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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, 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

Anya, wait. Let me look at the stitches.

Does it heal like on a dog?

It heals like on a strong man.

I’ll let you go home in two days.

Alexei Makarovitch, you’re my saviour.

I’ll owe you for the rest of my life.

Maybe you shall go to Leningrad, the Medical Academy?

You could stay there.

It’s a pity

to live in a small town, considering your doctor’s talent.

I’m fine here. I treat people. Leningrad will do without me.

Right.

Aren’t you cold?

Don’t worry.

Nothing has happened.

I see Timka off to school, packed my things and came to you.

What things?

I have no right to spoil your life.

Soon, you won’t be able to operate because of my hysterics.

I have no right to spoil Timka’s childhood.

His psychics has already suffered enough.

I came

to stay in the hospital.

You’re right, I’m...

seriously ill.

How many surgeries do I need?

It doesn’t matter, though.

I’ll undergo all of them.

I’m ready.

I understand that I’ll stay in the hospital for long,

for indefinitely long.

I’ll tell the nurses

to make the injections.

Shall the need be,

they may tie me to the bed.

I’m ready for anything.

Doctor Morozov!

Thanks.

Thank you for coming.

You were drifting further away from me.

You were dying before my very eyes.

Do you remember how we met?

You went out of the shop and I almost knocked you down.

You dropped the apples.

They were red apples.

We collected them together.

You smelled of violets.

You smell of violets now.

You didn’t drink today.

- When will you operate on me? - The faster, the better.

Come on, Liliya Mikhaylovna.

We have a long struggle for your health in front of us.

We need to win this battle.

Pasha, why are you looking at me like this?

Come up to me.

Lena...

Have I ever told you that I loved you?

You haven’t.

I have... when you were unconscious, dying.

Well...

I love you.

Pasha? What is going on with you today?

This is it, this is it. Go. Go.

- Who is there? - Criminal Investigation Dep.

The witnesses may be free.

Go out.

Pasha!

Hands behind your back. Move.

Pasha!

Take care, honey.

Alena Makarovna, what’s wrong with you?

Call a doctor, please... faster.

Mum, do you know that I like sledges more than the swings?

Shut your mouth or you’ll breathe in cold air.

Mum, where are you taking me?

Whom did I tell to shut the mouth?

- Me. - Shut it, then.

Or I’ll sit on the sledge and you’ll pull me.

I shut it.

Stand up. You’ll walk from here.

Why, mum? Let me ride you on the sledge now. Shall we do it?

Mister, does your leg hurt?

Our warden in the nursery also has a broken leg.

Egor, it’s not a mister.

Who is he?

He is your daddy.

My dad?

No, my dad is different. My dad is big and handsome.

And this one is thin and dirty.

What are you saying? You waited for him for so long, Egor!

This is your father. It’s your daddy, Egor!

You have been waiting for him for so long, Egor! Egor!

Stepa, I...

I don’t know what’s gotten into him.

He has been waiting for you so much! Stepa!

Is he our man?

One of the Morozovs?

He started writing letters to you as soon as he learned the letters.

He kept writing. I was collecting these letters in a box.

I told him I was posting them to you.

And then I would write to him... as if from you.

What did you write?

That you’re at the front.

That you’re fighting, defending our Motherland.

I wrote that you loved him very much.

Good that you wrote that.

Daddy!

I made it, didn’t it?

I remembered that bloody front tin every single evening.

They didn’t even have to make injections to me or tie me to the bed.

You know, I saw mum in my sleep tonight.

She was patting me like in my childhood.

She told me

that everything will be all right.

Everything will be all right.

It’ll be fine.

Get her into the surgery room.

A clamp.

A tampon.

Another scalpel. Andrey, check the pulse.

It’s normal.

A napkin.

They beat her kidney off, bastards.

Alexei Makarovitch, there is no pulse!

Alexei Makarovitch, Lesha!

Lesha!

She died.

Have they confiscated the property?

They have.

- How are you feeling, Alena Makarovna? - I’ll live.

Maybe she’ll need help.

God, I didn’t ask about that.

So many bad things happened to her.

Her husband was arrested. She lost her baby.

- Right. - What sorrow!

Is somebody here?

Sure. Hello.

Take your coat off, brush your hair, powder your nose.

I’m not going to take a picture.

Here you go.

This is from Pavel Arkadyevitch Babakhin.

- Whom who? - From Babakhin. Are you deaf?

I’m sorry but I don’t know any Babakhin.

What are you saying?

You’re Frenkel, the photographer.

You have Pasha’s jewelry.

I’m sorry, honey, but it’s you who are talking nonsense.

What jewelry? What Babakhin? Let me repeat once more.

I know neither you nor your Babakhin! Take this away!

Bastard!

Had Pasha been here, he’d crush you like an insect!

You decided to steal other people’s stuff? Choke on it, slave!

You’ll cough Pasha’s jewelry out all your life!

What a snake! But it’s all right.

Maybe she’ll become a better person without the money.

I’m leaving the city tomorrow. Just in case.

Pasha is going to be executed.

Go, go!

A war is a terrible thing. A half of our men is dead.

We wouldn’t survive but for those snotty-noses helpers.

Help them load the logs on the truck!

Grigoriy Ilyitch! What about the district?

Will they send us a new tractor?

They won’t give us a new tractor, Ignat Kyzmitch,

because the secretary of the district is a bad man, not a helpful one.

I can’t fight with all those bosses.

You shall choose a new chairman, a young one.

Grigoriy Ilyitch? I was at the district.

- I see. - Mum!

We’ll get new desks.

- You talked them into it, didn’t you? - I did.

- Oh, Varka! - We’ll get textbooks next week too.

Oh, Varvara! You’re a real teacher!

You taught a lesson to all the bosses in the district in one day!

I’ll need help, Grigpriy Ilyitch! Somebody who will unload the desks.

Take your man. Morozov, you may go.

Thank you!

Don’t sleep, guys, don’t sleep!

Take our son, and let’s go.

- Careful! - Come on...

Go, go!

Auntie Alena!

This is you!

And I thought - what a beauty or an actress came to our village!

I haven’t seen you since my childhood but I recognized you.

Auntie Alena... You became even more beautiful.

Yes. But I’m an Aunt now.

- What? - Go your own way, this is what!

What did you come for? To pull the wool over his eyes again?

Hello, Auntie Glasha.

I won’t let you in.

Go where you came from!

Why are you sitting?

Get out of here, so that I didn’t see you here!

Hello, beauty!

Let’s go. Don’t listen to her. A pancake is hot but not for long.

- Let’s go. - What are you doing, fool?

It’s none of your little business!

Go away, granny! If you drive her away, I’ll go with her!

Why are you staring?

Why you’re sitting as if you’re a guest?

Stand up and cook if you came.

Soon Ignat will come from his work, he will be hungry!

Dad?

Dad!

Sit down, sonny.

I brought them some bread too.

Why didn’t you hand the books over?

We forgot that it’s a day off today and the library is closed.

Dad,

you shall come back to work.

I’m working, sonny.

I am still the head of the hospital.

But you don’t do the surgeries.

Why?

Are you scared?

I don’t know.

I can’t enter a surgery room.

That surgery? Can you enter a different one?

I can’t operate. I can’t hold a scalpel in my hands.

It’s not your fault that she died.

Her heart simply failed.

You know, I resisted it as a fool.

She wanted to take you from the orphanage

and I wanted to have our own kids.

Now I thank her every morning.

I thank her for bringing you into our family...

for giving me a son.

Dad,

let’s leave!

Let’s go to Leningrad! You got an invitation!

Be patient, sonny.

I’ll sort it out somehow.

I’ll find the strength to go on living.

To live for your sake, for her sake.

She is still with us.

She wants us to be all right.

What is there in the cinema now?

“The Heroic Deed of a Scout”.

Works for us.

Shall we go to the movies?

We shall.

Did you buy another one for her?

Why are you standing?

The girls cooked you some dumplings.

Sit down, let’s have a dinner.

Uncle Volodya

bought a bird for Vanya...

a bird for Vanya.

The bird sang when it was free,

comma,

but it didn’t sing at Vanya’s.

Now take a blotted and blot your ink.

Last time Egor Morozov didn’t blot his paper.

He got a blob instead of a dictation.

And now let’s read. Who is ready to read?

- I’m ready. - Come on, Zoya.

I’ll glue a red star into your notebook for that. Start!

We are happy

in our Soviet Motherland.

Who made our life great?

The party of Lenin.

The Party of Stalin.

Comrade Stalin

is the chief and teacher of our country.

Great! Sit down, Zoya, I’ll put you a brilliant mark for this.

If you can’t pack something, don’t worry.

We’ll put it in a box, and then somebody will bring it to us.

Dad, won’t you regret it?

Think thrice before making a decision.

Don’t regret it when you’ve taken it.

Do you have any doubts?

Your decision is a law for me. I know that you’ll feel better there.

I went to the hospital this morning to bid farewell to everybody.

I’ve worked in that hospital since my youth.

I was on practice there, then an assistant,

a surgeon,

then the chief doctor.

You know, dad, I want to be like you.

Egorka! Stop, bastard! Stop!

I’ll catch you and hit your neck! Hold him, Mikhail!

Stop!

Hold him, Mikhail, hold him! I’ll tear his head off when I catch him!

Wait! What did he do?

I gave it to him to look and he hid it into the pocket and ran away.

Wait. Come here.

Show me what it is.

Oh, Jesus...

What may happen...

Sorry, Lidka, I’ll punish him at home. He won’t do it anymore.

Why do you put shame on your mother and father?

Well?

She likes the necklace.

Who?

Zoyka Akimova.

Do you like her?

No! I hate her!

You hate her, don’t you?

Go! Go!

Lie are like stealing - they are bad!

Get your ass ready for the beating.

Go! Find the widest belt! Go!

Will Stepka come?

He promised to.

He goes to church every Sunday.

Stepka? Why is that?

I thought he had forgotten what hand to use to cross himself.

He became very religious.

He is keeping his old notebook with the Gospel.

I don’t know whether he got it at the front or from the camp. He won’t tell.

When dad was going to the war,

he took some earth from mum’s grave.

He kissed the cross on it as a farewell.

He loved her very much.

He loved you too, Varya.

He loved everyone, Alena. He loved you and Stepka. And Alesha.

His relations with Stepa were not easy.

But father always respected him.

Two men with passionate natures.

But he said good words to Stepka before death.

Then an explosion, and that was all.

He always loved you.

He used to say that you’re the most beautiful of his children.

And it’s impossible not to love Aleshka.

Father was so proud of him!

I have yet to meet a man better than Aleshka.

I think God put all the shit in me and all the good things in Aleshka.

Alenka,

come to work at our school.

Me?

Yes, you.

You may lead a drama circle there.

You’re talking nonsense, Varvara.

I won’t rush you. Think it over.

He is here.

Have you been sitting here for long?

For long.

We’re sitting remembering our father and mother,

our grandpa and grandma.

We’re all her...

except for Aleshka.

Timka?

Smell it.

It’s the smell of my childhood.

Dad,

I feel very good here.

You haven’t been to the village yet.

It’s just the bank.

I like this bank.

Long time ago, my family were bidding farewell here to Lilya and me.

Then they all went away, only mum stayed.

I was standing on the ferry then

looking at the ancestral land that was disappearing...

from view.

Mum’s lonely figure was on the shore. Mum wouldn’t go.

She was crying, waving and crossing...

the ferry.

I felt neither pity nor sadness.

I think it was because I was too young then.

And today, when we were sailing here together,

I was standing on the ferry looking at the ancestral land approaching me.

You asked whether I regret my decision, sonny.

No,

I’ll never regret it.

You’ll study at school here. I’ll treat people.

I’ll try to open a new hospital.

A home is a place where you left your heart, sonny,

My heart is here.

I love this land.