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Star Media presents

Alexei Kravchenko, Svetlana Kolpakova

Yuriy Borisov, Arina Zharkova

Maksim Kerin, Alina Lanina

Maria Smolnikova, Vitaliy Khayev

Sergey Sosnovskiy, Maria Kuznetsova

Sergey Peregudov, Vladislav Vetrov

Viktoria Tolstoganova, Leonid Gromov

Created and directed by Milena Fadeyeva

0Director of Photography Radik Askarov, R.G.G.

Art Director - Sergey Kokovkin

Costumes by Alexei Kamyshov

Music by Ivan Uryupin

Montage by Marina Vasilyeva

Sound Director - Leonid Shushakov

Executive Producers - Eduard Aliyev, Tatyana Statsman

Produced by Ekaterina Pogorzhelskaya

Produced by Andrey Anokhin, Vlad Ryashin

Movie of Milena Fadeyeva

THE ANCESTRAL LAND

Don’t splay your legs as if you’re yawning

or the baby may jump out.

We don’t need the baby here. Wait until the hospital.

Father!

Praskovya the midwife died.

Now we have to cover a hundred miles along the beaten track.

Go, go!

- Mikhalitch, help! - Wait, let me throw the loop.

Grigoriy, bend more! We’ll get this huge tree down in no time!

Sevka, why are you whistling?

What a whistler! Don’t whistle, Sevastyan, or you’ll invite trouble!

- Guys, is Makar Morozov here? - Here. Why?

What is it?

Makar, your Daria is in labour. Grandpa Lukyan took her to the hospital.

Your wife collapsed in the field.

Stop, Morozov! Where are you going? Who will work instead of you?

Grigoriy Ilyitch, my wife is in labour!

I have liabilities and I lack people.

Three people are drunk for the fifth day in a row.

I won’t let you go! No, Makar! I’ll let you go home in the end of the week.

Your Daria will be fine. Work!

If you dare leave, I will fire you from the communal farm. Work, Makar, work!

Keep working, guys! Our wives will give birth without us!

Come on, work, men! Come on! Don’t sleep!

Come on, guys!

Shout, honey, shout!

Shout, honey! Cry!

Oh, Jesus! What a weather!

A boy! What a big boy!

Yes, my honey...

My honey...

Be quiet... be quiet...

Look! What are you doing? Who let you come in here? Get out!

- He is crying so much! - It’s not he but she. It’s a girl.

She is crying because she wants her mother. It’s understandable.

She spent nine months in her mother’s womb.

She got used to her mother’s warmth...

- And her mother... - She is gone. She died giving birth.

May I feed her?

All right, feed her if you have enough milk.

Maybe she’ll calm down and stop crying. Sit down here.

The girl is clinging to you!

- Hello, dad. - Daddy!

Alenka, my beauty, come to dad! Aleshka, why do you look so scared?

Makar...

My honey...

Why did you go in labour before your term?

- I... - Nobody could deliver the baby.

It’s good that grandpa Lukyan took you to the hospital.

Well? Is it a son or a daughter?

- Makarushka... - Let’s go look who we have!

Makarushka... But this is... there...

There are two of them!

A brother and a sister.

Makarushka... The girl is... She is...

I am... My fool! I’m glad to have a son and a daughter.

Look! The son looks so much like you. And the daughter... like me.

My honeys! Look! The girl took after the Morozovs’ kin for sure!

My honey! You’re my honey too! My dear children!

I’ll call my daughter Varvara and my son Stepan!

Seven Years Later

Stepka! Stop, bastard! Stop!

I’ll cut you with the axe when I catch you! Stepka!

Stop!

Stepka!

Guys!

I’ll cut him with the axe when I catch him!

I’ll show you how to cut! You’ll stop cutting to the end of your days!

- Listen to me first, Makar! - Step away!

Makar! Your son is a thief! He is a thief, do you get it?

What did you steal?

Here.

- What did you need it for? - I wanted to give it to mum.

He stole it in the shop in the broad daylight!

Today, he stole a necklace from the village shop,

and tomorrow he’ll start steaking the kolkhoz’s property!

Here you go, choke on it!

Stop!

I’ll show you how to steal, bastard! How could you?

Why are you putting me to shame?

I’ll teach you out of stealing! For the rest of your life!

Daddy! Don’t touch Stepka! Don’t touch!

Dad, don’t touch Stepka! Don’t touch!

What are you doing? I hit you with the belt. My honey. Does it hurt?

Tell me, Varyusha! Say at least a word!

Beat me up but don’t touch Stepka! I won’t let you beat Stepka up!

You’re my little defender! My honey!

Come on, troublemaker!

Here, here...

I feel as if boiling water is pouring on my head.

- I must be dying! - Mum! Mum, let’s go to the hospital!

Makar will take you. Why wait for the doctor if he is drunk?

I won’t go anywhere! I was born in his house and I’ll die here!

- Shall I call Stepanida? - Who else do you want to call?

Don’t cry so much, Yevdokiya! It tears my heart apart!

I will die!

If you die, we’ll bury you. Then I’ll follow you.

Dad, what do we do? I can’t look at my mother dying...

- Lesha? Lesha, grandma Dunya... - Lesha, I’m dying!

Don’t wail, grandma Dunya. Grandpa, bring the sharpest knife, fire and a bowl.

- What for? - Bring it, I tell you!

What is going on?

Lesha, what are you going to do?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Lesha!

- Lesha! - Don’t do it.

Don’t!

Don’t!

He is stabbing his own grandma! With a knife!

Father?

Hold this.

What?

What is wrong with grandpa?

How are you, mum?

I feel better.

Did you get scared, old fool?

I feel unwell...

He doesn’t love you. He is in love with Auntie Katerina!

Varka, stop kissing the icon! There is no God!

God exists! Mum says that if not for God...

Don’t listen to our mum.

She is uneducated. Teachers in school say that God doesn’t exist.

Who is there instead of God?

Stop crossing yourself.

Lenin replaced God. We have his portrait at school.

We shall hang his portrait here instead of icons too.

Varya, Varya! Varya! Come here!

What is there in the plate?

Is Ignat Akimov smiling to you from the plate?

You are going to be a member of the Komsomol, Alenka, but you tell fortunes!

You don’t know anything about the Komsomol!

Look, a ring! Can you see it?

Does it mean that I’ll marry Ignat?

He won’t marry you!

He was kissing Auntie Katerina by the river. I saw it with my own eyes!

He was kissing her and touching her in different places.

Dream on, Alenka! What a fool you are!

Varya! Stop! Come back!

Future belongs to the preventive medicine.

This science goes hand-in-hand with the treatments

and will bring unquestionable benefits to the mankind...

Alesha, I shall go to the city.

I want to lock the school up. People steal too much.

Yes, one moment.

Are you reading about doctor Pirogov?

Yes, about him.

Take a book with you. You may bring it back tomorrow.

- May I? - You may.

- Thank you! - Be seated.

Alesha, I was thinking.

You shall go to the city. You shall get proper education.

Become a doctor. You’re a good person and a smart one as well.

Who is waiting for me in the city, Ivan Andreyevitch?

Nobody is waiting for you right now.

But I have a variant.

We shall discuss it.

There is a man in the city, quite a specific man but a kind one.

His name is Pavel Arkadyevitch Babakhin. He is a director of a drama theatre.

My sister Anyuta works there.

Pavel Arkadyevitch has wide connections.

Babakhin never refuses to help anybody.

We shall try this variant.

Daria, do you hear? My Mashka likes your Alexei.

He passed our house by yesterday, and she nearly fell out of the window.

Stop it! Our Lesha doesn’t care for the girls.

Books replace all the girls for him.

He is like a scientist... a doctor.

- Am I right, Alenka? - Yes, a doctor.

Kuznetsova? Katerina! Go to the farm, replace Valentina there.

Why me?

Matrena Nicolayevna, why do you always send me to do the hardest work?

You don’t notice other women, just me alone!

Don’t argue and do as you’re told or I’ll complain to the chairman.

Come on, go! Ignat will give you a ride.

He will pass the farm on his way to the sawmill.

Ignat? Ignat Kuzmitch, come here!

Alenka!

Where are you going? Do you hear me?

- Hi, Katya. - We have seen each other today, Ignat.

I don’t know about you, but I can see you from everywhere.

And I’m ready to look at you all the time.

Don’t start again, Ignat.

Where are you going? Where are you taking me?

Don’t shout, Katya, don’t shout.

Ignat! Where are you going?

Ignat! What are you doing, Ignat?

Ignat, Ignat?

Stepka? Stepka? Look! Look at what I have on my neck.

Dad bought me this beautiful necklace. He put it in my bed while I was asleep.

Do you remember I told you that I wanted that necklace? Do you remember?

I don’t remember anything about any necklaces.

- Where are they? - You scared me. Who - “they”?

Katerina Juznetsova and Ignat Akimov.

They are not here. Why are you shouting?

- Hello. - Hello.

Hi, Alenka. You were at the field, weren’t you?

I am no longer there.

Why don’t you ask where I’m going? Maybe I’m not going your way.

I don’t care where to go as long as we go together.

What are you saying?

I’m saying what you hear. Stop the cart.

- What? - Stop, I tell you.

- What for? - Come here.

What is it?

- What do you want? - Kiss me.

- You don’t know how to kiss, fool. - Teach me.

Maybe I will when you’re older.

Don’t be a fool, girl!

I love another woman. Do you get it?

You’ll regret it!

Mother? Put the great-grandmother’s small icon into his bag

if he doesn’t want to wear the cross. It’ll protect him there.

- And don’t you dare cry. - I won’t.

I have put the icon. I sewed another one into his shirt. Makar!

Daria... This is it.

The fledglings do leave the nest at some point.

How will he live there, all alone?

My heart is bleeding for him.

I can hear voices in the yard.

Grandpa and grandma must have come to bid farewell to their grandson.

Let’s go.

- Alesha? I packed some food for you. - Mum!

Don’t talk. Take it.

Mum!

Makar! Let your son go! Otherwise I won’t come back this evening.

You’ll come in time.

Our saviour... who will treat us now?

Think about him and not about yourself.

He is the first man from the Petukhovs kin who is leaving the village.

This is what I’m talking about.

And you’re talking about yourself and your ailments!

He is the first man from the Morozovs who is leaving the ancestral home.

In the city, behave in a way so that mother and father could be proud of you.

Be a man, Alexei Morozov.

- Where is Alenka? - Right. Where can she be?

She didn’t say good-bye to her brother.

She has only Ignat Akimov on her mind now, vile girl!

Be kind to mother and don’t offend Varka.

Alesha...

- Alesha... - This is it...

God help you!

Go, go!

- Alenka! - Be quiet! I’m going with you!

You’re a fool!

What about the money, Yakov Dmitriyevitch?

I told you I won’t give a kopek for that.

I bed you, Pasha.

No. You can ask Tamara Ilinichna.

She may pose both in clothes or naked. I permit it.

Pasha!

What - Pasha? You’ll do as Pasha says.

Who were you before you came to the theatre?

You were cross-stitching handkerchiefs and selling them at the market!

You’ll do as Pavel Arkadyevitch Babakhin says!

Pavel Arkadyevitch, why do you say that? Dear Pvael Arkadyevitch,

Tamara Ilinichna danced so well onstage yesterday!

I have never seen an actress like her! Dear guests!

Let’s drink some vodka for Tamata Ilinichna!

- Tomka... - Pour!

Now be quiet!

Comrades!

Let’s drink for Tamara Ilinichna!

For her incredible beauty and rare talent!

For Tomochka Suslova, my passionate love! Hurray!

Well-said! Well-said!

You’ll still do as I say. If I tell you to pose Dubasov naked, you’ll do it.

If I tell you to go outside naked, you’ll go. Do you get it?

Pavel Arkadyevitch, you asked to remind you

that you had a present for Tamara Ilinichna.

Come on, bring it out. Come on, Toma.

You’re like a merchant!

- Pavel Arkadyevitch? - What, honey?

Two young men came to you

on recommendation of Ivan Sergeyevitch Kolokoltsev.

- Kolokoltsev? - Yes.

Who is he?

Anya Kolokoltseva serves in the theatre.

I asked you to consider her for a part of Varvara in the “Tempest”.

He is her brother.

I see. Vanya Kolokoltsev is a good man.

If they have a recommendation from him... Let them come in.

Stepka, you have fast legs! But we’ll catch up with you all the same!

- I’ll catch you! - No, you won’t!

Catch. Mitka, catch!

Stepka! Come here. Stop!

Faster!

Enough of games. You’ll replace Alesha now

as the only male among my girls. You’ll help the father.

- Where are you taking me? - We’ll go to the sawmill.

This is why Ivan Andreyevitch Kolokoltsev hoped

that you would help me in my studies.

I want to become a doctor with all my heart

and promise not to let you down.

Is it your sister?

Yes, a sister. She escaped from home.

On a whim. She didn’t think well. She’ll go home today.

Home? Why go home at once?

- Pasha! - Be quiet! Sit, Toma.

Why go home at once?

How old are you, Goldilocks?

I’m 16.

Oh, God, what eyes!

You’re 16... too young.

Is my Tomka beautiful?

Her fur coat is beautiful.

Did you hear that? Her fur-coat is beautiful!

Toma, take it off and bring here!

If she got something, it’s impossible to make her let it go.

One second, girl. Pavel Arkadyevitch will give you something else.

You won’t get it now.

- Oh, no! We can’t! - You can’t but I can.

Yakov Dmitriyevitch, the boy will lodge with you.

And you go home for now. Grow a bit more.

As soon as you grow up, come to me.

I’ll be waiting for you. Do you get me?

I do.

Makar, what did you bring your son here for?

He is too small for tree-logging.

A man shall get used to any work since childhood.

Look at how his boy is working with the axe!

And you say he is too small, Grigoriy Ilyitch!

That boy is doing well! I like your Stepka, Makar!

He is a real troublemaker, but still. Call him here, Makar.

He doesn’t hear any good words from you.

Let me talk to him in a nice way.

Don’t talk too much to the boy, Grigoriy Ilyitch.

His head is full of nonsense.

Call him, come on.

Step! Stepka! Come here!

Stepka!

Guys, lift it! Faster!

He is alive. But he is wounded. Now. Now...

Get the horse!

Hold on, honey, hold on... Here, here...

Varka, Varka! Your Stepka got wounded!

Varka! Your Stepka is hurt!

Varka! A tree fell on your Stepka!

Varka! Your father brought Stepka home half-dead!

Stepka! Stepka!

Stepa! Stepa!

Stepa!... Stepa!

- Makar? - What?

What is going on with our Varka?

She wouldn’t leave Stepan’s side.

- She let him have her bed. - She did.

She sleeps on a stove now, like a cat.

I told her to sleep on Aleshka’s bed.

But she said that it was in another room. And here, she said,

I might always jump down and help Stepka if he needs it.

- This is how much she loves him! - She does.

She doesn’t love any of us that much.

The same goes for Alenka and Aleshka.

I think it’s because they are twins. They originated from one belly

and were born on the same day.

This is why she is so attached to him.

Daria, I forgot to tell you.

The chairman is holding a meeting tomorrow in the evening. We’ll go together.

Well? Why did you fall silent? Daria?

We’ll go.

We’ll go tomorrow.

Stepka, I read a book about the Snow Queen.

That queen charmed the boy and then the girl came to him.

She started crying.

The tears fell on his heart, and he was well again.

I will cry in the same way to make you well.

- Is it ticking? - It is.

- Is it really golden? - Of course, it is!

For this watch, I may buy three houses,

like the former kulak Potapov. Or even better!

Really? Will you buy them?

- Alenka! Tell us some more! - Alenka, why are you keeping silence?

I’m sick and tired of your questions! I’m going home!

Alen! Where are you going?

I’m coming, honey. You have been waiting for long, haven’t you?

Stop! Alenka, come here.

Help me milk the cow. I have loads to do in the shed.

And you’re going as if a swan.

You always make me do something when I feel depressed.

Oh, here we go! She is depressed!

Milk the cow and don’t bother with nonsense.

Come here.

Get off!

What are you doing there with the cow?

She is mooing so loudly the entire village can hear! Can you hear me?

Alenka, where are you?

What a vile girl! Be quiet, my honey.

Attention!

Zhivotkov - accepted. Yelistratova - accepted.

Rukavishnikov - not accepted.

Scherbakov - not accepted. Kuznetsov - accepted.

Vasyukov - not accepted.

Zubanin - not accepted. Morozov...

Accepted. This is it.

Accepted! Sorry.

Accepted!

Accepted!

What’s wrong?

I apologize.

Of course, I forgive you. But don’t run in the streets like this anymore.

I don’t usually run like this.

It’s just that today an unthinkable happened.

You blushed and became redder than these apples.

What “unthinkable” happened to you today?

I got accepted to the medical faculty.

I see. Will you be a doctor, then?

Yes.

Catch up with me. Walk with me a bit.

May I?

Give me the apples, then.

Are you from the village?

How did you guess?

There is nothing to be ashamed of.

I was born in the city, as my parents.

Unfortunately, they are gone.

My father was killed at the beginning of the revolution. He was a staff captain.

My mother died of pneumonia two years later.

So, I live with my granny.

We used to live well before the revolution but it’s hard for us now.

Granny is sick so I have to earn the money.

One woman sent me to get these apples. An actress.

She works in the theatre. I run errands for her sometimes,

and she pays me a little for that.

I take any kind of odd jobs.

We have come.

Can I ask you for your name?

Alexei.

I’m Lilia.

- Good-bye, Alexei. - Good-bye, Lilya.

Stretch your arms. Let’s do it like the last time. Here we go.

Now hold at my shoulders. And stand up.

Now give me your hands and walk.

Walk! Walk at me! Come on, walk at me! Come on, walk!

It’s all right, Stepka! You’ll walk! You are strong!

You will walk, you can do it!

At the last committee meeting of the Communist Party

a decision was taken to help political studies

to the end of enhancing political awareness of the villagers.

How may a farm worker not know what industrialization is?

A farm worker is working for the benefit of the strong Socialistic society.

He or she can’t be politically ignorant.

It is our chief Comrade Josef Stalin who came up with an idea

of industrialization to strengthen our industrial potential.

Damn it.

Sorry, Grigoriy Ilyitch but I don’t understand a shit.

You’re talking nicely. I could listen to you for ages.

However, I don’t comprehend a single thing.

- Father! - What - “father”?

I believe you don’t understand it yourself, just pretend to understand.

Take the word he is using all the time.

I fail not only

to comprehend it but even to pronounce it.

You’re very educated and talkative.

Pronounce the word he is telling all the time.

Can you do that?

Me? I...

Indus...

Quiet, quiet!

Do you see?

Grandpa Lukyan, stop violating the discipline.

Go on, Grigoriy Ilyitch.

No, this is not right. We shall explain to a person what he doesn’t understand.

Look, Lukyan Potapovitch. You’re doing all your work

with your hands, right? You have bloody corns on your hands!

Lukyan! Dashka, Makar, listen up!

Why don’t you come to the meetings?

The chairman is talking to us about the machines.

What machines, old fool?

Our Stepka is walking!

Varya is leading him up and down the street.

Go, hurry! What do you need this meeting for?