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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

Director of Photography Radik Askarov, 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

Look, I think... you're always quarreling.

Aren't you afraid to sin?

No. It should be different.

Well... You're quarreling all the time.

Aren't you afraid to sin? You're quarreling all the time,

aren't you afraid to sin? Yes, yes. This is right. Yes.

Why do you need so many... Why do you..?

No! I'm rehearsing! Who is there?

Lesha!

Lesha!

Lesha, my honey!

- Please meet someone. - Hello.

- Hello. - This is Lilya. My...

Oh, God! And I thought that my brother can only cut patients open!

Why are you standing? Sit on the sofa!

We have been dating for a couple of years.

However, he wasn't in a hurry to introduce me to anyone.

I think he was waiting for his decision to ripen.

His decision took incredibly long time to ripen. I lost all hope.

A decision?

What decision? Alesha, did you decide...

I am marrying. I want to celebrate the wedding in my village.

Alenka, get ready to meet your relatives again.

No, no. I won't go to the village. Who didn't I see there?

Although...

Although... why not?

Maybe the time for that has just come.

Wipe it.

Alesha! You can't imagine what inhuman efforts I'm taking

to pass the surgery room by!

Good afternoon, Andrey Lavrentyevitch.

God is with you, Alesha! What afternoon? It's already evening. Stop it!

Did you spend the entire day in the surgery and failed to notice

that it's already evening? I can see that you're tired.

No, stop it. I'm not tired.

Don't lie, Alesha. I can see that you're tired.

Sit down. I know how it feels.

Look...

May I come to your surgery?

I'll step silently, I won't breathe, just stand in the corner?

Andrey Lavrentyevitch, of course! You may come any time.

I can't do it! I just can't resist it.

Every day when you're doing surgeries, can you imagine,

I bring myself to the door of the surgery.

Do you understand?

I walk back and forth like a clever cat. Back and forth, back and forth.

Maybe something pulls me to the crime scene as a murderer?

Andrey Lavrentyevitch! You stood by the surgery table for so many years.

For you, life without surgeries is like life without oxygen.

You're right. Right. And now let's get serious.

You're a unique surgeon, Alesha. This is true.

You can't even imagine what awaits you in the medicine.

You'll become a brilliant surgeon, and your name will be famous.

I'm not joking. I won't say anything else to you. Forget what I've said.

See you tomorrow, then.

Mister doctor! Wait! Mister doctor!

Mister doctor, is it yours?

It's not mine but... It was for Khromova Zoya Petrovna.

But I did sign her prescription. At the dawn of my medical practice...

Mister doctor, Khromova Zoya Petrovna is my aunt.

You save her from an illness some time ago,

and now she bows to you.

This spring she fell from the stairs and hit herself so hard that she is dying.

She will die if you fail to save her, a poor woman. Let's go to her with me.

What do you mean? Honey, where shall I go?

I'm sorry but I had a very hard day today. I'm exhausted.

Besides, my fianc**e...

All right, lead me to her.

Our apartment is in the cellar. Don't get scared, mister doctor.

- We don't have light. - Come on.

My poor aunt fell from these stairs

for her eyes are failing her.

I think I had been here before.

This is what I said. You had treated her. It was very long ago.

Hold on to me so that you didn't fall. I know each step here.

How old are you?

I'm almost six. But I don't know when my birthday is.

My aunt says it's soon. I only got a present once for my birthday.

My grandpa gave my sugar cookies.

But my grandpa has already died. Let's go.

Come in. There is more light here. Don't stumble here are the planks.

My aunt brought them in for her coffin this spring.

She wants us to make a coffin when she died.

She thinks about it all the time.

But she won't die, will she? You will cure her.

You're come, Alexei Makarovitch!

I remembered you all these year s but couldn't find you.

One of these days, I saw my old Bible in a dream.

I gave it to our neighbour Irina Antonovna two years ago

for a small sack of potatoes. Timka brought Irina Antonovna to me,

and I asked her to urgently bring my Bible to me.

She brought it to me, I opened it and saw your prescription in there!

God, I was so glad! I read; "Morozov Alexey Makarovitch".

I told Timka to visit all the hospitals but find that doctor.

You saved my life that time.

I remember you. What bothers you?

My legs.

Since I fell, they won't bend in the knees.

I must have broken them.

Your legs aren't broken. It looks like you're suffering from arthritis.

I'll prescribe you the medicine to take.

See, Aunt Zoya? You won't die.

Timofey, you're behaving impolitely.

Step aside from the doctor, sit at the table

and eat the porridge that Irina Antonovna made for you.

I ate that porridge yesterday.

Then eat something else. Eat some bread.

There is no bread. There is nothing else. We don't have anything.

We don't have any food.

I've signed a prescription. Excuse me, but I have to go.

I'll visit you tomorrow. One more thing

I'll take your Timofey with me for an hour if you're not against it.

- OK. - See you tomorrow.

Your hand is so warm. Where are you taking me?

- To my apartment. - What for?

To feed you and to give you some food for your aunt.

Timofey, you behave like an adult but your nose is snotty and dirty.

I don't like the name "Timofey" Call me "Timka".

It's a deal. Here is a handkerchief, Timka.

- You may wipe your nose with it. - Thanks.

"Dowerless Girl" By N. Ostrovskiy

Here...

Here you go. Take it!

Honey, what is happening?

I'm drawing! I'm into art!

Really? Do show us your art, Yelena Makarovna!

I will, but I'll take money for looking.

Honey, you're not an actress but a businesswoman.

She looks like that bitch so much!

What are you doing here?

I wanted to throw this painting to the dogs.

Really? Why did it enrage you so much?

Don't you understand? Didn't Dubasov paint Suslova?

My goldilocks, you're jealous of your Pasha, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

Dad!

Dad, they'll kill each other!

Stay here!

I'll show you!

How can that be? What have you done, two fools?

To beat each other up so hard for a woman?

During the war, we didn't beat enemies up like that!

Go! Go to the house! To the house!

Well? Why are you sitting? To the house!

Here you go. Eat. This is chicken soup. It's tasty.

Take some bread.

When you finish your soup...

Timka, shall we make a deal?

Yes.

Come to us every evening to eat, OK?

- Is it a deal? - It is.

And on Saturday I'll take you to a performance at the puppet theatre.

No, this just can't be.

Mister, miss, you must be not real.

It happened to me before.

Once, I saw a dream in which a boy gave me a toy soldier.

When I woke up, there was neither a boy nor a soldier.

Because they were not real. You're not real too, aren't you?

God! My name is Lilya. His name is Alesha.

This is how you shall call us. OK?

OK.

Eat, eat. Don't hurry.

Let's have fun.

Matveyevna? Why aren't you going to the Morozovs?

The entire village is there!

I'll go soon too, of course I will!

Did you hear? Their son is a doctor in the city!

- A famous doctor! He cuts people open! - Oh, Leshka! Well done!

His bride comes from the city too. She is not like our girls.

She is a real gal! Catch up with me, Matveyevna!

- The Protasovs are coming soon too. - I'm running...

There are some people that make the heart happy

just when one looks at them. They are the pride of our kolkhoz.

Alexey, you left out village and chose another path

but your path is brave and good. You, Alexey Makarovitch,

is a famous person in the city now. You save people's lives.

We, people who gathered here, are proud

that our compatriot achieved so much.

Be quiet!

You also chose a great bride, a good girl, plus a beauty.

Our dear Alexey and Lilia, we wish you love!

Have lots of kids and care about each other and live in love and happiness

all your life! Grandpa Lukyan!

Kiss!

Kiss, kiss!

Kiss!

Kiss!

Where are you going?

Alenka, where are you going? Alenka?

Come back, now!

For the happiness of the newlyweds!

What a girl! A witch!

What a bad character!

For the young couple!

Take the bread!

For the young couple!

What a bad character!

For the newlyweds!

People drink and spill!

You're mine... mine... only mine.

God, why do you stay in my heart like a splint?

Why are you following me? I'm alive... I'm not made of stone...

You're a snake, not a woman, a snake!

Get out of here before I sin with you...

I ran away from you... you can't see you... You.

You... only you... Ignat...

You're a fool, Alenka. What do you need me for?

Who is the second after the chairman?

Here he goes again!

Who gives orders at the kolkhoz meetings to the chairman?

Grandpa Lukyan, do you mean yourself?

Of course I do! Be quiet, everyone!

Lukyan Potapovitch will speak!

- Father! - What "father"?

Why do you always say "father"?

Your father is the senior in Leshka's kin, the oldest male.

"Father"!

Alexey...

- Lilya. - Lilya, your grandma

and I have been together for fifty years.

Who counted the numbers for you, illiterate man?

Be quiet, old woman! Shut up!

We quarrel and we don't want to look at each other.

However, we grew to be together as if some two-headed beast.

This is what I want to say.

I want you to be like a head and a neck.

Who is a neck and who is a head you may decide for yourself.

I won't give orders here.

Shall we drink for the head and the neck? What shall we toast, grandpa?

Get away, grandma! And one more thing.

Give me great-grandchildren as soon as possible before I die!

Father, may I say a toast?

Oh, damn it! You never delivered speeches.

Talk, talk, mum.

- Shall I? - Talk, daughter!

This is what I wanted to say.

I am bad at delivering speeches but I'll talk today.

For each of us the ancestral land is the only one.

Like a father and a mother.

Even if you leave that land, you shan't forget it.

Your ancestors lived here, they are buried here,

this land saw their tears and happy days.

Alesha, I don't think you'll ever return here

but you shall remember this land. You shall never forget it.

Dasha, you're talking as if we're at the commemoration dinner.

It's so sad! Let's better toast the newlyweds!

You've talked. Now you shall sit. Kiss! Kiss, kiss!

Well?

Help me, for Christ's sake!

Oh, Varka! Look at how she is dancing! She is a real beauty!

We shall marry her.

Makar, marry her to our Boris.

What does she need your Boris for? She doesn't!

Alenka will stay with us for another couple of days.

I don't know what she needs in the village...

Or who.

Stop it, Makar! Why are we talking about Alenka?

If she wants to see Aleshka, she will.

They are close and we are...

- Lesha! - Mum...

We'll come to you at the end of the summer.

I know, at the end.

- Why are you crying? - It's nothing. I'm fine.

Lilya, honey. You're like a daughter to us.

We're the family.

Don't mind that I'm a common village woman,

illiterate and God-loving.

But I love you with all my heart.

Thanks, mum. Thank you for everything, for Alesha.

- Lesha! Lesha! - Mum.

This is it, enough.

As soon as you have children, send them to us.

Father and I will do our best. We brought up four of our own.

And the grandchildren...

- Alesha! - Mum!

Alesha!

This is it, be quiet.

Mum, why are you tearing your soul?

- Lesha! - This is it, mum!

Mum!

Stepa, if you and Varya decide to go to the city to study or to work...

Lilya, what about us? Will we stay alone? Lesha, sonny...

Mum, stop it! The ferry will leave.

This is it.

- Let your son go. - Yes.

Good bye, Lilya.

Good bye, Varya.

Know that Lesha and I are always waiting for you.

Daughter...

Lesha! I know that we won't see each other again.

- This is enough. - Mum...

- Let your son go. - I just know!

This is it, enough!

Go, go!

Go!

Let's go, father.

Stepa, Lilya must have confused you and Varka.

Did you decide to go to the city? Can you hear me?

We didn't think about it, mum.

We lived in the village before and will stay in the village.

What didn't we see in the city?

Calm down!

Calm down? My heart can't calm down for a couple of days now.

Sanka Zhukov came when you were in the fields. He asked for you.

What did he want?

God knows! I think he came to make up.

You shouldn't quarrel.

- You used to be friends. - It was before.

Stepan, whether you want it or not, if Sanka Zhukov wants to marry Varka,

I'll agree. Stop holding your sister at the lead as a dog.

She has grown up. If she wants to communicate with boys, let her.

Let her do it.

Wait, Stepan! Stepa, bring me some water from the river.

A couple of buckets. Varka is not in a rush.

I sent the girl to wash the linens and she disappeared.

- Can you hear me? - I can hear you.

What a character!

Stepa, go away.

Mum has lost you.

Turn around or go away. I will go out of the water.

Go out. Who prevents you?

Go away, Stepa. Go!

No, no, Stepa. What are we doing?

No, Stepa! Let me go.

Grandpa? Grandpa? Lukyan?

Grandpa, Lukyan! Wake up! Wake up!

What is it?

I saw a bad dream.

Drive it away! And go on sleeping.

A dream! You scared your husband.

Lukyan! Lukyan! Lukyan!

What?

Someone of our family will die.

Yevdokia! Stop talking nonsense.

I can't, Lukyan. My soul is tearing apart.

Something bad will happen. Very bad.

Damn it...

Women are so stupid.

I'll go and brew some tea.

We'll drink tea.

Yevdokia?

Shall we drink some tea?

We shall... we shall...