

It was new for me.

But I wasn't really bothered by it.

I never told them that I wouldn't wear it.

I was ok with it.

Danger! Danger!

Sex bomb!

Danger! There is a sex bomb in the vicinity!

Keep away from the Metro!

Well of course...

The protests that I am in are...

absurd.

It's when they need to mock something...

To have such a large girl in a Femen protest...

it's shocking.

It's not like your average Femen protest.

Please keep back!

Sex bomb!

Run, people, run!

Danger! Danger!

Danger! Danger!

There is a sex bomb in the vicinity.

Somebody call an ambulance!

Where is that asshole?

Well...

they "position" themselves as feminists,

but it seems to me that...

in order to become real feminists

we need to wait for some time to pass.

It's the mentality here.

Historically in Ukraine, men have always dominated women.

Yes, just a little, yes...

Three. Four.

Three. Four.

Ok let's have a look.

I didn't censor the boobs from those photos.

How quickly will they block us?

It's just photos from a magazine.

There's three boobs.

Two are Oksana's. One is 0lya's.

They are painted with our logo.

How do I explain this?

It's not a business.

How is it a business?

It's a kind of...

Ukrainians believe that...

a community-based organisation has to be poor...

we have to be poor and miserable...

We get money from charitable donations.

We don't know exactly where the money comes from...

the money just appears in the bank account...

and people just write, 'I sent you money.'

Or it just appears...

This boy from the Philippines sent $1000.

Who is he? Why? He's a fan.

Who donates? Yes, it's mostly men.

It's mostly men not just because we are so beautiful...

"we will help you because you are naked"

No, that's not true.

It's because most of the money in this world belongs to men.

It's sad but true.

Look at the statistics.

Hello Turkey!

Femen in Turkey! Finally!

The trip was financed by "John"

I don't know his last name. It's Turkish.

We call him John. We know him as John.

He's a Turkish businessman who sells lingerie.

I was scared because it is a Muslim country.

It's a different world there.

They have a different understanding of women.

Stop domestic violence!

Why? Why?

Why?

Can I just say that I'm a dancer?

I'm a dancer at a nightclub.

Really?

Yes.

Naked?

Of course!

I don't have sex for money.

That's the first thing I want to make clear.

Perhaps it is hypocritical to work at night

for the sex tourists

and protest with Femen during the day

Yes, I used to think it was hypocritical...

but I'm also... taking care of myself.

I am not living off some rich foreigner,

who pays me to have sex with him...

I earn my own money for bread.

In this country, unfortunately,

using my intellect,

I can't earn enough to live.

I've been in Femen for a while and...

I never took it as seriously as I do now...

Now they... inspire me.

That's why I am still there.

They inspire me.

I mean... I work at a nightclub.

Where does a girl like me get inspiration?

Oksana! Help the girls up!

Get undressed now! Throw your coats down!

Ukraine is not a brothel!

We're not prostitutes!

The whole world thinks that Ukrainian girls are whores...

Ukrainian girls aren't whores!

Delhi! Close your brothels!

They are comming down.

Ukrainian girls are not whores!

We're not whores!

Oksana! Oksana!

Let her out!

Ok let's go.

-What's that? —Don't be scared.

These bruises are from yesterday's protest.

The police these days...

it's not just when they arrest us

that they're rough with us,

5 or 10 policemen attack each girl...

When we are at the police station too,

they are very rough with us,

they pushed me up against the wall,

one of them felt me up...

He said, 'Give me a feel...'

There was no way to protect myself,

all of the police were in on it,

all these men...

My mother, thank God, hasn't heard,

because we had a bit of a tragedy at home...

Her apartment burnt down.

They are now cleaning it out. It's all burnt.

It doesn't have any windows or doors.

It's really sad because we don't have money

to buy windows or furniture.

My mum has problems of her own...

How can she see me on the news if she doesn't have a TV?

The plan is...

we have to arrive at...

the KGB headquarters in Minsk,

get undressed,

in order to demonstrate the absurdity

of Lukashenko's regime in that country.

It's very difficult to predict what will happen.

Because in a country like Belarus, anything could happen...

The worst could happen.

They could beat us, place us in jail for a long time,

or charge us with a criminal offense.

It's a country with a totalitarian regime...

I don't know.

The worst could happen.

It was terrifying.

They grabbed us and threw us from their van,

our hands were tied,

they grabbed us by the necks, shoved our heads down

and they dragged us deep into the forest...

I could see seven men.

They were wearing masks.

Two men were shooting it all on cameras.

They filmed it all.

They said, 'Take off your tops.'

Then they told us to take off our pants,

they wanted us bare naked,

and they asked us to turn our backs to them,

I thought that they were going to rape us...

They weren't sick people. They were professionals.

They were carrying out orders. Political orders.

One man approached me, with a canister

he told me to put my head down...

He poured oil all over my body,

I thought they were going to burn us to death...

They put us back in the van, and we drove and then stopped,

they ripped us out of the van,

they turned us to face the river,

we thought they were going to start again,

but they just said, "There, you whores, look..."

"the border is that way..."

"If you make it through that forest. you'll be back in Ukraine."

-It was about 3 or 4 kilometres from Ukraine.

-That's what they said... and they left...

and we just started running,

the forest was thick and sharp,

there was nothing around,

we ran for what seemed like hours

Anna! Watch what you are doing.

Make sure it looks handheld.

Just let them tell the story.

Is it recording? Check again.

"Brothel"

I see aspirin. I see something for the nose.

-Have you got a temperature again?

—Yes, most likely.

Oh shit.

So the journalist from 'Der Spiegel' is coming to my place?

No.

-Did Victor ring?

No.

—Thank God.

I'm leaving Femen.

—Where will you go?

Oksana is happy to sit in jail. What about you?

You will be left without money to buy bread.

And Oksana will be happy in jail.

—I will go to my home town.

—Xerson?

—Or maybe to Paris? I heard there was a way.

-To apply for political asylum...

Uh oh.

Hello? Yes?

Yes.

We just got a call from our lawyer, Dennis,

he told us that criminal charges have been laid

against the activists who protested at the cathedral bell tower.

I'm in shock. I just realised that now,

for the time being, I can't participate in protests

because if I protest then they'll arrest me

and I will be in prison, not just for a couple of days...

I'm used to that. It doesn't scare me.

But I could be in prison for a few months, or a year,

up to five years...

I think perhaps...

they have timed this for The Euro Cup,

perhaps to sit us in jail during the championship,

to stop Femen's protests,

so that we don't disturb the tourists coming to Ukraine.

No, Femen don't pay us.

We work with Femen because it is good PR.

...Good PR for them. Good PR for us.

At the moment, it is more like...

like a hobby...

Why?

Because Femen need constant legal support.

It's a big ask.

Because protection costs money.

While these criminal investigations drag on,

we have 10 girls facing criminal cases,

if these girls go out and protest

or they break any laws

then they can go straight to prison.

I believe that this is a threat to Femen by the authorities.

They want to destabilize Femen, frighten the girls,

and let the girls try out some real jail time

because the prison here in Kiev is horrible...

It is like Guantanamo.

These girls will be quickly broken.

I see that Sasha, Inna and their followers, aren't scared...

but it isn't just hard mentally, it is hard physically.

I believe, sooner or later, if Femen keep going,

they will receive a very serious punishment.

Really it's about Inna and Sasha,

if they are ready to give up their freedom

for the sake of Femen's popularity.

It's a question for them, I think.

If I'm in prison then...

I have nothing.

If I'm not in Femen, then I have nothing.

I can't imagine who'd I be...

without Femen.

We've done so much...

We've done so much good.

This criminal investigation can't...

It won't stop Femen.

I'm ready... um...

I'm ready to sit in prison...

for perhaps a couple of years... I don't know...

Maybe I'm ready.

If I wasn't then I think I would have left a long time ago

and I wouldn't be able to call myself 'Femen'.

Inna!

We hoped, as parents,

that she would get a good education,

find a job somewhere,

and then get married and have a child...

What has happened...

We could never have imagined it.

We have to live with it though. She's our kid. We love her.

She's reached an age where... It's her life.

She has to make her own decisions.

Who will give you food?

—The police will. It's this disgusting porridge.

A plate with porridge, and soggy macaroni.

That's what you eat in prison.

And nobody can sleep

because the light is on all night.

And occasionally these guards come by

and scream out... 'Are you alive?!'

—I want to ask something.

Is there space in prison... for me too...

and for Kitty and grandma and grandpa to sleep?

—Is there room?

Yes but there are lots of drug addicts and thieves.

—Drunks...

—Drunks... —Drunks.

-They piss everywhere.

-Yulia!

They are bad people.

Not bad people... People that have been through a lot in life...

If your child had no legs, would you still love it?

Our child doesn't have a brain.

What are you gonna do?

—Hello.

—Hello. -Hi

Mum, everything's ok.

-Everything is not ok.

-Everything is fine... it will be...

-We are coming to Kiev next week.

-Why?

—To get you.

-And take me where?

What?

-Home.

-It was always just administrative offences

but now they think it is criminal...

What? You want to sit in prison?

—If I have to sit in prison, then that's what I will do.

-You understand that while you are in prison

we will all be suffering

your grandma and grandpa also...

-Mum, everything will be ok.

Everything will be ok.

-You can't even imagine how this will effect your mother.

How it will effect me as well.

-I can imagine. What do you expect me to do?

-Sasha, if Victor doesn't claim responsibility for all this...

then I will go on every TV channel and tell the world

that he is the leader of Femen and that he makes money off you.

Yes?

—Yes. You can't shut me up.

—How much does he earn from us?

-Sasha, I won't talk to you like your mother does.

If you don't protect yourself,

if you keep hanging around with this group of people...

-Why do you talk about 'these people'? This is my choice. Not theirs.

-Oh Sasha, I don't want to talk about this.

I will just make sure that

that idiot Anna and her friends

know that they can't mess with you.

—Well... great. Ok.

-You aren't thinking about yourself or us.

—Ok we can sit together in prison.

Me for hooliganism and you for murder.

—I won't be in prison. They won't know it was me that threatened them.

-Yeah? Like last time, right?

- I don't want to have to call this Victor.

—Like last time?

You think we didn't know it was you that sent those guys to threaten us?

I don't need these threats.

Just f... off.

Idiots.

Our chimney is made of bricks.

-Dad, shoot over here!

-Dad, shoot over here!

Wait! This is our cupboard.

The TV came in a big box.

And the stereo and other things.

-And my toys are over here!

-Ok, Sasha is going to show us her toys.

-Daddy... let me..

Little Sasha.

Only cried a little. Smiled a lot.

She was always smiling.

Mama is curling your hair.

You will be the most beautiful girl there.

Won't you Sasha?

Possibly.

Well now...

She's changed.

She's changed so much.

When she met Victor, and this Anna, who helps him.

Sasha is under their control. She has changed so much.

In my opinion, Femen is an invention

of Victor's schizophrenia.

He lives off the money that he makes from Femen.

Where in his head did this come from?

They started out as a nice charitable organisation.

And people supported and helped them.

They had concerts and events.

And the money went to sick children...

That was a real organisation.

But Femen now is something else entirely...

Victor just yells at them.

I can't see how they are doing any good...

All I see is the sick brain of Victor...

because a normal man would never have thought up this method of protest.

I know that he comes up with the ideas,

I know that for sure,

he designs the protests,

and the stupidest thing is that they all listen to him

and do what he says.

Cry? I cry every day.

About tomorrow's protest?

I can't talk about it now.

Our enemies could be listening through the phones.

I need to be careful what I say.

I shouldn't talk about it.

I can show you. I just can't say anything out loud.

This is the costume for tomorrow.

Shit.

-Hello.

—Hello. -Hello.

—Are we ready for tomorrow?

—Yes, I got everything done.

- Well done.

Ok, Inna...

Just between you and me,

I'm putting you in charge of tomorrow's protest.

I can't come and get Alexandra ready,

you have to do it.

The most important thing is to make sure Alexandra is ready.

Also, if the police get close,

then beat them with those sticks.

-Just beat them?

—Beat them on the backs. Don't be scared.

Those idiots won't do anything.

Alexandra... Explain it all to her in detail.

Tell her that, fuck, you know...

we gave her $200 to get her here...

Explain that. Be strong with her.

Explain that after the last fucking protest disaster...

if she doesn't perform then she won't be invited back.

She can go fuck herself.

And we won't give her money for her ticket back.

Be very strong with her. Very strong.

And don't let Anna talk to her.

Alexandra will be dressed as a dictator. On her back...

we should write, 'Create History Together' in English

and we will show UEFA how stupid their slogan is.

It should be written on the back.

—And on the breasts?

—When it is written on the breasts it isn't as easy to read.

—Got it.

What should we chant?

You are listening to me?

—EURO CUP = KGB?

Something very simple and translatable. '

EURO CUP = KGB

Or KGB 2012?

Write these down.

—Yes, I wrote them down.

—Ok now write down a few words to say to journalists there...

You need to say that Femen are against...

It's simple, right?

Femen are against the visit of the last European dictator... Yes?

...at the Euro Cup.

At 9:00 AM, I will be in the office.

And I will have the press release written for you.

-Create history together.

—I need it to be fucking obvious without the fucking press release.

Create history together. How does it sound in English?

-That's it. I will be at the office at 9:00 AM.

—Ok.

-And don't forget to beat them with the sticks.

Create history together. KGB UEFA RESPECT.

-Against the visit of the last dictator...

...the last European dictator at the Euro Cup.

- Yes.

That's it. Good luck.

-Sure. Ok.

Co! Go! Go!

Incognito.

You want to do your interview like that?

Here, you need a microphone.

Stand up.

What is this animal called in English?

Uh... what? A rabbit.

I am rabbit.

I am fucking rabbit.

How did you meet Anna?

Through a mutual friend.

A mutual friend introduced us.

They lived together. Her and Anna.

They were renting a little room together.

In the town of Xmelnitsky.

Not far from where I lived.

And my friend told me, "I have a neighbour who is interested in political economy."

Anna was writing a thesis on that topic.

"And she would like to ask you about some things,

some stuff from her textbooks, which she doesn't understand."

So, she came over and we... began to study.

Study and read about politics and discuss things.

Wait a second. We are rolling...

Hello!

We are the women's movement Femen.

We are fighting against the sex trade and...

Shit.

Hello! We are the women's movement Femen!

We are fighting against the sex trade...

You're not thinking. You look like this.

"We are fighting blah blah..."

"We are the best in Europe!"

"Ha! Don't believe us?"

Let's go!

Do you understand?

And you are just... uh...

Hello! We are the women's...

I can't do it.

—I'll do it. Film me.

Girls are weak.

They don't have the strength of character.

They don't even have the desire...

no desire to be strong...

No.

Instead, they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality,

and many other factors which prevent them from being...

from becoming political activists...

These are qualities which it was essential to teach them.

They are qualities which it was essential to instil into them.

It was essential to help them to acquire these skills...

at some stage.

It was absolutely essential.

Ok, if there is...

I want to know...

Ok, in your opinion, here we go,

Who is the leader of Femen?

Uh oh.

Oh Kitty...

If I'm speaking honestly... right?

And people have seen Victor in the film, right?

In my opinion,

Oh God, Kitty...

It's such a difficult question to answer.

Yes... my participation in the organisation

can be seen as a patriarchal influence.

My influence on the girls is the very same

as the patriarchal influence against which we are protesting.

I understand this.

But to deny all the positives of my influence,

is impossible.

Moreover, I very much hope that my behaviour towards the girls

will help them reject that... that product which...

the product of which I am also a result...

I hope that in my swinish behaviour they see a swine...

I don't know...

I've heard you say that men do everything for sex.

Did you start Femen to get girls?

Kitty...

Is it your motivation?

Perhaps just partly?

Probably...

Yes...

Perhaps yes, somewhere in my deep subconscious,

I would be an idiot, I would be really dishonest, if I said

definitely not.

So naturally, yes.

It's bad, of course, it's bad, but yes.

Probably yes.

But again, I don't really know myself.

Men, as compared to women, have few occasions for true happiness

other than sexual ones.

Few occasions.

This patriarchal system...

it takes everything away from women...

every path, every prospect, if you like,

and leaves women placed on a sort of sexual pedestal...

Unfortunately that's how it is.

And I like any other person...

am a slave to that system.

A feminist movement...

You can't say that... we have...

You understand...

In society there exists such a relationship...

men lead women

and so...

and psychologically for women...

they believe they need to be under a man's control...

And we believed this.

Perhaps we still believe it. I don't know.

And when we were first getting started...

the first phase...

I don't think that Femen could have come about

in any other way...

We couldn't have come up with this ourselves.

We wouldn't have done it.

We needed that push.

The help of a man.

Because it's like... the law.

It's the way of the world today.

You are a patriarch, right?

Yes, of course.

You are a patriarch in a movement against patriarchy.

What's paradoxical about that?

What's paradoxical about that?

What's NOT paradoxical about that? That's my question.

Yes, I'm a patriarch in an organisation against patriarchy.

Yes.

I think there are and always will be such paradoxes in history...

If this paradox can be said to be 'historic'.

Marx was a bourgeois

in an organisation against the bourgeoisie.

Lenin was too.

It's, you know, it's like Stockholm Syndrome

we are psychologically dependent on him

and even if we know and understand that

we could do this by ourselves

without his help...

It's psychological dependence

when he is around we shut up and listen to him,

even though these same... well perhaps almost the same ideas,

we could have dreamt up by ourselves.

Maybe this wasn't true at the start...

because we were teenagers

we had no experience or knowledge

but we have studied now and we are...

I believe, in some areas, we are even more competent than him

but as I said, it is Stockholm Syndrome and it is hard to break free of it.

It's like Ukraine that is dependent on Russia...

It has an inferiority complex.

It's like a wife that is dependent on a husband

that drinks and beats her

but the next day when he apologises she forgives him.

It's like...

a women's fate

but in our case... it is the fate of the organisation.

Hello.

I will call you back, Victor... Just a second...

Yeah, yeah...

It's difficult... It's very difficult...

when you have, for a long time, been...

Oh, I'm saying such terrible things...

a slave...

it isn't exactly slavery... but we might as well call it that...

you get used to it

you don't think you are... capable of doing what he does...

and... we need to end this relationship

but that relationship isn't all bad

there are a lot of good things in it

and the product, FEMEN, you created together,

something new for the whole world...

New feminism.

And we built it together.

—Hi Kitty.

- Hi.

—Come here.

What the hell happened?

—The journalists wanted... We got undressed...

—Find me a photo where everyone is lying down, like we talked about...

What is this crap?

Before the protest, did we explain what to do?

-Yes you explained.

—What is this shit?

What is the theme? Who told them to do that?

—We decided together.

—What do you mean together you fucking idiot?

-What is this fucking shit? —Shh...

-How many times do I need to repeat this to you?

Listen to me.

How many times do I need to repeat this?

-I listened.

-You were there at the protest and what?

This is shameful.

The photographs are rubbish.

This is fucking rubbish.

Just a fucking load of crap.

It's just fucked.

That's it, listen to me,

the people, the fucking collective,

you have to fucking explain to the collective what the fuck they are fucking protesting about.

That's it. Lesson over.

Go fuck yourselves.

"We are against patriarchy!"

Are you a man? Help us!

The first time I heard him say,

I don't remember exactly, he met someone,

they asked, 'Who are you?'

And he answered, 'I the father of new feminism.'

And I was... shocked.

Why doesn't this organisation have a mother of feminism?

Why a father?

It's so weird. Father of feminism.

It's a paradox, I thought.

I don't know...

I thought it was really odd...

when I first saw him,

but it was just like... a given...

"This is Femen. This is how it works."

"If you want to join, then this is who we are..."

"These are our rules."

So... yeah...

Are Femen feminists?

Yes, why not?

Yes, we are feminists.

Of course.

Right now, I'm sittining in front of your camera and

I want to be independent.

Me personally.

Yes, I'm a feminist.

Is he a feminist?

I don't know.

No, perhaps no.

Perhaps he is one of most shining examples of patriarchy,

who wants to control women.

I don't want to analyse him and his intentions,

that would be...

I'm not interested and it's not important.

Right now, what's important is that this era of Victor in Femen ends.

I don't mean that we have to kick him out.

He can be there... in some small role.

He can help us like our photographers and lawyers do.

Right now, what's important...

is what I need to learn to take over his role.

It's not necessarily the 'leader' role.

I want to be in the position where I can do freely what I feel needs to be done.

Position where I can work freely with the collective.

That's what I'm interested in.

He will never agree to step down as leader

but I think that...

if we independently build our own organisation

then he can't stop us...

We can take Femen to another country.

He can't control us there.

I promise you, and everyone,

that I won't let him.

We have supporters all over the world right now.

There is a group of women in Paris,

we protested with them a while ago,

and they want to become Femen France...

They helped me. They gave me an invitation,

which helped me get a visa.

And now I have a French visa in my passport for a year.

Nothing else. Just a visa.

I think that is a sign that I should go.

It's a new country. A clean break.

In Paris, I can build my own Femen.

Ok, now I'm going to cry.

This is the end.

No, it's not the end.

I just need...

I just want Femen to continue,

and right now is the time when

us girls need to gather together and get it done...

That's it.

* ("Rasputin" by Boney M. Plays) *

* There lived a certain man in Russia long ago *

* He was big and strong in his eyes a flaming glow *

* Most people looked at him with terror and with fear *

* But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear *

* He could preach the bible like a preacher *

* Full of ecstasy and fire

* But he also was the kind of teacher *

* Women would desire

* Ra ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen *

* There was a cat that really was gone *

* Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine *

* It was a shame how he carried on *

* He ruled the Russian land and never mind the czar *

* But the cassock he danced really wunderbar *

* In all affairs of state he was the man to please *

* But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze *

* For the queen he was no wheeler dealer *

* Though she'd heard the things he'd done *

* She believed he was a holy healer *

* Who would heal her son

* Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen *

* There was a cat that really was gone *

* Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine *

* It was a shame how he carried on *

* But when his drinking and lusting *

* And his hunger for power

* Became known to more and more people *

* The demands to do something about this outrageous man *

* Became louder and louder

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! *

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

* Ra ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen *

* They didn't quit they wanted his head *

* Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine *

* And so they shot him 'til he was dead *

Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.