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KINOMIR PRESENTS

an AMKART Studio production

Under a patronage of Fond Kino

Sponsored by JSC NK �RussNeft"

A film by Alexander Proshkin

A film by Alexander Proshkin

Based on a story by Friedrich Gorenstein

EXPIATION

Victoria Romanenko Rinal Mukhametov

Andrey Panin Tatiana Yakovenko

Sergey Dreydan Ekaterina Volkova

Victor Sukhorukov Dmitry Kulichkov

Natalia Gandzyuk Evgeny Kurshinsky

Written by Elga Lyndina

Director of Photography Gennady Karyuk

Music by Edward Artemiev

Production Designer Evgeny Kachanov

Take this!

- Would you leave ma alone? - No!

Costume Designer Lidia Archakova Anna Bartuli

- Bugger off, I said! - No!

Make up by Natalia Volkova Olga Kurkina

What are you, dumb?

That hurts!

Sound by Pavel Doreuli

- I'm gonna hit you in the face. - No, I'll hi! you.

I'll gonna kill you, little toad

Film Editor Sergey Ivanov

Get down!

Executive producer Dmitry Pirkulov

Associate producer Yury Stolyarov

Producer Tatiana Yakovenko

Directed by Alexander Proshkin

Sons of bitches! One more such banger and I'll tear your hands off!

Homchik!

Go home!

Shut up, jerk!

- What? - I said, go home.

Who called me a jerk?

Did you hear that? Ah?

Just like his father.

Shuma - no more no less!

They say he's in jail.

Been sent to lvdel prison camp. Got 25 years.

Hey! Come here. Come, come.

Before the War, where did you live?

On Soviet street.

Ah, it's no longer there.

Happy New Year!

So that all you wish for yourself came (rue.

Same to you, Franya.

No, its loo late for me!

Seize the clay. You'll meet your future husband in the New Year.

Leave it, Franya.

Wail, where're you going?

There's no wood, too little coal.

What about Vasya?

Too lazy to go to the gob pile?

The stove is hot.

But it is cold in Sasha's room!

- Ugh! - What?

Porridge is in my boot.

Wail. Olga!

Here,

baked specially for the Top Brass for New Years.

Our First New Year's without the War.

No, sweetheart, lat': first warm up the porridge with rissoles.

Take it.

Vasya! Come out, Vasya, our landlady is treating us.

I want him gone!

When I'm at the table, I want him behind the screen!

He stinks!

You go with him! Understand?

Just don't stamp on it,

or else you won't get the porridge and jam off the floor.

My father died for his country! And you are hiding a German stooge here!

Hey, swine! Hiding?

My father died for his country, and they are hiding here...

Calm down. What is it?

Why did you cry again?

My beautiful girl...

ll': a shame your father doesn't see you now all grown up.

Don't you mention my father.

He is a hem, and you steal food from the cafeteria.

Before the War we were happy and carefree.

If only I had a trade,

I could've found a good job.

You are sheltering enemies,

What enemies? They are poor, just like the rest of us.

Happy New Yea r, sweetheart!

Swine!

You are both swine!

This dirty rag is always here!

If I will see it one more time,

I'll throw it away!

Olga, I've asked you In keep your things separately!

There is a good spot in the corner.

- Don't touch it. - Why?

Let him do it.

You know there haven't been servants in this country for 30 years.

You shouldn't have let them in the house.

Fireworks!

Look at it! Run...Guys!

Well, hello there, Markeev.

Look who is here

I'm gonna go, buy out the present.

How much is it? Expensive?

Perhaps it's mandarins?

No, nuts.

What did you think it was, chocolate?

Let's go.

Attention! Attention!

During the War, the German Headquarters were here.

The city was bombed mercilessly.

By the artillery

and all...

Everything was in ruins,

but our palace is still standing!

Quadrille dance!

Zarka grabbed Markeev.

- Sn what? - For keeps.

Does it matter?

The General's son is staring at you.

Batyunya.

He is coming over.

I don'! care.

That is so childish.

Prancing around like goats.

Now a lively dance!

More sweat - less blood!

The "cavalier-maths" invite the "lady-butterflies". Let's go!

Let's go to the balcony.

I don't want to now.

I wan! to dance.

You stepped on my foot!

- Slop staring at her... - Ge! lost!

Let's go to the balcony.

Could you wait for 5 minutes?

Sure.

There is no more kvass.

Bring me back the glasses.

Careful

Batyunya.

My name is Vova...actually.

My name is Sasha.

I know.

Now,

Army Intelligence!

Do you mean Maya?

The tall one.

That is classified.

What's that flaking from the ceiling?

Mind your head.

It's French.

For the top officers, only.

Drink up!

I'm so thirsty.

I understand.

Take this.

Eat.

Later.

Guys...per-recruits!

We've got the fellow...

Take him away!

Let him sleep!

Will wake him up in the New Year.

Let's go downstairs.

Let me kiss you,

but you must close your eyes.

Come on.

Close your eyes, you cheater.

Did I offend you?

Don't think anything.. .l want to marry you.

That's (rue.

Let's have...one more sip.

Let's go downstairs.

How are you? Hot?

Well done!

- Can we have a smoke break? - No way!

Slow dance!

Ladies' tango

"Lady-butterflies�

invite �cavaliers-moths".

I'll lead.

- Louse! - Two of them!

Get her out of here, she's got lice!

- Quiet, quiet, quiet! - She's spreading typhoid

I'm just tracing the lice path.

Let me go.

Let me go..., Batyunya!

She's gut one going straight, and the other one across.

Hold on, they're gonna meet in a second! Right now!

There! They've met!

Let me go!

There! There! They've kissed!

Batyunya, be careful! You have just been descended upon.

Careful!

Shit.

Sasha!

What are you laughing at?

In a blockade I used tn scratch myself raw because of these bastards.

Sasha!

- Have you ever had chocolate? - Of course.

Me - never. This was the 1-st time in my life.

There! The lice are gone. Let's go back.

My fur mat was hanging right next to their filthy rags. it's all their...

I'll exterminate all of them from the house..

- Lice? - People!

- They say, Romanian washing powder helps.

- Leave me alone!

- Enough, enough. - Le! me go!

Happy New Year, grandma.

Bastards!

"9600 Soviet Citizens, tortured by Nazi Occupants, are buried here"

Look what a beautiful girl!

Let me go! Mama!

Mommy!

Leave me alone!

To you!

To you!

Oh! It is cold.

- Whore! - Sasha!

Father go! killed and you... Do you know who you are?

Do you know what you are??

You... you are pro... prosti...

- Sasha dear! - Prostitute, God forgive us!

Sasha! No, Sasha!

Get the hell out of here,

German bootlickers!

Enough hiding in my house!

Enough spreading your lice! Enough screwing around!

Get undressed and go to your room!

Get out of here! You hear me?

With you r lover.

Snake!

You bitch!

You snake!

Bitch

Snake!

Bitch...

What a girl...

Careful!

I need to see the police chief officer.

Go see the duty officer, over there.

Under the arch on the left.

Give it here.

- Don't let them through - Attention!

Two of you.

I am sorry.

Watch where you're going!

She's a speculator!

- Surname? - Klepikov.

What's going on?

Quiet!

I said quiet.

Thief!

She deserved it!

I'm gonna slop accepting your parcels!

Stepanets!

You're here again.

- Here, Sir, here! - Le! her through!

I said, line up!

I've told you many limes, Stepanets,

I will not accept parcels for your son.

He's been accused of mass murder. Do you understand?

He is going to be sentenced by people.

I've walked 7 km to get here.

He's got a weak stomach

and pains in his chest.

What is this?

Doctor's certificate...

Patient diagnosed with nephropahty deficiency as well as...

- Recommended treatment at a Health Retreat

- That's right. Health Retreat

Dr. Voodwart. 14th November 1940.

Why don't you show me papers from World War I?

This doctor has probably been killed by your son.

Stepanets!

If you come here once again I'll arrest you.

Understand?

- Comrade officer! - Comrade officer!

I don't have a parcel!

I'm here on a special business!

- What kind of business? - Special.

Comrade officer.

I have a parcel for my husband.

- Get together what you've checked already.

- Yes, Sir!

I know where the Nazi collaborator Vastly Bobrov is hiding.

Slow down.

Don't be afraid. Give me the details.

He is hiding in my house.

My mother is feeding him with stolen food.

She steals from the State.

I hate her.

My father is a hero.

He was a pilot. The German's shot him down near Warsaw,

and my mother has a lover now.

Don't worry. You did well...

If your father were alive he would've approved of your actions.

So your mother lives with a former collaborator?

No, not my mother. Olga lives with a policeman.

Mother lives with an "entertainer".

I don't understand anything.

Who is the "entertainer"? Who is Olga?

What's the surname?

I don't know her surname. She is a beggar at the church

Give me the address.

Stepana Razina 8

Where does your mother steal from?

The police cafeteria.

But I also ale that fond.

What are you crying for? Feel sorry for your mother?

Why should I be sorry?

All right, Shostak

read this and sign.

So, these are the lists of the people who were tenured and killed

They were killed in the porcelain factory.

9611 people were killed...

In some places there was mass murders.

The killers were mostly collaborators,

under the influence of alcohol.

What are you doing here?

- I have a note...

- So, you're here about your mother, right?

Come through.

Come. Sit down

Here's paper, a pen...

Write everything in detail and sign it.

Be specific!

These are German archives.

Yes, I've asked for transport in order to conduct the burial.

I had to give advice

lam an epidemiologist!

So...This is your report

to the German commandant's office

But they didn't give me transport for the bodies.

Bodies were lying in the streets,

in sewage canals, in drain pipes

And on many occasions right in public yards.

Many bodies were of the Jewish nationality,

who were unlawfully exterminated in the city.

These kinds of actions violated the instructions

regarding the collection of such bodies

in a designated place, namely

the porcelain factory,

risking an epidemic which is especially dangerous,

considering the number of

German Army hospitals and so on...

17 August 1941

And your signature, Shostak!

You see, decaying bodies started to attract stray dogs!

- Sit down! - I had to...l am sick!

Sit down, Shostak!

I've got colic in my intestines.

Doctor will come and examine you.

Voznyak! Come through!

We have your statement regarding the dentist's family.

Their son has returned.

I remember him when he was just a little boy,

and Leopold Lvovich,

and their whole family.

It was a beautiful family...

Back to the case, Voznyak!

Shuma finished them off.

The boot-cleaner.

In the middle of the day he covered a brick with a newspaper,

cracked their heads and dragged them to a dump.

The 16 year old daughter,

and the mother,

and Leopold Lvovich,

and the 5 year old baby.

The family lay there for 4 days,

one of top of the other.

But Shuma didn't let anyone to pull them out of the dump.

He said it. so that all the neighbors

would throw garbage and dirt on (hem.

Everyone was afraid of him,

because the Nazis made him a policeman.

It was in August...flies everywhere...

Hold him:

you have a daughter, Zara. She also breathes this air.

He didn't care.

I went to the municipal council.

They told me to take the bodies to the porcelain factory.

But where would I get a cart?

They told me it was my problem.

So, at night I pulled

the whole family out of the dump

and buried them near the sheds.

And the boy I covered in some sacking and took him to the cemetery.

I gave the guard 2 pieces of soap

and warm pants

and he let me bury him

near the fence, not far from the church.

I don't know, what happened

between Shuma and Leopold Lvovich,

but for the boy,

Hold him,

he will suffer expiation.

I had a drink to be brave

and told him.

He punched me in the face,

knocked out my tooth,

But now he is suffering

in the lvdel prison camp.

He go! 25 years..

I think he should have got death.

I met a man, who saw him in prison.

He told me Shuma is sick

with rare diseases,

the kind you'd only see in hell.

The flesh on his legs bursts...

all his body is covered with sores,

so it's impossible to sleep on the back, or on the stomach or on the sides.

He falls asleep standing on his knees,

forehead to the wall.

And when he collapses to the bed

his sores start to burst.

He jumps up screaming,

coughing blood,

but he does not die...

That is his expiation for the baby.

What is this?

It's from the duty officer.

Should I take him back?

Yes, send him back to the cell.

What about me?

Sign.

You can go now!

You rs?

...And the collaborator Vastly Bodrov lives in our flat

together with his wife, Olga, a beggar...

Do you study?

Yes.

Not very well,

Too many errors,

but that can be fixed.

The most important thing is that you are a true Soviet citizen

your country's patriot.

We shall check you temperature later.

Go on, go on.

God! You are all wet.

We should change your shirt.

Maya!

Bring a dry shirt for Sasha.

Your mother didn't even come

for 3 days.

Usually, when you're here, she comes by the college asking about you,

and now...

I don't have a mother any more, Sofia Leonidovna.

I hate her.

I acknowledge only my father.

Who the hell is there?

They're showing a new film with Dina Durbin,

the kind you like,

about love.

This is my best one.

I don't have time for love now...

I'm gonna get a job at the hosiery factory.

They'll give me housing

and give me a worker's card.

I'm on my own now.

They're hereto see you.

Hello,

Sasha.

I've come to see you. Olga gave me the address.

Who are you?

Nobody!

Nobody! I don'! know what they want here.

Don't worry Sasha, you are at home. No one can hurt you here.

Sasha is sick. But you can talk to me.

Why Ekaterina didn't come?

Excuse us, but

Ekaterina would have been glad to come, but she can't.

She's in jail. Got arrested 3 days ago.

Something criminal?

This is normal for a woman, who doesn't care for her children.

Excuse us,

it was a petty crime.

Food...

She got caught exiting the canteen with it on her.

She didn't take it for herself...

Did I ask her to?

I swear I didn't ask her to, Sofia Leonidovna

I've told her many times, that she is dishonoring my father's name.

She even gave half to Olga and Vasya the collaborator.

That's right, she did.

They are also, human.

How are you related to her mother?

He is her lover.

Your mother wrote you a letter.

I'll read it.

My dear daughter Sasha!

Greetings from, your mother Ekaterina.

Please don't worry, the investigator said,

that I would not gel a long sentence,

if I confess to everything...

Perhaps, they would consider that I am a widow

whose husband, Alexei, your father died in the War

Sweetheart, I don'! sleep here at night,

I hit you before our parting.

Please forgive me, it broke my heart and it's still aching.

Don'! be angry with me and come and see me on Friday,

I want to see you so much.

Your mother, Ekaterina.

Well, I get it.

My Vasya was also arrested.

Without him I don'! know where to go now?

Let's go, Olga.

What do I do now?

Vasya was so good, so kind...

What is this?

This is a food ration

I received.

Consider it a present.

No, we don't need it. We have everything.

Better give it to Ekaterina.

I'll take care of Ekaterina.

Let's go. Go! Quick!

I'll go check how is she.

- I am lecturing tomorrow... - I'll be just a minute.

Did the doctor come?

Yes, last night.

He said, she's got a cold and a nervous breakdown

The girl suffered terrible trauma

She'll be fine. She is young.

Couple more days. A week almost

A week?

I said she is staying here.

Who is going to take care of her?

Her mother is a thief.

She is in jail.

That's the point.

You see, my dear Platon,

she is a pretty girl,

boys like her.

And our daughter Maya is a loser

The kind of things you say...

don'! want to listen to this.

I know, what I'm talking about.

This is life, Platon. Life

Where are you going'! You're sick. It's freezing out there.

You know,

maybe I am a fool,

but I have a feeling your family wants to use me.

What are you talking about?

You heard what I said!

Find yourself another friend!

Why are you wearing my mother's robe?

Vasya is back.

They let him nut, thank God! He is no collaborator.

You've taken my mother's sheet.

Just to wash it.

Sit sit at the table.

Have something hot.

Is this from church?

From the market.

I traded Vasya's birds for this.

Well...

They've checked everything and let me go

Now I'll get a job,

maybe as a carpenter

or at the hosiery factory.

Sasha, you should go sue Kaygorodslev regarding your mother.

Don't go to the major.

Kaygorodstev did well with my case.

I wasn't a collaborator.. .just transported water.

He found all the documents. God bless him!

There are good people everywhere...

Have some boiling water.

Did you say goodbye to your mother?

Vasya said, they are being sent away today.

Comrade officer!

Citizens, I've told you that

we're not accepting any packages.

I've prepared food for my husband...What do I do now?

Send it by post.

I am warning you, it you are going to cause disturbance,

I shall have to use force.

- Is that clear? - Yes, that's clear, Sir!

I'm going to the train station!

Load them up!

- Dona! - Let'; go!

- Common! - Load them up!

Get back!

Line up.

Keep in line!

Keep in line, I said..

Sasha...

- Sasha! - In line I said.

Sasha, dear!!

I'm here, here!

Professor, stop messing around! Hands out of pockets!

- Pavel! - Step away!

- Pavel! - Here I am!

Katya, please don't worry. It's not good for your health

Everything will be fine. I'll write to my General,

and taking into consideration your circumstances,

ask him to reduce your sentence!

How is Sasha?

Sasha...she is well now.

If you see her tell her.

To forgive me for dishonoring her father.

Mama, I'm here!

Sasha, dear! Sasha!

My dear!

Mama! I'm fine. Mommy!

Mama! You'll be back. You will be redeemed

and return! Mama!

Mama!

Mommy, I'm here!

Keep in line. Where are you going?

Get back, I'm telling you.

Keep in line!

Back back to the wall.

Get in line everyone. I said, step back to the wall.

Back!

I'm telling you - gel back!

I'm ordering you - get back!

Forgive me, son of God

On the ground, you bastard!

Bless my soul, Jesus!

Instigators' packages will be refused.

Get back!

Get in line.

Stop fooling around!

Change direction.

Sq,"

Where are you going?

Change direction.

In two's...

Where are you going?

Don't push me away, Sasha

I won't do anything to hurt you.

If you don'! like me-that's fine

but now, we mus! help your mother.

42

44 Quicker!

46

48

50

Run.

Where are you taking me?

Over there. He lives in the village,

comes home for lunch.

I've talked to him already.

Look she is also here.!

The slut.

She is a speculator! Like her husband.

I saw her package...

They should be shot.

He has not got a criminal case,

...under the article 58.

That': what I'm saying, he worked for Nazis.

What Nazis, what are you talking about...

...enemy of the state,

Anti-Soviet propagandist!

Comrade officer, I meant to talk to you

For a long time I wanted to see only you.

There has been a misunderstanding regarding my husband.

Believe me,

we have many friends in Moscow,

many famous people, Prize winners.

I wrote to them,

I am sure, they have testified to his good character

or soon will...

What do you want from me?

You know

sometimes I struggle with my husband myself,

but he has a talent, a great talent.

You know, he speaks freely

in 4 languages,

translates from 5,

even 6...

From German, English.

And Spanish, see...

"Her hips, like fish caught in the net, Like fish caught in the net,

Cold is the moon, Hot as the fire.

By the best road in the world And till the first morning bird

I was riding through the night On a wild horse �.

Bitch, Whore!

Would you like...some roasted meat?

Beef with garlic.

A bribe?

You'll go to jail together with your husband!

You'll clean toilets!

Been here long?

Yah.

Let's go inside, soldier.

My wile cooked some borsch,

We can eat and talk.

I'm not alone.

Hello.

Kutsy nearly killed me yesterday

in the Rakilskiy forest.

It seems he aimed well,

right to the left side...

but when he pulled the trigger, he jerked.

Perhaps, he was in a hurry.

I got so upset, I cracked his head open with my gun.

Major was so angry,

He wanted to question him

But I was really upset, you see.

I don't care much for life, but

how can I leave such a woman. Can'! gel enough of her.

Petrik, stop talking like this

I'm gonna leave this job.

I am too soft for it, that's why everyone comes to see me

That old woman Stepanets comes every day 7 kilometers one way, and 7 back.

Her son volunteered himself for death squad.

He would probably get 25 years.

Did you see the whore...in make-up

speaks in Russian. but it all sounds like gibberish,

Tries to seduce me, the foolish woman

Didn't get the inmates to the train station today.

Reprimanded me for the 3rd time

When will they try again?

We shall see.

I've got my orders,

Kaygorodtsev was demanding

Wanted to see 30 more souls.

Your own potatoes? From the garden?

I can smell it.

Yes. It's all Ganusia

Does the planting and harvesting.

Listen, soldier, get married.

Can't find a woman? Nonsense.

Men are expensive now days,

The dead ones pushed up the prices for us

That's just what I wanted to talk to you

to talk to you about my woman.

Her case is serious..

It's not based on her daughter's accusations any longer,

but on the evidence.

They caught your woman right at the entrance

with food on her.

She had hidden it in her boots

I can remove her daughter': statement but it won'! matter

What statement? I don't understand.

Who do you lake me for?

Didn't you plan this together?

You listen...Don't do anything for her now,

then they'll find out her husband was a War hero

They don't need to know she is sleeping with you.

Let her be a hero's widow.

How can you say such things in front of her daughter?

Doesn't matter, whit she is like. Even if she is a thief.

Look at the girl, she's gone green... Don't you see?

I don't care!

I'm not going to withdraw my statement!

She': not the mother who gave birth, she only raised me!

Common.

Push

Push

Push

Push

Common.

Bloody hell!

One,

Two!

Three!

Take (over!

Are you alright?

Is everyone alive?

As if that could harm us.

What was it?

What is it? Cooking some rubbish for dinner?

This is for Vasya,

Different herbs. garlic.

He's go! a terrible cough.

A singer in the church gave me a good remedy.

This is an old remedy. She cured her son with it.

She said

it can cure any illness

Why did you give him clean bedding?

Did my mother give you permission?

How am I supposed to ask her?

Take small sips, Vasya.

The choir singer knows what she's talking about.

That's my cup.

God bless you, Sasha dear,

I hope you never have to drink such filth.

I've got a cold

I feel sick.

Have some of Vasya's drink

and go to bed.

Go to your room and lay down

You go to your room.

Wash my cup.

"Dant turned around when he heard this,

Is it necessary

to forget a smile and

to descend into darkness?

All that I've sung,

all the suffering,

the pain and the terror of our life

I've seen it all in Florence, my hometown�.

A German poet, by the way.

Emanuel Geibel.

Have you returned long ago?

Well, since they threw me out of

Sverdlovsk University

I decided to go back home

to my "Florence"...

where they dug everything up on me

Including

the Shakespeare symposium in London.

You shouldn't drink any more.

Pavel, when you drink too much, you get hot

and it's damp in the cell.

May I talk to you?

I am very grateful.

I realize my husband did not have a chance

to get this assignment,

You need 2 strong inmates that can dig...

I understand that,

you met me hallway, saved him,

but now I beg you to assist

Pavel Danilovitch can't dig graves at night...in the snow.

I've arranged everything with the guard.

The second inmate

would have to stay here of course,

otherwise he will reported.

I don't have much time,

I need to get back to the army.

The sweeper and landlord

have agreed to do it.

He agreed to take canned meat, as payment.

He is keen.

The sweeper demands more,

He wants

household soap, but I shall find it somehow.

I can dig loo.

My God...

I'm prepared to work for a can of meat.

This is my house.

Please leave, I'll get changed.

There is more meat.

Please.

Listen Professor,

you stay here for now.

And you, loo.

I'll call you when I need you.

Hi,

I'm ready.

Yell, young lady, wouldn't be able to work.

It is cold and windy outside.

And I have a feeling that you are not well,

Sit down and have something hot to eat.

I can dig.

I need work.

My father died in the war

and my mother is in jail for theft...

I shall not hide the truth.

All this seems

rather bad.

Couple of hours

outside in freezing cold

and you will catch pneumonia.

I buried Leopold Lvovich twice.

It was in August,

ll was hot. Flies were everywhere.

I buried him,

but then the dogs dug him up.

I wrapped him up in sacking

and buried him again,

And then Shostak showed up,

Son of a bitch.

And now

he is coughing up blood in jail,

but at that time

he started to threaten me...

He (old me to dig them out!

Get a cart, he told me, and take them to the porcelain factory.

I told, I am a street-sweeper,

I get paid by the lowest wage,

And you get rations, I told him with milk and meal,

and the stuff that the Jews have.

So you do it, I said

Can you be quiet?,

What is this? Saturday Voluntary work?

Their boy was killed

The eldest one,

somewhere in the mine he found a bomb.

There was such a bang I heard it from here.

They say there ware a lot of people around.

Nobody got hurt, except for the boy

who go! crushed by a log.

He was only 5.

For what, you may ask?

He paid for his father's sins.

Lat him burn in the prison camp.

May he rot there.

Ge! up! Go dig!

My mother used to play it,

and my sister was very talented.

We need some rope.

What rope? ..Sacking.

Is there any?

This is horrible

WW are people

so determined to see their

dead relatives?

Grief like love,

should be like a dream.

As it is written in one great book:

"Let the dead bury their dead,

You go and praise God's kingdom"...

Go inside, Professor!

This isn't an Elruscans mummy,

This is my father killed with a brick!

You're trash! You are worse than a pedophile!

I'd like to hash you, excuse my bluntness!

Please forgive him

I worked so hard to get him out of the cell

at least for these 2 nights.

Enough, Madam!

Common, old man,

take a spade.

You loo,

...as per the orders.

I beg you... Let's son everything out.

He can'! dig any more,

he's got a weak heart.

So what?

I have concussion.

- And I did not betray my country. - Quiet.

Quiet.

I want silence.

Help me to carry the coffin to the shed

I want to spend some time with my father.

Mama, mama!

Mysticism.

Listen, can you hear

"Shuma ",

she cries

God almighty,

you see everything.

Who should we dig out next?

Your mother

Or your sister?

Enough for today.

I don'! have the energy.

Tomorrow.

Sign the order.

Listen to me,

take the shovels,

fill in the grave.

Go.

Why are you standing here?

Go, help them!

Oh!

What happened to you?

I was burnt in a plane.

You poor thing! Poor think!

And this?

I already told you-in a airplane.

It'll be alright,

You'll get warm in a minute.

Nothing there.

Bring some water, dear.

Where from?

From the river.

Where were you?

There was no water.

I brought you some boiling water.

Let's have something to eat.

I don't want to now.

It's cold here. Get under the cover with me.

No. I'll lay down here

Don't be afraid. I'm not gonna touch you.

I am not afraid.

You are my captive!

Kerosene. Who needs kerosene?

It's morning already,

We didn't sleep all night.

Let's get some sleep.

Forgive me.

Why?

Why, dear? What for?

I so enjoy being with you...

Forgive me...l can't be alone right now...

You sleep.

You know, the Professor was right.

Strangers should bury our loved ones.

Especially if they were killed with a brick.

Sweetheart, you are all wet!

That drunken Catholic-sweeper spoke of expiation.

There are tens of thousands of bodies by the porcelain factory,

they were killed by Fascism,

but my family was killed by a neighbour.

He killed my sister first,

But why?

She (would've run away.

Mother

I think mother died immediately- She had a weak heart.

Speak, speak

I hope he survives these 25 yea rs

I wish he'd gut nut so that I can slit his throat.

He'll be old, I won'! care...

I shall wail until all his blond runs out of his body.

You shouldn't sell you blood so cheaply Shouldn't...

If they take a drop-we should take a liter No, 2 litres

So that never...no neighbours...

Sweetheart rt!

Sweetheart, it's hard for me loo.

I'm also alone. I don't have anyone,

But we...we are together.

Can't live with this...

Are we together?

Yes.

You are a good girl.

I mean it.

Go check the water tank

I wan! to have a wash.

Check if there's a shower?

Can we heat the water?

Go, right now.

I wan! to be clean.

Let it go!

Go away!

You fool.

You're a fool...

You are a shameless person...

You hear me!

You wanted to trick me...

I don't feel like living myself at times.

I want to die, so that

everyone would cry and feel sorry for me,

Bastards.

I hit you.

That's terrible.

It's alright.

Sweetheart rt,

lam not hurt.

It did not hurt.

I forgot to lock the door

That's it.

You saved me.

Shall we introduce?

I am Sasha.

So you are Alexandra.

My father used to call me that.

And who are you?

August.

What? A funny name?

Very funny!

We have a hosiery factory

named after August Bebel.

I'll go warm up a can of meal,

lam very hungry.

Me too.

You know, perhaps I could get some tea from the fire woman.

Nowadays, many mix in

herbs and shredded carrots.

They say, it tastes terrible,

but people drink it!

That's a good idea.

Give her some jam in return

Jam? That's too much for her!

Some cookies will be enough.

We could get some ?our for the jam...

oh!

Scared me.

I though! it was a mouse

You are so silly.

That's it.

I'm done with this.

- Hay, girls! Did you get soap? - No way. We'll use ash...

When was the last time you went to the movies?

Before the War.

Shall we go?

Let's go.

I am tired.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

August, I'll go get changed

otherwise you'll be seen with a dag.

Why do you need tn change? You are beautiful as is

I have everything, I swear,

don't want you to think that I'm poor. I'll be quick.

I am tired.

Don't you think I'm tired?

Miss, please sit.

Sit down.

I'll push.

Germans

Bloody Nazis!

- These are not Germans - They are Romanians

- They are not soldiers... - Away with the boyars!

No one will help.

Only Golod will save us.

Wait for me here.

I won't let you go alone.

- GOLOD M.N.-

I was told.

Are you the doctor': son?

Yes.

Please, sit down.

I remember

Leopold Lvovitch?

How many places?

4

No,

my brother has been buried already.

What's the address?

Stepana Razina 8

Relative?

Wife.

How old are you?

23

Just married, I take it.

We have limited transportation

The Chem-Factory gives us horse-drawn carts

In front of the factory's head office

there is a mass grave.

It is not far from

Stepana Razina street.

They can make it by 3 o'clock.

Is that all?

I need to take them far

to the Jewish cemetery.

That's impossible.

Where are you taking it?... To the wall, so that I can see it!

Why is it impossible?

It's no longer there.

The Nazis flattened it completely.

With tanks

Did you hear about the porcelain factory?

Take them there.

All my family is there,

Sisters,

wife,

daughters,

nieces.

12 in all...

Golod speaking...

What is it?

Nothing.

Do you want to leave?

No. You watch ii,

I'll just

sit here.

Can't listen to this language.

Give us our money back!

Sery, come here!

We've called the power station already,

The electricity should be on

in 20 minutes. Quiet, comrades.

Sorry...Took you for somebody else,

I thought you were Vaska from the Kosaya Hills

Hooligans

Pass it on.

Guys,

The Lieutenant is hitting me.

Let's leave.

Guys!

There they are!

There he is.

Punks

What do you want?

Give us the girl

She is one of us, she's a local

What?

Ge! the hell out of here, you scum.

Si! sit.

Put some snow on it.

Bastards!

- You little shit! - Calm down, lieutenant.

Behind you!

Knock him down! Hit him!

Get out of here, guys!

May be that's enough?

Bastards.

Bastards.

Get up, common. Little toad

Behind you!

Sweetheart rt!

(Sings) Oy lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu

Give nothing to the other kids

And cookies to my baby boy

So that he'll sleep sweetly through the night.

What is it?

A song

My grandmother used In sing it tn me. My father's mother.

She was from Cossacks.

You know,

she told me that my mother

put a spell on my father.

Now,

With herbs and morning soil.

Got it all together and put in his soup,

He ate it and fell madly in love.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

You know, I wish I could have the same.

So that you could never get away from me.

I am gonna go anywhere.

Granny left me a pipe,

a smoking pipe,

Cossacks smoke tobacco from it.

What are you laughing at?

Thu pipe is covered in silver, I shall give it to you.

Why are you laughing?

I don't have anything else.

I have the pipe and

a necklace from my grandmother. It's also made out of silver coins.

Will you give me the necklace as well?

I apologize,

I made everything in a hurry.

There'll be meat in the morning,

But we have pancakes.

It's time for us to work.

Vasya is ready already. Vasya!

Wait!

Yes,

We don't need you today!

This is my father's. I'll put it back.

That's for the better!

I was thinking that myself...

Vasya still has pains in his chest,

I can earn a can of meal myself

Colonel...he needs some work.

What are you, stupid?

Why is she giving orders around here?

Look at her, a mistress of the house.

You're an educated man,

please understand,

it is freezing and windy outside,

and my husband is just out of a damp cell.

I'll pay for someone to take his place.

You and I must preserve him for the sake of literature.

It's lime.

Let's go.

It's your fault.

It's all you...

You.

I know, you hate me.

I can feel it

You...Do you know who you are?

You're a temporary wife!

He's got dozens more just like you

In each town, in each village.

- What do you think you'll get, slut! - Shut up!

She is my wife.

Please, calm down. sit down.

Comrade chief lieutenant! Should I take them to the yard?

Put it down.

Common! Let's go!

After they've covered the graves

should I take them back to the cell.

I said wail here, I'll be back soon.

Thank you.

I'll do the res! myself.

August!

Listen to me.

August!

Would you like to go to church?

I can ask Olga.

I am a member of the Komsomol, of course,

but we should give them a proper good bye.

Sweetheart, please say something.

Say something. Do you hear me?

Say something.

I want you to live. I don't need anything else

During the War,

many things were clear to me.

And now?

After seeing these graves...

How can I live?

There's a passage in the Bible,

I don't know whether you remember it:

"Dear God,

how long will you allow us to be victimized?

When shall you strike our torturers?"

And God replies:

"Wail, until the number of victims reaches

a predetermined limit.

Then,

all victims and sufferers shall be avenged...�

I read an academic paper

regarding this biblical passage.

It was written by a pulp writer, a hack

but given you're a mathematician

you will find it interesting.

There is no limit.

It's infinite.

And ahead of us is...

happiness,

We've beaten the Germans.

But at what cost?

The country looks like a dug up grave.

You are only looking at the immediate future.

Destiny grants every man

the right to Justice in his lifetime.

The same way...

as man, won fire from the Gods.

There's light already.

Yes.

ll is difficult for us now

but in two or three generations

there'll be light!

Yes, the same light - from the Kremlin

And yet you talk about the limit.

Comrades, please eat!

Eat...you need to have something to eat.

We have someone, who will think for us

Comrade Stalin.

Comrade Stalin.

If alter the service you'd return to the university,

I'll write a recommendation for you

to a very respectable person.

Thank you, but I don't need it

Yes you do.

Men like you

should have gills as well as lungs.

When it'll become difficult

to get oxygen from the atmosphere,

then gills would help you to get it

from under the water. But you don't have them.

- Of course he doesn't, he is a min. - Yes, he is a man,

that's why he needs gills.

What are you talking about?

I remember this one time there was a night attack.

Fear, horror...

Where do I run?

I was running around.. .looking for cover.

I got down on the ground,

and lay trembling there, the whole night.

In the morning

the sun came up,

the bombing stopped,

I lifted my head

I was hiding under

a grape vine in the gazebo, like a fool.

Your house go! hit by a bomb,

the neighbor's balcony was engulfed in flames,

but I was absolutely fine. That's life.

Fedor is coming.

It's all in God's hands.

Everyone gets what he deserves...

Precisely.

Get up!

Go to the exit!

Enough, enough, kitty.

He': come to see me...

My mother's friend.

They are gonna be sent away on a Lvov train,

Come to the station.

Come to say good bye.

I can't,

Can't leave my husband.

I'm married now.

It's all,

a bi! surprising, of course,

but nowadays

children don't ask their parents advice

Here, hold this

What are you standing for?

We must finish the bottle.

Please accept my Congratulations.

Let's have one last round.

- It's a long road ahead - So let's drink.

To life.

Be strong, men.

The Lvov train is my train

I need to get back to my unit.

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will see each other at the station.

Once again

my congratulations and Katrina will also

be happy. Sasha's mother.

Sasha, don'! think that your mother

is upset with you.

She loves you very much.

And she will love your husband, loo.

I should tell you, lieutenant...

Let's go, people.

Sasha's heart is not cold...

rather, she

is a woman of principle.

She is very much like her father, he was a Party member.

She will do anything for her country

even if it means going against her own flesh and blood...

Sasha, I don't judge you

Arbeiten, arbeiten!

Ca can't look at them, bloody bastards.

They are in the first car, the freight-car

They are here already. There's the police van

The train is leaving in 7 minutes,

7 minutes...

Surname!

Go!

Surname!

Filipchuk.

Surname!

Louder!

Go!

Pavel!

Pavel!

What are you doing?!

He is sick.

Katya...Katrina!

I'm here!

Tell,

Tell Sasha to come here.

I can see

her standing with an officer.

She could turn around and look at me.

Tell her to turn around!

Why are you so quiet?

Please say something, I beg you.

I don't want you to go

alone.

I have to go. You know that.

I want to come with you.

Sasha

You'll come.

As soon as I leave the service

you shall come to me.

When, August?

I think it'll be soon

Perhaps towards the summer.

I'll go to the university and you shall study, too

No.

Why not?

I don't understand you.

I shall not study. I'll work.

Your mother is calling you,

don'! you see?

She is waving her hands in the air.

She is crying.

You are such a bitch,

at least turn around.

Remove the ramp!

Got it

Where are you?

I'm here!

My kisses to you!

How are you?

Could not be better.

Who is with her?

Her husband!

Her what?

Her husband.

What's his name?

August.

What? What?

August!

Here.

You shouldn't! Don't!

Yes. Take it.

No.

I'm your husband, right? Take it.

Good.

- August - What?

I almost forgot...

This is for you, my grandma's pipe.

Thank you.

I'll write to you tomorrow.

August!

You...you're all I've got!

And you are all I have, do you hear me?

I'm not gonna see him again.

You shall see him for sure.

There was no trial yet

and you're already.

Yes.

there wasn't.

Men'! you so sweet.

Who is so cute?

Just like his father.

Her name is Susana, she is my daughter.

We also have good news

Pavel Danilovich returned.

Letters from other academics helped, you see

as did many, many good people.

The investigator,

the duty officer...

He is no more. Yes...

He was killed by outlaws in Rakitsky forest.

I know that because I work at the executive committee,

I'm taking my work home to type this up.

Listen, come to our place.

I can'!, I need to feed.

Please, Pavel Danilovich asked me to find you.

What's his name?

Susana!

Lesik

Do you remember I've talked about

a student - mathematician.

We go! acquainted

under very strange circumstances.

I don't remember his name...

August

We talked about the threshold,

the biblical limit.

Lesik has worked it out

the year of expiation

and when justice will return to the world,

1979

That isn't an exact date,

I could have made an error in the calculations.

It might be ten, or twenty,

or fifty years,

but definitely no more than that.

Why are you talking to him? He is a cyberneticist!

Even a child knows that cybernetic: is bourgeois pseudoscience.

Who told you this?

Who told you that he is a cyberneticist?

Darling, his views reflect the principles of dialectical materialism

he uses algebra

to analyze patterns in history.

He is ether crazy or

a fraud, or a provoker!

Or perhaps all of this.

With him and you'll go back to, where you came from.

That's it! Enough.

Sleep, sleep.

I want to tell you.

August made quite an impression on me,

a very, very strong.

I don't know where he is?

We even sent a search inquiry to Army officials.

Lesik

put on the kettle.

Could you fire up an oil lamp?

I wish there was some wine,

but...

You do know something?

I can see it.

No.

No. It's just a theory.

You see.

There was this guy

with me in the cell called Laschenko.

We dug up graves together... Do you remember? He had a scar...

I think that he,

reported your husband.

How do you know that?

He suddenly got his sentence reduced.

And that's a killer...a collaborator!

What could have he reported?

August fought for his country.

He was wounded 3 times, he has medals.

So what?

And actually it was you, who set him up

with all your talk about Stalin.

So what? August did not say anything bad!

You are lying!

I told you,

this is just my theory.

They should've sent you to a mad house instead of a prison!

You're right. right,

ll is all in my imagination.

For example, I dreamt

that I will die in 1948 on the 7th March,

Even saw the date.

It's quite an optimistic dream, actually...

I still have a year ahead of me...Yes.

The only pity is,

that I wouldn't get a chance to talk to him,

To your husband.

You are all enemies of the state,

You were saying anti-Soviet thing here...

What do you think. I'm stupid?

Do you think I dun'! understand anything? Bastards!

Look there is louse on your pillow!

It's all him!

Your Lesik!..

Dirty. He doesn't wash... scratches while at the table

I don't want him here any more!

That's it...Either him or me!

I shall gel rid of all of his papers.

Yes, he gals confused... But he is not an enemy of the state.

He is just confused,

Both my brothers died in the War.

Father died during the civil war.

If you report to the authorities...

Let him die at home,

in his own bed.

I lied.

They released him

because he is dying.

Yes, dear..

Don't we love our baths!

(Sings) Oh lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu

Give nothing to the other kids

And cookies to my Ok-sa-na

So she'll sleep sweetly through the night.

Give me Verochka

Give Verochka to me.

No crying. no crying.

We were at the church together with Nadyusha.

Really?

She's just 8 months old and,

you take her everywhere!

Today is a holiday, Forgiveness Sunday!

A holiday!

That's it,

a granddaughter in one hand and,

a daughter in another.

That's life.

If only they knew...

No crying. no crying.

$0,

can you skin the herring?

I go! it with food vouchers.

Yes,

People are dying.

Old and young.

They held out till victory

with hope,

And now

children are dying,

from a lack of vitamins.

There is a famine

Worse than during the War.

I'll go outside, clean the fish

What are we celebrating?

The gift of electricity!

Quiet!

They say it's for good now.

I've cooked some pancakes,

Vasya got paid for his carpentry

he made a casket.

Dear God.

Forgive me, Ekaterina

What for?

Oh that's right, today is that holiday

Forgive me loo.

God shall forgive and so will I

Forgive me Sasha dear.

Forgive me daughter that,

life has not been easy for you.

Forgive me ton, mother.

For everything.

Shall we?

Stop!

What? What is this?

All 3 of you are feeding mothers.

Yeah

Oh! Herring! Well done, Vasya,

What are we drinking to?

To light.