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You're the most beautiful woman.

And the happiest.

Aunt Fima, you and your pails again.

Aunt Fima, want me to give you a hand?

I can manage myself...

sonny. Your hands.

Go. And keep quiet.

Hands!

- Heads on the table! - Your mug on the table, I said!

Invite him in.

Only five days left before the end of your leave.

I want everything planned. How about the movies tomorrow?

"Volga-Volga". Lyubov Orlova. Then the circus...

- Rita. - What?

I'm urgently recalled from my leave.

Why so?

It's some checkup. Nothing serious.

Something happened?

Sergey Kovalski has been arrested.

And all the company commanders in our battalion.

Igor dear.

You can't go.

If I don't arrive in my unit tomorrow, I'll be declared a deserter.

- Let's flee. - Where to?

Anywhere. We'll hide. Then we'll think of something.

Igor, you can't go!

Rita!

Can I go with you, then?

Everything will be all right.

Let's clear off.

Go!

Vladimir MASHKOV Yevgeny MIRONOV

Yelena LYADOVA

Andrei SMOLYAKOV Sergey GARMASH

Irina ROZANOVA Chulpan KHAMATOVA

Aleksandr DYACHENKO Sergey CHONISHVILI

Vladimir GOSTYKHIN Pyotr MAMONOV

in a film

ASH

Directed by Vadim Perelman, Timur Vainshtein

Written by Eduard Bagirov Renat Khairullin, Dmitri Novosyolov

Director of Photography Ilya Dyomin

Producer Timur Vainshtein

Part One

Ash, marry me!

I'll bear you a child. As handsome as you are.

You stupid.

I'll forget you tomorrow.

And you'll be suffering and waiting for me.

Thieves cannot get married.

We are free people.

Marry me just for one night.

- One night? - Right.

Well, why not if it's just for one night?

My wife!

Igor.

Go to bed.

Shultz, I don't understand. I'm not a shipping clerk or a courier.

I'm a safecracker. It's not my department.

I know, the common pool is sacred.

But to carry it on me to Leningrad is not my thing!

Why him? Why not me? You'd promised me.

Right. Give it to Wardrobe, or he's going to breathe out steam.

Give it to him.

Enough!

This isn't my decision, but Grandpa Lyova's.

I don't know.

The pool won't fall out of my pocket. It'll be like in a savings bank.

I take responsibility for it. And this one...

Stop rustling. Ash is an honest thief, not compromised.

He's not on the wanted list.

His portrait hasn't been exposed for a while.

Maybe they'll even make him an overseer.

You're a damned lucky guy, Senya.

I don't see any special luck here.

You can't sleep well with the common pool under your head.

Bullshit!

You'll sleep like at a health resort. You'll travel alone in a compartment.

Fuss and Devil will be in the next one.

They'll cover you if anything.

You'll go with your real document. No time to make a fake passport.

Make yourself out an intellectual. You know how to do it.

Grandpa Lyova says it's urgent.

Someone stepped on their toes.

Have to grease the prosecutor's palm, or the dead rap for the whole gang.

Let's start the inventory of the property.

I'll be back before they wilt. Igor

- We're not to take him here either? - No.

Our orders are to see him off to the train.

Call Leningrad and tell them the car number.

Please, get on.

Let them meet him.

Good afternoon. My seat is 11.

Igor!

Igor!

Rita!

This is for you. Just come back.

I love you so much.

Excuse me. Are you sure that's your seat?

Eleven?

In this car?

Perhaps I am mistaken.

Sorry.

Tea, comrades.

Hot.

With sugar. There you go.

Good service. Two men bringing tea.

They have learnt.

I think I'm hungry.

Help yourself.

Thank you.

- How about this? - Will be glad to.

I'm Konstantin.

Igor.

To our meeting.

Tastes good.

Home-made?

My wife has provided it.

She loves you.

I saw you saying goodbye.

It's the first time we're parting.

Parting for long?

Can't afford it for long.

I gave her flowers this morning.

And promised to be back before they wilt.

Beautiful.

Sorry, folks. We mixed up the numbers.

Mixing up the numbers at 1 a.m.

It happens.

- Some more? - Enough for me.

Well, let's sleep then.

I'll go wash up.

I've told you - we're strangers until the arrival.

This sucker with you looks suspicious.

And who was supposed to buy the second seat in the compartment?!

- Made some money for the restaurant? - Look, Ash, stop wrangling.

Listen to me here.

Let's not take it to the thieves.

We'll divide the stones and the yellow between the three of us,

and disappear.

There's enough here for two lives for each of us.

What? Stand back.

Back! What are you up to, bastards?

Show me your hands now! Now!

What are you doing? What are you up to, creeps?

This is the common pool. It belongs to the thieves.

Grandpa Lyova will bite your heads off for it.

This yellow isn't Grandpa Lyova's.

He didn't risk his life for it. It's ours.

Yours is in a savings bank, on demand. Got it?!

Where are you going, Devil? Scared of the thieves?

Or of this rat?

Waste him.

C'mon, throw the ballast off.

There're bracelets here.

Cut it. Come on!

Cut with what?!

What d'you want?

Do you love your Motherland?

And Comrade Stalin?

- Yes. - Then help us. And your country.

Some of the commanders in your battalion

proved to be traitors of the Motherland.

Almost all of them.

Andreyev, Stepanchuk,

Sakmarov, Kovalski.

And so on.

You got only one choice.

Either you cooperate with us,

or you follow their path.

- Let's flee. - Where to?

Anywhere. We'll hide. Then we'll think of something. We'll decide.

Igor dear! You can't go.

Hello!

What do you want?

Can you lend me a spade?

I sure won't. A spade is needed in the household. And who are you?

You'll take it and disappear.

Our car got stuck not far from here.

Why did it get stuck? It's dry weather.

The driver is no good.

Shut up, you devil!

It's a new spade.

I say it's new.

- Is this enough? - Enough.

- Don't forget to return it. - I won't.

You brought it?

Put it by the fence.

Can I wash up here?

Go to the barrel and wash.

There's no such well that can wash off sins well.

Leave the man alone.

Gosha, eat it yourself.

Don't share with Kuzmich. Understand?

Don't share with Kuzmich. Eat yourself.

Geese, geese - ga, ga, ga.

Are you hungry?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't throw the bread to the geese!

Poor man.

- Who is he? - Gosha. A land-surveyor. A fool.

He's thirty, but acts like a little child.

Last summer he came here

for a week from Leningrad, on business.

Looking so important. Never shook your hand.

Everyone addressed him by his patronymic. Georgy Ivanych.

And his last name sounds so noble - Skryabin.

And then his wife arrived.

She was bored to be all alone at home.

While he was measuring our land, she went to swim in the river.

And the water-sprite took her to be his wife.

She was buried here, in our cemetery.

And Gosha had lost his mind.

And never came back.

He sits by her grave day by day.

Where he sleeps, only God knows.

We give him food, whatever one can.

He's a human being, after all.

- Thank you for everything. - Have you dug up your car?

Our Mother Earth,

it accepts not everything.

Not everything.

So we've taken it.

And choked up.

One, two,

three... and a King.

Do you surrender?

Artillery men never surrender.

Listen.

Brothers, what's this hospital?

- Where am I? - Army hospital, Comrade Captain.

The captain's awake!

Oh, thank God!

- Thanks. - Hey, pal, I don't want money.

Take it!

Good morning, Captain Petrov.

How do you feel?

My head is aching.

Do you remember anything?

Not surprising. You've got traumatic brain injury.

Doctor...

You were found in a Leningrad train's compartment with a head wound.

Luckily, you had your army card on you.

That's how you were identified.

Do you recognize her?

It's your wife.

She's been notified, and will come soon.

You can keep it.

Getting up only for the toilet.

Get well, Captain Petrov.

- Igor. - Hello.

I heard someone came in.

So you've already been discharged?

From where?

Rita was informed that you were in a Leningrad hospital.

Where's Rita?

When she got the telegram, she ran right to the station.

- When? - Less than an hour ago.

Has the Leningrad train left?

According to the schedule.

- When is the next one? - In two hours.

Do you have tickets?

There are some still.

- What? Is it closed? - Perhaps it's lunch break.

Damn.

I wanted to deposit a watch. Maybe you'll buy it?

I myself need money urgently.

So I'll have to go to Mikhalych.

Listen, pal. Who is Mikhalych?

A jeweler. But he has strict rules. He buys only from his own.

I am one of his own.

Then you go first, if it's so urgent.

English subtitles by Tatiana Kameneva