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THE PRICE OF LIFE.

- Thanks. - Hello.

- What’s this? - Money.

Sergey, witnesses.

Did you want to buy stamps?

I can’t hear you.

Yes.

You told me you need money, because you’re being blackmailed.

Of course, I…

I’ve wanted to have a collection my whole life.

But can a nice collection cost this much?

There are only five decent stamps the rest are trash.

Goodbye.

All the best.

What happened?

Antipin took the kids.

Any more details?

My husband took the kids.

I don’t know where. None

None of them answer their phones. He doesn’t want to speak to me.

We need to report them to the police, to put out an APB.

I’ve already called.

They said that as long as we aren’t divorced, it doesn’t count as kidnapping.

Natalia, calm down. Your husband’s made a big mistake.

The judge was already on your side. Let’s go in.

Let’s go.

Antipin’s lawyer challenged the judge.

He managed to have a man on this case instead of the woman.

Honorable court, our side

would like this video record to be added to the case.

As we believe it shows that Mrs. Antipina

has no right to bring kids up on her own.

Listen,

we watched the video the last time and we agreed not to play it again.

The record damages Natalia Sergeevna’s moral health.

We are here to decide fate of two children, so I’m accepting

all the evidence that have something to do with kids’ parents’ reliability.

What reliability are we talking about?

Antipin’s secretly kidnapped their children.

This woman’s spent the whole night up.

Your honor,

I just

want everybody to remember that Antipina’s older son,

Maksim,

suffers from epilepsy. So, that day,

when Antipina was drunk,

the boy had a fit,

because she didn’t make sure

he took his medicine.

The girl isn’t epileptic, but he took her too.

Listen, Antipin isn’t even here today. Do you think it’s ok?

Take your stand please.

I won’t, not unless you strike the damn record off.

Please escort Mt. Shagin out of the court room.

Your honor, lawyer Shagin…at the last hearing…

- Everybody up. - We’re calling recess till 4 p.m.

Yes, yes?

You didn’t have any papers. You just wanted to

rip me for money.

I found out what you were sentenced for

and did it just in case.

And I did a right thing.

Listen, let’s do this.

I’ll leave the envelope and leave.

Did you bring marked cash again?

No, no, they’re real this time.

And you can mail it to me, so it’s all done legally.

It’s too late.

I accidentally dropped your papers in the burner.

All the best.

Your honor, I have a couple of questions for

Mrs. Antipina Natalia Sergeevna.

Come please.

Could you please tell the court how old your kids are?

Maksim is 12, Varya is 8.

Is this true that your older son Maksim was born with a physical affliction?

- I object, your honor. - What?

We think it’s tactless, that the lawyer is constantly bringing up this sensitive topic.

Denied.

You’ll have to answer the question.

Yes, Maksim has epilepsy.

I have a medical record from the health resort,

where you were treated anonymously for alcoholism.

That’s not the reason I was there.

But you had some reasons.

That’s not the reason why I was there.

Tell me, when did you get the treatment?

I don’t remember.

Well, I guess I’ll have to remind you that

it happened in 2001.

Your daughter wasn’t born yet but you already had a sick boy.

However, you kept on drinking.

My honor, my question is rhetorical, for the most part.

What kind of mother, would keep on drinking realizing

she already has one ill child?

Why didn’t you tell me you got treated?

I got treated in a health resort, not a rehab.

His lawyer knows more than I do, you understand that?

I’m sorry.

I’m sorry.

- Do you not feel well? - Yes, I don’t feel well.

- Have you been drinking? - I’m allergic to alcohol.

Natalia Sergeevna, have you been drinking?

Why don’t you believe me? I’m allergic to alcohol!

You promised to get back home two hours ago.

After shopping I went to the hairdresser’s

and there were a lot of people.

Does it look well?

It’s fine.

Tell me, did you know how to

compliment women in your past life?

I don’t remember. Are you in a good mood?

I am, and you can’t ruin it for me.

We are losing the divorce case and you’re having fun?

You know what’s your problem Shagin?

What is it?

You’re made of problems, you don’t know how to rest,

you don’t know how to relax.

Take a look in my bag.

What is it?

The reason

why you’ll have to increase my salary.

Yes?

How did you even find it?

No, wait,

how did you even think of looking for it?

Polina, you’re a genius!

See,

you can do it, you can complement women when you feel like it.

What about the hair?

Hair looks nice,

Mitrohina, I’ve fixed the tap in your bathroom. Can you hear me?

You can’t.

Yes, I took the kids, I did it.

What else could I do?

I couldn’t leave them with my wife.

Instead of taking care of the ill kid,

instead of making sure his well-being,

instead of giving him the medicine on time,

she was rushing around the place

trying to find hidden cameras.

Yes, I’ve installed them for her own good.

And what did it lead to?

The boy doesn’t get his medicine,

goes to school and has fits.

One fit, then the other one,

then the third one.

It all happened in front of his mates.

Do you know what it means for an epileptic boy?

It’s a huge trauma.

He said he doesn’t want to go to school after that. What

What else do you want me to tell you?

In Natalia Sergeevna’s record it says that she came to the resort

because she had complaints about headaches,

poor digestion.

Problems with alcohol are only mentioned in the very end.

You see,

the drunks don’t like admitting the fact that

they are drunks. Especially women. And Natasha,

Natasha would fall down after two shots.

The record says that

even small amounts of ethanol make your wife dizzy and sick.

Tell me, why do you call being allergic to ethanol an addiction?

Because it has nothing

to do with the allergy.

Here we’re talking

about alcohol addiction,

because she often drinks. That’s it.

Did she buy alcohol?

No, she never bought alcohol.

My patients often brought and still bring me alcohol.

Our bar is full of it.

I have a feeling that you’re trying to blame

my client of accustoming his wife to drinking.

No, of course not.

Tell me, when

did she start having problems with alcohol?

Natalia Sergeevna first had problems with

alcohol a year after our first child was born.

- So, it was about 2002? - Yes.

So why did you only manage to talk her into getting treated in 2004?

Because by that time it was clear that she’s losing control.

And we really wanted to have a second child.

We were afraid that he would

be born with a trauma too.

So she kept on drinking after having the child, right?

Much to my regret, yes.

The boy was a bottle baby. I was hoping that it would stop, that it was

just a postpartum depression. But she would drink more and more each month.

Why are you listening to him? He’s lying.

Order.

I’m holding Maksim’s

medical record.

At the age of 8 he had a hard case of rubella,

at the age of 9 he got injured, other diseases aren’t as bad.

But do you know what all of them have in common?

In each case

mom took Maksim to the hospital.

And when he was hospitalized, she always stayed with him.

She signed the surgery agreement, not yours.

It doesn’t mean anything.

I work a lot in the hospital,

sometimes I spend days there.

You have two children.

Tell me, how many times have you personally helped them, when they had problems?

Many times,

but I don’t keep a count of it, sorry.

It’s basic parental love.

Did I have to give my wife a medal for maternal care?

No, ok, supposing you had little time.

How are you going to raise the children?

Or do you have parents who can babysit their grandchildren?

I don’t have parents, but I can afford

hiring a well-qualified nanny,

who has no alcohol addiction.

Excuse me,

how did your parents die?

It was an accident.

My dad lost control of the car.

Should I tell you my whole family history?

Let me rephrase the question.

Was your father epileptic?

I withdraw my question.

It’s not a question, it’s a statement.

My assistant found out what hospital your father got treated in.

He had the same type of epilepsy as your son.

It’s one of hereditary disorders you forgot to tell your wife about.

Instead, you blamed her for your son’s sufferings.

You did it with the same ease as you are now blaming her for alcohol addiction.

Fine.

I may be

a horrible husband,

but I’m a very good father.

And she is,

she is an alcoholic.

Three years after giving birth to your son your

wife got back to working as a flight attendant

for four more years.

She took medical tests numerous times.

How many times do you think she was not allowed aboard?

That’s right. Not once.

To add more, Natalia Sergeevna has been driving

since she was 18. And during all this years

she hasn’t had her license suspended once.

So, Mr. Antipov.

Will you change your mind, or will you carry on humiliating yourself

by telling lies about your wife?

Mom!

- Polina, did you get the decree? - Oh, I forgot.

- My girl. - Don’t cry mommy.

Shagin, may I have you for a moment?

I’m listening.

Do you think you got even with me?

You need to remember,

those 6 years you’ve spent in jail,

you’ll think of them as the best years of your life.

I thought you were going to apologize.

You know, I could probably understand you. Maybe even forgive you.

- Yes, it’s fine. - How are you?

Is everything fine?

And where are you going?

As far away from you as possible.

I am their father,

I have a right to see them.

Right.

You had the right,

you rarely used it.

After what you did in the court,

I’ll do everything possible that my kids

don’t see you.

Finally answer it!

Stop acting like

you care about us.

- Yes? - Hey, Shagin.

Are you at the cemetery?

Hi, how do you know?

I was told that you spend all your weekends wandering around the cemetery.

Do you want to spend your Sunday with some use?

Are you only calling because of that?

So, somebody I know out there lost something very valuable for him.

Do you see a woman?

Where?

I do.

Come to her.

Just a moment.

I'm here, now what?

You need to give it to one man.

This man is out of the city now. I’ll give you a call when he gets back.

Wouldn’t it be easier to hide it in the storage room?

I don’t trust rooms, Shagin. And you owe me.

I borrowed some money

that I didn't need. I can pay you back, even now, just tell me when.

I’ve already told you everything.

Take the bag, keep it close and don’t look inside.

Hello, Mr. Shagin. It’s not so easy to get you home.

Do you have a warrant to get in my room?

I didn’t touch anything.

Maybe some tea and sugar and that’s it. Your district officer let me it.

I called you, I wanted to speak to you.

You must have changed your number.

The district officer knows my number, you could have asked him.

Did you write this?

A request for a early record clearance.

- Yes. - So?

What did they say?

Do you not know?

I don’t read other people’s e-mails. That’s not why I came here.

Why are you so fast to clear your criminal record?

So I can do my law practice on a full-scale and get paid officially.

I need to get my daughter back and I need children’s services permission for that.

It’s all pointless, the request has been declined.

Listen, do you know this face?

No.

No? What a pity.

Can you imagine this person

crashing into a tree, and he’s covered with bruises, wounds,

You reported that you saw this person in the gullet to the rescuers,

the one who disappeared after.

Yes, I’ve called all the hospitals.

I’ve found out. We found him. Turns out he is Timofey Zemcov.

He’s served two sentences.

An experienced car thief,

hard-core criminal.

He told the doctors

he fell on his face when he was at his country house and…

There were

the numbers on his forehead.

What are those numbers? The time,

that’s what they usually do when providing medical care,

so doctors know when they applied a tourniquet,

and how much blood they might need for recasting. Isn’t that right?

You’re a doctor, Shagin.

What are you implying on?

I’m not implying on anything.

The thing is that we’ve found, we found a criminal,

who’s lying, lying through his teeth.

We want to send him to jail. Antipina says there was no car theft.

I would like to ask you if you would like to change

anything in your testimony, maybe add something?

I don’t recognize the man.

That’s right! It’s better you meet him.

- I won’t meet anyone. - Why?

Don’t you want to help the investigation?

File charges

or explain the request for law confrontation. I know my rights.

What a shame.

You should be interested in helping us find the truth.

- The truth? - The truth.

So why before, when I needed the truth,

the judge didn’t believe me, but the criminal who planted a gun on me?

He came up to me at the cemetery and introduced himself as a

grave-digger, I believed him. I had no idea that he was sent to me

to make it look like I was planning a murder. How do you like the truth?

Well, unfortunately, I don’t know the details of your case.

Maybe you should,

before you start bothering me.

Do the dishes after you finish drinking tea.

Fine.

Hello. I’m here about my daughter. Nastya Shagina.

- The year of birth? - 2003.

Her medical record was taken. Maybe she was transferred to a different clinic.

How can I find out which one?

Try your local one, where you live.

I wish I knew the place.

Tell me, are there any good doctors,

the ones you don’t want to leave? People move but still come back to the doctors?

All of them are good.

Of course, there are no doubts about that. But there must be

a couple of the best ones, right?

I will write you four surnames, but I didn’t give you them.

They’re all upstairs, but hurry,

they’re changing shifts. Three of them will leave.

Thanks.

Sir, you can’t walk around with such huge bags in our clinic.

I would leave them, but your cloakroom isn’t open.

Show me, what’s inside.

Well, security doesn’t have a right to examine my personal belongings.

But I have a right not to let you upstairs. It’s a children’s clinic.

I’m a doctor too. I need to speak to my colleagues.

I know doctors like you.

There are dozens like you coming here to sell your pills. Not allowed.

I’ve sent you the man’s phone number, his name is Valentin.

You should give him the bag, urgently.

So stop whatever you’re doing.

Yes, Nastya Shagina’s been here.

I made a cast, using it made a prosthetic.

She was supposed to wear at all times.

But according to the record, Nastya’s only been here twice, with a huge interval.

It’s not enough for a good result.

So, they would need to show the kid to a doctor?

Of course.

So Nastya didn’t visit you anymore?

She might have moved with her parents to a

different place and she’s being observed there.

Yes, may be.

Closed.

I won’t take long.

Yes? Yes, yes, yes, yes,

I’m listening.

We’ve had an agreement that we will be able to use the room till Monday.

We’ll have a different job.

And now we need to take the equipment apart and take it out.

Hello, Polina, they are taking our furniture out.

You can take it out yourself.

You have no right to take our room.

And you have no right to use it illegally.

Polina, listen, there is a representative of

Culture department. Talk to him, ok? Please.

Are you fighting again?

Yes, they are taking the cinema from us.

How about we wait till Monday?

Like something will change on Monday.

I see. Weren’t you supposed to come back tomorrow?

Shagin, it is tomorrow. Is the time not right?

- No, can’t you see what’s going on? - Don’t threaten me. I can threaten too.

- I can, yes. - Do you work here?

I tried. Did you get here right from the plane?

I would invite you to my dorm but there…

Don’t worry, Mitya and I rented a flat.

If you don’t get the license

- we’ll seal the doors on Monday. - Ok.

- What license? - Let’s go.

Don’t worry about it. Tell me about yourself.

Here? You should come visit me.

I will introduce you to my husband.

I will clean it up here. Maybe in the evening?

I’ll be there at 8. No, I’ll be there at 9 for sure.

Hi.

They are taking Coliseum from us. Where have you been?

First of all, nobody’s taking Coliseum from us yet.

Secondly, it’s not called Coliseum for a long time.

And finally, Shagin, if you are hungry,

just say it.

Don’t start the conversation by blaming me.

Why weren’t you at work?

Because I was working in a different place.

Really? Where?

- Here you are. - What is it?

This is the proof that your daughter

lives in a good foster family.

Interesting.

Normally, adoption cases are under review up to 6 months.

And parents have to do tons of paperwork.

The decision on your daughter’s case

was made in just two weeks, do you understand?

Not yet.

It only happens when the parents have a flawless background.

Maybe they have a lot of money and they just paid?

Why do you always think of the worst scenarios, Shagin?

Why can’t you just imagine that your daughter could be good.

Nastya had disturbed bite. The orthodontist made a prosthetic.

I called all the clinics, state, private. Nastya Shagina’s not been to one.

Maybe they took her to a different city, maybe they don’t

care about my daughter’s health and took the prosthetic off.

Her new mom and dad.

Maybe they changed girl’s surname? Have you thought about that?

Surname?

That’s right. Should have looked for her using diagnosis not the surname.

- Turn it up. - No, you should eat.

No, this detective almost sent me to jail again. What’s he saying there?

All the channels are talking about the same thing.

They found a beheaded body not far from the cemetery. They’re looking for the head.

What are they looking for?

The head.

That’s all they talk about.

Like there isn’t any other news.

I’ll be right back.

Shagin, where are you going?

Hello, I just saw you on the TV.

I hired him to dig the grave and he planted a gun on me.

I wanted to question that Kornilov guy,

but he’s disappeared. And he doesn’t live where he’s registered.

He quit his job 4 years ago. No one know what he’s up to.

Tell me something that will surprise me.

Normally they use the third party

to pass a weapon to a killer. The one who orders the murder never does it.

Kornilov has a record for the same crime, he must have known.

I told you. Antipin hired him to set me up.

You’ll have to prove it if you want to clean your name.

How can I do it, when you don’t know where Kornilov went to? Can you help me find him?

I’ll do, I’ll try to do everything possible.

That’s what you all say.

Everything’s fine. We agreed to me at a café. I’m at the place.

Leave, now.

Got it.

No.

Come in, come in, hurry.

The bus is about to leave, hurry.

Where are you going guys?

This is a tour bus, you weren’t here. I’m sorry.

Let’s go.

Hurry please, hurry. Behind the bus.

Nice to meet you, Dmitriy.

- Are you hungry? Sit down. - As hungry as a wolf.

We’re about to have lunch.

Today we’re having fish soup.

Did they serve it in jail?

I’m just wondering.

We had fish soup.

What? Just soup? What about main course?

And main courses too and tea.

You see, none of my friends’ve been to jail. Can I ask?

Ask something else. Ilya has two degrees, by the way, in law and medicine.

They respect medics in jail, right?

What do you do?

No need to be so formal. Security systems.

Hey are produced in Canada for regular and commercial

use. Here we’re working on establishing trading network.

Can I get expert advice?

There’s one medical center, where they buy new equipment every

year, instead of old one, even though it’s still not worn out.

How big should annual income be for it to be profitable?

Of course, it’s important to see the papers but it sounds like speculation to me.

Let’s not talk about it at the table.

How long have we not seen each other?

Almost a year.

A year? You’ve been sentenced for 7 years.

Did Vera visit you in jail?

How interesting.

So all those trips to Russia weren’t just about nostalgia for motherland?

It was just a short date.

He will now be unhappy about the word “Date”.

Yes, I’ve visited Ilya.

But he has no family.

I would have told you if you wouldn’t start talking nonsense about courts and laws.

Well, I have told you. What I think about it.

Ok, tell us what you think about it now.

I'd love to.

The thing is, I think that if one gets a sentence then he deserves it.

Of course, our juridical system is not perfect,

but you filed appeals. It’s impossible that courts at different levels are wrong.

However, you’ve served your sentence and now you are a clean man in the eyes of law.

Thank you for the soup…

Vera, you said that you have Katya’s thing.

Videos from her birthday. They changed her last name,

she’s now Suslova. But I couldn’t find her foster parents.

I found Katya Suslova’s mom, her grandmother.

- Can I watch it here? - We don’t have a video player.

Now everyone has DVDs, Blue rays. It’s all in the past now.

- Thank you for the video. - I’m sorry.