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INSPIRATIONAL SONG IN RUSSIAN

JAUNTY ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

STRIDENT ORCHESTRAL MARCH

MUSIC: "Macarena" by Del Los Rio

SILENT FILM

ROMANTIC PIANO CONCERTO

MUSIC BUILDS INTO CLIMAX

MUSIC STOPS

LENIN HUMS TO HIMSELF

Da!

THEY SPEAK IN RUSSIAN

CAWING OF SEA BIRDS

MUFFLED PUBLIC ADDRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

TRAIN HORN

SPEECH INAUDIBLE

CLOCK TICKING

KNOCKS ON DOOR

KEY TURNS IN LOCK

Zdraz.

THEY SPEAK IN RUSSIAN

Zdraz.

Da.

Da.

ANDREI: 'You could hear
the sirens as the Black Marias
picked up the prisoners.

'So we all knew what it meant.'

When they came for my mother, I was
asleep. It was the dead of night.

And my mother came in
and turned on the light

and said, "You'll have to wake up."

And I straightaway gathered that
there was a strange man in the room.

He was already rummaging about
my bits of copy books on my desk.

I said,
"Have they come for you as well?"

I remember that rather well -
the man.

That was the end.

Then my mother told me um...that
they'd come to take her away.

And when she's gone,

there is a gold coin that she
particularly treasured and her
rings,

and she put it the dirty linen
basket whilst they were searching.

She said, "Find them and hide them."
I remember that very well.

In those days, possession of gold
was almost equivalent
to a death sentence.

So I did that.

I don't really remember
how the rest of the night passed.

'My neighbour came in and I remember

'that they had a ticket to the opera
Carmen on that following night.

'Ever since then, I associate Carmen
with the arrest of my mother.'

MUSIC: "Prelude (Act 1) From Carmen"
by Bizet

MUSIC STOPS

WOMAN SINGS IN RUSSIAN

NEW WOMAN SPEAKER:

MALE SPEAKER: I came out here
with my dad. That was back in 1932.

I came out with him just for
the adventure of coming out here.

He was a communist in South Africa.

He came out, together with me,

to help the Soviets...

..industrialise their country.

That's the way we came out.

He read a lot
about...the Soviet Union.

And he wanted to help the country

There you are, instead of helping,
they helped him be put away.

He was arrested for no reason at
all. We still don't know why.

You daren't say,
"What's wrong with this country?"

You daren't say a word,
er...bad about then Stalin.

or in general that things
were bad in the Soviet Union.

You had to keep quiet,
otherwise you'd be arrested.

And when I was arrested,

they told me a lot of things
I'd never said to anybody.

They had to arrest a person.

Of course,
you're forced to tell afterwards

that you really did say that
and undersign it.

If you didn't,
you were sent down to the dark room.

So dark and cold, brrr!

GENRICH GOLTSIN:

JOE GLAZER: They knew perfectly well

that you would sign
anything they said,

which I had to do,
because I could stand it any more.

It was terrible.

A night in the cellar,
a day not being able to sleep,

and the same day, but in the
evening,

you were taken again
to be interrogated - ten o'clock.

You don't understand
what you're talking about.

You hadn't slept. You know what
it means not to sleep for 48 hours.

You sign everything they tell you
to.

If not, then down in the cold
cellar.

So I decided to sign it. That's all.

I had to,
nothing could be done about it.

I'm not a hero.

I'm not a coward, but I don't know,

it's the terrible torture that you
go through during interrogation.

You'd sign
anything they would tell you to.

I don't want
to remember those days at all.

I like to remember these days
with my family, my wife helping me.

AEROPLANE FLIES OVERHEAD

# Each little dream would take wing
and my life would be true

# Besame, besame mucho

# Hold me, my darling,
and say that you'll always be mine

# This joy is something you,
my arms enfolding you

# Never knew this thrill before

# Who ever thought
I'd be holding you close to me?

# Whispering, "It's you that
I adore, my dearest one"

# Should you believe me?

# Dum, tara-ta, ta-ta, tum,
tara-tum, ta-ta, ta-tum

# Besame, besame mucho

# Hold me, my darling, and say
that you'll always be mine. #

Cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha.

MUSIC: "Russian Dance from
The Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky

BIRDSONG

NEW SPEAKER:

HE LAUGHS RUEFULLY

Da.

NEW MALE SPEAKER:

COCKEREL CROWS

I got off the tram
and walked along the embankment

to the prison there.

See the arch in the centre?
That's where you went in the prison.

You queued there until your turn.

You always remember the dirt
and the smell of the prison.

Prisoners, because of
the lack of washing facilities

and, at the same time,
a liberal use of disinfectant

produces
a very specific prison smell.

When you took the parcel there,

they found something that wasn't
according to the regulations

and they could refuse the parcel.

But if they accepted the parcel,

then you got the return parcel
from the prisoner

with the dirty linen.

And you went home happily.

I had to catch the train back
and go to school.

I don't remember
what the excuse in school was

why I was late twice a week.

REPORTER: Did you also deliver
to your mother?

My mother was
in the Syayetnaya Prison
on the other side of the river.

So, it was one day - for a fairly
short period there were two prisons,

because my mother
was arrested on March 8th

and...my father was sent away from
that prison there on April 13th.

It was a fairly short period of time
when I did both prisons.

You were a very young child,
a ten-year-old.

Was it natural that both parents...
I knew I wasn't the only one.

Inmates were allowed a visit before
going to the concentration camps,

and I took my grandmother
to the prison so she could see him.

And they refused.

We stood there on the other side -
in those days it was a grass bank -

and she stood by the river and cried
into the water. People were passing.

I felt ashamed that a grown-up woman
should weep openly in the street.

I still remember her words,
"I shall never see him again."

CHURCH CHOIR SINGS: "Maria, Maria,
Farewell To Lithuania"

CLICKETY-CLACK OF TRAIN

MAN SINGS IN CRIMEAN TATAR

MAN WHISTLES

HE RECITES KORAN VERSES

WOMEN PRAY

'It's well over 60 years
since I've been back.

'I remember it all very well.

'When my father arrived
from prison in the camp,

'the prisoners were sorted according
to their specialities and abilities.

'My father was a fish scientist.

'He was sent to Kandalashka
to establish a fishing camp.

'And because of the success
in reaching record figures,

'he was given permission

'of seeing his family on the site
of his work for ten days.

'He took this opportunity,

'and planned his escape
from his camp.'

So it's somewhere down here?

We started from the little village

about 15 or 20 miles away.

We rowed right across here

and finished up
in the base of that bay.

We unloaded the boat, took all
the provisions and rucksacks,

and we just marched on.

We had to avoid
any possible meeting with humans

because there was a reward on
capture of all prisoners escaping -

the price of a sack of flour -

which in those days,
was an enormous price.

So... It was somewhere down here
that...that the boat was?

In the furthest corner
that you can see straight ahead,

not in that little promontory
on the right there,

but further still,
right at the bottom of that bay.

And we started walking up the hill.

We got about as far as there
and I felt very tired.

When did you realise
you were escaping?

That would be exactly
when I was told.

I thought we would camp for
the night or at least have a rest.

That's when my parents said,

"We're not going to rest tonight
because we're escaping from Russia."

My mother, perhaps,
was a little nostalgic.

She showed me the panorama east
over the tops of the mountains.

And she said, "That's your homeland
you're leaving."

At which time I felt, shall we say,
slightly sick and frightened.

I knew that all prisoners
are shot eventually.

And probably Mother
would be shot as well.

That much...

It wasn't a question of
logic reasoning why I was
frightened. I was just frightened.

It took us 22 days from the start.

I knew that we just had to go on
till we got to Finland.

We ended up in England.

My mother wrote
The Escape From The Soviets,

and my father wrote
I Speak For The Silent.

The idea was that my father owed it
to the prisoners to tell the world

of the conditions and the repression
that was going on at the time.

But if it didn't make any
difference, naturally,
that was that.

HE SINGS

MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

HE SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN

HEROIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

JAUNTY ACCORDION FOLK MUSIC

MAN SINGS IN RUSSIAN

NEW SPEAKER:

Zdrazvuitye.

WOMAN SPEAKS

Zdraz.

WOMAN INTERJECTS IN RUSSIAN

WOMAN:

SHE SINGS MELANCHOLIC RUSSIAN SONG

THEY INTERRUPT WITH TUNELESS CHANTS

THEY SCREAM

SONG CONTINUES

SONG FADES AWAY

WIND HOWLS

HE SINGS IN RUSSIAN

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