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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

- Dusya, will you sing? - Are you crazy? I don’t have the voice.

Shall I sing for all of you?

Comrades! Shura has returned but she can’t come to the rehearsal

for she brought a child with her!

Swiss says she shall come to the rehearsal, and Shura says:

“I can’t. The child!” Swiss asks: “Whose child?” and Shura says: “Mine”.

It’s so exciting, guys! Let’s go!

Who are his parents?

I’ll tell you everything now.

Just look after him while I’m warming milk up.

Who are you, young man? Who is Shura for you? Is she your sister?

Mum!

Oh, come on! How may she be your mum?

Mum!

- Well, bastard? Where is the money? - Go to hell!

Search his pockets!

He doesn’t have anything.

Well, bastard…

- Who did you come to? - To Lyudmila.

Who are you?

It’s none of your business. I didn’t come to you.

- Who are you? - A cocky cock!

Stepan Morozov. Did you get it?

Come in. She is waiting.

It’s as if we didn’t part. You’re as you were before -

drunk, stained with blood and dirty. So? Did you come to kill me?

I’ve already killed one person.

Do you now feel pangs of conscience?

Will you have some cognac?

Vodka is better.

No. Cognac is better. Sit down. Sit, as you’re already here.

Well? Are you totally confused now?

You’re not a robber, not a thief. You are good inside.

The world of robbers is not for you. They are not your company.

You shall do heroic deeds, not thefts. You’re a hero, not a criminal.

You escaped from love, you did some bad things,

you tried to escape from yourself,

you foolishly stuck your nose into the robbers’ nest.

One can’t escape oneself.

Sooner or later, you’ll call yourself to account.

How do you know?

I know everything about you. You shall run away from here.

You shall leave the robbers’ world too but I won’t you go anywhere.

I’m holding you tight. From now on -

no more murders, restaurants, cinema halls and railway stations.

You may only clean the pockets of bastards at my market, no more.

I’ll teach you how to do the fine work.

I’ll teach you a lot of other things too.

If you don’t kill me now, of course.

Will you kill me, Hector?

You’ll kill me myself.

No! First you shall wash, and then we’ll see.

Who? With whom? Why are you staring at me?

Whom did you sleep with? You spoilt you, whore? Answer!

Who did you sleep with before me, whore?

I have never seen you with a boy, nor with a man - ever!

You… You’re a whore! Still waters run deep!

Tell me, who is he? Who spoilt you?

I loved you!

I was saving you until the wedding, and you had a soul of a bitch…

Who is he? Who?

Answer, whore! What a bitch!

Who is he?

Answer!

Tell me who you slept with!

I don’t know. It’s too hard to take in.

Pavel Arkadyevitch, maybe you’re rushing to conclusions…

What do you mean - I am rushing, Yasha?

I tell you, she did it. She is a crazy betrayed woman driven to despair…

What are you going to do with her?

I don’t know. But I won’t cut her with a knife for sure.

My talk to her will be short.

Wait here. After this, we’ll go to the buyer-up.

Suslova? Oh, Tamara Ilinichna! She left.

I see. Do you know where?

She left at the beginning of this week.

She was with an officer. A young and handsome man.

A tall one, with shiny hair.

She said that he got married and left for the Far East with her husband.

She was happy. She was laughing, and he kept kissing her hands.

What a bitch!

What?

The poor woman suffered all night through. What did she die of?

Don’t look there.

I think you’ll return home by the middle of the next week.

Lesha! You’re the only person like this from our family.

You’re an extraordinary man.

An angel is waving its wings behind your shoulders.

You chose a job to save people.

Unlike me who may only jest on stage.

People shall be not only treated but entertained too.

Thank you. You saved my life.

You pulled something rotten out of me during the surgery.

I just don’t know for how long it’ll stay.

Shit covers me quick.

Don’t say that.

Sleep a bit. You need sleep now.

I’ll come to see you again in the evening.

Don’t tell me you have been sitting here for long.

If you catch a cold, God forbid, I’ll refuse to treat you.

Dr. Morozov, I have only been sitting here for half an hour.

However, if you didn’t look out of the window

I think I’d stay here for long.

Alesha, I know that the last days were stressful

and I don’t have a right to distract you from work.

So I decided to sit here, and if you get a spare minute,

you’ll come to the window, see me and come out.

It’s absurd, Lilya Mikhaylovna.

Let’s have a walk. I have a couple of minutes.

It’s just that you come home tired and I’m afraid to bother you with talks.

And in the morning you’re thinking about your hospital all the time.

Tima hasn’t been coming to us for the second week in a row.

Tima? Right, he stopped coming.

I got distracted and didn’t notice that.

What has happened?

His aunt died. He is in the orphanage.

Why in the orphanage? How do you know?

I went to them to look for him.

Lesha…

Let’s adopt him.

Lilya…

I want us to have our own kids.

We don’t have our own kids yet.

When we have them, they’ll have an older brother.

No. Sorry.

I love Timka, I really do.

But I’m not ready to take such a decision.

Varka?

Bring me some water.

One moment, Sanka. Wait a bit. I’m milking a cow.

Oh, God…

Who is more important - a cow or a husband?

Haven’t you seen your husband’s belt for too long?

Not for so long. Last week you beat me up almost to death.

How else may I behave? It’s one thing that I got you spoilt,

but you also turned out to be barren.

Don’t say that. It’s too early to say that.

Why early? Any other woman would have already had a tummy

and you still haven’t gotten pregnant from me. Bring the water!

You’ll go to the city tomorrow to sell the meat at the market.

Stay for a night at Aleshka’s place.

Go back home as soon as you sell all the meat.

I’ll stick another pig in the evening, we’ll have to dress the meat.

For how much shall I sell the meat?

I’ll now go to mother to find out how much the meat costs in the city.

You beware! There are all kinds of men in the city.

If you allow anybody to touch you, I’ll beat you up.

What men do I need? What are you saying?

Go home and lay the table. I am hungry.

Change the kerchief. I stained this one.

You’re as stubborn as a sheep! What senseless principles?!

I told you that I like walking more.

Leonid, stop, I’ll get out of the car! Stop, stop!

I understand.

You’re a man and you don’t want a woman to drive you around.

Your dignity doesn’t permit you to stoop so low.

I’ll pretend that you’re right.

I’m always right, Hector.

Just accept it, and you won’t have to pretend.

Why do you call me “Hector”?

You resemble him.

Who is he?

A thief you know?

No, a hero. He was very brave.

Was he killed?

He was. In Ancient Greece, during the Trojan War.

Come closer! Do buy!

Here. Will it do?

Is it fresh?

It is fresh.

It’s exactly two kilos.

The smell is not fresh.

Oh, God, how may it be not fresh?

It used to grunt and push the trough with its snout just yesterday.

Do you need brisket or ham?

Show me the brisket.

Do you want a bigger or a smaller piece?

Hey, hello! Where is my ham?

Hello, Varya.

Are you selling meat?

Nadezhda?

Nadezhda? Sell her meat. Give Genka what you won’t sell.

Give the money to him too. Follow me.

This is the Marquise!

Pavel Arkadyevitch, it’s the same sapphire,

I swear with my life!

Yasha… It’s even scary.

Can you imagine how much it costs?

Innokentiy will sell his soul for such a beauty. And I’ll strip it bare…

Do you know what, Pasha? You may sell him this gem only,

and the jeweller will take the diamonds.

God forbid! I can’t mutilate such a beauty!

The gems are one thing, but here, the work costs more.

It’s a real piece of art!

Yasha, you’re an artist, you shall see it for yourself.

I can see it. Pasha, I’m an artist and an expert.

I advise you to do that for reasons of safety.

If there is no good, there are no problems.

Do you understand? It’s harder to find the traces.

Pasha?

What is it?

I asked you a thousand times - if the door to my office is closed,

you shall never open it!

Pasha, Pasha! We have been together for eight years.

Three months ago, I became your wife.

Why keep from me what I already know?

Your dark deals are an open secret.

The entire house is stuffed with old jewellery.

I know all your hiding places. I even know how much those gems cost.

Pasha, I have eyes and ears and I also have brain.

Has this idea never crossed your mind?

Wouldn’t it better to make me your ally and advisor?

My little girl, you became an adult woman

and I was an old fool and didn’t notice it.

You grew up, my Goldilocks, you grew up…

You grew up…

We are to blame for her death.

We are.

How is father?

He as if died himself.

Visit grandma and grandpa more often. Does she recognize you?

She doesn’t recognize grandpa. She keeps calling him “Vaska”.

How is your family life? Do you have children?

It’s closed!

Why is it closed?

Misha? Throw them away!

When will you open?

Well? How is your husband, how are the kids?

Why do you ask about that?

I need to know. This is why I am asking!

Maybe I already have a whole bunch of nephews.

There is not bunch.

And they wouldn’t be your nephews.

We’re not a brother and a sister.

Who are we, then?

Nobodies. I’m not your blood.

Are you lying?

Mum confessed to Alyonka before her death.

When...

When a tree fell on you…

When you lay unconscious…

I was small, but I wanted to go and drown myself.

I thought that you died.

I still keep the necklace that you stole for me.

It’s my dearest memory.

What are we doing, Stepa?

We’re lost souls!

We’re sinful!

Great! A valet! It’s a trump card. Repa lost!

Kaban, tell us what Repa shall do.

Repa will kneel and bark like a dog.

Come on! Come on, do it!

Tima! Tima! Tima, come up!

Give it back! It’s not funny!

Repa, where are you going?

I’ll come soon.

Repa! Ask your aunt to buy us some sweets!

Otherwise we’ll make you run around the yard with a naked bottom.

Did you hear, Repa? Don’t come back without the lollies!

Why did you do that?

The one who lost in cards does what Kaban wishes for.

Kaban is the boss. Everybody listens to him.

It’s bad. Tima, it’s bad to play cards and it’s bad to obey silly orders.

I know. But if I refuse to do it, they’ll beat me up.

Auntie Lilya! You better tell me about Robinson Crusoe.

Tima!

Don’t cry. I won’t be bad. I promise.

Of course, you won’t! You won’t! We’ll now go to the cinema,

then we’ll go for a walk, then we’ll go to the shop

and I’ll buy you everything that you want.

And we’ll buy some lollies for those hooligans.

And then I’ll tell you about Robinson Crusoe. All right? And then…

Auntie Lilya! I know that you want to take me home very much.

Auntie Matrena!

Auntie Matrena! Is Sanya here?

He is not here.

What is wrong with you?

The chairman came. He said that Sanya wasn’t at the fields today.

He asked where he was and I didn’t know what to answer.

Maybe he left on business.

Why are you raising the alarm ahead of time?

No… you’re right. I better go home, auntie Matrena.

God help you. Come back in case of need.

Thank you, Auntie Matrena.

Holy Mother of God! Where did you get so drunk?

God! God, who beat you up so much? Sanya!

Hold it!

What has happened?

He is dead.

I recognized you. You’re Dr. Morozov, aren’t you?

I am.

You don’t believe it?

They ran the first, and this one followed them and got under the wheels.

They are homeless. It’s the third case in the last month!

Cover him, please.

What speed were you moving with?

Lilya?

What has happened?

Lilya?

Let’s adopt Timka.

Finally!

Who is this woman?

It’s a long story.

I’m ready to listen to a long story.

Why do you need it?

Because I love you…

…and you love her.

I don’t understand. What did you see in me?

You don’t understand yourself yet.

You’re still sleeping. You’re like a hibernating bear.

Soon you’ll wake up, Hector.

You’ll become so powerful and strong

that it will be better not to stand in your way.

Shall we go?

Here you go.

Come on.

- For us? - For us!

I love you!

Come back faster!

I’d be cleaning the prison’s toilets but for you.

Good evening, lady.

Hello.

Good evening, young men.

She is so nice! Shall we dance?

Don’t touch her! What’s wrong with you?

You’re a bastard! Be quiet!

Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!

Don’t touch her!

Sit and don’t fret!

Be quiet.

If you stand up now, I’ll leave the restaurant.

You promised me no fights and knives. Sit!

Help!

Don’t shout.

Freeze!

Thanks!

Police! Go out!

- Are you all right? - Yes.

Here you go. Please, please!

It’s all right. It’s a trifle.

- Sorry. - It happens.

It’s all right.

- Sorry. - It’s nothing.

- It’s all right. - Don’t worry.

Trofimov Mikhail.

Morozov Stepan.

Ninochka and I wanted to spend a calm evening together.

It’s our last day. Tomorrow, I’m going to the Chinese border.

Thank you, Stepan.

If you’re not in a hurry, will you sit with us for a while?

Yesterday Misha and I got married and didn’t even celebrate it.

My congratulations!

- Thank you! - Thanks.

I toast our meeting.

- Sorry. - It’s all right. It’s fine.

Did you come alone?

I did. My husband didn’t want to let me go but no one else could go.

Next time he’ll come with me.

He must be waiting for you.

For me.

I shall go.

Hello, Varya.

Hello, Stepa.

Have you sold the goods?

I have.

It’s hot. It’s a very hot day.

It is.

Why did you beat Sanya up?

Why do you think it was me?

Because he won’t lay a finger on me now.

I must return home tonight. He didn’t let me stay in the city.

I won’t let you go.

Stepa!

I can’t live without you.

I don’t have it! I don’t!

The purse, officer! Well?

- What a bastard! - Come on, come on!

- You have already searched me! - We’ll sort it out!

Hey, officer, who are you talking to?

Come on, move it!

Let’s go!

What war? What are you saying?

What war? God save us! The war! The war has started!

The war! The war started! The war! What shall we do?

What shall we do? The war started!