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Peter Fyodorov

Evgeny Antropov Vladimir Yumatov

Evgeny Antropov Vladimir Yumatov Igor Chernevich

Vladislav Abashin Svetlana Kolpakova

Yana Sekste

Yana Gladkikh Sergey Zhuravel Sergey Byzgu

Sergey Sosnovsky Vyacheslav Chepurchenko Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Director of photography: Andrey Gurkin Production designer: Iraida Shults

Editor: Konstantin Mazur Composer: Darin Sysoev Sound mixer: Ivan Rips

Written by Dmitriy Konstantinov

Executive producer Maxim Korolev

Producers Alexey Moiseev Oleg Piganov

Directed by Dmitriy Konstantinov Yuriy Trofimov

THE DEPARTED

It's my town,

my countrymen.

Ask them if they lived well.

Were they happy?

Did they love their town?

I know what they'll tell you.

Each person has only one life,

and everyone wishes there was less grief in their lives.

Attention, comrades, prepare your documents!

You can act according to law, of course. That'd be right.

That's the meaning of law.

Only who's gonna benefit from it?

Surely not people.

There won't be any less perps in town, no matter what you do.

Even if you put all of them in jail, new ones will arrive.

That's the way we live here, a 100 kilometers away from Moscow.

And these new ones will come to our town with their own rules.

People will lock their doors again,

get angry dogs.

They'll be afraid to go out at night.

Soviet power is good,

but even under communists dirty money won't disappear.

Perps will have their own fund anyway.

And we spent half of the fund on perps, and the other half on our town needs.

To make people's lives better.

So don't tell me I'm a villain.

You just have your own truth,

and I have mine.

Farewell.

Ivan Zakharovich Liznyuk,

aka Dad.

An unpaid leave for a week.

I need it.

I want to stay here.

To fix some stuff.

The one that visited you in the hospital?

She's a good girl.

Alright, fix your stuff.

I roll one half aside.

You help me to roll aside the other half.

Then come up to the feet,

and tickle 'em.

What are you doing? I can't stand tickling.

There must be at least one joke in every trick.

So will you be my assistant?

Mary believes in miracles.

Mary's gonna fly into the sky.

I don't do it very well yet.

You should've become an actress.

Really? I heard that all the time.

I went to study in Moscow,

but there were too many fools like me.

Wanna know what happened next?

I fell in love.

Yes, for real.

For the first time in my life.

And would you like me to tell you

how he turned out to be a criminal?

How I become a person who finds places for robbery.

- Enough, Maya. - Enough?

Do you want me to tell you how he went to jail for three years

and I couldn't break away?

And how he gambled me and lost?

And they all had their way with me.

And how glad I was when they all were taken.

Please, stop!

Will you stay with me?

I can't.

I'm sorry.

I have to go. Don't walk me further.

Joking aside,

will you go with me?

I feel sorry for him.

He has no one but me.

Then I'll have to steal you. There's no other way.

I really have to go.

What are you doing here?

Are you following me?

It's like...

What on earth is that?

She's already a grown up, Yuri Borisovich.

Quiet!

Yesterday Grams Manya's purse was stolen in the store.

With the whole pension inside.

Before, if they stole they would bring it back with all the money in it.

Now we can forget about it.

So, we shouldn't have caught the criminals?

What criminals?

Very dangerous.

That robbed the bank in Yaroslavl and two stores in Karabanov.

It did not happen here, didn't it?

Where are you going? Come here!

I'll put a hat on you.

People are angry with you. They say they used to live better.

Everyone used to love you. And now they're afraid of you.

Why has your friend shot Ivan Zakharovich?

You wanted it the other way around?

Ivan Zakharovich didn't want to kill anybody!

Everyone says there are holes in the ceiling cause he aimed higher.

Enough, Masha! You better be silent!

Mom, is everyone really afraid of dad?

Let's go.

Gena, what a sharpshooter you are!

One more time!

We welcome the legitimate authority!

How are you doing, comrade policeman?

Sorry, I don't know your middle name.

Thank you, I'm fine.

Thank God! At least someone is doing well.

Taras, let's go home!

Children should walk around.

A river, fresh air.

Who's that with Grisha?

They say he's the new head of the park.

Did the Ministry of Culture appoint him?

You said if we catch Dad it will be better for everyone.

But people stare at us, whisper.

Are you sure it was the right thing to do?

Well done, Taras!

You're getting used to think, analyze.

Good feeling, right?

Actually, no, it used to be better.

Look, I stand by what I said.

But first we need to make sure

that we found the right Dad.

Meet me at nine in your barn.

The meeting continues!

It seems to be too easy.

We had nothing, and suddenly we got him!

You think they set captain up?

I wanna check it.

Let's say Liznyuk isn't Dad

and he was forced to write that letter.

And who's Dad then?

Now he is confident that he's won.

It's time for us to make our move.

If Ivan Zakharovich is not real Dad...

Marta knows who is real.

She brought letters to him.

Is that why they let her go?

What a lousy job you have.

Can hardly stand it myself.

When will he go back to Moscow?

Soon.

Pack up with children tomorrow, you're going to Lipki again.

Why are you commanding here?

I have already arranged with Nina for tomorrow.

It's already decided.

Hey, what's up with you?

You are quite different now.

Why did he come here?

We used to live so good.

Masha, we're doing the right thing.

Trust me, please!

For two months you were silent, guys. Nice!

We found it out just this morning. Right, Egor?

Yes.

Congratulations, well done!

It's a great joy to have a baby!

How would you know?

I'm just guessing!

Didn't know who to share this joy with. Egor suggested to come to you.

He suggested correctly. Because he's a friend.

Cheers!

How is there, Taras?

Quiet. They seem to listen to the music.

Alright, Egor knows what he's doing.

Egor, maybe we should go?

Let me have some fresh air first.

Musa, walk him out. Marta and I will wash the dishes.

- Sit, I'll do it myself! - That's it!

- When did you have time? - Relax, Musa.

Exhale!

Marta!

Glafira!

What do you need?

Glafira, bring me the smokes please. They're in the room on the nightstand.

Musa, I have to go home.

So many things to do tomorrow.

To go to the club by day, to get Dad in the morning.

Calm down, they've already caught Dad.

It was not Dad.

Who's Dad, then?

Musa, I know nothing. They don't say anything.

Hefty guys from Moscow arriving tomorrow morning.

We're gona get him at dawn.

- She's out. - Excellent, Taras!

She turned to the right and down the street.

The ice is broken, dear jurors!

There's something in her hands.

What is it?

Some bundle.

She now passes The House of Culture.

Looks like she's going to the forest.

We must get her!

Where should they meet? How can we find them?

Everything's thought through by a powerful hurricane, Taras!

Halt!

Stop!

Wait, stop!

What's going on? I don't understand!

Hands, please!

- Calm down! - What hands?

Why should I calm down?

I don't understand why. I was just walking around!

Please, don't!

What kind of people are they? To brake a window and run away!

Why would they do it?

I need to think, to remember.

Maybe I have enemies now?

Go to bed.

I'll bar the window.

Then I'll go to the club. I have to finish something.

I can't fall asleep anyway.

- Good night, Dad. - Good night.

Magician was drunk

and the trick was a failure.

Do you know what your main problem is?

You think your jokes are witty.

Well, your problems are way more serious by the way.

In case of emergency communication?

You don't get it, don't you?

Not even trying to.

Yury Borisovich!

Let's not quarrel.

May I call you Magician?

That's how perps called you?

Don't bother.

I don't want to remember those times.

Why?

You'd got a good place there.

You'd shown Gaspar your tricks first

and then become friends even.

Did he help you to get your hands on this town?

You suspected me,

collected information.

And were seeing my daughter at the same time?

I suspect everyone. It's my profession.

Poor girl!

- Why is she so unlucky with men? - You're digressing!

I have an offer for you.

It's very valuable!

Gaspar would not have put a political ex-con over the perps.

Someone backs you up surely.

You tell us who this is

and we'll consider it a cooperation.

Minus three years in prison.

Are you serious?

Poor girl!

It's way harder than making the Kremlin stars disappear.

To create a town where everyone's happy.

Yura joked that it was his main trick.

Where did you see such criminals? Folks like him should be in government.

And how did he make the Kremlin stars disappear?

He says he didn't touch them.

He just made people think they were not there.

All people at once?

Nonsense!

How long have you been his lover?

I'm not his lover.

I've loved him for a long time, since Chebotaevsk.

Don't hurry, tell it from the very beginning.

In prison Voloshin told Gaspar

that he knows how to create a town of happy people.

Gaspar offered to try, promised to help even. What happened next?

Gaspar said that if Yura would succeed,

then in 1963 when he'd get free,

he would come to live in this beautiful town in his golden years.

- He laughed, didn't believe it. - Did Voloshin tell you this?

And what Chebotaevsk has to do with it?

Yura went to Chebotayevsk after prison first,

but everything went wrong there.

Perps didn't want a political ex-con to be above them.

And Yura went to Strunyevo

and there he came up with this system when no one knows who Dad is.

Then I went there.

I still don't understand.

You say that you love him.

But what about the brothel?

Musa?

What has it to do with anything?

Taras, can I talk to you?

All phones are dead.

Here and everywhere in town.

And Comrade Stotsky told me to call for people.

How should I call?

Take Kostya,

wake the head of the post office up.

If a long-distance call doesn't work there

send a telegram, I'll write down the address.

Alright, the state was robbed,

ordinary people were helped. This I can understand somehow.

But you killed people.

Andrei Petrovich, Tisha Gribov.

Or do you want to say that you knew nothing about it?

That it was somewhere far away from you

- and they were just servants to you? - You gonna keep talking to yourself?

During interrogations all the people as one said

that Major Kozhedub had been liquidated by Fedya Marked and Rynda by your orders.

By Dad's order.

Why did you detain me?

According to the testimony of a crazy hooker?

Rodion!

Phones are dead everywhere.

So is the Telegraph. We can't get in touch with anyone.

We can take a detour, across the bridge.

Let's go!

Why don't your friends let us go out of town?

What's on your mind, Yuri Borisovich?

This is ridiculous, Rodion Ilyich.

I was with you all the time.

There are not many people gathered - about twenty.

I'll bring my folks.

The main thing is to start.

The rest will come later.

I see you're as sober as a judge.

Though you drank more than me yesterday.

What is he doing here?

The town is cut off.

There's no communication, the roads are blocked.

You're our only hope.

I mean your radio station.

Where's Glafira?

At the police station.

She was Voloshin's messenger.

It's true.

Musa, I ask you as a friend.

Help us.

They blocked the town for a reason.

Look, we've already done too much for you.

Now you have to help us.

You think you were released for no reason?

I owe nothing to anyone.

Alright, I'll send your message.

But you have to let Glafira go.

Deal.

- Do you promise? - How can I promise you that?

Then sorry, but no.

He promises.

Bastards!

Who did that?

Musa keeps his word. He promised to fix it, he'll do it.

People gather at the police station, demanding set Yuri Borisovich free.

He taught our kids magic tricks!

Don't worry, comrades! We'll put in prison only the guilty ones!

Half of our town is in prison. and we shouldn't worry!

We won't leave until we speak to the authorities!

Folks, they're gonna put in jail all of us soon!

Comrades! Please, disperse!

Disperse!

Give us Akimych back!

Our lives were better with him! Am I right, comrades?

We did live better.

You won't put us all in jail!

Wanna fix it?

Dirty rat!

Release Yuri Borisovich!

What have they done with our town, bastards!

Right, Valentina!

They don't think about ordinary people!

Right you are, uncle Pasha!

- They don't care about common people! - Right!

Another gun!

It was in Ivan Zakharovich' safe.

In case of emergency shoot in the air, to scare 'em off.

What's that for?

They might break the window. Somebody can be injured.

Musa said the radio station will be fixed only by morning.

We must survive this night.

We will.

Why should we survive the night? Did I fix the jalopy for nothing?

There's a narrow path.

A car won't pass there, but the jalopy will.

They won't let us.

Quiet, quiet! We have a lunch break!

We have to go to the store!

I'm hungry, everyone's hungry too!

Come on!

Quiet, comrades!

- That's enough already! - Why are you defending him?

Should they die of hunger?

Go home!

You say you're not a snitch?

What are you talking about, uncle Pasha?

You said they also let Chalice go, not only you.

And Chalice goes to cops

as if he works there.

If you're not a snitch,

prove it.

Let the guys have some food!

Make way! Go!

How long should we wait? For three hours?

Through the forest, taking a detour on a wheel?

It'll take him 3 hours only to reach the town.

Where are you going?

Comrade Senior Lieutenant, what is there?

There are about 200 people crowded.

They're shouting, swearing.

A crowd is a scary thing, I agree.

And only a month ago they were beautiful, nice people.

It has always surprised me.

So stop them, Yuri Borisovich!

You're not a bandit. You're not a perp.

- Do you get that people might die! - Rodion Ilyich,

I've told you so many times

that I'm not who you think I am.

Do you want an advice?

Run before it's too late.

It's a crowd - dumb and ruthless.

Nothing will stop it.

What are you doing here?

People!

People, stop!

People, come to your senses!

Vsevolod Sergeevich, go rehearse at your theater.

Nobody asked you to come here.

What are you doing?

Come to your senses! Your friends and brothers are there.

Come to your senses! Are you the people?

What are you doing?

Valentina!

Where are you taking me?

It's done.

Akimych, we have to talk.

Why couldn't you hold your guys?

And now, you see how it turns out.

If something happens to Magician Gaspar will take my life.

He's like a brother to him.

It's over. You won't get medicines for me.

Nadia is dead.

Bastards!

I'd strangle anybody for my wife!

Hang on, Akimych!

I'm glad you're with us.

Shoot at somebody, I'll tell you when.

And we'll shout then, that the cops did that.

Nazar Akimych!

Why are you here?

My Dad! Why is he there?

- It must be some kind of mistake. - Of course, it's a mistake.

So, go home!

We gonna deal with it right now.

You have so many people in the police. Where are the rest of them?

Somewhere in town.

They are patrolling, right, Taras?

Actually, they won't charge.

How would they deal with it then?

They'd say that perps had nothing to do with it.

Common people are indignant with the outrage of police.

"You won't put all of us in jail".

It's time, Valya!

Well, let me also try!

These bastards are hiding, aren't they? Maybe we should break their windows?

I wish I had strength to throw it!

Yes, come on!

On the floor!

Get back!

Klava, you don't need this. Drop the stone! Go home!

- Every one is here! - Go home!

Everybody get back or I'll shoot!

I saw the handcuffs.

Some keys.

I can't remember.

Maybe something?

Marta said

that he didn't remove the Kremlin stars.

He just made everyone believe it.

Maybe it was true?

Now I see how Ivan Zakharovich wrote his confession.

Quiet! Quiet! Enough!

We won the war, we'll win now.

Stop yelling!

Enough!

Quiet!

Quiet, I said!

- Do you know me? - Yes, we do!

- Do you believe me? - Yes!

Well, we'll figure it out! Go home! We'll talk tomorrow.

We want to talk today, Akimych!

Shut your mouth, Valentina!

Come on! Go home!

- Yes, it's time to go! - Let's go, let's go!

That's enough.

Cops have just killed Klava Koryakina!

Murderers!

Let's break through!

Get back!

I said get back!

Take it, Tolya!

Avenge your wife!

Uncle Pasha, take people away!

Don't do it, Akimych! We lived so peacefully.

Uncle Pasha, take people away, I'm counting to three!

Shoot to kill.

It's an order!

Don't sit here. Go to the farther window.

Nilin!

One grenade a window and then we attack.

- Won't miss it? - Are you kidding, uncle Pasha?

I'm gonna blow these cops to hell.

Pack your things. We're leaving.

- Why? - It needs to be done!

Who needs it? What's going on? Why the shooting?

We must leave!

Dad, stop.

Dad, what's going on? Explain me.

Is Rodion there? Is he in danger?

Forget about him.

- Dad, I'm not a doll! - Lisa!

Your Rodion with his jokes is past already.

Come back! You can't help him!

Don't go there!

Lisa!