Original subtitles

43rd International Film Festival in Venice

Grand Special Jury Prize

''Kazakhfilm'' Studio named after Sh Aimanov

is association with Mosfilm Studios

''Nothing is loftier and stronger,

and more useful in your future life

than a good recollection,

especially taken from your childhood

If you gather many such recollections,

you will be saved for Iife

Maybe it will be this one recollection

that can keep a person away from great evil''

FM Dostoyevsky

It happened long ago

So long ago that sometimes it seems

to have never happened

Our town lay in an endless wild steppe

Moscow, where we, the Naidyonovs, came from,

had long been lost in some dim,

almost childhood dreams

Written and directed by Sergey SOLOVYOV

THE STRAY WHITE AND THE SPECKLED

Based on the book by Boris RYAKHOVSKY

A lot of people had been evacuated here

From a place on Otorvanovka

we moved to Kurmysh

Mother and I were taken in by a local woman, Aizhan

Director of Photography Yuri KLIMENKO

Production Designer Marksen GAUKHMAN-SVERDLOV

Music from works by Bartok, Beethoven,

Mozart, Field, Shostakovich

English subtitles by T Kameneva

Vanya

Speckled

What's up?

Father wrote us from the front

And we lived from letter to letter

Suddenly the typhus epidemic broke out

I was the first to get sick

The doctors told my mother:

''Say goodbye to him He won't make it until the morning''

But I happened to make it,

though mother died, catching it from me

When I was released from hospital,

Aizhan showed me a brown hillock of earth

and a welded iron cross

Then father returned

We painted the cross blue

and stayed here to live

In memory of the typhus,

I got a patch of white hair and a nickname = Gray

Vanya, the white!

1 MY FATHER

Right dress!

Attention!

At ease

Please keep toes in a line, and remember

Remember: now you're a formation

And the formation is an army subunit

And the crux of a subunit is

a soldier

But you have to earn the title of a soldier

Any questions?

Who mooed?

Who said ''oo''?

You said ''oo''

Tushkanov, two steps forward

I want you, Tushkanov, to become the right man

And the right man, Tushkanov, is

You think it was Tushkanov again who said ''oo''?

You too, two steps forward!

Put on your gas masks!

Work out rifle movements on dummies!

Let's continue

The subject of today's lesson -

the Mosin-Nagant rifle in a hand-to-hand fight

1946 September

Have you chosen?

Here

Eagle

Only make him look like a pigeon Can you?

All right

What do you want for it?

As we agreed, a pack of biscuits, right now

Here

What about those pigeons of yours?

They say no one's white's circling the city, everyone got like crazy

- A Tashkarka - Where from?

Who knows Went through the steppe, got tired, looking for shelter

Short stab! One, two!

Long stab! One, two!

Long stab with a lunge! One, two!

Beat left! Beat right! Spring! Spring!

Short stab! One, two!

Long stab! One, two!

Beat left! Beat right!

Beat up! Beat down!

As you were!

Take the gas masks off

Let's continue

As I've said, this rifle surpasses

We'll get even with him

I guess he's coming Roll it up

You got matches?

Come here

Who is there?

What are you doing?

Open up now!

Gray! Gray!

You hear, Gray?

It seems your father's been killed

What?

Let me through

Let me through Come on, let me through

Let me through, you hear? Let me through

Vanya

Who?

It's nothing

They're just immature

Hooligans

Some dolts just can't understand what the right men are like

Too bad that in 1945 we had to disperse about the country

We got mixed up with other people,

changed our dress, many took off their army tunics

But I recognize them right away,

anywhere - by a beer stall, in the market, in a bathhouse

By the way, tonight we're going to the shower bath

I've arranged it, they'll let us in

Well, do you remember me going to Azerbaijan?

Can you imagine? They suggested there

that I cheat with the purchase of equipment for our school

They didn't realize who they'd run into

I went to the prosecutor

I hid the incriminating documents under my T-shirt

Then someone planted

a pack of money in my suitcase

They immediately came with a search, and wrote a report about bribing

And there were witnesses, you know,

they indicated the numbers of the banknotes they found on me

And who, do you think, saved me?

Our man, a war veteran, a local Azerbaijani

The right man

That swindler probably thought that was the end of me

Like hell it was!

Cheats always find one another,

that's why they think they're many, that they're a great force

Bullshit! Bullshit!

They're like this!

And we're like that!

Remember it, Vanya

Perhaps you, too, think sometimes

that your pigeon-fanciers are a whole world

And you're rushing into it headlong for your pigeon happiness

But there's so much life around, Vanya

For instance, Kseniya Nikolayevna is having a hard time now

Why don't you go and see her?

She should not be left alone now

Try to distract her

How?

Well, show her your drawings

- What does she need them for? - Share the joys of youth with her

And one more thing

Ask Murat not to study with Pepe anymore

- Why not? - It's not decent

And the only thing they can take away from us

is the right to be decent persons

They can't take away from us the right to be decent persons!

They can't take away from us the right to be decent persons!

Father, what's wrong?

Father, are you all right?

Stop

Take a rest Rub your fingers

You know how it should be played?

So that you create that music, not just play from memory

As though you've died

Your heart has stopped beating

But your fingers keep running

And then you feel a beat, the very first beat

So your heart began to work again You're born again, in order to live

Do I make myself clear, Murat?

Not exactly But I think I understand you

Then try again, from the beginning

Oh, God, you're like a wet chick

You're going to catch cold

It's all right, the rain is warm

Go and change, and rub yourself dry

To give up? You're crazy

Pepe is a great man, he knew Rachmaninov

He himself composes music

- Why does my father hate Pepe then? - Pepe dumped Kseniya Nikolayevna

What do you mean, dumped?

He married their house helper

Their house helper? Oh, boy!

That man is something!

He drinks strong tea, plays all night, then falls on the piano and sobs

I need a binoculars, without it, it's curtains

Take it from Kseniya, I saw she had one, for the theatre

Me Pyotr Petrovich

But it's 1936

And today?

Oh, God, God, I remember your fan

I know, he's got that unfinished portrait of mine

The sitting took too long, and Tairov came and sent me to a rehearsal

He had never finished it

For the next sitting, I came in an azure dress

I realized it and wanted to change, but your father wouldn't let me

He said that my gamut was pearly-bluish

And he started painting a new portrait

He always gave me a promise of joy, and now inspires in me a will to live

But why?

Why hasn't he ever come to see me, Ivan?

I don't know I'll tell him I think he will

The sky

The sky period = that's what art critics will write in the future

- Do you like the sky? - Yes

I wanted to borrow your binocular Murat said you had one

It's not for long

Binocular? Oh, yes, the binocular Yes, there must be one

The binocular

My God, so much junk And all goes into one heap

A shipwreck

The binocular, the binocular

Here it is, take it What do you need it for?

To look into the sky, at pigeons You know, there's a white one here

You want to look at pigeons

And I need to sell my fur coat at a good price

See this coat?

One vile woman

suggested to cut it into collars!

- Shall I cut it? - I don't know

If I cut it, they'll give more

Well, it doesn't matter

Don't leave me, Vanya

Here, take the matches You can break your neck there

Be careful, watch your step

Dammit, it's so dark!

What is it? Where are you?

Oh, God! God! I've got nothing anymore!

Nothing! No youth, no home!

Everything belongs to him!

And no money either I need money

I have nowhere to live

I guess I need to buy a house Help me!

I've got no money either Where from?

Zina, it's me

I can see, I'm not blind

- Have you brought it? - Yes

Show it

Just a second

- You want some? - No, thanks

Well, as you like

There you go, Zina

All right, I'll take it

An order!

To whom?

To Tatiana!

An order for you!

No, it can't be

Now Tania will go to Moscow

It was the 484th day of peace, and each day was special

Careful, there're steps here

Come here

There, they're all here

Our pigeon owners

Hit the pile

What a fool I am!

They will come in our place I used to come here, too, as a kid

Shutya and Tushkan from Otorvanovka Scoundrels!

What is it you got gurgling?

We've got some beer, only it's warm

Gimme a swig, too, I'm thirsty

Comrade Colonel, who knows what's in this bottle Maybe, it's fermented

No more colonels here

And you can't scare me with sour beer

We even drank horses' piss when we chased Basmachs

Shut the door, boys, my radiculitis is killing me

With your radiculitis, Misha, you should sit at home

Look, Pilipenko, hit that one in the corner

Stop kibitzing, Misha

You better go and play something to lift our spirits

Keeping count

One, two, three, four Two for mister Pilipenko

The one in a white jacket with an order is the colonel

A colonel?

An officer for special missions in reserve with Marshal Rokossovsky

Now a journalist

So we arrived in Warsaw with the Marshal

He'd been appointed Commander of the Army Group then

He says: ''Get the staff gathered in the hall''

I did

He commands:

Come in and out 25 times

Then he tells them: ''See?

See how my officer for special missions

can wear his uniform?

You remember now?''

Well, baby, do you like my music? You say nothing?

The one at the piano is Misha Nelyub

He's a beginner with pigeons, a sales manager by profession

The one with a dog is Chudik

On the right is Veniamin Zhus, head of the criminal police task force

He's got the best birds in town

The one with a newspaper is Martyn of the railroad, in charge of sleepers

A dark horse, but he knows about birds

The Baldy brothers from the Electric Lamp Plant The teacher Rakov

Some say he's nuts, others the opposite Writes a chronicle of our town

- So you don't write to Rokossovsky? - About what?

''Dzien dobje, Comrade Rokossovsky How's the weather in Warsaw?''

He wouldn't let me go

He said: ''Pilipenko, I'm going to make a career for you''

I said: ''I got a sick mother''

''Bring her here''

''I can't She has asthma

She chokes outside the steppe zone''

I can't, Comrade Marshal

She has asthma

Asthma

She chokes outside the steppe zone

What people! You see? They can do anything

So life belongs to them?

Yes, you just tell Zhus: That Gray is scum, all filth come from him''

- They'll make zilch of me right away - Who?

All those nobodies, hangers-on, secretaries

Why is it so, Vanya?

Why has everybody gone crazy? Grownups, children

There's nothing but whistling and trading in the town What is it?

Father says it's happiness

And they all have only one dream - to catch the White

The White?

The bells are tolling for evening service

I'm scared, Vanya Maybe we should go to church?

I can't I'm a non-believer, I'm a pioneer

Maybe I'd better go?

Artillerymen, Stalin issued an order,

Artillerymen, our country calls us to the border!

From thousands of batteries, For our mothers' miseries,

For our homeland = fire, fire!

Our hearts are filled with love for our dear land,

We're going to a deadly fight for our country's honour

Engulfed in flame and smoke, our cities stand,

The formidable god of war is thundering all over

Boy, give bottle, get good Chinese yo-yo

No bottle

- Give money - No money either

Buy lantern, Chinese

I don't need lanterns

- No money at all? - Not at all

Come here, I'll give you a ruble

What ruble? What for?

The real one, the Soviet ruble

Are you Kolia the Gypsy?

Check out, any blood on my face?

Yeah

Scratched myself They put barbs everywhere, bastards

I went through that hole yesterday Everything was okay

- Whose secretary are you? - I keep my own, on Ogorodnaya

On Kurmyshi? Come on, pal, help me out

Cut me out I got a knife in my pocket

Come on, cut it, boy There you go

- I'm cutting your jacket - To hell with it, boy, cut it

We'll sew it together and sell it Will say it were the damned fascists

Come on, come on, boy

What's the matter?

It tickles! Come on, boy, cut it

Those saboteurs!

The victorious people can't even have a rest in the park for free!

Hanging onto every ruble! Hurting a live man!

With barbed wire!

Bleeding him!

Those bloody saboteurs!

He was real strong

Corrupted by impunity

He hit in the face right away

And yet, the joy from our beginning friendship

outweighed everything else at that moment

''I'll be coming to Gypsy's courtyard,''-

that happy thought was whirling in my head

One day he'll give me a couple of Tashkent pure-breeds

and say: ''Don't show them to anyone''

If someone sees them, you yell: I bought them in the market''

That couple will produce such brood

that would be no inferior to Zhus's brood

And I'll sell at last my mongrel, barelegged stints

I'll just keep Speckled

And a new life will begin for me

That's what I thought, a young idiot, gone crazy with joy

Ring the bell, Suzym!

Come on, Suzym, step on it!

What are you doing here, kid?

Beat it to your home

You say you're from Kurmushi? On to Kurmyshi!

Auf Wiedersehen, Fraulein!

Have you done your homework? Come when you're an all-A-student

Get up, boy, the earth is cold You'll catch influenza

You hear? Don't lie about, get up!

O Lord, if you exist, Lord God, help me

The 9,000 that Zinka will give for the coat, may buy an abode house

You may ask what I need an abode house on Kurmyshi for, Lord God?

The room was given to Pyotr Petrovich, it's a state property

If they find out about the divorce, they'll throw me out

Where shall I go?

And I'm an actress, Lord God

In you is my life, in you is my death

What is this? Oh, yes, ''Tristram and Isolde''

O Lord, I forgot everything

It's such a pity Such a pity

Once, long ago, before the war, my father was a painter

That's when he fell in love with Kseniya, a Chamber Theatre actress,

who, by a strange coincidence,

spent the entire evacuation living next to us

When my father first saw Kseniya,

he realized with horror

what that encounter meant for him

However, he was already married to my mother

Of leaving her and following Kseniya,

he couldn't even think

He believed it was not right

and, therefore, impossible

I found out about all this later

Already after his death,

the House of Artists suddenly mounted an exhibition of father's works

Its two rooms looked

like a garden in blossom

Before the war,

he painted only Kseniya and flowers

2 THE WHITE

This is the theme, boys, an interesting, exciting theme

Don't forget about such figure of speech as simile

In our life, as you know,

there are no superfluous people, and can't be

So, think and do not hesitate to make a comparison with Nicholas' era

And don't forget about grammar Go on, write, and don't lose time

Heavy weight, nevertheless, has an important advantage

It's good for a hand-to-hand fight

with the help of the back side or a wooden butt

As for the automatic weapons

used by the enemy,

such as a German machinegun of the Schmeiser system

It's really unbearable: m-m-m and m-m-m

That's the great and powerful Russian language for you

Naidyonov, where are you going?

What's the matter, Naidyonov? Naidyonov!

Where are you going? Wait Are you angry?

Why should I be? Because my father wasn't killed, but just deafened?

He was shell-shocked Understand? Shell-shocked!

It's not his fault He even got a certificate

You're going to have a baby, right? What for?

To stuff its silly head with nonsense? Onegin is a superfluous person!

Forgive me, I didn't think of your father

You didn't? God will forgive!

Oh, boy! The White!

Now freeze and don't breathe

- There it is - Where?

Look

Hey, it went inside

I got it

Damn it!

It'll fly away

No, it won't It's going to alight

Quiet Don't rattle

It got down

It's tired It'll let us come close

What's that?!

It's gone!

Hold the net

It's gone, dammit!

Slow down! Slow down, I say!

Here we're Hop out

Check out!

And you said there would be no one there

Hey, guys!

Hey, pals, you watch out there!

You hear?

Block up the exit

You're mine!

Mine!

Freeze, you stupid!

Freeze!

Vanya!

Hold on!

Easy, easy Come on, come on

A little bit more

Come on, come on

It was the 500th day of peace, and each day was special

I'll give you a thick ear for taking someone else's property

It's not yours, is it?

Whose, then?

It flew away, didn't recognize its home

Even if it was yours, we're quits Caught in the pen, so it's mine

Give back the bird, and that's it

Did you get home alright yesterday?

Weren't your parents mad at you?

Let's go to my place and chat, huh?

Who caught the dove?

Gray did

Get in

By the way, Gray's my secretary

So you have to talk with me

He's lying We keep our own

Lay off!

Zhus' late father

once bought a couple of eggs from an old Uzbek in Khorezm,

who used to be a pigeon breeder with the last Khiva Khan

One egg was rotten

The other hatched a half-dead fledgling

Zhus junior himself fed the weakling from his mouth

The pigeon got strong

and became the forefather of Zhus' Tashkars

You happy?

Happy

- I don't know if it's he or she - Put it here

See, its legs are together? So it's she

It's a sure sign

Incredible

Such a long body, such a wide chest

A wide chest - easy breathing

Take 50 rubles for it, along with my friendship

I myself want to mate it with the Speckled I have to, honest

All right, take it

Drop in tonight I may find something for your Speckled

You fool!

If you'd kept mum, I would have got 100 rubles from Zhus for the White

He would've never given a hundred

Awesome money, 100 rubles Awesome

Gosh, I forgot to tell him

I mean Veniamin

We just got a batch of women's sandals

I'm giving you 300 rubles for the White

You take the money now

And bring the dove to me after work

You know my wagon by the coal depot?

No, I don't want it

Take it, Gray For this money, I'll sell you a couple of Bukhars

Put a couple of hundreds on top, and I'll let you have the Yellow

The Yellow?

The Yellow goes for 450 While I'm in a generous mood

Have a bet with Gray on the Yellow All his birds against the Yellow

Except the White

What do I need his mongrels for?

Why mongrels? I'm betting the Speckled

Speckled is no mongrel, everybody knows it You got it?

All right, it's a deal

You bet the Speckled and half a sack of millet

See, Speckled, huh?

Where's everybody?

They're gone

And where's Murat?

Murat's gone, too

- I've brought the Speckled - The Speckled?

Oh, I've changed my mind about the bet

Want me to dance for you instead?

- Why? - Just for fun

Check out

Look what I can do!

Look what I'm doing!

- Zhus - What's wrong, Vanya?

Easy, easy, easy

The White What about the White?

The White

They did it on purpose

Have a bet, Chudik said

Chudik? It's interesting

On purpose The Yellow for the Speckled

Tying two feathers together

Tying two feathers together They're real con men!

Cool it, boy, we'll see to it

The White

They did it on purpose Have a bet, they said He and Chudik

Chudik He's a bum, your Chudik

On purpose The Yellow for the Speckled

The Yellow for the Speckled!

It's all right, all right They're just fooling you, boy!

Tying two feathers together Tying two feathers together

Come, Vanya, sit down

I've run out of patience, Filimonova, and I pity Pavlik

Yes, you don't pity him, but I do, believe me!

Don't worry, Vanya, we'll get the White back

At 5 pm in the pool room at the city park

Everything will be all right, I'm sure everything'll be all right

If you only knew what kind of man is that Zhus!

Here

- What's this? - A subpoena

I'm summoned to the court for the fur coat

What a misfortune Troubles never come singly

I even went to church, begging the God to have mercy

There is no God

The investigator says it's profiteering

If only you knew what kind of man he is!

Forget this word Profiteering!

We'll get that Zinka locked up today at 5

What time is it?

Five sharp

As we agreed, at 5 pm

For Zhus The beer is for him

I bought that fur coat

not to make profit on it later

It was very difficult for me to collect the needed sum then

I sold two things most precious to me -

my mother's brooch with a Venetian enamel

and a gold watch

It was very hard for us to live here

We arrived at your town There's no theatre here

We're not needed here as actors

I was selling my dresses and theatrical costumes

I unstitched costume jewelry from dresses and sold it separately

A lace collar is worth more than a dress

A woman with a cigarette And we're talking culture

My husband had a robe made of marabou feathers

I cut it into pieces, too

What do you mean, made of feathers?

The fabric is woven from feathers

Comrades, she's been dumped by Pepe

What?

Ivan

Yes, Vanya, you'd better shut up

Dammit, isn't it something!

Their Pepe dons a robe, and you're with a sapper's shovel

- Do you have matches? - Yes, of course

Don't you think that the investigator's waiting for you?

Which way are you going?

This way

Pardon, Madam, but the young man and I are going the other way

Oh, that intelligentsia!

Cutting fur coats into pieces and selling them at the triple price

She's an actress

That's what I mean, the actress! We must not lose the White

The cows say ''moo''

And the sheep say ''baa''

And the chicks say ''chuck-chuck-chuck''

Oh, don't let me, God, go mad

What did you say?

Nothing

Then I'm going to say something

I'm asking you,

at least as your old-time friend

You must come back to Kseniya Nikolayevna

She will perish without you

I've seen it with my own eyes

Why talk about the impossible?

You know my situation, I've got another family

No one can help her but you

As you understand, I don't count

What can an epileptic stump with blown-out brains do?

Besides, another family

like another life, there's no such thing, it's just unnatural

Don't you agree?

You see, my dear,

sometimes to remain good

may be worse than to become bad

What are we talking about?

Doctors call my contusion an undulatory one

I'm usually quiet, but suddenly I may yell

Or even kill

Yes, yes

Don't be afraid

None of this is going to happen now

I just pity you very much, Petya

I pity you so much

No kids ever wept over poor Petya

But he's the most pitiful thing, that poor Petya

I pity you even more than Kseniya Nikolayevna!

A sick man

Just a very sick man

That's all

Kolia, a clean T-shirt is on the nail

Now watch it, kid

This is my star hour

Hush, hush

Hush, Zhuchka

- Lady, whose wolfhound is this? - It's our doggie

Is he vaccinated? A rabid beast is freely walking about the yard!

- He's on chain - What chain? Where's your man?

In the shower

And I'm supposed to rummage in shit,

catching his rabid dogs and putting my life on the line

Hey, Gyulya, who's there?

Ours, ours

- Ours who? - Yours ours!

Stop it! Who are you?

Come on, Gyulsara, catch me!

Kolia!

They get them with nets! How much did they get, you fool?!

Catch him, Kolia!

Oh, he'll get away!

Stop, you sickly sucker! I'll maim you when I get you!

Stop, or you'll be sorry!

Don't talk to him! Catch him, or he'll get away!

You're a real artiste, you fool!

What a sucker! Doggie, my ass! You'll get it for the doggie!

Thank God, I didn't get my pants down yet

I hear them snarling there So I keep my pants on!

Kolia, give back the White, or I'll scare all your birds off

The White?

Which White?

Gyulsara!

They're asking about some White Don't know what they're talking about

Look, Kolia

Is he yours? This flying bird? A good bird, expensive

Attaboys!

That's what young men are like now

Just touch them, and they'll drown you with dead cats tomorrow

You think there're no bosses over you? You've just committed a robbery

Can't you understand a joke, Kolia?

We just came to see a friend, but he happened to be in the shower

You and I have nothing to argue about, but our young got it against you

They say, one more thing, and Gypsy loses his ears

And what can I say to them? They're hooligans!

Give back the Wan and we're quits And you may forget about the White

- Give me the White - I got no White I gave it to Martyn

Veniamin!

Zhus, what's up?

Comrade Zhusov, where are you going?

- Give back the stolen, bastard! - The stolen? Here!

Zhus, wait!

Wait, Zhus Listen to me!

Zhus! You're a traitor, Zhus!

You're shit!

You're shit, Zhus! You're a traitor, Zhus!

Alright, kid, I'll get even with you

We'll play a game of noughts and crosses

Bastard!

Throw

Oh, great, I got it

Bang One

Two three

- Put it on the line - Why not? I will

- The bat's crappy - Crappy or not, throw it

Got it again

I want to shit

Go ahead, shitting is a good thing

Vanya?

Vanya Are you all right?

They've stolen my pigeons

Just now

All of them

All of them

Oh, Vanya, how could you?

They're many, I'm alone

How could you abandon Kseniya Nikolayevna?

Zhus betrayed her, and then left me at the mercy of Gypsy

You yourself have chosen him to be your ally

He's the head of the criminal police task force, and the colonel's with him

The colonel's with him

All the generalissimos of the world

couldn't forbid you to go with Kseniya Nikolayevna

- What about the White? - Forget it

Just say to yourself: there's no Zhus, no Martyn

But there is Zhus, and there is the White

You must live as though there's no Zhus

But there is Kseniya Nikolayevna

We must take care of each other

3 MARTYN'S LAIR

Missed it

Well, what?

We came for our bird

I don't get you What are you saying?

We came for our bird!

Tushkan, you hear what the kids are saying?

What are they saying?

They came for their bird

For their hen or for their bird?

For their broad

Are they knitting socks

with broads on Kurmyshi?

Or maybe for the bird?

Maybe for this one? Isn't it yours?

Shutya's Tashkar isn't something to be sneezed at A famous bird in town

Hey, you, big one, let's go knock together

One keeps seven waiting

- Should he? - No, he shouldn't

Are you stupid or what? You kill me, they'll lock you up

Don't, Vanya!

Hold it!

If anybody moves!

Come on, bastards!

Why are you sitting, you louse? Where's he?

Here! Get up, bastard!

Is that your favorite?

Are you nuts or what?

- Is that your favorite? - This bird is worth all of yours!

Give back our bird, then you get your Tashkar!

- I never took your birds! - Stop it!

- You didn't?! - Please!

Then, it's tit for tat!

Hold on, Murat! Hold on!

I've seen many times how pigeon owners

tore their birds' heads off in fury

But I would have never been able to do it myself

But that was before

Now I had all of them against me

Fear took hold of me

Alone, I was weak

If I submitted now and gave the White to them,

I would have known forever I was nobody

Zhus got the White, I know it for sure now

He was just playing the fool with me, setting Gypsy up

- He'll never give it to you - I'll take it from him

And Zhus? Veniamin Zhusov?

He went to Martynov

He went to Martynov

And I go = pass

And I go = one

You're like a little kid, Pilipenko

Oh, Venya, my blood is boiling

I'm hungry for life

- Stay here - All right

You got it? Way to go for Martyn!

They're all in his hands, Zhus and the colonel, too

It was he who told Gypsy to get the White

Let's stalk Martyn, and steal the White

What about traps?

What traps? Bullshit They can't put them, just scaring us

He bought them in a hunting shop It can easily break your arm

You mean I should give him the White?

I could have fallen to death from the roof, remember?!

Becoming a sack of bones! You get it?!

I'm not going

I'm not going I feel ashamed, but I'm scared

We can't win over them, they're stronger

See that? I want to play!

Sorry, Gray They're stronger

We can't win

Our hearts got on fire with a bottle of kerosene

Hello I want comrade Martynov

Comrade Martynov is gone the hell knows where

Too bad I got a pioneer mission - to take a white dove from him

There was a pigeon scratching here You and your damned pigeons!

- Where does he keep it? - I'll tell you and you steal it

He thinks I don't know where he goes

A foreman from the halt blabbed it out

And I have to sit here alone all my life

Bumping along in repair trains = dust and sand, you can't open a window

Such goddamn trash around, they even steal your laundry

Go to Halt 41,

you'll see a wagon where railway workers live

Go straight into the steppe To the abandoned factory, you know

There's a basement next to the gate

When you go in, he'll ask: ''How did you find me?''

You say: ''Your wife, Zoya Petrovna, told me''

Say it right into his face: your wife directed me to this place

- Are you Pyotr Petrovich Startsev? - Yes, it's me

Sit down, please

Are you familiar with these things?

Yes, these are my ex-wife's things

Kseniya Nikolayevna Startseva's

Is that you? Am I right?

Yes, it's me

Come with me And I'll ask your friend to be a witness

Galym, open up

Here

Galym

Unthinkable Unbelievable

Impossible Nonsense

Impossible It's absurd

Tell me, what was it? Is it her heart?

She had a heart problem

Sign, please, the identification record

Right here

Pipe is rusted

Let's go, comrade

You can't stand here

A man

There must be a live man there Alive

An accidental man got into your trap, you bastard

Wait

I'm coming

Martyn, is that you?

This pit was meant for me, wasn't it?

Then rot in it yourself! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!

You see, Vanya, I found you

How shall I take it off?

I don't know I couldn't do it with hands, it's jammed

Father!

I found her, father! She's here!

He kept her separately!

Father! Look, father

My darling beautiful dove Look, her feathers are like snow

Father

Help me, Vanya

Tear off a strip

Give it here

Come on, give me a hand

Higher

Why did you take the bird, boy?

Because it's been stolen

Why stolen? Gypsy brought it, demanded money

He said Gray was selling it Asked me not to tell Zhus

Not to tell Zhus? He's lying

Everybody's afraid of him, I saw it

I saw Zhus crawling before him, saw him beating the colonel

- What colonel? - Pilipenko

He's not a colonel He's a liar

He was an officer on special missions with Marshal Rokossovsky

There was a Pilipenko with Rokossovsky

This one is lying it was him

I know it, he's my nephew

He doesn't say he's a student of some famous botanist

A colonel, so that everybody feared him

Is Zhus, head of criminal police special task force, your nephew too?

What special task force? Just scaring warehouse guards

So much fear! So much fear!

There's no need to fear us, boy

We fear each other ourselves, boy

You're a band I saw it myself in your wagon

Yes, they came and begged for 40 sleepers

Father

Don't believe him He's lying, they are a band

We should tie him up

We should pity him and get him home He can't get there himself

And the White? What will happen to her?

I don't know, Vanya

You think yourself

Take two smoke-colored

Give me the White

The White?

Give her to you?

Name any price

I won't spare any money for a good bird

Young people with diplomas are leaving me behind at work

And I keep knocking about the railway Sleepers, spikes

My birds are first-class

Listen, wait, please

Give me the White

Cast:

Gray = Slava ILYUSHCHENKO

Father = Liubomiras LAUCIAVICIUS

Kseniya Nikolayevna - Ludmila SAVELYEVA

Murat = Sultan BAPOV

Pepe = Andrei BITOV

Zhus = Ilya IVANOV

Gypsy = Vladimir STEKLOV

Martyn = Boris OLEKHNOVICH

Colonel - Anatoly SLIVNIKOV

Misha Nelyub = Gherman SHORR

Chudik = Alexander BASHIROV

Rakov = Boris RYAKHOVSKY

Aizhan = Bigulsin KUDABAYEVA

Baldy brothers -

Arkady VYSOTSKY Sergey MILDENBERGER

Savitsky = Aldrei FILOZOV

Tushkan = Vyacheslav KUCHANOV

Shutya = Mikhail LEVCHENKO

The End