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MARS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

AMEDIA

present

a MARS-FILM production

The creators of this film did not seek

to reconstruct the events of the Mongol-Tatar Yoke epoch.

The plot and the heroes are the product of the authors' imagination

ALEXANDER USTYUGOV RAMIL SABITOV

YULIA PERESILD SVETLANA KOLPAKOVA

SABINA AKHMETOVA SANJAR MADI

SERGEI PUSKEPALIS ARTUR IVANOV

ARUZHAN DJAZILBEKOVA DINA TASBULATOVA

KARINA ANDOLENKO ARTEM ALEXEEV

EVGENIA DMITRIEVA LARISSA DOMASKINA

SERGEI SOTSERDOTSKY BORIS KAMORZIN

WRITTEN BY OLGA LARIONOVA

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MORAD ABDEL-FATTAKH

MUSIC BY ZINOVIY ARVANITIDI

ART DIRECTORS - DAVID DADUNASHVILI YURY GRIGOROVICH

EDITED BY ELENA DENISEVICH DENIS LUZANOV, IGOR REPIN

SOUND BY OLGA SUBBOTINA VADIM RUDOBELETS

COSTUMES BY MARIA YURESCO

MAKE-UP BY ELENA ARSHINOVA ELENA MAMEDOVA

CASTING BY LIKA LEONIDZE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GALINA NAKHIMOVSKAYA

POST-PRODUCTION BY ALENA KORNEEVA

LINE PRODUCERS - VAZGEN KHACHATRYAN ALEXANDER MARTYNOV

PRODUCER ARAM MOVSESYAN

PRODUCER ELENA DENISEVICH

GENERAL PRODUCERS RUBEN DISHDISHYAN

LEONARD BLAVATNIK NELLI YARALOVA

a film by TIMUR ALPATOV

THE GOLDEN HORDE

Episode Seven

Moon-faced Aizhan.

The great Berke Khan.

Let Allah bless your marriage.

Let Allah send long life and numerous issue

to the Great Khan and his lesser wife Aizhan.

Amen.

Long live the Great Khan and his wife Adzhan!

Long live the Great Khan and his wife Adzhan!

Long live the Great Khan and his wife Adzhan!

Long live the Great Khan and his wife Adzhan!

I want my wife

to be happy.

Accept my gift

and present the Great Khan with a smile.

It is beautiful.

I will grant your every wish.

Now, the favorite wife Togtagai-khatun

and the wife Kekhar-khatun

will present their wedding favors.

Let Allah bless your home and your nuptial bed, sister.

Thank you, the Great One.

Let this bedcover keep the sleep of the Great Khan and yourself, sister.

Thank you.

It's too early to thank.

I have another gift for you.

Do you like to inflict pain, the Great One?

Enjoy suffering of this whore.

Lock her up.

I am going to invent a punishment for you.

The celebration is going on.

Enjoy!

Aizhan,

the soul of the moon.

Are you Prince Boris of Suzdal?

Yes.

Who are you?

I am Shigarkan.

Where are you going?

To Pereyaslavl.

I want to offer you a deal.

Let's talk privately, you and me.

And no-one else.

Follow me!

I need your son Vladimir.

Give him to us, and we'll leave.

Then take him.

If you can.

Ahead!

Ahead!

Keep the ranks.

Where is Daniil?

Where is my son?

I thought he has already returned.

No, he has not.

We reached Vyatka,

and the locals said they saw Prince Daniil and his people.

I thought we missed each other and turned back.

- What shall we do? - Radmila, calm down.

We have to wait a little.

They must have taken a knee on the way.

My lady, please go inside.

Let us go, my dear.

Here, have a drink, Prince.

Thank you, Eremei.

Your arrow saved my life.

Don't thank me, Prince. I feel guilty towards you.

What is your guilt?

It took me too long.

I barely made it.

How could you come earlier? I did send you away.

That's true, but...

Our life is so short.

Where are you going, Prince?

If I don't return by dark,

go to Vladimir without me.

Is Aizhan-khatun in pain?

Give her more water.

Drink this.

Alright, take a nap.

The Great Khan...

How is she?

I ensured that Aizhan-khatun has no scars.

She regained consciousness.

Glory to Allah!

But...

Say it.

Aizhan-khatun is very young.

A wise woman would put up with this,

but she was terrified.

Are you teaching me how to treat my wife?

Have mercy, the Great One. I would never dare to.

She took the Great Khan's lesson for cruelty from his side.

And her shock was so great

that she lost the will to live.

Then do something about it. Go!

What are you doing here?

I want to look at the silliest woman in the Horde.

Before they send her to feed carrions.

You've long had water, not blood flowing in your veins,

Togtagai-khatun.

You don't know how hard it is to see your husband stolen.

I, too, saw my husband marry another woman.

But I knew Allah would eventually do justice on the thief.

I hoped for this, too.

But then I saw how he looked at her.

My servant saw that they carried poor Aizhan

out of the Great Khan's bedchamber late at night.

And a doctor left her markuee in the morning.

They say, the poor thing became ill

after you set her tail on fire.

But I think this is not the case.

You do know what the Great Khan's love is like.

You deserve forty lashes for what you did.

Clearly, even someone as strong as you will kick off after that.

I came to ask, if you have a last wish.

Send my Saadat

to me.

What are you doing here?

I should learn canons of ornamental designs

before they let me to paint the mosque.

Is that why you weren't at the wedding?

I was there.

But I forgot that we agreed to meet.

Really? Then I forgot about you, too!

- Wait! Don't take it hard. - Let go off me!

I was carried away by the dances.

And I drank that rakia of yours.

It seems mild, but then you can't walk.

Alright. I forgive you.

But I don't have time to chat with you anyway.

Are you going to see her? The Khan's bride?

She is now the Khan's wife.

She didn't look happy.

She was so beautiful

- and so sad. - Shut up!

Even the steppe wind here gets everything across to the Khan.

Give it to her.

It's beautiful.

I don't think they'll let me show this to the Khan's wife.

But if they don't, it'll be mine.

She saw an enchanter,

then a serpent charmer. Now, it's time for music.

The poor thing.

Get out of here.

You're bringing her down.

I'm going to arrange dinner.

Your hair has messed up.

Let me tidy it up.

I saw that Russian guy today. Look what he gave me.

Look.

Please just take a brief look.

They look alive, aren't they?

My lady...

What have you done, my lady?

What's it going to be, Kekhar-khatun?

I have a request to you.

Euphrosyne?

Euphrosyne, I am your prince, Yaroslav of Vladimir.

Good gracious! Our Lord revealed a wonder!

Welcome, prince! I'll order to set the table.

Do not worry. I am on the way.

I want to check on someone.

They brought you a Tatar girl.

Did you baptize her?

What is her obedience?

I don't know how to begin, my lord.

Give it strait.

She fled.

Fled? Did you look for her?

We found a shred of clothes in bogs.

It may be hers. It is a sinister place.

Not every local would find a path there.

Don't tell anyone

about my visit.

Yes, my lord.

May God keep you safe.

Nargiz?

- Polovtsians! - Polovtsians!

- Polovtsians! - Polovtsians!

Vassily, come here!

Fellows, don't kill me! I'm a friend!

Where is he? Where is my son?

They killed all our people.

Except your son and prince Fyodor.

They left me alive to pass along the message.

They are of the Shigarkan clan.

What do they want?

They ask us to let them in the town.

They say they will only take what Vladimir took from them.

They won't burn the town or kill civilians.

Why should we believe them?

Shigarkan swore on blood.

We seem to have no choice.

We'll have to open the gate.

Yaroslav won't forgive us his son's death.

Yaroslav is the Grand Prince in the first place.

Fortify the gate,

close all latches.

The town should be ready for siege.

As long as even one Russian is alive, these carrions won't enter Vladimir.

Lucas, Gordius!

Bring your archers and go up the wall!

Miron, run to the bellman.

Everyone, to the gate!

They are strengthening the gate.

Prince Boris lied to us.

Sonny!

Sonny!

Nargiz!

Leave us.

Did he offend you?

No.

This man sees souls. Like our shamans.

You are my soul.

I will die without you.

I am sure the Khan won't allow this.

This is a great sin. Even for an ordinary girl.

Not to speak about the Great Khan's wife.

He did say he would grant my every wish.

If he doesn't, then he is not only cruel, but also deceitful.

Hush, quiet!

If he hears this, he'll punish you!

I think I am not afraid of anything anymore, Zeineb.

I feel I won't live for long.

But death does not scare me.

I would just like someone to look at my picture,

when I am no longer here, and learn

that once there lived an Aizhan.

O Great Khan! Pardon me! Let me tell you some news.

- Is something wrong with Aizhan? - No, the Great One.

I have good news.

Aizhan-khatun has drunk water, eaten some soup, and even smiled.

Award the one who healed her.

That's the problem, the Great One.

Aizhan-khatun smiled looking at pictures by a Russian artist.

He was brought from Vladimir at the behest of Bakhtiar-agha.

He is in hand with drawing people and animals.

Aizhan-khatun wants him to draw her image.

- What?! - I couldn't say no to her

without asking the Great Khan first.

The Khan did order to grant every wish of Aizhan-khatun.

Burn the pictures.

And ensure that my wife doesn't touch those hideous things.

Yes, the Great One.

My lady?

Did you bring me what I asked for?

Yes.

Togtagai-khatun gave it to me.

Taking own life is a deep sin.

It can never be forgiven.

Thank you, Togtagai.

- I hope my death will be fast. - Don't do this, my lady.

Go, Saadat.

You shouldn't see it.

Choose one of these. And ask your question.

I asked stars,

now I'll ask spirits.

In nine moons,

Aizhan-khatun will deliver a son.

The boy will live a long life.

He will be killed three times and three times will he revive.

He will fight a serpent, a tiger, and a sly fox.

And he will win.

You returned me a hope, Azar.

Let them slaughter a flock of sheep.

A feast in honor of the Great Khan and his wife will last for 40 days.

Yes, the Great Khan.

And tell to Bakhar

that I permit him to grant the wish of Aizhan-khatun.

Thank you, Azar. Good-bye.

Good-bye, Berke Khan.

You are fruitless like a stone in the steppe.

Talk up.

I handed her over the tincture you gave me instead of poison.

I betrayed Kekhar-khatun. I lied to my lady.

You saved her from sin.

She may repent now

and clear herself to stand before Allah.

Go.

Don't stand here, my lady. It's cold today.

- Yes, it's really chilly. - Let's go, my dear.

I see you have at last collected yourself.

It's nice to be in the saddle again.

You should do your best to remain in Khan's favor.

What do you mean?

I heard from our friend in the Nogai's host

that he asked about a Russian among your women.

Everyone will know sooner or later.

How will you explain that the Grand Prince gave you his brother's wife?

I will say she is defiant and stubborn.

The Prince decided to punish her and his brother as well.

They have a grudge match.

Present her to Nogai.

If he likes her, he won't inquire into it.

If he doesn't, he will at least know that you don't hold her dear

and that you won't commit treachery for her.

Do you hear me, Mengu-Timur?

Any news of Hulagu?

We sent a spy to the border. No news from him so far.

Merchants of Damascus are about to arrive here.

- We'll replenish our stock of arms. - Good, you can go.

Anything else?

I learned that Mengu-Timur brought a woman from Vladimir.

She is the Grand Prince Vladimir's sister-in-law.

Princess Ustinia, wife of Prince Boris.

A princess?

Yes, Great Khan.

It's time to go.

Let us stay here.

I beg you.

You will be happy with me.

You have my word,

I will always stay up for you.

I was not afraid of the God's wrath,

and I won't be afraid of people's judgement.

How did you dare to leave the Grand Prince alone?

You know him, my lady.

If he makes a decision, he is unstoppable.

He told us to go, and so we did.

Where did he go? Tell me voevode, where did the Grand Prince go?

I swear to God, my lady, that I don't know.

He did have a narrow escape.

He may have decided to contemplate, to pray alone.

People can pray amongst others.

They only sin in privacy.

Good Lord!

Good Lord, I will stand anything,

I will stand anything, but bring him back.

Calm down, my lady.

My lady, what shall we do with Fyodor?

We should carry him away.

Don't touch anything until the Grand Prince returns.

Leave me, Stesha. I want to be by myself.