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Maxim Gorky Film Studios

MIR Shareholding Movie Company presents

100 DAYS BEFORE THE COMMAND

SCREENPLAY by Yu. POLYAKOV & V. KHOLODOV

DIRECTED by Khusein ERKENOV CAMERA by Vladislav MENSHIKOV

ART DIRECTORS: SERGEY FILENKO SERGEY SEREBRYANNIKOV

COSTUME DESIGN: NINA CHERNYSHOVA SOUND RECORDING: VICTOR DURITSIN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: NINA KAMENSKAYA EDITOR: VLADIMIR PORTNOV

MAKE-UP: GEORGY PETROV CUTTING EDITOR: LYUBOV KUZINA

ASSISTANT CAMERAMAN: ALEXANDER TARASOV

ASSISTANTS: A. KALININA & V. LIND

LIGHT MASTER: Yu. DAVYDOV COLOUR: V. ROSSIKHIN

MANAGER: D. PSHENICHNY

COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY: V. VOROTILIN

UNDER-WATER PHOTOGRAPHY: V. MENSHIKOV, A. PENKIN

Yu. POTAPOV, S. TREMBACHIK UNDER V. KARPICHEV

CAST:

VLADIMIR ZAMANSKY as the Unknown

ARMEN DZHIGARKHANYAN as the Commander

OLEG VASILKOV as Elin ROMAN GREKOV as Zub

VALERY TROSHIN as Kudrin ALEXANDER CHISLOV as Zyrin

MIKHAIL SOLOMATIN as Belikov SERGEY ROZHINTSEV as Titarenko

SERGEY BYSTRITSKY as Sen. Lt. Umnov

SERGEY SEMYONOV as the Captain YELENA KONDULAINEN as Death

OLEG KHUSAINOV as the Angel

"But I am a worm, and no man scorned by men and despised by the people." Psalms XXII, 7

... correct dress!

"Comrade General! You have different boots on your feet...

"...one black and the other red.

"Shouldn't you send somebody home to fetch your boots?

Says the General: "But I've already sent a man, there're just the same boots at home."

Look!

This is the icon of St. George Crowned.

Known in various versions and interpretations as...

"A Miracle about Slaying the Serpent", the legend tells of how Saint George...

...saved the Palestinians from a dragon living in a lake...

...and devouring the infants sacrificed to it.

St. Georges figure dynamically leaning back is like a tightly drawn bow.

The Holy Martyr's scarlet mantle is flying up triumphantly...

...like his symbolic banner.

His blessing arm against the background of the firmament shows...

...that help comes to him from above.

Distorted proportions and his steed, the bright deep colour...

...the general silhouette...

You're sleeping, S.O.B.

- Man on duty! - Yes, comrade soldier.

Move your ass. Quickly!

- What wrong? - Stop fussing.

Get out!

Elin!

Just a minute.

Why, what for? - Shut up!

Why are you goggling at me?

Staring at me too.

Look, what a good send-off for you.

Well, everything's all right, isn't it? - Wait a minute.

Well, knock you rascal. A pretty good sport, eh?

You'll remember this day for long, Roma! You understand, don't you?

Well, everybody take his place. Zyrin, get in by the window. Be quick!

Where is the tray? Where is it? Bring it to its place.

Well, Seryoga, that's enough.

Lyokha, enough!

Just here as well. - That's right!

Well, that's all.

Just a minute. - To hell with you!

Atta boy!

You can if you want to, can't you?

- Anything wrong? - Nope.

Well, Roma!

Farewell, Lyokha!

Maybe you'll write a letter, you rascal?

Cheerio, fellow. Cheerio.

Don't drink much without me!

Now we'll settle our affairs without you.

Ensign, get into the car or we shan't be in time in our unit.

Don't think badly of me!

NO FERRY TODAY

Uncle Vanya! Uncle Vanya!

Water.

Back! Double time, form up!

Or you all will peg out to hell!

Where to? Belikov, form up!

Zyrin, form up!

Cheer up, guys! Step on it.

There's not much left.

Belikov, catch up with the rest. There's not much left.

Belikov, catch up with the rest.

Come on.

Come on.

Belikov, hold the belt. Hold the belt tight, damn you!

Come on. catch up with the rest.

I'll turn you into a good soldier yet.

Elin, fall in! Zyrin, go ahead, guy!

Breathe through your nose, Zyrin, through your nose!

Elin, brace yourself up.

To hell with him, bastard. - Lyokha, what's with you?

Let him go to hell.

Lying support! As you were! Lying support!

Belikov. What was the command?

Lying support, comrade private!

Seryoga, your soldier is tired. Let me do it.

Lying support! Lying support!

Belikov, stop, you S.O.B.!

Hold on!

Belikov, stop!

Right dress! Attention.

Comrade Colonel, the brigade has lined up as ordered.

Good afternoon, comrades guardsmen! - Good afternoon, Comrade Colonel!

Send for the officers.

Man on duty, Private, Elin is here.

Man on duty!

Man on duty, are you deaf?

Is this your service uniform?

No, Comrade Colonel!

Are you the company's man on duty? - Yes, Comrade Colonel.

Attention!

Attention!

It's really nice in here.

You may receive the devil himself.

It is much worse at the devil's!

You're a real wit.

Umnov, there's a naked soldier in the cell.

I know.

These are yours?

A soldier who was here before left them.

They are beautiful.

Yes, they're beautiful.

Halt!

Halt! You can't come in here! It's not allowed!

I say, not allowed to go here!

You see the icon of St. George Crowned.

Known in various versions and interpretations as...

"A Miracle about Slaying the Serpent", the legend tells of how...

...Saint George saved the Palestinians... from a dragon living in a lake...

...and devouring the infants sacrificed to it.

St. George's figure dynamically leaning back is like a tightly drawn bow.

Valera! Stop trembling! Don't do that!

Valera, don't!

Did somebody call me up? - No, Comrade Senior Sergeant.

The telephone doesn't work, Comrade Senior Sergeant.

But why do I stand here turning the handle then?

Company, get up!

Line up for morning exercises.

Run to the unit officer and tell him the company's lined up.

But be quick 'cause you must clean the room too. Look lively.

Yes, Comrade Senior Sergeant.

Look liveley.

Double quick!

Double! Double!

You daddy, make my bed.

Do you want me to piss on you as well, sonny?

Make my bed as well.

Okay, certainly. Go to the horizontal bar, you lumb.

Eh! Soldier!

Well, you crazy or what?

Right dress!

Ready!

Go!

Elin. You're waiting for better weather?

Not at all.

I don't hear! - No, not at all.

As you were.

Comrade Captain! Well, how many times ...

We ain't divers after all. - Stop talking!

What have you been taught, you sprat?

Don't goggle at me.

You wait till you get back to the company!

Right dress!

Ready?

Go.

Hello, my dear brother!

Your letter made me uneasy...

...as if someone else had written it. His words were callous.

His opinion about people is incompetent

and his heart is filled with despair.

He must be very lonely, isn't he? Help him, Georgy, for you know...

...that all this is wrong and that many things in life are quite different.

I know you have a clear head and a kind heart.

You know much and can do a lot because your heart feels...

what embittered and crippled souls can't feel.

I rely on your goodness. Help him, Georgy, for you have love and...

Assistant Officer of the day!

Junior Sergeant Chislov is here.

Yes. Comrade Lieutenant, you are wanted.

Officer of the day is here.

TAKING PART IN THE SHOOTING OF THE FILM WERE:

the personnel of the Serpukhov Lenin Komsomol Command and Military Engineering High School

and of the Kantemirovskaya and Tamanskaya Divisions

Used in the film is Johann Sebastian Bach's music

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ALEXANDER ZOSIMENKO

M. GORKY FILM STUDIOS, 1990