Original subtitles

(JAZZY FUNK MUSIC PLAYING IN HEADPHONES)

(HORN BLARING)

(HORN CONTINUES)

(BELL CLANKING)

(DOG BARKING)

(COWS LOWING)

(TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)

(STEAM HISSING)

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Who are you?

Do you speak English?

Elton John is English.

Yeah.

He is.

(CHUCKLES)

And do you live here? This is a nice home.

Are you from Pinner?

No.

Watford? No.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Yula. Shh!

(FYODOR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(YULA SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Who is that? Fyodor's girlfriend.

Who's Fyodor?

My brother. Half-brother.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Who are you?

CHILD: She speaks English.

Yeah.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Who are you?

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Dad, you have to speak English.

Why you come all way from England to Grizmet?

You have wrong house.

Does Pyotr live here?

(YULA SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Who the hell are you?

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(ARGUING IN RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) You two are great together!

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) That won't be necessary.

It necessary if you don't want to say who you are.

Ask Pyotr.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Oksana?

(IN ENGLISH) So, you know who she is?

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) You look just like Grandma!

(LAUGHING)

BOY: What do you think Elton would eat when he's in Berlin?

Uh, currywurst with paprika.

Istanbul?

Er, kebab. Go to Lezzeit's, ask for Ayaz.

Vienna? Great ice cream in Vienna.

(PYOTR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(PYOTR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(FYODOR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(PYOTR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(FYODOR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(YULA SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Athens? Taramasalata.

You've been to every city Elton's played in!

(CAR HORN HONKING)

Who's that? Mom.

I'm saving up for London to see his farewell tour.

But I'm nowhere near 50,000 rubles.

DAD: Whoa, whoa! Where you going?

(BREATHING HEAVILY) Oksana! Oksana!

(YULA SPEAKS RUSSIAN)

(PYOTR SPEAKS RUSSIAN)

Oksana?

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SOBS)

(SOBBING)

(MOM SNIFFLING)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN INDISTINCTLY)

(SOBS)

(GRUNTS)

They told me you died in fire.

The orphanage phone me and say you burn place down.

It was one floor, two at most.

And many people die. "Many" is a very loose term.

And you die with them. This is what they tell us.

PYOTR: Sestra, I found it! Was at back of loft.

Why didn't you leave him?

Where?

All he did was cry.

I thought I'd come back for you after one month.

(GASPS) Is that me?

Mmm-hmm.

(LAUGHING)

My head really was bulbous.

You were beautiful baby.

Everyone would stop me in street and say, "She's beautiful baby!"

VILLANELLE: Oh.

Head was big. But beautiful.

MOM: Ah, yeah.

I used to like dressing up and you always wanted my clothes.

So I would make costume from old curtains for you.

Here.

I look ridiculous!

Oh! That's me!

(CHUCKLES)

Where's Dad?

There has to be one of him before he died?

I make tea. You still like Kopveska?

Hmm. I bring for you.

She gets sad if anyone speak of Dad.

Oh, look Oksana, you punching me in face.

That's a good punch.

You have all that innocent look.

Because I am innocent.

I believe her.

Bor'ka, speaking good English doesn't make innocent.

I know a killer when I see a killer and she's a killer.

DAD: Are you seriously accusing her?

Yes.

(ALL LAUGHING) (FYODOR STAMMERING)

BOR'KA: So who killed me?

PYOTR: (LAUGHING) I told you, I was right.

But who killed me?

DAD: Okay, okay, so Oksana is not killer.

But, we ask now, who is?

YULA: Hmm.

(ALL EXCLAIMING) PYOTR: You?

You?

I got the card. Mum, you murdered me?

I had no choice, Bor'ka.

You could have murdered the others.

I knew it was her. I knew it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) I did!

Why I'm so bad at this game?

Pyotr, you too naive.

He means you are idiot.

You were wrong too!

He is like little puppy dog. You know he lives in the barn.

I like to sleep there some nights.

There's a hole in roof and I can see stars.

(MOCKING) There is hole in roof and he can see stars.

Screw you! Screw you!

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(EXCLAIMS)

Oh, you sit down. Mummy's boy, yeah, is good...

Fyodor, enough!

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN) Good.

(IN ENGLISH) I like to make speech.

This night is very, very special for me.

My girl, my little girl...

Welcome home, Oksana!

I've never actually lived here.

ALL: Welcome home!

Well, okay. I'll go along with it for the sake of the moment!

(GLASSES CLINKING)

(FYODOR TAPS RHYTHMICALLY)

♪ I remember when Rock was young

♪ Me and Susie had so much fun

♪ Holding hands and skimming stones

♪ Had an old gold Chevy And a place of my own

♪ But the biggest kick I ever got

♪ Was doing a thing Called the Crocodile Rock

♪ While the other kids were Rocking round the clock

♪ We were hopping and bopping To the Crocodile Rock

♪ Well, Crocodile Rocking ls something shocking

♪ When your feet Just can't keep still

♪ I never knew me a better time And I guess I never will

♪ Oh, lawdy mama Those Friday nights

Come on, come on.

♪ When Susie wore Her dresses tight

♪ And the Crocodile Rocking Was out of sight

♪ Laa, la-la-la-la-laa ♪ La-la-la-la-laa

♪ La-la-la-la-laa ♪ Laa ♪

(PYOTR SWEARING IN RUSSIAN)

VILLANELLE: Having fun?

This is my, er, how you call this?

Anger problem.

Wow.

You saw this wood all day, like Dad?

It's not so bad.

I used to do woodwork.

Really? Where?

You always wanted to be a firefighter. Right?

You remember.

Yeah, that was before I realise I'm scared of heights.

So, you've had a good life, huh?

What makes you say that?

Bor'ka say you've been all over the world.

Is that why you became pilot? So you could travel?

Sure.

I missed you. (SIGHS)

You really don't remember Dad?

What was he like?

Funny.

Strong. He taught me how to fight.

He was much better.

Than what?

She was mean.

You were mean.

You were annoying. (CHUCKLES)

I beat the crap out of sofa so I don't beat the crap out of people.

You think that's weird?

Just beat the crap out of people.

It will make you feel a lot better.

Did you think we were dead too?

That's what orphanage told you?

How they say we die?

Car crash.

This is the greatest golubtsy you ever tasted.

What are they doing over there?

PYOTR: Annual festival tomorrow. We host for local villages.

It's so great! You'll have lots of fun, I promise.

You can't promise that.

Everyone have fun at festival. You'll see.

Don't you want to get out?

Mum needs me. For what?

I'm not like you. You were always strong.

Being strong is a choice. Don't stay here for her. She wants to control you.

She's not a bad woman. People here say she's saint.

People here don't know her.

Why did you come, Oksana?

Because I had the hiccups.

What are you doing?

Having a moment.

Look, it's me and sister having lunch.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Nadege has been cooking for me since I was a kid.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Nadege enters her piroshki every year and has won the last...

Nineteen years.

Wow.

You know Bor'ka is entering a piroshki this year.

He wants the prize money.

I'm terrified.

And I am going to help him.

NADEGE: But you are shit at cooking.

I know, but he needs help.

(LAUGHING)

Are you weird asshole like him?

VILLANELLE: Weirder.

(BOTH LAUGH)

(MUTTERS IN RUSSIAN)

(CHUCKLES)

MAN: (ON TV) Armstrong said moving in the lunar gravity

was easier than the simulations.

And once Aldrin joined Armstrong...

FYODOR: You see this?

Giant leap for mankind was in Nevada.

They're trying to fool us, you know.

Who? Them.

All of them.

They never even went to space.

You know why?

'Cause they don't want us to know that the Earth is flat.

(LAUGHING)

You're serious?

Do you think this funny?

(LAUGHING)

FYODOR: There is secret organisation,

that make influence on every government in world.

And they will cause downfall of planet and you won't laugh.

And you know that in every, er...

(MUTTERS IN RUSSIAN)

Er, intelligence agency, yes?

Yeah. FSB, DGSE, MI6,

all have people working for this organisation.

And you know what they are?

Lizards.

This man in England, David Icke. You know David Icke?

Of course.

Very smart man. Knows many things.

See? We blow your mind.

(MAN ON TV CONTINUES)

(DISTANT THUDDING)

(GROANING)

(RUSSIAN MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

(SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN)

(PYOTR SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) How many grams is, erm, ounce?

(SCOFFS)

28.35.

Hmm. And what the hell do I do with that?

That looks like shit.

I'm screwed.

You totally are.

♪ Nothing matters If you bury it deep

♪ Take away the worry What's left, you keep

(SNIFFS)

♪ Never say you're sorry... ♪

Wow.

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) How many times have you been married?

Three. Three?

Yeah. (CHUCKLES)

Which one was your favourite?

Come on.

You must have liked one the most.

Tatiana is my wife now. I love her.

She never used to be like this.

She was different.

It sounds like you were different too.

Mmm! So she told you about me?

Yes.

What did she say?

She said...

She had a daughter who die.

She was very sad about you,

if that is what you want to know.

What did she say I was like?

She said you were difficult child.

Did she tell you she dumped me?

Yeah!

It was very hard time for her.

You know how many things she had to deal with.

She still doesn't tell me everything.

But she...

cries every night.

She had a sadness in her heart.

Maybe she feels like dirt for letting her family down.

TATIANA: I brought you tea.

Hey. (GRUNTS)

(DAD SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

I have something for you.

It was mine from '80s. I adjust for your size.

I think I got size right.

You like it?

Love it.

Mmm-hmm.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(WOMAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(HONKING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

(SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN)

(CROWD APPLAUDS)

(LAUGHS)

(WHOOPING)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN ON PA)

(ANNOUNCEMENT CONTINUES)

(ALL APPLAUD)

(INAUDIBLE)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) This place is wonderful.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Is this your dance group?

Performance troupe. And we called "All Around."

Oh.

Is that because you all get around?

(CHUCKLING)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(INDISTINCT)

(BELL RINGING)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(GRUNTS)

(YELLS) (APPLAUSE)

Yes!

(CHEERING)

(PATRIOTIC MUSIC PLAYS ON PA)

(JUDGE SPEAKING RUSSIAN OVER PA)

(GASPS)

(CHEERING)

(PYOTR SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(CHEERING)

(PLAYING RUSSIAN POP MUSIC)

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(LAUGHING)

(IN ENGLISH) You don't want to dance?

Oh, I am bad at dancing. (CHUCKLES)

Me too.

Pyotr was right.

(CHUCKLES)

This is fun.

Huh.

Don't do that!

I should never have entered.

Elton John isn't going anywhere.

It's his farewell tour!

Watch it on YouTube.

It's really not that big deal.

I embarrassed family.

Don't be silly.

I did.

Mum said I did.

When?

After I lost,

she came up to me and said I was stupid

and embarrassed her and... (GRUNTING)

You are freaking me out.

Eat this.

Be quiet.

♪ Just this time

♪ You float by

♪ I see darkness in you

♪ Close my eyes

♪ What do I?

♪ I see darkness in you ♪

♪ I see darkness in you

♪ I see darkness in you... ♪

Oksana?

Oksana?

(GROANING)

(SIGHS)

Come on.

That used to make you laugh.

No, it didn't.

Okay, then,

Dad laughed. I remember someone... He didn't.

You are wasting food.

It's tomato paste... You are wasting our food.

I could buy 10,000 tomatoes.

Am I supposed to be impressed by that?

Twenty thousand. (TATIANA LAUGHS)

You always laugh at things that aren't funny.

Like you?

Yes. (CHUCKLES)

Clean your face.

Can you do it?

You're not a child.

I want to feel like one.

Please. (CHUCKLES)

Can you do it?

I want you to leave the house.

No.

No. You leave tomorrow.

I don't want you to be here anymore.

Why?

This is my home.

No, darling.

You're not a part of this family.

You do not belong here.

What are you going to do?

Take me to the orphanage?

Easier to carry a trusting little girl out of this house

than it will be to carry me.

Especially after the last two days.

Don't pretend you were an angel.

Don't pretend that you were a mother.

Or a wife.

(GROANS)

You will not bring your darkness into this house.

(VILLANELLE SCOFFS)

You are the darkness.

You have always been a darkness.

He wasn't scared of me.

He was sick of you.

He knew I could see what you are.

What's that?

Like me.

(CHUCKLES DRYLY)

I have killed a lot of people.

I was not a happy person.

You were never a happy person.

(CHUCKLES) That's not true.

(TATIANA LAUGHS)

Again, that's not funny.

You were bad from the beginning.

You didn't cry as a baby.

Oh, please.

Some bullshit myth to make you feel better?

I did cry.

I did cry!

You ruined me.

You took everything from me.

You took him.

You could control him.

He would do anything for you because you had a darkness!

This dark... Darkness!

(BREATH CATCHES)

He thought you would do something to us, to me.

I didn't mind that you took me there.

I didn't mind that you never came back for me.

What I mind

is that you won't admit what you are.

That I am my mother's daughter.

Get out of my house.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(EXHALES HEAVILY)

I...

I think...

Oh, I think I need to kill you, Mama.

(GAS HISSING)

(ALARM RINGING)

(SCREAMS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)