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MARS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

AMEDIA

present

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 Fourteen

She is beautiful.

In your religion,

how long will a soul stay in the limbo

before getting to the heaven?

Your lover's soul didn't leave her body yet.

What did you say?

We heard from our informer in the Horde.

Aizhan-khatun is alive and expecting a baby.

Thanks God!

She is pregnant with the heir of the Golden Horde.

Son of Berke Khan.

This is my son.

I'm going there.

Wait.

Why do you think the Khan spared her?

While Aizhan is pregnant, she will be intact.

And we have time to try and save her.

I appointed Daniil my successor.

You'll be his warden.

Very well.

I will be taking orders of the young prince.

Don't trust anybody.

I know. Don't worry.

Bring Daniil here.

I want to go with you to the Horde.

Sit down.

You will stay in charge.

If I don't return

and you hear about my death,

order to lock the city gates,

gather the troops and announce yourself the new prince.

Until they make another decision

in the Horde.

Eremei will support you.

Your mother is at your side, too.

If Vladimir with his retinue appears at the gate,

or the disgraced prince Boris,

prepare to deliver battle.

And remember.

And remember: your elder brother and your uncle are your worst enemies.

Here, I brought you new clothes.

Sleep, sleep, the Tatar girl.

SUZDAL PRINCIPALITY

All hail to you, my dear Ustinia.

Every day since the minute my brother gave you to the damned Tatar

I have kept thinking about you.

Every day,

every hour I have kept thinking of you suffering in the alien land.

And I keep suffering with you.

But I believe

that you, with your reason

and spiritual strength,

did not get lost

or perished.

You probably even have a bearing on Berke Khan

or some of his people.

Should it be so,

I beg you

put in a word for me

when it comes to choosing a new prince.

I know how much you wanted to become the grand princess.

So you can at last win a prize

for all your suffering.

I will take care about

your return home.

Sign it for me and give me to seal.

Do you like her?

Kinda...

Yes.

She's yours.

If somebody learns about the letter,

I will have you flogged to death. Got it?

What if

the messenger let it slip?

Or she?

The messenger can't read.

And she is deaf by nature.

Enjoy.

Are you taking a long road, old fellow?

Yes, prince. They gave me time to say good-bye to my folks.

Now I have to catch up with the Grand Prince's envoy.

Give this letter to princess Ustinia.

Do your best to hand deliver it.

Let her read then letter and burn it.

Ask her to answer in one word: yes or no.

If she says yes, that's good.

But if she says no,

draw out the other letter.

Hand this letter over to the Great Khan.

Is the order of your prince clear?

- Yes, it is. - Well, godspeed.

Saadat,

where is your new mistress?

In the Berke Khan's harem.

I need to see her.

My lady...

Are we alone here?

They may enter any minute.

Why are you here, Mengu-Timur?

I am not allowed to see men other than the Great Khan.

I know the worth of your shyness.

If you decided to play a loyal concubine of the khan,

please do.

Wait...

I will always be your loyal slave.

Whoever you'd give me to.

He wouldn't visit me.

He seems to forget his mother after he got hooked with the Russian whore.

But he gave her to the Great Khan.

This means Mengu Khan is through and forgot about her.

I would like to believe it.

I heard she made friends with Saadat.

I am sure, not without purpose.

Give it to Saadat.

Tell her who it is from

and suggest

that I will be glad to have an insight into the Berke's harem.

Especially what the Russian girl is concerned.

Help me seat.

Why are you here?

The Great One,

I came to share my opinion on whom to give

the princedom yarlyk in Russia.

And whom?

I think, prince Daniil.

Yaroslav's younger son.

Why not Yaroslav himself?

His influence decreased.

His brother Boris is known as a coward and a wimp.

His elder son Vladimir

has a reputation of a cruel despot and rough-neck.

There remains the younger, Daniil.

Go, Mengu.

I will consider your opinion.

We are traveling too slowly.

Our soldiers are loaded with bards and arms.

Prince Yaroslav would always say:

"A soldier should be strong as a lion and nimble-footed like a bird."

Our troops would never carry pans and cauldrons.

Nobody gave word to a miserable sergeant.

It's not for you, the Russians, to teach us fight.

Every soldier has the right to speak in my presence.

Prince Yaroslav is one of the greatest warriors ever.

Let's go and unload the horses.

Tulai, we caught a spy.

I told you we would meet, Vakhid.

- Was he alone? - There were three of them.

Two were killed. We took this one alive.

You can go.

Alright, captain. Do you like it in the traitor's camp?

I'm colonel, not captain anymore.

Hulagu rates you high.

If you are a colonel, then he brought at least 10 thousand men, right?

You have grown old, Tulai.

And have longing eyes like a watchdog.

Who is heading the army?

Who is putting you sheep at the mercy of Hulagu?

- Nogai. - Nogai?

That illiterate bumpkin?

A groom's son?

What happened to Mengu-Timur?

Berke preferred a loyal fool

to a smart and cunning fox.

Pity.

Hulagu and Mengu-Timur could make a bargain.

No-one would make bargains with a traitor here.

Even for becoming a colonel of the great Khorezmkhakh army?

Are you offering to Mengu-Timur,

the probable heir to the Mongol Empire,

to become a colonel in the Hulagu's army?

Not to Mengu.

To you!

To you, Tulai-agha.

Tell me how much arms Nogai's men have.

Hulagu will amply reward your service.

Where is your camp?

Our spies are nearby.

Down there, behind the hill. They are waiting for the two of us.

They shouldn't count on you.

- Who are you? - Tulai.

Berke Khan's captain.

Vakhid said you needed information on the Mongol army.

And I need money. And colonelship.

Where is Vakhid?

I failed to rescue him.

Our campsites are check marked.

That's the number of people and arms.

That's for a starter. If you kill Nogai, you'll get more.

That's not easy.

- He has security guards. - Think of something.

Help!

Help!

He was bitten by a snake.

- Get a doctor, quickly! - Doctor!

Doctor!

Lay him to the ground.

You came just in time.

He will be fine in a few hours.

Why did you two leave the camp?

Nikita betrayed us, Nogai.

I tracked him down.

He met with Hulagu's men.

If it wasn't for the snake, I would bring you their heads.

You are lying, jerk!

Fair-minded Nogai believes a foreign slave rather than a loyal Horder?

Take the Russian.

Tie his hands and let him run after the horse of his colonel.

I am innocent!

Listen to me! You can punish me, but don't believe him!

Hulagu's men know everything! Don't believe him!

Tulai, I believed you.

To arms!

What did Hulagu give you?

Something you would never give to me.

Because Berke Khan will never make you his heir.

Nogai, they are leaving!

Greetings, Nogai.

We haven't seen each other for ages.

So much contempt in your eyes.

Did Berke order you all to hate me?

You are beneath contempt, Hulagu.

You turned against your people.

You surely know that I am now the ruler of Persia.

Why are you back to the Horde,

if you do so well in Persia?

Is that true that Berke is very sick?

And that Mengu Khan is in disfavor?

This means you are a possible heir.

I have a proposal to you, Nogai.

I know you are an honest man and a brave soldier.

You deserve to lead the Horde army.

It is the Great Khan who leads the army.

Only because you are loyal to him

and will never dare to topple the old dog

that inthroned by killing the rightful heir.

I propose the following.

You will return to the headquarters and come before Berke

and, more importantly, before the army as a real hero.

If the Khan robs you of your right of succession to the throne,

you will easily assert yourself

by mobilizing the army against the successor announced by him.

What would you want in return?

Just a friendly disposition of the new Great Khan.

What will you say?

I could order to carve you to pieces.

But I have another punishment for you.

You will return with the rest of your army and tell Berke

what lands and why do not belong to him any longer.

The Great Khan won't forgive a smaller offence.

So your lot is not a gaudy one, Nogai-agha.

How the great Mongol army

could lose a battle with those Persian wretches?

They were numerous, the Great One.

And they attacked at night.

Captain Tulai betrayed us.

Do you think this is an excuse?

No, the Great One.

If you decide to execute me, I will consider it fair.

Nastya!

Alive!

My darling, my darling!

Alive!

Alive, thanks God.

Forgive me. Forgive me everything.

You forgive me. Forgive me.

Prince, we should make a stop. People are tired.

If we do, we won't make the horses ride. On we go!

On we go!

I've got what we need.

You should give her the potion. She'll abort several hours later.

What is it, Saadat?

After your plan is fulfilled,

I would like to buy a dozen of bondmaids.

And to start my own trade in sheep wool rags and blankets.

Besides, in this trade

it is good to have one or two strong male slaves,

a couple of horses and a camel.

Are you really asking money from me?

I got you out of the plague marquee, didn't I?

I worked off the debt.

But you wanted to revenge on Aizhan? She brought your beloved mistress

to grave. Isn't settling the score more important than money?

Aizhan doesn't have long to live.

The Khan only needs a son.

She will be executed without me the day after delivery.

I don't have this money.

Ask Mengu Khan.

You are doing this for him.

Come to senses.

I can have you sent to slowly die in the mines.

Then I'll tell the Great Khan

what a viper he cherished in his harem.

You will get it all after you pull off the job.

I am afraid of Mengu Khan's temper.

Don't be afraid.

You will be far away when he learns.

And I will ensure that he soon forgets about his loss.

Buy a viper and put it into the Russian's bed.

Have a good day, Aizhan-khatun.

Hello.

Saadat has not come yet.

I'm struggling with the hemstitch.

I shouldn't tell you, but you'll eventually know.

Know what?

Saadat died last night.

How come?

She was bitten by a snake.

Do you feel sick?

And I brought you the bad news.

I shouldn't have opened my dirty mouth!

No, no. It's not your fault.

I would have learned it anyway.

Don't get up.

I'll make a potion for you.

You should take a nap and relax.

You were married, weren't you?

Yes, I was.

Do you have children?

The Lord didn't give me.

Sorry.

Drink.

Nastya!

Ivan.

Listen to me.

Grand Prince Yaroslav is going to the Horde.

Throw yourself at his feet.

Beg him to buy you from the khan.

Berke won't refuse him such a trifle.

I won't go anywhere without you.

Don't think about me.

Think about our children.

Ivan-agha, we have to go.

I am proud of you.

There is a city ahead.

We are there.

Sarai Berke.

Sarai Berke, we are there!

I'll wait for the others and catch up, Prince.

Take it.

Greetings to the Grand Prince!

Greetings to Mengu-Timur.

The Great Khan feels sick and could not meet you in person.

Tell the Great Khan there is nothing to worry about.

You need to have a rest. I have arranged

that your men have a meal and rest in marquees.

Thank you, Mengu-Timur. My retinue will be in the headquarters by night.

Grand Prince!

May I ask you?

Go ahead.

All hail to you, the Grand Prince.

My relative, the builder Ivan Timofeyev is here.

I beg you, ask the Great Khan to let him go home with you.

His wife and young children are orphaned.

Timofeyev?

I think I have already heard this name.

- Is he from Suzdal? - Yes, Sir.

And his wife, is she your sister?

Yes, she is.

I see you are as like as two peas.

A brave woman, she found her way into the palace.

- I'll speak to the Great Khan. - Thank you, Sir.

What is your name?

Nikita. I am a lieutenant in the Nogai's army.

And this is your present, Prince.

Princess Ustinia is now in the Great Khan's harem.

Let me hug you, Ustinia.

If the harem warden allows.

How can I forbid the Grand Prince of Russia

to hug his sister-in-law?

Hello, Ustinia.

Glad to see you in good health.

Berke suspects a secret deal between you and Mengu Khan.

Prince, prithee.

Greetings, princess.

Are you from Suzdal?

- Your face looks familiar to me. - Yes, I am.

I am Emelian. Arrived with the Russian envoy.

I have a letter for you from prince Boris.

What shall I tell to the prince?

Tell him,

my answer is "no".