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MOSKINO PRODUCTION COMPANY

MOSKINO PRODUCTION COMPANY

MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

GENERAL SPONSOR: VTB BANK

CREATED BY EKATERINA ZHUKOVA

IVAN IV: SERGEI MAKOVETSKY, ALEXANDR YATSENKO

ANASTASIA ROMANOVNA ZAKHARYINA-YURIEVA: TATIANA LYALINA

MALYUTA SKURATOV: VIKTOR SUKHORUKOV

VLADIMIR STARITSKY: ARTYOM TKACHENKO

EVFROSINIA STARITSKAIA: LYUDMILA CHIRKOVA

EVDOKIA STARITSKAIA: MARIA PALEI

MACARIUS: LEONID KULAGIN SILVESTER: VLADIMIR SIMONOV

KURBSKY: KONSTANTIN KRYUKOV

ADASHEV: ANTON FEOKTISTOV

CHELYADNIN: NIKITA PANFILOV

FYODOR BASMANOV: VIKTOR DOBRONRAVOV

ALEXEY BASMANOV: VITALY KHAEV

VYAZEMSKY: IGOR MIRKURBANOV

LUKA: ARTUR IVANOV

DARIA: MARIA SHUMAKOVA

SHCHELKALOV: VLADIMIR STEKLOV

WRITTEN BY TIMUR EZUGBAYA

PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR DENIS ALARCON RAMIREZ RGC

PRODUCTION DESIGNER YEVGENY KACHANOV

COSTUME DESIGNER NATALIA SALTYKOVA

MAKEUP ARTIST ANASTASIA ESADZE

FILM EDITOR IGOR LITONINSKY

COMPOSERS: EDUARD ARTEMIEV, ARTYOM VASILIEV, DMITRY YEMELYANOV

POST-PRODUCTION PRODUCER: ANNA ASRIYANTS

SOUND EDITOR: PAVEL DOREULI

COMPUTER GRAPHICS PRODUCER EUGENE GITTSIGRAT

PRODUCERS: EKATERINA ZHUKOVA, MARIA USHAKOVA, ANTON ZLATOPOLSKY

DIRECTED BY ALEXEY ANDRIANOV

THE TERRIBLE

EPISODE EIGHT

THE BATTLE OF MOLODI

Have you been long an oprichnik?

Less than a year.

And I've been doing only household chores. It's boring.

You should be happy that your work is peaceful.

I don't want to serve this way!

There soon will be military games near Rostov.

I'll show myself. Perhaps Malyuta Skuratov will notice me.

Better if Malyuta doesn’t notice you.

What that?

I said: 'God grant you, good Orthodox, courage and glory!'

Thank you, uncle. And thanks for your work.

Let's go!

Or I'll be skinned.

Give me a son. Or what's the use of you?

And what will you do, if I give you a daughter?

It’ll be a son. I feel it in my heart.

I think it'll be a daughter.

Well, we'll see whose intuition is better.

- Go eat, or your food will go cold. - Right.

- Tell me. - What?

Whatever you want.

What people are talking about. You, women, like all sorts of gossips.

Don't you like it?

I don’t mind hearing them.

Alright.

Did you hear what happened in the Goritsy Monastery?

No.

They say that two nuns had drowned last summer.

What kind of heathen scum would do that?

The oprichniki.

They drowned them and?

The drowned women rose from the depth and swam against the current.

People fished them out and said that their bodies were immortal.

One of the drowned nuns wasn't just simple nun.

She was princess Evfrosinya Staritskaya.

Did you say Evfrosinya?

Did you know her?

I saw her once...

why do we need to talk about it?

There is no need.

If God accepted her, then she became righteous.

Thank God for that.

Oh my God! Is it another fire?

Let's go.

Wait. How can we leave our belongings?

Wait, I must take the money at least.

Hurry up! Everything will burn in a moment!

Run! Run!

In the summer of the year 7079

the Crimean Khan Devlet Giray gathered the great army and attacked Moscow.

The whole city was ablaze,

so many lives perished.

Thousands of those who survived, were taken captive.

Daria!

Daria!

A terrible disaster has befallen Russian land,

and the person responsible for it

was blessed Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich.

Did I understand correctly, sire?

- Should I write it down this way? - Yes.

And after this Khan promised to return to rule.

And whatever God's willing, will happen.

Put what we wrote with the books from my library.

When you finish this,

Malyuta will take and hide it,

so that nobody could ever find it.

Sire, this is your memory. Books are wisdom.

How can you hide it?

Let me go with Malyuta look over it.

Don't intervene in this affair.

That's it.

I was ordered to do it in a day, and you’re still dawdling!

What are you doing, impious wretch?

This is how you do it!

- It’s Suetonius! - This is how you do it!

- Malyuta, don't! Wait! - This is how you do it!

Malyuta, you’re a rascal! Ah, rascal!

Go away!

- Malyuta! - Go!

Malyuta, tell me one thing.

Where are you going to take it?

- Maybe in Alexandrov settlement? - you think I’ll tell you!

No, that would be too simple. You won't take it there.

Maybe you'll take it to Vologda?

Right! Vologda! Just give me the nod. I'll understand!

Malyuta, you’re a rascal!

Why are you waffling on about for?

Ivan Vasilyevich ordered that not a living soul...

And you are a living soul, aren't you?

When you die and when I die,

we'll meet on the other side and maybe I'll tell you everything.

Do you think that

we'll meet there.

Of course!

If you don't sin in your old age, we'll definitely meet.

Make way!

Clear the way!

Malyuta! Malyuta!

- Have you no fear of God? - I don’t.

Greetings, Englishman.

We have no time for manners. Sit down.

We'll talk without a translator.

As I remember, you speak Russian.

May I ask why did you call me, sire?

I have a message for your Queen.

I'm going to talk openly with you.

But swear that you'll keep my words in secret.

That’s a matter of my honor, sire.

Are you talking about honor now?

Look at you.

I guess you know that my situation is bad.

It has never been worse.

The Crimean Khan is going to our land.

Do you want to ask the Queen for military assistance?

Will she give it to me, Englishman?

We both know that it's impossible.

But my sister Queen Elizabeth

must provide sanctuary to me.

Do I understand 'sanctuary' in Russian correctly?

I want the Queen to protect me,

to give me shelter in England.

I'll gain strength and regain my country.

I just need to stay alive.

We'll take everything back! I just need some time.

I'm sure that the Queen will have highest regard for your trust in her.

I promise to leave as soon as possible

and I'll return with an answer.

- Englishman! - What?

Hurry!

No.

No...

No!

No. No...

Would be good to know what we're burying.

It appears to be books.

- Books? - Yeah.

Really?

Grimoire, fortune telling...

The Tsar ordered To hide them from people.

It's Tsar's concern.

There is so much evil in this world.

Call Malyuta!

Tell him that we finished!

Why call me, huh? I'm right here.

Malyuta?

Quiet, quiet, quiet.

Do you have freckles?

Or is it just the light?

- Whose? - Tyomkin's. Prince Vasily's daughter.

Visit Tyomkin.

Ask him why he sent me such a frail daughter.

Bring this one to me tonight.

Which one was he pointing at?

I guess at you, honey.

You're beautiful.

There is a Greek fairy tale.

There was once a woman so beautiful, that they started a war over her.

Have you heard this story?

No, I haven’t, sire.

It was also about the whole army that hid

inside a wooden horse.

It’s wonderful, right, Nastya?

I’m Ksenia...

Right...

Marry off this girl.

Find a husband for her by the morning.

Sire, it'd be difficult to do it before the morning.

I'll do it. She'll have a husband.

Sire.

Have you come for confession?

I'll come to you next time.

BAKHCHYSARAI

The Khan is embarking on a new campaign.

You'll bring us through the outposts again.

The first time I did it, Khan promised to make me rich!

He promised me that I'd live in a palace!

This is your palace, dog.

Khan promised you nothing.

But...

You came to us and asked for the gold.

You told us that you hate the Russian Tsar.

You told us that he treated you badly.

So be happy. Very soon there will be no Russian Tsar.

That is your reward.

Why do you need me?

Go the way we went last time. It's the right path.

No, the Russians already know this way.

We need another.

I don't know.

If you served for voivode Basmanov, you must know all the ways.

There is one way.

Through Molodi.

There is no fortress or outposts there.

You'll reach Moscow quickly.

- You'll lead the way. - Yes.

And tell the Great Khan that I'm his loyal servant!

No, you're not a servant, you're a slave.

Sire, sextons, and I can collect gifts for the Khan.

No, leave it.

I should choose it myself.

What can I give him to persuade him to make peace.

This requires something special.

We got this dagger during the Kazan military campaign.

These riches are from Astrakhan.

This is a gift from Macarius for my wedding with Anastasia.

Grandfather's goblet.

My mother showed it to me when I was a child.

I remember.

It's not gold that is gathered here.

It's the whole memory of my ancestors.

If anything can persuade the Khan

It’s giving him everything at once.

Are you ordering to gather everything? We'll do as you say.

Ivan the Insignificant.

Ivan the Accursed.

I didn't find the gift for Khan here.

Gunpowder and bullets -

that’s what my gift to him shall be.

Get ready for war.

According to the report, the Khan has 40,000 cavalry.

And the Ottoman Khan has sent him help -

20,000 infantry, cavalry and janissaries.

Who will be chosen as the voivode, sire?

Vorotynsky.

But Vorotynsky is in prison at the moment.

- He's a traitor. - I don't remember him being on trial.

- Vyazemsky again? - Basmanov, sire.

But Vorotynsky's affairs were really dirty, I guess.

Let it be.

Prince Shevyryov is skilled voivode.

He was executed long ago, sire.

- Who ordered it? - I don't know. It was before me.

Who’s left then, eh?

With experience.

Do you need the experienced ones?

- What's wrong with you? - Nothing, sire.

There’s Ryazan governor Zhukov-Samolva

and Khvorostinin.

Call Samolva from Ryazan.

He'll be the head of the advance regiment.

Khvorostinin will lead the right hand flank regiment.

Kolychyov head up the watch regiment.

- Is he alive? - Yes, sire.

Who'll lead the main regiment?

We must first put the main regiment together.

Write the first one to the Don Cossack army.

The second one to

all free Cossacks.

The Great Tsar, Ruler of All Rus' calls his servants to war.

Hereby the order is issued for you to gather your army

and head to Moscow forthwith!

Shchelkalov!

Go to the Germans.

You'll buy the required mercenary army.

They must give us as many hirelings as they can.

They also need to have weapons and horses.

Pay them as much as they ask.

Vorotynsky!

Why are you screaming?

Vorotynsky, come here.

Sire. Has the time come?

Are they waiting on the other side?

I came here not to take your life, but to offer you a service.

You charged me with treason.

Now it's the time that

I’m ready to tolerate even traitors, if they can be useful.

I have decided to make you a head of my army.

Through all my days here I've dreamed of nothing else,

but of sacrificing my life in battle.

Set him free.

By your leave, sire.

If there is but one person I can rely on, it's Dmitry Khvorostinin.

He's the most skilled in the art of war.

I remember.

He fought well at Polotsk.

Speak!

What is our first concern now, sire?

Only God knows how the Khan

managed to get through all our fortresses and outposts last time.

Maybe he’ll find a way through our defenses this time.

But he doesn’t have more Krymchaks than last time.

And our army will be stronger, Vorotynsky.

No doubt, sire.

It’d be more convenient with the Cossacks and the Germans.

But the Khan still has more people.

We know it without you.

You’d better offer something more useful!

There is one way. We must force an action where is more advantageous for us.

Where every mound can help us!

Do we know where the Khan with his army came from this time?

No.

We have sent scouts to figure this out, so we're waiting now.

Daria!

- Luka! - Daria!

Luka...

Luka...

Luka.

Luka...

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God.

Great Tsar without beginning, invisible and not yet created

sitting on the throne with the Holy Spirit,

receive the Glory of Heavenly forces.

Sire!

Sire!

Lord Jesus Christ...

Sire, good news.

I knew it.

Krymchaki sent all strong men, all of us to construction.

To build a new bathhouse for the Khan, a 'hamam' as they call it.

But they didn’t think this through.

The rocks are very heavy. It's easy to smash someone’s head with it.

So, we did and we escaped.

Well... Almost everyone was killed.

The three of run to the heath.

I don't know what happened to the other two. We got out separately.

So, what are you saying?

That you're such a strong man,

that you could come here from the Khan's palace on foot?

No.

I stole a horse.

It died.

Then I caught another one in the heath. It died, too.

- I took the third one, it was easy. I... - Enough.

Talk about the matter at hand.

Sire.

There is a traitor in the Khan's camp.

He's one of the oprichniki.

Malyuta, you know him. You cut off all his fingers.

He showed them the way last time. And he's going to guide them now.

Do you know what way he'll take them?

Through Molodi.

Malyuta, you said, you know this man.

- Can we trust him? - Yes.

He has no reason to make it up.

With your permission, sire?

We need to hit the Khan's army in the back.

The main regiment should make a detour.

And we need to entice Krymchaki toward the wagon-fort.

They'll draw them in, until

our cavalry arrives at the rear.

A lot of them, if not all, will perish in the wagon-fort.

There's no other hope.

- I'm ready to go there myself. - Then it’s decided.

Vorotynsky and the main regiment will cut off the Khan's rear.

Khvorostinin and you, Samolva, will stay in the wagon-fort. Go.

I recognized you.

I served as an oprichnik, sire.

You were in Adashev's service.

You disappeared when Adashev died.

Right.

How did you become an oprichnik?

Through deceit.

And I changed my name.

It’s all my fault, sire.

What's your real name?

Luka Bondarev.

The man who sought to obtain service through deception deserves to die.

But let Luka Bondarev continue to serve the Tsar.

I am giving you back your name. This is my will.

Bogdan!

You're a strange man, Luka Bondarev.

Another man would want to get money for this heroism.

But you just asked to go to war.

What would you have chosen?

I have just one request.

I want to stay in the wagon-fort.

The Queen is ready to receive her sovereign brother

and protect him from harm.

Well.

Convey my gratitude to the Queen.

You can do this yourself.

My ship is waiting for you in the Ivangorod.

Why is it waiting for me?

What?

Our previous conversation.

What conversation?

I don't know what you thought up for yourself.

That the Queen invites me brings me joy.

So, I'm telling you, please convey my gratitude to her.

Did you hear me?

I'll do as you asked, sire.

I'll do it.

It's impossible! No one could know that I'd will lead you this way!

Great Mirza, there's news from the watchmen.

The Russian army had got around the back and stands behind us.

They have constructed a wagon-fort just ahead.

How did they know, Great Mirza?

Only by chance! Everything was kept secret!

How many people do they have?

Who is their leader?

Voivode Vorotynsky.

They have much fewer people than we do, Great Mirza.

But they stand on both sides.

Don't be angry with me, Mirza! I am not at fault!

It looks like there is a traitor in your camp!

We sent for the priest.

Order to bring me the key to the crypt.

My dove!

Nastya! Nastya!

I have committed a lot of sins.

And even the prayer will not rid me of them.

I know if you had been here, you would have protected me.

And you'd have protected me from darkness,

and guided me away from sin.

You were the only one who could?

I stopped counting the deaths long ago, Nastya!

I don't remember a lot of the names.

I saw betrayal everywhere!

And I don't know

about my brother.

A furious beast lives inside of me.

I can't prevail over it,

while the fear of God lives in me.

I'm begging for one thing.

That God doesn’t make

my country a land of slaves

as punishment for my sins.

MOLODI

It's bad that people are hungry.

And there's nobody to send hunting.

They won't die.

Whose fault is it, if the Crimean Khan doesn't seem to be in a hurry?

Why are you upset?

Are you afraid?

No, I'm not afraid...

At least her we'll not die in vain.

Aren't you afraid?

Me? No.

If I die, I die.

It's clear that all of us will die.

But what will be next?

We'll have to answer for it up there.

My soul is pure.

I serve his Majesty.

They're coming!

The infidels are coming!

Get up!

The wait is over, guys!

То the battle!

Wait. Wait.

Wait.

Hold fire, brethren!

Let them get closer.

Fire!

Gunpowder! Gunpowder!

Close from the right side!

Lord Jesus Christ...

There! He's mine!

He's mine!

Vorotynsky!

Vorotynsky!

Our people!

Ours are coming!

Vorotynsky!

Go!

Moscow!

Sire!

Sire!

Sire!

We won! Sire!

Sire, victory!

Sire! Sire! We won!

Sire! We... we won!

Sire!

Khan! The Khan is destroyed!

Sire! We won!

What? You came again?

Who came? Why are you lying here?

I'm tired.

Tired!

I thought you had died.

God protected me.

I thought I had died, too.

Go home, Luka Bondarev.

You can sleep there.

Glory to

all of you:

the great voivodes

and honorable warriors.

You earned a great victory,

saved and protected our country,

as God himself commanded!

God is with us!

Glory to Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich!

- Glory to the Tsar! - Glory to the Tsar!

We fought well, fellows! Well indeed!

The victory is yours, sire!

It's a great day, sire. But I'm worried.

Why are you worried? Forget about it!

I'm afraid that your voivodes begin claim the victory for themselves.

You earned this victory, but they take credit for it.

How long before the rebellion starts?

Sire!

'It’s not a white swan taking off for a flight

It’s a young maiden running from captivity.

A nice horse stretches under her..'

Nastya!

Nastya!

The army of Krymchaki and Ottomans was enormous,

but it was destroyed.

The Kingdom of Moscow was saved from incursions,

became stronger and richer.

Sinful Tsar Ivan reigned for a long time.

He was both of bad and good.

He spread the borders of his lands from the Baltic Sea to Siberia.

But blood flowed. Victims suffered in prisons.

But were we the only ones to have this tumultuous time?

It was a scary time, a rebellious time.

In France hundreds of people were killed

during on the night of St. Bartholomew.

Oh my God.

It’s said that the kind ordered the slaughter,

but we don’t know if it’s true or not.

There were wars, uprisings and executions all over the world.

God, give us different times.

God, give us a new peaceful day...

Subtitling by Sergey Smirnov.